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SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  JULY  2,  1892.     90S  \  4  Number  1. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.     Entered  at  San  Francisco  Pott-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 
Can  the  Democrats  Carry  Cali- 
fornia?"          2 

Converted  Republicans  .2 

The  Movement  for  Good  Roads    2 

The  Glorious  Fourth 3 

Defects  of  the  Jury  System  3 

The  Labir  Investigation  ...  3 
The  Mission  of  the  Bibliophile  . .  4 
Tennis  and  Baseball  5 

Celia  and  One  Dan  Cupid  (Poetry)    6 

The  Devil's  Library  C> 

A  Song  of  Youth  (Poetry)     7 

As  Seen  by  French  Eyes  7 

Pleasure's  Wand       8-3 

The  Divorce  Discussion     9 

Dolce  Far  Nieute  (Poetry) 10 

A  Midsummer  Passear 10 

A  Queen's  Birthday  Sonnet     11 


Page 

An  Idea  for  Chicago  Art  Lovers. .  11 
Sparks.  12 

The  World's  Fair 13 

The  Looker-On      14-15 

Financial  Review. 18 

Town  Crier  17 

Real  Property    18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter    . .    19 

A  Romance  of  Blue  Lake 20 

Vanities     21 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 22 

The  Rose  Jar 23 

The  Agnostic's  Question—"  Is  Life 

Worth  Living  ?  "  (Poetry) 24 

Obituary 24 

"  Same  Business  Men  " 25 

Scientific  aud  Useful 26 

Sunbeams       27 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  28 
Society    30-31-32 


SAN  JOSE'S  crusade  against  selling  liquor  on  Sunday  has 
created  a  great  deal  of  excitement  there,  and  the  question  has 
not  yet  been  fought  out.  If  that  city  and  every  other  city,  this 
one  included,  would  abolish  the  side  and  back:  entrances  to  sa- 
loons, much  good  would  be  effected. 

THE  street-car  companies  should  have  notices  posted  in  their 
cars  on  the  morning  of  the  Fourth,  stating  at  what  place  and 
at  what  time  the  cars  will  stop  to  allow  the  passage  of  the  parade 
8uch  a  notice  would  prove  a  great  convenience  to  many  people, 
and  would  be  but  little  trouble  to  the  companies. 


HEAGERTY,  the  liquor-selling  restaurant  keeper  at  Berkeley, 
who  was  convicted  recently,  wants  to  effect  a  compromise 
of  his  sentence  by  getting  out  of  town.  If  he  will  go  for  good  it 
might  be  advisable  to  temper  justice  with  mercy,  for  the  end  to 
be  attained  is  to  stop  the  sale  of  liquor  at  or  near  the  University 
grounds. 

THE  scandal  regarding  Secretary  Theobald,  of  the  Humane  So- 
ciety of  Alameda  county,  following  so  closely  on  the  exposure 
of  »  Holy"  Bennett,  has  shaken  the  public  confidence  in  institu- 
tions of  that  ilk.  Theobald,  by-the-way,  is  a  full-blooded,  im- 
ported Englishman,  and  calls  himself  "  Tibbald"  when  he  is  with 
the  elite. 

ONE  of  the  most  ingenious  applications  of  the  flash-light  camera 
recently  noted  is  that  at  Toledo,  O.,  where  an  amateur  pho- 
tographer attached  a  camera  electrically  to  a  cigar  case,  and  thus 
obtained  negatives  of  thieves  who  robbed  the  case  in  the  night. 
Some  genius  should  now  invent  a  method  by  which  women  may 
get  photos  of  the  pickpockets  who  relieve  them  of  their  purses. 

THE  number  of  idle  men  in  San  Francisco  is  greatly  exag- 
gerated after  the  custom  of  the  press  of  the  city.  During 
the  wees  a  large  contractor  tried  to  secure  one  hundred  men 
to  engage  in  some  work  in  Oregon  and  failed.  The  men 
who  are  professionally  looking  for  work  in  this  city  will  never 
get  it  if  they  see  a  job  coming  first.  They  are  in  the  main  pro- 
fessional loafers. 


PRESIDENT  HARRI80N'S  appointment  of  John  W.  Foster  to 
be  Secretary  of  State  was  something  of  a  surprise,  especially 
as  the  proprietor  of  a  prominent  Republican  newspaper  had  an- 
nounced so  positively  that  Secretary  Tracy  was  to  have  the  place. 
There  is  coming  to  be  a  very  well  defined  belief  that  the  political 
predictions  of  the  aforesaid  proprietor  are  a  good  thing  to  copper. 

ONE  of  the  most  highly  ludicrous  incidents  that  has  yet  trans- 
pired in  the  campaign  has  been  the  decision  of  the  prominent 
gentlemen  in  the  Union  League  Club  to  march  by  proxy  in  the 
campaign  processions  this  year.  Their  Republicanism  is  strong 
enough,  they  say,  but  their  feet  are  very  tender,  the  result  of 
gout,  arising  from  a  too  severe  course  of  luxuries. 


THAT  miserable  railroad  iron  pavement  in  front  of  the  Academy 
of  Sciences,  on  Market  street,  to  which  the  News  Lettek  has 
repeatedly  directed  the  attention  of  the  public  officials,  is  at  last 
being  torn  up  and  removed.  It  will  be  replaced  by  basalt  blocks. 
The  Superintendent  of  Streets  should  prevent  the  patching  of  the 
thoroughfares  in  future  by  experimental  pavements. 

THE  highly  moral  manner  in  which  President  Harrison  con- 
siders his  office  and  its  prerogatives  was  recently  illustrated  by 
the  speech  made  by  him  in  reply  to  some  of  hia  congratulators. 
He  said  he  was  sorry  he  had  not  been  able  to  reward  all  his 
friends  with  political  office.  Why  not  endeavor  to  have  a  few 
more  created,  Benjamin,  and  put  in  more  of  your  helpers?  The 
country  is  rich  and  can  stand  it. 


THE  Marquis  de  Mores  is  making  bad  use  of  his  powers  in  the 
service  of  an  anti-Jewish  crusade,  and  in  support  of  social- 
ists and  anarchists.  His  ideas  seem  to  be  an  incongruous  mix- 
ture of  mediaeval  and  modern  prejudices,  and  all  that  he  will  ac- 
complish by  his  methods  may  possibly  be  that  he  will  be  elevated 
to  the  rank  of  a  dime-novel  hero.  True  glory  cannot  be  found 
upon  the  path  which  he  haR  chosen. 


THE  young  man  at  Colusa  who  had  been  circulating  anony- 
mous slanders  about  estimable  women,  and  who  was  soundly 
thrashed  for  it,  is  probably  repenting  in  sackcloth  and  ashes.  It 
might  be  more  to  the  purpose  if  he  were  called  on  to  repent  in  a 
coat  of  tar  and  feathers,  for  if  there  is  anybody  who  deserves 
such  treatment  it  is  the  slanderer  of  women,  who  are  usually  un- 
able to  avenge  themselves.  The  Colusa  women,  however,  seem 
able  to  take  their  own  part,  and  are  to  be  congratulated  upon  it. 


THERE  is  something  intensely  funny  in  the  spectacle  of  His 
Royal  Highness,  Tip-o-Tip,  son  of  the  late  lamented  Cete- 
wayo,  King  of  all  the  Zulus,  parading  through  the  country  in  a 
big  wig,  and  while  apparently  telling  the  wondering  and  admir- 
ing plutocrats  of  the  East  all  about  the  wonders  of  his  African  do- 
mains, snatched  from  him  by  an  unfeeling  government,  actually 
acting  as  a  capper  for  a  brace  of  burglars.  The  people  of  the  East 
have  been  so  often  deceived  by  false  lions  that  one  would  expect 
them  to  see  through  the  scheme  of  a  thieving  negro. 


WHEN  Tom  Reed  was  Speaker  of  the  House,  he  may  have 
been  a  tyrant  and  a  Czar,  but  be  managed  to  dispatch  busi- 
ness. Recently  the  House  has  had  to  yield  to  the  iron  sway  of 
the  Committee  on  Rules  to  get  anything  done  at  all  at  this  ses- 
sion, and  it  must  be  confessed  that  there  is  very  little  difference 
in  principle  between  the  domination  of  a  Speaker  and  that  of  a 
Committee  on  Rules.  The  truth  is,  that  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives has  to  be  governed  to  make  it  do  any  work,  and  one 
party  is  the  same  as  the  other  in  that  respect. 

THE  Chicago  newspaper  faker  is  not  to  be  outdone  by  the  local 
account  of  the  finding  of  Noah's  Ark  on  Ararat's  snowypeak. 
Now  comes  a  tale  about  a  Moorish  palace  with  a  million  in  gold 
as  a  feature  of  the  great  exposition.  The  exposed  gold  is  to  be 
guarded  by  trusty  armed  servitors,  who,  upon  attack,  will  be 
able,  by  touching  an  electric  button,  to  dump  all  the  gold  into  a 
burglar-proof  vault.  It  is  now  about  time  that  Fresno  discovered 
another  dragon,  South  San  Francisco  dragged  out  a  cave  of  civi- 
lized seals  on  a  hilltop,  or  Oakland  presented  a  truly  honest  man. 


THE  workingmen  are  beginning  to  find  out  what  an  expensive 
luxury  they  have  saddled  upon  themselves  in  the  person  of 
Alfred  Fuhrman,  the  general  manager  of  the  Federated  Trades. 
It  has  been  shown  that  he  is  a  bully  animated  by  motives  of  per- 
sonal aggrandizement;  that  he  has  refused  to  perform  his  duties 
as  a  union  officer,  when  requested,  and  that  he  has  wilfully  in- 
sulted workmen  and  their  wives  when  in  the  humor.  In  open 
meeting  of  the  union  he  has  threatened  bodily  harm  to  a  man 
bold  enough  to  ask  him  why  be  did  not  perform  his  duties.  As 
the  News  Letter  has  repeatedly  pointed  out,  the  sooner  the 
Federated  Trades  gets  rid  of  Fuhrman,  and  men  of  his  stamp,  the 
better  it  will  be  for  the  workingmen. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


CAN    THE    DEMOCRATS    CARRY    CALIFORNIA? 


THE  politicians  of  the  machine  kind  are  apt  to  overlook  re- 
volts of  a  momentous  character.  The  machine  knows  noth- 
ing but  blind  obedience  and  the  crushing  of  all  opposition.  The 
Republican  machine  is  especially  blind  to  the  side-movements  in 
politics,  despite  the  fact  that  it  has  been  carried  almost  out  of  ex- 
istence by  the  tidal  waves  that  have  so  frequently  swept  over  the 
country.  Up  to  the  present  time  the  Republican  machine  in  this 
State  and  its  organs  have  been  disposed  to  pooh-pooh  the  idea 
that  any  danger  to  the  supremacy  of  its  party  may  lurk  in  the 
Alliance  movement.  The  People's  party,  with  them,  has  been  a 
subject  of  ridicule.  The  Republican  managers  in  California  are, 
in  the  judgment  of  the  most  astute  politicians,  even  many  of 
those  within  its  own  party,  doomed  to  a  violent  surprise.  The 
foundation  of  their  calculation  is  this  same  despised  People's 
party — not  the  party  of  Carl  Browne  and  Dennis  Kearney  and 
other  blatherskite  politicians,  but  the  true  People's  party  of  the 
Farmers'  Alliance.  This  organization  has  a  membership  of  nearly 
30,000.  To  be  more  exact,  it  had  27,000  in  May.  and  its  growth 
has  never  stood  still  a  month  since  it  was  founded.  It  has  organ- 
ized and  will  run  tickets  in  nearly  every  county  of  the  State, 
either  for  itself  or  in  combination  with  one  or  the  other  of  the  old 
parties.  It  has  placed  in  nomination  a  State  ticket,  and  it  will 
on  July  Fourth  place  in  nomination  a  national  ticket.  This  will 
be  done  at  Omaha,  and  this  Omaha  convention  will  receive  more 
attention  in  the  near  future.  It  is  in  the  hands  of  experienced 
politicians.  The  popular  notion  that  the  Grangers  are  novices  in 
politics  should  have  been  dissipated  by  the  last  election.  They 
will  put  in  nomination  a  6rst-class  mans  beyond  a  doubt,  and 
they  will  place  him  on  a  strong  platform,  so  far  as  the  West  and 
South  are  concerned.  It  will  be  an  enunciation  of  principles  that 
will  come  very  close  to  the  desires  of  the  people,  and  it  will  mean 
what  it  says,  and  in  language  unmistakable.  The  Alliance,  like 
all  "  isms,"  is  largely  made  up  of  Republicans.  It  is  estimated 
that  the  30,000  members  in  this  State  comprise  20,000  former  Re- 
publicans and  10,000  Democrats.  The  Republicans  carried  Cali- 
fornia by  a  plurality  of  7,111  in  1888,  and  by  a  plurality  of  7,945 
in  1890.  A  loss  of  anything  like  20,000  votes  would  mean  disas- 
ter. It  is  believed  by  the  politicians  that  the  Alliance  will  not 
poll  its  vote.  This  is  a  mistaken  idea.  The  Alliance  has  shown 
its  capacity  for  voting  its  membership  in  other  States,  and  what 
it  has  done  elsewhere  it  will  do  here.  The  Alliance  is  a  secret 
organization,  organized  largely  as  the  Know  Nothings  were.  Its 
members  are  in  a  measure  fanatical,  and  the  members  would  not 
join  the  lodges  of  the  order  if  they  did  not  intend  to  stand  by  it. 
The  Alliance  people  say  they  will  vote  ninety  per  cent,  of  their 
members.  This  would  mean  that  the  Democrats  would  lose  9,000 
votes  and  the  Republicans  18,000  votes.  Taking  the  vote  of 
1888,  and  the  relative  increase  will  leave  the  status  of  parties  pro- 
portionately the  same.  The  Alliance  defection  would  make  the  vote 
stand  as  follows:  Democratic  vote,  108,671;  Republican  vote, 
100,782;  Democratic  plurality,  1,889.  The  People's  party  has  no 
chance  of  electing  anyone.  It  does  not  expect  to  do  so;  it  is 
fighting  for  principles  which  it  hopes  may  win  some  day. 

This  defection  alone  would  give  the  Democracy  an  excellent 
fighting  show  in  the  State,  but  there  are  many  other  things  to  en- 
courage the  Democrats.  The  defection  from  Mr.  Harrison  is  very 
great,  and  it  includes  old-time,  consistent  Republicans,  who  have 
worked  for  the  ticket,  and  contributed  liberally  of  their  means. 
In  one  club,  the  other  night,  seventeen  men  met  in  the  reading 
room.  All  had  voted  for  Harrison  four  years  ago.  Fourteen  of 
the  seventeen  will  vote  for  Cleveland  this  year.  In  financial  and 
business  circles  it  is  the  same  everywhere.  The  conservative  ele- 
ment has  no  use  for  Harrison,  and  thousands  of  this  class  of  Re- 
publicans will  vote  against  their  candidates  this  year. 

Among  the  rank  and  file  there  is  a  decided  antipathy  to  Harri- 
son. It  is  Dot  a  factional  feeling,  nor  yet  based  on  disappoint- 
ment because  some  one  else  was  not  nominated.  It  is  the  out- 
growth of  personal  repugnance.  Harrison  lost  by  his  trip  to 
California,  and  the  election  returns  will  show  it.  He  did  not  im- 
prove on  closer  acquaintance.  This  fact  is  made  patent  wherever 
men  congregate  and  engage  in  general  conversation. 

The  one  feature  of  tht  campaign  that  gives  the  Republican  man- 
agers more  concern  than  any  other,  is  the  way  in  which  the 
masses  of  the  voters  have  arrayed  themselves  against  the  office 
holders.  This  threatens  the  large  Republican  majorities  in  Los 
Angeles  and  San  Diego  counties,  and  cuts  a  prominent  figure  in 
San  Francisco.  It  is  this  antagonism  that  has  stilled  the  voice  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Times,  so  valuable  to  the  Republican  cause  in 
former  years.  Everywhere  in  the  State  the  Federal  appointments 
have  been  unhappily  made,  and  have  given  dissatisfaction.  To 
re  elect  Harrison  means  the  continuance  in  power  of  these 
officials.  To  every  successful  candidate  for  these  offices  there 
were  ten  unsuccessful  ones.  The  latter,  comprising  the  best 
workers  in  the  party,  will  not  break  their  necks  to  keep  their 
successful  rivals  in  office,  and  it  is  hard  to  estimate  the  influence 
of  the  apathy,  if  not  opposition,  of  such  party  workers.  Harri- 
son is  a  much  weaker  man  than  he  was  four  years  ago,  just 
as  Cleveland  is  stronger  than  he  was  then,  and  the  outkok  is 
decidedly  dubious  for  the  Republicans. 


CONVERTED    REPUBLICANS. 

THERE  is  no  more  significant  sign-of  the  times  than  the  firm 
announcements  made  by  many  of  the  leading  Republican 
merchants  of  the  country  thit  they  will  support  Cleveland  and 
tariff  reform.  The  people  have  had  enough  of  the  McKinley  bill 
and  its  severe  impositions,  and  now  propose  to  declare  for  liberty 
from  excessive  and  unnecessary  taxation.  Many  of  the  most 
prominent  merchants  of  San  Francisco,  men  whose  business  in- 
terests involve  millions  of  dollars,  and  who  for  years  have  been 
identified  with  the  Republican  party,  have  announced  themselves 
this  year  for  the  nominee  of  the  Chicago  Convention.  Practical 
demonstration  of  the  results  of  the  levying  of  high  import  duties 
for  the  alleged  "  protection  "  of  home  industries,  has  shown  them 
that  there  is  far  more  theory  than  fact  in  the  arguments  of  Re- 
publicans, and  that  unless  they  (the  merchants)  secure  relief,  they 
will  be  compelled  to  suspend  business.  Nor  are  the  dealers  in 
goods  taxed  by  the  McKinley  bill  the  only  citizens  affected  detri- 
mentally by  the  high  tariff  now  existing.  It  is  obvious  that  if 
importers  and  manufacturers,  who  are  employers  of  labor,  find 
their  sales  and  profits  reduced  by  business  stagnation  directly  re- 
sulting from  improper  legislation,  they  will  be  required-,  and  they 
do  reduce  the  wages  of  their  employed.  Those  who  suffer  most 
severely,  therefore,  from  the  Republican  system  of  high  taxation 
are  the  masses  of  the  people.  The  laboring  classes,  who  are  the 
majority  of  the  country's  consumers,  also  suffer  directly  by  the 
raise  in  the  price  of  goods,  on  account  of  the  additional  tariff  tax. 
The  simple  fact  is  that  the  protective  tariff  does  not  protect.  This 
is  now  appreciated  throughout  the  country.  The  McKinley  Act, 
in  the  words  of  a  prominent  local  merchant,  <*  is  merely  a  dis- 
crimination in  favor  of  the  manufacturer,  and  a  most  decided  in- 
jury to  other  lines  of  business."  Tbe  consumer  is  the  one  that 
suffers,  because  he  has  to  pay  the  extra  duty  imposed.  It  is 
well  known  that  domestic  manufacturers  of  protected  commodi- 
ties raise  the  prices  of  their  goods  without  proportionately  in- 
creasing the  wages  of  their  men,  thus  taking  advantage  of  the 
high  tariff  law,  which  thereby  fails  of  any  good  result  to  the 
people.  The  McKinley  bill  is  an  altogether  one-sided  proposition. 
It  increases  the  profits  of  a  certain  few  large  manufacturers,  de- 
creases the  revenues  of  large  numbers  of  merchants,  and  raises 
prices  without  increasing  the  wages  of  the  people  on  whom  it 
confers  no  benefits  whatever.  The  November  elections  will  show 
that  the  citizens  of  the  country,  after  nearly  four  years  of  costly 
experiment,  have  concluded  that  their  interests  lie  in  the  election 
of  the  champion  of  tariff  reform. 


THE    MOVEMENT    FOR    GOOD    ROADS. 

ALBERT  A.  POPE,  of  Boston,  pursues  his  crusade  for  good 
roads  throughout  the  country  with  highly  commendable 
energy.  He  has  addressed  circular  letters  to  all  the  newspaper 
writers  in  the  country,  asking  their  co-operation  in  the  endeavor 
to  secure  the  establishment  of  a  road  department  at  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago.  He  calls  attention  to  the  fact 
that  under  the  present  arrangement  and  classification  of  exhibits, 
the  visitor  to  the  Fair  will  be  compelled  to  visit  five  enormous 
buildings,  having,  with  their  annexes,  an  aggregate  area  of 
seventy-nine  and  three-tenths  acres  to  acquaint  himself  with  the 
best  methods  and  machinery  to  be  used  in  tbe  building  of  a  high- 
way. The  opportunities  presented  by  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition,  of  teaching  the  twenty  million  of  visitors  what  good 
roads  are,  and  how  to  make  and  maintain  them,  should  not  be 
lost  sight  of,  says  Mr.  Pope.  A  comprehensive  display  of  these 
things  would  advance  the  movement  a  hundred  years,  and  would 
hasten  the  coming  in  of  a  nobler  civilization  and  a  wider  Christian- 
ity. Good  roads  cheapen  the  cost  of  transportation  by  saving 
time,  reducing  the  wear  of  draught  animals  and  of  vehicles,  and 
thus  lessen  the  cost  of  material  to  the  producer  and  consumer. 
One  of  the  saddest  signs  of  the  times  in  the  older  States  is  the 
tendency  of  population  towards  tbe  cities  and  the  abandonment 
of  farms.  Tbe  modern  development  of  "  slums,"  the  wretched 
outcome  of  life  in  tenement  houses,  can  be  laid  largely  to  the  bad 
roads  existing  in  the  farming  districts,  which  in  certain  seasons 
of  tbe  year  prevent  social  intercourse,  making  country  life  cheer- 
less, isolated  and  narrow.  Churches  and  schools  are  neglected 
when  roads  are  such  as  to  made  them  difficult  of  access.  It  is 
interesting  to  read  the  testimony  of  Seliui  H.  Peabody,  Chief  of 
the  Department  of  Liberal  Arts  of  the  World's  Fair,  on  the  sub- 
ject of  road3  in  the  United  States.  Our  common  roads  are  worse 
than  in  any  other  civilized  country,  he  says.  No  other  material 
interest  in  the  United  States  rests  under  so  dense  a  cloud  of  ignor- 
ance. No  improvement  would  so  greatly  aid  the  American  farmer 
as  that  which  would  give  him  as  good  roads  as  may  be  found  in 
tbe  poorest  districts,  say  of  Ireland  and  Italy.  The  movement 
for  good  roads  is  one  which  should  receive  the  hearty  support  of 
every  good  citizen  in  the  country. 


THE  Premium  Note  Company,  referred  to  heretofore  in  the 
News  Letter  as  a  wildcat  lottery  scheme,  was  raided  by  the 
police  on  Tuesday,  and  two  of  its  officers  arrested.  There  is 
small  doubt  that  the  affair  is  a  fraudulent  concern,  and  it  should 
be  suppressed. 


Jul 


1892, 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    LABOR    INVESTIGATION. 


THE  "glorious"  Fourth  is  again  upon  us;  a  little  moth-eaten, 
it  is  true,  and  probably  with  weaker  lungs  than  a  decade  ago, 
but  yet  it  is  the  glorious  old  Fourth,  and,  as  a  well-established 
and  venerable  friend,  we  give  it  our  utmost  respect.  We  cannot 
help  asking,  however,  what  good  is  done  by  the  annual  clap- 
trap theatrical  display  of  ambitious  politicians  in  open  carriages 
(paid  for  by  the  city);  of  numberless  shaking  floats  representing 
Washington  crossing  the  Delaware,  and  the  first  flapjack  at  Grizzly 
Flat,  two  great  historical  events  (also  paid  for  by  the  city);  of 
political  candidates  in  flaming  sashes,  rolling  on  the  backbones  of 
spavined  beasts,  and  carrying  huge,  drawn  swords;  followed  by 
our  prize  beauties,  the  Supervisors,  with  drawn  salaries  {paid  by 
the  city)?  The  Fourth  of  July  processions,  as  conducted  in  this 
or  any  other  large  city  in  the  country,  have  just  about  as  much 
to  do  with  patriotic  sentiment  as  have  the  personal  political  am- 
bitions of  the  Grand  Marshals  or  the  Presidents  of  the  Day  or  any 
other  of  the  wi-de-sashed  and  professional  patriots,  with  the  im- 
provement of  this  municipality.  We  believe  in  inculcating  the 
spirit  of  patriotism  among  our  people;  we  believe  that  this  repub- 
lic is  the  grandest  government  of  the  greatest  people  the  world 
has  ever  known ;  we  believe  in  the  establishment  and  maintenance 
of  public  customs  which  shall  recall  to  all  of  us  the  great  deeds  of 
our  forefathers,  and  remind  us  of  the  liberties  for  which  they 
fought  and  bled  and  died.  But  when  the  national  celebrations, 
established  for  that  end,  are  conducted  as  the  personal  celebrations 
of  men  with  baskets  of  axes  which  they  desire  to  grind  upon  the 
revolving  wheel  of  public  approval,  then  we  hold  that  the  cele- 
brations do  not  fulfill  those  noble  ends  which  animated  their  es- 
tablishment, and  should  be  abandoned.  This  city  may  be  par- 
ticularly unfortunate  in  its  Indendence  Day  affairs,  as  for  several 
years  past  they  have  been  fruitful  causes  of  scandalous  stories  of 
improperly  awarded  contracts  and  misapplied  funds.  Three  thou- 
sand dollars  of  the  people's  money  are  expended  every  year  for 
these  celebrations.  If  there  is  to  be  the  usual  procession,  let  it  at 
least  be  a  military  pageant  worth  seeing,  and  let  the  fireworks 
make  a  pyrotecbnical  display  worth  the  money  they  will  cost. 
The  people  like  to  be  humbugged,  and  they  always  forgive  those 
who  humbug  them  in  style. 


WHAT  beneficial  result*  are  to  come  from  the  inquiry  Into  the 
condition  of  local  labor  now  being  conducted  by  the  Stale 
Labor  OommtaaloDW T  For  several  days  the  inquiry  has  been  pur- 
sued with  «ome  bitterness  on  the  part  of  both  employers  and  em- 

and  it  is  not  now  apparent  that  a  single,  point  has  been  ( 
effected,  except  the  throwing  of  some  public  attention  upon  the 
fact  that  the  Libor  Commissioner  has  an  office  in  this  city.  Since 
the  beginning  of  the  labor  controversies  in  this  city,  both  sides 
have  been  arrayed  solidly  against  each  other,  and  it  seems  that  the 
question  is  now  no  nearer  solution,  nor  are  amicable  relations 
nearer  consummation  than  t bey  were  a  decade  ago.  The  Btattu 
quo  is  always  one  of  armed  peace,  nor  is  it  likely  that  it  ever  will 
be  any  other  until  the  labor  unions  awaken  to  the  fact  that 
although  they  have  rights,  the  men  who  employ  their  members 
have  also  rights,  which  they  intend  to  maintain,  cost  what  it 
may.  That  the  numerous  strikes  of  the  labor  unions  for  trivial 
c.auses.  in  this  city,  have  been  very  detrimental  to  local  business 
there  is  no  denying.  Hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  have 
been  lost  directly,  and  millions  of  capital  have  been  prevented 
from  investment  in  this  city,  by  reason  of  the  headstrong  actions 
of  the  leaders  of  the  labor  movement.  These  men,  it  seems, 
would  rather  cause  a  sensation  by  ordering  a  strike,  thereby  di- 
recting public  attention  to  their  own  power,  notwithstanding  the 
resulting  distress  to  the  workmen  dispossessed  of  employment, 
than  they  would  bend  an  inch  from  the  line  of  what  the?  con- 
sider their  mighty  rights,  and  discuss  differences  with  their  em- 
ployers in  a  dispassionate  manner.  The  workmen  announce  as 
their  slogan:  <•  Agitation,  Education,  Organization,"  to  none  of 
which  can  any  reasonable  minded  man  object.  But  why  do  they 
not  I've  up  to  the  principles  they  cry  are  their  guidance.  Agita- 
tation  and  organization  they  can  command,  we  admit,  but  how 
about  education?  Are  they  being  educated  by  allowing  their 
leaders  to  play  upon  them  as  upon  a  flute;  to  handle  them  as  if 
they  were  so  many  toys?  Education  of  the  workingmen  is  what 
we  mostly  desire,  for  with  education  will  disappear  their  inclina- 
tion to  obey  blindly  orders  issued  by  any  secret  conclave  of 
schemers  who  may  have  been  enabled  to  secure  their  election  to 
the  chief  offices  in  the  body  of  workers.  The  labor  leaders  are 
not  candid  in  their  discussions  of  vital  questions  before  the  mass 
of  workingmen.  They  defend  the  boycott  by  saying  it  is  a  self- 
protective  measure,  that  their  proposition  to  the  employer  is  sim- 
ply, "  You  take  our  labor,  or  we  will  not  take  your  goods."  Now 
that  seems  a  simple  statement  of  what  appears  to  be  a  fair  enough 
fact;  but  the  trouble  is  the  statement  is  not  true.  Not  only  do 
the  workmen  endeavor  to  prevent  others  from  buying  goods,  but 
tbey  dictate  to  their  employers.  This  is  more  than  any  self- 
respecting  employer  will  bear.  If  the  union  men  conduct  them- 
selves more  modestly  their  claims  would  be  received  with  great, 
er  consideration. 

THE    GLORIOUS    FOURTH. 


DEFECTS    OF    THE    JURY     SYSTEM. 

THE  recent  trial  of  John  II.  Squires  on  a  charge  of  embracery, 
which  resulted  in  a  disagreement  of  the  jury,  that  body  stand- 
ing ten  for  conviction  and  two  for  acquittal,  will  attract  renewed 
attention  to  the  defects  in  the  system  of  trial  by  jury,  as  admin- 
istered at  the  present  time  in  California.  This  case  was  a  typical 
one,  and  may  be  used  with  propriety  for  purposes  of  illustration. 
The  prosecuting  witness  was  William  H.  Chickering,  an  attorney 
of  this  city,  whose  reputation  for  truth  and  veracity  stands  ab- 
solutely unimpeached  in  this  city  and  in  Oakland,  where  he  has 
resided  for  many  years.  Mr.  Chickering  told  a  plain  and  straight- 
forward story,  which  was  amply  substantiated  by  his  associate  in 
the  case  out  of  which  the  accusation  against  Squires  grew,  and 
yet,  because  Squires  went  upon  the  stand  and  told  an  absolutely 
ridiculous  st  ry  about  Chickering  having  tried  to  bribe  hira, 
two  jurors  refused  to  rind  Squires  guilty,  and  forced  a  disagree- 
ment. What  encouragement  is  there  for  an  honest  man  to  try  to 
break  up  the  crime  of  selling  a  vote  on  a  jury,  if  a  trial  jury,  or 
any  portion  of  it,  is  going  to  take  the  word  of  an  already  con- 
victed felon  against  that  of  an  honorable  and  upright  man,  acting 
solely  in  the  interests  of  justice  and  for  the  protection  of  society  ? 
Where  is  there  going  to  be  any  chance  of  convicting  a  criminal  of 
any  offense,  if  one  or  two  men  on  a  trial  jury  are  obstinate  or 
wrong-headed,  or,  as  is  more  apt  to  be  the  case,  are  of  the  same 
stripe  as  John  H.  Squires  ?  We  may  as  well  abandon  the  jury 
system  altogether  and  try  criminals  by  shaking  dice  or  spinning 
a  teetotum,  in  which  case  the  prosecution  would  have  at  least  an 
equal  chance  with  the  defense.  There  is  a  remedy,  however,  if 
the  people  of  California  will  have  courage  and  nerve 
enough  to  adopt  it,  and  that  is  to  adopt  the  same 
rule  in  criminal  trials  which  prevails  in  civil  trials.  In  a 
civil  case  in  this  State,  no  matter  if  millions  be  at  stake,  a  three- 
fourths  verdict  is  all  that  is  required;  that  is,  in  the  ordinary  jury 
of  twelve,  if  nine  agree,  their  decision  is  the  verdict  of  the  entire 
jury.  This  innovation  has  been  found  to  work  so  well,  that  no 
one  dreams  of  recurring  to  the  old  system,  which  required  a 
unanimous  verdict.  Litigants  are  satisfied  with  it,  the  bar  likes 
it,  and  it  meets  the  full  approval  of  the  bench.  Why,  then, 
should  not  the  same  rule  be  adopted  in  criminal  cases?  It  is  quite 
true  that  the  life  or  liberty  of  a  human  being  must  outrank  any 
rights  of  property;  but  it  is  a  well-settled  proposition  that  not 
once  in  a  million  times  in  California  will  an  innocent  man  be  put 
upon  trial.  During  the  preliminary  proceedings,  from  his  arrest 
and  examination  by  a  magistrate  to  the  investigation  of  his  case 
by  a  Grand  Jury,  his  innocence,  if  innocent  he  be,  is  morally  cer- 
tain to  appear,  and  the  case  against  him  collapse  at  that  point,  it 
is  the  guilty  man  who  is  the  enthusiastic  supporter  of  the  unani- 
mous verdict,  for,  as  in  the  Squires  case,  two  men  are  as  good  for 
his  purpose  as  eleven.  Every  new  trial  increases  the  guilty  man's 
chances  of  escape,  and  makes  the  case  so  much  the  more  difficult 
for  the  prosecution.  Change  the  system,  and  let  juries  in  crimi- 
nal cases  find  a  verdict  by  the  three-fourths  vote,  and  we  shall 
find  that  disagreements  of  juries  will  become  much  less  common, 
and  that  much  more  even-handed  and  substantial  justice  will  be 
done  than  under  the  present  system  of  unanimous  verdicts. 


IF  the  news  telegraphed  from  Vienna  is  true  that  the  Emperor 
of  Austria  has  refused  to  receive  Prince  Bismarck  in  audience 
during  the  latter's  sojourn  at  his  capital,  the  attitude  of  bis  ma- 
jesty must  be  interpreted  by  the  Austrian  people  as  a  deplorable 
lack  of  moral  courage.  That  the  Prussian  Ambassador,  in  order 
to  avoid  an  interview  with  the  ex-Chancellor,  asked  for  leave  of 
absence,  is  natural,  for  as  an  imperial  official  he  is  not  free  to  act 
entirely  according  to  his  own  will,  but  the  ruler  of  the  Austrian 
empire  should  have  avoided  the  suspicion  that  he  is  obliged  to 
obey  dictates  from  the  Berlin  court  in  order  to  maintain  his  posi- 
tion in  the  Triple  Alliance.  The  German  students  of  Munich  and 
the  population  of  that  city  in  general  have  shown  more  courage 
and  prouder  self-reliance,  for,  although  being  German  subjects, 
they  have  openly  disregarded  Emperor  William's  petty  spite,  and 
conspicuously  expressed  their  admiration  for  the  great  statesman 
in  whom  they  justly  revere  the  chief  founder  of  German  unity. 
It  is  a  healthy  sign  of  the  German  character  that  the  people, 
though  loyal  to  their  rulers,  do  not  permit  themselves  to  be  dic- 
tated where  matters  of  conscience  and  feelings  of  the  heart  are 
concerned. 

THE  killing  of  Robert  Kirlin  by  Officer  Thomson,  on  Wednes- 
day, is  another  evidence  of  the  folly  of  appointing  improper 
men  upon  the  police  force.  Thomson  has  been  an  officer  for 
three  weeks,  and  he  has  already  killed  his  man.  From  the  evi- 
dence in  the  case,  it  appears  that  Kirlin  was  drunk, and  attacked 
the  officer  with  a  knife,  whereupon  Thomson  pulled  his  ready  re- 
volver and  killed  him.  It  is  a  most  deplorable  affair.  Only  cool- 
headed,  brave  men  should  be  appointed  to  the  police  force.  Thom- 
son has  neither  of  these  qualifications.  A  proper  officer  would 
have  defended  himself  with  his  club  against  the  drunken  man, 
and  subdued  him. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


THE    MISSION    OF    THE    BIBLIOPHILE. 

AMONG  the  pleasures  and  benefits  of  collecting  for  the  library- 
books,  both  old  and  new,  it  generally  happens  that  when  a 
person  ceases  to  be  satisfied  with  the  reading  of  current  literature 
and  with  the  use  of  those  »  things  in  books'  clothing"  which  are 
not  books — biographical  dictionaries,  encyclopaedias  et  id  genus 
omne — he  is  pretty  sure,  if  he  keeps  on  reading  at  all,  to  develop 
into  a  bibliophile.  From  making  a  choice  of  books  to  read  and 
re-read,  he  is  insensibly  led  to  care  for  certain  editions,  and  then, 
if  not  before,  to  desire  good  paper,  clear  type  and  suitable  bind- 
ings. He  soon  comes  to  take  an  interest  more  or  less  profound 
in  the  history  of  printing  and  book-making,  and  likes  to  own 
specimens  of  the  work  of  great  printers  or  binders,  or  books  that 
have  belonged  to  famous  collectors  of  the  past.  Many  of  these 
objects  of  his  desires  are  extremely  rare  and  costly  in  conse- 
quence. Others  which  may  perhaps  satisfy  him  are  occasionally 
to  be  had  almost  for  the  trouble  of  hunting  them  out.  This  de- 
pends in  a  great  measure  whether  his  taste  is  that  of  the  times  or  is 
rather  for  books  not  so  highly  appreciated  by  others.  The  col- 
lection of  a  library,  no  matter  how  small,  beccunes  in  either  case 
an  occupation,  a  pursuit,  the  interest  of  which  is  doubled  by  the 
attractions  of  hazard  and  the  rewards  which  it  sometimes  has 
for  knowledge  and  perseverance.  The  amateur  usually  grows 
into  a  specialist,  acquires  tastes  and  views  that  are  uncommon, 
and  information  of  a  sort  that  has  a  practical  bearing  upon  them. 

It  is  by  too  many  assumed  that  the  book-lover  is  merely  a  man 
with  a  hobby,  that  his  studies  and  endeavors  are  and  can  be  of 
no  consequence  to  the  rest  of  mankind.  Those  who  are  satisfied 
with  any  cheap  edition  of  a  book,  which  they  read  without  care 
and  throw  aside  after  one  perusal,  have  hardly  an  idea  of  what 
they  owe  to  the  minority,  which  is  convinced  about  the  correct- 
ness of  a  text  and  the  elegance  of  a  make-up.  If  printers  and  pub- 
lishers had  no  such  interested  minority  to  work  for,  how  long  does 
anyone  suppose  it  would  take  for  the  noblest  of  handicrafts  10  fall 
away  into  the  condition  of  a  justly-despised  trade  ?  How  long 
before  even  in  newspapera  and  magazines  we  should  begin  to  find 
tokens  of  decadence?  The  most  indifferent  reader  of  the  most  or- 
dinary books  would  soon  be  exasperated  by  all  sorts  of  incorrect- 
ness and  slovenliness.  Coarse  and  worthless  paper,  rude  type  un- 
evenly distributed,  errors  in  every  line,  would  torment  and  dis- 
gust him.  At  the  present  time  the  cheapest  books  and  papers 
are,  with  us,  fairly  well  printed,  from  type  which  may  often  be 
described  as  beautiful,  and  although  the  paper  used  is  commonly 
of  poor  texture,  as  it  must  be  for  rapid  printing,  never,  at  least  in 
the  history  of  English  printing,  has  a  better  average  of  correctness 
been  attained.  These  are  substantial  benefits,  which  the  reading 
world  owes,  for  the  most  part,  to  amateurs,  among  whom  have 
always  been  included  many  printers  and  publishers. 

Bad  books,  that  is,  incorrect,  slovenly  and  inelegant  ones,  have 
always  been  produced  in  abundance,  in  periods  of  general  in- 
difference, but  hardly  at  any  time  since  the  invention  of  printing 
were  bad  tastes  and  apathy  universal.  There  were  always  being 
published,  now  here,  now  there,  at  Nuremburg,  or  Venice,  or 
Rome;  at  Paris  or  Lyons;  at  London,  Oxford  or  Glasgow,  edi- 
tions of  standard  books  which,  being  satisfactory  in  many  ways, 
or  admirable  in  some,  have  gone  on  increasing  in  value  since  the 
date  of  their  issue.  Even  in  the  first  quarter  of  this  century, 
which  saw  so  many  tasteless  books  come  from  the  press  the  pub- 
lications of  Pickering,  of  London,  and  Didot,  of  Paris,  were 
marked  by  exceptional  beauty  and  accuracy.  Of  earlier  artists 
in  book-making  most  readers  will  remember  the  Aldi,  the  Elzevirs, 
the  Plantini,  the  Btephani,  and  the  Gryphiei.  In  our  own  time 
may  be  mentioned  Lemerre,  and  Jonast,  and  i)e  Vinne,  the  New 
York  printer.  It  is  the  function  of  the  bibliophile  to  care  for  and 
preserve  the  remains  of  the  fortner  masters  of  the  art,  while 
without  him  the  best  efforts  of  the  moderns  would  never  have 
been  made.  He  is  at  once  the  patron  of  the  living  artists  in 
book-making  and  the  custodian  of  the  models  which  have  come 
down  to  us  from  former  times. 

The  books  which  an  amateur  collects  are  in  general  those  which , 
although  desirable,  have  become,  or  are  likely  to  become,  scarce. 
Princes  among  bibliophiles  collect  only  manuscripts,  preferable  to 
the  time  anterior  to  the  invention  of  printing.  There  are  not 
wanting  later  manuscripts,  some  of  them  most  artistically  exe- 
cuted and  of  considerable  historical  or  biographical  importance, 
such  as  the  "  Guirlande  de  Julie  "  of  Rambouillet,  with  its  madri- 
gals copied  on  vellum  by  Nicholas  Jarry,  and  its  borders  of  flow- 
ers by  the  miniaturist  Robert.  Very  few  manuscripts  remain  of 
all  the  mighty  libraries  of  Rome,  Constantinople  and  Alexandria. 
The  most  remarkable  are  the  "Virgil"  of  the  Vatican  and  the 
fragmentary  "Iliad"  of  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale  of  Paris. 
Early  Christian  and  Byzantine  manuscripts  are  not  much  more 
numerous,  and  may  generally  be  said  to  be  out  of  the  reach  of 
even  the  richest  of  bibliophiles.  But  of  medkeval  books,  ro- 
mances and  poems,  missals  and  books  of  laws  and  breviaries, 
there  is  still  extant  a  great  quantity.  They  are  much  sought  after 
and  highly  prized  because  of  their  splendid  illuminations  in  azure 
and  gold,  and  on  account  of  their  historical  value.  The  minia- 
tures and  the  colored  and  gilded  initials  and  borders  which  they 
contain  are  of  the  greatest  interest  to  the  student  of  art  history, 
and  of  hardly  less    value  to  whomever  would    understand    the 


manners   and   customs  of   the  times  in  which  they  were  written 
and  painted. 

Of  printed  books,  early  editions  of  the  classics,  unless  in  ex- 
ceptionally good  condition,  are  no  longer  in  great  demand,  and 
this,  with  few  exceptions,  applies  to  the  modern  classics  as  well 
as  to  the  ancient.  In  England,  indeed,  everything  is  collected; 
but  in  France,  which  country  sets  the  fashion,  so  far  as  there  is 
a  fashion  in  books  as  in  other  things,  the  taste  of  the  day  runs  to 
the  pretty  illustrated  books  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  to  the 
ugly  but  extremely  enrious  first  editions  of  the  poets,  whom 
Gautier  classed  as  "  The  Grotesques."  Villon,  Maron,  and  their 
like,  Boileau,  Racine,  Corneille,  sell  for  a  song.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  first  editions  of  several  living  authors,  and  of  others  re- 
cently deceased,  are  being  collected  by  people  who  doubtless  ex- 
pect that  their  favorites  will  enjoy  a  longer  lease  of  glory  than 
the  great  men  of  the  past.  The  fac-simile  reprints  of  scarce  edi- 
tions of  authors  still  in  vogue,  which  are  put  forth  by  many  pub- 
lishers in  this  country  and  in  England,  meet  with  a  ready  sale, 
but  show  little  tendency  as  yet  to  advance  in  price.  Limited 
editions  of  new  books  fare  about  the  bame.  But  certain  fine 
editions  of  standard  authors,  illustrated  with  a  luxury  of  color 
printing  hitherto  hardly  dreamed  of,  are  certain  to  grow  more 
valuable  in  course  of  time.  The  processes  used  in  preparing  their 
illustrations  are  new,  are  being  improved  from  day  to  day,  and 
occupy  at  present  a  large  proportion  of  the  best  talent  that  is  put 
into  book  printing.  These  editions,  therefore,  will  in  the  future 
be  valuable  as  the  earliest  specimens  of  a  new  art,  and  will  bring 
prices  correspondingly  high. 


TO  San  Francisco  is  constantly  being  added  fame  on  account  of 
the  acknowledged  excellence  of  the  goods  of  many  of  her 
tradesmen.  None  have  done  more  to  aid  the  city  in  this  manner 
than  P.  F.  McNulty,  the  popular  shoemaker  of  222  Post  street, 
above  Grant  avenue.  Mr.  McNulty  was  formerly  with  Thomas, 
of  London,  and  he  makes  the  best  shoes  in  town. 

Tlie  artotypes  which  have  formed  an  artistic  and  popular  feature 
of  the  News  Letter  for  some  years  past,  are  from  the  ateliers  of 
Bolion,  Strong  &  Co.,  the  well-known  engravers  and  plate-makers, 
of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm  has  the  reputation,  gained  by  years  of 
excellent  work,  of  being  unrivaled  in  its  own  particular  line.  All  the 
work  it  turns  out  is  artistically  perfect. 

One  of  the  best  tailors  in  the  city  is  Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12 
Post  street.  His  suits  are  not  equaled  by  those  of  any  other  estab- 
lishment in  town,  for  he  is  a  master  of  the  sartorial  art,  and  always 
does  his  work  in  an  admirable  manner.  He  makes  a  specialty  of 
uniforms  and  regalias,  and  does  a  large  business  with  all  uniformed 
societies. 


Laundry  Farm  is  fast  becoming  one  of  the  most  popular  pleasure 
resorts  in  the  vicinity  of  the  city.  It  is  visited  daily  by  many  people, 
who  find  great  pleasure  in  its  many  beauties.  Itis  reached  by  way 
of  the  California  Railway,  and  is  only  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes 
from  this  city  and  forty  minutes  from  Oakland. 

The  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  is  the  most  popular  restaurant  in  the  city  among  people  who 
enjoy  good  dinners.     It  enjoys  the  patronage  of  the  6lite 


THE  BRENTWOOD- 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  18S5. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N,  J.;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H,  H.  Babeoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y. ;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO   NKWS  LETTER. 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 


TENNIS  Q '*  ^  ^APAKL  looks  very  gay.  The  games  this  year 
O  promise  lo  be  very  well  contested,  as  the  play  t< 
are  pretty  nearly  all  on  a  par  with  each  other.  The  hotel  la  full 
of  players,  and  the  audience  promises  to  be  a  very  large  one.  On 
Wednesday  most  of  the  delegates  went  over,  and  the  Tourna- 
ment Committee,  consisting  of  Haslett.  Haigbt  and  Wilberforce, 
held  the  drawing.  The  games  commenced  yesterday  morning  at 
10:30  o'clock,  and  will  be  finished  to-morrow.  The  champion- 
ship round  will  be  played  Monday,  beginning  at  2  o'clock.  It  is 
much  to  be  regretted  that  Ogden  HotTman  will  not  be  able  to  at- 
tend. He  was  sent  away  on  business  and  cannot  possibly  enter. 
He  was  looked  upon  as  a  probable  winner,  and  his  absence  will 
be  a  great  disappointment  lo  bis  many  admirers.  The  same  may 
be  said  of  G.  V.  Gray,  who  will  also  be  absent.  C.  P.  Hubbard, 
Joe  Tobin,  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  and  Sam  Keel  leave  for  the  East 
directly  after  the  tournament.  They  will  probably  be  seen  at 
some  of  the  Eastern  games,  and  many  are  the  conjectures  as  to 
how  our  players  will  compete  with  the  Eastern  cracks.  It  is  un- 
likely that  they  will  be  here  for  the  September  meeting,  so  some 
of  the  younger  players  will  stand  a  good  chance  of  winning  the 
doubles  on  Admission  Day.  I  understand  that  Bates  will  enter 
the  doubles  with  Carr  Keel,  and  they  will  certainly  make  a  very 
strong  pair.  H.  H.  Haigbt  will  loose  his  partner,  so  there  will 
be  no  championship  round  and  the  runners  up  will  hold  the  cup. 
Hubbard's  departure  will  also  lose  the  three  months  cup  at  the 
California  Club  for  him,  as  the  next  meeting  will  be  toward  the 
end  of  the  month. 

Last  Sunday  the  San  Rafael  courts  were  well  patronized,  and 
quite  a  crowd  went  down  from  the  hotel  to  witness  the  practice 
games.  H.  H.  H.  Collier  was  quite  a  hero,  and  C.  R.  Yates,  the 
"  war  correspondent  "  of  the  Field  Sports,  remarked  that  he  would 
give  some  of  the  olderplayers  quite  a  hard  time.  G.  B.  de  Long, 
J.  A.  Code,  A.  Carrigan,  A.  J.  Treat  and  Allison  also  gave  some 
interesting  sport  to  the  many  spectators. 

From  news  received  from  abroad,  I  understand  that  Ernest 
Renshaw  is  in  excellent  trim,  and  the  betting  in  in  his  favor,  to 
win  the  all-England  championship.  I  also  understand  that  Miss 
Dud  is  the  favorite,  while  for  the  doubles  no  one  at  present  seems 
to  know  who  will  come  out  ahead.  The  brothers  Badderly,  after 
their  defeat  in  Ireland,  are  not  looked  upon  with  much  favor. 

Last  week,  in  speaking  of  the  likely  winners,  I  put  Hubbard, 
O.  Hoffman,  Bates  and  Sam.  Neel  in  for  the  semi-finals.  I  now 
think,  unless  the  draw  changes  the  aspect  of  things,  that  Sam. 
Neel  will  come  out  winner  of  the  all-comers.  He  has  lately  been 
playing  one  of  the  finest  games  of  the  season,  and,  provided  his 
constituiion  does  not  give  way,  I  think  he  is  the  most  likely  to 
combat  with  Taylor  for  the  title.  Alec.  B.  Wilberforce. 


BASEBALL  rP^-^  Oakland  team  surprised  every  one  last 
"  1  week,  by  defeating  San  Jose  in  the  series.  All 
the  games  played  were  good,  with  the  exception  of  that  played 
last  Saturday,  wherein  the  Oaklanders  acted  like  a  nine  of  ama- 
teurs. The  club,  however,  made  up  for  it  the  next  day,  by  field- 
ing and  batting  like  well-seasoned  veterans.  The  home 
team  was  also  fortunate  in  capturing  the  series  from 
Los  Angeles.  All  the  clubs,  except  the  Oaklands,  are 
now  very  close  together.  With  the  exception  of  Tuesday,  games 
will  be  played  every  day  next  week.  Should  the  Oaklands  win 
all  the  games  the  club  plays  in,  which  is  not  now  so  improbable, 
as  the  team  is  playing  good  ball,  it  would  put  the  club  well  up  in 
the  race.  The  Los  Angeles  team  discovered  an  amateur  named 
Strong  in  Los  Angeles,  and,  as  an  experiment,  gave  him  a  trial 
with  the  most  satisfactory  results.  As  it  is  the  sense  of  the  league 
directors  that  the  double  championship  would  be  advantageous  'o 
the  league  here,  it  will  probably  be  adopted  this  winter. 

The  Oaklands  and  San  Franciscos  will  play  in  this  city  to- 
morrow afternoon,  and  also  this  afternoon  and  Monday  after- 
noon. The  new  season  will  probably  commence  during  the  latter 
part  of  this  month. 


^PRICE'S 


Powder 


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infants.     HIGHLAND    EVAPORATED    CREAM  is  simply  cows 
milk  in  an  improved  form  and  is  the  ideal  food  for  infants. 
Sold  by  Grocers  and  Druggists  Everywhere. 
Write    for    our    Infant    Food    circular    and    Highland 
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In  days  of  yore,  as  we  have  all  learued  from  the  old  folks,  no  medicine 
was  so  useful  to  have  in  the  house,  or  so  good  iu  many  diseases,  as  Pure 
Holland  Gin.  For  a  long  time,  however,  the  genuine  article  could  not  be 
had,  until  it  had  appeared  under  the  new  name  of  Aromatic  Schiedam 
Schuapps.  The  article  is  manufactured  exclusively  by  Udolpho  Wolfe,  at 
Schiedam,  in  Holland  aud  put  up  in  small  and  large  bottles  expressly  for 
medicinal  purposes,  with  his  name  on  the  seal,  botile,  and  label,  to  protect 
it  against  counterfeits  What  a  great  blessing  it  is  for  persons  residing  in 
the  interior  of  our  Southern  and  Western  States  that  they  can  now  pur- 
chase a  pure  and  u -adulterated  article  of  tin  with  confidence,  without 
the  least  liability  of  decep'inn  or  dissatisfaction.  That  it  will  tend  to  di- 
minish the  consumption  of  the  common  deleterious  and  spurious  liquors 
which  now  almost  exclusively  pervade  this  country,  admits  of  no  doubt. 
We  consider  the  medical  profession  aud  the  traveling  community  are  un- 
der obligations  to  Mr.  Wolfe. 

To  insure,  however,  obtainiug  the  renuine  article,  ask  for  Wolfe's  Schie- 
dam Aromatic  Schnapps  and  look  for  the  legitimate  trade-mark— W.  A.  S. 
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Next  Term  opens  August  1,  1893. 

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Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (18th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  his  residence,  or  at  the 
residence  of  the  pupil. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


CELIA  AND  ONE  DAN  CUPID.—  From  Harper's  Bazaar. 

Celia  caught  young  Love  one  day — 

Stole  the  fellow's  bow; 
All  his  arrows  hid  away, 

Left  him  full  of  woe. 

Then  she  dried  poor  Cupid's  tears; 

And  when  this  was  done, 
Told  him  modern  cavaliers 

Used  the  Gatling-gun — 

Gun  that  shoots  a  thousand  shots 

While  the  bow  shoots  two; 
Strikes  a  thousand  fatal  spots 

With  an  aim  half  true, 

"Bows  and  arrows,"  Celia  said, 

"Long  are  out  of  style, 
Danny,  use  the  gun  instead" — 

Maiden  fall  of  guile  ! 

Cupid  must  have  minded  then, 

For  in  two  short  years 
Lovely  Celia's  had  quite  ten 

Doven  cavaliers. 


THE    DEVIL'S    LIBRARY. 


AN  old-time  catalogue,  in  a  New  York  Library,  of  "  the  most 
valuable  books  relating  to  the  Devil,  his  origin,  greatness  and 
influence,"  contains  the  titles  of  over  five  hundred  volumes,  and 
does  not  presume  to  be  complete.  It  is  introduced  by  the  motto, 
"Fools  deride — Philosophers  investigate,"  and  by  four  motto 
verses,  including  the  fine  epigram  by  Defoe: 

Bad  as  he  is,  the  Devil  may  be  abused, 
Be  falsely  charged  and  causelessly  accused, 
When  men  unwilling  to  be  blamed  alone. 
Shift  off  those  Crimes  on  Him  which  are  their  own. 

A  series  of  introductory  illustrations  show  the  Devil  as  he  has 
been  variously  delineated  by  various  races.  The  Egyptian  Devil 
seems  to  have  been  a  cross  between  a  dog  and  a  hog,  walking  on 
his  hind  legs  with  the  assistance  of  a  staff.  The  Assyrian  has  a 
lion's  body  with  wings,  a  scaly  neck  and  a  dragon's  head  with 
horns.  The  Cingalese  Satan  has  two  heads  with  tusks,  four  arms, 
sits  on  a  colt  and  has  venomous  snakes  climbing  all  over  him. 
The  French  is  the  first  of  the  old  Devils  to  exhibit  the  combined 
traits  so  familiar  to  us  now.  He  has  horns,  the  ears  of  an  ass,  a 
goat's  tail  and  rooster's  claws,  but  his  body  and  head  are  human, 
with  bat's  wings  growing  from  the  shoulders.  This  enemy  of 
man  is  shown  in  the  cut  to  be  grinning  in  a  most  malig- 
nant and  diabolical  manner,  and  scattering  gold  around  to  tempt 
his  victims  within  the  clutches  of  his  claws.  But  Beelzebub  has 
been  represented  in  other  and  far  more  polite  forms.  There  is  a 
print  from  the  illustrations  of  Goethe's  "  Faust,"  which  shows 
him  as  a  courtly  gentleman,  elegant  in  dress  and  polished  in 
manners.  It  seems  as  if  mankind,  as  it  advanced  in  refinement, 
improved  its  great  foe  as  it  has  improved,  or  at  least  refined,  the 
vices  with  which  it  pays  him  tribute.  Thus,  in  the  thirteenth 
century,  the  English  Devil  was  a  horrible  monster,  with  the  dis- 
torted body  of  a  man,  the  horned  head  of  a  bull,  a  docked  tail 
like  a  hackney  horse,  only  three  fingers  and  toes  on  each  ex- 
tremity, spikes  at  its  knees  and  shins  like  the  spurs  of  a  game- 
cock. 

By  Thomas  Landseer's  time,  however,  the  artist  had  elevated 
him  to  a  quite  genteel  sort  of  person,  with  a  sardonic  leer,  but 
good  clothes  and  an  unblemished  anatomy.  Landseer— the 
brother  of  Sir  Edwin,  it  should  be  stated— once  made  ten  etchings, 
called  "The  Devil's  Walk,"  which  are  very  rare  and  valuable. 
The  most  industrious  and  extensive  of  all  artistic  glorifiers  of  his 
Satanic  Majesty,  however,  has  been  George  Cruikshank.  That 
ingenious  draughtsman  has  pictured  him  in  every  conceivable 
form,  as  long  as  it  was  hateful,  for  he  has  always  been  too  con- 
scientious to  paint  the  Devil  as  an  attractive  being.  "  The  True 
Legend  of  St.  Dunstan  and  the  Devil"  is  one  of  Cruikshank's 
most  humorous  works,  and  his  "  Gentleman  in  Black  "  is  almost 
inimitable,  as  far  as  the  unique  grotesqueness  of  the  plates  is 
concerned.  The  catalogue  contains  a  choice  assortment  of 
proverbs  applying  to  the  ruler  of  the  infernal  regions.  All  are 
quaint  and  some  are  very  curious  indeed.  Thus,  one  tells  us 
"The  Devil  is  good  when  he  is  pleased,"  another  that  "Satan 
is  all  Christianity,"  and  another  still  that  "  the  Devil  is  ever 
God's  ape."  " 'Tis  a  sin  to  belie  the  Devil."  "An  idle 
brain  is  the  Devil's  workshop,"  "  Idle  men  are  the  Devil's 
playfellows,"  "  What  is  gotten  over  the  Devil's  back  is 
spent  under  his  belly,"  "It's  an  ill  battle  when  the  Devil 
carries  the  colors,"  ><  He  must  have  a  long  spoon  that  must  eat 
with  the  Devil,"  "  Where  God  builds  a  church,  there  the  Devil 
builds  a  chapel,"  and  "  Hell  and  chancery  are  always  open,"  are 
some  odd  sayings.  Odder  still  are:  "The  Devil's  meal  is  half 
bran,"  "Seldom  lies  the  Devil  dead  in  a  ditch,"  and  "Hell  is  use- 
less to  the  sages,  but  necessary  to  the  blind  populace;"  which 
latter  is  a  very  true  and  philosophic  statement  indeed.  These 
are  only  a  few  of  their  kind,     n  Hell's  prince,  sly  parent  of  revolt 


and  lies,"  is  one  of  many  names  applied  to  him.  "  Fear  made 
the  Devils,  and  weak  hope  the  gods,"  and  "The  Devil 
tempts  all,  but  the  idle  tempt  the  Devil,"  are  among  the  state- 
ments laid  down  in  these  wise  saws.  One  tells  us,  »  Resist  the 
Devil  and  he  will  flee  from  you;"  and  another,  "  He  that  takes 
the  Devil  into  his  boat  must  carry  him  over  the  sound."  It  is 
unpleasant  to  reflect  that  »  Hell  is  wherever  heaven  is  not,"  but 
the  proverb  says  it  is,  and  of  course  it  must  be  so.  A  verse  by 
an  old  English  writer  tells  us 

The  Devil 
Is  civil 
And  mighty  polite, 
For  he  knows 
That  it  pays, 
And  he  judges  men  right; 
So  beware 
And  take  care 
Or  your  hair  he  will  singe; 
And  moil  you, 
And  soil  you. 
And  cause  you  to  twinge. 
Better  poetry,    though    no    better   sense,   is  the   following,  by 
Hone  : 

Good  people  all,  who  deal  with  the  Devil, 

Be  warned  now  by  what  I  say, 
His  credit's  long  and  his  tongue  is  civil, 
But  you'll  have  the  Devil  to  pay. 

Other  works  of  a  mirthful  character  are:  "  A  Sure  Guide  to 
Hell,  by  Beelzebub;  "The  Praise  of  Hell— or  a  View  of  the  In- 
fernal Regions;  its  antiquity,  situation  and  stability,  manners, 
customs,  etc.;"  "The  Devil  in  America;  a  dramatic  Satire;" 
"  The  Devil's  Mushrooms,"  which  a  Pope  is  alleged  to  have  eaten  ; 
"  A  Pleasant  Historie;  How  a  Devil  (named  Rush)  came  to  a  Re- 
ligions House  to  Seeke  a  Service" — which  is  described  as  »  being 
full  of  pleasant  mirth  and  delight  for  the  people,  and  an  appendix 
to  the  "  Sure  Guide  to  Hell,"  "  beinga  vindication  of  the  common 
practice  of  cursing  and  swearing,  by  Belial."  "  The  Devil's  Mem- 
orandum Book"  was  published  in  London  in  1832.  It  had  eighty 
illustrations,  mostly  caricature  portraits  of  public  characters.  In 
1831  was  published  "  The  Devil's  Walk,"  a  poem,  by  8.  T.  Cole- 
ridge and  Robert  Southey,  the  first  verse  in  which  reads: 

From  his  brimstone  bed  at  break  of  day, 

A- walking  the  Devil  is  gone, 
To  visit  his  snug  little  farm  on  earth, 
And  see  how  his  stock  goes  on. 
This  work  was  illustrated  by  Landseer. — The  Collector. 


ON  the  Palace  Hotel  register,  a  few  days  ago,  appeared  the 
name  "Jonathan  Chace,  Rhode  Island."  Very  few  people  recog- 
nized him  as  "  the  Quaker  Senator  "  who  succeeded  the  vener- 
able Anthony  at  Washington,  and  resigned  before  his  term  was 
out.  He  still  wears  the  same  Quaker  cut  coat  and  a  hat  that  ap- 
proximates orthodoxy,  but  he  very  seldom  uses  "thee"  and 
"  thou  "  in  ordinary  conversation.  When  he  first  appeared  in 
Washington  he  asked  a  friend  if  his  Quaker  language  was  likely 
to  hamper  his  success  in  the  Senate,  but  he  afterward  discovered 
that  there  were  other  Senators  whose  language  possessed  more 
striking  peculiarities  than  his.  When  asked  point  blank  why  he 
resigned  the  Senatorship,  be  frankly  said:  "  I  think  three  years 
quite  enough  time  for  any  one  to  waste  in  that  body."  Mr.  Chace 
is  not  a  millionaire. 


Little  lord  Fduotleroy^ 

Quaker  rtoiLEfl  White  Oats  i 


July  2,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


A    SONG    OF    YOUTH. -rVirW  Swtt  Mint*. 

Laughed  the  youth.  ••  Love's  silken  chain 

Hath  no  charm   for  me 
When  the  whole  world   I  may  gain — 
Life  is  Love."  quoth  he. 
••  Love  is  blinding,"  cried  the  youth, 
••  From  Love's  altar  fires 
Rises  smoke  that  shuts  out  Truth, 
Hides  Life's  high  desires. 

"  Daphne  of  the  woodland  shrine, 

Phyllis  of  the  field. 
Seek  to  woo  witn  arts  divine, 

But  to  none  I  yield." 
Eros  first  laughed  at  his  words, 

Then  the  god  grew  wroth, 
Like  the  whir  of  huruming-birds 

Sped  the  arrow  forth. 
When  Hypatia  of  the  school 

Taught  philosophy, 
Bent  the  youth  before  her  stool, 

For  her  love  prayed  he. 
Like  a  bird  with  broken  wings, 

Which  dares  not  to  move, 
Listened  he  to  abstract  things, 

Life  bereft  of  Love. 
"  Love  is  life,"  the  poor  youth  prayed, 
"  All  the  world  thou  art," 
While  the  fair  Platonic  maid 

Smiled,  but  owned  no  heart. 

Eros  laughed.     "  This  is  the  cure 
Of  the  gods,"  cried  he. 
"  Who  thinks  Love  does  not  endure 
Finds  philosophy." 

AS    SEEN    BY    FRENCH    EYES. 


IT  is  ODly  natural  that  "the  course  of  true  love  never  rang 
1  smooth."  Venus  was  the  daughter  of  the  waves,  and  also 
the  mother  of  Love.  What  but  tempest  can  he  expected  from 
the  daughter  of  the  sea? 


THE  Gaulois  recently  began  an  article  on  the  question  of  the 
corset  by  announcing  that  one  whole  State  of  North  America 
"after  a  deliberation  of  all  the  medical  authorities"  has  just  pro- 
scribed the  use  of  the  corset.  "  By  supreme  authority  all  corsets  ac- 
tually existing  have  been  burned  in  the  public  squares.  The  American 
women  consented  to  this  sacrifice  with  charming  good  humor;  and, 
our  American  confrere  adds,  to  look  at  them  you  would  not  know 
the  difference." 

The  Washington  correspondent  of  the  Journal  des  Debais  has  pro- 
duced the  following  paragraph  from  his  perplexed  studies  of  the 
Brigg's  controversy:  '*  The  Consistory  of  New  York,  before  whom 
Dr.  Briggs  had  been  prosecuted  for  heresy  by  the  Seminary  of  Prince- 
ton, has  declared  the  great  Professor  of  the  Seminary  of  the  Union 
innocent.  But  the  Seminary  of  Princeton  does  not  easily  let  go  its 
hold,  and  Dr.  Patton  intends  appealing  from  this  decision.  Now  it 
appears  that  Dr.  Patton  is  himself  guilty  of  heresy,  the  crime  with 
which  he  so  harshly  reproaches  his  rival.  In  his  lessons  to  the  Sem- 
inarists he  confided  to  them  that  he  was  sure  that  Socrates  and 
Plato  would  be  found  in  the  number  of  the  blessed  on  the  last  day." 

The  same  writer  gives  his  readers  information  concerning  our  fete 
days:  "Thanksgiving  day  is  a  solemn  festival  everywhere  in  the 
United  States.  Factories  are  shut  up,  shops  are  closed,  and  even  the 
post  refuses  to  deliver.  At  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoou  there  appears 
on  every  table,  because  of  a  tradition,  a  roast  turkey  of  the  biggest, 
as  the  substantial  dish.  For  bread  they  eat  toasted  maize,  for  drink 
they  have  cider,  and  for  dessert  pumpkin  tartlets.  Thus  wills  cus- 
tom and  thus  prescribes  the  proclamation  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States.  This  Presidential  command  is  always  received  with 
satisfaction  by  the  pietists  and  the  other  citizens  who  love  to  cele- 
brate on  that  day  the  anniversary  of  the  landing  on  the  coast  of 
Massachusetts  of  the  Pilgrims  driven  from  England  to  embark  on 
board  the  Mayflower." 

THERE  was  an  interesting  discovery  of  remains  of  mammoths 
and  other  prehistoric  animals,  under  the  streets  in  the  heart  of 
London,  lately.  Workmen  who  were  excavating  the  streets  for 
sewerage  works,  came  upon  the  remains  at  a  depth  of  twenty- 
two  feet  below  the  surface.  Two  large  tusks  of  a  mammoth  were 
first  discovered  among  a  pile  of  bones,  probably  of  the  same 
animal.  The  tusks  were  broken,  but  when  complete  they  meas- 
ured between  nine  and  ten  feet  in  length,  and  one  piece  was 
nearly  two  feet  in  circumference.  About  fifteen  feet  away  from 
these  remains  the  lower  jaw  and  other  bones  of  a  younger  mam- 
moth were  found.  Other  unclassified  bones  were  also  found.  It 
is  said  to  be  evident  that  the  animals  died  at  the  place  where  the 
remains  were  discovered.  It  is  highly  interesting  to  contrast 
what  must  have  been  the  appearance  of  the  scene  when  these 
mammoths  were  grazing  on  London's  site  with  the  appearance  of 
the  same  spot  to-day. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  has  taken  in  a  full  stock 
of  the  very  latest  and  most  fashionable  summer  goods  in  men's 
furnishings. 


Marion  Harland, 

Author  of  "Common  Sense 
in  the  Household,"  writes, 
February  5,  1S92  :  "After 
long  and  careful  trial 
of    others,     I    prefer 

(igYelantfs 

BakingPowder.  Cleveland's 
is  a  pure  cream  of  tartar  and 
soda  mixture,  not  containing 
alum  or  ammonia  or  any 
other  substance  deleterious 
to  the  human  stomach." 

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Special  attention  giveu  to  getting  up  exhibitions  for  Fourth  of  July  or 
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LOUIS    CAHEN    &    SON, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers- 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters,  Cordials,  etc. 
Pacific  Coast  /gents  Bethesda  Mineral  Water. 

418  Sacramento  Street,  S.  F. 
LAVER,    MULLANY    &   LAVER, 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


1  We   Obey    no   Wand    but    Pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 


THE  announcement  made  by  Mr.  Chas.  H.  Hoyt,  of  farce- 
comedy  fame,  tbat  the  report  of  bis  having  been  a  delegate 
to  the  Minneapolis  nominating  convention  must  have  been  false 
for  two  conclusive  reasons:  1st,  that  he  was  not  elected;  2nd, 
that  he  is  a  consistent  and  life-long  Democrat,  reminds  one  of  the 
"  report"  sent  in  by  the  honest  committeemen  of  a  country  town 
to  explain  why  they  did  not  fire  a  salute  in  honor  of  General 
Grant's  arrival  at  the  local  "  deppo."  "  We  did  not  fire  a  salute," 
wrote  the  village  wiseacres  solemnly,  "  for  thirteen  good  and 
sufficient  reasons.  First,  we  had  no  powder."  The  other  twelve 
reasons  are  unrecorded.  The  first,  like  Mr.  Hoyt's,  seemed  pretty 
nearly  satisfactory. 

As  a  personal  gratification,  however,  I  am  glad  that  Mr.  Hoyt 
has  put  himself  upon  record  as  a  good  Democrat.  Such  a  leaven 
of  virtue  may  save  even  a  farce-comedy  creator  from  everlasting 
perdition. 

»  »  * 

The  mention  of  Mr.  Hoyt's  name  in  connection  with  politics, 
though  through  a  mistake  of  the  reliable  reporter,  calls  up  a 
reminiscence  of  a  well-known  actor-politician  of  early  days  in 
Sacramento,  and  equally  well  known  in  this  city  in  his  profes- 
sional capacity.  Few  old-timers  will  not  recall  the  pleasant  and 
always  youthful  and  debonair  face  and  figure  of  J.  H.  Warwick. 
In  the  late  fifties  Mr.  Warwick  was  a  member  of  the  famous 
stock  company  of  the  old  Metropolitan  Theatre  (the  building  was 
torn  down  to  make  way  for  Montgomery  avenue)  when  Edwin 
Booth,  as  well  as  his  older  brother  "  June"  and  his  wife  Agnes, 
were  among  the  regular  company.  Warwick  was  extremely  pop- 
ular as  a  Bohemian,  though  a  very  domestic  married  man;  and, 
although  by  no  means  as  great  an.  actor  as  he  thought  himself 
(is  any  one?)  yet  a  thoroughly  reliable  all-round  actor,  and  well 
liked  on  the  stage.  His  rattle-brained,  good-natured  fellows  were 
fond  of  poking  fun  at  an  actor  who,  a  more  rare  characteristic 
then  than  now,  had  social  and  political  aspirations,  dressed  nat- 
tily and  neatly,  and  had,  in  fact,  a  life  off  the  stage  as  well  as  on 
it.  Among  these  stories,  one  of  the  'best  known  to  old-timers  is 
that  of  spoiling  Warwick's  speech  on  his  benefit  night.  In  those 
days  the  actor  who  wished  to  capture  a  Californian  audience, 
used  to  declare  his  intention  of  remaining  among  us  as  a  perma- 
nency, instead  of  gathering  in  our  dollars  (twenties  then)  and 
"going  back  home"  to  spend  them — a  custom  duplicated  in 
these  days  of  traveling  companies  by  the  gushing  "  So  glad  to  be 
back  again  in  dear  San  Francisco."  "  Tempore  "  and  "  Mores" 
may  alike  "  mutantur"  but  human  nature  is  always  the  same.  It 
seems  that  Warwick's  peculiar  way  of  assuring  Californians  that 
he  had  come  here  to  stay  was  to  declare  that  he  expected  "  to 
lay  his  bones  in  California."  So  often  had  this  fetching  phrase 
figured  in  this  actor's  before  tbe-curtain  speeches,  that  it  had 
passed  into  a  by-word  behind  the  scenes.  On  the  special  occa- 
sion mentioned,  Warwick  was  "spreading  himself  "  to  an  en- 
thusiastic audience,  and  seemed  about  to  wind  up  with  a  graceful 
and  climactic  peroration,  when  a  sepulchral  voice,  evidently  pro- 
jected through  one  of  the  "  peep-holes  "  in  the  curtain,  resounded 
through  the  theatre,  and  laid  out  the  orator  and  his  speech  to- 
gether: "Don't  forget  your  bones,  Warwick;  don't  forget  your 
bones  1 " 

I  can't  say  whether  Warwick  fled  or  joined  iu  the  laugh prob- 
ably the  latter. 

*  *  * 

After  Mr.  Warwick  became  a  fixed  resident  of  Sacramento  his 
popularity  led  to  his  being  nominated  and  triumphantly  elected 
to  represent  that  district  in  the  State  Legislature.  He  proved  an 
excellent  legislator,  and  was  several  times  returned.  In  fact,  his 
professional  career  became  merged  in  his  political  success,  and  he 
was  to  a  great  extent  lost  to  the  stage.  He  may  be  alive  yet,  for 
aught  I  know,  and  still  figuring  somewhere  in  the  antipodes,  ac- 
cording to  stage  precedent,  as  "the  sterling  young  actor,  J.  H. 
Warwick. '' 

#  #  # 

The  most  notable  event  of  the  coming  week  will  be  the  open- 
ing of  Stockwell's  new  theatre,  Thursday  evening,  July  7th.  All 
who  have  visited  the  theatre  during  the  present  week  have  ex- 
pressed amazement  at  the  transformation  affected,  and  unquali- 
fied admiration  for  every  arrangement  and  appointment.  The 
loge  boxes  in  the  centre  are  a  feature  of  the  auditorium,  their 
railings  of  white  and  gold,  and  the  harmony  of  coloring  in  their 
upholstering  making  a  most  attractive  break  in  the  usual  monot- 
ony of  seating  arrangement.  Tbe  proscenium  boxes  are  equally 
graceful  in  style,  the  drapery  and  upholstering  being  in  an  artistic 
mingling  of  peacock  blue  and  orange  red,  the  latter  giving  the 
needed  warmth  to  the  prevailing  delicacy  of  coloring.  A  less  con- 
spicuous, but  even  more  satisfactory  feature,  is  seen  in  the  facili- 
ties for  ventilation,  one  point  of  which  is  peculiar  co  this  theatre. 
A  large  iron  flue  leading  to  the  top  of  the  building  conveys  away 
ali  the  foul   air,  which    is   drawn   by    means   of   an    electric    fan 


through  a  grating  in  the  main  aisle.  The  appliances  for  the  in- 
stantaneous working  of  colored  lights,  the  system  of  call-bells, 
and  all  other  accessories  of  a  first-class  modern  theatre,  are  the 
best  "  up  to  date."  Most  of  the  salient  features  of  construction 
and  finish  have  been  already  described  in  this  column:  but  a 
close  inspection  reveals  many  admirable  novelties  which  would 
be  of  interest  did  space  admit  their  description.  The  foyer  will 
contain  three  genuine  works  of  art — a  handsome  piece  of  sculp- 
ture in  bronze,  placed  in  a  broad  marble  niche,  a  large  and  costly 
vase  of  elegant  proportions,  and  an  oil  painting,  valued  at  $650, 
Mr.  Stockwell,  with  excellent  taste,  preferring  quality  to  quan- 
tity in  the  adornment  of  the  entrance  to  his  theatre. 

The  opening  attraction  is  worthy  of  the  house.  Augustin  Daly's 
company  needs  no  advertising,  and  its  rendering  of  As  You  Like 
It,  the  opening-night  piece,  has  made  it  doubly  famous  in  England 
as  well  as  in  this  country.  Thursday  evening  will,  doubtless, 
see  Stockwell's  crowded  with  as  brilliant  an  audience  as  ever  filled 
a  theatre  in  San  Francisco.  The  auction  sale  of  choice  of  seats 
was  set  for  Thursday  last,  too  late  for  its  result  to  be  noted  here 
this  week,  but  from  tbe  previous  indications  the  sale  must  have 
given  a  flattering  assurance  of  future  popularity. 

*  #  • 

Even  in  farce-comedy  there  are  degrees  of  offense,  ranging  from 
a  mere  misdemeanor  down  to  positive  crime.  McCarthy's  Mishaps, 
which  has  been  disgracing  the  Bush  for  a  week  past,  is  indictable 
on  the  latter  count.  From  the  disgusting  make-up  of  the  princi- 
pal to  the  painfully  eleborate  "  working  up  to  the  curtain"  at  the 
end  of  each  act,  the  performance  is  coarse  almost  to  the  point  of 
indecency.  Even  tbe  really  clever  dancing  of  two  young  Fergu- 
sons, boy  and  girl,  is  divested  of  any  possible  enjoyableness  by 
the  unpleasant  precocity  of  tbe  children,  and  the  still  more  un- 
pleasant conviction  tbat  they  should  be  in  a  better  school.  That 
the  Bush  has  been  fairly  filled  all  tje  week,  and  that  laughter 
and  applause  have  not  been  lacking,  proves  not  that  the  piece  is 
better,  but  that  the  popular  taste  is  worse.  Any  one  who  fan- 
cies, for  example,  that  the  repulsive  acrobatic  feat  of  Ferguson 
and  his  accessory  is  funny,  should  be  put  on  a  course  of  Dickens 
and  Jos.  Jefferson  to  learn  what  humor  means.  Mr.  Ferguson 
"  points  with  pride"  to  tbe  fact  that  he  has  played  the  part  of 
McCarthy  1,500  times  in  Europe  and  America.  In  this  admission 
he  pleads  guilty  to  1,500  charges  of  crime  against  good  taste  and 
genuine  humor,  and  makes  himself  a  subject  for  the  extradition 
laws  of  both  countries. 

#  *  * 

Deny  it  a?  he  may,  every  one  enjoys  a  minstrel  show,  and  the 
nearer  it  comes  to  the  old-fashioned  original,  with  its  end-men 
and  interlocutor,  its  plantation  darkies  and  its  tuneful  balladist, 
the  more  it  is  enjoyed.  The  company  which  has  made  the  name 
of  Col.  J.  H.  Haverly  known  in  the  land  has  preserved  all  the 
old  minstrel  characteristics,  with  enough  "new  features"  for 
advertising  purposes.  It  will  be  at  the  Bush  for  Fourth  of  July 
week,  opening  at  a  holiday  matinee  on  Monday  next.  Mr.  Wm. 
J.  Block,  representing  Haverly's  Minstrels,  has  been  in  town  for 
the  last  week,  preparing  for  the  two  weeks'  engagement  here, 
which  will  be  under  Col.  Haverly's  personal  direction,  Wm.  Foote, 
manager. 

#  #  * 

Charlie  Reed's  name  is  one  to  conjure  with  in  San  Francisco. 
His  new  piece,  IIoss  and  Hoss,  is  sure  to  have  the  characteristics  of 
tbe  funny  little  comedian,  prominent  among  which  are  a  quaint,  ir- 
resistible drollery  and  unqualified  wholesomeness.  No  one  ever 
saw  a  coarse  situation  or  heard  an  unpleasant  suggestion  in  Charlie 
Reed's  broadest  absurdity  and  fun.  William  Collier  portrays  an 
original  character,  that  of  a  country  Judge,  and  Charlie  Reed  will 
practice  in  his  "  co't."  Arthur  Moulton  is  still  with  the  com- 
pany, which  he  leaves  after  this  season  to  travel  with  his  own 
play,  and  there  are  plenty  of  catchy  songs,  pretty  girls,  and  light- 
heeled  dancers  in  the  company.  IIoss  and  Hoss  opens  a  two- 
weeks'  season  at  the  California,  July  4th. 

*  *  * 

Francis  Wilson  and  The  Lion  Tamer  at  the  Baldwin,  and  Natural 
Gas  at  the  California,  have  continued  to  attract  large  audiences. 
Next  week  will  be  the  last  of  Francis  Wilson's  six-weeks'  en- 
gagement at  the  Baldwin,  which,  for  its  length,  has  made  a  re- 
markably sustained  success  in  a  town  which,  like  San  Francisco, 
can  generally  exhaust  its  patronage  of  one  attraction  in  two 
weeks,  or  four  at  furthest.  After  Mr.  Wilson,  July  11th,  comes 
Qloriana,  with  Chas.  B'roh  man's  company. 
»  #  * 

The  excellence  of  the  Tivoli  production  of  the  melodious  and 
ever-popular  Bohemian  Girl  has  been  a  surprise  to  music-lovers, 
and  the  bouse  has  been  packed  all  the  week.  Belle  Thome  has 
not  only  a  good  voice  but  sings  well,  and  Arthur  Messmer's 
pleasing  tenor  is  heard  to  advantage  in  the  duets  between  Thad- 
deus  and  Arline.  The  well-known  songs  are  ail  encored  more 
than  once,  and  the  graceful  serpentine  dance  of  Miss  Julie  Kings- 
ley  in  tbe  second  act  seems  to  delight  the  audience  almost  out  of 
its  good  manners,  so  often  is  she  obliged  to  return.  Next  week 
Suppe's  Clover  will  be  produced  for  the  first  time  here,  beginning 
July  4th.     Tillie   Salinger  will  return  from  her  vacation,  and  will 


July  2,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


be  very  welome.  Liltle  Grade  riaisted.  whose  recent  severe 
illness  caused  serioas  alarm  to  her  friends,  will  also  appear  in 
Ctottr.  Beside  being  an  artist.  Oracie  is  a  brave  little  woman. 
On  the  evening  when  she  was  attacked  with  the  illness  from 
which  she  has  since  mffered,  Mr.  Kreling  insisted  on  ringing 
down  the  curtain,  but  she  resolutely  refused  to  allow  it,  and  went 
through  her  part  with  a  spirit  and  fortitude  which  a  strong  man 
might  be  proud  to  emulate.  She  attended  the  Clover  rehearsal  on 
Monday,  and  declares  herself  able  to  take  part  in  the  coming  pro- 
duction.    Everyone  will  be  glad  to  see  her  restored  to  health. 

THE    DIVORCE    DISCUSSION. 


THE  discussion  in  the  daily  press  as  to  the  causes  leading  to  the 
frequency  of  divorces,  is  becoming  a  IriSe  wearisome.  The 
origin  of  the  trouble  is  a  natural  one,  inherent  to  humanity.  In 
a  measure  the  French  may  be  right,  that  »  there  is  nothing 
in  love  but  what  we  imagine."  There  is  certainly  too  much 
imagination  about  the  love  tnat  leads  to  many  marriages.  With 
such,  marriage  is  a  romance  until  the  book  is  open.  The 
preface  may  be  amusing  to  some,  but  it  never  lasts  long,  and  it 
is  always  deceptive.  Unhappily,  there  is  within  us  all,  too,  an 
obstacle  to  perfect  happiness.  This  is  weariness  of  the  things  we 
possess,  and  the  desire  for  the  things  we  have  not.  So  long  as 
the  civil  law  recognizes  divorce,  and  human  nature  remains  un- 
changed, there  will  be  divorce  suits.  To  make  decrees  more  diffi- 
cult to  secure  might  discourage  many  suits.  Toe  English  under- 
stand this,  and  do  it  better  than  we  do.  Justice  Maule  brought 
this  out  in  lecturing  a  prisoner  convicted  of  bigamy,  and  who 
offered  in  extenuation  the  plea  that  bis  wife  had  taken  up  with 
a  hawker,  and  run  away  five  years  before,  that  be  never  saw  her 
again  and  then  married  again.  »  I  will  tell  you  what  you  ought 
to  have  done,"  said  the  Justice,  "  and  if  yon  say  you  did  not  know, 
I  must  tell  you  that  the  law  conclusively  presumes  that  you  did. 
You  ought  to  have  instructed  your  attorney  to  bring  an  action 
against  the  hawker  for  criminal  conversation  with  your  wife. 
That  would  have  cost  you  about  £100.  When  you  had  recovered 
substantial  damages  against  the  hawker,  you  should  have  in- 
structed your  proctor  to  sue  in  the  Ecclesiastical  Courts  for  di- 
vorce a  mensii  et  tkoro.  That  would  have  cost  you  £200  or  £300 
more.  When  you  had  obtained  a  divorce  a  mensa  et  tkoro,  you 
would  have  had  to  appear  by  counsel  before  the  House  of  Lords 
for  a  divorce  a  vineulo  matrimonii.  The  bill  might  have  been  op- 
posed in  all  its  stages  in  both  Houses  of  Parliament,  and  alto- 
gether you  would  have  had  to  spend  about  £1,000  or  £1 ,200.  This 
system,  so  well  outlined  by  the  sarcastic  Justice,  is  a  little  hard 
on  the  poor,  upon  whom  the  matrimonial  yoke  bears  heavily, 
but  the  California  system  is  entirely  too  easy  and  lax.  To  strip 
divorce  proceedings  of  the  privacy  which  the  law  now  sanctions, 
would  be  a  step  in  the  right  direction.  It  would  serve  as  a  dis- 
couragement in  many  of  the  most  disgraceful  cases  now  brought 
before  the  courts. 

THE  King  of  Denmark  often  visits  Hamburg  unexpectedly,  and 
when  there  tries  to  preserve  bis  incognito.  During  his  last 
visit,  some  days  ago,  he  bought  several  golden-wedding  presents 
for  the  Queen.  One  shop-keeper  was  rather  taken  aback  when 
his  unexpected  customer,  after  several  purchases,  said  that  he  had 
not  enough  money  with  him  to  pay  for  them.  Could  they  be 
sent  to  the  Hotel  de  l'Europe  ?  The  shopkeeper  immediately 
thought  of  all  sorts  of  fashionable  swindlers  and  cheats,  and  his 
embarassment  amused  the  King  exceedingly.  One  of  the  hotel 
officials  was  at  last  summoned  by  telephone,  and  things  were 
made  right.  At  the  theatre  in  Hamburg  the  King  forgot  to  pay 
the  woman  in  the  cloakroom,  and  she  modestly  reminded  him  of 
the  fee.  The  King  excused  himself,  and  remarked  that  at  home 
he  was  always  free  from  these  taxes.  The  woman  received  a 
much  larger  sum  than  the  usual  fee  from  the  King's  aide-de-camp. 
Recognized  by  a  restaurant  keeper  in  a  modest  seat  in  the  crowded 
restaurant,  the  landlord  offered  him  a  private  room,  but  the  King 
sensibly  refused,  saying  he  felt  quite  comfortable  among  the  Ham- 
burg citizens. 

Pomraery  versus  Fommery. 

Accordingto  the  Courier  de  la  Champagne  of  Reims,  the  Tribunal  of 
Commerce  has  just  rendered  its  decision  in  the  celebrated  case  of 
Pommery  against  Pommery.  During  the  proceedings  the  facts  were 
elicited  that  the  syndicate  had  been  formed  after  the  discovery  of 
one  Veuve  Louis  Pommery,  solely  for  the  purpose  of  profiting  by  the 
name  of  this  person  at  the  expense  of  the  well-known  house  of  Veuve 
Pommery,  Fils  &  Co.,  and  the  eminent  wine  bearing  that  firm's  name, 
and  that  none  of  the  defendants  ever  had  been  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facturing of  champagne.  The  judgment  against  the  defendants  is  ex- 
plicit against  in  its  findings,  and  severe.  They  are  prohibited  from 
dealing  in  champagne  wines  under  the  name  of  "  Veuve  Pommery" 
or "  Veuve  Louis  Pommery,"  and  the  judgment  ordains,  besides 
the  forfeiture  of  the  deposit  made  by  the  defendants  in  the  office  of  the 
clerk  of  the  Tribunal  ot  Commerce  on  the  10th  of  July,  1891,  it  also  au- 
thorizes the  house  of  Veuve  Pommery,  Fils  &  Co.  to  have  inserted  in 
the  margin  of  the  certificate  of  deposit  the  terms  of  the  judgment  refer- 
ring to  said  forfeiture,  at  the  expense  of  the  defendants.  Lastly,  it 
mulcts  the  syndicate  of  defendants  and  discoverers  of  Mme.  Louis 
Pommery  to  8,000  francs  damages  for  dishonest  and  wrongful  com  peti- 
tion, and  orders  the  publication  of  the  judgment  in  ten  newspapers. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al.  H»yman  A  Co Proprietor!.  I  Alfkki>  Booms. Manager. 

nnT.0;.'}'ru\"v','w  ;'vi,"iL'v'  '    T"  =rl«y  Matin,.,..    Positively  lul  «r< 
one ol  1  RANI  i.n  WLL80N  and  Company's  jreal  oomlo  opera, 

THE   LION  TAMER. 

ChalTcJ110  Circ"sSoc"0'  Bounding  Brothers,  Clms  Parade,  Great  BcenlC 

iw™'n  "'"  ti'°t  H"V,  mA  "'"'""  s  «'eeds."  "Poor  Tonio,"    "A  Bold 
Uragoon,     "The  Isle  of  Lilhpotn.  ' 


THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 


M.B.LuiviTT Proprietor.  I  Chas.  P.  Hall Manager. 

Q»nd  Holiday  Attraction  I  Monday,  July  4,  1892.  The  record  or  the 
past  a  guarantee  for  the  future. 

HAVERLY'S    MASTODON    MINSTRELS, 

From  HAVERLY'S  CASINO,  Chicago,  under  the  personal  direction  of 
J.  H.  Haverly.    The  Prem-er  Minstrel  Organization  of  the  World. 

Matinees  Wednesday  and  Saturday. 

Extra  Matinee  Monday,  July  4th. 

NEXT  WEEK.- Haverly's  Mastodon  Minstrels  in  an  entire  change  of 
programme. 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

AlHaymaniSi  Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gotti.ob    Manager. 

Beginning  Monday  evening,  July  4th.  "The  Kings  of  Fun."  REED  ami 
<  ol.lll.lt.  in  the  funniest  of  all  Farcical  Entertainments, 

'•HOSS     AND     HOSSI" 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bros Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night.    One  week  only.    Balfe's  melodious  opera, 

THE     BOHEMIAN     GIRL  I 

Also  MISS  JULIA  KINGSLEY  in  her  Great  Serpentine  Dance. 
Monday,  July  4 Hi,  •> I  i,o  VEK ! " 

Popular  Prices  26c.  and  50c. 

GRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Fred  C.  Whitney Lessee  and  Manager. 

Every  evening  at  8:15.  .Saturday  matinee  at  2  p.  m.  Last  Week  of  IMM  TOK 
t'AKVEK  and  his  phenomenal. y  successful  WILD  AMERICA  COMPANY 
presenting  the  most  realistic  western  play  of  this  decade, 

THE     SCOUT. 

Popular  Prices— 15c  to  $1. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse  Business  Manager. 

:  The  Most  Magnificent  and  Perfectly  Equipped  Play-  : 
bouse  lu  America. 

Inaugurating  THURSD  A.Y  EVENING,  JULY  7 ;  Dedicating  with  AUGUS- 
11N  DALY'S  COMPANY  In 

AS     YOU     LIKE     IT! 

Thursday,  Friday,  Saturday  matinee  aud  Saturday  evening. 

Every  performance  under  the  personal  direction  of  AUGUSTIN  DALY. 

WEEK  of  Monday,  July  11.    Every  evening  (Sunday  excepted),   Matinee 
Saturday,  Me.  DALY'S  Comedy,  THE  LAST  WOKD  I 
PRICES. 

Orchestra  and  Dress  Circle  $2  00 

Balcony $2,  Jl  50  and   1  00 

Gallery  Reserved  50 

Boxes  (according  to  location)  $15,  512  and  10  00 

General  Admission  l  00 

Gallery  Admission 50 

Regular  Sale  of  seats  commences  Saturday,  July  2,  9  a.m.,  at  Sherman, 
Clay  &  Co.'s,  Sutter  and  Kearuy  streets. 


FINE   DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver   Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very    reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


KM  A  ES  S     liush  &  Gerts  Pianos 
NADC  Parlor  Organs 

HAINES 


Installments 


A.  L.  Bancroft  &  Co. 

303  Sutter  St.,  S.F. 


PIANOS 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


DOLCE  FAR  NIENTE.—  R.  K.  Munkittrick. 


Beneath  the  mossy  boughs  of  this  old  tree, 
Reclining  in  the  shadow  of  cool  and  sweet, 
I  watch  the  dragon-Hy  dart  o'er  the  wheat 

And  bear  the  booming  of  the  vagrant  bee, 

Above  the  rosy  clover-field,  care-free 
I  hear  the  restless  bobolink  repeat 
His  gurgling  song,  while  in  the  offing  meet 

Squadrons  of  clouds  upon  the  shining  sea. 

I  watch  the  happy  gull  on  wing  serene 
Above  the  murmurous  ocean  gayly  veer 
Where  lighest  winds  the  snowy  sails  pursue; 

And,  in  the  mellow  distance  o'er  the  green, 

A  white  spire  in  the  crystal  atmosphere 
Rises  in  peace  against  the  perfect  blue. 


A    MIDSUMMER    PASSEAR. 

IF  any  one  imagines  that  all  the  world  and  his  wife  are  out  of 
town,  and  the  city  a  howling  wilderness,  let  them  take  a  stroll 
on  Kearny  street  some  pleasant  day  at  noon-time,  and  see  all  the 
familiar  faces  that  will  pass  before  their  gaze.  To  be  sure  many 
of  the  gentler  sex,  who  form  a  large  portion  of  the  throng,  are 
"  over  for  the  day  "  for  shopping,  etc.  Just  see  pretty  Miss  Jarboe 
in  her  natty  outing  suit,  hurrying  up  Post  street  to  the  White 
House.  Handsome  Raphael  Weil,  the  genial  proprietor,  is  on 
tbe  threshold  of  the  store,  passing  out  to  his  noonday  meal  at 
Marchand's,  but  he  courteously  pauses  to  raise  his  hat  with  the 
grace  of  a  true  Parisian  as  Miss  Kate  goes  by.  Anon  comes  Miss 
Mamie  Burling,  her  slight  figure  looking  to  advantage  in  a  closely 
fitting  black  costume;  her  companion  is  a  short  girl  in  grey.  The 
girls  are  smiling  as  they  chat  together,  and  no  wonder,  for  at  this 
moment  comes  into  view  a  young  gentleman  in  light  summer 
attire,  a  grey  suit  and  straw  hat,  with  a  poppy  in  his  buttonhole, 
and  holding  two  poppies  in  his  hand.  He  advances  with  the  de- 
precating air  and  simper  so  peculiar  to  Turner  Messersmith. 
Lloyd  Tevis  is  seen  with  a  smile  upon  his  lips,  as  if  in  anticipa- 
tion of  the  lunch  he  is  hastening  to  at  the  club  further  up  tbe 
street.  William  Alvord  moves  more  slowly.  Time  and  good 
dinners  are  beginning  to  make  an  easy  gait  the  most  comfortable. 
Judge  Garber  and  Judge  Boalt  come  along  arm  in  arm,  and  then 
pretty  Mrs.  Allen,  from  San  Rafael,  who  is  evidently  over  for  a 
day's  shopping,  as  both  she  and  her  little  daughter  are  laden  with 
small  packages.  Mrs.  Marion  Wise  is  another  San  Rafaelite  who 
is  rapidly  walking  along,  her  handsome  brother  Hall  by  her  side. 
Her  destination  is  the  music  store,  and  as  she  stops  for  a  moment 
to  say  goodbye  to  her  brother,  Ludovici  comes  up,  and  then  Lor- 
ing,  so  one  may  be  sure  that  music  is  in  the  air,  possibly 
about  that  concert  they  are  said  to  be  getting  up.  It 
it  worth  one's  while  to  walk  a  mile  to  view  the  happiness 
of  the  newly-wedded  pair,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Mason,  nee  Lena 
Merry,  who  get  off  the  Sutter  street  car,  and  enter  the  Market. 
They  fairly  radiate  with  bliss.  Beautiful  Mrs.  N orris,  whose 
widow's  weeds  are  a  second  time  donned,  passes  with  graceful 
step,  her  two  young  daughters  by  her  side.  Meeting  her  at  the 
corner  is  her  pretty  niece,  sweet  Mollie  Torbert,  whom,  gossip 
says,  has  made  Burke  Holladay  ecstatically  happy  with  a  future 
hope.  A  village  cart  of  yellow  hue,  a  sorrel  horse  and  a  bronze- 
haired  driver,  attract  the  eye  as  Miss  Myra  Lord  draws  up  to  chat 
with  an  army  chap,  who  quickly  advances  to  the  curb-stone.  A 
small  woman  in  black,  whose  bright  golden  hair  contrasts  charm- 
ingly with  her  sombre  vail,  emerges  from  the  White  House,  ac- 
companied by  a  big  girl  with  black  eyes  and  white  tulle — Mrs. 
McLane  Martin  and  Miss  Millie  Ashe;  too  bad  the  departure  of 
Mrs.  Carrie  Martin  and  Mrs.  Belie  Donahue  deprive  Miss  Millie 
of  two  delightful  rural  spots  for  a  visit.  The  young  lady  is  so 
popular,  no  doubt  the  loss  of  one  will  be  the  gain  of  another. 
Major  Rathbone  hurries  by,  conscious  of  having  made  a  telling 
speech  at  his  end  of  the  Democratic  ratification  meeting.  Ed. 
Greenway  rolls  along  soon  after;  he  looks  rather  dejected — if  one 
can  imagine  jovial  Ed.  ever  looking  so.  Perhaps  he  has  been 
suffering  from  an  attack  of  "duty  versus  inclination"  flannel 
cotillion  at  San  Rafael  on  one  side,  and  lovely  Del  Monte  on  the 
other.  Donald  de  V.  Graham  moves  briskly  up  the  street,  with 
Louis  Sloss,  Jr.,  as  a  companion.  Graham  looks  jaunty  in  his 
short  coat  and  Derby  hat,  a  roll  of  mueic  in  his  hand.  He  is 
saying  how  much  he  misses  those  jolly  gatherings  in  the  music- 
room  of  the  Youngers  (to  say  nothing  of  the  genial  dentist's 
orders  for  Graham's  brand  of  "dry").  Frank  Pixley  comes 
leisurely  along,  followed  by  his  huge  dog.  Boruck  meets  him  on 
the  corner,  and  they  discuss  the  Chicago  nominations.  Another 
pretty  girl  trips  by — Miss  Claire  Ralston.  She  stops  to  greet  a 
lady  who  alights  from  a  carriage,  and  no  doubt  hears  all  the  latest 
news  from  Del  Monte  from  Mrs.  Brugiere.  But  the  whistles  are 
blowing,  the  clocks  are  striking,  and  luncheon  is  next  in  order 
for  We,  Us  &  Co. 

Tested  by  Time.  For  Bronchial  affections,  Coughs,  etc.,  Brown's 
Bronchial  Troches  have  proved  their  efficacy  by  a  test  of  many  years. 
Price  25  cents. 

The  most  perfect  gift  is  perfect  vision.  Obtainable  at  C.  Muller's,  the 
optician,  135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush,  San  Francisco. 


/ETNA 

HOT 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun- 
tains. Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac- 
commodations.   Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  cf  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  JEtna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liverand 
Kidney  Complaints. 

Tbe  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !  No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  Wfllee,  108  Itrumm  Street,  S.  F 


YOU'RE    OUT 

If  you  «Io  n't  so  to 

NAPA  SODA 
SPRINGS 


THIS     SUMMER. 


What  Do  You  Want  ? 


A  Climate  that  beats  Italy.  No  Malaria  or  Cold 
Sea  Air.  Health-giving  Mineral  Water.  Cuisine 
and  Service  Unexceptionable.  Comfortable  Beds. 
Table  First  Quality.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Every  Room.  Hot  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  Trains  Every  Day. 
All  Visitors  are  Satisfied. 

ANDREW  JACKSON,      -       -       -       PROPRIETOR. 

Napa  S3da  Springs  P.  O. 

The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  San  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets,  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 

The  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature. 

MRS.  M.  E.  PENDLETON, 
Proprietor  and  Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

MODEL     _&.1>/EEIWC!.A.N"     CATBEEE, 

1206  Sailer  Street, 

Telephone  2388. SAN  FRANCISCO. 

FOREST     HOUSE, 

SANTA  CRUZ  MOUNTAINS, 
A  desirable  place  to  spend  your  vacation,    Situated  on  Los  Gatos  Creek, 
a  few  minutes   walk  from  Alma  Station,  on  S.  P.  C.  R.  R.    Fine  Hunting 
and  Fishing.    Terms  reasonable. 

C.  E.  BROWN,  Proprietor,  Alma  Cal. 

OCCIDENTAL.     HOTEL, 

San    Francisco. 

A       CJTTIBT       HOME 

CENTRALLY       LOCATED, 

FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 


July  2,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


A    QUEEN'S    BIRTHDAY    SONNET.-/.    »'.  WtWrt-Smith,   in 
Piccadilly. 


Another  year  1  God  grant  thee  many  yet, 
Girt  by  thy  people's  love  and  reverence  I 
God  love  li.'  also  by  not  calling  hence 

So  wise  a  Liege  above  our  councils  set  I 

Around  Thy  throne  what  diverse  prayers  have  met. 
From  distant  Ind  and  sunny  regions  whence 
Britons  extend  an  empire's  eminence, 

And  add  new  jewels  to  Thy  coronet  I 

God  grant  onr  Sovereign  generous  length  of  years 

Autumn  of  life  amid  the  ripening  corn  ! 

And  full  reward  of  all  Her  soul  hath  borne 
Nurtured  with  many  an  agony  of  tears  1 
Stablished  in  joy  of  all  Her  heart  endears, 

Till  God's  love  crowns  Her  with  the  light  of  morn  I 

AN    IDEA    FOR    CHICAGO    ART    LOVERS. 


A  GREAT  field  has  recently  been  opened  for  the  indulging  of  the 
artistic  tastes  of  the  hog-killers  and  beef-eaters  of  Chicago,  by 
the  coming  into  fashion  of  a  new  material,  called  membranoid, 
which  is  defined  as  a  "  fancy  leather  made  from  tanned  tripe." 
This  fancy  leather  is  being  extensively  used  in  England  for  book 
bindings,  and  it  is  said  that  the  amorous  Don  Juan  or  the  adven- 
turous Gii  Bias  bound  in  tripe  presents  a  much  handsomer  ap- 
pearance than  ever  before.  Of  course,  all  the  pig-stickers  of  the 
City  by  the  Lake  have  expensive  libraries,  which,  by  the  way, 
are  provided  by  the  contractors  who  build  the  palatial  abodes  of 
the  feedprs  of  the  world.  Heretofore  the  books  of  the  Chicago 
upper-ten  have  been  bound  in  the  ordinary  brown  and  red  of 
commerce,  but  with  the  advent  of  the  tripe-bound  poets,  much 
greater  variety  and  beauty  may  be  expected  in  the  homes  of  the 
porcine  plutocrats.  Not  only  will  the  appearance  of  the  library 
be  enhanced  by  neat  inscriptions  in  letters  of  gold  on  the 
sides  of  the  .  tripe-bound  volumes,  setting  forth  the 
name,  pedigree  and  virtues  of  the  cow  that  was 
sacrificed  for  the  better  adornment  of  his  master's  domicile, 
but  the  hog-bound  treatises  on  ■<  Gas  as  a  Factor  in  Municipal 
Progress,"  which  may  be  found  in  the  favorite  book-case  of  every 
true  Chicagoan,  will  also  be  suitably  stamped  with  a  representa- 
tion of  the  defunct  squealer,  the  gloss  of  whose  hide  now  illus- 
trates the  fact  that  his  owner  stall-feeds  all  his  herds  and  sells 
only  the  best  meat  in  the  market.  Thus  will  the  aristocratic  Chi- 
cagoan combine  the  pleasures  of  the  student  with  the  satisfaction 
of  the  successful  business  men.  And  see  what  an  opportunity  it 
will  give  him  to  turn  a  few  hundreds  in  a  quiet  way  1  For  in- 
stance, a  visitor  to  the  wonderful  city  of  the  West,  while  a  guest 
at  one  of  its  palaces,  will  be  introduced  into  the  library,  the 
splendor  of  which  apartment  will  impress  him  as  much  as  the 
uniformity  with  which  every  shelf  is  completely  filled  with  books 
of  the  same  size,  so  that  not  an  inch  of  space  is  lost.  That's  the 
the  Chicago  way.  You  don't  catch  a  Chicago  man  putting  his 
poets  together,  thereby  presenting  an  uneven  and  probably  not 
a  completely  filled  shelf.  Not  he!  It  was  a  Chicago  millionaire 
who,  while  ordering  a  lot  of  books  for  his  recently  erected  man- 
sion, refused  to  purchase  Thackeray  because  the  works  of  that 
unfortunate  author  were  too  many  to  go  on  the  last  shelf  of  the 
bookcase.  But  with  what  a  twinkling  eye  will  the  wily  pork 
packer  show  his  visitors  his  uniquely  bound  volumes,  mention- 
ing meanwhile,  in  an  offhand  manner,  how  much  he  sold  that 
pork  for,  as  he  points  to  Shakespeare  in  hog  skin,  or  this 
beef,  as  he  fondles  Dickens  in  tripe.  Of  course  the  visitor  will 
praise  the  binding,  and  be  forced  to  admit  that  only  fine  animals 
could  have  had  such  fine  hides.  And  then,  before  he  knows  it, 
the  Lake  City  man  will  have  sold  him  a  carload  of  pork  at  a  good 
figure,  and  at  one  fell  swoop  will  have  made  all  the  cost  of  his 
library.  Oh,  a  sharp  customer  is  the  Chicago  man,  and  many  are 
his  profits. 

A  COUPLE  of  mahogany  tables,  which  are  souvenirs  of  the 
notorious  Jack  8heppard,  were  recently  offered  for  public 
competition  among  other  articles  of  furniture,  at  the  old  Black 
Jack,  Portsmouth  street,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  London.  This 
house  has  a  history  of  its  own.  It  was  a  favorite  resort  of  Joe 
Miller,  who  died  in  1728,  and  the  first  edition  of  whose  jests  which 
have  rendered  his  name  so  famous,  was  published  in  the  course 
of  the  year  following.  The  Black  Jack,  which  is  almost  directly 
opposite  to  the  reputed  but  not  sufficiently  authenticated  Old 
Curiosity  Shop  of  Charles  Dickens,  derived  an  alternative  name 
of  The  Jup,  by  which  it  was  long  distinguished,  from  the  circum- 
stance that  Jack  Sheppard,  upon  one  occasion,  found  it  daringly 
expedient  to  jump  from  one  of  its  second-floor  windows,  in  order 
to  evade  the  officers  of  justice,  otherwise  suggestively  described 
as  the  emissaries  of  Jonathan  Wild.  It  is  a  somewhat  cruel  il- 
lustration of  the  evanescence  of  the  interest  taken  in  the  fortunes 
of  departed  greatness,  says  The  Collector,  that  a  single  guinea  rep- 
resented the  value  put  upon  the  tables  to  which  traditions  so 
famous  are  attached. 


THE 


BRUNSWICK-BALKE- 

COLLENDER  CO. 


THE  MONARCH 


Manufacturers  of  Billiard  and  Pool  Tables. 

Dealers  in  Billiard  Merchandise  Generally. 

Makers  of  Bank  and  Office  Fixtures. 

Also,  Saloon  Fixtures,  Counters,  Coolers,  Mirrors,  etc.,  constantly  ou 
hand  or  made  to  order.    Ten  Pin  Alleys,  Ten  Pins,  Ten  Pin  Balls,  etc. 

653-655  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 

CARD. 

We  beg  to  inform  you  that  the  business  of  H.  N.  Cook, 
the  pioneer  belt  manufacturer  of  the  Coast,  established 
in  1860,  and  having  occupied  successively  the  premises 
801  Battery,  415  Market,  405  Market  and  32-J  Fremont 
streets,  is  still  continued,  but  in  new  and  more  conveni- 
ent quarters,  at  317-319  MJSSJOII  Street,  on  the  ground 
floor,  between  Fremont  and  Beale,  where  we  will  do  busi- 
ness hereafter  under  the  name  of  H.  N.  COOK  BELTING 
COMPANY.  The  business  is  conducted  under  the  old 
principles  and  management,  and  it  is  still  our  aim  to 
give  our  patrons  a  belt  made  of  the  good  old-fashioned 
article  of  oak-tanned  leather,  at  the  lowest  possible  cost. 
It  is  important  to  add  that  this  house  has  no  connection, 
with  any  other  firm  in  this  business  by  the  name  of 
Cook,  and  we  beg  t«  suggest  that  all  orders  intended  for 
us  be  carefully  directed. 

Thanking  you  for  past  favors  and  soliciting  a  continu- 
ance of  the  same,  we  have  the  pleasure  to  remain,  dear 
sirs,  yours  truly. 

H.  N.  COOK  BELTING  COMPANY, 


317-319  Mission  Street. 


Per  31.  II   COOK,  Jlanager. 


LOUIS  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS., 

inSTTZEIRIOIEa         DBCOBATOBS. 

Dealers  in  Stained  Glass,  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall    Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St.,  between  5th  and  6th,  San  Francisco 
HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY     AND      COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL     KXAMINER 

01  Handwriting, Inis,  PaperB,  etc.,  In  the  Detection  of  Forgeries , 

Counterfeits  and  Imitations. 

41  IK  CALIFORNIA  STREET,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SAINT  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


MILITARY  circles  especially,  and  society  in  general,  wilt  soon 
be  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  pretty  Mrs.  Ridgeway, 
who  came  out  to  the  Presidio  some  two  years  ago  as  a  bride,  and 
more  recently  has  been  living  at  Alcatraz,  where  her  husband  is 
stationed.  Lieutenant  Ridgeway  has  received  orders  for  Fortress 
Monroe,  and  this  popular  couple  will  depart  for  that  post  in  the 

near  future. 

#  #  # 

A  lady  told  the  other  day  how  a  pretty  girl  of  "  the  swim  "  was 
complaining  of  the  independence,  as  she  expressed  it,  of  the  men 
in  society.  "Why!"  said  she,  »  If  the  girls  don't  actually  have 
to  ask  the  men  right  out  to  take  them  round,  and  half  the  time 
the  men  act  as  if  it  was  a  bore  to  go."  Surely  no  greater  illustra- 
tion than  this  is  needed  to  prove  the  decadence  of  good  breeding 
in  our  best  society,  as  it  now  exists. 

*  *   * 

Some  old  gentlemen  with  fatherly  instincts,  and  some  jolly 
bachelors  of  middle  age,  have  a  habit  of  addressing  young  men  by 
the  familiar  term  of  "  my  son."  This  is  getting  to  be  highly 
dangerous,  as  it  lays  a  foundation  for  lawyers  to  claim  that  such 
a  term  indicates  an  avowal  of  parentage!  In  fact,  one  is 
pretty  sure,  nowadays,  when  a  rich  man  dies,  to  bear  of  some 
natural  son  who  bobs  up  serenely  to  contest  his  father's  will.  It 
behooves  men  with  means  to  be  careful  of  indulging  in  ante- 
mortem  terms  of  parental  affection,  unless  legally  entitled  to 
do  so. 

It  is  reported  that  Mrs.  Amy  Crocker  Gillig  has  decided  upon 
Africa  as  the  scene  for  the  next  "  excursion  "  abroad.  She  ap- 
pears to  be  desirous  of  emulating  Mrs.  Sheldon  in  her  recent  ex- 
ploits, and  with  that  end  in  view  will  endeavor  to  penetrate  still 
further  into  the  country  than  did  that  venturesome  lady. 

Another  rich  plum  in  the  matrimonial  pie  is  likely  to  be  under 
the  fingers  of  the  girls  to  pick  out  soon,  as  recent  advices  from 
Paris  report  the  probable  return  to  our  coast  ere  long  of  young 
Peter  Donahue,  the  millionaire  son  of  the  late  James  Donahue. 
This  will  be  welcome  intelligence  to  our  belles,  so  many  of  whom 
have  to  dance  with  each  other  this  summer  at  the  San  Rafael  and 

Del  Monte  hops. 

*  #  * 

"  What's  the  matter  with  Ed.  Greenway  ?  "  asked  a  girl  at  Del 
Monte  last  week.  "  He  seems  so  quiet  and  subdued.  Can  it  be  he 
is  in  love,  and  with  whom,  for  gracious  sake  ?  "  "  Why,"  was 
the  answer,  "  who  wouldn't  look  as  if  they  had  the  world  on 
their  shoulders,  with  the  awful  responsibility  that  he  has  ?  Isn't 
he  compiling  a  Blue  Book,  and  now  just  think  of  his  task,  and 
all  the  enemies  he'll  make  if  he  don't  give  them  all  front  rank ! 
I  tell  you,  it'll  take  all  his  skill  in  tixing  things  to  suit  every- 
body, and  of  all  things,  to  say  who's  who  in  1892." 

*  *  * 

"  'Tis  better  to  be  born  lucky  than  rich,"  says  the  old  proverb, 
and  it  would  seem  that  a  large  blonde  young  lady  has  good  cause 
to  acquiesce  in  the  truth  of  the  axiom.  Always  a  guest  among 
millionaires  is  as  good  as  being  one,  but  Uncle  Frank's  pretty 
niece  is  a  popular  girl  in  herself. 

What  a  congregation  of  pretty  y*oung  matrons  the  Tevis  con- 
nection will  show  on  the  Glorious  Fourth.  Mrs.  Will,  Mrs.  Hugh, 
Mrs.  Fred.  8haron,  Mrs.  Maggie  Blanding,  and  the  Haggin  con- 
tingent, beautiful  Mrs.  Blanche  and  her  Countess  daughter.    Hard 

to  beat,  all  of  them. 

*  »  # 

There  is  quite  a  romance  connected  with  the  marriage  on  Satur- 
day last  in  St.  Mary's  Cathedral  of  W.  S.  O'Brien  and  Mrs.  Cap- 
tain Bigler.  O'Brien  was  formerly  clerk  of  the  Oakland  Police 
Court,  and,  after  resigning  a  couple  of  months  ago,  he  resumed 
the  practice  of  law.  The  first  case  he  got  was  that  of  Mrs.  Bigler 
and  it  involved  some  property  at  Santa  Barbara.  He  won  it,  and 
her  heart  also ;  and  after  an  acquaintance  of  only  a  few  weeks  he 
proposed  and  was  accepted.  Mrs.  O'Brien  has  property  in 
her  own  right  valued  at  $150,000,  so  O'Brien  is  in  clover 
now.  He  is  well-known  throughout  the  State,  especially  in 
political  circles,  for  he  has  been  clerk  in  the  State  Senate,  and 
he  led  the  fight  which  resulted  in  the  recent  increase  of  salaries 
of  clerks  of  Police  Courts. 

The  story  printed  in  the  News  Letter  a  few  weeks  ago  regard- 
ing the  fact  that  Mrs.  Salome  Anderson,  of  572  Tenth  street,  Oak- 
land, is  the  only  female  Free  Mason  in  the  world,  has  been  copied 
into  nearly  every  newspaper  in  the  United  States,  and  is  now  ap- 
pearing in  the  journals  of  England  and  the  Continent.  As  a  re- 
sult, Mrs.  Anderson  is   in  daily  receipt  of  notes  from  all  parts  of 


the  country  regarding  the  subject.  The  other  day  she  got  a  letter 
from  Paris,  France,  referring  to  the  article  and  requesting  her 
autograph. 

•  *  * 

Dan  McCarthy,  the  horseman,  is  reducing  the  capital  of  the 
Oakland  pool-rooms  considerably.  Since  Dan  brought  up  his 
string  of  nags  from  Pleasanion,  and  stabled  tbem  at  the  Oakland 
Park,  he  has  been  around  town  a  good  deal  and  naturally  enough 
drops  into  the  pool-rooms  to  put  a  little  on  the  horses  he  has 
running  at  Chicago.  He  has  had  a  good  streak  of  luck,  too,  and 
on  the  Derby  day  alone  he  beat  Charley  Kingsley  out  of  $2,000, 
his  winnings  being  the  result  of  bets  at  good  odds  on  Dan's  own 
horses,  Hercules  and  Castanet.  He  made  the  bookmakers'  eyes 
open  when  he  put  $100  on  Castanet  at  10  to  1,  and  smelling  a  rat 
they  promptly  cut  the  price  to  2  to  1.  They  were  too  late,  though, 
for  Castanet  won  handily  and  Dan  got  his  thousand. 

*  *  * 

Montgomery  Howe,  tbe  Piedmont  capitalist,  looks  more  like  a 
broken-down  bankrupt  farmer  than  a  millionaire.  With  dirty 
shoes,  old  blue  coat  and  ill-fitting,  age-stained  nether  garments, 
he  wanders  around  town  as  if  he  were  looking  for  work,  and  a 
stranger  would  deem  it  incredible  if  told  that  che  musty  old  man 
lives  in  one  of  the  most  palaiial  homes  in  Alameda  county.  The 
rest  of  the  family,  too,  are  chips  of  the  old  block,  for  despite 
their  wealth,  one  of  the  boys  is  gripman  on  a  San  Pablo  avenue 
cable  car.  The  Stone  family,  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most  in- 
fluential in  the  lower  part  of  Alameda  county,  are  almost  on  a 
par,  too,  as  far  as  the  circulation  of  iheir  money  is  concerned. 
When  they  drive  into  Oakland  they  bring  their  lunches  with 
them  so  as  to  avoid  the  expenses  of  restaurants. 

#  #  » 

<<  The  Pullm&n  palace  is  by  far  the  most  gorgeous  private  resi- 
dence in  Chicago,"  says  a  truthful  writer  in  an  Eastern  paper. 
'•  It  contains,  among  other  things,  a  miniature  theatre,  a  large 
fountain  that  can  be  made  to  spout  pure  water,  Lubin's  Ylang 
ylang  or  Ruinart  brut  at  tbe  will  of  the  owner,  and  a  vast 
chamber  known  as  the  Pompeiian  room,  the  chief  feature  of  which 
consists  of  seven  or  eight  huge  pillars  of  Parian  marble,  studded 
with  twenty-dollar  gold  pieces  that  have  been  presented  to  tbe 
great  inventor  by  the  Pullman  car  porters  who  have  grown  rich, 
gray  and  grateful  in  his  service.  The  effect  gained  by  the  string- 
ing from  pillar  to  pillar  of  festoons  of  roses  and  peonies  fourteen 
feet  in  circumference  may  be  better  imagined  than  described." 

Shainwald.  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rented, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office, 
407-409  Monlgomery  street. 

The  Blount  Door  Check  and  Spring  ! 


Sure  to  Close  the 
Door  without 
Slamming. 


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July  2,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LKTTER. 


13 


WORLD'S    FAIR     NOTES. 

(Hy    Pi    Versoh.J 

AS  the  Fourth  of  July  approaches,  patriotic  feeling  takes  on  an 
additional  impetus,  and  strive-  to  find  expression  in  enthusi- 
aim  over  the  World's  Fair.  It  is  only  just  to  admit  that  many  of 
the  most  practical,  as  well  as  some  of  the  most  novel  ideas  in  re- 
gard to  the  exhibits  have  been  evolved  from  the  fertile  brain  of 
the  Don-vo;ing  members  of  the  body  politic.  It  is  to  the  women 
of  the  country  that  the  great  Columbian  Exposition  will  owe 
much  of  its  success.  Mrs.  Carrie  Williams.  President  of  the 
Southern  California  Silk  Culture  Association,  is  most  enthusiastic 
in  her  belief  that  there  is  a  grand  opening  for  the  production  of 
silk  in  California.  She  speaks  for  her  association,  and  urges  that 
a  banner  be  made  of  the  silk  of  their  production  for  exhibition  at 
the  World's  Fair.  The  idea  finds  favor  on  all  sides,  and  the  ladies 
of  Petaluma  are  inclined  to  follow  the  example  of  their  sisters  of 
Southern  California,  and  have  a  fine  banner  manufactured  in 
Petaluma  at  their  own  silk  factory,  which,  by-the-way,  is  the 
only  one  on  the  coast,  the  banner  to  be  made  of  silk  reeled  from 
cocoons  raised  on  the  spot.  Silk  culture  is  especially  adapted  for 
women.  In  all  the  efforts  made  for  the  introduction  of  silk  cul- 
ture in  the  L'nited  States,  ladies  have  played  an  active  and  im- 
portant part. 

•  *  • 

It  is  a  satisfaction  to  San  Franciscans  to  note  with  what  favor- 
able mention  the  work  of  our  California  artists  is  received.  One  of 
the  latest  to  be  mentioned  with  enthusiasm  is  Miss  May  Randall, 
formerly  of  this  city,  and  to  whom  has  been  entrusted  the  honor 
of  carving  the  panel  of  wood  to  represent  California  at  the  World's 
Fair.  Each  of  the  States  is  to  be  represented  by  a  panel,  of  a 
characteristic  wood,  carved  by  one  of  its  own  artists.  The  name 
of  the  artist  is  to  stand  out  in  relief  at  the  foot  of  the  panel.  The 
Randalls  are  an  old  San  Francisco  family.  Mrs.  Albertine  Ran- 
dall Wheeland,  the  illustrator,  is  a  sister  of  (he  wood  carver. 

*  *  # 

It  has  been  suggested  that  one  portion  of  the  Exposition 
grounds  be  set  apart  for  a  Children's  Temple,  in  which  shall  be 
displayed  everything  that  had  any  bearing  upon  the  mental, 
moral  and  physical  well-being  of  children.  This  would  indeed 
embrace  a  wide  range,  including  even  their  toys,  books  and  games. 
Some  enthusiast  has  entered  upon  a  scheme  to  have  all  the  dif- 
ferent phases  of  child  life  illustrated  by  children.  Against  this 
great  wrong  to  the  children  themselves  a  vigorous  protest  is  be- 
ing made.  No  one  can  measure  the  amount  of  injury  it  would  be 
to  the  children  to  be  placed  on  exhibition.  It  would  rob  them  of 
their  childhood,  of  their  sweet  unconsciousness;  it  would  make 
them  little  ' '  Scribes  and  Pharisees,"  forever  posing  and  acting  for 
effect.  All  further  progress  would  be  next  to  impossible  for  them. 
Experienced  teachers  have  long  been  convinced  that  a  lasting  in- 
jury is  worked  to  the  children  who  take  part  in  school  exhibi- 
tions, and  in  theatrical  representations  where  the  spirit  of  emula- 
tion and  the  desire  to  win  applause  prevails.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  some  one  will  have  both  the  power  and  good  sense  to  stop 
such  a  scheme  to  put  American  children  on  the  rack  of  notoriety. 

*  *  » 

All  sorts  and  conditions  of  men,  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  ideas 
will  doubtless  find  expression  at  Chicago.  Possibly  those  who 
have  the  desire  to  see  cremation  become  a  substitute  for  the  burial 
of  the  dead,  may  have  already  made  some  arrangements  for  an 
exhibit  of  their  peculiar  fancy.  If  they  have  not,  they  ought  to 
do  so.  Let  them  erect  a  crematory,  with  its  chapel  and  all  the 
accessories  of  that  method  of  disposing  of  the  dead,  for  the  edu- 
cational effect  of  such  an  exhibit  is  not  to  be  despised.  Now,  if 
some  bright  mind  will  only  plan  for  the  disposition  of  the  ashes 
of  the  dead,  a  vexed  problem  would  be  met  and  solved,  and  the 
way  made  plain  for  many  who  prefer  cremation  to  burial,  but 
who  are  loath,  as  they  phrase  it,  to  have  their  ashes  lying  around 
loose.  Some  one  has  suggested  that  to  each  crematory  be  attached 
a  windmill  with  a  huge  fan,  that  shall  scatter  the  ashes  to  the 
four  winds  of  heaven.  There  was  once  a  man  whose  dying  wish 
was  religiously  carried  out.  He  was  cremated  and  his  ashes  divided 
into  four  portions.  Each  of  these  was  enclosed  in  an  en- 
velope, and  the  four  envelopes  were  given  at  the  same  time  to  as 
many  captains  of  vessels,  each  bound  for  one  of  the  four  points 
of  the  compass.  That  sent  the  packets  in  four  different  direc- 
tions, and  at  a  given  time  each  packet  was  opened  and  its  con- 
tents scattered  on  the  mighty  deep.  Rather  an  effectual  method 
of  disposing  of  one's  self.  It  certainly  had  the  advantage  of  not 
being  too  long  in  one  place.  A  French  scientist  once  wore  a 
signet,  which  was  the  compressed  ashes  of  his  dead  wife.  I  do 
not  see  why  some  one  does  not  invent  a  process  by  which  the 
ashes  of  the  departed,  subjected  to  high  pressure,  might  be  con- 
verted into  jewel  cases,  or  become  the  setting  for  the  picture  of 
the  dead.  It  could  be  done,  aud  the  World's  Fair  is  the  place  to 
announce  the  achievement. 

#  *  * 

A  woman's  fertile  mind  has  conceived  the  idea  of  utilizing  all 
the  school-houses  in  Chicago  as  dormitories  for  teachers  visiting 
the  World's  Fair.  Mrs.  Solomon  Thatcher,  Jr.,  one  of  the  lady 
managers,  advanced  the  idea,  which  has  been  enthusiastically  re- 
ceived.    It's  not  a  bad  idea,  either. 


BARGAINS 
IN  SILKS. 


Fine  Black  French  Surahs,  27 
inches  -wide,  at  73  cents. 

Extra  Heavy  Twilled  French 
Surahs,  24  inches  wide,  at  $1. 

Superior  Black  French  Surahs, 
24  inches  wide,  at  $1  23. 


(£f&nnc\4 


\*      1892.     ' 


111  to  121  Post  Street. 


GOLD  SEAL  Eubber  HOSE, 

THE  BEST  MADE. 

Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 


R.  H.  PEASE,    j   ,        t 


677  &  579  Market  Street. 


G-.  "W.   CLABK   &   CO., 
663   Market  Street, 

FOK 

WALL      PAPE  R, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     P-O  L  E  S. 


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Has  one  specialty  and  pride  and  that  is  the  Table.  It  is  supplied 
from  the  best  the  market  affords  in  San  Krancibco.  Our  Butter, 
Eggs,  Cream  aud  Vegetables  come  from  the  Marin  County  dairies 
and  farms  iu  the  vicinity.  Ten  trains  daily,  making  it  very  con- 
convenient  for  gentlemen  to  he  able  to  pass  the  evening  with 
their  families  or  friends,  and  derive  the  benefits  of  country  air 
aud  still  be  able  to  attend  to  business  daily  in  the  city.  "Com- 
mutes," $5  per  mouth ;  ladies  aud  children,  13. 

Telephone  38.    Telegraph,  or  write,  or,  better  still,  call  aud 
see  us  any  day,  and  satisfy  yourself  beyond  question.  Take  Sau- 
salito  Ferry  aud  cars  to  Larkspur.    Round  trip,  50  cents. 
Respectfully, 

HEPBURN  &  TERRY. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


*-^fi»  r,  ta  rfS;    n   in    ~  »fl    '1  -O^li: 


to-LOPKER-oN* 


g^fflPT^^^C^^' 


ONE  of  the  moat  outrageous  street  brawls  that  ever  took  place 
in  this  city  was  that  of  the  McManus  and  Welsh  factions 
last  Saturday.  Over  a  dozen  men  were  engaged  in  it,  on  one  of 
the  main  streets  in  the  heart  of  the  city.  Knives  and  pistols 
were  used,  and  two  of  the  men,  one  of  each  faction,  are  now  ly- 
ing at  the  point  of  death  as  the  result  of  the  wounds  received  by 
them.  The  main  spirit  in  the  many  fights  which  have  occurred  be- 
tween the  Welshes  and  the  McManuses,  it  seems,  has  been  Frank 
McManus,  the  head  of  his  family,  and  who  enjoys  the  title  of 
"  King  of  the  Potrero,"  an  honor  gained  by  many  a  hard-fought 
fight  in  the  region  near  the  sugar  works.  The  Welshes  also  live 
at  the  Potrero,  and  have  dared  to  dispute  the  right  of  the  King  to 
reign  over  that  region.  The  result  has  been  the  continuous  war 
between  them,  of  which  Saturday's  affair  was  but  an  incident. 
Both  factions  are  Republicans,  the  King  belonging  to  the  Burns- 
Mahoney  side  of  the  house,  and  the  Welshes  to  the  Third  street 
bosses.  From  all  accounts,  the  whole  crowd  are  ruffians  and 
bullies,  who,  while  not  criminals  in  the  generally  accepted  sense 
of  that  word,  are  certainly  persistent  law-breakers,  for  the  record 
of  their  fights  is  a  very  long  one.  The  McManus  is  alow-browed, 
foul-mouthed,  ignorant  man,  whose  brute  strength,  assisted  by  a 
rough  hospitality,  has  given  him  his  ascendancy  in  his  district. 
He  is  respected  through  fear,  for  his  hand  is  heavy  and  his  arm  a 
strong  one,  and  he  enjoys  the  enviable  reputation  of  being  the 
most  dangerous  rough-and-tumble  fighter  on  the  South  Side. 
These  are  his  only  claims  to  fame,  yet  he  is  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican County  Committee,  and  is  one  of  the  several  highly 
honorable  gentlemen  in  that  body  who  consider  themselves  well 
fitted  to  provide  for  the  welfare  of  this  municipality.  McManus 
is  now  awaiting  trial  on  a  charge  of  forgery,  and  is  enjoying  his 
liberty  on  bonds  furnished  by  that  other  prominent  Republican, 
Senator  Mahoney.  I  call  the  attention  of  the  people  to  these 
interesting  facts,  with  the  suggestion  that  they  should,  of  course, 
entrust  their  interests  to  men  nominated  by  such  a  fellow  as  Mc- 
Manus. The  distinguished  manner  in  which  the  King  of  the 
Potrero  was  treated  by  the  police  during  and  after  Saturday's 
row  is  also  worthy  of  consideration.  He  was  allowed  to  dash 
through  the  streets  after  the  wounded  Welsh,  crying  that  he 
would  kill  him,  and  was  permitted  to  enter  Ihe  Receiving  Hospi- 
tal, and  there,  within  the  very  building  in  which  the  city  prison 
and  the  police  courts  are  located,  he  made  another  attempt  to  as- 
sault Welsh.  It  may  be  taken  for  granted  that  McManus  will 
not  be  convicted  of  any  of  the  charges  against  him.  He  is  not 
King  of  the  Potrero  for  his  health,  and  the  magnificent  develop- 
ment of  his  "  pull "  will  be  well  worth  watching  during  the 
progress  of  his  case. 


My  attention  was  attracted  some  weeks  since  by  seeing  several 
women  of  society  fame  going  into  a  fashionable  drugstore  to- 
gether. As  I  passed  the  store  again  the  visitors  came  out,  and  I 
noticed  that  their  faces  seemed  ^slightly  flushed.  A  few  days 
later,  the  same  ladies  were  seen  going  into  the  same  store  about 
the  same  time.  Again  they  were  flushed  when  they  came  out, 
and  on  re-entering  the  promenade,  a  novice  could  easily  detect 
that  they  had  taken  something  stronger  than  soda  water.  An 
investigation  showed  that  a  number  of  women  have  a  liquor- 
procuring  scheme  which  almost  defies  detection.  They  get  a 
physician  to  give  them  a  prescription  calling  for  whisky,  brandy 
or  what  not,  for  some  supposed  ailment.  This  they  take  to  a 
drugstore,  and  whenever  they  want  a  drink,  call  again  at  the 
store,  give  the  number  of  the  prescription,  and  take  a  swig  of 
their  "  nostrum."  It  is  a  great  scheme,  but  if  the  custom  of  tip- 
pling in  drugstores  becomes  much  more  prevalent  than  it  is  now, 
it  will  be  necessary  for  every  first  class  pharmacy  to  have  several 
cabs  at  their  doors. 


The  wandering  Jew  came  down  the  way 

With  footstep  weak  and  slow; 
He  thought  how  he  had  passed  one  day 

Five  hundred  years  ago. 
"  Come  in,  old  stranger,"  cried  a  wife; 

<>Come  in  and  rest  awhile. 
Full  many  a  year  has  topped  your  life; 

You've  traveled  many  a  mile." 
He  sank  beside  the  cottage  door 

And  took  the  bread  she  gave; 
"  Rest,"  said  he,  "  I  shall  Bee  no  more, 

Not  even  in  the  grave. 
"  My  limbs  are  weak,  my  head  is  gray 

And,  dame,  how  could  you  know 
That  I  walked  down  this  very  way, 

Five  hundred  years  ago  ? 
"  O,  could  I  pause,  but  always  there 

Is  something  moves  me  on." 
"  Stop,  pilgrim,  then,  your  jaunt  forbear, 

The  day  is  nearly  gone. 
"  Here,  read  the  news."     She  gave  a  sheet 

Unto  the  stranger  gray. 
He  read,  then  started  to  his  feet 

And  quick  resumed  his  way. 
"  My  pains,"  he  cried,  <<  are  more  than  thine, 

And  though  to  rest  I'd  love 
All  thought  of  it  I  shall  resign 

And  be  right  glad  to  move. 
"  For  Denis  Kearny  still  doth  talk, 

And  Doc.  O'Donnell  blow, 
As  when  this  way  1  chanced  to  walk 

Five  hundred  years  ago." 

*  *  • 

The  latest  fad  in  fashionable  Paris  is  painting  children's  faces. 
Mothers  in  »  smart"  society  paint  their  children's  cheeks  and  lips 
with  the  same  hue  they  wear  themselves,  and  the  result  can  bet- 
ter be  imagined  than  described.  The  wretched  little  creatures 
cannot  be  natural;  they  cannot  play  nor  amuse  themselves  in  a 
healthy  manner,  for  fear  of  incurring  mamma's  severe  displeas- 
ure by  brushing  off  the  rouge,  and  consequently  they  are  con- 
demned to  lives  of  just  such  mild  exhileration  as  their  dolls  en- 
joy; those  dolls  whom  they  so  much  resemble.  The  result  of  this 
practice  is  the  withering  of  the  youthful  skin,  and  if  they  would 
not  look  prematurely  old,  the  children  are  then  compelled  to  con- 
tinue to  paint,  with  the  consequence  that  they  will  be  hags  at 
thirty,  instead  of  then  being  in  bloom  of  their  womanhood.  I 
would  not  be  at  all  surprised  to  see  some  senseless  mother  on  the 
street  next  week  accompanied  by  a  little  girl  with  painted  face, 
and  a  little  boy  in  Fauntleroy  costume.  Some  women  seem  to 
think  children  are  toys,  and  certainly  use  them  as  such. 

*  *  * 

Captain  John  Sloan  has  been  presented  with  another  English 
yachting  cap  by  the  British  ship  masters  at  Martinez.  The  cap- 
tain is  all  appreciation.  "  Why,  those  fellows  up  there  want  to 
steal  "  Pop,"  said  one  of  the  captains  yesterday,  "He  can  dance 
a  jig,  tip  off  a  toast,  and,  don't  you  know,  make  things  go  like  a 
King  of  the  Society  Islands.  It's  great  fan  to  have  him  with  us." 
»  #  * 

Mrs.  Willeau  von  Santen,  a  very  verdant  grass  widow,  is  spend- 
ing a  few  days  at  Santa  Barbara  enjoying  the  exhilerating  effects 
of  the  channel  surf.  Since  she  procured  a  divorce  from  her  hus- 
band, who  is  now  taking  in  the  Oriental  sights  a9  an  electric  en- 
gineer in  China,  »  the  widow  "  has  been  enjoying  herself.  As  she 
has  a  beautiful  form  and  is  young  and  gay,  it  is  probable  some  of 
Santa  Barbara's  young  men  may  fall  before  her.  The  "  widow  " 
will  parade  the  beacb  in  a  bathing  suit  of  black  trimmed  with 
bright  red,  that  sets  off  her  form  admirably.  She  is  rather  tall, 
and  has  a  wealth  of  brown  hair. 

#  #  • 

Billy  Minton,  the  gay  and  astute  young  purser  of  the  steamer 
China  is  in  port  again,  enjoying  himself  at  his  luxurious  Alameda 
home.  The  Gillig  party  returned  on  the  steamer,  and  it  is  said 
Billy  was  on  his  good  conduct  this  time,  deporting  himself  with  a 
most  distant  but  highly  deferential  manner  on  shipbard  whenever 
he  met  the  fair  Mrs.  Amy  Crocker-Gillig,  who  on  a  previous  occa- 
sion, it  is  reported,  failing  to  appreciate  the  gentleman's  advances, 
slapped  his  pretty  face. 


OUTING  SUITS — SHIRTS.      LADIES 


TENNIS  SUITS-SHIRTS, 


WAISTS 


27     TO     37     :k:E.A.I»T-2-    STREET. 


July  2,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


15 


P.  J.  Keller,  the  *<  Lord  Mayor  of  riedmont,"  orders  a  small 
bottle  nowadays  when  any  one  a?ks  him  how  is  his  friend  Fran- 
Ota  Murphy.  Keller  is  quite  a  politician,  and  the  night  Cleveland 
was  nominated  at  Chicago  he  passed  the  evening  at  one  of  the 
Oakland  newspaper  offices  reading  the  bulletins  as  they  came  in. 
Now,  Francis  Murphy  was  also  one  of  the  throng,  and  with  an 
eye  to  business,  he  started  up  in  a  small  way  a  temperance  dis- 
course, and  had  quite  an  earnest  conversation  with  Keller,  who 
pretended  thai  be  was  a  Prohibitionist,  and  had  been  so  for  many 
years.  Bye-and-bye  Murphy  became  interested  in  something  else, 
and  then  Keller  stepped  back  and  whispered  to  a  well-dressed 
young  roan,  who  had  been  listening  to  the  temperance  discussion, 
•■  Come  on,  let's  fool  the  old  boy  and  go  and  have  a  drink." 

"  8ir,"  said  the  invited  individual,  6erly,  "that  gentleman's  my 
father  " 

It  was  Edward  Marphy,  the  deputy  evangelist,  that  Keller  had 
struck,  and  amid  the  laughter  of  those  who  bad  noticed  what 
had  occurred,  the  Mayor  of  Piedmont  made  a  hurried  departure, 
and  was  seen  no  more  that  night. 

•  «  * 

New  stories  of  Blaine  are  not  plentiful,  but  here  is  one  that  is 
vouched  for  by  one  who  was  very  cIobb  to  the  distinguished  man 
from  Maine  in  1884.  8tanding  on  the  rear  platform  of  an  ob- 
servation car  on  the  Maine  Central  Railroad  one  day,  Mr.  Blaine 
accidentally  dropped  one  of  his  gloves  overboard.  Quick  as  a 
flash  he  threw  the  mate  after  it.  "  What  did  you  do  that  for?  " 
asked  his  fellow-traveler.  "For  the  simple  reason,"  said  Mr. 
Blaine,  "  that  one  glove  ie  of  little  use  to  me  or  any  one  else;  but 
now,  if  some  one  happens  to  pick  up  one  of  thatpair  he  may  find 
the  other  also,  and  he's  welcome  to  wear  them." 

*  #  * 

The  Looker-on  encountered  Jack  Featherstone  this  morning — 
every  one  knows  Jack,  his  moustache  and  his  gallantry.  There 
was  a  snbdned  and  pallid  look  about  John's  usually  placid  coun- 
tenance, and  when  he  said,  "  I  have  just  received  a  shock,"  he 
looked  it.  Sympathetic  interrogation  brought  out  the  following 
harrowing  tale: 

"  t  was  hurrying  along  Eddy  street  this  morning,  when  my 
spectacles  (Jack  wear  glasses,  of  course,  being  a  young  man  of 
fashion)  was  suddenly  almost  splintered  by  a  radiant  vision  of 
loveliness — something  which  seemed  a  harmony  in  dark  blue  and 
white,  with  a  sort  of  celestial  electric  light  set  dazzlingly  above 
it.  On  calming  down,  I  saw  it  was  the  charming  young  widow 
from  Oroville,  Mrs.  De  Motte,  you  know  her,  in  a  bewildering 
jacket  and  ••  bell  skirt  "  of  dark  blue  cloth,  with  a  snowy  white 
vest,  and  shirt-front  under  the  jaunty  cutaway,  just  masculine 
enough  to  be  dashing  and  not  enough  to  be  fast." 

<<  But  there's  nothing  to  shock  one,  Jack,  in  all  this,"  interposed 
the  Looker-on,  impatient  for  the  climax. 

"Waitl'7  said  Jack,  solemnly;  "she  threw  back  the  lapel  of 
her  blue  jacket  and  lisped  in  the  softest  of  voices — a  bewitching 
peculiarity  of  her's,  that  soft  half-lisp — 'See!  my  little  pet!' 
And  there,  reposing,  unappreciatively,  to  all  appearance,  on  her 
snowy  vest  was — what  do  you  think? — a  nasty,  repulsive-look- 
ing horned-toad  I  " 

"No?" 

'■Fact!  and  there  she  stood  patting  and  caressing  the  horrid 
little  monster,  while  she  murmured,  •  Bear  little  fellow,  isn't  he  ? 
So  cunning;  I've  another  at  home,  a  little  one  that  I'm  raising.' 
I  shuddered  and  left  her." 

"  But  isn't  it  awful  ?  "  Jack  went  on.  "  Is  it  a  fad  ?  Will  all 
the  pretty  women  have  'em  ?  And  can't  a  fellow,  after  a  while, 
take  his  best  girl  to  his  heart  without  the  danger  of  «  squashing  ' 
the  true  inwardness  out  of  a  horned-toad  or  a  slimy  lizard  all  over 
bis  shirt  bosom  ?  I  tell  you ,  it  ought  to  be  looked  into." 
#  *  * 

The  admirers  of  Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  Univerity  will  be  surprised 
to  know  that  several  of  the  professors  of  the  college  contemplate 
withdrawal  from  the  institution  during  the  coming  vacation. 
Their  reasons  for  this  action,  as  given  by  one  of  them,  are  that 
they  have  found,  after  residence  at  their  new  quarters,  that  al- 
though they  are  receiving  good  salaries,  as  the  salaries  of  college 
professors  go,  they  are  not  so  well  fixed  financially  as  they  were 
in  their  Eastern  homes.  They  say  that  living  cornea  higher  to 
them  here  than  in  the  East,  and  the  salary  is  not  sulhciently 
greater  than  an  Eastern  salary  to  make  up  the  difference.  Another 
cause  of  complaint,  and  probably  one  of  the  principal  reasons  for 
the  contemplated  withdrawal,  is  the  hard  work  imposed  on  the 
professors  by  the  establishment  of  the  elective  system  at  the  Uni- 
versity. By  this  system  any  of  the  students  may  choose  all  of 
their  studies,  and  the  teacher  who  instructs  them  in  their  main 
study  is  supposed  to  coach  them  also  in  the  others.  This  is  the 
only  college  on  the  coast  in  which  the  elective  system  is  in  vogue. 
At  the  State  University  some  studies  are  elective  in  each  course, 
but  the  student  is  required  also  to  take  certain  studies  of  the 
course.  At  Palo  Alto  the  student  may  take  any  studies  that 
please  him.  If  any  of  the  professors  leave  the  college,  as  they 
now  contemplate,  there  should  be  no  difficulty  in  filling  their 
places  at  once  with  competent  men,  for  the  fame  of  Palo  Alto 
has  gone  abroad. 


nil     LEADING 
FINK    t  HAMI'Ai.M 
OF    EUROPE, 


ELDERMANN 

GOLD   LACK 
(form  fuatthj  ^-(flumipagiw 

CHARLES  MEINECKE5  C?.  Aftents:  San  Francisco 

Moquette  Carpets 

At 

Reduced  Prices. 


Until  July  1st  we  offer  a  large  variety 
oj  desirable  patterns  at  20  PER  CENT 
LESS  THAN  USUAL  PRICES. 
We  must  close  out  these  patterns  be- 
fore our  stock-taking  on  July  1st,  be- 
cause our  mills  have  stopped  making 
them,  and  dropped  patterns  must  go 
to  make  room  for  new  Fall  styles. 

W.  &  J.  SLOANE  &  CO., 

641-647  Market  Street. 

CARPETS,  FURNITURE,  UPHOLSTERY, 
WINDOW  SHADES. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Keirny. 

_A.Tosoru.tely      Fire-proof. 

Central  to  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 
Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  P.  KIMZI.EB.  Manager. 

ANNUAL  MEETING 

Best  &  Belcher  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Best  &  Belcher 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  33,  Ne- 
vada Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  9au  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  1 1  th  Day  of  July,  1 89  ',  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M .. 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 

mTrau8Sfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  July  8, 1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California.    _^^______ 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

For  the  half-year  endiug  June  30.  1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 

the  ra'e  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent,  per  auoum  on  term  deposits 

and  four  and  oue  thiid  (41.,)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free 

of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1.UJ*.  TH<)Mpg0Ni  ^^ 

Office— No.  S3  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Gal. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July   2,  1892. 


THE  apology  for  a  Stock  Market  continues  to  drag  its  weary 
way  before  the  public  daily.  It  is,  however,  only  another  in- 
stance of  the  "  ruling  passion  strong  in  death."  There  is  no  busi- 
ness to  transact,  and  the  brokers  simply  go  through  their  duties 
in  a  perfunctory  manner.  Prices  for  the  leading  stocks  have 
fallen  to  a  still  lower  level  by  their  own  weight,  no  one  caring  to 
risk  a  dime  in  strengthening  up  an  old-time  favorite.  The  risks 
are  too  heavy,  and  will  be  even  greater  until  the  incubus  in  the 
form  of  the  Norcross  judgment  is  lifted  from  the  market.  The 
youngest  born  in  this  city  may  live  to  see  the  day  when  the  heirs 
and  assigns  of  the  gentlemen  who  figured  as  plaintiffs  in  the  case 
will  reap  the  reward  of  an  over-ripened  virtue,  attained,  unfor- 
tunately, at  a  period  too  late  in  a  lifetime  devoted  to  good  works 
to  permit  its  enjnyment  by  the  heroes  of  the  strife.  If  Lhe  wheels 
of  the  8upreme  Court  of  this  State  grind  as  slowly  as  usual,  the 
twentieth  century  will  be  well  advanced  beforean  opinion  comes 
down  to  the  lower  Court,  and  then  the  chances  are  that  the  judg- 
ment will  be  reversed.  One  thing  is  certain,  the  case  will  be 
fought  to  the  bitter  end,  and  the  stories  of  an  arrangement  for  a 
compromise  are  simply  street  talk.  The  case  for  the  defense  was 
badly  handled  from  the  first,  and  it  is  to  be  regretted  on  behalf  of 
the  stockbrokers  and  their  unfortunate  clients  that  able  mining 
lawyers  like  Kerriu  and  Garber  were  not  retained  in  the  first  in- 
stance. Those  who  date  back  to  the  Bonanza  excitement  will 
doubtless  remember  the  dull  period  which  preceded  the  sudden 
advance  in  prices.  It  was  almost  as  bad  then  as  it  is  now,  with 
the  exception  that  prices  did  not  get  down  to  their  present  level. 
The  remembrance  will  be  a  consolation  to  some  people,  and  the 
prayers  of  the  faithful  will  be  more  fervent  than  ever  for  a  new 
strike  of  ore  which  will  divert  attention  from  existing  difficulties, 
which,  if  looked  upon  in  the  proper  light,  are  nothing  but  a  silly 
bugbear. 

tit 

IT  seems  scarcely  credible,  in  view  of  the  flat  failure  of  the  Val- 
ley Gold  scheme,  that  Alexander  Del  Mar  is  still  received  with 
a  showing  of  confidence  by  a  few  money<d  people  in  London.  It 
is  only  fair  to  presume  that  such  an  exhibition  of  obstinate  stu- 
pidity is  due  to  the  fact  that  a  few  of  his  victims  are  clinging  to 
him  as  a  drowning  man  might  to  a  straw  in  desperation,  hoping 
against  hope  that  he  may  eventually  pull  them  through  on  some 
proposition  or  another.  It  will  not  be  on  the  Black  Hawk  bonanza, 
however,  and  the  sooner  this  is  understood,  the  better  for  the 
pockets  of  those  who  are  now  giving  Del  Mar  an  opportunity  to 
persuade  them  into  supplying  the  money  required  to  erect  a  one- 
hundred  stamp  mill  on  his  San  Bernardino  county  quartz  wild- 
cat. We  use  the  term  "  quartz  "  to  distinguish  his  latest  acqui- 
sition from  his  »  gravel ''  wild-cat,  the  Valley  Gold  property,  in 
the  same  county.  A  stamp-mill  is  as  little  needed  at  the  one,  as 
a  hydraulic  plant  is  at  the  other.  Not  many  months  ago  the 
News  Lettek  devoted  considerable  space  to  the  Black  Hawk  as 
an  investment  in  an  attempt  to  save  some  St.  Louis  capitalists 
from  being  entrapped,  which  fortunately  proved  successful.  Tbis 
ground  was  pretty  thoroughly  investigated  on  that  occasion,  and 
according  to  the  visiting  experts,  the  whole  district  was  simply  a 
11  blow  out."  One  of  these  gentlemen  gave  the  deal  a  more  pro- 
nounced black-eye,  by  his  statements  made  openly,  that  his 
samples  were  »  salted  "  on  him,  which  of  course  was  indignantly 
denied  by  the  men  who  then  controlled  the  stock. 

J  $  ?* 

SOME  capitalists  in  Los  Angeles,  at  that  time,  claimed  to  own 
the  mine  independent  of  Mr.  Del  Mar,  and  in  a  letter  to  a 
gentleman  in  this  city,  they  even  went  the  length  of  criticizing 
sharply  his  management  of  the  concern,  coupled  with  a  plea  that 
they  should  not  be  held  responsible  for  his  sins.  One  ol  the  ex- 
perts who  visited  the  property  about  the  same  time  was  Mr. 
Lambert,  a  well-known  miner  of  this  city,  who  can  get  more 
recommendations  as  an  expert  to  the  square  inch,  from  wealthy 
mine  owners  in  this  city,  than  many  an  individual  who  hangs  a 
shingle  out  in  London  as  an  alleged  mining  engineer.  He  did 
not  mince  his  words  in  reporting  on  the  Black  Hawk,  which  he 
asserted  he  would  not  receive  as  a  gift.  The  location,  according 
to  his  personal  statement,  covers  a  great  mountain  of  what  the 
owners  call  ore,  which,  although  they  claim  it  is  worth  $15  per 
ton,  will  not  pan  out  $1.50  when  put  through  the  mill.  The  loca- 
tion itself  is  most  unfavorable  for  working,  even  if  the  ore  was 
worth  taking  out.  It  is  on  a  little  spur  of  the  San  Bernardino 
range,  which,  running  parallel  with  the  mountains,  forms  what 
is  known  as  Black  Hawk  Canon. 

*$$ 

THERE  is  some  wood  to  be  obtained  in  the  vicinity,  but  the 
great  trouble  is  a  scarcity  of  water.  The  only  source  of  sup- 
ply is  a  little  spring  some  miles  distant.  From  this  a  pipe  line 
has  been  laid  down  the  canon,  through  which  the  water  trickles 
feebly  into  a  reservoir,  scarcely  sufficient  to  run  an  arastra,  let 
alone  a   mill    of  one   hundred  stamps.     Mr.  Del  Mar  perhaps  ar- 


gues in  the  same  manner  as  the  Lower  California  (Mexico) 
schemers,  that  there  is  plenty  of  water  to  be  had  in  the  neighbor- 
hood if  it  could  only  be  found.  This,  however,  is  generally  re- 
garded as  an  afterthought,  which  pin-beaded  investors,  when 
trapped,  can  take  up  at  their  leisure.  The  success  of  the  scheme 
will  naturally  depend  upon  the  result  of  the  search,  and  those 
who  have  paid  up  the  money  are  entitled  to  the  full  responsibil- 
ity, in  addition  to  the  experience  to  be  gained  ultimately,  at  a 
heavy  cost.  Speculators  abroad  are  warned  to  give  the  Black 
Hawk  a  wide  berth.  It  is  equally  as  vile  a  scheme  as  the  Jo- 
sephine and  Union  Gold,  not  to  speak  of  the  Valley  Gold,  which 
we  will  have  the  pleasure  of  winding  up  in  short  order  befcre 
long.  Those  who  are  foolish  enough  to  ignore  the  warning  will 
find  their  financial  loss  all  the  more  difficult  to  bear  when  the 
day  of  reckoning  comes,  which  will  not  be  long  delayed.  When 
American  investors  give  a  property  of  this  kind  the  cold  shoul- 
der, it  is  safe  to  gamble  that  there  is  something  wrong  about  it. 
Of  course  the  promotor  of  such  a  scheme  dojs  not  care  a  fig  how 
rotten  it  may  be,  provided  the  profits  are  big  enough  and  the 
chances  are  favorable  for  carrying  it  through.  The  financial  pa- 
per which  puffs  it,  with  a  full  knowledge  of  the  facts,  simply  be- 
cause it  is  paid  to  run  the  prospectus,  is  doubly  to  blame,  and  its 
fitting  reward  shuuld  be  the  forfeit  of  all  support  from  the  in- 
vesting public. 

t  ft 

A  DISPATCH  received  from  Carson  during  the  week  stated 
that  Inspectors  Whitehead  and  L?ech,  from  Washington, 
had  inspected  the  United  States  Mint  in  that  city  on  charges 
made  by  San  Francisco  mining  men.  They  left  for  the  East  after  re- 
porting every  department  in  excellent  condition,  with  no  discrep- 
ancies of  any  kind.  Superintendent  Wright  was  highly  compli- 
mented on  his  general  management.  This  is  all  tte  space  given  by 
the  local  papers  to  an  official  announcement  branding  as  false, 
charges  which,  when  uttered  in  open  court,  were  deemed  worthy  of 
leaded  columns  with  flare  headlines.  The  thieves  of  the  Carson 
Mint,  as  they  were  termed,  were  held  up  to  public  scorn  on  every 
possible  occasion,  and  even  the  honorable  Judge  before  whom  the 
charges  were  made  did  not  deem  it  his  duty  to  check  the  ill- 
tsmpe-ed  and  base  insinmtioni  wh'ch,  from  imi  to  time,  were 
made  against  the  integrity  of  the  officers  of  such  an  important 
National  institution  as  a  United  States  Mint.  People  unbiassed 
by  any  feeling  of  dislike  to  the  defendants  in  the  Ha'e  and  Norcross 
cise,  who  unfortunately  for  themselves,  are  wealthy,  naturally 
expected  that  Judge  Hebbard  would  have  referred  in  his  decision 
to  the  fact  that,  although  sundry  charges  of  a  most  serious  char- 
acter had  been  made  during  the  course  of  the  trial,  that  no  at- 
tempt had  been  made  to  prove  them,  thereby  relieving  the  gen- 
tlemen reftr  ed  to  of  the  stigma  which  rested  upon  them.  But 
no,  in  his  judgment  he  overlooked  all  this,  being  guided  solely  in 
his  deliberations,  apparently,  by  the  technical  testimony  of  ore 
abarp3,  who  knew  as  little  about  the  subject  under  discussion  as 
people  generally  do  who  pose  as  experts. 

*  *  $ 

THE  public  was  given  full  liberty  to  take  whatever  stock  it 
pleased  in  stories  about  State  Senator  Evan  Williams  trans- 
acting business  with  a  United  States  Mint  by  the  aid  of  duplicate 
keys,  and  smuggling  the  bullion  bars  in  a  buggy  along  the  high- 
ways of  Nevada  at  the  dead  of  night.  <<  Unknown  owners" 
slapped  in  their  deposits  of  the  untold  millions  surreptitiously 
manipulated  out  of  the  treasuries  of  the  Comstock  mining  com- 
panies, and  so  on  ad  nauseam.  Clap-trap  of  the  kind  evidently 
stood  in  good  stead  of  any  tangible  proofs  offered  in  support  of 
charges  against  the  mill  men.  It  gave  a  sensational  air  to  the 
proceedings,  amused  the  gaping  crowd  of  idlers  in  a  Court-room, 
while  serving  to  injure  the  political  reputation  temporarily  of  a 
prominent  and  respected  citizen  of  a  sister  State.  This  kind  of 
business  may  find  favor  with  some  people  like  everything  else, 
while  the  craze  lasts,  but  cooler  judgment  will  prevail  eventually, 
when  the  whole  case  will  be  reviewed  from  the  standpoint  of 
common  sense. 

$  *  i 

IN  the  mean  time  the  majority  of  people,  both  here  and  in  Ne- 
vada, who  do  not  care  a  continental  whether  or  not  Hale  & 
Norcross,  and  its  millionaire  judgment  creditors  in  prospectu, 
were  blotted  off  the  map  of  the  globe  to-morrow,  will  feel  in- 
clined to  congratulate  Senator  Williams,  who  had  to  stand  the 
brunt  of  the  onslaught  in  Judge  Hebbard's  Court,  that  he  has 
been  acquitted  of  most  infamous  charges  after  a  careful  investi- 
gation by  the  authorities  at  Washington.  If  he  has  suffered  for 
the  lime  being,  the  results  of  the  verdict  returned  by  the  ex- 
perts, who  have  just  reported  on  the  Carson  Mint,  will  gain  him 
friends  even  among  those  who  were  formerly  enrolled  under  the 
banner  of  an  alleged  mining  reform.  Decent  people  all  over  the 
world  recognize  the  truth  of  the  Shakesperian  maxim  that  the 
theft  of  a  good  name  is  much  more  despisable  than  the  theft  of 
gold.  It  remains  to  be  seen  whether  Mr.  Willams  proposes  to 
accept  the  vindication  of  his  character  in  full  satisfaction  for  the 
outrage  he  was  subjected  to,  or  whether  he  will  resort  to  legal 
measures  which  may  result  in  a  heavy  cut,  by  way  of  damages, 
into  the  prospective  profits  of  the  Norcross  litigation. 


Jnlv  2,  1892, 


SAN  FRANi  [SCO  NEWS  LETTER 


17 


'Hearlhe  Crier:"  "What  the  deTi]  art  thou?' 
'Onethat  wIUpUt  tbe'lev-l.Hir,  with  you." 


THIS  city  does  not  suffer  from  a  poverty  of  vendettas.  We 
have  the  highbinder  vendetta  for  the  north  side,  the  McManus 
vendetta  for  the  Potrero.  the  Union  Sailors'  vendetta  along  tie 
city  front,  and  absolutely  the  only  quarter  of  town  which  pines  for 
a  vendetta  is  the  Western  Addition.  Yet  there  are  those  who  say 
that  the  cult  of  the  Western  Addition  is  of  a  very  high  order. 
There  are  literary  and  social  clubs  on  every  block,  and  there  is  a 
wlerd  dramatic  society,  which  presents  howling  melodramas 
about  once  a  month.  But  there  is  nothing  to  attract  public  at- 
tention, with  the  exception  of  two  podgy  bank  clerks,  who  ride 
out  along  Lombard  street  every  morning,  and  who  excite  the 
hostilities  of  all  the  curs  along  their  path.  One  equestrian  is 
costumed  in  a  tight  fitting  velvet  jacket,  and  cords  and  tops,  of 
the  kind  that  grooms  wear  in  England.  The  other,  who  be- 
strides a  bonier  mustang,  wears  a  semi-bicycle  costumet  and  this 
is  the  fellow  the  dogs  are  particularly  down  on.  If  he  should 
fall  f  o  d  h  s  horse,  which  is  not  at  all  unlik<  If,  for  he  has  an 
execrable  seal,  the  dogs  w  ould  bounce  on  him  and  rend  him  limb 
from  limb  before  he  had  time  to  whistle  for  the  poundkeeper. 

AN  Oakland  parson  said  one  day  this  week,  in  the  course  of  "  a 
few  remarks,"  that  there  would  be  no  paupers  and  no  crimi- 
nals in  the  future.  This  is  somewhat  in  opposition  to  the  crimi- 
nal statistics  of  this  State.  From  one  to  three  convicts  airive 
da  ly  at  the  Folsom  and  San  Quentin  prisons.  There  are  more 
paupers  in  the  State  to-day,  in  proportion  to  the  population,  than 
there  have  ever  been.  What  is  it,  then,  that  is  going  to  check 
crime  and  pauperism  ?  Not  the  increase  of  churches,  for  they, 
too,  are  more  numerous  in  the  State  to-day  than  they  have  ever 
been.  Not  optimistic  nonsense,  such  as  is  uttered  by  the  reverend 
Oakland  gentleman.  Perhaps  some  effective  attention  to  such 
matters  might,  but  we  are  too  selfish  to  devote  much  time  in  look- 
ing into  the  causes  of  the  miseries  of  others.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
the  individual  who  is  not  himself  a  pauper  or  criminal,  or  whose 
interests  are  not  directly  and  palpably  effected  by  pauperism  and 
crime,  does  nut  care  the  flick  of  a  lamb's  tail  about  those  subjects. 
In  these  times,  to  make  a  person  really  and  genuinely  philan- 
thropic, the  fastenings  of  his  purse  must  be  threatened. 

A  WELL-DRESSED  young  man,  who  has  been  frequenting  the 
lobbies  of  the  theatres  and  hotels,  gave  away  the  mystery  of 
his  livelihood  the  other  day.  He  acts  as  a  target  for  patent  spe- 
cifics. He  will  take  anything  in  the  line  of  pills  and  potions,  and 
has  a  hide  defiant  of  all  liniments.  His  fees  are  small,  but  his 
business  is  large,  as  are  his  pockets,  where  he  carries  specimens 
of  everything  in  the  line  of  patent  medicines.  When  surrounded 
by  a  bevy  of  acquaintances,  he  suddenly  complains  of  a  pain  in 
bis  liver,  produces  a  box  of  somebody's  pills,  and  bolts  a  couple 
with  the  air  of  a  man  who  enjoys  it.  On  his  liniment  days,  he 
slips,  groans,  and  out  comes  a  bottle  of  somebody's  lotion.  He 
rubs  it  on  his  shin,  and  after  a  decent  pause,  bounds  to  his  feet 
and  springs  over  a  cuspidor.  On  toothache-drop  days,  he  wanders 
about  with  his  jaw  in  a  sling,  and  at  every  favorite  opportunity 
cures  himself  in  the  presence  of  a  crowd.  So  with  neuralgia; 
and  as  for  corns  and  bunions,  he  creates  extraordinary  impres- 
sions. Whfn  he  marries,  his  wife  will  go  into  the  cosmetic  and 
powder  business  on  the  same  plan. 

WELL,  it  begins  to  look  now  as  if  we  had  found  everything 
worth  finding  in  this  century.  The  latest  and  most  startling 
discovery  is  that  made  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Joseph  Nouri,  who 
claims  to  have  stumbled  upon  Noah's  Ark,  at  the  summit  of 
Mount  Ararat.  The  positive  assurances  of  the  distinguished 
traveler  will  no  doubt  convince  those  agnostics,  the  members  of  the 
San  Francisco  and  Pacific  Yacht  Clubs,  that  Noah  had  at  one 
time  an  existence,  and  commanded  a  cruiser.  The  Rev.  John 
Joseph  Nouri  declares  that  the  Ark  was  over  three  hundred  yards 
long  and  a  hundred  feet  high.  When  we  consider  that  Noah  was 
compelled  fo  stow  away  elephants,  tigers,  the  sharp-nosed  rhin- 
oceros, the  clumsy  hippopotamus,  and  the  Lord  knows  what  be- 
sides, from  a  giraffe  to  a  flea,  his  talents  as  a  stevedore  cannot  be 
too  highly  commended.  But,  with  all  due  respect  of  the  reverend 
traveler,  he  will  have  to  produce  Noah's  manifest  before  he  can 
secure  the  belief  of  this  hard-headed,  incredulous  community  in 
his  Ark  and  Ararat  story. 

ANEW  YORK  parson  has  formed  a  guild  to  extend  Christian 
fellowship  to  the  Chinese,  and  to  teach  Americans  to  treat  them 
with  becoming  consideration.  He  should  spend  a  day  or  two  in 
any  San  Francisco  family  where  Chinese  servants  are  exclusively 
employed,  and  see  how  considerately  the  cook  is  treated.  Time 
was  when  Bridget  was  regarded  as  the  only  tyrant  of  the  kitchen, 
and  the  Chinese  as  the  slave.  But  all  that  is  changed.  The 
cunning  John  has  discovered  his  worth,  and  issues  his  ukases  in 
pigeon-English  with  more  emphasis  and  frequency  than  Bridget 
ever  dared,  even  on  the  nights  when  her  cousin  Mike,  the  police- 
man was  expected  to  tea. 


THE absnrdfty  of  a  Kieh  Oom mission  which  does  nothing  but 
sustain  a  few  weakly  trout  nurseries  is  manifest  to  any  oh- 
Bervant  person  who  walks  jiU.uk  the  margin  of  any  California 
brook  at  this  Besson.  Day  after  day  the  riffles  diminish.  Finally 
nothing  bat  the  pools  are  left;  and  these  pools  are  full  of  baby 
trout  for  which  this  most  though  I  less  and  Inefficient  Fi<h  Com- 
mission has  no  consideration.  They  know  that  in  six  weeks 
ben  >e  even  those  pools  will  be  dry,  and  those  (ish  must  perish. 
Take  for  example  Ross  creek.  There  are  millions  of  tiny  trout 
in  that  stream  now,  which,  in  August,  shall  have  perished  for 
want  of  water.  Why  don't  the  Commissioners  have  these  trout 
cared  for  and  placed  where  they  can  arrive  at  maturity.  They 
expend  thoi  s  mds  of  dollars  in  hatching  them  out,  but  then  they 
have  n  >  further  business  with  them.  When  the  pumping  from 
the  Alameda  creek  was  instituted  a  few  days  ago,  the  bed  of  the 
stream  was  left  dry,  and  actually  millions  of  trout  perished.  But  if 
the  arrest  of  a  Chinese  for  killing  a  shrimp  under  weight  is 
effected,  the  Fish  Commissioners  lay  smilingly  back  in  their 
official  seats  and  wait  for  the  applause  of  the  State. 

THE  zealous  clamoring  of  the  ministers  of  religion,  and  all  good 
Christians,  to  have  the  dives  closed,  is  an  evidence  that  a 
spirit  of  purification  exists  in  this  community.  They  hold  mass 
meetings,  they  make  earnest  speeches,  and  they  call  upon  all 
well-intending  people  to  help  them.  But  it  seems  strange  to  me 
that  they  do  not  go  directly  to  thepowers  which  could  close  those 
dives  in  twenty-four  hours.  And  those  powers  are  the  Police 
Commissioners.  They  can  revoke  a  man's  license  to  retail  liquor 
if  in  their  opinion  he  is  the  keeper  of  a  disorderly  house.  Why 
those  Comu  i  oioners  do  not  at  one  fell  swoop  crush  the  dives  out 
of  existence,  is  something  I  can't  understand.  Those  gentlemen 
regard  with  equanimity  the  raging  sea  of  public  opinion,  yet  will 
not  remove  the  obstacles  which  have  provoked  its  waves. 

A  SOCIETY  reporter  of  one  of  the  dailies  remarks:  "  An  appe- 
tizing dinner  was  temptingly  served  and  enjoyed  in  the  midst 
of  pleasant  conversation."  Now,  what  in  the  name  of  all  that's 
reasonable  does  that  fellow  mean  by  the  tempting  service  of  the 
dinner?  Does  he  mean  that  the  waiter  poked  a  dish  under  the 
nose  of  the  guest,  and  probably  pulled  it  away,  with  the  remark : 
"  You  think  you're  going  to  get  some  of  this,  but  you're  not." 
There  could  be  no  such  thing  as  temptation  in  the  actual  service 
of  a  dinner,  though  there  may  be  in  the  hand-squeeze  under  the 
table,  or  the  gentle  pressure  of  the  foot  when  the  host  is  lying 
about  the  quality  of  his  claret,  and  the  hostess  claims  the  atten- 
tion of  her  female  guests  with  a  long,  elaborate  story  about  her 
adventures  at  Mentone. 

A  BUTCHER  was  arrested  one  day  this  weei:  for  obstructing 
Market  street  with  piles  of  bones.  It  does  seem  absurd  that 
anything  in  the  line  of  street  obstructing  could  receive  the  slight- 
est consideration  nowadays,  when  almost  every  sidewalk  in  the 
town  is  blocked  with  alt  sorts  of  commodities.  These  feeble 
efforts  to  enforce  an  important  ordinance  never  come  to  anything 
in  this  city.  The  fellow,  it  may  be,  may  be  made  an  example  of, 
and  for  two  or  three  days  there  is  a  comparative  lull  in  the  erect- 
ing of  barricades.  Then  the  boom  again  begins,  and  the  shop- 
keepers avenge  themselves  on  the  public,  and  hang  abundant 
skin  scalps  at  their  victorious  belt. 

JOHN  ADAMS  dead?     No  lighter  hand 
Ere  cast  a  fly  on  summer  brook, 
No  angler  in  this  Western    Land 

So  loved  to  read  in  Nature's  book. 
I've  watched  him  by  the  river  glide, 

On   many  a  morning,  bright,  serene, 
And  fish   with  skill  the  babbling  tide, 

And  o'er  the  still  pool  careful  lean. 
Peace  to  his  soul;  he's  gone  to  rest; 

"We'll  miss  him  from  the  brook's  green  shore, 
But  ne'er  on  Mother  Nature's  breast 

Sleeps  one  who  loved  that  mother  more. 

MILL  "VALLEY  has  a  new  Episcopal  Church,  and  that  fiery 
preacher  and  eminent  controversalist,  Rev.  Mr.  Miel,  is  the 
parson  thereof.  Mr.  Miel  was  at  one  period  of  his  existence  a 
reporter  on  the  Call,  and  there  he  learned  many  of  the  little  traits 
of  the  newspaper  business  which  are  effective  and  useful  to 
gentlemen  of  bis  profession.  Though  his  name  is  the  French  for 
»  honey,"  Mr.  Miel  can  shoot  a  gall-tipped  shaft  into  a  congrega- 
tion and  set  ewes,  lambs  and  rams  in  the  wildest  confusion  in  five 
minutes,  by  the  face  of  any  respectable  clock. 

THE  graphic  correspondent  from  the  seaside  is  now  getting  bis 
or  her  work  in  with  industry  and  volume.  The  Santa  Cruz 
correspondent  of  the  Examiner,  however,  is  lamentably  ignorant 
of  the  social  history  of  this  city.  He  {for  it  must  be  a  man)  has 
the  unhappy  knack  of  mentioning  occasionally  in  his  dazzring 
paragraphs  the  names  of  those  who  sought  Santa  Cruz  as  a  haven 
of  retirement  from  the  disagreeable  glitter  of  their  past  sins.  But 
he  parades  them,  much  against  their  will,  no  doubt,  and  gentle- 
men, and  sometimes  ladies,  who  penilentially  lounge  upon  the  yel- 
low sands  are  held  up  as  butterflies  courting  the  full  glare  of  day, 
when  as  a  matter  of  fact  the  dim  gloaming  is  their  preference. 


-  -  -•    -i    .i-.g. . 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


"jai^iii 


<B^Mcrag 


THAT  the  real  estate  market  is  affected  by  the  high  rates  of  in- 
terest paid  by  the  savings  bankp  of  the  city,  there  can  be 
little  question.  This  high  return,  which  causes  the  moneyed 
man  neither  worry  nor  work,  checks  investment,  but  as  soon  as 
there  is  any  talk  of  reducing  the  rates,  a  cry  is  raised  that  the 
»  workingman  "  is  being  robbed  of  the  interest  on  bis  hardly 
hoarded  savings.  The  solution  of  the  difficulty  is  an  easy  one, 
and  lies  with  the  banks  themselves.  The  original  aims  and  ob- 
jects were,  and  the  reason  for  existence  of  savings  banks  is,  to 
provide  a  safe  keeping  place  for  the  funds  of  men  of  limited 
means.  They  were  established  to  encourage  thrift,  and  to  afford 
to  the  man  of  small  means  a  return  fur  his  money,  the  amount  of 
which  it  was  supposed  would  be  too  small  to  afford  means  of  In- 
vestment in  realty  or  in  other  channels.  For  the  merchant  and 
capitalist  the  doors  of  the  commercial  banks  always  stand  open, 
and  the  savings  banks  were  never  intended  for  his  patronage, 
any  more  than  the  commercial  banks  look  to  the  wage-earner  for 
business.  8o  long  as  the  savings  banks  limit  the  amount  of  deposits 
which  any  single  depositor  may  be  credited  with  on  their  books, 
there  will  be  no  cry  that  these  institutions  interfere  with  real  estate 
business.  Most  of  the  savings  banks  accept  money  on  deposit 
without  limit,  and  to  them  the  merchant  naturally  turns  with 
his  surplus  funds,  and  draws  a  handsome  return.  The  solution 
to  the  difficulty  referred  to  lies,  therefore,  with  the  banks.  The 
difficulty  is  due  to  the  system  of  unlimited  deposits,  and  the  way 
out  of  it  lies  in  limiting  the  deposits  to  from  $2,000  to  at  most 
$4,000  from  any  one  depositor.  The  amounts  on  deposit  in  the 
savings  banks  of  this  city  are  out  of  all  proportion  to  the  size  of 
the  city,  as  compared  with  other  cities  of  the  Union.  The  various 
banks  are  now  announcing  their  rates  of  interest  for  the  half- 
year,  and  they  are  as  high  as  ever.  In  spite  of  these  facts,  the 
refrain  everywhere  is,  "  business  is  dull."  Limit  the  amount  of 
deposits  in  the  name  of  a  depositor,  and  the  large  amounts  of 
money  will  be  forced  into  circulation,  will  stimulate  investment, 
will  result  in  the  employment  of  more  labor,  and  will  bring  forth 
evidences  of  material  prosperity  far  stronger  than  are  the  large 
sums  of  money  on  deposit  in  our  savings  banks. 

Realty  business  is  summering,  and  the  number  of  important 
sales  made  is,  of  necessity,  small.  Mountford  S.  Wilson  has 
purchased  the  »  Imperial,"  a  four-story  frame  family  hotel  on 
Sutter  street,  near  the  University  Club.  It  stands  on  a  lot  34.4x80, 
and  the  price  paid  was  $40,000.  The  Luning  Company  seems  de- 
termined to  invest  the  millions  of  the  late  financier  in  this  city, 
and  among  its  recent  achievements  there  are  three  of  note — the 
commencement  of  work  on  a  five-story  building  on  the  Market. 
Drumm  and  California  streets  gore;  the  Wbittell  residence,  at  the 
southeast  corner  of  Jones  and  California  streets,  to  be  a  costly  and 
handsome  one,  and  the  purchase,  just  effected,  of  the  Bay  Ware- 
house, on  Sansome  street,  south  of  Lombard,  for  $19  000.  The 
Hinkel  brothers,  each  for  himself,  has  started  a  string  of  im- 
provements. John  purchased  two  fifty-varas  on  the  southeast 
corner  of  Jackson  and  Leavenworth   streets,  and   will  put  up  a 


row  of  houses,  while  William  has  bought  the  southeast  corner  of 
Washington  and  Hyde,  107:6x137:6,  intending  to  erect  thereon  a 
good  class  of  residence. 

Western  Addition  property  has  had  the  call  all  through  the 
year  thus  far;  but  as  most  of  the  investors  in  that  class  of  realty 
are  out  of  town,  sales  have  this  month  been  less  numerous.  The 
Metropolitan  Electric  road  is  to  be  in  operation  about  July  12th, 
and  traversing  th3  panhandle  and  Park  properties,  should  stimu- 
late business  all  along  the  line  of  route.  To  this  the  Page-street 
cable  line,  of  the  Market-street  Cable  Company,  will  also  add  a 
strengthening  tone  shortly. 

The  march  of  improvement  is  going  on  steadily  in  the  West 
Mission,  and  the  growth  of  that  part  of  the  city  is  more  marked 
than  that  of  any  other  section.  The  grading  of  the  lot  on  the 
east  line  of  Mission  street,  opposite  29th,  for  a  car  and  power 
house,  is  an  indication  that  the  reconstruction  of  the  Mission 
street  car  line  is  not  distant.  The  electric  road  has  been  doing  a 
heavy  business  ever  since  it  commenced  operations,  and  has  put 
a  great  deal  of  property  within  reach  for  residence  purposes. 
Down-town  business  property  presents  the  usual  picture  of  stiff 
prices  on  the  one  side  and  steady  demand    on  the  other. 

To  the  two  or  three  purchases  mentioned  may  be  added  Mrs. 
Coleman's  on  Jessie  and  Third,  east  corner,  brick  improvements, 
for  $32,000,  lot  22x70 ;  house  and  lot.  33 :6xl00,  south  line  of  Wash- 
ington, near  Buchanan,  for  $20,000,  and  the  fifty-vara  southwest 
corner  of  Pacific  avenue  and  Laurel  for  $12,000. 

By  direction  from  the  Attorney-General  at  Washington,  U.  S. 
District  Attorney  Garter  has  dismissed  the  suit  of  the  United 
States  against  John  J.  Read  et  al.t  to  set  aside  the  conveyance 
and  cancel  the  patent  granted  by  the  Government  to  Belvedere 
Island,  originally  known  as  El  Corte  de  Madera  del  Presidio.  The 
grounds  of  complaint  in  the  suit  were  that  the  patent  had  been 
procured  by  fraud,  and  that  the  island  was  needed  by  the  Gov- 
ernment for  purposes  of  fortification,  There  were  over  one  hun- 
dred innocent  purchasers  of  Belvedere  land  under  the  patent,  and 
it  was  held  that  the  suit  for  the  condemnation  of  the  city  ceme- 
tery for  fortification  purposes  did  away  with  the  need  of  Belve- 
dere by  the  Government.  It  was  also  shown  that  as  considerable 
of  the  property  was  swamp  laud,  if  the  patent  were  canceled  the 
land  would  revert  to  the  State.  The  title  to  the  land  is  now  per- 
fectly clear,  being  in  United  States  patent,  all  clouds  having  been 
removed  from  it. 

We  are  in  receipt  of  the  board  proceedings  of  the  National  Real 
Estate  Association,  formed  at  Nashville,  Tenn., on  February  17th, 
18th  and  19th  last.  The  association  is  composed  of  many  of  the 
leading  real  estate  men  in  the  country,  and  should  be  productive 
of  much  beneficial  result.  Will  E.  Fisher,  of  this  city,  is  one  of 
the  Vice  Presidents  of  the  association. 


BEATS  THEM  ALL!  NO  LAMPS  TO  BLOW  OUT 
NO  TUBES  TO  BURST!         NO    DANGER! 

PACIFIC  CAS  OR  GASOLINE  ENGINES! 

REGAN  VAPOR  ENGINES! 

-     LAUNCHES.    ENGINES  FOR  ALL  KINDS  OF  WORK. 


Over  800  in  Actual  Use  on  this  Coast,  Running  Pumps,  Hoisting  Works,  Machinery  of  all  Kinds,  and  Boats, 

SENDF0R        UNION  GAS  ENGINE  C0.22™UV 


CATALOGUE. 


u.-i..*    i-  un.iviov^r    .-*r\,»».^    i.r,  i   ill,. 


19 


TBI  little  difference  between  agents  Troy  and  Agnew,  over  the 
insurance  of  tbe  convent  at  San  Hafael,  referred  to  last  week, 
has  raised  quite  a  breeze  among  the  underwriters.  Tbe  company 
that  lost  the  line  say9  the  London  and  Lancashire  carries  tbe 
whole  line  now,  amounting  to  about  |40,000,  but  this  Colonel 
Macdonald  denies.  He  says  his  company  has  lost  rather  than 
gained  Catholic  business.  Mr.  Troy,  who  is  prominent  in  Catholic 
circles,  alleges  that  the  rate  was  cut  thirty  per  cent,  by  his  busi- 
ness rival.  The  eight  or  ten  interested  insurance  companies 
which  have  demanded  an  investigation  by  tbe  P.  I.  U.,  allege 
that  the  agent  rebated  bis  commission.  Mr.  Agnew  declares  that 
naught  but  superior  persuasive  powers,  and  greater  influence  in 
tbe  church,  caused  the  flop  on  the  part  of  Catholicity  from  Mr. 
Troy  to  himself.  The  penalty  for  a  company  cutting  a  rate  is 
$250  fine  and  a  cancellation  of  the  entire  line  on  which  the  rate 
was  cut,  while  the  agent  is  fined  $50,  and  is  not  allowed  to  write 
in  the  particular  line  for  an  entire  year.  A  statement  from  Father 
Lagan  has  not  been  received  by  tbe  Union's  manager,  and  the 
only  comment  heard  is  that  the  Catholics  as  a  body  are  excellent 
financiers,  and  that  there  must  have  been  something  on  the  side 
to  induce  a  change  from  Mr.  Troy  to  Mr.  Agnew.  Whether  tbe 
side-issue  was  in  the  form  of  a  subscription  to  some  fund  or  not, 
and  whether  said  side-issue  can  be  construed  as  a  rebate,  and 
hence  as  a  valuable  consideration  to  influence  business,  is  for  the 
Union  to  discover. 

A  silly  story  was  given  publicity  last  week,  to  tbe  effect  that 
there  were  dissensions  in  the  Union  which  threatened  its  exist- 
ence. As  a  matter  of  fact,  it  is  probably  tbe  most  solid  concern 
of  its  kind  in  tbe  world,  and  little  investigations  such  as  that  re- 
ferred to  above,  never  cause  any  mateiial  dissension.  Every 
time  a  man  losses  a  line  of  business  he  jumps  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  other  fellow  must  have  cut  the  rate,  and  his  conclusion 
is  usually  erroneous. 

Up  to  May  1st  the  losses  for  the  first  four  months  of  tbe  year 
were  only  a  trifle  over  those  for  the  same  time  in  1891.  June  has, 
however,  thrown  in  a  line  of  heavy  losses,  which  will  make  the 
first  six  months'  total  for  1892  far  ahead  of  that  for  the  corres- 
ponding period  in  1891. 

The  heaviest  loss  of  the  week  is  that  through  the  total  destruc- 
tion of  8chwabacher  Bros.  &  Co.'s  wholesale  merchandise  stores 
in  Seattle.  The  losses  aggregate  $318,500,  made  up  of  $242,500 
on  stock,  $70,000  on  building,  and  $6,000  on  furniture  and  fix- 
tures. The  companies  mulcted  are  the  Manchester,  Caledonian, 
American,  Fireman's  Fund,  New  York  Underwriters,  Hamburg, 
Connecticut,  Queen,  People's  and  others.  A.  J.  Wetzler  and  V. 
C.  DurTield,  the  adjusters,  left  on  Wednesday  evening  to  handle 
the  losses  in  the  interest  of  the  companies  named. 

The  losses  on  the  fires  of  Tuesday  morning,  at  846  Howard 
street,  in  which  a  number  of  frame  buildings  and  60  horses  were  de- 
stroyed, are  estimated  at  $30,000,  while  the  insurance  loss  was 
light. 

Marine  losses  of  the  week  include  the  whaling  brig  Alexander, 
lost  in  the  North,  insurance  all  carried  in  this  city,  and  the  seal- 
ing schooner  Maud  W.,  bound  from  Halifax  to  Victoria,  B.  C, 
reported  to  have  been  wrecked  in  the  Straits  of  Magellan. 

In  spite  of  the  losses  referred  to  in  fire  business,  there  is  really 
little  cause  for  complaint.  Every  one  seems  to  be  doing  well, 
and  tbe  year's  business  will  not  compare  idy  with  that  of  many 
of   its  predecessors. 

Beautiful   Photograph  Frames. 


That  enterprising  firm,  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  of  741-743  Market 
street,  is  now  showing  some  of  the  most  beautiful  goods  ever  seen  in 
the  city.  Their  frames  for  cabinet  photographs  made  of  silver  and 
other  attractive  metals  are  unsurpassed.  They  are  all  of  new  and 
artistic  styles,  and  are  ornamented  in  white  and  gold  and  with  bisque 
work.  The  other  small  silver  goods  are  also  very  attractive.  They 
include  silver  inkstands,  stamp-boxes,  mucilage  bottles,  pocket  flasks, 
and  a  variety  of  articles  of  vertu.  The  beautiful  booklets  and  leaf- 
lets containing  pressed  California  flowers  are  probably  the  most  ap- 
propriate presents  that  could  be  sent  to  friends  in  the  East,  who  de- 
sire to  know  by  observation  some  of  the  many  attractions  of  this  land 
of  flowers.  They  are  selected  and  pressed  especially  for  Sanborn, 
Vail  &  Co.,  and  present  a  very  handsome  appearance.  Persons  de- 
siring beautiful  goods  should  examine  these. 

Every  housewife  who  wishes  to  have  clean  carpets  and  curtains 
should  remember  that  the  only  place  in  the  city  where  her  material 
can  be  cleaned  to  her  satisfaction  is  at  the  Carpet  Beating  Machine 
and  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  553-577 
Tehama  street.  The  work  of  this  firm  is  always  first-class  in  every 
particular,  for  which  reason  it  always  has  a  great  patronage. 

Visitors  to  the  country  should  take  with  them  Steele's  Grindelia 
Lotion  of  the  fluid  extract  of  Grindelia.  It  is  the  best  known  remedy 
for  poison  oak,  and  is  also  recognized  as  an  unrivalled  cure  for  asth- 
matic affections.  The  lotion  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  at 
635  Market  street. 


HAVE    YOU     DECIDED 

WHERE    TO    GO    FOR 

Your  Summer  Outing? 

The  new  route  via.  Calistoga  to 

Bartlett  Springs,  Clear  Lake, 
Soda  Bay,  Harbin  Spring?, 

Seigler  Springs,  Adams  Springs, 

Anderson  Springs,  Highland  Springs, 
Howard  Springs, 

and  the  other  resorts  of  Lake  County,  is  the  most  charming  com- 
bination of  rail,  stage   and   steamer 
travel  in  the  State. 


Have  You  Ever  Seen  The  Geysers  ? 


Hotel  Del  Monte, 

El  Carmelo,  and  Pacific  Grove 

are  dreams  of  vacation  luxury,  with  very  moderate  charges. 


Charm  ng  Santa  Cruz, 

Always  Has  Its  Thousands. 


Camping  in  the  Santa  Cruz   Mountains   is    the 

sweetest  and  most  healthful 

out   pleasure. 


Yosemitf- 
Is  Nature's  Grandest  Expression  of  the  Sublime  and  Beautiful. 


THE  LAKES  OF  THE  HIGH  SERIES, 

Tahoe,  Donner,  Weber,  Independence 

Have  vast  stores  of  beauty,  pure  air,  hunting,  fishing, 
boating,  health  and  happiness. 


The  Grand  Old  Shasta 

Appeals  with  majestic  eloquence  to  lovers  of  nature,  where  the 
New  Castle  Crags  Tavern  is  open  for  Guests. 


SANTA  MONICA,  LONG  BEACH  AND  SANTA  BARBARA 

Remain  the  Gems  of  the  South. 


How  Many 

Have  Seen  the  Wonderful  Palm  Valley. 


Ask  Agents  Southern  Pacific  Company  for  a  copy  of 

"CALIFORNIA    RESORTS." 


Every  Summer  Resort  in  California  worth  visiting  is 
on  the  Lines  of  the 

SOUTHERN  PACIFIC   COMPANY. 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


A    ROMANCE    OF    BLUE    LAKE. 


HIGH  up  in  the  mountains,  reflecting  the  color  of  the  sky,  lies 
Blue  Lake,  a  sapphire  in  an  emerald  setting.  On  every  bide 
the  green  hills  slope  down  to  its  curving  shores,  the  foliage  being 
mirrored  in  the  still  surface  of  the  lake,  as  in  the  clearest  class. 
Above  the  water  the  reeds  and  grasses  dip  and  bend  to  their 
quivering  images  below.  The  lake  and  its  surroundings  is  a  gem 
of  nature's  own  setting,  and  happily,  its  beauty  has  not  been 
marred,  as  yet,  by  the  hand  of  unappreciative  man.  In  this 
abiding  place  for  romance  and  imagination,  the  every-day,  hard- 
working world  slips  from  the  mind,  and  one  lives  in  a  realm  of 
dreams  and  fancy.  That  nothing  may  be  absent  from  this  already 
perfect  spot,  the  romance  is  here,  its  hero  being  the  owner  of  the 
picturesque  Swiss  chalet,  embowered  in  vines  and  flowers,  which 
gives  an  additional  charm  to  the  scene.  The  narrator  of  the  pa- 
thetic little  story  of  man's  faithfulness  and  woman's  duplicity, 
was  the  vivacious  French  hostess  of  Le  p&tit  Trianon,  »  I  tell  the 
story  as  'twas  told  to  me,"  she  said,  "  but  the  lively  gestures,  the 
eloquent  pauses,  which  intensified  the  interest  of  the  story,  must 
be  left  to  the  imagination.  Several  years  ago  Fritz,  a  simple- 
minded  German,  with  a  large  heart  and  more  than  the  average 
amount  of  faith  in  human  nature,  met  and  loved,  ■  not  wisely 
but  too  well,1  a  scheming  young  woman  whose  air  of  innocence 
covered  much  avarice  and  selfishness.  At  that  time  Fritz 
was  the  possessor  of  a  goodly  share  of  this  world's 
riches,  and  his  crafty  fiancee  so  played  upon  his  feel- 
ings that  she  induced  hiujj  upon  the  day  of  their  wedding, 
to  sign  over  to  her  all  his  property,  excepting  the  home  by  the 
lake,  of  which  she  probably  did  not  know.  Having  accomplished 
her  aim,  the  heartless  woman  departed  with  her  ill-gotten  gains, 
leaving  poor  Fritz  to  mourn  the  loss  of  wife  and  fortune.  Then 
this  "  beau  garcon,"  instead  of  seeking  for  the  faithless  one,  or 
making  an  effort  to  recover  his  property,  went  to  his  mountain 
home,  and,  still  believing  in  the  woman  his  heart  had  chosen, 
there  he  waits  patiently  for  her  return.  For  three  long  years  has 
he  looked  for  her  and  wavered  not.  The  days  are  spent  in  continu- 
ally beautifying  the  house  and  garden,  to  which  "she  will  come 
back,"  he  says  with  a  faith  that  time  has  not  shaken.  "  C'est  un 
vel  homme,"  said  the  little  Frenchwoman,  with  a  suspicion  of  tears 
in  her  bright  black  eyes  ;  and  then,  when  she  spoke  of  the  wicked 
woman,  whose  heartlessness  could  permit  her  to  deceive  the  con- 
fiding man,  how  those  black  eyes  flashed.  "  Une  canaille"  she 
said;  "  Fritz,  he  say,  ■  One  day  she  come  back.'  Mon!  she  come 
nevvaire."  Thus  closed  the  story.  As  our  boat  glided  past  the 
pretty  home,  whose  lonely  master  waits  day  after  day  for  the  one 
still  dear  to  him,  we  wonder  and  speak  tenderly  of  this  marvel  of 
enduring  love  and  faith  in  this  cynical  and  incredulous  nineteenth 
century. 

The  New  Corset  House. 

Ladies  who  desire  well-fitting  and  comfortable  corsets  should 
visit  the  New  Corset  House  and  Ladies'  Emporium  of  Richard  Freud 
and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Ober,  at  816  Market  street,  in  the  Phelan  Block. 
Mrs.  Ober  is  the  inventor  of  the  popular  corset  waist,  and  the  agent 
of  the  Jenness-Miller  pads. 


If  you  have  not  yet  decided  where  you  intend  to  spend  your  sum- 
mer vacation,  get  a  copy  of  "  California  Resorts  "  from  one  of  the 
agents  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  and  read  up  on  the  attrac- 
tions of  the  many  beautiful  places  along  the  line  of  that  road  that 
offer  unusual  inducements  for  an  outing,  from  the  lakes  of  the  high 
Sierras  to  the  langerous  heat  and  tropical  beauty  of  Palm  Valley, 
from  Shasta  to  Santa  Barbara,  and  from  Lake  county,  that  Switzer- 
land of  the  West,  to  Santa  Cruz,  on  every  side  the  glories  of  nature 
abound.  The  Geysers,  Yosemite,  Monterey,  El  Carmelo,  Santa 
Monica,  the  many  springs  throughout  the  interior,  each  offers  its  pe- 
culiar attractions. 


"THE  WHITE  HOUSE." 

THE  LARGEST  RETAIL  DRY-GOODS  STORE  IN  THE  CITY. 

GREAT   SUMMER   SALE! 

During  the  month  of  June  The  White  House  will  offer  for  sale  the 
entire  stock  of  this  season's  importations  at  Greatly  Reduced  Prices. 
The  stock  comprises: 

"Woolen  Dress  Goods. 

CREPONS,  CASHMERES,  SERGES.  IN  FANCT  AND  PLAIN. 

A  Special  Bargain. 

100  pieces  of  Scotch  Cheviot,  suitable  for  Outing  Suits,  at  35c, 
per  yard. 

NOTICE.— Tables  of  Remnants  and  Short  Lengths  at  Less 
Than  Cost. 

Silks. 

An  average  price  of  Figured  India  Silk ,  sold  until  now  at  $1.25 
and  $1,  for  75c.  per  yard. 

Ribbon  Counter. 

This  department  offers  great  inducements  to  purchasers.  Ele- 
gant Woven  Ribbons  at  25c.  per  yard.  A  full  assortment  of 
Velvet  Ribbons,  Black  and  Colored. 

Chiffon  and  Ladies'  Neckwear. 

An  inspection  will  show  that  prices  of  the  above  goods  have 
been  reduced  over  50  per  cent. 

Wash  Goods. 

Sateens,  Cheviots,  Percales,  Zephyrs,  Ginghams,  Lawns  and 
Organdies,  at  Cost. 

Cloak  Room. 

A  very  material  reduction  has  been  made  in  the  prices  of 
Spring  Jackets,  Capes,  Ulsters,  Mantles. 

Outing  Suits. 

Black  India  and  Surah  Silk  Skirts,  with  one  or  two  ruffles ;  also 
Fancy  Striped  Levantine  Silk  Skirts,  reduced  from  $10.50  and 
$12  to  $8. 
£^~  Mail  orders  solicited.    Samples  sent  ou  application.    Goods  sent 
free  to  all  suburban  towns. 

RAPHAEL  WEILL  k  CO., 

N-  W.  Cor.  Post  and  Kearny  Sts, 

Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 


Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

INGLENQOK  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orJers  filled  at  San 
Francisco  prices  aud  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  their 
orders  in  time  with 

F.  A.  HABER, 

Office  and   D«pot  Inglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


QUEEN 


OF  ALL  THE 


(SUMMER  RESORTS, 

THE  FAMOUS 

HOTEL    DEL    MONTE 

MOWTEEEY,    CJL2L,. 
Elegaut  Accommodations.    Moderate  Rates.    For  reservations  and  other  information  address 

GKEO.    SOZHZOHSnEW^LID,   DVL^t^ckee. 


Julv  2.  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NKWs  LETTER. 


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THERE  are  fashions  in  flowers  is  In  everything  else.  This  year 
the  bouquets  are  to  be  Arcadian,  so  tosay,  and  by  *•  Arcadian  ' 
they  mean  wild,  unrestrained,  and  innocent  of  the  least  scrap  of 
wire  or  any  such  atrocity.  Flowing  streamers  of  ribbon  have 
Riven  place  to  a  >imple  bow  tied  round  the  stalks,  t;  a-ses  and 
preen  foliage,  too,  are  much  to  the  fore,  and  many  of  the  drawing- 
room  posies  were  a  nodding  mass  of  roses,  lilies  or  white  lilac, 
half  hidden  beneath  a  veil  of  feathery  green,  culled  from  field  and 
garden.  As  to  the  window  boxes,  they  are  quite  a  sight  just  now. 
Those  deserving  to  stand  highest  on  the  list  are  at  Dudley  House, 
where  the  young  Conntess  bas  followed  the  example  of  her  mother- 
in-law  in  choosing  a  long  line  of  white  daisies,  planted  very  thickly 
in  cream-colored  boxes,  with  an  edging  of  trailing  pink  geraniums, 
which,  by  the  way,  are  among  the  hardiest  and  most  satisfactory 
of  our  out-door  flowering  plants. 

In  French  millinery  the  bonnet  shapes  are  close  and  small,  while 
the  large  hats  have  brims  of  great  expansion.  Both  crown  and 
brim  often  have  a  fluted  effect.  One  of  the  prettiest  summer  hats 
seen  recently  is  an  artistic  affair  of  fiue  sage  green  chip,  with  a 
wide  brim  coming  to  a  point  in  front.  The  back  and  sides  of  the 
hat  have  the  fluted  effect.  There  is  a  low  double  crown  to  the 
bat,  and  the  edge  of  the  brim  is  trimmed  with  pink  roses.  Two- 
faced  ribbon,  pink  and  green,  is  arranged  in  standing  loops  at  the 
back.     The  brim  is  faced  with  shirred  pink  crepe, 

A  word  may  be  said  concerning  the  coiffure  a  la  mode.  The 
habit  of  wearing  false  bair  in  plaits,  braids  or  frissettes  is  being 
discarded.  Ladies  make  the  best  they  can  of  the  hair  nature  has 
supplied  them  with,  which  they  arrange  to  suit  their  faces  accord- 
ing to  their  fancy.  The  hairdressing  fraternity  here  laments  over 
this  simplicity  in  the  coiffure  of  ladies,  the  building  up  of  false 
chignons,  khots,  and  so  on  being  one  of  the  most  lucrative 
branches  of  their  trade. 


In  wearing  a  veil  with  a  round  hat,  the  soft,  full  folds  of  the 
tulle  or  net  must  be  drawn  under  the  chin,  over  the  hair,  and 
fastened  high  up  at  the  back,  says  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal. 
Fancy  pins  are  not  liked  for  pinning  this  in  position ;  instead,  the 
material  should  be  knotted  and  tucked  just  under  the  brim  of  the 
hat. 

The  Four  Hundred  indulges  in  fads  like  the  rest  of  the  world' 
and  at  present  a  mania  for  collecting  playing  cards  is  the  chosen 
one.  Some  of  New  York's  well-known  club  men  have  agents  in 
different  quarters  of  the  globe  searching  for  anything  unique  and 
original  in  this  line. 

A  novelty  in  hats  bas  the  square,  mortar-board  crown,  with  a 
brim  of  medium  width  just  curving  up  at  one  side.  The  trimming 
most  liked  for  these  hats  consists  of  a  narrow  twist  of  velvet  and 
a  shaving  brush  pompon  at  one  side  near  the  front. 

A  favorite  decoration  for  each  side  of  the  closing  of  a  black  or 
dark  blue  cloth  coat  consists  of  loops  and  ends  of  broad,  black 
braid  so  carefully  sewed  on  the  material  that  they  look  as  if  they 
were  woven  on  the  stuff. 

White  undressed  kid  gloves  will  be  in  good  taste  with  the  sim- 
plest cotton  gowns.  They  may  either  close  with  a  large  button, 
or  slip  over  the  hands  in  ordinary  mosquetaire  fashion. 

The  red  shoe,  with  hose  of  the  same  color,  will  be  the  rage  at 
watering  places. 


SEMI-ANNUAL   CLEARANCE   SALE. 


-OUK- 


MAMMOTH    SURPLUS    STOCK 


-OK- 


SPRING  AND  SUMMER 

DRY  GOODS  AND  CLOAKS 


-NOW    BEING    CLOSED    OUT    AT- 


TREMENDOUS    REDUCTIONS. 

Every  Department  Brimming  With  Bargains- 
Call  Early  and  Secure  a  First  Choice. 


1  Building. 

MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


DR.   F.  C.  PAGUE, 

DENTIST, 

Rooms  4  &  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 

819  Market  Street. 

Dr.  J.  H.  STALLARD 

—  AND  — 

Dr.  J.  CLARK, 

ZPHC-SrSXaX-A-asTS    aad    SXTX-^CS-EOiTS, 
632    Sutter    Street. 

A.    LUSK   &  CO., 

122  DAVIS  STREET,  SAN   FRANCISCO. 
Packers  of  the  following  celebrated  brands: 
CELEBRATED   LUSK    BRANDS, 

J.    LUSK   CANNING   COMPANY, 

SAN    LORENZO    PACKING  CO 


CAMELLINE 

The  enjy  f&ceprep&r&Hen  sanctioned  as 
ABselytely  harmless  by  the  medical  prefessien 


jjjjjj-  ■■■"■'"  i^W^g-^^k^fc^H  IpIS! 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1592. 


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WITH  reference  to  "  Colleen  Dhaa  Crouthing  a  Mow,"  or  "The 
Nice  Girl  Milking  the  Cow,"  which  was  recently  sung  by 
Madame  Patti,  if  tradition  speaks  truly,  the  composition  and  first 
singing  of  the  song  is  attributed  to  no  less  personage  than  His  Sat- 
tanic  Majesty  himself.  The  tradition  is  that  once  on  a  time  a  priest 
was  called  upon  in  a  hurry  to  attend  on  a  dying  sinner.  It  was  a 
lovely  summer's  morning,  and  he  set  offon  horseback  in  order  to  ar- 
rive quickly.  All  went  well  till  he  came  to  the  entrance  of  a  wood, 
at  which  he  was  struck  spell-bound  by  hearing  the  most  melodious 
singing  that  ever  greeted  human  ears.  The  song  was  "  Colleen  Dnas 
Crouthing  a  Mow."  The  priest  reined  up  his  horse  at  once  in  order 
not  to  disturb  the  singer,  and  waited  to  hear  the  whole  song.  After 
which  the  most  demoniacal  laughter  greeted  his  ears,  which  brought 
him  to  his  senses  at  once,  and  caused  him  to  ride,  fast  and  furious, 
to  the  relief  of  the  dying  man.  But  he  arrived,  alas !  •'  too  late."  For 
as  he  came  in  sight  of  the  house  the  man  breathed  his  last.  The 
priest  then  knew  it  was  the  will  of  the  Evil  One  himself  to  waylay 
him  in  order  to  prevent  him  from  absolving  the  dying  sinner.  And 
his  reverence,  as  in  duty  bound,  did  penance  in  sackcloth  and 
ashes  for  his  sin  of  procrastination,  and  at  the  same  time  denounced 
the  fatal  song  from  the  altar,  and  fabade  all  good  Catholics  ever  to 
sing  it.  As  a  consequence,  it  is  held  in  the  same  repute  by  the  Irish 
peasantry  as  the  "  Marseillaise  "  is  held  by  the  clerical  party  in 
France.  ^^.^^ 

The  ancient  annual  ceremony  of  "  Talabbaram,"  or  weighing  the 
Maharajah  of  Travancore  against  an  equivalent  weight  of  gold, 
has  come  round  again.  It  appears  to  have  been  conducted  this 
year  with  great  pomp  and  ceremony,  for  the  present  Maharajah 
is  a  hindoo  of  the  orthodox  type,  who  aspires  to  keep  up  the 
traditions  of  his  house.  Some  months  before  the  ceremony  the 
Government  purchased  through  its  commercial  agent  at  Alleppey 
about  2,000  pounds'  weight  of  pure  gold,  the  greater  part  of  which 
was  converted  into  coins  for  this  purpose.  After  presenting  an 
elephant  and  offerings  to  the  shrine  the  Maharajah  entered  the 
building  prepared  for  the  occasion,  and  having  completed  the  pre- 
liminary ceremonies,  mounted  one  of  the  scales.  The  sword  and 
shield  were  laid  in  his  lap ;  in  the  other  side  of  the  scale  gold  coins, 
struck  for  the  occasion,  were  placed  by  the  first  and  second 
princes,  till  it  touched  the  ground  and  the  Maharajah  rose  in 
the  air,  the  priest  meanwhile  chanting  Vedic  hymns.  Volleys 
were  fired,  the  band  played,  and  the  troops  presented  arms.  The 
Maharajah  worshipped  at  the  shrine  and  then  went  to  the  palace. 
Subsequently  the  Dewan  and  other  officials  distributed  the  coins 
from  the  fort  gates  to  about  fifteen  thousand  Brahmins. 

There  is  only  one  factory  in  Russia  for  the  manufacture  of  playing 
cards.  It  has  a  monopoly  of  the  business,  and  belongs  to  the  Found- 
ling Hospital.  It  is  figured  that  there  are  30,000.000  people  in  Russia 
who  play  cards,  and  to  supply  the  demand  this  factory  puts  out 
6,000,000  packs  of  cards  annually.  In  order  to  make  this  enormous 
quantity  of  cards  only  320  women,  aged  from  fifteen  to  twenty  years, 
and  68  men  are  employed.  And  they  are  chosen  amid  the  sisters, 
wives  and  daughters  of  the  workmen  at  the  factory.  Both  exteriorly 
and  interiorly  the  factory  is  a  model  of  cleanliness.  This  is  one  of 
the  essential  conditions  of  this  branch  of  production.  All  the  em- 
ployees live  at  the  factory,  and  earn  from  $5  to  $15  a  month.  They 
work  from  6  in  the  morning  to  6  o'clock  at  night,  and  are  allowed 
two  hours  a  day  for  their  meals.  Besides  the  ordinary  playing  cards 
of  different  qualities,  the  factory  produces  annually  120,000  packs  of 
figured  cards  for  the  German  colonies,  besides  12,000  packs  of  minia- 
ture playing  cards  as  toys.  The  annual  product  of  the  factory 
amounts  to  about  $800,000.  The  cardboard  is  supplied  by  the  Neva 
Paper  Mill.  

Twenty  steamers,  each  with  a  band  aboard,  together  making  grand 
music,  went  out  from  the  port  of  Riga  to  gratefully  salute  the  Ameri- 
can vessel  Vonemaugh,  which  brought  food  succour  for  the  starving 
Russians.  This  is  the  third  shipment.  The  cargo  consisted  of  2,300 
barrels  of  flour  and  various  kinds  of  provisions.  After  landing  her 
welcome  freight  as  speedily  as  she  could,  with  the  practical  desire  to 
send  succour  as  soon  as  possible,  it  was  blessed  by  prayer,  and  im- 
mediately afterward  expedited  by  rail.  The  Czar  sent  Captain  Spen- 
cer of  the  Conemaugh  a  message  of  warm  thanks,  begging  him  also  to 
accept  as  a  souvenir  a  beautiful  silver  tea  service  ema'dle in  Byzantine 
style.  The  people  of  Riga  had  a  grand  torchlight  procession  at  night 
in  honor  of  the  captain  and  the  gracious  American  people  who  had 
given  so  largely  to  the  distressed  Russians. 


At  a  loss  for  a  new  motive  for  a  gamble,  two  members  of  a  Paris 
club  deposited  100  louis  each  with  the  secretary,  also  their  watches, 
both  timed  to  the  same  minute.  He  was  to  retain  them  for  two 
hours,  at  the  end  of  which  time,  having  dined,  they  called  for  the 
watches,  and  the  one  whose  watch  was  in  advance  of  the  time  of  the 
other  took  the  louis. 


IB^HSTKIS. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

THOMiS  Brown. Cashier  |  B.  Murray,  Jr  . .  .Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

(ORRESPONDEVTS  * 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  Bant  of  California;  BOSTON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  <k  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denvert  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland.O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Franklort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland- 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 

N.  W.  turner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) 91,500,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  1  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $160,000 

8.  G.  MURPHY. President!  E.  D.  MORGAN  Cashier 

JAMES  MOPPITT.. .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass't  Cashier 

DIKBCTOBB: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  8.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffltt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  ?100  per  annum  (uoder  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  aud  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital $3,500,000     |     Capital  paid  up 2.450,000 

Reserve ■....      450,000 

San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St..  E.  C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1006  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUB  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STBBL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YOBK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  ol  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Satheb  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FAR60  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansonie  and  Sntter  Streets. 

SAN     FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL  $      500,000.00 

SURPLUS  5,488.393.12 

CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $    5,988,393^00 

DIRECTORS: 
Lloyd Tevis,  President;  Jno.  J.  Valentine,  Vice-President;  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Chas.  F.  Crocker.  J.  C.  Fargo,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Wm.  Norris,  Geo.  E.  Gray 
and  W.  F.  Goad.    H.  Wadsworth,  Cashier. 
Receive  Deposits,  issues  Letters  of  Credit,  and  transact  a  General  Bankin 
Business. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.      Regular    Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  aud  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  aud  smutty  Wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  ou  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

822     PINK     STREET. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11.000,000. 

DIRECTORS: 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKEB,  I  E.  H.  MILLER,  Jb. 

B.  C.  WOOLWOBTH Peesident. 

W.  E.  BBOWN Vice-Pbesident. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER    Cashibb 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital tSOO.OCo 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  |  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  secaritlee. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


Julv  2,  1  -92. 


s\\  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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AT    FOUR    O'CLOCK- llarriel  Promt  Bpofford. 

Ah.  happy  day.  refuse  to  go  I 
Hang  in  Ibe  heavens  forever  ao! 
Korever  in  ruid-allernoon. 
Ah,  happy  day  of  happy  June! 
1'our  out  thy  sunshine  on  the  hill, 
The  piny  wood  with  perfume  (ill, 
And  breathe  across  the  singing  sea 
Land-acented  breezes,  that  shall  be 
Sweet  as  the  gardens  that  they  pass. 
Where  children  tumble  in  the  grass  1 

Ab,  bappy  day,  refuse  to  go! 
Hang  in  the  heavens  forever  so! 
And  long  not  for  tby  blushing  rest 
In  the  soft  bosom  of  the  west, 
But  bid  gray  Evening  get  her  back 
With  all  the  stars  upon  her  track! 
Forget  the  dark,  forget  the  dew, 
The  mystery  of  the  midnight  blue, 
And  only  spread  thy  wide  warm  wings 
While  summer  her  enchantment  flings! 

Ab,  happy  day,  refuse  to  go! 

Hang  in  the  heavens  forever  so! 

Forever  let  tby  tender  mist 

Lie  like  dissolving  amethyst 

Deep  in  the  distant  dales,  and  shed 

Thy  mellow  glory  overhead! 

Yet  wilt  thou  wander— call  the  thrush, 

And  have  the  wilds  and  waters  hush 

To  hear  his  passion-broken  tune, 

Ah,  happy  day  of  bappy  June! 


JULY  DAYS.— John  Kendrick  Bangs,  in  Ladies'  ITome  Journal. 

Softly  drone  the  honey-bees; 
Blossom  scented  is  the  breeze; 

Golden  is  the  grain. 
Over  all  the  faintest  haze 
Rests,  and  song  birds  pipe  their  lays 

In  a  sweeter  strain. 

From  the  meadows  comes  the  scent 
Of  the  new  hay,  clover  blent— 

Id  the  topaz  sky 
Fleecy  clouds,  like  ships  at  sea, 
Floating  onward  lazily, 

Or  at  anchor,  lie. 

Nature  now  is  doubly  dear 
To  my  soul,  for  doubly  near, 

At  July's  behest, 
She  has  come,  and  coming  brings 
Surcease   from  all  weary  things — 

Blissful  sense  of  rest! 


THE  SWEETEST  EYES.— M.  A.  Dennison,  in  the  Critic. 

Which  are  the  sweetest  eyes  to  you? 

The  brown,  where  fire  and  languor  meet, 
The  sunny,  laughing  eyes  of  blue, 

Or  black,  with  glances  shy  and  fleet. 

Or  opaline,  with  changeful  hue, 

Or  gray,  where  mind  with  beauty  vies, 

Or  violet,  so  soft  and  true — 

Tell  me,  which  are  the  sweetest  eye? 

Mr  darling  bent  her  sunny  head, 

Her  radiant  face  seemed  balf-divine. 
"  The  sweetest  eyes  to  me,"  I  said, 

"  Are  those  tiat  look  with  love  in  mine." 

DRAWING  NEAR  THE  LIGHT.  —  Wm.  Morris  in  Boston  Beacon. 

Lo,  when  we  wade  the  tangled  wood, 

In  baste  and  hurry  to  be  there, 
Nought  seem  its  leaves  and   blossoms  good, 

For  all  that  they  be  fastened  fair. 

But  looking  up,  at  last  we  see 

The  glimmer  of  the  open  l!ght, 
From  o'er  the  place  where  we  would  be 

Then   grow  the  very  brambles  bright. 
So  now,  amid  our  day  of  strife, 

With  many  a  matter  glad  we  play, 
When  once  we  see  the  light  of  life 

Gleam  through  the  tangle  of  to-day. 


BAN-KS. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

CAPITAL  PAW  UP  ..I"COrr"r",Cdbr  Roya":""r,Cr- $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND  1,175,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE   SO  LOMBARD  STREET.   LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria.  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;   Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  aud  Tacoma.  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanalmo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  Brlt'sh 

Columbia. 
ThiB  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  aud  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  iu  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Otliee  and  Brauchea,  aud  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company ;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  aud  SOUTH  AMERICA— Loudon  Bank 
of  Mexico  aud  South  America:  CHINA  aud  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China:  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  aud  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

533  California  Street,  corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,1891 923,311,061  00 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,346,035  00 

DIRECTORS. 

.U^rt  MilUr,  Pr  esideut;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

80S  Market  Street   (Flood  Building!,  San   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital 11,000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits $     45,000.03 

Paid-up  Capital 338,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS  WATERHOUSE President 

P.V.McDONALD  Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

Tbls  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, iu  sums  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  aud  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND S    1,610.000  00. 

Deposits  Jan.  2,  1892 27,138,129  74 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-PreBident,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbqe. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  DANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICBBS. 

JAMES  G.  PAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Dieectobs— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barrou,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Pbelan,  James  Moffltt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  aud  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ub&ct  led  Capital $2,600,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital 92,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  9660,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Aoents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd  ),No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  FrereB  &  Cie,  17Boule 
yard  Poiesoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  CreditB  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LO.  Altschul,  Cashier.  

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

r.anital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up $1,500,000 

Bn  nsoribed  3,000,000  I  Reserve  Eund 650,000 

BuDscrmeu  ....  .^^  QrrICX_i  Angei  Court|  London,  E.  C. 

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

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 

eraDhic  transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loanB  money,  buys  and  sells  exchanga 

aud  bullion.  WN.  |TEI|m  ART^  j  Manageri. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


THE    AGNOSTIC'S    QUESTION— "  IS  LIFE    "WORTH   LIV- 
ING?"— Aubrey  de  Vere  in  the  Spectator. 


Life  is  a  thing  worth  living  to  the  brave 

Who  fear  not  fortune's  spite;  in  Truth  who  trust, 

Whose  spirit,  not  thralled  by  pride  or  earthward  lust. 

Stands  up  while  mortal  tumults  round  them  rave, 

Like  Teneritfe  above  the  ocean  wave; 

Who,  mailed  in  Duty,  with  divine  disgust 

Recoil  from  frivolous  joys  and  aims  unjust, 

Nor  miss  rewards  which  Reason  scorns  to  crave. 

Life  is  worth  living  to  those  souls  of  light 

Who  live  for  others,  and  by  gift  bestow 

On  them  the  jubilant  beams  their  own  by  right; 

Who,  knowing  Life's  defects,  more  inly  know 

This  life  is  not  the  Temple  but  the  Gate 

Where  men  secure  of  entrance  watch  and  wait. 


OBTUARY. 

ONE  of  the  most  lamented  deaths  of  the  year  was  that  of  W.  E. 
Holloway,  who  succumbed  on  Friday  last  to  the  effects  of  the 
amputation  of  his  leg,  brought  about  by  the  fracture  of  the  limb 
a  few  days  before,  by  a  fall  from  bis  horse  near  his  home,  in  San 
Rafael.  Mr.  Holloway  was  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
popular  men  in  the  city,  and  had  hosts  of  friends,  who  were  in- 
tensely grieved  at  the  announcement  of  his  death.  The  obsequies 
were  held  at  St.  Rafael's  Church,  on  Sunday  morning  last,  Rev. 
Joseph  McQuade,  celebrant.  The  church  was  profusely  deco- 
rated, and  was  filled  with  numerous  mourning  friends  of  the 
deceased.  The  pallbearers  were:  Colonel  E.  E.  Eyre,  Captain 
James  Birmingham,  E.  F.  Preston,  General  Dimond,  W.  D,  Cat- 
ton,  R.  B.  Hail,  Captain  C.  Wilson,  Charles  Peterson,  J.  Downey 
Harvey  and  W.  Greer  Harrison,  who  escorted  the  remains  into 
the  church.  The  remains  were  'n  closed  in  a  handsome  cloth- 
covered  casket,  lined  with  copper  and  zinc  sheathing.  The  re- 
mains were  shipped  by  express  to  Baltimore,  Md.,  Mr.  Hollo- 
way's  former  home.  Mrs.  Holloway  was  so  prostrated  that  she 
was  unable  to  attend  the  services  at  the  church.  She  is  in  a  very 
deplorable  condition  at  her  residence,  where  she  is  attended  by 
many  frinds.  Mrs.  Holloway  is  the  daughter  of  ex-Mayor  W. 
R.  Grace  of  New  York  city.  She  became  Mrs.  Holloway  about 
nine  years  ago,  and  has  a  daughter  seven  years  old.  The  deceased 
was  the  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  J.  W.  Grace  &  Co.,  which 
has  extensive  business  relations  with  the  Australian  colonies, 
South  America,  New  York  and  London. 

ANOTHER  lamented  death  of  the  past  week  was  that  of  John 
M.  Adams,  who  died  at  the  Klamath  Reservation,  in  southern 
Oregon,  whither  he  had  gone  on  a  fishing  excursion,  with  Harry 
Babcock,  and  Faxon  D.  Atherton.  The  health  of  Mr.  Adams 
had  been  poor  for  four  years.  He  was  subject  to  strokes  of 
apoplexy,  and  was  unable  to  endure  fatigue  and  exertion.  Mr. 
Adams  was  a  New  Yorker,  and  was  a  graduate  of  Columbia 
College,  both  in  liberal  arts  and  civil  engineering.  Soon  after 
graduation  he  went  to  Idaho,  and  began  mining.  His  tastes  in- 
clined him  to  city  life,  however,  and  in  company  with  a  Mr. 
Carter  he  became  the  western  agent  for  the  fuel  concentrator,  and 
had  continued  in  that  employment  up  to  his  death  with  advant- 
age, his  fortune  being  estimated  at  $75,000.  He  was  a  compan- 
ionable man,  and  intensely  fond  of  fly  fishing,  at  which  sport  he 
had  few  superiors  in  elegance  and  the  accuracy  with  which  he 
tossed  a  fly.  His  friendships  were  many,  and  all  lasting,  because 
of  his  consideration  and  invariable  courtesy.  He  was  a  nephew 
of  Colonel  W.  R.  Smedberg,  and  well  known  in  San  Francisco. 

THE  sad  fate  of  Harry  Davidsonvwho  was  killed  in  a  mine  dis- 
aster at  Wardner,  Idaho,  last  week,  created  quite  a  shock  to 
Oakland  society.  Harry  was  one  of  the  brightest  and  most  popuj 
lar  young  men  in  the  Athenian  city,  and  his  many  good  traits 
were  set  off  to  advantage  by  his  talents  and  administrative  genius. 
He  was  engaged  to  Miss  Bertha  Wilcox,  one  of  the  belles  of  Oak- 
land, and  the  blow  has  fallen  heavily  on  her. 

THE  death  of  Mrs.  Bowman  in  Oakland  last  week  removes  one 
of  the  most  prominent  Theosophists  on  the  coast.  Mrs.  Bow- 
man has  been  a  disciple  of  Blavatsky  for  a  long  time,  and  she  was 
instrumental  in  founding  the  Theosophic  library  and  course  of  as- 
tral study  in  the  city  of  churches.  In  accordance  with  her  wishes 
her  remains  were  this  week  cremated  at  Los  Angeles. 

JAMES  P.  KERR,  proprietor  of  the  Breeder  and  Sportsman,  and 
one  of  the  best-known  turf  men  on  the  Coast,  died  in  Denver 
on  Monday  last.  He  had  gone  to  that  city  to  attend  the  races! 
and  was  prostrated  by  pneumonia,  which  caused  his  death.  He 
was  a  native  of  Scotland,  38  years  old,  and  had  been  a  resident  of 
this  city  many  years. 

TWO  well-knowu  Swedish  scientists,  MM.  Bjorling  and  Kalls- 
temuis,  arrived  at  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland,  on  J  une  3d.  They 
are  commissioned  by  the  Geographical  and  Zoological  Societies  of 
Stockholm  to  explore  the  shores  of  Smith  Sound  in  the  Arctic 
regions,  to  collect  specimens  of  the  flora  and  fauna  of  the  district, 
and  to  take  astronomical  observations.  They  will  hire  a  schooner 
for  their  voyage,  from  which  they  expect  to  return  in  September. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bodie  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Bodie,  Mono  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  20th  day  of  June,  1892,  au  assessment  (No.  14)  of  Twentv-five  Cents 

fier  share  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  room  62,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  22d  Day  of  Juty,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  is  made 
before,    will  be    sold    on  MONDAY,  the  22d   day  of  August.   1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with    costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

H.  D.  WALKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  62,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Commonwealth  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business—San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works — Tuscarora,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  15th  day  of  Jane,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  8)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  20,  No.  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, or  to  E.  R.  Grant,  Transfer  Agent,  57  Broadway,  New  York. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-first  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore,  will  be    sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  18th  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20.  No.  331  Pine  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Belle     Isle    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Sixteenth  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  14,  of  Ten  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,    Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-frst  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  12th  day  of  August,  1892.  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW.  Secretary. 

Office— No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  Sau  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Utah  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  and  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works — Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  7th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  15)  of  twenty-five  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  ofhee  of  the  com- 
pany, room  58,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Eleventh  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  SATURDAY,  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  July,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  H.  FISH,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  58,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco,  Cal.         

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Ophir    Silver    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  Business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works — Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  third  (3d)  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  58)  of  Fifty  ^50) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  room  4,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Seventh  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  27th  day  of  July,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  4,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment     .' No.  102 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied .Junel0,1892 

Delinquent  in  Office July  13, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock..  ...  Aueust2, 1892 

E.  L   PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,   San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


July  2    1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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"SAME    BUSINESS    MEN." 

THERE  fpetns  to  be  *  provoking  sameness  in  men,  the  mo- 
notony of  which  is  obviated  only  by  the  diversity  of  methods 
by  which  tbey  seek  the  one  object.  This  is  the  same  in  all  hu- 
manity, and  can  be  brie  My  and  concisely  characterized — it  is 
••selfishness."  One  man  enjoys  social  distinction;  another  has 
political  aspirations,  and  free  from  the  embarrassing  suggestion  of 
his  possible  fitness  for  the  position,  desires  to  favor  high  places 
with  his  distinguished  presence.  He  would  even  be  willing  to 
invest  the  ••  White  House,"  at  Washington,  with  his  honorable 
and  illustrious  name.  We  have  a  living  example  of  man's  de- 
pravity in  this  direction,  in  the  incumbent.  One  of  the  most 
charming  features  of  this  glorious  climate  of  California  is  the 
preservative  quality  contained  in  it  for  our  boys.  They  never 
outgrow  their  sweet  boyish  ways.  Any  day  in  passing  along  our 
busy  streets  you  may  see  one  of  them,  say  seventy  years  of  age, 
somewhat  bent  at  the  shoulders  and  crooked  at  the  knees,  with 
little  hair,  and  that  white,  and  generally  a  tri tie  disfigured,  but 
standing  as  bravely  erect  as  possible,  and  displaying  for  the 
benefit  of  some  six  teen- year-old  Miss  all  those  irresistable  charms  of 
manner  that  made  him  so  "  fetching"  some  twenty  or  thirty  years 
ago.  Poor  dear  boy,  he  has  never  grown  old.  Time  has  dealt  so 
leniently  with  bim  that  she  has  forgotten  to  lay  upon  him  that 
quiet  and  gentle  dignity  that  compels  respect  and  veneration  from 
youth  and  inexperience,  and  adds  to  years  their  chiefest  charm. 
But  although  their  manners  are  droll,  even  grotesque  at  times, 
their  hearts  are  kind, 

Why,  no  longer  than  fifteen  years  ago,  Mr.  Hittell  offered  to 
provide  liberally  for  a  widow  if  she  would  put  her  children  in  an 
orphanage,  but  he  was  very  young  then.  I  don't  think  he  could 
have  been  a  day  over  seventy,  and  now  he  might  not  be  so  gener- 
ous.    Thus  time  robs  us  of  even  the  desire  to  do  good. 

Col.  John  P.  Irish,  whose  notoriety  is  excelled  by  none,  and 
equalled  by  few,  is  one  of  our  most  conspicuous  business  men, 
and  I  speak  advisedly  when  I  say  "business;  "  he  has  more 
business  than  he  can  well  attend  to;  in  fact,  he  is  rushed  to  death 
with  it.  The  chief  aim,  of  late,  of  this  great  man  has  been  to 
furnish  us  with  a  site  for  our  new  Postoffice. 

M.  M.  Estee  is  another  good  man  upon  whom  ambition  has 
laid  its  blight,  for  I  think  he  still  secretly  cherishes  the  aims  that 
met  their  Waterloo  in  so  simple  a  thing  as  a  waste-paper  basket. 
Thus  great  men  are  brought  low.  I  wonder  if  sometime  the  Sage 
of  Napa  does  not  suspect  that  he  was  born  the  wrong  time  of  the 
moon. 

I  think  L.  L.  Baker  took  a  day  off  just  after  his  birth,  and 
came  to  conclusions  about  things  in  this  world.  After  time  has 
rung  the  changes  of  years  for  him,  he  still  feels  justified  in  re- 
taining them,  just  as  they  were  received  fresh  from  the  mint.  I 
do  not  believe  that  as  many  as  three  subjects  presented  for  Mr. 
Baker's  consideration  have  been  left  self-unsalisfactorily  disposed 
of.     Such  executive  ability  as  his  is  rare  indeed. 

Adolph  Sutro  is  the  happy  possessor  of  an  ample  fortune  and 
an  irrepressibly  affectionate  disposition.  There  is  one  thing,  how- 
ever, that  is  inexplicable  to  me,  in  the  rare  generosity  displayed 
by  him  in  kissing  all  of  those  lady  journalists.  (I  saw  some  of 
them). 

Barclay  Henley  is  an  aspirant  for  fame,  but  Barclay  dear,  the 
road  leading  there  unto  is  long  and  tortuous  and  fate  has  placed 
many  temptations  along  the  way,  specially  designed  for  politi- 
cians, and  it  is  incredible  how  familiar  she  is  with  the  particular 
temptations  that  may  betray  you.     Beware  t 

W.  Greer  Harrison  is  a  gentleman  of  infinite  good  humor,  a 
faithful  adherent  of  the  "Olympics"  and  "saltwater,"  and  I 
heartily  commend  his  judgment.  San  Francisco  and  San  Fran- 
ciscans undoubtedly  need  salt  water.  This  Idea  is  both  original 
and  commendable,  which  is  not  the  case  in  his  unfortunate  deter- 
mination to  sever  his  relations  with  the  Mercantile  Library.  Such 
a  design  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Molera  would  be  considered  strategic 
by  friends  of  the  institution  interested  in  its  welfare  and  prosperity. 

Of  the  "  Great  Scotts,"  Irving  and  Henry,  I  like  the  former  the 
better.  He  seems  to  be  on  more  gracious  terms  with  the  world  in 
general,  while  his  geniality  is  wholesomely  contagious. 

It  is  a  curious  fact  that  in  the  corner  of  Mr.  Prescott's  right  eye 
lnrks  ever  a  suspicion  of  all  human  creatures,  while  the  left  one 
meets  you  in  perfect  good  fellowship. 

The  Crockers,  without  exception,  carry  that  busy,  preoccupied 
air  that  attaches  to  men  of  wealth,  who  are  weighed  down  with 
the  necessary  care  and  anxiety  of  preventing  its  ultimate  change 
of  ownership;  but  they  are  also,  without  any  exception,  polite  in 
the  interchange  of  business  courtesies. 

Dr.  William  J.  Younger  does  not  permit  the  golden  hours  to  fly 
away  unheeded,  and  I  fancy  that  one  great  reason  for  his  success 
in  business  is  his  tact.  Ah,  Doctor,  that  is  a  great  scheme  of 
yours.  In  transplanting  teeth,  he  always  says  to  susceptible 
gentlemen  (that  includes  all  of  them)  that  the  identical  tooth  he 
is  then  making  their  own  came  from  the  mouth  of  the  »  sweetest 
young  lady."  But  it  is  hardly  the  fair  thing  to  the  young  lady; 
she  can't  have  a  tooth  left. 

I  am  rather  afraid  of  the  man  or  woman  who  laughs  too  much. 
I  know  two  men  who  feed  the  hungry;  one  is  named  Wilson  and 
the  other  Grey.     Mr.  Wilson   has   never  yet  been  detected  in  a 


smite.     The  affairs  of  life  call  for  his  grtVAflt  consideration,  but  I 
never    look    at    Mr.  Grey  without  wondering  if  his  face  does  not 
get  tired,  for  he  smiles  and  smiles.     Men  are  very  queer. 
"  Alpha." 

Special  attention  given  to  all  oases  recommended  by  family  physicians 
free  m  charge.    C.  Mullcr,  refraction  specialist,  186  Montgomery  street,  uear 

Bllsn. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Sau  Fraucisco,  California.    Lo- 
caliou  of  caunery— lrgaslu"k  River,  A  aska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  ou 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1;,  levied  ou  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposile  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson        . 1  60  $50 

C.  A.  Johnson  2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Luudberg 12  390  390 

Aud  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
ou  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  mauy  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  oflice  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal.,  ou  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  aud  expenses 
of  sale 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  uutil 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  aud  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behriug  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  pos'poned  uutil 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Sau  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement, 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  s-ale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  uutil  Saturday, 
July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

,     Alta    Silver    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Fraucisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works-Gold  Hill,  Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  Saturday,  the  18th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  42,  of  Fifteen  (15) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately,  iu  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Twenty-sixth  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  sixteenth  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Lirectors. 

L.  OSBOKN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co.  California. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Union  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Union  Consoli- 
dated Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  11, 
303  California  street,  Sau  Francisco,  California,  on  Monday,  the  eighteenth 
day  of  July,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  oue  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  aud  the  transaction 
of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer  books 
will  close  on  Friday,  July  15,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

A.  W.  BARROWS,  Secretary. 

Office.— Room  11,  303  California  Street,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Union  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Union  Consoli- 
dated Miuiug  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  11, 
303  California  street,  San  Fraucisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  18th  day  of  July.  1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M., 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  aud  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 

Transfer  books  will  close  ou  Friday,  July  15th,  1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.m. 

A.  W.  BARROWS.  Secretary. 
Office— Room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
The  Board  of  Directors  declare  a  dividend  for  the  term  endiDg  with 
June  30,  1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1  5)  per  cent,  per  aanura 
on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  per  cent,  per  annum  on   Or- 
dinary Deposits 'free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1,  1892. 
y       p         "     '                                      CYRUS  W.  CARMANY,  Cashier. 
Office— 101  Montgomery  St ,  Cor.  Suiter,  Sau  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

People's  Home  Savings  Bank. 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  this  bank  have  declared  a  dividend  for  the 
term  ending  June  30, 1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent, 
■ner  annum  on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  (4\3)  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  from  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after 
July  1  1892  J.E.  FaKNUM,  Secretary. 

Office- 805  Market  street,  Flood  Building,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


THE  expense  of  a  funeral  in  a  large  city  has  grown  to  such  pro- 
portions that  the  average  man  commits  more  extravagance  in 
the  act  of  dying  than  he  ever  did  during  life.  It  has  been  sug- 
gested that  a  much  less  costly  form  of  gravestones  than  that 
usually  erected  would  meet  all  the  requirements  of  affectionate 
remembrance  and  respect,  and  the  suggestion  has  been  carried 
into  effect  in  the  patenting  of  a  "grave  marker."  This  is  simply 
a  memorial  leaf.  It  consists  of  two  outer  plates  bent  so  as  to 
form  a  holder  for  leaves  or  tablets,  adapted  to  be  suspended  from 
a  frame  to  receive  and  retain  objects  desired  to  be  kept  as  momen- 
toes  of  the  deceased.  The  tablets  beneath  the  outer  plates  can 
be  designed  in  any  desired  form,  and  as  they  have  sides  of  mica 
or  transparent  material  to  protect  the  tokens,  any  objects,  such 
photographs,  sketches,  etc.,  can  be  inserted.  For  instance,  a 
sketch  of  the  life  of  the  departed,  or  a  portait  or  a  lock  of  hair  can 
be  placed  in  the  receptacle,  where  it  is  security  protected  from 
the  weather,  and,  as  it  is  covered  with  mica,  it  will  last  for  many 
years  without  bleaching  or  decaying. 

The  creeping  of  rails  has  attracted  some  attention  of  late, 

and  while  we  do  not  attempt  to  explain  it,  we  offer  a  point  on 
the  fact  that  on  lines  running  north  and  south  the  western  rail 
"creeps"  faster  than  the  eastern  rail;  that  is,  this  strange  move- 
ment of  the  rail  toward  the  south  is  more  marked  in  one  rail  than 
the  other  on  the  same  track.  Furthermore,  it  has  been  noticed 
that  on  such  a  line  the  eastern  rails  wear  out  the  fastest.  Both 
of  these  points,  we  think,  can  be  explained  by  the  motion  of  the 
earth  as  it  turns  from  the  west  toward  the  east.  Mo- 
tion tends  to  overcome  gratification.  A  rapid  skater  flies  over 
the  thin  ice  without  breaking  through,  and  a  train  at  high  speed 
has  been  known  to  leap  a  broken  bridge  unharmed.  Momentum 
overcomes  gravitation,  and  the  greater  the  speed  the  less  the 
weight  on  the  rails.  Everything  that  has  free  motion  is  dragged 
after  the  whirling  globe;  every  wind  that  blows,  and  every  tide 
that  moves,  feels  the  influence,  and  our  train  going  north  or 
south  is  pulled  over  toward  the  east,  and  naturally  presses  the 
eastern  rait  most  heavily.  The  western  rail,  being  relieved  of  its 
share  of  weight,  "creeps"  more  freely  and  quickly.  It  is  also  no- 
tice that  the  wheels  that  run  on  the  eastern  rail  wear  out  first, 
and  we  can  but  think  that  this  earth  motion  is  the  true  cause. 
The  practical  side  of  this  is,  that  the  eastern  rail  and  wheels 
should  be  stronger.  — Scientific  American. 

Few  people  known  that  there  is  a  good  and  a  bad  way  of 

drinking  milk.  The  bad  way  is  that  which  they  generally  follow, 
viz.,  to  swallow  a  large  quantity  at  once.  When  milk  goes  into 
the  stomach  it  is  instantly  curdled,  and  if  it  is  curdled  into  one 
big  mass  the  juices  of  the  stomach  can  work  on  only  the  outside 
of  it.  This  is  the  reason  that  many  people  who  like  milk,  and  to 
whom  it  should  be  of  the  utmost  benefit,  cannot  drink  it.  They 
say  it  gives  them  indigestion,  and  they  are  right.  Let  them  give 
it  another  chance,  But  this  time  they  must  sip  it  slowly,  not 
taking  more  than  a  good  teaspoonful  at  one  sip,  and  taking  at 
least  four  minutes  to  finish  the  glassful.  Each  little  sip  thus  be- 
comes curdlei  up  by  itself  when  passed  into  the  stomach, 
and  the  digestive  juices  percolate  freely  around  it  and  it  speedily 
becomes  assimilated.  One  of  the  best  restoratives  known  after 
excessive  fatigue,  and  one  infinitely  preferable  to  any  form  of 
alcohol,  is  a  glass  of  hot  milk.  The  heat  seems  to  lighten  it  and 
and  to  deprive  it  of  much  of  the  sweetness  which  is  so  cloying  to 
some  tastes. 

For  a  long  time  the  owners  of  sardine  factories  were  at  a 

loss  to  know  what  to  do  with  the  mounds  of  tin  clippings  that 
accumulated  at  their  docks.  The  clippings  are  now  collected  and 
sorted  according  to  their  shape,  those  made  by  the  dies  which 
stamps  the  bottoms  and  covers  of  the  cans,  being  pounded  into 
suitable  shape  for  handling,  while  the  strips  made  by  the  shears 
in  cutting  the  tin  for  the  sides  are  bundled  and  boxed.  The 
clippings  are  smelted  down  in  a  furnace,  the  tin  with  which  they 
are  coated  being  melted  and  drawn  off  separately,  while  the  mol- 
ten mass  of  metal  which  compose  the  plate  is  run  into  molds  and 
formed  into  window  weights  and  other  useful  articles.  The  bright 
tin  strips  of  various  sizes  are  utalized  in  sundry  ways,  forming 
tin  tags  for  the  ornamentation  of  plug  tobacco,  button  molds, 
ornamental  baskets  and  dozens  of  other  articles. 

—  A  new  kind  of  submarine  boat  has  been  launched  at  Sa- 
vona  by  an  Italian  engineer,  8ignor  Abbatti,  which  is  designed 
for  fishing  and  recovering  lost  property.  It  is  driven  by  an  elec- 
tric screw,  and  is  capable  of  remaining  under  water  about  six 
hours  at  a  depth  of  330  feet.  — English  Mechanic. 

The  Grand  Central  Wine  Rooms,  of  16  and  IS  Third  street,  are 
the  most  popular  in  the  city  among  the  men  who  appreciate  the  beat 
brands  of  liquor.  The  house  deals  only  in  the  best  of  stock,  and 
consequently  its  customers  are  never  dissatisfied.  One  who  visits 
this  hospitable  establishment  may  be  insured  of  receiving  courteous 
attention,  and  of  satisfying  his  aesthetic  tastes  in  every  particular. 


A  BOSTON  SYMPHONY. -Springfield  Graphic. 

Across  the  moorlands  of  tbe  Not 

We  chase  the  grewsome  When, 
And  hunt  the  Itness  of  the  What 

Through  forests  of  the  Then. 
Into  the  inner  consciousness 

We  track  the  crafty  Where; 
We  spear  the  Ego  tough  and  beard 

The  Ergo  in  his  lair. 

With  lassos  of  the  brain  we  catch 

The  Isness  of  the  Was, 
And  in  the  copses  of  the  Whence 

We  hear  the  Think  bees  buzz. 
We  climb  the  slippery  Which  bark  tree 

To  watch  the  Thusness  roll, 
And  pause  betimes  in  gnostic  rhymes 

To  woo  the  Over-Soul. 


FRANCE  has  a  national  council  of  women,  in  Finland  the 
national  bodies  are  federated  through  the  efforts  of  Baroness 
Alexander  Gripenberg;  the  three  Scandinavian  countries,  Nor- 
way, Sweden  and  Denmark,  have  formed  a  Scandinavian  woman's 
council,  and  in  Italy  a  national  club  of  women  has  been  formed, 
with  Queen  Margherita  as  its  leader  and  chief  officer. 


Good  Cooking 
Is  one  of  the  chief  blessings  of  every  home.    To  always  insure  good 
custards,  puddings,  sauces,   etc.,  use  Gail  Borden  "  Eagle  "  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.    Directions  on  the  label.    Sold  by  your  grocer  and 
druggist. 

IZEsTSTTZR-A-lsrCjE  . 


Insurance  Company, 
capital $1,000,000,1  assets 12,560,000. 

D.  J.  STAPLES    President. 

WILLIAM  J.  DUTTON Vice-President. 

B.  FAYMONVILLE Secretary 

J.  B.  LEVISON  Marine  Secretary 

Agents  In  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States . 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

rESTABLISHED    1871.] 
CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SANSOME  STREET, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

SEORGE  L.  BEANDER, 

President. 


CHA8.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up $     500,000 

Assets  3,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders    1,525,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 

City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     General  Office— 401  Mont'-r,  St. 


FIRE 


INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  London. 
Imperial  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  London, 

WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 
Pacific  Department,  214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCK,  City  Agents. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  16,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

Wo.  31 6  Calllornla  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets.  $19,724,538.48. 

President,  BENJAMIN  P.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBEN8. 

HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NOTICE  OF  REMOVAL 

HOME  JH  Tl  A  I.  INSURANCE  COMPANY  Intends  removal  from  its 
present  ottce,  No.  326  California  street,  to  No.  318  CALIFORNIA  STREET, 
San  Francisco,  on  or  ahout  June  22,  1892.        CHAS.  R.  STORY,  President. 

San  Francisco,  June  7, 1892. 


July  2,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  IK  I  IKK. 


SUNBEAMS 


UPON  the  recent  death  of  an  eminent  English  divine  at  Cannes, 
the  following  bulletin  was  placed  by  the  family  upon  the  door  of 

his  late    residence;      "Mr,  ^ -It-parted  this  life  for  heaven  at 

elevt-n  o'clock  a.  m.  Borne  passing  wag,  possessed  of  more  drollery 
than  reverence,  placed  beneath  the  notice  a  telegraph  blank  filled 

out  in  the  following  manner:      Heaven,  12  >i.     Mr.  8 ,  not  yet 

arrived.    Getting  uneasy.— Peter. 

I 'nde  Jftwjf — "l's  in  trouble,  suah,  sah.  My  wife  she  say  she 
done  get  a  divorce  an'  leab  me  for  a  dude  coon  dat's  been  maktn'  up 
to  her.  sah,  ef  I  don*  get  a  new  suit  ob  clo's."  Featherstone— "Well, 
uncle.  I  mav  have  an  old  suit  around  somewhere.  How  soon  do  you 
want  it?"  VncU  Ebony — "Wa-al,  dat  depeu's.  sah.  Any  time  alter 
she  leab  me,  sah,  will  be  soon  enough."  — Judge. 

Mr.  O.mnery — "Can  Oi  throuble  you  to  hand  me  mebelt-shtrap, 

Hridget?"  Mr*.  Cvnnery— "Pfwhat  has  Jamesey  done  now?"  Mr. 
Connery. — "He's  gettin'  too  shmart.  He  tould  me  Terry  Tobin  wor 
arristed,  an'  phin  Oi  axed  him  pfwhat  for,  he  said  he  wor  wor-rkin' 
in  a  shtone-yard  an'  got  caught  carryin'  aff  chips  fer  kindlin'." 

— Judge. 

— Mrs.  Pearsons. — People  in  this  country  talk  about  kings  and 
sons  of  kings  having  no  brains.  Why,  James,  you  brag  all  over  town 
about  your  having  been  a  drumraer-boy  at  fifteen,  while  here  this 
ten-year-«ld  son  of  Emperor  William  is'a  lieutenant.  I  tell  you.  his 
parents  should  feel  proud  of  him  !  — Puck. 

Daughter. — "You  know,  father,  they  are  going  to  have  a  fair  at 

the  church  next  week,  and  thought  I  would  like  to  get  something 
for  it."  Father  (handing  her  a  check) — "Certainly,  my  daughter.  In 
the  cause  of  charity  I  am  always  liberal.  What  were  you  going  to 
get?"  Daughter—  "Something  in  the  way  of  a  new  gown."  — Judge. 

Fire  Marshal — You  say  it  started  in  the  waist-basket.     Now, 

you  had  four  of  these  grenades  in  a  rack  at  your  elbow;  how  was  it 
that  you  did  not  use  them  ?  Mr.  Cassidy—Och !  Thim  things,  is  it? 
Sure"  I  thot  of  thim  to  wanst;  but  whoile  I  was  gittin'  a  corkscrew  to 
open  wan,  the  fire  got  the  start  of  me  intoirely !  — Puck. 

New  York  Snob — "So  you  have  gone  and  got  privately  married 

without  my  consent.    You  young  scoundrel,  I'll His  son— 

"But  you  forget,  father,  that  Mr.  McAllister's  son  did  the  same 
thing.'  New  York  Snob — "Ab,  I  had  forgotten.  Bless  you,  my 
child,  bless  you.  — Rochester  Hdrald. 

"Another  lettter  from  Alfred?    When  do  you  expect  to  marry 

him?"  "He  has  two  years  more  at  the  preparatory  school.  After 
that  he  will  go  to  Yale,  and  when  he  has  been  graduated  there  he 
will  go  out  west  and  make  his  fortune.  When  he  has  made  his  for- 
tune we  shall  be  married.    O,  it  all  seems  so  beautiful."         — Life. 

•^—Friend. — What  on  earth  are  you  doing  to  that  picture?  Great 
Artist. — I  am  rubbing  a  piece  of  raw  meat  over  this  rabbit  in  the  fore- 
ground. Mrs.  De  Shoddie  will  be  here  this  afternoon,  and  when  she 
sees  her  pet  dog  smell  of  that  rabbit,  she'll  buy  it. 

—New  York  Weekly. 

Aunt  Kate— And  when  he  died — I  loved  him  so— I  had  him 

stuffed,  and  I  keep  him  where  I  can  see  him  whenever  1  wish. 
Little  Robert  (o?i  a  visit  to  a  much-beloved  aunt). — Auntie,  when  you 
you  die,  I'm  going  to  get  Papa  to  have  you  stuffed,  too.        —Puck 

Jack  (to  his  fiancee). — I  think  of  getting  a  musical  instrument, 

Maud.  Say,  perhaps,  a  cornet.  Maud  (in  dismay).— Oht  no!  not 
that  horrid  thing.  Jack  (in  surprise).— And  why  not,  dearest?  Maud 
(blushing  violently).— It  makes  the  lips  so  hard.  —  Puck. 

—Young  Van  der  Million:— Wouldn't  be  rare  fun  for  us  to  become 
engaged  just  for  the  summer  you  know?  She. — Just  the  thing,  I 
never  did  believe  in  long  engagements.  —Life. 

Richard  III. — A  horse!  a  horse!     My  kingdom  for  a  horse  ! 

Farmer  Hayrick— "B1  gosh,  'Mandy!  if  I  don't  sell  him  the  old  roan 
mare  as  soon  as  the  show's  aout.  — Judge. 

—  "  There's  one  thing  about  a  clam,"  remarked  young  Feedly  as 
he  dexterously  removed  a  handful  of  gravel  from  his  mouth;  "he 
never  loses  his  sand."  —  Yale  Record. 

— — ■ "  Why  should  we  say  to  Satan  '  Get  thee  behind  me ! '  ?  "  asked 
the  teacher.  "So  that  we  shall  get  ahead  of  him,"  returned  the 
brigh  t  boy .  —Judge. 

—-McFlanagan  (who  has  traveled)— Waiter,  were  you  ever  in  Cork? 
Waiter— No  sor;  but  O'ive  seen  a  many  dhrawings  av  it. 

— Frank  Leslie's. 
—"  What  do  your  club  letters,  B.  S.,  stand  for?"    "  You  won't 
tell,  will  you?"    -l  Oh,  no."    "Then  why  should  I?"        —Judge. 

—  "Sad  about  Hicks."  "  What  was  that?"  "Swallowed  his 
teeth  and  bit  a  hole  in  his  liver."  —Judye. 

Her  Father.— Do  you  work  for  a  livin?  Chappie— 0,  yaas— yaas 

Her  Father  (sizing  him  up).— Whom  do  you  work?  —Life. 

"Why  did  you  reject  him?"    "He  was  not  accompanied  by 

stamps." —Life. 

Among  the  restaurants  of  San  Francisco,  none  have  a  higher  place 
in  popular  tavor  than  the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter 
street,  which  for  years  has  had  the  patronage  of  the  elite  of  the  city. 
It  is  centrally  located,  and  therefore  convenient  to  ladies  out  shop- 
ping, and  is  also  very  popular  for  refreshments  after  the  theatres.  It 
is  very  popular  for  dinner  parties. 


IXTSTJ  E,jft.2STCE . 


REMOVAL! 
HOME  MUTUAL  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

Now  Occupies  Premises  at  the  N.  E.  Cor.  California  and  Sansome 
Sts.,   8.  K.,  Lately  Vacated  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  Hank. 

Twenty-seventh  Annual  Exhibit. 

January  1,  1801. 
INCORPORATED    A.   D.    1864. 

Losses  p*d  since  orgaul'n. 13,175,759.21  I  Reinsurance  Reserve J2fi6.043.59 

Assets  January  1,  1891  . . .      867,512.1!)    Capital  paid  up,  Gold     .        300,000.00 
Surplus  (or  policy  holders    8-14,944.6!)  |  Net  Surplus  over  ev'yth'g     278,901.10 

Income  in  1890  $894,184.52  I  Fire  Losses  paid  In  1890.      142,838.90 

Fire  Losses  unpaid,  January  1, 1891 11404.00 

President J.  F.  HODGHTON  I  Secretary CHARLES  R.  STORY 

Vice-President  ..HENRY  L.    DODGE  I  General  Agent.ROBERT  H.  MAGILL 

TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURME~WpANYT~ 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  L.  Low,  Manager  for  (lie  Pacific  toast  Branch. 

22o  Sansome  St.,  S.  I'. 

Capital $1,500,000.00 

Infested  in  U.  S. 534J95.T2 


GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 

333  California  St..  S.  F.,  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OF  ST,  GALL,  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL  4.000.000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed $10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000.000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2,126,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 6,124.057.80 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

305  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

PACIFIC    DEPARTMENT 

LONDON  AND  LANCASHIRE  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

Capital $1  U.62 6.000 

Cash    Assets 4.701,201  39 

Cash  Assets  In  United  States 2.272.084  13 

REINSURERS  OF 

An£lo-Neva«la  Assurance  Corporation 

AND 

Southern  California  Insurance  company. 

WDVL.    IMI.A.aDOIsr.A-IjID. 

MANAGER. 

D.  E    MILES,  Assistant  Manager. 

315  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block.  S.  F. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.J 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  ORAICT,  Manager. 


PACIFIC    IDIEIP.A-ia'TIIVCZEIISrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  capital,    -    -    -     J  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -    $22,222,724. 


WM.  J.  HINDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  20S.  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


K 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 


JOMESTEZF^,  EHN1t31_yg\r 


Capital   paid  6j  guaranteed  $3,000,000,00. 

Chas.A  Latdm,  Manager, 
433  California  St.  San  Fi-aoEissa. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour  is  dull;    foreign   demand    fair:    Extras    ?4.65@$4  75:    Superfine 
^Wtett'ta  dull;  light  trade;  Shipping,  $1.35;  Milling,  tl.42\i@n-WAver 

Cental 

Barley  is  nuiet;  Brewing.  n.00@|1.02H;  Feed.  90c@92^c  per  ctl. 


.  .2.00@J2.25. 

Hky'is  lower;  Wheat,  81113*12;  Oats,  S10®*11;  Alfalfa,  J8@J10. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $18@*18.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  {2.00@S2.50  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  45<\@7oc.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  higher;  Choice,  20c.@22'^c;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  22c.@24c. 

Honey  Comb,  Uc.@12c;  Extracted,  5c.@6c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions'  are  worth  42c@75c.    Beeswax  is  higher  at  25c.@26c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  In  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7^c.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  lle.@10c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  7J4@7'4c. 

Coffee  lower  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  lower,  with  a  declining  tendency.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.  Hops  are  neglected  at  lo@18c. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.  Whites,  4l£@5%c. 
The  recent  establishment  of  some  half-dozen  lines  of  sea-going 
steam  and  sailing  ships  between  this  and  New  York,  is  likely  to 
work  considerable  detriment  to  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad 
Company's  interest,  all  the  result  of  excessive  transportation 
charges,  and  brought  about  by  the  direct  efforts  of  the  recently 
well-ordered  Traffic  Association,  of  which  Fred  F.  Castle,  Esq.,  is 
President,  and  Mr.  J.  S.  Leeds  Traffic  Manager. 

The  grain  harvest  is  progressing  finely,  and  everything  is  en- 
couraging for  full  acreage  crops  of  Grain,  Hay,  Fruit,  Vegetables, 

Silver  ore,  6,972  sks.,  received  here  on  the  28th  June  from  Al- 
tata,  Mexico,  consigned  to  George  &  Detrich.  This  500  tons  of 
Silver  and  Lead  Ore,  per  stmr.  Signal,  is  from  the  Madra  Garda 
mine,  one  of  a  group  of  seven  situated  at  Topia,  Sinaloa. 

The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  San  Bias  sailed  hence  for  the  Isth- 
mus and  way  ports  on  the  25th  ultimo,  carrying  in  transit  New 
York  cargo  valued  at  $39, 31S,  consisting  in  part  of  43,000  gals. 
Wine,  109  gals.  Brandy,  119  bales  Rags,  231,346  lbs.  Borax,  37,743 
lbs  Glue.  For  Central  America— 453  bbls.  Flour,  2,000  gals.  Wine, 
70,000  lbs.  Sugar,  63,529  lbs.  Tallow,  etc.,  value  $24,640.  To 
Panama— Rice,  Beans  and  337  bbls.  Flour,  $2,253.  To  Mexico— 
391  gals.  Wine,  15  bbls.  Flour,  351  pkgs.  Machinery,  etc.,  value 
$10,840.     To  Ecuador— 500  bbls.  Flour,  etc.,  value  $2,150. 

The  steamship  Gaelic  sailed  for  the  Orient  June  25lh,  carrying 
for  cargo  to  China  and  Japan  treasure  and  merchandise,  say,  to 
Hong  Kong,  $145,892  Treasure,  15,820  bbls.  Flour,  1,263  lbs.  Gin- 
seng, 1,020  gals.  Whale  Oil,  10,827  lbs.  Beans,  etc.;  value,  $85,975. 
To  Japan,  Treasure,  $246,700,  and  for  cargo,  1,405  bbls.  Flour, 
6,500  lbs.  Sugar,  153  rolls  Leather,  2,140  gals.  Wine,  201  sks. 
Hoofs,  etc.;  value,  $24,440.  Elsewhere,  merchandise,  value, 
$1,000. 

The  steamship  Australia  arrived  here  on  the  28th  June,  from 
Honolulu,  bringing  for  cargo  7,525  bags  Sugar,  3,956  bags  Rice, 
3,527  bchs.  Bananas,  352  bxs.  Fruit,  50  bdls.  Sugar  Cane,  600 
Hides,  etc. 

The  steamship  Monowai  sailed  for  the  Colonies  via  Honolulu 
June  24th,  carrying  for  cargo  to  Sydney  29,762  lbs.  Coffee,  19  350 
lbs.  Dried  Fruit,  100  flks.  Quicksilver,  3,786  gals,  WbaleOil,  1,841 
Doors,  and  Mdse.,  value,  $14,903.  To  Melbourne— 29,172  lbs. 
Coffee,  and  Mdse.,  value,  $8,330.  To  Auckland— 20  flks.  Quick- 
silver, 224  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  etc.,  value  $5,323.  To  Wellington 
—75  cs.  Salmon,  etc.,  value,  $2,107.  To  Brisbane— 3,447  lbs. 
Coffee,  etc.,  value  $1,783.  To  other  ports — Salmon,  etc.,  value, 
$6,000.  Also,  to  Honolulu,  225  bbls.  Flour  and  Mdse.,  value, 
$30,000.     To  Apia — Mdse.,  value,  $3,363. 

Brimstone  and  Sulphur  from  Japan,  say  26,000  bales,  and  498J 
tons  Crude  from  Hagodate  to  J.  W.  Grace  &  Co.,  per  British  ship 
Thielmier. 

Imports  from  the  Orient,  per  steamer  China,  include  3,000  mats 
Rice.  1,495  pkgs.  Tea,  3.960  bags  Sugar,  74  pkgs,  Silk,  400  bales 
Gunnies  and  1,600  pkgs.  Merchandise;  also  in  transit  to  go  over- 
land, 32,491  pkgs.  Tea,  434  pkgs.  raw  Silk,  130  pkgs.  Silk  goods 
and  137  pkgs.  Merchandise;  also  for  Central  and  South  America, 
30  pkgs.  Silk,  233  pkgs.  Merchandise. 

From  Mexico,  steamer  Newbern  from  Guayraas  had  for  cargo 
1  904  sks.  Bark,  303  pkgs.  Shells,  39  live  Turtles,  106  bars  bullion 
and  30  pkgs.  Gold  coin. 

Codfish,  the  second  cargo  of  the  season,  arrived  June  28th  from 
the  North  Pacific,  and  is  consigned  to  Synde  &  Hough. 

The  P.  M.  steamship  City  of  Sydney,  from  Panama  and  way 
ports,  arrived  here  June  26th.  and  had  a  New  York  cargo  of 
merchandise  (heavy  goods)  from  Europe,  100  cs.  canned  goods, 
70  cs.  Wine,  etc.,  from  Central  America,  1,607  cs.  Limes  and  other 
fruit,  90  cs.  Garlic,  121  bags  coffee,  8  bales  Deer  Skins,  604  sks. 
Silver  Ore,  and  in  Treasure  $13,566. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants, 

AND  - 

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Nos.  309  and  3 1 7  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

NATIONAL  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  IRELAND; 
ATLAS  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON  ; 
BOYLSTON  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  BOSTON  ; 
OCEAN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO  OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 
LLEWELLYN     FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

..Over  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

LLEWELLYN     STEAM     CONDENSER     MANUFACTURING     CO., 

380  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Systems—"  Slaltery  "  Induction;  "  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories— Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  FJectric  right  Co  ,  Fort  Wayne,  Inil. 

'  Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 

35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

R.  J.    WHEELER.  J,  W.  GIRVIN. 

J.   W.    GIRVIN   &.   CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  A  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt&Co.  4  California  St.,  s.  F.,  <'al. 

WILLIAMS.  DIMOND  &  CO. 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 
UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for — 
The  Cunard   Royal   Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 

Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 
The  China  Traders  &  insurance  Co. 

(L'd.), 
The    Baldwin  Loeomotive  Works, 
Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 


Company, 
'The  California  Line  of   Clippers,' 

from  New  York, 
'The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets," 

to  and  from  Honolulu. 


J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

General  Agents  Oceanic  8teamship  Company  and 
Gillinghaoi  Cement. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS7 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

SJ-J25T    FBAUCISCO,       -       -       -       CJ^L,. 

Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

Patent  Lead-Lined   Coupled   Tubing,  for   use  as 

Water  Pipe,  tor  Sale  Cheap 

E.  D.  Jones. 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers    and    Commission    Merchants, 


207  and  209  California  Street. 


+ 


Jul 


1892. 


kNCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACI7IC    SYSTEM. 

Train*  L«nve  and   ar«  Due  to  Arrive  «t 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 

I.«*ve  From  Jut/    1,    1892.  arrivk 

7:00  a.  Beaiciv  Rum>ey.  Sacramento 
7 .SO  a.  tUrwirds.  Nile*  aud  S*u  Jose      'I2:16r. 

7:90a.  Martlnex.  S*q  KamoD,  C&listoga 

A»<i  SauU  Komi  6:15f. 

3:00  a.  3»crmm'toA  ReddiuR,  via  Davis 
8.-00  a.  Fin>i«ud  Second  Class  lor  Ogden 

and  East,  and  flr?t  class  locally        9:45  p. 
9.30a.  Niles.  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone. 
Sacramento,  Marys vi lie,  Oro- 

vllle  and  Red  Bluff      4:45  P. 

9:00a.  Sunset  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 
Santa  Barbara,  Los  Angeles, 
Demine.El  Paso,  New  Orleans 

and  East     8:45p. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton        *8:45p. 

V200M.  Hayward?,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  p. 

■1:00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00  p. 

1:30 p.  Vallejoaud  Martinez...  12:45 p. 

3:00  p.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  .      9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a. 

4:00  p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9.45  a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Es-parto,  Sacramento.       10:45  a. 

4:30p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45a. 

"4:30 p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45a. 

5:30p.  Los  Angeles.  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakers  field,  Santa  Barbara  A 

Los  Angeles.     8.4>a. 

5:30 p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  a. 

6:00f.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose-.      7:45a. 

.     . .  Niles  and  San  Jose J6:15  p. 

•i3:00  p.  Sunol  aud  Livermore       

6:00  p.  Ogden  Route  Atlantic  Express, 

Ogden  and  East 9:15  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo  fS:45  P. 

7:00p.  ShastaRouteExpress, Sacramen- 
to, Maryaville,  Redding,  Port- 

land,  Puget  Sound  and  East. .       8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

17:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    18:05  p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  ana 

Santa  Cruz. 6 :20  p. 

•2:15p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz '*10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 
Cruz... 9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  a  id  Townsend  Streets). 

•7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions  *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion  18:28  p. 

8:15  A.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TresPinos.Pa- 
jaro, SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
J9:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  |2:45  p. 
10 -.37  a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  .  5:03  p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30  p. 

*2:30p,  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  SantaCruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  PaclficGrove 
and  principal  Way  Stations.  ...*10:37A. 
*3:30  p.  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose  and  Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations •  ..     *9:47  A. 

*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8:06  a. 

5:15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. ..      6:35  a. 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 
Stations j7:3Qp. 

a.  for  Morning.                        p.  for  Afternoon. 
•Sundays  excepted.                    ^Saturdays  only. 
ISundayB  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

For  Honolulu  Only. 
S,  8.  Australia, Tuesday,  July  5,  1892,  at  2  p.  m. 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327  Mar- 
ket street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS., 

General  AgentB 

I  CURE  FITS! 

When  I  say  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  1  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  d.sease  of  FITS,  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  19  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
cure.  Send  at  ocee  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
H.  G.  ROOT,  M.  C.)  183  Pearl  St..  N.  Y. 


NORTH  PACIFIC  COAST  RAILROAD. 

(VIA  SAUSALITO). 
Mont  Popular  Mucin  California.     11. -si  n. 

itghtrui  inmate     Most  Accessible 
Section. 


SaiK-alito  for  yachting  aud  rowing. 

Larkspur  for  a  good  dinner. 

Blylhedale  for  the  children. 

Mill  Valley  for  mineral  water  cures. 

San  Rafael  for  driving. 

Ross  Valley  for  Presbyterians. 

San  Quentiu  for  keeping  away  from. 

Fairfax  for  encampments. 

Camp  Taylor  for  rest. 

Tomala  for  life. 

Duncan's  Mills  for  scenery. 

Cazadero  for  soda  springs. 

Russian  River  for  grandeur. 

Country  Club  fishing  grounds,  camping,  hunt- 
ing, everything,  everywhere. 

Good  hotels  at  all  points,  fast  time,  prompt  ser- 
vice, best  equipment  and  most  enterprising  rail- 
road management  in  California.  Reduced  fares 
to  all  points 

E.  H.  SHOEMAKER,  Gen'l.  Sup't. 

F.  R.  LATHAM,  Gen.  Pass.  &  T'k't.  Agt. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  June  25th,  1892,  S.  S.  "San 
Bias;"  July  6th,  S.  B."City  of  Sydney;"  July  15tb, 
S.  S.  "San  Jose." 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Po  ts 
and  Panama.—  Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlau.  San  Bias,  Manzauillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Touala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  Ssu  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Aeajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  aud  Puuta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— July  18th,  S.  S.  "  Colima'" 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 
HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

S.  S.  "  China,"  Saturday,  July  9th,  1892,  at  3  p.  M. 

S.  S.  "Peru"  (new),  Thursday,  Aug.  4th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  Aug.  27th,  at 

3  P.  M. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street,  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C.r  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  SAN  SIMEON, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hukneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


ANEW  and  simple  method  of  soldering 
aluminium  has  been  patented.  It  con- 
sists of  sprinkling  the  surfaces  to  be  soldered 
with  chloride  of  silver,  and  then  melting 
down   the  solder  as  usual. 


THE  largest  telephone  switchboard  in  the 
world  is  that  in  the  Exchange  at  Berlin, 
Germany,  where  7,000  wires  are  connected 
with  the  main  office. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE   DONAHUE   BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  80NDAY,  APRIL  24,  1898.  au.l 
until  further  notice,  Boat*  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  aud  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  HARKET-STKEET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tiburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS-7:40  a.m.,  9:20a.m.,   11:20  A.  M.; 

1:80  P.M.,  3:30  p.  M.,5:05  P.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  A.M., 9:30  A.M.,  11:00  A.M.:  1:30  P.M. 
3:30  p.  M.,V00r.  m.,  6:15  P.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:2S  a.   m.,  7:66  A.   M„  9:80   A.  M. 

11:30  a.m.:  1:40  P.M.,  3:40  p.m.,  6:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY-An  exlra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  A.M.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.  M. ;  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  p.  m.,  5:00 p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  a.  m.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M. ;  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35    a.m.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:05  p.  m.,  4:05 p.m.,  6:30 p.m.,  6:60  P.M. 


Leave  s.  F. 


itays*    Sl     ;' 


7:40a.m. 
3:30p.m. 
5:05  p.m. 


7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 


7:40A.M 
3:30  p.  m 


7:40  a.  M 
5:05  p.m. 


8:00  a.  m. 
9:30  a.  m 
5:00  p.  m 


8:00a.m. 
5:00p.  m 


Arrive  IN  8.  F. 


Destination.  " 


I9unday8 


Petaluma 

aud 
Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Heald  sburg 
Litton  .Springs, 
Cloverdale  <fc 
Way  Stations, 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Guerneville. 


Week 
Days. 


10:40a.m]8:50a.  m. 
6:05  p.m  10:30a.  m 
7:25p.m|6:10p.m. 


Sonoma  and  10:40a.m.  8:50a.m. 
glen  Ellen.    6:05p.m.  6:10p.m. 


10  :30a. m 
6:10p.m 


10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 


7:40a.m    8:00a.m    Sebastopol.  |  10:40a.m  I  10:30am 
3:30  p.m    5:00  p.m j    fi'.06p.M  I  6:10  P.M 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs.  Kelsey  ville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  aud 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  52  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  54  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  J5  70;  to  Ukiah,  J6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  J2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  J3  75;  to  Sonoma,  1150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $180. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundaysonly— 
To  Petaluma,  ?1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  51  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  53;  to  Ukiah,  54  50;  to 
Hopland,  53  80;  to  Sebastopol,  51  80;  to  Guerne- 
ville, 52  50:  to  Sonoma,  51;  to  Glen  Ellen,  51  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Saturday,  June  25, 1892. 

BELGIC TUESDAY,  July  26, 1892. 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu) Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic    Tuesday,  Sept.  6,1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TIOKET8  AT  REDUCED  RATE8. 
Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


CONSUMPTION. 

I  have  a  positive  remedy  for  the  ahove  disease;  by  its 
use  thousands  of  oases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
standing  have  been  onrfld.  Indeed  so  strong  is  my  faith 
in  its  etfioacy,  that  I  will  send  two  bottles  ftjee,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  suf- 
ferer who  will  send  me  their  Express  and  P.  O.  address. 
T.  A.  Slocum,  M.  C.«  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  V. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  %  1892. 


THE  past  has  been  a  gala  week  in  Berkeley,  owing  to  the 
commencement  exercises  at  the  University.  The  festivities 
were  inaugarated  on  B'riday  evening  of  last  week,  by  a  grand 
production  of  Esmeralda,  by  the  Skull  and  Keys  Club,  at  Shaltuck 
Hall,  which  was  crowded,  many  going  over  from  San  Francisco 
and  from  Oakland  to  witness  the  performance.  The  several  female 
parts  of  the  play  were  taken  by  the  Misses  Graham,  Belle  Hutch- 
inson, Jessie  Coleman  and  Mary  McNutt.  The  play  was  well 
presented,  Miss  McNutt  and  Milton  S.  Latham  carrying  off  the 
honors  of  the  evening.  Saturday  was  class  day,  and  the  weather, 
as  if  to  add  eclat  to  the  occasion,  was  ail  that  could  be  desired. 
First,  there  was  a  concert  by  the  military  band  from  Angel  Island, 
in  the  grove,  which  was  followed  by  tree  and  ivy  planting.  Then 
came  luncheon,  after  which  Co-ed  Canyon  echoed  to  the  plaudits 
whnh  greeted  the  efforts  of  Henry  S.  Allen,  the  class  president, 
and  W.  D.  Chapman,  the  class  historian.  But  it  was  the  class 
dispensation,  which  was  conducted  by  Isadore  Harris,  which 
brought  down  the  house,  some  of  the  skits  being  exceedingly 
good,  and  very  amusing.  In  the  evening  there  was  a  promenade 
concert,  bringing  the  long  day  to  a  pleasant  conclusion.  On 
Monday  evening  the  Seniors  gave  their  commencement  ball,  at 
the  Harmon  Gymnasium.  On  Tuesday  the  University  Glee  Club 
was  heard  in  concert,  and  on  Wednesday  the  commencement  ex- 
ercises were  held.  The  Alumni  gave  a  banquet  to  the  graduating 
class  in  the  evening,  at  the  California  Hotel. 


The  swellest  event  of  commencement  week  at  the  State  Uni- 
versity was  the  ball  given  on  Tuesday  evening  last  in  the  Harmon 
Gymnasium,  on  the  College  grounds.  It  was  a  full  dress  affair, 
and  the  attendance  was  representative  of  the  best  society  in  this 
part  of  the  country.  The  decorations  were  superb.  Ad  immense 
center  piece  of  blue  and  gold  was  suspended  by  streamers  of  the 
same  color,  from  which  hung  garlands  of  evergreens.  The  flag  of 
the  class  of  '92  waved  outside,  and  the  general  make-up  of  the 
decorations  was  a  mixture  of  the  Grecian  and  modern  styles. 
The  dancing  was  kept  up  until  1:30  a.  m.,  and  the  way  every- 
thing was  conducted  reflected  much  praise  on  the  floor  manager, 
Burbank  G.  Somers  and  his  able  assistants,  Albert  C.  Aitken, 
Fred  I).  Browne  and  Edward  J.  Pringle,  Jr.  Among  the  many 
present  were:  Misses  Maud  Allen,  E.  McGraw,  Mae  Smith,  Susie 
Hobart,  Mamie  Powell,  Pearl  Felton,  Mabel  Craft,  Bessie  Shearer 
and  Lizzie  Chapman,  of  Oakland;  Mabel  Gray,  Nellie  Gray,  Carol 
Earl,  De  Wemis  Week,  of  San  Francisco;  Miss  Bell  Juillard,  of 
Santa  Rosa;  Miss  Sophia  Comstock,  of  Sacramento;  Miss  May- 
bury,  of  Los  Angeles;  Miss  Woodsum,  of  San  Jose;  G.  H. 
Fletcher,  of  Grass  Valley;  Leon  Hall,  San  Jose;  A.  C.  Pait,  Sacra- 
mento; Phil  Weaver,  Bert  Elliot.  R.  T.  McKiseck,  B.  G.  Lomen, 
Tom  Wells  Ransom,  J.  H.  Gray,  Sao  Francisco;  G.  P.  Robinson, 
Harry  Baldwin,  Fred  Jacobs,  Bert  Webster,  Ira  Breedlove,  of 
Oakland.  * 


There  has  been  a  large  arrival  of  holiday  visitors  at  San  Rafael 
this  week,  and  others  are  looked  for  to-day.  Among  the  guests 
are  General  and  the  Misses  Dinjond,  Miss  Mae  Holbrooke,  Miss 
Alice  Ames,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  McGaven,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin 
Goodail,  Miss  Goodall,  the  Misses  Knowles,  Miss  Coxhead,  Mrs. 
Geo.  Wheaton,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Curry,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Folger,  Miss  May 
Hoffman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Morrow,  Mrs.  J.  V.  Coleman, 
Miss  Jessie  Coleman;  all  the  Loughboronghs,  and  their  nieces, 
the  Misses  Zane.  Buckboard  an'd  hay  rides,  musicales,  lunches, 
picnics,  etc.,  are  on  the  tapis,  and  will  be  numerous  during  the 
holiday  season.  All  the  cottagers  are  prepared  to  have  friends 
staying  with  them,  while  the  hotel  will  be  filled  to  its  utmost 
capacity.  The  flannel  cotillion,  which  is  to  take  place  to-morrow 
evening,  will  no  doubt  be  the  event  of  the  season.  Miss  Chapin, 
Miss  Susie  Morgan  and  Miss  Alice  Merry  are  guests  of  the  Rev. 
Charles  Mason  and  his  lovely  bride,  nee  Merry,  in  their  pretty 
cottage. 

Among  the  recent  changes  in  the  personnel  of  the  navy  officers 
on  this  coast,  San  Francisco  society  will  no  doubt  gladly  welcome 
the  new  commander  of  the  cruiser  Baltimore,  Captain  W.  R. 
Bridgeman,  who,  in  former  days,  was  quite  a  society  bean,  while 
attached  to  several  of  the  ships  which  were  stationed  in  these 
waters  during  the  sixties  and  seventies.  In  those  days  men-of- 
war  usually  remained  longer  in  port  than  do  the  cruisers  of  the 
present  time,  and  thus  enabled  their  officers  to  take  frequent  part 
in  the  festivities  of  a  season. 


Captain  J.  C.  Watson  sailed  for  Honolulu  by  the  steamer 
Gaelic  last  Friday.  He  will  assume  command  of  the  San  Francisco. 
Mrs.  Watson  came  down  from  Mare  Island  on  Saturday,  and  is 
staying  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Coffee,  on  ''lay  street,  where  she 
will  rem  tin  during  her  husband's  ab^enoe.  Captain  Glass  and 
his  family  have  taken  possession  of  their  quarters  at  the  Navy 
Yard,  Mare  Island,  where  Captain  Glass  is  the  new  officer  in 
command. 


The  golden  wedding  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morris  Rosenberg  was 
celebrated  on  Sunday  last,  at  their  residence  on  Tenth  street, 
Oakland,  by  a  grand  reception,  which  was  participated  in  by  a 
host  of  friends  and  well-wishers  from  both  sides  of  the  bay. 
Many  handsome  presents  were  sent  as  tokens  of  esteem,  and  the 
popularity  of  the  old  couple  was  well  shown.  A  breakfast  formed 
part  of  the  festivities,  and  was  enjoyed  by  the  Rev.  M.  8.  Levy 
and  wife,  Rabbi  Sessler  and  wife,  George  Davis,  Miss  Eva  Perkins, 
W.  Davis,  Theresa  Rosenberg,  Grace  Rosenberg,  Gladys  Rosen- 
berg, Bert  Rosenberg,  Esnee  Rosenberg,  L.  Copenhagen,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  George  Mossbacher,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Wolf,  0.  Reinstein, 
Mrs.  Solomon,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Wolf,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milton  S. 
Eisner,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  Hirshberg,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  S.  Hirshberg, 
and  D.  Sessler. 


The  yachts  that  will  race  to  Santa  Cruz  will  sail  to-morrow 
morning  at  6:30  o'clock.  They  will  be  the  Lurline,  Commodore 
A.  B.  Spreckels;  Chispa,  Commodore  Isador  Gutte;  Jessie,  ex- 
Commodore  J.  McDonough  ;  Aggie,  Captain  Henry  White;  White 
Wings,  Captain  Chittenden;  Ramona,  Vice  Commodore  McCarthy ; 
Sappho,  Captains  Thomas  and  Engelberg;  Penelope,  Captain  Lacy, 
of  San  Pedro;  Frolic,  Captain  C.  H.  Harrison,  and  the  twenty- 
eight  foot  sloop  Pilgrim,  The  yachts  will  anchor  off  Meiggs' 
wharf  this  evening,  and  boats  will  be  at  the  landing  at  the  barge 
office  to  take  guests  out  10  the  different  yachts  up  to  9  p.  m.  The 
start  will  be  made  to-morrow  morning  on  the  firing  of  the  signal 
from  the  flagship  Lurline.  Fulton  G.  Berry,  skipper  of  the  Fresno 
Yacht  Club,  will  sail  the  Jessie,  and  Captain  Alexander  Svenson 
will  act  as  sailing  master  of  the  Lurline. 


East  Oakland  was  the  scene  of  another  pretty  wedding  on 
Thursday  last,  the  residence  of  the  bride's  aunt  on  12th  avenue 
and  16th  street  being^he  locale  where  the  nuptials  of  Miss  Marion 
Wore  and  Edward  E.  Drake  were  celebrated  at  noon,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Chapman  tying  the  knot  under  a  lovely  floral  canopy  in  the 
presence  of  a  large  party  of  relatives  and  friends.  Flowers  were 
uced  with  excellent  effect  in  the  decoration  of  both  the  parlors  and 
the  dining  room,  where  the  wedding  dejeuner  was  spread.  A  re- 
ception was  afterwards  held.  The  happy  pair  left  by  the  over- 
land train  for  the  East  in  the  evening,  and  on  their  return  from 
their  honeymoon  trip  will  make  their  home  in  San  Francisco. 

Samuel  M.  Shortridge  returned  from  Coronado  on  Tuesday.  On 
the  5th  inst.  he  will  leave  for  Honolulu,  the  "  Paradise  of  the  Pa- 
cific," as  Mr.  Shortridge  poetically  terms  it,  and  will  be  away  for 
six  weeks.  It  is  his  intention  to  visit  all  points  of  interest  in 
the  Hawaiian  Islands,  particularly  the  great  volcano,  and  he  will 
return  with  his  gripsack  loaded  with  curios  and  his  mind  bur- 
dened with  the  myths  and  legends  which  he  will  have  accumu- 
lated. After  his  return,  Mr.  Shortridge's  sonorous  voice  will  be 
heard  in  behalf  of  the  principles  of  his  party  from  many  stamps 
throughout  the  State. 

Varney  W.  Gaskill  presided  over  a  charming  dinner  at  the 
Pacific  Yacht  Club  house  last  Saturday  evening.  The  banquet 
room  was  handsomely  decorated.  After  the  feast  of  reason  there 
was  a  flow  of  soul  until  a  late  hour,  the  vocal  and  instrumental 
music  of  several  of  the  company  greatly  enhancing  the  pleasures 
of  the  evening.  Those  present  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Varney  W. 
Gaskill.  Miss  Jessie  MeCormick,  Miss  Cora  Piatt,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J. 
Percy  Rothwell,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Maguire,  Messrs.  Ed.  Lewis, 
Frank  D.  Willey,  Ashton  P.  Stevens,  Clem  Blethen,  W.  0.  Van 
Schuyler,  Professor  Cippiloni. 


The  8kull  and  Keys  Club  that  has  recently  been  formed  at  the 
State  University  bids  fair  to  take  the  lead  among  the  social  organ- 
izations in  the  college  town.  A  series  of  amateur  theatricals  will 
be  given  from  time  to  time,  and  if  the  enthusiasm  of  the  mem- 
bers holds  out  the  club  will  distinguish  itself  in  many  ways. 
The  charter  members  are:  Of  San  Francisco — L.  E.  Van  Winkle, 
R.  L.  Hathorn,  M.  S.  Latham,  John  A.  Marsh,  Frank  Deacon; 
Oakland — W.  H.  Henry;  Sacramento — Harry  McClaughy;  Ore- 
gon— Edward  Mays;  Santa  Barbara — David  Low;  Berkeley — 
Egbert  J.  Yates. 

The  numerous  alterations  and  embellishments  which  Mrs.  Louis 
Haggin  is  supervising  at  her  residence  on  Taylor  street,  would 
seem  to  indicate  that  she  intends  to  make  San  Francisco  her  place 
of  residence  for  a  time  at  least.  San  Francisco  society  can  there- 
fore be  warmly  congratulated  upon  the  return  of  this  charm- 
ing, accomplished  and  cultivated  lady,  and  should  do  its  utmost 
to  induce  her  to  remain  permanently,  as  she  will  be  sure  to  revive 
the  social  prestige  of  the  Haggin  family,  which  has  ever  been 
renowned  as  being  one  of  the  most  hospitable  on  our  coast. 

One  of  the  events  of  next  week  will  be  the  opening  of  Stock- 
well's  new  theatre,  on  Powell  street,  on  Thursday  evening,  the 
Daly  Company  adding  brilliancy  to  the  affair.  It  goes  without 
saying  that  a  brilliant  audience  will  assemble  to  do  honor  to  the 
occasion.  San  Rafael  will  send  over  a  large  party  of  fashionables, 
it  being  the  night  for  the  theatre  boat;  and  other  parties,  from 
Santa  Cruz  and  Monterey,  are  spoken  of  as  being  altogether 
probable. 


July  3    1892. 


SAX  PRANCI8C0  NEWS  LETTER. 


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The  gay  <mon  at  Pel  Monic  will  virtually  commence  with  the 
Fourth  of  July  ball  next  Monday  night,  (or  though  several  hops 
have  already  taken  place,  they  have  been  but  lame  and  impotent 
affairs.  Numerous  private  entertainment*  are  also  on  the  lapis, 
and  though  Mrs.  Crocker  an. I  Mr.  Rutherford  will  he  mlited, 
.Mrs.  Ilager.  who  is  always  in  the  van  where  the  enjoyment  of 
young  people  is  concerned,  will  no  doubt  do  the  lion's  share,  as 
she  is  said  to  have  more  than  one  novelty  (or  their  amusement  in 
view. 

Society  on  the  Encinal  turned  out  in  full  force  on  Thursday 
evening,  to  witness  the  marriage,  at  Christ  Church,  Alameda.  o( 
Iflaa  Eleanor  K.  Edwards  and  George  E.  Coleman.  The  church 
was  handsomely  decorated,  and  after  the  ceremony,  a  reception 
was  held  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Gibbons,  on  Pearl  street.  The 
groom  is  a  son  of  John  T.  Coleman,  the  Grass  Valley  capitalist, 
and  the  bride  is  a  daughter  of  Judge  Edwards,  of  Carson  City. 

St.  Paul's  Chnrch.  San  Kafael,  was  the  scene  of  Miss  Lizzie  Sin- 
ton's  marriage  to  Harry  D.  Walker,  which  took  place  last  Satur- 
day morning.  The  pretty  little  edifice  looked  very  attractive  in 
its  floral  garniture,  and  was  well  filled  with  guests  to  witness  the 
ceremony,  which  was  performed  by  Rev.  E.  J.  Lion,  of  St. 
Stephen's  Church,  San  Francisco.  The  honeymoon  is  being 
passed  at  the  Walker  Cottage  near  Laguintas. 


The  first  ball  of  the  summer  season  at  the  Vendome  was  given 
last  Wednesday  evening,  and  was  a  great  success.  The  pleasant 
life  at  that  charming  hostelrie  has  hitherto  been  greatly  due  to 
the  presence  of  Mrs.  J  O'Neil  Reis  and  her  sisters,  the  Misses 
Brookes,  and  hopes  are  expressed  that  their  intended  departure 
for  Del  Monte  will  be  only  for  a  brief  visit  there,  and  not  a  final 
farewell  to  San  Jose. 

Among  the  many  engagements  announced  this  week  is  that  of 
Robert  Herbert  of  Alameda,  and  Miss  Belle  Reynolds  of  San 
Francisco.  Mr.  Herbert  is  the  son  of  H.  V.  Herbert,  of  the  law 
department  of  the  Southern'  Pacific,  and  Miss  Reynolds  is  the 
daughter  of  attorney  Reynolds,  who  is  also  an  attache  of  the 
great  corporation.     The  wedding  will  take  place  in  October. 

George  Cheeseman  is  a  welcome  addition  to  the  limited  list  of 
beaux  to  be  found  at  the  summer  resorts  this  season.  He  will 
make  a  brief  visit  to  his  mother,  at  San  Rafael,  before  he  returns 
to  his  southern  ranch.  Gus  Taylor  and  Ed  Schmieden  have  also 
arrived  from  their  trip  to  Yosemite,  in  time  to  take  part  in  the 
gaities  of  the  Fourth,  much  to  the  delight  of  several  pretty  belles. 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  Stuart  Taylor  will  remain  in  Paris  for 
the  present.  Mrs.  Taylor's  mother,  Mrs.  John  C.  Fall, 
who  has  spent  the  last  year  in  Europe,  with  her  daughter,  is  now 
supposed  to  be  en  route  to  California,  as  she  was  to  have  left  Paris 
early  this  week  for  home.  Harry  Hunt  and  his  daughter  are  on 
their  way  home  to  San  Francisco,  from  New  York  and  Boston. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Low,  accompanied  by  their  daughter, 
have  returned  from  their  visit  East,  which  has  extended  over  a 
period  of  several  months,  and  are  at  the  Occidental  Hotel.  Other 
arrivals  of  the  week  include  the  Sharon-Janin  party,  from  New 
York;  Frank  Newlands,  from  Washington;  Dr.  A.  F.  Sawyer 
and  family,  also  from  Gotham. 


Mr.  J.  Franklin  Brown,  now  In  London,  met  with  an  unfortu- 
nate accident  on  the  day  of  his  departure  from  New  York  for 
England.  As  the  steamer  was  about  to  sail,  Mr.  Brown  was 
attacked  by  a  crazy  man,  in  knocking  whom  down  he  broke  the 
thumb  and  index  finger  of  his  right  hand.  He  is  fortunately 
rapidly  recovering  the  use  of  his  hand. 

There  has  been  a  large  accession  ot  guests  at  Del  Monte  this 
week,  and  the  festivities  of  the  Fourth  promise  to  be  as  brilliant 
as  those  of  any  previous  holiday.  Mr.  J.  B.  Haggin,  who  has 
spent  most  of  the  past  fortnight  amid  his  copper  mines  in  Mon- 
tana, is  expected  to  arrive  in  time  to  complete  the  family  circle 
there  next  week. 


Visitors  to  Castle  Crags  are  taking  life  very  quietly.  Many 
who  are  accustomed  to  the  whirl  and  gaiety  of  a  fashionable  re- 
sort might  possibly  call  it  dull,  but  as  a  majority  of  those  who  are 
guests  at  the  hotel  are  invalids  or  in  mourning,  no  doubt  the  re- 
pose they  enjoy  is  most  pleasing  to  them. 


Mrs.  Charles  Sontag  has  accompanied  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  L.  Good- 
sell  to  Europe,  the  party  sailing  from  New  York  by  the  steamer 
Louraine,  for  Havre,  last  Saturday.  Charles  Kaufman  was  a 
passenger  by  the  same  steamer,  and  will  spend  some  time  in  both 
Paris  and  London,  on  professional  business. 

Oakland  society  has  another  wedding  in  prospective  which  will 
occur  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  some  time  this  month. 
The  bride-elect  is  Miss  Northey-Roma,  whose  bird-like  notes  have 
so  often  been  heard  in  the  choir  of  that  church,  and  whose  en- 
gagement to  Jessie  E.  Douglass  has  just  been  made  public. 

Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Selby  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Selby,  of  Menlo 
Park,  have  been  in  town  during  the  week. 


Mrs.  Nichols  bus  had  her  sister.  MIsaQulntard,  ol  Philadelphia, 
as  her  guest  for  a  couple  ,,(  weeks  past  at  her  pretty  home  on 
Broadway.  Miss  Qulntard  will  remain  in  California  until  Bishop 
and  Mrs.  Nichols  go  East  in  August,  when  she  will  accompany 
them  on  her  return  home 

Assistant  Chief  Wharfinger  and  Mrs.  Charles  N.  Putnam  leave 
to-day  for  Cazaderu  to  spend  several  weeks  in  the  Sonoma  red- 
woods. Mr.  Putnam  is  a  ton  vimnt,  and  will  make  it  pleasant 
for  the  rest  of  the  jolly  good  fellows  summering  in  cottages  at 
Ca/.adero. 

From  Blylhedale  comes  the  announcement  of  Miss  Emma 
McMillan's  engagement  to  Ellis  Wooster,  both  of  whom,  with 
their  respective  families,  have  been  spending  June  at  that  pretty 
little  resort.  The  wedding  will  add  one  more  to  the  list  that  is 
already  quite  large,  of  those  to  take  place  this  autumn. 

Fred  Otis  has  gone  back  to  ranch  life  away  down  in  Mexico, 
after  an  all  too  brief  and  most  enjoyable  visit  to  San  Francisco. 
His  prospective  brother-in-law,  Fred  Lake,  is  preparing  to  visit 
him,  expecting  to  leave  town  in  a  few  days. 

A  grand  festival  will  be  given  by  the  pupils  of  the  French  and 
English  Institute,  in  honor  of  the  sixteenth  anniversary  of  its 
foundation,  next  Sunday  afternoon  at  2  o'clock,  in  Irving  Hall, 
139  Post  street.     Prizes  will  be  distributed  to  the  pupils. 

A  pretty  little  wedding  occurred  on  Wednesday  evening,  when 
F.  H.  Spink,  of  the  Alameda  Postoffice,  was,  married  to  Miss 
Mary  A.  Gaig.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at  the  residence  of 
the  bride's  mother  on  Stanton  street. 


John  Landers,  agent  for  the  Manhattan  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, and  J.  L.  Halsey,  Vice-President  of  the  company,  left  on 
June  8th  for  the  North.  They  are  now  in  New  York.  Mr.  Lan- 
ders will  be  away  about  a  month. 

The  Glee  Club  of  the  State  University  gave  a  concert  at  Shat- 
tuck  Hall,  Berkeley,  on  Tuesday  evening.  The  popularity  and 
ability  of  the  performers  resulted  in  the  attendance  of  a  large  and 
and  select  audience. 

Mrs.  E.  H.  Schenck,  well  known  in  society  circles  at  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  and  Mrs.  Kate  F.  Seeley,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Judge 
Mott,  of  this  city,  are  making  their  third  tour  of  Europe,  and  will 
spend  the  winter  in  Italy. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  L.  Dodge  and  Miss  Jenny  Blair  sailed  for  Eu- 
rope by  the  steamer  Rhyneland,  on  July  13th.  Mr.  M.  Theo. 
Kearny  has  gone  abroad,  and  is  enjoying  the  delights  of  Carlsbad 
by  this  time. 

Don  Catlin,  son  of  Judge  Catlin,  of  Sacramento,  will  leave  to- 
morrow by  the  steamer  Cyrus  Wakefield  for  Liverpool,  England. 
He  intends  spending  two  years  on  the  continent,  traveling  and 
sight-seeing. 

On  Thursday  evening  next,  Miss  Alice  Evelyn  Bayley  will  be 
married  to  Frederick  Cheerer  Torrey,  at  the  residence  of  the 
bride's  mother,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Bayley,  of  1408  Castro  street,  Oakland. 


Miss  Nonie  T.  Fogarty  returned  home  last  Monday,  after  a 
pleasant  sojourn  in  San  Rafael.  Mrs.  Fogarty  and  her  daughter 
Alice  will  remain  in  San  Rafael  until  after  the  Fourth. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  J.  Hooker  and  the  Misses  Mamie  and  Bessie 
Hooker  have  been  visiting  Seattle,  as  the  guests  of  Mr.  Robert 
Hooker,  cashier  of  the  Seattle  National  Bank. 


Mrs.  Charles  Crocker  and  her  daughters,  the  Misses  Fanny  and 
Jenny  Crocker,  accompanied  by  Henry  J,  Crocker,  are  among  the 
recent  arrivals  in  the  French  capital 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Dora  Mohns  of  Ala- 
meda, and  Otto  Collischoun  of  San  Francisco.  The  groom-elect 
is  a  well-known  insurance  man. 


Mrs.  Venchiarutti  is  among  the  cottagers  at  Santa  Cruz  this 
season,  and  contributes  in  no  slight  degree  to  the  enjoyment  of 
the  visitors  at  that  watering  place. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrew  Carrigan  are  spending  the  summer  at 
the  Ames  place,  in  Ross  Valley,  which  they  have  rented  for  the 
season. 


Mrs.  Montgomery  Currey  and  daughter,  and  Miss  Ruth  Catlin, 
of  Sacramento,  are  at  the  Hotel  Rafael,  attending  the  tennis 
tournament. 

Mr.  Theodore  Wores  and  Bishop  Mallalieu  were  among  the  pas- 
sengers by  the  Gaelic  for  Japan,  last  Saturday. 

Miss  Mary  R.  Moran  and  Miss  Mary  Higgins  will  pass  the 
Fourth  at  Cypress  Lawn,  Napa  county. 

Mrs.  Philip  Peck  and  the  Misses  Peck  have  returned  from  a 
month's  visit  to  Napa  Soda  Springs. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Redding  are  in  Paris. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  2,  1892. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  Samson,  Miss  Edith  and  family  have  moved 
from  Bush  street  to  321  Lott  street.  Mrs.  Samson  and  daughter 
are  at  home  the  first  Friday  in  the  month 


Golden  Gate  Parlor  will  give  a  public  installation  of  officers  and 
entertainment  at  Union  Square  Hall,  on  Monday  evening,  July 
11,  1892.  

The  Mystic  Forty  will  give  their  sixth  hop  at  Odd  Fellows' 
Hall,  Tuesday  evening,  August  9,  1892. 


The  steamship  City  of  Sydney  will  sail  on  July  6th,  instead  of 
July  5th,  as  advertised. 

Golden  Gate  Parlor  will  picnic  at  El  Carnpo  the  Fourth  of  July. 

REPRESENTATIVE  HERBERT,  of  Alabama,  has  offered  a 
resolution  in  the  House  calling  attention  to  the  gross  violation 
of  civil  service  rules  in  Alabama,  by  the  levying  on  mail  clerks  by 
their  superiors  of  assessments,  to  form  a  Harrison  campaign  fund. 
This  is  the  manner  in  which  the  Animated  Iceberg  from  Indiana 
intends  to  use  the  great  Federal  machine  at  his  command,  in  en- 
deavoring to  secure  again  the  seat  in  the  White  House  that  he 
now  occupies.  The  Democrats  of  the  House  should  push  the 
Alabama  investigation  without  delay,  and  ascertain  all- the  facts 
in  the  matter.  If  the  appointees  of  President  Harrison  are  guilty 
as  charged,  the  public  should  know  it. 

THE  statement  #that  Portugal  intends  to  dispose  by  sale  of  her 
colony  at  Macao  has  lately  been  largely  circulated,  but  is  ab- 
solutely without  foundation,  and  has  been  officially  contradicted 
by  the  Portuguese  authorities.  A  proposal  to  that  effect  was 
made  several  weeks  ago  by  one  of  the  deputies  in  the  Portuguese 
Chambers,  but  the  motion  was  defeated  by  an  enormous  majority. 
Portugal,  though  a  small  country,  is  by  far  too  proud  of  her 
achievements  in  colonization  in  former  times,  to  alienate  any  of 
her  colonies,  however  great  the  financial  difficulties  of  the  Gov- 
ernment occasionally  may  be. 

WHAT  a  poor  consolation  philosophy  is  where  there  is  any- 
thing really  serious  the  matter,  We  can  be  as  philosophical 
as  a  Stoic  over  the  misfortunes  of  our  friends,  or  even  over  minor 
evils  of  our  own,  but  when  a  great  wave  of  sorrow  or  grief  passes 
over  us,  we  cry  out  as  lustily  and  with  about  as  much  reason  as 
children  do  over  their  troubles.  Theory  and  practice  are  very 
often  a  complete  misfit. 


IT  is  said  that  marriage  was  instituted  as  a  penance  for  the  sins 
of  celibacy.  The  well-to-do  bachelors  of  the  city,  the  society 
people  say,  are  wedded  to  their  clubs  and  their  celibate  sins,  and 
decidedly  disinclined  to  do  penance. 


The  Pacific  Auxiliary  Fire  Alarm. 

The  Pacific  Auxiliary  Fire  Alarm  has  been  doing  excellent  work 
since  its  organization  in  this  city.  By  the  introduction  of  its  boxes 
into  a  number  of  residence  and  business  houses,  it  has  so  greatly  re- 
duced the  danger  arising  from  fire  that  in  recognition  of  that  fact 
the  insurance  companies  have  made  special  rates  on  risks  in  which 
the  boxes  are  placed.  A  very  large  numberis  now  in  use  throughout 
the  city,  no  argument  being  necessary  to  convince  business  men  of 
the  advantages  of  the  system.  At  the  office  of  the  company,  at  323 
Pine  street,  one  may  obtain  all  detailed  information  regarding  the 
advantages  and  workings  of  the  system.  It  is  a  simple  plan ;  a  small 
box  attached  to  the  fire  alarm  system  being  so  placed  that  it  may 
be  easily  reached  in  case  of  fire,  and  an  alarm  be  immediately 
turned  in. 

■ » 

Baggage  Notice. 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip,  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  108  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

Every  man  in  town  who  wants  a  drink  of  good  liquor  should  visit 
"  The  Mumm,"  at  109  O'Farrell  street.  It  is  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar bars  in  town,  and  always  has  a  large  crowd  of  patrons  within  its 
doors.  Only  the  best  of  liquors  are  sold  there,  and  hence  The  Mumm 
is  ever  popular. 

Argonaut  Old  Bourbon  is  the  best  whisky  in  the  market.  Its  ex- 
cellence is  not  exceeded  by  that  of  any  brand  known  to  those  who 
like  good  red  liquor.  The  Argonaut  has  for  years  been  a  popular 
tipple,  and  so  will  it  continue.  It  is  the  favorite  with  all  whisky 
drinkers. 

"We  are  now  using  eleven  Caligraph  Typewriting  Machines    and 
no  others,  a  fact  which  speaks  for  itself.     We  have  tried   all   kinds, 
and  the  Caligraph  has  given  us  better  satisfaction  than  anything  else. 
Yours  truly.  Pope  Manufacturing  Co., 

Albert  A.  Pope,  President,  Boston,  Mass. 


"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething.    Price,  25  cents  a  bottle. 


Burlington  Route  Excursions. 


Commencing  Tuesday.  March  15th.  at  2  p.  M..  from  Los  Angeles, 
and  Wednesday,  at  8  p.  m..  from  San  Francisco,  and  every  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday  thereafter,  the  Burlington  Route  will  run  its  regular 
Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago, 
via  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  excursion  folder, 
apply  to  agent.  Burlington  Route,  at  204  South  Spring  street,  Los 
Angeles;  or  32  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated    New    York    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo" 
cation  of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  2Sth  day  of  June,  1892,  au  assessment  (No.  a7),  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  cf  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  StateB  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  2d  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  bs  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and   unle-s  pavment  is  made  be- 
fore,   will   be    sold    on   TUESDAY,  the  23d  day  of   Augu  t,   1892,   to  pay 
the  delinquent    assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOTT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco,  California 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Gould  6c   Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment    No    69 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied June  7, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Julyl2,1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock  ......   August  4,  1S92 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room,  69  Nevada  Block,  30J  Montgomery  street,  Sau  Francisco, 
California. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 


The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Overman 
Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  414 
California  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Thursday,    the  1 4th  Day  of  July,  1 892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M.( 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting. 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  Tuesday,  the  12d  day  of  July,  1892,  at  1  p.  m. 
GEO.  D.  EDWARDS,  Secretary. 

Office,  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  Cal  fornia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  endiug  June  30, 1892,  a  dividend   has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  aud  four-tenths  (5  4-10^  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  de- 
posits, and  four  and  one-half  (4%)  per  cent,   per  annum  on  ordinary  de- 
posits, free  of  taxes,  payable  on  aud  after  Friday,  July  1,  1892. 

VERNON  CAMPBELL,  Secretary. 
Office— Cor.  Powell  aud  Eddy  streets. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  ending  June  30, 1832,  a  dividend   has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  one-tenth  (5  1-10**  per  cent,  per  auuum  on  Term  Depos- 
its and  four  aud  one  quarter  (4%)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Ordinary  De- 
posits, payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 

GEORGE  TOURNY,  Secretary. 
Office— 526  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal,     


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


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Vol.  XLV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  JULY  9,  1S92. 


Numbn    'J. 


Printed  and  Published  trerj/  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran 
Cisco.     Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 
Decayiug  N'allnus  .   ...    2 

Registrar  Brown's  Threat    2 

The  Anti-Dive  Agitation 3 

Charles    Francis     Adams    on 

Cleveland.      3 

The  Troubles  at  Homestead  ...    3 
Our  Professional  Patriots  ..     ..     4 

The  Snuff  Habit 4 

The  Eud  ol  Fntnres 4 

Bi«  Trees  and  Big  Crops      5 

When  Joe  -McAuliffe  Fell  (Poetry)    6 

The  Flannel  Cotillion    6 

The  Earl  of  Warwick's  Seat     ...      6 

TheSummer  Sponge    7 

Pleasure's  Wand      8-9 

A  Superfluous  Husband  10 

The  Ideal  Boniface    11 


Page 

8parks 12 

Love  and  Thought  (Poetry)    13 

Republican  Corruption  13 

The  Looker-On      ...14-15 

Financial  Review 16 

Town  Crier  17 

Real  Property  18 

Craig  and  Montgomery 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...    19 

Tennis  and  Baseball 20 

Vanities    21 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 22 

Sunbeams    23 

Moderu  Delusions 24 

The  Rose  Jar 25 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  26 

Scientific  aud  Useful 27 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs  ...  28 
Society 30-31-32 


THE  whole  French  nation  is  in  dread,  lest  Oscar  Wilde  should 
expatriate  himself  and  become  a  naturalized  Frenchman. 

MOSES  was   the    first   law  reporter.     This  may  account  for  his 
"  mistakes,  concerning  which  the  great  Agnostic  has  made  so 
much. 


WE  wonder  how  that  Scotch  whiskey  tastes  in   the   mouth  of 
President  Harrison  to-day.     After  the  Homestead  affair  his 
barrel  of  whiskey  will  be  as  famous  as  his  white  hat. 

THE  Methodists    have  removed  the   word  "obey"  from    their 
marriage  service.     Another  instance  of  the  advancement  of 
woman  on  the  ladder  of  human  progress. 


THE  downfall  of  many  a  man  proves   irresistibly,  when  probed 
to  the  bottom,  that  the  whisper  of  a  beautiful  woman  can  be 
heard  farther  than  the  loudest  call  of  duty. 


CARNEGIE,  it  is  said,  was  overcome  when  he  was  informed  of 
the  tragedy  at  his  works  at  Homestead.  What  about  the 
widows  and  orphans  of  the  murdered  men,  when  they  heard  of 
their  losses? 


AT  last  an  opportunity  for  employment  has  been  presented  to 
the  numerous  prize-fighters  now  in  the  city.  Dr.  Coggswell 
wants  men  to  protect  his  college,  and  knock  out  alt  intruders. 
Joe  McAuliffe  ought  to  be  good  enough  for  that. 


THE  steady  decline  of  pugilism  in  San  Francisco  is  a  healthful 
sign.  Interest  in  the  brutalizing  exhibtions  has  almost  wholly 
died  out,  and  the  space  now  given  to  fistic  encounters  is  very 
small,  and  reflects  the  public  sentiment.  The  plug-ugly  is  no 
longer  the  demi-god  he  was  four  and  five  years  ago. 


THE  Baden  Stock  Yards  people  are  building  on  precious  foun- 
dations. It  has  been  discovered  that  the  rock  which  they 
are  using  for  concrete  fountations  for  big  buildings  and  a  reser- 
voir, contains  a  small  percentage  of  silver,  a  little  gold,  and  more 
manganese  iron  ore,  of  which  they  have  struck  a  vein  two  feet 
thick. 

WHEN  the  thieves  fall  out  then  honest  men  have  a  chance. 
Wherefore  all  honest  citizens  should  determine  now  their 
position  regarding  municipal  politics.  There  are  beautiful  rows 
on  among  the  bosses  of  both  political  parties,  therefore  the  good 
citizen  may  have  a  show  yet. 


THERE  is  something  very  funny  in  the  statements  of  political 
bosses  that  they  are  "  true  "  to  each  other.  It  is  much  like 
the  protestation  of  the  first  bandit  to  the  second  bandit,  after  the 
robbery,  that  he,  the  first  aforesaid,  had  taken  no  more  of  the 
booty  than  the  second.  All  tbis,  too,  in  the  presence  of  the  vic- 
tim. 


MANY  PEOPLE  and  especially  some  of  the  ladies  of  the  Pa- 
cific Coast  Women's  Press  Association,  will  feel  a  sympa- 
thetic interest  in  the  plight  of  Yda  Addis-Storke.  The  well- 
known  writer  and  once  proud  woman  has  been  forced  to  ask  the 
Supervisors  of  Santa  Barbara  county  for  aid.  Here  is  a  worthy 
opportunity  for  the  delicate  bestowal  of  a  little  generous  assistance. 

THE  ethics  of  the  law  aim  high ;  the  less  said  of  the  practice  the 
better,  but  imagine  the  San  Francisco  Bar  Association  adopt- 
ing the  following  from  the  title  page  of  Clayton's  Reports  as  its 
motto:  "Open  thy  mouth  for  the  dumb.  "  *  *  Plead  the 
cause  of  the  poor  and  needy."  This  injunction  of  Proverbs  does 
not  seem  to  contemplate  the  seductive  contingent  fee. 

"  JOHNNY"  WILSON  is  now  beginning  to  appreciate  all  the 
J  fine  points  of  the  painful  tale  of  that  youth,  Icarus,  who 
thought  he  could  fly  without  his  father's  aid,  and  found  himself 
falling  rapidly  into  eternal  "  demnition  "  when  the  supporting 
hand  had  been  withdrawn.  Icarus  Wilson  is  now  falling  rapidly 
in  Ihe  political  firmament,  but  when  he  strikes  bottom,  there 
won't  be  mach  of  a  smash,  after  all.  It  takes  a  large  body  to 
make  a  noise  when  it  strikes. 


A  MAN  of  most  remarkable  fortitude  is  that  American  mechan- 
ic who  was  arrested  in  Mexico  for  having  married  thirteen 
consecutive  tinms,  thus  obtaining  nine  more  wives  than  an  old 
statute  of  the  country  allowed.  The  man  has  been  sent  to  jail, 
and  is  now  closely  confined,  while  the  maiden  ladies  of  the 
southern  republic  wonder  what  will  become  of  him.  The  curioi  s 
thing  about  this  fellow's  wives  was  that  they  all  died  in  about 
three  months  after  marriage,  which,  of  course,  showed  how  very 
sensible  Mexican  women  are. 


MUCH  good  was  hoped  for  from  the  adjustment  of  the  differ- 
ences between  the  farmers  and  miners,  which  had  been  al- 
most consummated,  when  the  farmers  of  Colusa  organized  to  op- 
pose the  debris  impounding  bill  pending  in  Congress.  The  resump- 
tion of  mining  would  give  a  great  impetus  to  business,  and  it  is 
a  matter  for  general  regret  that  the  two  elements  cannot  find  a 
satisfactory  basis  for  reconciliation.  The  River  Convention,  which 
will  meet  in  Sacramento  on  August  6th,  will  still  farther  embitter 
the  controversy,  and  the  whole  State  will  suffer. 


JOHN  CHINAMAN  is  nothing  if  not  curious,  and  is  alwajB 
anxious  to  learn,  particularly  when  he  can  do  so  without 
cost.  The  Academy  of  Sciences  has  until  recently  allowed  the 
Chinese  the  same  privileges  as  any  one  else  in  regard  to  visiting 
the  museum  and  examining  the  curios  and  specimens.  Gradually 
the  number  of  Chinese  visitors  began  to  increase  until  just  before 
the  order  taking  away  the  privilege  was  issued,  on  one  day  over 
two  hundred  Chinese  visited  the  museum.  They  handled  the 
specimens,  gabbled  and  made  their  presence  so  obnoxious,  that  a 
sign  is  displayed  to  the  effect  that  no  Chinese  are  allowed  in  the 
museum.  John  would  bring  his  family  with  him,  and  in  many 
instances  remain  all  day,  mach  to  the  discomfiture  of  the  white 
visitors,  and  hence  the  order. 


THE  Chicago  Convention  has  been  productive  of  only  one  re- 
sult of  importance,  locally  considered,  so  far  as  can  be  seen. 
It-  has  added  a  new  name  to  the  Democratic  list  of  possibilities 
for  the  gubernatorial  nomination.  This  is  singular,  too,  consider- 
ing the  gubernatorial  timber  in  the  delegation.  Nevertheless,  the 
name  of  Alban  B.  Butler  is  now  more  frequently  mentioned  in 
this  connection  than  that  of  any  other  Democrat.  Butler  was 
chairman  of  the  California  delegation  to  Chicago,  and  his  level 
head  and  princely  liberality  are  praised  on  every  hand.  Butler 
is  a  raisin-grower  at  Fresno,  and  by  courtesy  that  county  is 
called  his  home.  In  reality  he  lives  in  this  city,  maintaining  a 
fine  home  here,  presided  over  by  a  beautiful  and  charming  wife, 
who  is  a  cleverer  politician  than  her  husband.  Butler's  Dem- 
ocracy is  unquestioned.  Despite  the  duty  on  raisins  he  is  a  free 
trader.  He  is  an  available  candidate,  aside  of  the  fact  that  he  is 
possessed  of  large  means.  The  fact  that  the  standing'  Democratic 
candidates  tor  Governor  are  somewhat  convention- worn  is  to  the 
advantage  of  a  new  man.  Butler  stands  very  close  to  the  powers 
that  combine  the  Monarch  of  the  Dailies,  and  it  is  hinted  that  he 
is  being  groomed  for  the  race  in  that  office. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


DECAYING    NATIONS. 


UNDER  tbe  above  title  an  editorial  appeared  last  week  in 
a  daily  contemporary  in  which  tbe  suggestion  was  made 
that  the  population  of  all  those  European  countries  which  have 
large  standing  armies  is  decreasing  and  that  if  the  truth  was 
known  Germany's  population  would  be  seen  to  diminish  even 
faster  than  that  of  France.  The  writer  said:  "The  census  shows 
that  in  1890  the  deaths  in  France  exceeded  the  births  by  38,446. 
*  *  *  Tue  returns  show  that  there  has  been  a  large  dim- 
inution in  marriages  and  a  decrease  of  42,000  in  tbe  number  of 
births  as  compared  with  the  old  average."  He  contiues :  "This  is 
the  fruit  of  a  large  standing  army.  Soldiers  cannot  marry.  They 
would  not  if  they  could;  and  if  they  could  no  general  would  be 
willing  to  encumber  himself  with  an  army  corps  of  women."  He 
then  goes  on  as  follows;  "What  is  true  of  France  is  probably 
true  of  Germany  and  Italy.  In  these  countries  vital  statistics  are 
not  collected  as  assiduously  as  they  are  in  France.  If  they  were 
they  would  probably  show  that  the  population  of  Germany  is  re- 
ceding even  more  rapidly  than  that  of  its  rival,  for  Germany  has 
to  endure  a  he  ivy  annual  loss  by  emigration,  while  France  loses 
few  of  its  peoplu  from  that  cause." 

Now  the  above  statements  are  not  only  perfectly  incorrect  as 
regards  facts,  but  the  deductions  drawn  are  utterly  groundless 
and  so  misleading  that  in  the  interest  of  truth  a  correction  is  de- 
sirable. If  the  leader  referred  to  should  find  its  way  into  the 
columns  of  any  European  paper  the  readers  would  take  the 
whole  either  for  a  huge  hoax  or  as  a  sign  of  astonishing  ignorance 
of  the  subject  discussed  in  it. 

First,  as  regards  the  statement  that  standing  armies  prevent 
tbe  young  men  from  marrying,  it  needs  simply  to  be  pointed  out 
that  in  Germany  which  has  an  enormous  standing  army,  and  has 
possessed  it  for  a  far  longer  time  than  tbe  neighboring  countries, 
the  number  of  marriages  and  births  is  only  little  less  than  that 
of  Great  Britain.  What  has  the  standing  army  to  do  with  the 
numbir  of  marriages?  The  actual  service  of  the  German  soldiers, 
i  c,  the  three  years  when  he  is  obliged  to  dedicate  his  whole  time 
to  military  matters  are  completed  usually  long  before  any  sensible 
man  would  think  of  marrying,  namely  about  the  twenty-fourth 
year  of  age.  Afterwards  he  becomes  a  private  citizen  of 
whom  no  military  service  is  required,  of  course,  except  in  case  of 
war,  when  his  country  is  in  danger  and  for  a  few  weeks  of  drill 
or  exceptional  intermittent  occasions  as  long  as  he  belongs  to 
the  reserves.  As  regards  bis  liberty  to  marry  there  is  absolutely 
no  restrictions  at  any  time  as  far  as  the  privates  and  non-com- 
missioned officers  are  concerned,  and  the  wish  of  the  "general," 
to  use  the  writer's  expression,  can  just  as  little  interfere 
with  him  as  that  of  tbe  king.  That  the  German  young  men  are 
making  full  use  of  the  institution  of  marriage  is  easily  proved  by 
statistics.  Tbe  writer  insinuates  that  in  Germany  vital  statistics 
are  not  collected  as  carefully  as  in  France.  If  he  would  consult 
any  specialist  with  regard  to  the  matter  he  would  learn  that  the 
statistic  compilations  of  Germany  are  most  excellent,  and  that 
also  Itatly,  the  country  of  L.  Bodio,  whose  "Movimentodello  stato 
clville"  is  a  standard  work  all  over  the  world,  cannot  complain  of 
having  a  lack  of  statisticians.  That  Germany  is  not  diminishing 
in  population,  but  just  the  contrary,  is  so  easily  proved  by  con- 
sulting tbe  statistical  tables  compiled  by  the  first  authori- 
ties, that  tbe  author  of  the  leader  in  question  must  be  pos- 
sessed of  a  peculiar  courage  to  have  ventured  upon  his  remarks. 
In  view  of  the  many  accessible  materials  for  proof  argument  is 
quite  unnecessary.  The  quotation  of  the  following  figures  will  suf- 
fice. Yearly  rate  of  increase  of  population:  France,  1800-60,-48; 
1860-77,  .35.  United  Kingdom,  1801-61,  .98;  1861-78,  92.  Prus- 
sia with  recent  annexations,  1830-61,  1.16;  1861-75,  .83. 

Average  number  of  births  to  one  hnndred  inhabitants:  Italy, 
1865-78,  3.70.  France,  1865-77,  2.58;  England  and  Wales,  1865-78, 
3.56;  Prussia,  1865-78,  3.87. 

Annual  percentage  of  increase  of  population:  Prussia,  1852-55, 
.53;  Great  Britian,  1841-51,  .23. 

Approximate  number  of  years  iu  which  population  will  be 
doubled:  Prussia,  131;  Great  Britain,  302. 

"Sapienti  sat!  "  The  figures  are  taken  from  the  most  reliable 
statistical  compendiums  and  tables,  and  can  be  easily  verified. 
Tbe  population  of  France  is  decreasing.  There  is  hardly  any 
doubt  about  the  matter,  but  not  in  consequence  of  the  standing 
army,  which  is  of  much  more  recent  origin  than  that  of  Germany, 
but  in  consequence  of  causes  the  discussion  of  which  belongs  to 
"  moral  statistics."  People  who  are  imbued  with  the  poisonous 
and  fatal  doctrines  of  the  Malthusian  kind  and  prevent  offspring, 
or  who  do  not  marry  until  after  having  exhausted  their  vital 
powers  in  illicit  pleasure,  contribute  to  tbe  ruin  of  their  country, 
and  decay  of  tbe  nation  is  the  natural  result.  As  far  as  Germany, 
however,  is  concerned,  the  plain  facts  prove  that  there  is  no  sign 
of  depopulation,  notwithstanding  the  enormous  annual  number 
of  emigrants. 

THERE  is  no  sweeter  repose  than  that  which  is  bought  with 
labor.  If  this  truth  could  only  be  trephined  into  the  brain  of 
some  of  San  Francisco's  professional  working-men.  It  might  in- 
duce them  to  take  up  honest  toil. 


REGISTRAR    BROWN'S    THREAT. 


WA.  BROWN,  by  the  grace  of  Dan.  Burns  and  H.  H.  Mark- 
,  ham,  Registrar  of  Voters  of  this  city,  is  threatening  an 
outrage  against  the  Democratic  party  of  San  Francisco.  "  I  am 
the  sole  arbiter  as  to  who  shall  go  on  the  ticket,"  he  said  tiie  other 
day,  "  and  the  judge  as  to  what  parties  shall  be  represented  by 
straight  tickets.  Here's  this  Reorganized  Democracy,  for  instance, 
that  may  not  go  on  straight.  See  ?  It  is  a  new  thing,  and  never 
polled  any  votes.  See?  It  was  the  old  Democracy  that  cast  the 
votes.  Suppose  the  old  Buckley  Democracy  puts  up  a  ticket, 
why,  I'll  have  to  recognize  it,  don't  you  see?"  When  it  was 
pointed  out  that  the  State  Committee  had  recognized  the  Reor- 
ganized Democrats,  he  said:  "That  makes  no  difference;  the 
Buckley  fellows  are  the  Democracy  under  the  law.  See?"  As 
he  said  this,  a  gleam  shone  from  his  eyes  that  told  more  than  his 
words.  In  case  Boss  Burns  should  succeed  in  naming  his  ticket 
in  this  city,  he  might  need  the  performance  of  just  such  service 
from  his  Registrar.  It  would  cost  but  little  money  to  get  a  Buck- 
ley ticket  in  the  field.  If  tbe  Registrar  should  recognize  that  as 
the  real  ticket  of  the  Democratic  party,  it  would  inevitably  de- 
feat the  Reorganizes  by  placing  them  at  the  disadvantage  of  be- 
ing but  a  faction,  for  which  no  straight  votes  could  be  cast. 
Brown's  looks,  more  than  bis  words,  left  the  impression  that  this 
was  a  part  of  a  well-matured  plan  to  defraud  the  Democracy  of 
this  city  out  of  an  assured  victory.  It  is  probably  a  good  thing 
for  the  party  that  the  intimation  was  dropped  so  early.  It  affords 
ample  time  in  which  to  meet  the  contingency.  Registrar  Brown 
is  not  a  great  man.  He  is  the  creature  of  Boss  Burns,  and  was 
appointed  to  tbe  very  important  office  which  he  holds  by  Gover- 
nor Markham  to  please  the  rising  son  from  Yolo.  If  any  one  else 
could  have  exerted  the  same  "  pull,"  Brown  would  have  been  his 
creature  as  readily  as  Burns',  from  which  it  may  be  inferred  that 
Brown  is  considerably  of  a  political  Hessian.  He  owes  his  pres- 
ent position  wholly  to  machine  politics.  He  is  fitted  for  the  place 
neither  by  education,  training  nor  reputation.  He  is  as  unfit  for 
the  position  morally  as  he  is  intellectually.  In  neither  regard 
does  he  command  respect  nor  inspire  confidence.  While  it  is  not 
pleasant  to  contemplate  the  development  of  political  accidents 
of  this  sort,  it  is  sometimes  profitable  to  do  so.  In  Brown's  case 
it  is  a  short  story.  From  a  devotee  of  fortune,  he  graduated  into 
a  soda  water  manufacturer,  and  thence  gravitated  into 
the  Assembly.  He  is  still  best  known  as  "Soda 
Water"  Brown,  however,  and  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  he  did  not  remain  in  that  comparatively  harmless 
occupation.  He  might  have  done  some  harm  to  his  patrons  by 
the  free  use  of  marble  dust,  but  it  would  have  been  no  circum- 
stance to  the  injury  be  has  done  to  the  moral  sense  of  the  com- 
munity. There  is  perhaps  no  more  important  appointment  in 
the  gift  of  the  Governor  than  that  of  Registrar.  It  is  to  be  re- 
gretted that  Mr.  Markham  could  not  have  found  a  cleaner  person 
than  this  fellow.  The  Governor  must  have  felt  keenly  the  spec- 
tacle his  Registrar  of  voters  for  this  city  cut  at  the  Stockton  con- 
vention. He  was  there,  before  the  Committee  on  Credentials  of 
his  own  party,  convicted  of  political  corruption,  practically  con- 
fessing that  he  gave  fraudulent  voters  cards  assigning  them 
names,  age  and  place  of  abode.  He  did  this  in  his  home  district, 
the  Thirty-fourth  Assembly,  and  he  probably  was  able  to  assist  in 
casting  fraudulent  votes  through  "  stutter's  cards  "  by  means  of 
the  records  in  his  office.  The  showing  then  made  appalled  the 
convention,  and  hia  own  faction  consented  to  abandon  the  con- 
test, which  was  brought  of  their  own  motion.  It  was  thought 
that  the  spectacle  then  made  of  him  would  result  in  a  demand  for 
his  resignation  on  the  part  of  the  Governor.  It  was  not  believed 
that  he  could  permit  a  man  convicted  by  his  own  admissions  of 
such  a  crime  against  the  purity  of  the  ballot  to  remain  in  an  office 
so  near  to  tbe  rights  of  the  people.  But  he  did  permit  him  to  re- 
main. Then  came  the  scandal  over  the  plans  for  election  houses 
and  booths.  Designers  claimed  that  bids  had  been  tampered  with 
while  in  Brown's  possession.  The  matter  was  hushed  up  by  re- 
advertising  for  bids,  and  then  some  of  the  contractors  brought 
their  bids  to  Mayor  Sanderson,  declaring  that  they  »  did  not  trust 
Brown."  It  was  then  thought  that  the  man  would  surely  not  be 
retained  in  office  by  Governor  Markham,  but  either  the  Governor 
is  indifferent  to  pure  elections,  or  is  dominated,  as  the  people 
say,  by  Dan.  M.  Burns.  At  any  rate,  Brown  is  still  in  office,  and 
appears  to  feel  solid  enough  in  his  place  to  threaten  to  commit 
this  outrage  upon  one-half  of  this  community  who  happen  to 
disagree  from  him  politically.  In  the  hands  of  a  different  man  it 
would  be  absurd  to  fear  that  such  an  outrage  might  be  perpe- 
trated in  this  enlightened  city,  but  Brown  is  quite  capable  of  it. 
His  determination  upon  the  subject  should  be  demanded,  and  in 
the  event  of  his  refusal,  his  removal  be  insisted  upon.  There  are 
ample  grounds  upon  which  to  urge  it. 

THE  Pioneers  are  certainly  getting  very,  very  old.  Their  an- 
nual election  of  officers  was  held  on  Thursday  last,  and  there 
was  not  nearly  as  much  excitement  as  usually  signalizes  that 
most  remarkable  occasion.  It  is  said  that  even  the  cab  compa- 
nies were  not  subsidized  to  send  all  their  cabs  to  the  headquar- 
ters of  one  of  the  factions,  and  no  outside  political  influence  was 
used  to  gain  votes.  The  Pioneers  are  certainly  getting  very, 
very  old. 


July  9,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    ANTI-DIVE    AGITATION. 


EDITOB  SKWS  LSTTBR:— PerhaptOlU  citizens  generally  do 
not  know  that  any  man,  black  or  white,  good  or  bad,  can  ob- 
tain a  license  to  open  a  saloon  and  to  sell  liquor  in  the  city  and 
county  of  San  Francisco,  by  the  payment  of  $21  a  quarter — 
simply  that,  and  nothing  more — no  petition,  no  signatures,  no 
recommendation  needed;  $21  in  hard  cash  gets  the  necessary 
document.  But  if,  after  obtaining  a  license,  the  man,  fometimes, 
alas,  the  woman,  gets  into  trouble  with  the  police;  if  the  place 
kept  is  disorderly,  frequented  by  dissolute  characters  of  both 
sexes,  if  they  run  an  immoral  show,  or  indecent  dance,  or  if  they 
•re  convicted  of  any  crime  under  the  laws  governing  their  busi- 
ness, then  it  sometimes  happens  that  the  License  Commissioners 
think  best  to  refuse  to  grant  a  renewal  of  said  license  on  its  quar- 
terly expiration;  tbey  cannot  revoke  it,  but  they  are  met  with 
the  difficulty  of  the  law  governing  licenses,  which  says  that  after 
the  License  Commissioners  have  refused  a  man  a  license  »  for 
good  cause,  '  he  can  secure  the  same  without  their  consent  on 
the  petition  of  twelve  persons  owning  property  in  the  four 
blocks  surrounding  his  place  of  business  (see  Statutes  of  Cal.,  77 
and  7S).  Observe  now  the  discrimination.  The  Board  of  Police 
Commissioners  has  full  power  to  give  licenses,  no  power  to  re- 
voke, and  only  partial  power  "  to  refuse  for  just  cause."  A  queer 
state  of  things,  surely!  Now  what  is  the  result?  If  a  law- 
breaking,  low,  corrupt  reprobate  can  get  the  signatures  of  twelve 
men,  he  can  run  any  kind  of  a  place  he  pleases  in  opposition  and 
defiance  of  all  license  boards,  and  under  full  protection  of  the 
law.  Now,  when  I  tell  you  that  it  is  on  these  »  Property  Owners' 
Licenses  "  that  many  of  the  so-called  "  dives  "  are  now  running, 
you  will  understand  why  this  is  called  the  "  Anti-Dive  Agitation," 
though  really  our  fight  is  not  so  much  with  the  dive-keeper  as  it 
is  with  the  law  which  allows  such  places  to  exist.  The  petition 
presented  by  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  to  the 
Board  of  Supervisors,  some  two  months  ago,  asking  them  to 
amend  the  ordinance  by  striking  out  the  twelve  property  owners 
clause,  was  first  presented  to  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners 
for  their  endorsement,  and  received  their  unanimous  approval. 
It  would  seem  that  the  presentation  of  these  facts,  and  a  request 
to  the  proper  legislative  body  of  our  city,  would  be  enough  to 
cause  a  change  to  be  made  in  the  existing  license  law,  but  it  seems 
not.  Hence  the  »  Citizen's  League;"  hence  the  "  Woman's 
League,"  auxiliary  to  the  same;  hence  the  "  Sunday  Mass  Meet- 
ings," and  the  agitation  of  the  subject  all  over  the  city;  hence 
the  groups  of  citizens  nightly  besieging  the  chambers  nf  the 
Board  of  Supervisors;  hence  the  out-spoken  impatience  shown 
by  speeches,  letters,  and  through  the  press,  with  the  unnecessary 
delay  of  the  committee,  into  whose  hands  the  matter  was  referred 
by  the  Board.  If  they  are  waiting  until  the  excitement  abates  or 
blows  over,  they  are  making  a  grave  mistake;  the  agitation  will 
not  die  out;  on  the  contrary,  it  will  increase,  for  many  good  men 
and  women,  too,  are  taking  this  occasion  to  find  out  for  theju- 
selves  about  the  dives  and  similar  places,  and  groups  of  visitors, 
not  usual  in  such  places,  are  to  be  found  nightly  "doing  the 
dives ;"  slumming  with  an  object,  and  the  result  will  be,  must  be, 
a  stronger  determination  that  the  agitation  shall  not  die  out  until 
the  desired  change  is  made,  which  will  rid  our  fair  city  of  many 
of  these  low,  vile  places.  When  they  are  closed,  the  work  of  the 
"  Woman's  League"  will  begin.  Our  work  will  be  the  care  and 
help  and  protection  of  the  unfortunate  of  our  own  sex,  many  of 
whom  are  now  employed  in  these  places.  The  lines  and  methods 
of  work  are  not  yet  fully  laid  out  or  adopted,  but  organization 
will  be  completed  on  the  9th  inst.  I  hope  this  will  suffice  to  give 
your  readers  a  clear  idea  of  the  origin  and  present  status  of  the 
Anti-Dive  Mass  Meetings,  the  Citizen's  League  and  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary  League. 

Rose  M.  French,  President  Woman's  League. 


THE  continued  boasts  of  the  Gladstonians  that  they  will  be 
victorious  at  the  coming  election  must  seem  absurd  to  all 
those  who  have  followed  closely  political  events  in  England.  One 
of  their  chief  causes  of  confidence  used  to  be  the  result  of  the 
municipal  elections  in  London  last  March.  They  maintained 
that  this  result  justified  them  in  predicting  the  success  of  their 
candidates  in  the  capital.  It  has  been  frequently  pointed  out  in 
this  paper  that  the  issue  at  the  county  council  elections  was  a 
very  different  one  from  what  it  will  be  at  the  general  elections, 
and  that  there  was  not  the  slightest  reason  for  prognosticating 
Gladstonian  sympathies  in  London.  This  view  was  fully  con- 
firmed last  month  by  the  election  of  the  Conservative  candidate 
in  North  Hackney,  Mr.  Boustield,  by  the  decisive  majority  of  969 
votes.  After  that  election  the  Gladstonian  and  radical  organs  of 
the  press  showed  decided  sign  of  despondency,  as  was  natural, 
under  the  circumstances.  At  present,  however,  they  are  bragging 
and  boasting  again  in  the  old  style,  and  one  looks  in  vain  for  any 
cause  which  may  have  revived  their  hopes.  It  will  be  amusing 
to  watch,  a  few  weeks  hence,  the  excuses  which  they  will  have 
to  find  in  order  to  explain  the  failure  of  their  predictions. 


THE    TROUBLES    AT    HOMESTEAD. 


IT  is  said  that  President  Harrison  is  a  great  admirer  of  Napoleon. 
It  was  probably  from  the   First  Consul  that  he   learned   that 
the  heart  of  a  statesman  should  be  in  his  head. 


THE    recent  tragedy  at  the  Homestead  Works  of  Andrew    Car- 
negie  has    sent   a    thrill  of  horror    throughout    the   olviUxed 

world.  The  savage  butchery  by  hired  assassins,  of  honest  work- 
Ipgtnen,  who  were  endeavoring  to  protect  their  homes  and  fam- 
ilies, has  not  a  parallel  in  the  history  of  labor  agitation  in  the 
world.  The  exemplification  of  the  beauties  of  a  protective  tariff, 
which,  while  giving  an  employer  the  benefits  of  an  income  of  a 
million  dollars  a  year,  refuses  to  the  toilers  the  right  to  make 
their  living,  has  aroused  an  interest  in  the  great  political  question 
of  the  day  in  all  citizens  of  the  country.  That  the  result  will  be 
disastrous,  as  it  should  be,  to  the  Republican  party,  there  can  be 
no  doubt.  The  Homestead  affair  showed  conclusively  the  man- 
ner in  which  the  manufacturing  barons  of  the  country,  secure  in 
the  strength  of  untold  wealth,  and  certain  of  the  friendship  of 
the  Chief  Executive,  who  has  the  Federal  forces  in  his  control, 
intend  to  treat  the  just  claims  of  the  workingmen  in  their  em- 
ploy. The  hiring  of  large  armed  bodies  of  men,  mercenaries, 
Carnegie  Hessians,  to  assail,  and  if  necessary,  to  murder  the 
wageworkers,  cannot  be  defended  on  any  possible  grounds.  The 
idea  itself  is  repugnant  to  the  spirit  of  the  republic.  No  private 
individual  or  corporation  should  be  allowed  to  have  in  his  em- 
ploy, or  have  under  his  control,  large  bodies  of  mercenaries, 
ready,  at  his  command,  to  do  his  bidding,  whatever  it 
might  be.  The  Congressional  investigation  into  the  causes  of  the 
outrage  at  Homestead,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  will  be  prosecuted 
with  all  the  vigor  which  the  occasion  demands.  Not  since  war 
times  have  the  people  been  so  terribly  affected  as  by  the  Home- 
stead murders.  From  the  United  States  Senate  to  the  smallest 
hamlet  in  the  States  it  is  the  subject  for  debate,  and  from  all  sides 
comes  the  cry  thai  the  responsibility  for  the  awful  disaster  should 
be  fixed  where  it  properly  belongs— on  that  "  protective"  system 
of  the  Republican  party,  which  first  forces  men  to  starvation  and 
then  allows  them  to  be  murdered.  Senator  Voorhees  well  voiced 
the  sentiments  of  the  people  when,  in  discussing  the  matter  in 
the  United  States  Senate  on  Thursday  last,  he  said:  «<  Protection 
is  certainly  a  fraud  and  a  robbery,  s©  far  as  the  interests  of  labor 
are  concerned,  when  an  industry  with  from  fifty-five  to  sixty  per 
cent,  protection  enforces  its  cut  in  wage  rates  with  bullets,  while 
the  capitalist  concerned  is  flaunting  in  the  face  of  the  world  his 
vulgar  efforts  to  spend  his  million  dollar  a  year  income.  Does 
protection  protect  labor?  Ask  the  widows  and  fatherless  children  of 
Homestead  who  are  weeping  and  moaning  over  the  dead  in  their 
homes;  the  dead  who  died  in  resisting  an  attempt  of  protected  capi- 
tal to  reduce  wages  to  a  point  where  bread  could  not  be  bought 
for  those  who  are  weeping  to-day.  The  protected  Carnegies  of 
this  country  give  their  laborers  the  choice  of  death  by  starvation 
or  assassins'  bullets.  The  brave,  desperate  men  who  died  at 
Homestead  yesterday  accepted  the  least  of  the  two  evils  pre- 
sented by  their  protected  employers." 


CHARLES    FRANCIS    ADAMS    ON    CLEVELAND. 


CHARLE8  FRANCIS  ADAMS,  President  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Railway,  a  Republican  for  years,  and  recognized  as  one  of  the 
ablest  men  in  the  country,  is  one  of  the  latest  additions  to  the 
Democratic  host  which  will  follow  the  banner  of  Cleveland  in 
November.  Mr.  Adams,  in  an  article  in  the  current  Forum,  dis- 
cusses the  political  questions  of  the  day  in  a  very  able  manner. 
"  What  are  the  political  issues  of  the  impending  canvass  ?  "  he 
asks.  "Some  of  them  are  old,  as  old  as  the  National  Govern- 
ment, and  likely  long  to  continue;  others  are  new  and  of  a 
passing  character.  These  issues,  new  and  old,  may  be  enumer- 
ated somewhat  as  follows:  1.  The  economic  and  commercial 
system,  commonly  known  as  protective,  based  upon  the  idea 
that  it  is  the  business  of  government  artificially  to  foster,  or  even 
to  call  into  existence,  various  branches  of  industry.  2.  The 
purification  and  reform  of  the  civil  service;  or,  as  Mr.  Carl 
Schurz  once  tersely  expressed  it,  <  the  disestablishment  of  the 
spoils  system,'  the  system  which  the  Jacksonian  Democracy  in- 
troduced into  the  administration  of  our  government.  3.  What 
is  known  as  the  'currency  question,'  now  taking  the  form  of  a 
demand  for  the  free  coinage  of  silver  at  the  national  mint  at  an 
artificial  ratio  with  gold.     4.  The  pension  system. 

"  What  is  the  attitude  of  Mr.  Cleveland  so  far  as  these  issues 
are  concerned  ?  He  has  been  called  upon  officially  to  confront 
them  all,  and  on  no  occasion,  so  far  as  I  know,  has  he  failed  to 
make  his  position  understood,  or  to  give  the  party  of  which  he 
was  the  head  a  distinct,  recognized  and  creditable  lead.  He  has 
not  shuffled  or  vacillated;  he,  at  least  upon  these  issues,  has 
emitted  no  uncertain  sound.  In  this  respect  the  line  of  responsible 
public  action  he  has  pursued  has  been  in  most  agreeable  contrast 
with  that  usually  pursued  by  politicians,  not  only  of  the  present, 
but  of  all  time.  The  crying  sin  of  cattle  of  that  class,  especially 
in  these  days  of  many  newspapers  and  much  rapid  communica- 
tion, is  their  constant  endeavor  to  catch  quickly  and  to  reflect 
correctly  public  sentiment,  and  neither  to  think  nor  to  speak  for 
themselves.  Such  has  not  been  the  practice  of  Mr.  Cleveland. 
In  high  public  position  he  has  stood  forth  a  clean-cut  political 
character,  a  man  with  the  courage   of  his  convictions." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


July  9,  1892. 


THE    SNUFF    HABIT. 


COLLECT  all  your  ancestors'  snuff  boxes,  and  send  to  your  to- 
bacconist for  a  jar  of  the  best  macaboy  or  rappee,  and  that  right 
speedily,  if  you  would  be  considered  in  the  swim,  for  the  leaders 
of  London  society  have  declared  that  snuff  taking  shall  hereafter 
be  considered  fashionable.  The  youths  of  high  degree  of  London 
now  carry  with  thera  snuff-boxes  of  quaint  design  and  highly 
ornamented,  for  it  is  the  proper  thing  to  have  a  snuff-box  of  as 
much  beauty  and  richness  as  a  fine  watch.  It  is  said  that  the 
habit  received  its  present  vogue  from  the  fact  that  the  University 
students,  while  cramming  for  their  "  little  goes,"  found  it  neces- 
sary to  take  some  stimulant  to  clear  up  their  overcharged  brains, 
and  relieve  to  some  extent  the  pressure  on  their  grey  matter. 
Snuff,  it  is  said,  gave  the  desired  results,  and  hence  tbe  snuff 
habit  became  fashionable  among  them.  As  many  of  thestudents 
are  sons  of  rioh  men,  or  wealthy  in  their  own  right,  there  is,  of 
course,  a  large  army  of  toadies  who  always  follow  in  their  im- 
mediate wake,  and  they,  imitating  the  customs  of  their  gods,  also 
possessed  themselves  of  snuff-boxes,  and  proceeded  to  feed  their 
noses  in  an  endeavor  to  clear  up  the  spaces  within  their  craniums 
which  should  have  been  filled  with  brain.  The  snuff  habit  is 
variously  considered,  as  is  every  vice  which  receives  the  sanction 
of  so-called  high  society.  It  can  be  said  in  its  favor  that  snuff 
has  been  and  is  indulged  in  by  many  famous  and  learned  men, 
and  there  is  no  doubt  that  it  has  some,  at  least,  of  the  good  qual- 
ities attributed  to  it.  But  that  it  should  become  fashionable 
among  our  society  is  not  to  be  desired,  for  to  most  people  snuff- 
taking  is  offensive.  If  the  society  youth  of  the  period,  starting 
at  best  with  a  weak  constitution,  looking  like  an  animated  doll, 
has  been  partially  wrecked  by  cigarette  smoking,  absinthe  drink- 
ing, gambling  and  carousals,  now  takes  to  snuff,  what  hope  can 
there  be  for  him?  Soon  a  new  race  of  copper-colored  dudes  will 
appear,  whose  badge  will  be  a  snuff-box.  If  the  snuff  habit  be- 
comes to  any  extent  popular,  the  tobacco  dealers  will  reap  a  har- 
vest, for  there  is  hardly  any  product  of  the  leaf  which  is  more 
susceptible  to  adulteration  than  is  snuff.  Some  of  the  component 
parts  of  the  snuff  of  commerce  often  consist  of  lamp-black,  mo- 
lasses, gum,  cabbage,  starch,  powdered  wood,  sand,  lime,  ochre, 
umbre,  logwood,  aloes,  and  innumerable  other  things  which  are 
not  snuff.  Then,  again,  there  is  of  course  excellent  snuff,  daintily 
scented  with  some  rich  perfume,  which  is  to  the  snuff  taker  what 
a  fine  Havana  is  to  the  smoker,  or  excellent  smoking  tobacco  to 
the  devotee  of  the  pipe.  In  the  olden  days,  when  every  gallant 
carried  his  snuff-box,  and  it  was  prescribed  by  the  edicts  of  polite 
society  that  snuffs  should  be  exchanged,  every  snuffer  carried  his 
rasper  with  him,  and  grated  his  snuff  from  the  leaf  whenever  he 
wanted  a  pinch,  much  as  many  smokers  now  cut  and  powder  plug 
tobacco  for  their  pipes,  instead  of  smoking  the  prepared  pipe  to- 
bacco. While  not  as  convenient  a  method  of  obtaining  a  pinch 
as  taking  it  from  the  box,  rasping  has  many  virtues.  One  can  at 
least  be  certain  that  he  is  getting  some  tobacco  with  what  he 
considers  his  snuff,  and  he  need  not  be  pained  by  the  supposition 
which  cannot  otherwise  be  suppressed,  that  he  is  filling  bis  bead 
with  powdered  shells,  or  ancient  egg  yolks,  browned  for  the  occa- 
sion. It  is  with  some  fear  of  the  results  that  we  announce  to  the 
imitators  of  the  London  society  leaders,  that  the  latter  have 
raised  their  snuff-boxes  aloft,  and  have  revived  the  ancient  vice. 
If  the  habit  becomes  prevalent  in  this  town  of  colds  and  catarrh, 
fashionable  assemblages  may  or  not  be  very  entertaining  here- 
after. That  depends  on  one's  individual  opinion  of  the  snuff 
habit. 


THE    END    OF    FUTURES. 


THE  Hatch  anti-option  bill,  which  passed  the  lower  House  at 
Washington  some  time  ago,  and  will  soon  come  up  before  the 
Senate,  does  not  seen  to  bave  attracted  much  attention  in  this 
city,  although  the  business  men  of  New  York  and  the  other 
prominent  cities  of  the  East  are  greatly  excited  over  the  prospects 
that  it  will  become  a  law.  It  simply  out-Herods  Herod  in  com- 
parison with  the  little  anti-margin  legislation  of  this  State.  It  af- 
fects all  the  leading  food  products,  the  following  commodities  be- 
ing especially  enumerated:  Cotton,  hops,  wheat,  corn,  oats,  rye, 
barley,  grass  seeds,  flaxseed,  pork,  lard,  bacon,  and  other  edible 
product  of  swine.  The  bill  does  not  virtually  prohibit  dealing  in 
futures,  but  the  special  taxes  imposed  are  so  heavy  that  the  mat- 
ter is  prohibitive.  Every  dealer  in  options  will  have  to  pay  an 
annual  license  fee  of  $1,000;  Jive  cents  a  pound  also  on  cot- 
ton, hups,  pork,  lard  and  bacon,  and  twenty  cents  per  bushel 
on  grains.  The  penalty  for  non-compliance  with  the  law  is  a 
fine  of  not  less  than  $1,000  nor  more  than  $20,000,  or  imprison- 
ment for  not  less  than  six  months  nor  more  than  ten  years,  or 
both  fine  and  imprisonment.  Senator  Washburn  is  accredited 
by  some  with  engineering  the  bill  in  revenge  for  ill-treatment  at 
the  hands  of  Chicago  grain  brokers,  while  others  believe  that 
the  millers  are  trying  to  bring  down  the  price  of  grain.  Leading 
hrokers  threaten  if  the  bill  becomes  a  law  to  remove  their  business 
to  branch  offices  in  Great  Britain,  Europe  and  Canada.  The 
wheat  speculators  here  will  also  find  the  law  rather  oppressive 
on  operations  in  futures.  They  bave  evidently  not  yet  awakened 
to  a  sense  of  the  danger  which  threatens  their  profits  in  this  line. 


OUR    PROFESSIONAL    PATRIOTS. 

THE  utter  disinterestedness  which  pervades  the  meetings  of  the 
Fourth  of  July  Committee  is  one  of  the  facts  in  connection 
with  the  administration  of  political  business  in  this  city,  which 
is  deserving  of  the  highest  praise.  True,  the  News  Lettek  did 
refer  recently  to  the  prominent  members  and  office-holders  of  the 
committee  as  professional  patriots,  who  would  never  think  of  the 
matter  of  personal  advantage  while  working  in  the  interests  of 
the  common  country.  Therefore  are  we  the  more  surprised  when 
we  ascertain  that  the  secretaries  have  put  in  claims  for  $700  for 
their  few  weeks'  work.  This  money  is  to  be  paid  out  of  the 
funds  of  the  committee,  which  were  formed  by  the  combination 
of  the  county  appropriation  and  the  subscriptions  of  citizens. 
The  secretaries  and  janitor  labored  enormously  hard  for  the  good 
of  the  cause,  writing  letters  and  sending  out  circulars,  and  now 
expect  to  get  paid  well  for  it.  There  is  Secretary  Sheridan,  for 
instance,  who  has  so  distinguished  himself  by  his  unselfish 
patriotism  (he  wants  only  $200  for  his  services)  that  he  has  been 
named  as  a  possible  successor  to  Supervisor  Jackson  among  the 
city  fathers.  Of  course  the  men  should  be  paid  for  their  work, 
but  that  the  secretary  should  receive  twice  as  much  as  the  janitor 
does  not  seem  quite  fair,  particularly  as  the  janitor  did  valuable 
service.  He  sat  in  every  chair  in  the  office  in  tnrn,  and  licked 
the  postage  stamps.  Another  cause  of  dispute  among  the  pro- 
minent gentlemen  of  this  committee,  and  one  which  will  illus- 
trate the  opinion  in  which  they  hold  one  another,  lies  in  the 
adoption  of  the  resolution  providing  that  all  the  prizes  for  the  re- 
gatta shall  be  distributed  by  the  General  Committee,  and  not  by 
the  Regatta  Committee,  and  that  a  receipt  shall  be  obtained  for 
each  prize.  The  Regatta  Committee  thought  this  resolution  re- 
flected on  their  honesty,  but  it  was  passed  just  the  same;  ail  of 
which  goes  to  show  the  advantage  of  men  in  a  Fourth  of  July 
committee  being  acquainted  with  each  other.  We  reiterate,  the 
Fourth  of  July  celebration,  as  conducted  in  this  city,  is  a  farce 
and  a  humbug.    It  should  be  improved,  or  suppressed. 


THE  latest  contribution  to  erotic  literature  is  a  novel,  by  one 
Pierre  Beaumont.  It  treats  of  hypnotism  and  its  influence  on 
weaker  minds.  Governor  Markhaun's  hypnotic  hand  comes  in 
for  notice.  So  does  Carroll  Cook's  reformation.  The  volume  is 
copyrighted  by  William  Wilson  Knott,  a  character  not  unknown 
to  fame  in  San  Francisco,  and  who  is  now  serving  a  sentence  In 
the  Illinois  State  penitentiary  at  Joliet  for  violating  the  laws  of 
decency  in  his  publications.  In  the  novel  mentioned  there  is 
little  that  is  interesting,  and  nothing  to  be  commended.  The 
only  interest  attaching  to  it  is  that  ex-Judge  Robert  Ferral  is  ac- 
cused of  being  "Pierre  Beaumont,"  the  author.  He  was  the  counsel 
for  Knott  in  his  troubles  in  this  city.  It  is  said  that  Knott  wrote 
his  attorney  from  Chicago,  telling  him  that  he  was  in  clover;  that 
the  law  was  a  good  thing,  but  the  fleshy  novel  was  better,  and 
urged  his  former  attorney  to  write  a  novel.  The  novel  in  ques- 
tion is  said  to  be  tbe  result.  Ferral  is  bantered  a  good  deal  about 
the  authorship,  but  he  discreetly  declines  to  commit  himself.  He 
will  not  confirm  the  story,  neither  has  he  denied  it. 


YOUNG  ladies  traveling  to  El  Campo  of  a  Sunday  on  the 
steamer  Ukiah  should  be  particular  about  their  hosiery.  A 
nicely  drawn  up  stocking,  of  fashionable  design,  with  the  proper 
amount  of  filling  is  always  an  artistic  sight,  but  a  loose,  badly 
fitting  piece  of  hosiery  is  enough  to  give  one  tbe  horrors.  One 
of  the  girls  last  Sunday  with  an  escort  insisted  on  taking  a  seat 
on  the  upper  deck  where  nether  limbs  and  garments  are  freshened 
by  the  salt  breeze.  A  window  glass  in  the  back  plainly  showed 
everything.  From  tbe  lower  deck  where  the  light  and  shadow 
flitted  several  young  men  saw  the  exhibition  and  fainted.  Moral — 
Be  careful  girls  when  you  go  to  El  Campo  again  and  have  the 
hose  in  trim  for  a  fire. 

CHARLES  R.  BEAL,  the  popular  boarding  officer  of  the  Cus- 
toms service  had  a  remarkable  escape  from  drowning  on  the 
Fourth.  Beal  was  on  tbe  chartered  Customs  steamer  Tia  Juana 
when  she  was  run  down  by  the  bark  Fresno,  and  was  thrown 
overboard  by  the  force  of  the  collision.  In  the  excitement  that 
prevailed  during  the  collision  Mr.  Beal's  perilous  situation  was 
not  noticed.  He  struck  out  and  paddled  along  as  if  he  was  tak- 
ing a  little  aquatic  recreation  until  rescued  by  Mike  Fitzgerald, 
the  marine  reporter  of  the  Merchants  Exchange,  who  happened 
along  in  his  boat. 

THE  surest  remedy  for  poverty  is  the  will  to  labor;  laziness  be- 
gets poverty  and  crime. 

My  preference  for  the  Caligraph,  for  use  in  a  telegraph  office,  in- 
creases as  I  use  it,  and  as  I  observe  other  people  using  other  ma- 
chines. From  the  use  of  nearly  all  the  different  machines  in  the 
market,  my  experience  has  driven  me  to  the  Caligraph  exclusively. 
Yours  very  truly,  H.  K.  HIBBETS, 

Night  Chief  Operator, 
Pacific  Postal  Telegraph  Cable  Company. 

Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething.    Price,  25  cents  a  bottle. 


July  o.  iso:. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


BIO    TREES    AND    BIO    CROPS 


TUB  faith  of  the  Kastern  people  will  probably  be  shaken  soon 
again.  For  a  lone  time  the  picture  of  the  six-borse  coach 
crashing  down  the  mountains  and  through  a  giant  sequoia  has 
HTtoaal*  shaken  the  belief  of  these  people  In  the  truthfulness  of 
Californians. 

Now,  however,  there  is  a  bigger  project  on  band.  It  is  pro- 
posed to  run  the  trains  of  the  San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific 
Coast  road  through  a  great  redwood  tree  near  the  Bohemian  Club's 
•  ommercamp.  a  mile  and  a  half  this  side  of  Cazadero.  William 
Montgomery,  proprietor  of  the  American  Exchange  Hotel,  told 
about  it  recently.  He  has  just  been  up  there.  The  tree,  he  says,  is 
about  200  yards  from  the  present  track,  and  the  latter  is  to  be 
lifted  up  and  switched  around.  They  are  going  to  start  in  soon 
and  cut  the  tree  out. 

"  It  is  a  gigantic  tree,"  he  said,  "  and  it  is  estimated  that  there 
are  from  85.000  to  90,000  feet  of  clear  lumber  in  it.  The  Baptist 
Church,  in  Santa  Rosa,  was  made  from  a  single  tree,  grown  near 
<!uerneville.  There  were  7.5.000  feet  of  clear  lumber  in  that,  and 
it  was  fully  300  feet  high.  The  tree  near  Cazadero  is  bigger  than 
this.  The  running  of  trains  daily  through  a  tree,  in  this  manner, 
will  attract  much  attention.  Everybody  will  want  to  see  it.  See- 
ing is  believing,  and  therefore  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  stories  of 
big  trees  in  California  will  find  a  wider  circulation  than  usual. 

The  trees  in  the   grove  at    the   Bohemian    Club  camp  are  very 
large,  but  this  is,  as  may  be  supposed,  the  biggest   in   that  imme- 
diate vicinity.     In    a  couple   of    months    at    most,  probably,    the 
trains  will  be  whizzing  through  it." 
*  *  » 

J.  S.  Coolican,  now  at  the  Grand  Hotel,  is  one  of  the  directors 
of  the  new  Canadian  railroad  to  parallel  the  Canadian  Pacific,  and 
reach  nearer  to  the  Arctic  Circle  than  any  other  railroad.  He 
lives  at  Port  Angeles,  Washington,  just  sonth  across  the  straits 
from  Victoria,  B.  C.  He  has  confidence  in  the  soil  of  that  sec- 
tion. This  is  what  he  said  about  it  the  other  night:  "  The  tim- 
ber of  the  Puget  Sound  Co-operative  Colony  yielded  160,000  feet 
on  the  average  to  the  acre.  This  is  the  colony  that  made  the  first 
substantial  settlement  there.  This  timber,  that  is  the  stumpage, 
brought  $1  per  thousand,  or  $160  to  the  acre.  When  it  was  off 
the  settlers  proceeded  to  grow  new  crops.  The  results  were  aston- 
ishing. E.  G.  Morse  raised  on  some  of  this  same  land,  near  the 
mouth  of  Morris  Creek,  a  crop  of  potatoes  that  averaged  1,340 
bushels  to  the  acre.  Jack  Wilcox,  ot  Dungeness,  raised  wheat 
during  successive  years  averaging  90  to  125  bushels  to  the  acre. 
Oats  have  averaged  145  bushels.  Turnips  grew  so  big  that 
they  weighed  as  much  as  forty  pounds  each.  Hay 
runs  from  four  to  six  tons  to  an  acre,  and  hops 
average  some  years  from  2,000  to  3,000  pounds  for  the  same  area. 
Besides  this,  the  largest  hemlock  tanning  extract  company  in  the 
world  is  in  operation  there.  We  are  in  almost  the  very  north- 
western tip  of  the  United  States,  only  a  stone's  throw  from  Brit- 
ish soil.  It  is  a  rushing  region,  and  no  other  part  of  oar  country 
surpasses  it." 

TH  ERE  is  no  doubt  that  the  sudden  death  of  J.  W.  Breckinridge, 
the  brilliant  young  lawyer,  prevented  a  great  tragedy.  Breckin- 
ridge had  been  divorced  from  a  daughter  of  Lloyd  Tevis,  the 
children  of  the  unhappy  union  being  in  the  custody  of  the  grand 
parents.  Breckinridge's  mind  was  set  on  killing  Lloyd  Tevis,  and 
only  a  few  days  before  his  death  he  declared  that  he  would  kill 
Tevis.  He  was  then  perfectly  sober.  Indeed,  just  previous  to 
his  death  be  had  not  been  drinking  much,  and  drink  did  not  kill 
him.  Neither  did  he  commit  suicide,  as  has  been  hinted.  He 
died  from  an  overdose  of  morphia,  administered  by  a  physician. 
He  had  just  returned  to  his  home  at  Merced  from  Fresno,  where 
he  had  successfully  defended  John  D.  Smith  for  the  killing  of 
Percy  Williams,  a  brother  of  Tom  Williams,  of  Onion  Island. 
He  was  in  high  glee,  and  in  possession  of  a  good  fee.  Before 
leaving  Fresno,  he  made  the  threat  against  the  life  of  Mr.  Tevis. 
He  seemed  to  think  that  he  had  a  lien  on  his  ex-father-in-law's 
cash  box,  and  resented  the  [alters  refusal  to  open  it  at  his  de- 
mand. He  had  once  or  twice  terrified  the  Tevis  household,  by 
flitting  about  the  place  and  threatening  vengeance.  His  death 
may  have  been  providential. 


^PRICE'S 


Powder 


Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 10  years  the  Standard. 


HIGHLAND 


A    TABLE    LUXURY, 

A    CULINARY    ARTICLE, 

AN    INFANTS    FOOD. 

Unsweetened  nnd  free  from  all  preservatives.  Keeps  for 
any  length  of  time  in  all  climates. 

Its  Uniform  Quality,  Convenience  and  economy  render 
HIGHLAND  EVAPORATED  CREAM  preferable  to  all  other 
forms  of  cream  or  milk  for  Coffee,  Tea,  Chocolate,  Ice 
Cream,  Charlotte  Russe,  Custards  and  all  uses  to  which 
ordinary  cream  or  milk  may  be  put. 

Sold  by  Grocers  and  Druggists  Everywhere. 

Write  for  our  Infant  Food  circular  and  Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  booklet  entitled  "A  Few  Dainty  Dishes." 

HELVETIA  MILK    CONDENSINO   CO., 
Sole  Purveyors,  Highland,  Iix. 

WOLFE'S 


SCHIEDAM  AROMATIC  SCHNAPPS. 


AN    OLD    MEDICINE    REVIVED. 

Tu  days  of  yore,  as  we  have  all  learned  from  the  old  folks,  no  medicine 
was  so  useful  to  have  in  the  house,  or  so  good  in  many  diseases,  as  Pure 
Holland  Gin.  For  a  longtime,  however,  the  genuine  article  could  not  be 
had,  until  it  bad  appeared  under  the  new  name  of  Aromatic  Schiedam 
Schnapps.  The  article  is  manufactured  exclusively  by  Udolpho  Wolfe,  at 
Schiedam,  in  Holland,  and  put  up  in  small  and  large  bottles  expressly  for 
medicinal  purposes,  with  his  name  on  the  seal,  bottle,  and  label,  to  protect 
it  against  counterfeits.  What  a  great  blessing  it  is  for  persons  residing  in 
the  interior  of  our  Southern  and  Western  States,  that  they  can  now  pur- 
chase a  pure  and  uuadulterated  article  of  ein  with  confidence,  without 
the  least  liability  of  deception  or  dissatisfaction.  That  it  will  tend  to  di- 
minish the  consumption  of  the  common  deleterious  and  spurious  liquors 
which  now  almost  exclusively  pervade  this  country,  admits  of  no  doubt. 
We  consider  the  medical  profession  and  the  traveling  community  are  un- 
der obligations  to  Mr.  Wolfe. 

To  insure,  however,  obtaining  the  genuine  article,  ask  for  Wolfe's  Schie- 
dam Aromatic  Schnapps  and  look  for  the  legitimate  trade-mark— W.  A.  S. 
For  sale  by  all  Druggists,  Grocers  and  Liquor  Dealers. 

ZISKA    INSTITUTE, 

1606  Van  Ness  Avenue. 

French,  German  and  English  Day  and  Boarding  School  for  young 
ladies  and  children. 
A  refined  home  with  the  best  educational  advantages. 

Next  Term  Opens  August  1,  1892. 

MME.  B.  ZISKA,  M.  A.,  Principal. 
Mr.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

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Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (18th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  his  residence,  or  at  the 
residence  of  the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 

MRS.  R.    G.  LEWIS, 

FORMERLY    OF    THURLOW    BLOCK, 
HAS  REMOVED  TO 

531    SUTTER    STREET. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


WHEN    JOE    McAULIFFE    FELL. 


This  is  the  rockiest  of  years 

For  favorite  sons  to  bloom; 
Their  course  ts  marked  by  care  and  tears, 

And  grief  and  woe  and  gloom. 
In  tender  acaents  now  we  speak 

Of  those  once  loved  so  well, 
And  even  freedom  did  not  shriek 

When  Joe  McAuliffe  fell. 

The  tanneries  are  decked  with  crepe, 

No  merry  voices   sing 
The  praise  of  him  of  mighty  shape 

Who  once  plowed  'round  the  ring. 
The  umptarara's  silent  now. 

The  boom-der-ay  is  mute, 
And  quiet  men  are  counting  how 

They  lost  on  the  galoot. 

They  try  to  think  how,  long  ago, 

His  hide  was  full  of  vim, 
And  how  they  used  to  yell  for  Joe, 

And  bet  their  cash  on  him. 
But  now  the  rolling,  surging  earth 

Is  but  a  howling  sham, 
And  he  they  loved  is  hardly  worth 

A  continental  d . 

The  raven's   croaking  "Nevermore" 

Comes  like  a  prophecy; 
Alack,  there's  none  so  bruised  and  sore, 

And  black  and  blue  as  he. 
There's  consolation  in  that  fact, 

Although  when  all  is  said, 
We're  sorry  Goddard  hasn't   cracked 

That  fat  and  pudding  head. 

But  let  us  gather  round  and   build 
A  grave  for  him  who's  gone; 

For  him  the  bungling  Barrier  killed 
When  hope  was  at  its  dawn. 

We'll  raise  a  shaft  of  feathers  white, 
And  then  call  out  the  club 

To  read  the  epitaph  we'll  write: 


Hie  jacet  just  a  dub." 


Carl  Smith. 


THE    FLANNEL    COTILLION. 


San  Rafael. 

DEAR  NEWS  LETTER:  As  all  the  world  and  his  wife  want  to 
know  how  we  enjoyed  ourselves  at  the  flannel  cotillion,  at 
the  suggestion  of  the  girls  I  scribble  off  these  few  words  to  tell 
you  what  a  lovely  time  we  had.  The  weather  was  simply  broil- 
ing, and  every  one  had  melted  or  roasted  all  day  looking  at  the 
tennis  matches.  But  when  the  night  came  and  the  dining-room 
was  prepared,  and  the  band  tuned  up,  they  were  all  ready  to  go 
in.  The  men  alone  were  expected  to  do  the  flannel  act,  but  even 
they  did  not  all  adhere  to  it.  Between  you  and  me  there's  mighty 
few  that  look  well  in  neglige.  Ed.  Greenway's  suit  looked  for  all 
the  world  like  a  loose  bathing  costume.  Now,  I  know  he'll  say 
that  I'm  some  spiteful  creature  whom  he  did  not  ask  to  dance,  by 
my  saying  this;  but  in  reality  I  had  two  lovely  waltzes  with  him, 
and  he  said  1  had  his  step  to  a  T.  (I  hope  I  don't  roll).  Well,  to  go 
back  to  the  cotillion.  There  were  what  Will  8herwood  calls  no  end 
of  pretty  girls  present.  Apropos*  of  Will,  ain't  he  just  grand!  He 
always  looks  so  spick  and  span;  even  the  heat  didn't  spoil  his 
collars.  Well,  I  suppose  you'll  want  to  know  who  was  the  belle? 
Hard  to  say,  for  all  the  girls  looked  real  sweet,  and  the  married 
ladies  looked  fine.  Mrs.  Schmieden  was  elegantly  dressed.  Ain't 
it  lucky  for  her  that  Ed.  don't  hanker  after  matrimony,  and  so 
there's  only  one  Mrs.  Schmieden,  now  as  ever.  MayHoffman 
and  Alice  Ames  had  most  of  the  local  beaux's  attention.  You 
know  they  used  to  live  over  here,  so  no  doubt  got  well  acquainted. 
May  is  an  awfully  nice  girl,  and  a  favorite  everywhere.  Southard, 
her  brother,  is  a  pet,  too.  Ward  McAllister  was  real  devoted  to  a 
pretty  married  woman,  but  I'm  not  going  to  mention  names, 
because  Charley  Hanlon  told  me  it  was  "bad  policy,"  and 
he  ought  to  know,  I  suppose,  being  a  lawyer.  Mrs.  Steinhart 
looked  gorgeous.  She  and  Mrs.  Seligman  kept  together  a  good 
deal.  The  Robert  Osnards  and  Basil  Heathcotes  also  seemed  to 
like  each  other's  society.  Misses  Houghton  and  Holbrook  had 
such  pretty  gowns  on,  it  was  easy  to  see  they  had  rich  pa's.  May 
Tubbs  appeared  to  prefer  the  veranda  of  the  Rafael  to  that  at 
Del  Monte,  but  I  guess,  as  all  her  folks  are  booked  for  the  latter 
place,  she'll  have  to  go  too.  A  girl  who  received  a  good  deal  of  at- 
tention was  Miss  Jennie  Sherwood,  only  daughter  of  the  wealthy 
widow  (who  herself  is  quite  a  belle).  They  have  been  living  for 
some  time  in  the  East,  but  now  tney  seem  to  have  half  decided 
to  return  to  California  for  good  once  more.  No  relation  to  Will 
or  Harry,  but  old-time  friends  of  the  Sharon-Fry  crowd.  My! 
didn't  Lieut.  Blake  have  a  good  time!  I  told  him  once  that  I 
just  did  wish  Myra  could  see  him.     He  and  Lieut.  Stevens  wore 


very  swell  white  suits  with  broad  white  braid,  and  they  look 
stunning,  and  no  mistake.  Helen  Walker  and  Jennie  Hobbs  had 
a  good  time,  to  judge  from  the  lots  of  partners  they  had.  Chauncey 
St.  John  kept  watching  Ed.  Greenway  when  he  led  the  figures  as 
if  he  could  do  better.  Everyone  said  how  much  alike  the  alpha- 
betical Nuttall  couple  are.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Morrow  looked  on. 
So  did  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bigelow.  Mrs.  Edith  Blanding  Coleman  has 
a  good  time  always.  She  is  as  merry  as  a  cricket  and  as  bright 
as  a  lucifer  match,  when  it  is  struck  real  hard.  Harry  Durbrow 
and  his  sister,  and  the  Mayo  Newhalls  tried  iced  lemonade  be- 
tween dances;  so  did  most  people,  for  that  matter.  Some  ill- 
natured  old  hen  was  saying  it  was  astonishing  how  the  folks 
kept  going  over  to  the  bar  all  the  time,  but,  my  gracious,  I'd  like 
to  know  if  any  person  in  the  world  would  not  like  to  leave  a 
heated  ball-room  and  stroll  in  the  soft  moonlight  over  to  the 
Casino,  especially  if  accompanied  by  a  swept  partner.  Evidently 
«  Yes,"  to  judge  by  the  numbers  who  did  it. 

Well,  the  long  and  short  of  it  was,  the  cotillion  was  a  success, 
even  if  the  heavy  swells  were  at  Del  Monte.  Sam.  Murphy  says 
he  is  going  there  for  the  rest  of  the  summer.  Guess  every  one 
knows  why!  One  of  the  prettiest  girls  at  the  hotel  was  Miss 
Helen  Walker.  She  wore  the  California  Lawn  Tennis  Club's 
colors. 

Well,  good-bye.  Kitty. 


THE    EARL    OF    WARWICK'S    SEAT. 


THE  Prince  of  Wales  and  the  Duke  of  York  were  recently 
guests  of  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  at  Warwick  Castle.  The  Earl 
of  Warwick's  magnificent  seat  is  one  of  the  most  historically  in- 
teresting edifices  in  the  country,  the  ancient  Keep  having  been 
erected  by  a  daughter  of  King  Alfred  the  Great,  and  every  part 
of  the  Castle  teeming  with  unique  associations.  The  pictures 
alone  are  of  immense  value  and  interest,  and  amongst  them  are 
such  famous  masterpieces  as  Van  Dyck's  portrait  of  Charles  I., 
in  complete  armour  and  riding  a  gray  horse,  and  Peter  Paul 
Rubens'  superb  portrait  of  Ignatius  Loyola.  Relics  of  the  days 
of  Warwick  the  King-maker,  and  of  the  struggle  between  the 
Cavaliers  and  Roundheads  are  plentiful,  and  the  ancient  crest  of 
the  House,  the  Bear  and  Ragged  Staff,  is  also  in  evidence.  Of 
Guy,  Earl  of  Warwick,  one  of  the  Seven  Champions  of  Christen- 
dom, the  Castle  still  contain  the  spur  and  spear,  buckler  and  bow, 
with  a  romantic  souvenir  in  the  shape  of  the  slippers  of  the  lovely 
Phyllis  whose  beauty  inspired  his  heroic  deeds.  The  old  story 
goes  that  the  first  Earl  was  Arth  or  Arthgal,  a  Knight  of  the 
Round  Table,  whose  emblem  was  a  bear,  and  that  when  Morvid, 
the  second  Earl,  overcame  a  giant  in  single  combat,  despite  the 
monster  uprooting  a  whole  tree  for  a  club,  the  "  ragged  staff  " 
was  added  to  the  Warwick  insignia.  But  every  stone  of  the 
Castle  has  its  story,  and  the  Prince  of  Wales,  who  is  wonderfully 
well-informed  upon  the  history  of  all  the  great  families  of  Eng- 
land, did  not  fail  to  appreciate  keenly  the  unique  associations  of 
the  stately  building  which  was  honored  by  his  presence. 


A  CHEAP    g'ass  cutter  can   be   made  from    the   ends   of   un- 
burned  arc  light  carbons,  which  are  often  found  with  sharp  crys 
talized  points  possessing  many  of  the  properties  of  the  diamond 


July  9    1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    SUMMER    SPONGE. 
[Bt     Di     VlftHOI.] 

Sl'MMF.R  resorts  are  the  last  hope  or  many  a  person  anxious 
to  Ret  into  the  social  swim.  It  is  amusing  to  watch  the  en- 
deavors of  such  to  ingratiate  themselves  with  the  people  for 
whose  notice  they  are  pining.  Their  disappointment  would  be 
pitiable  were  it  not  that  they  so  richly  deserve  the  fate  which 
their  own  folly  brings  upon  them.  A  sojourn  at  a  summer  resort 
is  always  a  sort  of  profit  to  the  special  teacher  off  on  a  vacation. 
Musician  or  elocutionist,  it's  all  the  same.  Advantage  is  taken 
of  every  opportunity  to  pose  as  an  exponent  of  a  fad,  a  devotee 
of  an  art.  and  the  acts  of  politeness  paid  to  possible  pupils  ought 
to  meet  and  does  meet  with  success.  Many  a  failing  clientele  of 
private  pupils  is  brought  up  to  a  full  list  by  a  judicious  choice  of 
watering  places  and  a  masterly  play  for  golden  opportunities. 

The  world  is  full  of  people  who  are  anxious  to  get  something 
for  nothing.  In  order  to  accomplish  it,  they  will  resort  to  some 
very  mean  tricks.  No  descent  is  quite  to  steep  for  them.  For 
instance,  there  is  the  summer  sponge.  Sex  has  nothing  to  do 
with  it.  Take  the  man  first,  under  consideration.  Generally,  he 
is  a  big.  burly  fellow,  lubberly  in  his  appearance,  loutish  in  his 
manners,  who  does  nothing  for  the  entertainment  of  the  com- 
pany upon  which  he  thrusts  himself.  He  does  not  even  make 
himself  agreeable  to  the  ladies,  by  those  delicate  little  courtesies 
in  the  way  of  fetching  and  carrying.  He  is  never  known  to  re- 
lieve a  lady  of  her  bundle  on  the  way  from  the  boat  to  the  hotel, 
or  to  offer,  even  to  offer  to  take  her  library  book  to  the  city  for 
her.  He  monopolizes  the  best  seat  on  the  veranda,  in  the  shadiest 
spot.  He  never  allows  any  one  to  read  his  copy  of  a  weekly 
society  paper,  although  he  is  an  inveterate  appropriator  of  any 
papers  that  their  owners  may  place  temporarily  upon  a  seat 
within  radius  of  bis  clutch.  At  the  table  he  shows  forth  in  all 
his  meanness.  He  is  the  first  to  enter  the  dining-room.  Before 
he  has  been  served  with  soup  he  helps  himself  to  fruit,  picking 
out  the  most  alluring  and  luscious  from  the  dish,  and  prepares 
bis  peaches  in  advance,  so  as  to  make  sure  of  the  biggest  and  the 
best.  With  the  same  unblushing  effrontery  he  appropriates  the 
choices  slices  of  tomatoes,  the  nicest  cakes.  He  is  known  as  a 
sponge  among  his  men  acquaintances,  who  '•  shake  "  bim  on  all 
occasions.  He  never  treats,  not  because  he  is  a  total  abstainer, 
but  because  he  is  too  mean  to  spend  a  cent  on  any  one  but  him- 
self. He  drinks  at  the  table,  but  he  never,  as  do  the  other  men, 
asks  any  one  to  share  his  liquor  with  him;  but  when  a  general 
treat  is  going  on  he  comes  to  the  front  with  alacrity.  Or  if  he 
imagines  that  such  a  treat  is  soon  to  take  place,  be  is  doubly  on 
the  alert.  He  is  not  above  opening  the  window  on  the  porch, 
and  thrusting  his  head  into  the  parlor  to  call  out,  "  Don't  forget 
to  let  me  in  on  the  drinks."  Is  it  any  wonder  that  such  a  man 
is  thoroughly  detested? 

When  the  summer  sponge  is  a  woman,  she  goes  beyond  the 
man's  meanness,  because  her  opportunities  are  greater.  She  is 
on  the  spot  all  the  time.  She  has  no  scruples  about  sponging. 
She  belongs  to  the  class  who  never  take  a  daily  paper,  but  who 
borrow  one  with  unfailing  regularity,  always  neglecting  to  return 
it.  8he  appears  early  on  Saturday  morning,  soon  after  the  deliv- 
ery of  the  first  mail,  and  borrows  the  News  Lettee,  promising  to 
return  it  in  less  than  half  an  hour,  and  does  not  remember  to  do 
so  until  she  is  asked  for  it,  about  Monday  noon.  If  she  has  a 
sick  husband  she  is  able  to  sponge  just  so  much  more  extensively, 
because  then  she  is  able  to  float  around  unattacked,  and  take  up 
ber  station  at  whatever  table  in  the  dining-room  that  seems  to 
promise  the  most  in  the  way  of  good  eating.  For,  when  the  bill 
of  fare  is  about  the  same,  individuals  can  order  extras,  and  fre- 
quently do  lend  variety  to  their  meal  by  calling  for  some  dainty. 
The  summer  sponge,  by  trained  observation,  has  not  taken  long 
to  find  out  who  is  most  apt  to  do  this,  and  she  does  not  hesitate 
to  waylay  such  epicures  as  they  are  on  their  way  to  the  dining- 
room,  and  to  say,  "  I  am  going  to  eat  dinner  with  you  to-day," 
and  so  she  does,  regardless  that  often  her  advances  are  met  with 
what  a  person  who  was  not  a  pachyderm  might  regard  as  a  direct 
snub.  If  there  be  wine  on  the  table  she  helps  herself  to  it,  with- 
out being  asked,  and  does  not  hesitate  to  fill  and  refill  her  glass. 

Again,  it  is  customary  for  ladies  at  a  summer  resort,  to  offer 
little  treats  to  each  other.  Boxes  of  candy  are  opened  on  the 
porch  and  passed  around;  no  one  is  omitted  in  the  act.  They 
make  up  little  parties  for  a  trip  on  the  steam  launch,  and  invite 
their  friends  from  the  city.  They  order  lemonade  from  the  hotel, 
or  make  it  in  their  rooms,  or  pass  around  glasses  of  raspberry 
vinegar,  and  the  Madame,  the  summer  sponge,  pushes  herself 
into  all  the  parties;  she  partakes  of  all  the  treats,  enjoys  the  deli- 
cacies, and  gives  in  return — nothing.  Others  may  sing,  play, 
read  aloud  or  recite;  she  will  take  it  all  in  and  add  nothing.  She 
is  a  sponge.  Uninvited,  she  will  attach  herself  to  a  rowing  party 
and  night  after  night  enjoy  a  row,  which  costs  her  nothing.  She 
is  never  around  when  a  "  chip  in"  treat  is  being  discussed,  or  if 
she  is,  will  manage  to  escape  the  payment  of  her  share  of  the  ex- 
expenses. 

Eyes  tested  according  to  physiological  laws  of  light,  and  not  by  machin- 
ery. C.  Muller,  the  progressive  optician  and  refraction  specialist,  186 
Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


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of  Cleveland's^ 
Baking  Powder 


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than  a  heaping^ 
teaspoonful 
of  any  other. 
A  large  saving  on  a 
year's  bakings. 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 

Used  in   the   U.   S.  Army  and  by 
teachers  of  Cookery. 

*  Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it  never 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


'We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 


THE  statement  that  "  everybody  haa  a  sneaking  fondness  for 
negro  minstrelsy,  and  shows  it  openly  when  opportunity 
offers,"  was  not  a  rash  one,  at  least  ao  far  as  the  Bash  and  Hav- 
erly's  Minstrels  are  concerned.  The  little  theatre  has  been 
crowded  every  night  and  at  two  raatin6es,  the  holiday  attendance 
having  amounted  almost  to  a  "  crush."  There  is  no  doubting  the 
long-established  fact  that  Billy  Rice  is  a  genuine  humorist  in 
burnt  cork.  The  twinkle  of  bis  eye  and  the  extensive  expression 
of  his  mouth  are  but  accessories;  his  humor  emanates  (a  rare  cir- 
cumstance) from  above  them.  His  famous  lecture  is  full  enough 
of  really  good  hits  to  furnish  forth  a  column  for  a  professional 
humorous  writer,  and  many  of  them  are  so  covert  and  so  quietly 
satirical  as  to  miss  the  applause  of  the  many  and  win  the  appre- 
ciative smile  of  the  few  who  do  not  use  their  hands  at  the  theatre 
— though  they  ought  to,  by  the  way.  The  other  comedians  are 
good  supports  to  the  chief,  and  E.  M.  Kayne,  interlocutor  and 
stage  manager,  evidently  knows  how  to  hold  bis  people  in  band 
and  keep  things  from  •<  stopping  over."  The  singing  is  "up  to  the 
usual  minstrel  standard ;'  c'est  a  dire,  very  bad,  it  heard  anywhere 
else.  But  somehow  it  seems  to  fit  in  with  negro  minstrelsy  so 
naturally  that  artistic  singing  would  be  as  doubtful  a  substitute 
as  electric  lights  in  a  circus  for  the  time-honored  tallow  candles 
in  a  hollow  square.  Ellwood — "  the  Great  Ellwood  " — is  an  ex- 
ception. However,  he  isn't  a  nigger  minstrel  at  all,  but  simply 
the  handsomest  and  beat  dresaed  woman  on  the  stage.  Mr.  Ell- 
wood has  evidently  been  original  enough  to  learn  how  to  sing  be- 
fore making  his  living  as  a  vocalist,  and  his  clean,  accurately 
taken  tones  would  be  accepted  from  any  opera  singer.  Among 
the  best  specialty  performers  are  the  banjoist,  E.  M.  Hall;  Kissell, 
whose  manipulation  of  musket  and  bayonet  ia  a  marvel  of  skill 
in  balancing  and  handling;  and  Harry  Constantine,  a  dancerwho 
almost  startled  the  audience  as  he  bounded  and  pirouetted  in  front 
of  the  drop  scene  during  a  change  of  setting.  The  limited  space 
prevented  Constantire  from  really  showing  his  mettle,  but  next 
week  he  will  appear  in  his  own  act.  It  should  be  noted  that  the 
ensemble  ia  decidedly  improved  by  the  omission  of  the  "  Court 
first-part  "  of  last  year,  with  its  King  of  Spades,  Jack  of  trumps, 
and  the  rest  of  the  deck,  and  of  other  features  extraneous  to 
minstrelsy  as  it  was.  There  are  people  enough,  and  the  absence 
of  the  unintended  absurdity  is  a  relief.  Next  week  a  new  bill 
will  doubtless  insure  a  renewal  of  this  week's  success. 

#  ■   w 

"  What's  in  a  name"  after  all?  The  title  of  Charlie  Reed's 
new  play,  Hoss  and  Hoss,  would  create  a  natural  prejudice,  but  on 
its  first  performance,  Monday  night,  at  the  California,  the  preju- 
dice, if  it  existed,  died  as  natural  a  death.  Farce-comedy  calls 
for  no  criticism;  it  is  what  the  people  make  it.  Hoss  and  Hoss 
has  considerable  original  ingenuity  of  construction,  but  whatever 
its  merits  or  faults,  the  actors  in  it  are  undeniably  bright  and 
clever.  The  wildly  effervescent  uproariousness  of  William  Col- 
lier's style,  and  the  quaint  simplicity  and  irresistible  unconscious- 
ness of  Charlie  Reed  suggest  to  every  auditor  the  obvious  impres- 
sion that  as  hoss  and  hoss  they  are  "a  whole  team."  Arthur 
Moulton— Birdie  Hoss— ia  graceful  and  debonair  aa  ever,  and 
easily  leads  the  singing,  aside  from  the  "specialty"  vocalists. 
The  dance  done  by  Moulton,  Baker,  May  Jordan  and  Allene  Cra- 
teris  one  of  the  prettiest  things  in  the  performance,  beside  being 
novel.  Dancing,  indeed,  is  a  feature  of  Hoss  and  Hoss,  which  ap- 
pears to  have  captured  the  entire  "  Lightfoot  Brigade."  Louise 
Allen  (Mrs.  Collier)  naturally  carries  off  the  ladies'  prize  in  this 
line,  but  her  pretty  competitors  are  elose  after  her,  if  not  neck- 
and-neck— notably,  May  Jordan,  the  popular  little  grotesque 
dancer.  Charlie  Reed's  songs  are  full  of  his  own  original  drollery 
in  subjects  and  rendering,  even  the  undying  "Tamale"  song  hav- 
ing received  a  new  touch.  Collier's  ditties  are  equally  charac- 
teristic, and  James  B.  Gentry  sings  a  song,  with  a  tie  between 
the  stanzas,  which  ia  full  of  the  prevailing  oddity,  and  captures 
the  house.  Arthur  Moulton  and  David  Baker  make  a  hit  in  their 
bong,  "  The  New  York  Beau  Brummel."  As  a  matter  of  course, 
Charlie  Reed  makes  of  lawyer  Hoss  rather  a  burlesque  than  a 
character  of  either  farce  or  comedy,  but  he  does  it  so  well  aa  lo 
justify  his  title  of  "  plain  comedian,"  "  in  black  and  white." 
*  *  * 

Following  Francis  Wilson  at  the  Baldwin  next  Monday  night 
will  come  Gloriana,  which  is  pronounced  one  one  of  the  best  and 
brightest  of  Manager  Charles  Froh man's  many  comedy  successes. 
Gloriana  is  the  work  of  Jamea  Mortimer,  and  is  founded  on  a 
French  comedy,  True  d' Arthur.  Like  Wilkinson's  Widows,  All  the 
Comforts  of  Home,  and  other  Frohman  productions,  Mr.  Morti- 
mer's comedy-farce  is  not  only  bright  in  dialogue  and  amusing  m 
situation,  but  its  tone  is  thoroughly  clean  and  wholesome. 
Gloriana  ia  a  dazzling  young  widow,  who,  before  the  play  opens, 
haa  fallen  in  love  with  a  young  English  diplomat.  He,  however, 
loves  and  is  engaged  to  marry  the  pretty  daughter  of  a  rich  tan- 
ner.   All  is   arranged  for  the  wedding,  when   suddenly   appears 


upon  the  scene  Gloriana,  still  infatuated  with  the  handsome  dip- 
lomat. To  cool  her  unwelcome  ardor,  he  poses  as  a  valet,  and 
paaaes  off  his  own  man  as  the  master.  To  his  dismay,  Gloriana 
romantically  declares  her  resolve  to  raise  hira  from  his  lowly  po- 
sition. In  the  meantime  her  maid,  who  loves  the  real  valet,  is 
broken-hearted  at  rinding  him,  as  she  supposes,  so  far  above  her 
own  station;  while,  to  make  matters  worse,  a  Russian  count,  in 
love  with  Gloriana,  appears,  and  gets  the  valet  and  diplomat 
dreadfully  mixed  up,  challenging  the  former  as  his  rival,  etc. 
The  fun  arising  from  these  complications  continues,  till  finally 
all  is  cleared  up,  and  the  curtain  comes  down  on  three  pairs  of 
happy  lovers.  Mr.  Froh  man's  company  includes  some  of  the 
best- known  and  most  talented  people  on  the  comedy  stage, 
among  them,  E.  S.  Henley,  Henrietta  Crossman,  May  Robson, 
Wm.  Robson,  Edwin  Stevens  and  others. 

#  *  * 

The  opening  of  the  new  and  beautiful  Stockwell's  Theatre  took 
place  Thursday  evening,  with  the  Daly  company  in  As  You  Like 
It,  but  too  late  for  review  in  this  column  Ada  Rehan  should 
make  a  spirited  and  unconventional  Rosalind.  Monday  next  ihe 
company  will  give  The  Last  Word.  During  this  engagement 
twenty  five  performances  in  all  will  be  given,  and  the  company 
will  then  return  direct  to  Daly's  Theatre,  New  York. 

#  »  » 

Clover,  Von  Suppe's  comic  opera  in  a  prologue  and  three  acts, 
will  be  next  week's  attraction  at  the  Tivoli.  Its  postponement 
from  last  Monday  night  was  on  account  of  the  continued  illness 
of  Gracie  Plaisted,  who  was  cast  for  Fanny.  The  Pirates  of  Pen- 
zance was  substituted,  Tillie  Salinger  making  her  re-appearances 
as  Mabel. 

#  «  # 

Visitors  to  the  Baldwin  last  Monday  night  were  struck  by  the 
appearance  of  neatly  lettered  business  tags  attached  to  the  back 
of  every  seat  by  ribbons  in  the  patriotic  colors— red,  white  and 
blue.  These  proved  to  be  announcements  of  Gloriana.  This  clever 
advertising  dodge  originated  with  Mr.  Ted  Marks,  Mr.  Frohman'a 
advance  agent.  "  If  you  put  your  advance  notice  on  the  previous 
week's  programme,"  said  Mr.  Marks,  "people  may  read  it  and 
they  may  not;  but  every  visitor  is  bound  to  examine  this  con- 
spicuous card  and  to  see  what  is  on  it."  Mr.  Marks  is  a  graduate 
of  San  Francisco's  commercial  schools  and  gives  them  the  credit 
of  his  business  success.  The  card  scheme  is  certainly  a  clever 
one  and  bound  to  reach  the  public. 

It  was  amusing  to  watch  the  mystified  expression  on  the  faces 
of  the  Bush-street  patrons  last  Monday  night  as  they  looked 
from  stage  to  programme,  in  the  pnzzled  attempt  to  reconcile  an 
evident  "  discrepancy  somewhere."  The  play-bills  distributed 
were  old  onea  from  some  Eastern  theatre  but,  through  the  fore- 
thought of  Mr.  Haverly's  representative,  Wm.  J.  Block,  a  few 
correct  bills  were  secured  and  given  to  the  press  representatives. 
"  You  see,"  said  Mr.  Block,  "  the  confusion  arose  from  its  being 

the  Fourth  of  July,  and  " "  Yes,  I  see,"  murmured  the  too 

astute  listener;  »  celebration,  of   course,  things    will  get  mixed  a 

little "     "  No,  you  don't  see,"  protested   the  indignant  young 

traveling  man;  "it  was  nothing  of  the  sort;  the  fact  was  only 
that,  being  the  Fourth  of  July,  all  the  printing  offices  were 
closed,  and  we  couldn't  get  out  our  programmes.  But  it  will  be 
all  right  to-morrow  night." 

One  result  of  the  situation  was  that  Mr.  Delmore,  who  dis- 
appears as  an  old  man  and  cornea  back  in  four  seconds  a  young 
one,  lost  his  applause,  the  audience,  without  the  explanatory 
lines,  evidently  taking  him  on  his  reappearance,  for  another 
man. 

#  •  * 

Audiences  have  to  endure  some  very  trying  moments  from 
poor  acting,  but,  as  Betty  Cobb  says  in  The  Dodd  Family,  "  May- 
nials,  praise  be  to  God,  can  make  thimsilves  very  unpleasant, 
too,"  and  audiences  sometimes  Ret  back  at  the  stage  in  good 
style.  For  example,  that  at  the  California,  Tuesday  night,  which 
resolutely  refused  to  catch  the  phonetic  connection  between 
"  lair  "  and  "  layer,"  when  Charlie  Reed  said  "  the  bird  returned 
to  his  lair,"  and  was  corrected  by  the  omniscient  interlocutor. 
Poor  Charlie  made  several  gasping  efforts  to  work  it  through  the 
layer  of  fat  down  to  the  gray  matter  (if  any)  in  the  auditorial 
skull,  but  it  was  useless,  and  he  gave  it  up. 

*:-  *  * 

Arthur  F.  Clark,  business  manager  for  Chas.  Frohman's  stock 
company,  is  in  town,  in  the  interest  of  The  Lost  Paradise,  soon  to 
appear  at  the  Baldwin.  Mr.  Clark  is  a  popular  Eastern  news- 
paper man,  having  been  for  several  years  connected  with  the 
editorial  staff  of  various  Chicago  papers.  After  a  long  association 
with  the  dramatic  department  of  the  Chicago  Times,  he  became 
dramatic  editor  of  the  Chicago  Mail,  from  which  position  he 
naturally  found  his  way  into  theatrical  management,  under  Man- 
ager Frohman,  whose  numerous  important  ventures  require  many 
hands  and  the  shrewdest  of  brains. 

#  *  * 

Kirke  La  Shelle,  E.  D.  Willard's  manager  last  season,  tells  a 
atory  of  Mr.  Clark  which  will  bear  repeating.  "  I  never  shall 
forget,"  he  says,  "  the  time  when  Clark  interested  himself  in  a 


July  9,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


chmritv  .  »ne,  and  wilh  wbit  disastrous  result.  While  on  the 
Jin H.  Mr.  Clark  was  one  day  called  upon  by  several  ladies  and 
urged  to  interest  himself  in  the  case  of  a  poor  widow  with  Ave 
small  children  starving  in  a  hovel  somewhere  on  Western  avenue. 
Clark  threw  himself  into  the  case  with  enthusiasm,  and  wrote 
such  thrilling  and  pathetic  appeals  that  considerable  money  soon 
poured  into  the  hands  of  Judge  Tally,  the  well-known  Chicago 
jurist,  whom  Clark  bad  named  as  the  receiving  agent.  Unfor- 
tunately, however,  in  his  ardent  efforts  to  arouse  public  sympa- 
thy. Clark  bad  called  the  tenement  occupied  by  the  poor  family 
•a  rattle-trap,  through  the  roof  of  which  the  elements  entered,' 
et<-.  The  landlord,  seeing  the  description  of  bis  rented  property, 
grew  exceeding  wroth,  and  presenting  himself  before  Judge  Tully, 
swooped  in  for  back  rent  all  the  money  collected.  Useless  was 
the  Judge's  protest  against  his  heartlessness.  *  If  tbey  hadn't 
called  my  bouse  a  rattle-lrap,'  he  stormed;  <  they've  been  in  it  a 
year   without  paying  a  cent,  and  they  could  have  stayed  there, 

but a  rattle-trap,  indeed!     I'll  never  get  another  tenant  after 

that,  and  they've  got  to  pay.'  Since  that  Air.  Clark  has  steered 
clear  of  charity,  except  in  his  private  capacity." 

•  *  * 

May  Robson,  the  servant  girl  in  Gtoriana,  is  so  changed  by 
her  eccentric  make-op  so  as  to  be  hardly  recognizable  by  those 
who  remember  her  as  the  spinster  in  the  original  The  Private 
Secretory  company.  Miss  Robson  is  a  pretty  and  winsome  little 
woman  and  endowed  with  a  variety  of  talents.  It  is  she  who 
designs  the  tasteful  and  novel  souvenirs  which  have  become  a 
featnre  of  Mr.  Frohman's  management.  Her  fertility  of  inven- 
tion is  remarkable,  and  the  souvenirs  she  plans  are  mostly  pretty 
articles  of  use  as  well  as  ornament  to  the  dressing  table  or  writ- 
ing desk. 

*  *  * 

Henrietta  Crossman,  for  several  years  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Lyceum  Stock  company,  is  the  widow  in  Qloriana,  and  is 
said  to  make  one  of  the  most  captivating  of  that  dangerous  class. 

Manager  Alfred  Bouvier  has  somewhat  recovered  from   his 

late  attack  of  inflammatory  rheumatism  and  has  gone  to  Paso  de 
Robles  Springs  for  two  week.  His  friends  will  be  glad  to  hear  of 
the  abatement  of  an  illness  which  at  one  time  looked  serious,  and 
will  hope  that  the  famous  mud  baths  will  work  a  complete  res- 
toration.——Young  Salvini's  new  play  for  this  season  is  called 
The  Heir  of  Grammont.  He  and  his  manager,  Mr.  Wilkinson,  are  in 
Europe  securing  models  for  scenery  and  costuming..^— With  The 
Lost  Paradise,  Monday,  July  18th,  begins  the  ninth  season  of  the 
Baldwin  Theatre  under  its  present  management.  That  it  has  been 
an  able  and  energetic  one  the  popularity  and   high   standing  of 

this    tbreatre   will   amply   testify. David   Henderson's   latest 

spectacle,  All  Baba,  is  said  to  eclipse  even  its  two  bril- 
liant predecessors,  The  Crystal  Slipper  and  Sinbad.  — — 
Appolyon      is      the      name      of      a      new      comic      opera     in 

preparation    by  the   Carleton   Opera   Company. Dr.   Carver's 

Wild  America  show  was  a  prominent  feature  of  the  Fourth 
of  July  parade.  The  native  sons  in  feathers  and  war 
paint  were  appropriately  American.-  Fred  La  Greene,  the  actor 
in  Moran's  Theatre,  New  York,  who  killed  another  actor  with 
two  blows  of  his  fist,  must  be  a  fair  athlete.  He  should  join  Sul- 
livan's company.  Her  name,  by  the  way,  was  Mabel  Leighton. 

Marie  Wainwright  is  summering  in  Tacoma. Eugenia  Blair, 

whose  Virginia  in  Frederick  Warde's  production  of  Virginius  was 
&  delicately  limned  picture  not  easily  to  be  forgotten,  will  this 
season  travel  with  her  husband,    Nat   Downing,   under  the  man- 

agementof  Wm.  R.  McConnell. Pretty  Rose  Chesneau,  formerly 

one  of  the  Little  Puck  beauties,  is  here  with  her  husband,  Arthur 
Moulton  of  Hoss  and  Hoss.  Her  absence  from  the  stage  is  due  to 
the  fact  that  a  little  five-months-old   boy  claims  her  attention    for 

the   present.' Arthur   Moulton's  new  play,  with  which  he  will 

travel  after  his  present  engagement,  is  called  A  Dark  Horse.  It 
should  win. 

OUTBOUND.— Bliss  Carman,  m  the  July  Century. 

A  lonely  sail  in  the  vast  sea-room, 

I  have  put  out  for  the  port  of  gloom. 

The  voyage  is  far  on  the  trackless  tide, 

The  watch  is  long,  and  the  seas  are  wide. 

The  headlands  blue  in  the  sinking  day 

Kiss  me  a  hand   on  the  outward   way. 

The  fading  gulls,  as  tbey  dip  and  veer, 

Lift  me  a  voice  that  is  good  to  hear. 

The  great  winds  come,  and  the  heaving  sea, 

The  restless  mother,  is  calling  me. 

The  cry  of  her  heart  is  lone  and  wild, 

Searching  the  night  for  her  wandered  child. 

Beautiful,  weariless  mother  of  mine. 

In  the  drift  of  doom  I  am  here,  I  am  thine. 

Beyond  the  fathom  of  hope  or  fear, 

From  bourn  to  bourn  of  the  dusk   I  steer. 

Swept  on  in  the  wake  of   the   stars,  in  the  stream 

Of  a  roving  tide,  from  dream  to  dream. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Ax  H.vMu  A  Co.       ...Proprietor*.  |  Alfrkd  Bouvicr Manager 

r.HS'v'^,"0c"»a!',J',1>'  ' N°"   York'   P'rl8  *ui  L»-l"»'»  BrtillMI 

GLORIANA. 

ca?tifo>rnpr,frivr,HSir":i';',,'"10'1J,>'  MJ'  Charles  Frohmaii.  with  Hie  original 
out  for  nearly  150  nights i  In  New  v..r*  City.  Ur.  K.  J.  Beuley  Mr  Fred- 
erlckBourl,  Mr  Bdwiiisiercn,.,  Mr.  Charles  B.  Wells,  Mr°  Joseph  Allen 

1  nomas  A.  wise,  Mr.  Henry  Bobson,  preceded  every  evening  al  8:16  by 
THE    MAJOR'S    APPOINTMENT. 

COMING— Mr.  Charles  Frohman's  Btoot  Company  in  "The  I.ost  Paradise." 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

ALHiYMAN.tCo Proprietors.  |J.  J.  Gottlob    Manager. 

hUarioiuMt,  °'  'he  favorites'  KEEB  AS,"D  WMJUMB,  in  the  howling, 
■HOSS    AND    HOSS I" 

*£ffiESEEl>ES&j8£l  fre8hUeSS  ,nd  "W*"*-    P^  M"sic- 
COMING-Another  Novelty— TUXEDO. 


THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

M.  B.  Lkavitt Proprietor.  |  Chas.  P.  Hall Manager. 

Positively  last  week  I 

HAVERLY'S    MASTODON    MINSTRELS, 

,*?5Uw  ?iV.uge  of  Programme.    Next  week,  July  18th,  MARIE  HUBERT 
rKOHMAN  m 

THE    WITCH. 


TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night  !    Gilbert  &  Sullivan's  Satire, 

PIRATES  OF  PENZANCE  I 

Monday,  July  11,  CLOVER.  Reappearance  of  MISS  TILLIE  SALINGER. 
Popular  Pricks  25c.  and  50c- 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse  Business  Manager. 

:  The  Most  MasulAcent  and  Perfectly  Eqnlpped  Play- 
house In  America. 

Dedicated  with  AlUI  si  1I\  DALY'S  COMPANY  la 

AS     YOU     LIKE     IT  I 

Saturday  matinee  and  Saturday  evening;. 

Every  performance  under  the  personal  direction  of  AUGUST/IN  DALY. 

WEEK  of  Monday,  July  It.    Every  evening  (Sunday  excepted).  Matinee 
Saturday,  Ma.  DALY'S  Comedy,  THE  LAST  UOKD  ! 

PRICES. 

Orchestra  and  Dress  Circle   ' $2  00 

Balcony    $2,  $1  50  and   l  00 

Gallery  Reserved  ...       sn 

Boxes  (according  to  location)     $15,  ji2  and  10  00 

General  Admission i  00 

Gallery  Admission 50 

Regular  Sale  of  seats  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s,  Sutter  and  Kearny  Sts 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

_A.Tasolvi.tely      Fire-proof. 

Central  to  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  .every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  KINZJLER,  Manager. 

FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 

Dl  AHIAC  Knabe,    Haines, 

rIMIlWd  Bush  <fcGerts,  Mothers. 

"  ™^^^  CashorinstallrasntB.  Rented 
and  Repaired.     Please  call  or  send  for  circulars. 

TsT  BANCROFT 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


A    SUPERFLUOUS    HUSBAND. 

"  TTO^  many  suits  for  divorce  have  you  on  hand?"  I  asked 
JnL  one  of  my  friends,  an  eminent  Jawyer,  whose  numerous 
conquests  make  him  an  object  of  terror  to  all  husbands. 

"  I  have  but  one,"  he  replied,  "  and  that  is  for  none  of  the  causes 
you  suppose,  neither  adultery  nor  cruel  treatment.  If  you  wish  to 
use  the  case  as  the  plot  of  a  play,  I'll  make  it  known  to  you." 

"  On  what  plea,  then,  is  the  demand  for  divorce  based?" 

"  On  the  dread  of  seeing  again  one  from  the  other  world." 

"  I  do  not  understand." 

"  You  know  Mme.  A.  de  B ?" 

11  Of  course;  but  I  thought  her  the  most  loving,  the  most  beloved 
wife  in  the  world;  also  a  devoted  mother." 

"  Exactly  what  I  shall  say  in  court.' ' 

11  As  for  her  husband,  he  is  a  true  gentleman,  loyal,  obliging,  and 
of  spotless  reputation." 

"  Again  what  I  shall  say." 

"  And  those  people  wish  to  separate?" 

My  legal  friend  enjoyed  for  a  few  moments  the  perplexity  he  was 
causing  me,  and  then  told  me  the  strange  story  here  transcribed. 

11  Mme.  A.  de  it ,  who  is  not  yet  thirty-two  years  old,  and 

scarcely  appears  thirty-one,  has  her  name  on  all  the  subscriptions 
for  charity,  and  is  cited  at  all  fashionable  routs.  Seeing  the  eager- 
ness and  zest  which  she  displays  for  enjoyment,  and  the  freshness 
and  bloom  of  her  beauty,  one  would  hardly  suppose  she  were  com- 
pensating herself  for  sad  days  in  the  past.  She  has  been  married 
five  years,  or  rather  re-married,  for  at  twenty  she  was  the  wife  of  one 
of  the  Bourse's  most  reckless  speculators,  who  left  her  a  widow  by 
a  death  so  tragic  that  it  is  yet  remembered.     One  morning,  seven 

years  ago,  we  learned  that  Jacques  de  T ,  the  well-known  club 

man  and  social  favorite,  had  been  found  dead  in  his  bed  at  his  coun- 
try property  of  G ,  his  face  mutilated  and  brains  scattered  over 

his  pillow.    It  was  at  first  thought  he  had  been  assassinated;  it  was 

winter  and  the  house  isolated  and  unoccupied.    M.  de  T had 

come  there  to  search  for  some  account  books  he  needed.  Owner  of 
a  large  manufactory  in  the  neighborhood,  he  often  made  such  trips, 
leaving  his  wife  for  a  day  at  Paris.  An  old  gardener,  who  lodged  in 
a  cottage  a  short  distance  off,  waited  upon  him. 

As  soon,  however,  as  the  affairs  of  the  unfortunate  man  were  in- 
vestigated, it  was  no  longer  possible  to  doubt  that  he  had  committed 
suicide.  He  had,  also,  a  banking  house  near  the  Rue  Lafitte,  but  he 
was  totally  ruined ;  the  dot  of  his  wife,  even,  had  been  absorbed. 

Maledictions  in  plenty  were  not  lacking;  some  persons  instituted 
suits,  which  the  poor  wife  easily  had  set  aside.  She  wept  for  him 
and  regretted  him  with  all  her  heart.  He  had  been  a  loving  and 
generous  husband.  She  was  the  most  earnest,  most  correct  and 
most  beautiful  widow,  in  her  artless  weeds,  that  one  could  wish  for. 
She  returned  to  her  own  family,  and  having  no  children  (they  had 
been  married  such  a  short  time!)  seemed  to  resnme  the  life  of  her 
girlhood,  save  her  unceasing  grief.  Complete  misfortunes  have  one 
advantage;  they  are  a  claim  to  the  privileges  of  martyrdom.  People 
pitied  her;  every  one  said  she  would  never  marry  again.  They  forgot 
that  happiness  most  abruptly  cut  short  is  often  that  which  soonest 
buds  anew. 

Monsieur  A.  de  B is  as  handsome  as  the  first  husband,  goes  less 

frequently  to  his  club,  and  has  an  assured  fortune.  He  fell  in  love 
with  a  woman  who  had  lost  hers;  how  could  she  refuse  him?  The 
second  marriage  gave  happiness  of  another  type,  less  turbulent, 
more  home-like  and  complete.    First  came  a  boy,  then  a  little  girl, 

and  when  Madame  A.  de  B made  her  annual  visit  to  the  decorous 

tomb  she  had  erected  to  the  memory  of  unlucky  T ,  it  was  almost 

with  a  smile  of  gratitude  that  sWe  prayed  for  the  dear  departed.  As 
she  fervently  recommended  him  to  divine  mercy,  she  was  certain 
her  prayers  were  heard, for  all  the  merits  of  her  first  husband  seemed 
augmented  by  the  charming  qualities  of  the  second.  One  day  Mme.  A. 

de  B received  a  letter  which  had  been  a  long  time  reaching  her.   It 

was  directed  to  Mme.  de  T ,  and  stamped  with  an  American  stamp. 

The  hand-writing  of  the  address  troubled  her,  and,  when  the  en- 
velope was  torn  open,  the  first  lines  made  her  quiver.  Was  it  a 
sacrUigious  mystification?  or  had  poor  de  T planned,  before  kill- 
ing himself,  a  deception  like  that  which  gave  R£tif  de  la  Bretonne 
the  plot  for  a  curious  novel?  Had  he  ordered  that  every  seven  years 
a  letter  should  be  delivered  to  his  wife,  to  prevent  her  grieving  for 
him,  and  persuade  her  that  he  still  lived? 

That  was  M.  A.  de  B 's  first  idea  when  his  frightened  little  wife 

brought  him  the  strange  missive,  dated  from  New  York;  but,  when 
his  emotion  was  somewhat  calmed,  in  weighing  well  its   words  and 

studying  its  probabilities,  he  was  obliged  to  acknowledge  that  T 

was  not  dead;  that  the  letter  was  indeed  from  him,  and  that  it  an- 
nounced his  return. 

But  the  suicide?  the  corpse?  the  burial?  Alas!  the  letter  had  a 
reply  for  everything. 

T related  how,  face  to  face  with  bankruptcy,  he  had  wished  at 

once  to  indemnify  his  honor  and  facilitate  for  himself  a  way  to  recon- 
quer his  lost  fortune.  "With  the  assistance  of  a  grave-digger  of  the  vil- 
lage of  G ,  he  got  possession  of  a  corpse  of  his  size  and  general  ap- 
pearance. The  occasion  had  been  waited  for  during  several  months ; 
the  grave-digger  liberally  bribed.    At  night  he  placed  the  body  in  his 


bed,  and,  when  he  had  dressed  it  in  his  linen,  fired  in  its  face  two 
pistol  shots,  which  rendered  it  absolutely  unrecognizable.  Then, 
having  accomplished  that  suicide,  in  an  empty  house,  he  escaped, 
taking  with  him  only  the  money  necessary  for  his  passage,  and  went 
to  try  his  luck  in  America. 

The  miserable  fellow  seemed  enchanted  with  his  expedient.  He 
had  the  grace,  however,  to  be  somewhat  sober  in  his  self-praises ;  but 
he  ran  on  endlessly  in  telling  of  the  sorrows  of  separation,  the 
anguish  of  that  long  voyage,  the  torture  he  had  imposed  on  himself 
in  remaining  dead  for  her,  as  he  was  for  the  rest  of  the  world.  He 
should  never  have  had  the  courage  to  persevere  in  his  task  of  re- 
habilitation if  she  had  written  to  him,  if  she  had  recalled  him !  He 
had  condemned  himself  to  seven  years  of  work,  of  silence,  of  burial. 

With  all  the  fatuity  of  a  martyr,  he  never  seemed  to  doubt  that 
she  had  remained  a  widow  and  inconsolable;  therefore,  among  the 
joys  that  he  promised  himself  in  the  future,  he  gave  the  first  place 
to  the  greatest,  that  of  consoling  her,  at  once,  suddenly.  "  Do  not 
die  of  joy  1 "  he  wrote  to  the  one  who  felt  ready  to  die  of  terror  on 
the  spot.  In  short,  he  was  very  rich,  two  or  three  times  more  so 
than  he  had  ever  been,  he  was  coming  back  to  pay  all  his  creditors, 
interest  and  principal,  to  clear  his  name,  and,  as  now  he  would  have 
no  more  cares  and  anxieties,  he  should  have  plenty  of  time  to  devote 
to  loving  his  dear  little  wife.  He  gave  fleeting  glimpses,  as  into  an 
unknown  paradise,  of  the  children,  of  whom  he  was  certain.  The 
wretch  even  made  poetry  on  that  subject,  a  millionaire's  poetry : 
Babes  would  float  through  the  heaven  of  their  inalterable  bliss  like  little 
angels,  or  little  Cupids.    That  passage  particularly  aroused  the  fury  of 

M.  A.  de  B .    As  though  they  had  needed  that  "  dead-alive  "  to 

call  forth  angels  and  loves!  Corpse  he  might  not  be,  but  at  least  he 
should  not  return  alive! 

The  second  husband's  plan  was  to  meet  number  one  pirt  way  on 
his  way  home  and  kill  him,  since  he  dared  to  come  out  of  his  legal 
tomb  under  pretext  that  he  was  not  dead.  The  official  records  would 
justify  that  murder;  nothing  would  have  to  be  changed  in  the  cer- 
tificate of  death;  nothing  effaced — but  a  man!  It  would  not  be 
a  duel,  scarcely  even  a  murder;  merely  a  case  of  legitimate  self-de- 
fense, the  stamp  that  Hamlet  gives,  on  the  ground  to  drive  back  the 
importunate  ghost.  The  idea  was  a  good  one,  and  be  must  leave  at 
once. 

"  No,  no,  not  that!"  cried  Mme.  A.  deB ,  terrified. 

Was  her  first  love,  perchance,  resussitating  with  her  firsthusband? 

"  You  take  his  part?"  demanded  No.  2,  trembling  with  jealousy 
and  horror. 

"  Ungrateful  man  1  Do  you  not  owe  to  him  our  five  years  of  hap- 
piness?" 

"  The  scoundrel  has  taken  them  back  from  me!" 

"  He  has  not  the  right." 

"  Our  marriage  is  null;  his  is  not." 

"  Null,  and  our  children?" 

"  Ah!  our  children,  our  children  !'' 

They  were  there,  the  little  hypothetical  cherubim  of  whom  the 
wanderer  spoke  in  his  letter.  They  enclosed  their  father  and  mother 
in  their  caressing  arms :  they  soothed  the  wrath  of  the  menaced  hus- 
band. The  couple  wept,  kissed,  and  ended  by  going  to  consult  my 
friend,  the  lawyer.    It  was  agreed  that  he  should  ask  for  a  divorce 

for  Mme.  A.  de  B from  her  first  husband  as  soon  as  M.  de  T 

had  been  given  to  understand  that  it  is  dangerous  for  him  to  return  to 
France.  His  escapade  is  complicated  by  a  violation  of  sepulture. 
The  gravedigger  is  dead ;  but  he,  by  his  own  avowal,  ordered  and 
paid  for  the  crime.  They  cannot  reasonably  ask  him  to  kill  himself, 
but  they  might,  possibly,  obtain  from  him  a  promise  to  continue  to 
play  dead  man  in  the  depths  of  America;  and,  if  his  probity  revives, 
let  him  furnish  the  elements  for  an  integral  payment  of  his  debts, 
without  appearing  in  the  matter;  but  that  is  a  romantic  way  out  of 
the  difficulty.  Thanks  to  M.  Naquet,  there  is  a  more  practical 
method.    They  will  obtain  a  divorce,  and  then  M.  and  Mme.  A.de 

B ,  whose  marriage  may  temporarily  be  considered  void,  will  be 

re-married. 

It  appears,  from  last  news,  that  M.  de  T is  resigned  to  that  ar- 
rangement. He  will  not  come  to  France,  and  will  let  the  divorce  be 
pronounced  against  him.  If  he  is  condemned  for  having  placed  a 
pauper's  corpse  in  his  bed  and  afterwards  in  a  handsome  tomb,  he 
will  not  protest;  he  will  pay  his  French  debts  and  become  a  natural- 
ized American,  and,  as  it  is  as  easy  to  have  in  one's  home  little 
angels  or  little  cupids  in  America  as  in  France,  he  will  not  deny  him- 
self that  happiness.  Indeed,  why?  For  he  permits  them  to  perceive 
the  true  reason  why  he  has  had  courage  to  keep  silent  for  seven 
years,  and  not  to  write  to  his  darling  wife.  It  was  because  he  would 
have  had  to  dip  his  pen  in  the  ink-bottle  of  an  American  widow.  His 
pent  up  feelings  find  relief  in  that  bit  of  spite.  At  the  end  of  seven 
years  of  an  honorable  intimacy,  and  when  the  bonds  were  less 
tightly  drawn  he  had,  indeed,  been  able  to  push  an  arm  through  his 
yielding  chains,  and  sent  the  letter  announcing  his  resurrection. 
Since  they  force  him  thereto,  however,  he  will  prove  that  he  knows 
how  to  make  the  best  of  a  losing  game. 

Once  free  in  France,  he  will  atone  for  his  "  falling-out  "  with  the 
widow  by  marrying  her.  In  America,  as  here,  that  is  the  surest  way 
to  rid  one's  self  of  a  mistress.  Louis  Ulbaoh. 

Translated  from  the  French  by  V.  E.  T. 


Julv  9.  1892. 


BAN   KK  INCIS<  <>  NBWfl  I  ETTER. 


11 


THE  IDEAL  BONIFACE. 

I  —TV  Roof  Garden  of  :  Mr.   Keentrun  (iYopriefor 

nf  Idtrutnd,  Mdl  fcy  tA*-&  Iff,  /..ir*  «</  Qotkam  i—  A  )i .    Mr. 

liirk"  .  .  .  delighted.  Mr.  Lark,  (mrprtJwf)— What  I  Mine- 
host  Keenwun .'  What  a  pleasure '  , /./-id*  Aim  antlf  and  grout 
eonidential.)  Say,  I'm  coming  down  to  Idlewind  next  week  to 
spend  .  .  .  yes.  same  party.  What*  .  .  .  ah,  thanks!  .  .  . 
Same  terms  as  last  year?  .  .  .  ah,  (hanks!  Let's  have  a  small 
bottle!  (They  grow  rery  exclustn  <-ivr  the  «imc,  uhiie  Mr.  Keenutm 
flashes  hit  ken't  egg  diamond  in  the  ttjrt  of  the  hypnotized  damsels  ) 

II.—  Th'  Office  of  Idlewind,  i:drn-i>y-ihe.Sea,  5  P.  M.  En. 
Iff  Mr.  Lark  much  agitated,  scanning  the  corridor  lest  he  spy  an  ac. 
•fuaint'iurf.  Sees  Mr.  Keenwun,  whose  look  of  confidence  inspires  him. 
Mr.  Lark —  Ah!  mineuost  Keenwun!  .  .  .  delighted!  Mr.  Keen- 
wan — Ah,  Mr — er  Browne!  .  .  .  charmed.  [Turns  register  around 
and  hands  Mr.  iAirk  a  pen,  trith  which  thf-  latter  writes  with  a  flourish 
■  •.if-  gmd  Jfrt,  /at.  P.  ISrowne,  Jersey  Ctty."  Mr,  Lark  [in  a  whisper) 
Serve  dinner  in  same  private  dining-room  .  .  .  Don't  forget 
those  crabs,  now  .  .  .  Yes,  three  wines  and  a  champagne.  Let 
everything  be —  Mr.  Keenwun  [with  a  silencing  gesture) — Leave 
that  to  me!  .  .  .  (J/r.  Lark  trips  off  as  if  he  were  treading  on  birds' 
egg$.) 

Art  III. — Same  place  9  P.  M.  Enter  a  tall,  dark-complexioned  man 
u Hh  t>'>th  hands  in  his  side  overcoat  pockets.  Looks  about  stealthily,  then 
with  the  air  of  one  suppjessing  a  terrildc  mental  excitement,  saunters 
up  to  the  register  and  scans  it  eagerly.  Mr,  Keenwun  [blazing  his  dark- 
lantern  solitaire  full  into  his  face)— Do  you  wish  to  register,  sir? 

Stranger  [disconcerted]— N — no,  sir;  I'm — er  looking  for  a  friend 
of  mine  .  .  .  a — er — Mr.  Lark  and  wife  ...  I  understand 
that  they  are  here!  Mr.  Keenwun  [polishing  his  glasses) — Lark? 
Lark?  Never  beard  the  name  before,  sir.  Stranger  [feigning  de. 
light,  yet  not  yet  taking  his  hands  out  of  his  overcoat  pocket) — Ah, 
here  is  my  old  friend  Browne  of  Jersey  City.  Will  you  send  word 
up  and  tell  him  to  come  down?  Mr.  Keenwun — Brown?  .  .  .  Oh, 
you'll  find  him  over  there  at  the  Salvation  Army  pavillion.  You 
know  he  leads  the  prayer-meetings  there  this  week?  Stranger 
[disappointed) — Oh!  .  .  .  ah,  yes,  urn!  well,  it  must  be  another 
party.  Strange  how  such  mistakes  occur,  etc.  .  .  .  thank  you, 
sir!  [Goes  out  the  back  entrance,  draws  his  hands  out  of  his  pockets  at 
last,  each  grasping  a  38  calibre  revolver,  which  he  unloads.  Takes  out 
a  cigar,  sits  down  on  a  settee,  resolved  to  wail  for  the  last  train.) 

Act  IV. — Same  Place,  10  P.  M.  {A  heavily -veiled  lady,  extremely 
agitated,  dashed  up  to  Mr.  Boniface  Keenwun,  raising  a  veil  which  dis- 
closes an  extremely  pretty  face  half  bathed  in  tears  of  rage  and  mortifi. 
cation.)  Lady  [in  trembling  voice) — Is — er — there  a  Mr.  Lark  stop- 
ping here,  sir?  [Mr.  Keenwun  sighs,  polishes  his  glassss  very  leisurely, 
adjusts  them  accurately  and  scans  the  register,  running  up  the  list  with 
his  fat  digit.)  Mr.  Keenwun — Lark  1  Lark!  .  .  .  Uiu!  how  do 
you  spell  the  name,  Madam?  [Madam  too  agitated  to  spell  anything  ) 
Mr.  Keenwun — No!  I  don't  see  any  such  name  on  my  register. 
Why?  Lady — [dejected) — I — oh!  .  .  .  I — er  .  .  .  (spies  the  name 
Browne  and  wife)  Ah,  will  you  do  me  the  kindness  to  take  my 
card  up  to  Mr.  Browne  and — er — wife  (chokes  violently.)  Mr.  Keen- 
wun (calmly) — With  pleasure;  but  I  know  they  are  not  in.  I 
think  you  will  find  them  down  at  their  new  shop.  Mr.  Browne 
ia  our  new  barber,  you  know  I  Lady  (checkmated) — Oh  .  .  .  ah  I 
.  .  .  It — er — must  be  another  party.  Thanks,  awfully  I  (Sighs, 
goes  out  the  front  entrance,  puts  the  cork  back  in  the  bottle  of  vitriol,  and 
sits  down  to  await  the  next  train  back.) 

Act  V. — Scene  I — The  front  piazza,  half  an  hour  later.  Bonifacs  ap- 
proaches the  Veiled  Lady.  Mr.  Keenwun  (sternly) — Madam,  it  is 
whispered  about  (he  bouse  that  you  have  made  this  place  a  ren- 
dezous  for  no  proper  purpose.  As  proprietor  1  beg  lo  inform  you 
that  this  establishment  is  eminently  respectable;  and,  as  such, 
your  presence  is  undesirable,  etc.  (Veiled  lady  utters  an  exclama- 
tion of  horror  and  disappears  in  the  direction  of  the  railway  station.) 
Scene  II. — The  back  entrance.  Boniface,  accompanied  by  a  seven-foot 
bouncer,  approaches  dark-complexioned  stranger.  Mr.  Keenwun  (stern- 
ly)— Sir,  we  are  informed  that  you  have  mistaken  the  character 
of  our  respectable  establishment,  and  insulted  us  by  appointing 
it  as  a  place  of  meeting,  etc.  You  wilt  consider  this  a  peremptory 
request  to  leave  the  premises!  (Stranger  straightens,  glares  at  the 
Boniface,  shows  two  rows  of  white  teeth,  but  at  the  sight  of  the  seven, 
footer  and  the  recollectio7i  that  his  revolvers  are  unloaded,  he  shuffles  off 
and  disappears  in  the  daikness.)  The  only  document  in  the  case: 
Idlewind,  Eden-by-the-Sea,  June  4,  1892,  Mr.  Jas.  P.  Browne, 
To  Boniface  Keenwun,  Dr.,  To  Hotel  accommodations,  wine,  etc. 
$36  41,  Miscellaneous,  $100;  Total,  $136  41;  Paid,  B.  Keenwun. 

—  Town  Topics. 

Since  its  opening,  "  The  Murara,"  at  109  O'Farrell  street,  has  be- 
come one  of  the  most  popular  resorts  in  the  city.  Being  centrally 
located,  convenient  to  all  the  theatres,  and  a  pleasant  place  to  call,  it 
has  already  attracted  the  patronage  of  gentlemen  who  appreciate 
good  liquor.  The  decorations  of  the  establishment  are  of  sufficient 
beauty  to  gain  general  attention  and  admiration. 

The  artotypes  which  have  formed  an  artistic  and  popular  feature 
of  the  News  Letter  for  some  years  past,  are  from  the  ateliers  of 
Bolton,  Strong  &  Co.,  the  well-known  engravers  and  plate-makers, 
of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm  has  the  reputation,  gained  by  years  of 
excellent  work,  of  being  unrivaled  in  its  own  particular  line.  All  the 
work  it  turns  out  is  artistically  perfect. 


/ETNA 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  ■  ddbrhtfal  stage  ride  over  the  moun- 
tains.   Sixteen  UUi  I  [elens.    I  a. 

oommodatlona.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  I-kati  RE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  .Ktna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  curea  In 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  I  !omplaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !  No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

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ANDREW  JACKSON, 


PROPRIETOR. 


Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 


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Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  and  Moat  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  San  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets,  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 
The  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature. 

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Proprietor  and  Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 


model   _a.:m::e:iw:c!-a.:]it    oatbeer, 

1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  2888. SAN  FRANCISCO. 

OCCIDENTAL    HOTEL, 

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FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager.      

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ATTORNEY     AND      COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL     EXAMINER 

Of  Hanawriting.Inks,  Papers,  etc.,  in  the  Deteotion  of  Forgeries, 

Oounterf  eitBand  Imitations. 

41  IK  CALIFORNIA  STREET,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


THE  swim  is  saying  that  the  recently  announced  decision  of 
young  Walter  Dean,  Jr.,  that  hereafter  California  is  to  be  his 
permanent  abiding  place,  is  but  the  precursor  of  another  »  an- 
nouncement"  of  a  most  interesting  character. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  O'Neil  Reis  have  given  up  the  lease  of  the 
Lent  house  at  Polk  and  Eddy  streets,  and  having  spent  most  of 
the  spring  at  San  Jose,  are  thinking  of  Del  Monte  as  their  locale 
for  the  rest  of  the  summer  season. 

*  *  • 

Those  devoted  friends,  Mrs.  Louise 8haron and  Mrs.  May  Janin, 

are  opposites  of  each  other,  not  alone  in  coloring  of  hair  and  eyes, 

but  in  temperament  as  well.  They  are  wonderfully  alike,  though, 

in  love  for  Del  Monte,  and  enter  with  vim  into  the  aquatic  sports 

of  that  charming  spot. 

*  *  • 

It  is  said  that  the  Freddie  Sharons  tried  their  powers  of  per- 
suasion on  his  sister  Flora  to  induce  her  to  join  them  at  Monterey. 
The  little  wife  of  the  good-natured  Sir  Thomas  does  not  hanker 
after  California  since  her  father's  death,  and  has  become  thor- 
oughly wedded  to  her  British  surroundings;  British,  inasmuch  as 
Ireland,  and  not  England,  is  her  favorite  stamping  ground,  so  to 

speaK. 

*  *  # 

Del  Monte  on  the  Fourth  had  an  air  about  it  strongly  suggestive 
of  an  Eastern  watering  place,  so  many  chic  gowns  were  worn  that 
betrayed  their  foreign  importation.  Mrs.  Fred  Sharon  was  in  the 
van,  closely  followed  by  Miss  Emily  Hager. 

*  *  • 

The  elderly  ladies  have  a  cosy  coterie  as  they  take  their  favor- 
ite seats  on  the  veranda  at  Del  Monte.  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis  is 
usually  employed  knitting;  Mrs.  M.  B.  M.  Toland  keeps  the  rest 
amused  with  her  excellent  powers  of  mimicry;  Mrs.  Foute,  the 
clergyman's  wife,  has  a  book;  Mrs.  Alvord  talks  in  a  decisive 
manner;  Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin  listens  quietly,  and  now  and  then 
reads  the  newspapers.  Mrs.  Hager  knows  everybody  and  every- 
thing, and  is  sure  of  an  attentive  audience. 

*  *  * 

The  ederly  gentlemen  take  their  otium  cum  dignitate  on  another 
portion  of  the  veranda.  Some  with  a  cigar,  some  with  magazines 
or  papers.  One  of  them  likes  ladies'  society,  and  of  the  young- 
est, prettiest,  liveliest  description.  The  younger  Benedicts  re- 
semble much  the  beaux,  as  they  seek  their  pleasures  in  the 
same  manner,  devotion  to  the  fair  sex  ;  swimming  in  couples ;  con- 
fabs under  shady  parasols,  or  drives  in  the  cool  of  the  day, 
»  »  * 

The  young  matrons  Buffer  from— not  lack  of  inclination — but 
a  lack  of  material  for  their  ammunition  to  work  on.  What  an 
experienced  dame  would  call  "  nice  men  "  are  decidedly  few  and 
far  between  at  all  the  out-of-town  resorts.  The  advantage  Del 
Monte  possesses  over  the  others  lies  in  the  fact  that  all  tourists 
go  there  as  a  sure  thing.  So  chance  of  travel  brings  some  very 
delightful  people  into  view,  even  if  but  for  a  brief  period. 

*  #  » 

Two  men  in  the  parade  on  the  National  Holiday  received  the 
lion's  share  of  attention  from  the  fair  sex  along  the  line  of  march, 
Dr.  Carver  in  his  suit  of  gray,  and  Adjutant  Delany  in  his  mar- 
tial uniform.     Both  are  fine  looking  men. 

*•*  * 

Mrs.  Frank  Kewlands'  youngest  sister,  Miss  Eva  McAllister, 
will  visit  Mrs.  Newlands,  at  Reno,  during  this  month,  and  it  is 
possible  may  accompany  her  to  Washington  City,  upon  her  return 
there,  later  in  the  year. 

*  *  * 

A  divinely  tall,  blonde-haired  maiden  of  artistic  mein  and  great 
originality  came  to  sad  grief  because  of  her  original  freaks.  She 
had  chosen  San  Rafael  for  this  year's  summering,  and  during 
last  Saturday  night's  warm  weather,  bethought  herself  to  change 
her  couch  for  the  hammock.  She  accordingly  swung  the  airy 
hammock  from  side  to  side  of  the  vine-covered  veranda  outside 
her  chamber  door.  About  two  o'clock  of  the  next  morning  there 
was  a  hideous  scream,  a  dull,  heavy  thud,  and  the  maiden  fair, 
with  golden  hair,  was  weeping.  Miss  W.  is  now  mournfully 
nursing  her  exquisite  Greek  nose. 
»  »  » 

Barton  Hill  and  his  200-pound  Danish  dog  form  one  of  the 
principal  features  of  the  scene  presented  on  the  beach  at  Santa 
Cruz.  The  event  of  the  day,  though,  is  always  the  appearance 
of  Miss  Bessie  Boston  for  her  afternoon  dip.  A  queenly  woman, 
with  clear,  refined,  well-cut  features,  and  a  figure  like  a  marble 
goddess— such  is  Miss  Boston,  and  as  she  trips  daintily  from  the 
bath-house  to  the  surf,  the  hearts  of  her  thousand  and  one  ad- 
mirers beat  to  double  quick  time.  She  is  a  splendid  swimmer, 
too,  and  a  trip   to   the   outside  raft  and  back   is   but  a  bagatelle 

for  her. 

*  *  * 

Doctor  Healey,  late  of  the  City  and  County  Hospital,  has  joined 


the  Oakland  poolroom  brigade.  He  is  a  constant  attendant,  since 
the  fever  laid  hold  of  him,  and  he  may  be  seen  every  day,  with 
an  anxious  look  on  bis  face,  as  he  leans  against  a  post  near  the 
door,  with  his  upper  vest  pocket  bulging  with  pool  tickets. 

*  #  # 

The  Keeleyites  at  Los  Gatos  celebrated  the  Fourth  in  original 
style.  Headed  by  Sam  Taylor,  they  marched  in  parade  through 
the  village,  the  piece  de  resistance  being  a  burro  attired  in  full 
dress,  including  a  clawhammer  coat  and  a  plug  hat.  The  bi- 
chloriders  all  wore  straw  hats  and  carried  their  motto,  "B.  of  G," 
on  high.  Up  town  they  fell  in  line  at  the  end  of  the  procession 
of  school  children,  and  they  kept  things  jolly  until  the  proceed- 
ings were  over. 

*  *  * 

Charlie  Reed  still  sings  "Tomales,"  and  is  evidently  popular, 
but  his  favor  is  more  from  the  gallery  and  less  from  the  dress 
circle.  About  twelve  years  ago,  every  schoolgirl  made  an  idol  of 
Charlie,  who  had  just  been  raised  to  the  zenith  of  fame  by 
"  Betsy  B's"  kindly  criticisms  and  protection.  The  gallery  was 
then  the  abode,  not  of  whistling  gods,  but  of  pretty,  blushing  god- 
desses, who  considered  it  not  beneath  their  dignity  to  munch 
peanuts  between  smiles  at  Charlie's  witticisms.  Was  it  at  that 
season,  or  later  on,  that  the  episode  of  the  parasol  occurred?  No 
doubt  many  who  were  down  town  that  day  will  remember  how 
the  brown-eyed  member  of  the  half-world  was  belabored  with 
that  light  instrument  of  torture,  wielded  by  Mrs.  Reed,  while  the 
latter's  husband  looked  on  and  wondered. 

*  *  « 

It  seems  widows  still  hold  the  inside  track  at  summer  resorts, 
to  the  envy  of  the  buds.  One  of  the  prettiest  and  most  popular 
at  the  Hotel  Rafael  is  petit  Mrs.  Dore.  whose  appellation  to  her 
friends  is  »  Ada."  Possibly  she  does  not  find  the  suburban  hotel 
quite  so  enlivening  as  San  Francisco,  though  she  both  rides  and 
strums  the  banjo;  else  why  should  one  meet  her  nearly  every 
afternoon  in  town?  Miss  Edith  Kittredge,  a  sojourner  at  Sausa- 
lito,  is  also  quite  often  observed  walking  up  Market  street,  ac- 
companied by  her  guitar. 

*  *  * 

The  stage  continues  to  be  reinforced  by  recruits  from  the  world 
of  society.  The  latest,  Holbrook  Blinn,  who  will  make  his  de- 
but at  a  local  theatre  in  the  fall,  and  has  already  been  offered  a 
profitable  engagement,  is  far  from  being  a  youth  to  fortune  and 
to  fame  unknown.  Though  only  twenty  years  of  age,  he  is  a  lad 
of  more  than  usual  parts,  having  already  gained  more  celebrity 
than  ordinarily  falls  to  the  lot  of  men  thrice  his  years.  The 
Palo  Alto's  daring  supplement  launched  him  farther  upon  the  sea 
of  notice  than  could  any  number  of  successful  appearances  in 
amateur  theatricals. 

*  »  • 

The  Fourth  was  duly  celebrated  at  Sausalito,  and  there  were 
several  novel  styles  of  entertainment.  Frank  D.  Willey,  Jack 
Featherstone  and  Clem  Blethen  gave  an  exhibition  of  the  latest 
Fiji  dance  before  a  select  bevy  of  ladies  and  gentlemen,  at  one  of 
the  cottages.  The  dancers  were  attired  in  the  latest  effect  iu 
bathing  suits,  gee  strings,  plug  hats  and  paper  collars,  and,  need- 
less to  say,  created  a  sensation.  Rumor  says  that  they  will  re- 
peat the  dance  on  the  stage.  Several  theatrical  managers  are  now 
endeavoring  to  secure  their  services. 

*  •  * 

Last  week,  George  Mearns  ruined  his  new  full-dress  suit.  He 
was  endeavoring  to  step  gracefully  from  a  launch  to  the  Belve- 
dere wharf,  when  a  mermaid,  catching  sight  of  his  magnificent 
figure,  caused  him  to  slip,  and  he  fell  into  the  briny  deep.  A 
boat-hook  was  used  to  pull  him  from  the  water,  and  he  hugged  a 
hot  stove  during  the  whole  evening. 

THE  health  of  James  G.  Blaine,  which  was  so  rubust  a  few 
months  ago,  is  now.  it  is  feared,  too  critical  to  allow  him  to 
stump  the  country  for  Mr.  Harrison  in  the  fall.  The  political  phy- 
sicians are  now  diagnosing  the  complaint. 


Elegant  Stationery. 


Society's  leaders  have  become  very  aesthetic  of  late  in  the  matter 
of  their  stationery,  and  the}7  now  insist  that  those  in  the  swim  shall 
use  for  their  correspondence  only  the  latest  and  most  fashionable 
note  and  letter  paper,  such  as  that  to  be  seen  in  the  handsome  estab- 
lishment of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  at  741-743  Market  street.  This  firm 
gives  special  attention  to  fashionable  stationery,  and  has  all  the  finest 
made  in  the  world.  Toe  royal  purple,  double  repp  in  tints.  Crane's 
kid-finish,  with  crests  and  ornamental  Mowers,  and  other  brands,  are 
sold  in  neat  boxes,  with  envelopes  to  match.  A  box  of  this  fine 
paper,  with  a  set  of  sealing-wax,  candles  and  dyes,  form  a  very  hand- 
s  me  present  for  a  young  lady  There  is  also  a  fine  line  of  mourning 
btationery.  The  copper-plate  engravings  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  is 
unexcelled  in  the  city,  and  society  people  are  all  getting  their  cards 
printed  from  these  plates,  the  printing  having  in  every  instance  given 
great  satisfaction.  The  stationery  department  of  this  house  is  un- 
excelled. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specially 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rentea, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office, 
407-409  Montgomery  street. 


Julv  *>,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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LOVE    AND    THOUGHT 


KhxmII  Lourlt. 


Whit  bath  Love  with  Thought  to  do? 
Still  at  variance  are  the  two. 
Love  is  mi. Men.  Love  la  rasb. 
Love  is  like  the  levin  Hash, 
Comes  as  awifl.  as  swiftly  goes, 
And  his  mark  as  surely  knows. 

Thought  is  lumpish.  Thought  is  slow, 
Weighing  lang  'tween  yes  and  no; 
When  dear  Love  is  dead  and  gone, 
Thought  comes  creeping  in  anon, 
And,  in  his  deserted  nest, 
Sits  to  hold  the  crowner's  quest. 

Since  we  love,  what  need  to  think? 
Happiness  stands  on  a  brink 
Whence  too  easy  'tis  to  fall 
Whitber's  no  return  at  all; 
Have  a  care,  half-hearted  lover. 
Thought  would  only  push  her  over! 

REPUBLICAN    CORRUPTION. 

SAN  DIEGO,  Los  Angeles  and  San  Bernardino  counties  have, 
for  the  last  six  years,  given  the  majorities  by  which  the  Re- 
publicans carried  the  State.  This  year  will  show  a  very  decided 
change  in  the  political  complexion  of  these  counties.  They  have 
been  under  the  domination  of  the  Republicans  so  long  that  the 
rings  have  become  bold,  and  have  carried  things  with  a  high 
band.  This  is  especially  true  in  San  Diego  county,  where  there 
is  a  great  revulsion  of  feeling.  Times  are  very  dull  on  the  beau- 
tiful bay  of  the  South.  Money  is  scarce,  and  the  people  are  poor. 
There  are  practically  only  two  classes  down  there — poor  people 
and  Republican  office-holders.  A  great  fight  is  being  waged  be- 
tween the  tax-payers  and  the  tax-eaters.  The  former  have  been 
greatly  aided  in  their  fight  by  the  action  of  the  Grand  Jury, 
which  found  that  the  Clerk,  the  Recorder  and  the  Sheriff  were 
practically  embezzlers.  This  grand  inquest,  largely  composed  of 
Republicans,  has  found  that  an  appalling  state  of  corruption  exists 
and  has  denounced  the  evil-doers  by  name  in  the  most  scathing 
language.  Indictments  will  naturally  follow.  The  county  offi- 
cials have  made  demands  for  additional  appropriations  for  depu- 
ties. The  taxation  is  already  too  burdensome,  and  their  demands 
were  refused.  The  officials  then  threatened  to  obstruct  public 
business.  It  was  here  that  the  enterprising  Democracy  of  San 
Diego  stepped  in.  The  party  offered  to  furnish,  free  of  cost  to  the 
counly,  all  the  clerical  force  that  was  needed.  The  offer  was  de- 
clined. It  is  now  made  evident  by  the  report  of  the  Grand  Jury 
that  the  boodling  county  officials  did  not  dare  to  bring  honest 
men  into  their  offices,  for  fear  their  wrong-doing  would  be  dis- 
covered that  much  earlier.  These  facts  are  now  before  the  people, 
and  they  will  be  user!  with  telling  effect  in  the  campaign  pend- 
ing. The  situation  in  San  Diego  is  rather  desperate.  To  live,  the 
people  will  have  to  throw  off  the  corrupt  men  who  have  ruled 
the  county,  and  the  tax-payers'  only  hope  lies  with  the  Democ- 
racy. The  outlook  for  the  Democracy  in  the  South  is  very 
hopeful. 

IT  begins  to  look  as  if  the  Examiner's  list  of  strong  men  was  ex- 
hausted. That  enterprising  journal  has  given  us,  up  to  the 
present,  only  the  phenomenal  of  physical  strength.  Suppose 
that  it  presented  to  us  some  models  of  moral  force — an  illustra- 
tion of  the  man  who,  on  a  bright  sunny  day,  will  stand  without 
flinching  on  the  sidewalk  at  the  very  threshold  of  the  portals  of 
the  tailor  he  owes  for  the  suit  which  shields  him  from  the  weather, 
aye,  and  knowing  that  Snip  is  ready  to  dart  upon  him  at  any 
moment  with  goose  and  shears,  would  be  a  pleasing  picture.  The 
full  face  of  the  male  person  who  dares  to  stay  out  all  night  with- 
out accusing,  upon  his  return  home,  the  friend  of  his  bosom,  for 
leading  him  into  such  delinquency,  might  well  go  into  that  gallery. 
A  full  length  sketch  of  the  individual  who  had  sand  enough  to 
tell  the  proprietor  of  a  swell  French  restaurant  that  his  dishes 
were  frauds,  his  waiters  imbeciles,  himself  a  pirate,  and  his 
charges  atrocious,  would  be  more  pleasing  to  the  eye  of  the  reg- 
ular subscriber  than  a  man  who  measured  ninety-seven  inches 
around  the  chest.  Alas,  and  alack  a-day,  there  is  no  place  in 
history  for  those  heroes  of  humdrum  life.  Yonr  fellow  who 
hoists  a  gigantic  tar-barrel  on  his  shoulders,  or  who  breaks  a  rib 
against  an  iron  anvil,  has  glory  enough,  but  the  true  warriors,  the 
men  of  extreme  courage,  remain,  so  far  as  the  newspapers  are 
concerned,  unknown,  unhonored  and  unsung. 


AFTER  the  recent  fight  the  epigrammatic  Mr.  Carnegie  will  feel 
diffident  about  hanging    up    "  God  bless  our  Homestead,"    on 
the  walls  of  his  steel  works. 

One  of  the  bsst  tailors  in  the  city  is  Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12 
Poit  street.  His  suits  are  not  equaled  by  those  of  any  other  estab- 
li>bment  in  town,  for  he  is  a  master  of  the  sartorial  art,  and  always 
does  his  work  in  an  admirable  manner.  He  makes  a  specialty  of 
uniforms  and  regalias,  and  does  a  large  business  with  all  uniformed 
societies. 


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Office  and  Depot  Inglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


Bi-LQPKER-9N® 


I :  ^lAtM-^nbtft**-^ 


ONE  of  the  greatest  male  nuisances  of  the  Hotel  Rafael  this 
season  has  been  a  stout  man,  with  a  stoop  in  his  shoulders 
and  a  pronounced  Semitic  cast  of  countenance,  who  has  taken 
great  delight  in  making  matters  uncomfortable  for  the  hotel 
guests.  There  may  be  some  excuse  for  the  fellow,  however,  for 
he  is  a  tailor,  and  as  there  were  not  eight  other  sartorial  artists 
with  him,  of  course  he  could  not  be  expected  to  look  and  act  like 
a  man.  It  was  probably  this  tailor's  idea  that  by  appearing  in 
loud  check  suits,  he  would  be  considered  a  lion  at  the  popular 
summer  resort;  he  found  himself,  however,  relegated  to  the  high 
social  standard  of  that  animal  which,  when  roasted,  forms  the 
Chinese  favorite  dish.  Every  time  the  bus  left  the  hotel  for  the 
train  for  a  number  of  days  past,  this  fellow  managed  to  se- 
cure an  end  seat  against  the  entrance.  There  he  would  squat  his 
bulk,  and  no  matter  who  wished  to  get  in,  the  passenger  would 
have  to  squeeze  against  the  tailor's  offensive  personage.  Finally 
some  of  the  boys  determined  to  teach  the  fellow  a  lesson,  and  as 
his  feet  are  as  expansive  as  his  cheek,  they  decided  to  carefully 
tramp  upon  them  as  entrance  was  made  into  the  coach.  Webster 
Jones  led  the  host.  The  other  day,  when  the  bus  drove  up,  the 
offensive  tailor,  as  usual,  plumped  himself  in  his  favorite  seat, 
and  spread  his  feet  upon  the  floor  of  the  bus.  Then  the  time  had 
come.  The  avengers  gathered  around  the  steps  of  the  bus,  pre- 
pared for  action.  Jones  mounted  the  steps,  and  as  he  entered  the 
bus,  planted  himself  upon  the  obstructing  feet.  The  tailor  uttered 
a  howl,  and  drawing  his  feet  beneath  him,  made  himself  as  small 
as  possible.     The  lesson  had  an  immediate  and  good  effect. 

#  #  • 

The  friends  of  City  Clerk  Jim  Brady,  of  Oakland,  have  often 
wondered  why  he  is  such  an  enthusiast  over  circus  performances. 
Whenever  there  is  a  ring  ihow  anywhere  accessible  he  is  always 
a  constant  patron,  and  those  who  have  been  with  him  at  such 
times  have  invariably  noted  what  a  vast  amount  of  technical 
knowledge  he  displays  regarding  the  manipulation  of  the  saw- 
dust arena.  The  fact  of  the  matter  is  that  Brady  once  traveled 
with  a  circus  as  an  employ  e\  His  friends  and  social  acquaint- 
ances will  be  surprised  at  such  a  statement,  but  it's  true,  and 
there  is  quite  a  story  connected  with  why  he  gave  up  the  pro- 
fession. 

Jim,  a  few  years  ago,  was  treasurer  of  one  of  the  many  ring 
organizations  that  travel  through  the  Eastern  States.  His  bold 
financiering  always  made  the  accounts  balance,  so  that  the  ghost 
went  the  rounds  regularly,  and  he  was  naturally  very  popular 
with  every  one,  from  the  tent  peggers  up.  One  night  the  show 
was  given  at  a  little  town  near  Binghampton,  N.  Y.,  and  the 
treasurer's  wagon,  with  Brady  at  the  window,  was  placed  on  the 
side  of  a  hill  that  commanded  the  entrance  to  the  tent.  Blocks 
were  beneath  the  wagon  wheels,  and  in  fancied  security  Jim  sat 
and  guided  the  silver  stream  of 'quarters  and  halves  into  the 
strongbox  of  the  company.  But  alas!  just  as  he  had  got  the 
money  all  set  out  on  a  desk  preparatory  to  counting  the  even- 
ing's receipts,  some  gamins  removed  the  blocks  from  the  wheels, 
and  away  went  the  wagon.  Increasing  in  velocity  as  it  sped 
along,  it  was  soon  flying  at  a  hurricane  rate,  and  poor  Jim  sat  on 
his  stool,  holding  on  with  both  hands  and  his  teeth,  and  expect- 
ing a  crash  at  any  moment.  He  did  not  anticipate  in  vain.  The 
wagon  was  wrecked  against  a  tree  at  the  bottom  of  the  hill  and 
overturned,  sending  the  money  in  every  direction.  The  gang  of 
urchins  started  stealing  with  both  hands,  Jim  got  mad,  had  a  row 
with  the  manager,  and  finally  quit  then  and  there.  He  never  got 
another  position  of  the  kind,  but  there  has  always  been  a  soft 
spot  in  his  heart  for  the  nomadic  life  of  the  ring,  and  it  is  this 
yearning  that  draws  him  magnetically  to  every  circus  he  can 
get  at. 

*  »  * 

Again  is  there  dissatisfaction  in  the  Second  Brigade  of  the  Na- 
tional Guard,  and  once  more  is  the  cause  of  dissension  about  the  an- 
nual encampment.  The  division  encampmentof  the  troops  will  be 
held  at  Santa  Cruz  in  August,  and  as  there  are  six  Brigadier  Gen- 
erals in  the  division,  and  just  aboutenough  men  in  th«  whole  Na- 
tional Guard  to  form  one  decent  brigade,  the  regiments  have  to  be 
divided  up,  so  as  to  make  provisional  brigades.  In  so  doing,  the 
Fifth  Regiment,  which  is  regularly  attached  to  the  Second  Brig- 
ade, has  been  assigned  to  the  command  of  General  Muller,  of  tbe 
Third  Brigade,  much  to  the  disgust  of  'the  regiment.  The  Fifth 
has  camped  for  years  with  the  other  regiments  of  the  brigade,  and 
as  all  tbe  men  are  acquainted,  they  always  have   a  most  enjoya- 


ble time  in  camp.  With  the  Third  Brigade,  however,  they  would 
be  with  strangers.  Colonel  Fairbanks,  of  the  Fifth,  is  trying  to 
arrange  things  so  as  to  camp  with  tbe  Second  Brigade,  and  drill, 
if  necessary,  with  the  Third. 

•  *  * 

There  were  many  sights  at  San  Rafael  during  the  holiday  week 
which  made  the  angels  weep,  but  none  caused  greater  mourn- 
ing among  the  cherubim  and  seraphim  than  Petey  Bigelow,  on 
Thursday  night.  Petey  was  in  his  element,  for  he  was  in  the 
midst  of  the  brightest  and  most  fashionable  of  the  city's  society 
people,  and  there  were  dozens  of  pretty  girls  who  hung  upon  his 
smile  (Petey's  is  an  expansive  smile),  and  looked  deep  into  his 
soulful  eyes,  as  they  listened  to  tbe  poetic  fancies  uttered  by  him 
in  that  mellifluent  voice  which  is  ever  as  gentle,  and  has  ever  the 
same  charm,  whether  announcing  that  its  owner  stands  pat  or 
inquiring  for  the  health  of  the  consort  of  the  royalty  whom 
Petey  may  happen  at  the  moment  to  be  entertaining.  But  Petey 
overdid  himself  on  Thursday  night.  Like  most  bright  and  pop- 
ular men,  he  suffers  from  the  effects  of  the  magnetism  of  his  own 
individuality.  It  is  not  his  fault,  of  course,  if  a  girl  falls  in  love 
with  him  as  soon  as  he  meets  her,  and  he  is  not  to  blame  if  a 
gloom  were  cast  upon  the  bevy  of  beauties  at  the  Rafael  when 
it  was  ascertained  that  he  is  not  in  the  matrimonial  market.  But 
Bigelow  did  what  he  could  to  assuage  the  grief  of  the  fair  ones. 
To  each  of  his  various  admirers  he  promised,  on  the  word  of  a 
gentleman,  to  send  a  lock  of  his  hair  as  soon  as  he  returned  to 
the  city,  and  had  made  terms  with  the  tonsorial  artist  who  has 
the  extreme  felicity  to  handle  the  Bigelowian  locks.  It  is  un- 
derstood that  even  now  the  scissors  are  at  work,  and  that  Petey 
has  already  purchased  several  rolls  of  colored  ribbon  wherewith 
to  bind  up  the  ends  of  his  offerings.  Meanwhile  the  price  of  wigs, 
under  the  cruel  dispensation  of  an  unfeeling  Republican  admin- 
istration, continues  to  approximate  toward  the  ultimate. 

*  #  » 

The  general  supposition  that  Bigelow  had  hollow  legs  was 
shown  to  be  groundless,  during  the  passing  of  Taylor's  love  cup. 
after  the  tennis  match.  "  Petey  "  said  the  cupful  would  be  no 
drink  for  him,  and  one  of  the  joyful  bloods  offered  to  bet  him  $20 
that  he  couldn't  drink  its  measure.  The  bet  was  taken,  and  the 
cup  was  filled  to  the  brim.  It  held  just  two  quarts  of  champagne. 
Petey  raised  the  bowl  carefully  to  his  lips  and  began  his  task.  It 
was  very  easy  at  first.  He  quaffed  the  sparkling  wine  slowly 
and  steadily,  and  the  tide  receded  gently  but  surely,  while  serene 
sunset  beams  of  confidence  and  satisfaction  lit  the  Bacchanalian 
hero's  face.  Pretty  soon  the  draughts  became  intermittent,  and 
then  the  wine-kissed  lips  began  to  splutter.  The  fountain's 
quiet  flow  became  spurts.  Petey  gulped,  looked  doubtfully  at 
the  lightened  bowl,  gulped  again,  looked  doubtful  and  weary, 
and  gulped.  Finally  he  set  down  the  broad  silver  vessel  and  said 
confidently,  but  sadly,  <•  Gentlemen,  I  have  lost  the  bet."  There 
was  a  pint  of  wine  left  in  the  bowl,  but  it  looked  like  a  barrel  to 
the  vanquished  reveller.  It  was  a  triumphant  defeat,  though, 
for  it  had  brought  its  own  balm  and  antidote.  Two  quarts  of 
wine  may  be  a  trifle  for  a  night,  but  just  try  it  in  one  drink. 

*  #  * 

General  Passenger  Agent  Goodman  may  or  may  not  know  of 
the  trick  that  is  being  played  on  the  Santa  Cruz  branch  of  the 
Southern  Pacific.  The  round-trip  fare  to  Santa  Cruz  is  $5,  but  to 
Felton,  a  short  distance  this  side  of  the  Beach  City,  a  hunter's 
round-trip  ticket  can  be  obtained  for  ?3  50.  Now,  as  the  fare 
from  Felton  to  Santa  Cruz  is  only  25  cents,  lots  of  people  who  are 
on  to  the  combination  get  their  round-trip  tickets  to  Felton,  and 
then  pay  the  local  fare  for  the  rest  of  the  way.  By  this  method, 
the  journey  only  costs  $4,  and  then  again,  the  traveler  has  the 
satisfaction  of  knowing  that  he  has  got  big  casino  on  the  railroad 
company. 

»  *  # 

British  India  is  apparently  not  the  best  of  places  for  enterprising 
Americans  to  tackU,  Will  Mastin  and  George  Mastin,  two  wealthy 
young  men  of  Oakland,  went  to  Calcutta  and  thence  to  Bombay, 
with  tbe  purpose  of  locating  under  the  Union  Jack,  if  the  condi- 
tions proved  favorable.  A  letter  was  received  from  them  the  other 
day,  saying  that  the  country  was  no  place  for  Americans,  and  an- 
nouncing that  they  will  leave  for  California  again  at  an  early 
date. 

#  *  * 

Tales  will  be  told  all  summer  about  the  series  of  tennis  events 
at  San  Rafael,  which  resulted  in  the  victory  of  Champion  Taylor. 
Anyone  who  says  anything  about  the  respective  and  respectable 
noses  of  Umpires  Wilberforce  and  Joe  Daly,  however,  should  see 
before  doing  so  that  they  have  a  means  of  escape  which  will  put 
them  beyond  the  wrath  which  is  sure  to  come.  For  be  it  known 
that  Wilberforce  and  Daly  are  rather  tender  just  now  on  the 
nasal  question,  and  good  right  have  they  to  be.  We  see  in  these 
two  gentlemen  martyrs  to  the  game  of  lawn  tennis,  who  have  in 
the  interest  of  the  advancement  of  the  sport  allowed  their  per- 
sonal beauty  to  be  marred  by  the  disfigurement  of  their  most  pro- 
nounced facial  features.  Wilberforce  has  a  nose  that  is  a  sight. 
On  the  Fourth  it  was  red,  white  and  blue — red  where  the  sun  had 
scorched  it  most,  white  on  the  shady  side,  and  blue  on  the  top, 
where  the  skin  had  peeled  off  and  the  new  cuticle  was  forming.i 


July  9,  1892. 


SAX  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Bat  Paly's  nose!  Ob.  Daly's  nmr,  in  the  words  of  the  immortal 
bard,  is  a  la-la.  Only  Daly  ooold  hare  inch  a  nose  as  that.  But 
be  doesn't  care,  for  a  scorched  no«c  to  a  tennis-player  is  a  badge 
of  honor,  as  a  broken  finger  signifies  the  prowess  of  a  baseball- 
catcher.  It  Is  said  that  the  California  Lawn  Tennis  Club  will 
have  both  noses  photographed,  ami  the  picture  will  be  hung  on 
the  club  rooms  as  a  souvenir  of  the  great  event  of  1892. 

*  «  « 

One  of  the  most  pleasant  and  praiseworthy  features  of  the 
tennis  tournament  was  the  umpiring  of  Mr.  Wilberforce.  He  isa 
veteran  and  expert  lawn  lentil*  player,  and  knows  every  rule  in 
the  book  and  every  play  in  the  CO  or  la.  His  umpiring  was  through- 
oat  the  tournament  distinguished  by  prompt  and  just  decisions, 
which  gave  universal   satisfaction   to  those  who  know  the  game. 

*  *  » 

Jbe  friends  of  Will  Taylor  became  wildly  hilarious  on  the  night 
of  the  champion's  great  victory  over  Hubbard.  That  may  be  the 
reason  that  the  hotel  bar  was  wrecked,  a  number  of  billiard  cues 
smashed,  and  several  holes  punched  through  the  floor. 

*  »  * 

The  Bohemian  Club  is  about  completing  the  purchase  of  fifteen 
acres  of  land  in  the  redwood  region,  some  three  miles  from  Mill 
Valley,  from  the  Taraalpais  Land  and  Water  Company.  On  this 
beautiful  tract  will  be  located  the  summer  quarters  of  the  club; 
here  beneath  the  towering  redwoods  and  beside  a  rippling 
stream,  will  the  midsummer  jinks  be  held.  A  dam  will  be  built 
in  the  stream  to  make  a  swimming  pool,  huts  will  be  constructed, 
and  withal  the  club  will  have  an  ideal  retreat.  The  land  com- 
pany will  widen  the  present  trail  from  the  Bolinas  road  to  the 
canon  into  a  wagon  road.  It  is  proposed  to  increase  the  member- 
ship of  the  club  from  500  to  800,  on  account  of  the  increased  ex- 
penses of  the  new  club-bouse  and  the  country  place.  The  club  is 
now  in  excellent  condition,  and  its  future  daily  becomes  more 
brilliant. 

*  *  # 

The  Art  Association  again  has  an  opportunity  to  secure  for  it- 
self one  of  the  best  buildings  in  the  country  for  an  art  gallery. 
Whether  it  will  be  able  to  handle  the  great  Hopkins  mansion, 
however,  is  a  question.  The  house  ia  a  very  expensive  one  to 
run  on  any  basis,  and  the  financiers  of  the  Art  Association  are 
just  now  considering  the  matter.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  they 
will  receive  sufficient  assurances  of  assistance  from  the  wealthy 
art  patrons  of  the  city  to  warrant  them  in  accepting  the  generous 
gift  of  the  Nob  Hill  mansion  from  Mr.  Searles.  As  suggested  in 
the  News  Letter  some  months  since,  the  house  would  make  an 
ideal  art  gallery.  It  can  be  used  advantageously  only  for  some 
such  purpose,  or  by  a  club.  Mr.  Searles  would  not  be  likely  to 
let  it  out  as  a  hotel,  and  it  is  not  probable  that  any  family 
would  care  to  take  it.  With  the  Art  Association  in  the  Hopkins 
mansion,  this  city  would  have  an  art  gallery  equal  to  any  in  the 
country,  for  the  owners  of  private  galleries  would  not  be  averse 
to  loaning  their  pictures  when  they  know  they  would  be  shown 
well  and  be  well  protected. 

*  *  * 

There  are  many  very  elegantly  fitted  up  law  offices  in  San 
Francisco,  but  those  of  Mr.  A.  H.  Ricketts,  in  the  new  Crocker 
Building,  surpass  any  I  have  yet  seen.  His  rooms  are  numbers 
201,  202  and  203,  on  the  tenth  floor.  His  library  is  elegantly 
fitted  up,  and  his  law  books  occupy  all  the  shelves  upon  the  four 
sides  of  the  room.  A  portion  of  the  hall  has  been  partitioned  off 
by  an  elegant  glass  and  mahogany  door,  thus  forming  a  com- 
fortable reception  room.  One  of  the  two  other  rooms  is  for  the 
use  of  clients,  and  the  other  is  Mr.  Ricketts'  private  office.  The 
finest  of  the  rooms  is  in  West  Coast  mahogany,  in  splendid  con- 
trast to  which  is  the  handsome  oaken  furniture.  Mr.  Ricketts 
enjoys  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  being  principally  engaged 
in  mining  cases.  He  numbers  among  his  clients  the  Waterloo 
Mining  Company,  of  Calico.  This  company  has  been  engaged  in 
a  most  remarkable  series  of  mining  litigation  for  the  last  five 
years.  He  is  also  counsel  for  the  Oro  Grande  Mining  Company, 
the  Burning  Moscow  Mining  Company,  of  Calico;  and  the  C.  J. 
Bradley  Mining  Company,  of  Union  county,  Or.  The  Guild  Gold 
Mining  Company,  of  Tuolumne  county,  is  also  a  client.  This 
company  is  now  erecting  a  $100,000  plant  on  the  Rawhide  mine. 
The  Abbott  Quicksilver  Mining  Company,  in  Lake  county,  has 
also  secured  Mr.  Ricketts'  services.  The  American  ifixploring 
Company  has  headquarters  in  Mr.  Ricketts'  offices.  This  large 
organization  has  for  its  object  the  dealing  in  and  developing  of 
mining  properties  in  California,  and,  in  fact,  all  over  the  world. 
It  has  offices  in  the  Mills'  Building,  New  York  city.     John  Hays 


Hammond,  of  San  Francisco,  and  Frederick  (J.  Corning,  of  New 
York,  are  the  consulting  engineers,  and  Mr.  Ricketts  laths  counsel 
of  the  company,  who* A  ramifications  extend  from  Mexico  to 
Wyoming. 

•  •  • 

No  one  who  knows  Marcus  Daly,  the  Montana  copper  king, 
will  begrudge  him  his  success  on  the  turf,  his  stables  having  cap- 
tured the  two  great  purses  of  the  season.  He  is  a  whole-souled, 
genial  gentleman,  and  one  of  the  foremost  business  men  in  the 
country.  He  is  tbe  practical  end  of  the  great  mining  quartette  of 
Hearst,  Haggin,  Tevis  .t  Daly,  and  tbe  resident  partner  on  the 
Anaconda  property.  He  established  his  stables  in  tbe  Deer 
Lodge  Valley  in  188.ri  and  for  three  years  they  have  been  consid- 
ered in  all  the  great  events.  In  the  language  of  the  frontier, 
Daly  is  all  grit  and  a  good  loser,  but  he  is  undoubtedly  content 
that  "  they  are  coming  "  the  other  way  for  him  this  season.  He 
pocketed  $65,000  in  purses  alone  in  two  races  and  always 
"backs"  his  horses  strongly. 

*  #  • 

William  Drake,  who  committed  suicide  at  Pelaluma,  last  Wed- 
nesday, was  not  a  barkeeper,  as  stated  in  the  Chronicle.  He  held 
a  prominent  position  in  one  of  the  leading  commercial  houses  of 
the  city,  and  was  a  man  of  unusual  ability. 

#  *  # 

Misfortune  has  befallen  Jack  Allan,  who  was  recently  in  this 
city  with  Mrs.  Hebden.  with  whom  he  had  eloped  from  Mon- 
treal. He  has  been  turned  out  of  the  Allan  Steamship  Company, 
and  as  he  enjoyed  a  salary  of  $20,000  per  annum  as  Montreal 
manager,  he  may  live  to  regret  the  plunge  his  mad  infatuation 
for  Mrs.  Hebden  led  him  into.  "  Love  wilt  find  the  way,"  and 
as  a  rule,  laughs  at  sacrifice  and  barriers.  But  in  this  instance, 
alas  for  the  deserted  ones.  Mrs.  Jack  Allan  Is  still  in  England 
with  her  children,  and  is  expecting  very  soon  her  sixth  accouch- 
ment.  As  an  illustration  of  the  servility  of  the  Montreal  press 
to  a  wealthy  and  influential  family,  white  the  New  York  papers 
teemed  with  accounts  of  the  scandal,  and  thousands  of  copies 
were  sold  on  the  streets  of  Montreal,  not  a  line  appeared  in  any 
of  that  city's  newspapers.  Nothing  seems  to  be  known  of  tbe 
present  whereabouts  of  the  guilty  pair,  but  fresh  developments 
may  be  expected. 

*  *  * 

An  unusual  opportunity  for  the  obtaining  of  bargains  in  all 
kinds  of  furnishing  goods  is  to  be  presented  on  Monday  next,  I 
understand,  at  the  Maze.  The  occasion  is  the  beginning  of  tbe 
"inventory  sale."  The  house  will  have  been  in  business  just  a 
year  on  the  30th  inst,,  to  signalize  which  event  a  complete  new 
stock  of  goods  will  he  put  in.  These  goods  are  now  being  pro- 
cured in  the  East  by  the  house's  buyers.  To  prepare  for  them,  all 
the  present  stock  will  be  sold  off  for  what  it  will  bring,  without 
regard  to  cost  prices.  The  store  will  doubtless  be  crowded  with 
eager  customers  while  the  sale  continues. 


DUFF    GORDON     SHERRY, 

THE   MOST   CELEBRATED  AND  BEST   KNOWN  BRAND  IN 

THE    WORLD. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


LATELY  in  these  columns,  in  noting  the  fact  that  the  Golden 
Fleece  Gravel  Mining  Company  had  taken  steps  to  procure  a 
United  States  patent  for  its  mines  on  the  Hogs-Back  divide  in 
Placer  County,  we  called  attention  to  the  act  of  March  3,1891, 
the  provisions  of  which  seem  to  render  it  expedient  that  miners 
should  procure  patents  to  their  mines  rather  than  rely  upon  loca- 
tion, possession  and  annual  labor  only.  The  matter  is  of  general 
interest  to  our  readers,  and  we  therefore  publish  a  synopsis  of  the 
act,  kindly  furnished  to  us  by  Col.  Edward  A.  Belcher,  the  well- 
known  mining  lawyer  of  this  city.  This  statute  acquires  an  added 
interest,  as  under  the  Federal  law  there  would  seem  to  be  a  ques- 
tion as  to  the  right  to  work  mines  on  the  public  mineral  lands 
without  procuring  patent,  the  statute  merely  giving  the  right 
to  explore  (i.e. :  to  prospect  for — to  find  mines)  and  "  to  purchase" — 
one  act  or  right  being  predicted  upon  the  other — the  contention 
being  that  the  purpose  of  the  Federal  Statute  is  to  provide  for  the 
disposition  of  the  public  mineral  lands,  and  not  merely  for  the 
subtraction  of  the  minerals  therefrom,  etc.,  etc.  The  synopsis  of 
the  act  referred  to  is  as  follows:  [1.]  Every  miner  who  has  per- 
formed the  labor,  etc.,  required  by  law  for  the  holding  of  mining 
claims  upon  the  public  mineral  lands,  shall,  within  thirty  days 
from  the  time  limited  for  performing  the  labor,  file  an  affidavit 
with  the  County  Recorder  of  the  County  in  which  the  mine  is 
located,  particularly  describing  the  labor  performed,  etc. ,  which 
affidavit  is  made  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  facts  stated.  [2]  Upon 
failure  to  perform  annual  labor,  etc.,  or  to  file  the  affidavit,  the 
claim  shall  be  subject  to  are-location;  but  if  the  annual  labor  is 
performed  and  the  affidavit  filed  previous  to  the  re-location,  the 
claim  shall  not  be  subject  to  re-location  by  reason  of  the  previous 
failure,  etc.  [3]  Upon  the  failure  of  any  co-owner  to  contribute 
to  the  annual  labor,  etc.,  the  co-owner  who  has  performed  the 
labor  may,  at  the  expiration  of  the  year  within  which  the  labor 
is  to  be  performed,  give  notice  to  the  delinquent  in  writing,  or  by 
publication  in  a  newspaper  published  nearest  the  claim  once  a 
week  for  ninety  days.  A  copy  of  the  notice,  duly  proved,  is  to 
be  filed  and  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  County  Recorder,  and  if 
the  delinquent  co-owner  does  not  contribute  his  proportion  of  the 
expenditure,  his  claim  is  to  become  the  property  of  the  other  co- 
owner.  An  essentially  similar  permission  is  found  in  the  statutes 
of  other  States  and  in  the  Federal  statute;  also  in  the  mining 
laws  of  British  Columbia.  [4.]  The  labor  expended  upon  tunnels 
or  cuts  in  opening  a  claim  shall  be  deemed  labor  done  upon  the 
claim.  (Same  as  Federal  law).  [5.]  All  mining  locations  are  sub- 
ject to  the  right  of  way  for  ditches,  canals,  etc.  (Same  as  Inderal 
law). 

its 

IF  the  public  had  stood  under  the  mining  market  during  the  week, 
prices  might  have  closed  higher  than  they  are.  There  is  a  cer- 
tain amount  of  timidity  displayed  among  the  investing  classes, 
which  does  not  augur  well  for  the  immediate  future  of  the  busi- 
ness. There  is  no  doubt  that  the  mines  are  looking  well,  if  not 
better  than  they  have  for  months  past;  but  owing  to  the  uneasy 
feeling  which  prevails  on  the  street,  it  is  questionable  if  a  bonanza 
gtrike  would  attract  more  than  passing  attention.  The  spurt  in 
Belcher  had  little  effect  on  the  neighboring  stocks  of  a  beneficial 
character,  and  even  the  unexpected  increase  in  the  assays  of  the 
Con.-Cal.  Virginia  fell  flat.  There  has  got  to  be  a  certain  amount 
of  reconstruction  carried  out  on  Bine  street  before  much  can  be 
hoped  for  in  the  way  of  outside  assistance.  The  brokers,  ably  as- 
sisted by  a  clique  of  malcontents,  have  managed  to  demoralize 
things  to  their  entire  satisfaction,  and  few,  outside  themselves, 
are  inclined  to  worry  over  the  unravelling  of  the  snarl.  The  busi- 
ness will  recuperate  eventually,  but  it  will  be  under  a  different 
class  of  managers — men  who  are  not  idiots  enough  to  snap  their 
noses  off  to  spite  their  faces.  No  one  is  to  blame  for  the  wreck 
of  an  easy  and  profitable  business  but  the  gentlemen  themselves, 
who  for  years  past  have  been  playing  fast  and  loose  with  the 
public,  to  their  personal  disadvantage  in  the  long  run.  The 
writing  on  the  wall  has  been  plainly  apparent  for  B3me  time,  but 
any  suggestion  to  prepare  for  the  coming  storm  was  scoffed  at 
in  disdain.  Any  attempt  at  listing  new  mines  running  on  a  profit- 
able basis  was  frowned  down  by  the  ultra-conservative  members 
of  the  board;  but  to-day  they  would  be  only  too  glad  to  accept 
any  proposition  of  the  kind  which  offered  a  chance  for  salvation. 
Outside  of  Belcher,  nothing  new  has  transpired  during  the  week. 
The  North  End  stocks  were,  as  usual,  fairly  well  supported,  but 
the  balance  of  the  market  suffered  at  the  hands  of  the  chippers, 
who  never  miss  a  possible  nickel.  There  is  no  holding  for  keeps 
on  Pine  street  just  now. 

$  $  t 

AN  inquiry  Is  again  springing  up  for  California  mines,  and  a 
number  of  representatives  of  British  capital  are  scouring  the 
State  looking  for  "  a  going  concern,"  as  they  term  it.  They  will 
probably  get  suited  with  some  old  played-out  property,  which 
will  be  dressed  out  for  their  benefit.     One-half  of  the  foreign  min- 


ing sharps  who  visit  this  State  could  not  tell  a  mine  from  a  hole 
in  the  ground.  The  history  of  transactions  in  the  past  will  prove 
this  statement.  They  have  invariably  overlooked  mines  when 
presented  to  them,  and  taken  up  the  most  wretched  propositions, 
which  have  always  resulted  in  a  heavy  loss  to  the  people  who 
placed  faith  in  their  opinion.  It  is  little  use  warning  these  people 
against  a  pitfall  prepared  for  them;  they  know  it  all,  and  argu- 
ment on  the  subject  is  only  so  much  waste  of  time.  For  the 
benefit  of  the  class  we  will,  however,  add  that  during  the  past 
year  three  of  the  best  mining  men  in  this  town,  backed  by  all  the 
necessary  capital,  have  been  looking  for  a  fair  prospect  in  this 
State,  which  can  be  taken  up  and  worked  on  business  principles, 
the  most  liberal  terms  being  offered,  but  so  far  they  have  not 
found  anything  which  will  justify  them  In  advising  their  princi- 
pals to  invest.  There  are  plenty  of  old  shafts  filled  with  water 
which  have  just  been  closed  down  as  the  bonanza  was  about  to 
be  opened  up,  but  this,  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten,  is  a  "go  it  blind" 
proposition,  and  the  day  for  such  a  display  of  idiocy  is  gone  by 
among  local  mining  men.  It  would  be  just  as  well  for  some  of 
the  fresh  experts  from  abroad  who  are  now  here  to  take  the  hint, 
and  avoid  any  disagreeable  possibilities  in  the  future  of  fiascos 
like  the  Josephine,  Ilex,  and  others  of  the  same  ilk. 

IN  the  news  from  the  Comstock  mines  come  the  report  of  a 
steady  improvement  ,in  the  west  workings  on  the  900-level  of 
Union  and  Sierra  Nevada.  The  development  which  sent  Belcher 
on  the  up  grade  holds  out,  and  it  is  said  that  the  ore  extracted  is 
running  bigh.  The  Con.  Cal. -Virginia  mine  is  looking  well,  and 
it  is  confidently  expected  that  the  assays  for  the  week  will  be 
well  up  to  the  recent  high  mark,  which  proved  rather  a  surprise 
to  the  few  bears  who  still  brave  it  out  in  face  of  the  rumors 
which  threaten  their  annihilation.  8orae  fair  grade  ore  is  being 
taken  from  the  upper  levels  of  several  of  the  prominent  mines  on 
the  lode,  which  in  the  majority  of  instances  is  being  shipped  for 
reduction.  Occidental  shipped  bullion  recently  valued  at  $8,000, 
and  has  ore  concentrates  on  hand  valued  at  $7,000.  In  the  Bodie 
group,  Bulwer  is  shipping  ore  to  the  Bodie  mill,  running  $20  to 
the  ton,  and  the  stopes  are  said  to  be  looking  well  Standard,  in 
the  same  camp,  shipped  $19,779.56  in  bullion,  the  total  output  of 
the  mine  last  month.  The  Quijotoa  companies  are  prospecting 
with  good  results,  and  the  management  are  still  in  hopes  of  find- 
ing a  good  pay  body  of  ore.  A  small  assessment  of  five  cents  has 
been  levied  on  Peerless,  the  first  since  September,  last  year,  which 
will  be  used  to  open  up  some  new  and  interesting  ground.  The 
Ophir,  Gould  &  Curry,  Utah  and  Chollar  assessments  were  de- 
linquent during  the  week. 

si  $ 

AN  attempt  is  being  made  to  send  delegates  from  this  city  to  the 
Mining  Congress  to  be  held  in  Helena,  Montana,  on  the  12th 
inst.  There  are  few  of  the  delegates  who  can  well  afford  to  pay 
their  own  expenses  on  a  trip  of  this  kind,  and  it  would  seem  only 
proper  that  some  effort  should  be  made  by  the  different  mining 
companies  here  to  send  on  a  representation  of  competent  men. 
Whether  the  appropriation  in  the  support  of  the  Mining  Bureau 
can  be  drawn  upon  to  some  extent  for  the  necessary  means  is  un- 
certain, owing  to  its  limited  amount,  but  it  is  just  for  such  con- 
tingencies that  it  should  provide.  This  session  of  the  Mining 
Congress  will  be  a  most  important  one,  and  the  State  of  Califor- 
nia is  deeply  interested  in  more  than  one  topic  which  will  come 
up  for  discussion.  It  will  not  look  well  if  the  Golden  State,  of 
all  others,  should  fail  in  having  a  representation. 
$  $  $ 

THE  space  fiend  on  the  Panama  Star  and  Herald  is  still  gloating 
over  what  he  styles  a  descriptive  article  on  the  newly  discov- 
ered El  Dorado  of  Ecuador.  This  was  an  account  of  some  alleged 
placers,  sixty  square  miles  in  area,  with  "pay  dirt"  from  15  to 
150  feet  in  depth,  gold  being  found  from  grass-roots  to  bed  rock. 
These  are  to  be  worked  by  three  mythical  New  York  companies, 
one  with  a  capital  of  $1,000,000,  a  second  with  $2,000,000,  and  a 
third  with  $10,000,000.  Their  is  nothing  small  about  this,  nor  in 
the  additional  statement  that  there  is  not  money  enough  in  the 
Bank  of  France,  and  half  a  dozen  other  financial  concerns  of  the 
kind  thrown  in,  to  buy  these  new  bonanzas. 

$$  $ 

THE  Bank  of  Nevada  has  declared  a  quarterly  dividend,  at  the 
rate  of  6  per  cent,  per  annum,  payable  July  15th,  the  first  div- 
idend since  the  reorganization  of  the  bank,  three  years  sgo.  The 
bank  has  now  a  surplus  of  $532,000,  and  it  is  expected  that 
henceforth  shareholders  will  receive  a  regular  quarterly  dividend 
on  their  shares.  Th«  present  disbursement  is  at  the  rate  of  $1  50 
per  share  upon  the  30,000  shares  of  capital  stock.  The  semi-an- 
nual statement  of  the  bank,  issued  on  the  1st  inst.,  shows  cash 
on  hand  amounting  to  $1,166,305,  and  undivided  profits  aggregat- 
ing $132,664. 

$  $  $ 

THERE  is  again  some  talk  about  starting  up  the  Amador  gold 
mine.  All  the  differences  are  settled,  it  is  said,  the  payments 
j  on  liens  alone  aggregating  some  $20,000.  The  London  financial 
,  papers  have  applied  jack-screws  to  the  stock,  which  is  now 
I    quoted  at  about  75  cents  for  the  fully  paid  up  $5  shares. 


July  9,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


17 


Hear  the  Crier:-'   "What  the  devil  artthouT" 
"  On> lhal  will  pUt  the  ■!*■  Til.<ir.  with  too.*' 

ALL  fenced  around  and  tended  well, 
Within  the  garden  stands 
That  garden's  pride,  the  leafy  tree, 

I'pon  its  owner's  lands. 
Beneath,  the  turf  is  smooth  and  green. 

Nj  withered  leaves  rest  there. 
To  cut  away  each  rotten  branch 

Is  aye  the  gardener's  care. 
About  its  roots  the  mold  is  spread, 

It  knows  not  pain  or  drouth, 
Its  parching  leaflets  never  bend 

Imploring  to  the  south. 
And  so  it  grows  and  thrives,  and  towers, 

In  triumph  toward  the  blue, 
But  ah,  these  spreading  branches  yield 

Their  shelter  to  the  few. 
Far  nobler  is  the  wayside  tree, 

Beneath  whose  shade  may  rest, 
The  weary,  as  tired  children  He, 

Upon  their  mother's  breast. 
A  careless  vagabond  it  stands 

Hard  by  the  dusty  road, 
Inviting  all  who  pass  it  by 

To  pause  and  ease  their  load. 
Its  withered  leaves  beneath  the  boughs, 

All  carelessly  are  shed, 
And  here  at  noon  or  eventide, 

Behold  a  gracious  bed. 
Unlike  the  haughty  garden  tree, 

Where  only  few  are  bidden, 
The  kind  shade  of  this  vagabond 

To  all  is  freely  given. 
'Tis  Nature's  inn,  where  all  may  stay, 

Nor  ever  reckoning  call, 
On  winter's  night  or  summer's  day, 

The  tree  is  free  to  all. 
Then  blessing  on  the  kindly  hand, 

The  hospitality 
Which  plants  outside  the  bounded  land, 

The  kindly  wayside  tree. 

THE  Hon.  Thomas  Fottrell  of  Mill  Valley,  is  the  possessor  of  a 
monkey  which  has  done  more  to  disturb  the  Sabbath  calm  of 
Mill  Valley  than  any  animai,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  archi- 
tectural ami  artistic  humans  ever  introduced  into  that  beautiful 
retreat.  The  monkey  is  of  the  ring-tailed  species,  and  in  locomo- 
tion walks  with  its  head  erect  and  packs  along  the  slack  of  its 
chain  with  the  dignity  of  a  court  damsel  holding  up  her  train. 
But  though  apparently  wild  in  demeanor,  the  monkey  is  largely 
imbued  with  the  spirit  of  its  kind.  He  is  permitted  to  run  loose 
and  delights  in  moonlight  passear°.  Now,  Mill  Valley  is  noted 
for  the  picturesque  character  of  its  lovers'  walks.  The  monk  de- 
lights in  trailing  a  pair  of  confiding  lovers  to  the  gnarled  stump 
which  they  have  selected  as  the  shrine  whereon  their  vows  of 
enduring  affection  &h  ill  be  poured  forth.  And  ju?t  at  the  moment 
when  Gabriel  the  salesman,  is  assuring  Evangeline,  the  saleslady, 
that  his  heart  beats  for  her  alone,  with  a  shrill  and  diabolical 
tbriek,  the  monk,  his  tail  wrapped  around  a  projecting  branch, 
swings  before  the  eyes  of  the  startled  pair,  who,  of  course,  be- 
lieving that  it  is  the  devil  who  has  included  himself  in  their  gar- 
den of  Eden,  flee  to  the  highway  screaming  trayers  of  contrition 
to  heaven.  Another  fantastic  trick  of  the  monk  is  to  appear  at 
open  windows  when  quiet  villagers  are  enjoying  their  evening 
repast,  and  poking  his  black  muzzle  in  just  when  the  soup  is 
being  served,  communicate  a  shock  to  the  crowd  which  leads  to 
the  capsizing  of  the  nutritious  fluid.  Still  he  has  many  good 
traits,  among  which  is  a  hearty  detestation  of  the  citizen  soldiery 
who  disturb  the  quiet  of  the  valley  by  the  beating  of  drums  and 
the  blowing  of  trumpets  and  all  the  pomp  and  circumstance  and 
buttons  of  inglorious  war.  When  they  pass  by  thumping  their 
drums  and  struggling  with  their  unwieldy  muskets  Mr.  Fott- 
rell's  monkey  waxes  wild  with  indignation.  He  bounds  along  the 
pickets  of  Sabbath  Calm  fence  and  groans  and  chatters  at  the 
warriors  as  they  pass  by.  In  appearance  he  closely  resembles  a 
well-known  street  contractor  of  this  city,  except  that  the  monk 
has  whiskers  a  trifle  grayer  than  the  man  whose  ancestors  fought 
with  Brian  Boru. 

STANLEY'S  mother-in-law  wanted  to  make  a  member  of  Par- 
liament of  him.  Ke  did  not  want  it  a  bit,  not  he.  And  now 
the  telegraph  says  that  the  old  lady  is  fatigued,  and  completely 
out  of  health.  Ha,  here  is  plucking  enjoyment  from  the  claws  of 
defeat. 


In  philanthropist  was  harassed  even  to  the  edge  of  the  silent 
grave  bj  boalden  cut   in   the  path  of  his   philanthropy   that 
nun  i-  h-   Coggswell.     Aching  to  go  down   to  posterity  "as  tho 

beiiefa«u.>r  of  his  race,  this  worthy  person  has  been  devising 
mean*  to  bar  a  th  •  euphonemis  name  o!  Cnggawell  stand  side  by 
■Ida  with  franklin,  Morse,  and  the  last  of  the  Mohicans.  He  be- 
Btrawd  tb«  town  With  drinking  fountains;  he  erected  untn  himself 
a  bronze  Maine,  bat  to  this  moltOO  image  the  populace  refused 
to  dufl  th.ir  huts.  On  the  contrary,  they  jeered  thereat,  and  spat 
upon  the  counterfeit  presentment  of  the  good  man's  beard.  Ulti- 
mately the  nieipality  hail  the  brazen  image  of  Coggswell  re- 
moved from  the  market  place,  and  the  thirsty  who  passed  that 
way  might  go  dry  or  buy  steam  beer.  Years  wore  on,  and  then 
the  doctor,  e  mteniplating  another  attack  upon  posterity,  built 
and  endowed  a  college,  and  now  to  open  this  college,  appears  to 
be  about  as  difficult  as  to  enter  one  of  the  sub-treasury  vaults 
to  which  Gill's  burglar  alarm  is  attached.  The  faculty  have  one 
another  by  the  legs,  the  doctor  is  in  a  dilemma,  and  that  portion 
of  the  community  which  would  drink  at  the  Pierian  spine  is  sim- 
ply staggering  along  in  thirst  on  the  desert  of  ignorance. 

THE  dailies,  the  day  atter  the  Fourth,  congratulated  the  com- 
1  munity  upon  the  fact  that  there  were  less  fires  this  year  than 
heretofore.  Well,  I  suppose  it  is  all  right,  but  it  does  seem  as  if 
the  patriotic  enthusiasm  of  the  people  might  find  some  outlet 
which  did  not  imperil  property  and  life.  The  infernal  fire-cracker 
is  used  by  the  Chinese  to  scare  away  the  devil,  to  placate  mis- 
chievous dieties,  to  speed  the  believer's  soul  to  heaven,  and,  be- 
yond all,  to  contend  with  and  smother  the  stinks  of  the  Chinese 
quarter.  The  American  youth  has  but  one  use  for  it.  He  burns 
the  same  fire-cracker  to  glorify  the  independence  of  the  land  of 
his  birth.  On  this  point  of  making  horrible  noises  and  disagree- 
able smells,  the  Mongolian  and  the  Caucasian  shake  hands  across 
the  rampant  dragon.  The  economical  civilization  of  the  future 
may  wisely  arrange  that  the  Chinese  New  Year  be  amalgamated 
with  the  Fourth  of  July,  and  thus  make  those  warring  races 
equally  responsible  for  smell  and  fires. 

THE  last  novelty  in  social  organizations  is  the  Strasbismus 
Club.  This  is  an  association  of  cross-eyed  ladies  and  gentle- 
men, to  regulate  the  apparently  irreconcilable  things  of  life.  One 
of  the  first  questions  brought  before  the  club  was  the  solution  of 
Mr.  Petey  Bigelow  wearing  a  dark  green  necktie,  with  a  pale  blue 
shirt.  When  this  debate  terminated  in  a  tie,  a  most  interesting 
statement  that  the  Rev.  Dr.  Grey's  laundress  was  color  blind, 
provoked  an  animated  discussion.  Those  who  contended  that 
the  reverend  gentleman's  chokers  were  tinted  terra-cotta  instead 
of  white,  obtained  an  overwhelming  majority. 

AT  a  discussion,  a  few  evenings  ago,  in  regard  to  the  reason 
why  there  is  no  rule  laid  down  in  the  German  grammar  about 
the  gender  of  the  article,  a  lady  said:  ■«  It  puzzles  me  why  the 
moon,  which  is  feminine  in  English  and  in  French,  should  be 
masculine  in  the  German.  A  member  of  the  Arion  Club,  Mr. 
Windmiller,  replied,  "  The  only  reason,  madam,  that  I  can  assign 
for  the  moon  being  masculine  in  the  German  is  that  he  is  in  the 
habit  of  getting  full  and  remaining  out  all  night." 

WE  don't  want  Ward  McAllister  here  to  teach  our  society  peo- 
ple new  paces.  Ned  Greenway  is  good  enough  for  us.  He 
fills  the  bill  to  perfection.  Ned  leads  the  German,  keeps  forward 
young  men  where  they  belong,  and  checks  the  enthusiasm  of  the 
debutantes.  But  there  is  a  heraldry  man  in  town  now  who  is 
trying  to  get  up  a  boon  on  crests  and  things.  He  won't  do,  be- 
cause naturally  the  villain  must  deal  with  grandfathers  in  his 
business.     He  is  premature  by  at  least  two  generations. 

AMIDST  all  the  growling  about  bard  times  that  we  hear  on 
every  side,  the  fact  is  apparent  that  the  hardships  of  the 
period  are  not  sufficiently  marked  to  keep  the  good  people  of 
this  city  from  their  regular  enjoyments.  The  theatres  do  not 
suffer,  and  as  for  the  circus — well,  the  circus  carried  away  a 
bar'l  of  money.  Here  is  where  the  spirit  of  juvenility  hits  us  all. 
We  may  deny  some  of  our  relatives  a  few  yards  of  dry  goods,  but 
heaven  forbid  that  the  lady  bareback  rider  and  the  Shakespearean 
clown  should  go  unrewarded. 

JOHN  WELCH  and  Cornelius  McManus  are  convalescent.  The 
knife  and  bullet  were  powerless  to  terminate  the  lives  of  this 
brace  of  distinguished  citizens.  But  let  some  good  and  holy  man 
come  home  with  wet  feet  or  take  an  overdose  of  corn-beef  and 
cabbage,  and  almost  before  he  has  had  time  to  pull  off  his  socks, 
or  pick  his  teeth,  the  flapping  of  the  wings  of  the  Death  Angel  is 
heard  outside  his  chamber  door. 

THE  church  and  the  bar,  as  represented  by  Judge  Murphy  and 
the  Rev.  Chalmers  Easton,  have  had  a  tilt,  and  the  parson  is 
indignant  that  the  Judge  should  have  gone  for  his  vitals.  Mr. 
Easton  should  be  more  careful  of  his  cloth.  When  a  clergyman 
handles  money  for  things  which  lie  beyond  the  spiritual,  he  lays 
himself  open  to  criticism  in  this  censorious  age. 

R.  CARNEGIE'S  cask  rests  in  Harrison's  vault, 

The  whisky  is  old,  good  for  stomach  and  head; 
Its  color  is  amber,  and  here  is  the  fault, 

For  'twere  but  consistent,  its  hue  should  be  red. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


£EQjy£zn%\ 


THE  statistics  of  real  estate  sales  and  improvements  in  San 
Francisco  for  the  first  six  months  of  the  current  year,  show 
that  the  business  dullness,  of  which  much  complaint  has  been 
made  of  late,  has  greatly  affected  the  building  trades  and  the  real 
estate  markets.  The  sales  this  year  in  the  period  mentioned,  ac- 
cording to  Thomas  Magee,  recognized  as  an  authority  on  local 
real  estate,  numbered  2,778,  for  the  sum  of  $9,358,263.  This  was 
about  $11,000,000  less  than  the  sales  in  1890,  and  some  $6,000,000 
less  than  the  sales  of  1891,  the  figures  for  those  years  being  as 
follows:  1890,  3,481  sales,  for  $20,245,501;  1891,  3,752  sales,  for 
$15,451,122.  The  investments  in  improvements  during  the  first 
half  of  this  year  amounted  to  $3,200,000  in  round  figures,  and 
represent  the  erection  of  about  550  new  buildings,  the  number  of 
contracts  let  being  448.  These  totals,  like  those  in  real  estate 
business,  fall  short  of  those  for  the  three  preceding  and  corre- 
sponding half  years.  The  buyer  now  has  the  call  on  prices, 
which  are  holding  firm,  one  reason  for  the  apparent  decrease  in 
the  number  of  sales.  Good  investment  property  is  not  to  be  had 
for  the  asking,  owners  not  being  willing  to  sell,  unless  they  have 
in  immediate  view  an  opportunity  for  a  better  investment. 

During  June  the  reports  show  that  investments  were  made  on 
ninety  buildings,  amounting  to  $622,090.  The  sales  for  June 
numbered  461,  valued  at  $1,682,390.  June  seems  to  have  been  as 
good  for  the  real  estate  men  as  it  was  bad  for  the  insurance  men, 
for  it  ranks  second  among  the  first  six  months  of  the  year.  The 
bank  reports  show  that  during  the  past  half  of  the  year,  money 
was  plentiful.  Money  has  been  plentiful  during  the  entire  half 
year,  and  the  sums  on  deposit  in  the  savings  banks  are  larger 
than  ever.  The  total  mortgages  for  the  six  months  number  2,198, 
and  amount  to  $7,504,209,  and  the  releases  numbered  1,430,  for 
$5,118,838.  In  the  detailed  statement  of  loans  private  individuals 
figure  collectively  far  more  than  any  of  the  banks,  and  are  set 
down  for  956  loans,  aggregating  $2,852,018.  The  Hibernia  Bank 
lent  $1,598,212,  and  the  German  Bank  $1,160,300 

It  is  now  the  desire  of  owners  to  keep  the  market  in  its  pres- 
ent condition,  in  which  land  is  held  firmly  at  fair  figures.  While 
the  real  estate  market  is  in  such  a  condition  there  need  be  no  fear 
of  a  boom,  and  a  resulting  depression  when  the  temporary  ex- 
citement is  over.  There  is  no  likelihood  that  such  will  be  done 
in  real  estate  during  the  summer,  and  as  there  are  many  vacant 
houses,  the  building  trades  will  also  be  given  a  rest. 

CRAIG    AND    MONTGOMERY. 

ONE  of  the  richest  letters  that  have  been  written  and  published 
for  some  time  anent  local  insurance  business  is  that  of  Rev. 
Father  George  Montgomery,  Chancellor  of  the  Archdiocese  of 
California,  in  which  the  reverend  gentleman  in  polished  lan- 
guage denounces  Hugh  Craig,  of  the  New  Zealand  company,  as 
a  coward  and  a  liar.  The  letter  was  in  reply  to  an  interview 
with  Oraip,  published  in  an  evening  paper,  regarding  the  Troy- 
Agnew  difficulty  over  the  reinsurance  of  the  San  Rafael  convent, 
the  story  of  which  was  first  published  in  the  News  Letter.  Mr. 
Craig  made  a  sweeping  denunciation  of  the  manner  in  which  he 
said  all  church  business  was  transacted,  and  among  other  things 
said  an  agent  never  received  all  his  preminm  for  such  insurance, 
and  never  expected  it.  Now  comes  Father  Montgomery,  who,  by 
the  way,  is  a  very  able  man,  and  says  if  in  his  denunciations  Mr. 
Craig  includes  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  why,  then,  his  state- 
ments were  infamously  false,  ile  wrote  to  Craig  on  the  subject, 
and  that  gentleman  replied  that  he  was  personally  responsible 
for  that  part  of  the  interview  which. did  not  include  the  usual  re- 
portorial  padding.  Portions  of  the  letter  of  Rev.  Father  Mont- 
gomery are  so  strong  that  we  republish  them.  Referring  to  the 
Craig  statement,  that  all  church  business  are  obtained  by  ques- 
tionable methods,  the  priest's  letter  says:  »  Mr.  Craig  has  church 
business,  therefore  it  is  presumed  that  Mr.  Craig  has  obtained  it 
by  questionable  methods.  If  he  answers  that  these  questionable 
methods  were  on  the  part  of  the  agents,  I  reply  that  according  to 
his  own  assertion  the  company  is  the  only  one  that  has  profited 
by  them,  for  he  says  the  agents  had  to  give  back  the  full  amount 
of  the  comruissior  8  Now  the  coward  who  stands  in  the  back- 
ground, and  receives  or  profits  by  stolen  goods,  is  more  con- 
temptible than  the  thief  himself.  Mr.  Craig  says  that  *  premiums 
on  church  insurance  are  hard  to  collect,  and  that  if  a  company 
gets  half  of  them  it  is  doing  well.'  The  church  to  which  Mr. 
Craig  belongs  may  deserve  this  complimentary  notice — it  will 
have  to  speak  for  itself;  but,  if  minus  'the  padding,'  Mr. 
Craig  asserts  this  of  the  Catholic  church  of  this  city 
and  diocese,  it  is  simply  untrue.  I  will  venture  to  say 
that  the  New  Zealand  Company  never  lost  one  cent 
of  its  premium  on  a  Catholic  Church  policy.  Mr.  Craig  contin- 
ues :  "  It  is  of  no  use  to  sue  them  (the  church  people).  You  can- 
not get  a  judgment  against  them,  and  if  you  did  you  could  not 
collect  it.  Besides  being  false  and  a  base  insinuation,  that  asser- 
tion is  foolishly  absurd,  and  unworthy  of  the  manager  of  a  great 
company.     If  Mr.  Craig  does  not  want  church  insurance,  why 


does  he  take  it?  I  feel  certain  that  no  Catholic  priest  ever  asked 
him  or  his  company  to  write  a  policy  on  their  property,  and  yet 
he  has  written,  or  caused  to  be  written,  several.  We  have  never 
solicited  any  company  to  insure  us,  bat  they  have  solicited  us  to 
let  them  insure  us.  I  trust  that  in  future  he  will  not  be 
troubled  by  any  insurance  of  Catholic  church  property.  The 
tone  of  the  interview,  however,  indicates  that  he  has  rot  bad  as 
much  of  it  as  he  would  desire.  Mr.  Craig  is  at  liberty  to  make 
any  wild  assertions  that  he  chooses,  but  I  have  the  same  liberty 
of  characterizing  his  bad  manners  as  they  deserve." 

It  is  now  in  order  for  some  one  to  get  Craig's  opinion  on  the 
proposition  whether  or  not  it  is  a  "questionable"  method  of  do- 
ing business  to  appoint  farmers  as  agents. 

Grandma's  made  happy  with  perfect  fitting  glasses  from  C.  Muller,  op- 
tician, 135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


Moquette  Carpets 

At 

Reduced  Prices. 


Until  July  1st  we  offer  a  larje  variety 
oj  desirable  patterns  at  2G  P£R  CENT 
LESS  THAN  USUAL  PRICES. 
We  must  close  out  these  patterns  be- 
fore our  stock-taking  on  July  1st,  be- 
cause our  mills  have  stopped  making 
them,  and  dropped  patterns  must  go 
to  make  room  for  new  Fall  styles. 

W.  &  J.  SL0ANE  &  CO., 

641-647  Market  Street. 

CARPETS,  FURNITURE,  UPHOLSTERY, 

WINDOW  SHADES. 

ANNUAL  MEETING 

Best  &  Belcher  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Best  &  Belcher 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,   room  33,  Ne- 
vada Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  11th  Day  of  July,  189',  at  the  hour  cf  1  o'clock  P.  M.. 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting. 
Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  July  8,  1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,   San  Frau- 
cisco,  California. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  tbe  half  year  ending  June  30, 1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  one-tenth  (5  1-10'  per  cent,  per  aunum  on  Term  Depos- 
its and  four  and  one-quarter  (4'4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Ordinary  De- 
posits, payable  on  and  after  Friday.  July  1,  1892. 

GEORGE  TOURNY,  Secretary. 
Office— 526  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Blount  Door  Check  and  Spring  ! 


Sure  to  Close  the 

Door  -without 

Slamming, 
JAS.  A.  MAGUIRE,  City  Agent, 

657-G61  Market  Street,   S.  F. 


July  9    1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I  ETTER. 


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TH  E  Agnew-Troy  controversy  continues  to  attract  the  attention 
of  the  insurance  world,  and  it  is  said  by  the  talkers  on  the 
Bourse  that  interesting  developments  will  soon  be  made.  The 
nature  of  the  developments,  however,  is  not  hinted  at.  Manager 
Duval,  of  the  Compact,  is  looking  into  the  matter,  and  has 
already  procured  considerable  testimony  in  the  case.  Troy  has 
made  an  affidavit  setting  forth  his  side  of  the  story,  and  Agnew 
has  also  told  what  he  had  to  say  about  it.  It  is  only  fair  to 
Agnew  to  say  that  in  no  manner  did  he  shirk  an  investigation; 
in  fact,  be  preferred  to  have  an  inquiry  made  into  his  methods 
of  doing  business.  Apropos  of  this  matter,  that  interview  with 
Hugh  Craig,  published  in  an  evening  paper  last  Saturday,  has 
caused  much  comment.  Craig  to  a  considerable  extent  is  a  pro- 
fessional Christian  and  holy  man,  and  the  manner  in  which  he 
speaks  about  church  business  is  somewhat  shocking  to  one  ac- 
quainted with  this  surpassingly  good  man.  "Church  business  is 
never  obtainable  except  by  questionable  methods,"  he  is  reported 
to  have  said.  "  There  is  nothing  in  it.  In  the  insurance  de- 
partment of  every  church  the  cloven  hoof  is  always  to  be  found. 
They  are  professional  corrupters  of  the  average  honest  man."  Of 
course  Mr.  Craig  is  not  an  average  honest  man.  "The  ecclesias- 
tical clans  of  the  nineteenth  century,"  continued  the  California 
street  saint,  as  he  is  familiarly  termed,  "  who  live  on  their  flocks 
for  the  fleece  and  the  tallow,  have  inspired  their  financial  com- 
mittees with  the  same  methods,  so  that  in  order  to  save  a  dollar 
they  would  sell  ail  the  souls  of  their  congregation."  Now,  of 
course,  any  one  at  all  acquainted  with  the  manner  in  which 
cburch  risk3  are  taken,  is  aware  that  more  or  less  rebate  is  always 
made  on  the  premium,  whether  directly  or  by  way  of  donations 
to  the  institution,  makes  no  difference;  the  reduction  is  certainly 
made.  But  that  the  good  Mr.  Craig,  a  pillar  of  the  church,  with 
his  unsullied  reputation  as  a  professional  Christian,  should  refer 
in  such  slighting  terms  to  those  good  men  who  point  out  the  way 
to  the  better  world,  where  there  are  no  fires,  is  astonishing.  It  is 
shocking!  What  may  we  expect  next,  when  Craig  speaks  of  the 
cloven  hoof  and  churches  in  the  same  breath? 

Underwriters  say  that  the  losses  for  May  and  June  have  been 
unusually  heavy  this  year.  The  spell  of  hot  weather,  and  the 
consequent  dryness  and  highly  inflammable  condition  of  the 
country,  are  greatly  responsible  for  the  unpleasant  condition  of 
affairs.  The  Seattle,  Woodland  and  San  Jose  fires  all  bit  local 
offices  heavily.  The  Gutte  agency,  for  instance,  was  in  to  the 
extent  of  $25,000  on  the  blazes.  The  management  of  the  San 
Jose  fires  has  caused  much  adverse  criticism  on  the  condition  of 
the  fire  department  in  that  enterprising  burg.  The  cause  of  most 
of  the  damage  was  the  fact  that  no  water  to  play  on  the  flames 
could  be  obtained  until  half  an  hour,  at  least,  after  the  blaze  had 
begun.  San  Jose's  department  is  a  poor  one,  anyhow.  The 
horses,  for  instance,  are  required  to  work  every  other  day  on  out- 
side work,  which,  to  a  great  extent,  unfits  them  for  fire  depart- 
ment work.  It  has  been  suggested  by  an  old  underwriter  that 
San  Jose  do  away  with  the  horses  altogether,  and  get  up  a  com- 
pany of  men  who  would  run  "  wid  der  machine."  The  men 
would  do  better  service  than  the  horses  in  dragging  the  engines 
over  the  level  streets,  and  their  services  would  be  less  expensive, 
as  many,  if  not  the  great  majority  of  the  men,  would  work  the 
ropes  for  nothing,  being  satisfied  with  the  knowledge  of  the 
glory  they  have  in  working  for  the  commonwealth. 

Colonel  W.  R.  Smedberg  returned  from  the  East  last  Thursday. 

What  is  technically  known  as  "the  80  per  cent,  coinsurance 
clause"  was  last  week  put  in  operation  by  Chicago  underwriters 
on  a  large  class  of  risks.  This  was  following  closely  similar  ac- 
tion by  the  underwriters  of  New  York  and  other  Eastern  cities. 
There  are  many  excellent  and  logical  reasons  in  favor  of  coinsur- 
ance, but  the  most  prominent  reason  brought  forward  by  the  in- 
surance men  of  Chicago  and  of  the  other  cities  was  that  the  exi- 
gency of  the  situation  demanded  such  action,  because  not  only 
the  profits  but  the  capital  of  insurance  companies  were  being 
wiped  out  by  the  magnitude  of  the  fire  losses,  and  radical  meas- 
ures were  necessary  to  save  the  remaining  companies  from  bank- 
ruptcy. A  recognized  authority  in  matters  of  insurance  statis- 
tics, the  Spectator,  presents  a  particularly  elaborate  table  showing 
the  operations  of  fifty-one  of  the  leading  fire  insurance  companies 
for  the  last  decade.  The  particular  point  to  which  this  page  of 
statistics  led  was  to  show  that  the  ratio  of  profits  to  premiums 
had  in  that  decade  been  but  .08  of  1  per  cent.  In  drawing  con- 
clusions from  this  showing,  the  paper  says:  "  It  will  be  seen 
that  the  majority  of  fire  insurance  companies,  if  we  may  judge 
the  balance  by  the  fifty-one  whose  statistics  are  given,  are  public 
benefactors  and  philanthropists  so  far  as  the  results  show.  The 
companies  in  the  aggregate  have  transacted  the  business  of  fire 
underwriting  for  nothing."  It  should  be  noted  that  this  .08  of  1 
per  cent,  in  a  decade  is  not  the  ratio  of  profit  on  the  capital  stock, 
returned  in  dividends  to  the  stockholders,  but  the  very  different 
matter  of  the  ratio  of  profit  to  the  premiums.     The  same  figures 


which  have  been  ingeniously  used  to  demonstrate  the  unprofit- 
ableness of  the  insurance  business  present  a  widely  different 
showing  if  they  are  looked  into  a  little  further.  The  point  that 
would  first  strike  one's  attention,  is  that  while  these  fifty-one 
companies  received  in  premiums  during  the  decade  JiS74,fi81,866, 
they  only  paid  back  in  losses  »390.990,202.  This  shows  tbat  there 
was  left  $2"7,G85,.r."4  to  pay  the  expenses  of  collecting  the  premi- 
ums and  profits  of  the  business.  This  was  unquestionably  a  large 
sum,  large  enough  to  provide  for  a  most  liberal  quota  of  expenses 
and  still  leave  a  margin  for  stockholders'  profits. 

Insurance  companies  to  the  number  of  175  engaged  in 
the  business  in  Illinois  in  1891.  The  paid  up  capital  Btock  of 
those  companies  was  $63,801,875.  The  dividends  paid  to  stock- 
holders was  $6,738,G31,  or  at  the  rate  of  10A  per  cent.  The  aver- 
age return  to  the  stockholders  of  the  railroad  companies  operating 
in  Illinois  was  2  1-5  per  cent. 


Good  Cooking 

Is  one  of  the  chief  blessings  of  every  home.  To  always  insure  good 
custards,  puddings,  sauces,  etc.,  use  Gail  Borden  "  Eagle  "  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.  Directions  on  the  label.  Sold  by  your  grocer  and 
druggist. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Savage  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  animal  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Savage  Min- 
ing Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  4,  Nevada 
Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on  Thursday,  the 
2lst  day  of  July,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction 
of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer  books 
will  close  on  Monday,  July  18,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  4,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Spring  Valley  Water  Works. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water 
Works  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  No.  516  California  Street, 
San  Frauclsco,  Cal.,  on  WEDNESDAY,  theUOth  day  of  July,  1892.  at  the  hour 
of  12  o'clock  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Trustees  to  serve  for 
the  e  nsuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as*  may  come 
before  the  meeting. 

WM.  NORRIS,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  516  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 


Hibernia  Savings  and  L-an  Society. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Hibernia  Savings 
and  Loan  Society,  held  July  1,  1892,  a  dividend  was  declared  at  the 
rate  of  four  and  one-quarter  (4\£)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits  for 
the  six  months  ending  June  30,  1B92,  free  from  all  taxes  and  payable  on 
and  after  July  1,  1892.  R.  J.  10BIN,  Secretary. 

Office— Northeast  corner  Montgomery  and  Post  streets,  S.  F. 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 


Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
The  Board  of  Directors  declare  a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  with 
June  30,  1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1  5j  per  cent,  per  annum 
on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  per  cent,  per  annum  on   Or- 
dinary Deposits  "fiee  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892, 

CYRUS  W.  CARMANY,  Cashier. 
Office— 101  Montgomery  St.,  Cor.  Sutter,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

People's  Home  Savings  Bank. 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  this  bank  have  declared  a  dividend  for  the 
term  ending  June  30,  1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-flfth  (5  1-5)  per  cent, 
per  annum  on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  oue-third  (4^J)  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,,  free  from  taxei,  and  payable  on  and  after 
July  1, 1892.  J.  E.  FaRNUM,  Secretary. 

Office— 805  Market  street,  Flood  Building,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  California  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  ending  June  30, 1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  four-tenths  (5  4-10;  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  de- 
posits, and  four  and  one-half  (4J^)  per  cent,   per  annum  on  ordinary  de- 
posits, free  of  taxes,  payable  on  aud  after  Friday,  July  1,  1892. 

VERNON  CAMPBELL,  Secretary. 
Office— Cor.  Powell  and  Eddy  streets. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

For  the  half-year  ending  June  30,  1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 

the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  deposits 

and  four  and  one-thiid  (4J-6)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free 

of  taxes,  payable  on  aud  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 

J.  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 
Office— No.  33  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 

THE  proudest  man  in  America  on  the  Fourth  of  July  was  W. 
H.  Taylor,  Jr.  who  again  has  won  the  lawn  tennis  champion- 
ship of  the  Pacific  States.  Mr.  Taylor  has  an  unbeaten  record 
for  five  years,  and  everyone  was  pleased  to  see  him  win  this 
year,  especially  as  he  will  not  be  seen  again  in  championship 
matches.  The  match  between  bira  and  the  "  all-comer,"  Mr.  C. 
P.  Hubbard,  was,  without  doubt,  the   most  exciting  ever  played 

on  this  coast,  and  the  ten- 
nis, though  not  a  brilliant 
smashing  game,  was 
purely  scientific.  Both  play- 
ers, at  the  beginning  of  the 
match,  were  slightly  nerv- 
ous, as  they  realized  that 
great  things  were  expected 
by  their  adherents.  To- 
wards the  middle  of  the 
first  sett,  Taylor  began  to 
show  a  great  superiority 
over  his  opponent  in  vulley- 
ing,  and  at  the  same  time 
placing  the  swift  returns  of 
Mr.  Hubbard.  Cheer  after 
cheer  rent  the  air  when  the 
first  sett  was  placed  to  Tay- 
llor's  credit.  The  second 
Isett,  after  being  hotly  con- 
gested, went  in  the  same 
way,  and  the  Oakland  con- 
tingent were  beginning  to 
feel  rather  blue  at  the  pros- 
pect of  seeing  their  favorite  beaten  in  straight  setts.  They  were, 
however,  very  jubilant  when  the  third  and  fourth  setts  were 
taken  by  Mr.  Hubbard,  after  some  of  the  finest  head  work  dis- 
played on  the  courts.  In  the  fifth  and  final  sett,  Mr.  Taylor  be- 
gan to  play  for  all  he  was  worth ,  and  made  two  of  the  prettiest 
drives  down  the  side  lines,  in  fact,  the  only  two  in  the  match. 
His  placing  and  volleying  began  to  get  stronger,  and  Mr.  Hub- 
bard could  not  stand  up  against  them.  The  courts  were  in  pan- 
demonium when  the  last  stroke  was  played,  and  Taylor  was 
hoisted  up  on  the  shoulders  of  his  friends  and  proclaimed  winner. 
After  silence  had  been  restored,  Mr.  W.  Mayo  Newball,  in  his 
usual  graceful  way,  presented  the  cup  to  the  champion.  Mr. 
Hubbard  is  certainly  to  be  congratulated  on  his  bard-fought 
matches,  and  the  manner  in  which  he  carried  himself  through- 
out. As  "  runner-up"  he  bad  to  fi^bt  against  several  fine  players, 
and  bis  matches  with  Bates  and  Sanborn  will  live  long  in  the 
memory  of  those  who  were  fortunate  enough  to  witness  them. 
Mr.  Bates  was  within  one  point  of  beating  Mr.  Hubbard,  and  the 
excitement  was  intense.     The  former   has  really   improved   won- 


C.    P.    Httbbard. 


derfully,  and  will,  in  all  probability,  be  a  strong  favorite  next 
year.  Sanborn  was  quite  a  dark  horse,  and  was  not  for  a  mo- 
ment looked  upon  as  a  likely  winner.  When,  however,  he  de- 
feated Tobin  without  losing  a  sett,  and  with  comparative  ease 
beat  S.  Neil,  he  was  looked  upon  with  dread,  as  Hubbard  was 
certainly  the  favorite.  The  people  breathed  more  freely  when 
Hubbard  won  the  all-comers  match  in  straight  setts.  The  public 
were  disappointed  at  Mr.  Neil's  defeat,  but  his  wrist  was  pain- 
ful and  he  was  not  playing  his  game,  while  his  opponent  was 
playing  the  game  of  his  life. 

One  of  the  very  close  matches,  which  can  justly  be  spoken  of 
as  a  very  tine  exhibition,  was  that  between  Bates  and  Carr  Neei. 
Mr.  Bates  had  all  he  could  do  to  win,  and  deserved  great  credit 
for  working  up  in  the  final  sett  with  four  games  to  love  against 
him.  The  match  between  Dr.  Philips  and  H.  H.  Haigbt  was  very 
interesting,  and  the  Reno  man  has  shown  that  a  year's  practice 
has  greatly  improved  him.  Mr.  Tobin  was  disappointing  to  his 
many  friends,  for,  after  defeating  Haight,  he  was  looked  upon  as 
the  one  to  meet  Hubbard,  but  Sanborn  completely  outplayed  him. 
I  mentioned  in  a  previous  article  that  in  my  opinion  Hubbard, 
Bates  and  S.  Neel  would,  unless  the  draw  interfered,  come  into 
the  semi  finals.  Of  the  many  other  players  in  the  tournament 
there  is  but  little  to  say,  except  that  they  deserve  praise  for  their 
efforts  to  make  the  tournament  a  success,  which  undoubtedly  it 
was.  In  my  opinion,  and  in  the  opinion  of  those  present,  the 
play  and  style  was  far  better  than  that  shown  at  previous  meet- 
ings. The  play,  instead  of  being  a  simple  smashing  game,  or  pure 
battledoor  and  shuttl«cock,  has  proved  itself  to  be  a  very  scienti- 
fic pastime,  where  only  skill  and  endurance  can  battle  success- 
fully. Alec.  B.  Wilhebforce. 

On  Sunday,  at  San  Rafael,  there  were  some  consolation  doubles 
which  were  highly  interesting  and  amusing.  The  best  games 
were  those  between  Stetson  and  De  Long,  and  Bates  and  Haight. 
The  former  won,  after  a  hard  fight,  and  finally  took  the  prizes, 
beating  0.  Hoffman  and  Sanborn  in  the  finals.  C  P.  Hubbard 
and  Joe  Tobin  left  for  the  East  last  Wednesday.  We  will  look 
forward  with  interest  to  the  outcome  of  their  tennis  matches  with 
the  Eastern  cracks.     S.  Neel  has  also  departed  for  Chicago. 

The  Stetson  tournament  will  be  discontinued  for  the  present, 
and  will  be  turned  into  a  double  tournament  after  the  Admission 
Day  doubles. 

The  quarterly  tournament  for  the  California  cup  will  be  held  at 
the  end  of  this  month,  at  the  club  grounds.  Mr.  Hubbard  has 
already  won  it  twice,  but  owing  to  his  departure  for  the  East,  he 
will  not  be  able  to  enter. 

The  Northern  Championship  was  held  at  Liverpool,  Eng.,  June 
14th,  and  O.  S.  Campbell,  champion  of  America,  was  among  the 
entries.  In  the  first  round  he  defeated  G.  W.  Hillyard,  6-4,  7-5, 
1-6,  6-3,  but  was  defeated  in  the  second  hy  F.  O.  Stoker,  3-6.6-4, 
2-6,  7-5,  6-2.  In  the  American  singles  be  was  defeated  by  W. 
Baddeley  (champion).  6-2,  6-0;  also  by  Pirn,  4-6,  6-4,  12-10,  and 
last  by  H.  S.  Barlow,  6-1,  1-6,  6-4.  In  the  doubles,  partnered  with 
Barlow,  they  won  the  first  and  second  rounds,  hut  were  defeated 
in  the  third  by  Renshaw  and  Hillyard,  6-8,  7-5,  7-5,  6-2. 

We  have  received  tne  following  special  cablegram  from  our 
English  correspondent: 

Wimbledon,  July  4th. — The  All-England  championship  round 
played  to-day  resulted  in  a  victory  for  the  holder  of  the  cup,  Mr. 
Wilfred  Baddeley. 


BASEBALL.   ^ 


W.  It.  Taylor,  Jr.,  Pacific  Coast  Champion. 


'HE  positions  of  the  clubs  this  week  in  therace 
for  the  baseball  pennant  is  another  illustration 
of  the  uncertainties  in  a  game  of  baseball.  Two  weeks  ago  every- 
thing indicated  that  the  race  lay  between  San  Jose  and  Los  An- 
geles, the  home  team  having  only  a  remote  chance  to  win.  At 
this  writing  it  looks  as  if  the  home  team  would  come  out  in  the 
lead,  with  San  Jose  and  Los  Angeles  struggling  for  second  place. 
This  state  of  affairs  is  liable,  however,  to  change  within  the  next 
two  weeks.  The  California  League  has,  as  we  foreshadowed  sev- 
eral weeks  ago,  adopted  the  double  championship  season,  as  con- 
ducted by  all  the  other  leagues  in  the  country.  The  first  season 
will  end  two  weeks  from  to-morrow,  and  the  next  season  will 
commence  on  the  following  Wednesday.  The  National  Board  of 
Control,  through  President  Young,  has  awarded  the  Los  Angeles 
Oakland  protested  game  of  May  5lh  to  the  latter  club.  This  pulls 
Los  Angeles  down  a  peg.  It  does  not  do  Oakland  much  good, 
but  it  hurts  Los  Angeles,  and  assists  the  San  Jose  and  home 
tnams.  The  ground  of  the  protest  was  that  a  portion  of  the 
bleachers  <  f  the  Los  Angeles  grounds  was  in  fair  ground  when 
he  bleachers  should  have  been  entirely  in  foul  territory.  Com- 
mencing with  to-day,  each  of  the  clubs  will  play  twelve  games 
bpfore  the  first  season  ends.  Oakland  has  been  playing  good  ball, 
and  should  be  in  the  race  from  the  beginning  of  next  season  until 
the  end.  Next  week  the  home  team  will  have  to  battle  with  the 
San  Jose  club  at  the  home  of  the  latter.  The  Oaklands,  during 
the  same  time,  will  be  playing  with  the  Los  Angeles  nine  in  this 
city  and  Oakland.  The  home  and  Los  Angeles  teams  will  play 
in  this  city  this  afternoon  and  to-morrow.  The  Los  Angeles  has 
signed  Lytle.  This  would  indicate  that  the  club  intends  to  make 
a  strong  fight  to  win  the  present  series. 


July  9,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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AMONG  novelties  fa  hats  a  tut  bonnets  ell  the  prettiest  seem  to 
be  triranied  with  antenna  or  Mephistophelean  feathers.  A 
Urge  chip  hat  with  the  siuall  crown  composed  of  a  rough  straw, 
has  the  brim  slightly  caught  up  in  front  with  wings  of  lace  and 
antenn.<  as  the  only  trimming.  A  bonnet  with  a  small  crown 
and  a  brim  of  lace  caught  up  here  and  there,  has  a  bow  of  moss 
green  velvet  in  front  fastened  with  a  paste  bnckle,  and  two  Me- 
phisto  feathers  rising  op  from  it.  A  hat,  which  in  shape  resem- 
bles a  glorified  sailor's  bat,  has  large  bows  of  purple  velvet  in 
front,  witb  branches  of  cherries  and  nuts  sticking  up  at  one  side. 
Another  hat  the  same  shape  has  two  upright  bows  of  ribbon 
placed  at  each  side,  which  have  the  appearance  almost  of  donkeys' 
ears.  A  bonnet,  which  from  the  front  appears  to  be  nothing  but 
a  butterfly  poised  upright  on  the  head,  has  the  small  crown  com- 
posed of  scintillating  blue  spangles,  and  the  butterfly  is  made  of 
the  same  spangles,  with  the  antenna'  of  gold  wire.  Another  bon- 
net which  is  equally  novel  and  extraordinary,  has  a  flat  gold 
crown,  which  is  encircled  by  a  green  snake,  the  head  of  which 
rises  up  above  the  fringe  in  a  most  startling  way. 

Black  and  green,  pink  and  green  and  all  the  shades  of  mauve 
and  canary  color  are  popular  combinations.  A  new  material  has 
a  canvas  ground  with  corded  silk  stripes,  producing  a  shot  effect. 
Flowered  organdie  muslin  and  dotted  Swiss  are  in  favor  again. 
Oriental  printed  silks  are  a  novelty,  with  patterns  similar  in  de- 
sign and  coloring  to  those  on  India  shawls.  The  pattern  is  out- 
lined in  jet. 


An  odd  little  jewel-box  is  especially  designed  for  the  <<  sailor- 
made"  girl.  It  is  made  of  cardboard,  covered  with  silk  and  bolt- 
ing cloth.  It  is  shaped  like  a  small  anchor  of  unusual  thickness. 
Inside  it  is  lined  with  tufted  silk,  while  on  the  outside  is  painted 
a  diminutive  portrait  of  the  owner. 

A  smart  bracelet  for  a  girl  who  rides,  or  who  is  inclined  to  out- 
door sports,  is  a  gold  crop,  curved  and  caught  in  the  center  by  a 
horse  shoe  and  with  a  nail  in  the  latter.  The  handle  and  end  of 
the  crop  are  elaborately  engraved,  so  that  an  extremely  pretty  ef- 
fect is  produced. 

Large  services  in  cases  of  individual  salts,  peppers,  butter  plates, 
salt  spoons  and  butter  knives  are  now  lavishly  presented.  The 
daintiness  of  the  gilt-lined  salt  spoons  and  the  lovely  little  knives 
make  them  desired  as  wedding  presents. 

Elsie  Bee,  in  The  Jewelers1  Circular. 

Penknives  have  gone  up  in  the  scale  of  price  and  quality.  They 
are  at  present  one  of  the  features  of  the  French  girl's  chatelaine.  In 
size  tbey  are  small  and  narrow  and  made  of  silver  or  gold,  with 
delicately  tinted  enameled  flowers  upon  them. 

Cologne  sprays  are  just  now  in  popular  favor.  The  novelty  in 
this  line  is  a  tiny  silver  watering-pot,  perfect  in  every  detail — 
spout,  the  spray  attachment  and  all.  Cologne  sprays  of  Dresden 
china,  set  in  silver  cases,  are  also  used. 

Asparagus  tongs  are  sumptuous.  The  under  part  is  flat  and 
shovel-shaped,  the  upper  part  is  a  large  claw  of  silver  gilt,  perfectly 
copied  from  nature,  says  the  Jewelers1  Circular.  The  ordinary  as- 
paragus tongs  have  wide  braided  and  perforated  shovels, 

Bow  knot  pins  are  now  sold  with  a  chatelaine  attached ;  the 
chatelaine  hook  may  be  removed  if  desired.  These  bow  knots 
come  in  dnll  yellow,  etruscan  or  bright  polished  gold,  and  also  in 
silver,  plain  and  filigree. 

A  novelty  very  pretty  for  the  dinner  table  is  a  silver  slipper 
with  a  high  heel  and  rosette,  chased  to  imitate  brocade,  says  the 
Jewelers1  Circular.    This  is  filled  with  small  ferns  as  a  jardiniere. 

Numbers  of  skirt  supporters  are  coming  in  the  market.  They 
are  something  like  little  chips  in  the  form  of  fleur-de-lis  and  other 
devices  with  chains  and  rings  for  the  finger. 

The  fancy  for  white  ribbon  ties  around  the  braided  knot  of  hair 
still  continues.  The  ribbon  should  be  about  an  inch  wide,  of  gros- 
grain  with  a  corded  edge. 

Onyx  bracelets  faceted  in  squares  and  rimmed  with  gold  is  an 
old  mourning  fashion  re-established. 

Small  gold  hairpins  come  in  sets  with  one  large  pin.  They  have 
tops  of  trefoil  and  fleur-de-lis. 

«  ouglis.  Hoarseness,  Sore  Throat,  etc.,  quickly  relieved  by  Brown's 
Bronchial  Troches.  They  surpass  all  other  preparations  in  removing 
hoarseness,  and  as  a  cough  remedy  are  pre-eminently  the  best. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


MR.  O'SHEA  tells  a  good  story  of  Grimbush,  an  Irish  actor, 
who  went  on  the  stage  as  the  Ghost  of  Hamlet,  thinking  him. 
self  William  in  Black-Eyed  Susan.  He  was,  of  course,  very  much 
intoxicated.  "  Instead  of  striding  in  with  martial  stalk,  the 
Ghost,  hitching  his  cuisses  in  sailor  fashion,  lurched  on  the 
boards,  and,  grasping  the  hand  of  the  astonished  Marcellns,  roar- 
ed out,  'What  cheer,  messmate?  Tip  us  your  nipper,  my  hearty.' 
Marcellus  was  too  much  taken  aback  to  speak;  but  Bernardo, 
Horatio,  and  Francisco  began  frowning  and  whispering  emphatic 
warning  to  the  Ghost  in  dumb  show.  'Avast  heaving,  you  lub- 
bers!' shouted  Harry;  'I  take  you  to  be  no  better  than  a  crew  of 
cowardly  land  sharks.  But  a  true  British  sailor'— here  a  hitch  of 
the  cuisses— 'never  turned  his  back  to  a  lass  or  a  glass,  or  hauled 
down  his  colours  before  a  dozen  beggarly  foreigners.'  A  call  of 
■Hornpipe !'  was  thereupon  raised  from  the  gallery,  and  the  Ghost 
of  Hamlet's  father,  in  'the  very  armour  he  had  on  when  he  the 
ambitious  Norway  combated,'  went  through  the  paces  of  that 
sprightly  dance  with  complacent  nimbleness." 

M.  F.  S.  Dymotfe,  the  "Queen's  Champion"  was  recently 
very  ill  in  London.  His  family  has,  since  1377,  held  the  Manor 
of  Scrivelsby,  in  Lincolnshire,  by  the  tenure  of  challenging  all 
comers  to  dispute  the  Sovereign's  right  on  the  day  of  Coronation. 
The  Champion  has  not  been  called  upon  to  exercise  his  functions 
since  1821,  when  the  Dymoke  of  the  period  rode  in  full  armour 
on  horseback  up  Westminister  Hall,  where  the  banquet  was  be- 
ing held,  dared  the  world  to  dispute  the  right  of  George  IV.,  and 
received  a  golden  cup  as  his  fee.  The  family  has  adopted  an  ex- 
cellent canting  motto — pro  rege  dimico — and  its  three  crests  are  a 
lion,  a  sword,  and  (with  strange  irony)  the  "scalp  of  a  hare." 

The  badly  mixed  condition  of  political  affairs  in  Roman  families 
may  be  judged  from  the  fact  that  a  prince  of  the  highest  distinc- 
tion is  a  chamberlain  to  the  Pope,  while  one  of  his  sons  is  an  of- 
ficer in  the  Italian  army,  a  zealous  Italian,  and  devoted  to  the 
King;  another  is  a  senator,  after  having  been  a  depute.  A  prince 
is  hereditary  Marshal  du  Conclave  to  the  Pope,  thus  having  the 
position  of  Minister  of  Police  to  His  Holiness.  The  son  of  this 
prince,  who  will  succeed  him  on  his  death,  or  upon  his  retirement, 
is  an  officer  of  cavalry,  and  devoted  to  his  Sovereign.  A  great 
many  more  instances  might  be  sighted  to  prove  that  things  are 
very  mixed. 

The  most  important  addition  which  has  recently  been  made 
to  the  Department  of  Antiquities  in  the  British  Museum  is  the 
famous  Carlisle  collection  of  engraved  gems  from  Castle  Howard, 
which  is  one  of  the  finest  in  Europe,  and  which  has  been  pur- 
chased from  Lord  Carlisle.  The  collection  was  formed  by  Henry, 
fourth  Earl  of  Carlisle,  who  died  in  1758.  A  letter  from  Horace 
Walpole  to  Richard  West,  dated  Rome,  May  7,  1740,  gives  a  very 
diverting  account  of  the  manner  in  which  one  of  the  most  valu- 
able parts  of  this  collection  was  acquired.  The  letter  in  question 
is  to  be  found  in  the  first  volume  of  the  Walpole  Correspondence. 


B-A-zrsrics- 


The  Princess  Louise,  whose  artistic  accomplishments  are  well 
known,  has  nearly  completed  the  bust  of  the  Queen,  which  is  to 
be  shown  at  the  Chicago  Exhibition.  The  Princess  has  had  many 
sittings  from  Her  Majesty,  and  as  her  facility  in  catching  like- 
nesses is  wonderful,  as  is  acknowledged  by  all  who  have  seen 
her  wonderful  portrait  of  Paderewski  in  the  New  Gallery,  the 
sculpture  will  have  an  intrinsic  value  beyond  that  which  will  be 
attached  to  it  as  a  work  of  the  Queen's  daughter. 

The  admirers  of  Sarah  Bernhardt  are  rejoicing  in  the  fact  that 
the  great  actress  has  gained  in  bulk  since  she  was  last  seen  in 
England.  Perhaps  Mme.  Bernhardt  is  not  enthusiastic  as  to  this 
question  of  growing  stout,  for  a  fat  tragedienne  would  be  an 
anomaly.  But  certain  the  star  of  the  moment  is  not  quite  so 
thin  as  she  was  in  the  days  when,  on  being  taken  to  see  a  por- 
trait of  herself  with  her  pet  hound,  Dumas  fils  exclaimed,  "Ah, 
yes  I     I  see;  a  dog  and  a  bone." 

The  opening  of  the  theatre  in  the  Eiffel  Tower  in  Paris  was  an 
interesting  event.  The  new  piece  given  was  called  Paris  en  I'Air. 
It  is  a  jolly  trifle,  eminently  Parisian,  and  none  the  worse  for 
that;  it  is  high  above  all  other  dramatic  works  being  now  given 
in  the  metropolis — 500  feet  high. 

Go  to  the  Grand  Central  Wine  Rooms,  at  1(1  and  18  Third  street, 
if  you  would  enjoy  good  liquor,  served  in  an  incomparable  manner. 
It  is  the  boast  of  this  house  that  all  of  its  stock  is  of  the  best  brands, 
and  is  the  finest  to  be  found  in  the  world.  It  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  bars  on  the  coast,  and  deserves  all  its  great  success. 

The  Maison  Riehe,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  enjoys  the  patronage  of  all  the  best  people  in  the  city,  for  its 
excellence  is  well  known. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  »3,0O0,00C0O 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Brown Cashier  I  B.  Murray,  Jr  . .  .  Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Modlton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  Bank  of  California;  B03TON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Costst. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland, O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama.  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  tmT 

N.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  C.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) $1,600,000 

SURPLUS f 600,000  |   UNDIVIDED    PROFITS $1  50.000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President  IE.  D.  MORGAN Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT.. .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass't  Cashier 

DIBECTOBB: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  ueiieral  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT   DEPARTMENT. 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  ¥100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  thecareof  wills.    Office  hours, 8a.  M.to6p.M. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital $3,600,000     I     Capital  paid  up. 2,450,000 

Reserve 450.000 

San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.  C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1006  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  ABSistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank, 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  eltiesand 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Satheb  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

.Directors*:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson.     ■ 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  Loudon— Brown, 
Shipley  A  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FAR60  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutter  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,   CAL. 

CIPITAL S      500,000  00 

SURPLUS 5,488.393.72 

CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS t    5,988,393.00 

DIRECTORS: 
Lloyd  TeviB,  President:  Jno.  J.  Valentine,  Vice-President;  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Chas.  P.  Crocker.  J.  C.  Fargo,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Wm.  Norris,  Geo.  E.  Gray 
and  W.  F.  Goad.    H.  Wadsworth,  Cashier. 
Receive  Deposits,  issues  Letters  of  Credit,  and  transact  a  General  Bankln 
Business. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000,000. 

DIRECTORS  : 

CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  Je. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W.  E.  BROWN VlCE-PBESIDENT. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cashibb 

SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital 43O0.0C0 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No. 228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


July  9,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NKWS  LKTTKK 


5UNBEAMS' 


B^^ICS. 


A  NOISE  of  hurrying  feet  was  beard  In  the  room  overhead,  fol- 
lowed by  a  series  of  blood-curdling  yells  and  a  muffled  sound 
as  of  a  band  rising  and  falling  at  brief  and  regular  intervals  some- 
where on  the  yeller'i*  penOD.  Presently  the  noise  ceased  and  foot- 
steps were  heard  on  the  stairway.  The  professor  left  his  Study  table, 
went  and  opened  the  door  of  hia  room, and  looked  op.  "  What  is  the 
tmuMe  up  there.  Fletcher"  "  he  asked,  mildly.  "  M -me  and  mother," 
sobbed  the  boy,  "  has  b-been  holdtn*  a  H-democratic  convention  '  " 

— PhUaddphia  Press. 

Soft  the  mild  breeze  our  face  doth  fan, 

Bringing  a  joy  to  old  and  young; 
While  the  light  coat  and  moving  van 

Proclaim  to  us  that  spring  has  sprung. 

Solicitor  Life  Insurance  Company —  Here's  an  application  that  is 

hardly  worth  considering.  The  applicant's  father  died  of  heart 
disease  and  his  mother  of  consumption.  His  lungs  are  very  much 
gone.  He  ha-*  palpitation  of  the  heart,  and  shows  indications  of 
Blight's  Disease.  Superintendent—  What  is  bis  business?  Solicitor— 
He  holds  a  clerkship  for  life,  or  during  good  behavior,  in  a  Federal 
Office  at  Washington.  Superintendent— Wny,  that  is  a  gilt-edge  risk! 
He'll  never  die.  —Puck. 

—  Mr.  Packer  (of  Chicago) — Say,  I've  read  a  lot  about  Boston  be- 
ing full  bluestockings.  Miss  Arihenia  Bean— Yes;  J  know  that  the 
outside  world  looks  upon  us  in  that  light.  Mr.  Packer — Well,  it  ain't 
so.  Miss  Bean— I  fear  you  are  disappointed  in  us.  Mr.  Packer — Well. 
I  don't  know  as  I  can  say  I'm  so  much  disappointed,  but  I've  been 
here  a  month  and  I've  stood  on  Winter  street  every  rainy  day  and  I've 
only  counted  two  pairs  of  blue  out  of  the  whole  lot.      —Town  Topics. 

■■-  '  Willie  Snivel y  (sympathizing  with  the  victim  of  an  exploded  toy- 
cannon) — Poor  Sammy!  tne  doctor  cut  off  two  of  your  tingers  and 
spoiled  your  Fourth,  didn't  he?  "  Sammy  Snodgrass— Yes,  I  wouldn't 
have  minded  that;  but  after  the  doctor  was  gone,  pop  wouldn't  let 
me  shoot  any  more,  and  it  was  only  four  o'clock  too."         —Judge. 

—-Little  Country  Girl— There!  You've  spilt  a  lot  of  rich  cream  all 
over  your  nice  new  dress !  Visiting  Cousin  (from  the  ct£i/)— What  dif- 
ference does  that  make?  "  It'll  make  a  great  big  grease  spot."  "'  0, 
how  nasty!    It  isn't  a  bit  like  the  cream  we  have  at  home!  " 

— Philadelphia  Press. 

—  Lawyer  Holdem— You  say  you  were  never  in  Dublin  ?  Mrs.  Mc- 
Guirk— Oi  wor  not.  Lawyer  Holdem— How  do  you  account  for  this 
document  which  says  you  were  there  in  eighteen-seventy  ?  Mrs.  Mc- 
Guirk—  That  wor  me  daughter,  sor.  She  wor  bor-rn  there  about  thot 
time.  —Judge. 

——In  the  spring  a  deeper  crimson  comes  upon  the  robin's  breast; 
In  the  spring  the  wanton  lapwing  gets  himself  another  nest; 
In  the  spring  six  days  are  cloudy  for  each  one  that's  bright  and  fair; 
In  the  spring  we  know  not  when  to  peel  our  flannel  underwear. 

—  "  You  must  wake  me  at  the  usual  hour  in  the  morning,"  said 
Shattuck  to  his  wife  on  the  evening  of  the  third  of  July.  "  You  are 
not  going  to  the  office,  are  you?  **  "  No;  but  I  want  to  have  the  su- 
preme satisfaction  of  rolling  over  and  going  to  sleep  again." — Judge. 

—  "An  Illinois  village  struck  by  a  whirl-wind,"  is  the  way  in 
which  a  Philadelphia  newspaper  refers  to  the  tornado  which  visited 
Chicago.  From  any  other  source  the  insult  might  be  tolerable.  It 
takes  a  village  to  absorb  a  World's  Fair.  — New  York  Advertiser. 

^—  Athletic  Youngster—  How  large  is  Lapland,  Papa,  and  how  many 
people  are  therein  it?  Father— I  don't  know.  Why?  Athletic  Young- 
ster—I  only  want  to  figure  out  how  many  Lapps  there  are  to  the  mile. 

—Puck. 

^—"  Why,  Tommy  Jones,  shame  on  you!  "  You  didn't  say  all 
your  prayer."  "  Papa  said  I  might  leave  out  about  our  daily  bread 
while  mamma  went  to  cooking  school."  — Chicago  Inter-Ocean. 

^— Monte— I  saw  four  queens  when  I  was  in  Europe  this  spring! 
Jackel— Indeed?  Monte— Yes;  I  saw  them  with  a  full  house,  and 
came  home  steerage !  —  Town  Topics. 

The  people  of  Chicago  eat  300,000  pies  every  day,  but  they  don't 

come  up  to  Boston  yet  in  pie-eating.  In  Chicago  pie  takes  the  place 
of  religion.  —Texas  Siftings. 

—  Mrs.  Brown— Keep  quiet,  Johnnie.  The  doctor  says  you  mustn't 
talk.  Little  Johnnie— Just  answer  me  this,  ma.  Will  I  be  well  again 
by  the  next  fourth  ?  -  Judge. 

—Customer  (in  a  restaurant)— Soe  here,  waiter,  I've  found  a  but- 
ton in  this  salad.  Waiter— That's  all  right,  sir;  it  is  part  of  the 
dressing.  —  &•  Y.  Press. 

—Friend— Trouble  with  your  wife,  eh?  What  rock  did  your  do- 
mestic ship  split  on?  Spinks— None  at  all.  Hadn't  rocks  enough; 
that  was  the  difficulty.  —N.  Y.  Weekly 

Amateur  Yachtsman— What  do  you  do  for  amusement  here? 

Clam-Digger— We  watch  young  city  fellers  sailin'  boats. 

Street  &  Smith's  Good  News. 

——Bore  (in  Bawville  Clat'ton  office)— What  was  that  horrible 
crash?  Editor—  Horrible  crash ?  Must  have  been  our  composing- 
room  towel.  — Puck. 

Mrs.  Be  LTamvie—Hov?  is  your  husband  to-day  ?    Mrs.  Cannery— 

Divorced.  — Detroit  Free  Press. 


The  best  meal  in  the  city  may  be  had  at  the  Original  Swain's 
Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  the  most  popular  restaurant  with  ladies 
and  families.  The  bon  vivants  find  at  this  popular  resort  all  the  deli- 
cacies which  their  educated  tastes  require,  and  that  is  the  reason  they 
make  it  their  favorite  resort.  The  restaurant  has  for  years  enjoyed 
the  best  patronage  of  the  elite  of  the  city. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

Iri.-..r|H*r«ted  by  Koyal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3  000,100 

RESERVE  FUND  1,1 75,  M0 

Southca.*l  corner  Bush  ami  Saonorae  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFIOE   60  LOMBARD  STREET,   LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,    British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacmna,  Washington. 
SUB  BKANcnr.S-Kumloops.Naualrao,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 
Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  aud  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  grauted 
available  In  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  aud  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  aud  Branches,  aud  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

HEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  aud  CANADA— Bank  of  Moutreal:  LIVERPOOL 
— North  aud  South  WaleB  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Liueu  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  aud  SOUTH  AMERICA— Loudon  Bank 
of  Mexico  aud  South  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN-Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottli-b 
aud  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  aud  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 


SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

532  California  Street.  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  Jane  30, 1891 $23,31 1,061  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus  1,346,635  00 

DIRECTORS. 

AlSsrt  MUUr.  Pr  esldent;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martiu,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastlaud  ;    Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  seat  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  iu  San  Frauciuco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVIN6S  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805  Slarket  Street   (Flood  Building,  San  Francisco. 

ORGANIZED   MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000.00  |  Surplus  Profits  $     45,000.03 

Paid-up  Capital 333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS  WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  McDONALD Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

This  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  terra  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, In  sums  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five  cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature-  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mouth  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND S -1,010,000  OO. 

Deposits  Jan.  2,  1892 27,138,129  74 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HEKRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig.  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  DANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICBBS. 

JAMES  G.  PAIR ■■ .......President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

DiEECTOES— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffltt,  S.  Q.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 

gggpaid  on  Term  and  0^°°7Agfs°^TH^80°N°  Aggroy, 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  DANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscrled  Capital 92,600,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

1  Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office  58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd)  No.  10  Wall  St.,  N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  iBsued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  ALT8CHUL,  Cashier.       

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  DANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

raDital  Authorized 16,000,000  I  Paid  up 11,500,000 

aXsihed  3,000,000  [Reserve  Fund 650,000 

BuDscriDeu  ....  ^ead  0FpICE_8  j^ggj  Court,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  goneral  banking  business,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
££)<•  transfers    and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
rid     Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 


grav— 

world.    Sends 
and  bullion. 


IGN.  STEINHART    ,  M„n.„„. 
P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  I  Managers. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


MODERN    DELUSIONS. 


THE  world,  that  is,  that  portion  of  it  which  calls  itself  civilized, 
has  outgrown  the  folly  of  witchcraft,  and  demoniac  posses- 
sion, and  voudooism,  and  the  evil  eye,  and  all  the  rest  of  the  no- 
tions of  that  kind  which  were  once  held  as  cardinal  articles  of 
belief,  but  in  their  place  has  taken  up  a  new  set  of  delusions  and 
fancies,  thus  continually  justifying  the  assertion  of  the  Latin 
satirise,  populux  vult  decipz.  These  modern  delusions  bear  a  variety 
of  names— mind-cure,  faith-cure,  Christian  science,  prayer-cure, 
and  others — but  they  are  all  of  the  same  general  class,  and  all 
proceed  upon  the  same  theory.  The  particular  delusion  which 
has  attracted  the  moat  attention  of  late,  owing  to  the  mishaps 
which  have  accompanied  its  attempted  exercise,  is  known  as 
Christian  science,  which  has  been  brought  into  special  notoriety 
by  reason  of  a  number  of  deaths  of  people  who  were  being  treated 
by  distinguished  exponents  and  practitioners  of  the  new  idea.  It 
is  very  difficult  to  pin  a  Christian  scientist  down  to  an  exact 
definition  of  his  faith  or  the  methods  by  which  he  expects  to  ac- 
complish the  results  which  he  promises,  but  a  fair  statement  of 
the  doctrine  is  this — that  Christian  science  denies  the  existence 
of  matter,  and  hence  the  existence  of  illness  and  pain.  In  their 
creed  the  mind  is  everything,  the  body  nothing.  Pain  or  sick- 
ness is  only  a  disordered  condition  of  the  mind,  which,  because 
of  human  unlikeness  to  the  great  first  cause,  manifests  itself  in 
the  body,  but  which,  if  the  mind  be  properly  attuned,  is  really  as 
non-existent  as  the  pictures  of  dreamland.  From  this  there  fol- 
lows, naturally  and  inevitably,  the  belief  that  disease  is  to  be 
cured  not  by  the  use  of  accepted  remedial  agents,  but  by  "  treat- 
ment," which,  in  the  Christian  science  dialect,  means  impressing 
on  the  mind  of  the  sick  person  the  firm  belief  that  there  is  no  such 
thing  as  disease,  and  consequently  that  while  he  may  think  he  is 
sick,  he  is  not  and  cannot  be.  The  corollary  to  this  proposition, 
which,  however,  only  the  most  advanced  Christian  scientists 
venture  to  maintain,  is  that  there  is  no  such  thing  as  death,  or, 
rather,  that  there  is  no  necessity  for  death,  since  the  mind  or  soul, 
being  immortal,  can  be  conscious  of  no  such  change  as  that  which 
we  call  death,  and  the  body  being  absolutely  subservient  to  and 
dominated  by  the  mind,  cannot  or  should  not  experience  disso- 
lution. Of  course  people  die,  even  the  Christian  scientists  them- 
selves, but  that  they  account  for  by  saying  they  had  not  attained 
the  state  of  perfection  for  which  they  were  striving,  and  that  the 
body  dies  because  the  mine  is  not  at  one  with  its  divine  and  im- 
mortal creator.  It  is  not  to  be  denied  that  Christian  scientists 
have  met  with  measurable  success  in  healing  certain  kinds  and 
classes  of  disease,  particularly  those  which  are  associated  with 
the  obscure  affections  of  the  nervous  system  for  which  no  specific 
name  has  been  found,  but  which  may  be  called,  for  lack  of  more 
accurate  definition,  hysterical  troubles.  Many  of  these  complaints 
which  defy  medical  skill,  yield  to  Christian  science  because  they 
are,  to  a  great  degree,  mental  affections,  and  the  diverting  of  the 
mind  from  them  is  all  the  cure  they  need,  and  probably  the  one 
that  would  prove  the  most  efficacious.  But  because  Christian 
science  can  relieve  the  tension  of  overstrained  nerves  or  bring 
temporary  relief  to  sufferers  from  neuralgia  and  kindred  afflic- 
tions, it  does  not  follow  that  it  can  cure  all  diseases,  and  that  is 
where  the  Christian  scientists  make  a  glaring  and  radical  error. 
For  certain  maladies  there  are  almost  universally  accepted  reme- 
dies, and  while  these  do  not  effect  a  cure  in  every  case,  they 
prove  of  benefit  in  so  large  a  proportion  of  cases  that  they  may 
safely  be  relied  on.  Quinine,  for  example,  is  almost  a  specific  in 
certain  febrile  affections,  yet  the  Christian  science  healer  spurns 
the  experience  of  the  world,  accumulated  since  the  discovery  of 
cinchona  and  its  curative  qualities,  and  relies  upon  his  peculiar 
kind  of  "  treatment  "  to  effect  a  core.  If  the  patient  dies,  he  ac- 
counts for  it  by  saying  that  the  sick  man  was  not  far  enough  ad- 
vanced in  Christian  science  to  derive  the  full  benefit  of  the  treat- 
ment, and  consoles  himself  with  the  reflection  that  doctors  of 
medicine  do  not  always  succeed  in  saving  the  life  of  a 
patient.  The  Christian  science  healer  wholly  ignores  the 
studies  and  experiments  of  men  of  science  who  have  de- 
voted their  lives  to  attempting  to  ameliorate  the  con- 
dition of  the  humam  race,  and,  by  wresting  passages  of 
Scripture  out  of  their  proper  connection,  reading  literally  where 
it  suits  them,  and  figuratively  where  that  suits  them  better,  and 
wilfully  mistaking  Oriental  hyperbole  and  imagery  for  statements 
of  fact,  construct  a  theory  which  involves  the  constant  exercise 
of  miraculous  power  and  a  division  of  omnipotence  with  the 
Deity.  It  seems  strange  that  the  Christian  scientists  should  find 
reasonable  and  reasoning  people  credulous  enough  to  submit 
themselves  to  their  ministrations,  but  such  is  certainly  the  fact, 
as  the  death-roll  Bhows.  And  now,  what  is  the  remedy,  if  any 
there  be?  There  must  be  some  way  to  protect  society  against 
these  Christian  scientists,  many  of  whom,  beyond  question,  are 
as  much  deluded  as  their  victims.  It  is  evident  that  s;ncerity 
and  honesty  of  purpose  will  not  excuse  them  for  what  they  do, 
for  if  it  would,  a  man  who  firmly  believed  that  prussic  acid 
would  cure  measles,  or  strychnine  whooping  cough,  could  not  be 
convicted  if  he  should  slay  as  many  children  as  Herod.  It  is  the 
duty  of  the  medical  societies  in  a  State  like  California,  where  the 
practice  of  medicine  is  cared  for  and  hedged  about  by  legislative 
enactments,  to   take  up   such  cases   as  occurred  in  Oakland  re- 


cently, and  bring  them  before  the  Grand  Jury  of  the  county.  It 
has  been  shown  by  experience  that  there  is  no  surer  cure  for  a 
popular  delusion  than  a  little  well-advised  and  well-timed  sin- 
cerity, and  a  conviction  of  Borne  Christian  science-healer  for  the 
crime  of  manslaughter  might  open  people's  eyes  and  make  them 
hesitate  before  yielding  to  a  belief  which  has  nothing  to  com- 
mend it  beyond  its  novelty  and  the  air  of  mysticism  which  is 
scrupulously  thrown  about  it. 

You  should  call  for  the  J.  F.  Cutter  whisky,  if  you  want  liquor 
that  is  really  good,  and  is  always  satisfying  to  your  tastes.  The  J. 
F.  Cutter  has  gained  a  world-wide  fame  by  years  of  excellence.  No 
other  whisky  made  can  beat  it,  a  fact  appreciated  by  all  who  have 
ever  tasted  it. 

DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  ou 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1;,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  eet  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders; 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.     Amount. 

C.A.Johnson     l  60  $50 

C.  A.  Johnson  2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7        .  30  30 

C.  Lund  berg 12  390  890 

And  In  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m,  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany,  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
[ONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  Saturday, 
July  23, 1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892.    

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated    New    York    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo" 
cation  of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  28th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  »7),  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  ia  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  2d  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore,   will    be    sold    on  TUESDAY,  the  23d  day  of  August,   1892,   to  pay 
the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOTT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco,  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company, 

Assessment No.  69 

Amount  per  Share 26  cents 

Levied June7,1892 

Delinquent  in  Office July  12, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock August  4,  1892 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room,  69  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  102 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied June  10,  1892 

Delinquent  In  Office July  13, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock August2,  1892 

E.  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,   San  Fran- 
cisco,  California. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Overman  Silver  Mining  Company. 
The    regular   annual    meeting  of    the    stockholders    of   the    Overman 
Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office   of  the    company,    414 
California  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Thursday,  the  1 4th  Day  of  July,  1 892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M., 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting. 
Transfer  books  will  close  on  Tuesday,  the  12d  day  of  July,  1892,  at  1  p.  M. 

GEO.  D.  EDWARDS,  Secretary. 
Office,  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

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July  9,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NKW8  l.KTTER. 


25 


TtiE  RoSsM 


IN    ABSENCE      Vem   York  Tribune. 

The  Mimnifr  is  emu*  with  its  sun  and  its  breeze; 

The  lilies  in  bloom,  the  leaves  on  the  trees; 

But  what  of  the  sunshine,  the  breeze  and  the  showers, 

With  no  little  girl  to  look  after  the  flower?  ? 

The  hammock-bouse  stands  deserted  and  lone, 

Aa  it  stood  tbruugh  the  winter  and  spring  that  are  gone; 

What  use  for  the  hammock  or  any  such  thing, 

With  no  little  girl  in  the  hammock  to   swing? 

The  freezer  is  ready,  the  milk  is  quite  new; 

The  ice  in  the  box,  the  chocolate  too; 

But  only  to  think,  how  odd  it  wonld  seem, 

With  no  little  girl  to  help  eat  the  ice-cream! 

Laid  away  in  the  drawer  is  the  musical   flute: 

Its  tones  are  all  bushed,  its  notes  are  all  mute, 

How  can   we  enjoy  its  melodious  ringing. 

With   no  little  girl  to  join  in  the  singing? 

The  chambers  are  ready,  the  beds  neat  and  clean; 

Not  a  spider  or  fly  anywhere  to  be  seen; 

But  grandpa  and  grandma — how  can  they  feel  right, 

With  no  little  girl  to  kiss  them  good-night  ? 


IN  PARADISE— From  the  Times- Democrat. 


Down  through  the  golden  tnnset  way, 
We  sail  a  misty,  perfumed  sea; 

We  turn  our  faces  from  the  shore, 
And  float  in  love's  eternity. 

For  you  are  here  and  I  am  here, 
And  Love  the  only  guest  besides — 

Sweet  Love,  that  folds  his  flimsy  wings 
As  falls  the  purpling  eventide. 

What  lies  beyond  the  crimson  bar, 
That  marks  where  sky  and  water  meet 

What  sound  will  fall  upon  our  ears, 
Beyond  these  hushes  low  and  sweet? 

Heaven  bends  so  near  we  look  within, 
And  this  the  vision  that  we  3ee; 

Heaven  holds  no  greater  gift  than  this — 
That  Love  shall  rule  eternally. 


O  TIME  AND  CHANtiE—  From  W.  E.  Henley  s  "Song  of  the  Sword,' 


0  Time  and  Change,  they  range  and  range 

From  sunshine  round  to  thunder! 
They  glance  and  go  as  the  great  winds  blow, 

And  the  best  of  our  dreams  drive  under; 
For  time  and  Change  estrange,  estrange — 

And,  now  they  have  looked  and  seen  us, 
0  we  that  were  dear  we  are  all  too  near 

With  the  thick  of  the  world  between  us. 

0  Death  and  Time,  they  chime  and  chime 

Like  bells  at  sunset  falling! 
They  end  the  song,  they  right  the  wrong, 

They  set  the  old  echoes  calling; 
For  death  and  Time  bring  on  the  prime 

Of  God's  own  chosen  weather, 
And  we  lie  in  the  peace  of  the  Great  Release 

As  once  in  the  grass  together. 


POETIC    PERCEPTION. 


What  mind  we  of  the  cause  or  reason  why, 
8o  we  enjoy  the  present  at  ?ts  best, 
In  richly  rounded  impulses,  that  rest 

As  syllables,  while  sentenced  life  goes  by, 

Our  builded  hopes  were  lasting  did  we  try 

To  fashion  them  from  serious  soil,  not  jest, 
Being  matched  in  stature  to  the  soul  as  test 

That  lives  illumed  when  lesser  light*  shall  die. 

Rose  M.  Davip. 


FROST.— St.  George  Best,  in  June  Lippmcotts. 

I  traced  her  name  upon  the  frost 

That  blurred  my  window  pane; 
At  morn  the  sweet  device  was  lost, 

The  glass  was  blurred  again. 
So  fades  the  impress  that  we  make 

On  those  who  love  no  more; 
'Tis  like  the  ripple  on  the  lake, 

Scarce  seen  till  it  is  o'er. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 


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Company. 

Uiealiouol  principal  pin I  l.n.inos— San  Franol.co,  California.    Lo- 

eatlou  ol  »..rk.    Bodte,  Mono  Countj,  California. 
Nmire  i.  harabj  civi'ti  thai  m  a  moating  or  the  n..»ri  ol  Director*,  hold 

OU  the  Mill  day  of  Juno,  ism,  ao  aiuo-sMiii'iil     Nn    Mi  ..f  Tm  iilv m  . 
->er  share  «•«*  loTlod  on  the  capital  utoelt  of  the  corporation,  pavnlilr 
mmr.lialcly.  In  UDlted  Stat.',  gold  coin,  to  the  8ecrel*ry,  at  the  nflfoc  of 
Ho  company,  room  N,  Nevada  Block,  No.  llfti  M»ut|{nmi-rv  street,  Sun  Fran- 
.California. 
aDyatOGk  upou  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  22,1  Day  ol  July,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  puhlie  auction;  and,   unless   payment  Is  made 
before,    will    be    sold     on   MONDAY,  tho   HI    day    of    AiiRiist,    1R92.   lo 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with    costs  of  advertising  aud 
expeuscsof  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

II.  I).  WALKER,  Secretary. 
Oppice—  Room  6-2,  Nevada  Block.  309  Montgomery  HI..  San  Fraucitco,  Oal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Commonwealth   Consolidated   Mining  Company. 

Locatlnu  of  principal  place  of  business— Sau  Francisco,  Call  fornia.  Loca- 
tlou  of  works— Tuscarora,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting;  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  15th  day  of  June.  189*2,  an  assessment  (No.  8)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  Immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
omce  of  the  Company,  room  20,  No.  3*1  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, or  to  E.  R.  Grant.  Transfer  Agent,  67  Broadway,  New  York. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-first  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  Is  made  be- 
fore,  will  be    sold   on  THURSDAY,  the  18th  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  aud  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20.  No.  331  Pine  Street,  San  Francisco.  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Belle    Isle    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  worts— Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Sixteeuth  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  14,  of  Ten  Cents 
per  6hare  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,   Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-first  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  12th  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW.  Secretary. 

Office— No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Utah  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  and  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  rJevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  7th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  15)  of  twenty-five  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  ihe  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  58,  Nevada  Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assesbment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Eleventh  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  SATURDAY,  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  July,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  H.  FISH,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  58,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Alta     Silver    Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works-Gold  Hill,  Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  Saturday,  the  18th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  42,  of  Fifteen  (15) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
Tuesday,  the  Twenty-sixth  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  sixteenth  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Dlrectora. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co.  California. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Union  Consolidated  Mining  Company, 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Union  Consoli- 
dated Mluing  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  11, 
303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  1 8th  day  of  July.  1 892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M., 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  July  15th,  1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.m. 

A.  W.  BARROWS.  Secretary. 
Office— Room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


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SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flonr  is  dull;    foreign    demand    fair:    Extras    H.65@li.75:    Superfine 

<-^.10 
Wheat  is  dull;  light  trade;   Shipping,  $1.35:  Milling,  $L42i-3»H71- per 

CtU'S." 

Barley  is  quiet:  Brewing.  9~>c  (W1.021,:  Feed.  90c®92Sc  per  ctL 

Oats.  "Milling.  H.508O.55;  Feed.  $L3u<*$LS5  per  ctL 

Corn.  White.  $1 30:  Yellow.  SLSiMLSTi .  per  ctl. 

Rve  no  stock,  good  demand.  $1. 15@5L2u.    Cement,  $2.00@»2.2d. 

Hav  is  :™»::  Wheat.  JM3S12:  Oats.  $10r#sil:  Alfalfa,  $7®*9. 

Millsraffs.  good  demand.    Bran.  Jis.i»l*.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  flOft^tiSO  per  ctl.    Potatoes.  45^.@7V.  per  CtL 

Butter  is  hieher;  Choice.  ■XK.&»l-tC--  Fair.  16c<S17c:  Eastern,  14c@15c 

Cheese.  light  stock.  Sc.#9c    Eggs,  free  supply,  >>c.®24c 

Honev.  Comb.  llc@l'Jc. :  Extracted.  5c@Sc  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  25c^75c.    Beeswax  is  higher,  at  2dc#26c. 

F — — i"  >::.:;  Iried— active     Frail  is  very  Bfeatifal  Had  :-^s.; 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hide*  are  steadv:  Drv,  6c@712c     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc@16c 

Provisions  move  off  steadilv.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  7>.®7(<c. 

Coffee  lower  at  15e4>21e-  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  lower,  with  a  declining  tendency.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43-50  per  flask.  Hops  are  neglected  at  15@17c 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites.  4>^»o?^c- 

Daring  the  past  California  cereal  year,  ending  Jane  30th  (twelve 
months..  269  foil  cargoes  of  Floor  and  Grain  cleared,  chiefly  for 
Europe.  We  have  now  in  port,  under  grain  charter,  some  50,000 
tons  register,  against  63,000  tons  same  date  a  year  ago.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  above  fleet  of  chartered  ships  we  have  some  50  ships 
more  over  suited  to  the  trade. 

The  annual  issue  of  the  Comwfrciaf  _Y?iri  and  Skipping  List  sum- 
marizes the  past  crop  year  as  follows :  Wheat  exports,  12.632,367 
ctls.:  Barley,  1,037.982  ells.;  Corn,  87,188  cUb.;  Oats.  15,107  ctls.: 
Flour.  1,059,880  bbls.  The  combined  exports  of  Wheat  and 
Flour,  reduced  to  grain,  amounts  to  790,600  tons. 

The  highest  freight  rate  for  the  year  was  £2  10s.  to  Cork.  U.  K.; 
lowest  rate  was  16s.  6J.  The  average  rate  for  the  past  12  mos. 
was  £1  lis.  5d. 

Grain  bags,  spot  price,  7cts.;  31,000,000  bags  required  the  last 
harvest  year  in  this  State. 

Coal  receipts,  home  and  foreign,  for  the  pas'  12  months  were 
1.814,606  tons  (about  equally  divided >.  This  is  the  largest  amount 
ever  received  here,  and  indicates  a  decided  increase  in  the  con- 
sumption. Low  prices  have  generally  ruled,  and  the  bnsiness  un- 
profitable to  importers. 

Lumber  receipts  at  this  port  for  six  months,  1892 — Pine,  163,- 
636.3*9  feet;  Redwood.  85,957,921;  Shingles,  43,030.050;  number 
Railroad  Ties.  514.420. 

London— C«ment The  Br.  ship  Galena,  thence,  bad   for  cargo 

19.040  cfcs.  to  J.  D.  Spreckels,  Bros. 

Japan— Sulphur. — The  schr.  Qaeen,  from  Hagodate.  brings 
5,351  bags. 

For  Mexico — Stmr.  Sewbern,  hence  July  1st.  carried  cargo  val- 
ued at  $60,000,  consisting  in  part  of  Chemicals,  28. OSS  lbs.  Tallow, 
lbs  Sulphur,  140  flks-  Quicksilver,  etc 
Honolulu— The  bktne.  S.  X.  Castle,  hence  July  1st,  carried  13,- 
500  lbs.  Sugar,  575  bbls  Floor,  etc..  value  $26,000;  the  bk.  Paul 
Isenberg.  for  same,  carried  2.225  bbls.  Flour,  Corn,  Barley,  3,652 
lbs.  Tallow  and  Mdse..  value.  $32,660. 

For  Liverpool — The  Br.  ship  Willie  Rosenfeld.  hence  June  30th 
had  for  cargo  22.644  ctls.  brewing  Barley,  51,922  ctls.  Wheat.  3.167 
cs.  Salmon,  12.750  lbs.  Ore,  16.610  ft.  Lumber,  etc.,  value  $115  S12; 
ship  Cvms  Wakefield,  for  same,  carried  7,032  ctls.  Barley,  61,576 
ctls.  Wheat,  value,  J92.200. 

Tahiti — The  Tropic  Bird,  hence  June  30th.  carried  13.45S  lbs. 
Sugar.  1,036  bbls.  Flour,  54  II  ft.  Lumber,  2.152  gls.  Wine,  and 
mdse..  value  $25,000;  also  for  Marquesas,  mdse.  of  the  value  if 
$3,000. 

Recent  grain  charters  embrace  the  following:  Brit,  iron  ship 
Vandura,  2.012  tons.  Wheat  to  Cork,  U  K..  Havre.  Antwerp  or 
Dunkirk,  £1  6s.  3d. ;  Brit,  iron  bark  Glamis,  1,150  tons.  Wheat 
same  voyage,  was  chartered  prior  to  arrival  at  £1  12s.  6d. ;  Brit, 
iron  ship  Ulrica.  1.923  tons  Wheat  same  voyage,  £1  6s.  3d. 

Quicksilver  receipts  at  this  port  for  the  past  six  months.  10.232 
risks  :  same  period.  1S91,  6,720  flsks.  Exports  in  same  period, 
six  months.  1S92,  4,773  risks.,  value  $197,525:  1891,  2,061  flsks., 
value  $93,043. 

Brit,  sap  Rathdowi,  from  Cardiff,  va  Belfast,  brought 
for  cargo  701  tons  Steel  Blooms.  2,142  tons  Coke  and  500  tons 
Scrap  Iron  to  Balfour.  Guthrie  A  Co. 

There  is  no  life  to  business  in  any  trade  department.  Exports 
of  new  Wheat.  Flour.  Barley,  etc.  have  not  yet  made  a  begin- 
ning, and  there  is  at  present  very  little  margin  of  profit  discern- 
ible. 

The  markets  continue  to  be  well-supplied  with  Apricots,  Berries. 
Peaches.  Apples.  Pears  and  Plums  as  yet  make  but  a  poor  ex- 
hibit. Dryers  and  canners  of  frnit  are  rushing  things  with  energy, 
with  a  good  outlook  for  profits  later  in  the  season.  Canielopes 
and  Water  Melons  are  now  obtainable, 


The  Pacific  Mail  Steamship,  Geo.  W.  Elder.  16  ds.  from  Panama 
and  way  ports  arrived  on  the  5th  inst.  bringing  a  large  New  York 
Cargo  of  Iron  and  other  heavy  goods;  from  Europe.  125  pkgs. 
Steel,  295  cs.  Liquors,  420  cs.  Oil,  200  cs.  8oap.  45  cs.  Cheese  and 
140  pks.  Mdse.:  from  coast  ports,  164  bags.  Coffee;  from  Mexico, 
1.400  bars  Silver  Ores  and  1,135  bxs.  Limes,  etc.,  and  from  Central 
America  705  bags  Coffee,  etc 

Wine  and  Brandy  receipts  since  January,  1st  6  months,  were 
5,484.074  gals  of  the  former  and  369,908  gals,  of  the  latter. 


THE  Russian  doctors  seem  to  have  a  novel  method  of  treating 
consumption,  to  judge  by  the  case  of  the  Grand  Duke  George, 
the  Czar's  second  son.  Ever  since  his  enforced  return,  through 
illness,  from  his  Indian  tour,  the  Grand  Duke  has  been  under 
medical  treatment  for  pulmonary  disease.  A  private  letter  re- 
ceived in  St.  Petersburg  from  Abbas-Tnman,  in  the  Caucasus, 
where  the  Grand  Duke  has  been  wintering,  states  tbat  his  Im- 
perial Highness  is  undergoing  a  most  remarkable  course  of  treat- 
ment. The  walls  in  his  apartments  are  bare  and  unpapered,  the 
furniture  is  of  plain  wood  or  cane,  without  upholstering  or  stuff 
covering  of  any  kind,  and  bis  bed  consists  only  of  the  thinnest  of 
mattresses.  Throughout  the  winter  only  a  very  moderate  fire 
-has  been  kept  np,  while  the  windows  of  the  Grand  Duke's  rooms 
have  been  continuously  open.  His  attendants  have  suffered 
dreadfully  from  the  cold,  but  his  medical  advisers  hold  tbat  this 
low  temperature  is  very  beneficial  to  their  imperial  patient,  as  it 
tends  to  destroy  the  bacillus  and  prevent  the  formation  of 
tubercle.  They  maintain  that  the  progress  of  the  disease  has  been 
arrested,  and  express  hopes  tbat,  if  the  treatment  which  they 
prescribe  is  persevered  with,  the  Grand  Duke  will,  in  two  years' 
time,  have  completely  recovered. 

Every  housewife  who  wishes  to  have  clean  carpets  and  curtains 
should  remember  that  the  only  place  in  the  city  where  her  material 
can  be  cleaned  to  her  satisfaction  is  .at  the  Carpet  Beating  Machine 
and  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J .  Spaulding  &  Co..  at  553--:>i . 
Tehama  street.  The*  work  of  this  firm  is  always  first-class  in  every 
particular,  for  which  reason  it  always  has  a  great  patronage. 

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..$1,000,000.  :  ASSETS $2,550,000. 


CAPITAL 

D.  J.  STAPLES President. 

WILLIAM  J.  DFTTOS Vice-President. 

B.  PATMOXVTT  T.E Secretary 

J.  B.  LEYISOX  Marine  Secretary 

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[ESTABLISHED    1871J 
CAPITAL    STOCK  PlM  Up $400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICe 278  AHD  220  SAKSOMC  STRtCT, 

San   Francisco,  California. 


GEORGE  L.  BRAXDEB. 

President 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up |     500,000 

Assets 3.151,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders        1.52D.157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
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BAN  KRANCI8C0  NEWS  LETTER. 


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IT  has  for  some  lime  been  understood  that  a  New  York  electrical 
firm,  which  has  been  experimenting  in  the  application  of 
electricity  in  domestic  purposes,  was  about  to  bring  out  a  num- 
ber of  devices  that  would  effect  a  revolatlon  in  the  art  of  house- 
keeping. This  promise  is  yet  unfulfilled.  The  English,  how- 
ever, have  been  fnrpinc  ahead  in  the  same  field,  and  with  most 
gratifying  results.  Complete  sets  are  now  being  manufactured  in 
Knnland.  by  the  use  of  which  an  immense  reduction  in  the  labor 
of  household  duties  can  be  enjoyed.  The  sets  include  an  elvclric 
kettle,  which  boils  water  a  very  few  minutes  after  the  switch  is 
turned,  and  by  which  an  invalid  or  business  man  in  a  hurry  can 
make  bis  own  breakfast  without  trouble.  There  is  also  an  electric 
toaster,  and  in  the  electric  saucepan  an  egg  can  be  boiled  or  stew 
prepared  with  the  greatest  ease,  while  on  the  electric  grill  chops, 
steaks  and  pancakes  are  turned  out  with  dispatch.  In  the  com- 
plement are  electric  ironing  appliances,  and  the  electric  beaters 
and  bath  warmers  are  much  admired  for  efficiency  and  cleanli- 
ness. On  the  other  hand,  a  series  of  fans  can  be  so  arranged  that 
any  room  can  be  kept  cool  in  the  hottest  day  in  summer. 

—  A  convention  will  be  held  in  New  York  of  the  American 
Electro-Therapeutic  Association  in  the  fall.  It  is  calculated  to  do 
an  immense  amount  of  good  in  directing  attention  to  the  admir- 
able results  that  have  been  attained  in  many  departments  of 
surgery  and  medicine  by  means  of  electrical  applications.  An- 
other outcome  of  such  a  meeting  can  be  looked  for  with  satisfac- 
tion. The  field  of  electro-therapeutics  is  covered  by  three  pretty 
clearly  defined  classes  of  practitioners;  the  really  earnest  and 
scientific  worker;  the  ordinary  practitioner,  who,  recognizing 
that  electricity  is  "  the  thing  nowadays,"  uses  it  in  a  blind  and 
perfunctory  manner,  knowine.  perhaps,  that  certain  causes  give 
certain  general  results,  but  not  knowing  or,  perhaps,  not  caring 
to  know  why,  and  the  electrical  medical  humbug.  It  is  no  small 
advantage  that  such  an  opportunity  can  be  afforded  of  differen- 
tiating between  sound  and  questionable  practice,  and  it  is  not 
unlikely  that  the  stimulus  afforded  by  the  proposed  convention 
wi  1  be  the  means  of  urging  on  many  practitioners,  who  may  now 
come  under  the  second  class,  to  such  work  as  will  place  them  in 
the  first  rank. 

A  great  source  of  annoyance  and  expense  to  railway  com- 
panies is  the  encroachments  of  the  grass  which  grows  around  the 
rails  of  their  lines.  An  effective  mode  of  getting  rid  of  this 
nuisance  has  just  been  devised  in  the  shape  of  an  electrical  vege- 
tation destroyer.  This  consists  of  a  wire  brush,  very  much  in 
appearance  like  an  ordinary  scrubbing  brush.  This  is  connected 
by  a  wire  with  a  dynamo  in  the  nearest  available  electric  light  or 
power  station.  A  powerful  current  is  turned  on,  and  an  operator 
drags  the  fully  charged  brush,  which  is  supplied  with  a  wooden 
handle,  over  the  grass,  killing  it  instantly.  There  are  many  ways 
in  which  this  ability  to  instantly  destroy  vegetation  can  be  util- 
ized. Gardeners,  especially,  are  likely  to  be  grateful  for  such  a 
ready  method  of  getting  rid  of  noxious  weeds  on  garden  walks  as 
well  as  in  flower  beds. 

The  very  height  of  strawberry  eating  is  with  coffee.  No- 
body ever  really  tasted  coffee  who  has  not  drunk  it  in  alternate 
nionthfuls  with  strawberries,  and  nobody  knows  the  strawberry 
flavor  excepting  immediately  after  the  clearing  of  the  taste  which 
comes  from  drinking  coffee,  says  the  New  York  Post.  The  clear- 
ing property  of  coffee  is  familiar  enough,  but  there  is  strange 
ignorance  of  thiB  special  application  of  it.  The  best  of  straw- 
berries with  the  best  of  coffee  makes  the  supreme  refinement  of 
indulgence  in  the  fruit. 

Prof.  Houston,  in  his  Brooklyn  address,  made  five  interest- 
ing prophecies  on  the  future  of  electricity,  namely :  That  elec- 
tricity would  be  produced  directly  from  coal;  that  the  steam 
engine  would  be  entirely  replaced  by  the  electric  motor;  that 
©rial  navigation  would  be  effected  by  electricity;  that  electric 
light  would  be  produced  without  heat,  and  that  electriciiy  would 
be  applied  to  the  curing  of  diseases  and  the  prolongation  of  life. 

A  joint  committee  of  the  two  houses  of  the  English  Parlia- 
ment has  reported  electricity  a  suitable  and  efficient  source  of 
motive  power,  and  recommended  that  electric  railway  construc- 
tion be  encouraged  throughout  England. 

An  electro  mechanical  vacuum  pump  has  lately  been  per- 
fected which,  it  is  claimed,  will  do  away  with  the  costly  and 
troublesome  mercury  pumps  at  present  used  for  exhausting  the 
air  from  incandescent  lamp  bulbs.       

Visitors  to  the  country  should  take  with  them  Steele's  Grindelia 
Lotion  of  the  Huid  extract  of  Grindelia.  It  is  the  best  known  remedy 
for  poison  oak,  and  is  also  recognized  as  an  unrivalled  cure  for  asth- 
matic affections.  The  lotion  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  at 
635  Market  street. ___ 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  is  the  most  popular 
dealer  in  men's  furnishing  goods  in  town.  He  always  has  a  stock  of 
the  latest  and  best  goods  on  hand. 


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300,000  00 
278.901.10 
142,888.90 


REMOVAL! 
HOME  MUTUAL  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

Now  Occupies  Premises  at  the  N    K.  Oar.  California  and  Hanaome 

Bts.,  8.  K.,  Lately  Vacated  hy  Wells,  Kargo  ,t  Co.  Hank. 

Twenty-seventh  Annual  Exhibit. 

jRiiuary  1,  im-.ii. 
INCORPORATED    A.    1>.    1864. 
Lossesp  d  since  organiu.|3.lT.\7W.21  I  Rclnsurauco  Kcseryo 
Assets  January  1,  l»ul  967,811  HI    Capital  paid  up,  Oold 

Surplus  for  policy  holders    tM.'M  m  \  Net  Surplus  overeVyth'e 
Income  In  1890  *.t..4.im.&i  |  fire  Losses  paid  In  1890       , 

Ftre  Losses  unpaid,  January  1,  1891.  1140100 

President.  J  FHOUUHTON  I  Secretary  CHARLES  R.  STORY 

Vice-President  .HENRY  L.   I'ORGE  I  General  Aeent. ROBERT  H.  MAGILL 

TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG.  GERMANY. 

Hi tIi  n  L.  low,  Manaser  for  tin  I'.clHc  loaat  Branch, 

S2»  Ssaiiaome    t„  S.  *■. 

Capital... :. ...... $1 ,500,C0^.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534J95.T2 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
9»8  <  allfonilH  St..  S.  F„  <al. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  CCMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF   BAbLK.  OF  8T.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH 

COMB  NED  CAPITAL   4  000  000  DOLLARS 

'lhese  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  fo'r  all  Losses  that 


may  be  sustained. 


HARRY  VV.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 

410  California  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 


THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  arid  Manchester. 

Capital  SubBirlbod flO.000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up '   1  000  000 

Cash  Rbbbtob  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2'  126  000 

Total  Aaseta  Decsmber  31,  1888 .......... .W...    6.124.057  B0 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

306  California  Street.  San  Francisco 

PACIFIC    DEPARTMENT 

LONDON  AND  LANCASHIRE  FIRE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

Capital ....     (IO.62S.000 

Cash    Assets 4  701201   39 

Cash  Assets  In  United  States 2.272lo84  13 

REINSURERS  OF 

Anglo-Nevada  Assurance  Corporation 

AND 

Southern  California  Insurance  Company, 

■wdm:.  nyn^.CTJOisr^SL.iiiD. 

MANAGER. 

D.  E.  MILES,  Assistant  Manager. 

315  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  BALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.J 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manaser. 

PACIFIC    DEPABTMEISTT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     15,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 


i 

OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, 110,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -   -   -     $2,222,724. 


WIH.  i.  MlJHiliN.  Gen'l  Agent,  204.  Sansome  St..  San  Francisco.  Cal. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

Capital  paid  &)  guaranteed  99,000,000,00. 

Chas.A  La.to»f,  Manaber. 
439  Cal  if  or  ma  St.  San  Francisco, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


THE  elections  in  England  are  this  year  accompanied  by  occur- 
rences which  formerly  were  confined  to  polling  days  in  the 
••  Emerald  Isle."  It  is  deeply  to  be  regretted  that  party  passions 
should  get  the  better  of  common  sense,  which  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  most  laudable  features  of  the  British  character. 
The  causes  of  the  unpleasant  change  must  be  mainly  attributed  to 
the  agitation  among  the  lowest  classes  of  the  population,  by  men 
who  have  only  their  own  selfish  ends  in  view. 

There  is  a  decided  difference  between  the  manner  in  which  the 
adherents  of  the  government  and  their  opponents  speak  of  their 
hopes  with  regard  to  the  result  of  the  elections.  The  Gladston- 
iana  are  boisterous,  brag  without  limitation,  and  pretend  to  be 
absolutely  sure  of  victory.  The  Unionists,  on  the  other  hand, 
are  calm  and  reticent.  This  latter  attitude  is  a  dignified  one,  but 
it  is  very  doubtful  whether  it  is  well  adapted  to  the  state  of  modern 
politics.  One  thing  is  certain,  it  gives  their  opponents  an  oppor- 
tunity to  accuse  them  of  diffidence.  Although  the  educated  and 
well-informed  people  of  the  United  Kingdom  know  perfectly  well 
that  the  Government  party,  on  account  of  its  achievements  dur- 
ing the  last  few  years,  has  just  reason  to  hope  for  victory,  the 
lower  strata  of  the  population  may  be  misled  by  the  pretensions 
of  the  radicals,  and  therefore  it  would  be  advisable  for  the  politi- 
cal leaders  of  the  Government  party  at  least  to  encourage  their 
sympathizers  by  clearly  pointing  out  to  them  that  if  they  are 
loyal  victory  is  certain.  In  the  rough-and-tumble  struggle  of 
modern  politics,  too  much  dignity  is  often  dangerous. 

Prince  Bismarck  has  been  very  outspoken  of  late  with  regard 
to  his  opinion  on  the  political  condition  of  Europe.  He  has 
openly  criticised,  in  words  as  strong  as  could  be  used  by  the 
former  chief  officer  of  the  government,  the  serious  blunder  com- 
mitted by  Emperer  William  II.,  in  alienating  the  sympathy  of 
Russia.  He  also  indicated  that  at  present  it  would  be  best  to 
confirm  the  friendship  between  Germany  and  Austria.  But  to 
those  who  can  read  between  the  lines,  it  is  plain  that  the  words 
faute  de  mieux  should  be  interpolated.  If  Russia  ia  to  become  an 
enemy  of  Germany,  in  the  full  fense  of  the  word,  then,  of  course, 
a  close  alliance  with  Austria  is  of  almost  paramount  importance. 
Better,  by  far,  it  would  have  been  if  the  present  ruler  of  the  Ger- 
man Empire  bad  remembered  the  dying  words  of  his  grandfather : 
"  Remember  our  friendship  with  Russia."  Although  he  has  not 
done  so  in  the  beginning,  much  evil  may  still  be  averted  if  he  will 
bend  his  stubborn  will  to  the  wish  of  the  people,  and  make  an 
attempt  to  renew  the  old  friendly  relations,  for  whether  victo- 
rious or  defeated,  Germany  must  inevitably  suffer  greatly  from 
a  contest  with  the  country  of  the  Czar,  the  recuperating  power 
of  which  is  far  greater  than  her  own.  Perhaps,  however,  it  is 
already  too  late,  and  there  is  a  tone  of  despondency  in  the  words 
of  the  ex-Chancellor  in  his  interview,  which  indicates  that  he 
seems  to  think  so.  Under  these  circumstances,  the  maintenance 
of  the  triple  alliance,  at  all  costs,  is  very  desirable,  and  the  finan- 
cial aid  said  to  have  been  promised  by  Germany  to  Italy  in  order 
to  maintain  her  standing  army  in  the  present  status,  is  well  ad- 
vised. 

Lord  Randolph  Churchill  has  been  re-elected  by  his  South 
Paddington  constituents,  witbqnt  opposition,  the  Radicals  well 
knowing  that  to  contest  that  seat  would  be  useless.  Lord  Salis- 
bury, therefore,  during  his  new  term  of  office,  will  have  his  enfant 
terrible,  as  usual,  to  count  with.  The  best  thing  he  could  do  would 
be  to  send  the  noble  Lord  on  some  foreign  mission  as  soon  as 
possible,  and  give  him  another  chance  of  lion-hunting.  Even 
then,  it  will  not  be  easy  to  keep  the  only  member  of  the  »  Tory- 
Democrat"  party  out  of  mischief. 

The  chulera,  the  usual  cam-follower  of  starvation,  has  re- 
appeared in  a  violent  form  in  Russia,  and  already  invaded  some 
other  European  countries.  For  sanitary  reasons  alone,  if  for  no 
other  cause,  it  would  be  desirable  for  the  European  countries  to 
form  an  international  league,  forcing  all  governments  belonging 
to  it  to  prevent  famine  in  their  country,  and  making  each  of  them 
responsible  in  case  of  neglect. 

Emperor  William  is  going  north  again  this  month  on  a  whale- 
hunting  expedition.  If  his  former  Chancellor  were  still  in  power, 
the  young  monarch's  absence  would  be  better,  the  longer  it  lasted, 
and  in  the  words  of  the  song  in  the  Mikado:  "  He  never  would  be 
missed."  Under  the  circumstances,  however,  and  since  he  has 
concentrated  government  in  a  rather  autocratic  manner  in  his 
own  person,  his  Viking  wanderings  are  justly  disapproved  by 
many  of  his  subjects. 

The  people  of  Madagascar,  according  to  the  latest  information, 
absolutely  refuse  to  recognize  the  Anglo-French  convention, 
which  resulted   in  an  exchange  of  Zanzibar  and  Madagascar  by 


the  contracting  Powers.  One  cannot  blame  the  Malagasy  people 
for  not  recognizing  this  political  barter,  in  which  they  were  not 
at  all  consulted.  Madagascar  has  never  surrendered  her  right  as 
an  independent  country,  and  the  inhabitants  will  have  the  heart- 
felt sympathy  and  support  of  the  United  8tates,  if  tbey  try  to 
maintain  their  independence.  For  the  sake  of  justice,  it  ia  to  be 
hoped  that  the  Anglo-Malagasy  treaty  will  be  abolished,  provided 
England  should  insist  on  subjecting  the  control  of  the  law  courts 
and  the  representation  of  the  British  subjects  in  the  island  to 
France. 

MENU  cards  under  microscopes  is  the  latest  novelty,  produced 
on  the  occasion  of  the  annual  dinner  of  medical  members  of 
New  York  University  at  Relmonico's  restaurant.  By  the  side  of 
each  plate  was  a  small  bottle,  and  in  this  a  brass-mounted  micro- 
scope, an  inch  in  diameter  and  two  inches  long.  On  looking 
through  the  glass  at  the  eye-piece  the  bill  of  fare,  in  the  form  of 
a  doctor's  Latin  prescription,  was  discoverable. 

Laundry  Farm  enjoys  great  popularity  as  a  picnic  ground,  and 
is  visited  weekly  by  thousands  of  people,  who  find  it  one  of  the  most 
enjoyable  spots  within  easy  reach  of  (he  city.  The  California  Rail- 
way runs  directly  to  it.  Laundry  Farm  is  only  forty  minutes  from 
Oakland,  and  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes  from  this  city. 

H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants, 

AND  

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Hos.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 
NATIONAL   ASSURANCE   CO.  OF   IRELAND; 
ATLAS    ASSURANCE    CO.    OF    LONDON  ; 
BOYLSTON    INSURANCE   CO.  OF    BOSTON  ; 
OCEAN   MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  hy  the  Use  of  the 

LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

vOver  800  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212s.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Systems— "Slattery  "  Induction;  "  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories— Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co..  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 


35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


R.  J.   WHEELER. 


J.   W.   GIRVIN. 


J.  W.   GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Uoyt  &  Co.  4  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS.  DIMOND  &  CO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 
UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 
The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 
1  Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 
The  China  Traders  <fc  Insurance  Co. 

(L'd.), 
The   Baldwin  Loeomotive  Works, 
Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 


Company, 
"  The  California  Line  of   Clippers,' 

from  New  York, 
"The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets," 

to  and  from  Honolulu. 


J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

General  Agents  Oceanic  Steamship  Company  and 


Gillingham  Cement. 
327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

8AN    FRANCISCO. 


July  9,  1892. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PAC1FH'    BTBTXH. 

Trains  Le«  v«  «nd  «ro  Due  10  Arriv*  at 

SAN      FRANCISCO: 

From  Jul/    J,    1892.  I  Auiri 

7.00*.  Bent  eta,  Rumsey.  Sacramento        7  I5r. 
7:S0a.  H»Tw»rJ*,  Nile*  and  San  Jose      *12:l5r. 

7  30a.  Martiuei.  San  Ramon,  Calls  tog  a 

and  Santa  Ro<-a  6:15 P. 

SrOOa.  3acram'to«*  Redd  log,  via  Davis       7:16p. 

8  00  a.  First  and  Second  Class  for  Ogdeu 

and  Ea*t.  and  first  class  locally       9:45  r. 
$-.30*.  Nile*.  San  Jose.  Stockton,  lone. 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 
Tille  and  Red  Bluff  4:45  p. 

9:00*.  Sunset  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 
Santa  Barbara.  Lob  Angeles, 
Demi ng.  El  Paso,  New  Orleans 

and  East    8:45  P. 

•9:00*.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:45f. 

12-OOm.  Hay  ward  8,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  p. 
•1:00 p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers  •9:00  p. 

1:30 p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez  ......  12:45 p. 

3.00  p.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  .      9:45  *. 
4 -.00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  ....         9:45*. 

4  KX>  P.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa  9.45*. 

4:30p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45*. 

4:30P.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45a. 

'4:80p.  Niles  and  Livermore •8:45*. 

5:30  p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,   Sauta   Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles.    8.45*. 

5.30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East  8:45  A. 

6:00  P.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..      7:45  a. 

.   ...  Niles  and  San  Jose J6:15p. 

•6:00f.  Sunol  and  Livermore  

6:00  p.  Ogden  Route  Atlantic  Express, 

Ogden  and  East 9:15a. 

17:00  P.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00p.  ShastaRouteExpress, Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Paget  Sound  and  East. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

17:45*.  Suuday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    18:05  p. 
8:15*.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6 :20  P. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

Santa  Cruz *10:50  a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Satur  ays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 

Cruz 9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  a  id  Townsend  Streets). 

•7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions      *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion     J8:28  p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
19:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  12:45  P. 
10:87a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations. .  .  5:03p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3 :30  p. 

*2:80p.  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos.Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove 

and  principal  Way  Stations. *10:37  a. 

*3:30  p.  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose  and  Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations *9:47  A. 

*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.. .    *8:06a. 

5 :15  P.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8 :48  A 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. ..      6:35  a. 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 
8tations +7 :30  p. 

a.  for  Morning.                        p.  for  Afternoon. 
•Sundays  excepted.                    ^Saturdays  only. 
t Sundays  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 

Sing  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
ails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

8. 8.  Australia, Tuesday,  July  5, 1892,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  32V  Mar- 
JOHN  D.  SPRBCKELS  A  BK08., 
General  Agents 

I  CURE  FITS! 

When  I  say  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  etop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  care.  I  have  made  tbed.sease  of  FITS,  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  hfe-long  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  ia  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
cure.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
H.  G.  ROOT,  M.  C.»  183  Pearl  St..  N.  Y. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEW9  LBTTEB 
NORTH  PACIFIC  COAST  RAILROAD 

{VIA  SAUSALITO). 


20 


Popular  Line  In  <  h  1 1  Torn  In      M«»si  De- 
lightful Miniate      ■oftl   Acre  «II»lr 
Section. 


Satir.alito  for  yachting  and  rowing. 

larkspur  for  a  good  dinner. 

Blytbedale  for  the  children. 

Mill  Valley  for  mineral  water  cures. 

San  Rafael  for  driving. 

Ross  Valley  for  Presbyterians. 

San  Quentin  for  keeping  away  from. 

Fairfax  for  encampments. 

Camp  Taylor  for  rest 

Tomala  for  life. 

Duncan's  Mills  for  scenery. 

Cazadero  for  soda  springs. 

Russian  River  for  grandeur. 

Country  Club  fishing  grounds,  camping,  hunt- 
ing, everything,  everywhere. 

Good  hotels  at  all  points,  fast  time,  prompt  ser- 
vice, best  equipment  and  most  enterprising  rail- 
road management  in  California.  Reduced  fares 
to  all  points. 

E.  H.  SHOEMAKER.  Gen'l.  Sup't. 
F.  R.  LATHAM,  Gen.  Pass.  &  T'k't.  Agt. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  June  25th.  1892,  S.  S.  "  San 
Bias;"  July  15th,  S.  S.  "San  Jose;"  August  5th, 
"City  of  New  York." 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Po  ts 
and  tanama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlau.  S-tn  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Saliua  Cruz,  Touala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  Sun  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juau  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— July  18th,  8.  S.  "  Collma'" 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

S.  S.  "China,"  Saturday,  July  9th,  1892,  at  3  p.m. 

S.  S.  "Peru"  (new),  Thursday,  Aug.  4th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  Aug.  27th,  at 

3  P.  M. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  80UND  ports,  at  9  A.  M.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Orego:*,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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

TRAMP — Pleaae,  mum,  me  feet's  on  th' 
ground ;  an'  if  ye  could  spare  me  an  old 
pair  o'  shoes,  I'd — 

Mrs.  Spinks— There's  a  wedding  going 
on  in  that  big  house  across  the  street.  Just 
you  go  ever  there  and  wait.  When  the 
couple  comes  out  the  family  will  throw  a 
lot  of  the  bride's  old  shoes  after  her." 

"But,  mum,  they'd  be  too  small. 

"Huh  1  Wait  till  you  see  her  feet."— New 
York   Weekly. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    DONAHUE   8R0A0-GXU0E    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  8UNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boat,  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MAKKKT8TREET  WHABK  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  a.  m.,  9:20  A.  M.,   1120  A    at  • 

1:30  P.M.,  3:80  p.  M.,6:05  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
8UNDAYS-8:00  a.m.,  9:80  a.m. ,11  :00  a.m.;  1-30  P.M. 

3:80  P.M..  500  p.  m.,  6:16  p.  M. 
„,„„      From  San  Rafael  tor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAY8-6:25  a.   m.,  7:5.5  a.   m.,  9:80   A    M. 

11:30  a.  m.:  1:40  p.m.,  8:40  p.m.,  6:05  p.m. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY-An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  A.M.,  9:40  a.m.,  11:10  a.  M.;  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  p.  M.,  6:00 p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

r-rom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  a.  m.,  8:20  a.m.,  9:66  A.M.,  11:55 
a.  m.  :  2:05  p.  m.,  4:06  p.  M.,  6:86  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  au  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:36   a.m.,    10:06  A.M.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:05  p.  M.,  4:05p.m.,  6:30p.m.,  6:50  P.M. 


Leave  8.  F. 

Arrive  in  8.  F7 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Destination. 

SundayB 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3:80  p.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00  a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
6:00p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 
8anta  Rosa. 

10:40 a.m  8:60a.m. 
6:05  P.M  10:30  a.k 
7:26p.m  6:10p.m. 

Fulton. 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Sprinffs, 
Cloverdale  A 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:26p.m. 

10:30a.  m 
6:10p.m 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00  a.m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:26p.m. 

10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40  a.m. 
6:06  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00  p.M 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6:05p.m. 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.M. 

7:40  a.  m 
3:30  p.M 

8:00  a.  m 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  |  10:40 a.m 
!   6i06p.m 

10:30am 
6:10  p.M 

StageB  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mart  West 
Springe;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  SpringB, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelsey  ville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Canto,  Mendocino  City 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCUR8ION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To  Petaluma,  ?1  60;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop  - 
land,  $5  70;  to  Uklah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $160:  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  SundayB  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1 ;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3:  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  3.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  wltfr 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Saturday,  June  25, 1892. 

Belgic Tuesday,  July  26, 1892. 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic      Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT    REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  Btreets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.Pass.  Agt. 

GEO. H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


CONSUMPTION. 

I  have  a  positive  remedy  for  the  above  disease ;  by  its 
use  thousands  of  cases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
standing  have  been  enrod.  Indeed  bo  strong  is  my  faith 
in  its  efficacy,  that  I  will  send  TWO  BOTTLES  free,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  suf- 
ferer who  will  send  me  their  Expree  a  and  P.  O.  address. 
T.  A.  Slocnm,  III.  0.«  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  Y. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


AUGUST  is  looked  forward  to  by  our  club  men  witb  especial  in- 
terest this  year,  inasmuch  as  during  that  month  two  events  of 
more  than  passing  note  are  named  to  take  place.  The  midsummer 
jinks  of  the  Bohemian  Club  will  come  first,  and  Cazadero  has 
been  selected  as  the  locale  where  they  will  disport  themselves.  It 
is  hoped  that  Mr.  Fred.  Somers  will  arrive  from  Honolulu  to 
officiate  as  Sire,  in  which  event  it  is  expected  that  several  novel 
ideas  will  be  introduced  by  him  as  features  of  the  celebration. 
Charles  Warren  8toddard  will  contribute  a  poem.  Professor 
Stewart  is  writing  some  music  to  be  sung  by  the  club  quartette, 
and  it  is  regarded  as  a  dead  certainty  that  the  affair  will  eclipse 
all  former  gatherings  of  the  kind,  here  or  elsewhere.  Towards 
the  end  of  August  the  Country  Club  will  hold  their  annual  meet, 
at  Del  Monte,  for  which  preparations  are  already  well  under  way. 
The  programme  includes  promenade  and  sacred  concerts,  the 
music  for  which  will  be  provided  by  the  Park  band  and  Noah 
Brandt's  orchestra;  hot  suppers,  shooting,  al  fresco  lunches, 
dancing,  6reworks.  etc.,  etc.,  to  say  nothing  of  the  numberless 
attractions  possessed  by  the  hotel  and  the  many  other  ways  of 
enjoying  life  at  that  most  famed  resort. 

A  very  interesting  ceremony  took  place  at  Grace  Church  Cathe- 
dral last  Thursdey  morning,  when  William  I.  Kip,  the  third,  was 
admitted  to  the  deconate  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  The  service, 
in  which  eighteen  clergymen,  including  Bishops  Kip,  Wingfield 
and  Nichols,  took  part,  commenced  with  the  ordination  sermon, 
which  was  preached  by  the  Rev.  E.  B.  Spalding,  of  St.  John's 
Church,  after  which  the  Litany  was  read  by  Bishop  Wingfield, 
and  the  communion  by  Bishop  Nichols.  The  candidate  for  holy 
orders  was  then  presented  by  the  Rev.  Giles  Easton  and  the  ven- 
erable grandfather  of  the  newly  admitted  deacon.  Bishop  Kip 
bestowed  upon  him  the  authority  for  his  office.  The  church  was 
crowded,  and  the  handsome  new  marble  altar  was  a  mass  of  pure 
white  flowers,  relieved  by  green  tendrils.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Kip  will 
remain  in  San  Francisco  for  the  present,  where  he  will  undertake 
missionary  work. 

The  Fourth  at  San  Rafael  was  a  grand  success,  and  the  Hotel 
Rafael  was  literally  packed  for  tbe  National  holiday.  Crowds 
were  drawn  from  far  and  near  to  view  the  tennis  contest  on  Sat- 
urday, and  the  Flannel  Cotillion  in  the  evening  was  greatly  en- 
joyed by  all  who  took  part.  But  it  was  reserved  for  Monday  to 
witness  the  most  exciting  day  in  the  annals  of  the  place.  The  in- 
terest of  all  was  wrought  up  to  the  highest  pitch  during  the  strug- 
gle between  Taylor  and  Hubbard;  and  when  at  length  Taylor 
was  declared  the  victor,  enthusiasm  ran  riot  and  did  not  fairly 
cool  down  the  whole  night  afterwards,  Champion  Taylor  being 
the  toast  on  every  lip.  The  dance  in  the  evening  was  pleasantly 
varied  by  vocal  and  mandolin  music.  Many  of  tbe  young  ladies 
who  were  visiting  cottagers  in  the  village  joined  the  throng  at 
the  hotel,  and  looked  charmingly  in  very  becoming  gowns. 


The  recent  Eastern  announcement  of  Mr.  Charles  Bonner's  en- 
gagement to  Miss  Tripp,  of  Boston,  recalls  to  the  memory  of 
our  older  society  folk  the  marriage  of  his  father,  Charles  Bonner, 
to  his  mother,  who,  as  Miss  Rosa  Gore,  was  one  of  the  most 
popular  of  San  Francisco's  early-day  belles.  She  and  her  sister, 
the  first  wife  of  John  H.  Reddington,  the  wholesale  druggist, 
were  a  couple  of  the  prettiest  women  in  the  society  of  that  period, 
and  though  of  different  styles,  one  being  a  demi-blonde  and  the 
other  a  decided  brunette,  opinion  was  divided  as  to  which  carried 
off  the  palm  for  good  looks.  Mr.  Charles  Bonner,  Sr.,  who  was  a 
mining  superintendent  on  the  Comstock,  died  many  years  ago, 
and  his  son,  the  present  Charles  Bonner,  is  a  resident  of   Fresno. 


The  past  fortnight  has  been  extremely  dull  in  town,  the  thoughts 
and  steps  of  most  of  its  dwellers  tending  countrywards  in  divers 
directions.  The  Fourth  is  a  thing  of  the  past  now,  with  all  its 
noise  and  uproar,  and  parents  and  guardians  are  turning  their 
faces  citywards  again  in  anticipation  of  the  school-days  which  re- 
commence next  week.  The  holiday  was  made  the  incentive  for 
merry-makings  all  over  the  country;  balls  were  given  at  nearly 
all  the  principal  resorts;  country  homes  were  filled  with  guests 
from  town,  while  everywhere  there  was  festivity  in  one  form  or 
another.  It  is  needless  to  say  Del  Monte  was  full  to  overflowing. 
Both  tbe  balls  were  voted  successes,  and  the  chic  costumes  worn 
by  the  ladies,  especially  those  of  recent  arrival  from  the  East, 
added  greatly  to  the  brilliancy  of  the  ball-room. 


Among  the  pretty  girls  wbo  spent  the  national  holiday  at  San 
Rafael,  were  Miss  Agnes  Burgin,  Miss  Nuttall,  Miss  Helen 
Walker,  Miss  Holbrooke,  Misses  Mae  and  Eleanor  Dimond,  Miss 
Hillyer,  Miss  Jennie  Sherwood,  Miss  Ethel  Smith,  who  was  the 
guest  with  Miss  Mary  McNutt  of  Mrs.  George  Boyd,  Miss  May 
Hoffman  and  Miss  Nellie  Jolliffe,  who  were  staying  with  Miss 
Maud  Morrow,  Miss  Minnie  Houghton,  and  the  Misses  Lough- 
borough. 


Pretty  little  St.  Peter's  Church,  on  the  corner  of  6tockton  and 
Filbert  streets,  was  looking  its  prettiest  on  Wednesday  evening  of 
last  week  for  the  nuptials  of  Miss  Jewel  Clark  and  John  E.  Sands. 
It  was  charmingly  dressed  with  flowers  and  foliage  and  crowded 
with  guests  to  witness  the  ceremony,  which  was  performed  by 
tbe  Rev.  Dr.  Emery;  Miss  Alma  Wassenberg  and  Fred  Clark 
were  bridesmaid  and  groomsman,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Matthews 
gave  the  bride  into  the  keeping  of  her  husband.  Following  the 
service  in  church,  a  reception  was  held  at  the  Clark  residence,  on 
Lombard  street,  which  was  very  largely  attended.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
8ands  will  make  their  future  home  in  Nevada  county. 


The  tug  Ida  If.,  in  charge  of  sea  deacon  Captain  Dan  James, 
noted  as  a  marriage  expert  on  runaway  matches  outside  the 
Heads,  started  around  the  bay  on  the  Fourth  with  a  very  jolly 
crowd.  J.  Homer  Fritch  acted  as  master  of  ceremonies,  and  was 
ably  assisted  by  Captain  Jack  Roberts,  of  the  steamer  Emily, 
Charley  McKay,  Ned  Sutton,  H.  Hirschler,  P.  W.  Hubbard,  and 
others  of  the  party.  Sansalito  was  taken  by  storm,  and  the  seal 
captured  at  the  Hunters'  Resort,  and  Tiburon  visited  and  livened 
up.  A  third  stop  was  made  at  El  Campo,  where  an  impromptu 
race  was  had  with  the  steamer  Tiburon  to  this  city.  The  Ida  H*. 
gave  the  steamer  half  a  mile  start  and  beat  her  to  tbe  dock,  much 
to  the  gratification  of  all  on  board. 

One  of  the  most  enjoyable  camps  in  the  woods  this  summer  is 
Camp  Alpine,  which  is  charmingly  situated  on  the  banks  of  Bear 
Creek,  in  the  center  of  a  grove  of  redwoods  and  oaks,  about  half 
a  mile  from  the  Boulder  Creek  station.  There  are  fourteen  people 
in  the  party,  and  they  are  accommodated  in  seven  large  and  com- 
fortable tents.  The  creek  affords  fine  fishing  and  swimming,  and 
the  woods  give  splendid  opportunity  for  enjoyment.  The  camp- 
ers are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  N.  Rowley,  Master  H.  C.  Rowley,  Lloyd 
Rowley,  Toby  Rowley,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed.  F.  Nibchardt,  Miss  E. 
J.  Gallagher,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Sankey,  Miss  May  Sankey,  Miss 
Florence  Sankey,  Master  Althon  Sankey,  and  Miss  Emmons. 


A  brilliant  home  wedding  was  that  of  Miss  Adele  Seller  to  Mr. 
Ludwig  Feigenbaum,  at  the  Seller  residence,  corner  McAllister 
street  and  Van  Ness  avenue,  last  Wednesday  evening.  A  large 
number  of  intimate  friends  of  the  family  were  present.  Rabbi 
Voorsanger  performed  the  ceremony,  after  which  all  sat  down  to 
a  sumptuous  repast,  and  the  newly-wedded  couple  were  toasted 
in  bumpers  of  wine.  Dancing  followed,  and  gaieties  were  kept 
up  until  an  early  hour.  The  bride  is  well  known  in  society  circles, 
and  is  a  very  popular  young  lady.  The  groom  is  a  prosperous 
merchant  at  Rhonerville,  Humboldt  county.  Tbe  presents  were 
many,  beautiful  and  costly. 


Tbe  presence  of  tbe  yachts  contributed  in  no  slight  degree  to  tbe 
pleasure  of  the  guests  at  Santa  Cruz  on  the  Fourth,  the  arrival  of 
the  victorious  Lurlinc  causing  much  rejoicing  among  the  owner's 
friends  and  admirers  there  assembled.  There  were  hops,  fishing 
parties,  germans  and  delightful  lounges  on  the  beach,  and  the 
thousand  and  one  modes  of  passing  a  holiday  to  one's  satisfaction. 
Among  holiday  visitors  to  Santa  Cruz  were  Miss  Mamie  Burling, 
Miss  Romie  Wallace  and  Miss  Grace  Thorne  under  the  chaperon- 
age  of  Mrs.  Luke  Robinson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morris  Newton,  wbo 
were  guests  of  Mrs.  J.  Philip  Smith  at  Sunshine  Villa,  Albert 
Castle,  A.  L.  Gump,  etc. 

Tbe  little  settlement  around  the  village  of  San  Mateo  is  getting 
quite  lively  socially.  Mrs.  H.  P.  Bowie  (at  her  beautiful  quaint 
old  homestead)  has  once  again  entered  the  list  of  entertainers. 
Mrs.  Will  Crocker  has  infused  new  life  into  the  dolce  far  niente 
existence  of  the  dwellers  in  that  locality,  and  rumor  goes  that  Mrs. 
A.  M.  Parrott  will  soon  give  a  fete  champetre  to  welcome  the 
lately  returned  member  of  her  Tamily  from  abroad.  Mrs.  Bowel, 
now  that  her  pretty  daughters  are  blooming  into  opening  buds, 
will  no  doubt  also  be  beard  from  socially.  The  Corbett  sisters, 
who  as  girls  were  such  favorites  in  society,  are  spending  the  sum- 
mer at  the  family  homestead  at  San  Mateo,  having  since  their 
marriage  led  most  domestic  lives. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  those  who  remember  Miss  Jenny 
Chamberlain  when,  with  her  mother,  she  spent  a  winter  at  tbe 
Palace  Hotel,  several  years  ago,  and  who  is  now  the  wife  of 
Captain  Naylor-Layland,  and  a  resident  of  London,  England,  to 
hear  that  at  the  recent  christening  of  uer  infant  son  two  of  the 
sponsors  were  tbe  Duke  of  York  (Prince  George  of  Wales)  and 
the  Duke  of  Cambridge,  the  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  British 
army. 

The  only  event  of  much  social  importance  in  Oakland  during 
the  week  was  the  marriage  on  Thursday  evening  of  Miss  Alice 
Evelyn  Bayley  to  Frederick  Cheever  Torrey.  The  ceremony 
took  place  at  the  Bayley  residence,  1,408  Castro  street,  tbe  scene 
of  the  brilliant  garden  party  a  few  weeks  ago.  Elaborate  decora- 
tions were  placed  in  all  directions  to  honor  the  nuptials,  and  the 
ensemble  was  very  pretty. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Gibbons  and  family  have  been  passing  tbe 
last  two  weeks  at  Pescadero,  but  expect  to  return  home  on  Mon- 
day. 


July  9,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS   I  I'lTKi: 


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Three  pretty  new  bods  birr  been  added  to  society  parterres  by 
the  recent  arrival.  fre»b  from  school,  ol  Miss  Carrie  Taylor.  Mm 
Kmlly  Carolan  and  M:<-  Ihth  Mcltean.  all  ol  whom  will  he 
among  the  attractive  features  at  the  hops  in  the  Pel  Monte  ball- 
room during  the  rest  of  the  season  there.  Yassar  will  be  repre- 
•anted  by  Miss  Alice  JollinV.  who  will,  however,  return  there  to 
complete  ber  course. 

Next  Monday  will  see  a  fresh  arrival  of  guests  at  Del  Monte, 
most  of  whom  will  remain  there  during  July  at  least,  if  not 
longer.  Among  them  will  be  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Scot:.  Miss 
May  Scoit.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Austin  Tubbs,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Belden.  Mrs.  D.  J.  Tallant,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  0.  B.  Guna,  Mrs.  and 
Mi..  Pierce,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Pope,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Reqoa. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Carrie  Xorthey,  the  charming  Oakland 
aoprano,  to  Jesse  E.  Douglas,  of  Omaha,  will  take  place  towards 
the  close  of  the  month.  The  service  will  be  performed  at  the 
Kirn  Presbyterian  Church,  where  Miss  Northey  has  long  been 
choir-leader.  Oakland  will  suffer  a  social  loss  by  the  nuptials, 
for  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglas  will  take  up  their  residence  in  Omaha. 

John  D.  Spreckels  and  party  have  reached  Paris  in  safety, 
where  tbey  were  by  last  accounts,  but  intend  doing  the  continent 
very  thoroughly,  and  are  no  doubt  by  this  time  following  the 
programme  they  laid  out,  and  are  en  route  from  Norway  to  Russia, 
where  tbey  will  spend  some  time  in  St.  Petersburg. 


It  is  quite  among  the  possibilities  that  San  Francisco  shall 
soon  lose  one  of  the  oldest  of  its  resident  families,  in  the 
persons  of  Judge  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Thornton,  who  have  been  mem- 
bers of  society  since  its  very  earliest  days.  They  are  seriously 
contemplating  a  return  to  the  South,  there  to  pass  the  rest  of 
their  days  among  relatives  and  friends  in  "  Old  Virginy." 


Lieut.  8trother  has  gone  East  under  orders,  but  his  absence 
will  only  be  brief,  as  he  returns  to  the  coast  almost  immediately. 
Our  military  beaux  have  been  reinforced  by  the  arrival  of  Lieut. 
Clement  Flagler  from  Willett's  Point,  New  York,  and  as  be  is  said 
to  be  an  excellent  dancer,  doubtless  he  will  be  in  demand  at  bops 
as  soon  as  society  returns  to  town  again. 

The  usual  hop  takes  place  at  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club  house  at 
Sausalito  this  evening,  and  no  doubt  the  moonlight  will  add 
materially  to  the  pleasure  of  the  sail  there  and  home  again.  The 
tog  Relief  leaves  Mission-street  wharf  with  the  invited  guests  at 
half-past  seven,  and  the  hour  for  returning  from  the  club-house 
will  be  quarter-past  eleven. 

Joe  Tobin,  Sam.  Neel  and  C.  P.  Hubbard  left  for  the  East  on 
Wednesday,  where  they  intend  to  show  the  tennis  players  of 
that  locality  what  Californians  can  do  with  the  racquet.  They 
will  take  part  in  the  tournament  which  begins  in  Chicago  on 
Monday  next,  and  also  in  the  National  tournament  at  Newport, 
next  month. 

Mrs.  Delmas  and  her  daughter  are  most  delightfully  settled  for 
the  season  at  Santa  Cruz.  They  occupy  one  of  the  largest  cot- 
tages in  the  village,  and  have  their  own  carriage  and  riding 
horses.  The  young  ladies  are  among  the  most  expert  swim- 
mers, and  are  always  the  centre  of  an  admiring  circle  when  they 
appear  upon  the  beach. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Hays  Hammond,  Miss  Bettie  Hammond 
Miss  Helen  Wheeler,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hugh  Hume,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Main  and  their  daughter,  Mrs.  C.  P.  McDermott,  the 
Misses  Chabot,  Mrs.  Gordon  Blanding  and  her  young  daughter, 
arrived  at  Del  Monte  in  time  to  take  part  in  the  festivities  of  the 
Fourth. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  have  returned  from  their  visit 
to  Minneapolis  and  New  York,  and  are  occupying  their  cottage 
in  the  vicinity  of  San  Rafael.  Col.  W.  8  Smedberg  is  also  with 
ns  again,  having  returned  from  West  Point  last  week.  Mrs.  Smed- 
berg  and  Miss  Nellie  will  remain  at  the  East  until  late  in  the  au- 
tumn.   

Gala  times  are  anticipated  at  Santa  Cruz  while  the  military  are 
in  camp,  and  terpsichore  will  rule  as  usual.  There  will  be  dances 
in  camp,  hops  at  the  hotels,  and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Smith  has  announced 
her  intention  of  giving  a  ball  in  honor  of  General  Dimond  and  his 
staff  during  encampment  week  at  her  pretty  Sunshine  Villa. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  A.  de  Guigne  and  family  were  among  the  ar- 
rivals last  week,  after  an  absence  of  a  couple  of  years  in  Europe. 
Tbey  will  occupy  their  cottage  at  San  Mateo  during  the  rest  of 
the  summer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  O.  G.  Miller  will  return  from  their 
European  trip  about  the  middle  of  next  month. 

Philip  Wooster  is  another  of  our  young  men  who  has  become 
infatuated  with  life  in  Mexico,  and  when  he  returns  there  in 
August,  it  will  be  with  the  intention  of  making  it  his  future 
home.  He  has  been  paying  his  family  a  visit  of  late,  and  ex- 
pects to  remain  a  few  weeks  longer  in  California. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boat  P/ltion,  N.    K.    Masien    and    his   daughter, 
Mr'-  W.  A.  lliasell  and  family,  Mrs.  ('.  N.  Bhaw,  Mrs,  I  .  a 
all,  Mlsa  May  Crowell,  Mr.  and    Mrs.  A.  N.  Towna,    Mr.,   a    B 
Baldwin,  Miss  Fanny  Baldwin,  Mr.  and   Mrs.  II.  B.  Huntington, 
flr,,  among  the  guests  at  Castle  Crags. 

The  celebration  of  the  one  hundred  and  third  anniversary  of 
the  fall  ol  the  Bastile  will  be  held  at  Woodward's  Gardens,  com- 
mencing at  1 :30  p.  m.  on  Thursday,  the  14th  inst.  There  will  he 
literary  exercises,  a  garden  concert  and  a  festival.  C.  L.  P.  Marais 
will  be  President  of  the  Day. 


\V.  H.  Keith,  Jr.,  of  this  city,  now  studying  for  grand  opera  in 
Pans,  recently  met  with  a  serious  accident.  A  horse  stepped 
upon  Mr.  Keith's  foot,  badly  injuring  it,  crushing  some  of  the 
toes,  and  making  it  likely  that  the  consequent  lameness  may  not 
be  the  affair  of  a  moment. 


Lieut.  George  M.  Storey  has  been  appointed  Aid  to  Admiral 
Irwin,  the  Commandante  at  the  Navy  Yard,  Mare  Island,  and 
will  take  up  bis  residence  there  at  once.  Mrs.  Storey  has  been 
visiting  her  brothers,  Messrs.  William  and  Harry  Babcock,  at  San 
Rafael. 


Sam.  Sbortridge  left  for  Honolulu  on  a  six  weeks'  trip,  which 
includes  both  business  and  pleasure,  as  well  as  search  for  health, 
by  the  steamer  Australia,  last  Wednesday.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Claus 
Spreckels  were  also  among  the  passengers  by  the  same  steamer  to 
Honolulu. 


Mr,  and  Mrs.  Moore  and  Judge  Henshaw,  of  Oakland,  were 
among  the  tourists  who  sailed  for  Honolulu  by  the  steamer 
Australia,  last  Wednesday.  They  purpose  making  a  tour  of  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  and  expect  to  be  absent  about  six  weeks. 

Judge  Muphy  has  departed  for  Oregon,  and  intends  to  spend 
his  vacation  there  and  in  Washington.  Chief  Quartermaster  J. 
G.  Chandler,  U.  S.  A.,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  son,  have 
gone  to  spend  a  few  days  at  Del  Monte. 

Mrs.  A.  D.  Splivalo  was  given  a  surprise  party  last  Thursday 
evening,  by  a  number  of  her  friends,  who  had  arranged  all  the 
details  in  the  most  perfect  manner.  They  were  well  carried  out, 
and  a  very  pleasant  affair  was  the  result. 

Mrs.  Ivers  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Aileen,  C.  A.  Spreckels  and 
family,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sylvain  Weil  are  about  arriving  in  the 
haven  where  they  would  be,  Paris. 


Mr.  D.  0.  Mills  (now  known  to  fame  as  Whitelaw  Reid's 
father-in-law)  arrived  from  New  York  last  Monday,  and  will  re- 
main on  the  Coast  until  August,  when  he  will  return  East  in 
time  for  the  New  York  season. 

Mme.  Casinua  Etchehome  and  Miss  Leontine  Etchehome,  who 
have  been  spending  the  past  two  months  at  San  Rafael,  have  re- 
turned to  this  city,  and  will  leave  to-day  for  San  Jose,  where  they 
will  pass  the  season. 

Two  of  society's  absent  beaux  have  returned  to  it  again:  Jini 
Phelan  and  Lansing  Kellogg  are  both  back  from  their  trip  across 
the  continent,  having  reached  here  in  time  to  enjoy  all  the  gaieties 
of  the  Fourth  at  Del  Monte. 


Society  at  San  Rafael  was  made  happy  last  Tuesday  by  the^ 
arrival  of  Frank  Carolan  and  his  bride  from  the  East.  They  will 
spend  the  rest  of  the  season  there,  with  a  trip  to  Del  Monte  in 
September.  .  ,     j: 

Blythedale  rejoices  in  the  arrival  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  T. 
Monteagle,  who  have  just  returned  from  their  Eastern  trip,  that 
little  resort  being  the  usual  summer  abiding  place  of  this  popular 
young  couple. 

August  is  coming  to  the  front  as  a  month  for  weddings;  an- 
other one  added  to  the  list  will  be  that  of  Miss  Emeline 
Dumont  to  Charles  E.  S.  Dunberg,  which  will  be  solemnized  early 
in  the  month. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Breyfogle  had  a  delightful  visit  East,  but  express 
a  vast  amount  of  pleasure  at  again  finding  themselves  upon  the 
cool  shores  of  the  Pacific,  after  the  heat  of  the  other  side  of  the 
continent. 

On  June  30th,  Mrs.  B.  E.  Caswell  of  this  city,  accompanied  by 
Miss  Jessie  D.  Seale  of  San  Francisco,  sailed  for  Europe  on  the 
Furst  Bismarck,  to  visit  Paris,  Munich,  Berlin  and  Dresden. 

There  was  another  pretty  wedding  in  Berkeley  last  week,  when 
Miss  Hattie  Chamberlain  was  married  to  Alfred  C.  Herrick,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Kimball  officiating. 

Dick  Pease  and  his  beautiful  wife,  her  mother,  Mrs.  R.  L.  Og- 
den,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abbott,  are  spending  the  summer  together  at 
Santa  Cruz,  where  they  have  charming  quarters. 

Miss  Lilabel  Crane  has  returned  to  San  Francisco,  after  an  ex- 
tended and  pleasant  visit  with  friends  in  Santa  Cruz. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  9,  1892. 


Walter  Hinkle,  the  assistant  District  Attorney,  and  Miss  Red- 
ding, the  society  editor  of  the  Chronicle,  will  be  married  to-morrow 
at  the  residence  of  the  groom's  parents  in  this  city.  The  young 
couple  have  many  friends  in  this  city  and  throughout  the  State, 
all  of  whom  will  wish  them  happiness.  Mr.  Hinkle  is  one  of  the 
leading  young  lawyers  of  the  city.  He  has  displayed  great  ability 
in  his  arduous  position,  and  has  a  brilliant  future  before  him. 
Misa  Redding  is  a  charming  young  lady  of  far  more  than  usual 
ability.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hinkle  will  reside  in  this  city  after  the 
happy  event. 

The  monthly  tug-boat  party  and  hop  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club 
will  take  place  to-night.  The  Relief  will  leave  the  Mission  Street 
Wharf  No.  1  at  7 :30  o'clock,  sharp ;  returning,  will  leave  the  Club- 
house wharf  at  11:15. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Gibbs  spent  the  week  preceding  the 
Fourth  at  Del  Monte.  Mrs.  Robert  I.  Bowie  passed  the  Fourth 
of  July  at  the  Hotel  Vendome,  8an  Jose. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Waring  Wilkinson  are  en  route  homewards,  after 
an  extended  visit  to  Europe,  and  are  looked  for  about  the  end  of 
July  at  their  home  in  Berkeley. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  C.  Hassett,  who  postponed  their  contemplated 
Eastern  trip  until  later  in  the  autumn,  spent  the  holidays  at  the 
Napa  White  Sulphur  Springs. 


Col.  Joseph  R.  Smith,  the  new  Medical  Director  of  this  Depart- 
ment, arrived  from  Los  Angeles  on  Saturday  last,  and  will  in 
future  reside  in  San  Francisco. 


Mrs.  E.  L.  G.  Steele  and  family  and  Miss  Elsie  Bennett  have 
gone  from  Santa  Barbara  to  Coronado,  where  they  spent  the 
Fonrth  of  July. 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  and  Miss  Otis,  of  Los  Angeles,  have  been 
spending  the  week  at  the  Occidental  Hotel,  after  visiting  Castle 
Crags  tavern. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  E.  Highton  have  returned  from  Coronado. 
Mrs.  Higbton  will  be  in  Shasta  county  during  the  remainder  of 
the  season. 


Mrs.  Fogarty   and  the  Misses   Margaret  and  Alice  Fogarty  are 
sojourning  in  San  Rafael,  where  Mrs.  John  J.  Kelly  is  their  guest. 

The  engagement  of  Misa  Emma  Durbrow  and  Spencer  Buckbee 
is  another  of  the  announcements  of  the  midsummer  season. 


Coroner  W.  T.  Garwood's  wife  and  family  have  been  visitors  at 
.Etna  Springs  for  several  weeks,  but  will  return  home  to-day. 


Mrs.  W.  J.  Younger  and  her  four  daughters  sailed  from  New 
York  for  Europe  by  the  steamer  Augusta  Victoria,  on  Thursday 
last. 


Among  recent  departures  Eastward  is    Will   Ralston,  who  has 
gone  on  a  visit  of  official  business  to  Washington  City. 

Major  Frank  Vail  has  returned  from  a  sojourn  in  Los  Angeles, 
in  which  he  combined  business  with  pleasure. 

Mrs.  Wm.  Hinckley  Taylor   spent  the  holiday  week   with  her 
mother,  Mrs.  Kittle,  at  San  Rafael. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Hubbard  are  spending  a  couple  of  weeks 
at  Vichey  Springs. 

Dr.  C.  J.  Bucknall  is   spending   a   few   days   at   Calistoga   and 
Howell  Mountain. 


Miss  M.R.  Moran  has  returned  from  a  pleasant  visit  to  Cypress 
Lawn. 


Camp  While-away,  Mill  Valley,  will  not  be  "  at  home"  during 
July.  

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  C.  Bouvier  are  at   Paso   Robles  Springs.     Mr. 
Bouvier's  health  is  improving. 

Mark  Thall  left  for  the  East  yesterday. 


Burlington  Route  Excursions. 


Commencing  Tuesday,  March  15th,  at  2  p.  m.,  from  Los  Angeles, 
and  Wednesday,  at  8  p.  m.,  from  San  Francisco,  and  every  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday  thereafter,  the  Burlington  Route  will  run  "its  regular 
Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago, 
via  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  excursion  folder] 
apply  to  agent,  Burlington  Route,  at  204  South  Spring  street,  Los 
Angeles;  or  32  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

Baggage  Notice. 


Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip.  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 


THE    SULTANS    HAREM. 

THE  Sultan  has  of  late  found  it  difficult  to  keep  his  Imperial 
harems  up  to  their  proper  strength.  The  ladies  who  used  to 
be  brought  in  sucb  large  numbers  from  the  Circasian  coast  are 
now  not  to  be  bad  the  Cxar  having  strictly  forbidden  the  traffic, 
but  several  Circasian  families  that  have  migrated  into  the  Turk- 
ish dominions  continue  to  carry  on  the  supply — not  in  the  open 
market,  as  formerly,  but  in  private  houses.  The  chitf  of  the  Sul- 
tan's eunuchs— the  Ki&laaga— has  a  revenue  of  about  £5,000  a 
year.  Among  the  eunuchs,  some  of  the  most  important  are  the 
mussaibs,  or  conversation  tellers,  so-called,  not  for  their  habit  of 
eavesdropping,  but  because  they  act  as  the  messengers  to  convey 
the  words  of  the  Sultan  to  the  harem  or  to  bring  back  to  him  the 
replies.  The  total  expense  of  the  Sultan's  chief  harem  is  over 
half  a  million  a  year,  but  only  about  £20,000  is  employed  in  pay- 
ing about  sevenhundred  lady  concubines;  theo  the  eunuchs  have 
to  be  paid,  aod  they  muster  about  five  hundred;  the  other  money 
is  absorbed  in  amusements,  in  which  the  ladies  of  the  harem  in- 
dulge. 

THE  California  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company  has  declared 
a  serai-annual  dividend  of  $1.50  per  share,  and  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  one  of  $4  per  share,  at  the  rate  of  8  per  cent,  per  an- 
num. 

'•  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"  609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Peerless  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works— Qui  jotoa,  Arizona 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meetiug  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  6th  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No  18)  of  5  cei  ts  per  share  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  Immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room 
23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  Sao  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
The  Eleventh  Day  of  August,  1 892.  will  be  de  inqnent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and    unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  txpen- 
ses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ANNUAL  MEETING- 

Savage  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  mee'iug  of  stockholders  in  the  Savage  Mining  Com- 
pany will  be  held  on  THURSD  J.Y,  the  21st  day  of  July,  1892,  at  the  oftU-e  of 
the  company,  room  4,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Frsncisco, 
Cal.,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.m.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Monday, 
the  ISth  of  July,  1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.  BE. 

E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 


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that  is  staying  in  the  business  and  has  some  regard 
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W.  DAVIS  &  SON,  410  Market  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Are  not  closing  out,  and  require  no  white  signs  to  htlp'sell  their  harness. 
No  shaddy  leather  used.    Harnesses  from  $6  5u  a  set  up. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  JULY  16,  IS 92. 


Number  3. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor.  Frederick 
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eisco.     Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 
Arrets  Bodies  of  Alieu  Forces.    2 
Naming  Country   Roads     .      ...     2 

Raisin  Growers'  Combine  2 

Interfering  With  Justice    3 

Presidential  Speculations    3 

India  and  the  silver  Question  -  3 
Comment*  on  Foreign  Affairs  ...  3 
The  San  Francisco  Yacht  Club. ..    4 

The  British  Elections 5 

Concentration  (Poetry) 5 

They  Extended  Their  Sympathy      6 

Paul  Schafer's  Horse      6 

Columbus  Day,  October  12, 1892- 

Pleasure's  Wand 

A  June-time  Parable  (Poetry) 

His  Little  Game 10 

To  Love  (Poetry) 11 

The  Illusions  of  Genius 11 


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Sparks 12 

Tennis  and  Baseball  13 

The  Looker-On      14-15 

Financial  Review. 16 

Town  Crier 17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...    19 

The  Library  Table   29 

Vanit'es    ...21 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 22 

Held  Up  (Poetry)    22 

The  Rose  Jar 23 

Fashions  for  Men    24 

Extension  of  Joint  Stock  Enter 

prise 23 

Scientific  and  Useful 2fi 

Sunbeams    27 

"  Biz  "—Summary  of  the  Markets.  26 
Society 30-31-32 


ARTOTYPE-San  F  ancisco  Yacht  Club. 


THE  Post  is    offering  a  gold  watch  to    the    most  popular  police- 
man.    Why  not  add    an  alarm  clock  for  the  drowsiest  patrol- 
man in  the  force? 


AID  is  asked  in  behalf  of  the  California  Horticultural  exhibit  at 
the  World's  Fair.  It  is  a  deserving  portion  of  the  exposition, 
and  every  citizen  should  take  sufficient  interest  in  its  success  to 
contribute  to  it  in  some  degree. 


DOCTOR  JEROME  A.  HUGHES  is  prominently  mentioned  as 
a  candidate  for  Coroner  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  Dr.  Hughes 
would  make  an  excellent  official.  He  has  scores  of  friends  in 
the  city,  and  if  nominated,  would  make  an  excellent  showing. 


THE  Supervisors  could  not  do  a  better  or  more  deserving  work 
than  improving  Alamo  Square.  The  square  is  in  an  excellent 
location,  but  in  a  deplorable  condition.  It  should  be  improved  as 
soon  as  possible.  An  appropriation  has  been  made  for  the  work 
and  it  should  be  prosecuted. 


DR.  COGGSWELL  went  down  hard  in  his  fight  for  the  college 
bearing  his  name.  The  eminent  doctor  is  a  curious  study  in 
philanthropy.  The  collection  of  strings  which  he  ties  to  his  ben- 
efactions is  large  and  curious,  and  all  the  strings  are  strong;  but 
sometimes  they  break  in  the  tussle,  as  in  this  instance. 


THE  Burns  contingent  of  the  G.  0.  P.  is  about  to  organize  an- 
other club  on  the  lines  of  the  Alliance,  from  which  Jatter  or- 
ganization the  followers  of  the  gallant  Colonel  will  withdraw 
The  local  Republican  party  is  about  as  badly  mixed  as  it  can  very 
well  be.  This  is  the  opportunity  for  the  Democracy  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  enemy's  distress. 


THE  young  man  who  passed  a  forged  note  on  that  veteran  finan- 
cier, Asa  Fiske,  has  been  held  to  answer  on  a  charge  of  forgery 
ahd  will  be  tried  in  the  Superior  Court.  It  is  strange  that  an  ad- 
miring community  does  not  do  something  to  show  its  admiration 
for  the  enterprising  youth  who  is  the  only  man  on  record  who 
ever  got  ahead  of  Fiske  in  a  money  transaction. 

THOSE  Mexican  editors  who  fought  a  duel  near  Puebla,  Mexi- 
Cot  on  Thursday,  and  fired  nine  shots  at  each  other  without 
doing  any  injury  to  either,  ought  to  be  intensely  ashamed  of 
themselves.  We  presume  they  are.  An  editor  of  a  Western 
paper  who  could  not  do  some  execution  in  nine  shots  would  be 
run  out  of  town  as  a  mental  and  physical  imbecile.  One  of  the 
first  requisites  for  editing  a  paper  in  the  wild  and  wooly  portion 
of  this  great  Republic  is  to  be  able  to  pot  your  man  at  one  hun- 
dred yards.  A  pencil  pusher  who  cannnot  do  that  can  never 
succeed  west  of  the  Missouri.  But  eighteen  shots  without  a  dropl 


THE  Democratic  State  Central  Committee  is  now  well  organized 
for  the  campaign.  Max  Popper,  the  recently  elected  Chair- 
man, has  been  an  ardent  worker  in  the  cause  of  Democracy  for 
years,  and  he  is  the  right  man  in  the  right  place.  Mr.  Popper  is 
a  man  of  ability,  energy,  and  of  unblemished  reputation,  who 
should  give  good  returns  of  his  stewardship  in  November. 

THE  new  bank  of  Sisson,  Crocker  &  Co.  is  now  in  the  quarters 
at  322  Pine  street,  recently  vacated  by  the  Crocker,  Wool- 
worth  Bank,  and  there  it  is  now  prepared  to  do  a  general  bank- 
ing and  exchange  business.  The  establishment  has  been  im- 
proved and  so  perfected  that  it  now  affords  facilities  to  transact 
business  on  the  largest  scale.  The  officers  of  the  bank  are- 
George  W.  Scott,  President;  W.  W.  Van  Ardsdale,  Cashier.  The 
Directors  are  J.  H.  Strobridge,  D.  W.  Earl,  ,T.  H.  Sisson,  F.  H. 
Green,  J.  M.  Haven,  W.  W.  Van   Ardsdale  and  George  W.  Scott. 

THE  Republican  State  Central  Committee  has  decided  the  local 
fight  in  the  G.  0.  P.  in  favor  of  the  Third  street  bosses,  and  at 
present  it  looks  very  dubious  for  the  gentlemen  affiliated  wiih 
that  astute  little  man  Ruef.  The  manner  in  which  Ruef  has 
jumped  around  the  circle  in  the  endeavor  to  place  himself  has 
been  very  funny.  Just  at  present  he  seems  to  be  out  in  the  cold, 
while  the  little  Napoleon  and  his  friend  Ketley  rule  the  roost.  The 
next  move  is  for  Burns,  Ruef  and  their  followers  to  organize  a 
separate  organization  and  put  up  an  independent  Republican 
tieket. 


WITH  the  decease  of  Newton  Booth,  who  died  at  Sacramento 
on  Thursday  evening,  a  prominent  figure  passes  from  the 
arena  of  California  political  life.  Aa  State  Senator,  Governor  and 
United  States  Senator  from  California,  Mr.  Booth  distinguished 
himself  by  all  those  characteristics  ;which  go  to  make  up  a  suc- 
cessful man.  He  was  a  native  of  Indiana,  sixty-seven  years  old, 
and  came  to  this  State  in  1850,  settling  in  Sacramento,  where  he 
became  a  merchant.  In  1863  he  went  to  the  State  Senate,  and 
eight  years  later  became  Governor,  after  a  very  exciting  cam- 
paign. On  February  27,  1875,  he  resigned  the  office  of  Chief 
Executive  of  the  State,  to  accept  that  of  United  States  Senator,  to 
which  he  had  been  elected  to  succeed  Eugene  Casserly.  Mr. 
Booth's  death  was  caused  directly  by  "a  hemorrhage.  He  had 
suffered  some  time  from  a  cancer  of  the  tongue. 


THE  peculiarities  of  the  manner  of  assessing  real  property  in 
this  city  and  county  are  beyond  the  ken  of  any  man  except 
Assessor  Siebe.  A  case  in  point  ie  the  assessment  fixed  upon  two 
irregular  shaped  lots  fronting  on  Grattan  street,  in  the  Meyer 
Nursery  Tract.  These  lots  have  been  assessed  at  $420  each.  A 
smaller  piece  of  land,  without  street  frontage,  bought  of  the  Mar- 
ket and  Stanyan  Company,  and  adjoining  the  irregular  lots  in 
the  rear,  has  been  assessed  for  $1,000.  The  objectof  its  purchase 
by  the  owner  of  the  two  irregular  lots  was  to  give  his  property  a 
straight  line  in  the  rear.  From  this  assessment,  it  appears  that 
the  rear  half  of  the  property,  without  frontage,  is  worth  $160 
more  than  the  front  half,  which  has  frontage.  As  the  matter 
now  stands,  the  property  is  assessed  for  $1,840.  It  was  pur- 
chased only  a  short  while  ago  for  $1,300.  In  what  manner  As- 
sessor Siebe  can  justify  such  an  assessment  as  this,  is  something 
that  property-owners  are  interested  in  finding  out. 


THERE  is  much  dissatisfaction  amoDg  the  property-owners  on 
Green  street,  between  Joaes  and  Leavenworth,  on  account  of 
an  order  recently  passed  by  the  Supervisors,  directing  that  a  main 
sewer  be  placed  in  the  block  named.  This  action  was  taken  on 
the  petition  of  a  Mr.  Nordwell,  who  recently  moved  his  hou?e 
upon  the  block.  The  block  is  the  highest  portion  of  Russian 
Hill,  and  the  houses  are  about  ten  feet  below  the  grade,  which 
was  established  some  time  after  most  of  the  buildings  had  been 
erected.  As  the  hill  slopes  on  one  side  of  the  block  to  Vallejo 
street,  and  on  the  .other  side  to  Union  street,  the  house  sewers 
run  to  the  mains  in  those  streets,  the  natural  drainage  thus  being 
used  to  advantage.  Nordwell's  house  is  the  only  one  not 
connected  with  a  main  sewer.  To  connect  his  place, 
he  would  have  to  run  a  short  line  to  Jones  street,  yet 
all  the  property-owners  on  the  block  are  to  be  assessed  for  the 
building  of  an  unnecessary  sewer,  simply  for  one  man's  accom- 
modation. It  is  a  gross  imposition,  and  should  not  be  allowed 
by  the  Supervisors. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


July  16,  1892. 


NAMING    COUNTRY    ROADS. 

MUCH  interest  is  being  taken  throughout  the  country  in  what 
is  known  as  the  Contra  Costa  plan  of  naming  country  roads. 
The  system  is  the  invention  of  Mr.  A.  L.  Bancroft,  of  this  city, 
and  is  one  of  the  simplest  and  best  schemes  ever  devised  for 
locating  houses  in  the  country.  Now  for  the  system  itself.  The 
roads  are  first  named;  not  a  different  one  for  every  town  that  is 
passed,  but  in  as  long  lengths  as  practicable.  Half  a  dozen  dif- 
ferent names  might  be  given  to  the  highway,  for  instance,  but  a 
single  one  is  much  better.  In  selecting  names  for  roads  the  name 
of  either  terminus  is  not  chosen,  because  while  going  towards  a 
town  a  road  bearing  the  name  of  the  town  might  be  appropriate, 
when  going  in  the  opposite  direction  it  would  not  be  so.  The 
possessive  case  is  avoided  in  road  names.  It  is  not  likely  to  be 
carefully  and  correctly  written,  and  does  not  look  well.  The 
names  should  be  selected  from  some  landscape  feature,  some  his- 
torical association,  Indian  names,  historical  characters,  etc.  Only 
those  are  taken  which  are  easy  to  spell  and  to  pronounce,  and 
which  would  be  unobjectionable  to  all.  The  arrangement  of  the 
roads  in  the  list  is  commencing  at  the  north,  they  go  to  the  east, 
south,  west  and  back  again  to  the  north.  By  keeping  this  in 
mind  one  will  know  where  to  look  for  the  name  desired.  The 
roads,  and  the  numbers  upon  them,  commence  at  the  county 
seat,  or  at  the  end  nearest  to  it.  They  are  measured  and  blocked 
off,  ten  imaginary  blocks  to  the  mile.  These  blocks  have 
only  frontage,  not  depth  nor  thickness.  This  makes  the 
length  of  each  block  528  feet,  176  yards,  32  rods,  or  8  chains. 
Two  numbers  are  assigned  to  each  block;  the  odd  ones  upon  the 
left  and  the  even  ones  upon  the  right.  It  makes  no  difference 
whether  the  block  has  an  entrance  upon  it  or  not,  the  number 
is  assigned,  just  the  same,  and  it  is  always  available  should  a 
building  be  erected.  Each  house  has  the  number  of  the  block 
upon  which  the  entrance  is  located.  The  second  and  all  succeed- 
ing houses  have  the  same  number,  but  followed  by  a  distinguish- 
ing letter,  426,  426a,  426b,  etc.  The  numbers  indicate  distances 
from  the  commencement  of  the  road,  which  can  be  very  quickly 
ascertained  by  a  short  mental  calculation,  and  any  school  child 
who  understands  decimal  fractions  will  have  no  difficulty  in  do- 
ing so.  As  there  are  two  numbers  to  each  block,  divide  the 
house  number  by  two,  which  will  give  the  number  of  blocks 
from  the  starting  point.  As  there  are  ten  blocks  to  the  mile,  di- 
vide this  result  by  ten,  or  point  off  one  decimal,  and  the  distance 
in  miles  and  tenths  is  shown.  There  being  two  numbers  to  each 
block,  if  a  house  number  is  odd,  one  should  be  added  to  it  in  or- 
der to  complete  the  block  before  calculating  the  distance.  For 
instance,  house  No.  685  is  the  same  distance  from  the  starting 
point  as  686,  just  opposite,  so  to  calculate  the  distance  of  685, 
add  one.  making  it  686;  divide  by  two,  or  half  it,  making  343; 
divide  again  by  ten,  or  point  off  one  figure,  and  we  have  34.3 — 
that  is  in  common  fractions  34  310  miles  from  the  begin- 
ning of  the  road.  A  little  practice  will  enable  any 
one  to  make  this  calculation  very  quickly  and  easily. 
When  the  fences  are  in  good  condition  and  are  suitable,  a  line 
will  be  placed,  showing  the  division  between  the  blocks,  with  the 
block  number  upon  each  side  of  it.  As  you  face  the  numbers 
from  the  road,  those  upon  the  left  would  read,  for  instance.  127  — 
129,  and  upon  turning  to  the  right  they  would  read,  130—128. 
This  brings  128  opposite  127,  and  130  opposite  129.  At  the  end  of 
each  complete  mile,  where  practicable,  as  a  reminder,  the  same 
as  a  mile  stone,  a  complete  circle  wdl  be  placed.  Make  one  on  a 
piece  of  paper  and  see  how  it  looks.  Inside  of  the  circle  will  be 
a  cross  like  a  letter  X  laid  on  Upside.  Make  the  X  in  the  circle. 
At  the  half-miles  a  half  circle  with  half  of  the  X  will  be  made. 
The  X  will  indicate  the  ten  blocks,  and  when  it  is  divided  and  but 
half  of  it  taken,  it  becomes  a  V,  and  indicates  half  of  the  ten,  or 
five  blocks;  half  a  mile.  Draw  a  line  through  the  complete  circle, 
divide  it  and  the  X,  and  see  how  it  looks  now.  By  having  the 
full  circle  blue  and  the  half-circle  red,  a  glance  will  distinguish 
them.  This  process  of  numbering  county  roads  is  now  being  in- 
troduced in  Contra  Costa.  It  is  an  excellent  idea,  and  will 
doubtless  be  generally  followed  throughout  the  country. 


WE  hail  with  much  gratification  the  announcement  that  Con- 
gress is  about  to  investigate  the  manner  in  which  the  Eighth 
and  Mission  streets  lot  was  recommended  favorably  for  the  Post- 
office  Site.  It  was  certainly  a  most  remarkable  action  on  the 
part  of  the  Goverment  officials.  Notwithstanding  the  protests 
made  against  the  site  by  every  paper  in  the  city;  notwithstand. 
ing  allegations  of  fraud  in  connection  with  the  affair,  and  not- 
withstanding the  adverse  report  of  the  special  agent  of  the  Treas- 
ury sent  here  to  look  into  the  matter,  Mr.  Wanamaker  recom- 
mended the  acceptance  of  the  site.  Something  interesting  should 
develope  in  the  course  of  an  inquiry  of  the  reason  that  a  piece  of 
property  valued  at  about  $700,000  or  $S00,000,  should  be  rated  at 
$1,500,000,  simply  because  the  Government  was  to  be  the  pur- 
chaser. The  ring  interested  in  the  transaction  may  find  matters 
becoming  very  warm  for  them  before  the  investigation  is  con- 
cluded. That  honest  motives  did  not  animate  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  Postoffice  Site  there  is  no  doubt. 


ARMED    BODIES    OF    ALIEN    FORCES. 

RECENT  events  have  directed  the  attention  of  thinking  men  to 
the  fact  that  in  this  country  there  are  numerous  armed  bodies 
of  men,  organized  and  drilled  as  military  companies,  which  as 
such  owe  no  allegiance  to  the  Government,  and  which  parade 
under  alien  flags  The  military  organizations  formed  by  citizens 
of  foreign  birth,  to  keep  alive  the  remembrance  of  the  fatherland; 
the  armies,  such  as  the  Pinkertons,  which  are  at  the  orders  of 
corporations,  and  the  battalions  of  workmen  and  anarchists, 
banded  together  for  whatever  purpose  they  may  see  fit  to  ac- 
complish, are  three  great  dangers  to  the  autonomy  of  the  Govern- 
ment which  should  be  at  once  removed.  The  constitution  gives 
every  citizen  the  right  to  bear  arms,  but  nowhere  is  the  cloak  of 
the  law  cast  upon  those  bodies  of  men  who  form  themselves  into 
independent  military  commands  for  their  own  purposes.  To  sat- 
isfy the  desires  of  all  citizens  who  wish  affiliation  with  a  military 
life,  and  who  at  the  same  time  are  animated  by  a  spirit  of  patriot- 
ism, the  National  Guard  was  organized,  and  is  sustained  by  State 
and  Federal  aid.  The  members  of  the  National  Guard  take  an 
oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Government,  and  swear  to  uphold  its 
laws.  They  are  under  the  command  of  the  Governor  of  the 
State,  and  can  be  called  on  by  him  to  protect  the 
lives  or  property  of  citizens.  But  what  of  the  various 
independent  companies  ?  True,  some  of  them  may  offer 
their  services  when  needed;  many,  doubtless,  would  gladly 
volunteer  to  uphold  the  State,  but  all  cannot  be  depended 
on.  And  therein,  in  time  of  trouble,  would  be  the  danger  of  hav- 
ing in  our  midst  armed  bodies  of  trained  men  who  may  become 
enemies  of  the  republic.  The  opinion  is  rapidly  spreading,  and 
with  increasing  force,  among  men  who  appreciate  the  breadth  of 
the  anarchistic  feeling  among  the  lower  classses  throughout  the 
country,  that  in  no  State  should  there  be  allowed  any  armed 
bodies,  except  the  proper  Federal,  State  or  Municipal  forces,  each 
member  of  whom  has  taken  an  oath  to  support  the  laws.  A 
recent  dispatch  from  Chicago  states  that  the  Secretary  of  State 
of  Illinois  has  granted  permission  to  the  Carpenter's  Union,  an 
association  of  3,500  members,  to  organize  armed  military  com- 
panies. Such  an  army  would  be  an  ever  increasing  source  of 
danger.  The  dispatch  is  hardly  to  be  believed,  for  it  does  not 
seem  probable  that  the  establishment  of  such  an  army 
ihould  be  allowed  in  Chicago,  which,  of  all  cities,  has  suf- 
fered severely  from  labor  troubles.  Liberty  of  action,  speech  and 
ideas  is  all  well  enough,  but  when  that  liberty  as  practiced  be- 
comes dangerous  to  the  government,  it  is  time  that  it  should  be 
curtailed. 


RAISIN    GROWERS'    COMBINE. 


FROM  present  appearances  the  efforts  of  the  raisin  growers 
throughout  the  State  to  form  a  combination  to  protect  them- 
selves against  a  repetition  of  the  experience  of  a  year  ago  bid 
fair  to  be  rewarded  with  success.  This  movement  appropriately 
originated  at  Fresno,  the  center  of  this  industry,  and  those  who 
inaugurated  it  prepared  circulars  which  were  sent  to  every  raisin 
grower  in  California  whose  address  could  be  learned,  explaining 
the  object  of  the  proposed  combination  and  pointing  out  its  ad- 
vantages. Besides  sending  out  the  circulars  inviting  the  co-opera- 
tion of  the  growers,  a  personal  canvas  was  undertaken  in  the 
largest  raisin-producing  localities,  and  here  a  practical  unanimity 
of  sentiment  was  found  to  exist.  Without  exception,  so  far  as 
reported,  the  raisin  growers  have  declared  their  willingness  to 
enter  into  the  agreement  that  is  proposed,  and  which  binds  them 
not  to  sell  tbeir  fruit  to  the  packers  for  less  than  a  certain  fixed 
price,  to  be  hereafter  determined  upon.  While  not  definitely 
settled  still  there  appears  to  be  a  tacit  understanding  that  the 
rates  to  be  demanded  shall  be  not  more  than  5  to  5£ 
cents  a  pound  in  the  sweat-box  for  the  best  grades  and 
proportionately  lower  prices  for  fruit  of  poorer  quality.  Cer- 
tainly no  one  can  reasonably  claim  that  the  demands  of  the  pro- 
ducers are  unreasonable.  At  the  rates  mentioned  no  more  than  a 
decent  living  profit  is  afforded  the  grower  in  return  for  his  labor, 
investment  and  risk.  Between  these  figures  and  those  paid  by 
the  consumer  lies  a  margin  sufficiently  large  to  enable  the  packers 
and  dealers  to  pay  all  expenses  and  still  be  well  rewarded  for 
their  share  of  the  labor  and  risk.  No  fair-minded^man  can  find 
any  reasonable  ground  for  objection  against  such  a  combination 
as  the  one  proposed.  While  it  has  for  its  object,  it  is  true,  the 
advancement  of  prices  in  this  particular  commodity,  yet  it  is  not 
at  all  likely  that  the  consumer  will  suffer  inconsequence.  In  the 
past  California  raisins  have  retailed  in  the  East  for  from  three  to 
six  times  the  price  realized  by  the  producer,  and  the  amount  that 
finds  its  way  into  the  pockets  of  the  intermediaries  may  well  be 
reduced  in  order  that  the  producer  may  realize  at  least  a  fair  re- 
turn for  his  investment  and  risk. 


THE  French  dynamiter,  Ravachol,  has  finally  met  his  fate  and 
has  been  executed.  This  is  of  course  gratifying,  for  the  sake 
of  social  order.  But  the  secrecy  of  the  trial,  as  well  as  of  the  ex- 
ecution, does  not  redound  to  the  credit  of  the  French  authorities, 
since  it  gives  almost  the  impression  as  if  they  were  afraid  to 
do  an  act  of  common  justice. 


July   16.   1892. 


PAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTKB 


PRESIDENTIAL     SPECULATIONS. 


THK  campaign  just  opening  will  in  some  respects  be  the  moat 
surprising  the  country  has  ever  seen.  It  will  undoubtedly 
witness  the  breaking  up  of  old  political  lines,  and  unless  all  signs 
fail,  there  will  be  a  tremendous  shaking  up  about  November.  It 
is  quite  certain  that  the  fight  cannot  be  conducted  upon  old  lines, 
and  the  Republican?  were  the  tir>t  to  note  this  fact,  when  they 
elected  Campbell,  of  Illinois,  chairman  of  their  National  Commit- 
We.  Never  in  the  history  of  the  country  have  party  lines  rested 
so  lightly  on  the  people  as  they  do  now.  The  apathy  of  the  peo- 
ple is  the  surest  indication  of  the  breaking  up  that  is  portending. 
Preceding  all  great  political  revolutions  such  a  state  of  the  public 
mind  has  been  noted.  This  was  especially  true  in  1861.  As  men 
then  arrayed  themselves  against  the  tyranny  of  slavery,  so  now 
they  are  arrayi.ig  themselves  against  the  tyranny  of  an  oppres- 
sive tax.  imposed  under  the  guise  of  protection.  Then  the  South 
and  West  work  wonderfully  well  together.  Both  sections  are  in 
the  development  stage,  and  tneir  needs  are  identical.  The  Vir- 
ginias and  the  Carolinas  are  in  a  quiet  revolt.  Tennessee  and 
Kentucky  are  restless,  and  even  Georgia  is  not  by  any  means 
content.  All  lh*»se  States,  save,  perhaps,  West  Virginia  and  North 
Carolinia.  will,  however,  remain  true  to  the  Democracy.  The 
negro  problem  cements  the  South,  and  will  hold  it  safely  to  its 
ancient  political  moorings.  There  is  no  social  problem  to  bind 
the  West  to  the  Republican  party.  Colorado,  Montana,  Idado  and 
Nevada  are  already  in  revolt,  openly  and  defiantly.  It  is  the 
roost  dangerous  revolt  that  has  yet  occurred  in  the  Republican 
party,  and  there  does  not  appear  to  be  any  way  of  pacifying  the 
malcontents.  It  has  taken  the  shape  of  an  independent  move- 
ment, and  promises  to  wrest  these  four  States  from  the  Republi- 
cans and  turn  them  over  to  the  People's  party.  The  same  move- 
ment is  in  motion  in  Washington,  where  the  farmers  of  thegreat 
Palouse  valley  threaten  to  turn  the  new  State  over  to  the  Peo- 
ple's party,  by  the  aid  of  the  disaffected  Republicans.  There  is 
scarcely  any  doubt  that  the  People's  party  or  the  Democracy  will 
carry  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  Michigan  will  probably  be  kept  in 
line  by  the  money  and  personal  influence  of  General  Alger,  but 
Wisconsin  and  Illinois  are  as  certain  to  cast  their  electoral  votes 
for  Cleveland  as  Alabama  or  Texas.  In  these  two  States  a  pecu- 
liar condition  exists.  First,  there  is  a  discontent  over  the  condi- 
tion of  trade,  and  the  uprising  of  the  Lutherans  against  the  anti- 
parochial  school  laws  has  become  quite  serious.  In  Illinois 
20,000  members  of  this  very  stubborn  religious  body,  all  voters, 
have  withdrawn  from  the  Republican  party  and  publicly  taken  a 
position  hostile  to  that  party.  Tbey  have  been  deceived  by 
promises  so  often  that  they  will  not  be  cajoled  that  way  again. 
In  Wisconsin  the  school  question  is  also  an  important  factor  in 
the  campaign.  The  Dakotas  are  not  by  any  means  safe  to  the 
Republicans,  and  Indiana  is  as  doubtful  as  New  York.  In  all 
these  threatened  changes  the  Democracy  would  seem  to  be  the 
residuary  legatee.  This  is  in  a  degree  as  real  as  it  is  apparent. 
Its  chances  of  carrying  Kansas,  Nebraska,  the  Dakotas,  Wiscon- 
sin and  Illinois  are  excellent.  Never  was  the  Democracy  as  con- 
fident of  carrying  California  as  it  is  now,  and  with  cause. 


INTERFERING    WITH    JUSTICE. 

A  COMMITTEE  of  ladies,  representing  the  association  known  as 
the  Daughters  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  have  busied  themselves 
during  the  week  endeavoring  to  block  the  wheels  of  justice  and 
to  prevent  the  working  of  the  sentence  of  the  outraged  law  upon 
a  convicted  murderer.  These  ladies  are  soliciting  signatures  to  a 
petition  to  Governor  Markham  asking  him  to  commute  the 
sentence  of  McNulty  to  imprisonment  for  life.  Such  pun- 
ishment as  that  to  which  he  has  been  condemned  is  the  only 
expiation  which  the  law  allows,  and  with  it  the  Governor  of  the 
State  will  not  interfere.  He  killed  a  man  over  two  years  ago, 
was  arrested,  tried  for  murder,  was  convicted  and  condemned  to 
death.  He  had  a  fair  and  impartial  trial  before  twelve  honest 
men,  who  carefully  weighed  all  the  evidence  in  the  matter  and 
adjudged  the  defendant  guilty  of  the  awful  crime  of  which  he  was 
accused;  and  the  judgment  of  the  law  and  the  sentence  of  the 
court  was  that  he  shall  be  hanged  by  the  neck  until  he  is  dead. 
Far  be  it  from  us  to  interfere  with  any  movement  in  behalf  of  a 
man  unjustly  convicted  or  condemned  to  excessive  punishment. 
But  no  such  allegations  can  be  upheld  in  this  case.  Why  should 
we  make  laws  in  defense  of  life  and  property,  if  we  do  not  up- 
hold them  ?  A  number  of  citizens  have  signed  the  petition  cir- 
culated by  the  ladies  referred  to,  and  it  is  said  that  several  of  the 
jurors  have  also.  Those  jurors  who  have  signed  the  petition 
surely  cannot  be  good  citizens.  If  tbey  found  McNulty  guilty 
and  condemned  him,  believing  him  innocent,  then  they  should 
go  to  jail,  for  they  were  false  to  their  trust.  If  they  believed  be 
should  be  executed  for  his  crime,  and  so  adjudged  when  the  evi- 
dence was  fresh  in  their  minds  and  the  case  was  clear  before 
them,  and  they  now  ask  for  a  commutation  of  sentence,  they 
evidence  an  unmanly  weakness.  Some  of  the  signatures  to  this 
petition  have  been  given  by  merchants  who  placed  their  names 
on  the  paper  rather  than  argue  the  matter  with  those  who  pre- 
sented it.  All  these  things  should  be  carefully  considered  by 
Governor  Markham,  to  the  end  that  the  law  shall  be  upheld. 


Til  E  official  organ  of  the  German  Empire,  Ihe  Beich$an 
published  a  paragraph  last  week  declaring  that  the  utterances 
attributed  to  Prince  Bismarck  are  not  of  such  practical  value  as 
to  induce  the  government  to  concern  itself  with  them.  This 
statement  seems  rather  absurd,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  for  the 
last  few  days  quite  a  number  of  official  and  semi-official  commu- 
nications have  appeared  in  the  German  press,  indicating  that 
the  government  is  preparing  for  an  active  struggle  with  the  Ger- 
man ex-Chancellor.  It  has  even  been  intimated  that  Count  Ca- 
privi.  at  the  instigation  of  his  royal  master,  has  the  intention  of 
anticipating  eventual  revelations  of  Prince  Bismarck  by  publish- 
ing the  government  version  of  the  causes  which  led  to  the  ex-Chan- 
cellor's dismissal.  Whether  this  is  so  or  not  remains  to  be  seen; 
at  all  events,  it  is  clear  that  Emperor  Widiam  fully  recognizes 
the  practical  importance  of  Prince  Bismarck's  recent  altitude. 

THE  Gladstonian  campaign  orators,  during  the  last  few  days 
have  rivalled  in  reviling  Mr.  Balfour's  late  administration  of 
Ireland,  and  in  declaring  that  during  his  Secretaryship  the  condi- 
tion of  the  country  had  grown  more  deplorable  from  day  to  day. 
Facts,  however,  speak  louder  than  words,  and  nothing  shows 
more  the  absurdity  and  injustice  of  such  statements  than  the  fact 
that  ever  since  Mr.  Balfour  went  to  Ireland,  the  number  of  emi- 
grants had  been  decreasing.  Statistical  tables  show  that  in  1887 
the  number  of  Irish  emigrants  was  82,923;  in  1888,  78,684;  in 
1889,  70,477;  in  1890,  61,313,  and  last  year  emigration  sank  to 
the  figure  of  59,623.  These  numbers  become  even  more  signifi- 
cant when  it  is  stated  that  after  Mr.  Gladstone  came  into  power 
in  1880,  the  emigration  rose  immediately  to  95,517,  and  in  1883 
had  reached  the  figure  of  108,724.  Comments  are  quite  unneces- 
sary. 

ARABI  PACHA  continues  to  bewailhis  fate  in  being  obliged  to 
remain  in  exile  in  Ceylon  under  the  guard  of  the  British  au- 
thorities, and  desires  to  give  the  impression  that  he  is  most  cruelly 
treated  by  England.  He  seems  to  have  entirely  forgotten  that  he 
and  his  comrades  would  have  been  executed  after  the  miscar- 
riage of  the  rebellion  had  not  the  British  Government  interfered, 
and  that  they  owe  their  very  heads  to  British  influence. 


T1 


INDIA    AND    THE    SILVER    QUESTION. 

IHE  cause  of  the  consent  of  England  to  take  part  in  the  Bimet- 
1  allist  Conference,  at  the  invitation  of  President  Harrison,  is 
apparently  somewhat  misunderstood  in  this  country,  for  many 
people  seem  to  imagine  that  the  English  Government  has  really 
changed  its  former  opinions  with  regard  to  the  double  standard. 
The  fact,  however,  is  that  the  hesitating  consent  of  Lord  Salisbury 
is  due  mainly  to  the  pressure  exercised  upon  his  cabinet  by  the 
Indian  officials,  and  that  it  would  have  been  impolitic  at  the 
present  moment  not  to  show  at  least  an  apparent  inclination  to 
consider  their  grievances.  The  period  immediately  preceding  a 
general  election  is  not  the  time  to  give  offense  by  undue  stub- 
bornness to  a  considerable  part  of  the  population  that  sympathizes 
with  the  employees  in  the  Indian  civil  and  military  service,  and 
the  Premier,  by  declaring  that  Great  Britain  will  be  represented 
during  the  international  discussion  of  the  silver  question,  has 
given  the  impression  that  the  Home  Government  will  do  all  in 
its  power  to  give  assistance  to  the  government  of  India.  The 
latter  has  the  support  of  a  majority  of  the  members  of  all  the 
British  chambers  of  commerce,  which  are  at  this  moment  rather 
anxious  and  depressed,  in  its  demand  to  increase  the  use  of  sil- 
ver in  the  currency  of  nations.  The  prolonged  depreciation  of 
the  Indian  rupee  has  proved  to  be  an  enormous  hardship 
to  the  Indian  officials,  since,  in  consequence  of  it,  their  salary  is 
reduced  from  30  to  35  per  cent,  below  the  amount  which  it 
nominally  should  represent.  During  the  last  fifteen  years  the 
rupee  has  fallen  in  value  from  2  shillings  to  Is.  3d.,  which  is 
a  loss  that  must  greatly  embarrass  the  employees  of 
the  Government  who  have  to  incur  large  expenses,  es- 
pecially if  they  want  to  give  their  children  an  education  in  the 
mother  country,  and  maintain  there  those  members  of  their  fami- 
lies for  whom  the  trying  Indian  climate  is  too  dangerous.  In 
England  their  money  has,  as  is  seen  from  the  above,  only  about 
half  of  its  nominal  value,  and  the  government  ought  to  do  some- 
thing to  protect  them  against  such  a  loss.  The  feeling  of  dissatis- 
faction with  this  state  of  affairs  is  naturally  very  great,  and  Lord 
Salisbury  could  not  afford  to  disregard  it  by  refusing  to  at  least 
make  an  effort  of  assisting  the  experiment  of  raising  the  silver 
value,  whatever  his  opinion  about  the  real  result  of  such  an  ex- 
p  rriment  may  be. 

THE  story  of  the  finding  of  Noah's  ark  is  recalled  by  that  told 
by  an  Oakland  man,  who  says  he  has  in  his  possesion  the 
hand  of  Lot's  wife,  which  he  bought  from  an  old  Jew  on  the 
shores  of  the  Dead  Sea  for  $500.  This  story,  however,  should  be 
taken  with  a  grain  of  salt. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


THE    SAN    FRANCISCO    YACHT    CLUB. 


WHEN  yachting  first  commenced  in  the  bay  of  San  Francisco 
in  the  "fifties,"  the  boats  nsed  were  mainly  small  sloops 
and  plunders,  or  cat-boats  which  bad  been  brought  here  from  the 
East  on  ships'  decks.  The  boats  were  usually  of  the  <<  skimming- 
dish  "  type,  so  prevalent  in  New  York  waters  in  those  days,  of 
very  light  draught,  wide  beam  and  with  large  sails.  It  was  soon 
found  that  the  sails  had  to  be  cut  down  to  fit  the  prevailing 
strong  winds,  and  then  in  course  of  time  the  boats  were  improved, 
and  the  new  ones  built  were  deeper  and  more  able  crafts  in  every 
way.  It  was  not  until  about  186S  that  there  was  any  talk  of 
organizing  a  yacht  club  to  which  the  few  real  yachts  could  be- 
long. Most  of  the  boats  which  had  been  in  the  races  were  those 
which  were  commonly  in  trade,  as  small  carriers  or  boatmen's 
craft.  But  about  that  date  there  was  a  movement  inaugurated  to 
start  a  club.  The  club  was  organized,  and  a  club  house  built  on 
Long  Bridge,  Mission  Bay,  and  0.  H.  Piatt  was  elected  Commo- 
dore, with  W.  H.  Davis  as  Secretary.  In  August,  1869,  the  first 
real  yacht  regatta  ever  held  in  this  bay  was  sailed.  In  that  race 
the  winning  yacht,  the  Emerald,  was  sailed  by  her  owner,  John 
L.  Eckley;  the  Peerless,  owned  by  Commodore  R.  L.  Ogden,  was 
sailed  by  Captain  Edwin  Moody;  the  Minnie,  by  Dr.  J.  C.  Tucker; 
the  Lotus,  by  Charles  G.  Yale;  the  Raven,  by  Henry  Howard, 
and  the  Virgin,  by  Mr.  "Williams.  Commodore  Piatt  took  the 
members  out  to  see  the  race  in  his  steam  yacht  Amelia.  Commo- 
dore Odgen  succeeded  Commodore  Piatt  in  office,  and  Henry  G. 
Langley  became  Secretary.  After  that  race,  yachting  was  fairly 
inaugurated  here,  and  club  life  commenced.  The  fleet  was  not 
large,  and  many  supposed,  when  they  joined  the  club,  that  the 
boats  were  "free  for  all."  But  this  was  a  mistake,  and  by-and- 
by  the  yacht-owners  began  to  cease  using  the  club  house,  and  the 
members  stopped  coming,  too.  Then  the  railroad  company 
wanted  the  wharf  where  the  club  bouse  was,  and  finally  the  club 
dropped  out  of  sight  for  a  time.  About  1874,  a  reorganization  of 
the  club  was  perfected,  new  officers  were  elected,  and  the  club 
prospered.  R.  L.  Ogden  was  elected  Commodore,  and  after  him 
Commodore  C.  H.  Harrison,  the  latter  gentleman  holding  the 
office  for  a  number  of  years.  When  the  club  was  reorganized, 
Charles  G.  Yale  was  elected  Secretary,  and  held  the  office  con- 
tinuously for  some  sixteen  years,  Franklin  Bangs,  Henry  Under- 
bill, Solon  Williams  and  Charles  Kellogg  in  turn  served  as  Treas- 
urer. The  reorganized  club  had  no  headquarters,  and  after  a 
time  it  was  decided  to  build.  The  question  of  point  of  location 
brought  about  a  disagreement,  which  resulted  in  the  formation  of 
the  Pacific  Yacht  Club,  and  both  clubs  built  houses  at  the  points 
wbere  they  still  stand.  The  San  Francisco  Yacht  Club  made  a 
mistake  in  its  earlier  history  in  taking  in  too  many  life  members; 
a  mistake,  by  the  way,  which  was  repeated  by  the  Pacifies  with 
equally  disastrous  results.  Both  clubs  had  to  reorganize,  and  stop 
the  life  membership  plan.  The  San  Francisco  Yacht  Club  has 
always  had  a  reputation  among  the  yacht  clubs  of  this  country 
as  one  in  which  the  members  knew  how  to  sail  their  own  boats, 
and  did  sail  them.  It  never  was  merely  an  ornamental  organiza- 
tion, formed  for  the  members  to  frequent  a  club  house,  but  all 
hands  entered  the  regattas,  went  on  the  cruises,  and  did  actual 
sailing.  Tbe  brass  button  and  uniform  feature  never  made  much 
show  with  the  boys  who  gave  the  club  its  reputation.  They 
were  yacht-sailors,  and  all  the  officers  were  yacht  owners  and 
yacht  sailors.  There  are  now  very  few  of  the  original  members 
left  on  the  roll  of  the  present  club,  though  there  are  some  who 
still  retain  their  membership.  Several  of  the  old  members  have 
been  elected  to  honorary  membership  in  consideration  of  earlier 
services  to  the  club.  This  club,  as  the  pioneer  of  the  yachting 
organizations  of  the  bay,  started  the  regattas  and  cruises,  meas- 
ured and  laid  out  the  courses  for  racing,  got  up  the  tables  of  dis- 
tances, the  signal  code,  and  all  that  which  the  more  recent  clubs 
follow.  It  was  in  this  club  that  the  mosquito  regattas  originated, 
in  which  all  sorts  of  small  sailing  craft  entered — fishermen, 
whitehalls,  ships'  boats,  yachts,  etc.  These  were  very  popular 
annual  races  for  many  years,  but  of  late  no  one  seems  to  have 
interested  himself  sufficiently  to  start  them  up.  Most  of  the  old 
members  of  this  club  before  its  reorganization  will  remember  the 
famous  clam-bake  at  Sausalito.  All  the  yachts  were  placed  at 
tbe  members'  disposal,  and  Commodore  Harrison  had  charge  of  a 
steamboat  which  towed  the  fleet  to  Sausalito  to  tbe  clam-bake. 
It  was  a  great  day,  but  when  the  bills  came  in  they  swamped  the 
club.  The  blow  was  one  from  which  the  club  did  not  recover, 
and  it  was  directly  due  to  this  that  it  languished  several  years, 
until  new  blood  came  in.  The  club  house  has  always  been  rather 
expensive  to  maintain,  and  some  years  it  has  been  a  hard  rub  to 
pull  through.  But  within  the  past  two  or  three  years  the  club 
has  again  got  a  new  lease  of  life,  and  is  a  prosperous  organiza- 
tion. 

The  present  home  of  the  club,  at  Sausalito,  is  shown  on  the 
picture  issued  with  this  week's  News  Letter.  The  club-house  is 
easily  accessible,  being  but  a  short  walk  from  the  ferry  landing. 
It  is  in  charge  of  "Charlie"  Dexter,  who  is  as  valuable  au  ad- 
junct to  this  club  as  the  club-house  itself.  The  club  house  is 
comfortably  fitted  up.  There  is  a  large  room  for  small  boats,  a 
large  assembly  room,  off  of  which  is  a  ladies'  retiring  room  and 
the  directors'  room,  a  wine  room  and  buffet,  and  the  galley.    The 


walls  are  adorned  with  pictures  of  yachts  and  vessels  of  historic 
interest.  Steps  lead  from  the  porch  and  from  the  boat-house  to  a 
commodious  float;  if  necessary  yachts  can  come  alongside  the 
wharf.  The  club  entertains  lavishly,  and  all  its  affairs  are  well  at- 
tended. Tbe  fleet  is  very  large,  among  the  vessels  being  the  schoon- 
er Chispa,  belonging  to  Commodore  I,  Gutte;  the  Lurline,  belonging 
to  the  J.  D.  and  A.  B.  Spreckels;  the  Jessie,  belonging  to  ex-Com- 
modore J.  Macdonough;  William  Lacey's  Penelope,  ex-Commodore 
Wm.  N.  McCarthy's  Ramona,  C.Chittenden's  White  Wings,  E.  W. 
Newhall's  Virginia,  C.  S.  and  A.  H.  Wieland  and  Captain  Harry 
White's  Aggie.  The  yawls  are  Frolic,  belonging  to  ex-Commodore 
C.  H.  Harrison;  the  Emeralda,  belonging  to  W.  Letts  Oliver,  and 
W.  H.  Shelley's  Seven  Bells.  The  sloops  are  L.  B.  Thomas  and  E. 
A.  Engleberg's  Sappho,  Hancock  Banning's  La  Paloma,  J.  W. 
Pew's  Truant,  C.  H  Morrell's  Helpless,  Dr.  Taos'  H.  Hill's  Grade, 
E.  A.  Von  Schmidt's  Cyclone,  Davidson  Bros.'  Folly,  the  Pilgrim 
and  the  Minnie.  The  launches  are  E.  C.  Bartlett's  Gypsy,  B.  W. 
Stickuey's  Nemo,  John  Lee's  Bob,  the  Edivinna  and  several  others. 

Commodore  I.  Gutte's  Chispa  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  fastest 
yachts  on  the  bay.  She  flies  the  championship  pennant  and  has 
never  been  beaten.  Commodore  Gutte  entertains  lavishly,  and 
his  boat  has  carried  many  a  gay  crowd  of  friends.  The  Chispa 
is  comfortably  fitted  up  and  has  two  commodious  staterooms,  a 
large  cabin,  galley  and  berths  for  the  crew.  Commodore  Gutte  is 
one  of  the  old-time  yachtsmen,  and  it  is  because  of  such  enthu- 
siasts as  he  that  yachting  has  maintained  local  prestige  and  that 
the  club  is  so  popular.  He  has  been  Commodore  of  the  club  for 
several  years,  and  is  popular  among  all  the  members. 

The  Ramona  is  one  of  the  new  yachts,  being  only  a  little  over  a 
year  old.  Her  owner,  ex-Commodore  Wm.  N.  McCarthy,  takes 
great  interest  in  yachting,  and  much  pride  in  his  boat.  He  has 
sailed  a3  far  south  as  San  Diego,  and  his  boat  is  in  constant  use 
for  himself  and  friends.  The  Ramona  is  68.6  feet  long,  15  feet 
beam,  and  8£  feet  draught.  She  has  a  large  cabin,  four  state- 
rooms, a  galley  and  forward  bunks  for  the  crew.  The  state- 
rooms are  comfortable,  and  fitted  with  every  convenience,  and 
the  panels  of  the  cabin  and  galley-wall  are  decorated  with  fine 
miniature  oil  paintings  by  French  masters,  which  Mr.  McCarthy 
secured  in  Europe.  He  is  a  generous  host,  and  a  sail  on  the  Ra- 
mona is  an  event  not  to  be  forgotten.  Mr.  McCarthy  is  a  zealous 
member  of  the  club,  and  has  done  much  to  stimulate  the  interest 
being  taken  in  yachting. 

The  Sappho,  owned  by  E.  A.  Engelberg  and  L.  B.  Thomas,  is 
one  of  the  prettiest  boats  in  the  fleet,  and  has  the  record  for  mak- 
ing the  fastest  trip  from  San  Francisco  to  San  Diego,  the  time  be- 
ing three  days,  five  hours.  She  is  kept  busy  all  the  year  round, 
and  her  owners  being  both  popular  young  men,  have  many 
friends  who  enjoy  the  pleasure  of  a  yacht  cruise.  The  Sappho  is 
elegantly  appointed.  Her  dimensions  are:  Length,  46  feet;  water 
line,  40.6  feet;  beam,  15  feet;  draught,  5  feet.  She  has  two  state- 
rooms, a  large  cabin,  galley,  etc.,  and  her  interior  is  finished  with 
a  pretty  design  in  lincrusta  walton. 

Dr.  T.  H.  Hill,  the  owner  of  the  twenty-seven-foot  sloop  yacht 
Grade,  is  an  enthusiastic  believer  in  small  yachts  and  sailing 
them,  thinking,  with  a  great  many  others,  that  more  pleasure 
can  be  had  in  carefully  managing  a  small  boat  and  doing  the  en- 
tire work  about  such  a  craft,  than  to  simply  sit  at  the  wheel  and 
follow  the  directions  of  a  sailing-master.  Dr.  Hill's  experience 
on  the  bay  has  been  only  during  the  past  three  years,  his  first 
boat  being  the  twenty-five-foot  sloop  Never  Sink.  At  the  begin- 
ning of  this  season  he  bought  and  put  into  commission  the  Grade, 
and  is  quite  prepared  to  sail  her  against  any  boat  of  her  size  in 
the  club.  The  last  cruise  of  the  Grade  was  up  the  Sacramento 
river,  starting  on  June  11th,  and  returning  on  the  19th,  going  as 
far  as  Walnut  Grove. 

The  Jessie,  owned  by  ex-Commodore  J.  Macdonough,  and  the 
Aggie,  owned  by  Charles  S.  and  Albert  G.  Wieland  and  Captain 
Harry  White,  have  been  described  before  in  these  columns.  They 
are  both  magnificent  boats,  and  their  owners  are  well  known  for 
their  hospitality  and  generosity.  It  may  be  said  here  that  there 
is  a  question  as  to  which  is  the  faster  boat,  which  no  doubt  will  be 
settled  by  a  match-race. 

Isadore  Gutte  is  the  Commodore  of  the  club,  and  has  been  at 
different  times  for  many  years  past.  He  has  guided  the  affairs  of 
the  club  with  marked  success  and  is  as  popular  with  outsiders 
as  he  is  with  the  members.  R.  A.  Eddy  is  Vice  Commodore. 
George  W.  Reed  is  Secretary.  Mr.  Reed  is  a  well-known  amateur 
photographer,  and  several  of  the  pictures  on  the  souvenir  are 
from  his  negatives.  He  makes  an  efficient  and  courteous  officer. 
Charles  H.  Morrell  is  the  Financial  Secretary.  He  is  a  very  pop- 
ular official,  and  owns  the  yacht  Helpless.  Charles  L.  Barrett  is 
Treasurer,  and  has  shown  himself  to  be  a  competent  officer.  He 
takes  great  interest  in  the  club's  affairs.  Matthew  Turner,  the 
well-known  shipbuilder,  is  the  Measurer  of  the  club,  and  baa 
been  for  several  years,  which  fact  proves  his  popularity.  The 
Directors,  J.  Macdonough,  William  McCarthy,  Ben  W.  Stickney 
Mora  M.  Barrett  and  E.  C.  Bartlett,  are  all  popular  with  the  club 
members,  and  labor  earnestly  for  the  club's  interests. 


"Brown's  Bronchial  Troclies"  are  widely  known  as  an  admirable 
remedy  for  Bronchitis,  Hoarseness,  Coughs,  and  Throat  Troubles.  Sold 
only  in  boxes. 


July  16.  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    BRITISH    ELECTIONS. 

ALTHOUG  I{  the  final  lesulu  of  the  general  elections  in  Eng- 
land ij  not  yet  known,  the  polling  so  far  baa  shown  that  the 
statement  §o  often  repeated  in  the  News  Lrttkr,  namely,  that 
Mr.  Gladstone  has  lost  all  his  hold  upon  those  of  his  compatriots 
who  desire  the  welfare  of  their  country,  is  absolutely  correct. 
There  is  not  the  slightest  cbance  any  longer  that  be  will  obtain  a 
majority  in  tbe  House  of  Commons  without  the  assistance  of  the 
Irish  members,  and  there  is  a  strong  probability  that  even  with 
the  vntes  of  the  Irish  representatives  be  will  be  in  the  minority. 
Now.  let  us  suppose  that  Mr.  Gladstone's  supporters  among  the 
English  and  8cotch  members  are  able  to  defeat  tbe  govern- 
ment if  Parnellites  and  anti-Parnellites  together  vote  on  their 
side,  can  Mr.  Gladstone  then  honorably  take  upon  himself  the 
task  of  introducing  a  home-rule  bill?  Certainly  not.  If  he  has 
the  slightest  self-respect  he  must  abstain  from  doing  so.  He  once 
called  himself  "  an  old  parliamentary  hand,"  thus  indicating  that 
he  knows  all  the  tricks  of  "  politicians,"  and  unfortunately  he 
has  proved  on  more  than  one  occasion  that  he  is  not  above  them, 
yet  be  cannot  introduce  a  home-rule  bill  without  a  majority  in- 
dependent of  tbe  Irish  members,  provided  he  does  not  want  to 
"swallow  his  own  words"  in  the  fullest  sense  of  the  terra. 

It  is  not  easy  for  any  one  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  to  form  a 
correct  opinion  of  Mr.  Gladstone  if  he  relies  for  his  information 
upon  the  telegrams  sent  here  by  the  correspondents  of  our  daily 
contemporaries,  for  the  greater  number  of  them  are  colored  to 
suit  the  Irish  readers  and  adapted  to  the  general  taste.  Those 
however,  who  have  been  present  in  England  during  the  last  few 
years  will  have  carried  away  a  very  different  opinion  of  the 
"grand  old  man"  than  that  which  they  are  accustomed  to  see  in 
our  daily  press.  The  grandeur  is  all  gone  in  reality  and  little 
remains  of  the  old  idol.  Mr.  Gladstone  has  stooped  to  do  so  many 
things  of  late,  in  order  to  regain  his  power,  that  it  would  not  be 
astonishing  to  see  him  hungry  for  office  even  with  an  English- 
Scottish  minority,  but  it  would  be  a  pity  if  he  really  should  fall 
so  deeply.  What  such  an  effort  would  mean  may  be  judged  from 
the  following  words  which  we  quote  from  a  speech  delivered  by 
him  in  November,  1885;  »  If  tbe  Liberal  party  was  in  a  position 
where  it  was  only  a  minority,  dependent  on  the  Irish  vote  for 
converting  it  into  a  majority,  I  tell  you  sincerely  and  solemnly 
that  although  I  believe  the  liberal  party  itself  to  be  honorable, 
patriotic,  sound  and  trustworthy,  yet  in  such  a  position  as  that 
it  would  not  be  trustworthy.  In  such  a  position  as  that  it  would 
not  be  safe  for  it  to  enter  upon  the  consideration  of  the  principle 
of  a  measure  with  respect  to  which,  at  every  step  of  its  progress, 
It  would  be  in  the  power  of  a  party  coming  from  Ireland  to  say, 
*  Unless  you  do  this  or  that  we  will  turn  you  out  to-morrow.'  " 
We  ask  once  more,  can  Mr.  Gladstone  now,  provided  that  the 
contingency  of  which  he  then  spoke  arrives — and  that  is  the  only 
thing  which  the  Liberals  can  hope  for  even  in  the  best  case — 
venture  to  introduce  a  home-rule  bill?  We  say  emphatically,  No. 
The  Liberal  party,  to  use  Mr.  Gladstone's  own  words,  cannot  be 
trusted  in  such  a  case,  nor  could  the  safety  of  the  United  King- 
dom be  entrusted  to  him.  For  England's  welfare  may  it  be  hoped 
that  his  defeat  at  this  election  will  be  strong  enough  not  to  lead 
him  into  temptation. 


IT  is  said  that  there  are  so  many  Smiths  in  Chicago  that  the  di- 
rectory men  are  all  going  crazy  in  their  efforts  to  get  their  pro- 
nomina  and  cognomina — or  words  to  that  effect.  It  is  in  order  to 
suggest  to  the  innumerable  Smith  family  that  a  little  change  of 
spelling  would  facilitate  matters.  What  is  the  matter  with  Smif, 
Smitfe,  Smitthe,  Smiv  or  Smivthe?  Ringing  a  few  changes  on  the 
unfortunate  name  would  relieve  it  of  its  monotony,  and  even  the 
Bmytbes  might  take  temporary  refuge  under  the  shade  of  the 
euphonious  orthoefical  title  of  Smeyphffe. 

UNLIKE  the  Romans  of  a  later  age,  the  Egyptians  did  not  con- 
fine the  privilege  of  shaving  to  free  citizens,  but  obliged  their 
slaves  to  shave  both  face  and  head.  The  data  are  not  exactly  as  au- 
thentic as  one  would  like  to  have  them,  but  it  is  believed  that 
the  custom  of  shaving  the  beard  was  introduced  in  Home  in  tbe 
year  300  b.c.  According  to  Pliny,  Scipio  Africanus  was  the  first 
Roman  who  shaved  daily. 

^PRICES 

Baking 
Powder 

Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the  Standard. 


HIGHLAND 


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*    TABLE 


LUXURY. 
A    CULINARY    ARTICLE, 

AN    INFANTS    FOOD. 
HIGHLAND  EVAPORATED  CREAM 
Is    unsweetened   and   free  from   all   preservatives.      Retains 
its  delicious  and  wholesome  qualities  for  an  indefinite  time  in 
all  climates  and  at  all  seasons. 

Sold  by  Grocers  and   Druggists  Everywhere. 
Write    for    our     Infant    Food    circular    and     Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  booklet  entitled  "A  Few  Dainty  Dishes." 

HELVETIA  MILK    CONDENSING   CO., 
Sole  Purveyors,  Hiqhland,  III 


SCHIEDAM  AROMATIC  SCHNAPPS, 


AN    OLD    MEDICINE    REVIVED. 

In  days  of  yore,  as  we  have  all  learned  from  the  old  folks,  no  medicine 
was  so  useful  to  have  in  the  house,  or  so  good  in  many  diseases,  as  Pure 
Holland  Gin.  For  a  longtime,  however,  the  genuine  article  could  not  be 
had,  until  it  had  appeared  under  the  new  name  of  Aromatic  Schiedam 
Schnapps.  The  article  is  manufactured  exclusively  by  Udolpho  Wolfe,  at 
Schiedam,  in  Holland,  aud  put  up  in  small  and  large  bottles  expressly  for 
medicinal  purposes,  with  his  name  on  the  seal,  bottle,  and  label,  to  protect 
it  against  counterfeits.  What  a  great  blessing  it  is  for  persons  residing  in 
the  interior  of  our  Southern  and  Western  States,  that  they  can  now  pur- 
chase a  pure  and  unadulterated  article  of  sin  with  confidence,  without 
the  least  liability  of  deception  or  dissatisfaction.  That  it  will  tend  to  di- 
minish the  consumption  of  the  common  deleterious  and  spurious  liquors 
which  now  almost  exclusively  pervade  this  country,  admits  of  no  doubt. 
We  consider  the  medical  profession  and  the  traveling  community  are  un- 
der obligations  to  Mr.  Wolfe. 

To  insure,  however,  obtaining  the  genuine  article,  ask  for  Wolfe's  Schie- 
dam Aromatic  Schnapps  and  look  for  the  legitimate  trade-mark— W.  A.  S. 
For  sale  by  all  Druggists,  Grocers  and  Liquor  Dealers. 

ZISKA    INSTITUTE, 

I6O6  Van  Ness  Avenue. 

French,  German  and  English  Day  and  Boarding  School  for  young 
ladies  and  children. 
A  refined  home  with  the  best  educational  advantages. 

Next  Term  Opens  August  1,  1892. 

MME.  B.  ZISKA,  M.  A.,  Principal. 
Mr.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (18th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessone  at  Mb  office,  his  residence,  or  at  the 
residence  of  the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 

MRS.  R.    G.  LEWIS, 

FORMERLY    OF    THURLOW    BLOCK, 
HAS  REMOVED  TO 

531    SUTTER    STREET. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1S92. 


CONCENTRATION.— Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox  in  June  Lippvncotts. 


The  age  ia  too  diffusive.     Time  and  force 

Are  frittered  out  and  bring  no  satisfaction. 

The  way  seems  lost  to  straight  determined  action. 

Like  shooting  stars  that  zigzag  from  their  bowers, 

We  wander  from  our  orbit's  pathway;  spoil 
The  role  we're  fitted  for  to  fail  in  twenty; 
Bring  empty  measures  that  were  shaped  for  plenty 

At  last  as  guerdon  for  a  life  of  toil. 

There's  lack  of  greatness  in  this  generation, 

Because  no  more  man  centres  on  one  thought: 
We  know  this  truth  and  yet  we  heed  it  not — 

The  secret  of  success  is  concentration.. 


THEY    EXTENDED    THEIR    SYMPATHY. 

ALL  three  had  evidently  been  hanging  dull  care  with  perhaps 
a  little  more  earnestness  of  purpose  than  the  precept  de- 
manded. Rounding  the  hill  coming  up  from  Harbor  View,  they 
stopped  to  lean  against  the  stone  wall  encompassing  a  magnificent 
mansion,  to  rest. 

"  Feller  't  owns  'at  house  dunno  his  luck,"  observed  the  short  man 
looking  in  maudlin  admiration  upon  the  structure. 

"  Well,  now,  I  d'no,"  philosophically  observed  the  slender  one, 
digging  his  hands  into  his  pockets  and  squaring  off  to  look  well  at 
the  mansion.  "  We  d'no.  He  may  be  worried  for  fear  of  a  strike  of 
his  hands,  or  because  his  bonds  is  goin'  down." 

"  Zat'a  right,"  convincingly  put  in  the  fat  one  with  the  double 
chin.    "An1  he  may  have  son  in  penitentiary,  fer  all  we  know." 

The  short  man  himself  jumped  into  the  swim.  "  Er  a  daughter 
gone  to  the  devil,"  he  said. 

"  Er  a  wife  run  away  with  a  postal  clerk  with  blon' moustache," 
added  the  thin  one. 

"  Er  rbeumatiz  er  somethin1,"  put  in  the  fat  man.  "Say,  boys," 
(sympathetically),  "  I  pity  'at  feller." 

"Sod' I." 

"An'  me." 

"Tell  you  wbatle's  do;  le's  go'n  symp'thize  with  'im.  It'll  do  'im 
good.    He'll  'preshate  it." 

Consolation  beamed  from  three  faces  as  they  rolled  up  the  stoop 
and  pulled  the  bell.  When  the  Chinaman  started  to  slam  the  door 
in  their  faces,  the  fat  man  gave  him  a  merry  slap  that  sent  him  eight 
yards  back,  and  they  all  filed  in  solemnly  and  waited.  When  the 
head  of  the  house  came  thundering  down  they  looked  solemnly  upon 
him  and  each  extended  a  hand. 

"Cheer  up,  ole  man,"  soothingly  observed  the  fat  man;  "we're 
with  you." 

"  Too  bad,"  said  the  thin  one,  reaching  for  his  pocket  handker- 
chief.   "  But  don't  you  give  in." 

,l  Never  say  die." 

"  What  are  you  men  talking  about,  and  what  do  you  want?  "  an- 
grilj'  inquired  the  man  whose  Chinaman  had  been  assaulted. 

"  We  want  symp'thize  with  you  'cause  yer  wife's  run  away." 

"An'  yer  son's  been  hung." 

"An1  yer  bank's  goin'  to  bust." 

"An'  yer  daughter's  'bout  to  commit  suicide." 

"An ." 

"Get  out  of  here,  you  infernal  tramps.  How  dare  you  invade  my 
house  and  insult  me  in  your  drunken  fit?  " 

"  What!     Don't  want  our  sympathy?  " 

"Get  out,  I  tell  you!" 

"All  ri'.  All  ri'.  Delicate  subject,  but  sorry,  all  same.  Don't 
blame  us  if  nobody  else  takes  interest  'nuff  to  come  an'  see  you,'1 
and  they  moved  down  the  steps,  the  fat  man  observing  with  some 
show  of  spirit: 

"  I  hate  a  man  'at  can't  accept  sympathy  in  right  spirit." 


PROSPEROUS    PROFESSIONAL    CHRISTIANS. 

THERE  is  undoubtedly  lots  of  money  in  being  an  evangelist,  as 
witness  the  luxury  enjoyed  by  Moody,  General  Booth,  Sam 
Jones  and  others  of  the  ilk.  The  subject  is  rather  an  interesting 
one  just  now,  in  view  of  the  little  troubles  that  have  cropped  out 
in  the  charches  regarding  the  raising  of  money  for  B.  Fay  Mills, 
who  is  now  crusading  in  clover  in  Oakland.  A  good  sample  of 
the  way  things  go  is  illustrated  in  the  visit  of  Mills  across  the 
bay,  for  just  before  he  came  up  from  Los  Angeles  he  wrote  to  the 
Athenian  clergy  and  told  them  that  as  living  was  so  high  in  Cal- 
ifornia he  would  bave  to  raise  his  fees  for  personal  expenses  from 
$800  to  $1,200.  They  squirmed  a  little  at  this,  but  they  were  in 
it  too  far  to  pull  out,  so  they  raised  the  extra  $400. 

Francis  Murphy,  the  temperance  orator,  furnishes  another  case 
in  point.  He  is  always  for  the  poor  man  in  his  addresses,  but  he 
is  mighty  good  at  driving  a  bargain,  and  he  wears  fine  dia- 
monds, the  best  of  clothes,  and  lives  like  a  king.  He  has  been  rest- 
ing at  the  Del  Monte  after  his  labors  in  Oakland,  and,  in  full  even- 
ing dress,  he  has  been  a  familiar  figure  on  the  promenades  during 
the  evenings.  Of  course  he  does  not  drink,  but  he  is  very  well 
disposed  towards  choice  two-bit  cigars. 


PAUL    SCHAFER'S    HORSE. 

PAUL  SCHAFER,  Secretary  of  the  Oakland  Board  of  Health. 
wears  garments  of  sackcloth  and  ashes  beneath  the  Bruru- 
mellian  costume  with  which  he  cuts  such  a  dash  on  bis  way  to 
and  from  the  City  Hall.  And  if  any  one  wants  to  see  him  trans- 
form from  a  Dr.  Jekyll  into  Mr.  Hyde,  just  asked  Paul  what  he 
thinks  about  keeping  a  horse  in  Oakland — whether  it's  a  good 
speculation  or  not.  Of  course,  there  Is  a  story  to  all  this,  and 
here  it  is:  After  his  discovering  a  place  where  all  drinks,  even 
whisky,  are  retailed  at  five  cents  a  glass,  Paul  began  to  save 
money,  and  as  the  shekels  accumulated  in  his  pockets  to  such  an 
extent  that  they  proved  more  ballast  than  he  could  carry  around, 
he  decided  to  make  an  investment.  The  ambition  of  his  life, 
from  the  days  when  be  was  a  small  boy  in  pantalets  and  frills, 
bad  been  to  own  a  horse,  so  he  made  up  his  mind  that  now  was 
the  appointed  time,  and  started  looking  around  accordingly  for  a 
suitable  equine.  Sanitary  Inspector  Douglass  came  to  the  rescue 
on  the  second  day,  and  generously  offered  to  turn  over  to  Paul  a 
nag  on  the  installment  plan — $4  down  and  $1  a  week  until  the  full 
price  of  $38  was  paid.  The  generous  offer  was  accepted  by  the 
Secretary,  and  within  a  few  hours  the  steed  was  installed  in  Paul's 
back-yard  with  the  chickens  and  goat.  The  horse  was  not  much 
to  look  at,  and  he  showed  a  constant  longing  to  lie  down,  which 
Douglass,  however,  explained  by  saying  that  the  animal  had 
done  a  big  day's  work,  and  was  tired.  Paul  was  satisfied ;  he 
paid  Douglass  the  $4  deposit,  gave  the  horse  some  mush  for 
supper,  and  retired.  The  next  morning  he  aroused  himself  with 
an  alarm  clock  at  5  o'clock,  and  rushed  down  to  tend  to  his  new 
purchase.  The  horse  was  still  lying  down  and  refused  to  rise. 
Paul  kicked,  prayed  and  cursed,  all  to  no  avail,  however,  and 
at  last  he  sent  for  a  couple  of  jackscrews  and  tried  to  raise  the 
animal  that  way.  But,  alas!  just  as  he  had  got  everything  in 
full  working  order,  the  nag  suddenly  gave  a  gasp  and  died,  leav- 
ing Paul  hollow-eyed,  broken-hearted  and  indignant.  He  had 
blood  in  his  eye  for  Douglass  when  he  went  down  town,  but  as 
he  threw  open  the  office  door  with  an  anathema  on  his  lips,  it 
died  away,  for  a  roar  of  laughter  greeted  him.  Douglass,  it  appears, 
had  sold  him  a  horse  that  bad  been  condemned  by  the  veterinary 
officer,  and  the  nag  was  to  have  been  taken  to  the  pound  and 
shot,  only  Douglass  conceived  the  idea  of  turning  it  over  to  Paul 
for  a  consideration.  The  $4  deposit  was  spent  on  drinks  for  the 
crowd,  and  Paul  says  the  dollar  a  week  installment  is  off. 


THE  Queen  of  the  Sandwich  Islands  has  just  presented  a  large 
cocoanut  tree  to  San  Francisco,  and  according  to  the  papers 
it  took  eleven  men  three  hours  in  getting  it  off  a  wagon.  How 
many  men  were  required  to  get  the  vegetable  on  the  wagon,  or 
bow  much  room  it  took  up  on  the  steamer,  are  as  yet  unrecorded 
facts.  Whilst  transplanting  Kanaka  trees  is  the  fad  of  the  hour 
it  would  be  a  good  idea  to  acclimatize  the  taro  plant  so  that  the 
uncivilized  American  might  in  the  near  future  enjoy  the  luxury  of 
eating  with  his  fingers  pale  blue  "Poi"  specially  masticated  by 
Mongolians. 

The   Red   Sea   is   for  the  most  part  blue.     It  gets  its  name 

from  the  fact  that  portions  of  it  are  covered  by  minute  animalcule, 
which  dye  the  surface  of  the  water  red  where  they  float. 


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July  16,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


OOLUMBTJS    DAY.    OCTOBER    12.    1892. 
[B  T    I)  i    V II  ■  ox.] 

WORLD'S  Fair  projects  611  the  air.  .Some  of  ihom  are  fanciful. 
chimerical,  and  will  fail  of  realization.  But  if  one  class 
should  claim  precedence  over  anothrr.  it  is  that  one  which  ha* 
weight  as  an  educational  factor.  The  youth  of  the  land  are  the 
hope  of  the  country,  and  as  they  are  impressed  by  the  patriotism 
of  the  occasion  and  developed  along  the  lines  of  American  citi- 
aensbip.  so  must  the  value  of  that  Columbian  Exposition  be 
judged.  Those  who  have  authority  in  the  matter  have  been 
quick  to  recognize  this  fact,  and  are  making  strenuous  efforts  to 
have  all  the  children  of  the  United  States  take  an  intelligent  in- 
terest in  the  great  subject,  which  we  may  say,  without  being 
charged  with  Yankee  bluster  or  American  brag,  is  challenging  the 
attention  of  the  whole  world.  In  January,  1891,  the  Youth*' 
Companion  proposed  that  October  12,  1802,  the  four  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  America,  should  be  observed 
everywhere  in  America,  and  claimed  that  the  public  schools  of 
the  republic  would  form  most  fitting  centers  for  ail  local  celebra- 
tions. The  day  will  be  marked  in  Chicago  by  the  dedication  of 
the  Columbian  Exposition  grounds.  A  national  public  school 
observance  simultaneous  with  the  Chicago  exercises  will  awaken 
a  popular  interest  in  the  coming  exposition.  The  public  school 
is  the  one  characteristic  institution  which  links  al!  the  neighbor- 
hood together,  and  can  thus  furnish  a  common  bond  for  a  national 
celebration.  No  better  proof  of  the  general  intelligence  of  the 
American  youth  could  be  desired  than  is  afforded  by  tbe  fact  that 
the  proposition  of  the  plan  by  the  Youth's  Companion  was  hailed 
with  delight  by  the  children  of  the  land,  and  thousands  of  letters 
were  received  by  tbe  editor,  written  by  enthusiastic  children, 
eager  to  participate  in  the  general  celebration. 

The  pn as  of  the  day  is  the  uncrowned  king  of  the  age.  Its 
word  is  law.  The  suggestion  made  by  a  newspaper  was  received 
with  favor  by  tbe  World's  Congress  Auxiliary  of  the  Columbian 
Exposition,  which  at  once  took  up  tbe  proposal  calling  upon  all 
the  people  of  the  republic  to  observe  the  day  in  their  own  locali- 
ties, and  indorsing  the  idea  that  the  public  schools  should  every- 
where be  the  centers  of  the  celebration.  Then  the  superintendents 
of  education  were  the  next  to  recognize  the  fitness  of  giving  to 
the  public  schools  the  first  place  in  this  Columbian  anniversary. 
At  their  national  convention  in  Brooklyn,  in  February,  1892, 
they  took  charge  of  tbe  movement  and  appointed  an  executive 
committee  to  lead  the  schools  in  their  commemoration.  This 
executive  committee  will  furnish  a  programme  of  exercises — sim- 
ple, adapted  to  any  school — yet  so  arranged  that  more  elaborate 
exercises  may  be  added  wherever  desired.  It  is  the  aim  of  the 
committee  to  secure  a  certain  uniformity  in  the  leading  features  of 
these  exercises  throughout  the  schools  of  the  republic. 

It  is  designed  to  have  a  strong  committee  in  each  city,  town 
and  hamlet  in  the  United  States.  The  committee  should  embrace 
citizens,  scholars  and  teachers.  It  has  been  suggested  that  pro- 
cessions should  be  arranged ,  the  principal  feature  in  which  should 
be  the  children,  escorted  by  the  war  veterans  and  by  the  other 
military,  civic  and  religious  organizations  of  the  town  holding  such 
a  celebration.  Right  here  a  word  of  protest  must  be  uttered.  It 
is  radically  wrong  to  send  our  public  school  children  to  parade 
the  streets  alone,  unattended  by  their  teachers ;  and  that,  for  in- 
stance, the  eight  hundred  teachers  of  our  San  Francisco  Public 
Schools,  women,  with  but  few  exceptions,  should  be  asked  to 
walk  the  basalt  blocks  and  the  crooked  cobble  stones  of  this  city, 
each  at  the  bead  of  a  class,  is  simply  preposterous.  Let  the  exer- 
cises be  of  such  a  nature  as  can  be  carried  out  within  the  walls  of 
the  school-houses.  The  morning  might  be  devoted  to  the  literary 
exercises',  the  afternoon  to  a  grand  historical  display. 

Why  not  make  a  naval  pageant  one  of  the  features  of  the 
coming  Columbus  Day?  Our  bay  would  be  a  magnificent  scene 
of  action;  it  is  surrounded  by  hills,  that  would  be  the  seats  of  a 
vast  amphitheatre.  Surely  some  such  historical  scene  might  be 
arranged.  The  old-time  vessels  might  be  reproduced ;  there  could 
be  one  scene  representing  Columbus  setting  sail  from  the  harbor 
of  Palos;  another  his  landing  on  the  shores  of  a  new  world.  We 
have  a  large  contingent  of  Italian  fisherfolk,  who  with  their  boats, 
conld  lend  the  proper  color  to  the  scene.  Our  bay  is  a  beautiful 
Bight  when  it  dons  its  holiday  attire.  We  have  a  magnificent 
fleet  of  yachts,  and  such  an  undertaking,  in  the  proper  hands, 
would  be  a  magnificent  success. 

In  the  evening  there  could  be  a  grand  display  of  fireworks 
from  Telegraph  Hill  and  from  the  Twin  Peaks,  provided  the  fog 
could  be  prevailed  upon  not  to  wrap  its  mantel  round  the  city. 
In  fact,  it  would  be  necessary  to  have  several  local  centers  for  the 
display  of  fireworks,  so  that  all  the  school  children  might  have  a 
fair  chance  to  see  the  pyrotechnics.  The  art  of  making  fireworks 
has  attained  such  perfection  that  any  historical  scene  could  be 
produced,  and  with  excellent  effect.  A  few  other  suggestions  as 
to  the  proper  observance  of  the  day,  or  as  to  the  best  way  of  im- 
pressing the  children  with  the  importance  of  the  coming  celebra- 
tion, might  be  acceptable  at  this  time. 

All  teachers  know  that  it  is  only  by  constant  iteration  and  re- 
iteration that  a  fact  is  finally  impressed  upon  the  minds  of 
children,  and  that  the  more  senses  that  are  aroused  to  take  cog- 


nisance of  a  fact.  lb»  mora  Tlvld  and  lasting  will  be  thetlrnprw 
sum.  Tell  a  child  that  two  and  two  make  four,  and  ho  may  re- 
peat It  poll-parrot  fashion  after  you.  until  he  knows  it  as  far  as 
»ordl  JO.  Show  bin,  tw„  objects,  placed  beside  two  more,  then 
ho  can  sec.  as  well  as  hear,  that  two  and  two  are  four.  Now  It 
will  he  mlaalni  a  gre.il  opportunity  if  the  coming  celebration 
should  not  take  the  opportunity  to  appeal  to  the  eye  as  wall  an 
to  the  car.  For  instance,  every  nickel  in-tlie-slot  machine  that 
has  pictures  to  show  should  be  fitted  up  with  pictorial  represen- 
tations of  scenes  connected  with  the  life  of  Columbus.  Enter- 
prising showmen  should  al  once  procure  panoramas  setting  forth 
the  same  period.  Theatres  should  produce  dramas  bearing  on  the 
same  line.  It  is  with  a  feeling  of  great  satisfaction  and  local 
pride  that  we  8an  Franciscans  can  point  to  the  work  of  Daniel 
O'Connell  and  Henry  Stewart  in  their  opera  of  Columbus.  That 
production  is  most  necessary,  and  if  the  gentlemen  are  enterpris- 
ing they  ought  to  secure  proposals  from  managers,  eager  to  secure 
a  timely  and  appropriate  attraction  for  the  World's  Fair  year. 
The  theatres,  orchestras  and  public  bands  ought  to  play  patriotic 
airs,  and  even  the  advertisements  of  the  day  might  lend  them- 
selves to  the  patriotic  fervor  of  the  moment. 

Several  times  little  picture  books  have  been  distributed  by  lead- 
ing firms  in  this  city,  and  prizes  given  to  the  children  whose  col- 
oring of  the  pictures  in  the  book  have  been  adjudged  the  most 
artistic.  Why  not  get  out  some  such  book  now,  with  pictures 
chosen  to  illustrate  the  life  and  labors  of  Columbus,  and  distribute 
them  broadcast  among  the  school  children  of  the  land,  offering 
prizes  for  the  best  work  from  each  school,  each  class  in  every 
city?  It  could  be  done,  and  would  be  a  money-making  scheme 
of  vast  magnitude,  if  the  man  who  managed  it  for  the  United 
States  sold  the  advertising  rights  to  two  or  three  prominent  firms 
in  each  city.  Under  each  picture  should  be  a  brief  and  easily  un- 
derstood account  of  what  the  picture  represents.  The  educational 
value  of  such  a  project  is  not  to  be  despised. 

Another  thing,  children  are  always  delighted  with  medals  of 
any  sort.  They  treasure  up  foreign  coins,  metal  buttons,  and 
even  "  China  moneys."  Now,  take  those  metal  discs  used  as  ride 
tickets  at  Golden  Gate  Park.  They  are  treasured  by  the  children, 
and  are  more  or  less  valuable  as  souvenirs  of  the  city,  because 
they  bear  an  image  of  the  children's  play-ground.  Could  not 
some  way  be  devised  by  which  a  Columbus  Day  medal  might  be 
given  to  every  child  in  the  United  8tates  ?  The  cost  of  such  a 
medal  ought  not  to  be  so  great  as  to  preclude  the  possibility  of 
obtaining  it.  Could  not  the  local  Boards  of  Education,  or  tbe 
Boards  of  Supervisors,  appropriate  some  money  with  this  object 
in  view  ?  If  not,  the  advertiser  must  be  appealed  to  again,  and 
certainly,  for  the  sake  of  getting  his  firm  name  into  such  general 
circulation,  he  would  be  willing  to  spend  a  little  money  on  a 
scheme  that  would  bring  in  such  good  returns.  One  side  of  the 
medal  should  contain  a  bust  of  Columbus,  with  appropriate 
wording;  the  reverse  might  have  some  such  device  as  "Presented 
to  the  boys  and  girls  of  America,"  by— the  firm.  There's  an  idea 
without  a  string  to  it. 


"  Absolutely  the  Best." 

It  is  made  of  pure  cream 
of  tartar  and  soda,  no  am- 
monia, no  alum.  A  like 
quantity  goes  farther  and 
does  better  work.  It  is 
therefore  cheaper. 

Cleveland's  is  the  baking 
powder  used  in  the  U.  S. 
Army  and  by  teachers  of 
cookery.  It  never  varies, 
and  always  gives  perfect 
satisfaction.     Try  a  can. 

F.  H.  AMES  .*  €U„  Agents. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


'We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure 


Tom  Moore. 


THE  magnificent  promise  of  success  in  the  brilliant  and  fash- 
ionable house  which  graced  the  opening  of  Stockwell's  new 
and  beautiful  play-house  was  reiterated  in  the  second  production 
of  the  Daly  Company.  Ada  Rehan's  Rosalind  will  remain,  how- 
ever a  picture,  all  brilliant  lights  and  fascinating  effects,  as  long 
as  the  new  theatre  stands.  It  seemed  to  show  us  the  real  Rosa- 
lind, not  her  counterfeit  presentment,  tender,  playful,  spirited,  as 
full  of  deep  feeling  as  of  airy  and  delicate  humor,  changeful  yet 
constant,  a  combination  of  delightful  paradoxes,  and  withal  a 
beautiful  woman — in  brief,  just  what  Ada  Reban  would  have 
been  had  she  been  Rosalind  and  dwelt  in  the  forest  of  Arden. 
Mr.  Stockwell  may  well  feel  proud  of  the  opening  of  his  theatre, 
as  signalized  by  a  production  which  will  live  in  local  dramatic 
history  while  the  last  theatre-goer  of  to-day  survives. 

*  *  * 

The  house  which  greeted  the  second  production  of  the  Daly 
company  at  Stock  well's  Theatre,  Monday  night,  proved  conclu- 
sively, either  that  the  dictum,  «  Everybody  is  out  of  town"  mnst 
be  accepted  in  a  strongly  restricted  sense,  or  that  the  aforesaid 
Everybody  had  come  into  town  for  this  occasion.  It  is  notice- 
able that  Mr.  Daly's  company  always  plays  with  rather  than  to 
the  audience,  the  enthusiasm  of  the  house  keeping  pace  with  the 
efforts  of  the  players,  and  making  the  relation  of  those  before  and 
behind  the  footlights  rather  that  of  a  social  gathering  toward  its 
entertainers  than  of  performer  and  judge.  Monday  night  was  no 
exception.  The  audience  enthused  at  the  right  moment,  and  the 
right  moment  came  often.  There  is,  too,  an  element  of  strong  re- 
gret underlying  all  the  enjoyment,  which  gives  an  added  interest 
to  this  engagement,  and  makes  the  theatre-goer  feel  that  he  must 
lose  nothing  of  it,  in  the  remembrance  that  its  close  will  see  the 
breaking  up  of  a  famous  and  familiar  pair  of  lovers — Ada  Rehan 
and  John  Drew.  Every  word  and  situation  when  these  two  are 
on  the  stage  is  followed  closely,  and  the  feeling  grows  that  some- 
thing in  the  way  of  friendly  intervention  should  ward  off  the 
coming  separation. 

*  *  * 

The  Last  Word,  an  adaptation  from  the  German  of  Franz  von 
Schoenthan,  is  comedy  with  a  serious  plot  and  motive,  and  gives 
Miss  Rehan  an  opportunity  to  show  her  power  of  delineating 
deep  feeling,  as  well  as  the  airy  humor  so  essentially  her  own. 
The  scene  in  which  she  recites  with  simple  but  impressive  pathos 
the  story  of  her  little  brother's  death,  to  soften  the  obdurate  heart 
of  the  father  toward  his  son,  called  out  as  demonstrative  applause 
as  was  accorded  to  the  best  of  her  delightful  comedy.  Her  most 
effective  scene  with  John  Drew  is  the  one  in  which,  in  reply  to 
his  warning,  "  You  do  not  know  my  father,"  she  turns  upon  him 
in  a  fine  outburst  of  temper  with  "  He  does  not  koow  MeV  The 
dialogue,  or  rather  monologue,  which  follows  is  so  spirited 
and  exciting  that  the  audience  was  so  completely  carried  away  as 
almost  to  drown  the  conclusion  in  applause.  John  Drew  has  his 
effectiue  work,  too,  in  the  scene  in  which  the  Baroness  (by  the 
way  an  altogether  new  type  of  the  female  Russian  abroad)  con- 
verts him  into  a  partisan  of  his  sister's  love  match,  though  he  does 
some  work  quite  as  enjoyable,  in  its  way,  in  the  first  scene  with 
the  fair  Russian,  in  which  he  explains  to  her,  poor  fool,  how  well 
and  thoroughly  he  knows  women — "from  my  books."  James 
Lewis  has  a  delightful  part  in  Alexander  Airey,  an  over-suscepti- 
ble young  gentleman,  and  with  Winifred  (Kitty  Cheatham)  makes 
a  pair  of  lovers  as  entertaining,as  the  principals.  The  third  young 
couple  is  the  one  on  whose  affairs  of  the  heart  the  plot  centres, 
but  decidedly  the  least  prominent  in  the  acting,  although  Miss 
Isabel  Irving  and  Sidney  Herbert  play  their  respective  parts  in- 
terestingly and  well.  The  two  older  men,  Secretary  Rutherell 
and  his  brother,  the  Professor,  are  admirably  played  respectively 
by  George  Clarke  and  Chas.  Wheatleigh.  Mrs.  Anna  Corvell 
makes  of  the  little  she  has  to  do  as  M'lle  Lida,  a  genuine  charac- 
ter study. 

»  »  # 

Next  week  the  company  will  give  The  School  for  Scandal,  Mon- 
day, Tuesday  and  Wednesday  evenings,  and  at  Wednesday's 
matinee,  and  for  the  remainder  of  the  week  The  Foresters,  Tenny- 
son's play,  based  on  the  familiar  story  of  Robin  Hood  and  Maid 
Marian,  with  the  music,  under  Harry  Widmer's  direction,  by  Sir 
Arthur  Sullivan. 

»  »  • 

"Gloriana,"  which  finishes  to-night  a  week's  engagement 
at  the  Baldwin,  is  what  the  professional  critic  would  call  a 
"qualified  success."  The  farce  is  funny  enough  in  spots,  but 
there  is  a  vast  amount  of  groundwork  which  is  decidedly  flat  in 
tint,  if  not  absolutely  colorless.  The  same  may  be  said  of  the 
people.  E.  J.  Henley's  Count  Evitoff  stands  out  in  alto  relievo, 
and,  as  a  dramatic  creation,  would  alone  give  Qloriana  an  »  ex- 
cuse for  living."  Equally  noteworthy  in  its  way  is  Frederick 
Bond's  amusingpersonation  of  Spinks,  the  valet,  his  speech  and 
manner,  while  masquerading  as  his  master,  being  the  very  es- 
sence of  laughable  travesty  and  the  highest  of  high  comedy  below 


stairs.  Henrietta  Crossman,  the  dashing  widow,  Gloriana,  with 
an  unusually  attractive  personality  and  a  fascinating  grace  of 
movement  which  render  her  very  presence  on  the  stage  a  pleas- 
ure to  the  beholder,  and  with  an  evident  intelligent  sense  of 
humor,  yet  somehow,  in  her  best  situations,  just  misses  meeting 
the  expectation.  Joseph  Allen  is  entirely  conventional,  but 
good,  as  the  retired  tanner,  and  May  Robson  does  some  original 
and  funny  juggling  with  her  borrowed  gown  and  hat,  which 
causes  plenty  of  laughter.  All  these  good  points,  however,  are 
offset  by  so  much  of  the  comparatively  flat  and  uninteresting  as 
to  bring  the  average  hardly  up  to  the  Frohman  standard,  cer- 
tainly not  up  to  its  heralding. 

#  #  » 

More  interesting  to  the  local  contingent  at  the  Baldwin  Mon- 
day night,  than  even  the  piece  de  resistance,  was  The  Major's  Ap- 
pointment, a  one-act  curtain-raiser,  inasmuch  as  it  introduces 
Edwin  Stevens,  the  former  popular  comedian  of  the  Tivoli,  in  a 
serious  character.  The  Major's  Appointment  is  so  melancholy 
throughout,  and  its  pathos  so  painful,  especially  as  the  gloom  is 
unrelieved  at  last,  as  to  call  for  a  dramatic  law  that  every  one-act 
play  shall  have  a  good  ending.  There  isn't  time  for  the  mind  to 
work  itself  up  to  the  proper  high-strung  emotional  realization  of 
the  artistic  unities,  that  will  reconcile  the  auditor  to  a  tragic  end- 
ing of  the  drama.  The  story  of  this  little  play  is  that  of  a  cash- 
iered officer  of  the  army,  who  has  grown  old  and  feeble  in  a  vain, 
but  ever  renewed,  effort  to  be  reinstated.  The  old  man's  long  and 
brave  struggle  and  his  final  disappointment  are  so  finely  de- 
picted by  Mr.  Stevens  (who,  a  born  comedian,  seems  in  this  as- 
sumption to  justify  his  life-long  aspirations  toward  this  line  of 
characters)  that  it  would  be  a  pity  to  change  a  line  or  a  situation. 
Yet  in  the  interest  of  a  tender-hearted  and  harrowed  public,  I 
would  like  to  persuade  Mr.  Stevens  to  defy  the  authors  and  give 
his  little  play  a  good  ending.  There  would  be  no  need  to  sacrifice 
even  the  heart-rending  finale,  which  gives  such  scope  to  Mr. 
8tevens'  acting  powers.  The  heartless  joke  of  some  smart  sub- 
altern in  sending  the  pretended  appointment,  the  old  soldier's 
pathetic  elation,  and  the  still  more  pathetic  care  of  the  old 
martinet  in  giving  his  shabby  apparel  the  regulation  soldierly 
trimness  before  reporting  at  headquarters,  the  terrible  reaction 
when  the  cruel  hoax  is  made  clear  to  him,  his  brave  struggle  to 
carry  off  the  disappointment  as  a  trifle,  all  these,  even  to  the 
death,  could  be  retained  for  the  actor's  benefit.  But  this  is  the 
way  it  should  end.  Just  as  the  sympathetic  clerk  says,  solemnly, 
referring  to  the  old  soldier's  promotion  to  the  heavenly  ranks. 
"  The  appointment  has  come  at  last,"  enter,  breathless,  a  mes- 
senger— he  holds  out  a  paper — granddaughter  clutches  it,  glances 
at  contents,  and  throws  herself  at  the  veteran's  feet — "  House 
yourself,  dear,  dear  Grandpa  I  The  real  appointment— See,  see!  * 
A  quiver  passes  over  the  seemingly  lifeless  frame,  the  eyes  open 
and  there  you  have  it.  The  painful  tension  in  the  audience  re- 
laxes comfortably,  and  the  curtain  falls  amid  a  contented  murmur 
of  ••  What  an  exquisite  bit,  and  how  delightfully  acted!  "in 
place  of  "  No  one  has  any  business  to  harrow  up  our  feelings 
with  such  a  play  as  that!  "  Yet  the  hero  would  lose  not  a  single 
opportunity,  and  would  actually  gain  an  effective  one.  I  hope 
Mr.  Stevens  will  try  it. 

*  #  * 

The  Witch,  in  which  Marie  Hubert  Frohman,  under  the  manage- 
ment of  her  husband,  Gustave  Frohman,  will  appear  at  the  Bush- 
street  Theatre  next  Monday  night,  is  a  play  written  for  Marie 
Hubert  Frohman  by  Philip  Hamilton  and  Marie  Madison.  Its 
subject  is  somewhat  outside  the  beaten  path.  It  deals  with  the 
famous  superstition  known  in  history  as  the  "  Salem  Witchcraft," 
and  incidentally  presents  a  faithful  and  interesting  portrayal  of 
Puritan  austerity  and  prejudice,  as  well  as  its  manners  and  dress. 
The  story  may  be  summed  up  briefly.  A  young  man  on  his  way 
to  visit  an  Indian  encampment,  falls  in  with  a  lovely  young  white 
girl,  who  has  been  reared  in  primitive  innocence  and  simplicity, 
by  the  Catholic  missionaries,  loves  and  marries  her.  Leaving  her 
behind,  he  returns  to  Salem,  but  on  the  way  is  waylaid  by  an 
Indian,  a  self-constituted  guardian  of  the  girl,  whom  he  believes 
has  been  wronged,  and  is  left  for  dead.  Recovering,  the  young 
man  makes  his  way  to  Salem,  but  with  mind  so  disordered  that 
when  his  bride  follows  and  finds  him,  he  declares  that  he  never 
saw  her.  Under  the  pleasant  and  sensible  Puritanic  custom 
which  has  made  the  old  historic  town  famous,  she  is  accused, 
and,  after  much  dramatic  persecution,  sentenced  to  be  hanged  as  a 
witch.  They  used  to  burn  the  witches,  I  believe;  but  the  dramatist 
has  doubtless  studied  up  on  this  point  as  well  as  that  of  sending 
his  hero  to  "the  Mohawks"  instead  of  to  the  Wampanoags, 
Narragansetts,  or  some  other  tribe  of  historic  New  England  locale. 
The  young  husband  now  recovers  his  senses,  acknowledges  his 
wife,  and,  with  the  aid  of  the  good  missionary,  secures  a  pardon, 
with  which  he  arrives  at  the  foot  of  the  gallows  just  late  enough 
to  make  the  audience  begin  to  feel  anxious,  but  not  too  late  to 
save  the  girl.  Monday  evening  every  lady  at  the  Bush  will  re- 
ceive a  "Salem"  spoon,  of  sterling  silver,  as  a  souvenir,  of  the 
450th  production  of  the  play.  So  liberal  a  catering  to  the  present 
souvenir-spoon  mania  will  no  doubt  crowd  the  Bush  in  the  in- 
terest of  Packenham's  combination — »  Beauty  and  Booty." 
*  *  • 

The  music   of  Clover,  the  new  Tivoli  production,  is  bright  and 


July  16,  1892. 


SAN   FKANCISi'0  NKWS  I.KTTER. 


9 


•parkling— in  fact,  Von  Suppe.  The  production  la  c»r«(olly  pin 
on  a*  lo  auging  and  ooa  taming,  ami  with  Ibe  usual  exoallant 
riea  in  chorus  and  orchestra  The  plot  appears  somewhat 
ambiguous,  and  ia  not  rendered  less  so  by  Ihe  singers  who  seem 
lo  hare  conspired  to  keep  Ihe  audience  from  bearing  a  single 
word.  As  the  new  opera  has  made  an  unquestioned  bit,  and  will 
probably  be  continued.  It  may  not  be  amiss  to  suggest  to  tbegood 
Tivoll  people  tba\  while  the  music  ol  an  opera  Is  the  main  thing, 
yet  some  of  the  interest  depends  upon  following  the  story.  With- 
out the  "  argument'*  considerately  furnished  on  the  programme 
[a  custom,  by  the  way,  greatly  to  be  commended)  I  doubt  that  a 
score  of  the  auditors  could  have  understood  that  of  Clover  Mon- 
day night.  Tbe  cast  is  in  all  respects  suitable.  Tiliie  Salinger's 
fine  singing  and  acting  of  8tella  confirmed  the  audience  in  the 
opinion  tbat  her  place  on  the  Tivoli  stage  would  be  hard  to  fill. 
Uracie  t'laisted,  as  the  waiting  maid,  Fanny. Is  piquanteas  usual. 
Ferris  Hartman  is  good  as  Casimlr,  Rudolph's  half-witted  re- 
tainer, and  George  Olmis  Rudolph  is  fair.  M.  Cornell  bas  little 
to  do,  but  does  the  little  in  his  reliable  way,  and  the  rest  of  tbe 
cast  is  satisfactory,  except  in  the  one  particular  of  inaudibility. 

*  •  • 

Next  Monday  night  The  Lost  Paradise,  with  Cbas.  Frohman's 
stock  company,  will  appear  at  the  Baldwin.  This  is  the  third 
annual  tour  of  the  company,  which  includes  \V.  H.  Crompton, 
Wm.  Morris.  Orrin  Johnson,  Cyril  Scott,  Annie  and  Maud  Adams, 
Odette  Tyler,  and  others  too  well  and  favorably  known  here  to 
need  any  introduction.  The  play,  which  is  by  Henry  C.  de  Mille, 
though  founded  on  a  German  play  by  Ludwig  Fulda,  is  dis- 
tinctively American.  It  deals  with  the  great  labor  question,  the 
workingman's  garb  taking  for  the  most  part  the  place  of  the  con- 
ventional dress  coat. 

»  #  • 

With  The  Lost  Paradise,  Monday  evening,  July  18th,  begins  the 
tenth  year  of  tbe  Baldwin  under  its  present  management.  The 
uniform  prosperity  and  popularity  of  the  Baldwin  during  tbat 
period  must  be  attributed  to  the  rare  combination  of  business 
ability  and  good  judgment  with  tact  and  courtesy  on  the  part  of 
Manager  Bouvier  and  his  assistants.  L.  A.  Morgenstern,  treas- 
urer and  assistant  manager,  has  won  the  favorable  vote  of  Ihe 
community  by  the  unfailing  good  humors.nd  polite  interest  shown 
to  ticket-buyers  under  what  every  man  who  has  ever  stood  in  a 
box-office  knows  to  be  frequently  trying  circumstances.  Man- 
ager Bouvier  has  just  returned  from  Paso  de  Robles  quite  re- 
cuperated in  health,  after  a  long  and  serious  attack  of  inflamma- 
tory rheumatism.  During  bis  absence  his  office  has  been  in  the 
sole  charge  of  his  private  secretary,  Emanuel  Greenberg,  a  young 
man  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  this  city,  and  whose  strict 
attention  to  business  and  indefatigable  industry  do  them  credit, 
while  assuring  him  a  prosperous  business  career. 

*  *  * 

The  associated  Press  dispatcher  is  earning  his  title  by  "  dis- 
patching" people  right  and  left,  without  reference  to  race,  color, 
or  previous  condition  of  servitude.  After  killing  off  W.  W.  As- 
tor,  he  turned  upon  poor  Lottie  Collins,  of  "  Ta-ra-ra,  Boom  de- 
ay"  fame,  and  finished  her  by  telegraph — electrocuted  her,  so  to 
speak.  Both^have  survived  their  untimely  taking-off.  I  am  glad 
Lottie  still  lives.  Astor  can  afford  to  be  glad  for  himself,  and  be- 
side, he  will  not  "  entertain"  San  Francisco  in  any  sense,  while 
Lottie  will,  Cbas.  Frohman  having  added  the  popular  concert 
singer  of  London  and  Paris  to  his  collection. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Al.  Hayman  has  made  arrangements  with  tbe  Tuxedo  com- 
pany, which  was  to  follow  Reed  and  Collier  at  the  California,  to 
come  later,  thus  enabling  him  to  transfer  Qloriana  to  the  Califor- 
nia theatre  where  it  will  appear  next  Monday  evening.  It  will 
be  preceded  by  The  Major's  Appointment,  as  at  the  Baldwin. 
Thatcher's  Minstrels  and  Tuxedo  will  come  to  the  California  Au- 
gust 1st. 

*  *  # 

Extensive  improvements  to  the  Opera  House  at  Ukiah  are  just 

completed May  Robson,  the  Kitty  in  Qloriana,  made  a  hit  as 

the  spinster   in    the  original    The    Private  Secretary. Beatrice 

Vehon,  of  Chicago,  iB  the  latest  American  singer  to  capture 
Europe,  having  made  a  signal  triumph  at  the  Royal  Court  Thea- 
tre at  Stockholm. Henry  E.  Abbey  has  engaged  Henry  Irving 

and  Ellen  Terry,  for  a  thirty-weeks'  American  tour,  beginning  in 

San  Francisco  in  September,  1893. Hugo  Toland,  who,  beside 

his  natural  claim  as  a  Native  Son,  gained  the  favor  of  San  Fran- 
cisco by  his  clever  portrayal  of  the  title  role  in  Mr.  Barnes  of  New 
York,  bas  a  capital  part  in  The  Junior  Paitner,  which  will  soon  be 

seen  at  the  California,  under  Mr.  Chas.  Frohman's  direction. 

Emily  Bancker,  who  was  last  seen  here  in  Mr.  Wilkinson's  Widows, 

is  in  The  Junior  Partner  company. H.  0.  Husted,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 

Kendall's  American  manager,  has  been  ergaged  by  Mr.  Frohman 

to  manage  John  Drew's  tour. Oliver  Jurgensen,  manager  for 

Gustave  Frohman,  has  been  in  town  all  the  week,  preparing  for 
the   appearance   of  Marie   Hubert  Frohman,  at   the  Bush,  next 

Monday   night. Dunlop's   Stage  News  says,    authoritatively: 

"  Edwin  Booth  will  not  appear  next  season,  as  reported,  nor  any 

other  season." Harry  Lee  must  be  a  sensible  man.     He  will 

quit  starring,  and  join  a  good  company  as  leading  man.  Atten- 
tion, stars  I John  W.  Jennings,  an  old  San  Franciscan,  has  a 


new  melodrama,  which  ha  will  try  next   season Tin    Mnr.u, 

Mayer  who  failed  to  pay   Ooqnalln'l  salary  and    made   a  « 
wreck,  in  London,  la  ,,,,1  Ban  Kranclsro's   Marcus,  who  la  in  N,.,v 

YorK,    enjoying   a   high    tide  of  prosperity. Maud  Jeffreys,  » 

fair  American,  born  south  of  Maaon   and  Dixon's  line,  la  Wllaon 
Barrett  a   leading   lady,    and  has  captured  London  and  the  prOT- 

itices. During  JerTrcys-I.cwia'  season,   at  Stockwell'a,  aho  will 

play    an    English  version  of  Theodora Frank    Mnrdannt    will 

play  next  soa-.m  with  .las.  O'Nell. 

Argonaut  Old  Bourbon  i-  not  excelled  in  the  market.  It  is  the 
Besl  whisky  known  to  the  trade,  and  is  far  superior  to  anv  others.  It 
is  procurable  at, ill  first-clasa  bars,  for  it  is  indulged  in  bv  connois- 
seurs who  will  have  only  the  best.  Argonaut  is  a  great  favorite  with 
all  whisky  drinkers. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  I  Alfred  Bouvier.       ..       Manager 

■  UTS""rf,\tneCoLede;.kr1u0m1pyn:Matlnee  8rtnnta^-«»  ««»«"»  "ft   made 
GLORIANA. 
Presented  at  8:16  by  the  THE  MAJOR'S  APPOINTMENT. 

i^n^ST^L  ?,^rl.e^?r.?hml;aus  ftock  Company  of  New  York  present- 
mg  Henry^C.  de  Mille's  distinguished  success,  "The  Lost  Paradise!"  Seats 


now  on  sale. 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co ...Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Gr^atSCoCmaeVrT?iPugmmhn''  Monday  eyeninS.  July  18,  Charles  Frohman's 

GLORIANA. 
As  presented  formerly  160  nights  in  New  York  and  direct  from  its  immense 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

M.  B.  Leavitt Proprietor.  |  Chas.  P.  Hall Manager. 

Engagement  extraordinary,  beninnlng  Monday,  July  18th,  Matinee  Wed- 
nesday and  Saturday,  MAKIE  II!  lis  It  I  FuOHHAN,  and  her  New 
York  Company  in 

"THE     WITCH." 

A  mirror  of  ye  old  colonial  times;  a  great  picture  cut  clear  from  life- 
grand  souvenir  event,  Monday,  July  18th;  450th  performance:  tbe  ladies 
on  the  low  er  floor  will  be  presented  with  Sterling  Silver"Wltch"Souvenir 
Spoous. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night,  all  our  great  company,  including  Tillle  Salinger,  Ferris  Bart- 
man,  Graeie  Plaisted,  George  Olmi,  Julie  Kiugsley,  Ed.  N.  Knight  Grace 
Vernou,  Phil  Branson,  Emma  Vorce  and  M.  Cornell,  are  all  in 

CLOVER  I 

By  Suppe.    Supentine  dauce  at  10:30  o'clock. 
Popular  Prices  25c.  and  50c. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor, 

Alp  Ellinghodse  Business  Manager. 

Al'UUSTIN  DAI/iT'S  COMPANY  OF  COMEDIANS,  this  evening 
last  performance  Augustin  Daly's  successful  comedy, 

THE     LAST    WORD  I 

Commencing  July  18— Monday,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday  evenings  and 
Wednesday  Matinee  SCHOOL  FOR  StAMlAl;  Thursday,  Friday  and 
Saturday,  and  Saturday  Matinee,  Lord  Tennyson's  Poetic  Comedy  THE 
FORESTERS,  with  all  the  original  music  by  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan.'  Seats 
now  on  sale.  Farewell  week  a  great  programme  engagement,  positively 
terminates  July  30. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

_A."bsol-u.tel;y      Fire-proof. 

Central  to  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  .every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  KINZLER,  Manager. 

FINE   DIAMONDS." 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


KMtDC    Bush  &  Gerts  Pianos 
HHDb  Parlor  Organs 

HAINES  Installments  _     Rentals 

A.  I.  Bancroft  &  Co. 
303  Sutter  St.,  S.F. 


PIANOS 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


A    JUNE-TIME    PARABLE.— Philip    Burke  Marston  in  The 
Independent. 


With  twining  roses,  red  and  white,  I  made, 
When  June  was  hot,  a  pleasant  bower  for  shade. 

A  gracious  place  it  seemed,  by  night  or  day, 

Where  one  might  wake  or  sleep,  give  thanks  or  pray. 

Upon  it  fell  the  dew  and  rose  the  moon, 

There  nightengales  made  glad  the  nights  of  June. 

But  as  one  eve  I  listened  to  their  song, 
It  seemed  to  me  my  very  heart  was  stung 

With  sharp,  swift  pain;  whereon  I  searched,  and  lo! 
Lithe  snakes,  with  murderous  eyes,  wound  to  and  fro. 

Thereon  I  left  my  bower,  nor  may  it  be 
That  it  again  in  June  shall  shelter  me. 

But  when  its  leaves  have  withered,  one  by  one, 
When  nightengales  have  fled,  and  pales  the  Bun. 

When  in  deep  snows  snakes  may  not  breed  or  house, 
I  will  go  back;  and,  'neath  the  bare  rose  boughs, 

Bream  of  the  summer  and  the  leaves  that  made. 
When  June  was  hot,  my  pleasant  place  of  shade. 


HIS    LITTLE    GAME. 


to   the 


(l  '"THIS  is  a  sporting  town,"  he  said,  as  he   moved    up 
1    cashier's  desk  in  the  restaurant. 

it  Very  much  so,"  replied  the  man  behind. 

"  Stuck  on  feats  of  endurance — walking  matches,  and   so  on?" 

"Oh,  yes." 

"General  feeling  in  favor  of  record  making  in  any  particular 
line,  I  believe?  " 

"  Yes;  what  will  you " 

"  Interested  yourself?  " 

"Oh,  to  some  extent." 

"  Well,  I'm  glad  of  that.  What  I  want  to  say  is  this:  You've 
heard  of  the  man  wheeling  the  barrow  across  the  country?  Well, 
I'm  going  to  beat  him.  I  am  going  to  start  from  San  Francisco 
to  go  to  New  York,  and  I  shall  prove  that  hospitality  is  not  dead. 
I  propose  to  show  that  a  man  who  is  known  to  be  square  and 
who  doesn't  fake  at  all  gets  encouragement  ?  " 

"Yes?" 

"  I'm  going  to  make  that  trip  and  write  it  up.  Every  man 
who  eneourages  me  shall  be  rewarded  with  a  favorable  mention 
and  shall  go  down  in  history  with  me.  Now,  then,  I  give  you 
the  chance  to  head  the  list.  I  start  from  here  and  your  house  is 
the  first  I  mention.  The  dinner  I  get  from  you  will  be  celebrated 
in  the  archives  as  an  exact  opposite  to  the  Barmeside  feast.  Do 
you  understand?" 

«•  You  want  me  to  give  you  grub  for  nothing?  " 

"  Well,  I'd  hardly  put  it  that  way.     It " 

"  You  gol  " 

"  You  refuse,  then,  to  buy  fame  with  a  paltry  25-cent   meal  ">  " 

"You  bet  I  do!  " 

"  I'll  compromise  for  a  dish  of  pork  and  beans." 

"  No.  If  you  intend  to  get  to  New  York  this  century  you  bet- 
ter start  right  away." 

"  Nor  even  two  doughnuts  ?  " 

"Get  out,  I  tell  you." 

"  Very  well,"  (haughtily).  "  You  will  regret  this  when  history 
proclaims  the  man  across  the  street  in  the  position  I  offer  you. 
I  go.  Fortune  truly  knocks  at  our  doors  and  we  turn  her  awav 
I " 

But  the  cashier  was  around  the  counter  after  him  now,  and  he 
shot  through  the  door  to  start  on  his  journey  to  New  York  by 
way  of  Washington  street. 


THE  Cologne  Gazette  tells  an  extraordinary  story  of  revenge.  At 
Amay,  in  the  district  of  Huy,  in  Belgium,  it  says,  a  young 
man  was  about  to  be  married  to  a  young  lady,  when  he  en- 
gaged in  a  flirtation  with  another.  This  was  objected  to  by  the 
young  man's  betrothed.  One  day  a  trip  to  the  forest  was  ar- 
ranged by  the  offended  lady,  with  three  female  companions.  The 
promised  bride  invited  her  rival  to  accompany  them,  which  in- 
vitation was  innocently  enough  accepted.  The  forest  was  in- 
vaded by  the  little  party,  and,  at  a  given  signal,  the  four  city 
beauties  fell  upon  the  unsuspecting  girl.  They  beat  her  black 
and  blue,  and  dealt  her  a  dangerous  wound  upon  the  head.  Then, 
with  a  cord  around  her,  they  drew  her  up  to  the  bough  of  a  tree. 
A  letter-carrier  passing  at  the  time  interfered;  but  be  was  set 
upon,  scratched  and  bitten,  and  driven  away.  A  second  cham- 
pion soon  came  up,  and,  with  the  assistance  of  the  postman,  pot 
the  women  to  flight.  The  new-comer  discovered  in  the  lady  his 
sister.  The  girl  still  lives;  but  the  doctors  consider  her  life  to  be 
in  danger. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rented, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office' 
407-109  Montgomery  street. 


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July  1G    1892. 


PRANCIS1  0  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


TO   LOVE. 

To  love  means  not  surrender. 

Lore  means  more — to  endure! 
Yet  for  eacb  look  and  lender 

Thought  that  your  soul  shall  send  her. 
You  may  rest  safe  and  sure 

In  virgin  faith  so  pure — 
Where  heart-throbs  pain  engender 

Love  will  remain  secure, 
If  love  cannot  surrender 

It  can  do  more— endure! 

R.  M.  David. 


THE    ILLUSIONS    OF    GENIUS. 


THE  illusions  of  genius  are  extremely  fantastic.  To  every  stu- 
dent the  fact  that  Goethe  imagined  he  saw  himself  stalking 
about  the  streets  in  converse  with  strange  people  is  familiar. 
Other  great  men  have  at  various  times  and  in  various  countries 
been  the  victims  of  mighty  illusions.  Napoleon  the  Great  was  a 
profound  illusionist ;  indeed,  it  is  one  of  the  weaknesses  of  true 
genius  to  be  possessed  of  pleasing  illusions.  For  instance,  we  of 
San  Francisco  are  truly  people  of  a  volcanic  and  unsubduable 
genius;  therefore  it  does  not  surprise  us  when  we  learn  that 
among  our  young  men  of  prominence,  social,  political  and  com- 
mercial, there  are  nursed  illusions.  How  can  it  be  otherwise? 
Now  what  can  please  us  more  than  to  know  that  Richard 
M.  Tobin  has  an  idea  that  he  is  a  Pagannini.  Who  has  not  looked 
on  him  with  rapture  when  he  has  been  engaged  in  manufactur- 
ing music  from  out  the  bowels  of  his  fiddle?  Itis  an  unforgettable 
pleasare.  Then  Mr.  Castle  thinks,  and  not  injudiciously,  that  in 
bim  there  are  the  makings  of  an  actor,  which  shall  one  day 
thrust  into  pale  sba-ies  the  glittering  reputation  of  Coquelin.  Mr. 
H.  G.  Piatt  has  to  use  his  great  force  of  character  to  repress  his 
evil  passions,  for  he  feels  that  he  is  infinitely  more  fitted  to  be  a 
saturnine  highwayman  of  daringly  illegal  acts  than  to  be  a  legiti- 
mised robber  of  the  defenceless,  and  be  known  as  a  lawyer. 

Carter  Tevis  feels  himself  a  financier,  but  the  environments  of 
San  Francisco  are  too  small  for  a  magnificent  outspreading  of 
bis  financial  genius.     It  is  an  illusion  which   he   should   cherish. 

Dick  Hammond's  illusions  are  worthy  of  bim.  They  lead  him 
into  flowery  realms,  and  so  ardent  ia  this  all-inspiring  passion 
that  the  prosiest  sand  heap  either  blossoms  into  a  garden  or 
throbs  with  the  life  of  an  embryo  city. 

Edward  M.  Greenway's  illusions  are  many,  but  the  chief  is 
that  of  moral  censor,  and  in  the  dim  twilight  of  his  inner  con- 
sciousness be  has  seen  himself  in  a  toga  sitting  on  a  curile  chair, 
with  a  laurel  wreath  on  his  head,  looking  on  the  immolation  of 
the  offenders  of  the  proprieties. 

Baron  John  G.  Kittle's  pet  illusion  is,  that  he  is  a  haughty  rob- 
ber chieftain,  with  a  castellated  rookery  on  the  banks  of  the 
Rhine.  His  pretty  cottage  nestling  in  umbrageous  woods  is  his 
castle,  the  muddy  slough  that  passes  through  the  adjacent 
marsh  lands  is  the  Rhine,  and  his  neighbors  are  his  dependents, 
whom  he  could  slaughter,  but  refrains  from  so  doing.  The  ferry 
is  his  navy.  Great  is  the  Baron,  whose  original  ancestors  settled 
near  W«-t  Point. 

Captain  Griffiths  is  modest.  He  thinks  he  is  a  Jehu,  and  when 
he  cracks  his  whip  and  sends  his  steeds  along,  every  gate  he 
passes  sheds  nails  through  fear. 

Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham  hugs  to  himself  the  thought  that  he 
is  a  Mario.  Young  and  susceptible  maidens  need  not  think  there 
is  any  connection  meant  with  marriage. 

Joe  Tobin's  imaginings  used  to  be  rather  painful.  A  year  ago 
a  persistent  illusion  used  to  be  maintained  by  the  press  about  a 
Mrs.  Tobin.  The  athletic  Joe  now  pictures  himself  as  an  austere 
monk,  the  order  of  La  Trappe  being  preferred. 

Thomas  Emmet  Flynn  carries  an  illusion  in  his  cranium  that 
he  is  mistaken  for  an  Englishman.  Itis  a  highly  commendable 
illusion,  but  scarcely  flattering  to  the  exiles  of  Sausalito. 

Roger  Magee's  illusion  is  that  he  is  a  farmer,  which  is  very 
hugely  shared  by  banker  Thompson. 

Commodore  Gutte  thinks  that  in  him  was  lost  a  Paul  Jones  and 
Nelson,  and  Perrie  Kewen  laments  the  Inglorious  era  of  peace 
which  prevents  there  flaring  into  eye-blinking  glory  a  martial 
leader,  combining  a  dash  of  the  caution  of  Hannibal,  the  reheal- 
ing  qualities  of  Moreau  and  the  gallantry  of  Ney. 

These  are  the  great  illusions  of  a  few  of  our  men  who,  by  their 
brilliant  talents,  are  helping  to  build  up  for  San  Francisco  a  rep- 
utation which  shall  vie  with  Babylon  or  Belus. 


Visitors  to  the  country  should  take  with  them  Steele's  Grindelia 
Lotion  of  the  fluid  extract  of  Grindelia.  It  is  the  best  known  remedy 
for  poison  oak,  and  is  also  recognized  as  an  unrivalled  cure  for  asth- 
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635  Market  street.  

If  you  would  be  considered  well-dressed,  be  certain  to  procure 
your  furnishing  goods  from  John  W.  Carmany,  at  25  Kearny  street. 

Inflamed  eves  and  lids  permanently  cured  if  caused  by  defective  sight. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


A  CHAP  was  moralizing  the  other  night  at  Del  Monte,  after  the 
festivities  of  the  evening  were  over,  and  a  few  congenial  spirits 
were  having  a  *<  weed"  before  turning  in.  Said  he :  "  Now,  1  leave 
it  to  any  of  you  fellows,  if  a  girl  doesn't  look  more  attractive  and 
loveable  in  a  clean  white  gown,  with  some  dainty  ribbons,  or 
flowers,  if  you  will,  but  simple  and  well-fitting,  than  in  the 
muchly-trimmed,  bedizened  silks  and  laces,  that  cost  a  fortune, 
and  make  a  man  sigh  to  think  bow  much  of  his  month's  salary 
it  would  take  to  provide  one?"     Needless  to  say,  the  speaker  was 

an  old  bachelor. 

*  *  * 

It  is  a  noticeable  fact,  that  the  presence  of  the  pastor  of  Grace 
Cathedral's  flock  at  Del  Monte  keeps  a  good  many  of  his  sheep 
in  the  path  of  church-going,  etc.  Sunday  ia  not  so  much  a  day 
of  recreation  as  it  used  to  be,  and  the  pretty  little  chapel  near  by 
is  sure  of  a  goodly  contingent  from  the  hotel  for  morning  service. 

#  «  * 

"  Handsome  Harry,"  as  the  ladies  dub  Dr.  Tevis,  is  still  free 
from  Hymen's  chains.  Gossip  avers  that  a  pretty  face  in  Gotham 
holds  the  gallant  medico  a  captive,  but  if  this  be  so,  one  thing  is 
certain — "  absence  makes  the  heart  grow  fonder,"  sure  enough. 
But  of  several  en  masse,  to  judge  by  his  general  attention  by  the 

seaside. 

#  *  * 

Freddie  Sharon  is  notquite  up  to  his  usual  mark  this  summer. 
Natty  he  always  is,  and  neat  as  wax.  But  there  is  an  air  of  be- 
ing bored  about  him  at  variance  with  the  whilom  jovial  mood  so 
characteristic  of  the  fortunate  young  millionaire.  And  yet,  for- 
tune showers  several  old  favorites  upon  his  pathway. 

*  *  * 

How  singularly  lucky  some  men  seem  to  be.  Not  very  many  years 
gone  by,  and  no  less  than  three,  nay  four,  of  our  prominent  men 
were  pursued  by  angry  threats  and  fears  of  personal  injury.  Now 
Judge  Field  and  Frank  Newlands  can  visit  the  city  without  fear 
of  Althea's  vengeance.  Lloyd  Tevis  and  Fred  Sharon  can  walk 
the  streets  unterrified  by  pistols  from  Merced. 

#  *  » 

Society  is  delighted  by  a  whisper  which  has  got  out,  somehow, 
to  the  effect  that  the  Whitelaw  Reids  are  contemplating  a  short 
visit  to  Mlllbne,  and  in  honor  of  the  event  D.  O.  Mills  will  give 
one  of  the  swellest  entertainments  ever  known  in  that  locality, 
strongly  reminiscent  of  the  Belmont  affairs  of  long  ago. 

*  #■  *■ 

Dame  Rumor  is  busy  assigning  the  fascinating  son  of  a  fasci- 
nating father,  Bill  Barnes,  to  a  charming  girl  whose  bright  eyes 
are  shaded  by  a  nobby  parasol   on  the  beach  at  Santa  Cruz  every 

day. 

»  «  • 

The  mention  in  last  week's  News  Letter  of  Miss  Rosa  Gore  has 
called  up  many  reminiscences  of  early-day  belles,  and  one  of  Miss 
Gore  herself  may  prove  amusing.  At  that  period  South  Park 
was  one  of  the  most  fashionable  residence  quarters  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  in  its  semi-circle  there  dwelt,  among  others,  three  young 
ladies  who  had  been  dubbed  "  the  world,  the  flesh  and  thedevil." 
Miss  Gore,  from  her  well-known  love  for  gaiety,  was  the  first; 
Miss  Lottie  Hall,  a  very  buxom^damsel,  was  the  second;  and  Miss 
Patsey  Ritchie,  from  the  sharpness  of  her  tongue,  was  the  third. 
Miss  Ritchie,  who  had  the  misfortune  of  being  cross-eyed,  was 
exceedingly  fond  of  wordy  encounters  in  which  she  nearly  always 
came  out  ahead.  But  one  notable  exception  was  on  the  occasion 
of  ber  calling  attention  to  Miss  Gore's  rather  large  nose.  Where- 
upon Miss  Gore  responded :  "  Well,  if  it  is  large  there  is  one  satis- 
faction that  I  have;  I  am  not  always  looking  at  it." 

#  »  # 

Castle  Crags  flourishes.  The  pretty  widow,  Mrs.  Fabre,  is 
noted  for  her  pedestrianism.  Another  widow,  Mrs.  Latham, 
takes  her  pleasure  in  siestas,  while  a  third,  Mrs.  Poole,  reads  by 
the  hour.  The  Misses  Goad  ramble  about  in  search  of  ferns, 
of  which  there  is  an  endless  variety.  Mrs.  Rutherford,  her 
daughter  and  George  Crocker  make  frequent  excursions  round 
the  neighborhood,  and  have  discovered  many  charmiDg  spots  of 
rural  beauty. 

w     »    # 

From  present  appearances  of  the  "booking"  list.it  would 
seem  as  though  the  whole  of  society  would  be  at  Monterey  dur- 
ing the  last  two  weeks  of  August.  No  doubt  the  shoot  of  the 
Country  Club  is  the  magnet  to  many,  while  others  are  pretty  sure 
to  follow  in  the  lead. 

*  #  * 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  Eddie  Foy,  the  star  comedian  of 
Henderson's  Chicago  extravaganzas,  is  a  cousin  of  Miss  Minnie 
Fogg,  the  pretty  Oroville  girl,  who  last  season  smiled  upon  Santa 
Cruz's  population  as  a  protege  of  Major  Frank  McLaughlin. 


Melburn  Greene,  the  young  University  of  California  graduate, 
succumbed  to  the  charms  of  the  fair  widow,  Doctress  Francois 
Marx,  and  married  her  at  the  altar  of  St.  Stephen's  Episcopal 
Church  some  days  ago.  The  match  is  entirely  a  love  affair,  and 
the  widow  Greene  was  unable  to  break  if  off  even  with  the  threat 
of  disinheritance.  The  widow  is  said  to  be  very  bitter  over  the 
youngest  son's  perversity.  Even  the  marriage  by  a  prelate  of 
the  church  of  which  she  is  a  prominent  member  and  the  retire- 
ment of  Jewish  principles  to  Episcopalian  supremacy,  has  failed 
to  have  any  effect.  Greene  has  already  received  $10,000  as  a 
legacy,  so  is  not  likely  to  starve.  His  brother  Harry  has  given 
up  bis  pretty  cottage  at  Santa  Cruz  for  the  honeymoon,  and  there 
the  two  lovers  will  spend  a  couple  of  weeks.  When  they  tire  of 
their  bower  by  the  sea  they  will  hie  themselves  to  Europe. 
«  •  # 

Pretty  Miss  Kitty  Cheatham,  of  the  Daly  Company,  is  cousin 
to  Attorney  Billy  Foote  of  this  city.  Mr.  Foote,  by  the  way,  is 
a  scion  of  one  of  the  most  distinguished  families  in  the  South,  for 
his  father  served  in  the  United  States  Senate  and  later  on  was 
Governor  of  Mississippi.  The  Governor  married  twice,  his  second 
wife  being  Miss  Cheatham's  aunt  Miss  Cheatham  makes  her 
home  at  the  residence  of  Henry  Watterson,  in  Kentucky,  during 
the  off  seasons.  Her  mother  travels  with  her,  but  was  taken  ill 
at  St.  Louis,  so  Miss  Kitty  had  to  come  to  the  coast  alone. 

#  #  * 

The  faro  dealers  have  at  last  abandoned  all  hopes  of  running  in 
this  city,  for  a  while  at  least,  and  have  set  forth  for  other  fields 
to  conquer.  Most  of  them  have  gone  up  on  the  Sound,  where 
the  games  are  "  protected,"  that  is  for  certain  monetary  consid- 
erations. Carroll,  Webber  and  Ross,  the  three  monarchs  of  the 
business,  have  all  grown  wealthy  at  it,  their  individual  fortunes 
being  estimated  all  the  way  from  $50,000  to  $100,000.  Webber  is 
president  of  a  brick  company  in  the  southern  part  of  the  State, 
owns  a  cottage  at  Santa  Monica,  and  lives  altogether  in  about  as 
good  style  as  a  Chicago  alderman. 

«  »  * 

There  is  nothing  that  delights  Deputy  City  Clerk  F.  R.  O'Brien, 
of  Oakland,  so  much  as  to  address  him  by  his  title  of  Major. 
He  holds  a  commission  to  that  effect  in  the  National  Guard,  but 
this  is  by  no  means  all  his  honors,  for  he  ia  Secretary  of  the  Re- 
publican State  League,  Commander  of  the  Resaca  Club,  elder  of 
the  Unitarian  Church,  and  a  few  other  things  in  that  line.  But 
he  bows  his  head  in  shame  just  now,  despite  bis  dignities,  and 
it's  all  on  account  of  the  explosion  on  Saturday  last.  When  it 
occurred  the  Major  was  seated  in  the  Council  room  at  the  City 
Hall,  amidst  the  rest  of  the  officials,  and  at  the  first  aound  of 
crashing  glass  he  jumped  wildly  to  bis  feet.  Then,  when  the  sec- 
ond and  the  third  concussions  came,  and  sky  lights  were  break- 
ing and  plaster  falling,  he  gave  a  wild  shriek  of  despair,  threw 
up  his  arms  and  fell  in  a  dead  faint  on  the  floor.  And  he  a  Major 
and  a  warrior,  too — no  wonder  the  memory  of  the  day  is  now  a 

horrible  nightmare  to  him. 

#  #  » 

No  one  should  remember  poor  Kate  Castleton  with  more  kind- 
ness than  her  divorced  husband,  Harry  Phillips.  She  bore  with 
his  frailties  until  it  was  no  more  possible  for  her  to  do  so,  and 
then  provided  for  him  handsomely  when  the  separation  was 
agreed  upon.  A  proof  of  this  ia  that  Harry's  relatives,  whom  the 
late  burlesque  atar  always  befriended,  will  never  hear  a  word  said 
against   her,  and   considered   her  one  of   the  most  generous  of 

mortals. 

#  #  * 

The  successful  opening  of  the  new  theatre  recalls  memories  of 
the  grand  opening  night  of  Baldwin's  Academy  of  Music,  on 
Monday,  March  6th,  in  Centennial  year.  The  play  was  Richard 
III.,  with  Barry  Sullivan  {his  first  appearance  here)  aa  the  ill- 
favored  uaurper  of  the  Britiab  throne.  J.  F.  Cathcart  aasumed 
the  role  of  the  Earl  of  Richmond,  Lewis  James  was  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham,  Annie  Adams  and  Zoe  Tuttle  were  the  Princes  in 
the  Tower,  E.  J.  Buckley,  Tressel;  M.  A.  Kennedy,  Catesby; 
Dave  Belasco,  Ratcliff;  Louise  Hawthorne,  Queen  Elizabeth; 
Emily  Baker,  the  Lady  Anne,  and  Mrs.  Belle  Douglass,  the 
Duchess  of  York.  Others  in  Sullivan's  brilliant  company  were 
W.  H.  Crane,  James  O'Neill,  L.  Belmour,  A.  H.  Hastings,  James 
A.  Heme,  Emmie  Wilmott,  Katie  Mayhew,  Kitty  Belmour,  and 
Mary  More,  whose  names  are  less  well-known  to  theatre-goers. 
8ouvenir  programmes,  printed  on  bronze  satin,  provided  by  a  local 
dry  goods  house,  were  given  to  every  one  in  the  audience  upon 
the  occasion  in  question,  and  Hamlet  was  announced  to  he  in  re- 
hearsal. Tom  Maguire  leased  the  theatre  then,  and  J.  A.  Heme 
was  stage  manager.  The  latter  afterwards  married  little  Katherine 
Corcoran,  a  pupil  of  the  same  teacher  who  launched  Nellie  Calhoun 
upon  the  sea  of  dramatic  fame. 

My  preference  for  the  Caligraph,  for  use  in  a  telegraph  office,  in- 
creases as  I  use  it,  and  as  I  observe  other  people  using  other  ma- 
chines. From  the  use  of  nearly  all  the  different  machines  in  the 
market,  my  experience  has  driven  me  to  the  Caligraph  exclusively. 
Yours  very  truly,  H.  K.  HIBBETS, 

Night  Chief  Operator, 
Pacific  Postal  Telegraph  Cable  Company. 


July  16,  1892. 


BAN  PRANCISCO  NBW8  LETTER, 


13 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 


A  1.1,  the  excitement  is  over  for  the  present,  and  tennis  otrclM 
will  resume  their  normal  conditions  until  the  double  cham- 
pionship and  ladies'  single  championship,  which  will,  in  all  prob- 
ability, take  place  in  San  Kafacl  on  Admission  Day.  The  courts 
at  all  the  principal  clubs  are  being  well  patronized,  as  there  are 
smaller  tournaments  on  the  tapis.  The  first  will  be  the  quarterly 
tournament  at  the  California  Club,  and  from  the  outlook,  there 
will  be  quite  a  large  entry.  It  will  be  remembered  that  the  cup 
presented  by  the  members  of  the  club  has  to  be  won  five  times 
altogether,  and  Mr.  C.  P.  Hubbard,  who  has  been  working  won- 
ders in  Chicago,  has  already  won  it  twice.  He  will  not  be  here 
to  compete,  and  so  it  will  fall  this  time  into  other  hands.  0. 
Huffman.  Gray  and  Yates,  owing  to  business,  are  not  likely  to 
play,  and  it  is  expected  that  the  cup  will  go  to  one  of  theyounger 
players. 

The  number  of  strokes,  etc.,  in  the  Taylor-Hubbard  match  has 
been  counted,  and  the  record  is  as  follows:  In  the  first  sett,  Tay- 
lor won  34  to  Hubbard's  25,  and  both  players  made  a  double 
fault;  in  the  second,  Taylor  won  39  to  Hubbard's  31,  Mr.  Hub- 
bard making  two  double  faults:  in  the  third,  Hubbard  won  35 
to  Taylor's  30,  and  47  to  44  in  the  fourth,  where  Hubbard  made 
again  a  double  fault.  In  the  fifth  and  final  sett,  Mr.  Taylor  won 
34  to  Hubbard's  28,  Hubbard  making  two  double  faults.  The 
totals  show  that  Mr.  Taylor  won  28  games  to  Hubbard's  23,  and  18i 
strokes  to  166.  In  the  first  sett,  Taylor  won  two  love  games  to 
Hubbard's  one;  in  the  second,  one  to  none;  in  the  third,  one  to 
none,  and  in  the  fifth,  Hubbard  won  one  to  none. 

J.  Tobin  and  C.  P.  Hubbard  arrived  in  Chicago  in  time  for  the 
United  States  National  Lawn  Tennis  Association's  tournament, 
and  entered  in  the  doubles.  In  the  first  round,  the  Californians 
bad  it  all  their  own  way,  defeating  Messrs.  Gardner  and  Wren  in 
straight  setts — 6-4,  6-0,  6-1.  In  the  second  round  they 
defeated  Messrs.  Mundy  and  Allen — 6-2,  6-1,  6-3,  but  were  de- 
feated in  the  semi  finals  by  Ryerson  and  Carver,  by  three  setts  to 
two — 9-7,  4-6,  3-6,  6-3,  9-7.  Chicago  advices  say  that  such 
team  work  had  never  been  witnessed  there  before,  and  it  is  more 
remarkable,  as  Hubbard  and  Tobin  were  rather  unfamiliar  with 
each  other's  game.  If,  however,  they  had  practiced  more  to- 
gether, we  do  not  doubt  that  the  result  would  have  been 
different. 

K.  Harrison  has  returned  from  college,  and  is  practicing  hard 
for  the  California  cup.     His  game  is  much  improved. 

H.  "Continuous  "Stetson  left  Thursday  for  Lake  Tahoe,  where 
be  will  remain  two  weeks,  but  will  return  for  the  cup  tournament. 

All  the  tennis  players  will  sympathize  with  C.  R.  Yates  on  the 
loss  of  his  father,  which  occurred  last  Saturday. 

J.  J.  Archibald,  C.  Neel  and  Will  English  have  been  appointed 
by  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club  as  the  committee  to  rank  the  players 
of  that  club  and  start  a  continuous  tournament.  The  Napa  Lawn 
Tennis  Club  has  also  started  one,  both  for  ladies  and  gentlemen, 
and  Reno  will  shortly  follow  suit. 

RASFRAI  I       A  ^  tD*3  wr^*n8  tje  Los  Angeles  club  has  a  fair 
'  *   J\  prospect  of  coming  out  in  the  lead  for  the  base- 

ball pennant,  with  San  Francisco  and  San  Jose  struggling  for  sec- 
ond place.  Each  club  has  to  play  eight  games  more  before  the 
season  changes.  The  result  of  these  games  is  liable  to  change  the 
position  of  any  one  of  the  three  leading  clubs.  Oakland  and  San 
Francisco  have  also  two  postponed  games,  which  they  can  play 
with  each  other  if  they  wish.  Los  Angeles  will  play  in  this  city 
this  afternoon  and  to-morrow.  Next  week  the  club  will  finish 
the  first  part  of  this  season  at  San  Jose  with  the  club  of  that 
place.  The  Stockton  people  are  anxious  to  be  once  again  in  the 
baseball  world,  and  with  that  end  in  view  an  effort  ia  being  made 
to  have  the  San  Jose  franchise  transferred  to  Stockton.  The  San 
Jose  people  have  not  supported  their  club  as  liberally  this  year  as 
they  should,  considering  the  first-rate  club  that  they  have,  and 
the  fine  character  of  ball  which  has  been  played  in  San  Jose  this 
season.  It  is  now  two  years  since  Stockton  was  in  the  League. 
At  one  time  that  city  was  a  fine  baseball  place.  McDermott  met 
with  an  injury  last  Tuesday,  which  prevented  his  umpiring  dur- 
ing this  week.  Fortunately  President  Mone  was  able  to  secure 
Gagus  to  take  his  place  temporarily.  The  race  promises  to  finish 
as  close  this  year  as  in  former  seasons.  Every  one  expects  to  see 
Oakland  cut  out  the  pace  the  other  clubs  shall  travel  next  season. 
The  present  season  will  end  a  week  from  to-morrow,  and  the  next 
season  will  commence  tie  following  W.  dneaday.  Oakland  will 
open  next  season  in  Los  Angelea. 

SINGERLY — I  hear  your  firm  offered  you  an  increase  in 
salary  or  a  month's  vacation,  and  you  are  going  to  take  the 
vacation.  What  are  you  going  to  do  that  for?  I  should  think 
you  would  rather  have  the  increase.  Strawher — Not  much,  old 
fellow.  My  vacation  is  the  only  time  during  the  year  that  I  can 
fall  in  love  with  a  wealthy  girl.     —Tom  Masson. 

Laundry  Farm  is  not  excelled  as  a  pleasure  resort  within  easy 
reach  of  the  city.  Since  its  opening  it  has  been  considered  one  of 
the  most  delightful  picnic  Grounds  in  the  vicinity  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. It  is  reached  by  the  California  railway,  which  also  runs  direct 
to  Miils  Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  is  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes 
from  this  city  and  forty  minutes  from  Oakland. 


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Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

L  INGLENOOK  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  San 
Francisco  prices  aud  of  freight  at 
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14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


*-^m»  ^  re  tfs  nan  «S 


&e.LQPKER-9N^ 


Ol!gp^<_|}  HLu^^*'t^J,itt-a^ 


WILLIAM  H.  RAYMOND,  better  known  as  "  Uncle  Billy," 
one  of  the  beat  known  of  the  early  mining  men  of  the  Pa- 
cific Coast,  was  buried  in  this  city  last  week.  Raymond  waa  a 
most  remarkable  man  in  his  way,  and  bis  luck  as  a  miner  was 
phenomenal.  It  is  said  of  him  that  if  he  conceived  the  idea  of 
sinking  a  shaft  on  a  roadway,  he  would  strike  a  mine.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  to  open  up  the  mines  of  Pbaranaghat  district,  in 
southern  Nevada,  shortly  after  his  arrival  in  the  State,  in  1865. 
He  took  a  party,  with  twenty-two  yoke  of  cattle  and  twenty 
span  of  mules,  across  the  desert  to  this  camp,  and  on  the  way  ex- 
perienced a  number  of  adventures,  which  would  have  daunted 
many  a  man  of  less  determination.  The  effort  nearly  cost  him 
his  life,  for,  becoming  short  of  water,  he  lay  down  from  sheer  ex- 
haustion, and  would  have  expired,  had  it  not  been  for  the  sharp 
instinct  of  the  old  bell-mare  which  he  had  with  him.  His 
younger  brother  had  picked  him  up  and  thrown  him  across  the 
back  of  this  animal,  when  she  suddenly  left  the  trail  and  made  a 
bee  line  for  a  point  seven  miles  distant,  where  water  was  found, 
and  Raymond  was  resuscitated.  After  leaving  Pharanaghat, 
where  he  extracted  over  a  million  dollars  from  the  mines,  he  went 
to  Pioche.  In  1868  he  was  at  the  head  of  the  Raymond  and  Ely 
mines,  from  which  he  took  nearly  $6,000,000.  From  there  he 
went  to  the  Lodi  district,  where  his  luck  followed  him,  the  Ar- 
genta  mine,  which  he  opened,  paying  $400,000.  When  that  gave 
out  he  came  to  California,  and  located  at  Calico,  where  there  was 
about  as  much  prospect  of  a  mine,  according  to  experts,  as  th*re 
is  to-day  on  Goat  Island.  He  struck  it  eventually,  all  the  same, 
and  in  partnership  with  J.  S.  Doe,  of  this  city,  erected  a  thirty- 
stamp  mill,  which  has  turned  out  millions  in  bullion.  There  he 
got  a  sun-stroke,  from  which  he  never  recovered,  and  for  the  past 
two  years  he  has  been  perfectly  helpless.  He  was  a  native  of 
New  York  State,  where  he  was  born  in  the  year  1817. 
*  *  * 

No  one  who  has  traveled  between  San  Francisco  and  Los 
Angeles  will  ever  forget  that  weary,  desolate  stretch  of  country 
lying  between  the  town  of  Tehachipi,  on  the  north,  and  the  Sole- 
dad  Canon  on  the  south.  This  section  is  a  portion  of  the  Mojave 
desert,  and  for  miles  on  miles  the  level  surface  stretches  away  in 
every  direction,  unrelieved  save  by  a  scanty,  dust-colored  and 
dust-laden  herbage,  and  the  gaunt,  ungainly  trunks  of  the  yucca 
palms.  It  is  the  very  "  abomination  of  desolation  "  spoken  of  in 
the  Scriptures.  No  indigenous  animal  life  of  any  kind  is  to  be 
seen,  and  except  for  the  noise  of  an  occasional  passing  train  and 
the  mournful  rattling  of  the  yucca  leaves  in  the  almost  perpetu- 
ally blowing  gale,  no  sound  breaks  tbe  death-like  silence.  If 
there  be  sustenance  for  man  or  beast  here,  then  appearances  must 
be  deceptive,  while  a  limited  residence  would  assuredly  prepare 
any  one  for  permanent  occupancy  of  an  apartment  in  the  insane 
asylum.  Yet  it  is  an  actual  fact  that  some  ingenious  and  heart- 
less speculator  has  laid  out  a  town  in  the  midst  of  this  wilder- 
ness, and  tbe  gleaming  white  stakes  that  mark  the  boundaries  of 
the  "choice  business  corners"  and  "eligible  villa  sites" 
shine  among  the  cactus  and  weeds  like  tombstones 
over  the  perished  hopes  of  the  unwary.  A  little  railroad 
station  has  been  built,  and  half  a  mile  or  so  away  are  the  un- 
gainly walls  of  a  couple  of  rudely-built  shanties,  one  of  which, 
presumably,  is  a  hotel.  Here,  one  desolate,  bleak,  dreary  night 
last  week,  the  overland  train  stopped  to  allow  a  party  of  emi- 
grants— men,  women  and  children — fresh  from  the  fatherland,  to 
alight.  For  the  best  part  of  the  day  they  had  been  passing 
through  a  veritable  garden  spot — the  valleys  of  Southern  Califor- 
nia— and  now,  as  night  was  falling,  they  were  deposited  in  the 
midst  of  the  desert,  with  surroundings  whose  depressing  charac 
ter  could  not  possibly  be  made  greater.  That  they  had  been 
forming  glowing  anticipations  of  their  destination  was  evident, 
and  their  bitter  disappointment  was  depicted  unmistakably  upon 
their  faces.  But  they  sturdily,  though  silently,  shouldered  their 
luggage  and  struck  out  across  the  bleak  waste  toward  the  two 
lonely  buildings  in  the  distance.  Who  was  responsible  for  this 
cruel  deception  could  not  be  learned,  but  not  a  person  witnessed 
the  scene  who  was  not  filled  with  profound  pity  for  these  latest 
victims  of  the  land  speculator. 

*  #  • 

There  is  considerable  rivalry  between  Messrs.  Adolph  Spreckels, 
Charles  S.  Wieland  and  Frank  H.  Burke,  as  to  who  is  the  pos- 
sessor of  the  fastest  team  of  horses.     In  order  to  settle  the  mat- 


ter a  match  has  been  arranged,  and  it  will  take  place  at  Sacra- 
mento during  the  coming  State  Fair.  A  valuable  trophy  will  be 
given  the  winner.  The  conditions  are  that  the  owners  of  tbe 
teams  are  to  drive  them.  As  each  of  the  gentlemen  possesses  fast 
horses  the  match  will  be  a  very  interesting  one. 
»  #  * 
Richard  Ferrer,  that  talented  young  musician  of  whom  San 
Francisco  will,  ere  long,  be  justly  proud,  went  one  day,  soon  after 
his  arrival  in  Berlin,  into  the  many  shops,  upon  the  windows  of 
which  is  inscribed,  "  English  spoken."  "Do  you  speak  Eng- 
lish?" he  asked  of  the  clerk.  The  man  shook  his  head.  "Do 
you  speak  Spanish?"  Another  shake  of  tbe  head.  »  Well."  said 
young  Ferrer,  "do  you  speak  Deutsch?"  "Yah,  yahl"came 
the  ready  answer.  "Then,"  said  Mr.  Ferrer,  in  solemn  English, 
"  give  me  a  pocket  knife." 

*  *  * 

Stories  about  the  shock  caused  by  the  recent  powder  explosion 
continue  to  come  in.  In  tbe  down-town  stores  there  was  much 
damage  done.  In  the  establishment  of  Langley  ft  Michaels, 
when  the  first  shock  startled  the  clerks  in  the  front  office,  it  was 
thought  that  an  explosisn  had  occurred  in  the  chemical  labor- 
atory on  the  top  floor.  One  of  the  firm  rushed  to  tbe  tube,  and 
whistled  upstairs  to  the  chemist  to  ascertain  his  condition.  There 
was  no  reply.  He  whistled  again,  and  while  waiting  for  a  reply 
the  second  shock  came.  Then  the  clerks  were  certain  that  the 
laboratory  had  blown  up,  and  they  rushed  upstairs  to  find  the 
chemist's  remains.  When  theyfgot  to  the  laboratory,  the  door 
was  carefully  opened,  and  as  entrance  was  made,  the  head  of  the 
chemist  was  seen  peering  down  through  the  skylight.  He  was 
not  taking  any  chance,  for  he  had  determined  that  if  anything 
was  going  to  drop  that  he  would  have  a  clear  fall,  and  if  any- 
thing was  going  up  he  wished  no  obstructions  to  intervene  be- 
tween himself  and  the  heavens. 

*  *  * 

_  Dr.  George  Franklin  Shields  had  a  rather  uncomfortable  expe- 
rience last  Sunday.  He  was  himself  the  innocent  cause  of  all  his 
trouble.  The  doctor  is  very  fond  of  taking  a  little  exercise  of  a  morn- 
ing, in  his  rooms,  at  the  corner  of  Stockton  and  O'Farrell  streets. 
He  walks  briskly  through  his  three  rooms,  admiring  possessions 
of  brick,  cement  and  wood  that  will  be  his  some  day  by  inherit- 
ance. His  attire  was  very  brief,  and  his  chest  swelled  with  pride 
as  he  walked  to  and  fro.  A  draft  of  air  closed  his  bedroom  door. 
It  has  a  spring  lock.  The  doctor  was  shocked.  He  rushed  to 
the  door  and  tried  the  knob.  He  was  locked  out.  His  trousers 
hung  on  the  back  of  a  chair  in  the  inner  room,  and  in  the  pocket 
was  his  latch  key.  Here  was  a  predicament.  The  day  was  cold, 
and  the  doctor  sat  in  his  office  chair  and  shivered.  On  the  floor 
was  a  bear  rug.  He  folded  it  around  his  shoulders  and  went  to 
the  door  and  yelled  for  the  janitor.  A  passer-by  in  the  hallway 
saw  the  apparition  and  fled;  a  patient  likewise  took  to  his  heels. 
For  three  hours  the  doctor  waited,  and  at  last  the  janitor  ap- 
peared, got  the  keys,  and  the  doctor  donned  his  Sunday  attire 
and  went  out  for  a  walk,  but  not  until  he  had  sworn  the  janitor 
to  secrecy. 

*  #  » 

Charles  Erin  Verner,  the  delineator  of  Irish  character,  who  has 
been  causing  the  hearts  of  the  fair  one  on  the  promenade  to  go 
thunipety-thurop  lately,  whenever  he  appeared  on  the  Rialto 
under  that  fetching  traveling  cap  of  his,  is  a  man  with  a  calm 
assurance  that  would  be  worth  ten  thousand  a  year  to  a  com- 
mercial traveler.  Verner  has  been  everywhere,  and  knows  every 
one  worth  knowing,  from  Cape  Colony  to  the  Straits  of  Carpen- 
taria. He  has  kissed  the  Blarney  Stone,  and  has  as  smooth  a 
tongue  as  ever  charmed  an  audience.  His  manners  are  as  gallant 
as  those  of  any  true  Irish  gentleman,  and  it  is  of  an  instance  il- 
lustrating that  fact  that  I  write.  Recently  Mr.  Verner  escorted  a 
couple  of  gentlemen  friends  and  a  lady  from  the  Alcazar  Theatre 
to  the  Ellis  street  cars.  The  gallant  actor  found  a  comfortable 
seat  on  the  dummy  for  the  lady,  and  then,  after  tucking  her  robes 
about  her,  and  wishing  her  a  pleasant  journey  and  happy  dreams, 
this  son  of  Erin,  notwithstanding  the  electric  lights  and  the  stares 
of  the  Roman  populace,  bent  down  and  kissed  the  lips  of  the  fair 
maiden.  He  then  bowed  again,  went  upon  his  erratic  way,  while 
the  less  brave  San  Franciscans  who  were  with  him  stared  and 
wondered. 

*  *  * 

*<  What's  in  a  name?"  is  an  old  saying,  but  there  is  at  least  one 
young  man  in  town  who  is  certain  it  is  a  most  foolish  one.  This 
is  the  reason  of  his  belief.  He  was  recently  nominated  for  mem- 
bership in  the  University  Club.  Unfortunately  his  name  is  ex- 
actly tbe  same,  even  to  the  initials,  as  that  of  a  man  who  has 
more  enemies  than  friends  in  the  club,  and  the  opinion  became 
general  that  it  was  the  disliked  man  who  was  endeavoring  to 
secure  the  privileges  of  the  comfortable  club-house  on  Sutter 
Btreet.  Tbe  result  was  that  when  the  candidate  for  refined  asso- 
ciates was  balloted  for  he  was  black-balled  so  unmercifully  that 
hardly  a  single  white  ball  could  be  found  in  the  box.  The  candi- 
date was  astonished,  shocked;  his  sponsor  was  indignant  and  de- 
manded an  explanation.  He  wanted  to  find  out  why  his  friend 
had  been  treated  so  cavalierly.  He  was  informed  that  the  gentle- 
man whom  he  had  proposed  was  a  villain  of  the  deepest  dye,  who 


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BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


IS 


could  not  be  allowedjto  associate  with  the  coll«gl»ns.  An  Investi- 
gation was  made.  and  soon  It  w»»  discovered  lb»t  it  was  the 
wicked  Droruio  at  whom  the  black-balls  had  been  cast.  When  II 
wa»  explained  to  tbe  gentlemen  who  had  rejected  the  candidate 
tbal  they  bad  put  an  affront  upon  an  entirely  innocent  individual, 
of  course  there  was  sorrow  and  lamenlaling.  The  rejected  candi 
date's  name  was  again  posted,  a  new  election  ordered,  and  he 
entered  tbe  club  with  flying  colors.  He  is  thinking  aerionily, 
however,  of  changing  his  name,  or  painting  a  strawberry  mark 
on  bis  cheek,  or  doing  something  to  show  he  is  not  the  other 
fellow. 

•  •  • 

The  fakiig  tendencies  of  some  of  the  local  correspondents  for 
the  Eastern  press  was  again  illustrated  on  the  day  of  the  explo- 
sion. Two  or  three  correspondents  wired  sentimental  stories 
East  to  the  effect  that  over  one  hundred  lives  had  been  lost,  and 
that  devastation  was  widespread  in  the  vicinity  of  tbe  scene  of 
tbe  explosion.  It  was  just  such  a  false,  sensational  tale  as  was 
sent  East  at  the  time  of  the  earthquake  several  months  ago.  Such 
liars  as  these  correspondents  prove  themselves  to  be  should  not 
be  employed  by  any  reputable  journal.  Tbey  have  it  in  their 
power  to  greatly  injure  a  community,  and  that  they  do  so,  with- 
out regard  to  the  consequences,  has  been  repeatedly  shown. 

•  •  * 

The  French  colony  had  a  great  time  on  Thursday.  They  al- 
ways do  on  the  Fourteenth  of  July.  Parades,  music,  fireworks, 
literary  exercises,  banquets,  balls,  masquerades,  picnics,  excur- 
sions, and  a  dozen  different  methods  of  entertainment  are  en- 
joyed by  the  descendants  or  the  doughty  Frenchmen  who 
knocked  spots  out  of  the  old  bastile.  The  French  processions 
are  a  little  more  reliable  than  those  of  Independence  Day  regard- 
ing their  lime  of  starting.  Tbe  announced  hour  for  the 
parade  Thursday  was  two  o'clock,  and  when  St.  Mary's 
bell  struck  out  its  chimes,  the  vicinity  of  Montgomery 
avenue  and  Pacific  streets,  the  rendezvous,  was  crowded 
with  a  mass  of  Frenchmen,  all  eager  for  the  trumpets  to 
sound  the  advance.  The  exercises  of  the  day  befitted  the 
occasion.  The  parade  was  under  the  command  of  Grand  Mar- 
shal M.  A.  Froment,  whose  Chief  Aid  was  M.  A.  Decourtieux. 
J.  Laracbe  and  P.  Desenfant  also  acted  as  aids.  The  proces- 
aion  made  a  good  appearance.  The  battalion  from  the  Third  Reg- 
iment, under  the  gallant  Colonel  O'Connor,  was  greeted  with 
great  applause.  The  literary  exercises  were  held  at  Woodward's 
Gardens.  L.  P.  Marais  was  President  of  the  Day.  In  the  even, 
ing  there  were  fireworks  at  the  Gardens  and  a  ball  in  the  Pa- 
vilion. The  Cercle  Francais  banquet  on  Wednesday  night,  at  the 
club  rooms,  was  a  great  success.  President  Em.  Raas  was  toast- 
master,  and  patriotic  sentiments  were  responded  to  by  many  of 

the  orators  present. 

»  #  » 

An  incident  occurred  on  last  Saturday  which  was  overlooked 
by  the  police  reporters  in  the  flurry  which  followed  the  powder 
explosion.  The  son  of  one  of  the  most  prominent  physicians  in 
the  State  outside  of  this  city,  being  short  of  cocaine  and  also  of 
the  necessary  funds  to  procure  a  supply,  conceived  the  idea  of 
forging  an  order  for  the  drug  on  a  drug-store.  He  selected  as  his 
first  victim  the  firm  of  Langley  &  Michaels.  Securing  the  ser- 
vices of  a  messenger  boy,  he  dispatched  him  with  an  order  for  co- 
caine, opium  and  several  brands  of  patent  medicine,  signing  the 
name  of  a  well-known  dealer  in  this  city.  The  boy  happened  to 
run  across  a  clerk  who  was  born  and  raised  in  the  vicinity  of  a 
powder  factory,  and  he  noticed  something  peculiar  in  the  signa- 
ture of  the  dealer,  who  happened  to  be  an  old  customer.  The 
clerk  sent  for  a  detective  at  once.  The  boy  was  then  given  the 
patent  medicines,  and  followed.  When  he  delivered  the  package 
to  a  man  waiting  a  couple  of  blocks  off,  both  were  arrested  and 
taken  to  the  city  prison.  When  the  identity  of  the  young  man 
was  discovered  he  was  discharged  with  a  caution.  When  searched, 
another  order  was  found  on  him  drawn  on  the  firm  of  Redington 
&  Co.,  which  was  evidently  intended  to  be  used  in  case  the  first 
had  failed.  It  is  lucky  for  some  people  that  their  fathers  were 
born  before  them. 

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Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago, 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


THE  Hale  &  Norcross  case  is  not  ended  yet  by  any  means,  and 
before  many  days  have  passed  there  will  be  some  interesting 
developments  which  will  place  the  matter  in  a  new  light  before 
the  public.  In  other  words,  there  will  be  a  change  of  base  all 
around,  and  those  who  have  been  the  most  prominent  in  a  com- 
bined attack  upon  personal  character  will  find  their  powers  taxed 
to  defend  themselves,  instead  of  forcing  the  fighting.  First  and 
foremost  will  be  Superior  Judge  J.  C.  B.  Hebbard,  who  will  be 
impeached  in  due  course  of  time  by  the  defendants.  A  close  and 
critical  analysis  of  his  decision,  in  what  bids  fair  to  become  a 
celebrated  case,  has  revealed  a  number  of  discrepancies,  and  a 
disregard  for  facts,  proven  by  the  evidence,  which  are  simply 
astounding,  more  especially  when  the  magnitude  of  the  judg- 
ment is  remembered.  The  alleged  conspiracy  was  based  accord 
ing  to  this  decision  on  the  proposition  that  the  stockholders  of 
the  company  suffered  a  loss  of  legitimate  profits  during  the 
period  covered  by  the  complainant,  which  extended  over 
the  statutory  term  of  three  years,  from  September,  1890 
back  to  1887.  In  an  attempt  to  maintain  this  point 
Judge  Hebbard,  in  his  decision,  goes  onto  say  "  that  out  of  a 
mass  of  88,887  tons  of  ore  dug  out  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  during 
the  years  1887,  1888,  1889  and  up  to  July  1st,  1890,  showing  a  val- 
uation by  car  sample  of  $3,505,361,  and  crushed  at  the  Vivian, 
Mexican  and  Nevada  {or  Chollar)  Mills,  not  one  cent  was  ever  re- 
ceived by  the  stockholders  in  the  shape  of  profits.  There  was 
one  dividend  of  $112,000  declared  during  that  time,  but  there 
were  also  two  assessments  of  $112,000  each  levied  dur- 
ing the  same  time,  making  $224,000  of  assessments  as 
against  $112,000  of  dividends,  and  therefore  a  net  loss  to  the 
stockholders  during  those  three  years  and  a  half  of  $112,000,  in- 
stead of  any  profit  whatever."  This  is  the  main  point  at  issue, 
which  justifies  the  decision  rendered  against  the  plaintiff.  It  will 
be  a  surprise  to  a  great  many  people  who  have  only  read  the  be- 
ginning and  tail  end  of  this  decision  to  learn  that  the  statement 
is  absolutely  incorrect  and  misleading. 
91  S 

THERE  were  not  two  assessments  levied  from  the  time  the  ore 
was  discovered  in  Hale  &  Norcross,  in  the  latter  part  of  1887, 
down  to  the  commencement  of  this  suit.  When  the  last  levy 
was  made,  in  July,  1887,  prior  to  the  strike,  there  was  not  a 
pound  of  ore  opened  up  in  the  mine  worth  taking  out.  From 
that  date,  and  during  the  period  embraced  in  the  complaint,  but 
one  assessment  of  $56,000  was  collected,  and  that  was  levied  on 
April  9th,  1890.  Instead  of  only  one  dividend  being  paid  during 
the  period  intervening  from  the  discovery  of  ore,  in  1887,  and  up 
to  July  1,  1890,  ho  less  than /our  were  disbursed  among  the  share- 
holders, aggregating  $224,000.  In  addition  to  this,  the  indebted- 
ness of  the  mine,  amounting  to  $30,000  at  the  time  the  ore  was 
found,  was  also  paid  out  of  the  profits,  together  with  all  the 
expenses  of  the  mine  for  the  period  named. 

HOW  Judge  Hebbard  arrived  at  the  "  net  loss  to  the  stockholders 
during  those  three  years  and  a  half  of  $112,000,"  is  a  question 
which  it  is  proposed  to  find  out.  He  had  the  books  of  the  com- 
pany before  him,  and  furthermore  it  is  in  evidence  that  Mr. 
Wood,  attorney  for  the  defense,  called  the  attention  of  the  court 
to  the  statement  of  Mr.  Baggett,  representing  the  plaintiff,  that 
only  one  dividend  was  declared  during  the  period  referred  to, 
offering  at  the  same  time  documentary  proofs  of  the  correct  num- 
ber and  the  various  amounts.  In  face  of  this,  however,  Judge 
Hebbard  ignores  the  facts  as  represented  on  the  trial,  to  the 
detriment  of  the  defendants.  It  was  on  this  point  of  dividends 
and  assessments  that  the  whole  case  hinged,  and  yet  we  find  the 
court  completely  reversing  their  order,  only  one  dividend  out  of 
four  being  recognized  in  his  decision,  while  the  assessments  are 
swelled  from  one  of  $56,000  to  two  of  $112,000  each,  aggregating 
$224,000.  Irrespective  of  what  the  defendants  may  think  or  do 
in  regard  to  such  a  strange  discrepancy  in  figures,  which  has 
borne  so  heavily  against  them,  the  public  will  naturally  look  for 
an  explanation  of  such  a  strange  proceeding.  A  strong  exception 
will  also  be  taken  by  some  of  the  defendants  to  what  is  consid- 
ered a  display  of  animus  in  the  allusion  to  the  uncertainty  re- 
garding the  disposition  of  Levy's  one-eighth,  and  also  to  the 
statement  that  the  notice  and  demand  was  served  individually 
upon  the  Board  of  Directors. 

f  $  $ 

NOW,  in  regard  to  the  defendants' liability.  Judge  Hebbard 
holds  that  the  stockholders  have  been  damaged  to  the  extent 
of  $1,011,835.  He  arrives  at  this  conclusion  by  the  very  ingeni- 
ous method  of  substituting  actual  bullion  returns  for  the  assay 


value  of  the  pulp.  He  places  a  value  of  $3,505,361,  whether 
right  or  wrong,  as  the  case  may  be,  on  the  88,887  tons  of  ore  ex- 
tracted during  the  three  years  mentioned  in  the  complaint.  From 
this  amount  he  deducts  $10  per  ton  as  the  difference  between  the 
car  sample  assay  value  and  the  value  in  bullion,  which  is  not  only 
ridiculous  and  preposterous,  but  entirely  contrary  to  the  evidence 
presented  and  concurred  in  by  both  sides  during  the  trial.  From 
every  car  of  ore,  as  it  comes  out  of  the  mine  on  its  way  to  the 
mill,  the  foreman  takes  a  handful,  indiscriminately.  This  is  put 
in  a  bag,  and  at  the  end  of  the  day  the  mass  is  assayed  as  a  check 
against  the  mill,  which  in  turn  furnishes  the  pulp  assay  values. 
There  is  always  a  wide  difference  between  the  car  sample  and 
pulp  assays,  and  in  this  or  any  other  case  $10  is  a  very  moderate 
allowance  for  the  variation.  The  ore  in  pulp  is  itself  subject  to 
a  heavy  reduction  during  the  treatment  to  which  it  is  subjected 
in  converting  it  into  bullion. 

Ml 

ON  the  Comstock,  when  65  per  cent,  of  the  pulp  assay  value 
is  recovered,  it  is  considered  fair  enough,  and  in  many  mines, 
here  and  elsewhere,  it  has  been  the  misfortune  of  the  owners  to  be 
out  of  pocket  through  an  inability  to  save  the  metal  in  ores 
which  have  run  high,  in  both  the  car  samples  and  pulp  assays. 
It  is  evident,  therefore,  that  there  is  a  very  material  difference 
between  the  value  of  ore  as  it  is  assayed  from  the  car  and  the 
actual  return  in  bullion  after  passing  through  the  reduction  pro- 
cess. Judge  Hebbard,  however,  has  ignored  all  this  in  his  de- 
cision, although  the  greatest  stress  was  laid  on  this  point,  so  as 
to  make  it  as  clear  as  possible  for  his  benefit.  He  simply  takes 
a  car  sample  and  slashes  off  $10,  to  obtain  the  actual  return  in 
bullion,  ignoring  altogether  the  difference  between  the  ore  and 
pulp  assays;  the  loss  in  the  treatment  and  the  actual  value  of  the 
bullion;  allowing  for  the  different  percentages  of  gold  and  silver, 
and  the  heavy  loss  in  discount  on  the  latter.  This  may  all  seem 
very  right  and  proper  to  Judge  Hebbard  and  his  friends,  but  with 
the  majority  of  people,  legal  opinions  based  on  such  absurdities 
will  not  carry  much  weight. 

It  i 

BY  such  a  loose  method  of  calculation,  there  is  little  difficulty 
in  swelling  the  bullion  return  of  any  mine  up  into  the  rail- 
lions,  and  the  hint  may  be  worth  something  in  the  future  to  a 
certain  class  of  mining  promoters,  who  live  by  their  wits.  Tak- 
ing the  very  fignres  of  the  judgment,  but  calculating  correctly 
and  in  accordance  with  the  evidence,  shows  a  very  material 
difference  in  the  results.  The  value  by  car  samples  of  the  88,887 
tons  of  ore  extracted,  as  estimated  by  Judge  Hebbard,  is  $3,505,- 
361.  Deducting  $10  per  ton  for  the  difference  between  the  car  sam- 
ple value  and  the  pulp  assay  value  of  the  ore,  leaves  $2,616,491 — . 
the  amount  quoted  by  the  court  as  the  value  in  bullion.  Allow- 
ing 74  per  cent,  for  the  returns  from  the  pulp,  the  actual  bullion 
recovered  is  worth,  nominally,  $1,936,204,  a  very  material  differ- 
ence from  $2,616,204,  shown  by  erroneous  calculation  in  the 
judgment.  The  statement  of  Judge  Hebbard  goes  on  to  show 
that  the  amount  of  bullion  returned  to  the  company  was  $1,826,- 
873,  which,  deducted  from  $1,936,204.  the  actual  bullion  return, 
leaves  an  apparent  deficit  of  $109,331  in  bullion,  which  should 
have  been  accounted  for  to  the  company.  What  was  this  bul- 
lion worth?  That  is  the  next  question.  Like  all  other  Com- 
stock bullion,  that  of  the  Hale  &  Norcossruns  about  two-thirds  in 
silver,  and  about  one-third  in  gold.  On  this  basis  the  66  per  cent, 
returned  in  silver,  allowing  a  moderate  discount  of  35  per  cent, 
on  sales,  leaves  a  market  value  of  $46,903.  To  this  must  be 
added  34  per  cent.,  or  $36,193,  the  value  of  the  gold,  showing  a 
total  deficit  for  three  years'  working  of  only  $84,076,  or  less  than 
$1  per  ton  on  88,887  tons,  the  total  amount  of  ore  extracted  from 
the  mines  during  that  period.  This  is  rather  a  material  reduction 
on  the  deficit  of  $789,618,  which  Judge  Hebbard  finds  by  his  pe- 
culiar method  of  calculating  ore  values. 

J  f  5 

BUT  he  does  not  stop  here.  A  deficit  of  the  magnitude  estab- 
lished on  his  theory  constitutes  a  fraud.  No  one  will  deny  this, 
but  the  fraud  lies  in  the  method  of  manipulating  the  figures  so  as 
to  obtain  such  an  outrageous  result.  The  defendants,  however, 
must  suffer  the  penalty  as  the  decision  shows.  They  are  fined  in 
profits  on  milling  at  the  rate  of  $2.50  per  ton  on  the  total  output 
of  88,887  tons.  This  amounts  to  $222,217,  which  is  tacked 
on  the  alleged  deficit  of  $789,618,  to  make  up  a  round  mil- 
lion. The  decision  expresses  a  different  view  of  these  milling 
profits  in  another  paragraph.  There  the  Judge  remarks,  when 
discussing  the  charge  that  $7  per  ton  was  an  exorbitant  and  ex- 
cessive rate:  «  If  the  case  depended  upon  this  allegation 
alone  the  proofs  would  hardly  support  any  judgment  against 
the  defendants;  that  is  to  say,  the  mill-owners  would  be  entitled 
to  make  as  large  profits  as  they  might  honestly  make."  Of  the 
total  ore  output  referred  to,  5,000  tons  were  worked  at  the  Vivian 
mill,  owned  by  outside  parties  altogether,  but  still  the  defendants 
in  the  Norcross  case  are  fined  in  the  profits  on  this  transaction. 
These  are  a  few  of  the  points  which  will  be  raised  by  the  defend- 
ants, aDd  there  are  others  to  follow  of  equally  vital  importance. 
There  will  be  no  compromise  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  suit.  It 
will  be  fought  by  the  defendants  to  the  bitter  end. 


July  16,  : 


FRANCISl  0  NEWS  I  ETTER. 


IT 


'Hear  the  Drtai What  the  deTll  art  thou  r 

One  that  wlltplir  the  devil.  »lr.  with  you.** 


H 


OMK  from  the  Coliseum. 

Home  from  the  Appian   Way, 

Back  to  the  scenes  of  triumphs  dead, 

Of  lambs  dispersed,  and  lambkins  tied, 

Chris  Buckley  comes  to-day. 

Who  goeth   forth   to  meet    him 

With  fife  and  thunderous  drum  ? 

Who  throngs  around  his  chariot  wheels, 

Wbn  by  his  haughty  presence  kneels, 

Who  to  his  hand  petition  steals  ? 
Is  all  the  city  dumb  ? 

And  yet  it  seems  but  yesterday 

Wbea  home  from  foreign    shore. 
The  leaders  came,  retainers  rushed 
To  train,  boat,  carriage,  wildly  crushed 

To  hail  their  chief  once    more. 

The  festal  board  was  gayly  spread, 

On  ice  the  wine  was  laid, 
Placed  at  the  groaning  table's  head, 
The  while  the  merry  moments  fled. 
He  was  their  toast,  they  owed  him  bread, 

Aud  tribute  freely  paid. 

He  played  the  game  with  daring  skill, 

And  masterful  and  bold, 
With   mighty  band  grasped  bis  reward, 
Moved  every  piece  upon  the  board, 
With  will  of  iron  ruled  bis  horde, 

And  gathered  in  bis  gold. 

The  reckless  few  that  scorned  his  sway, 

And  dared  the  leader's    wrath, 
Beheld  their  fond  ambitions  fail, 
Their  very  friends  their  hopes  assail, 
And  withered  by  the  blasting  gale, 

Were  swept  from   Buckley's  path. 

A  new  regime  confronts  him  now, 

Though  past  friends  rule  the  roost, 

The  new  has  triumphed  o'er  the  old, 

And  those  are  high  within  the  fold, 

Who  e'en  when  in  his  ranks  enrolled, 
To  down  him  was  their  boast. 

He  comes,  a  sad,  converted  man, 

Content  to  stand  alone, 
And   mark  the  Democratic  pot, 
Simmer  and  steam,  and  then  grow  hot, 
But  who  may  say  that  Chris  is  not 

A  power  behind  the  throne? 

AS  a  matter  of  course  our  California  wines  will  make  another 
struggle  for  recognition  at  the  World's  Fair.  If  we  ponder 
upon  those  few  figures  representing  the  costs  of  shipment  of  the 
late  firm  of  Alfred  Greenebaum  &  Co.,  we  may  arrive  at  the  qual- 
ity of  the  wine  our  friends  beyond  the  mountains  receive  as  a 
sample  of  what  we  can  do  in  wine-making  in  the  ultimate  West. 
The  cost  of  a  case  of  California  wine  bottles,  case  and  bottling, 
without  the  wines,  is  $1  65.  To  lay  down  this  case  in  New  Or- 
leans, without  the  wines,  cost  this  firm  that  used  to  be,  $2  25. 
To  put  the  wine  in  those  bottles  costs  Mr.  Greenebaum  just  25 
cents,  and  this  stuff,  with  all  its  glamor  of  good  bottles,  good 
corks,  glittering  caps,  elaborate  labels  and  precious  cases,  was 
offered  to  the  people  as  a  trustworthy  sample  of  our  California 
red  wines.  Knowing  something  about  clarets,  the  California  ar- 
ticle was  very  properly  condemned  as  very  poor  stuff.  And  this 
is  just  the  business  that  has  given  California  a  black  eye  wherever 
shipped  by  gentlemen  of  the  same  financial  yearning  as  gentle- 
men fortunately  recently  deceased. 

I  HAVE  been  creditably  informed  that  among  the  places 
for  the  exhibits  of  curios  from  this  State,  there  will  be  a  stall 
set  aside  for  the  display  of  California  millionaires.  Mr.  David 
Jacks,  of  Monterey,  will  occupy  stall  No.  1.  His  warm  friend 
and  mentor,  Mr.  Asa  Fisk,  will  occupy  the  adjoining  enclosure. 
Willis  Polk,  the  gifted  young  architect,  will  paint  the  sign  for 
this  interesting  department.  It  will  be  an  apotheosis  of  usury, 
representing  Messrs.  Jacks  and  Fisk  arrayed  in  garments  affected 
by  the  luxurious  Roman  in  the  days  of  Caligula,  careering  in 
gilded  chariots  over  a  corduroy  road  of  gaping  skulls.  Far  off 
in  the  misty  clouds  will  be  discerned  the  yearning  and  pathetic 
face  oE  Counsellor  Clarke,  who  tried  the  pleasing  game,  but  got 
knocked  out  at  the  close  of  a  misguided  compound  interest  life 
an  unaccountable  failure  to  call  the  turns. 


AUBREY  «  fir  bat  broktn  out  In  the  camp  of  the  arlltita.  A 
btff  alga  tor  the  California  department  ol  Ilia  World's  Fair  is 
needed,  and  they  all  want  a  brush  in  the  pie,  because  in  these 
days  Of  ehromos  and  steel  engravings  and  etchings,  paint  on 
canvas  la  at  ft  discount.  Therefore  the  despondent  brethren  of 
the  brnsh  have  concluded  thai  in  order  to  hold  their  own  they 
must  double  the  quantity  of  their  canvases  and  spread  on  the 
pigment  with  a  lavish  hand.  And  who  can  blame  them  ?  Time 
was  when  the  San  Francisco  artist  really  found  in  art  a  profitable 
occupation.  Picture  buyers —  men  like  Tiburcio  Parrott,  W.  II 
L.  Barnes,  John  T.  Doyle,  and  many  others,  with  a  host  of  ladies 
added,  visited  the  San  Francisco  studio,  looked  at  the  artists' 
sketches,  and  bought  the  pictures  on  the  easel, or  from  the  rough 
studies  ordered  the  painting  that  suited  them.  There  was  no  pot 
boiling  in  those  days.  The  painters  knew  that  if  they  turned 
out  a  good  picture  they  got  their  price  for  it.  Now  sign  painting 
and  fake  sales  are  in  the  ascendancy.  I  know  one  of  the  most 
promising  young  men  that  ever  put  brush  to  canvas,  who  was 
commended  by  his  teacher  in  Munich  for  his  industry  and  talent, 
who  is  now  painting  absurd  landscapes,  and  turning  them  out  at 
the  rate  of  three  a  day,  and  yet  withal  he  has  not  been  able  to 
utterly  destroy  the  golden  promise  of  bis  youth.  Genius, 
smothered  and  semi-strangled,  it  is  true,  but  still  genius  is  ap- 
parent in  those  pictures,  which  net  the  comfortable  income  of 
five  dollars  a  day,  paid  invariably  in  advance. 

THE  Rev.  Junius  Laertes  Hatch  has  a  knack  of  bobbing  up 
serenely  in  those  cases  which  the  conscientious  reporter  clas- 
sifies under  the  head  of  domestic  infelicity.  The  last  time  this 
Reverend  austere  gentleman  appeared  upon  the  stage  was  under 
circumstances  which  received  wide  publicity.  A  fond  and  foolish 
old  lady  in  the  Western  Addition  married  a  young  and  giddy 
barber,  grew  jealous  of  him,  as  a  matter  of  course,  and  the  Rev. 
Junius  was  called  in  as  amicus  curiae,  and  he  did  prove  so  wonder- 
fully friendly  tbat  when  the  old  lady  died  he  was  kindly  remem- 
bered in  her  will.  But  the  implacable  courts  broke  the  will  and 
Mr.  Hatch  in  despair  moved  his  residence  to  Oakland  and  took 
to  horse  flesh.  Now,  after  nearly  two  years  of  retirement  from 
the  domestic  infelicity  arena,  we  hear  of  him  as  the  protector  of 
an  Alameda  county  choir  singer,  who  is  known  as  the  Swedish 
nightingale.  The  protector,  it  seems,  was  only  in  name,  for  the 
nightingale,  as  becomes  her  Norse  ancestry,  is  a  stalwart  and 
muscular  lady,  and  Mr.  Hatch  tips  the  scales  in  the  close  vicinity 
of  a  hundred  pounds.  The  inevitable  followed.  The  doctor 
made  a  request  for  some  moneys  advanced  to  the  nightingale, 
and  that  sweet  singing  bird  fastened  her  claws  in  the  old  gentle- 
man's anatomy,  beat  him  sorely  witb  her  wing,  pierced  him  with 
her  rosy  but  ravening  beak,  and  then  threw  him  down  stairsjf  If 
this  does  not  prove  a  warning  to  Mr.  Hatch  to  keep  clear  of 
warring  wives  and  husbands  may  the  next  lady  land  him  beyond 
that  bourne  where  marriages  and  divorces  have  no  abiding  place. 

THIS  destruction  of  palates  by  the  epicurean  rich  is  a  rapidly 
growing  and  alarming  evil.  Some  months  ago  I  called  atten- 
tion to  this  cruelty,  and  showed  that  the  victim  had  taken  a  pos- 
itive dislike  to  steaks,  chops  and  plain  food  generally,  and  kept 
moaning  in  his  delirium  for  sweetbreads,  omlette  souffle,  and  vol 
au  vents.  His  destroyer  permitted  him  to  become  convalescent, 
but,  alas,  seized  on  him  one  day  this  week  and  filled  him  up 
again  with  choice  pates  and  burgundy.  Now  the  relapse  is  more 
acute  than  the  first  attack,  and  the  wretched  epicure,  left  once 
more  to  the  gruesome  mercy  of  a  boiled  dinner,  is  willing  to  pledge 
his  bouse  and  lot  to  feed  the  undying  worm  which  will  be  sa- 
tiated only  by  French  cookery. 

SOME  time  ago  the  dailies  commented  severely  on  the  brutality 
of  the  London  mob  that  hit  Mr.  Gladstone  in  the  eye  with  an 
onion,  and  squelched  Stanley's  political  aspirations  under  a 
shower  of  dead  cats.  They  piously  remarked  that  we  had  nothing 
of  that  kind  of  a  mob  in  this  free  and  enlightened  country.  It 
must  be  allowed  that  the  Coeur  d'Alene  gang  and  the  Homestead 
people  have  raised  more  pure  devilment  in  one  week  than  the 
combined  atrocities  of  old  country  mobs  for  years  past.  Without 
dwelling  upon  the  rights  or  wrongs  of  the  business,  both  of  those 
emeutes  have  positively  attained  the  dignity  of  a  civil  war. 

SMILES,  beaming  smiles  wreathe  the  faces  of  the  candidates, 
for  lot  the  lust  for  place  is  abroad  in  the  land,  and  hundreds 
have  selected  the  positions  they  will  accept  at  the  hands  of  a 
grateful  party.  Though  the  times  be  hard,  the  polished  surface 
of  the  bar  will  ring  to  the  clash  of  the  silver  dollar,  as  the  bland 
candidate  for  popularity  performs  the  first  political  duty  of  every 
aspirant  to  office. 

THE  summer  has  almost  gone  by,  unproductive  of  a  solitary 
seaside  or  mineral  spring  scandal.  What  blight  has  fallen 
upon  the  merry  grass-widows  who  were  wont  to  be  so  gay?  Or 
has  the  depressing  pale  of  discretion  smothered  those  frolics 
which  were  the  delight  of  "our  special  correspondent?"  It  begins 
to  look  alarmingly  like  it. 

IT  was  Lord  Brougham  who  defined  a  lawyer  as  "  a  legal  gentle- 
man who  rescues  your  estate  from  your  enemies,  and  keeps  it 
himself."  The  definition  stands  for  the  average  "  legal  gentle- 
man" of  to-day. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


THE  cry  of  the  real  estate  agent  is  still  "  business  is  dull." 
There  are  in  the  city  from  4,000  to  6,000  empty  houses,  and 
yet  new  houses  are  being  steadily  built  in  the  Western  Addition, 
the  vicinity  of  the  Park  and  in  the  Mission.  The  building  specu- 
lators continue  to  put  up  rows  of  houses  and  series  of  detached 
dwellings  of  steadily  more  and  more  expensive  style.  The  situa- 
tion is  then  evidently  one  of  dull  times  and  abundance  of  money. 
The  banks  with  their  heavy  deposits  support  the  latter  state- 
ment and  help  to  prove  the  existence  of  this  anomalous  condi- 
tion, if  proof  be  necessary.  The  dullness  is  not  due  to  the  lack 
of  money;  there  is  no  hampering  for  lack  of  funds.  What  there 
is  a  lack  of  is — enterprise.  Not  the  enterprise  which  builds 
houses,  but  the  enterprise  which  builds  cities.  No  more  convinc- 
ing proof  of  this  can  be  offered  than  the  Assessor's  supplementary 
reports  on  our  manufactures  for  the  past  two  or  three  years.  The 
wealthy  nations  of  the  old  and  new  world  are  the  manufacturing 
nations;  the  thriving  cities  are  those  which  team  with  factories, 
In  this  respect  San  Francisco  is  wofully  backward.  The  manu- 
facturing development  of  the  city  by  the  Golden  Gate  is  an  un- 
known quantity,  and  though  a  new  railroad  would  help  such  a 
development  it  will  not  create  enterprise.  The  reports  of  our 
manufacturers  show  that  they  are  in  the  same  condition  as  they 
were  years  ago;  that  in  proportion  to  the  age  and  population  of 
the  city  no  advancement  worthy  of  the  name  is  being  made.  The 
Chamber  of  Commerce  which  is  always  casting  about  in  search 
of  outside  causes  for  depression,  and  which  is  continually  em- 
balming itself  in  long  drawn  out  and  meaningless  resolutions, 
had  better  look  for  inside  causes.  A  microscope  will  fail  to  dis- 
cover the  inducements  to  a  competing  road,  to  steamship  and 
clipper  ship  lines. 

The  spirit  of  verbosity  is  and  always  has  been  rampant,  and 
the  spirit  of  enterprise  is  a  much-talked-of  stranger.  The  man 
who  is  continually  looking  about  for  help  instead  of  putting  his 
shoulder  to  the  wheel  will  remain,  and  will  rot  in  the  rut  in 
which  he  has  stuck  fast. 

In  the  absence  of  manufacturing  developments,  advance  in  real 
estate  business  is  not  to  be  expected.  The  number  of  vacant 
houses  must  increase,  and  the  progress  in  building  must  halt. 
The  inter-dependence  of  business  is  such  in  any  community  that 
in  time  the  lack  of  enterprise  must  gradually  tell  upon  every 
branch  of  trade.  The  League  of  Progress  and  the  Traffic  Associa- 
tion suggest  that  business  men  are  awake  to  the  fact  that  some 
decided  steps  must  be  taken,  and  they  wisely  state  in  their  plat- 
forms that  their  objects  are  to  do  anything  and  everything  which 
will  add  to  and  foster  the  industries  of  the  State.  They  do  not 
confine  themselves  to  the  securing  of  a  competing  line,  but  also 
to  the  consideration  of  inducements  to  a  road  to  compete,  and  in 
this  encouragement  to  enterprise  possibilities  of  salvation  lies. 

So  far  as  actual  buying  and  selling  in  real  estate  is  concerned 
agents  are  making  the  best  showing  they  can,  and  many  quote 
sales,  which  in  other  times  would  be  considered  too  small  to  men- 
tion, merely  to  show  that  there  is  something  doing.  One  sale  in 
down  town  business  property  was  made  during  the  week,  and 
has  not  been  made  public  yet.  McAfee,  Baldwin  &  Hammond 
made  the  deal  for  $65,000,  but  particulars  are  temporarily  with- 
held. 

The  News  Lettee  drew  attention  a  fortnight  ago  to  the  mistake 
of  allowing  unlimited  deposits  in  savings  banks.  These  institu- 
tions are  now  refusing  to  accept  large  sums.  The  demand  for 
money  is  a  little  better,  but  is  not  anything  like  on  a  par  with  the 
supply. 

Park  property  is  quiet.  O'Farrell  and  Lang  have  made  one 
or  two  fair  sales,  including  an  inside  lot  25x102 :8  on  the  south  side 
of  Clay,  between  Central  avenue  and  Walnut  for  $4,800. 

O.  F.  von  Rhein  &  Co.  will  hold  an  auction  sale  this  month, 
and  will  offer  the  Presbyterian  Church,  fittings,  and  lot  75x80 
on  Golden  Gate  avenue  and  Polk.  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  will 
offer  at  public  auction  a  miscellaneous  catalogue  on  Tuesday 
next,  including  several  Western  Addition  houses,  Mission  dwell- 
ings and  a  number  of  small  lots  in  Precita  Valley. 

A  Seattle  capitalist  has  purchased  the  lot  137:6x100  on  the 
southwest  corner  of  Golden  Gate  avenue  and  Steiner,  and  intends 
improving  it  with  aresidence  and  twelve  flats. 

The  Comttjck  market  has  been  weak  and  dull  during  the  weak, 
with  little  outside  inquiry  for  even  the  better  class  of  stocks.  Busi- 
ness with  the  brokers  is  at  low  ebb,  but  the  majority  of  them  are 
still  hopeful  that  they  will  be  in  the  swim  again.  The  proposi- 
tion to  sell  the  Exchange  building  is  still  bruited,  and  several  of 
the  members  talked  themselves  hoarse  in  the  affirmative  at  the 
last  executive  session  on  Wednesday.  In  view  of  the  dismal 
prospects  it  is  little  wonder  that  the  men  of  small  means  favor  a 
reduction  of  expenses,  which  would  follow  a  retirement  to  some 
less  pretentious  establishment,  and  besides  the  dividend  from  the 
proceeds  of  the  sale  would  be  of  great  assistance  financially.  The 
strongest  stocks  at  present  are  those  of  the  North  End  mines. 
They  are  well  concentrated  in  strong  hands,  and  the  lightest  de- 


mand affects  prices  favorably.  There  is  some  talk  about  the  re- 
turn of  John  W.  Mackay,  about  the  end  of  the  month.  Assess- 
ments continue  to  come  in  well,  which  proves  that  some  people 
have  confidence  in  the  situaticn.  At  the  Belcher  sale,  held  re- 
cently, only  300  shares  were  soJd,  which  is  the  smallest  amount 
on  record  for  that  company.  The  Tuscarora  and  other  outside 
stocks  are  in  light  demand,  with  prices  weak. 

Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething.    Price,  26  cents  a  bottle. 

THE 

BRUNSWICK-BALKE- 
COLLENDER  CO. 


THE  MONARCH 

Manufacturers  of  Billiard  and  Pool  Tables. 

Dealers  in  Billiard  Merchandise  Generally. 

Makers  of  Bank  and  Office  Fixtures. 

Also,  Saloon  Fixtures,  Counters,  Coolers,  Mirrors,  etc.,  con- 
stantly on  hand  or  made  to  order.  Ten  Pin  Alleys,  Ten  Pins, 
Ten  Pin  Balls,  etc. 

653-655  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

General  Agents  Oceanic  Steamship  Company  and 
Gillingham  Cement. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

MR.  AND  MME.  J.  H.  ROSEWALD, 

Will  Resume  Giving  Instructions  on  August  1st.    Ap-I 
plicant8  for  time  will  please  call  on  friday  or  satur- 
DAY, July  29,  30,  From  2  to  4  p.  m,  at  922  Geary  St. 

HUMBOLDT  SAVINSS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY.  ~ 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

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each  week,  $1.50  per  month ;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week.  $1.00  per 
6  month;  6  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week.  $1.25  per  month. 


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TM  K  most  important  matter  now  being  considered  by  the  under- 
writers is  the  proposition  of  Leo  Zagat  to  handle  and  dispose  of  all 
fire  damaged  stock  in  behalf  of  the  underwriters.  It  is  a  scheme 
which  has  been  in  successful  operation  in  Chicago  and  other  East- 
ern cities  for  some  time  past,  but  has  never  been  in  practice  on 
this  coast.  Mr.  Zagat  proposes  to  take  full  charge  of  the  stock 
soon  after  the  fire,  be  responsible  for  it.  state  its  value  as  it  lay 
and  the  time  required  and  cost  of  handling  and  potting  it  in  order 
for  the  market.  He  would  then  buy  the  stock,  or  work  for  the 
nnderwriters  on  commission.  They  should  furnish  a  warehouse 
for  storing  the  stock,  and  in  which  it  might  be  repaired  and  sold. 
In  the  cases  wherein  he  traveled  outside  the  city  he  should  be 
considered  in  the  employ  of  the  underwriters,  and  should  receive 
traveling  expenses  and  pay  for  time  until  the  stock  be  stored  in 
San  Francisco.  For  the  faithful  performance  of  engagements  with 
the  underwriters  he  would  furnish  good  and  sufficient  bonds 
whenever  required.  A  meeting  of  underwriters  was  held 
at  the  rooms  of  the  Union  on  Thursday  afternoon  to 
consider  the  matter.  Mr.  Zagat  wag  present,  and  explained 
bis  proposition,  and  a  committee,  of  which  Mr.  George 
D.  Dornin  is  chairman,  was  appointed  to  consider  and  report 
upon  it.  The  salvage  problem  is  one  of  the  most  important  be- 
fore the  underwriters.  The  difficulty  of  properly  estimating  the 
amount  of  damage  done  a  general  merchandise  stock  by  a  fire 
seems  almost  insurmountable.  For  instance,  at  a  fire  in  a  whole- 
sale clothing  house  not  long  since,  an  estimate  was  made  by  one 
adjuster  that  the  total  loss  on  damaged  stock  was  $7,500.  The 
firm  claimed  over  $100,000.  Expert  clothiers  and  adjusters  fixed 
the  damage  at  from  $10,000  to  $90,000.  The  amount  allowed  the 
firm  was  $84,000.  If  there  were  a  salvage  store,  the  difficulty  of 
fixing  the  amount  of  damage  could  be  overcome  by  sending  the 
damaged  goods  to  the  store,  and  selling  them  at  what  they  would 
bring.  Such  sales  always  attract  crowds  of  customers,  and  the 
damaged  goods  sell  like  hot  cakes.  Instances  have  been  known 
of  merchants  who  took  advantage  of  the  sale  of  fire  damaged 
goods  to  work  off  their  old  stocks  which  had  become  shopworn. 
The  salvage  scheme  is  a  good  one.  Whether  it  would  pay  in  this 
city  is  a  question,  for  a  large  stock  would  be  needed  to  keep  the 
store  going.  Damaged  goods,  however,  could  be  shipped  here 
from  various  points.  The  Chicago  salvage  store  receives  goods 
from  all  over  the  East  and  South. 

Bromwell,  Fowler  &  Co.,  will  soon  be  well  established  in 
their  new  offices  at  313  California  street.  The  entry  of  this 
new  firm  into  the  field  has  caused  something  of  a  shaking-up 
among  the  offices  on  the  Bourse,  where  of  late  several  agencies 
have  been  taking  matters  quietly.  Both  Messrs.  Bromwell  and 
Fowler  have  been  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  for  years  in 
this  city,  and  are  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the 
Coast  and  the  East.  Colonel  L.  L.  Bromwell  waB  for  fourteen 
years  connected  with  the  California  Insurance  Company,  first  as 
General  Agent,  then  as  Secretary,  Vice-President  and  President. 
He  is  an  underwriter  of  far  more  than  usual  ability,  whose  name 
is  synonymous  with  success.  Mr.  W.  H.  C.  Fowler  was  also 
affiliated  for  many  years  with  the  California.  For  eighteen  years 
be  was  connected  with  the  company;  portion  of  the  time  being 
Marine  Secretary,  and  for  the  last  six  years  being  Secretary. 
Both  gentlemen,  on  account  of  their  long  experience,  have  inti- 
mate knowledge  of  the  condition  of  the  insurance  business  on 
this  Coast.  That  they  are  considered  highly  among  the  managers 
of  Eastern  companies  is  shown  by  the  fact  that,  notwithstanding 
the  recent  formation  of  the  firm,  it  has  already  secured 
the  general  Pacific  Coast  agency  for  three  well-known 
companies — the  People's  Fire,  of  Manchester,  the  New  York 
Bowery  and  the  United  States,  of  New  York.  These  companies 
have  been  on  the  coast  a  long  time,  and  enjoy  the  confidence  of 
all  policy  holders,  on  account  of  the  promptness  with  which  they 
pay  all  losses.  The  New  York  Bowery  dates  from  1833.  It  is  one 
of  the  oldest  and  best  established  fire  insurance  companies  in  the 
United  States,  which  can  also  be  said  of  the  United  States  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  of  New  York,  which  was  organized  in  1824. 
The  capital  of  the  Bowery  is  $300,000,  and  of  the  United  States, 
$250,000.  The  People's  Fire,  of  Manchester,  has  a  paid-up  cap- 
ital of  $500,000.  It  was  organized  in  1884.  All  three  are  first- 
class  companies.  Bromwell,  Fowler  &  Co.  will  push  their  busi- 
ness throughout  the  Coast  by  the  establishment  of  numerous 
sub-agencies.,  and  that  success  will  attend  their  efforts  there  can 
be  no  doubt. 

The  Schwabacher  loss  at  Seattle  is  being  investigated  by  A.  J. 
Wetzlar,  L.  B.  Edwards  and  G.  Driffield,  who  will  report  to  a 
committee  composed  of  W.  J.  Cunningham,  C.  D.  Haven  and 
George  W.  Spencer.     The  loss  amounted  to  $300,000. 

The  loss  on  the  Kaufmann  hardware  stock  at  Salt  Lake  City 
has  been  compromised  for  $8,000,  a  figure  much  lower  than  had 
been  anticipated. 

The  fire  waste  caused   by  the   Independence   Day  jubilation  is 


lets  than  in  former  year*,  bnt  yet  It  In  considerable.  In  the  courie 
of  human  events,  after  numerous  more  small  boys  have  been 
blown  to  atoms,  and  a  few  millions  more  have  gone  up  In  smoke, 
on  account  of  blazes  caused  by  fireworks,  the  great  American 
public  will  begin  to  appreciate  what  fools  they  have  been  making 
of  themselves. 

George  D.  Roberts,  the  well  known  mining  man  of  New  York, 
is  in  town. 

Gardner  P.  Williams,  the  well-known  South  African  mining 
man.  is  still  here,  lie  will  leave  for  the  East  within  the  next  ten 
days,  visiting  on  his  way  the  Yellowstone  Park  and  the  Calumet 
and  Hecla  mines.  He  will  then  go  to  Chicago  to  make  arrange- 
ments for  the  exhibition  of  diamonds  from  the  De  Beers  mine,  in 
Africa.  A  300-ton  lot  of  the  blue  cement  will  be  sent  to  the  ex- 
hibition, where  it  will  be  washed  and  the  diamonds  extracted. 
The  stones  will  be  cut  by  the  firm  of  Tiffany  *fc  Co.,  in  New  York. 


Statement 

Of  tne  Actual  Condition  and  Value  of  tbe  Assets  and 
JJaMUtleH  of 

PACIFIC  BANK, 

s  v\    rit  \><  IM  <>.  tAL. 

At  the  close  of  business  hours  ou  the  30th  day  of  June.  1892.  The  assets  all 
being  situate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  the  Counties  of  Al- 
ameda. Contra  Costa,  Los  Angeles,  Marion,  Santa  Clara.  San  Diego  and 
Tulare,  in  the  State  of  California,  and  in  the  County  of  Genesee,  m  the 
State  of  Michigan. 

ASSETS: 

Solvent  bills  receivable    ?2,685,171  72 

Banking  house  aud  other  real  estate 325,53181 

Sundry  stocks  and  bonds  785,144(15 

Due  Irom  solveut  banks  and  bankers 258,206  88 

Money  on  hand 782,002  01 

{4,836,057  07 
LIABILITIES. 

Capital  stock  J1,000,000  00 

Surplus  fund     800,000  00 

Undivided  profits  81,974  43 

Due  depositors  1,773,316  25 

Due  banks  and  bankers 1,140,659  99 

Due  dividends 40,108  00 

Total 54,836,057  07 

State  of  California,  I  „_ 

City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,       i 
R.  H.  McDonald,  Jr.,  Vice  President,  and  Frank  V.  McDonald,  Cashier  of 
Pacific  Bank,  do  make  oath  and  say  that  the  forgoing  statement  is  true  to 
the  best  of  their  knowledge  and  belief. 

K.  H.  MCDONALD,  Jr.,  Vice  President. 
FRANK  V.  MCDONALD,  Cashier. 
Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  this  2d  day  of  July,  A.  D.,  1892. 
E.  H.  THARP,  Notary  Public. 


Statement  of  the  Amount  of  Capital  of 

PACIFIC     BANK, 

SAN  FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA. 

At  the  close  of  business  hours  on  the  30th  day  of  June,  1892. 

A  m. Mini  Actually  paid  In  U.  S.  OoW  Coin $1,000,000  OO 

State  of  California,  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco,  ss.— R.  H.  Mc- 
Donald, Jr.,  Vice  President,  and  Frank  V.  McDonald,  Cashier  of  Pacific 
Bank,  do  make  oath  and  say  that  the  foregoing  statement  is  true  to  the 
best  of  their  knowledge  and  belief, 

R,  H.  MCDONALD,  JR.,  Vice  President. 
FRANK  V.  MCDONALD,  Cashier. 


Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  this  2d  day  of  July,  A.  D.  1892. 

E.  H.  THARP,  Notary  Public. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Virginia  and  Gold  Hill  "Water  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Virginia  and  Gold 
Hill  Water  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  16, 
Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  st.,  San  Francisco,  Cal,  on  THURSDAY, 
the  28th  day  July,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  one  (1)  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  purpose 
of  electing  a  board  to  trustees  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  for  the 
transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting. 

W.  W.  STETSON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  July  11,  1892. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Lady  Washington  Consolidated  Company. 
Office  of  Lady  Washington  Consolidated  Company,  room  S3,  Nevada 
Block  309  Montgomery  st.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  July  13,  1892.  The  annual 
meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  above  named  company  for  the  election 
of  directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other 
business  as  may  he  presented  will  be  held  on  WEDNESDAY,  July  27th 
1892  (the  last  Wednesday  in  July),  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  M., .on  that 
day  at  the  office  of  the  company  in  this  city.  Transfer  books  will  be  closed 
on  Saturday,  July  23,  at  12  o'clock  m. L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

The  Board  of  Directors  declare  a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  with 

June  30    1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent,  per  annum 

„.  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Or- 

^nary-De Wree  of  taxes,  payable  on  Uafter  Fn|ay,Ju,y  1,^ 

Office— 101  Montgomery  St.,  Cor.  Sutter,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


'■Some  Children  of  Adam,"  by  R.  M.  Manley.    The  Rose  Library,  pub- 
lished by  Worthiugtou  &  Co.,  N.  Y. 

ACHILLE  RENAUD,  a  well-educated  Frenchman,  once  a  notary 
in  a  provincial  town,  is  obliged  to  leave  his  country  in  conse- 
quence of  being  detected  in  some  act  of  dishonesty.  He  comes  to 
the  United  States  with  his  wife  and  daughter;  the  wife  lives  only 
a  short  time  and  father  and  daughter  are  left  alone.  Achille  is  a 
worthless  scoundrel  ready  to  live  on  his  daughter's  earnings,  and 
even  to  make  her  sell  herself  for  gain.  She,  however,  is  strong 
enough  to  keep  herself  pure,  and  earns  a  hard  and  precarious  ex- 
istence by  type-writing  and  copying.  Accidentally  she  meets 
with  Raymond  Franklin,  a  rich  New  Yorker,  who  is  much  at- 
tracted by  her..  Achille  is  delighted,  and  urges  his  daughter,  whose 
name  is  Desirfie,  to  make  his  infatuation  as  costly  as  possible. 
Raymond  gradually  becomes  so  enamored  of  DesirGe  that  he  can- 
not bear  to  leave  her,  and  fancying  that  his  sociaJ  position,  as  the 
representative  of  a  wealthy  family,  prevents  him  from  marrying 
her,  he  proposes  to  take  her  with  him  to  Europe.  Wishing  to 
make  her  independent,  he  settles  $30,000  upon  her,  giving  her  a 
check  for  that  amount  and  full  directions  how  to  get  it  cashed. 
Achille  overhears  these  instructions,  and  plots  to  kill  Desiree  and 
get  the  money  himself.  How  his  plot  is  foiled  and  he  is  caught 
in  his  own  trap,  and  how  the  tale  ends  as  regards  Raymond  and 
Desir6e,  we  will  leave  the  reader  to  find  out  for  himself.  Achille 
Renaud,  the  cynical,  utterly  unprincipled  man,  without  even  the 
natural  instincts  of  a  father,  is  very  well-drawn,  and  DesirSe 
seems  to  as  a  lifelike  character.  Of  the  subsidiary  characters 
the  best  is  Plato  Croxton,  an  eccentric  old  man  full  of  impossible 
schemes  for  the  amelioration  of  mankind  and  the  abolition  of  war. 


The  story  is  well  told,  in  a  plain,  clear  and  sensible  manner, 
without  any  attempt  at  high-flown  description  or  the  use  of  that 
exaggerated  language  which  the  average  novelist  seems  to  con- 
sider essential  in  a  work  of  fiction.  The  attempted  murder  of 
DesirGe  Renaud  by  her  father,  we  noticed  in  our  reading,  is  spoken 
of  in  a  strangely  misused  word,  "  infanticide."  Now,  as  she  is  a 
young  woman,  twenty  years  of  age,  she  can  hardly  be  called  an 
"  infant,"  which,  except  as  a  merely  legal  term,  means  a  child  so 
young  that  it  cannot  speak.  Mr.  Manley's  story  is  not  only 
agreeably  written,  but  is  also  accurately  printed,  in  good  type,  on 
paper  of  excellent  quality,  things  which  add  much  to  the  pleas- 
ure of  the  reader  of  taste,  and  which  delights  the  bibliophile. 
We  think  the  Rose  Library  the  handsomest  series  of  the  fifty-cent 
books  we  have  seen. 


"  Mark  Twain,  the  Story  of  his  Life  and  Work,"  by  Will  M. 
Clemens,  has  been  published  in  both  cloth  and  paper  covers  by 
the  Clemens  Publishing  Company  of  this  city.  In  this  entertain- 
ing little  volume  the  best  biography  of  the  famous  American 
humorist  yet  written  is  presented  to  his  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
admirers.  Mr.  Clemens  reviews  the  erratic  career  of  his  name- 
sake from  the  time  he  played  hookey  from  school  until  these  days 
when  he  is  a  millionaire  and  a  literary  Midas.  The  career  of 
Twain  has  been  as  picturesque  as  some  of  his  fancies,  and  his 
success  has  been  greater  thau  that  of  any  other  contemporary 
American  writer.  This  volume  contains  many  interesting  ac- 
counts of  his  adventures,  and  humorous  reminiscences  of  the 
Twain  of  the  early  days,  related,  by  those  who  knew  him  in  his 
hour  of  need.  Many  extracts  from  his  works  are  given,  and  the 
last  chapter  is  devoted  to  gems  from  his  writings.  The  volume 
is  very  interesting.  The  frontispiece  is  an  excellent  cut  of  the 
humorist. 

"Alone  on  a  Wide,  Wide  Sea;"  by  W.  Clark  Russell.  The  Broadway 
series,  published  by  Johu  A.  Taylor,  N.  Y. 

This  is  by  a  well-known  writer  of  stories  of  the  sea,  and  has  for 
its  secondary  title,  "An  Ocean  Mystery."  Agnes  Campbell,  a 
young  married  Englishwoman,  starts  out  from  a  village  on  the 
west  coast  of  England,  in  company  with  a  single  boatman,  for  an 
afternoon's  sail.  The  breeze  freshens,  the  boatman  stands  up  to 
arrange  one  of  his  sails,  is  stricken  by  heart  disease,  and  falling 
into  the  sea,  is  drowned.  A  storm  comes  on,  and  Agnes  drifts 
about  alone  in  an  open  boat.  The  agony  of  the  long  exposure 
turns  her  hair  completely  white,  and  the  mast  of  the  boat,  in 
falling,  strikes  her  head  so  heavily  that  it  injures  the  brain  and 
entirely  deprives  her  of  her  memory.  She  is  rescued  by  a  French 
brig,  which  is  soon  run  down  by  a  large  vessel,  the  Deal  Castle, 
bound  for  Sydney,  Australia.  The  captain  and  passengers  of 
the  Deal  Castle  treat  her  with  the  utmost  kindness,  but  she  re- 
mains utterly  unable  to  tell  her  name,  her  age,  or  any  single  fact 
about  her  life  prior  to  the  time  of  the  accident.  On  board,  she 
becomes  intimate  with  a  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lee,  and  on  returning 
from  Australia,  lives  with  Mrs.  Lee,  whose  daughter  died  from 
consumption  on  the  voyage  out  to  8ydney.  After  some  months 
of  absolute  loss  of  memory,  the  dead  Miss  Lee  appears  to  her  in 
a  dream,  holding  Mrs.  Campbell's  two  children  by  the  hand. 


This  startling  occurrence  restores  her  memory,  and  she  at  once 
sets  out  to  find  her  husband  and  children.  Her  husband  has 
married  her  sister,  but  the  sister  does  not  long  survive  the  shock, 
and  thus  husband,  wife  and  children  are  re-united.  The  narrative 
ol  Agnes'  ineffectual  efforts  to  remember  something  about  her 
former  life,  and  of  the  countless  suggestions  offered  by  nearly 
everybody  she  meets,  is  rather  iuterminably  spun  out,  but  with- 
out all  this  there  would  be  no  story  whatever.  Mr.  Russell's 
style  is  readable,  though  occasionally  he  becomes  a  little  wild,  as 
in  the  following  passage  descriptive  of  a  ship  moving  rapidly 
through  a  high  sea:  "The  broad  and  hissing  furrow  she  left  be- 
hind seemed  to  stream  the  very  horizon,  lifting  and  falling  straight 
as  a  lion,  like  the  scintillant  scar  of  a  shooting  star  on  the  velvet 
height  of  the  night."  This  is  what  is  perhaps  termed  "poetical 
prose,"  and  is  intended  to  be  read  as  if  written  thus: 

"  The  scintillant  scar 

Of  a  shooting  star, 

On  the  velvet  height 

Of  the  night." 
However,  the  story  is  interesting  and  manifests  that  acquaint- 
ance with  nautical  matters  for  which  itB  author  is  famous. 


Just  as  we  have  ceased  following  the  adventures  of  Nick 
Tarvin,  of  Topaz,  Colorado,  and  Kate  Sheriff,  through  the  pages 
of  the  Century,  the  story  of  "The  Naulahka"  is  published  by 
Macmillan  &  Co.  in  a  very  neat  volume.  This  story  of  the  West 
and  East,  by  Rudyard  Kipling  and  Walcott  Balestier,  is  one  of 
the  most  admirable  of  the  year.  There  is  a  fascination  in  the 
comparison  of  the  booming  young  Colorado  mining  town  and  its 
life  and  people,  with  the  Indian  city  of  Rhatore,  its  luxurious  old 
Maharajah,  its  intriguing  Queen  and  her  murderous  slaves.  Much 
that  is  in  the  plot  reminds  one  of  an  operetta  extravaganza,  but 
not  a  line  is  dull  or  uninteresting.  The  hand  of  the  lamented 
Balestier  is  seen  in  the  descriptions  of  the  Colorado  scenes,  and  in 
the  portrayal  of  the  strength  of  character  displayed  by  the  hero- 
ine, who,  inflamed  by  the  tale  of  woe  of  the  Pundita  Ramabai, 
dedicated  herself  to  the  cause  of  the  Indian  sufferers.  Tarvin  is 
painted  with  a  free  hand  in  strong  lines,  and  makes  an  excellent 
figure  as  he  gallops  and  shouts  bis  way  through  the  old  city  of 
Rhatore.  Kipling  has  given  his  vivid  descriptive  powers  full 
scope  in  many  of  the  scenes.  The  account  of  Tarvin's  visit  to 
the  Cow's  mouth  in  search  of  the  Naulahka ;  his  facing  the  lances 
of  the  Maharajah's  charging  body  guard  on  the  road,  and  his 
meeting  with  the  Gypsy  beside  the  reservoir,  are  as  thrilling  bits 
as  have  been  read  in  novels  for  many  days.  In  none  of  Kipling's 
writings  has  he  more  fully  exposed  the  intrigues  and  falsity  at- 
taching to  an  Oriental  court.  This  volume  is  supplied  with  copy- 
righted chapter  headings  by  Kipling.  The  novel  is  the  best  with 
which  that  writer's  name  has  been  connected.  Those  who  begin 
it  will  regret  finishing  it.  It  is  full  of  life,  and  is  animated  with 
all  the  "  get  there  "  qualities  of  its  hero.  The  story  moves  right 
on,  and  carries  all  its  readers  with  it.  (Macmillan  &  Co.,  New 
York  and  London.  For  sale  by  Wm.  Doxey,  Palace  Hoted;  $1.50). 

The  admirers  of  F.  Marion  Crawford,  and  there  are  many,  will 
welcome  the  new  uniform  edition  of  bis  works,  now  being  issued 
by  Macmillan  &  Co.,  in  dollar  volumes.  The  books  are  all  neatly 
printed  and  bound  in  cloth,  and  make  a  handsome  addition  to  a 
library.  Those  already  issued  incfude  "  Zoroaster,"  "  Mr.  Isaace," 
"The  Three  Fates,"  "  Dr.  Claudius,"  "The  Tale  of  a  Lonely 
Parish,"  "  Khaled,"  "The  Witch  of  Prague,"  and  the  Italian 
stories.  Crawford  has  a  never-dying  charm.  Whether  wander- 
ing with  Khaled  upon  the  desert;  with  Zoroaster  in  the  palace  of 
Darius;  making  love  with  George  Wood;  shivering  under  the 
baleful  influence  of  the  Witch  of  Prague,  or  sauntering  with 
Saracinesca  down  the  Appian  Way,  all  readers  of  Crawford  have 
satisfaction  in  the  strength  of  the  characters  to  whom  they  are 
introduced,  and  their  entertaining  adventures.  His  strongest  forte 
seems  to  be  in  his  Oriental  tales,  for  which  he  has  given  himself 
a  good  preparation,  '« Zoroaster,"  "  Mr.  Isaacs,"  and  "  Khaled," 
are  all  very  good.  His  Italian  stories  come  next,  "  Saracinesca," 
in  parts  being  as  good  as  anything  he  ever  wrote.  Crawford's 
contemporary  tales,  however,  are  not  pleasing  to  one  who  knows 
his  strong  characters.  The  "  Witch  of  Prague"  is  a  weird,  un- 
satisfactory tale,  while  "  The  Three  Fates  "  indicates  in  many 
pages  that  Mr.  Crawford  is  writing  against  space.  {Macmillan  & 
Co.,  New  York,  London.  For  sale  by  William  Doxey,  631  Market 
street,  and  by  S.  Carson  &  Co.,  208  Post  street.) 


Nocton  &  Co.,  of  New  York,  have  issued  a  small  paper-covered 
volume,  by  Marie  St.  Felix,  called  "A  Game  with  Destiny."  It 
is  one  of  the  modern  erotic  tales,  describing  how  a  married  man,  to 
save  the  name  of  his  mistress,  who  is  about  to  give  birth  to  his 
child,  induces  his  brother  to  marry  her.  The  book,  notwithstand- 
ing its  somewhat  repulsive  motive,  is  well  written,  and  its  author 
is  capable  of  better  things. 

Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield's  tailoring  establishment,  at  12  Post 
street,  is  one  of  the  best-known  and  most  popular  sartorial  empo- 
riums in  the  city.  During  the  many  years  that  this  gentleman  has 
done  business  in  this  city,  he  and  his  goods  have  always  enjoyed  an 
excellent  reputation.  Colonel  Litchfield  makes  a  specialty  of  army, 
navy,  National  Guard  uniforms  and  society  regalia. 


July  16,  1892. 


-  W   FRANCISCO  NEWS  l  BTTER, 


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^#o 


The  nightdress  case  is  as  long  »  the  pillows  are  brvail.  and  is  in- 
tended to  be  placed  against  them,  not  at  the  foot  of  the  bed.  Kach 
.■f  these  sachets  are  made  of  wash  materials  and  embroidered  with 
wash  silk  in  a  design  of  the  flowers  whose  odors  are  represented  in 
the  perfume  powder  used  inMde.  Bach  case  has  a  pad  of  tarletan 
covered  wadding  as  an  interlining.  In  the  folds  of  these  pads  the 
sweet  odors  are  secured,  that  iliey  may  be  replenished  easily,  as  they 
must  be  every  three  months.  Each  dress  has  a  set  of  three  sachets. 
one  as  long  as  the  skirt  and  two  the  length  of  the  sleeves,  and  these 
•re  kept  in  the  dress  when  it  is  not  being  worn.  Besides  these  the 
dress  is  usually  supplied  with  three  small  soft  sachets,  which  are  worn 
in  the  waist,  ami  two  long  ones,  not  more  than  an  inch  wide,  which 
are  fastened  down  each  side  of  the  skirt  in  the  back. 

The  French  bicycling  costume  for  ladies  consists  of  a  tunic  and 
knickerbockers  made  exactly  like  those  worn  by  men,  except  that  the 
tunic  feminine  is  a  little  longer  than  that  worn  by  men.  The  most 
approved  costume  for  the  njaid-a-wheel  in  this  country  has  a  full  di- 
vided skirt,  supported  from  the  shoulders  by  suspenders,  a  light  silk 
blouse  held  in  place  by  a  rubber  band,  a  Windsor  tie  at  the  neck,  a 
jacket  like  the  skirt,  beneath  all  a  "  union  suit  "  of  wool. 

The  Empress  Josephine  had  a  very  long  and  slender  foot.  To 
shorten  the  length  of  her  feet  she  had  recourse  to  very  high  heels 
which  were  sloped  toward  the  ball  of  the  foot.  This  apparently  di- 
minished the  length,  so  that  the  Empress  came  to  have  the  reputa- 
tion of  the  owner  of  a  remarkably  small  foot,  although  she  wore  a 
shoe  that  would  now  be  marked  with  a  large  No.  6. 

At  the  Earl  of  Westmoreland's  recent  wedding,  the  bridesmaids 
wore  black  hats  with  pink  roses  and  black  tips.  The  dresses  were  of 
white  grenadine  with  pink  sashes,  and  besides  their  nosegays  of  La 
France  roses,  each  of  the  attending  maidens  carried  a  fan  of  white  os- 
trich feathers  with  the  initials  of  the  bride  and  bridegroom  entwined 
in  gold  upon  the  tortoise-shell  sticks. 

Sandalwood  is  a  popular  perfnme  for  sachet  cases  now,  as  it  is  deli- 
cate and  retains  its  perfume  longer  than  most  of  the  others.  But 
most  women  have  a  favorite  perfume,  as  they  have  a  favorite  flower, 
and  like  to  have  their  garments  filled  with  it.  Orris  root,  used  in 
combination  with  any  of  the  odors  chosen,  makes  them  more  delicate 
and  enduring. 

Pale  green  has  been  added  to  the  list  of  colors  in  m'tra-fashionable 
stationary.  The  lettering  of  theaddress  is  in  a  darker  shade  of  green, 
the  sealing  wax  also  in  the  same  tint.  With  this  paper  the  script 
must  be  written  in  with  blackest  ink  flowing  freely  from  a  quill  pen, 
and  the  result,  if  absolutely  illegible,  is  certainly  stylish. 


One  of  the  essentials  to  the  swagger  girl's  satisfaction  with  life  is 
natty  little  betting  books,  silver  mounted,  with  flexible  covers,  and 
just  the  right  size  to  slip  into  the  pocket  of  her  sacque  track  coat 
These  smart  trifles  are  to  be  found  in  great  variety  in  the  shops  a. 
prices  quite  the  reverse  of  reasonable. 

From  Paris  the  order  comes  that  the  sleeves  of  summer  dresses  are 
to  extend  only  to  the  elbow,  an  order  sensible  in  itself  but  entailing 
extravagant  consequences,  for  short  sleeves  call  for  long  gloves,  and 
those  for  summer  wear  must  be  light  in  color,  fresh  and  dainty. 

Sishes  just  now  are  of  two  styles,  either  very  narrow,  only  a  rib- 
bon folded  round  the  bottom  of  the  basque  and  tied  at  the  back,  or  of 
soft  silk  folded  very  widely  round  the  waist  and  fastened  with  an 
enormous  rosette  at  the  left  side. 

Roses  are  the  most  popular  flower  of  the  season  in  millinery.  The 
strings  of  new  bonnets  are  formed  entirely  of  tiny  rosebuds,  while  the 
bonnets  themselves  and  large  hats  are  covered  with  buds  and  blos- 
soms of  larger  growth. 

Black  stockings  with  polka  dots  of  white  or  mode  upon  them  are 
noticed,  and  so  are  the  black  stockings  with  long  hair  lines  of  white- 
However,  womankind  in  general  remains  faithful  to  the  plain  black 
or  dark  blue.  wwv. 

One  of  the  most  expensive  corsets  ever  made  appeared  in  Paris  this 
season.-  It  was  of  mode  undressed  kid,  trimmed  at  the  top  with  real 
rose  point,  and  having  topazes  set  between  the  lace  and  the  stays. 

The  Grand  Central  Wine  Rooms,  at  16-18  Third  street,  are  the 
headquarters  for  hundreds  of  men  who  require  good  liquor  to  satisfy 
their  thirst,  and  to  inspire  their  inner  man.  Only  the  best  brands  of 
liquors  have  ever  crossed  its  bar,  and  it  is  for  this  well-known  reason 
that  it  is  daily  crowded  with  men  who  know  a  good  thing  when  they 
taste  it. 


GREAT 

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TREMENDOUS    REDUCTIONS. 

Every  Department  Brimming  With  Bargains- 
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1  Building. 

MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


DR.   F.  C.  PAGUE, 

DENTIST, 

Rooms  4  &  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 
819  Market  Street. 

Dr.  J.  H.  STALLARD 

—  AND  — 

Dr.  J.  CLARK, 

m^H-SICI-A-ISrS    and    S"U\R,GrECasrS, 
632    Sutter    Street. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  California  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  June  30,  1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  four-tenths  (5  4-10)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  de- 
posits, and  four  and  one-half  (4%)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  de- 
posits, free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1,  1892. 

VERNON  CAMPBELL,  Secretary 

Office— Cor.  Powell  and  Eddy  streets. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

For  the  half-year  ending  June  30,  1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  one-flfth  (5  1-5)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  deposits 
and  four  and  one-thlid  (4}/3)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free 
of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 

J.  A,  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

Office— No.  33  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society, 

For  the  half  year  ending  June  30, 1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  one-tenth  (5"  1-10)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Term  Depos- 
its and  four  and  one-quarter  (4%)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Ordinary  De- 
posits, payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 

GEORGE  TOURNY,  Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

People's  Home  Savings  Bank. 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  this  bank  have  declared  a  dividend  for  the 
term  ending  June  30, 1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent, 
per  annum  on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  (4%)  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  from  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after 
July  1, 1892.  J.  E.  FARNUM,  Secretary. 

Office— 805  Market  street,  Flood  Building,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


A  SINGULAR  racing  "incident"  of  which  ex-King  Milan  is  the 
hero  has  been  the  subject  of  much  gossip  in  sporting  circles  in 
Paris.  According  ta  the  published  accounts  King  Milan  bet  M. 
Matbysens  5,000  frs.  to  150,000  frs.  that  he  would  name  the  six 
winning  horses  of  the  races  to  be  run  that  day  at  Longchamps.  He 
succeeded  in  doing  so  for  the  first  four  races,  and  his  bet  was  more 
than  half  won.  However,  he  was  afraid  of  his  favorite,  Fable, 
being  beaten  by  Livie  II.  To  prevent  the  latter  from  running, 
and  thus  to  insure  the  victory  of  Fable,  he  at  once  offered  to  buy 
Livie  II.  M.  Mathysens,  who  became  aware  of  this  manoeuvre, 
sought  to  baffle  it.  While  the  ex-King  was  negotiating  for  the 
purchase  of  Livie  II.,  M.  Mathysens  commissioned  one  of  his 
friends  to  buy  Fable.  Ex-King  Milan  failed  to  get  pos- 
session of  Livie  II.,  which  took  part  in  the  race  and  won  it, 
while  bis  favorite  Fable,  having  become  the  property  of  Ibe  friend 
of  M.  Mathyserls,  remained  quietly  in  its  stall.  At  first  the  ex- 
Monarch  determined  to  make  the  Betting  Ccm  uittee  judge  the 
affair.  He  contended  that  to  suppress  his  favorite  was  not  to 
win  his  money.  Ultimately  M.  Adams,  president  of  the  Sub- 
urban Club,  was  appointed  arbitrator,  and  he  awarded  King 
Milan  1,320*.  w^-^-^ 

It  is,  perhaps,  not  well  known  that  the  Pope  is  a  poet,  and  is 
very  fond  of  putting  his  imaginatings  into  Latin  verse.  The  other 
day  there  was  an  official  gathering  of  cardinals  to  settle  business 
of  importance.  It  had  lasted  an  hour  and  a  half,  when  the  Pope 
astonished  all  by  exclaiming,  apparently  apropos  of  nothing, 
"Fa  bene  /"  Each  cardinal  looked  at  each  cardinal  for  an  expla- 
nation, when  his  holiness  said  to  a  cardinal  at  his  side,  "By-the- 
bye,  you  are  a  distinguished  Latin  scholar;  tell  me  now  just 
what  you  think  of  this  bit  of  Latin  poetry,  which  I  wrote  last 
night  to  while  away  my  sleepless  hours."  After  carefully  study- 
ing the  M.S.,  and  unmindful  of  the  clerical  experience  of  Gil  Bias, 
the  cardinal  exclaimed  with  great  joy,  "I  have  found  out  a  false 
quantity."     "Impossible,"  said  the  Pope.     "Your  holiness  is  not 

infallible in  Latin  verse" — continued  the  cardinal,  and  then  he 

pointed  out  the  error.  The  Pope  read  and  re-read  the  passage, 
and  then  said  to  the  cardinal,  "For  once  in  your  life  you  are 
right."     Perhaps  the  cardinal  then  thought  of  Gil  Bias. 


A  very  funny  scene  took  place  at  the  close  of  the  Czar's  visit 
to  Copenhagen.  One  morning  early  the  whole  Palace  of  Amal- 
ienborg  was  thrown  into  a  commotion,  sentinels  were  startled  out 
of  their  wits,  police  agents  came  Hying  to  the  rescue,  and  crown- 
ed heads  were  seen  popping  out  of  quickly-opened  windows,  while 
a  whole  regiment  of  princely  faces  peered  forth  to  find  out  "what 
could  the  matter  be?"  And  it  looked  very  serious  at  first  for  His 
Majesty  Alexander  III.  of  Russia  had  rushed  forth  into  the  garden 
in  bis  shirtsleeves  and  slippers,  crying  out  wildly,  and  lifting  up 
his  hands  to  the  skies  in  horror.  Of  course,  every  one  thought  a 
bo"mb  had  been  found  under  the  Imperial  bed,  or  an  infernal  ma- 
chine beneath  the  Czar's  dressing  table.  But  it  proved  to  be  only 
that  His  Majesty  had  perceived,  from  his  window,  that  two  of 
his  favorite  dogs  were  chasing  King  Christian's  dearly  beloved 
black  cat;  and  had  rushed  gallantly  forth,  to  the  rescue  of  his 
papa-in-law's  pet  pussy,  in  person! 


The  ex-Empress  Eugenie  goes  daily  to  pray  in  the  mortuary 
chapel  near  her  present  home,  Farnsborough  Hall.  There  is 
an  altar,  before  which  a  monk  says  mass,  with  only  one  mortal 
auditor.  Every  one  else  is  excluded  while  the  unhappy  wife  and 
mother  is  within.  An  arm-chair  is  placed  at  the  foot  of  each  of 
the  two  sarcophagi,  wherein  lie  the  remains  of  Napoleon  III. 
and  the  Prince  Imperial;  and  first  in  one  and  then  in  the  «ther 
the  Empress  often  sits  alone  in  prayer.  Both  tombs  are  decorated 
with  floral  wreaths  and  scattered  flowers.  Of  the  latter,  violets 
are  the  most  numberous;  and  some  of  these  are  taken  away  as 
mementoes  by  the  visitors  who  are  admitted  when  the  Empress 
has  gone. 

The  Duke  of  Portland,  who  is  one  of  the  richest  noblemen  in 
England,  has  just  added  20,000  acres  to  his  shooting  preserves. 
The  Duke  has  now  80,000  acres,  or  125  square  miles,  reserved 
solely  for  the  use  of  his  gun.  He  believes  in  doing  things  on  a 
large  scale.  His  town  house  extends  along  nearly  the  entire  side 
of  Cavendish  Square  and  "Welbeck,"  his  seat  in  Nottinghamshire, 
is  said  to  be  the  finest  woodland  domain  in  England. 


Pope  Leo  XIII.  will  celebrate  two  anniversaries  next  year. 
February  19  will  be  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  consecration  as 
Bishop,  and  December  13  the  fortieth  anniversary  of  his  conse- 
cration as  Cardinal. 

The  Maison  Riche  at  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue,  is  crowded 
every  evening  with  prominent  people,  who  there  congregate  to  enjoy 
the  excellent  dinners  the  chef  always  presents  to  his  admiring  pat- 
rons. 


HELD    VP.-Puck. 


She  threw  around  my  soul  a  charm, 

I  threw  around  her  waist  my  arm, 

And  we  strolled  along  in  the  cooling  shade 

Of  a  quiet  path,  where  I  kissed  the  maidl 

Something  strange — a  joy,  a  thrill. 

Came  over  me — my  heart  stood  still, 

The  red  blood  rushed — all  seemed  a  whirl, 

And  a  wonderful  change  came  o'er  my  girl. 

Did  her  brown  eyes  flash,  and  a  cry  of  wrath 

Echo  along  that  shady  path  ? 

Nay,  nay;  but  clinging  fast  as  ivies  climb, 

She  held  her  head  up  every  time. 


THE  Bank  of  France,  the  proposed  renewal  of  whose  charter  in 
1897,  at  which  date  the  one  already  existing  will  have  ex- 
pired, is  engaging  so  much  attention  just  now,  was  founded  in 
the  year  XII.  of  the  First  Republic  One  and  Indivisible,  in  other 
words  in  1800,  according  to  the  ordinary  chronology.  That  was 
at  the  period  of  the  Consulate,  just  before  Bonaparte  had  seized 
the  supreme  power.  It  is,  therefore,  a  much  more  modern  insti- 
tution than  our  own  Bank  of  England,  which,  as  most  people 
know,  was  the  outcome  of  the  financial  troubles  in  the  reign  of 
William  of  Orange.  Both  banks,  however,  have  a  similar  origin, 
for  it  was  in  order  to  provide  a  ready  means  of  raising  funds  that 
the  Consuls  granted  a  charter  to  the  men  who,  uniting  several  old- 
established  banking  businesses,  founded  the  Bank  of  France.  In 
France,  that  bank  alone  has  the  privilege  of  issuing  bank-notes, 
but  in  return  for  this  and  other  advantages  it  is  under  very  severe 
restrictions  both  with  regard  to  reserve  of  cash,  and  also  as  to  the 
sort  of  security  on  which  it  shall  advance  money.  Commercial 
paper,  for  instance,  can  only  be  discounted  if  it  bears  three  signa- 
tures. On  the  2nd  of  June  last  year  the  Bank  of  France  had  in 
its  vaults  the  enormous  sum  of  two  milliard  850  millions  of  francs, 
or  about  £114,000  sterling,  in  about  equal  quantities  of  gold  and 
silver.  This  is  about  the  average  amount,  and  it  represents  about 
one-third  of  the  total  quantity  of  the  precious  metals  in  France. 


The  Pacific  Auxiliary  Fire  Alarm. 

The  Pacific  Auxiliary  Fire  Alarm  has  been  doing  excellent  work 
since  its  organization  in  this  city.  By  the  introduction  of  its  boxes 
into  a  number  of  residence  and  business  houses,  it  has  so  greatly  re- 
duced the  danger  arising  from  fire  that  in  recognition  of  that  fact 
the  insurance  companies  have  made  special  rates  on  risks  in  which 
the  boxes  are  placed.  A  very  large  number  is  now  in  use  throughout 
the  city,  no  argument  being  necessary  to  convince  business  men  of 
the  advantages  of  the  system.  At  the  office  of  the  company,  at  323 
Pine  street,  one  may  obtain  all  detailed  information  regarding  the 
advantages  and  workings  of  the  system.  It  is  a  simple  plan ;  a  small 
box  attached  to  the  fire  alarm  system  being  so  placed  that  it  may 
be  easily  reached  in  case  of  fire,  and  an  alarm  be  immediately 
turned  in. 


Insurance  Company. 

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D.  J.  STAPLES President. 

WILLIAM  J.  DUTTON Vice-President. 

B.  FAYMONVILLE Secretary 

J.  B.  LEVISON Marine  Secretary 

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San    Francisco,  California. 


GEORGE  L.  BKANDER, 

President. 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up $     500,000 

Assets       3.181,763 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,526,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  aiontsoniery  Si.     Oeneral  Olflee — 401  Mout'a,  St. 
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FIRE 


The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  London,  Limited. 
Imperial  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  of  London,  Limited. 

WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,   214  Samome  St.,  S.  F. 

SWAIN  &  MDEDOCK,  City  Agents. 


July  16,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


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TWO   MOODS.- Flomaj Bailey. Udrick  in  HtrpwU  Monthly. 


1. 
Between  the  budding  and  the  falling  leaf 
Stretch   happy  skiea; 
With  colors  and  sweet  cries 
Of  mating  birds  in  uplands  and  in  glades 
The  world  is  rife. 

Then  on  a  sudden  all  the  music  dies, 
The   color  fades. 
How  fugitive  and  brief 
Is  mortal  life 

Between  the  budding  and  the  falling  leaf  ! 
O  short-breathed  music,  dying  on  the  tongue 
Ere  half  the  mystic  canticle  be  sung! 

0  harp  of  life,  so  speedily  unstrung! 

Who,  if  'twere  his  to  choose,  would  know  again 
The  bitter  sweetnesB  of  the  lost  refrain, 
Its  rapture  and    its  pain? 

11. 
Though  I  be  shut  in  darkness,  and  become 
Insentient  dust,  blown  idly  here  and  there, 

1  hold  oblivion  a  scant  price  to  pay 

For  having  once  had  held  against  my  lip 

Life's  brimming  cup  of  bydromel  and  rue — 

For  having  once  known  woman's  holy  love 

And  a  child's  kiss,  and  for  a  little  space 

Been  boon  companion  to  the  Day  and  Night, 

Fed  on  the  odors  of  the  summer  dawn, 

And  folded  in  the  beauty  of  the  stars. 

Dear  Lord,  though   I  be  changed  to  senseless  clay, 

And  serve  the  potter  as  he  turns    his  wheel, 

I    thank   Thee   for   the   gracious  gift   of   tears  ! 


A  BACHELOR'S  GROWL  AT  THE  WOMEN.-Pimd. 

Oh,  the  beautiful  woman,  the  woman  of  ancient  days, 

The  ripe  and  the  red,  who  are  done  and  dead, 

With  never  a  word  of  praise; 

The  rich,  round  Sallies  and  Susans,  the  Pollies,    and   Joans,  and 

Who  guarded  their  fame,  and  saw  no  shame  [  Prues, 

In  walking  in  low-heeled  shoes. 

They  never  shrieked  on  a  platform;  they  never  desired  a  vote; 

They  sat  in  a  row  and  liked  things  slow, 

While  they  knitted  or  patched  a  coat. 

They  lived  with  nothing  of  Latin,  and  a  jolly  sight  less  of  Greek, 

And  made  up  their  books  and  changed  their  cooks 

On  an  average  once  a  week. 

They  never  ventured   in  hansoms,  nor  climbed   to   the    topmost 
Nor  talked  with  a  twang  in  the  latest  slang;  ['bus, 

They  let  these  fashions  to  us. 

But,  ah  1  she  was  sweet  and  pleasant,  though  possibly  not  well 
The  excellent  wife  who  cheered  your  life,  [  read, 

And  vanished  at  ten  to  bed. 

And  it's  oh,  the  pity,  the  pity  that  time  should  ever  annul, 

The  wearers  of  skirts,  who  mended  shirts 

And  never  thought  nurseries  dull. 

For  everything's  topsy  turvy  now;  the  men  are  bedded  at  ten, 

While  the  women  sit  up,  and  smoke  and  sup 

In  the  Club  of  the  Ghickless  Hen. 


THE    DIFFERENCE.— By  Larry  Chittenden. 


Ten  years  ago,  my  lovely  Kate, 

Eighteen  was  I  with  you, 
But  now,  when  I  am  twenty-eight, 

You're  only  twenty-two. 
How  is  it,  in  Time's  equal  race, 

My  years  have  your's  surpassed  ? 
Because— laughed  Kate,  with  roguish  face, 

"  Because" — "  you  lived  so  fast!  " 

LETHE.— Edith  M.  Thomas. 

Remembrance  followed  him  into  the  skies. 

They  met.     Awhile    mute   Sorrow  held   him    tbra'I. 
Then  broke  he  forth  in  spirit  words  and  sighs: 
"Great  was  my  sin!  but  at  my  contrite  call 
Came  pardon  and  the  hope  of  Paradise; 

Jf  this  be  Heaven,  thy  blessing  on  me  fall!" 
She  looked.     Peace  filled  her  unremembering  eyes; 

She  knew  him  not— she  had   forgotten  all. 


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TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 
Herbert  L.  Low,  51  anaser  for  the  1'aclflc  toast  Branch. 

22U  Sa  ii-.nm.-  St.,  S.  1  ■'. 

Capital    .... $1,500,000.00 

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BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL  4.000,000  DOLLARS 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  arid  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed 910,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (in  addition  to  Capital) 2,126,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 6.124,057.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

305  California  Street.  San  Francisco 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. . 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.J 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  UKANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDIEIPJ^RTIMIIEIErT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 

OF   LONDON.  OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821.  Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -    $  5,000,000.    Cash  AsBets, {10,044,712. 

Cash  Assets, J23,194,249.    Assets  in  America,  -    -    -      ?2,222,724. 

WM.  J.  LMDERS.  flen'l  Agent,  20!.  Sansome  St..  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  »6,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  EN6LAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets.  $19,724,638.46. 

President,  BENJAMIN  P.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBEN8. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


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ChasA  Latdn,  Manaiier. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


FASHIONS    FOR    MEN. 
From  the  Clothier  and  Furnisher. 

THERE  are  always  two  kinds  of  silk  hats,  each  of  the  best 
quality,  on  sale  in  London.  One  is  the  strictly  fashionable 
model,  "the  latest,"  or  whatever  one  may  choose  to  call  it, 
which  is  retailed  in  the  West  End  at  from  a  guinea  ($5)  to  twenty- 
five  shillings  ($6).  The  other  is  the  style  which  immediately  pre- 
ceded it  and  has  "  gone  out,"  although  the  quality  is  unchanged. 
This  is  usually  called  the  "  city"  hat.  and  costs  ?4  (16s.)  The 
distinction  is  a  very  peculiar  one.  Employees  of  large  London 
commercial  houses  are  not  expected  to  be  up  to  the  hilt  in  fash- 
ion, and  if  they  are,  it  is  sure  to  be  resented  by  their  employers. 
A  London  city  magnate  would  not  be  seen  wearing  the  same 
shape  hat  as  one  of  his  bookkeepers,  and  so  the  great  army  of 
salary-drawers  keep  just  a  shape  behind  the  bond-holding  com- 
munity. For  instance,  now  that  the  bell-crowned  "  topper"  is 
au  fait,  the  "city"  hat  is  a  "taper  crown,"  and  as  such  is  strictly 
correct. 

The  wide-brimmed  hat  of  last  year  of  the  fashionable  types  was 
found  in  the  ultra  shape1*  only  in  the  imported  article.  They  are 
unusually  weighty,  the  inside  band  being  of  flannel,  insufferably 
hot.  This  season  they  are  wider-brimmed,  lighter,  in  more  be- 
coming shapes,  greater  variety  of  styles,  and  are  American  made. 
The  straw  hat  of  '92  is  a  benizon  of  summer-time. 

The  tendency  of  the  summer  is  for  what  is  striking  in  mascu- 
line raiment,  and  the  shrewd  providers  pander  to  these  caprices 
of  the  warm  weather  spell  with  subtle   and  attractive  specialties. 


The  wearing  of  the  yachting  cap  in  town  remains  as  much  a 
solecism  as  ever,  and  with  the  tennis  costume,  as  shown  in  some 
illustrations  in  alleged  fashion  catalogues,  it  is,  of  course,  incon- 
gruous in  a  palpably  flagrant  degree.  But  upon  the  seashore,  or 
indeed  in  any  perspective  when  the  background  is  marine  in 
character,  the  style  is  now  deemed  allowable. 

The  yachting  cap  is  distinctly  an  appurtenance  of  this  royal 
sport,  and  its  wearing  under  any  other  conditions  is  not  deemed 
strictly  au  fait.  The  becomingness  and  distingue  touch  which 
this  shaped  headgear  gives  the  man  of  average  physique,  how- 
ever, has  led  to  warranting  its  somewhat  more  liberal  use. 

One  of  the  boons  of  the  greater  range  of  selection  in  summer- 
time raiment  is  the  enhanced  opportunity  it  affords  the  true  swell 
to  vent  his  individualism.  With  a  certain  bit  of  neckwear,  worn 
with  a  suiting  in  subjugated  texture,  he  may  secure  a  contrast 
that  makes  him  the  envy  of  his  fellows.  The  advanced  savant  of 
the  conventional  regime  can,  betimes,  by  artistic  affiliation,  trans- 
form an  article  of  attire,  which,  in  its  original  intention,  was  a 
pitfall  for  the  unwary  into  the  veriest  well-spring  of  good  taste. 
There  is,  indeed,  as  much  speculation  in  men's  fashion  nowadays 
as  in  Wall  street,  but  the  "  flyers"  are  reasonably  safe,  because 
operations  are  along  safe  conservative  lines. 

The  edict  for  glove  wearing  is  now  positive — more  particularly 
so  for  evening  shades — and  not  only  at  receptions,  but  at  the 
opera  and  for  formal  calls  the  best  men  of  society  have  decreed 
the  light  shade  of  gloves  should  be  worn.  Such  a  positive  stand 
will  only  be  taken  at  first  by  the  ultra  swells,  but  their  influence 
will  be  felt,  in  that  men  that  npw  eschew  gloves  at  the  more 
formal  functions  will  begin  to  wear  them. 

The  latest  thing  out  is  the  smoking  waistcoat.  There  is  in  the 
upper  left  side  a  cartridge-like  pocket  for  holding  individual 
cigars,  so  that  they  will  not  break.  Then  again,  in  this  way  the 
various  grades  for  more  or  less  valued  acquaintances  may  be 
placed — 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  and  readily  reached  without  embarrassment. 
There  is  in  the  upper  side  a  curiously  shaped  pocket  for  the  pipe- 
bowl  to  rest  in.  and  a  loop  in  which  the  stem  reposes.  The 
lower  pocket  on  both  sides  are  double  pockets.  On  the  left  side 
under  the  flap  is  a  place  for  smoking  tobacco — roomsorue,  and 
lined  specially  for  that  purpose,  while  behind  the  flap  is  a  place 
for  the  watch  to  repose.  On  the  right-hand  side,  behind  the  flap, 
there  is  a  suitably  prepared  receptacle  for  matches,  and  under 
the  flap  a  place  for  money  or  poker  chips. 

FOOTWEAR  is  one  of  the  details  of  the  attire  of  a  well-dressed 
man,  which  always  requires  the  greatest  consideration. 
Therefore  it  is  that  the  gentlemen  who  patronize  P.  F.  McNulty, 
of  222  Post  street,  above  Grant  avenue,  always  wear  neat  and 
fashionable  shoes.  Mr.  McNulty  is  a  master  of  his  art,  for  he 
was  formerly  with  Thomas,  of  London,  and  he  has  no  superior 
in  his  line  in  the  city. 

The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  is  one  of  the 
most  popular  restaurants  in  the  city,  and  deservedly,  for  there  a 
patron  is  always  assured  of  excellent  treatment,  and  can  always  en- 
joy a  splendid  dinner.  The  elite  of  the  city  patronize  the  Bakery. 
Its  chef  is  a  gentleman  who  has  thoroughly  mastered  his  art. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bodie  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Bodie,  Mono  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  20th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  14)  of  Twenty-five  Cents 

fier  share  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  room  G2,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  22d  Day  of  Juty,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  is  made 
before,    will   be    sold     on  MONDAY,  the  22d    day   of   August,    1892,   to 
pay  tbe  delinquent  assessment,  together  with   costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

H.  D.  WALKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  62,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  8t,  San  Francisco,  Ual. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Commonwealth  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California,  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  15th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  8)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  20,  No.  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, or  to  E.  R.  Grant.  Transfer  Agent,  57  Broadway,  New  York. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-first  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  18th  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  20,  No.  331  Pine  Street.  San  Francisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Belle    Isle    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Sixteenth  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  14,  of  Ten  CentB 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  310  PiDe  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,   Cal. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-first  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  Is  made  he- 
fore,  will  be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  12th  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costB  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW.  Secretary. 
Office— No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Alta    Silver    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Sau  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works-Gold  Hill,  Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  Saturday,  the  18th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  42,  of  Fifteen  (15) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Twenty-sixth  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  sixteenth  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co, California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 


Peerless  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works— Quijotoa,  Arizona. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  6th  dayof  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No  18)  of  5  cents  per  share  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room 
23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

The  Eleventh  Day  of  August,  1 892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and   unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expen- 
ses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  S09  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment  No.  69 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied    June  7, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office July  12, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock August  4,  1892 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room,  69  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California.  . 


Julv  Ifi.  1*9:2. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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EXTENSION    OF    JOINT    STOCK    ENTERPRISE. 

TH  K  practical  lessons  derivable  from  the  immense  result* 
achieved  elsewhere  in  the  fields  of  commerce,  finance,  tod  lb« 
general  industries,  by  the  association  ol  numberless  sua'] 
amounts  ol  capital  under  the  joint  Block  principle,  are  but  Im- 
perfectly understood  in  California.  The  utilization,  in  various 
important  enterprises,  of  large  amounts  of  capital  thu*  collected, 
is  a  healthy  feature  in  the  prepress  of  many  advanced  countries. 
Sums  of  money  unproductive  and  insignificant  in  themselves. 
when  thus  associated  are  rendered  powerful  in  the  accomplish- 
ment of  desirable  ends,  benerittinc  alike  the  owners  and  the  com- 
munity generally.  This  is  seldom,  if  ever,  the  case  with  us. 
When  the  joint  stock  system  is  applied  it  is  usually  of  a  primi- 
tive and  contracted  character,  adopted  for  the  exclusive  advan- 
tage of  a  few  of  the  >arger  stock  holders,  to  the  detriment,  and 
not  unfrequently  the  destruction  of  ihe  interests  of  those  who  do 
not  •■  control  "  the  undertaking.  This  sacrificing  of  tbe  interests 
of  the  many  to  the  rapacity  of  the  few,  is  a  glaring  abuse  of  the 
fundamental  principle  upon  which  corporate  associations  can 
alone  be  justly  or  successfully  conducted.  Hence  the  imperfectly 
developed  condition  of  this  principle  among  ns;  a  principle 
which  has  much  to  do  with  the  material  progress  of 
most  modern  countries.  Although  possessing  fully  that 
power  of  organization,  that  aptitude  for  combination 
which  forms  one  of  the  many  peculiar  qualities  of  the  American 
character,  we  have  hitherto  negleted  its  application  in  the  man- 
ner indicated,  to  tbe  many  opportunities  presented  in  this  State. 
We  have  numberless  small  commercial  incorporations  of  a  variety 
of  natures,  but  they  are,  with  few  exceptions,  dwarfed  and  un- 
developed, and  are,  together  with  the  few  of  greater  magnitude, 
simply  joint  stock  concerns  in  name  only,  being  owned  and  con- 
trolled by  some  central  figure  with  his  few  satellites,  and  a  mere 
scant  following  of  small  shareholders  to  make  up  the  necessary 
number. 

We  have  nothiDg  to  compare  with  those  large  joint  stock  enter- 
prises which  are  a  distinguishing  feature  in  the  commercial  under- 
takings of  Great  Britain,  where  the  shareholders  are  composed  of 
men  in  all  conditions  of  life,  and  are  scattered  over  tbe  United 
Kingdom — undertaking  whose  operations  are,  in  many  cases,  of 
vast  magnitude,  whose  credit  is  not  unfrequently  on  a  higher 
plane  than  that  of  many  leading  European  countries,  and  whose 
operations  extend  over  the  globe.  They  are  one  of  the  means 
through  which  the  commerce  of  tbe  world  pays  tribute  to  the 
power  of  English  associated  capital.  Yet  such  a  thing  as  the 
"  control  "  of  such  undertaking,  within  our  meaning  of  the  term, 
is  unknown.  They  are  worked  in  the  interests  of  the  entire  body 
of  shareholders  under  laws  specially  adapted  for  that  purpose. 
Many  of  the  English  enterprises  in  America,  which  are  ignorantly 
attributed  to  the  action  of  "  wealthy  syndicates,"  "  English  capital- 
ists" and  the  like  are  the  works  of  joint  stock  companies,  com- 
prising thousands  of  shareholders;  among  whom  there  is  proba- 
bly not  a  millionaire  nor  a  single  capitalist.  That  American  brew- 
eries, iron  works,  tin  mines,  meatpacking  companies,  agricultural 
and  pastoral  lands  and  the  like  should  fall  under  the  control  of 
the  aggregation  of  small  sums  of  English  money,  while  we,  pos- 
sessing the  same  power,  but  unable  or  unwilling  to  exercise  it, 
are  content  to  deposit  our  saved  millions  in  savings  banks,  and 
loan  on  real  estate  to  the  fictitious  increase  of  values,  raising  of 
rents  upon  ourselves,  and  generally  contracting  the  supply  of 
money  to  manufactures,  commerce  and  the  like — is  a  strange  an- 
omaly. English  banks,  English  insurance  companies  and  such 
enterprises  in  our  midst,  indicates  the  opportunities  existing 
within  ourselves,  which  we  leave  to  others  to  develop.  California 
is  specially  favored  in  possessing  opportunities  of  richest  promise, 
where  the  association  of  capital  can  produce  profitable  and  desira- 
ble results  It  is  time  she  became  conscious  of  her  own  fay  arable 
conditions.  Joint  stock  enterprises  of  merit  introduced  by  men 
of  character,  ability  and  integrity  should  be  able  to  be  established 
from  the  resources  of  the  general  public  alone.  There  is  now  an 
abundance  of  stagnating  capital  in  the  East  (not  to  speak  of  the 
condition  of  our  own  savings  banks  coffers),  and  well  considered, 
soundly  established  enterprises  could,  and  would,  attract  all  that 
was  needed,  even  if  our  own  resources  were  insufficient  for  our 
legitimate  local  undertakings,  which,  happily,  they  are  not. 

It  is  needless  to  indicate  tbe  opportunities  which  almost  all 
branches  of  industry  and  commerce  present  for  extension  on  tbe 
joint  stock  principle;  but  one  may  be  alluded  to  as  a  promising 
instance,  to  which  reference  was  recently  indirectly  made  in 
these  columns,  on  treating  upon  tbe  subject  of  banking  extension. 
In  this  direction  profitable  opportunity  waits  upon  energy.  The 
conditions  are  all  favorable  and  well  considered;  joint  stock 
banking  enterprise  cannot  but  succeed  under  the  existing  condi- 
tions of  this  State.  One  or  two  large  banking  companies,  whose 
interests  were  confined  to  no  one  center,  and  whose  operations 
would  in  time  be  spread  over  the  entire  State,  with  a  numerous 
proprietory  distributed  throughout  California,  securing  connection 
and  extended  business  at  all  points,  would  prove  a  public  boon, 
apart  from  the  advantages  its  shareholders  would  enjoy.  Before 
the  progress  of  such  institutions  as  are  indicated,  and  on  the  ap- 
pearances of  their  branches  at  every  important  center  of  popula- 
tion,  the  local   banks   would  be  compelled  to  amalgamate  or  to 


withdraw,  as  time  went  on,  The  economy  in  the  manofrciiMiu 
and  the  equalization  in  the  supply  of  capital  from  point! 
II  was  plentiful  and  Unemployed,  to  Others  where  enterprise  had 
rendered  the  demand  inure  active,  would  be  ehVcled  to  an  extent 
and  at  a  reduction  ol  OOSI  unknown  at  present,  while  In, 
COrrencea  of  increase  or  decrease  of  prosperity  Don  Id  not  In  flu 
enco  the  progress  of  such  institutions  as  a  whole.  Instil  Ml  on  a 
Ol  Die  nature  but  roughly  Indicated  here,  are  not  experimental ; 
there  is  no  theory  involved;  such  financial  undertakings  are  ac- 
complished facts,  and  most  successfully,  extensively  and  profit- 
ably operated  elsewhere.  We  have  no  parallel  of  such  in  this 
State,  but  time  and  opportunity  now  wait  their  development. 
A  large  and  well-distributed  number  of  shareholders,  with  limited 
interests  in  such  undertaking,  is  alt  that  is  required,  none  having 
control,  or  being  capable  of  in  any  way  obtaining  it,  the  interests 
of  each  being  tbe  interest  of  all.  This  is  but  one  of  tbe  many 
instances  which  might  be  suggested,  where  opportunity  exists, 
for  tbe  extension  of  the  principle  referred  to  in  its  true  and 
proper  application.  There  are  many  others  of  equally  good 
promise;  and  if  this  State  is  to  keep  pace  with  other  advancing 
countries  in  the  active  international  rivalries  of  to-day;  if  it  is  to 
utilize  its  golden  opportunities,  and  not  allow  its  advantages  to 
lie  idle  or  undeveloped,  it  must  use  its  capital  (and  the  other 
capital  which  would  be  attracted  here  by  new  and  profitable  chan- 
nels for  investment)  with  energy,  economy,  system,  ability  and 
integrity. 


DEUNQJENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behrinp;  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  priDcipal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California     Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  A  aska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  slock  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1 ,,  levied  ou  the  13th  day  of  February  1892  'the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders': 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson 1  60  ?s0 

C.A.Johnson  2  840  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg.. 12  390  S90 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors  re  ade 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  ou  Friday,  the  15th  dav 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
01  sale. 

JAMBS  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place 
„       „         .  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  tbe  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
TH  URSDA1',  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

„       „         ,  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  Silurdav 
July  23, 1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23. 1892. 

~  NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated    New    York    Mining    Company. 

I  ocation  of  principle  place  of  business— Sail  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
ca'ion  of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  28th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  a7),  of  ten  (10)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  whicli  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  2d  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unle-s  payment  is  made  be- 
fore,  will   be  sold    on  TUESDAY,  the  23d  day  of  Augu  t,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOTT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco,   California- 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Savage  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Savage  Min- 
ing Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  4,  Nevada 
Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on  Thursday,  the 
21st  day  of  July,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction 
of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer  bouks 
will  close  on  Monday,  July  18,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  4,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Spring  Valley  Water  Works. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water 
Works  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  No.  516  California  Street 
San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  20th  day  of  July,  1892.  at  the  hour 
of  12  o'clock  M.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Trustees  to  serve  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come 
before  the  meeting. 

WM.  NORRIS,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  516  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal, 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


BY  some  German  chemists  tests  have  been  made  to  ascertain 
the  physical  cause  of  the  coking  or  fasing  of  bituminons  coal 
into  the  form  of  coke,  under  a  distilling  heat,  the  conclusion  be- 
ing that  such  a  phenomenon  is  connected  with  the  chemical  com- 
position of  the  coal,  with  special  relation  to  the  richness  of  the 
coal  in  what  is  called  disposable  hydrogen,  or  that  proportion  of 
it  which  is  in  excess  of  the  quantity  required  to  form  water  with 
the  oxygen  present.  It  has  recently  been  asserted,  however, 
that  such  a  standard  for  the  coking  quality  in  coal  does  not  cor- 
respond with  observed  results,  nor  does  the  richness  of  a  sample 
of  coke  in  carbon  determine  its  coking  capabilities,  the  fact  being 
that  two  specimens  of  coal  of  practically  identical  carbon  compo- 
sition will  often  be  found  to  behave  very  differently  in  the  returt 
of  coke  ovens.  It  is  argued,  therefore,  that,  if  the  property  of 
coking  does  not  reside  either  in  the  surplus  hydrogen  or  the  fixed 
carbon,  it  is  certainly  not  to  be  found  in  the  content  of  the  coal 
in  oxygen,  which  gives  no  indication  whatever  of  the  physical 
behavior  of  the  coal  under  heat.  Some  coking  coals  coke  with- 
out much  swelling,  while  others  swell  to  a  considerable  extent 
during  the  process.  In  either  case  the  coal  uiu3t  undergo  a  stage 
of  fusion,  in  which  it  becomes  a  thick,  semi -fluid  mass,  through 
which  the  gas  escapes. 

—  An  interesting  arrangement  of  pneumate  mechanism  for 
the  production  of  high-class  music  has  recently  been  exhibited. 
The  instrument  has  two  and  one-fifth  sets  of  reeds,  the  regular 
action  of  the  air  grooves  being  located  above,  and  on  top  of  the 
board  containing  these  is  a  row  of  small  pneumatics  corresponding 
in  number  to  the  keys  of  the  instrument;  underneath  this  board 
are  four  rows  of  large  pneumatics,  one  beneath  the  other,  and, 
from  an  arm  on  each  of  these  pneumatics,  hangs  a  wire  attached 
to  a  lever  oparating  on  the  coupler  buttons' on  the  pitmans,  or 
wooden  rods,  connecting  the  keys  of  the  instrument  wilh  the 
reed  board  valves.  By  means  of  these  levers,  operated  by  pneu- 
matics, the  movement  of  the  valves  becomes  automatic,  subject 
to  the  passage  over  the  airboard  of  perforated  paper.  A  peculiar 
characteristic  of  the  motor  which  operates  the  music  rolls,  which 
distinguishes  it  from  all  other  appliances  of  the  kind,  is  its  adapt- 
ability for  running  to  the  right  to  wind  music  and  the  left  to  re- 
wind, or  vice  versa.  When  the  instrument  is  in  operation,  the 
keyboard  becomes  a  thing  of  life,  keys  dropping  with  the  exact 
rapidity  required  by  the  selection  rendered. 

A  German  has  patented  a  process  for  making  barrels  with- 
out staves.  The  trunk  of  a  tree  is  sawed  into  lengths  to  the  size 
of  the  barrel  required,  and  the  chunks  are  placed  in  a  boiler  and 
boiled  for  a  few  hours.  It  is  believed  that  if  a  current  of  electric- 
ity be  passed  through  the  boiler  a  chemical  action  is  generated 
that  softens  the  wood  for  working.  After  the  boiling  the  bark  is 
stripped  from  the  chunks.  In  front  of  a  cutting  tool  the  chunks 
are  held  by  forks  in  a  manner  similar  to  that  in  which  a  piece  of 
wood  is  held  in  a  lathe.  The  chunk  revolves  rapidly  against  the 
edge  of  a  fixed  broad  blade  that  cuts  a  continuous  shoot  of  soft 
wood  of  any  desired  thickness.  The  strip  passes  to  a  flat  table, 
where  it  is  cut  transversely  into  lengths  of  the  required  size.  One 
machine  cuts  grooves  for  the  head  and  the  bottom  and  another 
cuts  V-shaped  slots  out  of  the  edgeF.  Then  the  pieces  are  bent 
into  cylinders  and  hooped.  Moisture  is  extracted  by  a  drying  ap- 
paratus. 

A  valuable  practical  device  is  that  which  has  lately  been 

brought  to  notice  by  a  French  inventor,  designed  to  facilitate  rope 
climbing,  while  at  the  same  time  permitting  the  climber  to  have 
free  use  of  his  hands.  The  apparatus  consists  of  two  boards, 
joined  by  a  hinge,  with  a  hole  passing  through  both  the  hinge  and 
the  boards,  and  the  extremities  of  the  latter  providedwith  straps, 
which  can  be  fastened  to  the  feet  of  the  man  using  the  aparatus. 
The  method  of  climbing  involved  in  this  arrangement  is  simple. 
When  the  feet  attached  to  the  boards  are  lifted  the  rope  is  free, 
but  the  moment  the  feet  are  pressed  down  on  the  two  boards 
the  rope  is  firmly  gripped.  It  is  only  necessary,  therefore,  to  lift 
the  body  by  both  hands  as  far  as  possible, and  it  can  then  be  held 
by  the  hinged  clamps  until  another  lift  is  made.  By  the  use  of  a 
belt  to  hold  the  bodyjclose  to  the  rope  the  hands  may  be  left  free. 
The  device,  which  is  claimed  to  fulfill  its  purpose  admirably,  is^ 
designed  especially  for  the  use  of  firemen  and  painters,  also  to 
serve  as  a  fire  escape. 

— —There  is  a  church  in  the  town  of  Bergen,  Norway,  that  is 
built  entirely  of  paper.  It  can  seat  1000  persons  in  comfort,  and 
has  been  rendered  waterproof  by  a  solution  of  quicklime,  curdled 
milk,  and  white  of  eggs. 

Sickness   Among  Children, 
Especially  infants,  is  prevalent  more  or  less  at  all  times,  but  is  large- 
ly avoided  by  giving  proper  nourishment  and  wholesome  food.  The 
most  successful  and  reliable  of  all  is  the  Gail  Borden  "Eagle"  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.    Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 


IB-A-IDsriECS- 


BANK    OF   BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,175,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE   60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Naoaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  Brit'sh 
Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA-Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  douth  WaleB  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America:  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

532  California  street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30, 1891 $23,31 1,061  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus  1,346,635  00 

DIRECTORS. 

Albart  Miller,  Pr  esident;  George  W.  Beaver.  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastlaud ;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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


PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

80S   Market   Slreet   (Flood  Itnlldlns),  San   Francisco. 

OKGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital.  . . .  Jl, 000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits f     45,000.0) 

Paid-up  Capital  333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  MCDONALD  Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

This  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, in  sums  or  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  THe  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  1'ollateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND J    1 ,646  OOO  00. 

Deposits  Ju  v  I.  '892 28,776,697  91 

Officebs— President,  L.  GOT  TIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGER8  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  8CHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbqb. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  8.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moilitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecuritieB.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

JS.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  St3. 

ubsciied  Capital $2,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 92,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  9660,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.), No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  FrereB  4  Cie,  17Bonle 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.   Com 
merclal  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC-  Altbchtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up 91,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund. 650,000 

Head  Office— S  Angel  Court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Sellgman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    8ends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    j  „„.„.>„ 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL.    Managers. 


July  lfi,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEB 


27 


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LIVIN<;  BKKLBTON  \gnsmpil  —  The  two  beaded  man  makes 
me  lired  !  He  wants  ibeearih.  \\'\ld  Mnn  of  }lornro — What  e 
■  be  matter  with  him.  Sims?  jirl<lon-He  fttls  tiro  meals  to  my 
one;  ilon't  he  ?  He  smokes  with  ore  month  and  chews  with  the 
other;  and  he  can  whistle  and  sing  both  at  the  same  time.  He  says 
he  i.-  Roinc  to  vote  twice  at  the  coming  election,  anil  I  saw  him  kiss- 
ing two  tiinVrem  girls  at  the  same  lime  last  night.  And  yet  he  wears 
only  one  auit  of  dollies,  and  rides  on  a  single  railway  ticket.  He 
want-*  the  earth.  —  Puck, 

The  Hi.nl  of  a  rajah,  who  had  been  released  from  the  cares  of 

this  world  and  an  uncongenial  wife,  presented  himself  at  the  gates 
of  paradise.  "  Have  you  been  in  purgatorvyet?  "  demanded  Brahma. 
1  No;  hut  I  have  been  married."  "  Knter  then — it  is  the  same 
thing."  At  tbis  moment  another  soul  arrived,  who  begged  Brahma 
to  allow  him  also  to  enter.  "  boftly.  softly— have  you  been  in  purga- 
tory >et?"  "No;  but  neither  has  that  other  fellow — he  died  the 
same  day  I  did."  "  Very  true;  but  he  had  been  married."  "  Mar- 
ried, indeed !  Why.  I  Have  been  married  three  times."  "Away, 
then,  to  the  lower  legions,"  said  Brahma,  sternly;  "  paradise  is  not 
made  for  imbeciles."  — South  Australian  Chronicle. 

Mistress  (to  new  housemaid,  fresh  from   the  country) — Now,  see. 

Mary,  this  is  the  way  to  light  the  gas.  You  turn  on  this  little  tap.  so, 
and  then  apply  the  match,  so.  You  understand?  New  Housemaid — 
Yes,  ma'am ;  quite,  ma'am.  Mistress  {next  morning) — Why,  what  a 
horrible  smell  of  gas!  Where  can  it  come  from  7  We  shall  all  be  suf- 
focated !  Neu-  Housemaid  (with  murlt  pride)— Please,  ma'am,  wh  it  shall 
I  do  next?    I've  made  up  all  the  beds  and  dusted  the  room,  and 

turned  on  all  the  gases  ready  for  the  night,  and .  — Boston  Ghb6. 

"  Mary.  1  wish  you  would  be  a  better  little  girl,"  said  a  father 
we  know  of  to  his  little  girl.  "  You  have  no  idea  how  sorry  I  am  that 
luatnma  has  to  scold  you  so  much."  "Oh,  don't  worry  about  it, 
papa."  was  the  reply.  "  I'm  not  one  of  those sensitivechiidren.  Half 
the  time  I  don't  hear  what  she  says."  — Wilmington  Weekly. 

"  Gone  forever  I  "  he  sighed,  laying  down  his  last  coin,  a  ten 

dollar  gold  piece.  "There  goes  my  only  eagle,  wings  and  all!" 
"  Yes,"  said  the  business-like  man  who  hail  called,  as  be  handed  over 
a  receipted  document,  "  but  you  can  keep  the  bill,  you  know." 

—  Chicago  Tribune. 

Smallman  —I  went  to  the  opera  last  night.     Veecut — No!    Did 

you  7  Why.  my  wife  and  her  brother  were  there.  Where  did  you 
sit?  "  Immediately  at  her  back."  "  How  did  you  enjoy  it?  "  "Oh, 
very  much  indeed;'  but  I  think  she  is  suffering'  from  a  slight  rash — 
isn't  she?  " 

Proud  Father — We've  bad  twins  in  our  family  on  two  occasions. 

You  can't  beat  that,  sir?  Little  Man  {who  hadn't  spoken  before) — Well, 
1  don't  know  about  that.  My  wife  presented  me  the  other  day  with 
triplets,  and  three  of  a  kind  beat  two  pair,  don't  they  ?  — Life. 

Proprietor— What  are  you  takingback  there?  Waiter— Customer 

sent  this  beefsteak  back ;  says  he  couldn't  cut  it.  Proprietor  {examining 
in— Take  it  right  back  to  him  and  tell  him  he'll  have  to  pay  for  it. 
We  can  never  use  it  again;  he  has  bent  it  all  out  of  shape.    — Puck. 

—  '  Why,  Bridget,"  exclaimed  the  housewife,  "  I  can  write  ray 
name  in  the  dust  here."  "  Deed,  ma'am,"  replied  Bridget,  admir- 
ingly, "  thot's  more  nor  I  can  do.  There's  nothing  loike  education, 
after  all,  is  there,  ma'am  ?  "  —  Washington  Star. 

Footpad— Hold  up  yer  hands!    Citizen— I  have  nothing.    Foot 

f.ad—Yes.  yer  have.  I  saw  yer  come  out  of  a  bank  an'  I  follered  yer. 
Citizen— That  wasn't  a  bank.  That  was  the  gas  office.  Footpad— Go 
ahead.  —Judge. 

"  How  did  you  like  it  in  the  West?"  "  Not  very  well.    It  took 

tc  o  much  at  en  ion  to  find  out  jUit  when  to  throw  up  your  hands  and 
when  to  lay  down  your  hands."  — Puck. 

C'erk  nf  Hotel  (to  departing  guest)— Your  key,  sir.  Guest  (absently)— 
Eh?  Clerk  (gruffli/)—Your  key,  I  said.  Guest— Oh !  The  ball  and 
chain.     1  left  them  in  the  cell.  —Puck. 

"Got  everything  ready,  Chollie?"    "Yes."    "  Plenty  of  cbam- 

pagneandsandwiches?"  "Yes."  "  And  an  opiate  for  the  chaperon  ?  " 
"  By  Jove!  no."  —Judge. 

"Now,  Johnny,  who  is  the  mythological  person  who  is  sup- 
posed to  support  the  world  on  his  shoulders?"    "  Pulitzer,  ma'am." 

— Judge. 

She— That  odious  Mrs.  Newritch  seems  to  think  more  of  her 

dog  than  of  her  boy.    He— Oh,  well,  the  dog  has  a  pedigree.  —Life. 

Impatient  Guest— How  long  is  my  steak  going  to  be?     Waiter— 

About  eight  inches,  boss,  we  give  big  portions  here.  —Puck. 

It  is  noticed  that  bathing  suits  this  year  at  the  seaside  resorts 

are  a  great  deal  more  numerous,  but  less. 

Surface— What  sort  of  a  war  record  has  General  Bulger?  Row- 
ley,— About  a  mile  in  six  minutes.  — Life. 

Dentist— Will  you  have  gold  in  that  cavity,  sir?  Free-silver  Con- 
gressman— No,  sir!  —Judge. 

For  Debilitated  Men!  If  you  desire  to  be  restored  to  complete 
vigor  and  manhood,  promptly,  permanently  and  cheaply,  we  will 
send  von  full  particulars  (sealed)  of  a  reliable,  unfailing  Home  Treat- 
ment free.  No  electric  nonsense,  no  stomach  drugging.  Address 
Albion  Pharmacy  Co.,  Box  L,  Albion,  Mich. 

You  may  always  find  good  liquor  at  "  The  Mnnini,"  at  109  O'Par- 
rell  street.  This'6ne  establishment  has  gained  the  great  favor  of  all 
who  have  visited  it  since  its  opening,  for  its  goods  are  always  A  1, 
and  its  service  is  incomparable.    Drop  in  there  and  take  a  drink. 


Bj^JSTKS. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  »3,000,00t  00 

?.urJ!lu.,J,   ,  -  1,000,00000 

Undivided  Proflu  (July  lut,  ISM)    3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  Pronldent. 

rsoms  B»o»» Cmhler  I  B.  Mt'BRAV.Jr       .  AaslntaniCMhl  r 

iRvisii  F.  Mot'LTON,  -2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

<  <>  it  it  i  s,|.,»\iii:m  >  | 

NEW  YORK— Agency  ol  the  Ban*  of  California;  B03TON-Tremout 
Natioual  Bank;  CUIC.AQO-Unlnu  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatmau's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND-Thc  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  lu 
Londou— Mossrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  A  Sons.  Correspondents  In  India,  China 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virgiula  City,  and  Correspondent*  In  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Const. 

Letters  of  Credit  iBsued,  available  In  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  BoBton,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland.O.,  Los  Angeles,  Loudon,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen 
Hamburg,  Frankiort-on-the-Main  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai.  Yokohama.  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL IaNKT" 

N.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Busli  streets. 

Established  1870.  n    s.  Denosltarv 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) .*T«00  000 

SURPLUS $600,000  I  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS...  «16o'oOO 

8.  S.  MURPHY President  IE.  D.  MORGAN .Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT... .Vice-President  I  GEO.  W.KLINE  Ass'tCashier 

DIRECTORS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffltt. 

ThomasJeuuings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  Ueneral  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  ?100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
thn  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital 53,500,000     |     Capital  paid  up 2.450,000 

Reserve 45o!oo0 

San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  I  London  Office  ...  .73  Lombard  m.,E.  C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM   STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Km.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York — Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City — First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  HarjeB  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  £.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutler  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL $      500,000  00 

SURPLUS 5,488393.12 

CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS *   5,988,393  00 

DIRECTORS: 
Lloyd  Tevis,  President:  Jno.  J.  Valentine,  Vice-President;  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Chas.  F.  Crocker.  J.  C.  Fargo,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Wm.  Norris,  Geo.  E.  Gray 
and  W.  F.  Goad.    H.  Wadsworth,  Cashier. 
Receive  Deposits,  issues  Letters  of  Credit,  and  transact  a  General  Ban  kin 
Business. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS FORT  COSTA.  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular    Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowestrates  of  intereston  Grain  ftored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  Firat-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  ot  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL (1,000,000. 

DIRECTORS s 
OHAB.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  Ja. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH Feesident. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-Pbesidbnt. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER    Cabhibb 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $300,000 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour  Is  lower;    foreign    demand  fair;    Extras  $4.45@?4.50;   Superfine 
?2.75@*3.10 
Wheat  is    dull;    light  trade;    Shipping,    $1.35;   Milling,  |1.40®$1.45   per 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  9 Vi.@ttL.00  Feed,  90c@$1.00  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  ?l.40@$1.4>;  Feed,  $1.30(a)?l.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1  30;  Yellow,  Jl.25@ifl.371 3  per  ctl. 

Rye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  ?l-15ig$1.2U.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $12:  Oats,  ?S^$10;  Alfalfa,  17@|9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $18@?18.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00@$2.50  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  45c.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady;  Choice,  20c. @22'^c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@9c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  22c.@24c. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc.@12c. :  Extracted,  5c.@6c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  25c@50c.    Beeswax  is  higher,  at  25c.@26c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7j.3C.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  7\4®7l4c. 

Coffee  lower  at  15c.@21c.  forC.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  lower,  with  a  declining  tendency.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  Is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.  Hops  are  neglected  at  15@17c. 

Sugar,  good  stoct  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  4}4@rb%c. 

We  have  repeatedly  made  reference  to  the  inroads  upon  the 
business  of  this  port  by  and  through  the  influence  of  the  Cana- 
dian Pacific  route.  We  are  now  advised  of  a  recent  order  from 
Shanghai,  China,  for  3,000  bales  of  Cotton  Goods,  to  be  shipped 
from  Manchester,  N.  H.,  to  China  via  the  aforesaid  route,  and 
that  on  the  12th  of  June  last  ten  carloads  of  Sheetings  were  for- 
warded, to  be  followed  by  28  carloads  additional.  The  entire  in- 
voice of  38  carloads  were  duly  forwarded  en  route  during  the 
month  of  June  last.  The  Tea  trade  of  the  Orient  in  like  manner 
is  being  diverted  from  us,  and  also  from  the  Suez  Canal  route,  by 
the  several  Northern  Canadian  rail  and  steamship  lines  via  Brit- 
ish Columbia,  Washington  and  Oregon  lines,  so  that  at  present, 
New  York,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Montreal  and  other  Eastern  At- 
lantic cities  are  drawing  their  supplies  across  this  continent  quite 
independent  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company. 

Flour  and  Grain  of  all  descriptions  dull  of  sale.  Fruits  of  all 
kinds  plentiful  and  cheap.  Cannera  and  driers  of  fruit  are 
actively  engaged  curing  fruit. 

The  Pacific  Mail  Bteamship  China  departed  for  the  Orient  on 
the  9th  inst.,  carrying  in  treasure  $376,621,  nearly  all  in  silver;  of 
this  $221,921  went  to  Hongkong,  $82,200  to  Japan,  and  $52,500  to 
Calcutta.  For  China  the  cargo  consisted  of  15. 919  bbls.  Flour,  812 
pkgs.  Provisions,  300  bxs.  Pearl  Barley,  17  bbls.  Beer,  35  cs. 
Canned  Goods,  etc.,  value  $82,375;  to  Japan,  612  bbls.  Flour, 
1,706  gals.  Wine  and  Mdse.,  value  $16,829;  to  Manila,  500  bbls. 
Flour,  value  $2,200;  elsewhere,  89  cs.  Salmon,  69  cs.  Canned 
Fruit,  and  56  cs.  Canned  Meats. 

Imports  of  Staple  Groceries  by  sea  for  the  past  six  months: 
Sugar,  204,141,775  lbs.;  six  months  of  1891,  227,355.411  lbs.  Tea, 
874,195  lbs.;  six  months  of  1891,  1.204.522  lbs.;  Coffee,  18,683,253 
lbs.;  six  months  of  1891,  18,513,481  lbs.;  Rice,  26,683,634  lbs.; 
six  months  of  1891,  29,062,240  lbs.  Since  January  1,  1892,  im- 
ports, foreign,  six  months,  in  value.  Merchandise,  $23,768,103; 
and  for  six  months  of  1891,  $29,958,401;  Treasure  imports,  six 
months  of  1892,  $2,087,763;   1891,  $2,271,088. 

Exports  to  Honolulu  include  cargoes  per  Forest  Queen,  550 
bbls.  Flour,  3,141  gals.  Wine,  and  Mdse.,  value  $24,412.  The 
stnir.  Australia,  for  same,  carried  cargo  of  assorted  Mdse.  valued 
at  $18,000.  For  Kahului,  per  J.  D.  Spreckels,  400  cs.  Kerosene  and 
Mdse.,  value  $2,971. 

Cement  arrivals  include  the  cargo  per  Br.  ship  Eurasia,  from 
London,  with  15,288  bbls.  Stock  is  large  and  prices  too  low  to 
cover  costs  and  charges. 

Sealskins — The  first  arrival  of  the  season  is  per  schr.  Emma 
and  Louisa,  19  days  from  the  Aleutian  Islands,  with  1,342  skins, 
to  C.  D.  Ladd.  The  catch  up  to  June  25th,  is  reported  by  this 
schooner,  aggregates  31,383  skins  as  the  catch  of  50  vessels,  the 
largest  2,042  skins,  and  the  smallest  40  skins. 

Thestmr.  Belgic,  from  the  Orient,  brought  for  cargo  837  bales  Cal- 
cutta Gunnies,  300  bags  Cotfee,  6,293  bags  Sugar,  200  pkga.  Opium, 
4,272  pkgs.  Tea.  14.750  mats  Rice,  4,000  pkgs.  merchandise.  In 
transit  to  go  overland,  20,339  pkgs.  Tea,  119  pkgs.  Silk  Goods,  102 
pkgs.  Raw  Silk,  185  pkgs.  Curios,  etc. 

Grain  charters,  etc.— The  Br.  iron  ship  Thallata,  1,748  tons, 
Wheat  to  Cork,  Havre,  Antwerp  or  Dunkirk,  £1  6a.  3d.;  Br.  iron 
ship  California,  2  991  tons,  Grain  and  Merchandise  to  Liverpool 
direct,  laid  on;  Br.  iron  ship  Poseidon,  1,708  tons,  Wheat  to  Cork, 
Havre,  Antwerp  or  Dunkirk,  £1  10s.,  September  loading,  prior  to 
arrival;  ship  A.  J.  Fuller,  1,782  tons,  Merchandise  to  New  York, 
in  the  Dispatch  Line. 

Codfish. — The  second  cargo  of  the  season  is  at  hand.  Schr. 
Czarine,  from  Pirate  Cove,  with  240,000  Fish,  causing  a  decline  in 
price. 

The  steamship  City  of  8ydney,  hence  for  the  Isthmus  and  way 
ports,  carried  en  route  for  New  York  43,000  galls.  Wine,  120  galls. 


Brandy,  192,785  lbs.  Borax,  94  bales  Raga,  etc.,  value,  $31,500; 
also  to  Central  America,  742  bbls.  Flour,  25,130  lbs.  Malt,  600  galls. 
Wine,  23,251  lbs.  Tallow  and  Merchandise,  value,  $14,500;  to 
Mexico,  40,000  lbs.  Beans  and  Merchandise,  value,  $1,527:  to 
South  America,  500  bbls.  Flour,  108.930  lbs.  Malt,  value,  $4,525; 
to  Panama,  400  bbls.  Flour  and  Merchandise,  value,  $1,981. 

Flour  from  Cardiff.— We  have  the  Br.  Bk.  Centaur  with  1,601 
tons  Coke  and  709  tons  Steel  Blooms  to  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co. 

The  Glen,  from  Apia,  bad  for  cargo  269  sks.  Copra  and  125  tons 
Old  Iron  and  other  metal. 

The  stmr.  Alameda,  from  Sydney,  brought  for  cargo  2,288  ingots 
Tin,  etc.;  from  Auckland  56  bales  Tow,  etc.;  from  Honolulu  924 
bche.  Banannaa,  383  cs.  Pine  Apples,  etc.  The  schooner  Robert 
Lewers,  22  ds.  from  Honolulu,  brought  for  cargo  23,590  bags  Sugar. 

Sugar  imports  for  the  week  under  review  embrace  the  following: 
from  Hilo,  pr.  Harvester,  43,330 baga;  from  Honolulu,  pr.  Andrew 
Welch,  26,849  bags. 

Wheat  shipments  of  the  new  crop  are  now  in  order.  The  Br. 
ship  Mooltan  sailed  for  Cork  July  11th  with  57,427  ctls.,  value 
$78,962. 

Railroad  Material  for  Central  America.— The  schr.  Joseph  Russ 
has  sailed  hence  for  San  Jose  de  Guatemala  with  13,000  R.  R. 
Ties  and  63  cs.  Dynamite,  value  $4,431. 

The  brig.  Sea  Waif  sailed  from  Peru  for  Callao  on  the  12th  inst., 
carrying  247  pkgs.  Machinery,  200  bbls.  Flour,  22,687  lbs.  Tallow, 
55,000  feet  Lumber,  80,000  Shingles,  1,104  pkgs.  Shooks,  293  pkgs. 
Hardware,  etc.;  value  $48,685. 

Our  Dairy  Supply  continues  free  and  liberal,  and  prices  of  But- 
ter, Cheese  and  Eggs  remain  at  normal  rates. 

The  most  perfect  gift  is  perfect  vision.  Obtainable  at  C.  Muller's,  the 
optician,  135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush,  San  Francisco. 

H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants, 

AND 

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Nos.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California, 
NATIONAL   ASSURANCE   CO.  OF   IRELAND; 
ATLAS    ASSURANCE    CO.    OF    LONDON  ; 
BOYLSTON    INSURANCE   CO.  OF    BOSTON  ; 
OCEAN   MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 

LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

vOver  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

RemoveB  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

380  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Systems—"  Slattery  "  Induction;  "  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories— Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  AgentB  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co.,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 


35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


R.   J.    WHEELER. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN. 


J.   W.    GIRVIN   &   CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Paniflc  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  4  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO. 

SHIPPING   AND   COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 

UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

AgentB  for— 

The  Cunard  Royal    Mall  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 

Company,  Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 

"The  California  Line  of   Clippers,"  I  The  China  Traders  &  Insurance  Co. 

from  New  York,  i        (I>'6\)t 

"The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets,"      The   Baldwin  Locomotive  Works, 
to  and  from  Honolulu.  !        Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 


July  16,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCIS!  0  NEWS  1  !■  I  IKK. 


20 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Trains  Ltavi  and   are  Due  to  Arrl-va  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


lauvi  I  From  Jul)    1,    1892. 

740a.  BeolciA.  Bum>cy,  ^.cramcnlo 
7  SO*.  lUrwardr.  Nile,  andean  Jo»e      ' 
7:30*.  Martinet.  San  Ramou,  Callstoga 

and  Santa  Ko.a 
840  a.  jacram  to*  KeddlDg,  vial'avi. 
840*.  Firstand  SecoadClau  lorOgdca 

and  East,  aud  first  olan  locally 
8:80*.  Nilos,  San  Jo»e,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  MarvsTlllc,  Oro- 
Tlllc  and  Red  Bluff 
9:00*.  Sunset  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 
Santa  Barbara,  Los  Angeles, 
Demlng.El  Paso,  New  Orleans 

and  But 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton     

L2-0UM.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore 
•lOOr.  Sacramento  River  Steamers  .... 
1:30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 
340  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose 
440  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  

440  p.  Vallejo,  Callstoga,  El  Yerano  and 

Sauta  Rosa 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento. 

4 :30  p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 

•4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore 

5-30  p.  Los  Angeles  Express.  Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles 

5.30 P.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  

6:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose.. 

.   ...  Niles  and  San  Jose 

•640  p.  Sunol  and  Livermore  

640  p.  Ogden  Route  Atlantic  Express, 

Ogden  and  East 

17 40  p.  Vallejo 

7:00  p.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . . 


I  ttuvi 
7  IS  P. 

6:1JP. 
7:14  P. 

MS  r. 
4:45  P. 


8:45  P. 
•-  IS  p. 

7:15  p. 
•9:00  p. 
)2:45P. 

9:45*. 

9:45*. 

9.45*. 
10:45*. 
10:45*. 
•8:45  i. 


8:45  a. 
7 :45  A. 
16:15  p. 


9:15  a. 
+8:45  P. 


8:15  A 


Santa  Cruz  Division. 


J8:05 p. 


•2:15  P. 


4:45  P. 


17-45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz *10:60a. 

Centerville,  San  Jobc  Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 

Cruz 9:50A. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

,  Ban  Jose,  Almaden  aud  Way  Sta- 
tions   *2:38  p. 

Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gllroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis    Obispo) 
and    principal  Way    Stations 
19-30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 
Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. 
10-37A.  8an  Jose,  and  Way  Stations. .  . 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30p. 

•2:80p.  San  Jose,  Tres PinoB,  SantaCruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove 
and  principal  Way  Stations.  .  .*10:37  a. 
♦3-80  p.  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose  and  Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations *9 ;47  A. 

•4-30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .   *8:06  A. 

6i5  p.  San  JoBe  and  Way  Stations ?:iS!A' 

6  -SO  p.  Menlo  Park  and  way  Stations ...     6 :35  a. 
H.1-.46F.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations f7:30r. 


•7:00  a. 
17:31 


18:28  p. 


6:10  p. 


12:45  P. 
5:03  P. 


a.  for  Morning. 
•Sundays  excepted 


p.  for  Afternoon. 
tSaturdays  only. 


"yi>f  look  ltd,  Birdie;  whafs  th.  mat- 
I  ter?"  were  the  words  addressed  to 
llirdie  McApinipin.  by  her  friend  Mollie 
Squeers.  a?  they  melon  Manhattan  avenue. 
•■  I'm  not  feeling  well.'*  "  Are  you  sick  ?  " 
■■  No.  I'm  not  precisely  sick;  but  I  feel  tired  j 
and  overworked."  »  Do  tell  me  all  about 
it."  "  Well,  you  see  our  colored  cook  is 
sick,  and  now  poor  mother  bas  to  do  all  the 
cooking  and  scrubbing  and  washing  and 
ironing,  and  it  makes  me  feel  so  tired  to  see 
the  old  creature,  she  is  so  slow." 

— Texas  Diflingt. 


tSundays  only 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 

Sing  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
ails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 
FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SIDNEY, 

S.  S.  Alameda Friday,  July  22,  at  2  p.  M. 

Fop  Honolulu  Only. 

8.8.  Australia Tuesday,  Aug.  3,  1892,  at2P.H. 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327  Mar- 
ket street  SPBKcKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 
General  AgentB 

I  CURE  FITS ! 

"When  I  say  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  tnem 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again,  I""3*?* 
ladical  cure.  I  have  made  the  disease  of  FT1 S.  t^l* 
LEPST  or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study,  i 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  ia  no  reason  for  not  now  receivinga 
cure.  Bend  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Lottie  01 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
H.  G.  ROOT,  M.  C.»  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  Y. 


SHE  was  a  pretty  and  sprightly  little 
creature,  with  blue  eyes,  golden  hair 
and  an  inquisitor's  tongue.  She  plied  the 
stranger  with  questions  and  toyed  with  his 
watch-chain,  and  her  mother,  evidently  a 
widow,  looked  round  now  and  then  with  a 
beaming  smile.  He  began  to  feel  out  of 
sorts.  At  last  he  said  to  the  mother: 
"  Madam,  what  do  you  call  this  sweet  little 
darling?"  The  widow  smiled  encbanting- 
ly,  and  answered,  with  a  sigh,  "Ethel." 
11  Please  call  her,  then,"  said  the  stranger, 
as  he  buried  himself  in  bis  book. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    DONAHUE    BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24.  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boat*  aud  Tmlun  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francinco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF.  a> 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tiburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  A.  M.,  9:20  a.  m.,   11:20  A.  U.\ 

M.,  3:30  p.  H.,5:06  P.  M.,  6:20  p.  If. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  A.M.,  9:30  A.M.,  II  :00  A.M. ;  1:30  P.M. 
3:30  P.  M.,  5:00  p.  m.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25   a.    m.,  7:65    a.    m.,  9:80    A.   M. 

11:30  A.M.;  1:40  P.M.,  3:40  P.M.,  6:05  P.M. 
SATURDAY8  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  r.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  a.m.,  11:10  A.  m.  ;  1:40  p.m. 
3:40  P.  M.,  5:00  P  M.,G:25  P.  M. 

prom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:50  a.  m.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:56  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M.;  2:05  P.  M.,  4:05  P.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35    a.m.,    10:05  a.m.,  11:86  a.m.; 
2:05  p.  m.,4:05p.m. ,5:30p.m.,  6;60p.m. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Link  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

26th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  June  25th,  1892,  S.  S.  "  San 
Bias;"  July  15th,  S.  S.  "San  Jose;"  August  5th, 
"City  of  New  York." 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlau.  San  Bias,  Mauzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Saliua  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  Sen  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  Sau  Juan  del  Sur  aud  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.—  July  18th,  S.  S.  "  Colima"' 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 
HONGKONG, 
Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 
Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 
Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 
S.  S-  "Peru"  (new),  Thursday,  Aug.  4th,  at  3  p.  m. 
"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  Aug.  27th,  at 
3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Sept.  9, 
1892,  at  3  p.  M. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 

PACIFIC   COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oreqo:i,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  aud  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  u. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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

SERGEANT  O'RAFFERTY  {calling  roll)— 
Atkins!  Private  Atkins  1  Frivate  Allans 
(first  appearance  on  parade) — Ye-es,  sir.  Ser- 
geant O'Rafferty  (severely)—  All  you  have  to 
do  when  your  name  is  called  is  to  say  here, 
whether  you  are  there  or  not. — Moonshine. 

LAZY  BRICKLAYER  [looking  through 
ski/Ught  of  offices)— Well,  I've  been  a- 
looking  at  them  three  clerk  chaps  for  the 
last  hour,  and  they  haven't  done  a  stroke 
of  work.  It's  a  darn  shame  to  rob  their 
employers  that  way,  I  sez.— Pick-me-Up. 


Leave  S.  F. 


Week 
Days. 


Sundays 


7:40  A.i 
3:30p.i 
5:05  p.] 


7:40  a. 
3:30  p.; 


7:40A. M 
3:30  p.  m 


7:40a.  M. 
5:05  P.M 


Destination, 


:00  a. 
:30  a. 
:00p.  : 


8:00  A. M 
5:00  p.m 


SundayB 


Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 


10:40  a.  m 
6:05  p.m 
7:25p.m 


Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Heald  sburg 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Guernevllle. 


Sonoma  and  10:40a.m 
Glen  Ellen.    6:05p.m. 


Arrive  in  8.  F. 


Week 
Days. 


8:60a.  m. 
10:30  a.  m 
6:10  P.M. 


7:40a. m    8:00a.m    Sevastopol.  |  10:40a.m    10:30am 
3 :30  p.M    5 :00  P. M ■    fi-.05p. M     6 :  10  p. M 


10:30 A. M 
6:10  p.M 


10;30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 


8:50  a.m. 
6:10p.m. 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  a  t  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs. 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  aud  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukian  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Canto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,   Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURBION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  ?2  25;  to 
HealdBburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  |4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  ?5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sevastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  ?3  76;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  ?1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  ?1;  to  Santa  Rosa.  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg,  $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sevastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt, 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Saturday,  June  25, 1892. 

Belgic Tuesday,  July  26, 1892. 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic  Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT   REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.H.GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


CONSUMPTION. 

IhaveapoBitiveremedyfor  the  above  disease;  by  its 
nse  thousands  of  cases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
standing  have  been  enred.  Indeed  so  strong  is  my  faith 
in  its  efficacy,  that  I  will  send  two  bottles  free,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  Buf- 
f  erer  who  will  send  me  their  .Express  and  P.  O.  address. 
T»  A.  Slocmu,  M.  C.t  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  Y. 





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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


JULY  has  for  many  years  been  known  as  the  most  decidedly 
off-month  in  the  society  life  of  San  Francisco,  and  this  year 
has  proved  no  exception.  To  say  it  is  exceedingly  dull  in  town 
is  to  put  it  very  mildly;  there  is  actually  nothing  in  the  gay  line 
taking  place;  weddings  are  for  the  moment  lacking  to  fill  in  the 
empty  bill,  and  even  theatricals  are  suffering  from  the  general 
apathy  felt  by  those  in  town.  The  resorts  have  been  feeling  the 
reaction  after  the  festivities  of  the  recent  holidays;  but  that  is 
only  natural,  besides  promising  to  be  but  of  brief  duration.  At 
San  Rafael  the  tennisites  have  been  in  great  glee  over  the  news 
received  of  the  successes  of  our  Californian  players  in  the  Chi- 
cago courts,  and  Hubbard  and  Tobin  are  the  heroes  of  the  hour. 
Teas  and  picnics  have  been  the  chief  means  used  to  pass  life 
pleasantly  at  Del  Monte. 

A  number  of  departures  from  Del  Monte  citywards  also  followed 
the  gaities  of  the  holiday  season,  among  the  defections  being 
Mrs.  Bob  Hastings,  Mrs.  L.  S.  Adams,  Mias  Ella  Adams,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  Hays  Hammond,  Miss  Betty  Hammond,  Miss  Helen 
Wheeler,  Frank  Johnson,  Joe  Grant,  Charley  Fair  and  Lansing 
Kellogg.  But  great  will  be  the  gathering  of  the  clans  there  next 
month,  and  during  August  and  September  it  is  expected  that 
those  who  consider  themselves  the  hundred  and  fifty  of  San  Fran- 
cisco's Four  Hundred  will  all  be  found  at  Del  Monte.  Among 
those  who  are  already  named  to  arrive  there  towards  the  end  of 
this  month  and  early  in  August  are  Mrs.  Casserley  and  Miss  Tes- 
sie;  Judge  and  Mrs.  W.  T.  Wallace  and  Miss  Romie;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  James  Stewart;  all  the  Tubbs;  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Oyster; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J.  McCutchen  and  Miss  McCutchen ;  Gen.,  Mrs. 
and  Miss  Houghton;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alvord,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ramon 
Wilson;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Sabin;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Page  Brown; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Faxon  Atherton;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry  Eyre,  Miss 
Eyre  and  Miss  Alice  Simpkins;  Mrs.  and  Miss  Dibblee,  from  San 
Rafael;  the  Misses  Dimond,  Mrs.  Ellis,  Miss  Hope  Ellis,  Mrs. 
Charles  Webb  Howard,  the  Louis  Haggins  and  the  Count  and 
the  Countess  Festetiea. 


There  was  a  brilliant  wedding  in  Jewish  circles  last  Sunday, 
when  Miss  Fanny  Steiner  and  Jonas  Erlanger  were  married  at  tbe 
home  of  the  bride,  on  Eddy  street,  the  Rev.  Jacob  Voorsanger 
performing  the  ceremony.  Tbe  decorations  of  the  rooms  were 
tasteful  in  the  extreme,  and  remarkably  pretty.  Tbe  prevailing 
tints  were  white  and  green;  smilax,  ferns,  white  roses,  camelias 
and  tiger  lilies  being  used  with  a  lavish  hand  in  ornamentation. 
The  bride,  escorted  by  her  brother,  Joseph  Steiner,  entered  the 
parlors,  which  were  crowded  with  guests,  promptly  at  eight 
o'clock  followed  by  the  groom  and  his  best  man,  his  brother,  Simon. 
Miss  Emma  Steiner  was  maid  of  honor  to  her  sister:  the  Misses 
Hilda  and  Toby  Steiner,  Inez  Steinberger,  Fanny  and  Julia  Gal- 
linger,  Essie  Erlanger  and  Rosa  Goodenheim  forming  a  bevy  of 
very  pretty  bridesmaids.  The  wedding  robe  was  an  elaborate 
creation  of  white  duchess  satin  richly  trimmed  with  crystal 
ornaments  and  draperies,  and  bouquets  oE  orange  blossoms.  Tbe 
ceremony  was  followed  by  feasting  and  merriment,  many  tele- 
grams of  congratulation  being  received  and  read  during  supper, 
and  the  festivities  were  prolonged  to  a  late  hour. 


There  were  two  entertainments  at  Santa  Cruz  last  Saturday 
evening.  Mrs.  J.  Philip  Smith  gave  a  delightful  garden  party  and 
hop  at  her  pretty  8unshine  Villa,  at  which  most  of  the  belles  now 
visiting  that  resort  were  present,  aa  well  as  many  of  the  party 
who  composed  the  late  yachting  cruise,  some  of  whom  remained 
especially  for  it,  while  others  returned  again  from  town.  The 
grounds  were  lighted  with  innumerable  Japanese  lanterns,  mak- 
ing the  scene  particularly  attractive  and  beautiful.  The  second 
was  at  the  new  Santa  Maria  del  Mar  Hotel,  which  was  formally 
opened  by  a  hop,  with  supper  afterwards,  which  proved  a  very 
pleasant  affair.  It  is  the  new  summer  resort  built  by  the  Catholic 
Ladies'  Aid  Society,  and  promisea  to  become  very  popular.  The 
houae  ia  a  pretty  one  and  very  comfortable,  and  the  marine  views 
charming.  Mrs.  Martel  and  Miss  Edith  are  among  the  guests  at 
the  Sea  Beach. 


July  ia  the  month  for  freah  school  terms  to  begin,  and  in  anti- 
cipation thereof  those  noted  inatructresses  of  our  faireat  belles, 
Mra.  Mills  and  Madam  Ziska,  have  returned  from  their  vacation 
trips  to  Southern  California.  Madam  Ziaka  was  accompanied  by 
her  pretty  daughter,  Miss  Alice.  Our  medical* men  are  also  com- 
ing back  from  their  well-earned  vacations.  Dr.  Geo.  Bucknall 
has  returned  from  Howell  Mountain  and  Dr.  Luke  Robinson 
has  returned  from  a  four  weeks'  trip  through  Oregon  and  Wash- 
ington; Dr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Gibbons  are  back  from  their  visit  to 
Pescadero,  and  to-day  Dr.  and  Mrs.  0.  O.  Burgess  will  return 
from  Santa  Cruz,  where  the  Doctor  has  been  enjoying  the  fishing 
and  Mrs.  Burgess  the  sea  beach  since  early  in  June.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  A.  W.  Lundburg  have  been  visiting  the  Hotel  Vendome, 
at  San  Jose. 


A  very  pretty  wedding  took  place  on  Thursday  at  the  handBOme 
residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Walter  Scott,  in  East  Oakland.  The 
contracting  parties  were  Charles  F.  Rhorer  of  Santa  Rosa,  and 
Miss  Nora  Wright  of  Delano.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Lathrop,  and  was  witnessed  by  a  large  social  throng. 
The  bride  was  attended  by  Miss  Edith  Beers  and  Miss  Mabel 
Beers,  while  Will  Rhorer,  brother  of  the  groom,  acted  as  best 
man.  Among  the  many  present  at  the  reception,  which  followed, 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emil  Frick,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  B.  Beers,  Mrs.  B. 
C.  Wright,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  C.  Simpson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  S.  Culver, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Einhorn,  J.  P.  Rynders,  Mrs.  D.  Rynders,  Miss 
Mabel  Beers,  Miss  Edith  Beers,  Miss  Mabel  Craft,  Miss  Florence 
Mulligan,  S.  Hedges. 

There  was  a  grand  scattering  of  guests  from  San  Rafael  during 
the  week,  some  going  back  to  the  resorts  from  which  tbe  festivi- 
ties at  the  delightful  Hotel  Rafael  lured  them  away,  some  return- 
ing home  on  account  of  »  school  days,"  while  others,  and  tbe  ma- 
jority, but  changed  their  quarters  from  that  little  village  to  Del 
Monte.  Among  the  flitters  General  and  the  Miss  Dimond  and  Miss 
Holbrooke  are  at  their  Menlo  Park  homes;  Mrs.  Coleman  and 
Mias  Jessie  have  returned  home  to  Oakland;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  P. 
Holaling  went  to  the  Hotel  Vendome;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Fisher 
came  back  to  town;  Miss  Hoffman  and  Miss  Mary  McNntt  were 
among  those  who  went  to  Pescadero. 

Musical  circles  are  inclined  to  be  despondent  over  the  departure 
of  Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham,  who  left  for  the  East  last  Saturday. 
In  New  York  he  expects  to  become  one  of  the  Gillig-Unger- 
Schyler  party,  and  with  them  spend  several  weeks  yachting  on 
the  New  England  coast,  and  a  jovial  time  is  a  foregone  conclu- 
sion. There  is  some  consolation  to  the  mourners  in  the  thought 
that  he  could  scarcely  have  chosen  a  better  time  for  his  absence, 
for  there  is  literally  nothing  of  moment  occurring  in  social  life  in 
San  Francisco,  and  his  visit  East  will  only  extend  over  a  couple 
of  months  at  the  most,  which  will  bring  him  back  in  time  for  the 
Carr-Beel  new  season  of  concerts. 


Mare  Island  society  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  arrival  at 
the  navy  yard  of  Mrs.  Woods  and  her  neice,  Miss  Florence 
Woods,  who  have  been  traveling  in  Europe  since  early  in  the  year. 
Tbe  Naval  Hospital,  where  they  will  reside  with  Dr.  George  W. 
Woods,  the  medical  inspector,  bids  fair  to  become  the  scene  cf 
many  a  pleasant  gathering  hereafter.  Mrs.  Icy  Cutts,  the  fascin^ 
ating  little  post  trader  at  the  navy  yard,  has  had  a  cosy  cottage 
erected  for  her  residence  in  anticipation  of  the  return  of  her 
daughter,  who  will  accompany  her  uncle,  Surveyor-General 
Brown  of  the  navy,  when  he  arrives  here  from  Washington  City 
in  the  near  future. 

Mrs.  Rutherford,  who  was  one  of  tbe  «  wanderers  "  from  Del 
Monte  this  season,  will  return  to  her  early  love  ere  long.  She 
and  her  pretty  daughter,  Miss  Alice,  at  present  purpose  leaving 
Castle  Crags,  wnere  they  have  been  for  several  weeks,  about  the 
end  of  July,  and  will  pasa  August  and  September  at  the  seaside, 
accompanied  by  the  other  members  of  their  family.  George 
Crocker  will  also  be  of  the  party.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  McBean 
and  their  daughter,  Miss  Edith,  will  follow  suit  later  on,  expect- 
ing to  leave  Castle  Crags  towards  tbe  end  of  August  for  Del 
Monte,  where  they  will  remain  during  September. 

The  Misses  Marie  and  Kate  Voorhies  will  possibly  be  among 
the  missing  at  next  winter's  festivities,  aa  it  is  among  the  proba- 
bilities that  they  will  spend  the  next  six  months  on  the  continent 
of  Europe.  They  have  been  passing  the  last  three  months  the 
other  side  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  with  relatives  and  friends, 
and  enjoying  their  visits  thoroughly.  We  shall,  however,  have 
Miss  Maud  Howard  back  again  ere  the  winter  season  begins, 
though  she  will  remain  abroad  until  late  in  the  autumn.  Her 
recent  experiences  of  mountain  climbing  she  describes  in  a  very 
graphic  manner,  and  as  having  been  enjoyable  to  a  degree. 

A  double  wedding  took  place  on  Willow  street,  West  Oakland, 
on  Monday  last  two  sisters  becoming  the  brides  of  two  brothers. 
The  happy  couples  were  Miss  Emma  Winkler  and  L.  F.  Clark, 
and  Mias  Lydia  Winkler  and  A.  H.  Clark.  The  first  named  groom 
is  an  Oakland  druggist,  while  the  latter  ia  a  San  Francisco  mer- 
chant. The  ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Dille,  and 
after  a  reception  and  a  wedding  dinner  the  newly  united  couples 
left  for  Blue  Lakes.  On  returning  from  their  honeymoon  they 
will  occupy  a  double  residence  in  the  Athenian  City. 

Oakland,  which  has  been  so  prolific  of  weddings  this  season, 
is  still  well  in  the  van,  and  this  week  it  can  boast  of  the  un- 
usual in  that  line.  It  is  very  rarely  that  the  marriages  of  two 
sisters  to  two  brothers  are  celebrated  at  the  same  time  and  place, 
and  such  an  event  occurred  in  West  Oakland  last  Monday,  when 
the  Misses  Emma  and  Lydia  Winkler  were  united  in  holy  wed- 
lock to  Messrs.  F.  L.  and  A.  H.  Clark,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Dille  tying 
the  nuptial  knot.  The  happy  double  couple  are  passing  their 
honeymoon  at  Blue  Lakes.      

That  popular  couple,  Mr.  and  Mra.  Tom  Dargie,  of  Oakland, 
were  among  recent  visitors  at  Del  Monte. 


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Major  J.  L.  Kathbone'i  friends  are  dell«bled  »t  the  ntwi  which 
indicate*  the  determination  on  hi«  part  to  now  remain  a  perma- 
nent resident  ol  Ban  Francisco.  He  n«  purchased  a  lot  on  Junes 
street,  and  removed  to  it  the  bouse  he  recently  occupied  on  Cali- 
fornia street,  and  as  soon  as  it  is  in  readiness  10  receive  them,  bl- 
and Mrs.  Katbbone  will  take  possession.  Visions  of  delightful 
dinners  within  its  walls  the  coming  winter  are  now  in  order. 

The  news  of  Mrs.  Maria  Coleman's  death,  which  occurred  in 
Paris,  was  received  here  early  in  the  week,  and  caused  much  sor- 
row to  ttie  many  friends  in  tfan  Francisco,  by  whom  she  was  loved 
and  esteemed  for  her  noble  qualities  of  mind  and  heart,  and  her 
numerous  acts  of  unostentatious  charity.  To  her  son,  Mr.  James 
V.  Coleman,  and  her  twin  daughters,  the  Mesdames  May.  who 
were  all  with  ber  at  the  last,  are  extended  many  expressions  of 
heartfelt  sympathy  in  their  great  loss. 


Another  pretty  but  very  quiet  wedding  was  the  ceremony  which 
united  Miss  Beatrice  Moses  and  Walter  Hinkle.  which  was 
performed  at  the  Hinkle  residence,  on  Leavenworth  street,  last 
Sunday  afternoon,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lathrop,  of  Oakland,  officiating. 
Miss  Helen  Walker  was  sole  bridesmaid,  Frank  Willey  best  man 
to  the  groom,  and  D.  M.  Fraser  gave  the  bride  away.  Lake  Ta- 
boe  is  the  charming  locality  where  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hinkle  are 
spending  their  honeymoon, 


Fruit  Vale  is  evidently  determined  to  keep  pace  with  Oakland 
in  the  matrimonial  line,  as  the  latest  news  from  that  pretty  locale 
announces  the  engagements  of  Miss  Estelle  Hush  to  Thomas 
Magee,  Jr.,  and  her  sister.  Miss  Harriet  Hush,  to  William  A. 
Magee.  August  is  the  month  when  the  weddings  are  to  take  place, 
and  directly  after  the  quartette  will  depart  for  Europe  on  their 
honey-moon  trip. 

The  yacht  Lurline,  Commodore  A.  B.  Spreckels,  returned  from 
Santa  Cruz  last  Monday,  the  trip  being  made  in  eighteen  hours. 
Two  of  the  guests  on  the  vessel  were  Frederick  Keene  and  Theo- 
dore Cramp,  of  New  York.  On  Saturday  last,  before  leaving 
Santa  Cruz,  Commodore  Spreckels  and  party  were  the  guests  of 
Mrs.  Smith  at  a  garden  party  given  by  her  in  honor  of  the  win- 
ners of  the  trophy  for  the  Santa  Cruz  race. 


Mrs.  F.  H.  Tyler,  who,  with  her  daughters,  has  been  spending 
the  summer  in  Sausalito,  has  taken  a  house  on  California  street. 
Her  sisters,  the  Misses  Blanche  and  Octavia  Hoge,  will  reside 
with  her  this  coming  winter.  Mrs.  L.  Ponton  d'Arce  and  her 
daughters,  Miss  Marie  Ponton  d'Arce  and  Mrs.  Ricardo  Villa 
Franca,  have  named  Wednesday  as  their  reception  day  at  their 
new  residence,  1704  Sacramento  street. 

Mrs.  Alexander  Forbes  and  her  daughters,  including  Mrs.  John- 
son, who  have  been  spending  several  months  in  Europe,  have  re- 
turned to  the  United  States.  They  passed  last  week  in  New 
York,  en  route  homewards  to  California.  Mr.  James  Freeborn, 
whose  present  home  is  in  Paris,  was  also  in  New  York  last  week, 
and  no  doubt  San  Francisco  will  ere  long  be  gladdened  by  his 
presence. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Carrie  Northey,  the  well-known  vocalist, 
and  Jessie  E.  Douglas,  of  Omaha,  is  to  be  one  of  the  events  of  the 
month  in  Oakland.  It  will  take  place  at  8  p.  m.  on  the  27th  inst.  in 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  where  Miss  Northey  has  been  leader 
of  the  choir  for  a  long  time  past.  A  reception  will  afterwards  be 
held  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents  on  East  Fifteen  street. 

Among  the  East-bound  passengers  last  Tuesday,  were  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin,  who  have  gone  to  New  York  to  take  up  what 
their  friends  here  fear  will  be  their  permanent  residence.  Mrs. 
Haggin's  many  friends  in  this  city  have  parted  with  her  with 
deep  regret,  and  she,  it  is  said,  was  very  unwilling  to  bid  adieu 
to  San  Francisco,  which  has  for  so  many  years  been  her  home. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Antony  Hellman,  who  have  been  residents  of 
Sausalito  for  several  years,  have  taken  a  house  at  Santa  Cruz, 
where  they  will  remain  all  summer,  and  possibly  may  pass  the 
coming  winter  there  also.  Dr.  Beverley  Cole,  who  is  spending 
the  summer  at  Sausalito,  was  among  the  visitors  at  Santa  Cruz 
during  the  recent  cruise  of  the  yachts  thither. 

Among  the  engagements  announced  in  Oakland  this  week  are 
Frank  Risdorph  and  Miss  Lizzie  Pinkney;  J.  Arnold  and  Miss 
Ethel  Sargent;  L.  Soio-mon  and  Miss  Millie  Marcus;  S.  Manheim 
and  Miss  Henrietta  Kahn;  E.  Michael  and  Miss  Minnie  David- 
son; c.  E.  Gottschall  and  Miss  Alice  M.  Kenyon,  and  Frank  G. 
Woodward  and  Miss  Dell  Chapman. 

Another  August  wedding  is  promised  in  the  lately  announced 
engagement  of  Miss  Dell  Chapman  and  Frank  G.  Woodward,  both 
of  Oakland.  And  yet  another  will  no  doubt  take  place  that 
month,  when  Miss  Alice  Kenyon,  also  of  Oakland,  joins  her  for- 
tunes to  those  of  C.  E.  Gottschalk,  one  of  our  well-known  archi- 
tects, whose  engagement  has  recently  been  made  public. 

The  tugboat  party  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club  last  Saturday 
night  was  a  most  enjoyable  affair. 


.1  ,',,...'  m  •  U  "*.  "'•"'Py"'*  «•>•  N«d  Hopkins  villa 
at  Monto  lark  thl,  summer,  during  the  absence  of  Mrs.  Z.lhy, 
ssterand  her  fam.lv  i„  „,e  ,.;«„.  Th.-y  entertained  a  ple«.„t 
Mile  hons,  parly  during,!...  nN.nl    holiday,  and   expect  to  h"vo 

a  soeewtrton  ol    friend,   visit   ,i„. ,hU,  ,,„.,.  reIn.ln   in  "™ 

coil  n  i  ry . 

Mrs.  Mamie  Hastings,  who  returned  from  Del  Monte  last  week 
Will  depart  almost  immediately  for  Europe,  contemplating  an  ab- 
sence of  some  duration.  Mr,.  .1.  |„  i-0„ie,  who  came  to  the  city 
o  attend  the  ordainatlon  ol  her  late  husband's  cousin,  W    I    Kin 

pi*,,/.,6"1™6'1    agaiD    t0'  Ca8lle   0ra*"'    leavin8   to»"    "»>  ' **™ 

tj >  cm  tip. 

Mrs.  John  H.Dickinson,  accompanied  by  Miss  8hipman,  who 
bad  a  most  enjoyable  visit  to  Cisco,  has  returned  to  Sausalito 
where,  with  the  exception  of  a  visit  to  Monterey  later  on,  she 
will  remain  until  autumn.  Mrs.  Chauncey  R.  Winslow  was  a 
guest  at  ban  Rafael  during  the  Fourth  of  July  holiday  season. 

?«  oL0<?j  &ni  Miss  JennV.  accompanied  by  James  L.  Flood 
and  Ed.  Sheldon  have  recently  passed  ten  days  very  pleasantly 
making  a  tour  of  the  southern  counties,  in  their  own  private  car. 
They  have  returned  to  their  villa  at  Menlo  Park,  where  they  will 
now  probably  remain  the  rest  of  the  summer  months. 

A  merry  party  of  Oaklanders  and  Berkeleyites  have  gone 
into  camp  in  Cobb  Valley,  Mendocino  county.  The  rusticaten 
are  Professor  Richardson,  Archie  Borland,  Fred  Cleft,  Will  Clark 
Will  Foote,  F.  A.  Leach,  Jr.,  Seabury  Mastick,  Hart  North' 
Arthur  North,  John  A.  Sanborn  and  Judge  Charles  W.  Slack. 

Mr.  W.  W.  Belvin  was  among  the  arrivals  at  the  Palace  Hotel 
early  in  the  week.  He  and  Mrs.  Belvin  returned  from  their 
European  trip  the  last  of  June,  but  Mrs.  Belvin  elected 
to  remain  in  New  York  while  her  better-half  paid  a  flying  busi- 
ness visit  to  the  Pacific  Coast. 


We  are  soon  to  have  the  pleasure  of  welcoming  Mr.  John 
Mackay  again,  as  he  is  about  leaving  New  York  for  the  Pacific 
Coast.  Young  Mackay  appears  to  prefer  the  pleasures  of  the 
Old  World  to  those  of  the  new,  as  at  last  accounts  he  was  enjoy- 
ing life  in  Paris. 

The  Misses  McMillen,  Mr.  Robert  McMillen  and  Ellis  Wooster 
have  changed  their  base  from  Blythdale  to  Larkspur  Inn,  where 
they  purpose  spending  the  rest  of  July  and  August.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Will  F.  Mau  will  also  pass  the  rest  of  the  summer  at  Larks- 
pur Inn. 

There  are  very  well  authenticated  rumors  in  the  air  that  Miss 
Delphine  Delmas'  engagement  will  be  announced  at  a  very  early 
day.  That  of  Miss  Ada  McAllister,  daughter  of  W.  F.  McAllister, 
to  Mabry  McMahon,  is  one  of  the  announcements  of  the  past 
week. 

Senator  Stanford's  friends  have  been  greatly  gratified  at  hearing 
such  excellent  news  regarding  his  health,  which  has  been  steadily 
improving  since  his  arrival  at  Aix-les-Bains.  He  and  Mrs.  Stan- 
ford propose  remaining  abroad  until  quite  late  in  the  autumn. 


Mrs.  W.  B.  Collier  has  been  in  the  city  from  Lakeport  during 
the  present  week.  Mrs.  Del  Linderman  has  returned  from  a  very 
pleasant  visit  to  Paso  Robles,  and  is  at  the  residence  of  her  par- 
ents, Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  R.  Thompson,  on  Van  Ness  avenue. 

Mile.  Cortaz,  who  chaperoned  a  party  of  young  ladies  abroad, 
has,  with  her  charges,  the  Misses  Ives,  Benjamin  and  Palmer,  ar- 
rived in  Paris.  Mrs.  McGregor  and  Miss  Helen  McGregor  have 
also  reached  that  most  delightful  of  all  European  cities. 

A  burro  party  has  gone  on  a  sketching  tour  to  Yosemite.  They 
will  travel  both  ways  on  their  long-eared  steeds,  and  they  antici- 
pate a  happy  time.  The  jaunters  are  Messrs.  Blake,  Easton,  Ray- 
mond Russ,  Sims,  Hewlett,  Palmer  and  Record. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  T.  Scott,  Miss  Crittenden,  Mrs.  Hitchcock 
and  Mrs.  Lilly  Coit,  who  have  returned  from  a  very  delightful 
visit  to  Alaska,  will  spend  the  greater  part  of  the  remaining  sum- 
mer months  at  Del  Monte. 

Jack  Fetberstone  has  gone  to  Mount  Shasta,  and  James  Brett 
Stokes  to  the  Yosemite  Valley,  which  be  has  announced  his  in- 
tention of  exploring  more  thoroughly  than  has  ever  yet  been 
done  by  man. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ansel  Easton  are  anticipating  a  visit  to  Japan 
which  may  possibly  be  still  further  extended,  as  they  will  be 
absent  about  three  months  from  California. 

W.  I.  Kip  and  family  have  gone  to  spend  several  weeks  in  the 
vicinity  of  Santa  Rosa,  and  do  not  contemplate  returning  to  town 
until  September. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Rose  8tern  and  Mr.  Isaac  Frohman  will 
take  place  at  7  o'clock  next  Wednesday  evening,  at  the  residenoe 
of  the  bride's  parents,  1609  Laguna  street. 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  16,  1892. 


The  travel  to  the  Yosemite  this  season  promises  to  be  heavy, 
as  the  valley  is  in  its  most  beautiful  garb.  The  favorite  route  is 
by  way  of  Wawona  and  the  Big  Tree  Grove,  from  which  the  well 
equipped  stages  of  the  Yosemite  Valley  Stage  Company  convey 
the  tourists  into  the  valley.  The  attractions  of  the  famous  grove 
of  big  trees  is  only  second  to  those  of  Yosemite  itself.  The  Stone- 
man  House,  in  the  valley,  at  which  all  visitors  stay,  is  as  well 
managed  a  hotel  as  can  be  found  in  this  State  of  famous  hos- 
telries.  

The  many  attractions  of  the  Hotel  Rafael  continue  to  attract 
visitors  to  that  beautiful  and  popular  resort.  During  the  tennis 
tournament  the  hotel  was  crowded  with  thousands  of  visitors, 
many  of  whom  remain.  The  Rafael  is  the  Mecca  of  society's 
leaders.  Its  beautiful  location,  nearness  to  the  city  and  excel- 
lent management  combine  to  make  it  one  of  the  most  popular  of 
our  hotels. 

The  California  tennis  players,  Tobin  and  Hubbard,  were  checked 
in  their  victorious  course  at  the  Chicago  games  on  Wednesday. 
Their  defeat  settles  all  chance  of  the  championship  of  the  tourna- 
ment coming  out  further  West.  They  played  Ryerson  and  Carver 
Wednesday,  and  were  defeated  by  the  following  score:  9-7,  4-6, 
6-3,  3-6,  9-7. 

Judge  Garber  leaves  for  Sissons,  on  his  vacation,  to-day.  He 
says  if  he  does  not  bring  down  a  string  of  mountain  trout,  he 
will  know  the  reason  why. 

Charles  M.  Palmer  gave  a  very  enjoyable  Spanish  dinner  to 
sixteen  guests,  in  the  Latin  quarter,  on  Wednesday  evening. 

Mr.  W.  Archibald  Wilson  has  returned  from  Bartlett  Springs, 
completely  recovered  from  his  illness. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  J.  Connelly  have  returned  from  Alaska 
and  are  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Rosewald  are  at  El  Paso  de  Robles  Springs. 

Mrs.  W.  F.  Button  has  returned  frfiru  Pescadero. 

Get  a  Wedding  Cake  Box. 


This  is  the  mating  season,  when  lovers  sigh  beneath  the  trees, 
and  determine  to  soon  seek  for  themselves  a  nest.  The  number  of 
weddings  which  have  recently  occurred,  and  the  greater  number  an- 
nounced for  the  near  future  indicates  a  boom  in  the  matrimonial 
market  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  of  741-743  Market  street,  determined 
to  help  the  good  cause  along,  have  recently  imported  a  quantity  of 
verv  handsome  wedding  cake  boxes,  in  which  may  be  placed  choice 
pieces  of  the  confection  cut  by  the  fair  band  of  the  bride.  The  boxes 
are  very  dainty  little  receptacles,  and  so  pretty  that  as  soon  as  a  girl 
sees  one  she  will  make  up  her  mind  to  get  married,  just  so  she  can 
send  ber  friends  a  souvenir  of  the  occasion  in  the  little  box.  The  great 
demand  for  the  exquisite  stationery  being  shown  by  this  enterprising 
firm  still  continues.  Their  stationery  is  without  question  the  most 
elegant  in  the  city.  It  is  used  by  all  those  obeyers  of  society's  dic- 
tates who  consider  themselves  in  the  swim. 

Notice   to   Housekeepers   and    Connoisseurs. 

Whittaker's  celebrated  Sugar-cured  Star  Hams  are  always  sweet, 
juicy  and  appetizing.  Whittaker's  Golf  Bacon  (or  picnic  hams) 
are  cured  in  the  same  pickle  as  the  ham,  and  are  considered  supe- 
rior to  the  ordinary  hams  offered  for  sale  in  this  market.  Whitta- 
ker's Rolled  Spiced  Meat  is  the  most  economical  and  delicious  part 
of  the  hog  Whittaker's  Patent  Bacon  is  a  table  delicacy.  Whitta- 
ker's Lard  is  absolutely  pure.  Ask  your  grocer  for  Whittaker's 
inputs  imd  lard  and  don't  let  them  palm  off  cheap  salt  stuff  on  you. 
'  THOMAS  LOUGHRAN,  Agent, 

221  and  223  Clay  street. 


Baggage  Notice. 


Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip,  35 
cents  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

The  place  to  send  your  clothing,  of  every  description,  when  you 
want  them  cleaned  or  dyed,  is  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dye  Works 
of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co..  at  353-357  Tehama  street.  This  establishment 
is  the  leading  one  in  its  line  on  the  Coast.  It  makes  a  specialty  of 
cleaning  ball  and  evening  dresses,  all  its  work  being  done  with  the 
greatest  care  and  dispatch. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"tiOt>  Merchant  street.  S.  F. 

SEARCHER   OF    RECORDS 

AND 

EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 
G.  W.  MCKEAND, 

OFFICES— Southeast  comer  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.  Residence— 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Belle    Isle    Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  Business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  sixteenth  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  14)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
ofhce  of  the  company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-first  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will    be    sold    on    FRIDAY,  the  12th  day    of    August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Yellow  Jacket  Silver  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Yellow  Jacket 
Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office    of  the    company,    at 
Gold  Hill,  Nevada,  on 

Monday,  the  1 8th  Day  of  July,  1 892,  at  the  hour  of  3:30  o'clock  P.  M.T 

for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 

year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 

meeting. 

Transfer  hooks  will  close  on  Monday,  the  11th  day  of  July,  1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

W.  H.  BLAUVELT,  Secretary. 
Office— Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 


Union  Consolidated  Mining  Company, 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Union  Consoli- 
dated Miaing  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  11, 
303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  18th  day  of  July,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M., 

for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 

year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 

meeting. 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  July  15th,  1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.m. 

A.  W.  BARROWS.  Secretary. 
Office— Room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 

Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Hibernia  Savings 
and  Loan  Society,  held  July  1,  1892,  a  dividend  was  declared  at  the 
rate  of  four  and  one-quarter  (4K)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits  for 
the  six  months  ending  June  30,  1892,  free  from  all  taxes  and  payable  on 
and  after  July  1,  1892.  R.  J.  TOBIN,  Secretary. 

Office— Northeast  corner  Montgomery  and  Post  streets,  S.  F. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Coptis    Mining    Company. 

Office  of  the  Coptis  Mining  Company,  Sau  Francisco,  July  12,  1892.    At  a 

meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  above  named   company,  held  this 

day,  adivideud,  No.  3.  of  12  cents  per  share  was  declared,  payable  July 

18,  1892.    Transfer  books  will  close  July  16,  1892. 

E.  M.  HALL,  Secretary. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


PAOB 

Editorial  Brevities I 

Leading  articles  : 

Olive  Culture  in  California    ...  2 

A  Political  Buebear      2 

Why  Cleveland  Should  he 

Elected - 2  | 

The  National  Campaign  2 

Practical  Christianity 3  ' 

A  Model  Town Sj 

The  Adulteration  of  Milk  .     ..3 

The  Democratic  Outlook 4 

The     Foresters     at     Stockwell's 

Theatre    4 

The  Sockless  Socrates  (Poetry). . .  5  | 

The  Late  General  Noble     5 

Bill  English  and  the  Babv    5 

A  Hero  In  the  Ranks     6 

The    Sanitary    Condition  of  Our 

Homes 7  I 

Pleasure's  Wand 8-9 

When  Both  Sides  Win  (Poetry).   .  10  I 


Pagk 

Colonel  Pope  ainl  (.ioml   K. m. Is  11 

Sparks.  12 

Teuuisaud  Baseball  13 

The  Looker-On      14-15 

Financial  Review. 16 

Town  Crier 17 

Real  Property 18 

Rev.  Dr.  Hatch  as  a  Lothario     ...   IS 

A  Swedish  Bath     ly 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  19 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs  . ..  20 

Vanit'es  21 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 22 

The  Rose  Jar  .     .        23 

The  Longs  and  the  Shorts    24 

Sunbeams  ..  25 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  26 

Scientific  and  Usef nl 27 

The  Venezuelan  Revolt      ...  28 

Society         ...  ......  30-31-32 

Followers  of  Christ      32 


ATTORNEY  T.  J.  LYONS  is  one  of  those  modest  lawyers  whom 
it  is  a  great  pleasure  to  meet.  Fifteen  thousand  dollars  is  all 
he  wants  for  handling  the  Fuller  estate.  Timothy  J.  will  get 
along  in  the  world.     There  is  nothing  wrong  with  his  diaphragm. 

THEY  have  a  way  of  dealing  with  bandits  and  murderers  in 
Mexico  which  commends  itself  to  the  people  of  this  com- 
munity. We  have  a  jail  full  of  convicted  murderers,  and  there  is 
no  telling  when  we  will  have  the  pleasure  of  seeing  a  few  of  them 
hanged.  More  executions  and  a  little  less  argument  about  the 
law  is  what  is  needed  for  the  moral  reformation  of  this  common- 
wealth. 


((  npHE  Wine  of  Bohemia,"   a  song    by  Daniel    O'Connell,  with 
1    mnsic  by  Mr.  George  E.  P.    Hall,  Consnl    for   Turkey,  will 
be  issued  as  a  supplement  to  the  News  Letter  on  Saturday  next. 
The  song,  which  is  a  lovely  melody,  is  sure  to  become  popular. 

"  A  ^'  y°u'"  De  tDe  fi,8t  t°  Ret  smashed,"  said  Leon  Hennery  to 
/\  J.  N.  E.  Wilson,  on  the  day  of  the  Republican  primaries. 
The  gentlemen  were  merely  exchanging  political  courtesies,  and 
there  were  no  hard  feelings.  That  is  one  of  the  main  beauties  of 
practical  politics. 

TFE  Oakland  School  Directors  have  been  taken  in  and  done 
for  by  a  parcel  of  rascally  school-book  agents,  who  are  enjoy- 
ing the  discomfiture  of  the  men  of  wisdom.  If  fraud  can  be 
proved  in  the  transaction,  the  school  directors  owe  it  to  the  com- 
munity to  prosecute  the  agents  vigorously. 


THE  Oakland  experiment  of  having  two  Sundays  in  each  week 
instead  of  one  will  be  watched  with  much  interest.  Those 
who  favor  the  methods  practised  by  B.  Fay  Mills  and  other 
evangelists  will  probably  declare  that  the  mid-week  Sabbath  is  a 
complete  success,  while  those  who  take  little  stock  in  emo- 
tional religion  will  regard  it  as  a  failure. 


THE  investigation  of  the  methods  of  assessing  large  corpora- 
tions, which  will  be  brought  about  by  the  complaint  of  the 
Citizens'  Defense  Association  against  Assessor  Siebe,  should  be 
promotive  of  good  results.  That  there  has  been  a  great  deal  of 
fraud  practiced  in  the  Assessor's  office  there  can  be  no  doubt.  We 
would  now  like  it  practically  determined  who  is  the  culprit. 


THE  harmony  that  prevailed  at  the  Republican  primaries,  on 
Wednesday,  was  so  solid  that  it  could  have  been  cut  into 
•hunks  and  used  for  paving  stones.  The  singular  feature  about 
the  election  was  that  the  largest  number  of  votes  on  the  tally- 
sheets  were  found  in  the  districts  where  the  smallest  number  of 
people  actually  voted.     Buckley  never  did  better  work  than  this. 


THERE  was  a  ring  in  Cleveland's  speech  in  Madison  Square  Gar- 
den that  awakened  the  enthusiasm  of  every  one  of  bis  twenty 
thousand  auditors.  Speaking  of  the  high  tariff  policy,  he  said: 
"  Our  workmen  are  a i ill  told  the  tale  oft  repeated  in  spite  of  its 
demonstrated  falsity,  that  the  existing  protecting  tariff  is  a  boon 
to  them, and  that  underits  beneficial  operations  their  wages  must 
increase.  While  they  listen,  scenes  are  enacted  in  the  very  abid- 
ing place  of  high  protection  that  mock  the  hopes  of  toil  and  at- 
test the  tender  mercy  the  workingman  receives  from  those  made 
selfish  and  sordid  by  unjust  governmental  protection."  Ttis  such 
talk  as  this  that  will  awaken  the  masses  to  the  truths  of  the  day. 
The  campaign  is  one  of  education.  The  facts  abound  throughout 
the  country;  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Democracy  to  bring  them 
forcibly  to  the  notice  of  the  people. 


CONGRESSMAN  CAM1NETITS  Hydraulic  Mining  bill,  from 
\j  which  so  much  was  expected,  has  reached,  we  fear,  a  lame 
and  impotent  conclusion.  The  best  the  House  of  Representatives 
would  do  with  it  was  to  pass  it  with  a  $15,000  appropriation, 
which  is  of  little  use  in  carrying  out  the  objects  of  the  bill.  Per- 
haps the  next  session  may  do  better  for  it,  after  the  election  is 
over,  but  as  the  bill  stands  now  it  presents  but  cold  comfort  to 
the  hydraulic  miners. 

THE  dentists  are  trying  to  be  funny  by  reading  humorous  pa- 
pers about  their  experiences  in  extracting  gigantic  molars. 
There  is  just  about  as  much  humor  in  listening  to  the  story  of  the 
extraction  of  a  painful  tooth  as  in  reading  the  tale  of  a  man  killed 
by  a  train  of  cars.  The  dentists  not  only  pull  our  teeth,  but  they 
also  make  fun  of  us.  They  will  receive  a  just  punishment,  for 
every  one  of  them  who  refuses  to  advertise  will  find  bis  custom 
disappear  like  the  snow  before  the  wind. 


LOS  ANGELES  is  determined  to  retain  its  reputation  as  an  ideal 
resort,  where  people  may  not  only  enjoy  the  beauties  of  na- 
ture, but  may  also  take  pleasure  in  the  singing  of  birds  and  the 
calls  of  the  animals  peculiar  to  the  district.  The  county  has 
passed  an  ordinance  protecting  for  all  time  the  seal,  sea-lion 
mountain  gray  squirrel,  California  oreole,  road-runner  and  meadow 
larks.  We  would  like  to  add  to  the  Los  Angeles  list  the  Third 
street  vultures,  the  City  Hall  cormorants  and  the  other  birds  of 
ill-omen  now  preparing  to  swoop  down  upon  the  city. 

THE  chaining  of  a  prisoner  to  a  seat  in  a  railroad  car,  by  means 
of  a  heavy  chain  padlocked  about  his  neck,  is  a  new  wrinkle 
in  the  transportation  of  desperate  criminals  that  is  not  quite  in 
accordance  with  the  adopted  views  of  those  penologists  who 
have  given  much  study  to  the  matter  of  the  handling  of  prison- 
ers. Sheriff  White,  of  Texas,  chained  Jim  Bennett,  a  murderer, 
to  a  seat  in  a  car  at  Los  Angeles  in  such  a  manner.  Bennett  was 
also  handcuffed,  wore  an  Oregon  boot  and  had  a  chain  around 
his  waist.  Such  methods  are  somewhat  revolting  in  these  days 
of  reformation. 


JOHNNY  WILSON  advised  the  Republicans  gathered  in  the 
new  Wigwam,  on  Thursday  night,  to  "  bury  our  differences," 
so  as  to  insure  success  for  the  Third-street  bosses  in  November. 
Harmony,  he  said,  was  necessary.  It  is  laughable  to  hear  Wil- 
son talk  harmony,  as  his  presence  in  politics  has  had  so  much  to 
do  with  the  disgraceful  rows  which  have  occurred  in  the  Repub- 
lican camp.  The  gentleman  cries  « ■  peace,"  but  there  is  no  peace. 
Nor  will  there  be,  until  Dan  Burns  waves  Wilson's  scalp  tri- 
umphantly in  the  air,  which  he  is  very  likely  to  do  before  election 
day. 

THE  Kelly-Crimmins  primary  election  was  one  of  the  greatest 
outrages  ever  perpetrated  upon  a  body  of  long-suffering  elect- 
ore.  The  Third  street  bosses  simply  ran  the  election  as  they 
pleased,  having  gangs  of  hoodlums  at  every  needed  point  to  there 
win  by  force  what  could  not  be  obtained  by  persuasion.  The 
officers  of  election  were  of  course  tools  of  the  bosses,  and  so  open 
and  defiant  were  the  frauds  committed  that  no  attempt  was  made 
to  conceal  them.  Officers  of  election  were  seen  to  stuff  handfuls 
of  ballots  into  the  boxes.  Ij  one  precinct  the  box  was  emptied 
on  the  floor,  the  ballots  sorted  over,  and  then  replaced  in  the  box. 
Kelly  and  Crimmins  are  certainly  the  natural  successors  as  the 
rulers  of  the  city  of  Buckley  and  his  men.  The  respectable, 
honest  Republicans  of  the  city  should  remember  on  election  day 
that  the  nominee  put  up  by  the  tools  of  the  Third-street  men 
are  not  worthy  of  trust. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


OLIVE    CULTURE    IN    CALIFORNIA. 

IT  really  seems  to  take  the  people  of  California  longer  to  find  out 
what  this  State  is  good  for,  and  then  to  avail  themselves  of 
their  knowledge,  than  any  other  people  on  the  face  of  the  earth 
to  ascertain  similar  facts.  Whenever  a  proposition  is  presented 
to  our  citizens,  they  shy  at  it,  like  a  timid  horse  at  a  strange  ob- 
ject in  the  road,  and  it  is  only  by  the  most  strenuous  efforts  at 
coaxing  that  they  can  be  induced  to  examine  it.  This  growl — 
which,  however,  possesses  the  merit  of  truth — emanates  from  a 
consideration  of  the  matter  of  olive  culture  in  California,  as  set 
forth  at  the  recent  meeting  of  olive  growers  in  this  ciiy. 
Enough  was  developed  at  that  meeting  to  demonstrate  the  great 
desirability  of  olive  culture  in  California,  the  adaptability  of  soil 
and  climate  to  olives,  and  the  reasonable  chance  there  is  for  profit 
in  the  manufacture  of  olive  oil  and  cured  olives,  and  yet  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  for  the  next  ten  years  we  shall  go  on  eating  the  same 
vile  mixture  of  olive  oil  and  cotton-seed  oil  over  which  we  smack 
our  lips  now,  simply  because  it  comes  to  us  under  a  foreign  name 
and  a  foreign  label.  The  plain  fact  of  the  matter  is,  that  Califor- 
nia olive  oil  is  the  best  oil  in  the  world,  bar  none,  and  that  no 
person  of  taste,  who  has  ever  eaten  it,  will  ever  be  satisfied  with 
any  other.  The  California  olive  oil  tastes  of  the  olive,  while  the 
foreign  or  alleged  foreign  oil  might,  in  most  cases,  be  as  well  made 
out  of  tallow,  for  all  the  olive  taste  it  has.  We  shall  not  attempt 
to  usurp  the  functions  of  the  olive  groves  of  California,  nor  venture 
to  give  them  advice,  for  they  know  more  about  the  business  than 
a  newspaper  can  ever  pretend  to,  and  that  is  putting  the  case  veiy 
strongly ;  but  we  may  venture  to  suggest  to  the  farmers  and  fruit 
grower*  and  grape  growers  throughout  the  State,  especially  thote 
who  have  some  hilly  land  on  their  farms,  that  it  costs  very  little 
money  and  takes  very  little  time  to  stick  in  an  olive  shoot  here 
and  there,  and  that,  after  they  get  a  start,  they  will  come  pretty 
near  taking  care  of  themselves.  If  this  be  done  by  the  time  the 
trees  get  ready  to  bear,  there  will  be  a  market  for  the  fruit,  and 
the  farmer  will  find  his  income  increased  almost  without  know- 
ing where  the  extra  dollars  come  from.  After  the  olive  tree  comes 
to  bearing  it  goes  right  along  bearing  for  a  century  or  two,  so  tbe 
farmer  need  not  be  afraid  that  he  will  outlast  his  olive  trees  if  he 
plants  them  now.  Olives  in  any  form  are  very  healthy,  the  oil 
being  especially  adapted  to  build  up  the  system  and  create  adi- 
pose tissue  in  place  of  those  nerves  which  are  the  curse  of  Amer- 
ican womankind.  California  ought  to  supply  the  whole  of  the 
United  States  with  olives  and  olive  oil,  and  to  lay  down  the  olive 
products  at  less  figures  than  are  now  asked  by  the  producers. 
We  must  say  that  the  prices  asked  for  first-class  olive  oil  are  too 
high  for  any  but  the  rich  to  stand,  but  inasmuch  as  the  demand 
continues  ahead  of  the  supply,  we  suppose  there  is  no  remedy 
but  to  wait  until  California  gets  a  little  more  sense,  and  produces 
fine  olive  oil  in  much  greater  quantities  than  at  present. 

A    POLITICAL    BUCiBEAR. 

IS  the  conflict  of  testimony  and  statements  over  tbe  Temescal 
Tin  Mine  between  the  Examiner  and  the  Chronicle  a  bit  of  free 
trade  versus  McKinley's  tariff  political  engineering,  or  is  it  on  the 
merits  of  the  property  ?  A  well  written,  or  as  some  put  it,  a  well 
concocted  statement  has  been  made  by  the  Examiner — one  that 
would  call  for  extreme  caution,  had  it  been  intended  for  the  eyes 
of  intending  buyers  of  the  property,  but  it  now  calls  for  the 
query  nil  bono  ?  The  salt  must  be  kept  handy  for  sprinkling 
upon  any  such  out  and  out  voluntary  denunciations  of  other 
people's  property.  There  is  ev^ry  reason  for  the  belief  that  tbe 
ore  bodies  in  that  tin  ruine  are  precarious,  and  not  to  be  implicitly 
relied  upon  for  regularity  and  permanence,  but  ihis  applies  to 
many  mines  besides  those  yielding  tin  ores,  which  are  found  in 
deep  workings,  without  any  reliable  definition.  The  ore  is  ad- 
mittedly of  high  grade,  but  this  is  a  question  of  quantity  and  not 
quality.  The  enormous  expenditure  in  machinery  now  in  place, 
and  in  course  of  erection  on  that  property,  could  well  have  been 
spared  for  a  long  time  to  come.  It  is  unpardonable  on  the  part  of 
any  manager  or  superintendent  to  recommend  such  premature 
expenditures  in  "  improvements  "  as  is  visible  on  the  ground 
there.  Much  of  it  could  have  been  spared  for  years,  even  if  the 
ore  were  plentiful.  If  tbe  English  investors  lose  in  this  specula- 
tion, they  need  not  complain,  for  they  will  have  themselves  en- 
tirely to  blame — having  followed  the  advice  of  their  own  experts. 
It  may  be  as  well  to  call  attention  to  the  determination  on  the 
part  of  some  critics  to  fix  the  nationality  of  the  late  manager, 
Colonel  E.  N.  Robinson  in  England.  It  is  unkind  to  the  trusting 
investors.  The  gallant  Colonel  is  a  native  born  American,  a 
brother  of  the  late  L.  L.  Robinson,  and  his  'ounds  and  'unters 
were  only  the  self-imported  results  of  his  visits  to  England.  An 
English  Colonel  seldom  gets  into  business.  A  Captain  may,  but 
the  "  Captain  "  who  succeeded  the  "  Colonel  "  in  this  instance  was 
a  **  mining  captain,"  an  official  underground  title  well  known  in 
Cornwall.  He  is  a  well-tried,  experienced  miner,  and  the  com- 
pany looses  in  bim  a  good  man.  So  far  as  the  value  of  the  mine 
is  concerned,  it  will  be  well  to  leave  its  consideration  open  until 
after  the  decrees  of  fate  are  known  in  regard  to  the  future  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States. 


WHY    CLEVELAND  SHOULD  BE  ELECTED. 

THE  Hon.  William  M.  Springer  discusses  the  political  issues  of 
the  day  in  the  July  Arena,  and  gives  various  reasons  why,  in 
his  opinion,  Grover  Cleveland,  as  the  representative  of  the  Dem- 
ocratic party,  should  be  elected  the  next  President  of  the  United 
Stales.  In  the  ensuing  Presidential  contest  tbe  tariff  question 
will  be  the  paramount  issue.  Upon  that  question  tbe  people 
have  already  spoken,  and  especially  at  the  election  in  1890  for 
Representatives  in  Congress,  says  Mr.  Springer.  An  unprece- 
dented majority  was  returned  to  that  body  in  opposition  to  tbe  lead- 
ing features  of  the  McKmley  Bill,  the  policies  of  the  Republican 
party  generally,  and  in  favor  of  a  thorough  and  genuine  reform 
of  the  tariff  laws  of  the  country.  I  have  no  doubt  a  large  ma- 
jority of  the  American  people  still  adhere  to  the  decision  ex- 
pressed in  1890.  Under  our  conservative  form  of  government  it 
is  possible,  and  in  fact  frequently  happens  that  a  popular  ma- 
jority of  the  electors,  as  expressed  at  a  particular  election,  would 
be  in  favor  of  one  political  party,  while  through  the  machinery 
of  the  Electoral  College  a  President  would  be  chosen  in  opposition 
thereto.  Such  a  result  at  the  ensuing  election  would  be  a  public 
calamity.  The  people  who  elect  the  Congress  should  have  the 
benefit  of  executive  co-operation  in  the  law-making  power. 
The  Republican  party  has  controlled  the  executive  of- 
fices of  the  Government,  with  the  exception  of  the  four 
years  of  Cleveland's  administration,  since  1861.  Mr.  Cleve- 
land's administration  was  conservative  in  methods.  During 
his  entire  administration  the  Senate  contained  a  majority  of 
Republicans,  while  the  House  was  Democratic.  No  legislation  in 
harmony  with  Democratic  principles  was  possible,  except  such  as 
was  coerced  from  an  unwilling  Senate.  During  those  four  years 
little  was  done  in  legislation,  except  to  pass  appropriation  bills 
and  such  other  measures  as  were  regarded  as  non-partisan.  There 
has  been  no  opportunity,  therefore,  for  more  than  thirty  years 
for  the  enactment  of  laws  in  harmony  with  the  wishes  of  one  of 
the  great  political  parties  of  the  country,  which  has,  at  many  of 
the  Presidental  elections  intervening,  cast  a  majority  of  the  popu- 
lar votes  of  the  country.  It  is  high  time  that  that  party  should 
be  placed  in  position  to  control  legislation,  and  to  overhaul  all 
the  departments  of  the  government.  During  Mr.  Cleveland's  ad- 
ministration there  was  a  great  reform  in  the  Executive  depart- 
ments in  the  expenditure  of  public  money.  When  he  turned  the 
government  over  to  his  successor,  we  were  collecting  a  hundred 
millions  a  year  more  than  was  necessary  for  the  ordinary  and  con- 
tingent expenses  of  tbe  government.  Now,  after  three  years  of  Re- 
publican rule,  the  surplus  has  been  squandered  and  we  are 
threatened  with  a  large  deficit. 

The  next  President  should  be  a  Democrat,  because  that  party 
is  the  better  representative  of  true  Americanism.  It  is  not  sec- 
tional, but  has  its  representatives  in  every  actual  district  through- 
out the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land.  The  Republican  party,  by 
the  very  nature  of  its  organization,  is  sectional.  Owing  to  the 
almost  continued  Republican  ascendancy  during  the  past  thirty 
years,  nearly  all  the  judges  of  the  United  States  courts  are  Re- 
publican. A  partisan  judiciary  is  unfortunate,  and  will 
not  promote  the  best  interests  of  the  people  or  give  confi- 
dence to  litigants.  Tbe  judges  should  be  as  nearly  equally 
divided  in  political  sentiment  as  possible.  For  this 
reason,  if  for  no  other,  the  next  President  should  be  a 
Democrat. 

THE    NATIONAL     CAMPAIGN. 


THE  people  of  the  United  States  are  to  be  congratulated  on  the 
fact  that  the  Presidential  campaign  of  the  present  year  bids 
fair  to  be  conducted  upon  broad  lines  and  discussions  of  econ- 
omic principle  and  policy,  with  little  or  none  of  the  personality 
that  sometimes  disgraces  such  contests.  There  is  no  reason,  cer- 
tainly, why  the  case  should  be  otherwise.  The  Democratic  nom- 
nee  has  served  a  full  term  as  President,  and  the  Republican  nom- 
inee nearly  a  full  term,  so  that  the  people  of  the  whole  country 
know  what  each  is  in  an  official  capacity,  and  how  far  each  is  to 
be  favored  in  his  present  aspirations.  There  is  but  one  issue  be- 
fore the  country,  and  that  is  the  tariff  issue.  The  contest 
is  one  between  tariff  for  revenue  and  tariff  for  protection,  It  its 
not  our  purpose  to  discuss  this  issue  at  this  time,  but  only  to 
make  it  clear  that  it  is  the  sole  issue  of  the  campaign.  Silver  is 
out  of  the  way;  there  is  no  foreign  complication  which  can  dis- 
turb us;  the  condition  of  the  country,  except  in  two  places,  is 
wholly  peaceful;  and  there  is  nothing  to  do  but  to  study  the 
question  of  the  tariff  and  then  vote  as  our  convictions  of  what 
will  be  best  for  tbe  country  may  dictate.  It  would  be  absurd  to 
look  for  any  heated  debate  or  excited  discussion  over  the  ques- 
tion of  the  tariff.  We  might  as  well  get  stirred  up  over  the  bi- 
nomial theorem  as  to  rage  and  rant  over  the  tariff.  We  have  a 
right  to  expect  that  those  who  have  made  a  study  of  the  subject 
in  all  its  bearings  will  afford  us  exact  and  accurate  information 
as  to  the  results  of  their  researches.  It  is  gratifying  to  know 
that  whatever  may  be  the  result  of  the  election,  the  Chief  Magis- 
tracy will  be  held  by  a  man  competent  to  fill  it  with  honor  and 
dignity,  and  one  whose  hands  will  be  absolutely  clean.  For 
these  reasons,  the  campaign  should  be  a  real,  genuine  campaign 
of  education,  and  not  one  of  abuse  and  vituperation. 


July  23,  1892. 


-an    FRANCIS*  0  NEW8  LETTER 


PRACTICAL    CHRISTIAN 

ONE  of  tbe  daily  papers  of  this  city  told  a  story  a  few  days 
ago  which  illustrates  very  I  trclblj  the  necessity  for  leai  the- 
ology and  more  practical  Christianity  among  the  churches  and 
church-goer*  of  Ban  Francisco,  The  story  was  that  a  ynung  man 
out  of  employment,  and  hungry,  went  into  a  church  where  two 
evangelists  were  exhorting  people  t  •  ooma  to  Him  who  was  love 
and  charity  incarnate.  Tbe  hungry  man  asked  those  in  charge  of 
tbe  services  tr»  assist  him  to  get  something  to  eat  and  a  place  to 
sleep,  but  tbe  net  result  of  his  piteous  appeal  was  that  he  was 
directed  to  the  headquarters  of  tbe  Associated  Charities,  where 
be  was  refused  assistance  on  the  ground  that  he  was  young  ami 
strong.  He  could  get  nothing  because  the  charities  had  "so  many 
poor  families  to  assist."  If  this  be  tbe  practical  result  of  tbe 
zealous  attempts  at  the  evangelization  of  San  Francisco,  it  would 
be  better,  perhaps,  to  let  us  relapse  into  our  pristine  heathendom, 
for  in  that  remote  era  no  man  was  allowed  to  go  hungry  if  the 
one  to  whom  be  appealed  bad  the  means  wherewith  to  feed  him. 
In  those  primitive  times  this  city  was  noi  blessed  with  many  line 
churches,  in  which  paid  choirs  sang  hymns  and  psalmy  and 
spiritual  songs  to  the  accompaniment  of  ten  thousand  dollar 
organs,  nor  were  there  many  ministers  of  the  gospel  who  had  de- 
veloped chronic  sore  throats,  to  be  cured  only  by  a  three  months' 
vacation  every  year  under  full  salary;  but  there  was  cherished 
and  cultivated  certain  homely  virtues,  grown  unfashionable  in 
this  jin  de  fiiccU  era,  among  which  was  charity.  In  those  days 
there  used  to  be  some  regard  to  a  definition  of  religion,  for  which 
one  St.  James  was  responsible,  and  which  declares  that  »  Pure  re- 
ligion and  undefiled  before  God  and  the  Father  is  this:  to  visit  the 
fatherless  and  widows  in  tbeir  affliction  and  to  keep  himself 
unspotted  from  the  world."  And  there  was  often  quoted  another 
maxim,  attributed  to  another  saint,  which  asserted  that:  »  Now 
abidetb  faith,  hope  and  charity,  these  three;  but  the  greatest  of 
these  is  charity."  We  understand,  of  course,  that  an  apology  is 
due  for  even  referring  to  such  trite  and  out-of-date  topics,  but  we 
take  the  liberty  of  asking  these  gentlemen  who  are  devoting  a 
great  deal  of  eloquence  to  their  work  of  evangelization,  what 
they  can  expect  or  hope  to  accomplish  if  their  practice  is  so  an- 
tagonistic to  their  doctrine  ?  What  use  is  there  in  bidding  the 
people  to  come  and  take  of  the  waters  of  life  freely,  without 
money  and  without  price,  when  a  poor,  starving,  shivering  sinner, 
without  a  bite  to  eat  or  a  place  to  lay  his  head,  cannot,  out  of  the 
whole  audience  at  tbe  revival  meeting,  have  his  bodily  necessities 
supplied,  even  for  the  time  being.  Must  not  these  evangelizing 
laborers  in  the  Lord's  vineyard  have  thought  of  the  most  terrible 
denunciation  that  ever  fell  from  the  loving  lips  of  the  Saviour  of 
mankind,  "  Inasmuch  as  ye  have  not  done  it  unto  tbe  least  one 
these,  ye  have  not  done  it  unto  me."  Such  concrete  exam- 
ples of  the  distinction  between  Christian  theory  and  Ohriatian 
practice  do  more  to  build  up  the  ramparts  of  infidelity  and  skep- 
ticism than  all  the  writings  of  all  the  atheists  and  agnostics  who 
ever  put  pen  to  paper. 

THE    ADULTERATION    OF    MILK. 


A  WORTHY  work  is  now  being  engaged  in  by  Dr.  Bucknall 
and  the  Board  of  Health.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Health,  held  last  Wednesday  evening,  Dr.  Bucknall  called  atten- 
tion to  the  urgent  need  of  an  immediate  investigation  of  the 
adulteration  of  milk  by  the  dealers  in  this  cily,  with  a  view  to 
the  prevention  of  such  practices  in  the  future.  He  has  had  a 
large  number  of  analyses  made  of  milk  from  different  dairies, 
procured  at  the  local  headquarters  of  the  milkmen.  The  results 
have  so  far  shown  that  the  virtue  of  much  of  the  milk  is  de- 
stroyed by  the  combination  with  it  of  various  deletorious  sub- 
stances. After  he  has  completed  his  investigation,  Dr.  Bucknall 
will  make  a  full  report  to  the  Board  of  Health  of  tbe  results  he 
has  procured,  and  in  this  report  due  credit  will  be  given  to  those 
dairymen  who  sell  pure  milk,  and  the  names  of  alt  men  who  use 
adulterants  in  the  product  of  their  dairies  sent  out  by  them  for 
consumption  in  this  community  will  likewise  be  quoted,  so  that 
consumers  by  knowing  tbe  offenders  may  protect  themselves 
against  them.  Some  years  ago  the  News  Letter  investigated 
the  milk  question,  and  at  that  time  aroused  tbe  people  of 
the  city  to  a  full  appreciation  of  the  dangers  to  health 
directly  arising  from  the  adulteration  practiced  by  dairymen. 
The  inquiry  so  properly  instituted  by  Dr.  Bucknall  should  re- 
ceive the  most  earnest  support  of  the  Board  of  Health  and  of  all 
physicians  in  the  city.  Dairymen  found  to  be  guilty  should  be 
as  severely  dealt  with  as  the  law  will  allow.  They  should  be  ex- 
posed without  mercy,  so  that  the  people  whose  health  has  been 
endangered  by  them  may  have  an  opportunity  to  deal  with  them 
as  they  deserve.  Thousands  of  babes  are  fed  upon  milk  procured 
from  the  dairies  of  this  and  adjoining  counties,  and  many  in- 
fantile disorders  arise  directly  from  the  fact  that  the  purity  of  the 
milk  has  been  destroyed.  The  publication  of  tbe  names  of  the 
men  who  adulterate  milk,  as  suggested  by  Dr.  Bucknall,  should 
have  the  desired  effect,  and  put  an  end  to  this  nefarious  practice. 
The  Board  of  Health  should  not  allow  the  prosecution  of  this  in- 
vestigation to  abate  in  the  slightest  degree,  for  it  is  only  by  the 
constant  inspection  of  the  sources  and  qualities  of  food  that  the 
public  health  can  be  preserved. 


A    MODEL    TOWN. 

MB  I  W.  Qroano,  well  known  in  financial  oJrclM  in  tbe  East, 
has  boon  making  a  tour  of  the  Pacific  Cooot,  In  company 
with  ■  parly  ol  prominent  English  and  Bootofa  capitalists.  Dar- 
ing tbe  past  week  a  brief  visit  was  paid  to  San  PrancUeo,  and 
Mr  Greene  hastily  outlined  to  a  NaiM  Lf.ttbr  representative  the 
principal  features  of  a  novel  enterprise  which  he  and  bis  asso- 
liave  decided  to  enter  upon,  and  for  which  the  preliminaries 
are  already  well  under  way.  In  a  sentence,  the  enterprise  em- 
braces tbe  laying  out  and  building  of  a  model  town.  In  which  all 
the  essentials,  conveniences  and  ornamentations  of  modern  urban 
life  shall  be  provided  before  a  single  individual  is  invited  or  per- 
mitted to  take  up  his  residence  therein.  A  large  tract  of 
land  has  been  secured  some  ten  or  a  dozen  miles 
from  tbe  well-known  town  of  Riverside,  in  8an  Bernardino 
county,  and  lying  on  the  Santa  Ffi  railroad.  This  tract  will 
be  laid  out  into  a  town  of  extensive  proportions,  the 
residence  portion  being  on  one  side  of  the  road  and  the  business 
section  on  the  other,  the  two  localities  being  connected  by  streets 
below  the  grade  of  the  line.  A  wide  space  on  both  sides  of  the 
rail  will  be  devoted  to  parks,  lawns  and  flower-gardens,  inter- 
spersed with  fountains,  shrubbery,  etc.  The  streets  will  be 
paved,  sidewalks  laid,  water,  gas  or  electricity  and  sewerage  pro- 
vided after  tbe  best  modern  systems,  and  in  fact,  every  detail  of 
the  latest  improvement  will  be  attended  to.  There  will  be  no 
straight  streets  and  no  rectangular  blocks.  Everything  will  be 
laid  out  in  curves  and  circles,  thereby  presenting  a  pleasing  va- 
riety to  the  eye  and  avoiding  the  monotony  of  straight  thorough- 
fares and  abrupt  corners.  When  all  the  improvements  shall  have 
been  completed,  as  outlined,  then  people  will  be  invited  to  take 
up  their  residence  and  engage  in  business  in  the  model  town. 
They  will  be  subject  to  certain  restrictions,  however,  in 
the  character  of  the  buildings  which  they  will  be  allowed 
to  erect.  It  is  the  design  of  tbe  projectors  of  the  enterprise  to 
prevent  the  construction  of  unsightly  or  poorly  built  structures, 
and  hence  each  deed  or  contract  will  specify  the  character  of  the 
business  building  or  residence  that  shall  be  erected  by  all  purchas- 
ers, and  it  will  be  made  incumbent  upon  them  to  carry  out  the 
stipulation  to  the  letter.  No  lots  will  be  sold  for  speculative  pur- 
poses, but  all  purchasers  will  be  required  to  build  at  once.  The 
model  town  is  to  be  called  Aleasandro,  and  as  its  projectors  are 
provided  with  an  abundance  of  capital,  and  are  men  of  energy 
and  enterprise,  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  scheme  will  be 
successfully  carried  out.  Its  outcome  will  certainly  be  watched 
with  interest  by  all,  particularly  the  people  of  California,  who 
have  been  so  accustomed  to  see  towns  built  in  tbe  most  hap- 
hazard fashion  that  a  scheme  of  this  sort  comes  with  a  refreshing 
novelty. 


SHIPPING    FRUIT    TO    ENGLAND. 

A  DECIDEDLY  important  step  for  all  concerned  was  taken 
during  the  past  week  in  tbe  inauguration  of  snipments  of 
fresh  fruit  from  California  to  England.  There  seems  to  be  little 
room  for  doubt  that  these  shipments  will  reach  their  destinatiou 
in  good  condition,  since  small  experimental  lots  of  peaches  and 
other  fruits  have  been  sent  over  the  same  route  with  success  here- 
tofore; and  there  is  besides  the  example  of  the  South  African 
fruit  growers,  who  have  for  years  been  engaged  in  this  business. 
They  have  labored  under  the  handicap  of  being  at  least  three 
weeks  from  the  English  market,  while  the  promise  is  made  that 
the  California  fruit  shall  reach  its  destination  in  thirteen  days 
from  the  time  of  departure.  Whether  the  transhipment  of  the 
California  fruit  from  car  to  steamer,  at  New  York,  shall 
prove  detrimental  remains  to  be  seen,  although  there  is 
no  reason  why  it  should.  Car  and  steamer  are  brought  side 
by  side,  and  with  ordinary  care  tbe  packages  should  be  trans- 
ported so  quickly  from  the  one  to  the  other  that  the  higher 
temperature  of  the  outside  atmosphere  will  not  have  time  to 
affect  the  fruit.  It  is  stated  that  the  entire  cost  of  transportation 
across  tbe  continent  and  over  the  ocean  will  be  less  than  five 
cents  a  pound.  If  the  fruit  sells  for  any  such  prices  as  have  been 
paid  heretofore  for  the  South  African  product,  the  freight  will 
cut  little  figure  in  the  proceeds.  When  six-ounce  peaches  sell  for 
two  shillings  each,  as  is  frequently  the  case,  tbe  cost  of  trans- 
portation becomes  an  insignificant  factor.  There  is  no  good  rea- 
son why  a  large  and  profitable  trade  should  not  be  built  up  in 
this  direction,  and  thus  another  outlet  be  afforded  for  the  products 
of  our  orchards  and  vineyards,  while  at  tbe  same  time  giving  the 
over-production  croakers  another  set-back  in  addition  to  tbe 
many  they  have  already  received. 


GOVERNOR  PATTISON  says  he  will  keep  the  Pennsylvania 
troops  at  Homestead  all  summer,  if  necessary  to  vindicate 
law  and  order,  and  will,  if  occasion  demands,  exhaust  the  treas- 
ury and  mortgage  the  State  to  pay  them.  What  a  pity  that  he 
did  not  display  some  of  this  8partan  firmness  in  time  to  have 
prevented  the  sanguinary  collision  between  the  strikers  and  tbe 
Pinkerton  men,  as  he  might  have  done  had  he  responded  prompt- 
ly to  the  Sheriff's  first  appeal  for  assistance. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


THE    DEMOCRATIC    OUTLOOK. 

THE  Democratic  party  possesses  many  advantages  to-day  in  the 
discussion  of  the  main  is3ue  between  the  two  great  political 
parties — the  tariff.  Our  standpoint  is  that  of  a  tariff  for  revenue 
only,  as  against  a  tariff  for  the  protection  of  infant  industries. 
Four  years  ago  we  had  to  combat  the  erroneous  ideas  formed 
among  the  labor  classes  that  the  effect  of  tariff  reduction  would  be 
to  reduce  wage?.  Acting  upon  this  idea  many  workingmen  voted 
for  Harrison  instead  of  Cleveland.  During  this  campaign  the  condi- 
tion of  affairs  will  be  different,  as  the  tariff  issue  is  now  better  under- 
stood among  the  people.  It  has  been  demonstrated  that  the  wages 
of  men  employed  in  the  industries  protected  most  have  suffered 
most,  through  and  by  the  great  influx  of  foreign  immigration  that 
affects  the  labor  market  which  is,  naturally,  unskilled  labor.  The 
people  have  had  severe  experience  resulting  from  the  imposition  of 
a  high  protective  tariff,  aud  have  gained  wisdom  thereby.  Now,  be- 
lieving that  we  have  educated  the  uneducated  mind  up  to  this  point, 
that  our  tariff  policy  will  not  cause  a  reduction  in  wages,  we  feel 
that  we  have  this  year  an  excellent  chance  to  elect  our  candidate, 
who  is  himself  the  embodiment  of  tariff  reform.  In  California, 
particularly,  are  the  effects  of  the  high  protection  policy  appar- 
ent. Here,  following  the  adoption  of  the  present  tariff  bill,  times 
are  not  as  good  as  they  should  be.  We  have  had  no  drouth  :  the 
crops  are  good,  and  yet  there  is  a  stagnation,  a  dullness,  and  an 
absence  of  that  healthy  prosperity  the  people  had  been  led  to  ex- 
pect. This  condition  of  affairs  has  created  dissatisfaction  through- 
out the  State  and  will  tend  to  secure  to  the  minority  much  of 
that  support  formerly  given  to  the  party,  the  enactment  of  whose 
principles  has  caused  the  dissatisfaction.  California  is  always 
considered  debatable  ground,  the  majority  for  either  party  not 
being  so  great  that  it  cannot  be  converted.  The  experience  of 
men  who  have  had  to  do  with  political  affairs  in  California  shows 
that  there  is  in  this  State  a  certain  purchasable  vote,  larger  in 
populous  districts  than  in  others.  I  have  always  considered  that 
this  purchasable  vote  is  sufficient  to  constitute  the  balance  of 
power.  Tn  San  Francisco  alone  it  amounts  to  5,000,  and  through- 
out the  remainder  of  the  State  is  as  much  more;  there  being 
in  all  about  10,000  to  12,000  purchasable  votes.  This  is  suffi- 
cient to  change  the  result  either  way.  When  United  States  Senators 
are  to  be  elected  in  this  State,  who  have  great  wealth  and  large 
resources  at  their  command,  and  readily  expend  their  money  to 
secure  seats  in  the  United  States  Senate,  the  expenditure  of  that 
money  naturally  enough  indicates  that  the  chances  of  success 
will  be  with  the  party  which  has  this  pecuniary  aid  at  its  com- 
mand, whether  Republican  or  Democratic.  I  have  great  faith  in 
the  Australian  ballot  law,  to  be  tried  for  the  first  time  this  year 
in  California,  and  think  that  the  operation  of  the  law  will  neu- 
tralize, to  some  extent,  the  purchasing  of  votes.  I  take  it  that, 
as  in  other  places,  the  Australian  system  will  prove  beneficial  to 
the  party  with  the  least  money  to  expend.  We  calculate  on  re- 
ceiving much  support  on  local  issues,  for  which  reason  we  think 
we  will  have  a  majority  of  the  Legislature.  The  last  Legislature 
certainly  did  not  put  the  Republican  party  in  a  very  enviable 
light,  nn  account  of  the  manner  in  which  the  Representatives, 
most  of  whom  were  Republicans,  conducted  the  affairs  of  State. 
All  this  has  created  dissatisfaction  in  the  Republican  camp,  and 
naturally  tends  to  send  votes  to  the  opposing  side.  Referring 
again  to  the  Australian  system  of  voting,  I  think  that  that  sys 
tem  will  affect  in  a  large  degree  the  influence  or  influences  mostly 
derived  by  the  expenditure  of  money  in  State  elections,  1  think 
the  time  has  come  when  the  people  of  this  State  should  recognize 
that  intelligence  and  brains  are  far  more  necessary  to  represent 
this  State  in  the  United  States  Senate  than  the  weak  abilities  of 
men  whose  sole  recommendation  is  their  power  to  make 
money.  This  will  be  a  fight  for  principle.  If  we  do  not  win  this 
time  we  will  in  the  future,  for  we  have  determined  to  educate  the 
people  to  a  full  appreciation  of  the  principles  of  the  Democratic 
party,  under  which  only  can  the  affairs  of  the  government  be 
properly  conducted. 

1  believe  that  the  State  of  California  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude 
to  Mr.  Cleveland  for  having  signed  the  Chinese  Exclusion  bill, 
and  for  thus  establishing  the  only  law  protecting  labor  now  on 
the  statutes.  If  more  were  done  to  protect  laborers  in  the  over- 
crowded markets  of  the  East,  we  should  hear  less  of  strikes  and 
other  labor  troubles.  We  are  not  in  a  position  this  year  to  fight 
our  opponents  with  weapons  similar  to  those  they  hold,  for  we 
are  shorn  of  patronage.  Another  point  in  our  favor  this  year  is 
the  fact  that  the  Republican  nominee  is  personally  unpopular 
among  many  of  his  former  adherents.  His  nomination,  particu- 
larly in  California,  has  not  been  received  with  that  outburst  of 
enthusiasm  which  usually  signifies  the  approval  of  the  action  of  a 
national  convention.  On  the  other  hand,  Mr.  Cleveland's  nom- 
ination has  been  hailed  with  applause  from  one  end  of  the  Union 
to  the  other.  We  intend  to  educate  the  people  by  means 
of  the  newspapers,  the  platform  and  by  circulation  of  lit- 
erature upon  the  issues  of  the  day,  until  the  principles  of  the 
Democratic  party  are  thoroughly  understood  by  the  electors.  We 
think  we  have  a  fighting  chance  this  year  to  place  California  in 
the  roll  of  Democratic  States.  Max  Popper, 

Chairman  Democratic  State  Central  Committee. 


THE  FORESTERS  AT  STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 


FEW  great  poets  of  modern  times  have  given  to  the  stage  a 
lasting  drama,  though  many  have  essayed  it.  Byrona 
dramas,  intensely  dramatic  aa  they  are,  are  simply  poems  in 
dramatic  form,  and  so  evidently  unadapted  to  actual  stage  pro- 
duction that  the  attempt  to  give  them  is  never  even  thought  of. 
Byron,  indeed,  anticipated  matters  by  declaring  that  they  were 
never  intended  to  be  played,  though  there  is  little  doubt  that  the 
vanity  of  genius  would  have  been  highly  gratified  at  seeing  his 
dramatic  poems  behind  the  footlights. 

Lord  Tennyson,  on  the  other  hand,  wrote  The  Foresters  with  the 
distinct  intention  of  stage  production.    With  the  added  attraction 
of  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan's  music,  an  overwhelming  success  seemed    j 
but  a  reasonable  expectation  to  the  many.     The  few  doubted,    ! 
and   the  few  were,  as   usual,  right.     Tennyson   has  written  poor    : 
poems,  but  The  Foresters  is  not  one  of    them.     Old  as  is  the  story, 
it  ia  no  older,  though    better  known,  than  that  of   King  Arthur 
and  his   Knights  of   the   Round  Table;    and,  while  without  the 
lofty  grandeur  of  the  Idylls,  it  is  full  of  the  exquisite  charm  of  die-    : 
tion,  imagery  and  sentiment  which  are  so  essentially  Tennysonian. 

As  presented  by  the  Daly  Company,  it  is  a  beautiful  poem  aa 
beautifully  illustrated.  There  should  be  no  surprise  at  the  total 
variance  of  opinion  regarding  ita  merita  among  auditors  of  equal 
critical  taste  and  judgment.  That  opinion  depends  mainly  on 
the  mood  of  the  hearer.  If  be  chance  to  be  in  a  humor  to  sit 
through  an  evening  in  dreamy  enjoyment  of  a  poem  presented  in 
a  series  of  exquisite  pictures  and  pronounced  by  pleasant  voicea, 
he  will  go  away  more  than  satisfied;  but  if  he  expect  a  purely 
dramatic  treat,  he  will  hardly  find  enough  live  interest  to  meet 
hia  expectation.  The  Foresters  will  undoubtedly  find  an  occa- 
sional production  on  the  present  stage,  and  may  even  be  a  sub- 
ject for  "  revival"  by  some  Daly  of  the  future.  But  that  it  will 
not  fill  any  permanent  or  prominent  place  among  acting  dramas 
appears  certain. 

Ada  Reban,  in  her  quaint  and  beautiful  costuming,  will  live  in 
the  memory  an  artist's  ideal  of  the  famous  Maid,  and  the  fairy 
acene  in  Sherwood  Foreat,  with  ita  ethereal,  ahadowy  aprite  in 
cobwebby  robea,  so  different  from  the  ordinary  stage  fairy,  hard 
of  outline  and  palpably  material  as  to  costume,  is  another  beauti- 
ful picture.  Of  these,  indeed,  there  are  many,  and  to  them  is  due 
the  main  dramatic  charm.  John  Drew's  face,  voice  and  manner, 
the  acme  of  perfection  in  the  personation  of  the  modern  society 
young  man,  utterly  refuse  to  fit  in  with  the  surroundings,  and 
the  strenuous  effort  of  even  the  most  imaginative,  aa  well  as  par- 
tial, auditor  to  realize  him  as  a  dweller  in  the  green  wood,  are  a 
failure.  He  remains  an  incongruity  and  an  anachronism.  Little 
John  is  a  noticeable  character,  his  antic  spirit  making  consider- 
able life  in  a  comedy  way. 

The  people  of  San  Francisco  will  be  thankful  to  Mr.  Daly  for 
giving  them  a  chance  to  see  the  great  poet's  much  talked-of  play, 
and  the  Daly  Company  need  not  feel  chagrined  at  the  partial  suc- 
cess of  a  play  which  proved,  with  its  great  London  cast,  includ- 
ing Ellen  Terry,  a  pronounced  and  acknowledged  failure. 

A    POPULAR    RESORT. 

THE  palatial  resort  recently  opened  in  the  Panorama  bull  ling 
at  the  corner  of  Eddy  and  Mason  streets,  ia  without 
the  question  of  a  doubt  the  most  popular  hall  of  its  kind  on 
the  coast.  The  management  is  in  the  hands  of  experienced  men  who 
fully  appreciate  the  requirements  of  the  public,  and  who  have  catered 
to  them  in  every  way.  The  ladies'  orchestra,  which,  by  the  way,  is 
the  best  ever  heard  in  the  city,  is  a  leading  feature  deserving  of  the 
highest  praise  It  is  composed  of  excellent  musicians,  who  delight 
the  patrons  nightly  by  their  enjoyable  rendition  of  selected  music. 
Ladies  take  great. pleasure  in  vistting  The  Palace,  on  account  of  the 
unusual  accommodations  there  provided  for  them.  There  is  a  broad 
and  comfortable  circular  promenade  which  overlooks  the  main  hall, 
and  there  ladies  and  their  escorts  may  sit.  watch  the  crowd,  enjoy 
the  music  and  exchange  sweet  nothings,  as  their  fancy  dictates.  The 
promenade  and  refreshment  rooms  up  stairs  are  strictly  reserved  for 
ladies  and  their  escorts.  The  restaurant  is  the  pride  of  an  excellent 
chef,  who  places  the  latest  delicacies  of  the  season  before  customers 
in  a  manner  that  would  tempt  an  anchorite.  The  restaurant  is  di- 
vided from  that  portion  of  the  hall  where  those  who  enjoy  the  foam- 
ing lager  or  liquors  sit  by  a  handsome  wood  and  glass  parti- 
tion. The  liquors  The  Palace  presents  to  its  customers  it  is  grati- 
fying to  say  are  the  best  known  to  lovers  of  the  flowing  bowl. 
Bacchus  himself,  it  seems,  has  graced  The  Palace  with  all  the  charms 
with  which  he  endows  his  devotees  and  the  places  of  their  devotions. 
The  hall  itself  is  beautiful,  for  it  has  been  most  handsomely  deco- 
rated. From  the  apex  of  the  great  dome  long  streamers  bend  their 
graceful  curves  to  the  balcony  balustrade.  Brilliant  incandescent 
lights,  covered  by  variously  colored  globes,  peep  out  from  all  quar- 
ters, and  flood  this  pleasure  rendezvous  with  a  brilliant  but  soft  and 
mellow  light.  At  the  Palace  every  evening  may  be  seen  many  family 
groups,  for  it  is  above  all  a  place  where  families  may  safely  gather. 
The  regulations  of  the  house  are  so  good  and  so  strictly  en- 
forced that  the  very  slightest  breach  of  good  manners  is  impossible. 
It  is  a  first-class  resort  in  all  respects.  It  is  on  the  ground  floor,  a  id 
has  absolutely  no  objectionable  features. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  reiuea, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commiasion.  Office, 
407-409  Montgomery  street. 


July  23,  1892. 


BAN    FRANCISCO    NKWS   I.KTTKR. 


THE    SOCKLESS    SOCRATES. 

PHK  ion*  that  won  (he  moat  •pplnnr  at  the  BUU  Convtntloi 
1  of  the  People's  Party  in  Kansas  w«»  entitled  ■•  The  Sock  it? » 
locrates  of  Medicine  Lodge."  Here  are  three  of  the  fifteen  verses: 

m  the  wilds  of  bleeding  Kansas,  with  hay-seed  in  his  locka. 
tnd  a  heart  devoid  of  fear,  ami  with  [eel  devoid  of  socks, 
'omt*  the  champion  of  the  Grangers,  of  Hawbuck  and  of  Hodge, 
"be  dauntless  Jerry  Simpson,  the  ■•  Pride  of  Medicine  Lodge." 
ve  seen  the  ballet  in  New  Y«irk.  with  ankles  neat  and  trim. 
?bere  nymphs  have  skipped    and  fairies   danced,  all  liberal  in 

limb; 
n'by   they'd  bring  down  a  bouse  composed  of  stones,  and  sticks, 

and  stocks. 
Jot  they  wouldn't    move  a    Kansas  crowd  like  Jerry's  want  of 

socks. 

flat,  prouder  than  a  Roman,  be  treads  the  marble  hall. 
and  puts  bis  feet  upon  the  desk,  where  they  are  seen  by  all, 
\nd  the  people  in  the  galleries  wonder  and  tbey  stare, 
\t  the  man  who  thinks  protected  stocks  won't  do  for  him  to  wear. 

BILL    ENGLISH    AND    THE    BABY. 


"PHF.RE  Is    one  story  that  W.  D.  English,  the  Democratic  cbief- 
1    tain,  does  not  tell  wbeD  be  is  relating   the  anedotes  connected 
with  bis  recent   trip    to   the  Chicago  Convention.     It  is  too  good, 
hough,  to  keep  under  a  bushel,  so  here  it  is.     When  the  delegates 
irnved  at  Omaha  they  found  a  grand  reception  arranged  for  them. 
overnor  Boyd,  the  Mayor  and    the    Councilcoen  were  present  to 
>id   them  welcome;  bands  were   playing,   streamers  were  flying, 
nd  a  procession  was  formed    to   escort    them  about  town.     Car- 
iages  ad  libitum  were  provided    for  the  visitors,  and  into  the  first 
>ne  got  Governor  Boyd.  A.  P.  Butter,  of  Fresno,    chairman  of  the 
'alifornia  delegation,  his  wife,  carrying  her  nine  months  old  baby, 
nd    W.  P.  English.     Butler   advised    leaving   the   child    behind 
with  the  nurse,  bnt  his  wife  would  not  hear  of  it,  so  the  little  one 
went   along.     Everything   progressed   satisfactorily    for  half   an 
aoor  or  so,  and  then  the  tale  of  woe  began  to  unravel.     The  baby 
ommenced  to  howl  with    all   the   force  of  a  pair  of  leather-lined 
nngs.  and,  as  all  efforts  to  check  the   youngster's  demonstration 
were  in  vain,  Bill   English    offered,    as   a  last  resort,  to  take  the 
part  of  nurse.     The  child  was,  therefore,  turned  over  to  him,  but 
is  coaxing  availed  naught,   and    at   last   he   announced  that  he 
'.•i. id  leave  the  cariage   and   take   the  little  one  back  on  a  street 
ar  to  the  train. 
|    Efforts  were  made  to  dissuade   him    from    this   fatherly  move, 
but  be  was  persistent,  and  his  programme  was  adopted.     The  car- 
riage  was   stopped,    Bill   English,  with    the   child   in   bis   arms, 
alighted,   and    then  he  boarded   a  down-town  car,  and,  with  the 
child  on  his  knee,  endeavored  to  pacify  it   witb   aongs  like  "The 
harp  that  once   through   Tarra-ra-boom-de-ray's  halls,"  *•  Rock-a- 
bye  paper,"  and    t(  Where  is  my  wandering  boy  to-night?"    The 
youngster,  however,  refused   to   be  entertained,  and  the  infantile 
> creams  grew  fiercer  as    the   populated    streets  were   reached — so 
much  so  that  English  was   the   center   of   attraction.     It  is  all  a 
nightmare  to  him  now — that   fearful  experience  from  terminus  of 
the  street  car  to  the  train,  where  he  was  greeted  with   an  ovation 
by  the  few  delegates  who  had  stayed  behind  for  the  occasion.     As 
a  climax  they  sang   "  Where  did   you  get   that  child,"   and   the 
Democratic  leader  did  not  hear  the  end    of  it   all  the  rest  of  the 
way  to  the  Windy  City. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


A    HERO    IN    THE    RANKS. 

IT  was  on  a  spring  morning  in  1882  that  Neil  C.  Damsiedt,  a  na- 
tive of  Sweden,  having  known  the  usual  vicissitudes  of  the  life 
of  the  sailor  in  hoth  the  naval  and  mercantile  marine,  enlisted  for 
the  second  tin  e  in  the  service  of  the  United  States  Navy.  On 
the  evening  of  the  same  day  be  "  slung  his  hammock"  on  the 
berth  deck  of  the  United  States  receiving  ship  Independence, 
Captain  Charles  S.  Norton,  commander— the  ship  referred  to  by 
Rxhard  H.  Dan?,  in  his  appendix  to  "Two  Years  Before  the 
Mast,'  as  long  ago  as  1856.  as  "  the  old  Indfptndence."  In  all 
probability  Darustedt's  frank  young  face,  and  the  native  refine- 
ment evidenced  by  his  gentle  voice  and  graceful  ways,  together 
with  the  alacrity  and  efficiency  with  which  he  obeyed  an  order, 
and  his  ready  apprehension  of  the  spirit  as  well  as  the  letter  of 
his  duty,  attracted  the  attention  of  Captain  Norton,  for  he  was 
soon  assigned  to  the  post  of  »  coxswain  of  the  gig,"  a  boat  which, 
in  the  United  States  Navy,  usually  pulls  six  oars,  and  is  devoted 
to  the  use  of  the  commanding  officer.  Here,  in  the  care  of  the 
boat,  the  direction  of  the  crew  and  the  duty  of  steering,  Dam- 
stedt  had  abundant  opportunity  of  justifying  the  good  opinion 
that  had  placed  him  in  so  responsible  a  position.  It  was  while 
serving  Uncle  Sam  in  this  capacity  that  he  acquired  the  sobriquet 
of  »  The  Jolly  Coxswain."  In  attire  a  model  of  neatness  and  in 
manners  a  model  of  politeness,  not  too  large  to  be  natty  and  nim- 
ble and  not  too  small  to  be  dignified  and  capable,  the  Jolly  Cox- 
swain was,  in  bis  sailor's  garb,  the  embodiment  of  the  Jack  Tar 
of  fiction  and  poesy. 

After  two  years'  service  on  the  Independence,  on  report  of  Com- 
mander Frederick  Rodgers,  Damstedt  received  from  the  Secretary 
of  the  Navy,  Hon.  Wm.  E.  Chandler  (dated  Navy  Department, 
Washington,  May  8,  1884),  an  official  recognition  and  commenda- 
tion of  his  «  extremely  praiseworthy  and  courageous  conduct, 
in  rescuing  from  drowning  Henri  Prangner,  fireman,  on  the  morn- 
ing of  April  24,  1884;"  the  communication  closing  with  the  ex- 
pression of  "the  appreciation  entertained  by  the  Department  of 
hia  prompt  and  brave  action  on  that  occasion."  As  acceptable  as 
such  a  tribute  from  such  a  source  would  be  to  any  man,  it  ia, 
nevertheless,  to  be  deplored  that  for  such  heroism  the  United 
States  Government  offers  our  sailor-men  no  more  substantial 
award.  Secretary  Chandler's  letter,  on  file  in  the  Commander's 
office  of  the  Independence,  and  Damstedt'a  attested  copy  which 
already  ahows  the  wear  and  tear  of  time  and  its  owner's  appre- 
ciation, are  all  that  he  has  to  show  for  one  of  the  most  heroic  of 
all  deeds — that  of  grappling  with  a  drowning  man  in  the  effort 
to  save  his  life,  with  the  extreme  probability  of  losing  hia  own. 
For  the  encouragement  of  heroism,  for  the  incitement  of  the 
young  to  noble  deeds;  for  the  honor  of  our  country,  and  for  the 
juBt  reward  of  the  deserving,  it  Is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Govern- 
ment will  accord  more  than  an  ink-and-paper  recognition  to  the 
heroes  of  the  late  explosion  at  the  Mare  Island  Navy  Yard,  con- 
cerning one  of  whom  this  paper  is  written. 

Though  long  familiarity  may  render  a  man  insensible  to  danger, 
it  is,  nevertheless,  an  accepted  fact  that  none  are  so  careful  in 
the  handling  of  explosives  as  those  whoae  daily  duty  it  is;  their 
training  and  experience  being  such  as  to  give  them  a  lively  ap- 
prehension of  personal  peril.  If  such,  indeed,  were  not  the  case, 
there  would  be  small  security  for  any  community  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  a  magazine;  for  only  a  soul  cast  in  the  noblest  mold 
is  able,  under  varying  physical  conditions  and  surrounding  cir- 
cumstances, from  the  sheer  sense  of  duty,  unflinchingly  to  face 
the  most  appalling  of  all  dangers.  On  that  fatal  morning  of 
Monday,  June  13,  1892,  Neil  Damstedt,  being  <<  off  duty,"  was  at 
his  house  on  a  bill  adjacent  to  the  magazine,  engaged  in  some 
plumbing  repairs,  while  his  yonng  wife  was  occupied  near  him 
with  her  household  duties.  Mrs.  Damstedt  had  remarked  that 
during  the  night  he  had  risen  in  his  sleep,  trembling,  and  talking 
of  something  which  he  dreaded. 

"  It  was  nothing,  madam,"  said  he,  with  the  quaint  courlli- 
neas  for  which  he  ia  remarkable;  "it  was  nothing.  I  had  a 
dream — that  was  all." 

"  You  have  told  me,"  said  his  wife,  "  that  you  have  had  such 
dreama  in  the  past." 

"  It  is  true,  my  wife.     I  have  had  such  dreams  before." 

"  And  alwaya  previous  to  a  shipwreck,  persisted  she." 

"  Yes,"  he  reluctantly  admitted,  "  on  three  such  occasions  I 
have  had  such,  dreams." 

"  I  hope  nothing  is  going  to  happen." 

«  I  hope  not,  Madam,  but— whatever  may  happen,  remember 
— God  is  above." 

At  that  instant  a  terrific  detonation  almost  stunned  them 
where  they  stood.  The  house  rocked  as  in  an  earthquake,  and 
the  plaster  fell  from  the  center  of  the  ceiling,  covering  the  floor 
between  them.     Damstedt  rushed  to  the  door,  his  wife  following. 

"  The  magazine!  "  cried  she. 

»  No,  not  the  magazine,"  he  assured  her;  "  one  of  the  powder- 
houses,  only." 

»  Don't  gol  "  she  entreated.     "  Damstedt,  don't  got  " 

"  I  mast  go,"  he  said ,  »  and,  my  wife,  whatever  happens,  keep 
cool,  and  put  your  trust  in  God." 

Arriving  at  the  scene  of  the  explosion,  the  first  object  that  met 


his  horrified  gaze  was  one  to  make  the  stoutest  grow  faint— a  fel- 
low-being without  a  shred  of  clothing,  or  even  of  skin,  burnt 
brown  from  head  to  foot,  the  surface  like  a  jelly.  A  hand  was 
waving  back  and  forth,  and  a  voice  murmured:  "  Take  my  hand 
— take  my  hand  1 " 

Damstedt  drew  near  and  spoke,  anxious  to  bid  him  put  his 
trust  in  God  ;  but  the  poor  sufferer  was  already  beyond  the  reach 
of  his  voice. 

Clouds  of  dust  and  smoke  hid  from  view  the  horrors  yet  to  be 
revealed,  but  here  he  met  Collins,  one  of  the  watchmen  on  duty, 
blood  trickling  down  his  face;  and  now  came  GunnerT.  M.  John- 
ston, the  officer  in  charge  of  the  magazine,  followed  by  Sylvester, 
a  laborer  who  had  been  at  work  repairing  the  road  back  of  the 
magazine. 

'•The  hose!"  cried  Gunner  Johnston;  "Damstedt,  man  the 
hose!"  And  in  a  trice  the  water  was  on,  directed  first  to  the 
burning  debris  that  threatened  the  other  buildings,  and  then  into 
the  wrecked  building,  where  the  bursting  shells  still  kept  up  a 
fusillade.  Here  Gunner  Johnaton  and  Damstedt,  with  the  aid  of 
Sylvester,  and  manfully  assisted  by  Collins,  wrestled  with  the 
hose,  which,  owing  to  the  strong  force  of  water,  became  almost 
unmanagable.  Their  united  effects  could  scarcely  control  the 
nozzle,  which  was  like  a  thing  of  life  struggling  to  escape  them; 
and  it  was  almost  impossible  satisfactorily  to  direct  the  stream 
until  the  arrival  of  Dr.  D.  O.  Lewia,  Surgeon  U.  S.  N.,  and  B'irst 
Assistant  of  Medical  Director  G.  W.  Woods,  at  the  Naval  Hospital. 

"Light  the  hose,  there!  light  the  hose!  "  was  the  cry  to  which 
Dr.  Lewis  speedily  responded.  "  We  spoke  to  the  Doctor,"  says 
Damstedt,  in  a  tone  of  awe,  "  as  if  be  had  been  any  common  man." 

Thus,  until  the  arrival  of  sufficient  help  to  start  another  stream 
of  water,  they  worked  on;  at  what  peril  let  those  who  saw  them 
moving  around  among  the  hissing  shells  and  struggling  with  the 
tremendous  force  of  water,  where  one  misstep  must  have  been 
fatal,  and  where,  in  any  case,  they  were  in  instant  danger  of  be- 
ing reduced  to  auch  condition  as  those  whom  they  now  saw 
strewn  far  and  near  around  them.  When  Damstedt  left  the 
magazine  where  crowds  of  workers  and  spectators  were  now  as- 
sembled, he  went  first  to  inquire  for  the  welfare  of  a  fellow-watch- 
tuan  whom  he  missed;  and  finding  him  "  on  hia  feet,"  went 
home  to  change  his  clothes,  which  were  completely  soaked. 
While  thus  engaged,  he  heard  the  voice  of  Capt.  C.  E.  Clark,  In- 
spector of  Ordnance,  calling  him  by  name. 

"  I  came  to  the  top  of  the  stairs,"  says  Damstedt,  "  and  there 
was  Captain  Clark  below.  ■  Excuse  me,  Captain  Clark,'  said  I, 
*  I  am  only  half  dressed,  sir.'  «  Never  mind  that,  Damstedt,'  said 
the  Captain,  coming  toward  me;  '  I  only  want  to  shake  hands 
with  you,  Damstedt,  and  to  thank  you  for  your  brave  conduct 
this  day.'  ft  was  almost  too  much  for  me — I  could  hardly  say,  <  I 
only  did  my  duty,  sir!  '  " 


u  X/ES,  dear  wife,"    and    he  closed    his  eyes, 
I 


the  end  is  near. 
The  world  grows  dark  about  me.  Tl  e  "e  is  a  mist  around  me 
gathering  thicker  and  thicker,  and  there,  as  through  a  cloud,  I 
hear  the  music  of  angels— sweet  and  sad."  "  No,  no,  John  dear; 
that's  the  brass  band  on  the  corner."  "  What!  "  said  the  dying  man, 
jumping  from  his  bed  and  flinging  the  bootjack  at  the  leader;  "  Have 
those  scoundrels  dared  to  come  round  here  when  I  am  dying!  "  And 
he  recovered — Life. 


I 


Foly  28,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


THE    SANITARY    CONDITION     OF    OUR    HOMES. 
[By    Hi    Vimoi .] 

1>HK  unitary  condition  of  oar  homes  is  a  question  not  to  he 
mated  with  contempt,  nor  waved  aside  as  something  not  to 
he  dtoOfnad.  I«  is  a  question  of  such  magnitude  that  one  who 
hopes  to  cope  with  existing  conditions  may  well  stand  aghast, 
ar.d  lose  heart  at  the  task  before  him.  I  will  not  speak  of  tbe 
condition  of  our  city  streets  further  than  lo  aay  that  their  condi- 
tion Is  not  accidental,  not  occasional,  bat  habitual,  is  a  standing 
trii  nt  *»o  the  executive  ability  of  our  C  ty  Fatbirs.  In  Chicago,  a 
bano  of  women  took  it  upon  themselves  to  see  ihat  the  sanitary 
OOndhiufU  oi  that  city  were  what  they  should  be.  and  the  picture 
of  Chicago  ••  before  and  afterwards"  are  evidence  of  what 
women  can  do  as  housekeepers  on  a  large  scale.  Without  wish- 
ing to  disparage  the  natural  ability  of  that  superior  creature, 
man,  one  may  be  pardoned  for  saying  that  as  a  private  or  a  pub- 
lic housekeeper  be  is  not  a  success.  In  proof  of  this,  one  has 
only  to  point  to  schools  and  other  public  buildings  where  tbe 
work  of  cleaning  is  performed  by  men,  and  compare  the  result 
with  what  exists  under  the  regime  of  woman.  It  is  doubtless 
owing  to  the  fact  that  a  woman's  mind  is  so  much  more  petty 
than  man's  that  it  can  busy  itself  with  trifles,  and  not  be  conscious 
of  ibat  sense  of  loneliness  which  a  solitary  idea  inspires  in  the 
more  deeply  commoluted  cranium  of  a  lord  of  creation.  That  any 
of  tbe  superior  sex  should  ever  condescend  to  sweep  out  a  room 
or  to  flourish  a  dust  brush  is  against  nature,  and  to  follow  the 
usual  order  of  argument  offered  when  a  woman  wishes  to  step 
out  of  tbe  broom  and  dust-pan  stage — it  »  unsexea  "  tbe  unhappy 
person  who  engages  in  it.  Perhaps  it  is  as  a  sort  of  protest 
against  the  "  unmanly  "  occupation  of  "  cleaning  up  "  that  these 
janitors  need  so  much  looking  after.  If  the  ladies  of  San  Fran- 
cisco could  organize  themselves  into  a  Public  House-cleaning 
league,  and  be  given  authority  to  enforce  their  rules  and  regula- 
tions, our  city  would  be  vastly  improved  from  a  sanitary  stand- 
point. Who  is  the  proper  person  to  inaugurate  such  a  movement? 
A  property  holder.  Perhaps  the  time  is  not  so  far  distant  when 
such  a  league  may  come  into  existence  in  San  Francisco.  This  is 
not  a  Hltby  city.  There  is  a  great  deal  of  dirt  lying  around  loose 
for  the  sport  of  the  winds  and  the  vexation  of  spirit  of  the  in- 
habitants. It  can  hardly  be  otherwise,  since  the  drifting  sands 
are  not  to  be  kept  down  with  a  paper  weight,  and  the  character 
of  the  soil  of  our  city's  site  is  sandy.  But  when  we  come  to  the 
street  corners  we  are  greeted  with  strong  proof  that  the  sanitary 
condition  of  our  city  is  not  what  it  should  be.  "  Whew — how 
the  sewers  smell!  "  is  a  common  exclamation.  There  is  nothing 
but  folly  and  harm  in  being  an  alarmist.  Some  of  our  dailies  de- 
light to  seize  upon  tbe  slightest  pretext  for  a  sensation,  and  if  the 
cholera  but  makes  its  appearance  among  the  poorest  peasants  of 
the  furthest  Russian  steppes,  the  sensation  mongers  would  have 
ns  believe  that  the  dread  scourge  is  at  our  very  doors.  80  with 
smallpox,  so  with  the  other  contagious  diseases,  lii.t  there  is  a 
wide  difference  between  panic-stricken  alarm  and  a  wise 
precaution  against  the  spread  of  these  evils,  which 
rightly  have  been  called  "dirt  diseases."  As  to  quar- 
antine and  other  legislative  measures  for  repulsing  the  advance 
and  checking  the  spread  of  these  diseases,  we  must  leave  that  to 
the  authorities.  But  each  woman  has  a  duty  to  perform  in  this 
matter,  a  duty  which  she  owes  to  her  own  family,  and  to  the 
community.  She  must  help  create  a  public  sentiment  that  will 
take  hold,  and  take  bold  vigorously  and  at  once  of  the  sanitary 
conditions  of  otir  homes.  Every  woman  can  insist  upon  cleanli- 
ness in  her  own  house,  and  in  that  of  her  neighbor  to  the  extent 
of  having  an  offensive  swill  barrel  removed  from  under  her  win- 
dows. In  no  city  should  such  barrels,  in  fruit  season  and  melon 
time,  remain  unemptied  for  weeks,  and  yet  they  do  here.  Prop- 
erty holders  should  combine,  and  discover  and  prosecute  those 
miscreants  who  by  night  make  vacant  lots  and  street  corners  the 
receptacles  for  the  bags  of  rubbish  they  are  too  penurious  to  pay 
an  ashman  to  remove  from  their  premises. 

How  is  it  within  the  houses  themselves?  Go  into  that  house  on 
the  hill.  It  is  one  of  a  row — nice,  large  houses,  roomy,  well- 
lighted,  in  a  desirable  locality.  As  you  enter  the  hall,  you  are 
offended  by  a  peculiar  odor.  "  Oh,"  says  the  agent,  who  suavely 
shows  you  through,  «  that  is  nothing  at  all,  only  the  house  has 
not  been  occupied  for  so  long,  naturally  the  air  is  a  little  close." 
I  should  say  so.  Let  me  ask  that  house  agent  a  question.  On 
the  second  floor  there  is  not  a  wash-basin  nor  any  pipe  properly 
connected  with  the  sewer.  Why  is  it  that  at  certain  times  dur- 
ing the  day  that  second  floor,  particularly  the  parlors,  near  the 
folding  doors,  is  pervaded  with  a  smell  that  drives  the  occupants 
forth  into  a  purer  atmosphere?  It  ia  the  proof  of  the  de- 
fective sewerage.  There  should  be  a  law  that  would 
require  that  there  shall  be  no  bath  rooms  or  toilet 
rooms  without  a  window  opening  directly  into  the  open  air. 
There  are  hundreds  of  houses  in  San  Francisco  whose  bath-rooms 
are  ventilated  through  transoms  opening  into  halls,  which  open 
into  the  sleeping  apartments.  Is  that  a  proper  state  of  affairs, 
viewed  from  a  sanitary  standpoint?  If  the  greed  of  builders 
causes  them  to  sacrifice  the  health  of  their  tenants  to  their  desire 


ttOmln  tpaoa,  (hen  let  the  law  speak  to  them.  Not  long 
ago  the  accommodations  of  a  certain  largl  hoarding -hmise  in  this 
city  were  increase.!  by  the  addition  of  a  number  of  rooms.  In 
building  the  annex,  the  hath  rooms  of  the  main  houso  were  com- 
pletely closed  up;  shut  off  from  the  air,  and  they  found  ventila- 
tion through  the  corridors  of  thin  vast  caravansary.  What 
wonder  (hat  malaria,  scarlet  fever  and  mumps  raged  through  the 
building.  Yet  that  is  hut  one  of  the  many  buildings  "perfect  in 
all  their  appointments."  The  women  of  San  Francisco  should  do 
something  for  the  health  of  the  city.  Such  things  should  not  be 
suffered  in  silence. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


'We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's.' 


THE  present  week  will  be  one  of  tbe  longest  remembered  in  a 
memorable  engagement  at  Stock  well's  new  theatre.  The  brilli  ni 
production  of  A  School  for  Scandal  has  eclipsed  every  previous 
effort  of  the  Daly  Company.  Ada  Rehan  at  once  realizes  and 
idealizes  Sheridan's  wilful,  high-spirited,  and  lovely  heroine,  with 
too  much  heart  to  become  altogether  the  woman  of  fashion  of  her 
period  and  her  coterie.  Her  exquisitely  modeled  and  becoming 
gowns,  her  coquettish  beplumed  hats,  her  powder,  her  patches, 
and  her  mincing  gait,  are  as  much  a  part  of  the  creation  as  her 
coquetry,  her  love  of  pleasure,  her  pride,  and  her  impulsiveness. 
From  the  lovely  woman  of  to-day  she  is  transformed,  soul  and 
body,  into  the  lovely  woman  of  a  past  age,  and  carries  us  with 
her  so  completely  that  it  is  with  a  start  of  surprise  that  we  find 
ourselves,  when  the  curtain  has  shut  out  the  enchanting  vision 
of  the  past,  facing  an  end-of-the-nine  eenth  century  audience.  The 
subtle  auggestion  of  the  excitement  of  novelty  as  the  motive 
power  in  the  abandonment  with  which  the  country-bred  girl 
throws  herself  into  the  pleasures  and  frivolities  of  tbe  town,  tbe 
innocent  mischief  in  the  sparkle  ot  her  eye  and  around  the  droop- 
ing corners  of  her  mouth,  are  a  part  of  Ada  Reban's  peculiar  gift 
of  putting  herself  en  rapport  with  her  audience  without  uttering  a 
word,  and  make  quite  natural  Lady  Teazle's  final  honest  straight- 
forwardness, and  tbe  quick  awakening  of  gratitude  and  loyalty 
in  response  to  her  old  husband's  tenderness  and  devotion,  so  con- 
trary to  the  falsity  and  heartlessness  of  the  »  women  of  fashion  " 
among  whom  she  has  been  thrown.  Even  her  scandal  accentu- 
ates the  difference,  so  evidently  is  it  inspired  by  thoughtless  mis- 
chief and  high  spirits,  rather  than  by  malice  and  envy.  Miss 
Rehan's  appearance  here  this  time  has  been  something  like  a 
fresh  revelation  of  her  dramatic  powers  even  to  her  most  ardent 
admirers,  and  makes  it  easy  to  understand  the  furore  she  excited 
among  the  usually  hard-headed  and  cool-blooded  Britons. 

*  *  * 

John  Drew's  Charles  Surface  was  also,  perhaps,  the  best  and 
most  thoroughly  artistic  thing  he  has  done  yet.  He  could  scarcely 
have  fallen  upon  a  part  more  calculated  to  intensify  tbe  regret  at 
his  leaving  the  company  for  which  he  has  done  so  much,  and 
which  has  done  so  much  for  him.  Like  Miss  Reban's  Lady 
Teazle,  Mr.  Drew's  Charles  Surface  maintains  the  traditional 
spirit  by  entirely  untraditional  methods.  The  moral,  if  any,  in 
Sheridan's  most  sparkling  and  delightful  of  comedies  is  bad  in  the 
apparent  suggestion  that  generosity  and  goodness  of  heart  are 
naturally  associated  with  laxity  of  morals  and  the  defranding  of 
tradesmen,  but  John  Drew  renders  this  unpleasant  corollary  less 
prominent  than  it  appears  in  reading  the  play. 

*  *  * 

This  production  was  further  signalized  by  tbe  first  appearance 
during  this  engagement  of  Mrs.  Gilbert,  whose  Mrs.  Candour  is, 
it  need  not  be  said,  on  a  par  with  tbe  work  of  the  principals.  In 
a  less  finished  performance  the  acting  of  Lady  Sneerwell  by 
Adelaide  Prince,  of  Sir  Benjamin  Backbite  by  Sidney  Herbert,  of 
Joseph  Surface  by  George  Clarke,  of  Sir  Peter  Teazle  by  Charles 
Wheatleigh,  of  Sir  Oliver  by  William  Sampson,  and  of  almost 
every  minor  part,  as  well,  would  demand  a  paragraph.  It  is,  as 
often  asserted ,  this  all-round  excellence  which  has  given  Mr.  Daly's 
company  its  acknowledged  preeminence,  and  in  nothing  has  it  been 
more  brilliantly  conspicuous  than  in  The  School  for  Scandal.  The 
freshness  and  elegance  of  the  costumes,  the  beauty  of  stage  set- 
ting and  appointment,  are  all  a  part  of  the  outcome  of  the  eternal 
vigilance  which  is  tbe  price  of  dramatic  perfection.  The  opening 
scene  of  the  high-bred  scandal-mongers  at  Lady  Sneerwell's,  that 
in  Sir  Charles  Surface's  apartments  with  his  convivial  friends,  and 
the  elaborate  dance  at  the  close  of  the  second  act,  are  each  alone 
worth  spending  an  evening  to  see.  Lloyd  Daubigny's  singing  of 
"  Here's  to  the  Lass"  is  a  vocal  gem  in  a  sparkling  setting. 

*  *  # 

The  Lost  Paradise,  which  opened  the  tenth  season  of  the  Bald- 
win Theatre  under  its  present  management  last  Monday 
night,  has  again  given  the  Frohman  pendulum  a  swing  to  the 
upward  point  of  its  arc.  The  proper  placing  of  its  authorship, 
whether  Mr.  Ludwig  Fulva  gave  de  Mille  "  the  points,"  or  de 
Mille  stole  the  play  bodily,  is  a  question  which  chiefly  interests 
themselves.  For  the  general  public,  "  the  play's  the  thing,"  and 
it  is  so  good  a  thing  that  Mr.  de  Mille  must  at  least  be  given 
credit  for  sound  judgment  in  his  predatory  work. 

The  adjustment  of  capital  and  labor  will  never  be  accomplished 
by  sentimental  handling  in  novel  and  drama;  yet  there  is  a  dilet- 
tanteish  pleasure  in  playing  with  economics  which  has  its 
charm,  and  which  gives  added  zest  to  tbe  enjoyment  of  The  Lost 
Paradise.  The  absence  of  Frank  Mordaunt — tbe  Andrew  Knowl- 
ton  of  the  New  York  production— ceased  to  be  felt  as  a  disap- 
pointment in  the  manly  and  appropriate  acting  of  the  part  by 
W.  H.  Crompton.  Another  change  is  that  of  Miss  Odette  Tyler 
from  Polly,  the  country  girl,  to  the  heroine  of  the  main  story, 
a  part  filled  by  Sydney  Armstrong   in   the  New  York  production. 


Her  Margaret  Knowlton,  if  not  strongly  dramatic,  is  in  good 
taste,  and  shows  her  ambition  to  be  not  unfounded.  Polly  her- 
self loses  nothing  of  her  naive  charm  in  the  bands  of  Miss  Elaine 
E  lson,  though  it  would  be  hard  to  fail  with  so  delightful  a  vis-a- 
vis as  Cyril  Scott's  Bob  Appleton.  The  villain  of  the  play  is  only 
an  everyday  villain,  who  could  pass  fairly  as  a  rather  nice 
young  man  anywhere  but  on  the  heroic  stage.  As  it  is, 
Orrin  Johnson  divests  the  part  of  the  usual  staginess, 
notably  in  his  final  exit,  which,  while  entirely  with- 
out the  customary  melodramatic  defiance  and  hardihood, 
yet  avoids  anything  like  a  bid  for  sympathy.  James  O.  Barrows 
is  an  old  favorite  here,  and  his  excellent  acing  of  Fletcher  was 
no  surprise.  Mr.  Barrows  contrives  to  bring  out  a  genuine  humor 
from  lines  in  which  that  quality  is  somewhat  strained.  Maude 
Adams  has  in  Nell,  the  factory  girl,  a  case  of  hopeless  love  com- 
bined with  the  pallid  and  drooping  type  of  poverty,  and  which 
is  almost  inevitably  conventional  in  the  acting.  She  has  a  lively 
foil  in  Cinders,  another  girl  employed  at  the  works,  and  whom 
Mias  Etta  Hawkins  makes  an  amusing,  if  occasionally  over- 
pronounced  hoyden  of  the  "tough"  order.  Her  hobbledehoy 
"  beau,"  Billy,  is  as  good  in  his  way,  and  the  two  are  responsible 
for  most  of  the  laughter  the  drama  permits.  The  central  figure 
is,  of  course,  William  Morris,  as  the  young  superintendent  who, 
while  having  a  bard  time  of  it  between  higb-placed  love  and  class 
loyalty,  gives  the  audience  a  fine  manly  picture  of  the  educated 
American  workingman,  who  can  walk  into  and,  without  much 
difficulty,  adapt  himself  to  any  society  where  fate  may  chance  to 
cast  him.  The  part  is  suited  to  Mr.  Morris,  and  even  the  some- 
what over-wrought  heroics  in  which  he  has  to  indulge  are  made 
natural  by  his  excellent  acting.  The  Lost  Paradise  will  hardly 
wear  its  welcome  out  in  the  two  more  weeks  it  has  to  run  at  the 
Baldwin. 

#  *  * 

The  Witch,  which  has  just  finished  a  successful  week  at  the 
Bush-street  Theatre,  is  one  of  the  stroqgest  in  plot,  interest,  and 
dramatic  action  among  recent  plays.  Original  as  is  its  theme, 
the  originality  strikes  the  auditor  less  than  the  wonder  that  no 
playwright  has  before  taken  for  hi3  subject  a  superstition  which 
formed  in  itself  a  thrilling  drama,  with  a  somber  and  tragic  inter- 
est as  absorbing  as  any  in  history.  The  Salem  witchcraft  de- 
lusion, with  its  attendant  horrors — made  still  more  horrible  by  a 
certain  diabolical  grotesqueness — is  tbe  main  element  in  The 
Witch,  but  we  are  given  incidentally  a  series  of  pictures  of  the 
life  and  customs  of  the  Puritans  in  both  light  and  dark  shades — 
the  ludicrous  and  the  cruel. 

The  story  has  been  already  told  in  this  column,  and  it  remains 
only  to  speak  of  tbe  actors  in  the  drama.  Marie  Hubert  Froh- 
man aa  the  innocent  Marguerite,  accused  of  practicing  witch- 
craft, looks  tne  incarnation  of  simple  girlhood,  awakened  to  the 
realities  of  life  by  her  love  and  her  abandonment  by  her  young 
husband,  and  his  subsequent  repudiation  of  her  and  her  claims. 
As  the  tender  young  wife,  joyful  at  once  more  finding  her  Wal- 
ter, and  as  the  indignant  and  resolute  woman,  refusing  to  abjure 
her  rights  even  under  threat  of  the  gallows,  her  acting  ia  alike 
marked  by  unusual  earnestness  and  depth  of  feeling.  If  there  ia 
one  flaw  in  a  tine  performance  it  is  tbe  easily  mended  one  of  an 
indistinct  utterance  and  tooabrupt  gesticulation.  Her  scene  with 
the  dove  is  full  of  tender  beauty  and  pathos.  Walter  Leyden 
finds  an  earnest  and  poelic  interpreter  in  Charles  Jehlinger. 
Herman  Hirschberg  makes  a  striking  character  of  the  young  In- 
dian, Amooka.  Elizabeth  Leyden,  Walter's  betrothed  before  the 
journey  which  led  to  his  marriage  to  Marguerite,  is  well  though 
not  quite  evenly  acted  by  Al'ce  Brown;  Goody  Oliver,  who  is  put 
under  the  pump  as  a  "common  scold,"  and  the  Irish  skipper, 
who,  transiently  ashore  in  the  queer  old  town,  outrages  its  res- 
pectability by  kissing  a  fair  Priscilla  on  its  streets,  and  the  young 
couple  pilloried  for  profanely  kissing  on  the  Lord's  day,  and  not 
listening  to  an  improving  sermon,  are  amusingly  represented  by 
Jennie  Casey,  Frederic  Backua,  James  Loan,  and  Vivia  Ogden, 
and  t  le  entire  cask  shows  a  surprising  evenness  of  excellence. 

Mr.  Gustav  Frohman's  method  of  arranging  hia  Hat  of  people  in 
the  order  of  their  coming  upon  ihe  stage  greatly  aids  the  audi- 
ence in  knowing  the  actors,  and  is  a  practice  to  be  recommended 
for  imitation.  The  Witch  will  remain  at  the  Bush  one  more  week, 
and  should  be  seen  by  all  lovers  of  genuine  artistic  work. 

Oloriana  seems  to  have  taken  the  California  audiences,  and  its 
removal  to  that  theatre  has  proved  a  good  move  on  the  part  of 
Mr.  Hay  man.  Following  Gloriana,  August  1st,  the  California 
will  have  Thatcher's  Minstrels  and  Tuxedo.  The  experiment 
made  by  Rich  and  Harris  with  George  Thatcher,  in  combining 
their  farce-comedy  organization  with  Thatcher's  MinatrelB,  ia 
said  to  have  proved  highly  successful,  beside  being  novel  and 
original. 

#  #  * 

The  Tivoli  continues  Clover  to  crowded  houses.  Monday,  July 
25th,  Planquette'a  beautiful  historic  opera,  Nell  Gwynne,  will  be 
produced,  with  the  excellent  and  well-allotted  caat  which  the 
augmented  Tivoli  company  renders  possible.  Beauty  and  the  Beast 
is  announced  for  Monday,  August  1st. 

#  *  * 

Following  The  Lost  Paradise   at   the    Baldwin    comes    Alabama, 


July   23,  1892. 


8AM   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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with  nearly  the  same  cam  »«  that  which  presented  it  so  delight. 
fully  last  year.  The  memory  of  the  various  character?  in  this 
charming  Southern  home  drama  lingers  so  vividly  and  so  pleas- 
antly that  its  renewed  loeotas  at  the  Baldwin  is  a  foregone  con- 
clusion. 

The  Daly  repertory  for  next  week,  as  originally  arranged,  if  as 
follows:  Monday  night.  \>incy  i»»d  Company,  in  which,  beside 
Ada  Rehan  and  John  Drew.  James  lewis.  William  Gilbert.  Mn, 
Gilbert,  Sidney  Herbert,  William  Sampson.  Isabel  Irving,  Maria 
Shotwell.  Kitty  Cheatham  and  Herbert  Q  res  ham  will  appear; 
Tuesday  evening  and  Wednesday  matinee,  Love  hi  ftinctem; 
Wednesday  evening.  The  Lottery  of  Love;  Thursday  and  Friday 
evenings  and  Saturday  matint'e,  Taming  of  the  Shrew;  Saturday 
•  et  i  ig  A  Sight  Off.  Owing  to  the  great  demand  for  seits,  V  s 
play  for  Monday  night  has  been  changed  from  Nancy  d>  Co.  to 
that  of  -4  School  for  Scandal. 

•  •  • 

Little  Tippett,  a  farcical  comedy  by  Alexander  Bisson,  will  be 
the  next  Bush-street  attraction.  The  cast  includes,  among 
others.  Messrs.  Edward  Bell,  Charles  Bowser,  Harry  J.  Morgan, 
Mabel  Bert,  and  Genevieve  Tyler.  Mr.  Bell  while  here  as  leading 
man  of  A.  M.  Palmer's  company  made  himself  very  popular  both 
on  the  stage  and  socially,  and 
can  favorite  who  will  be  wa        M«hPl  Bert  is  an  old  San  Francis- 

•  *  % 

The  general  desire  to  secure  one  of  the  "  Salem  "  souvenir 
spoons  given  out  at  the  Bush  on  the  opening  night  of  The  Witch, 
has  led  Manager  Frohman  to  make  next  Monday  night,  July 
25lh,  another  souvenir  night,  when  a  spoon  will  be  given  to  each 
lady  on  the  lower  tioor.  These  souvenirs  are  genuine  in  every 
respect,  being  of  sterling  silver,  aDd  made  by  Daniel  Low,  in  the 
ancient  town  itself.  They  were  also,  it  is  claimed,  the  first  souve- 
nir spoons  put  upon  the  market,  and  began  the  popular  fad  of 
spoon  collecting. 

*  *  * 

The  great  Paderewski  will  be  here  in  November  next.  Hia 
fame  has  already  become  national  in  America,  as  his  late  tour  of 
the  principal  cities  has  been  a  vent,  vidi,  vici  affair,  inserting 
"  they  heard  "  for  «<  I  saw."  The  final  test  of  an  artist's  powers 
may  be  admitted  to  be  the  financial  one,  and  on  this  line  Pade- 
rewski can  challenge  the  record  among  pianists.  His  last  Boston 
recital  brought  in  $5,413,  the  last  in  New  York  $7,417,  and  in 
London  $5,000.  The  great  pianist  made  a  sensible  move  while  in 
London  by  cutting  his  hair.  Such  a  lion  needs  no  mane.  It  is 
boldly  asserted  that  Paderewski  has  no  superior  as  a  pianist,  not 
even  excepting  the  hitherto  invincible  Rubinstein.  San  Fran- 
cisco may  prepare  for  a  musical  craze  next  November. 

#  *  * 

Already  the  murmur  of  expectation  may  be  heard  concerning 
the  coming  of  Lillian  Russell.  The  "Queen  of  the  Dudes  "  may 
have  •  uporarily  lost  her  firm  seat  on  the  throne  referred  to,  by 
getting  stout,  married,  and  a  baby;  but  her  prestige  has  returned, 
and  there  is  still  but  one  Lillian  Russell.  She  will  appear  at  the 
Baldwin  in  her  great  success,  La  Cigale,  also  in  The  Mountebank. 

Jeffreys-Lewis,  with  Harry  Mainhall  and  her  maaager,  Arthur 
C.  Aiston,  will  arrive  here  tomorrow,  and  on  Monday  next  the 
other  imported  members  of  Stockwell's  Stock  Company,  Harry 
Duffleld  and  his  wife  (Phosa  McAllister),  Arthur  Byron,  and  Ralph 
Delmore,  will  reach  the  city. 

#  *  * 

The  secession  of  John  Drew  from  Mr.  Daly's  company,  and  the 
choice  of  his  successor,  renders  interesting  the  following  cruelly 
suggestive  paragraph  from  Sport,  Music  and  Drama:  "  There  is  one 
blessing  vouchsafed  to  those  who  follow  the  precarious  career  of 
acting,  and  that  is  longevity.  Actors  live  longer  than  parrots, 
and  often  rtta:n  their  faculties  unimpaired  until  yerylate  in  life.' 
These  remarks  are  suggested  by  the  report  that  Mr.  George  Clarke 
is  to  be  Mr.  Daly's  leading  juvenile  next  season,  replacing  Mr.  John 

Drew. 

*  •  * 

The  opening  of  a  new  theatre  is  a  great  venture,  which  is 
naturally  watched  with  interest.  The  unrestricted  expenditure 
of  time,  money,  work  and  personal  supervision  on  the  part  of 
Mr.  Stockwell  in  fitting  up  his  new  theatre,  and  the  striking  and 
eminently  satisfactory  results,  intensify  in  his  case  this  natural 
interest,  and  create  a  genuine  pleasure  in  the  knowledge  that  its 
brilliant  opening  by  the  Daly  company  has  brought  money  to  the 
liberal  and  ambitions  proprietor,  as  well  as  a  fame  which  has 
given  this  place  of  amusement  a  long  start  on  the  road  to  per- 
manent success. 

Monday,  August  1st,  will  see  the  beginning  of  the  regular  stock 
season  at  Stockwell's.  It  will  be  a  notable  one,  bringing  back 
the  always  favorite  Jeffreys-Lewis  in  new  plays  and  with  new 
and  handsome  costumes,  secured  during  her  late  London  visit. 
She  will  open  in  Clotilde,  the  title  role  being  one  peculiarly 
adapted  to  her  powers— thatof  a  passionate,  unreasoning  woman, 
whose  mentality  is  dominated  by  animalism  which  finds  a  nat- 
ural outcome  in  hypocrisy,  treachery  and  revenge.  She  will  be 
ably   supported    by  Stockwell's  new   company,  which    includes 


Ethel  Brandon,  Eleanor  Barry,  Bene  Vinlng.  Phosa  McAllister. 
Nellie  Ynnng.  Harry  Dulllold.  Harry  Mainhall,  Arthur  Living- 
stone. Nick  Long,  G«org«  Henuance,  Arthur  Byron  and  L.  U. 
Stockwell.     A  heller  Mm  of  nan. en  ooold  hardly  be  arranged. 

Oooi  Liquors,  excriit"  bdIaI  compaov  and  numerous 

comrorta,  are  thedlaUnguishlnfrcharactertstloa  ol  the  Grand  tVntral 
Wine  Rooms,  of  16  and  IB  Third  straat.  This  bar  i*  the  most  popu- 
lar in  town  among  men  who  understand  and  ran  appreciate  the  beBt 
01  wines  and  liquors,  for  of  such  i>  the  Stock  composed. 

John  W.  Carmauy.  of  26  Kearny  street,  has  the  most  complete 
Btock  of  Gentlemen's  Furnishing  Goods  for  summer  wear  in  the  city. 

BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

AlHayman  iStCo    Proprietors.  |  Alfred  Boovier. Manager. 

To-night  again  !  A  genuine  triumph  !  The  heartiest  Indorsement  ever 
accorded  an  American  Play  by  a  San  Francisco  audience  was  given  to 

THE    LOST    PARADISE  I 

Admirably  presented  by  CHARLES  F»  OHM  lli'S  STOCK  COM- 
PANV,  of  New  York.  The  engagement  here  will  last  for  three  weeks,  at 
this  theater  only.  A  liviug  lesson  for  the  laboring  man.  A  study  for  all 
classes  of  theatre  goers. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE^ 

AlHayman  &  Co Proprietors.  I  J.  J.  Oottlob Manager. 

Last  week  of  CHARLES  I'KOII.il  A  vs  Brilliant  Comedy 

"GLORIANA." 

Preceded  by  the  MAJOR'S  APPOINTMENT.  Monday,  August  1. 
"TOXtllO." 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

M.  B.  Leavitt Proprietor.  |  Chas.  P.  Hall Manager. 

Last  week  MARIE  HUBERT  FROHMAN,  in  her  great  success 

"THE    WITCH." 
In  the  near  future  LITTLE  TIPPETT. 


TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kbeling  Bros  — Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night !  Our  greatest  success  !  Have  you  seen  all  our  great  company  in 
CLOVER? 

See  CLOVER  1    Last  week  of  Miss  Julia  Kingsley,  Surpeutine   daucerl 
Next  Opera— Nell  Gwyane. 
Popular  Pricks  25c.  and  50c. 

STOCKWELL'S  1hEATRE7~ 

L.  R.  Stockwell    Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

AlfEllinghousr  Business  Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  July  25th,  positively  farwell  appearance  in  San 
Frauciaco  of 

MR.  DALY'S  COMPANY. 

Monday  evening  NANCY  «fc  CO.;  Tuesday  evening  and  Wednesday  Mat- 
inee,   "LOVE    IN   TANDEM;"  Wednesday    evening,   "LOTTERY.  OF 

LOVE;"  Thursday  and  Friday  evenings  and  Saturday  Matinee,  "TAMING 
Or  THE  SHREW;"  Saturday  evening,  "A  NIGHT  OFF." 

Seats  now  on  sale.  Next?  Commencing  Monday  Aug.  1,  the  JEFFRYS 
LEWIS  season,  supported  by  the  STOCKWELL  COMPANY  OF  PLAY- 
ERS carefully  presenting  the  Society  Drama,  "CLOTILDE." 

SH1RUQSC0  WW  NORTH  PACIFIC  UlLUt 


THIRD    GRAND    EXCURSION 

OF  THE  SEASON,  TO 

ON 

SUNDAY JULY  24,    1892. 


Tickets  for  the  Round  Trip,  Only  $2.00. 


Boat  leaves  Tiburon  Ferry,  foot  of  Market  street,  at  8:00  a.  m.    Return- 
ing, train  leaves  I  kiih  .t  4  00  f.  m 
ticket  Office— No.  2.  New  Montgomery  street,  and  Tiburon  Ferry. 


H.  C.  WHITING, 

General  Manager. 


PETER  J.  MCGLYNN, 

Gen.  Pass.  4  Tkt.  Agt 


Dl  Jl  HI  AC  Kn»bi>,   Haines, 
rlnlllUO  Bush  AGferts,  Mothers. 

■       ■"      "  ~  ^  ^  Oaahorinstallments.  Rented 
and  Repaired.     Please  call  or  Bend  for  circulara,- 

^ BANCROFT 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


WHEN    BOTH    BIDES    WIN. 

Good  Barnum,  whither  walks  thy  ghost? 

Conld  yon  but  make  progression 
Down  this  way,  you  could  get  a  most 

rnenomenal  accession. 
All  interest  in  rival  shows 

You  rapidly  might  smother, 
By  presenting  those  ardent  foes 

Who  swallowed  one  another. 

O,  ((  Kelly-Crimmins,"  tell  us  now 

Which  one  of  you  was  beaten, 
And  Burns  inform  the  public  how 

The  eater  may  be  eaten; 
Each  claiming  triumph,  who  can  tell 

The  truth  side  from  the  doubt  side? 
In  swallowing,  did  you  draw — well, 

The  inside  or  the  outside? 

It  isn't  right  to  leave  us  so 

Bewilderingly  tangled; 
We're  very  anxious  now  to  know 

Who  floats  the  banner  spangled. 
When  fights  are  won  we'd  like  to  hear 

The  names  of  those  who  win  it, 
And  though  you've  fallen  out,  it's  clear 

That  one  of  you  is  in  it. 

And  which  one  that  may  be — ah,  yes, 

It's  open  to  opinion: 
But  still  it  worries  us  to  guess 

Who's  master  and  who's  minion. 
UnJe°s  we  speedily  are  told 

What's  the  solution,  soon  it 
Will  be  impossible  to  hold 

The  G.  O.  P.  a  unit. 

Of  course  the  quarrel's  settled,  yet 

There's  many  a  betting  sinner 
Would  like  most  earnestly  to  get 

A  line  upon  the  winner. 
And  though  the  battle  red  doth  cease, 

It's  certain  at  this  writing, 
That  such  a  wild  and  woolly  peace 

Is  worse  than  all  the  fighting. 

THE    LOTTERY    OBEYS    THE    LAW. 

IN  view  of  the  contradictory  rumors  circulated  regarding  the  in- 
tentions of  the  Louisiana  State  Lottery  Company,  and  in  order 
to  accurately  answer  numerous  inquiries,  a  representative  of  the 
Times-Democrat  yesterday  interviewed  Mr.  Paul  Conrad,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Company,  with  the  result  expressed  below: 

Reporter— Mr.  Conrad,  it  was  asserted  some  weeks  ago  in  the 
Northern  newspapers,  and  the  statement  his  since  been  revived  re- 
cently, that  the  company  is  about  to  remove  to  Nicaragua,  and  there 
under  a  government  franchise,  open  up  the  business  on  a  grander 
scale  than  ever. 

President  Conrad— I  have  heard  something  of  this,  but  there  is  no 
foundation  for  it.  The  company  has  officially  stated  that  it  bows  to 
the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  will  respect  the  laws 

Reporter— Then  have  you  no  plans  of  future  action  ? 

President  Conrad— I  cannot  state  the  case  more  strongly  than  was 
done  at  the  time  the  company  decided  not  to  attempt  to  obtain  a  re- 
newal of  its  charter.  I  can  only  repeat  that  the  company  will  con- 
tinue in  business  until  the  expiration  of  its  present  charter  and  then 
cease  to  exist.  I  cannot  understand,  after  all  that  has  been  said 
why  there  should  be  any  confusion  in  the  ntihlin  rm'n/l  .k»»i,^ 
matter. 

Reporter— Have  you  any  objection  to  nr 
for  the  satisfaction  of  the  public? 

President  Conrad — None  whatever. 

Re??KtCf^Sc;m,!  o£  the  Ea3ter»  papers,  Mr.  Conrad,  persistently 
assert  that  the  lottery  company  continues  to  use  the  United  States 
niails  in  the  prosecution  of  its  business;  wiU  you  kindly  tell  me  if 
that  is  true?  J 

President  Conrad-It  is  utterly  untrue.  We  are  obeying  the  law 
m  its  letter  and  spirit,  and  our  agents  everywhere  are  instructed  to 
obey  it.  We  are  using  the  express  companies  only  in  our  business 
and  in  all  our  circulars  are  printed  instructions  to  all  persons  dealing 
with  us  to  avoid  the  mails.        -Times  Democrat,  New  Orleans  La 


be  any  confusion  in  the  public  mind  about  the 
stating  this  as  a  finalty 


WHATEVER  may  be  said  against  the  present  German  govern- 
ment, it  must  be  acknowledged  that  it  is  not  alow  in  taking 
upon  itself  the  full  consequences  of  its  anti-Russian  policy,  as 

evidenced  by  its  rather  ostentatious  catering  to  the  susceptibilities 
of  Turkey.  Not  very  long  ago  the  German  authorities  went  so 
far  as  to  expel  from  Berlin  a  Panslavist  journalist,  M  de  Wes- 
selitzki,  for  having  stated  false  rumors  as  regards  the  Sultan's 
health.  Not  to  speak  of  the  ludicrous  side  of  the  occurrence  it  is 
very  regrettable  that  Germany,  which  has  troubles  enough  on 
band,  should  again  take  an  active  part  in  Oriental  politics,  which 
if  Germany  had  continued  her  former  wise  policy,  would  be  of 
only  remote  interest  to  her.  The  young  Emperor's  hostility  to 
Russia  is  preparing  numerous  dangers  for  the  country  from  dav 
to  day  of  which,  no  doubt,  he  did  not  dream  when  he  started 
upon  his  perilous  road. 


|-j~~— '--  -^-^-~ 


THE  BRENTWOOD^ 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  18S8. 

Carriage  Builders  and   Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N,  J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Ouiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y. ;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 

HAVE   YOU   GOT 

Dyspepsia,  Bright's  Disease,  or  Dia- 
betes, or  do  you  -want  a  pleasant, 
healthful  drink?    If  so,  buy 

ARCADIAN  WAUKESHA  WATER, 

Recommended  by  our  best  physi- 
cians as  the  healthiest  drink  on  earth. 
Johnson-Locke  Mercantile  Company 
Agents,  204  Front  St.,  S.  F. 


LOOTS  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS., 


iisTTEiaioie 


DECOBATOBS. 


Dealers  in  Stained  Glass,  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall    Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St..  between  5th  and  6th.  San  Francisco 

LOUIS    CAHEN    &   SON, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers- 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters,  Cordials,  etc. 
Pacific  Coast  Agents  Bethesda  Mineral  Water. 

418  Sacramento  Street,  S.  F. 

A.   LUSK  &  CO., 

122  DAVIS  STREET,  SAN   FRANCISCO. 
Packers  of  the  following  celebrated  brands: 
CELEBRATED  LUSK    BRANDS, 

J.    LUSK    CANNING   COMPANY, 

SAN    LORENZO    PACKING  CO 

LAVER,    MULLANY    &   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

FurniBh  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Offices  93  Flood  Building, Cor.  4th  and  Market  Sts., S.  F. 


July  23,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


IMPORTANT    NOTICE    TO    TOURISTS 


Regarding  the  Placing  on  Sale   of  Special   Excursion   Tlokets. 
San  Fracct-co  to  Lick  Observatory  and  Return 

COUMftNOING  July  Bib,  the  Southern  Ptclfle  Company  will 
pl«ce  on  sale  at  their  ticket  offices  in  San  Kranciaco  three  dis- 
tinct forms  of  excursion  licketa,  covering  the  trip  from  8an 
Francisco  to  Lick  Observatory  and  return. 

These  tickets  are  so  arranged  as  to  include  all  traveling  ex- 
penses in  connection  with  these  interesting  trips,  namely,  the  rail 
transportation  between  San  Francisco  and  San  Jose,  the  stage 
service.  San  Jose  to  Mount  Hamilton  and  return,  and  the  neces- 
sary stop  at  the  Hotel  Vendonie,  San  Jose. 

The  two-day.  or  Saturday  and  Sunday,  excursion  ticket  re- 
quires that  the  purchaser  leave  San  Francisco  by  any  one  of  the 
three  following  trains  from  San  Francisco,  namely: 

vl5  a.  m— From  Third  and  Townsend  streets  depot,  via  Menlo 
Park. 

7:30  a.  « — From  ferry  lauding,  foot  of  Market  street,  via 
Niles. 

S:15  a.  m.  — From  narrow-gauge  ferry  landing,  foot  of  Market 
street,  via  Newark. 

Early  lunch  at  Hotel  Vendonie. 

Leave  Hotel  Vendonie  at  12:30  p.  m.  for  the  Observatory,  re- 
turning leave  Observatory  shortly  after  10  p.  m.,  and  arrive  back 
»t  San  Jose  shortly  after  midnight,  when  the  hotel  management 
serve  a  uice  supper. 

The  ticket  further  provides  for  a  night's  lodging  at  the  Hotel 
Vendome,  and  breakfast  and  lunch  Sunday. 

The  coupon  covering  the  passage  from  8an  Jose  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, attached  to  this  book  of  tickets,  will  be  good  on  any  of  the 
regular  trains  on  the  Sunday  sold  for,  and  also  good  for  stop-over 
privileges  en  route. 

Rate  for  this  form  of  ticket,  $12. 

The  three-day,  or  Saturday,  Sunday  and  Monday  ticket,  is  very 
similar  in  its  arrangement  to  the    ticket   before   referred  to,  with 
this  exception,  that  it  gives  an  additional  day's  stop  at  the  Hotel 
Vendome. 
Rate  for  this  form  of  ticket,  ?14: 

The  third  form  of  excursion  ticket  is  so  arranged  that  it  can  be 
purchased  on  any  day  in  the  week,  and  is  good  on  any  regular 
train  going  or  returning,  and  in  addition  to  the  stage  service  be- 
tween San  Jose  and  Lick  observatory,  it  also  provides  for  a  stay 
of  one  week  at  the  Hotel  Vendome. 

This  ticket  will  also  be  good  for  use  within  thirty  days  from 
day  of  purchase,  so  that  in  the  event  of  the  purchaser  desiring  to 
remain  longer  than  one  week  at  the  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose,  he 
can  do  so  by  paying  proportionate  rate  for  the  additional  time  he 
may  remain  there. 
Rate  for  this  form  of  ticket,  $26. 


COLONEL    POPE    AND    GOOD    ROADS. 


COLONEL  A.  A.  POPE  of  Boston  and  bicycle  fame  has  sud- 
denly sprung  into  some  notoriety  as  a  writer  and  philanthrop- 
ist, through  the  medium  of  the  Harpers.  No  one  is  inclined  to  quar- 
rel with  the  gallant  Colonel  for  his  hobby,  and  the  press  has  mag- 
nificently come  to  his  aid  by  gently  patting  him,  metaphorically 
speaking,  on  the  back,  and  urging  him  to  go  forward  in  his  work 
of  providing  this  country  with  good  roads.  Of  course,  apart  from 
the  fact  that  bicycles  cannot  be  used  except  on  good  roads,  Colo- 
nel Pope's  endeavors  are  thoroughly  disinterested;  and,  it  is  to 
be  hoped,  he  believes  what  he  says,  especially  when  he  observes 
that  good  roads  make  good  settlements,  and  it  is  a  mistake  to 
first  forma  settlement  and  then  build  a  road.  The  Colonel's  head 
is  very  level,  and  those  who  live  in  the  country  will  appreciate 
the  solid  sense  of  such  an  argument,  and  there  is  not  a  person 
who  would  not  want  Colonel  Pope  as  a  neighbor.  But  here  Col- 
onel Pope's  goodness  ceases  1  The  Colonel  has  large  properties  in 
California,  notably  at  Palm  Springs,  a  place  unique  in  maiy 
respects,  climatically  and  otherwise;  but  does  Colonel  Pope  build 
good  roads  on  his  property?  Not  a  bit  of  it!  There  is  not  a  road 
on  his  rancho,  or  on  any  approach  to  it.  The  eminent  Canadian 
horticulturist  who  looks  after  the  Colonel's  interests,  when  try- 
ing to  have  a  road  built  to  the  depot,  said  it  was  the  duty  of  the 
settlers  to  make  the  road,  to  which  great  enterprise  the  Boston 
millionaire  would  subscribe  $10  or  $20.  However,  a  portion  of 
that  sum  would  have  to  be  taken  out  in  work  by  the  Boston 
capitalist's  Canadians  1  The  articles  of  the  Colonel  are  not  nearly 
so  much  appreciated  by  the  Colonel's  California  neighbors  as  they 
are  by  those  who  know  nothing  of  him.  The  spectacle  of  the 
Boston  Colonel's  animals  dragging  through  banks  of  shifting  sand 
his  groceries,  his  employees  and  farm  implements  rather  invalid- 
ates the  value  of  his  monographs  which  so  earnestly  plead  for 
good  roads.  There  is  a  strong  disposition  on  the  part  of  the  peo- 
ple of  Palm  Valley  to  believe  that  the  Colonel  sees  no  outlet  there 
for  the  sale  of  bicycles,  or  that  he  is  one  of  the  grand  army  of 
christians  who  do  not  practice  what  they  preach. 

Grandma's  made  happy  with  perfect  fitting  glasses  from  C.  Muller,  op- 
tician, 135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush,  Saa  Francisco. 


/ETNA 


Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  :>  delightful  stage  mi.'  over  the an" 

tiiins.    Sixteen  Mil.",  from  i»t.  Helena     d  v 

commodatlons.   Ample  Untiling  Facillthw. 

A  l'T.A  PURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swlnillj  Tank  cf  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  . .f  the  .Kln:i  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, In  (lam  [nation  of  the  Bladder,  and  1  aver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

f  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
1  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
pleasant  to  the  taste,  and   giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !    No  Fogs !  No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  Ofllce,  108  Drumin  Street,  S.  F 


u>iu,  iiiiKininiiuHin  01  i 

Er\  a  ■     Kidney  Complaints. 
M  fl  I        The  temperature  of  I 
nil  I     is  highly  charged  with! 
I  ITlL,  it  pleasant  to  the  tasti 


YOU'RE    OUT 

If  you  don't  go  to 

NAPA  SODA 
SPRINGS 


THIS     SUMMER. 


What  Do  You  Want  ? 


A  Climate  that  beats  Italy.  No  Malaria  or  Cold 
Sea  Air.  Health-giving  Mineral  Water.  Cuisine 
and  Service  Unexceptionable.  Comfortable  Beds. 
Table  First  Quality.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Every  Room.  Hot  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  Trains  Every  Day. 
All  Visitors  are  Satisfied. 


ANDREW  JACKSON, 


PROPRIETOR. 


Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 


The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Largest.  Best  Appointed,  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  Saa  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets,  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 

The  Cuisine  a  Speeial  Feature. 

MRS.  M.  E.  PENDLETON. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


THERE  has  rarely  been  a  more  romantic  marriage  than  that  of 
Henry  M.  Herman  and  Miss  Jeanne  H.  Dyer,  the  announce- 
ment of  which  surprised  Oakland  society  this  week.  The  Dyers 
are  well  known  in  social  circles  on  both  sides  of  the  bay,  and  the 
bride's  father,  the  late  Joseph  P.  Dyer,  will  be  well  remembered 
in  San  Francisco,  for  he  was  the  millionaire  stockbroker  who 
went  under  with  such  a  crash  about  five  years  ago.  But  to  the 
romance.  It  appears  that  about  thirteen  months  ago,  Miss  Dyer 
was  visiting  friends  in  Washington  Territory.  She  traveled  alone, 
and  when  she  turned  her  head  homewards  again  she  came  down 
to  Oakland  on  the  Shasta  line  of  the  Southern  Pacific.  On  board 
the  train  was  Henry  M.  Herman,  a  fifty-year  old  resident  of 
Spokane,  who  was  en  route  to  Oakland  with  the  dead  body  of 
bis  wife.  The  remains  were  in  tbe  baggage  car,  and  he  was  tak- 
ing them  to  Mountain  View  Cemetery  for  interment.  Somehow 
he  struck  up  an  acquaintance  with  Miss  Dyer  on  the  cars,  and 
ere  the  journey's  end  was  reached  they  were  actually  in  love. 
The  day  after  his  arrival  in  Oakland  Herman  buried  his  wife. 
The  next  evening  he  called  on  Miss  Dyer  at  the  handsome  fam- 
ily residence  on  Jackson  street.  They  became  engaged,  with  the 
understanding  that  they  were  not  to  be  married  until  a  year  had 
passed,  out  of  respect  to  his  dead  spouse.  The  time  of  probation 
expired  the  other  day,  and  then,  true  to  their  agreement  of  a  year 
before,  they  were  united  in  marriage.  The  immediate  relations 
of  the  bride  objected  strongly  to  the  match,  it  is  said,  for  the  rea- 
son that  they  did  not  like  the  way  tbe  engagement  was  made, 
and  also  because  Herman  was  so  much  older  than  his  prospective 
bride.  However,  love  laughs  at  all  such  difficulties,  and  the  up- 
shot was  that  they  were  married  on  Friday  last.  The  ceremony, 
however,  took  place  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  brother,  on 
Fourteenth  street,  instead  of  at  the  Dyer  mansion,  and  this  has 
led  to  a  good  deal  of  gossip  among  the  favored  few  who  know 
the  circumstances  of  the  affair. 

#  *  * 

The  Delmas  family  are  stout  adherents  of  the  Santa  Cruz  beach, 
and  every  day  the  three  girls  are  to  be  seen,  sometimes  accom- 
panied by  their  mother;  lately  by  Miss  Mamie  Harrington,  sitting 
by  the  »  sad  sea  waves  "  and  enjoying  the  cream  of  the  mascu- 
line element  gathered  there. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Jeremiah  Clarke  and  Miss  Lottie  are  also  to  be  seen  daily. 
The  Keeney  family  is  well  represented.  Auburn-haired  Mrs. 
Charley  and  her  twin  sister,  Mrs.  Blakeman,  and  Dr.  Jim's  wife,  nee 
Jones,  are  all  there.  Miss  Ethel  Keeney  and  Leontine  Blakeman 
will  join  their  grandmother,  Mtb.  William  Alvord,  at  Del  Monte 
for  the  month  of  August.  The  railroad  has  been  represented  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Mills  and  daughter,  and  Miss  Bessie  Hunt- 
ington. 

*  *  # 

Visitors  from  the  East  who  have  been  sojourning  at  Del  Monte, 
declare  that  Newport  or  Saratoga  cannot  show  more  costly  gowns 
or  prettier  women  than  are  to  be  found  at  Monterey.  Miss  Hager 
and  Mrs.  Freddie  Sharon  furnish  the  one,  and  scores  of  buds  and 
blossoms  the  other. 

#  •  * 

Recent  visitors  to  Fair  Oaks  report  that  Major  Kathbone  is 
waking  np  that  somewhat  prosy  neighborhood  with  suggestions 
of  a  festive  character.  Rumor  goes  that  the  gallant  es-Consul 
has  been  using  his  persuasive  eloquence  upon  a  wealthy  maiden 
lady  of  Menlo  Park,  with  tbe  *iew  of  having  her  aid  in  building 
a  big  tent-like  enclosure.  "  What  for  ?  "  asks  the  outsider.  "  Can 
it  be  for  a  political  club?  "  But  the  initiated  insider  replies :  "  No 
political  crowd  is  expected  there;  it  will  be  a  different  kind  of 
circus  altogether." 

»  »  « 

The  guests  at  Del  Monte  have  had  many  regrets  at  the  absence 
there  this  season  of  Mrs.  Mollie  McMullen  Latham,  but  that  band- 
some  widow  declares  she  is  more  than  contented  with  her  sojourn 
in  the  mountainous  region  of  Castle  Crags. 

Any  one  at  all  conversant  with  the  residence  locale  of  London 
will  be  certain  of  the  disgust  of  Donald  de  V.  Graham  when  he 
reads  in  a  recent  society  item  of  one  of  our  dailies,  that  at  one 
period  (before  his  arrival  in  America)  he  was  the  pet  of  the  draw- 
ing-rooms of  East  London. 

*  •  * 

Winsome  Mrs.  Collier  has  been  visiting  among  her  city  friends, 
and  one  evening  last  week  chaperoned  a  theatre  party,  supple- 
mented by  a  cosy  supper  given  by  Ed.  Sheldon. 

#  »  • 

Pretty  Mrs.  Marion  Wise  is  the  center  of  a  merry  circle  of  Ross- 
Valleyites,  who  are  adepts  in  knowing  how  to  make  the  most  of 
life  as  it  goes  by.  This  charming  little  widow  ia  ably  assisted  in 
her  efforts  to  make  her  friends  have  a  good  time  by  her  mother 
Mrs.  Louise  McAllister,  whose  thorough  knowledge  of  this  envia- 


ble art  renders  it  a  foregone  conclusion  they  attain  their  wish. 
#  #  * 
Society  will  be  glad  to  know  that  charming  Miss  Jessie  Bowie, 
who  has  been  an   "  unknown  quantity  "   in   its  ranks  for  over  a 
year  past,  will  resume  her  place  in   the  gay  world   the  coming 
winter. 

THIS 

BRUNSWICK-BALKE-     ! 
COLLENDER  CO. 


THE  MONARCH 

Manufacturers  of  Billiard  and  Pool  Tables. 

Dealers  in  Billiard  Merchandise  Generally. 

Makers  of  Bank  and  Office  Fixtures. 

Also,  Saloon  Fixtures,  Counters,  Coolers,  Mirrors,  etc.,  con- 
stantly on  hand  or  made  to  order.  Ten  Pin  Alleys,  Ten  Pins, 
Ten  Pin  Balls,  etc. 

653-655  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 

COMFORT  AND 


ADORNMENT. 


Are  the  principal  objects  in  furnishing 
a  home.  We  all  appreciate  comfort- 
able things,  and  know  when  appear- 
ances please  us.  To  obtain  the  best 
results  is,  however,  not  so  simple  a 
matter;  it  requires  not  only  native 
good  taste,  but  also  that  command  of 
materials  and  knowledge  of  details 
which  long  experience  alone  can  give. 

We  have  all  the  requisite  materials 
—in  Carpets,  Furniture  and  Uphol- 
stery—for any  style  of  furnishing,  and 
are  prepared  to  carry  out  any  ideas 
or  plans  desired,  or  to  assume  entire 
charge  and  responsibility. 

Sketches  and  estimates  on  applica- 
tion. 

W.  &  J.  SLOANE  &  CO., 

CARPETS,   FURNITURE,    UPHOLSTERY, 

641-647  Market  Street. 


FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver   Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very    reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


-*- 


July  88,  1392. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I.KTTER. 


13 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 

TENNIS  *FHK  OakUml  Tennis  ilub  is  making  an  effort  la 
1  put  forth  some  -f  the  beat  plftyt-r*  on  the  Coaal 
and  certainly  if  the  members  improve  In  the  way  they  have  of 
late  Ihej  will  make  a  very  fine  showing  on  Admission  I>ay.  The 
secretary  has  issued  a  circular,  stating  that  in  view  of  the  coming 
championship  double  tournament  to  he  held  in  September,  it  bas 
been  deemed  advisable  to  inaugurate  a  continuous  tournament 
for  double  teams  on  same  plan  as  the  Stetson  single  tournament. 

Hem*.  J.  Archibald,  Carr  Neel  and  W.  English  will  act  as  a 
committee  to  place  the  different  teams  in  their  proper  order,  and 
to  decide  questions  arising  during  the  tournament.  Any  in- 
formation may  be  obtained  by  applying  to  them.  The  entries 
will  be  received  by  C.  Comslock,  and  the  tournament  will  begin 
shortly.  Bates  and  Carr  Neel,  \V.  English  and  W.  Allen  will 
play  together,  and  these  two  will  be  very  formidable  pairs,  and 
probably  the  most  likely  to  carry  orf  the  honors.  All  four  of  the 
players  are  in  excellent  form,  and  are  keeping  in  practice,  and  we 
shall  not  be  surprised  to  see  them  in  the  finals  on  Admission  Day. 
With  Tobin  and  Hubbard  away,  and  the  absence  of  Vernon 
Gray,  HotTman  and  Yates,  the  California  men  will  have  but  a 
slim  showing,  and  the  most  talked  of  team  now  is  Stetson  and 
l'e  Long,  who,  it  will  be  remembered,  acquitted  themselves  very 
creditably  at  San  Rafael.  It  would  be  just  as  well  for  some  of 
the  younger  members  to  buckle  down  to  bard  work,  and  make  a 
showing  at  the  coming  championship. 

The  California  Club  will  hold  its  quarterly  tournament  on  July 
30th,  at  the  club's  grounds.  The  entry  so  far  is  J.  M.  Kilgarif,  R. 
J.  Davis,  W.  B.  Collier,  Jr.,  W.  O'Connor,  A.  G.  Field,  H.  N.  Stet- 
son, J.  A.  Code,  P.  C.  Moore,  R.  N.  Whitney,  G.  S.  Bradshaw,  D. 
E.  Allison,  Jr.,  G.  B.  de  Long,  R.  M.  Eyre.  E,  N.  Bee,  G.  A. 
Loughborough,  F.  S.  Mitchell,  A.  8.  Keeler,  F.  de  Long,  S.  Hoff- 
man, Jr.  The  courts  are  in  excellent  condition,  and  interesting 
games  are  promised.  Never  a  day  goes  by  wiLhout  there  being 
quite  a  number  of  enthusiasts  out  on  the  grounds,  and  we  expect 
to  see  many  more  names  added  to  the  list,  which  closes  on  July 
28tb.  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  the  pride  of  the  club,  has  played  several 
times  with  Professor  Dailie,  and  is  quite  up  to  the  form  displayed 
by  him  at  San  Rafael.  He  will  be  sadly  missed  at  the  champion- 
ships, butthe  memory  of  bis  numerous  victories  will  remain  green 
in  all  annals  of  tennis. 

Letters  received  from  Chicago  state  that  the  Californians  have 
bad  a  very  brilliant  time,  and  ihey  speak  very  highly  of  the  kind 
treatment  they  received.  Interest  is  not  as  keen  as  it  is  on  this 
coast,  as  there  were  scarcely  a  hundred  spectators  on  the  first 
day,  but  the  play  all  through  was  good.  Hubbard  was  especially 
pleased  with  the  turf  courts,  because  the  balls  bounded  higher 
than  he  anticipated,  and  he  was  able  to  play  his  favorite  cut 
stroke  without  hindrance.  Both  he  and  Tobin  will  probably 
enter  the  singles  at  Newport,  and  if  they  do  as  well  as  they  did 
in  the  doubles  we  shall  not  feel  that  we  are  out  of  it  altogether. 
In  the  single  championship  round  at  Chicago  Chase  defeated 
Ryerson  6-3,  6-2,  6-2,  and  retains  his  title, 

In  the  Beckenham,  isng.,  Championsnip,  Barlow  beat  Meers, 
4-6,  2-6,  8-6,  6-2,  6-3.  Miss  Shackle  beat  Miss  Jacks,  6-3,  6-1, 
and  the  brothers  Baddeley  beat  E.  Renshaw  and  Goodbody,  6-0, 
5-7,  6-3.  Ernest  Renshaw  has  decided  not  to  play  any  more  in 
singles  for  the  present.  Neither  be  nor  his  brother  were  among 
the  entrees  for  the  All-England  Championship,  and  this  is  the 
first  time  in  thirteen  years  that  a  championship  has  taken  place 
without  either  of  them  being  among  the  competitors.  In  the 
first  round  of  the  All-England  games,  O.  S.Campbell  defeated  F. 
A.  Bowlby,  6-4,6-3,  8-6,  but  was  beaten  in  the  second  round  by 
A.  W.  Gore,  6-1,  8-6,  8-6.  Campbell  is  partnered  with  J.  Pim 
(who  won  the  championship  of  Yorkshire)  for  the  All-England 
doubles,  and  they  certainly  ought  to  make  a  very  strong  pair. 
E,  W.  Lewis  will  play  with  Barlow. 

In  the  London  Championship,  held  July  16lh,  Miss  Shackle 
won  the  Queen's  cup,  and  Pirn  defeated  0.  S.  Campbell  in  the 
semi-final  round. 

THE  first  half  of  the  present  baseball  season  will 
BAdc-dALL.  ^  close  to-morrow,  and  at  this  writing  everything 
indicates  that  the  Los  Angeles  club  will  win  the  first  champion- 
ship, with  San  Jose  and  San  Francisco  respectively  a  good  second 
and  third  in  the  race.  For  months  the  public  has  been  wishing 
to  have  the  schedule  changed,  so  that  a  few  games  between  San 
Jose  and  Los  Angeles  would  be  played  in  this  city.  This  has  been 
done,  and  these  teams  will  play  here  this  afternoon  and  to-mor- 
row. The  Oaklands  and  San  Franciscoa  will  play  in  Stockton 
this  afternoon  and  tomorrow.  Should  the  attendance  at  the 
games  satisfy  the  League  people  that  Stockton  wants 
laeball,  the  San  Jose  club  will  be  transferred  to  Stockton, 
The  next  season  will  open  in  this  city  next  Wednesday,  and  con- 
tinue until  November  27th.  Had  Oakland  played  the  same  ball 
four  or  five  months  ago  as  it  has  within  the  last  month  or  six 
weeks,  it  is  more  than  probable  the  club  would  be  in  at  least  sec- 
ond if  not  first  place.  President  Young,  of  the  National  League, 
has  announced  that  Jerry  Denny  has  signed  with  Louisville. 
Denny  cannot  play  elsewhere  than  in  California  without  obtain- 
ing his  release  from  his  manager.  If  Louisville  wants  him  she 
will  have  to  pay  for  his  release. 


BLACK   SILKS. 


French  Surahs,  26  inches  wide, 
at  73  cents  per  yard,  superior  in 
quality,  weight,  and  finish  to  the 
usual  dollar  grade.  Special  values 
in  Novelty  Surahs  and  Taffeta 
Glace. 


Ill  to  121  Post  Street 


GOLD  SEAL  Eubber  HOSE, 

THE  BEST  MADE. 

Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 


K.  H.  PEASE,    j    .„„„,„ 
S.  M.  RUMVON.j  Agents. 


577  .v  579  Market  Street. 


C3-.  W.   OLABK   &c   CO., 
653   Market  Street, 

-FOE 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Risdon   Iron  and   Locomotive   Works. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Risdon  Iron  and 
Locomotive  Works  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  southeast 
coiner  Beale  and  Howard  streets,  San  Francisco,  on 

Monday,  the  1st  Day  of  August,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  II  o'clock  A.  M., 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of    Trustees  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
vear  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  busiuess  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.  L-  E*  M.EAD,  Secretary. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Nevada  Queen  Mining  Company. 
Office  of  the  Nevada  Queen  Mining  Company,  San  Francisco, July  18,  1892. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  above  named  company,  held 
this  dav  a  dividend  No.  1,  of  20  cents  per  share  was  declared,  payable  Mon- 
day July  25  1892.  Transfer  books  will  close  THURSDAY,  July  21,  18y2, 
at  the  hour  of  3  p.  m.  R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


/THE. LQPKER-oN^ 


^LJOgSL^Li;  ^■^■ifcifc**-^ 


THE  little  family  trouble  in  the  congregation  of  Calvary  Cburch 
maybe  only  a  chastening  switch  applied  as  a  tender  means  of 
grace,  but  the  story  is  interesting  as  something  to  talk  about,  and 
also  as  an  etching  of  a  picturesque  and  shadowy  corner  in  the 
Church  of  Christ  at  the  present  day.  The  nub  of  the  trouble  is 
that  Calvary  Church  is  not  drawing  large  enough  congregations 
to  keep  the  coffers  full,  and  it  is  hard  times  with  the  church.  A 
deficit  of  $1,000  for  the  current  fiscal  year  must  be  met,  and  the 
trustees  want  to  borrow  the  money  to  meet  it.  This  is  not,  of 
course,  a  serious  situation,  but  it  is  an  interesting  one,  and  it  is 
made  more  interesting  by  the  offer  which  the  pastor,  Rev.  T. 
Chalmers  Easton,  has  just  made  to  reduce  his  salary  from  $5,000 
to  $4,000  a  year  to  help  the  rich  congregation  out.  Calvary 
Church  is  rich,  and  has  the  most  valuable  ecclesiastical  plant 
among  the  Protestant  churches  of  the  city,  but  it  seems  to  be  like 
a  great  shop,  with  nothing  but  a  little  repair  work  to  do  because 
business  is  dull.  When  the  church  was  built,  twenty-five  years 
ago,  the  debt  was  $60,000.  Eight  years  ago  the  debt  was  $29,000. 
Then  a  hustling  debt-raiser  named  Kimball  was  brought  out  frum 
New  York,  and  he  nearly  wiped  the  indebtedness  out.  When 
Alexander  Montgomery  gave  the  church  $5,000  it  was  entirely  free, 
and  the  property  bad  increased  in  value  immensely.  The  church 
has  always  done  pretty  well,  but  every  once  in  a  while  the  con- 
gregation has  concluded  that  it  ought  to  get  up  more  of  a  boom. 
When  the  Rev.  Mr.  Pitblado,  Dr.  Easton's  predecessor,  was  in- 
stalled, the  members  thought  they  had  a  stunner,  who  would 
draw  the  godly  and  the  godless  in  large  numbers  and  bring  sun- 
shine and  flowers.  Three  years  ago  the  congregation  looked 
around  for  somebody  else,  and  found  Dr.  Easton  in  the  pulpit  of 
another  Calvanistic  denomination  in  Newark,  N.  J.  He  accepted 
$5,000  a  year,  which  was  equal  to  the  largest  salary  the  church 
had  ever  paid,  and  he  has  been  here  ever  since. 

*  #  # 

Dr.  Eiston  is  undoubtedly  a  good  man,  but  he  seems  to  have  a 
"  hoo-doo."  Some  of  the  congregation  were  sorry  that  he  got  so 
prominently  mixed  up  in  the  row  over  Dr.  Ellis,  and  then  he 
tumbled  into  a  very  unfortunate  position  in  the  Bell  murder  case. 
It  made  him  enemies  and  created  prejudice  both  in  and  out  of 
the  church.  Some  of  his  flock  winced  at  reading  constantly  of 
the  way  heir  pastor  was  getting  »  roasted,"  and  they  were  sorry 
that  Bell's  soul  had  not  fallen  to  the  care  of  some  other  goud  and 
devoted  man.  It  may  be  that  it  is  because  the  cburch  is  in  San 
Francisco,  bat  at  any  rate  the  congregations  are  smaller  than 
they  are  in  the  Salvation  Army  hall  on  Market  street,  and  the 
membership  is  not  increasing.  The  situation  was  considered  at 
a  meeting  of  the  congregation  held  one  week  ago  last  Monday 
evening.  It  is  an  unwritten  law  now  that  no  more  debts  shall  be 
incurred,  and  the  request  of  the  trustees  to  borrow  $1,000  was 
met  by  a  decision  to  raise  it  by  special  subscription.  About  $250 
has  now  been  subscribed.  The  main  purpose  of  the  inciting  was 
to  consider  the  possibility  of  reviving  the  life  of  the  church,  and 
getting  larger  congregations.  Definite  action  of  any  kind  was 
postponed  until  the  annual  meeting  in  September. 

*  *  * 

At  this  meeting  an  interesting  letter  from  the  pastor  to  »  My 
dear  little  flock  "  was  read.  He  said  that  his  audiences  had  not 
decreased  numerically.  He  made  an  interesting  contribution  to 
the  discussion  of  the  burning  question,  »  How  shall  we  fill  our 
churches?"  by  saying,  "  Nor  will  your  pastor  condescend  to  in- 
troduce sensational  methods  and  degrade  the  church  and  minis- 
try to  win  a  crowd  of  hearers  who  neither  pay  nor  pray."  Dr. 
Boston  adds  his  solution  of  the  difficulty.  "In  this,"  he  says, 
"  most  of  you  will  naartiiy  sustain  me.  I  cannot,  however,  refrain 
from  saying  that  a  warmer  sort  of  social  feeling  among  our  mem- 
bers, a  kinder  reception  to  strangers,  aud  a  thorough  canvass  of 
the  congregation  by  the  pew  committee,  to  have  seats  rented  by 
the  congregation,  and  also  a  systematic  ushering  that  would  ex- 
press a  cordial  welcome  to  all  who  worship  with  us.  would  have 
gone  far  to  relieve  us  from  our  present  condition."  He  ended  by 
proposing  that  his  salary  be  reduced  to  $4  000,  beginning  with 
ihe  coming  fiscal  year.  Many  of  the  congregation  are  warm 
supporters  of  Dr.  Easton,  and  they  refer  to  another  element  as 
the  "  kickers."  Some  of  the  kickers  have  withdrawn,  and  many 
sittings  have  been  given  up  and  the  holders  gone  ti  other  churches, 
tiougti  the  total  reduction  in  pew  rents  in  the  past  ;  e  .r  was 
only  $220.  There  is  a  subdued  feeling  among  many  of  ttie  con- 
gregation that  Dr.  Easton  has  been  injudicious  and  "unfortunate. 


The  problem  of  getting  in  more  of  the  sort  who  will  "  pay  or 
pray"  remains  a  serious  one,  and  is  being  seriously  discussed.  It 
is  interesting  to  know  that  it  coats  this  little  flock  about  $12,000  a 
year  to  worship  God  according  to  John  Calvin.  This  ia  the  run- 
ning expense,  exclusive  of  payments  to  general  boards,  and  of 
the  Sunday-scbool  and  internal  organizations.  Besides  the  pas- 
tor's salary  there  is  the  choir  at  $2,400;  church  notices  in  the 
Sunday  morning  papers  cost  $163  last  year;  pew  rents  yielded 
$6,38G  and  collections  $2,756.  The  church  has  soft  red-cushioned 
pews;  a  great  pipe  organ  thunders  as  impressive  and  beautiful 
harmonies  as  any  organ  can;  the  carpets  prevent  disturbing 
sounds,  and  the  mellow  light  that  steals  through  the  big  windows 
subdues  the  soul  and  allures  it  to  devotions.  It  seems  strange 
that  such  a  church  shoul  1  languish  for  patronage  and  put  up  with 

a  $4,000  pastor. 

■*  *  » 

There  is  always  a  fellow-feeling  among  those  who  love  dogs, 
those  most  faithful  friends  of  man,  and  for  the  interest  it  may 
awaken  among  the  possessors  of  some  favorite  Towzer  or  Tray,  1 
relate  these  facts,  which  recently  came  under  my  observation. 
A  little  girl,  living  in  the  city,  picked  up  a  stray  dog  one  day  on 
the  street  and  took  the  puppy  home,  where  it  soon  became  a 
great  favorite.  The  dog  was  greatly  attached  to  its  little  mistress 
and  showed  the  greatest  intelligence,  evidently  understanding 
nearly  everything  said  to  it.  It  followed  the  child  all  over  the 
house,  and  trotted  after  her  wherever  she  went.  One  day  the 
dog  was  taken  across  the  bay,  away  from  the  child  it  loved.  It 
was  noticed  that  the  pup  soon  became  restless.  It  prowled 
around  the  house,  whining  incessantly,  and  almost  visibly  wore 
away.  It's  never-ending  whines  and  cries  soon  became  a  nuisance, 
and  one  day  the  mistress  of  the  house  determined  to  stand  it  no 
longer,  and  as  the  dog  sat  howling  in  a  corner,  she  said  to  him, 
"See  here,  this  thing  must  stop.  We  have  stood  your  noise  jnst 
as  long  as  we  intend  to.  Now,  out  you  go."  She  turned  to  open 
the  door  to  eject  the  pup,  but  as  she  did,  the  poor  beast  fell  over, 
dead.  Now,  did  that  dog  die  of  grief  for  his  little  mistress  ? 
That's  a  question  which  now  concerns  the  members  of  two 
households.  The  dog  did  not  see  the  child  from  the  day  it  was 
taken  to  Oakland.  There  are  numerous  instances  on  record  of 
dogs  dying  of  grief,  and  their  is  nothing  remarkable  in  the  case 
of  the  local  puppy. 

#  «  ♦ 

The  Christian  workers  of  Oakland  seem  to  be  doing  consider- 
able good  work.  One  of  the  most  recent  objects  of  their  assist- 
ance has  been  Rev.  Mr.  Kingdon,  who,  several  years  ago,  was  a 
minister  in  good  standing  in  one  of  the  Oakland  Baptist  Churches. 
He  is  a  college  graduate  and  a  man  of  fine  personal  appearance. 
During  his  ministry,  and  while  he  was  very  popular,  he  was 
prostrated  by  sickness,  and  the  attending  physician  prescribed 
brandy  for  him.  He  became  a  slave  to  the  liquor  habit,  and  went 
very  low,  being  seen  several  times  in  the  prisoners'  dock  of  the 
Police  Court.  All  efforts  to  reform  him  were  in  vain.  When 
Francis  Murphy  was  in  Oakland  the  fallen  minister  signed  the 
pledge,  and  resisted  the  craving  for  liquor  determinedly,  until  he 
found  it  was  too  strong  for  him.  He  then  threatened  to  commit 
suicide.  The  temperance  workers  assisted  him  in  time,  and  he 
is  now  at  the  Keeley  Institute  at  Los  Gatos,  and  is  improving 
rapidly. 

#  #  » 

In  this  column,  two  weeks  ago,  there  was  a  paragraph  refering 
to  Webster  .Tones  tread'ng  on  the  corns  of  a  tailor  stopping  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael.  Since  the  paragraph  appeared  the  report  has  cir- 
culated throughout  the  hotel  that  it  referred  to  Mr.  Charles  Lyons, 
one  of  the  guests.  Now,  as  he  is  not  the  person  at  all  whom  the 
item  was  meant  for,  this  is  inserted  to  correct  the  erroneous  im- 
pression. We  regret  that  any  one  should  have  tried  to  apply  the 
paragraph  to  him. 

#  *  • 

There  is  an  outbreak  of  colored  glasses  on  the  noses  of  the 
students  in  the  normal  class  of  the  new  Girls'  High  School.  A 
visiting  County  School  Inspector  this  week  was  so  struck  with 
the  extraordinary  appearance  of  at  least  fifty  out  of  eighty  dam- 
sels, otherwise  buxom  and  healthy-like,  that  he  called  upon  Miss 
Fowler,  the  worthy  preceptress  of  the  budding  schoolmarms,  for 
an  explanation.  Her  reply  was  easily  understood.  Pointing  to 
two  immense  uncurtained  and  unobscured  windows  to  the  right 
of  her  platform,  and  to  the  array  of  windows  along  the  side  of 
the  room,  also  to  her  right,  the  cause  for  protecting  the  eyes  of 
the  pupils  was  very  evident.  All  the  seats  necessarily  face  these 
windows  because  of  the  position  of  the  rostrum,  and  the  incon- 
venience, if  not  pain  to  the  eyes,  called  forth  the  unbecoming 
remedy  Mr.  John  Swett  and  Mr.  Babcock  in  good  time  recently 
called  the  attention  of  the  architects  to  the  danger  of  so  arranging 
the  seats,  but  they  were  disregarded,  apparantly.  The  gentleman 
from  the  county  expressed  himself  as  thankful  that  they  knew 
better  than  that  in  Milpitas. 

*  #  * 

There  is  no  truth  in  the  rumors  of  a  combination  between  the 
Cosmos  and  Bohemian  Clubs.  The  story  arose  from  a  ren  ari 
made  by  a  member  of  the  latter  club  to  the  effect  that  it  might 
be  beneficial  to  both  clubs  if  they  would  join  forces;  but  beyond 


7 


Julv  2^,   1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I  BTTER. 


[6 


that  there  is  nothing  Id  it.  Tin-  Bohemian  Olob  la  jusl  now  In  ■ 
audition,  and  with  it-.  new  .-hib  boii!»e.  summer  qu*rl«n 
and  prospective  increase  id  membership,  II  will  continue  to  liu- 
ioa  Is  one  ol  the  qaiet,  »Uld  ctaba  ol  lown  al 
least  it  has  that  reputation,  though  some  of  Us  members  who  are 
solid,  respectable  men  of  business  are  anything  but  ■•qatet." 
They  are  a  little  bit  more  quiet  nowadays  than  ever.  Botue 
time  ago  a  blooded  Englishman  made  his  headquarters  at  the 
club,  and  after  talking  familiarly  of  various  tilled  nonentities 
"  touched"  many  of  the  club  men  for  various  sums,  and  then 
left  town.  Therefore  the  Cosmos  men  have  since  been  very 
quiet.  San  Francisco  has  become  quite  a  city  of  clubs.  There 
are  probably  more  big  and  strong  elnbs  here  than  in  any  other 
city  in  the  country  of  the  same  si/.e.  Most  of  our  clubs  are  good 
ones,  and  compare  favorably  with  the  most  famous  of  the  Bast. 
This  is  not  a  city  of  homes;  there  are  too  many  public  and 
private  hotels,  and  fashionable  lodging  bouses  and  flats,  furn- 
ished rooms,  etc.  The  homes  are  in  the  minority  by  far;  there- 
fore the  clnbs  flourish. 


Frank  D.  Willey,  the  dashing  young  oarsman,  was  mourned  as 
dead  in  Sausalito  last  Saturday  night.  Frank  owns  the  finest 
row-boat  on  the  bay  (so  he  says),  and  every  fine  evening  may  be 
seen  rowing  about  the  Sausalito  water-front.  It  seems  the  boat- 
keeper  took  his  wife  out  for  a  row  last  Saturday  night  in  Frank's 
boat,  and  was  capsized.  Those  who  witnessed  the  accident  sup- 
posed it  was  Mr.  Willey  and  his  best  girl,  and  efforts  were  made 
to  save  tbem.  A  steam  launch  picked  up  the  unfortunate  boat- 
keeper  and  his  wife,  who  hastened  to  their  home.  The  boat  was 
towed  ashore,  and  soon  inquiries  were  made  for  Mr.  W.lley.  No 
one  had  seen  him,  and  the  report  spread  that  he  was  drowned. 
It  was  decided  to  keep  the  news  from  his  folks  unt  the  morn- 
ing. His  good  qualities  and  failings  were  all  discussed  by  sym- 
pathetic friends,  and  many  regrets  at  bis  early  death  were  ex- 
pressed. Frank  was  in  this  city,  and  knew  nothing  of  his  kind 
friends'  distress.  Sunday  morning's  first  boat  took  him  over  to 
Sausalito,  and  those  of  his  friends  who  were  at  the  boat  grabbed 
him  and  plied  him  with  questions  as  to  how  he  escaped.  He  was 
thunderstruck,  but  soon  managed  to  get  details  enough  to  enjoy 
a  hearty  laugh.  It  is  needless  to  remark  that  all  Sausalito's  fair 
ones  are  overjoyed  that  Frank  is  still  alive,  but  as  it  costs  money 
properly  to  express  an  appreciation  of  the  gratification  of  friends 
at  findidg  the  supposed  defunct  very  much  alive,  the  Willey  ex- 
pense account  has  of  late  largely  increased. 
»  •  ■ 

Rev.  J.  W.  Ellis,  the  former  pastor  of  the  Central  Presbyterian 
Tabernacle,  who  had  the  famous  battle  with  the  Presbytery,  and 
was  deposed  by  tbem,  has  now  appeared  in  a  new  guise.  He  is 
charged  by  a  young  Englishman,  named  Mr.  Poulter,  with  fraud 
in  connection  with  the  operation  of  a  clock  game  in  the  pool- 
room in  the  General  Keyes  building,  on  Stockton  street.  Ellis 
organized  the  California  Promoters'  Association,  the  object  of 
which  was,  as  announced  by  its  business  cards,  "  to  buy  and  sell 
stocks,"  "  interest  capital  in  paying  investments,"  and  to  trans- 
act other  business  of  a  somewhat  remunerative  but  equally  pre- 
carious nature.  This  association,  unfortunately  for  itself,  has  an 
office  on  Kearny  street,  which  places  it  in  bad  odor  at  once,  for 
nearly  every  company  of  this  sort  which  was  ever  located  on 
Kearny  street  had  something  crooked  in  connection  with  it. 
Poulter  says  that  he  was  hired  by  Ellis  to  go  to  the  "  Public  Ex- 
change," the  General  Keyes  gambling  hall,  and  there  to  gamble 
on  the  returns  from  the  phonograph  machine.  This  is  one  of  the 
numerous  sure-thing  machines  which  wins  dollars  from  the  un- 
wary. It  does  not  come  within  the  lines  of  the  law  against  the 
maintenance  of  games  of  chance.  There  is  no  chance  in  it  for 
the  player — he  is  sure  to  lose.  Poulter  says  he  was  paid  $3  a  day 
for  his  endeavors  to  beat  the  game.  He  made  two  very  fortunate 
buys,  and  gave  Dr.  Ellis  the  returns.  He  now  says  that  the 
former  clergyman  cheated  him  out  of  $4.  Of  course,  Poulter 
does  not  amount  to  much.  No  professional  gambler  does,,  and 
the  young  Englishman  may  find  it  hard  to  make  people  believe 
that  the  man  who  so  very  recently  was  in  the  pulpit  of 
a  leading  church  in  the  city  would  absolutely  steal  from 
his  employee.  Ellis  yet  has  many  friends  in  the  city — people 
who  believe  he  did  not  receive  a  fair  show  in  his  recent  troubles 
with  the  Presbytery,  and  that  if  he  had  his  rights  he  would  be 
one  of  the  ablest  laborers  in  the  vineyard  of  the  Lord.  Yet  that 
does  not  change  the  fact  that  Dr.  Ellis,  the  former  clergyman,  is 
a  frequenter  of  agambing  hall,  where  games  of  chance  are  played. 


I  have  seen  the  preacher  go  furtively  Into  the  Public  Bxofaange 

il  limes.  He  always  seemed  to  b«  aoxtoat  not  to  i ■■ 
for  he  looked  carefully  op  am)  down  the  street  before  entering 
the  ball.  Still,  the  idea  that  he  wished  to  avoid  being  seen  may 
be  only  an  Impression  gained  by  his  genial  manner  on  the  it  reel, 
for  be  Ifl  I  man  who  looks  sharply  at  every  QmJ  who  passes,  and 
seems  ever  on  the  alert.  He  isof  medium  height,  light  build  and 
apparently  about  IT.  or  17  years  old.  On  the  siren  be  wears  a 
cutaway  BOll  and  alight  blue  slouch  hat— a  cigarette  hat,  so-called. 
In  all,  he  looks  more  like  an  old  sporting  man  than  ■  clergyman. 
It  is,  of  course,  surprising  to  learn  that  he  has  openly  engaged  in 
the  business  in  which  it  is  said  he  is  now  interested,  for  In-  Is 
possessed  of  no  mean  ability,  and  ought  to  be  able  to  place  him- 
self to  advantage  in  some  occupation  which  would  be  above  sus- 
picion. Poulter,  who  charges  Ellis  with  cheating  him,  may  press 
the  charges  against  the  doctor. 

»  «  m 

Dr.  Ellis  is  working  on  a  voluminous  history  of  his  long  and 
fierce  battle  over  the  charge  that  he  had  misappropriated  funds  of 
the  Central  Presbyterian  Tabernacle.  Those  who  have  been  al- 
lowed to  look  through  the  big  file  of  manuscript,  which  will  be 
in  the  printer's  hands  in  a  few  weeks,  say  that  he  "roasts"  his 
accusers  and  persecutors  right  and  left.  He  squarely  charges 
that  Rev,  Dr.  Easton  and  Hugh  Eraser  committed  willful  and  de- 
liberate perjury  in  their  testimony,  in  order  to  secure  a  convic- 
tion, because  if  Dr.  Ellis  were  acquitted,  they  would  have  been  in 
a  mean  position.  He  says  that  in  their  examination  of  himself 
they  sought  in  every  way  to  entrap  him  by  sharp  methods,  "  a  les- 
son which  the  ■  little  Dominies'  learned  from  the  Jews  two  thou- 
sand years  ago."  He  asserts  that  when  his  civil  suit  for 
damages  was  dismissed  because  sufficient  malice  was  not  shown, 
some  of  the  jury  were  indignant,  and  told  him  that  a  verdict  for 
$50,000  had  been  formed  in  their  minds.  "  The  devil,"  writes  Rev. 
Dr.  Ellis,  "  is  in  the  preacher  [and  he  ought  to  know],  and  in  the 
church,  and  in  the  Presbytery,  and  when  the  Eastons  and  the 
Frasers  and  others  of  that  ilk  arise  they  should  be  driven  out  and 
into  the  swine,  and  the  swine  into  the  sea."  The  author  is  par- 
ticularly bitter  against  Dr.  Easton,  and  never  misses  an  oppor- 
tunity to  hit  him  a  rap,  nor  minces  his  language.  He  says  that 
one  purpose  of  the  book  will  be  to  show  the  injustice  of  submit- 
ting a  criminal  charge  to  a  church  court,  for  it  is  impossible  for 
such  men  as  the  preachers  to  understand  the  law  of  evidence, 
and  the  trials  are  swayed  by  prejudice  and  bitterness.  He  swears 
that  he  will  never  let  up  on  his  enemies. 

If  one  wishes  a  good  meal,  excellent  in  every  particular,  he  should 
visit  the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  which  enjoys 
the  well-earned  reputation  of  being  the  best  and  most  popular  restau- 
rant in  the  city.  The  menu  always  includes  all  the  delicacies  which 
make  glad  the  heart  of  the  epicure.  Hence  the  wide  popularity  of 
the  establishment. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Wiuslow's  Soothing  Syrup1 
children  while  Teething.    Price.  25  cents  a  bottle. 


for  your 


C.  Marey  L  Liger  Belair's 

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Chablis,  (Wbife) 
"  1878 


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Beaune,  Pommard, 

In  Cases,  Quarts  aud  Pints. 

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MAINZ    &     HOCHHE1M, 

RHINE     WINES. 

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WAISTSi 


ST7    TO    37     KEA.BUT    STEEET. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


THE  more  closely  Judge  Hebbard's  decision  in  the  Hale  &  Nor- 
cross  case  is  studied,  the  more  glaring  become  the  discrep- 
ancies between  the  evidence  presented  during  the  trial,  and  the 
findings  of  fact  on  which  the  enormous  judgment  of  over  one 
million  dollars  against  the  defendants  is  based.  The  results  are 
not  calculated  to  strengthen  public  confidence  in  our  local  courts, 
and  the  disagreeable  question  suggests  itself,  if  such  palpable 
errors  creep  into  one  decision,  involving  not  money  alone,  bat 
personal  character,  why  not  in  others  where  the  amounts  at 
stake  are  not  of  sufficient  magnitude  to  excite  more  than  pass- 
ing interest.  Last  week  the  News  Letter  called  attention  to  the  ex- 
traordinary methods  of  calculating  ore  values,  by  which  the  judge 
arrived  at  a  deficit  of  $1,011,835,  which  is  charged  as  the  amount 
of  damage  which  the  stockholders  suffered  by  the  action  of  the 
defendants.  It  was  there  shown  that  against  all  the  evidence  in- 
troduced on  technical  points  regarding  the  reduction  of  ores,  the 
percentages  of  103S  and  discounts,  that  the  court  simply  con- 
tented himself  with  taking  a  car  sample  value  of  ore  produced 
from  the  mine,  and  deducting  $10  therefrom,  in  order  to  obtain 
the  actual  value  in  bullion.  He  ignores  altogether,  for  some  rea- 
son or  other,  the  fact  which  was  brought  strongly  to  his  attention 
in  the  course  of  the  trial,  that  this  reduction  of  $10  per  ton  on 
the  out-put  should  have  been  made  for  the  difference  between 
car  sample  values  and  the  battery  assay  value.  The  actual  bullion 
returned  was  only  at  the  rate  of  74  per  cent,  of  the  battery  assay 
value,  to  be  still  further  reduced  by  an  allowance  for  a  discount 
of  35  per  cent,  and  over  for  silver  on  two-thirds  of  the  total  out- 
put, which  Judge  Hebbard  asks  the  defendants  to  account  for  on 
a  gold  basis.  Now  as  to  the  percentage  returned  on 
the  battery  assay  value  of  the  Hale  &  Norcross  ore 
crushed  at  the  Nevada  mill.  During  the  period  covered  by  the 
complaint  the  actual  bullion  recovered  and  accounted  for  to  the 
company  was  at  the  rate  of  74  per  cent,  of  the  battery  assay 
value  of  the  ore.  During  the  early  portion  of  last  March  the  ore 
worked  at  the  Nevada  mill  before  the  company  changed  hands, 
returned  as  high  as  81  58-100  per  cent.,  but  this  included  the  final 
clean-up,  which  made  the  percentage  of  returns  larger  than  other- 
wise. Since  then,  under  the  new  management,  we  believe  that 
the  work  done  at  the  Brunswick  mill  was  as  honest  and  econom- 
ical as  possible  with  the  appliances  at  command,  and  yet  the 
average  percentage  of  the  battery  assays  returned  in  bullion 
during  the  four  months'  run  was  only  6G  6  10  per  cent.  To  show  the 
vast  difference  which  exists  between  the  pulp  assay  value  of  the 
ore  and  the  actual  value  of  the  bullion  returned,  we  will  quote 
the  working  results  under  the  new  management,  which  are  proof 
against  criticism,  for  the  last  sixty  days  when  the  mill  was  in 
operation.  In  May  last  the  bullion  return  by  battery  sample  was 
valued  at  $29,431;  the  actual  bullion  value  was  only  $19,095.07,  at 
the  rate  of  68  85  per  cent.  Last  month  there  were  worked  1,815$ 
tons  of  ore,  the  value  of  which  by  battery  assays  was  $31,159.30. 
The  actual  yield  in  bullion  from  thi3  pulp  was  $19,810,  at  the  rate 
of  63  58-100  per  cent,  on  the  battery  assays.  This  yield,  too,  in 
bullion,  was  subject  to  the  still  further  reduction  of  at  least 
35  per  cent,  silver  on  two-thirds  of  the  product,  which  makes  the 
difference  in  the  returns  from  the  battery  samples  of  ore  and 
market  value  of  the  bullion  still  wider.  We  merely  quote  these 
figures  to  show  what  the  company  did  under  what  is  generally 
admitted  the  very  best  of  management.  With  the  most  rigid  care 
and  economy,  their  average  return  in  bullion  was  only  66  6-10 
per  cent,  on  the  pulp  assay  value  of  the  ore,  as  against  the  74 
per  cent,  returned  by  the  mill  may  who  have  fallen  under  the 
ban  of  Judge  Hebbard. 

f  ?  ? 

ONE  of  the  most  glaring  evasions  of  fact  in  this  new  "Comedy 
of  Errors,"  is  to  be  noted  in  connection  with  the  transfer  of 
the  management  and  responsibility  of  the  Vivian  mills  to  the  de- 
fendants in  the  action.  There  were  4,817*  tons  of  Hale  &  Nor- 
cross ore  worked  at  this  concern  during  the  period  covered  by  the 
complaint,  and  Judge  Hebbard  in  his  findings  declared  that  this 
was  done  under  the  control  and  management  of  the  defendants. 
In  his  opinion  he  admits  that  there  is  no  direct  testimony  con- 
necting the  defendants  with  crushing  ore  in  the  Vivian  mili,  and 
Mr.  Baggett,  attorney  for  the  plaintiff,  in  his  final  argument,  as 
well  as  during  the  trial,  admitted  in  open  court  that  there  was  no 
evidence  connecting  defendants  with  the  reduction  of  this  ore. 
Yet  in  face  of  all  this,  Judge  Hebbard  rinds  that  the  defendants 
are  responsible  for  the  actions  of  the  owners  of  this  mill,  and  in 
summing  up  he  charges  them  tor  bullion  not  returned.  The  bul- 
lion product  of  this  4,817J  tons  of  ore  is  included  in  his  apparent 
deficit  of  $768,000,  and  in  addition  the  defendants  are  asked  to 
pay  as  damages  a  forfeit  of  profits  at  the  rate  of  $2.50  per  ton  on 
all  ores  worked  at  the  Vivian  mill,  while  in  point  of  fact  the  de- 
fendants, each  and  all  of  them,  never  owned,  controlled,  nor 
leased  the  mill  tjen,  or  at  any  time,  nor  had  anything  to  do, 
whatsoever,  with  it  or  the  handling   of  the  ores  sent  there  from 


Hale  &  Norcross.  There  is  little  room  for  argument  on  a  proposi- 
tion of  this  kind.  It  is  surely  enough  to  hold  a  person  responsi- 
ble for  matters  in  which  they  are  or  may  have  been  directly  con- 
cerned, but  litigants  are  taking  big  chances  before  a  court 
which  simply  blots  out  evidence  of  all  kinds  in  reviewing  a  case 
preparatory  to  rendering  a  decision,  and  where  Tom  Jones  is  lia- 
ble to  be  held  pecuniarily  responsible  for  the  actions  of  Bill  Smith. 
There  may  be  a  great  deal  of  law  about  a  decision  of  the  kind, 
but  there  is  little  common  sense.  Why  should  the  owners  of  the 
Nevada  mill  be  compelled  to  foot  the  bills  of  rival  mill  owners,  or 
beheld  responsible  for  their  actions?  This  is  the  view  Judge 
Hebbard  takes  of  the  case,  and  in  consequence  the  sum  total 
of  the  judgment  is  swelled  by  the  addition  of  4,817*  tons  of  ore, 
valued  by  a  strange  method  of  calculation,  and  augmented  by  a 
fine  of  $2.50  per  ton,  just  for  the  sake  of  appearances.  This  is 
another  and  not  the  least  striking  feature  of  this  noteworthy  de- 
cision. 

$  1 1 

AGAIN,  at  another  stage  of  his  review,  in  discussing  the  work- 
ing of  the   slimes   and  concentrates  of  Hale  &  Norcross  for 
the  benefit  of   the    mill   companies,  Judge    Hebbard  says:  "The 
exact  amount  of  profits  derived  therefrom    is   uncertain,  but  Mr. 
1    Williams    admits    $28,000   in    profits."     Mr.  Williams    never    ad- 
i    mitted  anything  of  the  kind.     The  only  testimony  given  on  this 
!    point  was  the  result  of  an  examination  of  the  books  made  by  Mr. 
Williams    under   a   stipulation    between    attorneys    Baggett   and 
Woods  at  Virginia  City.     The  report  made   at   that  time  showed 
that   only    a    few    batches    of     sulpburets    and    slimes  had  been 
I    worked,  and  that  the  gross  receipts  were  $14  859  03,  without  any 
|    charge  as   expenses   for  working,  and    including   profits    on  ores 
I    from    all    sources;  ores    from    Chollar,    Potosi   and  other  mines 
1    worked  at  this  mill.     Judge   Hebbard   also   finds  in  reference  to 
I    the  mixing  of  low  and  high  grade  ores,  the  books  of  the  company 
show  that  something  like  3,500  tons  of  ore  were  hoisted  from  the 
mine  and  crushed    at    the   mill,  the  testimony   being  referred   to 
that  ore  assaying  less  than  $12  to  $14  by  mine  assay  will  not  pay 
to  mill.     To  arrive  at  this,  Judge  Hebbard  simply  takes   the  low 
assays  of  a  particular  line  of  cars,  never  taking  an  average  which 
would  have  shown  c'early  that  no  ores  weretaken  from  the  mines 
which    averaged    less    than    from    $12    to    $14   per   ton.       When 
ore   is   hoisted   from    a   Comstock     mine,   two   samples  are    al- 
ways taken  for  car  assays.  One  of  these  is  taken  immediately  after 
the   car  reaches   the   top,  and   is  placed  in  what  is  known  as  the 
surface  box.     The  second  is,  taken  when  the  car  arrives  at  the  ore 
bouse,  both  being  finally-  assayed  for  the  different  returns  which 
are  afterwards  figured  upon  for  a   general    average.     A    few    ex- 
amples of  how  these  samples  run  will  show  the  wide  range  between 
the  samples   taken  from  a  car  of  ore.     Each  set  of  figures  repre- 
sents  a   day's  work.     Ore  house  box,  $60.97;  surface  box,  same 
car,   $26.60.     Ore   house   box,  $8.92;    surface   box,   $27.85.     Ore 
house,  $111.92;  surface  box,  $25  60.     Ore  house,  $120.43;  surface 
box,  $22,70.    Ore  bouse,  $5  05;  surface,  $22,70.    Ore  house,  $26  68; 
surface,  $114.00.     All  of  these  daily  returns  were  taken  from  the 
same   car,    and  an   average   taken    between   the  surface  and  ore 
house  figures  gives  the  average  of  the  car.     Judge  Hebbard  can- 
not show  by  following  this    system,    universally    adopted    at    all 
mines  as  a  check  on  ore  values,  tbat  there  was  any  ore  average  of 
such  a  low  grade  as  he  figures  out  in  his  decision. 

{SI 

FROM  the  foregoing  it  will  appear  that  the  determination  upon 
the  part  of  the  defendants  in  the  Hale  &  Norcross  case  to  im- 
peach Judge  Hebbard  is  about  the  only  course  to  adopt,  which 
which  will  open  up  and  develop  the  inside  workings  of  the  case, 
and  explain  the  real  cause  for  such  an  unaccountable  calculation 
and  misconstruction  of  facts  presented  in  evidence,  which  has 
resulted  in  a  verdict  for  an  outrageous  amount  in  the  form  of 
damages.  Every  good  citizen  is  interested  in  an  explanation  of  a 
case  in  which  a  judge  deliberately  ignores  facts  brought  out  be- 
fore him  in  testimony,  and  renders  a  judgment  which  the  merest 
tyro  in  mining  can  criticise.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  Gov- 
ernor did  not  call  an  extra  session  of  the  Legislature,  so  that  the 
impeachment  proceedings  might  have  been  commenced  without 
delay.  The  sooner  a  question  of  such  an  important  nature — in- 
volving the  reputation  of  the  Bench — is  decided  the  better  it  will 
be  for  the  community. 

T  $  $ 

IT  is  often  remarked  by  old  mining  men  that  it  is  not  a  bad  sign 
of  the  value  of  a  mine  when  there  is  a  lawsuit  or  two  hanging 
over  it.  It  looks  as  if  there  was  something  to  fight  about.  The 
latest  from  the  new  camp  to  the  north  of  Kingman,  in  Arizona, 
is  to  the  .effect  that  lawyers,  local  and  from  San  Francisco,  are 
on  the  ground,  knee-deep  in  legal  conflicts  over  possessory  rights. 
The  same  despatches  seem  to  infer  that  a  good  deal  of  what  has 
been  said  of  the  new  El  Dorado  has  been  rather  <»  too  previous." 
Water  and  all  the  necessaries  of  life  are  hard  to  get,  and  the  rich 
ore  seems  to  be  a  bit  scarce  also. 

?$  * 

THE  CarboDdale  coal  and  mineral  lands  now  offered  in  London 
are  hampered  with  law  suits.     A  purchase  under  such  condi- 
tions means  a  loss  ultimately  to  the  investors. 


July  23,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


'Hearthe  Crier:"     -What  ihedeiil  ultbou?' 
■  One  lh»t  will  plftr  the  lcrll,»lr.wUhyoD." 


L«  »NG  before  Tom  Flynn  became  the  proud  editor  of  a  weekly 
paper,  or  ever  dreamed  of  owning  such  a  stud  as  his  fast-trot- 
ting, razor-backed  ateed  •■  Bally  Hooly,"  he  was  the  writer  of 
short  paragraphs  on  a  mining  stock  journal.  It  was  while  pur- 
suing this  occupation  that  Mr.  Flynn  became  connected  with 
tbe  show  business,  and  this  is  how  it  happened:  Mr.  J.  O'Connor 
Roach,  an  actor,  got  stranded  from  Australia  upon  these  shores. 
As  be  bailed  from  tbe  beautiful  and  historic  city  of  Limerick, 
where  Mr.  Flynn  tirsl  saw  the  light,  a  bond  of  friendship  was 
at  once  established  between  those  exiles.  One  day  Mr.  Roach 
rushed  into  Flynn's  office,  breathless  with  excitement,  "  Oh, Tom, 
Tom."  be  said.  "Sure  if  I  only  bad  a  little  capital,  me  fortune 
would  be  made!"'  Now,  Mr.  Flynn,  even  at  that  age,  was  a 
thrifty  soul,  and  never  averse  to  making  an  honest  dollar  on  a 
boat  race  or  a  sprinting  match  ;  so  he  pricked  up  his  ears  and 
hearkened  to  Roach's  plain,  unvarnished  tale.  It  was  simply 
this:  Another  countryman  from  the  wilds  of  Connemarra  had  a 
panorama  of  picturesque  Ireland  »  in  soak."  To  release  it  and 
open  a  show  on  their  own  account  was  Mr.  Roach's  scheme.  He 
would  play  •*  Barney  the  Guide,"  and  Mr.  Flynn  would  read  the 
lecture  to  the  delighted  spectators  as  the  beauties  of  tbe  isle  un- 
folded themselves.  To  all  these  things  did  capitalist  Flynn  pleas- 
ingly incline,  with  one  reservation,  however,  and  it  was  that  he 
would  look  after  the  box-office  himself,  thus  presenting  another 
evidence  of  that  caution  which  has  to-day  made  him  the  Jay 
Gould  of  the  Pacific  Coast  journalists.  The  show  was  adver- 
tised, the  doors  thrown  open,  and  Mr.  Flynn's  smiling,  expect- 
ant face  was  framed  in  tbe  redwood  margin  of  the  cash- 
hole.  The  printers  on  Mr.  Flynn's  paper,  numbering  about  five, 
bied  them  to  tbe  show,  concluding,  as  a  matter  of  course,  they 
would  pass  in  free.  All  with  the  exception  of  one  ancient  typo, 
who  had  been  associated  with  Mr.  Flynn  before.  "  Get  ready 
your  coin,  boys,"  be  said,  "  you'll  want  every  cent  of  it  if  you're 
going  to  pass  into  Tom's  show."  "Oh,  nonsense,"  said  a  fresh- 
hearted  lad  named  Charley,  "Tom  wouldn't  expect  anything 
from  poor  fellows  like  us."  The  discussion  grew  so  warm  that 
pools  were  made  whether  or  no  Mr.  Flynn  would  demand  tariff 
at  the  door.  One  of  the  party  of  pleasure-seekers  was  to  find 
out,  and  the  choice  fell  upon  Charley,  the  confiding.  He  was  to 
go  ahead  and  feel  the  way.  He  walked  blithely  to  the  box  office 
where  Mr.  Fiynn  was  toying  with  piles  of  silver  and  laid  down  a 
half  dollar  with  a  smile,  as  if  it  was  a  good  joke,  that  the  money 
would  be  immediately  returned  to  him.  But  with  a  steely  glitter 
in  his  eye,  Mr.  Flynn  scooped  in  the  dross,  while  Charley, 
with  a  look  of  horror  in  his  face,  cried  out  to  the  expectant  crowd 
below,  "Be  heavens,  Mike,  he  took  the  half."  The  typographical 
staff  of  the  Daily  Exchange  did  not  attend  the  panorama  that 
evening.     They  blew  their  money  in  on  beer. 

((  T  DID  not  like  to  go  to  the  church  to  beg,  but  simply  can't 
1  get  any  work  to  do,  and  was  starving  to  death.  I  thought 
I  could  get  some  help  there,  if  only  a  piece  of  bread  and  a  place 
to  sleep.  Rev.  Mr.  Buck  very  kindly  came  up  to  roe  and  said; 
<  Well,  my  young  man,  are  you  saved?  Do  you  want  religion?  I 
am  glad  to  see  you.'  I  told  him  I  was  very  hungry,  and  wanted 
something  to  eat,  and  would  he  be  so  kind  as  to  help  me.  He 
looked  at  me  for  a  moment,  and  then  went  and  got  me  a  card,  on 
which  were  the  words,  *  Give  Nothing  to  Beggars.'  "  I  swear  by 
the  Twelve  Apostles,  that  one  might  ransack  the  city  for  a  year 
before  he  could  dig  up  a  finer  example  of  the  religion  most  in 
vogue  to-day.  Religion  on  an  empty  stomach  is  rather  nause- 
ating than  otherwise.  But  this  vapid,  tinseled,  mouthing  of 
the  time,  for  which  lazy,  black-coated  loafers  in  the  vineyards 
are  paid  high  salaries,  resembles  the  true  religion  of  Christ  about 
as  much  as  a  camel  does  a  canary-bird.  I  use  the  word  camel  ad- 
visedly, because  I  regard  his  transit  through  the  eye  of  a  needle 
as  probable  as  that  any  of  these  indolent  hypocrites  shall  ever 
rest  In  Abraham's  bosom.  They  are  lively  traders  in  stones  when 
bread  is  demanded,  and  will  invariably  proffer  a  serpent  when  a 
call  for  fish  comes  into  question.  All  the  use  one  can  find  for 
them  is  to  cast  them  like  rats  into  the  theological  pit,  and  get 
some  good  agnostic  bulldog  to  worry  them  to  death. 

NIGHT  in  the  Western  Addition.  The  pale  stars  looked  coldly 
down  upon  a  group  of  three  who  had  halted  under  the 
shadow  of  the  Oriel  Hotel.  There  was  a  dejection  in  their  mien 
which  attracted  the  attention  of  the  sympathetic  patrol  roan,  and 
led  to  the  gentle  inquiry,  "  Have  yez  lost  anything?"  The  trio 
gazed  upon  the  kindly  guardian  of  the  night  with  streaming  eyes. 
They  were  the  three  deposed  kings  of  the  Democracy,  Nealon, 
Blanclifield  and  Corbett,  mourning  over  their  departed  greatness, 
and  waiting  for  the  anvil  chorus  that  never  came,  announcing 
the  return  of  Christopher.  Bat  not  even  their  once  powerful 
chief  might  ever  hand  them  the  reins  of  power  again. 


SAT   ll  our  bugaboo  ? 

Steamer  day. 
What  makes  tbe  city  blue? 

M<>amer  day. 
Rusty,  moss-grown,  out  of  date, 
The  ulcer  of  tbe  State. 
It  sticks  to  us  like  fate; 

Steamer  day. 

What   makes  Eastern  merchants  smile? 

Steamer  day. 
Grin,  and  ridicule  our  style? 

Steamer  day. 
Why  should  they  get  inside, 
And  swim   upward   with    the  tide, 
While  we  fossils  sit  astride 

Steamer  day. 

To  this  idol  of  the  past, 

Steamer  day, 
Our  prosperity  we're  cast. 

Steamer  day, 
Like  the  old  man  of  the  sea. 
Clings,  and  will  not  set  us  free, 
Yet  we  humbly  worship  thee, 

Steamer  day. 

Let  us  bury  fast  and  deep 

Steamer  day, 
In  a  long  unbroken  sleep, 

Then  we   may 
Trade  as  other  merchants  trade, 
And  cease  slipping  down  the  grade, 
Shaking  off  the  fools  that  made 

Steamer  day. 

TALK  about  the  elixir  of  life,  about  old  and  weary  men 
growing  young  in  an  hour,  and  renewing  the  follies  of  their 
youth,  about  the  rust  of  age  falling  off  one,  as  scales  fly  from 
hammered  iron,  Colonel  William  Doolan  has  got  the  combina- 
tion, and  it  exists  in  the  Vichy  Springs,  just  three  miles  from 
Ukiah.  In  the  first  place,  the  journey  to  the  Springs  by  the 
North  Pacific  Coast  Broad-gauge  is  delightful.  On  to  the  north 
through  a  rich  and  most  picturesque  country,  through  glowing 
orchards,  and  emerald  vineyards,  and  yellow  grain,  and  far- 
stretching  pasture  lauds.  Herds  of  fat  cattle  dot  the  hillsides. 
The  air  is  clear,  warm  and  bracing,  and  soon  the  azure  thread  of 
the  Russian  river  is  reached,  and  the  road,  winding  along  ihe 
rocky  banks  of  that  fine  stream,  presents  at  every  turn  beautiful 
and  ever  varying  vistas  of  scenery.  And  then  comes  Ukiah  and 
the  Vichy  Springs.  Babble  about  champagne  baths !  Why  never 
grape  juice  sparkled  and  foamed  over  the  delighted  body  as  this 
marvelous  water,  velvety,  electric,  all  embracing,  incomparably 
invigorating.  It  gushes  from  the  rock  an  eternal  stream,  never 
changing  its  volume,  proving  the  wealth  of  the  mysterious 
caverns  which  have  been  its  home  for  centuries.  It  is  charged 
with  vitality;  it  permeates  the  system.  Every  drop  is  a  mole- 
cule of  electricity.  One  may  go  in  fatigued  and  languid,  but 
twenty  minutes  in  this  bath  of  life  sweeps  away  all  aches  and 
weariness  as  a  loose  garment,  and  you  emerge  strong,  craving 
effort  and  full  of  peace.  Then  the  surroundings  are  perfect — 
shade,  flowers,  trees,  calm.  I  should  like  to  put  Asa  Fiske  and 
Davy  Jacks  through  a  course  of  these  baths.  I  think  it  would 
not  alone  make  better  men  physically  of  them,  but  clean  away  a 
large  percentage  of  their  mental  dirt. 

A  MEDICAL  journal  loudly  clamors  against  the  custom  of  phy- 
sicians advertising,  and  protests  that  it  smells  quackery  in 
the  air.  The  accused  parties  come  back  at  the  editor  and  declare 
that  he  has  been  presented  with  a  piano,  to  which  be  blatantly 
invites  tbe  attention  of  the  wives  and  daughters  of  his  readers 
to  try,  and  be  convinced  that  its  tones  are  the  most  soothing  in 
the  world.  Alack-a-day,  the  wily  medical  advertiser  is  not  he 
who  boldly  proclaims  in  the  newspapers  that  he  has  a  specific 
for  all  evils.  It  is  the  sly  Jobling  sort  of  fellow  who  whispers 
into  the  reporters  ear  that  he  has  just  completed  an  excellent 
operation,  bids  bim  to  the  refreshment  table  and  begs  his  guest 
not  for  worlds  to  mention  the  little  incident  in  his  columns.  The 
other  members  of  theprofession  gnash  their  teeth,  but  the  cunning 
man  of  pills  has  secured  his  "ad"  without  infringing  upon  tbe 
etiquette  of  the  guild. 

THE  man  who  drank  the  pint  of  champagne  and  then  com- 
mitted suicide,  evidently  made  up  his  mind  that  he  must  be 
talked  about  in  the  newspapers.  He  has  been  paragraphed  now 
for  about  a  week,  and  received  a  distinction  never  granted  to  the 
ordinary  crank  who  shuffles  off  without  leaving  anything  more 
remarkable  behind  him  than  a  note  to  the  Coroner. 

POOR  old  Montgomery  street  has  got  the  heaves  again.  No 
sooner  did  its  turbulent  bosom  receive  a  dose  of  wires,  and 
tbe  basaltic  sea  return  to  its  normal  condition,  than  its  vitals  are 
ripped  open  anew  by  some  of  the  necessities  of  the  Mills  build- 
ing. May  the  Lord  deal  with  its  enerous  as  they  have  done  with 
this  venerable  thoroughfare. 


!^BBWB^IP 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


REAL  estate  men  have  had  plenty  to  talk  about.  In  the  two 
matters  which  have  been  the  absorbing  topics  of  conversa- 
tion unequal  assessments  have  been  the  subjects.  In  both  cases 
the  evidence  of  temporary  mental  aberration  have  been  strong. 
but  particularly  is  this  the  case  in  tne  »  report"  of  the  Sixteenth 
street  extension  commission.  Anything  more  flagrantly  inequita- 
ble than  this  precious  document  it  would  be  difficult  to  discover. 
There  is  absolutely  no  need  of  the  opening  of  the  street.  Seven- 
teenth street  when  opened  will  for  years  to  come  afford  all  the 
required  means  of  communication  between  the  Mission  on  one 
side  and  the  Park  on  the  other.  Its  opening  will  require  far  less 
labor,  as  its  extension  will  cross  south  of  Mount  Olympus  at  the 
lowest  point  of  these  hills.  The  assessment  for  it  has  been  made 
with  much  fairness,  and  though  there  are  some  little  inpqualities 
the  work  of  the  commission  bears  on  the  face  of  it  the  evidence  s 
of  conscientious  effort  to  do  justice.  Sixteenth  street,  which 
runs  almost  directly  into  Mount  Olympus,  will  cost  an  enormous 
sum  to  open.  The  work  is  wholly  unnecessary  for  the  time 
being,  and  the  report  of  the  extension  commission  is  waste  paper. 
The  Board  of  Supervisors  can  do  but  one  thing  with  the  report- 
reject  it.  This  it  should  do  very  promptly ;  on  August  the  2nd. 
Many  instances  might  be  cited  from  the  "report,"  in  wbich 
favoritism  of  the  grossest  kind  has  been  displayed,  especially  to 
influential  persons  politically  and  to  large  corporations,  while 
other  cases  of  "  cinch  "  equally  gross  can  be  with  ease  selected. 
Drury  Melone  owns  two  lots  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Seven- 
teenth and  Castro  streets.  His  assessment  for  the  opening  of 
Seventeenth  is  $99,  and  for  the  opening  of  Sixteenth  street,  which 
would  benefit  him  but  little,  comparitively  speaking,  he  is  as- 
sessed $230;  George  W.  Deane  owns  property  just  west  of  Mr. 
Melone's,  on  Seventeenth  street,  and  his  assessment  for  the  open- 
ing of  his  own  street  is  about  half  what  it  is  for  Sixteenth  street; 
R.  D.  Chandler  is  charged  $300  for  Seventeenth  street  opening 
and  $650  for  Sixteenth,  bis  property  fronting  on  the  former  street. 
Ex-Supervisor  Barry,  a  member  of  the  "  solid  nine  "  board  of 
evil  memory,  is  dealt  with  very  gently,  and  his  assessments  are 
trivial  compared  with  those  of  his  neighbors  on  each  side,  who 
are  less  known  in  political  circles.  The  Sixteenth-street  Com- 
mission has  been  at  work  twenty-seven  months,  and  its  expenses 
amount  to  $71,500;  the  Seventeenth-street  has  finished  its  labors  in 
five  months,  at  a  cost  of  $7,467.  By  the  virtual  presentation  of 
the  required  ground  for  street  purposes  by  Mrs.  Emily  T.  Pope 
and  Adolph  Sutro,  the  entire  Seventeenth  street  assessment  dis- 
trict is  saved  forty-five  per  cent,  on  the  original  assessment, 
making  a  reduction  for  the  property  owners  of  nearly  $8,000,  and 
rendering  the  opening  of  the  street  possible  at  a  smaller  cost  than 
any  other  street  has  been  opened  for  in  the  history  of  street 
extensions  in  this  city.  The  Market-street  Cable  Company  has  a 
franchise  to  build  a  line  over  Seventeenth  street,  thus  making  this 
thoroughfare  the  avenue  from  the  Mission  to  the  Park. 

The  other  topic  which  has  called  forth  opinions  of  a  very  dif- 
fering nature  from  the  docli  in  real  estate  circles,  is  the  Assessor's 
report  and  the  appeals  from  it  to  the  Board  of  equalisation.  Out- 
side land  values  have  depreciated,  Mr.  Magee  says,  twenty  per 
cent,  and  central  properties  have  gone  down  twenty-five  per 
cent,  in  value.  To  this  statement  many  objections  have  been 
made.  To  say  bluntly  that  Mr.  Magee  is  wrong  is  a  manifest 
absurdity,  as  there  can  be  no  doubt  of  the  two  facts  that  the  as- 
sessment is  far  too  high  in  ma^ny  cases,  and  that  real  estate 
depreciated  considerably  in  some  portions  of  the  city.  Mr.  Magee 
has  taken  an  extreme  view,  when  he  quotes  the  high  percentage 
of  depreciation  which  he  did,  and  Spencer  C.  Buckbee,  of  Sbain- 
wald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  strikes  nearer  the  exact  condition  when  he 
says  that  a  man  cannot  get  as  much  to-day  as  he  could  a  year 
ago  for  the  same  property,  but  there  is  no  general  depreciation, 
because  owners  are  holding  on  and  will  not  lower  their  asking 
figures.  David  Rich,  of  the  firm  of  O'Farrell  &  Lang.says:  "  The 
trouble  is  not  that  there  is  a  marked  depreciation,  but  a  marked 
inactivity.  There  are  in  the  hands  of  his  firm  orders  for  the  in- 
vestment of  at  least  $1,000,000  in  properties  from  $50,000  up,  but 
few  can  be  found  to  sell  inside  property,  and  of  tne  few  none  will 
abate  their  prices."  Other  firms  are  similarly  situated,  and  all 
have  orders  to  fill  for  inside  property. 

The  business  of  the  week  has  been  light.  O.  F.  von  Rbein  sold 
the  building  and  lot  506  Kearny,  for  $32,650;  O'Farrell  <fc  Lang 
sold  the  southeast  corner  of  Montgomery  and  Vallejo,  34:3x137:6, 
for  $11,500;  Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.  have  sold  one  of  (be 
Rountree  houses. 

Eastoo,  Eldridge  &  Co.  will  run  an  excursion  and  hold  an  auc- 
tion sale  at  Menlo  Park  to-day. 

The  Carnall-Hopkins  Company  are  soliciting  offers  for  the  prop 
erty  of  the  late  Martin  Kelly,  wbich  is  to  be  sold  at  probate  sab . 
The  estate  includes  the  corner  of  Larkin  street  and  Golden  Cue 
avenue,  87:6x84,  with  three  houses,  and  the.  lot,  50x114,  at  the 
corner  of  Twenty-fourth  and  Noe  streets. 


REV.    DR.    HATCH    AS    A    LOTHARIO. 

THAT  gay  old  Lothario,  Dr.  Junius  Laertes  Hatch,  has  again  ex- 
tracted himself  from  the  depths  of  what  appeared  to  be  a  most 
serious  case.  The  charge  of  adultery  preferred  against  him  by 
Mrs.  Liljfgren,  who  says  ibat  the  reverend  but  irreverent  Hatch 
toyed  with  her  affections  and  the  physical  charms  of  the  fair 
Mrs.  Liljegren,  has  been  withdrawn,  and  the  gray-haired  lover  is 
once  more  free  to  work  bis  wiles  upon  the  susceptible  fair  ones  of 
the  sinless  city  across  the  bay.  The  Rev.  Junius  is  a  character 
well  worth  studying.  He  was  formerly  a  minister,  then  a  public 
lecturer,  a  reporter,  a  writer  of  sermons  for  christian  papers,  and  is 
now  the  representative  of  this  great  and  glorious  government,  and 
determines  who  are  the  proper  people  to  be  allowed  within  our 
portals.  As  Transportation  Commissioner,  Hatch  has  been  a 
howling  success;  as  a  lady-killer  he  has  no  equal;  as  a  hoary- 
headed  old  hypocrite  he  has  a  front  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  un- 
regenerated.  Hatch  first  became  prominent  in  the  community 
by  becoming  the  legatee  of  some  old  lady  whose  acquaintance  he 
had  made  as  a  reporter.  There  was  a  lawsuit,  somewhat  sensa- 
tional developments,  and  the  papers  devoted  considerable  space 
to  the  old  fellow,  and  the  smooth  manner  he  had  of  winning  the 
confidence  of  married  and  maiden  ladies  who  had  anything 
to  give  away.  Of  course  it  was  all  in  the  name  of 
Christianity  that  Hatch  did  these  things.  It  was  prob- 
ably with  an  idea  to  get  some  knowledge  of  the 
wicked,  wicked  world  after  midnight,  that  he  attended  a  mask 
ball  at  the  Pavilion  some  years  ago.  It  was  one  of  the  old  time 
balls.  There  is  nothing  like  them  nowadays.  To  go  to  a  mask 
ball  at  the  Pavilion  some  five  or  six  years  ago  immediately 
stamped  a  man  as  being  quite  devilish  and  a  woman  as  being 
without  any  hopes  of  salvation.  Hatch  beamed  on  the  scene  of 
revelry  about  2  in  the  morning,  just  when  the  fun  was  becom- 
ing fast  and  furious.  He  was  immediately  laid  hold  of  by  a  gang 
of  women  of  the  town,  in  whose  midst  he  looked  like  Silenus  on 
a  time  with  the  Bacchanalian  nymphs.  They  danced  a  can-can 
around  the  Rev.  Junius,  and  his  face  beamed  with  pleasure,  and 
though  his  old  eyes  did  linger  upon  the  many  exposed  charms  of 
the  frail  ones,  it  was,  of  course,  all  in  bis  tineas  a  minister  of  the 
gospel.  They  may  not  haveplayed  leap-frog,  but  Laertes  and  the 
nymps  had  a  gay  old  time.  Hatch  is  one  of  the  milest  mannered 
men  who  ever  caught  a  woman's  smile,  but,  like  the  man  in  the 
song,  he  is  '•  devilish  sly." 

Drink  the  J.  F.  Cutter  Whisky.  For  years  it  has  been  the  most 
popular  brand  u-jed  by  admirers  of  good  liquor.  It  is  sold  at  all  first- 
class  bard,  and  should  be  demanded  by  all  gentlemen  who  desire  a 
gouk  whisky.  The  J.  F.  Cutter  Whisky  has  no  superior  and  few, 
if  any,  equals. 

PROBATE    SALE. 


Property  or  the  Estate  of  HAKTIN  KELLY,  deceased     For  sale 
by  order  of  Court.    Sub.uit  offer. 


Corner  Laikin  St,  and  Go.den  Gate  Ave.,  87:6x84, 
with  Three  Houses;  also,  Lot  50x114,  Corner  Twenty- 
Fourth  and  Noe  Sts. 


Full  particulars  at 


THE  CARNALL-HOPKINS  CO,, 

SOLE     ^.CS-EInTTS, 

624  Market  Street,  San  Franc'scO. 


THE 

BLOUNT  DOOR  CHECK  &  SPRING. 


SURE  TO  CLOSE  THE 
DOOR   WITHOUT  SLAMMING. 


JAS.  A.  MAGUIRE.  City  Agent. 

-_  657-661  Market  Street,  8.  F, 


July  28,  1892. 


BAN  PRANCI8C0  NEWS  n  ITER. 


19 


AEBION    which  is  of  great  iir  trance  oouipantes 

was  rendered  in  the  Dotted  Stales  Circuit   Court  ol  Appeals 

of  the  Ninth  Circuit.  It  was  in  the  case  of  James  Steel,  adminis- 
trator of  the  estate  of  Ben  Holla. lay.  against  the  Pbo?nlx  Insur- 
a  ice  Company  of  Brooklyn.  Judge  Hurley  wrote  the  opinion 
ol  the  court.  Judge  Gilbert  concurring  and  Judge  McKenna  dis- 
senting. The  point  decided  involves  the  construction  of  the 
clause  in  politics  which  provide*  that  no  Miit  ->r  action  for  the  re- 
covery of  any  claim  by  virtue  of  the  policy  >hall  be  sustainable 
in  any  court  of  law  or  chancery,  unless  ■•  commenced  within 
twelve  months  next  after  the  date  of  the  fire  from  which  such 
loss  shall  occur."  Two  questions  were  considered  :  First.  •  When 
does  the  twelve  months'  limitation  commence  to  run?"  Second, 
*«  Is  it  from  the  date  of  the  fire  or  from  the  ex- 
piration of  sixty  days  after  the  proofs  of  loss  were  furnished?" 
It  was  held  by  the  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  that  a  policy  of  in- 
surance which  contains  conditions  reducing  the  statutory  time 
for  the  commencement  of  any  suit  thereon  ought  to  be  construed  to 
mean  twelve  full  months,  exclusive  of  the  lime  when  suit  could 
not  be  bronght,  either  by  other  clauses  or  by  any  conduct  of 
the  company  preventing  the  insured  from  bringing  suit,  lhe 
suit  to  recover  was  brought  thirteen  months  and  twenty-one  days 
after  the  fire.  The  insurance  company's  agent  had  held  out  the 
hope  of  an  amicable  a  ljustment  of  the  difficulty,  and  thus  de- 
layed the  action  of  the  insured,  in  substance,  the  law,  as  ex- 
pounded by  the  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  is,  that  the  time  during 
which  the  insured  could  not  sue  should  not  be  counted  as  part  of 
the  year  in  which  he  is  required  to  sue.  In  other  words,  the  parties 
cannot  be  presumed  to  have  suspended  the  remedy  and  provided 
during  the  same  time  for  the  running  of  the  period  of  limitation. 
Judge  Hawley  further  says  in  the  opinion  that  as  the  insurance 
company  prepares  the  contract  and  embodies  in  it  such  conditions 
as  it  deems  proper,  it  is  in  duty  bound  to  use  language  in  the  vari- 
ous provisions  of  the  policy  in  such  a  manner  that  the  insured 
cannot  be  mistaken  or  misled  as  to  the  duties  and  burdens  thereby 
imposed  upon  him.  He  adds:  "  The  courts  have  uniformly  held 
that  the  various  conditions  of  a  policy  of  insurance  must  be 
strictly  construed  against  the  company  and  liberally  in  favor  of 
the  insured.  This  principle  is  applied  to  all  classes  of  insurance 
policies,  whether  fire,  life,  accident  or  other  kinds. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company  was 
held  during  the  week,  and  73,000  shares  out  of  the  110,000  shares 
of  stock  were  represented.  President  Charles  Webb  Howard,  in 
his  annual  report,  shows  that  there  are  not  more  than  3,200  va- 
cant bouses  in  the  city.  The  total  receipts  for  the  twelve  months 
were  $1,657,757.51,  out  of  which  $6G0,000  was  disbursed  in  divi- 
dends. The  old  Board  of  Directors  were  re-elected,  with  Charles 
Webb  Howard,  President;  Charles  Mayne,  Vice-President ;  Wil- 
liam Norris,  Secretary,  and  Pelham  W.Ames,  Assistant  Secretary. 

The  most  interesting  bit  of  news  on  the  street  this  week  is  that 
regarding  the  temporary  and  probably  permanent  change  in  the 
local  management  of  the  affairs  of  the  Insurance  Company  of 
North  America.  Tom  Mitchell  has  been  connected  with  the  com- 
pany's local  agency  for  twenty  years  past.  The  agents  were 
originally  Jonathan  Hunt,  Sons  &  Co.,  Mitchell  being  the  "  Co." 
Hunt  died,  and  the  style  was  then  changed  to  Hunt's  Sons  &  Co. 
Then  the  sons  died  and  the  agency  went  to  Mitchell.  He  has 
been  general  agent  of  the  company  in  this  city  for  about  eight 
years.  The  company  Is  one  of  the  largest  in  the  United  States, 
its  capital  being  very  great.  The  exact  condition  of  its  business 
affairs  is,  of  course,  not  known  on  the  street,  but  surprise  has 
been  expressed  that  Mitchell  did  not  do  a  larger  business  with 
the  splendid  opportunity  offered  bim.  Mr.  Mitchell  is  now  un- 
able to  attend  to  business,  being  confined  to  his  residence  in  Oak- 
land by  an  ulcer  on  the  leg.  He  has  been  given  three  months' 
vacation,  and  James  D.  Bailey,  formerly  Marine,  Secretary  of  the 
Union,  has  taken  the  vacant  chair  and  is  now  acting  as  temporary 
manager.  It  is  thought  on  the  street  that  Mr.  Bailey  will  retain 
the  position  and  will  be  appointed  manager  by  the  company.  If 
so,  he  would  go  to  the  front,  directly  over  the  heads  of  two  of  the 
oldest  and  best  of  the  special  agents — Messrs.  Hamilton  and 
Beck.  As  it  is,  the  management  of  the  company  is  now  a  most 
interesting  matter  of  discussion  on  the  Bourse. 

The  investigation  of  the  large  loss  at  Seattle  is  progressing,  the 
committee,  as  suggested  in  this  column  last  week,  having  de- 
termined to  push  the  case  vigorously.  An  executive  session  of 
the  committee  was  held  on  Thursday,  and  from  the  reports  mada 
there  it  seems  likely  that  the  companies  will  resist  to  the  utmost 
the  prosecution  of  the  claims.  A  civil  suit  at  law,  if  not  a  crim- 
inal case,  is  imminent. 

It  is  reported  that  the  Mexican  steamer  Don  Juan  has  been 
wrecked  off  the  Mexican  coast. 

Mr.  J.  B.  Levison,  Marine  Secretary  of  the  Fireman's  Fund,  re- 
turned from  a  trip  to  New  York  on  Wednesday. 


The  <  Omatock  mining  market  developed  no  new  features  ol  In 
teres!  during  the   week.     Kosloeu   was  .mil  and  price,  heavy 
m  mm!. to  resulted  as  usual  In  n  walk  over  for 
thrmshh-.    The  oppoaltion  scored   one  point   in  ti. 
fortunately  for  the  shareholders.    The  old  officers  were  re  ■ 
to  hold  for  the  ensuing  term. 

A    SWEDISH    BATh7 

Till-:  extent  to  which  ■«  Parkhuratlng  "  Is  appreciated  in  New 
■S  ork  is  -shown  by  the  recent  publication  in  The  Church  Union, 
of  that  city,  of  a  letter  from  its  European  correspondent,  George 
0,  Bartlett,  of  his  experiences  in  a  Swedish  bath*  in  that  city. 
After  entering  the  bathhouse  and  purchasing  a  ticket,  Mr 
Bartlett  was  received  by  a  young  lady,  who  oshered  him  into  a 
finely  furnished  parlor.  ••Here,"  he  writes,  "another  woman 
appeared.  She  was  handsome,  tall  and  strong,  her  dress  was 
Dowered,  with  a  red  ground.it  had  no  sleeves— less  than  no 
sleeves;  it  was  cut  under  the  arms  decollete!  The  entire  front  of 
her  dress  was  covered  by  a  white  linen  apron.  Her  blond  hair 
grew  thick,  and  a  bunch  nf  it  budded  gracefully  on  the  back  of 
her  head.  She  repeated  her  former  remarks  with  a  smile.  I 
simply  answered,  'Bath,  bath  1  '  She  then  said,  ■  Parlez-vous 
Franrais?'  1  replied,-  'Nay,  nay.'  She  said,  'Sprechen  sie 
Ueutsch?'  '  Bath,' said  I.  She  then  started  to  leave  the  room, 
and  motioned  me  to  follow.  '  Barkus  was  willing/  I  was  con- 
ducted into  as  fine  a  bath-room  as  I  had  ever  seen.  It  was  up- 
holstered in  maroon  velvet;  there  were  mirrors,  chairs,  sofa,  books 
for  your  clothes,  slippers,  etc.  The  bath-tub  was  of  polished  olive 
wood,  encircled  by  bands  of  gi.t  and  silver,  with  large  bright-headed 
nails  driven  in  all  around  it.  This  lovely  Amazon  and  I  gave  up 
our  language  and  became  dumb,  that  we  might  learn  of  each 
other  by  signs.  I  soon  heard  the  water  roaring  in  the  tub,  and 
with  a  "  Swedish  movement"  of  her  hand  she  motioned  where  to 
hang  my  clo:ho.  When  I  was  parily  undressed  she  picked  up 
a  silver  bell,  dangled  it  before  my  face,  and  then  placed  it  on  the 
window-sill  beside  the  tub  and  left  the  room.  A  little  later  I 
stood  in  the  bath;  I  reached  for  the  bell,  rang  it,  and  this  same 
Venus  of  the  bath  appeared.  She  laid  her  hand  on  my  shoulder 
and  motioned  me  to  sit  down  in  the  tub.  I  sat.  She  then  made, 
by  the  use  of  a  long  towel,  a  kind  of  a  hammock,  which  she 
placed  across  the  head  of  the  tub.  My  next  position  was  to  lie 
on  my  back,  my  head  resting  in  the  hammock;  then  this  water- 
nymph  commenced  operations  in  earnest.  Up  she  took  my  left 
leg  and  with  brush  and  soap  scrubbed  it  well.  Then  along  my 
side  underneath  the  water  swung  her  strong  arm  to  and  from 
throat  to  foot,  like  a  mighty  pendulum.  Presently  X  was  turned 
over  with  my  face  in  the  hammock,  to  have  my  other  leg  oper- 
ated upon  and  my  back  scrubbed.  I  then  sat  up  in  the  tub 
and  was  thoroughly  ehampooed.  She  then  led  me  a  step  or  two, 
and  after  a  kindly  push  I  found  myself  in  a  small  enclosure  tak- 
ing a  refreshing  shower-bath;  after  which  she  threw  over  me  a 
large  cloak  made  of  Turkish  toweling,  and  at  once  gave  me  a 
thorough  rubbing  down  until  I  was  dry.  I  was  then  seated  upon 
the  sofa,  and  she  sat  by  my  side!  She  placed  my  clean  foot  in 
her  massive  lap,  and  with  the  aid  of  scissors,  file  and  chamois, 
put  it  in  perfect  order.  Before  manicuring  the  other  foot  she  left 
the  room,  but  soon  returned  to  serve  me  with  a  glass  of  water. 
The  glass  was  thin ;  it  had  a  silver  holder,  it  was  on  a  silver  tray, 
and  the  water  was  fresh  I  After  my  feet  were  sufficiently  oper- 
ated upon,  my  finger-nails  were  cut,  cleaned  and  beautified,  and 
before  leaving  the  room  she  did  not  forget  to  turn  my  socks. 
When  I  was  partly  dres-ed  she  returned  without  my  ringing  the 
bell,  and  helped  me  on  with  my  vest  and  coat.  Then  I  presented 
her  with  a  silver  coin,  and  she  presented  me  with  a  smile.  I  shall 
probably  remember  the  smile  long  after  she  has  forgotten  the  coin. 
Men  are  so  constant?  I  have  taken  many  baths,  in  many  coun- 
tries, but  the  Swedish  is  the  best  of  all." 

WHEN  Bob  Woodward  broke  his  arm  be  was  the  most  interest- 
ing tbing  in  town.  He  looked  so  soldierly,  so  sweet,  so  like 
a  fellow  who  had  led  a  charge,  don't  you  know,  and  whose  gal- 
lant charger  had  fallen  on  him,  or  something  else.  The  ladies 
petted  Bob,  and  his  empty  sleeve  grew  to  be  fashionable.  Other 
men  turned  up  with  ingrowing  nails,  and  boils,  and  sties  in  their 
eyes,  but  they  were  not  in  it.  Bob  had  the  pole.  But  now  Billy 
Kittle  has  fal  en  from  the  dam  at  Bear  Creek  on  the  County  Club 
and  broken  his  ankle.  When  he  comes  upon  the  street  he  will 
have  the  handsomest  crutches  in  town.  Mr.  Woodward's  stock 
is  falling  visibly. 

Sun  Fire  Office,  of  London.  Instituted  A.  D.  1710. 


San  Francisco,  July  18th.  1892. 
Charles  R.  Naylor,  agent  for  "The  Caligraph  "— Dear  Sir— We 
beg  leave  to  advi*6  that  we  have  used  your  type-writing  machine  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  take  pleasure  in  stating  that  it  has  given 
complete  satisfaction.  We  are  using  an  almost  new  Caligraph  just 
now   replacing  one  we  had  in  constant  use  for  about  six  years. 

Yours,  faithfully,        Wm.  J.  Landers,  General  Agent. 

For  strengthening  aod  clearing  the  voice,   use  *'  Brown's  Bronchial 

Troches  " "  I  have  commended  them  to  friends  who  were  public  speak- 
ers, and  they  have  proved  extremely  serviceable."— Ate.  Henri/  Ward 

lirrch'  r. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


THE  Canadian  government  will  sooner  or  later  find  itself  obliged 
to  deal  with  the  Chinese  Question,  for  a  great  deal  of  discon- 
tent is  expressed  by  tbe  working  men  in  British  Columbia,  and 
several  prominent  Catholic  prelates  in  the  Dominion  have  recently 
declared  openly  that  they  consider  the  Chinese  invasion  as  a 
menace  to  tbe  country.  The  authorities  at  Ottawa,  however,  are 
still  disinclined  to  enact  any  prohibitive  measures,  because  the 
trade  with  China  is,  for  the  Dominion,  of  the  utmost  importance, 
and  they  hope  that  they  will  succeed,  by  a  peaceful  agreement 
with  the  Chinese  government,  in  inducing  the  latter  to  restrict 
the  number  of  Chinese  coming  to  Canada.  In  the  interest  not 
only  of  tbe  Dominion,  but  also  of  the  United  States,  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  Mongolian  migration  to  British  Columbia  will  be 
kept  within  the  narrowest  possible  limits. 

Captain  Lugard,  the  agent  of  the  British  East  African  Company, 
Uganda,  has  sent  his  official  report  to  London,  from  which  it  ap- 
pears that  the  doubt  which  was  expressed  in  this  column  some 
weeks  ago,  with  regard  to  the  English  Protestants  in  Uganda  was 
perfectly  justified.  It  bad  been  stated  in  French  papers,  as  will 
be  remembered,  that  the  British  forces  in  Uganda  had  been  the 
aggressors  in  a  bloody  struggle  against  King  Mwanga,  the  leader 
of  tbe  Catholic  party,  and  bis  French  patrons.  It  seems  now, 
however,  that  Mwanga  was  simply  captured  because  he  refused 
to  punish  the  murder  of  a  Protestant  chief,  and  that,  in  conse- 
quence of  this,  the  French  forces  in  overwhelming  majority  at- 
tacked Lugard's  command.  Only  after  this,  Captain  Lugard  took 
the  offensive,  and  drove  the  enemy  with  great  losses  to  Budda. 
It  will  be  interesting  to  know  whether  the  French  papers  will 
now  express  some  regret  for  their  nncalled-for  attacks  upon  the 
British  authorities. 

The  election  of  Sir  Charles  Dilke  to  Parliament  gives  to  the  Lib- 
eral party  anew  the  services  of  one  of  the  ablest  statesmen  of 
Great  Britain.  Whether,  however,  his  usefulness  will  not  be 
greatly  hampered  in  consequence  of  the  stigma  that  attaches  to 
him  since  the  Dilke-Crawford  scandal,  is  very  doubtful.  His  ex- 
traordinary ability  may  enable  him  to  render  himself  useful  to 
his  country,  even  under  such  aggravating  circumstances,  but  it  is 
not  likely  that  he  will  ever  again  hold  a  very  prominent  political 
position. 

The  small  majority  by  which  Mr.  Gladstone  was  elected  mem- 
ber for  Midlothian  shows  more  than  anything  else  how  much  his 
popularity  has  been  waning  of  late.  Even  the  Scotch,  amongst 
whom  he  formerly  had  so  many  stauncb  friends,  have  lost  their 
confidence  in  him,  and  that  England  does  not  approve  of  his 
Home  Rule  plans  for  Ireland  was  shown  by  the  result 
of  the  general  elections,  for  the  number  of  Glads tonians 
representing  British  constituencies  is  very  small  in  comparison  to 
that  of  the  Unionists.  If  Mr.  Gladstone  wants  to  push  through 
any  measure  whatever  in  the  new  Parliament,  he  is  entirely  de- 
pendent upon  tbe  support  of  tbe  Irish  members,  and  the  latter 
are  able  to  dictate  to  hini.-and  in  case  of  refusal  to  obey  them, 
may  oust  him  from  power  at  any  moment. 

The  deplorable  ignorance  of  the  Russian  peasants  has  again 
been  demonstrated  by  the  riots  in  Astrakham,  where  the  mob 
attacked  the  physicians  and  destroyed  the  cholera  hospitals,  in- 
cited by  the  foolish  delusion  that  the  cholera  patients  were  being 
poisoned.  The  Government  had  to  employ  military  power  in 
order  to  interfere,  and,  although  the  Russian  authorities  make 
rather  free  ose  of  the  soldiery,  nobody  will  blame  them,  under 
the  circumstances. 

The  threat  of  tbe  German  Government  that,  in  case  of  necessi- 
ty, Prince  Bismarck's  attacks  would  be  silenced  by  commencing 
legal  proceedings  against  him,  seems  less  likely  to  be  realized  at 
present  than  ever.  The  ex-Cbancellor  has  never  for  a  moment 
shown  the  slightest  sign  of  fear,  but  the  Government  has  most 
plainly  indicated  by  its  action  that  it  does  not  dare  to  do  what  it 
would  like  to  do. 

The  Russian  Government,  not  long  ago,  had  it  officially  an- 
nounced that  the  famine  was  practically  over,  and  the  special 
committee,  under  the  presidency  of  the  Czarevitch,  declared  that 
"  in  view  of  the  satisfactory  condition  of  public  alimentation,"  it 
has  been  found  possible  to  stop  further  activity.  8ince  the  be- 
ginning of  this  month,  the  collections  made  in  the  churches,  hith- 
erto, every  Sunday,  for  the  famine  sufferers,  have  been  sus- 
pended, and  other  collections  have  also  ceased.  This  seems 
rather  inappropriate,  for,  if  all  signs  do  not  deceive,  the  outlook 
from  those  provinces  which  suffered  most  from  last  year's  crops 
is  very  bad  again  this  year.  From  official  reports  published  this 
spring,  in  a  great  portion  of  the  Caucasus  and  trans-Caucasus  the 
locusts  have  destroyed  the  crops,  so  that  in  the  provinces  of  Tif- 


lis,  Batoum  Eiisabetopol  and  Erivan,  where  all  the  grain  has  been 
eaten  up,  there  is  no  hope  of  a  harvest  whatever.  If  it  is  con- 
sidered, in  addition  to  this,  that  in  Bessarabia,  Podolia,  Poltava 
Kherson,  Ekaterinoslav,  Voronesh  Orenberg,  the  Don,  Chernigoff 
and  the  Crimea  good  crops  cannot  be  expected  on  account  of  the 
ravages  of  the  worm  and  field  marmot,  it  may  be  acknowledged 
that  it  would  have  been  wise  to  continue  the  collections,  even  as 
merely  prophylactic  measures. 


THE  alarming  story  has  reached  town  that  Mr.  Christopher 
Buckley  has  been  going  over  Mr.  Jere  Lynch's  tracks,  and  is 
himself  preparing,  with  the  assistance  of  Mr.  Jere  Driscoll,  a 
book  on  Egypt.  Mr.  Buckley's  book  will  be  a  complete  denial 
of  everything  Mr.  Lynch  has  said  about  that  interesting  country. 
He  will  take  the  high  ground  that  the  tombs  of  the  Pharaohs 
visited  by  Mr.  Lynch  were  not  tombs  at  all,  but  the  remains  of 
ancient  brickyards.  His  views  of  Cairo  are  diametrically  opposite 
to  those  entertained  by  Mr.  Lynch.  It  perhaps  never  has  oc- 
curred in  the  history  of  travellers  that  any  two  men  so  disagreed 
about  the  Nile  as  Mr.  Buckley  and  Mr.  Lynch.  The  latter  gen- 
tleman describes  this  venerable  stream  as  broad  and  muddy.  Mr. 
Buckley  says  it  reminds  him  of  the  Pescadero,  in  San  Mateo 
county.  Mr.  Buckley  is  positive  that  Moses  was  born  in  one  of 
the  midland  counties  of  Ireland,  and  came  over  to  Egypt  origi- 
nally with  a  cargo  of  potatoes,  when  he  was  arrested  for  not 
complying  with  the  rigid  custom  house  laws  which  then  existed 
in  that  country.  Also,  that  when,  by  bribing  the  officials,  he  got 
free,  sold  his  cargo  and  went  into  politics,  the  first  attempt  he 
made  to  run  the  primaries  in  Thebes  was  a  success.  AH  this  and 
much  more  will  appear  in  Mr.  Buckley's  book.  What  the  re- 
viewers will  say  about  it  is  another  question. 


A  CALL  reporter,  writing  of  a  visit  made  to  the  training  quar- 
ters of  Danny  Needham  and  Sam.  Fitzpatrick,  the  prize 
fighters,  on  Wednesday,  says  that  "  the  reporter  engaged  both 
men  in  friendly  conversation."  This  is  an  evidence  of  more  wis- 
dom on  the  part  of  the  reporter  than  one  might  expect  from  a 
delver  in  the  Clay-street  Dungeons.  That  the  display  of  wisdom 
by  a  Call  reporter  is  worthy  of  note  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  the 
paper  publishes  the  interesting  statement  that  its  representative 
engaged  the  prize  fighters  in  "friendly"  conversation.  Now,  if 
the  reporter  had  engaged  the  bruisers  in  "  unfriendly  "  conversa- 
tion, there  would  have  been  no  need  for  comment.  It  would 
have  been  in  the  natural  course  of  events,  and  the  only  record 
ever  made  of  the  results  would  probably  be  one  descriptive  of  a 
sudden  death*  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  training  quarters. 
It  is  with  some  satisfaction  that  we  make  mention  of  the  friendly 
conversation  tbe  Call  reporter  had  with  the  prize  fighters,  for  we 
feel  that  if  the  prize  ring  champions  are  with  it,  the  Call  may  be 
heard  of  yet. 

THE  London  I'iihes,  it  seems,  has  at  last  come  to  its  senses  re- 
garding the  disposition  toward  England  in  America.  The 
Thunderer,  which  for  years  has  fired  its  heaviest  guns  at  the 
United  States,  has  at  last  admitted  tacitly  that  we  are  not  as  bad 
as  we  are  painted,  and  that  good  may  come  out  of  Nazareth  after 
all.  The  Times  now  devotes  much  space  to  the  affairs  of  this 
country,  which  were  formerly  disposed  of  by  the  great  London 
sheet  in  brief  paragraphs.  It  is  an  evidence  of  a  better  feeling 
between  the  United  States  and  the  mother  country,  that  the  lead- 
ing paper  of  Europe  should  thus  change  front.  Most  of  the  fool- 
ish talk  regarding  antipathy  to  England  in  the  United  States  has 
been  caused  for  political  motives,  and  there  is  no  truth  in  it. 
Though  of  two  countries,  our  people  are  of  one  family,  and  are 
natural  allies. 

THE  union  miners  strenuously  object  to  being  coerced  by  the 
colored  troops.  They  ought  to  feel  that  General  Ruger  has 
given  them  an  advantage  by  ordering  the  darkies  to  the  front. 
Cool  and  collected  riflemen  are  always  instructed,  when  repelling 
a  charge,  not  to  fire  until  they  see  tbe  whites  of  their  adversaries' 
eyes.  And  as  the  whites  of  the  eyes  of  a  colored  warrior  may 
be  easily  discerned  fifty  yards  beyond  the  sclerotic  of  the  Cauca- 
sian, the  advantage  is  clearly  on  the  miners'  side.  Then,  as  the 
whites  are  getting  picked  off  by  the  colored  rioters  in  the  South, 
the  business  has  an  air  of  impartiality  about  it. 


COLONEL  MENTON,  that  ever  popular  railroad  man,  will  have 
charge  of  the  excursion  to  Ukiah  to-morrow.  Tbe  train  will 
leave  at  8  a.  m.  The  pleasure  seekers  will  have  four  hours  at  Ukiah, 
daring  which  they  may  visit  Vichy  Springs  or  the  Indian  reser.a- 
tion.  The  fare  for  the  round  trip  is  $2.00.  Tbe  road  is  good,  the 
cars  comfortable,  tba  management  excellent,  the  scenery  delight- 
ful, and,  withal,  the  excursion  is  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  leav- 
ing town. 

THE  midweek  Sabbath  In  Oakland  is  a  dead  failure.  The 
money  changers  will  not  leave  the  shop  to  abide  in  tbe 
temple,  even  for  a  little  space.  Times  are  too  hard,  revivals  come 
high,  and  Oakland  at  this  period  must  take  its  religion  plain,  or 
not  at  all. 


July  23    1892. 


8AN  FRANCIS*  0  NEWS  LETTER. 


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o-:r,:e^t 
SEMI-ANNUAL   CLEARANCE    SALE. 


THE  ■*  hit  "  necklace  wilt  be  a  boon  to  the  woman  of  meagre 
charms,  ll  is  composed  of  sapphires  and  pearls  or  rubies  and 
diamonds,  intertbreaded  in  a  sort  of  latticework;  or  there  may 
be  several  rows  of  jewel?*  forming  a  collar,  with  n  jewel-set  fringe 
falling  below  and  much  deeper  in  front  than  on  the  sides.  A  new 
fancj  is  that  the  gems  shall  match  In  color  the  toilet  worn,  which 
restores  amethysts  again  to  favor.  All  colored  stones  are  much 
used,  as  there  seems  to  be  an  odd  revulsion  of  feeling  concerning 
diamonds,  so  common  have  they  and  (he<r  iiuniitaiion  become 
and  so  much  have  they  been  considered  good  monetary  invest- 
ments, **  for  diamonds  are  portable  and  diamonds  are  properly," 
so  runs  the  old  saying. 

Like  an  old  picture  was  a  wonderful  evening  gown  worn  by  a 
fair  young  maid  at  a  late  ball.  Il  was  of  white  brocade,  the  skirt 
hanging  straight  and  sheer  from  the  bust  to  the  feet,  the  full- 
gathered  bodice  girdled  with  a  long  sash  of  gold  gauae  passed  be- 
neath the  watteau  fulness  of  the  back  and  knotted  in  front  to  fall 
with  the  gown  to  the  slippered  feet. 

Young  girls  are  wearing  gowns  of  pink  or  blue  crepon  or  mus- 
lin, quaintly  trimmed  in  the  old  fashion  with  fl  junces  of  black 
cbantilly  lace.  There  is  one  about  the  shoulders  which  brings 
out  the  delicacy  of  the  youthful  flesh  tint,  another  at  the  edge 
of  the  skirt,  and  a  black  velvet  belt  with  a  rosette  and  long 
streamers  belt  the  waist. 

Pearls,  especially  those  of  odd  tints,  are  popular  this  season 
for  engagement  rings,  and  a  new  style  of  setting  for  the  diamond 
troth  ring  is  somewhat  similar  to  the  broad  gold  ring  worn  by 
men,  but  lighter  than  the  man's  ring.  In  this  band  are  imbed- 
ded three  diamonds,  the  largest  in  the  centre. 

S-edfern  makes  cloth  dresses  delightfully  decorative  by  means 
of  a  sleeveless  bodice  of  lace,  which  fastens  at  the  back  under  the 
little  coat  and  is  fitted  in  at  the  waist  with  many  rows  of  narrow 
ribbon.   These  replace  the  more  severe  waistcoat  for  dressy  wear. 

The  long  street  skirts  are  going  out  of  fashion,  and  in  their 
place  is  a  prettily  shaped  round  skirt,  which  just  touches  the 
ground.  Demi-trains  are  for  calling  and  house  wear,  and  long 
trains  appear  only  on  very  elaborate  occasions. 


Some  of  the  new  Leghorn  flats  are  oddly  trimmed  with  a  single 
band  of  biack  velvet  about  the  crown,  a  stiff  rosette  bow  with  a 
sparkling  rhinestone  buckle  in  front  and  a  mass  of  soft  loops  at 
the  back. 

The  old-fashioned  combs  of  our  grand-mothers  are  again  in 
vogue,  and  tower  in  tortoise  shell  carvings  or  gold  fillagree  in 
stately  height  above  the  soft  curls  and  puffs  of  the  chignon  mod- 
ern. 

White  pique  dresses  have  been  revived  and  are  worn  with  col- 
ored sashes  and  full  white  mnll  chemisettes  or  plastrons  beneath 
Figaro  jackets  for  dinners  and  high  teas. 


Hats  are  more  worn  than  bonnets  this  season,  and  the  indica 
tions  are  that  they  will  supersede  bonnets  for  a  time,  even  among 
middle-aged  matrons. 

Fringes  are  going  out  in  Paris.  The  hair  is  waved  down  either 
side  or  waved  back  from  the  forehead  carelessly,  as  is  most  becom- 
ing. 

Silk  skirts  are  to  be  used  for  street  wear,  with  jacket  waists  of 
eloth  of  the  color  prevailing  in  the  changeable  silk  of  the  skirt. 


The  latest  novelty  in  stockings  are  those  of  shot  silk,  made  in 
all  the  colors  now  worn,  and  harmonizing  with  every  costume. 

Venetian  satin  is  a  fashionable  material  for  wedding  gowns,  aa 
it  has  a  beautiful  sheen,  and  does  not  crush  or  wrinkle. 

The  latest  little  overjacket  is  called  the  Harrow,  and  is  first 
cousin  to  the  Eton,  with  strongfamily  resemblance. 

Slender  rings,  with  open,  heart-shaped  forms,  in  small  stones 
and  diamond  knots,  are  new  designs  in  rings. 

Pretty  cutaway  jackets  are  lined  with  silk,  as  the  fronts  ace  ap 
to  flare  and  show  lining. 

The  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Grant  avenue  and  Geary 
street,  has  a  never-failing  charm  for  those  who  enjoy  good  dinners. 
Those  at  this  favorite  restaurant  are  always  the  best. 


-o  uk- 


MAMMOTH    SURPLUS    STOCK 


-OF- 


SPRING  AND  SUMMER 

DRY  GOODS  AND  CLOAKS 


-NOW    BEING    CLOSED    OUT    AT- 


TREMENDOUS    REDUCTIONS. 

Every  Department  Brimming  With  Bargains- 
Gall  Early  and  Secure  a  First  Choice. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  California  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  June  30,  1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  four-tenths  (5  4-10;  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  de- 
posits, and  four  and  one-half  (4}£)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  de- 
posits, free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 

VERNON  CAMPBELL,  Secretary. 

Office— Cor.  Powell  and  Eddy  streets. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Francisco. 

For  the  half-year  ending  June  30,  1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 

the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent,  per  annu  m  on  term  deponits 

and  four  and  one-thhd  (4lA)  per  cent,  per  auuum  ouordiuary  deposits,  free 

of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 18J2. 

J.  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 
Office— No.  33  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  June  30, 1832,  a  dividend   has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  one-tenth  (5  1-10*  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Term  Depos- 
its and  four  and  one-quarter  (4\4)  per  ceut.  per  annum  on  Ordinary  De- 
posits, payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1,  1892. 
F  GEORGE  TOtJRNY,  Secretary. 

Office— 526  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

People's  Home  Savings  Bank. 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  this  bank  have  declared  a  dividend  for  the 
term  ending  June  30,  1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent, 
per  annum  on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  (4%)  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  from  taxei,  and  payable  on  and  after 
July  1, 1892.  J  E.  FaRNUM,  Secretary. 

Office— 805  Market  street,  Flood  Building.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 


Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Hibernia  Savings 
and  Loan  Society,  held  July  1,  1892,  a  dividend  was  declared  at  the 
rate  of  lour  and  one-quarter  {■{%)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits  for 
the  six  months  ending  June  30,  1092,  freu  from  all  taxes  and  payable  on 
and  after  July  1,  1892.  R.  J.  TOBIN,  Secretary. 

Office— Northeast  corner  Montgomery  and  Po=t  streets,  S.  F. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
The  Board  of  Directors  declare  a  dividend   for  the  term  ending  with 
June  30,  1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1  5)  per  cent,  per  annum 
on  Term  Deposits,  aud  four  and  one-third  per  cent,   per  annum  on  Or- 
dinarv  Deposits 'free  of  taxes,  payable  on  aud  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 
y       y         "  CYRUS  W.  CARMANY,  Cashier. 

Office— 101  Montgomery  St.,  Cor.  Sutter,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


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DESPITE  his  burden  of  years  Prince  Bismarck  quails  no  more 
before  a  tankard  of  beer  than  before  the  hand  of  a  pretty  girl. 
At  the  Artists'  Club  House  at  Munich  he  drank  from  a  five-litre 
tankard,  with  the  remark  that  he  could  empty  it  at  one  draught. 
Whether  he  actually  did  so  is  not  clear;  but  we  can  well  believe 
that  the  ex-Chancellor  was  not  boasting.  Deep  draughts  and 
plenty  of  them  have  always  been  an  flem  of  Bismarckian  policy; 
and  in  that  respect,  at  least,  he  has  never  changed.  On  his  way 
back  from  the  interview  with  the  five-litre  pot  the  Prince  dropped 
into  a  beer  garden,  and  while  awaiting  his  own  jug,  drank,  in 
the  comradeish  Munich  fashion,  from  that  of  an  old  smith  who 
sat  opposite  him.  Evidently  there  is  something  of  the  "  bursch  " 
still  left  in  the  old  Chancellor.  He,  like  Mr.  Gladstone,  is  a  stand- 
ing proof  of  the  healthiness  of  the  profession  of  politics.  For  forty  - 
years  or  more  he  has  had  an  enormous  weight  of  anxious  affairs 
upon  his  shoulders;  but  it  looks  as  though  much  water  would 
How  under  the  bridges  before  he  begins  to  seriously  feel  the  effect 
of  years. 

It  must  take  nearly  half  an  acre  of  glass  to  cover  the  flowers  of 
the  White  House  conservatory.  It  keeps  two  men  busy  all  the 
time  to  take  care  of  it,  and  tbe  finest  of  all  kinds  of  flowers,  from 
orchids  to  roses,  are  in  bloom  there.  There  are  broad  India  rubber 
plants,  which  are  worth  from  $50  to  $100  apiece,  and  there  are 
some  dowers  which  are  absolutely  worth  their  weight  in  gold.  On 
the  night  of  a  White  House  dinner  or  reception  the  whole  mansion 
is  decorated  with  flowers,  and  at  one  state  dinner  not  long  ago 
there  was  a  floral  piece  on  the  table  which  used  8,000  flowers  in 
its  making.  At  a  dinner  to  the  Supreme  Court  2,000  flowers  were 
used  to  make  a  temple  of  justice,  and  at  the  last  diplomatic  re- 
ception the  mantles  of  the  parlors  were  banked  up  with  flowers, 
and  at  another  time  they  were  covered  with  immense  double  tulips, 
rising  out  of  banks  of  green. 

That  extraordinary  freak  of  nature,  the  Orissa  twins,  has  arrived 
in  Bombay.  The  twins  are  bright,  intelligent  children  of  about 
four  years  of  age,  pretty,  and,  but  for  the  joining,  are  perfect  and 
well-proportioned  children.  They  are  attached  at  the  lower  part 
of  the  ribs  by  a  bone-and-flesh  formation,  of  about  four  inches  in 
diameter  and  six  inches  long.  The  joining  is  from  the  right  side 
of  one  child  to  tbe  left  side  of  the  other,  and  is  very  flexible,  al- 
lowing the  children  to  embrace  each  other,  walk  nearly  side  by 
side,  and  one  child  to  lie  on  its  back  while  the  other  sleeps  on  its 
side.  To  watch  their  movements  and  see  them  at  play  is  deeply 
interesting,  for  they  are  by  no  means  unsightly.  They  are  named 
Radhika  and  Dhudhika.  It  is  pretty  certain  that  the  children  have 
independent  brain  power,  for  on  occasions  they  will  resist  each 
other;  for  instance,  one  will  want  to  sit  down  and  the  other  to 
stand  up,  and  in  order  to  decide  the  question  it  is  necessary  for 
the  ayah  to  interfere. 

It  is  on  record  that  a  certain  Russian  nobleman  was  arrested 
for  conspiracy  and  condemned  to  Siberia.  He  was  seized,  forced 
into  a  carriage,  and  his  eyes  were  bandaged.  The  carriage  drove 
on  for  seven  nights  and  seven  days,  only  stopping  to  allow  the 
captive  and  his  guardians  to  take  food.  At  last  he  felt  that  the 
frontier  of  Siberia  must  be  reached,  and  as  his  bandage  was  taken 
off  he  could  not  refrain  from  a  cry  of  anguish.  Then  he  saw  that 
he  was  at  his  own  door.  While  r^e  imagined  that  the  carriage 
was  speeding  on  across  Russia  to  the  East,  it  was  merely  driving 
round  and  round  the  outskirts  of  St.  Petersburg.  The  fright, 
however,  cured  him  of  conspiracy. 

The  costliest  meal  ever  Herved,  according  to  history,  was  a 
supper  given  by  .Elius  Verus,  one  of  the  most  lavish  of  all  the 
Romans  of  the  latter  ds.ys,  to  a  dozen  guests.  The  eost  was 
6,000  sestertia,  which  would  amount  to  £48,500,  or  nearly  a  quar 
ter  of  a  million  dollars.  A  celebrated  feast  given  by  Vitellius  a 
Roman  Emperor  of  those  days,  to  his  brother  Lucius,  cost  a  little 
more  than  $200,000.  Suetonius  says  that  the  banquet  consisted 
of  2,000  different  dishes  of  fish  and  7,000  different  fowls  besides 
other  courses. 

The  costliest  mats  in  the  world  are  owned  by  the  Shah  of 
Persia  and  the  Sultan  of  Turkey.  The  Shah  and  tbe  Sultan  each 
possess  a  mat  made  of  pearls  and  diamonds,  valued  at  more  than 
$2,500,000  The  largest  mat  ever  made  is  owned  by  the  Carlton 
Club  of  London  and  is  a  work  of  art. 

When  an  Egyptian  dog,  wishes  to  drink  at  the  Nile  he  goes  a 
short  distance  up  the  river  and  howls  for  some  time.  The  croc 
odiles  being  attracted  by  the  sound,  immediately  crowd  to  the 
place,  while  the  dog  hastily  runs  to  the  part  which  the  crocodiles 
have  left  and  drinks  in  safety. 


-BJL.3ST3CS. 


.      BANK    OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,175,000 

Southeast  corner  Bash  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;   Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES—  Kamloops,  Nauaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank:  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland ;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bauk 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

532  California  Street.  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30, 1891 $33,31 1,001  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus  1,346,035  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Albsrt  Miller,  Pr  esident;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;    Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  ou  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  <k  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  S. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVIN6S  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

80S  Market  Street   (Flood  Building),  San   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital |1, 000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits I     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital 333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS  WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  MCDONALD Vice-Presideut 

J.  E.  FAENUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN- Attorneys 

This  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, in  sums  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  6ERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND S    1 ,645,000  OO. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Officees— President,  L.  GOTTIS;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGER8  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Elruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabboe. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICEES. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooter 
James  Phelau,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

IS.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscried  Capital $2,600,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $660,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bant 
(Ltd.), No.  10  Wall  St., N.  Y.    PARTS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  (Reserve  Fund 705,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  Court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Sellgman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    )  „a„ 

P.  N.  ULIENTHAL,  1  Managers. 


July  23,  1392. 


BAN  FRANCI8C0  NEWS  LETTEB 


23 


B^HTKS. 


WHO    KNOWS- /Mi id  Banh  Sickle. 

Who  knows  we  have  not  lived  before 

Id  forms  that  felt  delight  and  pain. 
If  death  is  not  the  open  door 

Through  which  we  pass  lo  life  again! 
The  fruitful  seed  beneath  the  sod 

In  infant  bud  and  bloom  may  rise: 
But  by  the  eternal  laws  of  God 

It  is  not  quickened  till  it  dies. 

The  leaves  that  tremble  on  the  tree 

Fall  'neath  the  stroke  of  autumn's  storms: 

But.  by  some  mighty  mystery. 
With  spring  return  in  other  form*. 

As  currents  of  the  surging  sea 
From  undiscovered  sources  How 

So  what  we  were  aud  yet  may  be. 
In  this  brief  life  we  may  not  know. 

But  oft  some  unexpected  gleams 

Of  past  and   unremembered  years 
Break  through  the  doorway  of  our  dreams 

And  some  familiar  face  appears; 
A  gentle  spirit,  lost  awhile, 

Amid  the  change  from  death  to  birth, 
Whose  beaming  eye  and  loving  smile 

Recall  some  former  scenes  of  earth. 

And  thus  unconscious  of  the  tie 
The  mystic  link  that  love  creates, 

Perhaps  we  see  our  own  who  die, 
In  newer  forms  and  other  states. 

Perhaps  with  every  cycle  passed 

Id  all  the  ages  yet  to  be, 
Our  loved  will  come  to  us  at  last, 

As  parted  waters  find  the  sea; 

»ot  wholly  clad  as  they  were  seen 

When  death  unbound  their  robes  of  clay; 

But  with  seraphic  face  and  mien, 
And  souls  that  cannot  pass  away. 


WIT   AND    BEAUTY—  Mary  Ware  in  New  Orleans-  Times- Democrat. 

Wit  and  beauty  went  together, 

Sporting  on  a  summer's  day. 
Would  you  think  it? — in  a  meadow, 

All  among  the  new  mown  hay, 
Wit  and  beauty  found  a  maiden, 

Bright  and  beautiful  as  day. 

Wit  and  Beauty  loved  the  maiden, 

For  her  face  was  very  fair; 
All  the  roses  of  the  meadow 

Seemed  to  blossom  brighter  there — 
Hiding  'mid  the  roguish  dimples, 

And  the  sunshine  of  her  hair. 

Wit  and  Beauty  thought  no  music 

Half  so  pleasant  as  her  voice, 
Rippling  through  the  blooming  meadow, 

Till  the  birds  would  cease  from  choice, 
Folding  soft  their  gleeful  pinions, 

To  list  the  merry  maiden's  voice. 

Fashion  with  her  courtly  splendors 

Never  won  them  back  again, 
Though  she  wooed  and  pressed,  forever 

Bid  she  loose  them  from  her  train; 
Wit  and  Beauty,  happy  rustics, 

In  the  country  still  remain. 


TIME   AND   LOVE— Robert  Brown,  Jr. 

Sly  old  Time  took  little  Cupid, 

Tied  a  kerchief  o'er  his  eyes; 
Turned  him  round,  exclaiming,  "Stupid, 

Tell  me  where  your  true  love  lies." 
Long  as  moon  shall  shine  above, 
Time  will  play  his  tricks  on  love. 
Cupid,  of  his  power  reminded, 

Showed  old  Time  what  he  could  do; 
And,  that  though  his  eyes  were  blinded, 

Yet  his  heart  would  guide  him  true. 
Long  as  suns  the  heavens  shall  climb, 
Love  will  foil  the  tricks  of,Time. 


Geo.   A.  Low, 
N,  Van  Bergen, 
ThomaB  Jennings, 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 
8u?piSi  *s.ooo,ocr  oo 

Undivided  Profit.  .(July  i,..  3  Stj'bIB  « 

*«.  ALVORI).  President.  ' 

Tao»»i  B»o»k  OuhtorlB.  MOBSAT.Jr       .AuliUut Oaalii,  r 

Irviso  P.  Moulton.  ind  Auktul  Cashier  «■«"« 

v  ..       ,»     Hf,?°c'  °'   tlle  B»nlt  ol   California;    BOSTON— Tremont 
B^rVw'VK' W    'S.;,"0''"J""  National  Bauk;    ST.  WOT8-Bt,atman 
?mix       «      ZEALAMi-lhe   Bank  of   Now  Zealand.    Correspondent  In 
jTan  and  In'trilia     Rothschl,d  *  8°"»-   Correspondent* In  India,  China 

niS™i°i'1'"  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  In  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  aud  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Clout 
on  Nitr  v°„  i1,'  lBBH?A  aTailab'e  '"  «"  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
??ncInT,2i?  p„2?8^C  ,  ca?°'  8V  K"1"'  Now  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
„aSV™,5?^,a'of,,iUfle."'  Loudon,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen 
?'," hnXi'J '* "Wort-ou-the-Main  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Slock: 
Sni"' KCHBtla1a'  Loc;"n°.  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auekland.Tlongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Qenoa,  and  all  cltlesjn  Italy  and  Swltierland. 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 

„  .  i,,  ,    ,R-  w-  t'orner  Sansome  and  Ilu-.li  streets. 

Established  1870.  it    8    !)„„„„.„„.,, 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) Ui  "•      T,  siK'o,, 

SURPLUS $600,000  1  UNDIVIDED    PROFITS. II  60  000 

8.  S.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN         Cashier 

JAMES  MOPFITT.. .  .Vice-President  I  GEO.  W.  KLINE. ....] '. ! Ass't Cashier 

DIRECTORB: 

George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

James  D.  Phelan,  James  Molfitt. 

John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey 

A  General  Banking  Bnslnes.4  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $6  to  ?100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
tno  renter),  for  the  care  ol  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BA„lUJDMTeiir~ 

Authorized  Capital J3,500,000     |     Capital  paid  up 2  460  000 

Reserve "45o'ooo 

San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  |  London  Office 73  Lombard  St   E  C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1005  A  Street.    "    ' 
Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  <fc  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY.  ~ 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

JOirectors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  P.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm..  P.  John- 
son, C.  P.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Bhepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  Loudon— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  GOMPANY— BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutler  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CiPITAL $     500,000  00 

SURPLUS 5,488.393.12 

CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $    5,988,393  00 

DIRECTORS: 
Lloyd  Tevis,  President:  Jno.  J.  Valentine,  Vice-President;  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Chas.  P.  Crocker.  J.  C.  Fargo,  Oliver Eldridge,  Wm.  Norris,  Geo.  E.  Gray 
and  W.  P.  Goad.    H.  Wadsworth,  Cashier. 
Receive  Deposits,  issues  Letters  of  Credit,  and  transact  a  General  Bankin 
Business. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market.  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL (1 ,000,000. 

DIRECTORS  : 
CHAS.  P.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  Jb. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER   Cashier 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $800,OCo 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary B.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  S.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 

"HUMBOLDT  SAVINSS  AND  LOAN  SOCiETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.   WEBER, President  |  ERNST   BRAND Secretary. 

E.  D.  JONKS. 

S.  L  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers   and   Commission   Merchants, 
207  and  208  California  Street. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


THE  LONGS  AND  THE  SHORTS. 

18  a  man's  mental  ability  affected  in  any  way  by  his  stature? 
That  is  a  question  which  has  of  late  been  causing  considerable 
discussion  among  those  who  delight  in  investigating  interesting 
problems.  That  a  sound  body  is  requisite  to  a  sound  mind  is  a 
proverb  that  has  almost  universal  belief,  but  that  the  sound- 
ness of  the  mind  is  increased  in  any  way  by  the  increasing  sound- 
ness of  the  body  has  never  been  shown  to  the  satisfaction  of  phy- 
siological students.  That  is  to  say  it  has  not  been  satisfactorily 
determined  that  a  man  of  ordinary  mental  capacity  and  ordinary 
strength,  would  find  his  mental  capabilities  increased  by  the  de- 
velopment of  his  muscles,  and  the  improvement  in  the  condi- 
tion of  his  interior  arrangements.  In  fact  it  has  been  held,  and 
with  mucb  truth  that  tbe  abnormal  increase  in  physical  strength, 
as  a  rule  causes  a  decrease  in  brain  power.  But  tbe  point  of  this 
article,  however,  is  to  endeavor  to  demonstrate  that  there  have 
and  are  just  as  many  men  of  mental  might  who  were  pigmies  in 
stature,  as  men  who  were  giants.  "Exceeding  tall  men  have  very 
empty  heads,"  said  Lord  Bacon;  but  then  Bacon  is  not  to  be  be- 
lieved literally,  for  when  he  penned  the  sentence  quoted  he  had 
evidently  in  his  mind  some  of  the  statuesque  coxcombs  of  his 
days  whose  figures  were  their  fortunes.  Then,  Bacon  himself 
was  a  man  of  medium  height,  who  was  doubtless  envious  of 
others  who  made  a  more  dashing  appearance  in  their  doublet  and 
hose;  for  history  shows  that  even  the  greatest  of  men — 
men  who  would  be  presumed  to  be  above  the  littlenesses  of  the 
more  ordinary  fellows — are  often  consumed  with  envy  for  the 
handsome  appearance  of  those  less  fortunate  in  mental  endow- 
ments but  far  superior  in  physical  grace.  Such  a  feeling  it  must 
be  for  instance,  through  with  a  difference  that  consumes  that  il- 
lustrious warrior,  General  Bamberger,  who,  if  he  is  to  be  believed, 
alone  and  unassisted  put  down  the  rebellion,  when  he  gazes 
with  irrrpeessable  admiration  upon  tbe  magnificent  figure  of  Brig- 
adier-General Dickinson,  when  that  gallant  soldier,  attired  in 
all  the  panoply  of  war,  rides  at  the  head  of  his  command.  But, 
then,  General  Bamberger  maybe  consolled  by  remembering  that 
the  great  Napoleon  was  so  small  a  man  that  he  was  called  tbe 
"  Little  Corporal "  by  the  giant  Grenadiers  who  went  to  death  at 
his  command.  Timour,  the  Tartan,  the  Lord  of  Asia  and  the 
Terror  of  the  World,  was  described  by  himself  as  "  a  puny,  lame, 
decrepit  little  wight."  Sir  Francis  Drake  was  a  small  man,  and 
the  famous  Admiral  Keppel  was  called  (1  Little  Keppel."  So  Gen- 
eral Bamberger  may  be  consoled.  So  may  those  other  equally 
well-known  strategists,  Johnny  Mone  and  General  Salomon. 
Mone  is  about  five  feet  tall,  without  his  never  absent  silk  hat, 
just  about  the  height  of  the  illustrious  Thomas  Moore.  Sir  Christo- 
pher Wren  was  even  smaller.  General  Salomon,  he  of  the  slouch 
hat,  the  eagle  eye  and  the  fiery,  untamed  mustachios,  knows  of 
course,  that  in  general  appearance  he  is  not  unlike  the  great  Alex- 
ander and  Philip  of  Macedon,  each  of  whom  scarce  reached  mid- 
dle height.  Attila,  the  "Scourge  of  God,"  was  broad-shouldered, 
thickset  and  sinewy,  and  held  to  his  purpose  with  as  much  deter- 
mination as  General  Salomon  shows  in  getting  a  Memorial  Day 
parade  under  way  on  time.  The  amount  of  ferocity  and  deter- 
mination that  may  be  concentrated  in  a  warrior  of  five  feet,  five 
inches  in  height,  has  always  caused  the  astonishment  of  students 
of  history. 

But  all  great  warriors  are  by  no  means  small  men,  as  witness 
Major-General  Ferrie  Kewen,  A.  A.  G.,  K.  0.  G.  T.,  and  C.  &  C, 
and  Captain  John  L.  Koster.  Kewen's  plumes  never  touched  a 
stratum  of  air  that  was  not  over  six  feet  from  the  ground,  except- 
ing, of  course,  instances  when  he  might  have  been  the  beau  cava- 
lier of  some  lady  fair,  and  Koster's  helmet-spike  points  to  the  em- 
pyrean at  an  elevation  of  some  seven  feet  above  terra  Jirma.  It 
was  of  one  of  these  well-knovfn  soldiers  that  it  was  said  he  al- 
ways wore  a  high  collar  round  his  neck,  so  as  to  prevent  him 
looking  over  and  getting  dizzy.  Other  tall  men  there  are  in  the 
community,  notable  for  the  seven  league  boat  rapidity  with  which 
they  make  successes.  There  is  John  H.  Wise,  for  instance,  who 
is  considerably  over  six  feet  high.  When  Mr.  Wise  was  a  Harbor 
Commission,  he  used  to  coil  himself  up  in  his  chair,  and  tie  his 
legs  in  knots  under  the  table  until  he  looked  like  an  ordinary  five 
footer.  When  he  untwined  himself,  however,  and  let  himself  out 
in  sections  as  he  arose  to  answer  some  protestaut  at  a  board  meet- 
ing, he  usually  so  startled  the  objector  that  the  protest  was  imme- 
diately withdrawn.  Governor  Irwin  was  also  a  tall  man.  Governor 
Bartlett,  on  the  other  hand,  was  of  the  short,  thickset  stature, 
like  that  of  Henry  E.  Highton,  which  has  distinguished  so  many 
famous  men.  In  the  political  world  there  is  no  rule  to  follow. 
President  Harrison  is  a  small  man — physically,  of  course — but 
there  have  been  many  tall  men  in  the  White  House.  Governor 
Markham  is  a  tall,  sinewy  man,  but  on  the  other  hand, 
Phil  Crimmins,  the  Little  Napoleon  of  Third  street,  is  a  little 
hop-o'-my-thumb  who  looks  like  a  boy.  His  eminent  confrere,  the 
Hon.  Mr.  Kelley,  is  short  and  stout,  and  Mr.  Ruef,  the  gentleman 
whom  tbey  so  much  admire,  is  also  a  small  man.  But  then,  to  keep 
up  the  balance,  there  are  Mike  Smith  and  long  John  Wilkins,  wl  o 
are  giants  in  sizs.  McMauus,  the  King  of  the  Potrero  and  the 
scourge  of  Butchertown,  is  of  the  short,  thick-set  variety;  while  his 
fellow  monarch  of  Cow  Hollow  towers  a  couple  of  feet  above  him 
In  all  pursuits  the  same  difference  is  seen.    One  fact  seems  estab- 


lished in  favor  of  small  men,  and  that  is  that  most  of  the  great  fun 
makers  are  little  fellows.  Joe  Jefferson  is  a  small  man,  and  to  take  a 
great  leap,  so  are  Frank  Daniels  and  Charley  Reed.  Edwin  Stevens, 
however,  has  been  a  good  comedian,  and  he  is  tall  and  gaunt. 
Among  the  lawyers  there  is  an  infinite  and  amusing  variety  of  heights 
and  weights.  Hall  McAllister,  one  of  the  best  lawyers  who  ever  took 
an  exception  to  a  ruling  of  a  California  court,  was  a  very  large  man. 
Judge  Coffey,  one  of  the  ablest  and  brightest  jurists  who  ever  graced 
the  bench,  cannot  be  more  than  a  couple  of  inches  over  five  feet. 
Most  of  the  Federal  Judges  have  been  tall  men.  Judges  Field  and 
Morrow  are  big  men,  and  so  was  Judge  Sawyer.  Judge  Hoffmann 
was  a  man  of  medium  height,  while  the  late  Judge  Riordan,  of  the 
Superior  Court,  who  in  the  opinion  of  his  contemporaries  was  as 
able  a  lawyer  and  as  learned  a  student  as  ever  practiced  law  in  this 
city,  was  about  five  feet  five  inches  high.  Some  of  the  boldest  of  our 
sailormen  are  below  medium  height,  while  others  are  very  tall.  There 
is  Commodore  Gutte,  for  instance.  On  ordinary  occasions  he  is  not 
much  more  than  five  feet  tall.  Sometimes,  though,  he  stands  on  his 
dignity,  and  his  height  increases.  Admiral  Nelson  was  only  five  feet 
four. 

A  notable  instance  of  difference  in  stature  is  that  shown  by  J  ohn 
Rosenfeld,  the  shipping  man  and  g.ain  merchant,  and  Carey 
Friedlander.  Friedlander's  feet  alone  are  nearly  as  big  as  Roseo- 
feld's  body.  It  may  be  in  this  big  man's  ease  that  Bacon's  say- 
ing is  proved.  The  study  of  the  sound  mind  and  sound  body 
theory  ia  productive  of  interesting  results. 

THERE  is  much  that  is  worthy  of  approval  in  the  political 
methods  of  the  Tillmanites  of  Columbia,  S.  C.  They  recently 
went  at  night  to  the  house  of  a  leader  of  the  opposing  political 
faction,  took  him  out  into  the  woods,  tied  him  to  a  tree,  and  gave 
him  sixty  lashes  on  the  bare  back  with  a  heavy  wagon  whip. 
Several  other  apponents  of  these  vigorous  partisans  have  been 
warned  to  keep  their  mouths  shut  if  they  would  escape  similar 
punishment.  Tillman,  the  leader  of  the  whip  lashers,  is  Governor 
of  the  Slate.  If  these  methods  were  introduced  into  this  city  by 
a  citizens'  committee,  organized  to  prevent  the  interference  of 
bosses  in  politics,  there  would  soon  be  a  great  diminution  in  the 
forces  of  the  vandals  of  Third  street  and  the  pirates  of  Powell 
street. 

"  The  Mumm,"  at  109  O'Farrell  street,  is  the  place  to  go  when  you 
want  a  good  drink  of  excellent  liquor.  This  bar  is  one  of  the  most 
popularin  tbe  city  among  men  who  care  for  only  the  best  drinks.  It 
is  centrally  located,  is  handsomely  fitted  up,  and  its  proprietors 
make  it  a  point  to  always  increase  the  comfort  of  their  guests. 

assessmenFnotice.  ~ 

Peep   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California:  loca- 
tion of  works,  Quijotoa,  Arizona. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  nineteenth  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  13)  of  Ten  10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  No.  23,  Nevada  .Block, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-fifth  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  22nd  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with   the   costs  of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Oal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Hakalau  Plantation  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Hakalau  Plan- 
tation Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327  Market  St  , 
San  Francisco,  California,  on  MONDAY,  the  1st  day  of  August,  at  the  hour 
of  11  o'clock  a  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve 
for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may 
come  before  the  meeting. 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  THURSDAY,  July  28,  at  2  o'clock  p.  m. 

E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

Office— 827  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Virginia  and  Gold  Hill  Water  Company, 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Virginia  and  Gold 
Hill  Water  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  compauy,  room  15, 
Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  st.,  Sau  Francisco,  Cal,  on  THURSDAY, 
the  28th  day  July,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  one  (1)  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  purpose 
of  electing  a  board  to  trustees  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  for  the 
transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting. 

W.  W.  STETSON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  July  11,  1892. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Lady  Washington  Consolidated  Company. 
Office  of  Lady  Washington  Consolidated  Company,  room  33,  Nevada 
Block,  309  Montgomery  st.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  July  13,  1892.  The  annual 
meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  above  named  compauy  for  the  election 
of  directors  to  serve  for  the  eusuing  year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other 
business  as  may  be  presented  will  be  held  on  WEDNESDAY,  July  27th. 
1892,  (the  last  Wednesday  in  July),  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  on  that 
day,  at  the  office  of  the  compauy  in  this  city.  Transfer  hooka  will  be  closed 
on  Saturday,  July  23,  at  12  o'clock  M. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 


July 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  T.KTTER. 


IB5UNBEAAAS3 


*  M  At  Iv    '  a,n  8°*°*  *©t«U  >'" ,;  ioroelhlng;"  "  Yea.  dear. 
1V1  that  I  Hi  engaged   to   the  -.1.1  thing,  he  wants  the  ceremony  to 
take  place  at  nnce.     1  don't  know  what  todo."    "  Marrv  him  as  soon 
*»  JTOa  can.  darling.     His  relatives  will  hive  him  declared  insane  and 
spoil  it  all  if  you're  not  careful.  —Life. 

—  Druggist—  I  am  getting  up  a  new  patent  medicine,  and  1  want 
wrae  sfgna  pointed,  >  —How  manv  words?  "  Not 
many."  Just  say  '  Take  l>r.  Squill 3*  Syrup  for  that  Tired  Feeling.'" 
"  All  right.    I'll  put  it  on  every  steep  hill  I  can  rind." 

— New  York  Weekly, 

Housekeeper—  Has  any  way  l>een   discovered   to  kill   the  pests 

that  destroy  carpets  Scientists— Yes,  madam.    Take  up  the 

carpets,  hang  them  on   a  line,  and  beat   them  with  a  heavy  stick, 
"Will  that  kill  the  inserts?  "    *'  Yes,  madam, if  you  hit  them." 

— New  York  Weekly. 

Now  doth   the  giddy  little  fly 

Begin  to  learn  to  skate, 
And  finds  his  choicest  rink  upon 

A  glassy  glabrous  pate.  —Puck. 

— —  Mist  Gait— Is  Miss  Julia  in?  Mr.Stubbs—  No;  she  went  a-walkin' 
jest  a  bit  ago.  His*  Gail— Did  she  take  her  fiancee  with  her?  Mr. 
Stubbs—  I— I  don't  b'lieve  she  did.  .She  jest  got  home  las' night,  an' 
I  kinder  guess  she  hain't  onpacked  it  yit.  — Judge. 

— —  Elderly  Stranger — How  do  the  people  in  your  section  of  the 
countrv  regard  the  Tariff  and  Silver  Questions,  sir?  Suburban  fte*t- 
dent— We  haven't  studied  'era  much— the  Servant  Girl  Question  is  oc- 
cupying all  our  attention,  just  now!  —Puck. 

——Hare?  and  Easy  Lives. — Little  Girl — My  papa  has  to  get  up  awful 
early  so  as  to  get  to  the  office  and  see  if  his  clerks  is  there  atiendin' 
to  business.  Little  Boy— My  papa  don't  have  to.  He's  one  of  the 
clerks.  —Good  News. 

Clubber Ig — Do  you  think  your  reception  is  going  to  be  as  much 
nf  a  success  as  Miss  van  Winkle's?  "  Miss  Pinkerly— Oh,  dear,  yes! 
Why,  she  had  only  five  detectives  at  hers,  and  there  are  six  here." 

— Judge. 

—  Snively— Do  you  believe  that  virtue  is  its  own  reward?  Snod- 
grass — I  think  it  must  be.  The  average  salary  of  clergvmen  in  the 
United  States  is  four  hundred  and  thirty-seven   dollars  per  annum." 

— Judge. 

Briggs — Why,  old  man,  I  thought  you  had  gone  away  on 

your  vacation.     1  saw  you  down  town  the  other  day  buying  a  lot 
of  outing  clothes.     Griggs  (sadly) — Yes.     That  is  why  I  didn't  go. 

— Clothier  and  Furnisher, 

—  Mrs.  Watts— Mary  Ann,  these  balusters  seem  always  dusty.  I 
was  at  Mrs.  Johnson's  to-day  and  her  stair-rails  are  clean  and  as 

.  smooth  as  glass.    Mary  Ann— Y is,  mum.    She  has  free  small  boys. 

— Indianapolis  Journal. 
P.  Gassus—Wh&t  a  magnificent  myth  that  is  about  Venus  ris- 
ing out  of  the  sea!     Camera  Fiend— Superb!— and  just  think  of  the 
opportunity  there  was  for  a  snap  shot !  — Puck. 

When  asked  what  State  he  hails  from 

Our  sole  reply  shall  be. 
He  comes  from  New  York,  Connecticut,  Rhode  Island,  New  Jersey, 
with  several  back  counties  in  other  commonwealths  to  hear  from, 
And  hl's  name  is  Grover  C.  — Buffalo  Express. 

^— Stranger— What  do  you  have  the  wires  on  that  barbed-wire 
fence  so  close  together  for?  Mississippi  Farmer—  So  that  when  the 
river  rises  we  can  use  it  for  a  fish-net."  — Judge. 

— —  Old  Soak— Where  have  you  been  lately?  Jaxun  —  Canoeing  on 
the  Brandy  wine.  Old  Soak— Ow!  why  didn't  you  invite  me  to  come 
along?  — Town  Topics. 

—  She  laid  her  head  upon  his  vest, 
And  next  day  he  was  seen 
Inquiring  for  some  liquids  rare 

To  take  off  bandohne.         — New  York  Herald. 
—-"Do  you  refuse  me  on  account  of  my  age?    I  am  only  55." 
"  That's  just  it."    "  You  may  live  fifteen  or  twenty  years  yet." 

—Indianapolis  Journal. 
— — '"Rastus  kissed  me  on  bofe  lips  larst  night,"  said  Dinah. 
"  Gwuffurn  hyah!    Not  bofe  at  once,  chile?  "  — Judge. 

"They  say  Henry  James  never    plays  billiards  any  more." 

"  Why  not?"    ''Somebody  once  criticised  his  English." 

—Chicago  News  Record. 

Alice— Oh,  Emma,  I  have  secured  an  engagement  as  typewriter. 

Emma  (with  an  admiring  look)— So  soon  I     When  is  the  wedding  to  be? 

Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield's  tailoring  establishment,  at  12  Post  St., 
is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  popular  sartorial  emporiums  in 
the  city.  During  the  many  years  that  this  gentleman  has  done 
business  in  this  city,  he  and  his'goods  have  always  enjoyed  an  excel- 
lent reputation.  Colonel  Litchfield  makes  a  specialty  of  army,  navy, 
and  National  Guard  uniforms  and  society  regalias. 

Laundry  Farm  is  not  excelled  as  a  pleasure  resort  witfiin  easy 
reach  of  the  city.  Since  its  opening  it  has  been  considered  one  of  the 
most  delightful  picnic  grounds  in  the  vicinity  of  San  Francisco.  It 
is  reached  by  the  California  railway,  which  also  runs  direct  to  Mills 
Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  is  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes  from  this 
city  and  forty  minutes  from  Oakland. 


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►i'ktki  amonnn  Ml  opposite  tht  umM  ..( Lha  roape.  lite 

.    •"-'»'"<-.  No.  Certificate.      No.  Snare*.     Amonnt, 

(,.  A.  Johnson  I  to  fi 

I      \. I. .hi,. ,.u  j  840  :i<> 

Lha.*.  t  arKou  7  30  ,, 

c.  Londbere.  ii  :,.„  ggg 

aim  lu  accordance  with  law.  and  an  order  of  the  Board  ..I  Director*,  made 
ou  the  I3lh  day  of  February.  1892,  ao  many  abUM  Ol  OaCb  parcel  Of  lUCtl 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  nt  public  auction,  al  the  Offlee  "I  the 
company.  No  9  Market  street,  San  Frauchjoo,  0*1.,  Oil  Friday,  the  1Mb  da] 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  bourof  12  o'clock  n.  of  said  day.  10  paj  Mid  dolls 
qoont  assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  adverllslnt  and  e 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MAI1I80N,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behriug  Sea  Packing  Coin- 

Rany,  this  day.  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  slock  was  pnstpo I  until 
[ONDA^  ,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1S92,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

„       „ JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Bchrlne  8ea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day.  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  positioned  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23.  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

ban  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behriug  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  Saturday 
July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON.  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23,  1892. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Alta     Silver    Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works-Gold  Hill,  Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  Saturday,  the  18th  day  of  June,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  42,  of  Fifteeu  (15) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  Room.  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Twenty-sixth  Day  of  July,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  sixteenth  day  of  August,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co. California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Peerless  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works— Quijotoa,  Arizona 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  6th  day  of  July,  1892,  an  Assessment  (No  18)  of  5  cett?  per  share  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  8tates  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room 
23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
The  Eleventh  Day  of  August,  1 892,  will  be  delnquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  txpeu- 
ses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Union  Consolidated  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business—San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  Mining  District.  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  18th  day  of  July, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  46)  of  twenty-five  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately in  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twanty-fourth  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore   will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  thirteeu  day  of  September,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
expe  A.  W.  BARROWS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  11,  303  California  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment    No.  69 

Amount  per  Share    ....26  cento 

Levied  ..     June  7, 1892 

Ddinqiient  in  Offlee July  12, 1892 

Dav  of  Bale  of  Delinquent  Stock Augusts  1892 

uay  oi  oaie  o  ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 

Office— Room,  69  Nevada  Block,  SOJ  Montgomery  street,  San  Fi  anoisco, 
California. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour  is  lower;    foreign    demand  fair;    Extras  $4.40@H5O:   Superfine 
?2.75<a$3.10 
Wheat  is  dull;    light  trade;   Shipping,  $1.35:  Milling,  J1.40@S1.45  per 

Barley  is  quiet:  Brewing,  95c.@?*1.02!,2  Feed,  87V2C@?1.00  per  etl. 

Oats.  Milling,  »1.40@S1.4">;  Feed,  *1.30@|1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1.30;  Yellow,  fl.25@Sl.87j -per  etl. 

Eye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  S1.30@S1.35.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  S10;  Oats,  SK'SSW;  Alfalfa,  S7@S9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  |1S@I18.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  S2.00;dJ?2.;".0  per  ctl.     Potatoes.  45?.@7oe.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady :  CIioh'l',  -ium,/..::1  ...■. :  Fair,  lCe.wl.e:  Eastern,  llcln:!."'. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@sc.    Eggs,  free  supply,  22c.@24c. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc.@12c. :  Extracted,  5c.@6c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  25c@50c.    Beeswax  is  higher,  at  25c.@2Gc. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  active. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7}aC.      Wool  is  In  good  demand  at  llc.@lGc. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  7c@7!4c. 

Coffee  firmer  at  I5c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  lower,  with  a  declining  tendeucy.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.  Hops  are  neglected  at  15@17c. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites.  4?.2@5%c. 

Tbe  overland  route  Eastward  for  the  month  of  June  carried 
largely  of  borne  products,  say  in  all  32,289  tons,  being  an  increase 
over  that  of  same  period  last  year  of  10,909  tons,  and  this  in  tbe 
face  of  a  large  diversion  of  our  products  by  steam  and  ship.  This 
is  truly  an  encouraging  outlook,  and  illustrates  the  steady  growth 
of  California.  The  exact  figures  for  the  month  of  June,  1892,  are 
as  follows:  32,289  tons;  June,  1891,  21,380  tons,  andsinoe  January 
1st,  1892,  144,935  tons;  since  June  1st,  1891,  133,067  Ions.  8ugar 
was  an  important  item  in  the  above  shipments,  and  also  that  of 
Tea,  Coffee  and  Silk  ;  but  otherwise,  Citrus  and  Deciduous  Fruits, 
dried,  canned  and  green,  were  leading  items.  Also  Wool,  Hops, 
Potatoes  and  other  Vegetables.  Wines  were  also  quite  prominent 
in  the  list,  which  is  too  large  for  farther  reference. 

Tbe  steamship  San  Juan,  16  days  from  Panama,  to  P.  M.  8.  S. 
Co.,  had  a  large  and  valuable  New  York  cargo,  consisting  in  part 
of  459  pkgs.  Sheetings.  Iron  Pipe,  Wire,  185  cs.  Slates,  Paints,  etc. 
Also,  from  Europe,  220  cs.  Sardines,  600  cs.  Champagne,  100  dms. 
Glycerine,  45  cs.  Cheese  and  150  pkgs.  Mdse.  From  South  Amer- 
ica, 100  bags  Cocoa;  from  Central  America,  1,134  bags  Coffee, 
etc.;  from  Mexico,  1,594  cs.  Limes,  46  crts.  Mangoes,  15  crts. 
Pineapples,  and  in  Treasure,  $21,398. 

The  strur.  Signal  sailed  for  Mexico  on  the  14th  inst.  with  30  flks. 
Quicksilver,  2,431  ctls.  Corn,  80,000  lbs.  Dynamite,  16,583  lbs. 
Blue  Stone,  183,441  lbs.  Beans,  162  bales  Hay  and  Mdse.,  value 
$34,309. 

The  ship  Jabez  Howes  sailed  for  New  York  on  July  14th  ,  carry- 
ing a  large  and  valuable  Cargo,  consisting  of  90,542  gals,  Wine, 
15,768  gals.  Whale  Oil,  100  bales  Rags,  100,915  lbs.  Borax,  935,544 
lbs.  Beans,  106,720  lbs.  Bone  Black,  7,105  ctls.  Barley,  7,416  cs. 
Canned  Goods,  6,000  cs.  Canned  Peaches,  7,000  lbs.  Copper  Matte, 
15  pkgs.  Household  Goods,  37  bags  Leather  Scraps,  2,681  gals. 
Brandy,  etc. 

Sugar  Imports  from  Hawaii  are  still  in  order.  On  Sundry  last 
the  arrivals  were  Br.  ship  Benmore  to  Williams,  Dimond  &  Co. 
with  32,016  bags,  22  days  from  Honolulu;  tbe  schr.  Golden  Shore, 
17  days  from  Mahukona  with  22,772  bags  to  same  consignees; 
Bark  Albert,  18  ds.  from  Honolulu,  had  18,254  bags.  The  S.  C. 
Allen,  17 J  ds.  from  Honolulu,  to  Welch  &Co.,  brought  18,511  bags; 
Brig  Lurline,  18  days  from  Hilo,  had  for  Cargo  7,911  bags;  W.  H. 
Dimond.  17}  days  from  Honolulu  to  J.  D.  Spreckels  Bro.  &  Co., 
had  5  067  bags  Rice,  etc.,  Bark  Caplon,  20  days  from  Honolulu, 
had  14,904  bags  Sugar. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  City  of  Peking,  22  ds.  from  Hongkong,  via 
Yokohama  14  days,  had  for  Cargo  11,320  mats  Rice,  4,040  pkgs. 
Tea,  1,834  pkgs.  Oil,  5,304  bags  Sugar,  65  bags  Spice,  83  pkgs. 
Tapioca,  679  bags  Coffee,  940  sks.  Beans,  2,100  bales  Calcutta 
Gunnies,  2,500  pkgs.  Mdse.,  etc. ;  also  in  transit  to  go  overland  11,- 
881  pkgs.  Tea,  489  pkgs.  Raw  Silk  and  1,000  pkgs.  Mdse;  for 
Central  and  South  America  279  pkgs.  Mdse. 

Tahiti— The  City  of  Papeete,  44  days  thence,  to  J.  Pinett,  had 
for  cargo  21,000  Cocoanuts,  196  tons  and  750  bags  Copra,  224  bbls. 
and  sks.  and  17  tons  Mother  of  Pearl  Shells,  76  bales  Fungus,  26 
bales  Cotton,  etc. 

San  Jose  de  Guatemala— The  strur.  Grandholm,  to  E.  L.  G. 
Steele  had  2.150  bags  Coffee. 

Wool  for  Boston — The  ship  J.  Howes  carried  hence  via  New 
York,  134.425  lbs.  The  City  of  Puebla,  hence  for  Victoria, 
via  Canadian  Pacific  Railway,  8,534  lbs.,  value,  $4,700.  The 
Walla  Walla,  by  same  route,  carried  14,099  bags,  value,  $3,300. 

Antwerp — Ship  British  Yeoman,  thence,  had  for  cargo  Chemi- 
cals in  large  quantities.  2S.637  cs  Envelopes,  50  cks.  Chickory,  etc. 
Liverpool— Ship  Holt  Hill,  thence,  with  48,445  bxs.  Tin  Plate, 
4V6S  sks.  Salt,  250  sks  Wood  Pulp,  265  cs.  Beer,  200  bbls.  Cop- 
peras, 300  cs.  S  Ik.  160  tea.  Alkali,  etc.  Ship  Maux  King,  from  same, 
with  25.8S8  bag-  S  lit,  237  bbls.  Copperas,  500  bbls.  Soda  Crystals 
260  cks.  Soda  Ash,  etc. 


New  York — The  large  ship  Shenandoah,  111  days  tbence, 
brought  an  immense  cargo  of  Mdse.,  say  5,000  tons,  including  300 
bbls.  Rosin,  900  tons  Pig  Iron,  5,500  cs.  Oil,  Rails,  Iron,  and  10,- 
000  pkgs.  Mdse. 

Ban  Bias — The  schooner  Vine,  thence  to  George  &  Detrick,  had 
for  cargo  378  sks.  Ore  for  tbe  Selby  Smelting  Works. 

Tbe  steamer  San  Jose,  hence  for  Central  America  on  the  15th 
inst.,  carried  cargo  valued  at  $46,693,  consisting  in  part  of  2,681 
bbls.  Flour,  85,649  lbs.  Rice,  78  207  lbs.  Tallow.  13,585  lbs.  Beans, 
249  pkgs.  Machinery,  14">  pkgs.  Lard,  1,500  gals.  Wine,  etc. 

For  Mexico,  the  San  ,1-i^e  bad  82  bbls.  Beer  and  Mdse.,  value 
$1,311;  for  Panama,  18  39fi  lh«.  Sugar.  300  bbls.  Flour,  etc.,  value 
$5,000;  to  South  America,  1,800  bbls.  Flour  and  Mdse.,  value, 
$8,148. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  8an  Jose,  hence  for  the  Isthmus  June  15th,  car- 
ried, en  route  to  New  York,  28,000  gals.  Wine,  118  bales  Hags, 
244,640  lbs.  Borax,  550  gals.  Brandy,  32  bags  Leather  Scraps,  etc., 
value  $22,931. 

Grain  charters. — Br.  iron  ship  Mayhill,  2.057  tons,  Wheat  to 
Cork,  Havre,  Antwerp  or  Dunkirk,  £1  5s.  Br.  iron  ship  British 
Yeoman,  1.892  tons,  same  voyage,  prior  to  arrival,  £1  lis.  3d. 
Br.  iron  ship  Glencaird,  2,418  tons,  Wheat  to  Cork,  owner's  ac- 
count. 

Central  America, — The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  Colima,  hence  on 
the  18th  inst.,  carried  7,207  bbls.  Flour,  1,586  ctls.  Corn,  1,000 
ctls.  Wheat,  14.000  lbs.  Rice,  339  pes.  Machinery  and  Merchan- 
dise, value,  $04,365. 

Tbe  Colima,  for  Mexico,  carried  577  bbls.  Flour,  300  bales  Hay, 
2,293  lbs.  Tallow,  and  Merchandise,  value,  $16,612. 

Wheat  sacks At  last,  the  long  and  anxiously  looked-for  ship, 

The  Falls  of  Clyde,  has  arrived,  in  a  passage  of  155  days  from 
Calcutta,  to  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  with  5,500,000  bags,  besides 
other  Merchandise. 

The  place  to  send  your  clothing,  of  every  description,  when  you 
want  them  cleaned  or  dyed,  is  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dye  Works, 
of  J.  Spauldiug  &  Co.,  at  353  357  Tehama  street.  This  establishment 
is  the  leading  one  in  its  line  on  the  Coast.  It  makes  a  specialty  of 
cleaning  ball  and  evening  dresses,  all  its  work  being  done  with  the 
greatest  care  and  dispatch.  It  enjoys  the  patronage  of  the  city's 
leading  people. 


nsurance  Company, 
capital si  ,000,000,  |  assets 


$2,560,000. 

D.  J.  STAPLES President. 

William  J.  D0TTON Vice-President. 

B.  FAYMONVILLE Secretary 

J.  B.  LEVISON Marine  Secretary 

Agents  in  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.] 
CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SANSOME  STRtET, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BRANDER, 

President. 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURWE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up  %     50O.OC0 

Assets 3,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders    ...   1,526,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 

City  Office—  501  Montgomery  St.      General  Office— 401  Mont's,  St. 


FIDE 


INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  of  London,  Limited. 
Imperial  Insurance  Co.,  of  London,  Limited. 

WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

1'adfic  Branch,    214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

SWAIN  &  MURDOCH,  City  Agents. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS  PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  Interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehousesf 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
If  desired,  at  current  rateB. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


July  23,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


A  M»>ST  ingenious  machine  baa  been  contrived  for  use  in  the 
operations  of  wood-working,  which,  in  the  niceties  of  carv- 
ing  mooldlnga,  will  execute  a?  much  in  a  day  as  the  average  hand 
carver  can  produce  in  three  years  —  that  is,  it  will  produce  various 
designs  on  any  kind  of  wood,  any  length,  width  and  thickness 
of  alock,  and  perfectly  finishing  from  1,000  to  1,500  lineal  feel 
of  material  in  ten  hours.  Its  construction  is  simple,  so  that  the 
device  requires  but  four  by  three  feet  of  Moor  space.  The  die 
forms  the  rim  of  a  little  wheel,  under  which  the  moulding  is  fed, 
like  boards  into  a  planer,  the  die  being  kept  at  a  certain  degree 
of  beat,  and,  as  the  moulding  goes  under,  the  imprint  is  made. 
It  requires  no  special  practice  to  run  the  machine,  the  most  im- 
portant point  being  to  keep  the  die  at  the  right  heat,  the  die 
being  made  hot  by  the  flame  from  the  gas  pipe.  The  dryer  the 
wood  the  more  successful  the  carving,  nor  does  it  crack  or  break 
in  passing  under  the  severe  pressure  of  the  die,  but  comes  out 
as  flawless  as  if  done  by  band.  Many  patterns  of  dies  can  be 
adjusted  to  the  machine,  simple  or  elaborate,  equal  success  be- 
ing attained  with  both. 

The  process  of  manufacturing  plate  glass  has  recently  been 

much  simplified,  as  compared  with  the  system  commonly  in 
vogue,  according  to  the  claims  put  forth  for  bis  new  method  by 
a  new  invention.  It  consists  in  rolling  the  sheet  of  glass  on  a 
perpendicular  instead  of  a  horizontal  surface;  that  is,  it  is  rolled 
to  the  exact  thickness,  two  sheets  at  once,  which  come  out  fire 
polished,  as  well  as  free  from  waves  or  chill,  while  a  sur- 
face of  soapstone  prevents  it  being  scratched  or  marked  while 
cooling,  the  operations  of  grinding  down  and  polishing  being 
thus  dispensed  with.  It  appears  that  some  years  ago  the  inven- 
tor of  this  process  engaged  in  experiments  for  accomplishing  the 
result  now  realized,  but  failed,  the  surface  being  invariably 
spoiled  on  the  sheet  leaving  the  machine — a  difficulty  now  over- 
come by  a  metal  wheel  or  mould  which  passes  through  the 
rollers  and  supports  the  glass  plate.  The  metal  sheet  is  made  of 
high  carbon-nickel  steel,  and  a  very  great  economy  in  the  pro- 
duction of  plate  glass  according  to  this  plan  is  claimed. 

The  fact  has  been  often  referred  to  in  mechanical  opera- 
tions that  a  smooth  disk  of  steel  driven  at  a  high  speed  will  cut 
in  two  a  file  held  to  the  edge  of  the  disk.  It  is  asserted,  how- 
ever, that  the  principle  here  involved  has  really  failed  of  any 
practical  application  or  use  save  in  one  instance  named  by  Rich- 
ards, a  well-known  engineer,  who  states  that  it  wat>  employed 
on  a  certain  occasion  at  one  of  the  United  States  armories  in  pre- 
paring a  tennon,  or  reduced  section,  on  the  ends  of  tempered 
steel  ramrods,  such  as  were  used  in  loading  the  muskets  of 
some  twenty. five  years  ago.  The  material  was  hard  and  could 
not  be  cut,  in  consequence  of  which  resort  was  had  to  small 
wheels  of  iron  about  six  inches  in  diameter  and  one  inch  thick. 
These  were  driven  at  the  rate  of  some  6,000  revolutions  per  min- 
ute, melting  or  abrading  the  metal  away  instantly,  at  the  same 
time  drawing  the  temper,  so  that  a  screw  thread  could  afterward 
be  cut  on  the  end  of  the  tempered  rod. 

An  electrical  fountain  is  to  be  built  at  a  cost  of  $2,500  in 

the  city  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  the  money  being  provided  for  in  the 
will  of  a  late  resident  of  that  place.  The  plan  provides  for  a 
fountain  with  a  convex  mirror  basin  25  feet  in  diameter.  The 
water  will  spray  from  a  two-inch  pipe,  and  descending  will  fall 
through  irridescent  rays  produced  by  prisms  surrounding  a  400 
candle-power  electric  arc  light.  Rusticaity  in  the  general  effect 
18  aimed  at,  and  the  water  will  flow  into  a  central  reservoir  over 
rocks  and  grass.  It  will  be  the  only  fountain  similarly  con- 
structed in  the  world. 

Engravers  in  Germany  are  said  to  harden  their  tools  very 

satisfactorily  in  sealing  wax.  According  to  this,  the  tool  is 
heated  to  whiteness  and  plunged  into  the  wax,  withdrawn  after 
an  instant  and  plunged  in  again,  the  process  being  repeated  until 
the  steel  is  too  cold  to  enter  the  wax.  The  steel  is  said  to  be- 
come after  this  process  almost  as  hard  as  the  diamond,  and, 
when  touched  with  a  little  oil  of  turpentine,  the  tools  are  excelg 
lent  for  engraving  and  also  for  piercing  the  hardest  metal. 

A  new  publication  is  to  be  issued  monthly  by  the  secretary 

of  the  American  Institute  of  Electrical  Engineers,  which  will 
embrace  a  synopsis  of  each  patent  relating  to  electricity  granted 
daring  the  month.  The  patents  are  to  be  arranged  in  classes  and 
aab-classses,  with  numerical  and  alphabetical  indices. 

False  Economy 
Is  practiced  by  people  who  buy  inferior  articles  of  food  because 
cheaper  than  standard  goods.    Infants  are  entitled  to  the  best  food 
obtainable.    It  is  a  fact  that  the  Gail   Borden  "  Eagle  "  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk  is  the  best  infant  food.  Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 

Special  attention  given  to  all  cases  recommended  by  family  physicians 
free  of  charge.  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  135  Montgomery  street,  near 
Bush. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


THE    VENEZUELAN    REVOLT. 

THE  fierce  revolution  that  has  lately  distracted  Venezuela  (that 
is  "  Little  Venice,"  so  named  from  the  Indian  huts  built  on 
piles,  which  the  first  discoverers  found  in  the  shallow  waters  of 
Lake  Maracaibo)  seems  at  last  accounts  to  be  approaching  an  end, 
with  a  strong  probability  of  General  Crespo  coming  out  on  top. 
In  South  America  one  may  generally  bet  with  safety  on  the  in- 
surgents. Rebellion,  music  and  religion  are  the  chief  pursuits. 
Endemic  in  all  these  republics,  revolution  in  Venezuela  has  one 
peculiarity;  it  is  the  work  of  comparative  children.  School-boys 
and  half-fledged  students,  out  of  mere  love  of  romance,  start  a 
conspiracy  in  which  at  first  there  is  not  a  sensible  man;  but  it 
grows,  and  then  some  schemer  sees  in  it  his  opportunity.  The 
present  revolt  has  been  quite  exceptional  in  having  started  with 
men,  and  being  backed  unanimously  by  the  priesthood.  The 
grievance  is  that  Palacio  endeavored  to  avail  himself  of  a  new 
law,  intended  for  bis  successors,  allowing  four  years  of  office  in- 
stead of  two.  Fathers  Zuieta  and  Lopez  recalled  the  precedents 
of  ancient  days  by  leading  in  person  their  troops  to  victory,  in 
consequence  of  which  the  President  threatened  to  dissolve  the 
union  between  Church  and  State,  and  to  imprison  the  Archbishop, 
who  remained  obdurate.  Nominally  the  Church  is  independent 
of  Rome,  and  a  national  one,  having  been  so  declared  by  the 
Senate  at  the  instance  of  President  Guzman  Blanco,  some  years 
ago,  in  consequence  of  a  quarrel  of  his  with  the  Archbishop  of 
Merida,  as  to  the  nominees  from  Rome.  One  of  the  largest  con- 
vents in  the  world  was  shortly  afterwards  pulled  down  to  make 
a  site  for  the  present  Senate  House  of  the  republic.  Hence  the 
Church  has  no  particular  love  for  dictator  Presidents,  and  thought 
fhe  recognized  one  in  Doctor  Palacio,  whom  General  Crespo  has 
been  fighting.  If  the  latest  intelligence  be  true,  Crespo  has  been 
born  to  success  by  that  undying  belief  which  is  at  once  the  Utopia 
and  the  curse  of  the  whole  of  South  America — that  all  men  would 
be  nobles,  rich  and  brave,  if  only  a  right  government  could  be 
secured. 

The  turning-point  in  this  revolt  was  the  capture  of  Ciudad  Bol- 
ivar, on  the  Orinoco,  the  second  city  of  the  Republic.  Its  origi- 
nal name  was  Angostura  (Latin,  Angostke,  i.  c,  -'Narrows"  of  the 
great  river  on  which  it  stands).  The  early  name  is  suggestive  of 
cocktails,  for  it  was  here  thattbe  famous  Angostura  bitters  used  to 
be  made,  until  the  brothers  Siegert  concluded  that  British  terri- 
tory was  safer,  and  suddenly  fled  to  Trinidad,  where  they  carry 
on  their  trade.  The  other  name  recalls  the  fact  that  it  was  here 
the  Regenerator  held  his  first  independent  parliament.  The  cap- 
tured City  of  the  Bitters  has  now  a  ruined  aspect,  along  with 
a  certain  air  of  former  greatness,  as  it  stands  forsaken  on  a  lonely 
sandbank,  far  away  up  the  great  river  Orinoco.  Recent  accounts 
inform  us  that  both  romance  and  tragedy  attended  the  fall  of  Ciu- 
dad Bolivar.  Tbe  insurgent  chieftain,  Gil,  swooped  down  upon 
the  city  while  its  guardian,  General  Rodib,  was  away  reconnoiter- 
ing;  but  Gil  quickly  evacuated,  fearing  Rodib's  return.  Rodib 
condemned  to  death  six  officers  of  his  useless  garrison.  Thus  for- 
tified, he  went  far  up  the  river  to  discover  the  enemy.  There  the 
soldiers  mutinied,  demanded  that  the  condemned  officers  be 
spared,  and  on  refusal,  shot  their  disciplinarian  General  and 
returned  promptly  to  the  town.  Here,  to  their  surprise,  they 
found  the  rebel  foes  installed,  and  joined  them  en  masse.  A  guard 
of  General  Rodib  rode  through  the  streets  with  his  master's  head 
on  his  sabre's  point.  Of  this  the  rebel  chieftain  hears.  Moved 
with  sorrow  at  the  sad  fate  of  his  adversary,  and  shocked  at  the 
treachery,  he  ordered  an  honorable  burial  to  be  given  to  both  body 
and  head.  Since  then  the  tide  has  turned  steadily  in  favor  of  the 
insurgents.  Though  badly  armed,  all  the  enthusiasm  is  on  their 
side  and  they  have  carried  earthworks  defended  by  rifles,  having 
themselves  nothing  but  spears.  Prodigies  of  valor  have  been 
performed  during  the  struggle,  whjcb  leads  one  to  conclusion  that 
this  is  the  only  place  left  in  these  scientific  days  of  arms  of  pre- 
cision, for  personal  valor  to  display  itself  in  hand-to-hand  en- 
counters, after  tbe  good  old  Hebrew  or  Homeric  models. 

The  chief  trade  of  Ciudad  Bolivar  is  the  export  of  hides  and 
ivory,  bad  beef,  the  tough  tastelessness  of  which  is  something 
never  to  be  forgotten,  to  Trinidad,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Orinoco, 
by  means  of  American  stern-wheelers  of  light  draught.  On  the 
way  down  the  river  ihe  cattle,  quite  wild  and  very  fierce,  are  led 
out  of  the  enclosures  into  which  they  have  been  driven  by  a  de- 
coy bull  into  tbe  steamer.  Living  on  board,  he  daily  lends  him- 
self to  this  base  business.  Another  peculiarity  of  tbe  district  is 
the  Prison  Editor.  This  functionary  has  nothing  to  do  with  the 
newspaper  nominally  edited  by  him,  except  to  undergo  vicarious 
punishment  for  its  misdeeds,  just  as  the  »  Whipping  Boy  "  of 
Edward  VI.  did  for  his  Prince's  youthful  peccadillos.  The  Prison 
Editor,  of  course,  gets  a  salary.  Caracas,  the  capital  of  the  Re- 
public, has  had  its  share  of  tbe  trouble.  Explosions  of  dynamite 
bombs  within;  tidings  of  defect  from  without;  imprisonments 
and  resignations  in  quick  succession,  have  been  the  daily  pro- 
gramme. Among  the  last  figures  a  gentleman  who  reminds  one 
of  the  Archbishop  of  Titipu,  by  the  incongruity  of  his  offices, 
nimely,  Dr.  Casanas,  Physician  to  the  President.  Chief  Adviser, 
and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Forces.  Caracas  is  possessed  of 
considerable  wealth,  a  large  amount  in  the  hands  of  a  few; 
which  is  entirely  due  to  the  coffee  grown  in  the  beautiful  elevated 


valley  in  which  it  lies,  basking  in  a  climate  which  is  not  that  of 
the  tropics,  but  rather  of  Elysium.  But,  however  wealthy  some 
classes  of  the  people  may  be,  they  might  well  reconsider  giving 
$250,000  per  annum  to  the  President  of  a  country,  as  large  indeed 
as  France,  but  with  a  population  only  equal  to  Ireland.  The 
high  duties  which  this  government  entails  exceeds  upon 
many  articles  sixty  per  cent.  It  would  be  hard  to  find 
a  handsomer  race  than  the  Upper  Ten  of  Caracas,  as  theirs  is  the 
pure  Spanish  blood.  Only  the  soldiers  are  dark  with  Indian 
blood.  Among  tbe  working  classes  may  be  found  traces  of  negro 
admixture  also.  Besides  music,  all  classes  love  cock-fighting,  the 
bull  ring  and  tbe  dance.  Little  dancing  has  been  done  during  the 
recent  troubles;  but  very  soon  (when  that  new  government  has 
been  formed  which  is  to  make  ail  men  good  and  happy)  Terpsi- 
chore will  smile  upon  Venezuela  once  more.  Palacio,  the  refugee 
President  has  arrived  in  France,  and  is  with  his  family  and 
retinue  in  Paris,  the  haven  fordeposed  ex-Venezuelan  Presidents. 
With  the  few  millions  of  which  he  las  become  possessed,  accord- 
ing to  custom,  during  his  term  of  office,  he  will  doubtless  be  able 
to  enjoy  himself,  freed  from  the  cares  of  Dictatorship,  in  com- 
pany with  one  of  his  predecessors  in  the  Presidential  office  in 
Venezuela,  who  lives  in  sumptuous  style  in  Paris,  namely,  Sefior 
Don  Guzman  Blanco,  who,  when  at  the  head  of  affairs  in  his  own 
country,  called  himself  "  Tbe  Illustrious." 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants, 

AND  

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Nos.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California, 
NATIONAL   ASSURANCE   CO.   OF   IRELAND; 
ATLAS    ASSURANCE    CO.    OF    LONDON  ; 
BOYLSTON    INSURANCE   CO.  OF    BOSTON  ; 
OCEAN   MARINE  INSURANCE  CO    OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented, 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  tfee  of  the 

LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

.Over  800  In  Dally  Die  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  tbe  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Systems—"  Slattery  "  Induction;  "  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories—  Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co.,  Fort   Wayne,   ln-1 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 

35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


E.  J.   WHEELER. 


J.    W.   GIRVIN. 


J.   W.    GIRVIN   &.   CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoy t  &  Co.  4  California  St.,  S.  F-,  <  a  1. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 
UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 
The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 

Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 


Company, 
"The  California  Line  of  Clippers,' 

from  New  York, 
"The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets," 

to  and  from  Honolulu. 


The  China  Traders  <fc  Insurance  Co. 

CL'd.), 
The   Baldwin  Locomotive  Works, 

Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 


J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

General  Agents  Oceanic  Steamship  Company  and 
Gillmgham  Cement. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

8AN    FRANCISCO. 


July 

SOUTHER*   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 
PAOlFir    VTSrUI. 

Trains  L«ave  and    mm  Due  to  Arrive  at 
SAN      FRANCISCO 

Lkatb  1  from  Ji>//    ;,    IS92.  Amtl 

7  00  a.  Bemclfc,  Km 
7J0a.  Harvard*.  Nil?*  ud  ten  Jo*«     "12  I6p. 

7  SO  a.  Marti  dc  i,  dan  Rad 

and  S«uu  Ko-a  e.l&p. 

500  a.  iacram  loA  Redding,  via  D»vt»        7:16  P. 

8  00  a.  First  and  8*condClaea  for  Osrden 

and  Ka*t.  and  fln.t  class  locally        9;46  P. 
9J0a.  Niles.  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marvsvllle,  Oro- 
vllle  and  Red  Bluff  .     4:45  p. 

9  00a.  danset  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

Santa  Barbara,  Los  Angeles, 
Demlng.El  Paso,  New  Orleans 
and  East 8:46  P. 

•9.00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton 

U-tiuv.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  P. 

'mor  Sacramento  River  Steamers  *9:00p. 

1  90  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez  12:45  p. 

3  W  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose         9:46  a. 
^4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodt,  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a. 

4  00  p.  Vallejo,  Calls  toga,  El  Verano  and 

Sauta  Rosa 9.46  a. 

4.30P.  Benicia,  E-parto,  Sacramento.       10:46a. 

4:30  P.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45  a. 

*4:S0p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:46a. 

6  30p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  A 
Los  Angeles.  8.4">a. 

5  30 p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Moiave  and  £a>t    H.45  A. 

6:00  P.  Hay-wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..      7:45  a. 
Niles  and  San  Jose..  16:15  p. 

•6:00  P.  Sunol  and  Livermore      

6:00  P.  Ogden  Route  Atlantic  Express, 

Ogden  and  East 9:16  a. 

J7:00p.  Vallejo +8:45  P. 

7:o0f.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Hound  and  East. . .      8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

1 7  to  a.  Suuday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Pel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Sauta  Cruz    J8:05  v. 
8:16a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  SanJoee.Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 
Cruz..  ■  9:50a. 

Coast  Division,  CThird  a  id  Townsend  Streets). 
♦7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions  *2;38p. 

J7:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion     J8:28  P. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
19:30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  12:45  P. 
10  :S7  a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations.-  .  5:03  p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3 :30  p. 

*2:80p.  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  SantaCruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  PacificGrove 

and  principal  Way  Stations *10:37  a. 

*3:30  P.  Menlo  Park,  San  Jose  and  Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations *9:47  A . 

*4 :30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8:06  a. 

5 -.15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a, 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .      6:35  a. 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  P. 

a.  for  Morning.                        p.  for  Afternoon. 
•Sundays  excepted.                    +8aturdays  only. 
{Sundays  only.      

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 
FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SIDNEY, 

8.  S.Alameda Friday,  July  22,  at  2  p.  m. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 
S.  8.  Australia,  Wednesday,  Aug.  3,  1892,  at2«.K. 
For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  827  Mar- 
ket street.  „    __ 
JOHN  D.  8PRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

I  CURE  FlfS ! 

■When  I  say  cure  I  do  not  mean  mertily  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  thed.sease  of  FITS,  EPL 
LEPSY  or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  o 
cure.  Bend  at  occe  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
H-  G.  ROOT,  M.  C.»  183  Pearl  St..  N.  Y. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


20 


Dli.  P ,  who  bad  company  for  dinner, 
sat  quietly  chatting  in  a  COfoer  of  the 
drawing-room,  when  he  was  tohl  lhal  a 
patient  had  come  to  see  him.  who  was 
Mrongly  recommended  Uy  iome  fellow  prac- 
titioner, and  whose  card  was  brought  in 
by  the  page.  The  doctor  submitted  with  a 
bad  grace  and  stepped  into  the  surgery. 
The  visitor  was  in  an  advanced  stage  of 
consumption.  The  bronchial  tubes  were  in 
a  deplorable  condition,  and  the  vocal 
chords  nearly  worn  out.  Our  physician 
was  in  the  habit  of  ascertaining  the  condi- 
tion of  the  patient  by  asking  him  to  count, 
and  generally  stopped  him  at  thirty  or  thir- 
ty Jive — qmte  long  enough  for  the  purpose. 

This  time,  also,  Dr.  P asked  the  patient 

to  count.  Time  passed  on,  and  the  guests 
began  to  feel  alarmed  at  bis  protracted  ab- 
sence.    One    of   them    opened    the  surgery 

door.     Dr.  1* had   gone   to   sleep  in  his 

armchair,  and  the  patient  had  counted  up 
to  eight  thousand  six  hundred  and  forty- 
two.  — Le  Matin, 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  June  25th,  1892,  3.  S.  "  San 
Bias;"  August  5th,  "City  of  New  York:"  S.  S. 
"San  Bias,"  August  15th. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Purt  Angel,  Salloa  Cruz,  Touala,  San 
Beuito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Aug.  ISth,  S.  S.  "Acapulco1" 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

S.  S.  "Peru"  (new),  Thursday,  Aug.  4th,  at  8  p.  m. 

"City  of  Bio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  Aug  27th,  at 

3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Sept. 27 
1892  at  3pm 

Round  TriD  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OP  PUBBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C.,  and  POGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  i.  M.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  A.  M.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oreqo:.,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Babbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedeo,  Los  Anqeles  and  San 
Dieoo,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
boldt  Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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

DID   very   well Friend — Well,  the  com- 
mittee accepted  your  picture. 
Artist— Eh?     Wha— ?  I  baven't  sent  any 
picture.  My  picture,  "  A  Foggy  Morning," 
was  to  be  sent,  but  the  atapid  man  made  a 
mistake. 

"  What  did  he  take?" 
»  An  old    frame   with  a  piece  of   spoiled 
canvas  ill  it." 

"  Well,  they  took  it  anyhow.  You  know 
it's  an  impressionist  exhibition." 

— N.  Y.  Weekly. 

REV.  GOODMAN— "The  wages  of  sin  is 
death.  Mr.  Lothaiio— Nonsense.  My 
experience  shows  that  the  usual  wages  is 
jewelry  and  endless  wine. 


SAM  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    DONAHUE    8"t)»00»UGE    ROUTE." 

COMI1RNCINQ  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892,  ud 
until  further  notice,  Boau  and  Train,  will 
leave  Irom  and  arrive  at  the  Man  Francisco  Paj- 
iongcr  Depot.  M  AKKKTSTRKKT  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  lor  Point  Tiburon.  Belvedere  and 

San  Ralaol. 
WEEK    DAYS-7:<0  a.  m     9:20  a.  m.,  11 '20  A.  u. : 

M.,  8:80  p.  M.,6:05  p.  M.,  6  20  p.  *. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  A.M.,  9:80  A.M.,  11:00  a.m.  ;  1  30  P.M. 
3:80  p.  M.,  5:00  p.  M.,  0:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Ralaol  lor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-«:25  a.   m.,  7:66  A.   M.,  9:80   a    m. 

11:80  a,  M.     1:10  p.m.,  HAU  P.M.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  a.m.,  11  :10a.  M.:l:«l p.m. 
3-AOr.  m.,  5:00 p  m.,6:25  p.  m. 

t-rom  Point  Tiburon  lo  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  a.  M.,  8:20  a.m.,  9:65  a.m.,  11:56 
a.  M. :  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:85  P.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35   a.m.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:06  p.  M.,  4:05p.M.,  5:30 P.M.,  6:60  P.M. 


Leave  8".  F." 


w„i,  Destination. 

Days     Sunda3rB 


7:40A.M. 
3:30p.m. 
5:05  p.m. 


*""•*■     DaCyesk 


8:00  a.m. 
9:30A.  M, 
5:00  p.m, 


7:40a.  M 
3:30  P.  M, 


7:40A. M 
3:30  P.  M 


7:40  a.  M 
5:05  P.M. 


Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 


00a.m. 
5:00  p.  m 


Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Guerneville. 


Sonoma  and  10:40a. m 
Glen  Ellen.    6:06p.m. 


Aerivbin  8.  F. 


10:40  a.  M 
6:05P.M 
7:26p.m 


8:50a.  m. 
10:80a.  h 
6:10p.m. 


7:40a. m    8:00a, m    Sebastopol.  |  10:40a.m    10:S0am 
3:30  p. M    6:00  P.M   j    6^06p.m    6:10  p.m 


10  :30a.  m 
6:10  p.m 


6:10  p.m. 


10:30a.m. 
6:10p.M. 


8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  a  t  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Eartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Wlllitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Eort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  ?2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  ?5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa.  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  26;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street. 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  P.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Satubday,  June  25, 1892. 

Belgic    Tuesday,  July  26, 1892. 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic      Tuesday,  Sept.  6,1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT   REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Boom 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Sen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.  BICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


CONSUMPTION. 

I  have  a  positive  remedy  for  the  above  disease;  by  its 
use  thousands  of  oases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
standing  have  been  enrod.  Indeed  bo  Btrong  is  my  faith 
In  its  effioacy,  that  I  w.ll  send  TWO  bottles  et.ee,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  Baf- 
f  erer  who  will  send  me  their  .Express  and  P.  O.  address. 
T.  A.  Slocara,  M.  O.*  183  Pearl  St.*  N.  X. 


30 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  23,  1892. 


THE  present  has  been  another  week  of  exceeding  dullness  in 
social  life  in  town,  for  though  there  have  been  some  returns 
to  the  city  from  the  different  resorts,  society  in  the  main  is  still 
conspicuous  by  its  absence.  In  fact,  the  only  thing  resembling 
gay  gatherings  have  been  the  several  theatre  parties  that  have 
taken  place,  and  of  these  the  members  composing  some  of  them 
have  come  bodily  to  town  for  the  performances,  returning  again 
to  the  country  directly  afterwards.  Stockwell's  Theatre  has  un- 
doubtedly had  the  lion's  share,  Ada  Rehan,  as  Lady  Teazle  and 
Maid  Marion,  having  proved  a  very  powerful  magnet.  And  as 
the  theatre  is  said  to  be  the  most  comfortable  in  the  city,  no 
doubt  our  ease-loving  society  folk  will  test  the  truth  of  the  asser- 
tion whenever  occasion  offers. 


Hops  seem  to  be  the  chief  distraction  at  Del  Monte,  and  as  more 
dancing  beaux  are  to  be  found  at  that  resort  than  elsewhere,  they 
prove  in  the  main  successful.  Miss  Emily  Hager  takes  a  prom- 
inent place  as  leader,  not  only  of  cotillions,  but  in  the  gay  doings 
of  the  swim  there  assembled,  and  never  was  there  a  more  effi- 
cient one.  Mrs.  Hager's  energy  in  getting  up  frolics  tor  the  young 
people  is  so  well  known  that  it  is  no  surprise  to  find  she  is  re- 
garded as  the  head  and  front  of  every  picnic  attempted  in  the 
past  month,  and  of  tea  and  card  parties  she  has  also  given  a 
number.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Chabot.  of  Oakland;  the  Misses  Childs, 
of  Los  Angeles;  Miss  Alice  Hager,  of  Colusa;  Mrs.  Henry  Scott, 
Miss  Cunningham,  Miss  Scott,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Sophie  Pierce,  Mrs. 
Pope,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  A.  Prank,  Miss  Clara  Taylor,  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
R.  A.  McLane  are  among  the  most  recent  arrivals.  The  list  of 
August  visitors  to  Del  Monte  has  been  further  augmented  by  the 
names  of  the  Longhboroughs,  the  Fred.  Woosters,  the  Webster 
Jones,  Miss  Zane,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Bothin,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Chas.  A.  Belden,  the  Misses  Upson  of  Sacramento,  etc. 


Wednesday  of  this  week  was  the  time  chosen  for  two  wed- 
dings, the  marriages  of  Miss  Rosa  Stern  and  Mr.  Isaac  Frohman 
and  of  Miss  Louise  Augusta  Vermeil  and  Mr.  William  J.  Reising 
taking  place  that  evening.  Miss  8tern  was  married  at  the  home 
of  her  parents,  on  Laguna  street.  The  ceremony  which  united 
Miss  Vermeil  to  the  man  of  her  choice  was  performed  shortly 
after  8  o'clock,  at  the  Church  of  Notre  Dame  des  Victories,  on 
Bush  street,  the  ornamentation  of  which  was  confined  to  the  al- 
tar. The  bride,  who  was  costumed  in  an  elegant  robe  of  white 
faille  Francaise,  trimmed  with  lace  and  orange  blossoms,  was  ac- 
companied by  four  pretty  bridesmaids  and  escorted  by  her  father, 
the  groom  meeting  the  party  at  the  altar  rails,  where  the  Rev. 
Father  Emile  Gente  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  After  the  service  in  the 
church,  a  reception,  followed  by  a  handsome  supper,  was  held  at 
the  Vermeil  residence,  on  Twenty-fourth  street,  which  was  taste- 
fully adorned  with  flowers  and  foliage,  and  well  filled  with  guests. 
The  wedding  presents  were  numerous  and  valuable,  and  the 
honeymoon  is  being  spent  at  Del  Monte. 


There  will  be  several  new  entertainers  in  the  social  world  this 
coming  winter,  and  it  is  predicted  that  among  the  most  hospit- 
able of  these  will  be  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  J.  Crocker,  whose 
beautiful  new  residence  on  Washington  street  is  now  almost 
ready  for  occupancy.  They  will  probably  give  their  friends  and 
acquaintances  a  view  of  its  handsome  interior  by  means  of  a 
grand  reception,  which,  if  it  occurs,  will  be  one  of  the  first  events 
of  the  late  autumn,  or  the  early  winter  season.  Another  new 
chatelaine  society  is  congratulating  itself  upon,  is  Mrs.  Louis 
Haggin,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  she  will  speedily  draw  an  agree- 
able circle  of  habitues  to  her  elegant  home.  In  the  way  of  party 
giving,  however,  judging  the  future  by  the  past,  she  will  more 
frequently  be  the  hostess  at  petit  dinners  given  to  a  chosen  few, 
than  more  elaborate  entertainments  of  the  multitude. 


Between  riding  parties,  coaching  parties,  lunches,  hay-rides  and 
picnics,  life  at  Santa  Cruz  is  passing  away  most  pleasantly.  Of 
course,  the  approaching  encampment  is  the  topic  most  under  dis- 
cussion, and  many  of  the  guests,  as  well  as  the  residents,  are 
awaiting  the  coming  of  the  soldier  boys  before  indulging  in 
gaieties  that  the  present  lack  of  the  genus  homo  would  render 
tame  affairs  if  undertaken  now.  Mrs.  Dick  Carroll  and  Mrs. 
Luke  Robinson  have  been  two  of  the  most  energetic  among  the 
married  ladies  in  getting  up  little  parties  of  one  kind  or  another; 
Miss  Grace  Spencer,  the  Misses  Delmas,  Miss  Ethel  Martel  and 
the  Misses  Enright  take  the  lead  among  the  young  ladies  in 
equestrianism  and  swimming. 

A  merry  throng  of  Oaklanders  are  enjoying  life  at  Camp  Capi- 
tola.  A  mong  them  are  Judge  C.  N.  Fox,  Ida  Fox,  Maggie  Smyth , 
T.  W.  Morgan,  Mrs.  J.  Stinch  and  G.  S.  Smith.  The  last-named 
poses  as  the  champion  fisherman  of  the  expedition,  for  he  has  a 
record  of  227  pounds  of  fish  in  two  and  a  half  hours;  at  least  he 
brought  home  that  quantity.  History  is  silent  regarding  the  fact 
that  he  returned  minus  a  good  deal  of  cash,  but  with  almost  as 
much  bait  as  he  brought  to  camp. 


The  recent  military  promotions  will  result  in  depriving  array 
circles  in  San  Francisco  of  one  of  its  brilliant  and  most  talented 
members,  in  the  person  of  Mrs.  Wildrick,  who,  with  her  hus- 
band, Major  Wildrick,  of  the  Fifth  Artillery,  has  been  living  at 
the  Presidio  for  the  past  year.  Mrs.  Wildrick  is  the  authoress  of 
several  popular  novels,  and  a  magazine  writer  of  note,  all  her 
articles  being  eagerly  read.  The  promotion  of  Major  Wildrick  to 
the  Colonelcy  of  the  First  Artillery  will  cause  his  removal  to 
his  new  command  in  the  East,  and  San  Francisco  will  therefore 
regretfully  bid  him  and  his  family  adieu  in  the  near  future.  Ma- 
jor John  A.  Darling,  of  the  First  Artillery,  will  replace  Colonel 
Wildrick  in  the  Fifth  Artillery. 

Our  absentees  are  commencing  to  return  to  us  from  their  wan- 
derings. Mrs.  Ella  Sterling  Cummins  and  her  daughter,  and  Miss 
Ethel  Lincoln  have  returned  from  Alaska.  Dr.  Younger,  who 
also  has  been  doing  Eastern  watering  places  since  the  departure 
of  his  wife  and  daughters  for  Europe;  and  this  week  has  also 
brought  us  Mrs.  Gashwiler  and  her  daughters,  who  arrived  last 
Monday.  They  are,  however,  here  but  temporarily,  as  early  in 
August  they  depart  for  Europe,  and  upon  their  return  from  abroad 
will  make  their  permanent  home  in  New  York.  Mrs.  Gash  wiler's 
sister,  Mrs.  Ustick,  who  is  at  present  in  Brooklyn,  will  accompany 
the  party  during  their  projected  tour  of  continental  Europe. 

The  Hotel  Rafael  is  holding  its  own  well,  and  for  solid  comfort 
cannot  be  excelled  by  any  place  on  the  coast.  Life  there  at  pres- 
ent is  a  quiet,  happy  state  of  existence  most  enjoyable  after  the 
heat  and  turmoil  of  the  early  part  of  the  month.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
P.  N.  Lilienthal,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  N.  Walter,  Mrs.  H.  M.  Newhall, 
George  Newhall,  Will  Sherwood,  Mrs.  Pedar  Bather  are  among 
the  recent  arrivals  at  San  Rafael.  Miss  Maud  Morrow's  camp- 
fire  is  still  one  of  the  topics  of  the  day.  Bo  enjoyable  did  it  prove 
that  some  of  her  guests  feel  tempted  to  say  to  others  of  the  cot- 
tagers who  have  suitable  grounds,  "Go  thou  and  do  likewise." 


Of  our  absentees  abroad  those  located  in  Paris  included,  at 
latest  accounts,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  L.  Dodge,  Miss  Jenny  Blair, 
Mrs.  J.  D.  Yost,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sylvain  Weil.  Mrs.  Belle 
Donahue  and  Miss  Marguerite  Wallace  are  in  Homburg.  Will 
Hearst  is  in  Switzerland,  Mrs.  Hearst  and  Miss  Apperson  in  Wies- 
baden, Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  T.  Garratt  had  reached  Geneva,  having 
done  China,  India,  Egypt,  etc.,  since  leaving  California.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  H.  8.  Crocker  are  in  Toronto,  Canada.  Joe  Redding  and 
family  and  now  en  route  home  from  Europe,  and  may  be  looked 
for  about  the  first  week  in  August. 


Colonel  and  Mrs.  Marceau  were  at  Moscow  on  the  1st  inst.,  and 
were  greatly  enjoying  the  strange  sights  of  that  great  city.  From 
Paris  they  went  to  Brussels,  thence  to  Cologne;  down  the  Rhine 
to  Mainz,  on  to  Wiesbaden,  Berlin,  Copenhagen,  Stockholm  and 
St.  Petersburg.  Early  this  month  they  left  Moscow  for  Constanti- 
nople, where  they  celebrated  their  wedding  anniversary  on  July 
9th.  From  Constantinople  their  intention  was  to  go  to  Athens,  and 
thence  through  Italy  and  Switzerland.  During  her  travels  Mrs. 
Marceau  has  made  a  large  and  beautiful  collection  of  spoons; 
probably  one  of  the  best  in  the  world. 


Mr.  8.  Gump  returned  from  bis  European  tour  last  Monday, 
bringing  with  him  a  number  of  new  paintings,  which  are  the  chef 
d'oeuvres  of  the  best  ateliers  of  England  and  the  continent,  all  of 
which  were  visited  by  him  during  his  trip.  Mr.  Gump  was  ac- 
companied from  the  Atlantic  seaboard  by  Mr.  Louis  Swabacker, 
of  Wheeling,  West  Virginia,  who  is  the  affianced  of  Miss  Goldina 
Gump.  The  wedding  will  take  place  at  the  New  California  Hotel 
next  Wednesday  evening,  and  preparations  for  it  are  now  being 
made  on  a  grand  scale. 

A  pleasant  surprise  party  was  given  last  week  to  Miss  Lulu 
Finlay,  at  her  home  in  Alameda.  Those  present  were  Misses 
Lotta  Sharp,  Tena  Peterson,  May  Rogers,  Pearl  Reid,  Marguerite 
Bretz,  Blanche  Trethway,  Lottie  Finlay,  Ruby  Reid,  Agnes 
Campbell,  Venia  Noy,  Iraogene  Stein,  Birdie  Finlay,  Adelia 
Lutjen,  Gertrude  Prucer,  Sarah  Prucer,  Albert  Reichoratb,  Bertie 
Noy,  Harold  Reid,  James  Tennant,  Fred.  Noy.  Edward  Innes, 
Chas.  Trethway,  Leland  Tennant,  James  Lyons,  Walter  Lydecker. 


Long  threatening  comes  at  last,  and  it  is  now  considered  a  cer- 
tainty that  we  shall  welcome  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington  as 
dwellers  among  us  by  or  before  the  middle  of  August.  They  will 
occupy  Mr.  Huntington's  recently  purchased  residence,  the  Col- 
ton  House,  on  California  street,  and,  it  is  said,  will  remain  in  San 
Francisco  until  the  close  of  the  year;  so  it  is  reasonable  to  sup- 
pose society  will  be  the  gainers  in  an  entertainment  point  of 
view  during  their  stay  hereabouts. 

Our  French  society,  and  in  fact  many  of  our  people  also,  are 
looking  forward  with  much  pleasure  to  the  coming  of  the  French 
frigate  Dubourdieu,  which  is  expected  to  arrive  in  a  couple  of 
weeks.  The  officers  had  innumerable  little  parties  and  dances  on 
board  the  ship  when  it  was  in  harbor  here  last  year.  While  on 
shore  they  were  great  favorites  with  the  fair  sex.  So  a  repetition 
of  these  delightful  interchanges  of  hospitalities  is  sure  to  speedily 
follow  their  arrival  in  port. 


Jnly  23    1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  \  kws  I.KTTER. 


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When  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dougla-  Dick  look  leave  of  their  friends 
In  San  Francisco  this  spring,  il  wu  not  generally  known  that 
their  trip  to  Europe  was  but  for  the  purpose  of  perfecting  arrange- 
ment! t>y  which  they  would  bid  adieu  to  the  old  world  as  a  place 
of  permanent  residence.  The  climate  of  Scotland  has  proved  loo 
severe  lor  Mrs.  Dick'a  health,  hence  her  Irequent  long  visits  to 
this  country:  and  therefore,  when  last  here,  Mr.  Dick  decided 
upon  making  bis  borne  for  the  future  in  the  new  world.  So  here- 
after society  in  San  Francisco  will  be  the  gainers  by  numbering 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dick  among  its  members  instead  of  being  only  occa- 
sional visitors. 

Miss  K  ihne  Beveridge  has  completed  her  sketch  in  plaster  of 
A.  8.  Henderson,  the  champion  sprinter  of  the  Olympic  Club,  in 
the  position  of  o  8et."  This  will  be  sent  East,  and  a  heroic  size 
bronze  statue,  six  feet  six  inches  in  height,  and  mounted  on  a 
pedestal,  will  be  made  from  it,  to  be  exhibited  in  the  World's 
Fair.  The  Olympic  Club  wishes  its  members  and  the  art-lov- 
ing public  to  view  the  statue  today,  at  the  club-rooms,  wben 
all  will  be  welcome. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  P.  Bowie  of  San  Mateo  have  been  in  the 
city  during  the  week.  Mrs.  O.  D.  Baldwin  and  family  have  set- 
tled duwn  in  their  residence,  2115  Pacific  avenue.  Mrs.  Arthur 
W.  Figel  will  be"  at  home  the  third  and  fourth  Thursday  of  each 
month,  at  her  residence,  2113  Webster  street.  Mrs.  L.  Euphrot 
has  selected  the  third  Thursday  of  each  month  to  be  at  home  to 
ber  friends  at  her  new  abode,  3032  Washington  street. 

James  W.  Daffy  was  unanimously  elected  Captain  of  Co,  A, 
Third  Regiment,  N.  G.  C,  last  Thursday  night.  Mr.  Duffy  re- 
signed from  the  Signal  Corps  to  accept  the  honor,  and  is  the 
youngest  Captain  in  the  service,  being  twenty-three  years  of  age. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  National  Guard  for  the  past  five 
years,  and  his  elevation  from  the  ranks  is  the  best  evidence  of 
bis  ability  and  popularity. 


The  Adonis  Quartette  of  Sausalito,  George  Mearns,  Walter  B. 
Cooke,  Dr.  George  Terrill  and  Frank  D.  Willey,  are  just  now  in 
the  zenith  of  their  fame  and  power.  It  is  reported  that  at  least 
two  will  become  Benedicts  this  year.  Their  conquests  are  at 
present  domiciled  in  Sausalito.  These  popular  young  men  are 
dubbed  the  "Adonis"  quartette  because  they  are  all  good-looking, 
and  are  said  to  be  as  shapely  as  skirt-dancers. 


The  Freddie  Sharons  are  also  spoken  of  as  possible  entertainers 
this  winter,  as  no  limit  has  as  yet  been  named  for  their  present 
visit  to  California,  and  it  is  hoped  they  will  make  their  stay  here 
permanent.  However,  it  will  not  do  to  rely  upon  the  move- 
ments of  this  charming  but  somewhat  restless  couple,  as  tbey  de- 
cidedly belong  to  that  class  who  are  here  to-day  and  away  to-mor- 
row, almost  without  saying  good-bye. 


Mrs.  George  Howard  will  make  a  charming  addition  to  the 
ranks  of  entertainers,  now  that  she  has  entered  the  lists,  her  re- 
cent lunch  at  her  pretty  San  Mateo  home  having  been  a  very  de- 
lightful little  gathering.  The  guests  were  composed  of  summer 
neighbors,  with  the  exception  of  Miss  Jessie  Bowie,  who  was  a 
guest  of  Mrs.  Howard's  for  several  days  both  before  and  after  the 
party  took  place. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Brigham  have  been  earlier  visitors  at  Lake  Tahoe 
this  season  than  usual,  the  months  of  August  and  September  be- 
ing those  tbey  generally  choose  to  pass  at  their  unique  cottage  at 
that  beautiful  place.  They  are  there  at  present  and  have  been 
for  several  weeks,  during  which  time  a  succession  of  friends  have 
been  made  to  feel  perfectly  at  home  by  this  very  hospitable 
couple. 

The  San  Francisco  Operatic  Society  is  now  engaged  in  rehears- 
ing Planquette's  tiny  little  operetta  of  Nell  Qwynne,  which  they 
purpose  producing  ere  long.  All  their  performances  are  enjoya- 
ble affairs,  and  the  music  of  this,  their  last  study,  is  said  to  be 
exceedingly  pretty;  so  no  doubt  the  coming  performance  will  be 
quite  as  successful  as  have  been  those  gone  before. 


Wednesday  next  will  be  fraught  with  social  importance  in  Oak 
land,  for  Miss  Carrie  Northey,  the  well-known  amateur  songstress, 
will  then  be  united  in  marriage  to  Jesse  Donglas.  The  ceremony 
will  take  place  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and,  as  a  large 
number  of  invitations  has  been  sent  out,  there  is  sure  to  be  a 
brilliant  attendance. 

The  audience  at  a  recent  performance  at  Stockwell's  Theatre 
were  treated  to  a  scene  before  the  footlights  not  down  on  the  bill. 
A  party Jn  one  of  the  private  boxes  evidently  forgot  that  there 
were  other  people  in  the  theatre  than  themselves,  and  even  if 
they  were  of  the  Four  Hundred  they  require  a  public  rebuke  for 
their  behavior. 

C.  P.  Hubbard  is  covering  himself  with  glory  in  the  tenn's 
games  at  the  East.  At  Boston  on  Wednesday,  in  the  doubles 
with  F.  H.  Hover,  Hubbard  won  after  a  great  battle  with  the 
score  of  4-6,  6-3,  6-2,  6-3.  Hubbard  also  beat  Joe  Tobin.  The 
games  were  under  the  auspices  of  the  United  States  Lawn  Tennis 
Association. 


The  travel  to  Iba  >  otamlte  oontlODM,     The  season  promise,  to 

M  v.-ry  enjoyable,  with  ,|,,.  rMQ|)  ,nlll  ,h „„,,,  ,,,    vj, iu,r„  H  lM 

be  attracted  to  the  wonderful  valley.     Thi  Drove  bu  al- 

most  as    many    admirer*   a.    Yosemite   itself.     The  drive  on   the 
coaches  of  the  fosemlte  Stage  Company  from    Wnw„na  Into  the 
valley  is  one  of  the  moat  delightful  portions  of  the  trip.     The  a. 
commodations  at   the  Btnneman   House  are  excellent,  the  hotel 
extending  every  comfort  to  the  guests. 

Mrs.  K.  !,.  G.  Steele  ami  part;  have  returned  to  Oakland  after 
a  six  weeks'  absence,  which  was  divided  between  visits  t<>  Santo 
Barbara  and  Coronado  Beach.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bancroft  are 
also  back  from  their  coaching  Irip  through  the  Yosemile  Valley, 
and  are  at  present  at  their  country  home  Walnut  Creek. 

One  of  our  most  prominent  citizens  left  on  Tuesday  last,  Mr. 
Robert  Sherwood  departing  that  day  for  a  trip  to  bis  native  heath 
in  Great  Britain.  His  absence  will  extend  over  a  period  of  sev- 
eral months,  and  he  is  sure  of  a  warm  welcome  upon  his  return 
again  to  San  Francisco. 


Frank  Carolan  and  his  wealthy  bride  have  settled  down  to  do- 
mestic life  in  their  pretty  San  Rafael  cottage  in  earnest.  It  is 
Mrs.  Frank's  great  ambition  to  be  a  good  housekeeper,  and  Frank 
himself  is  back  at  his  business  as  if  no  such  thing  as  the  grand 
wedding  at  Chicago  had  ever  occurred. 

Mrs.  Louis  Parroit  has  not  been  so  profuse  in  her  hospitalities 
this  season  at  San  RaTael  as  of  yore.  The  charming  little  dinners 
have  not  been  so  marked  a  feature  of  this  one.  They  are  among 
the  list  of  those  who  intend  to  do  Del  Monte  next  month. 

The  near  return  of  Stalwart  Hugo  Toland  is  looked  forward  to 
by  numerous  fair  ladies.  The  young  gentleman's  venerable 
mother  will  not  be  the  only  heart  to  beat  with  pleasure  at  seeing 
him  on  his  native  healb  again. 

William  S.  Kettle,  of  the  Country  Club,  met  with  a  painful,  but 
not  serious,  accident  on  Wednesday.  He  fell  from  the  dam 
across  the  creek  in  Bear  valley  and  broke  his  right  ankle.  He  Is 
now  at  his  home  in  San  Rafael. 


The  first  of  the  August  weddings  will  doubtless  be  that  of  Miss 
Ada  T.  Park  and  Charles  A.  Alardyce,  as  the  ceremony  is  an- 
nounced to  take  place  at  the  Howard  Presbyterian  Church,  on 
Wednesday,  the  3d  inst. 


A  neat  little  wedding  took  place  in  the  Athenian  city  on  Sun- 
day last,  when  F'rank  Risedorph  and  Miss  Lizzie  Pickner  joined 
hands  for  life.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  H.  H. 
Rice. 

Mr.  0.  D.  O'Sullivan  sailed  from  New  York  for  Europe  last  Sat- 
urday. Mr.  James  V.  Coleman,  at  present  in  Paris  is  expected  to 
arrive  in  San  Francisco  inside  of  the  next  three  weeks. 


Among  the  many  virtues  possessed  by  Mrs.  Fred.  Sharon  is  that 
of  being  a  good  mother.  Any  one  who  has  witnessed  her  devo- 
tion to  little  Harry  Tevis  Sharon  will  agree  to  this. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  de  la  Montanya,  and  Miss  Jennie  de  la 
Montanya,  have  been  visiting  the  Geysers.  Miss  Nellie  Jolliffe  is 
a  guest  at  the  Napa  Soda  Springs. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jonas  Erlander  (nee  Fannie  Steiner)  have  re- 
turned from  their  honeymoon,  and  for  the  present  will  make 
their  home  at  the  Steiner  residence,  918  Eddy  street. 

Miss  Helen  Walker,  Miss  de  Forest,  8hafter  Howard,  Ed  Green- 
way,  Rhodes  Borden,  have  been  among  the  recent  visitors  at 
Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Hattie  Weinberger  and  Henry  Newbauer 
will  take  place  to-morrow,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents, 
on  Bush  street.  

Mr.  Fred  L.  Castle  and  family  have  returned  from  Castle  Crags, 
and  are  now  at  home  at  the  corner  of  Sutter  street  and  Van  Ness 
avenue.  

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Pixley  will,  in  the  near  future,  make  a 
pleasure  trip  through  the  southern  counties   as  far  as  San  Diego. 

Quid  nuncs  declare  that  the  heroine  in  Col.  Dick  Savage's  last 
novel  is  a  well-known  member  of  a  prominent  California  family. 

Mrs.  Joseph  Naphtaly  and  family  have  returned  from  Santa 
Cruz,  where  they  have  been  for  the  last  month. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  Jacobi  and  Mrs.  L.  P.  F.  Waller  are  at  Harbin 
Springs,  and  will  remain  for  several  weeks. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Lucie  Simons  to  Lionel 
Heyneman. 

Right  Rev.  Bishop  Nichols  has  gone  on  a  brief  visit  to  San 
Diego.      .       ,__ , 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
rmfeizned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  'f  Kritiko,"  609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


July  23,  1892. 


THE    'WORKING    EDITOR    AND    THE    SUMMER  GIRL— 

Will  J-  Lamptnn  in  Lije. 

I  hear  tbe  splash  of  ocean  and  Lhe  murmur  of  the  hills. 
The  rolliDg  of  the  rivers  and  the  music  of  the  rills ; 
I  bear  the  wood-birds  caroling  their  restless  roundelays, 
I  feel  the  lazy  languor  of  tbe  coming  Summer  days. 
J  read  delicious  notices  of  mountains  and  of  sea, 
Where  Summer-time  is  such  a  time  as  Summer-time  should  be; 
I  long  with  weary  wistfulness  to  lay  my  labors  down, 
And  for  the  God-made  country  give  up  the  man-made  town. 
I  hear  a  sweet  seductive  invitation  from  them  all. 
That  beckons  me,  that  welcomes  me,  tbat  tempts  me  to  my  fall- 
Yet  I  can  dally  at  my  desk  and  quite  contented  be, 
If  poets  send  no  verses  on  the  Summer  girl  to  me. 

FOLLOWERS    OF    CHRIST. 

ONE  of  the  morning  papers  of  this  city  presented  a  spectacle, 
one  day  last  week,  which  was  remarkable  even  in  this  land 
of  incongruities.  Upon  one  page  was  a  long  and  circumstantial 
account,  with  display  head  and  glaring  illustrations  in  the  hatchet 
artist's  best  style,  setting  forth,  with  great  circumstantiality  of 
detail,  the  plot  which  three  ministers  of  the  gospel  "  in  good  and 
regular  standing,"  entered  into  with  another  equally  worthless 
wretch,  to  entrap  an  unsuspecting  woman,  wife  of  one  of  tbe 
miserable  but  reverend  trio,  into  a  compromising  position,  to  tbe 
end  that  her  beast  of  a  husband  might  obtain  a  divorce  from  her. 
By  the  use  of  drugs  their  plot  proved  partially  successful,  as  it  is 
claimed,  and  two  of  the  reverend  plotters  had  the  ineffable  mean- 
ness (one  had  had  the  grace  to  die  in  the  meantime)  to  ascend  the 
witness  stand  in  an  Oakland  court  and  detail  their  contemptible 
conduct  in  all  its  loathsomeness.  Still  another  wearer  of  the 
cloth  reached  a  depth  of  vileness  even  deeper,  if  possible,  than 
these,  for  he  deliberately  related  how  the  persecuted  woman  had, 
in  a  moment  of  remorse,  confessed  to  him  that  she  had  been 
untrue  to  her  marriage  vows.  This  the  woman  denies,  but 
even  if  true,  it  does  not  palliate  the  dastardly  conduct  of 
the  wretch  who  thus  betrays  the  sacred  confidence  reposed  by  a 
weak  and  repentant  woman  in  her  spiritual  adviser.  One  would 
think  that  in  any  ordinary  community  with  a  spark  of  chivalry 
in  its  composition  there  would  have  been  found  men  sufficient  to 
have  taken  these  disgraces  to  the  human  species  and  treated  them 
to  a  well-merited  coat  of  tar  and  feathers,  or  worse. 

But  not  so.  In  the  adjacent  columns  to  those  in  which  this 
disgraceful  story  was  told  was  a  florid  account  of  the  services 
held  on  the  "  mid-week  Sabbath,"  which  had  been  provided  for 
the  behoof  of  one  of  those  leatber-lunged  and  cheeked  evangelists 
who  go  up  and  down  the  land,  and  for  revenue  only  (cash  guar- 
anteed in  advance),  exhort  the  people  to  follow  the  meek  and 
lowly  Savior — he  who  told  tbe  Magdalen  to  go  and  sin  no  more — 
and  three  of  whose  professed  servants  were  making  such  an  un- 
holy exhibition  of  themselves  in  the  same  city  at  the  same  time. 
Is  it  any  wonder  that  the  complaint  is  constantly  heard  that  the 
church  has  lost  its  hold  on  tbe  masses,  when  it  is  possible  to  tell 
such  a  story  as  this?  Does  the  English  language  contain  terms 
strong  enough  to  properly  characterize  such  conduct  as  th&t  of 
this  Oakland  clergyman  and  his  co-plotters  ? 

"  THE  YEAR'S  SWEETHEART,"  a  ballad  by  Leila  France, 
1    words   by  Madeline  S.  Bridges,    in  Ladies'  Home  Journal, 
has  been  published  by  the  Chicago  Music  Company.     It  is  dedi- 
cated to  Mrs.  David  Gage,  of  Oakland. 

At  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.'s. 

Every  lady  should  have  upon  jier  escrotoire  a  number  of  those 
handsome  silver  ornaments  which  are  so  attractive  a  feature  of  the  sta- 
tionery department  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co. .  of  741-743  Market  street. 
These  ornaments  include  silver-mounted  inkstands,  blotting-pad 
holders,  pen-racks,  stamp-boxes,  photograph  frames  and  numerous 
little  nicnacs,  that  are  both  ornamental  and  useful.  They  are  in  solid 
silver  and  quadruple  plated  ware.  Some  of  the  fine  gold  pens  from  lhe 
leading  manufacturers  of  the  world  should  also  be  procured  by 
ladies.  The  copper-plate  engraving  of  this  house  is  so  very  good  that 
all  society  now  gets  its  visiting  cards  from  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  The 
plates  are  the  work  of  an  expert,  and  the  printing  is  executed  in  the 
highest  style  of  that  art.  The  note  paper  in  the  stationery  depart- 
ment is  the  best  in  the  city.  All  the  famous  brands  are  there,  none 
of  the  leading  manufacturers  being  unrepresented. 

Burlington  Route  Excursions. 


Commencing  Tuesday,  March  loth,  at  2  p.  m.,  from  Los  Angeles, 
and  Wednesday,  at  8  p.  m.,  from  San  Francisco,  and  everv  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday  thereafter,  the  Burlington  Route  will  run  its  regular 
Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago, 
via  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  excursion  folder* 
apply  to  agent.  Burlington  Route,  at  204  South  Spring  street,  Los 
Angeles;  or  32  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

Baggage  Notice.  ™ 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  atany  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip.  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  vou  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  40S  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 


IT  really  begins  to  look  as  though  the  public  is  going  to  see  the 
great  Sutro  library  before  it  gets  many  years  older.  The  col- 
lection has  grown  until  it  exceeds  200,000  volumes,  but  its  price- 
less treasures  have  for  years  been  stored  in  old  down-town  build- 
ings, where  they  are  inaccessible  and  in  hourly  danger  of  destruc- 
tion by  fire.  Now  that  Mr.  Sutro  has  nearly  got  the  construction 
of  his  public  batbs  off  his  hands,  he  is  giving  more  attention  to 
his  library.  The  site  north  of  the  Park,  near  Stanyan  street, 
where  the  building  will  be  erected,  is  being  graded,  and  the  plans 
for  the  building  will  be  decided  upon  before  very  long.  The 
structure  will  be  handsome  and  expensive,  but  architectural 
effect  will  very  fortunately  be  wholly  secondary  to  the  needs  and 
convenience  of  the  library  itself.  In  a  general  way,  the  plan  will 
resemble  that  of  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale  in  Paris,  the  largest 
library  in  the  world.  All  the  light  possible  will  be  secnred  and 
the  book  stacks  will  reach  to  a  great  height,  with  little  balconies 
running  about  them  every  seven  feet.  A  few  days  ago  Mr.  Sutro 
received  from  Andrew  D.  White,  President  of  Cornell  University, 
copies  of  the  plans  of  its  library.  Plans  of  every  important 
library  in  the  world  have  been  studied  for  suggestions.  The  con- 
struction of  the  building  will  be  begun  this  fall  or  winter. 

THERE  is  a  little  story  afloat  about  town  which  shows  bow 
certain  things  are  done,  and  which  illustrates  the  reason  why 
men  are  so  willing  and  even  anxious  to  fill  honorary  offices  to 
which  no  legitimate  emoluments  are  attached.  There  is  a  certain 
public  institution  in  this  city  where  a  considerable  number  of 
type-writing  machines  are  used,  and,  as  is  natural,  there  was 
considerable  rivalry  between  the  agents  of  the  respective  brands 
in  endeavoring  to  secure  the  adoption  of  their  particular  pets. 
Finally  a  selection  was  made,  and  when  the  lucky  agent  made 
up  his  accounts  with  his  home  office  an  item  appeared  after  this 
fashion:  "  Expense  introducing  machines,  $2,100."  This  seemed 
a  little  steep,  and  an  explanation  was  asked.  It  was  given  after 
this  fashion:  "There  are  twelve  members  of  the  Board;  seven 
constitute  a  majority.  Seven  times  3  are  21.  Any  school-boy 
could  do  such  a  little  sum  in  multiplication  as  that."  And  he 
ought  to  have  added,  in  "  addition,  division,  and  silence  as  well." 

AMONG  the  new  delicately  painted  gauze  fans  which  form  such 
an  ornamental,  if  not  useful,  part  of  a  summer  toilet,  is  one  called 
the  m  surprise  fan,"  and  it  is  indeed  a  novelty  which  bears  out  its 
name.  It  is  composed  of  white  gauze,  with  a  painted  design  of 
cnpids  and  flowers,  and  is  bordered  with  deep  white  ribbon.  The 
handle  finished  off  with  a  bow  of  tbe  same.  When  opened  from 
one  side  it  is  an  ordinary  fan,  but  turned  the  other  way  it  sepa- 
rates into  a  number  of  pieces,  and  seems  to  be  broken;  reverse  it, 
ard  it  assumes  its  proper  shape.  It  affords  employment  for  rest- 
less fingers,  and  serves  a  double  purpose  as  well  as  being  very 
pretty. 

Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion,  or  fluid  extract  of  grindelia,  is  tbe  best 
known  cure  for  oak  poisoning  and  asthma.  It  is  an  agreeable  medi- 
cine, and  its  satisfactory  effects  are  well  known.  Persons  going  to 
tbe  country  should  not  fail  to  take  some  of  the  lotion  with  them,  as 
it  is  a  famous  suppressor  of  the  dreaded  poison  oak.  It  is  for  sale  at 
Steele's  Pharmacy.  Palace  Hotel. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  JULY  30,  1892. 


Number  5- 


Primed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  (he  Proprietor,  Frederick 
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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities  1 

Leading  articles  - 

The  Situation  in  England    2 

The  Labor  Investigation     .... .      2 

The  Native  Sons' Project    2 

Our  Preachers      .      2 

The  City  aud  County  Hospital  .    3 
Primary  Education  in  France. .    3 

Mexican  Civilization 3 

Auction  Sales  of  Fruit  3 

Democratic  Amenities     3 

Illeeal  Armed  Bodies     4 

New  Emplovment  for  Wotcen 4 

How  Ibsen  Won  His  Bride 4 

Tennis  aud  Baseball 5 

The  Veiled  Man  6 

The  Feminine  Craze  for  Criminals    7 

Pleasure's  Wand      8-9 

Counting  His  Last  Minutes 9 

In  August  (Poetry)  10 

A  Crab  Story    10 

An  Oakland  Tragedy    10 


Page 

"Is  It?"  (Poetry) 11 

Some  Royal  Bon  Vivauts     11 

Sparks.  12 

A  Strange  Spectacle 13 

The  Looker-On      14-15 

Financial  Review 16 

Town  Crier  17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...     19 

Cupid's  Sanctuary  (Poetry)  20 

Parallel  Cases  20 

Vanities     21 

World.  Flesh  and  Devil.      ..  22 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  23 

The  American  Girl 24 

The  Rose  Jar       25 

Scientific  aud  Useful. 26 

Suubeams 27 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs  ...  28 

Society 30-31-32 

Ecstasy  (Poetry)  32 


THE  second  batch  of  graduates  of  the  Los  Gatos  institute  are 
now  arriving  in  town.  They  all  say  they  are  morally  and 
physically  rejuvenated.  The  whisky-mills  are  preparing  a  cru- 
sade against  the  Keeleyites. 

CORONER  GARWOOD  says  he  objects  to  being  compelled  to 
officiate  as  an  auctioneer.  All  the  requirements  of  his  office 
are  not  as  pleasant  as  the  gentleman  would  wish.  It  is  a  curious 
taste  he  has,  though;  he  does  not  mind  handling  dead  bodies,  but 
does  object  to  selling  diamonds. 


' '  T  AM  glad  we  are  not  asked  to  sell  ourselves  to  God,"  said  Rev. 
1  B.  Fay  Mills,  om  Thursday  night.  This  sounds  well  from  an 
evangelist  who  insisted  on  getting  his  pay  in  advance,  before  he 
would  begin  his  soul-saving  speeches.  What  does  the  reverend 
gentleman  think  be  would  bring. 

PASTEUR  has  expressed  the  opinion  that  the  cholera  microbe 
exists  in  ice,  and  that  freezing  does  not  exterminate  it.  Should 
the  plague  invade  this  country  it  will  be  particularly  rough  on 
companies  now  engaged  in  the  business.  The  luxury  of  iced  drinks 
will  not  be  indulged  in  to  the  same  extent  as  at  present. 

MI88  UME  TSUDA,  though  Americanized,  cannot  be  induced 
to  put  off  her  handsome  and  healthful  Japanese  attire;  in 
which  Miss  Ume  displays  a  large  amount  of  good  common  sense. 
The  learned  Japanese  cannot  appreciate  the  beauties  of  a  trailing 
bell  skirt  any  more  than  a  husband  who  has  to  pay  for  the  dust- 
sweeper. 

REV.  J3.  FAY  MILLS  began  his  services  in  this  city  on  Thurs- 
day night.  We  suggest  to  the  gentleman,  that  during  his 
tour  in  this  city  of  sin,  he  pay  more  than  passing  notice  to  his 
sensation-loving  brothers  of  the  cloth.  It  would  not  be  a  bad  idea 
for  him  to  make  a  special  mission  to  clergymen.  They  need  to 
te  saved.  

IF  the  Chicago  people  desire   a  warmer  climate  than    they  have 
experienced  lately,  they  will  have  to  check„their  baggage   to 
the  dominions  governed  by  the  dethroned  archangel.     "  Heaven 
is   our  home"    may   be  the   belief  of   less  frizzled   mortals,  but 
the  climate  there  would  prove  rather  chilly  for  the  comfort  of  the 
"average  Chicagoan. 

THE  people  of  Alameda  county  are  selecting,  in  the  main,  good 
material  for  their  Legislative  representatives.  The  district  is 
hopelessly  Republican,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped,  therefore,  that  the 
people  of  that  party  will  put  up  only  first-class  men.  Senator 
W.  E.  Dargie  is  again  a  candidate  for  State  Senator.  He  is  one  of 
the  ablest  men  in  the  county,  and  excellently  fitted  for  the  place. 
Alameda  needs  such  representatives. 


THERE  was  a  little  speck  of  street  railroad  war  on  the  horizon  a 
few  days  ago,  when  the  Ceary  street  road  was  suspected  of  be- 
ing about  to  interfere  with  the  Omnibus  Company's  right  of  way 
on  Market  street,  but  it  blew  over  without  an  open  rupture,  Public 
sentiment  is  generally  on  the  side  of  the  cable cotupa'nies,  because 
tbey  give  so  much  better  service,  as  a  rule,  than  the  horse-cars. 
This  question,  however,  is  one  of  legal  right,  and  not  of  public 
sentiment. 


THERE  is  every  chance  that  the  San  Benito  boomers  may  Bnd 
the  experiences  of  Oklahoma  repeated  on  a  smaller  scale,  to 
their  loss  and  discomfiture.  Tbe  quantity  of  available  land  is 
very  small,  as  compared  with  the  entire  area  of  the  restored  rail- 
road grant,  and  the  greater  part  of  the  best  land  is  in  possession 
of  those  who  entered  under  the  railroad,  and  are  preferred  claim- 
ants. Still,  the  walking  is  pretty  good  at  this  time  of  the  year,  so 
the  busted  boomers  will  be  able  to  get  back  again. 


THE  complaint  of  dull  times  in  San  Francisco  seems  to  be  shared 
by  all  the  great  cities  of  tbe  world.  There  appears  to  be  a 
universal  depression  in  tbe  business  of  buying  and  selling,  the 
same  complaint  being  made  everywhere.  Whether  this  is  due  to 
some  specific  cause,  or  whether  it  is  merely  an  illustration  of  the 
law  of  periodicity,  as  Charles  Reade  called  it,  the  ebb  and  How  in 
human  affairs,  the  backward  and  forward  swing  of  the  pendulum, 
it  is  not  easy  to  say.  Its  causes  are  obscure,  and  the  laws  which 
govern  the  business  world  are  not  yet  well  enough  understood  to 
form  a  legitimate  basis  for  deductions  on  such  questions. 


JOE  MEDILL,  of  tbe  Chicago  Tribune,  is  not  to  be  bluffed  by 
Marquis  de  Mores  or  any  other  fire-eater.  The  Marquis  has 
challenged  the  editor  to  mortal  combat,  and  the  matter  being  re- 
ferred to  the  Tribxtne  fighting  editor,  he  has  suggested  four-ounce 
gloves  as  the  weapons,  Marquis  of  Queensbury  rules  to  govern, 
and  a  24-foot  ring  as  the  scene.  If  the  bloodthirsty  Marquis  can 
beat  the  newspaper  man  under  those  conditions,  he  will  have  to 
develop  unusual  abilities  as  a  sprinter.  No  French  Marquis  or 
any  other  fellow  of  that  ilk  can  be  allowed  to  tread  on  the  tail  i<f 
a  Chicago  editor's  coat. 

A  WELL-KNOWN  and  very  popular  French  actress  Mdlle. 
Bonnet,  being  annoyed  at  finding  her  portrait  adorning  the 
covers  of  bonbon  boxes,  etc.,  has  proceeded  against  the  manu- 
facturers with  such  success  as  to  obtain  the  suppression  of  her 
picture,  damages,  and  the  insertion  of  an  apology  in  the  papers. 
American  and  English  actresses  are  hardly  so  squeamish  about 
the  propagation  of  their  portraits,  and  apparently  do  not  object 
to  adorn  match  boxes  and  tobacco  packages  with  their  charms. 
But  then  we  know  that  the  Paris  bonnet  is  an  article  that  was 
never  disposed  to  make  itself  cheap. 


THE  daily  papers  made  a  sensation  from  the  fact  that  John 
Daniels,  a  dealer  in  tombstones  and  graveyard  improvements, 
went  to  Laurel  Hill  cemetery  and  took  from  a  child's  grave  a 
wooden  coping,  costing  eight  dollars,  for  which  the  man  who  or- 
dered it  had  refused  to  pay.  Daniels  has  been  called  an  inhuman 
brute  and  a  desecrator  of  graves.  Why?  Simply  because  he  in- 
sisted on  receiving  payment  for  goods  which  be  had  delivered. 
He  was  entitled  to  his  money  or  his  coping.  He  could  not  get  the 
money,  and  took  back  the  coping.  Sentiment  does  not  enter  into 
business  transactions.  People  should  not  order  tombstones  or 
copings  unless  they  can  pay  for  them. 


JOHN  W.  KELLY  should  meet  some  severe  punishment  for  his 
cruel  betrayal  of  Kate  Grant,  of  Virginia,  Nev.  It  is  one  of 
the  saddest  cases  of  this  nature  that  has  been  brought  to  our 
notice  for  years.  The  girl  became  infatuated  with  Kelly,  who 
seduced  her  under  promise  of  marriage.  She  became  the  mother 
of  his  child,  but  he  refused  to  marry  her.  Presently  he  married 
another  woman,  and  Miss  Grant  as  a  result  became  insane,  and 
has  been  sent  to  the  Napa  Asylum.  She  comes  of  a  good  family, 
and  from  all  accounts  was  a  good  woman  until  Kelly  ruined  her. 
No  earthly  punishment  can  be  too  severe  for  such  a  wretch  as 
this.  He  should  not  be  admitted  to  the  society  of  honest  men 
and  women,  for  a  man  with  so  black  a  heart  as  his  is  unworthy 
of  any  recognition  from  respectable  people. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


THE    SITUATION    IN    ENGLAND. 


THE  result  of  the  British  elections  is  such  that  the  Liberal  party- 
is  in  »«  a  minority,  dependent  on  the  Irish  vote  for  converting 
it  into  a  majority,"  and  under  these  circumstances  it  is,  to  use 
Mr.  Gladstone's  own  words,  quoted  already  in  our  issue  of  July 
16th,  "  not  trustworthy,"  and  according  to  the  same  authority, 
"  it  would  not  be  safe  to  enter  upon  the  cunsideration  of  the  prin- 
ciple of  a  measure  with  respect  to  which,  at  every  step  of  its 
progress,  it  would  be  in  the  power  of  a  party  coming  from  Ireland 
to  say,  ■  Unless  you  do  this  or  that  we  will  turn  you  out  to- 
morrow.' "  Now,  since  the  Liberal  party  is  not  trustworthy,  and 
since  the  Irish  demand  the  introduction  of  a  home-rule  measure, 
notwithstanding  this  fact,  can  it  be  wondered  at  that  Lord  Salis- 
bury hesitates  handing  over  to  it  the  reins  of  power,  even  for  a 
moment?  Why  should  a  patriotic  Prime  Minister  not  make  use 
of  his  rights  if  he  can,  by  doing  so,  save  from  his  country  a 
chaotic  state  of  affairs,  even  for  a  few  weeks  longer  ?  The  ques- 
tion has  been  asked  whether  Lord  Salisbury  has  tbe  right  of  re- 
maining in  office  although  the  elections  have  not  given  a  majority 
to  the  Unionists.  The  reply  is,  of  course  he  has.  According  to 
the  British  constitutional  practice,  the  ministry  is  dependent  on 
the  will  of  the  House  of  Commons,  and  both  are  dependent  upon 
the  will  of  tbe  constituencies  as  expressed  at  the  general  elections, 
but  there  is  no  hard  and  fast  rule  with  regard  to  the  term  of  the 
tenure  of  office  by  a  ministry.  It  may  be  challenged  at  any  time, 
and  it  remains  in  office  until  it  is  challenged  and  beaten.  To 
quote  a  well-known  authority  on  the  subject:  "The  ministry 
must  resign  or  dissolve  when  it  is  defeated  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, and  if  after  a  dissolution  it  is  beaten  again,  it  must  resign 
without  an  alternative." 

Now,  Lord  Salisbury's  ministry  has  not  yet  been  beaten  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  and  he  has  a  perfect  right,  and  under  tbe  cir- 
cumstances would  do  very  well,  to  await  such  an  event.  After 
the  opening  of  Parliament,  at  the  beginning  of  next  month,  he 
might  thus  be  able  to  introduce  some  measures  which  the  Liber- 
als could  not  oppose  without  compromising  themselves  in  tbe 
eyes  of  their  constituencies,  and  should  they  do  so,  Lord  Salis- 
bury would  then  have  a  chance  to  resign  under  the  most  favorable 
'  circumstances,  or  he  even  could,  if  be  desired  to  do  so,  immedi- 
ately upon  defeat,  dissolve  Parliament,  aud  challenge  the  country 
anew  under  conditions  greatly  improved  for  his  party.  How 
Lord  : Salisbury  will  act  remains  to  be  seen,  but  there  is  not  tbe 
slightest  doubt  that  if  he  should  remain  in  office  until  defeated  in 
the  Commons,  he  would  act  perfectly  in  accordance  with  consti- 
tutional practice  and  usage. 

Mr.  Gladstone  ought  to  be  rather  grateful  to  the  Prime  Minister 
should  he  decide  upon  such  a  course,  for  if  tbe  Liberal  leader  were 
to  be  called  upon  to  take  the  reins  of  government  at  this  moment 
he  would  bring  matters  to  a  deadlock  in  Parliament  ere  five 
months  have  passed,  even  if  be  should  make  himself  an  absolute 
slave  of  the  Irish  members.  His  term  of  office  in  that  case  would 
be  over  almost  before  he  had  time  to  become  again  accustomed  to 
his  old  seat  in  tbe  government  bench  in  the  House  of  Commons. 

Nevertheless,  in  whatever  manner  the  question  of  government 
may  be  settled  within  the  next  few  days,  there  will  be  turbulent 
times  in  the  British  Parliament  for  many  months  to  come. 


THE    LABOR    INVESTIGATION. 


LABOR  COMMISSIONER  WALTZ  has  closed  the  investigation 
of  the  labor  question  in  this  city,  which  has  been  progressing 
before  him"  for  some  time  past.  The  inquiry  has  been  void  of  the 
desired  and  expected  result,  and  local  capital  and  labor  are 
no  nearer  together  now  than  the^y  were  when  the  investigation 
opened.  Neither  side  has  shown  the  slightest  desire  to  effect  a 
reconciliation  between  their  combating  interests;  neither  has 
moved  from  the  positions  assumed  by  them,  and,  in  fact 
if  the  investigation  has  done  anything,  it  has  broadened  the 
breach  between  the  organized  employees  and  tbe  organized  em- 
ployers. This  was  the  result  predicted  by  the  News  Letter  some 
weeks  since.  No  good  can  ever  come  of  an  investigation  con- 
ducted in  the  manner  which  signalized  this  i"  quiry.  Through- 
out, the  testimony  given  was  drawn  out  by  attorneys  animated 
to  the  pitch  of  anger,  by  their  partisan  feelings,  from  witnesses 
who  did  what  they  could,  without  much  regard  for  the  strict 
letter  of  the  truth,  to  present  their  side  of  the  case  in  as  favor- 
able a  light  as  possible  before  the  people.  Instead  of  being  con- 
ducted in  the  calm,  deliberate  manner  which  should  mark  so 
important  an  undertaking,  tbe  inquiry  was  signalized  by  theatri- 
cal attempts  to  effect  sensational  results.  Personal  differences 
were  allowed  to  interfere  with  a  matter  which,  if  properly  con- 
ducted, would  have  been  of  great  benefit  to  tbe  8tate.  The  leaders 
of  the  labor  movement  did  not,  at  any  time,  show  the  proper 
spirit  in  the  affair.  They  had  evidently  determined  to  say  as  little 
as  possible  about  their  own  methods,  and  ascertain  as  much  as 
possible  regarding  those  of  the  employers.  The  employer! 
soon  ascertained  this  fact,  and  were  not  reluctant  to  meet  the 
others  half  way.  Not  a  fact  that  was  not  known  before  was 
adduced.  The  investigation  was  a  farce  all  through,  and  the 
sooner  it  is  forgotten,  the  better. 


THE    NATIVE    SONS'    PROJECT. 


IN  accordance  with  a  call  issued  by  David  Lubin,  chairman  of 
the  historical  section  of  the  State  Agricultural  Society,  a  large 
meeting  of  Native  Sons  and  Daughters  of  the  Golden  West 
was  held  in  this  city  a  few  days  ago.  The  principal  business 
transacted  was  the  adoption  of  a  resolution  to  the  effect  that  tbe 
order  indorsed  the  effort  being  made  to  secure  the  complete  and 
exhaustive  exhibit  of  the  historical  relics  and  souvenirs  of  Cali- 
fornia for  exhibition,  first  In  the  historical  section  of  the  8tate 
Fair  in  September,  then  in  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion  in  this  city 
in  January,  and  thence  to  be  transferred  to  the  California  World's 
Fair  building  in  Chicago,  in  May,  1893.  We  know  of  no  work  to 
which  the  Native  Sons  and  Danghtera  could  devote  themselves  that 
would  be  more  to  the  purpose  than  this.  California,  as  the  reso- 
lutions said,  contains  the  materials  for  a  varied  and  picturesque 
historical  exhibit,  embracing  the  era  of  Spanish  rule,  the  era  of 
Mexican  rule,  the  Missionary  era,  the  American  occupation,  the 
Mining  era,  and  tbe  growth  and  development  of  California  as  a 
8tate  of  the  American  Union.  Men  and  women,  or  even  boys 
and  girls,  born  in  California  possess  special  advantages  for  the 
collection  of  such  an  exhibit. 

There  are  plenty  of  houses  in  this  State  old  enough  to  possess 
garrets,  and  attics,  and  lumber-rooms  of  various  sorts,  and  what 
greater  pleasure  could  there  be  for  the  present  generation  than  to 
rummage  among  the  relics  of  former  years,  and  produce  the 
treasures  owned  by  their  fathers  or  grandfathers,  now  out  of  date, 
but  all  the  more  precious  and  interesting  on  that  account?  As 
soon  as  the  work  of  collecting  gets  fairly  under  way,  the  collect- 
ors themselves  will  be  surprised  by  the  wealth  of  material  of  his- 
toric interest  that  they  will  dig  up.  They  will  find  that  many 
things  in  their  own  homes  which  they  have  seen  every  day  of 
their  lives  are  of  value  as  illustrating  some  era  of  California,  some 
peculiar  or  unusual  feature  of  the  State,  or  some  manners  and 
customs  of  the  earliest  inhabitants.  It  is  safe  to  predict  that  in 
this  case  tbe  appetite  will  come  with  eating,  and  that  the  Native 
Sons  and  Daughters  will  become  such  zealous  and  indefatigable 
collectors  that  nothing  will  be  sacred  from  their  researches  and 
ravages.  The  result  may  not,  in  all  respects,  be  gratifying  to 
their  elders,  but  it  will  certainly  create  a  wonderfully  complete 
and  instructive  historic  exhibit,  which  will  be  a  better  object  les- 
son on  the  topic  of  California  than  volumes  of  essays,  sketches, 
stories,  and  historical  reminiscences.  It  will  require  some  skill 
on  the  part  of  those  in  charge  of  the  exhibit  to  arrange  and  classify 
the  various  articles,  and  bring  order  out  of  confusion,  but  it  is 
safe  to  assume  that  this  work  will  be  intrusted  to  none  but  com- 
petent hands,  and  that  the  result  of  the  researches  of  the  Native 
Sons  and  Daughters  will  not  be  marred  or  spoiled  by  defective  ar- 
rangement. We  desire,  then,  to  commend  this  plan  of  the  Native 
Sons  and  Daughters  in  unqualified  terms,  and  to  encourage  them 
to  begin  at  once  and  not  stop  until  they  have  made  a  collection 
which  shall  be  unequaled  for  historic  value  and  interest. 

OUR    PREACHERS. 

THE  various  methods  employed  by  the  latter-day  "  divine  "  to 
attract  attention  to  himself,  If  used  by  a  circus  proprietor  or 
a  theatrical  manager,  would  insure  a  first-class  advertisement  for 
any  entertainment  those  gentlemen  might  wish  to  present  to  the 
public.  It  seems  to  be  considered  the  proper  thing  by  every 
preacher  in  a  metropolitan  church  to  advertise  himself  as  liber- 
ally as  tbe  newspapers  of  the  city  will  allow.  It  is  not  now-a- 
days  a  question  of  the  conversion  of  sinners,  or  the  elevation  of 
the  moral  tone  of  a  community,  which  engages  the  mighty  minds 
of  a  majority  of  the  wearers  of  the  cloth  in  large  cities,  but  "  How 
shall  I  get  a  bigger  crowd  next  Sunday  than  Brother  Jones?"  It 
is  absolutely  immaterial  how  the  crowd  is  induced  to  gather  in 
front  of  the  pulpit  of  the  vain-glorious  expounder;  the  point  is  to 
get  the  people  there.  The  more  sensational  the  subject  of  the 
sermon,  the  better  satisfied  is  the  preacher.  Many  recent  inci- 
dents have  marked  the  paths  of  those  clergymen  to  whom 
we  refer.  We  spoke  last  week  of  a  pastor  who  refused 
a  starving  man  a  crust  because,  forsooth,  the  good  and 
true  one  said  it  was  improper  to  beg.  Various  wearers 
of  the  cloth  have  disgraced  themselves  in  Oakland  this  week  by 
their  connection  with  a  disgusting  divorce  case,  in  which  one  of 
their  brothers  is  a  party  to  the  action.  A  body  of  ministers  met 
last  Monday,  and  solemnly  discussed  the  immoral  effects  of  the 
Sunday  newspapers.  Strange  that  it  did  not  occur  to  these  gentle- 
men to  speak  of  the  immoral  results  of  the  breach  of  confidence 
of  a  clergyman;  of  the  sensational  sermons  preached  by  them- 
selves; of  the  rank  hypocrisy  which  they  are  aware  exists  in 
their  very  ranks;  of  the  disgusting  manner  in  which  they  cringe 
before  wealth,  and  are  arrogant  before  poverty.  <<  How  will  we 
fill  our  churches?  "  This  the  preachers  ask.  Let  them  look  into 
themselves,  and  they  will  learn  why  they  look  upon  empty 
pews.  A  man  of  God  must,  if  he  would  succeed,  be  filled  with 
his  holy  purpose.  He  cannot  serve  both  God  and  Mammon. 
The  metropolitan  preachers  of  the  day  have  erected  unto  them- 
selves gods  of  gold,  before  which  they  fall  down  and  worship. 


July  30,  1892. 


PAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I.KTTKR. 


MEXICAN    CIVILIZATION. 


IN  Mcilco  there  is  a  ridiculous  •cnsltiveneia  lo  American  ihwi- 
paper  commrnti  on  Mexican  affairs,  says  the  Mexican  Financier, 
which  paper  thereupon  proceeds  to  demonstrate  toils  own  satiafac 
Uoo  tbat  Mexico  baa  as  high  a  grade  of  civilisation  aa  the  Dolled 
States  and  that  (or  every  manifestation  o(  barbarian!  in  Mexico 
there  la  a  parallel  caae  in  this  country.  The  Financier  allows  the 
Mexican  eagle  to  shriek  to  the  ei  tent ..[  two  columns  of  its  valuable 
space  -Mexico  is  not  so  rich  nor  so  populous  a  country  as  the  Great 
Republic  of  the  North,  but  it  has  an  older  and  an  equally  refined 
type  of  civilization."  it  says.  Each  country  has  its  share 
of  those  defects  seemingly  inherent  In  human  nature.  Igno- 
rant people  here,  aa  in  the  Northern  Republic,  commits  acts 
which  are  survivals  of  what  were  common  happenings  in  the 
ages  of  barbarism,  when  men  went  about  clad  in  skins  and 
hid  at  night  in  gloomy  caves.  What  this  country  has  attained 
in  civilization,  exactly  as  that  wbicb  the  American  people  have 
attained,  has  been  secured  by  a  constant  battle  against  those 
savage  tendencies  which  in  every  nation  on  the  globe  manifest 
themselves  among  intellectually  developed  classes,  and  which 
apparently  will  not  be  eradicated  for  centuries  even  in  the  oldest 
countries  of  Europe.  The  vandalism  of  the  Parisian  Commune 
in  our  day  is  a  proof  of  the  latency  at  all  times  of  the  un- 
doniinated  lower  nature  of  man.  The  Cincinnati  riots 
of  a  few  years  ago  are  another  instance  in  point.  Men  who 
are  truly  educated,  who  share  in  the  traditions  of  the  cultivated 
caste  of  men  of  European  blood,  are,  whether  Mexicans  or 
Americans,  Englishmen  or  Germans,  Spaniards  or  Frenchmen, 
all  members  of  that  ancient  fraternity  which  has  produced  the 
great  books  of  humanity,  given  modern  science  to  the  world,  and 
conserved  a  high  type  of  religion  and  morality.  From  generation 
to  generation  these  men,  leaders  of  humanity,  have  passed  the 
lighted  torch  from  hand  to  hand  for  the  illumination  of  the  un- 
desrstandings  of  mankind.  The  torch  of  Science  in  the  New 
World,  brought  alight  from  Europe,  was  earliest  banded  to  Mex- 
icans, for  there  the  first  American  book  was  printed.  In  the 
light  shed  upon  Mexican  refinement  by  the  Financier,  it  seems 
very  strange  to  read  of  the  barbarous  affair  in  the  bull-ring  at  San 
Luis  Potosi,  on  Thursday,  when  two  men  were  gored  to  death. 

AUCTION    SALES    OF    FRUIT. 


THE  auction  plan  of  selling  fresh  fruit  has  been  under  trial  in 
this  city  during  the  past  week,  whether  successfully  or  not 
depends  upon  the  point  of  view  occupied  by  the  observer.  Large 
quantities  of  fruit  have  been  disposed  of  at  what  seem  like  good 
prices,  the  transactions  being  for  cash.  The  commission  men, 
however,  claim  that  the  prices  obtained  were  less  than  those  that 
would  have  been  secured  by  them  for  the  same  fruit.  On  tbe 
other  hand,  the  producers  who  shipped  the  auction  fruit  express 
themselves  as  well  satisfied  with  the  results,  and  comfirtn  this  by 
making  larger  consignments.  It  has  been  a  matter  of  great  com- 
plaint during  the  past  few  years  that  little  first-class  fruit  found 
its  way  to  the  San  Francisco  market,  the  bulk  of  it  being  shipped 
East.  Growers,  when  asked  for  the  reason,  invariably  replied 
that  they  were  unable  to  realize  fair  prices  here,  and  preferred 
dealing  with  the  Eastern  shippers.  Now  that  there  is  open  com- 
petition, however,  and  an  opportunity  to  learn  definitely  just 
what  each  lot  of  fruit  brings,  they  are  willing  to  send  a  choicer 
quality  here.  The  fact  cannot  be  denied  that  in  the  past  the 
producers  have  suffered  severely  from  the  implicit  trust  they  were 
obliged  to  place  in  the  honesty  of  the  commission  men.  They 
had  no  means  of  knowing  what  their  fruit  was  sold  for,  and  in 
thousands  of  cases  did  not  receive  enough  to  pay  freight  on  their 
consignments.  It  is  not  meant  to  assert  that  the  commission 
men  as  a  class  are  dishonest,  but  no  one  will  deny  that  their 
methods  are  too  frequently  not  satisfactory  to  the  fruit  growers. 
The  auction  system  has  prevailed  at  the  East  for  a  long  time,  and 
with  uniformly  satisfactory  results,  and  that  it  has  not  been 
adopted  here  before  seems  due  to  the  ultra-conservative  character 
of  many  of  our  business  men,  who  are  too  prone  to  continue  in 
certain  lines  of  action  whose  chief  merit  consists  in  the  fact  that 
they  are  old-established.  If  the  new  plan  shall  result  in  enabling 
consumers  to  obtain  choice  fruit  at  fair  prices,  it  should  be  en- 
couraged by  every  means.  With  producer  and  consumer  both 
satisfied,  the  public  will  feel  little  interest  in  the  woes  of  the 
middle  man. 

THE  clergymen  are  certainly  having  their  innings  this  week. 
Now  comes  Rev.  James  Alexander  Smith,  the  English  evan- 
gelist, in  a  grand  tumble  from  tbe  ways  of  the  righteous.  He  has 
been  arrested  In  Seattle  and  taken  to  Santa  Cruz,  where  be  is 
wanted  for  embezzlement  and  obtaining  money  under  false  pre- 
tences. The  fellow  has  the  nerve  to  play  the  part  of  a  penitent, 
in  the  hope,  probably,  that  some  foolish  women  will  convert  his 
jail  cell  into  a  flower  garden,  and  work  up  public  sympathy  in 
his  behalf.  He  is  a  mean  fraud,  and  should  receive  severe  pun- 
ishment. It  is  charged  that  be  is  a  bigamist,  as  well  as  an  em- 
bezzler. Smith  was  known  in  this  city,  where  he  was  affiliated 
with  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  The  story  of  his  frauds  may  be  published 
in  the  Sunday  newspapers.  Of  course,  then,  it  would  be  im- 
moral for  the  preachers  who  met  last  Monday  to  read  the  tale. 


THE    CITY    AND    COUNTY    HOSPITAL. 

THE   City    and   County  Hospital  has    for  yeara  been  the  object 
of    the   attack  ..(    various  politicians  who  at  the  time  did  not 
control  the  Initllotlon,  to  the  end  that  their  appointed  weald  lie 

placed  within  its  walls,  that  they  might  the  better  regulate  the 
jobbery  of  contractors,  who  take  great  delight  In  defrauding  the 
city.  One  of  tbe  latest  sensation*,  in  regard  to  the  hospital  was 
that  worked  up  by  llr.  Uegcnabiirger,  who  made  various  chargea 
of  irregularity  and  incompetency  against  Dr.  Lefevre,  tbe  Super- 
intendent, but,  as  ihe  sequel  showed,  without  result,  for  the  in- 
vestigation has  been  dropped  by  tbe  Board  of  Health,  and  Dr. 
Lefevre  is  unhampered  in  his  place.  For  the  thorough  under- 
standing of  (be  reasons  why  politicians  desire  lo  control  the  hos- 
pital, it  should  first  be  staled  that  there  are  about  two  hundred 
voters  in  the  different  hospital  wards,  whose  ballots  may  come 
in  very  useful  on  election  day.  Then  there  are  a  score  of  nurses 
employed,  not  all  of  whom  at  presenl  are  men,  on  account  of  tbe 
employment  of  the  ladies  atlached  to  the  training-school  for 
nurses.  Again,  the  contracts  for  furnishing  the  hospital  with 
supplies  during  the  fiscal  year  may  be  made  much  more  pro- 
fitable to  the  contractors  if  the  Superintendent  or  his  sub- 
ordinates would  accept  inferior  supplies  from  the  contractors. 
Those  who  wish  to  gam  or  to  maintain  local  political  influence 
have  found  that  Dr.  Lefevre  is  a  man  of  integrity  and  firmness, 
who  could  not  be  swayed  from  his  firm  purpose  to  fulfill  his  du- 
ties in  the  best  interests  of  the  county.  He  has  insisted  upon 
the  delivery  of  good  supplies  by  contractors,  and  has  taken  meas- 
ures to  prevent  the  interference  of  politics  with  the  administra- 
tion of  the  institution  under  his  charge.  Hence,  it  is  natural 
tbat  he  should  have  gained  the  enmity  of  political  workers. 
That  he  has  improved  the  hospital  at  the  same  time,  and  that  his 
course  has  been  approved  by  the  physicians  who  are  acquainted 
with  the  place,  has  been  shown  by  the  testimony  presented  be- 
fore the  Board  of  Health  during  the  investigation.  It  is  a  great 
satisfaction,  in  this  city  of  political  corruption,  to  find  a  public 
officer  who  fearlessly  performs  his  duty.  The  County  Hospital 
and  all  similar  institutions  should  be  kept  free  from  political  in- 
fluence. 


DEMOCRATIC    AMENITIES. 


IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  love  feast  held  by  the  Democratic  County 
Committee  on  Thursday  night,  does  not  indicate  tbe  manner  of 
the  prosecution  of  the  campaign  by  the  local  Democracy.  From  all 
accounts  it  was  a  very  disgraceful  affair;  the  most  disgraceful  that 
has  occurred  at  a  Democratic  meeting  in  this  city  for  years.  The 
presence  in  the  body,  of  men  whose  sole  object  it  seems  to  be  to 
cause  disruption,  so  as  to  gain  for  themselves  some  little  notoriety, 
is  the  cause  of  the  unhappy  condition  of  affairs.  The  good  citi- 
zens on  this  committee,  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  it  has  more 
than  one  bad  citizen,  should  do  what  tbey  can,  and  at  once,  to 
restore  peace  to  that  body.  All  the  Jim  Neals  in  it  should  be 
suppressed.  They  do  not  represent  a  respectable  class  of  citizens, 
and  take  particular  delight  in  announcing  their  rule  or  ruin  pol- 
icy. The  Reorganizes  have  yet  much  to  accomplish,  if  Thursday 
night's  meeting  is  a  fair  indication  of  tbe  intensely  bitter  feeling 
among  the  local  leaders.  The  fact  that  some  of  the  Reorganizers 
are  endeavoring  to  set  themselves  up  as  new  gods  for  popular  wor- 
ship, has  not  had  a  satisfying  effect  upon  the  old  liners.  The  con- 
tending forces  must  be  affiliated,  and  tbat  right  speedily,  if  suc- 
cess would  be  gained  in  November. 

PRIMARY    EDUCATION    IN    FRANCE. 

THE  French  Minister  of  Public  Instruction,  in  a  review  of  what 
has  been  done  in  tbe  way  of  primary  education  during  the 
past  ten  years,  states  that,  whereas  fifty  years  ago  there  were 
5,667  communes  or  parishes  without  any  public  school,  there  are 
now  only  50,  and  in  most  of  these,  with  a  total  population  vary- 
ing from  12  to  100,  the  children  have  schools  easily  accessible  in 
neighboring  villages.  The  total  number  of  public  schools  is  now 
67,359,  while  tbe  private  schools  number  about  14,500,  showing 
an  increase  of  about  6,000  schools  in  the  last  ten  years.  Tbe 
Minister  of  Public  Instruction  points  out,  however,  that  much 
remains  to  be  done,  for,  although  a  law  was  passed  five-and-twenty 
years  ago  that  there  should  be  a  girls'  school  in  every  parish  with 
over  500  inhabitants,  there  are  still  1,613  such  parishes  which  are 
not  provided  with  one.  The  public  primary  schools  have  100,000 
teachers  to  about  4,400,000  pupils,  thus  giving  an  average  of  44 
pupils  to  each  teacher,  as  against  an  average  of  35  pupils  to  each 
teacher  in  the  private  schools.  But  in  many  of  the  public  schools 
there  are  as  many  as  80  pupils  to  one  teacher,  and  the  Statistical 
Commission,  comparing  the  number  of  scholars  in  1885  and  in 
1890,  has  ascertained  that  they  had  decreased  by  10,000  in  the 
latter  year. 

AN  outbreak  of  anarchy  at  Pittsburg  and  Homestead  would  be 
the  natural  sequence  of  the  labor  troubles.  The  anarchist 
has  not  the  courage  to  inaugurate  the  campaign  of  murder  and 
pillage  which  he  preaches,  but  skulks  around  in  the  darkness 
until  trouble  begins,  and  then  begins  his  murderous  work.  The 
police  of  Pittsburg  should  take  every  possible  precaution  against 
a  rising  of  these  human  wolves. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


ILLEGAL    ARMED    BODIES. 

REGENT  and  passing  events  have  attracted  the  attention  of 
the  people  of  the  United  States  very  generally  to  the  proposi- 
tion that  the  only  armed  bodies  of  men  allowed  to  exist  should 
be  those  authorized  by  the  laws  of  the  United  States  or  of  some 
one  of  the  States.  In  colonial  times,  when  Indians  were  numer- 
ous throughout  the  country,  and  it  was  necessary,  even  when 
going  to  church,  for  the  early  settlers  to  go  armed,  every  indi- 
vidual citizen  was  provided  with  his  gun  and  ammunition,  and 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  has  preserved  the  right  of 
every  citizen  to  retain  his  own  weapon;  but  it  was  never  con- 
templated that  without  authority  of  law  private  citizens  should 
form  into  org<miz:;d  bodies  of  armed  men.  Such  organizations  are 
uncalled  for,  and  are  a  menace  to  good  order.  No  good  reason 
can  be  advanced  why  citizens  should  desire  to  form  an  indepen- 
dent armed  force,  when  the  National  Guard  and  the  regular  army 
offer  every  opportunity  for  those  who  are  imbued  with  so  mar- 
tial a  spirit  that  it  forces  them  to  bear  arms,  and  to  become  con- 
versant with  their  use,  to  do  so.  It  is  not  allowed  in  any  other 
country  in  the  world,  and  it  certainly  is  a  strange  sight  to  the 
thinking  citizen  to  see  upon  our  streets  from  time  to  time  uni- 
formed, armed  and  organized  bodies  of  men,  bearing  foreign  flags, 
and  although  they  are  usually  borne  in  conjunction  with  our  own, 
yet  the  names  by  which  the  companies  are  known,  and  the  mov- 
ing reasons  for  their  existence,  indicate  that  they  exist  for  the 
purpose  of  keeping  alive  memories  of  their  native  countries 
and  their  traditions.  Many  of  the  members  of  these  bodies  of 
men,  are  not  even  citizens,  and  if  they  are  citizens,  their  loyalty 
to  their  adopted  country  should  restrain  them,  and  their  sense  of 
what  is  right  and  proper  should  deter  them  from  organizing  and 
parading  our  streets  under  arms,  in  foreign  uniforms  and  under 
foreign  flags.  If  they  are  not  citizens,  there  is  no  law  or  prece- 
dent by  which  they  are  justified  in  their  existencevand  the  strong 
arm  of  the  law,  backed  by  public  sentiment,  should  disband  those 
in  existence  and  make  it  impossible  to  form  others.  These  organ- 
ized bodies,  which  are  amenable  to  no  law,  except  their  own 
sense  of  justice,  and  under  no  discipline,  except  that  which  they 
voluntarily  recognize,  and  to  suit  their  own  convenience,  have 
existed  in  various  parts  of  the  United  States  from  time  to  time, 
but  during  recent  years  they  have  been  almost  entirely  disbanded. 
Aside  from  other  considerations,  the  arms  in  the  hands  of  these 
bodies  are  at  the  mercy  of  any  mob  that  may  arise  in  any  city 
where  tuey  exist.  Nobody  is  responsible  for  their  care  or  preser- 
vation, and  in  the  event  of  riot  and  disturbance,  these  very  arms 
would  most  likely  be  found  in  the  hands  of  the  antagonists  of 
law  and  order.  In  no  other  country  in  the  world  are  such  bodies 
allowed  to  exist,  and  that  they  are  permitted  in  this  country  is 
an  abuse  of  this  country's  freedom.  It  is  a  turning  of  freedom 
into  license;  it  is  un-American,  it  is  bad  public  policy,  and  derog- 
atory to  our  feelings  as  citizens,  and  should  not  under  any  cir- 
cumstances be  allowed.  If  the  gentlemen  who  belong  to  these 
organizations  desire  to  soldier  on  a  peace  footing,  the  law 
has  provided  the  National  Guard  for  just  that  purpose, 
and  also  to  permit  the  patriotic  citizen  to  prepare  himself,  and  to 
arm  him,  for  the  preservation  of  law  and  order,  and  it  never  was, 
and  is  not,  contemplated  that  any  body  of  armed  men  should  ex- 
ist in  any  community,  even  in  free  America,  who  are  not  under 
the  orders  of  any  authority,  and  who  are  just  as  likely  to  be 
found  in  the  ranks  against  law  and  order,  as  they  are  to  be  found 
upon  the  side  of  their  maintenance.  San  Francisco  was  humili- 
ated once  by  the  sight  of  an  independent  rifle  company  patrolling 
one  of  its  streets,  and  without  any  pretense  to  authority,  pre- 
venting the  passage  of  vehicles  thereon,  and  such  a  disgrace 
ought  not  to  be  possible,  and  would  not  be  if  no  armed  bodies 
were  allowed  to  exist  in  any  community,  except  those  authorized 
by  that  law  governing  the  commuaity.  The  sooner  a  law  is  passed 
preventing  the  organization  or  maintenance  of  unauthorized  mili- 
tary bodies,  the  better  it  will  be  for  the  peace  of  the  city,  of  the 
State,  and  of  the  nation.  Force  is  not  to  be  resorted  to  in  any 
community,  except  as  a  last  resort,  and  self-preservation  requires 
that  we  should  not  allow  to  be  maintained  within  a  government 
an  illegal  body  which  might  be  against  law  and  order.  It  is  inex- 
cusable that  such  bodies  should  be  permitted  to  exist  under  a  for- 
eign flag,  and  a  foreign  name  and  in  a  foreign  uniform.  Arms 
and  ammunitions  of  war  should  not  be  allowed  to  be  gathered 
together  in  irresponsible  hands,  thereby  constituting  a  menace  to 
the  safety  and  welfare  of  the  community. 

John  H.  Dickinson. 


AT  last  there  looms  up  a  prospect  of  having  a  proper  system  of 
sewerage  for  this  city,  a  thing  which  has  been  needed  for 
years.  The  Government  has  consented  that  Professor  Davidson 
and  Colonel  Mendell  may  act  on  an  advisory  board  to  prepare  a 
scheme  of  sewerage  for  the  city,  and  their  labors  will  begin  almost 
at  once.  They  will  not  recommend  the  disuse  or  abandonment 
of  existing  sewers  where  they  can  be  made  available,  but  will 
bring  harmony  out  of  discord,  and  order  out  of  confusion.  A  new 
sewer  system  will  cost  money,  and  therefore  we  must  be  prepared 
for  Silurian  opposition  to  the  idea,  but  fortunately  the  Silurians 
are  dying  out  pretty  fast,  and  giving  sensible  and  progressive 
people  a  chance. 


NEW   EMPLOYMENT   FOR  "WOMEN. 

ANEW  field  for  the  employment  of  women  and  for  the  develop- 
ment of  their  artistic  ideas  has  been  opened  by  the  establish- 
ment of  the  New  York  School  of  Applied  Design  for  Women. 
Judging  from  the  names  of  its  directors  the  school  is  in  good 
hands,  and  should  prove  very  successful.  The  directors  include 
Hon.  George  L.  Ingraham,  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court ;  Reverend 
John  Wesley  Brown,  D.  D.,  Rector  of  St.  Thomas  Church;  Ben- 
jamin C.  Porter,  R.  A.  D. ;  J.  Carroll  Beck  with ,  Professor  of  Metro- 
politan Museum  and  Art  Students'  League;  Elihu  Root,  W.  H. 
Fuller,  Mrs.  Dunlap  Hopkins,  Mrs.  James  Harriman,  Miss  Callen- 
der.  The  object  of  the  school  is  to  afford  women  an  opportunity 
to  earn  a  livelihood  by  the  employment  of  their  taste  and  manual 
dexterity  in  the  application  of  ornamental  design,  to  manufacture 
and  the  arts.  Lectures  on  art  from  recognized  authorities  will  be  de- 
livered throughout  the  course,  and  the  aim  of  the  school,  it  is 
said,  will  be  to  assist  worthy  women  to  a  new  line  of  industry. 
Manufactories  will  be  visited,  and  thereby  practical  knowledge 
will  be  given  of  the  manner  of  the  application  of  the  theoretical 
ideas  of  which  knowledge  has  already  been  gained.  The  school 
will  instruct  its  pupils  in  the  manufacture  of  Smyrna  rugs, Chenille 
rugs  and  curtains,  carpets,  tapestry,  oilcloth  and  linoleum,  and 
the  application  of  design  for  the  manufacture  of  linen,  chintz  and 
silk.  Geometrical  drawing,  architecture,  and  the  application  of 
design  to  the  manufacture  of  wall  paper  will  also  be  a  portion  of 
the  instruction.  The  school  is  the  only  one  of  its  sort  in  the 
country.  Its  graduates  will  be  able  to  rival  men  in  indnstries 
from  which  women  until  now  have  been  almost  wholly  excluded 
The  progress  of  this  school  will  be  watched  with  great  interest. 

HOW    IBSEN    WON    HIS    BRIDE. 


A  PRETTY  anecdote  is  told  of  Henrik  Ibsen's  wooing  of  his 
wife.  The  dramatist,  who  has  since  become  so  famous,  was 
then  instructor  of  the  theatre  at  Bergen,  and  though  he  had  writ- 
ten Catalina,  Qildet  paa  Solhaug  and  Fru  Inger  til  Oesteraad,  his 
fame  was  not  such  as  to  assure  his  success.  When  he  fell  in  love 
with  the  beautiful  daughter  of  Pastor  Thoresen  how  to  make 
known  the  fact  to  her  troubled  him  for  weeks.  At  last  he  re- 
solved to  write  to  her.  He  would  come  and  fetch  his  answer  the 
same  afternoon  at  five.  Did  the  lady  accept  him  she  would  be 
"  at  home,"  otherwise  not.  At  five  o'clock  he  presented  himself, 
and  the  maid  asked  bim  to  go  into  the  best  room.  He  was  very 
hopeful,  and  glad  to  have  time  to  collect  himself  before  he  met 
the  lady.  But  when  he  had  waited  half  an  hour  awful  doubts 
began  to  assail  him.  After  an  hour  had  passed  he  imagined  the 
letter  bad  not  reached  the  young  lady.  Some  fatal  mistake  was 
making  a  fool  of  bim.  Still  be  waited  on.  After  two  hours  he 
began  to  be  ashamed  of  himself.  She  would  learn  that  he  had  sat 
two  hours  in  that  deserted  house  and  would  laugh  at  him.  At 
last  he  jumped  up  in  a  rage  and  ran  to  the  door.  He  was  open- 
ing it,  when  a  loud  peal  of  laughter  arrested  him.  He  turned  and 
saw  the  fair  head  of  his  adored  emerge  from  under  the  sofa.  Her 
mouth  was  laughing,  but  ber  eyes  were  filled  with  tears,  «  Oh, 
you  dear,  good  fellow,  to  wait  all  this  while!"  she  said.  ••  I 
wanted  to  see  how  many  minutes  a  lover's  patience  lasts.  How 
hard  the  floor  is  I  Now  help  me  to  get  out,  and  then  we  will  talk." 
In  less  than  a  week  the  marriage  was  arranged. 


IN  Italy  the  number  of  female  criminals,  everywhere  less  than 
that  of  males,  is  smaller  than  in  any  other  country.  It  has 
been  reserved  for  a  certain  Dr.  Ferrero,  an  Italian  savant,  to  ac- 
count for  this  state  of  affairs  in  a  very  unchivalrous  way.  The 
Doctor,  "  finding  that  the  females  of  ants,  bees  and  spiders  are 
more  cruel  than  the  males  because  more  intelligent,  comes  to  the 
unkind  conclusion  that  women  are  less  trouble  to  the  police  and 
the  law  courts  mainly  because  they  are  more  stupid  than  men." 
To  say  the  least  of  it,  the  argument  is  certainly  peculiar.  Women 
are  wicked,  but  stupid;  men  are  good  but  clever,  and  yet  tbey 
manage  to  commit  more  crime.  What  a  lot  of  nonsense  is  foisted 
on  the  public  nowadays  in  the  name  of  science  1 


JUDGE  HENRY  SCHAEFER,  the  discoverer  and  owner  of  the 
new  bonanza  mines  in  Arizona  is  in  town,  with  his  partner, 
Mr.  J.  H.  Bernitt.  He  has  already  sold  some  of  his  mines  to 
local  capitalists. 

Handsomely  Framed  Pictures. 

One  of  the  great  difficulties  householders  have  to  contend  with, 
when  beautifying  their  homes  with  pictures,  is  the  selection  of  suit- 
able frames  "for  the  different  paintings,  engravings,  etchings  or 
photogiaphs  they  may  possess.  Unless  an  expert,  one  is  never  sat- 
isfied with  a  work  of  art  until  it  is  properly  framed,  for  a  suitable 
frame  greatly  adds  to  the  attractiveness  of  any  picture.    To  aid  peo- 

Ele  in  their  selection  of  works  of  art  for  the  adornment  of  their 
omes  or  places  of  business,  Sanborc,  Vail  &  Co.  are  now  giving  par- 
ticular attention  to  framed  pictures.  In  their  beautiful  art  gallery 
may  be  seen  any  number  of  pictures  in  frames  of  cream  and  gold, 
white  and  gold,  silver,  all  gold,  and  other  colors,  and  in  a  variety  of 
new  and  beautiful  designs.  The  frames  are  designed  by  the  firm's 
own  artist,  and  made  at  its  factory.  People  desiring  to  procure 
beautiful  pictures,  suitably  framed,  should  visit  this  art  gallery. 


July  80,  1892. 


SAN    FRANCIS*  0  NEWS  I  BTTKR. 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL 

THfl  «inarterlj  tournament  ai  the  CilifornU  Club's  grounds  will 
begin  t>»  day.  and  the  finals  will  b«  played  tomorrow  after- 
noon. The  entry  thi«  time  is  larger  tban  usual,  and  good  games 
•  re  expected.  W.  H.  Taylor.  T-  will  art  as  referee,  and  the 
Tournament  Committee. consists  ol  M  S  S:et?nn  ami  A.  B.  Wil- 
berforce.  There  has  been  a  good  deal  of  practice  lately,  ami  the 
Interest,  which  suddenly  dropped  after  the  San  Rafael  champion- 
ship, seems  to  be  reviving  daily.  K.  Harrison,  the  bottle  cham- 
pion, still  holds  his  own,  having  defeated  champion  Taylor  6-4, 
with  bottles  instead  of  racquets.  There  is  no  doubt  that  a  game 
like  this  leads  to  accuracy. 

From  all  accounts,  our  players  have  been  doing  even  better 
than  expected  in  the  East,  and  we  hope  that  they  will  uphold 
the  honor  of  California  in  the  coming  tournament  at  Newport. 

The  Oakland  Club  have  started  in  with  a  rush  with  the  Stetson 
plan,  and  many  challenges  are  on  the  tapis.  The  classification  is 
as  follows: 

'  Team*.  —  Bates  and  CarrNeel.  Allen  and  English,  Hardy 
and  Hardy.  Stewart  and  Comstock,  Magee  and  Belden.  Culver 
and  Breck,  Wheaton  and  Roberts.  Brown  and  McChesney,  Beck 
and  Miller.  Requa  and  Abbott.  Fine  and  Archibald,  Goodall  and 
Folger.  Edwards  and  Pheby,  Baldwin  and  English,  Selby  and 
Nichols,  Hatch  and  Kiesal. 

The  thirteenth  regulation  for  the  management  of  lawn  tennis 
prize  meetings  says:  "The  referee  shall  not  bet  on  a  match,  nor 
shall  an  umpire  on  a  match  in  which  he  is  acting,  etc."  There 
is,  we  understand,  a  complaint  now  before  the  Pacific  States 
Lawn  Tennis  Association  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Pastime  Club 
of  Reno,  asking  that  the  consent  of  one  of  the  umpires,  acting 
in  a  match  between  H.  H.  Haight  and  Dr.  Phillips  of  Reno,  be 
properly  investigated,  as  this  umpire  is  supposed  to  have  had 
money  on  the  game,  which  wrongly  influenced  his  decisions 
against  the  visitor  from  3eno.  The  protest  states  that  unless  the 
association  takes  some  step  in  the  matter,  the  Reno  clubs  desire 
to  be  dropped  from  its  membership. 

BASEBALL  rT^E  **rst  na^  of  tDe  present  baseball  season  of 
*  1  the  California  League  closed  last  Sunday,  with 
San  Jose  the  winner  of  half  the  pennant.  A  week  previous  the 
percentage  was  in  favor  of  Los  Angeles,  but  the  San  Jose  club, 
through  superior  playing,  aided  by  a  little  good  luck,  came  out  in 
the  lead  by  a  scratch.  The  season  ended  here  in  one  of  the  most 
exciting  aDd  well-played  games  that  ever  took  place  on  a  Cali- 
fornia diamond.  The  Los  Angeles  people  are  hard  losers,  and 
have  set  up  a  wail  that  they  were  deprived  of  the  last  game 
through  mistakes  of  the  umpire.  They  claim  that  McVey  did 
not  catch  the  last  ball  hit  on  the  fly.  This  is  all  nonsense,  Every- 
one who  was  in  the  position  to  judge,  asserts  that  the  fly  was 
caught  fairly,  and  that  the  umpire  was  correct.  Los  Angeles,  as 
a  matter  of  fact,  lost  the  game  through  keeping  Lytle  too  long 
behind  the  bat.  He  was  nervous,  and  could  not  hold  Roacbe. 
Had  that  not  been  the  case,  Stallings  would  never  have  been  able 
to  make  his  daring  steal  from  third  base  to  the  plate.  Likewise, 
had  Roache  been  kept  in  the  box,  it  is  doubtful  if  Harper  would 
have  made  his  home  run.  San  Jose  won  the  series  honestly,  and 
time  will  prove  it,  even  to  the  Los  Angeles  people.  Some  talk 
has  been  made  that  Nick  Young  unjustly  took  a  protested  game 
away  from  Los  Angeles.  He  also  took  a  protested  game  away 
from  San  Jose,  and  what  is  more,  the  Los  Angeles  manager  voted 
in  favor  of  his  action,  while  the  manager  of  the  San  Jose  team 
voted  against  taking  the  game  away  from  Los  Angeles.  As  each 
club  lost  a  game,  the  protested  games  cut  no  figure  in  the  result 
of  the  race.  The  California  League  is  the  first  league  in  the 
United  States  to  do  away  with  bunting  the  ball.  Next  year  it 
will  be  abandoned  in  the  East.  Now  the  players  wiJI  have  to 
swing  their  bats  when  they  hit  at  a  ball.  Should  they  attempt 
to  buDt,  it  will  be  called  a  strike,  whether  they  hit  t^  e  ball  or  not. 
The  last  half  of  the  present  season  opened  here  and  in  Los  Angeles 
with  two  well-played  games,  the  two  tail-end  clubs  defeating  the 
leaders.  It  is  a  safe  prediction  to  make  that  all  the  teams  will 
be  in  the  race  for  the  balance  of  the  year.  San  Jose  and  San 
Francisco  will  play  in  this  city  this  afternoon  and  tomorrow. 
Next  week  Oakland  will  play  here  with  San  Jose.  The  Oaklands 
have  secured  a  new  first-base  man.     He  will  arrive  to-morrow. 


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SA*N  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


THE    VEILED     MAN. 

I  DO  not  now  wish  to  speak  of  the  train  of  circumstances  which 
wrought  my  ruin.  Chance  or  the  laws  of  Nature  sometimes 
combine  to  produce  results  as  startling  and  incomprehensible  as 
would  be  invented  by  demoniacal  power;  bat  if  my  head  was  to 
fall,  I  wish  to  leave  behind  me  this  recital,  which  may  seem  to 
those  who  read  it  as  a  dim  revelation  of  the  unknown. 


When  I  entered  that  terrible  coach  it  had  already  two  occu- 
pants. One  who  was  turned  from  me  lay  sleeping  profoundly, 
covered  with  wrappings,  the  outer  one  of  which  was  of  a  yel- 
low ground,  spotted  with  huge  black  spots.  I  found  later  that 
it  was  in  reality  a  leopard's  skin,  and  that  even  the  white  cap,  of 
a  soft,  delicate  texture,  which  he  wore  was  the  skin  of  some 
wild  animal.  The  other  traveller  was  an  insignificant-looking 
man.  about  thirty  years  old,  with  a  mild,  sympathetic  face,  and 
seemingly  accustomed  to  pass  many  nights  in  railway  trains.  I 
noticed  that  the  man  who  slept  did  not  move  once  during  the 
time  I  sat  opposite  to  him,  not  even  to  turn  his  head  or  offer  his 
ticket.  However,  I  soon  ceased  to  observe  my  companions,  be- 
ing immersed  in  various  reflections  on  rny  own  affairs.  The  mo- 
tion of  the  train,  while  not  interrupting,  seemed  to  divert  the  cur- 
rent of  my  thoughts  in  a  curious  fashion.  The  whirring  of  the 
axle  as  the  wheels  revolved,  the  rapid  passing  over  the  junctions 
of  the  rails,  with  the  jerks  occasioned  thereby,  became  a  sort  of 
rhythm  in  my  mind;  it  was  a  kind  of  vague  strain  that  cut  at 
regular  intervals  my  other  ideas.  At  the  end  of  a  quarter  of  an 
hour  this  refrain  took  complete  possession  of  me.  Each  jerk 
seemed  the  echo  of  some  sound  which  I  had  heard  before,  and  I 
found  myself  watching  for  it  with  such  a  blended  feeling  of  fear 
and  desire  I  could  not  comprehend  it.  I  took  up  my  newspaper 
and  began  to  read,  in  an  effort   to  break    the  charm. 

I  threw  down  my  paper,  and  leaning  over  in  the  corner  of  the 
seat,  disposed  myself  for  a  nap  with  a  singular  sensation  of  empti- 
ness in  my  brain.  It  was  at  this  moment  that  I  observed  the 
first  phenomena  which  filled  me  with  mysterious  wonder  and 
fear. 

The  traveler  at  the  end  of  the  compartment  arose  from  his  seat 
and  carefully  adjusted  his  pillow,  then  stretched  himself  out  and 
shut  his  eyes.  Almost  at  the  same  moment  the  sleeper  opposite 
me  raised  himself  silently,  and  extending  his  arm  toward  the 
lamp,  drew  down  the  little  blue  curtain  over  the  globe.  While  he 
was  doing  this,  I  should  have  been  able  to  see  his  face,  but  I  saw 
nothing.  All  that  could  be.  discerned  was  a  confused  mass,  the 
color  of  human  flesh.  Not  a  single  feature  was  distinguishable. 
His  action  was  made  with  such  rapidity  and  so  noiselessly  that  I 
was  stupefied,  for  scarcely  had  I  noticed  him  moving  when  he 
was  back  again  under  the  leopard  skin,  his  white  cap  peeping 
from  its  covering  as  before.  The  act  itself  was  trilling,  yet  it 
filled  me  with  a  vague  fear.  How  bad  he  so  quickly  become 
aware  of  the  other  man's  preparation  for  slumber?  He  had 
turned  his  face  toward  me.  yet  1  had  not  seen  it;  nothing  but  a 
flesh-like  veil.  The  rapidity  of  his  movement  and  the  mystery 
of  his  face  were  incomprehensible  to  me.  A  blue  shade  now 
floated  between  the  compartments,  changing  to  a  yellow  hue  as 
the  rays  of  the  light  from  an  oil  lantern  hung  behind,  fell  upon  it 
from  time  to  time.  The  thoughts  produced  by  the  rumble  of  the 
train,  which  had  haunted  me  so  persistently  a  short  time  before, 
now  returned  with  force,  added  to  which  came  the  fixed  idea 
that  I  was  shut  up  with  an  assassin.  Stories  of  murders  done  in 
railway  coaches  arose  from  obscurity  and  floated  before  me.  The 
most  cruel  fear  beset  me;  cruel  because  uncertainty  aug- 
mented my  terror.  Visibly,  palpably  I  felt  before  me 
the  figure  of  Jud,  the  notorious  assassin;  a  thin  face, 
with  prominent  cheek  bones,  hollow  eyes  and  coarse! 
unkempt       beard.  Jud,      the       midnight       murderer,      who 

ehose  first-class  railway  coaches  for  his  attacks,  and  whom, 
since  his  escape  from  prison,  it  had  been  impossible  to  recapture.' 
The  darkness  of  the  night  aided  in  investing  the  sleeper  opposite 
me  with  the  form  and  features  of  Jud.  Insensibly  the  recum- 
bent man  under  the  covering  became  the  assassin,  ready  to  spring 
upon  me.  I  was  strongly  tempted  to  rush  towards  the  other  end 
of  the  compartment,  to  shake  the  sleeping  traveler  and  tell  him 
of  our  peril,  but  a  feeling  of  shame  restrained  me.  How  could  I 
explain  my  uneasiness?  How  reply  to  the  astonished  inquiries 
of  the  hastily  awakened  man?  He  was  sleeping  comfortably 
his  head  on  the  pillow,  carefully  rolled  up  in  his  blanket  his 
gloved  hands  crossed  upon  his  breast.  By  what  right  should  I 
disturb  him  from  his  peaceful  slumber,  because  another  traveler 
had  drawn  the  curtain  over  the  lamp  1  Was  it  not  a  species  of 
madness  to  attach  so  much  importance  to  so  slight  a  gesture  and 
connect  it  with  a  knowledge  of  the  other's  preparation  for  sleep? 
Was  it  not  a  simple  coincidence,  the  two  events  following  each 
other  so  rapidly  ?  Thus  I  reasoned  and  queried  with  myself  but 
all  to  no  purpose;  my  fears  would  not  down.  On  the  contrary 
in  the  silence  and  gloom  of  the  night,  they  increased;  my  heart 
beat  violently,  the  blood  rushed  to  my  head,  and  my  temples 
beat  as  though  with  hammers.  My  whole  being  seemed  con- 
vulsed, in  strong  contrast  to  the  calm  of  my  surroundings,  every- 


thing appeared  to  be  whirling  about,  and  events,  dim  and  unde- 
fined, yet  with  a  precision  of  things  devined  as  about  to  happen, 
traversed  my  brain  in  an  endless  procession.  All  of  a  sudden  a 
profound  calm  took  possession  of  me.  I  felt  the  tension  of 
muscles  relax  in  an  utter  abandon.  The  whirlwind  in  my  brain 
ceased.  I  was  conscious  of  the  lapse  of  thought  which  pre- 
cedes slumber,  or  swooning,  and  in  fact  I  did  swoon,  with  my 
eyes  open.  Yes,  open  eyes,  gifted  with  an  infinite  power  of 
vision.  The  expansion  was  so  complete  that,  although  incapable 
of  governing  my  ideas  or  making  a  decision  of  my  own,  the 
sense  of  sight  served  me  without  hindrance.  These  superhuman 
eyes  were  riveted  upon  the  man  of  the  mysterious  face,  and 
piercing  all  obstacles,  I  saw  him  as  he  was.  Thus  I  knew  that 
underneath  the  leopard-skin  lay  a  man  with  a  veil  of  silk,  the 
color  of  human  flesh,  which  covered  a  swarthy  face, 
and  as  I  looked,  my  eyes  encountered  other  eyes,  black 
as  night,  and  of  intense  brilliancy.  I  saw  a  man  dressed 
in  yellow  stuff,  with  buttons  that  looked  like  silver,  en- 
veloped in  a  brown  mantle.  I  heard  also,  for  my  ear  had  acquired 
an  extreme  acuteness,  his  labored  breathing  as  though  he  were 
panting  in  an  effort  to  retain  his  immovable  attitude.  The  man 
did  not  stir  hand  nor  foot;  it  was  with  an  inner  working  of  his 
being  that  bis  will  annihilated  mine.  I  made  a  last  resistance. 
I  experienced  a  feeble  struggle  of  will  power,  then  my  ideas 
floated  away,  and  I  became  conscious  of  thoughts  which  did  not 
belong  to  my  mind,  which  I  had  not  created;  of  which  I  recog- 
nized nothing  in  common  with  myself.  One  of  these  was  assas- 
sination, but  I  no  longer  looked  with  terror  upon  the  work  ac- 
complished by  Jud;  but  if  it  were  possible,  a  gleam  of  curiosity, 
and  a  complete  surrender  of  self.  At  this  moment  the  veiled  man 
arose  and  looked  at  me  fixedly  under  his  silken  mask.  Then, 
with  stealthy  steps,  he  approached  the  sleeping  traveler  at  the 
other  end  of  the  compartment.  With  one  hand  he  seized  him  by 
the  nape  of  the  neck,  while  with  the  other  he  stuffed  a  silk  hand- 
kerchief into  his  mouth  as  a  gag.  I  was  close  to  him,  and  looked 
on  with  a  gloomy  eye,  but  it  gave  roe  neither  pain  nor  a  desire  to 
cry  out.  The  veiled  man,  with  a  rapid  movement,  then  drew  a 
thin  stiletto-like  knife  across  the  traveler's  throat,  and  cut  it  as  a 
butcher  would  a  sheep;  the  blood  gushed  forth  in  torrents.  He 
had  plunged  the  knife  in  the  left  side  and  drawn  it  towards  him 
with  a  sharp,  quick  stroke,  leaving  the  throat  a  gaping  wound. 
He  uncovered  the  lamp,  and  1  saw  the  deep,  red  hole.  Then  he 
emptied  the  victim's  pockets  and  dipped  his  hands  in  the  bloody 
pool.  He  came  towards  me,  and  I  suffered  him  without  resist- 
ance to  daub  my  inert  hands  and  face.  The  veiled  man  rolled 
up  his  coverings,  and  threw  his  mantle  around  him,  whilst  I  re- 
mained stupified  beside  the  murdered  traveler.  Suddenly  I  felt  a 
sense  of  weakness;  I  missed  a  certain  sustaining  power.  With- 
out a  will  to  supplant  my  own,  bereft  of  ideas,  I  was  left  in  the 
gloom.  I  came  to  myself  by  degrees,  with  fixed  eyes,  parched 
mouth  and  a  brain  bound  as  with  an  iron  hand,  I  found  myself 
at  the  grey  dawn  of  day  alone  with  the  corpse  of  the  murdered 
traveler.  The  train  was  running  through  a  flat,  monotonous 
country,  clumps  of  trees  appearing  at  rare  intervals.  When  it 
stopped,  after  a  long  whistle  which  echoed  through  the  fresh 
morning  air,  I  stupidly  stood  at  the  door  with  my  face  smeared 
over  with  blood! 


r- 


Uitie  lord  Fdo  otleroy^ 


Quaker  Rgpc  white  Oats 


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July  30,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    FEMININE    CRAZE    FOR    CRIMINALS. 


[Bt    Pi    Viiioi.] 


THE  two  Ruggles  brothers  swinging  from  a  gibbet  are  a  warn- 
ing to  criminals,  and  a  commentary  upon  Ibe  lax  administra- 
tion of  law  which  has  made  lynching  a  necessity.  Could  the 
result  be  viewed  as  a  rigorous  and  effectual  protest  against  the 
mawkish  and  disgusting  sentiment  that  sends  flower-laden  women 
to  a  criminal's  cell  to  make  fools  of  themselves,  and  disgrace 
their  sex.  their  families  and  their  country,  by  such  unreasonable, 
illogical  displays  of  folly,  the  banging  of  the  Ruggles  brothers 
would  be  ten  times  the  boon  to  society  that  it  already  is.  True, 
there  is  no  accounting  for  taste;  but  why  women  who  have  led 
lives  of  respectability  should  lose  their  heads  and  ail  sense  of 
decency  over  a  red-handed  murderer,  is  one  of  the  problems  of 
the  age.  There  are  good  women,  who  believe  that  the  world  can- 
not only  be  caught  by  molasses,  but  that  it  can  be  persuaded  to 
return  to  forsaken  paths  of  rectitude  by  a  generous  supply  of 
"  taffy."  They  feel  that  they  have  a  mission  to  pour  oil  upon 
the  troubled  lives  of  the  wicked,  which  the  Bible  declares,  are 
like  the  sea  when  it  is  troubled  and  cannot  rest,  and  its  waters 
cast  up  mire  and  dirt.  They  will  make  a  hero  of  a  man  who  is 
a  convicted  criminal,  or  a  self-confessed  villain,  and  accord  him 
an  interest  which  they  would  refuse  to  bestow  upon  the  poor  but 
worthy.  Years  ago  the  name  of  the  sainted  Elizabeth  Fry  be- 
came canonized  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  love  their  fellow-men, 
for  the  nobility  and  self-sacrifice  of  her  life  to  the  poor  wretches 
whose  misdeeds  had  lodged  ihem  in  English  jails.  But  she  went 
to  them,  not  with  flowers  in  one  hand  and  laurel-wreathes  in  the 
other;  nay,  she  carried  a  Bible,  out  of  which  she  convicted  them 
of  their  sins,  and  exhorted  them  to  repent  and  forsake  the  error 
of  their  ways.  Her  earnestness,  her  undoubted  interest  in  them, 
led  many  to  attempt  to  lead  lives  of  rectitude,  taking  the  first 
step  at  the  foot  of  the  cross.  But  those  who  visit  the  murderers' 
row  of  to-day  are  of  a  very  different  sort.  They  are  women 
eager  for  notoriety,  or  carried  away  by  excess  of  sentiment. 

A  man  who  has  taken  the  life  of  a  fellow  being  should  not  be 
denied  the  benefit  of  clergy;  certainly  none  need  it  more  than  he. 
But  ail  display  of  emotion  over  him  by  outsiders  is  offensive  to 
the  taste  of  the  community.  Jt  has  heretofore  been  a  privilege 
monopolized  by  the  clergy  to  go  to  extremes  in  matters  of  this 
sort.  It  has  not  passed  out  of  the  minds  of  some  San  Francis- 
cans— the  feeling  of  disgust  and  repulsion  that  swept  over  them 
when  the  accounts  of  the  execution  of  a  particularly  atrocious 
murderer  were  given  to  the  public,  and  it  was  learned  that  a 
popular  clergyman  of  this  city  had  made  a  complete  fool  of  him- 
self and  had  played  for  dramatic  effect,  by  saying  to  the  doomed 
man  as  he  stood  upon  the  trap,  »  Kiss  me,  Charley."     Ugh! 

But  when  women  made  a  daily  parade  to  a  jail,  and  lavish 
the  flowers  of  earth  and  blossoms  of  sentiment  upon  a  man  who 
has  choked,  or  kicked,  or  cut  his  wife  to  death,  what  shall  be 
said  of  the  loyalty  of  woman  to  woman,  of  her  delicate  sensibili- 
ties, of  her  unerring  instinct?  Oh,  it  is  too  humiliating.  Give 
honor  rather  to  the  woman  who  fiercely  applied  the  torch  to  the 
funeral  pile  of  a  negro  ravisher  of  women  than  toleration  to 
such  disgraces  to  their  womanhood  as  those  creatures  who  vie 
with  each  other  for  the  sentimental  intimacy  with  condemned 
murderers. 

Is  it  proof  that  there  is  a  love  for  the  weird,  the  gruesome,  the 
horrible,  the  morbid  in  every  woman — that  these  things  are  so? 
Does  it  prove  that  her  brain  lacks  the  proper  balance  when  she  is 
capable  of  such  unreliability  of  judgment,  such  eccentricity  of 
conduct?  Who  has  forgotten  that  brutal  wretch  Gottung,  who 
murdered  his  wife,  and  while  languishing  in  jail  received  the  at- 
tentions of  a  young  girl,  who  verily  loaded  him  with  flowers  and 
flung  herself  at  his  feet  to  such  purpose  that  he  married  her? 
Had  he  choked  her  to  death  it  would  have  been  a  fate  which 
would  have  carried  with  it  the  elements  of  poetic  justice.  The 
Chicago  anarchists  furnished  another  opportunity  for  women  to 
debase  themselves  in  the  eyes  of  the  world,  and  although  Nina 
Van  Zandt  has  since  been  shown  to  have  been  the  teol  of  con- 
spirators seeking  to  use  her  as  a  means  to  saving  Spies,  yet  she  is 
also  an  illustration  of  how  far  sentiment  and  mental  obliquity 
can  carry  a  woman.  It  is  the  same  Quixotic  spirit  that  fills  the 
ranks  of  Christian  workers  at  inquiry  meetings  to  the  injury  of 
the  cause.  Be  it  far  from  me  to  write  or  to  say  one  word  that  can 
be  construed  into  an  attack  upon  religion,  but  there  are  others 
whose  reputation  for  sanctity,  and  whose  reliability  of  judgment, 
a  combination  somewhat  unusual  it  must  be  admitted,  has  never 
been  questioned,  who  will  join  me  in  a  protest  against  sending 
girls  and  silly,  susceptible  women  into  these  inquiry  meetings  to 
labor  with  the  lame,  halt  and  blind,  the  morally  and  spiritually 
diseased,  who,  caught  in  the  tide  of  a  revival,  become  the  flotsam 
and  jetsom  of  an  »  inquiry  meeting."  It  is  not  necessary  to 
dwell  upon  the  subject  at  any  length,  but  this  one  fact  will 
stand  for  all  the  rest.  Propinquity— a  tender  interest, 
mutual  attraction— and  what?  There  is  no  subject  that  will  so 
arouse  a  feeling  of  love  toward  mankind  in  general,  and  in  par- 
ticular towards  those  who  are  the  special  objects  of  a  prayerful 
interest,  as  the  prospective  conversion  of  a  sinner.  There  is  a 
zest,  a  zeal  about  it,  not  to  be  known  in  the  pursuit  of  pleasure 


n.«r  in  the  excitements  of  the  worldly.  The  stake  is  agreat  one— a 
human  soul;  the  Held  |a  broad— time  and  eternity.  What  won- 
der that  human  affection  is  kindled  between  two  souls  that  are 
facing  each  other  in  tbe  light  of  the  divine  love?  They  love  the 
Lord,  or  one  does,  and  hopes  that  the  other  will;  what  wonder 
that  they  should  come  to  love  each  other,  or  to  think  that  they  do? 
All  that  is  very  fine,  sweetly  romantic,  deeply  religious,  no  doubt, 
but  it's  all  bosb ;  just  the  same  in  the  majority  of  such  cases,  and 
young  girls,  instead  of  being  urged,  as  a  test  of  their  love  and 
loyalty  to  the  Master,  to  enter  the  inquiry  room,  and  march 
boidly  up  to  some  unknown  man  and  seek  to  engage  him  in  con- 
versation about  bis  soul,  should  be  taken  by  tbe  shoulder  and 
marched  home  and  kept  there.  Time  would  fail  to  tell  of  the 
disastrous  marriages,  the  unhappiness  that  has  come  to  women 
through  their  willingness  to  take  a  reformed  man,  a  converted 
criminal,  into  their  hearts. 

The  efforts  of  the  Satvation  Army  to  seek  and  to  save  the  lost 
are  not  to  be  included  in  this  category,  for  with  a  wisdom  not  tu 
have  been  expected  from  what  borders  so  nearly  upon  fanati- 
cism, they  bind  their  recruits  to  do  no  courting  for  the  first  two 
years  of  service. 

The  same  absurd  sentiment  and  disgusting  actions  that  helped 
to  hang  the  Ruggles  brothers,  by  exasperating  the  men  of  Red- 
ding  to  such  a  pitch  that  they  suspended  the  visits  and  the  crim- 
inals at  one  swift,  sure  operation — this  is  the  same  sentiment 
that  finds  expression  in  all  this  fuss  over  Chinese  converts.  Thank 
heaven,  we  are  through  that  phase  of  it  in  San  Francisco;  but 
some  of  our  Eastern  brethren  and  sisters  are  yet  to  have  their 
eyes  enlightened. 

It  is  an  astonishing  fact  that  some  women  will  run  after  a  man 
all  tbe  harder  if  his  past  life  has  a  shade  o'ershadowing  it.  It  is 
something  to  make  a  true  woman  blush  with  shame. 

There  was  once  a  physician  in  San  Francisco — handsome,  skill- 
ful, popular.  The  women  were  crazy  after  him,  particularly  the 
married  women,  and  though  he  never  married,  yet  his  race  has 
not  vanished  from  the  face  of  the  earth.  Several  of  those  who 
might,  but  for  tbe  somewhat  tardy  modesty  of  their  mothers, 
have  called  him  "  father,"  yet  mingle  in  social  circles  of  this  city 
and  Oakland.  He  died  and  was  buried.  A  friend  survived  him. 
To  this  friend  remained  the  task  to  disposing  of  the  deceased  phy- 
sician's effects.  His  heart  failed  him  as  he  opened  a  top  bureau 
draw  and  found  it  cramped  full  of  letters  and  daguerrotypes  of 
fair  women.  He  sent  for  his  confidential  clerk.  "  Examine  these 
carefully,  lest  any  paper  of  value  to  the  estate  be  mixed  up  in  all 
this  mass  of  correspondence.  I  have  not  the  time."  Later  came 
the  clerk  to  him:  "Sir,  you  can  form  no  idea  of  the  contents  of 
those  letters,  nor  of  the  names  that  are  signed  in  full  to  the  most 
compromising  epistles."  "  Don't  tell  me  a  single  thing  about  any 
of  them,  don't  mention  a  single  name  to  me;  I  do  not  want  to 
know." 

Some  of  tbe  handsome  physician's  affairs  had  been  known  far 
and  wide ;  the  records  of  the  others  were  committed  to  the  flames, 
and  the  fair  fame  of  some  frail  women — women  who  sought  his 
admiration,  and  offered  him — themselves — has  remained  un- 
tarnished, a  sort  of  fire  gilt,  as  it  were. 


CUVHANffS 

/  One  ^ 

'  rounded  teaspoonful 
of  Cleveland's^ 
Baking  Powder 


does  more  and  better  work 
than  a  heaping  ^ 
teaspoonful 
of  any  other. 
A  large  saving  on  a 
year's  bakings. 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 
Used  in  the  U.    S.  Army  and  by 
teachers  of  Cookery. 

*  Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it  never 
varies,  it  does  the  most  work,  the  best 
work  and  is  perfectly  wholesome. 
If.  H.  AMES  .V  CO.,  Agents. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


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'We   Obey    no   Wand    but    Pleasure's."— row  Moore. 


THE  production  of  Love  in  Tandem,  at  Stockwell's  Theatre, 
Tuesday  night,  freshened  up  the  ancient  glories  of  the  Daly 
Company,  by  exhibiting  it  once  more  in  a  line  in  which  it  stands 
practically  unequaled— the  peculiar  range  of  modern  society 
comedy  which  Mr.  Daly  seems  to  scent  out  by  some  unerring  in- 
stinct, under  whatever  foreign  dress  or  unknown  tongue  it  may 
be  hidden,  to  be  turned  into  the  hopper  of  his  great  ' ■  adapting 
mill,  and  to  come  out  the  fine  sifted  tloor  of  a  "  Daly  play."  When 
one  remarks  that  in  this  range  John  Drew  has  no  equal  on  the 
stage,  even  so  sweeping  an  assertion  will  hardly  find  a  challenger— 
certainly  not  in  any  one  who  saw  him  Tuesday  night,  as  Richard 
TompkinsonDymond.  So  intelligent  an  actor  as  Mr.  Drew  could 
not  make  a  failure  of  anypart  which  bis  judgment  would  permit 
him  to  attempt,  but  if  there  was  any  feeling  that  he  was  not  at 
his  best  in  some  of  the  plays  presented  during  the  present  en- 
gagement, the  remembrance  was  wiped  out  on  Tuesday  evening, 
and  John  Drew  was  restored  to  his  pedestal  as  an  unapproach- 
able exponent  of  the  bright  and  humorous  young  man  of  current 
society,  as  condensed  and  touched  up  in  refined  comedy.  As  the 
too  facile,  but  really  faithful  and  fond,  young  husband,  every 
raising  of  the  brow  or  dropping  of  an  eyelid,  every  pose,  look,  or 
movement,  has  an  aim,  and  flies  straight  to  the  center.  That,  if 
he  did  not  actually  accomplish  the  feat,  he  came  very  near  to 
giving  Ada  Rehan  second  place  in  the  comedy,  should  be  enough 
to  assure  Mr.  Drew  that  his  best  and  pleasantest  reputation  rests 
and  will  always  rest  on  similar  characters. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Rehan  seems  to  make  an  exception  to  the  wise  old  maxim, 
"Shoemaker,  stick  to  your  last  " — though,  in  truth,  her  »  last " 
always  seems  to  be  her  best.  Yet  her  remarkable  power  of 
throwing  herself  with  an  equally  charming  abandon  of  grace  and 
reality  "  into  a  Shakespearean  comedy,  a  classic  idyl,  or  a  modern 
society  play,  is  less  versatility  than  adaptability,  for  she  scarcely 
changes  at  all;  she  is  always,  and  through  all,  Ada  Rehan.  This 
striking  peculiarity  of  her  universality  is  only  another  proof 
that  beauty  and  wit  and  womanly  spirit  and  wilfulness  are  of  no 

special  clime  or  time. 

*  *  # 

At  the  opening  of  the  Daly  season  at  Stockwell's,  it  struck  the 
close  observer  that  if  there  were  a  weak  spot  in  the  present  or- 
ganization it  would  be  found  in  the  two  leading  members  of  the 
feminine  support.  We  recalled  the  memory  of  sweet  and  brilliant 
Edith  Kingdon,  and  of  the  almost  equally  talented  Virginia 
Dreher,  and  it  seemed  as  if  Mr.  Daly  must,  indeed,  have  a  sub- 
lime faith  in  his  own  training  and  molding  powers  when  he  took 
as  their  successors  Adelaide  Prince  and  Kitty  Cheatham.  Miss 
Prince,  in  the  varying  characters  she  has  assumed,  has,  how- 
ever, fully  vindicated  his  choice,  so  far  as  she  is  concerned.  Aside 
from  the  charoi  of  her  stately  beauty  and  the  elegance  of  manner 
which  has  come  to  be  recognized  as  a  Daly  requisite,  she  acts 
with  a  spirit  and  intelligence  which  was  hardly  promised  by  her 
Celia  in  the  opening  production  of  As  You  Like  It.  Miss  Kitty 
Cheatham  has  not  established  herself  similarly.  Her  everlasting 
and  unmeaning  smile  is  not  justified  by  the  fairly  good  set  of 
teeth  (and  gums,  for  that  matter)  it  displays,  certainly  not  on  any 
other  grounds;  and  her  entire  manner  and  style  reminds  one  of 
the  old  lady's  reply  to  her  more  accomplished  daughter  when  the 
latter  explained  to  her,  at  the  play,  the  precise  meaning  of  the 
word  ingenue.  "  Ob!  is  that  it?"  said  the  uncultured  but  shrewd 
old  dame,  "  Well,  I  thought  it  me»nt  silly." 
»  *  * 

In  Tuxedo  which  will  follow  Gloriana  Monday  night,  August 
1st,  the  California  will  have  a  genuine  novelty.  Rich  and  Harris' 
comedy  company  have  been  combined  with  Thatcher's  Minstrels 
to  give  the  play,  which,  as  its  title  indicates,  presents  life  at  the 
famous  New  Jersey  resort.  The  piece,  which  is  the  work  of  Ed. 
Marble,  shows  a  number  of  society  amateurs  at  the  resort  trying 
to  arrange  a  dramatic  entertainment  for  chanty's  sake.  Their 
difficulties  are  finally  adjusted  by  bringing  George  Thatcher's 
Minstrels  to  Tuxedo  to  help  the  amateurs  out.  The  entire  orig- 
inal company  arrives,  and  of  course  each  man  has  his  specialty 
act,  as  of  yore,  and  with  the  comedy  company  of  Rich  and  Har- 
ris added,  the  performance  ought  to  be  a  varied  and  amusing  one. 
The  second  act  shows  the  minstrels  drawn  up  on  the  lawn  in 
front  of  the  club-house,  with  Hughey  Dougherty  and  George 
Thatcher  on  the  ends,  and  Ed.  Marble  as  interlocntor.  Frillman, 
D.cky  Jose,  Raymon  Moore,  and  orher  well-known  people,  com- 
plete this  part  of  the  combination,  while  Rich  and  Harris'  com- 
pany includes  a  large  number  of  singers,  specialty  people,  and 
comedians. 

*  *  * 

The  Witch  is  one  of  the  most  picturesque  and  interesting  of  re- 
cent dramas,  and  its  production  at  the  Bush  is  an  unusually 
strong  one  as  to  cast.  It  will  have  its  last  presentation  to-mor- 
row night,  and  all  who  have  not  seen  it  should  do  so.  As  a  proof 


that  early  colonial  history  has  a  store  of  dramatic  incident  worth 
drawing  upon,  and  as  an  object  lesson  in  that  history,  it  is  well 
worth  an  evening  and  a  dollar. 

*  *  * 

With  this  engagement  the  present  season  at  the  Bush  ends, 
and  the  cosy  little  theatre  will  be  closed  for  three  weeks.  The 
next  regular  season  will  open  August  22d,  with  Little  Tippett,  an 
adaptation  of  Alexandre  Bisson's  play,  which  originally  made  a 
decided  Parisian  success.  The  adaptors  are  Harry  and  Edward 
Paulton,  and  the  stage  business  has  been  arranged  by  Ben  Teal. 
Mr.  Bisson  is  the  author  of  Wilkinson's  Widows,  and  the  basis  of 
the  plot  in  Little  Tippett  is  not  dissimilar.  Manager  Hall  is  well 
pleased  to  have  secured  so  promising  a  production  as  a  send-off 
for  the  new  season. 

*  w  » 

The  Lost  Paradise  at  the  Baldwin  will  give  place  after  next  week 
to  the  well  and  pleasantly  remembered  Alabama.  Few  plays  have 
been  so  generally  liked  and  have  left  so  many  and  so  vivid  pic- 
tures in  memory.  The  opening  night  promises  to  be  one  of  the 
Baldwin's  accustomed  brilliant  first  nights. 

*  *  * 

A  new  naval  play,  The  Ensign,  will  be  produced  next  month  at 
the  California.  The  Ensign  is  a  patriotic  American  drama,  founded 
on  one  of  the  stirring  incidents  of  the  late  civil  war,  the  incidents 
forming  a  succinct  dramatic  narrative.  A  great  deal  of  money 
has  been  expended  on  scenic  effects,  and  these,  which  will  be 
strictly  naval  in  character,  will  form  much  of  the  attraction. 
Among  other  scenic  attractions  will  be  a  faithful  representation 
of  the  decks  of  an  American  man-of-war  ready  for  action.  Two 
car-loads  of  scenery  and  twenty-one  people  will  be  brought  out 
for  this  production. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Fritz  Morris,  manager  of  the  Alabama  Company  for  A.  M. 
Palmer,  reached  the  city  last  Thursday.  Mr.  Morris  was  formerly 
connected  with  newspaper  work  in  this  city,  where  he  is  well 
and  kindly  remembered.  Before  leaving  New  York  for  the  Coast, 
Mr.  Morris  was  married,  and  brings  his  young  wife  with  him. 

*  #  * 

It  is  asserted  by  Mr.  Francis  Wilson's  friends  here,  that  the 
bright  comedian  was  not  entirely  satisfied  with  bis  San  Franciscan 
success,  undoubted  as  it  was.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson  have  been 
everywhere  great  social  favorites,  and  the  comedian  thinks  the 
society  "  pull "  is  a  strong  element  in  the  brilliancy  and  numbers  of 
his  audiences.  But,  after  all,  it  was  dollars  not  dinners,  that  Mr. 
Wilson  came  so  far  to  gain,  and  he  probably  did  not  go  bungro  on 
our  first  class  hotel  fare.  The  dollars  of  our  undistinguished  stay- 
at-home  count  for  just  as  much  as  those  of  the  millionaire  fash- 
ionable summer-resorter,  and  because  he  does  stay  at  home,  he 
is  likely  to  have  more  of  them  to  spend  on  first-night  seats  at  the 
Baldwin  to  the  swelling  of  Mr.  Francis  Wilson's  bank  account. 
»  *  * 

The  Tivoli  will  produce  next  Monday  night  the  spectacular 
burlesque  opera,  in  three  acts,  Beauty  and  the  Beast.  It  is  a  mu- 
sical dramatization  of  the  old  fairy  tale  which  lends  itself  readily 
to  such  production.  The  music  is  by  Adolph  Bauer  and  the 
libretto  by  John  P.  Wilson.  Tillie  Salinger  will  be  the  Beauty 
and  Phil  Branson  the  Beast,  afterward  Prince  Azor.  Ferris  Hart- 
man,  Gracie  Ptaisted,  and  others  are  also  in  the  cast. 

*  *  • 

The  Stock  season  at  Stockwell's  Theatre  will  open  next  Mon- 
day night,  with  Jeffreys-Lewis  and  a  good  company  in  Clothilde, 
a  romantic  drama  of  woman's  love  and  woman's  hate  combined, 
which  Jeffreys-Lewis  can  so  well  portray.  Edith  Brandon  will 
appear  as  Femande,  the  unfortunate  object  of  Clothilde's  jealoaB 
hate,  and  L.  R.  Stockwell  as  General  Morrell.  The  cast  will  also 
include  Harry  Mainhall,  Arthur  Byron,  W.  J.  Lonergan,  H.  S. 
Duffield,  Geo.  Hermance,  Bebe  Vining,  and  Bertha  Foltz. 

*  *  * 

Genevieve  Bancroft  ha^  written  a  new  society  drama,  called  by 
the  alluring  title,  Woman's  Eyes,  which  will  be  brought  out  at 
Stockwell's  Theatre,  Monday,  August  8th.  Mrs.  Bancroft  is  the 
wife  of  W.  B.  Bancroft,  a  well-known  business  man  of  this  city, 
and  until  recently  a  member  of  the  great  publishing  house  of 
Bancroft  &  Co.  It  is  said  that  the  new  comedy  has  a  role  par- 
ticularly well  suited  to  Jeffreys-Lewis,  who  will  create  the  part 
in  the  forthcoming  production. 

*■  ■*  * 

Mr.  and  Mr».  J.  H.  Rosewald  have  returned  to  the  city,  and 
have   resumed  their  musical  elasses  at  their  residence,  922  Geary 

street. The   concert   season    will  soon  open  in  earnest.     Mrs. 

Carmichael  Carr  has  returned  from  her  summer  sojourn,  and  an- 
nounces the  first  Carr-Beel  concert  to  take  place  early  in  Septem- 
ber.    In  the  new  series  one  great  aim  will  be  novelty   both  as  to 

"elections  and  the  combination  of  instruments. A  magnificent 

production   of    Theodora   will  be  a  feature  of  the  Jeffreys-Lewis 

season  at  Stockwell's. The  quaint  and  peculiar  humorist,  Sol 

Smith  Russell  will  soon  come  back  to  the  Baldwin  with  Peaceful 
Valley.  Every  one  will  »  drop  in  on  mother.  "-^All  musical 
compositions  intended  for  the  Columbian  Exposition  must  be 
sent  in  before  October  15th,  1892,  to  insure  consideration  by  the 


July  30,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


committee. John  F.  Br»R(t.  local   manafter  ami   Impreaarin,  is 

negotiating  with  I'aderewakl  for  *  Oast  lour.  Too  high  terms 
may  be  the  rock  on  which  the  negotiation  will  go 
to  pieces.  Kvrn  the  creates!  pianist  on  this  planet 
cannot  be  a  atrong  paying  investment  it  he  demand  all  the  re- 
ceipts  and   a  percentage   on    the   rest. Oen.   Lew  Wallace  is 

among  the  first  on  Mr.  Bragg's  lecture  list  for  the  coming  season. 

'irieg.  the  famous   composer,  has  just  celebrated    his  silver 

wedding. Jean   de    Reszke   is   to   marry  a   Parisian  amateur 

pianist.  Madame  Pegonlvine. The  next  great  European  pianist 

to  play  in  America  will  beSlavenbagen.— Jobann  Strauss,  prince 
of  Waltzdoni.   has    finished    the    first  act   of    his  new  operetta. 

Princttf  Xinctta. A   new  comic  opera  company  bas  Henry  E. 

Dixey  at  its  head,  and  numbers  among  its  members  Charles  Dun- 
gan,  Camille  d'Arville,  the  beauty  of  the  Bostonians,  and  Eugene 
Cowles,  the  magnificent  basso  of  the  same  organization.  The 
company  opened  at  Palmer  s,  New  York.  July  18th,  in  TV  Jfos- 

couV. Ovide   Mnsin    is   entertaining   the   Australians  with  the 

strains  of  his  violin.     His  popular  manager,  R.  E.  Johnston,  is  at 

the   Belvedere,   New    York. The  De   Reszke  brothers  netted 

$125,000  during  their  season   in  America D'Oyley  Carte  has 

made  a  failure  of  his  new  London  Theatre.     He  ought  to,  to  pay 

him  oat  for  taking  such  a  name. Al.  Hayman,  it   is   rumored, 

has  gone  to  Europe   to  recruit  talent  for  a  new  opera  company, 

with  Jessie  Bartlett  Davis  as  prima  donna. It  seems  that  Daniel 

Bandmann  is  the  real  original  "  Mary  Kelly's  Beau."  He  was 
married  to  Mary  Kelly  last  month. 


COUNTING    HIS    LAST    MINUTES. 

IT  is  doubtless  easy  enough  to  face  death  amidst  scenes  of  ex- 
citement such  as  the  crashing  of  cannon  on  the  battle-field,  the 
riot,  contest,  or  even  duel,  but  it  is  not  often  that  anyone,  save, 
perhaps,  the  suicide,  or  those  in  great  suffering,  will  deliberately 
invite  the  moment  that  calls  them  into  eternity.  There  was  such 
a  case  in  Oakland  on  Friday  lust,  though,  and  the  hero  of  it — for 
such  he  undoubtedly  was — was  William  Davies,  a  well-known 
character  across  the  bay.  He  had  been  an  inmate  of  the  Oak- 
land General  Hospital  for  a  month,  and  the  ravages  of  consump- 
tion had  told  on  him  so  much  that  when  Friday  morning  dawned, 
Dr.  Buteau,  his  attendant  physician,  saw  that  the  dying  man  had 
but  a  few  hours  left.  Davies  evidently  realized  it,  too,  for  as  the 
morning  wore  on,  he  asked  bow  much  longer  he  could  expect  to 
live.  The  question  came  from  his  lips  very  coolly",  and  realizing 
that  be  bad  a  man  of  strong  nerve  to  deal  with,  the  doctor  told 
him  the  truth. 

"  I  thought  so,"  said  Davies,  "  and  I'm  glad  you  told  me,  for 
there  are  some  matters  I  want  to  attend  to."  Then  he  set  about 
arranging  bis  affairs,  and  soon  had  everything  settled.  As  the 
afternoon  sped  on,  he  sent  for  the  doctor  again,  and  said:  "  How 
much  time  is  left  to  me  now?" 

The  physician  examined  him,  and  saw  that  his  course  was 
nearly  run.  o  I'll  tell  you  how  it  is,  Davies,"  be  said;  "  I  can 
keep  you  alive  for  six  or  seven  hours  with  stimulants,  if  you  say 
so:  otherwise  you  will  be  dead  in  half  an  hour.  Now,  what  shall 
I  do?" 

"  Wait  a  moment,"  said  the  dying  man.  "  Let  me  think." 
And  he  closed  bis  eyes  for  a  few  seconds.  Then,  looking  up,  he 
said,  "  Well,  never  mind,  Doc,  just  send  Will  to  me,"  mentioning 
a  friend.  The  summons  went  out,  and  soon  the  individual  in 
question  entered  the  room.  Davies  held  out  bis  hand  and  said: 
"  I've  only  got  twenty  minutes  left,  old  man.  Stay  with  me, 
will  you?  And  now  good-bye,  Doc."  he  added,  extending  his 
hand  to  the  physician.  "  I  am  much  obliged  to  you."  There 
was  not  a  quiver  in  his  voice  as  he  spoke,  and  he  wrung  the 
doctor's  band  affectionately.  Twenty  minutes  afterwards  he  was 
deai.  The  friend  who  stayed  in  the  room  with  him  says  that  he 
was  conscious  to  the  very  last  second,  and  that  he  kept  counting 
off  the  minutes  on  the  clock.  "  Ten  minutes  more,"  he  whis- 
pered, as  he  watched  the  hands  go  around.  "  Five  minutes." 
"Two  minutes."  "  And  now  good-bye,  old  fellow."  And  so  he 
died. 

EVANGELIST  MILLS  concluded  his  labors  in  Oakland  with  a 
rousing  religious  hurrah  on  Sunday  night  last.  He  claims 
3,500  converts  in  the  City  of  Churches,  and,  as  he  has  distributed 
them  among  all  the  different  denominations,  the  pastors  feel  as  if 
they  have  struck  a  new  field  of  financial  clover.  For  it  must  be 
remembered  that  an  active  church  member  represents  an  income 
of  about  $20  a  year  on  an  average,  and  in  the  case  of  a  family  man 
this  amount  becomes  much  higher.  The  clerics  on  this  aide  of 
the  bay  who  objected  to  being  assessed  90  cents  a  head  for  tbeir 
congregations  in  order  to  get  Mills  here  are  evidently  either  not 
good  financiers  or  else  they  do  not  place  much  stock  in  the 
Evangelist's  assertions  of  the  number  of  souls  he  saves.  Apropos 
too,  the  worldly  value  of  a  soul  has  been  determined  by  these  re- 
vivals, so  that  much  has  been  gained  anyhow. 

Laundry  Farm  enjoys  great  popularity  as  a  picnic  ground,  and  is 
visited  weekly  by  thousands  of  people,  who  find  it  one  of  the  most 
enjoyable  spots  within  easy  reach  of  the  city.  The  California  Kail- 
way  runs  dlreotly  to  it.  Laundry  farm  Is  only  forty  minutes  from 
Oakland,  and  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes  iroiu  this  oity. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Ai.  Hiym.n  .'.  Booth  ■ Manager. 

ttn^lfted^SJSyJ8,    M"""--S»'""'»r  "'»>■•   Beoond  week  of  - 
THE    LOST    PARADISE  I 
A  powerful  leaaon  In  labc  ,  admirably  nrcscncil  l>v  <iian 

moll'UVs  si„,k  ««n|.A>v.  of.NeivYork  prC"CaC<I  by  ",AS 
^secure  sent-  Dow  f...  third  n.,.i  lael  week,  commencing  Angus!  1st. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

ALIlAVMAsico Proprietors.  |J.  J.  Gorri.on    Manager. 

Beginning    Monday,      .Vucn.-t    1st,     UKORUE     III  \  II  III  Its    JUH- 
SIKf.l-s  combined   with    Kll  ll  .1  HARRIS'    «I»CIIV    ««>.,    in    Ed 

Marble  s  Minstrel  Farce-Comedy  creation. 

TUXEDO  I 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kehlino  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

A  great  big  hit  1    See  MARTllAX  *  KNIGHT  iu  their  great  Serpen- 
tine dance.    Last  two  performances  Plaunuelte's  Historical  Opera, 

NELL   GWYNNE. 
amlT^wtlson!5'  lb''  BE*C,'lr  AND  THE  BEAST,  by  Adolph  Bauer 
POPULAR  Pbices 26c.  and  600. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

ALFkil0iNGHOusE Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

alf  hlli>.ghouse  Business  Manager. 

„^gon,nin/  Mon<\.ay,  A"Kist  Ist-  Every  Evening  (Sunday  included)  Mati- 
nee Saturday.  The  JEFFREY-LEWIS  season,  in  a  magnificent  pro- 
duction, and  carefully  presenting  the  society  drama, 

"CLOTILDE!" 

Seats  now  on  sale. 

EVENING  PRICES,  25c„  60c,  75c.  W.00.    MATINEE  PRICES,  25c,  50c, 75c. 

Next:  "WOMAi'S  EVES,"  by  Genevieve  Bancroft. 

COMFORT  AND 
ADORNMENT. 

Are  the  principal  objects  in  furnishing 
a  home.  We  all  appreciate  comfort- 
able things,  and  know  when  appear- 
ances please  us.  To  obtain  the  best 
results  is,  however,  not  so  simple  a 
matter;  it  requires  not  only  native 
good  taste,  but  also  that  command  of 
materials  and  knowledge  of  details 
which  long  experience  alone  cangive. 

We  have  all  the  requisite  materials 
— in  Carpets,  Furniture  and  Uphol- 
stery—for any  style  of  furnishing,  and 
are  prepared  to  carry  out  any  ideas 
or  plans  desired,  or  to  assume  entire 
charge  and  responsibility. 

Sketches  and  estimates  on  applica- 
tion. 

W.  &  J.  SL0ANE  &  CO., 

CARPETS,   FURNITURE,    UPHOLSTERY, 

641-647  Market  Street. 

SEARCHER    OF    RECORDS 

AND 

EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 
G.  W.  MCKEAND, 

OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.    Residence— 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 

KM  i  DC     Bush  <ft  Gerts  Pianos 
rl  M  D  C  Parlor  Organs 


HAINES 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


IN    AUGUST.— May  Lennox  in  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal. 

The  echo  of  a  whispered  word, 

A  fleeting  cadence  low  and  sweet, 

Fresh  as  the  songs  the  streams  repeat, 

Faint  as  the  croon  of  nesting  bird. 

A  deeper  azure  in  the  sky. 

Fields  gleaming  gay  with   green  and   gold, 

Closed  wings  that  droning  half  unfold, 

As  summer  passes  slowly  by. 

A  breath  of  sadness  scarcely  caught, 

A  minor  note  to  swell  the  strain, 

A  blossom  bowed  by  falling  rain, 

Gold  strands  with  silver  subtly  wrought. 

O,  rare  unfatbomed  August  days, 

Rich  with  the  glories  of  the  past, 

What  will  you  bring  us  forth  at   last? 

What  lurks  beneath  your  hovering  gaze? 


A   CRAB    STORY. 


CAPTAIN  OHARLES  EVAN8,  Superintendent  of  the  Alvara- 
do  salt  works,  is  a  man  of  the  highest  character,  whose  un- 
blemished repu  tation  gives  testimony  of  the  great  esteem  in  which  he  is 
held  by  the  people  of  Alameda  county.  He  is  not  in  any  manner  a 
romancer;  in  fact  his  very  occupation  prejudices  him  against  (lights 
of  thejimagination,  and  therefore  is  it  that  he  takes  a  grain  of  salt  with 
every  tale  he  hears.  It  is  with  the  utmost  reliance  in  the  veracity 
of  the  following  tale,  related  by  the  Captain,  that  we  thrust  it 
upon  a  confiding  public.  A  short  time  since  Captain  Evans  arose 
about  four  o'clock  one  morning  and  walked  down  to  his  salt  pond, 
to  watch  the  salt  grow  under  the  influence  of  the  rising  sun.  He  no- 
tied  that  the  vegetable  growth  at  the  edge  of  the  pond  was  covered 
with  moving  objects.  For  some  time  he  could  not  make  out  what 
the  small  bodies  were,  but  investigation  showed  them  to  be  an  army 
of  small  fiddler  crabs, which  live  in  the  mud  of  the  marshland.  While 
Captain  Evans  watched  the  crabs  moving  over  the  grass,  he  says  he 
noticed  several  shingles  floating  in  the  water.  These,  he  asserts  on 
the  words  of  a  dealer,  in  salt,  were  heavily  laden  with  tiers  upon 
tiers  of  crabs.  At  the  end  of  the  shingle,  and  along  the  sides  were 
crabs  which  were  noticeably  large  and  strong,  and  these  propelled  the 
novel  vessel,  by  hanging  over  the  sides,  and  using  their  legs  as  oars. 
The  crab  barges  stopped  at  certain  places  upon  the  edge  of  the 
marsh,  and  unloaded,  the  places  of  those  which  went  ashore  being 
taken  by  other  crabs,  which  had  evidently  wearied  of  the  promenade 
upon  the  grass,  and  desired  a  ride  upon  the  briny.  This  interesting 
scene  lasted  for  fully  half  an  hour,  but  when  the  first  ray  of  sun- 
light was  cast  upon  the  marsh,  all  the  crabs  disappeared  as  if  by 
magic  into  their  retreats.  Captain  Evans  intends  to  invite  a  party 
of  friends  to  the  salt  works  soon  to  witness-  the  novel  sight.  If  pos- 
sible, he  will  capture  and  train  a  regiment  of  the  crabs,  and  send 
them  to  Chicago  as  a  portion  of  Alameda  county's  exhibit  at  the 
Columbian  Exposition. 

AN    OAKLAND     TRAGEDY. 

SCENE:  Private  office  of  C.  Lionel  Dam  of  Oakland;  time,  lunch 
hour  on  Monday  last.  Dramatis  Personae— C.  Lionel  and  an 
unknown. 

Act  I.  Dam  engaged  in  picking  his  teeth.  Enter  the  unknown, 
who  is  attired  in  a  last  year's  hat  which  is  too  large  for  him,  and 
a  next  year's  suit  of  clothes  which  is  too  small.  Unknown  asks 
Dam  for  quarter.  Dam  says;  "  No,  go  work  for  it."  Unknown 
says:  "  I  haven't  had  a  chance;  I've  just  come  out  of  prison." 
Dam  says,  contemptuously:  "  For  begging,  1  suppose."  Unknown 
answer:  "  No;  for  murder,"  anJ  cold  glitter  appears  in  his  eyes. 
Dam  breaks  into  perspiration.     Tableau. 

Act  II.  Scene  same  as  Act  I.  Dam  discovered  handing  unknown 
a  quarter.  >•  Better  make  it  a  half,"  says  unknown.  Dam  gazes 
around  wildly  for  help.  No  one  in  sight.  Hands  unknown  fifty 
cent  piece.  "  On  second  thoughts  I'd  like  to  have  about  a  dollar 
and  a  half  altogether,"  says  unknown.  Dam  commences  to  pro- 
test and  unknown  toys  with  heavy  ruler.  Dam  hands  over  $1.50. 
Unknown  departs. 

Act  III.  Scene  same  as  Act  II.  Dam  discovered  seated  in 
chair  alone.     Arises  and  pledges  himself  to  secrecy.     Exit. 

Act  IV.  Beer  saloon  around  corner.  Tramp  enters  and  treats  two 
friends.  Tells  them  story  on  Dam.  Much  amusement,  and  re- 
porter in  corner  who  is  eating  a  cheese  sandwich  makes 
a  note  of  it.  Curtain. 


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merchant  in  whose  store  she  is  employed.  She  was  formerly  a 
teacher  in  a  Chinese  mission  school. 

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July  30    1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  !  ETTER, 


11 


IS    IT  .' 


*  I»  it  wrong  to  sigh  for  a  young   man's  arm. 

To  help  rue  to  climb  life's  hillaT 
Is  it  wrong  to  desire  some  day  to  charm 

A  husband,  who'll  pay  my  bills? 
Is  it  wrong  to  cling  in  a  clnje  embrace 

To  the  hope  of  becoming  a  bride? 
Is  it  wrong  to  wish  for  the  feathers  and  lace. 

And  the  dresses  for  which    I  have  sighed? 
Is  it  wrong  to  crave  for  the  marriage  stale. 

To  be  called  not  a  Miss  but  a  Madam? 
Is  it  wrong  for  a  girl  to  desire  a  mate? 

Is  it  wrong  for  fair  Eve  to  love  Adam? 
Is  it  wrong  for  a  woman  to  long  every  day 

For  Cupid's  delectable  visit  ? 
Is  it  wrong,  then,  for  Mr.  Right's  coming  to  pray  ? 

Is  it  wrong,  Mrs.  Grundy?     Now— is  it?" 

SOME    ROYAL    BON    V1VANTS. 


THE  Czar  of  all  the  Russias  has  a  gigantic  appetite,  or  rather 
the  appetite  of  a  giant.  He  commences  the  day  by  breakfast- 
ing at  seven  o'clock  with  tea,  ham,  eggs  and  cold  roast  beef;  at 
eleven  o'clock  lunch,  consisting  of  eggs  beaten  np  in  broth,  mut- 
ton chops,  cold  game,  chicken, fish,  vegetables,  sweets,  all  washed 
down  by  several  cops  of  very  strong  coffee.  The  Czar  is  very 
fond  of  fish.  aDd  generally  likes  to  eat  the  fish  he  himself  has 
caught,  and  has  it  served  at  every  meal.  At  two  o'clock  he  will 
eat  a  plain  rice  pudding.  It  is  needless  to  say  his  dinner  is  splen- 
did and  succulent,  which  does  not  prevent  him  taking  tea  with 
biscuits  and  cakes  before  going  to  rest.  Leo  XIII.  is  the  most 
frugal  man  alive.  His  Holiness  rises  early,  hears  Mass,  and  then 
takes  a  cup  of  cafe  au  lail;  he  dines  at  three,  his  menu  consisting 
of  soup,  two  kinds  of  meat  (roasted),  with  vegetables,  fruit,  and 
a  glass  of  claret,  good  Bordeaux.  During  Lent  the  Pope  substi- 
tutes for  meat,  eggs  and  fish.  Leo .XIII.. never  sups  or  dines  late, 
but  sometimes  takes  before  going  to  bed  a  cup  of  milk  with  sponge 
biscuits.  The  Queen  of  Sweden  adores  the  meat  pies  made  in 
Nice,  with  olive  oil  and  hard-boiled  eggs,  and  is  very  fond  of  the 
Swedish  national  dish — salmon  preserved  in  the  ground.  His 
Imperial  Majesty  of  Germany  is  very  difficile,  but  having  often 
been  in  England  in  his  youth,  has  a  decided  taste  for  ham  and 
eggs  and  muffins,  which,  on  dit,  he  gets  direct  from  London  to 
eat  with  his  tea  in  the  morning,  and  prefers  English  to  German 
cooking.  His  Majesty's  favorite  drinks  are  beer  and  champagne, 
but  it  must  be  said  that  in  this  latter  he  is  most  abstemious.  Prince 
Bismarck,  like  the  Czar,  is  an  enormous  eater,  but  eats  little  in  the 
morning,  reserving  himself  for  dinner  at  seven  o'clock  in  the 
evening,  when  he  devours  like  an  ostrich,  meat,  fish,  vegetables, 
sweets,  fruit,  etc.;  he  also  drinks  like  a  fish.  Uno  avulso,  non 
defecil  alter.  The  Empress  of  Austria  occupies  herself  personally 
with  her  menu,  and  to  be  practical  she  has  invented  a  spit  where 
one  hundred  fowls  can  be  roasted  at  once.  Both  she  and  the  Em- 
peror eat  little,  but  the  table  is  the  best  served  in  Europe;  and 
it  is  said  Her  Majesty  makes  all  the  jams  for  her  husband's  eat- 
ing. Louis  Philippe,  King  of  the  French,  was  not  a  great  eater, 
but  his  son,  the  Due  d'Aumale,  is  abstinence  itself,  even  at  Chan- 
tilly,  where  Louis  XIV. 's  famous  chef  committed  suicide.  Prince 
Jerome  Bonaparte  was  a  great  gourmand,  while  Napoleon  III. 
had  the  worst  table  in  France,  but  the  best  cigars,  of  which  he 
was  very  proud.  Gambetta  made  his  best  speeches  after  a  good 
dinner.  The  Sultan  is  most  abstemious,  eating  only  rice,  mutton 
and  for  drink,  fresh  water.  President  Carnot  has  the  best  table 
in  France,  the  stomach  of  an  ostrich,  and,  consequently,  must 
have  a  clear  conscience  and  good  teeth.  The  little  King  of  Spain, 
of  course,  still  keeps  to  infantile  food,  his  mother  Is  a  simple 
eater,  her  favorite  drink  being  soda  water,  and  she  causes  many 
bottles  to  be  opened  to  make  her  baby  son  laugh  with  the  fizz. 
The  King  of  the  Belgians  is  a  noted  gourmand,  that  being  reck- 
oned among  his  other  vices.  The  King  of  the  Hellenes  likes 
Danish  cookery,  Queen  Olga  likes  Russian,  and  as  these  do  not 
please  everybody,  French  cookery  is  added  for  their  guests.  King 
Humbert  of  Italy  eats  but  little,  contrary  to  his  father,  il  re  galan- 
luomo,  who  was  a  bon  viveur  in  every  sense  of  the  word;  Queen 
Margherita  is  the  only  royal  gourmand  the  fair  sex  can  boast  of; 
she  is  said  to  have  a  plate  of  strawberries  served  her  every  day 
during  the  year.  Humbert  drinks  little  or  no  wine,  preferring 
water  to  the  best  wines,  and  gets  over  his  dinner  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible. It  is  said  the  German  Emperor  is  quicker  still,  his  dinner 
never  lasting  at  the  most  over  half  an  hour,  and  as  he  can  only 
use  one  hand  his  chop-sticks  unite  a  fork  on  one  side,  on  the 
other  a  knife.  The  Czar  is  much  amused  with  tric-trac.  William 
II.  adores  chess,  fancying  that  it  is  a  game  of  war  that  he  is  play- 
ing. The  King  of  Italy  has  a  notable  preference  for  the  game  of 
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old  Sovereign  of  Denmark  is  the  first  piquet  player  in  Europe. 
The  King  of  Roumania  plays  ecarte.  The  Emperor  of  Austria. 
solitaire — what  a  lugubrious  word  and  game!  The  King  of  Nor- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


IT  will  be  a  source  of  genuine  regret  to  those  "  high  church" 
Episcopalians  who  have  aided  Father  Bolton  in  hia  efforts  to 
produce  a  marvel  in  church  worship  in  the  little  structure  on  Mr. 
Frank  Pixley's  corner  lot,  entitled  St.  Mary's  the  Virgin,  to  know 
that  the  reverend  gentleman  has  accepted  a  call  to  the  church  at 
San  Rafael,  vacated  by  the  resignation  of  Rev.  Mr.  Stoy;  and 
thus  this  devout  flock,  who  have  so  assiduously  studied  their 
pastor's  "Forty  Reasons  Why,"  will  find  themselves  left. 

#  •  • 

Scarcely  a  day  passes  but  that  funny  sights  are  seen  in  our 
streets,  the  incongruity  of  dress  possibly  being  the  most  promi- 
nent. It  has  long  ceased  to  be  a  matter  for  comment  to  meet  a 
couple  of  ladies,  one  attired  in  a  lace  dress,  the  other  wearing  a 
sealskin  sacque,  and  even  sometimes  the  two  articles  of  attire  are 
combined  on  the  same  person.  One  of  the  most  amusing  specta- 
cles witnessed  for  some  time  was  the  appearance  the  other  day 
in  the  Park  of  one  of  our  English  imitating  society  beaux  on 
horseback,  who  evidently  flattered  himself  that  he  could  not  be 
mistaken  for  any  but  a  full-blooded  Johnny  Bull.  To  be  sure  he 
was  got  up  in  the  latest  correct  British  style  for  riding,  and  the 
mane  and  tail  of  his  horse  were  docked  after  the  most  approved 
cob  pattern.  But  alas!  his  seat  was  that  of  a  Spanish  caballero, 
with  lone  stirrups  and  the  bridle  reins  held  up  loosely,  almost 
under  his  chin,  making  the  entire  outfit  look  supremely  ridicu- 
lous.    Who  ever  saw  an  Englishman  thus? 

Apropos  of  the  recent  society  item  in  one  of  the  daily  papers, 
wherein  it  was  stated  that  Donald  de  V.  Graham  was  one  of  the 
pets  of  the  drawing  rooms  at  East  London  instead  of  West,  brings 
to  mind  a  good  story  told  on  Donald  de  V.  a  few  days  ago,  by  a 
lady  who  was  a  witness  of  the  scene.  The  occurrence  dates  back 
to  the  time  of  the  Art  and  Loan  Exhibition  given  last  fall,  in 
which  Graham  sang  many  sweet  songs,  to  the  delight  of  the 
maids  and  matrons  gathered  there.  Whenever  he  sang,  the 
rooms  were  always  crowded,  in  fact  they  were  usually  over- 
crowded, and  at  times  the  heat  was  something  unbeara- 
ble. One  night,  when  all  of  the  pretty  girls  were  crowded  into 
the  room  to  hear  him,  he  was  at  his  best,  and  had  chosen  as  the 
song  of  the  evening  one  of  his  pets,  I  believe  called  the  "  Blossom 
of  Roses."  While  in  the  midst  of  it,  and  at  the  most  striking 
part,  a  woman  in  the. audience,  overcome  by  the  extreme  heat, 
fainted.  The  people  near  her  immediately  rushed  to  faer  assist- 
ance, and  she  was  soon  revived  at  an  open  window.  While  this 
was  going  on,  of  course  the  music  stopped,  spoiling  the  effect  of 
the  song,  and  Donald,  turning  to  the  accompanist,  pettishly 
snapped  out,  "  I  don't  see  what  she  wanted  to  do  that  for  until  I 
had  finished." 

#  #  » 

Numerous  fair  dames  are  arranging  theatre  parties,  to  greet 
Hugo  Toland  upon  his  return  to  his  native  heath.  One  especially, 
headed  by  his  good  mamma,  will  come  up  from  Dd  Monte  to 
welcome  the  popular  young  actor. 

#  •  * 

Several  charming  people  have  found  that  the  privacy  and  re- 
tirement of  the   new  resort   near   Mount  Shasta,    yclept   Castle 

Crags  Tavern,  is  far  more  conducive  to  sentiment,  and being  so 

far  removed  from  the  tongues  of  society — more  liable  to  be  pro- 
ductive of  possible  results  than  its  more  glittering  rival,  Del 
Monte,  the  list  of  guests  remaina»full,  in  consequence. 

#  *  * 

Miss  Emily  Hager  seems  to  have  inherited  the  genius  of  her 
mother  in  her  capability  of  molding  society  people  to  any  form 
of  amusement,  so  long  as  it  is  diversion  and  novel.  She  is  cer- 
tainly the  most  untiring  young  lady  in  the  swim,  and  her  efforts 
to  make  the  time  pass  agreeably  at  Del  Monte  are  unsparingly 
used.  Leading  cotillions  having  grown  a  trifle  monotonous,  her 
last  conception  is  a  play— a  real  bona  fide  piece,  with  scenery, 
costumes  and  acting,  she  herself  to  take  the  part  of  an  American 
girl,  as  she  would  be,  untouched  by  Anglo-mania.  The  spectacle 
is  sure  to  be  instructive  as  well  as  amusing.  Who  will  be  chosen 
to  take  the  part  of  the  scion  of  British  nobility,  is  the  question 
agitating  the  minds  of  Del  Monte  guests,  so  many  qualities  are 
requisite  for  a  correct  portrayal.  Jack  Parrott  is  about  the  only 
man  among  us  who  looks  the  part,  but  can  he  act  it?  There's  the 
rub,  say  they. 

•  # 

Freddie  Sharon's  powers  of  mimicry  would  fit  him  for  that  but 
not  for  the  former.     Our  local  carpet  knights  are  »  not  in  it,"  so 
where  the  material  is  to  come  from,  Quien  sabe  ? 
»  *  # 

Every  old-timer  will  remember  the  great  suburban  refreshment 
garden  in  Oakland  styled  Blaizes,  and  will  recall  the  anecdote  of 
how  an  English  tourist  who  had  crossed  the  bay  to  see  the  City 
of  the  Oaks,  becoming  anxious  to  satisfy  the  cravings  of  hunger 


brought  on  by  the  noon-tide  hour,  asked  one  of  the  residents  of 
that  burgh  where  he  could  find  an  eating-house.  He  was  told 
to  go  to  Blaizes,  and  ever  after  he  was  heard  to  declare  that  of  alt 
the  wretchedly  ill-mannered  people  he  encountered  in  his  travels, 
Oaklanders  took  the  lead. 

Apropos  the  Allan-Hebden  scandal,  an  interesting  episode  is  told 
in  which  Sir  Hugh  Allan,  the  uncle  of  the  young  man  who  has 
been  so  conspicuous  of  late,  figured  prominently.  Some  years 
ago  the  Academy  of  Music  in  Montreal  was  opened  with  great 
eclat  by  a  stock  company,  the  head  of  which  was  E.  A.  McDowell, 
a  fairly  good  actor,  and  who  will  be  remembered  of  late  years  in 
the  support  of  Fanny  Davenport.  His  leading  lady  was  Miss 
Fannie  Reeves,  a  pretty  and  interesting  actress.  They  and  others 
of  the  company  quickly  ingratiated  themselves  with  the  61ite  of 
Montreal.  Sir  Hugh,  who  was  President  of  the  Academy  Com- 
pany, took  a  surprising  interest  in  dramatic  art,  was  constantly 
at  the  play,  and  McDowell  was  frequently  at  Ravenscrag,  Sir 
Hugh's  fine  mansion.  Hardly  anything  but  plays  and  players 
was  discussed  in  the  town,  and  Sir  Hugh's  infatuation  finally 
reached  a  climax,  when  he  gave  away  the  bride  at  the  nuptials 
of  McDowell  and  Miss  Reeves.  The  wedding  took  place  at  the 
most  fashionable  church  in  the  town,  St.  James  the  Apostle,  and 
it  was  packed  with  an  eager  throng,  keenly  alive  to  gossip.  Sir 
Hugh,  white-haired  and  dignified,  performed  his  part  well.  But 
comments  afterward  were  so  much  of  the  adverse  order,  that  the 
company  of  players  soon  realized  their  day  of  scintillation  in 
society  was  over.  They  were  quietly  dropped,  and  Sir  Hugh  re- 
sumed attention  to  shipping  interests. 
*  #  » 

Madame  Grundy  says  there  is  more  than  one  reason  why  men 
are  in  the  majority  and  girls  in  the  minority  at  Sausalito.  The 
genuine  buds  knew  they  had  no  chance  with  the  masculine  ele- 
ment when  they  would  be  obliged  to  compete  with  certain  of 
their  sisters  better  able  to  please  the  bachelor  heart,  in  the  way 
of  unchaperoned  walks,  drives,  boating  excursions  and  nocturnal 
visits  to  "  the  Frenchman's."  That  little  restaurant,  with  its 
shaded  porch,  might  reveal  many  a  tale  of  lively  pranks  and 
champagne  revels.  At  the  hotel,  in  the  early  season,  appeared  a 
maiden  who  once  had  a  bill  at  the  Maison  Riche.  With  her  com- 
panion, a  plump,  pretty  and  recently-made  matron,  she  has  been 
charming  Sausalito  this  season,  and  much  to  the  surprise  of  cer- 
tain people,  is  again  floating  upon  the  top  wave  of  the  society  she 
was  dropped  from  at  that  time. 

The  artotypes  which  have  formed  an  artistic  and  popular  feature 
of  the  News  Letter  for  some  years  past,  are  from  the  ateliers  of 
Bolton,  Strong  <fc  Co.,  the  well-known  engravers  and  plate-makers, 
of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm  has  the  reputation,  gained  by  years  of 
excellent  work,  of  being  unrivaled  in  its  own  particular  line.  All  the 
work  it  turns  out  is  artistically  perfect. 


"Visitors  to  the  country  should  take  with  them  Steele's  Grindelia 
Lotion  of  the  fluid  extract  of  Grindelia.  It  is  the  best  known  remedy 
for  poison  oak,  and  is  also  recognized  as  an  unrivaled  cure  for  asth- 
matic affections.  The  lotion  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  at 
635  Market  street. 

Eyes  tested  according  to  physiological  laws  of  light,  and  not  by  machin- 
ery. C.  Muller,  the  progressive  optician  and  refraction  spec  alist,  135 
Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


TIEIIE 


BRUNSWICK-BALKE- 
COLLENDER  CO. 


THE  MONARCH 

Manufacturers  of  Billiard  and  Pool  Tables. 

Dealers  in  Billiard  Merchandise  Generally. 

Makers  of  Bank  and  Office  Fixtures. 

Abo,  Saloon  Fixtures,  Counters,  Coolers,  Mirrors,  etc.,  con- 
stantly on  hand  or  made  to  order.  Ten  Pin  Alleys,  Ten  Pins, 
Ten  Pin  Balls,  etc. 

653-655  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 


Julv  30,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  TETTER. 


13 


A    8TRANOE    SPECTACLE. 

A8TRAMiE  STORY  in  regard  to  the  Ijocblng  o(  the  Ruggles 
brothers  at  Redding,  which  appears  to  have  been,  singularly 
enough,  overlooked  by  the  veracious  press  correspondents,  has 
come  to  light.  It  is  stated  on  tbe  authority  of  a  prominent  city 
oilicial  ot  Sad  Jose,  who  was  present  in  Redding  at  the  time  of  the 
hanging,  that  the  lynching  was  the  outcome  of  three  different 
public  meetings,  at  which  the  plan  was  calmly  and  eooly  dis- 
cussed, and  tbe  outcome  was  the  result  of  the  action  of  the  Dis- 
trict Attorney  of  tbe  county.  At  tbe  second  meeting  this  official 
was  present,  and  was  asked  for  an  opinion  as  to  tbe  probability 
of  convicting  tbe  two  stage-robbers.  In  reply  be  announced  his 
belief  that  there  was  no  possibility  of  securing  a  conviction,  cer- 
tainly not  in  Shasta  County.  Clay  W.  Taylor,  tbe  well- 
known  lawyer  and  politician,  was  also  present,  and,  upon  invi- 
tation, gave  bis  opinion  to  tbe  same  effect.  There  was  no  direct 
evidence  against  them,  though  everybody  knew  they  were 
guilty.  Furthermore,  it  is  said  Mr.  Taylor  told  the  people  pres- 
ent that  if  they  intended  to  hang  the  men,  they  had  better  do  it 
at  once,  and  save  the  county  $100,000,  which  their  trial  would 
cost.  A  committee  of  twenty  was  then  appointed,  with 
power  to  act,  and  the  result  was  the  lynching  of  last 
Sunday  morning.  Although  the  authorities,  in  com- 
mon with  every  one  in  town,  knew  what  was  to  oc- 
cur, the  sheriff  was  conveniently  absent  at  a  picnic,  and  not  a 
single  step  was  taken  to  protect  the  prisoners.  And  yet,  in  the 
face  of  this,  people  wonder  why  immigration  to  California  has 
ceased,  and  our  anger  is  excited  to  boiling  point  when  some  truth- 
ful writer  refers  to  tbe  fact  that  human  life  appears  to  be  of  little 
value  here,  and  that  much  lawlessness  still  prevails. 


THE    MERCHANTS'    LINE    OF    CLIPPERS. 

THE  merchants'  line  of  clipper  ships  established  by  J.  W.  Grace 
&  Co.,  of  430  California  street,  to  run  between  this  port  and 
New  York,  bids  fair  to  do  much  toward  the  regaining  by  local 
merchants  of  considerable  of  the  trade  that  has  been  lost  to  this 
port.  Tbe  vessels,  all  of  which  are  safe  and  fast  sailors,  will  carry 
freight  by  way  of  the  Horn,  at  much  less  than  the  cost  of  trans- 
continental transportation.  The  establishment  of  tbe  line  is  in 
response  to  the  call  and  recommendation  of  the  Traffic  Associa- 
tion. Tbe  firm  will  be  aided  in  its  enterprise  by  a  number  of  the 
leading  importers.  The  first  vessel  of  the  new  line  to  sail,  the 
Silas  E.  Moody,  left  New  York  on  July  12th.  It  will  be  followed 
by  the  fine  clipperships  the  T.  P.  Oakey  and  the  Emily  Reed. 
Sailing  dates  will  be  so  arranged  that  a  vessel  will  always  be  at 
the  berth,  ready  to  receive  freight. 


THE  announcement  that  Miss  Manson's  Boarding  and  Day 
School,  for  young  ladies  and  children,  will  open  at  912  Grand 
avenue,  Alameda,  on  Wednesday,  August  3d,  has  been  received 
with  great  delight  by  the  parents  of  that  pretty  city  across  the 
bay.  A  school  of  this  nature  has  long  been  desired  in  Alameda 
county,  and  now  that  Miss  Manson  is  about  to  open  her  estab- 
lishment, the  Alamedans  are  delighted.  The  school  will  offer 
every  advantage  for  study,  culture  and  health.  The  number  of 
boarders  will  be  limited.  Tbe  location  is  attractive,  healthful 
and  accessible,  and  tbe  terms  are  very  reasonable.  The  course  of 
study  will  be  divided  into  primary,  intermediate  and  higher  de- 
partments. 

AN  animated  discussion  took  place  Tuesday  afternoon  between 
Mrs.  I.  T.  Daly's  green  parrot,  of  Merchant  street,  and  Mr. 
Roger  D.  Magee  of  Mill  Valley.  At  the  Btart  the  bird  had  de- 
cidedly the  best  of  the  argument,  but  it  showed  itself  badly  handi- 
capped later  on,  because  of  its  limited  vocabulary.  The  intelli- 
gent creature  was  finally  reduced  to  the  remark  of  "  Rats  "  at  the 
termination  of  each  of  Mr.  Magee's  flowing  periods.  After  an 
hour  or  so  of  this  heavy  work  it  fell  from  its  perch,  and  was 
sadly  removed  by  its  beautiful  mistress  from  beyond  the  sound  of 
Mr.  Magee's  voice. 

IN  providing  a  home  for  tbe  dive  ladies  (there  are  no  women 
now)  the  Salvation  Army  has  scored  a  point.  With  all  their 
blowing  of  trumpets,  and  shocking  familiarity  with  the  Deity,  there 
is  some  practical  Christianity  about  these  people.  Here  they  tower 
cubits  above  the  Rev.  Dr.  Buck,  who  is  lavish  with  proverbs  but 
a  miser  with  potatoes. 

AT  the  Brussels  Conservatoire  of  Music,  the  young  ladies  who, 
in  the  beautiful  language  of  Gaul,  "  consecrate  themselves  to 
the  vibration  of  the  chanterelle,"  are  almost  exclusively  of  English 
parentage.  A  gallant  writer  in  the  Independence  Beige  is  much 
struck  by  their  good  looks;  but  this  is  not  to  be  wondered  at. 
In  violin  playing  there  is  a  natural  affinity  between  the  bow  and 
the  belle. 

MRS  BROWN,  in  England,  thinks  that  the  reports  which  have 
reached  her  from  the  United  States,  as  to  their  great  wealth, 
cannot  be  at  all  exaggerated.  She  sees  in  the  newspapers  that 
all  the  platforms  used  at  their  political  meetings  have  ••silver 
planks," 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


THE  recent  Republican  convention  atSacramen'o  was  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  ever  held  in  the  State.  It  was  remarkable 
for  the  manner  in  which  all  arrangements  had  been  perfected  and 
were  carried  out  by  the  political  managers.  There  were  only  one  or 
two  hitches  in  the  whole  performance,  and  the  fact  that  the  ma- 
chine worked  smoothly  is  sufficient  evidence  of  the  oiling  given 
the  joints.  The  gentlemen  from  Third  street  wore  smiles  from  the 
time  they  arrived  in  Sacramento  until  their  departure.  It  seems 
that  the  stars  of  Kelly  and  Orimmins  are  in  the  ascendant.  Since 
the  recent  establishment  of  their  news  bureau  they  have  become 
adepts  not  only  in  making  political  history,  but  also  in  presenting 
it  to  their  contemporaries  in  such  a  manner  that  it  is  stamped 
with  the  greatness  of  its  manfacturers.  Martin  Kelly  is  the  man- 
aging editor  of  the  news  bureau,  and  he  always  carries  a  big  blue 
pencil  behind  his  ear.  It  is  a  sorry  day  with  any  young. man  con- 
nected with  the  establishment  who  gets  in  late  with  his  copy,  or 
who  says  too  much  for  the  good  of  the  cause.  Crimmins  and  Kelly 
say  they  have  come  to  stay,  and  they  are  not  in  the  least  fright- 
ened by  the  new  sign  bung  out  on  Market  street  opposite  Fifth, 
by  their  opponents  last  Thursday. 

*  *  * 

The  political  henchmen  of  the  city  have  been  laughing  for 
nearly  a  week  over  the  manner  in  which  the  Little  Napoleon  was 
robbed  in  bis  own  saloon  of  over  $450,  by  a  supposed  tenderfoot, 
who,  it  was  thought,  knew  nothing  of  shaking  dice,  but  who 
proved  a  gambler  from  Bitter  Creek.  The  "tenderfoot"  allowed 
Crimmins  to  win  about  $100  from  him,  and  then  insisted  that  the 
boss  should  drink  wine  with  him.  This  Crimmins  did  much  to 
his  sorrow.  Between  the  bottles  the  stranger  substituted  a  smooth 
dice  box  for  the  box  the  men  had  been  using.  Then  the  execu- 
tion began.  Crimmins  is  now  looking  for  the  man.  He  wishes 
to  make  him  one  of  bis  chief  lieutenants,  as  it  is  his  personal 
opinion  that  the  gambler  will  capture  all  the  money  in  town  if  he 
is  given  a  fair  show. 

*  *  * 

Ex-Judge  Robert  Ferral  was  tbe  victim  of  an  amusing  and  tell- 
ing bit  of  argument  made  in  one  of  the  departments  of  the 
Superior  Court,  a  few  weeks  ago,  by  Attorney  T.  C.  Coogan.  The 
latter  appeared  as  special  counsel  for  the  prosecution  in  the  case 
of  a  prisoner  charged  with  arson,  and  Judge  Ferral  appeared  for 
the  defense.  The  testimony  against  the  prisoner  was  strong,  al- 
though in  the  main  circumstantial.  When  Ferral  came  to  address 
the  jury  be  made  a  stirring  and  eloquent  appeal  for  his  client,  and 
admonished  the  jurors  to  beware  of  convicting  on  circumstantial 
evidence,  which,  he  told  them,  was  exceedingly  dangerous,  and 
should  be  regarded  with  great  caution.  The  argument  was  a 
strong  one,  and  when  the  advocate  had  finished  and  sat  down  he 
contemplated  the  opposing  counsel  with  an  air  of  satisfied 
triumph.  Nothing  daunted,  however,  Attorney  Coogan  rose  to 
reply  and  to  close  the  case  for  the  people.  After  the  introduction, 
he  proceeded  to  give  a  bit  of  personal  history,  which  was 
listened  to  witb  much  interest  by  both  jarors  and  spectators. 
When  he  first  came  to  this  city  he  Was  appointed  by  a  Superior 
Judge  to  defend  a  young  burglar.  Continuing,  Mr.  Coogan  said 
that  he  prepared  the  case  for  trial  with  great  care,  and  especially 
fortified  himself  to  make  an  assault  on  circumstantial  evidence. 
He  added  that  when  the  testimony  had  been  closed,  he  argued  to 
the  jury  as  Judgs  Ferral  had  done  in  the  case  at  bar,  that  cir- 
cumstantial evidence  was  very  dangerous,  that  it  should  be 
weighed  with  great  care  to  see  that  every  link  was  perfect,  and 
that  there  was  no  defect  in  the  chain  of  circumstances  which 
seemed  to  indicate  guilt. 

"  Wnen  I  resumed  my  seat."  continued  the  attorney,  "  I  felt 
that  the  jury  was  with  me  until  the  Judge  commenced  his  charge,. 
which  swept  away  all  my  eloquence  at  a  breath.  In  the  language 
of  an  eminent  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  he  told  that  jury  that  there  was  no  stronger  evidence 
known  to  the  law  than  circumstantial  evidence,  and  that  when 
clearly  proved,  a  chain  of  circumstances  should  be  given  as  much 
weight  as  evidence  of  the  most  direct  sort.  And,"  concluded 
counsel,  with  a  meaning  glance  at  the  attorney  for  the  defense, 
"  the  Judge  who  gave  that  charge  was  Judge  Robert  Ferral." 

Ferral  had  evidently  realized   what   was   coming,   and  joined 
heartily  in  the  general  laugh  at  his  expense. 
+  *  * 

A  News  Letter  representative  chanced   one  day,  recently,  to 


occupy  a  seat  in  a  railway  car  behind  two  individuals  whose  con- 
versation soon  developed  the  fact  that  they  were  fruit-buyers, 
returning  from  a  successful  trip  into  the  interior  They  freely 
exchanged  confidences  in  a  tone  so  loud  that  it  was  impossible 
for  their  fellow-passengers  not  to  bear  every  word  that  was  ut- 
tered. It  is  a  great  pity  that  some  of  the  horticulturists,  who 
had  been  beguiled  into  dealing  with  these  two  worthies,  were  not 
present  to  hear  the  cold-blooded  recital  of  the  manner  in  which 
they  had  been  worked  by  them.  Both  were  in  high  glee  over  the 
skill  with  which  they  had  taken  in  the  "jays,"  as  they  invari- 
ably referred  to  those  with  whom  they  had  been  dealing,  and  each 
in  turn  related  to  the  other  the  various  contemptible  schemes, 
coupled  with  the  most  outrageous  lies,  to  which  they  had  re- 
sorted in  order  to  delude  the  innocent  fruit-growers  into  selling 
their  product  for  far  less  than  its  real  value.  It  may  be  »  strictly 
business"  to  lie  to  a  man  in  order  to  gain  an  unjust  advantage, 
but  tbe  individual  who  subsequently  glories  in  bis  own  shame, 
and  thinks  it  is  smart  to  relate  his  own  villainy,  as  did  these  two 
buyers,  ought  to  be  ducked  in  the  first  ditch  the  next  time  they 
go  on  a  robbing  tour  in  the  interior. 
#  #  » 

A  distinguished  scientist,  recently  in  this  city,  was  Dr.  A.  S. 
Bicknell,  of  Surrey.  His  forte  is  astronomy,  but  be  is  a  member 
of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society,  Royal  Botanical  Society,  a 
Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society  and  member  of  the  Alpine  Club.  He 
has  some  peculiar  habits,  which  drew  a  great  deal  of  attention 
to  him  while  at  the  California  Hotel.  When  he  got  ready  to  leave 
on  one  of  his  trips,  he  cautioned  the  servant,  bell-boy  and  others 
not  to  disturb  any  of  his  books  or  papers,  which  he  had  left 
scattered  about  in  his  room.  "  I'll  pay  for  the  room,  you  see," 
said  be,  "  but  I  don't  want  anybody  to  bother  it."  Then  he  went 
below  and  repeated  the  same  order  to  tbe  proprietor,  the  different 
clerks,  and  about  everybody  else  he  saw  who  seemed  to  be  any 
way  in  authority.  Returning,  he  found  the  servant  about  to 
make  up  his  bed.  "  Why,  my  good  woman,"  said  he,  appalled, 
"  don't,  if  you  please,  disturb  my  room,  even  to  the  extent  of 
changing  my  couch  in  any  way."  He  would  not  have  any 
change,  either,  and  so  the  suite  of  the  learned  scientist  remained 
in  a  very  tossed  and  torn-up  condition  since. 

*  *  » 

Many  are  the  tales  told  on  that  erratic  genius,  Henry  Bigelow, 
and  many  are  the  odd  things  he  does  in  his  various  meanderings 
throughout  the  city.  Few  kn6w,  seeing  him  wandering  about 
the  hotels  and  streets  at  all  hours  of  the  day  and  night,  that  he  has  a 
home,  but  think  him  a  sort  of  nomad,  eating  and  making  his  bed 
where  and  whenever  it  takes  his  fancy.  This  is  not  the  case,  how- 
ever, as  he  has  one  somewhere  out  on  Green  street,  also  a  charm- 
ing wife  and  two  lovely  boys.  The  eldest  of  these,  George,  is  six 
years  old,  and  strongly  resembles  his  father  in  more  ways  than 
one.  He  and  his  little  brother's  favorite  amusement  is  waylay- 
ing »  Petie"  whenever  he  comes  home,  to  strike  him  for  nickels, 
which  they  invest  in  various  kinds  of  sweets  and  the  delusive 
prize  package.  Sometimes  tbeBe  donations  become  few  and  far 
apart,  especially  when  their  father  is  taken  out  of  town  on  busi- 
ness, and  in  these  interims  George  has  to  do  a  good  deal  of  schem- 
ing, but  usually  manages  to  gather  in  a  nickel  some  way  or 
other.  The  other  day  he  struck  a  bonanza;  some  man  spreading 
circulars  gave  him  a  quarter  to  distribute  them  around  tbe  neigh- 
borhood. George  thought  this  a  pretty  big  contract,  so  he  let  in 
the  family  Japanese  boy,  on  a  fifth  interest.  Neither  of  them 
could  read,  and  together  they  went  from  house  to  house,  leaving 
cne  in  each  place,  always  taking  care  to  ring  the  door-bell,  to  be 
be  sure  they  were  earning  their  money.  When  "Petie"  came  home 
in  the  afternoon  he  found  them  with  a  few  left,  and  looking  at 
one,  found  it  to  be  one  of  Dennis  Kearny's  latest  circulars,  with  a 
heading  in  big  letters,  "  The  Japanese  Must  Go!"  Being  told 
what  it  was,  the  Jap  almost  had  a  fit,  and  since  then  keeps  very 
shy  of  his  late  partner. 

*  *  * 

That  lesser  "  Greater  Britain  " — Sausalito — posseses  as  many 
peculiar  manifestations  of  mankind  as  a  well-filled  menagerie  does 
of  monkeys,  but  they  are  not  "  all  English,  you  know."  Among 
the  modifications  of  the  missing  link  is  one  of  Teutonic  order— a 
musical  mystery  of  marine  tastes,  who,  when  not  lulling  his  tender 
susceptibilities  into  liquid  limbo  by  aid  of  lager,  agonizes  the 
sweet  summer  evening  echoes  with  the  frantic  execution  of  scales 
on  some  dozen  instruments,  from  "the  organ  in  the  parlor"  to 
the  excruciating  fiddle.  Time  or  melody  he  has  none,  nor  has 
had  for  years;  his  music  is  as  scaly  as  a  sea  serpent.  He  bangs 
a  ship's  bell  at  all  hours  to  mark  time  when  he  is  navigating  his 
schooners.  On  Sunday  this  Fatherland  freak  bursts  into  bunting 
and  decorates  his  private  pavilion  with  countless  flags  of  all 
nations,  and  no  nation  in  particlar,  constantly  changing  them 
during  the  day.  Stockton  haa  been  suggested  as  a  proper  summer 
retreat  for  him,  while  feathers  not  unmixed  with  cold  tar  are 
commended  as  a  remedy  by  some  young  people. 

*  *  • 

Madame  Tojetti,  the  well-known  artist  of  this  city,  has  been 
engaged  at  her  studio  for  some  weeks  past  in  reviving  a  number 
of  old  pictures  which  were  recently  purchased  by  Father  Maras- 
chi,  the  prominent  Jesuit  priest  of  this   city.     Before  these  paint- 


July  30,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NBW8  LETTER. 


15 


tngs  passed  under  tbe  talented  brush  of  tine.  Tojelti.  it  was  diiH- 
cull  to  discover  tbe  identity  of  their  subjects,  but  on  develop- 
ment, they  were  found  to  be  original  masterpieces.  The  paint- 
logs,  twelve  In  number,  representing  Christ  and  eleven  of  bis 
apostles — the  twelfth  is  missing — were  taken,  it  is  believed,  in 
tbe  pillage  of  some  old  cathedral  in  South  America,  and  their  age 
is  placed  as  far  back  as  the  seventeenth  century.  They  were  in 
a  very  bad  state  of  preservation  when  purchased  by  Father  Ma- 
raschi,  and  one  of  them  was  badly  cut,  as  by  a  sword-thrust  from 
some  of  tbe  sacriligious  vandals  who  tore  them  from  tbe  frames. 
Some  of  the  faces,  now  that  they  have  been  toned  up  and  re- 
vived, are  striking  in  point  of  beauty  of  expression,  but  the 
majority  of  them  are  of  the  heavy  type  peculiar  to  the  old  Dutch 
masters.  The  picture  of  Christ  is  the  poorest  of  the  collection, 
and  the  artist  has  overdone  himself  in  an  attempt  to  represent  his 
subject  as  «  a  man  of  sorrows  and  acquainted  with  grief."  The 
collection  is,  however,  as  interesting  as  it  is  intrinsically  valuable. 
Through  the  generosity  of  Father  Marascbi,  it  is  now  to  be  seen 
in  St.  Ignatius  Church,  to  which  it  has  been  presented.  The 
manner  in  which  the  old  tints  of  coloring  have  been  brought  out 
in  the  process  of  revivification,  without  destroying  the  symmet- 
rical outlines  of  tbe  features,  is  exceedingly  creditable  to  the 
talented  artists  entrusted  with  the  delicate  task. 

*  *  • 

Stories  of  the  witticisms  of  Judge  Coffey  continue  to  be  re- 
lated. This  is  one  of  the  latest.  A  witness  in  his  court  was 
asked,  the  other  day,  by  an  attorney,  if  he  were  a  drinking  man. 
"  We  object !  "  shouted  the  attorney  for  the  other  side.  The  law- 
yer who  asked  the  question  arose  to  argue  tbe  matter,  claiming 
that  he  had  a  right  to  know  whether  the  witness  ever  indulged  in 
intoxicating  liquors.  The  attorney  for  the  other  side  argued  that 
the  question  was  improper  and  unfair.  Judge  Coffey  settled  the 
whole  matter  very  easily :  "Mr.  Blank,"  he  asked  the  witness, 
"where  were  you  born?"  "  In  Kentucky,  sir,"  was  the  answer. 
"Ah!"  said  the  judge,  and  a  broad  grin  went  around  the  court- 
room. 

WW* 

J.  B.  Gill,  the  prominent  electrician  of  this  city,  residing  at 
Burroville,  Mill  Valley,  had  the  misfortune  to  miss  the  last  boat 
the  other  day,  and  in  company  with  a  gentleman  named  Crou- 
dace,  well-known  in  his  set  as  the  "  Parson,"  his  guest  for  the 
evening,  decided  to  cross  by  the  Tiburon  ferry  and  pull  to  Sausa- 
lito.  The  "Parson"  happened  to  have  graduated  at  the  oar  in 
early  life,  and  at  his  suggestion  his  electrical  friend  took  the  easiest 
position  in  tbe  boat,  as  stroke,  with  a  pair  of  tbe  largest  oars  on 
board,  which  were  carefully  selected  for  him.  It  was  a  long  and 
a  strong  pull  across,  against  an  ebb  tide,  which  every  now 
and  then  threw  a  nasty  little  jab  of  water  over  the  weather  quarter, 
drenching  the  unfortunate  oarsman  on  tbe  after  thwart  to  the  skin. 
Darkness  had  fallen,  to  add  to  the  general  discomfort  of  the 
surroundings,  and  in  the  eddies  and  tide  rips  which  were  en- 
countered from  time  to  time,  the  navigator  in  the  bow  seemed 
utterly  oblivious  to  the  commands,  "pull  strong  with  your 
right,"  or  left,  as  the  case  might  be.  It  was  only  after  being 
nearly  swamped  by  drifting  broadside  on  to  a  tide-washed  rock, 
close  to  the  Sausalito  landing  stage,  that  the  electrician  discov- 
ered that  the  desired  goal  had  been  attained  by.  bis  sole  efforts. 
The  Parson  he  found  snugly  esconced  in  tbe  bow,  sound  asleep, 
and  snoring  as  calmly  as  an  old  tar  during  his  watch  on  deck, 
wrapped  up  in  the  coat  and  overcoat,  which  he  had  borrowed  as 
soon  as  his  companion  had  discarded  them  for  convenience  at 
the  oars.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  a  disagreement  took  place 
over  the  unfair  division  of  labor,  and  the  partnership  was  ended 
there  and  then.  The  host  hustled  on  the  dry  overcoat  over  his 
wet  garments,  and  took  a  team  for  home,  while  the  guest  hied 
hurriedly  to  an  hotel.  The  relations  between  the  pair  have  not 
yet  been  cemented  on  the  friendly  basis  which   hitherto  existed. 

*  #  » 

The  story  about  an  intelligent  dog  printed  in  this  column  last 
week,  has  caused  a  flood  of  communications  from  admirers  of 
animals  in  all  portions  of  the  country,  each  one  of  whom,  it 
seems,  some  time  owned,  or  knew  a  person  who  owned  a  remark- 
ably intelligent  animal.  One  of  the  best  of  these  stories  is  re- 
garding a  horse,  which  was  left  all  day  in  a  field  to  graze.  Tbe 
man  in  charge  of  it  left  it  no  water,  with  the  result  that  the  horse 
suffered  greatly  from  thirst.  Close  behind  a  cellar  window,  which 
was  flush  with  the  field,  was  a  sink,  in  which  the  water  was 
running.  To  the  window  went  the  horse,  attracted  by  the  somid 
of  the  water.  He  at  first  endeavored  to  tear  out  the  window- 
sash  with  bis  teeth,  but   finding  that   impossible,  put  one  of  his 


hoofs  through  the  glass  and  tried  to  walk  through  the  window. 
In  this  be  was  also  unsuccessful,  and  his  "  sagacity"  cost  him  his 
life,  for  tbe  broken  glass  oat  his  legs  so  badly,  that  when  the  poor 
beast  was  found  he  was  almost  dead  from  loss  of  blood,  and 
shortly  afterwards  succumbed.  All  of  which.  I  suppose,  goes  to 
show  that  it  is  as  dangerous  to  beasts  as  to  men  to  have  only  a 
little  knowledge. 

•  «  » 
A  visit  to  tbe  Maze  gives  one  an  object  lesson  in  matters  re- 
lating to  furnishing  goods  of  every  description,  which  cannot  be 
gained  in  any  other  establishment  in  the  city.  The  Maze  is  al- 
ways adding  novelties  to  its  enormous  stock,  and  as  it  has  all  the 
newest  and  best  goods  in  tbe  many  lines  it  handles,  one  is  always 
satined  at  some  of  its  many  counters.  The  popularity  of  this  suc- 
cessful house  is  due  directly  to  the  many  advantages  gained  by 
those  who  deal  with  it.  The  rule  of  the  establishment  is  to  sell 
tbe  latest  and  best  goods  known  in  tbe  market  at  the  lowest  pos- 
sible figures. 


Everybody  should  drink  the  famous  Argonaut  Old  Bourbon.  It 
has  no  superior  in  the  lines  of  whisky,  and  is  in  great  demand  among 
all  gentlemen  who  have  a  proper  appreciation  for  good  whisky.  It 
is  sold  at  all  first-class  establishments;  infact.no  place  that  sells 
whisky  can  be  considered  first-class  without  it. 


THE'  LEADING 
FINE    CHAMPAGNE 
OF    EUROPE.- 


GOLD   LACK 
(form  f uctlthj  .    ^-(Champagw 

CHARLES  MeJNECKES  C°    Agents:  San  Francisco 

MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

NO.  912  GRAND  STREET,   ALAMEDA,    CAL^ 

Miss  Maasoo,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  Scho  1,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.   Mansou,  Late  Associate   Principal,   Eastern  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARD  NG  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS, 

Term  begins  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires* 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 

FINE   DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver   Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very    reasonable   prices. 
A.   W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


OUTING  SUITS-SITS, 
TENNIS  SUITS-SHIRTS, 


LADIES* 

WAISTS, 


27    TO    ST    ISE.A-:R.^T"Z"    steeet. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


HERE  is  a  choice  sample  of  the  rob  which  is  finding  its  way 
into  the  columns  of  a  New  York  weekly.  It  is  under  the 
caption  of  the  "  Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Company,  from 
our  special  correspondent:  "For  some  months  past,  'Jim'  Flood 
has,  by  permission  of  the  Mining  Stock  Association,  controlled 
this  property,  and  assumed  rule  under  the  guise  of  a  reformer." 
The  special  correspondent  then  goes  on  to  iudulge  in  a  wild  caper 
with  shears  and  paste-pot  in  the  back  office,  winding  up  with  the 
following  little  bit  of  original  humor:  "To  cap  the  climax, 
Flood  has  kicked  down  the  ladder  by  which  he  climbed  to 
power,  and  has  bid  defiance  to  the  Mining  Stock  Association." 
This  is  the  richest  joke  which  has  been  perpetrated 
on  the  mining  community  here  for  many  a  day.  The 
special  information  received  by  our  contemporary  is  certain  of  a 
character,  which  must  make  it  a  most  valuable  guide  for  its 
patrons  among  the  investing  classes.  The  balance  of  this  inter- 
esting report  is  of  such  a  one-sided  character  as  to  be  unworthy 
of  reproduction.  If  personal  abuse  is  to  be  accepted  as  argument 
there  is  no  opening  forareply.  Reference  is  made  editorially  in  the 
same  paper  to  the  New  York  Times,  which  is  dubbed  for  the  occa- 
sion the  "ablest  and  most  influential"  of  the  great  New  York 
morning  papers,  which  is  said  to  have  '(been  firing  hot  shot  into 
the  Comstock  mill  ring."  The  allusion  is  to  the  demand  upon 
Congress  to  investigate  the  Carson  Mint.  Does  the  Times  enjoy 
eating  crow,  now?  The  investigation  bas  resulted  in  proving 
all  the  charges  false  which  it  bas  been  at  such  pains  to  circulate. 
The  attack  on  the  mint  was  of  such  an  outrageous  character  that 
it  is  a  wonder  that  the  Government  officials  have  not  taken  steps 
to  punish  some  persons  for  slander.  The  failure  to  make  these 
charges  stick  will  not  strengthen  the  cause  of  those  who  wish  the 
public  to  take  stock  in  any  other  of  the  wild  statements  which 
have  been  made  in  an  attempt  to  blacken  the  personal  character 
of  one  or  two  individuals  who  have  the  misfortue  to  be  wealthy. 
In  time  it  may  yet  be  proven  that  the  charges  in  this  instance  are 
of  the  same  gauzy  description  as  those  puclished  and  circulated 
against  the  United  States  Mint  at  Carson,  which  the  Government 
has  just  bad  to  bear  the  expense  of  disproving.  " 
MJ 

THE  "  reformers  "  on  Pine  street  are  having  a  high  old  time  of 
it,  and  as  a  result  of  their  labors,  wreck  and  ruin  have  over- 
taken all  the  poorer  class  of  speculators.  These  people  have  done 
more  harm  in  the  short  space  of  a  few  months  than  the  "  mill 
ring,"  an  imaginary  bugbear  rigged  up  as  an  excuse  for  their  con- 
duct, has  accomplished  in  the  past  twenty  years.  Shareholders 
will  doubtless  appreciate  the  efforts  on  the  part  of  the  brokers' 
"  combine  "  and  their  partners  of  the  so-called  mining  association, 
on  the  other  side  of  the  street.  Tbey  have  proved  beneficial  in 
the  way  of  stripping  unfortunate  people  of  their  holdings  of  stock, 
and  weeded  out  the  wallets  of  the  brokers  in  a  manner  which 
threatens  the  dissolution  of  business.  Never  before  in  the  history  of 
Comstock  mining  have  prices  been  so  low  and  the  volume  of  tran- 
sactions so  small.  The  aggregate  of  commissions  every  day  would 
barely  keep  a  single  member  of  the  Board  in  a  respectable  manner, 
let  alone  the  fifty  or  more  engaged  in  active  business.  With  all  their 
protestations  of  a  reform  management  and  a  pretension  for  high 
standing  financially,  the  few  shares  now  outstanding  among  the 
public  do  not  materialize  on  election  day  on  that  side  of  the  house. 
So  far  they  have  been  able  to  get  a  representation  in  the  differ- 
ent companies  by  electing  one  out  of  the  five  or  six  di- 
rectors, but  public  confidence  tfas  not  been  extended  in 
such  a  marked  manner  as  to  convey  the  control  of  any  of 
the  corporations,  not  even  of  such  small  concern  as  Lady  Wash- 
ington, where  the  clique  scored  their  usual  ignominious  defeat. 
It  would  have  been  much  better  for  stockholders  if  these  people 
had  never  been  heard  of  on  Pine  street.  There  would  then  have 
been  a  chance  to  make  a  decent  living  in  the  stock  business.  As 
it  is.  they  have  done  nothing  but  proved  an  ability  to  call  names 
and  abuse  people  who  have  been  more  fortunate  than  themselves 
in  accumulating  wealth.  What  they  will  succeed  in  doing  in  the 
future  remains  to  be  seen.  If  talk  can  effect  anything,  the  world 
will  probably  go  topsy-turvy. 

ft* 

THE  great  contest  over  the  control  of  Savage  fizzled  in  smoke 
when  it  came  to  a  show  down  of  hands  at  the  annual  election 
during  the  week.  There  was  the  usual  oratorical  demonstration 
on  the  part  of  the  gentlemen  who  wanted  to  get  there,  but  got 
left,  with  the  customary  reference  to  "  nefarious  and  dishonest 
methods,  without  which  a  mining  election  would  not  be  complete 
now-a-days.  A  proposition  emanating  from  an  outside  source  was 
debated,  and  a  resolution  was  ultimately  carried  requesting  the 
directors  of  the  company  to  purchase  a  mill  for  the  reduction  of 
the  ores.  The  last  time  a  proposition  of  the  kind  was  made,  the 
San  Francisco  Stock  Exchange  was  the  first  to  oppose  the  move- 
ment. Some  five  years  ago  the  Bonanza  firm  offered  to  sell  their 
mills  to  the  Con-Cal-Virginia  Company  for  the  exact  amount 
which  was  paid  for  its  construction,  and  the  matter  was  finally 
left  to  the  action  of  a  committee  of  the  Board  of  Brokers.  After  tak- 


ing the  matter  nnder  consideration  the  members  reported  adversely 
to  the  arrangement,  and  it  was  dropped.  Ever  since  then  the 
same  people  have  done  nothing  but  rail  against  mill  men  after 
shirking  the  responsibility  themselves.  There  is  no  doubt  that  a 
proposal  of  the  kind  would  have  been  favored  by  the  mill  owners 
at  any  time  in  the  past,  bad  any  one  cared  to  push  the  matter. 
The  Savage  shareholders  will  have  no  trouble  in  getting  a  mill  if 
they  are  in  earnest  about  the  matter.  It  is  to  be  hoped  they  are, 
as  it  will  not  then  be  difficult  to  settle  many  questions  which  are 
now  raised  about  bullion  returns  by  people  who  know  absolutely 
nothing  about  a  milling  process.  The  fact  that  the  low  water  in 
the  Carson  has  necessitated  hanging  up  the  stamps  at  the  river 
mills  has  given  some  of  the  shareholders'  friends  an  opportunity 
to  create  a  short-lived  sensation  by  a  declaration  that  the  South- 
End  mines  have  been  closed  down.  The  attempt  to  still  further 
depreciate  prices  proved  a  signal  failure,  and  the  wreckers  had 
their  trouble  for  nothing.  Prices  were  depressed  during  the  week, 
and  business  was  duller  than  ever.  Assessments  were  levied  as 
follows:  Justice,  10  cents;  Del  Monte,  10  cents,  and  Exchecquer, 
10  cents.  The  Occidental  Consolidated  Company  has  shipped 
$10,000  worth  of  concentrators  to  a  local  smelter. 

II* 

A  GENTLEMAN  who  returned  recently  from  a  visit  to  the  min- 
ing districts  of  South  Africa,  remarked  to  a  friend  in  this  city 
that  the  only  failures  which  came  under  his  notice  were  those 
where  the  properties  were  managed  by  the  British  themselves. 
The  most  flourishing  mines  in  the  country  were  those  superin- 
tended by  American  engineers  who  Berved  their  apprenticeship 
on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  who  were  thoroughly  conversant  with 
the  handling  of  California  gold  ores.  This  opinion  seems  justified 
by  the  reports  which  from  time  to  time  are  received  here  from 
the  properties  worked  by  California  engineers.  One  now  to  hand, 
the  annual  statement  of  the  Robinson  Gold  Company,  of  Wit- 
watersrand,  nnder  the  charge  of  Francis  Spencer,  well  and  favor- 
ably knowu  here  as  a  mining  engineer,  makes  an  especially  fa- 
vorable showing  for  the  past  year.  There  were  crushed  during 
the  twelve  months  79,210  tons  of  ore,  in  a  40-stamp  mill,  and  the 
returns  in  free  gold  were  at  the  rate  of  71J  per  cent.  The  con- 
centrates recovered  ran  the  total  product  up  to  94  82-100,  a  highly 
creditable  result.  The  total  gold  production  for  the  year  was 
valued  at  $1,557,415,  at  a  total  working  cost  for  mining  and  mill- 
ing of  less  than  $7  per  ton.  The  number  of  men  employed  was 
1,117,  the  whites  numbering  257,  and  850  Kaffirs.  The  tailings 
are  worked  entirely  by  the  cyanide  process  since  Mr.  Spencer  be- 
came superintendent. 

Ill 

MENTION  was  made  last  week  of  an  attempt  which  is  now  be- 
ing made  to  dispose  of  the  Carbondale  coal  and  clay  lands,  in 
London.  This  property  is  located  at  Carbondale,  a  small  town  in 
Amador  county,  in  this  State.  The  property  itself,  from  all  we 
can  learn,  is  all  that  it  is  claimed  to  be,  but  unfortunately  there 
is  a  dispute  among  the  owners  which  is  likely  to  cause  serious 
trouble  to  innocent  purchasers,  who  may  not  be  aware  of  the 
true  facts  of  the  case.  It  appears  that  there  are  two  different 
parties  who  claim  the  right  to  control  the  affairs  of  the  company, 
and  those  in  possession  of  the  books  and  papers  at  present  have 
executed  a  mortgage  to  a  Mr.  Fife,  of  Sacramento,  which  the 
others  say  they  had  no  right  or  authority  to  do.  Both 
sides  have  already  had  an  inning  in  the  Justices'  Court 
of  this  city,  but  it  was  then  decided  that  the  time 
had  not  arrived  when  any  legal  steps  could  be  properly  taken. 
In  other  words,  it  will  only  be  when  the  note  and  mortgage  are 
presented  for  collection  that  the  protestants  will  have  any  foot- 
ing in  court.  Law  suits  are  bad  enough  when  one  is  forced  into 
them,  but  the  person  who  knowingly  buys  into  one  is  utterly  de- 
void of  common  sense.  There  has  been  enough  money  squan- 
dered now  in  California  on  worthless  propositions,  certainly 
enough  to  have  paid  for  experience  on  the  part  of  London  in- 
vestors, which  should  enable  them  in  the  future  to  discern  the 
wheat  from  the  chaff. 

Ill 

A  CORRESPONDENT,  writing  from  Belfast,  Ireland,  deplores 
the  fall  in  Irish  securities  which  is  taking  place,  owing  to 
the  dread  of  a  Gladstonian  government  being  returned  to  office. 
In  twenty  days  the  depreciation  in  only  four  stocks  amounted  to 
nearly  £1,000,000.  The  stocks  named  were  Bank  of  Ireland, 
which  went  off  in  price,  £415,350;  Great  Northern  Railway, 
£207,300;  Great  South  and  Western  R.  R.  stock,  £293,200,  and 
Midland,  Great  Western  Railway,  £53,325.  This  does  not  speak 
very  favorably  of  the  public  confidence  felt  in  Gladstone  and  his 
intentions.  If  the  leading  stocks  of  the  country  have  depreciated 
to  such  an  extent,  how  much  more  serious  will  be  the  depression 
on  weaker  securities? 

IIS 

IT  has  been  learned  here  that  the  management  of  the  EBmeralda 
Consolidated,  in  London,  has  made  another  blunder,  having 
sunk  the  last  $50,000  in  their  treasury  in  the  New  Mexico  enter- 
prise, which  Mr.  Ann  announced  a  bonanza.  Mr.  Ann  is  evident- 
ly not  a  success  as  a  mining  man.  He  should  return  to  the  iron 
trade. 


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July  30,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


"Hear  the  Crier:"  "Whu  the  devil  without' 
••  One  that  will  pl»T  thedevll.  elr.  with  too.  " 


TIDING8  of  Mr.  Ned  Townsend.  now  in  New  York,  have 
reached  here.  Ned  is  giving  those  Eastern  fellows  an  exalted 
idea  if  the  life  of  a  San  Francisco  journalist.  He  tells  them  how 
high  we  live,  what  big  salaries  are  paid,  and  how  eveu  the  hum- 
blest police  reporter  could  not  associate  with  the  other  press  men 
unless  he  owned  his  own  horse  and  buggy,  and  took  his  regular 
drives  in  the  Park.  Mr.  Townsend's  introduction  to  the  Fourth 
Estate  was  marked  by  some  memorable  incidents.  Prominent 
among  these  was  his  association  with  Sam  Davis,  the  Bill  Nye  of 
the  sage  brush.  Some  one  lent  Ned  a  copy  of  Tic  de  Boheme, 
and  bis  study  of  this  remarkable  volume  led  him  to  the  conclu- 
sion that  in  order  to  be  a  thorough  literateur  be  must  train  on 
absinthe.  So  he  started  in.  He  did  not  like  it,  or  even  know 
how  to  drink  it,  so  he  took  it  straight,  and  it  was  playing  the  old 
Harry  with  his  constitution,  when  Sam  Davis,  who  roomed  with 
bim,  stepped  in  and  saved  him.  One  evening,  when  Ned  was  hit- 
ting the  absinthe  bottle  between  chapters  of  the  Vie  de  Bo- 
heme he  beheld  Mr.  Davis  examining  his  leg.  Sam  had 
smeared  that  shapely  limb  with  blue-black  ink,  and  thereby  suc- 
ceeded in  presenting  a  very  good  imitation  of  gangrene. 
Townsend  was  horrified.  How  did  it  happen  ?  The  re- 
sult of  a  fall?  Why  had  not  Sam  consulted  a  doctor? 
HeavensI  it  was  a  clear  case  of  blood  poisoning.  He 
would  rush  out  and  bring  in  a  doctor  at  once,  and  putting 
aside  the  absintbe  the  good-natured  imitator  of  the  Par 
isian  bohemians,  rushed  into  the  street.  Meanwhile  Mr.  Davis 
washed  off  the  ink  and  retired  to  bed.  In  came  Ned  with  the 
doctor.  "  Here  we  are,  Sam,"  he  cried  cheerily,  "  don't  be  des- 
pondent. Doctor  look  at  this  leg,"  and  he  pulled  down  the  bed- 
covers, but  Mr.  Davis'  legs  were  in  their  normal  condition. 
"  What  in  blazes  is  the  matter  with  yon?"  asked  Mr.  Davis  in  a 
voice  which  has  ever  emulated  the  dulcet  notes  of  the  Washoe 
canary.  "  Your  leg,  your  gangrened  leg,  Sam,"  gasped  Townsend. 
"  It  seems  to  me,  Mr.  Townsend,  that  you  are  taking  more  ab- 
sinthe than  is  good  for  your  brain,"  said  Sam,  calmly.  »  Doctor 
Hubbard,  please  take  that  lunatic  away  with  you  and  give  him  a 
soothing  draught."  The  cure  was  complete.  Mr.  Townsend, 
though  an  epicure  ot  fine  taste,  has  since  abjured  absinthe. 

OP  course  it  is  nobody's  business,  but  it  does  seem  a  pity  that 
the  University  Club  is  not  more  consistent.  Now  in  every 
city  in  the  Union,  with  the  exception  of  San  Francisco,  wherever 
there  is  a  University  club  it  is  exclusively  for  University  men. 
None  others  have  a  right  to  membership.  When  this  rule  is 
broken  it  has  no  claim  to  be  distinguished  as  a  University  Club. 
It  might  be  called  anything  else.  It  certainly  has  forfeited  its 
right  to  be  known  as  a  club  exclusively  for  University  men.  The 
San  Francisco  institution  began  well.  It  originated  with  Univer- 
sity men,  it  was  built  up  by  University  men,  and  it  recommended 
itself  to  all  as  a  club  made  up  solely  of  University  men.  But  in 
an  evil  hour  the  bars  were  let  down,  and  non-University  men 
were  admitted.  This  was  a  fatal  mistake.  There  may  be  only  a 
dozen,  or  even  half  a  dozen  non-University  men  in  the  San  Fran- 
cisco University  Club,  but  they  have  no  right  there,  or  if  tbey 
have  the  club  should  change  its  name.  Why  not<3all  it  the  Semi- 
University  Club,  or  the  Demi-University  Club,  or  even  the  Demi- 
Semi-University  Club  or  the  Hemi-Demi-Semi-University  Club  to 
keep  in  accordance  with  the  facts.  A  stranger  was  entertained 
by  a  friend  in  this  club  some  evenings  ago.  He  was  a  member 
of  a  University  club  in  an  Eastern  city.  He  was  introduced  to  a 
gentleman,  and  in  the  course  of  conversation  happened  to  inquire 
from  what  University  he  had  graduated.  "  From  none,"  was  the 
reply;  "  I  am  not  a  University  man."  The  Bostonian  opened 
his  eyes  in  amazement.  He  was  convinced  that  we  have  a  free 
and  easy  way — an  elastic  way,  in  fact,  of  arranging  things  on 
this  side  of  the  continent  to  please  ourselves.  Of  course,  it  is 
needless  to  say  that  the  non-University  man  was  well-bet  led.  The 
dollar  ferried  him  over  the  ditch  right  into  the  heart  of  the  club, 
despite  the  blushes  of  Alma  Mater. 

THE  hypocrisies  of  every-day  life  are  increasing.  I  heard  one 
man  inquire  of  another,  in  a  tone  of  the  most  anxious  solici- 
tude the  other  day,  "  Where  are  you  living  now  ?"  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  that  fellow  did  not  care,  not  alone  where  the  man  was 
living,  but  whether  he  was  alive  at  all.  "  And  how  is  your 
health?"  another  vile  deception.  How  much  better  and  more 
honest  it  would  be  if  every  one  expressed  their  true  sentiments, 
such  as,  "Sorry  you  didn't  break  your  neck  last  week."  "  Wish 
you  were  dead,  so  I  might  flirt  with  your  pretty  wife."  "You 
are  looking  bilious  as  the  deuce;  I  do  hope  your  liver  Is  affected." 
"So  you're  back  from  New  York,  eh?  Why  didn't  you  stay 
there?  Nobody  is  glad  to  see  you  here."  Ah,  that  would  be  a 
good  virile  form  of  greeting,  and  would  go  a  long  way  toward 
promoting  harmony  in  the  human  family. 


WIIKN  yon  g..  bark  to  town, 
Will  yon  remember  all  those  pleasant  Haw. 
Those  dreamy  wanderings  through  woodland  ways, 
Those  pauses  underneath  the  shady  boughs, 
Those  soft  hand-pressnres,  those  impassioned  vows, 
When  you  go  back  to  town? 

When  you  go  back  to  town, 
Will  you  recall  the  voices  of  the  sea. 
Bearing  such  happiness  to  you  and  me, 
Bidding  us  plunge  into  the  waves'  embrace, 
Cheek  close  to  cheek  and  arms  that  interlace. 

When  yon  go  back  to  town? 

When  you  go  back  to  town, 
Will  any  memories  of  one  starry  night, 
Which  brought  to  us  its  guerdon  of  delight. 
Dwell  with  you,  dear—how  in  one  moment  we 
Drank  bliss  enough  for  all  eternity, 

When  you  go  back  to  town? 

When  you  go  back  to  town, 
And  see  me  selling  priceless  Paris  lace, 
Will  you  disdainfully  avert  your  face? 
Or  will  you  smile  when  my  glad  smile  you  mark, 
And  whisper  love,  though  I'm  a  drygoods  clerk, 

When  you  go  back  to  town? 

When  you  go  back  to  town, 
And  see  me  walking  with  my  wife  and  son, 
Will  you  wish  all  we  did  had  been  undone? 
Or  will  you  tell  your  doting  husband  we 
Are  quite  the  pink  of  high  gentility, 

When  you  go  back  to  town? 

MR.  CASSIDY,  of  Union  street,  does  not  believe  in  the  "  byp- 
tonists,"  as  he  calls  them.  "They  are  no  good,"  says  Mr. 
Cassidy,  "  and  I  don't  want  any  of  'em  around  my  place.  Bad 
luck  to 'em,  I  am  out  fifteen  dollars  because  of  'em.  The  other 
night,  when  I  was  counting  the  change  in  the  till,  a  tall,  slim  fel- 
low kem  in,  and  asked  for  a  glass  of  steam  beer.  'I'm  a  hyp- 
tonist,'  sez  be,  '  an'  I  could  mesmerize  you,  Mr.  Cassidy,  in  five 
minutes.'  I  don't  know  how  he  got  hold  ov  me  name,  but  he 
had  it  pat  as  that.  '  I'll  look  you  straight  in  the  eyes,' sez  he, 
'  an' in  three  minutes  you'll  see  whatever  I  tell  you  to  see,  and 
believe  what  I  say.'  Now,  I  was  a  little  curious,"  continued  Mr. 
Cassidy,  "  so,  without  taking  the  change  off  the  counter,  I  sez  go 
ahead.  He  looked  me  straight  Detune  the  two  eyes,  an'  the 
breath  ov  him  nearly  kilt  me.  Then,  sez  he,  all  of  a  sudden, 
■  Look  behind  you,  Cassidy,  an'  see  the  ace  of  spades  on  the 
whisky  barrel.'  I  did,  an'  no  sooner  was  my  head  turned,  than 
the  dirty,  treacherous  scut  hit  me  a  thump  in  the  back  ov  the 
head,  an'  knocked  me  down  behind  my  own  bar,  into  the  ice  tub. 
When  I  kem  to,  an'  got  op,  the  hyptonist  was  gone,  and  with 
him  all  me  money.  No,  sir,  I  hev  no  use  for  'em  at  all"  And 
the  philosopher  of  Union  street  scratched  that  portion  of  his 
cranium  which  the  fist  of  the  scientific  stranger  had  so  heavily 
visited. 

THAT  exclusive  class,  known  to  an  indignant  plebeity  as  the 
((  Barons  of  Ross  Valley,"  are  again  making  themselves  ob- 
noxious. Woe  be  to  the  man  who  passes  one  of  the  baronial 
castles  with  a  gun  upon  his  shoulder.  It  does  not  matter  whether 
it  be  loaded  or  unloaded.  A  squire  or  man-at-arms  will  dash 
forth  from  the  keep  of  the  castle,  collar  the  man  on  the  spot,  and 
demand  six-bits  from  him  as  a  trespass  tax.  One  of  those  haughty 
nobles,  who  is  known  as  the  Pouter  Pigeon,  because  he  endeavors 
to  crowd  his  chest  over  the  median  line  of  his  abdomen,  collared 
a  babe  the  other  day  who  was  wading  in  the  brook  or  moat  that 
flows  by  his  domain.  The  child  screamed  in  terror  at  the  appear- 
ance of  this  great  man  (I  think  he  is  in  the  pot  and  kettle  busi- 
ness), but  the  Baron  relented  and  spoke  to  him  kindly.  "You 
are  a  great  man,  ain't  you?"  lisped  the  innocent  youngling.  "  I 
am,  my  child,"  responded  the  Baron,  gravely,  "  but,  although  it 
may  astonish  you,  there  is  One  greater  even  than  I  am,"  and  he 
pointed  with  reverential  finger  to  the  cloudless  sky  above  him. 

IF  I  belonged  to  the  Women's  Press  Association,  I  should  be 
mighty  careful  about  dying.  Not  so  much,  indeed,  for  the 
hereafter,  as  for  dread  of  the  funeral  those  talented  ladies  would 
give  their  sister  deceased.  At  the  last  obsequies,  fourteen  mem- 
bers appeared  with  eulogies,  nicely  tied  up  in  silk  ribbon,  and  in- 
sisted upon  reading  them  over  the  remains.  They  determined 
that  the  coffin  should  not  be  allowed  to  budge  an  inch  until  they 
had  finished.  One  by  one  those  melancholy  ghonls  spoke  their 
pieces.  The  dead,  of  course,  was  powerless  to  remonstrate.  Aa 
the  living  all  bad  pieces  to  speak,  they  were  compelled  to  com- 
pose themselves  unwilling  listeners,  and  wait  their  turns.  One 
old  lady  doubled  up  and  actually  would  have  triplicated  but  for 
the  groans  of  the  audience.  Then  the  mourners  wrapped  up 
their  MSS.  in  its  silk  ribbon  and  permitted  the  dead  to  be  placed 
where  there  is  no  spouting  and  "  a  few  appropriate  remarks"  are, 
fortunately,  unknown. 

THEY  have  a  Short  and  a  Sharp  in  Mill  Valley.     Mr.  Decisive 
is  on  his  way  from  Peoria  to  make  the  trinity  complete. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


£^_  R*°PeF*Tjfe 


AFTER  the  excitement  and  talk  over  excessive  assessments, 
legal  and  illegal,  for  municipal  purposes  and  street  exten- 
sions, the  real  estate  men  have  settled  down  to  business,  and 
there  has  been  a  slight  improvement.  The  Seventeenth  street  as- 
sessment, which  the  News  Letter  stated  had  been  made  with  ap- 
parently conscientious  effort  to  assess  damages  and  benefits 
justly,  has  been  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  and  the  few 
protestants  have  been  satisfied.  This  satisfactory  adjustment 
only  makes  the  gross  injustice  of  the  Sixteenth  street  extension 
assessment  the  more  glaring.  The  protests  will  be  heard  on 
August  2d,  Tuesday  next,  and  but  one  fate  can  be  in  store  for  it. 
The  extensions  of  the  streets  from  Nineteenth  to  Twenty-third 
streets,  inclusive,  are  of  the  political  job  order,  and  should  be 
squelched  on  August  20th. 

There  has  been  a  movement  at  last  in  inside  property,  and 
there  have  been  three  or  four  transfers  closed  up  within  the  past 
few  days.  McAfee,  Baldwin  &  Hammond  disposed  of  the  three- 
story  brick  premises,  110-114,  Battery,  for  $65,00U;  ShainewaM, 
Buckbee  &  Co.  sold  the  lot,  50x119.3,  and  improvements,  north 
side  of  Sacramento, between  Drumm  and  East,  for  $38,000.  In  the 
Western  Addition,  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  sold  a  lot,  75x137:6,  on 
the  south  line  of  Oak,  east  of  Stanyan,  for  $10,000. 

It  is  a  remarkable  fact  that  while  business  in  real  estate  has 
been  quiet  for  a  few  months,  there  has  been  considerable  work  for 
architects  and  builders.  In  spito  of  the  clamor  about  empty 
houses,  new  ones  are  being  continually  erected,  and  though  there 
are  new  lodging-houses  galore,  the  builder  continues  to  add  to  the 
number.  Within  the  past  six  months  at  least  ten  new  buildings 
of  this  class  have  been  projected,  and  are  now  in  various  stages 
of  completion,  in  the  area  from  Kearny  street  west  to  Van  Ness 
avenue,  on  the  north  side  of  Market.  Inside  building,  like  in- 
side property,  has  been  quiet  for  sometime;  but  even  in  the 
fifty-vara  area,  sacred  to  the  capitalist,  a  sensaiion  is  promised  in 
the  near  future. 

The  condition  of  our  streets  is  deplorable.  For  months  past, 
between  electric  light  and  telephone  companies,  telegraph  com- 
panies, sewer  builders,  street-car  companies  and  street-paving 
companies,  there  has  not  been  a  moment's  uninterrupted  traffic. 
Montgomery,  Kearny,  Geary  and  Market  are  particularly  unfor- 
tunate in  this  respect,  and  no  sooner  has  one  company  closed  up 
these  streets  thau  the  picks  of  another  are  wedging  its  basalt 
blocks,  its  bitumen  or  its  concrete  apart.  The  patchwork  is  ever- 
lasting, and  each  successive  dabbler  leaves  the  street  a  shade 
worse  than  he  found  it.  The  millenium  will  probably  arrive  be- 
fore San  Francisco  has  a  perfect  sewer  system,  a  proper  system 
of  subways  for  electric  wires  of  all  kinds  and  properly  paved 
streets,  but  until  it  comes,  there  is  at  least  hope  to  sustain  the  pa- 
tient, ill-used,  long-suffering  and  collectively  stupid  tax-payer. 

The  new  Hibernia  bank  building  will  be  ready  within  three 
weeks.  As  soon  as  Shreve  &  Co.  move  out  of  the  northeast  cor- 
ner of  Montgomery  and  Sutter,  the  premises  will  be  refitted  and 
the  Donohoe-Kelly  bank  will  move  in.  The  new  German  bank 
on  California  street,  is  to  be  ready  for  occupancy  in  about  three 
months.  The  American  Bank  and  Trust  Co.  of  San  Francisco  is 
having  new  premises  fitted  up  for  it  in  the  Mills  building  at  the 
northeast  corner  of  Bush  and  Montgomery  streets,  and  there  is  a 
rumor  that  the  Security  bank  will  move  into  the  same  buildine 
The  San  Francisco  Savings  Union  has  commenced  work  on  tbe 
rebuilding  of  its  premises,  on  California  and  Webb  Place 

The  man  who  sees  too  far  ahead  and  tbe  man  who  does  not  see 
far  enough  are  the  people  who  never  make  anything  in  real 
estate.  The  Masonic  Association  has  bitten  off  more  thf  n  U  can 
masticate.  Trinity  Church  corporation  has  thrown  away  a 
splendid  opportunity,  and  both  appreciate  their  error.  A  week  aeo 
a  morning  paper  published  a  straight-roofed  picture  and  described 
a  towered   structure  which   the  Masonic  Association,  it  was  al- 

uvl  ,'h1  n"  ,  .-°  ereCtJ  lhOUSh  whether  tDe  building  was  to  be 
like  the  illustration  or  the  structure  described  was  not  stated    A, 

IZTLl'  f,a<VhHe  a"ion  »as  not  the  funos  to  bund  any 
thing,  the  stock  has  not  been  taken  up  as  everyone  believed  it 
would  be  and  the  temple  will  not  throw  its  silhouette  against  the 
sky  or  docorate  Van  Ness  avenue  for  a  decade  to  come  unless 
some  Thirty-th.rd  Degree  grandee  goes  down  into  his  pocket  un 
expectedly.  The  Castle  lot  belongs  to  the  Association,  but  there  ?s 
„\k'°r,hr'r  moving  off  the  Castle  residence  Trinity 
^nLha3ShTelV,ed,lt3,e"  throueh  the  remarkable  hind-sight  ot 
ts  trustee,  Instead  of  being  on  the  acknowledged  highway  to 
salvation,  Van  Ness  avenue,  it  will  overlook  the  back  yarcb  of 
he  residences  on  that  fine  street.  The  trusts  paid  a  Jo  hand! 
some  figure  for  its  site,  for  it  was  anything  but  a  bargain  and 
missed  the  opportunity  of  buying  the  Castle  lot,  which  lias  gone 
tPr  l«?&  h6  th,6  dl»er,ence  in  P"«>  of  the  two  lots  since  it  was  of 
fered  to  the  church   for  many  thousands  less  than  the  Masonic 

h.'nrtr,t,0.1. Pa, d  f.°r  'J'  U  iS  "  Singular  fact  lhat  wue«  "  "«  « 
handling  tbe  funds  of  a  church  or  a  society  he  rarely  shows  the 
judgment  he  would  exercise  in  the  transaction  of  his  own  private 


business,  and  perhaps  this,  as  much  as  the  faith  of  the  average 
clergyman  in  something  turning  up,  accounts  for  the  notoriously 
unbusiness-like  transactions  in  which  the  average  church  invol- 
ves itself. 

Postmaster  Samuel  W.  Backus  says,  date  July  21st.  1892:  I 
take  pleasure  in  stating  that  I  have  used  "The  CALIGRAPH  "  Type- 
writers for  nearly  two  years,  and  find  them  to  answer  every  purpose 
for  which  they  are  intended.  "The  Caligraph"  is  a  strong,  clean, 
durable  writing  machine.  It's  mechanism  is  admirably  simple  and 
practical,  and  the  work  it  turns  out  is  thoroughly  satisfactory. 

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July  30,  1892. 


BAN    FRANCT8CO  NEWS  T.KTTER. 


19 


THE  fire  insurance  companies  have  been  bit  bard  this  month. 
The  losses  are  accumulating  with  a  tremendous  rapidity, 
which  is  calculated  to  put  more  gray  hairs  into  the  beads  of  general 
agents  than  anything  that  they  have  encountered  for  years.  None 
of  the  companies  escaped,  and  some  have  suffered  very  severely. 
In  one  office  over  one  hundred  and  fifty  losses  have  been  reported 
this  month,  and  the  whole  clerical  start  is  busily  engaged  in  figur- 
ing up  the  results.  Underwriters  say  that  so  far  this  year  has 
been  the  heaviest  in  losses  since  the  year  of  the  great  Chicago 
fire.  It  is  not  a  year  of  great  conflagations,  for  while  there  have 
been  several  large  fires",  the  accumulation  of  losses  have  resulted 
from  numerous  small  fires  throughout  the  country.  Every  day 
one  or  more  blazes  are  reported  from  different  cities  and  towns 
throughout  the  coast,  and  as  all  the  companies,  in  their  efforts  to 
get  business,  have  spread  out  this  year,  and  gone  into  every  place 
that  they  could  get  a  risk,  every  fire  hurts  several  companies. 
The  exceedingly  large  losses  of  the  year  have  again  directed  the 
attention  of  the  underwriters  to  the  immediate  need  of  the 
enforcement  of  means  which  will  prevent  in  some  measure  the 
great  fire  waste  throughout  the  country.  It  is  apparent  that  the 
increase  of  rates  will  not  have  the  desired  effect,  for 
such  a  measure  would  not  improved  the  moral  hazard, 
which  is  the  great  facLor  in  fire  insurance  in  this  country. 
The  News  Letter  referred  some  time  ago  to  the  desirability  of 
the  insertion  of  a  co-insurance  clause  in  policies,  and  the  same 
idea  has  now  been  taken  up  by  Mr.  F.  C.  Moore,  President  of  the 
Continental,  who  has  issued  a  circular  to  underwriters,  soliciting 
their  opinions  concerning  the  treatment  of  the  co-insurance  ques- 
tion in  connection  with  the  Universal  Mercantile  Schedule.  This 
question  of  co-insurance  is  now  being  agitated  throughout  the 
East,  and  is  received  favorably.  It  is  apparent  that  if  It  could  be 
so  arranged  that  the  assured  would  bear  a  portion  of  the  loss, 
that  underwriters  would  be  enabled  to  reduce  rates,  and  at  the 
same  time  have  greater  probabilities  of  enjoying  profits  at  the 
end  of  the  year.  Co-insurance  being  most  valuable  where  risks 
are  under  the  protection  of  fire  departments,  which  tend  to  insure 
partial  instead  of  total  losses,  and  least  valuable  under  conditions 
which  result  in  total  losses,  Mr.  Moore  thinks  the  following  rule 
should  be  observed :  Deduct  for  co-insurance  on  risks  under  the 
protection  of  fire  departments — on  buildings,  one-half  of  one  per 
cent,  for  each  per  cent,  of  co-insurance  in  excess  of  50  per  cent. 
of  value,  and  on  stocks,  one-quarter  of  one  per  cent,  for  each  per 
cent,  of  co-insurance  in  excess  of  50  per  cent,  of  value.  On  risks 
not  under  protection.  Of  Fire  Departments,  deduct  one-quarter  of 
one  per  cent,  for  each  per  cent,  of  co-insurance  in  excess  of  fifty 
per  cent,  on  both  buildings  and  stocks.  If  insurance  is  less  than 
fifty  per  cent,  of  value,  and  one  per  cent,  for  each  per  cent,  that 
insurance  is  less  than  fifty  per  cent,  of  value.  To  secure  these 
deductions  the  percentage  co-insurance  clause  must  be  indorsed 
on  the  policy.  The  local  underwriters  will  probably  give  this  im- 
portant matter  of  co-insurance  considerable  attention. 

The  Spectator  presents  a  very  interesting  table  of  statistics, 
showing  the  business  of  British  companies  in  the  United  States 
for  the  ten  years,  from  January  1,  1882,  to  January  1,  1892.  In 
some  cases  the  figures  are  somewhat  astonishing.  Of  sixteen 
prominent  companies  only  four  are  credited  with  a  profit.  These 
are  the  Liverpool,  and  London,  and  Globe,  whose  profit  was  $1,- 
881,756;  the  Commercial  Union,  $211,849;  the  Royal,  $152,962, 
and  the  Scottish  Union  and  National  $131,723.  Six  companies 
each  lost  over  half  a  million,  and  two  over  a  million.  The  Sun, 
of  London,  appears  to  be  the  biggest  loser,  its  loss  being  figured 
at  $1,445,764  on  total  premium  receipts  of  $11,421,835.  The  Lan- 
cashire's premium  receipts  were  $14,206,119,  and  its  loss  on  busi- 
ness $1,350,768.  Other  losses  are  given  as  follows;  United,  Man- 
chester, $709,564;  Northern,  London,  $633,932;  Phcenix,  London, 
$590,534;  Queen,  Liverpool,  including  in  part  the  Queen,  of 
America,  $538,123.  The  net  loss  on  the  total  business  of  the  six- 
teen British  companies  which  are  figured  on,  for  the  ten  years 
mentioned,  is  placed  at  $4,163,685.  The  British  investor,  ontbe 
whole,  has  found  the  United  States  a  very  expensive  place  for 
the  investment  of  his  spare  ducats. 

The  steamer  R.  C.  Young  has  been  burned  on  the  Williamette 
River,  and  is  a  total  loss.     She  was  insured  in  local  companies. 

Eighty  per  cent,  was  offered  on  the  ship  Frank  Carville  on 
Wednesday.  She  arrived  at  San  Diego  on  Thursday,  210  days 
from  Leitb.  

THE  campaign  songster  is  sharpening  his  pencil  with  one  eye 
on  the  muse,  and  the  other  on  the  county  committees.  Bless 
him  he  is  willing  to  sing  on  either  side,  providing  the  fee  be  suffi- 
cient. And  he  is  crafty,  too,  for  his  verses  are  so  constructed 
that  by  a  change  of  a  word  or  line,  here  or  there,  Cleveland  may 
be  eulogized  and  Harrison  villified,  or  vice  versa,  everything  de- 
pending upon  the  inducements  offered. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


CUPID'S    SANCTUARY.— Chicago  Sanctuary. 

Since  Marion  holds  her  love  so  dear 

That  rich  men  only  win  her  glance, 
The  cupids  have  her  much  in  fear: 

8he  stares  them  out  of  countenance. 
So  to  shy  Jessica  they  go — 

Ah,  there  they  flock   from  near  and  far: 
She  blushes  red,  they  tease  her  so, 

The  little  ruffians  that  they  are. 

PARALLEL    CASES. 

OVER  in  San  Quentin  Prison  lies  a  poor  and  almost  friendless 
wretch,  named  Vital,  who  is  to  be  hanged  for  murdering  a 
Chinaman.  That  he  committed  the  crime  there  is  no  question, 
and  that  he  deserves  hanging  can  scarcely  be  doubted.  Yet  one 
cannot  but  contrast  his  probable  fate  with  the  experience  of  a  cer- 
tain other  individual  who  once  upon  a  time  murdered  a  China- 
man, in  the  same  county  where  Vital's  crime  was  committed — 
Santa  Barbara.  8everal  years  ago,  a  Chinese  cook  was  engaged 
to  go  to  an  island  oif  the  lower  coast  to  attend  to  a  gang  of  sheep 
shearers.  After  a  short  stay  there,  the  surroundings  proved  so 
distasteful  that  he  concluded  to  give  up  his  situation  and  return 
to  the  main  land.  He  told  the  lord  of  the  island,  what  was  the 
fact,  that  he  was  sick,  and  wished  to  go  back  te  Santa  Barbara. 
The  only  means  of  communication  with  that  place  was  a  schooner 
belonging  to  the  aforesaid  lord,  and  when  the  coolie  applied  for 
passage  he  was  peremptorily  refused.  Again  and  again  he  begged 
to  be  taken  aboard,  but  unavailingly.  Finally,  in  desperation, 
he  gathered  his  little  belongings  together  and  went  down  to  the 
wharf  where  the  vessel  lay,  with  the  intention  of  going  aboard. 
Here  he  was  met  by  his  employer,  and  then  and  there  brutally 
beaten  and  done  to  death  with  a  revolver.  Santa  Barbara  had  a 
District  Attorney  at  that  time  who  had  not  the  fear  of  wealth 
before  his  eyes,  and  to  his  credit  be  it  said,  he  did  all  in  his  power 
to  bring  the  slayer  to  justice.  At  first  a  plea  of  self-defense  was 
set  up,  but  this  did  not  hold  water,  and  then  a  novel  scheme  was 
put  into  operation.  A  Judge  whose  resignation  was  already  in  the 
Governor's  hands,  and  who  had  already  changed  his  residence 
to  Los  Angeles,  made  a  hurried  trip  to  Santa  Barbara,  held  a  mid- 
night session  of  his  court,  and  dismissed  the  charge  of  murder  on 
the  ground  that  the  crime  was  committed  on  the  wharf  at  a 
point  beyond  low-water  mark,  and  hence  outside  of  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  authorities!  So  the  wealthy  murderer  went  free,  and 
his  crime  has  had  no  other  punishment  than  the  problematical 
one  inflicted  by  his  conscience.  But  with  Vital,  how  different  1 
He  deserves  hanging  undoubtedly,  but  if  this  is  not  a  case  of  one 
law  for  a  rich  man  and  another  for  a  poor  man,  then  words  and 
acts  have  lost  their  meaning. 

AN  ingenious  method  of  advertising  has  lately  been  seen  in  the 
streets  of  London.  "The  Hommes-Sandwicb"  are  provided 
with  boards  on  the  Jacob's  ladder  principle,  and  by  pulling  a 
string  are  enabled  to  change  the  character  of  their  advertise- 
ments in  a  very  kaleidoscopic  and  sometimes  puzzling  manner. 
This  principle  might  be  used  for  electioneering  purposes  in  Eng- 
land. Some  "  Gladstone  Sandwiches"  might  be  sent  about,  ex- 
hibiting by  this  means  the  Protean  change  of  policy  which  the 
G.  0.  M.  has  made  from  time  to  time.  Thus  one  moment  the 
board  might  show  "  Three  Acres  and  a  Cow ;"  the  next,  "  Home 
Rule  for  Ireland;"  "Remember  Mitchelstown"  would  give  way 
to  "  Welsh  Disestablishment;"  and  there  would  be  a  regular  see- 
saw between  «'  One  Man,  One  Vote  "  and  "  Eight  Hours  a  Day." 

IF  Democracy  is  triumphant  in  Europe  and  America,  to  say 
nothing  of  Australia,  there  is  one  country  where  the  tide  has 
turned  in  the  contrary  direction.  The  Prime  Minister  of  Cape 
Colony,  Mr.  Rhodes,  has  introduced  a  bill,  which  has  been  read  a 
first  time  and  will  probably  be  carried,  adding  twenty-five  per 
cent,  to  the  property  qualification  of  electors,  and  disfranchising 
illiterates.  One  wonders  what  can  be  the  explanation  of  this 
political  phenomenon.  It  can  hardly  be  due  to  climate,  but  it 
may,  perhaps,  be  ascribed  to  the  Afrikander  exclusiveness, 
which  favors  oligarchy  rather  than  monarchy  or  democracy. 

AT  Leghorn,  where  the  Politeama  Theatre  is  in  rather  a  bad 
way,  one  of  the  proprietors,  who  is  also  a  dealer  in  gentle- 
men's "  fixings  "  on  an  extensive  scale,  has  conceived  an  ingen- 
ious plan  of  coming  to  the  theatre's  rescue,  thus :  He  exhibits  in 
front  of  his  store  the  following  legend:  ••  A  tie  and  an  admission 
to  the  Politeama  for  one  lira."  The  system  admits  of  indefinite 
expansion.  For  example,  there  might  be  gallery  suspenders, 
dress  circle  socks,  and,  of  course,  hat  boxes.  Some  of  our  enter- 
prising dealers  in  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods  might  utilize  this 
idea. 


PARLIAMENTARISM  seems  to  be  making  rapid  progress  in 
Japan.  Some  recent  dispatches  from  Tokio  relate  that  during 
a  debate  on  the  purchase  of  the  railways,  five  members  were  sus- 
pended, one  of  whom  had  to  be  carried  bodily  out  of  the  house. 
There  have  been  occasions  in  our  own  Legislative  Assemblies 
when  the  services  of  the  "  chucker-out  "  might  have  been  ren- 
dered to  advantage. 


MERCHANT'S     LINE 


NEW  LINE 

CLIPPER  SHIPS. 


New  York  to  San  Francisco. 

THE  MAGNIFICENT  IRON  SHIP 

T.     ZF\     OAI^ES, 
1897  tons  register,  REED.  Master,  is  now  ou  the  berth  at 
New  York,  and  having  large  engagements  will  receive  quick 
dispatch.    For  freight  apply  to  J.  W.  GKACK  &  CO.,  430  Cali- 
fornia St.,  S.  F.  W.  R.  GRACE  &  CO.,  Hanover  Square,  N.  Y. 

DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 


Lo- 


.  Shares. 

Amount 

60 

150 

340 

340 

30 

30 

390 

390 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California, 
cation  of  cannery — Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  lj,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate. 

C.A.Johnson  . .  .   1 

C.  A.  Johnson  2 

Chas.  Carlson 7 

C.  Lundberg 12 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  16th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23. 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 


San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 


JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 


Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pauy  the  tale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Gold  Hill,  Story  couuty,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  27th  day  of  July,  1892,  an  ass  essmeut  (No.  33)  of  Tcn  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
orhce  of  the  Company,  room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  303  Montgomery  st 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Auy  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Thirty-first  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  20th  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street    San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

MR.  and  MME.  J.  H.  ROSEWALD, 

Will  Resume  Giving  Instructions  on  August  1st.  Ap- 
plicants for  Time  will  Please  call  on  Friday  or  Satur- 
day, July  29,  30,  From  2  to  4  p.  m,  at  922  Geary  St. 


DICKER 

BROTHERS^1  ■ 

PIANOS. 

KOHLER    &    CHASE, 

88  O'Ftu-rell  St. 


July  30,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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SHOES  fastened  by  innumerable  straps  are  smart-looking,  es- 
pecially if  they  have  a  toe-cap  of  black  patent  leather.  The 
rough  brown  Swede  shoes  are  charming.  The  crocodile  leather 
is  very  pretty  for  shoes.  Some  with  high  Louis  heels  have  large 
paste  buckles  decorating  them  with  very  good  effect.  Boots  and 
shoes  made  of  the  real  Russian  leather  will  last  forever  If  properly 
polished  like  those  worn  by  men  in  the  country,  and  they  look 
very  much  belter  when  they  become  quite  a  dark  shade  of  brown. 
While  canvas  shoes,  if  well  made  with  pointed  toes,  are  very 
nice  for  seaside  wear.  If  they  are  not  well  cut  they  make  the 
foot  look  large,  therefore  they  should  be  carefully  chosen.  Light 
fawn  stockings  are  much  better  than  black  for  any  brown  shoe, 
as  the  black  stocking  forms  such  a  contrast  of  color.  A  lady  at 
a  recent  English  race  meeting  wore  yellow  stockings  with  gold 
shoes,  which  looks  as  if  they  bad  been  covered  with  gold  paint. 
They  did  not  in  the  least  harmonize  with  her  dress,  and  simply 
looked  out  of  place  and  ridiculous.  Bronze  shoes  are  rather 
pretty  for  out-door  wear,  but  they  again  should  certainly  be  worn 
with  dark  brown  stockings. 

White  Dresden  china  lamps  are  a  dainty  novelty  for  the  white 
drawing  rooms  that  are  now  so  much  the  fashion.  Some  of  these 
lamps  are  perfectly  exquisite  in  design,  the  figures  being  exe- 
cuted with  that  peculiar  finish  that  we  see  only  in  the  Meisen 
porcelain.  The  shades  which  go  with  the  lamps  are  also  new  in 
design,  and  flare  upward  instead  of  downward,  leaving  the  con- 
tour of  the  lamp  itself  in  full  view.  Except  for  reading,  these 
shades  do  equally  well  for  lighting  a  room,  as  the  other  shapes. 
Yellow  silk  shades  look  particularly  pretty  with  the  white  china — 
so  does  a  soft  pink — although  white  carries  out  best  perhaps  the 
purity  of  the  whole  delicate  arrangement. 


Shoes  matching  the  gowns  are  in  good  taste  for  driving  or  for 
evening  wear,  but  for  day-time  the  ordinary  russet  shoe  or  a  pa- 
tent Ieathei  one  is  in  good  taste,  writes  Mrs.  Mallon  in  the  August 
Ladies1  Home  Journal.  Varnish  is  of  as  little  use  at  the  seaside 
as  in  the  mountains,  but  a  substitute  is  offered  for  it  in  the  use  of 
vaseline,  which  if  applied  to  the  shoe  with  a  cloth  or  sponge  kept 
especially  for  that  purpose  will  make  the  leather  retain  its 
brightness  during  the  entire  season. 

Long  waists  are  to  be  worn  again  this  fall,  and  the  girl  that 
hasn't  one  will  do  well  to  cultivate  it  during  the  summer  months 
by  avoiding  the  baneful  luxury  of  the  rocking  chair,  and  by  sit- 
ting very  erect  and  with  all  the  muscle  drawn  up  from  the  waist 
to  support  the  chest,  which  must  be  held  high  and  in  advance  of 
the  abdomen,  even  in  sitting.  That  is  the  secret  of  adding  the 
desired  inches  to  the  waist  line,  according  to  the  Delsarte  theory. 


In  Paris  they  are  making  beautiful  girdles  of  flexible  gold  fili- 
gree, studded  with  jewels  and  finished  with  gold  fringe,  which 
wind  about  the  waist  twice,  and  tie  carelessly  on  one  side.  Three 
miniatures,  three  old-fashioned  brooches,  three  links  of  gold  Bet 
with  jewels,  or  two  cameos  are  utilized  as  clasps  for  girdles  of 
velvet  ribbon. 

The  set  of  ribbons  used  to  ornament  the  simple  summer  gown, 
and  which  includes  the  fashionable  Watteau  bow,  shoulder  knots, 
and  girdle,  requires  ten  yards  of  ribbon. 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


SEMI-ANNUAL   CLEARANCE    SALE. 


-o  uk- 


MAMMOTH    SURPLUS    STOCK 


-OF- 


SPRING  AND  SUMMER 

DRY  GOODS  AND  CLOAKS 


-NOW    BEING    CLOSED    OUT    AT- 


.TREMENDOUS    REDUCTIONS. 

Every  Department  Brimming  With  Bargains- 
Gall  Early  and  Secure  a  First  Choice. 


Murphy  Building. 

MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 

MRS.  R.    G.  LEWIS, 

FORMERLY    OF    THURLOW    BLOCK, 
HAS  REMOVED  TO 

531    SUTTER    STREET. 

Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 

Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

INGLENOOK  TABLE  WINES 

Caii  have  their  orders  filled  at  San 
Francisco  prices  and  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  their 
orders  in  time  with 

F.  A.  HABER, 

Office  and   DeDOt  lne;Ienook  Vineyard.  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


CAMELLINE 

FoKJTHE 

Trie  only  T&ce  prep&ratien  sanctioned  as 
ABselateJy  harmless  By  the  medical  prefessier? 


HARMLESS 


AGREEABLE. 


Effectual. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


PRINCE  BISMARCK,  has  never  before  been  referred  to  as  an 
authority  on  osculation;  but  neither  the  triumphs  of  along 
political  career,  nor  the  chagrin  and  bitterness  of  enforced  retire- 
ment have  taken  away  his  interest  in  a  branch  of  minor  diplomacy 
which  is  generally  the  business  of  less  serious  people.  After  the 
marriage  of  his  son  at  Vienna  some  audacious  person  of  quality 
asked  the  ex-Chancellor  why  it  was  that  he  seemed  to  derive  so  much 
satisfaction  from  kissing  young  ladies'  hands,  as  he  had  kissed  that 
of  his  new  daughter-in-law.  And  a  very  appropriate  answer  Prince 
Bismarck  made.  He  agreed  with  his  revered  master,  the  Emperor 
William,  that  when  a  lady  kisses  an  old  man's  hand  it  implies  that 
he  is  really  old ;  when  the  kiss  is  the  other  way  there  is  still  hope  for 
him  Nor  will  any  one  doubt  that  there  is  "a  drop  of  young  blood 
somewhere"  in  the  veins  of  Germany's  veteran,  and  it  may  be  hoped 
he  will  continue  to  kiss  ladies'  hands  for  a  long  while  to  come.  His 
doctor's  report  fully  warrants  the  hope. 

It  does  not  seem  generally  known  that  King  Charles  of  Roumania 
is  a  Roman  Catholic;  his  wife.  Queen  Elizabeth,  a  Lutheran  .But 
his  successor  must  be  a  member  of  the  orthodox  Greek 
Church  His  nephew  and  heir.  Prince  Ferdinand,  is  at  present  a 
Roman  Catholic,  but  Princess  Marie  of  Edinburgh  belongs  to  the 
Greek  Communion.  King  Charles  has  proved  an  excellent  ruler  ot 
his  adopted  country,  of  which  he  was  proclaimed  King  just  eleven 
vearsago.  His  mother  was  the  elder  sister  of  the  late  Duchess  of 
Hamilton  a  daughter  of  the  Grand  Duke  Charles  of  Baden  and  the 
Grand  Duchess  Stephanie,  and  his  sister  is  the  Countess  de  Flandre. 
His  heir  and  nephew,  Price  Fredinand,  is  the  second  of  the  three 
sons  of  the  present  head  of  the  Hohenzollern-Sigmanngen  family, 
his  mother  being  a  sister  of  the  late  King  of  Portugal. 

The  Royal  dinners  at  Windsor  to  the  King  of  Roumania  and  the 
Gaekwar  of  Baroda  were  what  is  known  in  the  Castle,  with  curious 
accuracy  as  "Gilt"  dinners.  It  is  a  common  thing  to  read  of  the 
magni6cent  display  of  gold  plate  at  these  and  similar  Royal  functions 
but  as  a  matter  of  fact  Her  Majesty  possesses  very  little  sold  gold 
plate  what  appears  so  being  in  reality  silver-gilt.  The  mere  ques- 
tion of  weight  would  render  the  use  of  a  dinner  service  of  solid  gold 
real  hard  "labor  for  the  Royal  servants,  and  as  the  Queen  insists 
upon  the  service  being  as  rapid  as  it  is  faultless,  a  dinner  for  a  doz- 
en people  often  being  got  through  in  a  little  more  than  half-an-hour, 
serious  mishaps  would  be  inevitable,  and  such  things  could  not  be 
permitted  twice  at  the  table  of  the  Queen. 

The  Gladstone  gingerbread-nut  incident  has  already  found  a  par- 
allel on  the  Continent,  for  when  the  German  Emperor  and  the  King 
of  Italy  were  riding  through  Berlin  the  other  day,  another  too  ar- 
dent admirer  of  his  Imperial  Majesty,  also  of  the  fair  sex,  threw  a 
bunch  of  flowers  at  him  and  struck  the  Kaiser  with  them  full  in  the 
face.  Whether  or  no  it  is  due  to  lawn-tennis  or  to  the  study  of 
geometry  who  shall  say?  But  the  fact  remains  that  the  ancient  re- 
proach of  not  being  able  to  hit  a  haystack,  which  formerly  rested  up- 
on women,  has  been  more  than  removed  of  late,  if  oWy  by  such  far- 
cial-comedy  episodes  as  the  gingerbread-nut  and  the  bunch  of  flow- 
ers which  hurt  the  eye  of  a  statesman  and,  if  report  be  true,  the  dig- 
nity of  an  Emperor. 


A  curious  list  has  recently  been  made  of  the  Kings  and  Emperors 
of  Europe  who  have  been  overtaken^by  misfortune.  It  appears  that 
364  have  been  ousted  from  their  thrones,  10S  have  been  condemned 
to  death  and  executed,  twenty-one  have  committed  suicide,  thirty- 
four  are  on  record  as  having  been  placed  under  restraint  in  conse- 
quence of  having  become  insane,  123  have  been  killed  in  warfare, 
twenty-five  have  been  tortured  to  death  and  251  have  been  officially 
declared  to  have  been  assassinated.  The  number  of  monarch!  who 
are  suspected  of  having  been  assassinated  is  infinitely  greater.  It 
will  be  seen  from  this  that  the  possession  of  a  throne  is  not  without 
its  extremely  objectionable  and  disagreeable  features. 

Prince  Odescalcbi.  who  lives  in  Rome,  is  renowned  for  his  great 
wealth,  and,  be  it  added,  for  his  great  generosity.  It  seems  to  have 
been  supposed  that  he  was  almost  as  simple  as  rich,  for  he  recently 
received  two  letters  asking  for  the  modest  sum  of  50,000  francs  in 
each  case, a  refusal  to  be  followed  by  his  immediate  assassination. 
The  money  was  in  each  instance  to  be  put  in  a  certain 
hiding-place  as  intimated.  The  Prince  fulfiled  each  request,  but  at  a 
distance  the  police  were  ou  the  watch  disguised  as  monks,  and 
pounced  upon  the  innocent  ones  as  soon  as  they  had  secured  the 
packages. 

Good  Coolring 
Is  one  of  the  chief  blessings  of  every  home.    To  always  insure  good 
custards,  puddings,  sauces,  etc.,  use  Gail  Borden  "Eagle"  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.    Directions  on  the  label.    Sold  by  your  grocer  and 
druggist. 


i3srs"cria^.isrcE. 


REMOVAL! 
HOME  MUTUAL  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

Now  Occupies  Premises  at  the  N.  E.  Cor.  California  and  Sansome 
Sts.,  S.  F.,  Lately  Vacated  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  Bank. 

Twenty-seventh  Annual  Exhibit. 

January  1.  1891. 

INCORPORATED    A.  D.    1864. 

Losses  p'd  since  organi'n.?3,175,759.21 1  Reinsurance  Reserve  ...    $266,043.53 

AssetB  January  1, 1891  .. .     867,512.19    Capital  paid  up,  Gold. .. .      300,000.00 

Surplus  for  policy  holders    844,944.69  I  Net  8urplus  over  ev'yth'g     278,901.10 

Income  in  1890  $394,184.52  |  Fire  Losses  paid  in  1890.     142,338.90 

Fire  Losses  unpaid,  January  1, 1891 y^SHrS 

President J.  F.  HOCQHTON  1  Secretary CHARLES  R.  STORY 

Vice-PreBident. HENRY  L.   DODGE  I  General  Agent.ROBERT  H.  MA8ILL 

TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE  COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG.  GERMANY. 

Herbert  L.  Low,  Manager  for  the  PaclBc  Coast  Branch. 

220  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

Capital $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534.795.72 


GEO.  MARCUS   &  CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
^ 333  California  St.,  S.  F..Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA      SWITZERLAND 

OF  BA8L8.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPiTAL 4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 
.  410  California  St.,  8an  Francisco,  Cat. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed 110,000. 000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  {in  addition  to  Capital) 2,126,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 6,124.067.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

(Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    XDEP^.ie.T]Vi:E3SrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF    LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     t  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, {23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, *10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


K 


INSURANCE  COMPANY-  LTD. 

DrMAN&MESTETR,  EN  S  L->\Ps1P.  jj 


Capital  paid  oj  guaranteed  38,000,000,00. 

Chas,  A  Laton,  Manager. 
43S  California  St.  San  Fi-ancisza. 


WM.  J.  LANDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  20»  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL »6,0O0,0O0 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.46. 

President.  WCNJAMIN  E.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 

HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 


July  30,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


Flour- Demand  fair:    Extras  II.  ior<W4  .'«:   9aper8nc.liTft@V1.00. 

Whcat-I.liht  trade:   Shippms.  II. ..:■ ..   Milllns.  ll.4ft@Jl.ii  per  cental. 

Barley  Is  quiet:  Brewing,  Jv.r*Ml  02',  Feed.  «7',e  per  ell. 

Oau.  Milling.  II. lOSfl. O:  Feed,  »1  »»»1..VS  per  etl. 

Corn.  White.  II :»:  Yellow,  ll.25an.S7} .  per  etl. 

Rye.  no  stock,  good  demand.  $1    >d>41  ..Vv    Cement,  I2.00@t2.25. 

Hay  Is  lower:  Wheat,  tlO:  Oats.  J^*J10:  Alfalfa,  *7@*9. 

If  IllstufTs.  good  demand.    Bran,  f  17@I1S  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request.  12, 003* 2. .V)  per  ell.     Potatoes.  4.V*.@7oc.  per  etl. 

Butter  Is  steady:  Choice.  20e.@22',c. :  Fair.  l(>c.@17c:  Eastern,  14c@l5c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@9c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  22c.@24e. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc@12c. :  Extracted,  ;>c.@6e.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  25o@.S0c.    Beeswax  is  higher,  at  25c.@26c. 

Fruit— ail  kinds  dried — active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  active. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady:  Dry,  6o@7?3c.     Wool  Is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  fiVjc.d^G^c. 

Coffee  firmer  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned   Fruits  of  all  Kinds  iu  favor. 

Coal  is  pleutiful:  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demand  at  15@16c. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  4}<s@o%c. 

Oar  trade  with  China,  including  Hongkong,  for  the  first  six 
months  of  the  past  two  years  may  be  epitomized  as  follows: 
1892,  Merchandise,  $1,136,954;  Treasure,  $2,828,775;  total,  $3,- 
964,829:  1891,  Merchandise,  $1,441,120;  Treasure,  $1,718,293; 
total,  $3  159,462.  increase  this  year,  $805,407.  Imports  this 
year  exceed  the  exports  of  Merchandise  by  $2,087,134,  against 
1891  of  $2  110,626;  1890,  $1,409,481;  much  of  this  traffic  includ- 
ing through  shipments  in  transit  by  rail  to  Eastern  cities. 

The  Fruit  supply  is  liberal,  and  the  great  bulk  of  every  day's 
receipts  are  sold  at  auction  on  the  wharf,  at  5  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  immediately  upon  landing  from  river  steamers. 

Importations  include  the  following  from  Kodiak,  per  Kodiak: 
2.206  cs.  Salmon,  18  cs.  and  56  bis.  Furs;  per  Alden  Besse,  from 
Kahului,  16.518  bags  Sugar;  per  Newbern,  from  Guaymas,  1,000 
Hides.  1,500  sks.  bark,  107  bars  Bullion,  165  sks.  Ore,  etc.,  175 
bxs.  Mangoes,  72  Turtles,  etc. ;  from  Honolulu,  per  schr.  Louis 
Hatch,  25  612  bags  Sugar. 

The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  City  of  New  York,  from  the 
Isthmus,  brought  a  large  cargo  of  Mdse.  in  transit  from  New 
York,  say  340  cs.  Paper,  500  bxs.  Soap,  Iron,  Hardware,  etc.; 
from  Europe,  75  dms.  Glycerine,  75  cs.  Olive  Oil,  Wine,  Cheese, 
etc.;  from  Mexico,  943  cs.  Limes,  32  crts.  Mangoes,  523  pkgs.  Sil- 
ver Ore,  and  $10,000  in  Treasure. 

The  steamship  San  Juan  sailed  for  Panama  and  way  ports  on 
the  25th  inst.,  carrying  cargo  en  route  to  New  York,  value,  $31,- 
339,  consisting  in  part  of  51,470  gals.  Wine,  198  gals.  Brandy,  20,- 
859  lbs.  Beans,  99,911  lbs.  Borax,  130  bales  Rags,  55  bbls.  Glue, 
etc.;  to  Central  America,  278  bbls.  Flour,  542  ctls.  Corn,  13,530 
lbs.  Tallow,  75,697  lbs.  Rice,  2,000  lbs.  Tea,  2,000  lbs.  Malt,  etc., 
value,  $19,432;  to  Panama,  350  bbls.  Flour,  2,820  lbs.  Rice,  2,183 
lbs  Beans,  value,  $2,410;  to  Mexico,  28  pkgs.  Beer;  to  Ecuador, 
1,500  bbls.  Flour. 

For  the  Colonies,  via  Honolulu,  the  steamship  Alameda  sailed 
hence  on  the  22d  inst.,  carrying  a  large  and  well-assorted  cargo. 
To  Sydnev,  Mdse.,  value  $42,000,  consisting  in  part  of  357  bbls. 
Flour,  1,000  cs.  Salmon,  3,337  gals.  Whale  Oil,  9,352  lbs.  Dried 
Fruit,  253  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  etc.;  to  Auckland,  Mdse.  value 
$6,006—50  flsks.  Quicksilver,  225  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  1,876  lbs. 
Dried  Fruit,  etc.;  to  Melbourne,  Mdse.,  value  $8,507 — say  400 
pkgs.  Codfish,  100  cs.  Salmon,  13,103  lbs.  Coffee,  etc.;  toother 
towns,  assorted  goods,  say  400  cs.  Salmon,  260  cs.  Canned  Fruit, 
etc.,  value  $7,500;  to  Apia.  Mdse.,  value  $2,024_say  2,000  bdls. 
Shingles,  23  M.  feet  Lumber,  45  bbls.  Flour,  Rice,  etc. 

To  Honolulu,  per  Alameda,  Mdse.,  value  $18,500,  consisting  in 
part  of  4,834  lbs.  Tallow,  4,900  lbs.  Tobacco,  etc. 

Seal  Skins — The  schooner  Edward  E.  Webster,  22  days  from 
Japan,  brought  2,172  Skins  to  A.  P.  Lorenizen. 

Salmon — The  schooner  Francis  Alice,  18  days  from  Karluck, 
brought  3,795  cs.  to  James  Madison. 

Our  trade  with  Great  Britain  for  the  first  six  months  of  the  past 
two  years  thus  compare:  1892,  exports,  $7,445,490;  1891,  exports, 
$6,080,064.  Imports,  1892,  $2,380,409;  1891,  $2^944,744;  Excess 
of  exports  in '92,  $5,065,081,  and  do.,  in  '91,  $3,135,320.  Wheat 
and  Flour  combined  for  six  months,  exports  as  above,  1892, 
value  $6,587,776;  1891,  $5,312,709,  showing  increase  this  year  of 
$1,275,067. 

Hawaiian  trade  for  the  first  six  months  of  the  two  past  years : 
Imports,  1892,  $5,672,793;  1891,  $9,251,731.  Exports  same  period, 
1892,  $1,328,295;  1891,  $2,200,995,  a  decrease  this  year  in  exports 
of  $872,700,  and  a  decrease  in  imports  of  $3,578,938.  This  is  ow- 
ing to  the  lessened  sugar  supply.  Sugar  imports  from  the  Islands 
in  six  months  of  1892,  194,199,629,  lbs.,  value  $5,384,566;  1891, 
216,173,538,  value  $8,996,660. 

Sugar  shipments  by  sea  and  rail  for  the  past  six  months  of  1892, 
84,258,332  lbs.;  1891,  66,070,580  pounds;  1890,  69,994,231  lbs.; 
1888,  68,075,677  lbs.    The  bulk  of  the  above  went  East  by  rail. 

Grain  freights  for  Europe  include  the  charter  of  Br.  iron  ship 
Dundonald,  2,115  tons,  Wheat  to  Cork,  Havre,  Antwerp  or  Dun- 


kirk. CI  St.  3d  ;  llr.  iron  ship  Liverpool. 8,810  tons,  Wheat,  same 
voyage  as  above,  Bl  :.«;  Shenandoh.  3.258  tons,  lo  load  Wheat  for 
Liverpool  direct,  with  the  option  ol  Barley  lo  New  York,  at  JO*. 
For  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  the  bark  Harvester  sailed  hence  for 
H1I0  on  the  26th  inst..  with  merchandise  value  $11,887,  say  1  ■.. 
bbls.  Flour,  12,400  lbs.  Lard.  200  bales   Hay,  1,110  sks.  Hran,  etc. 

DEPUTY  District-Attorney  Lin  8.  Church,  of  Alameda  County, 
has  blossomed  out  as  quite  an  orator  of  late,  and  he  now 
ranks  in  the  van  of  tbe  silver  tongued  brigade  that  practices  in 
the  Athenian  City.  It  has  been  noticed  that  whenever  he  is  en- 
gaged in  cases  where  anything  nautical  is  involved  he  seems 
quite  at  home  with  the  subject,  and  the  reason  for  this  only  be- 
came known  tbe  other  day  during  tbe  gossip  of  the  judge's 
chambers.  It  appears  that  Lin's  hobby  during  bis  younger  days 
was  the  sea,  and  every  opportunity  he  bad  it  was  his  wont  to  go 
out  on  the  briny  in  any  sort  of  craft  be  could  secure— anything 
from  an  Italian  fishing-boat  to  an  ocean  steamer.  But  his  love 
for  a  wet  sheet  and  a  flowing  sea  was  widely  dispelled  about  a 
year  ago  by  a  wreck  in  which  he  figured  off  Port  Harford.  It 
was  one  of  the  coast  steamers  and  she  had  struck,  and  was  evi- 
dently getting  so  the  life-boats  were  lowered  and  signals  of  dis- 
tress were  out.  The  usual  wild  rush  to  the  boats  occurred,  but 
the  captain,  like  a  Hue  old  sea-dog,  drew  his  pistol  and  cried: 
"Stand  back;  tbe  women,  children  and  Church  first,"  so  some 
sort  of  order  was  obtained.  Despite  all  the  precautions,  though, 
Lin  fared  badly,  for  in  jumping  into  the  boat  he  misjudged  the 
distance  fell  into  the  water,  where  he  would  most  assuredly  have 
drowned  had  it  not  been  for  the  fact  that  he  was  wearing  a  pair 
of  cork-soled  shoes,  and  they  brought  his  feet  to  the  surface.  His 
extremities  were,  of  course,  at  once  recognized,  and  he  was  fished 
out  ignominiously  by  a  boat  hook  being  inserted  in  the  anterior 
amplitude  of  his  nether  garments.  Since  that  horrible  experience 
he  has  shunned  the  ocean  as  assiduously  as  bis  Satanic  Majesty 
is  said  to  object  to  holy  water. 

"  The  Mumm  !"  Ah.  that's  the  place,  if  you  want  that  good 
stuff.  This  popular  bar,  at  109  O'Farrell  street,  has  no  superior, 
and  but  few  equals  in  the  city.  It  is  very  handsomely  fitted,  is  man- 
aged by  gentlemen  who  know  the  needs  of  their  guests  and  aid  their 
comfort  in  every  way.    Go  to  The  Mumm  if  you  want  enj  jyment. 

If  you  want  good  liquors  and  excellent  service,  visit  the  Grand 
Central,  at  16  and  18  Third  street,  where  only  the  very  best  brands 
known  to  the  market  are  kept.  The  bar  is  the  most  popular  in  town, 
and  enjoys  a  very  large  patronage  of  men  who  indulge  only  in  the 
best  of  liquors. 

The  Maisori  Eiohe,  at  the  corner  of  Graut  avenue  and  Geary 
streets,  is  always  popular  among  men  who  know  what  good  dinners 
are.    All  the  good  livers  of  the  city  go  there. 


iisrsTTK-A-irsrciE: . 


Insurance  Company, 
capital $1,000,000,1  assets 13,000,000 

STRONG,  PROSPEROUS,  PROGRESSIVE. 

AgentB  In  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States . 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up $400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SAN80ME  STREET, 

San  Francisco,  California. 


GEORGE  L.  BRANDER, 

President 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up *  „  600,000 

Assets  3,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,526,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.      General  Office— 401  Mont's,  St. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND  DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA.  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.      Regular    Warehouse   for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 

Monev  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  intereston  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effeoted  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


THE    AMERICAN    GIRL. 

IT  is  admitted  on  ali  hands  that  the  perfected  flower  of  the  nine- 
teenth century,  the  bright,  particular  star  of  this  latest  age  of 
the  world,  is  the  American  girl.  Like  a  young  goddess  she  goes 
forth  conquering  and  to  conquer,  and  no  nation  under  the  sun 
has  been  able  tu  withstand  the  witchery  of  her  presence,  the 
flash  of  her  eye,  or  the  magic  of  her  smile.  The  British  woman 
made  a  gallant  stand  for  a  time  againtst  the  Western  incursion, 
but  she  was  finally  forced  to  succumb,  and  to  see  our  maidens 
and  widows  seated  in  the  high  places  and  adorned  with  the 
coronets  and  strawberry  leaves  for  which  she  had  longed  so 
eagerly  for  her  own  younglings.  The  haute  vieille  of  the  Faubourg 
St.  Antoine  set  up  a  barrier  of  exclusiveness,  but  the  independ- 
ent American  girl  passed  through  or  over  it  as  though  it  were 
made  of  rushes,  and  sat  herself  down  in  the  most  exclusive 
quarters  as  though  she  had  been  born  in  the  purple.  Even  in 
Berlin  and  Vienna,  the  aristocracy  went  down  before  the  Ameri- 
can girl  like  dry  grass  before  a  prairie  fire,  and  Italy  and  Spain 
shared  the  common  fate  of  all  Europe.  Now,  while  this  is  as  it 
should  be,  since  the  world  is  the  American  girl's  by  right  of  con- 
quest, we  are  beginning  to  fear  that  the  reflex  influence  of  all  this 
success  is  not  conducive  to  the  welfare  of  the  American  girl  her- 
self, either  intellectually,  physically  or  morally.  There  are  un- 
mistakable evidences  of  late  of  decadence  among  our  young 
women  which,  to  the  student  of  morals  and  manners,  are  fraught 
with  the  most  profound  consequences.  Our  girls  have  become  so 
terribly  conscious  of  their  world-subduing  power  that  they  have 
ceased  to  be  content  with  their  homes  and  home  life,  or  to  be  satis- 
fied with  the  simple,  healthy  pleasures  which  ought  to  satisfy  every 
young  person,  and  would,  under  ordinary  conditions.  They  have 
fallen  into  a  restless,  feverish,  uneasy  state,  which  causes  theoi 
to  crave  constant  change  and  never-endjng  excitement,  and 
which  impels  them  to  the  commission  of  a  thousand  follies  and 
imprudences  which  it  is  charity  to  call  by  so  mild  a  name.  It 
leads  them  to  spurn  the  society  of  their  own  sex  and  to  seek  that 
of  men,  and  not  always  the  most  reputable  men  at  that,  provided 
they  be  "larky"  or  "  sporty,"  or  whatever  may  be  the  most 
recent  adjective  in  their  vocabulary.  It  induces  th*>ui  to  demon- 
strate their  independence  of  parental  control  and  their  contempt 
for  family  ties,  by  going  to  resorts  which,  to  say  the  least,  are 
questionable,  and  by  partaking  in  performances  more  or  less 
Parkhurstian  in  their  nature.  It  leads  them,  lest  they  be  voted 
slow,  or  pokey,  or  stupid,  to  cultivate  the  manly  vices  of  drink- 
ing, smoking  and  swearing,  until  they  can  hold  their  own  in  a 
not  over-delicate  match  at  repartee  with  the  fastest  man  about 
town,  and  participate  in  «  rackets"  which  are  better  suited 
to  the  nymphs  of  Cytherean  groves  than  to  chaste  and  honest 
American  girls.  It  would  be  grossly  unfair  to  impute  to  such 
girls  as  these  a  lack  of  woman's  crowning  virtue,  chastity,  but 
who  can,  without  a  shudder,  behold  a  child  playing  with  fire,  or 
a  blind  man  walking  on  the  edge  of  a  precipice?  Most  of  these 
silly,  reckless  girls — we  hope  all  of  them — are  ignorant  of  the 
danger  which  threatens  them,  or  strong  in  the  consciousness  of 
their  own  innocence;  but  tbey  do  not  know,  and  few  men  will 
tell  them,  of  the  slow  but  certain  process  of  the  disintegration  of 
moral  fiber  which  dissipation  inevitably  causes.  They  think, 
Billy  fools,  that  because  they  have  resisted  once  they  will  always 
retain  the  power  of  resistance  unimpaired,  not  knowing 
that  the  libertine  who  has  marked  them  down  knows 
the  virtue  of  patience,  and  possesses  it  to  a  won- 
derful degree,  and  that  time  and  a  continuance  of 
liberty  running  into  license  are  his  most  potent  allies.  If  the 
American  girl  would  only  know,  or  consent  to  be  taught,  that 
every  departure  from  the  highest  and  noblest  ideals  of  woman- 
hood is  a  step  toward  the  gulf  which,  when  once  passed,  can 
never  be  re-crossed,  she  would  sbtfdder  at  her  own  risk  and  draw 
back  trembling  and  affrighted.  Unfortunately  her  head  is  turned 
so  early  by  unwise  flattery  and  foolish  indulgence  that  long  be- 
fore she  is  out  of  her  teens  she  deems  her  education  complete  in 
every  respect,  and  scorns  the  advice  and  counsel  of  those  wh0 
mean  her  nothing  but  good.  And  what  is  to  be  the  end  of  it  all? 
Are  our  American  girls  to  acquire  for  themselves  the  reputation 
which  has  attached  in  the  world's  history  to  the  women  of  cer- 
tain classic  islands  of  the  Meditteranean,  and  which  has 
stamped  them  with  eternal  infamy?  Is  there  to  be  no  more  of  the 
national  spirit,  the  national  virtue,  which  in  times  past  has  made 
the  women  of  America  renowned  in  history  and  song?  God  forbid 
that  it  should  be  the  fate  of  this  country  to  see  the 
world  abate  one  jot  or  tittle  of  its  respect  for  our  women, 
young  or  old;  but  to  insure  a  continunance  of  that  respect 
we  must  return  to  our  primitive  ideas  of  the  domestic 
relations,  and  particularly  to  old-time  notions  of  parental  control 
of  children.  Parents  should  insist  that  their  girls  be  kept  girls 
until  they  are  old  enough  to  be  women,  instead  of  being  allowed 
to  grow  up  in  the  forcing-houses  of  society  and  the  whirl  of  gayety 
and  dissipation.  Even  if  we  adopt  the  chaperon  system,  or  re- 
fuse to  allow  girls  to  go  anywhere  at  night  except  in  company  of 
a  relative,  it  will  be  vastly  better  than  to  continue  with  the  present 
system,  which  only  tends  to  recruit  the  abodes  of  vice  from  the 
highest  rank  of  fashionable  and  wealthy  society.  The  American 
girl  is  the  perfection  of  creation;  let  the  parents  of  this  rare  and 


radiant  creature  look  to  it  that  she  be  kept  so,  the  one  flawless 
and  perfect  chrysolite. 

If  you  wish  an  excellent  meal,  served  in  the  most  artistic  manner, 
you  cannot  do  better  than  to  visit  the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at 
213  Sutter  street.  There  the  menu  always  includes  the  latest  delica- 
cies and  culinary  creations,  for  the  chef  takes  great  delight  in  the  ab- 
solute success  of  all  his  efforts.  The  restaurant  has  widespread  pop- 
ularity, for  it  is  ever  pleasing. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  has  a  more  complete 
stock  of  gentlemen's  underclothing  than  any  other  furnisher  in  the 
city. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Peer  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Quijotoa,  Arizona. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  nineteenth  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  13)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  No.  23,  Nevada  Block, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-fifth  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  22nd  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Justice     Mining    Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Twenty-sixth  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  51,  of  Ten  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
Immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  419  California  street,  room  3,  San  FraDcisco,    Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Thirty-first  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  Is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  19th  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  E.  KELLY,  Secretary, 

Office— 419  California  Street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Union  Consolidated  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  18th  day  of  July,1892,  an  assessment  (No.  46)  of  twenty-five  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-fourth  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  thirteen  day  of  September,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

^  A.  W.  BARROWS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment  j$Q    qq 

Amount  per  Share 26  cents 

Levied  June  7  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office  July  12*  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock "  August  4 '  1892 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room,  69  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California.  ' 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Hakalau  Plantation  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Hakalau  Plan- 
tation Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  327  Market  St 
San  Francisco,  California,  on  MONDAY,  the  1st  day  of  August,  at  the  hour 
of  11 o'clock  a  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve 
for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  mav 
come  before  the  meeting,  J 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  THURSDAY,  July  2S,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

E.  H.  SHELDON    Secretary 

Office— 327  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Risdon   Iron   and   Locomotive  Works. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Risdon  Iron  and 
Locomotive  Works  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company  southeast 
corner  Bealeapd  Howard  streets,  San  Francisco,  on 

Monday,  the  1  st  Day  of  August,  1 892,  at  the  hour  ol  1 1  o'clock  A .  M., 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Trustees  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  oome  before  the 
meeting.  L,  R,  MEAD|  secretary, 


July  30,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  l.KTTKR. 


25 


•LOVE    AND    SORROW.-— Smnlmrnt. 

Love  and  Sorrow  met  in   May. 
Crowned  witb  rue  and  hawlhorne  spray. 

And  Sorrow  smiled. 
Scarce  a  bird  of  all    ibe  spring 
Durst  between  tbem  pass  and  sing, 

And  scarce  a  child. 

Love  put  forth  bis  hand  to  take 
Sorrow's  wreath  for  Sorrow's  sake, 

Her  crown  of  rue. 
8orrow  cast  before  ber  down 
Even  for  Love's  sake  Love's  own  crown. 

Crowned  with  dew. 

Winter  breathed  again,  and    spring 
Cowed   and    shrank    with    wounded    wing 

Down  out  of  sight. 
May,  with  all  her  loves  laid  low, 
Saw  no  flowers  but  flowers  of  snow 

That  mocked  her  flight. 

Love  rose  up  with  crownless  bead, 
Smiling  down  on  springtime  dead, 

On  wintry  May. 
Sorrow,  tike  a  cloud  that  fiieB, 
Like  a  cloud  in  clearing  skies, 

Passed  away. 


NATURE    AND    MAN. 


Upon  this  shrubless  crag  I  sit  me  down 
In  Nature's  mighty  presence;  round  me  rise 
The  rock-reared  temples  of  Eternity's 
Untrodden  realm — proud  Rainer's  moonlit  crown 
Towering  Titanically  from  the  brown 
Autumnal  meadows  to  the  azure  skies, 
As  if  to  gain  what  heaven  to  man  denies, 
And  in  its  tethered  realm,  gigantic  grown, 
With  seeming  scorn  o'ersteps  terrestrial  bars 
To  pierce  the  blue  infinitude  of  space, 
And  hold  high  converse  with  the  bright-eyed  stars. 
Alas,  for  earth  1  and  earth's  presumptuous  racel 
Ev'n  yon  high  eagle  mocks  vain-gloriouB  man, 
And  dares  the  earth-born  herd  to  rise  where  eagles  can. 

C.  Horatio  Jesben. 


RONDEAU. 

Smile  in  thy  dreams,  0  child  asleep, 
'Ere  morning's  first  gray  light  shall  creep 

Along   thy  snowy  coverlet 

And  with  light  touch    and  dainty  fret 
Beneath  thy  fluttering  eyelids  peep. 

Thou  shalt  not  know  what  griefs  are  met 

Thy  instant  waking  to  beset: 
Nay!  while  my  early  watch  I  keep, 
Smile  in  thy  dreams. 
And  tbou,  whose  sunset  shadows  sweep 
Aslant  above  the  Eastern  deep. 

Awhile  in  pleasant  dreams'  forget 

The  scowling  presence  of  regret: 
And,  ere  thou  too  shalt  wake  to  weep, 
Smile  in  thy  dreams. 

Frank  Walcott  Hull. 

A    CLUB    CIGAR.— By  Madeline  S.  Bridges,  in  the  Club. 

His  cheek  is  on  his  strong  brown  hand, 

His  eyes,  dark,  thoughtful  eyes, 

Are  looking  into  no  :nan's  land 

Where  bright,  cloud-castles  rise, 

Built  on  the  smoke  that  upward  slips 

In  spreading  spirals  from  his  lips. 

A  good  cigar,  a  quiet  nook — 

A  smoker  at  his  ease; 

These  are  the  things  on  which  we  look, 

Bat  there  are  more  than  these — 

Aye,  more  than  poet's  rhyme  can  say 

Or  painter's  finest  art  portray. 

Hushl  let  him  dream  there— dream  apart 

From  talk,  and  laugh,  and  jest, 

A  woman's  eyes  are  in  his  heart ; 

What  matters  all  the  rest? 

Pass,  with  light  step :  you  cannot  see 

How  fair,  how  dear,  his  dreamings  be! 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 


Patriot*   Mininu   I 

Location  ot  principal  pi«,-.-  ,,i  btulnMi    9an  FruolMO,  Cal.    Lorati.ni  of 
worka — Qui jotoa,  ArliODa 
Notice iU  hereby  given  that  at  a  muting  of  the  ii..»p|  ,,i  Director*,  bald 

on  thcfitn  nay  of  July.  I8M,  kii mem  (No    II  ML  I     per  >haro  waa 

levied  upon  lb«  capital  stock  ..I  the  rorp..raii.in.  payable  nnmeilimely  In 

Btatei  k-....i  coin  to  the  .-. icratary,  ,u  tl ffloe  of  the  company,  room 

23  Kcvada  Work,  No.  WJ  Montgomery  (treat,  San  FnnouMO,  CalllOl 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  aueaimanl  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
The  Eleventh  Day  of  August.  1892.  will  bedelnquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  au.l   unless  paymeul  Is  made  be- 
fore, w  11  be  sold  on  w  BDSEdDAY,  the  Teh  day  ol  September,  1893,  to  pay 
tbe  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  cost!  of  advertising  and  expen- 
ses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

r,,™..    o  ,„  »■       „     „.     .  ALU.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Californ'  '         Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 


Assessment 
Amount  per  Share 
Levied 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Scorpion  Mining  Company. 


No.  4. 
5  cents 
11,  1892 


Delinquent  in  Office ."".'.'.'.'.'. Xuiuftu'jm 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock September  12,  K 

Offlce-No.  310 Pine  Street.  Room  No  2S.G8a2  Fr'an'ola'cTcIl.  SeCretary- 


ANNUAL  MEETIN6. 

Navajo  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Navaio  Min- 
ing Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  rooms  15  and  17 
310  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Tuesday,  the  9th  Day  of  Au.ust.  1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  P.M. 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  iriday,  August  5,  at  3  o'clock  p  m 

^«.        .,.„  „•      „.  ■!■  w-  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office— 310  Pine  St.,  rooms  15  and  17,  Saa  Francisco,  Cal. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Julia  Consolidated 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  56  Ne- 
vada Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on  ' 
Wednesday,  the  1 0th  Day  of  August,  1 89  >,  at  the  hour  of  2  o'clock  P.  M.. 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting. 
Transfer  books  will  close  on  Monday,  August  a,  1892,  at  S  o'clock  p  m 

J.  STADTFELD  JR.  Secretary. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  California  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  ending  June  30, 1892,   a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  four-tenths  (5  4-10;  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  de- 
posits, and  four  and  one-half  (4^)  per  cent,   per  annum  on  ordinary  de- 
posits, free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  l,  1892. 

VERNON  CAMPBELL,  Secretary. 
Office— Cor.  Powell  and  Eddy  streets. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San  Franeiseo. 
For  the  half-year  ending  June  30,  1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  deposits 
and  four  and  onethiid  (4y3)  per  cent,  per  aunum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free 
of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 

J.  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 
Office— No.  33  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  ending  June  30, 1S92,  a  dividend  lias  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  one-temh  (5  1-10)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Term  Depos- 
its and  four  and  one-quarter  (4'4)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Ordinary  De- 
posits, payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1, 1892. 

GEORGE  TOURNY,  Secretary. 
Office— 526  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

People's  Home  Savings  Bank. 

The  Board  of  Directors  of  this  bank  have  declared  a  dividend  for  the 
term  ending  June  30, 1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one  fifth  (6  1-5)  per  cent, 
per  annum  on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  (4%)  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  from  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after 
July  1, 1892.  J.  E.  FAKNUM.  Secretary. 

Office— 805  Market  street,  Flood  Building,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 

Hibernia  Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Hibernia  Savings 
and  Loan  Society,  held  July  1,  1892,  a  dividend  was  declared  at  the 
rate  of  four  and  one-quarter  (4J4)  per  cent  per  annum  on  all  deposits  for 
the  six  months  ending  June  30,  1S92,  free  from  all  taxes  and  payable  on 
and  after  July  1,  1892.  R.  J.  TOBIN,  Secretary. 

Office— Northeast  corner  Montgomery  and  Post  streets,  S.  F. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Savings  and  Loan  Society. 
The  Board  of  Directors  declare  a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  with 
June  30,  1892,  at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-fifth  (5  1-5)  per  cent,  per  annum 
on  Term  Deposits,  and  four  and  one-third  per  cent,  per  annum  on  Or- 
dinary Deposits 'free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Friday,  July  1,  1892. 

CYRUS  W.  CARMANY,  Cashier. 
Office— 101  Montgomery  St.,  Cor.  Sutter,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


salaries. 


ONE  of  the  most  useful  combinations  of  mineral  and  vegetable  sub- 
stances, of  recent  introduction  in  the  manufacture  of  goods  of 
various  kinds,  is  that  of  asbestos  and  India  rubber,  some  forms  of 
which  have  proved  specially  satisfactory.  Woven  sheeting.of  these  ma- 
terials consists  of  asbestos  woven  cloth,  coated  upon  both  sides  with 
India  rubber,  and  then  vulcanized,  it  is  used  as  a  substitute  for  as- 
bestos millboard  for  packing,  for  steam  joints,  and  in  other  situa- 
tions where  it  is  desired  to  resist  both  heat  and  moisture,  while  af- 
fording a  high  degree  of  elasticity.  Asbestos  and  India  rubber  woven 
washers  are  another  product  in  this  line,  &<  are  also  asbestos  and 
India  rubber  woven  tape  for  making  steam  and  water  joints.  As- 
bestos rolled  cloth  packing  is  made  both  with  and  without  India  rub- 
ber core-  and  what  is  known  as  asbestos  block  packing  consists  of 
an  India  rubber  back,  upon  which  there  are  built  up  edgewise  a 
number  of  layers  of  asbetos  cloth.  Sufficient  elasticity  is  by  this 
means  imparted  by  the  rubber  back,  while  great  durability  and  pro- 
tection to  the  rubber  are  insured  by  the  use  of  the  mineral.  For 
these  purposes  the  American  asbestos  is  found  far  superior  to  the 
foreign  article,  its  principal  qualities  of  indestructibility  even  when 
exposed  to  the  action  of  any  known  acid,  and  also  in  the  highest  de- 
gree that  peculiarity  of  a  self -lubricator,  viz.,  a  soft,  greasy,  or  soapy 
feeling,  which  gives  such  favor  to  plumbago,  soapstone  and  chalk. 

In  the  manufacture  of   steel  and  ingot  iron  some  attention  is 

just  now  being  paid  to  Casson's  new  process  as  carried  on  at  his  ex- 
tensive works  in  Staffordshire,  England,  the  purpose  in  view  being 
to  so  carburize  the  molton  metal  that  the  amount  of  barbon  result- 
ing may  be  more  or  less  accurately  determined.  This  is  accomplish- 
ed by  introducing  carbon,  in  the  form  of  charcoal,  into  the  casting 
ladle,  and  then  tapping  the  metal  direct  from  the  converter  or  fur- 
nace into  the  ladle,  after  adding  any  desired  quantity  of  ferro-mang- 
anese  or  other  material;  in  this  way,  as  is  found,  a  high  percentage 
of  carbon  can  be  readily  introduced  into  the  metal,  and  a  high  grade 
of  steel  produced.  In  practice-that  is,  to  produce  a  high  grade  of 
steel  capable  of  standing  from  twenty-six  to  thirty-four  tons'  tensile 
strain,  the  use  is  called  for  of  about  five  pounds  of  finely  ground 
charcoal  per  ton  of  metal,  the  usual  percentage  of  ferro-manganese 
being  also  somewhat  increased.  Other  forms  of  carbon  than  wood 
charcoal  may  also,  it  is  stated,  be  employed,  so  long  as  they  do  not 
contain  such  a  high  percentage  of  sulphur  or  other  ingredients  as 
would  be  injurious  to  the  resultant  steel. 

A  safety  wire  for  mines  has  been  devised  which  does  not  throw 

a  spark  when  by  any  accident  the  wire  is  broken,  the  novelty  in  this 
case  consisting  practically  in  transferring  the  breakage  of  the  wire  to 
some  place  at  the  top  of  the  mine,  where  its  action  is  not  important 
The  wire  or  cable  contains  an  inner  core  of  closely  coiled  spiral  wire 
insulated  by  braid,  and  an  outer  core  which  is  joined  in  parallel  with 
the  inner.  In  case  the  cable  parts,  the  inner  spiral  pulls  out  to  a 
considerable  distance  and  takes  the  whole  current.  As  soon  as  the  ■ 
exterior  main  is  broken,  the  fuse  at  the  switchboard  burns  out  and 
releases  a  switch  which  cuts  out  the  whole  current.  In  case  the  wire 
should  be  completely  severed,  as  by  an  ax,  thus  crushing  the  two 
conductors  together,  a  small  resistance  coil  is  placed  in  the  circuit, 
and  any  contact  between  the  two  wires  causes  the  fuse  to  melt  as  be- 
fore. Such  an  arrangement  is  claimed  to  be  of  especial  usefulness  in 
coal  mines,  where  explosive  gas  is  occasionally  met  with. 

The  Japanese  Government  has  just  completed  the  installation 

of  a  large  electric  plant  on  Lake  Biwa,  near  the  city  of  Kioto.  Three 
Edison  dynamos  of  eightly  kilowatts  each  are  run  by  water  power 
from  the  lake,  and  furnish  current  within  a  radius  of  two  miles  for 
motor  power  in  rice  mills,  a  watch  factory  and  to  various  other  ma- 
chinery. One  alternating  current  dynamo  supplies  the  city  with 
1,300  incandescent  and  many  arc  lights.  The  construction  of  aque- 
ducts so  the  water  power  from  the  lake  could  be  utilized  and  the 
building  and  equipping  of  the  station  involved  an  expenditure  of  $1,- 
500,000.    The  entire  work  was  carried  on  by  Japanese  engineers. 

—The  results  given  out  by  some  of  the  tanners  of  France  using 
the  electrical  method  show  that  there  is  accomplished  in  ninety-six 
hours  by  this  method  what  would  require  from  seventeen  to  eighteen 
months  by  tanning  in  the  vat  and  from  £ve  to  six  months  process 
of  agitation.  The  electric  operation  is  also  accomplished  without 
the  generation  of  any  bad  odors,  almost  without  noise  and  with  re- 
markable precision  and  regularity. 

A  St.  Louis  man  has  taken  out  a  patent  for  an  electric  jail.  He 

runs  wires  through  channels  in  all  the  bars  and  gratings,  and  be- 
tween the  stones  or  plates  of  the  walls,  ceilings  and  floors  of  his 
prison.  By  connecting  their  ends  to  a  suitable  alarm  mechanism  and 
keeping  a  current  flowing  through  them,  any  disturbance  or  attempt 
at  escape  transmits  a  signal. 

For  Debilitated  Men !  If  you  desire  to  be  restored  to  complete 
vigor  and  manhood,  promptly,  permanently  and  cheaply,  we  will 
send  you  full  particulars  (sealed)  of  a  reliable,  unfailing  Home  Treat- 
ment free.  No  electric  nonsense,  no  stomach  drugging.  Address 
Albion  Pharmacy  Co.,  Box  L,  Albion,  Mich. 


BANK    OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter.  

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,175.000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sinsome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE  60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia-,  Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanalmo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 
Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank ;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company ;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America:  CHINA  and  JAPAN-Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AD8TRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies!— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

532  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Depo§lts,Jane  30,1891 923,311,061  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus  1,346,635  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

ll'jart  Miller.  Pr  esident;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DePremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  cheeks  of  reliable 
garties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  SavingB 
ank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

80S  Market  Street    (Flood  Building),   San   Francisco. 
ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital Jl.000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits f     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital 333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS  WATERHOUSE President 

P.  V.  MCDONALD Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  4  DORN Attorneys 

nils  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
connt,  In  sums  of  one  dollar  and  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five  cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  ?4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  6ERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND t    1,646.000  00. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  1892 28,776,687  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOT  TIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  j  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggera,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  TUlmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbok. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR '...President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffltt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecuritieB. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sta. 

ubsciied  Capital $2,500,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $660,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St., N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  4  Cie.  17Boale 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mereial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl.  Cashier.  

THE  AN6L0-CAUF0RNIAN  BANK.  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,600,000  I  Paid  up 11,600,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  <-"iurt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  A  W.  SeJiairan  *fe  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  goneral  banking  lusiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    J  Manar,ers 

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BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


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[ER  lips  said    •no;" 

I  watched  her  eyes. 
I  bent,  although 
Her  lips  said  »  no," 
I   kissed  her:  oh  1 

Her  sweet  surprise. 
H*>r  lips  said  "no" — 

I  watched    her  eyes.  —Puck. 

—  Mr.  Peet.  a  rather  diffident  man,  was  unable  to  prevent  him- 
self being  introduced  one  evening  to  a  fascinating  young  lady,  who, 
misunderstanding  his  name,  constantly  addressed  him  as  Mr.  Peters, 
much  to  the  gentleman's  distress.  Finally  summoning  courage  he 
bashfully  but  earnestly  remonstrated.  "(Hi.  don't  call  me  Peters;  call 
me  Peet."  "Oh.  but  I  don't  know  you  well  enough,  Mr.  Peters," 
."aid  the  young  lady,  blushing  as  she  plavfullv  withdrew  part  way  be- 
hind her  fan.  —  Red  Gulch  Bazon. 

— ■*'  I  am  sorry  it  has  taken  me  so  long  to  get  ready,  Mr.  Spoona- 
more."  said  the  young  woman,  leisurely  fastening  her  gloves,  "  and 
it  is  a  shame  to  keep  the  driver  of  the  carriage  waiting  out  side  so 
long.  ]  fear  he  has  got  tired  and  driven  off."  "  No,  Miss  Bullion," 
replied  young  Spoonamore,  with  forced  calmness.  "It's  a  livery 
stable  outfit.    He'll  wait.    He  isn't  wasting  any  time.' 

—  Conductor— I  don'L  wish  to  alarm  you  unnecessarily,  madam, 
but  if  you  are  not  accustomed  to  the  promiscuous  shooting  of  re- 
volvers perhaps  you  had  better  go  forward  into  the  baggage—  Wildly 
Nervous  Passenger — What  is  it,  conductor?  Are  we  going  to  be 
robbed?"  Conductor— No,  ma'am.  Two  men  are  about  to  take  a 
straw-vote  of  the  car." 

— —  Temple  Korturight  (her  affianced)— And  while  I  am  slaving  here 
in  town,  you  will  sometimes  think  of  me?  Mary  Clausem  {leaving  town 
for  the  Summer) — Yes,  Tempy,  darling.  When  I  take  a  moonlight 
drive  or  a  stroll  along  the  beach  with  the  other  men,  I  shall  imagine 
each  one  is  you.    I'm  sure  no  girl  could  do  more  than  that! 

— Puck. 

— ^The  honeymoon  was  not  many  months  old.  "  Well,  darling," 
he  asked  as  he  took  her  in  his  arms  on  his  return  from  the  office, 
"  shall  we  go  out  on  our  bicycles,  or  would  you  prefer  that  I  should 
order  the  carriage?"  "Dearest,"  she  softly  responded,  gazing  lov- 
ingly up  into  his  eyes,  "  you  know  I  am  yours  for  wheel  orfor  whoa." 

Wife— While  I  waa  at  the  dressmaker's  this  morning  that  ex- 
travagant Mrs.  Flypp  came  in  and  ordered  a  seventy-five  dollar  dress. 
Husband— Umph !  It  was  only  last  week  that  her  husband  borrowed 
five  hundred  from  me.  By  the  way,  what  did  you  get?  Wife— Oh,  I 
couldn't  let  her  get  ahead  of  me,  so  I  ordered  one  for  eighty  dollars. 

—  Truth. 

Pelharn  Parser— Charlie   Meadowbrooke's  horse  ran  away  with 

him  at  the  last  hunt,  and  he  rode  down  the  hounds  and  finally  over- 
took and  passed  the  fox.  Reggy  Westend— Couldn't  he  stop?  Pelharn 
Parker— That's  what's  the  whipper-in  asked  him,  but  Charlie  said  he 
couldn't  think  of  stopping  when  he  was  ahead  of  the  game.  — Life. 

— —  "  I  hear  that  Montgomery  Montgomery  has  taken  his  son  out 
of  college."  "Is  that  so?  Was  the  youth  getting  rapid?  "  "  Oh,  no; 
but  his  teacher  asked  him  to  work  out  a  problem  in  mathematics  and 
he  objected;  said  none  of  his  folks  had  ever  worked  out,  and  the 
father  sustained  the  objection."  —Detroit  Free  Press. 

A  Scotch  barber,  just  recovering  from  "  a  nicht  wi' Burns," 

was  shaving  his  minister,  when  he  cut  about  half  an  ounce  of  his  nose 
off.  "  Hoots,  monl  "  yelled  the  minister,  "  what  a  fearful  thing  drink 
is!"  "Weel,  sir,"  responded  the  barber,  in  sympathetic  tones,  "  I 
aye  thocht  the  same;  it  mak's  the  skin  sae  awfu'  tender." 

—  Druggist  (to  applicant)— Yea,  I  need  a  man  for  the  soda  foun- 
tain— but  I  see  you  wear  eye-glasses.  Is  your  sight  defective?  Ap- 
plicant— A  little,  sir,  but*  my  hearing  is  superb.  I  can  hear  a  man 
wink. 

"  What  do  you  think  of  my  new  hat,  John?"    "  Oh,  I  don't 

know.  What  did  the  thing  cost?"  "Nothing.  I  made  it  myself." 
"  By  Jove !    It's  simply  stunning,  Mamie."  — Harper's  Bazar. 

——Old  McFadd— *Do  you  colleot  anything?  Charlie  Smart— I  col- 
lect my  thoughts  occasionally.  Old  McFadd — Ah,  I  suppose  you  get 
some  rare  specimens  1  — Puck. 

•^—Dennis  (to  Mike,  who  lias  fallen  from  the  fourth  floor)— Hoy  yez 
landed  yit,  Moike?  Mike  (faintly)— Yis.  Dennis— Th'  saints  be 
praised  1  —Judge. 

—-Teacher—  Now,  Tommy,  if  you  had  three  yards  of  cloth,  and 
took  five  more,  what  would  be  the  result?    Tommy—  Thirty  days,  sir. 

— Truth. 

^— "  It  is  easy  to  tell  a  Republican  from  a  Democrat  in  Mississippi, 
isn't  it?"    "Very;  unless  you  happen  to  be  color  blind."      — Life. 

Every  housewife  who  wishes  to  have  clean  cornets  and  curtains 
should  remember  that  the  only  place  in  the  city  where  her  material 
can  be  cleaned  to  her  satisfaction,  is  at  the  Carpet  Beating  Machine 
and  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  553-577 
Tehama  street.  The  work  of  this  firm  is  always  first-class  in  every 
particular,  for  which  reason  it  always  has  a  great  patronage. 

One  of  the  best  tailors  in  the  city  is  Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12 
Post  street.  His  suits  are  not  equaled  by  those  of  any  other  estab- 
lishment in  town,  for  he  is  a  master  of  the  sartorial  art,  and  always 
does  his  work  in  an  admirable  manner.  He  makes  a  specialty  of 
uniforms  and  regalias,  and  does  a  large  business  with  all  uniformed 
societies. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


THE  concessions  which  Great  Britain  demands  from  the  8ultan 
of  Morocco  are,  it  is  true,  very  great,  and  there  is  hardly  a 
doobt  that  they  would  never  be  granted  if  England  were  not  in  a 
situation  to  use  pressure  on  account  of  her  great  power.  In  the 
interest  of  civilization  it  is  certainly  desirable  that  England  should 
be  successful.  One  cannot  blame  the  British  authorities  for  wish- 
ing to  counterbalance  the  influence  of  France,  which  is  continu- 
ally increasing  in  Algiers.  England  is,  beyond  a  doubt,  the  most 
capable  of  European  powers  to  exercise  a  civilizing  influence  upon 
barbarous  and  genii-barbarous  nations,  and  the  extension  of  Eu- 
ropean control  on  the  north  coast  of  Africa  is  of  paramount  im- 
portance for  trade  and  commerce  on  the  Mediterranean.  The 
conditions  in  Morocco  at  this  moment  resemble  a  perfect  state  of 
anarchy,  the  imperial  troops  being;  unable  to  cope  with  the  reb- 
els, who,  according  to  the  latest  dispatches,  are  plundering  and 
maltreating  indiscriminately.  That  the  safety  of  Europeans,  un- 
der such  circumstances,  is  exceedingly  precarious,  will  be  easily 
understood.  The  British  Government  has  urged  the  Sultan  to  es- 
tablish a  police  system  in  the  coast  towns,  to  be  jointly  controlled 
by  himself  and  the  foreign  powers,  to  erect  water-works  in  Tan- 
giers — which  are  very  necessery,  in  view  of  the  condition  of  the 
country — to  suppress  the  slave  trade,  and  to  remove  that  clause 
in  the  Madrid  treaty  which  requires  that  Europeans  should  ob- 
tain the  consent  of  the  Cadi  of  the  province  before  acquiring  pro- 
perty and  territory.  Since  such  a  consent  has  never  been  given, 
the  clause  in  question  has  proved  quite  nugatory,  and  its  re- 
moval is  very  desirable,  indeed.  The  above  demands  can,  cer- 
tainly, not  be  called  unreasonable.  It  is  somewhat  different, 
however,  with  the  British  request  that  Morocco  should  alter  her  ex- 
port duties.  This  appears  like  interfering  too  much  with  the  in- 
ternal administration  of  the  country.  For  the  moment  the  mis- 
sion of  Sir  Charles  Smith  seems  to  have  failed,  but  there  is  little 
doubt  that  Great  Britain  will  gain  her  points  in  the  end,  however 
unwelcome  this  may  be  to  Spain,  who  is  jealous  of  the  extension 
of  British  influence  in  the  Sultanate. 

The  continual  revolutions  in  Central  and  Southern  America  are 
a  great  drawback  to  the  trade  and  commerce  with  foreign  coun- 
tries. According  to  recent  dispatches,  Honduras  has  again  closed 
her  coast  to  foreign  commerce.  There  is  little  hope  that  the  pros- 
perity of  the  republics  in  the  southern  part  of  America  will  be 
established  on  a  firm  basis  as  long  as  the  inhabitants  do  not  ex- 
hibit greater  capabilities  for  self-government,  and  this  will  hardly 
be  the  case  before  their  hot  Latin  blood  has  been  tempered  by  the 
admixture  of  that  of  numerous  Saxon  emigrants. 

Since  the  members  of  the  Triple  Alliance  have  taken  a  decided 
stand  against  the  extension  of  Russian  influence,  and  since 
Prince  Ferdinand  of  Bulgaria  has  met  with  a  reception  in  London, 
which  indicates  that  he  is  a  persona  grata  at  the  Court  of  St. 
James,  the  Bulgarian  government  is  becoming  quite  courageous, 
and  it  is  stated  that  it  is  preparing  a  protest  against  Russian  official 
connivance  at  plots  against  the  Prince.  Whatever  may  be  said 
by  the  friends  of  Bulgaria,  Prince  Ferdinand's  elevation  to  power 
is  a  direct  violation  of  the  Berlin  treaty,  and  in  her  refusal  to 
recognize  him  Russia,  for  once,  has  the  law  on  her  side.  The 
powers  of  the  Tripple  Alliance  may  have  ultimately  to  pay  dearly 
for  conniviDg  at  this  violation,  and  thus  establishing  a  dangerous 
precedent. 

It  is  rumored  that  Count  Caprivl  will  soon  resign  the  Chancel- 
lorship, and  that  Count  von  Eulenburg  will  be  appointed  his  suc- 
cessor. There  is  great  probability  that  this  rumor  will  prove 
true,  and  Count  von  Eulenburg's  appointment  would  be  only  the 
logical  consequence  of  what  happened  at  the  time  of  the  with- 
drawal of  the  religious  education  bill  in  Prussia.  The  position  of 
the  new  Chancellor  will  not  be  an  enviable  one,  for  the  Free  Con- 
servatives will  soon  find  it  necessary  to  unite  with  the  National- 
Liberals,  and  perhaps  even  with  the  Freisinnige,  and  in  this  case 
the  opposition  party  would  be  so  strong  that  even  a  man  of 
Prince  Bismarck's  stamp  would  have  difficulty  in  coping  with  it. 

The  statement  of  the  Nancy  Journal  that  a  company  of  German 
infantry  and  a  squadron  of  German  cavalry  violated  the  French 
frontier  by  passing  through  French  territory  between  Toussey 
and  Avricourt,  is  sure  to  be  without  foundation,  for  the  German 
soldiers  are  too  well  disciplined  to  undertake  such  a  step  without 
orders,  and  the  German  authorities  would  not  be  guilty  of  so  fool- 
ish a  provocation  of  French  susceptibilities,  especially  in  the 
present  strained  state  of  European  affairs. 

Mr.  Gladstone  will  find  that  his  apparent  victory  at  the  polls 
during  the  recent  election  puts  him  in  a  much  more  difficult 
position  than  if  he  had  been  distinctly  defeated.  Even  if  he 
should  show  sufficient  decency  to  decline  the  introduction  of  a 
Home  Rule  bill  at  this  moment,  the  majority  of  the  Irish  mem- 


bers will  hardly  permit  him  to  act  in  harmony  with  his  speech  of 
the  year  1885,  quoted  in  the  News  Letter  a  fortnight  since.  If 
he  has  self-respect  he  cannot  introduce  a  Home  Rule  bill  at  the  mo- 
ment when  the  Liberals  are  in  a  position  like  the  present  one, 
when  they  are  liable  to  be  absolutely  dictated  to  by  the  Irish 
members.  But,  on  the  other  hand,  evidently  expressing  the  sen- 
timents of  the  majority  of  his  colleagues,  T.  P.  O'Connor  is  re- 
ported this  week  to  have  stated  that  "  Home  Rule  must  be  the 
first  and  chief  business  of  the  new  government,  and  that  any 
paltry  postponement  of  Home  Rule,  will  compel  the  Irish  party 
to  oppose  the  government."  It  remains  to  be  seen  how  the  "  old 
parliamentary  hand  "  will  get  out  of  this  dilemma. 

That  Prince  Bismarck's  popularity  is  not  decreasing  is  shown 
by  the  immense  demonstration  in  his  honor  which  was  held  on 
the  24th  inst.  at  Kissingen,  and  that  he  will  not  permit  himself  to 
be  muzzled  in  future,  just  as  little  as  in  the  past,  is  equally  certain, 
for  he  declared  that,  notwithstanding  the  advice  of  some  friends, 
he  would  not  permit  his  mouth  to  be  closed.  Under  these  cir- 
cumstances the  young  Emperor,  within  the  near  future,  will  have 
a  good  opportunity  for  exercising  self  control,  for  the  old  ex- 
Chancellor  knows  how  to  hit  hard,  and  the  present  German  gov- 
ernment, as  well  as  the  young  Monarch  who  controls  it,  have 
furnished  Prince  Bismarck  with  the  most  powerful  weapons. 

H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

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Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 

LLEWELLYN     FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

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Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  f  e  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  2129.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent.  In  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

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330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Gal. 

Systems—"  Slattery  "  Induction;  •'  Wood  "  Arc.     Factobies— Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co.,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Hallways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 


35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


B.  J.  WHEELER. 


J.  W.   GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  4  California  St.,  S.  F.,  «'al. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  GO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION   MERCHANTS, 

UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mall  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 


Company, 
'The  California  Line  of   Clippers,' 

from  New  York, 
'The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets," 

to  and  from  Honolulu. 


Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 
The  China  Traders  &  Insurance  Co. 

(L'd.), 
The   Baldwin  Locomotive  Works, 

Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 


J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

General  Agents  Oceanic  Steamship  Company  and 
Gillingham  Cement. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

8AN    FRANCISCO. 


Jnly  80,  1892. 
SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY 

PACITIC    SYSTEM. 

Train*  U«ve  and  nro  Duo  to  Arrive  at 

SAN      FRANCISCO. 

Lhvk  From  July  25,  1892.  I  Arrive 

7:00  a.  Be  hi  eta,  Rum>ey,  -  :  is  p. 

7:S0a.  Haywards,  Niles  and  >au  Jose      *12  15  r. 
7J0a.  Martinet.  San  Ramon,  Calisloga 

and  Santa  ko*ft  6:15r. 

S^Oi.  Jacram  toA  Redding,  via  Davie        7:15  r. 
8:00  a.  FirM  and  Second  Class  (orOeden 

and  East,  and  first  class  locally        9:46  P. 
8:30a.  Niles,  San  Joee,  Stockton,  Imie, 
Sacramento,  Marys ville,  Oro- 
ville  and  Red  Bluff  1:45  p. 

9:00a.  Sunset  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 
Santa  Barbara,  Los  Angeles, 
Deming.El  Paso,  Xew  Orleans 

and  East 8:46  p. 

•9:00  a.  Stocktou  and  Milton     *8:45  F. 

H'-oom.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  p. 

I.-OOf.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00  p. 

1  :S0  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez     .  V2:V*p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose.  -      9:45  a. 
^4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a. 

4:00p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga, El  Verano  and 

Sauta  Rosa 9.45  a. 

4:30f.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45a. 

4:30p.  Woodlandand  Oroville 10:45a. 

•4:30  p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45  a. 

5:30  p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakerefleld,  Santa'  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles 8.45a. 

5:30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East  8:45  a. 

6:O0p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  .      7:45a. 

,     ..  Niles  and  San  Jose...  16:15  p. 

•6:00  p.  Sunol  and  Livermore 

6:00  p.  Ogden  Route  Atlantic  Express, 

Ogden  and  East 9:15  a. 

t":00  P.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00  p.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 

land,  Puget  Sound  and  East.  - .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

17:45  a.  SundayExcursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    18:05 p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder    Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz- *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 
L Cruz. . 9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  a  id  Townsend  Streets). 
*7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions   *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion  18:28  p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
J9:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.   J2:45p. 
10:87a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..   .  5;03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30f. 

*2 :80f.  San  Jose,  Tres PinoB.Santa Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  PacificGrove 

and  principal  Way  Stations *10:37  a. 

•3:30  p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy  and  Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations *9:47a. 

•4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .   *8:06  a. 

505  p.  San  Jose  and  WayStations 8:48a 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...      6:35  a. 
rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 
Stations -r7:3Qp. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

■  ^Sundays  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  Bplendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 

Sing  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
ails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 
For  Honolulu  Only. 
B.S.Australia,  Wednesday,  Aug.  3, 1892,  at  2p.m. 
FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SIDNEY, 

S.  S.  Maraposa Friday,  August  19,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  827  Mar- 

e    a  reej^HN  D  8pREcKEL8  &  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

I  CURE  FITS! 

When  I  Bay  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  thed.sease  of  FITS,  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
cure.  Sendatonoe  for  a  treatise  andaFreeButtieof 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
H.  G.  BOOT,  M.  Ci  183  Pearl  St..  N.  T- 


>W  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


29 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Timor r.H  Link  to  Ne«   You.  \ia  Panama. 
Steamers  will  tuill  at  NOON  on  tin-  Mb, 

i  of  oach  month, 

Calling  at  various  porta  Ol  UeztOO  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  August  .Mh.  1892, '  Oltj  Ol 

NVw  York:*1  B.  B,  "S*n   Blu,"  augusl   lotli;  3.  S. 

••  City  of  Sidney,"  Aagnal  36th. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  Mills  tit  NOON  lMli  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  MriizhuUIo, 
Aompaloo.  P«  n  Angel,  BaUoa  Crui,  Tonala,  Ban 

Benito.  Ooos.  t'liamr-eriro.  Sun  Jnsc  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La    Libertad,   La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
riuto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Pucta  Arenas. 
Way  Line  Sailing.— Aug.  18th,  S.  S.  "  Aeapulco'" 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

S.  S.  "Peru"  (new),  Thursday,  Aug.  4th,  at  3  p.  M. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Jaueiio,"  Saturday,  Aug  27th,  at 

3  P.  H. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Sept.  27 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  TriD  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannau  streets.        Branch  office — 202 
Front  street               ALEXANDER  CENTER, 
General  Agent. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Orego:;,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayocos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Boenaventuea, 
Hobneme,  San  Pedeo,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


ESTABLISHED    1S54. 

GEORGE  MORROW  &  CO., 

DEALERS  IN 

HAY    AND    GRAIN 

Private  Trade  Solicited. 

39  Clay  Street.  San  Francisco 


ANSY    PILLS! 

SmreBod^uTeT^^^c^^'wOMATrs^AF^ 
GUARD."    Wilcox  Specific  Co.,  Phlia.*  Pa.  _ 


PLAYS 


Dialogues,  Speakers,  for  School, 
Club  and  Parlor.  Catalogue-  free. 
T   S.  DEHISON,  Publisher,    Chicago. 


WHAT    THE    FLOWERS    SAID. 


Here  are  roses,  red  and  wbite, 
Each  to  speak  what  I  would  write; 
For,  when  in  your  quiet  room 
You  will  smell  their  sweet  perfume, 
I  shall  whisper  through  these  flowers 
Fancy's  thoughts  for  evening  hours. 
Then,  when  in  the  crowded  street 
Yon  and  I  may  chance  to  meet, 
I'll  discover  in  your  eyes 
What  you've  half  expressed  in  sighs; 
For,  if  in  your  dusky  hair 
One  red  rose  you  deign  to  wear, 
I  shall  say  "  I  know  that  she 
Wears  it  for  her  love  for  me." 
But,  if  on  your  gentle  breast 
One  white  rose  may  dare  to  rest, 
Then  in  rapture  I'll  declare, 
■•  That's  my  heart  a  resting  there." 
But,  if  neither  red  nor  white . 
May  your  hair  or  gown  bedight, 
Still  with  confidence  I'll  say, 
"  That  is  lovely  woman's  way— 
What  of  life  is  largest  part 
Hides  she  deepest  in  her  heart  I" 

— Droch,  in  Life. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

•THE    DONAHUE    BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  SUNDAY.  APRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
seiiRcr  Depot,  MAKKET-8TKKKT  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK     DAYS— 7:40   A.M.,  9:20  a.m.,    11:20  A.  H. ; 

1:30  P.M.,  3:30  p.  M.,6:05  P.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
8UNDAYS-8:00  a.m.,  9:30  a.m.,  11:00  a.m.  ;  1:30  P.M. 
3:30  r.  M.,  6:00  P.  M.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Ralael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:25  A.   M.,  7:M  A.   M.,  9:30   a.  m. 

11:30  a.m.:  1:40  p.m.,  3:40  p.m.,  6:05  p.m. 
SATURDAY'S  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.  M.;  1:40 P.M. 
3:40  p.  m.,  5:00  P  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tlburon  to  San   Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-G:50  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:65  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M. ;  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:85  P.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  G:56  p.m. 
SUNDAY'S— 8:35    A.M.,    10:05  a.m.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:05  p.m.,  4:05p.m.,  5:30p.m.,  6:60p.m. 


Leave  S.  F. 


Daevsk    8unaW 


Days 


7:40a.m.  8:00a. m 
3:30  p.m.  9:30  a.  m 
5:05  p.m.  5:00p.  m 


Destination. 


7:40a.  m 
3:30  P.M. 


7:40a.  m 
3:30 p.  m 


7:40A.  M 
5:05  P.M. 


8:00a. M 


8:00A. M, 
5:00P.  M 


Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa 


Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg 
Littoii  Sprint's, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Guerneville, 


Sonoma  and  10:40a. m 
Glen  Ellen.    6:05p.m, 


AebivbinS.F. 


*    Days' 


10:10a.  m 
6:05p.m 
7:25p.m 


8:50a.m. 
10:S0a.m 
6:10p.m. 


7:40a.m    8:00a,m    Sebastopol.  I  10:40a.m    10:30am 
3:30  p.m    5:00  p.M ]    6-05P.M    6:10  p.M 


10:30A. M 
6:10P.M 


10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 


8:50A.M. 
6:10p.m. 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mart  West 
Springs;  at'  Geyserville  for  Skaggg  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena:  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelsey  ville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukian  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Sauta  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  55  70;  to  Ukiah,  J6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  |2  70; 
to  Guernevdle,  13  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  11  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma.  51;  to  Santa  Rosa.  51  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, 5225;  to  Cloverdale,  53;  to  Ukiah,  54  50;  to 
Hopland,  53  80:  to  Sebastopol,  5180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, 52  50;  to  Sonoma,  51;  to  Glen  Ellen,  51  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOB  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

SteamerB  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Saturday,  June  25, 1892. 

Belgic Tuesday,  July  26, 1892. 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic    Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT    REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.Pass.Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


CONSUMPTION. 

I  have  a  positive  remedy  for  the  above  disease;  by  its 
nee  thousands  of  cases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
etanding  have  been  ciirod.-'  Indeed  so  strong  is  my  faith 
in  its  efficacy,  that  I  w.ll  send  two  bottles  free,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  Bof. 
fererwho  will  send  me  their  Express  and  K  O.  address. 
T.  A.  Slocum,  J>I.  C.«  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  Y. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


THE  California  Hotel  seems  to  be  a  favorite  locale  wherein 
society  hold  their  bridal  festivities,  as  again,  on  Wednesday 
evening  last,  it  was  the  scene  of  a  wedding  of  more  than  usual 
interest,  the  bride,  Miss  Goldina  Gump,  being  the  daughter  of 
foremost  society  people,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Solomon  Gump.  The 
groom  was  Mr.  Louis  Schwabacker,  of  Wheeling,  West 
Virginia.  As  in  the  case  of  the  Sahlein  wedding,  some 
months  since,  the  rotunda  of  the  hotel  was  the  place  chosen  for 
the  ceremony,  and  of  course  it  was  beautifully  decorated.  The 
well-known  artistic  taste  of  Mr.  Gump  was  discernable  in  the 
blending  of  the  flowers,  sweet  pea  being  arranged  with  good  effect, 
while  lovely  roses  were  profusely  used.  The  bridal  bower,  where 
the  nuptial  knot  was  tied,  stood  at  one  side,  and  was  composed 
of  feathery  smilax,  festooned  with  white  satin  loops  and  bows. 
Here  Rabbi  Voorsanger  performed  the  ceremony.  As  the 
strains  of  the  wedding  march  gave  notice  of  the  approach  of  the 
bridal  party,  all  eyes  were  turned  upon  the  advancing  cortege. 
The  fair  bride  was  attended  by  ber  father.  8he  was  magnifi- 
cently costumed  in  heavy  cream  satin,  en  traine,  elaborately 
trimmed  with  costly  Ducbesse  lace,  and  she  wore  the  groom's 
elegant  gift,  a  diamond  crescent,  clasping  the  wedding  veil.  The 
bridesmaids,  in  soft  white  gowns,  with  roses  as  adornment,  were 
the  Misses  Lewis,  Joseph  and  Schwabacker,  the  maid  of  honor 
being  little  Mazy  Greenbaum,  who  seemed  to  be  aware  of  her  re- 
sponsible position.  The  two  brothers  of  the  bride,  Al.  and  Abe 
Gump,  acted  as  ushers.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremony,  con- 
gratulations were  in  order,  after  which  the  numerous  guests 
marched  to  the  banquet  hall,  where  a  sumptuous  feast  was 
spread.  Much  toasting,  good  wishes  and  the  reading  of  con- 
gratulatory telegrams  followed,  and  then  came  dancing,  to  the 
delight  of  the  young  folks,  who  kept  it  up  till  a  late  hour.  Many 
beautiful  costumes  were  remarked,  that  of  a  sister  of  the  bride, 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Brooner,  of  New  York,  being  especially  noticeable. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Schwabacker  left  on  Thursday  for  Del  Monte,  and 
later  will  visit  relatives  in  New  York  before  taking  up  their  per- 
manent residence  in  the  South. 


The  wedding  of  the  well-known  Port  Townsend  merchant,  S. 
Vernon  Stuart,  and  Miss  Belle  Eubank,  was  one  of  the  features  of 
East  Oakland  society  on  the  20th.  The  ceremony,  which  was 
performed  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents,  was  an  ex- 
tremely pretty  one,  the  participants  being  all  young  and  good- 
looking.  The  hour  named  was  mid-day,  and  the  house  was 
beautifully  dressed  with  flowers  and  ferns  for  the  occasion.  The 
guests,  numbering  about  fifty,  were  confined  to  relatives  and  in- 
timate friends.  Eev.  Mr.  Hobart  officiated.  The  bride  looked 
charming  in  a  robe  of  creamy  satin,  embroidered  in  pearls  and 
trimmed  with  rare  lace,  long  bridal  veil  and  bouquet  of  sweet  pea. 
Miss  Mary  Snowden,  of  San  Jose,  who  was  maid  of  honor,  wore 
a  gown  of  cream-colored  nun's  veiling,  trimmed  witb  lace  frilling. 
Pretty  Miss  Susie  Eubank,  the  other  bridesmaid,  was  similarly 
attired.  After  the  ceremony,  a  delicious  wedding  breakfast  was 
served;  then  came  good-byes,  as  the  bride  and  groom  left  on 
the  afternoon  train  for  their  future  home  at  Port  Townsend. 
The  wedding  gifts  were  numerous  and  beautiful. 


Oakland,  for  the  past  week,  has  bad  a  very  distinguished  visit- 
or in  its  midst,  in  the  person  of  Miss  Mary  Allen  West,  of  Chica- 
go, who  is  en  route  to  Japan,  wheje  she  goes  in  the  interest  of  the 
Illinois  State  Press  Association,  of  which  she  is  the  President, 
and  Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union.  Ever  since  the 
founding  of  the  Union  Signal,  the  National  organ  of  the  W.  C.  T. 
U.,  she  has  been  its  editor.  Last  Tuesday  afternoon  the  W.  C. 
T.  U.  of  that  city  tendered  her  a  grand  reception  at  its  head- 
quarters, and  presented  her  with  a  handsome  basket  of  choicest 
flowers,  tied  with  the  emblematic  white  ribbon  bows.  Speeches 
suitable  to  the  occasion  were  made  by  Mrs.  Ada  Van  Pelt,  State 
President  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.;  Mrs.  Lydia  A.  Prescott,  Mrs.  Emily 
Pitt-Stevens,  Mrs.  Pryor,  of  Shanghai,  China,  and  Mrs.  Dr. 
Southard,  and  concluded  with  a  touching  address  by  Miss  West, 
which  gave  one  an  insight  to  her  high  noble  character. 


The  hop  of  the  San  Francisco  Yacht  Club,  last  Saturday,  was 
very  much  enjoyed  by  the  guests.  The  bay  is  crowded  witb 
yachts  of  all  sizes  at  present,  and  some  of  the  owners  ha?e  had 
friends  on  board  visiting  them.  To-morrow  the  majoiivyof  the 
vessels  will  sail  on  a  cruise  up  the  bay  as  far  as  Vallejo,  and  a 
pleasant  time  is  anticipated.  Nautical  affairs  are  looking  up 
again.  The  new  yacht  club,  the  Encinal,  will  give  a  house- 
warming  and  stag  reception  on  Saturday  of  next  week,  and  the 
Corinthian  Clab  will  sail  from  Tiburon  to  take  part  in  the  inaug- 
ural festivities  of  the  new  club-house  at  Alameda,  early  that  day. 
Their  hosts  promise  to  escort  them  back  towards  Tiburon  in  the 
yachts  of  the  new  club  the  following  day. 


Among  the  last  week's  weddings  were  those  of  Miss  Nettie 
TJri  and  Ferdinand  Bauer,  who  were  married  by  Rev.  D.  Mayer- 
aon,  at  the  home  of  the  bride,  on  O'Farrell  street,  on  Wednesday. 
On  Thursday,  Miss  Rosa  Stern  was  wedded  to  S.  Frohman,  the 
well-known  lawyer,  at  the  bride's  residence,  on  Laguna  street, 
and  on  Sunday,  the  Rev.  D.  Mayerson  again  united  Miss  May 
Weil  and  Thomas  Lichtenstein,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's 
father,  on  California  street.  Another  wedding  of  last  Sunday  was 
that  of  Miss  Fanny  Finn  and  John  G.  Edmundson,  whose 
marriage  was  solemnized  at  the  Central  Presbyterian  Tabernacle, 
Rev.  W.  E.  Smith  being  the  officiating  clergyman. 


Santa  Cruz,  while  awaiting  the  coming  of  its  military  guests, 
has  been  amusing  itself  with  charity  concerts,  and  the  amateurs 
who  have  taken  part  may  well  feel  proud  of  the  success  which 
crowned  their  efforts.  Then  Mrs.  Smith  has  given  a  "  Railroad  " 
lunch;  Mr.  Jere  Lynch  has  played  host  at  Casino  breakfasts, 
while  dinner  parties  have  been  numerous,  as  well,  as  the  favorite 
form  of  entertaining.  The  village  will  be  all  life  and  bustle  next 
month.  The  regulars,  who  are  to  march  down  from  the  city, 
taking  it  easy,  will  arrive  about  the  same  time  as  the  citizen 
soldiery,  who  go  later  by  train,  but  will  remain  in  camp 
for  some  time  afterwards,  and  no  doubt  will  add  materially  to  the 
gaiety  of  that  watering  place  during  August. 


Society  at  Del  Monte  is  upon  the  tip-toe  of  expectancy  over  the 
coming  amateur  theatricals,  in  which  Miss  Emily  Hager  will  give 
her  friends  a  first  taste  of  her  histrionic  abilities.  This  charming 
young  lady  will  have  to  put  forth  her  best  energies  in  order  to 
keep  up  the  reputation  of  California  belleship,  on  account  of  the 
arrival  of  two  noted  Eastern  stars  of  fashion,  youth  and  beauty, 
in  the  persons  of  Miss  Leiter,  of  Chicago,  and  Miss  Henderson, 
of  New  Orleans.  Every  confidence  is  felt,  however,  in  Miss 
Hager's  ability  to  hold  her  own,  and  keep  up  the  credit  of  Cali- 
fornia beauty  and  grace.  Del  Monte  has  also  rejoiced  in  an  ac- 
cession of  beaux  as  well  as  belles,  the  East  and  Europe  having 
contributed  a  quota  to  the  gentlemen  there  last  week. 


There  does  not  appear  to  be  much  prospect  of  a  revival  of  in- 
terest in  social  circles  in  town  until  after  the  festivities  which  are 
arranged  to  take  place  at  the  seaside  resorts  next  month.  How- 
ever, now  and  then  a  gathering  does  occur,  a  pleasant  one  taking 
place  last  Monday  evening  at  the  Pleasanton,  when  the  Woman's 
Club,  of  which  Mrs.  Milton  Eisner  is  the  President,  gave  a  recep- 
tion to  Miss  Amy  Bo  wen  (who  is  now  a  full-fledged  M.  D.J  upon  her 
return  from  Berlin,  where  she  has  just  finished  her  medical  studies. 
Mrs.  Greer  Harrison  has  been  the  hotess  at  a  elegant  dinner,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Grace,  of  New  York,  being  the  guests  of  honor;  and 
one  or  two  other  small  dinners  have  taken  place. 


The  Castle  Crags  Tavern  has  proved  such  an  immense  success 
that  an  addition  to  the  house  is  being  planned  to  accommodate 
the  crowd  of  guests  who  Bock  to  the  resort.  The  want  of  such 
a  place  has  long  been  felt  by  the  people  of  San  Francisco,  who 
are  already  too  close  to  the  sea  to  derive  much  benefit  by  going 
still  nearer  to  the  seaside  for  change  of  air,  and  therefore  Castle 
Crags  will  continue  to  be  a  popular  resort,  with  San  Franciscans 
at  least.  Private  cottages  are  also  upon  the  cards,  Colonel  Fred. 
Crocker's  being  the  pioneer  in  that  line,  and  he  usually  takes  a 
party  of  friends  up  there  witb  him  once  a  week  to  stay  over  a 
few  days  and  enjoy  the  mountain  air,  a  large  one  of  a  dozen  or 
more  going  with  him  last  Saturday. 


Rev.  8.  M.  Crothers,  who  is  filling  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Unita- 
rian Church,  Oakland,  during  the  absence  in  Europe  of  Rev.  C.  W. 
Wendte,  has  proved  a  very  acceptable  substitute,  A  reception 
was  tendered  to  him  the  other  night  in  the  church  parlors,  by  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  D.  S.  Carpenter,  Mrs.  L.  W.  Ranlett,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  N. 
W.  Spaulding,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  F.  Durham,  Miss  Durham,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  G.  H.  Kelley,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  J.  Woodbury,  Mrs.  Lloyd 
Baldwin,  Miss  Curtiss,  John  Curtiss,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morris,  Mrs. 
G.  Y.  Loring,  Professor  and  Mrs.  G.  W.  Horton,  Mrs.  Calvert 
Meade,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  G.  Tripp,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Potter,  Dr. 
Myra  Knox,  Dr.  Sarah  Sheery,  Mrs.  Bunnell,  Miss  Bunnell  and 
Mrs.  L.  F.  Shaw. 


A  few  days  before  his  recent  departure  from  Paris,  Mr.  S.  Gump 
was  informed  that  his  friend,  the  famous  sheep  painter,  Mr.  F. 
Brissot  de  Warville,  was  very  ill,  and  apt  to  die.  Mr.  Gump, 
with  his  commissioner,  went  to  the  artist's  atelier  at  Versailles  and 
there  found  him  dangerously  ill.  While  there  Mr.  Gump  purchased 
his  three  latest  works  from  the  wife  and  daughter  of  the  painter. 
Since  his  return  to  this  city,  during  the  past  week,  Mr.  Gump  has 
received  a  letter  from  Paris  announcing  the  death  of  the  famous 
artist.  F.  Brissot  de  Warville  was  born  in  1818,  and  was  a  pupil 
of  Leon  Cogniet.  He  had  exhibited  in  the  Salon  since  1840,  and 
was  awarded  medals  in  1859,  1863,  1882  and  1889.  The  Paris 
papers  referred  to  him  very  eulogistically. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  McNab  and  family,  Mrs.  Dore,  Miss  Ida 
Stinson,  Miss  May  Greenham,  Miss  Lizzie  Greenham,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Phil  Wooster,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fyfe  have  returned  home, 
after  a  pleasant  camping  visit  to  Camp  Batchelder,  near  Sunol. 


July  30,  1892. 


.-  \\  FRANCISCO  NEWS  l  ill  BR. 


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If  Ben  Rafael  can  have  neither  a  circus,  private  theatricals,  a 
nor  the  military,  it  can  boast  of  quiet  enjoyments,  which 
to  moat  of  tbe  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  is  far  preferable.  Among 
the  dinners  lately  given  was  a  charming  one  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  II. 
H.  Sherwood,  in  honor  of  Judge  an. I  Mrs.  Morrow,  and  there 
have  been  teas  and  lunches  almost  without  end.  as  well  as  several 
other  pleasant  dinner  parties.  Driving  and  riding  parties,  too, 
are  of  constant  occurrence,  and  tennis  flourishes  as  it  does  no- 
where else  in  the  State.  It  is  probable  the  ladies'  tournament 
will  be  held  there  also,  but  that  has  not  yet  been   quite   decided. 


Mrs.  E.  P.  Panforth  has  relumed  from  the  Napa  Soda  Springs, 
where  she  has  been  a  guest  the  past  six  weeks,  and  Will  Ralston 
is  back  again  from  his  flying  visit  to  the  Nation's  Capital.  Miss 
Lily  Winans,  who  left  San  Francisco  last  autumn  to  spend  the 
winter  and  spring  in  New  York,  is  among  the  recent  arrivals 
from  the  East,  having  enjoyed  her  visit  to  the  utmost.  Pretty 
Miss  Mollie  Torbert  and  her  handsome  mother  have  been  paying 
Santa  Cruz  a  visit,  where  their  many  friends  received  them  with 
open  arms. 

The  French  Colony  has  been  greatly  distressed  over  the  sad 
disappearance  from  the  deck  of  the  steamer  Burgoyne,  and  there- 
fore the  almost  certain  death,  of  Mr.  Alfred  Gros;  and  his  hand- 
some wife,  who  has  long  been  regarded  as  the  belle,  married 
though  she  be,  of  that  colony,  has  been  the  recipient  of  much 
sympathy  in  her  terrible  bereavement.  The  missing  gentleman 
was  one  of  San  Francisco's  earliest  residents,  and  has  for  years 
been  a  prominent  figure  among  his  compatriots. 

Wednesday  has  again  this  week  been  a  favorite  one  for  wed- 
dings on  both  sides  of  tbe  bay.  In  Oakland  Miss  Carrie  Northey 
and  Jessie  Douglass  were  married  in  tbe  First  Presbyterian 
Charch  that  evening,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  assemblage  of 
friends.  The  reception  afterwards  was  held  at  553  Fifteenth 
street,  East  Oakland.  Here  in  town  Miss  Idalia  Oulmette  and 
C.  D.  Pratt,  of  Tacoma,  were  united  in  wedlock,  on  Wednesday 
morning,  at  St.  Luke's  Church,  on  Van  Ness  avenue. 


Tbe  Athens  Musical  and  Dramatic  Club,  of  Oakland,  celebrated 
its  first  anniversary  on  Wednesday  evening  by  an  entertainment 
at  Elite  Hall,  that  was  participated  in  by  a  large  throng.  The 
performers  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Allen  Watson,  Miss  H.  Bu- 
teau,  Miss  Mee,  Miss  E.  Vogt,  Miss  E.  Depoy,  H.  Muhr,  A.  K. 
Zwister  and  George  Allen.  The  farce,  "  My  Neighbor's  Wife," 
and  the  comedy,  "  Happy  Pair,"  were  presented  very  cleverly, 
and  then  tbe  festivities  wound  up  with  a  dance. 


Fred  Somers,  who  returned  by  the  steamer  Australia  on 
Wednesday  from  his  wanderings  in  the  Orient  and  tbe  Hawaiian 
Islands,  will  remain  hereabouts  some  little  time  before  proceed- 
ing to  New  York.  He  will  therefore  be  on  hand  for  the  mid- 
summer jinks  of  the  Bohemian  Club.  Among  the  other  passen- 
gers on  the  Australia  were  Mrs.  Volney  Spanlding,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  S.  Cunningham,  nee  Whitney,  who  spent  their  honeymoon 
at  the  Island  kingdom. 


Our  clerical  absentees,  who  have  been  enjoying  their  summer 
vacations,  have  nearly  all  returned  to  their  city  pulpits.  The  Revs. 
Mr.  Foute,  of  Grace,  and  Dr.  Spanlding,  of  St.  John's,  occupying 
theirs  last  Sunday,  while  Dr.  MacKenzie  will  be  seen  in  his  to- 
morrow. The  Rev.  Mr.  Davis,  of  St.  Luke's,  who  was  reported 
as  being  so  seriously  ill  in  London,  is  rapidly  convalescing,  and 
his  flock  are  looking  forward  to  welcoming  him  home  again  about 
the  middle  of  August. 

Santa  Cruz  and  Monterey  will  vie  with  each  other  next  month 
as  to  which  can  prove  the  more  attractive  to  the  stray  outsider. 
Santa  Cruz  will  have  the  military,  while  Monterey,  or  in  other 
words,  Del  Monte,  will  depend  upon  the  annual  shoot  of  the 
Country  Club  as  its  winning  card.  The  note  of  preparation  is 
heard  there,  and  commencing  with  to-day  the  August  visitors 
will  begin  to  put  in  their  appearance  upon  the  scene. 


The  telegraph  has  brought  us  intelligence  of  the  marriage  of 
"  Willie  "  Outhout,  who  created  a  mild  sensation  in  our  social 
world  last  year,  to  Mrs.  Edgar  Saltus,  which  event  took  place  at 
Grace  Church,  in  New  York,  last  Wednesday,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hunt- 
ington performing  the  ceremony.  The  bride  made  a  very  pleasant 
impression  upon  those  who  met  her  during  her  visit  here  in  the 
spring  with  a  party  of  friends  en  route  homewards  from  Japan. 

Col.  A.  C.  Wildrick,  U.  S.  A.,  accompanied  by  his  family,  ex- 
pects to  leave  the  Presidio  for  his  new  station  in  New  York 
harbor  some  time  next  week.  Another  loss  in  army  circles  will 
be  General  and  Mrs.  Hawkins,  who  have  been  in  San  Francisco 
for  the  past  four  years.  General  Hawkins  has  been  one  of  the 
staff  officers  of  this  Department,  and  he  also  will  be  stationed  in 
New  York  until  his  retirement  from  the  service  next  year. 

Mr  Henry  Cbanncey ,  who  was  on  a  visit  at  the  Delmas  cottage, 
has  been  one  of  the  beaux  of  Santa  Cruz,  and  Miss  Emily  Hughes 
one  of  the  belles  of  the  Santa  Cruz  beach  during  the  month  of 
July. 


Thr  High  .link*  I,,  be  given  Saturday  evening  next,  al  the  Con- 
cordia Olnb,  pn. mines  to  be  very  enjoyable.  Edgar  Pclxotto  has 
charge  of  the  arrangements,  and  has  prepared  a  most  interesting 
programme.  Charles  Ackcrman,  President  ot  the  Club,  will  lot 
as  Sire.  Some  novel  features  are  promised.  The  new  board  has 
thus  far  made  its  a.l  ministration  a  great  success,  and  promises  some 
extraordinary  alfairs  during  the  coming  social  season. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Thompson  Garratt  are  now  enjoying 
themselves  in  Paris.  They  have  been  abroad  ovcrtwelve  months, 
during  which  lime  they  have  visited  Japan,  China,  India,  Egypt 
and  southern  Europe.  They  spent  two  months  among  the  Italian 
lakes,  in  the  valley  of  Chamauni  and  throughout  Switzerland. 
Tired  of  their  travels,  they  at  last  went  to  Paris,  where  they  will 
spend  many  weeks. 

Tbe  announced  engagement  of  Miss  Alice  Cusheon  to  George 
A.  Mullin,  of  lhe  Southern  Pacific,  adds  yet  another  to  the  list  of 
August  weddings,  as  the  ceremony  is  to  take  place  at  Calvary 
Church,  on  the  evening  of  the  18th.  The  groom-elect  is  tbe  Vice- 
President  of  tbe  Western  Addition  Club,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the 
most  popular  members. 


The  University  students  are  talking  of  giving  a  fancy  dress  ball 
shortly  after  the  opening  of  the  next  term.  Tbe  proposition  is  to 
have  it  one  of  the  most  brilliant  society  events  ever  held  in  Berk- 
eley, and  it  will  be  a  strictly  invitation  affair.  No  masks  will  be 
allowed,  and  every  thing  possible  will  be  done  to  put  the  entertain- 
ment on  a  high  plane. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Low  and  Miss  Low  have  been  welcome 
guests  at  the  Napa  Soda  Springs,  Mrs.  B.  B.  Redding  has  divided 
her  time  the  past  month  between  that  resort  and  Sissons.  Her 
son,  J.  D.  Redding,  and  his  family,  are  about  due  here  upon  their 
return  from  Europe,  having  arrived  in  New  York  on  Friday  of 
last  week. 


Among  recent  visitors  at  the  Blue  Lakes  have  been  Mr.  James 
Sproule.  late  secretary  of  Timothy  Hopkins;  J.  W.  Beakbone, 
W.  J.  Hansen,  C.  Barry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Stark,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W.  J.  Ruddick  and  family,  E.  Kennelly,  R.  H.  Morrow,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Edgar  M.  Wilson,  Carl  Westerfeld,  and  L.  F.  Hengster. 

Judging  by  the  preparations,  the  fair  to  be  shortly  given  for  the 
benefit  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales  Church,  Oakland,  will  be  a  big  suc- 
cess. The  ladies  who  will  have  charge  of  the  booths  are  Mrs. 
Driscoll,  Miss  Maggie  Smith,  Mrs.  Henry,  Mrs.  Merrick,  Mrs. 
Lohse,  Mrs.  Cahiil,  Miss  Gebauld,  Miss  Hackett. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Meade,  whose  handsome  new  residence 
in  the  Western  Addition  is  nearly  ready  to  receive  its  finishing 
touches,  have  been  among  those  enjoying  the  fishing  at  Lake 
Tahoe,  as  well  as  its  beautiful  scenery.  Ed.  Greenway  has  been 
participating  in  the  festivities  of  Pescadero. 

Miss  Lillie  Lantor  has  been  doing  the  Yosemite  Valley  with  a 
party  of  friends.  Miss  Jennie  Dunphy  is  among  the  visitors  at 
Paso  Robles  Springs,  with  the  other  members  of  her  family,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dunphy  and  her  brother.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Whitney 
have  returned  from  their  visit  there. 


On  Wednesday  of  next  week  Miss  Ada  T.  Park  will  be  married 
to  Charles  A.  Alardyce  at  the  Howard  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
on  Thursday  of  the  following  week  tbe  marriage  of  Miss  Sadie 
Abraham  and  B.  F.  Meyer,  of  Haywards,  will  take  place,  at  the 
bride's  residence,  on  Fulton  street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adam  Grant  are  among  the  guests  at  Del  Monte. 
Mrs.  Wilcox  and  her  family  bave  recently  joined  the  throng  at 
that  hostelrie.  Rev.  W.  I.  Kip,  3d,  who  has,  with  other  mem- 
bers of  his  family,  been  visiting  in  the  vicinity  of  Santa  Rosa,  is 
now  a  guest  at  Cazadero. 

The  "Big  Four"  masquerade  ball  at  Loren  on  Saturday  nigh 
last  was  a  huge  success.  Several  hundred  merrymakers  from  the 
surrounding  suburbs  participated,  and  the  scene  was  a  striking 
one   for  all  sorts  of  quaint  characters  were  represented. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Feigenbaum,  nee  Adele  Seller,  have  returned 
from  their  honeymoon,  and  are  staying  at  the  Seller  residence,  on 
Van  Ness  avenue,  prior  to  leaving  for  their  future  home,  in 
Rhonerville,  Humboldt  county. 


A  quartet  has  been  obtained  for  the  Oakland  synagogue,  and 
will  be  heard  during  the  approaching  Jewish  holidays.  It  con- 
sists of  Misa  Van  Amringe,  Mrs.  Leccie  Sedgeley-Reipolds,  H.  A. 
Melvin  and  Chas.  F.  Philpott. 

Mrs.  Crooks  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Crooks,  were  enjoying  the 
sights  of  Paris  at  last  accounts.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tim  Hopkins,  of 
whose  party  Miss  Mamie  Kohl,  of  San  Mateo,  is  a  member,  are 
trave  ing  in  Germany. 

Miss  Annie  Hirschfeld,  of  Bakersfield,  will  spend  the  summer 
in  this  city,  and  is  staying  at  1008  Van  Ness  avenue.  Miss 
Hirschfeld  has  many  friends  in  this  city,  and  is  a  handsome  and 
estimable  young  lady. 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


July  30,  1892. 


Fred  Soraers  will  preside  at  the  Bohemian  Clab  jinks  on  Au- 
gust 20th.  A  swimming  pool  is  now  being  formed  on  the  creek 
at  the  club  camp,  and  a  lot  of  lumber  has  been  sent  over  for 
seats,  tables,  etc.     The  jinks  will  be  very  enjoyable. 

Yosemite  travel  is  very  heavy.  Most  of  the  visitors  go  by  way 
of  the  Big  Tree  Grove,  and  enjoy  the  stage  ride  over  the  route  of 
the  Yosemite  Stage  Company.  The  Stoneman  House  is  crowded 
with  delighted  guests. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Lolly  Steinman,  of  this  city,  and  Mr. 
George  Blum,  of  Woodland,  will  take  place  about  the  middle  of 
November,  Miss  Steinman  is  visiting  ber  sister,  in  Marysville. 

The  date  for  Miss  Emma  McMillan's  wedding  with  Ellis  Woos- 
ter  has  been  set  for  tbe  7th  of  September,  and  the  ceremony  will 
be  performed  at  the  home  of  the  bride,  on  Ridley  street. 

Tbe  midsummer  field  day  of  the  Olympic  Club  will  be  held  at 
the  club  grounds  on  Saturday,  August  20th,  at  2:30  p.  M.  sharp. 
Entries  close  at  the  club  rooms  on  August  13th. 

Judge  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Sullivan  have  been  making  the  rounds  of 
the  Eastern  watering  places,  and  when  last  heard  from  were  at 
Saratoga  Springs,  New  York. 

The  engagement  of  Miss  May  Dexter,  daughter  of  Captain  Dex- 
ter, and  Al.  McEwen,  of  Oakland,  is  announced.  The  wedding 
will  take  place  soon. 

Miss  Daisy  L.  Crane  and  Mr.  D.  B.  Crane  are  rusticating  at  Sis- 
son's  Tavern,  near  the  base  of  Mt.  Shasta.  They  will  be  away 
about  two  weeks. 

Geo.  W.  Fisher  and  family,  of  Oakland-,  have  returned  after  a 
month's  sojourning  at  Summit  Soda  Springs  and  Lake  Tahoe. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Bertha  Dietz  of  San  Fran- 
cisco and  Edward  Young  of  Oakland. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Ehrmann  are  in  Paris,  and   intend    to   be  on 
the  continent  for  fully  a  year  yet. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  F.  Bert  wilt  spend   the  remainder  of  the 
summer  at  Mill  Valley. 

AMONG  the  recent  novelties  in  camera  production  are  the 
prints  on  plain  salted  paper,  toned  with  platinum,  the  method 
of  procedure  being  to  take  the  well-known  salted  paper  in  ordi- 
nary photographic  use,  and  silver  it  on  a  bath  of  sixty  grains 
nitrate  of  silver  to  the  ounce  of  water,  or  it  may  be  put  on  with 
a  wad  of  cotton,  care  of  course  being  necessary  that  it  be  spread 
evenly  over  the  surface.  On  the  paper  becoming  dry,  it  is 
printed,  without  fuming,  quite  dark,  or  until  the  shadows  com- 
mence to  bronze;  and  before  toning,  the  prints  are  to  be  thor- 
oughly washed,  to  remove  the  free  silver,  then  placed  in  diluted 
acetic  acid  until  red,  and  then  successively  from  tbe  acid  bath  to 
clear  water,  and  from  the  latter  to  the  toning  batb,  which  is  com- 
posed of  fifteen  grains  of  chloro.platinite  of  potassium,  thirty 
drops  of  nitric  acid  and  thirty  ounces  of  water.  When  the  prints 
reach  the  desired  black  color,  they  are  placed  in  water  made 
slightly  alkaline  with  carbonate  of  soda  for  a  few  minutes,  and 
then  put  into  a  hypo  bath,  some  ten  minutes  for  fixing,  after 
which  a  thorough  washing  in  water  eliminates  the  hypo;  the  pro- 
duct is  a  beautifully  soft  print,  the  best  results  being  obtained 
when  negatives  having  considerable  contrast  are  employed. 

REV.  G.  D.  Pinneo  is  yet  another  wearer  of  the  cloth  and  saver 
of  souls  who  is  drawing  attention  to  himself  by  his  highly  vir- 
tuous actions.  He  has  refused  to  pay  his  wife's  bills,  and  she 
has  sued  him  for  divorce  and  alinufhy,  alleging  gross  cruelty.  The 
anti-Sunday-newspaper  holy  men  will,  of  course,  not  read  of  this 
affair. 


Burlington  Route  Excursions. 


Commencing  Tuesday,  March  15th,  at  2  p.  m.,  from  Los  Angeles, 
and  Wednesday,  at  8  p.  mm  from  San  Francisco,  and  every  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday  thereafter,  the  Burlington  Route  will  run  Us  regular 
Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago, 
via  Salt- Lake  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  excursion  folder 
apply  to  agent,  Burlington  Route,  at  204  South  Spring  street,  Los 
Angeles;  or 32  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

Baggage  Notice. 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip.  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  vou  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko, "009  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 

Shainwalri,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rented, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office, 
407^109  Montgomery  street. 


ECSTASY.— Eric  Mackay,  in  "  Love  Letters  of  a  Violinist." 

I  cannot  sing  to  thee  as  I  would  sing 

If  I  were  quickened  like  the  holy  lark, 
With  fire  from  Heaven  and  sunlight  on  his  wing, 

Who  wakes  the  world  with  witcheries  of  the  dark 
Renewed  in  rapture  in  the  reddening  air. 

A  thing  of  splendor  do  I  deem  him  then, 
A  feather'd  frenzy  with  an  angePa  throat, 
A  something  sweet  that  somewhere  seems  to  float 

'Twixt  earth  and  sky,  to  be  a  sign  to  men. 
He  fills  me  with  such  wonder  and  despair  I 

I  long  to  kiss  thy  locks,  so  golden  bright, 
As  he  doth  kiss  the  tresses  of  the  sun. 
Ohl  bid  me  sing  to  thee,  my  chosen  one, 

And  do  thou  teach  me,  Love,  to  sing  aright  1 


IN  some  of  the  German  mines  a  new  method  has  been  success- 
fully introduced  for  preventing  coal  dust  explosions,  in  place 
of  the  usual  practice  of  sprinkling  water  in  dusty  parts  of  the 
mine,  this  plan  having  only  a  limited  utility,  as  the  dust  is  gen- 
erated by  the  breaking  down  of  the  coal,  and  explosions  may 
arise  from  the  liberation  of  gasses  at  the  same  instant,  To  meet 
these  circumstances,  the  use  of  water  has  had  an  entirely  new 
application,  and  with  a  result  remarkably  satisfactory.  Holes  of 
one  metre  depth  are  drilled  at  a  distance  from  each  other  of  about 
three  metres,  wooden  plugs  are  inserted,  and  through  them  iron 
pipes  from  three-quarters  to  one  metre  long,  with  openings  be- 
tween two  and  one-half  and  three  millimetres  large,  and  con- 
nected with  rubber  hose.  It  appears  that  in  the  Camphausen 
collier  a  pressure  of  from  eight  to  ten  atmospheres  and  injection 
through  two  tubes  in  eight  hours  proved  sufficient  to  impregnate 
six  by  one  by  one  and  a  half  metres;  and  in  another  case,  that 
of  the  Kreuzgraben  collier,  the  water  forced  in  under  a  pressure 
of  twenty  atmosphere  during  sixteen  hours,  moistened  thorouehly 
the  coal  as  far  as  four  metres  above  the  highest  hole.  In  carrying 
out  this  method  primary  regard  is  to  be  paid  to  the  water  pres- 
sure obtainable,  the  quantity  of  the  water  injected  and  the  firm- 
ness of  the  seam,  the  latter  depending  somewhat  on  the  size  of 
the  coal  pillars  in  the  workings. 


IT  would  be  a  great  thing  for  San  Francisco  if  we  could  borrow 
some  of  New  York's  heat  for  a  few  days  and  subject  some  of 
our  political  "  reformers"  to  its  influence.  A  few  might  then  be 
killed  off  with  neatness  and  dispatch. 

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SAN  FBANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  AUGUST  6,  1892. 


Number  6. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Maeeiott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran 
citco.     Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 

A  Reverend  Ienoramus           ...  2 

California  Wine  Makers 2 

Literature  as  a  Career 3 

The  Merchant  in  Politics 3 

The  Bancroft  Library. 3 

The  Hager-Baxter  Affair 4 

Latest  lennis  News 4 

The  Wives  of  Professional  Men..  5 

Pleasure's  Wand 6-7 

Baseball  Notes    7 

Sparks 8 

From  Society  to  Salvation 9 

An  Emperor's  Criticism  9 


Page 

Parliamentary  Wages 9 

The  Looker-On      10-11 

Vanities  12 

Sunbeams 13 

Financial  Review 14 

Town  Crier  15 

The  Rose  Jar  16 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...    19 

Some  Business  Women 2d 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs —  22 

Scientific  and  Useful 23 

"  Biz  " — Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 
Society 26-27-28 


THE  Oakland  Times  has  at  the  top  of  its  editorial  column  a  left- 
banded   Goddess    of   Liberty.     Has   even    the  goddess   been 
changed  from  her  natural  condition  by  residence  in  Oakland? 


SANTA  CRUZ  has  a  giant  eighteen  years  old,  and  six  feet  nine 
inch  high.     Jt  is  now  Fresno's  turn  again.     We  may  soon  ex- 
pect to  hear  more  about  dragons  and  winged  serpents. 


WHEN  will  the  Democratic  County  Committee  be  able  to  meet 
and  transact  business  without  police  protection  ?  At  Thurs- 
day's meeting  there  was  another  row,  and  a  prominent  patriot 
was  gently  clubbed. 


THE  Chronicle's  column  and  a  half  on  Friday  morning  on  the 
shipment  of  $60,000,000  in  gold  from  this  city  to  Washington, 
is  one  of  the  best  guides  to  train  robbers  now  in  circulation.  So 
do  our  great  dailies  fulfill  their  high  mission. 


THE  citizenship  mill  is  now  in  active  operation,  and  will  so 
continue  up  to  the  very  morning  of  election  day.  Superior 
Judge  Lawler  is  doing  a  rushing  business.  He  makes,  on  an 
average,  about  one  hundred  citizens  a  day.  He  is  a  true  and  un- 
selfish patriot. 

FKUITMEN  are  anxiously  awaiting  the  report  of  the  sale  of 
the  consignment  of  fruit  sent  from  this  city,  which  arrived 
in  London  a  few  days  since.  The  success  of  the  experiment  of 
shipping  the  fruit  that  long  distance  in  refrigerator  cars  will  open 
a  large  market  to  local  growers. 


THE  aspbaltum  pavement  on  Market  street  and  other  main 
thoroughfares  should  be  patched  up  at  night  time  instead  of  at 
midday,  when  the  sidewalks  are  crowded.  The  workmen  some- 
times take  delight  in  pouring  boiling  asphaltum  all  over  the  side- 
walk, so  that  a  pedestrian  is  forced  to  the  street. 


HKOHLER,  the  property-owner  who  tore  down  the  notice  of 
,  a  diphtheria  case,  should  be  punished  severely.  There  is  too 
much  sickness  among  children  in  this  city  arising  from  bad  sew- 
erage, and  a  man  who  removes  the  danger  signal,  as  Kohler  did, 
should  be  made  to  pay  the  penalty  of  his  offense. 


THE  citizens  of  the  counties  in  northern  California  and  south- 
eastern Oregon,  from  which  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  have  with- 
drawn their  treasure  boxes  and  agencies,  will  now  appreciate  the 
benefits  of  protection  to  highwaymen.  The  only  way  these  com- 
munities can  be  relieved  of  the  robbers  is  to  hunt  them  out  and 
punish  them. 

THE  World's  Fair  Commissioners  need  to  keep  their  shoulders 
to  the  wheel.  Some  of  the  interior  counties  have  not  displayed 
as  much  interest  as  they  should  in  the  Columbian  Exposition, 
and  local  merchants  even  are  allowing  their  enthusiasm  to  abate 
California  must  have  a  successful  exhibit.  We  will  be  satisfied 
only  with  one  of  the  best  in  the  great  exposition,  and  to  secure 
it  much  hard  and  good  work  has  yet  to  be  done. 


THE  fire  underwriters  are  casting  about  for  some  means  to  pre- 
vent  the  fearful  fire  waste  which  is  now  draining  their  coffers. 
This  has  been  one  of  the  hardest  years  on  record  to  local  insur- 
ance offices. 


"pOLUMBUS  DAY,"  October  21st  next,  should  be  observed  in 
\j  the  public  schools.  It  is  a  date  of  great  historical  interest, 
and  every  pupil  of  the  public  schools  should  have  an  opportunity 
of  thoroughly  understanding  the  great  results  of  the  discoveries 
of  Columbus  by  listening  to  able  discourses  on  the  voyager  and 
his  work. 


SANTA  CRUZ  will  be  giddy  next  week.  With  Mars  fixing  the 
seaside  resort  with  his  glittering  eye,  while  watching  the 
maneuvres  of  his  worshippers,  both  of  the  army  and  the  militia- 
with  the  helles  of  all  the  interior  towns  of  the  State  promenading 
the  sands,  and  a  sprinkling  of  yachtsmen  and  politicians,  the  vil- 
lage by  the  sea  will  be  highly  exhilerated. 

A  TELEGRAM  from  Tangier  states  that  the  insurgents  are  advanc- 
ing upon  the  city,  and  that  an  attack  upon  the  Sultan's  troops 
is  shortly  expected.  It  is  added  that  great  alarm  is  felt  amongst 
the  Europeans  living  in  the  country,  and  that  they  are  flocking 
to  places  of  refuge.  It  will  be  seen  from  this  that  the  condition 
of  Tangier  is  such  thai  British  control  would  be  very  desirable, 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  Sultan  will  himself  recognize  the 
wisdom  of  accepting  the  greater  part  of  England's  proposals, 
which  he  has  heretofore  declined  or  rather  tried  to  evade  by 
double-dealing. 

OUR  National  legislators  are  now  engaged  in  an  extraordinary 
debate  regarding  the  question  whether  or  not  one  of  the  hon- 
orable Representative  was  drunk  when  he  delivered,  recently,  a 
highly  seasoned  speech.  It  is  said  in  his  defense,  that  if  he  were 
drunk  he  was  not  aware  of  it.  The  House  of  Representatives 
seems  to  be  getting  more  foolish  every  year.  The  people  are 
anxious  for  the  transaction  of  business  and  do  not  care  whether 
Representative  Cobb  of  Alabama  were  drunk  or  not.  What  if 
he  were  drunk?  Cannot  a  Southern  gentleman  enjoy  himself 
without  causing  a  National  scandal? 


THE  office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  is  crowded 
with  protests  of  property-owners  against  proposed  and  un- 
necessary street  work.  Nearly  all  the  work  proposed,  such  as 
street  extensions,  macadamizing,  laying  pavements,  sidewalks, 
curbs,  etc.,  is  of  a  highly  expensive  nature,  and  is  very  profitable 
to  the  contractors.  It  seems  strange  that  all  this  work  should  be 
suddenly  crowded  into  the  Board,  during  the  last  few  months  of 
its  administration.  It  has  already  been  shown  what  an  oppor- 
tunity for  the  boodler  exists  in  the  street  extension  scheme.  A 
similar  condition  of  affairs,  though  on  a  smaller  scale,  lies  in  the 
proposals  to  perform  unnecessary  street  work.  Tax  payers  pro- 
test unanimously  against  being  unjustly  assessed  for  work  which 
is  not  necessary,  and  which  is  inaugurated  merely  for  the  enrich- 
ment of  men  who  live  by  robbing  the  public. 


RUMORS  of  an  approaching  revolution  in  Cuba  are  current  again, 
and  sooner  or  later  such  an  event  will  certainly  take  place,  for 
the  development  of  trade  and  commerce  in  that  great  island  is 
sadly  hampered  by  the  present  administration.  Nevertheless,  no 
lasting  benefit  can  be  expected  from  Buch  a  resolution  provided 
it  is  not  carried  out  in  a  systematic  manner  and  headed  by  the 
most  intelligent  and  patriotic  of  the  inhabitants.  If  the  intended 
revolution  proceeds  from  the  desire  of  the  people  to  free  them- 
selves from  irksome  and  unjust  restrictions  and  the  recognition 
of  the  fact  that  for  the  welfare  of  their  country  self-administration 
is  necessary,  it  has  the  best  chances  of  success,  and  Spain,  in  that 
case,  will  hardly  offer  any  serious  opposition  to  the  will  of  the  in- 
habitants of  one  of  her  colonies  which ,  by  its  very  distance,  could 
hardly  be  kept  in  submission  in  case  the  people  inhabiting  it  de- 
cide upon  united  action.  If  the  revolution,  however,  is  to  be 
again  nothing  else  than  an  uprising  instigated  by  party  spirit  and 
the  restless  desire  for  change,  so  often  evinced  by  our  southern 
neighbors,  it  will  and  must  prove  abortive,  and  will  do  only  harm 
to  the  country,  for  even  the  worst  government  is  better  than  an 
anarchic  state  of  affairs. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


A    REVEREND    IGNORAMUS. 

IN  the  face  of  all  that  has  been  demonstrated  beyond  cavil  as  to  the 
general  undesirability  of  Chinese  immigration — demonstrated, 
too,  not  by  the  mouths  of  "  Pacific  Coast  hoodlums,"  as  the  pro- 
Chinese  agitators  are  so  fond  of  charging,  but  by  the  impartial  in- 
vestigations of  Eastern  Senators,  Congressmen  and  others— it 
seems  a  late  day  now  for  any  one  to  champion  the  cause  of  the 
physically  and  morally  leprons  heathen  at  the  expense  of  Ameri- 
can citizens.  A  prominent  Boston  clergyman  has  recently  seen 
fit  to  preach  a  "  sermon  "  upon  what  he  and  the  newspaper  which 
reported  him  are  pleased  to  call  "  our  latest  national  dishonor,"  in 
the  course  of  which  he  makes  ao  many  mistakes,  to  speak  mildly, 
that  he  is  worth  some  little  attention,  more  for  the  purpose,  how- 
ever, of  showing  Californians  just  how  egregious  an  ass  a  preju- 
diced, uninformed  man  can  make  of  himself  upon  occasion,  than 
because  there  ia  any  hope  of  making  him  see  the  error  of  his  waya. 
The  reverend  gentlemen  (M.  J.  Savage  is  his  appropriate  name) 
sets  out  by  showing  his  ignorance  of  the  laws  affecting  Chinese 
citizenship. 

He  then  proceeds  to  show  how  much  he  does  not  know  about 
California,  by  saying  that  there  are  none  too  many  laborers  in 
this  State,  and  that  the  Chinese  are  an  absolute  necessity.  "If 
the  labor  market  ia  overstocked,  he  cries,  "  how  does  it  happen 
that  every  year  the  Californians  send  up  for  whole  swarms  of 
Alaska  Indians  to  come  down  and  gather  their  crops  for  them?" 
How,  indeed!  Of  course,  the  fact  that  such  a  thing  as  this  has 
never  been  heard  of  in  California  makes  no  difference  to  this  cal- 
umniator. He  wants  to  make  a  point,  and  facta  are  therefore  of 
no  consequence.  He  ia  undoubtedly  full  brother  to  the  sapient 
speaker  who  once  upon  a  time  informed  his  audience  that  San 
Francisco  owed  its  preservation  from  destruction  by  flood  to  a 
horde  of  Chinese,  who  went  to  work  on  the  leveea  that  sur- 
rounded  the  city  and  strengthened  them,  when  the  citizena  them- 
aelves  had  abandoned  all  hope.  That  the  Chinese  should  mon- 
opolize certain  of  the  industries  of  this  country,  the  preacher  con- 
aiders  would  be  a  public  benefaction,  though  his  proceaa  of  rea- 
soning on  this  point  is  as  hazy  as  that  on  the  citizenship  ques- 
tion. The  objection  that  the  Chinese  are  immoral,  the  reverend 
savage  dismisses  with  the  offhand  comment  that  it  ia  "  too  flip- 
pant for  consideration."  Too  flippantl  The  common  practice 
of  unspeakable  crime,  the  debauchery  of  young  boys  and 
girls  by  the  score,  the  ruin  of  thousands  through  the  use  of 
opium,  the  communication  to  children  not  in  their  teens  of  the 
most  loathsome  diseaaea— all  this  is  dismissed  with  a  wave  of  the 
saintly  hand  as  too  flippantl  But  perhaps  it  is,  in  Boston, 
which  is  notoriously  one  of  the  most  immoral  cities  in  the  country. 
The  reverend  judge  of  human  character  and  motives  then  takes 
up  the  question  of  the  honesty  of  the  Chinese,  and  because  a 
friend  of  hia  has  done  business  with  Chinese  for  twenty-eight 
years  and  never  lost  a  dollar  by  them,  he  pronounces  favorably 
upon  this  trait  of  the  little  brown  man's  character.  He  com- 
pletely ignores  the  fact  that,  though  the  conviction  of  a  Chinese 
thief,  or  other  criminal,  is  notoriously  difficult,  owing  to  their 
complete  disregard  of  an  oath,  yet  in  the  jails  and  prisons  of 
communities  where  Chinese  swarm,  they  are  found  in  far  greater 
proportion  than  any  other  nationality,  while  wholesale  robbery 
and  fraud  and  hired  assassination  are  a  constant  occurrence  with 
them.  The  honesty  of  the  Chinese,  forsooth  1  As  well  apeak  of 
the  morality  of  the  Mormons  or  the  chastity  of  the  Alaska  In- 
diana. Still  another  argument  in  behalf  of  the  Cbineae  ia  found 
in  thia  alleged  fact;  "  Within  the  last  few  years  the  Chinese  in 
California  have  organized  a  great  fruit-packing  company,  and 
almost  all  their  employees  are  American  girls ;  and  these  girls 
testify  that  they  have  never  worked  for  anyone  who  treated  them 
with  such  honor,  such  consideration,  such  honesty,  such  care." 
The  only  truth  in  thia  statement  ia  fhe  fact  that  the  Chinese  have 
a  small  fruit-packing  concern  in  this  city,  and  that  they  have 
some  woaien  in  their  employ.  But  they  are  not  American  girls, 
by  a  large  majority,  nor  do  these  girls  testify  to  any  such 
alleged  state  of  facta,  the  truth  being  that  the  majority  of 
them  belong  to  the  loweat  foreign  class,  and  cannot  speak  a  word 
of  Engliah.  But  the  most  delicious  bit  of  all  is  reserved  to  the 
last — a  veritable  bonne  botiche  of  wisdom.  The  reverend  gentle- 
man, it  appears,  has  been  in  San  Francisco  {the  more  shame  that 
he  ahould  exhibit  so  much  ignorance  and  prejudice),  and  went 
with  a  friend  to  the  «'  largest  bank  in  the  city  "  to  get  a  draft  on 
New  York.  He  says  that  every  single  check  or  draft  that  left  that 
bank  for  any  city  or  State  outside  of  California,  or  for  any  coun- 
try in  the  world,  went  through  the  hands  and  had  to  be  inspected 
and  indorsed  by  one  Chinaman,  who  occupies  that  position  for 
the  simple  reason  that,  under  the  law  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest, 
he  has  come  to  the  top  as  the  most  competent  and  trustworthy 
man  they  could  find  for  the  place.  Unfortunately,  the  name  of 
the  bank  which  employs  this  model  Chinese  marvel  is  not  given. 
But,  as  the  cross-examining  lawyer  sometimes  says,  doubtless 
this  is  as  true  as  all  of  the  other  statements  that  thia  clerical  pre- 
varicator haa  made  regarding  the  matter. 

SECRETARY  BENNETT  has  again  come  before  the  public  in  a 
somewhat  sensational  case.     How  much  longer  is  this  man 
to  continue  to  pose  as  a  truly  good  Christian? 


CALIFORNIA    WINE    MAKERS. 

THERE  ia  a  general  complaint  from  the  wine  makers  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  seemingly  well  founded,  that  they  cannot  get  the 
value  of  their  product,  and  that  there  is  no  encouragement  for 
them  to  remain  in  the  business  of  making  wine.  Their  troubles 
are  due,  they  say,  to  a  combination  of  wine  dealers  in  this  city, 
who  fix  the  price  of  wine,  and  compel  the  makers  to  accept  what 
they  offer,  or  be  left  with  their  wine  on  their  hands.  The  modus 
operandi,  as  the  wine  makers  underatand  it,  ia  this — the  combina- 
tion of  dealers  fix  the  price  which  they  are  willing  to  give,  and 
then  aend  their  agents  through  the  wine-producing  districts  of 
the  State  to  buy  up  the  product.  These  agents,  carefully  in- 
structed by  the  dealers,  go  first  to  the  small  wine  makers,  that  is, 
those  who  make  small  quantities  of  wine,  and  who,  by  reason  of 
the  paucity  of  their  resources,  are  unable  to  carry  their  product 
over  to  another  year,  whether  from  lack  of  capital  or  want  of 
storage  capacity.  Going  to  these  wine  makers,  the  dealers'  agents 
offer  them  the  minimum  price,  and  their  neceasities  compel  them 
to  accept  it.  This  being  done,  the  buyers  go  to  wine  makers  on 
a  larger  scale  and  offer  them  only  the  price  for  which  tbey  have 
bought  wine  from  the  small  vineyardists,  using  their  purchases 
from  the  small  makers  as  a  scale  whereby  to  measure  the  value 
of  the  product  of  the  larger  vineyards.  By  working  double  tides 
in  thia  way,  say  the  wine  makers,  the  combination  of  wine 
dealers  ia  enabled  to  buy  wine  at  its  own  price,  and  the  profit  on 
wine  goea  to  the  dealer  inatead  of  to  the  producer.  There  ia  a 
great  deal  of  force  in  thia,  in  the  way  in  which  the  wine  makers 
put  it,  and  the  great  queation  is,  is  there  a  remedy  for  this  state 
of  things,  and  if  so,  what  ia  it?  That  there  is  a  perfect  and 
adequate  remedy  will  at  once  occur  to  every  one  who  thinks  over 
the  question,  and  that  is  that  the  wine  makers  should  become 
dealers  aa  well  as  producers.  In  other  words,  if  the  wine  makers 
want  relief  from  what  they  consider  the  extortions  of  the  wine 
dealers,  they  must  adopt  the  ayatem  of  co-operation,  and  extend 
it  so  far  that  there  will  be  no  necessity  for  a  middle  man  to  come 
in  between  the  producer  and  the  conaumer.  The  wine  makers 
of  each  district  should  come  together  and  unite  upon  a  plan  of 
operation,  which  might  include  not  only  an  agency  in  this  city, 
but  business  connections  with  New  York,  London,  Paris  and 
elsewhere,  through  which  they  could  sell  their  producta  direct, 
and  aave  not  only  the  necessity  of  selling  to  the  dealers,  but  the 
coat  of  three  or  four  separate  handlinga,  each  of  which  must  add 
to  the  price  at  which  the  wine  can  be  furnished  the  consumer. 
Suppose,  for  the  sake  of  illustration,  that  all  the  wine  makers  of 
the  Napa  Valley  ahould  get  together,  talk  over  a  proposition  of 
co-operation,  and  determine  to  handle  their  wine  for  themselves, 
ib  it  not  obvious  that  their  chances  for  getting  a  fair  price  for 
their  product  would  be  very  much  better  than  under  the  present 
system,  when  many  of  them  sell  to  the  wine  dealers  of  thia  city, 
and  are  compelled  to  take  just  what  is  offered  them?  To  such  a 
scheme  as  thia,  with  its  possible  extensions  and  ramifications, 
there  is  but  one  obatacle,  and  that  would  disappear  by  the  exer- 
cise of  a  modicum  of  common-sense  and  forbearance.  The  ob- 
stacle to  which  we  refer  is  the  jealousy,  each  of  the 
other,  which  exiata  among  the  wine  makers  of  a  diatrict. 
To  make  co-operation  a  aucceaa  there  must  be  a  sacrifice,  or  at 
leaat  a  suapension  of  personal  and  individual  pride,  and  the  cul- 
tivation of  a  feeling  that  what  is  beat  for  all  must  be  best  for 
each.  Of  course  all  wine,  even  in  the  same  district,  is  not  alike; 
nor  is  there  any  danger  that  a  general  average  will  ever  be  struck. 
In  fact,  the  individuality  of  wine  would  be  much  better  pre- 
served under  the  co-operative  system  than  under  the  system  of 
putting  the  product  into  the  hands  of  the  dealers,  for  it  is  be- 
lieved that  they  manipulate  their  purchases  to  suit  their  own  pur- 
poses, thereby  destroying  all  individuality  of  wine  and  prevent- 
ing wine-makers  from  acquiring  any  reputation  for  their  product. 
We  do  not  undertake  to  go  into  the  details  of  a  system  or  sys- 
tems of  co-operation  among  California  wine-makers,  but  we  feel 
confident  that  the  adoption  of  auch  a  plan  is  the  only  remedy  for 
the  evils  of  which  the  producers  complain  so  bitterly.  There  can 
be  no  valid  objection  to  such  a  scheme  if  the  wine-makers  will 
pull  together  and  work  for  the  common  good.  Every  wine-pro- 
ducing district  in  California  should  have  its  own  agency  in  the 
great  wine-consuming  countries  of  the  world,  and  it  would  not 
be  any  time  at  all  before  California  wine  would  be  sold  on  its 
merits,  instead  of  having  to  be  palmed  off  aa  French  or  German 
wine,  as  is  the  case  now. 


THE  new  Pacific  Mail  Bteamer  Peru,  which  sails  to-day  for 
China,  made  a  very  successful  trial  trip  last  Saturday  night. 
On  Wednesday  evening  she  was  opened  for  inspection,  and  was 
visited  by  a  large  number  of  people  who  greatly  admired  the  new 
vessel.  Captain  William  Ward  has  in  her  one  of  the  finegt 
ateamers  sailing  out  of  this  port.  She  is  334  feet  long;  45  feet 
beam;  mean  draft,  19  feet;  displacement,  4,450  tons;  carrying 
capacity,  2,539  tons.  She  baa  shown  a  apeed  of  14.96  knots  an 
hour,  which  was  very  satisfactory  to  the  Union  Iron  Works,  her 
builders;  the  Government  representatives,  and  the  Pacific  Mail 
Company. 


August  fi    1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  News  LETTBR. 


LITERATURE    AS    A    CAREER. 

IN  the  current  number  of  the  PbniM  Walter  Besant,  the  English 
novelist,  has  an  extremely  able  and  interesting  article  on  "Lit- 
erature as  a  Career. "  written  from  the  standpoint  of  an  expert, 
and  giving  practical  lessons  and  good  advice  to  those  who  would 
fain  take  up  literature  as  their  life  work.  Mr.  Besant complain?, 
and  with  much  justice,  that  in  the  distribution  of  honors  in  Eng- 
land, the  literary  profession  is  almost  universally  neglected,  Ten- 
nyson being  about  the  only  exception  to  the  rule.  Hepoints'ont 
that  men  who  have  made  fortunes  in  brewing  beer  and  ale  are 
raised  to  the  peerage,  while  men  who  have  given  their  lives  to 
the  work  of  instructing  or  educating  the  people  of  England  are 
wholly  ignored.  He  says:  'At  the  greatest  national  function 
which  has  ever  been  celebrated  in  England,  when  we  rejoiced 
solemnly  and  thanked  God  for  a  reign  of  fifty  years  of  unexam- 
pled progress — at  this  function,  to  which  were  invited  representa- 
tives of  every  profession  and  almost  every  calling,  there  was  not 
invited  one  single  man  or  woman  of  letters,  as  such.  Why?  Be- 
cause the  official  mind,  which  in  every  country  always  repre- 
sents, measures  and  illustrates  the  Philistinism  of  a  country,  has 
not  yet  risen  to  the  consideration  of  literature  as  a  profession,  or 
of  historians,  essayists,  poets,  novelists,  as  persons  worth  regard- 
ing. To  red  tape  and  Bumble  they  do  not  exist."  This,  Mr.  Be- 
sant admits,  would  not  be  possible  in  the  United  States  nor  in 
France  or  Germany.  The  most  interesting  part  of  Mr.  Besant's 
article,  however,  is  not  his  complaint  against  Philistinism  in 
Englaod,  but  the  part  in  which,  by  necessary  implication  he  lays 
down  the  principle  that  to  a  successful  literary  career  the  work  of 
preparation  is  as  essential  as  to  any  other  profession.  He  gives 
illustrations  of  men  and  women  of  his  personal  acquaintance 
who  have  mistaken  a  spark  of  youthful  enthusiasm  for 
the  fire  of  genius,  and  who  have  spent  a  lifetime 
in  trying  to  fan  the  spark  into  a  flame,  only  to  die  at  last  in  pov- 
erty and  with  a  broken  heart.  Of  one  in  particular  he  says :  "  He 
belonged  to  the  ranks  of  clerkery.  He  was  educated  in  a  school 
where  the  sons  of  clerks  prepare  for  the  life  of  clerkery.  Then  he 
became  a  clerk,  and  presently  tried  to  become  a  novelist.  Under- 
stand that  he  knew  nothing — nothing  at  all — of  the  constitution, 
laws,  order,  professions,  society,  manners  and  customs,  universi- 
ties, army,  navy — in  short,  he  knew  nothing  at  all  about  his  own 
country.  But  he  began  to  write  stories— all,  really  and  truly, 
out  of  his  own  head.  Presently,  to  his  great  unhappiness — which 
he  did  not  at  first  suspect — his  fervent  prayers  were  answered,  to 
his  own  undoing,  a  story  of  his  being  accepted.  *  *  *  *  * 
Now  he  is  married;  he  has  children.  He  writes  all  day  long  and 
every  day;  he  produces  story  after  story;  be  is  paid  £2.10  for  a 
story  of  twenty  thousand  words.  When  things  are  desperate  he 
sends  begging  letters  to  men  whose  names  he  knows."  There  is 
no  need  of  drawing  the  moral  from  such  an  incident  as  this.  A 
mere  apprentice,  and  hardly  that,  undertakes  to  do  the  work  of 
a  master  workman.  Small  wonder  that  he  fails,  and  is  reduced 
to  do  odd  jobs  at  starvation  wages.  Why  men,  or  women  either, 
should  imagine  that  they  can  carry  the  heights  of  success  in  litera- 
ture by  one  desperate  charge  is  hard  to  understand.  They  do  not 
think  so  about  anything  else.  They  know  that  in  music, 
painting,  sculpture,  or  in  the  professions  of  law  and  medi- 
cine, success  must  be  preceded  by  long  and  arduous  study, 
practice  and  drill,  and  yet  they  fancy  that  literature  comes 
by  nature,  and  that  preliminary  study  and  exercise  are  entirely 
unnecessary.  More  than  this,  they  fancy,  as  did  the  poor  fellow 
instanced  by  Mr.  Besant,  that  a  knowledge  of  contemporaneous 
events,  and  of  the  laws,  constitution  and  history  of  a  country, 
are  entirely  superfluous.  They  read  of  Byron,  who  went  to  bed  at 
night  and  woke  to  find  himself  famous,  and  they  imagine  that  a 
miracle  must  have  been  performed,  forgetting  or  not  knowing  that 
Byron,  in  addition  to  being  endowed  with  the  poetic  tempera- 
ment, had  been  educated  at  Harrow  and  Cambridge,  and  was  an 
omniverous  reader.  They  think  of  Burns,  the  peasant  poet,  but 
they  do  not  know  that  Burns  was  a  hard  student  as  he  came  to 
man's  estate,  endeavoring  to  make  up  for  the  deficiencies  of  his 
early  education.  In  short,  they  assume  that  because  the  Latin 
writer,  to  magnify  bis  own  profession,  declared  that  the  poet  is 
born,  not  made,  the  rule  applies  to  every  branch  of  literature,  and 
that  no  study  or  work  is  needed  to  fit  anyone  for  the  most  ar- 
duous and  exacting  of  all  professions.  To  succeed  in  a  literary 
career,  the  same  rules  must  be  followed  which,  all  things  being 
equal,  will  insure  success  in  any  other  career.  There  must  be  a 
love  for  one's  work,  the  power  to  discriminate  between  the  good 
and  the  bad,  the  knowledge  of  what  the  masters  of  the  literary 
art  have  thought  and  said,  patience  that  nothing  can  daunt,  a  de- 
termination to  succeed  in  spite  of  all  obstacles,  and  a  faith  in 
one's  self  that  would  move  mountains.  Perhaps  the  ear  may  not 
be  attuned  to  rhythm  and  melody,  so  that  the  expression  of  ideas 
in  poetic  form  may  not  be  possible,  but  poetry  is  only  one  of  the 
numberless  phases  of  literature.  In  the  palace  of  literature  there 
are  many  mansions,  and  if  the  worshiper  at  the  shrine  be  not  ex- 
actly suited  with  the  first  be  can  continue  his  search  until  he  finds 
the  one  best  adapted  to  him.  In  short,  there  need  be,  as  Mr. 
Besant  points  oat,  no  discouragement  to  a  literary  career  which 
would  not  obtain  equally  In  the  choice  of  any  other. 


THE    MERCHANT     IN     POLITICS. 


SHOULD  a  merchant  engage  actively  in  politics?  What  should 
be  and  what  in  fact  is  his  position  when  he  does?  These  are 
questions  that  are  particularly  apropos  to  the  times.  Passing 
events  have  shown  that  the  political  manager?;  «f  H  <•  day  are 
building  their  hopes  of  success  upon  the  fact  that  they  have  sue 
ceeded  in  associating  with  them  some  £entlemen  of  excellent 
standing  in  the  community,  beneath  whose  cloaks  of  respecta- 
bility the  bosses  hope  to  gain  their  ends.  That  merchants  and 
business  men  of  all  classes  should  interest  themselves  in  political 
affairs  is  a  proposition  which  will  he  favorahly  considered  hy  all 
who  have  given  attention  to  the  political  drift  of  the  day,  which 
is  toward  the  centralization  of  all  power  in  the  bands  of  a  few 
unscrupulous  men,  who,  by  holding  the  approaches,  control  all 
the  machinery  of  the  Government.  As  soon  as  business  men  in- 
terest themselves  in  politics  there  will  be  some  hope  of 
escape  from  the  incubus  of  bossism.  But  I  uch 
escape  cannot  be  effected,  if  the  merchants  be  animated  hy  the 
desire  to  gain  selfish  ends,  or  if  they  do  not  act  together  in  the 
projects  proposed  for  the  improvement  of  the  government.  What 
has  been  the  experience  of  this  city  with  the  merchant  in  poli- 
tics? One  that  had  best  be  forgotten.  The  local  merchants  who 
have  entered  the  political  arena  have,  with  very  few  exceptions, 
allowed  themselves  to  be  used  by  the  professional  political  ma- 
nipulators as  catspaws.  They  have  been  the  puppets  who 
moved  when  the  strings  were  pulled  by  the  bosses.  The  astute 
politicians  filled  the  merchants,  poor  fools,  with  the  idea  that  the 
men  of  respectability  were  running  the  party,  while  in  fact  their 
names  were  used  solely  for  the  deception  of  the  easily  gulled 
public.  A  merchant  who  goes  into  politics  should  make  up  his 
mind  to  work  solely  for  the  purification  of  the  body  politic  and 
the  betterment  of  the  government.  If  he  finds  himself  weaken- 
ing in  his  purpose,  or  ascertains,  as  will  most  probably  be  the 
case,  that  his  efforts  are  vain,  he  should  withdraw  before  he  is 
covered  with  the  same   tar  which  coats    the   boodling  politicians. 


THAT    BANCROFT    LIBRARY. 


SENATOR  FRYE  has  introduced  into  the  United  States  Senate 
a  bill  providing  for  the  purchase  by  the  Federal  Government 
of  the  great  reference  library  of  Hubert  Howe  Bancroft,  of  this 
city,  for  the  magnificent  sum  of  $500,000.  The  bill  has  passed 
the  Senate,  in  which  body,  it  seems,  it  created  no  discussion, 
and  it  has  now  gone  to  the  House.  There  it  should  be  properly 
killed  and  filed  away  with  the  other  defunct  measures  created  by 
politicians  for  the  robbery  of  the  public  treasury.  Mr.  Bancroft 
has  a  good  library ;  that  is  admitted.  Senator  Frye  says  that  it 
is  worth  $500,000  to  the  Government;  that  is  denied/  The  Ban- 
croft library  has  an  interesting  history.  It  was  collected  by  Mr. 
Bancroft  while  he  was  preparing  his  works  on  California  and  the 
Pacific  States,  and  it  contains  many  very  interesting  and  valuable 
original  documents  which  cannot  be  duplicated.  After  the  his- 
torian and  his  many  assistants  had  completed  their  labors,  and 
the  histories  had  been  published,  there  was  no  further  immediate 
use  to  Mr.  Bancroft  of  the  books  and  records  he  had  gathered. 
He  tried  to  sell  it  to  the  city  of  Sacramento  for  $50,000,  but  the 
people  of  the  capital  city  did  not  appreciate  literary  works  to 
that  extent,  and  the  deal  was  not  consummated.  It  next  ap- 
peared as  the  consideration  for  the  payment  of  $200,000  by  the 
State,  a  bill  pending  for  its  purchase  for  that  amount,  being  in- 
troduced into  the  Legislature.  This  bill  was  strongly  opposed  by 
the  News  Letter  at  the  time.  It  failed,  and  since  then  the  libra- 
ry has  been  in  the  market.  Now,  it  seems,  it  is  offered  to  the 
National  Government  for  $500,000,  an  advance  in  price  of  nearly 
half  a  million  dollars  since  it  was  offered  to  Sacramento.  The 
library  is  not  worth  to  the  Government  anything  like  the  amount 
fixed  by  Senator  Frye's  bill  as  its  value.  This  bill  should  be  killed 
just  as  soon  as  the  club  of  the  House  of  Representatives  can  fall 
upon  it.  It  is  a  most  outrageous  measure,  which  fact  should  be 
fully  developed  by  the  Representatives  from  this  State.  That  the 
public  treasury  is  often  looted,  is  a  well-known  and  lamentable 
fact,  but  this  proposed  robbery  is  altogether  too  bold  to  be  allowed. 


THE  indignant  protest  of  the  French  papers  against  the  execution 
of  Milaroff,  Popoff,  Georghieff  and  Karaguloff,  the  conspira- 
tors who  were  found  guilty  of  plotting  against  the  life  of  Prince 
Ferdinand  of  Bulgaria,  and  Prime  Minister  Stambuloff,  of  that 
country,  is  rather  absurd,  for  high  treason  is  punished  in  all 
countries  by  the  severest  measures.  Several  of  the  French  editors 
are  so  intoxicated  with  their  somewhat  recent  affection  for  Russia, 
that  they  seem  to  have  lost  all  sense  of  justice.  Nevertheless, 
the  anti-Russian  ravings  of  the  German  press  in  connection  with 
the  matter  are  equally  unfair  and  stupid.  There  is  no  sound 
reasoning  for  assuming  that  the  government  at  St.  Petersburg 
prompted,  or  even  connived  at  the  murderous  plans  of  the  would- 
be  assassins  at  Sophia.  AH  that  can  be  said  is  that  an  apparently 
spurious  letter  has  been  found,  which  connects  the  conspirators 
with  a  Russian  government  official,  and  even  if  this  letter  should 
be  genuine,  one  may  assume  that  the  official  in  question  acted  on 
his  own  responsibility  and  without  any  authority  from  the  Czar. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


THE    HAGER-BAXTER    AFFAIR. 

THE  sensation  of  the  week  at  Del  Monte  has  been  the  wide- 
spread publication  given  to  the  affair  between  Miss  Emily  Hager 
and  the  young  Englishman,  Henry  Baxter.  Baxter  claims  to  be 
engaged  to  Miss  Hager,  and  she  denies  the  engagement,  and  as- 
serts that  her  ardent  admirer  is  insane.  That  any  loiterer  at 
social  resorts  might  become  insane  while  in  the  company  of  some 
of  our  dazzling  society  beauties,  is  not  surprising.  It  is  no  surprise 
to  Del  Monte  visitors  to  hear  of  the  attentions  Baxter  gave  Miss 
Hager.  He  was  out  with  her  and  Mrs.  Hager  a  great  deal,  until 
the  denouement,  when  he  was  ordered  to  leave  the  hotel,  and  did 
so,  going  to  El  Carmelo.  Those  who  know  bim  Bay  he  is  a  gen- 
tleman, and  that  be  was  summarily  dealt  with,  in  being  required 
to  leave  the  hotel.  Others,  however,  said  it  served  him 
right,  and  assert  that  his  passion  for  Miss  Hager  was 
an  entirely  one-sided  matter,  the  wooing  being  all  on 
his  part.  Miss  Hager  seems  to  be  somewhat  unfortunate  in 
the  fact  that'on  numeroas  occasions  her  name  hasbeen  connected 
with  gentlemen  to  whom  she  has  been  under  the  embarrassing 
necessity  of  announcing,  she  was  not  engaged.  Mr.  Baxter 
says  that  his  borne  is  at  Tower  Eainhill,  Lancashire  Eng.,  where 
his  father,  Henry  Baxter,  who  died  in  1886,  was  sole  proprietor 
of  the  largest  copper  smelting  and  chemical  works  in  the  United 
Kingdom.  Eainhill  is  principally  noted  for  the  presence  there 
of  a  large  insane  asylum.  There  are  no  extensive  copper  smelters 
in  Lancashire,  though  there  are  iron  works.  Mr.  William  Bax- 
ter's name  does  not  appear  among  the  principal  smelters  of  Eng- 
land, who  are  the  Vivians,  of  Swansea;  'Williams,  Foster  &  Co., 
Lamberts,  Swansea  and  Chili;  Simms,  Williams,  Neville,  Druce  & 
Co,,  of  Llanelly.  The  name  of  Mr.  William  Baxter,  of  Lanca- 
shire, does  not  appear  in  Ihe  Directory  of  Directors.  The  Bax- 
ters mentioned  there  are  Edmund,  of  Edinburgh;  Robert  C,  of 
Eeigate;  William,  of  South  Hampstead,  and  William  of  Leeds. 

LATEST    TENNIS    NEWS. 


THE  games  held  last  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  the  California 
Club  grounds  for  the  cup  can  hardly  be  called  a  success.  There 
was  a  lack  of  interest  and  too  many  of  the  players  defaulted.  It 
perhaps  is  an  unheard  of  thing  that  a  player  should  come  into 
the  semi-finals  without  playing  a  match.  This,  however,  was  the 
case  with  A.  F.  Allen,  who  played  in  the  finals  with  G.  B.  de 
Long,  having  played  only  one  match,  and  that  with  Field,  de- 
feating him  6-2,  6-1.  There  were  only  two  close  matches,  those 
between  Hooper  and  Davis,  and  Wilberforce  and  Field.  Davis 
won  his  match  by  4-6  6-1,  7-5,  while  Field  defeated  Wilberforce, 
5_7,  6-4,  7-5.  De  Long  defeated  Stetson  rather  easily  by  6-1,  7-5, 
but  Lorenzo  had  been  out  of  town  and  had  no  practice.  The 
winner  deserves  a  great  deal  of  credit  for  his  performance,  as  he 
played  a  remarkably  strong  game  all  through,  and  especially  in 
the  finals  against  Allen.  His  vollying  was  particularly  good, 
and  his  placing  at  times  was  superb.  With  diligent  practice,  he 
will  certainly  develop  into  a  brilliant  player,  and  be  a  favorite  for 
the  championship  next  year.  Allen  surprised  many  by  some 
very  fine  shots,  some  of  which  compared  favorably  with  Hub- 
bard's. We  shall  not  be  surprised  to  see  him  surprise  some  of 
the  first-class  men  before  long. 

A  bottle  tournament  is  on  the  tapis  for  to-morrow.  The  players 
will  arm  themselves  with  bottles  instead  of  racquets.  The  entries  so 
far  are:  Del  Linderman,  P.O.  Moore,  J.  H.  Bishop,  H.  N.  Stetson, 
E.  N.  Whitney,  S.  Hoffman,  Jr.,  A.  B.  Wilberforce,  G.  Bradshaw, 
J.  G.  Hooper,  W.  O'Connor  and  many  others  are  expected  to 
enter.  The  matches  will  be  one  sett,  and  the  entries  close  to- 
morrow morning.     The  games  will  J>e  called  at  10:30. 

Ogden  Hoffman  appears  to  be  quite  the  lion  of  the  hour  in 
Stockton,  having  been  elected  a  member  of  the  tennis  club  with- 
out even  putting  his  name  down,  and  also  appearing  on  various 
committees.  The  Stockton  club  is  using  every  effort  to  get 
ahead.    They  are  going  to  lay  two  new  asphalt  courts. 

The  Oakland  club  is  rushing  its  double  continuous  tournament, 
and  many  interesting  matches  have  been  played.  The  ladies 
take  a  lively  interest,  and  unless  the  California  ladies  soon  put  in 
an  appearance  for  practice,  the  championship  will,  in  all  proba- 
bility, go  across  the  bay.  We  understand  that  Miss  Crouch,  who 
won  last  year,  will  not  compete  in  this  tournament.  Miss  Bates, 
sister  of  the  crack  "  pony,"  is  looked  upon  as  a  likely  winner. 

The  next  cup  tournament  will  be  held  some  time  after  the 
double  championship  meeting.  It  is  rumored  that  the  games 
may  not  be  held  at  Ban  Rafael. 

E.    B.    BADLAM'S    LATEST    INVENTION. 


A  UNITED  8TATES  patent  on  an  improvement  in  the  manu- 
facture of  illuminating  gas  from  hydro-carbon  vapors,  was 
granted  on  July  19th  last  to  Edgar  B.  Badlam,  son  of  Alexander 
Badlam,  of  this  city.  This  new  method  of  manufacturing  gas 
will  prove  of  great  utility  for  domestic  purposes,  and  for  public 
institutions  or  factories  not  in  connection  with  municipal  gas 
works.  The  new  invention  has  been  applied  to  the  Peerless  gas 
engine,  which  is  manufactured  by  Badlam  Bros.,  of  519 
Market  street,  of  which  firm  the  inventor  is  a  member. 


THE  excursion  on  the  San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  Railroad 
to  Ukiah  to-morrow,  will  be  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  that 
excursionists  from  this  city  have  had  an  opportunity  of  partici- 
pating in  for  some  time.  The  Ukiah  will  make  a  special  trip  to 
Tiburon  before  the  regular  boat,  and  will  connect  with  a  special 
train  with  two  locomotives.  Only  two  stops  will  be  made  on  the 
road.  The  excursion  will  be  in  charge  of  Colonel  Menton.  Four 
hours  will  be  spent  amid  the  many  attractions  of  Ukiah. 


Vichy  Springs.— The  waters  of  these  excellent  springs  are  rapidly  ac- 
quiring as  excellent  a  reputation  as  those  of  any  of  the  famed  resorts  of 
Europe.  The  Vichy  mineral  water  is  fully  as  good,  if  not  better  than  any 
upon  the  European  continent,  to  which  fact  we  cheerfully  testify,  having 
knowledge  of  it  from  beneficial  personal  experience.  We  call  attention  to 
the  advertisement  in  to-day's  issue  of  the  waters  of  the  "  Doolan  Vichy 
Springs." 

The  most  perfect  gift  is  perfect  vision.  Obtainable  at  C.  Muller's,  the 
optician,  135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush,  San  Francisco. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup' 
children  while  Teething.    Price.  25  cents  ahottle. 


for  your 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  18SS. 

Carriage  Builders  and   Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion GuietA  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 

VICHY     SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM  UKIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
known  "champagne  "  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautifying 
the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladies.  Only  natural  electric  water  in 
the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Alta    Silver    Mining    Company. 

Office  of  Alta  Silver  Mining  Company,  room  33,  Nevada  Block, 
309  Montgomery  st.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  August  2,  1892.  The  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  stockholders  of  the  above  named  company  for  the  election  of 
five  directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuingyearand  the  transaction  of  such  other 
business  as  may  be  presented  will  be  held  on  THURSDAY,  August  18th. 
1892,  (the  third  Thursday  in  August),  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  of  that 
day,  at  the  office  of  the  company  in  this  city.  Transfer  books  will  be  closed 
on  Monday,  August  15,  at  3  o'clock  p.m. 

__^_ L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Alta  Silver  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  above   named 

incorpation  for  the  election  of  five  (5)  directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 

year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  be  presented  will 

be  held  on 

Thursday,  the  1 8th  day  ol  August,  1 892,  at  the  hour  of  !  o'clock  P.  M., 
(Third  Thursday  in  August),  at  the  office  of  the  company. 
Transfer  books  will  close  on  Monday,  July  15th,  1892.  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 
L.  OSBOBN,  Secretary. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Contention  Mining  Company. 

Office  of  the  Contention  Mining  Company.  San  Francisco,  Aug.  3,  1892. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  above  named  company,  held 
this  day, a  dividend.  No.  19,  of  20  cents  per  share  was  declared.payable  Mon- 
day. Augusts.  1892.  Transfer  books  will  close  FRIDAY.  August  8,  1892, 
at  the  hour  of  3  p.  m.  D.  C.  BATE9.  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


August  8    1892. 


■  NEW8  LETTER. 


THE    WIVES    OF    PROFESSIONAL    MEN. 


[By    D  i    Vitiol  .J 

TBI  statement  has  been  made  thai  the  manners,  thoughts  and 
appearance  of  women  are  greatly  affected  hy  their  husbands' 
professions.  For  instance,  that  a  preacher's  wife  has  that  appear- 
ance which  arises  from  calmness  ••(  spirit ;  a  lawyer's  wife  be- 
comes imbued  with  the  combativeness,  determination  and  acumen 
of  a  lawyer;  a  politician's  wife  acquires  diplomacy;  a  banker's 
wife  has  a  feeling  of  substantial  worth;  a  stockbroker's  lives  In 
hope,  or  in  terror  of  the  next  deal;  a  physician's  wife  has  the 
confidence  and  repose  of  knowledge.  Is  this  true?  Vartly  so. 
But  to  make  it  the  universal  fact,  one  of  two  alternatives  would 
have  to  be  admitted.  Either  men  choose  their  wives  not  only  for 
their  personal  charms,  their  feminine  grace  and  beauty,  but  for 
their  desirability  and  adaptability  for  a  business  partnership;  or 
else  women  are  easily  molded  to  the  thoughts,  desires  and  intel- 
lectual pursuits  of  their  husbands.  Neither  of  these  propositions 
will  stand.  Men  who  marry  young  in  life,  and  later  attain 
eminence  in  their  profession,  frequently  rind  that  their  wives,  in- 
stead of  being  a  help  to  them,  are  a  hindrance ;  instead  of  sharing 
their  ambition,  their  aspirations  are  utterly  without  one  thought 
in  harmony  with  those  that  have  come  to  rule  their  own  lives. 
Of  all  professional  men,  it  may  be  said  that  ministers  and  politi- 
cians are  made  or  marred  by  their  wives,  as  far  as  their  popularity 
is  concerned.  As  the  Rev.  John  Hemphill  said,  "  My  first  offense 
in  the  eyes  of  my  elders  of  Calvary  Church  was  when  I  decided 
to  marry  a  wife  of  my  own  choosing."  That  the  clergyman 
chose  to  marry  a  lady  somewhat  his  senior,  and  origin- 
ally not  of  his  denomination,  created  some  ill-feeling 
among  the  set  who  felt  that  in  so  momentous 
a  matter  as  the  pastor's  marriage  they  should  have  been  con- 
sulted. From  that  time  on,  despite  Dr.  John  Hemphill's  scholar- 
ship and  faithful  pastorate,  there  were  some  who  would  not  be 
pleased  with  his  wife,  although  she  was  a  charming  lady,  with 
hosts  of  friends,  abundance  of  graceful  tact,  ready  sympathy  and 
suavity  of  manner.  Frequently  a  young  minister  does  think  of 
his  church  work  when  he  woos  a  woman  for  his  wife.  One  of 
the  absurdest  courtings  that  has  ever  gone  unrecorded  took  place 
a  few  years  ago,  when  a  young  theological  student  graduated 
from  a  local  seminary ,  and  became  the  pastor  of  a  church  in  the 
interior.  Soon  after  he  visited  San  Francisco  he  called  on  a  young 
lady  whom  he  had  known  as  an  active  worker  in  a  Sunday- 
school.  "  I've  decided  to  get  married,"  said  he,  in  a  most  matter- 
of-fact  may,  "  and  I  believe  it  best  to  marry  outside  of  my  own 
congregation.  It  breaks  a  church  all  up  with  jealousy  if  a  min- 
ister marries  one  of  his  own  church  members.  Don't  you  think 
you  would  like  to  be  a  minister's  wife?"  The  young  lady  said 
she  didn't  think  so.  "  But  you  like  church  work,  don't  you?" 
"Oh,  yes ;  but  that  is  different.  Will  you  expect  your  wife  to  be 
president  of  the  ladies'  sewing  society?"  "  Why,  of  course." 
"  And  to  teach  in  Sunday-school  ?"  *"  Certainly."  "  And  to  go 
to  prayer-meeting?"  "  Yes."  "  To  lead  the  singing?"  ."  Yes." 
"  To  play  the  melodeon?"  "  Why,  yes."  "  But  I  can't  play  the 
organ."  "Can't  you  play?— why,  I  thought  you  played  the 
piano."  "No."  "  Why,  that's  too  bad— but  you  can  cook, 
can't  you?"  "  Yes.  Must  your  wile  do  her  own  work,  too?" 
"  Well,  for  a  while."  "  And  never  be  late  to  church?  Don't  you 
know,  I  think  you  had  better  go  back  and  marry  in  your  own 
congregation."     So  he  went. 

On  the  other  hand,  I  have  heard  ministers  say  that  they  do  not 
expect  their  wives  to  do  the  work  of  an  assistant,  or  to  be  a 
female  curate.  The  position  of  a  minister's  wife  is  not  an  en- 
viable one.  She  must  always  be  interested  in  the  plans  of  the 
ladies'  societies.  She  must  have  the  tact  and  the  diplomacy  to 
steer  clear  of  all  entangling  alliances  with  any  of  the  cliques  into 
which  congregations  are  so  often  broken.  She  must  not  identify 
herself  with  either  of  opposing  factions.  She  must  never  take 
sides.  "  What  is  your  native  place?"  was  the  question  once  put 
to  a  young  lady,  who  wittily  replied,  "  I  have  none— I  am  the 
daughter  of  a  Methodist  minister."  "  What  are  your  opinions?" 
might  receive  a  similar  reply,  "  I  have  none — I  belong  to  the 
minister's  family."  The  minister's  wife  is  subject  to  criticism  on 
all  sides.     If  she  enter  society,  she  will  be  called  too  frivolous, 


D*  PRICE'S 

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Used  in  Millions  of  Homes— 40  years  the   Standard. 


too  worldly-minded;  if  she  mingle  not  with  any  of  the  happy, 
light-hearted  throng,  she  will  be  called  a  recline,  nn. I  declared  In- 
different 1. 1  her  husband's  interest,  by  neglecting  t..  innkc  trienda 
(or  him  through  her  unvarying  courtesy  and  aool&l  traits.  Either 
she  dressed  too  gay ly  or  she  is  careless  of  her  appearance;  either 
she  does  not  take  a  sufficiently  active  interest  in  church  \v..rk  or 
she  is  negligent  of  her  home  duties;  either  her  children  claim  t.„, 
much  of  her  time  and  thought  or  she  carries  blind  faith  too  far 
and  trusts  to  the  Lord  to  bring  them  np  for  her.  She  deserves 
more  sympathy  than  is  generally  accorded  to  her. 

San  Francisco  has  had  the  privilege  of  knowing  many  charm- 
ing women  in  the  position  uf  clergymen's  wives.  Mrs.  John 
Hemphill  had  hosts  of  appreciative  admirers.  Mrs.  J.  Landers 
Reed,  formerly  of  Trinity,  once  remarked:  ■■  I  will  help  my  hus- 
band in  a  social  way;"  and  she  did  it  royally.  Mrs.  Robert  Mac- 
Kenzie  is  in  everyway  fitted  for  the  prominent  position  which  she 
tills  with  so  much  energy,  tact  and  executive  ability  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  on  Van  Ness  avenue.  Mrs.  R.  C.  Foute  has  all 
the  grace,  affability  and  courtesy  of  a  polished  Southern  lady,  and 
is  very  popular  among  her  husband's  prishoners  of  Grace  Church; 
and  what  more  could  be  said?  The  wife  of  W.  W.  Davis,  of 
St,  Luke's  on  Van  Ness  and  Clay,  is  a  stirring,  capable,  energetic 
little  woman,  always  ready  to  second  her  husband's  efforts  to  in- 
crease the  usefulness  of  his  church.  The  wife  of  Rev.  Dr.  Spauld- 
ing,  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  is  a  bright,  entertaining  con- 
versationalist, and  much  admired.  Mrs.  John  Grey  has  done 
good  service  in  assisting  her  husband  to  make  a  success  of  his 
labors  in  the  Church  of  the  Advent.  The  paper  carnivals  which 
have  been  given  for  the  benefit  of  that  parish  were  largely  under 
her  supervision.  Of  the  pastors  once  prominent  in  San  Francisco 
church  circles,  but  who  now,  alas,  have  ceased  from  their  labors, 
Rev.  A.  L.  Stone  of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  and  Rev. 
Dr.  William  A.  Scott  of  8t.  John's  Presbyterian  Church,  had 
wives  that  must  ever  be  considered  unexcelled  for  quiet  dignity, 
helpful  sympathy,  loving  interest,  and  a  calm  and  unshaken 
faith.  Their  very  personality  was  an  inspiration  to  all  with 
whom  they  came  in  church  relationship. 

Our  lawyers'  wives  do  not  show  a  combativeness.  On  the 
contrary,  they  aie  women  of  broad  and  liberal  thought,  chari- 
table intent,  and  are  actively  engaged  in  works  of  benevolence 
or  as  leaders  of  society  or  patrons  of  music.  Of  all  the  politicians 
and  their  wives  who  ever  graced  San  Francisco  society  the  names 
of  William  M.  Gwin  and  his  wife  must  be  remembered  with  ad- 
miration, as  a  couple  whose  interests  were  one,  and  which  were 
greatly  advanced  by  the  tact  and  diplomacy  of  the  wife.  She 
was  a  social  queen  in  her  own  drawing-room,  a  gracious  society 
lady  in  the  halls  of  others,  charming  all  by  her  dignity  of  man- 
ner and  her  graciousness  to  everyone,  and  the  flattering  attention 
which  she  accorded  to  all.  Our  bankers'  wives  are  actively  en- 
gaged in  charities.  Among  them  Mrs.  William  Alvord  may  be 
mentioned  as  a  type. 

The  wives  of  our  local  physicians  cannot  be  better  represented 
than  by  Mrs.  McNutt,  whose  husband's  name  is  well  known  and 
honored  in  the  community.  This  lady  is  the  daughter  of  the  late 
Judge  Coon.  She  is  prominent  in  church  circles  and  charitable 
societies;  she  is  a  society  leader,  and  in  every  way  a  charming, 
dignified  matron. 


HIGHLAND 


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A    TABLE    LUXURY, 

A    CULINARY    ARTICLE, 

AN    INFANTS    FOOD. 

HIGHLAND  EVAPORATED  CREAM 

Is  unsweetened  and  free  from  all  preservatives.  Retains 
its  delicious  and  wholesome  qualities  for  an  indefinite  time  in 
all  climates  and  at  all  seasons. 

Sold  by  Grocers  and   Druggists  Everywhere. 

Write    for    our     Infant    Food    circular    and    Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  booklet  entitled  "A  Few  Dainty  Dishes." 

HELVETIA  MILK   CONDENSING-   CO., 
Sole  Purveyors,  Highland,  III 

PACIFIC    TOWEL    GOJs/L'F -AJlSTir  , 

9     LICK     PLACE, 
Furnishes  Clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates: 

Cleau  Hand  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per  month ;   12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  month ;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week.  $1.00  per 
6  month ;  6  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.25  per  month. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


lehSdizSVflriD 


We   Obey    no    Wand    but   Pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 


OLD  saws  are  generally  to  be  regarded  with  suspicion,  but  now 
and  then  they  receive  collateral  indorsement.  *i  Two  wrongs 
cannot  make  a  right,"  for  example,  is  forcibly  illustrated  in 
Tuxedo,  the  much-advertised  union  of  two  specialty  companies 
having  resulted  in  a  performance  which  is  certainly  stale  and  flat, 
though,  let  us  hope— with  a  good  nature  perhaps  involving  some 
treachery  toward  the  public — probably  not  unprofitable.  The 
crowded  houses  at  the  California  seem  to  encourage  the  latter 
supposition,  and  money  may  be  a  more  tangible  possession  than 
reputation. 

*  *  * 

The  play  drags,  and  when  a  farce-comedy  lacks  "  Bnap  "  it 
lacks  its  chief  excuse  for  existing.  Some  of  the  specialty  people 
are,  however,  "  not  so  awfully  bad,  don't  cher  know  ?  "  to  quote 
one  of  them.  George  Thatcher  makes  a  rather  happy  persona- 
tion of  Grover  Cleveland,  and  his  hits  are  clever  enough,  if  one 
did  not  take  into  account  the  many  he  might  make  and  doesn't. 
The  minstrel  vocalists  sing  badly,  of  course  (Mr.  Frillnian  and 
Mr.  Geo.  Lewis  being  pleasing  exceptions),  bat  the  worst  of 
them  have  voices  which  cover,  for  general  acceptance,  a  multi- 
tude of  artistic  sins.  Raymon  Moore  deserves  praise  for  his  dis- 
tinct enunciation,  which  renders  every  word  distinctly  audible, 
and  makes  one  long  to  hold  him  up  as  an  example  to  the  high- 
and-mighty  vocalists  throughout  the  world;  and  Richard  Jose's 
phenomenally  bad  style  is  very  nearly  offset  by  his  phenomenally 
beautiful  voice.  Bo  nearly,  that  in  listening  to  his  marvelously 
clear  high  notes,  one  feels  an  active  regret  that,  while  still,  as 
11  Dicky  Jose,"  running  wild  on  theNevad  n  alkali  plains,  he  was 
not  lassoed  and  carried  off  to  Paris  to  be  trained  and  tamed  to  de- 
light the  world  in  the  higher  ranks  of  vocalism,  where  there  is 
so  much  ' '  method  "  and  so  little  voice.  Why  can  he  not  capture 
himself  and  do  it  yet?  He  has  both  the  time  and  the  oppor- 
tunity. 

*  #  # 

It  gives  a  lively  shock  to  the  writer's  rampant  Americanism  to 
own  that  the  honors  of  Tuxedo  rest  almost  wholly  with  the 
"Trans-Atlantic  comedian,"  John  E.  Coleman.  His  walk,  his 
dancing,  his  speech,  with  all  the  music-hall  incidentals,  are  so 
thoroughly  original  in  style  and  so  remarkably  clever  in  execu- 
tion that  it  is  safe  to  say  Tuxedo  will  draw  the  crowd  as  long  as 
it  boasts  this  one  performer. 

*  *  • 

The  opening  of  the  Jeffreys-Lewis  season,  at  Stockwell's,  on 
Monday  night,  was  an  occasion  of  considerable  interest  to  theatre- 
goers in  general.  The  personal  popularity  of  the  proprietor  has 
caused  a  natural  desire  that  his  new  and  ambitions  undertaking 
succeed,  and  no  little  anxiety  was  felt  as  to  how  the  new  theatre 
would  stand  the  inevitable  reaction  from  the  brilliant  glories  of 
the  Daly  season.  The  house  was  entirely  reassuring  as  to  num- 
bers, though  somewhat  changed  in  character,  while  the  evident 
good-feeling  which  has  from  its  beginning  marked  the  launching 
of  the  new  venture,  was  fully  maintained.  The  star  received  an 
old-time  welcome,  and  played  Clotilde  with  her  accustomed  fire 
and  subtlety.  The  play,  as  well  as  Miss  Lewis'  peculiarities  of 
Btyle,  are  so  well  known  that  special  comment  is  needless,  except 
to  say  that  the  favorite  actress  has  lost  none  of  her  power  in  this 
difficult  line  of  delineation.  It  is  an  artistic  crime  for  an  actress 
to  become  stout,  but  Jeffreys-Lewis  has  managed  to  survive  con- 
viction on  this  serious  count,  with  little  loss  of  the  sinuous  grace 
which  has  always  been  so  strong  a  personal  charm.  Ethel  Bran- 
don received  a  warm  welcome  back  to  the  stage  after  her  vacation , 
and  played  Fernande  sympathetically.  Bebe  Vining  was  lively 
and  characteristic  as  Poinerol's  exacting  wife,  and  the  cast,  as  a 
whole,  was  a  good  one,  though  Harry  Mainhall  is  hardly  the  ideal 
Andre.  Mr.  Stockwell  has  not  a  great  opportunity  in  General 
Morrell,  but  the  audience  is  always  glad  to  see  him  on  the  stage 
in  any  character.  Among  the  new  people  are  W.  J.  Lonergan, 
long  known  as  a  leading  amateur  here,  and  Bertha  Foltz,  a  young 
daughter  of  the  lawyer,  Clara  Foltz.  In  the  interest  of  the  new 
theatre,  it  may  be  in  order  to  suggest  the  production  of  some  en- 
tirely new  plays,  which  will  draw  audiences  by  the  double  in- 
centive of  a  desire  to  see  the  piece  as  well  as  the  players. 
*  #  • 
The  long  season  of  The  Lost  Paradise  at  the  Baldwin  closes  to- 
night, and  Monday  will  see  a  return  of  one  of  the  most  enjoyable 
of  recent  plays,  Alabama,  J.  H.  Stoddart  will  still  be  the  Col. 
Preston,  and  E.  M.  Holland  Col.  Moberly,  both  of  which  delight- 
ful characters  are  still  fresh  in  memory  as  when  first  presented 
at  the  Baldwin.  There  are  many  new  names  in  the  cast,  but 
Francis  Carlyle  and  others  are  announced  for  their  former  char- 
acters. The  plantation  melodies  by  negro  singers  will  be  a  fea- 
ture of  the  production.  Mr.  Thomas'  idyllic  Southern  play  has  a 
rare  charm  to  the  unspoiled  taBte,  wearied  of  the  plays  owing 
their  interest  to  Frenchy  intrigue,  unlicensed  passion,  or  the  sen- 
sational devices  of  realism.     It  is   a   hearty,  healthful,  optimistic 


picture,  set  among  the  bayous  and  cypress  groves  of  the  South, 
and  possesses  a  perennial  attraction  for  sound  minds  which  will 
insure  it  a  welcome  back  to  the  Baldwin. 

#  *  * 

While  the  Alabama  company  was  in  Denver  one  of  the  local 
papers  got  Mr.  Harris,  the  jolly  Squire  of  the  play,  mixed  up  with 
Mr.  Abeles,  and  spoke  of  him  as  "  a  young  man  from  New  Or- 
leans, and  a  good  actor."  On  the  morning  after  the  first  per- 
formance at  Salt  Lake,  Frank  Carlyle,  Herbert  Millard,  and  some 
other  members  of  the  company,'  were  Beated  in  the  court  of  the 
Hotel  Knutsford,  where  they  noticed  an  old  gentleman  deeply 
immersed  in  his  newspaper,  and  making  emphatic  nods  and 
audible  comment  aa  he  read.  From  the  latter  it  was  evident  he 
bad  got  hold  of  the  criticism  in  the  Denver  paper  aforesaid,  and 
was  comparing  it  with  his  own  impressions  of  the  night  before. 
At  each  sentence  he  would  nod  and  murmur,  »  That's  so,"  etc. ; 
but  suddenly  he  stopped,  frowned  reflectively,  and  ejaculated, 
"  Nonsense!  that  fellow  doesn't  know  what  he  is  talking  about." 

"  What's  that?"  said  Carlyle,  scenting  fun. 

"  Why,  this  writer  says  " — and  he  read  the  sentence  quoted 
above.  "  Now,  that  reminds  me  of  the  old  joke  on  the  French 
Encyclopedists  commissioned  to  compile  the  National  Dictionary. 
Having  defined  the  crab,  "  a  small  red  fish  which  moves  back- 
ward," and  feeling  a  little  doubtful  as  to  their  exactness,  they  ap- 
plied to  Cuvier  for  indorsement.  The  great  naturalist  replied 
with  suave  courtesy,  but  with  equal  conclusiveness:  •  Gentlemen, 
your  excellent  definition  is  entirely  correct  in  every  particular 
but  three — the  crab  is  not  a  fish,  it  isnctrad,  and  it  does  not  move 
backward.'  Now,  this  writer  is  correct  to  the  same  extent.  Mr. 
Harris  is  not  a  young  man,  he  is  not  from  New  Orleans  and  he 
canH  act! " 

As  Mr.  Harris  is  reputed  among  the  best  members  of  Mr.  Palm- 
er's company,  and  is,  withal,  a  very  genial  companion,  he  could 
afford  to  join  in  the  laugh  against  himself,  but  the  joke  was  not 
allowed  to  die  out  by  the  rest  of  the  company,  and  has  survived 
the  journey  to  San  Francisco. 

#  #  « 

Beauty  and  the  Beast,  the  old  nursery  tale  made  into  a  musical 
extravaganza  by  a  local  composer  and  librettist,  has  made  a  de- 
cided hit  at  the  Tivoli.  Adolph  Bauer  adapted  the  music  to  words 
written  by  John  P.  Wilson.  The  musical  selections  are  made 
with  good  taste  and  applicability.  Mr.  Wilson  appears  in  the 
piece  and  sings  a  ballad  in  the  third  act  very  acceptably.  The 
missionary  song  in  the  same  act  is  original  and  decidedly  clever. 
The  piece  is,  as  usual  at  the  Tivoli,  judiciously  cast  and  well 
acted.  It  seems  to  have  made  a  success  that  will  warrant  its 
continuance  for  some  time. 

#  *  * 

Monday  night  will  see  at  Stockwell's  Theatre  a  strictly  new 
play,  the  work  of  Mrs.  Genevieve  Bancroft,  and  with  the  striking 
title  of  Woman1  s  Eyes.  The  hero  is  a  clergyman,  Rev.  Guy  Fen- 
ton,  and  will  give  Harry  Mainhall  a  chance  to  display  his  natural 
leaning  toward  piety  and  ministerial  gravity.  Jeffreys-Lewis 
will  appear  as  "  La  Belle  Helene,"  and  Fanny  Young  and  Nick 
Long  will  be  added  to  the  cast.  Mrs.  Bancroft  is  well  known  in 
this  city,  owing  to  which  fact  the  opening  night  will  doubtless 


/ 


August  6,  1892. 


BAM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


M«  ftt  the  new  theatre  a,  fashionable  and  intelligent  audience. 

Th*  Ensign,  which  will  be  produced  soon  at  the  California,  is  a 
purely  nautical  drama,  based  on  one  of  the  exciting  naval  inci- 
dents of '61.  Among  its  stirring  scenes  will  be  the  decks  of  a 
man-of-war  fully  prepared  for  action. 

•  •  • 

Mr.  Louis  Morgenstern,  Treasurer  of  the  Baldwin,  will  take  a 
benefit  during  the  first  week  of  Sol  Smith  Russell's  coming  en- 
gagement at  that  theatre.  It  will  be  his  first  benefit,  and  was 
tendered  by  the  Baldwin  management.  In  some  cases  public 
opinion  is  so  nearly  unanimous  that  words  are  superfluous;  but 
It  is  a  pleasure  to  say  that  if  even  a  small  fraction  of  Mr.  Mor- 
genstern's  friends,  and  those  who  have  been  the  recipients  of  his 
courteons  attention,  turn  out  on  this  occasion,  Mr.  Russell  is  sure 
of  at  least  one  packed  house  during  his  stay  at  the  Baldwin. 

•  •  * 

Mrs.  Pacheco's  new  play,  Nothing  But  Money,  is  described  as 
h  purely  farcical,  but  coherent,  and  telling  a  clean,  interesting 
and  highly  amusing  story,  beside  being  thoroughly  American." 
It  will  be  brought  out  here  next  season  by  Kirke  La  Shelle,  E.  S. 
Willard's  late  manager,  and  will  be  played  by  Geo.  W.  Lederer's 
comedy  company,  which  includes  Harry  aud  E.  L.  Davenport, 
Ellen  Bnrg,  Clara  Lipman,  J.  L.  Ottomeyer  and  others  equally 
well  known.  The  tour  begins  in  Chicago,  August  14th.  Mr.  La 
Shelle,  who  is  a  partner  of  Mr.  Lederer  in  this  venture,  will  soon 
be  in  this  city  to  make  arrangements  for  the  production  of 
Nothing  But  Money  and  other  new  plays  at  Stockwell's  Theatre. 

*  •  » 

Herr  Paderewski,  the  wonderful  pianist  and  the  idol  of  the 
ladies,  who  has  created  such  a  furor  in  London,  is  under  engage- 
ment to  the  8teinways  who  will  give  Californians  an  opportunity 
to  bear  the  great  virtuoso.  Paderewski  will  give  four  piano  re- 
citals in  this  city,  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  beginning  about  the  mid- 
dle of  November. 

»  •  » 

The  story  in  Woman's  Eyes  is  that  of  a  Parisian  adventuress, 
with  whom  the  young  clergyman,  Guy  Fenton,  falls  madly  in 
love  as  a  *♦  Paris  saint.*'  The  minister  whose  mind  could  con- 
ceive such  a  paradox:  should  be  canonized  and  then  killed.  He 
is  quite  too  innocent  for  this  world. 

*  *  * 

Nellie  McHenry  will  come  soon  to  the  California  with  A  Night 
at  the  Circus.— —Forget  Me  Not  will  naturally  follow  Woman's  Eyes 
at  8tockweU's. Sol  Smith  Russell  will  begin  his  Baldwin  en- 
gagement with  A  Poor  Relation.     He  will  also  play  Peaceful  Valley. 


BASEBALL    NOTES. 


THE  Oakland  and  San  Francisco  baseball  clubs  opened 
the  second  week  of  the  last  half  of  the  championship 
by  winning  their  games,  as  they  did  in  the  first  week. 
Harper,  of  the  San  Jose  team,  has  a  very  sore  knee. 
This  throws  all  the  pitching  on  Lookabough.  After  the  games 
played  here,  last  Saturday  and  Sunday,  every  one  commended  the 
California  League  people  for  doing  away  with  the  bunt.  During 
these  games  the  ball  was  hit  hard,  and  often  producing  an  abund- 
ance of  base-running  and  excitement.  The  applause  and  com- 
ments of  the  audience  proved  that  the  public  appreciated  the 
change.  The  Oakland  and  San  Francisco  teams  will  play  in  this 
city  next  week.  When  these  nines  meet  there  should  be  plenty 
of  batting.  Heretofore  home-runs  were  only  occasional;  now 
they  are  becoming  quite  frequent.  The  San  Jose  and  Oakland 
nines  will  plt*y  at  Haight  street,  in  this  city,  this  afternoon  and 
to-morrow.  According  to  the  averages  which  have  been  com- 
piled for  the  first  half  of  the  present  season,  the  Los  Angeles  Club 
takes  the  lead  in  fielding  and  batting.  Treadway  leads  the  bat- 
ters; McCauley  leads  the  first  basemen;  Glenalvin  the  second 
basemen  and  Stafford  the  shortstops.  Denny  leads  the  third 
basemen;  Spies  leads  the  catchers;  Lookabough  the  pitchers  and 
Wright  the  outfielders. 

Umpire  McDermott  will  be  able  to  resume  his  position  next 
week.  His  accident  has  kept  McDonald  away  from  home  since 
it  occurred,  as  Gagus  would  not  umpire  away  from  home,  and 
then  only  did  it  as  a  personal  favor  to  President  Mone. 

High  salaries  in  the  East,  together  with  bad  weather,  are  using 
up  all  the  money  taken  in  at  the  gates  when  the  weather  permits 
games  to  be  played.  To  meet  this  state  of  affairs,  the  clubs  in 
the  East  have  commenced  to  reduce  the  salaries  of  the  players. 
Heretofore  the  players  have  been  getting  all  the  money,  while 
the  club-owners  have  been  working  for  nothing. 

There  is  a  strong  probability  that  the  Stockton  people  will  make 
an  effort  to  get  into  the  league  next  season.  Some  people  in 
Sacramento  are  anxious  to  again  have  a  club  in  the  league.  At 
present,  the  salaries  in  the  California  League  are  too  high  to  sup- 
port teams  in  cities  the  size  of  Stockton,  Oakland,  Sacramento 
and  San  Jose.  Lob  Angeles  lives,  because  the  admission  charged 
is  fifty  cents,  ladies  being  also  charged. 

The  epicures  of  the  city  have  decided  that  the  only  place  to  go  for 
an  enjoyable  supper  is  the  Maison  Kiche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary 
street  and  Grant  avenue. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

AL  Hayman  A  Co       ...  Pronriotors.  |  Al.rRED  Bouviir Mauagor. 

To-night!  Matinee  Saturday.  CHARLES  IHIIIIH\\>  sum  K  COM 
I'ANY,  In  the  bed  of  Amorlcan  Playa 

THE    LOST    PARADISE  I 
^Commencing  Monday,  August  8,  MB.  A.  M.  PALMER'S  HOME  <  OM- 

Mr.  J. K.  Stoii.iart.  Mr.  E.  M.  Holland,  Miss  Jonnlc  Eustace 

V.     S.  WM  L'  """'a.         Mr.  Francis  Carlylc,        Mis  Emily  Howard, 
Mr.  Wllden  Ramsay.  Mr.  Edward  S.  Abeles,    Miss  Lilllo  Wolston, 

Mr.  Herbert  Millward,        Mr.  Odell  Williams.         Miss  Zenaldc  VUUire, 

Miss  Rose  Morgan. 
In  an  elaborate  production  of  ALABAMA.    Seats  now  ready. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

AL  Hatman  ,&  Co.. ...Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Oottlob    Manager. 

Last  week  of  the  great  success 

"TUXEDO  I" 
Presented    by  GEORUE  THATCHER'S   MINSTRELS   and    RICH   .1 
HARRIS'  COMEDY  CO.,  entire  change  of  songs  for  the  good-bye  week. 

Monday,  August  15,  NELLIE  Jii-IIEXitv,  in  her  new  pUy,  "A  NIU1IT 
AT  THE  CIRCUS." 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Ebbling  Beob  ..Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night!  Another  great  success  added  to  our  long  list  of  successes !  An 
emphatic  hit!  Nothing  succeeds  like  snceeBsl  Enthusiastic  reception  of 
BAUER  AM>  WILSOiVS  SPECTACULAR  BURLESQUE, 

BEAUTY  AND  THE  BEAST  1 

Popular  Peices  25c.  and  50c 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stock  well Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alp  Ellinghouse Business  Manager. 

This  evening  at  8.  Matinee  Saturday.  JEFFREYS-LEWIS  and  STOCK- 
WELL'S  COMPANY  OF  PLAYERS,  presenting  the  Society  Drama 

"CLOTILDEI" 

EVENING  PRICES,  25c„  50c,  75c.  $1.00.  MATINEE  PRICES,  25c,  50c.,75o, 
Next  Monday,  August  8:  "  WOMAN'S  EYES,"  by  Genevieve  Bancroft. 
Seats  now  on  sale. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 


FOURTH  GRAND  EXCURSION 

OF    THE    SEASON 

—TO— 

TJKIAH, 

ON    SUNDAY,     AUGUST    7,     1892. 

TICKETS  FOR  THE  ROUND  TRIP  ONLY  $2. 

Boat  leaves  Tiburon  Perry,  foot  of  Market  street,  at  8  a.  m.    Returning, 
train  leaves  Ukiah  at  4  p.  M.  _ 

Ticket  Offlces-No.  2  New  Montgomery  street  and  Tiburon  Ferry. 
H.  C.  WHITTING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

General  Manager.  G.  P.  «fe  T.  A 


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day, July  29,  30,  From  2  to  4  p.  m.  at  922  Geary  St. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


August  6,  1892. 


THE  residents  of  that  Jackson  street  section  of  Oakland,  which  has 
long  bten  sacred  to  society,  are  in  a  flatter  over  an  event  which  has 
occurred  this  week.  Their  territory  has  actually  been  invaded  by  an 
outsider,  for  Captain  and  Mrs.  John  Wright,  formerly  of  Fifth  and 
Market  streets,  have  dared  to  step  within  the  hallowed  circle  by  rent- 
ing the  Al  Reddy  place  on  Madison  and  Fifteenth  streets.  True,  the 
Captain  has  money— $3,000  or  $4,000  a  month  or  so,  for  he  is  one  of 
principal  stockholders  in  the  Gas  Company,  besides  being  interested 
in  many  other  paying  ventures.  But  this  is  not  enough  to  establish 
him,  for  the  Four  Hundred  regard  him  and  his  wife  as  mushrooms; 
and  in  digging  up  reminiscences  they  remember  that  his  wife  was 
formerly  the  spouse  of  Simmons,  of  Del  Monte  Hotel  tire  fame,  from 
whom  she  obtained  a  divorce  after  he  entered  the  penitentiary. 
Then  again  the  gossips  say  that  Mrs.  Wright  shows  shocking  taste  in 
wearing  the  diamonds  of  the  captain's  dead  first  wife,  and  they  laugh 
a«  they  recollect  her  wild  attempts  to  talk  French,  so  as  to  impress 
every  one  with  the  thoroughness  of  her  recent  grand  tour  in  the  old 
world.  It  is  also  said  that  the  Captain  will  not  hold  out  a  helping 
hand  to  his  son,  who  is  absolutely  destitute,  and  these  and  other  such 
things  arebeing  dissected  so  thoroughly  in  the  Jackson  street  drawing- 
rooms  that  even  the  Liljegren  case  and  other  famous  events  of  the 
hour  are  absolutely  forgotten.  The  gossip  has  had  a  big  effect,  too, 
for  among  many  a  combination  has  been  formed  not  to  acknowledge 
the  Wrights,  so  the  new-comers  are  not  likely  to  find  their  new  pas- 
tures as  pleasant  as  they  anticipated. 

*  »  « 

Gossip  avers  that  the  charming  Mrs.  Will  Tevis  has  half  prom 
ised  to  enlist  the  good  will  of  her  talented  mother  towards  writing 
a  little  one-act  trifle  for  the  company  of  amateurs  who  made  so 
brilliant  a  success  of  A  Scrap  of  Paper  some  seasons  back,  at  the 
residence  of  the  Lloyd  Tevis's,  on  Taylor  street.  Rumor  further 
goes  that  the  same  band  of  cheerful  workers  will  then  proceed  to 
get  up  an  affair  for  the  opening  of  the  coming  fall  season,  that 
will  be  worthy  of  a  local  pet  charity,  and  create  no  end  of  a  stir 

in  fashionable  circles. 

*  *  # 

A  little  bird  whispers  that  among  those  wending  their  way  to 
the  Knights  Templar  conclave  at  Denver,  is  a  lady  who  has  made 
it  an  open  secret  with  her  friends,  that  she  intends  to  have 
another  "try"  for  the  affections  of  that  very  attractive,  but 
somewhat  hard-hearted  bachelor,  Reub.  Lloyd.  Will  she  be  suc- 
cessful?    Nous  verrous. 

*  *  *  , 

The  girls  at  Del  Monte,  the  matrons  as  well,  aredevoutly  hoping 
that  the  weather  will  be  propitious  and  old  Sol  smile  upon  tbem 
during  the  time  when  so  large  a  number  of  society  people  will  be 
at  that  delightful  spot  for  the  Country  Club  shoot.  For  <<  there  is 
no  use  talking,"  say  they,  "  pretty  lawn  gowns  and  chiffons  are 
not  the  things  for  fogs  and  chill  winds,  such  as  July  has  been 
prolific  in  giving  us."  It  is  to  be  hoped  they  may  be  happy  in 
having  bright  skies  and  plenty  of  beaux,  for  of  what  avail  is 
even  propitious  weather  for  the  pretty  gowns  if  there  be  no  one 
to  appreciate  them  ? 

*  *  # 

Some  one  at  Santa  Cruz,  the  other  day,  was  expressing  amaze- 
ment at  the  numerous  anecdotes  of  private  family  history  per- 
taining to  the  old  times,  a  well-known  dowager  had  at  her 
fingers'  ends.  A  young  lawyer,  who  happened  to  be  one  of  the 
number  who  was  present  when  the  lady  expressed  her  amaze- 
ment, suddenly  looked  up  and  *aid,  ••  Why,  don't  you  know  that 
the  family  used  to  live  at  the  Oriental  Hotel,  and  in  those  days 
ihe  partition  walls  between  the  rooms  were  only  paper  and 
canvas."  That  young  man  deserves  the  reputation  for  a  logical 
mind  that  he  has  already  acquired  in  the  community. 
»  *  • 

The  plea  is  sometimes  set  forth  that  girls  are  better  educated, 
and  move  in  entirely  different  surroundings  than  did  their  mothers 
in  the  days  of  their  youth,  and  therefore  consider  themselves  as 
more  competent  to  decide  social  questions  than  their  progenitors. 
This,  while  no  doubt  true  in  many  instances,  does  not  palliate 
the  want  of  courtesy  that  any  well-bred,  well  disciplined  girl 
would  of  her  own  impulse  yield  her  mother,  and  which  is  so 
sadly  lacking  among  our  society  girls.  In  proof  of  which  asser- 
tion let  any  doubter  visit  Del  Monte  or  Santa  Cruz,  and  be  con- 
vinced. 

*  *  * 

The  old  rumor  anent  the  fragile  looking  sister-in-law  and  the 
stalwart  young  medico  is  being  revived.  Del  Monte  is  a  rare 
place  for  sentiment,  and  the  rare  bit  suppers  are  no  detriment. 
Tne  fact  that  Dr.  Harry  is  so  proficient  in  pleasing  the  palale 
is  another  added  attraction  to  that  fortunate  young  man. 

*  »  # 

Henry  Redington  has  bobbed  up  serenely  again,  of  course,  in 
attendance  upon  the  brother-in-law  "as  was,"  the  locale  this  time 
being  Castle  Crags.    There  has  been  an  exodus  of  so  many  pretty 


girls  from  there,  if  a  man  is  unpopular  among  them  he  had  better 
pass  in  his  checks,  socially. 

*  #  * 

The  arrival  in  California  of  the  Alger  girls  (daughters  of  the 
Detroit  millionaire)  has  revived  the  drooping  spirits  of  our 
j  ^t?lesse  doree.  The  more  heiresses  there  are,  the  better  for  them, 
and  in  this  case  the  ladies  would  not  have  the  advantage  of  the 
beaux  in  years  and  experience,  as  is  so  often  the  case  in  the 
majority  of  instances  in  the  home  article. 

*  *  » 

The- constitutional  railers  against  the  constancy  of  woman's 
friendships  should  visit  Castle  Crags  Tavern,  and  be  speedily  con- 
verted from  the  error  of  their  opinion,  by  witnessing  the  evi- 
dences of  the  friendship  which  has  existed  for  an  unbroken 
period  of  three  decades  between  Mrs,  M.  S.  Latham,  Mrs.  East- 
land and  Mrs.  Gummer.  All  these  ladies  were  inseparable  com- 
panions while  there  together  last  month. 


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Powder 


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It  is  made  of  pure  cream 
of  tartar  and  soda,  no  am- 
monia, no  alum.  A  like 
quantity  goes  farther  and 
does  better  work.  It  is 
therefore  cheaper. 

Cleveland's  is  the  baking 
powder  used  in  the  U.  S. 
Army  and  by  teachers  of 
cookery.  It  never  varies, 
and  always  gives  perfect 
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S\\    KUWrTSCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


FROM    SOCIETY    TO    SALVATION. 

ONE  of  the  moot  ardent  of  U  women  who  ttOh  evening 

parade  the  street?  of  nakUn.l  with  waring  Mags  and  clashing  turn- 
bonnes,  is  a  gOOd-looktag,  refined  woman,  ■bout  twentylivi  ■ 
age.  The  light  of  religions  enthusiasm  tire*-  her  eyes  with  even  greater 
brilliancy  than  nature  bestowed  upon  them.nml  at  the  prayer  meet- 
ing* she  it  the  mosl  deroul  of  all  the  little  hand  <>f  worshippers.  In 
view  of  the  hard,  comfortless  life  she  la  leading  one  would  scarcely 
credit  the  fact  that  she  is  the  daughter  of  a  man  worth  J.rxtO,000  and 
that  but  a  few  months  ago  she  was  one  of  the  reigning  society  belles 
op-country.  Hut  snch  is  the  case.  Her  name  is  Edna. Tones  and  her 
father  is  B.  W,  Jones.  County  Treasurer  of  Colusa  county,  head  of 
the  firm  of  J.  E.  \V.  Jones  rain,  wool  and  commission  mer- 

chants and  proprietor  of  the  Colusa  and  Grangers'  warehouses.  In 
Colusa  and  vicinity  she  is  well  known.  On  many  seasons  she  graced 
all  the  swell  events  of  that  part  of  the  country  and  was  considered 
quite  a  rich  prize  in  the  matrimonial  lottery.  About  a  year  ago  a 
change  came  over  the  spirit  of  her  dreams.  The  Salvationists  inva- 
ded Colusa.  Out  of  her  curiosity  she  went  to  hear  them,  was  impor- 
tuned by  the  services,  went  again,  and  to  make  brief  a  long  story 
finally  joined  the  army  and  left  her  home.  Her  family  used  every 
agency  in  their  power  to  induce  her  to  stay  at  home  but  no,  she  was 
determined  and  she  gave  up  all  her  luxuries  for  a  life  of  hardship. 
Recently  she  was  transferred  by  the  Salvation  brigadier  to  Oakland 
and  now  she  roughs  it  in  the  unseemly,  weather-stained  barracks 
on  Eighth  street,  thinking  naught  of  herself  and  bent  only  on  the 
field  work  of  her  new  faith. 

AN    EMPEROR'S    CRITICISM. 


APROPOS  of  Guy  de  Maupassant  and  his  successful  novel, 
"  Mont-Oriol,"  there  is  a  story.  The  grandfather  of  the 
present  Emperor  of  Germany,  the  aged  William,  towards  the  end 
of  his  long  existence  suffered  from  two  maladies  at  once:  one, 
but  too  common,  neuralgia;  the  other  exceedingly  rare,  ninety- 
one  years.  He  could  no  longer  win  sleep,  and  to  recover  it  had 
recourse  to  a  double  and  most  energetic  medication — hypodermic 
injections  of  morphine,  followed  by  reading  from  the  German 
poets.  On  a  certain  evening,  feeling  somewhat  better,  he  had  the 
aide-de-camp  on  duty  at  his  bedside  read  to  him  from  (i  Moni- 
Oriol,"  then  the  sensation  of  the  hour  at  Berlin.  But  when  the 
officer  had  read  about  a  dozen  pages  the  aged  sovereign,  who  had 
listened  most  attentively,  interrupted  him,  saying:  "  I  am  now 
convinced  that  that  book  is  very  well  written,  but  I  wish  to  hear 
no  more  of  it,  for  during  the  short  while  I  yet  have  to  live,  I  pre- 
fer to  keep  the  illusions  that  I  have  about  men, and  do  not  care  to 
tee  them  in  all  their  bideousness."  And  taking  from  the  hands 
of  the  officer  the  volume  of  Guy  de  Maupassant  the  Emperor  pre- 
sented him  with  a  copy  of  the  German  poet  Scheffel.  At  the  end 
of  the  sixth  stanza  he  was  sleeping  like  a  child. 


PARLIAMENTARY    WAGES. 


IN  Germany  both  houses  receive  about  $2  50  a  day.  In  Aus- 
tria the  pay  is  $5  a  day.  In  Greece  the  senators  get  $100  a 
month,  and  the  deputies  $50.  In  France  members  of  each  house 
receive  the  same — $5  a  day.  In  Denmark  the  members  receive 
about  $3  75  a  day.  In  Belgium  each  member  of  the  chamber 
of  representatives  gets  $85  a  month.  In  Portugal  the  peers  and 
commoners  are  paid  the  same  sum,  which  is  about  $335  a  year. 
In  Spain  the  members  of  the  Cortes  are  not  paid  for  their  services, 
but  enjoy  many  advantages  and  immunities.  In  Switzerland  the 
members  in  the  national  council  get  $2  50  a  day,  and  the  coun- 
cil of  state,  the  lower  house,  $1  50.  In  Italy  the  senators  and 
deputies  are  not  paid  at  all,  but  they  are  allowed  traveling  ex- 
penses and  certain  other  privileges.  England  is  the  only  country 
where  members  of  Parliament  are  not  only  unpaid,  but  have  no 
special  rights  or  privileges  whatever. 


A  good  many  people  are  asking  nowadays  what  has  become  of  Ralph 
Sparks,  the  son  of  wealthy  Martin  V.  Sparks,  of  Sixteenth  street, 
Oakland.  Ralph,  a  few  months  ago,  went  to  manage  his  father's  big 
grain  ranch  at  Davisville,  and  later  on  suddenly  disappeared.  The 
mystery  can  be  solved,  though,  by  an  inspection  of  the  police  records 
at  Sacramento,  for  there  it  will  be  found  that  there  is  a  warrant  out 
charging  Ralph  with  the  improper  treatment  of  Annie  R.  "Webber,  a 
buxom  Davisville  lass.  Annie.it  appears,  got  acquainted  with  Ralph 
soon  after  he  arrived  up-country,  and,  judging  by  the  charge  she  has 
now  preferred  against  him  it  would  indicate  that  they  got  rather 
over-friendly.  Seeing  that  a  storm  was  brewing  and  certain  to  break, 
Ralph  wisely  decidedly  to  seek  pastures  new,  and  a  letter  received 
from  him  the  other  day  shows  that  he  is  now  well  back  East.  The 
warrant  will  keep  him  out  of  California  for  a  long  time  to  come,  and 
as  his  father  is  worth  half  a  million  or  so  the  situation  is  not  a  pleas- 
ant one  for  him. m 

A  RATHER  grewsome  brooch  is  one  made  to  represent  a  bat.  The 
wings  are  outstretched  and  are  black  enamel,  while  the  body  of 
the  bat  is  formed  of  a  moonstone  and  the  eyes  of  two  tiny  rubies. 
— Ladies'  Home  Journal    (August). 


ENGLISH  NOVELTIES 
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We  have  just  received  a  vast 
assortment  of  exceptionally 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


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EVERY  day  one  hears  some  remark  made  in  all  innocence, 
which  is  so  refreshing  that  it  almost  takes  the  breath  away. 
The  small  boy,  to  whose  sister  some  gallant  youth  is  paying  at- 
tentions, is  often  the  cause  of  dire  trouble,  and  many  a  family 
secret  is  let  out  through  his  inclination  to  talk.  The  other  night 
I  heard  the  most  exquisite  bit  that  it  has  been  my  pleasure  to  hear 
in  many  a  day.  There  was  a  dinner  that  night  at  the  house  of  a 
prominent  Italian  attorney,  who  lives  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Jones  and  Washington  streets.  The  dinner  hour  was  set  for 
eight  o'clock,  and  a  little  before  that  'time  all  of  the  guests  had 
arrived.  Eight  o'clock  came,  and  then  quarter  past,  but  no  an- 
nouncement of  the  dinuer  being  ready;  then  the  clock  struck  the 
half-hour,  with  no  better  success.  ThiDgs  were  beginning  to  look 
serious,  and  questioning  glances  were  cast  by  those  present.  The 
hostess  seemed  as  much  disturbed  as  anybody,  and  often  looked 
inquiringly  at  her  daughter,  who  flitted  in  and  out  of  the  room. 
Finally  the  lady  begged  to  be  excused  for  the  delay,  as,  she  said, 
Mr.  S.  had  not  come  home  yet,  and  they  were  waiting  for  him. 
Quarter  of  nine  came,  then  nine,  and  still  no  Mr.  8.  The  guests 
were  almost  starving  by  this  time,  and  the  hostess  was 
getting  very  angry,  when  suddenly  one  door  opened, 
and  in  walked  Mr.  8.  fully  dressed  for  dinner,  which  at 
the  same  time  was  announced  by  the  servant.  The  host  made 
the  most  elaborate  apologies  for  his  absence,  and  explained  that 
an  important  case  had  caused  the  delay.  Of  course  the  guests 
were  very  glad  of  his  arrival,  and  sat  down  to  such  a  delicious 
repast  that  it  made  up  fully  for  the  hunger  they  had  suffered.  It 
was  after  twelve  when  they  left  the  table,  and  many  were  the 
compliments  showered  on  the  entertainer  for  such  a  delightful 
evening.  One  of  the  gentlemen  remarked  a  little  later  to  one  of 
the  hostess'  boys,  that  his  father  kept  the  party  waiting  pretty 
long.     "  Yes,"  said  the  boy,  "  he  was  cooking  the  dinner." 

•  *  * 

Roger  Magee,  as  every  one  knows,  is  famed  throughout  the 
land  for  his  gallantry  and  devotion  to  the  fair  sex;  no  matter,  be 
they  country  lass  or  city  maid,  each  receives  her  share  of  his  at- 
tentions, and  should  perchance  a  fair  damosel  be  in  need  of 
knightly  aid  in  his  neighborhood,  Roger  is  always  sure  to  go  to 
the  rescue.  Last  week  he  was  put  to  a  severe  test,  which  ended 
very  unfortunately,  and  has  made  him  extremely  backward  since 
in  offering  his  services.  It  seems  that  in  Mill  Valley,  where  the 
genial  Roger  spends  his  summer  months,  a  company  was  formed 
last  spring  for  the  purpose  of  importing  a  number  of  burros  from 
Mexico,  in  order  that  the  residents  and  Sunday  visitors  might  be 
enabled  to  scale  the  cliffs  and  rugged  mountains  without  much 
fatigue.  The  other  day  a  lady,  whose  weight  is  somewhere  in 
the  neighborhood  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  hired  one 
of  these  gentle,  but  stubborn  beasts  for  a  ride,  bnt  the  brute  re- 
fused to  move  under  his  heavy  load,  there  being  an  established 
rule  among  the  Order  of  Mexican  Burros  not  to  carry  more  than 
two  hundred  pounds,  under  penalty  of  being  expelled  from  the 
Union.  Vain  attempts  were  made  to  induce  his  burroship  to 
forego  his  usual  custom,  but  to  no  purpose;  he  would  not  budge 
Magee  attempted  first  by  moral  suasion  to  make  him  change  his 
mind,  and  then  by  means  of  a  thistle,  which,  whether  intention- 
ally or  through  ignorance  of  the  habits  of  burros,  he  placed  under 
the  animal's  tail.  Neither  had  the  desired  effect,  however  and 
the  ride  was  finally  given  up  as  hopeless.  When  the  lady  wished 
to  descend  to  terra  firma,  of  course,  the  gallant  Roger  offered  his 
shoulder,  and  would  have  landed  her  in  good  style,  had  not  the 
burro,  though  he  would  not  move  forward,  at  that  moment 
moved  sideways,  precipitating  the  three  hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
of  feminine  beauty  into  Magee's  arms  and  crushing  him  to  the 
ground.  Apologies  were  vain,  and  the  lady,  after  recovering  her 
feet,  walked  off  in  high  dudgeon,  leaving  Roger  to  vent  his 
wrath  on  the  burro,  who  fled  up  the  valley. 

*  *  * 

There  has i  been  a  shake-up  in  Dingee's  offices  in  Oakland  and 
Manager  Ed.  Benjamin  and  Cashier  Miller  are  now  left  to  the 
mercies  of  an  unappreciative  world.  The  fact,  too,  that  despite 
their  long  years  of  service,  they  were  let  drop  like  a  hot  dish 
supplemented  by  the  further  fact  that  their  places  have  been 
taken  by  Ed  Vinzent  and  Walter  Beatty,  has  set  all  the  business 
men  of  the  Athenian  City  talking,  for  all  the  parties  interested 
have  long  been  prominent  in  commercial  circles.  All  efforts  to 
unravel  the  mystery  have  hitherto  been  without  avail,  for  every 
one  concerned  was  as  close-mouthed  as  the  grave.    When  Dingee 


went  Easta  short  time  ago,  he  left  all  his  affairs  in  Benjamin's 
hands.  This  created  a  good  deal  of  rivalry  from  Vinzent's  side  of 
the  house,  and  trouble  was  fomented,  so  it  is  alleged,  by  Benja- 
min's reporting  that  Vinzent  was  doing  business  on  his  own 
account.  Later  on,  when  Dingee  returned,  Vinzent  set  bis  plans 
at  work.  He  conveyed  information  to  his  chief  that  Benjamin 
was  in  the  habit  of  being  remarkably  friendly  with  women  other 
than  his  wife,  and  as  Dingee  has  a  horror  of  any  such  conduct, 
he  decided  to  let  Benjamin  down  with  the  now  obsolete  "  dull 
thud."  As  Miller  was  Benjamin's  confidant,  he  went,  too,  and 
the  two  men  were  notified  peremptorily  that  their  services  were 
no  longer  required.  The  next  morning  Vinzent  and  Beatty 
stepped  into  the  shoes  of  their  ousted  confreres,  and  ><  there  you 
are,  don't  you  know." 

»  »  • 

One  of  |the  leading  men  of  Fresno  county  is  Fulton  G.  Berry, 
who  is  known  through  all  the  vineyards  of  the  raisin  district  as 
an  enterprising  man,  and  one  on  whom  the  snn  of  success  will 
throw  its  full  effulgence — when  it  has  time.  Sometime  ago  Mr. 
Berry  became  the  owner  and  sole  proprietor  of  a  street-car  line, 
which  has  its  route  along  the  main  streets  of  Fresno,  upon  which 
the  cars  are  hauled  by  some  of  the  former  famous  trotters  with 
which  all  the  Southern  counties  abound.  The  business  of  that 
car-line  was  not  nearly  as  great  as  it  should  be  according  to  the 
ideas  of  Mr.  Berry.  Instead  of  the  conductors  turning  in  pock- 
etsful  of  small  coins  every  evening,  as  evidences  of  the  migra- 
tory disposition  of  the  Fresno  folk,  Mr.  Berry  found 
he  was  receiving  hardly  enough  to  give  his  horses  the  oats  which 
their  fiery  natures  demanded.  Then  Mr.  Berry  showed  his  ability 
as  a  financier  and  cut  down  his  expenses,  leaving  only  one  car, 
one  horse  and  one  driver,  who  also  acted  as  conductor  on  the  line. 
That  solitary  horse-car  wandered  along  the  rails  at  all  hours  of 
the  day  and  night,  waiting  for  the  unwary  traveler  to  board  it  and 
drop  a  nickel  in  the  slot.  But  few  men  who  live  in  Fresno  are 
unwary.  Berry  used  to  follow  the  car  around  town  and  count 
on  his  thumbs  the  number  of  people  who  boarded  it,  so  that  the 
driver  would  not  "  knock  down  "  any  of  the  earnings.  One  night, 
weary  with  the  problem  of  municipal  transportation,  Berry  went 
to  bed  early.  His  wife  was  seated  at  a  front  window, 
when  the  car  rolled  slowly  by.  She  saw  a 
man  within.  Was  it  a  passenger?  Yes,  truly,  it 
must  be.  "Fulton I  Fulton!"  she  cried,  "there  goes  the 
car,  and  there's  a  passenrer  in  it."  Berry  arose  hurriedly,  and 
putting  on  but  scant  attire,  rushed  down  stairs.  Could  his 
dreams  have  come  true?  Had  he  at  last  caught  a  passenger?  He 
chased  the  car  for  four  blocks,  while  the  night  winds  bowled 
through  his  hair.  He  caught  the  car,  opened  the  door  and  en- 
tered. He  looked  at  the  man  inside,  who  was  huddled  in  a  cor- 
ner asleep.  Then  Mr.  Berry  fainted.  The  man  in  the  car  was 
the  driver,  who  had  tied  the  reins  to  the  dashboard  and  was 
awaiting  the  nickel-giver  who  never  came. 

•  «  • 

The  resignation  of  Dr.  McMouagle  as  8urgeon-in-Chief  of  the 
Women's  Hospital,  is  to  be  deplored.  It  will  be  difficult  to  fill 
his  place,  for  even  those  who  differ  with  him  in  his  ideas  of  hos- 
pital management  must  admit  that  there  are  few  his  equal  in  this 
city  iu  the  treatment  of  cases  where  delicate  operations  are  at- 
tended with  much  danger  to  the  patient.  Dr.  McMonagle,  like 
all  other  men  noted  for  their  peculiar  scientific  attainments,  is 
possessed  of  a  highly  positive  disposition,  which  brooks  no  out- 
side interference  with  cases  under  his  charge.  The  only  respon- 
sibility which  he  recognizes  is  his  own,  and  he  naturally  enough 
insists  that  his  orders  alone  shall  be  obeyed.  The  principal 
trouble  at  the  hospital  seems  to  have  been  that  the  nnrses  at 
times  considered  they  knew  more  than  the  surgeon  in  charge, 
a  state  of  affairs  which  he  did  not  propose  to  tolerate.  Beyond 
this  and  a  prevailing  feeling  of  jealousy  among  some  of  the  out- 
side physicians  at  the  high  position  professionally  attained  by  Dr. 
McMonagle,  there  was  no  other  reason  for  the  change 
which  has  been  effected  in  the  medical  direction  of  the 
institution.  The  best  of  feeling  prevails  between  Dr. 
McMonagle  and  the  management,  both  sides  being  con- 
tent to  make  a  sacrifice  in  the  interests  of  harmony.  The 
hospital  is  one  of  the  most  valuable  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the 
city.  It  is  doing  good  work,  and  the  best  proof  of  this  is  the 
number  of  patients  on  the  books.  From  this  forward,  the  posi- 
tion of  surgeon-in-chief  will  be  abolished,  and  any  physician  will 
have  the  right  to  visit  the  hospital  and  attend  to  private  cases. 
The  house  surgeon  will  retain  his  position,  and  no  other  changes 
will  be  made  in  the  staff  of  nurses  and  attending  physicians.  Pro- 
vision should  be  made  by  the  management  of  the  hospital,  which 
will  prevent  the  matron  and  nurses  from  making  any  suggestions 
regarding  the  treatment  of  patients,  or  in  any  way  interfering 
with  the  surgeons. 

•  •  ■ 

Harry  E.  Wise  is  properly  following  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
father  and  others  of  his  family,  and  has  blossomed  out  as  a  re- 
former and  leader  of  public  opinion.  Mr.  Wise  is  a  member  of 
the  Young  Men's  League  of  Progress,  and  is  prominent  in  the 
councils  of  that  very  influential  body.  The  League  had  a  meet- 
ing in  the  Bijou  Theatre  on  Tuesday  night,  which  was  very  well 
attended.    A  number  of  well-known  gentlemen  sat  upon  the 


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suite,  the  setting!  of  which  were  whit*  and  chute,  as  indicative 
probably,  of  the  reformations  to  be  undertaken  by  the  young 
men.  One  of  the  most  noticeable  decorations  of  the  stage  was  a 
statuette  of  the  Goddess  of  Liberty,  mounted  on  a  high,  white 
pedestal.  It  was  a  few  feet  in  front  of  this  that  Mr. 
Wise  stood  during  his  address.  He  had  taken  some 
points  from  older  orators,  and  threw  statistics  at 
his  audience,  and  told  how  the  country  was  going  to  the 
"  demnition  bow-wows,"  Its  only  salvation  being  the  League  of 
Progress.  •■  In  the  early  days,"  said  Mr.  Wise,  »  when  the 
earth  readily  gave  up  its  gold,  money  was  plentiful,  and  the 
popnlation  was  large  and  increasing.  Now,  gentlemen,  now  in 
these  days  of  sorrow  and  travail,  when  we  are  looking  at  one 
another  and  asking  what  is  to  be  the  outcome,  gold  is  getting 
scarce  and  the  population  is  getting  scarcer,  sirs,"  and  just  then 
the  "  Goddess  of  Liberty  "  fell  from  its  pedestal  with  a  crash.  It 
was  probably  overcome  by  the  dreary  outlook.  Mr.  Wise  was 
applauded. 

•  •  • 

Visitors  to  this  Queen  City  of  the  Pacific,  as  political  orators 
and  talkers  on  transportation  like  to  call  it,  are  often  loud  in  their 
praises  of  the  magnificent  views  to  be  obtained  from  any  of  our 
many  hills,  and  express  the  opinion  that  considering  our  many 
natural  advantages  we  ought  to  be  a  people  of  artistic  tempera- 
ments. So  we  are,  but  the  reason  we  are  not  appreciated  more  is 
simply  because  we  are  not  thoroughly  understood.  There  are 
many  works  of  art  in  this  city  which  would  have  made  the  ancient 
masters  weep  (with  envy,  of  course),  had  they  but  Been  these 
chtf  d'ocuvrcs.  We  have  before  remarked  the  beauty  of  the  Gar- 
field statue,  the  Cogswell  monuments,  the  pile  on  Liberty  Hill,  the 
Lincoln  antique  on  Fifth  street,  the  Franklin  on  Montgomery 
avenue,  and  other  horribles.  But  now  comes  the  worst  of  all — 
and  that  is  that  new  bridge  at  the  Park.  It  is  painted  in  vivid 
reds,  orange,  green,  chrome,  cardinal,  yellow,  and  every  other  color 
known  to  a  sign  painter.  It  is  worse  than  a  kaleidoscope. 
The  man  who  designed  its  covering  must  have  been  a 
Keeleyite.  All  the  screw-heads  are  yellow,  the  supports  are 
crimson  and  green,  and  the  whole  thing  looks  worse  than  an  In- 
dian on  a  picnic.  Another  noticable  work  of  art  recently  thrust 
upon  a  suffering  pablic  is  the  drop-cnrtain  at  Stockwell's  Thea- 
tre. The  scene  is  a  schoolmarm  calling  the  roll  to  a  lot  of  "Cu- 
pids." Those  cupids  are  simply  awful.  Some  are  cross-eyed; 
others  are  suffering  from  paralysis,  which  has  drawn  their  mouths 
nnder  their  ears,  while  still  others  are  malformed  in  other  ways. 
It  is  the  worst  exhibition  of  "  artistic  "  work  put  on  exhibition  for 
a  long  while.  It  is  even  as  bad  as  some  of  the  pictures  at  the 
recent  exhibition  of  the  Art  Association.  I  can  say  nothing  more 
severe  than  that. 

•  •  « 

Travelers  who  have  had  the  misfortune  to  be  obliged  to  take 
their  meals  at  Lathrop,  Bakersfield  or  Mojave,  on  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad,  will  hear  with  amazement  that  the  firm  which 
has  for  years  operated  the  so-called  eating-houses  at  those  points 
has  gone  into  bankruptcy.  Tens  of  thousands  of  people  have 
been  forced  to  pay  75  cents  each  at  these  places  for  meals  which 
conld  not  by  any  possibility  have  cost  more  than  a  third  of  that 
sum,  if  as  much.  The  meals  served  at  the  old  stage  stations  prior 
to  the  advent  of  the  railroad  were  sumptuous  in  comparison. 
Yet  it  seems  that  even  a  two  or  three  hundred  per  cent,  profit  did 
not  suffice,  and  a  well-earned  bankruptcy  has  ensued.  There 
will  certainly  be  few  mourners,  at  least  among  the  enforced 
patrons  of  the  broken  institutions. 

•  m  » 

Richard  Ten  Broeck  had  a  very  sad  end.  This  famous  old  sports- 
man who  had  ventured  thousands  of  ponnds  in  his  one  great 
recreation — horse-racing;  who  had  been  the  intimate  associate  of 
the  notables  of  two  continents ;  who  had  made  and  spent  for- 
tunes, and  who  in  his  prime  was  more  envied  than  any  other 
American  of  his  day,  died  poor,  alone  and  forgotten,  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  very  day  on  which  he  was  to  have  sold  all  his  effects 
to  raise  enough  ready  money  to  live  on.  I  met  Ten  Broeck  some 
four  or  five  years  ago  on  his  arrival  in  this  city.  Even  then  the 
evidences  of  his  coming  end  were  marked  upon  him.  Shortly 
afterwards  he  went  to  the  Hermitage,  where  his  irascible  temper, 
which  became  worse  daily,  led  him  an  unhappy  existence  until 
his  end.  To  the  very  last  Ten  Brock  showed  his  great  apprecia- 
tion of  horse-flesh.  For  some  time  before  his  death  his  eyesight 
was  very  poor;  so  weak,  in  fact,  that  he  was  practically  blind. 
He  had  a  pair  of  horses,  however,  that  he  would  allow  no  one 
but  himself  to  drive,  blind   as   he  was.     His   country  neighbors 


always  drew  their  buggies  up  to  one  side  of  the  road  when  they 
saw  Ten  Broeck  coming  and  gave  him  the  right  of  way,  for  there 
was  no  telling  but  that  the  old  sport  would  drive  into  them.  He 
will  be  remembered  for  years  as  a  representative  of  the  true 
sporting  class.  He  lost  and  won  his  money  like  a  gentleman, 
and  no  evil  report  attaches  to  his  name. 
»  •  • 
A  visit  to  the  Maze  astonishes  anyone  unacquainted  with  the 
wide  extent  of  the  business  done  by  that  popular  and  prosper- 
ous house.  Everything  known  or  cared  for  by  a  lady  of  fashion, 
by  a  honsewife,  schoolgirl,  child,  man  of  business  or  anyone  else 
in  the  way  of  furnishing  goods,  household  utensils,'  stationery, 
perfnmery,  etc.  All  the  goods  soldat  the  Maze  are  first-class,  and 
are  the  best  known.  The  reputation  gained  by  this  house  since 
its  establishment  is  certainly  a  most  enviable  one.  It  is  daily 
crowded  with  patrons,  who  appreciate  the  great  bargains  to  be 
had  at  its  counters. 


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August  6,  1892. 


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JET  trimming  still  holds  its  own  in  popular  favor  in  Paris.  It 
is  seen  on  white  gowns  and  black  gowns,  street  gowns  of 
cloth  and  ganzy  evening  costumes.  It  forms  a  corselet  belt  and 
hangs  in  a  heavy  fringe  from  the  waist.  Berthas  of  jet  are  worn 
extensively,  and  sleeves  of  net  or  grenadine  have  the  design  ap- 
pliqued  in  jet.  White  and  black  is  a  favorite  combination.  A 
striking  dress  of  white  bengaline  was  trimmed  elaborately  with 
•white  satin  ribbon,  the  ribbon  being  a  groundwork  for  finely  exe- 
cuted jet  butterflies.  A  lattice-work  of  this  ribbon  formed  a  panel 
at  the  side  of  the  dress.  The  sleeves  consisted  of  purls  of  black 
net  to  the  elbow,  finished  with  a  deep  cufl  of  the  jetted  ribbon. 
A  ribbon  belt  with  long  ends  completed  the  effect. 

Dressy  aprons  of  silk  or  sheer  muslin  are  now  sold  with  cuffs 
to  match  in  Paris.  The  aprons  are  dainty  and  pretty  little  affairs, 
made  of  rows  of  narrow  puffing  of  pale  yellow  chiffon  over  a 
foundation  of  heliotrope  silk,  the  puffing  being  arranged  in  stripes. 
Four  narrow  ribbons,  two  of  heliotrope  and  two  of  yellow,  form 
the  belt.  The  cuffs  are  formed  of  puffings  of  chiffon.  Aprons  of 
India  mull,  trimmed  with  flounces  of  lace,  each  flounce  edged 
with  a  cording  of  ribbon,  appear  in  several  of  the  shops.  Aprons 
entirely  of  ribbon  are  also  seen.  These  have  a  striped  effect,  with 
a  ruching  of  ribbon  around  the  bottom  and  a  ribbon  belt  formed 
of  rosettes. 

An  exquisite  afternoon  costume  is  made  of  white  silk  mulle 
trimmed  elaborately  with  Valenciennes  lace,  having  the  design 
outlined  in  pearls.  The  skirt  is  plain,  save  a  ruching  of  lace 
about  the  bottom.  The  waist  is  laid  in  narrow  pleats,  the  square 
yoke  being  outlined  with  a  deep  frill  of  the  lace.  A  sash  of  soft 
white  India  silk  is  then  laid  in  folds  about  the  waist  and  hangs 
over  the  gown  in  long  ends.  The  puffed  sleeves  are  finished  with 
a  deep  frill  of  the  lace.  The  back  of  the  gown  has  the  same 
bertha  effect  and  the  sash  is  brought  around  and  tied  just  below 
the  shoulders. 

On  the  stairway  landings  of  almost  every  Parisian  chateau 
there  are  small  tables  designed  to  hold  candles.  When  the  guests 
are  saying  good-night  this  table  presents  a  pretty  picture.  The 
candles  are  of  varied  colors,  the  candlesticks  of  odd  designs, 
and  the  lights  are  pleasantly  softened  by  colored  shades.  A  green 
candle  in  a  silver  candlestick,  with  a  perfectly-formed  pond  lily 
for  the  shade,  is  but  one  of  many  novelties. 


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The  wearing  of  a  single  diamond  star  just  above  the  forehead 
has  become  quite  general  now,  and  other  odd  ornaments  of  the 
same  style  are  seen  frequently.  A  turquoise,  large  and  exquisite 
in  color,  set  in  a  circle  of  diamonds,  adorned  a  tall,  dark  woman 
at  a  recent  affair.  Now  that  necklaces  are  no  longer  seen  on  the 
throats,  for  which  they  were  designed,  they  not  infrequently  are 
twisted  in  and  out  of  the  Grecian  knot  so  universally  worn  at 
the  back  of  the  head. 

Parisian  women  have  a  dainty  fashion  of  catching  up  the  centre 
seam  of  their  long  skirts  half  a  yard  from  the  hem  and  securing 
it  a  few  inches  below  the  waist  with  a  fancy  pin,  thus  reducing 
it  to  a  very  sensible  walking  skirt,  and  showing  a  bit  of  lace- 
frilled  petticoat  beside. 

The  question  of  pockets  in  the  tightly  fitting  skirts  of  the  day 
is  being  solved  by  making  them  at  the  side  exactly  like  a  man's 
trowsers  pecket.  These  pockets  should  come  just  in  front  of  the 
hips,  so  that  they  do  Dot  gape  open,  and  there  should  be  one  on 
each  side. 

A  veil  that  is  found  becoming  to  brunettes  is  a  fine  black  tulle 
with  tiny  white  chenille  dots  upon  it.  The  border  is  formed  of 
the  dots  put  together  a  little  more  thickly,  although  as  the  veil 
is  drawn  up  under  the  chin  this  bordering  scarcely  shows. 

For  hats  the  blossoms  most  in  vogue  are  forget-me-nots,  orchids, 
poppies,  blue  and  yellow  flags,  and  clematis.  Fancy  Tuscan  hats' 
of  plaited  reeds  include  among  their  decorations  velvet  ears  of 
ripe  wheat  and  bows  of  wide  green  grasses. 

All  the  light  soft  summer  materials,  crepes-crepons,  muslin  de- 
laines, and  foulards  are  printed  with  large  pompadour  bouquets 
of  flowers  in  pure  Louis  XV.  colors,  delicate  half-dead  shades  of 
pink  and  green  and  heliotrope. 

John  F.  Cutter  whisky  is  the  best  in  the  market.  It  has  no  supe- 
rior, and  is  in  high  favor  among  men  who  drink  the  good  red  liquor 
It  has  received  the  very  high  praise  of  connoisseurs,  and  is  consid- 
ered by  them  without  a  superior.  For  that  reason  it  is  in  high  favor 
at  all  those  resorts  famous  for  their  excellent  liquors. 


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August  6,  1892. 


FRANCI8C0  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


K5UNBEAMSS 


THE  days  are  warm,  with  scent  of  fruit*  and  flowers 
Tbe  air  is  laden: 
And  in  the  hammock  through  tbe  sunny  hours 

Now  dreams  the  maiden. 
Sometimes  she,  with  a  pout  and  frown,  awakes 

From  dreams  ambitious 
To  grumble  at  tbe  noise  ber  mother  mak^s 
While  washing  dishes. 

— Summer  Girl  Gazette. 

— —  The  Chicago  Girl—  Plague  take  this  Eastern  culture!  Her  Boston 
Aunt—  What  is  the  matter,  mv  dear?  The  Chicago  tJid—Vve  reallv 
become  interested  in  Ibsen.  I  think  be*s  bully:  I  take  to  transcend- 
entalism without  anv  trouble;  I'm  getting  used  to  eye-glasses,  and  I 
dote  on  dignity ;  but  I  can't  get  over  saving"  Rats!  "  instead  of  merely 
elevating  my  eye-brows.  —Life. 

— ^'*  My  client  Burker  is  the  kind  of  a  man  I  admire,"  said  Brief. 
*'  He  told  me  he  was  willing  to  spend  ten  thousand  dollars  to  recover 
one  hundred  dollars  be  had  been  defrauded  of."  "  What  advice  did 
you  give  him  ?  "  "1  told  him  to  go  ahead— that  I  was  with  him  in 
all  matters  involving  a  principle  of  that  sort."  —Puck. 

Stranger  [in  "  Herald "  adv.  o£licc) — Look  here!  You  made  a 
nice  mess  of  my  Personal  advertisement  in  last  Sunday's  paper! 
Manager— How  so?  Stra nqcr— You  put  my  "  Wanted  a  fair-haired 
blonde  toaccompang  a  refined,  honorable  old  gentleman  on  a  long  journey  " 
in  the  death  column ! 

1  gaze  into  her  eyes— deep  violet  wells, 

Within  whose  depths  sweet,  trustful  promise  dwells; 

Her  rounded  cheek  she  presses  close  to  mine, 

And  shy,  yet  warm,  caresses — maid  divine! 

And  while"  my  heart  leaps  quick,  and  fancies  rave, 

Her  sweet  lips  murmur,  "Dick,  you  need  a  shave." 

—  '  Boerum  {doing  his  best  to  make  a  favorable  impression,  has  just 
finished  his  best  anecdote)— Ha  !  Ha !  Ha !  That's  a  pretty  good  story, 
now.  Miss  Acres — Yes,  I  think  so,  too.  And  they  say  poor  Uncle 
Phil,  who  was  killed  at  Getteysburg,  never  tired  of  hearing  it. — Life. 

^— "  One  question  more,"  said  Van  Sleeck,  after  selecting  an  en- 
gagement ring.  "  Well,  sir?-'  replied  the  jeweler.  "If  this  engage- 
ment should  result  in  marriage,  I  suppose  I  could  have  this  stone 
taken  out  and  a  genuine  diamond  of  the  same  size  put  in?  " — Puck. 

Mrs.  Witherby — I  wish  all  husbands  were  as  self-sacrificing  as 

mine.  Mrs.  Bingo — Why,  what  has  he  done  now?  Mrs.  Witherbr/ — I 
gave  him  a  box  of  cigars  last  week,  and,  do  you  know,  the  unselfish 
fellow  insisted  on  giving  them  all  away  to  his  friends.  — Judge. 

—  First  Caller— I  wish  to  see  the  editor-in-chief.  Clerk— You'll 
find  him  in  the  next  room.  Second  Caller— I  want  to  see  the  baseball 
editor.  iAerk—  Please  write  your  name  and  business  on  this  card,  and 
I'll  see  when  an  audience  can  be  appointed. 

The  tanned  and  freckled  summer  girl 

Has  one  absorbing  dream — 
She  wants  to  own  that  kind  of  cow 

From  which  they  get  cold  cream.  — Puck. 

Sweet  Girl— Have  you  any  parlor  shades  that  won't  break  loose 

and  tty  up  all  of  a  sudden,  when  you  least  expect  it?  Dealer— Yes, 
miss.  Sweet  Girl — Well,  I  wish  you'd  send  a  man  around  and  see  if  he 
can't  talk  ma  into  buying  some.  — New  York  Weekly. 

—  The  Village  Pastor— Johnny,  you  tell  me  you  have  been  to  Sun- 
day-school? The  Bad  Boy— Yes t  sir.  The  Village  Pastor— But,  Johnny, 
your  hair  is  wet.  The  Bad  Boy — Yes ,  sir,  it's  a  Baptist  Sunday-school. 

— Jester. 

—  'Rastus  (softly)— Say,  'Lige,  poke  yo'  shirt  in  behin';  it's  all 
hangin'  out.  Hurry,  befo'  Miss  Lippinbott  sees  yo!  'Lige—Yo's 
crazy,  man  1    Das  man  sash.    I'll  knock  de  mouf  offen  you." 

— Judge. 

——  "  What  was  the  text,  my  son  ?  "  "I  forget,  pa ;  but  it  was  from 
the  second  chapter  of  St.  Paul."  "St.  Paul,  eh?"  "Well,  I  don't 
know.    It  might  have  been  Minneapolis."  — Judge. 

She— Why — er — really,  Mr.  Champlain,  the  idea  of  my  marry- 
ing you  is  very  unexpected.  LTe—l  am  so  glad!  She—  So  glad?  He — 
Yes ;  because  the  unexpected  always  happens.  — Puck. 

—  His  Man— Please,  marster,  you  'avent  'ad  your  dinner  yet. 
Chotly— Haven't  I  ?  I  knew  theah  was  something  the  mattah ;  but  I 
thought  it  was  that  I  was  in  love. 

He— Show  Shame  her  own  image.    Why  does  he  make  Shame 

feminine?    She—  Because  men  haven't  any.  —Life. 


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Since  its  establishment,  this  company  has  made  phenomenal  pro- 
gress. Its  auxiliary  fire  alarm  boxes  may  now  be  seen  in  nearly 
every  wholesale  house,  and  down-town  store  and  hotel  in  the  city, 
and  they  have  also  been  placed  in  a  great  number  of  private  resi- 
dences. The  utility  of  these  auxiliary  fire  alarms  is  practically  dem- 
onstrated bv  the  fact  that  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union,  recognizing 
the  great  advantages  derived  from  their  use,  has  reduced  insurance 
rates  on  all  establishments  in  which  the  boxes  have  been  placed. 
The  operation  of  the  box  is  simplicity  itself.  Bach  has  a  glass  front. 
In  case  of  fire,  the  glass  is  broken,  and  one  then  has  access  to  a  ring, 
which,  when  pulled,  rings  the  fire  alarm. 


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The  temperature  of  the  water  is  08  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
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Table  First  Quality.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Every  Room.  Hot  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  Trains  Every  Day. 
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Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 

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Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
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Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
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Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets,  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 

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Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


THERE  are  rnmors  on  the  street  that  the  "  combine  "  of  brokers 
in  the  big  Board  is  about  to  wind  up  its  affairs  and  dissolve. 
The  members  have  got  tired  of  attempting  to  run  the  business  of 
other  people,  having  learned  by  bitter  experience  that  they  have 
got  quite  enough  to  do  to  attend  to  their  own  affairs.  The  per- 
sonel  of  the  San  Francisco  Stock  Exchange  has  sadly  deteriorated 
within  the  past  few  years.  This  accounts  for  the  decadence  in 
the  mining  business.  A  mean  and  parsimonious  policy  has  been 
carried  out  on  every  occasion,  and  not  content  with  this,  a  clique 
of  the  members  must  organize  to  attack  and  undermine  the  com- 
panies which  have  always  furnished  them  an  opportunity  to  make 
a  livelihood.  The  only  sensible  way  to  account  for  such  a  palpa- 
bly absurd  action  is  that  some  people  thought  there  was  more 
money  in  having  charge  of  a  mining  company  than  in  handling  its 
stock  on  a  commission.  It  seems  scarcely  credible  that  the  majority 
of  the  connubiators  could  imagine  that  they  were  doing  a  good  turn 
for  themselves  in  laying  an  ax  to  the  tree  on  which  the  golden  fruit 
grew,  which  they  were  so  desirous  to  gather.  If  they  did,  they  are 
now  awakening  to  the  fact  that  they  have  been  simply  used  as 
catspaws  by  a  few  men,  who  thought  they  had  nothing  to  do 
but  to  ask  a  shareholder  to  walk  up  and  vote  them  into  office.  It 
reflects  great  credit  on  the  stockholders  in  the  Comstock  mines, 
and  speaks  well  for  their  power  of  discrimination,  that  during  a 
campaign  of  nearly  two  years,  this  combination  of  brokers  has 
only  been  able  to  obtain  a  mere  representation  in  any  of  the  com- 
panies which  they  have  announced  their  intention  to  capture. 
When  they  first  started  on  their  ill-fated  mission  of  conquest, 
the  cry  was  "  down  with  proxies,"  but  the  election  is  not  yet  on 
record  at  which  this  class  of  stock  was  not  voted  for  all  it 
was  worth.  With  the  growing  disaffection  in  the  ranks, 
even  this  vote  will  be  sadly  diminished  in  the  fu- 
ture, and  it  will  therefore  be  more  politic  on  the  part 
of  the  managers  to  lay  down  arms,  and  retire  from  the  field  as 
gracefully  as  possible.  The  public  takes  little  stock  in  the  cry 
"  stop  thief,"  when  it  comes  from  the  vicinity  of  an  average 
mining  stock  exchange,  so  that  protestations  of  model  manage- 
ment emanating  from  the  same  source  are  simply  wasted  on  tbe 
desert  air.  The  sooner  the  parties  now  vainly  aspiring  to  the 
position  of  mine  directors,  get  the  bee  out  of  their  bonnets  and 
come  down  to  work,  the  better  will  be  the  chance  for  an  improve- 
ment in  business  in  the  Exchange.  Their  clients  have  suffered 
quite  enough  already  by  stock  depreciation  at  the  hands  of  the 
brokers'  combine. 

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NOW  that  the  question  of  the  value  of  San  Jacinto  property 
has  been  raised,  it  is  in  order  that  either  the  Examiner,  of  this 
city,  or  the  company  in  London  should  have  the  property  experted 
by  some  one  whose  report  will  be  based  on  an  intimate  knowledge 
of  tin  ores.  It  is  probably  useless  to  suggest  such  a  very  neces- 
sary proceeding  to  the  English  management,  as  they  have  never 
yet  evinced  a  desire  to  get  at  the  truth  of  the  matter.  If  they 
really  wished  to  handle  the  property  on  its  true  merits,  why  is  it 
that  nothing  yet  has  been  made  public  of  the  report  made  by 
Colonel  J.  B.  Low,  the  well-known  Californian  expert,  or  of  tbe 
assays  made  by  a  prominent  New  York  mining  engineer?  It  also 
seems  strange  that  although  there  are  several  very  prominent 
Cornish  tin  miners  on  this  coast,  and  have  been  for  many  years 
past,  none  of  them  were  asked  to  inspect  the  property.  The  his- 
tory of  the  property  in  the  past  was  not  such  as  to  warrant  the 
payment  of  an  extravagant  price  for  it,  let  alone  squandering 
enormous  sums  upon  surface  improvements  before  advancing  the 
work  of  development  to  a  point  where  the  returns  would  justify 
the  investment  of  heavy  capital.  Early  in  1862  a  representative 
of  Phelps,  Dodge  &  Co.,  of  New  York,  was  out  here,  and  to  a 
certain  extent  interested  himself  in  the  property,  as  an  A  merican  tin 
mine  was  as  badly  in  demand  then  as  it  is  now.  Large  ore  samples 
were  brought  here  at  that  time,  a  portion  of  which  was  smelted 
at  Garrett's  old  works,  on  Market  street,  and  the  balance  was 
shipped  to  Swansea.  The  reports  received  from  both  the  smelters 
were  unsatisfactory,  the  tin  was  not  first-class,  containing  con- 
siderable Tungsten.  Even  then  the  limit  of  the  ore 
body  in  depth  had  been  reached  at  150  feet,  and 
from  recent  reports  no  ore  has  ever  been  found  in  that  district 
below  that  point.  It  has  been  the  misfortune  of  the  majority  of 
English  companies  mining  on  this  coast  during  the  past  twenty- 
five  years,  to  have  been  managed  by  either  knaves  or  fools,  and 
from  all  appearances,  the  Temescal  tin  mines  will  not  prove  an 
exception.  If  the  shareholders  desire  to  save  their  money  before 
getting  too  deep  in  the  mire,  now  is  the  time  to  take  action  in 
the  matter,  by  having  one  or  other  of  the  tin  experts  on  this 
coast  report  upon  the  property.  Home  talent  has  never  yet 
proved  its  reliability  as  a  guide  for  British  investors,  and  a  change 
for  the  occasion  will  prove  beneficial. 
1*  I 

THE  mining  market  continues  dull,  with  prices   still  on   the 
down  grade.     The  only  stock  which  shows  any  stability  is 


Con.  Cal. -Virginia,  and  this  is  due  more  to  inside  assistance  than 
to  any  speculative  demand.  Had  it  not  been  for  the  support  af- 
forded this  mine  by  its  managers,  the  general  market  would  have 
suffered  more  severely,  and  some  of  the  better  class  of  Comstock 
properties  would  have  been  depressed  to  the  level  of  an  old-time 
wild-cat.  The  pointers  on  the  street  lately  have  favored  an  ad- 
vance in  the  North-end  stocks.  Whether  this  will  materialize  or 
not  remains  to  be  seen,  but  even  if  it  does,  the  more  conservative 
class  of  operators  will  not  build  much  hope  on  the  permanency 
of  the  movement.  It  would  do  good  in  one  way  by  helping  to 
clean'  out  a  small  short  interest  which  has  served  to  demoralize 
business  lately.  The  operators  belonging  to  this  clique  are  of  the 
shoestring  description,  and  a  very  light  advance  in  prices  would 
be  sufficient  to  blot  out  the  nuisance.  The  financial  statements  pub- 
lished this  month  show  an  unusually  prosperous  state  of  affairs 
with  the  Comstock  companies.  The  assessments  come  in  well, 
proving  that  shareholders  are  convinced  that  the  clouds  which 
for  some  time  past  have  been  dark  and  threatening  over  the 
street,  will  eventually  clear  away.  Some  work  of  importance  is 
still  going  on  along  tbe  lode,  and  very  favorable  news  comes 
from  the  East  country.  A  good  strike  of  ore  in  any  of  tbe  mines 
now  prospecting  in  this  direction  would  have  a  wonderful  effect 
in  sweeping  the  agitators  for  alleged  mining  reform  into  oblivion 
and  in  rehabilitating  the  business.  The  prospects  encountered  in 
the  west  workings  are  also  such  as  to  warrant  renewed  exertions 
in  this  direction,  and  no  expense  should  be  spared  in  pushing  ex- 
plorations. In  outside  mines  there  is  little  activity,  so  far  as  the 
market  is  concerned.  The  demand  for  all  of  these  stocks  is 
checked  by  the  dullness  which  prevails  in  the  Comstocks,  and 
until  the  lattei  revive,  it  is  hopeless  to  expect  much  of  a  move- 
ment elsewhere. 

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THE  Kingman  bonanzas  have  been  sold  during  the  week  for  a 
consideration  ranging  from  $150,000  to  $200,000.  This  is  one 
of  the  quickest  transactions  which  has  taken  place  in  local  min- 
ing circles  for  many  years  past.  It  only  took  nine  weeks  from 
the  time  Judge  Henry  Schaefer  made  his  lucky  find  until  the  sale 
was  effected.  Schaefer  is  an"  old-time  Californian,  and  he  is 
well  and  favorably  known  all  over  the  Coast.  He  is  now  visiting 
Virginia  City,  Nev.,  where  be  spent  many  years  of  his  life  before 
making  his  lucky  trip  to  Arizona.  There  will  probably  be  litiga- 
tion over  a  portion  of  the  ground  which  he  located  near  King- 
man. The  rights  for  this  particular  claim,  which  constitutes  one- 
third  of  the  property,  were  disposed  of  for  $10,000,  the  lawyers 
who  have  examined  the  title  believing  that  there  is  a  good  fight- 
ing chance  nnder  the  Schaefer  title.  The  sale  was  concluded  in 
this  city  on  Saturday  last,  and  John  H.  Bernitt,  a  co-owner  with 
Schaefer,  left  a  few  days  ago  to  turn  over  the  mines  to  George 
Bowers,  a  mining  man  of  Kingman,  who  represented  the  Cali- 
fornia syndicate. 

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BUSINESS  is  quiet  in  local  stocks,  although  money  is  very 
plentiful  with  the  class  which  looks  to  this  market  for  invest- 
ment. There  has  been  an  advance  in  Dupont-street  bonds,  on 
the  strength  of  the  recent  decision  of  the  Superior  Court  in  favor 
of  the  Tax  Collector,  under  which  the  property-owners  will  have 
to  pay  their  taxes  or  their  property  will  be  sold.  Tbe  taxes  now 
due  amount  to  $800,000.  Some  of  the  delinquents  have  been  op- 
erating in  the  market  to  good  advantage,  bearing  the  bonds  from 
$160  as  low  as  $130.  There  was  quite  a  revival  in  prices  within 
the  past  two  days,  and  a  block  of  the  bonds,  which  only  a  few 
weeks  ago  were  going  a-begging,  brought  as  high  as  $145.  The 
bonds  amount  to  $1,000,000,  bear  interest  at  the  rate  of  7  oer 
cent,  per  annum,  and  are  due  in  1896. 

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T  S.  PYBU8-SELLON,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Johnson.  Mathey 
1.  *  Co.,  of  London,  passed  through  this  city  during  the  week, 
on  his  way  home,  after  making  a  tour  of  the  world.  His  firm 
are  the  largest  refiners  and  producers  of  platinum  in  the  world, 
besides  doing  an  immense  business  as  assayers  of  metals  in  Lon- 
don. They  also  work  up  metals  but  little  known  to  tbe  general 
public,  such  as  palladium,  osmium  and  iridium.  It  is  tbey  who 
always  prepare  the  Royal  Institute  medals  of  palladium,  which 
are  presented  to  distinguished  foreigners.  Mr.  8ellon's  father  is 
a  distinguished  electrician  and  inventor,  his  name  being  familiar 
in  connection  with  tbe  8ellon-Faure  electric  storage  battery. 

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JOHN  HEMSLE\,the  well-known  California  mining  man,  is 
in  town,  after  a  long  trip  through  the  old-time  mining  camps 
in  the  northern  portion  of  the  State.  He  reports  prospecting 
lively  in  the  quartz  mines  of  Butte  county,  with  a  steadily  in- 
creasing output  of  bullion. 

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WORK  on  the  river  mines  at  Oroville  is  progressing  as  rapidly 
as  the  season  will  permit.     They  are  now  stripping  for  bed- 
rock on  the  Golden  Feather  claim. 
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THE  Jackson   Mining  Company  has  declared  a  dividend  of  ten 
cents  per  share.     The  property  is  located  in  Eureka  District, 
Nevada. 


August  6,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEW8  LETTER. 


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'  Hear  (be  Crier  t"  "What  the  devil  arlthouT' 
•One  that  will  plat  the  -lerll.alr.  with  j-ou." 


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HE  man  who  holds  an  office 

Begins  to  shake  and  shiver. 
As  visions  dance  before  his  eyes 

Of  floating  up  Salt  River, 
And  sinking  with  the  party  ship 

Beneath  its  waves  forever. 
The  man  who  wants  an  office 

Begins  to  pull  the  wires, 
And  to  his  party  intimates 

The  course  of  his  desires, 
And  fixes  hot  shot  for  the  stamp, 

To  crush  all  campaign  liars. 
The  "ins"  will  battle  with  the   •■  outs," 

To  hold  the  fort  together, 
They'll  freely  give  their  campaign  coin 

To  solve  the  question  whether 
They'll  camp  before  the  Federal  stove, 

Or  face  the  freezing  weather. 
And  those  who're  neither  "in"  or  "out," 

But  vote  and  do  their  duty, 
Fired  by  the  blatant  campaign  call, 
Will  hardly,  when  their  ballots  fall, 
Pause  to  reflect  this  row  is  all 

A  simple  figbt  for  booty. 

WILLIS  POLK,  the  breezy,  gifted  and  industrious  architect, 
was  on  the  train  that  was  held  up  Wednesday  night.  The 
robbers  were  really  after  Mr.  Polk.  True,  they  got  the  treasure- 
box,  but  they  wanted  Willis.  Those  rash  men  took  desperate 
chances  to  secure  the  person  of  the  versatile  housebuilder.  He  was 
on  his  way  to  Fresno,  where  he  has  been  building  some  villas  of 
tbe  renaissance  period  for  an  aesthetic  raisin-grower.  The  robbers 
were  informed  of  his  movements.  They  were  not  after  him  for 
his  jewelry,  nor  were  they  hunting  him  for  his  plans.  Perhaps 
they  might  have  been  looking  for  some  designs  for  "  Robbers' 
Roost,"  such  as  existed  in  Sacramento  during  a  memorable  ses- 
sion of  the  Legislature  years  ago.  But  this  is  only  conjecture.  The 
fact  remains  that  they  have  exposed  themselves  to  the  severest 
penalties  should  they  be  captured,  and  all  for  the  wild  desire  to 
take  Willis  Polk  into  camp.  We  that  have  him  with  us  every 
day  do  not  half  appreciate  him.  We  are  really  unworthy  of  as- 
sociation with  that  gifted  being.  Why  there  is  not  one  of  us, 
unless,  indeed,  it  be  Major  Nat  Brittan,  Captain  Croudace,  or  a 
certain  prominent  business  man  on  California  street,  who  would 
stop  a  stage,  not  to  mention  robbing  a  train,  to  secure  Willis  Polk, 
the  beautiful,  and  the  gay. 

IT  seems  to  me  that  we  are  getting  our  astronomy  in  rather 
heavy  doses  of  late.  Professor  Holden  seated  at  the  small  end 
of  his  telescope,  is  giving  us  talks  on  Mars  until  the  ordinary 
brain  grows  weary  of  speculating  upon  that  rosy  planet.  It  is 
either  a  feast  or  a  famine  with  the  Lick  Observatory.  Months 
elapse  during  which  we  are  kept  in  ignorance  of  the  movements 
of  the  planets.  For  all  we  know  during  those  periods,  Saturn  or 
Uranus  may  be  running  wild,  or  Venus  cutting  up  some  of  her 
old  pranks.  I  think  the  suggestion  that  those  well-salaried  gen- 
tlemen at  the  observatory  should  give  to  all  the  newspapers  a 
weekly  report  of  their  observations,  is  a  good  one.  Then  we 
should  become  familiar  with  tbe  general  run  of  things  celestial, 
as  it  were,  and  not  gape  like  a  codfish  when  they  spring  those 
stellar  wonders  upon  us. 

PROFESSOR  Holden  has  at  last  fallen  into  the  clutches  of  the 
newspapers.  In  other  words,  he  has  offended  them,  and  they 
are  proceeding  to  flay  him  in  good  old-fashioned  style.  For  years 
this  gentleman  has  sailed  along,  the  oracle  and  pet  of  the  journals 
of  California.  But  with  all  his  experience  he  has  failed  to  under- 
stand that  hell  hath  no  fury  like  a  reporter  scorned.  He  is 
catching  it  now,  and  he  is  catching  it  good;  and,  perhaps,  it  may 
be  consolatory  for  him  to  know  that  the  flaying  business  has  only 
just  begun.  They  have  hardly  got  a  fair  start  on  him  yet;  they 
are  merely  practicing  for  an  accurate  knowledge  of  the  range. 
They  are  firing  blank  cartridges  at  him  now,  but  bye  and  bye, 
when  they  load  their  heavy  guns  with  ball  and  bring  them  to 
bear  upon  him,  he  will  be  fain  to  crawl  into  the  big  telescope  to 
get  out  of  the  way. 

JUST  when  one  is  inclined  to  believe  the  world  is  growing  bet- 
ter, and  the  big  war  drum  will  no  longer  throb,  up  bobs  Asa 
Fisk  with  a  demand  for  three  per  cent,  per  month  compound  in- 
terest, and  gets  judgment.  This  is  fearfnl.  There  will  be  no 
harmony  under  the  sun  as  long  as  Mr.  Fisk  is  permitted  to  ex- 
tract any  oxygen  from  the  air  we  breathe.  I  should  like  to  see 
evangelist  Mills  tackle  him  and  flash  his  veteran  sword  in  the 
Fisk  conscience.  Although  the  latter  is  made  of  grizzle  and 
would  doubtless  turn  the  edge  of  the  holy  man's  weapon. 


MAJOR  WATERS,  of  the  Second  Artillery  Regiment  of  the  Na- 
tional Guard,  was  presented  with  a  mtgnlfloenl  sword  and  belt 
and  a  pair  of  spurs  by  Batter;  II ,  of  the  Second,)]  is  old  command,  on 
Wednesday  evening  He  well  won  the  spurs  by  long  and  honor- 
able service,  for.  with  the  exception  of  that  veteran  of  veterans, 
Corporal  Lew  Townsend,  Major  Waters  has  seen  more  Bervico  in 
the  National  (iuard  of  this  State  than  any  other  man  now  con- 
nected with  it.  He  is  a  capable  and  popular  officer.  What  will 
he  do  with  his  spurs,  though  ?  That  is  the  question  now  agitat- 
ing the  Second  Artillery  Regiment,  for  Major  Waters  gained  fame 
on  his  first  parade  as  a  field  officer,  on  the  occasion  of  the 
recent  Memorial  Day  celebration,  as  the  most  magnifi- 
cent horseman  who  ever  held  a  rein.  The  Major 
procured  a  steady  old  horse  for  his  mount,  and  did  well 
until  Van  Ness  avenue  was  reached.  There  he  got  lost  in  some 
manner,  and  tangled  himself  and  his  horse  among  the  caissons  of 
one  of  the  army  batteries.  After  he  had  watched  the  Major  for 
some  minutes  trying  to  extricate  himself,  the  battery  commander 
detailed  a  sergeant  to  escort  the  gallant  soldier  back  to  the  militia 
brigade.  This  the  sergeant  did,  and  reported  his  convoy  to  Gen- 
eral Dickinson,  who  then  sent  an  orderly  with  the  Major  to 
Colonel  Macdonald.  The  Colonel  received  the  lost  field  officer 
with  much  joy,  and  immediately  detailed  two  of  his  staff  officers 
to  ride  beside  their  superior  throughout  the  remainder  of  the 
parade,  so  that  he  would|not  get  lost  again.  It  will  not  look  well 
on  the  Santa  Cruz  field,  however,  for  two  orderlies  to  accompany 
a  field  officer  upon  the  battle  ground,  ready  to  hold  him  in  the 
saddle. 

SENATOR  JERE  LYNCH  has  returned  from  Santa  Cruz,  and 
is  once  more  a  familiar  figure  on  the  boulevards.  Mr.  Lynch 
made  a  big  social  success  in  that  city  by  the  sea,  and  gave  its 
music-loving  population,  transient  and  permanent,  an  idea  of 
what  sweet  notes  might  be  drawn  from  the  violin  when  that  di- 
vine instrument  is  in  the  hands  of  a  maestro.  The  concert  at 
which  Mr.  Lynch  made  his  big  success  was  for  the  benefit  of  an 
aged  housekeeper  who  had  sprained  her  ankle  in  stepping 
on  a  mutton-chop  left  by  a  careless  waiter  in  the  hall- 
way. Like  most  of  tbe  Santa  Cruz  mutton  one  en- 
counters, the  chop  was  unyielding,  so  the  good  lady 
came  to  the  ground  most  heavily.  At  the  concert  Mr. 
Lynch,  wearing  an  exquisite  fez  gemmed  with  priceless  jewels 
played  upon  his  Stradivarius  an  Egyptian  madrigal,  which 
moved  most  of  his  audience  to  tears.  This,  followed  by  his  cele- 
brated Pharoah  solo,  won  for  the  violinist  such  a  stormy  ap- 
proval as  few  performers  have  enjoyed.  The  aged  housekeeper, 
her  ankle  bandaged  in  red  flannel,  occupied  a  reserved  seat,  and 
was  an  object  of  sympathy  to  the  entire  audience.  The  propor- 
tion of  Mr.  Lynch's  acquaintance  who  have  heard  him  on  the 
violin  is  so  small,  that  a  popular  concert  for  some  other  benevo- 
lent object,  with  the  handsome  Senator  as  the  leading  figure, 
would  be  a  tumultuous  success. 

NOW  that  the  very  finest  weather — the  true  California  summer 
— has  set  in,  sensible  people  are  returning  from  the  country, 
where  they  had  willingly  endured  winds,  fogs  and  the  other  in- 
describable climatic  eccentricities.  The  reason  we  do  not  take  our 
outings  here  at  the  right  time  is  owing  largely  to  the  denseness  of 
the  educators,  who  give  the  summer  vacation  at  least  two  months 
too  soon.  When  the  young  ones  should  be  tumbling  along  the 
sands  and  lying  under  the  trees,  they  are  broiling  in  the  school- 
room, and  the  perfume  of  the  hay  fields  is  exchanged  for  the  all- 
permeating  and  universal  sewer  gas, 

WHAT  a  lot  of  nonsense  the  dailies  have  about  Behring  Sea 
and  its  seals.  Why,  the  Ivanhoe,  a  schooner  of  118  tons, 
arrived  here  on  Wednesday  from  the  coast  of  Japan,  six  months 
out,  with  1,300  sealskins  on  board,  all  killed  in  those  waters.  A 
young  gentleman  from  Alaska  shot  400  himself,  and  it  was  not 
good  weather  for  sealing,  either.  Here  is  a  chance  for  the  broken- 
down  ex-Tennessee  dore"  of  this  city.  Instead  of  laying  in  wait 
for  heiresses  at  the  watering-places,  whom  they  never  catch,  let 
them  go  a-sealing,  and  make  enough  in  six  months  for  a  year's 
splurge. 

A  BRITISH  cruiser  has  seized  an  American  island.  The  shock 
that  this  intelligence  might  otherwise  give  is  palliated  by  the 
news  that  those  gallant  young  defenders  of  the  flag,  the  Naval 
Batallion,  have  been  working  the  big  guns  on  the  Charleston,  and 
as  yet  have  not  blown  off  their  fingers.  Moreover,  they  sail  for 
Santa  Cruz  to-day,  defiant  of  sea  sickness,  and  resolved  to  stay 
by  tbeir  ship,  even  should  Neptune  receive  an  offering  from  every 
youth  on  board. 

THE  United  States  Government  has  decided  to  dispatch  a  man- 
of-war  to  the  Island  of  St.  Mathews,  in  Behring  Sea,  to  the 
rescue  of  three  white  men  who  were  left  there  a  year  ago.  The 
paternal  Government  has  suddenly  become  aware  of  the  fact 
that  its  loyal  subjects  are  liable  to  be  eaten  by  the  Polar  bear, 
which  are  very  numerous  in  that  region.  That  is  one  of  the  worst 
uses  to  which  a  good  American  citizen  can  be  put. 

THE  Governor  of  a  British  province  kissed,  after  a  dance  on  the 
Queen's  birthday,  all  the  debutants  who  were  brought  before 
him.  Governor  Markham  should  take  the  hint.  Let  him  give  a 
big  ball  on  Admission  Day  and  rival  that  audacious  Briton  in  the 
number  and  vigor  of  his  osculations. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


UNGUARDED    GATES.— Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich  in  the  Atlantic. 

Wide  open  and  unguarded  stand  our  gates, 

Named  of  the  four  winds,  North,  South,  East  and  Went; 

Portals  that  lead  to  an  enchanted  land 

Of  cities,  forests,  Belds  of  living  gold, 

Vast  prairies,  lordly  summits  touched  with  snow, 

Majestic  rivers  sweeping  proudly  past 

The  Arab's  date-palm  and  the  Norseman's  pine— 

A  realm  wherein  are  fruits  of  every  zone, 

Airs  of  all  climes,  for  lo!  throughout  the  year 

The  red  rose  blossoms  somewhere— a  rich  land, 

A  later  Eden  planted  in  the  wilds, 

With  not  an  inch  of  earth  within  its  bound 

But  if  a  slave's  foot  press  it  sets  him  free! 

Here,  it  is  written,  Toil  shall  have  its  wage, 

And  Honor  honor,  and  the  humblest  man 

Stand  level  with  the  highest  in  the  law. 

Of  such  a  land  have  men  in  dungeons    dreamed, 

And  with  the  vision  brightening  in  their  eyes 

Gone  smiling  to  the  fagot  and  the  sword. 

Wide  open  and  unguarded. stand  our  gates, 

And  through  them  presses  a  wild  motley  throng — 

Men  from  the  Volga  and  tbe  Tartar  steppes, 

Featureless  figures  of  tbe  Hoang-Ho, 

Malayan,  Scythian,  Teuton,  Kelt  and  Slav, 

Flying  the  Old  World's  poverty  and  scorn; 

These  bringing  with  tbem  unknown  gods  and  rites, 

Those,  tiger  passions,  here  to  stretch  their  claws. 

In  street  and  alley  what  strange  tongues  are  these, 

Accents  of  menace  alien  to  our  air, 

Voices  that  once  the  Tower  of  Babel  knew! 

O  Liberty,  white  Goddess!   is  it  well 

To  leave  the  gates  unguarded?     On  tby  breast 

Fold  Sorrow's  children,  sooth  the  hurts  of  fate, 

Lift  the  down-trodden,  but  with  hand  of  steel 

Stay  those  who  to  thy  sacred  portals  come 

To  waste  the  gifts  of  freedom.     Have  a  care 

Lest  from  thy  brow  tbe  clustered  stars  be  torn 

And  trampled  in  the  dust.     For  so  of  old 

The  thronging  Goth  and  Vandal  trampled  Rome, 

And  where  the  Temples  of  the  Caesars  stood 

The  lean   wolf  unmolested  made  her  lair. 


THE    LAST    BUMPER.— C.  J.   \Vhiiby. 


I  have  lived!  Enough  of  weeping  1 

What  have  men  to  do  with  tears? 

Fighting,  falling,  waking,  sleeping, 
Let's  be  merry  cavaliers! 

I  shall  sink  before  the  morning. 

For  the  Roundhead's  pike  was  keen; 

Well,  what  matters?     I  have  warning, 
There's  an  hour  or  two  between. 

Comrades,  draw  your  chairs  up  nearer, 

Sol     Come,  Jack,  your  hand  in  mine; 
Would  this  foolish  head  \vere  clearerl 
Bid  the  landlord  bring  us  wine. 

Here  he  comes;  but  why  so  stealthy? 

-  Lord,  how  damnably  he  pours! 

I  will  have  my  share,  I  tell  thee — 

Fling  the  physic  out  of  doors! 

So,  lads,  have  you  filled  your  glasses? 

Now,  to  drain  them  at  a  breath, 
To  the  king,  the  queen,  the  lasses, 

To  our  boon  companion  Death  ! 

Death,  the  master  of   our  revels, 
Death,  the  grand  old  libertine: 

Be  we  saints  or  be  we  devils, 

He  will  sup  our  blood  like  wine. 

Death  is  with  you  in  this  chamber, 
Eyes  me  with  a  steadfast  leer, 

Presently  the  rogue  will  clamber 
Up  to  rest  beside  me  here. 

Well,  I  care  not  I     Fill  your  glasses! 

Softly — take  the  word  from  me: 
To  the  king,  tbe  queen,  the  lasses, 

Then  to  Death  with  three  times  three! 


b_a.3^"ik:s. 


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Capital $3,000,000  00 

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Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

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Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

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National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

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principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

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Safes  to  rent  from  % 5  to  ?100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 

the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 

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Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
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DIRECTORS: 
Lloyd  Tevis,  President:  Jno.  J.  Valentine,  Vice-President;  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Chas.  F.  Crocker.  J.  C.  Fargo,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Wm.  Norris,  Geo.  E.  Gray 
and  W.  F.  Goad.    H.  Wadswortn,  Cashier. 
Receive  Deposits,  issues  Letters  of  Credit,  and  transact  a  General  Bankin 
Business. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  .Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000,000. 

DIRECTORS : 

CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  Jr. 

B.  C.  WOOLWORTH Peesideht. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-Peesident. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cashieb 

SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital *800,00o 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.Jr. 

Vice-President W.  S.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Beal  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 

HUMBOLDT  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.   WEBER, President  |  ERNST    BRAND Secretary. 

E.  D.  Jones. 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers   and    Commission   Merchants, 

207  AND   200  OALIFORNIA  STREET. 


August  6,  1892. 


s\\  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEB 


1: 


THK  magnificent  Taurida  Palace  of  .St.  Petersburg  is  a  very  char- 
acteristic illustration  of  the  Russian  national  pecnlaritiea.  It 
was  the  scene  of  the  magnificent  /•  I'  with  which  Prince  Totemkin  en- 
tertained Catherine  II.  The  ball-room  is  so  Tast  that  it  requires  20,- 
000  wax  lights  to  illuminate  it.  Yet  the  insrhle  is  all  false,  the  silver 
is  plated  copper,  the  pillars  and  statue-  are  ••(  hrick.and  the  pictures 
•re  copies.  It  was  in  the  garden  of  this  palace  that  Gregory  Orlof, 
who  preceded  Potemkin  in  the  Bmprass'fl  esteem,  used  to  force  her 
to  take  his  arm  and  walk  about,  remarking.  "We  must  be  cheerful 
in  order  to  be  well.  Katinka,  and  must  walk  in  order  to  be  cheerful." 
Poterukin  himself,  like  Kutuscof  and  many  other  men  who  have 
played  a  great  part  in  Russia,  owed  his  sudden  rise  to  an  accident. 
During  the  revolution  which  raised  her  to  the  Imperial  Throne.  Cath- 
erine appeared  before  the  army  at  the  head  of  the  Preobajensky  Regi- 
ment. A  young  cavalry  officer  seeing  that  there  was  no  feather  in 
her  bat  rode  up  and  offered  his.  The  Empress  was  pleased  with  his 
appearance,  and  his  fortune  began  from  that  day. 

The  late  Empress  of  Russia  was  consumptive,  the  present  Czarina 
possesses  but  little  stamina,  and  a  falling-off  is  making  itself  con- 
spicuous indeed  in  the  leading  branch  of  the  Romanoffs  destined  for 
succession  to  the  throne.  In  spite  of  all  that  doctors  can  do,  the 
Czar's  second  son  seems  marked  for  an  earlydeath.  His  grandmoth- 
er's complaint  has  seized  him  relentlessly.  The  Czarevitch  may  be 
described  as  "not  up  to  much,"  either  in  looks  or  strength  of  body 
and  mind,  though  he  gave  great  promise  when  a  beautiful  child. 
Fortunately  for  the  Imperial  parents,  they  have  another  son  in  re- 
serve; not  like  the  Prince  and  Princess  of  Wales,  who  lost  their 
third  son  almost  at  his  birth,  and  have  only  one  left  to  depend  on  to 
bar  the  succession  from  a  daughter. 

"There  has  been  a  tremendous  blow  to  the  Vatican  lately — namely. 
the  going  over  to  the  enemy's  camp  (the  Quirinal)  of  Count  Girolamo 
Maatai-Ferretti,  Pope  Pius  IX. 's  nephew,  who  wished  to  be  receiv- 
ed in  audience  by  King  Humbert  to  show  his  displeasure  to  the  Holy 
See  for  having  forbidden  the  centenary  file  which  the  defunct  Pope's 
relatives  wished  to  celebrate  for  the  hundredth  birthday  of  Pius  IX. 
The  Holy  Father  is  highly  displeased  at  this  desertion,  and  has  or- 
dered that  Count  Mastai-Ferretti's  name  be  erased  from  the  roll  list 
of  the  'Guardia  Nobile' — a  noble  revenge  truly.  His  Holiness  is  also 
very  much  annoyed  at  the  enthusiasm  which  the  Italian  Sovereigns 
excited  in  Germany  and  the  hearty  reception  given  them  by  the 
Court;  in  fact,  this  has  caused  much  ill-humor  in  the  Vatican,  and 
so  the  Pope  has  suppressed  for  the  time  being  all  his  audiences. 


The  King  of  Wurtemberg,  while  entering  the  Stuttgart  Schloss  the 
other  day,  nearly  drove  over  a  young  American  lady.  She,  however, 
with  that  sangfroid  characteristic  of  the  fair  daughters  of  the  West, 
caught  the  horses'  heads,  and,  pushing  them  back,  told  the  King  in 
pretty  strong  Anglo-Saxon  and  German  intermixed  what  she  thought 
of  him.  His  Majesty,  who  was  entirely  at  fault,  jumped  down  and 
tendered  his  most  profuse  apologies.  The  young  lady  was  unaware 
that  she  had  the  gratification  of  bullying  a  King  until  she  received 
the  following  day  a  letter  from  one  of  His  Majesty's  chamberlains 
begging  her  acceptance  of  the  Royal  photograph,  as  a  souvenir,  he 
said,  of  his  clumsiness  and  her  escape. 


The  growth  of  a  "hue  and  cry"  was  well  illustrated  the  other  day 
on  the  banks  of  the  Seine.  Two  fisherman  in  a  boatgotinto  an  alter- 
cation with  a  woman  engaged  in  washing  a  poodle  on  shore,  splash- 
ed her  with  water,  and  fled  from  her  wrathful  shrieks.  A  crowd  col- 
lected, the  ery  was  raised  that  a  woman  had  been  drowned,  and 
scared  by  the  success  of  their  joke  the  two  fishermen  attempted  to 
escape  down  the  river.  They  were  finally  arrested  at  some  distance.on 
the  charge  of  having  murdered  a  woman  and  her  baby  for  the  sake 
of  the  rings  worn  by  the  former, .and  of  having  thrown  the  bodies 
into  the  water,  and  it  required  all  the  energy  of  the  police  to  save 
them  from  the  2,000  people  who  bad  followed  them  along  the  shore 
in  order  to  lynch  them.  \s*s*s^\ 

The  cathedral  of  Mayence  has  just  come  into  possession  of  an  in- 
teresting relic.  The  German  poetess,  Hahn  Hahn,  has  just  left  to 
the  sacred  edifice  the  crucifix  worn  by  Marie  Stuart  at  her  execution, 
and  which  bears  the  date  February  18,  1578.  This  relie  is  perfectly 
authentic. . ;J'   ■     ,.     - 

The  half-tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  Nkws  Letteb,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 

Camelline  is  the  best  emollient  for  the  complexion  now  in  use.  It 
is  preferred  to  all  others  by  ladies  who  have  a  due  appreciation  of  the 
precautions  necessary  for  the  retaining  of  a  good  complexion. 


BA.1TICS. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP  ..lD.C°rr '""  '"'  "">'"  "'-"  r  S3  000  000 

RESERVE  FUND   I  175  MO 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sinsorae  8lrceta. 
HEAD  OFFICE   BO  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON 

B8T,^£^S5£U''b  Co,umblB:  Portl»ni1'  °"*°n: 
8UB '  ColuriiMaSS-KamlOOPS'  N"UBlmo'  Ncl»°n.  New  Westminster,  British 

leJthW  CrUJcV'.nn"^;.?,0!',"81  SR1,klnf  H','8'"™-  Accounts  opened  sub- 
aval  khle  In  '.n  i  a?ec la|t»=POBtt«  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
ataiiaDie  in  all  parts  of  the  world.     Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad 

uPonttsXtd^mK""1  C?T"*!  5eC"ri,'s-      UrBWS  d^ect  a.  eurre^rates 
1"5„    ,-  c  d  Ctlice  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents  as  follows- 

Wh  }  °,RaK'  S,U,;-C,VG§  aud  CANAlM-iBank  of" Montr*  ,1 .LIVERPOOL 
LANri^n^,','?  ^*le.,8  B?.^<- SWI'LAND-British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
of  Me^i?oSnd  qnnCf1lfaAd;  Mt XIC.°u?!icl  SOVTH  A M ERIC A-Loudou  Bank 
inHi.  i?.  *  ?•  -,h  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN-Chartered  Bank  of 
a^?,,' AU?traJ"1  and  ^hma:  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND- Bank  of 
Australasia  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney.  English    Scottish 

lRAlViS7nd*TRrhfttrrr1eIr,d^anl;  r*",d  ^""i"1  B""k  <"  Aus.faia.siaf  DEM 
ukaka  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 


SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

63a  California  Street.  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

neposlts  Jnne  30, 1891 »23,311,061  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus  1,346,635  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Al^rt  Miller,  Pr  esident;  George  w.  Beaver.  Vice-President-  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  ™clWem"y 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;  Lovell  White,  Cashier  JJe*remery' 
Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security'.  Countrv  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  cheeks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signs  ure 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  rnade 
iOverJSIsb,°6°3k0?o8eatraI1Ce  ^      °m°e  Su™-^-  »■ '° "  r  «    *  Sat-uMay 


PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

80S  Market  Street   (Flood  Building),  San   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital 11,000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits *     45  000  03 

Paid-up  Capital 333,833.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892  l  75200000 

OFFICERS: 

^^D^A^ERH0TOEV;.V.V. Vice-Preside 

boWi*®&  Becretar?'^^ 

This  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordlnar^ae! 
count,  in  sums  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards.  '  "*• 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamD 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND $    1,645  000  OO 

Deposits  du  y  1,  1892 28,776,697  91 ' 

Officees— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President.  EDW  KRrrsE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H  R  SCHMTDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY  Board 
of  Directors-L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann  E 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney' 
John  k.  Jaeboe.  *' 


MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capita],  $1,000,000. 

OFFICEES. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Dibectoes— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James' 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansoxne  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscricrl  Capital f2,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  f  660,000 

Head  Office 68  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St.,  N.Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  A  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
merclal  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtji,.  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized . ; $6,000,000 1  Paid  up ¥1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  [Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  Court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligrman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  Business,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHAKT    )  „-„„„„ 

8  .  P.N.LILIENTHAL.i  Managers. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


THE  climax  of  effrontery  was  reached  oa  Tuesday  evening  last, 
when  one  of  the  Sixteenth-street  Extension  Commissioners 
stated  to  the  Board  of  Supervisors  that  $25,000  had  been  set  aside 
for  future  expenses,  oat  of  the  $71,000  which  the  commission  es- 
timate would  be  necessary  to  open  the  street.  Had  he  come  out 
boldly  and  said  that  the  money  was  to  go  into  the  pockets  of  the 
commission  and  its  co  jobbers,  he  could  not  have  more  grossly 
insulted  the  men  on  whose  money  he  and  his  confederates  are 
trying  to  place  their  sacriligious  hands.  To  carry  out  the  assess- 
ment as  proposed  in  the  report  of  this  commission,  would  be  to 
inflict  one  of  the  greatest  outrages  that  has  ever  been  perpetrated 
on  property-owners  in  this  city.  To  many  it  means  the  virtual 
confiscation  of  their  homes,  robbing  them  of  the  little  property 
they  have  striven  to  earn,  and  throwing  them  back  for  years  to 
come,  just  when  they  are  beginning  to  enjoy  tbe  fruits  of  their 
thrift  and  hard  work.  These  foul  extension  schemes,  engineered 
by  political  hucksters,  are  calculated  to  injure  inestimably  the 
real  estate  market  among  small  owners,  and  to  drive  the  small 
buyer  out  of  the  city.  It  is  no  wonder  that  men  get  excited  at 
the  meetings  of  the  protesting  property-owners,  and  that  coats  of 
tar  and  feathers  are  talked  of  for  the  commissioners  who  dare,  in 
broad  daylight,  to  try  to  rob  them. 

Another  extension  scheme  is  also  looming  up,  with  »  job  " 
branded  all  over  it,  in  the  proposed  opening  of  streets,  from 
Nineteenth  to  Twenty-third,  inclusive.  The  estimated  cost  of  the 
work  is  set  at  the  preposterous  sum  of  $160,000.  One  of  the  pro- 
testing property-owners,  an  attorney,  does  not  believe  in  throw- 
ing these  reports  out,  for  the  reason  that  they  might  be  the  means 
of  continuing  the  commissions  in  existence.  Possibly  a  means 
of  getting  out  of  the  difficulty  would  be  to  accept  tbe  reports, 
discharge  the  commissioners,  and  let  them  sue  for  their  »  ex- 
penses," The  city  is  always  a  favored  litigant,  and  it  is  a  ques- 
tion whether  even  in  San  Francisco  a  judge  or  jury  could  be  found 
to  award  these  schemers  a  cent  for  the  "labors  "  some  of  them 
have  performed  to  rob  property-owners.  None  of  these  exten- 
sions will  be  necessary  for  years  to  come,  and  property-owners, 
especially  those  whose  one  lot  is  their  ail,  would  gladly  see  such 
"  improvements  "  stationary  than  be  robbed  of  that  lot. 

There  is  another  little  ripple  of  the  placid  surface  of  inside 
property  dealings  to  chronicle.  The  Crocker  estate  has  purchased 
for  $80,000.  through  B.  M.  Gunn,  the  lot,  26x74,  just  east  of  the 
present  Bohemian  Club  building,  which,  with  the  property  on 
tbe  east  of  this  lot,  gives  the  estate  a  frontage  of  120  feet. 
The  statement,  however,  that  the  entire  property  is  to  be  im- 
proved, is  incorrect.  There  is  a  lease  on  the  restaurant  property 
which  has  some  years  to  run,  and  Mr.  William  Crocker  is  author- 
ity for  tbe  statement  that  nothing  will  be  done  until  it  expires. 

Another  good  sale  is  that  of  the  little  brick  and  frame  buildings 
on  the  north  line  of  Post,  east  of  the  Sachs  building,  92:6x122:6, 
through  to  Stockton  place,  for  $135,000. 

Few  other  sales  worthy  of  mention  have  been  recorded.  The 
way  in  which  a  stone  wall,  as  a  view  from  front  windows,  may 
interfere  in  the  appreciation  of  property,  was  aptly  illustrated  in 
the  sale  of  the  otherwise  desirable  fifty-vara  on  the  south  side  of 
Pine,  between  Powell  and  Mason  streets.  The  lot  faces  the  solid 
stone  wall  of  the  Hopkins-Searles  mansion,  which  the  Art  Asso- 
ciation would  like  to  accept  if  it  dare,  and  tbe  price  paid  for  this 
lot  was  $25,000.  If,  instead  of  the  wall,  there  was  a  good  resi- 
dence in  front  of  this  fifty-vara,  it  would  be  worth  $40,000  at 
least. 

The  disparity  in  the  amount  of.  new  buildings  in  progress  this 
year,  as  compared  with  1890  and  1891,  is  marked.  For  the  first 
seven  months  of  1892  the  new  buildings  erected  cost  in  the  aggre- 
gate $2,500,000  less  than  for  the  same  period  in  1891,  and  nearly 
$3,500,000  less  than  for  the  first  seven  months  of  1890.  These  fig- 
ures show  pretty  conclusively  the  emptiness  of  the  cry  that  the 
city  is  being  over-built,  and  that  there  are  thousands  of  tenantless 
bouses.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  real  estate  agents  and  others  have 
been  casting  about  for  reasons  to  explain  the  dullness  of  business, 
and  in  an  unguarded  moment  one  of  them  blurted  out  the  state- 
ment that  there  never  were  more  empty  houses  in  the  city  than 
at  present.  A  diligent  but  thoughtless  scribe  snapped  at  the 
crumb  of  inaccurate  information  and  made  tbe  most  of  it. 

Nothing  can  be  better  for  the  future  of  the  real  estate  market 
than  the  condition  which  the  figures  quoted  shows.  It  will  give 
the  districts  where  there  are  more  than  enough  houses  time  to 
grow,  and  will  cause  a  better  demand  for  lots  in  the  unbuilt  dis- 
tricts. Over-building  is  just  as  dangerous  as  glutting  the  market 
with  cheap  property.  The  years  1887,  1888,  1889,  saw  large 
quantities  of  new  property  thrown  on  the  market  and  large  num- 
bers of  new  buildings  erected.  Now  the  city  is  resting,  and  it 
can  do  nothing  better,  and  nothing  that  will  help  more  to  main- 
tain the  healthy  tone  of  real  estate. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rented, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office 
407-409  Montgomery  street.  ' 


A  splendid  opportunity  to  secure 


FINE 

OIL  PAINTINGS 

ENGRAVINGS 

ETCHINGS 

MIRRORS 

STATUES 

ORNAMENTS 

FANCY  GOODS. 

is  now  offered  at  reduced  prices  on  ac- 
count of  removal,  about  Sept.  15th,  to 
our  New  Building,  No.  113  Geary  St. 

S.  &  G.  GUMP, 

881  Market  Street. 


GREAT 

CLEARANCE 

SALE. 


MERCHANT'S     LINE 

NEW  LINE 

CLIPPER  SHIPS.  c 

New  York  to  San  Francisco. 

THE  MAGNIFICENT  IRON  SHIP 

T.  :f\  O-a-ises, 

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LAVER,    MULLANY    &   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office :  83  Flood  Building,  Cor.  4th  and  market  sts.,  8.  F. 


August  6,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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THE  cry  of  hard  lin.es  in  the  fire  insurance  world  continues 
The  flood  of  telegrams  announcing  losses  flow  into  local  offices 
with  a  never  decreasing  volume.  Nearly  all  secretaries  and 
general  agents  who  are  not  yet  bald  will  very  soon  become  so. 
provided  this  condition  of  affairs  continues.  If  It  does,  on  the 
desk  of  every  one  of  these  officers  will  be  seen  in  the  future,  a 
bottle  of  that  famous  San  Diego  water  which  a  reliable  local  con- 
temporary  avers  will  cause  hair  to  grow  on  a  billiard  ball.  The 
latest  great  loss  was  that  of  the  Whittier-Fuller  establishment  at 
Portland,  Oregon.  The  loss  by  that  fire  alone  is  estimated  at  $250,- 
000.  About  $200,000  will  be  paid  by  the  insurance  companies.  It 
is  these  big  losses  that  cause  all  the  trouble,  for  they  send  in  large 
sums  which  simply  cause  directors  to  gasp  for  breath.  One  of 
the  local  agencies,  for  instance,  it  is  said,  was  caught  for  nearly 
$60,000  at  the  Portland  fire.  That  was  the  Lancashire.  A  number 
of  other  local  companies  also  sustained  heavy  losses  on  this  blaze. 
For  instance,  the  Liverpool,  London  &  Globe  had  from  $30,000 
to  $35,000  on  the  burned  property;  the  Royal,  $15,000;  the  Phoenix 
and  Home,  $10,000;  the  Commercial  Union,  $10,000;  Robert 
Dixon's  olfice,  $10,000;  Catton,  Bell  &  Co.,  $15,000;  Fireman's 
Fond,  $5,000.  Various  other  companies  had  policies  varying  in 
amount  from  $3,000  to  $7,500  each.  The  loss  was  very  severe, 
and  has  directed  the  attention  of  underwriters  very  forcibly  to 
the  great  danger  attaobed  ct  that  class  of  risks. 

The  committee  appointed  by  the  meeting  of  underwriters  to 
consider  the  proposition  for  the  establishment  of  a  wrecking 
store  baa  not  yet  prepared  its  report*  It  has  been  in  communica- 
tion with  underwriters  in  Eastern  cities,  in  which  such  stores 
are  established,  regarding  the  feasibility  of  the  scheme, 
and  is  collecting  much  valuable  information  on  the 
subject.  While  there  is  no  objection  to  the  proposition  in 
itself,  it  is  the  opinion  of  underwriters  that  insurance  men  should 
not  be  connected  with  such  an  establishment.  The  report  of  the 
committee  will  probably,  therefore,  comment  favorably  on  the 
idea,  but  at  the  same  time  suggest  that  the  store  should  be  en- 
tirely and  independently  managed  by  whomsoever  would  care  to 
undertake  the  experiment,  and  that  insurance  men,  as  such, 
should  have  nothing  to  do  with  it.  That  much  benefit  may  be 
derived  from  a  store  where  damaged  goods  may  be  sold,  there  is 
not  the  slightest  doubt,  for  one  of  the  greatest  difficulties  that  un- 
derwriters have  to  overcome,  as  heretofore  pointed  out  in  this 
column,  is  to  fix  the  amount  of  the  damage  done  by  smoke  and 
water  to  the  stock  of  a  damaged  store. 

The  marine  business  is  very  dull.  One  satisfaction  is,  that 
while  not  many  policies  are  being  written,  the  losses  are  not 
heavy.  The  St.  Paul  has  arrived  from  Alaska  with  a  light  catch. 
8he  reports  that  the  Arctic  fleet  captured  only  twenty-six  whales 
for  the  season. 


ANOTHER  version  of  the  manner  in  which  Prince  Bismarck's 
dismissal  took  place  has  been  published,  this  time  by  a  Swiss 
paper.  Of  course,  as  usual,  it  is  an  "  intimate  friend  "  of  the  ex- 
Chancellor  who  is  credited  with  having  given  the  information. 
Practically  it  contains  nothing  of  much  interest,  but  even  if  it 
did,  it  would  be  of  little  value.  If  Prince  Bismark  desired  that 
the  truth  about  his  dismissal  should  be  made  known  in  detail,  he 
would  hardly  leave  it  to  "intimate  friends  "  to  promulgate  it. 
The  ex-Cbancellor  has  proved  on  too  many  occasions  that  he  is 
not  shy  about  saying  himself  what  he  wants  to  say,  and,  besides, 
he  has  a  powerful  organ  in  the  Hamburger  Nachrichten,  which  he 
is  in  the  habit  of  inspiring  if  he  wants  to  speak  more  indirectly 
to  the  public.  The  statement  published  in  the  Geneva  paper, 
therefore,  hardly  deserved  the  distinction  of  being  cabled  all  over 
the  world. 

JOHN  HAYS  HAMMOND,  the  prominent  Mining  Engineer 
and  Superintendent  of  the  Bunker  Hill  and  Sullivan  mines,  is 
visiting  the  property  and  superintending  in  person  the  prepara- 
tions for  resuming  work,  which  will  be  started  up  immediately. 

Burlington  Route  Excursions. 

Commencing  Tuesday,  March  15th,  at  2  p.  M.,  from  Los  Angeles, 
and  Wednesday,  at  8  p.  m.,  from  San  Francisco,  and  every  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday  thereafter,  the  Burlington  Route  will  run  its  regular 
Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago, 
via  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  excursion  folder, 
apply  to  agent,  Burlington  Route,  at  204  South  Spring  street,  Los 
Angeles ;  or  32  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  is  the  best  remedy  known  for  the  cure  of 
the  distressing  effects  of  poison  oak.  If  you  are  going  to  the  country 
do  not  fail  to  take  some  of  this  famous  lotion  with  you.  It  is  also 
an  excellent  remedy  for  the  relief  of  asthma.  The  lotion  may  be 
procured  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street. 

Special  attention  given  to  all  cases  recommended  by  family  physicians 
free  of  charge.  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  135  Montgomery  street,  near 
Bush. 


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LODIS  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS., 


I^TIEIE&IOZEe, 


DECOBATOB8. 


Dealers  in  Stained  Glass,  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall   Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St.,  between  5th  and  6th.  San  Francisco 
MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

NO.  912  GRAND  STREET,  ALAMEDA,    CAL. 

Miss  Manson,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  School,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.  Manson,  Late  Associate  Principal,  Eastern  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARD. NG  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  begins  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (I9th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panscron.  

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Oceanic  Steamship    Company. 
Dividend  No.  77  (fifty  cents  per  share)  of  the  Oceanic  Steamship  Company 
■will  be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  No.  327  Market  street,  on  and 
after  Friday,  August5th,  1892.  E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.   W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic  Temple. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


SOME    BUSINESS    WOMEN. 

DO  not  business  pursuits  rob  woman  of  the  modesty  and  deli- 
cacy that  give  her  a  peculiar  charm?  Does  business  make 
woman  unwomanly?  These  and  similar  questions  relating  to 
the  advisability  of  business  pursuits  for  women  are  from  time  to 
time  presented  for  consideration.  My  opinion  would  be  that  it 
depends  greatly  upon  the  character  of  the  woman,  and  the  class 
of  employment,  as  well  as  to  what  is  considered  modest,  delicate 
and  womanly.  We  hear  a  great  deal  of  "  womanly  dependence," 
though  why  dependence  should  be  "  sexed  "  is  beyond  my  com- 
prehension, but  as  dependence  is  not  considered  manly,  I  con- 
clude it  to  be  by  some  mysterious  power  relegated  to  a  purely 
feminine  environment,  and  is  one  of  the  attributes  that  "  before 
marriage  "  make  a  woman  extremely  "womanly."  That  follow- 
ing business  avocations  gives  to  women  independence  that  free- 
dom alone  confers,  is  undeniably  a  fact;  freedom  and  independ- 
ence are  evidenced  in  the  step,  in  the  eye  and  general  demeanor 
of  every  free  born  citizen.  Women  are  not  born  free,  but  are 
obliged  to  acquire  freedom,  while  legal  doubts  are  entertained  as 
to  whether  they  are  even  citizens.  No  person  is  free  who  is  de- 
pendent upon  the  exertions  or  bounty  of  another  person  for  sub- 
sistence, and  especially  is  their  bondage  manifested  when  they 
are  made  to  feel  their  dependence  as  the  most  of  women  are. 
The  education  of  boys  towards  self-support  begins  with  their  first 
steps,  and  this  for  generations  has  been  the  custom;  but  woman's 
era  is  beginning,  and  the  "coming  man  "  will  be  a  woman  if  the 
boys  don't  look  well  to  their  laurels.  Humane  parents  have 
raised  helpless  daughters  for  wives  for  kind  and  indulgent  hus- 
bands. But.  as  often  happens  in  various  commodities,  the  supply 
exceeds  the  demand.  While  intent  upon  raising  good  wives,  they 
have  neglected  the  supply  of  good  husbands,  and  while  the  mar- 
ket is  fairly  glutted  with  husbands  the  choicest  variety  is  rare, 
and  good  ones  come  high,  and  even  when  you  pay  fancy  prices 
you  are  often  misled,  and  find  yourself  "  grossly  deceived."  My 
advice  would  be  not  to  invest,  but  to  turn  your  attention  to  some 
line  of  work  where  there  is  less  active  competition,  and  conse- 
quently greater  opportunities  for  success.  While  we  have  per- 
haps many  women  in  business  and  out  who  imitate  men  in  dress 
and  manner,  it  is  generally  the  most  effeminate  of  men  whose 
cu3toms  they  follow.  A  real  manly  woman  is  a  good  fellow  com- 
pared to  the  "  effeminate  dude  "  whose  immaculate  costume  and 
general  air  of  imbecility  are  copied  so  scrupulously  by  his  femi- 
nine confreres. 

Nearly  all  pursuits  are  now  open  to  women  and  they  are  "fall- 
ing into  line"  most  gracefully.  But  few  avenues  of  employment 
remain  unadorned  by  feminine  aspirants  for  success,  which  inter- 
preted, means  independence.  An  assured  position  once  gained, 
the  sweet-bread  of  self-dependence  once  tasted,  and  women  are 
slow    to   relinquish    them    for   the    sweets    of    domesticity,  and 

"protection  "       It     is    with     pride     and     serene     satisfaction 

that  I  refer  to  some  of  our  successful  business  women  in 
this  city  as  exponents  of  rare  ability,  and  graceful  and 
feminine  deportment  of  mind  and  manner,  as  well  as  to  some 
combining  a  masculine  bearing,  and  with  minds  and  characters  of 
such  force  and  nobility  that  they  challenge  our  heartiest  admira- 
tion. 

Laura  de  Force  Gordon  is  a  woman  of  rare  attainments  and  re- 
remarkable  mental  and  intellectual  superiority.  She  has  for  years 
closely  identified  herself  with  woman's  work  and  progress,  and  is 
essentially  woman's  friend.  It  seems  a  little  too  bad  that  both  she 
and  Joaquin  Miller  cannot  be  prevailed  upon  to  cut  their  hair 
short  like  men,  or  put  it  up  in  true  womanly  fashion.  Surely  they 
must  know  that  ringlets  are  no  longer  "the  style." 

Clara  Shortridge  Foltz  is  likewise  one  of  our  prominent  and 
successful  business  women.  She  has  risen  in  her  profession  step 
by  step,  and  by  extraordinary  exertions  has  demonstrated  her 
ability  to  cope  with  all  comers  for  honors  in  her  adopted  profes- 
sion, which  is  like  that  of  Laura  de  Force  Gordon,  the  law.  To 
both  have  been  opposed  all  possible  obstructions  and  obstacles, 
and  if  in  surmounting  them  they  have  become  somewhat  mascu- 
line in  manner  it  can  be  easily  forgiven,  in  view  of  the  "class  of 
employment,"  and  their  very  obvious  desire  to  appear  "woman- 
ly." 

Where  could  we  find  a  more  feminine  woman  than  our  bonnie 
"Annie  Laurie,"  toiling  industriously  and  indefatigably  in  her 
chnsen  work,  that  of  journalism,  and  steadily,  but  indisputably, 
gaining  on  it  too  ? 

May  Cheney,  of  the  Educational  Bureau,  is  a  thorough  busi- 
ness woman,  with  just  the  softest,  gentlest  manners  in  the  world. 
Many  women  know  how  to  conduct  a  business  once  established, 
but  May  Cheney  had  the  ability  to  originate  one,  and  has  had  the 
tact  to  carry  it  to  a  successful  issue.  While  conducting  her  busi- 
ness with  dignity  and  ability,  one  hand  is  always  outstretched  to 
help  another  woman  over  the  rough  places  which  Miss  Cheney  has 
surmounted. 

M.  J.  Bradley,  actress  and  elocutionist,  is  one  of  our  best  and 
most  favorably  known  professional  business  women,  and  a  strong 
advocate  for  those  claiming  masculinity  as  a  concomitant  of  bus- 
iness women.  If  men  had  only  as  tender  a  heart  as  hers,  and  could 
as  ably  interpret  not  only  their  own  feelings  but  those  of  others, 
they  would  be  irresistable. 


Lillian  Plunkett  seems  to  have  gained  great  favor  with  Am- 
brose Bierce,  who  is  inclined  to  give  her  as  much  free  advertis- 
ing as  the  ladies  do  »  dear  little  Arthur  McEwen  "  on  his  famous 
"  divorce  letter."  Lillian  writes  for  the  Call,  and  in  addition  attends 
with  modesty  and  fidelity  to  the  other  business  placed  in  her 
care.  Her  demonstrated  opinion  of  the  duties  and  responsibili- 
ties of  life  should  meet  with  the  approval  of  all  who  know  her. 

Dc.  Cool,  the  dentist,  is  a  lady  who,  as  a  lady,  deservedly  stands 
at  the  head  of  her  profession.  By  untiring  effort  she  has  attain- 
ed a  position  that  might  be  envied  by  women  double  her  age.  She 
is  still  young  and  handsome.  She  is  very  fond  of  embroidery  and 
all  sorts  of  "  feminine  "  work,  with  which  her  office  is  profusely 
adorned.  Notwithstanding  this,  she  has  a  quick,  keen  eye  for 
business,  and  will  set  diamonds  in  your  front  teeth  as  quick  as 
a  wink,  and  polish  and  fill  them  with  neatness  and  dispatch. 

Mrs.  Pendleton,  of  the  "  Hotel  Pleasanton,"  dexterously  hides 
beneath  a  snave  and  apparently  careless  exterior,  the  keenest  and 
most  critical  calculation  and  managerial  power.  That  she  excels 
in  keeping  her  house  full  of  nice  boarders  to  the  confusion  of 
many  down-town  landlords  is  proof  positive  that  she  may  be 
mentioned  as  a  successful  business  woman. 

Saltie  Rightmire  is  one  of  our  most  popular  teachers,  and  dis- 
ciplines her  scholars  until  it  is  a  delight  to  watch  them.  Who 
would  ever  suppose  that  children  could  be  made  so  smart  and  so 
well  behaved?  But  I  certainly  hope  that  they  will  take  no  credit 
to  themselves  for  this  state  of  affairs,  for  everybody  knows  that 
only  Sallie's  "  discipline"  could  accomplish  such  results.  Now, 
she  is  a  woman  whose  manifest  duty  itis  "to  wed."  It  makes  me 
glow  with  honest  pride  when  I  tbink  of  the  model  husband  and 
children  that  she  would  exhibit;  and  she  would  not  only  exhibit 
them,  but  every  one  of  them  would  take  a  "  first  prize." 
As  a  veteran  in  the  work,  not  only  of  self-education  but  the  educa- 
tion, help  and  encouragement  of  other  women,  we  refer  to  Mrs.  Dr. 
Cook.  Possessed  of  a  large  and  growing  practice,  some  enemies, 
but  more  friends,  Mrs.  Cook  pursues  the  even  tenor  of  her  way, 
regardless  of  everything  excepting  her  profession  and  her  family. 
She  is  a  motherly  woman  by  every  instinct  of  nature,  and  her 
practice,  extending  over  the  greacer  part  of  her  life,  has  greatly  ac- 
centuated her  home-loving  disposition. 

I  speak  of  these  successes  carved  out  in  this  city  by  women, 
clear-eyed,  level-headed,  warm-hearted  and  examples  of  heroism 
and  honest  endeavor,  for  the  encouragement  of  those  women 
who  are  hopeful  and  persevering  in  the  face  of  difficulties  that 
might  well  appall  stout  hearts  in  manly  breasts. 

Janet  Macdonald. 

The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  has  no  superior 
in  the  city  as  a  first-class  restaurant,  where  one  person  or  a  party  can 
secure  the  very  best  of  dinners  to  be  had  in  San  Francisco  for  a  very 
reasonable  price.  The  proprietors  always  cater  to  the  best  of  patron- 
age, and  therefore  it  is  that  their  table  is  always  first-class.  If  you 
want  a  first-class  dinner  do  not  fail  to  visit  the  Original  Swain's. 


The  establishment  of  J.  M.  Litchfield,  at  12  Post  street,  is  always 
popular,  because  there  may  be  obtained,  at  reasonable  rates,  excel- 
lent clothing,  made  by  good  tailors.  Colonel  Litchfield  makes  a 
specialty  of  furnishing  uniforms  and  regalias,  and  most  of  the  natty 
uniforms  of  the  well-dressed  army  and  navy  officers  attached  to  this 
city  are  from  his  establishment. 

TDHIIE 

BRUNSW1CK-BALKE- 

COLLENDER  CO. 


THE  MONARCH 

Manufacturers  of  Billiard  and  Pool  Tables. 

Dealers  in  Billiard  Merchandise  Generally. 

Makers  of  Bank  and  Office  Fixtures. 

Also,  Saloon  Fixtures,  Counters,  Coolers,  Mirrors,  etc.,  con- 
stantly on  hand  or  made  to  order.  Ten  Pin  Alleys,  Ten  Pins, 
Ten  Pin  Balls,  etc. 

653-655  MARKET  STREET,  S.  F. 


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August  6,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


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DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 


Bohriiivl  Son   Pi».:kinvi  Compuny. 
Location  of  principal  dU  FrmncUco,  California.    Lo- 

catlouof  rauuorT— l  ftwhlk  River.  AUaka. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  de^ribed  itCM  k.  oa 
•ccoiiut  of  ».--  1...  levied  on  the  lMh  day  of  February.  18W,  the 

acreral  amount*  »et  opposite  the  name*  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      AmouuL 

ft  V  J->hn>oD  1  M  jM 

C.  A.  John  win  340  340 

Cbaa.  Carlson  7  30  30 

C.  UiD-Iberv:  u  390  S90 

And  In  accordance  with  law,  and  au  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February.  1892,  so  mauv  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  Decenary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  oflice  of  the 
company,  No  9  Market  street.  Sun  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  loth  day 
of  April.  1892,  at  the  boar  of  12  o'clock  M.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Bearing  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, tbla  day.  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1S92,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  deliuquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THL'RSDAV,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until   SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Cora- 

S any  the  sale  of  the  above  deliuquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
'ESD4.Y,  September  2ist,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

New  Basil  Consolidated  Gravel  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Placer  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  Wednesday,  the  27th  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  21,  of  Five 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately,  in  United:  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Saturday,  the  Third  Day  of  Septemb.r,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  26th  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F.  X,  SIMON,  Secretary. 

Office— 525  Commercial  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Union  Consolidated  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  18th  day  of  July,1892,  an  assessment  (No.  46)  of  twenty-five  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-fourth  Day  of  August,  1892,  wilt  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  atpublic  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  thirteen  day  of  September,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

y  A.  W.  BARROWS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Peer   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  8an  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Quijotoa,  Arizona.  ,  iw      ■         ,    ,  „.  ,    , , 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  nineteenth  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  13)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  S09  Montgomery  street,  No.  23,  Nevada  Block, 
San  Francisco,  California.  ,   _, 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-fifth  Day  of  August,  1 892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  Bale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  22nd  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.   By  order  of  the  Board  ^W^g,,^  gecretary 

Office— No.  28,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  8an  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Scorpion  Mining  Company. 

Assessment.     "c    °  + 

Amount  per  Share ■;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;;;;;;;■  July  SifSg 

Delinquent  in  Office ■ -  ■  •.AuSu 8t  "■  Jfjg 

Day  or-Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock ^   R  .  ■&,*%«£& g«» 

Office— No.  310  Pine  Street,  Room  No.  28,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Peoria*.*  Mining  Com] 

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kbSHumaJSIiI S'^.^i!1** «»«"»«U«W o!tta«  Baud  ol  DInolan  bald 
onitaeethdayof  July.  iN9i.au  .ucatmeui  (No  I  ire  wli 

»  \  ■  v«Vi»  b,   i  ,i     ,.,\      '"  :'"'ry'  "'  ""  '  «nv,  room 

Viiv.lJ     '        ,'  "    .  '■""«"■"">•  »we««.  Bai  li  laliforola. 

Any  .siock  iipou  which  thin  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

»nrt  ,j.„„i    'J',  Elcvfnlh  Day  Of  August.  1892.  will  be  lie  Inqucnt. 

f,  rl  .rli'i       '  ,  i'r  "!S  "'  \ ir  "notion,  «'"l  unie«  payment  [■  made  be- 

Ca?rfor<nla:KOOm23'NC™dtt  Bl0Ck'  309  *£E£m5£%&!iS2SS* 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT, 


Del  Monte  Mining  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business-San  Francisco,  California     Lo- 
cation  of  works-Tuscnrora.  Elko  couuly.  Nevada  ^aniornia.    u> 

on  .h„.iiS„leHL'bygi,ve,u,tha,?ta  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  2«(li    day    of    July,    1892,    an    assessment  (No.    li)    of    Ten    CenlJ 

RS™^"f  ,Waf  1?,VI.edJ°„u  the  caPi,al  ktock  °<  lh«  corporation,  payable 
immediately,  in ttata^  ™«is  „.,;.»   *-  *^„  a -__^_    _.  ..  '  ^2y   " 

the  comp 

fornta,  p.  ™ 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  6th  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 


liately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
nMnVT™?  1*  °iu$  !'•  No-  310  Pine  street.  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
.t„„l  •  A'  O.  Paul  "lraunfer  Agent,  M  Broadway,  New  York  Citv. 
stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  6th  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  is  made 
before  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  5th  day  of"  October,  1892  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

OFFICK-Room  15  and  17.  310  Pine  St.,  San  FranciscoWCaPlEW'  Secretary- 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Justice     Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California  Loca- 
tion of  works-Gold  Hill  Mining  District,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  held 
on  the  Twenty-sixth  day  of  July,  1892.  an  assessment,  No.  51,  of  Ten  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  419  California  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco    Cal 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Thirty-first  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  19th  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  exnenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  p<="o<=» 

Office— 419  California  Street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal.        '     6°re  ary' 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Silver    Hill     Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  Second  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  31)  of  Five  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Sixth  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  September, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

D.  C.  BATES,  Secretary. 

Office.— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California.  

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  S3 

Amount  per  Share io  cents 

Levied July27,1892 

Delinquent  in  Office August  31,  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock September  20, 1892 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

ANNOAL  MEETING. 

Navajo  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Navajo  Min- 
ing Company  will  be  held  at  the  oflice  of  the  Company,  rooms  15  and  17, 
310  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Tuesday,  the  9th  Day  of  August,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  P.  M. 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  August  5,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office— 310  Pine  St.,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNOAL  MEETING. 

Julia  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Julia  Consolidated 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  56.  Ne- 
vada Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Wednesday,  the  10th  Day  of  August,  189?,  at  the  hour  of  2  o'clock  P.  M., 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  Monday,  August  8,  1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

J.  STADTFELD  JR,  Secretary. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


THE  third  International  Railway  Congress  will  be  held  this 
month  In  St.  Petersburg,  and  delegates  from  all  parts  of  the 
world  will  take  part.  Russia  has  a  good  opportunity,  therefore, 
to  draw  the  attention  of  her  foreign  guests  to  the  great  progress 
of  railway  building  in  the  empire  during  the  last  few  years.  Ac- 
cording to  the  latest  telegrams,  work  on  the  western  end  of  the 
main  trunk  of  the  great  Siberian  railway  is  to  be  began  almost 
immediately,  and  the  first  division  of  this  enormous  enterprise, 
i.e.  the  stretch  from  Cheliabinsk,  in  the  government  of  Orenburg, 
to  Omck,  a  distance  of  787  versts,  has  almost  been  finished,  and 
will  be  ready  for  traffic  during  the  coming  autumn.  The  comple- 
tion even  of  this  first  division  will  prove  an  enormous  boon  to 
the  country,  since  it  gives  an  outlet  to  the  products  of  a  dis- 
trict covering  almost  546,000  square  versts,  and  renders  easy  the 
transport  of  the  valuable  ore  from  the  mines  in  the  Ural  mountains, 
the  grain  produce  from  the  fertile  region  of  Tobolsk,  and  also  the 
great  number  of  cattle,  400,000  having  been  so  far  shipped  annually 
from  that  part  alone,  so  that  with  the  increased  facilities  of  trans- 
portation the  trade  is  sure  to  grow  considerably  in  the  future. 
The  greatest  boon  for  Russia,  however,  will  be  the  completion  of 
the  gigantic  transcontinental  railway  itself,  which,  if  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  Empire  does  not  relax  its  energy,  will  take  place 
within  not  a  very  distant  period  of  time.  The  Pacific  shores  of 
the  Czar's  dominions  will  then  be  in  direct  contact  with  European 
Russia,  and  America  will  enter  probably  into  extensive  commerce 
with  the  newly-opened  country.  Nothing  will  do  so  much  to 
promote  the  cause  of  civilization  in  Asiatic  Russia,  and  before  its 
proud  march  many  barriers  of  the  past  will  fall  much  quicker 
than  would  be  the  case  if  their  destruction  were  left  to  the  action 
of  political  revolution  merely. 

The  desire  of  a  great  number  of  the  inhabitants  of  Newfound- 
land to  see  the  colony  become  an  integral  part  of  the  Dominion 
of  Canada  is  a  very  natural  one.  By  a  union  between  Canada 
and  Newfoundland  both  countries  would  certainly  be  benefited, 
and  the  opposition  to  such  a  plan  by  some  of  the  Newfoundland- 
ers arises  from  nothing  but  shortsighted  provincalism.  The 
tendency  of  modern  political  development  is  towards  the 
centralization  of  government  of  such  countries  as  have  similar 
commercial  and  general  interests,  with  tbe  restriction,  however, 
that  local  administration  should  be  left  to  the  local  authorities, 
and  full  scope  should  be  given  in  that  direction  to  every  distinct 
district.  If,  to  apeak  of  a  case  in  point,  the  demands  of  the  Irish 
did  not  transgress  this  desire,  they  would  have  found  the  support 
of  a  British  majority  long  ago.  Their  clamor,  however,  is  for  a 
form  of  self-government  which  would  be  identical  with  separa- 
tion, and  which  is  in  opposition  to  sound  political  judgment. 
Even  Mr.  Gladstone's  far-reaching  home  rule  bill  did  not  meet 
with  their  approval,  as  will  be  remembered,  and  it  js  by  their 
very  greediness  tbat  the  Irish  politicians  have  spoiled  their 
chances  for  many  years  to  come. 

The  incertitude  of  affairs  in  Great  Britain  gives  to  the  sensa- 
tional cable  correspondent  abundant  opportunity  of  inventing 
startling  anecdotes.  According  to  one  of  them,  the  Duke  of 
Devonshire  is  reported  to  have  announced  to  the  Queen  that  in 
case  she  refuses  to  intrust  Mr.  Gladstone  with  the  formation  of  a 
government  she  would  have  to  abdicate.  The  story  is  absurd  on 
the  very  face  of  it.  In  the  first  place,  at  this  moment  the  Queen 
is  not  yet  called  upon  to  look  for  a  new  Prime  Minister,  since 
Lord  Salisbury  has  not  yet  resigned.  In  the  second  place,  the 
Duke,  while  he  waB  still  Lord  Hartiflgton  was  always  character- 
ized by  a  rather  phlegmatic  disposition,  and  never  indulged  in 
sensational  bon-mots,  and  it  is  not  likely  that  since  his  transfer  to 
the  House  of  Peers  he  has  suddenly  been  metamorphosed  in  char- 
acter. Thirdly,  the  Queen  is  very  well  aware  that  in  case  of 
Lord  Salisbury's  resignation  the  new  Prime  Minister  must  be  a 
man  who  possesses  a  real  or  apparent  majority  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  and  if  after  Lord  Salisbury's  resignation  a  new  elec- 
tion should  not  be  decided  upon  at  once,  Mr.  Gladstone  is  sure  to 
be  intrusted  with  the  unenviable  task  of  forming  a  government, 
whether  the  Queen  likes  it  or  not.  Her  antipathy  to  Gladstone 
is  quoted  as  a  reason  for  her  intended  refusal  to  see  him  Prime 
Minister.  If  Her  Majesty  desires  to  give  full  scope  to  this  anti- 
pathy, her  vengeance  could  not  be  gratiBed  better  than  by  seeing 
Mr.  Gladstone  attempting  to  legislate  with  his  present  motley 
crowd  of  followers. 

The  California  Railway  is  now  running  direct  to  Laundry  Farm, 
one  of  the  most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  in  the  State.  It  has  an 
easy  roadbed,  comfortable  cars,  and  is  well  managed.  It  runs  direct 
to  Mills  Seminary.  The  traius  connect  at  Fruitvale,  at  9:15  a.m., 
with  the  8:30  a.  m.  overland  from  this  city,  and  at  11:30  a.  m.  with 
the  San  Jose  train  for  San  Francisco. 


In  1850  "Brown's  Bronchial  Troches"  were  introduced,  and  their  suc- 
cess as  a  cure  for  Colds,  Coughs,  Asthma  aud  Bronchitis  has  been  unpar- 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants, 

AND  

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Nos,  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 
NATIONAL  ASSURANCE   CO.  OF   IRELAND; 
ATLAS    ASSURANCE    CO.    OF    LONDON  ; 
BOYLSTON    INSURANCE   CO.  OF    BOSTON; 
OCEAN   MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 

LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

vOver  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212e.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

S30  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Systems— "  Slattery  "  Induction;  '*  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories— Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co.,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 

35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


B.  J.   WHEELER. 


J.   W.   GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  4  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS,  DiMOND  &  GO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 
UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 
The  Cunard  Boyal  Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 

Company,  Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 

"The  California  Line  of  Clippers,"  |  The  China  Traders  &  Insurance  Co. 

from  New  York,  (L'd.), 

"The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets,"      The   Baldwin  Locomotive  Works, 

to  and  from  Honolulu. |        Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

General  Agents  Oceanic  Steamship  Company  and 
Gillingham  Cement. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

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A.   LUSK   &  CO., 

122  DAVIS  STREET,  SAN   FRANCISCO. 
Packers  of  the  following  celebrated  brands : 
CELEBRATED  LUSK    BRANDS, 

J.    LUSK    CANNING   COMPANY, 

SAN    LORENZO    PACKING  CO 


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August  6,  1892. 


s\v  PRAN0I8C0  NEWS  LETTER. 


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I  maimed  to  be  |»o?«ihle  t<»  'lt'monj»tratc  dfffavnoea  in  the  colors 

.>!  inks  which  cannot  he  swn.  the  one  ink  appearing  light  nud  the 
other  dark.  It  is  well  •.inderMo.M  the  tints  of  ink**  that  are  called 
black  are  cither  brown,  red,  green,  or  blue  in  shade;  such  tone-* 
have  but  lime  effect  on  the  eye.  as  it  is  chiefly  sensitive  to  the  yel- 
low and  red  rays.  Bnt  the  chief  M-n-itivenesa  of  photographic  plates, 
on  the  other  hand,  lies  in  the  blue,  violet,  and  ultra  violet.  AjS  with 
ordinary  sensitive  plates,  yellow  and  green  subjects  are  rendered 
dark,  and  blue  ones  light,  the  same,  it  is  stated,  will  follow  in  pho- 
tographing inks  of  various  tones,  a  difference  which  can  be  consid- 
erably intensified  by  the  use  of  suitably  colored  light  and  color-sen- 
sitive plates.  In  this  manner  marked  differences  in  the  various  inks 
can  be  clearly  and  distinctly  demonstrated.  The  method,  it  is  be- 
lieved, can  be  made  practically  useful  in  the  application  of  photo- 
graphy to  the  detection  of  the  falsification  of  handwriting;  that  is, 
in  a  case  of  that  kind,  the  process  will  be  servicable,  as 
in  an  enlarged  photographic  picture  erasures  and  alteration  can  be 
more  clearly  seen  than  in  the  original. 

Hand-woven  tapestries  are  now  reproduced  in  such  a  perfect 

manner  as  to  make  a  most  satisfactory  substitute  for  the  real  and 
vastly  more  expensive  fabric,  and  constituting,  in  fact,  an  industrial 
art  of  positive  importance.  As  exhibited  in  the  trade,  for  hangings 
in  the  library,  dining  room,  and  other  apartments,  the  figure  and 
floral  pieces  are  in  the  rich  low  tones  and  forms  of  the  best  periods  of 
French  weaving,  and,  being  in  rolls  of  both  panels  and  continuous 
patterns,  are  of  convenient  adjustment.  In  the  carrying  out  of  this 
method,  the  artistic  treatment  of  tapestry  paper  has  panels  of  the 
paper  mounted  on  cloth  of  dull  olive,  and  the  cloth  is  left  to  form 
the  stilings;  the  panels  are  bound  with  leather  studded  with  gilt 
nails;  the  wainscoting  should  be  high,  and  of  wood  which  harmon- 
izes in  color. 

It  waslrecently  stated  before  the  Royal  Society  of  London  that 

the  only  reason  the  earth  has  not  long  ago  been  deluged  in  a  sea  of 
nitric  acid  is  that  the  igniting  point  of  nitrogen  is  higher  than  the 
temperature  produced  by  its  combustion,  and  therefore  the  flame 
is  not  hot  enough  to  set  tire  to  the  adjoining  gas.  Were  it  not  for 
this  the  first  lightning  flash  would  probably  have  fired  the  ajr,  se- 
riously interfered  with  the  development  of  the  world  and  made 
things  generally  uncomfortable. 

——The  Chicago  Launch  Club's  electric  launch  which  is  to  be  used 
for  transporting  passengers  in  the  World's  Fair  grounds,  is  36  feet 
long  over  all,  1%  foot  beam  and  when  fully  equipped  draws  28 inches 
Below  decks  she  carries  101  cells  of  storage  battery, which  furnish  cur- 
rent for  a  five-horse  power  motor,  connecting  directly  with  the  screw. 
Her  maxium  speed  is  twelve  miles  an  hour,  but  for  the  purpose  for 
which  she  is  intended  she  will  probably  not  be  run  at  more  than  four 
or  five  miles. 

Stationery  for  Society. 

If  you  are  going  to  the  country,  to  a  comfortable  farmhouse,  or 
intend  to  sojourn  at  a  fashionable  seaside  resort,  you  need  to  take 
with  you  some  of  the  fine  stationery  to  be  procured  at  the  popular 
establishment  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co..  at  711-743  Market  street. 
"Nothing  gives  a  greater  evidence  of  lack  of  the  knowledge  of  what  is 
good  form  than  poor  or  unfashionable  stationery.  Allladies  and  gen- 
tlemen should  supply  themselves  with  a  full  supply  of  the.  excellent 
paper  and  envelopes  from  the  most  famous  houses  in  the  country, 
which  are  kept  in  stock  by  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  For  the  satisfaction 
of  an  artistic  taste,  there  are  beautiful  articles  for  the  escritoire  in 
triple-plated  and  sterling  silverware.  These  include  pen-racks,  ink- 
stands, photograph  frames,  hand-mirrors,  etc.  The  copper-plate 
engraving  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  is  not  excelled  in  the  city.  They 
also  present  many  novelties  in  writing-cases,  including  seals,  paper 
and  wax,  in  a  neat  compartment. 

MRS.  R.  ~G.  LEWIS, 

FORMERLY    OF    THURLOW    BLOCK, 
HAS  REMOVED  TO 

531    SUTTER    STREET. 

SEARCHER   OF    RECORDS 


EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 
G.  W.  MCKEAND, 

OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.    Resldence- 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 


HTSTTRAlSrCE. 


REMOVAL! 
HOME  MUTUAL  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

Now  Occupies  Premises  at  the  N.  K.  C.r.  California  am!  Bansome 

Sts.,   8.  K.,  Lately  Vacated  by  Wells,  Fargo  .V  (',..  Hank. 

Twenty-seventh  Annual  Exhibit. 

Jnnuarr  1,  1H91. 


INOORPO  HATED    A.   It.    1864 
Losses  n'd  since  organrii.ts,iT.\7,Vj.21  I  Reinsurance  KcBcrvo 
Assets  January  1,  1891  867,51:2.1s    Capital  paid  up,  Gold 


- ........... y  L, 

Surplus  lor  policyholders    844.944.69  |  Net  Surplus  over  cv'Tth'e 
Iueomelnl890    ...         ..    W94.184.W  |  Fire  Losses  paid  In  1890 


1266,043.69 

300,000.00 

278,901.10 

-_„._..  .-  „„  ..     ^n.iwi.o*  |  rue  losses  paiu   in  IByo.        14233890 

Fire  Losses  unpaid,  January  1, 1891 n  iru'no 

President.  .  J.  F.  HOUGHTON  I  Secretary    .      CHARLES  R  STORY 

Vice-President  ..HENRY  L.   PODGE  I  General  Agenl.KOBERT  H  MAQILL 

TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  l.  Low,  Manager  for  the  Pacific  t'oaat  Branch 

22o  Sauaome  St.,  8.  F. 

iSHZiLiin'rrc $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534,795.72 


GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
333  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL 4.000,000  DOLLARS 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed S  10,000  000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2  726  000 

Total  Assets  December  31,   1888 'e,  124  057  60 

WM.   GREER    HARRISON,  Manager,' 

305  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDlEFAIEaTirVEIEIISrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANGE  OFFICE, 


OF  LONDON. 
Established  A.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -    I  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, {23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  A.  D.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, »10,044,712. 

Assets  In  America,  -    -    -     {2,222,724. 


WE  J.  UHDERS,  (len'l  Agent,  20!.  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

OAPITAL  »5,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  119,724,538.46. 

President.  WKNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisct. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

[^  OF-  MANriHEBTER,  ENS  l_>\rsiP.  {J 

Capital  paid  *i  guaranteed  38,000,000,00 . 

ChasA  L  atom,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  Francisco- 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Augufct  6,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  fair;    Extras  $4.20@$4  50:    Superfine,  $2.60@$3.00. 

Wheat— Light  trade;   Shipping,  $1.37Va;   Milling,  $l.40@$1.45  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet:  Brewing,  95c.@l?1.0212  Feed,  87V2C.@90c.  per  ctl. 

Oats.  Milling,  Jl.ii3@?1.4);  Feed,  |1.3Q@$1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1.40;  Yellow,  SlMmatfl.ST'a  per  ctl. 

Rye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  $1.30@$1.3d.    Cement,  $2.0O@$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $9;  Oats,  $8@?10;  Alfalfa,  $7@?9. 

Millstnffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $17@$18  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00@?2.50  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  45c.@70c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  18  steady;  Choice,  20c.@221^e. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@9c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  25c.@30c. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc.@12c. :  Extracted,  5c.@6c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  25c@50e.    Beeswax  is  higher,  at  25c.@26c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  active. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7J.2C.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  6^c.@6V2C. 

Coffee  firmer  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demand  at  15@16c. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites.  4?/£®5%c. 

The  Wheat  and  Flour  markets  of  the  world  rule  low  in  price, 
so  much  so  that  California  producers  find  it  difficult  to  find  re- 
munerative openings  for  their  surplus.  There  seems  to  be  a 
business  depression  in  values  the  world  over;  hence  it  is  that  a 
large  Meet  of  ships  and  steamers  are  idle,  all  seeking  profitable 
ventures,  but  find  no  markets  available.  Grain  freights  are  ruling 
low,  and  while  the  price  of  Wheat  in  this  State  is  below  the  nor- 
mal, yet  there  does  not  seem  to  be  any  market  for  profit  open  to 
us,  even  at  current  low  rates  of  freight. 

The  Br.  steamer  Grandholm  brings,  via  Vancouver,  3,982  bags 
Java  Sugar  to  Spreckels. 

The  daily  early  morning  auction  sales  of  Fruit  and  Vegetables, 
upon  the  wharf,  immediately  upon  being  landed  from  the  river 
steamers,  seems  to  have  been  a  decided  success.  The  canners 
and  dealers  are  now  upon  an  equal  footing,  bidding  lively  for  all 
choice  parcels,  and  the  prices  quite  satisfactory  to  the  growers,  as 
upon  the  present  rule  of  cash  upon  delivery,  every  day's  trans- 
ation  is  promptly  brought  to  a  close. 

There  seems  to  be  an  increased  movement  in  Quicksilver,  with 
liberal  shipments  to  New  York. 

Both  New  York  and  England  are  free  purchasers  cf  our  Barley, 
the  latter  giving  a  decided  preference  for  Chevalier. 

There  has  been  of  late  a  decided  advance  in  the  price  of  Dried 
Fruit,  with  a  large  inquiry  for  all  sorts  of  Canned  Fruits,  Vege- 
tables, etc.  Shipments  of  Salmon  to  New  York  ana  Great  Britain 
in  July  were  heavy. 

The  stmr.  Australia,  7  days  from  Honolulu,  had  for  Cargo  7,262 
bags  Rice,  4,582  bchs.  Banannas,  575  bxs.  Fruit,  8,401  bags  Sugar, 
etc. 

Coffee. — We  note  an  improved  demand  for  Central  American 
grades;  the  last  steamer  but  one  thence  brought  no  additions  to 
our  stock.  But  the  stmr.  Acapulco,  since  at  hand,  had  only  632 
sacks. 

Sugar. — The  schr.  Czar  from  San  Bias  to  Thomas  Bell  &  Co. 
brought  1,302  bags. 

Hongkong. — The  ship  William  J.  Rotch,  to  S.  L.  Jones  &  Co., 
46  days  thence,  had  for  Cargo  31,482  mats  Rice,  2,060  bags.  Sugar, 
536  pkgs.  Tea,  1,347  cs.  Nut  Oil,  200  bales  Gunnies  and  3,000pkgs. 
unspecified  Mdse. 

For  New  York,  the  ship  Tarn  O'Shanter,  1,522  tons,  has  been 
chartered  to  load  Mdse.  for  New  York  in  the  Dispatch  Line,  and 
will  carry  miscellaneous  cargo. 

The  ship  M.  P.  Grace  has  arrived  from  New  York  with  a  large 
and  valuable  cargo  of  well  assorted  goods.  There  is  at  present  a 
very  great  revival  in  the  carrying  of  Mdse.  to  and  from  New 
York  by  ships  via  Cape  Horn,  no  less  than  four  lines  of  ships 
now  engaged  in  this  traffic. 

Notwithstanding  the  lajge  shipments  of  Barley,  Canned  Goods 
and  other  Mdse.  to  New  York,  etc.,  by  sea,  it  would  seem  that 
this  diversion  does  not  mitigate  materially  from  the  shipments 
by  rail  overland,  and  these  heavy  daily  and  weekly  shipments 
are  conclusive  evidences  that  business  generally  is  reviving  very 
materially,  and  this  revival  is  quite  apparent  all  along  our  busi- 
ness thoroughfares. 

The  ship  A.  J.  Fuller,  hence  for  New  York,  July  28th,  carried 
for  cargo  65,083  gals.  Wine,  15,097  gals.  Whale  Oil,  59,460  lbs. 
Infusorial  Earth,  1,500  cs.  Canned  Peaches,  3,839  cs.  Canned 
Fruit,  200  cs.  Canned  Corn,  20,179  ctls.  Barley,  202,700  lbs.  Borax, 
1,008  gals.  Brandy,  400  flsks.  Quicksilver,  50  bales  Rags,  529,093 
lbs.  Beans,  etc.;  also,  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  266,972  lbs.  Wool;  to 
Philadelphia,  2,000  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  350  gals.  Wine;  to  Milwau- 
kee, 650  cs.  Canned  Fruit. 

Redwood  Lumber  for  Cork,  U.  K.— The  ship  Knight  Com- 
mander sailed  hence  July  28tb,  witb  982  M.  feet  value  $28,508. 

Sydney.— The  Br.  bark  Darra  sailed  hence  July  29th,  with  579 
M.  feet  Redwood  Lumber,  61  M.  feet  Sugar  Pine,  3,017  bdls. 
Laths  and  1,000  gals.  Benzine,  value  $25,879. 


xi^r&xr^tj^isro^E} . 


Insurance  Company, 
capital $1 .000,000,  |  assets 13,000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  in  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States . 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up $400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 278  AND  220  SANSOME  STRtET, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

CHAB.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


GEORGE  L.  BKANDEE, 

President. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up ?     500,000 

Assets        3,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,525,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 

€lty  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     General  Office — 401  Mont's,  St. 


FIRE 


INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Go.  Limited,  of  London. 
The  Imperial  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London- 

WM,  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,   214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

SWAIN  &  MURDOCK,  City  Agents. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND  DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 

DECKER 

BROTHERS'*1  ■ 

PIANOS. 

KOHLER    &    CHASE, 

US  O'Farrell  St. 

Dr.  Ricord's  Restorative  Pills. 

Buy  none  but  the  Genuine— A  Specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces,  etc.— Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  Medical  Celebrities.     Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 

J.  G.   STEELE  «fc  CO., 
No.  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED.  Boa:  of  50  piUs,  $1  25;  of  100  pills,  $2;  of  200  pills 
?3  50;  of  400  pills,  $6;  Preparatory  Pills,  $2.    Send  for  Circular. 

HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY     AND      COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL      EXAMINER 

Of  Handwriting,  Inks,  Papers,  etc.,  lathe  Detection  of  Forgeries, 

Counterfeits  and  Imitations. 

41  IV.  CALIFORNIA  STREET.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

LOUIS  R0EDERER  CHAMPAGNE. 

Tbe  Highest  tirade  Champagne  in  the  World. 
CABTE    ZBIjA-ILSrOIEailE}." 

(WHITE    LABEL) 

A  Magnificent  Rich  Wine. 
'"G-U.A-3SriD  -VIDST  SEC." 

(BEOWN  LABEL) 

Perfection  of  a  Dry  Wine. 
See  that  everyBottle  bears  the  private  labelof 

MACONDRAY   &   CO., 

So/8  Agents  for  thePacWc  Coast. 


August  6,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


25 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 
pacific    BT8TXM. 

Train*  Leave  and    are  Due  to  Arrive  at 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Lkave  '  From  July  25,  1892.  I  Arrive 

7:00  a.  Bemcfa,  Ramsey,  Sacramento         7:15 F 
7^0a.  Haywards.  Nilesand  San  Jose 

Nile*  and  San  Jose I6:15p 

7:30a.  Martinei.  San  Ramon,  Calistoga 

and  Santa  Rota  6; lop. 

8:00a.  3acram'to  A  Redding,  via  Davis        7:16  F. 
8 .-00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

E**t. 9:45  p. 

8:80a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:45  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  SantaBar- 
bara,  Los  Angeles,  Deming,  El 

Paso.  New  Orleans  andEast 8:45  P. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:45  P. 

12  -00  m.  Hay  wards,  Mies  and  Livermore      7:15  p. 

*1:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers •9:00  p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Mies  and  San  Jose..      9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi ,  Merced  and  Fresno 9 :45  a. 

4:00  p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9.45  A. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45  a. 

4:30 p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45  a. 

■4:30p.  Mies  and  Livermore *8:45a. 

5:30  p.  Los   Angeles    Express,   Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles 8:45a. 

5:30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East 8:45a. 

6:00p.  Haywards,  Mies  and  San  Jose..      7:45a. 

*6:00p.  Sunoland  Livermore 

6:00  p.  European  JIdll  Ogden  and  East    9:15  A. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo f8:45  p. 

7:00  p.  ShastaRoute Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Puget  Sound  and  East. . .      8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

J7:45a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, Sau  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    18:05  p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder    Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz. *10:50a, 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  Sau  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 
Cruz 9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 
*7:00a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion 18:28  p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TresPinos.Pa- 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  P. 
J9:30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  J2:45  P. 
10:37A.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  ..  5:03p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3 :30  p. 

*2  :30p.  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  PacificGrove 

and  principal  Way  Stations *10:37  a. 

*3:30p.  San    Jose,    Gilroy    and     Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations *9:47  a. 

*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8:06a. 

5 :15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a, 

6:30  p.  Menlo  PaTk  and  Way  Stations...      6:35  a. 
rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 
Stations f7:30p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  ^Saturdays  only. 

tSundays  only. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Satobday,  June  25, 1892. 

Belbic Tuesday,  July  26, 1892. 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TIOKET8  AT   REDUCED    RATE8. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Paciflo  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Franoisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Ttmo  N'F.w  York,  vi  i   !'r 

Steamer*,  will  Mill  At  NOON  "ii  we  5th,  1Mb  and 

.  of  earl)  month, 
Calling  at  various   pnrl*  of  Mc-xiro  an.l  Central 
America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.—  Aucn st  :.th,  1802, "City  of 
New  Tort:"  S.  S.  "San  Bias,"  AilguM  15tb;8.  S. 
"  City  of  Sidney,"  Ancusl  '25th. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Potts 
and  Panama.  —Steamer  sails  at  NOON  18th  of  each 
mouth,  calllnir  at  Mnzatlau.  Sau  Bias,  Manzmiilln, 
ACftpoJOOi  Purl  Angel,  Saliua  Cruz,  Touala,  San 
,  oeos,  Champerieo,  Sau  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
ACHJutta,  I.a  l-ibertad,  La  Union,  Amnpfila,  Co- 
rlnto,  San  Jnau  del  Sur  aud  Puuta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Aug.  18th,  S.  S.  "  Acapulco'" 

When  the  regular  sailiug  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies.  Straits,  etc.: 

S.  S.  "Peru"  (new),  Thursday,  Aug.  4th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Jaueiio,"  Saturday,  Aug.  27th,  at 

3  p.  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Sept. 27 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  TriD  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.       Branch  office — 202 
Front  street.               ALEXANDER  CENTER, 
General  Agent. 


HIGH  TARIFF.— New  York  World. 
Am— "Tit  Willow." 

Republican  friends,  have   you   tried    long 
enough 
This  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff? 
Don't  it  look  to  yon  now  like  a  big  game 
of  bluff, 
This  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff  ? 
Can  you  see  where  it's  helped  you  to  sell 

or  to  buy  ? 
Is  it  truth  which  they've  told  you,  or  is  it  a 

lie? 
And  will  you  continue  to  vote  till  you  die 

For  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff? 
The  workingmen   just   now   have  opened 
their  eyes 
To  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff. 
Republican  pledges  they've  learned  to  des- 
pise 
On  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff. 
McKinley's  loud  talk  has  turned  out  mighty 

thin; 
It  amounts  to  the  same  as  American  tin; 
It's  varnished  outside,  but  it's  rotten  with- 
in, 
Like  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff. 
Monopolists  cry  for  protection,  you  know, 

And  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff. 
We're  taxed  to  protect  them — you  all  know 
it's  so — 
With  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff. 
They  urge  us  to   vote,  and  with  promises 

fine, 
Inform    us  we'll  have  a  more  prosperous 

time; 
They  gobble  the  fat  and  then  throw  us  the 
rind — 
That's  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff. 
The  Force  bill  you  know  is  another  rank 
fraud, 
With  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff; 
How  can  any  party  such  measures  applaud, 

With  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff? 
It's  a  blot  on  the  nation  such   bills  to  put 

through, 
But  Republican  schemes  of   that  sort  are 

not  new; 
We'll  change  the  whole  plot  if  you'll  only 
pull  true 
Against  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff. 
With    tariff    reform    we   will    swamp    the 
whole  crew, 
And  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff; 
With  Republican  chaff  honest  men    have 
got  through, 
And  tariff,  high  tariff,  high  tariff; 
For  Cleveland  and  Stevenson  now  clear  the 

way, 
We  see  through  the  mist  the  bright  dawn- 
ing of  day; 
We  see  better  times  and  we  see  better  pay — 
Less  tariff,  less  tariff,  less  tariff. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    DONAHUE    BROaOOAUOE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892  and 
until  further  notice,  Boat*  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHAKF,  •■ 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS-7:40  a.m.,  9:20  a.m.,   11:20  a.  u.  ; 

1:30  p.m.,  3:30  p.  M.,6:06  P.  M.,  6:20  P.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  A.M., 9:30  a.m.,  11:00  A.M.:  1  30  P.M. 
3:30  r.  m.,  5:00  p.  M.,  6:15  p.  m. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-«:25  A.   M.,  7:55  A.   M.,  9:30  A    M. 

11:30  A.  m.;  1:40  P.M.,  8:40  P.M.,  6:06  r.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m„  9:40  a.m.,  11 :10  a.  M. ;  1 -40  p.m 
3:40  p.  M.,  6:00  p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:66  A.M.,  11-55 
A.  M. ;  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  6:36  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  au  extra  trip  at  6:55  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:36    A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:05  p.  M.,  4:05 p.m.,  5:30p.M.,  6:50  P.M. 


Leave  8.  F. 


Day's*    Sundays 


7:40A. M 
3:30  P.M 
5:05  p.m 


7:40A.  M. 
3  :30  p.m. 


7:40a.m 
3:30  p.m 


7:40a.m. 
5:05  P.M. 


8:00  a.m 
9:30  a.  m 
5:00p.  m 


8:00a.  m 


8:00  A.M. 
5:00p.  M. 


Destination. 


Sundays 


Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa 


Fulton, 
Windsor. 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Guerneville 


AebiveinS.F. 


10:40 a.m 
6:05  p.m 
7:26p.m 


Week 
Days. 


8:50a.m. 
10:30a.m 
6:10p.m. 


7:25p.m. 


Sonomaand  10:40a.m.  8:50a.m. 
Glen  Ellen.    6:06p.m.  6:10p.m. 


10:80a.  m 
6:10p.m 


10:30a.m. 
6:10p.m. 


7:40a. M    8:00a.m    Sebastopol.  I  10:40a.m  |  1030am 
3:30  p.m    5:00  p.m |    6*.05p.M  |  6:10  p.m 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena:  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Canto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days— To  Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  ?2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  14  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  {5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  76:  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $8;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  SAN  SIMEON, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Baebaka,  San  Buenaventuba, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


I  CURE  FITS! 

When  I  Bay  care  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again. I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  disease  of  FITS,  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  lifelong  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  curs  the  worst  cases*  Becauso 
others  have  failed  i9  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
cure.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office* 
H.  G.  BOOT,  W.  Ci  183  Pearl  St..  N-  Y. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


OAKLAND  might  lay  claim  to  be  called  the  banner  town,  so  far 
as  society  weddings  are  concerned,  for  not  a  week  passes  but 
several  take  place,  with  more  yet  to  come.  The  ceremony  which 
united  Miss  Camelia  B.  Wright  to  Hugh  Arthur  Duncan,  a  sprig 
of  the  Scottish  nobility  of  the  house  of  Camperdown,  was  a  very 
quiet  one,  performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Akerley,  at  the  residence  of 
Mr.  W.  B.  Watkinson.  The  marriage  of  Miss  Northey  to  Jessie 
L.  Douglas  was,  on  the  contrary,  a  large  and  formal  affair,  the 
wedding  taking  place  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  the  Rev. 
R.  F.  Coyle  officiating.  The  floral  decorations  at  the  church, 
which  was  crowded  with  guests,  were  beautiful  and  elaborate, 
and  there  were  several  novelties  in  the  details  of  the  service — a 
couple  of  ushers  preceding  the  groom  and  his  best  man  as  they 
walked  up  one  of  the  side-  aisles  to  the  altar,  the  other  two  having 
in  charge  the  bride  and  her  party.  This  consisted  of  two  little 
flower  girls;  the  two  bridesmaids,  Misses  Mae  Hogan  and  Marian 
Jehu;  the  bride  and  her  maid-of-honor,  Miss  Lizzie  Hughes.  Mr. 
Walter  Moody  was  best  man.  The  bridal  costume  was  of  white 
brocaded  satin  en  traine  trimmed  with  orange  blossoms,  and  the 
customary  tulle  veil.  The  maid-of-honor  and  the  bridesmaids 
wore  gowns  of  yellow  crepe,  and  the  little  flower  bearers,  Misses 
Norma  Snook  and  Ethel  May  Lawrence  were  in  white.  The  re- 
ception, which  was  held  at  the  bride's  residence  on  East  Fifteenth 
street,  was  very  largely  attended;  a  delicious  supper  was  one  of 
its  features;  another,  the  serenade  by  the  Mendelssohn  Male 
Quartette  under  the  dining  room  windows.  Omaha  is  to  be  the 
future  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglass. 


Mrs.  Anna  M.  Lathrop  Hewes,  sister  of  Mrs.  Leland  Stanford 
and  wife  of  David  Hewes,  expired  after  a  long  illness,  at  the 
Stanford  residence,  on  California  street,  on  Wednesday  evening. 
She  was  a  native  of  Albany,  New  York,  and  had  been  in  Califor- 
nia for  over  thirty  years,  her  residence,  until  her  marriage  to 
Mr.  Hewes,  in  1889,  being  with  Mrs.  Stanford.  Mrs.  Hewes  will 
be  greatly  mourned,  as  she  had  sincerely  endeared  herself  to 
hundreds  of  admiring  friends  by  her  many  Christian  graces.  She 
was  of  a  very  charitable  disposition,  and  was  of  great  assistance 
to  many  deserving  people.  Although  she  had  been  ill  since  last 
October,  it  was  thought  recently  that  she  would  recover.  It  was 
after  such  assurances  from  the  physicians  that  Mrs.  Stanford,  to 
whom  her  sister  was  very  dear,  went  East  to  accompany  the 
Senator  to  Europe.  The  funeral  of  Mrs.  Hewes  will  be  held  at 
2  p.  m.  to-day,  from  the  Stanford  residence. 

It  is  anticipated  that  rooms  will  be  at  a  premium  in  Santa  Cruz 
next  week.  The  regulars  left  town  on  Tuesday  for  their  march 
to  the  sea,  where  they  will  go  into  camp.  The  National  Guard, 
which  leaves  to-day,  will  be  under  canvas  to-morrow  at  Camp 
Columbus,  and  gaiety  will  reign  supreme  while  they  remain.  The 
programme  includes  nightly  dances,  in  which  all  the  hotels  will 
vie  as  to  which  will  carry  off  the  palm.  Mrs.  N.  J.  Brittain's 
party  at  the  Casino,  Mrs.  Smith's  ball  at  Sunshine  Villa;  recep- 
tions, dinners,  driving,  hay-rides,  etc.,  etc.,  to  say  nothing  of 
swimming  contests  and  the  delightful  lounge  under  umbrellas 
upon  the  beach.  Mrs.  Torbert  and  Miss  Mollie,  accompanied  by 
Mr.  Burke  Holladay,  will  spend  a  good  part  of  August  at  Santa 
Cruz.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Fries  and  Miss  Helen  Walker  will 
be  among  the  visitors  during  the  encampment  week. 


San  Francisco  has  been  doing  the  honors  this  week  to  some 
visiting  Knights  Templar,  on  their  way  to  the  Conclave  to  be 
held  in  Denver,  next  week.  The  ladies  of  the  Golden  Gate  (Jom- 
mandery  assembled  in  the  parlors  of  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Mon- 
day afternoon  to  receive  the  ladies  who  accompanied  the  "Mary" 
Commandery  from  Philadelphia,  where  a  couple  of  hours  were 
passed  very  agreeably.  In  the  evening  the  Golden  Gate  Com- 
mandery banqueted  the  visitiDg  Knights  at  their  asylum,  on  Post 
street,  to  which  they  were  escorted  by  the  drill  crops  about  9 
o'clock.  Frank  W.  Sumner  was  presiding  officer,  Colonel  S.  D. 
Mayer  and  others  furnished  vocal  music,  and  W.  H.  L.  Barnes 
made  the  most  telling  speech  of  the  evening,  responding  to  the 
toast,  "  Old  Glory,"  after  which  the  "Star  Spangled  Banner"  was 
sung  in  chorus.  On  Tuesday  evening  the  parent  commandery, 
California,  No.  1,  entertained  them  at  supper  at  their  asylum,  in 
the  Masonic  Temple,  Dr.  Beverly  Cole  making  the  speech  of  wel- 
come, to  which  Captain  Samuel  Much  responded.  He  was 
followed  by  numerous  other  speakers,  all  complimentary  to  a  de- 
gree in  their  praise  of  California.  All  the  Knights,  including  the 
local  men,  have  departed  for  Denver,  where  gala  times  await 
them. 

Although  the  resorts  still  continue  full,  the  personnel  of  some  of 
them  is  changing  now  almost  daily.  Chiefly  noticeable  is  the  in- 
terchange between  Del  Monte  and  Castle  Crags,  while  Monterey 
is  attracting  a  goodly  number  of  those  who  have  made  Santa 
Cruz  their  headquarters  all  summer.  At  Castle  Crags,  Milton 
Latham  has  been  distinguishing  himself  as  a  cotillion  leader, 
getting  his  hand  in  against  the  possibilities  of  the  coming  season 
in  town.  Amateur  concerts  are  quite  frequent,  and  with  tennis, 
bowling  and  the  daily  visit  to  the  swimming  pool,  life  in  the 
mountains  is  one  long  enjoyment.  Among  the  losses  are  Mrs. 
Rutherford  and  her  daughters,  Miss  Houghton,  Miss  Brown,  Miss 
Bessie  Shreve  and  the  Folgers.  But  to  counterbalance  them,  the 
fcains  will  be  Mrs.  Cheeseman  and  Miss  Jenny,  Mrs.  Adams,  Miss 
Ella  Adams,  Mrs.  Calvin  Whitney,  Mrs.  E.  B.  Coleman,  Miss 
Blanding,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bob  Graves  and  their  daughter,  Mrs. 
James  Carolan  and  her  daughters,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Davis, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Tevis,  all  the  McNears,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Burns, 
Mrs.  and  Miss  Landers,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Hanley,  etc.,  nearly  all  of 
whom  will  remain  during  the  month  of  August. 


Mrs.  Irwin  gave  a  pleasant  reception  at  tbe  Commandant's 
residence,  at  Mare  Island,  last  Thursday,  in  honor  of  her  daugh- 
ter's guests,  the  Misses  Palmer  and  Tayler,  all  of  the  young  ladies 
efficiently  aiding  the  hostess  in  her  duties  to  her  guests.  Mare 
Island  flower  gardens  are  renowned  for  their  beauty  and 
luxuriance,  and  the  choicest  blossoms  seemed  to  have  been  culled 
for  the  adornment  of  the  spacious  rooms  which  were  well  filled 
with  guests  during  the  hours  of  the  reception.  Of  course  there 
was  dancing,  the  band  from  the  Independence  furnishing  excellent 
music,  and  the  refreshments  were  delicious.  The  Wednesday 
evening  hops  continue  to  be  held  at  the  Navy  Yard,  and  among 
other  good  things  for  the  future  pleasure  of  the  residents  is  the 
new  tennis  court  which  is  in  progress  of  preparation.  Apropos 
of  the  Navy  Yard,  Captain  Glass,  the  recent  Captain  of  the  yard, 
has  been  succeeded  by  Captain  H.  L.  Harrison  in  his  duties  as 
such. 


On  Thursday  evening  a  very  pretty  wedding  took  place  at  the 
residence  of  Mrs.  G.  F.  Tantau,  on  McAllister  street,  when  Miss 
Albertie  Theuerkauf,  of  Gonzales,  was  married  to  John  A.  Hendy, 
the  ceremony  being  performed  by  the  bride's  grandfather,  Dr. 
Hertel.  The  drawing-room  was  beautifully  adorned  with  choice 
flowers  and  foliage,  the  bridal  bell  under  which  the  knot  was  tied 
being  especially  noticable.  Dr.  F.  H.  Stable  was  the  groom's  best 
man,  and  the  pretty  maid  who  attended  the  bride  was  her  cousin, 
Miss  Flora  Tantau.  The  bridal  robe  was  of  white  silk,  heavily 
trimmed  with  costly  lace — the  gift  of  her  aunt — and  the  veil  and 
wreath  of  orange  blossoms  completed  a  charming  toilet.  A  string 
orchestra  played  during  supper,  which  was  served  after  congra- 
tulations had  been  offered  and  received.  Among  the  guests  were 
many  of  tbe  Olympic  Club,  of  which  association  the  groom  is  a 
prominent  member. 

Del  Monte  has  been  rejoicing  oyer  the  arrival  of  the  Eastern 
beauty,  Miss  Leiter,  of  Chicago,  who,  with  her  father  and 
mother,  will  make  a  visit  of  some  length  at  that  hostelrie.  Mrs. 
Harrison  Garratt  and  her  sons,  who  were  among  the  Eastern 
lions  last  week,  have  departed  upon  their  trip  north,  en  route  to 
Japan;  but  the  arrivals  this  week  have  been  numerous,  nearly 
all  the  August  visitors  being  now  comfortably  installed,  and 
await  the  coming  of  the  Country  Club  and  the  gaieties  conse- 
quent upon  their  presence  for  "  the  shoot."  Driving  parties  are 
frequent;  so  are  little  gatherings  in  private  rooms,  where  music 
or  card3  are  the  features,  or  it  may  be  a  pete'*  souper  that  is  in- 
dulged in.  Dances  are  of  almost  nightly  occurrence,  and  would 
be  more  enjoyable  were  the  male  sex  more  apparent  in  goodly 
numbers. 

At  San  Rafael  the  event  of  last  week  was  the  dinner  given  by 
Mrs.  Steinhart,  on  Friday  evening,  in  celebration  of  her  birthday. 
The  private  dining-room  of  the  Hotel  Rafael  was  tastefully  dec- 
orated for  the  occasion,  ferns,  foliage  and  flowers  being  used  in 
profusion.  The  table  blossoms  were  confined  to  roses  and  carna- 
tions. A  delicious  menu  was  succeeded  by  music,  Mrs.  Lilien- 
tbal  and  the  charming  hostess  each  contributed  some  local  gems, 
and  Mr.  Seligman  appeared  as  a  soloist,  his  instrument  being  the 
'cello.  Mrs.  Steinhart  is  well  known  as  an  accomplished  hostess, 
and  a  delightful  evening  was  passed  by  her  friends.  Miss  Mabel 
Reed  has  been  visiting  her  aunt,  Mrs.  0.  P.  Evans,  and  Miss 
Agnes  Burgin  is  also  a  guest  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 

Larkspur  Inn  seems  to  have  achieved  an  enviable  popularity 
during  its  first  season.  Many  of  those  who  went  there  for  brief 
visits  have  remained  to  spend  the  summer,  and  the  house  will  be 
full  until  far  into  the  autumn.  The  guests  got  up  a  musicale 
among  themselves  last  Friday  evening,  which  was  most  success- 
ful, ending  with  a  dance  afterwards,  and  several  of  the  toilettes 
would  have  done  credit  to  a  city  ball-room.  Bowling  is  one  of 
the  favorite  diversions,  and  the  recent  contest  was  very  spirited, 
Miss  Ivy  Bunker  and  Miss  Georgie  Nightingale  carrying  off  tbe 
prizes.  Last  evening  a  promenade  concert  and  hop  was  given  at 
Larkspur  Hall  in  aid  of  the  new  Catholic  Church,  and  another 
will  take  place  there  to-night. 

Hugh  Arthur  Duncan,  the  second  son  of  Lord  Camperdom, 
was  married  last  week  in  Oakland  to  Miss  Cornelia  B.  Wright. 
The  ceremony,  which  was  attended  by  only  a  few  intimate 
friends,  took  place  at  the  residence  of  William  Watkinson,  and 
was  performed  by  Father  Akerly. 


August  6,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Camp  Whileaway,  at  Mill  Taller,  i'  no  more.  Laat  Sunday. 
with  approprfalc  ceremonies,  the  campa  were  taken  down  and 
the  various  utensils  packed  (or  shipment  back  to  this  city.  The 
boys  had  a  nieiTy  two  months  lime  in  ramp,  and  many  pleasant 
re<t'pu.ins  to  their  young  lady  friends  were  given.  Henry  Pin- 
klespeil's  lea  parties  were  regular  Saturday  events,  and  very  en- 
joyable, the  last  one  being  given  the  day  before  the  camp  broke 
up.  Messrs.  Charles  Knkle.  M.  l.owenstein.  Simon  Meininger 
and  Joe  Emanuel  will  remain  in  the  valley  a  month  or  so  yet. 
Tbey  have  camped  near  the  railroad  depot. 

The  artist  friends  of  Krnest  Narjot  have  quietly  made  a  suc- 
cess of  a  ralfie  for  his  benefit.  Three  of  his  small  but  valuable 
pictures  will  be  raffled  at  the  rooms  of  the  Art  Association,  430 
Pine  street,  on  August  20tb,  at  4  v.  u.  Five  hundred  tickets,  at 
$1  each,  were  issued  a  week  ago.  and  all  but  a  dozen  are  already 
■old.  Mrs.  Dr.  Toland  readily  sold  sixty-four  tickets  at  the  Hotel 
del  Monte.  Tbe  aged  artist  lies  partially  blind  and  paralyzed, 
with  a  mind  affected  as  well,  but  he  displays  a  pathetic  confi- 
dence that  in  a  few  more  days  he  will  resume  work  on  the  great 
picture  of  his  life,  half  finished  when  he  was  stricken  down.  It 
is  intended  for  the   World's  Fair. 

Mrs.  Hecht.  with  her  daughters,  Hilda  and  Edith,  Mrs.  and 
Miss  Sobatie,  have  been  among  the  guests  at  Lake  Tahoe.  Mrs. 
Delmas  and  her  daughters  will  probably  forsake  Santa  Cruz  next 
week  and  pay  a  visit  to  Del  Monte.  Mrs.  S.  F.  Thome  has  been 
spending  this  week  np  in  Shasta  county,  but  will  likely  be  in 
town  again  in  a  few  days,  en  route  to  Craig  Thome,  which  will 
be  their  locale  during  the  rest  of  August.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Carolan,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Muntford  Wilson  made  a  pleasant  little 
party  of  four,  who  have  been  paying  a  short  visit  to  Castle  Crags. 

Oakland  has  several  other  weddings  on  the  topis.  Tbe  marriage 
of  Miss  Dell  Chapman  and  Francis  J.  Woodward  will  be  solem- 
nized at  Dr.  Chapman's  church,  in  East  Oakland,  next  Thursday 
evening.  The  double  wedding  in  the  Hush-Magee  families  will 
take  place  on  tbe  following  Thursday  evening,  the  18th.  Other 
prospective  weddings  of  this  month  are  those  of  Miss  Jennie 
Marshall  and  Philip  8.  Bates,  of  Portland,  Oregon;  Miss  Eleanor 
Briggs,  of  Berkeley,  to  Samuel  Illsey,  of  Milwaukee,  and  Miss 
Fanny  Stem  to  M.  H.  Levey,  who  will  be  married  at  2008  Pine 
street,  on  the  14th.         

Frederick  Pope  is  a  young  San  Franciscan,  studying  art  in  Paris, 
who  has  gained  more  fame  than  is  usual  for  an  artist  only  twenty 
years  of  age.  Half  a  dozen  of  his  canvases  have  been  in  the 
Salon,  four  of  them  having  been  received  this  year.  His  first 
great  success  was  the  "  Spinner  of  Zevem,"  which  was  admitted 
to  the  Salon  of  1890,  when  Mr.  Pope  was  only  eighteen  years  old. 
He  is  probably,  the  youngest  artist  ever  thus  honored  by  the 
French  critics.  The  painting  is  now  on  exhibition  in  the  art 
gallery  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  where  it  has  been  placed  by  the 
young  artist's  father.  

The  London  season  has  been  very  dull  socially.  Marshall  P. 
Wilder,  who  went  over  to  capture  the  Britishers,  was  a  flat  fail- 
ure, and  Mrs.  Frank  Leslie  Wilde  did  not  "  catch-on."  Her  big 
boy  could  not  pull  her  through  the  swim,  and  her  old  flame, 
Marquis  De  Lurvilie  is  somewhat  sore  over  the  matter.  He 
ignored  them.  This  is  the  latest  quip  on  these  notables :  "  Wilde, 
the  blushing  bridegroom  he;  Wilder,  the  best  man  Marshall  P.; 
Wildest,  the  Marquis  o'er  the  sea." 

The  Misses  Marie  and  Kate  Voorhies  are  among  the  passen- 
gers who  sailed  for  Europe  by  the  steamer  Gallia  from  New  York 
last  Saturday.  They  were  under  the  charge  ot  Mr.  Robert  Sher- 
wood, with  whom  and  a  couple  of  other  friends,  they  will  make 
a  tour  of  Continental  Europe,  which  will  occupy  them  until 
about  the  middle  of  October,  after  which  their  plans  are  not  quite 
decided  upon. 

A  notable  social  event  in  Oakland  during  the  coming  week  will 
be  tbe  marriage  on  Thursday  of  Francis  J.  "Woodward  and  Miss 
Del  Chapman,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  E.  8.  Chapman.  The  cere- 
money  will  be  held  at  the  Brooklyn  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
there  is  sure  to  be  a  representative  throng  present,  for  both  the 
bride-elect  and  prospective  groom  are  favorites  in  East  Oakland 
society. 

Joe  Redding  is  back  again  from  his  flying  tour  of  Europe,  and 
has  brought  with  him  a  lot  of  music  for  the  Park  Band.  He  has 
also  arranged  that  we  are  to  have  all  the  newest  and  best  orches- 
tral music  sent  us  monthly  as  it  comes  out  in  Europe. 

Mr.  A.  H.  Small,  who  has  been  absent  tor  several  weeks, 
chiefly  in  Canada,  on  business  and  pleasure  combined,  has  re- 
turned again  to  the  shores  of  the  Pacific.  Senator  Stewart  will 
return  to  his  constituents  from  Washington  City  about  the  mid- 
dle of  August,  possibly  a  little  sooner. 

The  recent  bride  and  groom,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Swabaker,  nee  Gump, 
are  making  a  short  visit  at  the  Gump  residence,  on  Geary  street, 
before  leaving  for  their  future  home  in  Wheeling,  Va  They  will 
be  at  home  to  their  friends  on  Tuesday  afternoon  and  Thursday 
evening  while  they  remain  in  the  city. 


Returns    l<>    town    Inolnds    Mrs.    II.    U,    A.    Miller,  from  Sanla 

Orn»;  Mrs.  Kr.'.i  Wooster,  from  Napa  Soda  Springs ;  Ur.  and  Mrs. 
\v.  B,  Wit-inr.-.  from  Larkspur;  Mrs,  Oaiharsrood  and  Mr.. 
Barnes,  from  Wawona;  Mrs.  Durbrow  and  her  daughter.  Kill 
Emma,  from  San  Rafael:  Mr.  W.  W.  Foote,  bis  daughter 
Miss  English  returned  fr,.m  t li . •  i r  visit  to  Yosemlte  Inst  Friday. 
Judge  and  Mrs.  Curry.  Miss  Gertrude  Wilson  an. I  Miss  Hastings, 
who  have  been  in  tbe  Yoseniite  Valley,  are  also  again  at  home. 

In  the  London  papers  we  notice  the  announcement  of  the  en- 
gagement of  a  young  lady  once  well  known  here  by  many  of  our 
readers.  We  allude  to  the  engagement  of  Miss  Louise  Bonynge 
to  Major  John  Grenfell  Maxwell,  of  the  Forty-second  Highland- 
ers, and  also  military  secretary  in  the  English  administration  of 
Egypt.  Major  Maxwell  served  with  distinction  in  all  the  Egyp- 
tian campaigns.  His  sister,  Lady  Forbes,  of  JSewe,  Scotland,  is 
one  of  the  fashionable  beauties  of  London. 

The  many  friends  of  Chartes  Meinecke  will  be  pleased  to  learn 
of  his  return  home.  He  is  at  the  Occidental.  Mr.  Meinecke  has 
been  traveling  in  Europe  for  tbe  past  two  years,  visiting  all  the 
famous  resorts  with  Mrs.  Meinecke,  for  the  benefit  of  her  health. 
He  reports  Mrs.  Meinecke  as  much  improved,  but  did  not  con- 
sider it  advisable  for  her  to  return  to  California  yet.  She  is  at  the 
springs  in  Germany.  Their  son,  Emil,  is  at  school  in  Heidel- 
berg. 

Advices  from  London  state  that  the  season  has  been  very  dull 
socially.  One  of  the  events  of  the  season  was  a  dinner  given  by 
the  United  States  Minister,  at  which  were  present  the  Lord  Justice 
and  Lady  Coleridge,  Lord  Justice  Fry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lincoln, 
Lord  and  Lady  Brassey,  Hon.  Dudley  and  Mrs.  Veigh,  nee  Beck- 
with,  of  New  York;  Professor  Flower,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Astor,  Mr.  and  Miss  Bonynge,  Andrew  Laing  and  Henry  James 

Alabama  will  be  warmly  welcomed  upon  its  return,  and  from 
present  indications  the  Baldwin  will  hold  a  very  fashionable 
audience  for  its  re-entre.  Several  large  parties  are  made  up  for 
Monday  evening;  one  of  sixteen  will  sup  afterwards  with  the  fair 
hostess  out  on  Pacific  Heights;  and  the  theatre  trains  during  the 
week  will  also  carry  several  more  to  see  the  returned  favorite, 
which  bids  fair  to  be  as  popular  as  when  here  last  year. 


The  wedding  reception  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Hendy,  who 
have  just  returned  from  their  honeymoon  trip,  was  held  last 
evening  at  the  Marechal  Niel,  on  Ellis  street,  where  they  now 
reside.  Mrs.  Hendy  appeared  in  her  wedding  robe  of  white  silk 
trimmed  with  point  lace,  and  wore  handsome  diamond  ornaments. 
There  was  music  and  dancing,  followed  by  supper,  and  the  com- 
pany did  not  separate  until  a  late  hour. 

The  "  Big  Four  "  social  club  of  West  Oakland  gave  a  very  suc- 
cessful ball  at  Military  Hall  on  Saturday  night  last,  the  attend- 
ance being  one  of  the  largest  that  ever  assembled  in  the  building. 
The  committees  in  charge  were  A.  Blakie,  F.  Gordon,  V.  Heck, 
Robert  Smith,  Geo.  Melrose,  C.  Demeras,  Edward  Bailey,  Geo. 
Wilkinson,  G.  W.  Blakie, W.  Raffetto,  F.  A.  McCuen,  Geo.  Perkins, 
A.  N.  McCuen,  Fred.  Bastian. 


Postmaster  Wanamaker's  brother,  William,  accompanied  by 
his  wife,  has  been  among  San  Francisco's  visitors  this  week  from 
the  East,  and  they  propose  remaining  with  us  a  couple  of  weeks 
longer.  General  and  Mrs.  Alger  and  a  party  of  friends,  which  in- 
cludes their  daughters,  are  again  visiting  the  Pacific  Slope,  which 
appears  to  possess  powerful  attractions  for  them,  coming  as  they 
do  nearly  every  year.     

Mrs.  Robert  Y.  Hayne  was  the  hostess  at  an  elaborate  lunch 
to  a  large  party  of  friends  last  week,  at  her  pretty  villa  in  San 
Mateo.  It  was  the  third  of  a  series  that  the  ladies  resident  there- 
abouts are  now  indulging  in.  One  of  the  dinners  of  last  week 
was  the  annual  banquet  of  the  Harvard  Club,  which  took  place 
at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Thursday  evening.  Mr.  Pelham  Ames 
presided  as  toast-master. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Seymour  Cunningham,  ne'e  Whitney,  have  been 
receiving  their  friends  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  previous  to  their  de- 
parture for  the  Nation's  Capitol,  where  they  will  reside.  They 
had  a  charming  visit  to  the  Sandwich  Islands,  where  they  passed 
their  honeymoon,  and  since  their  return  have  been  the  motif  for 
many  little  gatherings  among  Mrs.  Cunningham's  friends,  both  in 
this  city  and  in  Oakland. 

General  and  Mrs.  Hawkins,  U.  8.  A.,  will  leave  early  next 
week  for  the  General's  future  station,  which  will  be  on  Governor's 
Island,  in  New  York  harbor.  Col.  and  Mrs.  Wildrick  will  also 
be  among  the  departures  of  the  next  few  days.  Dr.  Beverley 
Cole  left  for  Deliver  on  Wednesday  last,  to  attend  the  Knights 
Templar  conclave.  Willis  Polk  has  gone  to  Santa  Barbara  and 
Los  Angeles. 

Tbe  Pacific  Yacht  Club  will  give  another  of  their  very  enjoy- 
able informal  hops  to-night.  The  tug  Relief  will  leave  this  city 
at  7:30  o'clock,  and  return  at  11:30  p.  M.  As  usual,  a  large  num- 
ber of  visitors  will  go  from  this  city. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  6,  1892. 


A  number  of  gallant  young  Alamedans  gave  a  party  of  their 
lady  friends  a  most  delightful  drive  to  Haywards  last  Saturday 
evening.  The  participants  were  the  Misses  Jennings.  Ellis,  Ella 
and  Nellie  Drum,  Snow  and  Mrs.  Drum;  Messrs.  A.  Gutte,  Fred 
and  Ned  Smith,  Ned  Snow  and  Will  Jennings. 

Visitors  to  the  Yosemite  all  stop  at  the  Wawona  and  visit  the 
Big  Tree  Grove,  which  holds  place  next  to  the  wonderful  valley 
as  an  attraction.  The  Yosemite  stage  coach  line  runs  from  that 
point  into  the  valley,  where  excellent  accommodation  may  be 
had  at  the  Stoneman  House. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Feigenbaum  have  been  visiting  at  the 
Seller  residence,  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  since  their  return  from 
their  honeymoon  trip,  in  the  southern  counties.  Their  future 
home,  for  which  they  will  soon  depart,  will  be  at  Rhonerville, 
Humboldt  county.  

Among  the  engagements  announced  in  Oakland  this  week, are: 
Miss  Eleanor  Briggs,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  O.  W.  Briggs,  of 
Berkeley,  to  Samuel" Illsley ;  Miss  Millie  Marcus  to  J.  B.  Solomon; 
Horace  M.  Wilds  and  Joanna  G.  T.  Dickson,  and  John  Pope  and 
Miss  Cecil  Gibbs.  

Mrs.  J.  B.  Hutching,  nee  Edmands,  whose  marriage  was  re- 
cently solemnized  at  the  residence  of  Bishop  Kip,  has  chosen 
Tuesday  as  her  reception  day,  when  she  will  be  "  at  borne  "  at 
her  residence,  1810  Gough  street,  commencing  with  the  24th  of 
August. 

Mr.  C.  W.  Bonynge,  -who  is  in  London,  has  just  recovered  the 
use  of  his  right  arm,  which  had  been  crippled  by  a  severe  attack 
of  rheumatic  gout.  Mrs.  Bonynge  has  been  an  invalid  for  several 
months,  but  is  convalescing.   She  is  now  confined  to  a  bath  chair. 

Oakland's  popular  singers,  Miss  Mary  Fox  and  Miss  Beatrice 
Priest,  were  heard  at  the  First  Congregational  Church,  in  the 
Athenian  city,  last  night,  in  conjunction  with  Charles  D.  Kellogg, 
the  warbler.     Their  efforts  were  greeted  by  a  large  audience. 


Some  very  encouraging  news  has  been  received  of  our  Cali- 
fornia song  bird,  Miss  Gertrude  Auld,  who  has  been  Bgending  the 
last  six  months  in  Paris,  studying  with  Marchese.  Miss  Auld  is 
at  present  visiting  friends  in  Berlin. 


The  season  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  has  been  very  enjoyable.  The 
guests  take  delight  in  the  beautiful  hotel,  its  magnificent  grounds 
and  the  many  social  attractions  connected  therewith.  The  hotel 
is  crowded  with  the  leaders  of  society. 


Athenian  society  is  looking  forward  now  to  the  double  wedding 
of  Miss  Estelle  Hush  to  Thomas  Magee,  Jr. ,  and  Miss  Harriet 
Hush  to  Will  Magee.  August  18tb  is  the  date  announced  for  the 
ceremony.  

George  S.  Meredith,  book-keeper  of  the  Union  National  Bank 
of  Oakland,  will  be  married  on  the  16th  inst.,  to  Miss  Mary  J. 
Noyes,  of  Marin  county. 

Henry  W.  Smith  and  family,  who  have  occupied  the  Oge  Cot- 
tage in  Ban  Rafael  during  the  past  two  months,  return  to-day  to 
San  Francisco. 


Mr.  Geo.  W.  Bishop  and  wife  and  Mrs.  W.  L.  Garretson,  of 
Portland,  Oregon,  are  visiting  Mrs.  Frank  J.  Connelly,  of  No.  35 
Scott  street. 


Mr.  James  V.  Coleman  has  returned  from  Paris,  whither  he 
went  a  short  time  since  upon  a  most  sorrowfel  journey.  His 
mother's  remains  are  yet  in  Paris,  but  will  soon  be  sent  here. 


The  young  ladies  of  Centerville  gave  a  leap-year  social  in  the 
Town  Hall  on  Monday  evening.  There  was  a  large  attendance, 
and  the  proceeds  went  to  the  Town  Hall  Association. 

The  Apropos  will  give  another  outing  to-morrow.  Lake  Chabot 
will  be  the  scenes  of  their  festivities,  and  only  members  and  their 
young  lady  friends  will  enjoy  the  excursion. 

Bishop  and  Mrs.  Nichols  have  returned  to  town  from  their  visit 
to  Bolinas,  where  they  spent  the  month  of  July,  accompanied  by 
their  family. 

Mr.  John  W.  Mackay  is  passing  the  summer  between  London 
and  Paris.     He  will  return  to  this  city  in  about  two  months. 

Mr.  8.  M.  Shortridge  has  returned  from  his  trip  to  the  Hawaiian 
Islands.     He  had  a  most  enjoyable  visit. 

Mrs.  J.  B.  Hinkle  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Morrow  will  be  at  home  on 
Tuesdays,  at  their  new  residence,  1920  Washington  street. 

J.  R.  Richardson  and  Mrs.  Mary  Jackson  were  quietly  married 
on  Monday  evening,  at  the  bride's  residence,  in  Alameda. 


Dr.    Nat.   T.    Conlsoc.   has   returned   from   an    extended    tour 
throughout  the  interior  of  Southern  California  and  Mexico. 


The  wedding  of  Miss  Dora  Wilson  and  Leo.  Smith,  of  Oakland, 
will  take  place  on  the  27th  inst. 

Mrs.  D.  E.   Williamson   and  family  have   returned   from    San 
Rafael. 


Miss  Edith  Cooley  has  returned  to  the  city,  after  a  long  absence. 

Baggage  Notice. 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip,  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

Sickness   Among  Children, 
Especially  infants,  is  prevalent  more  or  less  at  all  times,  but  is  large- 
ly avoided  by  giving  proper  nourishment  and  wholesome  food.  The 
most  successful  and  reliable  of  all  is  the  Gail  Borden  "Eagle"  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.    Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 

Postmaster  Samuel  W.  Backus  says,  date  July  Slst.  1892:  I 
take  pleasure  in  stating  that  I  have  used  "  The  CALIGRAPH  "  Type- 
writers for  nearly  two  years,  and  find  them  to  answer  every  purpose 
for  which  they  are  intended.  "The  Caligraph  "  is  a  strong,  clean, 
durable  writing  machine.  It's  mechanism  is  admirably  simple  and 
practical,  and  the  work  it  turns  out  is  thoroughly  satisfactory. 

Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright, "Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  the  proprietors  of  the  Pioneer  Carpet  Beating 
Machine  and  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  may  again  be 
found  at  their  old  address,  at  353-357  Tehama  street.  Their  machine 
is  well  known  as  the  best  and  most  expeditious  in  the  city,  and  it  has 
given  great  satisfaction  to  the  thousands  of  the  firm's  patrons. 

If  you  would  enjoy  some  fine  liquor,  take  your  course  to  "  The 
Muni  in,"  at  109  O'Farrell  street,  where,  upon  a  well-stocked  bar,  may 
be  found  the  very  best  liquor  ever  seen  in  the  city.  The  Mumm  is 
popular  with  all  men  about  town,  for  it  is  well  known  that  there  one 
may  always  get  the  best  to  be  had. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"  609  Merchant  street.  S.  F. 

Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.  B.  CHAPMAN, 

SOLE  AGENT  FOR 
PAOtFlO  OOAST, 

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EPERNAY     CHAMPAGNE. 

FOB  SALE  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS 

Wine    Merchants  and  Grocers. 


Another  engagement  announcement  which  comes  from  London 
is  that  of  Miss  Amy  Green  to  Sir  James  Homespeires,  Bart. 


LOUIS    CAHEN    &   SON, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers- 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters,  Cordials,  etc. 
Pacific  Coast  Agents  Bethesda  Mineral  Water. 
418  Sacramento  Street,  S.  F. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  S, 000-ton  steamers  ef  this  line,  carrying  the  United  States, 
Hawaiian  and  Colonial  Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

8.  S.  Mariposa Friday,  August  19,  at  2  p.  m. 

FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 

3  S  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  31,  1892,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  g^k&gget.  bkos   ^ 

General  Agents 


DNEMINUTE 

CamepeRS 


Annual  Subscription.  Si  OO 


«*N      r^f^?1*** 


Vol.  XIV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  AUGUST  13,  1892. 


Number  7. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Chut  Matter. 


TABLE     OF 

CONTENTS. 

Page 

Page 

Editorial  Brevities         1 

The  Looker-On      

.10-11 

Leading  Articles  : 

The  Pirate  Suit 

....  12 

As  to  Medical  Ethics 2 

.13 

Our  Fruit  Interests                         2 

....  14 

The  Rose  Jar 

The  Laborer  in  Parliament            3 

....  16 

.   .  17 

....  18 

Professional  Revivalism  3 

...  19 

Llovd  Tevis 4 

...  20 

Tennis  and  Baseball                  ...    5 

...  21 

The  Bourse  aud  Underwriter 

..    22 

"  Biz  " — Summary  of  the  Markets.  23 

The  8toried  Lily 8 

Republicanism  in  France 8 

A  Breath  of  Scandal    9 

.27-28 

ARTOTYPE-Golden  Gale  Villa- Coloi 

lei  Frank  McLaughlin's   Residance 

at  Sant 

i  Cruz. 

SANTA  CRUZ  has  a  giant  eighteen  years  old,  and  six  feet  nine 
inch  high.     It  is  now  Fresno's  turn  again.     We  may  soon  ex- 
pect to  hear  more  about  dragons  and  winged  serpents. 


THE  fire  underwriters  are  casting  about  for  some  means  to  pre- 
vent the  fearful  fire  waste  which  is  now  draining  their  coffers. 
This  has  been  one  of  the  hardest  years  on  record  to  local  insur- 
ance offices. 


THE  manner  in  which  the  McManus  and  Welsh  factions  are 
coolly  committing  perjury  in  the  police  courts  should  receive 
some  attention  from  the  judges  and  prosecuting  attorneys.  The 
defendants  have  a  way  of  lying  which  is  admirable  for  its  disre- 
gard of  consequences. 


ONE  of  the  most  recent  anecdotes  of  the  windy  city  is  this: 
A  man  living  in  Racine  ordered  from  a  firm  of  booksellers  in 
Chicago  a  copy  of  Archdeacon  Farrar's  "  Seekers  After  God." 
His  letter  was  returned  with  a  clerk's  endorsement:  "  No 
Seekers  After  God  in  Chicago." 


THE  secret  of  the  success  of  Ulster  in  the  face  of  climatic  and 
other  drawbacks,  has  generally  been  explained  as  the  result 
of  racial  characteristics.  The  Celt  proper,  to  quote  the  famous 
dictum  of  an  Irishman,  "  loves  action,  but  hates  work."  The 
North  of  Ireland  settler  cherishes  no  such  congenital  antipathy 
to  labor. 


"OOLUMBU8  DAY,"  October  21st  next,  should  be  observed  in 
\j  the  public  schools.  It  is  a  date  of  great  historical  interest, 
and  every  pupil  of  the  public  schools  should  have  an  opportunity 
of  thoroughly  understanding  the  great  results  of  the  discoveries 
of  Columbus  by  listening  to  able  discourses  on  the  voyager  and 
his  work. 


THE  people  of  Tennessee  are  very  indignant  with  Governor 
Buchanan  for  commuting  the  sentence  of  Col.  Henry  Clay 
King  from  hanging  to  life  imprisonment,  and  no  wonder.  His 
murder  of  David  A.  Poston  was  cruel,  deliberate  and  unprovoked, 
and  the  Governor  should  have  shown  more  firmness  than  to  yield 
to  the  pressure  brought  to  bear  in  King's  favor. 

THERE  is  nothing  new  in  local  politics  this  week.  Both  parties 
are  lying  low  and  watching  each  other,  ready  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  any  opening  that  offers,  but  no  active  work  is  being 
done.  GeneralJames  B.  Weaver,  the  candidate  of  the  People's 
party  for  President,  spoke  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion,  but  there 
is  no  evidence  that  he  created  any  profound  sensation.  His  party 
promises  so  much  more  than  any  party  could  possibly  perform, 
that  the  third-party  movement  does  not  command  the  confidence 
which  is  essential  to  its  success.  From  present  appearances  the 
fight,  national  as  well  as  local,  will  be,  as  usual,  between  the 
Democratic  and  Republican  parties. 


r\  AN6 1  ANDSONTAG.  the  Collis  train-robbers  and  subsequent 
c7.l.T  .Y"8,  are  Probab|y  sate  frou>  Pursuit  by  this  time;  con. 
ceaieci  in  the  mountains  somewhere  near  the  King's  River  canyon 
,l„neTe.-eVeT  ^ere  a  record  of  imbecility  and  ineffectiveness  in 
connection  with  a  criminal  case,  it  has  been  made  in  this  one. 
tt  !"?,*  «'  deserve  *"  get  away,  on  account  of  the  feeble- 
ness of  the  efforts  made  to  capture  them. 

TTis  evident  that  the  trips  of  the  fool-killer  to  Chicago  have 
i  been  suspended,  at  least  for  the  time  being,  since  there  are  two 
men  in  that  city,  each  of  whom  has  offered  to  give  $150  for  the 
.U  ??k  VwiF  ba,lf-dollar  minted  under  the  recent  Actof  Congress  in 
aid  of  the  World's  Fair.  The  first  will  be  in  no  respect  different  from 
toe  last,  and  the  man  who  secures  one  along  in  the  middle  of  the 
•"u°oan  ]ust  <«  easily  say  "  is  the  flr3t  as  «">  man  who  pays 
?lou  for  the  real,  simon-pure  first  piece. 


THE  $20,000,000  that  was  conveyed  safely  across  the  continent 
and  deposited  in  the  Sub-Treasury  at  New  York,  all  has  to  be 
counted  before  its  new  custodian  will  give  a  receipt  for  it,  or  be 
held  responsible  for  it  on  his  bond.  This  is  a  piece  of  folly  which 
might  easily  be  avoided.  Weighing  the  gold  would  do  exactly  as 
well  as  counting  it,  for  it  was  all  fresh,  unused  coin,  and  the  scales 
would  detect  any  shortage  quite  as  quickly  and  accurately  as  the 
most  skilful  corps  of  clerks  and  counters. 

ALL  things  considered,  the  profession  of  anarchy  in  Paris  is  by 
no  means  a  bad  one.  It  is  true,  the  anarchist  is  regarded  with 
suspicion— no  one,  for  instance,  would  care  to  make  a  bosom 
friend  of  him— but  he  is  treated  with  extraordinary  deference. 
He  dines  free  of  cost;  his  host  no  longer  presses  him  for  his  bill 
when  the  guest  offers  to  pay  him  in  dynamite.  Whole  parties  of 
anarchists,  it  is  said,  frequent  the  restaurants  and  are  served  for 
nothing.  He  is  probably  lodged  gratis,  also;  his  residence  in  a 
house  is  at  least  a  guarantee  that  his  friends  will  not  blow  it  up. 

A  NEWSPAPER  in  this  city  has  been  making  itself  very  silly 
by  opposing  the  proposed  State  Harbor  Commission  building 
at  the  foot  of  Market  street,  on  the  ground  that  it  is  to  be  built 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company.  Nobody  ever 
imagined  that  it  was  to  be  constructed  at  a  great  cost  and  then 
not  used.  It  is  to  be  leased,  like  all  the  other  property  under  the 
control  of  the  Harbor  Commission,  and  if  the  Southern  Pacific 
needs  a  part  of  it  and  will  pay  the  rent  for  it,  it  will  get  it,  and 
why  not? 

THE  predilection  of  German  parents  for  French  Christian  names 
has  begun  to  attract  the  attention  of  the  authorities  in  the 
Fatherland.  Thus  the  Landrath  of  Hagen,  in  Westphalia,  is 
stated  to  have  issued  a  circular  calling  upon  the  civil  officials  in 
their  district  to  resist  this  anti  patriotic  tendency.  It  is  possible, 
however,  that  this  fashion  involves  no  more  affection  for  France 
than  the  now  common  habit  among  French  people  to  Anglicise 
tbeir  Christian  names,  may  be  taken  to  indicate  a  love  for  Eng- 
land. 


SIR  JAMES CRICHTON  BROWNE'S  contention  that  brains  and 
beauty  are  incompatible  in  women  is  vehemently  rebutted  by 
an  enthusiastic  reporter  of  a  meeting  in  London,  where  "  our 
conquerors"  were  in  great  force  on  the  platform.  According  to 
this  gentleman,  it  was  siruply  dazzling.  The  climax  in  his  dream 
of  fair  women  is  reached  when  he  comes  to  describe  the  last 
speaker,  »<  whose  free  gestures,  real  voice  and  dark,  pale,  strong 
face,  set  on  a  slight  but  very  graceful  figure,  gave  a  piquancy  to 
the  debate  which  it  lacked  before. 


GOVERNOR  MARKHAM'S  refusal  to  reprieve  McNulty  was 
proper.  It  showed  the  desire  on  the  part  of  the  Chief 
Executive  to  properly  administer  the  laws  of  the  State.  As 
stated  sometime  ago  in  the  News  Letter  in  discussing  this  case, 
executive  clemency  should  not  be  exercised  if  it  be  not  shown 
that  new  evidence  has  been  produced  which  would  have  changed 
the  result  had  it  been  introduced  on  the  trial.  No  such  evidence 
is  in  this  case.  The  trick  by  which  Bernard  Harde  gained  a  re- 
spite of  fifteen  days  for  McNulty  will  be  of  no  avail.  There 
should  be  some  way  of  punishing  a  man  who,  like  Harde,  inter- 
feres with  the  administration  of  the  law  by  false  representations. 


nAri    r  rwirs  \^akj\^w   ±t  j 


OUR  FRUIT  INTERESTS. 
TT  is  characteristic  of  the  impatience  of  many  California^  that 
1  they  should  regard  tbe  results  of  the  first  shipment  of  fresh 
fruits  from  this  State  to  England  as  discouraging,  and  should  de- 
clare their  intention  of  abandoning  the  whole  thing  as  a  failure. 
They  lose  sight  entirely  of  the  fact  that  markets  for  any  product 
are  not  conquered  off-band,  no  matter  how  meritorious  that  product 
may  be,  and  that  it  is  the  uniform  and  unvarying  history  of  every 
commercial  enterprise  that  unlooked-for  discouragements  are  in- 
variably met  at  the  outset,  and  it  is  only  by  the  most  earnest  per- 
sistence that  success  is  ever  achieved.  In  the  case  under  discus- 
sion, so  far  from  the  result  having  been  discouraging,  it  should  be 
regarded  as  a  complete  success.  The  first  tbing  to  be  done  was  to 
demonstrate  that  fresh  fruit  could  be  transported  from  California 
to  England,  and  reach  its  destination  in  good  shape.  There  was 
well  founded  apprehension  on  this  score,  based  upon  tbe  results 
that  had  attended  many  shipments  to  Atlantic  coast  cities.  But  the 
fruit  sent  to  England  arrived  in  the  best  of  condition,  thus  demon- 
strating that,  with  due  care  in  preparation  and  handling,  no  further 
apprehension  need  be  felt  on  this  score.  This  difficulty  removed,  tbe 
next  to  be  encountered  is  the  well  known  conservativeness  inherent 
in  the  British  business  man's  constitution.  The  very  fact  that  fruit 
from  far-away  Californias  hould  be  offered  him  fresh  and  in  good 
condition  is  a  surprise,  and  he  may  well  be  pardoned  for  moving 
with  caution  before  embarking  heartily  in  what  might  possibly 
prove  a  disastrous  venture.  It  was  not  at  all  to  be  expected  that 
high  prices  would  be  realized  for  the  first  shipment,  since  it  was 
entirely  an  experiment,  and  the  jobbers  owed  it  to  themselves  to 
move  cautiously  in  the  matter.  At  the  same  time,  it  is  said  the 
retailers  realized  handsomely  from  their  venture,  and  tbe  next 
shipment  if  it  arrive  in  good  condition,  will  undoubtedly  be  pro- 
vocative of  more  lively  bidding.  It  will  doubtless  take  some  little 
time  to  educate  the  English  people  to  a  due  appreciation  of  the 
desirable  qualities  of  our  fresh  fruits,  but  that  tbey  will  be  so  ed- 
ucated cannot  be  doubted,  and  then  a  permanent  and  lucrative 
demand  is  certain  to  be  created.  The  same  process  of  education 
had  to  be  gone  through  with  at  the  East  in  regard  to  our  raisins, 
prunes  and  other  products,  and  it  is  useless  to  expect  anything 
else  when  we  attempt  to  extend  tbe  demand  to  other  countries. 
The  principal  promoter  of  tbe  present  attempt,  Mr.  A.  T.  Hatch, 
recognizes  the  situation  thoroughly.  He  understands  that  tbe 
English  trade  cannot  be  obtained  in  a  moment,  and  be  has  shown 
the  courage  of  his  convictions  by  risking  many  thousands  of  dol- 
lars in  the  new  enterprise.  That  he  will  be  finally  successful  can- 
not be  doubted,  since  in  England  is  to  be  found  one  of  tbe  best 
markets  for  luxuries  of  all  kinds  in  the  world.  Every  portion  of 
the  earth  contributes  its  choicest  for  the  tables  of  England,  and 
there  is  almost  no  limit  to  the  consumption  of  products  of  such 
excellence  as  the  fresh  fruits  of  California.  That  those  fruits  will 
become  a  favorite  there,  there  can  be  little  doubt. 

At  the  meeting   of  the  8tate   Board   of  Trade  held  during  the 
past  week,  Mr.  W.  H.  Mills    outlined   a   plan    for  extending  the 
consumption  of  California  fruits  in  the  East,  which  is  worthy  of 
careful  consideration,  as  indeed  is  every  suggestion  made  by  him. 
He  showed  that  while  the  Eastern   shipments  last  year  reached 
the    unprecedented   total   of   300,000  tons,  yet,  owing    to    faulty 
methods  of  distribution,  this    fruit   was   only    made  accessible  to 
less  than  a  twelfth  part  of  the  people  of  the  country;  that  is,  its 
distribution  was  entirely  confined  to  a  limit  within  which  that 
small  portion  of  the   population   is    found,  though  not  even  this 
small  proportion    were   enabled   to   indulge  in  those  fruits.     Mr. 
Mills  aptly  said  that    the    measure   of   the    market    for  the  early 
perishable  products  of  California  is  the  number  of  people  to  whom 
they  can  be  conveyed  in  sound,  eatable  condition.     Instead  of 
selling  300,000  tons   of    fruit    to   less    than   5,000,000   people,  we 
ought  to  and  can    distribute   -1,000,000    tons    or   more  among  the 
65,000,000  people  of  this  country.*  It  should  be  and  is  feasible  to 
so  arrange  shipments  that  instead  of  carrying  our  fruits  past  the 
doors  of  millions   of  people   in   the   Central   and  Western  States, 
trains  on  fast  time  should  traverse  the  country  every  day  on  all 
the  great  trunk   lines,  leaving   fruit   at  every  city   and   hamlet 
where  it  may  be  desired,  and  thus  increasing  the  consumption 
a    hundred-fold.      Except     in     the     great    centers     of    popu- 
lation, California  fruits  are  as  yet  an  unknown  quantity,  and 
even  there  they  are  regarded  as  a  luxury  attainable  only  by  the 
well-to-do.   They  should  be  made,  instead,  an  article  of  every  day 
consumption,  within  the  reach  of  all,  and  they  may  be  made  so, 
while  still  selling  for  enough  to  give  the  grower  a  fair  return.  Mr. 
Mills   has  given   this   subject  a  great  deal  of  study,  and  has  ar- 
ranged a  schedule  of  time  and  rates  under  which  it  may  be  made 
operative.     This   he   promises   to   give  to  the  public  at  an  early 
date.    It  is  a  foregone  conclusion  that  fruit-growing  is  desiined  to 
be  the  leading  industry  of  California,  and  not  only  this  country, 
but  the   civilized  world   as   well,  will  look   to  us  for  our  choice 
orchard   and  vineyard   products.     How  to   create  new  markets, 
how  to  supply  the   demand   which    already  exists,  are  problems 
which  are  worthy  of    tbe    most   earnest   consideration,  for  upon 
their  successful   solution  depends  the  future  as  well  as  present 
welfare  of  the  State. 


A    VERY    SILLY    PREMIER. 


SIR  GEORGE  DIBBS,  Trime  Minister  of  the  Australian  colony 
of  New  South  Wales,  who  recently  came  to  the  United  States 
and  Lias  been  looking  into  the  matter  of  his  colony's  exhibit  at 
the  World's  Fair,  has  been  expressing  himself  about  this  country 
in  language  so  forcible  that  a  regard  for  the  feelings  of  polite 
society  has  compelled  the  most  of  his  remarks  to  be  expressed  by 
dashes.  Eliminating  the  "cuss  words"  from  Sir  George's  re- 
marks, it  seems  that  he  is  indignant  because  the  colony  of  New 
South  Wales  has  been  allotted  only  50,000  square  feet  for  exhibi- 
tion purposes  at  tbe  World's  Fair,  instead  of  tbe  300,000  which 
he  had  been  led  to  believe  the  colony  would  get,  and  was  told 
that  if  New  South  Wales  wanted  more  room  it  could  put  up  a 
building  of  its  own.  As  a  sequel  of  his  wrath  he  has  telegraphed 
his  people,  he  says,  to  give  up  the  whole  matter  and  let  the 
money  go  that  has  already  been  spent,  which  he  figures  at  about 
$100,000.  The  indignant  Premier  has  shaken  the  dust  of  this  un- 
grateful country  from  his  feet  and  taken  refuge  in  Canada,  where 
the  only  citizens  of  the  United  States  he  is  likely  to  meet  are 
members  of  the  boodle  colony.  Sir  George  Dibbs  is  evidently  a 
very  silly  man.  He  seems  to  have  come  to  the  United  States 
profoundly  impressed  with  the  idea  that  New  South  Wales  would 
confer  an  inestimable  favor  on  this  country  by  making  an  exhibit 
at  the  World's  Fair,  and  that  all  he  had  to  do  was  to  signify  bis 
wishes  and  tbey  would  be  granted  at  once.  It  was  probably  bis 
desire  and  intention  to  place  in  the  exposition  a  collective  exhibit 
of  the  products  of  New  South  Wales,  and  when  he  found  that 
the  Commissioners  were  arranging  the  Fair  on  a  different  basis, 
he  could  not  or  would  not  understand  it,  and  flew  into  a 
passion.  If  he  knew  the  needs  of  his  colony  and  its  future 
prospects  as  a  Prime  Minister  should,  he  would  not  be  so  un- 
wise as  to  stir  up  any  hard  feelings  between  New  South  Wales 
and  the  United  States,  and  he  certainly  would  not  expect  to  be 
granted  larger  privileges  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exhibition 
than  have  been  awarded  to  any  of  the  great  nations  of  the  world. 
Australia  must  find  a  large  share  of  her  growth  and  prosperity 
in  her  business  relations  with  the  United  States,  and  it  is  mani- 
festly to  her  advantage  to  cultivate  our  friendship  in  every  way. 
Colonel  Campbell,  the  Commissioner  from  New  South  Wales  to 
the  World's  Fair,  not  only  does  not  share  the  opinions  of  the 
Premier  but  is  evidently  disgusted  with  his  intemperate  and  un- 
reasonable outburst.  He  says,  and  the  comparison  is  a  striking 
one,  that  as  a  statesman  Sir  George  Dibbs  is  the  Jerry  Simpson  of 
Australia,  and  this  speaks  volumes.  We  may  assume,  we  think, 
that  the  people  of  New  South  Wales  will  look  at  the  matter  in  a 
very  different  light,  and  will  go  on  with  their  preparations  for 
tbe  World's  Fair  in  spite  of  Sir  George  and  bis  profane  indigna- 
tion. 


AS    TO    MEDICAL    ETHICS. 


ONE  of  the  most  astonishing  facts  in  connection  with  the  medi- 
cal profession  is,  that  even  in  this  day,  learned  physicians 
hold  that  a  brother  who  publishes  to  the  world  his  opinion  of  the 
efficacy  of  a  certain  remedy  or  treatment,  is  a  quack,  and  that  his 
remedy  is  a  useless  nostrum.  The  darkness  of  the  middle  ages, 
it  seems,  has  not  yet  lifted  from  before  the  eyes  of  physicians,  in 
some  regards  in  which  tbey  are  yet  blind  to  to  the  light  of  modern 
ideas.  The  County  Medical  Society,  for  instance,  has  recently 
suspended  from  membership  in  its  honorable  body  two  physicians 
who  committed  the  heinous  offense  of  endorsing  and  advertising 
a  new  remedy.  Both  men,  it  seems  are  competent  and  reputable 
physicians,  as  fully  able  to  discuss  disease  and  its  preventives  as 
any  of  the  gentlemen  who  have  foresworn  them.  The  mere  fact 
that  they  have  given  to  tbe  public  tbe  partial  benefit  of  their 
medical  knowledge,  by  advertising  the  fact  that  the  remedy,  the 
effects  of  which  they  had  investigated,  was-a  good  one,  arouses 
a  storm  of  opposition  from  those  medicos  who  withdraw  behind 
the  fence  of  conventionality  and  appear  horrified  at  modern 
methods.  There  yet  attaches  to  the  medical  profession  much 
claptrap  and  false  pretense.  It  is  impossible  for  the  lay  mind  to 
grasp  the  fine  points  of  a  code  of  ethics  which  prevents 
a  physician  saving  the  life  of  a  dying  man,  merely 
because  a  brother  medico  has  the  case  in  charge. 
So  is  it  impossible  for  us  to  appreciate  the  enormity  of  the  of- 
fense of  the  two  suspended  physicians  wbo  have  given  to  the 
world  the  benefit  of  their  knowledge.  Whether  the  remedy  re- 
commended by  them  was  a  good  one  or  not  is  not  in  question, 
for  it  is  not  denied  that  their  statements  are  true  and  their  in- 
dorsements borne  out  by  the  facts.  The  row  in  the  County 
Medical  Society  over  this  matter.it  is  understood,  arose  from  a 
journalistic  doctor  objecting  to  any  advertisement  appearing  in 
any  paper  but  his  own.  While  we  appreciate  the  keen  business 
sense  of  the  gentleman,  we  cannot  but  deplore  the  results  of  his 
opposition  to  the  publication  of  informalion  valuable  to  thou- 
sands. It  behooves  the  gentlemen  composing  the  County  Medical 
Society  to  rend  the  veil  which  seems  to  be  before  their  eyes,  so 
that  they  may  look  out  upon  the  modern  methods  of  the  world 

|    to  day.     They  should  act  like  reasonable  men,  and  not  like  a  lot 

1  of  cranks. 


August  13,  1392. 


BAN   PTIANCI8C0  NEWS  LETTER, 


THE    LABORER    IN    PARLIAMENT. 

IF  all  the  labor  candidates  elected  to  the  new-  British  Parliament 
are  <>f  the  type  ol  tin*  man  Hardte,  who.  as  the  cable  reports, 
with  boorish  ostentation  walked  up  the  Home  with  his  cap  on. 
until  called  to  order  by  the  Speaker,  when  he  reluctantly  took  it 
off.  they  will  not  be  a  great  ornament  tothat  illustrious  body.  It 
is  odd  that  the  laboring  classes  should  imagine  that  they  further 
their  cause  by  sending  such  fellows  to  Parliament,  and  by  giving 
the  impression  that  these  men  are  the  best  sped  mens  which  they 
can  furnish.  Still,  tbi?  seems  to  be  their  idea.  As  a  case  in  point. 
it  is  only  necessary  to  mention  Joseph  Arch.  who.  in  a  previous 
Parliament,  represented  an  agricultural  district,  and  who,  it  seems, 
has  been  re-elected  this  year.  A  more  boorish  and  uncouth  fellow 
could  hardly  be  imagined,  and  it  was  almost  painful  to  witness 
the  little  appreciation  which  he  showed  for  the  kind  indulgence 
that,  during  the  first  months  of  his  membership,  all  parties  showed 
to  him.  notwithstanding  his  ignorance  and  surly  behavior.  He 
evidently  knew  of  no  better  way  of  showing  his  so-called  inde- 
pendence than  by  arrogant  rudeness.  On  the  other  hand,  there 
was  not  a  member  in  the  house  who  so  often  exhibited  so  abso- 
lute a  lack  of  independence  as  Mr.  Joseph  Arch.  Try  as  he 
might,  he  could  never  hide  the  feeling  of  tickled  vanity  when  "a 
noble  lord,"  or  some  other  member  of  the  higher  aristocracy,  took 
notice  of  him  in  the  House,  and  the  expression  of  his  face  on 
those  occasions  often  produced,  even  in  those  who  half  despised 
him,  a  kind  of  pathetic  sympathy,  for  it  was  almost  as  touching 
as  ridiculous  to  see  a  man  so  much  moved  by  being  brought  in 
contact  with  those  whom  he  thought — although  he  hated  them  — 
his  superiors.  When  his  sulkiness,  however,  got  the  best  of  him, 
be  would  oppose  all  and  every  measure  that  was  introduced  by  the 
Government,  simply  because  it  was  introduced  by  the  Tories,  and 
perfectly  regardless  of  its  effect.  Amongst  these,  there  was  a 
very  liberal  bill  referring  to  agricultural  holdings,  which  was  ap- 
proved by  Tories  and  Liberals  alike,  but  Joseph  Arch  opposed  it 
strenuously  in  the  beginning  as  a  Tory  measure,  and  only  changed 
his  mind  when  he  began  to  grasp  the  meaning  of  the  bill,  and 
saw  too  late  that  he  had  made  a  fool  of  himself.  Speaking  of 
Joseph  Arch  recalls  another  incident  illustrating  the  char- 
acter of  this  queer  member  of  Parliament  who  was  elected 
to  represent  the  agricultural  laborers.  Lord  Salisbury  in  a  very 
interesting  and  sympathetic  speech  had  spoken  about  the 
agricultural  condition  in  England,  and  referring  to  the  farm  labor- 
ers of  former  times  had  used  the  well  known  historical  term 
"hinds."  Joseph  Arch  having  heard  of  this,  in  his  ignorance 
scented  an  insult  in  these  words,  and  the  day  following  rose  in 
the  House  of  Commons  to  make  one  of  his  incomprehensible 
harangues,  on  which  occasion  he  "exclaimed  in  a  voice  of  fury 
that  if  the  noble  Lord  called  the  agricultural  laborers  "hinds"  he 
was  at  liberty  to  call  him  and  his  ilk  "bucks."  The  hilarity 
created  by  this  absurd  attack  in  the  Commons  may  well  be  imag- 
ined, but  for  days  Arch  could  not  see  the  joke,  and  it  took  long 
before  he  perceived  how  ridiculously  he  had  behaved  in  his  rage, 
since  no  insult  could  have  possibly  been  meant  by  Lord  Salisbury. 


CHOOSING    A    POLITICAL    BOSS. 

SOME  time  since  the  News  Letter  suggested  that,  in  view  of 
the  fact  that  the  position  of  political  boss  had  become  a  recog- 
nized institution,  and  one  that  had  evidently  come  to  stay,  it 
would  be  a  good  idea  to  make  it  an  elective  office,  the  length  of 
the  term  being  dependent  entirely  upon  the  successful  manipula- 
tions of  the  incumbent.  By  so  doing,  it  was  pointed  out  that 
much  time  would  be  saved,  there  would  be  far  less  jangling  in 
political  matters  and  no  encouragement  for  the  disputes  and  con- 
tentions which  periodically  disturb  the  community.  The  sugges- 
tion was  made  in  all  seriousness,  and  it  appears  that  it  has  met 
with  approval  in  one  community,  in  a  certain  sense.  In  com- 
mon with  most  rural  communities,  political  feeling  runs  high 
at  Banning,  and  discussions  as  to  the  relative  merits 
of  the  various  candidates,  and  the  principles  or  lack 
thereof  of  the  different  parties,  are  beard  on  every  hand. 
In  fact,  although  early  in  the  campaign,  the  ordinary  business 
of  the  community  was  seriously  interfered  with,  and  to  such  an 
extent  that  finally  the  leading  citizens  determined  that  summary 
steps  must  be  taken  to  prevent  the  whole  town  coming  to  logger- 
heads. They  accordingly  held  a  meeting,  at  which,  af  er  due 
discussion,  it  was  decided  that  each  political  faction  should  choose 
one  man  to  do  all  the  talking  for  the  members  thereof,  and  all 
other  people  should  be  positively  forbidden  to  talk  politics  upon 
any  occasion  whatever,  under  penalty  of  dire  pains  and  punish- 
ments. Accordingly  the  Republicans,  Democrats,  Prohibitionists 
and  People's  Party  adherents  made  their  selections,  and  now  the 
quartet  so  chosen  do  all  the  political  discussion  of  the  communi- 
ty, and  the  remainder  of  the  people  are  left  free  and  undisturbed 
to  follow  their  usual  avocations.  Banning  has  thus  set  an  ex- 
ample which  we  expect,  of  course,  to  see  followed  everywhere. 


WHEN  will  the  Democratic  County  Committee  be  able  to  meet 
and  transact  business  without  police  protection  ?  At  Thurs- 
day's meeting  there  was  another  row,  and  a  prominent  patriot 
was  gently  clubbed. 


PROFESSIONAL    REVIVALISM. 

P>B  the  past  three  months  an  effort  hae  been  made  to  purge 
this  "  dreadfully  wicked  city."  and  the  professional  revivalist 
has  been   plying   his   trade  with  raoob  Ylgor,     The  business  It  to 

all  appearances  a  profitable  one.  and  behind  the  Christian  fervor 
which  prompts  the  utterances  of  the  christian  maker  there  Is 
usually  a  good  fat  salary.  The  necessary  stock  for  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  revivalist  business  is  a  fund  of  anecdotes,  a  glibness 
of  utterance,  a  more  or  less  dramatic  delivery  and  a  good  advance 
agent.  The  revivalist's  coming  is  heralded  much  as  is  that  of  a 
circus.  His  agent  calls  at  the  newspaper  offices,  inserts  his  dis- 
play advertisement,  immediately  climhs  the  stairs  to  the  editorial 
floor,  and  craves  a  reading  notice.  As  with  the  circus  agent,  so 
with  the  black-coated  agent  of  the  revivalist,  a  stock  of  fulsome 
laudatory  manuscript  is  always  at  hand  to  save  the  local  editor 
the  trouble  of  writing  the  desired  notice.  The  public  is  told  that 
the  Rev.  Sensationalist  has  been  meeting  with  universal  success, 
has  created  a  furore  wherever  he  has  appeared,  etc.  Handbills 
announce  where  and  when  he  is  to  revivalise,  and  the  make-up 
of  these  bills  is  theatrical  in  the  extreme.  Catch-lines  worthy  of 
a  minstrel  entertainment  are  used,  and  tte  announcement  is 
made  that  the  show  is  free.  The  revivalist  sermon  is  popularly 
supposed  to  be  an  impromptu,  impassioned,  inspired  exhortation 
to  "turn  from  wickedness,  and  repent."  The  revivalist  speaker 
is  never  supposed  to  have  studied  his  role;  by  some  he  is  regarded 
as  a  living  illustration  of  the  text,  "Out  of  the  fullness  of  the 
heart  the  mouth  speaketh."  It  is,  therefore,  particularly  disap- 
pointing to  find  that  the  apparently  unstemmable  tide  of  fervid, 
soulful  gush  has  been  delivered  many  times  before,  in  the  self- 
same accents,  with  the  same  dramatic  effects,  the  same  earnest 
pleading,  sobbing,  thundering,  sighing,  pathos  and  bathos. 

An  eminent  revivalist,  who  is  in  the  receipt  of  a  large  salary, 
delivered  in  this  city  the  self-same  sermon  twice  in  eight  days,  on 
consecutive  Sunday  evenings.  He  told  the  same  tale  of  the  very 
hardened  girl  who  determined  to  have  a  good  time  now  and  take 
her  chances  of  eternity.  He  pictured  Krupp,  the  manufacturer 
of  terrorizing  cannon,  trembling  and  fearful  at  the  approach  of 
death.  The  revivalist  reverend's  voice  thickened  as  he  told  how 
that  terrible  Ingersoll  had  gazed  beyond  the  tomb  of  his  brother 
and  seen  no  hope,  and  then  in  jubilant  tones  last  Sunday,  as  on 
the  previous  Sunday,  he  contrasted  the  infidel  with  the  evan- 
gelist Moody  at  the  grave  of  his  brother.  All  this  is  decidedly 
disappointing  to  those  who  look  for  "  inspired  speech."  It  is  dis- 
comforting to  think  that  tbe  pulpit  pounder  is  merely  an  actor 
playing  his  role.  It  is  foreign  to  all  thought  of  divine  utterance 
to  contemplate  such  a  man,  knowing  that  he  has  studied  how  to 
mako  hits  in  his  sacred  calling  as  carefully  as  a  humorist,  and  all 
tend  to  convince  the  impartial  on-looker  of  tbe  professional  na- 
ture of  so-called  revivalism. 

BISMARCK    AT    JENA. 


PRINCE  BISMARCK'S  speech  at  Jena  seems  to  have  opened  the 
eyes  of  many  Germans  to  the  fact  that  the  ex -Chancellor  is  an 
adherent  of  constitutional  government,  and  an  opponent  of  ab- 
solutism. It  is  rather  strange  that  such  a  speech  was  needed  to 
demonstrate  this.  Any  one  who  has  been  able  to  read  between 
the  lines  of  the  great  statesman's  orations  during  his  long  term 
of  office,  must  have  recognized  this  fact  long  ago.  Bismarck's 
stout  loyalty  to  Emperor  William  I.,  however,  has  unfortunately 
often  been  misunderstood.  It  was  a  loyalty  of  intellect  and  not 
of  sentiment.  He  on  more  than  one  occasion  has  declared  that 
in  his  opinion  the  monarchical  form  of  government  is  preferable, 
as  being  more  stable,  and  therefore  more  conducive  to  the  pros- 
perity of  the  nation  than  any  other  form.  Nor  did  he  ever  omit 
an  opportunity  of  pointing  out  that  a  strong  executive  govern- 
ment is  needed  in  a  country  surrounded  on  all  sides  by  jealous 
and  powerful  nations,  but  he  never  said  or  did  anything  that 
might  justly  be  interpreted  as  favoring  absolutism,  whatever  his 
opponents  may  say.  Prince  Bismarck  is,  above  all,  no  theoriti- 
cian,  but  a  statesman  accustomed  to  reckon  with  given  facts. 
His  idea  of  Germany's  future  is,  that  the  institutions  of  the 
country  should  be  developed  in  the  direction  of  increasing  liberty, 
step  by  step,  with  the  requirements  of  the  people,  the  circum- 
stances of  the  international  situation,  and  the  progress  of  general 
education.  Such  a  development  may  appear  slow  to  people  liv- 
ing in  countries  that  are  not  in  danger  of  foreign  foes,  and  that 
have  plenty  of  room  and  time  to  experiment  without  doing  much 
harm.  For  Germany's  welfare,  however,  the  ex-Chancellor's 
policy  is  the  most  admirable  one,  and  if  the  nation  would  adhere 
to  it,  its  temple  of  liberty  one  day  would  be  built  upon  a  sound 
basis,  and  able  to  defy  all  attacks  of  internal  and  foreign  enemies. 

AN  eighth  of  an  inch  in  the  thickness  of  a  pane  of  plate  glass  is 
not  very  much,  but  it  has  been  shown  to  be  enough  to  get  a 
firm  of  City  Hall  contractors  into  a  mess,  and  to  cause  a  great 
mercantile  firm  of  this  city  to  do  a  lot  of  explaining  through  the 
newspapers.  The  moral  is  that  when  a  contractor  agrees  to  put 
in  three-eighths  inch  glass,  he  must  not  try  to  palm  off  quarter- 
inch  on  the  City  Hall  Commission,  especially  with  Auditor 
Smiley  poking  around  and  looking  into  matters  and  things 
through  his  spectacles. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


LLOYD    TEVIS. 

LLOYD  TEVIS,  who  retired  on  Wednesday  last  from  the  presi- 
dency of  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  had  directed  the  affairs  of  that 
great  corporation  for  the  last  twenty  years  with  a  success  which 
has  become  part  of  the  history  of  mercantile  enterprises  in  this 
country.  As  a  financier,  he  has  shown  himself  to  be  pre-eminent, 
and  he  is  considered  by  all  business  men  who  have  watched  his 
successful  administration  of  the  vast  interests  entrusted  to  his 
care,  as  the  equal  in  ability  of  any  of  the  great  directors  of  large 
financial  operations  in  the  country.  Mr.  Tevis  is  a  man  of  a 
strong  and  aggressive  character,  but  so  well  does  he  appreciate 
the  advantages  of  harmonious  dealings  to  secure  the  success  of 
great  enterprises,  that  it  has  always  been  his  endeavor  to 
settle  amicably  any  difference  that  might  have  arisen 
during  the  progress  of  any  negotiations.  He  has  been 
particularly  successful  in  harmonizing  different  interests,  thereby 
consummating  large  operations.  The  retiring  President  is  a  Ken- 
tuckian,  having  been  born  at  Shelbyville,  Ky.,  on  March  20, 
1824.  He  crossed  the  plains  in  1849  to  California,  and  had  his 
first  experiences  in  this  State  at  an  El  Dorado  mining  camp.  In 
1853  he  removed  to  this  city,  where  he  has  lived  ever  since.  Dur- 
ing his  administration  as  its  president,  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  has 
made  immense  progress,  until  now  it  is  the  largest  express  com- 
pany in  the  country.     Mr.  Tevis'  extraordinary  ability  as   a  di- 


Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  he  will  remain  a  Director  of  its  bank,  and 
will  always  be  ready  to  give  to  his  associates  the  benefit  of  ad- 
vice based  upon  an  unusually  successful  career  in  the  business 
world.  Mr.  Tevis  is  a  man  of  large  fortune  who  is  highly  re- 
spected in  the  community.  He  is  a  power  in  the  financial  world 
and  holds  a  most  influential  position  in  society. 


Mr.  Lloyd  Tevis. 

rector  of  commercial  affairs  has  been  one  of  the  main  factors  in 
the  development  of  the  company.  Success  has  attended  all  his 
undertakings.  The  reason  for  his  withdrawal  from  the  presi- 
dency of  the  company  is  the  fact  that  his  multifarious 
duties  as  an  executive  officer  of  many  important  corporations 
and  the  necessity  of  giving  more  time  to  his  own  personal  affairs 
prevent  him  from  giving  all  his  attention  in  the  future  to 
Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  Mr.  Tevis*  interests  are  very  large  and  varied. 
He  is  an  extensive  land-owner  and  is  largely  interested  in  mining 
properties.  In  Kern  county  he  holds  about  275,000  acres  of  land, 
which  has  heretofore  been  unproductive.  Now,  however, 
through  the  work  of  the  Kern  County  Land  Company,  whose 
purpose  it  is  to  irrigate  and  colonize  that  section,  the  land  will 
become  very  valuable.  He  is  associated  with  Mr.  Haggin  in 
breeding  and  raising  thoroughbred  and  trotting  stock  at  Rancho 
del  Paso  and  Stockdale  Ranch.  His  mining  interests  are  very  ex- 
tensive, some  of  the  principal  mines  with  which  he  is  connected 
being  the  Anaconda,  near  Butte,  Mont.,  the  largest  copper 
mine  in  the  world ;  the  Ontario  and  the  Home  Stake. 
Mr.  Tevis  is  President  of  the  North  American  Commercial  Com- 
pany, which  was  recently  awarded  the  contract  by  the  Govern- 
ment to  take  seals  in  Behring  Sea.  It  is  one  of  the  largest  cor- 
porations of  the  class  in  the  world.  He  has  also  been  connected 
with  railroad  affairs,  having  at  one  time  been  the  largest  stock- 
holder in  and  President  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany.    Although    he  haa    withdrawn   from    the    Presidency   of 


GUMP'S    NEW    PAINTINGS. 

THE  magnificent  collection  of  master-pieces  by  European  artists, 
recently  brought  from  Europe  by  Mr.  Solomon  Gump  are  now 
on  exhibition  in  the  firm's  store  on  Market  street.  The  paintings 
are  certainly  unsurpassed  by  any  ever  brought  here,  for  they  are 
gems  of  the  first  water.  The  canvases  are  all  by  famous  artists 
and  are  beautiful  creations.  One  of  the  most  exquisite  bits  in 
the  collection  is  "  Still  Life,"  by  Max  Schodl,  of  Vienna.  The 
picture  is  exquisite  in  coloring,  and  its  detail  is  magnificently  de- 
veloped. The  Emperor  of  Austria  bought  one  of  this  artist's 
pictures  on  the  very  day  that  Mr.  Gump  was  in  the  studio  and 
procured  the  canvas  now  in  his  collection.  "Between  Mass 
and  Vespers,"  by  Leo  Hermann,  shows  throughout  the 
evidences  of  the  master  hand  of  this  leading  artist. 
The  scene  is  a  maiden  cooking  at  a  fire-place,  while 
a  smiling  priest  looks  kindly  upon  her.  All  Hermann's 
work  is  noted  for  the  harmonious  blending  of  the  colors,  the  at- 
tention to  detail,  and  the  wonderful  manner  in  which  the  picture 
is  developed.  His  canvases  are  very  highly  prized  by  all  con- 
noisseurs, and  bring  good  prices.  M.  H.  de  Young  recently  paid 
$2,200  for  a  Hermann  about  half  as  large  as  that  held  by  Mr. 
Gump.  H.  Corrodi,  of  Rome,  has  contributed  two  pictures  to  the 
collection.  Those  art  lovers  who  saw  and  admired  the  beautiful 
salon  painting,  »  Springtime,"  by  Edouard  Bisson,  will  be  glad  of 
the  privilege  of  looking  upon  another  salon  painting  by  that 
famous  artist.  The  new  canvas  has  all  of  the  delicate  charm 
of  the  other.  In  the  Market-street  window  of  the  store 
is  a  wonderful  piece  of  animal  painting,  by  G.  Werth- 
eimer,  of  Paris,  showing  a  lion,  lioness  and  two  cubs, 
in  an  African  forest.  Mr.  Wertheimer  has  handled  his  difficult 
subject  excellently,  and  has  produced  a  picture  full  of  life  and 
strength.  Another  highly  valued  painting  is  that  by  A.  W.  Kowal- 
ski,  the  famous  Russian  artist,  all  of  whose  pictures  are  master- 
pieces. There  is  a  marine  by  Th.  Weber,  and  two  heads  by  Max 
Schol,  of  Munich,  which  are  really  exquisite.  They  are  as  natural 
and  beautiful  as  life,  as  fine  and  clear  as  cameo,  and,  in  fact,  in 
all  respects  equal  to  anything  by  Vibert.  The  pictures  brought 
in  this  collection  by  Mr.  Gump  are  small,  but  their  value  as  works 
of  art  are  in  inverse  ratio  to  their  size.  Besides  those  mentioned, 
there  is  a  number  now  being  framed,  which  are  therefore  not 
ready  for  exhibition.  These  pictures  are  all  by  famous  or  rising 
artists,  and  their  value  increases  daily  for  that  reason.  They  are 
available  for  any  gallery,  and  in  all  respects  make  the  most 
perfect  collection  the  Gump  gallery  has  ever  known. 

THE  curious  interest  of  the  Tivoli  audiences  this  week  has  cen- 
tered in  the  new  drop  curtain  of  the  Scenic  Ad.  Company.  The 
picture  is  so  artistic  and  so  spirited  in  design  that  it  was  some 
time  before  it  began  to  dawn  upon  the  audience  Monday  night 
that  the  big  picture  is  an  advertising  scheme,  a  novelty  here, 
though  well  known  in  the  East.  It  seems  to  be  a  very  ingenious 
one,  as  before  the  play  and  between  acts  every  glass  (opera,  not 
beer)  in  the  house  was  leveled  at  the  new  curtain,  while  their 
owners  spelled  out  the  legends.  The  curtain  is  a  bright  and  at- 
tractive picture  as  well  as  one  of  the  best  advertising  media  yet 
discovered. 


Fine  Stationery  Goods. 


Leaders  of  society,  who  are  in  constant  correspondence  with 
members  of  their  set  over  the  affairs  of  the  Four  Hundred,  never  pen 
a  line  on  other  but  the  finest  writing  paper,  sent  out  by  the  world's 
most  famous  factories.  Such  paper  is  that  sold  by  Sanborn,  Vail  & 
Co.,  the  fashionable  stationers  of  741-743  Market  street.  They  carry 
all  the  leading  lines,  and  are  the  most  popular  dealers  in  town  in 
fashionable  articles  in  the  stationery  way.  "Their  leather  goods  are 
unsurpassed.  They  include  card-cases,  purses,  separate  and  in  com- 
bination, cigar-cases,  and  all  the  various  receptacles  made  of  leather, 
so  convenient  for  personal  use.  These  are  all  of  the  finest  make  and 
material.  The  silver  and  triple-plated  goods  in  the  stationery  depart- 
ment have  received  the  greatest  praise  from  all  connoisseurs  on  such 
subjects.  They  are  unsurpassed  in  the  city.  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co. 
enjoy  the  patronage  of  all  the  society  people  of  the  city. 

St.  Margaret's  School  for  Girls,  at  San  Mateo,  opened  on  the  10th 
inst.  This  school,  which  is  under  the  direction  of  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
George  Wallace,  has  been  highly  commended  by  Assistant  Bishop 
Nichols.  It  is  pleasantly  situated  in  the  healthful  village  of  San 
Mateo,  and  possesses  unusual  facilities  for  imparting  a  thorough 
education  in  English  literature,  mathematics,  history,  and  mental 
and  physical  science.  The  school  will  be  high-class  in  all  respects. 
The  management  will  open  a  department  in  kindergarten,  which 
will  be  iu  charge  of  Miss  .Susie  V.  Hall,  a  graduate  of  the  California 
Training  School  in  Kindergarten,  of  this  city. 


Fall  Styles  Butterick's  celebrated  patterns  for  Ladies',  Misses',  Boys' 
and  Uttle  Children's  garments.  Catalogues  mailed  free.  H.  A.  Demlng 
124  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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August   13.  1893. 


BAN   TO  Wi>i  0  NEWS  LETTER 


TENNIS    AND     BASEBALL 

Til  I  double  championship  will  lake  place  on  September  Btfa  and 
lOib.  It  is  idvartltad  that  th.  tu&U  t)«  will  take  place  at  Ban 
Rafael,  but  as  there  Is  a  rumor  (bat  the  hotel  is  not  to  be  open 
after  Sept  1st.  the  committee  decided  to  bold  the  games  ai  the 
court*  of  the  Oakland  Club,  provided  the  Hotel  was  closed.  \\\ 
Mayo  Newhall  has  been  elected  referee,  and  Messrs.  Kequa.  J  J. 
Archibald  and  A.  B.  Wilberforce  were  appointed  the  tournament 
committee.  The  members  of  the  different  clubs  are  hard  at  work 
practising  lor  the  games,  and  it  is  expected  that  at  least  twenty 
teams  will  be  in  the  field.  At  present  it  is  not  known  how  many 
ladies  will  enter,  but  we  expect  that  there  will  be  a  good  entry  all 
round.  Mrs.  Hugbes,  the  lady  champion  of  Fresno,  is  in  the  city, 
and  baa  been  practising  at  the  California  Club  with  the  view  of 
entering.  We  sincerely  hope  that  the  southern  part  of  the  State 
will  be  represented.  It  is  almost  assured  that  there  will  be  a  pair 
from  Los  Angeles. 

The  Directors  of  the  California  Club  have  decided  not  to  allow 
the  bottle  tournament,  a>  some  of  the  players  began  to  break 
bottled  all  over  the  courts,  and  made  it  extremely  dangerous. 
They  have  also  posted  up  a  notice  to  the  effect  that  any  member 
found  betting  on  any  gam?*  in  which  he  is  a  participant  shall 
render  himself  liable  to  expulsion  from  the  club.  It  is  high  time 
for  such  a  notice,  as  it  was  hard  to  get  up  a  game  unless  there 
was  money  on  it.  The  Directors  of  the  Oakland  Club  have  alao 
decided  to  post  a  similar  notice  in  their  club. 

From  news  received  from  C.  P.  Hubbard,  it  would  appear  he 
intends  returning  here  in  time  for  the  doubles.  In  tbat  case,  his 
partner,  H.  H.  Haight,  and  he  would  have  to  defend  the  cup. 
Stetson  and  De  Long,  the  pony  team  of  the  California  Club,  have 
been  playing  extremely  well  of  late,  and  if  they  keep  up  their 
present  form,  are  likely  to  win.  Last  Saturday  they  defeated 
Messrs.  W.  H.  Taylor  and  W\  S.  Hobart,  6-3,  6-4.  C.  D.  Bates 
will  not  play  with  Carr  Nee!,  as  the  latter  leaves  for  the  East.  It 
is  said  tbat  be  will  partner  with  Sanborn. 

The  continuous  tournament  at  the  Oakland  Club  is  progressing 
very  favorably,  and  many  matches  have  been  played.  There  are 
too  many  matches,  however,  to  give  the  full  scores. 

BASEBALL  rTHE  race  'or  toe  *a8t  nalf  °*  tne  pennant  »3  now 
"  1  becoming  very  interesting.  All  clnbs  are  play- 
ing ball  of  about  an  even  quality.  The  season  is  noticeable  for  the 
number  of  games  played  where  extra  innings  were  required  to 
determine  the  contests.  Some  of  the  correspondents  of  Eastern 
papers  claim  tbe  California  League  made  a  mistake  in  abolishing 
the  bunt.  The  people  who  attend  the  games  here  think  other- 
wise. The  baseball  patrons  are  the  critics  to  be  considered,  and 
th»-y  are  of  the  unanimous  opinion  that  the  games  have  become 
more  exciting  and  interesting  since  every  player  has  to  swing  at 
tbe  ball  wben  he  comes  to  the  bat. 

It  is  rumored  that  the  TacomaClub,  of  the  Pacific  Coast  North- 
west League,  is  in  financial  trouble.  This  is  not  surprising,  when 
tbe  salary  roll  the  club  is  carrying  is  taken  into  consideration. 
The  population  of  that  city  does  not  justify  a  pay-roll  as  heavy 
as  the  club  of  that  city  is  struggling  under.  The  same  thing  may 
be  said  of  tbe  other  clubs  in   that  league. 

With  Morrisey  the  Oakland  club  is  now  as  strong  as  any  of  its 
fellows  at  first  base.  McQuaid,  in  left  field,  also  adds  strength  to 
the  team.  Umpire  McDermott  is  still  a  very  sick  man,  and  may 
not  be  able  to  resume  his  duties  for  a  month.  Meanwhile  Gagus 
is  filling  his  position  to  the  satisfaction  of  every  one. 

The  reports  that  come  from  Stockton  indicate  that  tbat  city  is 
still  a  good  baseball  place.  Last  week  the  San  Jose  team  felt  the 
loss  of  Harper  very  badly.  He  will  be  as  effective  as  ever  within 
a  few  days.  Pitcher  Roach,  of  the  Los  Angeles  club,  has  gone 
East  to  visit  bis  mother,  who  is  dangerously  ill.  This  will  take 
Stafford  away  from  short-stop  when  he  has  to  go  in  to  pitch. 

This  afternoon  and  to-morrow  the  Oaklands  and  San  Francis- 
cans will  play  in  this  city.  As  Labor  Day  is  a  holiday  a  league 
game  will  probably  be  arranged  for  that  date.  The  attendance  at 
the  games  played  in  this  city  last  Saturday  and  Sunday  proved 
that  it  must  be  a  bitterly  cold  and  disagreeable  day  that  will  keep 
the  public  awav  from  baseball. 

D*PRICE'S 


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Are  the  principal  objects  in  furnishing 
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AND 

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ATTORNEY     AND      COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL     EXAMINER 

Of  Handwriting, Inks,  Papers,  etc.,  In  the  Detection  of  Forgeries , 

Counterfeits  and  Imitations. 

41  ix  CALIFORNIA  STREET.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


l^\J$SVflr<D 


'We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's.*' — Tom  Moore. 


MRS.  BANCROFT'S  new  play,  Woman's  Eyes,  had,  on  Monday 
night,  one  of  the  largest  audiences  yet  convened  In  the  new 
8tockweIl's  Theatre.  The  audience,  which  was  also,  if  one  may 
judge  by  appearances,  an  intelligently  critical  one,  made  no 
demonstration  from  beginning  to  end  to  show  more  than  a  pas- 
sive and  lukewarm  acceptance  of  the  play.  This  might  prove 
nothing,  but  in  this  case  it  undoubtedly  covers  the  ground  pretty 
conclusively. 

Woman's  Eyes  is  not  a  bad  play;  but  in  this  day  a  negative 
claim  will  not  hold — there  must  be  positive,  and  very  positive, 
excellence  to  insure  success — always,  of  course,  excepting  farce 
comedy.  The  bar  to  this  excellence  is  not  in  the  fact  that  Mrs. 
Bancroft's  play  lacks  novelty  in  plot  and  situation.  The  story 
of  an  adventuress  captivating  and  for  a  time  blinding  a  religious 
idealist,  and  being  herself  touched  by  a  genuine  passion  into  tem- 
porary longing  for  a  better  life,  may  be  as  old  as  the  hills;  but  so 
are  love  and  marriage,  and  what  were  a  drama  without  love  and 
marriage?  But  Mrs.  Bancroft  has  brought  nothing  new  to  the 
treatment  and  handling  of  the  old  theme.  A  more  serious  fault 
is  that  it  presents  the  paradox  of  being  at  once  uncertain  and 
too  explicit.  The  people  talk  and  explain  matters  until  the 
audience  feels  like  telling  them  to  "  shut  up,"  yet  the 
story  is  cloudy  and  its  precise  ending  problematical.  On 
Monday  night  either  the  play  or  the  players  made  this 
defect  so  prominent  that  the  very  curtain  seemed  to  sympathize, 
and,  refusing  to  fall  on  so  unsatisfactory  a  denotement,  stuck  half 
way  down.  The  dialogue  is  well  written,  though  it  has  a  few 
salient  points,  either  of  wit  or  eloquence,  but  there  is  vastly  too 
much  of  it.  The  writer  rias  been  betrayed  by  her  conviction  of 
the  goodness  of  her  lines  into  letting  them  stand,  even  where  ob- 
viously superfluous — a  fault  of  judgment,  by  the  way,  by  no 
means  so  peculiar  to  the  novice  as  the  old  stagers  in  literary  work 
would  intimate.  Every  successful  playwright  will  tell  Mrs.  Ban- 
croft that  before  his  plays  bit  the  mark,  a  great  many  fine  lines  had 
to  be  sacrificed,  to  the  manifest  and  great  improvement  of  the 
whole.  Half  as  much  talk,  and  a  general  sharpening  up  into 
clearer  outlines  would  make  a  much  more  acceptable  play  of 
Woman's  Eyes;  yet,  considering  the  want  of  originality  and 
strength  in  the  entire  plan  and  treatment,  it  is  doubtful  if  it 
would  repay  the  trouble  of  revision. 

One  thing  may  be  truly  said  in  favor  of  the  play.  It  betrays 
an  intelligence  and  comprehension  in  the  author,  as  well  as  an 
idea  of  stage  effect  and  dramatic  grouping  at  least  unusual  in  an 
inexperienced  dramatist,  which  warrant  the  assertion  that  Mrs. 
Bancroft  can  write  a  good  play,  if  she  has  not  already  done  so. 

#  •  * 

Jeffreys-Lewis  is  en  rapport  with  adventuresses  of  every  known 
stage  type.  The  heroine  of  Woman's  Eyes  is  not  half  wicked 
enough  for  her,  but  she  throws  into  it  a  spice  of  interesting 
devilment  hardly  indicated  in  her  lines.  Harry  Mainhall  as  the 
tempted  and  introspective  young  minister,  who  "  is  but  a  man 
after  all,"  so  familiar  in  novel  and  drama,  sank  his  voice  into  his 
stomach  and  beat  bis  knitted  brows  like  a  first-class  amateur, 
while  au  contraire,  Mr.  Lonergan  answered  the  bell  like  a  veteran. 
Fanny  Young  took  the  part  of  Aunt  Susan  admirably  and  dressed 
it  abominably— both  as  usual.  H.  S.  Duffield  also  did  well  as  the 
villainovs  old  papa.  Nick  Longpliyed  Louis  de  Toqueville  with 
bis  accustomed  vivid  individuality,  though  the  part  hardly  gives 
full  scope  to  his  powers  of  chanacter  delineation." 

*  #  • 

It  should  be  put  on  record  that  Jeffreys-Lewis'  dress  in  the  first 
act  makes  her  look  positively  slender,  and  her  warm  admirers, 
who  have  bewailed  her  increasing  stoutness,  will  counsel  her  to 
wear  it  night  and  day  while  it  lasts,  and  then  order  another  just 
like  it. 

#  *  * 

If  A.  M.  Palmer  wishes  to  keep  the  reputation  of  his  "  home 
company"  among  the  aliens,  he  should  be  more  careful  in  sup- 
plying the  places  of  his  people  as  they  drop  out.  None  of  the 
changes  in  the  cast  of  Alabama,  as  now  running  at  the  Bald- 
win, are  quite  satisfactory,  with  the  result  that  a  certain  jar  is 
perceptible  in  what  was  last  year  a  smooth  and  finished  har- 
mony. So  far  as  the  new  recruits  are  concerned,  "  the  music  of 
the  Southern  tongue,"  with  its  caressing  and  clinging  touch  on 
the  vowels  and  its  soft  elisions,  has  notably  disappeared,  and 
with  it  some  of  the  local  color.  The  principals,  however,  are 
mostly  the  same,  and  their  distinctive  and  clear-cut  character- 
izations revive  all  the  pleasantest  memories  of  the  play.  The 
scenic  setting  gives  also  the  same  impression  of  a  delightful 
story  as  delightfully  illustrated,  and  the  charm  of  the  simple, 
manly  homefolk  is  unbroken.  Next  week  Mr.  Palmer's  com- 
pany will  play  Col.  Carter  of  Cartersvilte  the  first  three  nights,  fin- 
ishing the  week  with  Alabama. 

*  »  « 

Following  Tuxedo  at  the  California  will  come  Nellie  McHenry 


with  A  Night  at  the  Circus.  The  Eastern  press  has  unanimously 
given  this  the  palm  as  the  brightest  specimen  of  the  prevailing 
dramatic  run  on  the  circus.  The  lively  Nellie  herself  has  always 
been  a  tremendous  favorite  here  since  the  days  of  her  advent 
with  Saulsbury's  "Troubadours."  The  engagement,  which  is  for 
two  weeks,  begins  next  Monday  night. 

*  «  * 

The  Bush-street  Theatre,  having  undergone  its  annual  renova- 
tion and  brightening  up,  will  present  a  clean  and  shining  face  at 
its  reopening,  August  22d.  The  opening  play  will  be  Little  Tip- 
pett,  a  farcical  comedy  by  the  author  of  Wilkinson's  Widows.  It 
reverses  the  situation  in  the  latter  play.  Two  husbands,  Newton 
and  Tippett,  having  both  been  divorced  from  the  same  woman, 
marry  again,  and  are  living  happily  with  their  respective  wives, 
when  consternation  comes  in  the  news  that  the  divorced  wife  has 
an  infant.  The  needed  complication  of  farce  comedy  follows  on 
the  uncertainty  as  to  to  the  exact  paternity  of  the  "  progeny." 
Among  the  personators  will  be  a  phenomenal  pair  of  infants. 
The  piece  is  playing  a  great  engagement  at  Denver  during  the 
Knights  Templar  Conclave. 

*  *  * 

Beauty  and  the  Beast,  the  pot  pourri  of  popular  and  original  mel- 
odies, still  runs  merrily  at  the  Tivoli.  It  will  be  followed  next 
Monday  night  by  The  Little  Duke.  Monday,  August  22nd,  The 
Brigands  will  be  produced. 

*  *  * 

The  concerts  to  be  given  in  this  city  by  the  great  pianist,  Ignace 
Paderewski,  are  definitely  settled,  as  is  learned  from  a  private 
letter,  to  take  place  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  on  the  following  dates: 
Saturday  matinee,  November  12tb  ;  Monday  evening,  November 
14th;  Thursday  evening,  November  17th.  Reserved  seats  will 
cost  $2.50  and  $2,  no  season  tickets  being  sold. 

*  *  # 

Lillian  Russell  will  open  at  the  Baidwin  in  La  Cigale,  Septem- 
ber 5th,  and  will  play  it  two  weeks,  the  third  and  fourth  weeks 
being  devoted  to  the  production,  its  first  in  America,  of  Cellier 
and  Gilbert's  opera,  The  Mountebank.  The  fair  Lillian  has  not 
been  satisfied  with  a  beauty  reputat:on,  but  has  forged  ahead  in 
the  artistic  race  till  she  has  gained  the  very  front  rank  of  opera- 
bouffe. 

*  *■  # 

Seats  are  already  being  called  for  at  the  Baldwin  for  August 
24th,  L.  A.  Morgenstein's  benefit. Sol  Smith  Russell's  engage- 
ment at   the  Baldwin  begins  August  22d,  with  A  Poor  Relation. 

The,    Junior  Partner  will  be  seen  at  the  California  soon. 

H.  Grattan  Donnelly  wrote  A  Night  at  the  Circus  for  Nellie  Mc- 
Henry.—-Next   week's    play    at    Stockwell's    will    be    Forget- 

Me-Not,     Jeffreys-Lewis       as      Stephanie. Monday,     August 

22d,  Augustin  Daly's  Divorce  will  be  produced  at  Stock- 
well's   Theatre. Niobe   will   be   brought   out  at    the    Baldwin 

this    season. Gilbert    and    Goldie,    a    song-and-dance     team, 

which      went      East      under      Mr.      Brady's      pilotage,      have 

made   a  great   success. Chas.  E.  Cook  will  manage  a   three 

weeks'  tour  of  the  Coast  for  Miss  Lorraine  Hollis,  after  which  he 
will  go  in  advance  of  Jeffreys-Lewis  for  her  entire  American  tour. 
Mr.  Cook  is  as  popular  as  he  will  be  found  efficient  and  faithful 

in    any   capacity   in    his  line  of  business. John  F.  Bragg  will 

soon   open    the   lecture   season    with    Ben-Hur    Wallace. 


■ 

MTElJATS 


August  13,  1892. 


BAN   FRANCISCO   NEW8  I  I  ll'KK. 


JOHN    J.    VALENTINE 

IS  electing  John  J.  Valentino  lo  the  position  vacated  by  the  re 
cent  resignation  of  Lloyd  Tevls  as  President  of  Wells,  I  U 
Co..  the  directors  of  thru  great  corporation  have  again  given  evi- 
dence of  their  appreciation  of  the  notable  abilities  of  the  gentle- 
man who,  for  the  past  quarter  of  a  century,  has  been  one  of  the 
most  important  factors  in  building  up  the  business  of  the  instiin- 
lion.  The  career  of  Mr.  Valentine  is  replete  with  evidences  of 
his  untiring  energy,  bis  general  efficiency  in  everything  with 
which  he  has  been  connected,  and  his  generous  public  spirit, 
which  combined  have  done  much  to  make  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  the 
greatest  corporation  of  its  kind  in  the  country.  His  successes 
arc  illustrations  of  the  truth  of  the  statement  that  a  man  who  has 
sufficient  self-reliance  is  certain  to  win  in  the  game  of  life,  for  he 
depended  solely  on  his  own  resources,  and  is  that  great  creation 
of  our  institutions,  "aself-ruade  man."  He  comes  of  good  old 
English  ancestry,  and  doubtless  from  his  sturdy  forefathers  in- 
herited much  of  that  strength  which  is  a  prominent  element  in 
his  character.  Mr.  Valentine  is  a  Kentuckian,  having  been  born 
at  Bowling  Green  on  November  11*.  1840,  the  son  of  William 
Creashaw  Valentine  and  Eliza  Yates  Cunningham  Valentine. 
His  ancestors  were  Virginians,  being  descended  from  that  John 
Valentine  of  the  Isle  of  Wight  county,  Virginia,  who  settled  in 
the  colony  in  1C10  and  died  there  in  l<;.i2.  The  forefathers  of  this 
old  pioneer  had  their  estates  at    Bendiffe   Hall,  in  the  parish  of 


"  Mr.  John  J.   Valentine. 


Eccles,  Lancaster,  England.  Mr.  Valentine's  great-grandfather 
was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  followed  Washington 
throughout  that  grand  struggle.  William  C.  Valentine,  the  father 
of  the  President  of  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  removed  to  Kentucky 
when  a  young  man,  and  there  married  Eliza  Yates  Cunningham, 
of  that  State.  John  J.  Valentine  was  only  in  his  fifteenth 
year  when  be  began  his  career  as  a  business  man, 
in  the  employ  of  Younglove  Brothers,  druggists,  and  agents  for 
Carter,  Thomas  &  Co.'s  stage  and  express  line.  This  was  at 
Bowling  Green.  Mr.  Valentine  has  ever  since  been  actively  en- 
gaged in  the  Express  business,  and  after  nearly  forty  years  of  ex- 
perience, is  to-day  one  of  the  ablest  men  in  that  pursuit.  He  re- 
ceived a  common  school  education,  but  being  an  omniverous 
reader,  a  deep  studentr  and  possessed  of  a  very  retentive  mem- 
ory, he  has  made  the  world  his  schoolroom,  and  has  learned  from 
the  experiences  and  thoughts  of  its  people.  Shortly  after  enter- 
ing the  employment  of  Younglove  Brothers,  Mr.  Valentine  be- 
came identified  with  the  Adams  Express  Company,  which  had 
secured  all  the  Express  facilities  of  O'Bannon,  Kean  &  Co.,  of 
Louisville,  which  had  both  stage  and  railroad  lines.  He  resigned 
from  the  Adams  Company  in  the  winter  of  1861,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing spring  came  to  California,  immediately  becoming  identified 
with  the  company  of  which  he  is  now  President.  He  was  ap- 
pointed joint  agent  for  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.'s  Express,  the  Pioneer 
Stage  Co.,  and  the  California  Stage  Telegraph  Co.  at  Strawberry 
Hill,  El  Dorado|county.     He  afterwards  went  to  Virginia  City  as 


agent  for  the  Overland  Mall  Company  and  the  Pioneer  Mage 
lompany.  His  employers  were  so  well  satisfied  with  his  excel- 
lent management  of  their  business  Interests,  that  the  Pioneer 
Stage  Company  appointed  him  It! Superintendent.  ojbll  abilities 
had  greater  opportunity  for  demonstration  l.v  the  widening  ol 
his  Bald  of  activity,  his  position  advanced  lo  keeping  with  bli 
deserved  success.  He  was  appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Pa 
ciflc  Division  of  Wells,  Kargo  &  Co.,  and  was  advanced  by  that 
corporation  to  other  places  of  responsibility.  He  was  offered  the 
management  of  the  Company  in  1868,  but  declined.  In  the  fol- 
lowiog  spring,  however,  he  accepted  the  offer,  and  became  Gen- 
eral Superintendent  of  the  great  business  of  the  company,  with 
headquarters  in  New  York  City.  The  Pacific  Coast  business  of 
the  company  grew  so  very  rapidly,  however,  that  it  scon 
became  necessary  for  him  to  return  to  this  city.  This  ha 
did  in  1870,  and  has  ever  since  resided  in  California.  Mr.  Valen- 
tine was  further  honored  in  1882  by  being  elected  a  Director  and 
Vice  President  of  the  company.  He  was  subsequently  unani- 
mously elected  General  Manager,  from  which  position  he  has  now 
been  promoted  to  President. 

It  is  not  only  in  direct  connection  with  the  great  business  en- 
terprise whose  management  is  in  his  hands,  that  Mr.  Valentine 
has  given  evidences  of  his  versatile  ability.  He  has  given  par- 
ticular attention  to  political  economy,  and  has  made  deep  study 
of  the  coinage  questions  which  have  for  years  been  matters  of 
dispute  among  the  most  eminent  statesmen  of  the  country.  He 
has  published  each  year  a  summary  of  the  produce  of  gold  and 
silver  of  the  entire  country,  which  is  comprehensive  in  its  re- 
search, and  generally  recognized  as  a  reliable  and  leading  author- 
ity on  the  subject.  The  knowledge  and  experience  in  the  handling 
of  the  precious  metals  thus  acquired,  coupled  with  his  zeal  for 
the  public  welfare  in  every  department  of  government,  induced 
him,  in  1891,  to  take  a  lively  hand  in  the  newspaper  discussion 
then  going  on  over  the  question  of  the  free  coinage  of  silver,  and 
his  contributions  on  that  subject  to  the  press  were  remarkable 
for  close  reasoning,  careful  research,  and  a  formidable  array  of 
statistical  figures  in  support  of  conclusions.  The  gist  of  his  con- 
tention on  this  subject  is  that,  to  preserve  honest  money,  an 
absolute  parity  of  value  must  be  maintained  between  gold  and 
silver,  and  that  this  cannot  be  effected  by  removing  all  restric- 
tions whatever  from  the  coinage  of  silver — the  inevitable  effect 
of  which  would  be  to  create  a  glut  in  the  home  market  and  de- 
preciate its  value.  In  other  words,  a  commercial  ratio — an  inter- 
changeable proportion,  so  to  speak,  on  a  traffic  basis — must  be 
maintained  between  the  gold  and  silver  coinage  of  the  country ; 
the  dollar  unit  of  coinage  of  both  metals  to  be  of  equal  intrinsic 
and  exchangeable  valne — or  the  output  of  silver  coinage  to  be 
limited  within  certain  bounds. 

Mr.  Valentine  is  well  known  as  a  practical  worker  in  the  field 
of  Christianity.  He  is  not  only  a  prominent  churchman,  but  he 
is  one  of  those  who  practice  as  they  preach.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Advent  Episcopal  Church  of  Oakland,  and  is  Vice-President 
of  the  San  Francisco  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  is 
ever  active  in  the  cause  of  charity,  and  has  done  much  to  allevi- 
ate the  sufferings  of  thousands.  In  the  many  great  movements 
for  the  relief  of  the  distressed,  during  the  past  twenty-five  years, 
he  has  been  prominently  identified.  On  numerous  occasions  he 
has  been  active  in  raising  of  money  for  the  assistance  of  those  left 
homeless  and  helpless  by  fire,  flood  or  scourge.  In  1871,  by  di- 
recting the  organized  efforts  of  the  army  of  employes  of  Wells, 
Fargo  &  Co.,  Mr.  Valentine  was  instrumental  in  rendering  great 
assistance  to  the  sufferers  of  the  great  Chicago  fire  of  that  year. 
Two  years  later  he  was  again  at  work  in  the  name  of  charity, 
this  time  to  assist  the  yellow  fever  sufferers  at  Memphis,  and 
again  at  the  time  of  the  overflow  of  the  Mississippi  river  in  1874; 
the  inundation  of  Marysville,  Caj. ,  on  January  19,  1875;  the 
great  fire  of  Virginia,  Nev.,  of  October,  1875;  the  grrsshopper 
plague  of  Kansas  and  Nebraska,  1875;  the  terrible  yellow  fever 
scourge  of  1878,  and  the  forest  fires  in  Winconsin  in  June,  1882. 
In  all  respects  has  the  career  of  John  J.  Valentine  been  eminently 
successful.  He  is  now  at  the  prime  of  life,  in  the  zenith  of  his 
intellectual  powers,  encrusted  with  the  affairs  of  the  greatest  ex- 
press company  in  the  West.  That  greater  fame  will  attach  to 
the  company  under  his  administration  there  is  no  doubt  for  he 
has  shown  himself  to  be  a  man  of  extraordinary  ability  who 
controls  success. 

The  present  officers  of  the  company  are:  Board  of  Directors — 
Lloyd  Tevis,  San  Francisco;  John  J.  Valentine,  San  Francisco; 
Leland  Stanford,  San  Francisco;  Oliver  Eldrldge,  San  Francisco; 
James  C.  Fargo,  New  York  City;  George  E.  Gray,  San  Francisco; 
Charles  F.  Crocker,  San  Francisco;  W.  F.  Goad,  San  Francisco; 
Dudley  Evans,  New  York.  Chief  Executive  Officials — President, 
John  J.  Valentine,  San  Francisco;  First  Vice  President,  W.  F. 
Goad,  San  Francisco;  Second  Vice  President,  Dudley  Evans, 
New  York  City;  Secretary,  James  Heron,  San  Francisco;  Asst. 
Secretary,  H.  B,  Parsons,  New  York  City;  Treasurer,  Henry 
Wadsworth,  San  F'rancisco;  Manager  Banking  Department, 
Homer  S.  King,  San  Francisco;  Asst.  to  President,  Aaron  Stein, 
San  Francisco.  Managers  of  Express — Atlantic  Department, 
Dudley  Evans,  New  York  City;  Central  Department,  Amador 
Andrews,  Omaha,  Neb.;  Pacific  Department,  E.  M.  Cooper,  San 
Francisco.    General  Auditor,  J.  S.  Bunnell,  8an  Francisco. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


THE    STORIED    LILY. 

THE  origin  of  the  lily,  according  to  the  fable-loving  Greeks,  was 
this:  Jove,  desirous  of  rendering  the  infant  Hercules  im- 
mortal, directed  Somnus  to  prepare  a  sleeping  draught,  which 
Jupiter  administered  to  bis  innocent  spouse  in  a  cup  of  ambrosial 
nectar.  Immediately  after  drinking  this  Juno  fell  into  a  pro- 
found slumber.  While  the  mother  of  the  gods  was  in  this  con- 
dition, Jove  placed  the  babe  to  her  breast,  in  order  that  it  might 
imbibe  the  divine  milk  that  would  insure  its  immortality.  The 
little  Hercules,  in  his  over-eagerness,  drew  the  milk  too  quickly, 
and,  some  drops  failing  to  the  ground,  the  white  lily  (emblemati- 
cal of  purity)  immediately  sprung  up,  and  became  the  stately 
flower  consecrated  to  her  worship  under  the  name  of  Juno's  rose. 
The  Jews  believed  that  witchcraft  and  enchantments  were  to  be 
counteracted  by  the  use  of  the  lily,  and  it  is  related  that  Judith 
adorned  herself  with  a  garland  of  these  flowers  before  she  cut  off 
the  head  of  Holofernes.  In  the  Catacombs  of  Rome,  representa- 
tions of  the  lily  are  frequently  met  with  on  the  tombs  of  the 
Christian  virgins.  The  lily  was  especially  the  Virgin's  flower, 
and  many  of  the  early  painters  represented  her  holding  one  in 
her  hand.  A  certain  Prince  of  Navarre,  early  in  the  eleventh 
century,  being  dangerously  ill,  dreamed  that  he  saw  the  image  of 
the  Virgin  Mary  issuing  from  a  lily,  and  from  that  moment  his 
recovery  was  rapid.  In  gratitude  he  instituted  the  order  of  St- 
Mary  of  the  Lily,  composed  of  thirty-eight  Knights,  of  which  he 
was  the  grand  master.  In  architecture  the  lily  has  always  been 
a  favorite  ornament.  We  find  it  represented  in  the  decorations 
of  King  Solomon's  Temple,  and  among  the  Persians  and  Egypt- 
ians, also  in  some  of  the  ruins  of  old  convents  and  monasteries 
of  England.  Susannah,  so  celebrated  in  Holy  Writ,  signifies  in 
Hebrew  the  lily ;  and  the  ancient  and  important  city  of  'Susa,' 
in  Persia,  derived  its  name  from  the  same  imperial  flower.  It  is 
the  symbol  of  majesty,  purity  and  love.  The  lily  was  the  em- 
blem of  Florence,  as  the  violet  was  of  Athens,  but  it  is  in  its  asso- 
ciation with  Prance  that  the  most  interesting  portion  of  its  his- 
tory is  to  be  found.  It  is  said  that  in  the  time  of  Clovis,  an  an- 
cient hermit  had  a  vision  of  an  angel  who  bore  in  his  hand  a  blue 
shield  emblazoned  with  three  golden  lilies,  which  the  hermit  was 
commanded  to  give  to  Queen  Clotilde,  who  in  her  turn  gave  it  to 
the  King,  whose  arms  from  that  time  were  everywhere  victorious. 
The  name  fleur-de-lis  has  by  many  been  supposed  to  be  derived 
from  Fleur  de  Loys,  in  which  manner  the  twelve  first  Louis 
signed  their  names,  and  which  was  easily  contracted  into  fleur- 
de-lis,  Louis  VII.  having  adopted  this  flower  as  his  emblem, 
hence  the  flower  of  Louis — or,  Fleur  de  Loys.  Others,  again,  de- 
rive it  from  the  lilies  that  grew  on  the  banks  of  the  River  Lis, 
which  separated  France  and  Artois  from  Flanders;  and,  as  Artois 
was  united  to  France  by  the  marriage  of  Philip  Augustus  to  the 
daughter  of  the  Count  of  Flanders  in  1191,  this  latter  explanation 
seems  most  plausible. 

REPUBLICANISM    IN    FRANCE. 


THE  third  French  republic  has  now  attained  its  majority.  Its 
coming  of  age  has  not  been  celebrated  by  any  special  political 
demonstration,  but  socially  it  has  been  marked  by  very  important 
features,  which  deserve  to  be  noted.  For  the  first  time  in  this 
season  of  1892  French  "Society,"  which,  ever  since  Marshal 
MacMahon  resigned  the  Presidency,  in  1879,  had  held  aloof  from 
the  Republic,  and  declined  to  recognize  the  existence  of  ces  gens 
la,  has  relented,  and,  without  entirely  going  over  to  the  new 
regime,  has  come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  President  of  the  Re- 
public and  Mme.  Carnot,  and  many  of  his  Ministers  and  their 
wives,  are  ladies  and  gentlemen,  although  Republican,  and  that 
it  would  be  "  bad  f orm  "  to  continue  to  Ignore  their  existence 
and  cut  them,  as  was  the  case  throughout  the  rule  of  M.  Gr6vy 
and  during  the  first  years  of  M.'Carnot's  tenure  of  office.  This 
social  rapprochement  is  due  to  several  causes.  The  high  regard 
that  the  President  and  Mme.  Carnot  have  won  for  themselves 
has  proved  a  potent  factor  in  the  work  of  reconciling  the 
classes  to  the  Republic,  and  among  his  Ministers.  M. 
and  Mme.  Ribot  at  the  Quai  d'Orsay,  and  M.  and  Mme! 
Devele  at  the  Ministry  of  Agriculture,  have  contributed  to  break 
down  the  barrier  which  existed  between  the  social  and  the  offi- 
cial world.  The  British  Embassy,  under  Lord  and  Lady  Lytton, 
whose  hospitable  traditions  their  successors.  Lord  and  Lady 
Dufferin,  have  continued,  has  also  promoted  this  work  of  recon- 
ciliation by  providing  a  pleasant  neutral  ground  where  men  and 
women  of  all  parties  could  meet  and  become  acquainted  with 
each  other.  But  the  most  potent  agency  in  that  direction  has  un- 
questionably been  that  of  the  Pope.  His  conversion  to  the  Re- 
public—for that  is  what  it  really  amounts  to— has  done  wonders 
and  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  there  is  less  hostility  at  present 
between  the  Faubourg  St.  Germain  and  the  Republic  than  was 
the  case  under  Louis  Philippe  and  the  first  years  of  the  Second 
Empire.  Probably  it  was  owing  to  these  causes  that  tbe  season 
which  has  now  come  to  a  close  has  been  the  most  brilliant  that 
Paris  has  witnessed  since  the  Republican  regime  has  been  estab- 
lished. The  "noble  Faubourg"  opened  its  salons.  The  weather 
being  propitious,  there  have  been  endless  garden  parties  and  alfres- 
co festivities ;  coaching  and  picnics  have  become  a  social  institution 


and   the   Republic   has,  on   its  coming  of  age,  almost  eclipsed  in 
this  display  of  wealth  and  luxury  the  palmy  days  of  Napoleon  III. 

The  Pioneer  Carpet  Beating  Machine  and  Pacific  Cleaning  and 
Dyeine  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  of  3f>3-357  Tehama  street,  is 
without  any  doubt  the  best  establishment  in  the  city  for  the  proper 
cleansing  of  carpets,  curtains  and  like  material.  The  firm  has  given 
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BAN  FRANCISCO   NKWS  LETTER. 


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A    BREATH    OF    SCANDAL 


[By     D  i    Viumc.] 


WHO  is  responsible  for  the  scandal.  Ihe  slander  (bat  ia  abroad 
Id  tbe  world  f  Man  says  it  is  woman,  and  woman  Hands 
with  accusing  finger  pointed  at  man,  A  young  girl  came  to  me 
Ibe  other  day  and  said:  ••  I've  made  a  fool  ot  myself!  "  I  politely 
tried  to  look  surprised,  though  I  wasn't.  ■•  Yes."  sbe  continued. 
■■  1  have,  and  I'm  go  mad  with  myself  tbat  I  could  bite  my  tongue 
out  and  use  my  head  for  a  foot  ball.  Why  ?  This  is  why.  The 
other  evening  two  gentlemen  railed  to  see  me.  One  was  a  friend 
1  had  known  from  childhood,  a  great,  splendid,  wholehearted 
fellow  that  brings  an  atmosphere  of  cheeriness  and  perpetual 
good  nature  with  him.  He  is  always  so  courteous,  so  considerate. 
so  appreciative  and  so  complimentary  that  it  is  a  pleasure  to  >>e 
In  bis  company.  The  other  gentleman  was  a  man  of  great 
Intellect,  whose  desire  to  meet  me  bad  tilled  me  with  a 
sense  of  elation.  I  was  walking  on  air.  We  talked  of  all 
sorts  of  subjects,  and  I  felt  that  I  never  had  spent  a 
more  delightful  evening  of  its  kind  in  my  life.  But  dear  me— ju»t 
before  its  close — something  happened."  and  the  young  girl  looked 
so  lugubrious  tbat  nothing  would  have  surprised  me.  "  You 
see,"  continued  sbe,  "  we  had  talked  about  people  and  things. 
At  last  the  name  of  a  certain  woman  was  mentioned.  The  per- 
son eDJoys  considerable  prominence.  One  of  the  gentlemen  said, 
•  Do  you  know  her?'  ■  t  know  who  she  is.  ■  Did  you  never 
meet  her — she  is  so  charming  a  conversationalist,  I  am  sure  you 
would  like  her.'  ■  Yes,'  I  replied,"  continued  the  young  girl,  in 
her  account  of  the  affair,  "  and  there  must  have  been  something 
in  my  manner  which  challenged  a  question,  for  immediately  it 
came:  •  What  do  you  know  about  her — you  evidently  do  Dot  ap- 
prove of  her?'  Now  the  young  girl  has  more  wit  than  discretion, 
and  she  replied,  "  Well,  if  you  must  know,  I've  heard  she  was 
■  shady,'  and  some  one  once  took  the  trouble  to  warn  us  girls  not 
to  be  seen  talking  in  the  street  to  her,  or  to  have  anything  to  do 
witbherl"  Both  the  gentlemen  looked  shocked.  "  Why,  said 
the  man  of  intellect,  »  I  have  visited  her  many  a  lime,  and  I  have 
□ever  seen  anything  in  her  behavior  that  could  be  considered  the 
least  out  of  the  way."  Then  the  young  girl  forgot  she  was  talk- 
ing to  men,  not  that  she  wished  to  discuss  undebatable  subjects 
but  she  forgot  what  is  always  said  when  one  woman  fails  to  agree 
with  a  man  in  his  high  est:mate  of  another  woman.  So,  in  the 
beat  of  the  argument  she  exclaimed,  "  Well,  all  I  know  is,  that 
some  of  her  associates  have  been  dropped  by  society,  and  it 
won't  do  for  young  ladies  to  attempt  to  go  counter  to  the  dictum 
of  society  leaders.  It  may  be  very  sweet  and  lovely,  and  all 
that,  but  if  a  girl  does  attempt  to  do  so,  sbe  herself  suffers  with- 
out being  able  to  do  one  thing  towards  rehabilitating  the  >  shady  ' 
person  in  the  garment  of  respectability."  Then  both  the  gentle- 
men looked  pained  as  well  as  shocked,  and  the  old  friend  said, 
"  Oh,  you  should  never  allow  yourself  to  listen  to  a  word  of 
slander  about  a  woman.  I've  often  taken  the  trouble  to  run 
those  things  down  to  cover,  and  I've  always  found  tbat  they  rest 
upon  nothing  at  all;  "  and  the  other  gentleman  said,  "  Don't  you 

think  that  people  are  jealous  of  Mrs. ,  that  her  success  has 

aroused  their  envy?"  The  young  girl  was  perplexed  and 
troubled.  "  How  can  I  tell  these  men  what  I  know,  although  it 
be  founded  upon  unimpeachable  authority  1  Besides,  they  al- 
ready think  tbat  I  am  envious  of  this  woman,"  so  she  stood  in 
momentary  confusion. 

*<  It  is  always  so,"  continued  the  man  of  intellect,  <•  women 
are  envious  and  jealous  of  each  other's  popularity.  They  will 
pull  each  other  to  pieces;  they  are  wild  when  another  woman  re- 
ceives more  attention  than  tbey  do  themselves,  and  tbe  tongues 
of  detraction  fly  fast."  "  Possibly."  said  the  young  hostess, 
"  but  in  regard  to  this  particular  person,  do  you  want  to  know 
how  the  '  scandal '  started?  In  three  separate  and  distinct  in- 
stances, the  warning  to  us  girls  came  from  a  roan  I  It  wasn't  a 
woman."  Then  they  all  laughed  heartily,  shook  bands  and 
parted. 

"  But,"  said  the  young  girl  to  me,"  I  know  they  went  away 
thinking  that  I  would  lend  myself  to  the  envious  detraction  of 
another  woman,  and  I  wouldn't.  In  the  first  place,  both  of  those 
gentlemen  over-estimate  the  importance  of  that  person's  position; 
they  do  not  know,  as  I  do,  that  many  doors  are  closed  against 
her;  they  do  not  know  that,  from  the  standpoint  of  my  set,  she 
does  not  possess  one  single  attribute  or  attainment  that  can 
arouse  envy;  that  to  us  she  is  simply  an  abstraction,  a  type  of  a 
class  with  which  we  have  nothing  to  do.  I  know  that  I  lost  in 
their  estimation  by  my  frank  and  impolitic  speech  ;  it  never  oc- 
curred to  me  that  they  could  know  her  socially,  and  now  I  sup- 
pose they'll  never  care  to  come  and  see  me  again,  and  I  am  sorry, 
for  I  liked  them  both  so  much  "—and  the  girl  heaved  a  sigh  and 
then  exclaimed:  "Now,  wasn't  I  a  fool  to  be  drawn  into  a 
discussion  about  a  woman?"  "  Yes,  my  dear,  you  were,"  was  my 
candid  but  not  untruthful  reply. 

My  friend's  experience  led  me  to  make  inquiries.  "  Where  do 
you  think  scandal  originates  ?  "  I  asked  a  bright  society  woman, 
young  in  years,  but  old  in  worldly  wisdom.  "Where?  With 
women,"  she  replied,  unhesitatingly,  and  then  added,  "  But  let 
me  modify  that.     With  the  memory  of  all  I  have  heard  in   my 


life,  and  the  knowledge  that  It  generally  could  be  traced  to  the 
afternoon  gossip  of  a  men's  club.  I  mint  lake  that  back.  A 
I  lub  is  tbe  very  hot-bed  ot  scandal.  Those  fellows,  old  and 
young,  want  to  be  thought  Irresistible,  or  omni-. 
they  can't  deny  themselves  Ibe  pleasure  of  being  thought 
•OMWtjfal  where  others  have  fallfd.  By  a  smirk 
when  a  woman's  name  Is  mentioned ;  by  a  significant 
look,  a  shrug  of  the  shoulders,  even  a  twirl  of  one  side  of  a  mus- 
tache, tbe  insinuation  Is  made— to  say  nothing  of  the  open  dis- 
cussion of  a  woman's  charms,  and  tbe  speculations  as  to  ber  be- 
ing able  to  meet  the  requirements  of  a  Ciesar's  wife.  I  don't 
mean  to  say  that  a  perfectly  pure,  good  woman,  whose  conduct 
has  always  been  above  reproach,  will  become  the  prey  of  their 
conversation,  although  such  cases  have  happened.  But  you 
know  there  are  hosts  of  women  and  young  girls  who  will  do  im- 
prudent things.  Many  of  them  are  women  now  In  a  stratum  of 
society  not  where  they  belong  by  birth  or  education.  They  don't 
know  how  to  behave.  They  are  not  thoroughbreds,  you  see. 
They  foolishly  take  pleasure  in  defying  public  opinion.  They 
don't  mind  being  talked  about.  They  boast  of  tbeir  escapades, 
and  yet  they  do  have  lots  of  friends,  sweet  girl  friends,  who  ab- 
solutely refuse  to  believe  that  »  dear "  is  aught  but  so  impru- 
dent, and  some  man  comes  home  troiu  the  club — some  father, 
brother  or  husband,  and  warns  the  women  of  his  family  not  to 
be  seen  with  "so  and  so  "  any  more;  that  her  name  has  been 
mentioned  in  the  club.  "Oh,  my  dear,"  continued  tbe  society 
woman,  "  the  shores  of  clubdom  are  strewn  with  wrecks  of  rep- 
utations!" 

"  On  the  other  hand,  the  worst  detractors  of  women  are  mar- 
ried women  every  time.  You  take  a  woman  whose  own  career 
has  been  shady.  She  is  always  on  the  lookout  for  improper  be- 
havior among  younger  and  more  attractive  women.  She  cannot 
forgive  tbein  for  receiving  what  she  no  longer  can  hold — the  ad- 
miration of  men.  No  woman  is  so  vocally  virtuous  as  the  woman 
whom  time  bas  robbed  of  tbe  capacity  to  be  wicked.  When  you 
find  such  women  in  hotels  and  boarding-houses,  tbey  are  to  be 
dreaded.  Tbey  make  wild  endeavors  to  hold  their  own  with  tbe 
younger  women;  they  fail;  they  are  bitter;  they  devote  them- 
selves to  lying  in  wait  for  fresh  game  all  the  time;  their  grip  is 
weakening,  but  they  clutch  all  the  same.  They  patrol  the  cor- 
ridors, tbey  watch  the  waiting-rooms,  they  catechize  the 
servants,      they      bribe      the      elevator      boy       to      find      out 

when  "he"  came;    how    long   he   stayed;  if    Mrs. sat  out 

on  the  stairs,  or  flirted  on  the  fire-escape.  Oh,  my  dear,  if  you 
ask  me  how  scandal  originates,  I  must  go  back  to  my  first  answer 
and  say  with  women,  with  fagged-out,  jaded,  disappointed 
passf-e  old  women.  A  young  matron,  secure  in  ber  position  in 
society,  happy  in  her  husband's  love,  and  surrounded  by  her 
children,  is  too  sweetly  selfish,  too  wrapped  up  in  her  own  hap- 
piness to  be  envious  or  jealous.  She  is  not  the  detractor  of  her 
sex.  But  these  old  harridans — they  are  tbe  harpies  of  society, 
and  mind  you,  tbey  may  not  have  many  teeth  left,  but,  with  the 
few  old  snags  that  still  cling  to  their  jaws,  they  can  make,  if  not 
a  very  deep  bite,  a  terribly  jagged  wound." 


Absolutely 
the  Best. 

It  Is  richest  in  pure  cream  of  tartar; 

It  is  strongest  in  wholesome  leaven, 
ing  power ; 

It  has  the  best  keeping  qualities  and 
is  the  most  economical ;       v 

It  contains  no  alum,  ammonia  or 
other  deleterious  substance  ; 

All  the  ingredients  used  are  pub- 
lished on  the  label. 

Cleveland's 

Superior 

Baking  Powder. 

K.  H    A  .'»...?■  A  <  O-,  A  fit' in*. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


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BE-LQPKER-9N® 


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EARLY  in  April  last,  Mnie.  F.  Sherman,  or,  as  she  styled  herself, 
v  Doctress  F.  Sherman,  the  child  trance  medium  of  England,', 
announced  ber  presence  in  the  city  through  the  advertising  col- 
umns of  the  daily  papers,  and  offered  to  enlighten  those  who  paid 
the  necessary  fee  as  to  their  past,  present  and  future.  The  be- 
lievers came  in  large  numbers,  and  the  "  child  medium"  and  her 
husband  reaped  a  rich  harvest.  When  they  found  a  victim  who 
was  thoroughly  convinced  that  the  medium  was  really  endowed 
with  the  peculiar  powers  claimed,  the  smooth  fakers  proceeded  to 
extract  from  that  person  all  the  coin  they  could.  Because  of  the  fees 
exacted,  $2  to  $5  a  sitting,  the  majority  of  the  victims  were  of  the 
more  prosperous  class,  but  many  people  who  could  really  ill-afford 
to  pay  the  required  sum  also  fell  into  the  net  of  the  frauds.  The 
husband,  who  is  about  thirty-two  years  old,  was  the  schemer; 
the  wife,  a  pretty,  delicate-looking  blonde,  of  about  twenty-one, 
being  the  tool  in  his  hands,  by  which  the  coin  was  extracted  from 
the  pockets  of  the  fools  who  visited  the  trance  medium's  parlors. 
When  the  fee  was  paid,  Mrs.  Sherman,  apparently,  went  into  a 
trance.  She  would  then  answer  any  questions  asked,  on  a  failure 
to  answer  the  questions  correctly  the  customer  being  asked  to 
come  for  another  sitting,  as  the  spirits  were  "  out  of  sorts."  Of 
course,  different  and  correct  answers  would  be  given  the  second 
time.  The  customers  were  mostly  women,  for  they  are  the  more 
gullible  concerning  the  mysterious.  Love-sick  dames  were  told 
that  they  could  be  provided  with  "  luck-belts,"  which  exercised 
a  magic  power  over  the  wearer,  and  brought  good  luck,  fortune 
and  success  in  love.  If  their  sweethearts  were  estranged,  the 
influence  of  the  belt  would  bring  the  recreant  lover  back.  A 
belt  with  ordinary  influence  was  sold  for  $25,  and  those  with  ex- 
traordinary power  were  worth  as  much  as  $100,  The  belts  were 
made  of  strips  of  silk  torn  from  one  of  Mrs.  Sherman's  old 
dresses  and  silk  patch-pockets,  supposed  to  contain  a  mysterious 
powder,  were  sewn  on  the  belt;  one  pocket  for  $25  and  several 
for  $100.  Then  Mrs.  Sherman  represented  to  those  who  dabbled 
with  lotteries  that  she  was  able  to  secure  winning  numbers  for 
those  who  desired  to  invest.  She  said  she  had  an  arrangement 
with  the  Presidents  of  the  companies  by  which  she  was  enabled 
to  secure  any  numbers  she  desired.  She  purchased  only  $20 
tickets,  and  required  only  an  agreement  from  the  purchaser  that 
the  medium  be  given  ten  per  cent,  of  the  prize  won.  Mrs.  Sher- 
man was  to  forward  the  money  to  New  Orleans,  and  the  tickets 
would  be  sent  direct  to  the  purchasers.  Many  of  the  dupes  gave 
her  money  for  tickets,  but  never  received  tbem,  and  when  Mrs. 
Sherman's  place  was  visited,  she  had  gone,  no  one  knew  where. 
What  hastened  the  Shermans'  departure,  which  was  on  June 
26th,  was  the  fact  that  they  had  just  robbed  a  young  society 
lady  out  of  $1,000.  The  lady  called  and  was  given  a  sitting  by 
the  child  medium.  The  spirits  were  inactive,  and  the  lady  was 
told  to  return  on  a  day  following.  When  she  left,  Mr.  Sherman 
followed  her,  tracked  her  to  her  home,  and  discovering  her  iden- 
tity, was  able  to  post  his  wife  as  to  what  to  say  at  the 
next  sitting.  The  young  .lady  was  greatly  impressed, 
and  agreed  to  give  $5,000  if  a  certain  young  gen- 
tleman with  whom  she  was  in  love  could  be  made  to 
reciprocate  her  affections.  As  all  the  medium's  other  business 
had  to  be  neglected,  $1,000  was  demanded  and  paid  in  advance, 
and  the  next  day  the  frauds  levanted.  The  house  formerly  occu- 
pied by  the  Shermans  has  been  beseiged  with  mournful  victims. 
The  pair  are  now  in  Seattle,  and  expect  to  return  for  a  new  crop 
of  victims  in  the  fall. 

•  #  • 

All  sorts  of  unholy  stories  are  going  around  regarding  "Big" 
Smith,  President  of  the  Oakland  Board  of  Education,  since  the 
preferment  of  sensational  charges  against  him  by  Mrs.  Todd  In  ap- 
pearance Smith  scarcely  conveys  the  idea  that  he  is  a  Don  Juan  for  he  is 
as  unweilding  as  an  elephant  and  has  about  as  much  grace  as  a  rustic 
at  his  first  ball.  Despite  all  these,  though,  he  appears  to  have  had 
wonderful  success  as  a  stormer  of  feminine  hearts,  and  in  this  con- 
nection new  stories  are  now  cropping  up  every  day.  One  that  is  be- 
ing told  with  a  good  deal  of  gusto  relates  to  the  'time  when  Smith 
joined  the  order  of  Chosen  Friends.  As  in  everything  else  he  soon 
pushed  himself  to  the  front,  and  as  he  grew  prominent  in  the  society 
the  observant  noticed  that  he  was  remarkably  attentive  to  a  young 
and  charming  widow.  The  course  of  true  love  ran  smooth  enough 
at  first  and  then  as  if  to  even  things  up  there  suddenly  came  a  de- 
nouement that  was  sensational  in  the  extreme.     One  evening  just 


as  the  chosen  ones  were  in  full  blast  Smith  and  his  widow  being  of 
course  on  hand,  there  suddenly  dawned  upon  the  assemblage  a  vision 
of  an  angry-looking  woman.  She  sailed  across  the  room  like  a  Texas 
norther  to  where  Smith  and  his  chosen  one  were  sitting  and  then 
the  storm-cloud  burst.  She  seized  Smith  by  the  coat-collar,  dragged 
him  around  on  to  his  knees  and  then  cuffed  him  one  two  and  repeat, 
and  wound  up  with  yanking  him  out  of  the  room.  He  has  never 
been  there  since  either,  for  the  caller  was  his  wife  who  had  had  a  tip 
from  the  outside,  regarding  her  spouse's  doings,  and  who  had  de- 
cided to  wreak  her  righteous  wrath  on  him  in  a  manner  that  would 

live  long  in  his  memory. 

#  *  * 

There  is  a  barber  shop  in  the  basement  of  No.  116  Sutter  street, 
which  needs  the  attention  of  the  authorities.  The  place,  which 
struggles  through  existence  under  the  phenomenal  name  of  the 
Physiognomical  and  Esthetic  Parlor,  is  presided  over  by  a  gentle- 
man of  color,  who  is  assisted  by  a  number  of  other  razor  wielders 
of  the  same  hue,  ranging  in  shades  from  the  pure  African  black 
to  the  "  no  nation  nigger."  Not  satisfied  with  throwing  in  a 
shine  with  every  shave,  to  attract  patronage  to  his  place,  the  pro- 
prietor has  devised  an  entirely  new  and  novel  mode  of  entertain- 
ing his  patrons,  particularly  those  who  are  fond  of  lewd  subjects. 
The  place  is  situated  directly  under  a  toy  and  music  store.  Here 
at  any  time  of  the  day  a  bevy  of  ladies  and  girls  can  be  seen 
looking  at  the  pretty  toys  and  curios  with  which  the  window  is 
always  filled.  Beneath  the  window  is  a  long,  narrow  window, 
used  to  light  the  barber  shop.  This,  in  its  proper  position,  would 
admit  light  and  air  without  giving  a  view  of  those  on  the  street, 
but  it  is  arranged  so  that  the  bottom  swings  inward,  giving  a  clear 
view  of  the  lower  extremities  of  those  standing  at  the  window. 
One  of  the  chairs  is  placed  almost  directly  below,  and  when  some 
pretty  ankle  appears  in  sight,  barber  number  one  passes  the  word 
along  the  line,  and  the  customers  so  inclined  can  feast  their  eyes 
unknown  to  the  object  of  their  admiration.  The  place  should  be 
closed  up,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  ladies  will  in  future  take 
their  views  of  the  curios  from  the  outer  edge  of  the  sidewalk. 

•  *  * 

There  is  a  well-known  principle  in  morals  that  evil  associations 
invariably  corrupt.  The  statistics  of  insanity  are  full  of  instances 
of  strong-minded  men  who  became  insane  through  continued 
contact  with  persons  of  unsound  mind.  That  such  association 
will  make  a  person  "cranky"  is  shown  in  the  case  of  Dr.  Phelan, 
a  Commissioner  of  Insanity  in  this  city.  That  he  is  totally  in- 
capable of  passing  upon  the  sanity  or  insanity  of  others  has  long 
been  recognized  about  the  City  Hall.  The  saying  has  become 
axiomatic  that  any  person  could  have  another  declared  insane  by 
this  Commissioner,  if  a  legal  showing  in  the  way  of  testimony 
were  made.  A  party  of  clerk9  who  doubted  the  statement  re- 
cently decided  to  test  its  truth  or  falsity.  For  some  time  previ- 
ous a  young  clerk  of  an  inventive  turn  of  mind  had  persisted 
in  showing  them  the  modus  operandi  of  his  invention,  and  a  plan 
was  concocted  to  have  him  examined  for  lunacy.  He  was  ac- 
cordingly taken  before  the  Commissioner  in  question,  who  had 
previously  been  informed  that  a  lunatic  with  a  mania  for  impos- 
sible inventions  would  be  brought  before  him  for  examination. 
The  clerk  in  turn  had  been  informed  that  he  would  be  introduced 
to  a  gentleman  who  was  interested  in  inventions,  and  who  would 
accord  him  the  attention  the  importance  of  his  invention  de- 
manded. 

Accordingly,  the  two  men  met  in  the  Commissioner's  office. 
The  young  man  began  to  explain  his  invention  at  length,  and 
seemed  to  be  pleased  at  the  attention  accorded  him  by  his  sup- 
posed fellow-inventor.  When  he  finished,  the  Commissioner 
said,  in  a  tone  of  deep  commiseration:  ■«  Poor  fellow  I  I  will  see 
that  you  are  taken  to  a  place  where  your  great  genius  will  be 
recognized." 

The  young  inventor,  surprised  at  the  remark,  turned  to  leave, 
but  at  a  signal  from  the  Commissioner,  a  Deputy  Sheriff  restrained 
him.  The  Commissioner  stated  to  his  confrere  that  '<  the  young 
man  was  hopelessly  insane,  and  should  be  committed  to  the 
asylum."  The  clerks,  recognizing  that  the  joke  had  gone  far 
enough,  prevailed  upon  Dr.  Phelan  to  release  the  sup 
posed  "  lunatic"  on  tbeir  promise  to  care  for  him,  and  to  see  that 
he  harmed  no  one.  With  Commissioners  of  Insanity  like  this, 
who  will  hereafter  assert  that  his  mind  is  sound?  Is  any  man  of 
advanced  ideas  safe?  It  is  an  important  question. 
»-*  * 

The  full  story  of  the  attack  of  the  train-robbers  on  the  Fresno 
train  has  not  been  told.  It  will  be  remembered  that  one  of  the 
daily  papers  gave  a  thrilling  story  of  the  manner  in  which  Col. 
Kowalsky  and  Willis  Polk  held  off  the  robbers  and  caused  them 
to  retire,  taking  the  money  with  them.  Now,  the  facts  are  that 
these  two  prominent  gentlemen  were  in  a  section  together,  and 
had  just  retired  to  their  berths,  when  they  were  aroused  by  an 
excited  man  rushing  into  their  compartment  waving  a  revolver 
in  his  hand  and  shouting:  "It's  all  up!  It's  all  up  I"  Neither 
Kowalsky  nor  Polk  knew  who  the  man  was,  but  not  being  of  an 
inquisitive  nature,  they  looked  at  his  big  revolver  and  elevated 
their  hands.  They  then  awaited  the  next  action  of  the  supposed 
bandit,  who  looked  at  them,  and  again  announced  in  stentorian 
tones  that  it  was  all   up,  and  once  more  waved  his  horse-pistol. 


August  13,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS   !  l'TTl'i: 


11 


The  irchltect  »„.i  thr  Uwycr  »w«HkI  ,i«th  with  calm  r*si«n»- 
llon,  but  were  grrttly  relieve.!  when  the  manner,  becoming  more 
r»tion»l.  eipltlnol  that  he  w»«  not  *  r  >bher.  only  *  deputy 
Sheriff—  Newton  Browne,  of  San  Bernardino.  He  liil.l  them  of 
the  robbery,  and  Kowalsky  and  Polk  then  Marled  the  man-bum 
which  i»  still  being  kept  np  on  the  Visalia  hills. 

•  •  • 

One  of  the  best  known  and  most  popular  newspaper  men  in 
the  West  is  C.  O.  Ziegenfuss.  He  is  known  familiarly  as  •■  Zieg." 
most  of  his  friends  declining  to  waste  the  time  it  takes  to  pro- 
nounce bis  full  name.  It's  a  good  old  (Serman  name,  and  he  is 
proud  of  it.  On  Davis  street  is  the  commission  bouse  of  John 
Ziegenbein.  The  name  Ziegenfuss  means  ■•  goat's  foot,"  while 
Ziegenbein  means  ■•  goat's  leg,'' two  facts  which  properly  im- 
pressed Zieg  as  be  passed  the  commission  house  one  afternoon. 
He  looked  at  the  sign  of  Ziegenbein  for  fully  a  quarter  of  an  hour, 
and  then  entered  the  store.  "  Is  Mr.  Ziegenbein  in?"  he  asked  a 
clerk.  ••  No,  sir,"  was  the  reply:  "  can  I  do  anything  for  you?" 
"  Well.  I  don't  know,"  said  the  newspaper  man.  «  The  fact  is,  1 
hare  been  thinking  of  going  into  business,  and  I  want  a  good 
partner.  My  name  is  Ziegenfuss.  I  noticed  your  sign  outside — 
Ziegenbein — and  it  occurred  to  me  that  if  Mr.  Ziegenbein  and  my- 
self combined,  we  might  complete  that  goat  in  time.  Ziegenbein 
&  Ziegenfuss,  see?  You  speak  to  Ziegenbein  about  it.  Good 
day."  And  he  left  the  place.  He  bad  walked  about  a  block, 
when  he  heard  some  one  running  and  calling  behind  him.  Look- 
ing back,  he  saw  Ziegenbein's  clerk,  who  rushed  up  to  him, 
slapped  him  on  the  back,  laughed  heartily,  and  said,  "  Yah,  yah, 
that  was  a  joke.  Eh?  What!  Ho!  Ho!  I  see  now  how  that 
is.  You're  a  funny  fellow.  Ziegenbein  &  Ziegenfuss  I  Ha!  Ha! 
Drink?     What!" 

There  is  a  well-known  local  poet  of  true  Bohemian  instincts, 
who,  as  often  as  he  can,  goes  out  into  the  country  to  commune 
with  nature  and  shoot  bears.  He  returned  recently  from  one 
such  trip,  and  upon  arriving  in  town,  met  Chief  Crowley  and 
Captain  Lees.  During  their  conversation,  the  poet,  in  his  free, 
careless  manner,  threw  back  his  coat,  showing  the  handle  of  a 
bowie  knife  projecting  from  his  tipper  vest  pocket.  "Come, 
come,  that  won't  do,  Dan,  you'r  carrying  concealed  weapons," 
said  the  Chief.  »  Yes,  I  think  we  will  have  to  take  you  in," 
said  Lees.  "  Gentlemen,  gentlemen,"  said  the  bloodthirsty  poet, 
"  Don't  talk  shop." 

*  *  » 

The  changed  programme  of  Tuxedo  this  week  gave  a  fresh 
chance  to  Mr.  Coleman  to  display  his  versatility,  as  well  as  clever- 
ness in  eccentricities.  Unfortunately  it  also  gave  an  opportunity 
for  the  display  of  bad  taste  both  artiatially  and  otherwise.  The 
announcement  was  made  that  two  young  San  Francisco  Iaaies 
woald  give  an  exhibition  of  their  banjo  playing.  They  did;  it 
was  "a  show,''  sure  enough.  The  fact  that  their  repeated  at- 
tempts to  strike  the  key  resulted  in  final  failure  was  less  regret- 
table when  the  audience  found  that  they  could  not  play  in  any 
key.  Might  one  advise  a  few  lessons  from  Ashton  P.  Stevens  be- 
fore these  fair  ones  again  attempt  to  please  an  audience  on  the 
homely  but  difficu't  instrument?  As  if  their  playing  were  not 
bad  enough,  the  young  women,  during  the  preliminary  conversa- 
tion, managed  to  bring  in  the  name  of  a  business  firm  over  and 
over  again,  to  the  disgust  of  persons  of  good  taste,  who  object  to 
having  ■•  ads  "  of  desperate  clothing  |houses,  or  otherwise,  thruat 
down  their  throats  in  their  amusements  like  sugar-coated  pills. 
There  may  be  money  for  somebody  in  this  sort  of  thing,  but  it 
cannot  be  enough  to  pay  for  the  second-class  character  it  inevita- 
bly gives  to  a  performance  and  the  house  where  it  is  given. 

#  »  * 

The  Maze  is  daily  filled  with  people  anxious  for  bargains 
at  some  of  its  many  crowded  counters.  This  popular  store  has 
in  stock  all  of  the  best  lines  of  goods  in  the  furnishing  way,  of 
every  description,  from  handkerchiefs  to  lambrequins.  It  de- 
serves the  great  success  which  it  has  gained,  for  its  purpose  is  to 
deal  fairly  with  all  its  customers.  Ladies  desirous  of  adorning 
themselves  with  hats  and  bonnets  of  the  latest  designs  should 
visit  the  Maze  at  once,  and  there,  from  the  large  stock  of  the 
latest  importations,  select  a  covering  particularly  suited  to  the  in- 
dividual style  of  beauty  of  the  fair  customer. 

Laundry  Farm  is  one  of  the  most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  in 
the  State.  It  is  reached  direct  by  the  California  Railway,  which  has 
an  easy  roadbed,  comfortable  cars,  and  is  excellently  managed.  The 
railway  runs  direct  to  Mills'  Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  is  visited  by 
hundreds  of  people  daily,  who  take  great  delight  in  the  many 
natural  beauties  it  presents. 


A.  de  LUZE  &  FILS' 

(BORDEAUX) 

FI1TE    CL^^ETS. 

St.  Estephe,  Pontet  Canet,  Chat.  Margaux. 

Pauillac,  Chat.  Leoviile,  Chat.  Beychevelle, 

Brown  Cantenac,  Chat.  Larose,  Chat,    Montrose, 

St.  Julen,  Chat.  Paveil,  Chat.  Lafite. 

FINE    SAUTERNES. 

Sauternes  Sup'r,,  Haut  Sauternes,  Chateau  Yquem, 

In  Cases,  Quarts  and  Pints. 

CHARLES     MEINECKE     &    CO., 

Sole  Agents,  314  Sacramento  Street. 

BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  |  Alfred  Bouvier .Manager. 

Agaiu  successul!  Every  evening;  Matinee  Saturday.  MR.  A.  M.  PAL- 
MER'S HOME  COMPANY,  presenting  Augustus  Thomas' Beautiful  Amer- 
ican Comedy, 

ALABAMA. 

Admitted  to  be  the  most  exquisitely  beautiful  production  seen  iu  years. 
Next  week— second  and  last  week. 

Monday,  August  15th,  first  production  here  (for  three  nights  only)  of 
COLONEL  CARTER  OF  CARTERVILLE. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co.. Proprietors.  J  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

To-night  and  Sunday.    Farewell  performance 
"TUXEDO." 

Monday  night :  NELLIE  McHENRY  and  her  "Greatest  Show  on 
Earth,"  A  NIGHT  AT  THE  CIRCUS. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bros Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  Nights  of  our  latest  success.  BAUER  AND  WILSON'S  SPECTACU- 
LAR BURLESQUE,  a  great  big  hit, 

BEAUTY  AND  THE  BEAST. 

SEVERAL  NEW    SPECIALTIES. 

Popular  Prices 25c.  and  60c 

Next  Opera,  "The  Little  Duke." 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alp  Ellinghoose Business  Manager. 

This  evening  at  8;  matinee  Saturday;  JEFFREYS-LEWIS  AND  STOCK- 
WELL'S  COMPANY  OF  PLAYERS,  successfully  producing  the  new  com- 
edy-drama 

WOMAN'S     EYES, 
By  Genevieve  Bancroft. 

EVENING  PRICES,  25c„  50c,  75c.  $1.00.    MATINEE  PRICES,  25c.,60c.,75(!. 

Next:    FORGET-ME-NOT.    Seats  now  on  sale. 

.^llSfe       FINE   DIAMONDS, 

.,.,,,.  Gold    and   Silver   Watches. 

\  f^7\       A  The  newest  designs  in  jew- 

"  s^^a^^^^Me  ellery  of  first  quality  only,  at 
'  ^vSSSmilKF^fflp^   very    reasonable    prices. 
'<>*»y^$4&^  A.  W.  STOTT, 

pSSplpfR1-'  3    Montgomery  St, 

''//•     TO    ^  Under  Masonic   Temple. 

KM  a  ne     Bush  <fe  Gerts  Pianos 
IH  #%  O  C  Parlor  Organs 

HAINES  Installments         Itentals 

A.I.Bancroft  &  Co.  CD  I  MA  |\|  I|ti 
303SutterSt.,S.F.   I        I  i^  I  ^  ^•^J 


SUITS— SHIRTS.      LADIES 


TENNIS  SUITS-SHIRTS, 


STS 


27    TO    37    ITB^SuI^iT-Z-    3TEBBT. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


IF  every  crazy  Englishman  who  has  visited  California,  and  made 
himself  conspicuous  through  his  admiration,  openly  expressed, 
for  one  or  more  of  our  fair  heiress-belles  (the  hyphen  style  the  in- 
variable one),  was  deemed  subject  matter  for  columns  of  our 
newspapers,  what  enormous  editions  would  be  stored  away! 
Among  the  numerous  examples  may  be  cited  "Sir"  George 
Bridges,  whose  engagement  to  Miss  Sweetapple  was  town  talk 
for  a  limited  period;  the  acion  of  English  nobility,  yclept  Car- 
rnthers,  who  was  an  adorer  of  one  of  the  Colton  girls;  and  the 
tall  youth  who  was  introduced  to  society  at  a  high  tea  given  by 
the  widow  of  a  pioneer  banker,  at  her  residence  on  Bush  street, 
and  who  was  discovered  later  to  be  the  original  Vane-Tempest's 
valet.  The  bona  fide  Englishman,  Russell,  who  introduced  him 
to  the  aforesaid  banker's  family,  received  letters  from  the  original 
owner  of  the  lordly  name,  and  hence  the  expose  which  wounded 
so  many  of  the  leading  belles'  tenderest  susceptibilities.  Then 
again  there  was  the  young  man  who  flashed  upon  society  as  a 
cotillion  sharp,  and  turned  out  to  be,  not  a  cook  of  high  degree, 
but  a  traveler  of  the  commercial  stamp,  and  who,  in  his  brilliant 
though  brief  career,  was  the  pet  of  our  dames  and  the  companion 
of  our  dudes.  These  are  a  few  of  the  most  prominent  who  came 
to  grief.  In  the  more  recent  instance  of  Mr.  Henry  Baxter  and 
Miss  Emily  Hager,  the  young  gentleman,  it  will  be  observed, 
does  not  pose  as  a  sprig  of  nobility,  but  is  content  with  what  the 
English  call  the  middle  class. 

Our  nouvcaux  riches  have  been  more  or  less  astonished  and  im- 
pressed by  the  quiet  simplicity  of  attire  worn  by  the  wife  and 
daughter  of  the  many-times  millionaire  Leiter,  of  Chicago,  during 
their  visit  to  Del  Monte.  Nothing  could  be  in  better  taste  than 
the  stylish,  simple  gowns  of  the  Eastern  belle,  in  contrast  to  the 
elaborate,  high-colored,  heavily-trimmed  costumes  of  some  of  the 
local  demoiselles.     With   Miss  Leiter  diamonds  are  an  unknown 

quantity. 

*  »  * 

The  pretty  little  church  in  Mill  Valley,  which  is  built  as  a  me- 
morial to  the  lamented  Rev.  F.  W.  Reed,  is  nearing  completion. 
On  dit,  the  first  service  held  in  it  will  be  the  marriage  of  the  rev- 
erend gentleman's  widow,  to  whose  untiring  efforts  the  memorial 
church  has  become  an  accomplished  fact. 

•  #  » 

The  great  interest  which  charming  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  is  taking 
in  St.  Luke's  Church  wi.l  be  of  inestimable  service  to  the  congre- 
gation. The  lady's  taste  is  unquestioned;  her  wealth  ample,  and 
her  desire  to  beautify  her  surroundings  will  lead  to  many  im- 
provements there  which  will  benefit  all. 

•  •  * 

Not  long  ago  the  fiat  of  fashion  went  forth  that  "  no  earrings  " 
was  to  be  the  rule  for  good  form  in  dress,  and  immediately  those 
articles  of  woman's  wear  were  packed  off  to  the  jeweler  to  be 
reset  as  bar  lace-pins,  Marquise  rings,  or  some  other  modish  style 
of  adornment.  Now  a  new  fad  has  sprung  up,  and  jewels  wi.l 
again  be  put  through  the  hand  of  the  diamond  setters.  Rings  and 
pins  will  be  turned  into  the  star  which  fashion  decrees  shall  be 
worn  in  the  centre  of  the  head  above  the  brow. 
«  »  » 

What  with  Stewart's  new  opera  of  Her  Majesty,  the  Saturday 
morning  orchestra  concerts,  and  the  Rosewald  opera  of  J7e's  She, 
all  to  be  given  in  aid  of  charltyduring  the  early  fall,  society  will 
not  lack  for  amusement  upon  its  return  to  the  city  from  the  sum- 
mer outing. 

*  #  * 

On  dit  the  recent  brides,  Mrs.  George  Pope  and  Mrs.  Dan  Mur- 
phy are  having  some  exquisite  gowns  made  in  Paris  wherewith 
to  astonish  the  natives  when  they  return  here  in  the  autumn. 

#  *  « 

From  present  appearances  it  would  seem  that  the  two  young 
matrons,  Mrs.  Will  Crocker  and  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  will  divide  the 
supremacy  of  the  swim  the  coming  winter.  Mrs.  Haggin  will 
doubtless  inaugurate  many  features  which  will  be  of  a  delightful 
nature.  Her  beautiful  home  on  Taylor  street  is  in  itself  a  revela- 
tion in  the  line  of  tasteful  as  well  as  costly  furnishing  and  decora- 
tion. It  will  be  a  new  experience  to  find  a  chatelaine  who  is  so 
confident  of  her  own  capabilities  in  the  art  of  entertaining.  She 
will  not  require  coaching. 

*  »  » 

Gossip  whispers  that  it  is  not  altogether  unlikely  that  the  Fred- 
die Sharons  may  remain  with  us  throughout  the  winter  gaities, 
Mrs.  Freddie  taking  her  mother,  Mrs.  Tevia's,  place  in  social  en- 
tertainment of  the  beau  monde. 

•  *  * 

Mrs.  Tallant  is  spoken  of  as  being  a  probable  ball  giver  upon 
the  opening  of  the  winter  season. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  has  the  largest  and  best 
stock  of  gentlemen's  shirts  and  furnishing  goods  in  the  city. 


A  splendid  opportunity  to  secure 


GREAT 

CLEARANCE 

SALE. 


FINE 

OIL  PAINTINGS 

ENGRAVINGS 

ETCHINGS 

MIRRORS 

STATUES 

ORNAMENTS 

FANCY  GOODS. 


is  now  offered  at  reduced  prices  on  ac- 
count of  removal,  about  Sept.  16th,  to 
our  New  Building,  No.  113  Geary  St. 

S.  &  G.  GUMP, 

381   Market  Street. 


LOOTS  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS., 

nsTTiEiEaioia      dbcobatobs. 

Dealers  in  Stained  Glass.  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall   Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St.,  between  5th  and  6th,  San  Francisco 
MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

No.  912  GRAND  STREET,   ALAMEDA,    CAL. 

Miss  Manson,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  Scho  1,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.  Manson,  Late  Associate  Principal,   Eastern  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARD  NG  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 
Term  begins  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panweron. 

ZISKA    INSTITUTE, 

1606  Van  Ness  Avenue. 

French,  German  and  English  Day  and  Boarding  School  for  young 
ladies  and  children. 
A  refined  home  with  the  best  educational  advantages. 

Next  Term  Opens  August  1,  189s. 

MME.  B.  ZISKA,  M.  A.,  Principal. 
Mr.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

8tudio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

DR.  F.  C.  PAGUE, 

DENTIST, 

Rooms  4  &  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 
819  Market  Street. 

Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 

Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

1NGLEN00K  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  San 
Francisco  prices  and  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  hy  leaving  their 
orders  in  time  witn 

F.  A.  HABER, 

Office  and  Depot  Inglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  5. 


■   13.  1892. 


BAM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I  it 


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THE    PIRATE    SUIT. 
KB.— Til  Midget   Emporium— Clothing    for  Children  of  all 

-r.  murh   furried.  and    hearing    numerout    ffinuy   bundle,    and 
191.  Tn*  I>arliv..  Till  H         fi:.  Tin   Hvm  in.,'.. 

A<->t.  Tin:  :  1B,   Rni1   T„h.  DABMHO^S  Kmiif.k 

Tke  Parting',  Potter— Now,  for  gracious  sake.  Maria,  get  this 
thing  done  in  a  hurry!  We  ain't  got  more'n  an  hour  lo  catch  the 
train,  and  if  I  aini  back  in  An«onia  lo-nighl.  there'll  be  trouble 
at  the  shop.      Hustle  it  through  ! 

Thr  Parting'!  Mother—  Now,  Eben,  don't   you  be   so  irupetnous! 
I'll  be  through  in  time,    if   you    only   don't   get    me   so    Hurried. 
••  Polite  Clerk,  i     Children's  suits,  please. 
Polite  Clerk—  Cert'nly.  Ma'am.     Something  a  little  fancy.  I  sop- 
pose.     Uol  some  lovely  new  styles  this  season.     How  does   this 
strike  you  — the  ••  Trince  George: 

The  Darling's  Mother— Oh,  I  d'know!  Sailor  suits  ain't  so 
stylish  as  tbey  used  to  be. 

The  Darling's  .4i;n!_They're  awtle  common. 
The Darling't  Nurtegirl—Oh,  Mis'  Hotchkin!  See  what  Stanley's 
doin'. 

The  Darling't  Mrther — Stanley,   stop   drumming   on    that   glass 
case.     {To  Polite  Clerk  )     Do  ,voi<  think  he's  too  old  for  kilt  skirts? 
Polite  Clerk — Not  afr  all.     Now,   here's  something   real   stylish 
this  season — the  Constantinople.     Worn  with  a  red  fez. 
The  Darling's  Nursegirl — Oh,  my,  ain't  that  reel  el'gantl 
The  Darling's  Father—  Why  don't   you    put    the    boy    into    long 
pants'?     /  was  in  long  pants  long  'fore  I  was  his  age. 

The  Darling's  Mother  {indignantly) — Long  pants?  Now,  Eben  1 
I  s'pose  you'll  be  wanting  me  to  cut  bis  hair  next. 

Polite  Clerk — If  you  want  knee  pants,  here's  the  Cornwallis — 
bargain,  this  season — only  $5  99,  marked  down  from  $7  48. 

The  Darling's  Father—  Ain't  you  got  a  George  Washington?— I 
druther  have  a  George  Washington,  even  if  I  had  to  pay  three  or 
four  cents  more. 

The  Darling's  Aunt — English  things  are  more  tony,  Eben. 
The  Darling's  Father— They  wa'n't  when  George  was  round.  Say, 
Maria,  I  guess  I'll  go  out  and  look    down   street   a  little.     You 
hurry  this  thing  op. 

The  Darling's  Mother — My  lands,  Eben,  you  had  a  sasprilla  this 
ruornin'. 

The  Darling's  Father  {winking  at  Clerk)— Dreffle  thirsty  town  this 
is.     {Exit  ) 

The  Dai  ling's  Mother—  My  sakes,  I  think  men  are  atefle.  {To  Po- 
lite Clerk.)     I  kinder  like  that  one  there. 

Polite  Clerk — We're  making  a  lead  of  that  this  season — Tbe  "Pi- 
rate King  " — ?6  38.     Would  you  like  to  have  him  try  it  on? 
The  Darling's  Mother — Yes,  please.     Stanley,  dear,  go  with  this 

gentleman 

The  Darling  {shrieking) — I  d'n'wanter! 

The  Darling's  Mother,  The  Darling's  Aunt  and  the  Darling's  Nurse- 
girl  {in  chorus) — Oh,  do,  dear!  Mamas  boy,  do!  There's  a  love! 
Aunly  'II  give  you  a  stick  of  candy?  Stanley,  go  to  please  Hitty  I 
Momma 'II  tell  Poppa!  Please  go  with  the  nice  gentleman,  Stan- 
ley! — and  so  on  for  five  minutes.  {The  Darling  finally  retires  with  his 
Nursegirl,  and  shortly  re-appears,  clad  as  the  "  Pirate  King.") 
Chorus  of  Feminine  Voices — Oh,  ain't  he  sweet! 
The  Darling's  Father  {reentering  with  a  clove  in  his  lips) — Say. 
ain't  you  got  those  clo'es  yet  ?  Land  o'  Goshen!  you  ain't  goin' 
to  put  a  thing  like  that  on  him,  are  you? 

The  Darling's  Mother — Eben,  you  never  will  know  what's  stylish. 
The  Darling's  Father — Well,  if  it's  stylish    to  look  like  an  organ- 
grinder's  monkey,    he's  Ward    McAllister.     Well,  are  you  ready? 
I  wouldn't  miss  that  train  for  a  farm. 

The  Darling's  Mother — Eben,  you  do  fluster  me  sol  There's  lots 
of  time.  {To  Polite  Clerk.)  I'd  like  that  firBt  rate  if  you  had  a 
shade  hat  to  go  with  it.     The  sun  does  hurt  his  eyes  so. 

Polite  Clerk — Certainly,  Ma'am,  Only  the  pirate  cap  is  all  the 
style  this  season. 

The  Marling' s  Father  {winking  at  Clerk) — I  like  that  New  York 
sasprilla  of  yours  first  class.  Guess  I'll  get  another.  Now,  Maria, 
you  be  ready  by  the  time  I'm  back  again.     (Exit.) 

The  Darling's  Mother — Eben,  you'll  make  yourself  sick.     {To  Po- 
lite Clerk.)     Try  tbe  one  with  the  plush  top. 
The  Darling's  Aunt — That's  awfle  el'gant! 
The  Darling's  Nursegirl — Reel  cute! 

Polite  Clerk — $7  24  with  that  hat.  That's  a  new  pattern  this 
season. 

The  Darling's  Mother  {after  a  long  and  anxious  inspection) — Well, 
I  guess  it'll  do.  $7  24  you  say.  That's  more  'n  I'd  meant — {ex- 
tracts money  from  a  small  purse).  Well — that's  right,  ain't  it?  I 
do  hate  to  have  to  count  change.  Now,  Stanley,  go  with  the 
gentleman  and  let  him  take  your  new  suit  off,  and  Poppa  '11 
carry  it  home  for  you. 

The  Darling — I  d'n'wanter!     I  wanter  wear  my  new  cloves  I 
Chorus  of  Feminine  Ibices— Oh,  Stanley,  do  take  them  off!  Please, 
Stanley.     There's  a  love!     Momma's  darling! 

{Ten.minutes  of  this.     The  Darling  weeps  and  fights.     Is  finally  pre- 
vailed upon  to  let  his  trowsers  be  removed  ) 
Re-enter  Darling's  Father,  in  haste,  with  a  red  face. 
Darling's  Father — Say,  there  ain't   one  second  to  spare.     We've 


i  Rot  to  p„l  in  our  best  lick.'  Well  miss  that  train  sure'  Oh 
dernltall.      Hurry  up  there.  Marin  '  0  Great 

Noll.        OUchtt  hurling  up.   lurk,    him    under   hi,    arm,    and    ru,hr. 
madly  for  th- 

Iktr    mildly)-  Eben  !     Eben  1 !  t  Hejlaln't  got  bis 
pants  on !  ho 

[Exit,  bearing  Ihe  Pirate  I'aut,.  followed   In,  the  re.l    „f   the  family 
I  the  paper  bundle,  and  ,hrieki-,g  in  agony.)— B.  '('.  II.  ;'.. 

This  is  the  season  when   th..  lVst,.r  in  in   his  neatest 

pnde.and  when  of  all  times,  he  Is  most  delicious,    si„r,,Pi,»,  .  .    he 

ma  Market,  says  his  oysters  are  fatter  now  than  erer.    He  has 

„„„"b    ^SeCl,mre  ?,U?  l'"n"  "^'"-    the  Sight  of  whirl,  is  enough 

to  make  the  mouth  of  boot  vimnt  water.    Tl are  the  only  Bine 

I....,!,  to  be  had  ,„  this  country.  They  are  the  very  dish  thai  is 
needed  to  make  certain  the  success  of  any  dinners  given  al  hotels 
clubs  or  private  residences.    Moraghan  supplies  the  best,  families.       ' 

The  suppers  at  the  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Gearv  street 
and  (.rant  avenue,  are  the  most  enjoyable  in  the  city.  That's  whv 
the  restaurant  is  so  well  patronized.  y 


ENGLISH 
ESTAMENE 
STORM     SERGES 

The  most  stylish    fabric  for 
Fall  wear. 


Our  assortment  is  most 
complete. 

Samples  set  free. 


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"*      1892.     °       ^ 


111  to  121  Post  Street 


BO    TO 

GK  "w.  ot_..a.:r,:k:  &c  CO., 

653  Market  Street, 

FOE 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 


GOLD  SEAL  Rubber  HOSE, 

THE  BEST  MADE. 

Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


THE  appointment  of  Mr.  R.  F.  Hofer,  aa  Superintendent  of 
the  Carson  Mint,  in  place  of  the  late  Samuel  C.  Wright  has 
given  general  satisfaction  throughout  Nevada,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  disappointed  individuals  who  have  been  waiting  for 
some  time  past  to  step  into  a  dead  man's  shoes.  This  is  generally 
considered  a  long  wait,  and  it  has  proved  so  in  this  instance,  aa 
the  would-be  servants  of  the  Republic  are  still  waiting,  and  are 
likely  to  continue  in  the  same  attitude  for  years  to  come.  Mr. 
Hofer's  appointment  is  recognized  by  all,  with  these  few  excep- 
tions, as  the  reward  of  faithful  service.  He  has  been  an  em- 
ployee in  the  Mint  for  many  years,  and  had  worked  his  way  up 
from  the  lowest  position  to  the  cashier's  desk,  when  he  was  noti- 
fied of  his  promotion  to  the  Superintendency.  His  long  and 
honorable  career  in  this  branch  of  the  government  was  evidently 
fully  appreciated  at  Washington,  sufficiently  so  to  offset  dis- 
patches emanating  from  an  interested  source,  which  were  for- 
warded in  the  hope  of  defeating  him  from  obtaining  the  position. 
The  statements  made  in  these  dispatches  to  the  effect  that  Hofer 
could  find  no  one  to  recommend  him  in  Nevada  were  so  quickly 
disproved  by  the  action  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  the 
State,  who  rallied  to  his  support,  that  it  seems  strange  the  corres- 
pondent has  not  been  called  to  account  for  such  a  bad  break  over 
the  wires.  Again,  it  is  seldom  if  ever  that  a  newly  appointed 
official  has  filed  his  bond  as  expeditiously  as  Superintendent 
Hofer  did.  He  never  left  his  desk  at  the  Mint  to  hunt  a  surety. 
No  sooner  was  his  appointment  received  over  the  wires  than 
offers  to  act  as  his  surety  came  pouring  in  from  all  the  wealthy 
men  of  Carson  and  the  State  at  large.  The  official  notification  of 
the  appointment  was  received  at  noon,  and  the  afternoon  mail 
carried  the  heavy  bond  required  to  Washington.  This  was  the 
effect  of  the  unfriendly  dispatch  among  the  people  of  Nevada.  In 
this  city  it  appeared  in  the  telegraphic  columns  of  the  morning 
papers,  as  a  matter  of  course,  but  although  their  attention  has 
been  called  to  the  misstatements  of  fact,  so  far  no  attempt  has 
been  made  to  rectify  them.  This  is  only  one  of  a  series  of  dis- 
patches which  have  appeared  here  lately  from  Nevada,  in  which 
the  statements  have  been  contorted  so  as  to  convey  a  false  im- 
pression to  those  reading  them.  For  instance,  there  was  the  re- 
ference to  the  dispute  about  the  West  Con.  Virginia  location, 
which  was  made  to  appear  Con.  Cal.  Virginia,  to  the  injury  of 
shareholders  in  the  bonanza  mines,  who  suffered  under  the  tem- 
porary depression  in  prices  until  the  dispatch  was  contradicted. 
Again,  the  market  was  affected  only  recently  by  news  that  the 
South-End  mines  had  been  closed  down,  when  only  a  few  men 
had  been  drafted  out  of  the  stopes  in  one  or  two  of  the  ore-pro- 
ducing mines,  on  account  of  low  water  in  the  Carson,  which  oc- 
curs regularly  at  this  season  of  the  year,  preventing  the  mills 
running.  Mistakes  of  this  kind  are  too  glaring  to  pass  unnoticed 
among  the  speculative  public,  and  all  the  harm  they  are  likely 
to  do  in  the  future  will  be  immaterial.  Still  it  is  not  pleasant  to 
let  the  impression  get  abroad  that  the  telegraphic  columns  of 
powerful  papers  are  at  the  beck  and  call  of  any  outside  clique  or 
a  private  individual. 

$;$ 

THE  latest  gigantic  combine  announced  on  this  aide  of  the 
Rockies,  is  that  of  eleven  of  the  fourteen  largest  flour  mills  in 
California,  under  the  name  of  the  Sperry  Flour  Company.  The 
capital  stock  of  the  new  concern  is  $10,000,000,  of  which  $5,800,000 
has  been  paid  up.  The  officers  of  the  company  consist  of  Horace 
Davis,  President;  George  H.  Spefry,  First  Vice  President;  H.  G. 
Smith,  Second  Vice  President,  and  D.  B.  Moody,  of  San  Jose, 
Secretary.  The  other  Directors  are;  James  W.  Sperry,  N.  D. 
Rideout,  James  Hogg,  John  R.  Cross,  V.  D.  Black,  Charles 
McCreary  and  Fred  H.  Greely.  Horace  Davis,  James  Hogg  and 
James  W.  Sperry  will  act  as  an  executive  committee,  and  have 
entire  charge  of  the  mercantile  department.  The  following  mills 
have  entered  the  combine:  Sperry  Flour  Company,  of  Stockton; 
Pioneer  Milling  Company  and  C.  McCreary  &,  Co.,  of  Sacramento- 
Buckeye  Milling  Company,  of  Marysville;  Golden  Gate  Mills! 
San  Francisco;  Central  Milling  Company,  San  Jose1,  Victoria 
Mills,  Hollister;  Salinas  Mills,  King's  City  Mills,  Paso  Robles 
Mills  and  the  Gridley  Mills.  The  total  daily  capacity  of  these 
mills  is  6,000  barrels.  The  Crown  and  Union  Mills,  of  Stockton, 
and  Starr  &  Co.,  of  Vallejo,  remain  out  of  the  combine.  Their 
joint  capacity  is  4,600  barrels' daily.  This  consolidation  of  inter- 
ests haa  been  occasioned  by  the  keen  competition  for  local  busi- 
ness. The  annual  consumption  of  the  State  is  between  $1,500,000 
and  2,000,000  barrels,  with  an  export  trade  of  from  1,000,000  to 
1,250,000  barrels.  The  Directors  of  the  new  company  claim  that 
it  is  only  desired  to  regulate  the  business,  and  not  to  corner  the 
market  for  the  purpose  of  raising  the  price  of  flour,  which  is  now 
quoted  in  the  neighborhood  or  $4.50  per  barrel.  This  will,  of 
course,  be  the  main  point  with  local  consumers,  who  care  little, 
as  a  rule,  who  makes  the  flour,  provided  it  can  be  obtained  at  a 
reasonable  cost.     Of  course,  so  long  as  there  are  atill  three  large 


producers  outside  of  the  combine,  it  is  not  likely  that  any  at- 
tempt will  be  made  to  raise  the  market  to  any  extent.  The  sup- 
ply on  either  aide  would  be  heavy  enough  to  meet  a  temporary 
demand,  and  to  check  any  undue  ambition  on  the  part  of  a  rival 
organization  to  control  the  market. 

BUSINESS  continues  dull  on  Pinestreet,  and  time  hangs  heavily 
on  the  hands  of  the  brokers  and  their  clients,  who  still  man- 
age to  eke  out  a  precarious  existence.  The  leading  stocks  have 
shown  a  stronger  tending  recently,  owing  more  to  a  general 
scarcity  than  to  any  improvement  in  the  demand.  A  few  of  the 
heavier  shorts  have  been  cautiously  filling  lately,  and  tbis  haa 
served  to  absorb  some  of  the  stock  still  afloat.  A  good,  sharp  up- 
ward turn  just  now  would  caure  a  speedy  reaction  in  prices 
through  the  efforts  of  some  people  to  save  their  bacon  on  the 
short  aide  of  the  market.  There  is  little  doubt  but  that  this  in- 
terest has  grown  greatly  within  the  past  eight  months,  and  it  is 
equally  certain  that  they  will  have  to  pay  through  the 
nose  for  the  certificates  necessary  to  square  accounts 
when  the  day  of  reckoning  come°.  Work  is  pro- 
gressing slowly,  but  steady,  at  the  mines.  Nothing  new 
has  transpired  to  excite  especial  interest,  but  so  long  as 
mining  continues  on  the  Comstock  there  is  always  a  prospect 
for  the  development  of  an  ore  body  extensive  enough  to  create  an 
old-time  excitement.  Moralists  of  the  ultra  type  may  harp  aa 
much  as  they  like  about  the  evils  of  stock  gambling,  but  never- 
theless the  fact  is  patent  to  all  obaervera  that  times  have  been 
gradually  grower  duller  and  duller  with  the  decline  of  business 
on  Pine  street.  The  stock  boards  kept  money  in  circulation 
which  is  now  hoarded  up  in  savinga  banks,  useless  to  every  one, 
and  bringing  the  depositor  a  beggarly  rate  of  interest.  California 
haa  paased  through  an  era  of  stock  speculation  and  hydraulic 
mining,  and  the  financial  condition  of  theState  then  will  compare 
very  favorably  with  the  present  period,  with  gold  mining  sup- 
pressed, the  mining  market  dead,  under  the  rule  of  the  granger 
and  fruit  grower.  The  industries  controlled  by  both  of  these 
parties  have  not  done  much  to  promote  the  welfare  of  tbis  com- 
munity, and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  if  the  future  of  San  Francisco  de- 
pended upon  them,  it  would  not  be  the  flourishing  city  it  is  to- 
day. The  market  closed  for  the  week  under  a  light  demand. 
$  J  s 

THE  death  was  announced  during  the  week  of  W.  H.  Patton, 
who  for  many  years  held  the  responsible  position  of  superin- 
tendent of  the  bonanza  mines  at  Virginia  City,  Nevada.  Mr, 
Patton  recently  returned  from  Australia,  where  he  had  lived  for 
the  last  five  years,  having  assumed  charge  of  the  Broken  Hills 
mines,  on  a  large  salary,  at  the  special  request  of  the  manage- 
ment. As  a  mechanical  mining  engineer,  there  were  few  his 
equal,  and  the  number  of  improvementa  which  he  introduced  at 
Broken  Hill,  on  the  system  of  underground  work  in  vogue  there 
at  the  time  he  took  charge,  speak  for  his  ability.  He  left  Aus- 
tralia broken  down  in  health.  He  was  not  a  young 
man  when  he  went  there,  and  the  work  of  rev- 
olutionizing matters  at  the  mine  proved  too  heavy  a  strain 
for  him  to  bear  up  under.  He  finally  broke  down  altogether, 
and  although  all  the  prominent  physicians  of  America  and  Europe 
were  visited  in  search  of  relief,  nothing  could  be  done  to  check 
the  fatal  ravages  of  the  diaease  which  had  attacked  hisjbrain.  He 
was  born  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  in  1831,  and  consequently  he  was 
sixty-one  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  death.  A  son  and  three 
daughtera  survive  him. 

*  ** 

IN  view  of  the  recent  judgment  of  a  Superior  Court  in  this  city 
allowing  a  promoter  named  Mattingly  over  $100,000  as  a  com- 
mission on  an  alleged  sale  of  the  Blue  Jacket  mine,  belonging  to 
the  BIythe  estate,  the  statement  of  Mr.  Pennie,  administrator  of 
the  estate,  that  the  mine  is  utterly  valueless,  has  a  peculiar  sig- 
nificance. Would  not  this  admission,  made  at  an  earlier  date, 
have  been  sufficient  to  convince  the  jurors  that  it  was  a  simple 
absurdity  for  any  promoter  of  mining  schemes  to  demand  such 
an  enormous  sum  in  an  attempt  to  work  off  a  worthless  piece  of 
property?  The  Blue  Jacket  mine  was  as  valueless  when  Matting- 
ly had  it  in  London  as  it  is  to-day.  If  he  attempted  the  sale  with 
that  knowledge,  he  was  trying  to  defraud  the  British  public,  and 
in  any  event,  if  the  recent  statements  of  Administrator  Pennie  are 
to  be  relied  upon,  he  was  not  entitled  to  a  cent  in  damages  in  any 
event.  If  the  bleeding  process  is  continued  in  such  a  manner 
the  BIythe  estate  will  not  long  survive  the  drain. 
5$  $ 

THE  third  annual  report  of  the  San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific 
Railway  Company  for  the  year  ending  June  30th,  1892,  makes 
a  very  prosperous  showing  for  the  past  twelve  months.  The 
business  of  the  road  has  been  growing  steadily,  and  the  net  sur- 
plus for  the  year  shows  a  material  increase  over  the  returns  for 
preceding  years.  According  to  the  latest  statement  filed,  the 
gross  earnings  for  the  year  just  ended  were  $886,472,  against 
$832,647.54  in  1891,  and  $755,293  in  1890.  The  surplus  for  1892 
aggregates  $81,007,  aa  against  $56,551  in  1891,  and  $1,731  in  1890. 
The  total  number  of  paasengers  carried  during  the  year  1892  was 
921,  357,  as  against  804,148  during  1891. 


August  18,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  f  Klin:. 


I  ■ 


'  He.  Mho  Crlu Wh.t  the  dfTll  utlbOD?' 

Onttti.i  will  ptaTiboleTil.il r.  with  you." 


M 


R.  THOMAS  BYRNES  o(  tbe  Bab-Treaaary  his  shaved  hla 

mustache Society  TUm, 

Huge  pile  on  pile  the  treasure  lay, 

Big  twenties  fat  and  round. 
Ah  me?  unto  the  poor  man's  eye 
They  made  a  glittering  mound. 
Then  outspake  Colonel  Jackson — 

"Tom  Byrnes  take  the  floor, 
l'ace  all  night  long,  these  sack?  among. 

And  guard  this  golden  store." 
With  pistols  then  Tom  girt  his  loin.", 

He'd  daggers  in  his  belt. 
The  trust  in  him  confided 

Bold  Thomas  keenly  felt. 
At  8  p.  m.  be  took  his  stand; 

He  watched  each  bursting  sack. 
Remember  reader  at  this  bour, 

Tom's  nice  mustache  was  black. 
At  10  p.  m.  Tom  heard  a  noise 

And  drew  a  loaded  gun, 
Looked  at  the  clock  and  sighed  to  see 

His  vigil  but  begun. 
At  midnight  squealed  a  roisterous  rat, 

Tom  drew  a  bead  on  him; 
The  air  was  full  of  eerie  sounds, 

And  e'en  the  lights  burned  dim. 
At  2  a.  m.  this  sentinel, 

While  pacing  up  and  down, 
Peeped  in  a  looking-glass,  and  lo! 

His  black  mustache    was  brown. 
The  clock  struck  three,  the  clock  struck  four, 

Then  came  the  dawn  of  day, 
Again  Tom  gazed  into  tbe  glass, 

His  brown  mustache  was  gray. 
Oh,  sixty  millions  Is  a  sum 
Most  mighty,  but  alack, 
Not  sixty  times  six  millions  may 
Change  Tom's  mustache  to  black. 

COLONEL  FRANK  McLAOGHLIN,  and  that  equally  famous 
Colonel,  John  I.  Sabin,  are  both  handsome  men,  and  are  en- 
vied by  hundreds  less  fortunate  mortals.  Both  have  a  weakness 
for  perfumes,  and  thereby  hangs  this  tale  of  woe.  Colonel  Mc- 
Laughlin bought  a  bottle  of  cologne  the  other  day,  and  wis  as- 
sured by  the  truthful  druggist  that  the  perfumery  was  so  power- 
ful that  all  he  would  have  to  do  to  scent  his  handkerchiefs  would 
be  to  place  the  bottle  in  bis  bureau  drawer;  the  perfume  would 
fight  its  way  through  the  cork  and  scent  the  cambric.  The  Colonel 
took  the  bottle  to  his  room  at  the  Palace,  and  just  as  he  placed  it 
in  his  bureau  Colonel  Sabin  entered.  The  two  Colonels  then 
critically  examined  the  purchase,  and  pulling  tbe  cork,  took  a 
whiff  of  the  essence.  It  did  not  seem  powerful — to  them  — 
and  they  decided  to  try  it.  Accordingly  they  saturated 
their  handkerchiefs,  and  put  a  few  drops  of  the  perfume  on  their 
mustaches.  They  then  sauntered  to  the  hotel  bar.  They  had  not 
been  there  loDg  when  several  people  in  the  bar  began  sniffing  and 
looking  around,  as  if  to  discover  the  source  of  something  unusual 
in  the  air.  Two  Englishmen  seated  next  to  the  two  Colonels 
commented  very  audibly  on  the  "  deucedly  peculiar  and  powerful 
perfume  all  over  this  blarsted  place."  They  expressed  their  dis- 
gust with  any  establishment  which  would  so  perfume  its  rooms. 
The  two  Colonels  looked  at  each  other;  they  arose,  went  out,  and 
each  immediately  proceeded  to  the  bath  ;  they  had  their  mustaches 
cleansed;  new  kerchiefs  were  procured,  the  bottle  of  cologne 
■  thrown  away,  and  then  they  felt  better.  Don't  say  "  cologne  "  to 
them,  though. 

I  PREDICTED  that  Professor  Holden's  troubles  were  only  be- 
ginning. The  newspapers  have  got  him  now  in  their  pit,  and 
they  are  worrying  him  in  rare  style.  There  will  not  be  a  rag  on 
him  by  the  time  the  sportive  journals  have  got  through  with  him. 
But  apart  from  their  just  wrath  at  the  manner  in  which  they 
have  been  treated  by  Holden,  the  suspicion  seems  well  founded 
that  the  chief  astronomer  at  Mount  Hamilton  is  a  good  deal  of  a 
poseur,  much  inferior  in  scientific  knowledge  to  his  subordinates, 
and  fond  of  cuddling  the  pillow  when  be  should  be  watching  the 
stars.  There  is  not,  however,  the  least  possibility  that  the  Re- 
gents will  change  him,  for  when  any  of  those  officials  visit  the 
observatory  the  dining  room  breaks  out  into  a  rash  of  Pommery 
Sec  and  chicken  salad.  Professor  Burnham,  now  in  Chicago,  is 
an  astronomer  of  such  marked  ability  that  Holden  might  sit  at 
his  feet  and  learn  things.  This  was  so  awkward  that  the  wily 
chief  froze  him  out.  But  growling  won't  do  any  good.  Mr. 
Holden  has  taken  firm  root  on  M.t.  Hamilton,  the  juices  whereof 
are  exceeding  nourishing,  and  he  is  there  to  stay. 


A*™'   B    I  »  writer  who  possesses  the  peculiar  qna|. 

Ity  of  speaking  of  things   Just   an   ihry  appear  to  him,  made 
an  Interesting  sketch  thefotber  day  of  the  -be  boodlui 

from  picnic  to  city.  He  was  severe  upon  the  sex,  but  Dot  more 
than  this  section  of  it  dee  erred,  But  the  woman  with  the  hood- 
lum mind  ;s  not  by  any  means  confined  to  the  lOUtfa  of  Market 
street  circles.     Nay.  she  tometlmu  ebldeto  Id  the  chateaux  that 

crown  Nob  Hill  and  Pacific  Heights,  reaching  toward  the  Golden 

Gate  She  Is  found  upon  the  Oakland  ferry-boat,  arrayed  [| 
ceeding  fine  apparel.  The  dress  circle  and  boxes  <>f  the  theatres 
are  not  infrequently  furnished  with  the  woman  of  the  hoodlum 
mind.  The  only  way  that  I  know  of  drawing  the  line  between 
the  lady  and  this  class  of  femininity  is  to  provide,  if  possible,  a 
drunken  man.  For  some  inexplicable  reason  tbe  capers  of  a 
drunken  man  possess  a  weird  and  delicious  fascination  for  the 
hoodliss.  She  laughs  heartily  at  his  every  antic,  and  shoo  Id  tbe 
poor  wretch  fall  In  his  tracks,  her  mirth  is  uncontrollable.  His 
slaverings  and  babblings  fill  her  with* joy.  A  plentitude  of  alcohol 
has  converted  him  into  a  hero  in  her  eyes.  She  feasts  upon  the 
sight,  and  when  the  patrol  wagon  packs  him  off  the  street,  or  the 
conductor  throws  him  from  tbe  cable  car,  a  great  joy  has  been 
taken  out  of  her  life.  Trust  me,  this  is  tbe  infallible  test— tbe 
lady  is  disgusted,  the  hoodliss  delighted  with  drunkeness. 

LOVE,  through  age,  lay  dying; 
Weak  bis  song,  and  low, 
By  him  lay  his  arrows 

And  his  unstrung  bow. 
Psyche  bent  above  him, 
Lingering  with  a  sigh, 
"Cupid,  wake,"  she  murmured, 
"  You're  too  young  to  die." 
"No,  alas,"  quoth  Cupid, 
"  I  am  old,  you  see, 
Psyche,  dear,  forget  not 

All  I've  done  for  thee." 
"  Pshaw!  "  cried  Psyche,  pouting, 
"  Old?     You're  not  a  patch 
On  this  Prince  of  lovers, 

Father  Junius  Hatch." 
From  his  couch  sprang  Cupid, 

Vanished  pain  and  sigh, 
Father  Hatch's  gray  hairs 

Proved  that  Love  can't  die. 

A  STOCKTON  parson  has  raised  a  hue  and  cry,  he  being  unfor- 
tunately the  only  huer  and  crier,  against  round  dancing,  and 
has  set  all  the  social  clubs  of  tbe  valley  of  tbe  San  Joaquin  by 
tbe  ears.  This  scheme  in  dull,  dogmatic  times  used  to  work,  and 
create  gentle  ripples  of  sensation  in  the  bosoms  of  the  congrega- 
tion. But  with  almost  every  other  fad  used  by  the  parson  to 
make  the  pew  rents  come  in  more  lively,  the  anti-dancing  fad  has 
lost  its  edge.  The  shepherd  who  at  these  times  wants  to  put  gin- 
ger into  his  flock  must  find  something  more  original,  and  it  is  a 
difficult  task.  The  field  is  barren,  the  brazen  instruments  cracked, 
and  the  people  of  the  present  keep  on  cultivating  such  a  steady 
familiarity  with  Satan  that  they  have  positively  ceased  to  be 
afraid  of  him. 

A  WOMAN  advertises  that  she  can  remodel  and  renovate  the 
face,  correct  every  defect,  and  make  it  youthful,  healthy  and 
beautiful.  She  adds  that  her  own  face  is  one  of  the  best  testi- 
monials she  can  offer.  That  person  deserves  to  succeed  in  busi- 
ness. A  disease-stricken  doctor  prescribing  for  the  sick,  a  disso- 
lute parson  endeavoring  to  save  souls,  a  confirmed  old  bachelor 
lecturing  on  the  joys  of  married  life,  are  not  more  anomalous 
than  an  ugly,  freckled,  moustacbed  woman  offering  to  make  her 
sex  beautiful.  But  this  party  who  offers  her  own  face  in  evi- 
dence, and  who  firmly  believes  in  its  comeliness,  should  be  en- 
couraged by  every  pimply,  sallow,  wrinkled  and  raoth-patched 
member  of  her  own  sex. 

THE  sayings  and  doings  of  the  great  detectives  of  the  time 
should  certainly  be  encrusted  in  the  history  of  the  State.  Hay- 
seed Evans  has  defied  them  all.  From  the  lofty  fiummit  of  Nig- 
ger Hill  he  looks  down  upon  his  pursuers  and  scoffs  at  them  as 
men  of  impoverished  blood.  Tbe  "sleuths,"  as  the  boys' story 
books  call  them,  have  no  stomach  for  this  sort  of  work.  By  gad 
it  would  be  rare  fun  to  see  some  of  our  metropolitan  police  trying 
to  take  Mr.  Evans  in  the  patrol  wagon.  Should  they  treat  this 
great  brigand  as  the  ordinary  inebriate,  I  think  the  chances  are 
that  he  would  appropriate  the  wagon  and  hold  on  to  the  entire 
outfit,  and  the  arresting  officers  as  hostages. 

THE  resemblance  between  the  features  of  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Lease,  the 
female  champion  of  the  wage  workers,  and  Mr.  Reuben 
Lloyd  will  be  remarked  by  those  who  have  studied  that  lady's 
portrait  in  the  daily  papers.  There  is  tbe  same  calm  air  of  superi- 
ority, the  same  winning  smile,  and  tbe  same  intellectual  high 
lights  in  the  dark  brown  eyes. 

OF  all  the  fair  that  grace  Sausalito's  sunny  shore  perhaps  none 
are  as  popular  as  the  sister  of  Gertrude  Atherton.  What  a 
pity  that  Will's  stupid  jealousy  and  paraded  ill-humor  makes  his 
wife  wish  she  had  been  born  a  Medusa  rather  than  a  Venus. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


IN    THE   DEAD  HAND. — Therm  Brown,  in  Youth's  Companion. 

They  tell  the  tale  unsmiling. 
Old  men  their  honrs  beguiling 

Aa  they  can ; 
Each  annual  November 
They  sadden  who  remember 

Inberman. 

Yet  of  all  that  field  one  story 
Shines  through  the  gloom  and  glory 

Of  the  fight. 
Over  the  cannons'  roaring 
There  sings  a  lark  song  soaring 

Out  of  sight. 
Aloof,  where  men  lay  bleeding, 
In  fatal  pain  whose  pleading 

Made  no  cry. 
Shot-pierced  and  sabre-smitten, 
A  young  and  gallant  Briton 

Crept  to  die. 
At  sunset  there  they  found  him, 
With  the  red  snow  around  him, 

And  his  hand 
Laid  on  the  Book  whose  healing 
All  hearts  to  Heaven  appealing 

Understand. 

And  'neath    his  frozen  lingers 
ThoBe  words  whose  hope  outlingers 

Human  strife 
Glowed  like  a  star's  reflection 
n  I  am  the  Resurrection 

And  the  Life." 

Comrades  to  burial  bore  him, 
But  not  death's  rending   tore  him 

From  his  prize, 
For  to  bis  hand  caressing 
Still   clung   the  leaf   whose    blessing 

Closed  his  eyes. 

O  Christian  song  supernal, 
Words  sweetest  Love  eternal 

Ever  said ! 
Peace  at  your  call  comes  flying. 
And  they  who  clasp  you  dying 

Are  not  dead. 


WILD    THYME.— Clinton  Scollard. 

Ring,  ring,  my  rhyme, 
The  praiseB  of  wild  thyme  1 
Wild  thyme  that  grows 
Beside  the  green  hedgerows, 
Or  on  gray  wall 
With  scent   ambrosial. 

Above  the  meres 

Where  every  fern-slope  hears 

The  echoes   mock, 

And  shout  from  rock  to  rock, 

In  nook  and  chink 

It  shows  its  modest  pink. 

Whence  did  it  win 

The  fragrance  lurking  in 

Its  tiny  heart? 

Not  such  hath  any  mart 

In  Occident, 

Or  attired  Orient. 

Her  worshiper, 

Wild  thyme  I  bring  to  her; 

Upon  her  breast 

It  shall  know  perfect  rest. 

To  love — thus  fate 

Bids  it  be  consecrate  I 


A    SUMMER    WOOING. 


The  wind  went  wooing  the  rose, 

For  the  rose  was  fair. 
How  the  rough  wind  won,  who  knows? 

But  he  left  her  there. 
Far  away  from  her  pool,  he  blows, 

DoeB  the  free  wind  care? 

Louise  Chandler  Moultos. 


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BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I  BITER. 


IV 


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raelis pip*  i."  I*intr  loM  with  much  Rusto  just  now  on  the  OonU< 
iipnt  "It  append  that  the  Pnncc  was  one  nnntA  Jay  wamlering 
through  a  wood  in  his  Valeriana"  when  he  met  a  gipsy  selling  pipes. 
The  man  asked  Bismarck  to  huy  one.  saying  that  according  to  tie 
one  he  choose  he  would  be  able  to  read  for  him  future  events'— in 
other  words,  tell  his  fortune.  Hismarck  laughingly  acquiesced  and 
selected  one  of  the  pipes.  Ah!'  said  the  man.  'I  expected  you 
would  choose  this  one'  Why  ?'  asked  the  Prince.  'Because  the  pos- 
sessor of  it  will  be  a  mighty  man  ;  with  untold  power,  will  serve  three 
Emperors,  the  third  of  whom  will  dismiss  him.  And  take  notice,' 
continued  be.  'that  if  anything  happens  to  the  pipe,  something  dis- 
agreeable will  happen  to  its  owner."  Bismarck,  thinking  the  man's 
insolence  was  going  too  far,  turned  away  angrily;  notwithstanding 
which  he  commenced  smoking  the  wonderful  pipe,  which,  pleasing 
him.  he  always  used. 


"tin  the  eventful  day.  more  than  two  years  back,  wheu  he  was 
waiting  in  bis  study  the  Kmperor  William's  reply  to  the  resignation 
he  had  sent  in,  he  was  enjoj-ing  his  pipe,  and,  perhaps,  being  iu  an 
unusually  nervous  frame  of  mind  or  distrait,  it  fell  out  of  his  hands, 
and  the  framework  supporting  the  bowl  got  slightly  injured.  An 
hour  afterward  the  Prince  received  from  the  Kmperor  his  dismissal, 
thus  fulfilling  the  gipsy's  prophecy.  Proof  the  second  was  given 
more  recently,  when  Bismarck  was  just  entering  Vienna  the  other 
day.  He  was  smoking  as  usual,  when  a  sudden  turn  of  the  train 
jerked  the  pipe  from  the  Prince's  fingers,  and  it  got  injured  again. 
On  his  arrival  at  the  station  he  was  disappointed  not  to  see  the  Em- 
peror Francis  Joseph's  aide-de-camp  with  a  message  from  his  Imperii  1 
Master,  and  felt  this  manque  de  convenance  almost  like  an  insult,  and 
is  said  to  have  remarked,  'Ah!  My  pipe  warned  me.  I  must  pay 
more  attention.'  Thus  the  pipe  has  become  valuable,  not  only  for 
its  essential  use,  but  as  a  fortune  teller." 

His  Highness's  attendants  shall  not  put  alum  in  the  bread,  or  mix 
rye  or  bean  Hour  with  the  same ;  and  if  detected  he  shall  be  put  in 
the  stocks.  His  Highness's  attendants  are  not  to  steal  any  locks  or 
keys,  tables,  forms,  cupboards,  or  other  furniture  out  of  noblemen's 
or  gentlemen's  houses  where  they  go  to  visit.  Master  cooks  shall  not 
employ  such  scullions  as  go  about  naked,  or  lie  all  night  upon  the 
ground  before  the  kitchen  fire.  No  dogs  to  be  kept  in  the  Court 
but  only  a  few  spaniels  for  the  ladies.  Dinners  to  be  at  ten,  suppers 
at  four.  The  officers  of  his  privy  chambers  shall  be  loving  together, 
no  grading  nor  grumbling,  nor  talking  of  the  king's  pastime.  There 
shall  be  no  romping  with  the  maids  on  the  staircase,  by  which  dishes 
and  other  things  are  often  broken.  Care  shall  be  taken  of  the  pewter 
spoons,  and  that  the  wooden  ones  in  the  kitchen  be  not  broken  or 
lost.  The  pages  shall  not  interrupt  the  kitchen  maids.  Coal  only  to 
be  allowed  to  the  King's,  Queen's,  and  Lady  Mary's  chambers.  The 
brewers  are  not  to  put  any  brimstone  in  the  ale." — Household  Book  of 
Henry  VIII. 


Quite  in  the  Arabian  Nights  style  is  the  Cadi-under-a-palm-tree 
justice  awarded  by  the  Sultan  of  Morocco  to  that  rude  and  naughty 
man,  the  Pasha  of  Fez,  who  had  got  together  a  crowd  of  roughs  to 
"boo"  at  the  British  Vice-Consul.  His  Majesty  is  a  practical  man, 
and  gives  compensation  of  the  kind  which  he  likes  to  receive.  He 
does  not  believe  in  apologies,  and,  though  there  is  good  sport  to  be 
got  with  the  bastinado,  the  moral  pleasure  of  seeing  the  wicked 
writhe  and  howl  is  inferior  to  the  material  satisfaction  of  pocketing 
their  money.  Accordingly  the  offender  was  ordered  to  pay  £2,000 
cash  down.  But  what  must  have  been  his  Majesty's  amazement,  not 
to  say  disgust,  when  Sir  Charles  Euan  Smith,  instead  of  buying  with 
the  money  a  handful  of  pretty  gems— always  a  negotiable  property— 
or  a  bevy  of  agreeable  slaves— an  equally  negotiable  property— just 
gave  it  away  to  the  poor?  Evidently  these  English  dogs  of  unbe- 
lievers are  stark  staring  mad,  and  therefore— in  Morocco— deserving 
of  respect. 


When  Queen  Elizabeth's  wrinkles  waxed  deep  and  many,  it  is  re- 
ported that  an  unfortunate  Master  of  the  Mint  incurred  disgrace  by 
a  too  faithful  shilling ;  the  die  was  broken,  and  only  one  mutilated 
impression  is  now  in  existence.  Her  maids  of  honor  took  the  hint, 
and  were  thenceforth  careful  that  no  fragment  of  looking-glass 
should  remain  in  any  room  of  the  palace.  In  fact,  the  lion-hearted 
lady  had  not  heart  to  look  herself  in  the  face  for  the  last  twenty 
years  of  her  life. 

The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  of  213  Sutter  street,  is  the  most 
popular  restaurant  in  San  Francisco  among  people  who  enjoy  a  first- 
class  dinner,  excellently  served  in  a  charming  apartment.  The  menu 
cannot  be  excelled  in  the  city,  and  it  always  includes  the  daintiest 
dishes  possible  for  the  season.  The  chef  is  a  past-master  of  his  de- 
lightful profession,  and  does  great  honorto  himself  and  his  establish- 
ment. 


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Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
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for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  M.  Saturday 
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Paid-up  Capital 333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1, 1892 1,752,'oon.OO 

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of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


AT    GOLDEN    GATE    VILLA. 


ATYPICAL  Californian  home  is  the  subject  of  the  double  page 
illustration  in  to-day's  News  Letter,  For  its  charm  of  loca- 
tion, for  the  breadth  and  beauty  of  its  exterior  design,  for  the 
convenience  and  fitness  of  its  interior  plan,  the  elegance  of  its 
fittings  and  furnishings,  and  for  the  comfort  which  reigns  supreme 
without  and  within,  Golden  Gate  Villa,  the  Santa  Cruz  home  of 
Frank  McLaughlin,  Lieutenant-Colonel  on  Governor  Markham's 
Staff,  may  well  stand  as  a  model.  Colonel  McLaughlin  is  himself 
the  typical  successful,  open-hearted,  open-handed,  genial  Califor- 
nian. At  home  the  world  over,  he  yet  always  prefers  to  get 
back  to  his  chosen  occidental  home,  wherever  circumstance  or 
pleasure  may  for  a  time  lead  birn.  His  immense  and  successful 
land,  water  and  mining  operations  in  Butte  county  are  widely 
known,  and  Oroville,  in  that  county,  has  long  been  the  home  of 
Colonel  McLaughlin  and  his  family.  In  San  Francisco  their 
abiding  place  is  the  Palace  Hotel. 

For  a  number  of  years  the  Colonel  and  Mrs.  McLaughlin,  with 
their  lovely  daughter,  Misa  Agnes,  have  spent  the  summers  at 
Santa  Cruz.  Each  year  their  stay  lengthened  further  into  the 
fall,  which  is  a  very  attractive  season  thereabouts,  and  each  year 
their  liking  for  the  place  increased.  At  last,  one  of  the  choicest 
sites  in  the  little  city  was  secured,  and  Golden  Gate  Villa  was 
built,  to  be  occupied  as  the  family  home  for  eight  months  of  the 
year.  It  stands  on  the  edge  of  the  pretty  bluff  known  as  Beach 
Hill,  looking  southward  to  the  bay  of  Monterey,  and  within  a  short 
walk  of  the  famous  Beach  of  Santa  Cruz.  Northward  the  house 
faces  the  picturesque  town,  which  lies  at  its  feet  and  stretches 
away,  out  and  upward,  with  many  cozy  homes  and  pretty  gar- 
dens, over  the  terraces  which  lead  to  the  foothills.  The  grand 
background  to  this  picture  is  the  Santa  Cruz  Tange,.  dark  with 
redwoods  and  crowned  with  the  sombre  peak  of  Loma  Prieta.  On 
every  hand  are  views  of  unique  loveliness,  and  from  the  upper 
balconies  and  the  belvidere  in  the  tower  can  be  seen  the  Pacific, 
stretching  away  from  Lighthouse  Point  to  the  horizon. 

The  composite  and  original  design  of  the  villa  is  shown  well  in 
the  illustration  given.  It  is  painted  in  dark  and  harmonious 
tints  of  red,  olive,  green  and  brown,  which  are  relieved  by  the 
gay  parterres  of  flowers  and  the  sloping  terraced  lawns  which 
form  the  immediate  surroundings.  The  most  notable  exterior 
features  are  those  which  make  it  especially  attractive  as  a  sea- 
side and  summer  residence — the  broad  verandas  with  their  in- 
viting chairs  and  hammocks;  the  cozy  balconies,  just  big  enough 
for  two  chairs  and  a  novel;  the  towers  which  are  so  fine  archi- 
tecturally, and  which  give  such  charming  interior  apartments, 
and  the  belvidere  in  the  top  of  the  highest  tower  from  which 
there  is  spread  at  the  beholder's  feet  a  panorama  for  which  one 
might  search  the  world  to  find  a  rival. 

That  the  good  judgment  which  builded  so  well  in  so  fitting  a 
place  has  made  of  the  interior  as  complete  a  success,  needs  hardly 
to  be  said.  Entering  the  broad  and  hospitable  doors,  the  first  and 
dominent  impression  is  that  of  utter  restfulness.  One  knows  at 
a  glance  that  here  has  been  a  lavish  expenditure  of  money,  but  it 
has  been  so  subdued  by  good  taste,  and  is  made  so  subservient 
to  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  the  inmates  that  it  is  not  until 
one  studies  it  a  little  that  it  is  realized  how  absolutely  perfect  and 
artistic  is  the  finish  of  the  smallest  detail,  The  entrance  hall 
leads  directly  into  the  great  reception  hall.  Finished  in  Eng- 
lish oak,  with  a  big  fire-place  and  a  mantel  reaching  almost  to 
the  beautifully  panelled  ceiling,  the  handsome  floor,  partly  cov- 
ered with  skins  and  rich  rugs,  with  broad  velvet  divans  and  com- 
fortable seats  everywhere,  this  fine  apartment  is,  as  it  should  be, 
the  heart  of  the  house.  From  it  the  main  staircase  leads  by  easy 
landings  to  the  second  floor.  Above  the  first  landing  is  the  very 
large  stained  glass  window,  with  its  nearly  life-size  por- 
'  trayal  in  stained  glass  of  the  typical  Californian  miner.  Into  this 
hall  the  principal  apartments  of  theTiouse  open. 

On  the  right  of  the  entrance  is  the  white  and  gold  drawing- 
room,  its  every  appointment  in  the  most  perfect  keeping  and 
harmony.  There  are  grand  mirrors,  soft  carpets  and  rugs,  and 
elegant  furniture,  but  the  chief  idea  here,  as  everywhere  else,  is 
to  subdue  upholstery  to  artistic  effect.  There  are  some  gems  of 
art  in  this  room  worth  study  and  description;  rare  and  dainty 
water  colors,  New  England  winters  contrasting  with  dreamy 
Venetian  pieces,  California  scenes  in  oil  by  Keith  and  Hill,  and 
charming  objects  of  art  everywhere.  On  the  left  of  the  hall  is 
the  large  billiard-room,  and  opening  off  it  the  Colonel's  own  den — 
not  by  any  means  a  growlery,  for  it  is  as  sunny  and  hospitable 
in  its  aspect  as  its  master,  and  everybody  is  welcome.  Here  and 
in  the  billiard-room  are  all  sorts  of  trophies  of  travel,  wonder- 
fully savage  statuettes  of  the  dread  Geronimo  in  terra  cotta, 
Spanish  lariats,  Navajo  baskets,  and  scores  of  interesting 
things.  The  chef  d'oeuvrc  is  a  life-size  portrait  of  the 
great  genius,  Thomas  A.  Edison,  with  the  autographic 
inscription,  "To  my  friend,  McLaughlin;  Ttaos.  A.  Edison." 
The  billiard-room,  finished  in  native  curly  redwood,  is  attract- 
ive enough  to  make  one  linger.  Besides  the  complete  appliances 
for  the  game,  there  are  velvet  divans  for  lazy  on-lookers,  and 
a  marvellous  cabinet  in  a  corner,  where  the  Colonel  mixes  the 
most  appetizing  brews  for  his  visitors.  Another  grand  apartment 
is  the  dining-room,  perhaps   the  finest,   in  some   respects,  in  the 


house.  It  is  finished  in  quartered  oak,  with  noble  fireplace  and 
mantel,  giant  sideboard,  whereon  rests  the  magnificent  silver  ser- 
vice presented  the  Colonel  by  the  citizens  of  Butte  county,  and 
an  exquisite  corner  cupboard  filled  with  rare  China,  while  there 
are  appropriate  pictures  and  art  objects  in  not  too  great  profu- 
sion. The  crowning  beauty  of  the  room,  however,  is  the  very 
large  triple  window,  which  gives  a  grand  landscape  of  unrivalled 
beauty,  changing  with  every  aspect  of  the  weather  and  of  the 
season.  The  butler's  pantry  and  the  kitchen,  over  which  pre- 
sides the  Colonel's  favorite  chef,  all  are  thoroughly  complete  in 
their  appointments  and  on  the  most  generous  scale.  The  boudoir 
and  music-room  is  another  most  attractive  aparment,  whose  pre- 
siding genius,  Miss  McLaughlin,  has  cultivated  her  talents  for 
music  and  art  until  they  add  fresh  charms  to  her  home  and  so- 
ciety life.  Mrs.  McLaughlin,  too,  is  fond  of  music,  and  encour- 
ages her  daughter's  pursuits  in  all  branches  of  art. 

The  second  floor  is  devoted  to  the  family  apartments  and  guest 
chambers,  and  to  the  big  linen  closets  which  delight  the  house- 
keeper and  are  as  perfect  as  everything  else.  Mrs.  McLaughlin's 
sitting-room  is  on  this  floor,  and  Miss  McLaughlin's  suite  includes 
her  own  lovely  room  in  peach  and  yellow,  a  dainty  guest  room 
for  girl  friends  opening  out  of  It,  and  a  bath  and  dressing-room 
in  marble  and  silver,  fit  for  an  Oriental  princess.  The  third  floor 
furnishes  still  further  accommodations  for  guests,  and  opens  upon 
the  belvidere  before  described. 

This  beautiful  home  is  magnificently  furnished,  every  detail 
having  been  executed  with  exquisite  taste  under  the  direction  of 
of  Mr.  Whybrow,  of  the  California  Furniture  Company.  Colonel 
McLaughlin  gave  this  company  carte  blanche  in  furnishing  the 
residence,  and  how  well  pleased  he  is  with  their  work  is  testified 
by  the  following  extract  he  wrote  them  in  a  letter,  enclosing  a 
check  for  the  amount  of  the  contract:  "  I  am  more  than  pleased 
with  the  thorough  and  complete  manner  in  which  you  have  car- 
ried out  your  agreement  to  furnish  my  Santa  Cruz  residence.  I 
practically  gave  you  carte  blanche  in  the  matter,  and  my  trust  is 
more  than  repaid  in  the  excellence  of  the  goods  furnished,  and 
the  very  artistic  and  beautiful  draperies  with  which  you  com- 
pleted the  furnishing  of  the  house.  I  had  carefully  studied  the 
matter  of  draperies,  furnishing,  etc.,  before  calling  on  you,  but  you 
have  excelled  my  ideas,  and  at  a  cost  much  less  than  I  estimated. 
I  desire  to  thank  Mr.  Whybrow  for  his  constant  courtesy  and  at- 
tention, which,  with  his  masterly  knowledge  of  his  business,  has 
resulted  in  securing  me  a  beautifully  adorned  home."  The  Cali- 
fornia Furniture  Company  has  made  a  specialty  of  accepting  con- 
tracts of  this  description.  Some  of  the  largest  and  best  residences 
recently  built,  photographs  of  which  adorn  our  Album  of  Artistic 
Homes,  owe  their  complete  furnishing  to  this  firm.  The  excel- 
lent decorative  work,  painting,  frescoing  and  wood-staining  and 
the  exterior  painting  is  by  Eraser  &  Keefe,  of  310  Stockton  street. 
All  the  elegant  electric  and  gas  fixtures  are  by  Thomas  Day  & 
Co.  They  are  of  artistic  design  and  make,  and  are  splendid  evi- 
dences of  California  ingenuity  and  ability.  The  villa  is  a  magni- 
ficent monument  to  the  ability  of  T.  J.  Welsh,  the  architect. 

For  Debilitated  Men!  If  you  desire  to  be  restored  to  complete 
vigor  and  manhood,  promptly,  permanently  and  cheaply,  we  will 
send  you  full  particulars  (sealed)  of  a  reliable,  unfailing  Home  Treat- 
ment free.  No  electric  nonsense,  no  stomach  drugging.  Address 
Albion  Phakmacy  Co.,  Box  L,  Albion,  Mich.    m 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rented, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office, 
407-109  Montgomery  street. 

VICHY     SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM   UKIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
known '•  champagne"  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautifying 
the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladies.  Only  natural  electric  water  in 
the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR. 


NEW  ENGLAND  CONSERVATORY 


Founded  by  (\C  MIICIP  Carl  Faelten, 
Dr.EbenTourj&.Ur    HIUOIUi         Director. 

Music,  Elocution,  Fine  Arts,  litorature, 
Languages  and  Tuning.  A  safe  and  inviting  Home 
{or  lady  pupils.     Send  for  Illustrated  Calendar. 

FRANK  W.  HALE,  Gen' I  Manager,  Boston,  Mass. 


August  13    1892. 


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IT  i»  the  la?t  straw  that  breaks  the  camel's  back,  and  if  the  Mis- 
sion property  owners  carry  the  burden  of  taxation  which  the 
"Solid  Nine's"  worthy  appointees  wish  ta  load  on  them,  they 
mast  have  phenomenal  staying  powers.  The  latest  extension  re- 
port is  that  of  the  Market  street  Commission,  and  the  estimated 
cost  is  $404,000.  The  total  of  all  the  assessments  as  pro- 
posed by  the  different  commissions  amounts  to  nearly  $1,000,000. 
Of  the  four  extension  schemes  but  one  has  any  real  excuse  for  ex- 
istence. The  Seventeenth  street  extension  will  give  a  desired  and 
necessary  connection  between  the  Mission  and  the  Park,  and  the 
proposed  outlay  for  it  is  fairly  within  the  bounds  of  reason.  The 
opening  of  Sixteenth  street  is  a  shameless  cover  for  a  scandalous 
political  job.  It  is  utterly  unnecessary,  for  the  very  reason  that  tbe 
opening  of  Seventeenth  street  will  better  fulfill  all  that  could  be 
claimed  for  Sixteenth  street.  The  report  of  the  Commission  for 
the  opening  of  the  latter  street  should  be  tabled  and  the  commis- 
sion should  be  discharged.  As  to  the  extension  of  Market  street, 
it  is  well  known  that  for  some  time  before  any  Commission  was 
talked  of  a  number  of  politicians  quietly  got  the  tip,  and  certain 
real  estate  firms  received  orders  to  buy  along  the  line  where  the 
would-be  purchasers  knew  tbe  proposed  extension  would  run.  A 
careful  study  of  the  block-books  to-day  will  show  bow  many  por- 
tions changed  bands  immediately  before  the  intended  extension 
was  made  public.  There  is  nothing  in  the  condition  of  real  estate  or 
any  other  business  in  this  city  to  warrant  opening  Market  Btreet  to 
the  ocean.  The  only  excuse  for  this  work  lies  in  the  fact  that  it 
would  give  to  San  Francisco  one  of  the  broadest  and  longest 
streets  in  any  city  of  the  United  States.  If  real  estate  were 
booming,  if  the  population  of  the  city  were  growing  rapidly, 
if  the  community  were  thriving,  there  would  still  be  no  need  of 
opening  as  many  streets  in  the  Mission  as  proposed.  In  the  face 
of  existing  facts,  the  attempt  at  legalized  rapine  is  the  more  rep- 
rehensible, and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  protests  of  the  indig- 
nant and  overburdened  Mission  property-owners  will  receive  the 
consideration  they  demand. 

Another  matter  which  affects  many  property-owners  is  the 
new  Fell  street  sewer,  and  again  it  is  the  property-owner  who  is 
likely  to  be  wronged.  The  case  is  simply  this.  Some  time  ago  a 
new  sewer  was  put  in,  measuring  3x5;  for  this  the  city  and 
property-owners  paid  equally,  and  then  tbe  city,  as  usual,  be- 
came sole  custodian  of  it.  Now,  however,  tbe  city  has  torn  up 
the  sewer,  and  a  new  one  5x5  has  been  substituted.  For  this, 
too,  the  Supervisors  propose  that  the  city  shall  pay  half.  A  de- 
fense fund  is  being  collected  among  the  property-owners,  and 
proper  legal  aid  will  be  retained  to  fight  the  imposition. 

There  is  a  slight  improvement  in  the  real  estate  market;  it  is 
only  slight,  but  it  exists,  and  the  prospects  favor  a  fair  fall  busi- 
ness. The  demand  for  inside  property  is  strong,  and  several  sales 
have  been  closed.  Outside  lands  are  fortunately  still  quiet.  It  is 
a  strange  fact  that  the  outlying  districts  are  always  subject  to 
more  or  less  spasmodic  jumps.  There  is  a  rush  and  a  stop,  to  be 
followed  by  another  rush  and  another  stop,  and  gradually  the 
real  demand  for  the  property  for  residence  purposes  asserts  itself 
and  a  settled  value  is  established. 

Auction  sale  business  is  quiet. 

Nicholas  H.  Lang  has  retired  from  the  firm  of  O'Farrell  &LaDg. 

Hermann  Shainwald  is  in  Switzerland,  and  as  a  real  estate 
dealer,  has  appropriately  taken  to  mud  baths.  He  will  return  to 
San  Francisco,  September  1st. 

Wendell  Easton's  time  is  devoted  to  politics,  and  real  estate  is 
temporarily  shelved.  George  Easton  is  attending  strictly  to  busi- 
ness. 

Henry  P.  Sonntag  threatens  to  become  a  railroad  magnate. 

Spencer  C.  Buckbee  is  going  to  become  a  Benedick. 

Will  E.  Fisher  is  devoted  to  San  Rafael,  and  is  wisely  tak- 
ing a  holiday  while  business  is  quiet. 

William  Bovee,  the  veteran  real  estate  man,  is  progressing 
nicely,  and  his  familiar  figure  is  looked  for  on  Montgomery  street 
again. 

Contracts  have  been  let  for  the  $100,000  alterations  to  the  San 
Francisco  Savings  Union  bank,  on  the  corner  of  California  and 
Webb  streets. 

There  will  be  a  sensation  in  the  building  line  in  a  few  days. 


The  Best  Beer. 

The  "Select  Blue  Ribbon"  beer  has  received  that  recognition  which 
a  thoroughly  good  article  never  fails  to  attain.  It  is  really  the  "best" 
of  beers,  light,  sparkling,  beautifully  clear,  and  of  a  most  delicate 
and  delicious  flavor.  Tne  Pabst  Brewing  Company  of  Milwaukee, 
determined  to  produce  the  finest  beer  in  America,  has  for  that  pur- 
pose engaged  the  most  skilled  brewers  from  Bohemia.  The  beer  is 
put  irp  in  most  artistic  fashion,  in  clear  white  bottles,  with  a  neat  blue 
ribbon  attachment  at  the  cork.  It  is  for  sale  by  all  first-class  grocers 
and  liquor  dealers. 

Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething    Price,  25  cents  a  bottle. 


THE    BREt4TW0OO>        ^ 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED   185S. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Kevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.  J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn. ;  Mil- 
lion Guiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeock  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y. ;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Silver     Hill     Mining     Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Sao  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  Second  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  31)  of  Five  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Sixth  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  September, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

D.  C.  BATES,  Secretary. 

Office.— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company, 

Assessment  No.  33 

Amount  per  Share    10  cents 

Levied : July  27, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office August  31,  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock September  20, 1892 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California.    ^^____________ 

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LOUIS    CAHEN    &   SON, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers- 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters,  Cordials,  etc. 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


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A  NEW  building  material,  which  promises  to  be  most  serviceable  to 
the  architect,  is  noted  by  the  American  Architect.  Wired  glass,  as 
it  is  called,  consists  of  sheets  of  glass  or  hollow  glass  vessels  with  a 
network  of  fine  wire  imbedded  in  them.  Apparently  the  wire  is  an 
alloy  of  some  kind,  since  ordinary  metal  wires  cannot  be  sealed  per- 
manently into  glass.  The  process  is  said  to  result  in  an  amazing 
strengthening  of  the  glass.  Thus  a  sheet  of  the  material  heated  to 
red  heat  and  suddenly  cooled  with  cold  water  will  crack  Into  innumera- 
ble pieces,  which  are  so  firmly  held  by  the  wires  as  to  still  be  able  to 
support  a  great  weight.  To  this  quality  of  being  fire-proof  is  added 
that  of  being  burglar-proof,  since  it  can  be  cut  only  with  extreme  dif- 
ficulty. If  all  that  is  claimed  for  it  is  true  it  would  appear  that  this 
substance  would  speedily  come  into  favor  for  sky-lights  and  even 
more  exposed  positions,  its  fire-proof  and  burglar-proof  qualities  ren- 
dering it  available  in  almost  every  part  of  a  building.  Unfortunately 
the  American  Architect  gives  no  particulars  as  to  its  inventors  or  any 
specific  information  concerning  it.  Doubtless  its  regard  for  the  ad- 
vertising value  of  editorial  notices  led  to  the  suppression  of  the  only 
really  valuable  information  in  connection  with  the  matter.  But  a 
substance  such  as  is  described  cannot  remain  hidden  if  it  has  the 
qualities  claimed  for  it,  and  if  it  can  be  produced  at  reasonable  cost. 

At  what  elevation  the  air  of  London  is  purest  has  been  made 

the  subject  of  scientific  investigation  by  Prim,  a  chemical  expert,  the 
result  in  question  being  realized,  it  appears,  at  about  thirty  or  forty 
feet  from  the  ground— lower  than  that  the  dust  is  encountered,  and, 
higher,  the  smoke  reaches.  Certaiu  experiments  in  deter- 
mining this  matter  were  resorted  to—that  is,  frames  of  wood  covered 
with  blanketing  material  were  placed  at  different  elevations,  one  be- 
ing put  on  top  of  the  clock  tower  of  Westminister,  another  on  the 
highest  point  of  the  roof,  and  others  at  various  nights  down  to  the 
courtyard.  After  five  hours'  exposure  in  these  various  localities 
there  were  found  to  be  more  smuts  at  high  elevations  than  at  the  low 
but  on  the  level  of  the  courtyard  considerable  quantities  of  dust  were 
present.  The  conclusion  arrived  at  is  that,  on  the  whole,  the  purest 
level  is  at  a  height  of  between  thirty  and  forty  feet,  nothing  being 
gained  by  going  higher,  unless  it  be  to  some  400  or  500  feet. 

— A  Connecticut  manfacturing  firm  have  brought  forward  a  new 
resistance  metal  in  wire,  sheet,  or  castings,  which  is  regarded  as  a 
very  important  contribution  to  this  class  of  material  in  electrical  en- 
gineering. The  wire  resembles  ordinary  copper  wire  on  the  outside, 
has  a  pinkish  white  tinge  at  the  surface  of  fracture,  and  is  very  strong 
without  losing  much  ductility;  the  torsion  test  shows  over  eighty 
twists  in  six  inches  for  an  annealed  wire,  which  still  possesses  70,000 
pounds  tensile  strength  to  the  square  inch,  and  the  hard  drawn  wire 
is  said  to  run  to  100,000  pounds'  tensile  strength,  with  about  forty 
twists  in  six  inches.  Combined  with  these  favorable  mechanical 
qualities  it  is  claimed  that  the  wire  has  the  remarkable  resistance  of 
thirty-five  times  that  of  copper  with  a  temperature  co-efficient  of  less 
than  one-tenth  that  of  fierman  silver.  By  having  the  resistance 
lower  than  as  above  described  the  tensile  strength  can  be  increased 
up  to  1-10,000  pounds  per  square  inch. 

An  exceedingly  ingenious  and  useful  telephone  outfit  has  been 

■devised  which  is  intended  especially  to  facilitate  inter-communica- 
tion between  the  different  departments  of  1;  r^e  mercantile  and  man- 
ufacturing establishments  and  the  like,  says  the  Engineering  Maga- 
zine. The  apparatus,  though  small  and  compact,  is  most  effective  in 
operation.  Standing  upon  a  desk,  it  occupies  scarcely  more  room 
than  an  inkstand,  yet  enables  the  occupant  to  speak  to  any  particular 
person  connected  with  the  system  without  disturbing  others.  Arrange- 
ments are  being  made  to  furnish  these  outfits  at  a  rental  so  moderate 
as  to  place  them  within  the  reach  of  almost  any  one.  The  Hotel 
Waldorf,  now  building  in  New  York,  is  to  be  provided  with  a  tele- 
phonic communication  of  this  character  between  the  office  and  every 
room  in  the  house,  and  it  seems  probable  that  the  use  of  the  tele- 
phone in  this  class  of  services  will  become  the  rule  rather  than  the 
exception. 

It  is  stated  that  the  rudder  of  the  French  ironclad  Brennus, 

launched  some  time  since  time  at  Lorient,  was  eighteen  feet  high, 
thirteen  feet  wide,  and  weighed  seventeen  tons.  In  transporting  it 
from  the  shops  where  it  was  made  to  the  shopyard,  it  was  necessary 
to  suspend  it  between  two  flat  cars,  as  it  could  not  be 
placed  upon  a  single  car  in  any  position,  even  by  this  tatter  arrange- 
ment the  rudder  just  clearing  the  roadbed  and  the  arches  of  the  tun- 
nels through  which  it  was  necessary  to  pass.  This  great  rudder  was 
built  with  an  interior  framework  of  wrought  steel,  iron  angles,  and 
plates,  and  covered  with  steel  plates,  extraordinary  care  being  taken 
to  have  it  perfectly  watertight. 

Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  is  the  best  remedy  known  for  the  cure  of 
the  distressing  effects  of  poison  oak.  If  you  are  going  to  the  country 
do  not  fail  to  take  some  of  this  famous  lotion  with  you.  It  is  also 
an  excellent  remedy  for  the  relief  of  asthma.  The  lotion  may  be 
procured  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants, 

AND  

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Hoe.  309  and  317  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 
NATIONAL  ASSURANCE  CO.  OF   IRELAND; 
ATLAS    ASSURANCE    CO.    OF    LONDON; 
BOYLSTON    INSURANCE  CO.  OF    BOSTON ; 
OCEAN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 
LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

.Over  800  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Ooul.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  26  to  50  per  cent.  In  the  Amount  of 
Water  UBed. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  Ban  Francisco,  Cal. 


Systems— "  Slattery  "  Induction;  "  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories— Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co.,  Fort  Wayne,  Iod. 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 

35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


R.  J.  WHEELER. 


J.    W.  GIRVtN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIIM  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweatner  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoy t  &  Co.  4  California  St.,  S.  * ..  Cal. 

WILLIAMS.  DIMOND  &  CO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 

UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 

Company,  Harimann's  Rahcjen's  Composition 

"The  California  Line  of  Clippers,"  |  The  China  Traders  &  insurance  Co. 

from  New  York,  (L'd.), 

"The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets,"      The   Baldwin  Locomotive  WorkB, 
to  and  from  Honolulu. |        Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company. 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC     STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

G1LLINGHAM     CEMENT. 

827  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

8AN    FRANOIBOO. 

PARKE    &    LACY  CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET, 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD    AND    IRON    WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING.   OIL8  AND  8UPPLIE8. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRICAL  WORKS, 

IfcTo.   35   IfcviEarlset  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS     AND     IMPORTERS     OF 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General  Electrical  Supplies. 
LAVER,    MULLANY    &   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office :  93  Flood  Building,  Cor.  4  in  and  Market  Sta.,  S.  F. 


August  13    1892. 


PB  VNCI8C0  NEWS  T  KTTER. 


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SUNBEAMS « 

A 8  tbt  house-physician  wi*  walking  through  ft  hospitftl-wftrd. 
one  of  the  patients  called  to  him.  "Doctor,"  be  cried.  ■■  I 
wish  you'd  raove  me  out  of  this  here  ward.'  Why?  "  asked  the 
doctor.  "  Well,  this  feller  next  to  me  keeps  a-d  linking  all  my  rod- 
liver  oil '  "  w»s  the  reply.  —Pick  Me  Up. 

To  winter,  spring,  and   summer 

He  gave  no  heed  at  all. 
All  Adam  knows  of  Paradise 
Is  that  there  was  a  "fall." 
^—  An  African  explorer,  while  on  bis  travels  in  the  Dark  Continent. 
received  Ibe  news  of  the  death  of  his  father.     Some  time  afterwards 
he  arrived  in  Paris,  accompanied  by  a  black  bride.     "  What  on  earth," 
asked  a  candid  friend,  "induced  you  to  marry  a  negress?  "  To  which 
the  explorer  made  answer,  in  cavernous  tone*    "  I  was  in  mourning!  " 
Barrack  room,  breakfast  time:  filter  sergeant  with  officer  on  d lut y . 
Officer—  Anv  complaint*''     Tommy  Atkins— YeB,  sir;  please  taste  this, 
sir.  ( Handing  basin  mpfPiMti  to  contain  coffee}.     Officer  iafttr  tatting)—  1 
cannot  taste  anything  wrong  with  that.    (  To  the  sergeant)— -What  is  it, 
sergeant  ?    Tea  or  coffee  V 

—  *'  What  do  you  think  of  Fielding  ?  "  asked  a  young  lady  of  a 
graduate  of  one  of  our  universities  with  whom  she  bad  been  talking 
about  the  early  English  novelists.  "Oh."  was  the  answer,  it's  im- 
portant, of  course;  but  it  isn't  worth  much  unless  there  is  good  bat- 
ting!" 

1  mtnt  Partri— What  yon  call   ze— ze  walking  delegate  may  not 

ueareestocrat.  but  he  hav'  ze  gran' courage,  ze  conception  of  honneur! 
Jack  Waite—  What  makes  you  think  so  ?  Count  Paresi—\  read  in  zis 
papier  zat  be  did  call  out  all  ze  men  in  zeex  factories.  — Puck. 

— —  Western  Man— That'*  Judge  Boomshaker — he's  got  the  greatest 
record  of  any  man  on  the  Nebraska  benrb.  Eastern  Man—YoT  learned 
and  forcible  decisions.  I  presume?  Western  Man—  You  bet!  —  he 
granted  111  divorces  in  150  minutes,  by  the  watch  !  —Puck. 

Bolts  do  entice.     If  jam  was  free, 

No  youngster  would  desire  it. 
Make  pleasure  difficult,  and  see 
How  much  a  man  requires  it. 

—  Mrs.  Walton—Why  don't  you  bring  home  some  trout  occasion- 
ally, instead  of  these  common  catfish  and  flounders  V  WaUon  (ama- 
tear  fisherman)— That's  just  you,  Mrs.  Extravagance!  Perhaps  you 
don't  know  that  trout  are  worth  a  dollar  a  pound  !  —  Puck. 

—  An  Irish  drill-sergeant  was  once  drilling  two  very  stupid  re- 
cruits, who  could  not  be  prevailed  on  to  keep  step.  Losing  ail  patience 
he  at  length  cried  out:  "  If  I  only  knew  which  of  ye  two  spalpeens 
was  out  of  step,  I'd  put  him  straight  in  the  guardroom." 

— Spacer— This  Harrison-Cleveland  campaign  is  a  great  snap  for 
the  joke  writers.  Liner— Why  ?  Spacer—They  can  ring  in  the  same 
jokes  that  they  got  off  four  years  ago. 

— —She  wears  our  suspenders, 

Coats  and  shirts,  but  don't  fret — 
She  can't  light  a  match 

As  a  man  does— just  yet.  — Town  Topics. 

—  Ernest—  Why  is  the  Suicide  Club  going  to  move  its  quarters? 
Percy— The  members  are  haunted  by  a  horrid  fear  that  their  present 
meeting-place  is  unhealthy.  —The  Club. 

— — "  Won't  you  help  me,  sir  ?  I  haven't  had  a  day's  work  since 
the  first  of  July."  "  What's  your  business,  my  good  man  ?  "  "  I'm 
a  parachute-jumper."  —Judge. 

Young  woman  {to  naval  officer)— Wbat  was  the  last  engagement 

that  you  were  in,  lieutenant  ?  Lieutenant  {frankly)— Oh,  with  a  Chi- 
cago girl.  —Judge. 

"  Jones  fell  in  love  with  an  heiress  and  married  her.  Does  he  love 
her  as  much  as  ever?"  "More.  She  has  just  had  another  legacy 
left  her." 

^_  4.— What  are  you  going  to  make  your  boy  ?  B.—A  lecturer. 
A.—  Has  he  a  taste  for  it?  B.—Oh,  yes;  he  inherits  it  from  his 
mother. 

Dashawny—Whv  don't  you  wear  your  diamond  pin  in  your  As- 
cot tie?  It's  proper,  isn't  it?  Travers— It  may  be  proper,  but  it  isn't 
always  convenient.  —Clothier and  Furnisher. 

—  Doctor—  What  seems  to  be  the  matter  with  you?  Fair  Patient— 
I  don't  know ;  but  I  do  hope  it  is  something  interesting. 

—  Town  Topics. 

Jackson— Any  sleeping  apartments  in  the  club  you  belong  to? 

Snarleigh— Not  one,  except  the  reading-room.  —The  Club. 

— 'Tis  concentration  tells  the  tale: 

A  pin-point  hurts  more  than  a  nail. 

"  You  know  all  these  Italian  organ-grinders  expect  eventually 

to  return  to  Italy."    "  Really  ?    Poor  Italy  !  " 

Cholly— What  do  you  do  foh  exehcise  these  days?    Chappie— 

I  pawspiao. —Town  Topics. 

The  half-tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled m  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 

Grandma's  made  happy  with  perfect  fitting  glasses  from  C.  Muller,  op- 
tician, 135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush,  San  Francisco. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Bthvinfl  Sen  Packing  Company. 
Location  or  principal  place  of  bualnean— Han  Franc  i»ro.  California     l-> 

MUon  of  cannery— I  i;a»hlk  River.  Alaska. 
NOTICI     iWr* an dftllDqnanl  npon  the  following  tomrltwd •took  on 

account  of  ww»menl  (No.  I/,  levied  ou  the  ISth  day  of  February,  UR,  ihr 
several  amount*  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  nharehnldera: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.        No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.   v   Johnson  i  60  $60 

C.  A.  J«>hiiM-n  ........  B  340  340 

Cbas.  Carlson  ?  ;to  SO 

C.  Lundber*  U  390  S90 

And  lu  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
ou  the  18th  day  of  February,  18tf2,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  offlee  of  the 
company,  No  9  Market  street,  Sau  Francisco,  Cal.,  ou  Friday,  the  lMh  day 
of  April.  189-2,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  M.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Bearing  Sea  Packing  Com- 

San y ,  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
[ONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Sau  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behrfug  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  deliuqueut  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  aud  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Fraucisco,  May  2ft.  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

B any  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
AY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  Juae  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behriug  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  uutil  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

Sau  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Union  Consolidated  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  18th  day  of  July, 1892,  an  assessment  No.  46)  of  twenty-five  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-fourth  Day  ol  August,  1892,  wilt  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction :  aud  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  thirteen  day  of  September,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  aud 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  W.  BARROWS,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  11,  303  California  street,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Peer   Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Fraucisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Quljotoa,  Arizona. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  nineteenth  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  18)  of  Ten  10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  Immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  30tf  Montgomery  street,  No.  28,  Nevada  Block, 
San  Fraucisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-fifth  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  22ud  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costa  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

H  AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Del  Monte  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  county,  Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  26th  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  6)  of  Ten  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  ou  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  tbe  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  and  17.  No.  310  Pine  street,  Sau  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, or  to  W.  A.  O.  Paul  Transfer  Agent,  52  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  rematu  unpaid  on 
The  6th  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  is  made 
before  will   he  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,   the   5th    day  of  October,  1892,  to 
nay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with   costs  of  advertising  aud 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F  J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  16  and  17,  310  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Scorpion  Mining  Company. 

Assessment.     .No. -4 

Amount  per  Share  th1v?iC«»S 

Levied    July  "i  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office August  19, 1892 

Dayo.Saleof  Delinquent  Stock siaE."**!^  *S&£B 

Office— No.  310  Pine  Street,  Room  No.  28,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


The  most  important  matter  now  under  consideration  among  the 
underwriters  is  that  of  rebates.  Notwithstanding  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  compact,  and  the  determination  of  its  officers  to  sup- 
press unprofessional  business  methods,  rebating  continues  to  in- 
crease alarmingly,  and  the  result  will  soon  be  a  serious  rupture  in 
tbe  compact  if  strict  measures  be  not  taken  at  once  to  prevent  the 
practice.  The  main  difficulty  seems  to  lie  in  the  face  that  most 
of  the  offices  have  attached  to  them  salaried  solicitors,  who  give 
rebates  to  capture  business.  Nearly  all  the  brokers  who  in  former 
days  drummed  up  business  are  now  salaried  men.  There  are 
only  three  brokers  now  in  business  in  the  city.  The  proposition 
is  to  have  all  the  salaried  solicitors  again  enter  the  field  as 
brokers,  and  then  allow  the  brokers  themselves  to  arrange  the 
matter  of  rebate.  Something  will  certainly  have  to  be  done  to 
protect  honest  underwriters  against  rate-cutiing  or  the  compact 
will  find  that  it  is  not  as  popular  nor  considered  so  useful  an  in- 
stitution as  its  projectors  desire. 

Some  time  since  a  suggestion  was  made  in  this  column  on  the 
advisability  of  establishing  a  National  Bareau  of  Insurance  simi- 
lar to  those  in  vogue  in  some  European  cities,  which  should  have 
full  control  of  all  the  insurance  matters  of  the  country.  It  was 
pointed  out  that  such  a  bureau  would  be  a  permanent  protection 
against  the  wildcat  companies  which  abound  throughout  the 
United  States,  and  would  insure  to  policy  holders  the  fact  that 
their  interests  were  being  properly  protected.  It  is  now  of  inter- 
est to  learn  that  a  bill  has  been  introduced  in  Congress  providing 
for  the  establishment  of  just  such  a  bureau  as  that  referred  to. 
All  the  insurance  men  of  the  country  have  interest  in  the  passage 
of  such  a  measure,  which  is  in  every  way  highly  commendatory. 
The  probabilities  are  that  unless  it  has  energetic  supporters,  the 
men  will  not  be  passed  at  the  next  session  of  Congress,  as  it  will 
create  organized  opposition  among  all  those  fraudulent  com- 
panies that  will  be  affected  by  it.  A  federal  law  should  be  passed, 
fixing  a  reasonable  sum  for  every  foreign  company  doing  business 
in  the  country,  to  deposit  in  a  State  before  it  could  do  business 
there.     California  is  the  favorite  entrance  field  of  weak  foreigners. 

The  firm  name  of  Conrad  &  Maxwell  has  been  changed  to  Max- 
well &  Berry,  and  business  yet  "  continues  at  the  old  stand." 

An  interesting  relic  in  the  new  office  of  Bromwell  &  Fowler  is 
the  sympieosometer  of  that  gallant  old  ?hip  The  Three  Brothers, 
which  is  now  a  coal  hulk  at  Gibralter.  With  this  delicate  instru- 
ment is  a  thermometer  and  an  aneroid.  The  sympiesometer  han^  s 
just  within  the  office  entrance,  and  close  to  the  desk  of  Mr.  Fow- 
ler. When  a  visitor  enters  and  passes  the  glass,  Mr.  Fowler  can 
tell  in  a  moment  by  looking  at  the  delicate  storm  indicator  whether 
his  guest  has  come  to  renew  a  policy  or  collect  a  loss,  and  is  thus 
saved  some  mental  anxiety.     It's  a  great  scheme. 

It  is  reported  that  the  Imperial  closed  the  year  with  a  loss  of 
£30,000.  The  Liverpool  and  London  and  Globe  made  a  profit  for 
the  year  of  £6,000,  which  would  have  been  wiped  out  if  their  books 
had  been  kept  open  another  day. 

Thomas  A.  Mitchell,  General  Agent  of  the  Insurance  Company 
of  North  America,  died  at  his  residence,  763  Thirteenth  street, 
Oakland,  last  Tuesday,  after  an  illness  of  some  months.  The 
funeral  took  place  on  Wednesday  afternoon,  and  was  attended  by 
a  number  of  prominent  insurance  men  from  this  city,  by  whom 
the  deceased  was  highly  esteemed.  Mr.  Mitchell  was  a  native  of 
England,  forty-two  years  old.  He  came  to  this  State  with  his 
parents  at  an  early  age.  Twenty  years  ago  ne  entered  the  em- 
ployment of  the  Insurance  Company  of  North  America,  and  had 
been  with  that  corporation  ever'since.  He  leaves  a  wife  ana 
three  children.  Mr.  Mitchell  will  probably  be  succeeded  as  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  North  America  by  James  D.  Bailey,  who 
is  now  occupying  that  position  temporarily. 


Burlington  Route  Excursions. 


Commencing  Tuesday,  March  15th,  at  2  p.  m.,  from  Los  Angeles 
and  Wednesday,  at  8  p.  m.,  from  San  Francisco,  and  every  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday  thereafter,  the  Burlington  Route  will  run  its  regular 
Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago 
via  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  excursion  folder' 
apply  to  agent,  Burlington  Route,  at  204  South  Spring  street  Los 
Angeles;  or  32  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

Professor  Charles  Goffrie.  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen 
und  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

The  establishment  of  J.  M.  Litrhfield,  at  12  Post  street,  is  always 
popular,  because  there  may  be  obtained,  at  reasonable  rates,  excel- 
lent clothing,  made  by  good  tailors.  Colonel  Litchfield  makes  a 
specialty  of  furnishing  uniforms  and  regalias,  and  most  of  the  natty 
uniforms  of  the  well-dressed  army  and  navy  officers  attached  to  this 
city  are  from  his  establishment. 


nsrsTjria^isrcE. 


REMOVAL! 
HOME  MUTUAL  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

Now  Occupies  Premises  at  the  N.  E.  Cor.  California  and  Sansonie 
Sts.,   8.  F.,  Lately  Vacated  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  Bank. 

Twenty-seventh  Annual  Exhibit. 

January  1,  1891. 

INCORPORATED    A.   D.    1864. 
Losses  p'd  since  organl'u.?3, 175,759.21 1  Reinsurance  Reserve . .       1266  043  59 
Assets  January  1,  1891 ... .      867,512.19    Capital  paid  up,  Gold. .. .      30000000 
Surplus  for  policy  holders    844,944.69  |  Net  Surplus  oyer  ev'yth'e     278  90110 

Income  in  1890 $394,184.52  |  Fire  Losses  paid  in  1890       142' 388  90 

Fire  Losses  unpaid,  January  1, 1891 11404  00 

President J.  F.  HO0SHTON  I  Secretary CHARLES  R.  STORY 

Vice-President.. HENRY  L.   DODGE  I  General  Agent.ROBERT  H.  MAOILL 

TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  L.  Loir,  Manager  for  Hie  Pacific  Coast  Branch 

220  Sansonie  St.,  S.  F. 

?£l£8Li'i~ri"b $7,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534,795.72 

GEO.  MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
332  California  St..  S.  F..  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL 4.000,000  DOLLARS 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  Ban  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed S10.000.000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1000  000 

Cash  Reserve  fin  addition  to  Capital) 2  126000 

Total  Assets  December  31.  1888 ' 8.1 24- 057  60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
305  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  j 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

OEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 


PACIFIC    IDEFA-iaTIiCEirT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     t  5,000,000. 
Casb  Assets, $23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


WM.  J.  U1KDTO,  (ieii'I  Agent,  20*  Sansonie  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL *5,000,0O0 

AGENTS: 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 


THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.45. 

President,  mCNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  QIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 

324  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 


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Capital  paid  4j  JJuaranleed  !i 3,000,000,00. 

Chas  ,A  Latom,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  Francisco, 


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BAN  PKAN0I8C0  NKW8  LETTER. 


I3ST  STT  E,  A.1TCB3 . 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Floor-  I'emand  fair:    Extra.  11  .»>«H '".   Superfine,  fi  •■O^W.OO. 
Wheat— Fair  Iradv      •  •     n-a*l  IS  pel   cental. 

er  ell. 


Hay'l-  lower;' When 

MilUMffs,  eood  demaud.     Bran,  117 
Beau..,  good  r. 
Butter  is  steady;  Choi 


neat,  »2.oo@|i25. 

:  Alfalfa.  l-<t>'J 
41T.'i"  per  ton. 

;iloes.  4">r.®70c.  per  etl. 
Fair.  16o.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 


Cheese,  light  ytock,  BC.Q9C,    Eggs,  free  supply,  .^e.(a>30c. 

Honey.  Comb,  lle.@12c.:  Kxtracted,  .m\@£c.  Poultry  in  good  9upply. 

Onion.*  are  w,.r:h  1  >cyA!c.    Beet-wax  is  higher,  at  25cf£26c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.     Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  active. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady:  Dry,  ticxaTUe.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  t',1 .iC@GV£c. 

Coffee  firmer  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  Kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plcutiful:  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4:<..t0  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demand  at  16@16c. 

Sugar,  good  stocx  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  41^(3o%c. 

Tbe  old  pioneer  firm  of  Macondray  &  Uo.  still  continues  to  bold 
its  prestige,  notwithstanding  tbe  many  changes  of  its  copartners 
by  deatb  and  otherwise.  Michael  Castle,  for  several  years  past 
its  senior  partner,  has  now  retired  from  the  firm,  by  reason  of  ill 
health,  but  the  firm  remains  with  unimpaired  capital,  by  Messrs. 
Atberton  and  Selby  at  its  helm. 

We  remark  un  increased  output  of  Quicksilver  at  Healdsburg 
and  otherState  mines,  although  the  New  Almaden  mines  seemed  to 
be  worked  out.  The  receipts  from  all  quarters  for  tbe  past  seven 
months  aggregate  11,864  flasks;  same  time  last  year,  7,886  flasks; 
in  1890,  7,013  flasks.  Exports  for  the  past  seven  months  by  sea, 
5,546  flasks;  seven  months  1891,  2,469  flasks. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  Peru,  hence  for  the  Orient  August  4th,  carried 
in  treasure  $216,503  to  China;  to  Japan,  $99,000:  to  Bombay, 
$20,400;  total  treasure,  $335,993,  nearly  all  silver;  also,  for  cargo 
to  China,  11,115  bbls.  Flour,  7  292  lbs.  Ginseng,  7,500  lbs.  Pearl 
Barley  and  Mdse.,  value  $77,559;  to  Japan,  1,525  bbls.  Flour,  200 
bxs.  Soap,  1,250  lbs.  Butterine,  65  rolls  Leather,  etc.,  value 
$11,040;  to  Vladivostock,  500  bbls.  Flour;  to  East  Indies,  133  cs. 
Canned  Goods;  to  Manila,  500  bbls.  Flour. 

Eleven  out  of  fourteen  of  tbe  largest  flouring  mills  in  this  8tate 
have  joined  forces,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000,000,  and  of 
this  $5,800,000  has  been  paid  up.  These  fourteen  mills  have  a 
daily  capacity  of  6,000  bbls.  Of  these  the  Sperry  Stockton  Mills 
and  the  Golden  Gate  Mills  are  tbe  two  largest,  having,  respect- 
ively, a  capacity  of  1,500  and  1,000  bbls.  daily. 

Our  foreign  commerce  for  seven  months  of  the  current  year  by 
sea,  mdse.  and  produce,  value  $15,357,089;  1891,  seven  months, 
$25,781,093.  Decrease,  1892,  $10,424,093;  1890,  same  period,  our 
exports  were  $19,773,557.  Our  total  falling  off  in  export  values 
of  Wheat  and  Flour  combined  for  the  seven  months  of  1892,  as 
compared  with  same  period  of  1891,  $7,924,205. 

Exports  for  the  period  under  review  embrace  the  cargo  per  P. 
M.  8.  S.  City  of  New  York,  for  the  Isthmus  and  way  ports,  as 
follows :  to  New  York,  41 ,750  gals.  Wine,  246  gals.  Brandy,  10,002 
ctls.  Barley,  123,588  lbs.  Borax,  120  bales  Rags,  etc.,  value  $46,552. 
To  Central  America,  per  same,  737  bbls.  Flour,  47,986  lbs.  Tallow, 
25,060  lbs.  Malt,  Corn,  Barley,  Wheat,  etc.,  value  $16,560;  to 
Mexico,  Mdse.  value  $4,506;  to  Panamc,  14,224  lbs.  Sugar,  27,000 
lbs.  Rice  and  Provisions,  value  $7,200. 

To  Honolulu,  per  stmr.  Australia,  hence  August  3d,  125  bbls. 
Flour,  4,189  lbs.  Butter,  4,579  lbs.  Lard,  23,655  lbs.  Rolled  Barley, 
8,400  lbs.  ground  ditto,  5,087  lbs.  Cheese,  3,200  gals.  Wine,  258 
gals.  Whisky,  etc.,  value  $52,415. 

Seal  Skins The  schr.   Sophie  Sutherland,  from  Hagodate,  39 

days  thence,  had  1,603  skins,  to  A.C.Sunderland.  The  schr. 
Ivanhoe,  from  Bkoutan  Bay,  had  1,200  skins,  to  A.  P.  Lorentzen. 
The  captain  of  the  sealing  schooner  Viva  says  seals  are  very 
plentiful,  and  he  estimates  this  year's  catch  of  the  British  and 
American  fleets  at  not  less  than  150,000  skins. 

Wool  for  Boston The  stmr.  Walla  Walla,  for  Victoria,  carried 

in  transit  for  Canadian  Pacific  Railroad,  76,102  lbs. ;  value,  $16,750. 

Fresh  Fruit  for  London,  in  refrigerator  cars,  via  steamers  from 
New  York,  continues  in  order.  A.  T.  Hatch  has  just  sept  five 
cars  additional.  This  is  the  fourth  train  sent  over;  the  first  being 
landed  in  14  days  thence.  The  last  train  all  choice  Peaches  and 
Pears. 

The  steamship  St.  Paul,  nine  days  from  Onnalaska  to  the 
Alaska  Commercial  Company,  had  for  cargo  514  bdls.  Wbale- 
bene,  94  cs.  and  17  sks.  and  cases  Furs,  143  sks.  Silver 
Ore,  12  pkgs.  Ivory,  852  sks.  Gold  Concentrates,  272  pkgs. 
Furs,  etc. 

The  steamship  Mariposa,  from  Sydney,  via  Honolulu,  had  for 
cargo  2,519  ingots  Tin,  125  flsks.  Quicksilver,  398  bales  Flax,  71 
pkgs.  Kari  Gum,  etc.,  and  from  Honolulu,  1,743  bchs.  Bananas, 
96  cs.  Pineapples,  etc. 


Insuranoe  Company, 
capital  11.000.000,  i  assets  i3co0.ooo 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agent*  In  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  Putted  Btfttei 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

{ESTABLISHED    1871 . 1 

CAPITAL    STOCK  Paid  Up   1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 278  AND  220  bANSOML  G",LFT, 

San    Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BRANDER,  CHA8.  M.  BLAIR, 

President.  HerreUry. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  L'p :  500,000 

Assets             .     3,181,758 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders     1,525,167 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.    F. 

City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     Ueneral  Olllcc—  401  Wont's,  St. 

INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

P  1 1".  r  The  Lion  Fire  lnsurance  ^  LM\tAt  of  London. 
r  I  n  r  Tl,e  lm|ierial  lnsuranoe  Co- Linii,e(l' of  London 

I'll  WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT,      ' 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch ,   214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. : 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCK,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital $25,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office,  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Slreet,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA.  California. 

Storaffe  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  exchange  Call  Board. 

'  These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  Btored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 

DICKER    ™7 

BROTHERS'*1  ■ 

PIANOS. 

KOHLER     &    CHASE, 

28  O'Farrell  St. 

Dr.  Ricord's  Restorative  Pills. 

Buy  none  but  the  Genuine— A  Specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  WastedForces,  etc.— Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  tbe  Medical  Celebrities.     Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 

J.  G.   STEELE  A  CO., 
No.  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED.  Bene  of  50  pills,  |1  25;  of  100  pills,  ?2;  of  200  pills. 
?3  50;  of  400  pills,  $6;  Preparatory  Pills,  $2.    Send  for  Circular. 

LOUIS  R0EDERER  CHAMPAGNE. 

The  Highest  Urade  Champagne  in  the  World. 
_"CABTB    ZBIi-AJSTCIHIZE:." 

^■OTV*VT«^B*  (WHITE    LABEL) 

''mSPlr  A  Magnificent  Rich  Wme. 

\P  ♦  y^^B^Bk  (brown  label) 

Perfection  of  a  Dry  Wine. 
See  that  every  Bottle  bears  the  privatelabeloi 

MACONDRAY   &   CO., 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 


24 


SAN  FUANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


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IN  gloves,  the  tendency  i3  towards  deeper,  softer,  more  subju- 
gated colorings.  Tbe  attempted  innovations  in  the  lighter 
shades  of  buff,  putty  color  and  orange  ecrn,  brought  out  late  last 
Spring,  were  not  of  a  nature  to  warrant  following  in  the  Fall.  The 
popular  walking  gloves  were  then  in  rather  showy  shades  of  tan. 
Of  the  three  tints  the  lightest  was  most  sought  for,  and  the  dark- 
est least  in  demand.  The  conditions  are  exactly  reversed  for  the 
forthcoming  season,  the  preference  being  for  the  darkest  shade— a 
rich  Russian  tan— of  the  deep,  lustreful  tone  of  the  bona  fide 
Russian  leather  shoes  of  Summer.  Like  them  they  will  really  im- 
prove with  wear,  burnishing  with  age  and  the  attendant  soil  al- 
most to  the  superb  glow  of  teakwood.  For  the  medium  shades 
of  tan  there  is  a  strong  demai.d,  bat  for  the  smart-looking,  lightest 
shades  the  favor  has  perceptibly  abated. 

From  socks  to  slumber  robes,  from  the  Alpha  to  the  Omega  of 
men's  wear,  there  seems  to  be  an  effort  under  way  to  pictorialize 
the  invisible  portion  of  the  masculine  repertory.  There  is  a  lauda- 
ble endeavor  to  escape  from  the  thralldom  of  the  all-black  hosiery. 
Solid  colorings  on  sang  da  boeuf ,  liver  mustard,  and  lagoon  green, 
follow  the  fine  art  nomenclature  of  the  old  Chinese  porcelains. 
The  massings  of  single  colors  of  hosiery  in  window  dressing  af- 
fords a  display  that  is  as  striking  as  some  of  the  most  ambitious 
neckwear  exhibits. 

In  suspenders  the  colorful  penchant  for  the  interior  belongings 
of  the  garb  of  the  sterner  sex  has  "  ta'en  hold"  the  heliotrope, 
rose,  pink,  tan,  gray,  green  and  drab,  and  other  of  the  favorite 
background  shades  used  in  the  negligee  shirts  1  The  leather  ends 
and  trimmings  are  in  matching  shades  to  the  web,  realizing  a  lux- 
urious ensemble  proving  there  need  be  no  suspense  about  sus- 
penders when  you  brace  up  and  buckle  down  to  business. 

Green  and  white  is  the  combination  most  fancied  for  outdoor 
wear  on  hot  days,  green  of  the  tint  of  the  foliage  in  sashes  and 
shoulder  knots,  and  sheer  fine  lawn,  as  purely  white  and  thin  as 
a  bishop's  sleeve,  for  the  frock  make  the  prettiest  afternoon 
gowns  for  young  ladies,  or  older  matrons  who  retain  the  much-to- 
be-desired  slenderness  of  figure  and  delicacy  of  skin  common  to 
young  American  women. 

A  revival  of  the  sword  scarfpin  is  a  prominent  feature.  The  de- 
coration being  upon  the  hilt,  and  the  pin  in  the  shape  of  a  blade. 
This  design  is  one  peculiarly  apt  for  affixing  in  the  carelessly 
meshed  knottings  of  the  fine  fabrics,  and  the  best  effects  are 
heightened  by  the  sheathing  of  the  blade  deftly  and    artistically. 

The  distinguishing  mark  of  a  real  Parisian  toilet  is  a  touch  of 
black,  deftly  added.  A  favorite  method  of  its  arrangement  with 
slight  women  is  to  make  a  belt  with  loops  of  ribbon  hanging 
about  the  waist,  which  gives  a  pleasing  fulness  to  the  slight  figure 
and  is  suggestive  of  Venetian  slashings. 


Striking  among  the  novelties  for  country  wear  are  the  toilets 
of  pure  white,  from  the  tip  of  the  snowy  parasol  to  the  shoes  of 
white  linen  or  ooze  leather,  which  are  worn  with  white  silk  stock- 
ings and  peep  out  from  the  lace-edged  ruffies  of  white  snrab  petti- 
coats. ^^_^^. 

The  accordion-plaited  blouse  is  a  new  and  popular  factor  in  the 
field.  There  is  no  lining  except  in  the  little  round  yoke,  from 
which  the  plaited  fulness  falls  longer  than  the  waist  line,  and  is 
caught  up  beneath  a  folded  belt  finished  with  a  rosette  on  one 
side. 

Velvet  sleeves  have  come  into  favor  again,  and,  oddly  enough, 
are  seen  in  tea  gowns  and  dressy  borne  toilets  of  delicately  tinted 
lawn,     The  sleeves  are  cut  in  fancifully  flowing  shapes. 

The  height  of  fashion  in  Paris  is  dark  blue  used  in  combination 
with  emerald  green,  so  we  may  be  prepared  for  the  appearance  of 
this  somewhat  incongruous  combination  in  autumn  fabrics. 

Russian  colors  promise  to  be  tbe  popular  tints  for  early  autumn, 
and  they  are  emeralds,  a  dull  blue,  a  deep  red,  and  black. 

False  Economy 
Is  practiced  by  people  who  buy  inferior  articles   of  food  because 
cheaper  than  standard  goods.     Infants  are  entitled  to  the  best  food 
obtainable.     It  is  a  fact  that  the  Gail   Borden  "Eagle"  Brand   Con- 
densed Milk  is  the  best  infant  food.  Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it 

"  The  Mumm."  the  popular  bar  at  109  O'Farrell  street,  is  one  of 
the  excellently  fitted  places  ot  resort  which  has  made  San  Francisco 
famous.  It  is  handsomely  decorated  with  works  of  art,  and  is  made 
very  comfortable  for  all  patrons.  Its  liquors  are  first-class,  and  its 
management  unexcelled. 


GREAT  REDUCTION  SALE 

ALL 

SPRING  AND  SUMMER  GOODS 

AT 

A  Tremendous  Sacrifice 

TO  CLEAR  THEM  OUT  THIS  MONTH. 
INCOMPARABLE   BARGAINS 


Cloaks,    Dress    Goods,   Silks,    Laces,    Ribbons, 

Gloves,  Hosiery,  Underwear, 

Gent's  Furnishing  Goods, 

Wash    Dress    Fabrics,    Housefurnishings,   Etc. 


MARKET,  JONPS  AND   MCALLISTER  STS. 


CatalcguiS  of  ntw  and  second-hand  bock*  In  s'ock  furnished  free 
to  ar.y  address  on  ■  cp.lcaticn. 

C.  N.  CASPAR, 

book:      empokitjm. 

Dealer  in  and  importer  of  American,  British,  German  and  French  Books, 
Ancient  and  Modern. 

No.  437  East  Water  Street,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Direct  connections  with  all  foreign  counties.  Any  book  in  any  language 
obtained.  'Out  of  Print"  Books  a  Specially.  Send  for  books  tried 
to  obtain  elsewhere  in  vain.    Correspondence  solicited. 

Books.  New  and  Second-hand,  bought,  sold  and  exchanged. 

fiO.OOO  volumes  in  stock.  Standard,  Technical,  Scientific,  Antiquarian 
and  School  Books  Specialties.— Importation  orders  promptly  executed  and 
books  "out  of  print'1  procured. 

HAVE   YOU   GOT 

Dyspepsia,  Bright's  Disease,  or  Dia- 
betes, or  do  you  want  a  pleasant, 
healthful  drink?     If  so,  buy 

ARCADIAN  WAUKESHA  WATER, 

Recommended  by  our  best  physi- 
cians as  the  healthiest  drink  on  earth. 
Johnson-Locke  Mercantile  Company 
Agents,  204  Front  St.,  S.  F. 

OCCIDENTAL     HOTEL, 

San    Francisco. 

A       QTIIET      HOME 

CENTRALLY       LOCATED, 

FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 


Auguct  13,  1892. 


SAN  FP..W.  [SCO  NEWS  LETTEB 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 
Train*  L«*v*  and  nr«  Duo  to  Arrive 
SAN     FRANCISCO 


*****'  From  Jul/  25,  1892.  \  Antra 

7:00  a.  Beoiclm,  Kumscr.  Sacrunento 
7  JOa.  H»tw«vM..  Nlle»  and  dan  Jo»e 

Nile*  and  San  Jose  16  15  r 

"30k.  Marti uci.  San  Ramon,  Calistoga 

and  Santa  Ko*-a  6l5r 

8:00  a.  3acnuntoA  Redding,  via  Darts       7:16  p.* 
!^X)a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogdeu  and 

Eaat.  9:45  P. 

8:30a.  Niles,  Sau  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 
ville  and  Red  Bluff  .  ...  1:46  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Santa  Bar 
baxa,  Los  Angeles,  Demlng,  El 
Paso,  New  Orleans.  andEast  8:46  P. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton •8:45  p. 

12-00*.  Hay  wards,  Nlies  and  Llvermore     7:15  p. 

•1:00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1:30  P.  Vallejoand  Martinez  12:45 p. 

3:00  P.  Haywards,  Nile?  and  San  Jose         9:id  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresuo  9:45a. 

4:00f.  Yallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Yerano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9,4fi  a. 

4:30p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45a. 

4;30p.  Woodlandand  Oroville 10:45a. 

•4 :30  p.  Niles  and  Llvermore '8:45  a. 

5:30p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  <fc 

Los  Angeles.     8.45a. 

5:30 p.  Santa Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  s  A5  a. 

6:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..      7:45  a. 

•6 .-00  p.  Sunol  and  Livermore 

6:00  p.  European  Mill  Ogden  and  East    9:15  a. 

17:00p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00p.  ShastaRouteExpress, Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Puget  Sound  and  East. ..      8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 


17:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel* 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    18:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6:20  p. 

*2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz- *10:50a. 

4 :45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 
Cruz 9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

•7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion  ^8:28  p. 

8:15  A.  San  JoBe,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro, SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
[9:30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion   Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  12:45  p. 
10:37A.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  ..  5:03p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  PaciflcGrove 

and  principal  Way  Stations *10:37  a. 

*3:80p.  San    Jose,    Gilroy    and      Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations *9 :47  a. 

*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. .  -   *8;06a. 

5:15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a, 

6 :30  P.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations ...  6 :35  a. 
tll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  p. 

A.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

JSundays  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 

8.  S.  Mariposa Friday,  August  19,  at  2  p.   M. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 
S.  8.  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  31,  1892,  at  2  p.  M. 
For  Freight  or   Passage  apply  at   Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKBLS  A  BEOS.  CO, 

General  AgentB 

CONSUMPTION. 

I  nave  a  positive  remedy  for  the  above  disease;  by  its 
ase  thousands  of  cases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
standing  have  been  oared.  Indeed  so  etrong-  is  my  faith 
in  its  efficacy,  that  I  will  send  xwo  bottles  free,  with 
aVAJjTJABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  suf- 
ferer who  will  send  me  their  Express  and  P.  O.  address. 
T.  A.  Slocum,  M.  O..  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  X. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Tmooaa  Lnri  to  Riw  v,.rk.  \h  Pakaba. 

Steamers  will  Mil  at  HOOM  on  the  fttb,  lMh  an. I 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  port*  ol  Mexico  and  Centra] 

America. 

Ikravah  Line  SailtHQa.  —  S.  S.  "San    Bias."  August 

lMh:S  -  Iney,"  Augusl9Mh  8.  3  "San 

r   >tt!. 
Way  Lint  to  Mexican  and  Central  Amtrlean  Ports 
ana  Panama.— .Steamer  Mill!*  at   noon   l*lli  of  each 
month,  callinc  at  Mazatlati.  S.u  Bias,  MaUKauillo 
Acapulco.  Port  Aul'cI.  Sallna  Cruz.  1 . inula,  San 
i  hamperico,  San  Jose  ae  Guatemala, 
Acajutla.  La    Llberlad,   La  fulou,  Amaptihi.  Co 
rlnto,  .Sau  Juan  del  Sur  ami  I'uuta  Arena.-. 
Way  Line  Saiiino.— Aue.  18tb,  3.  B.  "  A.  apnico*" 
When  the  regular  tailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG. 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Rio  de  Jauelio,"  Saturday,  Aug.  27th,  at 

3P.1I. 

"City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  September  17th,  at 
3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu!,  Tuesday,  Sept. 27 
1892,  at  3  p.  m.  * 

S.S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m 

Round  Trio  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Braunan  streets.       Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.               ALEXANDER  CENTER, 
_ General  Agent. 

MERCHANT'S    LINE. 


NEW    L.rNE    CUPPER    SHIPS. 


^RAtfc  ,\ 


New    York    to    San    Francisco. 

—THE   MAGNIFICENT  IRON  SHIP— 

T.  F.  OAKES, 

189 7  tuns  register,  REED,  Mas- 
ter, is  now  on  the  berth  at  New  York 
_    and  having  large  engagements  will 
receive  quick  dispatch.    For  freight  apply  to 
J.  W.  GRACE  &  CO., 

430  California  St.,  S.  F. 
W.  R.  GRACE  &  CO.,  Hanover  Square,  N.  Y. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOB  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  rorner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Saturday,  June  25, 1892. 

Belgic Tuesday,  July  26, 1892. 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic  Tuesday,  Sept.  6,1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT   REDUCED    RATE8. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE.  Traffic  Manager. 


GEORGE  GOODMAN, 

PATENTEE    AND    MANUFACTTRER   OF 

ARTIFICIAL      STONE 
in  all  its  branches. 

Office,  307  Montgomery  Street. 


ACCORDING  to  a  report  from  Germany 
the  most  powerful  electric  locomotive 
in  the  world  is  building  at  Baden.  It  is  to  be 
provided  with  motors  of  a  total  horse-power 
of  1,500,  which  can  be  raised  to  2,000  horse- 
power. One  motor  is  to  be  place  directly  on 
each  of  the  eight  axles,  and  the  locomotive  is 
designed  for  a  speed  as  high  as  that  ordinarily 
used  on  steam  locomotives. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

•THE   OONtHUE    BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

°£HF£2P°  8™"AY.  *>'"''•  M  1W2,  »nd 
until  further  notlco.  Boat*  and  Tralu.  will 
leave  Irom  and  arrive  at  Ihe9an  Fruiiolneo  Pa«- 
longer  Depot.  MARKKT  STREET  WHAKF  a. 
follows: 

From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon.  Belvedert  and 

,..,.,.  San  Rafael. 

WEEk.  DAYS-7:40  A.  M.,  9:20  a.  «.,  11  20  a  «.- 
1:»)  p.m.,  8:30  p.m.,  6:06  p.  v.,  6:20  p.  K. 

81KDAYS-8:00a.m..9:S0a.m..  11:00  a.m.:  1  30  p  x 
3:30  p.  M..5:00p.  ».,  6:15  p.  M.  •«>•«. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  a.  m.,  7:55  a.  m.,  9-30  a  m 
11:30  a.  m.;  l;40  p.m.,  3:40p.M.  6-06PM 

=  AJ,U?UAYS  0NLi'-An  extra  trip  at  6:3o'p.M. 

SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.  M.:  1  40  r  m 
3:40  p.  m.,  5:00  p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

„.«.,-,,  lU,om  Poll1,  T">"«>n  to  San   Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS-6:50  A.  m.,  8:20  a.m.,  9:65  a.m.,  1155 
a.  m.  :  2:05  p.  m.,  4:05  p.  M.,  6:85  p.  M. 

a  .,  Sa£"rd.?X8  onl>''  au  extra  tr'P  at  6:56  p. at. 

3UNDAYS-8:35    A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  a.m.; 

2:06  p.  M.,  4:06 p.m.,  6:80  P.M.,  6:50  P.M. 

LEAVKSrP.' 


K    8™«»3" 


7:40A.M. 
3:30p.m 
5:05  p.m 


7:40a.  m, 
3:30  p.m. 


8:00  a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00  p.m. 


Destination 


Sundays    w^ 


Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Pulton, 
Windsor, 
Heald  sburg 
Litton  8priii?s, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations, 


Hopland 
and  Dkiah. 


7:40a.m.  8:00a. m.  Guerneville.  7:25p.m 
3:30  p.m. 


Arrive  in  8.  F.~ 


10:40a. M 
6:05  P.M 
7:26  P.M 


8:50a.  m 
10:30a.m 
6:10p.m. 


7:25  p.m. 


10  :30a.  M 

6:10p.M 


6:10  p.m. 


10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 


7:40a.  m.[8:00a.m.|  Sonoma  and  110:40a.m.  8:50a.m. 
5:05p.m. |5:00 p.m. J  glen  Ellen.  |  6:05p.m.  6:10p.M. 
7:40  a.m  ]  8:00a.m  I  Sebastopol.  I  10:40a.m  I  1030am 
3:30  P.M  [  5:00  P.M  I j    6;05p.m  |  6:10  p.m 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Qeyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena:  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelsey  ville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiafi  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  (I  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  {3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  U  60;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  J6  75:  to  Sebastopol,  J2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  60;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  2U. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETES  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA. 
B.  0.,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Orego:t.  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  8ANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  8an  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  .u. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


I  CURE  FITS! 

When  I  say  care  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them, 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  care.  I  have  made  the  disease  of  .FITS.  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
'warrant  my  remedy  to  onre  the  worst  oases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
care.  Send  at  occo  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  Infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office, 
B.  a.  ROOT,  M.  C.»  183  Pearl  St..  N.  T. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


August  13,  1892. 


THERE  were  weddings  on  both  sides  of  the  bay  last  Wednes- 
day, the  hour  of  noon  being  in  each  instance  the  chosen 
time.  The  ceremony  in  town  was  the  one  which  united  Miss 
Jessie  Wright  to  Edward  H.  Horton,  and  was  performed  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Mctenzie,  at  the  house  of  the  brides  parents,  on  Jack- 
son street.  The  rooms  were  handsomely  adorned,  and  well  filled 
with  relatives  and  intimate  friends,  but  there  was  no  reception, 
and  everything  was  done  in  tbe  most  quiet  manner. 


Oakland  and  its  vicinity  has  had  a  number  of  pretty  weddings 
this  year,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  a  more  unique  as  well  as  pretty 
bridal  ever  took  place  there  than  the  one  at  Fruit  Vale,  on 
Wednesday  morning  last,  when  two  brothers  were  married  to 
two  sisters,  the  grooms  being  Messrs.  Thomas  and  William  Magee, 
sons  of  our  prominent  real  estate  man,  Thomas  Magee,  and  the 
brides  the  charming  sisters,  Estelle  and  Harriet  Hush.  Noon  was 
the  hour  set  for  the  ceremony,  and  long  before  that  time  about 
twenty-five  intimate  friends  and  relatives  were  gathered  in  the 
drawing-rooms  of  the  Hush  residence,  on  Fourteenth  street, 
awaiting  the  coming  of  the  bridal  party.  Promptly  on  time  they 
appeared,  heralded  by  tbe  familiar  "  Bridesmaid's  Chorus"  from 
Lohengrin.  The  two  ushers,  brothers  of  the  grooms,  were  fol- 
lowed by  two  sisters  of  the  brides,  and  here  was  where  the  unique 
feature  of  the  wedding  came  in.  Seldom,  indeed,  if  ever,  has  a 
double  quartette  of  brothers  and  sisters  officiated  as  principals 
and  attendants  at  a  bridal.  The  nuptial  arch  under  which  the 
knots  were  tied  was  composed  of  ferns, white  sweet  pea  and  srnilax, 
from  the  center  of  which  hung  two  wedding  bells  of  white  roses 
and  peas,  and  here  the  two  brother  grooms  awaited  their  lovely 
brides  as  they  advanced,  following  the  bridesmaids.  The  marriage 
service  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  McLane,  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  of  Oakland.  The  bridal  gowns  were  of  soft 
creamy  satin,  trimmed  with  crepe  chiffon,  and  their  long  filmy 
veils  were  caught  with  a  diamond  star  and  a  bow-knot,  respec- 
tively, these  lovely  ornaments  being  the  gifts  of  the  happy 
grooms.  After  the  ceremony  an  elaborate  wedding  breakfast 
was  served,  and  the  health  of  the  newly  made  couples  was  drank 
again  and  again.  The  profuse  floral  adornment  of  the  house  and 
the  table  made  a  charming  environment  for  the  brilliant  cos- 
tumes and  gay  assemblage.  The  Messrs.  Magee  and  their  wives 
left  on  the  evening  Oakland  train  for  New  York,  from  which  city 
they  will  sail  on  the  24th  for  Liverpool,  and  after  several  months 
of  European  travel  they  will  return,  to  make  their  homes  in  San 
Francisco.  The  wedding  presents  were  very  costly  and  varied, 
testifying  the  esteem  and  regard  of  numerous  friends  of  both 
families. 

While  the  festivities  of  the  Country  Club  shoot  is  attracting  a 
crowd  to  Del  Monte,  quite  a  number  of  the  guests  who  have 
passed  a  goodly  portion  of  the  summer  there  have  returned  to 
town  evidently  wishing  to  avoid  the  extra  excitement  attendant 
upon  that  event.  Among  these  latter  are  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  Mrs. 
Gwin  and  her  daughters,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Coleman  and  Miss  Carrie 
Gwin,  who  are  again  occupying  their  Hyde-street  residence; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Drury  Malone  and  Mrs.  Neustadter  and  family. 
Mrs.  Chabot  and  Miss  Nellie  Chabot  have  terminated  their  visit 
and  returned  to  Oakland,  and  Mrs.  E.  B.  Coleman  and  Miss 
Blanding  departed  for  Castle  Crags.  Mrs.  Robert  Hastings  is 
another  loss,  she  having  started  for  Carlsbad  last  week,  sailing 
by  the  Teutonic  from  New  York  last  Wednesday,  as  well  as  Mrs. 
Sperry  and  Miss  Beth,  who  will  make  Carlsbad  their  abiding 
place  for  some  time,  at  least  until  Mrs.  Sperry's  health  improves. 
And  the  Leiters  also  bid  adieu  to  Del  Monte  on  Tuesday  last  upon 
tbeir  return  to  Chicago.  The  most  recent  arrivals  at  Del  Monte 
include  the  T.  M.  Huntingtons,  the  J.  F.  Houghtons,  pretty  Miss 
Addie  Mills  and  her  brother,  Edgar  Jr.,  the  Hasletts;  F.  A. 
Franks,  Mrs.  Ellis  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Hope,  Miss  Eleanor 
Dimond,  etc.  Next  week  the  Danforths,  D.  W.  Earls,  Robbie 
Fry s,  Eastons,  Miss  Mamie  Burling,  the  Louis  Haggins,  Festitics, 
Robert  Coleman,  Mrs.  M.  S.  Latham  and  her  son,  Mrs.  W.  P. 
Morgan  and  daughters,  Newhalls,  Eyres,  Simpkins,  Webb  How- 
ards, Irving  Scotts,  Taylors,  Folgers  and  McBeans  are  a  few  of 
those  expected  to  arrive.  The  ball  on  the  29th  is  looked  forward 
to  as  one  of  the  events  of  the  season,  and  the  hop  to-night  prom- 
ises to  be  an  unusually  large  one. 

This  has  been  a  very  gay  week  at  Santa  Cruz,  dinners  and 
dances  taking  the  lead  in  the  festivities.  The  hop  at  the  Sea 
Beach  on  Wednesday  evening,  in  honor  of  General  Dimond,  and 
staff,  and  the  one  on  Friday  night  for  the  officers  in  camp,  were 
both  particularly  pleasant  affairs.  Col.  and  Mrs.  Shafter,  accom- 
panied by  their  daughter,  Mrs.  McKittrick,  are  enjoying  the 
month  of  August  at  Santa  Cruz,  where  they  have  taken  one  of 
tbe  Pope  cottages,  and  will  remain  while  the  regulars  are 
in  camp.  Some  friends  from  the  East  are  visiting  them  at  pres- 
ent. Mrs.  Albert  Gallatin  is  also  among  the  Santa  Cruz  cottagers 
this  month. 


Dinners  are  by  no  means  confined  to  San  Francisco.  They  are 
numerous  at  Santa  Cruz,  where  the  different  heads  of  the  mili- 
tary have  been  playing  hosts  to  guests  from  the  interior,  and  the 
residents  of  the  little  burgh  have  also  been  most  hospitable  to  the 
visiting  strangers.  A  very  pleasant  affair  was  the  dinner  given 
by  Mr.  Sanford  Johnson,  at  White  Sulphur  Springs,  in  honor  of 
Mr.  Henry  Highton's  birthday,  which  was  a  feast  of  reason,  and 
a  flow  of  soul,  as  well  as  of  all  the  seasonable  good  things  in 
market.  Dinners  and  dances  have  alternated  at  Sausalito,  sev- 
eral of  each  taking  place  during  the  past  ten  days.  The  Pacific 
Yacht  Club  hop,  and  the  clam  bake  of  the  San  Francisco  Yacht 
Club  were  also  to  be  included  in  last  week's  festivities,  and  were 
both  of  them  heartily  enjoyed.  The  stag  party  at  the  boat  house 
of  the  new  Encinal  Club  last  Saturday  was  a  very  pleasant  affair. 
The  members  of  the  Corinthian  Club,  who  were  the  guests  of  the 
evening,  were  present  in  force,  and  remained  at  the  club  house 
until  Sunday,  when  the  fourteen  yachts  of  the  club  which  partici- 
pated were  escorted  by  their  hosts  homewards  toward  Tiburon. 
Apropos  "of  the  Encinal  Club,  the  members  are  preparing  to  give 
their  friends  a  surprise  and  a  treat  at  the  same  time,  in  the  shape 
of  an  operatic  entertainment  on  board  ship.  For  this  purpose 
the  tuney  little  opera  of  Pinafore  has  been  selected,  and  the  Alta 
Operatic  Society  will  produce  it  on  a  full-rigged  vessel,  lying  in 
front  of  the  club  boat-house,  some  time  early  in  October. 


The  Howard  Presbyterian  Church  looked  very  attractive  in  its 
pretty  floral  decorations  of  white  roses  and  jasemine,  ferns  and 
foliage,  for  the  marriage  of  Miss  Ada  Talcott  Park  and  Charles  A. 
Alardyce,  which  was  solenized  within  its  doors  last  week,  the 
Rev.  Robert  Irwin  officiating.  The  bride  was  attired  in  a  very 
becoming  robe  of  cream  silk,  a-la  princesse,  trimmed  with  lace  and 
illusion,  her  floral  adornments  of  roses  and  jasemine  being  her 
favorite  blossoms.  Miss  Clementine  Alardyce,  who  was  maid  of 
honor,  wore  a  gown  of  pale  lemon-colored  India  silk,  and  the 
bridesmaid,  Miss  Francis  Owen's  gown,  was  of  green  India  silk, 
trimmed  with  lace  and  ribbons.  Two  little  flower-bearers,  the 
Misses  Mamie  Park  and  Gertrude  Elliot,  who  carried  large  hats 
filled  with  sweet  peas,  completed  the  bride's  attendants,  and  Mr. 
Peabody  was  the  groom's  best  man.  The  service  in  church  was 
followed  by  a  small  reception  of  members  of  the  two  families  and 
intimate  friends,  held  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  mother,  on 
Pine  street,  which  was  tastefully  dressed  with  roses  and  foliage, 
and  later  a  delicious  supper  was  served.  The  presents  were  nu- 
merous and  handsome. 

Dinners  are  usually  the  avant  courier  of  other  gay  doings  in 
social  circles  in  town,  and  from  the  number  that  are  taking  place, 
the  deduction  to  be  drawn  is,  that  it  will  not  be  long  until  the 
quiet  which  has  of  late  reigned  in  the  city  is  decidedly  a  thing  of 
the  past.  Possibly  the  most  elaborate  of  last  week's  dinners  was 
the  one  given  by  the  Misses  Dimond,  to  a  party  of  ten,  at  their 
home  on  Washington  street.  The  rooms  and  the  dinner-table 
were  redolent  of  sweet  floral  adornments,  the  menu  was  delicious, 
and  upon  leaving  the  guests  said  adieu  to  Miss  Mae  Dimond,  who 
was  on  the  eve  of  departure  for  a  two  months'  visit  East.  An- 
other pleasant  dinner  was  that  given  by  Mrs.  Volney  Spalding, 
to  welcome  back  the  travelers  from  the  Orient  and  from  Europe, 
in  the  persons  of  Fred  Somers  and  Joe  Redding.  This  took  place 
at  the  Bella  Vista,  Mrs.  Spalding  supplementing  it  by  another  at 
Belvedere  Bungalow,  the  guests  of  honor  being  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Gillig,  of  Virginia   City. 


The  winter  season  promises  to  be  well  filled  with  musical  enter- 
tainments; two  of  the  earliest  events  are  those  which  are  an- 
nounced to  take  place  in  November,  and  are  creating  much  in- 
terest in  society  at  large.  The  lady  managers  of  the  Woman's  Ex- 
change, who  are  always  in  the  van  of  the  winter  season's  festivi- 
ties, have  named  the  lGth  of  November  as  the  date  when  Rose- 
wald's  comic  opera  of  Baroness  Meta  will  be  produced  for  the  bene- 
fit of  that  institution,  and  a  large  and  fashionable  attendance  is  a 
certainty.  Second  on  the  list  comes  the  concert  of  the  Young 
Ladies'  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra,  which  has  volunteered  to 
play  for  the  benefit  of  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage  and  the  Hahne- 
mann Hospital  conjointly,  when  fascinating  Mrs.  Everett  Wise 
will  delight  her  friends  by  appearing  as  one  of  the  vocalists  of  the 
evening. 

Naval  circles  are  quite  excited  over  the  announcement  of 
Miss  Bertie  Bostwick's  engagement  to  Robert  E.  Carney,  of  the 
navy,  which  has  just  been  made  known  to  the  public;  and  legal 
circles  are  greatly  interested  in  tbe  approaching  marriage  of  Judge 
R.  C.  Harrison  to  Miss  Ella  Reid,  which  will  take  place  at  the 
country  residence  of  her  uncle,  Mr.  Whitelaw  Reid,  Ophir  Farm, 
Westchester  county,  New  York,  the  former  home  of  Ben.  Holla- 
day  and  his  family.  The  date  for  the  ceremony  is  set  for  the  29th 
of  September,  and  will  be  one  of  the  fashionable  events  of  the 
autumn,  and  several  large  entertainments  are  among  the  proba- 
bilities to  welcome  the  newly-wedded  pair  upon  tbeir  arrival  in 
San  Francisco. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Sahlein  are  making  their  home  at  the 
Palace  Hotel  since  their  return  to  the  city,  and  where  on  Mondays 
in  August  they  will  receive  their  friends. 


■     r  i\.i   ■>  >    i-  i   i  >     .\  a  itd    i.i    |   |  i •  |; 


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There  will    b*    the   wr<Minc>  to  .morrow,  those  of  Miss  Fannie 

"ilh    and  I  .,;    «t    thr    bride's   hom«   on    Geary 

street,  and  of  MIm  Fanny  Stern  and  Marcu*  B.  levy,  which  will  he 

.on  will  bo  married 

A.  Mullln  at  Calvary  Presbyterian   Church    on  Thursday 

ng  of  next  week,   and    the   following  week    the  marriage  of 

•nnie  Marshall   and    I'hillp    Hates  will   orrnr  «t  Si.  l.nkc! 

b  on  Van  Ness  avenue.     One    of   the  early  September  eere- 

-  will  be  the  one  which    unites    Mix    Kllevlce  Murphy  and 

irkson  of    the    N.  P.  R.  K.     The  engagement    of  Miss 

Veils  to  I'r.  Charles  Griswold   is   among  the  latest  of  those 

recently  announced. 

ibsentees  were  at  last  accounts  well  scattered  over  Europe. 
Among  others  at  Carlsbad  were  all  the  Spreckels,  Mrs.  and  Miss 
Ilene  fvers.  Mrs.  Belle  Donahue  ami  Miss  Marguerite  Wallace 
bad  arrived  in  Hamburg  from  Vienna.  Mrs.  Dr.  J.  C.  Tucker 
and  her  daughters.  Mae  and  Clara,  are  at  Stuttgardt.  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Younger  and  ber  step-daughters  are  domiciled  in  Vienna,  where 
the  young  ladies  will  study  music,  etc.,  for  the  next  twelve 
months  or  more.  Webb  Howard  is  in  Paris.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Gibson  and  Miss  Laura  Belden  in  the  south  of  France,  and  Mrs. 
Clark  Crocker  and  Miss  Fanny  traveling  in  continental  Europe. 

At  the  grand  ball  given  to  Governor  Markham  and  General 
Dimond,  at  Sea  Beach  Hotel,  Santa  Cruz,  Wednesday  evening, 
Governor  Markham  entered  the  thronged  ballroom,  having  on 
his  arm  Miss  Agnes  McLaughlin,  daughter  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
McLaughlin,  of  Golden  Gate  Villa,  and  escorted  by  officers  of  the 
stall.  Miss  McLaughlin  was  exquisitely  gowned,  in  a  costume 
most  becoming  to  her  bright,  animated  beauty,  and  the  Gov- 
ernor was  evidently  proud  of  the  young  lady,  who  had  favored 
him  so  far  as  to  lead  the  ball  with  bim. 


The  inmates  of  the  Crocker  Old  People's  Home  feel  deep  regret 
in  parting  with  the  Rev.  W.  L.  Githens,  who  has  been  the  Chap- 
lain of  the  Home  for  a  couple  of  years  past.  Mr.  Githens,  who 
has  accepted  a  call  to  New  Mexico,  will  depart  at  an  early  day  to 
his  new  field  of  duty,  and  his  probable  successor  will  be  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Stoy,  until  recently  pastor  in  charge  of  the  Episcopal  Church 
at  San  Rafael.  Dr.  Githens  delivers  a  lecture,  which  will  be  a 
farewell,  at  the  Union  Square  Baptist  Church,  on  Bush  street,  this 
evening. 

The  Charleston  and  Boston  have  both  gone  to  Santa  Cruz,  the 
former  with  the  Naval  Batallion  on  board,  to  help  along  the  fes- 
tivities at  that  gay  little  watering  place.  The  officers  of  the 
Charleston  have  been  entertaining  their  friends  on  board  of  that 
ship  during  the  week.  On  Tuesday  a  party  which  included  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Scott  and  Dick  Pease  dined  on  board,  and  re- 
mained to  witness  the  sham  attack  later  in  the  evening,  and  on 
Wednesday  a  large  party  of  ladies  -visited  the  cruiser  and  were 
made  at  home  upon  her  decks. 

Piedmont  has  been  entering  the  lists  as  a  center  for  gayety  most 
successfully.  Miss  Amy  Requa  signalized  her  return  from  her  re- 
cent long  absence  by  a  delightful  little  dance,  the  young  people 
who  enjoyed  it  being  all  Oaklanders,  and  the  dainty  supper  served 
was  a  feature  of  the  evening's  pleasure.  Another  charming  even- 
ing's'entertainment  was  the  musicale  at  Mrs.  George  C.  Perkins' 
residence  on  Piedmont  Heights,  at  which  Miss  Nellie  Turner,  Miss 
Varney,  Miss  Nightingale  and  the  Misses  Perkins  were  the  con- 
tributors, Mrs.  Perkins  supplementing  the  musical  programme 
with  one  of  the  suppers  for  which  she  is  famed. 


There  is  to  be  high  carnival  at  the  Oakland  ball  grounds  on  the 
20th  inst. ,  for  the  social  stars  of  Oakland  and  Alameda  are  to 
cross  bats  in  a  game  of  ball  for  the  benefit  of  Fabiola  Hospital. 
The  boxes  are  to  be  sold  by  auction,  and  the  indications  are  that 
there  will  be  a  strong  gathering  of  the  elite.  The  rival  teams 
will  be  selected  from  the  following  well  known  clubmen.  Oak-- 
land — Mark  Requa,  Buck,  Jack  Roberts,  Brick  Wheaton,  Chas. 
D.  Bates,  Jr.,  B.  Melly,  Chas:  Comstock,  Will  Allen  and  Mike 
Fine.  Alameda — Tobin,  Sidney  Allen,  C.  Allen,  Lally,  Cohen, 
Haslett  and  Schlinghyde. 

On  Sunday  evening  last,  a  most  enjoyable  ride  was  given  in 
honor  of  Miss  Gertie  Schweitzer,  of  Cedar  Knoll  Vineyard,  near 
Napa  City.  The  moon  failed  to  cast  its  light  on  the  four-horse  bus, 
but  nevertheless  the  crowd  was  the  jolliest  one  that  ever  drove 
through  the  town  of  lunacy.  On  the  return  to  Cedar.  Knoll  a 
sumptuous  supper  was  spread,  and  many  speeches  were  made  by 
the  young  ladies.  It  was  early  Monday  morning  before  the 
merry  folks  dispersed. 

Gen.  and  Mrs.  Hawkins  left  for  the  East  last  Monday  evening. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  M.  Fratinger  departed  by  the  same  overland 
train.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sands  W.  Forman  and  family  are  visiting 
at  Coronado  Beach,  where  they  have  been  since  early  in  the 
week.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiram  Tubbs  and  Miss  Tubbs  have  been 
enjoying  the  sights  and  festivities  of  Denver,  whither  they  went 
With  the  Knights  Templar  to  the  conclave. 


The  Misses  Carroll  have  bean  at  lb*  Palace  llotol  during  thr 
wceK  having  relume!  from  ihrir  Eastern  trip  Mr,.  I.aao 
Iruml.o  is  also  al  bom*  again,  after  an  absence  from  the  city  of 
several    months.      Dr.  W.    11.    May.,    has    returned    from   a    four 

month. i  trip  through  Europe.  Mr  Prod  Castle's  many  friend, 
are  glad  to  learn  of  hi!  convalescence,  after  his  recent  serious 
illness, 


Mrs.  Dr.Nntlall  ami  her  daughters  are  again  at  their  pretty 
home  on  Pacific  Heights,  alter  a  three  months'  visit  to  .Ktna 
springs  and  other  country  resorts.  Among  other  returns  to  town 
are  Mrs  Walter  Castle  and  her  sister,  Miss  Well,  Mr.  and  the 
Misses  Hasten,  Mrs.  Isaac  Hecht  and  her  daughters,  from  Lake 
Tahoe.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  I.  Kip,  Jr.,  are  among  this  week's  ar- 
rivals in  town  from  their  summer  visit  to  Santa  Rosa. 

One  of  the  many  pretty  weddings  in  the  City  of  Churches  this 
week  was  that  of  Francis  J.  Woodward  to  Miss  Dell  Chapman, 
at  the  Brooklyn  Presbyterian  Church  on  Thursday  evening.  Rev. 
Dr.  B.  S.  Chapman,  father  of  the  bride,  performed  the  ceremony, 
which  was  witnessed  by  a  big  assemblage  of  friends  of  the  happy 
couple.  A  reception  was  afterwards  held  at  the  Chapman  resi- 
dence. 


The  bowling  clubs,  so  popular  with  the  ladies  of  the  Concordia 
Club  last  season,  are  reorganizing.  When  the  summer  season  ap- 
proached and  those  in  the  swim  hied  to  the  country  resorts,  the 
bowling  clubs  disorganized.  The  Friday  night  club  met  last 
evening  for  the  first  time,  and  other  clubs  are  in  process  of  form- 
ation.    Ed.  Armer  is  the  leading  spirit  in  the  Friday  night  club. 

Among  recent  acquisitions  in  army  circles  are  Col.  Egan,  who 
succeeded  Gen.  Hawkins  as  Chief  Commissary,  and  who,  with 
his  family,  is  at  the  Occidental;  Major  John  A.  Darling,  who  has 
returned  again  to  California,  and  is  stationed  at  the  Presidio,  and 
Chief  Paymaster,  Col.  Wilson,  whose  wife  and  daughter  will 
make  pleasant  additions  to  social  circles  this  winter. 

There  left  this  city  for  Santa  Cruz,  yesterday  afternoon,  a  jolly 
crowd,  in  a  special  Pullman  car.  The  party  was  composed  of 
General  S.  W.  Backus,  W.  Kruse,  John  C.  Quinn,  Col.  J.  F.  Davis, 
Colonel  S.  K.  Thornton,  General  Pratt  and  several  others.  They 
will  remain  in  Santa  Cruz  until  Sunday,  and  while  there  the  car 
will  be  sidetracked,  and  in  it  the  visitors  will  be  domiciled. 

Colonel  Sonntag  gave  a  pleasant  party  to  some  fifty  friends 
last  Friday.  The  steamer  Caroline  was  chartered,  and  the  guests 
left  at  8  p.  m.  from  the  Jackson-street  wharf.  The  Charleston  was 
visited,  and  the  singers  on  the  Caroline  serenaded  the  cruiser  for 
some  time.  Supper  was  served  on  board,  and  the  party  returned 
at  11 :30  o'clock,  after  a  most  enjoyable  evening. 

A  happy  party  assembled  in  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  Oak- 
land, on  Sunday  last,  to  witness  the  christening  of  Bessie,  the 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  T.  Dargie.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Ritchie,  and  at  its  conclusion  a  party  of 
invited  guests  assembled  at  Mr.  Dargie's  residence,  on  Alice  street, 
where  a  dainty  luncheon  was  served. 


Mrs.  George  Crowell  and  her  son,  who  have  been  studying 
painting  in  Paris  for  two  and  a  half  years  past,  have  left  the 
French  capital  and  are  traveling  through  Holland,  Belgium  and 
Italy.  They  will  bring  home  with  them  one  of  the  finest  collec- 
tions of  pictures  that  ever  reached  this  city.  They  will  sail  from 
Europe  to  New  York  on  the  20th  inst. 

The  members  of  the  "Can  You  Think"  Club,  of  East  Oakland, 
had  a  glorious  time  last  night  at  the  social  held  at  the  residence 
of  R.  F.  Allen,  822  Fifteenth  street.  The  club,  although  young, 
has  already  gathered  in  its  fold  a  big  percentage  of  the  jeunesse 
doree  on  the  east  side  of  Lake  Merritt. 


Messrs.  George  and  Detrick  have  chartered  the  schooner  Vine, 
and  have  invited  a  number  of  friends  to  join  them  in  a  stag  party. 
They  leave  Washington-street  wharf  this  afternoon,  and  will  re- 
turn Sunday,  after  visiting  Sausalito  and  other  points  of  interest. 


The  wedding  of  Miss  Millie  Marcus  and  J.  B.  Solomon  took 
place  on  Sunday  last  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents,  580 
Charter  street,  Oakland.  It  was  a  quiet  affair,  only  the  immedi- 
ate friends  of  the  contracting  parties  being  present. 

A  lawn  open-air  production  of  '« As  You  Like  It,"  for  the 
benefit  of  one  of  the  charitable  institutions  is  talked  of  in  Oak- 
land society.  If  the  project  matures  it  will  be  one  of  the  greatest 
events  of  the  season  on  the  other  side  of  the  bay. 


The  two  brides,  the  Mesdames  Clark,  nee  Winkler,  who  re- 
turned from  their  honeymoon  trip  to  Soda  Lake  Springs  last 
week,  were  given  a  very  pleasant  reception  at  the  residence  of 
Mrs.  A.  H.  Clark,  in  East  Oakland,  last  week. 

The  residence  of  J.  J.  Valentine,  on  Thirteenth  avenue,  East 
Oakland,  was  thronged  on  Wednesday  afternoon  last,  the  occa- 
sion being  a  tea  given  by  Mrs.  Valentine  for  the  benefit  of  the 
East  Oakland  Free  Kindergarten. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  13,  1892. 


The  travel  to  the  Yosemite  this  season  promises  to  be  heavy, 
as  the  valley  is  in  its  most  beautiful  garb.  The  favorite  route  is 
by  way  of  Wawona  and  the  Big  Tree  Grove,  from  which  the  well 
equipped  stages  of  the  Yosemite  Valley  Stage  Company  convey 
the  tourists  into  the  valley.  The  attractions  of  the  famous  grove 
of  big  trees  are  only  second  to  those  of  Yosemite  itself.  The  Stone- 
man  House,  in  the  valley,  at  which  all  visitors  stay,  is  as  well 
managed  a  hotel  as  can  be  found  in  this  State  of  famous  bos- 
telriea.  ___^__ 

The  many  attractions  of  the  Hotel  Kafael  continue  to  bring 
visitors  to  that  beautiful  and  popular  resort.  The  Rafael  is  the 
Mecca  of  society's  leaders.  Its  beautiful  location,  nearness  to 
the  city,  and  excellent  management  combine  to  make  it  one  of 
the  most  popular  of  our  hotels. 


Mayor  and  Mrs.  Sanderson  have  been  visiting  Los  Angeles  this 
week.  Mrs.  George  A.  Low  and  her  daughter,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J. 
K.  Nuttall,  Miss  Betty  Hammond  and  Miss  Helen  Wheeler  have 
been  among  recent  visitors  at  the  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose. 


The  Concordia  Club  high  jinks,  which  had  been  set  for  last 
Tuesday  evening,  did  not  come  off.  It  was  apparent  that  a  large 
number  of  the  members  would  be  nnable  to  attend,  and  so  the 
affair  was  postponed  until  September  10th. 


Mrs.  J.  D.  Redding  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Myra,  who,  when 
on  their  return  from  their  European  trip,  stopped  over  at  Manitou 
Springs,  Colorado,  to  visit  friends,  are  expected  to  arrive  here  to- 
morrow. 


Miss  Mae  Dimond's  visit  to  Del  Monte,  where  she  is  the  guest 
of  Miss  Hope  Ellis,  will  be  but  a  brief  one,  as  she  leaves  to-day 
for  a  visit  of  two  months  the  other  side  of  the  continent. 


Commodore  R-  L.  Ogden,  better  known  as  "  Dick,"  has  been 
very  warmly  welcomed  upon  his  return  to  old  familiar  scenes 
hereabouts,  after  his  long  absence  from  California,  chiefly  spent 
in  New  York. 

Charles  G.  Levison  returned  lo  the  city  on  Saturday  last,  after 
an  extended  visit  of  several  years  abroad,  during  which  he  vis- 
ited all  the  leading  hospitals  and  clinics  in  Europe. 


Dr.  J.  Franklin  Brown  will  return  from  his  European  trip 
about  the  15th  inst.  He  will  be  accompanied  by  a  party  of  dis- 
tinguished English  people. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Marsh  and  Miss  Eva  Marsh  are  at  Los 
Gatos  on  a  visit.  Mr.  Marsh  will  resume  his  professional  duties 
early  next  week. 

The  marriage  of  Leon  Smith  and  Miss  Dora  Wilson,  of  Oak- 
land, will  take  place  on  the  27th  inst. 

Miss  Daisy  Willard  is  on  a  two  months'  visit  to  relatives  at  Los 
Angeles  and  Coronado. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Swabacker  (nee  Gump)  left  for  the  East  last  Thurs- 
day. 

Baggage  Notice. 


Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip.  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

Order  Argonaut  Whisky  if  you  want  to  enjoy  an  excellent  drink, 
for  the  Argonaut,  it  is  admitted,  has  no  superior  in  the  market.  It 
is  excellent  whisky,  and  cannot  be  excelled.  It  has  received  the 
highest  of  praise  from  all  competent  judges,  and  no  other  can  be 
compared  with  it. 

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unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 

Special  attention  given  to  all  cases  recommended  by  family  pbysiciaDs 
free  of  charge.  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  135  Montgomery  street  uear 
Bush. 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Crocker    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works— Quijotoa,  Arizona. 

N°tic,e  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
pn  the  11th  dayof  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No  12)  of  5  ceLts  perstare  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company  room 
23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco,  California 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
The  Twentieth  Da,  of  September.  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  adyertised  for  sole  at  public  auction,  and   unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  nth  day  of  October.  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with   costs   of  advertising  and  expen- 
ses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 

all  forma.  ' 


JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

SA.2ST    ZfPDR^-ZtNTCISCO,       -       -       -       CA-Ii. 

Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

Patent  Lead-Lined   Coupled   Tubing,  for   use  as 


Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap 


DODGE  BROS.,  SS 


Crane's  Distaff,  Crane's  Kid  Finish 
and  Hurd's  "Royal  Purple "  are 
groups  of  perfection  in  Note  Papers 
that  greet  you  in  all  your  correspon- 
dence.     They  are  art  in  stationery. 


KIPPER  PLATES.    OOC    PHQT    QT 
HEDDWG  CARDS.   ^J    lUO  I    O  I  . 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.B.  CHAPMAN, 


SOLE  AGENT  FOR 

PACIFIC  OOAST. 

123CaliforniaSt.,S.F 


EPERNAY     CHAMPAGNE. 


FOE  SALE  BY  ALL  FIBBT-CLASB 

Wine    Merchants  and  Grocers. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion     Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892.  an  assessment  (No.  39),  of  twenty-five  (25)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  16th  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore,   will   be    sold    on   TUESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  October,  1892,   to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,  Sau  Francisco,  California. 


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Number  8. 


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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

LEADING  ARTICLE!*  : 

The  British  Interregnum  2 

The  House  nf  Lorda 2 

The  Art  and  Science  of  Teach- 

ine  3 

M  inir-ipal  Polities  3 

One  Reason  for  Lynching  3 

ttnssla  Id  .v-ia       3 

Hon.  Jjimc>  A.  Wavraire     4 

Hod.  Charles  N.  Fox.     4 

T.-imi- and  Ba.^fhall     5 

Plea.vure's  Wand         6-7 

A  Moonlight  Stroll  (Postry^      ...      8 
The  New  Countess  of  Orkney  » 

Tidies— Old-lime  Fancy  Work  ...     9 
The  Looker-Ou        10-11 


Page 

Sparks 12 

To  Mabel  (Poetry) 13 

Havward's  Lake  Couutv  Specula- 
tion      13 

Fiuancia)  Review 14 

Towu  Crier 15 

The  Rose  Jar...     16 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 17 

Real  Property     .   .  18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...     19 
A  Great  Newspaper  Press       ....  19 

Scientific  and  Useful 20 

^uubeams 21 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs      .22 

Vanit-es  23 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 
Society 26-27-28 


ONE  of  the  most  nnique  and  thriving  clubs  in  this  city  is  the 
"  Piny  Dozen."  It  is  composed  for  the  most  part  of  gentle- 
men who  have  resigned  from  other  city  clubs  on  the  grounds  that 
the  service  was  too  clean  to  suit  them. 


WE  understand  that  the  Pacific  Coast  is  threatened  with  an- 
other visit  from  il  Father  "  Merplie,  whose  name  is  not  un- 
familiar to  readers  of  the  News  Letter.  We  wonderif  his  friends 
at  Narbonne,  in  France,  have  staked  him  again. 


THE  Superintendent  of  Schools  should  put  a  stop  to  the  custom 
prevalent  in  some  "  show"  schools  of  requiring  pupils  to  con- 
tribute dimes  and  quarters  to  a  general  fund  for  the  purchase  of 
decorations  for  the  rooms.  The  practice  is  bad  in  every  way, 
and  should  be  stopped. 

WILLIAM  BLACK,  the  novelist,  has  taken  Andrew  Carnegie 
for  his  model  in  a  new  novel  be  has  written.  Now.  the 
query  is,  will  this  hero  be  one  to  be  admired  or  not,  the  pre- 
sumption being  that  Black  has  copied  Carnegie  to  the  life?  Make 
your  bets,  gentlemen. 


P- 


POLICE  JUDGE  IUX  should  not  allow  the  Welsh-McManus 
T/  assault  to  murder  cases  to  be  dismissed.  These  men  have 
had  too  much  of  their  own  way,  and  should  be  made  to  feel  the 
hand  of  the  law.  If  reputable  citizens  committed  such  offenses, 
short  shrift  would  be  made  of  tbeni,  but  these  bullies  are  allowed 
to  play  fast  and  loose  with  the  law. 

OFFICER  BROWN  said  it  was  customary  with  biro  to  eject  cit- 
izens from  the  police  station  when  they  went  there  to  bail  out 
their  friends  before  they  had  been  locked  up.  Officer  Brown 
rather  boasts  of  his  ability  as  a  pugilist  and  his  authority  as  an 
officer.  He  is  one  of  the  men  who  disgrace  the  police  force,  and 
draw  down  upon  it  the  condemnation  of  good  citizens.  Officer 
Brown  should  be  given  a  vacation. 


THE  American  Bankers'  Association,  which  will  assemble  in  this 
city  on  September  7th,  will  be  a  notable  gathering.  It  will 
embrace  among  its  numbers  some  of  the  most  eminent  financiers 
of  the  United  States,  and  its  discussions  will  be  extremely  inter- 
esting. It  is  understood  that  the  peculiar  methods  practised  by 
the  officials  of  the  Maverick  Bank  in  Boston  will  not  receive  the 
unhesitating  approval  of  the  Association. 

THE  man  variously  known  as  Dr  Beale  and  Dr.  Haven,  and 
who  is  believed  to  be  directly  responsible  for  the  death  of 
Mary  Carroll,  is  in  custody.  While  we  are  very  averse  to  pre- 
judging any  case,  particularly  a  criminal  one,  we  may  and  do  say 
that  if  the  guilt  of  this  man  be  proved  conclusively  no  mercy 
should  be  shown  him  ;  he  should  die  on  the  gallows.  If  there  be 
any  one  crime  in  this  city  which  demands  repression  by  the  strong 
arm  of  the  law,  it  is  that  of  which  this  Dr.  Beale-Haven  stands 
accused. 


AN  Wednesday  the  mercury  in  the  thermometers  in  this  ritv 
KJ  climbed  up  to  92,  which  is  very  much  above  Ihe  normal  of 
summer  heat  here;  but  we  con  say  with  perfect  confidence  that 
rue  worst  that  happened  to  any  one  was  a  temporary  incon- 
venience One's  thirst  may  have  increased,  with  a  longing  for 
coot  drinks,  or  one's  most  intimate  garment-  have  manifested  a 
disposition  to  oppose  a  separation  from  the  body  corporeal,  but 
mat  was  all.  No  sun-strokes,  no  prostration  from  heat,  no 
sweltering  and  suffocating  babies  or  children,  and  no  unduly  pro- 
tane  adults.  Ninety-two  in  this  city  ii  about  equivalent  to  seventy 
in  the  great  Eastern  cities. 


WHATEVER  maybe  the  merits  of  the  original  case  of  the 
New  lork  strikers  against  the  railroad  companies,  their 
present  attitude  precludes  any  discussion  of  the  question  until 
peace  shall  be  restored.  No  question  that  can  possibly  be  in- 
volved in  a  dispute  between  labor  and  capital  can  justify  two 
hundred  men  in  terrorizing  a  population  of  six  million,  or  in  de- 
stroying property  belonging  to  those  who  had  no  interest  or  con- 
cern in  the  cause  of  the  original  dispute. 

THE  disquieting  news  from  Afghanistan  is  accumulating  from 
day  today.  According  to  the  latest  reports.  Russiais  becoming 
gradually  more  aggressive,  and  the  Ameer  is  b.  ginning  to  weaken 
in  his  friendship  for  England.  The  statement  that  he  has  re- 
fused to  appoint  a  time  and  place  to  meet  General  Sir  Frederick 
Roberts,  who  was  sent  by  England  to  communicate  with  him,  is 
probably  exaggerated,  but  that  he  may  be  ready,  as  it  is  reported, 
to  treat  with  the  rebels,  and  to  avoid  a  conBict  with  Russia,  is 
most  likely.  The  Ameer  is  usually  well  informed  of  what  is  go- 
ing on  in  England,  and  knowing  that  for  some  time  at  least  Eng- 
land s  foreign  policy  is  ont  of  the  control  of  the  firm  hands  that 
have  managed  it  during  the  last  six  years,  he  hesitates  to  rely  too 
confidently  upon  British  support. 

IT  sometimes  becomes  the  proper  province  of  a  newspaper  to 
comment  upon  the  methods  of  advertising  engaged  in  by  busi- 
ness men,  who  prefer  what  are  known  as  illegitimate  methods, 
to  those  recognized  by  leading  mercbams,  who,  as  a  rule,  consti- 
tute the  main  body  of  advertisers  of  a  community.  The  man, 
for  instance,  who  issues  a  thousand  dodgers  and  has  tbera  dis- 
tributed upon  the  sidewalk,  where  they  are  thrust  into  the  faces 
of  people,  or  thrown  to  the  ground  to  increase  the  dirty  appear- 
ance of  the  streets,  is  a  public  nuisance,  who  should  not  succeed 
in  business,  because  he  does  not  deserve  to.  The  dodger  maniac 
Is  not  a  bit  better  than  the  poor  fool  who  spends  his  money  for 
advertisements  published  in  Blue  Books,  theatrical  programmes 
or  curbstone  pasters.  The  theory  of  advertising  is  to  present  in 
the  best  possible  form  the  qualities  of  your  wares  to  the  greatest 
number  of  probable  purchasers.  Such  effect  can  only  be  gained 
by  advertising  in  the  columns  of  respectable  journals.  Every- 
body reads  the  papers.  People  who  indulge  in  the  so-called  curb- 
stone advertising  are  usually  considered  fraudulent  in  some 
manner.  They  pursue  illegitimate  methods,  and  suffer  in  conse- 
quence. 

THERE  is  a  most  extraordinary  individual  up  in  Colusa  county, 
whose  pranks  have  become  a  source  of  infinite  amusement  to 
all  who  know  him.  He  is  a  Missnurian  from  way  back,  and 
though  old  and  grizzled,  rejoices  in  the  youthful  patronymic  of 
Will  8.  Green,  as  he  delights  to  sign  himself.  He  is  one  of  those 
individuals  who  evidently  thinks  that  He  and  God  made  the 
universe,  and  that  if  he  had  been  consulted  a  little  more,  some 
serious  mistakes  would  have  been  avoided.  Not  long  since,  this 
sapient  individual  publicly  announced  himself  as  the  dictator  of 
those  opposed  to  hydraulic  mining,  but  when  the  pinch  came,  he 
mildly  took  a  back  seat,  and  cooed  as  gently  as  any  burro  in  love 
with  the  sound  of  his  own  voice.  He  has  recently  gone  off  at 
another  tangent,  and  is  publishing  columns  of  stuff  in  the  funny 
little  paper  which  he  edits  in  the  spare  time  from  regulating  the 
affairs  of  the  universe,  by  which  he  seeks  to  prove  that  the  out- 
put of  the  hydraulic  mines  of  the  State,  at  their  best,  was  only  a 
beggarly  $1,500,000  annually.  As  it  is  a  well-known  fact  that  the 
product  was  $15,000,000,  one  can  but  wonder  what  object  he  ex- 
pects to  attain  by  bis  misrepresentation,  and  whether  he  fancies 
all  his  readers  are  as  foolish  as  himself. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


August  20,  1892. 


THE    BRITISH    INTERREGNUM. 

FOR  the  next  six  months  the  people  of  Great  Brita:n  will  be  in 
the  peculiar  position  of  being  practically  without  a  govern- 
ment. Of  course  Mr.  Gladstone,  after  having  been  summoned  by 
the  Queen  to  form  a  cabinet,  will  be  nominally  at  the  head  of 
affairs.  But  since  all  executive  acts  need  the  approval  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  since  there  is  not  yet  the  slightest  proof  that  Mr. 
Gladstone,  when  he  once  commences  to  propose  legislative 
measures,  will  find  himself  supported  by  a  majority  in  the  House 
of  Commons,  there  is  no  reason  to  assume  that  any  of  his  polit- 
ical actions  during  the  interval,  before  Parliament  meets,  will 
ever  obtain  any  binding  force.  The  vote  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons on  the  lLtb  inst.,  simply  meant  that  there  are  three  hundred 
and  fifty  representatives  in  the  House  of  Commons  at  present 
who  are  wilPng  to  give  Mr.  Gladstone  a  chance  of  submitting  to 
them  next  February  such  measures  as  he  may  have  framed  with 
the  help  of  his  colleagues  by  that  time,  and  who  reserve  to  them- 
selves the  right  to  reject  or  to  accept  them  when  the  moment  for 
division  arrives.  These  three  hundred  and  fifty  men  are  divided 
in  several  groups,  each  of  which  has  different  expectations  with 
regard  to  what  such  measures  ought  to  be,  and  even  with  regard 
to  which  of  them  ought  to  obtain  precedence.  To  obtain  the 
united  support  of  the  three  hundred  and  fifty  representatives, 
Mr.  Gladstone  would  have  to  satisfy  them  all,  a  ta«*k  which  even 
that  wily  old  parliamentarian  will  find  impossible;  and  provided 
he  should  be  able  to  satisfy  them,  there  still  looms  up  the  certain 
rejection  of  his  measures  by  the  House  of  Lords,  without  the 
consent  of  which,  as  matters  stand  at  present,  bills  cannot  be 
passed  by  Parliament,  Still,  let  us,  for  argument's  sake,  treat  the 
consent  of  the  House  of  Lords  as  une  quantite  negligeable,  and  let 
us  look  upon  Mr.  Gladstone's  chances  in  the  House  of  Commons 
alone.  The  motley  following  which  the  new  Premier  has  suc- 
ceeded in  collecting  during  the  recent  election,  he  has  obtained 
by  making  the  most  lavish  promises,  offered  as  a  bribe  to  secure 
supporters  for  his  plans  with  regard  to  Ireland.  But  what  his 
plans  exactly  are,  no  one  has  yet  the  least  idea.  The  last  time 
be  held  office  he  introduced  an  Irish  home  rule  bill,  which  was 
rejected  by  a  decisive  majority  in  the  House  of  Commons,  and 
afterwards  at  the  polls  by  the  people  of  the  United  Kingdom,  as 
unsafe,  and  jeopardizing  the  integrity  of  the  British  Empire. 
And  still  this  very  bill  was  not  considered  sufficient  and  far- 
reaching  enough  by  the  Irish  members.  If  Mr.  Gladstone,  last 
month,  succeeded  in  securing  a  greater  number  of  votes  at  the 
polls  in  England,  Scotland  and  Wales  than  at  the  last  election, 
this  proves  only  that  he  managed  to  create  a  belief  that  his  new 
Irish  measure  will  be  free  from  the  provisions  which  were  ob- 
noxious to  the  people  of  Great  Britain  in  his  last  bill.  But  even 
this  success  was  secured  only  by  means  which  any  one  but  a 
mere  politician  would  have  despised.  It  is  a  notorious  fact  that, 
in  order  to  catch  votes  for  his  one  great  scheme,  Mr.  Gladstone, 
during  the  last  six  years,  has  had  to  change  his  openly  expressed 
opinions  on  labor  legislation,  the  agricultural  condition,  taxation 
of  ground  rents,  local  option,  and  also  many  Biibjects 
of  minor  importance.  And  now,  after  having  made  this 
humiliating  concession,  what  has  he  really  gained  ?  He 
has  obtained  six  months'  leave  to  show  that  he  is  ready  to 
fulfill  his  hasty  e'ectioneering  promises,  and,  when  he  demonstrates 
this  readiness  he  may  rely  that  in  the  House  of  Commons  his 
English,  Scotch  and  Welsh  followers  will  support  a  home-rule 
measure  introduced  by  him,  that  shall  not  contain  the  paragraphs 
disapproved  by  the  people  of  Great  Britain  in  the  previous  meas- 
ure. Their  support,  however,  will  be  perfectly  useless  for  the 
passage  of  the  bill,  provided  that  the  Irish  members  are  not  satis- 
tied  with  a  bill  thus  modified.  Since  the  Irish  representatives 
were  not  even  satisfied  with  the  previous  measure,  there  is  still 
less  chance  that  they  will  be  satisfied  with  a  more  conservative 
one,  such  as  the  English  require.  Considering  all  these  facts  to- 
gether, it  will  be  seen  that  tde  chances  of  Mr.  Gladstone  succeed- 
ing in  obtaining  a  united  majority  for  his  legislative  acts  next 
February  are  infinitely  small,  and  it  may  be  found  out  within  a 
few  weeks  after  the  reassembling  of  Parliament  next  year  that 
the  Premier  will  be  without  the  following  that  he  needs  in  order 
to  remain  in  office.  The  whole  period  preceding  that  event  will 
then  be  seen  to  have  been  an  interregnum  in  the  full  sense  of  the 
word.  And  that  is  the  serious  part  of  the  situation,  for  it  must 
be  remembered  that  though  internal  legislation  is  suspended 
so  long  as  Parliament  is  not  sitting,  the  management  of  the  foreign 
relations  of  E  igiand  cannot  be  interrupted,  and  will,  for  many 
months  to  com  -.  be  in  the  bands  of  a  man  who,  during  his  short 
term  of  office,  can  do  infinite  mischief,  and  whose  previous  record 
shows  that  he  is  quite  capable  of  doing  so. 

SAN  DIEGO  is  going  to  have  a  celebration  on  September  28th, 
which  will  be  of  great  historic  interest.  It  is  to  be  in  com- 
memoration of  the  discovery  of  San  Diego  bay,  in  1542,  or  three 
hundred  and  fifty  years  ago.  When  we  consider  that  that  anti- 
dates  the  Pocahontas  episode  by  some  seventy  years,  and  the 
landing  of  the  pilgrims  by  nearly  eighty  years,  we  can  appreciate 
the  apparent  paradox  that  one  of  the  newest  of  the  American 
States  is  realiy  one  of  the  very  oldest,  and  that  the  thirteen  colo- 
nies are  of  recent  date  as  compared  with,  the  Spanish  occupation 
of  California. 


THE    HOUSE    OF    LORDS. 


TAKING  as  their  cue  the  threat  of  certain  English  Radicals, 
some  of  our  contemporaries  apeak  as  if  an  eventual  abolition 
of  the  British  House  of  Lords  were  one  of  the  most  simple  and 
most  natural  things  in  the  world.  If,  instead  of  using  the  term 
abolition,  they  would  write  reform,  they  would  find  themselves 
in  sympathy  with  a  majority  of  the  English  people,  not  only  of 
the  commoners,  but  of  the  Lords  themselves.  There  is  scarcely 
a  body  that  regrets  more  than  the  most  intelligent  and  capable  of 
the  House  of  Peers,  that  their  utility  is  hampered  in  their  own 
House,  by  the  fact  that  a  lot  of  youthful  and  incompetent  fellows 
having  no  other  legislative  qualification  than  their  hereditary 
privilege,  are  able  to  outvote  them  on  important  occasions,  such, 
for  example,  as  the  ever-recurring  debate  on  the  "  deceased  wife's 
sister  bill,"  and  that  on  the  other  band,  peers  are  not  permitted 
to  take  part  in  the  fray  in  the  House  of  Commons,  where  they 
might  utilize  their  ability  and  power  much  better  for  the  good  of 
the  nation  than  they  are  able  to  do  at  present.  A  measure  of  re- 
form of  the  House  of  Lords  in  the  direction  indicated  is  not  only 
needed,  but  is  sure  to  be  introduced  within  a  very  near  period  of 
the  future,  since  England  has  outgrown  many  of  her  ancient  in- 
stitutions, and  since  the  English  constitution  is  such  that  it  can, 
fortunately,  be  almost  always  adapted  to  the  requirements  of  the 
times  without  any  violent  revolution.  We  should  not  be  at  all 
astonished  if  a  reform  measure  of  that  kind  originated  with  the 
Lords  themselves,  since  Lord  Salisbury  and  his  followers  have 
more  than  once  intimated  that  they  are  in  favor  of  certain  modi- 
fications required  by  the  changed  circumstances.  But  an  aboli- 
tion of  the  House  of  Lords  is  quite  a  different  question,  and  the 
English  are  far  too  conservative  a  nation  and  possess  too  much 
common  sense  not  to  recognize  that  in  the  House  of  Lords,  not- 
withstanding its  many  drawbacks,  the  country  possesses  an  in- 
stitution excellently  adapted  to  counterbalance  the  revolutionary 
and  hasty  acts  of  irresponsible  legislators,  absolutely  dependent 
upon  the  good-will  of  the  populace,  and  ready  to  sacrifice  the 
welfare  of  the  country,  provided  they  can  maintain  their  own 
position.  The  extension  of  suffrage,  though  it  no  doubt  has 
done  a  great  deal  of  good  in  many  respects,  has  increased  in  the 
House  of  Commons  the  number  of  men  who  must  be  regarded  as 
mere  politicians,  and  who  have  nothing  to  lose  except  their  seats 
in  Parliament,  and,  therefore,  cling  to  them  at  all  costs,  and  are 
ready  to  sacrifice  for  them  not  only  their  honest  opinion,  but  the 
welfare  of  the  nation  itself.  Under  these  circumstances,  it  is  of 
the  highest  importance  that  in  Great  Britain — and  it  must  not  be 
forgotten  that  conditions  there  are  somewhat  different  from  ours — 
a  body  of  men  should  be  maintained  in  Parliament  who  can  afford 
to  disregard  those  who  cry  "  Hosannah  "  to-day  and  "  crucify  " 
to-morrow,  and  whose  interests  are  so  closely  connected  with  the 
country  that  its  welfare  means  their  own,  which  is  by  no  means 
generally  the  case  with  men  who  have  no  interest  in  the  soil.  A 
contemporary,  in  an  editorial,  last  Saturday,  aaid:  "The  people 
of  England  have  partially  outgrown  the  supremely  ridiculous 
sentiment  expressed  by  Lord  John  Manners,  in  the  last  century: 
"Let  weal'h  and  commerce,  law*  and  learning  die, 
But  leave  us  still  our  old  nobility." 
In  the  first  place,  the  sentiment  was  not  expressed  in  the  last 
century,  but  was  written  by  Lord  John  James  Robert  Manners, 
second  son  of  the  fifth  Duke  of  Rutland,  in  the  year  1841,  and 
the  words  occur  in  a  volume  of  poems  called  ••  England's  Trust." 
which  Lord  John  published  when  he  was  a  mere  boy.  Lord  John 
was  still  a  hale  and  hearty  member  of  the  House  of  Commons 
three  years  ago,  and,  if  we  are  not  greatly  mistaken,  became, 
after  the  death  of  his  elder  brother,  Duke  of  Rutland,  and  was 
transferred  to  the  House  of  Peers.  But  this  is  by  the  way.  He 
himself  ha?,  as  it  is  said,  often  smiled  in  his  later  years  at  his 
youthful  exaggeration  of  the  worth  of  the  English  nobility,  and, 
taken  out  of  its  context,  the  coupling  in  question,  of  course 
seems  somewhat  ridiculous.  But  still,  it  must  not  be  forgotten 
that  the  English  Peers,  as  history  shows,  have  greatly  contributed 
to  the  grandeur  of  the  country,  and  those  who  believe  that  an 
abolition  of  the  English  peerage  is  imminent,  do  not  understand 
the  character  of  the  British  nation,  which,  though  always  favor- 
ing reform,  is  not  apt  to  support  revolutionary  measures,  chang- 
ing at  one  stroke  the  whole  constitution  of  the  realm. 

THE  Postoffice  job  is  consummated.  Notwithstanding  the  pro- 
tests of  the  combined  press  of  the  city,  the  affidavits  of 
reputable  citizens,  and  the  expressed  opinions  of  real  estate  ex- 
perts, the  Government  at  Washington,  represented  by  His  Holi- 
ness, John  Wariamaker,  has  paid  $1,040,000  for  a  piece  of  land 
that  would  be  rather  dear  at  about  half  the  money.  It  has  been 
said  that  there  was  money  in  the  transaction  for  those  who  car- 
ried it  through.  Some  have  even  gone  so  far  as  to  alkd^e  that  the 
local  commission  had  a  finger  in  the  pie;  that  the  additional 
$40,000  was  tacked  on  to  the  round  million  for  their  especial 
benefit.  We  do  not  believe  it.  We  would  be  very  loath  to  think 
that  such  an  honorable  gentleman  as  John  P.  Irish  would  accept 
rnomy  for  performing  governmental  duties.  We  do  not  believe 
that  he  would  take  a  third  of  $40,000  in  a  million  dollar  trans- 
action ;  or  in  fact  in  any  other  transaction  of  such  a  nature.  The 
commissioners  surely  have  been  maligned.  They  are  all  honora- 
ble men. 


August  20,  1892. 


BAN   n;  INCI8CO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    ART    AND    SCIENCE    OF    TEACHING 

AT  the  University  of  California  the  chair  of  pedagogy,  or  Ihe 
art  and  science  of  teaching,  ha*  recently  been  filled  by  the 
appointment  of  a  graduate  of  the  I'nlveralty  of  Michigan.  The 
Dame  of  the  chair  indicates  its  character  with  sufficient  exactness, 
and  the  only  question  as  to  which  there  is  any  doubt  is,  whether 
there  Is  an  art  and  science  of  teaching  that  can  be  taught.  The 
example  of  our  Normal  Schools  would  seem  to  indicate  that  the 
art  of  teaching  is  communicable,  but  not  every  graduate  of  a 
Normal  School  is  a  teacher,  io  spile  of  bis  or  her  diploma,  any 
more  than  every  graduate  of  a  medical  college  is  a  doctor,  or  a 
young  fellow  with  a  certificate  a  lawyer.  It  has  never  been  found 
possible,  since  the  world  began,  to  pour  out  of  a  jug  more  tban 
there  is  in  it.  The  experiment  has  been  tried  by  would-be  poets, 
scientists  and  literary  men  of  every  kind,  but  never  with  success. 
The  quality  which  we  call  intellect  or  talent  or  genius,  or  just 
plain  brains,  must  be  part  of  the  individual  before  be  can  accom- 
plish anything  which  shall  be  of  profit  to  himself  or  value  to  the 
world.  Occasionally  one  is  found  who  may  shine  for  a  time  by 
reflected  light,  but  no  one  can  lung  mistake  the  borrowed  illuiui 
nation  for  the  real  thing;  and  then  the  mirror  is  so  apt  to  get 
scratched  and  defaced,  or  its  luster  dimmed,  that  it  loses  its  power 
of  reflection.  Is  it,  then,  worth  while  to  establish  and  maintain 
a  professorship  of  pedagogy  at  the  University  of  California,  or 
will  the  results  be  commensurate  with  the  labor  of  the  professor, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  money  paid  for  his  salary  ?  If  it  be  true 
that  tbe  teacher,  like  the  poet,  is  born,  not  made,  would  it  not  be 
just  as  reasonable  to  graduate  students  in  tbe  art  and  science  of 
making  poetry  as  in  the  art  and  science  of  teaching  ?  That  there 
are  persons  of  both  sexes  who  are  adapted  by  nature 
to  be  teachers,  is  too  obvious  to  need  argument.  We  have 
all  known  them  and  recognized  their-'manifest  fitness  for 
their  work,  not  only  by  results  but  by  operation  of  the  methods 
they  employ.  We  have  seen  young  and  timid  girls,  not  wise  or 
learned  and  very  distrustful  of  their  own  powers,  succeed  where 
strong  men  have  made  an  utter  failure;  and  we  have  known 
reckless,  harum-scarum  chaps  to  have  more  influence  and  a  bet- 
ter influence  with  a  lot  of  boys  tban  could  be  gained  by  the  most 
prim  precision  and  rigid  moralist  that  a  theological  seminary  ever 
turned  out.  These  people  have  something  about  them,  whether 
it  be  tact,  or  knack,  or  skill,  or  whatever  we  may  choose  to  call 
it,  that  enables  them  not  only  to  impart  information  in  a  way 
that  makes  it  stick,  but  to  draw  out  the  best  there  is  in  a 
pupil  and  make  him  learn,  whether  he  be  so  disposed  or  not. 
Education,  as  has  often  been  pointed  out,  is  not  the  pouring-in 
process  merely.  It  is  the  leading  out  of  the  ways  of  error  and 
ignorance  into  the  paths  of  wisdom;  it  is  inducing  or  even 
cajoling  a  pupil  into  the  exertion  of  his  own  faculties,  and  per- 
suading him  to  do  that  which  ia  best  for  him  in  spite  of  his  dis- 
inclination to  study.  Can  this  art  or  science  be  taught?  Can  the 
new  Professor  lay  down  any  code  of  rules  and  regulations  which, 
if  followed,  will  enable  the  newly-fledged  teacher  to  adapt  him- 
self to  the  multifarious  conditions  which  confront  the  pedagogue? 
Is  there  an  infallible  manual  of  arms  for  teaching  the  young  idea 
to  shoot,  or  any  teachable  science  that  can  supply  the  place 
of  that  marvelous  intuition  which  characterizes  the  born  teacher? 
We  canro'  answer  our  own  questions  but  the  success  of  the  ro.v 
chair  of  pedagogy  will  be  watched  with  interest,  and  we  stand 
ready  to  recant  and  revise  our  opinions  if  success  shall  crown  the 
labors  of  the  recently  installed  Professor  of  the  art  and  science  of 
teaching. 

RUSSIA    IN    ASIA. 


ONE    REASON    FOR    LYNCHINO 


THE  reports  from  Central  Asia  show  plainly  that  Eussia  seems 
to  have  for  the  moment  abandoned  its  attitude  of  inactive  ex- 
pectancy and  is  showing  decided  activity,  evidently  caused  by 
the  knowledge  of  the  Russian  government  that  Great  Britain 
will  have  serious  difficulties  to  contend  with  at  home  for  many 
months  to  come.  Still  the  advisers  of  the  Czar  are  sadly  mis- 
taken if  they  imagine  that  England  is  not  able  to  protect  her  own 
interests  abroad  in  the  case  of  internal  troubles,  and  even  Mr. 
Gladstone  will  probably  show  extreme  caiefulness  before  repeat- 
ing his  reckless  laissez-faire  policy  with  regard  to  Russia,  since  the 
time  when  he  could  Bhield  himself  behind  his  great  popularity  is 
long  gone.  Nevertheless  it  is  no  wonder  that  Russia  should  be- 
come venturesome  when  looking  back  upon  the  Liberal  leader's 
previous  attitude.  It  was  intimated  last  week  by  some  daily 
papers  in  this  country  that  the  alarming  news  from  Central  Asia 
may  be  inspired  by  the  Tories.  Well,  the  latest  telegrams  show 
that  this  suspicion  is  incorrect,  as  might  have  been  foreseen,  for 
cold  facts  of  active  hostilities  in  the  Pamir  region  and  on  the 
borders  of  Afghanistan  have  since  been  reported,  and  the  previous 
statements  have  been  fully  confirmed.  If  anything  were  needed 
to  Bhow  the  seriousness  of  the  situation,  it  would  be  found  in  the 
announcement  that  General  Sir  Frederick  Roberts,  at  the  head  of 
"a  large  detachment"— a  euphemistic  term  for  a  small  army- 
has  been  sent  to  the  assistance  of  the  Ameer  of  Afghanistan. 
The  British  government  is  not  apt  to  take  such  measures  for 
m ;re  political  purposes  at  home.  The  Czar  hopes  to  have  a  walk- 
over in  Central  Asia  under  Mr.  Gladstone's  government. 


A&BCRNT  occurrence  In  ihe  southern  portion  "f  Ihe  State  ex- 
plains one  of  the  reasons  why  lynching  is  so  Ir.jioiii.  I 
Ia  no  dispute  made  as  to  (lie  aivurary  of  ihe  following  statement 
of  facts:  A  young  man  was  riding  along  the  highroad  in  a  buggy, 
in  company  with  bis  mother.  He  was  unarmed,  and  of  a  peace- 
able disposition.  Coming  to  a  spot  where  an  irrigating  ditch 
croned  the  road,  he  found  the  water  had  washed  out  the  bank 
so  thai  it  was  dangerous  to  attempt  to  cross  it  with  the  vehicle 
without  first  breaking  down  the  perpendicular  wall.  Obtaining 
a  shovel  he  left  the  buggy  and  started  to  repair  tbe  road.  As  he 
did  so.  a  man  who  had  been  lying  on  some  blankets  in  tbe  brush 
at  the  side  of  the  road,  unobserved  by  tbe  passers-by,  rose  to  a 
sitting  position,  aimed  a  double-barreled  shotgun  at  the 
back  of  the  unsuspecting  man,  and  without  a  word  of 
warning,  put  a  charge  of  buckshot  into  him,  kill- 
ing him  instantly.  He  then  turned  bis  weapon  toward  tbe 
horror-stricken  mother,  who  thus  saw  her  son  assassinated  before 
her  very  eyes,  and  discharged  the  second  barrel  at  her,  inflicting 
wounds  which  will  probably  cost  her  life.  Then  leaving  his  lair 
the  assassin  coolly  walked  to  the  body  of  bis  victim,  made  sure 
that  it  was  dead,  and  sauntered  off  down  the  road.  He  was  oput 
under  arrest" — that  is  to  say,  he  was  not  locked  up,  but  was  told 
to  consider  himself  in  custody,  and  no  hint  of  jail  was  given.  He 
belonged  to  "a.  prominent  family,"  and  evidently  it  was  not 
thought  proper  to  lock  bim  up  for  his  dastardly  crime.  The 
Coroner  held  an  inquest,  the  facts  as  recited  were  brought  out 
and  not  contradicted,  and  for  defense — what  do  the  readers  of  tbe 
News  Letter  suppose  was  offered?  Why,  the  judgment  roll, 
in  which  the  father  of  the  murdered  youth  was  awarded 
certain  water  rights,  and  the  father  of  tbe  murderer  certain 
others.  That  was  all;  but  the  sapient  jury  returned  a  verdict 
that  the  assassin  committed  the  cold-blooded  murder  "  in  defense 
of  bis  rights."  Not  even  a  charge  of  manslaughter  was  made 
against  bim.  For  several  days  more  tbe  murderer  remained 
at  liberty,  and  then,  on  the  motion  of  the  District  Attorney,  an 
examination  was  held  before  the  local  Justice  of  the  Peace.  The 
same  testimony  was  given  as  to  the  deliberate,  unprovoked 
character  of  the  crime,  the  same  "  defense  "  was  made,  and  then 
the  red-banded  assassin  was  held  to  bail  in  the  beggarly  amount 
of  $5,000.  Tbe  friends  of  the  murdered  man  were  with  difficulty 
restrained  from  lynching  the  fiend,  the  promise  being  made  them 
that  justice  should  be  done.  But  in  view  of  tbe  course  that  has 
so  far  been  followed,  it  may  well  be  doubted  whether  tbe  mur- 
derer ever  suffers  so  much  as  a  single  day's  imprisonment  for  his 
foul  double  crime.  What  wonder  that  lynch  law  is  so  frequently 
appealed  to  on  behalf  of  outraged  justice! 


MUNICIPAL    POLITICS. 


THE  current  of  municipal  politics  continues  to  run  unsmoothly. 
The  manner  in  which  the  combined  professional  patriots,  both 
Democratic  and  Republican,  meet  in  convention  and  dis- 
pose of  the  affairs  oi  the  people,  without  givinc  tbe  latter 
an  opportunity  to  be  heard,  is  worthy  of  the  greatest  admiration. 
The  state  of  affairs  in  the  Democratic  camp  was  well  shown  last 
Thursday  night,  when  a  guard  was  placed  at  the  door  of  the 
meeting-place,  to  prevent  the  entrance  of  citizens  who  might  de- 
sire to  listen  to  the  learned  deliberations  of  the  gentlemen  who 
happen  this  month  to  be  the  party  leaders.  The  Democratic 
County  Committee  meetings  resemble  nothing  so  much  as  a  fight 
in  a  monkey  cage.  These  men  who,  it  may  be  presumed  for  tbe 
sake  of  argument,  and  for  that  reason  alone,  have  at  heart  the 
good  of  the  community,  seem  to  take  particular  delight  in 
disgusting  the  good  citizens  of  the  city  by  their  methods. 
The  present  condition  of  affairs  is  merely  a  fight  between 
the  powers.  Shall  tbe  old-timers  get  the  upper  hand,  or  shall  the 
Reorganizers,  led  by  Sullivan  and  Dwyer?  And,  in  either  case, 
what  assurance  has  the  mass  of  taxpayers  that  their  interests  will 
be  conserved?  None  whatever.  It  is  known  that  tbe  old-timers 
are  not  trustworthy,  and  one  is  not  far  wrong  who  refuses  to 
place  faith  in  the  men  that  have  gathered  about  the  new  leaders. 
If  the  contending  Democratic  forces  would  settle  their  differences 
and  put  up  a  ticket  composed  of  men  known  to  be  able  and  hon- 
est, they  would  find  support,  but  they  cannot  hope  to  succeed  with 
men  who  are  merely  the  puppets  erected  by  those  who  desire  to 
gain  control  of  the  machinery  of  the  municipal  government.  Af- 
fairs in  the  Republican  camp  are  even  in  worse  condition  than 
within  the  Democratic  lines.  There  are  so  many  contending  ele- 
ments among  Harrison's  followers  that  they  can  have  no  hope  of 
harmony.  A  people's  ticket,  composed  of  strong  men,  would  be 
a  dangerous  factor  for  both  old  parties  in  the  municipal  cam- 
paign.   

THE  Examiner  dispatches  referred  the  other  day  to  Professor 
James  A.  Fellow,  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society,  it  never 
having  occurred  to  the  busy  telegraph  editor  that  Professor  James 
was  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society.  This  is  as  funny  a 
mistake  as  that  on  a  printed  cast  of  the  characters  in  Richelieu, 
which  read  Joseph  A.  Capuchin,  monk,  instead  of  Joseph,  a  Ca- 
puchin monk. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


HON.    JAMES   A.    WAYMIRE. 

THERE  are  few  men  better  known  to  the  general  public,  as 
well  as  to  the  members  of  the  legal  profession  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, than  Judge  James  A.  Waymire.  The  early  years  of  yonng 
Waymire  in  California  were  spent,  as  were  those  of  many  other 
young  men  in  those  times,  in  turning  his  hand  to  anything,  from 
chopping  cordwood  and  doing  ordinary  farm  work  to  driving 
cattle.  He,  however,  never  lost  sight  of  his  studies,  and  though 
in  those  days  they  were  more  of  a  luxury  than  a  necessity,  so 
well  did  he  turn  his  opportunities  to  account  that  before  he  was 
eighteen  he  was  teaching  school.  This  was  in  1861,  the  year  in 
which  the  war  broke  out,  and  though  the  young  man  had  already 
decided  to  adopt  the  law  as  his  profession,  we  find  him  at  the 
early  age  of  nineteen  enlisted  as  a  private  °oldier  for  Indian 
frontier  duty.  From  1861  to  186-4  he  was  continuously  engaged  in 
quelling  refractory  Indian  disturbances  in  the  territories  contin- 
gent to  Oregon,  serving  with  spirit  and  success,  earning  the  high- 
est   encomiums    from    his    superior    officers    and    reaching    the 


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Hon.  James  A.  Waymire. 
rank  of  Lieutenant.  At  the  close  of  the  war,  or  rather  after 
the  fall  of  Atlanta,  Lieutenant  Waymire  tendered  his  resignation 
and  resumed  the  study  of  law.  His  first  official  position  was  that 
of  secretary  to  the  Governor  of  Oregon.  In  the  early  part  of  1867 
he  accepted  a  cavalry  commission  in  the  regular  army,  which  he 
held  till  1869,  when  he  returned  to  his  first  love,  the  legal  pro- 
fession. In  1874  Mr.  Wayruire  moved  to  San  Francisco,  his  law 
practice  here  dating  from  May,  1875.  In  1881  Governor  Perkins 
showed  his  appreciation  of  Mr.  Waymire's  legal  ability  and  in- 
tegrity by  appointing  bim  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  Superior  Court, 
a  position  which  he  held  for  more  than  a  year,  with  credit  to 
himself  and  to  the  honor  of  the  State.  Since  his  resumption  of 
practice,  he  has  been  engaged  in  numerous  important  cases, 
where  his  rare  perception  and  thorough  mastery  of  law,  won  for 
him  a  name  as  one  of  California's  foremost  and  most  capable 
lawyers.  At  the  Republican  State  Convention,  last  month,  Judge 
Waymire's  high  services  to  the  St»te,  and  his  fine  reputation  as  a 
zealous  and  honored  citizen,  were  acknowledged  by  the  unani- 
mous vote  of  the  convention,  by  his  nomination  as  Presidential 
Elector  for  his  district.  In  honoring  the  man,  the  convention 
honored  themselves  and  the  State. 


PETER  ROBERTSON,  dramatist,  critic   and  all  round  good  fel- 
low, has  dined  for   twenty  years  at   the  same  restaurant.     It 
is  a  modest  place,  given  to   plain   dishes,  and  even  modest  about 

the    concoction     of    Mr.    Robertson's    favorite    plat the   Welsh 

rarebit.  A  few  nights  ago  Mr.  Robertson  was  "spotted"  by  some 
friends  of  his.  Opposite  him  sat  a  sad.  dejected-looking  person. 
One  of  the  party  was  about  to  address  the  critic,  when  a  waiter 
rushed  up,  and  said  in  a  horrified  whisper,  "Hush  1  for  goodness 
sake  do  not  interrupt  him.  gentlemen.  He  is  gathering  his  in- 
spiration from  the  'Seedy  Man.'" 

A  MATINEE  is  to  be  given  Thursday,  October  27th,  at  the  Bald- 
win Theatre,  the  proceeds  to  be  devoted  to  the  sick  benefit  fund 
of  the  German  Press  Club  of  California,  a  branch  of  the  National 
Association  of  German-American  Journalists  and  Authors.  The 
performance  will  be  in  English  and  German.  Managers  Alfred 
Bouvier,  of  the  Baldwin,  J.  J.  Gottlob,  of  the  California,  and  F. 
Hitzigrath,  of  the  German  Theatre,  have  promised  their  hearty 
co-operation  to  the  committee  in  charge,  which  consists  of  M. 
Greenblatt,  Judge  Julius  Reimer,  George  Schleyer,  N.  Kollmaun 
and  Dr.  H.  Mubr. 


HON.    CHARLES    N.    FOX. 


AMONG  the  many  men  learned  in  the  law  who  have  become 
famous  as  practicing  attorneys  at  the  bar  of  California,  none 
have  gained  greater  success  than  the  well-known  subject  of  this 
brief  sketch.  Mr.  Fox  has  for  forty  years  been  a  resident  of 
California,  and  during  the  decades  that  he  has  labored  in  this 
State  he  has  gained  a  reputation  for  ability  as  an  attorney  and 
jurist,  second  to  none.  He  has  sat  on  the  bench  of  the  highest 
court  in   California,  and   during   his  service  there  gave  repeated 


Hon.  Charles  N.  Fox. 
evidences  of  that  profound  knowledge  of  the  law  which  has 
given  him  so  prominent  a  place  among  the  counselors  of  the 
West.  Most  of  Mr.  Fox's  career  has  been  devoted  to  the  service 
of  that  great  corporation,  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Works,  which 
he  has  represented  in  its  many  great  interests  for  over  thirty  years. 
The  record  of  his  successes  in  behalf  of  this  one  client  would 
be  sufficient  alone  to  stamp  him  as  a  great  lawyer.  So  well  were 
his  abilities  recognized  throughout  the  State,  that  at  the  time  of 
the  resignation  of  Jackson  Temple  from  the  bench  of  the  Su- 
preme Court,  in  1888,  Mr.  Fox  was  appointed  by  the  Governor  to 
fill  the  unexpired  term,  which  he  did  with  distinguished  ability. 
Ac  Mr.  Fox's  local  office,  on  California  street,  he  is  daily  in  con- 
ference with  men  of  large  affairs,  who  consult  with  him  regard- 
ing-the  management  of  the  great  interests  they  represent. 


The  California  Railway  runs  direct  to  Laundry  Farm,  one  of  the 
most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  in  the  State.  The  railway  has  an 
easy  roadbed,  comfortable  cars,  and  is  well-managed.  It  runs  to 
Mills  Seminary.  The  trains  connect  at  Fruitvale,  at  9:15  a.  m.,  with 
the  8:30  a.  m.  overland  from  this  city,  and  at  11:30  a.  m.  with  the  San 
Jose  train  for  San  Francisco. 


John  F.  Cutter  Whiskey  is  the  best  in  the  market.  It  has  no  su- 
perior, and  is  in  high  fa  vor  among  men  who  drink  the  good  red  liquor. 
It  has  received  the  very  high  praise  of  connoisseurs,  and  is  considered 
by  them  without  a  superior.  For  that  reason  it  is  in  high  favor  at  all 
those  resorts  famous  for  their  excellent  liquors. 


Eat  oysters  in  those  months  with  an  "  r"  in  their  names.  So  said 
an  old  philosopher  who  knew  his  business,  for  in  those  months,  and 
in  August,  which  immediately  precedes  them,  the  oyster  is  fresh, 
succulent  and  most  appetizing.  Those  now  to  be  had  at  Moraghan's, 
in  the  California  Market,  are  the  best  in  the  city. 

OLYMPIC  SALT  WATER  COMPANY. 

(Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California). 

Capital    Stock,    $350,000,    Divided    into   35,000    Shares   at 

$10  Each. 


DIRECTORS— John  D.  Spkeckels,  President;  Wm.  Greek  Harrison, 
"Vice  President  and  General  Manager;  Adolph  B.  Spreckels,  Treasurer; 
John  Rosenfeld,  Merchant;  Chas.  A.  Wieland,  Capitalist;  Cornelius 
O'Connor,  Capitalist ;  James  Spiers,  of  Hinckley,  Spiers  &  Hayes. 

CONSULTING  ENGINEER-D.  Ernest  Melliss,  Ph.D.,  C.  E„  524  Sacra- 
mento street. 

ATTORNEY— Samuel  M.  Shortridqe,  234  Montgomery  street. 

Applications  for  stock  will  be  received  by 


R.  D.  PERRY,  Secretary, 


At  the  office  of  the  Company,  305  California  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 


' 


AoguM   20,  1892. 


>\\    PRAKCI8CO  NEW?    l .i-  l  I  Ki; 


TENNrS    AND    BASEBALL. 

TENNIS  T1'  K  Adn»lwion  I>*y  (ennit  toumiment  i*  drawing  lo  * 
1  close,  an.i  a*  y«i  iheir  ha*  been  nothing  definite  Mi- 
lled about  where  it  is  to  be  held  Monterey  li  quite  out  of  the  qnes- 
lion,  as  the  courts  are  in  no  condition  lo  play  on.  and  the  only  iwo 
olber  available  places  are  Ibe  California  and  the  Oakland  Lawn  Ten- 
nlaVJnb  courle.  The  court*  at  Oakland  will  probably  be  the  scene 
of  Ibe  games.  These  courts  are  in  excellent  condition.  Moreover, 
Ibeir  proximity  to  San  Francisco  will  guarantee  a  goodly  number 
of  spectator?,  who  would  not  go  to  a  distance  to  sea  the  matches. 
Alt  the  players  are  getting  into  form,  and  8tetson  and  lTe  Long 
are  warm  favorites  from  this  side.  Their  learn  work  is  improv- 
ing, and  lately  they  have  been  doing  some  very  good  work.  Last 
Sunday  tbey  defeated  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.  and  George  Vernon  Gray, 
6-1-  t>-2.  11-9.  At  the  Olympic  Club's  tournament  they  defeated 
Treat  »nd  W.  B  Collier,  Jr.,  in  the  firBt  class,  6-1,  1-6.  6-4,  6-1.  In 
the  2nd  class  {through  the  non-appearance  of  J.  A.  Code,  who 
was  to  play  with  Allison)  tbey  won  by  default,  and  In  the  third 
class,  giving  *  30  tbey 'defeated  "Clifford  "  and  Levy,  6-0.  6-1., 
losing  only  nine  points  in  the  match.  This  won  for  them  the 
handsome  racquets  pot  up  as  the  trophy. 

The  California  boys  held  a  small  handicap  tournament  last 
Sunday,  and  as  Wilberforce  was  tipped  by  the  Queen  he  got  away 
with  it.  In  the  preliminary  round  De  Long  beat  Field  6-2;  Bee 
beat  Mitchell  6-2.  In  the  first  round  Wilberforce  beat  Allen  6-2; 
De  Long  beat  Lindley  6-4;  Bee  beat  Dutch  6-0;  Bradsbaw  beat 
Hobart  6-1.  In  the  semi-finals  Wilberforce  beat  De  Long  6-4; 
Bee  beat  Bradshaw  6-2.     Final?,  Wilberforce  beat  Bee  6-3,  6-3. 

Mr.  Lindley.  one  of  the  cracks  of  the  Sacramento  Club,  has 
been  the  guest  of  the  California  Club,  and  has  shown  them  that 
tennis  is  on  the  rise  in  the  Capitol  City. 

O.  P.  Hubbard,  from  latest  reports,  has  been  doing  very  much 
better  than  was  expected.  In  the  .N  ah  ant  invitation  Tournament 
he  defeated  Quincy  Shaw  6-0,  6-4,  and  put  a  feather  in  his  cap  by 
defeating  Sam  Chase  6-3,  3-6,  6-3.  His  victory  over  these  cracks 
puts  W.  H.  Taylor's  stock  up  fifty  per  cent.,  as  Taylor  has  always 
beaten  Hubbard.  We  very  much  regret  that  our  champion  was 
unable  to  attend  the  Eastern  tournaments  this  year,  but  it  is  quite 
likely  that  he  may  enter  in  the  lists  next  year  at  Newport. 

The  Southern  California  Association  1  a i  issued  a  circular  to  the 
effect  that  their  midsummer  tournament  will  be  held  at  the  courts 
at  Santa  Monica,  commencing  August  22d.  The  events  are  as 
follows:  Gentlemen's  singes  (open),  ladies'  singles  (open),  gentle- 
men's handicap  (association),  gentlemen's  singles  (association), 
gentlemen's  doubles  (open),  gentlemen's  doubles  (association), 
mixed  doubles.  The  entries  close  at  10  a.  m.  on  Angust  22d.  Mr. 
M.  8.  Severance,  President  of  the  Association,  who  is  well  known 
in  Ban  Francisco,  has  offered  a  handsome  $100  trophy  for  the 
singles.  San  Francisco  may  have  an  entry  for  the  doubles,  as 
Stetson  and  DeLong  may  go  there,  and  we  have  but  little  doubt 
of  the  result  if  such  proves  to  be  the  case. 

BASEBALL  T^^  wa8  a  noticeable  increase  in  the  attend- 
X  ance  at  the  games  played  in  this  city  last 
Saturday  and  Sunday.  Those  who  have  been  indulging  in  out- 
ings during  the  last  two  months  are  returning  to  the  games. 
Many  were  desirous  of  seeing  Big  Bill  Brown  play.  He  was 
given  a  chance  last  Sunday  by  the  Oaklands.  While  he  played 
an  entirely  satisfactory  game  in  the  outfield  his  bat- 
ting was  a  disappointment  to  every  one.  The  general 
opinion  was  that  if  be  had  done  a  little  timely  hitting 
Oakland  would  have  won  the  game.  He  took  the  place 
of  Carroll  temporarily.  For  an  amateur,  Helmer,  the  new  pitcher 
of  the  San  Jose  team,  has  done  very  well;  he  of  course  lacks  ex- 
perience. The  result  of  the  games  played,  and  the  positions  of 
the  clubs  at  this  time,  indicates  that  the  teams  are  comparatively 
evenly  matched,  and  it  need  surprise  no  one  should  the  last  half 
of  this  season  terminate  even  more  closely  than  the  first  half. 
Oakland  was  not  then  in  the  race,  now  she  is. 

The  Los  Angeles  and  San  Francisco  teams  will  play  in  this  city 
this  afternoon  and  to-morrow.  Next  week  Oakland  will  measure 
bate  with  the  visitors  in  this  city. 

^PRICES 

Baking 
Powder: 

Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard. 


HIGHLAND 


A  TABLE  LUXURY. 

A  CULINARY  ARTICLE, 

AN  INFANTS  FOOD. 

Unsweetened  and  free  from  all  preservatives.  Keeps  for 
any  length  of  time  in  all  cliinales. 

Its  Uniform  Qnalitv,  Convenience  and  economy  render 
HIGHLAND  EVAPORATED  CREAM  preferable  to  all  other 
forms  of  cream  or  milk  for  Coffee,  Tea,  Chocolate,  Ice 
Cream,  Charlotte  Russe,  Custards  and  all  uses  to  which 
ordinary  cream  or  milk  may  be  put. 

Sold  by  Grocers  and  Druggists  Everywhere. 

Write  for  our  Infant  Food  circular  and  Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  booklet  entitled  "A  Few  Dainty  Dishes." 

HELVETIA  MILK    CONDENSING-   CO., 
Sole  Purveyors,  Highland,  III. 


COMFORT   AND 
ADORNMENT. 

Are  the  principal  objects  in  furnishing 
a  home.  We  all  appreciate  comfort- 
able things,  and  know  when  appear- 
ances please  us.  To  obtain  the  best 
results  is,  however,  not  so  simple  a 
matter;  it  requires  not  only  native 
good  taste,  but  also  that  command  of 
materials  and  knowledge  of  details 
which  long  experience  alone  can  give. 

We  have  all  the  requisite  materials 
—in  Carpets,  Furniture  and  Uphol- 
stery—for any  style  of  furnishing,  and 
are  prepared  to  carry  out  any  ideas 
or  plans  desired,  or  to  assume  entire 
charge  and  responsibility. 

Sketches  and  estimates  on  applica- 

"  W.  &  J.  SLOANE  &  CO., 

CARPETS,   FURNITURE,    UPHOLSTERY, 

641-647   Market  Street. 

HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY      AND      COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL.      EXAMINER 

Of  Handwriting, Inks,  Papers,  etc.,  in  the  Detection  of  Forgeries , 

Counterfeits  and  Imitations. 

41  IK  CatlFOBMia  STREET    Sun  Fr.nclSCO.  Cat 

DR.  F.  O.  PAGUE, 

DENTIST, 

Rooms  4  &  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 
810  Market  Street. 

Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 

Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

INGLENOOK  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  8au 
Francisco  prices  aud  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  their 
orders  in  time  with 

F.  A.  HABER. 

Office  and  Depot  Inglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


(We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 


THERE  is  occasionally  a  point  on  which  the  observant  outsider 
can  give  the  professional  sound  advice  well  worth  following. 
A  case  in  point  occurs  to  the  News  Letter  critic.  It  is  this: 
Every  manager  of  a  theatre  booking  engagements  should  reserve 
the  unconditional  right  to  eliminate  anything  in  any  production 
which  he  regards  as  detrimental  to  the  standing  and  reputation 
of  the  house.  It  may  be  that  the  managers  do  reserve  this  right, 
but  they  certainly  do  not  always  exercise  it.  The  audience  has 
a  right  to  be  protected  against  offense  from  traveling  barn-storru- 
ers,  by  whom  any  proprietor  is  liable  to  be  taken  in  at  times,  as 
well  as  from  individual  transgression  in  more  reputable  compa- 
nies. It  is,  I  believe,  the  custom  of  the  managers  to  "  sit  out  the 
show"  on  the  opening  night,  and  then  every  profane  word  and 
vulgar  situation  should  be  noted  for  instant  expurgation.  This 
may  be  a  delicate  and  ungracious  task;  but  as  a  positive  duty  to 
the  respectable  and  refined  portion  of  the  audience,  presumably 
the  large  majority  of  a  respectable  theatre.it  is  one  which  no 
manager  should  shirk.  The  managers  of  our  leading  theatres 
are,  all  of  them,  men  of  thorough  and  strict  business  methods, 
who  put  up  with  little  nonsense  in  the  way  of  business;  and  I 
do  not  believe  that  one  of  them  would  hesitate  to  assert  himself 
in  this  respect  were  it  once    fairly    borne  in    upon    him    that  his 

duty  to  his  patrons  demands  it. 

»  #  # 

To  particularize.  The  word  "damned"  (so  constantly  inter- 
polated in  farce-comedy  lines)  never  yet  gave  point  to  a  joke  or 
strength  to  an  assertion — unless  to  the  habitue^  of  a  bar-room  or 
a  dive,  whose  taste  in  rhetoric,  like  their  palates,  require  a  vicious 
stimulant  through  long  indulgence — while  it  is  certain  to  offend 
many  of  the  better  class  to  which  the  manager  presumably  caters. 
If  farce-comedy  has,  indeed,  become  so  fiat,  stale,  and  unprofit- 
able as  to  drive  the  comedian  into  forcing  a  vulgar  laugh  from  the 
unthinking  by  the  use  of  the  expletive  quoted,  by  plays  on  the 
word  •<  hello !"  as  coarse  as  they  are  state  and  stupid,  or  by  equivo- 
cal situation  and  suggestion,  it  is  high  time  that  farce-comedy  be 
dropped  from  the  bookings  at  respectable  theatres  or  subjected  to 
the  suggested  rigid  managerial  censorship. 

Nellie  McHenry,  strident,  shrill,  and  too  all-permeating  as  she 
is,  is  a  perennial  favorite  here,  and  in  some,  perhaps  inexplicable, 
way  carries  with  her  a  flavor  of  solid  respectability.  This  is 
something  to  cling  to  when  one  is  afloat  on  the  "  dirty  sea  "  of 
farce  comedy,  and  Nellie  should  hang  on  to  it  tooth  and  nail. 
Nellie  does  not  swear,  or  indulge  in  nasty  Frenchy  double-entendre ; 
even  her  incessant  and  would-be  knowing  winks  say  nothing 
worse  than  "Oh I  how  cute  I  ami"  The  young  women  in  her 
"class"  at  the  California  are  capitally  drilled,  and  sing  and  dance 
with  plenty  of  slang  and  kicks,  indeed,  but  with  no  wickeder  sug- 
gestion than  might  pertain  to  as  many  romping  school-girls  kick- 
ing up  their  heels  under  the  free  rein  of  their  teacher's  unex- 
pected complaisance.  All  this  is  very  agreeable;  but  Nellie 
should  keep  her  eyes  and  her  ears  open  for  the  conservation  of 
the  aforesaid  respectability.  When  Mr.  Friske  remarks  that 
something  is  "damned  bad,"  she  should  call  him  out  and  inform 
him  that  a  gentleman  does  not  swear  in  the  presence  of  ladies, 
and  that  he  must  pretend  to  be  a  gentleman  to  that  extent. 
Miss  McHenry's  clever  husband,  John  "Webster,  can  play  the 
buffoon  without  vulgarity,  and  he  looks  big  enough  and  man 
enough  to  compel  his  associate  to  do  the  same.  If  no  one  else, 
however,  does  this,  the  manager  of  the  theatre  should  take  it 
upon  himself. 

*  *  * 

This  may  seem  to  the  people  behind  the  footlights  like  over- 
refinemeut  or  hyper-criticism.  Could  they  hear  the  comment  in 
the  lobby  as  the  audience  files  out  it  might  change  their  opinion. 
The  loud  laughter  which  invariably  follows  profane  or  vulgar 
sallies  does  not  come  from  the  majority,  and  a  company  will  gain 
a  better  paying,  as  well  as  an  intrinsically  better  patronage,  by 
observing  in  general  the  rules  which  govern  the  intercourse  of 
ladies  and  gentlemen — even  of  those  temporarily  admitted  to 
such  intercourse. 

»  •  » 

Monday,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday  nights  the  company  at  the 
Baldwin  presented  Col.  Carter  of  Carter sville.  The  story,  as  told  by 
F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  is  no  more  than  a  series  of  strongly  out- 
lined sketches  and  episodes  in  the  life  of  a  chivalrous,  unpracti- 
cal, and  impecunious  Southern  gentleman  transplanted  to  a  North- 
ern city  and  filled  with  one  idea— that  of  building  a  railroad, 
which  seems  to  have  no  possible  aim  or  use  except  to  make 
everybody  of  the  Colonel's  family  rich  and  happy.  Story,  in  any 
sense  of  plot  and  development,  it  has  none,  excepting  the  thread 
of  interest  attaching  to  the  railroad  scheme.  Mr.  Thomas  found 
in  it  little  field  for  dramatization,  and  two  strongly  dramatic  sub- 
jects for  characterization,  Col.  Carter  and  bis  faithful  colored 
body  servant,  old  Chad.     The  interpolations   in   the   shape  of  a 


love  story  are  as  unreal  and  as  devoid  of  human  interest  as  is 
everything  else  in  the  play  outside  of  a  few  of  the  original  charac- 
ters. E  M.  Holland  has  in  Col.  Carter  a  character  still  more  at- 
tractive, because  deeper  in  sentiment,  than  Col.  Moberly.  ft  is 
different,  too,  only  the  unapproachable  accent  and  pose  being  the 
same.  Mr.  Holland's  portrayal  of  the  mixed  character  forms  a 
series  of  portraits  so  strongly  limned  that  the  book  will  be  given 
a  place  in  the  memory  of  his  audiences  which  it  would  other- 
wise never  have  achieved.  To  say  it  is  worth  sitting  out  the  play 
for  is  the  highest  praise  that  could  possibly  be  given  Mr.  Hol- 
land. Similarly  picturesque  isChas.  L.  Harris'  delineation  of  the 
faithful  old  Chad.  As  a  picture  only,  Miss  Emily  8eward  makes 
the  Coronet's  aunt,  Ann  Carter,  an  effective  figure,  and  one  or 
two  minor  characters  are  fairly  outlined.  The  rest  have  appar- 
ently no  reason  to  be  and  fail  to  find  one.  Francis  Carlyle  and  Wat- 
den  Ramsay  wander  about  in  an  aimless  fashion,  which  fur- 
nishes only  the  revengeful  satisfaction  that  it  must  tire  them  as 
badly  as  it  does  the  audience.  The  majority  of  the  players — there 
are  fortunately  few — are  afflicted  (and  afflict  the  audience,  that 
part  of  it  which  hasn't  gone  to  sleep)  in  the  same  way.  The 
end  of  the  week  has  been  devoted  to  Alabama,  which  has 
its  last  production  to-night.  One  point 'for  instant  correction 
should  be  noted.  The  fault  pervades  the  entire  company  all  the 
time.  The  people  seem  to  feel  that  actors  on  the  stage  are  like 
little  boys  at  the  table,  to  be  seen  and  not  heard.  They  speak  so 
tow  that  the  effort  to  hear  them  keeps  the  auditor  on  a  constant 
strain,  which  becomes  painful  to  the  point  of  headache  and  ex- 
haustion. 

»  *  * 

A  Night  at  the  Circus  has  some  good  things  about  it,  and  some 
fairly  good  specialty  people.  Its  salient  faults  are  negative,  but 
there  is  a  positive  one  in  the  too  evident  effort  to  keep  things 
going.  The  hard  work  involved  in  much  of  the  ensemble  work  is 
commendable  and  deserves  recognition;  but  the  immediate  effort 
is  so  apparent  that  the  imaginative  auditor  comes  away  as 
fatigued  with  vicarious  exertion  as  If  be  had  done  a  day's  work. 
Nettie  McHenry's  overblown  energy  seems  to  permeate  the  com- 
pany and  results  in  a  grand  rush  and  struggle  which  makes  the 
looker-on  pant  in  sympathy.  As  before  remarked,  Nellie  Mc- 
Henry herself,  despite  a  long  indulgencein  farce-comedy, is  never 
coarse.  As  much  cannot  be  said  for  some  features  of  her  new 
play.  The  sight  of  women  of  the  circus  in  tights  and  spangles, 
and  little  else,  is  not  offensive  because  it  is  natural  and  expected. 
But  when  two  respectable  ladies  dress,  or  undress,  in  the  same 
style  the  effect  is  as  repulsive  to  good  taste  as  uninviting  to  the 
eye.  There  is  no  reason  for  such  an  exhibition.  Ladies  can  go 
out  on  a  lark,  if  so  minded*  without  an  unseemly  personal  dis- 
closure. That  which  is  proper  and  decent  in  the  ballet  becomes  im- 
proper and  indecent  in  private  individuals  or  their  representa- 
tives on  the  stage.  Let  Mesdames  Friske  and  Banger  try  the 
effect  of  this  suggestion.  They  could  be  just  as  amusing,  and 
would  be  much  nicer  to  look  at. 

The  well-filled  houses  at  the  California  show  that  the  people  are 
not  tired    of  farce-comedy  if  it   come    with    a   popular  name  and 
entourage,  however  little  there  may  be  in  it. 
«   •   # 

Perhaps  it  is  too  much    to  ask  of  Jeffreys-Lewis  to  give  us  new 


August  20,  1892. 


BAH  PR  LNCI8CO  NEWS  I  BTTER 


parU  while  her  repertory  include*  a  character  »o  thoroughly 
adapted  to  her  genius  as  Stephanie  de  Mobrivarl  in  Forget me  not. 
It  may  not  be  in  the  line  which  "•leratM  the  stage."  but  in  it? 
line  tt  is  a  grand  piece  of  acting.  If  it  is  sad  to  see  genius  on  the 
wane,  it  is  still  sadder  to  see  the  genius  still  burning  amid  the 
gradual  decadenceof  the  personal  power  to  interpret  it.  Something 
of  this  is  already  apparent  in  MIm  Lewis.  She  should  make  the 
most  of  the  next  few  years.  She  has  grown  stout  and,  worse 
still,  the  heaviness  has  encroached  on  the  bright,  defiant  face.  The 
high  pitch  of  her  voice,  which  once  had  a  ringing  charm  of  its 
own,  has  become  shrill  and  metallic.  Her  striking  but  refined 
taste  in  dress  seems  to  be  deserting  her,  and  running  to  the  tn;arre 
and  flashy.  Yet,  with  all  this  falling  off,  the  stage  of  Stock  well's 
Theatre  has  in  Forget-me-not  a  personation  so  finished  and  so  sub- 
tle as  to  challenge  comparison  with  the  greatest  actresses  of  the 
day — among  whom  Jeffreys-Lewis,  had  she  been  so  minded,  might 
have  been  enrolled. 

*  •  » 

The  Little  Duke  is  an  always  enjoyable  comic  opera,  and  its 
present  production  at  the  Tivoli  is  satisfactory  with  the  usual  all- 
ronnd  good  singing,  acting,  detail,  and  staging.  Some  taking 
songs  are  introduced ;  Gracie  Plaisted's  "  If  you  love  me,  dearest, 
tell  me  with  your  eyes  "  meets  a  hearty  encore  nightly,  and  Hart- 
man's  "  Now  I'm  sorry  1  spoke  "  results  in  so  many  recalls  that 
there  is  danger  of  making  us  all  sorry.  The  bill  for  next  week 
will  be  Girofie-Girofia. 

*  *  * 

The  Bush-street  Theatre  will  open  its  regular  season  next 
Monday  night,  with  Harrison  and  Bell's  comedians  in  Little  Tip- 
pelt.  Alex.  Bisson,  author  of  Les  Joies  de  la  Paternitie,  the  French 
original  of  the  play,  has  given  over  ninety  plays  to  the  stage, 
among  them  the  popular  Wilkinson's  Widows,  The  Lottery  of  Love, 
The  Nominee,  etc.,  in  the  line  of  refined  comedy  in  which  he  ex- 
cels. The  English  version  is  by  the  Paultons,  Harry  and  Ed- 
ward, authors  of  Erminie,  The  Queen's  Mate,  and  other  popular 
operas.  Little  Tippett  is  in  its  third  year  in  Paris  and  its  second  in 
London,  and  with  unabated  success- 
Most  of  the  people  are  known  here,  and  have  a  record  which 
promises  good  work  in  the  new  piece.  Edward  M.  Bell,  who 
heads  the  list,  made  himself  very  popular  here  as  leading  man  of 
A.  M.  Palmer's  stock  company,  which  position  he  resigned  to 
form  a  partnership  with  Duncan  B.  Harrison  in  the  present  ven- 
ture. Charles  Bowser,  eccentric  comedian,  was  the  original 
Snaggs  in  A  Bunch  of  Keys;  Harry  J.  Morgan,  recently  played 
The  Private  Secretary  in  London  for  one  hundred  nights;  Harry 
Allen  was  the  original  Cattermole  of  the  Madison  Square  pro- 
duction of  the  same  play,  and  Henry  Bradley  and  Charles  Harris 
are  well-known  comedy  men.  Mabel  Bert  needs  no  introduction 
to  San  Francisco.  Marie  Lewes,  who  has  been  playing  leads  in 
the  Court  Theatre,  London,  was  here  with  the  Union  Square  Com- 
pany some  years  ago.  Mrs.  Harry  Bloodgood  has  been  especially 
engaged  for  comedy  eccentrics.  There  are  also  in  the  company 
two  babies,  "little  beauties,"  whose  popularity  will  no  doubt 
fully  equal  that  of  the  best  in  the  company  with  this  baby-loving 
community. 

»  »  » 

One  of  the  most  interesting  of  coming  mnsical  events  will  be 
the  production  of  J.  H.  Roeewald's  comic  opera,  Baroness  Meta, 
which  will  be  given  under  the  auspices  of  the  Woman's  Ex- 
change, Saturday  evening,  November  19th,  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House.  The  cast  will  include  some  of  the  most  beautiful  and 
popular  of  young  society  ladies,  as  well  as  among  the  best  ama- 
teur singers.  The  list  stands,  as  at  present  arranged:  Misses 
Maude  L.  Berry  (daughter  of  Fulton  G.,  of  Fresno),  Frida  Syl- 
vester, Alvina  Heuer,  and  Mrs.  Chas.  J.  Dickman;  Messrs.  A.  C. 
Hellman,A.  G.  Thornton,  Victor  Carroll,  Solly  Walters.  The 
scenery  and  costumes  are  being  designed  by  Solly  Walters,  and 
Fred  Urban  will  act  as  stage  director. 
»  #  * 

Sol  Smith  Russell  will  begin  next  Monday  night  a  two  weeks' 
engagement  at  the  Baldwin,  with  A  Poor  Relation.  In  Noah  Vale, 
Mr.  Russell  has  the  mingling  of  the  humorous  with  the  pathetic, 
which  fits  so  well  his  peculiar  vein.  He  will  also  produce  his 
quaint  rustic  comedy,  Peaceful  Valley. 
»  #  * 

The  Baldwin  patrons  will  not  be  apt  to  forget  that  Wednesday 
evening  next  will  be  the  benefit  of  Mr.  Louis  A.  Morgenstern, 
treasurer  of  the  theatre.  Few  among  them  have  not  experienced 
many  acts  of  courtesy  and  attention  at  Mr.  Morgenstern's  hands, 
and  all  will  be  glad  cf  this  opportunity  to  attest  their  apprecia- 
tion. 

*  #  • 

The  Stockwell  stock  company  will  produce  Divorce  next  week 
at  the  new  theatre.  Earnest  preparations  are  going  on  for  Stock- 
well's  grand  production  of  Theodora. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  Otto  Bendix,  the  pianist,  who  visited  San  Francisco  seven 
years  ago,  is  again  in  the  city. 

Commencing  on  Monday  next,  the  Wigwam  will  present  an 
unusually  interesting    programme,   which    will    open  with    the 


appearance  of  the  famous  Forepaugh  family,  who  have  been 
specially  engaged.  The  singers  Include  Miss  Mabel  Hudson,  the 
Brooklyn  church  choir  brainy,  ft  will  be  the  last  week  of  the 
specialty  favorites,  (he  Millar  Brothers,  who  will  appear  in  ilnir 
famous  diorama.  The  programme  will  conclude  with  the  presenta- 
tion of  The  XulUgani,  or  friri  Jealousy,  a  new  Irish  drama  by  John 
Perry. 

•  •  • 

Lillian    Russell   will  follow  Sol  Smith  Russell  at  the  Baldwin, 

opening  in  La  Oigale. The  Wn*tgnt  a  patriotic  naval  drama,  will 

be  a  pleasant  relief  from  the  late  epidemic  of  farce-comedy  at  the 

California. 

BALDWdT  THEATRE. 

Ax  Havman  &  Co Proprietors.  |  Alfred  Bouvier Manager. 

Positively  last  week,  A.  M.  PALMER'S  HOME  COMPANY,  Saturday 
Matinee,  Saturday  Evening,  last  times, 

ALABAMA. 

Monday.  Aug.  22,  engagement  for  two  weeks  only,  SOL  SMITH  RU88ELL 
presenting  for  the  first  week,  A  POOR  RELATION,  and  for  the  second 
week,  PEACEFUL  VALLEY. 

Seats  for  both  weeks  now  ready. 

~  NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE^ 

AlHayman&Co.. Proprietors.  I  J.  J.  Gottlob    Manager. 

Next  Monday,  Aug.  22.;  Last  Week— Last  Matinee,  Saturday— NELLIE 
MCHENRY  In  her  great  Circo-Comedy, 

A  NIGHT  AT  THE  CIRCUS. 

Monday,  Aug.  29.,  the  great  Nav.l  Play,  THE  ENSIGN,  Seats  ready  next 
Thursday. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Me.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  |  Ma.  Chab.  P.  Hall  Manager 

Opening  regular  season  next  Monday,  Aug.  22,  with  the  latest  Parisian 

success, 

LITTLE     TIPPETT, 
Prices— Matinee,  25c,  60c  and  75c;  Night,  reserved  seats,  Balcony,  50; 

Gallery,  25c;  Orchestra  and  Dress  Circle,  $1. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bkos —  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night !    One  week  only,  the  favorite,  LECOCQ'S  Lovely  Opera, 

THE    LITTLE    DUKE, 

Popular  Prices 25c.  and  50c. 

Next  opera,  THE  BRIGANDS  1 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alp  Ellinghouse  Business  Manager. 

Beginning  Monday,  August  22d,  every  evening,  Sunday  included,  Mati- 
nee Saturday,  carefully  presenting  AUGUSTIN  DALY'S  version  of 
DIVORCE. 

JEFFRE  7S-LEWIS,  the  distinguished  actress,  and  Stoekwell's  company 
of  players. 

Seats  now  on  sale.    Popular  prices. 

WIGWAM  THEATRE. 

Chas.  Meyer Proprietor  and  Manager 

Week  commencing  Monday  evening,  August  22— The  only  perfect  and 
most  expensive  Vaudeville  show  in   San  Francisco,  composed  only  of 
leading  lights  of  the  profession.    The  world  renowned 
FOREPAUGH  FAMILY. 

Last  week  of  MILLAR  BROTHERS'  famous  Diorama. 

A  new  Irish  Comedy— first  time  on  any  stage— THE  MULLIGANS,  or 
IRISH  JEALOUSY.  Our  Spcialists— Mahel  Hudson,  Al  Williams.  Cnarles 
Hunn  Fred  Bulla,  May  Boner,  Frank  Foley,  Annie  Fuller,  Kitty  King. 
John  Perry,  Thos.  C.  Leary. 

Popular  Prices 10c.  and  25c. 

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FSiiM1TH'FREDVCox, 

PRES. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


A    MOONLIGHT    STROLL. 


The  stars  are  shining  up  on  high, 

As  on  you  stroll  in  meditation; 
When,  suddenly,  across  the  sky 

Appears  a  strange  illumination. 
And  as  you  gaze  upon  the  stars, 

You  read  with  something  like  a  shiver — 
"Our  soap  is  sold  in  penny  bars!" 

Or,  "Stranger,  how's  your  little  liver?" 

THE    NEW    COUNTESS    OF    ORKNEY. 

CONNIE  GILCHRIST,  who,  after  being  the  mistress  of  the  old 
Duke  of  Beaufort  for  many  years,  has  just  married  the  Earl  of 
Orkney,  is  a  graduate  of  John  Hollingshead's  well-known  school  of 
burlesque  at  the  Gaiety  Theatre,  London.  Connie,  who  is  without 
doubt  one  of  the  prettiest  girls  that  ever  skipped  across  the  stage 
to  the  tune  of  an  orchestra,  was  born  in  the  north  of  London,  and 
in  course  of  time  drifted  on  to  the  stage  of  the  Bedford  Music 
Hall,  a  fourth-rate  variety  hall  in  Camden  Town.  Her  debut 
was  in  a  skipping-rope  dance,  and  her  pretty,  childish  face,  sur- 
mounted by  close,  crisp,  curly  hair,  made  her  such  an  attractive 
stage  picture  that  she  quickly  caught  the  eye  of  Hollingshead, 
who  had  drifted  in  there  one  night  by  chance.  He  hunted  her 
up,  made  her  a  flattering  proposition  to  join  bis  company,  and,  as 
Connie  gladly  accepted,  she  was  soon  installed  with  Nellie  Farren 
and  Leslie  on  the  Gaiety  boards.  She  continued  her  skipping-rope 
performance  there,  and  literally  danced  into  the  heart  of  the  Duke 
of  Beaufort,  an  old  roue  of  sixty,  who  delighted  to  run  with  the 
boys  and  who  was  a  constant  patron  of  the  front  row  of  the 
Gaiety  stalls.  He  soon  had  Connie  under  his  "  protection,"  and 
installed  her  in  a  handsome  mansion  at  Hampstead,  where  she 
made  her  headquarters  until  he  presented  her  with  a  down-town 
house  on  Manchester  street.  Connie  and  the  Duke  were,  of 
course,  familiar  figures  around  town,  and  as,  through  his  patron- 
age, she  had  plenty  uf  opportunities  for  hobnobbing  with  the 
upper  crust,  she  spread  her  net  cleverly  enough  to  catch  young 
Orkney.  The  marriage,  which  took  place  on  July  19th,  was  one 
of  the  events  of  the  big  metropolis.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
in  All  Souls  Church;  Mr.  Gerald  Pratt  acted  as  best  man  and  the 
tottering  old  Duke  of  Beaufort,  who  is  now  in  his  seventieth  year, 
gave  the  bride  away.  A  swell  wedding  breakfast  was  afterwards 
given  at  Connie's  house  in  Duchess  street,  and  then  the  brida 
couple  left  for  a  tour  of  the  continent.  Connie  is  about  twenty- 
nine  years  old.  She  has  a  sister,  Marie  Gilchrist,  who  was  also  a 
well-known  figure  around  London  for  awhile.  Those  who  have 
been  at  the  Royal  Aquarium  at  Westminster  will  doubtless  re- 
member her,  for  she  was  installed  there  for  many  seasons.  Some 
years  ago  Miss  Gilchrist  retired  from  the  stage  and  devoted  her- 
self to  field  sport.  A  daring  equestrian,  always  well  mounted, 
she  is  a  familiar  figure  in  the  Badminton  country  and  in  the  New 
Forest.  Her  very  quiet  manners  make  her  a  general  favorite,  and 
she  is  so  amiable  that  her  many  friends  do  tbeir  utmost  not  to 
hate  her  for  her  brilliant  marriage.  The  Earl  of  Orkney  is  about 
twenty-five  years  old,  and  is  the  representative  of  a  noble  Scotch 
line  which  dates  back  to  169G.  He  succeeded  his  uncle,  the  sixth 
Earl,  in  1889.  Many  actresses  have  of  late  years  married  into 
aristocratic  families  in  England.  Miss  Dollie  Tester,  who  sang  in 
the  chorus,  married  the  Marquis  of  Ailesbury;  Lord  Euston  allied 
himself  to  Miss  Kate  Cooke;  Miss  Nellie  Leamar  married  the 
Hon.  Hubert  Dunscombe;  a  French  lady,  well-known  on  the 
London  stage,  Miss  C.  Dubois,  married  the  Hon.  Wyndham  Stan- 
hope; and  Miss  Lily  Ernest  became  the  Lady  Mansel.  It  seems 
only  yesterday  since  Miss  Belle  Bilton's  name  was  regularly  in 
the  music-hall  bills ;  she  is  now.  of  course,  Countess  Clancarty. 
Then  there  was  Miss  Fortescue,  yho  received  £10,000  in  lieu  of 
being  made  a  peeress;  and  Miss  Phyllis  Brougbton  received 
£2,000  for  a  like  disappointment,  so  that  aristocracy  is  getting  on. 
Connie  has  also  followed  the  example  of  Louisa  Brunton  (Count- 
ess of  Craven),  of  Lavinia  Fenton  (Duchess  of  Bolton),  of  Miss 
Farren  (Countess  of  Derby),  of  Kitty  Stephens  (Countess  of  Essex), 
Maria  Foote  (Countess  of  Harrington),  and  last,  though  not  least, 
Mrs.  Mellon  (Duchess  of  St.  Albans).  There  is  a  chance  for  Cali- 
fornian  heiresses  yet.  The  recent  marriage  recalls  the  story  of  a 
Frenchman  asking,  "  What  does  K.  G.  mean  after  the  Duke  of 
Beaufort's  name?  "  and  the  facetious  reply,  "Oh,  K.  G.  stands 
for  Konnie  Gilchrist!  " 


IF  you  want  to  appear  eccentric  try  to  be  honest. 
It  is  lucky  that  some  have  a  lot  of  self-love  or   they  might 
never  get  loved  at  all. 

When  a  man  has  an  excellent  memory  for  the  brave  deeds  he 
has  done,  set  him  down  as  a  craven  coward. 

A  man  who  gets  on  by  the  help  of  others  is  not   nearly  so  safe 
as  one  who  gets  on  in  spite  of  others. 

Impulse  would  often  make  an  awful  fool  of  itself  if  'reason  did 
not  hold  it  back. 

If  you  can't  say  a  good  word  of  a  person,  try  to  make  him  say 
a  good  word  of  you. 

The  "  dude  "  is  to  a  gentleman  what  the  Pharisee  was  to  the 
true  believer. 


HOT 


L 


Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun- 
tains. Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac- 
commodations.  Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  cf  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  ^Etna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  OlUce,  10S  llruiiini  Street,  S.  F 


YOU'RE    OUT 

If  you  don't  go  to 

NAPA  SODA 
SPRINGS 


THIS     SUMMER. 


What  Do  You  Want  ? 


A  Climate  that  beats  Italy.  No  Malaria  or  Cold 
Sea  Air.  Health-giving  Mineral  Water.  Cuisine 
and  Service  Unexceptionable.  Comfortable  Beds. 
Table  First  Quality.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Every  Room.  Hot  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  Trains  Every  Day. 
All  Visitors  are  satisfied. 

ANDREW  JACKSON,      -       -       -       PROPRIETOR. 

Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 

The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

HOTEL  PLEASANTOIM, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  San  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets.  Private 
Dinners.  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 
The  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature. 

Mrs.  M.   E.  PENDLETON. 

Proprietor  and  Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

1206  Slitter  Street, 


MODEL 


Telephone  23S8. 


SAN  FRANCISCO. 


"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

-A-Tosol-a.tel37*      nre-proof. 

Central  o  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  Klx/.ltK,  Manager. 

jp^.ci^ic  towzehl  co^zp^A-Tsrir, 

9     LICK    PLACE, 
Furnishes  Clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates: 

Clean  Hand  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per  month;   12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  month ;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week ,  $1.00  per 
6  month;  6  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.25  per  month. 


/ 


Aupu^  90,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  1  ETTER. 


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TIDIES-OLD-TIME    FANCY    WORK 
[B  t    D  i    Veu 

I*aid  that  a  man  who  lav  dying,  opened  nil  eyes  that  he 
[bl  take  a  last  look  upon  the  fading  things  of  earth.  He 
gazed  long  and  fixedly  in  a  certain  direction;  a  strange  energy 
re-animated  his  frame;  he  sprang  out  of  bed,  tore  a  tidy  from  a 
chair,  dashed  it  to  the  tloor.  and  stamped  upon  it  with  savage 
rape;  then,  bis  frenzy  over,  calmly  walked  back  to  bed,  and  like 
one  who  wraps  the  drapery  of  his  conch  about  him  and  lies  down 
to  pleasant  dreams,  the  man  resumed  dying.  He  had  discharged 
tbe  last  debt  to  earth  ;  he  bad  struck  hack  one  blow  at  the  boasted 
civilization  of  the  age;  he  had  asserted  his  hatred  of  the  ••  tidy." 
If  ever  there  were  an  instrument  of  mortification,  torture  and 
exasperation,  it  is  tbe  »  tidy."'  This  article,  designed  for  the  em- 
bellishment of  the  parlor,  the  sitting-room  and  the  dining-room, 
is  always  having  its  innings,  and  not  infrequently  its  outings, 
when  some  victim  walks  off  with  a  tidy  caught  in  the  back  but- 
tons of  his  coat,  or  reposing  safely  upon  tbe  expanse  of  her 
"bustle."  The  "  tidy,"  to  be  sure,  does  not  always  assume  the 
same  form;  its  latest  guise  is  that  of  the  scarf  or  drapery,  but 
in  reality  the  article  is  one  and  the  same. 

Tbe  first  form  with  which  it  dawned  upon  the  eyes  of  my  gen- 
eration was  the  crochetted  tidy.  Ah,  that  was  a  triumph  of  pa- 
tience, perseverance,  pattern  and  fine  thread.  It  was  a  great 
evidence  of  femininity  to  have  conquered  the  mysteries  of  chain, 
single  and  double  crochet,  and  even  in  tidy  making  there  were 
grades  of  intellectual  ability.  For  instance,  there  were  those  who 
could  follow  only  the  simplest  patterns,  such  as  straight  across,  or 
round  and  round.  There  were  those  who  could  follow  the  design 
of  another  tidy  which  they  took  up  to  examine  from  time  to 
time,  or  who  could  make  a  "star"  tidy,  in  which  the  stitches 
increased  or  decreased  according  to  a  fixed  ratio.  Then  there 
were  those  adepts  who  could  take  a  pictured  pattern  without  one 
word  of  explanation,  paste  it  in  the  cover  of  a  pasteboard  box  for  the 
double  purpose  of  keeping  it  stretched  out,  and  of  saving  it  from 
the  wear  and  tear  of  being  handled,  and  whose  only  guide  to  their 
progress  was  a  pin  stuck  here  and  there  as  the  design  was  being 
followed.  Oh,  but  the  achievements  of  the  tidy  makers,  the  stars, 
five,  six,  seven,  eight  and  even  nine  and  twelve  pointed,  sank 
out  of  sight  compared  to  landscapes,  and  the  intricate  geometri- 
cal designs,  tbe  wreathes  or  bouquets  of  roses,  and  lilies,  and  tbe 
pastoral  scenes  which  were  literally  »  hooked"  into  existence  by 
these  ladies  of  taste  and  talent.  In  their  day,  tidies  held  full 
sway.  Sofas  were  decked  out  with  three  at  least;  sofa  pillows 
sported  a  tidy  upon  their  broard  expanse;  each  arm  chair  had  a 
big  tidy  across  its  ample  back  and  one  on  either  arm;  straight 
back  chairs  wore  a  straight  up  and  down  tidy  with  Puritani- 
cal decorum,  or  assumed  around  tidy  and  a  rakish  air  at  the 
same  time.  A  careful  housekeeper  suffered  intense-  annoyance 
when  a  careless  guest  rolled  and  lolled  on  sofa  or  in  the  chair 
oblivious  that  he  was  dragging  the  tidy  from  its  fastenings,  break- 
ing the  delicate  threads  or  letting  the  affair  slip  down  altogether, 
while  he  was  resting  his  head,  his  greasy,  "  pomatumed  "  head, 
against  the  brocade  of  the  furniture  or  was  making  a  round,  ex- 
pansive grease  spot  on  the  wall;  for  the  prime  object  of  the  tidy 
was  to  protect  the  furniture  from  the  well-oiled  locks  of  the  human 
beings  who  were  likely  to  rest  a  weary  head  upon  sofa,  cushion 
or  chair.  Our  English  cousins  called  these  safeguards  "anti- 
macassars," macassar  being  the  name  of  a  very  superior  and  much 
used  hair  oil! 

The  crochetted  tidy  has  gone  out,  but  the  tidy  itself  has  not 
disappeared,  and  holds  its  place  in  the  parlor  and  the  drawing- 
room.  It  is  not  so  long  ago  that  Mother  Goose  melodies  found 
illustrators  in  the  etching  stitch  upon  linen,  pongee  and  India 
silks,  which  were  fringed  and  ornamented  with  intricate  drawn 
work.  Then  the  saddle  bags  came  in.  Does  any  one  not  know 
them  by  that  name?  Then  just  recall  that  pair  of  square  bags 
laced  together  with  ribbons  at  one  side,  and  flung  over  the  back 
of  a  chair.  Don't  you  recall  how  your  hostess  sprang  forward  to 
rescue  them  as  they  were  sliding  down  your  back?  Those  were 
saddle  bags,  and  full  of  sweet  smelling  sachet  powder,  too.  It  is 
astonishing  to  what  lengths  the  feminine  mind  will  go  when  it  has 
a  decorative  purpose  in  view.  Have  we  forgotten  the  dreadful  craze 
for  Japanese  fans,  paper  napkins  and  umbrellas  that  made  night- 
mare of  walls  and  ceilings?  Think  of  all  the  flowers  made  of  human 
hair — family  wreaths,  each  poll  contributing  its  quota  to  the  gen- 
eral efflorescence;  think  of  the  flowers  made  of  fish-scales,  the 
rag-carpets,  the  worsted  mats,  the  burlap  craze,  the  patch-work 
horrors,  with  their  diamonds,  their  squares,  their  log-cabins,  and 
their  crazy  quilts;  remember  the  cemetery  scenes,  executed  in 
crochetted  hair,  with  weeping  willows  and  tombstones,  and  a 
bouquet  on  each  grave;  think  of  the  "  artistic  ".  atrocities  perpe- 
trated in  sea  mosses,  shells  and  Pescadero  pebbles.  All  these  still 
bold  full  sway  "  in  the  country.''  Think  of  the  wax  pond  lilies 
reposing  upon  a  sheet  of  looking-glass,  carefully  protected  by 
hemispherical  globes;  of  the  craze  for  wax  flowers  and  autumn 
leaves:  of  the  detestable  box  frames,  or  to  be  still  more  accurate, 
the  gruesome  »  coffin  frames,"  in  which  these  triumphs  of  imita- 
tive skill  reposed.  Think  of  the  transfer,  or  decalcornanic  pic- 
tures; of  the  worsted-wound  frames,  the  paper-star  frames;  of  all 


the  .nines  against  eye-sight  wrought  by  bags  and  cornucopias 
and  relief  oroaaes,  made  of  perforated  Brlatol  board,  of  all  the 
illuminated  mottoes,  worked  In  cross  slicks,  and  then  say  that 
our  present  style  of  fancy  work  in  not  an  advance  upon  the  work 
of  a  past  t&ata.  Take  a  look  still  further  back,  and  think  of  tbe 
"sampler  wrought  in  her  eighth  year,"  to  which  your  grand- 
mother—H  you  had  a  grandmother— sat  down  every  day  and  did 
her  little  stint  of  capitals  and  small  letters  and  fancy  borders,  be- 
fore she  could  go  out  to  play.  Truly,  in  this  age  of  art  needle- 
work, we  have  left  the  old  fancy  work  far  behind. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


THERE  is  consternation  among  the  congregations  of  the  Temple 
Enaanu-El  and  the  synagogue  on  Mason  street,  on  account  of  a 
"misunderstanding"  that  recently  arose  between  Rabbi  Voorsanger 
of  the  former  synagogue,  and  Cantor  Myerson,  of  the  latter.  The 
Cantor,  a  gentleman  with  a  somewhat  romantic  history,  some 
mention  of  which  has  heretofore  been  made  in  this  column,  is  a 
musician  of  no  mean  ability.  He  recently  wrote  a  waltz  called  the 
"  Palo  Alto  Waltz,"  which  was  played  at  Golden  Gate  Park.  Dr. 
Danziger,  a  friend  of  the  Cantor,  wished  to  help  Myerson  in  the 
estimation  of  the  people,  and  accordingly  called  on  a  friendly  city 
editor  of  a  morning  paper,  and  asked  that  a  notice  be  given  that 
latest  work  of  genius,  the  »  Palo  Alto  Waltz."  To  this  the  editor 
assented,  and  Danziger  accordingly  wrote  about  half  a  column 
boomlet  of  the  Cantor  and  his  song,  taking  occasion  at  the  same 
time  to  give  a  sly  slap  at  Rabbi  Voorsanger  and  the  Temple 
Emanu-El,  between  which  house  of  worship  and  the  Mason  street 
synagogue  there  is  intense  rivalry.  The  editor  refused  to  publish 
the  story  without  investigating  it.  He  therefore  called  on  Rabbi 
Voorsanger,  who,  it  is  said,  announced  his  opinion  of  Cantor 
Myerson  in  no  gentle  nor  friendly  terms.  Voorsanger  is  a  hot- 
blooded  and  muscular  leader,  and  is  not  apt  to  weigh  bis  words 
when  speaking  his  mind.  His  statements  came  to  Dr,  Myerson's 
knowledge,  and  last  Tuesday  the  Cantor,  writhing  under  the 
story  of  the  reported  remarks  of  Dr.  Voorsanger,  had  a  consulta- 
tion with  the  editor  and  Dr.  Danziger  as  to  the  proper  course  to 
pursue  to  assert  his  standing  as  a  gentleman  and  a  Cantor  of  high 
degree.  The  newspaper  man,  naturally  enough,  wishing  for  a 
Jgnsation,  advised  the  Cantor  to  visit  Voorsanger  and  pull  his 
beard,  tweak  his  nose,  and  apply  the  Cantorial  foot  to  the  Rab- 
binial  trousers.  "  All  that  shall  I  do,"  said  Myerson;  and  away 
he  went,  presumably  to  call  on  the  Rabbi.  When  next  seen  he 
asserted,  in  tones  loud  enough  to  be  heard  on  top  of  the  highest 
peak  of  the  Temple  Emanu-EI,  that  in  accordance  with  the  edi- 
torial advice,  he  had  called  upon  the  Rabbi  at  his  residence,  and 
had  braved  him  to  his  face,  pulled  his  beard,  tweaked  his  nose, 
and  told  him  to  "go  to."  Next  Voorsanger  appeared  and  told 
his  tale  of  woe,  which  did  not  coincide  in  all  particulars  with  that 
of  Myerson.  Finally,  the  editor,  finding  that  he  had  advised 
what  might  result  in  a  much  more  serious  row  than  he  had  sup- 
posed, mollified  all  parties,  and  the  hatchet  was  buried  beneath  a 
rapidly  constructed  mound  of  champagne  corks.  Even  yet,  how- 
ever. Dr.  Danziger  is  not  considered  a  persona  frata  by  Dr.  Voor- 
sanger, and  Cantor  Myerson  has  an  idea  that  he  has  not  received 
his  rights. 

«  *  * 

It  has  been  written  that  "the  night  before  Larry  was  stretched" 
there  was  great  fun  in  old  Newgate.  Nowadays  it  is  more  con- 
venient to  have  the  celebration  after  final  litigation  than  be- 
fore it,  but  exceptions  only  prove  the  preponderance  of  a  rule. 
The  much-discussed  Liljegren  divorce  case  was  submitted  to  Judge 
Ellsworth,  of  the  Alameda  County  Superior  Court,  last  Friday, 
and  the  next  evening  the  defendant's  friends  gathered  to  do  her 
honor,  at  Montana  Hall,  in  West  Oakland.  It  was  a  strange 
affair.  Parsons  and  queer  Scandinavian  residents  rubbed  elbows 
with  society  leaders  and  legal  luminaries,  prominent  among  the 
throng  being  Judge  E.  M.  Gibson.  Despite  the  clerical  leaven  in 
the  assemblage,  true  Norse  hospitality  demanded  that  the  health  of 
the  Nightingale  (as  Mrs.  Liljegren  is  known)  should  be  drunk, 
and  that  in  no  small  beer.  A  bowl  of  punch  of  unparalleled 
potency  was  accordingly  brewed  and  served,  and  matters  became 
so  hilarious  that  when  the  reception  closed,  Mrs.  Liljegren  was 
hoisted  on  a  chair  and  was  borne  about  the  hall  by  four  stagger- 
ing descendants  of  the  Vikings,  while  the  audience,  under  the 
combined  influence  of  the  punch  and  the  spectacle,  sang  in, 
maudlin  tones, 

"  We'll  get  a  divorce  from  Liljegren, 
And  he'll  never  hold  up  his  head  again, 
As  we  go  marching  on." 
*  *  * 

A  journalist,  who  has  recently  embarked  his  energies  in  an- 
other line  of  enterprise,  was  on  a  short  visit  recently  to  the  city, 
and  met  an  old  friend,  an  editor. 

"  Hulloa,  old  man,"  was  the  greeting,  "glad  to  see  you  back 
again  in  the  land  of  the  living  and  Beer.  Now,  old  man,  I  am 
deuced  glad  to  see  you,  deuced  glad.  Do  anything  I  can  to  make 
your  stay  agreeable.  Let's  see,  there  is  nothing  on  at  the  theatres 
particularly  new  or  exciting,  is  there?    I  tell  you  what  I  will  do 


for  you.  Gad,  I  am  glad  I  thought  of  it;  McNulty  is  to  be  hanged 
next  Friday,  and  I'll  get  you  a  card  of  admission.  There,  what  do 
you  say?" 

The  ex-journalist  declined  the  pleasure  of  seeing  his  fellow- 
man  swung  from  a  gibbet,  and  the  editor,  in  an  outraged  voice, 
exclaimed : 

"  Gad,  old  man,  you  arn't  married,  are  you?" 

"No." 

"  Well,  all  I  can  say  is,  country  life  is  — ■ —  demoralizing." 

An  amusing  incident  took  place  in  a  prominent  jewelry  store 
last  week,  which  made  three  young  men  feel  very  sheepish.  It 
was  all  about  a  wedding  present  that  was  to  be  given  one  of  their 
friends.  The  young  men  are  clerks  in  a  wholesale  clothing  bouse 
on  Sansome  street,  near  Pine,  and  had  been  appointed  a  commit- 
tee to  purchase  a  present  for  one  of  their  fellow  clerks  in  the 
store,  who  was  about  to  be  married.  One  hundred  dollars  was 
the  entire  amount  subscribed,  and  it  was  left  to  the  discretion  of 
the  committee  to  choose  the  article.  One  of  the  three  hastened 
to  a  jeweler  on  Sutter  street,  near  Montgomery,  and  informed 
him  that  a  present  was  to  be  bought,  and  he  could  make  the  sale 
if  a  commission  was  allowed.  The  jeweler  said  he  would  allow 
ten  dollars,  and  the  schemer  went  back  to  the  store  much  pleased 
with  his  own  shrewdness.  About  two  hours  later  the  jeweler 
was  approached  by  another  young  man  with  the  same  kind  of  a 
proposition,  and  gave  the  same  terms.  A  little  later,  somewhat 
to  his  surprise,  the  merchant  received  another  caller,  and  also 
promised  the  same  commission  to  him.  He  wondered  a  good 
deal  at  receiving  so  much  of  that  kind  of  custom  in  one  day.  The 
next  morning  was  set  for  selecting  the  present,  and  the  commit- 
tee appeared  as  a  whole  at  the  jeweler's,  each  congratulating 
himself  on  getting  the  othei  two  to  go  to  the  right  place.  When 
they  entered  the  store,  the  light  dawned  upon  the  jeweler,  and 
he  told  of  bis  experiences,  not  wishing  to  pay  thirty  dollars 
commission.  The  young  men  decided  not  to  say  anything  about 
the  matter,  but  they  all  felt  pretty  cheap. 

*  *  * 

If  the  Grand  Jury  is  anxious  to  make  a  ten-strike  just  now,  it 
should  begin  at  once  an  investigation  of  the  wholesale  making  of 
citizens  in  the  Superior  Court.  Dozens  of  foreigners  are  being 
naturalized  every  day.  Since  July  29th  3,000  persons  were  ad- 
mitted to  citizenship,  of  which  number  scarely  500  were  able  to 
read  or  write,  and  nearly  all  were  of  a  class  of  humanity  with 
which  no  American,  proud  of  his  citizenship,  could  affiliate  with- 
out repugnance  and  disgust.  This  is  not  all,  however,  that 
should  command  the  attention  of  the  Grand  Jury.  The  whole- 
sale perjury  that  is  being  committed  by  the  witnesses  in  these 
naturalization  cases  should  receive  attention.  The  law  requires 
that  the  witnesses  shall  have  known  the  applicant  for  at  least 
five  years.  There  are  agents  of  the  political  parties  who  have 
appeared  as  witnesses  for  from  twenty  to  sixty  foreigners,  swear- 
ing in  each  case  that  they  have  known  the  applicants  during  the 
period  required  by  law.  The  perjury  is  apparent.  Will  the  Grand 
Jury  investigate  it? 

*  * 

Since  the  United  States  Sub-Treasury  had  the  new  burglar 
alarm  placed  in  its  vaults  everybody  about  the  place  has  felt 
much  easier.  Some  of  the  deputies  did  not  place  much  faith  in 
Mr.  Gill's  new  system,  and  one  day  last  week  they  had  reason  to 
believe  that  it  was  a  pretty  good  watchman,  especially.  It  is  the 
custom  to  open  the  vaults  at  9:30  o'clock  each  morning,  and  this 
duty  is  the  first  care  of  Mr.  Burns,  the  chief  clerk.  The  minute 
the  vaults  are  opened  an  electric  current  registers  the  fact  in  the 
alarm  company's  office.  At  exactly  9:40  o'c.ock  last  Monday  morn- 
ing Colonel  Jackson  was  surprised  to  see  two  men  enter  his  private 
office,  one  of  whom  immediately  making  the  inquiry  why  the 
vaults  were  not  open.  The  Colonel  said  they  were,  as  it  was 
past  the  usual  time.  The  two  men  asserted  that  tbey  were  not; 
whereupon  the  Sub-Treasurer  took  them  into  the  main  room,  and 
sure  enough  the  vaults  were  found  closed.  "Well,"  said  the  Colonel, 
"  this  is  pretty  good  to  have  outsiders  tell  me  what  is  going  on  in 
my  office."  The  matter  was  explained,  however,  when  the  fact 
was  learned  that  Mr.  Burns  was  out  of  town  and  had  missed  his 
train;  but  it  showed  from  the  prompt  appearance  of  the  officers 
that  a  burglar  would  not  have  much  chance  in  the  Sub-Treasury. 

*  *  * 

The  Barons  of  Ross  Valley  are  known  to  be  more  or  less  pe- 
culiar in  their  notions  about  landed  rights,  and  trespassing  on 
their  estates  is  strictly  prohibited;  yet  for  all  that,  some  daring 
spirits  take  the  chances  and  visit  their  lands  without  invitation 
A  few  evenings  ago  a  Mr.  Coffin,  of  this  city,  and  another  gentle- 
man, thought  they  would  take  a  stroll  through  Fern  Park.  While 
strolliDg  quietly  along  one  of  the  paths  nicely  shaded  on  bo'.h 
sides  by  shrubbery,  Mr.  Coffin  suddenly  struck  out  with  his  cane 
at  a  white  owl.  The  first  time  he  hit  at  it  he  missed  it, bat  followed 
it  up  and  struck  again  in  the  same  place.  The  owl  did  not  fly 
away,  but  turned  tail  on  its  pursuer.  Instantly  the  air  was  filled 
with  an  odor  of  such  volume  and  density  that  neither  pedestrian 
was  able  to  open  his  mouth.  The  owl  had  vanished  into  thin 
air,  but  was  replaced  by  one  of  those  beautiful  little  animals  of 
the  genus  mephitis  mephitica,  whose  sole  weapon  of  defense  lies  in 
its  great  spraying  power  of  an  offensive  liquid.     Mr.  Coffin  re- 


August  20,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


reived  the  charge  just  as  a  hou«e  on  fir*  doet  that  of  a  chemical 
eneine.  He  was  drenched,  and  dare  not  make  a  noise,  for  fear 
-  some  of  his  satellites  might  come  out  and  ex- 
plode a  charge  of  giant  powder,  a  quantity  of  which  is  popularly 
supposed  to  be  always  on  hand  for  intruders  on  thedesniesne.  A 
retreat  was  accordingly  made  in  quirk  time  to  the  stable  of  an- 
other neighbor,  where  the  offensive  clothing  was  removed,  and 
Coffin  received  a  good  hosing  down  from  the  coachman.  But  "  all 
the  perfumers  of  Araby  the  Ble«t  "  cannot  remove  the  filthy  wit- 
ness, therefore  by  its  own  loud  noise  the  story  got  out.  Next 
morning,  on  the  ferry  steamer,  all  the  male  passengers  gave  the 
unfortunate  visitor  a  wide  berth.  One  thing  is  certain,  that  Mr. 
Collin  will  not  go  out  again  in  the  gloaming,  and  mistake  a  gray 
owl  for  a  skunk. 

«  •  * 

The  Alameda  county  prohibitionists  are  staunch  enough,  as 
far  as  getting  together  and  declaring  themselves  is  concerned; 
bot  when  it  comes  to  giving  up  the  shekels  for  the  good  cause, 
the  kaleidoscope  throws  another  light  upon  tbem.  This  was 
humorously  illustrated  at  the  County  Convention  held  on  Satur- 
day last  in  Oakland,  for  during  the  proceedings  the  chairman 
solemnly  announced  that  $1,000  was  needed  to  pursue  the  work, 
and  that  an  assessment  would  therefore  be  levied  on  all  the  dele- 
gates and  faithful  present.  Hats  were  accordingly  sent  around, 
and  the  chink-cbink  made  the  treasurer  smile,  for  he  fondly 
hoped  that  gold  was  dropping  into  the  chapeau  in  all  directions. 
But  his  wild  imagery  received  a  frightful  knock-out  when,  on  re- 
tiring to  a  quiet  corner,  he  proceeded  to  count  up  the  cash.  The 
highest  amount  donated  was  a  ten-cent  piece,  and  the  grand  total 
footed  only  $7.45,  a  fact  that  he  announced  with  tears  in  his  eyes 
and  desolation  in  his  heart.  For  there  was  not  enough  to  even 
pay  for  the  rent  of  the  hall,  and  as  for  remuneration  for  the 
officers,  that  was  out  of  the  question — an  announcement  that 
caused  the  immediate  surrendering  of  several  cabinet  portfolios. 

#  *  * 

Walter  Moore,  Chief  of  the  Fire  Department  in  Los  Angeles, 
politician,  man-about-town  and  all-around  sport,  is  a  well-known 
character  in  California,  especially  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
State.  One  of  Walter's  chief  claims  to  prominence  is,  that  be 
has  always  been  one  of  the  boys — an  assertion  that  has  hitherto 
gone  undisputed.  But  now  all  is  changed.  The  evangelism  of 
B.  Kay  Mills  and  the  temperance  crusade  of  Francis  Murphy  have 
wrought  wonders  in  Walter's  heart,  and  he  is  now  pointed  to  as 
a  shining  example  of  one  of  the  great  army  of  converted.  There 
was  quite  a  sensational  scene  in  the  Mills  Tabernacle  the  night 
that  Walter  broke  away  from  the  goats  and  joined  the  flock  of 
bleating  lambs,  for  he  made  the  change  in  a  dramatic  manner, 
arising  and  declaring  loudly  tbat  he  was  saved.  Those  who  heard 
him  were  thunderstruck.  At  first  they  thought  that  it  was  one 
of  his  old-time  political  dodges,  for  election  time  is  near,  but  as 
events  rolled  on  and  he  remained  steadfast  to  his  avowal,  his 
conversion  has  at  last  been  accepted  as  genuine.  Ed.  Niles, 
Barney  Fennigan,  Charley  Kearney,  Tom  Cuddy,  and  all  the  rest 
of  his  quandam  political  associates,  now  shake  their  heads  sadly 
as  they  see  him  wending  his  way  to  and  from  church,  and  his 
stentorian  voice,  which  was  ever  heard  above  all  others  amid  the 
Bacchanalian  revelries  of  the  Elks,  now  blends  in  modulated 
strains  with  the  choir  at  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

*  *  # 

If  anyone  thinks  the  average  clerk  at  the  City  Hall  has 
the  welfare  of  the  city  at  heart  he  is  greatly  mistaken.  With  few 
exceptions,  theae  clerks  operate  on  the  principle  that  they  worked 
too  hard  to  secure  their  places  to  think  of  labor  after  being  in- 
stalled in  office.  Hence  it  is  no  wonder  that  most  of  the  depart- 
mental funds  have  been  largely  overdrawn.  The  manner  in 
which  some  of  the  city  officials  perform  their  duties  is  simply 
shameful.  Take,  for  instance,  the  County  Clerk's  office.  Clerks 
are  employed  in  this  office  who  have  scarcely  been  seen  at  their 
desks  for  months.  The  most  persistent  promenader  of  Third 
atreet  among  these  clerks  is  Tom  Tully,  a  member  of  the  last 
boodle  Legislature.  He  draws  $150  a  month  from  the  pockets  of 
the  tax-payers — for  what?  Simply  to  look  after  the  interests  of 
County  Clerk  Blattner  at  the  headquarters  of  the  Third-street 
bosses.  Were  the  office  of  the  County  Clerk  managed  on  strictly 
business  principles,  there  would  be  a  saving  to  the  city  of  at  least 
$3,000  a  month.  But  with  the  present  force  of  political  hangers- 
on,  who  are  merely  given  places  for  the  services  required  of  them 
in  political  times,  it  is  no  wonder  that  the  robbery  continues. 
The  Health  Office,  too,  is  a  nest  where  political  pap-suckers  find 
an  easy  resting-place.     Many  of  the  inspectors  never   appear  at 


the  ofl  'draw  ihnir  salaries,  on  the    firnt   day    of  each 

month.  Secretary  BUpptchv  is  too  busy  with  politics  now  BT« 
to  show  his  face  in  the  offiot,  bat  be  does  not  disdain  to  draw  nil 
salary  of  $175  a  month  when  it  falls  due.  The  two  messengers 
in  the  office  are  rarely  seen  except  on  pay-day,  and  the  result  Is 
that  the  office  work  is  sadly  neglected.  But  for  tbe  efficient  ser- 
vice of  Assistant  Beoretftry  Lawler  tbe  office  would  go  to  the  dogs. 
The  same  state  of  affairs  exists  in  nearly  every  municipal  office. 
Yet  AuditorSmiley,  who  lain  a  position  to  stop  this  waste  of 
public  money,  signs  every  salary  warrant  presented  to  him.  Yet 
he  seeks  to  pose  before  the  public  as  the  "watchdog  of  tbe  local 
treasury."  But  it's  politics,  you  know. 
«  ♦  # 
The  Maze  is  ever  an  interesting  place  for  "shoppers."  The 
latest  novelties  in  dress  goods,  trimmings,  millinery  and  the  like 
may  always  be  found  on  the  counters  of  tbe  various  depa  tments. 
One  need  not  go  outside  the  doors  of  this  vast  establishment  to 
purchase  anything  ordinarily  to  be  had  in  three  or  four  general 
stores.  Dry  goods,  fancy  goods,  cloaks,  bonnets,  hats,  boots  and 
shoes,  hosiery,  toilet  articles,  patent  medicines,  stationery,  tin 
ware,  glass-ware,  clocks,  candies,  etc.,  etc.,  are  to  be  found  in  all 
grades  and  in  great  variety  in  this  mammoth  business  concern. 


Appliances  for  Mechanical  Drawing. 

Every  public  school  punil  in  the  city,  and  all  the  students  in  the 
various  large  colleges  of  the  State,  are  now  deep  in  the  throes  of  the 
problems  of  mechanical  drawing,  which  is.  this  year,  a  very  impor- 
tant feature  in  all  school  carricula.  To  assure  the  success  of  any  ex- 
periment in  drawing,  one  must  have  at  hand  the  proper  appliances, 
which  are,  in  fact,  absolutely  necessary  for  the  performance 
of  any  such  piece  of  work.  It  will  not  do  to  get  a  second-hand  com- 
pass, which  may  slip  at  a  critical  moment,  or  a  T  square  which  is 
not  true.  Instruments  must  be  had  which  are  absolutely  correct  in 
every  particular,  such  as  those  sold  in  the  art  department  of  San- 
born, Vail  &  Co.,  at  741-743  Market  street.  There  are  drawing-paper, 
inks,  T  squares,  triangles,  drawing-boards,  compasses,  pencils  and 
every  other  appliance  or  instrument  needed  in  the  schoolroom  or 
study.  All  are  first-class  in  every  respect,  and  cannot  be  possibly 
excelled.  For  this  reason,  this  popular  house  is  now  enjoying  the 
patronage  of  hundreds  of  amateur  artists  and  architects. 

C.  Marey  &,  Liger  Belair's 

NUITS, 

BURGUNDY     WINES. 


Chambertin, 
Beaune, 


Clos-Vougeot, 
Pommard, 
In  Cases,  Quarts  and  Pints. 


Chablis,  (White) 
"  1878 


G.  M.  PABSTMANN  S0HN, 

MAINZ    &    HOCHHEIM, 

RHINE     WINES. 

Geisenheimer  Liebfraumilch  Hochheimer  (own  growth) 

Marcobrunner         Ruedesheirner  Johannisberger,  Scbloss 

Koenigin  Victoria  Berg  (bronze  Label)     Steinberger,  Cabinet, 

CHARLES  MEINECKE  &  CO., 

Sole  Agents,  314,  Sacramento  St  ,  S.  F. 


FINE   DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


OUTING  SUITS-SHIRTS,       LADIES 


TENNIS  SUITS-SHIRTS, 


WHISTS, 


27    TO    37    ISE-A-K,iT"^"    STREET. 


12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


THERE  is  a  romance  connected  with  the  marriage  at  the  Catholic 
Church  in  Santa  Clara,  last  week,  of  Mrs.  Mary  Hitchcock  to 
Johnnie  Yoell,  the  son  of  the  retired  capitalist,  J.  Alexander 
Yoell,  that  would  have  made  the  ultra  fashionables  who  attended 
the  ceremony  gasp  for  breath  if  it  could  only  have  been  related 
to  them  then  and  there.  As  it  is,  it  will  cause  quite  a  flatter,  for 
the  newly-married  couple  are  presumably  allied  at  least  to  the 
inner  circle  of  the  Four  Hundred.  The  bride,  who  created  such 
a  good  impression  by  her  appearance  and  manners,  is  in  point  of 
fact  the  widow  of  a  train-hand  on  the  freight  division  of  the  S. 
P.  R.  R.,  at  Los  Angeles.  This  in  itself  is  nothing  wonderful,  but 
the  romance  begins  to  show  itself  when  it  is  stated  that  Yoell  met 
his  bride  when  she  was  acting  in  the  capacity  of  maid  to  two 
young  ladies  of  wealth,  who  were  visiting  Smith's  creek,  on  the 
road  to  the  Lick  Observatory.  Johnnie  wooed  and  won  her  heart, 
and  as  he  discovered  that  her  education  was  very  meager,  he  sent 
her  to  the  Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart  in  Oakland,  so  that  she 
might  be  polished  to  shine  in  society.  Her  past  was,  however, 
buried,  and  under  her  maiden  name  of  O'Keefe,  she  was  for 
two  years  an  inmate  of  that  swell  institution  as  a  parlor  boarder, 
with  special  teachers.  All  went  well,  until  the  pupils  in  some 
way  discovered  that  their  schoolmate  had  been  married.  Then 
the  wagging  of  tongues  commenced,  and  gossip  got  so  strong  that 
it  became  necessary  for  the  Sisters  to  request  her  removal.  Dur- 
ing all  this  time  Pa  and  Ma  Yoell  cared  for  their  son's  fiancee,  and 
provided  her  with  all  the  luxuries  of  life.  Mr.  Yoell  has  pre- 
sented the  couple  with  a  handsome  residence  in  San  Jose,  and  as 
the  little  story  here  told  is  just  beginning  to  creep  out  in  the 
school  for  scandal,  it  remains  to  be  seen  how  the  exclusives  of 
the  Garden  City  will  treat  the  bride. 

*  *  * 

It  was  a  tremendous  surprise  to  her  friends  in  this  city  to  learn 
that  Mrs.  Dominic  Verdenal  had  followed  in  Mrs.  Pacheco's 
footsteps  and  evolved  a  curtain-raiser.  As  Susie  Shannon,  the 
little  blonde  was  called  a  beauty  and  a  belle,  but  no  one  suspected 
her  of  intellectual  superiority.  Her  sister,  Mrs.  Laura  Gashwiler, 
was  fancied  to  possess  the  brains  of  the  family.  For  many  years 
after  her  marriage  to  the  worthy  stock  broker,  Mrs.  Verdenal  was 
&  society  woman  par  excellence.  She  was  withal  a  devoted  mother 
to  her  three  children — Lottie,  now  Mrs.  William  Forsyth; 
Blanche,  yclept  «  Chubbie,"  for  her  plumpness,  and  Dominic,  Jr. 
Then  the  family  joined  the  California  colony  in  New  York.  Last 
year  Mrs.  "Verdenal  was  appointed  one  of  the  lady  managers  for 
the  World's  Fair,  and  now  she  steps  forward  as  an  author  and 
playwright. 

»  *  * 

The  last  "  fad  "  in  fashionable  and  artistic  circles  in  New  York 
is  the  child  dancer,  "  La  Kegaloncita,"  familiarly  styled  •<  La 
Reg."  It  is  not  astonishing  that  the  precocious  child  should  be  a 
good  dancer.  The  little  girl  is  described  by  the  Eastern  press  as 
being  the  child  of  a  Spanish  father  (from  whom  presumably  her 
talent  comes)  and  an  American  mother,  who  was  a  daughter  of 
the  late  Rev.  F.  C.  Ewer,  of  New  York.  The  truth  is  her  won- 
derful skill  in  dancing  is  inherited  from  her  maternal  grand- 
mother, Dr.  Ewer's  wife,  whom  all  old-timers  in  San  Francisco 
will  remember  as  a  noted  figurante  in  her  early  days,  and  a  well- 
known  teacher  of  dancing  later  on,  before  her  marriage  with  Dr 
Ewer. 

*  *  * 

From  the  looks  of  things,  at  the  delightful  Del  Monte,  it  would 
seem  that  pigeons  will  not  be  Xhg  only  kind  of  game  aimed  at  in 
the  coming  shoot.  There  will  be  scores  of  pretty  maids  whose 
bright  glances  will  doubtless  bring  down  as  many  birds  as  the 
guns. 

*  #  * 

Among  the  freshest  of  these  maidens  at  Del  Monte  is  Miss 
Daisy  Casserly,  whose  calm,  sweet  face  is  always  as  unruffled  as 
her  crisp  muslin  gowns.  Miss  Alice  Rutherford  is  a  bud  whose 
rapid  development  must  be  somewhatstartling  to  strangers  when 
they  see  the  young  lady  beside  her  remarkably  youthfuMookine 
mother.  & 

»  *  * 

Mrs.  Freddie  Sharon  still  holds  sway  in  the  line  of  elaborate 
costuming,  her  only  rival  being  Miss  Emily  Hager.  That  young 
lady  s  costly  toilettes  are  a  headache  to  the  aspiring  young  clerk 
whose  modest  salary  would  not  reach  one  of  the  tennis  suits 
However,  the  handsome  Miss  Hager  has  her  own  bank  account! 
and  is  one  of  the  fortunate  girls  who  can  afford  to  please  herself 
completely  in  her  choice  of  a  partner  for  life. 

*  *  * 

At  Santa  Cruz  the  chief  entertainers  have  been  Mrs.  McLaugh- 
lin and  Mrs.  Delmas.  The  McLaughlins  were  unstinted  in  their 
brilliant  hospitalities  to  Governor  Markham  and  Staff  and  the 
military  authorities  during  the  recent  encampment.  The  Del- 
mas's  have  gone  in  more  for  entertainment  of  personal  friends 
several  parties  from  the  city  having  been  their  guests  during  the 
month.  ° 


Mrs.  Nat  Brittan  has  enlivened  the  little  burg  greatly.  She  evi- 
dently does  not  sbare  her  geniat  (?)  husband's  dislike  for  hos- 
pitality, and  her  musicale  and  hop  at  the  Casino  was  one  of  the 
events  of  the  past  week. 

*  «  * 

A  young  matron,  whose  wit  and  repartee  is  well  known,  was 
discussing  the  last  effort  in  plays  one  afternoon  last  week  on  the 
beach,  and  was  heard  to  say:  "  Now,  if  the  theme  bad  only  been 
'  Woman's  Tongues,'  what  a  howling  success  it  would  have  been. 
No  critic  could  have  been  found  to  say  the  fair  authoress  was  not 
thoroughly  versed  in  her  subject  then,  you  bet." 

*  »  # 

News  comes  from  abroad  that  the  Voorhies  girls  are  having  a 
delightful  time,  touring  about  under  the  pilotage  of  Mr.  Robert 
Sherwood,  than  whom  surely  never  was  a  better  guide  and  care- 
ful guardian. 

*  •  * 

Society  is  beginning  to  ask  what  has  become  of  charming  Miss 
Jennie  Dunphy  since  her  return  from  Europe.  Her  friends  are 
waiting  impatiently  to  hear  the  beautiful  voice  which  has  been 
undergoing  such  a  thorough  training  for  the  past  few  years. 

*  »  » 

Another  former  belle,  whose  withdrawal  from  society's  ring  has 
caused  much  regret,  is  Miss  Jessie  Bowie.  Her  friends  hope  it 
has  been  but  a  temporary  absence,  however,  and  that  the  coming 
winter  season  will  see  her  again  one  of  the  season's  brightest 
features. 

*  *  # 

Is  Tom  Madden  going  to  marry  at  last,  and  will  the  fair  one  of 
his  tardy  choice  be  his  sweet  young  ward  ?  This  interrogatory  is 
agitating  social  circles. 

Eyes  tested  according  to  physiological  laws  of  light,  and  not  by  machin- 
ery.   C.   Muller,  the  progressive   optician  and  refraction  specialist,  135 

Montgomery  street,  near  Hush. 

A  splendid  opportunity  to  secure 


GREAT 

CLEARANCE 

SALE. 


FINE 

OIL  PAINTINGS 

ENGRAVINGS 

ETCHINGS 

MIRRORS 

STATUES 

ORNAMENTS 

FANCY  GOODS. 


is  now  offered  at  reduced  prices  on  ac- 
count of  removal,  about  Sept.  15th,  to 
our  New  Building,  No.  113  Geary  St. 

S.  &  G.  GUMP, 

S81  Market  Street. 

MISS   MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

NO.  912  GRAND  STREET,    ALAMEDA,    CAL. 

Miss  Mansou.  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  School,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.   Manson,  Late  Associate  Principal,  East  End  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND    DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  began  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year},  desires 
to  annouuce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 

ZISKA     INSTITUTE, 

1606  Van  Ness  Avenue. 

French,  German  and  English  Day  and  Boarding  School  for  young 
ladies  and  children. 
A  refined  home  with  the  best  educational  advantages. 

Next  Term  Opens  August  1,  1892. 

MME.  B.  ZISKA,  M.  A.,  Principal. 
Mr.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 


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August  20,  1892. 


FRANCT8CO  NEWS  1  KTTBR, 


18 


TO    MABLE      FVimJ  Am  BmtduUUr. 


In  apes  eon*,  with  gold  leaf  fin*. 

fflaon  and  bin*,  an>l  colors  rare 
Wrought  into  beautiful  u>«  . 

With  patience  seasoned  well  with  prayer. 
The  old  monk*.  In  their  cells  of  stone, 

in  some  abbey's  cloistered  nooks, 
Illumined,  silent  ami  alone, 

Those  quaint  and  charming  vellum  books. 

Bat  I,  who  write  to-day,  have  need 

Of  no  such  art  to  paint  my  page, 
And  he  who  pauses  here  to  read 

Will  own  a  is  a  better  age; 
One  word  can  beautify  the  whole. 

And  put  the  old  monk's  an  to  shame; 
No  blazonry  of  paint  and  scroll — 

Only  one  word,  dear — just  your  name  ! 


HAYWARDS   LAKE   COUNTY    SPECULATION. 

ALVINZA  HAYWARD  had  an  experience  once,  up  in  Lake 
county,  which  he  speaks  of  even  to  this  day  in  accents  low, 
although  it  is  fifteen  years  since  it  happened.  According  to  his 
story,  if  he  had  stayed  there  much  longer  he  would  not  be  known 
now  as  a  millionaire.  It  was  in  1887  that  Mr.  Hayward,  while 
making  a  trip  through  some  of  the  northern  counties  for  his 
health,  came  one  night  upon  a  place  called  Zeigler's  Springs.  He 
became  so  much  attached  to  the  place  that  negotiations  were 
opened  for  its  purchase,  which  was  finally  consummated,  upon 
the  payment  of  $20,000,  this  including  the  springs,  hotel  and 
seven  hundred  acres  of  land.  Immediately  upon  coming  into 
possession,  Hayward  caused  the  most  elaborate  plans  to  be  drawn 
up;  it  being  his  intention  to  make  it  one  of  the  finest  watering 
places  in  the  State.  One  of  the  first  things  built  was  a  race  track 
with  luxurious  stables  and  outbuildings.  A  new  hotel  and  cot- 
tages on  a  magnificent  scale,  were  also  designed;  but  fated  to 
never  materialize.  This  came  about  through  the  action  of  the 
Supervisors.  As  soon  as  they  discovered  that  a  millionaire  was 
in  their  midst,  immediate  action  was  taken  to  loot  him  in  every 
way  possible.  The  first  attack  was  made  through  the  schools,  by 
a  curious  gerrymandering  of  the  county,  which  placed  some  part 
of  Hayward's  seven  hundred  acres  in  every  school  district,  for 
which  he  was  assessed  accordingly,  and  to  make  the  matter  more 
binding,  a  school  was  built  right  at  the  springs,  for  which  be 
stood  the  full  assessment.  After  this  had  been  completed,  the 
Board  managed  to  have  every  road  in  the  county  extended  across 
the  place;  for  which,  of  course,  he  was  taxed.  Finally,  the 
Assessor  finished  breaking  the  camel's  back  by  placing  a  value 
of  $100,000  on  the  Rprings.  This  was  too  much  for  Hayward, 
and  he  sent  tor  that  official  to  remonstrate  with  him.  When  he 
arrived,  however,  it  was  of  no  avail,  and  he  was  told  the  assess- 
ment had  to  stand.  Hayward  instantly  turned  to  one  of  the 
carpenters  working  on  the  new  school  building  and  shouted  out, 
"You  there,  atop!"  The  man  looked  in  astonishment,  still 
holding  in  his  hand  a  hammer,  with  which  he  had  half  driven  a 
nail.  "  Don't  hit  that  nail  again,"  continued  Hayward.  "  That's 
the  last  stroke  of  work  I'll  ever  pay  for  in  Lake  county,"  and  he 
kept  his  word,  The  nail  still  remains  half  driven,  a  lilleputian 
monument  to  the  folly  of  avaricious  Supervisors.  Mr.  Hayward 
afterwards  traded  the  place  to  John  Spaulding  for  some  mining 
property  in  which  they  were  both  interested,  and  Spauding  is  still 
the  owner  of  the  springs. 


THERE  is  a  good  story  of  George  "William  Curtis,  which  seems  never 
to  have  been  published.  He  was  lecturing  on  a  Buffalo  stage  once, 
when  suddenly  a  heavy  rope  somehow  broke  loose  from  its  moorings 
in  the  flies  above,  and  dropped  with  a  tremendous  thud  to  the  floor 
behind  the  speaker.  Mr.  Curtis  looked  around  in  mild  surprise,  to 
see  what  had  happened,  then,  turning  to  the  alarmed  audience 
again,  said,  with  a  twinkle  in  his  eye:  "Ah,  that  must  heve  been 
the  thread  of  ray  discourse."  Somebody  on  a  front  seat  caugh  the 
joke  first  and  broke  out  in  a  chuckle,  which  instantly  developed  into 
a  roar  of  laughter  from  the  whole  house.  It  was  a  good  many  min- 
utes before  the  thread  of  that  discourse  could  be  resumed. 


REVOLUTIONS  in  Central  and  8outb  America  continue  to 
flourish.  Cuba  is  preparing  for  a  rising.  In  Honduras  the 
ex-President  has  been  shot,  and  the  insurgents  are  triumphant. 
In  Venezuela  the  revolutionary  party  has  taken  possession  of 
Caracas,  the  capital,  and  from  Brazil  military  revolts  in  two 
provinces  are  reported.  One  cannot  say  that  our  Southern  neigh- 
bors do  much  credit  to  the  republican  form  of  government. 

With  the  bright,  sunny  days  of  August  comes  a  desire  for  the 
possession  and  enjoyment  of  those  many  beautiful  flowers  which 
have  made  California  famed  as  an  earthly  paradise.  The  city  belles 
and  the  countrv  beauties  all  appreciate  such  perfumed  blossoms  as 
those  to  be  seen  in  the  store  of  Charles  M.  Leopold,  at  35  Post  street. 
Mr.  Leopold  always  has  a  stock  of  the  most  beautiful  flowers  of  the 
season,  which  he  makes  into  bouquets,  baskets,  wreathes,  crosses 
and  any  other  suggested  design. 


HOSIERY  I 


FOR  LADIES  we  have  a  large  assort- 
ment of  full  finished  stinless  fast  black 
Cotton  Hosiery  at  26c,  35c  and  60c  a 
pair. 

FOR  CHILDREN  special  values  in  rib- 
bed Cotton  Hose,  double  knees  and 
linen  spliced  at  16e  to  30c  a  pair. 


(£fcnnc\4 


"*     1892.  e' 


111  to  121  Post  Street 


QO   TO 

Q-.  "W.   OLJLK/KI   Sc   CO., 
653  Market  Street, 

FOR 

WALL      PARE  R, 

WINDOW     SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 


GOLD  SEAL  Eubto  HOSE, 

THE  BEST  MADE. 
Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 


K.  H.  PEASE,    j  A„„nta 
S.  M.  RUN  YON,  j  A£cnls- 


E77  *  579  Market  Street. 


LOOTS  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS., 


ijCnTtzehb-ioir, 


DBOOBATOES. 


Dealers  in  Stained  Glass,  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall    Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St.,  between  5th  and  6th,  San  Francisco 

& 

SEARCHER   OF    RECORDS 


EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 
G.  W.  MCKEAND, 

OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.    Residence- 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


THE  Peerless  Match  Company  has  been  incorporrted,  with  a 
capital  of  $50,000,  to  manufacture  all  binds  of  matches  in  this 
city,  in  competition  with  the  old  companies  which  have  been 
working  in  combination  for  some  time  past.  The  incorporators 
named  as  subscribers  for  the  working  capital  of  $25,000  paid  up 
are:  A.  Bummerfield,  Jr.,  Jacob  Unna,  Louis  E.  Lake,  Harry 
Unna,  and  Carlos  8.  Unna.  The  new  company  will  aim  to  pro- 
duce a  good  match  of  the  cheaper  grade  at  about  one-half  the 
price  they  are  selling  for  to-day  in  open  market.  The  present 
price  of  a  tin  containing  five  gross  of  matches  is  $1.75,  less  the 
discount  of  ten  per  cent,  to  the  trade.  A  few  years  ago,  before 
the  combination  was  effected,  the  same  sized  packages,  but  a 
better  quality  of  match,  sold  for  ninety  cents,  including  the  reve- 
nue tax,  and  even  at  that  price  the  manufacturers  cleared  a  large 
profit.  For  some  time  past  there  has  been  a  combination  of  the 
local  match  manufacturers.  New  concerns  have  cropped  up  from 
time  to  time,  but  the  combine  has  always  managed  to  get  control 
of  them,  either  through  a  lack  of  sufficient  capital  on  the  part  of 
the  incorporators,  or  ttheir  inability  to  command  a  market  for 
their  goods.  The  latest  competitor  is  differently  situated,  having 
not  only  the  necessary  capital,  but  also  a  wide  field  for  operations, 
the  principal  shareholders  having  been  engaged  in  the  business 
as  middlemen  for  years  past.  Any  improvement  in  the  present 
local  manufacture  will  be  hailed  with  satisfaction  by  the  public. 
A  person  has  generally  to  lose  a  dozen  matches  before  obtaining 
a  light  through  some  imperfection  in  the  wood  used  or  careless- 
ness in  splitting.  In  consequence  Eastern  and  foreign  brands 
have  gained  a  strong  foothold  in  this  market.  There  is  no  reason 
why  matches  cannot  be  made  here  as  good  as  the  imported  arti- 
cle. The  latest  ideas  in  machinery  are  simply  perfection,  a  block 
of  wood  inserted  at  one  end  coming  out  in  matches  at  the  other, 
cleanly  cut  and  separated.  The  Italian  goods  sold  here  are  hawked 
about  the  streets  of  the  principal  cities  in  that  country  as  low  as 
three  boxes  for  one  cent,  each  box  containing  one  hundred 
matches.  There  is  a  large  profit  in  the  manufacture  even  at  this 
low  retail  price,  and  they  can  be  made  here  every  bit  as  cheaply. 
It  is  now  probable  that  an  attempt  will  be  made  to  keep  the  home 
trade  free  from  the  invasion  of  foreign  makers,  which  will  be  just 
so  many  dollars  added  to  the  wealth  of  our  own  people,  which 
have  in  the  past  been  going  to  support  foreigners. 
%tl 

THE  London  managers  of  the  Temescal  tin  mines  are  lying  very 
low  just  now,  hoping  probably  that  the  expose  of  their  mis- 
management of  the  shareholders"  property  will  pass  unnoticed. 
Prudence  doubtless  suggests  that  the  less  comment  made  on  the 
subject,  the  better  it  will  be  for  their  own  reputations  in  Great 
Britain.  The  London  financial  papers  are  also  significantly  silent, 
although  the  pockets  of  many  of  tbeir  readers  may  suffer  by  the 
suppression  of  the  charges  which  have  been  made  of  the  outrage- 
ous mismanagement  of  the  company.  Leaving  the  question  of 
the  value  of  the  mines  as  ore  producers,  for  the  time  being,  the 
most  serious  mistake  seems  to  have  been  expending  such  large 
sums  of  money  on  surface  improvements  before  the  work  of 
development  was  sufficiently  advanced  to  warrant  the  outlay. 
The  Board  of  Directors  should  be  called  to  account  for  this  at 
once,  and  if  they  are  men  of  wealth,  their  private  purses  should 
be  drawn  upon  for  every  dollar  which  has  been  frivolously 
wasted.  From  all  accounts,  one  would  think  that  a  mistake  had 
been  made  in  the  denomination  of  the  company,  and  that  it  was 
originally  formed  for  the  purpose  of  laying  out  a  lordly  desmesne 
for  "  Colonel "  Robinson,  instead  qf  carrying  on  a  mining  opera- 
tion. The  suppression  of  the  reports  of  mining  experts  will  also 
bear  an  explanation;  that  is,  of  course,  if  under  the  Eng.ish  law 
the  Directors  are  subservient  to  any  authority  on  earth.  Indi- 
viduals of  this  class,  unfortunately,  too  often  live  in  the  clouds, 
ignoring,  with  haughty  indifference,  ordinary  mortals  who,  by  ill 
fate,  have  come  under  their  thrall.  It  is  a  pity  that  some  steps 
are  not  taken  to  bring  a  few  of  these  gentry  down  to  their  proper 
level.  A  lew  months  of  hard  labor  in  striped  suits  would  tone 
down  their  supreme  impudence,  while  serving  at  the  same  time 
as  a  moral  lesson  to  others  with  similar  lofty  aspirations.  The 
way  in  which  the  majority  of  the  British  mines  in  California  have 
been  ran  for  some  years  past  is  enoagh  to  make  people  here  won- 
der at  the  immunity  granted  to  thieving  rascals  in  a  country 
where  justice  is  generally  supposed  to  be  administered  without 
fear  and  favor.  In  a  number  of  instances  which  could  be  named, 
if  the  scandalous  robbery  had  been  perpetrated  by  citizens  of  this 
State,  they  would  have  been  landed  in  the  penitentiary  in  short 
order. 

$s  t 

MUCH  as  a  good  tin  mine  may  be  desired  in  this  country,  the 
prospects  for  one  are  not  altogether  favorable  just  at  pres- 
ent. The  Temescal  properties  are  not  what  they  have  been  put 
up  to  be,  and  the  Harney  Peak  Company  has  done  everything  in 
the  world  but  produce  tin.  The  following  extract  from  the  Dead- 
wood  Ttmcs  shows  the  position  of  affairs  at  these  mines:  "The 


attitude  of  this  company  has  served  to  enshroud  it  in  mystery, 
but  no  doubt  the  company  know  best  their  business.  It  is  stated 
that  there  has  been  more  prospecting  and  developing  work  done 
so  far  this  year  than  ever,  and  the  mines  are  looking  better.  The 
mill  is  completed  and  ready  to  run.  Railroad  tracks  from  Hill 
City  to  the  mill  and  most  of  the  spurs  have  been  built.  There 
are  several  thousand  tons  of  ore  on  the  dump  that  contain  at  least 
forty  per  cent,  metallic  tin.  Signs  are  placed  upon  the  dumps 
prohibiting  visitors  carrying  away  specimens,  and  guards  are 
stationed  to  enforce  the  orders.  The  New  York  directors  of  the 
company  will  arrive  at  Hill  City  this  week  to  hold  a  meeting,  and 
it  is  thought  the  result  will  be  the  commencement  of  work  at  all 
stations.  The  eyes  of  the  whole  world  are  upon  this  enterprise, 
and  expect  the  management  to  fulfil  their  many  promises  at  an 
early  date."  The  English  officials  of  the  company  are  now  in  the 
Black  Hills,  and  it  is  possible  that  the  mill  will  be  started  np  be- 
fore they  leave  for  home. 

191 

THE  local  stock  market  is  still  hanging  between  life  and  death. 
The  variation  in  prices  was  only  nominal  during  the  week, 
and  the  volume  of  business  shows  a  shrinkage  dally.  There  is 
little  use  talking  about  the  reduction  of  low-grade  Comstock  ores, 
with  silver  at  its  present  price.  It  will  be  fortunate  if  the  mines 
are  not  all  closed  down  temporarily,  but  perhaps  that  would  suit 
the  combination  of  brokers,  which  is  chiefly  accountable  for  the 
wreck  of  a  fine  business.  The  members  of  this  clique  are  getting 
things  pretty  well  their  own  way  now.  If  it  was  their  intention 
to  demoralize  the  market  and  ruin  the  business,  they  have  suc- 
ceeded admirably.  Perhaps  some  of  them  may  have  cause  to 
regret  their  ill-advised  action  in  the  course  of  the  future.  Money 
will  never  be  made  so  easily  again  in  any  other  line  of  business 
they  may  adopt.  Of  course  the  depression  will  wear  away  in 
time,  but  in  the  interval  brokers  who  are  weak  financially  will 
have  retired  from  the  board  into  the  seclusion  which  many  of 
their  clients  have  sought  in  the  past.  No  news  of  interest  was 
received  from  the  lode  since  last  report,  and  the  chances  are  slim 
for  the  development  of  anything  sufficiently  startling  to  break 
the  dreary  monotony  which  prevails  in  stock  circles.  Share- 
holders who  own  their  stocks,  have  pocketed  them,  with  the  in- 
tention of  seeing  the  game  out,  sink  or  swim.  Margin  accounts 
are  scarce,  and  the  bulk  of  the  different  companies'  stocks  are 
gradually  finding  their  way  into  office.  There  are  no  rumors  at 
present  of  any  future  contests  for  control  of  the  mines,  and  from 
all  that  can  be  learned,  the  aspirants  for  official  honors  are  grow- 
ing a  little  weary  over  their  continual  defeat.  Outside  stocks  are 
in,  if  anything,  a  worse  condition.  There  is  little  demand  for 
these  shares,  and  prices  are  low. 

t  J  S 

THE  Giant  Powder  people  have  formed  a  combination  with  the 
8afety  Nitro  Company,  after  receiving  a  proposition  from  the 
California.  There  was  some  difficulty  at  arriving  at  a  decision  in 
the  matter,  and  the  directors  finally  called  a  meeting  of  the 
heavier  shareholders,  the  majority  of  whom  favored  the  proposal 
made  by  the  Safety  Nitro  Company.  The  works  of  the  latter  are 
located  on  a  large  tract  of  land  near  Sobrante,  and  the  site  is  pro- 
nounced by  an  expert  brought  out  from  the  East  as  one  of  the 
finett  he  has  ever  seen  for  a  powder  manufactory.  It  has  an 
area  of  over  320  acres,  so  that  there  is  plenty  of  room  for  the  pro- 
posed extension  of  the  business.  The  California  Company  has 
reduced  its  rate  of  dividends  from  $1  to  50  cents. 
*  t  $ 

THE  sale  of  the  Schaefer  properties  in  Indian  Secret  District, 
Arizona,  has  been  consummated  and  the  local  company  has 
entered  into  possession.  The  price  paid  was  $50  000.  This  is 
considered  cheap  by  the  sellers,  but  they  preferred  to  accept  less 
money  and  avoid  the  trouble  of  a  lawsuit,  which  is  imminent 
over  one  of  the  locations.  The  cloud  over  the  title  is  not  con- 
sidered serious  by  competent  lawyers  of  this  city,  and  among  the 
purchasers  is  a  gentleman  who  has  the  reputation  of  being  an 
authority  on  mining  law.  Alteough  so  far  little  work  of  develop- 
ment has  been  doi  e  on  the  ledgea,  experts  say  that  the  sur- 
face indications  are  extraordinarily  rich  and  of  a  character  which 
promises  continuity  as  depth  is  attained.  It  is  fortunate,  con- 
sidering the  low  price  of  silver,  that  the  average  value  of  the  ore 
is  high  enough  to  warrant  a  fair  profit  over  working  expenses. 
$  $  $ 

THE  Presidio  and  Ferries  Cable  Railroad  has  been  extended  int° 
the  Presidio  Reservation,  and  the  cars  are  now  running  over 
the  full  length  of  the  line.  The  steam  cars  connect  at  the  en- 
trance to  the  reservation  for  Harbor  View,  where  this  branch  of 
the  road  now  ends.  The  extension  of  the  line  has  opened  up 
and  valuable  portion  of  the  city,  and  has  tended  to  build  up 
property  values  in  the  neighborhood.  The  military  occupants  of 
the  Presidio  will  doubtless  fully  appreciate  the  convenience  now 
afforded  them  for  traveling  facilities. 
Sf  I 

JH.  WESTON,  the  general  manager  of  the  Calaveras  Consoli- 
.  dated  Mines,  is  again  at  his  post  of  duty,  having  returned 
from  London  during  the  week.  He  has  been  successful  in  rais- 
ing the  "sinews  of  war,"  and  the  shaft  will  now  be  sunk  to  a 
depth  of  400  feet,  to  explore  the  mine  at  that  depth. 


August  20,  1892. 


SAN  FKANCTSCO  NEWS  I  Kl  I'Ki;. 


16 


■  Hear  tnec  Tier Wh»l  iho  devil  arltho 

■  Oucih.l  will  pI»t  the  levll.slr.  with  you. 


IN  days  of  old.  when  bathing  in  the  Nile. 
The  belle  of  Egypt,  Pharaoh'!  lovely  daughter, 
Beheld  beneath  her.  midst  a  bulrush  pile. 

The  infant  Moses,  floating  on  the  water. 
8be  called  her  maidens  to  her.     •■  Girls,"  she  said, 

••  Be  not  ashamed,  but  tell  the  story  plainly, 
Which  of  you  own  it,  and  who  is  its  dad? 
'Tis  a  fine  child,  and  not  a  bit  ungainly." 

The  ladies  bridled,  muttered,  fumed  and  blushed, 

And  while  the  princess  reached,  the  babe  to  dandle, 

Drew  back  indignantly,  though  sorely  pushed 
By  their  fair  mistress  to  relate  the  scandal. 

The  boy  grew  up,  a  credit  to  the  court, 

Keen  as  a  razor,  playful,  sweel,  caressing, 
And  Pharaoh's  daughter  often  thanked  that  sport 

Which  brought  her  such  a  pretty  infant  blessing. 
•  «  •  »  , 

The  Regents  puzzled,  looking  far  and  wide 

Toward  colleges  where  learning  grave  reposes, 
Have  found  at  last,  by  the  Pacific's  tide, 

For  Berkeley's  chair,  a  Presidential  Moses. 

May  they,  as  Pharaoh's  daughter,  be  content, 
And  fiud  their  Moses  wise  as  Israel's  glory. 

With  learning's  torch  towards  progress  ever  bent, 
Like  he,  the  hero  of  the  Bible's  story. 

""THE  Adventures  of  Willis  Polk,  Architect  and  Artist,"  will 
1  soon  be  given  to  the  world  in  book  form.  No  meteor  ever 
flashed  across  the  social  sky  of  the  far  west  like  this  gifted  son 
of  Kentucky.  Your  ordinary  man  will  crawl  through  existence 
in  a  hum-drum  fashion.  Not  so  Mr.  Polk.  He  cannot  walk  a 
block  without  an  adventure,  and  when  he  packs  his  grip  and 
gets  a  few  miles  from  home,  the  highways  and  the  woods,  the 
inns,  and  even  the  boundless  prairies  teem  with  a  succession  of 
startling  circomstances.  A  week  ago  he  was  at  Santa  Monica, 
traveling  with  that  graceful  tourist  and  brilliant  military  racon- 
teur, Colonel  Kowalsky.  They  occupied  adjoining  rooms.  In 
the  morning  Mr.  Polk,  as  becomes  his  youth,  rose  with  the  lark, 
but  before  communing  with  the  sounding  waves,  sought  the 
barber-shop,  to  remove  a  downy  suspicion  from  his  in- 
genuous chin.  "Arise  and  get  shaved,  Colonel,"  he  called  out 
cheerily  to  his  traveling  companion.  "  Naw,  Naw,"  rejoined 
that  warrior,  '•  send  the  slave  to  my  apartments,"  for  the  Colonel 
is  a  sybarite  when  he  travels,  and  must  have  the  best  of  every- 
thing, though  it  should  come  high.  Mr.  Polk  proceeded  to  the 
barber-shop,  and  haughtily  demanded  a  shave,  adding,  "  And 
when  yon  are  through  with  me,  go  up  and  shave  the  Colonel." 
The  barber  surveyed  the  boyish  figure  of  the  architect  with  a  look 
of  disdain.  "  You  are  a  nice  kid,  you  are,"  he  said,  derisively, 
"  I'll  see  you  to  Hades,  and  then  I  won't  shave  you.  Go  up  and 
tell  your  master  that  I  will  be  with  him  directly."  The  proud 
son  of  Kentucky  stood  speechless  and  dismayed.  This  vile  Santa 
Monica  chin-scraper  had  actually  taken  him  for  Colonel  Kowals- 
ky's  boy.  Nor  was  his  peace  of  mind  restored  when,  foaming  at 
the  mouth,  he  met  a  nigger  lad,  who  cried,  "  Say,  what  did  the 
Colonel  dischawge  Claw'ence  fo',  and  when  was  you  tuk  on  ?  " 

GRANGER  Asa  Fisk  has  excited  the  indignation  of  his  neigh- 
bors. The  garden  opposite  the  manor  house  of  this  progress- 
ive human  agriculturist,  who  sows  tares  and  reaps  wheat,  on 
Hayes  and  Buchanan  streets,  has  long  been  a  howling  wilderness. 
Nought  but  the  empty  oyster-can  and  the  mangled  sardine  box, 
from  which  all  trace  of  sardines  has  long  departed,  occupy  the 
soil  of  Asa's  garden.  Those  melancholy  plants,  relics  of  former 
feasts,  are  sometimes  relieved  by  a  broken  bottle.  But  every- 
thing is  empty.  There  is  no  stuffing,  no  substance  to  anything 
that  finds  a  resting-place  in  Granger  Fisk's  potter's  field.  Re- 
cently, with  the  idea,  perhaps,  of  putting  in  a  crop  of  protested 
notes,  or  the  Lord  knows  what,  Granger  Fisk  excavated  this 
garden,  and  has  maliciously  and  malignantly  dumped  the  refuse 
upon  the  sidewalk.  He  has  a  wretched  cow,  a  most  forlorn-look- 
ing beast,  who  is  religiously  turned  out  every  morning  to  browse 
upon  the  fertile  meadows  of  asphaltum  that  environ  Mr.  Fisk's 
model  farm.  This  animal  wears  an  expression  of  the  deepest  and 
most  intense  sadness.  Some  of  Granger  Fisk's  neighbors  will 
make  affidavit  that  they  have  seen  it  watering  the  asphalt  with 
its  tears,  as  it  longs  for  the  impossible  tnrnip  and  the  clover  that 
groweth  not  on  the  surface  of  the  busy  highway.  Where  and 
when  Granger  Fisk  foreclosed  upon  it  is  not  written.  Woe  be 
unto  those  who  eat  its  flesh  when  it  falls  beneath  the  butcher's 
axe.  They  will  be  haunted  for  all  time  by  phantoms  of  com- 
pound interest,  and  noxious  shapes  of  suits  to  recover  judgment 
upon  notes  fattened  upon  their  own  slime. 


MR— well.  Jones— Is  one  of  the  greatest  travelers  outside  Dl  the 
■  ■graphical  Society  In  the  world.  Me  I,  an  Insurance  man, 
and  like  all  of  that  lucrative  bdllOMt,  OWM  a  nice  house,  an. I 
has  a  very  .harming  wife,  of  whom  he  is  naturally  a  trifle  jealous, 
to  sit  at  his  table.  He  was  giving  a  dinner  party ;  the  ladles  had 
retired;  the  wine  was  passing  briskly  around,  and  Jones  was  In 
an  anecdotal  mood.  The  conversation  turned  upon  the  sex.  and 
Mr.  J.  dilated  upon  the  different  methods  which  the  ladies  of 
different  countric-  bad  of  kissing.  The  theme  was  interesting, 
and  the  host  was  listened  to  with  profound  attention.  ■•  But," 
he  concluded,  after  paying  a  well-merited  tribute  to  the  Hawaiian 
ladies,  ••  I've  kissed  the  girls  of  all  nations,  but  I  can  assure  you, 
gentlemen,  there  is  not  one  of  them  can  hold  a  candle  to  Mrs. 
Jones."  ■■  By  the  Lord,  you  are  right  there,  Jones,"  shrieked  a 
young  gentleman  who  sat  at  the  foot  of  the  table,  with  enthusi- 
asm. There  was  a  painful  and  embarrassing  pause.  Jones  gazed 
with  freezing  severity  at  the  youth  who  had  so  heartily  endorsed 
his  eulogy,  and  then  each  individual  buried  his  nose  in  his  claret 
glass. 

SAN  RAFAEL  is  justly  proud  of  its  mosquitos.  Tbe  time  has 
gone  by  when  this  sweetly  suburban  village  denied  the  exist- 
ence of  those  pleasing  incitors  to  the  circulation  of  the  blood. 
Furthermore,  a  savant  of  San  Rafael  has  made  a  most  important 
discovery.  And  it  is  that  all  the  biting  mosquitos  are  of  the  fe- 
male sex.  The  gentleman  mosquito  is  engaged  at  home  doing 
chores,  while  the  old  lady  is  buzzing  around  the  pillows  of  weary 
mortals,  getting  a  square  meal,  and  leaving  her  spouse  to  chew 
the  leavings  of  the  house.  A  close  investigation  of  the  case 
shows  that  the  plump,  fair-faced  British  clerk  has  made  a  decided 
mash  upon  the  female  mosquito— indeed  he  is  usually  engaged  at 
this  season  in  mashing  her  all  night. 

THE  war  betwen  demist  Leek  and  tailor  Valentine,  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Club,  still  rages.  The  tailor  and  the  dentist  are  at  scis- 
sors and  forceps  points.  The  dentist  with  gnashing  molars  de- 
clares that  the.tailor's  interest  in  athletics  arises  solely  from  the 
hope  that  the  winner,  when  properly  flattered,  will  buy  all  his 
good  clothes  from  him.  To  these  grave  charges  the  tailor  doth 
movingly  reply,  and  alleges  that  the  dentist  lingers  on  the  out- 
side of  the  ring,  praying  to  his  patron  saint  that  every  blow  may 
mean  the  removal  of  a  prize  fighter's  tooth,  so  he  may  have  the 
pleasure  and  profit  of  setting  in  a  new  one.  No  more  original 
and  delightful  quarrel  has  ever  been  had  in  the  vicinity  of  a 
twenty-four  foot  ring. 

''PIS  sad,  but  'tis  true,  when  our  Jeunesse  doree 
1    Depart  from  this  city  and  journey  away, 

To  weddings  and  feastings  to  which  they're  inclined, 
They  wish,  some  weeks  after,  they'd  lingered  behind; 
For  bridegrooms  wax  cold  when  the  marriage  is  over, 
And  friendship's  forgot  in  the  zeal  of  the  lover, 
And  papas-in-law  are  a  singular  brood, 
And  grow  chill  toward  the  son's  friends  of  bachelorhood. 
When  the  bride  cake  is  cut  and  the   last  toasts  are  spoken, 
When  the  bride's  friends  have  given  the  last  loving  token, 
It  happens,  alas,  that  the  "  best  men,"  sad  elves, 
Are  frequently  left  to  look  out  for  themselves; 
So,  gentlemen,  pray  don't  be  tempted  to  roam 
'Tis  enough  to  play  usher  to  weddings  at  home. 

IT  is  a  pity  that  some  of  those  clever  people  who  make  a  special- 
ty of  lectures  to  women,  do  not  treat  of  the  tongue.  This 
member  is  with  many,  alas  I  a  fetich  before  whose  altar  they 
daily,  ay  and  nightly  offer  sacrifice,  partaking  largely  of  the  com- 
fort of  others.  It  craves  those  offerings.  It  will  not  be  satisfied 
without  them.  Ordinary  topics  of  conversation  are  to  the 
woman's  tongue,  when  it  once  gets  altar-wise,  like  cider  to  the 
stomach  of  a  hard  drinker.  It  must  have  strong,  hard  food,  the 
reputation  of  an  acquaintance,  the  slander  of  a  woman,  or  still 
better,  the  malice  that  wounds  and  makes  the  victim  squirm. 
The  world  would  be  much  happier  of  a  large  proportion  of  its 
women  were  born  dumb. 

PROFESSOR  HOLDEN  is  silent.  No  more  pleasant  chats  about 
Mars;  no  more  pictures  of  the  professor  at  his  vigils  at  the 
big  telescope.  The  suspicion  is  growing  that  Mr.  Holden  is  not 
quite  the  learned  man  he  was  cracked  up  to  be,  but  is  rather  a 
newspaper  astronomer,  so  to  speak.  There  is  much  sand  in  the 
professor's  sugar  now,  his  steak  is  fly  blown,  and  his  coffee  the 
common  ordinary  bean.  His  cuticle  is  tongh,  but  the  journalistic 
wasps  have  got  to  it,  and  all  Mr.  Holden  has  learned  about  Mars 
will  be  in  the  future,  a  dead  secret,  strictly  confidential. 

PRINCIPAL  MANN  complains  that  he  cannot  make  the  young 
ladies  of  the  Denman  School  learn  how  to  measure  lumber. 
He  wants  the  opinions  of  his  fellow  pedagogues  on  the  proposi- 
tion whether  it  is  better  to  find  the  area  of  the  top  surface  and 
multiply  by  tbe  depth  in  inches,  or  find  the  cubic  contents  and 
divide  by  twelve.  I  don't  know  which  is  the  better  plan,  but  I 
suggest  to  Mr.  Mann  than  if  he  should  make  lumber  plans  prac- 
tical the  girls  would  learn.  Ask  them,  for  instance,  the  area  of 
a  top  door-step  at  midnight,  or  the  area  of  the  Santa  Cruz  raft  at 
7  p.  m.    Be  practical,  Mr.  Mann. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


AFTER    AGIN  COURT.— Charles,   Prince    of   Orleans,  (1391-1465). 


"France!  once  thy  name  in  every  land 

Was  prized  as  truth  and  honor's  gem; 
Thy  sons  could  from  all  realms  demand 

Of   courtesy  the  diadem. 
Religion,  courage,  sense  and   skill, 
By  friend  and  foe  allowed  thee  still; 
But  now  beholdl  what  cloud  of  shame, 
Bold  land  of  France,  has  veiled  thy  name. 
Know'st  thou  whence  comes  this  grief  and  wail? 

Know'st  thou  why  falls  the  heavy  blow? 
Hearken!  for  I   must  tell  the  tale; 

'Tis  wise  the  fatal  truth  to  know. 
Thy  sinth,  thy  cruelty,  thy  pride, 
Thy  luxury  and   waste  keside, 
Have  kindled  Heaven  to  wrath  and  flame, 
And  left  thy  sins  to  blast  thy  name. 
But,  oh!  despair  not  even  now, 

For  Heaven  hath  store  of  mercy  yet; 
In  humble  penance  learn  to  bow 

With  tears  of  sorrow  and  regret. 
How  joyously  would  God  once  more 
Thy  former  glorious  state  restore! 
And  He,   Who  died  a  death  of   shame, 
Fur  thee,  for  all,  will  guard  thy  name. 
Remember  how  in  days  gone  by 

The  lilies  decked  thine  azure  shield  ; 
Montjoye,  par  licsse!  was  thy  cry — 

A  note  that  forced  thy  foes  to  yield. 
Remember  all    thy  former  pride; 
Repent,  and  turn  this  wrath  aside, 
Again  the  Oriflarame  advance, 
0  Christian,  free  and  noble  France!" 


TWO    SONNETS. 


Thy  rhyme  is  fair,  although  untrue  thy  song, 

When  thou  wouldst  place  thy  Western  bluebird's  lay 
Above  our  skylark's — be  whom  earliest  ray 

Of  Plxebus  calls  from  out  the  plumed  throng, 

To  chant  earth's  hymn,  in  silvery  notes  and  strong, 
Whilst  soaring  up  in  heavenward  flight,  away 
From  mists  of  sinfulness  to  brighter  day, 

As  if  ne'er  more  he  would  to  us  belong. 

Oh,  badst  thou  heard  his  trill  on  Avon's  stream; 
Hadst  thou  beheld  him  rise  from  Irish  fen, 

To  blind  existence  with  Aurora's  beam, 

Away,  afar,  from  sphere  of  human  ken, 

Then  would  dissolve  thine  all-illusive  dream, 

And  thou  wouldst  say,  to  Shelly's  song,  "  Amen  1  " 


ib-ajtstikis- 


'Tis  mine,  once  more,  O  dear  old  skylark  bird, 

A  voice  to  raise  'gainst  those  who  would  decry 

Thy  heavenly  notes,  which  soar  away  on  high 
O'er  feathered  songster  man  has  ever  heard. 
Thine  is  no  puling  lay,  no  fading  word, 

Born  of  the  earth  and  thereon  left  to  die; 

Thy  pure  creation,  bred  #ar  in  the  sky, 
Floats  on  forever  with  divine  accord. 
Thou  minglest  not  with  earthly  warblers,  clung 

To  liny  twig,  or  branch  of  stalwart  tree; 
Thine  anthem  grand,  o'er  earth  is  erer  rung 

In  cadence  pure  of  heaven-born  minstrelsy. 
To  nature's  God  thy  morning  song  is  sung, 

And  thy  sweet  soul  outpours  its  melody! 

In  reply  to  the  author  of  "  A  Talk  With  a  Skylark,"  recently 
published  in  a  local  paper,  in  which  the  writer  proclaims  that  the 
song  of  the  bluebird  is  superior  to  that  of  the  skylark,  and  sug- 
gests that  Shelly's  ode  to  the  latter  might  have  been  addressed  in- 
stead to  the  former,  had  the  poet  but  heard  the  song  of  the  West- 
ern bird.  Patrick  Martin  King. 


A    SONlr    OF    WOE.— The  Husband. 

The  way  that  she  shrugs 

Her  plump  little  shoulder 
Can  conquer  the  heart 

Of  the  coldest  beholder, 
Yet  I  do  not  rank 

With  her  loving  defenders, 
Because  she  has  filched 

My  best  pair  of  suspenders. 


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^V/orld.rh£T|€'sh 


TUB  German  papers  Rive  some  details  of   the  Emperor's  life  on 
board  bis  steam    yacht,  the    KaUemdUr,     II. 

•  akfdst  with  hi-  suite  at  eipht  or  half-past  tight    B< 

[bt,  and  the  suite,  the  captain  two  ol 

the  other  si\  officers  ^including  the  ship"-  bo  en]  »y  the 

bonor  in  turn,  always  share  hia  meals.  he  generally 

receives  between  breakfast  and  lunch.  In  the  afternoon  he  writes 
letters  and  reads  diplomatic  reports.  In  the  evening  he  generally 
walks  on  deck,  talking  with  one  or  other  of  his  suite,  then  drink's 
tea  in  the  common  saloon,  talking  or  listening  to  music  He 
takes  a  great  and  constant  interest  in  the  details  of  navigation, 
and  has  them  all  explained  to  biro.  The  motion  of  the  sea  now 
gives  him  no  inconvenience.  In  passing  or  traversing  places  and 
regions  visited  before,  he  likes  to  recall  the  Incidents  of  his  pre- 
vious trip-,  for  which,  as  well  as  for  topographical  details,  he  has 
an  excellent  memory.     The  room  and  met  i    the  officers 

and  men  are  forward.  On  the  poop-deck  there  is  a  spacious  pa- 
vilion, containing  a  large  room,  which  serves  as  dining-room, 
conversation-room,  etc.  By  means  of  a  wooden  partition,  stowed 
away  in  the  side  walls,  it  can  be  divided  at  will  into  two  parts. 
It  contains  a  piano.  In  the  hind  part  of  the  pavilion  there  is  a 
little  smoking-room,  from  which  a  stair  leads  down  to  the  'tween- 
decks.  Between  the  fore  part  of  the  pavilion  and  the  caboose 
there  is  a  second  stair  leading  down  into  the  ship.  In  the  fore 
part  of  the  'tween-decks  of  the  poop  (above  water)  are  the  rooms 
for  the  Emperor,  the  Empress,  and  the  Princes.  The  Emperor 
has  a  little  bedroom,  with  a  small  bath  and  dressing-room  beside 
it.  The  Princes1  rooms  are  occupied  by  Count  Gortz,  Count  Eu- 
lenburg  and  Colonel  von  Lippe.  Abaft  these  rooms  there  are  sev- 
eral smaller  cabins  for  His  Majesty's  servants,  this  time  two  in 
number.  Abaft  the  servants1  rooms,  which  are  separated  by  a 
passage,  there  is  a  cabin  of  the  whole  breadth  of  the  ship,  occu- 
pied by  Major  von  Hulsen  and  another  gentleman  of  the  suite. 
In  the  fore  part  of  the  second  'tween-decks  of  the  poop,  below 
the  rooms  of  the  Emperor,  the  Empress,  and  the  Princes,  there  is 
a  saloon  called  the  suite's  mess-room,  round  which  are  the  cabins 
of  the  other  gentlemen,  and  from  this  saloon  aft  to  the  stair  lead- 
ing up  to  the  smoking-room  runs  a  passage,  on  both  sides  of 
which  two  gentlemen  of  the  suite  and  the  secretaries  of  the  For- 
eign Office  and  of  the  Military,  Naval  and  Civil  Cabinets  have 
their  cabins.     The  servants  are  quartered  aft  ot  these. 

Mr.  Frith,  in  his  pleasant  "  .Reminiscences,"  relates  a  story  of 
the  late  Mr.  Beckford,  the  author  of  "  Vathek."  This  eccentric 
gentleman  lived  at  Fonthill  Abbey,  a  few  miles  from  Bath.  Every 
picture  in  the  Abbey  was  a  gem,  and  the  gardens  were  unrivaled 
by  any  in  England;  but  the  owner  was  a  recluse,  and  this  palace 
of  art  was  surrounded  by  a  formidable  wall,  seven  miles  in  cir- 
cuit, twelve  feet  high,  and  crowned  by  a  chevaux-de  frise,  and  the 
gates  were  kept  carefully  closed.  At  last  Mr.  Frith 's  cousin,  an 
ardent  connoisseur  in  art,  found  them  ungarded.  He  slipped  in, 
and  wandered  about  the  enchanted  domain  till  he  met  a  man  with 
a  spud  in  his  hand,  presumably  the  head  gardener.  This  person- 
age politely  showed  him  over  fruit  gardens,  hot-houses,  etc.,  then 
the  house,  with  its  pictures,  bric-a-brac,  suits  of  armor  and  other 
glories,  and  ended  by  asking  him  to  dinner. 

»  Nol  Really,  I  couldn't  think  of  taking  such  a  liberty.  I  am 
sure  Mr.  Beckford  would  be  offended." 

«  No,  he  wouldn't.  You  must  stop  and  dine  with  me.  I  am 
Mr.  Beckford." 

The  dinner  was  magnificent,  served  on  massive  plate,  the  wines 
of  the  choicest  vintage,  rarer  still  Mr.  Beckford's  conversation. 
They  talked  till  a  fine  Louis  Quatorze  clock  struck  eleven.  Then 
Mr.  Beckford  rose  and  left  the  room.  The  gue°t  waited  for  his 
return  till  he  started  to  find  the  room  in  semi-darkness,  and  one 
of  the  solemn  powdered  footmen  putting  out  the  lights.  "Mr. 
Beckford  has  gone  to  bed,"  said  the  man.  The  guest  rose  and  fol- 
lowed the  footman  to  the  front  door.  That  functionary  opened 
it  wide  and  said:  "  Mr.  Beckford  ordered  me  to  present  his  com- 
pliments to  you,  sir;  and  I  am  to  say  that,  as  you  found  your 
way  into  Fonthill  Abbey  without  assistance,  you  may  find  your 
way  out  again  as  best  yon  can;  and  be  hopes  you  will  take  care 
to  avoid  the  bloodhounds  that  are  let  loose  in  the  gardens  every 
night.  I  wish  you  good  evening."  The  guest  spent  the  night  in 
the  branches  of  the  first  tree  that  promised  a  safe  shelter,  and  it 
was  not  till  the  sun  showed  himself  that  he  made  his  way,  terror 
attending  each  step,  through  the  gardens  into  the  park,  and  so 
to  Bath. 

The  half-tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


BAWK8. 

BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP  ,3  000*00 

RESERVE  FUND  'f^'w 

HEAO  OFFICE  OO  LOMOARO  8TREET.  LONDON 

31  "  ','"  i  ■""".  nana,  N.  »■  nmtmlnitar,  Brush 

Bank  tTUUacI 

,  „i  1,  i         '  ?•'"'  "''-■  '?'  L"  '    od '.granted 

available  in  all  part*  o(  the  world,     a,  .,.„',. ,  „',, ,   ', ' 

o  lows: 

v£ii       .      '  V  !.','  iNADA-Banko  uvi  Itpooi, 

-Northandso 

L.AND— Bankof  Irelaud;   MEXICO  and  sunn  in  Bank 

V,  M«;"o""i  rice;   CHWA  and  JAPAN  Bankol 

India,  Auslrala  and  China;    AD8TRAUA  and  NKw  ZEALAND-  Bank  of 

Auetralaala,  commercial  Banking  C .any  ol  Sydney    BnSllan    Scottl.h 

ckaka  and  iKlMlul)  [ webt Ind  ulal  Hank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

632  California  Street,  Corner  W'eub  .street 

Branch  Off.™ 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk 

ll<-|io»Ils.  June  30,  IH93     ...  o,„.  „,..,  n„ 

(Juurnutee.1  Capital  an.i  Surplus    ....       ..... ../.      1,033  "^J  „„ 

DIRECTORS. 
Uurl    MilUr.    President;    George  W.   Beaver,  Viee-Prcsidenf    Tlinm.. 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pare,    Daniel  E.  Martin.  W?  C.  B?DeFremery 
George  C.  Boardmau,  J.  G-  Eastland;    Lovell  White  Cashier  remLr>- 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security'.  Country  re- 
mittances may  he  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Franeisco.  but  the  responsibility of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money  The  sienatSra 
?„V™  d,°P'«""r  sll:""d  "'company  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  fs  made 
evenings  tito  to  g^'""106  lee"     0mce  Honrs-a  a.  a.  to  8  r.  m.      Saturday 


PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT.  ~ 

,    805  Market  street   (Flood  Building),   Sau   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits  I     v,  oral  nil 

Paid-up  Capital  333,33X33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1392 '.'.         1  762000 00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATEKHOUSE „„,,,„,. 

P.  V.  MCDONALD vbV.E res!deuJ 

I    e    FARNITM  o     •■;■  Vice-President 

DOKS ■&: DQRN.'.V. Secretary  and  Manager 

,_,,  ,     ,        ,  , " Attorneys 

nils  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordiuarv  sii 
count,  in  sums  of  one  dollar  and  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamD 
sysiem  aud  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  ol  this  bank 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mouth  or  year,  from  *J.oo  to  J25.00  per  auuuin  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  aud  foreign  ex- 
change. 6 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY^ 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND %    1,645  OOO  OO 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  P892 28,776,697  91 ' 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW  KRnsE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier.  A.  H  R  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY  Board 
of  Mrectors-L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann  E 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmaun,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  B.  L.  Simon.  Attorn'ev' 
John  R.  Jarboe.  j' 


MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OPFICEB8. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY  Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  G.  G.  Hooker 
James  Phelau,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscried  Capital $2,600,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000  000 

Reserue  Fund   $650,000 

Hbad  Office    68  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St.,  N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Bonle 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.   Com 
merclal  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager 
LC.  Altschdl,  Cashier. ______ 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK.  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 701000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  Court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  _  W.  Selia_an  _  Co.,  121  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  Vusiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buyB  and  sells  exchangs 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    [  WonBM„ 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  (  Managers. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


<K5y^p^ 


THERE  is  a  rather  better  tone  to  the  real  estate  market,  and  the 
brokers  along  Montgomery  street  are  more  hopeful  of  a  fall 
season  of  fair  business  than  they  have  been  for  months.  Inside 
property  sales  are  the  ones  that  pay,  and  it  is  the  fact  that  they 
have  been  more  plentiful  during  the  past  two  or  three  weeks  that 
accounts  for  this  more  hopeful  feeling.  The  sales  made  include 
the  old  property  disposed  of  by  Madison  &  Burke,  on  the  east 
side  of  Kearny,  between  Clay  and  Commercial,  two-story  brick, 
lot  35x45:10,  renting  for  $220  a  month,  for  $30,000;  a  house  and 
lot,  1329  Pine,  near  Larkin,  for  $12,000;  and  a  half  fifty-vara 
southeast  corner  of  Vallejo  and  Kearny,  for  $11,500. 

There  has  been  some  talk  about  the  sale  of  a  piece  of  property 
on  Market  and  Haight,  jnstE<\st  of  Gougb  and  running  through 
to  Rose  avenue.  The  price  quoted  for  the  iot,  which  has  66.6 
feet  front  on  Market  and  6  feet  on  Haight,  is  $90,000 ;  but  this  ia  a 
gross  exaggeration  of  the  actual  figure.  The  property  has  been 
on  the  market  for  a  long  time,  and  has  been  oilered  at  auction 
at  least  twice  without  finding  satisfactory  bids. 

The  Mission  is  still  in  an  excited  condition  over  the  proper 
assessment  for  its  street  extension  jobs.  Against  the  estimated 
damages  and  benefits  for  Market  street  there  is  already  a  long 
array  of  justified  kickers,  and  long  before  the  time  when  the  last 
protest  can  be  filed,  September  17tb,  there  will  be  an  army  of 
protestants.  Against  the  extension  of  Sixteenth  street,  and  the 
report  of  that  worthy  young  Commissi  >ner,  A.  J.  Clunie  and  as- 
sociates, the  protests  are  piling  in  thick  and  fast.  All  assess- 
ments for  the  extension  of  Seventeenth  street  must  be  paid  in  not 
later  than  to-day,  subject  to  an  addition  of  five  per  cent,  for  non- 
payment. Protests  against  the  extensions  of  the  streets,  from 
Nineteenth  to  Twenty-third  inclusive,  that  is  to  say  for  the  open- 
ing of  eleven  blocks,  must  be  filed  not  later  than  Saturday, 
August  27th,  and  the  Supervisors  may  expect  to  meet  many  angry 
property-owners  before  the  matter  is  disposed  of. 

That  was  a  lucky  turn  von  Rhein  made.  He  sold  the  one- 
story  two-store  brick  building  on  Clay,  between  Drumm  and 
Davis,  for  the  Jessup  estate,  to  James  Carolan.  The  tatter's  at- 
torney objected  to  a  technical  flaw  in  the  title,  and  Mr.  von  RheiD 
got  his  commission  and  called  the  sale  "off;"  he  immediately 
turned  round  and  sold  the  property  to  Antone  Borel  for  $32,000, 
and  pocketed  a  second  commission  on  the  same  property.  O.  F. 
von  Rhein  has  a  partner  now,  in  the  person  of  A.  H.  Lissak,  a 
gentleman  well  known  in  mining  and  mercantile  circles.  The 
firm  name  will  continue  as  heretofore,  O.  F.  von  Rhein  &  Co. 

The  Metropolitan  Electric  Railroad  is  in  a  peculiar  position; 
it  cannot  erect  poles  between  Van  Ness  avenue  and  Powell  street, 
on  Ellis,  on  account  of  the  ordinance  prohibiting  their  erection 
within  certain  prescribed  limits.  The  San  Francisco  and  San 
Mateo  Electric  Railway  was  very  fortunate  in  having  an  old  tac- 
tician in  such  matters  at  its  head.  J.  W.  Hartzell,  the  builder  of 
the  line  saw  the  trouble  ahead,  and  before  the  ordinance  could  be 
passed  he  had  put  up  every  pole  needed  in  the  prescribed  district 
south  of  Market  street,  and  then  when  the  ordinance  was  passed 
he  leaned  back  and  smiled.  His  lead  was  promptly  followed  by 
the  North  Beach  and  Mission,  which  put  up  its  poles  as  rapidly 
as  possible;  but  has  never  got  any  further.  The  first  cars  were 
run  over  the  Metropolitan  electric  line  on  Tuesday  last,  but  for 
the  present  it  will  have  to  be  content  with  lame  horse-car  service 
between  Powell  and  Van  Ness  avenue.  It  is  sincerely  to  be 
hoped,  for  the  sake  of  the  compaDy^and  still  more  for  the  sake 
of  public  convenience,  that  a  speedy  remedy  for  the  awkward 
situation  will  be  found. 

The  owners  of  the  building  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Kearny 
and  Sutter  intend  remodeling  and  modernizing  the  old  struc- 
ture. It  is  to  have  a  new  inside  and  an  additional  story,  and  the 
cost  of  the  work  will  be  about  $12,000.  The  building  is  to  accom- 
modate the  united  business  of  the  two  music  houses,  Gray  and 
Sherman  &  Clay.  A  building  is  being  erected  under  a  five 
years'  lease  for  the  Examiner,  on  Mission  near  Third,  and  close  to 
the  Crocker  e«tate  property.  The  Olympic  Club  building  is  to 
be  ready  by  New  Years'  Day,  and  Labor  Day  will  probably  see 
the  Hibernia  Bank  move  into  its  new  quarters  on  the  northwest 
corner  of  Jones  and  McAllister  streets. 

Rix  and  Birrell,  with  A.  Page  Brown  as  their  architect,  intend 
erecting  a  grand  market  at  Lima,  Peru.  It  will  cost  almost  $900,- 
000,  and  the  carrying  out  of  such  work  is  quite  a  feather  in  the 
cap  of  both  the  engineers  and  their  architect.  The  building  will 
be  El  Gran  Mercado  de  Lima,  and  is  to  be  built  for  the  Peruvian 
Government. 

Every  one  who  enjoys  a  first  class  dinner,  and  has  been  a  guest  at 
the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  knows  that  there 
one  of  the  very  best  meals  in  the  city  may  be  procured.  The  accom- 
modations are  first-class  in  every  respect*  and  the  menu  unsurpassed. 
It  includes  all  the  dainties  of  the  season.  The  proprietor  and  the 
chef  act  together  in  making  certain  the  comfort  of  all  guests. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  ancf  Commission  Merchants, 

AND =■ 

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Nos.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 
NATIONAL   ASSURANCE   CO.  OF   IRELAND; 
ATLAS    ASSURANCE    CO.    OF    LONDON; 
BOYLSTON    INSURANCE   CO.  OF    BOSTON  ; 
OCEAN   MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 

LLEWELLYN     FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

tOver  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn   Steam   Condenser    Manufacturing   Co., 

S30  Pine  street,  8an  Francisco,  Gal. 

Systems— "Slattery  "  Induction;  "  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories—  Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co..  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 

35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


E.   J.    WHEELER. 


J.   W.  GIRVIN. 


J.   W.    GIRVIN   &.   CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clotbing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  CoaBt  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Eayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS.  DIMOND  &  GO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 
UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 
The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 


Company, 
"The  California  Line  of  Clippers,' 

from  New  York, 
"The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets," 

to  and  from  Honolulu. 


Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 
The  China  Traders  &  Insurance  Co. 

The   Baldwin  Locomotive  Works, 
Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 


J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC    STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

GILLINGHAM    CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont, 
8AN    FRANOIBCO. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET. 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD    AND   IRON    WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING.    OILS  AND    SUPPLIES. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRICAL  WORKS, 

2SJ*o.   35    ^vdlarlset  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS     AND     IMPORTERS     OF 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General  Electrical  Supplies. 
ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company, 

Assessment. No.  33 

Amount  per  Share  10  centa 

Levied July  27, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office August  31,  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock  September  20,  1802 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block.  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


Angosi 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  l  BTTBB 


19 


TBI  only  discussion  on  the  »trert  during  the  week  ha*  been  on 
npact  matter*.  The  indication*  are  that  much  trouble  i* 
brewing  for  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union,  and  It  is  more  than  whis- 
pered  that  if  rebating  be  not  stopped  soon  the  compact  will  loon 
be  a  thing  of  the  pa«t.  ostensibly  the  rates  have  been  main- 
tained, while  in  reality  they  have  been  cut  and  reduced  by  re- 
bates and  excessive  commissions.  Much  trouble  arises  from  the 
change  made  in  the  constitution  of  the  compact  soon  after  its 
formation,  which  allowed  the  appointment  of  almost  any  one  to 
the  "trice  of  solicitor  or  broker.  The  result  has  been  a  fierce  ra»h 
and  competition  among  these  people  for  business,  which  most  of 
them  have  bad  to  buy  by  returning  a  part  of  their  commission. 
By  this  procedure  some  of  the  companies  have  suffered,  while 
others  have  nourished,  but  the  general  impression  prevails  that 
none  of  them  have  made  much  money  by  rebating.  From  vari- 
ous Interviews  it  is  apparent  that  general  dissatisfaction  exists 
among  the  members  of  the  compact,  all  of  whom  are  now  calling 
for  reform,  but  the  evil  has  taken  so  firm  a  root  that  there  is  dif- 
ficulty in  knowing  how  to  cut  it  out.  Various  consulta- 
tions have  taken  place  during  the  last  few  days  be- 
tween the  brokers  who  are  doing  business  in  a 
legitimate  way  and  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Pacific 
Insurance  Union,  with,  however,  no  definite  result  as  yet.  The 
difficulty  is  in  the  proper  settlement  of  three  points:  What  shall 
constitute  eligibility  for  membership  in  the  Board  of  Brokers;  the 
control  of  the  city  agents;  and  the  entire  abolition  of  the  system 
of  solicitors.  The  two  latter  questions  are  said  to  be  the  sources 
from  which  all  the  corruption  has  grown.  There  is  a  general 
desire  on  the  part  of  the  Union  to  maintain  the  commissions  at 
the  original  figure,  fifteen  per  cent.  If  the  compact  intends  to 
hold  together,  effective  measures  must  be  introduced  at  oDce,  as 
several  of  the  large  companies  have  intimated  their  intention  of 
withdrawing  from  the  Union,  unless  the  present  state  of  affairs 
is  materially  improved.  The  interests,  however,  are  so  diversified 
and  the  ramifications  so  wide-spreading,  that  the  settlement  of  the 
matter  presents  serious  difficulties.  We  shall  watch  the  adjust- 
ment of  this  question  with  much  interest,  as  our  local  under- 
writers are  men  of  intelligence,  and  possess  the  ability  and  energy 
required  to  cope  with  this  issue. 

Mr.  Carpenter,  of  the  Royal,  is  in  the  East,  which  interesting 
fai:t  was  not  known  on  the  street  until  a  couple  of  days  ago, 
a. though  he  has  been  away  for  ten  days.  It  Is  supposed  that  he  has 
gone  to  confer  with  his  London  manager,  who  was  in  New  York 
a  week  ago.  The  departure  of  any  prominent  underwriter  to 
the  East,  however,  usually  unnerves  all  the  others,  so  that  there 
is  no  end  of  gossip  until  the  traveler's  return. 

The  marine  men  are  resting  on  their  oars.  Very  little  business 
is  being  done,  shipping  circles  being  quiet  at  present.  For- 
tunately, no  losses  are  being  reported,  and  therefore  the  marine 
secretaries  are  not  yet  as  despondent  as  the  fire  underwriters. 


A    GREAT    NEWSPAPER    PRESS. 


NO  better  illustration  of  the  unexampled  progress  made  by  the 
San  Francisco  Chronicle  can  be  given  than  the  frequent  en- 
largement of  its  printing  facilities  which  the  rapid  growth  of  the 
paper  has  made  necessary.  When  the  Chronicle  moved  into  its 
present  magnificent  quarters,  at  Kearny,  Geary  and  Market 
streets,  two  years  ago,  two  of  the  latest  style  newspaper  presses 
were  placed  in  the  press  room,  it  being  thought  at  that  time  that 
these  presses  would  be  able  to  supply  the  papers  as  fast  as  the 
public  demanded  them.  The  new  presses  were  of  more  than 
double  the  capacity  of  the  presses  used  for  ten  years  in  the  old 
Chronicle  office,  but  notwithstanding  tbat  fact  it  was  Boon  found 
that  they  were  by  no  means  large  enough  for  the  requirements  of 
the  paper. 

One  of  the  maiD  points  in  connection  with  the  publication  of  a 
newspaper  is  tbat  it  shall  be  issued  on  time;  trains  must  be 
caught,  and  carriers  must  receive  papers  in  time  for  iheir  deliv. 
try  in  the  city  or  at  suburban  points  at  the  earliest  possible  mo- 
ment. For  this  reason,  it  is  apparent  that  it  is  an  absolute  neces- 
sity for  the  successful  management  of  a  newspaper  that  the  press 
facilities  shall  be  such  that  the  full  issue  of  the  journal  may  be 
printed  aa  rapidly  as  possible.  It  is  in  appreciation  of 
this  fact  that  Mr.  M.  H.  de  Young  has  now  found  it 
necessary  to  order  a  new  press  for  the  Chronicle.  The 
circulation  of  tbat  paper  has  increased  so  very  rapidly  that  the 
present  presses  are  no  longer  satisfactory.  The  new  press  will 
be  one  of  the  latest  quadruple  perfecting  Hoe  machines,  the  con- 
tract for  which  was  awarded  last  June.  Its  capacity  will  double 
the  present  capacity  of  the  Chronicle  presses,  and  its  price  will  be 
$48,000,  a  modest  fortune  in  itself.  It  will  be  the  only  press  of 
its  kind  in  the  country  outside  of  New  York  State.  A  brief  de- 
scription of  this  wonderful  piece  of  mechanism  will  prove  inter- 
esting to  the  laymen  who  know  nothing  of  the  mysteries  of 
newspaper  publication. 


It  will  rover  an  area  of  100  ftqOftfl  tot,  bring  21  feet  long ,  II 
Ida  at  it*  wMe»|  p»rt.  and  10  feet  high.  It  will  weigh 
pounds,  and  «  ill  rml  on  a  foundation  of  brick  and  granite 
4  feet  deep.  The  ruaohlna  i«  romp.  different  piece*— 
a  perfect  wilder neai  ol  wheal* and  rollm.  It  Is  guaranteed  to 
have  a  running  capacity  of  18.000  four.  six  or  eight  page  papers 
an  hoar;  :\  000  ten.  twelve,  fourteen  or  sixteen  page  paper*  an 
boor,  or  12,000  twenty  Or  tweriiy.fniir,  twenty-right  and  thirty- 
two  page  papers  an  hour, all  delivered,  folded  and  counted  for  the 
carriers.  With  the  enlargement  of  facilities  the  combined  ca pa- 
city  of   the  Chronicle  presses  will  be  90 f.nr.six  or  eight  page 

papers  an  hour,  72,000  ten  or  twelve  page  papers  an  hour,  48,000 
sixteen  page  papers  an  hour,  and  86,000  twenty,  twenty  four, 
twenty-eight  or  thirty-two  page  papers  an  hour.  This  will  allow 
the  Chronicle,  the  circulation  of  which  is  over  61  000  daily,  to  run 
its  papers  off  in  quicker  time  than  can  any  other  paper  In  the 
West.  Rapid  press-work  is  a  great  advantage  to  a  large 
paper,  for  it  permits  of  later  news  and  prompt 
delivery.  This  press  prints,  cuts,  pastes  and  folds  papers 
at  the  rate  of  speed  quoted.  The  rollers  carry  thirty-two  stereo- 
type plates,  each  of  which  is  the  size  of  a  page  of  the  Chronicle. 
The  machine  is  a  marvel  of  ingenuity.  It  is  the  most  perfect 
printing  press  ever  made.  It  is  being  pushed  toward  completion 
as  rapidly  as  possible  by  It.  Hoe  &  Co.,  the  firm  being  urged  to 
greater  efforts  by  the  fact  that  Mr.  de  Young  has  offered  them  a 
large  bonus  for  the  delivery  of  the  machine  two  or  three  months 
ahead  of  the  contract  time  of  six  months,  so  that  it  may  be  of 
service  in  the  Presidential  campaign,  in  which,  as  usual,  the 
Chronicle  will  do  yeoman's  service.  The  progress  of  the  Chronicle, 
and  the  enterprise  of  its  able  proprietor  are  aptly  shown  in  con- 
nection with  this  monster  newspaper  press. 

Be  sure  to  take  Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  to  the  country  with 
you.  It  is  the  best  known  remedy  for  the  cure  of  poison  oak,  and  is 
excellent  for  the  alleviation  of  the  distress  caused  by  asthma.  It 
may  be  procured  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  at,  o'35  Market  street. 

DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  busiuess— San  Fraucisco,  California     Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  A  aska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1 1,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  'the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders': 
Name.  No.  Certificate.        No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.  A.  Johns-on, 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390-  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  mauy  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal.,  ou  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  ad  *  ertisiug  and  expenses 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, thiB  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1392,  at  the  same  ti  me  aud  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement, 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  18y2.                     JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892- __^ 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Peerless  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Fraucisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works—  Quljotoa,  Ariz. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  6th  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  18)  of  Eighteen  of  (5) 
Centsper  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Fran- 

Aay  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Eleventh  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  Sept.,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
oi  Baio.    ^j  A[ja  WA'ERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fraucisco, 
California. 

Postponement. 

The  assessment  on  Peerless    which  is  delinquent  in  office  on  August  11, 

1892    is  hereby  postponed  until  THURSDAY,  September  1,  1892.   and  the 

salp'dav  until  TUESDAY,  September  20,  1892,  at  1  o'clock  p.   m.    By  order 

of  the  Board  of  Directors.  AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


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THE  influence  of  steam  upon  magnets  has  been  made  the  sub- 
ject of  some  interesting  and  really  important  investigations 
by  a  German  chemist,  Jt  was  found  on  heating  them  for  some  time 
in  steam  that  they  lost  from  28  to  67  per  cenr.  of  their  power,  and  if 
they  were  then  reoiagnetiued  and  again  .subjected  to  the  action  of 
steam  there  was  a  very  slight  loss  of  power.  From  the  result  of 
these  experiments  it  was  concluded  that  after  such  treatment  the 
magnets  would  be  less  liable  to  deteriorate  from  mechanical  vibra- 
tions as  well  as  heat.  Upon  testing  this  theory  it.  was  found  to  be 
borne  out  by  the  facts.  After  treating  a  magnet  with  steam  for  four 
hours,  and  then  remagneiizing,  it  was  subjected  to  fifty  blows,  both 
transversely  and  longitudinally;  upon  testing  the  magnet,  there 
was  but  a  slight  loss  of  magetism.  and  repeated  blows 
failed  to  increase  the  loss  to  any  considerable  extent.  In 
view  of  the  showing  made  by  tbe^e  experiments,  it  is  claimed  that 
repeated  steaming  and  remagneiizing  are  the  best  means  of  securing 
permanent  magnetism  in  hard  steel. 

■  ■■■In  one  of  the  French  technical  journals  M.  Appert  describes 
the  new  method  of  casting  and  moulding  large  glass  tubes.  For  this 
purpose  the  molten  glass,  in  the  required  state  of  fluidity,  is  run  in- 
to a  strong  iron  mould,  which  is  then  closed,  and  the  workman  reg- 
ulates the  rapidity  of  the  dimensions  oi  the  passage  ol  the  spindle  or 
core  according  to  the  dimensions  of  the  tube;  the  mould  is  then 
opened  and  the  tube  taken  out  for  annealing.  With  tubes  of  one 
hundred  nun.  diameter,  fifteen  can  be  made  in  an  hour.  Two  me- 
tres an  hour,  or  about  five  hundred  metres  per  day.  The  power — 
steam  or  compressed  air — required  for  driving  the  core  or  spindle  is 
slight,  the  facility  for  working  being  greater  with  the  tubes  of  largest 
size.  The  method  of  connecting  the  tubes  depends  on  the  use  in-* 
tended,  metallic  joints  being  employed  when  there  is  to  be  passage 
of  water  at  high  pressure. 

Hot  blast  furnaces  are  now  being  constructed  in  such  a  man- 
ner as  to  use  the  heat  derived  from  the  furnace  for  healing  ihe  air 
blown  into  it  to  smelt  the  contents.  The  mode  of  carrying  out  this 
plan  is  by  letting  into  the  brickwork,  on  all  sides  of  the  furnace,  sev- 
eral chambers  immediately  over  the  tuyere  pipes, within  three  inches 
of  the  inner  face  of  the  furnace;  these  chambers  enclose  a  bent  tube, 
through  which  cold  air  passes,  supplied  by  any  blowing  apparatus, 
and  in  its  course  become  heated,  the  hot  blast  thus  produced  finding 
an  exit  through  the  tuyeres  into  the  furnace.  When  air  of  great 
heat  is  required  it  is  proposed,  in  place  of  the  brickwork,  to  face  the 
air  chambers  with  clay  or  stonework  perforated  with  holes,  through 
which  the  heat  of  the  furnace  passes  direct  to  the  chambers,  and  in- 
stead of  the  heat  of  the  air  passing  off  from  the  chambers,  it  may  be 
carried  away  by  pipes. 

M,  Duret.  of  Lille,  has  just  drawn  the  attention  of  the  Paris 

Academie  de  Medicine  to  a  remarkable  case  of  double  vision.  This 
defect  was  not  due  to  malformation  or  disease  of  the  eye  or  optic 
nerve.  The  mo^t  caret  ul  examination  reveals  nothing,  but 
it  seems  that  the  patient  some  time  ago  was  severely  wounded 
on  the  head,  and  ever  since  then  there  have  been  signs  of  cerebral 
lesion.  It  would  seem,  therefore,  that  the  double  images  seen  by 
the  patient  are  due  to  the  fact  of  the  brain  not  performing  its  usual 
function  of  superimposing  one  visualised  image  on  the  other. 

Shoe  manufacturers  are  much  interested  in  a  new  welt  ma- 
chine which  possesses  the  advantage  of  making  a  seam  equally  tight 
and  close  to  those  made  by  hand.  The  loop  prevents  the  "thread 
from  culling  through  from  channel  to  leather  in  the  working  of  light 
and  flexible  soles,  while  the  insole  and  seam  are  prevented  from  be- 
ing drawn  out  of  shape  by  the  inwrfrd  pull  of  the  needle.  Nor  i< 
any  distinction  made  by  the  machine  in  the  sewing  of  toes  of  various 
width,  a  narrow  one  being  done  as  evenly  as  a  wide  one.  Provision 
is  made  in  the  working  of  a  narrower  feather  by  having  a  single 
thread  on  the  welt,  but  the  sliich  may  be  placed  closer  to  the  upper, 
leaving  less  margin  between  the  stitch  and  upper,  in  this  way  ob- 
taining a  closer  edge,  and  a  feather  that  will  not  roll  up.  The  facili- 
ty of  operation  characterizing  this  mechanism  is  complete: 

Iron  or  steel  plates  are  now  coated  with  nearly  pure  lead,  the 

process  being  one  that,  has  no  dimisbing  effect  on  the  ductility  or 
strength  of  the  iron,  so  that  a  plate  may  be  bent  and  closed  and 
opened  again  without  cracking  the  opening.  The  material  10  be 
treated  in  this  way  is  subjected  to  a  series  of  five  baths,  the  first  of 
these  being  a  pickle,  through  which  a  current  of  electricity  is  passed, 
this  bath  removing  the  scales  from  the  surface  of  the  'metal,  the 
electricity  greatly  expediting  this  result;  the  second  bath  is  in  lime 
water,  which  neutralizes  ibe  acid;  then  conies  the  bath  in  clear  wat- 
er; the  next  hath  is  in  a  neutral  solution  of  zinc  and  stannic  chlor- 
ides. The  drying  process,  which  follows,  leaves  on  the  surface 
of  the  plates  a  deposit  of  the  mixed  metallic  chlorides,  which 
protects  the  plates  from  oxidation.  The  next  process  consists 
in  passing  the  plates  through  the  last  bath,  namely,  of  mol- 
ten lead,  and  on  being  taken  from  this  the  metal  is  found  to  be  coat- 
ed with  an  adherent  layer  of  lead,  which,  though  thin  is  uniformly 
spread. 


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SUNBEAMS  9fc 

THERE  wu  a  lawn  party  at  ,„  Harlem 

ooe  afternoon  last  «rt    i^tiiu  •  numbar  ol  the  leading  i  . 
were  prevent.    Mr  >wing  tha  gronnda  to  bet 

when   her  little  ilauehtcr.  Fai 

"Mamma,  wstch  me  stand  on  my  bead,  like  Brother  Hill ." 

'  anything  of  the  kind.   Ii  per  (or  ■  little  girl  In  -iaii.| 

onberbead  Verger      111  u-j  aud  make  baste  and  grow. 

and  when  I  am  a  I«l-  girl  tben  I  ■  an 

This  eipUin*  why  visitors  ask  Mr.  VergeT  what  baabei rdear 

lutle  Fanny,  a?  iuey  haren'i  teen  bet  lately.  —  Texas  Sifting*. 

' '        Bill.  I've  a  splendid  job  far  yon.    BM— What  la 

Uj»i7  A»nu— Why.  that  parachute  man  got  killed  yesterday,  an' 
de  circu*  man  wants  some  one  to  go  up  in  <ie  balloon  and  jump  mi 
(cr  twenty-fire  dollars.    Bill— Well,  ground's  good  'nougta  ler  me. 

— Judgt . 
SMffl  /!rrry— Joblots  mortified  his  wife  terribly  nl  church  yes- 
terday.    .1/...    Berry—  How    was   thai'     Elder  Berry— lie  asked  "ihe 
usher  to  put  him  down  for  a  call  at  12:30.  —Puck. 

■ 'What's  Ihe  idea  of  putting  that  card  '  Bold  '  by  the  picture?" 

■he  man  who  bad  given  Ihe  arli-t  room  in  his  Iron!  Window  to 
display  hi-  latest  creation.  "  Then  some  one  will  be  sure  to  nam  to 
buy  it."  replied  the  artist.  —Judge. 

Oh,  maiden]  beauteous  s  atnesqne  and  tall, 

Would'sl  thou  disdain— though  be  were  mean  and  small— 
The  marble  palace  and  the  hand  to  share 

Of  a  poor  devil  of  a  millionaire'.'  —Brooklyn  Life. 

Anxunu  Mamma— Where  is  Miss  Eihei?    Maid— You'll  find  her 

sitting  on  the  sand  at  the  beach,  ma'am.  Anxious  Mamma— 1  hope 
she  hasn't  ventured  into  Ihe  surf?  Maul—  No  fear  of  that,  ma'am 
.She  put  on  ber  Sunday  bathing-suit.  —Judge. 

We  always  give  tbe  politices  of  a  paper  when  making  a  credit 

Mr.  Sheerce."  ■•Yessir,"  replied  the  new  exchange  editor.  "AH 
right."  And  the  next  issue  of  the  Bugle  astonished  its  readers  bv 
giving  a  poem  on  "Summer  Roses,"  credited  to  the  Barktown  Banner 
(  Deru.)  — Indianapolis  Journal. 

— — Miss  CuUuri— "Mr.  Lardy,  do  you  ever  write  for  the  magazine 
now?"  Lard;/—  ">'o."  Miss  Culture— "Why?"  Lardy— "Well,  I 
sold  them  a  story  for  five  dollars  eight  years  ago  and  then  spent 
thirty-three  dollars  and  sixty  cents  buying  the  magazine  every 
month  before  it  came  out."  —Judqe. 

'There's  my  train  !"  exclaimed  the  suburbanite  after  swallow- 
ing a  mouthful  of  hot  coffee.  "Why,  you  never  catch  the  7:10, 
James."  "No;  but  if  I  start  for  it  I  generally  get  the  8:05, and  I  don't 
want  to  be  late  this  morning."  Anil  a  moment  later  he  was  running 
for  dear  life.  —Judge. 

Van  8chribbel—l  just  wish  to  leave  those  few  short  stories  with 

the  editor.  What  is  customary  ?  I've  never  done  any  work  for  the  papers 
before.  Office  Boy—  Well,  it's  the  general  custom  to  leave 'em.  an 
tben  come  back  in  a  day  or  two — an'  get  'em.  — Puck. 

"Why,  Cbumley,  old  fellah,  what's  the  mattah?"    Chumley— 

'  Why,  Miss  von  Boodles  broke  off  with  me  last  week.  I  pawned  the 
diamond  ring  and  now  she  writes  for  me  to  come  back."     — Judge. 

—Mr.  Homespun  (taking  his  first  surf  bath).—  Gosh,  'Mandy  !  No 
wonder  folks  git  sick  when  they  go  to  sea,  ef  they  bev  ter  drink 
water  like  this.  — Puck. 

"No.  Mr.  Gilgal,"  she  said,  kindly.    "I  am  sure  I  could  never 

learn  to  love  you."  "Oh,  may  be  you  could,"  rejoined  Gilgal,  cheer- 
mgly.    "Never  too  old  to  learn,  you  know." 

"Miss  De  Trop  had  on  the  longest  gloves  last  night  that  I  ever 

saw.  She  buttoned  them  from  her  wrist  to  her  elbow."  "That's 
nothing.  "My  girl  buttoned  hers  all  tbe  way  from  home  to  the 
theatre."  — Chicago  News  Record. 

"It  must  be  dreadful  when  a  professional  singer  knows  she  has 

lost  her  voice!"  "But  it  is  still  more  dreadful  when  she  is  not  aware  of 
tbe  fact,"  — Humorist ische  Blaelter. 

She — We  must  part.  He— Forever?  She— Well,  until  I'm  mar- 
ried. —  Town  Topics. 

—Professor — I  hear  that  your  glass  eater  has  just  died.  Our  col- 
lege would  like  to  get  his  body  to  dissect.  Museum  Manager — You're 
too  late,  doctor;  we've  just  disposed  of  it  to  a  telegraph  company. 
"What  on  earth  do  they  want  with  it?"  "I  belive  they  intend  to  cut 
it  up  into  insulators." 

"Rector's  Warden{to  fair  stranger).—  "Always  glad   to  welcome 

you  to  our  little  church,  madam.  Am  very  sorry  our  pastor  was 
away  to-day.  You  would  have  heard  a  much  abler  discourse."  Fair 
Stranger  {smiling  sadly).— "I  have  not  the  least  doubt  of  that,  sir; 
my  husband  himself  felt  that  his  sermon  might  be  a  disappointment 
to  the  congregation."  —Brooklyn  Life. 


Good  Cooking 
Is  one  of  the  chief  blessings  of  every  home.    To  always  insure  good 
custards,  puddings,  sauces,  etc.,  use  Gail  Borden  "Eagle"  Brand 
Condensed  Milk;    Directions  on  the  label.    Sold  by  your  grocer  and 
druggist. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rented, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office, 
407-409  Montgomery  street. 


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TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 


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Low,  W.n.uer  f..,  Iks  I'-rlllr  ,  „„.,  ,|rill„  h. 

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Innstea  in  U.  S  "  "'??2  S2?'?2 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Anenls  City   Department, 

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THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  CLMPANIES 


-  COMB1NBD- 
HELVETIA 


BMVlTOI,S,E  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

,"L»-  "i  -r.  ...ill.  ,  ,.,,... 

COMB  NED  CAPITAL  4  001  COO  DO!  1  AM 

HARRY  W.  syz,  General 

UP  California  81.,  Ban  Frauclseo.  CaL 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Ca,,J?l^rP°01'  L°ndon  arjd  Manchester 

Capital  Pan  Up     ..,  t"}1?SSi000 

Cash  Deserve  I  In  addition  to  Capital)  " '     !.',  "?•??' 

Total  Assets  December  31.   13BS  i,i'JHf2S. 

O,  I  £1,\.  O/.OQ 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
30S  Calllornla  Street.  San  Francljco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  BALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
473  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON^ 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.J 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

«EO.  F.  IJKA.Vr.  Manager. 


PACIFIC    DEPAHTME3STT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  tapital,    -    -    -     5  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $2S,194,24*J. 


OF    LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, ?10,0'i4,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


WM.  J.  LANDERS,  GeiTl  Agent.  20f>  Siinsome  St..  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  ?6,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  Calllornla  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.46. 

President.  XKNJAMIN  ¥.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  SIBBENS, 
HENRY   K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 

324  Monqimpry  ifropt.  San  Francisco 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  Tor  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  ou  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  ou  Grain  e-tored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


INSURANCE  COMPACT- LTD. 


K°£ 


MANCHESTER , 


Capital  paid  A)  guaranteed  £{3,000,000,00. 

Chas.A  LA-rojbi,  Manager. 

133  California  St.  San  Fi-aueisso, 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


DISCONTENT  in  Germany  is  evidently  growing  with  rapid 
strides,  aa  a  leader  in  the  Vossiche  Zeitung,  published  on  the 
13th  inst.,  indicates.  All  intelligent  inhabitants  of  that  country 
are  naturally  disgusted  witb  a  government  none  of  whose  mem- 
bers has  the  courage  to  represent  matters  to  the  Emperor  as  they 
are,  and  which  makes  itself  the  mere  instrument  of  the  yuiing 
monarch's  caprices.  Such  a  condition  of  things  would  be  netling 
at  any  lime  to  the  Germans,  who,  not  many  years  ago,  prided 
themselves  upon  possessing  the  wisest  rulers  of  any  country,  but 
it  becomes  absolutely  exasperating  at  a  time  when  a  disturbance 
of  the  peace  of  Europe  depends  upon  a  mere  accident,  and  the 
outbreak  of  war  would  demand  the  strongest  government  possible 
io  a  country  which  mjst  likely  wilt  bjcoaii  the  main  battle- 
ground. 

The  dispatch  of  a  French  military  officer  to  St.  Petersburg  on 
a  special  mission  is  naturally  looked  upon  with  suspicion  at  Ber- 
lin, but  after  all,  it  may  be  nothing  but  a  maiuouver  of  a  rather 
ostentatious  than  important  nature.  At  all  events,  a  special 
mission  would  hardly  increase  the  knowledge  of  the  French  Gov- 
ernment with  regard  to  Russia's  intentions  in  case  of  a  European 
conflict,  since  all  such  matters  will  no  doubt  have  been  settled 
long  ago. 

The  French  have  commenced  bombarding  the  different  coast 
villages  of  Dahomey,  notably  Whydah.  The  capital  of  the  coun- 
try, Abomey,  has  also  been  attacked,  and  according  to  the  latest 
dispatches  an  expedition  inland  has  started  from  Porto  Novo, 
burning  and  pillaging  the  various  settlements.  So  far  the  losses 
of  the  French  are  described  as  insignificant,  but  if  the  Dahomey- 
ans  have  not  lost  all  their  former  prowess,  and  if  the  Amazon 
array  is  still  as  efficient  as  formerly,  the  French  forces  will  not 
accomplish  their  punishment  of  the  country  without  leaving 
many  a  comrade  behind. 

Tlie  resignation  of  Herr  von  Herrfurth  as  Prussian  Minister  of 
the  Interior  is  a  sign  that  Caprivi's  maintenance  of  office  will 
probably  soon  come  to  a  close,  and  that  the  way  is  being  grad- 
ually prepared  for  the  appointment  of  a  new  Chancellor.  One 
thing  is  certain.  Caprivi's  eventual  resignation  will  not  be  re- 
gretted by  many  Germans.  His  lack  of  individuality  unfits  him 
for  so  high  a  position,  and  even  an  ultra-conservative  Chancellor, 
provided  he  displayed  firmness,  would  almost  be  preferable  to  a 
man  who  is  the  mere  instrument  of  the  young  monarch. 

One  of  our  daily  papers  repeats  day  after  day  the  statement 
that  it  is  unreasonable  to  assume  that  the  members  of  the  Libe- 
ral party  of  England  are  traitors,  and  then  with  bad  logic  draws 
from  this  the  deduction  that  consequently  the  foreign  policy  of 
Great  Britain  is  as  safe  in  Mr.  Gladstone's  hands  as  in  those  of 
Lord  Salisbury.  Now,  the  fact  is  that  nobody  ever  accused  the 
Liberals  of  being  traitors,  though  the  peculiar  anagram  by  which 
the  words:  "The  Right  Honorable  William  Ewart  Gladstone," 
by  mere  transposition  are  changed  into  the  sentence,  "  I  am  the 
Whig  who'll  be  a  traitor  to  England's  rule,"  is  considered  with 
good  ground  to  contain  some  by  many  people.  Still,  if  the  Liber- 
als cannot  reasonably  be  called  traitors,  there  is  no  doubt  that 
the  extremists  among  them  do  not  know  what  patriotism  is,  and 
are  quite  ready  to  forget  their  duties  to  their  native  country,  pro- 
vided they  can  promote  international  socialism  and  cosmopolitan 
anarchy.  These  extremists  of  the  party,  however,  fortunately 
are  not  powerful  enough  to  do  much  harm.  The  real  danger  for 
the  protection  of  the  British  interests  abroad  lies  in  the  fact  that 
for  some  period  of  time  the  government  of  Great  Britain  will  be 
in  the  hands  of  a  politician  who  has  distinguished  himself  by 
some  of  the  most  notorious  blunders  in  foreign  policy  heretofore, 
and  who,  now  that  be  has,  to  use  a  vulgar  phrase,  Ireland  "  on 
the  brain,"  will  scarcely  be  less  skillful  as  a  diplomatist,  even 
though  he  may  not  be  a  traitor. 

As  was  to  be  expected,  the  German  Emperor  is  not  very 
anxious  to  prosecute  the  ex-Chancellor.  A  semi-official  staU- 
znent  is  being  circulated  by  the  papers,  saying  that  no  intelligent 
man  could  ever  think  that  His  Majesty  would  consent  to  prose- 
cution. Well,  however  that  may  be,  William  II.  is  to  be  con- 
gratulated upon  his  present  state  of  mind.  A  prosecution  of  the 
aged  statesman,  which  would  have  given  the  latter  a  chance  of 
producing,  without  »  breach  of  etiquette,"  some  of  his  interesting 
reminiscences,  might  have  been  rather  unpleasant  for  the  young 
monarch,  who  cannot  afford  to  permit  his  acts  being  reviewed  by 
so  keen  a  criticism  as  that  of  Prince  Bismark,  and  still  less  to 
have  them  illustrated  by  comparisons  drawn  from  the  period 
when  the  name  of  Hobenzollern  was  a  word  of  power  in  all 
Europe. 

The  most  perfect  gift  is  perfect  vision.  Obtainable  at  C.  Muller's,  the 
optician,  135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush,  San  Francisco. 


Burlington  Route  Excursions. 


Commencing  Tuesday,  March  15th,  at  2  p.  m.,  from  Los  Angeles, 
and  Wednesday,  at  8  p.  M.,  from  San  Francisco,  and  every  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday  thereafter,  the  Burlington  Route  will  run  its  regular 
Summer  Excursions,  with  Pullman  Tourist  Sleeping  cars,  to  Chicago, 
via  Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver.  .For  particulars  and  excursion  folder, 
apply  to  agent,  Burlington  Route,  at  204  South  Spring  street,  Los 
Angeles;,  or  32  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield  has  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the 
very  best  sartorial  artists  in  the  city.  He  has  been  established  here 
for  many  years,  during  which  time  he  has  made  a  name  for  excellent 
work  and  honest  dealing  that  cannot  be  excelled.  He  makes  a  specialty 
of  the  manufacture  of  uniforms  and  regalias. 

~  ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Silver     Hill     Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  Second  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  31}  of  Five  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Compauy,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Sixth  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  September, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment, together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

D.  C.  BATES,  Secretary. 

Office. — Room  79,  Neyada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion     Mining     Company. 

location  of  principle  place  of  business— San  Fraucisco,  California.  Lo- 
ca'ion  of  works — Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
or  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  39),  of  twenty-five  (25)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  FraDCisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  16th  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at .public  auction;  and  unless  pavment  is  made  be- 
fore,   will   be    sold    on   TUESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  October,  1892,   to  pay 
the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Officb— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street.  San  Fraucisco.  California 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Hale  <&  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works — Virginia  Miuing  District,  Story  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  102)  of  Fifty  (50)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Compauy,  room  26,  Nevada  block,  No.  303  Montgomery  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Thursday  the  Fifteenth  Day  of  September,  1 892,  wilt  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  Is  made  be- 
fore,  will    be  sold  on   FRIDAY,  the  7th    day  of    October,    1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  B.  THOMP30N,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  26,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Fraucisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Confidence  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Thirteenth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  21)  of  Fifty 
(50)  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company.  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Auy  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Fifteenth  (15lh)  Day  of  Stp'ember,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  Is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  sixth  day  of  October,   1892,  t© 
pay   the   delinquent  assessment,   together  with  the  costs  of   advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  S.  GROTH,  Secretary. 

Office— 414  CaMf.irnia  street.  San  Francisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Crocker    Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works— Quijotoa,  Arizona 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  Augu*t,  1892,  an  Assessment  (No  12)  of  5  cei  ts  per  share  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  ofrice  of  the  company,  room 
23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Fraucisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
The  Twentieth  Day  of  September,  1 892,  will  be  de  inquent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and   unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  lith  day  of  October.  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with    costs   of   advertising  and  expen- 
ses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Franolsoo, 
California. 


7 


Augu- 


bAN  FRANCISCO  NKWS  I  11  i  ;..u. 


THE  cbief  distinction  betwwn  Ibe  appearance  of  Ibe  male  ami 
tbe  female  Japanese  He*  in  the  hair.  Tbe  men  sbave  nearly 
the  whole  of  ibe  head,  while  ibe  women  allow  it  lo  grow,  and 
eTen  add  to  it  by  art  when  required.  It  if"  then  twisted  ami 
into  elaborate  and  fantastic  patterns  which  lew  BwtaTD  bair- 
coald  imitate  or  etjual.  The  hairpins  used  are  not  so  much  for  con- 
fining the  locks  in  their  places  n;-  (or  actual  adornment,  and  arc  very 
fashionable.  They  are  of  enormous  >i/t>.  seven '  or  eight  inches  in 
length  and  half  an  inch  wide,  ami  are  made  of  various  substances, 
tortoise  shell,  carved  wood  and  ivory,  many  of  them  being  con  | 
of  carved  figures  adroiUy  pivoted  so  aa  to  appear  to  dance  at  every 
breath  drawn  by  the  wearer.  Others  are  made  of  glass,  and  are  hol- 
low, and  nearly  tilled  with  some  bright  colored  liquid,  so  that  at  every 
movement  of  the  head  an  air  bubble  runs  from  one  end  of  the  pin  to 
tbe  other,  producing  a  most  curious  effect  in  a  strong  light.  Some- 
times an  extra  fashionable  woman  will  wear  a  dozon  or  more  of  these 
pins  in  her  hair,  so  that  at  a  little  distance  her  head  looks  as  if  a 
bundle  of  firewood  had  been  loosely  stuck  into  it.  The  higher  in 
rank  the  Japanese  woman,  the  more  elaborate  her  coiffure  is  likely 
to  be. 


The  pretty  fashion  of  flower-hung  necklaces  which  has  been  carried 
out  with  enameled  blossoms  hung  on  a  slender  gold  chain,  is  gor- 
geously reproduced  now  by  Parisian  jewelers  in  diamonds  and  pre- 
cious stones.  The  encircling  chain  consists  of  a  single  row  of  brilliants 
from  which  hangs  a  diamond  trumpet  flower  with  a  large  pear-shaped 
stone  depending  from  its  center.  Jeweled  collars  in  floral  designs, 
set  with  diamonds  and  rubies,  are  also  worn,  of  course  by  ladies  with 
long  and  thin  necks. 

The  "  stocking  sachet  "  is  the  latest  in  the  list  of  scented  toilet  ac" 
cessories.  It  is  quite  a  large  silk  bag,  lined  with  quilted  satin  and 
having  the  odorous  powder  scattered  with  liberal  hand  between  the 
lining  and  the  silk.  It  is  hung  in  the  wardrobe  and  receives  the 
stockings  as  they  come  up  from  the  wash  and  before  they  have  gone 
to  the  mender. 

8ome  of  the  newest  gowns  designed  for  women  who  are  weary 
Ot  the  monotony  of  sheath  skirts  have  deep  Spanish  flounces 
added  to  the  bell-shaped  skirts,  which  are  not  lined,  and  are  made 
without  a  petticoat. 

White  or  light  brocades  may  be  cleaned  with  fine,  dry  bread  crumbs, 
and  plain  white  silks  may  be  cleansed  by  shaking  them  about  in  a 
lather  of  white  soap,  rinsing  in  luke-warm  water  and  stretching  over 
lines  to  dry  rapidly. 

White  gowns  of  all  kinds  keep  their  color  best  by  being  tied  up  in 
bags  of  blue  paper  inside  bags  of  Holland.  The  gauze  or  chiffon 
trimming  should  be  removed  and  kept  separately  in  tissue  paper. 

It  is  said  by  those  in  authority  that  the  fashionable  coat  of  the  fu- 
ture will  be  the  long  redingote,  cut  double  breasted,  with  wide  Di- 
rectoire  reveres,  big  buttons,  and  a  double  or  triple  cape. 

Ribbed,  striped  and  pleated  stuffs  are  only  waiting  the  disappear- 
ance of  thin  summer  gowns  to  resume  their  popularity.  Plain  colored 
silk  or  velvet  promises  to  be  their  decoration. 

One  of  the  season's  novelties  is  the  sympathy  bangle,  a  slender 
band  of  black  enamel  sent  to  the  amcted  by  a  friend  and  bearing  the 
single  word  "  Sympathy." 

Coat  basques  cut  off  at  the  waist  and  prolonged  in  coat  tails  at  the 
back,  are  being  made  up  in  heavy  and  serviceable  material  for  early 
autumn  street  wear. 

London  furriers  announce  the  furs  for  the  coming  season  to  be  un- 
plucked  otter,  the  three  kinds  of  fox,  sealskin  and  Russian  sable. 

Camel's  hair  and  English  serge  in  blues  and  deep  reds,  dahlia  and 
Vandyke  browns  will  be  among  the  early  fall  materials. 

Spots  of  grease  in  silk  generally  disappear  if  covered  with  magne 
sia  or  gently  rubbed  with  water  and  the  white  of  an  egg. 

Laces  not  in  wear  should  be  rinsed  in  clear  water  to  take  out  the 
starch,  dried  in  the  sun,  and  wrapped  in  dark  blue  paper. 

All  traces  of  mud  spots  should  be  removed  from  black  goods  by 
rubbing  with  a  raw  potato  cut  in  half. 

Light  silks  or  wools  should  be  thickly  strewn  with  bran  and  wrapped 
with  silver  paper. 

The  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Grant  avenue  and  Geary 
street,  has  the  reputation  throughout  the  city  of  being  the  most  pop- 
ular restaurant  on  the  Coast.    It  is  always  first-class. 


GREAT   REDUCTION   SALE 

ALL 

SPRING  AND  SUMMER  GOODS 


-AT- 


A  Tremendous  Sacrifice 

TO  CLEAR  THEM  OUT  THIS  MONTH. 


INCOMPARABLE    BARGAINS 


Cloaks,    Dress    Goods,    Silks,    Laces,    Ribbons, 

Gloves,  Hosiery,  Underwear, 

Gent's  Furnishing  Goods, 

Wash    Dress    Fabrics,    Housefurnishings,    Etc. 


Murphy  Building. 

MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  1835. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Kevacla  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.  J.;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiettfe  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H,  Babcoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 

MRS.  R.    G.  LEWIS, 

FORMERLY    OF    THURLOW     BLOCK, 
HAS  KEMOVED  TO 

531    SUTTER    STREET. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour—  Demaud  fair;    Extras  $4.20@$4  50:    Superfine,  $2.50@$3.00. 

Wheat— Fair  trade:   Shipping,  $L.37%:  Milling,   $l.40@$1.45  per  cental 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  95c.@??1.05  Feed,  87^0.^92'  je.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  $1.40@$1.45;  Feed,  Jl.30@$l.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1.40;  Yellow,  $1.35@*1.37'^  per  ctl. 

Rye.  no  stock,  good  demand,  $1.25@?1.30.    Cement,  $2.00@?2.25. 

Hay  Is  lower;  Wheat,  $9;  Oats,  $8@*10;  Alfalfa,  $7@?9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $16@$17  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00@$2.50  per  ctl.    Potatoes,  45c.@70c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady;  Choice,  20c.@25c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@l5c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@9c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  25c.@30c. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc.@12c. ;  Extracted,  6c.@7c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  15c@50c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  active. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@71.2C.      Wool  is  in  good  demaud  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  53^e.@6^c. 

Coffee  firmer  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned   Fruits  of  all  Kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demaud  at  15@18c. 

Sugar,  good  stoct  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites.  4}4@tb%c. 

We  remark  a  decided  revival  throughout  all  business  circles. 
Shipments  of  Barley,  Canned  Goods  and  other  home  products  by 
sea,  sail  and  steam  are  in  considerable  volume,  while  the  ship- 
ments of  Green  Fruit  and  other  perishable  goods  by  rail  to  New 
York  and  other  Atlantic  cities,  are  phenomenal.  At  the  same 
time  New  Yorkers  and  others  upon  the  other  side  of  the  continent 
have  waked  up  to  see  that  a  great  saving  in  freight  rates  are  se- 
cured by  patronizing  the  water  routes.  The  result  of  this  large 
diversion  of  the  carrying  trade  will  be  to  force  the  Southern  Paci- 
fic Company  and  other  transcontinental  railroads  to  reduce  freight 
rates  very  materially. 

The  ship  John  McDonald,  in  the  Dispatch  Line,  John  Rosenfeld's 
Line,  for  New  York,  had  for  Cargo  33.015  ctls.  Barley,  877  bbls. 
and  45  pchs.  Wine,  60  pkgs.  Brandy,  1,300  sks.  Borax,  9,300  cs. 
Canned  Fruit,  9,371  cs.  Salmon,  4,836  sks.  Beans  and  1,500  cs. 
Canned  Corn. 

Redwood  Lumber  for  the  United  Kingdom — The  ship  A.  Mc- 
Collum,  hence  forQueenstown,  had  for  Cargo  1,243,699  feet,  valued 
at  $28,000. 

Grain  freights — Some  half  dozen  or  more  Br.  iron  ships  have  re- 
cently been  chartered  at  this  port  to  load  Wheat  for  Cork,  U.  K. 
and  the  Continent  at  £1  5s  and  £1  5s.  6d. 

Salmon. — The  packing  season  on  the  Columbia  River  is  closed, 
and  the  catcb  some  50,000  cs.  in  excess  of  last  year,  but  of  this 
increase  a  large  proportion  is  said  to  be  inferior. 

Wool  for  Boston,  via  Canadian  Pacific  route. — The  City  of 
Puebla,  hence  for  Victoria,  carried  in  transit  73,100  lbs.,  value 
$16,825. 

Treasure. — The  Oceanic,  for  Hongkong  on  the  16th  inst.,  car- 
ried $385,819;  to  Singapore,  $108,000;  to  Japan,  $46,600. 

Hongkong  and  Yokohama.— The  P.  M.  S.  8.  City  of  Rio  de 
Janeiro  brought  thence  9,880  mats  Rice,  8,092  cb.  Tea,  70  pkgs. 
Bilk,  306  pkgs.  Curios,  590  bags  Coffee,  216  bags  Spice,  1,785  bags 
Sugar,  500  bales  Hemp,  650  bales  Gunnies  and  4,129  pkgs.  Mdse.; 
also,  in  transit,  to  go  overland,  8,786  pkgs.  Tea,  1,080  pkgs.  Raw 
Silk,  80  pkgs.  Silk  Goods,  27  pkgs.  Wild  Silk,  204  pkgs.  Curios, 
etc. 

The  bark  Ceylon,  hence  for  Honolulu,  carried  mdse.  value 
$22,000,  consisting  in  part  of  555  bbls.  Flour,  25,753  lbs.  Pearl 
Barley,  105,101  lbs.  Rolled  ditto.  13,614  lbs.  Cracked  Corn,  76  M. 
feet  Lumber,  5,180  lbs.  Lard,  600  bales  Hay,  2,914  sks.  Bran,  2,742 
galls.  Whisky,  1,000  galls.  Gasoline,  490  sks.  Midlings,  etc. 

Vancouver. — The  Br.  stmr.  Grandholm,  hence,  had  for  cargo 
1,000  bbls.  Cement,  25  rjkgs.  paper,  etc.;  value,  $2,467. 

Exports  to  Liverpool,  per  the  Br.  ship  TJirica,  were  valued  at 
$185,163,  consisting  in  part  of  25,184  cils.  Barley,  16,225  ctls. 
Wheat,  23,593  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  5,705  cs.  Salmon,  26,765  galls. 
Brandy,  94.698  lbs.  Tallow,  273  sks.  Shells,  etc.;  also,  in  transit, 
12,144  lbs.  Cotton. 

The  steamship  San  Bias,  of  the  P.  M.  S.  Co.,  sailed  hence  for 
for  the  Isthmus  on  the  15th  inst.,  carrying  for  New  York  Wine 
and  Mds.  value  of  $55,700,  say,  31,000  galls.  Wine,  203,049  lbs. 
Borax,  100  bales  Rags,  827  galls.  Brandy,  4,895  ctls.  Barley,  8,250 
ctls.  Beans,  and  22,561  lbs.  Glue.  For  Central  America,  2,359 
bbls.  Flour,  etc. ;  value,  $27,711.  To  Panama,  465  bbls.  Flour, 
etc.;  value,  $3,375.  To  Ecuador,  149  bbls.  Flour,  etc.;  value, 
$700.     To  Pennsylvania,  48  galls.  Brandy. 

Honolulu.— The  8.  G.  Wilder,  hence  August  13th,  carried  Mdse. 
valued  at  $24,164,  consisting  in  part  of  4,800  lbs.  Lard,  2,550  ctls. 
Barley,  160  pkgs.  Salmon,  34  M.  feet  Lumber,  2,780  galls.  Wine, 
1,999  sks.  Bran,  225  cks.  Beer.  1,195  bales  Hay,  etc. 

Kahului. — Brig  Consnelo,  hence  August  12th,  carried  Mdse. 
valued  at  $13,651,  consisting  in  part  of  52,681  lbs.  Rolled  Barley, 
337  bbls.  Flour,  300  cs.  Kerosene,  etc. 

Tahiti.— Brig  Galilea,  thence  to  M.  Turner,  had  for  cargo  640 
pkgs.  and  bags  Shells,  222,000  Kilo  Copra,  38,600  Cocoa  Nuts,  39 
pkgs.  old  Yellow  Metal,  etc. 


Sugar  imports  from  Hawaii  embrace  the  following  cargoes: 
Per  Transit,  from  Honolulu,  with  11,288  bags  and  106  bbls.  Mo- 
lasses; per  Alice  Cook,  from  same,  with  17.528  bags;  brig  J.  D. 
Spreckels,  from  Kahului,  with  1.200  bags;  schr.  John  G.  North, 
24  days  from  Mabukona,  with  10,952-bags  to  Williams,  Diroond 
A  Co. 

Nitrate— The  bkte.  Kattie  Flickinger,  51  days  from  Pisagua, 
brought  up  755  tons  Nitrate  Soda  to  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co. 

Guayaquil.  — Per  Louisa  D.,  44  days  tbence  to  D.  Ghiradelti  & 
Sons,  bad  for  cargo  211  bags  Coffee,  744  bags  Cocoa  and  102  bags 
Chuco. 

The  Pacific  Mail  8.  S.  City  of  Sydney,  from  the  Isthmus  and 
way  ports,  brought  up  a  large  cargo  of  Mdse.  from  New  York, 
consisting  chieriy  of  Iron,  Steel  and  other  heavy  goods;  from 
Europe,  33  cs.  Dry  Goods,  79  pkgs.  Groceries  and  100  pkgs. 
Mdse.;  from  Central  America,  738  bags  Coffee;  from  Mexico,  793 
bxs.  Limes,  10  cs.  Mangoes,  etc. 

The  stmr.  Progress,  76  days  from  New  York,  via  Coronel  30 
days,  to  the  Johnson  Locke  Mercantile  Co.,  had  a  very  large  and 
well  assorted  cargo  of  general  mdse.  to  some  hundreds  of  con- 
signees. 

The  Coffee  market  continues  quiet,  and  prices  unchanged  since 
the  heavy  purchases  in  July,  they  being  about  double  the  aver- 
age quantity.  Our  stock  on  hand  August  12th  consisted  of 
30,588  bags  of  Central  American,  against  35,537  bags  on  August 
20th  of  last  year.  This  is  the  stock  in  first  bands.  Shipments 
overland  light  at  present.  Imports  since  January  1st,  138,114 
bags;  same  time  last  year,  141,628  bags. 


J.  Spaulding  &  Co..  the  proprietors  of  the  Pioneer  Carpet  Beating 
Machine  and  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  are  located  at  353- 
357 Tehama  street.  Their  machine  is  well-known  as  the  best  and 
most  expeditous  in  the  city,  and  it  has  given  great  satisfaction  to  the 
thousands  of  the  firm's  patrons,  for  which  reason  J.  Spaulding  &  Co. 
always  do  a  large  and  rushing  business. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Union  Consolidated  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Locatiou  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virgima  Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
ou  the  18th  day  of  July,1892,  au  assessment  No.  46)  of  twenty-five  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  11,  303  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-fourth  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  thirteen  day  of  September,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  W.  BARROWS,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  11,  303  California  street.  San  FrRncisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Peer   Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Quijotoa,  Arizona. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  nineteenth  day  of  July,  1892.  an  assessment  (No.  13)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  No.  23,  Nevada  Block, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  thiB  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Twenty-fifth  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  pavment  is  made  he- 
fore,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  22nd  day  of  September,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with   the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Franoisco,  CaL 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Del  Monte  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  26th   day  of  July,   1892,    an    assessment  (No.    6)   of  Ten   Cents 

fier  share  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  and  17,  No.  310  Pi  ae  street.  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, or  to  W.  A.  O.  Paul  Transfer  Agent,  52  Broadway,  New  York  Cltv. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  6th  Day  of  September.  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  Is  made 
before,  will  be  Bold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  5th  day  of  October,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  w.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15  and  17.  310  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Scorpion  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  4 

Amount  per  Share  5  cents 

Levied July  11,  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office August  19, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock..  ...     September  12,  1892 

GEO.  R    SPINNEY,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  310  Pine  Street,  Room  No  28,  San  Fraocinco,  Cal. 


August  20,  1392. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LBTTEB 


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COMMEN-  IN>.   -SPAY.    APRIL    H    1WJ.  ROd 
until   farther    0'->U<v.    Bo«U    in 
leave  fmm  and  arrive  at  the  S»n  Francisco  Pa»- 
•enjter   Depot.  MAKKK1   - 
follow* 
Fron  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tiburon.  Bthedert  md 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAY:*—  7:40  a.  m.,  9:20  a.  *.,    11  X   A.  «.: 

1:30  P.M..  3^0  r.  M.,5.06  P.  K..6A»r.  M. 
SCNDAYS— 8:00  A.M..  9  JO  A.M..  11:00  A.M.;  1:30  p.m. 
3:30  P.  M-,  5-00  P.  M..  6:15.  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK   DATS— 625    a      K.,  7*5    v.    *.,  9:30    a.   m. 

11  JO  A.M.:  1:40  P.M.,  8:40  P.M.,  5:06  p.m. 
BATCRDAYa  ONLY— An  extra  trln  at  G JS0  p.m. 
St  SPAYS— 8:10  A.M.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  a.  M. ;  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  P.  M..  5:00*-  M..6:2o  P.  M. 

Prom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  A.  ¥..  8:20  A.M..  9:55a.M..  11:55 
A.  M.;  2:05  P.  m.,  4:06  P.  M.,  5:55  p.  M. 
Satnrdays  onlv,  an  extra  trip  alG:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35    A.M.,    10:05  a.m.,    11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.m.,  4:05 P.M. .5:30  P.M.,  6:50  P.M. 


Leaves.  F. 


■ArkiveinS.F. 


Days. 


Sundays 


Destination.' 


7:40a.m.  S.-00a.m.      Petaluma 
8:30p.m.  9:30a.  m.  and 

5:06  p.m   5:00p.m.    Santa  Rosa. 


10:40  a.M|8:50a.  m 
6:05  p.m  10:30a. M 
7:25p.m|  6:10p.m. 


7:40a.m.      ... 
3:30P.M.  8:00a. M 


Fulton, 

Windsor, 

,  Healdsburg, 

.  LittoD  SpriDes, 
Cloverdale  &. 
.Way  Stations. 


7:40a.  M.  8:00a.  M. 


Hopland 
and  Ckiah. 


Week 

Days. 


10:30a.  M 

:25p.M.    6:10p.m 


6:10p.m. 


7:40  a.m. 8:00a.m.  Guerneville.  7:25p.m.  10:30a.m. 

3:30  P.M.  J !  6:10p.M. 

7:40a.m.  8:00a.m.;  Sonoma  and f  KHWaTm. I S^OaTm. 
5:05p.m.!5:00p.m  '  Glen  Ellen.  |  6:05p.m.  |6;10p.m. 
7:40  a.  m  I  8:00a  M  |  Sebastopol.  I  10:40 a.m  I  10:30am 
3:30  p.m  (5:00  p.m  j |    6?05p.m  1  fi:10  p.m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs:  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena:  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land SpringB,  Kelseyvllle,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  TJsal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  14  50;  to  Hop- 
land.  $5  70;  to  Uiiah,  ?6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma.  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC   COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  h.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a,  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


I  CURE  FITS! 

■When  I  say  cure  I  do  nob  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  o 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  d.saase  of  FITS,  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
cure.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office* 
U.  G.  ROOTt  M-  C.»  183  Pearl  St..  N.  Y. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Ttiaor-.H  Link  t-i  Ktw  Y.*rk,  ma  PaHAJU 
Steamer*  will  Mil  at  NOON  on  (In-  Sih,  1Mb  and 

2Mb  of  each  month. 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

Amori.-A. 

fnrouan  Lint  Sailings.—  8.  H.  "City  of  Sidney," 
*  ibcr  5ih;  "San 

Juan."  September  1Mb. 

Way  Lint  to  Mtxtcan  and  Central  American  Po*ia 
and  Panama.—  Steamer  BRtll  at   noon   ]Mli 
month,  •  aHiuc  at  Mazatlau.  S*n  BIh-,  Manzaulllo, 

Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Ballna  Crua.   FoqrIr,  Sab 
bamperico,  San  Jose  do  Guatemala, 

Acajulla.  1-a  Ltbeitad,  La  1'ntoii.  AniHpaln,  GO 
rluto,  Sau  Juan  del  Sur  aa<l  funis  A  i 

Way  Line  Sailing.—  Sept.  Utth,  S.  S.  "City  of  Pana- 
ma." 

When  the  regular  .vailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  followiug  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkoug  for  East 

ludles.  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  Aug.  27th,  at 

8  P.  M. 

"City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  September  17th,  at 

3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Sept.  27 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "Peru."  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  P.  M 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and   Braunan  streets.        Branch  office— 202 
Frout  street.               ALEXANDER  CENTER, 
General  Agent. 


MERCHANT'S     LINE. 


NEW    LINE    CLIPPER    SHIPS. 


New    York   to    San    Francisco. 


—THE  MAGNIFICENT  IRON  SHIP- 


T.  F.  OAKES 


1897  tons  register.  REED.  Mas- 
ter, is  now  on  the  berth  at  New  York 
and  having  large  engagements  will 
receive  quick  dispatch.    For  freight  apply  to 
J.  W.  GRACE  &  CO., 

430  California  St.,  S.  F. 
W.  R.  GRACE  &  CO.,  Hanover  Square,  N.  Y. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 


Note  change  in  hour  of 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Oceanic  (Via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  August  16,  '92 

Gaelic Tuesday,  Sept.  6,1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Oct  6,1892. 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  28, 1892. 
ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT    REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
(or  sale  at  8.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass. Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE.  Traffic  Manager. 

GEORGE  GOODMAN, 

PATENTEE    AND    MANOFACTTEER  OP 

ARTIFICIAL      STONE 

in  all  its  branches. 

Office,  307  Montgomery  Street. 

THE    DANDELION.—  Youth's    Companion. 


With  locks  of  gold  to-day; 
To-morrow,  silver  gray; 
Then   blossom  bald.     Behold, 
O  man,  thy  fortune  toldl 

HENRY  SCOTT,  a  stalwart  old-tine  Demo- 
crat, is  a  candidate   for  Sheriff    before 
the  Democratic  Convention. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    HYHTKM. 

Train*  L««v«  ind   are  DuttoArrlvt  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Liavr  *  from  July  25,  1892.  I  arrive 

7:00  a.  BflnlcU,    K'inwv,  Hncramoiilo 

7:80a.  lUrwftrdH,  NIlcRAoil  t)iu  Joie  .  *13:16P 

KilMAOd   HaJOM  16:16  P 

Marllnei.  Hrii  Rauiou,  Callfitoga 
nixl   Santa  Umft  fi  l.'»P. 

8:00  a.  SacrAin'toA  Redding,  via  I-nvln        7  1     i 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Exprcsn  (or  Ogden  and 

Bftlti  .     945  p, 

8:30a.  Niles,  3rd  Jose,  Stockton.  lone, 
Hrtrramonto,  Marvhvlllo,  Oro- 
vlllo  and  Ked  Bluff  4:46p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  SautA Bar- 
bara, Lob  Angeles,  Doming,  El 
Prio,  New  Orients  andEa^l      .       8:4ft  p. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton     *8:4ftp. 

12-OOm.  HaywardH,  Nile*  and  Llvcrmore 

*1:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00r. 

1:30 p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez  12:46 P. 

3:00  p.  llaywards,  Niles  and  Sau  Jose..      9:46  a. 
4:O0p.  Martinez,  Sau  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Ueroed  and  Fresno  9:46a. 

4 -.00  p.  Vallejo,  Callstoga,  El  Verauoand 

Sauta  Rosa    9.46  A. 

4:30p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramcuto.       10:46a. 

4:30p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45a. 

•4:30 p.  NileB  and  Livermore *8:46a. 

5:30  p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Lob  Angeles. 8.45a. 

5:30 p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  fi;45  a. 

6:00 p,  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose.-      7:45  a. 

*6:00  P.  Sunol  aud  Livermore 

6:00  p.  European  Miil  Ogden  aud  East    9:16  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  P. 

7:00  p.  ShaBta Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Puget  Sound  and  East. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  CruzJHvlsion. 

17:45a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, Sau  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel> 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Sauta  Cruz    (8:05 P. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz. 6 :20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

Santa  Cruz    *10:60a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 
Cruz  9:60a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 
*7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  aud  Way  Sta- 
tions      *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion    J8:28  P. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  P. 
19:30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  aud  Way  Stations.  J2:45  P. 
10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  .  6:03p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations. 3:30p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Tres Pinos.SantaCruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove 
and  principal  Way  Statious.  ...*10:37a. 
*3:30p.  San    Jose,    Gilroy    and      Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations    *9:47a. 

*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...    *8:06a. 

5:15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations. 8:48  a, 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. ..      6:35  a. 
rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  -(-Saturdays  only. 

JSundaysonly. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 
FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 

8.  S.  Majposa Friday,  August  19,  at  2  P.    M. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 
S.  S.  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  31,  1892,  at  2  p.  m. 
For  Freight   or    Passage  apply  at    Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 

General  Agents 

CONSUMPTION. 

I  have  a  positive  remedy  for  the  above  disease;  byits 
UBethonsandaof  caseB  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
standing  have  been  enrfid.  Indeed  so  strong  is  my  faith 
in  its  efficacy,  th.it  I  w.ll  send  two  bottles  fi  ee,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  euf- 
furor  who  will  send  me  their  i£xpress  and  P.  O.  address. 
T*  A.  Slocurn,  at.  C.»  1S3  Pearl  St.,  N.  7. 


6AN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  20,  1892. 


OUR  California  demoiselles  appear  to  be  in  demand  abroad,  for 
the  wedding  of  Miss  Louise  Bonynge  to  Major  Maxwell,  and 
the  approaching  nuptials  of  Miss  Amy  Green  to  Sir  James  Home- 
Spiers,  news  of  which  two  events  the  cable  has  brought  us  from 
Europe,  has  been  followed  by  the  announcement  of  Miss  Aileen 
Ivers'  engagement  to  Mr.  Morris  Robinson,  of  the  banking  house 
of  Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.,  of  New  York.  The  two  first-named  . 
young  ladies,  although  Californians  by  birth,  have  for  some  years 
past  lived  abroad,  and  so  we  have  become  reconciled  to  their  loss. 
But  in  the  case  of  Miss  Ivers  we  are  touched  more  nearly,  she 
having  been  quite  a  light  iD  society  circles  until  recently,  so  that 
her  permanent  loss,  which  is  now  an  assured  fact,  will  be  more 
felt,  and  that  it  will  also  be  regretted,  goes  without  saying.  It 
would  be  some  slight  consolation  to  her  friends  if  Miss  Ivers 
would  elect  to  have  her  wedding  take  place  in  Ban  Francisco,  and 
the  hope  is  expressed  that  the  reported  intention  to  have  it  sol- 
emnized in  New  York  may  be  premature.  The  date  is  not  yet 
settled,  but  the  marriage  will  probably  occur  about  the  beginning 
of  the  new  year. 

The  Sunday  weddings  were  those  of  Miss  Fannie  Stern  and 
Marcus  Levy,  and  of  Miss  Fannie  Goldsmith  and  Louis  Heringhi, 
of  Fresno.  Miss  Stern's  took  place  at  her  parent's  residence  on 
Pine  street,  where  the  rooms  were  fragrant  with  an  abundance  of 
floral  ornamentation.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Levy,  officiated  and  made 
the  happy  pair  "  one  flesh  "  under  the  traditional  wedding  bell, 
little  Flossie,  the  groom's  sister,  placing  a  satin  cushion  for  them 
to  kneel  upon  to  receive  the  nuptial  benediction.  The  brides- 
maids, Misses  Birdie  Stern  and  Ida  Levy,  looked  charmingly  in 
yellow  silk  gowns  trimmed  with  chiffon.  The  bride  was  magni- 
ficently costumed  in  cream  satin.  Louis  Stern  and  £.  H.  Levy 
stood  up  with  the  groom;  dancing  was  kept  up  all  evening,  and 
supper  was  served   at   midnight. 

A  very  interesting  and  enjoyable  wedding  took  place  last  Sun- 
day evening,  August  14th,  when  Miss  Fannie  Goldsmith  was 
united  to  Mr.  Louis  Heringhi,  of  Fresno,  at  the  residence  of  the 
bride's  mother,  Mrs.  Z.  Goldsmith,  at  1219  Geary  street.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Voorsanger.  At  precisely 
six  o'clock  the  bridal  party,  led  by  Masters  Leon  Gutman  and 
Gerson  Price,  and  the  little  Misses  Teckla  Rosenthal,  Mabel  Gold- 
smith and  Sadie  Heringhi,  proceeded  to  the  reception  room, 
which  was  beautifully  decorated.  The  parents  of  the  contracting 
couple  followed,  and  then  came  the  bride,  accompanied  by  her 
brother,  Mr.  Gerson  Goldsmith.  The  bridesmaids  were  her  sis- 
ters, Misses  Hannah  and  Belle  Goldsmith,  and  the  groomsmen 
were  Mr.  A.  Heringhi,  brother  of  the  groom,  and  Mr.  Lee  Gray, 
of  Fresno.  After  the  ceremony,  and  the  subsequent  offerings  of 
congratulations,  the  guests,  of  whom  there  were  fully  one  hun- 
dred, were  ushered  into  the  reception  room,  where  an  elaborate 
dinner  was  served.  Dancing  was  then  enjoyed  until  an  early 
hour  in  the  morning.  The  wedding  presents  were  numerous  and 
costly.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Heringhi  will  spend  their  honeymoon 
traveling  through  Southern  California,  and  will  then  make  their 
home  at  Fresno. 


A  rare  literary  treat  will  be  given  the  people  of  this  coast  by 
George  Riddle,  the  greatest  reader  of  this  age,  sometime  after  the 
first  of  next  month.  That  gentleman  has  just  concluded  a  series 
of  one  hundred  readings  in  Boston,  New  York  and  Philadelphia, 
and  he  has  plac»d  himself  under  the  management  of  John  F. 
Bragg  for  a  tour  of  the  Pacific  Slojfe.  The  season  will  begin  Sept- 
ember 5th  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  in  this  city,  where  six  readings 
will  be  had  at  intervals  of  a  few  days  until  the  end  of  the  month. 
In  his  particular  line  Mr.  Riddle  is  truly  artistic,  bringing  forth 
the  words  of  highest  praise  from  all  who  have  ever  beard  him,  in- 
cluding Longfellow,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  E.  P.  Whipple  and 
Edwin  Booth.  His  voice  is  tender  or  virile  as  the  occasion  de- 
mands, and  his  diction  is  perfect  at  all  times.  No  reader  better 
than  he  has  the  ability  to  enter  thoroughly  into  the  meaning  and 
feeling  of  character  he  portrays.  He  has  natural  gifts,  and  his 
readings  are  as  musical  as  they  are  dramatic  and  literary  treats. 
His  repertoire  here  will  be  very  exhaustive,  including  h.s  tre- 
mendous Eastern  success— Bayard  Taylor's  translation  from 
Goethe's  Faust,  to  orchescral  music  from  compositions  of  Schu- 
mann, Mendelssohn,  Berlioz,  Boito  and  Gounod. 

Mrs.  David  Stern  and  her  daughters  have  named  Mondays  as 
the  day  they  will  receive  their  friends  at  922  Van  Ness  avenue. 
They  returned  to  town  last  week,  from  their  summer  visit  to  the 
rural  districts,  visiting  several  localities  during  their  absence  from 
town.  Among  other  returns  to  town  may  be  included  Mrs.  Gor- 
don Blanding  and  family,  who  spent  several  weeks  at  Del  Monte 
with  Mrs.  Tevis;  Mrs.  Charles  Mullins  and  Miss  Maud  Mullins, 
from  Coronado,  and  Jack  Fetterstrue,  from  Mount  Shasta;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Charles  Main,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McDermott  and  their 
daughter  have  returned  to  Oakland  from  their  visit  to  Monterey. 


The  belles  have  at  last  a  real  live  hero,  and  a  local  man  at  that, 
to  praise  and  admire,  in  Major  Frank  R.  Vail.  The  gallant  act 
of  Major  Vail  in  saving  the  life  of  a  drowning  man  at  Santa  Cruz, 
last  Friday,  was  one  of  the  bravest  deeds  it  has  been  our  pleasure 
to  record  for  some  time.  Major  Vail  was  resting  on  the  beach 
after  having  swam  out  to  the  raft  and  back  a  couple  of  times, 
when  the  attention  of  the  people  was  attracted  by  the  curious 
actions  of  a  man  on  the  raft.  The  bather  had  evidently  exhausted 
himself  in  swimming  out,  and  he  fainted  on  the  bnards.  Major 
Vail  at  once  swam  to  the  rescue,  and  reached  the  raft  just  as 
the  sick  man  was  slipping  into  the  water.  Placing  him  on  his 
own  back  the  Major  struck  out  for  shore,  which  he  safely  reached 
with  his  heavy  burden.  After  an  hour  and  a  half  the  man  was 
restored  to  consciousness.  Major  Vail  is  one  of  the  ablest  and 
most  popular  of  the  National  Guard  officers,  and  was  in  attend- 
ance at  Camp  Columbus  at  the  time.  His  brave  act  is  certainly 
deserving  of  notice  from  the  Humane  Society. 


One  of  he  most  successful  of  the  charity  entertainments  which 
have  taken  place  in  Oakland  for  some  time  was  the  tea  given 
last  week  by  the  lady  managers  of  the  East  Oakland  Free  Kin- 
dergarten. The  charming  home  of  J.  J.  Valentine,  on  Thirteenth 
avenue,  was  generously  placed  at  their  disposal  by  Mrs.  Valen- 
tine, who  proved  an  accomplished  ^hostess,  the  other  lady  man- 
agers, Mrs.  Easton,  Mrs.  Pope  and  Mrs.  Sessions  assisting  her  in 
receiving  the  guests  who  crowded  the  rooms.  Among  the  attrac- 
tions offered  were  recitations  by  Miss  Alice  Johnson,  and  musical 
selections  rendered  by  Miss  Pope  and  Miss  Bell.  Miss  Ethel  Val- 
entine and  Miss  Emma  Robinson  did  a  brisk  business  at  the  lem- 
onade booth,  while  Miss  Blanchard  and  Miss  Rice  were  equally 
expert  in  the  disposal  of  candy  and  bonbons.  Miss  Sessions, 
who  was  the  cashier,  announced  a  very  satisfactory  sum  total, 
and  the  entire  affair  was  a  pronounced  success. 


Miss  Edith  McBean,  who  returns  to  Farmington  for  another 
term  in  September,  is  one  of  the  pretty  bud-belles  at  Del  Monte 
at  present.  There  are  an  unusual  number  of  them  at  that  de- 
lightful watering-place  this  season,  and  that  the  coming 
debutantes  possess  both  brains  and  beauty  to  a  marked  degree,  is 
a  fact  there  are  none  to  dispute.  The  handsome  widow,  Mrs.  B. 
F.  Sherwood,  and  her  pretty  daughter,  Miss  Jennie,  are  spending 
the  month  of  August  at  Del  Monte.  Ed  Schmieden,  Milty  Latham 
and  Walter  Dean  are  welcome  additions  to  the  Del  Monte  ball- 
room, and  the  hops,  owing  also  to  various  other  male  acquisi- 
tions, have  been  something  deserving  the  name  this  week  for  the 
first  time  this  season.  Among  this  week's  arrival  there  are  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hinckley  Taylor,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Basil  Heatbcote,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  F.  L.  Wooster,  the  Faxon  Athertons,  Donohoes,  Eyres, 
Folgers,  etc. 

Weddings  have  been  quite  numerous  among  our  German  society 
circles,  two  last  week  and  two  on  Sunday  last  being  the  most 
prominent.  That  of  Miss  Sadie  Abraham  and  B.  F.  Meyers  took 
place  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  mother,  Mrs.  Pauline  Abra- 
ham, on  Fulton  street,  on  Thursday  evening,  and  was  a  very 
pretty  scene.  The  parlors  were  profusely  decorated  with  flow- 
ers, and  in  the  large  bow  window  of  the  front  room  a  bridal  arch 
had  been  erected  of  bamboo  and  ferns,  from  the  centre  of  which 
hung  the  wedding  bell  of  white  roses,  and  underneath  it  the 
happy  pair  stood  while  the  Rev.  Dr.  Levy  tied  the  nuptial  knot. 
The  bride's  gown  was  of  rich  cream  bengaline  trimmed  with  gar- 
lands of  lillies  of  the  valley.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremony 
an  elaborate  supper  was  served,  and  then  came  dancing,  which, 
to  the  melody  of  Yanke's  orchestra,  was  enjoyed  till  a  late  hour. 
The  bride  and  groom  left  for  Lake  Tahoe  on  their  honeymoon 
trip. 

Tripe  Hill  having  been  valiantly  defended  by  the  soldier  boys, 
and  gallantly  taken  by  the  blue  jackets,  victor  and  vanquished 
have  returned  to  town,  both  parties  extremely  well  satisfied  with 
themselves,  and  the  Charleston,  which  brought  back  the  naval 
heroes,  has  gone  to  Mare  Island  for  repairs!  Fun  was  fast  and 
furious  at  Santa  Cruz  last  week,  and  in  view  of  all  that  had  to  be 
crowded  into  the  space  of  time  allotted,  it  is  small  wonder  that 
the  brave  defenders  of  Camp  Columbus  arrived  back  in  such  a 
very  worn  out  condition.  The  denizens  of  that  seaside  resort 
have  been  taking  it  easy  this  week,  recuperating  after  their  late 
festivities,  and  trying  not  to  feel  as  if  all  things  had  come  to  an 
end  with  the  departure  of  their  visitors. 


On  Monday  afternoon  the  German  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
of  St.  Peter's  on  Broadway,  was  crowded  by  the  many  friends  of 
Rev.  George  Gutte,  D.  D.,  to  witness  the  marriage  of  his  only 
daughter,  May,  to  Fred  Fischbeck,  eldest  son  of  Mrs.  Herman 
Fischbeck.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  the  bride's  father, 
Miss  Lulu  Hoppe  and  Miss  Lulu  Fischbeck  attending  her  as 
bridesmaids,  while  the  groomsmen  were  Will  Gutte  and  Bert 
Fischbeck,  Messrs  John  Gutte  and  Louis  Fischbeck  acting  as  j 
ushers.  The  church  was  exquisitely  adorned  with  blossoms  and 
green  tendrils.  The  newly-married  pair  left  in  the  afternoon  for 
Clear  Lake,  and  upon  their  return  to  the  city  will  hold  a  recep- 
tion at  the  Fischbeck  residence,  on  Thirteenth  street. 


August  20,  1892. 


Il  seems  r»lher  h»rd  lines  that  the  Atlantic  seaboard,  whirh  al 
ready  poHtuei  ■  number  of the  new  cruller*,  should  sofar  hanker 
•  Iter  more  that  those  we  have  looked  upon  •«  oar  own  especial 
property  are  all  to  go  thither  likewise  Admiral  Obtnrdl,  who 
will  arrive  from  the  But  in  September  for  the  purpose  of  collect- 
ing the  flotilla  under  bia  flag,  will  take  away  with  him  the 
which  has  jnst  returned  from  the  North- 
ern  Seas,  possibly  the  Sin  rVamciaoa,  and  the  Bo«fon.  which  has 
sailed  for  Honolulu  already,  and  may  not  therefore  return  here 
again.  80  our  only  hope  Is  in  the  new  .Monterey,  and  that  the 
San  Francuco  may  be  permitted  to  remain  to  keep  it  company. 

The  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Niel.  on  l'ark  street, 
Alameda,  was  the  scene  of  a  brilliant  gathering  last  Saturday,  in 
honor  of  the  forty-fifth  anniversary  of  Mr.  Kiel's  birth.  In  the 
handsomely  decorated  rooms  a  large  throng  of  well-wishers  were 
entertained,  and  as  the  evening  wore  on,  a  banquet  was  served. 
Among  the  many  present  were:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Culver,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Russell,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  Bell,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Joyce,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Johnson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Bridge,  Mrs. 
Broadway,  Mrs.  Neale.  Mrs.  M.  Robertson,  Mrs.  M.  Pride,  Mrs. 
Park,  Miss  E.  Bridge,  Miss  A.  Broadway,  Miss  W.  K.  Durrin, 
Miss  A.  Wier,  Miss  M.  Stevenson  and  Miss  Culver. 

The  Western  Addition  Club  gave  a  delightful  little  entertain 
nient  at  Odd  Fellows' Hall  on  Wednesday  evening,  at  which  there 
was  music  by  the  Apollo  Male  Quartet,  Miss  Ida  Kreuger  and 
Charles  B.  Eilerman.  and  a  pretty  Spanish  fan  dance  by  Miss 
Bessie  Allen,  in  costume.  Then  followed  Offenbach's  lively  little 
operetta,  Breaking  the  Spell,  in  which  the  parts  were  taken  by 
Miss  Alvina  Heuer,  A.  M.  Thornton  and  A.  F.  W.  Schleicher,  all 
of  whom  received  rapturous  applause,  and  flowers  without  stint. 
Finally  the  floor  was  cleared  for  the  real  business  of  the  evening — 
dancing — which  was  kept  up  for  a  couple  of  hours,  to  the  great 
enjoyment  of  all  present. 


BAN  niANOISCO  NSWS  LETTER 

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The  attendants  who  will  officiate  at  the  Marshall-Bates  wedding 
at  8t.  Luke's  Church  next  Thursday  will  be  Miss  Ella  Williams  of 
Portland  and  Miss  Lizzie  Wlckersham  of  Petaluma,  who  are  to 
be  bridesmaids,  John  Ferreup  as  best  man.  Messrs.  Fred  Hood 
of  Santa  Rosa,  Dan  Brown  of  Fresno,  Frat.k  Willey  and 
Andrew  Ferran  of  San  Francisco  will  act  as  the  ushers,  and  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Spaulding,  of  8t.  John's  Church,  be  the  officiating  clergy- 
man. There  will  not  be  any  reception,  and  everything  is  to  be 
conducted  most  quietly,  owing  to  the  recent  affliction  in  the  bride's 
family. 

The  season  at  Castle  Crags  has  been  very  successful.  The  popu 
lar  hotel  has  been  crowded  with  well-known  society  leaders, 
among  whom  have  been  Mrs.  Russell  Wilson,  Mrs.  Eastman,  Mrs. 
Gammer,  Mrs.  E.  Cook,  Mrs.  Lawrence  Pool  and  Mrs.  Arthur 
Brown.  It  has  been  a  paradise  for  the  children.  Colonel  Crocker's 
little  ones  have  become  expert  donkey  riders,  and  Mrs.  Clifford's 
son  Clifford  has  developed  into  an  expert  swimmer.  Captain 
Thayer  took  great  delight  in  showing  his  pedestrian  powers,  and 
was  out  every  morning  with  the  birds. 

The  farewell  reception  by  the  members  of  St.  Alban's  Church 
and  Sunday  school  to  their  departing  friend  and  temporary  min- 
ister, the  Rev.  W.  L.  Githens,  was  one  of  the  pleasantest  events 
of  last  week.  It  was  held  at  Foresters'  Hall,  on  Friday  evening, 
and  in  addition  to  a  pleasing  musical  programme,  there  were  ad- 
dresses full  of  feeling  made  by  Mr.  Gitbens  himself,  Bishop 
Nichols,  W.  G.  Badger,  the  energetic,  active  superintendent  of 
the  Sunday  school,  and  others.  A  pleasant  evening  was  spent 
and  farewells  spoken  with  regret. 

One  of  the  weddings  of  this  week  was  that  of  Miss  Mary  Noyes 
and  George  8.  Meredith  of  the  Union  National  Bank  of  Oakland, 
which  took  place  on  Tnesday.  Another  was  the  ceremony  which 
united  Miss  Emily  Schneider  and  W.  H.  Darling,  which  was  cele- 
brated at  the  home  of  the  bride  on  Jackscn  street  on  Tuesday 
evening,  the  Rev.  Jacob  Buehler  officiating.  The  Misses  Ida 
Hencken  and  Amanda  Von  Bonn  were  the  bridesmaids,  and 
Messrs.  W.  E.  Hacbe  and  Julius  Witt  groomsmen,  and  a  hand- 
some supper  was  served  after  the  nuptial  knot  was  tied. 

Berkeley  was  the  scene  of  another  quiet  but  very  pretty  wed- 
ding last  Tuesday  evening,  when  Miss  Alice  Grover  was  married 
to  James  L.  Whitbach,  at  the  home  of  her  father,  Dr.  William 
Grover.  The  rooms  were  tastefully  adorned  with  flowers  and 
foliage  for  the  nuptial  ceremony,  which  was  performed  by  the 
Rev.  Thos.  "Van  Ness,  of  San  Francisco,  in  the  presence  of  rela- 
tives and  intimate  friends  only.  The  honeymoon  trip  is  now  be- 
ing made  in  the  Blue  Lakes  region,  and  Sacramento  is  to  be  the 
ultimate  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitbach. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Waring  Wilkinson,  who,  with  their  family,  have 
been  absent  in  Europe  for  a  year  past,  have  returned  to  the  Pa- 
ciflc  Coast.  During  their  absence,  Mr.  Wilkinson  studied  the 
different  deaf,  dumb  and  blind  asylums  of  the  Old  World,  and  as 
a  result,  intends  to  introduce  several  features  that  he  has  culled 
and  thinks  good  into  the  institutions  under  his  charge  at 
Berkeley. 


intended    to   be    a  very  qu.el  affair    a  lurcn 

Monday  afternoon  at  the  re.i, low •  01  Ool.  A.  D  OMltr  on  II." 
tree!,  to  wanes,  the  ni.rri.gc  of  Own  B.  Mere.l  ,h    ,,   the 

I  nion  Sa„on.l  Bank,  to  M,„  Mary  J.  N„yes.  o(  Marin  -on, v 
The  ceremony  was  performed  by  the  Roy,  ffbomu  V.n  New 
assisted  by  Rev   C.  W.  Wendte.  and  when    the   service  w„  over 

Jnen  Li    -TP''  ""^  "  ""^  '"'  L»k«  T«ho«-  «■'>«•  they  »„ 

spend  their  honeymoon.  v  win 

OrS'hiS'lSli! V%\\  "jF"?  been  P»s»°K  «ome  time  at  Santa 
h  .iinl  '  "Bhe8  8"d  M'S8  Fanny  Tl'ompson  among 
Mi,.8  All?,  a  B  Ta",p,"Cnt  weck  "»■  Wnlter  McU.vln  and 
i"'"'*1'c.eAnie»:wno  we™  visiting  at  the  Delmas'  cottage  dur- 
riL  ™  T  l'"°u'  h8Te  re,urned  to  8an  Francisco.  Miss  Har- 
rington,  who  has  beer,  staying  with   Mrs.   Delmae  for  some  time, 

week ^vnTTo"  tbB".adr  """her  daughters  to  Del  Monte  next 
week,  where  they  go  to  be  present  at  the 


1  shoot.' 


„,m™^W;  lriC9rand  fan'ily•  who  nave  "Pent  a  8°od  Pttrt  of  the 

extw,  •  „  tT'  *P  Sa"  J°Se'  expect9  t0  ^urn  to  town 
next  week.  It  will  be  pleasant  news  for  Mrs.  Fries'  friends  to 
learn  of  her  intention  to  be  very  gay  and  entertain  a  good  deal 
after  getting  settled  again  at  borne.  Her  sister,  Miss  Elsie  Hecht, 
will  be  one  of  the  debutantes  of  the  coming  winter  season,  and 
as  a  consequence  the  dances,  dinners,  receptions  and  other  affaire 
mat  will  take  place  are  said  to  be  unlimited  In  number. 

Mrs.  Stanford  is  occupying  her  time  during  her  present  stay  in 

ofU»rP>ef  y,KC  1!-CUri03itie8  and  obiect8  of  art  for  the  purpose 
of  still  further  adding  to  the  collection  in  the  museum  at  Palo 
Alto,  and  has  made  several  large  purchases.  Senator  and  Mrs. 
Stanford  have  recently  been  paying  a  short  visit  to  Switzerland, 
and  according  to  present  plans  purpose  passing  some  time  in 
France  and  Germany  next  month,  expecting  to  be  again  in  Wash- 
ington City  by  the  middle  of  October. 

Parties  are  made  up  every  week  to  visit  the  famed  Yosemite 
Valley.  The  valley  is  particularly  beautiful  this  year,  and  all 
tourists  who  have  been  there  return  delighted  with  their  trip.  The 
popular  route  is  that  by  way  of  Wawona.  On  this  route  one 
may  visit  the  famous  Big  Tree  Grove,  and  go  thence  on  the  stages 
of  the  Yosemite  Stage  Company  into  the  valley,  where  excellent 
accommodations  may  be  had  at  the  Stoneman  House. 

Mrs.  Mollie  Latham  spent  several  days  in  town  after  ber  return 
from  Castle  Crags,  where  she  passed  the  greater  part  of  the  sum- 
mer, previous  to  going  to  Del  Monte  for  the  Country  Club  gath- 
ering. 8be  will  finish  her  summer  outing  there,  her  son  accom- 
panying her.  Miss  Mamie  Burling,  who  has  been  visiting  Mrs. 
George  Looniis  at  Menlo  Park,  will  be  the  guest  of  Mrs.  Robbie 
Fry  at  Del  Monte  during  the  Country  Club  gathering. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  M.  Smith  and  their  daughter,  General  and  Miss 
Houston,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Hall  McAllister  have  been  spending 
the  week  at  Cazadero.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woodward,  nee  Dell  Chap- 
man, have  been  passing  their  honeymoon  at  Del  Monte.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  G.  Crowley  were  among  the  visitors  at  Lake  Tahoe 
this  week.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Holbrook,  and  Miss  Minnie 
Holbrook,  will  be  there  during  the  latter  part  of  August. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willie  Outhout,  the  recent  groom  and  bride,  were 
among  the  guests  at  the  Palace  this  week.  They  received  a  cor- 
dial greeting  from  their  San  Francisco  friends,  who  extended  the 
freedom  of  the  city  as  well  as  numerous  hospitalities.  Santa 
Barbara  will  be  the  home  of  the  newly-wedded  couple,  for  the 
present  at  least,  but  San  Francisco  will  see  them  occasionally, 
and  certainly  during  the  coming  winter  season. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Bonynge  and  Major  Maxwell,  which  took 
place  last  week  in  London,  was  one  of  the  brilliant  events  of  the 
season,  royalty  in  the  person  of  the  Princess  Christian  doing 
honor  to  the  ceremony,  which  was  performed  at  All  Saints' 
Church,  followed  by  a  wedding  breakfast  at  the  Bonynge  resi- 
dence, in  Queen's  Gate,  at  which  Prince  Christian  was  one  of  the 
guests. 

The  shoot  at  Monterey  may  be  regarded  as  the  close  of  the 
season  at  Del  Monte,  and  September  will  bring  us  back  a  major- 
ity of  the  fashionables  assembled  for  the  purpose  of  witnessing  it, 
though  no  doubt  some  will  remain  there  a  week  or  two  longer. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Pease,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delmas  and  family,  and 
the  Jarboes  will  probably  all  return  from  Santa  Cruz  about  the 
first  of  September. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  G.  Edmonson,  nee  Finn,  who  have  been 
spending  their  honeymoon  on  Coronado  Beach,  are  now  occupy- 
ing their  new  residence,  2320  Mission  street,  having  returned  to 
town  last  week.  Mrs.  Edmonson  has  selected  Thursday  for  her 
reception  day,  when  she  will  be  *'  at  home  "  to  her  friends  and 
acquaintances. 

Mr.  H.  P.  Magill,  President  of  the  8tate  Bank,  LaCrosse,  Wis., 
and  wife  are  visiting  their  relatives'  Mrs.  Judge  Moore,  Palace 
Hotel,  and  Mrs.  Dr.  Crowley,  Oakland. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEK. 


August  20,  1892. 


The  Helpers  is  the  name  of  a  little  known  but  very  effective 
charitable  organization  which  baa  been  in  existence  in  this  city 
for  some  time.  It  is  composed  wholly  of  Jewish  young  ladies, 
but  in  their  work  of  charity  they  are  nonsectarian.  The  con- 
tributing membership  numbers  about  400,  and  the  dues  are  only 
twenty-five  cents  a  month.  More  members  are  wanted,  and  those 
desirous  of  joining  in  their  work  of  charity  should  apply  for 
membership.  

The  Friday  night  bowling  club  of  the  Concordia  Club  gave  a 
theatre  party  at  the  Baldwin  last  night,  where  Alabama  is  the  at- 
traction. Some  dozen  couples  attended,  and  after  the  perform- 
ance the  party  adjourned  to  the  Concordia  Club  rooms,  where  a 
supper  was  served  and  dancing  was  enjoyed  until  a  late  hour. 
The  idea  of  having  theatre  parties  adjourn  to  the  club  for  supper 
is  a  new  one,  and  several  other  similar  affairs  are  on  the  tapis. 


Mrs.  M.  A.  Burns,  her  son  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Lily,  are 
expected  to  arrive  next  week.  They  will  receive  a  warm  wel- 
come after  their  long  absence,  which  has  extended  over  a  period 
of  three  years,  the  greater  part  of  which  they  have  passed  in 
Paris.  They  have  been  visiting  friends  in  the  East  since  their  ar- 
rival from  Europe  a  couple  of  weeks  ago. 

Affairs  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  continue  as  pleasant  as  ever.  This 
beautiful  resort  is  one  of  the  roost  popular  that  California  has 
ever  known.  Its  rooms  are  pleasant,  its  board  always  presents 
an  excellent  menu,  its  grounds  are  lovely  and  its  guests  include 
all  the  best  people  of  the  swim.  Not  to  have  been  at  the  Rafael 
is  an  acknowledgement  that  one  is  "  not  in  it." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Regland  Wallace,  who  made  quite  an  extensive 
trip  through  the  Eastern  States  this  summer,  are  back  again  in 
San  Francisco.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  0.  G.  Miller  are  also  at  home 
again  after  a  delightful  tour  through  Europe.  Dr.  J.  Franklin 
Brown  arrived  from  bis  trip  to  Europe  last  Sunday. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Aleck  Badlam  and  Miss  Maud  have  been  visiting 
San  Jose  this  week.  Among  recent  guests  at  the  Napa  Soda 
Springs  were  Mrs.  C.  T.  Ashe,  Miss  Millie  Ashe  and  Dr.  George 
Redding.  Mrs.  John  Coleman  and  Miss  Jessie  are  at  Castle  Crags 
at  present,  as  are  also  Judge  and  Mrs.  Curry. 

The  Harruonie  Club's  high  jinks  will  be  held  tonight,  at  the 
club  rooms,  in  Union  Square  Hall.  Julius  Kahn  will  officiate  as 
Sire,  and  a  jolly  time  is  anticipated.  The  past  affairs  given  by 
this  popular  club  have  been  great  successes,  and  to-night's  jinks 
is  sure  to  be  as  delightful  as  those  of  the  past. 


The  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra  will  give  a  concert  on  Tues- 
day evening,  November  1st,  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage  and  the  Hahneman  Hos- 
pital. Mrs.  Everett  Wise,?i*e  McAllister,  will  sing  on  that  occa- 
sion. 

The  Rev.  Charles  Mason,  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Mason,  is  among 
the  most  recent  departures  for  Alaska.  Wells  Fargo's  new  Presi- 
dent, J.  J.  Valentine,  has  gone  up  north  for  a  business  tour  of  in- 
spection, and  will  visit  Alaska  before  his  return  to  San  Francisco. 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  de  Russey  have  departed  for  Fort  Whipple, 
A.  T.,  the  post  at  which  Colonel  de  Russey  is  stationed  at  pres- 
ent. Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Gillig  have  returned  to  their  home  in 
Virginia  City,  after  a  visit  of  several  weeks  to  San  Francisco. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sultan,  nee  Frank,  who  returned  Ia°t  week  from 
their  honeymoon  trip  down  south,  are  comfortably  settled  at  1807 
Laguna  street,  where,  on  the  first  and  third  Wednesday  of  each 
month  Mrs.  Sultan  will  be  at  home  to  callers. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  I.  Kip,  Jr.,*  and  family,  who  have  recently 
returned  from  their  summer  outing  at  Santa  Rosa,  have  taken  the 
Von  Schroder  house,  on  Harrison  street,  for  the  winter  months, 
where  Mrs.  Kip  will  receive  on  Thursdays. 


Musical  circles  in  Oakland  are  looking  forward  to  a  grand  con- 
cert to  be  given  by  the  Enterprise  Society,  on  the  26th  inst.  Sig- 
mund  Beel,  Miss  Kuener,  Miss  Bernett,  E.  Werner  and  Mr.  Rau 
are  among  the  artistes  who  will  appear. 

On  Tuesday  evening  the  Grover  residence,  on  Channing  Way, 
Berkeley,  was  the  scene  of  a  brilliant  marriage,  the  occasion  be- 
ing the  nuptials  of  James  L.  Whitbrick,  of  U.  C.  '91,  and  Miss 
Alice  K.  Grover. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Schraeidell  have  returned  from  San  Ra- 
fael, where  they  passed  the  entire  summer,  and  will  be  among 
the  visitors  at  Del  Monte  during  the  Country  Club  festivities. 

Miss  Kubne  Beveridge  left  for  New  York  last  Tuesday,  her 
mother,  the  Baroness  Von  Wreda,  accompanying  her  daughter 
East. 


Mrs.  G.  T.  Marsh  and  her  son,  Master  Hall  Marsh,  sailed  on  the 
Oceanic  on  Tuesday  last  for  a  three  or  four  months'  trip  to  Japan. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Look,  of  Tenth  avenue,  Oakland,  cele- 
brated their  china  wedding  on  Monday  evening  last. 


Baggage  Notice. 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip.  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

Professor  Charles  Goffrie.  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen. 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink.  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 


Fall  Styles  Butterick's  celebrated  patterns  for  Ladies',  Misses',  Boys' 
and  little  Children's  garments.  Catalogues  mailed  free.  fl.  A.  Deiniug, 
124  Post  street,  San  Fraooiscn,  Cal. 

Neglige  shirts  of  every  design  may  be  had  at  the  well-known  gen- 
tlemen's furnishing  store  of  John  W.  Carmany,  at  25  Kearny  street. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething. 

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Building,  San  Francisco. 

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Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  seventeenth  (17th)  day  of  August,  189z,  an  assessment  (No.  52)of  fw**uty- 
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stock  of  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to 
the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  33,  Nevada  block,  No. 
309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Thursday,  the  22d  day  of  September,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
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Vol.  XIV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  AUGUST  27,  1892. 


Number  9. 


Printtd  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor.  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Pott-office  as  Second  Clans  Matter. 


TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 
Editorial  Brevities 1 

LSADING  ARTICLES  : 

Oar  Christian  Teachers 2 

Strikes  ami  Labor  Unions    2 

Sau  Franci>ro*s  Peril 2 

Cheap  Life  Insurance    '- 

Our  Villi  ultural  luteresta  —  3 

Honor  to  British  Journalists  ...  3 

The  Same  OM  Story   3 

Henry  Miller  4 

Oh.  Rats!  (Poetry) b 

A  Hotel  Clerks  Lesson 5 

Wiue  and  Women 5 

Pleasure's  Wand 6-7 

Semper  Fidelis  (Poetry) 8 

A  Dead-Letter  Office 8 

A  Phase  of  Hotel  Life 9 

The  Looker-On 10-11 


Page 

Sparks 12 

The  Lament  of  Arcady  tPoetty)  -  13 

Newspaper  Accuracy    13 

Financial  Review 14 

Town  Crier 15 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil. .16 

The  Rose  Jar  17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  19 

Scieutific  aud  Useful 20 

Sunbeams        21 

Tenuis  and  Baseball      22 

Vanities 23 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 
Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs    ..25 

Roundels  (Poetry)  26 

Joseph  H.  Hctherington  27 

Society 28-29-30 


J 


N.  E.  WILSON    has  composed  a   campaign    song.     It  is  said 
,  he  will  also  sing  it.     If  that  does  not  kill   him    off,   nothing 
ever  will. 

SULLIVAN'8  henchman,  O'Connor,  proves  his  devotion  to  his 
boss  and  his  party  by  Btealing   a  club-roll.     Sullivan    is   reor- 
ganizing with  a  vengeance. 

THE  daily  papers  have  now  all  begun  the  daily  publication  of 
society  news,  so-called,  instead  of  confining  it  to  one  day  in 
the  week.  It  is  to  be  deplored,  however,  that  this  spreading  of  the 
rot  over  seven  days  has  in  no  way  improved  it. 

WHEN  asked  what  the  chief  characteristics  of  Californians  are, 
a  Riverside  farmer  said  :  "  We  irrigate,  cultivate  and  exag- 
gerate." He  is  a  pretty  wise  rancher.  He  might  have  added 
that  we  exaggerate  nothing  so  much  as  the  needs  of  the  State  and 
the  condition  of  trade. 


THE  wine-makers  of  the  State  are  jubilant  over  the  prospect  of 
good  prices.  They  say  the  raisin  men  have  been  having  it  all 
their  own  way  for  the  last  five  or  six  years,  and  now  tbeir  turn 
has  come.  They  are  celebrating  the  day  of  their  deliverance  in 
bumpers  of  their  own  product. 

THE  trifling  with  justice  in  the  matter  of  the  execution  of  Mur- 
derer McNulty  shows  up  our  law  courts  in  a  very  bad  light  to 
the  outside  world.  It  is  also  intense  cruelty  to  the  unfortunate 
victim  of  his  evil  passions.  The  old  saying,  "  Better  hang  a  man 
at  once  and  have  done  with  it,  than  scare  him  to  death,"  could  be 
aptly  applied  in  this  instance. 

MR.  J.  H.  MA  HONEY  seems  to  be  in  considerable  trouble.  He 
is  charged  with  trying  to  scuttle  the  Republican  ship  of 
State,  that  is  freighted  with  so  many  hopes.  It  is  not  stated 
what  hopes  are  referred  to,  but  it  is  supposed  that  the  Republican 
ship,  aforesaid,  is  burdened  with  the  ambitions  of  Burns,  Ma- 
honey,  Kelly,  Crimmins,  Myers,  Ruef,  and  others  of  that  ilk.  It 
is  liable  then  to  sink. 

THE  Borden  murder  case  remains  as  mysterious  as  ever.  Facts 
seem  to  point  to  Lizzie  Borden  as  the  murderer  of  her  father 
and  step-mother,  but  no  adequate  motive  has  yet  been  suggested 
for  the  awful  crime.  It  is  possible,  of  course,  that  she  may  be  an 
actual  fiend  in  the  guise  of  a  woman,  but  on  no  other  hypothesis 
can  the  commission  of  the  deed  by  her  be  accounted  for  reason- 
ably.  ; 

THE  supervisors  of  Alameda  county  should  grant  the  franchise 
1  requested  for  an  electric  road.  It  is  said  the  supervisors 
have  hitherto  failed  to  grant  the  franchise,  because  they  feared 
that  people  living  on  the  streets  might  object  to  the  electric  cars. 
The  proposition  is  the  only  one  connected  with  a  street  railroad 
which  will  improve  the  city,  and  the  franchise  should  therefore 
be  granted. 


NO  one  who  knows  anything  of  the  business  sagacity  of  the 
Chinese  in  California  will  believe  that  they  intend  to  oppose 
the  registration  and  certification  provisions  of  the  new  exclusion 
act.  The  law  makers  of  the  Chinese  who  are  now  here  are  a  preferr- 
ed class,  and  they  will  be  smart  enough  to  take  advantage  of  It. 
They  do  not  intend  to  be  '■  ruir.el  by  Chinese  cheap  labor  "  any 
more  than  anybody  else. 


WHEN  the  juror  in  the  first  trial  of  ,1.  H.  Squires,  the  jury 
buyer,  said  that  he  could  not  agree  to  a  verdict  because  he 
had  only  the  word  of  two  lawyers  against  that  of  a  highwayman, 
he  doubtless  thought  he  was  very  witty.  In  the  second  trial  a 
jury  was  obtained  which  had  on  it  more  men  of  sense  and  less 
humorists,  and  the  result  is  that  Squires  goes  to  8tate  Prison.  Wit, 
like  other  good  things,  may  be  sadly  misplaced. 


THE  movement  in  favor  of  a  school  celebration  of  Discovery 
Day  should  not  be  allowed  to  go  by  defau't,  even  if  Superin- 
tendent Swett  does  not  favor  it.  There  are  some  things  in  which 
even  John  Swett's  judgment  maybe  at  fault,  though  it  is  generally 
very  reliable.  We  prefer  to  concur  with  President  Harrison  and 
State  Superintendent  Anderson,  in  tbeir  recommendation  that  the 
schools  take  the  principal  charge  of  the  celebration. 


KEEPING  a  Sunday  in  the  middle  of  the  week  is  a  new  exper- 
ience for  San  Francisco.  There  have  been  frequent  com- 
plaints that  the  first  day  of  the  week  was  not  observed  properly, 
and  to  set  aside  the  fourth  in  addition  as  a  day  for  religious  ob- 
servances seems  a  little  anomalous.  There  need  be  no  fear,  how- 
ever, of  San  Francisco  becoming  any  too  religious  whether  unde- 
tbe  ministrations  of  B.  Fay  Mills,  or  from  any  other  reason.  Rer 
ligion  in  its  true  sense  never  hurts  a  community,  whatever  may 
be  thought  of  its  positive  influence  for  good. 

THE  Inman  steamer  City  of  New  York,  one  of  the  ships  that  are 
to  come  under  the  American  flag,  has  beaten  the  record  for  the 
eastward  passage  from  New  York  to  Queenstown.  The  law  di- 
rects that  three  ships,  as  good  in  all  respects  as  she  is,  shall  be 
built  by  the  Inman  Company  in  the  United  8tates,  and  though 
the  task  will  not  be  an  easy  one,  we  feel  entirely  confident  that 
it  will  be  accomplished.  We  can  build  just  as  good  vessels  as  any 
nation  in  the  world  when  we  give  our  time  and  attention  to  it. 


A  QUESTION  which  is  exciting  considerable  interest  just  now 
is,  what  has  become  of  Dick  Jessup's  fortune?  He  received, 
under  the  settlement  of  the  contested  case,  somewhere  between 
$40,000  and  $50,000,  and  now  does  not  appear  to  be  able  to  pay  a 
doctor's  bill  of  $200,  which  he  admits  he  owes  No  wonder  peo- 
ple dread  the  Probate  Court  and  lawyers'  bills,  if  an  estate  of 
$50,000  can  shrink  to  nothing  or  worse  than  nothing  within  a 
few  weeks.  There  should  be  a  strict  inquiry  into  this  affair,  for 
it  does  not  present  a  very  agreeable  aspect  as  it  slan  1    now. 

CANADA  is  putting  herself  into  a  position  where  she  will  be 
obliged  to  "  put  up  or  shut  up,"  as  the  gamblers  say.  She  has 
been  treated  so  generously  by  the  United  States  that  she  thinks 
she  may  take  any  liberties  she  likes  with  us,  and  we  will 
not  resent  them.  Some  time  she  will  awake  to  the  consequences 
of  her  folly,  and  find  herself  in  the  position  of  a  subjugated  pro- 
vince, dependent  not  upon  Great  Britain,  but  upon  the  United 
States,  and  then  she  will  change  her  tune  materially. 

HARDLY  had  the  ink  become  dry  on  the  last  issue  of  the  News 
Letter,  than  its  warning  upon  the  subject  of  the  cause  of 
lynching  in  this  State  received  exemplification.  The  summary 
hanging  of  Torres,  at  Santa  Ana,  by  a  mob  on  Sunday  morning 
last,  was  the  direct  result  of  the  general  distrust  of  the  adminis- 
tration of  justice  by  our  courts.  The  murder  of  which  he  was 
guilty  was  most  -brutal  and  atrocious,  yet  from  the  testimony 
given  at  the  preliminary  examination  it  became  evident  that  it 
would  be  almost  impossible  to  legally  punish  him  in  the  manner 
which  he  deserved.  Hence  the  lynching,  and  just  such  things 
will  continue  to  happen  until  we  make  up  our  minds  to  be  gov- 
erned more  by  common  sense  and  less  by  legal  technicalities  and 
hair-splittings,  such,  for  instance,  as  have  characterized  the 
McNulty  oase,  than  we  are  now.  = 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


SAN    FRANCISCO'S    PERIL. 

IN  spite  of  all  the  sanitary  precautions  taken  by  Germany,  the 
Asiatic  cholera  has  made  its  appearance  in  the  city  of  Ham- 
burg in  a  very  deadly  form,  there  being  about  one  hundred  new 
cases  a  day,  nearly  one-third  of  which  are  fatal.  Not  only  this, 
but  in  the  great  French  seaport  of  Havre,  which  is  in  almost 
daily  communication  with  the  Atlantic  States,  the  dread  malady 
has  appeared  in  an  epidemic  form,  and  the  quarantine  officers  of 
New  York  have  been  warned  to  take  every  precaution  against 
its  introduction  by  the  French  steamers.  It  follows  from  these 
facts  that  cholera  is  certain  to  reach  the  United  States  this  year, 
and  if  it  dues,  this  city  cannot  hope  to  go  scot-free.  Indeed,  as 
has  already  been  suggested,  it  may  reach  us  from  Japan,  China, 
India  or  some  other  part  of  the  Orient  before  it  makes  its  appear- 
ance on  the  other  side  of  the  continent.  There  is  no  intention  or 
desire  to  write  an  alarmist  article,  but  only  to  call  attention  to 
the  fact  that  if  cholera  does  reach  us,  this  city  will  be  in  imminent 
peril  on  account  of  the  fearful  condition  of  our  sewers.  If  there 
be  any  one  thing  well  settled  in  medical  science,  it  is  that  the 
only  preventive  against  an  epidemic  of  cholera  is  cleanliness. 
The  cholera  fiend  faifly  revels  in  and  fattens  on  dirt  and  filth  of 
every  kind,  and  our  sewers  in  their  present  condition  would  form 
a  perfect  hot-house  for  the  growth  and  dissemination  of  the  germs 
of  Asiatic  cholera.  Our  ocean  breezes,  on  which  we  place  so 
much  reliance,  would  not  save  m  in  the  event  of  a  visitation  of 
the  terrible  pestilence.  But  what  is  to  be  done?  It  would  cost 
money,  and  a  great  deal  of  money,  to  put  the  sewers  into  a 
proper  condition  of  cleanliness,  and  we  all  know  that  the  mo- 
ment a  proposition  is  made  to  spend  money  for  public  improve- 
ments, the  Silurian  element  falls  back  upon  its  pet  theory  that  we 
can  «  get  along,"  and  that  the  taxpayers'  pockets  must  be  pro- 
tected at  all  hazards.  No  matter  what  may  be  the  probabilities 
of  an  epidemic,  unless  the  Volcians  are  thundering  at  the  very 
gates  of  the  city,  the  Silurians  will  declare  that  there  is  no  danger, 
and  that  the  taking  of  reasonable  precautions  is  only  a  new 
scheme  to  rob  the  dear  taxpayer.  All  the  same,  such  arguments 
will  not  prevent  the  cholera  from  finding  lodgement  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  if  it  does,  with  the  city  in  its  present  condition,  San 
Francisco  will  suffer  a  decimation  of  her  population.  Now  is  the 
accepted  time — now  is  the  opportunity  to  protect  the  city  from 
the  march  of  the  dread  invader.  There  is  one  way,  and  only  one, 
to  insure  comparative  immunity  from  the  cholera,  and  to  be  pre- 
pared to  bid  defiance  to  it,  and  that  is  by  thoroughly  cleansing 
the  sewers,  and  then  keeping  them  clean,  and  if  this  sensible  and 
necessary  precaution  be  neglected,  the  blood  of  the  miserable, 
agonized,  pain-torn  and  shrieking  victims  of  the  most  dreadful 
malady  extant  will  be  upon  the  head  of  the  city  authorities  and 
of  those  who  have  counseled  them  to  a  policy  of  inaction.  Let 
the  city  authorities  be  warned  while  yet  there  is  time  for  the 
warning,  to  avail  something  for  the  safety  of  the  people  of  San 
Francisco. 


STRIKES  AND  LABOR  UNIONS. 

AN  incident  transpired  a  few  days  ago  in  connection  with  the 
strike  of  the  Switchmen's  Union  in  New  York  which  illustrates 
the  difference  between  the  labor  union  that  rushes  into  a  strike 
without  canvassing  the  situation  and  counting  the  cost,  and  the 
union  which  deliberates  before  acting.  Sweeney,  the  Grand  Mas- 
ter of  the  Switchmen's  Union,  finding  that  he  was  losing  ground, 
appealed  to  Arthur,  the  Chief  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive 
Engineers,  to  order  out  his  union  in  aid  of  the  switchmen. 
Arthur  replied  that  his  union  was  working  under  definite  and 
satisfactory  contracts  with  the  railroad  companies,  which  the 
companies  had  not  sought  to  violate,  and  that  he  saw  no  reason 
for  ordering  out  the  locomotive  'engineers.  When  it  ia  considered 
that  Arthur  is  universally  recognized  as  the  ablest,  most  conser- 
vative, and,  at  the  same  time,  most  zealous  head  of  a  labor  union 
In  the  United  States,  and  that  at  the  same  time  the  men  com- 
posing the  order  of  which  he  is  chief  are  admittedly  of  a  high 
order  of  intelligence  and  of  superior  skill  in  their  craft,  the  con- 
trast between  one  kind  of  labor  union  and  another  becomes  very 
marked.  Chief  Arthur  recognizes  the  principle  on  which  modern 
society  is  founded;  that  is,  the  binding  force  and  obligation  of 
contracts,  and  declines  to  put  himself  or  the  Brotherhood  of 
Locomotive  Engineers  into  the  position  of  pledge-breakers,  they 
havine;  no  grievance  of  which  to  complain.  The  labor  unions  of 
the  United  States  will  have  to  learn  the  lesson  which  Chief 
Arthur's  reply  to  Sweeney  conveys,  and  that  is,  that  there  is  no 
necessary  connection  or  affiliation  between  unions  engaged  in 
different  occupations.  The  right  to  strike  is  one  that  may  be 
legally  exercised  by  any  one  who  is  at  work  for  another,  and  it 
is  neither  enlarged  nor  diminished  by  the  formation  of  a  labor 
union;  but  for  one  union  to  strike  simply  and  solely  because 
another  has,  is  as  illogical  as  for  the  clerks  in  the  Bank  of  Cali- 
fornia to  go  on  a  strike  because  some  leading  mercantile  house  in 
the  city  has  had  a  dispute  with  its  employes  about  wages.  It  is 
just  as  impossible  to  create  a  universal  federation  of  labor  as  it 
would  be  to  create  a  universal  federation  of  capital.  It  is  con 
trary  to  the  experience  of  the  world  that  different  trades  should 
agree,  except  in  the  general  sense  in  which  all  men  should  agree. 


OUR    CHRISTIAN    TEACHERS. 

THERE  is  a  continual  wail  from  our  pulpits  in  consequence  of 
the  steadily  diminishing  attendance  in  our  churches,  and  our 
clergymen  with  heavenward-turned  eyes  deplore  the  wickedness 
of  our  generation  and  the  growing  decay  of  Christianity.  Let  us 
suppose  that  there  is  cause  for  such  lamentation,  to  whom  is  it 
due  that  the  intelligent  public  is  growing  tired  of  church  attendance 
and  that  the  people  in  general  are  losing  their  respect  for  modern 
Christianity?  Not  to  freethinkers  and  materialists,  as  the  pulpit 
orators  maintain,  bnt  entirely  to  themselves  and  their  own 
actions,  by  which  they  have  brought  the  creed  which  gives  them 
a  living  into  discredit. 

The  intelligent  public  no  longer  desires  to  listen  to  the  sermons 
of  men,  who,  by  their  private  immorality  and  their  public  sancti- 
moniousness, have  proved  themselves  to  be  hypocrites;  nor  is 
there  any  attraction  in  seeing  the  performances  of  religious  con- 
tortionists at  camp  meetings  and  similar  amusements,  or  in  listen- 
ing to  the  hackneyed,  mechanical  oratory  of  revivalists,  whose 
stage  performances  hardly  make  a.i  impression  any  longer  even 
upon  the  most  guileless.  The  great  masses,  on  the  other  hand, 
not  only  have  had  their  eyes  opened  by  the  continual  scandals 
revealing  the  private  lives  of  so  many  clergymen,  but  what  is 
worse  they  blame  the  religion  for  what  the  teachers  of  that  relig- 
ion are  doing,  and  instead  of  despising  the  latter  alone,  they  have 
lost  their  confidence  in  the  former.  One  can  easily  understand 
that  people  in  general  who  do  not  take  the  trouble  of  closely  in- 
quiring into  the  causes  and  effects  of  phenomena  must  be  affected 
by  the  recent  revelations  with  regard  to  clerical  life  and  manners, 
and  to  this  must  be  added  that  they  have  before  their  eyes  innum- 
erable parodies  of  the  Christian  religion,  snch  as  the  establishments 
of  Schweisfurtz,  Lake  Harris,  Maybe!!,  etc.,  which  must  fill  all  per- 
sons of  average  common  sense  with  disgust,  while  the  original  re- 
ligion of  Christ  finds  but  few  true  interpreters  in  our  modern 
churches.  Is  it  a  wonder  that  the  morality  is  decaying  when 
such  a  blasphemous  parody  of  the  marriage  service  is  permitted 
in  public  as  the  Maybell-Hansen  ceremony  in  Metropolitan  Hall 
last  week?  When  Colonel  Robert  Ingersoll  chastises  some  super- 
stitious excrescences  of  religion  by  his  satire,  at  the  same  time, 
however,  exalting  a  moral  life  in  the  most  powerful  language, 
the  pulpit  orators  are  excited  to  real  frenzy  in  their  indignation, 
but  in  the  sickly  sentimental  sensualism  of  the  many  so-called 
religious  communities  which  use  the  name  of  Christ  for  their 
hideous  orgies  they  see  no  blasphemy,  and  they  do  not  interfere 
either  by  word  or  action  on  occasions  where  the  feelings  of  every 
really  religious  person  is  outraged,  as  long  as  the  exhibitions  are 
carried  on  under  the  pretext  of  religion.  If  Christianity  is  sur- 
viving under  such  circumstances  it  is  merely  a  sign  of  its  great 
intrinsic  vitality,  for  amongst  its  teachers  the  number  of  those 
who  disgrace  it  is  steadily  increasing. 

CHEAP    LIFE    INSURANCE. 


IN  the  failure  of  the  Order  of  the  Iron  Hall,  credulous  people 
who  are  desirous  of  obtaining  what  is  called  "cheap  insur- 
ance," are  taught  another  lesson,  which  of  course  they  will  not 
heed.  Time  and  again  has  the  warning  been  sounded  against 
these  and  similar  hat-passing  concerns,  which  promise  to  return 
three  or  four  dollars  for  each  hundred  cents  paid  to  it,  and  time 
and  again  has  history  repeated  Itself.  The  people  who  are  in- 
veigled into  joining  these  organizations  are  invariably  of  the  class 
which  can  least  afford  the  loss  which  must  come  with  a  mathe- 
matical certainty — there  can  be  no  avoidance.  The  disaster  may 
be  delayed  longer  in  some  cases  than  in  others,  but  it  is  certain 
to  come  in  time.  These  institutions  are  all  of  the  same  species 
as  the  endowment  frauds,  of  which  there  has  been  an  epidemic 
on  this  Coast.  The  managers,  and  those  of  their  friends  whom 
they  "  let  in  on  the  ground  floor,"  make  a  good  thing  of  it.  Per- 
haps a  few  outsiders  are  allowed  to  make  a  winning  in  order  that 
they  may  act  as  decoy  ducks,  but  for  the  great  mass  of  members 
nothing  but  loss  can  possibly  ensue.  With  life  insurance,  as 
with  everything  else,  the  best  is  the  cheapest.  There  are  a  dozen 
of  the  "  old  line  companies  ''  in  which  the  father  of  a  family  may 
safely  put  hia  money,  with  the  absolute  certainty  that  when  the 
hour  of  need  comes  his  loved  ones  will  be  provided  for.  To  be 
sure,  it  will  cost  him  a  few  more  dollars  annually,  but  how  much 
better  to  stand  the  extra  expense  in  order  to  make  sure  that  there 
will  be  no  failure,  than  to  join  one  of  the  cheap  hat-passing 
orders,  and  have  it  go  to  the  wall  just  at  the  most  critical  period. 
Cheap  life  insurance  of  this  kind  is  a  delusion  and  a  snare. 

A  TELEGRAM  from  Brussels  announces  that  there  have  been 
serious  troubles  between  the  Arabs  in  the  Congo  State  in  Africa 
and  the  authorities.  According  to  a  despatch  received  from  that 
country,  the  Arabs  on  the  Sankoron  river,  who  had  commenced 
open  hostilities,  were  defeated  by  the  State  forces.  Ten  of  the 
chiefs  are  reported  to  have  been  killed,  and  seven  hundred  men 
were  captured  by  the  troops.  Those  who  have  read  Mr.  Stan- 
ley's works  will  be  able  to  appreciate  the  seriousness  of  this 
news,  since  the  influence  of  the  Arabs  in  the  Congo  country  is 
extremely  powerful,  and  the  reported  defeat  will  probably  be 
avenged. 


August  27,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


8 


OUR    VITICULTURAL    INTERESTS. 

THE  vllicultural  industry  of  California  It  in  »  peculiar  state. 
As  l»r  as  the  wine  market  Is  concerned,  there  are  three  con- 
ditions existing,  which  would  seem  to  be  Incompatible.  These 
are:  1st.  Increasing  consumption.  J.I.  Decreasing  production. 
3d.  Low  prices.  That  this  condition  of  affairs  can  exist  at  all,  is 
due  largely  to  the  fact  that  for  tire  years  we  have  had  a  period  of 
depression  in  the  wine  market,  unexampled,  perhaps,  in  the 
history  of  any  California  industry.  In  the  period  from  1880  to 
1835  we  had  an  era  of  planting  wine  grape  vineyards,  and  at  the 
same  time  there  was  no  commensurate  development  of  the  Amer- 
ican market.  At  that  time  it  was  fondly  believed  that  a  market 
would  be  found  whenever  the  wine  was  ready  for  shipment,  and 
that  almost  any  variety  of  grape  could  be  depended  upon  in  any 
section  to  produce  a  good  wine  and  to  return  fair  profit  to  the 
grower.  How  rude  the  awakening  has  been  we  all  know.  When 
the  great  acreage  of  vines  set  out  in  the  years  specified  came  into 
bearing,  the  problem  of  disposing  of  the  wine  became  a  vital  one. 
Under  strict  competition,  prices  receded  year  by  year  until  1891, 
which  time  marks  perhaps  the  lowest  ebb  of  the  business.  But 
at  the  same  time,  consequent  upon  this  competition  and  low 
prices,  the  demand  from  the  American  market  grew  steadily, and 
in  fact  most  surprisingly.  To-day.  as  far  as  quantity  goes,  we 
have  the  most  satisfactory  market  ever  known  in  the  wine  trade. 
I  am  of  the  opinion  that  we  always  underestimated  our  produc- 
tion of  wine.  I  say  this,  becase  there  is  a  large  home  market  to 
be  met — how  large  is  Dot  definitely  known.  Commonly  placed 
at  5,000,000  gallons  annually,  I  do  not  think  it  is  less  than  8,000,- 

000  gallons,  and  it  may  possibly  reach  10,000,000  gallons.  This 
will  not  seem  excessive,  when  it  is  remembered  that  besides  the 
hundreds  of  smalt  retail  wine  stores  to  be  found  all  over  the 
coast,  almost  every  wine  producer  is  in  fact  a  retail  dealer,  and 
has  some  trade  direct  with  the  consumers.  Moreover,  there  is  a 
demand  for  12,000,000  gallons  annually  from  the  East  and  from 
foreign  countries.  There  has  been  an  increase  of  about  100  per 
cent,  in  this  business  in  the  past  five  years.  This  will  give  some 
idea  of  the  immense  strides  taken  by  the  shipping  trade  since 
1887,  when  t'je  present  depression  really  began.  Turning  now 
to  the  production.  Reports  from  thp  principal  producing  sections 
indicate  that  there  is  no  reason  for  believing  that  the  total  pro- 
duction of  this  year  will  exceed  13,000,000  gallons— of  which  less 
than  3,000,000  gallons  will  be  of  the  varieties  known  to  the  trade 
as  sweet  wines,  and  including  ports,  sherries,  angelicas,  musca- 
telles,  etc.  Many  causes  have  brought  about  the  small  production 
of  this  year.  There  has  been,  as  is  known,  a  terrible  destruction 
of  the  vine  in  Southern  California  by  what  is  called  the  Anaheim 
disease;  and  in  Napa  Valley,  Sonoma  county  and  Solano  county 
the  phylloxera  has  destroyed  many  thousands  of  acres  of  vines. 
Many  vineyardists,  discouraged  by  long  continued  low  prices, 
have  rooted  up  their  vines  and  have  planted  other  crops.  Fur- 
thermore, this  season  has  been  most  unpropitious  for  a  large  crop. 

1  doubt  if  there  will  be  over  a  half  crop  in  Napa  and  Sonoma 
counties,  owing  to  frost,  unseasonable  hot  and  cold  weather,  to 
dropping  of  grapes  (coulure),  and  to  other  causes.  In  Santa 
Clara  and  other  counties  there  will  not  be  to  exceed  a  two-thirds 
crop.  At  this  juncture  the  stock  of  wine  in  the  State  becomes  of 
importance.  Knowing  this,  and  knowing  the  perspective  crop 
and  certain  demand,  it  is  possible  to  predict  with  reasonable  cer- 
tainty when  the  long-promised  revival  in  the  industry  will  come 
to  pass.  The  most  careful  estimates  place  the  stock  in  San  Fran- 
c.sco  and  in  the  interior  cellars  at  not  over  15,000,000  gallons.  At 
the  present  rate  of  consumption,  this  is  but  nine  months'  supply, 
and  it  must  be  remembered  that  much  of  it  is  owned  by  people 
who  are  amply  able  to  hold  for  better  prices,  and  who  will  not 
sell  until  such  can  be  obtained. 

Under  these  circumstances  I  do  not  see  how  an  advance  in 
prices  can  fail  to  be  recorded  within  a  reasonable  time  after  the 
vintage.  The  question  now  is:  Will  the  invariable  laws  of  sup- 
ply and  demand  which  have  hitherto  depressed  prices  fail  to 
raise  them  again?  All  commercial  experience  is  to  the  contrary. 
We  have  learned  much  in  the  five  years  of  depression  that  have 
passed.  The  vineyardists — many  of  them — are  no  strangers  to 
bankruptcy,  mortgages  and  financial  distress.  Nevertheless 
recognition  has  been  wrung  from  an  unwilling  public.  There 
are  those  in  the  industry  who  have  striven  steadily  and  well  for  a 
higher  clasB  of  products  and  for'  public  approval  of  their  efforts. 
Individual  brands  are  now  recognized,  and  a  host  no  longer  hesi- 
tates to  place  California  wines  before  his  guests.  The  hotels  and 
restaurants  of  San  Francisco  have  been  literally  compelled  to 
give  known  braDds  of  wine  a  place  on  their  lists.  This  I  con- 
sider one  of  the  most  substantial  gains  achieved  during  the  five 
years  of  depression  and  loss.  We  are  now  on  the  threshold  of  a 
similar  "  campaign  of  education  "  in  Eastern  cities.  The  wine- 
men  of  to-day  are  in  a  hopeful  mood.  They  see  the  dawning  of 
better  times;  the  return  of  the  days  of  prosperity  of  1880-1885; 
and  those  who  have  held  on,  who  have  worked  for  excellence  of 
products,  who  have  spent  time,  and  money  and  brains,  in  estab- 
lishing brands  of  known  merit  are  sustained  by  the  thought  that 
it  will  be  five  years  at  least  until  new  vineyards  can  be  brought 
into  bearing  and  the  present  production  increased.  Our  foreign 
trade  in  satisfactory.    In  Central  America  we  have  twice  as  large 


a  business  as  the  shippers  of  France.  We  have  a  nice  steady 
business  with  Hawaii.  Mexico.  Japan.  Brltilb  Columbia,  and 
Tahiti.  However,  it  Is  with  England  and  (ieiniany  that  our 
greatest  increase  of  trade  Is  to  be  noted.  This  Is  the  more  pleas- 
ing because  in  dealing  with  those  countries  we  deal  with 
the  most  discriminating  buyers  In  the  world. 

The  brandy  trade  Is  in  a  healthy  condition.  Our  trade  with 
the  East  is  good,  and  we  are  now  exporting  largely  to  (iermany 
and  England.  The  shipments  in  this  direction  promise  to  be 
over  200,000  gallons  in  this  calendar  year.  Five  years  ago  they 
were  next  to  nothing.  To  conclude,  there  appears  to  be  no  rea- 
son why  the  viticulturalist  of  California  should  not  enjoy  a  eason 
of  prosperity  in  the  near  future,  and  I  would  desire  no  better  in- 
vestment to-day  than  a  wine  grape  vineyard  in  full  bearing 
located  in  an  approved  producing  district  and  containing  the  best 
varieties  of  grapes.  Winfield  8cott, 

Secretary  Board  of  8tate  Viticnltnral  Commissioners. 

HONOR    TO    BRITISH    JOURNALISTS. 


IT  is  customary  for  tbe  out-going  Prime  Minister  in  England  to 
recommend  to  the  Queen  for  titles  of  nobility,  some  persons 
who  have  done  good  service  to  the  cause  of  his  party.  Lord 
Salisbury  has  used  this  opportunity  for  conferring  distinction 
upon  some  well-known  journalists,  and  the  Tory  statesman  seems 
to  recognize  that  the  press  in  modern  political  affairs  is  almost  a 
more  powerful  agent  than  Parliament  itself.  It  is  very  satisfactory 
to  learn  that  Mr.  Edward  Lawson,  of  the  London  Daily  Telegraph, 
has  been  made  a  baronet,  and  that  the  same  honor  has  been  con- 
ferred upon  Mr.  John  Jeffray,  of  the  Birmingham  Post,  one  of  tbe 
most  excellently  managed  papers  of  Great  Britain.  Dr.  Smith, 
the  learned  editor  of  the  Quarterly  Review,  and  well-known  com- 
piler of  dictionaries  on  Roman  and  Greek  antiquities,  has  also 
been  made  a  baronet,  and  if  industry  and  conscientiousness  de- 
serve public  recognition,  Dr.  Smith  is  certainly  entitled  to  the 
honor  conferred  upon  bim.  Professor  Huxley's  admittance  to 
tbe  sacred  circle  of  the  Privy  Council  shows  that  Lord  Salisbury 
does  not  wish  to  leave  science  unrewarded  either,  but  the  recog- 
nition is  rather  too  insignificant  for  a  gentleman  of  Mr.  Huxley's 
abilities.  His  fame  is  so  great  that  a  title  of  nobility  can  hardly 
increase  it,  but  he  might  justly  have  expected  the  same  dis- 
tinction that  was  given  to  the  late  Dr.  (afterwards  Sir)  William 
Siemens.  On  the  whole,  however,  Lork  Salisbury  has  shown 
very  good  judgment,  though  some  men  have  been  knighted 
through  his  mediation  who  have  hardly  deserved  it,  and  one  per- 
son has  received  that  honor  who,  in  the  eyes  of  all  unprejudiced 
persons,  is  a  real  disgrace  to  it,  namely,  Mr.  Ashmead  Bartlett,  a 
politician  of  no  merit  or  talent  whatever,  and  who  has  frequently 
been  guilty  of  a  behavior  in  the  House  of  Commons  which  has 
brought  him  into  just  contempt.  Strong  influence  from  outside 
must  have  been  brought  to  bear  upon  Lord  Salisbury  in  order  to 
make  him  agree  to  tbe  transformation  of  Mr.  Ellis  Asbmead 
Bartlett  into  Sir  Ellis  Ashmead  Bartlett. 

THE    SAME    OLD    STORY. 


WHAT  is  the  reason  that  as  soon  as  some  one  in  this  State,  no 
matter  what  his  position  or  character,  is  mentioned  for  pre- 
ferment of  any  kind — political,  religious  or  educational — he  is  at 
once  assailed  by  a  pack  of  curs,  who  have  not  even  the. bravery 
of  an  ordinary  dog,  but  who  do  their  dirty  work  in  the  dark,  and 
seek  by  all  sorts  of  underhand  means  to  defeat  the  honest  ambi- 
tion of  those  whom  they  envy?  Has  there  ever  been  a  case 
where  a  Californian  has  received  an  honor  of  any  kind,  or  was 
about  to  receive  such  an  honor,  that  a  disgraceful  exhibition  of 
this  sort  was  not  made?  It  matters  not  how  blameless  the  man's 
life  may  have  been,  how  pure  may  be  his  character,  how  honora- 
ble his  methods,  he  provokes  invariably  the  same  storm.  Cali- 
fornia has  made  a  by-word  of  herself  all  over  the  eountry  for  this 
dastardly  manner  of  treating  her  best  citizens,  and  it  has  come  to 
such  a  pass  that  for  a  man  to  allow  his  name  to  be  used  in  con- 
nection with  any  preferment  is  to  submit  himself  to  moral  assas- 
sination. The  latest  illustration  is  found  in  the  dispute  now  going 
on  over  the  Presidency  of  the  State  University.  Such  a  position 
as  this,  above  all  others,  is  one  where  decent  methods  should 
prevail,  but  the  spectacle  has  been  presented  during  the  past 
week  of  men,  presumably  honorable,  running  about  among  the 
newspaper  offices  in  the  effort  to  obtain  publication  of  statements 
that  they  will  not  father  themselves,  but  which  they  desire  to 
have  circulated  in  order  to  do  injury  to  the  prospects  of  the 
scholar  whom  the  Regents  have  favorably  considered  as  a  candi- 
date for  the  vacancy.  Is  it  not  about  time  that  we  threw  off  the 
swaddling  clothes  of  infancy,  abandoned  methods  that  would 
disgrace  a  pack  of  twelve-year-old  hoodlums,  and  learned  how  to 
conduct  ourselves  in  such  matters  with  common  decency,  atleast. 


NOW  that  we  have  the  comfortable  assurance  that  the  cholera 
is  on  its  way  tbither,  the  quack  fraternity  is  on  its  metal  to 
get  in  first  on  the  remedy  business.  Mustard  will  go  up,  and 
blisters  of  alt  kinds  advance  in  price.  Raw  cabbage  eaten  on  an 
empty  stomach  is  said  to  be  an  excellent  remedy  for  this  disorder, 
followed  by  a  course  of  green  apples  and  Swedish  turnips. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


HENRY    MILLER. 


MR.  HENRY  MILLER,  of  whom  it  has  been  truly  said  that 
his  cattle  graze  upon  a  thousand  hills,  is  of  that  sturdy  old 
German  stock,  which  has  been  so  strong  and  important  a  factor 
in  the  development  of  the  United  States.  He  is  a  native  of 
Brackenheim,  Wurtemburg,  where  he  was  born  on  July  21,  1828. 
He  landed  in  America  in  his  nineteenth  year,  and  went  to 
work  as  a  gardener  for  ?4  a  month  and  board.  After  much  hard 
work  he  had  saved  enough  to  pay  his  passage  to  California,  for 
which  he  then  sailed.  He  arrived  in  this  city  with  six  dollars  in 
his  pocket,  in  1850.  In  1857  he  began  his  partnership  with 
Charles  Lux,  by  buying  1,600  steers.     The  partnership  continued 


Mr.  ffemy  Miller. 

until  Mr.  Lux's  deatb  twenty-five  years  later.  The  firm's  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  cattle  and  sheep  graze  on  750,000  acres  of 
the  firm's  lan-t,  an  area  equal  to  that  of  the  State  of  Rhode  Island. 
Mr.  Miller  has  always  been  a  staunch  Republican,  and  is 
considered  one  of  our  best  and  most  prominent  citizens.  He  is  a 
very  charitable  man,  and  has  helped  thousands  of  people.  He 
has  been  married  twice,  first  in  1858  to  Miss  Nancy  Wilmott 
Sheldon,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Charles  Lux.  Some  time  after  her  de- 
cease he  married,  in  1860,  her  niece,  Miss  Sarah  Wilmot  Sheldon. 
There  are  two  surviving  children,  Nellie  Sarah  Miller  and  Henry 
Miller,  Jr.  Mr.  Miller  is  filled  with  honors  and  successes.  His 
life  has  been  one  most  worthy  of  emulation. 


SULLIVAN  and  Corbett  are  the  names  in  everybody's  mouth 
just  now.  Even  dainty  women,  who  are  supposed  to  dwell 
in  blissful  ignorance  of  such  things  as  prize  fights  are  heard  to 
discuss  the  chances  of  Sullivan's  rushing  Corbett,  or  of  Corbett 
out-sparring  Sullivan,  and  are  ready  to  wager  gloves,  candy,  etc., 
on  the  result,  provided  they  can  name  the  odds  and  make 
their  own  terms,  with  the  mental  reservation  that  they  are  not 
expected  to  pay  if  they  lose.  We,  cannot  say  that  the  effect  of 
an  affair  of  this  sort  upon  the  morals  or  manners  of  society  is  in 
all  respects  beneficial. 

Excellent  Drawing  Materials. 

No  part  of  the  curriculum  of  the  leading  schools  of  the  State  causes 
more  concern  to  the  pupil  than  the  artistic.  The  desire  to  be  able  to 
draw  well  seems  to  be  inherent  in  the  students  of  the  day,  but  the 
ability  to  do  so  is  not  great  nor  general.  The  necessity  of  the  use  of 
excellent  drawing  materials  for  success  in  the  work  undertaken  is 
well-known.  The  pencils,  compasses,  squares,  triangles,  paper  and 
everything  else  used,  must  be  or  the  best  make  and  material,  such  as 
are  those  in  the  establishment  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  on  Market  St. 
This  house  gives  particular  attention  to  matters  connected  with  art 
development.  All  the  goods  oh  its  counters  are  from  the  most  fam- 
ous manufactories  in  the  country.  Sanborn,  Vail  and  Co.'s  fashiona- 
ble stationery  is  used  by  all  the  members  of  the  Four  Hundred.  It  is 
neat  and  fashionable,  and  can  nowhere  be  surpassed.  The  seals,  wax 
and  candle,  that  with  the  paper  all  go  together  in  neat  boxes,  form  a 
very  appropriate  present  for  a  young  lady. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to'  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  050 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco; 


THE    WHITE    HOUSE    OPENING. 


A  GLANCE  in  the  windows  of  the  dry  goods  stores  carries  con- 
viction to  the  feminine  mind,  at  least,  that  the  summer  days 
are  waning  and  the  time  is  at  hand  for  a  replenishing  and  renewing 
of  one's  wardrobe.  That  the  display  in  the  windows  of  the  White 
House  is  vastly  attractive,  goes  without  saying,  while  a  closer  view 
of  the  new  things  in  the  way  of  dress  goods,  trimmings  and  the  like, 
is  alluring  to  the  last  degree.  The  fall  importations  show  a  new  line 
of  dress  goods  in  camel's  hair,  wavy  diagonals  and  serges,  embroid- 
ered in  gold,  in  narrow  lines  or  dots,  a  most  effective  combination. 
The  Russian  velours  are  beautiful  goods,  with  a  soft  frill,  which  gives 
them  the  appearance  of  plush.  The  boucke  velvets  are  also  new; 
a  soft  velvet  dot  of  dark  color  closely  covering  a  silky  surface  of 
lighter  shade.  The  Himalaya  camel's  hair  comes  in  plain  and  fancy 
patterns,  and  the  whipped  diagonal  cords  take  the  place  of  the  lighter 
weight,  Bedford  cord,  so  popular  this  season.  In  the  silk  and  gauze 
department  the  beautiful  fabrics  crowd  upon  one  another,  all  so 
charming  in  color  and  texture  that  the  eye  is  dazzled  by  the  brilliant 
display.  The  extreme  novelties  are  the  raised  silk  and  velvet  goods, 
giving  a  fine  honeycomb  effect;  something  entirely  new  in  this  sea- 
son's materials.  The  silks  are  in  damassic  effects  and  narrow 
stripes;  the  prevailing  colors  are  in  shaded  effects  of  bronze,  helio- 
trope and  green.  For  evening  wear  are  dainty  flowered  crepe  de 
chines,  powdered  with  delicate  blossoms  fit  for  fairy's  wear,  and 
embroidered  gauzes  fine  as  cobweb.  All  6f  these  dress  goods  come 
directly  from  Paris,  and  are  made  expressly  for  the  White  House. 
Having  seen  the  body  of  the  garment  one  turns  naturally' to  the  gar- 
niture and  trimming  to  complete  the  costume.  Here  fancy  runs 
riot,  and  a  succession  of  gold  lace  work,  crystal  fringes  like 
pendant  icicles,  bands  of  embroidery  rich  with  Roman  pearls, 
and  cascades  of  glistening  beads,  is  displayed,  until  the 
eye  is  bewildered  and  dazzled  with  the  lovely  and  artis- 
tic collection.  The  new  Russian  bands  of  gay  silk  em- 
broidery and  braids  are  distinctively  foreign  in  their  effect  and  ap- 
pearance. The  waist  garnitures  of  jet  and  colored  beads  are  novel- 
ties in  that  line,  the  set  comprising  the  pointed  bodice  with  deep 
hanging  fringe  and  a  high  collar.  After  viewing  these  and  many 
other  lovely  articles  for  feminine  adornment,  the  conviction  grows 
upon  one  that  here  is  a  little  Paris  in  itself,  where  woman  may  shop 
to  her  heart's  content  and  satisfaction  without  the  necessity  of  cross- 
ing the  little  pond,  so  far  away. 


To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contem- 
plating a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the  Union  Pacific  It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
man Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
I  from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.  You  are 
'only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 
Boston. 

Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco. via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  25^  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
P.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

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all  points  in  Europe  at  low  rates. 
Company's  office,  37  Broadway,  New  YorE.    For  tickets,  cabin  plans  and 

information  apply  to    A.  W.  MYER,  General  agent  lor  the  Pacific  Coast, 
40t  California  street,  corner  Sansome,  San  Francisco. __ 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

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Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

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/ 


August  27,  1892. 


8AN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


OH,     RATS  ! 

•  The  Iam  time  I  was  here,''  ihe  »ld. 
1  No  flowers  adorned  these  meoy  beds.'' 
'  Ah.  Pearl,"  he  aoiwered,  •■  don't  you  know, 
1  That  where  you  tread  sweet  flowere  will  grow?" 
She  turned  and  faced  him  as  be  aat. 
And  gently  murmured  forth,  »  Ob,  ."lata!  " 

A    HOTEL    CLERK'S    LESSON. 


THE  smart  young  clerk  at  Ca«tle  Crags,  the  new  resort  in  the 
Sacramento  Canyon,  learned  a  lesson  the  other  day  which  he 
will  not  soon  forget.  He  bad  been  accustomed  to  judge  the 
financial  standing  of  men  entirely  by  their  personal  appearance, 
and  flattered  himself  that  no  ••  beat  "  could  get  the  best  of  him. 
On  the  occasion  referred  to,  a  rough-looking  individual  entered 
the  hotel,  and  approaching  the  fashionably  attired  clerk,  grurHy 
asked,  ■■  Dinner  ready?"  The  new-comer  wore  a  slouch  hat, 
which  might  have  come  across  the  plains,  a  flannel  shirt  that  was 
manifestly  the  handiwork  of  the  good  wife,  a  coat  that  bad  been 
packed  around  on  a  saddle  for  many  a  day,  and  a  pair  of  duck 
overalls  tucked  into  the  tops  of  heavy  stoga  boots.  lie  was  a 
mountaineer,  and  looked  like  it.  The  lip  of  the  clerk  took  on  a 
scornful  curve  as  he  surveyed  the  unprepossessing  appearance  of 
the  new-comer,  and  after  an  impressive  silence,  he  haughtily  in- 
formed the  unwelcome  questioner  chat  such  people  as  he  were 
not  wanted  in  the  hotel,  that  be  would  not  be  allowed  to  dine 
there,  and,  in  fact,  the  sooner  be  ridded  the  sacred  precincts  of 
his  presence  the  better  satisfied  the  proprietor  and  patrons  of  the 
house  would  be.  "  What's  that  ye  say?"  asked  the  mountaineer 
in  a  sharp  tone.  The  clerk  repeated  his  warning,  if  possible  more 
offensively  than  before.  "  Why,  gosh  darn  yer  measly  hide,  d'ye 
mean  to  say  I  can't  git  no  dinner  here?  Why,  I've  a  durned  good 
mind  to  buy  out  the  hull  shebang,  and  turn  ye  out,  neck  an' 
crop.  What'ye  keepin'  a  hotel  fur,  if  tain't  to  feed  folks?"  He 
was  continuing  in  this  strain,  when  the  noise  attracted  the  at- 
tention of  the  manager.  As  soon  as  he  saw  the  individual  who 
was  the  cause  of  the  disturbance,  he  hastened  to  him,  and  in  the 
most  conciliatory  manner  asked  "  Mr  Jackson"  what  was  the 
matter.  An  explanation  was  given,  and  the  abashed  clerk 
learned  that  the  man  whom  he  bad  not  thought  "  nice  "  enough 
for  a  patron,  was  worth  something  like  a  half  million  dollars,  was 
one  of  the  largest  land  owners  in  the  northern  part  of  the  State, 
and  was  to  be  courted  rather  than  contemned.  And  now  the 
meanest  tramp  is  a  welcome  guest  at  Castle  Crags,  for  may  he  not 
be  another  millionaire  in  the  appropriate  costume  of  the  country? 

WINE    AND    WOMEN. 

"Who  loves  not  wine,  women  and  song, 
He  Is  a  fool,  his  whole  life  long." 

GOOD  old  Dr.  Luther  is  credited  with  a  love  for  the  ballad  of 
which  the  above  is  the  refrain.  The  advent  of  Calvin  and 
Knox  had  the  effect,  however,  of  removing,  except  surreptitiously, 
any  theological  admonitions  in  favor  of  lust  and  sottishness,  ac- 
companied by  song.  But  "the  world  do  move."  On  Tuesday 
evening  in  the  Mills  Tabernacle,  Oakland,  Rev.  Dr.  J.  W.  Harris, 
ex-watch  lottery  agent,  ex-corn  doctor,  present  evangelist  and 
proprietor  of  the  Holy  Cross  Chapel  at  Golden  Gate,  delivered  a 
lecture  that  was  novel,  even  for  Oakland.  He  preached  a  new 
creed  to  which  that  of  Thomas  Lake  Harris  is  milk  for  babes. 
Wine  and  women  he  avowed,  so  far  from  injuring  the  world,  are 
a  benefit  when  in  combination.  The  true  ingredients  of  evil,  he 
held,  are  men  and  money.  He  also  declared  himself  advocate 
and  protector  of  the  dive  sirens  and  the  dames  dejoie.  Anew 
Harrician  system  of  religion,  compounded  from  the  Koran  and 
the  ritual  of  Mormonism,  is  therefor  hourly  expected,  for  the 
specious  doctor  has  evidently  heard  Jacques  Strop  say  in  Robert 
Macaire:  "  Since  we  have  no  money  and  no  prospects,  let  us  found 
a  new  religion." 

AA/ITH  the  supreme  egotism  worthy  of  a  monarch  of  the  House  of 
VV  Hohenzollern,  Kaiser  Wilhelm  is  having  a  memorial-stone 
erected  at  different  points  of  interest  along  his  route.with  an  inscription 
something  like  this :  "1,  William  Impreator,  stood  on  this  spot  so 
many  minutes,  on  such  a  date."  This  was  also  the  case  ou  the 
Kaiser's  journey  to  Norway  last  year. 

UWCE'S 


Powder 


HIGHLAND 


(feain 


Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the  Standard. 


A  TABLE  LUXURY. 

A  CULINARY  ARTICLE, 

AN    INFANTS    FOOD. 
HIGHLAND  EVAPORATED  CREAM 

Is  unsweetened  and  free  from  all  preservatives.  Retains 
its  delicious  and  wholesome  qualities  for  an  indefinite  time  in 
all  climates  and  at  all  seasons. 

Sold  by  Grocers  and   Druggists  Everywhere. 

Write    for    our     Infant    Food    circular    and     Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  booklet  entitled  "A  Few  Dainty  Dishes." 

HELVETIA  MILK   CONDENSINO  CO., 
Sole  Purveyors, Hiohlakd.  Ixj. 

COMFORT  AND 
ADORNMENT. 

Are  the  principal  objects  in  furnishing 
a  home.  We  all  appreciate  comfort- 
able things,  and  know  when  appear- 
ances please  us.  To  obtain  the  best 
results  is,  however,  not  so  simple  a 
matter;  it  requires  not  only  native 
good  taste,  but  also  that  command  of 
materials  and  knowledge  of  details 
which  long  experience  alone  can  give. 

We  have  all  the  requisite  materials 
— in  Carpets,  Furniture  and  Uphol- 
stery—for any  style  of  furnishing,  and 
are  prepared  to  carry  out  any  ideas 
or  plans  desired,  or  to  assume  entire 
charge  and  responsibility. 

Sketches  and  estimates  on  applica- 
tion. 

W.  &  J.  SLOANE  &  CO., 

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DR.   F.  O.  PAGUE, 

DENTIST, 

Rooms  4  &  5,  Academy  of  Sciences  Building, 

819  Market  Street. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRICAL  WORKS, 

IT©.   35   ^Earlset  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS    AND    IMPORTERS    OF 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General  Electrical  Supplies. 
Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 

Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

1NGLEN00K  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  San 
Francisco  prices  and  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  theij 
orderg  in  tfme  with 

F.  A.  HABER, 

Office  and  Oepdt  Inglertook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1H92. 


'  We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


ANEW  play  in  almost  any  shape  would  be  welcome  in  San 
Francisco  just  now.  Wbat  with  periodical  returns  and  "  im- 
portant revivals,"  we  are  led  to  join  devoutly  in  Solomon's 
lament  that  "  there  is  no  new  thing  under  the  sun,"  or  the  gas- 
light. The  re-opening  of  the  Bush  Monday  night  with  a  new 
play  was,  therefore,  an  event  of  double  interest,  and  the  packed 
house  was  as  encouraging  in  type  as  in  numbers.  For  Little  Tip- 
pett  is  new  here,  though  Alex.  Bisson  has  been  for  two  or  three 
years  winning  wealth  and  glory  from  its  French  original  in 
Paris. 

The  play  is  undoubtedly  best  suited  to  a  Parisian  audience, 
which  likes  its  comedy  highly  peppered  with  the  risque.  The 
closer  the  shave  without  absolutely  encroaching  on  forbidden 
ground,  the  more  the  Parisian  likes  it.  The  terror  lest  the  deli- 
cate line  be  overstepped  adds  a  zest  to  his  enjoyment,  which  in 
the  Anglo-Saxon  mind  takes  the  form  of  fear.  This  unpleasant 
apprehension  makes  the  auditor  uneasy  in  many  of  the  scenes 
and  situations  in  Little  Tippetl,  notably  in  the  dispute  over  the  in- 
fant by  its  respective  (supposititious)  papas.  Full  of  wit  and 
humor  as  are  most  of  the  lines  and  situations,  there  is  a  coarse 
directness  in  many  of  them  which  mars  the  enjoyment  of  both. 

It  is  popularly  supposed  that  the  French  language  lends  itself 
to  the  aesthetic  veiling  of  indelicate  suggestion  more  readily  than 
the  straightforward,  uncompromising  English.  The  fact  probably 
is  that  the  difference  is  in  the  peoples.  The  French  man  and 
woman  do  not  liinch  from  the  coarse  allusion,  while  the  foreign 
tongue  is  itself  the  "veil"  which  tones  it  down  to  the  English 
ear.  This  difference  the  Paultons  have  ignored,  and  their  efforts 
to  follow  closely  the  witty  lines  and  amusing  by-play  of  the  orig- 
inal have  produced  in  many  cases  an  effect  too  broad  to  be  pleas- 
ant. They  leave  too  little  to  the  imagination — and,  in  this  direc- 
tion, the  imagination  of  the  average  American  theatre-goer  may 
be  implicitly  trusted.  What  the  mind  of  the  present  generation 
can't  think  it  were  better  not  to  say. 

As  a  people,  we  are  too  genuinely  fond  of  humor  to  stand  out 
on  an  indelicacy — if  it  is  funny  enough — which  we  are  allowed 
to  think  out  for  ourselves;  but  there  is  enough  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  solid  respectability  still  leavening  the  most  progressive 
American  to  make  us  shrink  from  hearing  our  thoughts  put  into 
spoken  words  or  seeing  them  in  too  translatable  looks  and  mo- 
tions. If  the  Paultons,  with  this  fact  before  them,  will  rewrite 
Little  Tippett  and  tone  down  in  spots  its  broad  coloring,  the  play 
will  be  improved  in  good  taste  without  detriment  to  its  wit  and 
humor. 

In  the  first  act  the  people,  like  the  play,  go  rather  lamely;  but 
the  pace  quickens  in  the  last  two  acts,  which  rattle  along  at  a 
rate  which  leaves  little  time  for  anything  but  laughter,  till  after- 
the-play  reflection  gives  judgment  a  chance  to  assert  itself. 
Messrs.  Bell  and  Bowser,  as  the  joint  divorced  husbands  of  An- 
toinette Brown,  come  out  well  as  the  play  goes  on,  though  their 
funny  work  in  the  first  act  is  somewhat  forced,  and  falls  corre- 
spondingly flat.  By  a  not  unusual  paradox,  they  manage  to  rob 
the  scene  above  referred  to  of  some  of  its  coarseness  by  boldly 
grappling  with  it;  though,  if  it  is  not  egotistical,  I  should  like  to 
refer  Mr.  Bowser  to  this  column  in  last  week's  News  Letter  for 
a  needed  lesson.  Mabel  Bert,  dark-eyed  and  lovely  as  of  yore, 
has  lost  the  slight  touch  of  steginess  she  used  to  show  in  the 
tearful  drama  she  affected,  and  does  herself  great  credit  by  being 
an  unmistakable  lady  throughout,  in  spite  of  the  play.  Miss 
Marie  Lewes  seems  a  little  more  in  line  with  her  surroundings, 
but  plays  her  part  intelligently.  Mrs.  Harry  Bloodgood  makes  a 
good  character  part  of  the  nurse.  Harry  Allen,  as  the  doating 
uncle,  is  the  life  and  soul  of  the  scenes  in  which  he  takes  part, 
and  Mr.  Bradley  makes  a  good  bit  of  the  ex-clerical  deputy 
sheriff.  The  two  babies — they  are  real  babies  and  "  regularly  en- 
gaged," their  mothers  traveling  about  with  them — excite  the  en- 
thusiastic admiration  of  every  parent  in  the  audience,  for  they 
accept  an  infinite  amount  of  tumbling  and  »«  towsling  "  without 
raising  even  a  note  of  protest. 

*  *  * 
Sol  Smith  Russell  has  a  quaint  and  peculiar  humor  so  entirely 
distinctive  among  dramatic  humorists  as  to  give  him  an  individu- 
ality as  marked  as  it  is  delightful.  There  is  not  a  "  trick  of  the 
trade"  in  any  of  his  methods.  The  simple  directness  of  all  he 
does  gives  the  thrill  to  bis  pathos  as  it  does  the  true  Attic  flavor 
to  his  humor.  That  with  all  this,  and  its  universal  acknowledg- 
ment, the  genial  humorist  of  Peaceful  Valley  has  not  filled  the 
Baldwin  must  be  attributed  to  the  fact  that  every  one  has  seen 
him  as  Noah  Vale  in  A  Poor  Relation.  True,  the  play  has  been 
re-written  and  greatly  changed,  generally  for  the  better,  though 
we  miss  the  inimitable  recitation.  But  there's  much  in  a  name, 
despite  Shakespeare,  and,  after  all,  the  main  thread  of  the  story 
is,  like  the  name,  unchanged.  That  this  quiet  picture,  so  quaintly 


compounded  of  tears  and  laughter,  is  well  worth  seeing  again  and 
again,  we  may  admit;  whether  or  not  a  novelty-seeking  public 
will  act  on  the  admission  is  another  question.  Next  week  Mr. 
Ri gsell  will  appear  in  Peaceful  Valley,  a  play  somewhat  newer  and 
equally  delightful. 

*  *    *r 

Augnstin  Daly's  Divorce  has  been  the  play  this  week  at  Stock- 
well's.  Though  Jeffreys-Lewis  has  an  unfamiliar  part  in  the  lov- 
ing and  honest  young  wife,  without  "  a  past"  for  her  husband  to 
discover,  yet,  taken  all  around,  the  production  has  been  among 
the  best  of  the  present  engagement.  Eihel  Brandon,  in  particular, 
shows  not  only  an  unexpected  adaptability  in  assuming  a  part  so 
different  as  that  of  Lu  Ten  Eyck  from  her  familiar  die-away 
heroines,  but  plays  it  with  a  freedom  from  mannerism,  a  spirit 
and  naturalness  thoroughly  pleasing.  Nick  Long  makes  a  capi- 
tal mate  for  the  ambitious  but  innocent  young  Kniek  erbockeress, 
and  Fanny  Young  an  equally  good  "  society"  mother.  Stock- 
well  has  a  congenial  part  in  the  divorce  lawyer;  his  adjutant, 
the  private  detective,  is  well  acted  by  Julius  Kahn,  and  the  other 
characters  are  satisfactory.  Next  week  Diplomacy  will  be  played. 
Countess  Zicka  is  one  of  Miss  Lewis'  strongest  characters. 

*  #  * 

Truth  is  a  cruel  weapon,  and  like  other  edged  tools,  should  be 
carefully  bandied ;  but  occasion  sometimes  demands  its  use. 
There  must  come  a  day  in  the  life  of  even  the  best  actress  when 
she  can  no  longer  assume  the  role  of  budding  girlhood.  If  slen- 
der, she  may,  by  the  aid  of  illusory  make-up,  defer  that  day;  but 
a  matronly  plentitude  of  person  at  once  and  forever  bars  the  door 
to  juvenile  characters,  and  no  gifts  can  enable  the  actress  to 
push  through  the  portal  without  being  ridiculous.  Neither 
Jeffreys-Lewis  nor  Ethel  Brandon  should  attempt  such  roles. 
Their  ability  to  present  the  character  may  far  transcend  that  of 
younger  and  more  willowy  rivals,  but  the  eye  is  an  inexorable 
judge  of  the  appropriate,  and  refuses  to  be  suborned  by  the  in- 
tellect. There  are  plenty  of  parts  open  to  both  the  actresses 
named,  but  that  of  a  young  girl  is  not  among  them. 
»  *  * 

A  Night  at  the  Circus  does  not  improve  on  a  second  visit.  On 
the  contrary,  the  coarser  features  become  more  patent  and  the 
condoning  brightness  less  prominent.  If  Nellie  McHenry  would 
keep  a  hold  on  her  old-time  popularity  (perhaps,  in  view  of  the 
vulgar  taste,  it  were  safer  to  say  if  she  would  continue  to  deserve 
it),  she  will  have  to  tone  herself  down,  and  her  plays  up.  The 
succession  of  full  houses  at  the  California  shows  that  the  public 
and  the  critic  are,  as  usual,  at  outs;  but  the  fact  remains. 

*  *  * 

The  Tivoli  has  been  playing  the  ever-popular  Girofle-Girojla  to 
crowded  houses,  and  in  most  creditable  style.  Next  week  Vir- 
ginia, a  comic  opera  by  >*  Teddy  "  Solomon,  will  be  the  bill.  The 
story  is  one  of  mistaken  identity.  A  sort  of  "  Buttercup,"  Mrs. 
Cowslip,  places  two  children  in  an  asylum,  one  her  own  grand- 
child. The  wrong  boy  is  given  her,  and  her  real  grandson  wan- 
ders through  the  opera  in  search  of  his  rightful  name,  for  which 
he  finally  offers  to  barter  his  soul.  A  modern  devil  takes  the 
offer,  and  gives  Brown  Jones  not  only  a  name,  but  the  other  fel- 
low's sweetheart,  Virginia,  on  the  very  eve  of  the  wedding.  The 
whole  is  a  jumble  of  old  and  new  in  true  comic  opera  vein,  with 
a  prevailing  flavor  of  magic  and  brimstone. 

*  *  * 

The  Wigwam  is  giving  a  variety  entertainment  of  a  superior 
order.  The  dioramic  views  of  places  and  people  exhibited  by 
Clyde  Millar  is  a  pleasing  feature.  Among  the  many  clever  per- 
formers are  the  Forepaugh  family,  in  their  ladder  act;  Kitty 
King,  a  song  and  dance  and  skipping-rope  artiste;  Charles  Hunn 
and  May  Bohee,  in  a  comedy  sketch;  Mabel  Hudson,  the  Brook- 
lyn church  choir  beauty,  and  other  variety  attractions.  Next 
week  a  new  programme  will  be  given. 

In  this  day  of  cheap  dictionaries  and  pronouncing  vocabularies 
there  is  no  excuse  for  two  prominent  and  intelligent  actors  like 
Edward  Bell  and  Charles  Bowser  inflicting  upon  a  sane  audience 
such  barbarisms  as  ■•  Veny-zoo-e  la  "  and  speaking  of  the  Cheva- 
lier Bayard  as  "  sans  pure." 

#  *  * 

Following  Jeffreys-Lewis  at  Stockwell's  September  12th,  come 
Joseph  Grismer  and  Phoebe  Davies  in  Clay  Greene's  new  play, 
The  New  South.  Mr.  Grismer  thinks  very  highly  of  the  play,  and 
believes  he  has  made  a  rich  "  And  "  in  it. 

Sol  Smith  Russell  will  present  Peaceful  Valley  next  week  at  the 
Baldwin.  While  in  a  lighter  vein  than  A  Poor  Relation,  and  more 
distinctly  humorous,  it  is  not  without  the  latent  pathos  which 
mingles  so  closely  with  Mr.  Russell's  comedy  and  which  he  sug- 
gests, rather  than  paints  in,  with  such  light  and  artistic  touches. 
»  »  » 

In  The  Ensign,  which  begins  Monday  night  at  the  California 
Logan  Paul's  make-up  as  Abraham  Lincoln  is  said  to  be  abso-' 
lutely  startling  in  its  realism.  The  play  is  founded  on  the  stopping 
and  search  of  the  Trent  by  the  American  ship,  San  Jacinto,  in  the 
Mason  and  Slidell  affair  during  the  Civil  War.  The  scenery  is  re- 
produced from  photographs  of  the  Kearsarge,  and  will,  doubtless, 


August  27,  1892. 


BAN   KRANCI8C0  NEWS  LETTER, 


be  one  ol  (he  strong  points  in  the  production,  including  *  com- 
plete sectional  view  ol  the  double  deck  of  the  war-sblp.  San  Jacinto. 
also  of  ber  spar  deck.  Havana  Harbor  hv  moonlight,  ami  the 
President's  library  at  the  Whit.-  Hon**,  the  large  sales  already 
made  Indicate  an  unusual  interest  in  tba  coming  production — the 
only  naval  play  extant. 

... 

Mr.  John  N.  Nagle.  manager  of  the  Lillian  Russell  opera  company 
arrived  in  this  city  last  Wednesday  morning  to  make  arrangements 
for  the  opening  at  the  Baldwin  September  4th.  We  have  heard  so 
much  of  Lillian  Russell  and  La  Ctgalt  that  it  is  difficult  to  realize 
that  neither  has  been  seen  in  San  Francisco.  Miss  Russell  seems  to 
have  shown  good  business  sense  in  not  depending  solely  on  her 
own  fame,  as  her  company  includes  some  unusually  strong 
names,  among  them  those  of  Hayden  Coffin.  Wm.  T.  Carleton, 
Louis  Harrison,  Jas.  G.  Feakes,  and  Laura  Clement.  The  Mounte- 
bank, Gilbert  .t  Cellier's  opera,  will  be  given  its  first  American 
production  during  the  third  and  fourth  weeks  of  the  Baldwin  en- 
gagement. 

*  •  • 

The  San  Francisco  Operatic  Society  will  give  a  novel  entertain- 
ment soon  in  a  production  of  Pinafore,  with  a  real  vessel  for  stage. 
The  vessel  will  be  moored  at  the  Alameda  wharf,  seats  for  specta- 
tors being  erected  on  the  wharf.  The  entertainment  will  be  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Encinal  Yacht  Club.  Many  leading  members 
of  the  Alta  Operatic  Society  have  gone  over  to  the  San  Francisco, 
and  its  chorus  now  includes  some  of  the  best  amateur  singers  in 
the  city. 

*  #  • 

David  Lesser  Lezinsky  will  give,  in  Maple  Hall,  Palace  Hotel, 
a  series  of  seven  «  Evenings  with  the  Poets,"  beginning  Monday 
next  with  Walt  Whitman.  The  first  evening  will  be  free.  Fol- 
lowing, in  the  order  named,  will  be  Emerson,  Shakespeare,  Long- 
fellow, Raphael,  Lincoln,  Jesus. 

*  *  # 

John  Philip  Sousa,  who  some  time  ago  resigned  the  director- 
ship of  the  Washington  Marine  Band  (which  he  brought  to  this 
city)  to  assume  that  of  the  new  Marine  Band  organized  by  a  big 
Chicago  syndicate,  will  begin  his  first  tour  with  the  new  band 
September  26th.  The  band  numbers  seventy  picked  musicians. 
Mr.  D.  Blakely  has  been  elected  President  and  general  manager 
of  the  organization,  Howard  Pew,  secretary,  and  Frank  Chris- 
tianer,  general  agent.  Messrs.  Hahn  and  Love  have  opened  ne- 
gotiations with  Mr.  Sousa  for  an  early  appearance  here. 

*  »  » 

Is  it  quite  in  good  taste  for  the  young  girl  in  A  Poor  Relation  to 
express  her  contempt  for  her  undesired  admirer  by  comparing 
herself  and  him  to  "Beauty  and  the  Beast?"  The  remark  seems 
to  smack  of  an  offensive  conceit  rather  than  of  the  diffident  un- 
sciousness  of  self  befitting  a  maiden. 

#  *  • 

Jeffreys-Lewis'  coast  tour  of  five  weeks  opens  at  Sacramento 
September  12th.     Charles  ,E.  Cook,  formerly  of  the  Baldwin  staff, 

is  Miss  Lewis'  advance  agent. Julius  Kahn  will    be  the  Baron 

Stein  of  the  coming  production    of  Diplomacy  at  Stockwell's. 

The  Baldwin  was   packed    from  floor  to  ceiling  last   Wednesday 

night  at  Treasurer  L.  A.  Morgenstern's  benefit A  piano  recital 

will  be  given  at  Irving  Hall  next  Taesday  evening,  by  Otto   Ben- 

dix,  late  of  the  N.  E.  Conservatory  of  Music John  L.  Kelly 

will  soon  be  seen  here  in  a  new  piece  called  McFee  of  Dublin. 

Hugo  Toland  has  a  prominent  part  in  The  Junior  Partner,  which 
will  be  produced  at  the  California  September  12th.  The  company 
also  includes  Mrs.   McKee    Rankin  and  her  daughter,  Phyllis, 

Emily  Bancker,  Henry  Miller,  May  Irwin  and  others. "  The 

Year's  Sweetheart,"  composed  by  Leila  France  (Mrs.  McDer- 
mott)  and  sung  by  Eaymon  Moore,  has  become  very  popular. 
Miss  May  Brookyn  is  paid  the  doubtful  compliment  of  be- 
ing able  to  play  Ibsen's  female  characters  better  than  any  woman 
in  America,  being  a  close  student  of  the  Norse  apostle  of  real- 
istic nastiness.* Lillian  Russell  has   lately  ransacked  the  Paris 

and  London  shops  and   despoiled    them  of   much  of  their  finery, 

to  display   to   wondering  San    Francisco. Manager    Wilkison 

and  his  star,  Alexander  Salvini,  have  returned  from  Europe 

The  character  part  of  the  bluff  old  "  bo's'n"  in  The  Ensign  was  so 
successfully  played  by  Louis  James,  at  the  preliminary  produc- 
tion in  St.  Paul,  last  summer,  that  he  was  offered  $250  a  week  to 
go  out  with  the  company,  which  he  would  probably  have  ac- 
cepted had  not  the  death  of  Florence  given  him  a  more  advan- 
tageous opening  with  Joseph  Jefferson. 

For  Debilitated  Men!  If  you  desire  to  be  restored  to  complete 
vigor  and  manhood,  promptly,  permanently  and  cheaply,  we  will 
sendvou  full  particulars  (sealed)  of  a  reliable,  unfailing  Home  Treat- 
ment free.  No  electric  nonsense,  no  stomach  drugging.  Address 
Albion  Pharmacy  Co.,  Box  L,  Albion,  Mich. 


Every  Wednesday  at  8  a.  m.  the  Burlington  excursions  will  leave 
San  Francisco  with  Pullman  tourist  sleeping  cars  to  Chicago  via. 
Salt  Lake  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  descriptive  folders 
apply  to  agent  Burlington  route,  32  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco.   

Inflamed  Eyes  and  lids  permanently  cured  if  caused  by  defective 
sight.  Consult  (free  of  charge)  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  186  Mont- 
gomery street,  near  Bush. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

ALHATKAjtAi'ii  ft ri|ill thin  I  Affllft  flmnTl Manager. 

To-night,  MR.  SOL   BUTTE!    RISSKLL  in    Kdward    H.    Klddtl  -   I 

l'r»i!i«,  * 

A     POOR     RELATION. 

,i,'vV"!,'V'.",'.V.,Ji''.vl''0<l  MATINKK  Saturday  only  t  Next  vrec*  Mr.  Run 
sell  In  PhACKFI'L  VALLEY.    With  Complete  Hpcclal  Sconcry. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Ma.  m.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  I  Ma.  Chas.  r.  Hall Maumicr 

OKEAT  SUCCESS  !     THE  TALK  OF  THE  TOWN  I 

LITTLE     TI  PPETT, 
One  more  week  I 
Popular  prices- 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

AlHayman&Co ProprletorR.  I  J.  J.  Qottlob Manager. 

Commencing  Monday.  August  29th.  First  production  In  this  city.  Mr. 
Wm.  Haworth^s  Great  Spectacular  Naval  Drama, 

THE     ENSIGN. 

A  Grand  Scenic  Novelty.  A  Perfect  Representation  of  Man-of-war  Life. 
Only  Matinee  Saturday. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Ebeling  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers- 
To-night  I    One  week  only,  Grand  Production,  LECOCCJ'S  Masterpiece, 

GIROFLE   GIROFLAI 

Monday,  Aug.  29th,  VIRGINIA. 
Popular  Prices  25c.  and  50e. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell. Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse Business  Manager. 

THIS  EVENING  and  TO-MORROW  EVENING,  Matinee  To-day  at  2  p.  M. 
Last  performance  of  AUGUSTIN  DALY'S  Comedy,  DIVORCE. 

Commencing  Monday,  August  29th,  JEPPRE  VS-LEWIS,  in  her  greatest  of 
characters,  COUNTESS  ZIEKA,  and  Stockwell's  company  of  players,  in 

DIPLOMACY. 

WIGWAM  THEATRE. 

(Corner  Stockton  and  Geary  streets,  S.  F.  Cal.) 

Chas.  Meyer Proprietor  and  Manager 

San 'Francisco's  recognized  Vaudeville  family  resort.  Week  commenc- 
ing Monday  evening,  August  29— PROF.  HORNMAN,  Prestldigitateur  and 
Illusionist,  in  a 

TRIP    TO     WONDERLAND; 

Also  BLACK  ART. 

The  World  Renowned  Foiepaugh  family,  in  their  Great  Flying  Return 
Act;  also,  Roman  Ladder  Act.  First  appearance  of  the  Dancing  Queen, 
Miss  Jessie  Florence.  Chas.  Hunn  in  conjunction  with  May  Bohee.  Flora 
Hastings  and  Marion  Emma.  Mabel  Hudson.  The  chalk  manipulator, 
Al  Williams.  Challenge  skipping  rope  artiste,  Kittie  King.  Beatrice 
James.    Fred  Bulla  and  Frank  Foley.    John  Perry.    Thomas  Leary. 

Matinee  Admission  Day,  September  9th,  at  2  p.  m. 

First  production  of  the  burlesque  drama,  POCAHONTAS. 

Popular  Prices  Admission  10c;  Reserved  SeatB,  25c. 

olympkTsalt  water  company. 

(Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California). 

Capital   Stock,   $350,000,    Divided    into   35,000    Shares  at 

$10  Each. 

DIRECTORS— John  D.  Spreckels,  President;  Wm.  Greer  Harrison, 
Vice  Presideut  and  General  Manager;  Adolph  B.  Spreckels,  Treasurer; 
John  Rosenfeld,  Merchant;  Chas.  A.  Wieland,  Capitalist;  Cornelius 
O'Connor,  Capitalist;  James  Spiers,  of  Hinckley,  Spiers  <St  Hayes. 

CONSULTING  ENGINEER-D.  Ernest  Melliss,  Ph.D.,  C.  E.,  624  Sacra- 
mento Btreet.  .  ,,     .  * 

ATTORNEY— Samuel  M.  Shortridoe,  234  Montgomery  street. 

&t~ Applications  for  stock  will  be  received  by 

R.  D.  PERRY,  Secretary, 

At  the  office  of  the  Company,  305  California  street,  San  Francisco  Cal. 

-gjjflg^-  FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and  Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable  prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

'^WWSSSSill^  3    Montgomery  St, 

"flP^  Under  Masonic   Temple. 

KM  A  13  C    Bush  &  Govts  Pianos 
ft  A  O  t  Parlor  Organs 

HAINES  Installments         Rentals 

4.  L.  Bancroft* Co.  Dl  A  |\|  IjCZ 
80SButteiSt.,S.F.  T^  I  F\  I  Ti  \J+& 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


SEMPER    FIDELIS. 

Though  the  golden  bowl  be  broken 

That  held  love's  rosy  wine, 
Though  the  last  fond  word  bespoken 

That  held  thee  once  as  mine, 
Pond  memory  still  will  cherish 

The  dream  so  sweet  to  me, 
And  'till  each  pnlse  shall  perish 

My  heart  will  cling  to  thee. 

Thongh  the  silver  chord  be  silent, 

That  thrilled  beneath  thy  hand, 
As  in  a  far  off  city, 

'Neath  fallen  hopes  I  stand, 
Still  yet,  where'er  I  wander, 

Thy  beauty  I  shall  see, 
And  as  the  past  I  ponder 

My  heart  will  cling  to  thee. 

0  each  imperfect  token — 

'Twere  vain  my  love  to  tell; 
Though  the  golden  bowl  be  broken 

And  the  silver  chord  as  well, 
Fond  memory  still  will  cherish 

The  dream  so  sweet  to  me 
Till  pulse  and  heart  shall  perish 

My  soul  will  cling  to  thee. 

A  DEAD-LETTER  OFFICE.— By  Isabel  Smithson,  in  Short  Stories. 

COUSIN  KTJTH  was  playing  waltzes  for  the  young  folks.  Near 
her  stood  John  Graham,  one  of  her  old  beaux.  He  had  lately 
come  home  after  an  absence  of  twenty  years. 

John  was  looking  at  Ruth  with  apparent  concern,  counting  the 
lines  that  began  to  mark  her  pale  face,  and  noteiDg  the  streaks  of 
gray  that  ran  through  her  hair.  It  had  been  so  dark  and  thick  the 
last  time  he  had  seen  it!  Then  he  gazed  thoughtfully  at  the  merry 
young  dancers,  and  at  last,  feeling  that  he  ought  to  say  something, 
asked : 

"  "Who  is  that  graceful,  yellow-haired  girl?" 

"  That  is  Grace  Deering,  Cousin  Tom's  daughter,"  Ruth  replied. 
Her  hearer  exclaimed,  wonderingly : 

"Tom  Deering's  daughter!  I  remember  him  so  well!"  After  a 
pause,  he  added,  "  I  thought  you  and  he  would  have  been  married 
long  ago." 

Cousin  Ruth  smiled,  shook  her  head,  and  played  on  without  speak- 
ing. 

"  The  last  time  I  saw  you,"  said  John,  musingly,  "you  were 
waltzing  with  Tom  himself— do  you  remember  it  ?  " 

Did  she  recall  it?  Twenty  years  had  passed  since  young  Jack 
Graham  had  bidden  her  a  cold  and  brief  farewell,  and  she,  amazed 
and  awe-struck  by  his  manner,  had  merely  said,  "  Good-by,"  and  let 
him  go.    Yet  the  memory  of  that  night  had  never  left  her. 

"  I  wonder  why  Ruth  is  playing  that  old-fashioned  waltz,"  said  the 
elders  of  the  party  to  each  other,  and  John  Graham  listened  spell- 
bound to  the  well-remembered  strain. 

"Ah,"  he  said  suddenly,  "  the  tune  recalls  the  past.  I  sent  you  a 
bunch  of  violets  that  very  night,  and  hoped  that  you  would  wear 
them.    0  Ruth,  what  a  heartless  flirt  you  were! " 

Old  as  John  had  grown,  his  eyes  wore  a  familiar  expression  as  they 
met  hers. 

As  soon  as  the  young  people  had  tired  of  dancing,  Cousin  Ruth 
went  up  to  her  room  and  locked  herself  in,  giving  way  to  strange 
emotion.  From  the  lowest  depths  of  her  trunk  she  took  an  old  brass 
bound  box  that  had  not  been  disturbed  for  twenty  years.  Unlocking 
it,  she  hastily  raised  the  lid.  Instead  of  the  fresh,  sweet  violets  she 
had  left  in  it,  there  were  a  few  crisp,  shapeless  and  withered  petals, 
beneath  which,  for  the  first  time,  she  discovered  a  bit  of  paper,  on 
which  were  these  words : 

Once  for  all.  Ruth,  is  it  yes  or  no?  If  yes,  wear  these  violets  at  the  ball 
to-morrow  night.    I  go  away  to-morrow;  and  if  it  is  no,  I  shall  return. 

j.  a. 

For  a  few  moments  Ruth  stood  motionless.  Clasping  the  little 
missive,  she  went  down  stairs.  One  of  her  nephews,  passing  her  in 
the  hallway,  thought  how  pretty  she  must  have  been  when  a  girl. 
Her  face  was  aglow  with  an  unusual  beauty.  She  went  into  the  sit- 
ting-room, where  John  Graham  sat  alone.  He  was  gazing  moodily 
at  the  embers  of  the  fire.  Ruth  approached,  and  putting  the  piece  of 
yellow  paper  gently  into  his  hand,  said  calmly : 

"  I  never  saw  it  until  this  instant." 

He  looked  at  her  in  mute  astonishment,  as  she  was  about  to  turn 
away. 

"  Would  you  have  worn  my  flowers  had  you  found  the  note?"  he 
asked,  hurriedly.    "  Ah,  Ruth,  is  it  now  too  late?" 

The  merry  voices  in  the  next  room  drowned  her  answer  to  all  but 
John  Graham;  he  alone  heard  it. 


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41 IX  CALIFORNIA  STREET,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


August  27,  1892. 


BAN  PRANCISCO  NEWS  l  KTTKi:. 


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A    PHASE    OF    HOTEL    LIFE 
(By    D  i    Vinoi.] 

TO  a  person  of  social  instinct*  there  I*  a  charm,  a  fascination 
about  hotel  lit*.  Should  one  be  lonely,  there  are  the  people  in 
the  dining-room  to  see  three  limes  a  day.  Besides,  one  can  ••  run 
in  "  to  a  neighbor's  room,  or  waylay  other*  on  the  stairs  or  in 
the  balls,  and  drag  them  perforce  Into  her  own  room  to  while 
away  hoars  of  loneliness.  On  the  other  hand,  those  desirous  of 
enjoying  the  pleasures  of  solitude,  can  be  accommodated  to  any 
extent  in  a  hotel.  It  is  easy  so  to  time  one's  meals,  as  to  have 
the  table  almost,  if  not  entirely  to  one's  self,  and  once  in  one's 
own  room,  it  is  equally  easy  to  bolt  and  bar  the  door,  to  remain 
undisturbed  behind  that  impregnable  barrier,  answering  neither 
knock  on  panel,  nor  rattle  of  knob.  The  table  is  at  once  the 
chief  source  of  delight,  and  a  standing  ground  of  complaint  with 
many  of  those  who  board.  It  may  be  a  pleasure  to  go  down  to 
the  dining-room,  or  it  may  be  an  ordeal  to  be  dreaded.  It  is 
highly  important  Ibat  the  table  companions  should  be  congenial. 
It  is  not  to  be  expected  that  every  man  will  be  a  Chesterfield,  or 
that  every  woman  will  have  the  grace  of  a  countess,  the  dignity 
of  a  duchess,  or  the  affability  of  a  Lady  Blessington ;  but  certainly 
it  is  not  too  much  to  expect  common  courtesy  and  a  cheerful, 
pleasant  demeanor  from  those  who  sit  around  the  same  board. 
To  be  confronted  at  table  by  one  who  has  a  sour  expression,  or  a 
captious  fault-finding  habit,  is  sufficient  to  destroy  the  best  appe- 
tite, and  ruin  the  finest  digestion  with  which  mortal  was  ever 
blessed.  When  a  family  quarrel  among  themselves  and  bring 
their  bickerings  with  them  to  the  table,  and  create  an  atmosphere 
of  irritation  and  apprehension  around  the  board,  even  to  break- 
ing out  into  a  general  family  row  before  folks,  it  is  time  to  move 
on. 

Does  living  at  a  hotel  engender  selfishness?  Perhaps.  I  have 
seen  people  skim  the  cream  pitcher  for  their  own  cups  of  coffee, 
and  then  blandly  pass  the  remains  to  their  neighbors.  I  have 
seen  tbem  reach  out  a  greedy  band  for  the  biggest  piece  of  cake, 
make  frantic  dives  for  the  ice-bucket,  and  pick  over  a  dish  of 
fruit  in  a  way  that  would  disgrace  a  street  Arab  at  a  free  dinner 
for  newsboys.  8ome  "ladies"  wash  their  cups  and  saucers,  and 
wipe  the  knives  and  forks  on  their  napkins  before  they  will 
use  them  for  the  purpose  designed.  They  often  use  more  than  the 
sense  of  taste  to  determine  the  sweetness  of  milk,  or  the  freshness 
of  meat.  These  are  types  of  some  of  the  guests  at  a  fashionable 
hotel.  Bat,  after  all,  it  rests  with  the  hotel  keeper  whether  the 
tone  of  his  bouse  be  raised  or  lowered,  in  either  a  fashionable,  a 
financial  or  a  moral  way.  To  start  with,  it  is  generally  supposed 
that  mine  host  ruas  his  house  for  his  own  benefit — to  make 
money.  To  succeed  in  that  he  must  please  his  guests.  This  is 
best  accomplished  by  having  their  interests  at  heart.  A  genial 
manner,  a  readiness  to  act  for  the  good  of  the  whole,  and  a 
willingness  to  serve  fresh  strawberries  and  cream  when  the  fruit 
is  being  cried  in  the  street,  instead  of  setting  forth  a  perpetual 
"  sauce"  of  dried  apples:  these  are  some  of  the  things  that  en 
dear  mine  host  to  his  guests.  When  the  hotel  keeper  is  a  woman, 
but  feels  above  her  business,  and  poses  as  a  "  society  leader," 
people  smile.  Some  of  them  get  mad  when  they  discover  that  as 
a  favor  to  them  they  are  being  cinched  for  all  they  are  worth,  be- 
ing gouged  for  all  they  will  stand. 

It  is  a  mystery  to  most  people  why  hotel  keepers  so  frequently 
are  as  blind  to  their  own  interests  as  their  coarse  would  indicate. 
To  be  sure  people  will  find  fault  and  tire  of  the  best  of  fare  after 
a  time,  but  to  stave  off  that  evil  day  as  far  as  possible  should  be 
the  aim  of  every  hotel  keeper.  Why  are  hotel  keepers  so  slow 
to  realize  that  the  manner  in  which  a  meal  is  served  has  a  great 
deal  to  do  in  inliuencing  a  guest's  criticism  of  the  hotel  as  a 
whole?  Opinions  differ  as  to  which  class  of  waiters  Is  the  most  de- 
desirable.  Many  say,  "  Oh,  by  all  means  darkies  the  most  stylish, 
but  " — and  that  "  but  "  means  a  great  deal.  It  means  that  a  col- 
ored waiter  must  be  feed,  and  feed  all  the  time,  for  every  little 
service  which  he  is  supposed  to  render,  but  which  he  withholds 
unless  he  is  paid  for  his  attentions.  Others  maintain  that  a 
darky  is  apt  to  be  consequential,  put  on  airs,  and  to  have  a  way 
of  expressing  contemptuous  insolence  which  is  very  galling  to  a 
white  man. 

White  waiters  are  quite  likely  to  get  drunk  and  to  take  to 
fighting  among  themselves.  I  have  seen  waiters  collide  with 
each  other,  and  both  come  to  grief,  when  it  was  the  evident  in- 
tention of  each  to  wreck  the  other's  tray.  Many  a  good  servant 
has  been  incapacitated  for  efficient  service  by  too  frequent  visita- 
tions to  the  bar.  I  have  in  mind  a  summer  hotel  where  the 
waiters  were  allowed  to  keep  a  standing  "  liquidating  "  account 
with  the  proprietor,  and  each  month  they  ended  several  dollars 
in  his  debt;  their  own  wages  in  a  lump,  like  Cleopatra's  pearl, 
had  melted  in  the  wine  cup. 

As  for  the  girl  waiters,  they  do  find  favor  in  some  quarters,  but 
generally  speaking,  sentiment  is  against  them  as  a  class.  They 
sometimes  have  been  known  to  slight  women  at  a  restaurant  or 
at  a  hotel.  It's  the  nature  of  the  sex.  They  can't  help  showing 
the  "  I'm-as-good-as-you-are"  feeling  to  those  women  who  have 
the  right  to  give  them  an  order. 

"Then,"  said  a  traveled  Englishman,  "I  don't  like  girl  waiters, 


because  if  your  dinner's  beastly,  yon  can't  swear  at  'em,  don't 
you  know,  and  you  can  swear  and  row  at  a  man  jolly  well,  don't 
you  know?  "  Another  objection  to  the  ••  lady  hashsllngeri,"  u 
my  traveled  Englishman  called  tbem.  is  that  they  will  try  to  flirt 
with  their  male  ouslomers.  and  while  casting  sweet  glances  at 
them,  forget  to  give  blm  sugar  for  his  coffee' 

As  for  Chinese  waiters,  sometimes  a  good  one  comes  to  the 
surface,  but  as  a  general  thing,  they  are  very  aggravating.  First 
of  all,  a  Chinaman  has  no  natural  respect  for  woman,  and  be  re- 
sents having  more  than  one  from  whom  he  takes  his  orders— and 
the  one  which  he  regards  as  his  only  authority  is  the  one  that 
pays  him  his  wages.  By  the  way,  it  is  a  clever  forethought  of  a 
wise  house-keeper— it  can  be  so  arranged  that  one  guest  at  a  hotel 
may  have  the  blissful  privilege  of  tipping  three  boys  for  the 
service  that  could  be  rendered  by  one.  For  instance,  there  are 
the  "  chambermaid  "  boy,  who  does  up  the  rooms,  another  boy 
who  serves  at  breakfast  and  lunch,  and   the  third,  who  does  the 

honors   at   dinner.     Three   boys  to  tip — excellent  arrangement 

low  salaries  to  the  boys — with  indefinite  possibilities  of  tips  I 

Another  thing,  a  Chinaman  will  not  take  orders  from  any  ser- 
vant save  by  the  one  who  hires  him.  When  the  head  China- 
man is  out  of  the  dining-room  dire  confusion  results,  and  the 
Chinese  help  do  as  they  like.  When  the  boss  Chinaman  is  not  in 
sight  the  boys  congregate  in  the  butler's  pantry,  talk  and  swear 
in  choice  Chinese,  while  the  guests   in  the  dining-room  lose  their 

time — yes,  even  their  watches   if   they  leave  them  on  the  table 

and  their  patience,  and  not  infrequently  go  without  breakfast, 
simply  because  the  celestials  do  not  choose  to  serve  them.  A 
saucy  Chinaman  has  been  known  to  open  the  door,  look  into  the 
dining-room,  take  a  deliberate  view  of  his  table,  surrounded  by 
hungry  guests,  and  then  withdrawing  his  head,  keep  them  waft- 
ing for  over  ten  minutes  before  he  would  deign  to  approach  and 
take  their  orders. 

In  the  words  of  the  old  song,  "There  is  a  boarding-house  not 
far  away,"  where  the  Chinamen  run  things  to  suit  themselves. 
One  of  the  guests  possessed  of  more  vehemence  than  patience, 
was  in  the  habit  of  striking  the  rim  of  his  glass  goblet  with  the 
edge  of  his  silver  knife,  by  which  performance  he  has  earned  the 
nickname  of  "The  Swiss  Bell-ringer."  On  occasion  be  has  been 
known  to  beat  the  board  with  a  bowl  in  the  hope  of  commanding 
attention.  One  morning,  what  did  the  impudent  heathens  do  but 
collect  themselves  in  the  butler's  pantry,  and  with  tin  pans  and 
kitchen  spoons  rival  the  frightful  pandemonium  of  a  Chinese 
New  Year's  celebration  in  a  Joss  house  I  What  did  the  boarding- 
house  woman  say?  Oh,  that  "people  did  not  pay  enough  for* 
each  to  have  a  butler  stand  behind  his  chair." 

When  servants  take  their  orders  with  impatience  and  fill  them 
with  forgetfulness;  when  they  slam  dishes  down  on  the  table; 
when  they  let  hot  viands  grow  cold  through  their  carelessness; 
when  they  serve  a  half-cold  rice  pudding,  or  a  sickishly  hot  cos- 
tard pie;  when  they  bring  a  lump  of  brown  soap  in  the  bottom 
of  a  coffee  cup,  or  an  egg-lining  to  a  spoon;  when  they  leave  the 
mark  of  their  thumb  on  a  soup-plate,  or  float  a  fly  in  a  bowl  of 
tea,  what  wonder  that  the  guests  blame  the  bill  of  fare,  and  from 
an  unsatisfactory  meal  condemn  the  table  I 


"  Absolutely  the  Best." 

It  is  made  of  pure  cream 
of  tartar  and  soda,  no  am- 
monia, no  alum.  A  like 
quantity  goes  farther  and 
does  better  work  It  is 
therefore  cheaper. 

Cleveland's  is  the  baking 
powder  used  in  the  U.  S. 
Army  and  by  teachers  of 
cookery.  It  never  varies, 
and  always  gives  perfect 
satisfaction.    Try  a  can. 

F.  H.  AMES  A  CO.,  Agents. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


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BJE-LQPKER-oN® 


""V/ES,  I  do  believe  that  punning  is  an  evil  habit,"  said  Sol 
1  Smith  Russell  last  Monday,  "  but  sometimes  I  indulge  in  it. 
For  instance,  some  time  since  I  was  playing  at  Salt  Lake  City  to 
a  crowded  house.  I  had  played  there  before,  when  Brigham 
Young  was  in  the  audience.  In  my  address  to  the  audience  on 
this  recent  visit,  I  remarked  that  I  had  formerly  played  in  that 
city  to  a  large  prophet,  but  never  to  a  larger  profit." 

Then  Mr.  Russell's  auditors  turned  away  and  smiled  a  sad,  sad 
smile.  Russell  is  a  natural  humorist,  though  the  above  anecdote 
does  not  illustrate  it.  He  is  full  of  life,  and  enjoys  eccentric 
things.  For  instance,  when  the  train  on  which  he  was  traveling 
reached  Sixteenth  street  sation,  Oakland,  last  Sunday,  he  and  a 
number  of  the  company  went  out  on  the  platform  to  take  a  walk. 
At  the  station  were  a  number  of  wives,  sisters  and  sweethearts, 
welcoming  and  bidding  affectionate  goodbye  to  husbands,  brothers 
and  lovers,  and  there  were  kisses  and  embraces  galore.  Russell 
viewed  the  scene  in  that  half  amused  manner  which  is  wholly  his 
own,  but  finally  the  loving  fever  in  the  air  overcame  him.  He 
rushed  up  to  one  of  the  ladies  of  the  company,  embraced  her, 
kissed  her  affectionately,  and  then  exclaimed  apologetically:  "  1 
really  couldn't  help  it.     You  see  they  are  all  doing  likewise  here." 

*  #  • 

Postmaster  Backus  will  contribute  a  postal  exhibit  to  the  Co- 
lumbian State  Fair,  which  opens  at  Sacramento  soon.  When  it 
is  considered  bow  Fair  exhibits  repeat  themselves,  year  after 
year,  like  perennial  chestnuts,  a  postal  exhibit  may  well  be  clas- 
sified as  unique — something  comparatively  new  under  the  sun. 
The  exhibit  will  illustrate,  after  the  manner  of  an  object  lesson, 
the  progress  made  in  the  postal  service  in  this  State,  and  especially 
"in  this  city,  during  the  last  forty  or  fifty  years.  There  will  be 
photographs  of  the  old  and  the  new.  The  historic  shanty  occu- 
pied by  Postmaster  Geary  in  1849  will  be  placed  by  the  side  of 
the  present  building,  itself  aspiring  to  note  as  a  venerable  relic. 
The  first  letter-carrier  in  this  town  is  still  living.  His  name  is 
Tim  Mahoney.  He  is  a  watchman  in  the  Customs  House.  His 
photograph  will  be  placed  alongside  of  one  exhibiting  the  300  stal- 
wart, uniformed  carriers  in  the  Free  Delivery  Service  now.  The 
evolution  of  letter-cancelling  machines  will  be  illustrated  by  pho- 
tographs and  practical  exhibits  also;  the  evolution  leading  up 
from  the  impression  made  by  a  piece  of  cut  cork  by  which  2,000 
letters  could  be  canceled  hourly,  to  the  present  machine,  operated 
by  steam  or  electricity,  which  postmarks,  cancels  and  counts  30,- 
000  letters  hourly.  The  postal  exhibit  will  be  placed  in  a  large 
frame  and  will  occupy  a  space  at  least  20  feet  square.  The  special 
services  of  a  photographer  and  artist  have  been  engaged,  the  for- 
mer to  take  various  views;  the  latter  to  engrave  signs  which  will 
explain  in  words  how  the  service  and  its  methods  have  progressed 
and  enlarged.  Truly,  all  things  evolute;  the  first  post  office  in 
San  Francisco  was  a  pinto  calf-skin  bag  hoisted  on  a  pole  which 
was  driven  in  the  sand  somewhere  near  Black  Point.  Pioneer 
Leese  was  the  postmaster.  Every  incoming  ship  contributed  its 
share  to  the  contents  of  the  bag,  and  took  away  what  belonged 
to  the  ship's  crew  or  passengers.  It's  a  pity  that  Postmaster 
Backus  cannot  lay  his  hands  on  that  original  pinto  calf-skin.  Who 
knows  where  it  is,  or  what  has  become  of  it? 

*  *  • 

There  is  a  restaurant  or  chop-house  on  O'Farrell  street,  which 
should  be  properly  called  the  "  Takerin."  It  pretends  to  be  a 
modest,  unpretentious  place,  and  the  unwary  traveler  is  apt  to 
drop  in  there  and  imagine  that  he  is  going  to  have  a  nice  meal  at 
a  reasonable  rate.  There  are  no  menus  in  sight,  and  the  guest  is 
at  the  mercy  of  the  waiter  and  the  cook.  If  lucky,  the  visitor 
will  manage  to  get  a  couple  of  lamb  or  mutton  chops  and  a  glass 
of  ale,  for  which  he  will  be  charged  $1.25.  This  "  Takerin  "  is  a 
nice  place — to  keep  out  of. 

»  *  » 

Two  or  three  months  ago  there  was  recited  in  the  News  Lettee 
a  story  of  the  peculiar  events  following  the  curse  proclaimed  by 
a  woman  in  Nebraska  last  October.  Her  lover,  Ed  Neal,  had 
committed  murder,  and  he  was  hunted  down,  tried  and  con- 
demned to  death.  In  the  court  room,  when  sentence  was  pro- 
nounced, there  was  a  dramatic  scene,  for  the  woman  arose  as  the 
Judge  finished  speaking,  and  uttered  a  curse  that  awed  all  in  the 
room.  It  was  leveled  at  the  Judge,  the  Sheriff,  the  prosecuting 
attorney  and  a  reporter,  all  of  whom  she  deemed  had  been  instru- 
mental in  bringing  about  her  lover's  death.     Now,  as  was  recited 


in  the  News  Letter,  a  curious  series  of  events  followed.  The 
men  anathematized  were  all  strong  and  healthy  at  the  time  they 
stood  listening  to  the  words  of  vengeance.  Two  weeks  afterwards 
the  prosecuting  attorney  was  stricken  with  pneumonia  and  died. 
Thirty  days  more  had  scarcely  elapsed  before  the  Sheriff  was  shot 
and  killed,  and  thus  far  down  the  chain  the  story  ended,  only  to 
be  resumed  again  now  in  the  same  remarkable  way.  The  Judge 
is  dead.  The  telegraph  dispatches  the  other  day  announced  that 
Judge  Clarkson,  of  Omaha,  had  been  drowned.  He  it  was  who 
had  pronounced  the  sentence  on  Neal.  The  only  one  left,  there- 
fore, of  the  men  cursed,  is  the  reporter,  and  he  is  now  working  on 
a  paper  in  Oakland,  and  wondering  if  he,  too,  is  to  feel  the  weight 
of  the  oath.  It  is  a  strange  case,  certainly,  and  one  that  gives 
foundation  for  a  good  many  theories  in  these  days  of  mysticism 
and  theosophy.  A  remarkable  phase  of  it,  too,  is  that  the  woman 
who  pronounced  the  anathema  is  now  a  religieuse.  She  renounced 
the  life  she  had  been  leading  shortly  after  her  lover  was  executed, 
and  is  now  striving  to  make  amends  for  the  misdeeds  of  her 
early  career.  She  has  been  much  affected  at  the  wonderful  re- 
sults that  have  followed  her  curse,  and  the  death  of  the  Judge 
the  other  day  has  had  quite  an  alarming  effect  on  her  nervous 
system. 

*  »  * 

A.  W.  Rucker,  who  has  just  won  a  suit  for  one-sixth  interest 
in  the  famous  Aspen  mine  in  Colorado,  is  a  character  in  the  Cen- 
tennial State.  He  is  a  Mississippian,  and  a  fire-eating  one.  Some 
years  ago  he  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor of  Colorado,  and  in  a  speech  delivered  at  his  home,  Lead- 
yille,  advocated  that  the  Democracy  make  an  aggressive  fight, 
declaring  himself  ready  to  shoulder  his  gun  and  march  upon  the 
Republican  works.  This  speech  brought  him  the  soubriquet  of 
"Shot-gun  "  Rucker,  and  caused  him  to  be  mercilessly  cartooned. 
He  subsequently  achieved  notoriety  of  the  same  sort  by  chal- 
lenging Governor  Blackburn,  of  Kentucky,  to  fight  a  duel  over  a 
political  dispute.  The  interest  in  the  mine  which  the  courts  have 
just  awarded  him  is  valued  at  $1,500,000.  The  victim  is  Jerome 
B.  Wheeler,  the  founder  of  Aspen,  and  chief  owner  of  the  great 
department  store  of  New  York,  known  as  "  Macy's." 
it  *  * 

They  told  a  good  one  on  Sam  Shortridge,  at  the  Palace  Hotel, 
the  other  evening.  "  It  was  like  this,"  began  the  raconteur,  "Sam 
was  at  Marysville,  addressing  the  farmers  in  a  political  speech. 
He  grew  eloquent,  wondrously  so,  effectingly  so,  it  proved,  and 
one  old  farmer  was  so  overcome  by  his  feelings  that  he  actually 
cast  himself  at  the  feet  of  the  orator. 

"  (  Rise,  sir;  I  am  only  mortal!  '  said  Sam,  unblushingly,  and 
in  tones  that  actually  belied  his  denial  of  personal  wings.  The 
farmer  rose,  and  Sam  continued  with  all  his  eloquence  and  ora- 
tory. It  was  so  fetching — the  speech.  I  mean — that  Marysville 
folks  are  certain  to-day  that  Sam  either  has  wings  or  ought  to 
have  them.     They  can't  believe  that  he  is  'only  a  mortal.'  " 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  certain  satisfaction  in  the  possession  of  a  little  slip 
of  paper,  which  may  win  a  prize,  that  seems  to  commend  itself 
to  the  present  generation,  and  people,  who  would  not  for  the 
world  engage  in  a  gambling  game,  purchase  every  month  tickets 
in  all  sorts  of  lotteries  and  »  investment  "  concerns.  Even  that 
famous  body,  the  Grand  Jury  of  San  Francisco  is  dominated  to 
a  certain  extent  by  the  desire  to  "  draw  "  something,  and,  at 
their  meeting  on  August  18th,  they  uuwittingly  exemplified  the 
fact  that  the  ordinary  citizen  is  not  the  proper  person  with  whom 
to  intrust  the  duty  of  stamping  out  the  selling  of  pools  on  the 
future.  At  this  meeting  mention  was  made  by  one  of  the  jury- 
men of  the  rapidity  with  which  lottery  companies  were  springing 
up,  and  a  warm  discussion,  in  which  every  member  of  the  Grand 
Jury  took  a  part,  ensued.  One  of  them  suggested  that  it  was 
nqt  a  very  simple  matter  to  describe  a  lottery  ticket,  and  that  it 
would  be  a  good  plan  for  some  one  member  to  procure  sample 
tickets  of  all  the  lotteries  doing  business  in  this  city.  Hardly 
had  the  gentleman  finished  his  innocent  suggestion,  when  seven 
conservators  of  the  public's  morals  dove  into  their  pockets,  and 
then,  withdrawing  them,  thrust  them  in  the  suggestor's  face,  as 
they  exclaimed,  simultaneously,  «  Here  is  one."  A  count  proved 
that  all  the  most  important  "  Big  "  and  "Little"  companies  on 
earth  were  represented  in  the  collection.  The  Grand  Jury  is  not 
considering   the  lottery  curse  with  the  same  warmth  as  of  yore. 

*  *  » 

When  I  see  a  young  woman  take  a  nickel  from  her  purse  to 
pay  car-fare,  and  hold  it  between  her  teeth  until  she  replaces  the 
purse  in  her  pocket,  it  brings  to  mind  a  little  scene  which  I  wit- 
nessed in  a  Mission  street  car  one  night  iast  week.  It  was  about 
twelve  o'clock  when  the  car  stopped  near  Second  street,  and  one 
of  the  dirtiest  specimens  of  humanity  that  I  have  ever  had  the 
misfortune  to  lay  eyes  upon  got  in.  The  man,  evidently  from 
his  dress,  a  longshoreman,  reeked  with  the  stale  fumes  of  tobacco 
and  water-front  whisky;  besides  this,  his  clothes  were  torn  and 
covered  with  gutter  filth,  while  from  his  hair  to  where  his  woolen 
shirt  enclosed  the  throat,  were  clots  of  blood  and  dirt;  his  whole 
appearance  showed  signs  of  a  long  debauch,  ending  up  with  being 
thrown  out  of  some  groggery  when  his  cash  was  gone.  Stagger- 
ing into  the  car,  be  esconced  himself  in  one  corner,  and  glowered 


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II 


wllh  bleary,  bloodshot  eyes  upon  lb*  other  ptuengers. 
(t»w  was  centered  upon  him.  and  the  condaclor.  slier  repeated 
calls  by  the  bell,  anally  opened  the  door,  (rrortlv  telling  him  to 
pot  his  fare  in  the  box.  The  drunkard  atared  stupidly  at  him  for 
•  moment,  and  then,  seeming  to  realire  what  was  wanted,  began 
deliberately  polling  off  one  of  his  boots.  After  tbls  was  finished 
came  the  sock,  disclosing  a  dirty  f,.,.i .  then  he  inserted  his  grimy 
fingers  into  the  toe  of  the  sock,  and  drew  forth  one  lonesome 
nickel,  evidently  placed  there  lor  f«'.  ty.  rutting  this  between 
his  teeth,  he  calmly  pulled  on  the  sock  and  boot  again,  dropped 
the  coin  in  the  box.  and  fell  back  in  bis  seat.  I  wondered  to  my- 
self what  pearly  teeth  will  hold  that  nickel  to-morrow,  and  what 
would  be  some  fair  dame's  feelings  afterwards,  if  she  but  knew 
of  its  last  resting  place. 

a  ■  * 

8ince  the  publication  in  the  News  Letter  last  week  of  a  few 
facts  in  the  early  history  of  Connie  (iilchrist,  the  cable  has  given 
to  the  press  the  statement  that  it  is  claimed  that  she  is  the 
daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Beaufort,  her  quondam  <•  protector." 
Comments  on  the  matter  state  that  this  accounts  for  the  deep  in- 
terest he  has  always  taken  in  her,  one  writer  going  so  far  as  to 
say  that  in  point  of  fact  her  early  history  always  was  "  shrouded 
in  mystery."  That's  true  enough ,  but  the  reason  is  not  on  account 
of  any  ducal  guardianship,  bat  si  nipiy  because  she  came  from  ob- 
scure parentage  in  Camden  Town,  a  second  rate  suburb  of  Lon- 
don. It  is  all  nonsenpe  to  talk  about  the  Duke  of  Beaufort  being 
her  father,  for  the  writer  remembers  Connie  when,  as  a  protege  of 
the  Ubrlans,  she  was  first  launched  forth  into  stage  life  at  the 
Bedford  Music  Hall.  It  was  not  until  she  had  been  doing  her 
skipping-rope  dance  at  the  Gaiety  that  she  met  the  Duke  of 
Beaufort,  and  from  that  time  on  his  carriage  was  a  regular  thing 
for  her  at  the  stage  door.  These  rumorists  regarding  her  straw- 
berry-leaved lineage  evidently  know  nothing  of  her  sister  Marie- 
is  she  one  of  the  Beaufort  stock,  too?  She  must  be,  for  she  is  as 
like  Connie  as  two  peas  in  a  pod.  The  name  of  Kate  Vaughan, 
of  peerage  fame,  has  also  been  brought  Into  the  matter.  In  the 
days  when  Connie  commenced  her  stage  career  at  the  Bedford, 
though,  Kate  Vaughan  was  running  around  a  bare-footed  gamin 
in  the  squalid  alleys  of  the  East-end  of  London. 
#  «  • 

Among  the  aristocrats  of  Oakland  who  have  renounced  their 
wicked  worldliness  to  become  followers  of  the  lowly  Nazarene,  in 
the  ranks  of  the  Salvation  Army,  is  H.  B.  Land,  a  gentleman  of 
excellent  connections  and  of  considerable  means.  Previous  to  en- 
tering the  Army  he  was  a  prominent  worker  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  for  two  years  acted  as  private  secretary  for  B.  Fay 
Mills,  the  evangelist.  Mr.  Land  is  a  staunch  Prohibitionist,  and 
last  week  was  nominated  at  the  County  Convention  of  the  Pro- 
hibition Party  that  met  in  Oakland  for  Auditor.  He  is  the  tallest 
man  in  the  Salvation  Army  parade,  being  considerable  over  sue 
feet  in  height.  In  appearance  he  greatly  resembles  General  Booth, 
the  organizer  of  the  Salvation  Army. 

*  #  # 

A  temperance  lecturer  at  Woodland  played  a  heartless  trick 
upon  his  audience  the  other  night,  and  one  that  illustrated 
what  folly  political  prejudice  is  capable  of  making  men  commit. 
He  expressed  the  opinion  that  Democrats  lacked  courage  to  stand 
by  their  leader  in  his  advanced  opinions,  and  read  certain  state- 
ments which  he  led  his  audience,  by  inference,  to  think  were 
from  the  pen  of  Grover  Cleveland.  Having  done  so,  he  asked  all 
the  Democrats  who  indorsed  the  sentiments  expressed  to  hold  up 
their  hands.  To  a  man,  every  admirer  of  the  sage  of  Gray 
Gables  put  up  his  good  right  hand.  The  same  invitation  was 
then  extended  to  the  Republicans,  and  not  one  could  be  found 
willing  to  put  himself  on  record  as  friendly  to  any  supposed 
Democratic  sentiment.  The  audience  having  thus  thoroughly 
committed  itself,  the  lecturer  quietly  announced  that  the  opinions 
which  he  had  read  were  actually  extracts  from  the  messages  of 
Grant,  Arthur  and  Garfield.  A  loud  Republican  shout  of  laughter 
went  up  at  the  neatness  with  which  the  Democrats  had  been  en- 
trapped into  indorsing  the  belief  of  their  opponents,  though  it 
was  tempered  somewhat  by  chagrin  at  the  Republican  inability 
to  recognize  their  own  political  pabulum  when  not  properly 
labeled. 

*  #  * 

The  Maze  is  showing  lines  of  excellent  goods  in  all  depart- 
ments of  furnishing  wear,  and  its  floors  are  crowded  daily  by 
hundreds  of  patrons.  The  Maze  is  the  most  popular  store  of  its 
kind  in  the  city,  for  it  always   gives  perfect  satisfaction  to  all  its 


patrons.     Its  goods  «re  (irnlrlMi,  its  service  perfect   and  every- 
thing atla.-hed  to  its  various   departments  are  In  accord  with  the 
general   tone   of   excellence   maintained  throughout     l'ealers  at 
>ie  are  always  certain  of   receiving  the  best  in  the  market. 

Tn<>  I  ike  life  worth  tl 

ol  heat  and  perspiration,  enjoy  notion  nonet 

of  beautiful  flowers.    Charles   M.    Leopold,   the  popular  Horl 
decorator,  or  SS  Poet  street,  enjoys  the  patronage  of  nil  the  leading 

people  in  town. on  account  of  the  fresh  rind  beautiful  bid 
that  may  always  he  found  at  his  establishment. 


DUFF    GORDON     SHERRY, 

THE   MOST   CELEBRATED  AND  BEST  KNOWN  BRAND  IN 

THE   WORLD. 

Sold  by  the  Leading  Wine  Merchants  and  Grocers. 

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TiE  WHITE  HOUSEF 

Largest  Retail  Dry  Goods  Store  in  the  City. 

Great    Opening   of   the 
Season. 

Fall  and  Winter,  1832-1833, 
DRESS  GOODS!  SILKS! 

FINEST  STOCK  EVER  IMPORTED. 

MONDAY,  AUG.  22,  1892. 


Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 
Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 


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OUTING  SUITS-SHIRTS,       LADIES 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


THE  Woman's  Press  Association  is  agitating  the  idea  of  giving 
an  Authors'  Carnival  in  aid  of  its  "clubhouse"  fund.  If  the 
scheme  should  be  worked  oat  there  will  be  many  reminiscences 
of  the  first  Carnival  of  Authors  ever  given  here  some  fourteen 
years  ago,  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion.  Every  swell  in  town 
took  part  in  that  grand  affair,  which  lasted  a  week  or  ten  days 
and  ended  in  a  grand  ball.  If  I  am  not  mistaken,  General  Grant, 
or  some  other  great  American,  was  a  guest  at  the  ball.  The 
Carnival  Guard,  composed  of  a  number  of  beautiful  young 
women,  drilled  by  Lieutenant  L.  W.  Mix;  the  Dickens,  Persian, 
Egyptian,  Bret  Harte  and  French  booths;  Tintern  Abbey  and  the 
Mother  Goose  booth  were  all  features.  In  the  Moore  booth  the 
Veiled  Prophet  and  lovely  Lallan  Rookh  posed.  Miss  Mayer, 
Mrs.  Gray-Harrington  and  Mr=.  Holmes  were  in  this  booth. 
Sheda  Torbert  was  a  white  captive  in  the  Indian  booth.  Mrs. 
Sam  Mayer  was  a  Queen.  In  the  Shakespearean  booth  the  Clay 
Greenes  and  lingers  held  forth.  The  second  Authors'  Carnival 
had  not  quite  the  success  of  the  former  one.  Emelie  Melville, 
Helene  Dingeon  and  the  Ferrer  girls  naturally  drew  crowds  to 
the  musical  booth.  The  Chinese  booth  was  a  gorgeous  affair. 
The  picture  made  by  Mrs.  Holmes,  in  her  Grecian  costume,  as  a 
part  of  the  tableau  "Venus  Arising  from  the  Sea,"  has  never 
been  forgotten.  Taber  photographed  it  by  flash  light,  but  the 
negative  did  not  come  out  well.  Carnival  number  three  was  a 
failure,  the  society  people  taking  part  might  be  numbered  on 
one's  fingers.  It  was  entirely  a  southside  affair.  Possibly  one 
might  be  given  at  this  period  with  some  chance  of  success.  It 
is  only  a  novelty,  however,  that  will  go  here. 
«  »  » 

Miss  Grossman,  who  takes  the  title  role  in  Gloriana,  bad  an  ex- 
perience in  this  part  of  the  country  that  will  doubtless  be  recited 
in  the  green-rooms  when  she  gets  back  East.  Shortly  after  the 
company  opened  at  the  Baldwin  they  noticed  that  a  prominent 
front  row  attendant  every  night  was  a  swell-looking  young  man. 
About  this  time,  too,  Miss  Crossman  began  to  be  the  recipient  of 
bouquets  at  her  rooms  in  the  hotel,  the  flowers  being  sent  always 
by  messengers,  and  accompanied  no  more  information  regarding 
their  donor  than  cards,  which  were  invariably  attached  and  which 
bore  the  legend,  "  From  Amanda."  As  time  wore  on,  and  the 
company,  with  the  front-row  admirer,  went  over  to  the  California, 
Miss  Crossman,  in  order  to  avoid  his  attentions,  made  no  secret 
of  the  fact  that  she  is  a  married  woman  and  has  a  child  in  New 
York.  The  news  reached  the  mashed  young  man,  and  the  night 
Miss  Crossman  played  in  Oakland  she  received  a  short  letter  from 
him.  It  recited  that  he  had  learned  that  she  was  married,  and 
then  the  missive  went  on  to  say:  "Amanda  is,  of  course,  dead 
now,  and  I  may  as  well  declare  myself.  I  am  Clarence  Walters, 
of  San  Francisco."  The  young  man  in  question  is,  of  course, 
well-khown  around  town,  for  his  father  is  one  of  the  richest  mer- 
chants here,  and  the  whole  family  moves  in  very  swell  society. 
However,  the  letter-writer,  though  defeated,  was  not  crushed, 
for  he  promptly  attended  the  two  performances  in  Oakland,  sent 
her  flowers  as  usual,  and  laid  his  heart  at  her  feet  for  her  to 
trample  on.  He  also  announced  that  he  intended  to  arrange  his 
business  matters  here  so  that  he  could  travel  with  the  company 
and  be  always  near  her,  though  whether  he  has  succeeded  in  do- 
ing this  or  not  is  a  matter  of  conjecture.  Of  course,  Miss  Cross- 
man  treats  the  whole  affair  as  a  huge  joke,  and  it  affords  plenty 
of  fun  for  the  company. 

*  *  » 

The  guests  at  one  of  the  principal  hotels  at  Santa  Cruz  are  con- 
gratulating themselves  heartily  upon  the  fact  that  the  "shoot"  at 
Del  Monte  has  drawn  thither  the  large  family  of  women  who,  al- 
though not  inmates  of  the  hotel,  are  in  the  habit  of  coming  over 
from  their  cottage  and  useing  and  enjoying  all  the  privileges  of  the 
hotel,  oftentimes  to  the  crowding  out  of  people  who  pay  for  the 
same.  The  period  of  their  absence  at  the  rival  watering  place 
has  therefore  been  looked  forward  to  with  genuine  delight  by 
those  who  are  left  behind. 

#  •  # 

We  may  expect  some  spicy  items  of  current  chat  anent  the 
aforementioned  shoot,  as  among  the  numerous  throng  who  will 
be  there  these  three  days  are  people  known  to  be  antagonistic- 
rivals  in  love,  business  and  social  life ;  jealous  wives  and  "larky" 
husbands;  men  given  to  "jags"  and  maidens  frisky.  In  fact,  all 
the  concommitants  for  a  steamy  dish  of  gossip,  well  stirred  for 
society's  caldron  by  a  skillful  dowager  or  two— nay.  three 
— and  supplied  to  the  world  outside  by  some  well-known  racon- 
teurs, male  and  female,  who  are  on  the  spot  for  that  purpose. 
*  *  * 

Again  are  our  belles,  who  have  been  so  anxiously  watching  for 
the  arrival  of  the  big  English  ironclad  flagship  Warspite,  doom  to 
disappointment,  as  that  vessel,  having  run  on  a  rock  on  her  way 
down  here,  is  now  laid  up  for  repairs  at  Esquimau  dry  dock. 
What  makes  it  so  particularly  aggravating  to  our  girls,  is  the  fact 


of  there  being  no  less  than  three  scions  of  nobility  on  board,  one 
of  whom  is  avowedly  on  the  lookout  for  a  Yankee  heiress. 

*  •  * 

On  dit  the  quandom  yachting  companion  and  friend  of  Sir 
Thomas  Hesketh,  yclept  Mr.  Francis  Francis,  is  held  captive  on 
our  coast  by  the  beaux  jeux  of  a  Del  Monte  charmer. 

*  #  * 

The  masculine  element  of  onr  social  world  will  no  doubt  be  re- 
joiced to  hear  that  at  the  very  pretty  tea  recently  given  by  Miss 
Florence  Weihe,  in  honor  of  her  friend,  Miss  Roberta  Nuttall, 
the  girls  were  unanimous  in  voting  the  affair  charming,  and 
wanting  in  but  one  particular  to  be  perfect,  and  that  one  was 
called — Manl 

*  *  • 

If  gossip  speaks  by  the  card,  the  next  series  of  cotillions  are  to 
be  made  as  rigidly  exclusive  as  will  be  possible  in  a  society  where 
the  golden  calf  is  so  worshiped. 

*  #  * 

As  a  girl  said  at  Castle  Crags  not  long  ago,  'the  long-lost  donble 
B's  are  to  have  a  show  at  last."  A  pretty  widow  present,  whose 
penchant  for  the  distinguished  Al  is  well  known,  replied,  "  Why, 
they've  always  held  front  rank,"  and  the  laugh  that  greeted  her 
remark  showed  that  the  little  coterie  of  listeners  "  caught  on  "  as 
to  whom  she  meant.  However,  the  first  speaker  explained  that 
she  had  reference  to  Blood  and  Brains  when  she  spoke,  and  no 
one  person  in  particular. 

*  *  » 

The  dance  given  in  Oakland  on  Friday  evening  of  last  week 
revealed  a  suspected  fact,  i.  e  ,  the  great  admiration  which  one  of 
the  beaux  of  that  Athens  of  the  Pacific  entertains  for  a  pretty 
girl  of  'Frisco. 

*  *  • 

The  Hager  residence,  on  Gough  and  Sacramento  streets,  is  in 
the  hands  of  the  upholsterers  and  cleaners,  which  seems  to  indi- 
cate that  the  Madame  and  her  handsome  daughters  may  be 
looked  for  in  town  in  the  near  future. 

#  •  # 

Gossip  avers  that  Mrs.  Freddie  Sharon  has  reserved  her  most 
fetching  gown  for  the  Del  Monte  dance,  and  of  course  Miss  Emily 
Hager  would  not  allow  any  one  to  eclipse  her  toilette! 

*  *  * 

Ed.  Greenway's  efforts  to  keep  the  forthcoming  cotillion  set 
select  to  the  uttermost  degree  will  meet  with  universal  approba- 
tion; but — ah,  there's  the  rub!  but  how  is  be  going  to  do  it,  and 
have  "  society  "  represented? 

•  •  « 

Miss  Florence  Breckenridge  (daughter  of  Mrs.  Freddie  Sharon 
by  Irer  first  husband)  has  been  spoken  of  as  a  possible  debutante 
the  coming  winter.  But  her  grandmother  has  decided  that  the 
young  lady  is  still  too  much  of  a  bud  in  its  undeveloped  stage  to 
make  her  entree  into  the  swim  this  year  at  least. 

*  *  * 

It  is  among  the  possibilities  that  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan  will  have 
her  sister,  Miss  Pullman,  as  her  guest  a  portion  of  the  winter; 
and  Mrs.  D.  W.  Earl  is  spoken  of  as  likely  to  give  a  ball  in  honor 
of  Mrs.  Carolan,  ne'e  Pullman,  during  the  coming  season  in  town. 

#  *  * 

Mrs.  Henry  Williams  has  promised  her  friends  several  enter- 
tainments for  the  coming  season  also. 

•  .»  • 

On  dit  papa-in-law  Blackwell,  of  pickle-jam   fame  in   London, 
has  been  unusually  generous  in  dispensing  gaieties  for  the  Amer- 
ican widow  of  his  son  and  her  vivacious  sister.     The  ladies  write 
their  friends  they  are  having  a  glorious  time  there. 
#  »  # 

Those  who  were  invited  to  the  marriage  of  Delph  Lyons,  at 
Dixon,  last  week,  were  treated  to  a  surprise,  from  the  effects  of 
which  they  have  not  yet  recovered.  Her  betrothal  to  a  young 
Mr.  White,  of  San  Francisco,  has  been  known  for  quite  a  while, 
and  then  at  last  came  the  cards  for  the  wedding,  and  all  her 
friends  prepared  their  congratulations,  some  of  the  greetings 
taking  the  substantial  and  acceptable  form  of  wedding  presents. 
Wednesday  was  the  day  set  for  the  nuptials,  and  as  the  ceremony 
was  to  take  place  in  the  afternoon,  most  of  the  invited  guests 
{many  of  whom  had  to  travel  quite  a  distance  from  other  towns) 
assembled  in  the  morning.  They  were  met  with  a  social  facer. 
The  marriage  was  off.  It  appears  that  there  had  suddenly  arrived 
on  the  scene  over  night  a  young  man  who  had  been  Delph's  first 
love,  and  who  had  gone  away,  never,  it  was  supposed,  to  return. 
He  had,  however,  just  turned  up  in  the  nick  of  time,  and  after  a 
short  interview  with  her,  she  announced  to  her  parents  that  her 
marriage  was  off,  as  she  had  made  other  arrangements.  The  bride- 
groom-elect knew  nothing  of  all  this  until  the  next  day,  when, 
with  his  best  man,  he  arrived  from  San  Francisco,  all  ready  to  put 
on  the  golden  chains.  A  lively  seance  followed  when  the  news 
was  broken  to  him,  and  he  is  now  understood  to  be  composing 
several  yards  of  poetry  about  the  fickleness  of  woman,  bleeding 
hearts,  and  other  kindred  subjects. 

The  Mason  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue, 
is  well  known  as  the  most  popular  restaurant  in  the  city  among  bon 
viva?its. 


Auguet  27,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


13 


THE    LAMENT    OF    ARCADY -Fnyu,  7/w-w. 

Ah!  Corydon.  what  .iiys  were  tboM 

When    blithe  we  witched    oar   flocks  together, 
Before  old   age  our  tresses  froie. 

And  tamed  them  white  as  wintry  weather! 
When  eyes  were  bright  and  hearts  were  young, 

Xor  dreamed  we  of  our  future  woes. 
The  golden  age  by  poets  sung, 

Ah  I  Corydon,  what  days  were  those! 
Ah!  Corydon,  what  days  are  these. 

When  o'er  the  fire  we  sit  in  sorrow, 
And  bear  the  chill  wind  shake  the  trees, 

Fortelling  but  a  sad  tomorrow: 
When  eyes  are  doll  and   hearts  are  sore, 

Nor  has  our  singing  power  to  please 
The  bitter  age  unknown  of  yore, 

Ah!  Corydon,  what  days  are  these! 


NEWSPAPER     ACCURACY. 


WHAT  is  the  matter  with  some  of  our  daily  contemporaries?  On 
their  desire  to  boom  tbe  "grand  old  man"  in  England,  they 
are  down  not  only  on  Lord  Salisbury,  but  on  all  persons,  as  it 
seems,  who  on  one  or  another  occasion  have  been  supported  by 
him.  One  of  the  morning  papers  recently  seems  to  have  been 
so  intoxicated  by  the  anti-Salisbury  craze  that  it  raves  in  the 
most  extraordinary  manner  agaiDst  Ferdinand  of  Bulgaria,  whom 
the  poble  Lord  had  received  with  great  hooors  in  England;  ac- 
cuses him  of  riotous  living,  says  that  his  creditors  are  down  upon 
him  in  full  cry,  and  that  ex-Queen  Natalie  publishes  periodically 
(sic)  accurate  accounts  of  the  sum  he  spends, and  reaches  the  climax 
in  calling  him  "about  the  most  contemptible  specimen  of  royalty 
that  Europe  can  furnish."  Poor  Prince  Ferdinand!  Who  should 
ever  Lave  thought  that  this  young  man,  who  has  scarcely  ever 
given  any  cause  for  evil  gossip,  who  never  in  his  life  had  any 
trouble  with  his  creditors,  as  his  enormously  rich  relations  supply 
him  with  all  the  money  he  wants,  and  who  has  deported  himself 
always  in  the  most  gentlemanly  manner,  and  therefore  is  persona 
grata  in  tbe  fullest  sense  of  the  word,  even  at  the  pedantic  court 
of  8t.  James,  should  be  so  slandered?  And  who  should  have 
imagined  that  ex-Queen  Natalie  would  be  accused  of  publishing 
periodically  the  expenditures  of  a  foreign  prince  whom  she  prob- 
ably does  not  even  know  personally?  Readers  of  the  editorial  in 
question  might  have  imagined  that  a  lapsus  calami  was  perhaps 
the  cause  of  this  nnjast  attack  upon  Prince  Ferdinand,  and  that 
ex-Queen  Natalie's  scamp  of  a  husband,  King  Milan,  is  meant. 
Of  him,  at  least,  a  London  telegram  last  Monday  spoke  in  similar 
terms.  But  no,  the  editor  in  question  distinctly  repudiates  the 
idea  that  he  means  the  ex-King  of  Servia,  for  he  says:  "His 
(Prince  Ferdinand's)  only  strong  rival  (sic)  in  vice  and  general 
worthlessness  is  Milan  of  8ervia,"  etc.  Its  love  for  the  »<  grand 
old  man  "  and  the  "  Sons  of  Erin  "  seems  to  have  unbalanced  the 
judgment  of  our  esteemed  contemporary. 

DR.    PRICE'S    BAKING    POWDER. 


Supplying  the  Army,  Navy  and  Indian  Department. 

The  purchasing  agents  of  the  United  States  Government  have  or- 
dered nearly  one  hundred  thousand  pounds  of  Dr.  Price's  Baking 
Powder  in  the  first  five  months  of  this  year,  1892. 

The  Government  exercises  great  care  in  selecting  its  supplies  of  all 
kinds,  rejecting  everything  that  is  not  of  tbe  best,  and  the  very  fact 
that  it  has  adopted  Dr.  Price's  Baking  Powder  is  proof  that  it  has 
found  it  the  best  of  all  the  baking  powders.  Dr.  Price's  is  peculiarly 
adapted  for  export,  as  neither  long  sea  voyages  nor  climatic  changes 
affect  it,  this  brand  keeping  fresh  and  sweet  for  years,  while  other 
baking  powders  deteriorate  rapidly. 

It  is  guaranteed  to  the  government  to  be  a  pure  cream  of  tartar 
powder  free  from  ammonia,  alum  or  other  harmful  substances,  and 
it  is  also  the  only  baking  powder  prepared  by  a  physician  of  high 
standing. — Chicago  Inter-Ocean. 

THE  following  advertisement,  from  the  Western,  Mercury,  is  in- 
teresting as  showing  what  husbands  have  to  put  up  with. 
It  is  bad  enough  to  be  deserted  by  your  wife;  but  how  much 
worse  to  be  compelled  to  advertise  the  fact  that  you  have  been 
deserted  in  favor  of  a  man  with  a  wooden  leg  and  eight  children  ! 

I,  William  "Vivian,  South  Brent,  hereby  give  notice  that  my  wife,  Bessie 
Peters  Vivian  (a  tall,  slight  person),  has  eloped  with  a  married  man  who 
has  one  wooden  leg  and  eight  children.  Public  beware;  no  responsibility 
for  debts. 

All  good  housewives  send  their  carpets  and  curtains  to  be  cleaned 
at  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at 
353-357  Tehama  street.  This  firm  has  an  excellent  reputation,  gained 
by  a  long  and  successful  business  career,  of  doing  the  best  work  in 
its  line  in  the  city.  It  makes  a  specialty  of  cleaning  ball  and  evening 
dresses,  and  enjoys  first-class  patronage. 

Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  is  the  best  remedy  known  for  the  cure  of 
the  distressing  effects  of  poison  oak.  If  you  are  going  to  the  country 
do  not  fail  to  take  some  of  this  famous  lotion  with  you.  It  is  also 
an  excellent  remedy  for  the  relief  of  asthma.  The  lotion  may  he 
procured  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street. 


RUSSIAN 

BAND  TRIMMING. 


We  have  just  received  many  new 
and  choice  styles  for  Fall  dress  ac- 
cessories. 


(£f&r*nc*cf 


<_?« 


Ill  to  121  Post  Street 


«•    TO 

Or.  "W.   OLABE    _c   CO., 
663  Market  Street, 

FOE 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW     SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 


GOLD  SEAL  Eubta  HOSE, 

THE  BEST  MADE. 

Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 


B.  H.  PEASE,    |  A„ents. 

LOUIS  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


577  <£  S79  Market  Street. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS., 

IJSTTIEiaiOia         UECOBATOBS. 

Dealers  in  Stained  Glass,  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall    Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St..  between  5th  anil  6th,  San  Francisco 
SEARCHER   OF    RECORDS 

AND 

EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 
G.  W.  MCKEAND, 

OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.    Residence— 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


THE  proposition  to  sell  the  8tock  Exchange  building  is  again 
being  agitated  by  a  certain  class  of  brokers,  and  it  would  be 
a  surprise  to  many  were  the  names  of  some  of  those  who  favor 
the  sale  made  public.  They  are  fortunately,  however,  hopelessly 
in  the  minority,  and  the  prospect  for  doing  away  with  the  Ex- 
change is  as  far  off  as  ever.  The  idea  has,  of  course,  been  sug- 
gested by  the  prevailing  depression  in  business  bearing  so  heavily 
on  the  members,  who  are  weak  financially.  Kor  them  the  sale 
would  mean  a  temporary  relief  from  the  embarrassments  of  the 
present.  But  it  would  also  mean  the  end  of  their  career  as  stock 
brokers.  As  it  is  now,  the  small  value  attached  to  the  seats  gives 
them  a  certain  standing  with  their  wealthy  associates,  who 
would  not  deal  with  them  otherwise,  while  at  the  same  time  af- 
fording a  security  for  clients  who  may  overlook  the  by-laws  of 
the  Board,  which  provide,  in  case  of  a  failure,  for  brokers  first 
and  customers  afterwards,  if  any  surplus  remains.  Men  who 
have  withdrawn  from  active  business  years  ago,  like  Glazier,  and 
others  who  have  always  regarded  their  seats  as  a  kind  of  honorary 
investment,  mutually  favor  a  proposition  which  would  return 
them  nearly  double  the  money  they  could  effect  by  disposing  of  an 
individual  interest.  On  the  other  hand,  it  seems  strange  to  find 
active  members,  with  good  bank  accounts,  taking  a  similar  view 
of  the  case.  Times  are  no  worse  among  the  brokers  than  the 
mercantile  classes  are  experiencing  jnst  now.  Business  of  every 
description  Is  dull  all  over  the  8tate,  as  it  generally  is  during  the 
election  year.  The  stock  market  will  revive  in  due  course,  when 
money  begins  to  circulate  freely  again.  The  people  who  main- 
tain that  the  days  of  mining  speculation  are  past  in  this  city  be- 
long to  the  same  claBS  which  championed  the  suppression  of 
hydraulic  mining  throughout  the  State.  They  are  a  hopeless  set 
of  idiots,  with  whom  it  is  useless  to  argue  on  any  proposition. 
With  the  fact  staring  them  in  the  face  that  $10,000,000  in  gold  is 
lost  to  the  8tate  every  year  by  keeping  the  hydraulic  mines 
closed  down,  they  managed  to  interfere  with  the  efforts  being 
made  at  Washington  to  obtain  relief  from  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment in  aid  of  an  important  industry,  to  the  injury  of  a  vast 
community.  The  attacks  on  the  Stock  Exchange  have  not  had 
the  effect  of  checking  the  gambling  propensities  of  people  here 
and  elsewhere  throughout  California.  The  money  which  used  to 
flow  into  this  city  through  the  medium  of  the  Exchange,  has 
simply  been  diverted  East  Into  the  coffers  of  lottery  manipulators. 
Killing  the  stock  market  has  killed  many  a  local  business  firm, 
and  crippled  the  trade  of  others  already  seriously  affected  by  the 
attack  on  the  gravel  mines  of  California.  That  the  brokers  them- 
selves are  greatly  to  blame  in  the  matter,  cannot  be  denied.  The 
liberal  and  bold-spirited  men  in  the  business  have  for  years  past 
been  in  the  minority,  hampered  and  rendered  powerless  by  the 
picayune  policy  of  a  clique,  continually  augmented  from  the 
rank  and  file  of  offices  on  the  street.  The  minority,  however, 
now  rules  with  sufficient  power  to  checkmate  the  scheme  to  dis- 
pose of  the  building.  The  property  is  in  their  opinion  a  good  and 
safe  investment,  paying  over  10,000  per  annum,  besides  having 
the  Board-room  rent  free.  The  motion  to  do  away  with  life  in- 
surance on  the  seats  of  members  was  carried  at  the  last  executive 
session,  and  this  removes  any  danger  of  an  accumulation  of  a 
heavy  liability  on  this  account.  This  will  end  the  action  of  the 
Board.  The  proposed  sale  of  the  building  is  simply  a  bugbear, 
and  those  who  place  any  credence  in  it  will  eventually  find  that 
they  have  simply  been  tools  in  the  hands  of  a  few  schemers,  who 
are  heavily  interested  in  depreciating  prices. 
$** 

THE  local  mining  market  was  dull  during  the  early  portion  of 
the  week,  with  a  reaction  in  the  Middle  mines  towards  the 
close.  Hale  &  Norcross  was  particularly  strong  and  active,  the 
advance  in  price  being  sufficient  to  allow  dealers  a  good  round 
profit  on  a  turn.  There  are  various  reasons  assigned  for  the  im- 
provement in  this  stock,  but  it  will  be  safer  to  ascribe  it  to 
manipulation  for  some  purpose,  which  will  be  made  clear  later 
on.  The  heavy  cut  made  by  Judge  Hebbard  in  the  costs  of  the 
notorious  law  suit  has  had  a  salutory  effect  on  the  street,  and 
should  a  new  trial  be  granted,  which  is  not  at  all  improbable,  the 
public  will  have  a  little  more  confidence  in  the  situation.  So  far 
as  the  balance  of  the  stock  list  is  concerned,  there  is  little  change 
to  report,  and  outside  of  an  occasional  flurry  in  prices  caused  by 
anxious  short  sellers,  no  movement  of  any  importance  on  a  sub- 
stantial basis  need  be  expected  for  some  time  to  come.  It  must 
be  remembered  that  the  market  is  particularly  sensitive  just  now. 
It  bag  been  oversold  to  a  heavier  extent  than  many  people  would 
credit,  and  stocks  of  the  better  class  are  scarce.  It  follows,  then, 
that  a  sharp  upward  movement  would  be  accentuated  by  a 
lively  demand,  which  would  lead  to  a  repetition  of  the  disaster 
which  took  place  a  few  years  ago.  This  in  turn  would  demoralize 
the  market  and  weed  out  a  number  of  dealers  who  are  neither 
useful  nor  ornamental  on  the  street.  Some  of  the  strongest  and 
largest  operators  in  the  Board  voted  the  other  day  to  sell  the  Ex- 
change.    Did  this  show  much  confidence  in  the  immediate  future? 


Of  course,  every  one  who  knows  anything  about  the  tactics 
adopted  by  this  clique,  is  fully  satisfied  that  their  action  on  the 
occasion  mentioned  was  only  a  grand  game  of  bluff,  which  would 
never  have  been  indulged  in  if  the  publication  of  their  names 
could  be  made  without  a  breach  of  official  etiquette.  The  sudden 
upward  turn  in  the  middle  mines  does  not  jibe  well  with  the 
avowed  intentions  of  some  of  their  eouth-end  neighbors.  A  few 
weak  shorts  will  be  trapped,  and  that  will  end  the  game  for  the 
time  being.  In  the  course  of  an  alleged  reform  movement,  every 
company  with  a  pound  of  ore  to  boast  of  wants  a  mill  tagged  on 
to  its  list  of  personal  property.  If  the  wish  is  realized  in  every 
case,  what  an  imposing  array  of  smoke-stacks  will  decorate  the 
line  of  the  Virginia  and  Truckee  Railroad.  There  will  be  more 
positions,  too,  for  the  members  of  the  reform  brigade,  which  Is  in 
itself  an  object  gained.  It  will  be  highly  interesting  for  those 
who  may  be  engaged  in  the  business  this  time  next  year,  to  view 
the  situation  then,  in  the  light  of  events  which  are  now  transpir- 
ing. Outside  stocks  are  week  as  dishwater,  and  the  demand  for 
them  is  duller  than  a  meeting  of  Latter-Day  Saints— the  associate 
members  of  the  Brokers'  Combine. 

\  s  t 

THE  British  still  continue  to  throw  money  into  Mexican  mining 
schemes,  although  the  failures  reported  are  at  the  rate  of  nine 
out  of  every  ten  which  see  daylight  on  the  London  market.  The 
latest  fiasco,  according  to  latest  accounts  received  here,  is  the 
Tominil  group  of  mines,  which  went  off  with  such  great  eclat  in 
England  some  months  ago.  At  the  time  it  was  said  the  subscription 
list  would  have  absorbed  over  three  times  the  amount  of  the  capi- 
tal stock.  The  success  of  the  company  has  not  fulfilled  the  pre- 
dictions of  the  glowing  prospectus  issued  by  the  promotors,  and 
if  an  improvement  does  not  take  place,  there  may  be  a  chance  for 
action  against  these  gentlemen  under  the  new  companies  Act, 
which  is  vigorous  in  the  extreme,  and  very  rightly  so.  Another 
sale  has  just  been  made  privately  by  the  owner  of  the  Gilman 
mine,  which  lies  not  far  from  the  Ventanas  group,  which  received 
a  black  eye  in  London  not  many  months  ago.  Mr.  Gilman  was 
content  to  ask  a  fair  price  for  his  mine,  and  he  was  not  long  in 
finding  a  buyer  at  the  figure  he  put  upon  it.  The  trouble  with 
the  Ventanas  was  that  the  promoters  multiplied  the  cost  price  of 
the  mine  by  four,  and  wanted  millions  of  dollars  instead  of  the 
few  thousands  which  would  have  satisfied  the  owners.  Negotia- 
tions are  now  pending  through  the  house  of  Richards  &  Chad- 
bourne,  of  London,  for  the  purchase  of  a  mine  in  the  Baranca 
district,  but  the  misfortunes  of  the  Palmarijo  Company,  which 
was  floated  by  the  same  people,  may  not  help  them  much  in  their 
new  venture.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  there  are  many  valuable  mines 
to  be  found  in  Mexico,  but  like  many  of  the  California  properties 
which  have  been  offered  abroad,  the  selection  is  not  always  made 
with  the  best  of  judgment.  The  greed  of  promoters  leads  them 
to  make  mistakes  at  times,  which  react  on  themselves  and  others 
eventually. 

THE  collapse  of  the  negotiations  for  the  sale  of  the  Schaefer 
group  of  mines  at  White  Hills,  Ariz.,  is  a  most  peculiar  affair, 
taking  it  throughout.  According  to  the  statements  of  both  sides, 
the  deeds  all  ready  for  signature  were  withdrawn  at  the  eleventh 
hour,  just  because  Judge  Schaefer  happened  to  prolong  his  visit  to 
some  friends,  where  he  was  doubtless  enjoying  himself  in  the 
prospect  of  receiving  enough  money  on  his  return  to  keep  him 
comfortably  for  the  rest  of  his  natural  life.  He  did  not  happen 
to  be  on  hand  at  the  exact  moment  to  sign  the  deeds,  and  in 
consequence  the  transaction  involving  $150,000  was  called  off. 
The  strangest  portion  of  this  very  strange  affair  is  the  good 
humor  which  the  Judge  assumes  over  the  transaction.  He 
seems  overjoyed  that  his  interests  in  the  mines  continue  to 
remain  intact.  His  partner,  John  Bernitt,  however,  does  not  ap- 
pear to  share  the  same  feelings,  having  shaken  the  dust  of  this 
city  from  his  feet  in  short  order,  when  it  was  certain  that  the 
deal  had  been  summarily  ended.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the 
sale  was  not  concluded.  It  was  the  first  of  any  magnitude  which 
has  seemed  probable  here  for  many  years,  and  its  consummation 
would  have  raised  the  hopes  of  many  an  operator  on  the  verge  of 
retiring  from  the  business  in  despair.  In  the  meantime  Eastern 
capitalists  are  picking  up  desirable  properties  all  over  the  Coast, 
and  making  money  while  starvation  stares  local  dealers  in  the 
face. 

j$$ 

THE  State  Mining  Bureau  of  this  city  will  send  an  exhibit  of 
rare  minerals  to  help  out  the  fair  committee  of  the  Agricul- 
tural Society  at  Sacramento.  State  Mineralogist  Irelan  has  just 
received  notice  of  his  appointment  as  a  member  of  the  advisory 
council  of  the  World's  Congress,  auxiliary  of  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition  on  Geology. 

$  *  * 

COLONEL  D.  H.  JACKSON,  the  well-known  mining  superin- 
tendent in  charge  of  the  Holmes  mine,  has  been  seriously  ill 
at  Candelaria,  from  an  attack  of  typhoid-pneumonia.  His  many 
friends  here  will  be  sorry  to  hear  that  his  condition  is  still  con- 
sidered very  precarious. 


August  37    1892. 


8AN  FRANCIS.  0  NEW8  I  BTTER. 


"HoartbeCrlorl"  "Whu  the  drrtl  artthour 
■•  One  th»l  will  pUTthclcTll.ttr,  with  ron." 


MR.  WILLIAM  BBRG,  the  great  Herman  traveler,  who  is  now 
engaged  in  the  compilation  of  a  gigantic  volume  of  travels. 
at  <>aston  sauberce,  in  Sausalito,  possesses  among  his  many  friends 
one  who  has  a  deep  interest  in  doubles,  and  who  believes  that 
every  human  being  has  an  exact  duplicate  somewhere  upon  the 
earth's  surface.  On  Wednesday  afternoon  Traveler  Berg  saw  bis 
friend,  the  theorist,  start  on  a  walk  along  Sutter  street  toward  the 
cemetery,  a  favorite  constitutional  midday  ramble  of  his.  Board- 
ing a  car,  Mr.  Berg  soon  overhauled  the  pedestrian,  and  alighting 
a  block  ahead  of  him,  walked  down  the  street,  bowed  to  him,  bid 
him  good  day  and  passed  on.  This,  of  course,  was  a  very  simple 
operation,  which  did  not  surprise  the  theorist.  But  after  Berg 
had  gone  by,  he  again  boarded  the  first  car  he  met  going  west, 
alighted  as  before,  and  once  more  bore  down  on  the  theorist. 
When  he  said  "good  afternoon"  and  walked  quickly  by,  that 
gentleman  looked  considerably  surprised,  but  made  no  remark 
beyond  returning  the  greeting.  Once  out  of  sight,  Berg,  for  the 
third  time  jumped  on  a  west-bonnd  car,  and  was  soon  carried 
past  bis  rambling  friend.  8ome  distance  ahead  of  him  he  left  the 
car  and  again  walked  back  to  meet  him.  »  Pleasant  afternoon,'' 
he  said,  cordially,  and  would  have  passed  on,  but  the  theorist 
said,  stopping  him,  "  Have  I  not  spoken  to  you  once  or  twice 
within  the  last  half  hour?"  <*  Xot  that  I  know  of,"  replied  the 
Traveler,  »  why  do  you  ask?"  »  Well,  two  men  met  me  inside  of 
that  time  who  looked  for  all  the  wor^d  like  you.  I  do  hanged  if 
it  wasn't  yon  who  spoke  to  me  the  second  time;  the  first  I  am 
not  so  sure  of,  for  I  was  thinking  about  some  important  matters. 
"  That's  odd,"  rejoined  Berg.  ••  Very,"  said  the  theorist,  "  You 
must  have  an  exact  double  in  this  town,  and  what  is  still 
more  remarkable,  he  dresses  precisely  like  you,  and  knows  me 
well  enoogh  to  call  me  by  name.;'  «  Come,  that  begins  to  grow 
interesting."  said  Berg.  (t  If  you  see  him  again  I  wish  you'd  let 
me  know,  for  I  would  very  much  like  to  be  introduced  to  my 
double,  if  only  to  see  what  I  look  like.  With  this  the  traveler 
passed  on,  and  repeated  his  performance,  taking  the  first  car  he 
met.  When  he  walked  briskly  down  upon  the  theorist,  that 
gentleman  actually  grew  pale,  and  when  Berg  said  "  Howdy  do," 
he  grasped  a  railing  for  support.  "  How  is  it  you're  here  again," 
he  gasped.  *■  Why,  what  do  you  mean?"  said  the  traveler. 
"  Mean?"  returned  the  theorist,  indignantly,  ««  Haven't  I  met  you 
three  times  within  thelast  thirty-five  minutes,  and  told  you  about 
another  man  I  met  further  down  the  street,  who  looked  so  much 
like  you  he  mast  be  your  double?"  "  Did  you  talk  to  him  too," 
asked  the  traveler,  with  a  sarcastic  smile.  "  Yes,  I  said  good 
afternoon,"  said  the  theorist;  "  I  am  satisfied  that  both  of  these 
men  were  you.  Why,  this  is  a  most  extraordinary  phenomenon. 
I  supposed  at  first  that  it  was  your  double,  but — but  now  I  am 
convinced  that  it  was  your  identical  self."  "  My  friend,"  said 
the  traveler,  "I  am  sadly  afraid  that  you  have  been  drinking.  Your 
imagination  has  been  running  riot.  Let  me  advise  you  to  swear 
off.  Good-day."  The  theorist  walked  on,  puzzling  his  brain 
over  the  incident,  and  was  standing  on  the  curbstone  in  a  brown 
study,  when  looking  up,  he  saw  Berg  rushing  toward  him  with 
outstretched  hands.  "  Hello,  Theorist,"  shouted  the  traveler 
cheerily,  »  I  have  not  seen  you  for  a  week.  How  are  you,  old 
man?"  But  the  theorist  did  not  answer.  He  fell  to  the  sidewalk 
in  a  faint,  and  was  carried  to  a  neighboring  drug  store.  ((  Just  a 
alight  attack  of  vertigo,  wasn't  it?"  asked  Berg,  when  his  friend 
recovered  consciousness.  ,( Berg,"  replied  the  theorist,  "  1*11 
have  to  take  your  advice,  and  will  swear  off."  "  I  never  advised  you 
to  swear  off,"  protested  Berg.  The  theorist  looked  at  him  fix- 
edly, shook  his  head  sorrowfully,  and  whispered,  **  I  give  it  up; 
take  me  home."  The  traveler  is  still  telling  the  story,  and  the  theo- 
rist is  still  trying  to  solve  a  brain-shocking  problem. 

EVANGELIST  MILLS'  Ecclesiastical  Midsummer  High  Jinks  is  a 
new  departure  in  the  soul-saving  line.  It  is  a  reflection  upon 
the  regular  shepherds,  who  find  it  difficult  to  fill  their  churches 
one  day  in  the  week,  while  this  arrogant  Mills  imagines  he  can 
bring  grist  enough  to  his  impromptu  machinery  to  keep  his  em- 
ployed for  two.  It  was  kind  of  the  wholesale  merchants  and 
others  to  give  the  evangelist  a  chance.  Of  course  business  is  dull, 
but  it  would  be  interesting  to  know  what  proportion  of  the 
emancipated  employe's  spent  their  temporary  vacation,  hearken- 
ing to  the  Mills'  exhortations.  Go  to  the  ant,  thou  sluggard,  and 
learn  to  be  wise.  Stock  broking  is  dull,  merchandising  not 
active,  even  the  law  is  stagnant,  but  here  is  Mr.  Mills  making  a 
magnificent  daily  income  by  going  over  the  same  ground  familiar 
to  us  since  the  institution  of  religion.  Mr.  Mills  is  making  money. 
Some  days  ago  he  mislaid  a  bag  of  watches,  rings  and  diamond 
pins,  while  disporting  in  the  Park  with  some  of  the  ewes  of  hiB 
flock.  And  with  the  luck  that  attends  him,  he  recaptured  his 
jewelry.  Ah,  'tis  a  fine  trade.  Why  cannot  all  of  us  be  evan- 
gelists? 


W 


BO  makes  the  farmer  fume  and  swear, 
Who  pnlll  down  fenre  rails  here  and  there, 
And  scatters  tin  cans  every  wh«1 

The  camper. 
Who,  when  the  night  Is  <*ark   and  still, 
Will  roosting  otalokoni  ruthless  kill, 
Not  e'er  000 few  and  ask   the  bill  ? 

The  camper. 
Who'll  never,  never  close  a  gate, 
Or  ever  put  a  bar  up   straight, 
So  cows  and  horses  emigrate? 

The  camper. 
Who  sets  the  forest  trees  ablaze, 
Whose  lives  are  cast  in  mischief's  ways, 
Who  is  the  curse  of  summer  days? 

The  camper. 

PROFESSOR  H.  J.  STEWART  had  a  wild  and  startling  adven- 
ture some  evenings  ago  on  the  bleak  hills  that  surround  Mill 
Valley.  Mr.  Stewart  was  returning  from  a  visit  to  the  Bohemian 
Jinks  grounds,  and  had  for  bis  guide  a  prominent  resident  of  the 
valley,  well  skilled  in  woodcraft,  an  expert  tracker,  a  natural 
trail-finder,  who,  by  putting  his  ear  to  the  ground  could  tell,  not 
only  the  age  and  sex  of  a  horse  trotting  half  a  mile  away,  but 
actually  the  color  of  the  animal.  Under  the  direction  of  this 
scout,  Mr.  Stewart,  humming  from  Bluff  King  Hal,  "Stand  to- 
gether, stand  fearless,  stand  one  and  all,"  took  the  back  trail  as 
the  shades  of  night  were  falling.  For  a  mile  or  more  the  scout 
confidently  led  the  way.  Then  be  paused  and  put  his  ear  to  the 
ground,  then  examined  the  twigs  and  fallen  leaves  by  the  fast 
waning  light  of  the  lantern;  and  then  he  committed  the  fatal 
error  of  taking  a  short  cut.  In  five  minutes  the  wayfarers  found 
themselves  on  the  edge  of  a  frightful  precipice.  Here  Mr.  Stew- 
art gazed  at  the  guide,  who  confessed  that  his  woodcraft  had 
failed  him  for  the  first  time  in  the  course  of  an  adventurous  life. 
When  they  gained  the  trail  again,  the  fog  was  so  dense  and  the 
wind  so  boisterous  that  they  resigned  themselves  to  what  ap- 
peared to  be  the  inevitable— a  night  under  the  dripping  trees.  At 
last  they  got  on  the  road,  and  footsore  and  damp,  reached  the 
valley.  It  was  an  awful  adventure,  and  since  that  night  of  hor- 
ror, the  scout  has  lost  caste,  and  his  woodcraft  is  no  longer 
esteemed  among  the  things  infallible. 

THE  young  American  citizen  who  supports  himself  and  his 
family  by  selling  newspapers,  travels  along  toward  the  goal 
of  manhood  with  a  profound  knowledge  of  murders,  strikes  and 
suicides.  He  likewise  gains  a  pretty  thorough  acquaintance  of 
human  nature.  Before  the  newsboy  starts  with  his  wares,  he 
selects  a  blood-curdling  tragedy  for  his  bait.  Well  he  knows 
that  the  public  cannot  be  induced  to  purchase  a  newspaper  to 
read  anything  pertaining  to  the  brighter  side  of  life.  It  must, 
that  great  morbid  mass,  have  its  ghastly  suicide,  its  gigantic 
robbery,  or  its  horrible  murder.  Therefore,  upon  one  or  some 
fortuitous  day,  upon  all  of  those  sensations,  the  newsboy 
dwelleth.  He  declineth  to  invite  his  customers  to  read  of  the 
happy  wedding,  or  the  delightful  church  festival.  Our  easy- 
going, wealth-accumulating  citizens  want  blood  at  the  close  of 
the  day's  occupation.  Of  park  and  ferry  suicides,  your  ordinary 
poison,  pistol,  drowning  and  rope  affairs  they  have  had  a  surfeit. 
However,  a  double  murder  will  stir  the  blood,  and  a  train  robbery 
with  murder  accompaniment,  is  a  deeply  relished  mental  morsel. 
As  for  strikes,  every  experienced  newsboy  can  organize  one  at 
the  drop  of  the  hat,  and  in  many  cases  could  give  points  to  his 
grandfather,  the  bricklayer,  or  his  uncle,  the  ironmolder. 

A  MOST  important  question  is  now  before  a  Young  Ladies'  De- 
bating Society — to  wit,  why  do  young  gentlemen  carry  gloves 
in  their  hands  instead  of  upon  them?  This  is  the  most  absorbing 
and  incomprehensible  problem  that  has  ever  come  before  this  or- 
ganization. One  side  asserts  that  it  is  because  those  yonths  do 
not  know  what  to  do  with  their  hands,  while  the  other  contend 
it  is  for  the  practice  of  killing  motions — "  sort  of  follow  me  less, 
if  you  love  me  "  for  the  opposite  sex.  The  result  of  the  debate 
will  be  announced  Thursday  night. 

THE  newspaper  reporter  is  a  man  of  humor  and  versatility.  I 
think  one  of  the  most  pleasing  and  convincing  proofs  of  the 
foregoing  was  a  long  story  in  the  Examiner  one  day  this  week 
about  a  factory  girl  with  clammy  hands  who  cured  neuralgia  and 
headaches  of  every  description  by  the  laying  on  of  the  same.  And 
after  all  this  the  writer  calmly  says  the  young  lady  is  modest  and 
dislikes  notoriety.  He  certainly  has  taken  an  odd  way  of  com- 
plying with  her  wishes. 

THE  fashion  for  rich  men  to  leave  behind  them  illegitimate 
sons  is  now  well-established.  Macdonald,  Jessop,  Crawford, 
besides  a  number  of  others  who  are  not  placed  on  record,  are 
evidences  of  the  existence  of  this  fine  old  country  custom  in  our 
midst.  They  should  form  a  Duke  of  Beaufort  Club  for  purposes  of 
self-protection  and  non-infringement  of  patent  rights. 

THE  movements  of  bandits  Evans  and  Sontag  are  now  chron- 
icled among  the  fashionable  intelligence.  It  is  within  the 
bounds  of  possibility  that  those  gentlemen  may  spend  the  winter 
at  Coronado  Beach. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


THE  Queen  has  two  railway  saloons  for  Continental  journeys, 
which  are  the  private  property  of  her  Majesty,  and  are  kept 
at  Brussels,  at  the  Gare  du  Nord,  says  the  World.  These  car- 
riages, which  are  connected  by  a  passage,  are  fitted  with  electric 
bells,  and  lighted  with  oil  lamps,  as  the  Queen  does  not  like  the 
electric  light  for  reading  or  writing.  The  day  saloon  is  furnished 
with  sofas,  arm  chairs  of  various  kinds,  and  footstools,  all  cov- 
ered with  blue  silk,  with  fringes  and  tassels  of  yellow.  The 
walls  are  bung  with  blue  and  pearl-gray  silk,  brocaded  with  the 
rose,  shamrock  and  thistle  in  yellow.  There  is  a  writing-table 
of  walnut  wood,  two  small  tables,  and  one  large  one  on  which 
meals  are  served  during  a  journey.  The  floor  is  covered  with  an 
Indian  carpet  of  dark  blue,  and  the  curtains  are  blue  and  white. 
There  is  a  separate  compartment  in  front  for  the  Queen's  High- 
land attendant,  Francis  Clark,  the  successor  of  John  Brown.  The 
night  saloon  is  a  larger  carriage,  and  it  is  divided  into  several 
ccmpartments.  The  dressing-room  is  decorated  in  Japanese  style, 
and  the  floor  is  covered  with  bamboo.  There  is  a  white-metal 
bath,  and  the  toilet-service  and  large  basins  on  the  washhand- 
stand  (which  is  covered  with  dark  red  morocco  leather)  are  of  the 
same  material.  The  bedroom  is  decorated  in  grey  and  light 
brown,  and  contains  two  beds,  the  largest  of  which  is  occupied 
by  the  Queen,  and  tbe  smaller  one  by  Princess  Beatrice.  There 
is  another  compartment  in  which  is  stowed  away  tbe  luggage 
needed  by  the  Queen  during  the  journey,  and  two  maids  occupy 
it  and  sleep  on  sofas. 

The  Spanish  Countess  Ysobel  da  Cadalva  was  caught  by  her 
husband,  far  back  in  tbe  fourteenth  century,  trying  on  the  male 
attire  and  helmet  of  her  liege  lord  and  master,  who  had  already 
suffered  considerably  from  her  frivolities  and  flirtations  with  the 
young  knights  who  applied  for  hospitality  at  the  hidalgo's  castle. 
The  outraged  husband,  whose  sense  of  decency  had  never  been 
offended  by  the  stars  of  burlesque,  was  terribly  aggrieved  at  his 
spuuse's  escapade.  As  a  warning  to  all  Spanish  wives  who  felt 
inclined  to  wear  the  suspenders,  tbe  frail  fair  one  was  suspended 
herself  in  a  sack  from  tbe  balcony  of  her  window,  and  kept  for  a 
week  in  sight  of  all  her  beaux  dangling  over  the  front  door,  while 
her  food  was  lowered  at  intervals  by  her  objectionable  husband. 
We  have  changed  all  that,  nowadays,  and  the  modern  husband 
would  get  the  sack  himself  if  he  even  remonstrated  with  his  wife. 
She  has  chosen  to  affect  suspenders.  If  she  elects  to  wear  the 
remainder,  pockets  and  alt,  she  will  do  so.  And  no  husband  will 
prevent  her. 

William  II.  is  the  richest  sovereign  of  Europe.  As  Emperor  of 
Germany  he  does  not  receive  a  thaler  towards  his  expenses.  The 
Reichstag,  however,  votes  him  every  year  a  sum  of  2,600,000 
marks,  under  the  heading,  »  Funds  placed  at  the  disposition  of 
the  Emperor  for  distribution."  Of  this  amount,  and  according  to 
minute  calculations  which  have  been  submitted  to  the  Reichstag, 
2,467.000  marks  are  given  to  invalids  who  did  not  receive  State 
pensions  after  the  great  war  of  1870.  As  King  of  Prussia  he  has 
had  until  recently  12,219,296  marks  a  year,  derived  from  two 
sources — viz:  7,710,296  marks,  revenue  from  Crown  lands  and 
forests;  and  4,500,000  marks,  voted  by  the  Chamber  as  necessary 
to  the  maintenance  of  Royal  dignity.  This  sum  was  quite  suffi- 
cient for  William  I.,  but  his  grandson  has  larger  views  and  can- 
not do  with  his  grandsire's  allowance/,  so  the  Prussian  Landtag  has 
given  him  a  supplementary  three  and  a  half  million  marks,  mak- 
ing his  Civil  List  in  all  £800,000.  — Society 

It  is  probable  that  in  the  course  of  the  autumn  the  betrothal 
of  Princess  Victoria  Melita  of  Edinburgh  and  the  Duke  of  Augus- 
tenburg  will  be  officially  announced.  Tbe  Princess  will  not  be 
16  until  next  November.  The  Duke,  who  was  born 
in  1863,  is  the  nephew  of  Prince  Christian  (who  is  his  heir)  and 
the  brother  of  the  German  Empress  and  of  Princess  Frederick 
Leopold  of  Prussia.  He  is  also  connected  with  the  Royal  Family 
through  his  mother,  the  Duchess  of  Augustenburg  (Princess  Ade- 
laida  Hohenlohe,  whom  the  Emperor  Napoleon  wanted  to  marry 
in  1852),  who  is  a  granddaughter  of  the  Duchess  of  Kent,  through 
her  first  marriage  with  the  Prince  of  Leningen.  The  Duke  owns 
a  large  estate  in  Silesia,  and  he  has  an  allowance  of  about  £16,000 
a  year  from  the  Prussian  Government.  — London  World. 

The  sword  that  Kaiser  Wilbelm  gave  his  son  the  Crown  Prince, 
on  his  entering  the  army  as  second  lieutenant  in  the  First  Foot 
Guards,  was  inscribed  with  the  following  words:  ■«  Trust  in  God, 
and  defend  yourself  bravely — in  this  consist  your  reputation  and 
honor;  for  the  man  who  puts  his  trust  in  God  and  is  bold  will 
never  be  driven  from  the  field.  Your  strength  belongs  to  the 
Fatherland.-To  my  dear  son  Wilhelru,  May  6, 1892. — Wilhelm  R." 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  has  a  large  and  varied 
stock  of  the  latest  styles  in  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods. 


iB^nsriKS. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVOBD,  President. 

Thomas  Brown Cashier  |  B.  Murray,  Jr  ..  .Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  7.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW   YORK— Agency  of   the  Bank  of   California;    BOSTON— Tremont 

National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  <&  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver.  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland, O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland- 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 

N.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bosh  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) $1,600,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  I  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $150,000 

8.  G.  MURPHY. President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN Cashier 

JAMES  MOFPITT.. .  -Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass't  Cashier 

DIBECTOB8: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT   DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital $3,500,000     1     Capital  paid  up.  2.450,000 

Reserve 450,000 

San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  |  London  Office 73  Lombard  St.,E.  C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch,  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GU3TAV  ERLEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexe-1,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Satheb  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  P.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  P.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York — Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston — Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia — Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago — Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  A  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  COMPANY— BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutler  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL $      500,000  00 

SURPLUS 5,488.393-12 


CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS *   5,988,393  00 

DIRECTORS: 

John  J.  Valentine.  President;  Lloyd  Tevls ,  Leland  Stanford,  Oliver 
Eldridge.  James  C.  Fargo,  Geo.  E.  Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.  F.  Goad, 
Dudley  Evans.    Henry  wadsworth,  Cashier.    Homer  S.  King,  Manager. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000,000. 

DIRECTORS: 
CHA8.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLEK,  Jb. 

R.  C.  WOOLWOBTH Prebident. 

W.  E.  BBOWN Vice-Pbesident. 

WM.  H.  CBOCKER Cashieb 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital *800,OOo 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LIKCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  |  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Beal  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 

HUMBOLDT  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  1 8  Geary  street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.  WEBEE, Pbesident  |  ERNST    BRAND Seceetaby. 

E.  D.  JONES. 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers   and   Commission   Merchants, 

207  AND  209  OAUFORNIA  STREET. 


August  27    1892. 


BAN  FRAXC.si  i«  nkws  i  iTTn:. 


17 


A    BALLADE    OF    CALIFORNIA. 

CYTHERA  desolated  overseas 
Lies,  all  her  storied  charms  afar  dispread 

On  torrid  winds,  or  reeking  in  the  lees 

Of  Neptune's  salt  sea-wine;  her  lovers  dead. 
Tombed  in  the  jagged  reef,  their  tows  nnsa  d 
For  everness  of  eons.     There  is  moan 
In  every  surge  thai  tumbles  o'er  her  throne 

Once  set  in  hills  that  batned  in  airs  divine; 

Bnt  better  things  than  she  e're  shewed  are  shown 

On  this  thrice  happy  strand  of  song  and  shine. 

The  golden  fruit  of  the  Hesperides 

From  reach  of  mortal  ken  is  faded,  tied; 

The  blossoms  that  made  drunken  Hybla's  bees 

With  surfeit  sweet  of  sweets,  long  since  are  shed. 
Arcadian  wines  and  ways  are  sonred  or  sped; 
But  here  are  groves  of  gold  bound  in  a  zone 
Of  bloom  as  honey-sweet  as  Hybla's  own. 

The  deep  delight  of  Cypris's  kingdoms  nine 
Are  Sodom  apples  by  the  pleasures  known 

On  this  thrice  happy  strand  of  song  and  shine. 

My  strong,  young  mariner  ship  an'  ye  please 

To  unsunned  blustrous  bays  where  sails  are  shred: 

Or  summer,  if  ye  list,  in  Arctic  bise, 

Or  draw  equatorwards  the  journey's  thread. 
When  grog  is  plenty  and  the  mate's  abed, 
No  Hatteras  gales  ye  mind  from  east'ard  blown; 
But  strength  will  fail  and  hours  prjw  lorn  and  lone! 

Then,  make  the  last  port  on  this  shore  of  mine; 

Here's  youth's  renaissance — care  forever  flown — 

On  this  thrice  happy  strand  of  song  and  shine. 

Prince,  leave  the  Orient's  ashes  and  atone 

For  mis-spent  years.     Our  East  is  haughty  grown: 

We  lack  her  tumult,  tinsel,  manners  fine! 
But  Beauty  speaks  from  peak,  from  tree,  from  stone, 

On  this  thrice  happy  strand  of  song  and  shine. 

Edwaed  W.  Barnard. 

A    LONDON    LANDSCAPE.— From  the  London  Spectator. 

Before  me  lies  no  purple  distance  wide, 

With  faint  horizon  hills  to  bound  my  view; 

Tall  houses  close  me  in  on  every  side, 

Pierced  here  and  there  by  meager  slits  of  blue. 

'Tis  not  for  me  to  watch  the  slow  dawn  come 

Across  the  quiet  meadows  dewy  gray, 
'Tis  not  for  me  to  hear  the  brown  bees  hum 

Upon  the  gorsy  uplands  all  the  day. 

But  I  can  see  one  gracious  growing  thing: 
A  poplar  tree  spreads  fair  beside  my  door, 

Its  bright,  unrestful  leaves  keep  flickering 
And  whispering  to  the  breezes  evermore. 

And  when  at  eve  the  fires  of  sunset  flare, 

And  parapets  and  roofs  are  rimmed  with  gold, 

And  like  bold  beacon-lights,  flash  here  and  there 
The  dingy  warehouse  windows  manifold. 

The  little  leaves  upon  my  poplar  tree 

All  in  the  wondrous  glory  shake  and  shake, 

Transmuted  by  the  sunset  alchemy 

Each  one  into  a  burnished  golden  flake. 

Then  by  and  by,  from  some  dim  realm  afar, 
The  dark  comes  down,  and  blots  the  world  from  sight, 

And  'twist  the  trembling  poplar  leaves,  a  star 
Hangs  like  a  shining  blossom  all  the  night. 


A    SONNET. 


Blue  are  the  depths  of  the  evening  sky, 

When  the  stars  shine  over  the  lea, 
But  bluer  yet  are  the  gentle  eyes 

That  my  loved  one  lifts  to  me. 
Sweet  is  the  cry  of  the  mountain  bird 

When  she  sits  in  the  woodland  tree, 
But  sweeter  far  are  the  silvery  tones 

That  my  loved  one  sings  to  me. 
White  are  the  sails  of  the  passing  ship 

As  she  glides  o'er  the  summer  sea, 
But  whiter  still  is  the  spotless  soul 

That  my  loved  one  gives  to  me. 


B.A.ITICS. 

BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP      1"r"r•"'r■'<'',  *  ""**>  ''""•<•'•  .,  M„  _ 

HFSFRVE  FUND  iuSM 

BoulliMitoornerBtuhu  -.,,, 

BKAVVHKD,°^?E,       W  °°  LOMB*RD  8TB«T.  LONDON. 

T»  Y^SS&XKs&g"  °* "";  portta*  Orc'on; 

Oohnnhi. ;S-K»'"'»"I-.  Ramlmo,  Nelson,  New  Wc.tniln.tcr,  Brltt.h 


fnrifa     *  7iLi~ii-   __  j   -  ft "  ™ ""  ■     ^  **!««.    ftlia    JAMAIS- 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

Branch  n™™€aUr°rn,a  S,rW'-  <-»™e'  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office^ 1700  Mftrket  gi 

Deposit*,  June  30,  J892  -',_       '   '  '  ' 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus  "..."..'^'/".."T^lfi^l^  SS 
DIRECTORS. 

George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland  ;  Lovell  White,  Cashier  mtIe™a^' 
Keceives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  securitv'  rmim,.  -, 
mittances  may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co  or  bv  checks  of  ?pH7.hf«" 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  tlw  rVspousibUUy  of  thi,  savfnJ. 
feank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money  The  sieua InU 
f'''e  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit  No  charge f "made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.      im»   u„.„._if .  "  »."'! 


evenings,  6:30  to  8. 


PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805  Market  Street   (Flood  lt.iil.li.,-,,  San   Francisco 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital 51,000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits  .  l     45  000  00 

Paid-up  Capital  333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892  1  782  00000 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATERHOUSE.  „      ..,     , 

P.V.MCDONALD  vi;'?rcs!3eI15 

j.  e    FAENUM  •■-■■•••  Vice-President 

DbRN&Dok"  Secretary  an u^Manager 

Tills  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  amlnarr'IZ 
conut,  in  sums  of  one  dollar  and  upwards.  """nary  ac- 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  flvecent  stamn 
system  and  he  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  baSt 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mouth  or  year,  from  KOO  to  $25.00  per  annum  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ei- 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN-SOCIETY^ 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND...     %    1.B45  OOO  00 
Deposits  Ju  y  I,  1892 28,776,697  9l' 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President.  EDW  KRnait 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A  H  R  SCHWinT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  gJeo.  TOURNY  Board 
of  Directors-L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann  E 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon  Attorn'ev' 
John  r.  Jabboe.  Ji 


MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICE  E8. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  SG.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cop.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

abseiled  Capital $2,600,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2.000  000 

Reserue  Fund  $660,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  ol  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.), No.  10Wall8t.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Preres  &  Cle,  17Bonle 
yard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cltieB  of  the  world.  Com 
meroial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager 
LO.  Altbchpl,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK.  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up 11,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000)  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 8  Angel  Court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seligman  &.  Co.,  21  Broad"  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  business,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sellB  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    (  Manana 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL,  i  Managers. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


<5^j^w£ 


THE  real  estate  market  Is  steadily,  even  if  slowly,  improving. 
Quite  a  little  batch  of  sales  has  been  closed  in  the  past  week. 
Among  them,  Mrs.  Maria  Coleman  purchased  the  Armory 
building  on  Post  street,  25x137.6,  for  $38,000,  through  Shainwald, 
Buckbee  &  Co. ;  the  new  house  and  lot,  55x127.8,  on  north  line 
of  Washington,  west  of  Fillmore;  the  two-story  house,  33x100, 
soulh  line  of  Washington,  between  Buchanan  and  Laguna,  for 
$20,000;  J.  J.  O'Farrell  &  Co.  sold  one  of  the  Hinkle  houses,  wett 
side  of  Octavia,  102  6  north  of  Broadway,  lot  25x104,  for  $13,150, 
and  the  brick  building  southeast  corner  of  Vallejo  and  Kearny, 
68.9x68.9  for  $11,500.  L.  Grothwell  &  Co.  have  sold  the  lot,  120x 
67,  southeast  corner  of  Folk  and  Post  for  about  $50,000.  There 
are  fair  frame  houses  on  the  property,  which  may  be  replaced  by 
a  family  hotel.  Another  sale  by  the  firm  is  the  property  north 
side  of  Post,  east  of  Jones,  40x60,  for  $25,000.  A  six-story  build- 
ing will,  it  is  said,  be  erected  on  the  lot  sold  by  the  firm  to  Morris 
B.  Levy  on  the  corner  of  Market  and  Haight  streets.  E.J.  Le 
Breton,  who  owns  a  lot  adjoining  the  latter  property  will  also 
improve  it  shortly  by  the  erection  of  a  seven-story  hotel. 

The  Mission  has  been  the  center  of  observation  among  property 
owners  for  weeks  past,  nor  is  the  interest  confined  to  owners  in 
that  large  district.  In  the  future  there  must  be  street  extensions 
in  Richmond,  Presidio  Heights  and  outside  lands  generally,  and 
so  the  action  taken  on  the  various  reports  presented  by  the  differ- 
ent commissions,  interests  owners  in  all  the  new  portions  of  the 
city.  The  tendency  at  present  seems  to  be  not  to  throw  the  re- 
ports out,  but  by  petitions  and  protests  to  so  modify  the  estimates 
of  assessments  for  ben;tUs  and  damages,  and  to  so  cut  down  the 
grossly  inequitable  assessments  and  expense  accounts  as  to  en- 
tirely chinge  the  original  reports  and  bring  them  within  reason 
and  justice  to  those  most  interested.  Sooner  or  later  these  ex- 
tentions  must  be  beneficial  to  the  districts  concerned.  There- 
ports  now  before  the  Board  of  Supervisors  are  such,  in  their  pres- 
ent condition,  that  to  adopt  them  would  be  both  an  outrage  upon, 
and  a  calamity  to,  the  most  rapidly  growing  district  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, a  district  in  San  Francisco,  a  district  which  contributes  more 
largely  than  any  other  to  the  prosperity  of  the  city,  and  upon 
which  confidence  in  the  city's  future  is  largely  dependent. 

Simultaneously  with  the  better  feeling  in  real  estate  there  is  an 
upward  movement  in  building  operations.  It  is  seldom  that  $200,- 
000  worth  of  contracts  have  been  filed  in  one  week,  and  in  1891, 
as  well  as  thus  far  in  the  current  year,  such  a  total  has  not  been 
reached  four  times.  For  the  week  just  closed,  however,  the  total 
was  $180,000.  Much  of  the  work  is  small  residence  building,  and 
in  this  a  good  and  encouraging  sign  exists.  Philadelphia  is  the 
city  of  homes,  and  the  more  homes  owned  by  those  who  live  in 
them  there  are  in  any  city,  the  greater  will  be  the  general  pros- 
perity. Deposits  at  the  savings  banks  are  often  wrongly  assumed 
to  be  an  indication  of  per  capita  wealth;  this  they  are  not,  for,  of 
two  men,  one  may  have  $500  in  the  bank  and  the  other  nothing 
at  all,  while  the  per  capita  wealth  would  be  $250.  Count  the 
homes  and  the  heads  of  families,  and  the  number  of  ttose  who  own 
their  dwellings  will  furnish  a  basis  of  comparison  for  a  city's  wealth 
Hermann  Shainwald,  who  has  been  in  Europe  for  four  months, 
will  be  home  to-day  or  to-morrow. 

O.  D.  Baldwin  is  going  to  build  a  $40,000  residence  on  the 
northwest  corner  of  Washington  and  Spruce  streets,  in  Presidio 
Heights. 

The  Carnall-Hopkins  Company  will  hold  a  probate  sale  on 
Monday,  September  5th,  and  Eaaton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  a  regular 
auction  sale  on  Tuesday,  September  6th. 

Five  hundred  protests  against  the  report  of  the  commissioners 
for  the  opening  of  the  streets  from  Nineteenth  to  Twenty-third 
inclusive,  have  been  filed. 

Assessments  for  the  opening  of  Seventeenth  street  became  de- 
linquent to-day,  and  will  be  subject  to  an  assessment  of  5  per 
cent,  extra. 

William  J.  Dingee,  of  Oakland,  announces  a  grand  excursion  to 
Haywards  on  Saturday  next,  September  3d.  The  excursion  will 
leave  the  city  from  the  Oakland  ferry  at  10:30  a.  m.,  stopping  at 
Market-street  station.  The  fare  for  the  round-trip  will  be  50 
cents.  A  free  collation  will  be  served  on  the  grounds.  This  ex- 
cursion is  to  be  an  introduction  to  an  important  auction  sale  of 
the  baIance|of  tbe  Haywards  estate,  comprising  thirty  business, 
hotel  and  cottage  residence  sites.  These  lots  will  be  sold 
the  same  day  at  12  o'clock,  noon,  on  tbe  grounds. 

There  is  a  magnificent  exhibition  of  works  of  the  highest  art  in 
the  gallery  of  S.  &  G.  Gump,  on  Market  street.  One  of  the  most 
beautiful  pictures  that  has  ever  been  exhibited  in  the  gallery,  is  "  Be- 
tween Mass  and  Vespers,"  by  Leo  Herrmann.  This  painting  is  now 
framed  and  is  on  the  easel,  and  is  recognized  by  art  critics  to  be  one 
of  the  best  seen  in  tbe  city  for  some  time.  "  Two  other  paintings 
well  worth  a  visit  and  that  will  be  appreciated  by  all  lovers  of  art  are 
a  painting  by  A.  W.  Kowalski,  the  famous  Russian  artist,  and  a 
canvas  that  displays  a  great  amount  of  delicate  handling  is  by  A. 
A.  Lesreil,  of  Paris.  The  gallery  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  places 
in  the  city  to  visit. 


"W IMI.     J".     DIITGEE 

REAL  ESTATE  AND  GENERAL  AUCTIONEERS. 
460-162  sth  Street,  Oakland. 


WENDELL  EASTON.  GEO.  W.  FBINK.  GEO.  EASTON. 


REAL  ESTATE  AQENT&$& 


GRAND   EXCURSION 

Saturday September  3rd 


Leaving  San  Francisco  from  S.  P.  R.  R.  Depot,  Oakland  Ferry,  foot  of 
Market  street,  at  10:30  a.  m.,  stopping  at  Market  street  Station,  Oakland,  to 
the  fluest  suburb  of  San  Francisco  on  the  eastern  shore  of  our  unequaled 
bay— and  the  only 


HAYWARDS  ! 


/" 


*     a     % 


Where  nature  and  art  have  combined  to  make  a  retreat  for  the 
family  that  is  absolutely  perfection. 

FREE   COLLATION  ON  THE  PREMISES. 


50  Cts.-Round-Trip  Tickets-50  Cts. 


The  above  will  be  a  grand  introduction  to  a  very 

mportant  Auction  Sale 

Of  the  balance  of  the  Hayward  Estate,  comprising 

30-Business,  Hotel  and  Cottage  Residence  Sites-30 

And  immediately  adjoining  the  far  famed  Haywards  Hotel,  and  fronting 
Main,  Castro,  A  and  M  streets  and  Hampton  Place.  The  O.  S.  L.  &  H. 
Electric  Railway,  as  well  as  the  Haywards  horse-car  road,  pass  in  front  of 
much  of  the  property.  Many  of  the  lots  are  situated  in  the  best  portion  of 
the  business  seclion  and  the  cottage  residence  sites  are  the  best  in  the 
town,  and  command  a  view  overlooking  seven  counties.  In  the  elegant 
town  of 

To  be  sold  on  the  premises, 

Saturday  September  3,  1892. 

at  12  o'clock  m., 

On  the  Castro  St.  Front,  Corner  of  A  St. 

This  offering  presents  a  golden  opportunity  to  obtain  a  fine  business 
location  in  the  best  town  in  Alameda  county,  and  a  cottage  residence  site 
in  the  best  portion  of  this  beautiful  town.  These  lots  are  all  within  two 
minutes'  walk  of  the  Haywards  Hotel,  and  should  attract  attention  to  par- 
ties looking  for  business  or  a  location  for  a  summer  resort  unequaled  in 
the  State. 

TERMS.— Only  one-third  cash;  balance  in  one  and  two  years;  interest 
8  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  monthly. 

These  Special  Excursion  tickets  can  be  obtained  at  office  of  Easton,  El- 
dridge &  Co.,  638  Market  street,  Friday,  September  2od,  all  day.  and  on 
Saturday  morning,  day  of  the  excursion,  September  3, 1S92,  up  to  10  o'clock; 
also  at  the  depot,  Oakland  Ferry,  at  10:30  a.  m.,  and  at  Market  street  sta- 
tion, Oakland,  up  to  the  leaving  of  the  train,  from  our  representative,  or  on 
the  train. 

EASTON,  ELDRIDGE  &  CO.,  638  Market  Street,  San  Francisco. 

WM.  J.  MHiGEE,  460  and  462  8th  St.,  Oakland. 


August  27,  1892. 


BAN   n:  LNCISCO  NEWS  I  I  ITER 


Jm  the  Ticilic  Insurance  Onion  is  in  *  ferment  over  the 
rebating  practices  of  managers  city  agents  and  solicitors,  an 
innocent  and  too  simply  truthful  treasurer  betrays  what  looks 
like  a  Mag*ant  case  of  rate  cutting.  The  Union  and  others  havt 
been  rooting  about  in  every  corner  for  the  perpreirators  of  the  re- 
bating sin,  and  a  pioneer  quietly  pushes  his  annual  statement 
under  their  very  noMB.  On  one  Bide  of  the  account  of  the  Society 
of  California  Pioneers  appears  the  entry  of  a  certain  sum  as 
premium  for  insurance  on  the  Society's  building,  and  on  the 
credit  side  of  the  account  is  another  entry,  »«  to  rebate  on  insur- 
ance, etc."  The  simple  innocence  of  the  entry  makes  it  posi- 
tively ludicrous.  Now  the  I'nion  has  ad  justed  its  spectacles,  and 
is  bunting  for  the  man  who  made  this  candidly  betrayed  rebate 
of  seven  and  a  half  per  cent. 

A  feeble  effort  was  made  this  wpek  to  form  a  Brokers'  Asso- 
ciation. Thirty-one  names  were  signed  to  a  call.  Of  these  two 
were  the  names  of  de  facto  brokers,  men  in  the  business  of  plac- 
ing insurance  and  not  associated  with  any  particular  company, 
eleven  were  city  agents,  and  the  balance  were  solicitors.  Just 
here  it  is  opportune  to  remark  that  while  the  sin  of  rebating  is 
frequently  and  promiscuously  charged  against  the  *•  brokers,"  it 
should  be  entered  against  the  managers,  city  agents  and  solicitors 
and  not  against  the  orokers.  However,  a  committee  of  three  from 
the  "  brokers"  has  been  chosen  to  confer  with  three  members  of  the 
Pacific  Insurance  Union,  and  an  effort  is  to  be  made  to  check  the 
excessive  rebating  which  is  going  on.  The  dilliculty  of  catching 
a  roan  rebating  is  very  great,  as  nothing  is  easier  than  to  comply 
with  the  letter  and  defy  the  spirit  of  the  anti-rebate  law.  A  gen- 
tleman has  property  in  Colusa  county,  and  an  employe"  in  charge 
of  it.  The  obliging  insurance  man  cannot  think  of  cutting  the 
rale — it  ia  against  the  law;  but  he  might  appoint  the  gentleman's 
employ^  agent  for  the  company,  and  then,  of  course,  the  agent 
would  be  allowed  his  commission. 

Write  a  risk  on  a  church  at  a  cut  rate? 

Well — no!  but  the  agent  can  make  a  present  to  the  Lord  when 
the  bargain  is  struck,  and  someone  would  be  unchristian  enough 
to  call  the  gift  a  rebate.  The  trouble  is  that  a  great  deal  of  the 
rebating  comes  from  the  inside,  and  the  proverb  "  like  master  like 
man  "  will  in  many  instances  account  for  the  rebating  done  by 
solicitors. 

Fire  losses  are  heavy  enough  in  all  conscience,  and  the  scram- 
ble for  business  and  the  temptation  to  rebate  are  just  so  much 
stronger.  Hanford  has  had  two  heavy  fires  in  one  week.  Losses 
must  be  paid,  collections  are  hard,  and  rumors  of  queer  work  are 
plentiful. 

The  P.  I.  U.  has  an  inspection  bureau,  electrical  expert,  and 
many  other  useful  attributes.  A  first-rate  detective  would  be  a 
benefit  just  now.  Let  it  be  once  known  that  the  Union  has  an 
expert  on  incendiarism  and  there  can  be  little  doubt  but  that  the 
announcement  alone  would  have  a  beneficial  effect,  and  the  moral 
hazard  would  shrink  perceptibly.  If  a  good  man  were  put  to 
work  on  some  of  the  suspicious  fires,  dogged  them  up  from  their 
"  doubtful  and  unknown  origin,"  and  if  then  a  few  prosecutions 
followed,  there  would  be  fewer  mysterious  blazes,  and  thousands 
would  be  saved  that  would  pay  the  salary  and  expenses  of  the 
detective  many  times  over. 

G.  E.  Fryer,  secretary  of  the  Insurance  Company  of  North 
America,  is  expected  here  on  a  visit. 

Henry  R.  Mann  is  taking  a  lively  interest  in  the  rebating  inves- 
tigation. 

The  Maggie  Ross  ia  a  total  loss.  She  went  down  off  Russian 
Beach,  opposite  Duncan's  Mills,  and  mulcted  various  companies 
in  this  city  to  the  aggregate  extent  of  $17,000. 

Considerable  uneasiness  is  felt  about  the  Robert  L.  Belknap, 
Captain  Staples.  She  left  New  York  147  days  ago  for  Yokohama, 
and  has  not  been  heard  of  since.  The  ruling  rate  in  London  on 
Wednesday  last  was  seventy  per  cent.,  and  it  will  go  up  to  ninety 
before  the  end  of  another  week  unless  some  tidings  are  received 
of  her.  A  steamer  recently  reported  at  Melbourne,  Australia,  re- 
ported passing  a  quantity  of  charred  wreckage  in  mid-ocean,  and 
it  is  feared  that  the  Belknap  has  been  burned  at  sea. 


RE.  KELLY,  who  for  many  years  past  has  been  the  efficient 
,  Secretary  of  the  Justice  Mining  Company,  has  been  offered 
the  chief  clerkship  in  the  Carson  Mint,  which  for  business  reasons 
he  was  obliged  to  decline.  Mr.  Kelly's  popularity  is  evidently 
not  confined  to  his  large  circle  of  friends  in  this  city. 

Laundry  Farm  is  one  of  the  most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  in 
the  State.  It  is  reached  direct  by  the  California  Railway,  which  has 
an  easy  roadbed,  comfortable  cars,  and  is  excellently  managed.  The 
railway  runs  direct  to  Mills'  Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  is  visited  by 
hundreds  of  people  daily,  who  take  great  delight  in  the  many 
natural  beauties  it  presents. 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


A  splendid  opportunity  to  secure 


GREAT 

CLEARANCE 

SALE. 


FINE 

OIL  PAINTINGS 

ENGRAVINGS 

ETCHINGS 

MIRRORS 

STATUES 

ORNAMENTS 

FANCY   GOODS. 


is  now  offered  at  reduced  prices  on  ac- 
count of  removal,  about  Sept.  15th,  to 
our  New  Building,  No.  113  Geary  St. 

S.  &  G.  GUMP, 


381   Market  ?treet. 


MISS   MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

NO.  912  GRAND  STREET,     ALAMEDA,    CAL. 

Miss  Maason,  late  Principal  oT  Elliott  Wo  id  Sclm  1,  Lytichburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.    Mausoii,  Late   Associate   Principal,  Ea&t  End  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  begau  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  informatiou  scut  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  C2  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

tiarcla  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Paiiweron. 

ZISKA    INSTITUTE, 

1606  Van  Ness  Avenue. 

French,  German  and  English  Da}'  and  Boarding  School  for  young 
ladies  and  children. 
A  refined  home  with  the  best  educational  advantages. 

Next  Term  Opens  Auguat  1,  1892. 

MME.  B.  ZISKA,  M.  A.,  Principal. 
MR.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

8tudio— 26  Montgomery  8treet,  Room  8. 


THE  BRENTWOOD 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  1885. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Quiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babcock  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


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■eMnnrjafrsgFi/i 


A  writer  in  the  Berichte  gives  an  interesting  account  of  some 
investigations  concerning  the  cause  of  the  insolubility  of  pure 
metals  in  acids,  it  being  known  that  chemically  pure  zinc  as 
also  many  other  metals  in  a  state  of  purity,  are  thas  insoluble, 
because  at  the  moment  of  their  introduction  into  the  acid  they 
become  surrounded  by  an  atmosphere  of  condensed  hydrogen, 
which,  under  normal  circumstances,  effectually  protects  the 
metal  from  further  attack  on  the  part  of  the  acid.  In  these  most 
unique  experiments  the  amount  of  chemically  pure  zinc  dis- 
solved by  the  acid  was  first  determined,  and  next  it  was  sought 
to  be  ascertained  wbat  difference  would  be  effected  by  perform- 
ing the  experiment  in  vacuo,  when  of  course  the  escape  of  the 
hydrogen  would  be  greatly  facilitated;  the  solubil  tj  was  found, 
under  these  cir  umstances,  to  be  increased  sevenfold.  The  final 
experiments  were  made  to  ascertain  the  effect  of  introducing  into 
the  acid  a  small  quantity  of  an  oxidizing  agent,  capable  of  con- 
verting the  hydrogen  film  to  water.  Thus,  when  a  little  chromic 
acid  was  introduced,  the  solubility  was  increased  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five  times,  and,  when  hydrogen  peroxide  was  em- 
ployed, the  solubility  was  increased.  The  explanation  of  the 
ease  with  which  the  metal  becomes  attacked  when  the  ordinary 
impurities  are  present  is  that  the  hydrogen  is  not  then  liberated 
upon  the  surface  of  the  zinc,  but  rather  upon  the  more  electro- 
negative impurities,  in  this  way,  leaving  the  pure  zinc  itself  open 
to  the  continued  attack  of  the  acid. 

Some  interesting  experiments   on  falling  bodies   and   the 

resistance  of  the  air  have  been  recently  made  by  MM.  L.  Caille- 
tet  and  E.  Colardeau  at  the  Eiffel  Tower,  and  the  results  have 
been  communicated  to  the  Paris  Academy  of  Science.  Spheres 
of  metal  were  allowed  to  fall  from  the  second  platform  of  the 
tower,  and  the  exact  time  of  falling  certain  distances  was  meas- 
ured to  the  hundredth  of  a  second  by  an  electric  chronograph. 
Care  was  taken  to  eliminate  any  source  of  error,  and  the  authors 
find  (I)  that  the  resistance  of  the  air  is  proportional  to  the  area 
of  the  resisting  surface,  but  independent  of  its  form  ;  (2)  that  it  is 
proportional  to  the  square  of  the  velocity,  is  not  strictly  true,  as 
the  resistance  increased  ratber  more  rapidly;  (3)  the  amount  of 
fall  after  which  the  velocity  of  the  weights  employed  became 
uniform,  ranged  from  60  to  100  metres. — English  Mechanic. 

Among  the  various  contrivances  of  later  years  tending  to 

render  life  worth  living  during  the  heated  term,  the  ubiquitous 
little  electric  fan-motor  certainly  holds  no  inconsiderable  place, 
says  the  Engineering  Magazine.  A  few  dollars  expended  for  the 
plant,  and  one  cent  per  hour  more  or  less  for  the  electric  power 
to  operate  it,  is  surely  not  an  extravagant  outlay  for  the  amount 
of  solid  comfort  which  one  receives  as  a  quid  pro  quo,  as  he  toils 
at  his  desk  during  the  breathless  midsummer  days.  The  latest 
improvements  in  this  line  is  a  motor  which  has  an  additional 
slow  horrizontal  rotation  upon  its  standard,  whereby  the  breeze 
of  the  fan  is  impartially  distributed  to  every  part  of  the  room. 

—  A  telephone  expert  has  been  making  a  critical  analysis  of 
the  adaptability  of  various  languages  for  transmission  over  the 
telephone  wire.  Chinese  is  pronounced  the  easiest  tongue  for 
telephone  purposes.  It  is  principally  monosyllabic,  and  is  made 
up  of  simply  rising  a:  d  falling  inflections.  The  ruggedness  of 
German  does  not  impair  its  merits  for  telephoning  purposes  as 
much  as  might  be  imagined.  The  French  tongue  is  damned  with 
faint  praise,  since  it  is  "almost  as  sibilant  as  English,"  but  the 
gutteral,  though  musical  Welsh,  comes  out  of  the  test  with  fly- 
ing colors. 

Some  idea  of  the  immense  economy  that  will  be  effected  by 

the  general  introduction  of  the  new  system  of  electrical  shunting 
may  be  formed  from  the  fact  that  during  the  year  1890,  on  the 
Prussian  railways  alone,  an  aggregate  of  10,000,000  hours  were 
spent  by  different  locomotives  in  this  class  of  work,  the  cost  of 
the  fuel  amounting  to  sucq  a  formidable  total,  that  when  the 
wages  for  the  drivers  and  stokers  wereaddea,  it  was  shown  that 
19  per  cent  of  the  total  cost  of  the  train  service  was  spent  on 
shunting. 

Hitherto,  walking-nicks    have    not  been    very  commonly 

stocked  by  dealers  in  scientific  instruments;  but  this  will  not  be 
so  in  the  near  future,  if  Herr  Gottlob  Hausserman,  of  Strassburg, 
Alsace,  has  his  way.  Herr  Hausserman  proposes  a  form  of 
handle  to  which  prisms  or  mirrors,  constituting  measuring  in. 
straments  for  use  in  surveying  operations,  can  be  readily 
attached. 

The  half-tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Lettek.  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


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Capital    $25,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office,  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES.  Manager. 

HAVE   YOU   GOT 

Dyspepsia,  Bright's  Disease,  or  Dia- 
betes, or  do  you  want  a  pleasant, 
healthful  drink?     If  so,  buy 

ARCADIAN  WAUKESHA  WATER, 

Recommended  by  our  best  physi- 
cians as  the  healthiest  drink  on  earth. 
Johnson- Locke  Mercantile  Company 
Agents,  204  Front  St.,  S.  F. 

VICHY     SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM   UKIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
known  '-champagne  "  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  aud  beautifyiug 
the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladles.  Only  uatural  electric  water  In 
the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR. 

OCCIDENTAL    HOTEL, 

San    Francisco. 

-A       <a"0"i:ET      HOME 

CENTRALLY       LOCATED, 

FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 

LAVER,    MULLANY    &.   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office :  93  Flood  Bnlldlns,  Cor.  4th  and  market  Sis.,  S.  F. 


Auguet  27,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


21 


5UNBL7MS 


THE  freckled-faced  kid. 
With   the  hole?  in  his  panla, 
Freed   from  weightier  cares, 

To  the  creek  now  levants; 
And  with  bent  pin  and  string 

Brings  the  beauties  to  land 
In  a  way  your  dude  fisher 

Can  ne'er  understand.  — IWn  Topic-'. 
■■  Johnny,"  said  his  mother,  "  if  vou  don't  quit  smoking  cigar- 
ettes yoo  won't  grow  a  bit."  "Don't  rare  if  I  don't,"  responded 
Johnny  sullenly.  "  And  of  course."  continued  the  good  woman,  "if 
you  don't  get  any  bigger  you  will  have  to  wear  clothes  made  from 
your  father's  old  ones."    "  I  gue^s  I'll  quit,  ma." 

— I>idianapolL<  Journal. 

The  two  most  absent-minded  men  on  record  are  the  fellow  who 

thought  he  left  his  watch  at  home  and  then  took  it  out  to  see  if  he 
bad  time  to  go  back  and  get  it.  and  the  man  who  put  on  bis  office 
door  a  card  saying:  "  Out:  will  be  back  in  ten  minutes,"  and  on  his 
return  sat  down  on  the  stair  step  to  wait  for  himself.    —Exchange. 

Queens-ware  Merchant— What  made  that  lady  go  out  of  the  store 

so  hurriedly?     Clerk—  1  don't    know;  I  was  showing  her  a  vase  " 

Merchant— Was  that  what  you  called  it?  Clerk— Certainly.  Merchant 
{with  a  groan) — We  have  lost  her  custom  forever.  You  should  have 
called  it  a  vawz.     £he's  from  Boston.  —Chicago  Tribune. 

"Did  you."  he  inquired,  in  an  intensely  sentimental  tone, 

"  never  sigh  for  death?"  •*  Whose?  "  she  inquired,  with  an  interest 
and  promptness  that  brought  him  back  to  earth  so  fast  that  he 
nearly  lost  his  breath.  —Exchange. 

—  Charlie  Hard  up — Ah,  for  the  day.  dearest,  when  I  can  call  you 
my  own— my  dear,  true  love,  in  our'own  dear  little  home!  Miss 
Croesus— Beside  the  sea?  Charlie  Hardup— Oh,  anywhere  that  you 
choose  to  build  it.  —Judge. 

He— Won't  you  let  me  have  a  kiss— now  that  I  am  going  away 

for  a  day?  She—  If  you  can  give  any  good  rpason  why  I  should,  I 
might  think  about  it— possibly.  He— I  should  like  to  establish  a  pre- 
cedent. —Life. 

■-  "  Wife — Now  if  you  intend  to  give  me  a  birthday  present  you 
needn't  go  to  one  of  those  Cheap  John  99  cent  stores  for  it.  Husband— 
No,  indeed,  my  love.    Hang  the  expense!    I'll  go  to  a  dollar  store. 

—New  York  Weekly. 
— —  Overseer  {to  Eglestdn  and  his  son,  who  are  being  shown  through  the 

flour-mill)—  This  is  the  finest  flour  in   the  world,  and  " Eglestein 

{aside)— Don'd  prush  your  coat  off,  Henny  ;  vaid  undil  ve  get  home. 

— Judge. 
—  "  Out  of  sight,  out  of  mind!  " 
Is,  I  think,  you  will  find, 
A  saw  that  is  quite  far  from  right. 
I  think  you  will  find, 
That  the  girl  most  in  mind 
Is  the  girl  who  is  just  "out  of  sight!1'  — Puck. 

^—Jack—  What  are  you  feeling  so  blue  about?  Tom— I  got  in  the 
habit  of  kissing  Imogen  whenever  she  got  angry  at  me.  Jack— Yes? 
Tom — And  now  her  temper-is  completely  ruined. — New  York  Herald. 

——When  the  workingman  buckles  right  down  to  himself,  he  will 
find  that  the  Central  Labor  Union  centers  inside  of  his  own  skin,  and 
that  his  own  two  legs  are  his  best  Walking  Delegate?.  Puck. 

—  Aunt — Why,  Clara!  How  do  you  manage  to  get  one  hand  so 
much  more  sunburned  than  the  other?  Clara — That  is  the  hand  on 
which  I  wear  my  engagement  ring.  — Puck. 

■  Parent  {trembling  with  emotion) — You  are  audacious ! — you  are 
heartless.  She  is  my  only  child !  Suitor  {wishing  to  pacify)— But.  my 
dear  sir,  you — er — you  can't  blame  me  for  that.  — Puck. 

She— Why  do  you  toy  so  nervously  with   that  fan— are  you 

afraid  of  it?  He  {gallantly) — I  am  afraid  of  anything  that  could  pro- 
duce a  coolness  between  us.  — Ljife. 

Stern  Parent— How  do  you  [expect  to  support  my  daughter? 

Hopeful  Youth — Well,  I'm  pretty  shrewd  at  guessing  the  things  that 
the  papers  give  prizes  for.  —  Town  Topics. 

—  Persevering  Widower — It  was  she  who  drove  me  to  drink.  Miss 
A .  {a  little  weary')— What  could  she  have  driven  you  to  that  you  would 
have  liked  better  ?  —Life. 

"  Me  mamma  says  we  can't  play  with  you  'cause  you  have  the 

mumps,"  "Ah,  go  on!  'Taint  so,  fer  I  give  em' to  Sammy  Gibbs, 
day  afore  yistedy."  — Life. 

— —  "  Now^what  would  you  do  about  it  when  both  her  father  and 
mother  are  opposed  to  me?  "    Chirpper— Make  friends  with  the  dog. 

— Chicago  Inter-Ocean. 
— —  Paeticus— I  never  read  my  efforts  to  my  friends     Cynicus— Cer- 
tainly not.    They  should  be  reserved  for  your  enemies. 

—  Town  Topics. 

If  you  want  a  first-class  meal,  satisfactory  in  all  respects,  do  not 
fail  to  visit  the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  which  is 
acknowledged  to  be  the  most  popular  in  the  city.  As  a  family  re- 
sort it  is  unparalleled,  there  being  excellent  accommodations  for 
large  parties.  The  menu  cannot  be  excelled,  and  always  includes  the 
latest  delicacies  of  the  city. 

Order  luscious,  fresh  oysters  from  Moraghan,  of  the  California 
Market,  who  is  famous  for  the  superiority  of  his  excellent  bivalves. 


nsrsTTiRAaTCEj. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

Of   IIAMIN  *,NV. 

II.  r  i.    ii   |..  Law,   1,,,,„-,r  for  il..    !•...  in.    I  ...,»i   llraiuh. 
_       .    ,  J-M  Simnmr  M.,  ».  I'. 

invested  in  U.  S.  .  S34.7SS.12 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agent**  City  Department, 
»8»  I  nllforiiln  St.,  s.  F„  ««l. 


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THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF   BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OP  IUBIOU 

COMBINED  CAPITAL       ...  4  000  000  DOLLARS 

These  three  Companies  arc  liable  Jointly  and  severally  lor  all  Losses  Urn 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 

410  California  St.,  San  Francisno.  ml. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

w;°;  £"?»-7'6e" tio.ooo.ooo 

Capital  Paid  Up 1  000  000 

Cash  Reseroe  fin  addition  to  Capital) '     2  12G000 

Total  Assets  December  31,   7888      '.'.'.'." B.124.067.S0 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
305  Calllornla  Street.  San  Francisco 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  H ALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Koyal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
GEO.  F,  ORAMT.  Manager. 

PACIFIC    3DEI3A.iaT3WnElNrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 

OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     t  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, 523,194,249. 

WM.  J,  UNDERS,  (ieii'l  Agent,  20»  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  56,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  Calllornla  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,538.46. 

President.  BENJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  QIBBENS. 

HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  intereston  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,041,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -      $2,222,724. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

^   OFWANltHfeSTCRi  EN(3I->*MSIP.|J 

Capital  paid  £)  guaranteed  S8,000,00O,0D , 

ChasA  L  atom,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San Fraocissn, 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 

II7HEN  an  association  makes  a  paper  its  official 
TENNIS,  yy  organt  it  ia  generally  thought  that  such  a  paper 
is  worthy  of  such  a  trust.  The  Pacific  Field  Sports  is  supposed  to 
devote  a  certain  amount  of  its  valuable  space  to  tennis  matters. 
A  tennis  editor  is,  we  understand,  one  who  should  be  fully  cog- 
nizant with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  game,  yet  our  admir- 
able contemporary  employs  some  one  who,  to  say  the  least,  seems 
totally  unfit  for  the  position.  Since  the  withdrawal  of  a  certain 
player,  the  columns  of  the  paper  devoted  to  tennis  have  gradu- 
ally become  smaller,  and  accuracy  has  given  way  to  error. 
Speaking  of  the  objection  made  by  the  Nevada  clubs,  owing,  as 
they  state,  to  unfair  umpiring,  we  are  informed  by  the  Field  Sports 
that  unless  the  matter  is  investigated  and  the  match  between  Dr. 
Phillips  and  H.  H.  Haight  be  declared  null  and  void,  the  Nevada 
clubs  will  withdraw  from  the  association.  It  seems  to  us  that 
any  one  who  is  at  all  familiar  with  the  regulations  would  not  let 
such  a  statement  come  into  print,  as  a  match  could  only  be 
stopped  while  it  was  in  progress,  provided  sufficient  reason  could 
be  given  by  one  of  the  competitors,  or  by  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee. What  does  the  tone  of  their  objection  give  us  to  think  ? 
That  the  association  should  declare  the  match  void,  and  so  nullify 
the  whole  tournament.  That  Mr.  Taylor  could  be  called  upon  to 
defend  his  title  against  Dr.  Phillips,  because  the  latter  was  de- 
feated, in  the  opinion  of  the  Nevada  club?,  through  the  dtcisions 
of  a  dishonest  umpire,  and  if  he  had  not  been  defeated  by  Haight, 
might  have  come  into  the  finals.  It  seems  to  us  that  the  asso- 
ciation is  powerless  to  act,  and  what  ought  to  be  done  would  be 
to  get  the  objectionable  umpire  to  write  to  the  club  himself  and 
put  the  matter  properly  before  it,  and  we  feel  sure  this  whole 
disagreeable  business  would  come  to  a  pleasant  ending. 

Competitors  and  others  are  getting  into  the  habit  of  making 
tsnnis  what  horse  racing  is,  a  gambling  proposition.  This  is 
much  to  be  regretted,  and  it  is  high  time  that  such  conduct 
should  be  stopped.  It  will  be  only  when  several  members  will 
have  been  refused  admission  to  an  amateur  contest  that  they  will 
see  the  folly  of  their  ways. 

Joseph  Tobin,  who  has  returned  from  the  East,  has  had  a  good 
deal  to  say  about  the  style  of  the  players.  His  favorite  is  evi- 
dently Hovey,  and  he  gets  quite  enthusiastic  when  speaking  of 
him.  "  He  is,"  he  says,  "the  best  volleyer  I  saw,  and  is  very 
quick;  it  is  a. most  impossible  to  pass  him.  He  gives  you  the 
idea  that  be  is  a  very  clumsy  player,  but  his  service  and  his  gen- 
eral game  is  excellent.  The  players  seem,  however,  to  be  better 
back  court  players,  and  their  principal  stroke  is  a  swift  Law  ford, 
with  a  slight  curve  given  it  which,  on  grass,  makes  it  quite 
an  effective  shot.  They  always  run  up  in  doubles  on  their  ser- 
vice, but  their  smashing  is  poor.  Their  placing,  however,  is  a 
strong  feature,  and  they  depeud  almost  solely  on  that  one 
quality." 

When  speaking  about  the  time  between  games  and  setts,  Mr. 
Tobin  said  that  there  was  scarcely  any  rest  at  ali,  and  though  the 
matches  were  all  best  out  of  five,  they  went  right  along,  and  often 
played  two  matches  a  day.  The  Eastern  players  bad  but  little 
idea  of  the  strength  of  their  visitors,  and  the  games  put  up  by 
Tobin  and  Hubbard  seemed  to  surprise  as  well  as  to  worry  them. 

The  courts  at  the  various  clubs  are  beginning  to  show  that  the 
members  are  returning  from  their  sojourn  in  the  country,  and 
they  are  now  being  very  well  patronized.  The  Oakland  Club, 
which  will  have  the  tournament  this  year,  is  in  excellent  trim, 
and  the  members  are  working  hard  to  get  good  teams  ready  for 
the  fray.  The  California  Club  members  are  also  practicing,  and 
last  Sunday  held  a  small  double  tournament.  Stetson  played 
with  H.  H.  H.  Collier,  as  DeLong  was  away,  and  succeeded  In 
getting  away  with  the  prize,  defeating  the  Professor  and  Brad- 
shaw  in  the  finals. 

W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  has  no  intention  of  playing  in  the  doubles, 
and  therefore  the  item  which  appeared  in  the  Field  Sports,  cou- 
pling his  name  with  that  of  Wilberforce,  is  erroneous. 

BASFBALL  THE  Los  Angeles  Club  is  gradually  increasing  its 
1  hold  upon  the  last  half  of  the  pennant.  The 
manager  of  the  club  has  signed  Pitcher  McNabb  and  Catcher 
Baldwin,  of  the  late  Portlands  of  the  Pacific  Northwest  League. 
This  indicates  that  the  club  is  determined  to  win  the  closing  sea- 
son at  all  hazards.  There  was  no  immediate  necessity  for  the 
club  engaging  another  pitcher,  as  both  Roach  and  Baltz  are 
pitching  first  rute  ball,  particularly  the  former.  For  the  last 
couple  of  months  the  team  has  been  weak  behind  the  bat,  Neu- 
man  and  Rogers,  the  regular  catchers,  being  either  disabled  or  on 
the  sick-list.  The  engagement  of  Catcher  Baldwin  was  therefore 
a  necessity.  Last  Saturday  the  home  team  played  a  wretchfd 
game.  The  next  day  the  nine  played  as  fine  a  game  as  the 
previous  one  was  poor.  Los  Angeles  did  the  same,  playing  a 
splendid  game  Saturday  and  a  very  indifferent  one  Sunday. 
These  are  illustrations  of  the  uncertainties  of  the  game.  The 
Oakland  Club  cannot,  for  some  reason  or  other,  get  away  from  its 
ill-luck.  The  team  is  the  highest  priced  one  in  the  League,  and 
is  composed  of  players  who  all  individually  have  good  records. 
As  was  expected,  the  Pacific  Northwest  League  has  collapsed. 
The  teama  of   the  League  were  run  too  expensively.    The  dis- 


bandmeut  of  this  League  will  throw  at  least  fifty  players  out  of 
employment.  There  was  a  time  when  the  demand  for  good  ball 
players  exceeded  the  supply;  it  is  otherwise  now.  For  this  state 
of  affairs  the  old  ball  players  can  blame  themselves.  Two  years 
ago  they  cut  away  from  the  old  and  parent  organization,  and 
organized  the  Brotherhood  League.  The  old  association  had  to 
scour  the  country  for  new  players  and  develop  them.  When  the 
Brotherhood  collapsed,  it  threw  many  players  on  the  market,  who 
had  to  compete  for  employment  with  the  new  talent  which  had 
been  brought  into  existence  by  the  revolt  of  the  old  players.  Los 
Angeles  having  signed  Baldwin,  this  means  that  Wilson  will  re- 
main with  Oakland.  The  Los  Angeles  and  Oakland  nines  will 
play  in  this  city  this  afternoon  and  to-morrow.  The  new  battery 
of  the  former  club  will  play  either  this  afternoon  or  to-morrow. 
Next  week  the  home  team  and  Oaklands  will  play  in  this  city 
and  Oakland.  The  Los  Angeles  will  go  to  San  Jose  for  a  week, 
when  they  will  return  home  and  not  play  here  again  for  a  month. 


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5.   F,  &  N.   P.   RAILWAY  COMPANY. 


FIFTH   GRAND   EXCURSION 

OF  THE  SEASON  TO 

UKIAH. 

Sunday August  28,  1892. 


m.     Re- 


Tickets  for  the  KonncI  Trip  only  $3. 

Boats  leave  Tiburon  Ferry,  foot  of  Market  street,  at  8 
turning,  train  leaves  LTkiah  at  4  p.  m. 
Ticket  offices— No.  '2  New  Montgomery  street,  and  Tiburon  Ferry. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

General  Manager.  G.  P.  &  T.  A. 


THIS    IS   TO  ATTRACT   YOUR   ATTENTION   _ 
THE     FACT    THAT     CARL,    UPMANN'S     LINCOLN'S    ; 
CABINET     CIGARS     ARE     MADE    OF     THE     FINEST    ', 


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HSFyQU    SHOULD    SMOKE  THEM 


LOUIS  ROEDERER  CHAMPAGNE. 

The  Highest  tirade  Champagne  in  the  World . 
CABTB    BLA^rCHE." 

(WHITE    LABEL) 

A  Magnificent  Rich  Wine. 
'"O-ZR-A-IKriD  smsr  SOSC  " 

(BROWN  LABEL) 

Perfection  of  a  Dry  Wine. 
Bee  that  every  Bottle  hears  the  private  labelof 

MACONDRAY   &   CO., 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 


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TBI    Fr«DCtl  lea-gown  bU  developed  from  iiinip!«  neglu 
to  a  garment  very  elaborate  m  to  design   and    material.     An 
le  tea  gown  shown    li  in  t«  .0  ami 

skirt  are  of  lace.  draped  over  a  foundation  of  pale  daffodil  silk. 
At  the  waist  there  i*  a  ?a*h  of  yellow  game  ribbon,  with  a  purple 
viulrt  design  embroidered  about  ibe  edge.  Tbla  la  tied  nt  tba  side, 
it-  long  emls  hanging  over  the  lace.  The  coat  i?  fashioned  nl 
chanirenble  violet  silk.  The  collar  is  high,  and  cut  away  towards 
the  front.  At  the  shoulder  are  loops  of  pale  yellow  ribbon,  and 
the  padoga  sleeves  are  lined  with  n  faint  shade  of  yellow  silk. 

Evening  gowns  of  the  Josephine  period  are  fashionable,  and  are 
very  ht  coming  to  a  matronly  figure.  At  a  recent  assembly  at  a 
well-known  watering  place  a  handsome  woman  wore  a  dress, 
made  in  this  fashion,  of  creamy  brocade  overrun  with  tiny  roses. 
The  sleeves  were  short  and  very  much  puffed,  and  the  bodice 
was  cut  very  short-waisted  and  low,  or  in  folds.  A  classically 
shaped  head,  dressed  after  the  style  of  the  First  Empire,  completed 
the  most  striking  costume  in  the  room. 

The  double-crowned  hats  are  still  worn,  but  the  upper  crown  is 
now  a  solid  mass  of  flowers.  A  novel  hat  is  a  leghorn  shape  of 
pale  green  chip.  The  upper  part  of  the  chip  crown  ia  taken  away, 
and  in  its  place  is  a  cluster  of  pink  roses.  There  are  a  few  soft 
loops  of  pale  pink  crepe  as  a  trimming,  and  underneath  the  wide 
brim  is  an  edge  composed  of  fine  pink  rosebuds. 

Among  the  blues,  what  is  known  as  a  real  smoke  blue  is  again 
in  vogue;  it  is  somewhat  darker  than  gendarme,  and  not  as  cold 
looking  as  steel  blue.  Speaking  of  blue,  the  other  stand-by,  navy, 
Is  now  combined  with  heliotrope,  and  a  very  fashionable  English 
woman  wears  a  heliotrope  silk  shirt,  with  a  skirt  and  coat  of 
navy  blue  broadcloth. 

Heart-shaped  purses  are  being  sold.  They  are  small,  made  of 
red  leather,  and  the  entire  side  is  covered  with  a  gold  monogram. 
Attached  to  the  summer  girl's  chatelaine  is  a  heart-shaped  case  of 
openwork  gold.  Into  this  she  slips  the  bright-red  purse  which,  it 
need  not  be  said,  is  much  heavier  when  she  first  trips  abroad  than 
when  she  returns. 


A  water-proof  cloak  called  the  "Duck's  Back  "  has  been  invented. 
It  is  made  of  a  storm  cloth  prepared  without  any  rubber  about  it, 
and  is  so  ingeniously  arranged  that  a  lady's  skirts  can  not  possibly 
come  into  contact  with  mud  and  rain,  since  they  are  covered 
underneath  as  well  as  outside. 

An  artistic  engagement  ring  is  formed  of  two  narrow  bands  of 
gold  that  become  one  just  in  the  center;  the  part  where  they  are 
divided  is  filled  in  with  small,  but  pure,  diamonds.  These  small, 
clear  stones  are  always  preferred  by  women  of  good  tast5  to  very 
large  ones  less  perfect  in  color  and  in  shape. 

An  ideal  ball  gown  is  of  floating,  cloudy  French  crepe  flecked 
with  silver  spots.  Artistic  draperies  of  the  vaporous  fabric  en- 
velope the  wearer  in  swirls  of  filmy  folds,  and  the  demi-decollete 
neck  is  bordered  with  a  braid  of  silver  filigree  set  with  turquoise. 

Sickness   Among  Children, 
Especially  infants,  is  prevalent  more  or  less  at  all  times,  but  is  large- 
ly avoided  by  giving  proper  nourishment  and  wholesome  food.  The 
most  successful  and  reliable  of  all  is  the  Gail  Borden  "Eagle"  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.     Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 


GREAT   REDUCTION   SALE 

ALL 

SPRING  AND  SUMMER  GOODS 

AT 

A  Tremendous  Sacrifice 

TO  CLEAR  THEM  OUT  THIS  MONTH. 
INCOMPARABLE    BARGAINS 


Cloaks,    Dress    Goods,    Silks,    Laces,    Ribbons, 

Gloves,  Hosiery,  Underwear, 

Gent's  Furnishing  Goods, 

Wash   Dress   Fabrics,   Housefurnishings,   Etc. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 

MRS.  R.    G.  LEWIS, 


FORMERLY     OF    THURLOW     BLOCK, 


HAS  REMOVED  TO 


531    SUTTER    STREET. 


UOME  COMPORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
*-A  wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot— pot  lasts  three  months. 

Mrs.  Nrttie  Harrison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLCOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
needle.    <;r\itiMii:h    im;iuiam;.m. 


CAMELLINE 

PLE 


The  0i?Jy  f&ce  preparation  ssj?ctieneJ  as 
ABsekiteJy  harmless  by  the  medical  prefess/er?. 


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24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  [air;    Extras  M.ir>@?4. 25:    Superfine.  J2.50@I3.00. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping,  J1.32W:   Hllline.    S1.3-5@S1.45  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  9>c.(B*$I.05  Feed.  87Hc.@90c.  per  ctl. 

Oats.  Milling,  fl.40@tl.4i;  Feed,  Sl.30@fl.35  per  ctL 

Corn,  White.  fl.40;  Yellow,  S1.35@$1.37!4  per  ctl. 

Eye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  S1.20@S1.25.    Cement,  S2.0O@S2.i5. 

Hay  Is  lower;  Wheat,  19;  Oats,  *S@$9;  Alfal/a,  *7@S9. 

Uiltstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  fl&@fl6.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  f2.00@t2.50  per  ctl.    Potatoes,  45o.@70c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady;  Choice.  20c.@25c.;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  25c.@30c. 

Honey,  Comh,  llc.@l2c.:  Extracted,  6c@7c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  15c@40c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit — all  kinds  dried — active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady ;  Dry,  6c@7^c.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5%c.@53^c. 

Coffee  firmer  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demand  at  15@lSc. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites.  4}4@S%c. 

Business  in  all  sorte  of  Grain  is  exceedingly  qniet,  and  low 
prices  the  rule,  consequently  farmers  for  the  most  part  are  un- 
willing sellers  at  present,  prefering  to  store  both  Wheat  and 
Barley.  Crops  of  Corn,  etc.,  are  large.  The  Fruit  market  for  the 
moment  seem  to  be  glutted  with  over-ripe  stock.  Canners  and 
driers  have  their  bands  full  at  present.  Dried  Fruit  sells  at  high 
figures.  The  cool  weather  prevailing  during  the  week  bas  re- 
stricted the  sale  of  Cantelopes  and  Water  Mellons.  Grapes  are 
becoming  plentiful. 

The  0.  and  O.  8.  8.  Gaelic,  21  days  from  Hongkong,  via  Yoko- 
hama, 15  days,  arrived  here  on  the  21st  inst.,  with  passengers  and 
government  mails,  and  for  cargo,  11,237  mats  Rice,  7,801  pkgs. 
Tea,  2,376  cs.  Oil,  757  rolls  matting,  3,015  bags  Sugar,  256  pKgs. 
Coffee  and  Spices,  89  pkgs.  Silk  Goods,  750  bales  Hemp,  380  bales 
Gnnnies,  and  7,000  pkgs.  Mdse.  Also  in  transit  to  go  overland, 
14,977  pkgs.  Tea,  913  pkgs.  Raw  Silk,  52  pkgs.  Straw  Goods,  102 
pkgs.  Curios,  etc.  For  Honolulu,  73  pkgs.  Mdse.  For  Central 
and  South  America,  230  pkgs.  Mdse. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  Acapulco,  hence  for  Central  America,  carried 
11,220  bbls.  Flour,  28,869  lbs.  Tallow,  36,510  lbs.  Lard,  and  Mdse. 
value,  {78,735.  To  Mexico,  604  bbls.  Flour,  3,000  Fire  Brick  and 
Mdse.,  22  flsks.  Quicksilver,  etc.;  value,  $16,903. 

For  Liverpool — The  Br.  ship  Shenandoah,  hence  August  19th, 
carried  Wheat,  102,857  ctls.,  and  Barley,  5,405  ctls.,  value, 
$144,500. 

Steamship  Mariposa,  hence  for  Honolulu  August  19th,  carried 
cargo,  value,  $20,000.  For  Sydney,  1,882  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  10,- 
750  lbs.  Dried  Fruit,  296  cs.  Salmon,  17,022  lbs.  Coffee,  2,810  gals. 
Whale  Oil,  etc.,  value  $42,526.  To  Auckland,  20  flks.  Quicksilver 
and  Mdse.,  value,  $8,946;  to  Melbourne,  Mdse.,  value,  $4,483; 
to  other  ports  in  the  Colonies,  450  cs.  Salmon,  etc.,  value,  $13,372; 
to  Apia,  Mdse.,  value,  $1,800,  etc. 

Kodiak — The  schr.  Undaunted,  thence,  had  for  cargo  268  cs. 
Salmon,  65  pkgs.   Furs,  etc.,    to  Alaska  Commercial  Company. 

New  York — The  ship  T.  H.  Commodore  Allen,  2,271  tons, 
loads  Merchandise  hence  in  the  Dispatch  Line — Rosen feld&  Sons. 

The  bark  Merom,  23  days  from  Karlnck,  brought  down  50,000 
cs.  Salmon  to  the  Alaska  Packers'  Association. 

Barley  for  Cork. — The  Br.  ship  Poseidon,  hence,  carried  57,219 
ctls.;  value,  $60,000. 

Flour  for  Ireland — The  Br.  ship  Ilais,  hence  for  Sligo,  carried 
21,829  bbls.  Star  Extra;  value,  $91,000. 

Flour  for  the  Orient — The  Oceanic,  hence,  carried  to  China 
12,637  bbls.  and  to  Japan  2276  bbls. ;  to  Manila  500  bbls.,  etc. 

Wool  for  New  York,  via  Vancouver The  stmr.  Umatilla  car- 
ried 20,213  lbs.;  value,  $2400;  to  go  via  Canadian  Pacific  route. 
Japan — The  Br.  stmr.  Mascotte,  36  days  from  Kobe,  via  Yoko- 
honia  20  days,  to  Williams,  Dimond  &Co.,  had  for  cargo  2,089  rolls 
of  Matting,  3,700  mats  Rice,  and  500  pkgs  Mdse. ;  also,  to  go  over- 
land, 3,100  mats  Rice,  2,165  pkgs  Tea,  60  rolls  Matting;  for  Port- 
land, 70  pkgs.  Mdse.;  from  Vancouver,  1,433  bags  Sugar,  and 
from  Departure  Bay  810  tons  of  Coal. 

Guaymas — The  Newburn  from  Mexican  ports  brought  50  cs. 
Lemons,  36  live  Turtles,  873  Hides,  115  bars  Bullion,  762  sks. 
Bark,  47  sks.  Silver  Ore,  85  sks.  Shells,  etc. 

Overland  export  trade  by  Southern  Pacific  route  for  July,  37,- 
546  tons;  seven  months,  182,481  tons;  1891,  July  26,143  tons; 
seven  months,  159,211  tons.  The  foregoing  consists  largely  of 
fruit,  green,  dried  and  canned. 

The  establishment  of  J .  M.  Litchfield,  at  12  Post  street,  is  always 
popular,  because  there  may  be  obtained,  at  reasonable  rates,  excel- 
lent clothing,  made  by  good  tailors.  Colonel  Litchfield  makes  a 
specialty  of  furnishing  uniforms  and  regalias,  and  most  of  the  natty 
uniforms  of  the  well-dressed  army  and  navy  officers  attached  to  this 
city  are  from  his  establishment. 

Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  wlule  Teething. 


H.  M.  NEWHALL  &  CO., 

Shipping  and  Commission  Merchants, 

AND 

GENERAL  INSURANCE  AGENTS, 

Hoa.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 
NATIONAL   ASSURANCE   CO.  OF   IRELAND; 
ATLAS    ASSURANCE    CO.    OF    LONDON  ; 
BOYLSTON    INSURANCE   CO.  OF    BOSTON; 
OCEAN  MARINE  INSURANCE  CO.  OF  LONDON. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old  Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented, 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 

LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

lOver  300  In  Dally  U»o  on  the  Pacific  Coo»t.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn   Steam   Condenser    Manufacturing   Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Systems—"  Slattery  "  Induction;  "  Wood  "  Arc.     Factories—  Fort  Wayne, 
Indiana;  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Electric  Improvement  Company. 

General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Arizona  and  Washington 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Co.,  Fort  Wayne*  Ind. 

Estimates  furnished  for  Electric  .Railways,  Electric  Light  and  Steam 
Plants,  House  Wiring,  etc.    Marine  Work  a  Specialty. 


35  New  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 


B.  J.   WHEELER. 


J.   W.  GIETIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS.  DIMOND  &  CO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 

UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 


Company, 
'The  California  Line  of  Clippers,1 

from  New  York, 
'  The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets," 

to  and  from  Honolulu. 


Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 
The  China  Traders  &  Insurance  Co. 

The  Baldwin  Locomotive  Works, 
Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 


J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC     STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

GILLINGHAM     CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 
BAN   FRANOI8QO. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET, 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,   WOOD    AND   IRON   WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,   BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING.   OIL8  AND  8UPPLIE8. 

LOUIS    CAHEN    &   SON, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers- 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters,  Cordials,  etc. 
Pacific  Coast  Agents  Bethesda  Mineral  Water. 

418  Sacramento  Street,  S.  F. 

DR.   RlCORD'S  RE8TORATIVE   PlLLS. 

Buy  none  but  the  Genuine— A  Specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces,  etc.— Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  Medical  Celebrities.     Agents  for  California  and  the  Pacific  States. 

J.  G.   STEELE  A  CO., 
No.  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED.  Box  of  50  pills,  »1  25;  of  100  pills,  92;  of  200 pills. 
*3  50;  of  400  pills,  96;  Preparatory  PillB,*2.    Send  for  Circular. 


August  27,  1892. 


PRANCI8C0  NKW8  T.KTTKR. 


THK  Radicals  among  Mr.  Gladstone's  following  in  the  House  of 
Commons  are  said  to  be  disappointed  on  account  of  the  fact 
that  none  of  the  portfolios  in  the  new  cabinet  has  been  given  to 
any  of  their  number.  Well,  they  might  have  spared  themselves 
this  disappointment  if  they  had  studied  Mr.  Gladstone's  charac- 
ter a  little  more  closely.  The  fact  that  the  old  gentleman  of  late 
years  has  hobnobbed  a  good  deal  with  people  like  Labouchere, 
Broadhurst.  Conybeau,  and  others,  does  not  prove  that  he  likes 
them.  Necessity  makes  strange  bed-fe.lows,  and  Mr.  Gladstone 
found  himself  in  the  necessity,  if  he  wanted  to  obtain  a  majority 
in  Parliament,  to  pick  up  supporters  wherever  he  could  find 
them.  He  could  not  afford  to  be  too  squeamish  before  the  gen- 
eral election.  Matters  have  a  little  changed,  however,  since  he 
holds  otlice  again,  and  be  now  ventures  upon  a  feeble  attempt  to 
keep  the  evil  spirits,  whom  he  exorcised  to  help  him,  from  com- 
ing into  a  too  close  contact  with  him.  As  Cabinet  Ministers  they 
would  cut  really  too  queer  a  figure,  and  even  Mr.  Gladstone, 
though  he  has  not  stuck  much  upon  political  etiquette  since  bis 
Irish  schemes  disturbed  the  peace  of  his  mind,  would  hardly  dare 
to  show  himself  to  the  public  surrounded  with  such  men  as  the 
typical  Radicals  in  the  House  of  Commons.  Besides  it  is  doubt- 
ful whether  he  would  have  given  the  whole  clique  more  satisfac- 
tion by  pushing  out  some  representable  specimen  amongst  them, 
than  by  ignoring  them  almost  altogether.  Tbe  majority  would 
have  remained  without  office  even  then,  and  their  jealousy 
would  have  been  as  disagreeable  a  factor  to  count  with  as  their 
disappointment.  As  matters  stand  the  right  honorable  gentle- 
man will  no  doubt  explain  his  action  by  saying  that  his  old  col- 
leagues, who  stood  by  him  during  the  Home  Rule  Bill  time  and 
fell  when  he  fell,  deserve  the  first  consideration.  The  excuse  is 
a  good  one,  and  what  is  better,  is  that|the  new  Cabinet  consists 
on  the  whole  of  respectable  gentlemen  and  not  mere  politicians, 
so  that  even  those  who  do  not  approve  of  their  views  can  at 
least  esteem  them. 

A  telegram  from  New  York  last  week  contained  a  summary  of 
an  alleged  interview  between  Major  John  Byrne  and  Mr.  Glad- 
stone, during  ihe  former's  visit  to  Europe.  In  this  interview  Mr. 
Gladstone  is  made  to  >ay  that  be  valued  very  highly  the  support 
of  the  Americans,  and  that  he  wished  the  Major  to  thank  Amer- 
ica cordially  for  the  aid  given  to  Ireland  in  the  late  election.  For 
Mr.  Gladstone's  sake  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  has  been  misre- 
ported  and  there  is  scarcely  any  doubt  that  this  is  the  case.  It 
would  be  simply  disgraceful  for  a  statesman  in  Mr.  Gladstone's 
position  to  solicit  the  support  of  a  foreign  country  for  the  purpose 
of  influencing  politics  at  home,  and  to  acknowledge  openly  for- 
eign assistance  at  election  time.  Whatever  his  private  opinion 
may  be,  he  could  never  afford  to  give  expression  to  it  in  such  a 
manner  without  arousing  the  just  indignation  of  his  country- 
men. In  our  country,  where  the  English  Minister  at  Washing- 
ton was  dismissed  at  once,  and  with  good  cause,  for  interfering 
with  our  own  politics,  we  need  not  explain  why  the  British  peo- 
ple would  be  justly  indignant  if  a  man  in  Mr.  Gladstone's  posi- 
tion would  he  guilty  of  language  so  indiscreet  as  that  attributed 
to  him  in  the  alleged  interview. 

The  French  Government  has  decided  to  remove  all  the  emblems 
of  monarchies  on  the  public  buildings  in  Paris,  with  tbe  excep- 
tion of  those  of  real  historical  value.  This  is  a  sensible  step,  for, 
the  crowned  «  L  "  of  Louis  le  Grand  and  his  followers,  superseded 
by  the  "  It.  F."  of  the  first  republic,  followed  by  the  »  N."  of  the 
great  Corsican,  the  initials  of  Louis  XVIII. ,  and  of  King  Charles, 
and  "  L.  P."  for  Louis  Philipp,  smothered  by  a  new  "  R.  F.," 
superseded  again  by  another  "  N."  for  "  Napoleon  the  Little," 
and  finally  conquered  by  the  "  R.  F."  of  the  latest  fashion,  formed 
altogether  too  gloomy  a  reminder  to  the  authorities  in  power  of 
the  transitoriness  of  French  governments.  It  must  have  seemed 
to  them  like  an  eternal  «  memento  mori!  "  and  a  quite  unnecessary 
one,  since  the  present  French  republic  has  demonstrated  consid- 
erable vitality,  and  shows  no  signs  of  death  yet.  It  is  also  wise 
that  only  the  monarchical  initials  and  emblems  are  to  be  destroyed 
on  the  buildings,  since  the  various  R.  F.'s  for  Republiquc  Francaise, 
from  whatever  period  they  may  date,  can  be  economically  utilized 
for  the  present  regime.  Most  people  will  not  inquire  too  closely 
whether  they  have  always  symbolized  the  same  kind  of  republic. 

The  news  from  Tonquin  published  in  the  French  papers  is 
very  gloomy,  and  it  seems  that  other  Frenchmen  besides  Jules 
Ferry  are  unable  to  obtain  administrative  success  in  that  country. 
The  French,  decidedly,  are  not  a  colonizing  nation,  and  nearly 
all  the  money  expended  by  their  government  for  colonial  expan- 
sion is  merely  wasted.  It  is  most  probable  that  France  sooner  or 
later  will  have  to  abandon  Tonquin,  for  the  continual  loss  of  life 
and  capital  in  that  country  must  have  opened  the  eyes  even  of 
the  most  sanguine  supporters  of  the  colonial  policy  to  the  fact 
that  the  acquisition  of  Tonquin  was  a  mistake. 


The  death  nf  the  Daka  ol  Manchester  on  the    18th  Init.  ha§  re- 

I  "no  oftOOM  men  who  have  really  brought  disgrace  upon  the 
House  of  I.->rds.  and  who  »rc  responsible  for  the  bad  BUM  »>'"  h 

ngltsh  peerage  ha  <  obtained  in  rmintrfcs  where  only  the  ad- 
ventures of  it*  bltok  sheep  are  known.  It  must  also  be  a  m*1 
relief  to  the  Daka  ol  DeTOIUhtrC,  who,  on  the  Iflth  inst..  married 
the  widowed  Duchess  of  Manchester,  to  have  so  cheaply  got  rid 
of  so  undesirable  a  stepson. 

The  attempt  to  reduce  the  service  in  the  German  army  from 
three  years  to  two  years  naturally  meets  with  the  greatest  oppo- 
sition on  the  part  of  the  older  military  men,  and  also  of  the  Em- 
peror, who  consider  the  army  an  almost  sacred  institution  of  the 
country.  They  are  loth  to  make  any  change  in  the  army  regula- 
tions, since,  as  experience  has  proved,  they  have  been  of  won- 
derful efficiency  in  making  the  German  army  the  first  in  the 
world  at  the  present  time.  Still,  the  shortening  of  the  service 
would  be  a  great  boon  to  the  young  men  of  the  country,  and  if  it 
can  be  brought  about  without  seriously  interfering  with  the  effi- 
ciency, the  measure  should  be  adopted. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Silver     Hill     Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  Second  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  31)  of  Five  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Sixth  Day  ot  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  Is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  September, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

D.  C.  BATES,  Secretary. 

Office.— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— Sau  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works — Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  39),  of  twenty-five  (25)  centB 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  16th  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  pavment  is  made  be- 
fore,   will   be    sold    on   TUESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  October,  1892,   to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,  San  Francisco.  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Story  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  102)  of  Fifty  (50)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  26,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  st., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Thursday  the  Fifteenth  Day  of  September,  1 892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will    be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  7th    day  of    October,    1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 
v  A.  B.  THOMPSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  26,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. „ 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Confidence  Silver  Mining  Company, 

Location  oi  principal  place  of  business— Sau  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  Couuty,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Thirteeutb  day  of  August,  189a,  an  assessment  (No.  21)  of  Fifty 
(50)  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Fifteenth  (I6lh)  Day  ot  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  sixth  day  of  October,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,   together  with  the  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  S.  GROTH,  Secretary. 

OFFICE— 414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 


Exchequer  Mining  Company. 
Assessment **°-  3S 

Amount  per  share ..................... ::: .. v:::"M$fijm 

Minouent  in  Offlce':.:.. '.,...   ••    £°8M«j  ™* 

Day  ol  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock  ^   r  KL£f$^rng£M 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


26 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


ROUNDELS.—  William  H.  Hayne,  in  Frank  Leslie's. 


When  Love  is  Boes. 
When  love  is  bom  all  things  are  bright, 

Lit  by  yonng  passion's  cloudless  morn — 
Each  heart-throb  is  a  ray  of  light 

When  love  is  born. 
Joy  sheathes  in  blossoms  every  thorn, 

Grief,  like  a  mist,  recedes  from  sight; 
Pain  creeps  to  some  far  land  forlorn. 
From  lip  to  lip  the  words  in  flight 

Are  like  blithe  birds  above  the  corn; 
The  heart  retains  no  hint  of  night 
When  love  was  born. 

When  Love  is  Dead. 
When  love  is  dead  night  rules  the  way 

Whence  his  phantasmal  feet  have  sped; 
Lost  sunshine  is  a  soul  astray 

When  love  is  dead. 
His  glory  from  the  heart  has  fled 

To  that  grim  realm  without  a  ray 
Of  light  amid  the  darkness  dread. 
Grief  turns  to  ashes  cold  and  gray 

The  buds  of  hope  once  warm  and  red ; 
Joy  is  an  unremembered  May 
When  love  is  dead. 


JOSEPH    H.    HETHERINGTON. 

^HE   Palace  Hotel  bar,  which  is  one  of  the  most  magnificently 
furnished  and  best  managed  in  the  world,  is  in  charge  of  Mr. 


Joseph    H.    Hetherington.     This 


gentleman  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  men  in  the  busi- 
ness in  this  city,  and  has 
done  much  to  increase  the 
popularity  which  the  Pal- 
ace bar  has  enjoyed  for 
years.  He  has  spent  the 
greater  part  of  the  forty- 
three  years  of  his  life  in 
the  hotel  bar  business, 
which  he  entered  in  1864, 
Mr.  Hetherington  is  a 
native  of  Carlisle,  Scot- 
land. When  nine  years  of 
age  he  came  to  this  coun- 
try with  his  parents,  who 
settled  in  Detroit,  Mich., 
where  he  was  educated, 
and  where  his  parents 
still  reside.  Mr.  Heth- 
erington has  had  charge 
of  several  of  the  finest 
hotel  bars  in  the 
United  States,  and  thor- 
oughly understands 
how  a  first-class  bar 
should  be  managed.  He  took  charge  of  the  Palace  Hotel 
bar  over  two  years  ago,  and  has  made  it  a  popular  resort, 
where  gentlemen  receive  courteous  treatment  and  the  best 
of  service.  Mr.  Hetherington  is  an  affable  gentleman,  is  married 
and  has  two  children.  He  has  made  a  success  in  his  business, 
because  he  has  deserved  it.  The  aoloropanying  illustration  is  an 
excellent  likeness  of  this  popular  Boniface. 


W EATER  proof  and  watertight  coatings  for  buildings  have 
consisted  largely,  for  want  of  something  better,  of  para  nine  and 
water  glass,  and  it  has  been  pointed  out  that  a  solution  of  melted 
pararHoe  in  three  parts  of  heavy  coal-tar  oil,  kept  fluid  while 
being  applied  by  immersion  of  the  containing  vessel  in  hot  water, 
forms  a  most  excellent  wash  or  paint  for  buildings  very  much 
exposed  to  atmospheric  influences.  For  the  successful  employ- 
ment or  water  glass  two  conditions  are  found  to  be  essential,  that 
is,  the  stucco  must  be  uniform  in  texture,  very  hard  and  thin, 
and  the  solution  must  not  be  applied  while  the  plaster- 
ing is  "green,"  as  in  that  case  the  calcium  hydrate  at  once  de- 
composes the  silicates.  The  water  glass  may  be  used  as  follows: 
Ten  parts  of  dry  sharp  sand,  three  of  air-slacked  lime,  two  parts 
of  chalk  or  pulverized  limestone,  and  soda  water  glass  of  thirty- 
three  degrees  Bauoie  are  used;  the  sand,  lime,  and  chalk  are 
passed  through  a  dry  sieve,  and  the  ingredients  then  mixed  with 
the  water  glafs,  diluted  with  twice  its  weight  of  water,  into  the 
consistency  of  mortar,  and  used  as  a  setting  coat  over  the  wall 
to  be  protected;  this  coating,  in  a  day  or  two,  sets  as  hard  as  a 
stone,  and  may  then  be  repeatedly  saturated  with  dilute  soda 
water  glass. 

Fall  Styles  Butterick's  celebrated  patterns  for  Ladies',  Misses',  Boys' 
and  little  Children's  garments.  Catalogues  mailed  free.  H.  A.  Demine. 
124  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 


Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery — Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1>,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.        No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.  A.  Johns&n  2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  80 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  au  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  oftice  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  aud  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  aud  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponemen  t. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stoek   was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.                      JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Sau  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Peerless  Mining  Company. 


Lo- 


Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Sau  Francisco,  California, 
cation  of  works— Quljotoa,  Ariz. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  0th  day  of  July,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  IS)  of  Eighteen  of  (5) 
Ceutsper  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  oflice  of 
the  company,  Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,  Sau  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Eleventh  Day  of  August,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  Sept.,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  aud  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

AUG.  WA'ERMAN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  Sau  Francisco, 
California. 

Postponement. 

The  assessment  on  Peerless,  which  is  delinquent  in  oflice  ou  August  11, 
1892,  is  hereby  postponed  until  THURSDAY,  September  1,  1892,  and  the 
sale  day  until  TUESDAY,  September  20,  1892.  at  1  o'clock  p.  m.  By  order 
of  the  Board  of  Directors.  AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Best    &     Belcher    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  Principal  place  of  business— San  Fraucisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  City,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  seventeenth  (17th)  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  52)  of  Twenly- 
five  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  (he  capital 
stock  of  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to 
the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  33,  Nevada  block,  No. 
309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Thursday,  the  2 2d  day  of  September.  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  paymeut  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  thirteenth  (13th)  day  of  October, 
1S92,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co, California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 


Challenge  Consolidated    Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nev. 

Notice  ia  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  tweuty-fourth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  12)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-seventh  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  18th    day  of    October,   1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with    the   costs   of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

C.  L.  McCOY,  Secretary. 

Oftice— 331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


August  27,  1892. 


HAH  PHA.NCI8G0  Ni:w-  i  i  i 


SAM  FRANCISCO  AMD  MOUTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    DONAHUE    BROAO-StUSE    ROUTE." 

OMMK.VTI.VQ  8C7IDAY.  ATKII  :t  ISM.  ud 
until  further  notice,  BoaU  and  Train,  will 
le»Te  from  ud  arrive  at  the  San  Franci.eo  P»». 
•enter  Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  a. 
follow! : 
Fr«»  San  Franclico  lor  Point  Tlburon.  8el<edert  an* 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS-7:«0  a.  ».,  9:S>  »    «..    11  „i)  a.  «.: 

1:30  r.  H..3J0P.  *.,S:0d  r.  »..t:J0r.  u. 
SIM1AYS— 8:00  a.m., 9:30  *.«.,  11:00  a.m.;  1  30  P.M. 
3:30  p.  «..  5:00  p.  M.,  6:15  P.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— «35  a.   M..  7*6   a.   m..  9:30   A.  M. 

11  SO  a.m.:  1:40  p.m..  3:40  P.M.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6  JO  p.n. 
8rNDAY8-fl:10  A.M..  9:40  A.*.,  11:10  a.  m. ;  1:40 P.M. 
3:40  p.  M.,  5:00  p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Franclico. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:50  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  a.m.,  U:55 
a.  M. :  2*5  p.  M.,  Mr.  M.,  5:85  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 6:S5   A.M.,    10.06  a.m.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2*5  P.M.,  4*5  P.M.,  5:80  p.m.,  6.50  P.M. 


LlAViS.P. 


Da*?*    Sundays 


Destination, 


7:40a.m.  8:00a.m.     Petaluma 
8:30p.M.  9:80 A.M.  and 

5:05  p.m.  5:00p.  m.   Santa  Rosa. 


AbeivbinS.F. 


*™*™\  £#. 


10:40  A.M 
6:05  p.M 
7:25p.m 


8:50a.m. 
10:30a.m 
6:10P.M. 


1       Fulton, 

I     Windsor, 

7:40a.m Healdsburg, 

3:30P.M.  8K»A.M.    Utlon  Sprinei, 

7:25  P.M. 

10:30a. M 
0:10  P.M 

Way8tations. 

7:40A.M.  800A.M. '..*,«&&. 

7:25  P.M. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40 a.m.  800a. m.  Querneville. 
3:30  P.M. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.  sc.  8:00a.m.  Sonoma  and  10:40a. m  ,|8:50a.  h. 
5:05p.M.  5:00p.m.  Glen  Ellen.  ,  6:05P.M. |6:10p.M. 
7:40a. m  I  8:00a.M  I  Sebastopol.  I  10:40a.M  I  10:30am 

3:30  p.M  I  5:00  P.M  1 j    6.05P.M  |  6:10  p.M 

8tagea  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs:  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Bpringa,  KelBeyvIlle,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukian  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga 8prings,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  WeBtport,  TJsal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCUBSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50:  to  Santa  Rosa,  52  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  15  70;  toUkiah,  ?6  75:  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guernevllle,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1 ;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
vllle, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  dayB. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  TownBend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Caytjcos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Dieoo,  about  every  Becond  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


I  CURE  FITS! 

When  I  say  care  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  Btop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  again.  I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  d.Bease  of  FITS,  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  casea.  Because 
others  have  failed  is  no  reason  for  not  now  roceiving  a 
oure.  Send  at  onoe  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
B.  Q.  ROOT,  M.  C.|  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  Y. 


PACIFIC  HAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

TllROVOH   LlYI   TO   NRW    Y.iRK,    vn    I*  UN  AM  A. 

f  Steamer*  will  Mil  at  MOON  on  iV  Mb,  iMh  and 
36th  of  each  month. 
Calling  M  Tirlout  port*  of  Mexico  and 
America. 

TkrtHtgh  Lint  Sailing*.—  8.  8.  "City  of  Bldnpy," 
Aucn»t  2Mh.8.  3  "San  Jo»c,"  September  Mb;  "San 
Juan,'*  September  IMh. 

Way  Lint  to  tltrlean  and  Central  American  Portt 
ana  Panama.— Steamer  stall*  at  NOON  l«th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlau.  3«n  Bin-,  MatuuiiiUlo, 
Acantilco.  Port  Aut;el.  Sallua  Cruz.  Tntiala,  Han 
Benito,  Ooos,  Champeiioo,  Sun  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Arajntta,  La  Liberia.!,  La  Tnlou,  Amapala,  Co- 
rlnto,  San  Juau  del  Stir  and  Punt*  Arenas. 

Way  Lint  Sailing.— Sept.  lvth,  S.  8.  "City  of  Pana- 
ma." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon- 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG. 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Iudies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeho,"  Saturday,  Aug.  27th.  at 

3  P.  M. 

"City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  September  17th,  at 
3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu,,  Tuesday,  Sept. 27 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

8.8.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  Trio  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and   Brannau  streets.        Branch  office— 202 
Front  street               ALEXANDER  CENTER, 
.       General  Agent. 

MERCHANT'S     LINE. 


NEW    LINE    CLIPPER    SHIPS- 
New    York    to    San    Francisco. 

—THE   MAGNIFICENT   IRON   SHIP— 


T.  F.  OAKES, 


189  7  tons  register,  REED,  Mas- 
ter, is  now  on  the  berth  at  New  York 
and  having  large  engagements  will 
receive  quick  dispatch.    For  freight  apply  to 
J.  W.  GRACE  &  CO., 

430  California  St.,  S.  F. 
W.  R.  GRACE  &  CO.,  Hanover  Square,  N.  Y. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  P.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892. 

Belgic Thuesday,  Oct.  6, 1892. 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TIOKET8  AT   REDUCED    RATES- 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  8.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 

CiBCO. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.PaBS.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 

GEORGE  GOODMAN, 

patentee  and  manufacturer  op 

ARTIFICIAL      STONE 

in  aix  its  branches). 

Office.  307  Montgomery  Stbeet. 


THE  French  percale  shirt,  tucked  from 
the  neck  to  the  bust  and  then  allowed 
to  flare,  is  liked  by  women  who  do  not  care 
to  assume  a  stiff  shirt;  they  can,  of  course, 
be  worn  far  into  cold  weather  with  a  cloth 
skirt  and  jacket. 

AN  odd   brooch    is   shaped  exactly  like  a 
pair  of  gold  pincers,   a  perfectly  round 
pearl  being  held  by  them. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    HYHTKM. 

Train.  U.v.  and   «r«  Due  to  Arrlv.  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


LtAVl ' 


From  Jul/  25,  1892.  I  Aamva 


7:00  a 
7:80a 


8:00) 
8:00, 


•9:00  a 
12 -00  m 
•1:00  p. 
1  :.T0  p. 
3:00  p 
4:00p 

4:00  p. 

4:30  p. 
4:30  p. 
•4:30  p. 
6:30  p. 


5:30  p. 

6:00  p. 
•6:00  P. 
6:00  P. 
}7:00p 
7:00  P. 


Hcmcla,  Rum.ey,  Sacramento 

Harvard.,  Nile,  and  Sau  Joie 

Nile,  and  Ban  Jose 

Martinet.  Man  Ramon,  CalintoeA 
and  Santa  I: 

Jacram'toA  Redding,  vlaDavia 
,  Atlantic  Exprce.  for  Ogdeu  and 
East, 

Mile.,  San  Jo.e,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysvlllc,  Oro- 
vllle  and  Red  Bluff 

Neu'  Orleans  Express,  8autaBar- 
bara,  Log  Augcles,  Demlng,  El 
Paso.  Now  Orleans  andEast    ,. 

Stockton  and  Milton 

Haywards,  NUes  and  Llvermore 

Sacramento  River  Steamers 

Vallejo  and  Martinez . 

Haywards,  Nile*  and  8an  Jose  . 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 
Lodi.  Merced  and  Fresno  

Vallejo,  Galistoga,  El  Verauo  and 
Sauta  Rosa 

Benicia,  Esparto,  8acramento. 

Woodland  and  Oroville 

Niles  and  Livermore 

Lob  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 
Lob  Angeles 

Santa Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 
for  Mojave  and  East  

Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose. . 

Suuol  and  Livermore  

European  M.-ul  Ogden  aud  East 

.  Vallejo 

Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . . 


7:16  r 

r,:i:,r. 

7:1(,  p. 


8:46  p. 

•8:4.',  p. 
7:16  p. 
•9:00  p. 

12:46  r. 

9:46  a. 

9:46a. 

9.46  a. 
10:46  A. 
10:45  A. 
•8:46  a. 


R-,15  a. 
7:45  a. 


9:16  a. 
t8:46  p. 


Santa  Cruz  Division. 


J7  :45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    18:05 p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder    Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6:20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

Sauta  Cruz »10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos, 
Saturdays  and  Sundays  to  Santa 
Cruz 9:60a. 


Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 


19:1 


10:87  A. 
12:15  p. 


6:10  p. 


}2:45  P. 
5:03  p. 


*7 :00  A.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion ..     18:28  p. 

8:15  A.  San  Jose,  Gtlroy,  Tres  Plnos.Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations 
.  "Sunday  Excursion  Train  to 
Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. 
San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations . .  . . 
Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations a:aup. 

*2 :80p.  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Santa  Cruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  Pacific  Grove 

and  principal  Way  Stations *10:37  A. 

*3:80p.  San    Jose.    Gilroy    and     Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations *9:47  a. 

*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .   *8:06  a. 

5 -.15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a. 

6:S0p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .  6:85a. 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations t7:S0p. 

A. for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  fSaturdays  only. 

ISundays  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
MailB,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under; 

FOR  HONOLULU,   AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 

S.  S.  Monowai  Friday,  September  16,  at  2  p.  m. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 
S.  S.  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  31, 1892,  at  2  p.  M. 
For  Freight   or   Passage  apply  at    Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKEL8  &  BROS.  CO, 

General  Agents 


CONSUMPTION. 

I  have  a  positive  remedy  for  the  above  disease;  by  its 
use  thousands  of  cases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
etanding  have  been  enrnd.  Indeed  so  strong  is  my  faith 
in  its  effloacy,  that  I  will  send  two  bottles  tree,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  suf- 
ferer who  will  Bend  me  then:  Express  and  P.  O.  address. 
T.  A.  Slocom,  M.  C.«  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  IT. 


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28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


August  27,  1892. 


THE  great  event  of  the  out-of-town  season  has  at  length  ar- 
rived, and  it  would  be  easier  to  say  who  are  not  at  Del  Monte 
than  to  enumerate  the  names  of  those  belonging  to  our  fashion- 
able circles  who  are  gracing  the  Country  Club  festivities  with 
tbeir  presence  to-day.  The  different  committees  have  been  un- 
tiring in  their  efforts  to  bring  about  a  harmonious  whole,  and  are 
no  doubt  greatly  pleased  at  their  success,  and  the  season  at  our  pet 
watering  place  promises  to  close  in  a  veritable  blaze  of  glory. 


Santa  Cruz  has  had  a  lively  time  of  it  during  July  and  August, 
indeed  the  whole  summer  there  has  been  gay  beyond  the  average, 
and  visitors  say  they  have  muchly  enjoyed  themselves.  But 
the  regulars,  who  are  now  on  their  homeward  march  from  their 
camp  by  the  sea,  have  left  the  little  place  quite  desolated  over  the 
loss  of  the  last  of  the  buttons  by  their  departure.  It  is  said  that 
the  officers  in  charge  of  the  detachment  hoped  on  their  home- 
ward route  for  a  sample  of  the  civilities  shown  Battery  K,  when 
that  somewhat  celebrated  company  made  its  annual  tour  in  divers 
directions  through  the  State.  But  unfortunately  all  the  world 
and  his  wife  are  at  Del  Monte  just  now,  leaving  the  line  of  their 
march  in  rather  a  depopulated  condition,  from  a  society  stand- 
point, so  the  chances  are  they  are  doomed  to  disappointment. 


Musical  affairs  promise  to  be  numerous  as  the  season  advances. 
Already  a  number  are  un  the  tapis,  premonitory  symptoms  of  the 
many  sweet  sounds  that  are  to  greet  our  ears  later  on.  The  ever 
popular  Loring  Club  holds  a  leading  place  on  the  programme,  the 
first  of  their  new  season  of  concerts  being  announced  for  the 
evening  of  September  7th,  at  Odd  Fellow's  Hall.  The  concert  in 
aid  of  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage  and  the  Hahnemann  Hospital, 
at  which  the  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra  and  Mrs.  Everett  Wise 
have  volunteered  to  assist,  is  definitely .  named  for  the  first  of 
November;  and  Baroness  Meta,  Rosewald's  new  opera,  will  be  pro- 
duced at  the  Grand  Opera  House  for  the  benefit  of  the  Woman's 
Exchange.  The  San  Francisco  Polyclinic  benefit  is  also  looming 
into  view,  and  there  are  others  that  will  soon  fall  into  line.  The 
San  Francisco  Verein  Club  announce  as  their  contribution  to  the 
musical  novelties  of  the  early  season,  the  production  of  an  opera 
entitled  Christopher  Columbus,  from  the  pens  of  Messrs.  Hinz  and 
Waldeck,  which  will  be  given  at  their  club  rooms  on  Saturday 
evening,  the  22d  of  October.  Great  things  are  promised,  and  as 
the  club  is  well  known  to  have  always  lived  up  to  its  promises  in 
its  many  brilliant  entertainments  in  the  past,  much  is  expected 
in  the  forthcoming  musical  evening.  Mr.  Solly  Waters  will  have 
entire  charge  of  the  affair,  and  Mr.  Hinz  will  direct  the  music. 


It  has  often  been  remarked  that  when  all  else  fails,  weddings 
step  in  to  fill  up  the  blank,  and  never  could  it  be  said  with  greater 
truth  than  during  the  present  summer,  for  they  have  been  of  al- 
most daily  occurrence  for  several  weeks  past.  Among  the  pretti- 
est of  this  month  was  the  wedding  last  Saturday  at  the  Palace 
Hotel,  which  in  days  gone  by  has  been  the  scene  of  a  number  of 
similar  affairs.  The  parlor  on  the  first  floor,  where  the  ceremony 
took  place,  was  profusely  adorned  and  decked  with  flowers  and 
foliage,  and  here  the  service  which  united  Miss  Klla  May  Goodale 
to  Dr.  C.  E.  Campe  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Gibbons,  in 
the  presence  of  a  large  number  of  wedding  gueBts,  the  bridal 
party  entering  the  room  to  the  strains  of  the  Mendelssohn  march, 
and  taking  tbeir  positions  'neath  a  beautiful  marriage  bell.  The 
bride  wore  a  handsome  robe  of  white  surah  silk  and  a  tulle  veil, 
and  carried  a  bouquet  of  white  pinfrs.  Miss  Florence  Hammond, 
who  was  maid  of  honor,  was  attired  in  an  elegant  gown  of  cream 
silk,  trimmed  with  lace.  Mr.  G.  H.  Cabaniss  supported  the 
groom  as  best  man.  Following  the  ceremony  a  handsome  wed- 
ding breakfast  was  served  in  the  private  dining-room  on  the  first 
floor,  at  which  many  felicitous  speeches  were  made  and  toasts 
drank,  and  later  the  happy  pair  departed  for  Del  Monte  to  spend 
their  honeymoon. 

Returns  to  town  are  becoming  quite  numerous.  The  early 
closing  of  the  Hotel  Rafael  has  had  the  effect  of  sending  many 
back  to  town  who  would  have  willingly  spent  another  month  at 
that  most  excellent  hostelrie  amid  its  lovely  surroundings,  and  in 
the  delicious  air  of  San  Rafael.  From  tbere  have  come  Mrs.  G. 
T.  Lawton,  Miss  Theresa  Lawton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Phil  Lilienthal, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  N.  Walter,  Mrs.  N.  Dillon  and  the  Misses  Kate 
and  Marie  Dillon,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Web'ter  Jones,  etc.  Mrs.  W.  F. 
McNutt  and  her  daughters  Ruth  and  Mamie,  and  Mrs.  H.  N. 
Cook  are  among  the  arrivals  from  Castle  Crags.  Mrs.  and  the 
Misses  Martel,  Mrs.  Luke  Robinson  and  family  have  come  from 
Santa  Cruz;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  E.  Fiaher  from  Lake  Tahoe;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Sands  Foreman  from  San  Diego;  Mrs.  Maria  Baird  and 
her  daughters,  Mr.  N.  K.  Masten  and  his  daughters,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  Hooker  from  Del  Monte;  and  Mrs.  Del  Linderman 
from  Paso  Robles.  Mrs.  Sidney  M.  Smith  and  the  Misses  Helen 
and  Ethel  Smith  are  also  among  the  arrivals  in  town  from  the 
country. 


Calvary  Presbyterian  Church  has  not  often  been  the  scene  of  a 
wedding  this  season,  and  therefore  it  put  its  best  foot  foremost 
last  Thursday  evening,  and  looked  very  attractive  in  its  pretty 
floral  decorations  in  honor  of  the  marriage  of  Miss  Alice  Cusheon 
and  George  A.  Mullin,  the  ceremony  taking  place  in  a  bower  of 
evergreens,  which  supported  an  exquisite  floral  bell.  The  church 
was  crowded  with  guests,  the  musical  selections  from  the  fingers 
of  Maestro  Gustave  A.  Scott  serving  to  pleasantly  while  away 
the  time  during  their  assembling.  The  bride  was  attended  by 
Miss  Nellie  Ewing  as  maid  of  honor,  and  the  Misses  Lizzie  Dick, 
Maggie  Purrington,  Sophie  Kobricke  and  Ida  Cameron  made  a 
pretty  quartette  of  bridesmaids.  M.  A.  Thornton  was  best  man, 
aDd  Messrs.  John  Cook,  Ed.  Casey,  Victor  Nelson  and  Charles 
Fonda  performed  their  arduous  duties  of  ushers  to  the  general 
satisfaction.  The  bridal  robe  was  of  white  corded  silk,  hand- 
somely trimmed  with  orange  blossoms,  and  the  usual  tulle  veil 
enveloped  a  very  charming-looking  bride.  The  wedding  party 
and  a  few  intimate  friends  supped  at  the  Cusheon  residence  after 
the  church  service,  and  the  wedding  presents  were  handsome  and 
valuable.  Lake  Tahoe  is  where  the  honeymoon  has  been  spent, 
and  upon  their  return  a  reception  will  be  held  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Mullin. 


The  probabilities  are  that  San  Francisco's  Columbian  celebra- 
tion will  compare  very  favorably  with  any  on  this  continent. 
Archbishop  Reardon  is  taking  special  interest  in  it,  and  the  pro- 
gramme so  far  arranged  by  the  Catholic  element  will  include  a 
grand  pontificial  high  mass  at  the  Cathedral,  where  Liszt's  Coro- 
nation Mass  will  be  sung  by  a  full  choir  of  our  best  singers,  un- 
der the  direction  of  Professor  A.  C.  Eimer.  The  evening  enter- 
tainment at  the  Pavilion  is  to  be  something  quite  out  of  the  com- 
mon. The  Panorama  of  All  Nations  and  the  Historical  Tableaux, 
which  have  been  in  preparation  for  many  weeks  past,  will,  it  is 
said,  be  extremely  beautiful,  and  as  many  of  our  young  society 
people  have  signified  tbeir  intention  of  taking  part  in  the  affair, 
it  goes  without  saying  that  the  Pavilion  will  present  a  brilliant 
appearance  on  the  21st  of  October.  All  the  details  are  not  yet 
quite  arranged,  but  they  will  be  given  to  the  public  at  the  ear- 
liest possible  moment. 


Miss  Roberta  Nuttall  was  enabled  to  bid  adieu  to  many  of  her 
friends  through  the  medium  of  the  charming  tea  given  in  her 
honor  by  Miss  Florence  Weihe,  at  her  home  on  Jackson  street, 
last  week.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Nuttall  were  to  have  left  for  Europe 
last  Wednesday,  but  their  departure  was  delayed  a  few  days.  It 
is  Mrs.  Nuttall's  purpose  to  go  direct  to  Dresden  to  join  her 
daughter,  Mme.  Pinart,  who  will  accompany  them  to  Spain  for 
the  purpose  of  attending  the  Columbian  celebration,  when  Mme. 
Pinart  is  to  read  a  paper,  and  where  the  party  will  remain  some 
time.  The  time  of  their  return  to  8an  Francisco  is  most  indefinite, 
indeed  it  is  quite  doubtful  if  it  ever  occur,  as  the  present  idea  is 
tor  the  family  to  settle  abroad,  possibly  in  Dresden,  where  Mme. 
Pinart  has  attained  much  distinction  in  scientific  circles,  and 
which  city  is  now  her  permanent  home. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  P.  Moore  have  engaged  passage  on  the  steamer 
Empress  of  China,  which  is  to  sail  from  Vancouver,  September 
18th.  They  expect  to  follow  the  beaten  track  in  their  travels, 
except  in  Japan,  China,  India,  Egypt  and  the  Holy  Land,  where 
they  intend  to  make  daily,  weekly,  or  if  sufficient  interest  prom- 
ises, longer  trips  to  the  out-of-the-way  places,  but  rarely  visited 
by  tourists.  They  hope,  therefore,  to  find  much  of  interest  to 
communicate  to  their  friends  that  has  been  unnoticed  or  over- 
looked. They  will  spend  about  one  month  in  Japan.  The  re- 
mainder of  the  time  between  that  and  March  15th,  when  they 
expect  to  arrive  at  Cairo,  will  be  spent  in  China  and  India,  mak- 
ing side  trips.  Cairo  will  be  their  headquarters  for  a  month  at 
least,  whence  they  will  go  np  the  Nile,  and  visit  Jerusalem  and 
other  places  of  interest  in  its  vicinity.  They  expect  to  reach 
New  York  early  in  June,  1893. 


The  same  day  (Wednesday)  at  noon,  a  very  pretty  wedding 
party  assembled  at  the  residence  of  Captain  Tuft,  on  Central 
avenue,  Alameda,  Miss  Martha  Tuft  and  George  P.  Mesick  being 
the  contracting  parties,  Miss  Hannah  Brock,  Maid  of  Honor,  and 
Giles  Bradley  best  man;  and  the  ceremony  was  performed  in 
rooms  which  were  redolent  of  the  perfume  of  artistically  arranged 
flowers  and  foliage,  which  made  them  most  attractive  and  beau- 
tiful. The  bride's  costume  of  white  crepe  trimmed  with  ducheese 
lace,  was  greatly  admired.  Miss  Brock's  costume  of  Nile  green 
silk  was  very  becoming  to  the  fair  wearer.  A  wedding  dejeuner 
was  served  at  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremony,  and  later  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Mesick  left  for  Santa  Cruz  and  Del  Monte.  Many  handsome 
presents  were  received  by  the  young  couple. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Crocker  have  not  been  tying  themselves  to 
any  one  locality  this  summer,  but  have  made  many  little  visits 
in  divers  directions,  taking  in  San  Rafael,  Castle  Crags,  Santa 
Cruz,  etc.,  always  returning  between  visits  to  their  cottage  at 
San  Mateo  for  a  few  days  at  a  time.  They  are  among  the  guests 
at  Del  Monte  this  week,  after  which  they  will  spend  the  rest  of 
the  season  at  their  own  place,  where  it  is  rumored  Mrs.  Crocker 
intends  giving  a  garden  party  during  September. 


August  27,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  M'V,  -   |  I   |  irr. 


Oakland  w»j  again  (he  locale  of  a  wedding  party  on  Wednesday 
last,  whin  Miss  I.iltian  Bai  hrMcr  waa  married  to  Charles  M 
Plom.  Jr..  the  Kev.  J.  K.  Mel  s:n  tring  the  nuptial  knot  in  the 
preltily  decorated  rooms  of  the  bride's  home  on  Howard  street,  in 
the  presence  of  a  few  Intimate  friends.  Little  Kdlth  Holt  was 
flower  bearer,  Miss  Grace  Holt.  Maid  of  Honor,  and  William  Cole- 
man appeared  as  the  groom's  best  man.  A  wedding  supper  fol- 
lowed the  marriage  service,  after  which  the  presents,  which  were 
handsome  and  numerous,  were  inspected,  and  some  charming 
music  listened  to  with  pleasure.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Plum  have  de- 
parted for  Mount  Shasta,  and  will  spend  Iheir  honeymoon  be- 
tween there  and  Oregon,  returning  to  reside  in  San  Francisco. 


San  Francisco  has  the  promise  of  a  visit  from  another  crowned 
head  in  the  near  future.  We  have  already  bad  Kings,  Queens, 
an  Emperor,  and  reignii  g  Princes  of  various  degrees,  but  never 
before  bas  a  Sultan  set  his  foot  upon  our  Republican  shores.  The 
title  of  the  coming  nabob  is  the  Sultan  of  Jobore,  and  the  date  of 
his  arrival  will  be  in  the  early  part  of  September,  when  he  will 
arrive  from  the  Orient  for  the  purpose  of  exploring  the  Western 
Continent  under  the  guidance  of  our  Consul  to  Singapore,  Mr. 
Wildeman.  It  will  also  be  the  first  visit  paid  here  by  Mrs.  Wild- 
man  since  her  marriage,  and  as  Miss  Letitia  Aldrich  she  possessed 
many  friends  in  8an  Francisco,  she  may  be  sure  of  a  warm  wel- 
come and  many  profers  of  hospitality  during  her  stay  among  us. 


Saturday.  September  3d,  is  big  with  the  promise  of  the  novel 
Buddhist  jinks  to  be  held  by  the  Bohemian  Club  at  their  new 
grounds  in  Sequoia  Valley.  Ever  since  the  arrival  of  Mr.  Fred 
Somers  from  Japan  (who  is  to  be  Sire)  he  has  taken  a  most  active 
part  and  great  interest  in  the  preparations.  The  Image  of  Buddha, 
a  huge  affair  over  sixty  feet  in  height,  is  rapidly  nearing  comple- 
tion at  the  hands  of  Mr.  Marion  Wells  and  his  assistants,  as  well 
as  the  altars  near  by,  at  which  the  high  priests  will  preside  over 
the  various  ceremonials  allotted  them  by  the  Sire,  and  from 
which  addresses,  poems,  etc.,  will  be  read.  All  are  on  the  qui 
rive  of  anticipation,  and  everything  betokens  that  the  jinks  will 
be  a  grand  success. 


Pleasant  news  is  received  from  Mrs.  Euth  Blackwell  and  her 
sister,  Miss  Louise  Holladay,  and  of  the  gay  doings  in  which  they 
are  participating  in  England.  They  have  not  found  the  London 
season  dull;  no  matter  how  it  bas  proved  to  others,  to  them  it 
has  been  one  grand  round  of  festivity,  and  a  visit  to  Norway  and 
Sweden  is  among  the  probabilities  next  month.  We  need  not 
think  to  see  them  this  way  very  speedily  with  so  much  that  is 
pleasant  to  induce  their  remaining  away. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Dora  Goldstone,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Goldstone,  and  Mr.  Joseph  8.  Steiner,  a  well- 
known  and  popnlar  young  business  man  of  this  city.  Miss 
Goldstone  is  a  beautiful  and  accomplished  young  lady,  and  popu- 
lar in  society  circles.  The  engagement  receptions  will  be  to-mor- 
row afternoon  and  evening,  and  also  on  next  Wednesday  after- 
noon, at  the  residence  of  the  parents  of  the  young  lady,  1608 
Geary  street. 

A  very  pleasant  picnic  was  given  this  week  at  Congress  Springs 
by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B,  Palmer,  of  Oakland.  The  party  left  Oak 
Grove  Cottage  early,  and  passed  an  enjoyable  day.  The  merry- 
makers were:  E.  8.  Edwards  and  Miss  Edwards,  of  Nevada  City; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B.  Palmer,  and  the  Misses  Tessie  and  Annie 
Levy,  of  Oakland;  Misses  Mabel  and  Edith  Gordan,  Ed.  Gordan, 
Miss  Mabel  Dunne,  and  Miss  Irma  Clevenger,  of  San  Jose. 


Mrs.  Theodore  F.  Jerome,  mother  of  E.  B.  Jerome,  Deputy 
Collector  of  the  Port,  died  at  her  residence  in  Sausalito,  on  the 
17th  inst.,  from  a  severe  attack  of  bronchitis.  She  was  seventy- 
three  years  old,  and  had  lived  here  for  thirty  years.  Mrs.  Jerome 
was  a  Bister  of  Colonel  E.  D.  Baker,  many  of  whose  brilliant  qual- 
ities she  possessed.  She  was  buried  from  her  son's  residence  in 
Oakland  on  the  18th  inst. 


The  other  side  of  the  bay  has  been  so  prolific  of  weddings  dur- 
ing August,  it  seems  quite  appropriate  that  the  month  should 
close  with  one,  Tuesday  afternoon,  August  30th,  being  the  date 
set  for  the  ceremony  which  will  unite  Miss  Belle  Garber  and 
Whitney  Palache.  It  will  take  place  at  the  residence  of  the 
bride's  parents,  Judge  and  Mrs.  John  Garber,  at  Claremont,  near 
Temescal.  

The  first  of  the  September  weddings  will  be  that  of  Miss  Anita 
Plum,  who  will  be  married  to  James  Irvine,  at  her  mother's  resi- 
dence on  Page  street,  on  Thursday,  September  1st.  Next  on  the 
list,  so  far  as  is  yet  known,  will  be  the  nnptials  of  Miss  Florence 
Currier  and  Arthur  F.  Barnard,  which  will  be  solemnized  at  the 
Currier  residence,  on  Jackson  street,  on  Monday  evening,  Sep- 
tember 5th. 


Miss  Helen  Walker,  who  has  recently  been  visiting  Mrs.  John- 
son, at  San  Eafael,  returned  to  the  city  last  Monday.  Senator 
Felton  is  booked  to  arrive  from  Washington  City  on  the  1st  of 
September.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Claus  Spreckels  were  among  the 
passengers  by  the  steamer  from  Honolulu  last  Wednesday. 


Mr.  John  «  '.xhwiler  and  her  daughters  i...itle  and  Lion, 
left  on  the  stea.c.  -  ;„,v,  |»„  Thursday.  f,.r  Panama,  n 

rout,  to    New    Y..rk.  where   thrv  will   spend  the  >lng  winter. 

Mrs.  s   F.  ThornehasgonetoOralgthnrn.  In  the  Santa  <ni7  U 
tains.     Mrs.    Hall    McAllister,  with   her  daughter.  Miss  Kva.  ha. 
been    visiting   her  sister,  Mrs.   Peyton,  at  8anta  Onn,     Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Willie  Ontbout  have  gone  to  their  ranch  near  Santa  Harhara. 

The  first  of  September  will  bring  us  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  O.  Alex- 
ander, from  Blytbedale,  where  they  have  been  most  of  the  sum- 
mer; the  Misses  Florence  and  Lilian  Reed,  from  Auburn,  which 
has  been  their  snmmer  resort,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hick  Pease,  from 
Santa  Cruz.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Brigham  will  remain  at  their  Lake 
Tahoe  rustic  cottage  until  October,  possibly  even  longer. 

Mrs.  Luke  Robinson,  who  is  now  at  her  residence,  316  Van 
Ness  avenue,  will  receive  on  the  second  and  fourth  Thursdays  of 
each  month.  Her  daughter,  Miss  Lila,  will  be  among  the  debu- 
tantes of  the  coming  winter  season.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webster  Jones 
will  spend  the  winter  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu,  on  Van  Ness  avenue. 
Mrs.  M.  B.  M.  Toland  has  taken  rooms  at  the  Pleasanton  for  tbe 
ensuing  six  months. 

On  September  2d  the  N.  B.  B.  Club,  of  Oakland,  whose  mem 
bersbip  consists  of  a  number  of  young  ladies  on  Alice  street,  will 
hold  a  watermelon  party.  It  will  be  a  unique  affair.  Every  one 
of  the  members  will  be  dressed  in  melon  green  and  pink,  and  tbe 
invitation  cards  sent  out  by  them  to  their  friends  all  bear  the  pic- 
ture of  a  watermelon  in  water  colors. 


The  social  element  of  tbe  University  town  are  on  tiptoes  of 
expectation  regarding  the  marriage  that  will  take  place  on  Tues- 
day next,  of  Miss  Belle  Garber  and  Mr.  Whitney  Palache.  Tbey 
will  be  disappointed  though,  if  they  expect  the  occasion  to  be  a 
brilliant  one,  for  on  account  of  death  in  Mr.  Palache's  family, 
a  quiet  home  wedding  will  be  held. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Caroian  are  another  couple  who  have  been 
taking  in  the  different  resorts  in  turn.  They  were  recently  the 
guests  for  a  few  days  of  Mrs.  I.  L.  Requa,  at  her  beautiful  home 
near  Piedmont.  Mrs.  Thos.  H.  Holt  has  been  paying  a  visit  of 
some  duration  to  her  old  friend,  Mrs.  Simpson,  at  her  residence 
in  the  foothills,  near  Oakland. 


Mrs.  Anne  Lake  and  her  husband,  as  the  lately  wedded  couple 
are  spoken  of,  have  reached  New  York  in  safety,  where  they  are 
making  a  short  stay  prior  to  their  departure  for  Europe,  where  it 
is  their  intention  of  making  an  extended  tour  through  the  British 
Isles  and  Continental  Europe,  with  Paris  as  their  ultimate  destina- 
tion. 


Tbe  George  Hinkle  birthday  party  was  one  of  tbe  pleasant 
events  of  last  week,  taking  place  on  Friday  evening  at  the 
Hinkle  residence,  on  Clay  street.  Dancing  was  the  order  of  the 
evening,  followed  by  supper  at  midnight,  after  which  dancing 
was  resumed  and  kept  up  until  a  late  hour. 


A  number  of  Oakland  ladies  are  interested  in  the  big  fair  to  be 
given  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion  next  month,  for  the  benefit  of 
the  Altenheim,  or  German  Home,  to  be  erected  at  Fruitvale. 
Booths  are  to  be  established,  and  every  effort  is  being  made  to 
insure  a  golden  issue  for  the  fair. 


During  the  performance  of  Peaceful  Valley  at  the  Baldwin  the 
week  of  August  29th,  a  new  piece  will  be  played  by  the  orches- 
tra, under  Mr.  August  Hinrichs.  The  piece  is  the  ballad,  "The 
Year's  Sweetheart,"  by  Leila  France.  This  will  be  its  first  pre- 
sentation by  any  orchestra. 

When  our  absentees  were  last  heard  from  Mrs.  Phoebe  Hearst 
was  in  Munich,  Mr.  M.  Theo.  Kearney  at  Kissingen,  in  Germany, 
and  Miss  Blanche  Smith  traveling  in  Russia  with  the  PriDcess 
Engalitcheff.  

Colonel  Shatter,  who  was  reported  as  being  seriously  ill,  from 
the  effects  of  poison  oak,  which  had  settled  in  his  wounded  leg, 
is  now  said  to  be  improving,  something  his  friends  hope  may  be 
true,  as  at  one  time  serious  results  were  feared. 


Mr.  Charles  Adler  and  his  two  pretty  daughters,  Misses  Alice 
and  lrma,  who  have  been  spending  the  summer  in  Sausalito, 
have  returned  to  town,  and  are  occupying  their  old  quarters  at 
the  Berkshire,  for  the  winter  season. 


William  H.  Sherwood,  the  famous  American  pianist,  will  give 
a  recital  at  Irving  Hall  on  the  evening  of  Tuesday,  September 
13tb.  He  will  be  remembered  as  having  been  here  last  January, 
when  his  ability  won  him  great  favor. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Breden,  nee  Lily  Banks,  who  arrived  by  the  last 
steamer  from  Japan,  expect  to  spend  a  month  at  least  in  San 
Francisco.     They  are  domiciled  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 


T.  B.  Macy,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Burns  and  Misa  Lillie  Burns,  who  have 
been  traveling  abroad  for  the  past  two  years  and  a  half,  will 
shortly  visit  relatives  in  San  Francisco. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


AuguBt  27,  1892. 


The  engagement  of  Miss  Hope  Ellis,  only  daughter  of  W.  T. 
Ellis,  Esq.,  a  pioneer  merchant  and  resident  of  Marysville,  and 
Mr.  Callaghan  Byrne,  eldest  son  of  Mrs.  James  Irvine,  and  brother 
of  James  W.  Byrne,  of  this  city,  is  announced.  The  young  lady 
is  one  of  the  recognized  belles  of  San  Francisco  society,  where 
she  has  been  a  prominent  figure  in  social  events.  She  has  a  most 
charming  and  stylish  presence,  is  a  denii-brunette,  tall,  and 
possessed  of  a  beautiful  figure.  She  is  exceedingly  graceful,  has 
gentle  ways,  is  quiet  and  simple,  and  possesses  exquisite  taste  in 
her  toilets.  Her  musical  accomplishments  are  well  known  to  a 
large  circle  of  friends.  She  has  been  a  regular  visitor  to  Del  Monte, 
where  she  now  is,  and  to  this  city  for  the  winter  seasons,  where 
she  has  been  much  sought  after  for  the  cotillions.  Mr.  Byrne, 
who  is  well-known  about  town,  though  not  a  society  man,  is 
quiet  and  reserved,  of  sterling  integrity,  and  much  respected,  a 
practical  business  man,  of  generous  impulses,  and  possessed  of 
ample  means.  The  parties  have  known  each  other  for  many 
years,  but  a  trip  this  summer  served  to  bring  about  the  happy 
result.  The  wedding  will  occur  during  the  early  part  of  October, 
at  Marysville.  

It  is  quite  ridiculous  to  suppose  that  society  can  go  through 
the  winter  without  the  Friday  nigbt  cotillions  which  contribute 
so  largely  towards  the  pleasure  of  that  season.  Each  year,  as 
they  come  to  a  conclusion,  it  is  said,  "  there  will  be  none  next 
winter:"  but  each  recurring  season  are  they  again  to  the  tore — 
they  positively  cannot  be  done  without.  There  will,  however, 
be  several  changes  made  regarding  those  announced  to  com- 
mence in  December  next.  One  will  be  the  dropping  of  a  cotil- 
lion in  February,  and  thus  only  five  will  be  danced  instead  of 
the  usual  six.  Another,  a  decided  curtailment  in  the  subscrip- 
tion list.  So  it  behooves  all  those  who  would  be  "  in  it"  to  look 
sharp  and  see  that  their  names  are  enrolled  before  the  lists  are 
closed,  which  rumor  says  will  not  be  open  very  long.  Mr.  Green- 
way  will,  as  usual,  be  general  manager  and  leader. 

Philip  Stephen  Bates,  the  receiving  teller  of  the  American  Bank 
and  Trust  Company,  and  Miss  Jane  Larooker  Marshall,  daughter 
of  the  late  Samuel  A.  Marshall,  were  married  in  St.  Luke's  Church 
last  Thursday  evening  by  Eev.  Dr.  Spaulding.  The  bridesmaids 
were  Miss  Ellen  W.  Williams,  of  Portland,  Or.,  and  Miss  Eliza- 
beth C.  Wickersham,  of  Petaluma.  The  groom's  best  man  was 
John  Farren,  and  the  ushers  were  Sam  Brown,  Jr.,  of  Fresno, 
Fred  H.  Woods,  of  Santa  Kosa,  Andrew  Farren  and  Frank  D. 
Willey,  of  this  city.  Owing  to  the  recent  death  of  the  bride's 
lather,  there  was  no  reception  after  the  wedding.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bates  left  for  the  East  yesterday  on  their  honeymoon. 

Xosemite  travel  continues  heavy.  The  visitors  to  the  Valley 
travel  as  a  rule  by  way  of  Wawona,  stopping  at  the  Big  Tree 
Grove.  In  the  Valley  excellent  accommodations  may  be  had  at 
the  Stoneman  House.  The  drive  in  on  the  stages  of  the  Yosemite 
Stage  Company  is  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  portions  of  the  trip. 

A  high  tea  was  given  yesterday  afternoon  at  the  home  of  Mrs. 
Irving  Ayres,  on  Fourteenth  and  Oak  streets,  Oakland.  It  sig- 
nalized the  opening  of  the  winter  social  season,  and  a  large  throng 
of  well-known  fashionables  was  present. 


The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Martha  Green,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Green,  and  Maurice  Van  Vleit,  both  of  this 
city.  They  will  receive  on  the  afternoon  of  Sunday,  September 
4th,  at  1210  Ellis  street. 

W.  H.  Hilliard,  the  artist,  returned  from  the  Yosemite  Valley 
on  Wednesday,  and  is  at  the  Palace  Hotel.  James  Bret  Stokes 
has  also  returned  from  the  camp  he  pitched  in  the  Yosemite  Val- 
ley early  in  the  season. 


Colonel  and  Mrs.  Theodore  C.  Marceau  arrived  in  Venice  on  Aug- 
ust 1st,  after  visiting  Athens,  Constantinople  and  Borne,  and  as- 
cending Vesuvius.  They  write  that  they  are  having  a  most  de- 
lightful trip. 

A  merry  social  throng  assembled  at  the  Kenna  residence,  in 
East  Oakland,  on  Wednesday  last,  and  enjoyed  a  delightful  in- 
formal, given  by  Miss  Blix  Kenna. 

Miss  Pearl  Noble,  the  cornet  soloist,  who  is  well-known  in  this 
city  and  Oakland,  has  been  engaged  to  play  solos  at  the  Sacra- 
mento Fair. 


It  is  said   that  Lawrence  I.  Kip,  grandson  of   Bishop  Kip,  will 
soon  wed  Miss  Rachel  Vrooman,  daughter  of  Senator  Vrooman. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Charles  Okerlinn  of  Berkeley 
and  Miss  Jessie  Painter  of  Chicago. 


The  wedding  of  Leon  Smith  and  Dora  Wilson,  of  Oakland,  takes 
place  this  evening. 

The  Hotel  Rafael  closed  last  Thursday. 


Benzinger  &  Peck  have  purchased  the  drug  store  at  the  corner 
of  Post  and  Mason  streets,  and  will  carry  a  full  line  of  pure  drugs 
and  chemicals,  toilet  articles,  perfumes,  etc.  Both  gentlemen  are 
graduates  from  universities  of  high  standing.  Mr.  Benzinger  from 
Goethegen,  Germany,  and  Peck  from  the  Berkeley  University. 


Baggage  Notice. 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip,  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

Professor  Charles  Qoffrie.  the  most  experienced  and  best  violiu 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright, "Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others — continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

The  John  F.  Cutter  whisky  cannot  be  excelled  in  the  market.  It 
leads  all  the  others,  and  is  the  favorite  brand  with  connoiseurs.  This 
first-class  whisky  is  the  liquor  always  demanded  by  men  who  pretend 
to  know  what  good  liquor  is.  It  has  received  the  highest  of  praise 
from  all  the  most  competent  judges  in  the  country. 

Camelline  is  world-famous  as  the  best  emollient  known  for  the 
complexion.  Ladies  who  desire  to  protect  their  faces  and  retain 
upon  them  that  youthful  appearance  which  gives  beauty  to  all  Cali- 
forniennes,  do  not  consider  their  toilet-sets  complete  unless  supplied 
with  a  bottle  of  this  famous  complexion  preserver. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"  609  Merchant  street.  S.  F. 

nnnrr  ddhc    stationers. 
UUUuL   DnUo.»  engravkrs. 

We  use  Ames'  unrivaled  Wedding  Paper 
and  Cards  only.     They  are  the  medium 
of  all  the  great  society  events. 

COPPER  PLATES.   OOK    PHQT   QT 
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NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Crocker    Mining    Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works — Quijotoa,  Arizona. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No  12)  of  5  ceits  per  share  was 
levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room 
23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  uupaid  on  the 
The  Twentieth  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  bede  inquent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and   unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  1-th  day  of  October,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with    costs   of   advertising  and  tspen- 
ses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Del  Monte  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works — Tuscarora,  Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  26th    day   of   July,    1892,    an    assessment  (No.    6)    of   Ten   Cents 

?>er  share  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  and  17.  No.  310  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, or  to  W.  A.  O.  Paul  Transfer  Agent,  52  Broadway,  New  York  Citv. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  6th  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  5th  day  of  October,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15  and  17,  310  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

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Vol.  XIV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER  3,  1892. 


Number  10. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor.  Freoerice 
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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articleb  - 
The  Popularity  of  Fief  no  2 

The  Lesson  of  the  Buffalo  Strike    2 

Iudiai  Agent  Rusk 2 

The  Cholera  Scare  3 

Iusauity  aud  Crime     3 

The  Wise  Shepherds  of  Pleasan- 
ton  ....    3 

Jeffreys- Lewis  In  "  Diplomacy  "...  4 

A  Chapter  on  Gloves ft 

Pleasure's  Wand       ..  .   .  6-7 

What  Constitutes  a  Gentleman         8 

Patriotism  in  the  Schools 9 

The  Looker-On 10-11 


Page 

Sparks. 12 

In  the  Wintergreen  Patch  (Poetry)  13 

An  Oakland  Romance 13 

Financial  Review 14 

Town  Crier 15 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 16 

sunbeams 17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...    19 
Scientific  aud  Useful.    ...........  20 

The  Rose  Jar  21 

Te  uuis  and  Baseball  22 

Vanities         23 

"  Biz  "— iSummary  of  the  Markets.  24 
Society 26-27-28 


PAR80N  GRAY,  a  negro  preacher  of  Oakland,  during  an  alter- 
cation with  Deacon  Jones,  drew  a  razor  and  endeavored  to  carve 
the  latter  gentleman  into  sections  of  ebon-hued  Christianity.  Then 
he  defended  his  action  by  quoting  from  Matthew  and  John,  to 
the  effect  that  Simon  Peter,  having  a  sword,  smote  off  a  servant's 
ear.  Rev.  George  Gray  knows  the  books  well,  and  he  cannot 
therefore  go  wrong. 


THE  company  for  the  construction  of  a  bridge  across  the  Eng- 
lish Channel  is  working  in  dead  earnest,  and  its  labors  are  said 
to  be  progressing  satisfactorily.  Still,  the  promoters  of  the  plan 
will  no  doubt  meet,  in  time,  with  serious  opposition  in  Great 
Britain,  since  the  undertaking,  from  a  strategic  point  of  view,  is 
a  very  risky  one.  Great  Britain  owes  much  of  her  safety  to  her 
present  insulated  position. 


THE  proprietor  of  the  harbor  shop  on  Sutter  street,  near  Mont- 
gomery, to  which  reference  was  recently  made  in  the  News 
Letter,  has  placed  a  screen  in  front  of  the  shop  window  to 
which  objection  was  taken,  so  that  now  all  objectionable  features 
have  been  removed.  Mr.  Boone,  the  proprietor,  states  that  he 
and  his  assistants  did  not  make  it  a  practice  to  call  the  attention 
of  customers  to  the  window. 


THE  International  Peace  Congress  at  Rome  has  decided  to  es- 
tablish an  International  Permanent  Peace  Bureau  in  the  capi- 
tal of  Switzerland,  and  to  ask  the  Swiss  government  to  appeal  to 
the  foreign  governments  to  assist  in  defraying  the  expense.  It  is 
not  likely  that  this  appeal  will  be  listened  to  by  sober-minded 
statesmen,  for  the  new  millenium  office  would  most  likely  prove 
of  benefit  to  nobody  but  some  sentimental  dreamers  desiring  sine- 
cure positions. 

FROM  present  appearances  the  Democratic  party  of  this  city  is 
wasting  its  opportunities.  Instead  of  standing  shoulder  to 
shoulder  against  the  enemy,  il  has  split  up  Into  antagonistic  fac- 
tions, each  seemingly  actuated  rather  by  greed  for  office  than  by 
the  welfare  of  the  party.  San  Francisco  is  a  Democratic  city,  but 
with  the  party  divided  and  at  war,  it  cannot  hope  for  victory. 
There  appears  to  be  a  lack  of  wise  and  prudent  leadership,  a 
thing  essential  to  the  success  of  any  political  party. 


WE  hear  a  great  deal  these  days  about  what  are  called  the 
rights  of  organized  labor,  but  no  one  appears  to  speak  for 
the  rights  of  unorganized  labor.  Yet  from  statements  recently 
made  before  the  Federation  of  Trades,  in  New  York  city,  it  would 
appear  to  the  casual  observer  that  the  last-named  class  certainly 
has  some  rights  and  is  entitled  to  be  heard.  According  to  the 
statements  referred  to,  there  are,  all  told,  in  the  United  States 
less  than  850,000  members  of  trades  unions,  while  the  total  num- 
ber eligible  to  such  membership  from  the  character  of  their  em- 
ployment, is  something  like  seven  million.  With  such  a  disparity 
of  numbers  as  this.it  would  certainly  seem  as  though  the  majority 
had  at  least  a  right  to  be  heard,  though  seldom  is  a  word  spoken 
in  their  behalf. 


WE  have  called  attention  b.  fore  to  Registrar  Brown  an.l  his 
manner  of  doing  busine-i,  but  his  most  recent  attempt  to 
conduct  the  business  of  his  office  in  a  peculiar  manner  makes  the 
mention  of  his  name  again  necessary.  There  can  be  no  excuse 
for  his  endeavor  to  let  the  printing  contracts  from  his  otHce  at 
over  ten  cents  a  name  higher  than  last  year's  price,  and  that  after 
neglecting  to  notify  tbe  printers  of  the  city  of  the  work  on  which 
bids  were  desired.  Brown  is  not  tbe  proper  man  to  fill  Die  im- 
portant office  of  Registrar,  and  he  should  be  removed  and  at  once 


IT  is  really  astonishing  that  the  Chinese  »bould  offer  no  objection 
J  to  the  invasion  of  their  quarter  by  the  sanitary  inspectors,  nor 
even  to  the  removal  and  destruction  of  the  filth  and  garbage  in 
which  they  seem  to  take  special  delight.  The  only  explanation 
is  that  they  are  genuinely  alarmed  at  the  probable  advent  of  the 
cholera  and  that  they  know  that  their  only  safety  is  to  be  found 
in  comparative  cleanliness.  It  would  be  a  splendid  idea  if  tbey 
could  be  thoroughly  frightened  at  least  once  in  every  three 
months. 


THERE  Is  every  reason  to  believe  that  California's  historic 
exhibit  will  be  an  extremely  interesting  feature  of  the  State's 
display  at  the  World's  Fair.  A  very  general  interest  has  been 
created  all  over  the  State,  and  the  first  exhibit  which  will  be  made 
at  the  coming  State  Fair  in  Sacramento  will  be  unique  and  at- 
tractive. It  will  doubtless  have  to  be  weeded  out  before  being 
taken  to  Chicago,  but  the  best  of  it  will  be  taken,  to  illustrate 
the  early  history  and  the  development  of  this  magnificent  State  of 
ours. 


RUSSIA  has  a  peremptory  way  of  dealing  with  seal  poachers  on 
her  side  of  Bering  Sea  that  will  tend  to  discourage  the  In- 
dustry. She  confiscates  the  vessels  and  cargo  and  turns  the 
crews  adrift,  to  get  home  the  best  way  they  can.  She  is  at  least 
consistent.  If  Bering  Sea  is  a  mare  clausum,  as  Russia  has 
always  claimed,  every  sealing  vessel  is  a  trespasser,  and  her  cap- 
tain and  crew  are  poachers.  Canada  does  not  like  the  way  in 
which  Russia  treats  her  sealers,  and  has  appealed  to  the  British 
Government,  but  the  Gladstone  Ministry  has  its  hands  full 
enough  at  home,  without  bothering  about  Canadian  sealers. 


TT  is  surprising  to  be  informed  by  Superintendent  Swett  that  the 
1  attendance  at  the  public  schools  is  smaller  than  it  was  a  year 
ago.  This  looks  bad.  There  is  lots  of  marrying  and  giving  in 
marriage,  and  it  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  the  population 
should  be  augmented,  and  therefore  the  school  population  in- 
creased. But  it  looks  otherwise.  Certes  we  have  not  come  to 
the  wretched  conclusion  that  education  is  a  failure,  and  that  a 
youth  had  better  face  the  world  as  a  pugilist,  a  sprinter,  a 
wrestler,  or  a  fakir  of  some  kind,  than  with  a  fine  knowledge  of 
arithmetic,  history  and  the  use  of  the  globes. 


IT  is  said  that  C.  R.  Bennett,  the  ■  holy"  secretary  of  the  So- 
ciety for  the  Suppression  of  Vice,  has  finally  determined  to 
prosecute  George  Gray,  who  shot  at  bim  and  tried  to  kill  him 
last  week.  Gray  is  the  father  of  the  girl  who,  it  is  said,  was  se- 
duced by  Bennett.  If  Gray  be  prosecuted,  there  will  bean  op- 
portunity to  ascertain  all  the  truth  in  this  case.  Bennett  is  not 
popular  in  Oakland,  at  present,  and  many  people  believe  he  is 
even  more  guilty  than  charged.  At  any  rate,  whether  he  is 
guilty  or  not  of  this  particular  offense,  the  society  which  he 
represents  should  give  him  a  vacation.  The  public  has  no 
confidence  in  him. 


A  NEVADA  paper  outlines  a  contemptible  scheme  by  which 
certain  wealthy  men  in  that  State  manage  to  escape  a  part  of 
their  taxes.  There  is  a  law  in  operation  there  by  which  the 
property  of  widows,  to  the  extent  of  $1,000,  is  exempted  from 
taxation.  These  rich  men,  about  the  time  the  Assessor  is  due, 
hunt  up  all  the  widows  of  their  acquaintance  and  transfer  to  them, 
temporarily,  as  much  property  as  they  can  keep  within  the  limit. 
This  is  in  turn  re-transferred  to  its  original  owners  as  soon  as  the 
assessment  has  been  completed,  and  the  State  is  thus  cheated  out 
of  the  money  which  is  its  rightful  due.  It  would  serve  these 
tax-shirkers  right  if  the  widows,  after  having  the  property  put 
in  their  possession,  should  refuse  to  give  it  up  again.  They 
would  certainly  be  performing  a  meritorious  act  in  so  doing. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


THE    POPULARITY    OF    FICTION. 


THE  number  of  novels,  tales,  slories  and  sketches  written  and 
published  in  a  year  ia  simply  marvelous.  To  see  the  works 
of  fiction  that  are  sent  out  to  find  readers,  from  American,  Eng- 
lish, French,  German,  Spanish  and  Italian  publishing  houses,  one 
would  suppose  that  every  person  who  can  read  might  have  one, 
and  even  then  the  supply  be  not  exhausted.  There  is  one  thing 
which  this  perennial  output  of  fiction  demonstrates,  and  that  is 
the  popularity  of  this  kind  of  literature.  Book-making  is  ju^t  as 
much  a  business  proposition,  so  far  as  the  publisher  is  concerned, 
as  soap-making  or  boiler-making,  having  about  it  no  more  senti- 
ment than  is  concerned  with  either  of  the  occupations  named. 
All  that  the  average  publisher  cares  about  is  to  turn  out  a  pro- 
duct that  will  sell  at  a  profit,  and  he  has  very  little  interest  in  the 
character  of  the  publication,  provided  it  be  not  of  a  kind  to  in- 
volve him  in  a  difficulty  with  Anthony  Comstock  and  the  police. 
The  fact  that  the  great  majority  of  books  published  by  the  most 
celebrated  publishers  are  works  of  fiction  of  some  kind,  shows 
that  the  great  demand  of  the  reading  public  of  the  present  day  is 
for  that  class  of  literature,  for  if  they  wanted  sermons  or  treatises 
on  philosophy,  or  works  on  art  or  science,  the  publisher  would 
accommodate  them  just  as  readily.  Is  it  a  sign  of  mental  and 
intellectual  deterioration,  this  almost  universal  fondness  for 
fiction?  The  grave  and  reverend  seniors  say  yes,  and  insist  that 
in  their  younger  days  people  were  content  with  good,  solid  read- 
ing, and  did  not  waste  their  time  over  trash,  as  they  choose  to 
denominate  all  fiction.  When  they  were  boys  and  girls,  they  de- 
clare, such  light  and  airy  works  as  Watts  on  the  Mind,  Aber- 
crombe  on  the  Moral  Feelings,  Plutarch's  Lives,  and  Josephus' 
History,  furnished  them  with  intellectual  food,  and  for  dessert 
they  were  satisfied  with  the  Scottish  Chiefs  and  a  very  few  books 
of  that  class.  They  deplore  the  frivolity  of  the  present  genera- 
tion, which  demands  to  be  amused  rather  than  instructed,  and 
which  is  much  more  likely  to  burn  the  midnight  oil  over  a  novel 
than  over  aoything  solid  and  valuable,  as  they  consider  it.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  they  have  not  a  leg  to  stand  on.  It  could  be 
demonstrated  very  easily,  were  it  worth  the  while,  that  out  of 
the  best  novels  of  the  best  writers  of  the  present  century,  one 
can  gain  wider  and  more  accurate  information  concerning  every 
subject  imaginable,  except  the  exact  sciences — and  the  exception 
even  ia  too  broad,  so  stated — than  out  of  a  library  of  the  antique 
tomes  which  are  certainly  solid  reading  in  the  sense  of  ponder- 
osity, if  in  no  other.  The  novelist  of  the  present  day  has  to  be 
particular  about  his  facts,  lest  some  sharp  eyed  reviewer  pick 
him  up  and  cover  him  with  confusion  as  with  a  garment.  Even  the 
apostles  of  the  purely  romantic,  Like  Rider  Haggard,  must  be  ac- 
curate in  their  geography,  their  astronomy,  their  botony,  and 
even  in  their  linguistic  sentences,  for  in  this  age  of  intellectual 
activity  there  are  plenty  of  people  to  whom  it  is  a  source  of  keen 
enjoyment  to  read  even  a  novel  for  the  purpose  of  discovering 
errors  in  it  and  tripping  up  the  writer.  Of  course,  on  such  topics 
of  minor  importance  as  scenery,  dialect,  pedigree,  chronology  and 
the  like,  as  much  accuracy  is  expected  from  the  high-class  novel- 
ist as  from  the  essayist  or  historian.  Even  questions  of  law, 
music,  medicine  and  theology  must  be  treated  with  exactness  by 
the  novelist,  or  his  work  is  deemed  to  fall  short  of  the  excellence 
to  which  he  strives  to  attain.  It  is  because  of  this  particulaiity 
in  so  many  matters  that  we  say  a  liberal  education  may  well  be 
attained  by  a  judicious  reading  of  fiction,  and  that  many  of  us 
get  our  facta  from  fiction  rather  than  from  more  serious  aourcea 
cannot  be  queationed.  Ia  not  much  of  our  ideas  of  history  taken 
bodily  from  Scott  and  Thackeray?  Do  we  not  owe  to  Charles 
Reade  the  most  of  what  we  know,  about  reforms  in  prisons  and 
insane  asylums  in  Great  Britain?  Ia  not  much  of  our  informa- 
tion concerning  French  life  and  character  gathered  from  Balzac? 
Do  we  not  form  our  impressions  of  the  people  of  various  parts  of 
the  United  States  from  Charles  Egbert  Craddock,  Thomas  Nelson 
Page,  Octave  Thanet,  Hamlin  Garland,  Richard  Malcolm  John- 
aton,  William  Dean  Howells,  Mary  Hallock  Foote  and  a  host  of 
other  writers  of  fiction  of  greater  or  less  degree,  and  are  we  not 
just  aa  certain  of  the  correctness  of  those  impreasions  as  though 
we  had  derived  them  from  the  study  of  history,  geography, 
travels  and  all  the  rest  of  what  is  called  standard  literature?  The 
reader  who  fails  to  acknowledge  his  or  her  obligations  to  fiction 
has  read  to  very  little  purpose,  for  in  the  whole  range  of  litera- 
ture there  is  nothing  more  beneficial,  more  instructive,  and  at  the 
same  time  more  interesting  than  fiction  of  the  best  class.  Here, 
then,  is  abundant  reason  for  the  popularity  of  fiction.  It  is  true 
that  many  readers  lack  the  faculty  of  just  discrimination,  and  any- 
thing and  everything  that  ia  called  a  novel,  but  that  doea  not  mili- 
tate against  the  general  proposition  of  the  utility  of  fiction.  Many 
people  eat  too  much,  or  eat  things  that  disagree  with  them,  but 
we  do  not  dream  of  stopping  eating  on  that  account.  It  is  but 
right  to  say,  however,  that  the  literary  diet  of  children  should  be 
regulated  as  carefully  as  their  physical  diet.  Their  youthful  im- 
aginations are  entirely  too  apt  to  run  riot  if  they  are  allowed  to 
feed  at  will  on  the  tempting  delicacies  which  some  kinda  of 
fiction  offer  them,  and  the  result  ia  certain  to  be  a  ruined  intel- 
lectual digeation  and  a  distaste  for  the  kinds  of  fiction  that  would 
be  healthful  for   them. 


THE    LESSON    OF    THE    BUFFALO    STRIKE. 


THE  Buffalo  strike,  as  nearly  every  strike  in  this  country  of 
late  years,  where  violence  has  been  resorted  to,  has  failed.  In 
a  country  whe.e  every  man  has  a  vote,  and  where,  if  the  voting 
power  where  properly  exercised,  legislation  should  always  repre- 
sent the  will  of  the  majority  of  the  people,  there  is  no  room  for 
interfering  by  force  with  the  laws  which  have  been  made  by  the 
people.  A  violent  opposition  to  the  laws  can  only  prove  suc- 
cessful in  the  end  when  the  will  of  the  majority  has  been  out- 
raged, and  that  this  has  not  been  the  case  is  plainly  to  be  seen 
from  the  facts  which  led  to  the  collapse  of  the  Buffalo  rioters. 
The  switchmen,  who  imagined  that  they  could  bully  the  railway 
companies  into  submission,  and  even  resist  successfully  the 
police  and  militia  of  the  State,  forgot  that  they  had  no  sympa- 
thizer in  the  general  population,  and  what  must  have  been 
doubly  galling  to  them,  they  found  out  too  late  that  this  also 
he'.d  good  aa  regards  their  own  class,  nay,  even  their  co-workers 
in  the  allied  trade.  When  they  appealed  for  support  to  the  other 
railway  employees,  they  were  told  to  take  their  own  chestnuts 
out  of  the  fire,  and  one  can  certainly  not  blame  the  men  who 
gave  this  reply,  since  to  risk  employment,  and  even,  as  would 
have  been  the  case,  life,  for  the  sake  of  our  friend,  takes  a 
stronger  incentive  than  the  desire  of  freeing  him  from  a  some- 
what uncomfortable  position.  Had  the  switchmen  been  starving, 
or  had  they  suffered  from  some  unbearable  oppression,  there  ia 
not  the  slightest  doubt  that  their  fellow  workmen  in  other 
branches  would  have  come  to  their  succor,  nay,  even  that  the 
whole  people  of  the  United  States  would  have  given  them  their 
moral,  and  even  their  active  support,  for  real  tyranny  ia  quickly 
recognized  and  speedily  avenged  in  a  free  country  like  this.  If, 
however,  the  question  is  merely  one  of  improving  one's  condition 
and  of  bettering  one's  circumstances,  we  are  accustomed  to  say  to 
our  friends  "help  yourself"  and  such  self  help  if  applied  in  the  right 
direction  and  in  a  deserving  cause  will  be  nearly  always  success- 
ful by  the  employment  of  legitimate  means  and  without  viola- 
tion of  the  laws.  Some  of  the  remarks  of  the  socialistic  and 
labor  papers,  with  regard  to  the  recent  riots,  have  been  most 
amusingly  absurd.  Thus,  for  instance,  the  New  Nation,  Edward 
Bellamy's  paper  in  Boston,  not  long  ago  contained  the  following 
in  an  editorial;  "In  law  he  (the  workman)  has  not  a  shadow  of 
title  to  demand  work,  and  breaks  the  law  if  he  interferes  to  keep 
another  out  of  his  place  who  would  work  for  less."  And  imme- 
diately afterwards  we  read  the  sentence:  <•  The  feeling  is  grow- 
ing stronger  year  by  year  among  all  classes  of  our  people  that 
there  is  something  radically  wrong  and  fundamently  absurd 
about  a  system  of  industry  that  doea  not  guarantee  to  willing 
hands  the  opportunity  to  work."  On  the  one  hand,  therefore, 
the  editor  complains  that  the  law  prevents  the  unions  from  keep- 
ing out  of  place  men  who  want  to  work,  and  on  the  other  hand 
he  demands  that  willing  hands  should  have  an  opportunity  to 
work.  We  could  quote  any  number  of  similar  contradictions 
from  the  labor  press.  What  the  unions  want  is  plain — they  desire 
to  monopolize  all  the  situations  open  to  people  looking  for  em- 
ployment and  to  suppress  all  those  working-men  who  value  too 
much  the  liberty  granted  to  them  by  the  constitution  of  our 
country,  to  submit  to  the  tyranny  of  professional  labor-leaders, 
whose  main  desire  is,  not  to  better  the  condition  of  the  working 
classes,  but  to  obtain  advantages  for  themselves.  This  attempt 
of  the  unions  will  never  be  successful  as  long  aa  the  American 
people  consider  individual  liberty  sacred,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  in  our  country  those  who  defend  that  liberty  will  always 
have  the  sympathy  of  the  general  public. 


INDIAN    AGENT    RUSK. 


BETWEEN  the  avowed  enemies  of  the  Indians  and  the  reprehen- 
sible conduct  of  those  who  pretend  to  be  their  friends,  the  poor 
remnants  of  the  mission  tribea  of  the  South  are  between  the  up- 
per and  nether  millstone.  Mrs.  Helen  Hunt  Jackson  wrote  about 
the  manner  in  which  these  inoffensive  people  have  been  despoiled 
by  the  whites,  but  nothing  she  told  exceeds  the  conduct  of  Agent 
Rust,  who  is  supposed  to  stand  between  them  and  those  who 
seek  to  profit  from  them  without  adequate  return.  It  appears 
that  this  redoubtable  official  has  been  in  the  habit  of  helping 
himself  without  payment  to  the  stone  implements,  baskets,  etc., 
of  the  Indians,  for  the  purpose  of  adding  to  his  archaeological  col- 
lections. When  these  have  obtained  sufficient  size  he  has  sold 
them,  and  has  realized,  it  is  said,  something  like  $18,000  from  this 
source  since  his  appointment  to  office.  He  recently  disposed  of 
one  lot  of  curios  for  the  round  figure  of  $7,000,  not  one  cent  of 
which  found  its  way  into  the  pockets  of  the  original  owners. 
Mr.  Rust's  case  would  seem  to  afford  a  fair  opportunity  for  the 
administration  to  distinguish  itself  by  a  prompt  decapitation,  for 
the  law  hardly  contemplates  that  an  Indian  agent  should  thus  en- 
rich himself  at  the  expense  of  those  whom  he  is  supposed  to  pro- 
tect. 


S*pt  8,  1892. 


s\N   FRANCI&  0  NEWS  I  1  "I  IKK. 


THE    CHOLERA    SCARE. 

THERE  are  two  kinds  of  scare*  in  aOBIUffttftfl  with  Asiatic 
cholera,  one  of  which  is  proper  fcod  useful,  (he  other  of  which 
should  be  condemned  in  the  most  unmeasured  term.*.  The  first 
is  the  scare  which  it  is  hoped  may  be  InpOMd  on  the  city  of  San 
Francisco.  It  is  the  kind  of  scare  which,  if  it  can  be  made  uni- 
versal, will  make  everybody  afraid  to  shelter  anywhere  about 
their  premises  any  dirt  or  filth  of  any  kind  which  may  become  a 
bot-bed  for  the  development  of  the  germs  of  cholera.  We  may 
talk  until  we  are  blue  in  the  face  about  the  climate  of  San  Fran- 
cisco insuring  us  immunity  from  the  dreadful  scourge,  and  about 
the  ocean  breer.es  carrying  away  all  noisome  and  pestilential 
vapors  and  effluvia,  but  it  is  absolute  rot  and  nonsense.  If  we 
permit  this  city  to  remain  in  its  present  dirty,  nasty  condition, 
under  ground  and  above  ground,  not  all  the  breezes  thai  could 
blow  from  the  Pacific  ocean  in  a  century  could  save  us  from  an 
epidemic  of  cholera.  It  is  agreed  on  all  hands,  by  the  most 
eminent  medical  and  scientific  authorities  of  all  countries,  that 
the  best  preventive  against  Asiatic  cholera  is  cleanliness.  Nothing 
else  puts  such  an  effective  barrier  in  the  way  of  the  pestilence  as 
the  removal  of  the  decomposing  matter  in  which  the  cholera 
bacillus  finds  its  home,  and  its  place  of  development  and  growth. 
This  is  just  as  certain  as  any  proposition  in  mathematics  or  any 
fact  in  any  of  the  exact  sciences.  We  know  that  the  cholera  has 
crossed  the  Atlantic  ocean  and  is  knocking  for  admission  at  the 
Eastern  gates  of  the  continent,  and  we  may  be  positive  that  if 
it  once  secures  a  landing,  its  distribution  and  diffus.on  will  be  a 
question  of  only  a  very  short  time.  Under  such  conditions,  now 
is  the  time  of  all  times  to  get  thoroughly  frightened,  not  as  to 
what  the  cholera  would  do  if  here,  but  as  to  the  danger  of  its 
coming  and  effecting  a  lodgment  in  the  city.  The  municipal  au- 
thorities of  San  Francisco  seem  to  have  been  aroused  to  a  sense 
of  the  impending  danger,  and  to  be  making  an  effort  to  purify 
such  portions  of  the  city  as  come  within  their  jurisdiction,  but 
their  labors  mast  be  supplemented  by  individual  and  personal 
effort.  Every  citizen  of  San  Francisco  should  spare  no  pains  to 
set  his  own  house  in  order,  and  to  look  with  especial  care  to  his 
sewerage  and  drainage.  If  the  whole  city  should  go  half  wild 
with  fear,  just  now,  it  would  be  the  very  best  thing  that  could 
happen,  for  the  result  would  be  such  a  purification  as  the  city 
has  never  had,  and  when  that  was  accomplished  we  might  bid 
defiance  to  cholera  in  an  epidemic  form.  The  danger  is  from 
those  bappy-go-lucky  people  who  have  an  idea  that,  no  matter 
what  may  come  along,  they  will  be  exempt,  and  who  pooh-pooh 
the  idea  of  this  city  suffering  from  an  epidemic  of  any  sort.  Such 
people  ought  to  be  shut  up  in  an  insane  asylum,  for  with  their 
stupid  and  unreasoning  optimism  they  are  not  fit  to  be  at  large. 
They  are  a  constant  menace  and  source  of  danger  to  the  com- 
munity. 

INSANITY    AND    CRIME. 


THE  subject  of  the  relations  between  insanity  and  crime,  and 
the  degree  of  responsibility  of  persons  who  are  supposed  to  be 
insane  for  crimes  which  they  commit,  is  one  that  arises  period- 
ically for  discussion  in  the  public  press  and  elsewhere.  Whenever  a 
person  guilty  of  some  peculiarly  wicked  crime,  or  series  of  crimes, 
is  at  laBt  in  the  grasp  of  the  law,  there  are  always  persons  ready 
to  argue  that  society  has  no  right  to  punish  the  offender,  because 
he  is  insane.  Medical  men  in  all  countries,  who  devote  them- 
selves to  the  investigation  of  that  obscure  and  indefinite  border- 
land between  sanity  and  insanity,  have  invented  various  names 
for  mental  disorders,  of  which,  as.  they  say,  the  criminal  law 
should  take  notice  in  dealing  with  those  supposed  to  be  affected 
by  them.  We  have  »  folie  circulaire"  "  uncontrollable  impulse," 
«  hysteria,"  and  the  like,  and  we  are  told  that  individuals  suffer- 
ing from  these  disorders  should  not  be  punished  for  offenses 
which  they  may  commit  while  laboring  under  them.  In  Italy  of 
late,  a  school  of  anthropology  has  arisen,  which  investigates 
crime  and  the  history  and  transmission  of  criminal  instincts 
from  generation  to  generation,  precisely  as  medical  men  investi- 
gate the  propagation  of  any  hereditary  disorder.  The  results  to 
which  the  researches  of  those  savants  have  led  so  far,  are  of  tbe  ut- 
most interest,  and  may  prove  of  considerable  importance  for  so- 
ciety at  large  in  dealing  with  its  criminal  classes.  Whatever  the  rea- 
son may  be,  whether  because  of  taint  in  the  blood,  or  transmitted 
defect  in  the  brain,  or  from  tbe  more  prosaic  cause  of  bad  surround- 
ings, it  is  certain  that  prima  facie  the  children  of  criminals  will, 
in  successive  generations,  be  criminals.  The  Italian  investigators 
have  traced  the  history  of  criminal  families,  and  have  shown  how 
one  pair  of  criminals  will,  in  course  of  time,  become  the  an- 
cestors of  a  considerable  number  of  persons,  most  of  whom  be- 
come a  burden  to  the  State,  as  criminals,  idiots  or  incurables. 
These  researches,  as  well  as  those  to  which  we  have  referred,  into 
the  varieties  and  phenomena  of  mental  diseases,  can  be  produc- 
tive of  nothing  but  good,  so  long  as  they  remain  in  their  proper 
■phere;  but  there  is  considerable  danger  in  those  attempts  which 
are  perpetually  being  made  to  mould  the  law  in  regard  to  the 
treatment  of  criminals  alleged  to  be  insane  by  results  of  these  in- 
vestigations, which,  at  the  best,  art  still  in  a  preliminary  and 
experimental  stage. 


THE    WISE    SHEPHERDS    OF    PLEASANTON 


A  charge  of  inanity  was  brought  last  week  againM  a  stranger 
who  live*  in  the  neighborhood  of  Pleananton  by  a  ihtphofd  by 
the  name  of  Mtndosa,  and   the  man  bid  to  ■nbmlt  to  tb« 

nlty  of  an  arr. tit,  and  W||  brought  hefore  the  Insanity  commis- 
sioners. I>rs.  Todd  and  Pratt,  in  Judge  Ellsworth's  court.  DpOD 
investigation  it  WH  shown  that  the  accused  had  commit 
greater  crime  than  living  In  a  secluded  spot  in  the  mountains,  far 
from  civilization,  and  sustaining  himself  on  a  cheap  vegetable 
diet,  which  he  procured  in  the  usual  way,  by  paying  for  what  he 
obtained  from  the  farmers,  and  by  procuring,  through  his  own 
ingenuity,  what  grew  wild.  Such  a  life  leemed  to  Mr.  Mendoza 
and  his  fellow-shepherds  insane,  and  they  were  inexpressibly 
frightened  by  a  stranger  who  was  satisfied  with  so  simple  a  diet. 
Now,  it  is  quite  possible  that  Mr.  Mendoza  and  his  colleagues 
have  never  known  necessity,  or  would,  perhaps,  rather  beg  than 
to  live  on  vegetables,  but  that  does  not  prove  that  their  mental 
capacity  exceeds  that  of  the  man  whom  they  had  arrested.  On 
the  contrary,  it  takes  a  well-halanced  mind  to  take  tbe  blows  of 
adversity  with  equanamity  and  to  make  the  best  of  all  circum- 
stances. The  accused,  in  an  interview,  explained  that  he  had 
met  with  bad  luck  in  the  mines  in  Alaska,  that  his  resources  bad 
given  out,  and  that,  not  being  able  to  mend  his  fortune,  he  had 
gone  into  the  woods,  partly  from  necessity  and  partly  because 
be  preferred  the  companionship  of  trees  to  that  of  men.  We  should 
imagine  that  in  our  country,  which  grants  freedom  to  all  so  long 
as  they  do  not  interfere  with  the  freedom  of  their  neighbors,  a 
man  should  be  able  1 1  suit  himself,  in  so  innocent  a  question  as 
that  of  the  manner  of  his  living  and  the  choice  of  his  abode. 
Mr.  Mendoza's  mental  superiority,  however,  led  him  to  a  different 
conclusion,  and  his  actions  show  that  if  he  had  lived  eighteen 
hundred  years  ago,  he  would  certainly  have  bad  Jesus  of  Nazareth 
himself  arrested,  on  account  of  his  forty  days  sojourn  in  the 
desert,  and,  at  all  events,  John  the  Baptist,  for  we  cannot  imagine 
that  Mr.  Mendoza  would  consider  a  diet  of  locusts  and  wild 
honey  more  reasonable  than  one  of  cabbage  and  potatoes.  Seeing 
that  his  accusations  made  no  great  impression  upon  the  Lunacy 
Commission,  be  prepared  another  charge  against  the  "  wild  man," 
as  he  called  biru,  and  said  that  be  imitated  upon  tbe  leaves  of  a 
a  tree  the  sounds  of  a  flute,  disturbing  the  shepherd's  rest  by  his 
concert.  If  the  stranger's  flute  performances  were  dissonant,  one 
could  understand  the  indignation  of  his  accusers,  for  even  the 
equanimity  of  the  sun-god  was  disturbed  by  the  performances  of 
Marsyas.  Mr.  Mendoza  is  not  the  wise  man  that  the  shepherd  is 
supposed  to  be. 

ON  JULY  30TH  it  was  pointed  out  in  this  column  of  the  News 
Letter  that  tbe  demands  contained  in  the  treaty  submitted 
by  Sir  Charles  Evan-Smith  to  the  Sultan  of  Morocco  cannot  on 
the  whole  be  called  unreasonable;  that,  however,  "  it  is  some- 
what different  with  the  British  request  that  Morocco  should  alter 
her  export  duties."  From  the  detailed  description  of  the  negotia- 
tions which  has  meanwhile  been  published  in  the  British  papers 
it  now  appears  that  Sir  Charles  himself  had  recognized  this  fact 
at  the  time  and  declared  his  readiness  to  waive  his  de- 
mand for  the  reduction  of  the  export  duty  on  wheat. 
The  French  papers  continue  to  gloat  over  the  failure  of  the 
British  mission  to  the  Sultan,  but  it  is  not  at  all  unlikely  that 
tbe  latter,  who  was  almost  forced  by  his  rebellious  subjects  to  re- 
ject tbe  treaty  against  bis  own  wish,  will  reconsider  matters  and 
see  the  advantage  arising  for  his  country  from  a  condition  of 
things  which  would  enable  Great  Britain  to  defend  it  against  the 
jealous  nations  on  the  Mediterranean.  For  some  time,  of  course, 
there  is  no  chance  of  Lord  Salisbury's  policy  bearing  fruit,  for  the 
Gladstonian  press  has  already  begun  to  encourage  Great  Britain's 
enemies  by  means  of  violent  attacks  upon  Lord  Salisbury's  for- 
eign policy. 

IN  LONDON  circles  the  question  is  being  discussed  who  will  pro- 
vide the  money  to  pay  the  current  expenses  of  the  Anti- 
Parnellites  in  the  British  Parliament,  who  constitute  the  most  im- 
portant part  of  Mr.  Gladstone's  followers,  and  upon  whose  will 
the  length  of  his  tenure  of  office  greatly  depend.  When  the  Irish 
Nationalists  were  still  united  their  American  sympathizers  fur- 
nished the  funds,  but  tbe  famous  "  parliamentary  fund  "  is,  it  is 
said,  not  accusable  to  the  Anti-Parnellite  members,  and  somebody 
will  have  to  come  to  their  assistance.  They  will  no  doubt  be 
provided  for  by  those  who  need  them,  but  the  checks  will  prob- 
ably be  made  out  under  a  nom  de  plume,  for  it  is  not  likely  tbat 
the  new  paymasters  would  like  to  have  their  names  made 
known.  .   •    

THE  contest  last  week  on  the  occasion  of  the  re-election  of  Mr. 
Morley  as  member  for  Newcastle,  plainly  demonstrated  the 
significant  fact  that  a  strong  breach  exists  already  between  tbe 
Labor  party  and  the  Home  Rulers,  and  there  is  little  chance  that 
even  by  the  most  skillful  diplomacy  on  the  part  of  the  Glad- 
stonians  this  breach  can  be  healed.  The  fact  mentioned  is  one 
with  which  Mr.  Gladstone  will  have  to  count  before  he  submits 
bis  legislative  programme  to  Parliament. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


JEFFREYS-LEWIS    IN    "DIPLOMACY." 

JEFFREYS-LEWIS  has  been  so  long  and  so  thoroughly  identi- 
fied with  the  role  of  Countess  Zicka,  that  comment  on  her 
work  is  supererogatory.  Time  has  taken  nothing  from  the  fire 
and  intensity  of  the  personation,  and  has  brought  with  it  a  still 
more  finely  shaded  elaboration  of  detail  aDd  finish,  making  it  a 
performance  of  which  the  critical  auditor  would  not  willingly 
lose  one  change  of  expression,  one  subtle  shading  of  intonation. 
But  Diplomacy  is  a  play  which  has  so  many  important  roles,  re- 
quiring so  many  distinctive  gifts  of  representation,  that  it  is 
rarely  attempted  except  by  a  specially  selected  company.  That 
Stockwell's  stock  company  has  been  able  to  cope  so  successfully 
with  the  exigencies  of  this  exacting  production  is  a  high  tribute 
to  its  aggregate  ability  and  resources.  Harry  Mainhall  has  not, 
through  the  engagement,  done  anything  involving  as  much  depth 
of  feeling  and  power  of  sympathetic  delineation  as  in  Captain 
Beauclerc.  Mr.  Daffield's  Henry  Beauclerc  is  characterized  by  a 
manliness  and  strength  fittingly  combined  with  the  coolness  and 
suavity  of  the  practiced  diplomat.  Ethel  Brandon  looks  sweet 
and  girlish  as  Captain  Beauclerc's  bride,  and  rises  to  the  emotional 
requirements  of  the  later  scenes  like  the  artist  she  has  become, 
and  Fanny  Young  is  scarcely  less  at  home  as  the  Marquise  than 
is  Jeffreys-Lewis  as  Zicka.  Arthur  Byron  assumes,  in  manly  and 
straightforward  fashion,  the  difficult  role  of  Orloff,  and  excites 
the  sympathy  and  respect  of  his  audience  in  his  trying  dilemma. 
J  alius  Kahn's  Baron  Stein,  while  conventionally  correct,  and 
satisfactory  in  the  main,  is  uneven,  and  falls  short  in  many  nice- 
ties of  detail  and  accent.  The  mounting  and  scenic  setting  is 
commensurate  with  the  excellence  of  acting,  and  the  week  of 
Diplomacy  may  be  set  down  as  one  of  the  successes  of  the  new 
theatre. 


A  RECENT  telegram  from  Simla  states  that  the  Ameer  of  Af- 
ghanistan, in  a  letter  to  the  Indian  government,  asks  what 
course  he  is  to  pursue,  as  he  cannot  endure  the  continuance  of 
tbe  hostile  action  of  Russia.  If  Lord  Salisbury  were  still  in  power 
the  Ameer  would  probably  be  soon  in  a  position  to  Bhow  an 
answer  which  would  be  a  decided  check  to  Russian  aggression. 
Since,  however,  Mr.  Gladstone  is  temporary  manager  of  Great 
Britain's  policy,  the  Ameer  no  doubt  will  receive  a  reply,  the 
evasive  nature  and  double-facedness  of  which  will  t-ven  excel 
that  of  an  Oriental  diplomatist.  It  is  only  to  be  feared  that  the 
Ameer,  not  being  able  at  this  time  to  occupy  himself  with  solv- 
ing puzzles,  will  make  up  with  Russia  rather  than  count 
upon  the  uncertaiu  assistance  of  Great  Britain  under  Gladstone's 
rale. 


THE  trouble  in  tbe  Pamir  region  is  now  acknowledged  by 
nearly  everybody  who  is  conversant  with  politics  in  Europe 
to  be  of  much  more  serious  import  than  was  at  first  anticipated, 
and  those  who  made  light  of  it  before,  and  characterized  the  news 
coming  from  Central  Asiaas  merely  an  electioneering  scheme  of 
the  Tories,  will  now  recognize  bow  little  they  understood  the 
situation.  It  will  task  greatly  Lord  Rosebery's  diplomatic  skill 
to  prevent  European  entanglements  of  the  most  far-reaching  na- 
ture, for  tbe  outcome  of  the  affair  preeminently  depends  on  Eng- 
land's greater  or  lesser  firmness,  in  view  of  the  aggressive  in- 
trigues of  Russia. 

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A    CHAPTER    ON    GLOVES 


AQCARTER  of  a  century  ago  the  man  who  appeared  on  San 
Franciico'a  atreeta  with  a  tlogll  (claaa  on  his  eye,  was  gifted 
with  more  than  ordinary  courage.  He  would  bare  been  the  ob- 
ject of  the  gibes  and  jeers  of  the  populace;  young  and  old  would 
have  flouted  htm.  His  life  would  have  been  In  danger.  Gloves, 
unless  at  a  funeral  or  a  parly,  were  regarded  with  suspicion. 
These  were  the  remains  of  the  anti-boiled  shirt  feeling  ol  the 
mining  days.  Worn  on  the  street  during  business  hours,  gloves 
were  received  with  almost  a?  much  approbium  as  the  eye-glass. 
The  population  bad  its  prejudices  against  •  airs,*'  and  those  who 
could  not  respect  those  prejudices  might  get  out.  Now,  nous 
avons  change:  tout  cetat  and  gloves  and  glasses  are  not  only  toler- 
ated, but  approved  by  this  generation. 

Why  do  men  carry  gloves  in  their  bands  instead  of  upon 
them? 

This  question  was  propounded  in  another  department  of  the 
News  Letter  last  week.  The  only  method  of  arriving  at  any- 
thing like  a  solution  of  this  difficult  question  was  the  confessions 
of  those  who  love  to  swing  the  yellow  kids  in  one  hand,  while 
the  other  gracefully  balances  a  cane.  The  reasons  thereof  are 
herewith  appended: 

James  Robinson — "Well,  don't  you  know,  I  can  hardly  tell  you 
why  I  carry  my  gloves.  I  travel  a  good  deal  to  and  from  our 
place  at  Redwood,  you  know,  and  one's  hands  get  soiled.  I  carry 
mine  mostly  on  my  hands.  One  doesn't  want  the  bother  of  re- 
moving one's  gloves  half  a  dozen  times  a  day.  No,  1  am  not  proud 
of  my  hands;  I  don't  think  they  are  whiter  than  any  one's  else. 
Yes,  I  do  my  best  to  keep  my  nails  clean." 

George  E.  Hall — "I  did  not  begin  to  wear  gloves  first  in  Con- 
stantinople, but  in  Par.s.  I  can't  tell  you  what  the  Sublime 
Porte  wears.  I  never  met  him,  though  we  correspond  on  busi- 
ness matters.  I  carry  my  gloves  in  my  hand  to  slap  my  leg  with. 
No,  I  am  not  troubled  with  fleas,  but  it  is  a  habit  I  acquired  on 
the  Riviera.  How?  Well,  I'll  tell  you.  I  used  to  wear  white 
trowsers,  and  pipe-clay  them,  and  I  acquired  the  habit  of  slap- 
ping my  leg  with  my  gloves  just  to  see  the  dust  fly.  I  don't 
keep  a  private  manicure,  nor  have  I  invented  a  wash  for  taking 
out  ink  stains,  but  I  understand  George  Nagle  has." 

Porter  Ashe — "  I  never  carry  my  gloves  in  my  band,  but  I  am 
much  addicted  to  the  custom  of  wearing  them.  Well,  I  suppose 
I  do  it  as  much  from  habit  as  anything  else-  You  will  perceive 
my  hands  are  horny.  That  callous  is  from  breaking  in  young 
colts  at  my  place  in  Fresno.  I  am  extremely  careful  about  my 
nails.  When  any  soil  gets  under  them  it  makes  me  sick.  To 
keep  out  this  foreign  matter  is  a  difficult  etndy  for  a  man  leading 
an  active  life.  I  have  never  prescribed  fcr  Fulton  Berry's  nails, 
nor  have  I  said  that  he  endeavored  to  boom  raisin  land  by  bring- 
ing to  town  samples  of  the  soil  packed  under  them." 

Theodore  Kearney — "  I  have  worn  gloves  since  I  was  two  feet 
high.  Whoever  told  you  I  wear  digitated  stockings  is  no  friend 
of  mine.  I  really  cannot  give  you  the  size  of  my  gloves.  I  don't 
know  whether  they  would  fit  John  L.  Sullivan  or  not.  I  never 
said  my  hand  would  make  a  fine  model  for  a  sculptor,  nor  do  I 
wear  gloves  to  hide  my  freckles.  I  believe  in  freckles.  I  think 
they  are  manly." 

Downey  Harvey — "Why  do  I  carry  gloves,  me  boy?  Well, 
because  it  is  the  correct  thing  to  do,  and  because  in  this  change- 
able climate  I  am  subject  to  neuralgia  in  my  thumbs.  I  don't 
like  Bismarck-colored  gloves,  and  I  am  not  of  German  descent. 
If  Bobby  Grayson  told  you  so  he  must  have  been  taking  too 
much  cold  tea.  Grayson's  gloves  do  not  fit  me,  and  I  never  bor- 
rowed a  pair  from  him  in  my  life  to  go  to  the  races  with.  No,  I 
am  not  superstitious,  and  even  if  I  were,  I  cannot  for  the  life  of 
me  see  how  any  luck  could  attach  to  Bob  Grayson's  gloves  or 
anything  belonging  to  him.  Yes,  I'll  reform,  and  carry  my  gloves 
in  my  pocket  in  the  future  when  they  are  not  on  my  hands,  or, 
when  they  are  on  my  hands,  keep  my  hands  in  my  pockets. 
Oh,  no,  thanks;  I  am  willing  to  do  anything  to  please  the  news- 
papers." 

George  Nagle — "  I'd  as  soon  be  seen  without  my  coat  as  with- 
out my  gloves.  I  consider  them  indispensable  to  a  gentleman's 
street  toilette.  I  usually  carry  mine  in  my  right  hand  when 
walking.     Sometimes  I  wear  them  in    my  outside  pocket  permit- 

PPRlCO 


Powder 


ting  the  finger  lip*  to  pn.tmde  artliticaHy.  I  am  proud  of  my 
hands;  I  cannot  deny  it.  I  am  something  of  an  amattur  hyp- 
DOttH  and  confer  oblivion  by  the  laying  on  of  btndi.  Yen,  I  am 
■Operchargad  with  animal  magnetism.  1  don't  play  the  harp, 
but  I  think  I  could  if  I  tried.  I  can  do  the  banjo  up,  though,  In 
good  style.  I  never  have  worn  gloves  while  performing  on  that 
instrument.     I  abandoned  it  because   It   made  my  hands  rough." 

Arthur  8.  Scrivener — "  I  am  never  seen  outside  the  bask  with- 
out gloves.  I  never  carry  them  In  my  hand.  Gloves  are  to  wear, 
not  to  swing  about  and  gesticulate  witb.  You  have  been  misin- 
formed ;   I  do  not  sleep  with  my  gloves  on." 

Bob  Woodward. — •<  I  acquired  the  habit  of  wearing  gloves 
abroad— in  Monaco.  I  think.  Mine  are  always  on  my  bands.  I 
never  have  said  that  I  consider  an  ostrich  less  dangerous  than  a 
sandhill  crane.  Yes,  that  story  about  the  box  of  gloves  is  cor- 
rect. The  incident  occurred  two  years  ago.  I  did  leave  inad- 
vertently a  box  of  gloves  on  a  bench  In  the  gardens  which  are 
called  after  me.  It  was  the  pelican,  not  the  sandhill  crane,  that 
swallowed  them.  True,  the  solon  gander  was  accused,  hut  he 
proved  an  alibi.  I  cannot  tell  whether  the  gloves  did  or  did  not 
give  the  pelican  indigestion.  You'd  better  ask  Hutchinson.  I 
am  not  an  ornithologist." 


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Sept.  3,  1892. 


'We   Obey    no   Wand    but   Pleasure's.**— Tom  Moore. 


THE  thousand  incidents  of  naval  adventure  which  made  the 
late  civil  war  a  repository  of  dramatic  events  ready  made  to 
hand,  cause  one  to  wonder  that  it  has  not  hitherto  been  drawn 
upon,  and  after  witnessing  Wm.  Haworth's  naval  drama,  The 
Ensign,  the  surprise  is  doubly  accentuated.  The  play  rests  upon 
an  incident  of  personal  gallantry  and  hair-breadth  'scape,  which, 
exciting  as  it  i?,  was  by  no  means  unparalleled  in  the  history  of 
the  war,  and  is  no  less  interesting  as  to  the  story  than  dramatic 
in  development.  The  characters  are  equally  well  managed  by 
author  and  players.  While  presenting  that  condensation  of  at- 
tributes which  seems  essential  to  strong  dramatic  drawing,  none 
of  them  touch  upon  the  absurd  or  the  impossible.  Perhaps  the 
most  unlikely  to  be  found  in  real  life  is  the  strongest  character- 
ization in  the  play,  that  of  Jack  Dudley,  cox'n  of  the  San  Jacinto. 
Yet  no  one  would  be  willing  to  see  Jack's  points  and  angles 
pruned  down  to  smooth  probability,  to  say  nothing  of  the  fact 
that  nautical  men  are  the  readiest  to  accept  him  as  a  genuine 
product  of  salt  water  out  of  soundings.  If  there  is  no  such  indi- 
vidual sailor  in  the  American  navy,  he  could  easily  be  made  up 
from  selected  bits  taken  here  and  there  from  any  crew  afloat.  As 
a  composite  photograph  he  is  quite  realistic  enough  for  all 
dramatic  purposes,  and  as  presented  by  Mr.  Graham,  the  cox'n 
is  one  of  the  features  of  a  most  enjoyable  performance.  Ensign 
Ben  Baird,  the  hero  whose  neck  has  a  close  shave  with  the  gal- 
lows-rope through  his  indiscreet  devotion  to  ,l  the  flag,"  and  mid- 
shipman Watson,  who  unearths  the  plot  to  facilitate  Mason  and 
Slidell's  escape,  are  well  acted  by  James  Neill  and  George  Wright, 
respectively.  The  former  makes  a  tall  and  personable  young 
officer,  and  very  creditably  refrains  from  over-acting,  notwith- 
standing the  opportunities  in  which  the  average  hero  of  melo- 
drama would  revel  ad  nauseam.  Miss  Ruth  Carpenter  as  bis 
sweetheart,  Alice  Greer,  is  spirited,  sympathetic,  and  womanly. 
The  general  detestation  of  the  ordinary  stage  child,  with  its 
squeaking,  high-pitched  voice,  and  in  speech  and  movement  a 
cross  between  a  parrot  and  a  mechanical  toy,  has  been  so  gen- 
erally voiced,  that  an  exception  like  little  Mary  Wilkes  (Edith 
Wright)  must  be  hailed  as  a  relief.  She  trots  about  the  stage  and 
makes  her  little  speeches  with  an  unconsciousness  of  art  which 
is  the  one  art  unattainable  to  many  of  her  o.der  sister*.  Her 
interview  with  the  President  is  not  only  in  itself  a  cuarming 
scene,  but  goes  straight  to  the  American  heart  as  a  revelation  of 
the  homely  tenderness  and  sympathy  so  prominent  in  that 
rugged  personality.  One  character  in  the  play  is  so  natural  and 
easy  in  its  delineaiion  as  to  be  likely  to  escape  the  praise  it  de- 
serves— that  of  Lieut.  Allen,  of  H.  M.  S.  Warrior,  by  Hardy  Ver- 
non. Mr.  Vernon's  acting  is  so  near  to  nature,  so  free  from  any 
sign  of  being  put  on,  that  one  remembers  him  rather  as  a  British 
officer  who  came  upon  the  stage  than  as  the  actor  who  repre- 
sented him.  Among  smaller  parts,  Sergeant  O'Shay,  the  Presi- 
dent's orderly,  deserves  mention. 

The  interest,  of  course,  culminates  in  the  moment  when  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  walks  quietly  upon  the  stage.  The  sensation  of 
beholding  a  ghostly  visitant  is  paramount  when  one  has  had 
time  to  take  in  the  full  realism  of  the  picture,  in  feature,  dress, 
movement,  and  expression.  The  effect  is  immeasurably  height- 
ened by  the  silence  of  the  kindly  but  firm  set  lips,  which  never 
open.  When  the  curtain  falls  it  leaves  no  sense  of  incongruous- 
ness  in  the  picture  of  the  statesman  and  patriot  with  the  little 
girl  on  one  strong  arm  and  her  doll  in  the  other.  No  greater 
tribute  could  be  given  to  the  reality  of  Logan  Paul's  wonderful 
assumption  than  the  reverential  spell  which  holds  the  audience 
silent  till  the  vision  has  passed  from  sight. 

Taken  altogether,  The  Ensign  is  one  of  the  best  of  recent  pro 
ductions,  and  leaves  behind  it  a  flavor  of  sea-air  and  salt  water 
as  invigorating  to  the  spirit  of  patriotism  as  conducive  to  a 
healthy  enjoyment.  Next  week  is  its  last  at  the  California,  and 
that  there  will  be  few  vacant  seats,  upstairs  or  down,  is  evident. 
#  »  # 

In  Peaceful  Valley,  which  has  filled  the  second  and  last  week  of 
Sol  Smith  Russell's  Baldwin  engagement,  there  are  a  few  incon- 
gruities not  apparent  in  A  Poor  Relation,  and  a  trifle  too  obvious 
to  be  overlooked,  even  under  the  spell  of  Mr.  Russell's  quaint 
and  peculiar  humor.  A  great  inventor  may  defy  etymology  and 
put  the  laws  of  syntax  to  flight  without  derogating  from  the 
quality  of  his  inventive  genius;  but  a  man  who  reads  Virgil  in 
the  original,  whose  book-case  contains  collateral  proof  of  his 
knowledge  of  Greek,  with  a  hint  at  Sanscrit  and  other  occult 
tongues,  and  who  has  nearly  completed  his  collegiate  course,  will 
hardly  give  the  last-named  fact  such  phrasing  as  "I'm  most 
threw  na-ow."  His  college  training  might  not  altogether  oblit- 
erate the  backwoods  twang  from  his  voice  or  the  rustic  awkward- 
ness from  his  manners,  but  it  should  surely  bring  accurateness  to 
his  speech.  Yet,  in  spite  of  this  and  a  few  other  discrepancies, 
Mr.  Russell's  humor  is  so  fine  in  quality  and  so  apparently  ex- 
haustless  in    quantity,   as   to  make  an  evening  in  Peaceful  Valley 


one  of  thorough  enjoyment.  There  is,  too,  a  clean  and  whole- 
some tone  about  all  that  Mr.  Russell  does,  which  is  as  character- 
istic as  his  awkward  movements,  his  little  after-the-curtain 
speech,  and  his  tight  trousers.  It  is  in  order,  however,  to  suggest 
to  Mr.  Russell  that  if  he  would  not  strain  too  tensely  his  present 
popularity,  he  provide  himself  with  a  new  play  and  a  new  com- 
pany before  starting  on  his  next  circuit. 

«  *  *■ 
Little  Tippett   finishes   its   second   week  at  the  Bush  to-morrow 
night.     Wednesday's    matinee   saw   at   the   Bush    an   unusually 
strong   sprinkling  of  professionals,  from    the   various   local  and 
visiting  companies. 

#  »  * 

The  production  of  Virginia  seemed  to  be  regarded  as  an  event 
by  the  Tivoli  clientage,  judging  from  the  crowd  which  poured  in 
on  the  opening  nigbt.  That  the  audience  was  pleased  must  be 
attributed  to  the  Tivoli  company  and  not  to  Mr.  Solomon's  opera, 
of  which  the  music  and  the  plot  are  equally  stupid,  involved  and 
meaningless.  The  company  struggled  bard  to  make  something 
out  of  nothing,  and  came  creditably  near  doing  it.  Hartman 
kept  the  house  in  a  roar,  and  saved  the  piece  from  being  utterly 
flat  as  to  humor.  Tillie  Salinger  sang  well  Sullivan's  »  Meet  me 
once  again,"  and  Mr.  Knight  gave  "  The  Vagabond,"  not  so  well, 
however. 

»  *  • 

Mr.  Meyer  is  giving  a  good  variety  entertainment  at  the  Wig- 
wam, corner  of  Geary  and  Stockton  streets.     The  place  seems  a 
popular  resort  for  a  certain  contingent. 
•  *  • 

The  dramatic  event  of  next  week  will  be  the  appearance  of 
Lillian  Russell  at  the  Baldwin.  From  being  only  the  most  beauti- 
ful woman  in  opera,  Miss  Russell  has,  with  a  laudable  ambition 
and  an  unusual  willingness  to  work  for  its  achievement,  grad- 
ually placed  herself  on  the  surer  ground  of  an  accomplished 
singer.  Her  opening  on  Monday  evening  next  will  be  in 
Audran's  La  Cigale,  in  which  her  success  has  been  wholly  un- 
qualified. The  scene  of  the  opera  is  laid  about  twenty  miles  from 
Bruges,  the  opening  being  the  wedding  of  Charlotte,  known  as 
La  Four-mi  (the  ant),  to  William.  The  bride's  cousin,  Marton, 
La  Cigale  (the  grasshopper),  wishes  to  become  an  opera  singer.  A 
Dutch  uncle  comes  upon  the  scene  and  tries  to  make  a  match  be- 
tween La  Cigale  and  the  schoolmaster's  son,  Vincent  Knapps.but 
Marton  refuses.  A  merry  and  flirtatious  couple,  Duke  and 
Duchess  of  Fayensberg,  make  appointments,  respectively,  with 
an  opera  singer  and  Chevalier  Franz  de  Bernbeim,  and  unex- 
pectedly meet  at  a  picnic  from  Bruges.  The  Chevalier  falls  in 
love  at  first  sight  with  La  Cigale,  and  offers  to  secure  her  musical 
instruction  and  an  operatic  engagement  at  Bruges,  for  which 
place  she  leaves.  In  Act  II.,  a  year  later,  Marton  has  become  a 
prima  donna  and  is  touring  the  provinces,  the  Dutch  uncle  acting 
as  manager  and  the  faithful  Vincent  as  prompter.  She  is  en- 
gaged to  marry  Franz.  Made  jealous  by  his  supposed  intrigue 
with  the  Duchess,  she  denounces  both  at  a  palace  ball.  The 
Duke  interferes,  and  with  the  aid  of  Vincent,  makes  clear  to  the 
grasshopper  her  lover's  loyalty.  Franz  and  La  Cigale  are  mar- 
ried and  all  ends  happily,  except  for  poor  Vincent,  who  has  to 
put  up  with  thanks  instead  of  love   from   his   idol.     The  English 


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BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I  n  IKK. 


Ter»lon  was  written  by  P.  U.  Burnand,  and  differs  considerably 
(mm  the  original  French  book  or  Mc-sr*.  t'hlvol  and  Dnru.  sev- 
eral numbers  and  the  entire  tinalc  of  lb*  second  act  being  new. 

•  •  • 

Next  Monday  begins  the  last  week  of  JffTrevs  Lewis'  engage- 
ment at  Stockwell's,  with  Im  Belle  Run*.  The  loading  rote  is, 
perhaps,  next  to  Coantess  Zicka,  the  stroncest  in  Miss  I. •■«.*' 
repertory.  This  engagement  has  been,  from  an  artistic  stand- 
point, in  every  way  satisfactory,  both  star  and  company  having 
worked  faithfully  to  make  it  so.  Miss  Lewis'  coast  tour  begins 
at  Sacramento  September  12lh,  under  Mr.  Stockwell's  direction. 

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At  the  Bnsh  next  week  Dan  Snlly  will  bring  out  hisjnew  play- 
Tammany  J  fall,  Mr.  Sully  is  himself  one  of  the  easiest  and  smooth, 
est  of  stage  Irishmen,  and  his  new  play  has  met  everywhere  with 
praise  from  the  critics  and  audiences. 

•  »  » 

Monday,  September  5tb,  The  Golden  Hen,  a  three-act  opera  by 
Audran,  will  be  brought  out  at  (he  Tivoli  with  all  the  best  people 
in  the  cast.     The  following  Monday,  The  Musketeers. 

Miss  Julia  Newman,  whose  singing  is  one  of  the  most  brilliant 
results  of  Madame  Rosewald's  method  and  training,  has  volun- 
teered her  services  as  one  of  the  vocalists  at  the  coming  concert 
of  the  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra  under  J.  H.  Rosewald's  di- 
rection. With  the  volunteer  talent  and  the  well-drilled  orchestra 
itself  the  concert  will  be  an  equally  fashionable  and  artistic  event 
in  the  local  musical  world. 

•     •     9 

Hayden  Coffin,  the  handsome  and  athletic  tenor  of  the  Lillian 
Russell  company,  made  all  bis  reputation  in  London,  though  a 
Bostonian  by  birth.  When  Dorothy  made  its  great  London  run 
of  nine  hundred  and  forty-six  consecutive  performances  Mr. 
Coffin  and  his  song,  "Queen  of  My  Heart,"  constituted  an  im- 
portant element  of  the  success. 

*  #  * 

Manager  John  F.  Bragg  announces  a  series  of  six  readings  of 
Shakespearean  and  miscellaneous  selections  to  be  given  by 
George  Riddle  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall.  The  first  two  readings  will 
be  on  Monday  and  Thursday  evenings  of  next  week. 

•  #  * 

Joseph    Grismer   and  Pbcebe  Davies  follow  Jeffreys-Lewis   at 

Btockwell's  Theatre,  in    The   New  South,  by  Clay  M.  Greene. 

John  E.  Dudley,  who  plays  William  in   La  Cigale,  bad  the  same 

part  in  the  original    London    cast. The  Junior  Partner   follows 

The  Ensign  at  the  California. The  Lillian  Russell  Opera  Com- 
pany arrived    here  on  Thursday,  accompanied  by  T.  H.  French, 

proprietor  and  manager  of  the  company John    F.    Robinson's 

circus  will  open  at  Central  Park  September  12th  for  one  week. 
—  However  astonishing  the  assurance  of  John  L.  Sullivan's 
appearing  as  an  author,  his  book  will  have  one  advan- 
tage over  himself,  either  as  actor  or  pugilist.  To  borrow 
Sol  8mith  Russell's  joke,  it  can  be  •«  shut  up;"  Sullivan  can't.— 
M.  B.  Leavitt  will  put  two  Spid&r  and  Fly  companies  on  the  road 
this  season,  for  the  Eastern    and    Western   circuits   respectively. 

Rehearsals  begin   August  1st  in   New  York  City. The  Junior 

Partner,  which  will  open  at  the  California  September  12th,  wilt 
have  a  cast  including  many  of  San  Francisco's  favorites.  — It  is 
Mr.  Stockwell's  plan  to  insure  variety  for  his  patrons'  entertain- 
ment, by  changing  his  stars  every  few  weeks  and  giving  them 
the  best  support  possible,  whether  within  or  outside  his  regular 
company.  Joseph  Grismer  and  Phoebe  Davies,  in  Clay  Greene's 
latest  play,  The  New  South,  E.  J.  Henley  and  Aubrey  Boucicault 

will  soon  be  seen  at  the  new  theatre. Louis  Barrett,  who  was 

recently  engaged  by  Charles  Frohman  to  play  the  Sergeant  in 
Shenandoah,  is  a  brother  of  Lawrence  Barrett.  Though  never 
having  achieved  fame,  he  is   well   spoken    of  as  a   reliable  actor. 

Marie  Prescott  will  play  lago.     A  female  Iago  is   something 

new,  though  the  subtlety  of  feminine  villainy  suggests  that  it  is 
not  inappropriate  -^— Mr.  Mayer  is  to  pay  Patti   $200,000  for  her 

forty  concerts  in  the  United  States  and  Canada. Contrary  to 

the  predictions  of  the  knowing  ones  (who  never  seem  to  know), 
Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  made  such  a  success  with  Miss  Helyett,  at  the 
Columbia  Theatre,  Chicago,  that  several  dates  were  canceled  to 
extend  her  engagement.  Dave  Belasco  was,  at  last  accounts, 
busy  writing  for  Mrs.  Carter  a  new  play,  to  be  called  The  Heart  of 
Maryland. Manager  Mart  Hanley  says  that  Harrigan  wi  1  re- 
vive Squatter  Sovereignty   this   season. Kirke   La   Shelle,   E.  S. 

Willard's  late  manager,  but  now  with  George  W.  Lederer's  com- 
edy company,  announces  an  early  production  here   of   Mrs.  Pa- 

checo's  Nothing  But  Mtn-y De  Koven,  composer  of  Robin  Hoodf 

is  said  to  be  engaged  on  four  new  operas  at  once.  If  they  are  all 
equal  to  Robin  Hood  they  Bhould  bring  him  four  fortunes. Dun- 
lop's  Stage  New3  pronounces  Dixey  next  to  a  flat  failure  as  Lo- 
renzo, in  the  revival  of  The  Mascot,  at  Palmer's  New  York  The- 
atre  Mr.    Pruette   and   Canaille   d'Arvilie,    both    among  San 

Francisco's  operatic  favorites,  made  a  hit  in  the  «»  gobble-gobble" 

song  in  the  same  production. Miss  Georgie  Bucklin,  daughter 

of  a  wealthy  manufacturer,  is  the  latest  recruit  from  "  society" 
by  the  stage.  She  is  engaged  to  J.  M.  Hill  for  the  Fencing  Master. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

iiIUnuit{  prMan.  I  Awbbd  Bocnn m.h.kt. 

,  '■•"   »'«>ii.  ln.i  inniliir.-.  MR.  SOL  SMITH   BUB8ELL.    Kl>t~.r 

PEACEFUL.   VALLEY. 

BXTBAI  M..M.i»y  next,  Beptemtwr  Mh,  ltli.ian  KfSSKLL  opcr» 
Continue  Company,  presenting  i.a  CIQaXB. 

8«»l  now  on  mlo.  The  prices  will  be  identical  w  Ih  thnje  charged  In 
New  ^ork  and  all  KaMcrn  I  :  i        ■  Circle.  13    lialeonv 

II  .V)  and  II:  Gallery,  Ml  cent-  " 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Ai.  Havsias  A  Co Proprietors .  |  J.  J.  Oottlob    Manager. 

Monday  September  5th,  la^  week;  last  Matinee  Saturday.  The  Orcat 
American  Plav, 

THE     ENSIGN. 

Monday,  September  12tb,  the  Comedy  Hit,  THE  JUNIOR  PAKTNEK 
Seats  ready  next  Thur;,day. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mb.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  |  Ma.  Chab.  P.  Hali. Manager 

Commencing  Monday,  September  5th.    Lest  week!    Last  week  1 

LITTLE     TIPPETT, 

Success  greater  than  ever.  Next!  DAN  SULLY  In  his  new  play,  TAM- 
MANY HALL.    Grand  ovation  everywhere. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bbos Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  night !    Superb  Production  of  SOLOMON'S  Farcical  Opera, 
VIRGINIA. 

Monday,  September  5th,  THE  GOLDEN  HEN. 
Pqfplab  Prices .25c.  and  50c. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghoose  Business  Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  September  5th,  matinee  Saturday.  Farewell  week 
of  JEFFRE  f  S-LEWIS,  and  Stockwell's  company  of  players,  in  an 
elaborate  production  of 

LA  BELLE  RUSSE. 

Next  Monday,  September  12th,  JOSEPH  R.  GRISMER  and  PHCEBE 
DAVIES  In  the  NEW  SOUTH;  by  Clay  M.  Greene  and  Joseph  R.  Grismer. 

WIGWAM  THEATRE. 

(Corner  Stockton  and  Geary  streets,  S.  F.  Cal.) 

Chab.  Meyer    Proprietor  and  Manager 

San  Francisco's  recognized  Vaudeville  family  resort.  Week  commenc- 
ing Monday  evening,  September'5th.  Grand  Matinee  Admission  Day,  Sept. 
9th,  at  2  p.  m.  Grand  production  of  the  funniest  burlesque  ever  writ  ten, 
entitled, 

THE     MI-KAR-GO,  (or  The  Town  of  8auce-el-eat-oh). 

First  appearance,  direct  from  the  East,  Miss  PEARL  INMANN ;  First  Ap- 
pearance of  JAS.  WALSH  and  ALF.  JAMES;  First  appearance  of  the  won- 
derful HENLY  SISTERS;  First  Appearance  of  Miss  GRACE  HOLLY;  The 
talented  Australian  vocalist,  BEATRICE  JAMES;  The  Dancing  Queen,  JES- 
SIE FLORENCE;  The  Chalk  Manipulator,  AL.  WILLIAMS;  The  Comedian 
and  Producer,  JOHN  PERRY;  THOMAS  C.  LEARY. 

Grand  Matinee  Admission  Day,  September  9th,  at  2  p.  u. 

Popular  Prices  Admission  10c;  Reserved  Seats,  25c 

IRVING  HALL 

Tuesday  eveniug,  September  IS,  1892.    Only  recital  in  San  Francisco, 

WM.  H.  SHERWOOD, 

The  renowned  American  pianist  in  a  specially  chosen  programme. 
Admission,  including  reserved  seat,  $1. 

Sale  of  seats  begins  Thursday  morning,  September  8th,  at  Kohler  <fe 
Chase's  Music  House,  26-28-30  O'Farrell  Street. 

^iife,.       FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
=   very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 
-   .;-"■  'iSp|p  3    Montgomery  St, 

Under  Masonic   Temple. 

DlillllACKn"bc'   Haines, 

r  I  A% 111 UO  Bush <fc Gerts, *» others. 

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and  Repaired.     Please  call  or  send  for  circulars. 


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BANCROFT 


SA1ST  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


WHAT    CONSTITUTES    A    GENTLEMAN. 

((  T  TELL  you  he  muat  have  the  advantage  of  blood,  education 
1  and  position,  or  he  cannot  be  a  gentleman."  It  was  the 
dictum  of  Benjamin  Tarbox,  and  the  oracle  having  spoken,  no 
dog  was  supposed  to  bark.  Of  the  group  of  well-dressed,  well- 
meaning  and  well-mannered  men  to  whom  this  decree  was 
directed,  only  one  had  the  temerity  to  reply,  and  this  he  did  more 
in  the  way  of  an  apostrophe. 

"  Ratal  " 

He  stepped  back  two  paces  as  he  spoke,  and  then  directed  a 
sort  of  balf-disgnsted,  half-sympathetic  look  at  the  white-aproned 
philosopher  who  had,  in  his  mind  at  least,  settled  for  all  time  the 
question  at  issue,  namely:  "  What  constitutes  a  gentleman?" 
Benjamin  Tarbox  is  a  mixer  of  cocktails,  and  things  like  that, 
at  a  place  on  Sutter  street.  He  tills  his  position  with  becoming 
dignity,  and  is  more  or  less  popular— decidedly  more  up  to  the 
time  of  this  discussion  a  few  days  ago — with  the  well-to-do 
patrons  who  call  there.  A  quintet  of  men,  who,  till  that  day, 
had  lived  in  the  blissful  thought  that  they  were  gentlemen,  stood 
in  front  of  the  bar  while  Tarbox,  with  method  that  was  almost 
mechanical,  mixed  their  appetizers.  Just  how  the  discussion 
came  about  history  will  probably  never  know,  but  it  is  certain 
that  ere  the  decoctions  had  swept  the  dust  from  the  throats  of 
the  visitors,  the  question  above-mentioned  was  before  the  house, 
and  being  fully  discussed.  But  it  was  a  sort  of  one-sided  con- 
troversy, for  Benjamin  Tarbox  was  alone  in  support  of  his  defin- 
ition, and  had  to  fight  his  five  opponents  by  sheer  strength  of 
argument  and  example. 

*<  I  do  not  care  about  his  birth  or  his  belongings,"  one  of  the 
five  had  said;  "  if  a  man  is  honest,  conducts  himself  with  a  due 
sense  of  propriety,  and  does  to  others  as  he  would  that  they 
should  do  to  him,  he  is  a  gentleman." 

It  was  at  this  that  Tarbox  had  given  his  didactic  ultimatum, 
which  provoked  the  ejaculation  of  "  Rats."  At  this  point  a  well- 
known  newspaper  man  entered  the  establishment,  and,  seeking 
relief  from  the  consequences  of  the  numerically  unequal  battle  he 
had  fought,  the  dispenser  of  mixed  drinks  invited  the  new-comer 
into  the  controversy  with  the  exclamation:  »  Here's  Mr.  So-and- 
so,  we'll  leave  it  to  him,  he's  a  newspaper  man." 

"  Give  me  a  little  gin,  and  put  a  dash  of  absinthe  in  it." 

The  drink  was  placed  upon  the  counter,  and  then  Mr.  Tarbox 
said:  "  We  have  just  had  a  dispute  in  regard  to  the  proper  defin- 
ition of  the  word  gentleman,  and  we  want  you  to  decide  it. 
What  constitutes  a  gentleman?     Whatever  you  say  goes." 

"  A  gentleman,"  replied  he  of  the  pencil,  "  I  take  to  be  a  man 
who,  having  the  natural  instincts  of  good  breeding,  conducts 
himself  in  an  exemplary  way  in  all  things." 

"  But  he  must  be  of  the  manner  born;  be  high  in  the  social 
scale,  perfect  in  education,  and  have  blood  in  his  veins  that 
comes  from  stock  of  distinction,"  retorted  the  man  in  the  white 
tunic. 

"  A  man  may  have  all  these  characteristics  and  yet  not  be  a 
gentleman,"  replied  the  press  representative. 

"Impossible;  he  may  not  conduct  himself  as  one,  but  he's  a 
gentleman,  all  the  same.  He  may  have  blood  and  position,  but 
without  education  he  is  no  gentleman ;  he  may  have  blood  and 
education  but  no  position,  or  position  and  education  and  lack  the 
proper  blood  of  a  gentleman;  in  either  case  he  is  lost.  The  com- 
bination must  be  complete,  or  he  misses  the  mark  as  surely  as 
does  a  man  without  a  single  qualification." 

Having  given  utterance  to  this  doctrine,  Mr.  Tarbox  leaned  his 
elbows  on  the  counter  before  bim  and  waited — waited  as  though 
he  expected  to  see  the  newspaper  man  engulfed  in  his  own  insig- 
nificance. 

"  Are  you  a  gentleman?"  quie^y  asked  the  scribe. 

"  Certainly  not,"  with  much  earnestness.     "  I  am  a  bartender.*' 

•■  Is  it  not  possible  for  a  bar-tender  to  be  a  gentleman  ?  " 

"  No,  a  thousand  times,  no;  he  might  have  the  blood  and  edu- 
cation, but  he  lacks  the  position." 

«•  What  about  these  men,  here  ?  "  referring  to  the  five  who  had 
given  way  to  the  new-comer. 

"  There  is  not  a  gentleman  amongst  them,"  scanning  each  one 
in  turn  with  a  scrutinizing  glare  of  the  eye,  "tbey  are  only 
bankers  and  merchants  and  the  like." 

"  Are  you  an  Englishman  ?  " 

"  No,  sir,  I'm  an  American,  born  and  raised  in  the  city  and 
county  of  San  Francisco." 

•«  Worse  and  worse— a  Native  Son  of  the  Golden  West,  and  not 
a  gentleman!  Let  me  tell  you,  young  man,"  said  the  writer, 
stimulated  to  eloquence  by  gin,  argument  and  abscinthe,  "  there 
might  be  some  excuse  for  you  if  you  belonged  to  the  old  English 
school.  Try  and  learn  something.  In  America  we  know  no 
title,  and  our  yeomanry  are  our  nobility;  if  a  man  has  not  blood 
of  pure  ancient  origin,  he  may  be  better  for  it;  if  bis  birth  did 
not  occur  in  a  palace,  it  is  not  his  fault;  if  he  is  without  a  uni- 
versity education,  he  may  not  be  the  loser,  and  if  his  mind  is  so 
impaired  that  he  knows  nothing,  it  is  his  misfortune.  Cesario's 
humble  servant  was  a  gentleman,  and  there  are  many  yet  in  the 
lower  walks  of  life  blessed  with  similar  instincts.  In  San  Fran- 
cisco, I  know  some  bar-keepers  who  are  gentlemen,  and  if  you 
are  not  one,  you  have  my  sympathy." 


He  had  moved  toward  the  door,  and  as  he  concluded,  he  passed 
out.  In  solemn  silence,  two  minutes  later,  the  no-gentlemen 
bankers  and  merchants  were  sipping  a  second  drink. 

The  door  was  pushed  open  and  the  newspaper  man  re-entered, 
in  company  with  a  Chinaman.  With  the  exception  of  the  ser- 
vants who  did  the  menial  work  of  the  place,  this  was  probably 
the  first  Mongol  who  had  ever  crossed  the  threshold — certainly 
the  first  who  had  ever  walked  boldly  to  the  bar  for  a  drink. 

The  quintet  made  way,  and  Tarbox  stood  aghast. 

"  Ben,"  said  the  writer,  «« let  me  introduce  to  yon  a  gentleman 
friend  of  mine — Charles  Wong  How.  What  will  you  drink, 
Charley  ?  " 

"  Cider." 

"  Ben,  give  Charley  a  glass  of  cider.  I  would  like  you  to  know 
my  friend,  he  is  every  inch  a  gentleman — now,  wake  up, Tarbox, 
don't  stand  there  like  a  statue,  let's  have  that  cider — Charley 
Wong  How  comes  of  an  old  family  of  distinction  of  Tien-tsin, 
liberally  educated  in  the  best  schools  of  China,  and  a  classmate 
of  that  distinguished  graduate  of  Yale,  the  Americanized  China- 
man, Chang;  like  his  relations  before  him,  for  many  generations, 
he  has  lived  upon  Inherited  wealth,  and  iB  now  visiting  the  homes 
of  his  countrymen  in  Chinatown,  here — blood,  education  and 
position,  Ben,  he  is  every  inch  a  gentleman." 

Slowly  the  cider  was  handed  to  the  Mongol.  Then  the  China- 
man, after  drinking  it,  turned  to  go,  and  as  he  did  so,  politely 
raised  his  hat  to  those  present  and  said,  »  Good  day,  gentlemen." 

TheMaison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue, 
is  the  very  place  to  go  for  a  first-class  dinner. 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
commodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  ^Etna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO. 


Telephone  036. Office,  108  nruiiiiii  Street,  S.  V 


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If  you  dou't  so  to 

NAPA  SODA 
SPRINGS 


THIS     SUMMER. 


What  Do  You  Want  ? 


A  Climate  that  beats  Italy.  No  Malaria  or  Cold 
Sea  Air.  Health-giving  Mineral  Water.  Cuisine 
and  Service  Unexceptionable.  Comfortable  Beds. 
Table  First  Quality.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Every  Koom.  Hot  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  Trains  Every  Day. 
All  Visitors  are  Satisfied. 

ANDREW  JACKSON,      -       -       -      PROPRIETOR. 

Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 

LOUIS  ROEDERER  CHAMPAGNE. 

Tlie  Highest  tirade  Champagne  in  the  World. 
CABTB     BLAlfTCHB." 

(WHITE    LABEL) 

A  Magnificent  Rich  Wine. 

'-Q-:e,_A-:r>]":D  vizrsr  sec." 

(brown  label) 

Perfection  of  a  Dry  Wine. 

See  that  every  Bottle  bears  the  private  labelof 

MACONDRAY    &    CO., 
Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 


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8ept    3,  1892. 


BAN  FTUNCI8C0  NEWS  !  Kirn;. 


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PATRIOTISM    IN    THE    SCHOOLS. 

[By  r>t  Vssaovg 

PRE81PENT  K  A.  HYDB  mule  a  hit  at  the  Teacher*'  li.nti.ute 
at  Metropolitan  Hall  laM  Monday.  He  presented  a  stirring 
plea  for  patriotism  in  our  public  schools;  urged  the  teachers  not 
only  to  insist  upon  a  more  reverent  rendering  of  our  patriotic 
songs,  but  to  inspire  it.  In  fact,  his  whole  address  was  along  the 
same  lines  that  have  been  set  forth  at  different  times  in  this 
column  of  the  News  Letter.  With  such  advocates  as  he,  it  will 
not  belong  before  the  school  children's  patriotic  legion,  "The 
Order  of  the  American  Flag"  will  be  organized.  Mr.  Hyde  sug- 
gested that  the  children  should  be  taught  to  honor  the  Hag,  to 
give  it  the  military  salute,  and  to  study  patriotism  more  earnestly, 
more  ardently  than  they  do  any  other  study,  for,  as  he  declared, 
"  the  aim  and  object  of  oar  magnificent  common  school  system  is 
to  make  intelligent,  patriotic  American  citizens."  He  was  fre- 
quently interrupted  by  applause,  and  his  views  won  instant  re- 
cognition from  the  hundreds  of  teachers  present.  "  But  how  are 
we  to  teach  small  children  patriotism  ?  "  asked  one  teacher  of  an- 
other, "particularly  as  it  is  true  that  many  of  our  children  are  of 
foreign  parentage,  and  when  we  begin  to  work  upon  their  minds 
we  do  not  find  any  home  influence  to  aid  us  ?  M  *<  What  shall  we 
do ?  "  said  another;  "  why,  all  that  we  can  do  is  what  some  of  us 
are  doing  now.  Have  the  Hag  saluted  night  and  morning,  a  pa- 
triotic song  sung,  and  the  flag  placed  in  a  conspicuous  position  in 
the  class  room.  In  my  class  it  is  a  privilege  to  be  earned 
only  by  good  behavior,  to  hold  the  flag  at  the  morning  and  even- 
ing exercise,  and  for  some  of  my  boys  there  is  no  worse  punish- 
ment than  to  be  exiled  from  the  room  during  the  patriotic  exer- 
cise. Our  lines  never  marched  in  with  such  stately  step  and  or- 
derly precision  as  they  do  now  that  we  have  a  'color  sargeant,' 
who  holds  the  flag  at  the  right  angle  where  their  line  turns  in  the 
hall."  Now,  if  the  Board  of  Education  really  want  to  give  an  ob- 
ject lesson  in  patriotism,  let  them  buy  a  flag  for  every  class  room 
in  this  city,  and  make  it  a  rule  of  the  8an  Francisco  School  De- 
partment that  that  flag  must  be  saluted  night  and  morning.  The 
children  should  repeat  some  such  declaration  as:  »  We  are  Ameri- 
cans ;  we  give  our  heads  and  our  hearts  to  our  country.  We  have 
one  country,  one  flag,  one  language.  California  is  our  State;  Cali- 
fornia is  the  fairest  State  in  the  Union.  Our  flag  is  there.  Three 
cheers  for  the  red,  white  and  blue — the  last  to  be  sung  as  it  is  in  the 
chorus  of  Columbia  the  Gem  of  the  Ocean.  In  the  morning,  this 
might  be,  as  it  is  in  one  school,  followed  by  "America."  In  the 
January  Scribner  of  this  year  Jacob  Riis's  article  on  the  Poor  of 
New  York,  describes  a  similar  ceremony  in  the  New  York  public 
schools,  and  he  dilates  upon  the  fact  as  a  proof  of  the  patriotism 
of  the  New  York  teachers.  For  over  three  years  one  teacher  at 
least  in  San  Froncisco  has  been  teaching  children  to  respect  and 
honor  the  flag,  to  salute  it  in  the  school-room,  "that  many  an 
eye  may  dance  to  see  that  banner  in  the  sky!"  Some  one  will 
say,  •■  But  this  is  all  clap-trap  and  formalism !  "  Is  it  ?  Children 
must  be  taught,  step  by  step  from  what  they  know  to  what  they  do 
not  know — that  is  the  true  logical  progress  from  the  known  to  the 
unknown.  It  is  not  easy  to  teach  a  child  to  grasp  the  idea  of 
"  Our  country."  Don't  try  to  give  him  too  much  at  once.  Don't 
talk. "  United  States"  to  him,  but  stay  here  in  California; 
talk  about  our  bay,  the  finest  in  the  world;  our  skies,  the  bluest 
in  the  world;  our  fruits,  the  best;  if  necessary,  take  what  is  seen 
in  our  stores;  yes,  talk  even  about  our  markets  and  their  display 
of  fruit,  and  vegetables,  and  fish,  and  fine  meat;  talk  about  the 
fields  of  grain  in  the  country,  the  golden  butter  from  the  dairies; 
the  fruit  orchards,  and  don't  be  afraid  of  using  the  superlative 
clear  through.  Let  it  be  »  we,  us,  and  our  country,"  the  finest, 
the  best;  our  schools  the  best,  our  boys  and  girls  the  brightest; 
develop  the  tense  of  possession — these  blessings  are  all  ours;  we 
can  see  with  our  eyes,  and  make  all  these  ours  again  and  again, 
by  our  enjoyment  of  them.  It  does  not  take  much  of  this  kind 
of  talk  to  make  patriotic  young  Americans.  For  older  scholars, 
the  relationship  of  cities,  States  and  the  Federal  Government  may 
be  briefly  illustrated,  by  the  large  school  itself — the  school-room 
is  a  State,  the  children  the  cities  and  towns,  each  in  his  own 
desk,  with  his  own  belongings,  and  the  entire  school-building, 
with  its  principal  at  the  bead  and  the  classes  under  her  may  be 
said  to  represent  the  United  States. 

Will  the  Board  of  Education  buy  those  flags  and  issue  that 
order  ? 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  G50 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 

Every  housewife  who  wishes  to  have  clean  carpets  and  curtains 
should  remember  that  the  only  place  in  the  city  where  her  material 
can  be  cleaned  to  her  satisfaction,  is  at  the  Carpet  Beating  Machine 
and  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co. ,  at  553-557 
Tehama  street.  The  work  of  this  firm  is  always  first-class  in  every 
particular,  for  which  reason  it  always  has  a  great  patronage. 


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Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


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THEj|appropriation  of  $100  that  was  made  in  Oakland  the 
other  day,  for  the  purpose  of  cleaning  up  Judge  Allen's  court, 
was  effected  for  rather  remarkable  reasons.  To  all  appearances 
the  court  is  clean  and  neat  enough,  and  therefore  there  was  some 
little  surprise  when  the  money  was  asked  for  and  set  aside. 
There  was  a  good  reason,  though,  why  the  subsidy  was  wanted. 
The  office  is  haunted  with  fleas  of  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  high 
and  low  degree,  small,  large,  blue,  black,  and,  in  fact,  a  perfect 
collection.  How  they  ever  got  together  history  sayeth  not,  but 
there  they  are  all  the  same,  and  for  a  long  time  past  the  judicial 
dignity  has  been  much  impaired  thereby.  For  instance,  in  the 
midst  of  an  important  case  it  has  not  been  an  uncommon  sight 
to  see  the  Judge  suddenly  seize  a  long  flat  ruler,  and  inserting  it 
down  his  back,  commence  to  scrape  away  for  dear  life,  while 
meantime  the  attorneys  and  witnesses  delved  into  their  socks 
and  up  their  sleeves  in  a  wild  search  for  the  nimble  blood- 
suckers. 

*  *  • 

There  is  a  new  and  particularly  brilliant  star  on  the  "  foorce," 
and  it  is  unnecessary  to  state  that  he  is  a  Galway  celt.  On  the 
witness  stand  last  week  he  testified  that  in  the  "  vag's  "  pocket 
he  found  a  quantity  of  canine  pills.  In  reply  to  the  Prosecuting 
Attorney's  formal  inquiry,  "  AH  this  took  place  in  the  city  and 
county  of  San  Francisco?"  the  officer  replied:  "No,  sorr,  in 
Chinytown. 

<  «  » 

"The  average  police  officer  at  a  Mills'  meeting  is  not  to  be  out- 
done by  the  average  newspaper  scribe.  The  latter's  reply,  when 
asked  if  he  is  a  Christian,  is  always  ready:  "No — 1  am  a  re- 
porter." The  police  officer,  when  the  collection  is  being  taken 
up,  throws  back  his  coat:  "I'm  an  officer,"  and  the  collectant 
passes  on. 

»  *  # 

All  throughout  the  week  detachments  of  Bohemians  in  "  threes 
and  fours,  and  single  "  have  been  dropping  into  the  Redwood 
Canon,  where  the  Mid-summer  High  Jinks  of  the  Bohemian  Club 
are  to  be  celebrated  this  evening.  And  for  six  weeks  or  more  a 
large  staff  of  workmen  have  been  busy  clearing  off  the  under- 
brush, building  fences,  damming  the  creek  for  a  bathing  pool,  a 
plunge  bath  for  those  whose  brains  are  heated,  and  in  many 
other  ways  making  straight  the  paths,  and  arranging  the  wilder- 
ness, for  the  great  event  of  the  year.  These  men  have  been  un- 
der the  direction  and  personal  supervision  of  Mr.  Fred  M. 
Somers,  the  Sire.  Mr.  Somers,  putting  aside  the  (costume  of  pride 
and  passion,  assumed  the  woodman's  garb,  built  with  his  own 
hands  a  brush  hut,  and  here  he  has  lived  for  the  past  month,  nut 
alone  inventing  and  devising,  but  surveying,  levelling,  handling 
lumber,  and,  by  his  example  and  zeal,  keeping  his  staff  of  assist- 
ants up  to  the  mark.  The  result  has  been  wonderful.  The  sub- 
ject of  the  Jinks  is  the  Bhuddistic  ceremony  of  "  The  Worship  of 
the  Leaves,"  and  therefor  an  imposing  temple  of  Bhudda  has 
been  erected  in  the  forest.  A  statue  of  the  god  nearly  seventy 
feet  high  is  the  work  of  Marion  Wells,  the  sculptor.  The  huge 
idol  looks  most  imposing  towering  among  the  redwoods.  A 
round  table  with  concentric  rings,  with  a  seating  capacity  of  two 
hundred,  is  among  the  many  novel  and  interesting  features  of  the 
furnishing  of  this  Jinks.  The  Presidio  Band  will  accompany  the 
Bohemians,  play  Saturday  night,  and  give  a  Sunday  concert. 
This  will  be  in  addition  to  the  Club's  orchestral  band  of  forty  in- 
struments played  by  the  members  of  the  Club.  The  ceremony  of 
"  The  Worship  of  the  Leaves  "  will  be  most  impressive,  and  will 
be  in  almost  strict  conformity  with  the  Bhuddist  practice.  There 
will  be  a  procession  of  priests  in  flowing  robes,  chants,  prostra- 
tions, and  all  the  formula  as  prescribed  by  the  apostles  of  the 
Oriental  god.  The  woods  will  be  lit  up  by,  without  exaggera- 
tion, thousands  of  lanterns.  The  "  Cremation  of  Care,"  without 
which  no  mid-smmer  jinks  is  complete,  will  be  on  a  grander  scale 
than  ever  before,  and  a  number  of  ingenious  novelties 
have  been  devised  to  make  the  "Low  Jinks"  more  than 
usually  amusing  and  interesting.  The  attendance  this  year  will 
be  larger  than  ever  before,  the  propinquity  of  the  Jink  grounds 
and  the  facility  of  approach,  giving  them  a  large  advantage  over 
the  Bohemian's  old  camping  place  at  Caxadero.  They  will  be 
transported  from  Mill  Valley  to  the  Cafion  over  the  new  road,  a 
most  picturesque  highway  to  the  Canon,  a  distance  somewhat 
less  than  five  miles. 


The  astonishingly  large  amount  of  space  the  newspapers  of 
these  times  devote  to  the  coming  prize-fight  between  John  L. 
Sullivan  and  James  J.  Corbett,  to  the  exclusion  of  almost  every 
other  topic,  recalls  a  situation  somewhat  similar  that  occurred  as 
far  back  as  1860,  and  to  which  was  ascribed  the  defeat  of  the 
national  Democratic  ticket  and  the  success  of  the  Republican 
party,  led  by  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Hannibal  Hamlin,  ft.  was  at 
the  time  that  the  interest  in  the  John  Heenan-Tom  Bayers  fight 
was  at  its  height.  The  men  were  the  champions  of  America  and 
England,  respectively,  in  pugilism,  and  they  were  matched  lo 
fight  on  August  17,  I860,  in  England,  for  the  world's  chmupion- 
ship  and  a  purse  of  £400.  It  was  the  greatest  event  of  the  kind 
that  had  ever  been  on  the  tapis,  and  the  newspapers  were  full  of 
it  for  months  prior  to  the  battle.  It  took  place  and  neither  man 
won,  owing  to  the  crowd  cutting  the  ropes  at  the  critical  mo- 
ment, and  leaving  the  championship  to  be  settled  by  the  news- 
papers and  public  talk,  both  of  which  went  at  it  boldly,  and  kept 
the  interest  up  for  many  more  months.  As  already  stated,  Lin- 
coln and  Hamlin  led  the  Republican  factions  in  the  political 
campaign,  against  Douglas  and  Johnson.  Breckenridge  and  Lane 
represented  the  two  wings  of  the  Democracy,  and  Bell  and 
Everett  the  Union  candidates.  The  Republican  party  won  a 
signal  victory,  and  it  was  stated  at  the  time  that  had  the  Demo- 
cratic organs  devoted  more  space  to  their  party  and  less  to  the 
prize-fight,  the  result  would  have  been  very  different.  If  history 
only  repeats  itself  this  time,  the  fight  between  Sullivan  and  Cor- 
bett will  terminate  in  a  draw. 

#  »  # 

John  Lumng  is  now  cruising  in  Mediterranean  waters  in  his 
yacht,  the  Alert,  a  comfortable  but  slow  boat,  not  at  all  worthy  of 
the  name.  A  pilgrim  recently  from  the  East  reports  that  Mr. 
Luning,  when  he  has  had  a  surfeit  of  Mediterranean  ports,  will 
return  to  San  Francisco  by  the  Isthmus,  and  send  the  Alert  around 
the  Horn.  But  now,  that  the  cholera  is  rampant,  it  is  likely  that 
Captain  Luning  will  avoid  the  other  side,  and  make  baste  back  to 
this  land  of  cool  breezes,  where  the  microbe  cannot  make  much 
headway  against  the  climate. 

#  •  • 

Charles  Rollo  Peters,  when  last  heard  from,  was  in  Brittany, 
hard  at  work  on  his  picture  of  Napoleon.  John  Stanton  inhabits 
a  village  not  quite  two  miles  removed  from  Mr.  Peters.  The 
latter  is  concentrating  all  his  talent  and  industry  on  the  Napoleon 
picture,  which  he  hopes  will  receive  a  place  in  the  next  salon. 

#  »  * 

Major  Nat  Brittan  is  in  Washington,  and  James  L.  Crittenden, 
who  left  this  coast  with  him,  is  in  Baltimore.  Brittan  writes 
that  the  Eastern  people  have  got  the  cholera  scare  bad. 


Some  strange  evenis  occur  at  times,  even  in  the  lives  of  finan- 
ciers, who  are  generally  supposed  to  be  living  models  of  accuracy 
in  everything  pertaining  to  figures.  The  following  story  al.-o 
goes  to  prove  that  a  man  may  have  so  much  money  that  he  really 
does  not  know  the  size  of  the  bank  account.  Some  years  ago 
Morris  Hoeflicb,  one  of  the  shrewdest  speculators  engaged  in  the 
mining  business  on  Pine  street,  could  boast  of  an  accumulation  of 
more  than  $1,000,000  in  gold  coin.  This  was  before  the  celebrated 
Sierra  Nevada  deal,  which  sent  Robert  Sherwood  to  the  top  rung 
of  the  financial  ladder,  and  ruined  the  unfortunate  "  Johnnie  " 
Skae.  Morris  got  caught  in  the  whirlpool  of  disaster  wbicb  fol- 
lowed the  sudden  collapse  in  prices,  and  in  trying  to  assist  Skae, 
his  particular  friend,  he  awoke  one  morning  to  find  himself  ruined, 
without,  as  he  thought,  a  dollar  outside  of  the  small  amount  he 
had  in  his  purse  at  the  time.  Nothing  daunted,  be  started  in  to 
banish  dull  care  for  the  day  at  least,  and  in  company  with  a  couple 
of  friends  drove  to  the  Cliff  for  breakfast.  Before  returning  bis 
bill  amounted  to  over  $100.  Calling  for  a  check,  a  couple  were 
brought  to  him,  one  of  which  he  filled  out  for  the  required  amount; 
the  other  he  put  in  his  pocket.  The  next  morning  he  drew  it  out 
by  accident,  and  was  horrified  to  find  that  it  was  on  the  Bank  of 
Dunahoe,  Kelly  &  Co.  Nonplussed  for  the  moment,  having 
imagined  that  the  check  he  had  issued  was  on  the  Nevada  BanK, 
where  it  would  have  been  protected  before  presentation,  he  finally 
determined  to  await  with  resignation  the  denouement.  Still,  to  ]je 
charged  with  obtaining  money  under  false  pretences  was  not 
pleasant,  and  for  three  days  he  dodged  his  host  at  the  Cliff,  every 
time  he  chanced  lo  see  him  on  the  street.  Finally  he  was  cor- 
nered where  he  could  not  escape,  and  received  a  most  cordial 
greeting.  "You  got  your  money  all  right  the  other  day?" 
queried  Morris,  who  was  on  the  point  of  explanation.  "  Cer- 
tainly, Mr.  Hoeflich,  paid  on  the  nail."  The  reply  rather  stunned 
the  speculator,  but  finally  he  resolved  to  go  down  to  the  bank  and 
find  out  what  it  all  meant.  He  did  so,  and  boldly  demanded  a 
statement  of  account.  When  he  got  it,  what  was  his  surprise  t  j 
find  that  there  was  over  $14,000  to  his  credit.  He  had  made  a 
deposit  there  many  months  before,  and  had  forgotten  all  about  it. 
Poor  Morris!  it  did  him  little  good,  after  all.  No  subsequent 
chances  were  offered  him  to  recuperate  his  shattered  fortune  by 
some  bold  and  lucky  coup.  When  reduced  to  penury,  sooner 
than  accept  relief  from  friends,  who  would  stand  by  him  to  the 
last,  he  decided  to  sever  the  threads  of  fate  which  involved  him, 


/ 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


mnd  penetrate  the   mysteries  of   (he  gre*l  unknown  beyond  the 
grave. 

•  •  • 

Charles  M.  Leopold,  the  florist  and  decorator  at  35  Tost  street, 
is  tbe  most  popular  man  in  the  business  to-day.  simply  because 
he  has  on  hand  tbe  largest  assortment  of  the  choicest  flowers  of 
the  season.  California  is  noted  for  tbe  beauty  of  the  buds  which 
predominate  in  her  fields,  and  that  San  Francisco  receives  the 
choicest  of  tbe  blossoms  of  tbe  State  is  well  Known.  Leopold 
has  for  years  made  it  a  business  to  collect  the  most  beautiful  of 
Flora's  offerings,  and  for  that  reason  he  has  received  tbe  patron- 
age of  tbe  leaders  of  tbe  swim. 

•  •  • 

The  announcement  that  ibe  engagement  between  Miss  Hope 
Ellis  and  Mr.  Cal.  Byrne  is  off.  has  caused  considerable  com- 
ment in  society's  circles  during  the  week.  Both  Mr.  Byrne  and 
Miss  Ellis  are  well  known  and  deservedly  popular  among  hun- 
dreds of  friends,  and  it  was  thought  that  they  had  made  a  match 
and  would  soon  be  married.  The  story  of  the  manner  in  which 
the  estrangement  arose,  and  the  consequent  breaking  off  of  the 
engagement,  is  an  illustration  of  tbe  power  that  society's  customs 
have  upon  the  devotee  of  fashion.  Miss  Ellis  and  Mr.  Byrne  have 
known  each  other  for  some  six  or  seven  years,  during  which  time 
they  have  been  more  or  less  in  each  other's  company. 
Miss  Ellis  is  a  charming  and  beautiful  girl,  and  Mr.  Byrne  is  a 
handsome  man,  and  in  every  way  an  eligible  parti.  That  they 
should  have  high  regard  for  each  other  is  only  natural;  that  they 
fell  in  love  followed.  They  contracted  an  engagement,  which, 
however,  was  kept  secret.  No  differences  arose  between  them 
until  last  week,  during  the  Country  Club  meet  at  Del  Monte. 
Miss  Ellis,  being  a  belle,  was  of  coarse  there,  and  received  much 
attention  from  the  gallants  who  had  gone  to  watch  pigeons  die, 
from  under  the  greenwood  tree.  As  her  engagement  was  supposed 
to  be  unkown,  and  as  she  did  not  announce  it,  the  young  men 
who  gathered  around  her,  of  course  supposed  she  was  fancy  free. 
It  was  on  the  night  of  tbe  ball  that  the  die  was  cast  which  parted 
Miss  Ellis  and  Mr.  Byrne.  He  had  suggested  to  her  that  she,  be- 
ing his  fiancee,  be  more  conservative,  both  in  her  conduct  to- 
wards other  men,  and  also  in  her  dress.  Mr.  Byrne  objected  to 
his  future  wife  allowing  any  one  to  gaze  upon  her  personal 
charms,  even  though  such  might  have  been  displayed  only,  as 
is  customary,  in  a  decollete  ball  dress.  In  short,  he  asked 
Miss  Ellis  not  to  wear  at  the  ball  a  decollete  dress,  to 
which  he  objected.  She  refused  to  comply  with  his  request,  and 
he  returned  to  town  on  the  afternoon  train,  before  the  ball.  It 
was  a  simple  enough  matter  to  part  two  people  who  otherwise 
might  now  be  looking  forward  to  a  happy  married  life.  The 
friends  of  both  Miss  Ellis  and  Mr.  Byrne  greatly  regret  the 
occurrence. 

«  »  # 

Dr.  Horatio  Stebbins,  after  a  long  life  distinguished  by  upright- 
ness, has  acquired  a  difignified  mien  that  cannot  be  excelled  by 
any  minister  or  judge  in  the  municipality.  He  had  a  very  severe 
shock  a  week  ago  last  Sunday  which  quite  overcame  him,  and 
though  bis  dignity  stood  bim  in  good  stead,  he  was  for  the  nonce 
completely  nonplussed.  Dr.  Stebbins  had  been  to  Tiburon  and 
returned  on  a  late  afternoon  boat,  which  also  bore  a  number  of 
German  picnickers,  who  were  making  merry  with  all  the  wild  free- 
dom of  true  disciples  of  Bacchus.  They  had  a  band  with  them 
which  persisted  on  playing  "  Du  bist  vericht"  and  other  classical  se- 
lections on  the  way  over  the  bay  uutil,  when  this  side  was  reached, 
the  very  air  had  a  German  tint.  When  the  steamer  tied  up  at  the 
slip,  the  Germans,  arm  in  arm,  marched  off  the  boat.  The  band 
preceded  them,  and  took  station  on  the  wharf,  juat  in  front  of 
the  "apron."  The  musicians  were  evidently  waiting  for  some- 
one. Dr.  Stebbins,  who  had  waited  until  the  somewhat  riotous 
singers  had  all  left  the  boat,  presently  walked  solemnly  down 
the  deck  toward  the  wharf.  The  band  leader  saw  him;  he 
signaled  his  men,  and  in  a  moment,  much  to  the  consternation  of 
the  minister,  there  resounded  through  the  air  the  familiar  strains 
of  that  good  old  tune,  "  Ta-ra-ra,  boom  de  ray."  The  band 
waited  for  Dr.  Stebbins,  and  just  before  he  reached  them  the 
musicians  wheeled  into  line  in  front  of  him,  and  marched  up  the 
wharf  playing  that  same  tune.  He  has  not  recovered  from  his 
astonishment  yet. 


THE  watermelon  party,  yesterday,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  H. 
Bendel,  Alice  street,  Oakland,  was  a  charming  affair.  A  host  of 
young  Athenians  assembled,  and  the  merry-making  was  continued 
to  a  late  hour.  f  __^_ 


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BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


IT  waa  very  trying  to  the  middle-aged  ladies  facing  the  broad 
daylight  "  under  the  greenwood  tree,"  as  no  matter  how  co- 
quettish the  veil  worn,  it  had  to  be  lifted  at  luncheon,  and  there 
is  no  place  on  a  woman's  face  which  so  betrays  the  touch  of 
Time's  fingers  as  round  the  mouth  and  under  the  chin. 

*  #  * 

Mrs.  Atvord  and  Mrs.  M.  B.  M.  Toland  were  among  the  dow- 
agers who  took  an  undisguised  interest  in  the  match,  and  the 
success  of  their  favorite  color. 

When  the  non-appearance  of  the  young  couple,  the  Count  and 
Countess  Festetics,  at  the  festive  sboot  continued,  the  guests 
thought  they  had  been  given  the  "go-by."  But  when  the  tele- 
grams from  town  came  to  make  inquiries  of  the  missing  pair, 
sympathy  was  universal  for  the  Haggin  family,  every  one  joining 
in  the  fear  that  misfortune  had  overtaken  tbe  yacht,  on  which 
the  Count  and  his  wife  had  started  for  Monterey  several  days 
previously,  and  many  were  the  messages  of  congratulations  sent 
when  their  safety  became  known. 

*  »  * 

Probably  no  more  attractive  ladies  can  be  found  in  our  swim 
than  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  and  her  daughter.  Mrs.  Haggin  is  so 
youthful,  she  could  well  pass  as  the  sieter  of  the  young  countess, 
and  is  a  striking  contrast  to  her  in  appearance,  the  mother  being 
large,  fair,  blue-eyed,  and  crowned  with  magnificent  auburn  hair; 
the  daughter  small,  slender  and  dark,  inberiting  the  flashing  black 
eyes  and  olive  complexion  of  her  father's  family.  Each  are 
handsome  in  their  own  style,  and  both  of  them  attractive. 

*  *  * 

Among  tbe  season's  buds  will  be  the  Misses  Carolan,  Hager  and 
Jolliffe,  younger  sisters  of  three  of  our  prominent  belles. 
«  *  * 

A  marked  feature  of  the  season  will  be  the  number  of  pretty 
young  married  women  in  their  first  winter  as  matrons.  Of  these 
will  be  Mesdames  George  Pope,  nee  Taylor;  Dan  Murphy,  nee 
Pope:  Frank  Carolan,  nee   Pullman,  and   Countess  Festitics,  nee 

Haggin,  a  charming  quartette. 

*  *  * 

The  friends  of  the  Fred.  Sharons  are  using  every  endeavor  to 
persuade  this  lively  and  popular  couple  to  remain  on  the  Coast 
during  the  winter.  But  rumor  says  Mrs.  Fred-  finds  Gotham 
more  congenial  in  the  winter  than  even  Paris.  No  doubt  iheir 
early  departure  thence,  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Henry  Janin,  will 
be  "  on  the  cards  "  soon  after  their  return  from  Monterey. 
»  *  * 

Rev.  A  C.  Bane,  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Church,  south  of  Oak- 
land, has  had  a  weeding  out  in  his  congregation.  Mr.  Bane  is  a 
strict  disciplinarian,  and  tbe  consequence  is  that  nine  of  the 
wealthiest  families  have  withdrawn  their  membership.  Among 
them  are  the  Prathers,  Thompsons,  Grahams,  Jacobs,  Prices  and 
Richardsons.  The  rocks  upon  which  the  church  split  were 
theatre- .^oing,  dancing,  horse-racing,  dealing  in  lottery  tickets  and 
jewe'ery  wearing.  As  a  result  of  the  objections  to  these  "  sins," 
no  more  carriages  are  seen  on  Sabbath  morning  standing  in  front 
of  Dr.  Bane's  church ;  no  rustle  of  silks  and  flashes  of  diamonds  in 
tbe  congregation  any  longer  offend  him.  He  says  that  be  is  en- 
joying perfect  peace  within,  and  will  not  condone  sin  in  any 
s-hape  in  his  church,  even  though  his  salary  is  so  reduced  that  be 
will  have  to  earn  his  daily  bread  by  the  sweat  of  his  brow. 

So  Grace  Stewart  Lynch,  wife  of  Editor  Joe  Lynch  of  the  Los 
Angeles  Herald,  has  taken  to  the  stage,  according  to  the  press  dis- 
patches of  Wednesday  morning  last.  Her  inclinations  have  been 
that  way  for  many  a  year  past,  and  during  her  brief  residence 
with  her  husband  in  Los  Angeles,  she  was  much  wrapped  up  in 
matters  theatrical,  and  contributed  criticisms  to  the  Herald  that 
showed  her  to  be  a  writer  of  much  talent — an  article  she  wrote  on 
Modjeska  being  favorably  commented  on  all  over  the  coast  at  the 
time  of  its  production.  Her  marriage  with  Joe  Lynch  was  quite 
a  surprise.  They  are  cousins,  and  Joe  was  visiting  her  father, 
Col.  Stewart,  at  St.  Louis  at  the  time  of  the  last  Presidential  cam- 
paign. One  day  came  the  sudden  announcement  of  the  engage- 
ment, followed  quickly  by  the  marriage,  and  the  shock  was  a 
great  startler  in  Los  Angeles,  for  Joe  had  apparently  been  a  con- 
firmed bachelor.  Then  again,  he  was  at  the  fifty  notch  of  life, 
and  bis  bride  but  a  child  of  sixteen  or  so.  They  never  lived  very 
much  together,  for  after  their  arrival  in  California  she  went  to 
school  in  this  city  to  complete  her  education,  while  her  husband 
returned  to  grind  away  at  bis  editorial  desk  on  the  Herald  Later 
on  she  went  back  to  her  father's  home  in  St.  Louis,  and  Joe  fol- 
lowed her  and  induced  her  to  return  to  California.  She  did  not, 
however,  stay  long  with  him,  and  once  again  she  departed 
to  St.  Louis  and  in  the  course  of  time  the  news 
of  the  separation  leaked  out.  The  disparity  not  only  in  the  age 
but  in  the  appearance  of  Joe  and  his  wife  often  led  to  funny  com- 
plications, for  she   is  a  petite,   girlish-looking  woman,  while  he  is 


globular  in  the  extreme.  On  one  occasion  when  she  called  for 
him  at  the  Arcadia  Hotel,  Santa  Monica,  the  boy  entered  the  room 
where  Joe  was  sitting  with  a  party  of  friends,  and  announced 
solemnly:  ''Your  daughter  is  downstairs   and  wants  to  see  you, 

sir." 

It  is  a  matter  of  wonderment  that  so  few  engagements  occur 
between  the  members  of  a  social  click,  the  men,  as  a  rule,  going 
outside  to  find  their  wives.  A  case  in  point  is  that  of  James  Ir- 
vine, recently  united  to  Miss  Plum,  and  Arthur  Barnard,  who 
will  on  Monday  become  the  husbaDd  of  Miss  Currier.  These  two 
youths  once  belonged  to  a  dancing  society  called  the  Nemo  Club, 
whose  parties  were  held  at  Union  Square  Hall,  Both  were  among 
the  favored  beau  of  the  set,  possibly  because  their  smiles  were  so 
difficult  to  secure.  Barnard's  heart  was  not,  like  Irvine's,  entirely 
unimpregnable  to  the  attractions  of  the  fair  waltzers,  and  he  finally 
bestowed  serious  attentions  upon  one,  a  High  School  girl  and  a 
relative  of  a  prominent  city  official.  Their  engagement  was  an- 
nounced. It  proved,  however,  but  an  ephemeral  affair,  soon  being 
dissolved,  and  one  party  to  that  transaction  has  linked  his  for- 
tunes to  another. 

•  •  * 

If  "  Thrice  a  bridesmaid,  never  a  bride  "  might  be  changed  so  as 
to  read  "Thrice  an  usher,  never  a  groom,"  Charles  P.  Fonda 
might  well  beware.  This  bright  youth,  who  wins  medals  as  a  cyc- 
list and  evolves  carved  hat-racke  and  fancy  work  from  his  own 
ingenuity  for  his  friends'  benefit,  officiated  as  usher  at  the  Cusheon- 
Mullin  wedding  last  week.  Those  who  know  him,  and  have 
seen  him  act  in  this  capacity  at  many  preceding  affairs  of  a  ma- 
trimonial nature,  inwardly  shuddered,  remembering  the  applica- 
tion of  the  popular  saying  to  his  case.  Their  fears  may  prove 
groundless,  for  rumor  says  Mr.  Fonda  will  shortly  lead  to  the 
altar  the  maiden  of  his  choice. 

To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contem- 
plating a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the  Union  Pacific.  It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
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&9*Y0U   SHOULD    SMOKE   THEM. 


/ 


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BAM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


IN    THE    WINTERGREEN    PATCH.-O.Wo.  Stollard.  .»  TV 

One  morning,  ere  apringtlme  was  yet  on  the  wane. 
While  the  opals  of  dew  gemmed  the  gra»»  In  the  lane. 
Where  the  woodland  was  weaving  its  sheltering  thatch. 
I  found,  as  I  strayed,  a  tine  wintergreen  patch. 
And  there  was  a  maid,  in  no  6nery  tricked. 
Whose  lips  were  as  red  as  the  berries  she  picked. 
Whose  eyes  had  more  blue  than  the  lupine  could  hold, 
And  whose  hair  had  the  glint  of  the  buttercup's  gold. 
She  smiled,  and  my  feet,  as  if  spellbound,  must  stop. 
While  my  foolish  old  heart  seemed  to  buzz  like  a  top; 
She  spoke,  and  the  words,  as  they  fell  from  her  tongue, 
Had  more  charm  than  the  song  that  the  hermit-thrush  sung. 
Her  bands  were  so  slender,  her  fingers  so  white. 
To  watch  their  swift  play  was  a  dream  of  delight. 
Who  can  foil  Madame  Fate?    There  was  naught  could  avail; 
I  was  tranced  by  each  berry  that  dropped  in  the  pail. 
There'll  be  wedding  bells  soon,  and  the  fair  bride  will  wear 
.    Some  wintergreen  sprays  in  the  coils  of  her  hair; 

And  the  berries  that  shine  on  her  sweet  lips  will  match 
The  reddest  she  plucked  in  the  wintergreen  patch. 


AN    OAKLAND    ROMANCE. 


ONE  of  the  choicest  romances  in  the  history  of  the  City  of 
Scandal  and  Churches  ac  oss  the  bay,  has  just  been  enacted, 
and  so  quietly  has  everything  been  done  that  outside  of  the  few 
who  were  directly  wrapped  up  in  the  affair,  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
not  half  a  dozen  Oaklanders  know  of  it.  The  dramatis  personae 
were  four  or  five  people  socially  well  known,  the  "  leading  lady  " 
being  Mrs.  William  Watson,  and  the  juvenile  hero  her  husband, 
the  wealthy  wholesale  liquor  man.  There  is  a  prologue  to  the 
play,  too,  so  the  best  thing  to  do  is  to  start  at  the  beginning:  Mrs. 
Watson  was  formerly  a  servant  girl  in  the  liquor  man's  house- 
hold, and  a  few  years  ago,  on  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  he 
married  her  and  took  her  several  rungs  up  the  ladder  of  prosperi- 
ty. The  newly-mated  couple  took  rooms  in  an  up-town  hotel, 
and  all  went  serenely  with  them  for  quite  a  while.  One  day, 
however,  a  domestic  storm  came  up,  with  all  the  suddenness  of  a 
Texas  norther,  and  broke  in  snch  bad  style  that  it  left  the  establish- 
ment somewhat  wrecked.  It  was  all  on  account  of  the  fact  that  the 
liquor  man  wanted  to  go  to  housekeeping.  He  offered  to  put  up 
an  establishment  in  fine  style,  with  servants,  carriage,  and  all 
the  other  appurtenances  of  luxury,  but  his  yearning  for  a  home 
was  not  to  be  fulfilled,  for  Mrs.  Watson  refused  point  blank  to 
accede  to  such  a  change.  The  husband  worried  a  good  deal  about 
this  remarkable  stand  on  her  part,  and  in  figuring  the  matter  over 
he  made  a  startling  discovery.  For,  it  is  said,  a  friend  told  him  a 
tale  that  made  his  hair  stand  on  end.  It  was  that  Mrs.  Watson, 
in  company  with  the  wife  of  a  county  official,  and  a  well-known 
divorced  beauty,  was  in  the  habit  of  making  periodic  trips  across 
the  bay,  where  they  would  be  joined  by  male  friends.  Then 
lively  times  would  ensue. 

Directly  this  information  was  imparted  to  Mr.  Watson ,  he  started 
to  act.  He  employed  detectives,  and  altogether  spent  $2,000  dig- 
ging up  evidence  regarding  his  wife's  conduct.  She  had  gone  for 
a  trip  to  Denver  by  this  time,  and  three  weeks  ago  he  set  out 
there  after  her,  but  she  dodged  him,  having  been  apprised  by 
friends  over  the  wire  that  the  storm  was  about  to  buret.  He, 
however,  finally  caught  her  on  a  train,  but  she  evaded  him  again 
by  going  Into  the  ladies'  room  and  positively  refusing  to  come 
out.  At  last,  though,  she  came  back  to  Oakland,  and  on  her  ar- 
rival announced  that  she  was  determined  to  contest  her  husband's 
charges.  Here  was  a  pretty  state  of  things,  for  the  other  ladies 
and  gentlemen  involved  saw  a  tremendous  expose  ahead  for 
them  that  would  out-Herod  by  a  long  shot  the  famous  Pratt  case. 
One  of  the  ladies  immediately  fled  for  the  East,  but  the  rest  of  the 
party,  aided  by  a  well-known  social  star  of  Sacramento,  who  had 
been  one  of  the  merrymakers,  pleaded  with  Mrs.  Watson  so  hard, 
that  at  last,  to  save  them,  she  decided  to  keep  quiet.  An  arrange- 
ment was  made  with  her  husband,  by  which  she  was  to  receive 
$60  a  month  for  life;  the  divorce  case  was  brought  before  Judge 
Greene,  in  Oakland,  last  Monday  night  at  nine  o'clock,  and  he 
heard  the  evidence  behind  closed  doors,  and  then  declared  a 
decree  nisi,  and  on  the  following  evening  Mrs.  Watson  left  for  the 
East.  It  is  said  that  a  certain  well-known  Oaklander  left  about 
the  same  time  for  Denver. 

Laundry  Farm  is  the  prettiest  picnic  ground  within  easy  reach  of 
the  city.  It  is  visited  every  week  by  thousands  of  people,  who 
greatly  enjoy  the  short  run  into  the  country,  and  find  there  one  of 
the  most  enjoyable  pleasure  grounds  in  the  vicinity  of  San  Francisco. 
It  is  only  forty  minutes  from  Oakland,  and  an  hour  and  fifteen  min- 
utes from  this  city. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  is  well  known  as  the  most 
popular  gentlemen's  furnisher  in  the  city.  He  receives  the  best  of 
patronage.  ^ 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


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14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


THE  Oomstock  market  has  shown  signs  of  returning  activity 
during  the  week,  and  while  the  advance  in  price  has  not  been 
pronounced  in  every  instance,  still,  the  movement  is  satisfactory, 
showing,  as  it  does,  that  there  is  still  some  life  left  in  the  business. 
Activity  in  the  different  stocks  will  also  have  a  beneficialeffect  in 
bringing  back  a  number  of  old-time  dealers  to  the  street,  and  in 
attracting  the  outside  public,  which  has  practically  ignored  the 
Exchange  for  some  time  past.  Hale  &  Norcross  dropped  down 
early  in  the  week,  giving  way  to  Sierra  Nevada,  which  made  quite 
an  advance  on  the  strength  of  an  improvement  in  the  mine. 
Some  time  ago  work  commenced  in  the  west  county  in  this  loca- 
tion, where  a  small  stringer  of  gold  ore  was  cut.  This  was  fol- 
lowed in  through  a  drift  from  the  old  Kenosha  tunnel,  with  the 
result  that  forty  feet  of  a  ledge  has  been  cut,  carrying  free  gold  in 
the  same  lively  kind  of  quartz  from  which  the  dividends  were 
paid  in  years  gone  bye.  The  balance  of  the  Comstock  mines  are 
looking  much  better  than  the  manipulations  would  make  out,  and 
some  very  important  developments  have  been  made  in  several  of 
them.  There  has  been  a  decided  improvement  in  Con-Cal-Vir- 
ginia,  outside  of  what  is  known  as  the  regular  ledge, 
and  great  hopes  are  expressed  for  the  future,  when 
cross-cutting  begins  in  this  direction.  The  condition  of  Savage 
does  not  warrant  the  heavy  sales  of  stock  by  certain  inside 
manipulators,  and  it  is  certain  that  they  are  not  getting  as  much 
as  they  paid  for  it  at  present  prices.  Belcher  is  reported  looking 
well  on  the  400-level,  and  at  the  Bouth-end  Justice  is  again  ex- 
tracting ore  preparatory  to  starting  up  the  mill.  A  few  more  up- 
ward turns  in  the  market,  and  there  will  be  little  talk  of  selling 
the  Exchange  building.  This  bluff  has  worked  very  well  in 
scaring  weak  holders  out  of  their  stock,  but  the  suggestion  was 
only  part  and  parcel  of  the  bear  tactics,  which  have  been  brought 
into  play  for  some  months  past.  It  is  noticeable  just  now  that 
when  the  manipulators  raise  stocks  a  little  in  the  process  of  gath- 
ering them  in,  the  first  attempt  of  any  outside  dealers  to  take 
hold  is  the  signal  for  an  immediate  cut  in  prices. 
$  $  $ 

THE  depreciation  in  silver  is  exciting  considerable  alarm  in  In- 
dia, followed,  as  it  naturally  has  been,  by  a  serious  fall  in  ex- 
change. This  can  hardly  be  wondered  at  when  it  is  remembered 
that  the  importing  merchants  of  that  country  buy  for  gold  and 
sell  for  silver.  Government  officials  and  others  who  have  re- 
mittances to  make  to  England  are  also  heavy  sufferers,  with  the 
government  itself  in  the  worst  predicament  of  all.  It  is  stated 
that  the  loss  to  the  latter  alone,  on  paying  sterling  obligations  in 
England,  may  be  reckoned  at  Rs.  80,000,000,  or  $400,000,000, 
since  the  commencement  of  the  depression  in  1873.  The  London 
Financial  News,  in  an  able  article  reviewing  the  situation,  says  : 
"  For  ibe  five  olhcial  years  ended  March  30th,  1876,  the  average 
rate  obtained  by  the  Secretary  for  India  in  respect  to  council 
bills,  was  Is.  10-36d  per  rupee,  and  the  loss  to  the  government  by 
exchange  in  those  five  years  was  £4,395,560.  During  the  next 
five  years  the  loss  was  $12,865,767,  and  for  the  five  years  ended 
March,  1886,  it  was  £17,886,533.  But  in  1886  the  average  rate 
was  no  lower  than  Is.  6Jd.,  whereas  to  day  the  rate  is  Is.  2$d.; 
so  that  even  if  the  estimate  of  eighty  millions  of  rupees  be  exag- 
gerated, it  is  still  obvious  enough  that  a  colossal  loss  has  been 
sustained  by  the  government." 

t?  S 

THE  matter  is  considered  of  such  vital  urgency  in  the  view  of 
Indian  experts,  that  the  Government  has  been  implored  not  to 
wait  for  the  issue  of  the  International  Monetary  Conference,  but 
to  proceed  forthwith  to  close  the  Indian  mints,  and  thereby  stop 
any  further  importations  of  bar  silver.  Others  go  still  further, 
and  say  that  there  must  also  be  either  a  nominal  gold  standard, 
regulating  the  price  of  the  rupee,  or  a  gold  standard  with  an  actual 
gold  currency,  as  in  England.  In  the  Dutch  East  Indies  the 
mints  have  already  been  closed,  with  the  effect  of  stopping  the 
introduction  of  foreign  bar  silver.  In  the  Straits  settlement 
Mexican  dollars  are  used  altogether,  although  under  English  rule. 
If  the  Indian  Government  follows  the  suggestion,  it  will  not  tend 
to  improve  the  market  for  the  American  product,  which  has  been 
largely  used  by  the  British  manufacturer  in  payment  for  his  goods 
shipped  to  the  East.  The  price  has  fallen  now  to  an  extent 
which  threatens  to  close  down  all  the  heavier  producing  mines 
on  this  continent,  and  if  the  decline  continues  there  will  be  little 
left  for  mine  owners  generally  but  to  suspend  operations  until 
after  the  International  Conference,  which  may  afford  some  relief. 
Viewed  in  any  light,  the  prospect  for  any  immediate  advance  in 
the  silver  market  is  anything  but  bright  just  now. 
\X  9 

SPECIMENS  of  so-called  mock  gold  from  Nevada  have  recently 
been  examined  by  Professor  Henry  G.  Hanks,  who  states  that 
at  first  sight  the  mineral  would  seem  to  be  a  ferruginous  rock 
very  rich  in  visible  gold,  but  that  there  is  an  indescribable  differ- 
ence in  the  appearance  of  the  yellow   substance  which  leads  the 


experienced  miner  to  distrust  his  first  impression.  Professor 
Hanks  also  reports  that  a  discovery  was  lately  made  in  a  cave  in 
Iron  Mountain,  Shasta  County,  of  a  stalactitic  and  stalagmitic 
limonite  having  a  copper-colored  metallic  tarnish;  but,  although 
copper  red  predominates,  small  points  and  minute  areas  of  the 
bright  gold-colored  mineral  under  consideration  may  be  plainly 
seen  under  the  microscope.  Some  twenty-six  years  ago,  again,  a 
mock  gold  find  caused  considerable  excitement,  followed  by  dis- 
appointment, in  Owen's  Valley,  Inyo  Connty.  A  new  district 
was  discovered  with  rich  gold  quartz  veins.  When  a  portion  of 
the  vein  matter  was  pulverized  and  washed  the  prospect  was 
unusually  large;  a  considerable  portion  was  really  gold,  but  the 
greater  part  was  a  heavy  yellow  mineral  which  would  not  wash 
away,  and  yet  refused  to  amalgamate.  It  was  some  time  before 
the  miners  would  believe  that  it  was  not  gold  in  some  peculiar 
condition.  A  blowpipe  examination  which  was  made  of  it  at 
the  time  showed  it  to  be  a  lead  mineral  probably  wulfenite  or 
native  lead  molybdate. 

SSI 

THERE  seems  to  be  a  little  better  inquiry  for  California  mines 
just  now.  Experts  are  moving  around  through  the  country 
pretty  freely,  but  so  far  the°e  labors  have  not  met  with  much 
money  in  their  pockets.  Some  good  prospects  are  reported  from 
Shasta  county,  the  ore  in  some  of  them  running  very  high  grade. 
One  well-known  expert  horned  out  some  rock  last  week  from  a 
mine  near  Redding,  which  ran  over  $2,000  to  the  ton.  Even 
with  such  a  rich  bait,  it  would  be  difficult  to  hook  any  of  our 
local  magnates  in  a  mining  transaction.  A  bird  in  the  hand  is 
worth  two  in  the  bush  with  them,  and  they  are  taking  no  chances 
on  the  future.  Any  demand  which  exists  comes  from  outside 
sources,  where  men  with  money  are  always  ready  to  back  any 
meritorious  proposition  which  is  presented  to  them.  It  is  only 
waste  of  time  hawking  mining  properties  around  in  this  city,  and 
men  engaged  in  the  business  who  have  not  learned  the  fact  by 
experience  in  the  past,  will  only  have  their  trouble  for  their 
pains.  They  can  get  plenty  of  encouragement  in  their  good 
work  tending  to  build  up  the  country,  but  the  necessary  finances 
will  have  to  be  obtained  elsewhere.  This  is  a  town  where  mining 
speculation  ranks  far  above  the  legitimate  development  of  a 
mine.  The  returns,  while  sorer  in  the  latter  instance,  are  not  so 
quick. 

SSS 

THE  latest  reports  from  the  Temescal  tin  mines  is  not  encour- 
aging. The  ore,  it  is  said,  is  low-grade,  and  the  output  of 
casiterite  is  barely  sufficient  to  keep  the  furnace  running 
more  tban  five  or  six  days  each  month.  A  ledge  has 
been  cut  below  the  350  level,  but  it  is  very  much  the  same  as 
those  recently  stoped  above,  principally  iron,  with  traces  of  tin. 
From  all  accounts,  the  report  published  some  time  ago  of  the 
condition  of  the  mine  is  substantially  correct,  and  the  outlook  for 
the  future  is  anything  but  promising.  The  British  manufacturers 
will  scarcely  regret  the  fact  that  the  Temescal  mine  is  virtually  a 
failure,  while  at  the  same  time  the  Harney  Peak  concern  is  inac- 
tive, with  the  chances  against  its  turning  out  a  bonanza.  Those 
who  use  the  metal  in  this  country  will  doubtless  in  turn  feel 
grateful  to  the  party  which  fixed  a  heavy  duty  on  the  imported 
article,  before  being  certain  that  the  home  production  would  be 
sufficient  to  meet  the  demand. 

S$* 

THE  Holmes  mine,  at  Candelaria  has  not  been  started  up  yet, 
although  everything  is  in  readiness  to  do  so  when  orders  are 
received  from  London.  Colonel  D.  H.  Jackson,  the  superintend- 
ent, is  still  confined  to  his  bed,  but  hfs  physician  is  in  hopes  that 
the  crisis  has  been  passed,  and  that  he  is  now  on  the  fair  way  to 
recovery.  The  Mount  Diablo  mill  is  running  to  its  full  capacity, 
and  the  ore  is  keeping  up  to  a  grade  which  insures  a  small  profit. 
In  the  other  outside  camps  there  is  little  activity,  though  some 
ore  is  being  taken  out  and  milled,  both  at  Bodie  and  in  Tuscarora. 
The  times  are  not  propitious  for  any  excitement  in  a  silver  camp, 
and  those  that  can  run  along  through  the  prevailing  dullness  in 
the  bullion  market  are  doing  very  well. 

ss  s 

LOCAL  stocks  are  firm  and  active  under  a  good  demand.  The 
leading  brokers  are  kept  busy  with  orders  coming  in  from  all 
over  the  country.  Money  must  be  plentiful,  judging  from  the 
tone  of  some  of  these  missives.  One  of  the  brokers  a  few  days 
ago  received  a  dispatch  from  a  client  in  the  interior,  asking  him 
to  invest  quite  a  large  amount  of  money  for  him,  leaving  the  se- 
lection of  the  security  to  his  best  judgment.  This  is  better  tban 
laying  it  up  in  a  savings  bank.  There  is  again  some  talk  of  a 
new  powder  combine. 

s  SS 

THE  balance  sheet  of  the  Palmarejo  Mining  Company  of  Mex- 
ico for  the  year  1891,  shows  a  total  debit  to  profit  and  loss  of 
$423,185.  The  shareholders  must  have  plenty  of  grit  to  maintain 
their  grip  on  the  stock  under  such  unfavorable  circumstances. 

sss 

J.  W.  GORDON,  a  well-known  mining  man  of  London,  Eng- 
land, is  in  town.  He  will  take  advantage  of  the  opportun- 
ity afforded  during  his  stay  here  to  post  himself  on  the  general 
condition  of  the  industry  on  this  coast. 


•HeariheOrter:-*  "What  the  devil  artthouT 
'  One  that  will  pIbt  the  «1eril.ilr.  with  you." 


ur\H.  cruel,  cruel  gunners, 
U         To  shool  those  doves,"  cried  she; 
And  then  she  bent  and  calmly  slew 
A  flea  upon  her  knee. 
"How  could  those  heartless  women 
Smile  on  and  see  them  die?" 
Then  on  her  forehead  fair  she  mashed 
A   saucy  little  fly. 
"  Poor  little  doves;  sweet,  pretty  things, 
1  love  to  hear  them  coo," 
And  then,  with  tearful  eyes,  she  squashed 
A  beetle  'neath  her  shoe. 

»  How  pleasant  sounds  their  soothing  notes 
At  eve  upon  the  heath," 
One  twirl  of  the  whiak-broom  saw 
A  spider  clubbed  to  death. 

"  Ah  Fong,  here  take  the  little  axe," 

The  tearful  lady  said; 
"  And  when  you've  caught  yon  pullet,  please 

Chop  off  his  little  head." 
"  And  Charley,  get  your  fishing  rod, 

Be  qnick,  lad,  hurry  out; 
For  mother  dines  with  us  to-day, 

And  she  loves  speckled  trout." 
Then  Ah  Fong  chopped  the  chicken's  bead,. 

And  Charley  stuck  a  worm 
Upon  the  keen  hook's  cruel  barb, 

And  smiled  to  see  it  squirm. 
And  the  kind  lady  of  the  house 

Walked  to  her  dressing-room, 
And  donned  a  handsome  hat  which  bore 

A  murdered  song  bird's  plume. 
The  jacket  which  this  lady  wore 

Was  made  of  softest  fur; 
Two  dozen  seals  their  lives  laid  down 

For  luxury  for  her. 

The  gloves  which  on  har  shapely  hands. 

Their  snowy  whiteness  hid, 
Were  evidence  of  bloody  work — 

The  slaughter  of  a  kid. 
And  when  she  sat  her  down  to  dine,. 

And  smiled  upon  her  guest, 
•   A  dozen  lives  were  sacrificed 

To  make  that  single  feast. 
A  poor  ox  gave  his  tail  and  shin, 

A  pretty  lamb  his  leg, 
A  pullet  suffered  by  the  axe, 

Ere  she  had  laid  an  egg. 
Eight  speckled  trout,  which  yestereve 

Were  blithe  as  any  fish, 
Now  crisp  and  lifeless  were  laid  out 

On  a  hand-painted  dish. 
But  still  the  kindly  lady  raved 

About  those  cruel  men, 
Who  shot  poor  doves,  and  tribute  paid 

To  great  King  Bosh  again. 

THE  British  lord,  Viscount  Villiers,  who  departed  heoceera1  the 
last  steamer,  was  an  exception  to  his  class  in  eswapiimg  the 
clutches  of  the  "  bloods."  He  had  been  forewarned,  and  though 
many  attempts  were  made  to  capture  him,  Villiera  eluded  his 
pursuers  and  went  his  way  unmolested.  Driven  to,  desperation 
by  the  stolidity  of  the  lordling,  two  club  men,  w'ao  had  sworn 
dead  or  alive  to  land  the  Viscount  in  their  club,  picked  up  Johnny 
Murphy,  the  pugilist,  who  has  an  abiding  dread  o»f  the  aspirate, 
and  introduced  him  to  an  eager  and  expectant  crowd  as  Viscount 
Villiers.  Johnny  had  on  a  very  flash  shirt  and  a.  very  red  neck- 
tie, but  to  those  young  gentlemen  who  have  but  hearsay  know- 
ledge of  the  English  nobility,  he  passed  as  the  true  coin.  And 
then  they  opened  wine  for  him,  until  the  cellars  of  the  Pacifier 
Union  began  to  gape  with  emptiness.  They  -were  anxious  for 
tidings  about  the  Prince  of  Wales,  and  listened  with  breathless 
attention  while  the  ingenious  Johnny  discoursed  of  Connie  Gil- 
christ, the  h'Earl  of  h'Orkney,  and  the  Duke  of  Beaufort.  They 
"  milorded"  him  until  the  bruiser  began  to  believe  that  a  current 
of  blue  blood  really  coursed  through  his  plebeian  veins,  and  that 
he  was  indeed  a  Viscount,  every  inch  of  him.  It  was  a  cruel  joke, 
but  the  dose  may  prove  a  salutary  one,  for  the  wine-cardB  were 
numerous,  and  the  end  of  the  month  had  come.  Pockets  are 
more  sensitive  than  consciences,  these  timeft. 


i 


THIS  week  WM  distinguished  by  Ihe  formation  ol  a  new  and 
timely  organization- the  Cholera  Olob.  The  membership  Is 
United  to  htly,  and  the  qualifications,  the  ability  and  dlapi 
to  do  battle  with  this  dreadful  plague.  The  medical  stair  ..(  the 
Cholera  Club  has  published  a  manifesto,  warning  the  members 
that  tbey  cannot  be  loo  careful  about  their  habits  of  temperance. 
K°es  «n  '°  say  that  nothing  out  oranoy,  taiten  early  and  often, 
will  baffle  this  fearful  epidemic.  Cholera  is  induced  by  plain 
feeding,  pies,  fresh  fruit,  and.  above  all,  ice  cream  soda.  Tea  and 
coffee  are  bad.  Those  who  feed  on  buns,  doughnuts  and  other 
deleterious  solids,  washed  down  by  the  juice  of  the  Arabian  berry, 
take  their  life  in  their  bands.  They  expose  themselves  to  awful 
risks.  They  bad  better  prepare  to  go  to  the  silent  grave,  for 
such  a  dietary  is  a  cordial  invitation  to  cholera  to  come  and  make 
itself  at  home.  Now  the  Cholera  Club  eschews  all  these  things 
Science  has  demonstrated  that  long  draughts  of  malt  whisky, 
great  goblets  of  brandy,  colossal  tankards  of  ale  are  the  only 
safeguard  against  this  malignant  disease.  Rich  food  must  be  in- 
dulged in  freely.  French  dinners  are  heartily  recommended  by 
the  medical  advisers,  and  suppers  of  deviled  kidneys  and  Welsh 
rarebits  meet  their  approval.  But  brandy  is  given  the  preference 
over  all  other  liquors.  A  certain  amount  of  training  is  necessary 
for  this  regime,  hence  some  of  the  younger  members  of  the  club 
have  already  begun  to  make  their  heads.  This  is  going  to  be  a 
terrible  visitation  to  the  total  abstainers.  It  is  the  one  chance  in 
life  for  the  deacons  of  the  church  to  contract  an  anti-cholera  jag, 
and  hold  on  to  it  for  the  rest  of  the  year.  The  tongue  of  scandal 
will  be  silenced.  No  man  can  be  blamed  for  endeavoring  to  pre- 
serve his  life,  even  at  the  risk  of  his  reputation. 

ONE  of  the  most  fascinating  club  men  in  town,  who  has  a  great 
big  weakness  for  the  fair  sex,  and  who  delights  in  copying 
sentimental  verses  into  their  albums,  met  with  a  blood-curdling 
check  the  other  day.  He  was  seated  beside  a  lovely  girl,  who 
lent  a  corally  and  attentive  ear  to  all  his  burning  words.  Ordinary 
language  was  inadequate  to  express  bis  emotions,  so  he  scribbled 
on  a  slip  of  paper,  taken  at  random  from  his  pocket-book: 
Oh,  darling,  I  hearken  thy  heart  beats, 

Art  thou  listening,  sweet  one,  unto  mine  ? 
I  love  thee,  I  love  thee,  I  love  thee; 
You  fire  up  my  pulses  like  wine. 
The  foregoing  may  not  be  strictly  correct,  but  the  verses  were 
of  that  character — extremely  warm,  and  correspondingly  boshy. 
The   sweet   girl  took    them,    with  a   tear  in  her  eye,  and  with  a 
glance  of  ineffable  tenderness  at  her  adorer,  concealed  them  in 
the   folds  of    her   dress.     The   next   morning,  in  the  cold,  gray, 
realistic  light,  the  club  man  got  a  letter.     It  was  brief,  but  to  the 
point.     It   said,   "  When   next   you    write  sentimental  verses   to 
me,  please  do  not  let  your  romantic  nature  make  you  careless." 
And  the  unfortunate  man  read  on  the  obverse  of  the  scrap  where 
he  had  indited  his  soul-thrilling  lines: 

"  M ,  Dr.  To  cleaning  and  repairing  six  pairs  of  pants,  $6." 

And  worse  still,  the  bill  was  unreceipted.  Even  Ovid,  immorcal 
bard  of  love,  would  have  the  vim  knocked  out  ot  him  by  such  a 
contretemps. 

A  DENTIST'S  shop  was  robbed  last  week  by  a  perfidious  boyin 
the  pay  of  the  tooth-smith,  and  quantities  of  material  packed 
away  to  quarters  unknown.  This  theft  is  accompanied  by  more 
than  usually  painful  circumstances.  Some  of  our  best  people — 
matrons  and  ancient  vestals,  had  left  their  false  teeth  with  the 
dentist  for  repairs,  and  now,  alas,  they  are  bereft  of  molar  and  in- 
cisor, while  that  wicked  boy  has  disposed  of  the  gold  plates  and 
converted  his  loot  into  chewing  gum.  A  well-known  Pine  street 
man  who  sent  his  false  gums  to  the  dentist  for  an  over  night 
polish,  is  confined  to  his  bed  on  a  diet  of  cracked  wheat,  and 
will  not  be  seen  in  the  Board  until  a  new  set  has  been  raked  up 
by  the  victim  of  misplaced  confidence. 

SADS4.LIT0  has  a  constable  who  is  evidently  tired  of  his  job. 
Mayor  Sperry,  in  whose  hands  the  destinies  of  the  hamlet 
rest,  should  call  this  official  down  from  his  perch,  and,  with  the 
assistance  of  District  Attorney  Reed,  make  him  behave  himself, 
or  else  look  out  for  a  new  constable.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Sausa- 
lito  Athletic  Club,  this  week,  the  constable,  excited  by  the  scraps, 
proclaimed  his  ability  to  trounce  any  one  in  the  village.  A  ninety- 
five  pound  insurance  clerk  awoke  the  wrath  of  the  two  hundred 
and  fifty  pound  constable,  which  led  to  this  breach  of  the  peace. 
He  has  evidently  succeeded  in  making  himself  obnoxious  to  a 
large  majority  of  the  voters;  bad  policy  when  the  election  ia  so 
close  at  hand. 

MR.  CORBETT,  our  Jim's  papa,  and  a  very  worthy  man,  was 
complaining  the  other  day  to  a  friend  about  his  anxiety 
anent  the  coming  prize  fight.  "  It  worries  me  so,"  said  Mr.  Cor- 
bett,  "  that  I  am  troubled  with  insomnia.  I  cannot  get  my 
natural  rest."  "  Oh,  go  to  New  Orleans,"  rejoined  the  sympa- 
thizing friend,  "and  see  John  L.  Sullivan,  and  be  will  put  both 
of  you  asleep." 

A  BLACKSMITH  joined  the  People's  Party  and  has  gone  crazy. 
This  will  never  do.  Politics  are  assuming  the  prerogatives 
of  religion  of  the  revival  type.  Mr.  Mills  has  taken  a  few  scalps 
with  him  this  trip,  but  be  will  be  wild  should  he  learn  that  a  fit 
subject  for  the  asylum,  who  should  have  come  to  his  net,  was 
bagged  by  an  enunciator  of  the  impossible,  General  Weaver. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


GA.  Sala  told  an  interviewer  how  he  lunched  on  one  occasion 
.  with  the  King  of  Spain  under  most  distressing  circumstances. 
Gallenga  was  with  him,  and  they  were  suddenly  ordered  to  join 
the  royal  party.  They  had  traveled  all  night,  their  faces  were  as 
black  as  sweeps,  and  being  wintry  weather  all  the  water  was 
frozen.  What  was  to  be  done  ?  Gallenger  came  to  the  rescue: 
"■Ever  try  cand.es  ?'  he  asked.  *  The  dry-wash  process.  See,' 
and  he  took  down  some  of  the  wax  candles  with  which  the  car- 
riage was  lighted,  and  commenced  rubbing  his  face  with  one  of 
them.  With  infinite  trust  in  Gallenger's  wisdom,  I  did  likewise; 
and  really,  after  some  ten  minutes'  persistent  rubbing,  our  faces 
certainly  looked  more  respectable,  though  somewhat  waxy  and 
ghastly.  The  aide-de  camp  entered,  and  we  went  forth  to  eat 
with  the  King.  Now,  the  King's  saloon  was  uncomfortably 
warm — very  uncomfortably  wane — and  as  the  lunch  proceeded  it 
became  inconveniently  hot.  When  the  coffee  and  cigarette  stage 
arrived,  our  faces  were  converted  into  a  series  of  small  streams — 
tears,  sir,  tears  such  as  tender  fathers  shedl  In  vain  I  tried  to 
hide  them;  my  pocket-handkerchief  was  useless,  and  I  left  the 
Royal  presence  with  a  countenance  like — but  we  will  draw  a  veil 
over  my  features!  " 

Cedemus  makes  mention  of  a  lamp,  which  together  with  an 
image  of  Christ,  was  found  at  Edessa, during  the  reign  of  the  Em- 
peror Justinian.  It  was  set  over  a  certain  gate,  and  sealed  so  as 
to  exclude  all  air.  The  seal  testified  that  these  details  were  car- 
ried out  soon  after  the  crucifixion.  When  opened  by  the  soldiers 
of  Cosroes,  King  of  Persia,  it  was  found  to  be  burning  as  brightly 
as  when  first  enclosed,  over  500  years  before.  The  Persian  forces 
broke  down  the  shrine  and  poured  out  the  oil  that  was  still  in  the 
lamp,  an  act  which  is  said  to  have  been  followed  by  a  great  plague. 
At  the  time  the  old  monasteries  of  England  were  demolished  a  lamp 
was  found  in  a  tomb  which  was  supposed  to  have  been  burning 
since  about  the  year  300  A.  D.  How  these  things  were  accom- 
plished is  a  mystery,  but  it  is  supposed  that  the  Romans  under- 
stood how  to  resolve  gold  into  an  oil,  a  few  ounces  of  which  would 
suffice  to  burn  a  thousand  years.  If  such  an  art  was  ever  under- 
stood it  Is  now  irretrievably  lost. 

Throughout  the  greater  part  of  Ireland,  Catholic  and  Protestant 
are  now  on  excellent  terms.  We  have  just  heard  a  good  story  in 
illustration  uf  this  feeling.  In  u  certain  parish  in  one  of  the 
southern  counties  the  congregation  at  the  Episcopal  Church  num- 
bered only  six.  One  day  the  bishop  of  the  diocese  announced  his 
intention  of  visiting  the  parish.  Of  course,  the  parson  was  in 
serious  concern  lest  his  lordship  should  discover  the  smallness  of 
his  flock.     Meeting   the  parish    prie«t   he  told  his  trouble.     "Let 

that  not   grieve   your   soul,"    replied    Father "  Begorra,  aa 

soon  as  mass  is  over  I'll  send  the  boys  along  to  the  church." 

The  Turkish  Minister  at  Athens  has  just  been  recalled  in  dis- 
grace for  having  fought  a  duel  with  an  officer  in  the  Greek  army. 
His  successor  is  a  diplomat  bearing  the  name  of  GadbanBey,  who 
was  formerly  the  Sultan's  diplomatic  agent  in  Bulgaria,  and  sub- 
sequently Consul-General  in  London.  He  enjoys  the  distinction 
of  possessing  on  artificial  nose,  and  was  deeply  offended  when,  on 
his  departure  from  8ofia,  the  Prince  of  Bulgaria  presented  him 
with  a  jeweled  snuff-box.  Indeed,* he  regarded  the  matter  as  a 
personal  insult,  and  could  be  appeased  only  with  the  greatest  dif- 
ficulty. 

The  name  of  "  Porcelain  Tower  "  was  applied  to  China's  unique 
structure  on  account  of  the  fact  that  the  whole  of  the  outside 
work  was  covered  with  porcelain  slabs  of  various  sizes  and  colors, 
but  principally  of  red,  white,  yellow  and  green.  At  every  one  of 
its  nine  stories  the  projecting  roof  of  the  gallery  was  covered  with 
green  tiles,  each  corner  being  provided  with  a  bell,  varying  in 
weight  from  300  to  1,000  pounds. 


IB-A-OSTIKIS- 


The  famous  sacred  standard  of  Mohammed  is  now  at  the  museum 
in  Turin,  Italy.  It  was  formerly  at  the  Mosque  of  Ayoub,  Con- 
stantinople, but  Baron  Tecco  purchased  it  in  the  year  1839,  and 
sent  it  to  King  Charles  Albert.  It  is  of  red  silk,  with  several  verses 
from  the  Koran  embroidered  in  yellow  letters  upon  it. 

The  Rothschilds  have  a  pretty  way  of  providing  a  birthday 
present  for  all  the  girls  of  the  family  when  they  come  of  age.  At 
the  birth  of  each  little  girl,  six  pearls,  valued  at  a  specified  and 
not  inconsiderable  sum,  are  put  aside.  Six  more  are  added  at 
every  birthday,  and  when  the  young  lady  reaches  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  she  is  presented  with  the  valuable  necklace. 

Grindellia  Lotion  is  the  only  sure  cure  for  poison  oak.  If  you  are 
going  to  the  country,  or  on  a  camping  tour,  do  not  forget  to  take  some 
of  this  lotion  with  you.  It  may  be  found  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy, 
635  Market  street.  The  lotion  is  also  considered  a  panacea  for  asth- 
ma, the  distressing  effects  of  which  it  immediately  relieves. 


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CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

DIRECTORS: 

John  J.  Valentine.  President;   Lloyd  Tevis,   Leland   Stanford,  Oliver 

Eldridge.  James  C.  Fargo.  Geo,  E.   Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.  F.  Goad, 

Dudley   Evans.    Henry    Wadsworth,  Cashier.    Homer  S.  King,  Manager. 

J.  L  Browne,  Assistant  Cashier. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL (1,000,000. 

DIRECTORS: 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  Jr. 

B.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cashier 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital SSOO,O0o 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 

HUMBOLDT  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.  WEBER, President  |  ERNST  BRAND  Secretary. 

E.  D.Jones. 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers   and    Commission    Merchants, 
207  ano  200  California  Street. 


8,  1892 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  '  Kl  YV.K. 


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•CrrrOSE."  said  the  lady,  "now  only  suppose,  understand  — 

O  that  you  were  carrying  a  piece  ..(  steak  from  the  kitchen, 
and  by  accident  should  let  it  slip  from  the  plate  to  the  floor,  what 
should  you  do  in  such  a  case?"  The  girl  looked  the  lady  square  in 
the  eye  for  a  inorueul.  before  asking.  •■  Is  it  a  private  family,  or  are 
there" boarderi?"  "  Boarders."  answered  the  lady.  ■' Pick  it  upand 
put  it  back  on  the  plate,"  firmly  replied  the  girl.    She  was  engaged. 

— Saxhange. 

A  tourist,  on  a  very  hot  day.  was   watching  a  man,  who,  with 

head  uncovered,  was  laboriously  turning  a  windlass  which  most 
clumsily  hoisted  from  a  shaft  a*  bucket  rilled  with  rock.  Said  the 
tourist  :  "  My  friend,  why  don't  you  cover  np  your  head?  This  sun 
will  affect  your  brain."  "  Brain,  is  it  '.'*'  replied  the  man.  "  If  I  had 
any  brains,  d'ye  think  I'd  be  here  pullin' in  this  way  this  blooming 
bucket?"  — Exchange. 

—She  goes  down  to  the  dry  goods  store  and  spends  our  good  old 

dollars 
For  shirts  just  like  her  brother  wears,  with  reg'lar  standing  collars; 
She  even  has  her  hair  cut  short,  and  tries  the  best  she  can 
To  obliterate  the  difference  between  herself  and  man ; 
But.  when  it  comes  to  whiskers — by  this  idea  we're  cheered — 
That  we've  got  the  everlasting  bulge  when  it  conies  to  raising  beard  ! 

■ — Indianapolis  Journal. 

He—  How  the  trees  are  moaning  and  sighing  to-day?    She— So 

would  you  if  you  were  as  full  of  green  apples  as  they  are.      — Life. 

The  Parson's  Wife — John,  there  is  a  report  about  the  village 

that  the  church  is  going  to  raise  your  salary.  The  Parson—  Raise  my 
salary!  Well.  I  hope  they'll  do  nothingof  the  kind.  I  have  trouble 
enough  to  collect  the  small  salary  they  pay  me  now,  and  if  I  had  to 
collect  a  larger  one,  it  would  set  me  crazy.  — Puck. 

— The  sallow,  long-whiskered  man  whom  the  candidate  had  in- 
vited to  take  a  drink  along  with  the  other  fellows  in  the  room,  edged 
np  toward  the  bar.  "What'll  you  take?"  a3ked  the  candidate.  "1 
am  a  third-party  man,"  he  said,  softly  wiping  his  mouth  with  the 
back  of  his  hand,  "  but  I  was  raised  a  Democrat." 

—  Chicago  Tribune. 

"  Well,  Mr.   Laker,"  said  one  member  of  the  Chicago  four 

hundred  to  another,  who  had  been  to  New  York,  "  what  struck  you 
most  forcibly  in  your  visit  East?"  "I  think,"  replied  Laker,  "  the 
fact  that  the  men  don't  take  off  their  coats  to  eat  dinner."— Judge. 

"  Why.  Nixon!  what's  the  matter?    You're  as  thin  as  a  rail." 

Nizondhe  Editor)— Weil,  I'll  tell  you.  The  Screecham  Pill  Company 
advertised  with  us  and  we  took  it  out  in  trade.  I  couldn't  sell  the 
pills,  so  have  been  trying  to  use  them  up  myself.  —Judge. 

Brown-Jones— My  dear  Miss  Youngold,  pray  don't  think  me 

rude,  but  are  those  flowers  natural  or  artificial?  Miss  Youngold— 
Artificial.  Brown-Jones— Really,  they're  most  deceptive.  And  how 
admirably  they  suit  your  hair  and  complexion  1  —Judy. 

—There  are  some  candidates,  whose  hopes  are  still 
That  they  high  offices  are  meant  to  fill, 
Will  know  the  difference  on  election  day 
'Twist  consummation  and  the  consomme.  — Judge. 

Dumley— Miss  Ethel  paid  me  such  a  ridiculous  compliment, 

dontcherknow.  Miss  Sweet— Indeed !  What  did  she  say  ?  Burnley— 
That  Homer  could  not  have  seen  a  more  heroic  figure  than  myself. 
Miss  Sweet— That's  so.    Homer  was  blind.  —Judge. 

.Editor— Johnnie,  did  any  stamps  come  with    that  poem   of 

Howler's  this  morning?  Boy— Yes,  sir;  three  two-cent  ones.  Editor— 
Then  run  and  get  me  a  beer  and  a  pretzel;  after  that  you  can  carry 
the  poem  back  to  him  in  Harlem.  —Judge. 

Hotel   Glerk  (to   Guest  from  Arkansas)— Will  you  want  a  room 

with  a  bath  connected,  sir?  "  No;  I  reckon  not.  I  won't  be  in  town 
more  than  a  couple  of  weeks;  and,  besides,  I  took  a  bath  only  a  few 
days  before  I  left  Little  Rock."  —Texas  Siftings. 

Temperance  Worker— And  what  caused  your  downfall,  my  good 

man?  Horrible  Example— It  was  this  stage  realism,  Mum.  I  was 
acting  the  drunkard  in  a  temperance  play,  and  the  manager  insisted 
on  my  using  real  whisky.  Mum.  — Puck. 

Pal— Phware's  me  galluses?    Mary  Ann— Shure  an' Oi  have 

them  on.  It's  the  sthoyle  Oi  have  to  keep  up,  Patsy.  Pat— Well, 
yez  hand  them  over.  Oi  have  somethin'  of  more  importance  than 
the  sthoyle  to  keep  up.  Truth. 

Clerk— How  shall  I  mark  these  goods?    Old  Tapeyard— Just 

figure  out  fifty  per  cent,  profit  and  add  seven  odd  cents,  so  the 
women  will  think  it's  a  bargain.  Puck. 

Sht— Oh,  Charley  1  that  mosquito  has  come  from  your  hand  to 

mine.    He— Aw— beautiful  thought  1  that  your  blood  and  mine— aw 


— mingles  in  the  same  mosquito. 


-Puck. 


-Tanks-l  tried  to  get  Old  Soak  to  go  to  Asbury  Park  this  year 
for  his  vacation,  but  it  was  no  use.  Banks—  Where  is  he  going? 
Tanib-Bar  Harbor,  of  course.  —Brooklyn  Life. 

Grace-I  don't  believe  in  long  engagements.    Easalie-I  don't 

know  about  that.    They're  better  than  none  at  all.  —Judge. 

Willie-Do  you  keep  that  sour  cow  yet?    Milkman- What  sour 

cow?     Willie-The  one  that  gives  the  sour  milk. -J ruth. 

When  one  wishes  to  enjoy  a  nice  dinner,  he  not  only  desires  to 
find  a  placTwith  an  excellent  chef,  but  also  one  where  he  may  have 
oonsenial  snrronndinirs  It  is  for  this  very  reason  that  so  many  of 
thelites TnX^itake their  headquarters  at the -Oj^SW. 
Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street.  It  is  one  of  the  most  popular  restaurants 
in  the  city. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

-  pontad  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP  13.000.000 

RESERVE  FUND  t.175. 000 

Southeast  com. t  Bub  anil  Sitisome  Street*. 

HEAD  OFFICE  60  LOMBARD  STREET.  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vanoouvor,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon; 

I  Seattle  ami   Ihimiuh.  \\  usiiinglon. 

3l'B-BKAKCIIE3— Knmioopn.  Naualmo,  Nelson.  New  Westminster,  British 
Columbia. 
This  Hank  transacts  a  General  Nanking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  au.l  Spvelal  I'eposlts  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  pans  ol  the  world.  Approved  Bills  duwoontad  aud  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rales 
upon  its  Hoh.1  Office  aud  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  i.f  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank:  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IKK- 
LAND—  Bauk  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  aud  SOCTH  AME1UCA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  aud  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India.  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  aud  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Compauy  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
aud  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bauk  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

532  California  Street,  Comer  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposit*,  June  30,  1892 $25,800,603  00 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus I  ,,,:.:*. l  ;■;<;  00 

DIRECTORS. 

Vliart  MitUr,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  K.  Martin,  \V.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardmau,  J.  t*.  Kastlaud ;    Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Frauciaco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savlugs 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  lee.  Oulce  Hours— a  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m  .  Saturday 
evenings,  o:3oto8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805   Market   Street    (Flood    Building  ,    San    Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1883. 

Guaranteed  Capital.    . .  .$1,01)0,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits $     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital  333,333.33  j  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  MCDONALD  Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

'I'lils  bank,  receives*  savins?  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, lu  sums  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five  cent  stamp 
system  aua  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mouth  or  year,  from  $400  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  6ERMA_nTaVINGS~ANdT0AN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND 5    1,646.000  OO. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  1892.    28,776,697  91 

Officebs— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGER8  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  KrUBe,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  B. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  DANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capita],  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  Q.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,   S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelaa,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 

SS^  0"  TerI"  a°d  0rd""'yAMEPS0l!aTHaP800Nn,  (faTier!* 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sta. 

ubsaied  Capital $2,600,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 92,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  9650,000 

Head  Office      • 68  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

A9ENTB— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd)  No.  10  Wall  St.,  N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17  Boule- 
vard Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschul,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CAUF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

(lanital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up 11,500,000 

s,Xrribed  8,000,000    Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Subscnoeo  ....  ^-^  0rFICK_3  ^^  l;ourti  London,  E.  o. 

'      Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seli  man  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  gcnersl  banking  I  usiness,  Bells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
eranhic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world     Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  ft  IS&HAL.  i  Managers. 

I 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


HERMAN  8HAJNWALD  baa  returned  to  this  city  from  a  five 
months'  visit  to  Europe.  He  baa  been  interviewed  since  hi9 
return,  and  what  he  has  said  is  worth  reading.  Mr.  Shainwald 
is  inclined  to  think  that  San  Francisco  is  not  a  very  great  city; 
that  it  is  not  a  very  enterprising  city;  that  its  business  men  are 
not  the  brightest  on  earth,  and  that  the  native  son  does  not  acquire 
peculiar  genius  at  birth.  Mr.  Shainwald  has  visited  a  number  of 
little  German  towns,  the  names  of  which  are  not  even  familiar  to 
the  average  San  Franciscan,  and  yet  those  little  back-number 
villages,  beneath  the  notice  of  the  San  Franciscan,  build  fine 
buildings,  open  up  streets,  tear  down  old  structures,  don't  deal  in 
windy  resolutions,  but  do  keep  up  with  the  march  of  progress. 
He  has  seen  hotels  in  central  Switzerland  that  are  far  ahead  of 
any  in  San  Francisco.  There  is  there  a  small  telephone  in  every 
room,  and  a  dummy  waiter;  there  are  electric  lights  and  bells, 
fast-running  elevators,  and  even  more  than  what  are  termed  here 
modern  conveniences.  Mr.  Shainwald  has  learned  quite  a  little 
which  he  never  knew  before,  by  keeping  his  eyes  and  ears  open. 
He  has  found  out  that  keen  business  men  do  sometimes  exist 
outside  of  the  United  States;  that  by  the  simplest  and  most 
minute  changes  in  some  of  our  imported  goods,  the  foreign  manu- 
facturer sends  his  goods  in,  pays  the  duty  and  makes  a  trifle  more 
than  he  did  when  the  McKinley  bill  'did  not  raise  its  protecting 
wall  around  the  United  States.  These  statements  are  unpalatable 
to  the  San  Franciscan,  who  has  learned  to  regard  iiiruself  as  a 
superior  article  in  the  business  world ;  whereas  his  greatest  ability 
seems  to  lie  in  drafting  nicely-worded  resolutions,  to  say  much 
and  do  nothing. 

To  what  this  gentleman,  who  is  admitted  to  be  one  of  the  most 
expert  real  estate  men  in  San  Francisco,  has  said,  a  fact  or  two 
may  be  added.  Some  time  ago  it  was  stated  that  the  San  Fran- 
cisco and  Great  Salt  Lake  Railroad  would  prove  the  panacea  for 
every  woe  which  high  freight  rates  and  dull  trade  have  inflicted. 
Where  are  the  subscribers  to  the  stock  of  the  road  ?  Everybody 
promised  to  take  a  "  block  of  stock."  When  the  list  was  pushed 
under  che  noses  of  these  great,  enterprising  business  men  and 
they  were  asked  to  enter  their  names  for  the  amounts  they 
promised,  how  many  backed  and  filled,  and  how  many  subscribed 
for  what  they  promised  ?  There  is  a  little  inside  business  coming 
to  light  which  explains  why  this  long  looked  for  stock  subscrip- 
tion book  has  not  been  exhibited  for  public  inspection  and  won- 
derment. The  merchants  have  resolved,  but  there  they  are 
sticking,  and  as  far  as  going  down  into  their  pockets — that  i° 
another  matter. 

It  ia  not  necessary  to  show  the  bearing  of  these  statements  on 
the  condition  of  real  estate.  An  active,  healthy  market  in  real 
estate  with  trade  dull  is  an  impossibility.  More  business,  more 
population,  more  railroads,  more  call  to  action  and  less  talk, 
will  improve  the  condition  of  San  Francisco.  Capital  is  not 
jumping  at  this  city,  and  the  long-promised  influx  of  Eastern 
capital  is  as  far  off  as  ever;  because  the  merchants  themselves 
have  not  learned  that  "heaven  helps  those  that  help  them- 
selves." 

In  spite  of  these  disagreeable  truths  the  News  Letter  does  not 
imagine  that  there  are  not  many  in  San  Francisco  who  are  awake 
to  its  needs.  The  League  of  Progress  is  doing  well,  the  young 
men  are  showing,  a  doubtless  inherited,  tendency  to  draw  resolu- 
tions; but  they  are  also  working  and  as  their  numbers  increase, 
their  influence  if  carried  on  in  their  business,  will  be  felt. 

The  real  estate  market  is  slightly  improved.  The  auctioneers 
will  test  its  strength  next  week,  as  the  Carnall-Hopkins  Com- 
pany will  offer  a  list  of  property  under  the  hammer  on  Monday, 
and  Easton,  Eidridge  &  Co.  will  sell  at  public  vendue  on  Tuesday 
quite  a  varied  assortment  of  residences  and  residence  lots.  To- 
day, William  J.  Dingee  will  sell  a  number  of  villa  lots  at  auction 
in  Haywarda. 

The  sale9  of  the  week  include  but  few  of  importance.  Benjamin 
M.  Gunn  &  Co,  sold  a  fifty  vara,  northwest  corner  of  Francisco 
and  Webster,  to  the  California  Ammonia  Company  for  $7,200. 
Thomas  Magee  has  negotiated  a  ten-years'  lease  with  option  of 
purchase,  in  favor  of  the  Rodeo  Cold  Storage  Company,  of 
five  fifty  varaa  on  the  east  side  of  Sixth,  south  of  King  and  north 
of  Perry. 

What  excuse  there  can  be  found  for  putting  the  assessment  up 
this  year  it  would  be  indeed  difficult  to  discover.  Rents  are 
steadiiy downward,  and  values  are  at  best  stationary.  On  the 
top  of  all  this,  the  Board  of  Equalization  proposed  a  further  in- 
crease of  thirty  per  cent.  By  the  time  some  of  the  Mission  own- 
ers have  paid  their  city  and  county  taxes,  the  Board  of  Equaliza- 
tion's extra  levy,  and  the  assessments  for  street  extension,  they 
will  probably  find  that  their  property  belougs  to  some  one  else. 

The  John  F.  Cutter  whisky  has  the  enviable  reputation  of  being 
the  very  best  in  the  market.  It  is  the  favorite  brand  with  all  gentle- 
men who  enjoy  first-class  liquor  and  who  can  appreciate  it.  It  is 
sold  at  all  first-class  bars,  and  cannot  be  excelled  by  any  other 
whisky  known. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
catiou  of  cannery — Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  {No.  lj,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.  A.  Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.  A.Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  80 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

Aud  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  aud  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  8ATUR- 
AY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

Sau  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring   Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  deliuqueut  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Best    &     Belcher    Mining     Company. 

Location  of  Principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  City,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meetingof  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  seventeenth  (17th)  day  of  August,  189:<t,  an  assessment  (No.  52)  of  Twenty- 
five  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital 
stock  of  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to 
the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  33,  Nevada  block,  No. 
309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Thursday,  the  22d  day  of  September,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  thirteenth  (lath)  day  of  October, 
1*92,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co.  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Challenge  Consolidated   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Gold  riill,  Storey  County,  Nev. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  12)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-seventh  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore,  will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,   the  18th   day  of   October,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with   the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C  L.  McCOY,  Secretary. 

Office— 331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Silver    Hill     Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  Second  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  31)  of  Five  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  im- 
mediately in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
Company,  Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Tuesday,  the  Sixth  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  September, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertis- 
ing and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

D.  C.  BATES,  Secretary. 

Office.— Room  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco 
California. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


8,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


THE  only  matter  of  general  interest  which  has  received  any 
consideration  whatever  upon  the  street  during  the  past  week 
is  rebating.  Shall  rebating  cease?  That  is  the  question  which 
ever  since  the  adoption  of  the  rates  of  the  Pacific  Insurance 
I'nion  has  been  troubling  the  minds  of  the  underwriters.  If  it  is 
not  slopped,  shall  the  Pacific  Insurance  I'nion,  finding  its  occu- 
pation gone,  dissolve,  thereby  throwing  all  the  companies  abso- 
lutely upon  their  own  resources,  to  do  whatever  they  might  con- 
sider proper.  Shall  the  pretence  of  morality  be  continued,  or 
shall  the  Compact  announce  the  names  of  the  culprits,  And  failing 
their  proper  punishment,  confess  that  its  organization  was  in 
vain ;  that  it  cannot  fulfill  the  promises  that  went  with  its  form- 
ation? As  announced  in  this  column  some  months  ago,  and  re- 
peated often  since,  the  rebating  question  is  the  rock  on  which  the 
Compact  will  break,  and  that  right  speedily,  if  means  be  not 
taken  at  once  to  suppress  the  evil.  The  underwriters  in  general 
have  tried  the  effect  of  moral  suasion,  and  find  it  to  be  without 
any  virtue  whatever.  Now,  then,  the  question  arises,  if  moral 
suasion  will  not  effect  the  desired  claim,  what  will?  The  rebate 
on  the  Pioneers'  Building,  to  which  reference  was  made  in  this 
column  last  week,  has  caused  as  great  a  sensation  on  California 
street  as  anything  that  has  occurred  in  that  haven  of  policy 
writers  for  some  time.  The  proposition  first  made,  to  drop  from 
all  the  privileges  of  the  Compact,  presuming  that  there  are 
some  privileges,  all  the  companies  that  were  found  to  be  guilty 
of  an  infringement  of  the  rules  of  the  Union  has  been  passed  by 
as  impracticable,  simply  because  it  was  found  that  by  making  all 
the  offenders  suffer  Borne  of  the  most  prominent  companies  doing 
business  iu  the  city  would  be  made  to  suffer.  If  the  punishment 
cannot,  therefore,  be  made  to  fit  the  crime  or  the  manner  that  is 
needed,  temporzTng  methods  will  be  found  neccessary.  At  the 
meeting  of  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union,  held  last  Thursday,  all 
these  matters  were  thoroughly  discussed,  but  without  any  solu- 
tion of  this  most  difficult  problem  being  effected.  The  whole 
matter  was  referred  to  the  Executive  Committee,  which  will 
wrestle  with  it,  and  report  to  the  Union  at  a  meeting  to  be  held 
next  Wednesday.  It  is  interesting  at  this  time  to  present  extracts 
from  the  majority  and  minority  reports  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee.  The  majority  reached  these  conclusions: 
»  First.  That  each  broker  shall  deposit  with  the  treasurer  of  the 
union  the  sum  of  $250,  which  shall  be  forfeited  to  the  union  on 
first  conviction  of  any  one  of  the  offenses  above  detailed;  in  ad- 
dition to  which  he  bball  also  forfeit  his  enrollment  and  be  dis- 
qualified from  re-enrollment.  Second.  Each  city  agent  shall 
make  a  like  deposit,  and  for  such  a  first  offense  shall  forfeit  such 
deposit,  and  shall  then  make  a  new  deposit  of  like  amount. 
Third.  Each  member  of  the  union  shall  likewise  deposit  $250 
with  the  taeasurer  of  the  union,  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith, 
which  shall  be  forfeited  to  the  union  on  conviction  of  having 
commited  any  of  the  offenses  named  in  the  preamble  hereto,  sub- 
ject to  the  appeal  to  the  union.  In  case  the  member  so  convicted 
shall  not  appeal,  or  in  case  his  appeal  shall  not  be  sustained,  he 
shall  then  make  a  new  deposit  of  like  amount.  Fourth.  That 
all  the  money  so  deposited  shall  be  placed  in  a  savings  bank,  to 
be  designated  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  executive  committee,  and 
the  interest  accruing  on  each  deposit  shall  be  paid  to  the  member 
making  it.  Fifth.  Imposing  a  penalty  of  $500  on  conviction  of 
having  purchased  the  business  of  an  expelled  agent,  solicitor, 
broker  or  employee,  in  violation  of  the  constitutional  provision 
in  such  cases  applying." 

One  of  the  most  important  recommendations  made  by  the  mi- 
nority was  tbat  the  system  of  salaried  agents  and  solici- 
tors within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  union  be  abrogated  at 
once,  to  the  end  that  all  business  be  done  on  a  commission  basis, 
such  commission  not  to  exceed  the  rates  fixed  by  the  union.  All 
these  matters  will  again  come  up  for  discussion  at  the  next  meet- 
ing, to  be  held  on  Wednesday  next.  The  men  who  have  concj 
plied  with  all  the  rules  of  the  compact  are  now  sorely  offended, 
because  of  the  manner  in  which  these  rules  have  been  broken, 
and  they  have  announced  that  the  compact  must  enforce  its  laws 
or  disband.  The  meeting  on  Wednesday,  therefore,  will  be  re- 
plete with  interest. 

Thealf-h  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellentartists  and  artisans. 

Shain-walrl,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses  rented, 
rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission.  Office, 
407^109  Montgomery  street. 


Falso  Economy 
la  practiced  by  people  who  boj  Inferior  articles  of  food  bei 
cheaper  than  eiundard  goods.    Infants  are  entitled  to  the  heal  food 
,,|,,;,1,l"'i,'<'     i'  l«  b  Ihci  ihai  the  Gall   Borden  "  Eagle"  Brand  Con- 
den^-d  Muk  i~  tin-  i»-i  itif.-mi  ( 1.  Your  grocer  and  droggtai  keep  II 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Peerl-ss  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  Of  business— Sail  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Qullok a,  Ariz- 
Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  fith  day  of  July.  18'J2.  an  assessment  (No.  isi  of  Eighteen  of  (6) 
Centsper share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  slock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  Iu  United  stall's  cold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  Boom  28,  Nevada  Block.  No.  30JMoiitgomery'Streel,  San  Frau- 
Clsco,  Cal. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Eleventh  Day  of  August.  189Z.  will  be  delinquent. 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  uuless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  Sept.,  1892  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Truste  s. 

ADO.  WA    ERMAN,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  30J   Montgomery  street,   San  Francisco. 
California. 

Postponement. 

The  assessment  on  Peerless  which  is  delinquent  In  office  on  August  11 
1892,  Is  hereby  postponed  until  THi  R-tDAY,  September  1,  1692  and  the 
sale  day  until  TUESDAY,  September  20,  1892.  at  1  o'clock  p.  u.  By  order 
of  the  Board  of  Director..  AUG.  WA  1  ERMAN,  Secretary. 

Oftice— Room  23.  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE^  ASSESSMENT™ 

Bullion     Mining     Company. 

location  of  principle  place  of  business  -Sau  b'laucisco,  California  Lo- 
cation of  works— Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  held 
op  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  ao  a-sessmeut  (No.  39),  of  twenty-five  (25  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  Uuited  Stat-s  gold  coin  to  the  '-ecretury,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  2ut  33 L  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  1 6th  Day  of  September.  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unle-s  pavment  is  made  be- 
fore,   will   be   sold    on  TUESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  Octr'b-r,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

nn  no    «.      „                          R-  R-  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,  San  Francisco,  California 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Hale  <Sc  Noreross  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California,  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia  Miuing  District,  Story  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  102)  of  Fifty  (50)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  26,  Nevada  block,  No.  303  Montgomery  st. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Thursday  the  Fifteenth  Day  of  September,  1 892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will    be  sold   on  FRIDAY,  the  7th    day  of    October,    1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  B.  THOMPSON,  Secretary. 

OFFrCE— Room  No.  26,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Confidence  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  Cou   ty,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Thirteenth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  21)  of  Fifty 
(50)  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Fifteenth  (16th)  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  sixth  day  of  October,  1892,  to 
pay   the   delinquent  assessment,    together  with  the  costs  of   advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  S.  GROTH,  Secretary. 

Office— 414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Crocker    Mining     Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— ban  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works— Qui; otoa,  Arizona 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  llth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No  12)  of  5  ce  ts  per  share  was 
levied  upou  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  SeTetary,  at  the  office  of  the  coniDauy,  room 
23,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
The  Twentieth  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  bede  inquert. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  lth  day  of  October.  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together   with    costs    of   advertising  and  txpen- 
aes  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

AUG.  WATERMAN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  23,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
Oalifornia. 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


A  SILVER  BRONZE  alloy,  designed  as  a  substitute  for  German 
silver,  and  intended  especially  for  rod,  sheet  and  wire  pur- 
poses, is  now  made,  the  composition  consisting  of  little  more  than 
two-tbirds  copper,  with  certain  proportions  of  manganese,  alum- 
inum, silicon  and  zinc.  This  alloy  is  represented  as  having  a  ten- 
sile strength  of  about  57.000  pounds  on  small  bars,  and  20  per 
cent,  elongation,  and  has  been  rolled  into  thin  plate,  and  drawn 
into  wire  of  0  008  in  diameter.  The  electrical  resistance  of  the 
article  is  staled  to  be  higher  than  that  of  German  silver,  and  the 
expectatinn  is  that  it  will  prove  to  be  a  material  Ihe  resistence  of 
which  will  afford  the  eleit  ician  better  and  cheaper  wire  f«r  the 
rheostat  than  any  other  alloy.  It  seems  that  the  difficulties  at- 
tending the  casting,  etc,  of  a  pure  manganese  bronze  have  thus 
been  surmouuted  by  introducing  into  the  alloy  a  small  percentage 
of  aluminum— the  addition  of  \\  p>-r  cent,  of  this  metal  to  the 
alloy  converting  it  from  the  most  refractory  in  the  casting  process 
to  the  most  satisfactory  in  this  respect.  The  addition  of  the 
aluminum  also  insures  an  alloy  of  much  greater  non-corrodibility 
than  either  German  or  nickel  silver,  and,  with  the  good  results 
attending  the  introduction  of  silicon  and  zinc,  in  the  proportion 
of  5  per  cent,  of  the  former  and  13  of  the  latter,  a  decided  success 
is  achieved. 

In  medical  work,   where  varying  currents  have  constantly 

to  be  used,  the  battery  is  often  a  source  uf  such  trouble  as  to 
seriously  interfere  with  the  success  of  electrical  treatment,  if  not 
to  so  prejudice  the  medical  man  against  it  as  to  make  him  re- 
solve to  have  recourse  to  it  only  as  a  last  resort.  The  profession 
will  welcome  a  new  invention  which  will  deliver  it  from  all  such 
embarrassments  and  give  a  never  failing  supply  of  current,  under 
perfect  c  mirol.  An  incandescent  lamp  socket  has  been  so  modi- 
fied with  tapping  sockets  and  a  switch  as  to  make  it  possible  to 
obtain  either  a  current  with  the  lamp  iu  series,  or  one  in  which 
all  resistence  is  thrown  out  and  which  can  be  used  up  to  the 
amount  allowable  by  the  safety  fuse  plugs.  In  o'her  word",  the 
new  socket,  which  can  be  instantly  fitted  to  an  ordinary  incan- 
descent lamp,  enables  the  practitioner  to  use  the  street  current 
in  quantities  suitable  for  all  kinds  of  medical  needs,  ami  the 
controller  which  accompanies  it  is  so  perfect  in  its  action  that 
the  most  delicate  modification  of  the  current  can  be  made  with 
ease  and  certainty. 

At  one  of  the  principal  lead  miues  in  Brussels,  the  Mecher- 

nich,  some  special  features  have  been  introduced,  for  not  only  is 
the  mine  electrically  lighted,  but  a  current  is  used  throughout  for 
economy  of  labor.  An  enormous  quantity  is  daily  raised — more 
than  3.000  tons — but  so  perfect  are  the  automatic  arrangements 
that  only  twenty-five  hands  are  required  for  this  great  output.  A 
peculiar  appliance  is  in  vogue  which  has  proved  a  great  conven- 
ience, and  it  is  thonght  is  destined  to  quite  general  adoption. 
When  a  wagon  of  ore  is  tipped  at  the  shaft's  mouth  electric  con- 
tract is  made  in  the  tipping,  and  a  small  needle  in  the  office  makes 
a  red  mark  On  a  band  of  paper  revolving  by  clockwork,  the  ob- 
ject of  this  being  not  so  much  to  give  automatically  the  number 
of  wagons  lipped,  as  to  show  at  a  glance  that  the  hauling  is  pro- 
ceeding regularly;  the  paper  band  is  divided  into  half  hours  for  a 
week  throughout,  and,  at  the  end  of  the  week's  work,  it  is  clearly 
seen  and  known  at  once  what  number  of  wagons  have  been  tipped 
on  any  day  and  at  any  time. 

According     to     The    Medical    Record    yawning    is    by    no 

means  a  useltss  act,  for  it  often  cures  catarrh  and  other  affections 
of  the  throat,  in  many  cases  giving  instantaneous  relief.  It  pro- 
duces a  considerable  distention  of  the  muscles  of  the  pharynx, 
constituting  a  kind  of  massage,  and  under  this  influence  the  carti- 
laginous portion  of  the  eustachian  tube  contracts,  expelling  into 
the  pharynx  the  mucosities  there  collected.  According  to  M. 
Naegeli,  yawning  is  much  more  efficacious  for  affections  of  the 
tube  than  the  methods  of  Valsalva  or  Politzer,  and  is  more  rational 
than  the  insufflation  of  air,  which  is  often  difficult  to  perform 
properly. 

The  new  product  from  common  flax  straw,  named  fibrelia, 

is  generally  regarded  as  likely  to  have  an  important  bearing  on 
textile  interests  in  the  future.  By  the  new  process  of  manipula- 
tion, as  described  such  straw  is  reduced  to  a  short  staple  very 
closely  resembling  cotton  or  wool,  and  when  mixed  with  either 
is  found  to  add  materially  to  the  value  of  the  product  in  beauty 
and  strength.  Twenty-five  per  cent,  of  fibrelia  mixed  with  sev- 
enty-five per  cei-t.  of  wool  is  said  to  make  a  broadcloth  superior 
to  that  made  of  wool  alone. 

One  of  the  best  tailors  in  the  city  is  Col.  J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12  Post 
street.  His  suits  are  not  equaled  by  those  of  any  other  establish- 
ment in  town,  for  he  is  a  master  of  the  sartorial  art  and  always 
does  his  work  in  an  admirable  manner.  He  makes  a  specialty  of 
uniforms  and  regalias,  aud  does  a  large  business  with  all  uniformed 
societies. 


I35TSTJ-K,_A_3^r  OIE . 


Insurance  Company. 

CAPITAL 11,000,000,  l  ASSETS 13,000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  in  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AMD  220  SAMSOME  STRUT, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BRANDEK,  CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

President  Secretary. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  Of  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up f     500,000 

Assets 3,181,763 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,525,167 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 

City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     General  Office — 401  Mont  'a:.  St, 

INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

r  I  n  T  Tfie  Lion  Fire  lnsurance  Co-  ,-imi,e(1'  of  London. 

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I     I        L  WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,   214  SarisomeSl.,  S.F. 
SWAIN  &  MORDOCK,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital  $25,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office,  Alliance  Building.  416  aud  41S  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES.  Manager 

HAVE   YOU   GOT 

Dyspepsia,  Bright's  Disease,  or  Dia- 
betes, or  do  you  -want  a  pleasant, 
healthful  drink?     If  so,  buy 

ARCADIAN  WAUKESHA  WATER, 

Recommended  by  our  best  physi- 
cians as  the  healthiest  drink  on  earth. 
Johnson- Locke  Mercantile  Company 
Agents,  204  Front  St.,  S.  F. 

VICHY     SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM    UKIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
known  '- champagne  "  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  aud  beautifying 
the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladles.  Only  natural  electric  water  in 
the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR. 

OCCIDENTAL    HOTEL, 

San    Francisco. 

A       QTJIET       H  O  IMI  3E3 

CENTRALLY        LOCATED, 

FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 

LAVER,    MULLANY    &   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office :  93  Flood  BnUdlns.  Cor.  4th  and  Market  Stt..  8.  F. 


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1S92 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LED  BR. 


21 


Tm  RoseMs 


BEVERLEY    HELLS.— Clifton   Hingham.  in  Uie   London    Thtatre 

Hark!     Hark! 

Bererley  Hells  are  ringing, 

Are  ringing  o're  the  lea; 
Tbelr  clear  tone;  nil  the  twilight  chill 

With  clanging  melody. 
There's  a  white  face  at  a  window, 

There's  a  sad  heart  in  the  town; 
Is  that  a  bride  by  the  gray  fireside, 
Clad  in  a  wedding-gown  ? 
King.  Bells  of  Beverley, 

Ring  on  as  ye  rang  then ; 
There  is  no  mirtn  in  Heaven  or  earth, 
No  truth  in  the  hearts  of  men! 
Hark!     Hark! 

Beverley  Bells  are  ringing, 

O'er  twiiit  square  and  street; 
'Twas  years  ago  they  once  rang  so, 

And  O  the  dream  was  sweet! 
He  is  not  dead  but   faithless — 

She  donned  her  gown  in  vain; 
Though  her  heart  may  break  for  his  false  sake, 
He  will  not  come  again! 
King,  Bells  of  Beverley, 

King  on  as  ye  rang  then; 
There  is  no  mirth  in  Heaven  or  earth, 
No  truth  in  the  hearts  of  men! 
Hush!     Hush! 

Beverley  Bells  are  dying 

Upon  the  still  night  air; 
There's  a  figure  at  the  threshold, 

There's  a  footfall  on  the  stair. 
Regretting — grieving — yearning 

For  the  love  of  days  gone  by, 
He  has  come  at  last  to  redeem  the  past- 
Why  makes  she  no  reply? 
Ring,  Bells  of  Beverley, 

For  a  broken  spirit  passed, 
For  a  weary  breast  that  has  found  its  rest, 
And  a  soul  at  peace  at  last! 

TO    THE    COLORADO    DESERT.  -Madge    Morrk  in  September 
Lippincott's. 

Thon  brown,  bare-breasted,  voiceless  mystery, 

Hot  8phinx  of  nature,  cactus  crowned,  what  hast  thou  done? 

Unclothed  and  mute  as  when  the  groans  of  chaos  turned 

Thy  naked  burning  bosom  to  the  sun. 

The  mountain  silences  have  speech,  the  rivers  sing, 

Tbou  answerest  never  unto  anything. 

Pink-tbroated  lizards  pant  in  thy  slim  shade; 

Tne  horned  toad  runs  rustling  in  tbebeat; 

The  shadowy  gray  coyote,  born  afraid. 

Steals  to  some  brackish  spring,  and  laps,  and  prowls 

Away,  and  howls  and  howls  and  howls  and  howls, 

Until  the  solitude  is  shaken  with  an  added  loneliness. 

Thy  sharp  mescal  shoots  np  a  giant  stalk, 

Its  century  of  yearning,  to  the  sunburnt  skies, 

And  drips  rare  honey  from  the  lips 

Of  yellow  waxen  flowers,  and  dies. 

Some  lengthwise  sun-dried  shapes  with  feet  and  hands, 

And  thirsty  mouths  pressed  on  the  sweltering  sands, 

Mark  here  and  there  a  gruesome  graveless  spot 

Where  some  one  drank  thy  scorching  hotness,  and  is  not. 

God  must  have  made  tbee  in  His  anger,  and  forgot. 


CALIFORNIA 


POPPIES.— Martha 
pincott's. 


T.    Tyler   in    September    IAp- 


EONDEAU. 

Beside  the  sea,  above,  below 
The  wrinkled  sunburnt  crags  that  bar 
The  ocean's  onset  like  a  foe, 
And  wild  as  wind  and  waters  are, 
The  careless  yellow  poppies  grow. 
As  tremulous  as  stars  that  glow 
In  fairer  fields  of  light  afar, 
Cliff-born,  but  beautiful,  they  blow 

Beside  the  sea. 
O'er  many  a  rain-worn  rent  and  scar 
Their  rootlets  tenderly  they  throw. 
Nor  storm  nor  solitude  may  mar. 
Nor  mists  that  wander  to  and  fro, 
The  freedom  that  the  poppies  know 
'Beside  the  sea! 


i  nsr  axj  ■&,  a.  isr  c  e  . 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE   INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

OF  HAMiirm;,  okrmany. 
Herb  ri  I..  Low,  Manager  for  the  I"  ,.lil.   loual  Branch, 


Capital 

Invested  in  U.  S. 


22U  Nauxome  It-  S.  V. 


$i,soo  con.oo 

534,795.72 


GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
832  California  St..  S.  F.,  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BA8LB.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMB  NED  CAPITAL 4.000.000  DOLLARS. 

1  hese  three  Compames  are  liable  jolutly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 
«0  California  St.,  Sao  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (LirnltBd) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subs  rlbed tlO.000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up  1.000.000 

Cash  Reserve  fin  addition  to  Capital) 2  125  000 

Total  Assets  December  31,   1888 6.124,067.80 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

305  California  street.  San  Francisco. 


Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  178?-] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco, 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.J 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    UBI'A.iaT'JVCEIsrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 

OF   LONDON.  I  OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821.  j  Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Paid-up  rapital,    -    -    -     $  5,000,000.    Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Cash  Assets, $21,194,249.  |  Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 

WM.  J.  LANDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  20£  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  GO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  15,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.45. 

President.  KtrajAMIN  E.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  QIBBENS. 

HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORTCOSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses. 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

hjOFMANCHEBTER,  EIN  S  U>\|N]d7]J 

Capital   paid  6)  guaranteed  93,000,000,00. 

ChasA  Latum,  Manager, 
433  Calif  or  ma  St.  San  Francisco. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 


rpHERE  was  a  decided  falling  off  of  the  attendance 
TENNIS.  J  at  tDe  varj0U3  clubs  last  Saturday  and  Sunday,  ow- 
ing to  the  shoot  at  Del  Monte,  but  still  there  were  some  games, 
mostly  doubles,  for  scarcely  any  one  wishes  to  play  singles,  now 
that  the  time  for  the  double  championship  is  drawing  near.  The 
committee  have  chosen  the  prizes,  and  the  entries  are  coming  in 
slowly  but  surely,  and  we  anticipate  a  very  good  meeting  for  this 
year.  At  Monterey  the  California  Club's  favorites.  Stetson  and 
be  Long,  have  been  doing  some  very  good  work,  and  have  made 
many  friends  by  their  brilliant  play.  We  feel  sure  that  tbey  will 
be  most  favorably  beard  of  over  the  bay,  and  are  so  far  looked 
upon  as  the  best  team  from  this  side.  We  may  see  Hubbard  back 
in  time,  and  if  so,  he  and    Haight  will   defend    their    titles. 

O.  8.  Campbell  defeated  Hovey  at  Newport  on  Wednesday  last, 
and  so  retains  for  the  third  time  his  title  of  champion  of  the  United 
States. 

The  championship  at  8anta  Monica  was  won  by  R.  P.  Carter 
without  much  effort,  but  the  once  so-called  Carter  family  met 
their  Waterloo  in  everything  else.  In  the  doubles,  the  Chase  boys 
got  away  with  the  Englishmen  in  fine  shape,  and  Miss  Gilliland 
easily  defeated  Miss  Carter.  The  tournament  was  held  (as  the 
circulars  say;  under  the  auspices  of  the  Southern  California  Lawn 
Tennis  Association,  but  unfortunately,  there  is  no  such  associa- 
tion. The  United  States  National  Association  have  never  granted 
them  a  charter,  and  our  Southern  friends  are  very  much  displeased. 
They  wrote  and  asked  for  a  charter  and  were  referred  to  the  Paci- 
fic States  Association,  and  were  refused  at  the  meeting  held  in 
July  at  San  Rafael.  They  are,  however,  u>ing  every  effort  to  sever 
themselves  from  the  Pacific  States,  and  secure  a  charter  for 
themselves. 

A  T  this  writinS  the  Oakland  team  is  in  a  sorae- 
BASEBALL.  p^  what  mixed  up  condition,  as  the  newly  en- 
gaged players  have  not  arrived.  Tbey  should  reach  here  in  time 
for  to-morrow's  game.  These  men  have  first-rate  baseball  repu- 
tations as  fielders  and  batters.  Bill  Brown  will  hereafter  do  the 
catching  for  the  Oakland  nine.  Monday  being  a  legal  holiday, 
the  Oaklands  and  San  Franciscos  will  play  in  this  city.  Los 
Angeles  made  no  mistake  when  the  management  engaged  Bald- 
win to  catch  ;  he  is  a  fine  back  stop  and  batter.  The  Washington 
club  is  said  to  be  after  pitcher  German,  of  the  Oaklands.  Fogarty, 
formerly  of  the  San  Jose  team,  will  umpire  the  games  this  week, 
and  possibly  he  may  be  sent  to  Los  Angeles  to  officiate  there. 
Manassau  is  working  in  Oakland,  and  would  not  quit  his  position 
to  fo'low  umpiring.  Andy  Piercy  and  George  Fisher,  the  old- 
time  ball  players,  who  have  means  of  their  own,  are  anxious  to 
purchase  the  Oakland  franchise.  The  Los  Angeles  and  Oakland 
game  played  here  last  Sunday,  was  one  of  the  very  best  of  this 
season.  San  Francisco  and  San  Jose  will  play  here  next  week. 
Oakland  will  go  to  Los  Angeles.  When  the  Oaklanders  return 
the  new  men  should  be  in  good  shape  for  first-class  baseball. 

MRS.  MARTIN  MURPHY,  one  of  the  best-known  and  esteemed 
of  the  pioneer  ladies  of  the  State,  died  at  her  residence  in  San 
Jose  at  4  a.  m.  last  Monday.  8be  had  lived  in  Santa  Clara  County 
for  over  forty  years,  her  home  until  recently  being  at  Mountain 
View,  where  she  had  a  ranch  of  4,800  acres.  Mrs.  Murphy's 
maiden  name  was  MaryBulger.  She  married  Martin  Murphy  in  Que- 
bec in  1831.  The  family  came  to  California  in  1843,  and  first  settled 
at  Sacramento,  afterwards  removing  to  Santa  Clara.  All  the  family 
are  well-known  throughout  the  State.  The  popularity  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Murphy  was  illustrated  in  a  notable  manner  at  the  time  of 
their  golden  wedding  in  1881,  when  thousands  of  people  came  from 
all  sections  of  the  coast  to  do  honor  to  the  venerable  couple.  The 
deceased  was  well-known  for  her  charity  and  open-handed  genero- 
sity. To  her  and  her  husband  belong  the  honor  of  establishing 
Notre  Dame  College  at  San  Jose.  Her  sons  Bernard, 
Patrick  and  James,  are  all  well-known  citizens.  Her 
daughters  are  Mrs.  J.  R.  Arques  of  Santa  Clara  and  Mrs.  Richard 
T.  Carroll,  of  this  city.  The  funeral  took  place  on  Wednesday 
last  from  St.  Joseph's  church,  San  Jose. 

JUDGE  JAMES  McMILLAN  8HAFTER  died  at  his  residence  on 
Chestnut  street  last  Monday  from  the  effects  of  diabetes,  from 
which  he  had  been  suffering  for  some  time.  He  was  one  of  the  best 
known  men  in  the  State,  wilh  whose  interests  be  had  been  identi- 
fied many  years.  He  was  born  at  Athens,  Windham  County, 
Vermont,  on  May  27,  1816.  He  was  of  Scotch  and  Dutch  descent. 
He  graduated  from  Wesleyan  University  in  1837  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  He  then  began  a  course  of  study  at  the  Yale 
Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1840.  In  1853  he 
came  to  California,  and  from  that  time  till  June  12,  1889,  when 
Governor  Waterman  appointed  himSuperior  Judge  of  the  City  and 
County  of  San  Francisco  in  place  of  Jeremiah  F.  Sullivan,  resigned, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  In  1862  he  was  elected  to 
represent  San  Francisco  in  the  State  Senate,  and  he  also  presided 
over  the  High  Court  of  Impeachment  which  removed  Judge 
James  H.  Hardy  from  the  bench  of  the  old  Sixteenth  Judicial 
District.  He  was  also  a  memb  r  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
which  framed  the  present  Constitution  of  this  State.  The  deceased 
left  three  children,  Payne  J.,  James  C,  and  Julia  R.  Shatter.  His 
estate  is  supposed  to  be  worth  nearly  a  million  dollars. 


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/v\any  INIew  And  Attract 
tive    Features  This  \ear. 

FSiim™'FREDVC0X, 


MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

No.  912  GRAND  STREET,   ALAMEDA,   CAL. 

Miss  Manson,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  School,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.  Mauson,  Late  Associate  Principal,  East  End  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  begad  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Fanneron. 

ZISKA    INSTITUTE, 

1606  Van  Ness  Avenue. 

French,  German  and  English  Day  and  Boarding  School  for  young 
ladies  and  children. 
A  refined  home  with  the  best  educational  advantages. 

Next  Term  Opens  August  1,  1892. 

MME.  B.  ZISKA,  M.  A.,  Principal. 
MR.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Del  Monte  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  26th    day    of   July,    1892,    an    assessment  (No.    6)    of    Ten   Cents 

fier  share  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately,  la  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  aud  17.  No.  310  Pine  street.  8an  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, or  to  W.  A.  0.  Paul  Transfer  Agent,  52  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  6th  Day  of  September.  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  5th  day  of  October,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15  and  17,  310  Pine  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 

Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

INGLENOOK  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  8an 
Francisco  prices  aud  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  their 
orders  in  time  with 

F.  A.  HABER, 

Office  and  Depot  Inglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


"  QTOLE  "  draperies  of  transparent  or  semi-transparent  fabrics 
O  are  added  to  tbe  walking  costumes  worn  by  married  and 
middle-aged  women.  The  stoles  may  be  worn  in  front  only  when 
the  center  part  talis  loose,  bat  the  part  at  the  side  is  kept  in  place 
by  tbe  band.  The  stole  consists  of  two  long,  wide  scarfs,  one  on 
either  side,  gathered  in  several  rows  on  the  shoulders.  At  the 
back  the  two  scarfs  meet  at  the  waist,  and  are  kept  in  place  by  a 
black  velvet  band.  The  sides  are  lilted  round  the  armholes  and 
under  tbe  arms,  bat  the  greater  part  of  the  front  falls  straight 
from  the  shoulder,  the  band  passing  through  the  stole  and  crossed 
in  front.  Tbe  four  ends  fall  nearly  to  the  edge  of  the  dress,  and 
are  trimmed  with  lace. 

A  quaint  conceit  of  young  women  is  that  of  affecting  velvet  Em- 
pire sleeves  in  such  bright  and  vivid  colors  as  red,  yellow,  green 
or  turquoise  blue  in  evening  gowns  of  an  entirely  different  color. 
With  these  are  worn  flat  bands  of  the  velvet,  which  are  carried 
across  the  front  to  the  center  of  the  back,  where  a  diamond  brooch 
fastens  them.  Matrons  wear  the  pretty  velvet  capes  which  widen 
on  the  shoulder  and  diminish  at  the  waist  line. 

A  very  swell  girl  curls  her  hair  on  silver  curling  tongs  that  have 
handles  after  the  Loub  Quinze  design,  which  are  very  elaborate 
and  very  troublesome  to  keep  clean ;  but  when  it  comes  to  a  ques- 
tion of  the  silver  on  her  dressing  case,  she  will  go  to  any  trouble, 
and  will,  if  she  can  get  no  one  else  to  do  it,  polish  it  herself  until 
it  is  as  bright  as  her  own  hair. 

A  brown  sailor  bat  shown  by  one  of  the  fashionable  hatters, 
and  after  received  fashion  as  far  as  its  shape  is  concerned,  is  made 
odd  by  having  a  stiff  band  of  green  and  blue  plaid  ribbon  about 
it.  It  seems  like  a  combination  of  the  sailor  and  tbe  bagpipes, 
and  it  looks  as  if  it  ought  not  to  go,  it  is  so  inharmonious. 

A  very  smart  girl  who  is  never  seen  in  the  day  time  except  in 
a  tailor-made  suit  has,  for  a  change,  elected  that  this  shall  be  of 
white  duck.  She  wears  with  the  cutaway  coat  a  double-breasted 
waistcoat,  and  above  it  her  white  shirt  shows  with  a  high  collar 
and  a  very  smart  white  tie. 

There  is  a  revival  of  fancy  for  the  full-basqued  coat,  that  of  the 
Ijouis  XVI.  type.  It  is  sometimes  fashioned  with  a  seam  round 
the  waist,  and  the  basque  cut  like  the  gored  skirts,  plaited  or 
gathered  beneath  a  belt,  which  is  of  black  satin  with  appliqu£  of 
jet. 


Grenadine,  gauze,  and  barege  are  all  fashionable  and  effective 
summer  materials.  The  newest  of  these  grenadines  have  a  small 
raised  rib  on  a  clear  ground  in  a  different  color,  and  among  the 
daintiest  of  these  are  those  with  a  cord  of  white  on  a  creme  ground. 

Lace  epaulettes  over  the  shoulders,  ending  on  the  chest  and 
back  in  a  kind  of  folded  fichu  arrangement,  and  puffed-elbow 
sleeves,  with  sabots  of  lace,  give  the  finishing  touches'to  the  ap- 
proved dress  for  young  ladies. 

The  sailor  hats  are  higher  in  the  crown,  wider  in  the  brim,  and 
altogether  more  mannish  than  those  of  last  year.  One  of  the 
jauntiest  is  made  of  rough  straw  in  a  dark  red  shade.  A  sombre 
black  band  is  the  only  trimming. 


Small  smocked  skirts  exactly  like  a  countryman's  smock  are 
worn  by  little  boys  of  three  in  short  trousers.  They  are  arranged 
with  a  fullness,  falling  over  the  waist  belt,  and  have  round,  turned- 
down  collars. 

For  ruchings  of  silk,  which  act  asja  foot  frill  upon  tbe  summer 
gowns  eav,  de  nil  and  rose  pink  is  an  exquisite  combination.  The 
effect  is  very  pretty  when  worn  at  the  bottom  of  a  black  grena- 
dine. 

The  fairest  girl  must  needs  look  fairer  when  clad  in  an  evening 
wrap  of  heliotrope  crape,  frilled  with  white  lace  edged  with  black 
velvet  bands,  and  finished  with  a  wide,  wired  white  lace  collar. 

A  pretty  summer  cloak  to  be  worn  over  light  or  bright  summer 
gowns  is  of  black  lace,  which  falls  in  loose,  unconnned  folds  to 
the  feet,  has  full  Bishop  sleeves  and  no  lining. 

Madame  Alma  E.  Keith  announces  her  fall  opening  for  Tues- 
day, Wednesday  and  Thursday  next,  at  24  Kearny  street.  The 
originality  of  the  styles  displayed,  and  the  imported  novelties 
shown  will  be  of  special  interest  to  the  appreciative  of  the  lovely 
in  the  milliner's  art. 


Moraghan's  oysters  are  known  to  b?  the  best  in  the  city, 
body  gets  them  at  his  stand  in  the  California  Market. 


Every 


GREAT  REDUCTION  SALE 


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f\     Jre/T)e9dous     Sacrifice. 

TO  CLEAR  THEM  OUT  THIS  MONTH, 


I)*?0/I\p/lFyiBCE     B/IF*Q/1I|MS     Iff 

Cloaks,  Dress  Goods,  Silks,  Laces,  Ribbons,    Gloves,    Hosiery, 

Underwear,  Gent's  Furnishing  Goods,  Wash  Dress 

Fabrics,   Housefurnishings,  Etc, 


Murphy  Building. 

MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


THE  BRENTWUOD-V    ^ 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  1835. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

31 7  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.  J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion G-uiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeoek  Co.,  Water- 
to  wn,  N.  Y. ;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 

HOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot— pot  lasts  three  months. 

Mrs.  Nettie  Harrison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.  Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    GUARANTEED    PERMANENT, 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  fair;    Extras  Hl&@$4.25:   Superfine,  $2.50@$3.00. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping,  fl.82^;   Milling,    $1.35@$1.40  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  95c.@?l  Feed,  87}<£c.@90c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  $1.40@?1. 45;  Feed,  $1.30@$1.85  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1.40;  Yellow,  $1.35@$l.37V£  per  ctl. 

Rye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  $1.20$$1.2o.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hayis  lower;  Wheat,  $9;  Oat8,  J8@|9;  Alfalfa,  $7@$9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $16@|16.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00@$2.50  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  40c.@70c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady;  Choice,  20c.@25c;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  25c.@30c. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc.@12c:  Extracted,  6c.@7c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  15c@40c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25e. 

Fruits-all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7^c.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  b}4c-@5%c. 

Coffee  firmer  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $43.50  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demand  at  15@18c. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.  Whites,  4%(c&5?bC. 
The  present  low  price  of  Wheat  causes  light  deliveries  at  tide 
water,  farmers  not  anxious  to  force  sales.  There  is  one  thing 
favorable  to  growers,  wheat  bags  are  three  cents  lower  than  a 
year  ago,  and  this  is  a  big  item  to  growers,  as  all  our  grain  has  to 
be  sacked  before  marketing.  For  the  exporter  wheat  and  freights 
are  here  decidedly  in  their  favor.  A  year  ago  the  ruling  freight 
rate  to  Cork,  U.  K.,  was  45s.  and  upwards,  but  at  this  date  21s. @ 
22s.  is  the  quotable  rate.  But  the  price  of  wheat  in  Great  Britain 
is  some  $14  per  ton  less  than  a  year  ago.  AH  things  considered, 
our  farmers  are  inclined  to  hold  on  for  a  time. 

Fruit-growing  is  rapidly  coining  to  the  front  as  one  of  the  lead- 
ing items  of  our  many  products.  Canning  Apricots,  Peaches, 
etc.,  are  big  items;  then  the  drying  of  Apples,  Apricots,  Prunes, 
etc.,  are  of  vast  extent;  then  we  have  the  Grape  and  Raisin 
traffic,  both  important  items.  To  these  must  be  added  the  Wine 
and  Brandy  products.  Each  and  all  having  a  prominent  place, 
both  locally  and  for  export.  Ripe  fruits,  both  citrus  and  decidn- 
ous,  are  leading  items  in  shipments  overland  to  Eastern  cities, 
while  some  dozens  of  train-loads  of  choice  fruits  have  recently 
found  a  market  in  London.  So  far  as  we  are  advised,  fruit  ship- 
ments Eastward  by  rail  this  season  have  been  profitable,  and 
there  does  not  appear  to  be  any  limit  to  the  demand  for  onr  choice 
fruits,  be  it  green,  dried  or  canned;  the  great  secret  of  success  is 
in  selecting  choice  fruit  and  fancy  packing,  to-be  attractive  to  the 
eye  and  to  the  taste. 

The  Orient. — The  treasure  shipment  hence,  per  steamer  City  of 
Rio  de  Janeiro,  August  27th,  aggregated  $491,509,  say  to  China, 
$425,509;  to  Japan,  $46,000.  Her  cargo  consisted  of  11,450  bbls. 
Flour,  9,655  lbs.  Ginseng,  1,020  gals.  Whale  Oil,  etc.,  value  $87,349. 
To  Japan,  1,208  bbls.  Flour,  1,083  gals.  Wine  and  Mdse,  value 
$15,530.     To  other  ports,  75  cs.  Canned  Goods,  etc. 

The  Western  Sugar  Refinery  Company  have  advanced  the 
price  of  all  grades  %  cent  per  pound.  This  is  the  first  change 
since  April  7th. 

The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  San  Jose,  16  days  from  the  Isthmus 
and  way  ports,  had  New  York  cargo  of  169  pkgs.  Sheetings 
(Steel),  Iron  Pipe  in  large  quantities.  From  Europe,  12  pkgs. 
Cottons  and  Linens,  189  pkgs.  Oil  and  paint  Stores,  65  bbls. 
Wine,  40  bbls.  Brandy,  and  sundry  mdse.  From  Central  America, 
105  sks.  Coffee,  etc.  From  Mexico,  1,059  cs.  Limes,  etc.,  380  sks. 
Ore,  60  pkgs.  Treasure,  value  $58,114. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  City  of  Sydney,  for  the  Isthmus,  carried,  en 
route  to  New  York,  21,962  gals,  and  21  cs.  Wine,  584  gals.  Brandy, 
8,302  ctls.  Barley,  68.264  lbs.  Beans,  109,915  lbs.  Borax,  115  bbls. 
Glue,  2,205  lbs.  Isinglass,  23,352  lbs.  Mustard  Seed,  60  bales  Rags, 
etc.,  value  $32,854.  For  Central  America,  156  bbls.  Flour,  553 
sks.    Potatoes,   19,550   lbs.   Tallow,   4,300  gals.   Wine,  1,040  ctls. 

Wheat,  etc.,  value  $22,000.     To  Mexico,  75  flsks.  Quicksilver  and 

Mdse.,    value    $4,500.     To   Panama,    30,000   lbs.    R:ce,   517    bbls. 

Flour  and  Mdse.,  value  $12,000.     To   South    America,  1,000  bbls. 

Flour,  etc.,    value   $5,256.     To    Philadelphia,    2,551    gals.     Wine, 

value  $775. 

Hawaiian  Islands. — The  bkte.  Planter,  26  days  from  Honolulu, 

brought   for   cargo    7,058  bags  Sugar;  bkte.  8.  N.  Castle,  21  days 

from  same,  baa  for  cargo,  8,024  bags  Sugar,  307  kegs  Molasses  and 

2,370  bags  Rice.     The  steamship  Australia,  7  days  from  Honolulu, 

had   for   cargo    8,953    bags  Sugar,   5,703    bags   Rice,  5,970    bchs. 

Bananas,  578  bdls.  Hides,  140  cs.  Fruit  and  other  Mdse. 
Exports  to  the  Islands,  per  schr.  John  G.  North,  August  27th, 

consisted  of  mdse.,    value,   $6,366,    bound    for   Mahukona,    say, 

40,388  lbs.  rolled   Barley,  268  bbls.  Flour,  57  bales  Hay,  2,836  lbs. 

Lard,  etc. 

For  Debilitated  Men!  If  you  desire  to  be  restored  to  complete 
vigor  and  manhood,  promptly,  permanently  and  cheaply,  we  will 
send  you  full  particulars  (sealed)  of  a  reliable,  unfailing  Home 
Treatment  free.  No  electric  nonsense,  no  stomach  drugging. 
Address  Albion  Pharmacy  Co.,  Box  L,  Albion,  Mich. 


H.    :&-£.    ZLSTE'WH.A.IjXj    <Sc    CO-, 


SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 


GENERAL    INSUBANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco 
National  Assurance  Company      -  -       -       -      of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company    ------    of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


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Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction; 
"Wood" 

Arc: 
Factories  : 
Fort  Wayne, 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 

General   Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Estimates   furnished   for  electric  railways,  electric 

Marine  work 


Indiana;:  light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc 

Br°&ke1rYork:aspec,aMy- 
j, .....'.+.  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old   Scale   Removed,  Formation  of  New  Scale  Prevented. 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 

LLEWELLYN     FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

vOver  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast. J 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212*.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Fine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


R.    J.    WHEELER. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Lade w. 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 
UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 
The  Cunard  Royal   Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 


Company, 
'The  California  Line  of   Clippers," 

from  New  York, 
'The  Hawaiian  Line  of  PacketB," 

to  and  from  Honolulu. 


Hartmanu's  Bahtjen's  Composition 
The  China  Traders  &  Insurance  Co. 

(L'd.), 
The    Baldwin  Locomotive  Works, 

Steel  Bails  and  Track  Material. 


J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC     STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

GIL.LINGHAM     CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

8AN    FRANCI8CO. 


PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET. 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD    AND    IRON    WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING.   OILS  AND   SUPPLIE8. 


LOUIS    CAHEN    &    SON, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers- 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters,  Cordials,  etc. 
Pacific  Coast  Agents  Beihesda  Mineral  Water. 

418  Sacramento  Street,  S.  F. 

pacific  towel  co:M::p.A.:r>rir, 

9     LICK     PLACE, 
Furnishes  clean  Tom  els  at  the  following  low  rates: 

Clean  Hand  Towels  each  week,  ?1.00  per  mouth ;  12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  month ;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per 
6  month ;  6  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.26  per  month. 


Sept.  3.  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  \K\Vs  LETTER. 


SOUTHER*   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Trains  Uav«  and   nre  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN      FRANCISCO: 

L*ati  '      From  Sep*imb  r  3,  1892.      I  Auiti 

Tin  a,.  Benin*.  Rumsey,  Sacra: 

7  JO  a.  Uayward*.  Ntletand  Ban  Joae      "U  Ifif 

Nile*  and  Ban  Jo*e  16-15  r 

7J0a.  Martloei.  San  Ramon,  CalUtoga 

and  Santa  Rota  6  I5p 

8:00a.  Sacrmm'toA  Redding,  via  Davis       706F. 
8;Q0a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

K**t.         9:i5p. 

8:30a.  Nile*.  San  Jo*e,  Stockton.  lone, 
Sacramento,   MarTsvUle,  Oro- 

rilleand  Red  Blu'ff        4:45  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express.  Los  An- 

Seles,  Demi  lie,  El   Paso,   New 
rleans and  East 8-45P. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton  ...      *8:45r. 

U-OOm.  Bay  ward  8,  Niles  and  Llvermore     7:15  p. 

•1:00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9K)0p. 

1 :30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez.   .     .  12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose         9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  945  a. 

4:00p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga.  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa    9.45  a. 

4:30  p.  Benicla,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10  :45  a. 

4:30p.  Woodland  and  Oroville  10:45a. 

•4^*0  p.  Niles  and  Livermore. .  *8:45a. 

5.30p.  Los    Angeles    Express,    Fresco. 
Bakersfleld,   Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles.    8.45a. 

5  30 p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East  8:45  a. 

6:00p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose. .      7:45a. 

%KW  p.  Sanol  and  Livermore  

6:00  p.  European  M*il  Ogden  and  East    9:15  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00  p.  Shasta  Route  ExpresB,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Pnget  Sound  and  East. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

J7  :45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    (8:05  p. 

8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6:20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
SantaCruz- *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jo8e,  Los  Gatos.     9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  a  id  Townsend  Streets). 
•7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 

tions *2:S8p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion J8:28p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TreB  Pinos.Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Hobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luie  Obispo} 
and  priucipal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
19:30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  t2:45p. 
10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  .  6:03p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:SQp. 

*2:80p.  San  Jose,  TresPInos,  SantaCruz, 
Salinas,  Monterey,  PacificGrove 
and  principal  Way  Stations.  ...*10:37a. 
•8:30  p.  San    Jose,    Gilroy    and      Prin- 
cipal Way  Stations ..    *9:47a. 

♦4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8:06  a. 

5:15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48  a. 

6:30  P.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...      6:35  a. 
fll:46p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  p. 

A.  for  Morning.  p. for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

ISundays  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 

Sing  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
alls,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 
FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 
S.  8.  Monowai  . .  .Friday,  September  16,  at  2  p.  m. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 
S.  8.  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  31, 1892,  at  2  p.  m. 
For  Freight   or   Pasaage  apply  at    Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRKCKEL3  &  BROS.  CO, 

General  AgentB 


CONSUMPTION. 

I  have  a  positive  remedy  for  the  above  disease;  by  its 
nee  thousands  of  oases  of  the  worst  kind  and  of  long 
standing  have  been  curod.  Indeed  so  strong  is  my  faith 
in  its  efficacy,  th<it  I  will  send  TWO  dottles  j-t  ek,  with 
a  VALUABLE  TREATISE  on  this  disease  to  any  suf- 
ferer who  will  send  me  their  Express  and  P.  O.  address. 
T.  A,  Slocnm,  31.  C.<  183  Pearl  Su,  N.  Y. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

TniiornH  List  to  Nkw  Yost,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  aatl  at  NOON  on  the  6th,   l.'tli  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  8.  S.  "City  of  New  York," 

September  26th;  6.  8  "San  Jo^e,"  September  5th; 

"San  Juan."  September  USth. 

Way  Lint  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.—  Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlau.  San  Bias,  Mauzanillo, 
Acapulco.  Port  Angel.  Sallna  Cruz,  Touala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  8nu  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rlnto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Sept.  19tb,  S.  S.  "  City  of  Pana- 
ma." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  September  17th,  at 

S.  S.'  "China,"  (via  Honolulu!,  Tuesday,  Sept.  27 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 
25th,  1892,  at  3  F.  M. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.        Branch  office— 202 
Front  street               ALEXANDER  CENTER, 
General  Agent. 

MERCHANTS     LINE. 


NEW    LINE    CLIPPER    SHIPS- 
New    York    to    San    Francisco. 

—THE  MAGNIFICENT  IRON  SHIP— 

T.  F.  OAKES, 

1897  tons  register,  REED,  Mas- 
ter, is  now  on  the  berth  at  New  York 
and  having  large  engagements  will 
receive  quick  dispatch.    For  freight  apply  to 
J.  W.  GRACE  &  CO., 

430  California  St.,  S.  F. 
W.  R.  GRACE  &  CO.,  Hanover  Square,  N.  Y. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  Bailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  P.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Oct.  6,1892. 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT    REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  TicketB 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship   Company's  Wharf,  San 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 
GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 

GEORGE  GOODMAN, 

PATENTEE    AND    MANUFACTURER  OF 

ARTIFICIAL      STONE 

IN    All,    ITS    BRANCHES. 

Office,  307  Montgomery  Street. 


THE  revenue  officers  are  having  lots  of 
fun  'n  the  Arctic  with  armament.  Any 
sort  of  a  craft  is  a  target  now,  and  under 
the  pla-ing  assumption  that  she  is  a 
poacher,  the  cannoneers  blaze  away,  and 
see  how  near  they  can  come  without  hitting 
her.  Here  is  where  the  marine  has  the  ad- 
vantage of  the  land  forces.  The  poor  fel- 
lows at  Alcatraz  and  the  Presidio  must  con- 
tent themselves  with  a  barrel  or  a  white 
patch   on  the  face  of  a  cliff. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    DONAHUE    BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notico,  Boftta  and  Tralna  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MAKKJET  STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Ralael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  a.  m.,  9:20  a.  m.,   11-20  A.  M.- 

1:30  r.  M.,  3:30  p.  m.,6:06  p.  m.,  6:20  p.  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  a.m., 9:30  a.m.,  11:00  a.m.;  1:30  P.M. 
3:30  P.  M.,  6:00  p.  m.,  6:16  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:26   a.   m.,  7:65  A.   M.,  9:30   A.  M. 

11:30  a.m.:  1:40  p.m.,  3:40  p.m.,  6:05  p.m. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
8UNDAY8— 8:10  a.m., 9:40  A.M.,  11:10 A.M.;  l:40p.M. 
3:40  p.  m.,  5:00 p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

r-rom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:65  A.M.,  11:65 
A.  M. ;  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:36  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35    A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.  M.,  4:05p.M.,  5:30 P.M.,  6:50  P.M. 


LBAVBS.F. 

Destination. 

AeeiveinS.F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40A.M. 
3:80  P.M. 
5:05  p.m. 

S  :00  a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00  p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

10:40 A.M  8:50a.  m. 
6:05p.m  10:30  A.M 
7:25p.m  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
CloveTdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:66a.  m. 

7:26p.'m. 

10:30a.  m 
6:10  p.m 

7:40a.M. 

8:00  A.M. 

Hopland 
and  ukiah. 

7:26  p.m. 

6:10  P.M. 

7:40  a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00a.  M. 

Querneville. 

7:26p.m. 

10:30a.m. 

6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
6:05  P.M. 

8:00A.M. 
5:00  P.M 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 

6:05p.m 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  a.  M 
3:30  p.M 

8:00a. M 

5:00  P.M 

Sebastopol.  j  10:40a. m 
!    6i05p.M 

10:80am 
6:10  p.m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  a  t  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyvllle,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Eartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Late,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  ?1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdshurg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen.  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa.  $1  60;  to  Healds- 
burg, $225;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. _^______ 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Obego:i,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hubneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


I  CURE  FITS! 

When  I  Bay  cure  I  do  not  mean  merely  to  stop  them 
for  a  time  and  then  have  them  return  agai  n.  I  mean  a 
radical  cure.  I  have  made  the  d.sease  of  FITS,  EPI- 
LEPSY or  FALLING  SICKNESS  a  life-long  study.  I 
warrant  my  remedy  to  cure  the  worst  cases.  Because 
others  have  failed  ia  no  reason  for  not  now  receiving  a 
euro.  Send  at  once  for  a  treatise  and  a  Free  Bottle  of 
my  infallible  remedy.  Give  Express  and  Post  Office. 
H.  G.  BOOT.  ML  C,  183  Pearl  St.,  N.  Y. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


LAST  week  was  the  gayest  of  the  season  at  Del  Monte,  and  the 
crowd  there  on  Saturday  last  has  seldom  been  equalled,  never 
surpassed.  Everything  passed  off  delightfully,  and  all  the  ar- 
rangements niadd  were  carried  out  to  perfection.  Now,  that  the 
outing  of  the  Country  Club  has  virtually  brought  the  out-of-town 
season  to  so  brilliant  a  conclusion/society  is  rapidly  Ending  its 
way  back  to  town  for  the  autumn  and  winter  season.  There  was 
agrand  aigbt  of  fashionables  from  Del  Monte  on  Monday  last, 
which  has  continued  all  week,  and  San  Francisco  has  been  en- 
riched by  the  return  to  their  homes  within  its  walls  of  a  goodly 
number  of  those  who  went  to  see  the  shoot,  and  of  others  who 
have  spent  the  greater  part  of  the  summer  at  the  seaside.  How- 
ever, it  must  not  be  supposed  that  for  that  reason  gaieties  are  to 
be  immediately  commenced  in  town.  Houses  have  to  be  freed  of 
their  every  summer  accumulation  of  dust  and  set  in  order; 
matrons  have  winter  costumes  to  order,  and  the  thousand  and 
one  items  to  attend  to  before  feeling  prepared  for  the  winter 
campaign.  So,  for  yet  a  few  weeks  longer,  we  must  not  look  for 
much  activity  in  society  circles  in  this  city. 


.Every  country  has  ceremonies  peculiar  to  itself,  and  in  none 
possibly  are  they  more  marked  than  in  the  different  forms  of 
tying  the  nuptial  knot.  The  marriage  of  Miss  Leonora  Luna,  a 
Guatemala  heiress,  to  Senor  Don  Edourda  Rubio  Pilona,  at  St. 
Mary's  Cathedral  last  Saturday  illustrated  the  manner  in 
which  the  service  is  conducted  in  Central  America. 
In  the  first  place  the  wedding  party,  which  con- 
sisted of  the  bride  and  groom,  and  their  attendants,  were 
met  in  the  vestibule  by  Bishop  Rubio,  a  brother  of  the 
groom,  who  read  to  them  the  marriage  laws  and  ritual  of  the 
orthodox  Spanish  Catholic  Church,  after  which  the  bride  and 
groom  exchanged  rings,  thus  performing  the  major  part  of  the 
ceremony  on  the  outside,  so  to  speak.  The  party  then  pro- 
ceeded to  the  altar,  where  the  rest  of  the  ceremony  took  place. 
Lighted  tapers  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  bride  and  groom 
by  one  of  the  altar  boys.  Then  a  long  string  of  white  cut  beads 
was  wound  around  their  necks,  and  an  exquisite  white  silk  scarf, 
embroidered  in  gold  braid  and  lined  with  scarlet  silk,  was  placed 
around  their  shoulders.  The  nuptial  high  mass  was  then  cele- 
brated, after  which  the  beads  and  scarf  were  removed  and  the 
ceremony  was  at  an  end.  The  bride's  costume  was  of  heavy 
white  silk,  made  with  a  court  train,  and  richly  trimmed  with 
point  lace,  a  point-lace  vail,  and  wreath  of  orange  blossoms  com- 
pleting it.  That  worn  by  Bishop  Rubio,  of  Costa  Rica,  was  one 
of  the  most  gorgeous  ever  seen  in  San  Francisco.  The  skirt  was 
of  lustrous  black  satin,  a  white  tunic  bordered  with  a  deep  lace 
flounce,  which,  like  the  large  sleeves,  was  of  rare  old  Spanish 
lace.  The  cape  was  of  white  silk,  heavy  with  gold  embroidery. 
A  wedding  breakfast  was  partaken  of  at  the  residence  of  Senor 
de  Urioste,  on  Jackson  street,  an  old  Guatemala  friend  of  both 
the  contracting  parties,  and  later  in  the  day  the  newly-wedded 
couple  departed  for  Monterey,  where  the  honeymoon  will  be 
spent  at  Del  Monte. 


Judge  Garber's  villa  home,  at  Clareruont,  was  the  scene  of  a 
very  pretty  ceremony  laBt  Tuesday,  when  his  daughter  Belle  was 
married  to  Whitney  Palache  by  the  Rev.  T.  C.  Easton.  Upon 
entering  the  house  a  bewildering  profusion  of  palms  and  ferns, 
linked  together  by  long  sprays'  of  smilax,  met  the  eye,  smilax 
also  adorning  the  window  frames  and  stairway.  Palms,  pink 
lilies,  roses  and  smilax  were  artistically  grouped  in  the  parlors 
where  the  ceremony  was  performed,  a  lovely  true-lover's  knot 
taking  the  place  of  the  customary  wedding  bell,  beneath  which 
the  bridal  party  stood  during  the  service.  About  thirty  guests 
were  present,  the  family  bereavement  necessitating  a  quiet  wed- 
ding rather  than  the  gay  one  previously  intended.  A  handsome 
wedding  dejeuner  followed  the  ceremony.  Society  the  other  side 
of  the  bay  will  mourn  the  loss  of  one  of  its  most  popular  belles 
by  this  marriage,  as  for  some  time  to  come  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Palache 
will  reside  in  Portland,  Oregon,  where  Mr.  Palache  has  of  late  set 
up  his  household  goods. 


September  promises  to  be  a  delightful  month  in  the  mountains, 
and  many  of  the  guests  at  Castle  Crags  will  show  their  appre- 
ciation of  life  in  that  charming  locality  by  remaining  at  the  Tav- 
ern until  the  last  possible  moment,  and  there  see  "  the  season  " 
out.  Mrs.  Easton  and  her  grand  children,  the  young  Crockers, 
do  not  propose  leaving  their  cottage  at  Castle  Crags  until  the  first 
week  in  October.  The  Misses  Goad  will  also  be  among  the  last 
to  leave,  as  well  as  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Russ  Wilson.  Mrs.  Cheesemau 
and  Miss  Jennie,  and  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones,  who  are  there  at  present 
and  intend  to  spend  the  month  of  September.  Mrs.  Louis  Par- 
rott,  who  made  a  fcr  n'ghts  \isit  to  Mrs.  Easton  returned  to  town 
early  in  the  week.  Other  arrivals  from  Castle  Crags  are  the  Mc- 
Nutts,  Mrs.  James  Carolan  and  her   daughter,  Mias  Ella.  Adams. 


Very  quiet  but  very  elegant  was  the  marriage,  on  Wednesday 
afternoon,  of  Miss  Belie  Garber,  of  Claremont,  to  Mr.  Whitney 
Palache.  The  ceremony  waB  held  in  the  beautiful  residence  of 
Judge  Garber,  on  College  avenue,  but  owing  to  a  recent  death  in 
the  Palache  family,  it  was  as  unpretentious  as  possible.  The 
ritual  was  read  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Easton,  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal 
Church;  Charles  Palache  was  best  man,  Miss  Lida  Garber  maid 
of  honor,  and  Miss  Nellie  McKeew  bridesmaid.  Miss  Juliet 
Garber  and  Miss  Canavan  also  attended  on  the  services;  all  the 
ladies  mentioned  being  attired  in  pretty  gowns  of  the  Empire 
style.  After  a  luncheon,  the  afternoon  was  devoted  to  the  recep- 
tion of  a  few  immediate  friends,  and  the  happy  couple  left  on  the 
7  o'clock  train  for  a  trip  to  Victoria. 

Dr.  Spaulding,  of  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church,  was  in  demand 
on  Thursday  evening  of  last  week,  for  besides  marrying  Miss 
Jennie  Marshall  to  Mr.  Philip  Bates,  at  St.  Luke's  Church,  he  the 
same  evening  performed  the  ceremony  which  united  Miss  Kate 
Root  to  0.  A.  Fletcher,  at  the  home  of  the  bride  on  Pine  street. 
Miss  Anna  Root  was  her  sister's  Maid-of-Honor,  the  Misses  Rose 
and  Sophie  Faull  officiating  as  bridesmaids,  and  Cornelius  Roman, 
the  groom's  cousin,  was  his  best  man.  The  house  was  beauti- 
fully decorated  for  the  occasion,  and  a  large  number  of  guests 
were  present  to  wish  the  young  couple  health  and  happiness. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fletcher  left  town  the  next  day,  to  spend  their 
honeymoon  at  the  Hotel  Vendome,  in  San  Jose. 


Mr.  Robert  McMillan,  and  his  sisters  Jennie  and  Emma,  who 
have  spent  the  summer  between  Blythedale  and  Larkspur  Inn,  re- 
turned to  town  last  week,  and  at  once  the  cards  were  sent  out 
for  the  wedding  of  Miss  Emma  and  Ellis  Wooster,  which  will  be 
solemnized  at  the  McMillan  residence,  on  Ridley  street,  next 
Wednesday  evening.  The  ceremony  will  be  witnessed  by  only  a 
few  relatives  and  intimate  friends;  but  for  the  reception  which 
will  follow,  a  large  number  of  guests  are  expected  to  be  present. 
The  bride's  sister,  Miss  Emma  McMillan,  will  be  Maid-of-Honor, 
the  Misses  Daisy  Farnsworth,  Susie  Wells,  Sarah  Dean  and 
Gertrude  Goeing  bridesmaids,  and  W.  B.  Cook  will  be  the  groom's 
best  man. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henley  Smith  are  moving  leisurely  about  the 
continent  of  Europe  and  enjoying  their  travels  greatly,  Mr. 
Smith's  health  decidedly  benefitting  thereby.  Mrs.  Robert  Mor- 
rison is  their  compagnon  du  voyage.  Mrs.  Charles  Nelson  and  Miss 
Georgia  Emerson  were  in  Germany  at  last  accounts.  Mrs.  and 
Miss  Head  are  in  Switzerland,  as  was  also  Miss  Louise  Moulder. 
Mr.  Robert  Sherwood,  the  Misses  Voorhies,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Jost, 
Mrs.  Mamie  Hastings,  Miss  Laura  McKinstry  and  Miss  Florence 
Lockwood  were  in  Paris,  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Smith  and  her 
daughter  in  Germany.  Mrs.  Barreda  and  Miss  Ruth  Barreda  were 
among  the  Californians  who  were  present  at  the  recent  Wagner 
Festival  in  Beyreuth. 


The  war  between  Francis  E.  Murphy  and  the  ministers  of  Oak- 
land has  been  openly  declared.  They  are  unwilling  to  allow 
him  the  use  of  the  Mills  Tabernacle  for  Sunday  services.  His 
backers,  the  chief  of  whom  is  Mrs.  M.  R.  Blake,  President  of  the 
Non-Partisan  W.  C.  T.  U.,  says  that  they  will  settle  the  matter 
by  building  a  tabernacle  of  their  own,  and  this  lady  proposes 
(and  is  able  tn  do  it)  to  contribute  a  goodly  sum  for  the  purpose. 
One  of  the  objections  to  Murphy  by  the  ministers  and  the  ladies 
of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  is  that  he  has  never  spoken  against  the  use  of 
tobacco  nor  fashionable  follies,  whatever  his  private  opinion  may 
be.  It  Ib  a  fight  that  bids  fair  to  wax  hotter  than  the  water  front 
warfare.  

The  first  benefit  musicale  of  the  season  took  place  at  the  resi- 
dence of  Mrs.  T.  .F.  Northey,  on  Eddy  street,  last  Thursday 
evening,  and  was  a  success.  It  was  given  in  aid  of  the  choir 
fund  of  the  Bush-street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  the 
participants,  Mrs.  Walter  G.  Fonda,  the  Misses  May  Wood,  Alice 
Graham,  Annie  Gibson,  Helen  M.  Swayne,  Gertrude  Judd  and 
Pearl  Noble,  and  Messrs.  Harry  Fonda  and  Will  Wood,  acquitted 
themselves  with  credit,  and  gave  much  pleasure  to  their  audience, 
which  was  a  targe  one.  Another  musical  event  of  the  week  was 
the  piano  recital  given  by  Otto  Bendix,  at  Irving  Hall,  on  Tues- 
day evening. 

Gaieties  can  scarcely  be  said  to  be  commencing  the  other  side 
of  the  bay,  as  they  have  continued  during  the  entire  summer, 
with  scarcely  any  intermission  at  all.  However,  to  Mrs.  Irving 
Ayres  may  be  awarded  the  credit  of  opening  the  autumn  "  tea" 
season  with  a  very  pleasant  tea  last  Friday,  at  her  pretty  home, 
on  Fourteenth  and  Oak  streets.  It  was  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Young  Women's  Christian  Home  building  fund,  and  was  very 
largely  attended.  Miss  Craig  and  Miss  Holbrooke,  who  presided 
over  the  lemonade  stand  did  an  immense  business,  and  the  other 
booths  had  no  cause  whatever  for  complaint.  The  floral  decora- 
tions were  in  excellent  taste,  and  the  whole  affair  was  a  success. 


Miss  Rachel  Vrooman,  whose  engagement  to  L.  D.  Kip,  Jr.,  the 
grandson  of  Bishop  Kip,  has  just  been  announced,  resides  with 
her  mother  at  Claremont,  in  the  pretty  home  purchased  some 
years  ago  by  the  late  Senator  Vrooman. 


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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Tbr  California  Camera  Club  lector*,  at  Metropolitan  Hall,  last 
Friday  evening,  when  II r.  McD.  Johnston*  cbose  ai  bis  theme. 
•  Proa  the  Mluhnlppl  Delta  to  the  Colombia  River."  was  largely 
attended  and  greatly  enj  Dcoclng  next  Tuesday  even- 

ing and  continuing  the  rest  of  the  week.  Ibe  club  will  hold  their 
first  annual  exhibition,    at  the  Ar-  in  rooms,    on  Pine 

street.  Later  in  the  month  a  benefit  exhibition  will  be  held  at 
Metropolitan  Hall.  The  excursion  made  by  the  club  last  Sunday  to 
Marin  county,  was,  it  Is  said,  not  a  success,  and  is  rather  a  ten- 
der subject  to  touch  upon  in  the  hearing  of  any  of  those  who  were 
of  the  party. 

The  First  United  Stales  Infantry  were  the  recipients  of  many 
hospitalities  during  their  camp  at  Santa  Cruz.  The  event  of  their 
last  week  was  the  bnllshead  breakfast  given  in  honor  of  the  offi- 
cers, and  was  greatly  enjoyed.  Mrs.  Shatter,  Mrs.  Dougherty, 
Mrs.  McKittrick,  Mrs.  Frank  McLaughlin,  Mrs.  Jetler  and  the 
Misses  Morrison,  McLaughlin,  Waldemayer,  Chase  and  Barcley 
were  the  ladies  of  the  parly.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delmas  also  gave  a 
breakfast  at  the  Casino  in  their  honor,  and  the  table  decorations 
were  spoken  of  as  being  particularly  pretty  and  the  affair  very 
enjoyable. 


It  is  quite  on  the  cards  that  San  Francisco  will  soon  be  called 
upon  to  say  adieu  to  one  of  its  oldest  business  men ;  one  who  has 
been  identi6ed  with  its  growth  for  several  decades,  and  knowD  as 
an  upright,  reliable  citizen.  The  one  alluded  to  is  Captain  W.  L. 
Merry,  who  has  recently  retired  from  business  here,  and  is 
seriously  contemplating  a  removal  with  his  family  to  Central 
America.  His  connection  with  the  Nicaragua  Canal  project,  in 
which  he  is  largely  interested,  will  no  doubt  be  the  influence  that 
will  decide  him  to  make  the  move,  and  should  he  go,  bis  depart- 
ure will  cause  mucn  regret  to  the  numerous  friends  be  and  bis 
family  possess  in  San  Francisco,  to  whom  they  will  be  a  sad  loss. 

The  Outhouts  will  spend  the  winter  at  the  California  Hotel. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Winslow  Anderson  will  make  the  Palace  Hotel  their 
residence  during  the  winter  months.  Mrs.  G.  T.  Lawton,  Miss 
Theresa  Lawton,  Mrs.  E.  B.  Coleman,  Miss  Blanding,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Webster  Jones,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred.  Green,  will  be  among  the 
guests  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu,  on  Van  Ness  avenue.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  L.  Chapman,  nee  Moseby,  will  take  up  their  residence  at 
the  California  Hotel  upon  their  return  from  Mount  Shasta,  where 
they  are  spending  their  honeymoon. 


Herman  Shainwald  is  among  the  late  arrivals  from  Europe. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  B.  Alexander  and  family  are  about  due  in  New 
York  upon  their  return  from  Europe,  where  they  have  been  all 
summer.  They  will  pass  the  winter  in  New  York  of  course. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Sharon  will  not  spend  this  winter  in  San 
Francisco,  as  it  was  at  one  time  supposed  they  intended  doing, 
but  expect  to  leave  for  the  City  of  Gotham  some  time  this  month  ; 
Mrs.  Henry  Janin  will  accompany  them.  Mrs.  Pedar  Satber  in- 
tends to  go  East  in  about  two  weeks. 


Mrs.  McLaughlin  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Agnes,  will  remain  at 
Santa  Cruz  for  several  weeks  longer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Caro- 
lan  will  remain  in  San  Rafael  only  a  few  weeks  longer,  as  they 
purpose  coming  over  to  San  i'rancisco  early  next  month  for  the 
winter  season.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  O.  G.  Miller  will  spend  the 
winter  months  in  8an  Francisco,  and  with  that  end  in  view  have 
taken  a  house  on  Jackson  street.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Ivers  will,  it  is 
said,  spend  the  month  of  November  in  California. 

This  will  be  a  gala  day  at  La  Loma  Park,  in  Berkeley,  which 
Captain  and  Mrs.  Thomas  have  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  ladies 
of  the  Unitarian  Church,  wherein  to  hold  a  Fete  Champetre.  They 
have  made  arrangements  that  insures  a  good  time  to  all  who  at- 
tend. There  will  be  music,  tennis,  croquet  and  other  games, 
and  best  of  all  dancing,  to  say  nothing  of  the  feast  which  will  be 
spread  between  the  hours  of  three  and  seven,  so  what  doubt  can 
there  be  that  success  will  crown  their  efforts? 


The  last  Panama  steamer  carried  away  a  number  of  pleasant 
people.  In  addition  to  Mrs.  Gashwiler  and  her  daughters,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Edwin  Mills,  who  are  en  route  to  Europe,  and  the 
Misses  Burnett  were  among  the  passengers,'  who  anticipated  an 
enjoyable  trip.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  C.  Bigelow  and  their  daughter 
have  also  gone  East,  overland,  where  they  will  remain  until  late 
in  November.  Mrs.  M.  A.  Barns  and  Miss  Lillian  have  been  vis- 
iting Newport,  L.  I. 

The  News  Letteb  announced  some  weeks  ago  that  a  big  social 
affair  about  to  be  undertaken  in  Oakland  was  to  be  a  presentation 
of  As  You  Like  It  on  the  lawn  at  Captain  Ainsworth's  charming 
place  at  Claremont.  Preparations  for  it  are  now  progressing  and 
the  preliminary  arrangements  are  about  made.  Jack  Wilson  will 
be  Orlando,  and  Mrs.  Allan  Babcock  Rosalind.  The  entertain- 
ment will  be  for  the  benefit  of  one  of  the   charitable  institutions. 


A  cable  dispatch  tells  ns  that  Miss  Amy  Green  was  married  to 
Sir  James  Home-Spiers,  at  St.  George's,  Hanover  Square,  London, 
on  Tuesday  last,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  and  fashionable  as- 
semblage. 


The  Friday  Ni^-lit  Cotillion  Club  is  not,  It  seems,  to  be  the  only 
one  In  the  field  this  winter,  and  while  several  are  under  discussion, 
one  has  already  taken  shape  and  the  details  will  be  formally  an- 
nounced in  a  few  days.  John  Fetherstone  is  said  to  be  regarded 
as  the  leading  spirit  of  this  particular  one,  Mrs.  Edwards  and  the 
McKees  proving  able  assistants  in  the  getting  up  of  the  club, 
which  will  be  limited  to  thirty  members. 

Among  recently  announced  engagements  is  that  of  Miss  Mary 
Foy,  of  Oakland,  to  Dr.  Pierson,  a  Presbyterian  clergyman,  of 
New  York,  and  early  in  October  is  tbe  date  set  for  the  wedding 
to  take  place.  Next  Sunday  will  be  the  wedding  day  of  Miss 
Frances  Asher  and  Emil  Ellinger,  when  the  ceremony  will  take 
place  at  the  Asher  residence,  on  Webster  street,  and  the  family 
being  in  mourning,  it  will  be  a  very  quiet  affair. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Newlands  are  among  our  last  acquisitions, 
having  arrived  from  their  home  at  Reno,  Nev.,  last  Tuesday, 
with  the  intention  of  making  a  visit  to  San  Francisco  of  some 
duration  this  time.  Professor  Joseph  Le  Conte  has  returned 
from  his  flying  trip  the  other  side  of  the  mountains.  The  Walter 
Deans,  Mrs.  M.  S.  Latham,  A.  L.  Tubbs,  Mrs.  John  Boggs,  and 
the  McGavins,  are  among  the  week's  arrival  from  Del  Monte. 

Belvedere  promises  to  be  the  autumn  abode  of  many  of  our 
residents,  after  their  return  from  the  inland  resorts  where  the 
summer  season  has  been  passed.  It  is  filling  up  again  now  rap- 
idly, and  the  fall  season  there  promises  to  be  a  lively  one.  Indeed, 
quite  a  number  will  remain  there  all  winter,  and  talk  of  making 
their  permanent  home  in  that  to  them  delightful  locality. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Theodore  Payne  are  spending  a  few  weeks  at  their 
cottage  at  Menlo  Park.  Mrs.  John  Nightingale  and  the  Misses 
Minnie  and  Georgie  have  been  visiting  Soda  Bay.  Mrs.  N.  G. 
Kittle  and  her  son  were  among  the  recent  guests  at  Napa  Soda 
Springs,  previous  to  going  to  Del  Monte.  H.  B.  M.  Consul  Denis 
Donahoe  and  family  will  remain  all  winter  in  San  Rafael. 


The  first  hop  of  the  autumn  season  was  given  at  the  Presidio 
last  Tuesday  evening,  and  as  nsual  with  all  like  gatherings  of  that 
kind  at  the  post,  was  very  pleasant.  One  of  the  belles  of  the 
evening  was  Miss  Wilson,  a  tall,  handsome  blonde,  the  daughter 
of  Chief  Paymaster  Wilson  of  tbe  army,  and  who,  being  a  recent 
arrival,  made  her  first  appearance  that  evening. 

Miss  Mary  Fox  and  Miss  Beatrice  Priest,  Oakland's  two  sweet 
songsters,  are  about  to  return  to  the  East  to  continue  their  musical 
studies.  A  farewell  concert  was  tendered  to  them  in  the  Athenian 
City  on  Thursday  evening,  the  artists  (in  addition  to  the  benefi- 
ciaries) being  A.  T.  Stewart,  H.  H.  Lawrence,  Jr.,  Dan  Lawrence, 
J.  J.  Morris,  and  H.  A.  Melvin. 


Charley  Fair  has  returned  from  his  Eastern  trip,  and  Joe  Tobin 
returned  in  time  to  assist  at  tbe  Del  Monte  festivities  last 
week,  greatly  to  the  delight  of  several  of  the  belles  there  residing. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moody  and  Miss  Moody  are  back  from  their  trip  to 
the  Orient,  and  Mr.  H.  J.  Crocker  is  again  in  town  from  his  hur- 
ried visit  to  Salt  Lake. 


Returns  to  town  include  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mayo  Newhall,  Maurice 
Dore  and  family,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Seligman,  from  San  Rafael; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Trias,  from  San  Jose;  Mrs.  Martel  and  her  daugh- 
ters, from  Santa  Cruz;  Mrs.  J.  M.  Seawell,  from  the  Blue  Lakes: 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Morrow,  from  Napa;  Mrs.  8.  F.  Thome,  from  Craig- 
tborne. 

Mrs.  W.  W.  Davis  returned  last  week  from  her  trip  to  the  East 
and  Europe.  Her  husband,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Davis,  of  St.  Luke's 
church,  remained  in  New  York  to  visit  relatives  and  will  not 
reach  here  until  the  first  week  in  October.  The  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Mason  returned  from  their  trip  to  Alaska  last  Wednes. 
day.  

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  S.  Crocker  are  in  New  York  city.  Mrs. 
and  Miss  Soule,  who  have  been  spending  the  summer  at  Fort 
William  Henry,  near  Lake  George,  will  probably  be  ready  to  re- 
turn to  the  coast  next  month.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  E.  B.  Perrin  have 
been  enjoying  the  pleasures  of  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

General  and  Mrs.  Turnbull  have  been  spending  some  days  in 
the  city  from  their  ranch  in  Southern  California.  Colonel  and 
Mrs.  Hawes  have  taken  a  house  on  the  corner  of  Washington 
and  Buchanan  streets,  where  Mrs.  Hawes  will  be  "at  home  "  on 
Fridays,  .  

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ignatz  Steinhart,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holbrook  and 
Miss  Nellie,  Mr.  J.  B.  Stetson,  Mrs.  R.  L.  Bunker,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  H.  H.  Sherwood,  have  been  enjoying  a  trip  to  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mrs.  Frank  Woodward,  nee  Chapman,  will  receive  her  friends 
on  Monday,  at  her  residence,  on  Bella  Vista  Heights,  Oakland. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Woodward  returned  from  their  honeymoon  trip  last 
week. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  3,  1892. 


A  butterfly  fete  will  be  given  in  the  gardens  of  Mrs.  Charles  B. 
Overacker,  at  Niles,  on  October  7th,  by  the  Ladies'  Aid  Society 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Episcopal  church.  Among  the  partici- 
pants in  the  entertainment  will  be  Mrs.  Dexter,  Miss  Grace  Hil- 
burn,  Alfred  Wilkie,  and  Harry  Melvin,  vocalists;  Miss  Brown, 
pianist;  Miss  Marie  Albright,  the  dramatic  reader,  who  won 
the  test  recital  at  the  Chicago  Conservatory.  The  fete  will  begin 
at  8  o'clock;  refreshments  will  be  served.  Tickets,  including  ice- 
cream, will  be  fifty  cents.     The   affair  promises  to  be  very  swell. 


Mrs.  Jemima  A.  Partridge,  mother  of  John  Partridge,  of  Dnt- 
ton  &  Partridge,  died  at  lngleside,  Menlo  Park,  on  the  morning 
of  August  25th  last.  She  left  three  sons  and  three  daughters. 
The  interment  was  at  Cypress  Lawn  Cemetery  on  August  27th. 
Mrs.  Partridge  was  a  native  of  Quebec,  Canada,  and  was  fifty- 
eight  years  old. 

The  party  last  8anday  night,  given  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  Coldstone,  1608  Geary  street,  in  honor  of  their  daughter 
Dora's  engagement  to  Mr.  Josephs.  Steiner,  was  a  brilliant  affair. 
There  were  nearly  200  present,  and  after  dancing,  at  midnight  a 
supper  was  spread.  Congratulatory  speeches  were  made,  and  a 
general  good  time  had  by  all  present. 

The  engagement  party  of  Miss  Martha  Green,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  A.  Green,  who  is  affianced  to  Mr.  Maurice  Van  Vleit, 
will  occur  to-morrow  evening  at  the  Green  residence,  1210  Ellis 
street. 


The  Encinal  Boat  Club  gave  the  first  of  their  "  at  home's  "  for 
the  season,  at  their  club-house,  in  Alameda,  last  night,  to  which 
a  large  number  of  guests  were  invited. 


General  Dimond  gave  a  pleasant  dinner  party  last  week,  in 
honor  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Philip  Smith,  of  Santa  Cruz,  who  have 
been  making  a  visit  of  some  days  to  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  William  H.  Sherwood,  director  of  the  piano  department  of 
the  Chicago  Conservatory  of  Music,  will  give  a  recital  at  Irving 
Hall  on  the  evening  of  Tuesday,  the  19th  inst. 

Miss  Nancy  Culver's  sixteenth  birthday  was  made  the  occasion 
of  a  pleasant  party,  which  Mrs.  Culver  gave  her  daughter  on 
Thursday  evening,  at  their  home,  on  Park  street,  Alameda. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Juan  Uruella  have  returned,  after  an  absence  of 
a  couple  of  years,  during  which  they  made  an  extended  tour  of 
Europe  and  spent  some  time  in  Paris. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Crux  have  returned  from  Lake  county. 
Mrs  Crux  will  receive  on  the  second  and  fourth  Wednesdays  of 
each  month. 


The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Maud  Rath   Kellogg,  of 
Oakland,  and  William  M.  Kapus,  of  Portland,  Or. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  C.  Boardman,  who  have  been  visiting  in 
Hamburg,  expected  to  sail  for  home  this  week. 


Mr.  Frederick  Marriott  left  for  a  month's  visit  to  the  East  last 
Tuesday.     He  was  accompanied  by  his  son  Ned. 

Admiral  and   Mrs.  Irwin,  from  Mare  Island,  have  been  in  the 
city  during  the  week. 


THE  Maze  is  offering  unusually  good  bargains  just  at  present. 
They  are  closing  out  a  long  line  of  silks,  satins  and  ladies' 
cloth  at  unusually  low  figures,  and  an  opportunity  is  thus  pre- 
sented for  the  obtaining  of  excellent  bargains.  It  is  worth  one's 
while  to  remember  that  early  visits  must  be  made  to  the  Maze  if 
purchases  would  be  effected,  for  the  crowd  is  so  great  that  the 
bargains  are  rapidly  taken  whenever  such  good  offers  as  the 
present  are  made.  The  Maze  is  the  only  department  store  in  the 
city,  and  it  always  has  in  stock  large  quantities  of  the  best  goods 
known  to  the  market. 


The  duetists,  Miss  Flora  Hastings  and  Miss  Emma  Marion,  now 
at  the  Wigwam  Theatre,  have  made  a  great  hit.  Miss  Hastings 
has  a  clear  soprano  voice  of  great  range,  while  Miss  Marion  sings 
alto.  Their  vocal  efforts  are  pleasing,  and  appreciated  by  all  who 
hear  them. 


;e  Notice. 


Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz.:  One  trunk,  round-trip,  60  cents;  single  trip.  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
bpecial  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

Every  Wednesday  at  8  a.  m.  the  Burlington  excursions  will  leave 
fean  Francisco  with  Pullman  tourist  sleeping  cars  to  Chicago  via 
bait  Luke  City  and  Denver.  For  particulars  and  descriptive  folders 
apply  to  agent  Burlington  route,  32  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

'■  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 

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JOHN  ROBINSON'S  great  shows,  which  open  soon  at  Central 
Park,  will  surely  attract  a  large  attendance.  The  novelties 
presented  are  many  and  interesting.  Besides  the  circus  proper,  a 
grand  spectacular  performance,  illustrative  of  the  time  of  King 
Solomon,  is  given.  The  tents  should  be  packed  to  overflowing 
each  afternoon  and  evening  of  their  sojourn  here. 

InfLameO  Eves  and  lids  permanently  cured  if  caused  by  defective 
sight,  Consult  (free  Of  chftrgel  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  135  Mout- 
gomery  street,  near  Bush. 

GEO.  C.  SHREVE  &  CO. 

WILL  OPEN  THEIR  NEW  STORE 

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ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

North    Belle  Isle  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  First  day  oi  September,  1892,  an  assessment,  (No.  20),  of  Ten  Cents  (10c.) 

f»er  Bhare  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  31U  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Sixth  Day  of  October,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  7th  day  of  November,  1892.  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costB  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary, 
Office— 310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


ANNOAL  MEETING. 

Grand    Prize   Mining    Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Grand  Prize 
Mining  company  will  be  hell  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  20,  381 
Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

Tuesday,  the  20th  day  of  September,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  2  o'clock  P.  M., 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  SATURDAY,  September  17th,  1892, 
at  12  o'clock  m. 

R.R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

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Vol.  XLV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER  10,  1892. 


Number  11. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor.  Frederick 
Marriott.  Flood  Building.  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 


TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 
Editorial  Brevities 1 

LKADING  A.RTICLB8  : 

Regulating  Railway  Rates    2 

Whittler.     2 

Harrison's  Acceptance 3 

Labor  Pay 3 

Tenuis  and  Baseball     4 

The  Bohemian  Club  Jinks  5 

Pleasure's  Wand       6-7 

Courtship  in  Mexico     7 

A  Question  of  Ferocity 8 

Children  in  Hotels  9 

The  Looker-On      10-11 

Sparks 12 

Rather  (Poetry) 13 

The  Late  Pilsbury  Hodgkins  ....  13 


Page 

Berlin  vs.  Paris     IS 

Financial  Review 14 

Town  Crier lo 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 16 

Sunbeams 17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...     19 
"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  20 

The  Rose  Jar 21 

A  Colnmbiad  (Poetrv)   22 

Hope  Delayed  (Poetry)  " 22 

The  Summer  Girl  (Poetry)  22 

Vanities 23 

Scientific  aud  Useful ..24 

Society 26-27-28 


THE  Examiner's  cut  of  the  immigrants  dancing  on  the  Moravia 
is  enough  to  give  a  man  the  cholera,  whether  he  bad  ever 
heard  of  it  before  or  not.  Why  does  this  paper  inflict  a  long-suf- 
fering public  in  this  manner  ? 


IT  is  reported  among  the  sporting  fraternity  that  John  L.  Sulli- 
van and  Joe  McAuliffe  will  open  a  tannery  in  South  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  they  will  punish  hides  of  other  animals,  and  show 
how  they  would  have  won,  if  they  only  bad  their  rights. 


JAMES  1).  PHELAN  said  that  America  would  not  have  been 
discovered  if  Columbus  bad  not  been  staked  by  a  banker. 
How  many  of  the  grand  rainbow  hues  of  Columbia's  heavens 
would  have  ever  been  discovered,  if  the  lonely  owl  had  not  occa- 
sionally been  staked  by  the  banker? 


THE  Alameda  County  Judges  have  decided  that  for  a  citizen  to 
be  eligible  to  jury  duty  in  the  Alameda  Courts  he  must  be  able 
to  read  and  write.  This  ruling  has  been  found  necessary,  since  a 
citizen  and  taxpayer,  summoned  for  jury  duty  recently,  acknowl- 
edged that  be  could  not  only  not  read  writing,  but  that  he  could 
not  "  read  reading.  ' 


WHEN  the  Examiner  wants  to  make  political  points  it  ought  to 
be  sure  of  Us  facts.  It  pointed  with  great  glee  the  other 
day  to  the  shutting  down  of  a  tin-plate  factory  in  Swansea, 
Massachusetts,  when  as  a  matter  of  fact  it  occurred  in  Swansea, 
Wales,  which  made  it  different.  Facts  are  of  some  value,  even  in 
political  and  campaign  discussions. 

THE  man  who  thought  that  Corbett  was  nothing  but  a  dancing- 
master  and  parlor  sparrer,  who  could  not  hit  hard,  has  dis- 
appeared like  snow  before  the  morning  sun.  He  cannot  be  found 
with  a  search-warrant,  though  on  Wednesday  he  was  as  numer- 
ous as  the  leaves  in  Vallambrosa.  It  is  so  much  safer  to  make 
prophesies  after  the  event  than  before. 


THE  citizens  of  Sacramento  have  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
providing  accommodations,  at  reasonable  rates,  for  all  who 
apply,  during  the  State  Fair,  which  opened  last  Monday.  There 
is  stationed  at  the  depot  an  agency,  with  rooms  rated  at  ifl,  lfl.50 
and  $2  a  day,  for  all  applicants.  The  railroad  company,  in  recog- 
nizing the  importance  of  this  year's  exhibition,  have  reduced 
their  rates  to  one  fare  for  the  round  trip. 


MUCH  credit  is  due  to  the  local  authorities  for  the  zeal  they  are 
displaying  in  getting  the  city  into  a  proper  condition  to  with- 
stand an  assault  of  Asiatic  cholera.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  we  may 
escape  it  entirely,  but  the  chances  are  much  against  it,  and  our 
only  safety  lies  in  preparing  for  war  in  time  of  peace.  Cleanli- 
ness is  the  one  thing  that  cholera  cannot  overcome,  and  there  is 
abundant  room  in  this  city  to  improve  its  condition  in  that  re- 
gard. 


THE  slate  of  the  Reorganizes  was  one  of  the  boldest  impositions 
upon  a  confiding  Democracy  that  the  history  of  local  politics 
knows.  The  gentlemen  who  were  to  reform  the  condition  of 
municipal  affairs  seem  to  have  been  most  favorably  impressed 
with  the  methods  of  the  old-liners,  which  they  are  introducing 
with  admirable  effect.  They  should  know  better.  The  public 
want  good  men  nominated  for  office,  but  any  conservative  citizen 
cannot  help  being  suspicious  of  men  put  up  by  a  convention 
composed  of  slated  delegates. 


THE  Reorganizes  carried  the  primary  election  on  Wednesday 
with  a  rush,  but  whether  their  success  will  tend  to  promote 
Democratic  harmony  remains  to  be  seen.  It  is  evident  that  the 
managers  have  the  gift  of  combination  and  manipulation,  and 
have  their  forces  well  in  hand,  but  there  are  mutterings  of  dis- 
content and  ill-feeling  among  those  who  are  not  on  the  inside. 
The  final  result  of  the  primaries  will  not  be  known  until  the  votes 
are  counted  after  the  election  of  the  8th  of  November. 


NO  ordinary  person  can  be  expected  to  understand  the  compli- 
cated and  ferocious  politics  of  Venezuela,  but  it  is  somewhat 
of  a  shock  to  find  that  five  hundred  of  the  Administration  troops 
have  been  slaughtered  by  the  Legislatives.  Apparently  the  conflict 
between  the  Executive  and  the  Legislative  departments  of  govern- 
ment is  no  empty  formula  in  that  delightful  land,  where  all  con- 
stitutional problems  are  settled  by  wholesale  massacre,  and  where 
rebellion  is  the  only  occupation  of  a  self-respecting  citizen. 


A  RUSSIAN  doctor,  who  is  attached  to  the  Institut  Pasteur  in 
Paris,  is  booming  a  new  system  of  inoculation  with  choleraic 
virus.  The  good  doctor,  however,  himself  admits  that  it  is  as 
yet  doubtful  whether  his  treatment  would  prevent  infection  if  the 
patient  were  placed  in  circumstances  favorable  to  the  spread  of 
the  disease.  "  We  must  experiment,"  he  declares.  Quite  so. 
But  where  is  he  going  to  find  any  scientific  enthusiasts  to  oblige 
him  by  going  to  the  Institut  Pasteur  first,  and  to  a  cholera  hos- 
pital afterwards? 


A  SPEAKER  at  the  Bankers'  Convention,  on  Wednesday, 
hauled  the  "bloody  shirt"  from  its  dust-covered  lair,  and 
waved  it  against  the  empyrean.  He  is  old  enough  to  know  bet- 
ter, and  now  that  he  has  regained  the  conservative  condition, 
which  is  normal  with  a  banker,  we  presume  he  is  sorry  for  it. 
We  have  had  enough  of  the  "  bloody  shirt."  The  war  is  over, 
and  its  issues  should  not  be  dragged  out  at  this  late  day.  Of  all 
men,  a  banker  should  be  the  very  latest  to  resurrect  a  cause  of 
disturbance. 


AMERICAN  enterprise  is  somewhat  wanting  in  the  bump  of 
reverence.  It  is  not  exactly  that  the  nation  itself  is  irrever- 
ent; on  the  contrary,  it  has  an  enormous  respect  and  regard  for 
those  things  that  are  revered  by  the  rest  of  the  world;  but  its 
respect  is  tempered  by  no  feelings  of  awe.  It  merely  engenders 
a  wish  for  further  familiarity.  Witness  the  proposal  to  bring 
over  the  Oberammergau  Passion  Play  as  aside-show  for  the  Chica- 
go Exhibition.  The  people  of  Oberammergau  have  refused  with 
dignity;  as  did  also  the  Spanish  Court,  when  it  was  suggested  to 
it  that  their  baby  King  would  make  a  suitable  show  at  the  same 
Exhibition.  We  shall  expect  to  hear  soon  that  the  English  nation 
has  been  asked  to  lend  Westminster  Abbey  or  St.  Paul's  Cathedral 
for  the  occasion. 


IT  is  stated  that  the  new  German  army  bill,  involving  an  increase 
of  80,000,000  marks  in  the  military  estimates,  will  not  be  pre- 
sented to  the  Reichstag  during  the  ensuing  session.  It  would 
certainly  be  unwise  if  the  German  Emperor  were  to  persude  his 
obedient  cabinet  ministers  to  meet  the  German  Parliament  with  a 
bill  of  that  kind,. when  the  dissatisfaction  with  the  Government 
is  already  so  perceptible,  and  at  a  moment  when  there  exists  ab- 
solutely no  plausible  cause  for  an  increase  such  as  demanded.  If 
the  two  years'  service  clause  had  been  maintained  the  bill  might 
have  met  with  less  opposition,  but  as  matters  stand,  it  would  be 
foolhardy  for  the  ministry  to  challenge  the  opposilion  party  to 
show  its  full  strength,  and  to  give  it  a  chance  such  as  it  never  has 
had  before  of  obtaining  general  popularity  in  the  country. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


WHITTIER. 

THE  death  of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier  had  been  expected  for 
months,  as  the  Quaker  poet  had  long  passed  the  Psalmist's 
span  of  life,  yet  his  death  came  to  thousands  in  this  country  with 
the  force  of  personal  bereavement.  With  the  single  exception  of 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  Wbittier  was  probably  the.  best  beloved 
of  living  American  authors.  It  was  not  that  his  verse  was  su- 
perior to  that  of  many  younger  and  abler  men,  for  he  could  not 
be  compared  with  Lowell  for  richness  and  variety  of  poetical 
work,  but  because  of  the  simple,  sterling,  homely  qualities  of  the 
man,  who  was  far  greater  than  the  poet,  and  because  he  voiced 
the  passionate  American  desire  for  equality  and  freedom,  and  the 
equally  strong  delight  in  unspoiled  nature.  We  know  from 
Whittier's  own  recollections  that  he  regarded  the  part  which  he 
played  in  the  anti-slavery  agitation  as  his  best  claim  to  the  re- 
membrance of  his  countrymen.  Whether  his  judgment  was 
sound  remains  to  be  seen;  but  there  can  be  no  question  that  his 
hatred  of  slavery  and  all  injustice  gave  fire  to  all  his  early  poems, 
and  gained  for  him  a  far  wider  audience  than  he  could  have  hoped 
to  secure  by  his  simple  lays  of  New  England  life.  Back  of  the 
poet  was  the  man,  serene  and  self-centered  as  Hawthorne;  simple 
in  his  tastes,  and  in  an  age  of  self-seeking  and  desire  for  display, 
as  modest  in  his  wants  and  as  dignified  in  his  life  as  a  Roman  in 
the  best  days  of  the  Republic.  This  is  what  endears  him  to  genu- 
ine Americans.  His  roots  struck  deep  into  the  national  life,  and 
his  career  and  character  are  well  worth  study  in  this  age,  when 
so  many  of  our  literary  men  are  merely  imitators  of  English  or 
other  foreign  models. 

It  must  never  be  forgotten  in  any  estimate  of  Whittier's  life  and 
work  that  he  was  essentially  self-made;  that  he  had  none  of  the 
educational  opportunities  of  his  great  contemporaries  in  verse — 
Bryant,  Longfellow,  Lowell  and  Holmes.  They  all  received  a  liberal 
education,  and  had  the  supreme  fortune  of  early  training  in  large 
cities  and  the  opportunity  of  foreign  travel.  Whittier  was  no  re- 
cluse, like  Hawthorne,  but  he  was  shy,  timid  and  unconscious  of 
his  power  until  roused  by  some  great  demand  upon  his  aid.  It 
seems  impossible  to  imagine  this  man  in  the  thick  of  active  news- 
paper work,  but  the  journalism  of  sixty  years  ago  had  little  in 
common  with  that  of  today.  To  fancy  the  aathor  of  "Snow- 
Bound"  writing  articles  in  favor  of  protection  for  a  weekly  class 
paper,  devoted  to  the  New  England  manufacturing  interests,  is  as 
great  a  strain  on  the  imagination  as  to  picture  Hawthorne  labor, 
ing  at  the  wretched  hack-work  of  a  cheap  popular  cyclopedia- 
Yet  both  did  it  without  any  harm  to  their  future  work. 
What  Whittier  accomplished  in  these  years  of  his  early  manhood 
when  he  was  engaged  in  uncongenial  task  labor  was  to  read  widely 
and  to  store  his  mind  with  those  impressions  of  New  England  life 
which  be  afterwards  reproduced  so  faithfully  in  his  verse.  It 
was  as  natural  for  him  to  put  these  impressions  into  the  poetical 
form  as  it  was  for  him  to  think.  The  expression  came  to  him 
with  the  idea  or  the  image,  and  he  rarely  labored  to  perfect  it.  The 
making  of  verse  never  became  with  him  a  device  for  coining 
money.  His  Pegasus  was  never  harnessed  and  made  to  show  his 
paces  in  the  dust  and  heat  of  the  market-p^ace.  Hence,  even  in 
extreme  old  age  his  poetry  has  the  dewy  freshness  and  charm  of 
youth.  Children  instinctly  love  it,  and  what  rings  true  to  the 
childish  ear  is  genuine  poetry. 

The  poetical  work  of  Whittier  is  too  well-known  to  need  any 
elaborate  analysis.  Like  the  poems  of  Burns,  Whittier's  ballads 
and  songs  ot  New  Eneland  are  loved  by  thousands  who  cannot 
enjoy  Lowell  or  Bryant.  The  critics  of  the  next  century — 
whether  they  be  any  kin  of  Macaulay's  New  Zealander  or  some 
accomplished  wanderer  from  the  upper  waters  of  the  (Jongo — will 
probably  decide  that  Whittier's  fame  re3ts  upon  two  classes  of 
poems — his  lays  and  tales  ot  New  England  and  his  war  songs. 
Probably  the  two  poems  that  will  live  the  longest  are  the  tender 
idyl,  "  In  School  Days,"  and  that  noble  poem  of  the  war,  "  Bar- 
bara Frietcbie."  Each  is  perfect  in  its  way,  and  fulfills  the  best 
definition  of  a  classic.  Whittier's  poetical  work  is  not  extensive. 
He  wrote  only  when  he  felt  in  the  mood;  the  quality  of  his  verse 
is  high,  though  its  range  is  restricted  and  its  form  monotonous, 
because  he  clung  to  his  early  Scotch  model  and  reproduced  the 
metrical  styles  of  Burns.  Judged  by  the  best  standards,  his  worst 
verse  was  that  into  which  he  put  the  strongest  feeling — the  long 
poems  dealing  with  the  miseries  of  slavery.  He  recognized  this, 
and  avoided  such  attempts  when  the  war  came.  His  finest 
war-time  poem  will  compare  well  with  Holmes'  "  Old  Ironsides," 
Reed's  "Sheridan's  Ride,"  and  the  half-dozen  other  short 
poems  of  the  Rebellion  that  stir  the  blood  like  bugle  blasts. 
Lowell's  "  Washers  of  the  Shroud  "  is  on  a  far  higher  plane  than 
any  of  these;  ao  also  are  parts  of  his  noble  "Commemoration 
Ode,"  but  they  can  never  appeal  to  the  people,  because  the  strong 
feeling  in  them  is  overlaid  with  too  much  poetic  art.  In  "  Snow 
Bound,"  Whittier  gave  some  of  his  finest  pictures  of  New  fcng- 
land  life  and  scenery,  and  as  poetry,  it  must  be  ranked  as  his 
best  work. 

As  a  man,  the  lover  of  Whittier  has  nothing  to  condone,  noth- 
ing to  regret  in  the  poet's  life.  American  literature  presents  no 
finer  spectacle  than  Whittier  living  on  his  small  income,  inde- 
pendent, unspoiled  by  success,  deaf  to  appeals  of  mercenary 
publishers,  single-minded  in  his  aim  to  do  the  best  work  that  was 


in  him,  and  to  deserve  the  respect  and  love  of  thousands  of 
readers  who  regarded  him  as  a  personal  friend.  Such  an  example 
as  his  is  of  great  value  in  these  days,  when  the  «  hustler  "  and 
the  advertising  agent  have  invaded  literature  and  seduced 
so  many  able  men  to  cheapen  their  fame  by  hack  work 
that  brines  large  money  returns.  Whittier,  in  his  devotion  to  a 
high  poetical  ideal,  held  virtually  the  same  ground  that  Agassiz 
took  when  he  gave  his  famous  reply  to  the  lyceum  lecture  pro- 
prietor, who  offered  him  $100,000  for  one  hundred  lectures:  "  I 
have  no  time  to  waste  in  making  money."  His  example  is  full 
of  stimulus  to  those  who  believe  that  the  better  part  of  life  is  not 
to  be  gauged  by  financial  gain  or  notoriety,  or  the  applause  of  the 
crowd.  With  Carlyle  and  Emerson,  Whittier  must  be  classed  as 
a  source  of  inspiration  to  unselfish  work  and  noble  endeavor.  So 
he  has  actually  joined  that 

"  Choir  invisible 
Of  those  Immortal  dead  who  live  agaiu 
In  lives  made  better  by  their  presence." 


REGULATING    RAILWAY    RATES. 

JUDGE  McCORMICK,  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  for 
Texas,  has  recently  rendered  a  decision  which  must  be  of 
great  interest  to  every  State  in  the  Union  where  there  is  a  rail- 
road, or  where  there  has  been  or  may  be  an  attempt  to  regulate 
fares  and  freights  by  law,  either  through  the  instrumentality  of 
a  Railroad  Commission,  or  by  the  direct  action  of  the  Legislature. 
The  decision  denies  the  power  of  a  State  Legislature  to  regulate 
the  rates  through  the  medium  of  a  Board  of  Railroad  Commis- 
sioners, if  by  such  regulation  the  rates  are  made  so  low  that  the 
company  cannot  meet  its  legal  obligations.  Such  regulation 
Judge  McCormick  holds  to  be  a  law  impairing  the  obligation  of 
contracts,  and  therefore  obnoxious  to  the  plain  letter  of  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States.  The  decision  follows  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  in  the  Minnesota  cases,  and  will  prob- 
ably be  upheld  if  an  appeal  be  taken  to  that  tribunal.  The  simi- 
larity of  this  case  to  the  Spring  Valley  case  in  this  State  can 
hardly  fail  to  attract  attention.  In  that  case  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors was  given  power  absolutely  to  fix  water  rates,  but  the 
courts  held,  after  careful  study  and  consideration  of  the  case,  that 
the  State  could  not  empower  the  Board  to  fix  rate3  which  should 
not  permit  the  water  company  to  make  a  fair  interest  on  the 
money  invested,  the  reason  being  that  the  supplying  of  water  to 
a  city  was,  in  a  measure,  a  public  use,  and  that  the  city  had  no 
right  to  tax  the  water  on  terms  which  would  amount  in  effect  to 
a  confiscation  of  the  company's  property.  The  same  principle 
must  apply  with  equal  force  to  railroads.  They  are  private  cor- 
porations, it  is  true,  but  at  the  same  time  they  are  an  essential 
part  of  the  great  public  works  of  the  country.  The  Federal  Gov- 
ernment uses  them  at  will  to  transport  troops,  arms  of  all  kinds, 
and  munitions  of  war,  and  insists  on  their  carrying  the  mails  on 
such  terms  as  the  Government  prescribes.  Congress,  in  one  way 
or  another,  exercises  a  constant  control  over  the  interstate  roads, 
as  the  passage  of  the  Interstate  Commerce  law  shows,  and  the 
States  have  reserved  the  right  to  regulate  freights  and  fares,  or  to 
compel  the  roads  to  surrender  their  charters.  All  these 
things  go  to  show  that  a  railroad  is  not  purely  a  private 
enterprise,  but  that  the  State  and  nation  have  an  interest 
in  it, and  this  being  so,  it  follows  that  the  State  is  bound 
to  protect  the  corporation  as  well  as  its  own  interests.  To 
reduce  fares  and  freights  to  a  point  where  not  only  no 
profit,  but  even  money  to  meet  fixed  charges  caDnot  be  made  is 
to  deprive  a  railroad  of  properly  without  due  process  of  law,  and 
the  intervention  of  a  constitutional  body  called  a  Railroad  Com- 
mission does  not  mend  matters  at  all.  A  railroad  corporation  has 
not  only  a  natural  but  a  statutory  right,  if  its  schedules  are  to  be 
regulated  at  all,  to.  have  them  so  regulated  that  creditors  and 
stockholders  shall  be  protected,  and  if  a  Railroad  Commission 
does  otherwise,  it  transcends  its  powers  and  violates  the  Consti- 
tution of  the  United  States.  There  is  grave  doubt,  in  any  aspect 
of  the  case,  whether  a  Railroad  Commission  is  of  any  practical 
utility,  or  whether  it  accomplishes  anything  more  than  would  be 
accomplished  by  an  honest  Legislature.  No  honorable  man  in  a 
legislative  body  is  going  to  harm  a  railroad:  company  simply  from 
malice  or  revenge,  and  no  railroad  company  that  knows  its  busi- 
ness is  going  to  put  its  rates  so  high  as  to  invite  active  competi- 
tion, and  thus  kill  the  goose  which  lays  the  golden  eggs.  It 
would  be  better  on  the  whole  if  railroads  were  treated  exactly 
like  any  other  industry,  that  is,  left  to  settle  disputed  questions 
with  their  patrons,  subject  to  the  universal  law  of  supply  and 
demand.  At  any  rate,  this  decision  of  the  Texas  Circuit  Court 
will  put  an  end  to  the  exactions  and  impositions  of  Boards  of 
Railroad  Commissions,  who,  under  guise  of  regulating  freights 
and  fares,  bleed  the  railroads  and  compel  them  to  go  into  politics 
in  self-defense.  If  the  whole  matter  were  let  alone,  the  railroads 
would  have  no  necessity  to  go  into  politics,  and  the  differences 
between  the  corporations  and  the  people  would  soon  adjust  them- 
selves satisfactorily. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  is  to  have  a  crematory.     It  is  about  time  we 
burnt  up  some  of  the  Silurians  who  have  been  hanging  on  our 
back  for  years.     They  will  make  a  merry  blaze. 


T 


St-pt.  LO, 


BAH    FRANCISCO   NKWS  I.KTTKK. 


HARRISON8    ACCEPTANCE. 

IK  length    were  the  only  criterion  of  ability  in  a  political  docu- 
ment   President  Harrison'?  formal  letter  of  acceptance  of  tbe 
Republican    nomination    would  take   rank  with    the  most  cele- 
brated  manifestoes   of  ancient  or  modern  times.     Keeling  it  his 
duly  to  defend  the  cause  of  protection  and  to  uphold  to  the  best 
Ol   hi*  ability  the   McKinley  bill,  he  has  prepared  a  brief  for  the 
defendant   which    will    defeat   its  own  purpose  by  being  so  long 
that  it  will  not  be  read.     Of  course,  in  a  special  plea  of  this  kind, 
the  advocate    feels   himself  at    liberty  to   make  the  facts  suit  his 
theory, so  far  as  he  can  do  >o  without  actual  falsification  and  mis- 
representation,  and    so   we  find   the   President   attributing  to  the 
benign  influence  of  tbe  McKinley  bill  the  growth  and  progress  of 
a  country  which  is  so  great  and  so  varied  in  its  resources  that  it 
would  continue   to  grow  greater  and  richer  under  any  fiscal  sys- 
tem that  could  be  devised,  or.  in  fact,  without  any  system  at  all. 
He  attempts   to  convince  the  people  of  the    United  States  that  a 
tariff  law  which   has    been   in  force  less  than  two  years  has  in- 
creased our   foreign   commerce  by  a  fabulous  sum,  the  real  fact 
being  that   a  shortage  of  food   products  last  year  in  Europe  and 
abundant  harvests  at  borne,  gave  the  American  farmer  a  chance 
to  dispose  of  his   surplus   crop  at  a  good  figure;  but  for  this  Mr. 
William    McKinley  can    certainly  claim  no  credit.     On  the  ques- 
tion of  tin-plate   manufacture,  tbe  President  is  decidedly  weak. 
He  skips  lightly  and  delicately  over  the  actual  output,  but  bears 
down  very  heavily  on  the  estimates   made  by  a  Treasury  expert 
of  what  the   product    will   be  in  the  future — which  may  remind 
someone   of  the    unwisdom    of  counting  chickens    before    they 
are     hatched.      It    will    be    time    enough    for    President    Har- 
rison   to     congratulate     tbe     nation     on     the    making    of     tin- 
plate     when    we  can  stop     paying     the     Welsh     mauufactuers 
hundreds   of   thousands    of   dollars  a  year   for  tbeir  product,  and 
when  tbe  San  Jacinto  and    Black    Hills   tin    mines  shall  produce 
something  more  than  cabinet    specimens  of  tin  ore.     Tbe  letter  of 
acceptance  is  quite  as  conspicuous  by  what  it  does  not  contain  as 
by  what  it  does,  and    one   of   the  things  which  will  attract  atten- 
tion by  its  not  being    there   is    the   failure   to   defend   protection 
against  the  charge  made  against  it   of   being   directly  responsible 
for  trusts  and  combines,  and  indirectly  and  more  remotely  respon- 
sible for  strikes,  lockouts,  riots    and    other  forms  of  difficulty  be- 
tween labor  and  capital.     If   there    be    no   connection  between  a 
protective  tariff  and  trusts  in  manufacturing  industries,  it  should 
have  been  an  easy  matter  for  a  skillful  writer  like  President  Harri- 
son to  prove  it.  His  silence  on  this  point  is  most  noticeable,  especial- 
ly in  view  of  the  recent  tragedies  at  Homestead,  Cujurd'Alene  and 
Buffalo.  It  is  easy  to  guess  that  the  President,  who  is  personally  an 
honorable  and  fair-minded  man,  could  not  bring  himself  to  sacrifice 
his  honest  beliefs  to  political  exigencies,  and  that  the  recollection 
of  the  bleeding,  writhing  victims  at  Homestead  and  elsewhere  was 
enough  to  induce  complete  reticence  on  the  subject  of  the  relation 
between  a  protective  tariff  and  labor  troubles.  In  one  point  only  is 
the  President  chargeable  with  evasion  and   double-dealing,  for  it 
must  be  confessed  that  in  general  he   has  the  courage  of  his  con- 
victions, and  that  is  in  his  allusions  to  the  Force  Bill.     The  Re- 
publican platform  demands  the  enactment  of    Federal  legislation 
for  the  regulation  and  control  of  elections;  but   when    the   Presi- 
dent reaches  this  portion  of  his  letter  he  flies  tbe  track.     He  drifts 
off  into  a  discussion    of  the   recent  election   in    Alabama,  which 
had  nothing  to  do  with  the  case,  and  then   proceeds    to    pay  that 
he  will  recommend  to  Congress  tbe  appointment  of  a  non-partisan 
commission  to  consider  the  subject   of  apportionments  and  elec- 
tions in  relation   to  the   choice    of    Federal    officers.     What  this 
has  to  do  with  a  Force  Bill  is  not  easy  to  see,  but   it   was  proba- 
bly left  obscure  purposely,  in  order  tnat  it  might  not  give  rise  to 
embarrassing  complications   hereafter.     The    President   adminis- 
ters the  usual  amount  of  soft  sawder  to  the   veteran  soldiers,  tell- 
ing them  that  he  was  a  comrade   in   1865  and  is  a  comrade  still. 
Possibly  he  expects  "Comrades"  to  take  the   place  of   "  March- 
ing  Through    Georgia"   as    tbe    favorite    campaign  march  in  the 
torchlight      processions      this      year.      The      soldier      vote     is 
an     important     factor    about    election     time,     and     the    Pres- 
ident   seems     to    have     more    leisure    to  think    of   his    ancient 
comrades  in  arms  than  be  had  while  in  California,  and  especially 
in    the  classic    precincts  of  the   Athens  of  the  Pacific,  where  he 
made  time  that  would  make  Nancy  Hanks  turn  green  with  envy. 
Patrick  Egan  naturally  receives  a  special  word  of  commendation, 
for  the  Irish-American  vote  is  worth  considering,  and  Mr.  Blaine 
is  sought  to  be  placated  by  a  complimentary  allusion   to  his  con- 
version to  the  Democratic  doctrine  of  reciprocity.     In  short,  the 
leading  characteristic  of  the  letter,  next  to  its  length,  is  the  care 
which    it  evinces  to  leave  no  point  uncovered  which  can  make 
voting  strength  for  Benjamin   Harrison.     This  is  permissible,  for 
he  is  a  candidate  for  office,  but  the  letter  as  a  whole  is  rather  the 
appeal   of  an  office-seeker  for   votes   than  an   exposition  of  the 
principles  and    doctrines  of  a  great   party  by  its  chosen  leader. 
The   response   to  the  President  s  letter,  if  it  were  worth  while  to 
respond  to  it,  would  be,  "  If  all  these  matters  are  so  obvious,  why 
take   so   much   time  and  space  and  labor  to  elaborate  them  ?  " 

SULLIVAN?    Sullivan?     Who   is  Sullivan,  anyhow?     Where's 
he  from?     Never  heard  of  him. 


LABOR    DAY. 


ON    Monday   last  the  streets  of  the  city  were  obstructed,  traffic- 
stopped  and  business  interfered  with,  so  that  a  few  men  who 
have  gained  the  ascendancy  over  the  weakling*  who  compose  the 
trades  unions  of  this  city,  might   be  enabled  to  gain  greater  glory 
for  themselves,  by  parading  as  the  leaders  of  the   men  of  brawn 
and  muscle.     When  will  the  honest  workingmen  learn  thai  they 
are   being   made  the   means  for  the  aggrandizement  of  the  dema- 
gogues who,  like  so   many  parasites,  draw  their  sustenance  from 
the  toilers?     No  good   citizen  objects  to  tbe  amelioration  of  tbe 
condition  of  the  working  classes,  but  it  is  with  fear  for  their  wel- 
fare that  we  behold  them  following  the  lead  of  men  who  are  not 
animated  by  honest  purposes.     The  trades  unions  of  this  city  are 
not  truly  representative  of  progressive  ideas;  they  do  not  honest- 
ly represent  the  workingmen;  they  are  secret  bodies,  maintained 
by  assessing  the  hard-earned  wages  of  their  members,  and  which 
coerce   weak   men   into  obeying   the  arbitrary  mandates  of  their 
leaders.     Several  thousand  men,  each  of  whom,  doubtless,  is  com- 
plaining   more   or   less   of   hard  times,    surrendered    their  day's 
wages  for  the  empty  honor  of  parading  the  streets.     Many  doubt- 
less appeared  against  their  will,  for  the  intellectual  workingmen, 
of  whom  there  are  not  a  few,  fully  appreciate  the  hollowness  of 
the    sham.     After    the  procession   there  was  an  oration,  Andrew 
Furuseth    being  the   orator.     The  high  plane  on    which    trades 
unionism  stand"  in  this  city  may  be  estimated  by  consideration  of 
a  few  of  the  many  extravagantly  erroneous  statements  made  by 
this  gentleman.     <<  The  most  exalted  ideas  of  liberty  are  born  in 
prison,"  he   said.     Would    tbe  orator,  therefore,  advise   his  co- 
laborers  to  get  themselves  sent  to  jail,  that  they  might  the  better 
cogitate  on  the  great  question  of  personal  liberty,  which  is,  after 
all,  one  of  the  most  important  in   the  labor  discussion.     Does  a 
workingman,  who  is  compelled  to  quit  work  against  his  will,  or 
who  is  prevented  from  working  when  he  desires,  enjoy  personal 
liberty  ?     Is  he  a  free  agent,  or  is  he  under  the  control  and  direc- 
tion of  tbe  men  of  narrow  minds  whom  he  allows  to  guide  him  ? 
Truly,  said  the  orator,  "  defeats  are  necessary  to  drive  tbe  worker 
of  to-day,  like  the   Hebrews  of  old,  from  their  idols,  back  to  the 
realities   and    verities  of    things."      That  is  where  we  want  the 
workingmen  to  be;  on  the  same  plane  with  the  facts,  and  not, 
like  pagan  worshipers,  kotowing  before   their   Grand    Masters. 
Let  the  workingmen  consider  the  questions  of  the  hour  for  them- 
selves, and  tbey  will  see  that  they  are  on  the  wrong  track  for  the 
securing   of  the    betterment    of   their   condition.     The  troops  in 
Pennsylvania,  said  Mr.   Furuseth,  were  called  out  to  prove  that 
this  is  a  rich  man'a  government.     So  palpable  is  the  falseness  of 
this  statement  that  it  needs  no  argument  to  show  it.     It  is  the 
duty  of  the  State  to  preserve   the  public  peace,   and  when   that 
peace  was  assailed,  as  during  the  recent  labor  troubles  in  the  East, 
by  thousands  of  misdirected  men,  who  had  risen  in  arms  to  fight 
for,  they  knew  not  what,  then  it  became  the  absolute  duty  of  the 
Executive  of  the  commonwealth  to  call  upon  the  State  troops  to 
protect  the  lives  and  property  of  citizens.     As  the  Hon.  Chauncy 
F.  Black  says,  in  his   article  on   the  Homestead  troubles,  in  the 
current   Forum,   the   Governor  of  Pennsylvania  "had  no  choice 
but  to  enforce  the  laws  as  he  found  them  on  the  statute  books, 
and  no  power  with  which  to  do  it,  in  the  face  of  a  turbulent  com- 
munity, less  warlike  than  the  militia."     The  truest  remark  made 
by    the    Labor   Day  orator  was   that,  to  settle  the  labor  question 
would  need  the  best  brains  and  purest  hearts  of  the  whole  people, 
guided    by  such  light  as  can   be  thrown  upon  the  condition  by 
honest  and  truthful  investigations  into  the  conditions  at  present 
existing.     To  give   this  honest  and  truthful  investigation,  how- 
ever, will  require  other  methods  than  those  now  employed  by  the 
apostles  of  trades  unionism. 

AFFAIRS    IN    AFGHANISTAN. 

THE  latest  news  from  Afghanistan,  although  to  a  certain  degree 
coutradiciory,  seems  to  indicate  that  the  Ameer's  troops  have 
not  been,  so  far,  very  successful  in  suppressing  tbe  rising  of  the 
Hazaras,  and  "-ithout  speedy  and  active  British  help,  Abdul 
Rahman  Khan  will  hardly  be  able  to  cope  with  the  difficulty, 
since  the  Russians  evidently  support  tbe  rebels  in  every  possible 
way.  Prof.  Armenins  Vambery,  the  famous  Hungarian  traveler, 
than  whom  nobody  has  a  raor^  exact  knowledge  of  the  condition 
of  affairs  in  Central  Asia,  in  a  long  article  in  the  Neue  Freie  Presse, 
not  long  ago,  distinctly  declared  that,  in  his  opinion,  the  Russians 
are  the  real  instigators  of  the  rising.  In  bis  very  interesting  con- 
tribution, he  describes  the  manner  in  which  the  Russians  for 
years  have  been  trying  to  create  among  the  dissatisfied  Afghan 
tribes  the  impression  that  nothing  would  be  so  advantageous  to 
them  as  an  alliance  with  the  Great  White  Czar  on  the  Neva,  who 
is  described  to  them  as  the  most  powerful  monarch  on  the  globe, 
and  to  whom  other  European  monarchs  must  pay  tribute.  If  the 
Ameer  of  Afghanistan  could  be  persuaded  to  make  a  treaty  with 
Russia,  these  intrigues  among  his  f  ubjects  would  soon  cease,  and 
it  is  not  impossible  that  for  the  sake  of  mere  self-protection,  he 
will  be  driven  into  the  arms  of  his  powerful  neighbor.  Should  Abdul 
Rahman,  however,  remain  faithful  in  his  allegiance  to  England, 
he  must  risk  efforts  being  made  by  the  Russians  to  push  Ishak 
Khan,  his  rival,  to  the  front,  and  he  may  possibly  lose  his  throne. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 

tfnni«;  '"THE  annual  double  championship  and  the  ladies' 
1  single  championship  is  now  the  talk  of  every  lover 
of  tennis.  After  careful  consideration,  it  seems  that  only  one  re- 
sult can  be  the  outcome  of  the  draw,  and  thai  is  that  the  pride  of 
the  California  Club,  Stetson  and  DeLong,  will  meet  Bates  and 
Haight  in  the  finals.  It  will  be  remembered  that  the  former  de- 
feated the  Oakland  boys  in  the  consolation  doubles  at  San  Rafael, 
after  a  very  exciting  match,  and  unless  any  accident  occurs,  the 
finals  should  be  between  the  two  teams  spoken  of,  and  should  be 
a  very  good  exhibition  of  tennis.  The  only  two  really  strong 
teams,  apart  from  these,  are  the  Hardy  boys  and  Sanborn  and 
Driscoll,  yet  it  is  unlikely  that  the  championship  will  fall  to 
either  of  them.  An  entirely  new  field  is  open  to  the  contest- 
ants, and  the  rnnners  up  will  gain  the  honors,  as  Hubbard  being 
East,  there  will  be  no  defending.  Stetson  and  DeLong  should 
begin  a  fine  career  by  having   their   names  on  the  cups  for  1892. 

The  drawing  for  the  doubles  and  ladies'  singles  took  place  on 
Wednesday  afternoon,  and  is  as  follows:  Landsberger  and 
Jones  against  Sanborn  and  Driscoll,  Wilberforce  and  Wheaton 
against  Rodger  and  Gibbs,  Hasslett  and  Hasslett  against  Stetson 
and  De  Long,  De  Long  and  Allen  against  Gage  and  Cook,  Bowen 
and  English  against  Stewart  and  Pine,  Hardy  and  Hardy  against 
Archibald  and  Roberts,  Magee  and  Belden  against  Haight  and 
Bates,  Treat  and  Collier  against  Hasslett  and  Holmes. 

For  the  ladies,  Miss  Gibbs,  Miss  Morgan,  Miss  Roberts,  M.ss 
Bates,  Miss  Benjamin  and  Miss  Lord  drew  byes,  and  in  the  pre- 
liminary round  Miss  Capwell plays  Mrs.  E.  A.  Younger,  and  Miss 
Chew  plays  Miss  McCoy. 

The  grounds  of  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club  are  situated  close  to 
Clinton  Station,  and  ample  seating  accommodation  will  be  pro- 
vided. The  club  extends  invitations  to  all  lovers  of  tennis,  and 
quite  a  large  crowd  is  expected,  W.  Mayo  Newhall  will,  as 
usual,  act  as  referee,  and  the  Tournament  Committee  are  Messrs. 
Archibald,  Requa  and  Wilberforce.  The  games  will  commence 
at  10  o'clock  each  day. 

RA«5FRAL1  A  "^  tQ's  wr*^nS  tue  San  Francisco  team  is  in  the 
'  jHl  lead  by  a  small  percentage.  The  nine  is  play- 
ing good  ball  and  a  very  steady  game.  The  Oakland  Club  is  now 
very  strong,  as  Bill  Brown  plays  a  better  first  babe  and  is  a  faster 
man  than  Morrissey.  Brown  is  not  yet  strong  enough  to  go  be- 
hind the  bat,  and  for  this  reason  Wilson  makes  a  better  back- 
stop. The  season  in  the  East  will  close  in  about  six  weeks.  This 
is  fortunate  for  the  minor  leagues  there,  because  tbey  could  not 
hold  out  much  longer.  The  California  League  is  the  only  minor 
league  in  the  country  that  could  hold  out  until  December. 


Society  Assumes   the  Lead. 


The  continued  efforts  to  establish  a  name  for  certain  brands  of 
champagnes,  which  have  outlived  original  merit,  and  obtain  for  them 
a  foothold  similar  to  that  which  Pommery  Sec  enjoys  among  all 
lovers  of  a  good  and  incomparable  wine,  reminds  one  vividly  of  the 
antigue  coquettish  damsel  who  cannot  grow  old  gracefully."  These 
spasmodic  attempts  are  like  puny  shadows  passing  before  the  sun, 
through  which  the  reputation  of  Pommery  Sec  shines  all  the  brighter, 
and  its  hold  upon  the  esteem  of  the  aristocratic  and  refined  grows 
stronger  and  more  enduring  than  ever.  As  an  example  of  this,  in 
1891  over  sixty  thousand  cases  of  Pommery  Sec  were  imported  to  the 
United  States.  Pommery  Sec  is  the  wine'of  princes  ana  the  prince 
of  wines,  and  the  high  place  it  has  steadily  won  among  the  refined 
and  epicurean  of  this  country  is  a  good  sign  of  the  progress  made  in 
the  discrimination  of  the  best  things  in  life.  The  verdict  of  the 
Prince  of  Wales  and  the  wine-drinkers  of  Europe  has  received  the 
amplest  confirmation  from  the  aristocracy  of  this  country. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to*  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  addrrss  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  130  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe.  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A"  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 

Eyes  tested  according  to  physiological  laws  of  light,  and  uot  by  machin- 
ery. C.  Muller,  the  progressive  opticiau  and  refractiou  specialist.  135 
Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


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BAN   Ki;  INCISCO    NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    BOHEMIAN    CLUB    JINKS 


PiK  fourteen  i-.instcniivc  yean  the    Bohrnilxn  I'lub   has  held 
In  the  redwood*  o(  Mendoclna  I  aunty  it*  annual  midsummer 
High  Jinks.     In  ihe-c  ■.  «-t   forme,   through  irhlob   conraee   the 

Russian  river,  slalucs  ol  81.  John  ..(  Nlpaniook,  the  palron  Saint 
o(  Bohemia,  and  ol  the  owl.  In  emblem,  wan  erected.  Hut  as 
the  furesis  were  thinned  out  and  some  ol  the  favorite  groves 
obliterated  by  the  axe  ol  the  woodman,  the  club  was  Forced  to 
look  elaawhen  for  a  camping  ground,  and  finally  settled  upon  Se- 
quoia Valley,  a  thickly  wooded  ravine  situated  between  Mill 
Valley  and  the  Coast.  Here  on  laal  Saturday  night  the  Jinks  were 
held,  its  subject  being  the  •■  Worship  of  Ye  Myriad  Leaves."  Pre- 
parations for  this  important  event  had  been  on  foot  for  months. 
The  underbrush  was  thinned  out,  an  immense  round  table  with 
concentric  rings,  with  a  seating  capacity  of  over  two  hundred, 
constructed,  and  a  colossal  statue  ol  Buddha,  of  the  exact  propor- 
tions of  the  great  idol  on  the  shores  of  Japan,  erected  i  y  Marion 
Wells,  tbe  sculptor,  and  his  assistants.  This  figure  measures 
nearly  seventy  feet  from  the  base  to  the  crown.  It  is  a  solemn 
and  impressive  god  as  it  sits  in  its  redwood  temple,  tbe  eyes  half- 
closed  and  the  arms  resting  on  the  lap.  an  embodiment  of  the  sen- 
timent of  serenity  and  contemplation.  An  avenue  two  hundred 
feet  long  leads  to  the  circular  temple  with  its  four  altars,  where 
the  priests  offered  incense  and  burned  the  sacred  fires 

Seven  o'clock  Saturday  evening  saw  over  two  hundred  Bohe- 
mians in  the  canon,  to  which  they  were  transported  in  wagons 
from  Mill  Valley,  over  the  new  r  ad  built  for  the  occasion.  The 
white  tents  scattered  along  the  banks  of  the  creek  gave  the  scene 
tbe  character  of  a  military  encampment.  Tbe  club  had  trans- 
ported its  chef  and  full  corps  ol  servants,  in  addition  to  a  staff  of 
supernumeraries  to  look  after  the  corporeal  needs  of  the  mem- 
bers. The  Presidio  Military  Band,  in  addition  to  the  club's 
stringed  band,  had  been  pressed  into  service.  These,  with  a  full 
cboir,  all  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  comprised  tbe 
full  sum  of  the  musical  part  of  the  celebration.  At  9  p.m.  the 
beating  of  a  sonorous  and  musical  brazeu  gong  in  the  Temple 
warned  the  celebrants  that  the  hour  of  worship  was  at  hand. 
Two  hundred  men  then  robed  themselves  in  white  flowing  Jap- 
anese robes,  confined  at  the  waist  by  green  sashes,  fell  into  line, 
and  moved  slowly  and  solemnly  toward  the  Temple  of  Buddha. 
The  priests  had  already  taken  their  places  at  the  altars,  where  the 
spiced  woods  burned,  filling  the  atmosphere  with  a  fragrant  but 
oppressive  odor.  Tbe  costumes  of  tbe  priests  were  different  from 
those  of  the  disciples,  and  each  wore  the  graceful  headdress  of 
the  high  class  Buddhist.  Then  the  choir  chanted  the  opening 
hymns,  and  the  assistant  priests  fed  the  holy  flames  with  sandal- 
wood, and  waved  their  torches  over  the  sombre  coffin  where  Care, 
the  arch-enemy,  lay  captured  and  enclosed,  awaiting  his  inevita- 
ble cremation.  Again  the  gong  boomed  out,  and  one  of  the 
priests  began  his  address  on  Nature  and  the  Woods,  and  the 
grand  intellectual  repose  of  which  Buddha  was  the  symbol.  The 
massive  features  of  the  huge  idol  seemed  to  wear  an  expression 
of  kindly  and  intelligent  appreciation  during  the  eloquent  ex- 
hortation of  the  priest.  Cold  and  calm  in  the  moonlight,  it  did 
not  require  a  great  effort  of  the  imagination  to  conceive  the  awe 
and  respect  tbe  old  pagans  must  have  felt  for  their  great  gods. 
Exhortation  followed  exhortation,  and  solemn  hymns  were  in- 
toned, and  the  music  rang  out,  and  the  organ  pealed  in  this  grand 
cathedral  of  Nature's  own  building.  A  stranger  passing  through 
the  forest  might  easily  believe  that,  weary  of  Christianity,  the 
descendants  of  the  wor°hippers  of  Thor  and  Oden  had  banded 
together  to  perpetuate  the  pagan  rites  of  their  ancestors,  by 
the  practice  of  a  religion  which  was  old  in  the  beginning  of  the 
rituals  of  to-day. 

And  now  comes  the  cremation  of  Care.  A  venerable  priest 
apostrophized  the  enemy  that  lay  coffined  at  his  feet.  He  waved 
the  sacrificial  torch  over  him,  and  then  passed  it  to  his  fellow 
priests,  who  followed  his  example,  while  the  choir  intoned  the 
funereal  hymn.  Then  a  poet-priest  read  his  verses,  and  again  the 
torch  was  handed  to  tbe  acolyte,  who  applied  it  to  the  coffin, 
which  was  made  of  resinous  wood,  and  with  a  couch  of  com- 
bustibles arranged  inside  for  Care.  At  once  it  burst  into  flames, 
and  now  the  music  changed  to  a  pcean  of  joy  as  the  smoke  crept 
up  in  columns  to  the  tops  of  the  redwoods,  and  bore  off  the  soul 

WRICK 


Powder 


Ol  tare  to  mingle  with  Ihe  logs  of  the  ocean. 

In  Ihe  Low  Jinks  the  Bohemian!  gave  expression  to  the  mirth 
and  good  fellowship  which  had  been  bottled  up  during  ihe  grave 
proceedings  ol  the  leaf  worship.  New  member-  wire  Initiated 
with  burlesque  solemnity,  song,  recitation*,  and  all  sons  ,,!  Jollity 
were  indulged  in.  while  the  Welsh  riirel.it  smoked  on  the  table 
and  the  I'ommery  popped  all  along  the  line,  (ireat  camp  llres 
blazed  all  over  the  woods.  Coteries  sat  around  them  and  com- 
pared notes  of  midsummer  jinks  long  gone  by,  and  midsummer 
revellers  long  gone  over  to  the  silent  majority,  who  might  jibe 
and  sing  and  jest  no  more.  And  Ihen  the  moon  withdrew  her 
light  from  the  dreamful  face  of  Buddha,  and  the  gray  dawn  crept 
over  the  cold  trees,  and  anon  the  sun  Hashed  iis  warm  beams 
upon  the  pioneer  emblem  of  a  faith  which  has  remained  ui  shaken 
for  three  thousand  years. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


D^s^lto 


'  We   Obey    no    Wand    but   Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


THE  fair  Lillian  is  here,  and  has  been  seen  of  men  and  women 
at  the  Baldwin.  Though  she  may  not  have  caused  the  same 
anticipatory  nutter,  as  on  the  occasion  of  her  last  visit  to 
this  city,  among  the  adolescent  or  bald-headed  butter- 
flies of  fashion  and  Bohemia,  yet  the  immense  crowd  at  the  Bald- 
win on  Monday  night  showed  that  the  decadence  was  more  than 
offset  by  the  general  desire  to  see,  to  hear,  and  to  judge  of  an 
artist  who  has  so  largely  tiled  the  public  eye,  and  has  called  out 
such  varying  criticism.  The  house  was  not  only  a  large  one  and 
distinctly  fashionable,  from  the  billowy  mass  of  laces,  silken 
robes,  and  diaphanous  fans  that  foamed  and  fluttered  in  parquet 
and  dress  circle  to  the  pie-bald  dado  of  black  coats  and  snowy 
shirt  fronts  which  ornamented  the  auditorium  walls,  but  it  ap- 
peared to  be  intelligently  critical,  as  well  as  flatteringly  attentive 
to  the  people  on  the  stage,  and  discriminating  in  its  applause. 
*  *  * 

Let  any  actress  achieve  at  one  oound  a  success  which  puts 
her  name  into  every  mouth,  and  there  is  sure  to  set  in  a  reaction- 
ary depreciation  of  any  special  gift  or  grace  to  which  she  owes 
her  distinction.  This  may  be  partly  the  result  of  professional 
jealousy  and  the  setting  to  work  of  its  obsequious  claques,  but 
partly  also  of  the  critics'  natural  desire  not  to  be  swept  away  by 
the  tide  of  acclamation.  Lillian  Russell  has  had  her  full  share  of 
this.  For  a  time  she  reigned  with  undisputed  sway.  There  was 
but  one  Lillian  Russell,  and  all  swelldom  was  her  prophet — 
spelled  either  way.  Then  she  married,  went  to  Europe,  and  on 
her  return  the  howl  began.  She  had  grown  "  fat  and  heavy," 
she  never  could  sing,  her  beauty  was  of  the  wax  doll  variety  and 
gone  at  that,  etc.,  etc.  Lillian  must  have  some  brain  packed 
away  in  her  pretty  head,  for  wherever  there  was  a  grain  of  truth 
in  these  cavilings,  she  has  set  to  work  honestly  to  remove  it  in- 
stead of  turning  up  her  perfect  nose  at  her  critics.  Without  much 
voice  she  has  learned  to  sing,  and  to  sing  so  as  to  win  the  ap- 
proval of  the  connoisseurs,  as  well  as  expressively  enough  to 
catch  the  less  cultured,  but  perhaps  more  reliable  public  ear.  To 
come  down  to  less  legitimate  criticism,  even  the  awful  charge  of 
being  "  fat"  no  longer  holds.  Within  the  last  two  years  ber  pro- 
portions have  toned  down  into  that  "  pleasing  plumpness"  which 
many  admire  more  than  the  fairy-like  slightness  that  delights 
the  lesthetics.  When  she  comes  down  the  stage,  all  pink  and 
white,  she  looks  more  than  anything  else  like  a  rare  bit  of  Dres- 
den china,  with  its  vivid  but  delicate  coloring  and  exquisitely 
molded  outline.  And  Dresden  china  figures  are  always  plump 
and  round,  and  apparently  full  of  healthy  vitality.  This  is  Lil- 
lian Russell  as  she  looks.  Her  acting  has  developed  into  a  sur- 
prise. Here,  again,  work  has  done  more  than  nature,  though 
doubtless  time  has  brought  with  it  a  mental  development  which 
has  aided  the  work.  Whatever  the  cause,  Miss  Russell's  acting 
now  ranges  easily  through  comedy  and  sentiment,  nor  does  it 
fail  where  more  powerful  emotion  is  called  for.  As  an  actress, 
she  not  only  excels  the  average  comic  opera  prima,  but  would 
fairly  pass  muster  on  the  dramatic  stage.  In  the  last  act,  where 
the  fate  of  the  thoughtless  grasshopper  seems  about  to  overtake 
her,  and  in  the  dream  tableau,  Miss  Russell's  acting  displays  an 
unsuspected  depth  either  of  feeling  or  the  ability  to  simulate  it. 

La  Cigale  is  announced  as  composed  by  Audran,  libretto  by  F. 
C.  Burnand,  after  the  original  French  by  Chivot  and  Duru.  As 
played  it  seems  to  be  a  little  of  everybody  and  anybody.  There 
is  Ivan  OarylFs  music  supplementing  Audran,  beside  the  intro- 
duced songs.  The  French  librettist's  work  has  been  Anglicized  and 
added  to  by  F.  C.  Burnand,  while  Gilbert  h  Beckett  contributes 
songs  and  concerted  pieces.  With  such  parentage  the  opera  should 
be  a  bright  one.  The  central  idea  is  that  of  the  well-known  fable, 
La  Cigale  et  la  Fourmi  (the  grasshopper  and  the  ant),  though,  of 
course,  our  pretty  grasshopper  is  rescued  from  the  tragic  fate 
which  overtook  La  Fontaine's.  The  suggestion,  however,  is 
gracefully  made  in  the  songs  ot  Marton  and  Charlotte  in  the  first 
act  and  Marton's  dream  in  the  last.  As  a  very  extensive  contri- 
butor to  the  words  of  the  opera  one  must  not  omit  Louis  Harri- 
son, who  talks  to  the  audience  like  the  "  Dutch  uncle  "  which 
he  is,  but  with  an  erratic  humor  which  is  not  Dutch,  though  defy- 
ing all  the  unities  of  time  and  place  as  well  as  all  known  rules  of 
composition. 

*  *  * 

T.  H.  French  bears  the  remarkable  reputation  among  the  gen- 
tlemen of  his  ilk  of  having  proved  the  truth  of  the  maxim, 
<»  Honesty  is  the  best  policy,"  by  always  keeping  his  promises, 
and  getting  immensely  rich  on  the  policy.  Whatever  his  wealth 
may  be  due  to,  be  has  kept  faith  with  the  public  in  this  instance, 
bis  company  being  unquestionably  made  up  with  the  view  of 
giving  the  best  for  its  money.  The  known  people  met  an  en- 
thusiastic reception — Carleton,  Louis  Harrison,  and  Charles  Dun- 
gan  in  particular.  Hayden  Coffin,  the  new  man  and  the  famous, 
was  allowed  to  walk  on  in  silence.     He  did  not  go  off  in  the  same 


way,  his  first  song  taking  the  house  and  bringing  a  first  and  a 
second  encore.  Mr.  Coffin  would  be  an  addition  to  any  company, 
and  to  say  that  he  is,  hardly  excepting  the  star,  the  most  prom- 
inent figure  of  the  company,  is  no  derogation  to  the  others.  His 
special  charm  of  a  perfectly  audible  enunciation  is  not  his  least 
to  the  tortured  ear  of  the  operatic  auditor,  strained  out  of  shape 
in  the  effort  to  hear  one  word  in  ten  of  what  is  sung.  Mr.  Carle- 
ton  has  little  to  do,  but  he  is  always  well  received  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  it  certainly  gives  "  tone  "  to  any  company  to  have  W. 
T.  Carleton  in  a  comparatively  insignificant  part.  Charles  Dan- 
gan's  friends  were  evidently  out  in  force,  and  the  most  enthu- 
siastic must  have  been  satisfied  both  with  bis  singing  and  acting. 
The  part  of  the  Marquis  of  Fayensberg  might  easily  be  either 
over-acted  or  colorless.  Mr.  Dungan  skillfully  avoids  both  ex- 
tremes, and  does  it  with  a  fine  dash  of  originality.  Laura  Clement 
is  tuneful  and  picturesque  as  Charlotte.  The  tiny  ballet  is  quaint 
and  charming,  all  the  dancing  being  unusually  good.  One  of  the 
most  disappointing  members  of  the  cast  is  John  E.  Dudley,  per- 
haps more  disappointing  from  his  heralding  as  "  the  original 
William,"  of  the  London  cast  having  raised  expectancy  too  high. 
La  Cigale  could,  from  ail  appearances,  command  a  still  longer  suc- 
cess than  the  time  for  which  it  is  announced. 
*  *  « 

Little  Tippett  concludes  its  third  week  at  the  Bush  to-morrow 
night.  How  a  company  of  grown-up  men  and  women,  neither 
idiots  nor  lunatics,  can  devote  the  energies  of  their  immortal  souls 
to  the  perpetuation  of  such  malodorous  nonsense,  passes  human 
understanding.  But  Messrs.  Bell  and  Harrison  will  no  doubt 
continue  their  triumphant  career  in  demoralizing  public  taste,  as 
long  as  it  win  them  "  golden  opinions,"  stamped  by  the  United 
States  Mint,  and  contributed  by  an  (intellectually)  wicked  and 
perverse  generation  of  theatre-goers. 

*  •  * 

The  Tivoli  has  been  giving  a  well-cast,  well-staged  production 
of  The  Golden  Hen.     Next  week,  The  Musketeers. 

*  *  * 

Beside  the  burlesque  production,  The  Mi-Kar-Go,  the  Wigwam 
has  added  to  its  talented  specialty  people  this  week  a  long  list  of 
new  importations  from  the  East  and  Australia.  A  new  bill  will 
be  given  next  week. 

*  *  * 

The  Jeffreys-Lewis  engagement  at  Stockwell's  ends  this  week 
with  La  Belle  Russe.  It  is  rumored  that  Miss  Lewis  has  a  new 
play,  A  Sitter  Past.  It  is  time.  However  well  suited  to  her  pe- 
culiar gifts  are  the  plays  in  her  present  repertory,  Jeffreys-Lewis 
is  surely  neither  too  indifferent  to  her  own  hold  on  the  public  nor 
too  indolent  to  attack  a  new  role.  Miss  Lewis'  coast  tour,  under 
Mr.  Stockwell's  direction,  will  begin  at  Sacramento  next  Monday 
night. 

The  Ensign  continues  its  popularity  at  the  California.  The 
Junior  Partner,  which  is  to  follow,  will  be  produced  under  Charles 
Frohman's  direction,  and  by  what  seems  to  be  one  of  his  best 
selected  companies.  Henry  Miller,  who  made  himself  extremely 
popular  here  in  All  the  Comforts  of  Home  and  other  plays,  has  a 
leading  part  in  the  main  piece,  beside  being  the  chief  actor  in 
Clyde  Fitch's  one-act  play,  Frederic  Lemaitre,  which  precedes  the 
comedy.  May  Irwin  is  another  favorite.  Let  us  hope,  by  the 
way,  that  legitimate  comedy  does  not  bar  out  negro  jubilee  sing- 
ing, as  May  Irwin  is  the  best  woman  in  this  line  on  the  stage. 
Mrs.  McK.ee  Rankin  is  another  member  of  the  company  whose 
name  is  a  certificate  of  satisfaction,  and  Emily  Bancker  is  almost 
equally  well  known.  The  play  is  by  Messrs.  Bisson  and  Carre, 
authors  of  Dr.  Bill  and  Wilkinson1  s   Widows. 

The  New  South  will  be  presented  here  for  the  fir^t  time  at  Stock- 
well's Theatre  Monday  night,  by  the  Grismer-Davies  company. 
The  play  is  the  work  of  Clay  Greene,  though  Mr.  Grismer  himself 
is  understood  to  have  had  a  hand  in  its  construction.  Mr.  Stock- 
well's skill  and  attention  to  detail  in  staging  new  plays  is  a 
guaranty  that  nothing  will  be  lacking  in  stage  accessories  to  give 
the  new  piece  a  fair  start. 

*  *  * 

LaCtgale  will  continue  next  week  at  the  Baldwin. 

*  *  * 

The  resumption  of  the  Carr-Beel  Pops"  will  be  noted  with 
pleasure  by  music-lovers.  The  opening  concert  will  take  place 
Saturday  afternoon,  the  24th  inst..  The  programme  will  include 
a  trio  in  D  by  Beethoven,  a  violin  solo  by  Mackenzie,  played  by 
Mr.  Beel,  and  a  new  and  magnificent  trio  by  Tschaikowsky. 
Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham  is  to  sing  at  the  first  concert  if  he  be  in 
town. 

*  •  » 

"  The  Year's  Sweetheart,"  Leila  France  McDermott's  new  song, 
was  an  effective  number  played  by  the  Baldwin  orchestra,  the 
last  week  of   Sol.    Smith    Russell's  engagement.     The  cornet  solo 

was  well   rendered  by   Mr.    Hugo  Schmidt. Mr.    Lezinsky's 

next  reading  will  he  given  Wednesday,  September  14th,  at  Maple 
Hall,  Palace  Hotel;  subject,  Shakespeare.— -McK.ee  Rankin  and 
Frederic  Bryton  have  made  a  success  with  A  Kentucky  Colonel,  at 

the  Union  Square,  New  York. The  Shakspearean  trustees  have 

just   bought  Anne  Hathaway's  cottage,  near  Slottery,  for  £3,000. 


1".  1892. 


9AN   Ki:  wcisco  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sir    Arthur    Sullivan'*     knighthood     is    to    be    merged    in 

Ifae  htghtr  and  IransrolMlble  honors  of  a  haronetcy.-^— A  young 
tUuchtei-  "['  Helen  Tracy  in  aruong  recent  debutantes,  on  the 
stage Lottie  Coll  Inn  arrive  i  In  Sew  York  last  Saturday,  bring- 
ing  Iter  little   Tarara-boom-deay  with   her. Ibsen,  is  writing 

the  libretto  of  a  grand  opera  on  the  subject  <-f  die  Vikings.     The 

name  la  yet  a  secret. .!.  K    Emmett  has  been  taking 

g  lessons,  an<l  his  voice  is  runch  improved. T.  \V.  Keene 

is  In  New  Yirk.  rehearsing  a  grand   production  of  Louis  XI.  and 

■ir, I    III. Fanny    Davenport    is   in  Wales. John  W. 

Jenni ngs  is  recuperating  amoiiL'  the  Vermont  hills. Mr.  Minetta 

is  a  new  violinist  in  town,  an.l  .me  who  is  certain  to  be  known. 

The  ton r  Of  the  Frederick  Warde  Louis  James  combination  begins 

at  Washington  City,    next    Monday    night,  in  Julius  Caesar. 

Joseph    Jefferson    will    play    Rip  Van   Winkle   through    his  entire 

season,  heginning  at  Lowell.  Mass..  October  3d. Niobe  follows 

Lillian  Russell  at  the  Baldv  i  i Misa  Julia  Marlowe  will  appear 

in  the  legitimate  drama,  at  the  Baldwin,  soon  after  the  general 
election. 

*  •  * 

John  Robinson"s  Circus,  which  opens  next  Monday,  will  be 
the  greatest  show  the  city  has  seen  for  years.  Something  novel 
in  connection  with  the  circus  will  be  the  representation  of  inci- 
dents in  King  Solomon's  reign  at  Jerusalem,  including  the  visit  of 
the  Queen  of  Sheba  and  her  gorgeous  retinue.  This  pageant, 
which  includes  a  ballet,  is  one  of  the  grandest  in  the  spectacular 
line  ever  shown.     The  circus  gives  two  performances,  at  2  and 

8  P.   M. 


COURTSHIP    IN    MEXICO. 

TO  the  liberty-loving  and  liberty-given  American  girl,  the  re- 
strictions which  surround  a  Mexican  courtship  would  de- 
prive the  affair  of  all  romance  and  satisfaction.  In  the  city  of 
the  Aztecs,  no  intercourse  whatever  is  permitted  between  the 
lover  and  his  inamorata.  He  can  only  show  his  devotion  by 
the  patient  persistence  with  which  he  walks  up  and  down  in 
front  of  her  window,  oblivious  to  weather,  spectators  or  the 
pangs  of  hunger.  He  intimates  to  the  object  of  his  affections 
that  something  about  her  has  attracted  his  attention,  by  meeting 
her  face  to  face  on  the  street,  as  though  by  accident.  The  usual 
Mexican  salutation  is  a  certain  gesture  with  the  hand,  but  on 
this  occasion  the  gentleman  raises  his  hat,  remarking  at  the  same 
time:  "Your  eyes  are  the  stars  of  my  heaven/'  or  something 
equally  sentimental.  But  that  ends  it ;  the  girl  is  not  supposed 
to  heed  the  remark,  and  each  passes  on.  Before  the  hour  for  the 
next  meal  arrives,  the  suitor  stations  himself  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  street,  in  front  of  the  fair  one's  house,  and  remains  there 
for  a  length  of  time  equal  to  the  depth  of  his  affection.  Here- 
after he  appears  at  the  house  when  others  are  eating,  thus  indi- 
cating that  be  will  endure  starvation  for  her  sake.  Sometimes, 
as  a  reward  for  this  silent  devotion,  the  senorita  appears  on  her 
balcony  and  kisses  the  tips  of  her  dainty  fingers  to  her  adoring 
swain.  The  handkerchief  plays  a  lively  part  in  this  dumb  court- 
ship, and  speaks  volumes  in  the  hands  of  the  interested  pair.  Of 
course  they  often  meet  on  the  promenade,  and  exchange  glances 
behind  the  back  of  the  ever-present  duenna,  for  no  young 
woman  in  Mexico  is  ever  alone  on  the  street.  But, 
though  the  suitor  may  be  of  exceptional  desirability,  he 
can  never  approach  his  sweetheart  or  meet  her,  until  he  is  invited 
into  her  house  by  her  parents.  If  she  is  at  a  ball,  courtesy  de- 
mands that  he  absent  himself  from  the  scene;  his  pretence  might 
embarrass  her.  Another  queer  thing  about  this  queerer  court- 
ship is  the  name  given  to  the  young  man  who  signifies  by  his 
actions  that  he  is  a  suitor  for  his  lady's  hand.  He  is  at  once 
known  and  spoken  of  as  her  »>  bear;"  the  word  is  used  without 
translation.  In  Mexico,  instead  of  asking:  "Is  she  engaged?" 
the  question  is,  "  Has  she  a  bear?"  One  can  but  admire  the 
spirit  of  patience  and  endurance  displayed  by  these  Mexican 
suitors.  One  protracted  siege,  watched  with  deepest  interest 
from  a  house  close  by,  was  carried  on  for  nine  months.  The 
"bear,"  one  of  the  handsomest  and  wealthiest  of  the  jeune/tse 
doree  of  the  City  of  Mexico  appeared  daily  before  the  beloved 
one's  dwelling,  always  accompanied  by  his  moso,  who  held  an 
umbrella  over  bis  master's  head  during  the  frequent  and  heavy 
rainfalls  of  that  season.  His  persistent,  though  silent  devotion 
was  at  last  rewarded.  He  was  invited  into  the  house  and  formally 
accepted  as  the  young  lady's  suitor,  and  he  is  now  in  Paris  buy- 
ing her  trousseau,  another  unique  custom  pertaining  to  the 
country  of  los  Mexicanos.  There  the  prospective  husband  furnishes 
the  wardrobe  for  bis  wife  that  is  to  be,  the  lady  bringing  with 
her  only  silken  shawls,  scarfs,  and  the  gaily-colored  rebozos,  or 
head  coverings.  "  Love  is  love,  the  wide  world  'round,"  but  the 
manner  of  its  manifestation  is  vastly  different;  and  the  habits  of 
the  little  blind  god  in  a  foreign  country  offer  much  that  is  new 
and  interesting  to  the  sojourner  in  the  City  of  Montezuma. 

Upon  one  of  these  delightful  days  which  we  have  enjoyed  of  late, 
nothing  could  be  more  pleasant  than  a  short  run  to  Laundry  Farm, 
which  is  conceded  to  be  one  of  the  prettiest  picnic  grounds  in  the 
State.  Thousands  visit  it  every  week.  It  is  a  little  over  an  hour 
from  this  city,  and  forty  minutes  from  Oakland. 


A  arge  assortment  of  beautiful  bndi  and  bloworas  arrived  in  the 
noraldepol  of  Charles  M.  Leopld.al  96  Poal  street,  lo-day,  Mr  Leo- 
pold la  in  daily  receipt  of  moat  beautiful  flowers,  ar.d  hie  show  wlndowi 
aeem  as  sections  ol  Flora's  bower.  He  Rives  particular  attention  to 
ae<  orative  work,  and  has  gained  an  enviable  reputation  ,-is  one  «r  the 
leaders  In  thai  line  of  artistic  display. 

Goto  J.  Spaulding&Co..  at  358-867  Tehama  street  if  yon  would 
Qave  your  carpets  beaten  or  your  rugs  and   curtains  .leaned.    The 

arpct  Heating  Machine  and  (  leaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  this  firm 
have  for  years  been  known  as  the  best  place  'in  the  city  for  the  clean- 
ing of  carpets  and  curtains  and  other  portions  of  household  furnish- 
ings. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

AlHayman  ACo Proprietors.  |  Alfred  Bouvier. Manager. 

t  ,!?W T?™2£  al.  8;  Ma'i»ee  Saturday  only.  Continued  brilliant  success 
LILLIAN  RUbShLL  Opera  Comii|Ue  Company,  in  the  beautiful 

"LA     CIGALE." 

A  Ken  <  ion  Is  culled  to  the  fact  tbat  seats  for  uext  week,  the  second  week 
of'  LA  CIGALE,"  are  now  on  sale. 

_  KB~  The  prices  will  be  identical  w  th  those  charged  in  New  York  and 
Eastern  cities.  Orchestra  aud  Dress  Circle,  $2;  Balcony,  Jl.flO  and  *1;  Gallery, 
50  cents. 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

AlHayhan&Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob 


Manager. 


:  *    Monday,  September  12th    *  : 

The  Laugh  of  a  Lifetime. 

The   Comedy   Success    Par    Excellence 

THE    JUNIOR    PARTNER.! 

Preceded  by  the  Exquisite  one-act  play 

:*    FREDERIC  LEMAITRE.    -.  :    ■•■■ 


Illustrated  by  a  Company  of  Unequivocal  Excellence,  under  the  direc- 
tion  of  Mr.  Chas.  Frohmau. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse  Business  Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  September  12th,  every  evening,  matinee  Saturday. 
First  time  on  any  stage. 

In  an  

Joseph   R.        ;     Original    :  Phcebe  : 

Grismer,  ■    American   ;  Daviea. 

Drama,        

THE     NEW     SOUTH. 
By  Clay  M.  Greene  and  Joseph  R.  Grismer.     Seats  now  on  sale. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kbhlxng  Bros Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  Two  Night !    Audrau's  Sparkling  Opera, 

THE     GOLDEN     HEN. 

Monday,  September  12th,  THE  MUSKETEERS. 

Popular  Prices  25c.  and  50c. 


WIGWAM  THEATRE. 


(Corner  Stockton  and  Geary  streets,  S.  P.  Cal.) 

Chas.  Meyer Proprietor  and  Manager 

San  Francisco's  recognized  Vaudeville  family  resort.  Week  commenc 
ing  Monday  evening,  September  12lh.  We  challenge  the  world  to  compete 
with  us.  Reappearance,  by  special  request  of  a  large  number  of  our  pa- 
trons of  the  F  risco  favorites.  The  ever  popular  and  entertaining  specialty 
feature,  M  LLAK  BROS.'  famous  diorama:  First  appearance  of  MLLE.  MIN- 
NETTE;  THEO  F.  BARKEl'TA,  gymnast  and  comical  clown;  HERMAN 
GEBEL  and  FttED  PRIES;  First  appearance  of  the  Irish  character  artist, 
MISS  KITTIE  FRaNCIS;  The  wonderful  HENLY  SISTERS,  in  their  skirt 
and  mirror  dance;  ALF.  JAMES,  character  vocalist;  First  appearance,  direct 
from  the  East,  Miss  PEARL  INMANN,  in  one  of  her  taking  black  face 
specialties;  FRED  BULLA  and  FRANK  FOLEY;  The  talented  Australian 
vocalist,  BEATRICE  JAMES;  The  Chalk  Manipulator,  AL.  WILLIAMS;  The 
Comedian  and  Producer,  JOHN  PERRY;  THOMAS  C.  LEARY.  First  time 
of  the  screaming  comedy  in  one  act  and  three  scenes,  entitled 

.       A    RURAL     ROOSTER. 

Popular  Prices Admission  10c ;  Reserved  Seats,  25c. 

WILLIAM    H.    SHERWOOD, 

America's  Eepresentative  Pianist,  will  give  his  only  San  Francisco 
recital  at 

IRVING    HALL. 

TUESDAY  EVENING,  September  13th. 

Admission,  including  Reserved  Seat $1  00 

Seats  now  on  sale  at  Kohler  &  Chase's  Music  House,  26-28-30 
O'Farrell  street. 

SUBSCRIPTION  TICKETS  FOR  THE 

FOURTH    SERIES    OF 

CARR-BEEL    SATURDAY    POPULAR    CONCERTS 

Can  now  be  had  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.    Single  subscription  for  four 
concerts,  including  reserved  seat,  $3. 
First  concert  takes  place  September  24th  at  3  p.  m.  in  Irving  Hall. 


KM  (DC    Bush  &  Gerts  Pianos 
""OB  Parlor  Organs 

HAINES' 


Installments 


A.  I.  Bancroft  A  Co. 
303SutterSt.,S.F. 


PIANOS 


SAX  PB  INCISCO   NEWS  I  ,ETTER. 


Sept.   10,  1892. 


A     QUESTION    OF    FEROCITY 


THE  angler,  who  pursues  th«  most  innooenl  recreation  on  tb« 
ioe  of  the  green  earth  la  oredtted  by  the  unthinking 
messes  with  i\  love  for  romanoing.  Indeed,  some  sages  there  are 
vrhoafflrm  thai  U  is  a  constitutional  impossibility  for  a  genuine 
anglex  to  speak  the  truth.  Therefore  has  the  modest  unit  humble 
lover  of  lake,  ami  Btraaiu,  and  sheltered  hay.  bean  held  up  to 
scorn  by  men  who,  like  Fish  Uouimiaaloner  Joe  Redding, beileva 
that  eeN  leave  their  pools  at  ntghl  to  graaa  In  the  meadows,  and 
that  the  salmon,  Ilka  tin-  snake,  changes  his  .skin  every   year 

The  dlaotples  nl  the  pun  are  muoh  more  leniently  treated,  They 
Bland  imuli  higher  in  the  scale  of  veracity  than  their  brother, the 
angler.  U  was  to  he  thoroughly  convinced  ol  this  Fact  that  a 
number  ot  well  known  sportsmen  were  interviewed  upon  a  sub- 

uvt  with  which  they  were  all  supposed  to  he  tolerably  familiar— 
the  habits  ami  comparative  ferocity  of  the  pelican  ami  the  sand- 
hill crane. 

Ramon  Wilson  said  ■•  M though  1  have  hunted  in  this  State  for 
over  twenty  year>.  I  have  never  yet  made  up  my  nimd  its  to 
which  is  the  more  ferocious.  The  pelican,  as  you  are  well  aware, 
Is  principally  found  among  the  Mann  county  hills,  where  1  have 
frequently  shot  them.      It  is  usual  for  pelican  hunters  t«»  bait    the 

grounds  a  Few  nights  before  with  the  shells  of  the  Bollnas  clam, 

a  delicacy  of  which  the  pelican  is  excessively  Fond.  No.  1  don'l 
use  the  express  rifle  when  hunting  pelicans.      I  lind  the   ordinary 

Winchester  quite  effective.     The  pelican  carries  us  young  in  its 

pouch,  and  spus  them  out  when  feeding,  taking  them  in  again  to 

pick  Us  teeth  at  the  end  of  the  meal.  Thus,  you  may  remark, 
the  BagaoiOUfl  bird  accomplishes  a  double  purpose  ItS  ou  n  com- 
fort, and  the  performance  of  its  parental  duties,  without  personal 

inconvenience.  Yes.  I  have  been  attacked  by  a  sand  hill  crane, 
and  have  had  to  defend  myself  at  great  risk.  I  consider  the  Band' 
hill  crane  (jutta  as  formidable  as  the  grtaaly.  When  I  hunt  cranes 
I  always  carry  an  air  pillow  along   to  smother   the   ferocious  bird 

whan  he  charges,     if ea,  you  are  correct;  I  do  use  the  skins  tor 

door  mats 

William  Kittle.  Esq,  -■•  1  am  convinced  that  the  pelican  is  more 
ferocious  than  the  sand  hill  crane.  I  have  kilted  lar^e  numbers 
o(  the  latter  bird  on  the  preserves  of  the  Oouniiy  Club,  They 
are  \  ery  shy,  though  so  formidable.  You  are  aware  that  (he 
gopher  is  their  principal  food.  Therefore.  1  stalk  them  enveloped 
in  a  gopher  skin,  and  as  the  crane  has  no  idea  of  proportion)  1 
manage  to  get  so  close  that  1  can  hold  my  lire  until  the  bird  at- 
tempts to  swallow  me.  On  one  occasion  I  had  forgotten  to  throw 
a  shell  from  my  maga/.me  rifle  into  the  barrel,  and  I  was  half  way 
down  the  throat  of  the  bird  before  1  had  fully  realized  my  peril. 
What  did  1  <.\o  !  Why.  although  the  odor  from  the  half -d 
gophers  in  the  bird's  stomach  was  most  frightfully  Oppressive  and 
almost  stilled  me.  I  whipped  out  my  hunting  knife  and  ripped 
turn  open  before  I  lost  consciousness.  I'd  rather  face  a  doxen 
pelicans  than  one  sand  hill  crane  at  feeding  time." 

ti.  Frank  Smith-  ••  I  have  been  called  a  veteran  hunter,  and  I 
am.  1  know  more  about  pelicans  and  sand-hill  cranes  than  any 
of  those  boys  you  have  mentioned.  Pelicans  moult  in  the  spring, 
and  that  is  the  best  time  to  shoot  them.  I  kill  them  for  their 
hides  ami  tallow,  although  a  pelican  steak  is  a  juicy  morsel.  The 
kick  of  a  pelican  is  worse  than  a  mule's,  and  his  heels  are  more 
to  be  dreaded  than  the  lull  of  the  sand  hill  crane.  Therefore,  in 
approaching  a  pelican  it  is  necessary  to  attack  him  head  on,  and 
not  to  get  too  ciose  before  shooting.  Otherwise,  he  stands  on  his 
head,  and  lets  go  his  legs  with  tearful  force  and  rapidity.  I  pre- 
fer to  bait  the  ground  with  Yarmouth  bloaters,  although  some 
hunters  are  partial  to  the  hard  shell  clam.  I  have  been  treed 
twice  by  pelicans,  and  owe  my  file  to  a  plug  of  chewing  tobacco 
which  I  fed  to  them  in  chunks.  It  spoiled  their  appetites,  and 
they  withdrew  to  the  forest,  forbearing  to  molest  me  further.  1 
never  venture  to  hunt  them  now  without  a  goo»l  supply  of  to- 
bacco. The  underclothing  I  am  wearing  at  this  moment  is  made 
of  the  skins  of  pelicans  stain  by  my  own  ha    d  " 

Fred  Webster  ••  Yon  are  correctly  informed  about  the  stock 
ing  of  the  Country  0lub*8  preserves  with  pelicans  and  sandhill 
cranes.  In  my  opinion,  the  latter  is  the  more  ferocious  bird. 
There  are  various  ways  of  approaching  them,  hut  I  always  hunt 
them  on  a  sunny  day.  and  with  a  pocket  mirror.  When  the  sky 
is  overcast  1  have  no  use  for  cranes.  How  do  I  use  ihe  pocket 
mirror"  I'll  tell  you.  When  within  between  twenty  and  thirty 
yards  of  the  bird.  I  whistle.  He  raises  his  head  ironi  the  con- 
templation of  the  gopher  holes,  where  he  is  usually  found.  Then 
1  dash  the  sun  in  his  eyes,  and  while  he  is  gettim;  dazed  and 
blind.  I  attack  him  with  knife  and  pistol.  1  never  use  a  ritle  or 
shotgun,  except  on  those  days  when  the  crane  keeps  his  head 
under  his  wing,  ami  the  mirror  cannot  work.  I  consider  giant 
powder  cartridges  the  best  method  of  bagging  pelicans.  Y- 
must  have  a  long  fuse  and  a  coo!  head,  in  some  cases  r. 
plosion  of  the  giant  powder  under  a  graaing  pelican  is  apt  to  im- 
pair the  value  of  the  skin." 

John  K.  Orr—  ■•  1  have  shot  pelicans  and  sandhill  cranes  all   my 
life.     The  crane  1  believe  to  be  the  more  ferocious  and  sags* 
A  sandhill    crane    in    good    condition    never    knows    when    he   is 
bested.     The   Kentucky  ritle  is   my   favorite  weapon    when  after 


cranes,  The  bill  Is  exceedingly  hard.  The  most  sportsmanlike 
Way  of  killing  them  is  to  plant  a  bullet  just  on  the  tip  of  the 
beak.      Tins  acta  as  a    leaden    padlock  on  the  mouth   of    the  fero 

bird,  and  prevents  him  from  emitting   those  ear  splitting 

shrieks  which  are  so  trying  to  the  nerves  of  the  timid  hunter. 
No,  i  never  tulsa  the  tip  of  the  beak.     1(    1    did.  I   should  feel  so 

ashamed  of  myself  that  I  W  OUld  burst  Into  tears,  mid  go  off  and  lind 
another  bird.  1  have  killed  large  quantities  of  pelicans,  and 
have,  l  believe,  the  best  record  of  any  sportsman  in  the  Slate  in 
this  line  of  game.  1  shoot  them  when  they  are  hatching,  not  for 
the  hides  or  skeletons,  but  for  the  SggSi  which  are  excellent  in 
Omelettes.  A  Setting  pelican  is  very  formidable.  They  carry 
large  pebbles  in  their  pouches,  which  they  discharge  at  the  hunter 
with  wonderful  force  and  accuracy.  You  see  this  scar  on  my 
shin?  I  got  it  from  a  pelican  pebble,  and  was  lame  for  a  month 
afterwards.  I  am  aw  are  of  the  nature  of  an  oath  So.  indeed, 
is  every  man  who  lui:  ts  pelicans  and  sandhill  cranes." 


If  you  wish  a  neatly  ttttine  suH  of  good  material,  go  to  the  aatafa 
liahmentof  Col.  J.  M  Litchfield,  of  IS  Posl  street.  By  long  resi- 
dence and  excellent  work  in  this  city,  he  has  acquired  a  reputation 
second  to  none  as  an  artist  in  the  sartorial  line.    Colonel   Litchfield 

makes  :\  Specialty  of  unilorms  and  regalias,    and  his  goods    arc    worn 
by  all  the  great  warriors  ,.f  the  Shite. 

AH  connoisseurs  drink  IrgonantOld  Bourbon,  winch  is  accounted 

by  them  theverj  besl  whisky  in  the  market,     it  has  but   tew  equals 

and  absolutely  no  superiors.'    'The  Argonaut  i-   a    great    whisky,  and 
It  la  drank  In   great  men.      It  is  io  he  had  at  all  ti  est -class  bars,  where 

ii  is  al ■■■■■    ■  it  demand. 

Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun- 
tains. Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Uood  (tc 
coimnodatioas.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

a  FEATURE  ov  Till"  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  cf  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  1'tna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  hem  celebrated  tor  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  ot    Aoute  and   ChronlQ    Pyspepsia,  Kheuina 

iisni.  liiHarornation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 

Kidney  t  oniplaints. 

The   temperature  of  the  water  is  ;n  degrees,  and 

is  iughi\  charged  nhthOarbouio  Acid  Gas,  making 

H  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fojs  !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  Office,  ins  Drnmm  sireci.s.  r 


/ETNA 
HOT 


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YOU'RE     OUT 

It   \  OO  ttou't  go  I" 

NAPA   SODA 
SPRINGS 


THIS     SUMMER. 


What  Do  You  Want  ? 


A  Climate  thai  beats  Italy.  No  Malaria  or  Cold 
Saa  \ir.  Health-giving  Mineral  Water.  Cuisine 
and  Service  ITnexceptionable.  Comfortable  Beds 
rable  Firs!  Unaltty.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Kvery  Room.  Hoi  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  Trains  Kverv  Day. 

All   t  Niton  arc  ViINIle,!. 


ANDREW  JACKSON, 


PROPRIETOR. 


Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 


LOUIS  ROEDERER  CHAMPAGNE. 

ftif  lli;bfsl  Hradf  (hampasnf  in  tlif  World. 
"CA.RTE     BLA1TCHE." 

"HIT*    LXBKL) 

a  Hagaffloent  Ki.-h  wins, 
'"OR-A-ISTD  ^TIlsT   SEC." 

^HRO"  N    LARK!  ' 

Perfection  of  a  Dry  Wine. 
9aettaal  every  Bottle  bears  the  private  label  of 


MACONDRAY    &.   CO.. 
Sole  Aaents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 


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-  \\    PRANCISI  0  NEWS  I  ETTER, 


9 


CHILDREN     IN     HOTELS. 


[Bt     Di    V  KB  hop.] 


POOR  Oh  I  Id  ran,  there  19  no  place  fur  then,  in  hotels.  Their  On  D 
oiothers  da  not  want  them  in  their  rooms  all  the  lime,  and 
they  send  Ihen.  001  lo  play  in  the  hall*.  No  woman  wants  some- 
bo  in  front  of  her  door,  and  so,  like  poor  Jo,  in 
•'  Kleakhouse."  they  are  continually  being  lold  lo  "  move  on."  I 
pity  the  children;  from  the  bottom  --f  my  heart  I  pity  the  children 
who  must  always  be  dressed  up  sptck  and  span,  who  can  never 
from  the  watchful  eye  ol  nurse,  or  if  they  do,  (he  other 
boarders  will  wish  they  hadn't.  1  pity  the  children  who  know 
not  the  wild  abandon  of  delight  that  comes  from  playing  in  the 
dirt  in  the  back  yard,  from  burying  the  cat  up  to  her  bead  in  sand, 
or  crawling  in  and  out  of  the  dog  kennel  with  the  dearest  roly 
poly  puppy  in  the  world.  A  child  who  does  not  know  the  lux- 
ury of  old  clothes  and  dirt  has  no  childhood.  A  child  who  does 
not  romp,  and  shout,  and  send  forth  those  piercing,  ear-splitting 
sounds,  wierd  combinations  that  they  are,  of  yell  and  shriek, 
which  always  accompany  every  real,  true  game  of  tag — why, 
such  a  child  was  born  prematurely  old.  Who  would  not  be  sorry 
for  such  children?  And  yet,  so  thoroughly  does  self-interest  dom- 
inate us,  that  any  one  of  us,  if  disturbed  by  a  noise  outside  our 
door,  would  not  hesitate  to  appear  upon  the  scene,  with  stern 
visage  and  severe  tone,  to  say,  •■  Children,  have  I  not  told  you 
many  times  that  you  must  not  run  up  and  down  these  stairs  or 
whistle  in  the  hall?"  If  there  is  no  place  for  children  in  hotels, 
hotels  are  no  place  for  children,  on  other  grounds  than  that  they 
afford  them  no  place  in  which  lo  romp  and  plav.  Children  are 
the  self-conscious  little  Scribes  and  I'oarisees  of  the  present  day. 
They  are  always  posing  for  admiration.  If  their  antics 
do  not  call  for  admiration,  they  are  equally  satisfied 
if  they  succeed  in  attracting  atteniion.  Notice  they  must 
and  will  have,  and  in  their  desire  to  foist  themselves  upon 
the  helpless  guests  of  a  hostelry,  they  are  aided  and  abetted  by 
vain  mammas  and  indulgent  papas,  who,  proud  of  their  offspring, 
delude  themselves  into  the  belief  that  their  children  are  equally 
interesting  to  all  grown  people.  Vain  belief,  and  yet  these  little 
tots  of  tender  years  are  encouraged  to  strut,  to  prink  and  to  pose, 
with  all  the  airs  of  veteran  poseurs. 

A  child  may  do  all  this,  yet  be  a  good  child;  there  is  nothing 
criminal  in  enjoying  attention,  praise  or  appreciation.  We  all  do. 
It  is  the  manner  in  which  it  is  demanded,  that  is  open  to  objec- 
tion. But  when  a  child  is  a  bad  child  and  lives  in  a  hotel,  the 
rest  of  the  people  are  to  be  pitied.  One  bad  boy  in  a  house  will 
set  all  the  other  children  by  the  ears.  He  is  usually  a  little  older 
than  the  children  he  chooses  for  his  companions,  and  he  leads 
them  into  all  sorts  of  mischief.  By  some  means  he  obtains  an 
ascendency  over  his  liitle  victims,  generally  from  his  knowledge 
of  a  childish  misdemeanor  and  threatening  to  tell.  He  makes 
them  lie  to  screen  h.m  from  the  consequences  of  his  misdoings, 
and  when  the  day  of  reckoning  conies  for  all  the  bell-pulls  and 
false  alarms  rung  in  at  the  messenger  box,  and  the  running 
through  the  front  halls,  and  the  tampering  with  the  letters,  and 
the  mislaid  newspapers,  and  the  pencil  marks  on  the  wall,  why, 
the  bad  boy  who  lives  in  a  hotel  has  gone  to  his  closet  and  got 
out  his  little  halo,  and  is  wearing  it  boldly  with  a  sanctified  air, 
and  goes  scot  free!  Sometimes  a  child  is  guilty  of  such  impish- 
nesa  as  to  make  one  believe  in  possession  of-evil  spirits.  I  knew 
of  one  small  boy,  who  bad  a  face  like  a  cherub's,  and  an  innocent 
air  that  would  have  deceived  the  very  elect.  He  spent  his  time, 
when  he  was  awake,  in  executing  the  plans  which  he  must  have 
devised  in  his  sleep.  When  he  was  not  putting  obstacles  on  the 
car  track  and  then  running  into  the  parlor  to  watch  the  cars  go 
bumpty-bump  over  the  brickbats,  he  was  running  through  the 
hotel  in  search  of  golden  opportunities. 

Hotel  and  boarding-house  keepers  are  often  severely  criticized 
for  their  unwillingness  to  take  children.  Many  people  exclaim, 
'<  How  unjust  to  make  such  a  rule,  when  all  children  are  not 
noisy  or  unruly."  Now,  while  it  certainly  is  a  great  objection  to 
children  that  they  must  play  in  the  corridors,  if  they  play  any- 
where, and  so  annoy  people  who,  not  having  any  children  of  their 
own,  do  not  appreciate  the  exuberant  spirits  of  childhood;  still, 
that  is  not  the  greatest  reason  why  hotel  keepers  do  not  care  to 
have  families  of  children  domiciled  within  their  walls.  The 
reason,  though,  is  one  which  they  are  not  apt  to  talk  about  very 
much,  for  fear  it  may  lead  to  embarrassing  questions.  What  is 
it?  Why,  it's  the  fact  that  children  are  always  liable  to  betaken 
down  with  infantile  diseases.  The  little  ones  are  like  sheep;  let 
a  disease  be  introduced  where  children  live,  and  one  after  another 
succumbs.  Sickness  in  a  hotel  is  always  a  terror  to  mine  host. 
He  knows  how  his  guests  become  panic-stricken  in  a  night.  Not 
only  those  who  have  children,  but  those  who  have  not,  pack  up 
and  leave  in  hot  haste  at  the  first  suspicion  that  diphtheria,  scar- 
let fever  or  the  measles  have  entered  a  house,  "  for  grown  people 
have  these  diseases  so  much  more  severely  than  children,  you 
know."  Exasperating  as  it  must  be  to  an  hotel  keeper  to  have 
sickness  break  out  among  the  guests  already  at  home  within  his 
house,  it  must  be  ever  so  much  more  exasperating  when  a  family 


come  to  him  with  a  clean  hill  of  health,  only  to  break  out  uiih 
tb«  tcarlet  fever  or  tht  meulaa  a  day  or  two  after  iheir  arrival. 
Our  sympathies  oug'  t  to  be  with  the  Hunifnco. 


You  believe  in  pure  food; 
you  buy  the  best  flour,  the 
best  eggs,  the  best  sugar, 
yet  you  have  not  tried  the 
best  baking  powder  unless 
you  have  used  Cleveland's. 

But  do  not  take  our  word 
tor  it.  Judge  for  yourself, 
try  a  can  of  Cleveland's,  and 
be  sure  to  use  a  little  less 
than  you  have  been  accus- 
tomed to  of  others,  for 
Cleveland's  is  the  strongest. 

Ask  your  grocer  for  the  Cleveland  Cook  Book, 
400  recipes,  free.  If  he  hasn't  a  copyseud  stamp 
and  address  to  r 

Cleveland  Bukiug  Powder  Co.,  New  York, 


The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-clasa  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  Saa  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets.  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 
The  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature. 

MRS.  M.   E.  PENDLETON. 

Proprietor  and  Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 


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1206  Sutter  Street, 


Telephone  2388. 


SAN  FRANCISCO. 


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10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


IT  is  said  that  Sconchin  Afaloney  is  about  to  return  to  town. 
Hence  the  fearful  expression  on  the  face  of  that  prominent 
fakir,  Thomas  E.  Flynn.  If  there  is  a  man  whom  Flynn  has 
good  cause  to  fear,  it  is  the  Shakespearean  statesman.  The  full 
story  of  the  manner  in  which  Sconchin  gave  him  a  deserved 
thrashing  at  Sacramento  during  the  last  session  of  the  Legislature 
has  never  been  told.  Cooimisseration  forbids  me  to  here  relate 
it.  It  is,  of  course,  known  that  Flynn  received  as  beautiful  a 
pair  of  black  eyes  as  ever  decorated  any  bully;  and  also  that  he 
gave  Sconchin  opportunity  to  appreciate  the  capabilities  of  the 
Flynn  heels,  when  applied  to  spurting.  It  seems  that  Flynn  en- 
deavored to  become  familiar  with  Maloney,  but  that  individual, 
though  erratic,  has  a  high  idea  of  his  own  gentility,  and  therefore 
declined  to  allow  "  Tommy  de  Tuff,"  as  the  scribbling  friend  of 
the  prize  fighters  and  champion  of  the  Ellis-street  aristocracy  is 
best  known,  to  have  anything  to  do  with  him.  Flynn  resented 
the  rebuff,  and  Sconchin  thereupon  kick.ed  hira  and  gave  bim  a 
thrashing,  just,  as  he  said,  be  would  have  done  to  any  other  cur 
that  snapped  at  bim.  Flynn  had  no  mourners.  Now,  remember- 
ing his  former  experience,  be  fears  the  return  of  the  Maloney. 
and  he  is  already  preparing  to  beat  a  basty  retreat  behind  the 
skirts  of  his  very  good  friend,  Mrs.  Gilleran,  should  Sconchin  re- 
appear. 

*  *  * 

Charley  Dungan,  who,  a  very  few  short  years  ago,  dealt  in 
"  gent's  furnishings  "  in  this  city,  has  returned  here  in  the  train 
of  the  Queen  of  Light  Opera.  "Cissy,"  as  he  was  generally 
known,  on  account  of  his  kittenish  manner,  was  a  favorite  with 
certain  of  the  Bohemian  set,  and  many  are  the  stories  told  of 
this  histrionic  aspirant.  While  playing  in  the  Mikado,  "  Cissy," 
not  being  then  au  fait  with  ail  the  minutiae  of  stage  dressing,  used 
to  get  a  brother  actor  to  assist  bim  in  making  up,  and  put  the 
final  touch  by  winding  the  long  sash ,  that  is  a  distinctive  feature  of 
the  Japanese  costume,  around  bis  delicate  waist.  One  night 
this  dresser  pro  tern,  outraged  "  Cissy's  "  sense  of  propriety  by  re- 
flecting upon  his  finicky  little  ways,  and  was  met  with  the 
crushing  reply,  "  Go  away,  now,  I  won't  let  you  tie  my  sash  any 
more,  there,  now!  "  Of  course,  his  whilom  friend  retired,  over- 
come by  the  oppressing  sense  of  desolation  at  losing  »  Cissy's  '" 
friendship.  Notwithstanding,  however,  the  little  femininities 
that  Charley  affects,  he  is  a  jolly  good  fellow,  and  has  been  hold- 
ing high  carnival  with  old-time  friends  since  his  arrival  in  the 
city. 

The  intelligent  youths  at  the  Free  Library,  who,  it  is  pre- 
sumed, are  paid  enormous  salaries  mainly  for  the  purpose  of  at- 
tending to  the  orders  of  the  patrons  of  that  disappointing  institu- 
tion, are  once  more  causing  sorrow  among  the  admirers  of  Brown- 
ing, and  Meredith  and  Ho  wells  wh<j  visit  the  library.  A  young  lady 
wrote  out  a  ticket  the  other  day  for  a  volume  of  Browning,  and 
another  by  Howells.  The  boy  returned,  and  with  a  smile,  handed 
her  a  copy  of  "  Young  America  Afloat,"  by  Oliver  Optic,  whereat 
she  was  rightfully  wrath.  One  of  the  attendants  informed 
another  visitor  a  few  days  ago  that  there  was  only  one  copy  of 
Lucille  in  the  library.  These  matters  should  be  remedied.  The 
main  complaint  about  this  library  ever  since  its  formation  has 
been  that  the  service  has  been  very  bad.  Some  attempt  has  been 
made  to  improve  it,  but  it  is  apparent  that  the  establishment  is 
yet  far  from  that  condition  of  perfection  which  it  should  have 
attained  long  ago.  The  librarian  is  an  able  gentleman,  excel- 
lently well  suited  for  the  place;  his  assistants,  however,  are  not 
all  worthy  of  praise. 

*  *  # 

Chauncey  M.  St.  John's  suit  in  the  Alameda  County  Courts,  for 
a  modified  decree  of  divorce,  has  unearthed  a  nice  little  romance 
that  might  otherwise  have  been  buried  under  a  bushel.  It  will 
be  remembered  that  Chauncey,  who  is  in  the  San  Francisco  Custom 
House,  obtained  a  divorce  some  years  ago  from  his  wife,  who 
then  married  Will  Swasey,  of  East  Oakland.  But  her  heart  was 
too  impressionable  to  remain  constant,  even  on  her  second  ven- 
ture, and  when  Martin  Beel  came  along  and  wooed  her,  she  shook 
off  the  mavrimonial  chains  again  and  went  with  him  to  Central 
America.  An  arrival  from  that  part  of  the  world  the  other  day 
saw  the  gentle  pair.  They  are  living  in  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
where,  strange  to  relate,  Beel  has  opened  a  saloon.  The  conveyer 
of  the  news  brought  the  further  information   that  a  big  row  took 


place  in  Beel's  saloon  recently,  and  that  Martin  was  nearly  killed 
as  a  result  of  his  share  of  the  scrimmage. 

The  City  of  Churches  will  soon  have  to  change  its  title  to  that  of 
the  City  of  Sports  if  the  present  developments  continue.  Not 
satisfied  with  the  poolrooms  and  the  half  a  score  poker  and 
dice  games  that  run  nightly  in  town,  two  faro  banks  are  now  in 
full  swing,  so  that  the  Athenian  youths  need  not  go  far  from 
home   to  dispose  of  their  money. 

*  »  * 

With  the  opening  of  the  new  Macdonough  Theatre,  in  Oak- 
land, promises  to  come  quite  a  lively  time  in  local  theatrical  cir- 
cles. It  appears  that  the  percentage  terms  Hayman  offers  to 
outside  managers  are  not  altogether  acceptable,  so  George  Motb- 
ersole,  who  has  leased  the  Macdonough  Theatre,  proposes  to 
make  a  fight  on  the  proposition.  He  has  started  in,  too,  in  a 
very  shrewd  way,  by  leasing  the  Barton  Opera  House  at  Fresno, 
and  also  closing  for  a  theatre  in  Stockton.  With  this  combina- 
tion, he  proposes  to  either  make  Hayman  come  to  his  terms  or 
else  shut  out  the  Baldwin  and  California  shows  from  the  outside 
towns  altogether. 

*  *  * 

Sam  Davis,  with  others  of  his  tribe,  spoke  disparagingly  of  San 
Francisco,  but  Rev.  Fay  Mills  has  asserted  that  it  is  the  most  re- 
ligiously inclined  city  in  the  country,  and  by  no  means  deserves 
the  title  of  the  "  Paris  of  America."  He  ought  to  know,  too,  for 
according  to  his  own  account  he  was  a  rather  rapid  living  young 
fellow  some  year3  back.  An  incident  occurred  this  week  that 
ought  to  prove  to  the  unregenerate  that  Mr.  Mills  is  probably 
correct;  that  the  San  Francisco  youth  does  not  cut  his  wisdom 
teeth  as  early  as  elsewhere,  or  the  women  become  acquainted 
with  the  world's  wiles  until  the  early  sixties.  A  youth,  living 
far  out  in  the  Western  Addition,  visited  a  friend  who  has  the 
happiness  to  occupy  rooms  in  one  of  the  fashionable  boarding 
houses  that  line  Pine  street  from  Mason  to  Jones.  Others  of  the 
ii  boys  "  were  present,  and  about  ten  o'clock  the  party  sat  down 
to  have  a  friendly  band  at  cards.  Midnight  passed,  and  slumber 
had  claimed  all  in  that  devoted  household  save  the  party  high  up 
in  their  bachelor's  den.  Suddenly  the  door  bell  rang  out  with  a 
long  continued  peal,  loud  enough  to  awaken  the  dead.  Again 
and  again  the  discordant  sounds  broke  upon  the  night  air. 
Lights  began  to  flash,  revealing  fair  forms  clad  in  robes  de  chambre, 
robes  de  nuit,  and  other  robes  of  scanty  dimensions,  leaning  over 
the  balustrade  on  the  several  landings,  with  fearful  inquiry  de- 
picted on  their  faces. 

■'Oh,  my,  I'm  so  frightened;  I  wonder  who  it  can  be?"  in- 
quired one. 

'•  Perhaps  it's  Mr. come  home — that  way  again,"  whispered 

another. 

"  It's  somebody  dead,  I  know  it  is;  I  feel  it  In  my  bones," 
volunteered  a  hysterical  lady,  clothed  in  a  long  shawl  and  curl 
papers. 

"  Why  in  the  devil  don't  they  open  the  door?"  queried  a  man's 
voice,  as  the  bell  again  began   the  Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ray  chorus. 

Speculation  was  cut  short  by  one  of  the  maids  opening  the 
door,  and  then  stepping  back,  as  if  she  expected  his  Satanic  Maj- 
esty to  waltz  in.  No  one  entered,  but  a  shrill  treble  was  heard  to 
agitatedly  exclaim,  '•  My  boy!  Where's  my  boy?  I  want  my 
Freddy,  and  I  know  he's  here." 

The  maid  recovered  her  courage;  "  I  beg  your  pardon,  madam, 
but  who  is " 

"  It's  no  use,  I'm  not  going  away  without  my  Freddy,"  inter- 
jected the  old  lady. 

Meantime,  the  boys  up  aloft  had  been  enjoying  the  situation 
until  the  old  lady  made  her  first  demand  for  "her  Freddy." 
"  Great  ghee  wilikins,  it's  my  mother!  exclaimed  the  Western 
Addition  product.  With  slow  steps  and  penitential  mien  he  ran 
the  gauntlet  of  the  fair  unclad  down  stairs,  and  was  clasped  in 
his  mother's  arms  as  she  rushed  into  the  hall  to  meet  him. 

"  My  boy !  my  boy  I  come  home  with  your  mother  and  leave 
this  bad  bouse,"  exclaimed  the  tearful  old  lady. 

"  What's  the  matter  with  you,  you  make  me  tired,"  replied  the 
chagrined  Freddy. 

"Ah,  my  boy,"  added  his  mother,  "  the  way  of  the  sinner  is 
bard,  but  don't,  don't  go  back  in  this  horrid  place." 

"  Did  you  ever!  "  "  No,  I  never."  "  The  impudence  of  her,"  etc., 
etc.,  came  in  crescendo  from  the  shivering  watchers  upstairs.  One 
paterfamilias  was  heard  to  say  something  about  "  a  club,"  but  the 
remark  was  scarcely  apposite.  Peace  again  reigns.  The  old  dame 
has  found  out  that  her  righteous  indignation  was  wasted,  inasmuch 
as  she  did  not  rescue  her  beloved  Freddy  from  what  she  terms  a 
"  gilded  palace  of  sin."  She  is  now  exercised  in  her  mind  as  to 
what  the  etiquette  of  the  occasion  demands.  Will  it  be  proper 
for  her  to  go  and  apologize  to  all  the  ladies  in  the  Pine  street  man- 
sion individually,  or  perform  tbe  great  ••  kow-tow  "  in  self  abase- 
ment in  the  entrance  ball,  the  scene  of  her  unhappy  exploit. 

*  #  » 

Ed.  Hamilton,  of  the  Examiner,  has  conceded  cards  and  spades 
to  Professor  Holden.  and,  in  fact,  to  every  other  astronomer  who 
cares  to  assert  himself.  It's  all  on  account  of  a  trip  Ed  recently 
made  to  Fresno.     Being  one  of  the  great  guns  of  the  Examiner,  he 


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11 


was  naturally  listened  to  with  great  interest  by  the  little  cordon 
who  stood  around  him  as  he  lolled,  ,  ImUinp  on  the  hotel  steps, 
and  seeing  the  great  impression  he  was  making,  he  spread  himself 
in  big  Style  for  the  occasion.  Ho  settled  all  the  political  questions 
of  the  hour,  gave  points  how  to  catch  the  train  robbers, predicted 
the  winners  of  the  thrf  its    .it    Sew    Orleans,  and  then 

drifting  on  to  the  chohra  question,  he  told  of  how  a  cell  by  nu- 
trition evolved  premordial  germ,  and  germ  developed  protogene, 
and  protogene  begat  eozoon.  andeozoon  begat  monad,  and  monad 
begat  bacilli,  and  so  on.  Then,  in  a  grand  Might  of  oratory,  he 
took  his  auditors  heavenward-.,  and  pointing  to  a  particularly 
bright  star,  be  said,  »  And  there,  gentlemen  is  Mars,  on  which 
the  combined  intellectual  forces  of  the  world  are  now  centred." 
In  fervent  strains  he  talked  of  Schiaparelli's  canals,  and  tr*e  falls 
of  snow  on  the  .southern  mouutatns;  and  be  bad  just  worked  up  to 
a  graphic  description  of  the  twinkling  lights  on  the  blue-marked 
main,  when  he  was  suddenly  interrupted  by  the  remark  from  a 
smooth-faced,  spectacled  old  fellow,  of  "  You're  somewhat  wrong, 
young  man;  that  is  Venus  you  are  pointing  at,  and  not  Mars." 

"  I  thought  they  were  all  yokels,''  said  Ed,  as  he  told  the  story 
on  himself  on  bis  return  to  town;  »  and  as  a  matter  of  fact,  I 
did'nt  know  Mars  from  the  little  dipper.  It  was  a  horrible 
knock-out  I  got,  though,  and  I  fancy  I  can  hear  them  laughing 
at  me  yet." 

*  *  * 

One  of  the  most  pleasant  amusements  of  good  fishermen  of  late 
has  been  to  kill  black  bass  at  Crystal  Springs,  in  the  reservoir  of 
the  Spring  Valley  Company.  3S"ot  every  sportsman,  be  it  known, 
can  enjoy  himself  in  this  manner,  for  it  is  necessary  to  secure  a 
permit  from  the  company  before  a  line  can  be  dropped  in  the 
lake.  Among  those  who  have  secured  the  much-coveted  paste- 
board, and  who  have  hooked  their  twelve  fish,  the  limit  of 
slaughter,  are  '<  Johnny"  Bergez,  Mr.  McCord,  Mr.  Meuser,  D.  M. 
Fraser,  C.  Bogart,  Homer  S.  King  and  a  number  of  other  gentle- 
men less  known  to  fame,  but  with  equally  good  rods  and  pisca- 
torial wisdom.  During  one  of  the  recent  expeditions  to  the  lake, 
one  of  the  fishermen  baited  his  hook  with  a  live  frog,  a  very 
lively  frog,  in  fact,  and  thereby  hangs  this  tale.  The  black  bass 
destroyer — it  might  have  been  Fraser.  or  Bogart,  or  Bergez,  which 
is  immaterial — had  a  leader  about  six  feet  long  on  the  hook, 
upon  which  the  frog  was  impaled.  The  day  was  warm,  the  sun 
beat  down  fiercely  upon  the  lake,  and  bites  were  few  and  far  be- 
tween. The  man  with  the  frog  waited  patiently  for  a  couple  of 
hours  for  the  bass  to  swallow  his  frog,  but  the  only  pulls 
be  got  at  his  line  were  those  made  when  the  bait 
dived  to  escape  the  cruel  barb  that  held  him.  Like 
all  good  rodmen,  this  one  had  as  portion  of  his  kit  a 
riask  of  good  Scotch.  As  the  day  wore  on  be  partook  of  it  gen- 
erously, and  finally  laid  himself  back  in  the  stern  of  the  boat  and 
waited  for  the  fish  to  come  to  him.  He  fell  asleep,  and  half  an 
hour  later  awoke.  Confident  now  that  be  must  have  a  bass  upon 
his  line,  he  started  to  pull  in.  when,  looking  at  his  bob,  he  almost 
fell  in  a  faint,  for  there,  squatted  upon  the  floater,  was  that  lively 
frog,  which  had  somehow  managed  to  reach  the  surface,  and  was 
watching,  like  the  fisherman,  fur  developments.  The  frog  disd 
that  night,  becoming  bait  to  the  man  with  the  rod,  who  thereby 
reaped  a  terrible  vengeance. 

THE  Regents  of  the  University  do  not  want  Professor  Moses  for 
the  Presidency.  They  do  not  know  whom  they  want.  The 
history  of  our  State  institution  is  unique  in  this  particular.  It 
has  had  more  Presidents  in  its  comparatively  short  life  than  any 
half  dozen  of  the  older  Eastern  universities  bunched  together. 
There  are  too  many  regents.  Something  is  out  of  joint.  So  said 
ex-President  Oilman,  one  of  the  best  and  most  progressive  men 
that  ever  filled  the  chair.  Learning,  grave,  dignified  and  impar- 
tial, frowns  at  those  cabals,  but  the  freshman  still  throttles  the 
sophomore  with  as  much  grace  and  vigor  as  if  this  difficult  ques- 
tion were  permanently  settled. 


THE  announcement  that  the  Herodic  Beale  is  the  possessor  of 
$18,000,  will  place  him  in  a  different  light  altogether  in  the 
eyes  of  the  lawyers.  As  the  blow-fly  speeds  him  to  the  defence- 
less chop,  so  will  the  expounders  of  the  law  hasten  to  grab  some 
of  the  coin,  earned  by  the  blood  of  the  innocents.  It  would  be  a 
novelty  in  the  criminal  history  of  this  city,  were  Beale  convicted 
and  punished.  Aye,  that  is  the  rub.  Convictions  are  easily 
accomplished  when  evidences  of  guilt  are  overwhelming,  but 
punishment  puts  her  finger  to  her  nose  and  jibes  at  Justice. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  is  in  daily  receipt  of  new 
goods  in  the  gentlemen's  furnishing  line.  His  store  is  one  of  the 
most  popular  in  this  city. 


A.  de  LUZE  &  FILS' 

(BORDEAUX) 

IF  I  IDT  E    CL-A-IR/IETS. 

St.   Estephe,  Pontet  Canet,  Chat.  Margaux. 

Pauillac,  Chat.  Leoviile,  Chat.  Beychevelle, 

Brown  Cantenac,  Chat.  Larose,  Chat,    Montrose, 

St.  Julen,  Chat.  Paveil,  Chat.  Lafite. 

FINE-   SAUTERNES. 

Sauternes  Sup'r,,  Haut  Sauternes,  Chateau  Yquem, 

In  Cases,  Quarts  and  Pints. 

CHARLES     MEINECKE     &    CO., 

Sole  Agents,  314  Sacramento  Street. 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

SJ^3ST    ZFIR-A-lSrCISCO,  -       -        CA1. 

Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description, 

Patent  Lead-Lined   Coupled   Tubing,  for   use  as 

Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap . 

KRUG  <?  CO. 

"PRIVATE  CUVEE." 

In  Quarts  and  Pints,  from  KRUG  $ 
CO.,  Reims.     Sold  by  all  Dealers,  Jobbers  and  Grocers. 

Hellmann  Bros.  §  Co. 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
525  Front  Street,  SAN  FRANCISCO.    Telephoned .m. 
CUNNINGHAM  CURTISS,  &  WELCH, 

WHOLESALE  STATIONERS  AND  BOOKSELLERS, 

327,    329,    331    SANSOME    STREET, . 


FINE   DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


OUTING  SUITS-SHIRTS,      LADIES 


! 


TENNIS  SUITS-SHIRTS, 


WAISTS 


27    TO    37    ZKE-A-K-lTTr    STREET. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


MRS.  B.  F.  SHERWOOD  and  her  pretty  daughter  may  remain 
the  winter  with  us  after  all,  and  'tis  whispered  that  Mrs.  J. 
D.  Fry  has  promised  the  young  lady  a  brilliant  ball  in  her  beauti- 
ful Jackson  street  residence  if  the  decision  is  made  to  stop  in  San 
Francisco. 

n    #    « 

The  army  circles  at  present  stationed  here  are  unusually  rich  in 
pretty  girls,  who  will  undoubtedly  be  among  the  belles  of  the 
winter's  gaieties.  The  most  prominent  are  statuesque  Miss  Ger- 
trude Wilson,  distingue  Miss  Anna  Ruger,  gazelle-eyed  Miss  Min- 
nie Burton,  dashing  Miss  Myra  Lord,  gentle  Miss  Meta  Graham 
and  clever  Miss  Chappie.  A  formidable  array  of  beauty  and 
grace,  and  one  likely  to  vanquish  many  a  civilian  heart,  as  well 
as  of  those  of  gallant  sons  of  Mars. 

■H    *    # 

The  great  trouble  with  the  girls  will  be  the  paucity  of  dancing 
beaux.  If  the  powers  that  be  would  only  leave  our  big  white 
cruisers  in  their  native  waters,  those  vessels  would  furnish  more 
than  a  quota  of  available  material  for  our  ball-rooms  this  winter. 
But  as  they  are  already  under  sailing  orders,  'tis  hopeless  to  seek 
for  the  bright  button  element  so  far  as  the  navy  goes,  and  the 
feminine  eye  will  settle  upon  the  military.  Yet  even  in  this 
quarter  the  supply  is  not  equal  to  the  demand. 

As  to  the  civilian  beaux,  the  young  men  do  not  grow  up  rapidly 
enough  to  fill  the  ranks  thinned  by  last  year's  matrimonial  de- 
fections. Robbie  Coleman,  Milty  Latham  and  Bert  Carolan  are 
three  beaux  whom  the  girls  consider  standbys.  Ed.  Schmieden 
doesn't  care  for  society  in  general.  Jack  Barnes  is  doing  his  best 
to  be  a  man,  and  a  few  years  more  will  make  him  a  worthy  son 
of  a  noble  sire. 

*  *  * 

There  is  a  rumor  in  fashionable  circles  that  Mrs.  Will  Tevis  is 
meditating  a  genuine  treat  for  society  the  coming  season,  which 
will  take  the  form  of  amateur  theatricals.  The  locale  will  be  the 
big  house  of  her  mother-in-law,  and  the  play,  one  written  by  her 
talented  mother.  The  talent  which  was  so  remarkable  in  a  per- 
formance of  A  Scrap  of  Paper,  by  a  company  of  society  amateurs, 
will  be  again  called  together,  and  as  among  them  are  several  of 
our  prominent  society  lights,  no  doubt  a  brilliant  affair,  should  it 
come  off,   would    be  the  result. 

»  #  » 

Rumor  is  again  rife  that  Charley  Baldwin  has  captured  a  prom- 
inent belle.  It  would  be  premature,  perhaps,  to  give  the  name, 
but  the  inner  circle  no  doubt  have  full  cognizance  of  who  the 
fair  lady  is. 

*  *  * 

From  the  present  outlook  it  would  seem  as  though  the  ensuing 
winter  season  would  be  unusually  brilliant,  as  several  of  the  large 
houses  are  being  put  in  dancing  order,  notably,  the  Popes'  and 
the  Hager's.  Should,  however,  the  cholera  scare  continue,  and 
result  in  enforced  quarantine,  the  young  couples,  Murphy  and 
Pope,  will  stand  a  good  chance  of  being  detained  on  the  other 
side  of  the  water  for  some  time  to  come. 

*  *  * 

Among  the  Californians  residiag  in  Hamburg,  the  city  most 
severely  devastated  by  the  pestilence,  is  Mrs.  F.  0.  Layman  and 
family.  She  is  well  known  in  San  Francisco  as  Miss  Lilly  Tomp- 
kins, and  is  the  widow  of  the  former  Fred  Oppenheim,  a  gentle- 
man well  known  in  society  circles  here  during  the  seventies. 

*  *  * 

Talk  about  English  lords  or  baronets!  To  use  the  slang  of  the 
day,  "  they're  not  in  it."  Our  girls  are  going  to  have  a  chance  of 
becoming  a  Sultana!  The  Sultan  of  Lahore  is  about  to  visit  our 
coast  under  the  guidance  of  an  American  and  his  wife,  who  was 
formerly  one  of  our  belles,  and  no  doubt  the  illustrious  Indian 
will  be  feted  and  entertained  by  our  social  lights.  Some  of  the 
girls  have  been  discussing  the  possibility  of  His  Highness  giving 
mementos  of  precious  stones— big  diamonds  strings  of  pearls.'etc. 
No  wonder  the  female  heart  is  beating  high  with  expectancy  ever 
since  the  announcement  of  the  coming  of  the  Consul  with  his 
princely  charge. 

Can  it  be  true,  as  some  say,  that  Hugo  Toland  will  claim  a 
bride  on  the  termination  of  his  present  theatrical  engagement? 
The  reputed  fair  one  is  said  to  be  well  connected,  well  dowered, 
but— well  on  in  life— that  is,  as  compared  to  the  talented  young 
Thespian,  whose  years  are  not  yet  far  in  the  twenties. 

*  *  # 

"  A  little  bird"  sings  from  over  the  water  (not  the  ocean,  by- 
the-by,  but  the  expanse  between  here  and  Sausalito)  that  a  rural 
divinity  has  captured  that  erstwhile  incorrigible  bachelor  Claude 
Terry  Hamilton,  it  being  a  case  of  propenquity." 


HAMBURG-AMERICAN  PACKET  COMPANY. 

FASTEST  ROUTE  TO  LONDON 
aud  the  Europeau  Coutiueut.  New 
York,  Southampton,  HAMBURG. 
Fastest  time,  equal  to  5  days,  20 
hours  to  Queensiowu.  TWIN  SCREW 
FAST  EXPKES-l  Sl'EAMEKS,  A  [T- 
GTS  PA  VJ.ni  ORIA,  KURS  I'  BIS- 
MARCK. COLUMBIA  and  N0RM4N 
NIA,  of  10,'JOU  tntisaud  13,000  to  IP, 000 
horse  power.  ^^^.Toese  steamers 
carry  no  cotton. 
REGULAR  3ERVIOEMAIL STEAM- 
ERS—W  ieland,  Gelleit,  Rngia,  Rhae- 
tia,  Dania,  Scaudia,  Russia,  Snevia, 
Moravia,  California  for  Hambuig 
direct.     Ihrough  passage   tickets   to 

all  poiuts  in  Europe  at  low  rates. 
Company's  otlice,  37  Broadway,  New  Yorfc.    For  ticket,  cabiu  plans  aud 

informatioa  apply  to    A.  W   M  VER,  Geueral  agent  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
40t  California  street,  corner  Sauaome,  Saa  Frauei&co. 

MISS  MAN  SON'S  SCHOOL, 


No.  912  GRAND  STREET, 


ALAMEDA,    CAL. 


Miss  Mansou,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  Scho  1,  Lyuehburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.   Mansou,  Late   Associate   Principal,  East  End  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  began  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application.  ________^___ 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  aud  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 


Mr.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 


F    THE 


THIS    IS   TO  ATTRACT    YOUR   ATTENTION 


THE  FACT  THAT  CARL  •  UPMANN'S  LINCOLN'S 
CABINET  CIGARS  ARE  MADE  OF  THE  FINEST 
VUELTA   ASAJO  TOBACCO. 

■03~YOtl    SHOULD    SMOKE   THEI 


H  TO  i 

.N'S    « 
EST    J 

EM.     1 


OLYMPIC  SALT  WATER  COMPANY. 

(Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California). 

Capital   Stock,   $350,000,    Divided    into   35,000    Shares   at 

$10  Each. 


DIRECTORS— John  D.  Spreckels.  President;  Wm.  Greer  Harrison, 
Vice  President  aud  General  Manager;  Aoolph  B.  Spkeckels,  Treasurer; 
John  Rosenfeld,  Merchaut;  Chas.  A.  Wieland.  Capitalist;  Cornells 
O'Connor,  Capitalist ;  James  Spiers,  of  Hinckley,  Spiers  &  Hayes. 

CONSULTING  ENGINEER-D.  Ernest  Melliss,  Ph.D.,  C.  E.,  524  Sacra- 
mento street. 

ATTORNEY— Samuel  M.  Shortridge,  234  Moutgomery  street. 


-Applications  for  stock  will  be  received  by 

R.  D.  PERRY,  Secretary, 

At  the  office  of  the  Company,  305  California  street,  San  Francisco  Cal. 

Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 


Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

INGLENOOK  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  San 
Francisco  prices  aud  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  having 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  their 
orders  iu  time  with 

F.  A.  HABER, 

Office  and  Depot  Inglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


10,  1892. 


I  FRANCISCO  M  PER. 


18 


RATHER. 


When  Jobsoo  clubwnM  poes  At    night. 

The  line  he  taken  is  such   thai   we 
''empire  it   to  the  hive  ward   flight 

Ol  any   honey  laden   bt-e. 
Bnt  later,  as  he  homeward  crawls, 

His  circumstances  alter  that; 
His  journey  then,   though   slow,  recalls 

The  tlight  of  the  erratic  bat. 

THE    LATE    PILSBURY    HODGKINS. 

THE  late  Pilsbur.v  Hodgkins  was  one  of  the  best-known  men 
in  the  express  business  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  was  the 
oldest  employ'"-  of  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  and  bad  been  for  years  en- 
gaged in  their  interests  in  this  oily  and  at  other  places  through- 
out the  coast.  Mr.  Hodgkins  was  a  native  of  Nobleooro,  Me., 
where  he  was  born  on  February  17.  1825.  In  his  sixteenth  year 
he  went  to  Boston,  where  be  became  a  protege  of  Caleb  Hobbs. 
There  he  became  a  ship  carpenter.  He  sailed  for  California  on 
April  1,  1840.  on  the  ship  ForJfc,  As  he  was  the  carpenter  on  that 
voyage,  he  became  known  as  »  Chips,"  a  name  by  which  he  was 
known  among  bis  intimates  until  his  death.  He  arrived  in  this 
State  in  September,  1849,  and  after  mining  with  varying  fortune, 
engaged  with  Mr.  Brown,  of  Reynolds' Express,  to  carry  letters 
and  packages  through  the  mining  camps.  This  express  business 
was  bought  by  Wells,  Fargo  it  Co.  in  1853,  and  "  Chips"  then  en- 
tered the  employ  of  that  firm.  For  the  next  four  years  Mr. 
Hodgkins  was  in  Stockton,  registering  passengers  and  dispatch- 
ing stages.  From  1857  to  1870  he  was  the  company's  messenger 
on  the  steamer  between  Stockton  and  San  Francisco,  and  from 
1870tolK77,  messenger  between  San  Francisco  and  San  Diego. 
From  1877  to  1S86, -Hodgkins  had  charge  of  the  steamer  depart- 
ment, and  had  charge  of  all  express  matter  from  Alaska  down 
the  whole  length  of  the  coast.  Frjni  1886  until  last  December, 
he  was  in  the  collection  department.  He  was  married  in  1858  to 
Miss  Louisa  O.  Shattack,  who  is  well  known  throughout  the 
State  on  account  of  her  fine  classical  attainments  and  her  ability 
as  an  originator  of  novel  entertainments,  such  as  "  The  District 
School,"  "  The  Old  Folks'  Concert"  and  "  The  Dairymaids' Con- 
vention. Mrs.  Hodgkins  is  the  founder  of  the  California  State 
Floral  Society.  Mr.  Hodgkins  was  taken  ill  on  December  14th 
last  with  the  grip,  and  never  recovered.  His  funeral  took  place 
on  Monday,  at  2  p.  m.,  from  his  late  residence,  3410  Sacramento 
street.  Rev.  Dr.  Mackenzie  officiating.  There  was  present  a  del- 
egation from  the  Society  of  California  Pioneers,  who  accompa- 
nied the  remains  to  Stockton,  where  they  were  received  by  the 
San  Joaquin  Pioneers.  The  interment  took  place  at  Rural  Cem- 
etery, Stockton. 

BERLIN    VS.     PARIS. 


THE  race  between  Berlin  and  Paris  for  an  international  exhibi- 
tion in  the  year  1900  is  plainly  resulting  in  an  easy  victory 
for  the  French  capital.  At  first  the  Berliners  were  very  indignant 
when  they  thought  that  the  French  Government  bad  forestalled 
them  out  of  spite  for  Germany,  but  they  uow  look  upon  the 
matter  more  soberly,  since  it  became  clear  that  the  preparations 
for  the  French  exhibition  were  begun  three  years  ago,  long  before 
the  Germans  had  any  idea  of  starting  an  exhibition  of  their  own. 
Moreover,  the  parties  most  interested,  namely,  the  German  man- 
ufacturers, do  not  appear  to  have  shown  any  enthusiasm  for  a 
project  which  would  probably  only  bring  direct  advantage  to  the 
city  of  Berl.n.  The  German  capital  is  as  yet  far  from  holding  the 
same  relation  to  the  German  Empire  as  Paris  to  France.  Ger- 
many, though  she  has  an  imperial  army  and  ministry,  is  still  a 
confederation  of  states,  each  with  its  separate  ruler,  ministers  and 
parliament,  and  the  German  people  have  not  yet  become  accus- 
tomed to  look  to  Berlin  as  the  center  of  their  industry,  art  and 
trade,  in  the  way  that  Frenchmen  look  to  Paris.  The  promoters 
of  the  idea  of  a  Berlin  international  exhibition  are,  however,  in- 
fluential enough  to  have  impelled  the  Government  to  expose  itself 
to  something  like  a  snub  from  Paris,  and  to  unfavorable  reports 
from  the  Federal  Governments  and  Chambers  of  Commerce  of  the 
German  States  outside  Prussia.  The  fact  that  there  is  to  be  an 
international  exhibition  in  Paris  would  not,  of  course,  prevent 
one  from  being  held  in  Berlin.  But  as  a  center  of  general  attrac- 
tion, whether  industrial,  social  or  artistic,  Berlin  cannot  be  com- 
pared with  Paris,  and  if  exhibitions  were  to  be  held  at  both 
places  simultaneously,  or  almost  so,  the  one  at  Berlin  would  in 
all  probability  be  an  utter  failure.  There  does  not  seem  to  be 
u  uch  disposition  in  the  German  Parliament  to  vote  the  money 
required  for  the  expense  of  such  an  undertaking,  estimated  at 
30,000,000  marks  in  addition  to  voluntary  contributions,  which  so 
far  have  come  from  Berlin  only.  The  general  view  of  the  manu- 
facturing classes  seems  to  be  that  the  game  is  not  worth  the 
candle. 

The  MaisonRiche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant  ave- 
nue, is  the  place  to  go  for  a  first-class  dinner.  The  Riche  cannot  be 
excelled  anywhere. 


pall    Broadcloths. 

New  importation  of  150  pieces  Fine 
French  Amazon  Cloths,  52  inches  in 
width.  Modes,  Tans,  Greys,  Browns, 
Greens,  Navy  Blue,  Black,  etc. 

Price  $1.50  Per  Yard. 
Samples  sent  free  to  any  address. 


Ill  to  121  Post  Street 


— a©  to — 

C3-.  W.   CTjJL.ttliZ   <Sc   OO., 
663   Market  Street, 

FOR 

WALL      PAPE  R, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 


GOLD  SEAL  Rubber  HOSE, 

THE  BEST  MADE. 

Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 


K.  H.  PEASE,    )  A„ents. 


57  7  .1  G79  Market  street. 


LODI8  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS., 

Dealers  in  Stained  Glass,  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall    Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St.,  between  5th  and  6th,  San  Francisco 
SEARCHER    OF    RECORDS 


EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 
G.  W.  MCKEAND, 

OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.    Residence — 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


?ept.  10,  1892. 


Ibfcociil^' 


THE  second  annual  convention  of  the  California  Bankers'  Asso- 
ciation opened  on  Monday  last  at  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
The  convention  was  largely  attended,  over  600  bankers  being 
present  from  various  portions  of  the  State.  President  Thomas 
Brown,  of  the  California  Association,  who  was  chairman,  in  his 
opening  address  outlined  the  business  policy  of  the  bankers  of 
the  State,  which  he  claimed  was  both  safe  and  liberal.  In  reply 
to  the  charges  not  unfrequently  heard,  that  the  banks  heie  were 
inclined  to  be  too  conservative  in  business  matters,  Mr.  Brown 
held  that  there  were  no  grounds  for  the  assertion.  In  no  part  of 
the  world  was  greater  discrimination  used  in  the  selection  of  in- 
vestments, and  to  this  he  attributed  the  general  prosperity  which 
prevailed  in  the  banking  business  generally  throughout  the  State. 
A  number  of  able  speeches  followed,  in  which  all  the  live  subjects 
of  interest  to  the  profession  were  treated  in  a  plain,  business-like 
manner.  Mr.  Lovell  White,  cashier  of  the  San  Francisco  Savings 
Union,  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Mistakes  of  the  Tax-gatherer,"  in 
which  he  pointed  out  the  uselessness  of  the  tax  on  mortgages, 
and  suggested  that  the  State  revenue  laws  should  be  amended  to 
exempt  mortgages  and  Government  bonds  from  taxation.  The 
difficulty  experienced  in  placing  bonds  of  irrigation  and  school 
districts  be  attributes  to  the  fact  that  they  will  be  taxable  in  the 
hands  of  purchasers.  James  D.  Pbelan  tackled  the  subject  of  the 
World's  Fair  and  cholera.  Columbus  also  came  in  for  a  fair  share 
of  the  speaker's  attention,  his  trip  to  this  continent  having  been 
made  on  the  credit  he  obtained  «  from  a  man  who  was  a  banker 
in  sentiment,  if  not  by  profession."  The  following  gentlemen 
were  then  elected  officers  of  the  Association:  President,  I.  W. 
Hellman,  of  San  Francisco;  Vice  President,  E.  F.  Spence,  of  Los 
Angeles;  Secretary,  George  H.Stewart,  of  Los  Angeles;  Treasurer, 
G.  W.  Kline,  of  8an  Francisco.  Lovell  White  and  W.  P.  Harring- 
ton were  elected  delegates  to  the  National  Conventions  of  1892 
and  1893. 

$  $  $ 

AFTER  the  business  of  the  State  Bankers'  Convention  was 
concluded  the  American  Convention  convened  at  the  Cali- 
fornia Theatre.  The  session  was  opened  with  prayer  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Stebbins,  and  addresses  of  welcome  to  the  visitors  were  made 
by  John  McKee,  Manager  of  the  Tallant  Banking  Company,  and 
General  W.  H.  Barnes.  R.  M.  Nelson,  of  Alabama,  President  of 
the  National  Association,  made  a  brief  address,  introducing  Pro- 
fessor James,  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  who  spoke  on 
the  higher  education  of  business  men  in  Europe  and  America. 
Professor  James  has  had  an  opportunity  to  study  his  subject 
abroad,  and  he  has  evidently  overlooked  little  likely  to  be  of 
benefit  to  the  rising  generation  of  bankers.  In  his  opinion  what 
is  required  is  the  development  of  a  new  institution,  the  com- 
mercial high  school,  a  school  whose  course  will  run  parallel 
with  that  of  the  existing  high  school,  affording  young  men 
who  intend  going  into  business  the  advantages  of  as  good  an  edu- 
cation as  that  of  others  looking  forward  to  teaching  theology  and 
other  learned  professions.  An  eloquent  memorial  address  was 
delivered  by  Mr.  G.  B.  Fallen,  "Vice-President  of  the  National 
Bank  of  the  Republic,  New  York  city,  in  honor  of  the  late  John 
J.  Knox,  formerly  First  Vice-President  of  the  association,  and  re- 
ceived the  thanks  of  the  audience  by  a  rising  vote.  The  silver 
question  was  touched  upon  very  lightly  in  both  conventions,  but 
the  Nicaragua  Canal  scheme  received  consiaerable  moral  sup- 
port in  the  way  of  recommendations.  Captain  Merry  talked  on 
the  subject  to  both  the  conventions*,  and  if  argument  could  only 
open  money  chests,  enough  money  might  have  been  subscribed 
on  the  floor  to  carry  the  little  strip  of  waterway  through  in  quick 
order.  It  is  pleasant,  however,  to  realize  that  an  enterprise  of 
such  vast  pecuniary  benefit  to  San  Francisco  from  a  commercial 
standpoint  has  been  favorably  received  by  such  an  intelligent 
body  of  men  representing  the  wealth  of  America. 
It  t 

THE  low  price  of  silver  is  going  to  interfere  with  the  specula- 
tions of  a  number  of  large  mining  concerns  in  Mexico.  News 
has  just  been  received  here  that  Senor  Schiguren,  the  wealthy 
banker  and  mining  man  of  Mazatlan,  has  just  closed  down  all  of 
the  silver  properties  in  which  he  is  interested,  preferring  to  await 
an  upward  turn  in  the  market  for  bullion.  It  may  be  remem- 
bered that  not  long  ago  the  mines  at  Cosala,  owned  by  this  gen- 
tleman, were  on  the  market  here  and  abroad.  At  one  time  there 
was  a  report  that  some  Los  Angeles  people  had  taken  hold  of 
them,  but  it  lacked  corroboration.  In  any  event  it  is  fortunate 
that  the  sale  was  not  consummated,  as  the  intending  purchasers 
might  not  have  been  so  well  qualified  to  stand  the  severe  finan- 
cial strain  which  followed,  as  the  present  owner  is  backed  by  his 
millions.  It  is  unfortunate  for  the  promoting  community  that 
the  drop  in  price  of  the  white  metal  has  been  so  heavy.  Mexico 
always  afforded  them  a  fair  field  for  business.  It  is  a  long  way 
off,  and  travel  through  the  country  is  attended  with  hardships 
which  people  well  off  in  this  world's  goods  do  not  care  to  tackle. 
The  result  is,  the  properties  are  usually  inspected  by  proxy, 
which  accounts  for  the  reckless   manner  in  which  other  people's 


money  is  squandered.  Take  the  Palmarejo  mine,  for  example. 
What  a  nice  showing  it  has  made,  in  face  of  the  glowing  reports 
of  the  experts  and  promoters.  The  chances  are,  that  if  the  truth 
was  known,  the  property  could  have  been  purchased  in  the  first 
instance  for  a  fraction  of  the  sum  which  eventually  went  in  com- 
missions to  the  promoters.  A  few  more  farces  of  the  kind,  and 
Mexican  mines  will  be  as  great  a  drug  abroad  as  they  are  at 
home. 

1$  * 

BUSINESS  on  Pine  street  was  curtailed  by  holidays  during  the 
week,  and  any  activity  in  the  market  was  not  pronounced. 
The  North-End  stocks  were  again  the  favorites  with  speculators, 
and  prices  were  fairly  well  sustained.  The  Middle  and  South-End 
shares  had  a  weak  tone,  and  sales  m  many  cases  were  heavy  on 
short  account.  The  monthly  financial  statements,  which  have 
just  been  filed,  show  that  most  of  the  Comstock  companies  are 
well  provided  with  coin.  Con.  Cal. -Virginia  had  bullion  valued 
at  $14,918  to  draw  against,  and  more  to  come  on  August  account. 
During  that  month  this  mine  produced  4,350  tons  of  ore,  which 
yielded  bullion  of  the  gross  assay  value  of  $72,849,  of  which 
$40,679  was  gold,  and  $32,170  was  silver.  The  average  yield  of 
the  ore  in  bullion,  per  ton,  was  $16.74,  and  the  average  assay 
value  of  the  battery  samples  of  ore  was  $22  64  per  ton.  The 
closing  shipment  for  the  month,  amounting  to  $26,281,  has  just 
been  made  to  the  Carson  Mint.  The  Overman  Company  milled 
294^  tons  of  ore  during  August,  yielding  $5,547  in  bullion,  an 
average  return  of  $18.62  per  ton.  The  battery  assay  averaged 
$17.65.  No  new  developments  were  reported  during  the  week. 
The  pumps  at  the  1,700  station  of  Crown  Point  have  been  run- 
ning continuously  during  the  past  week.  The  flow  of  water  is 
the  same,  and  both  pumps  are  kept  running  at  the  same  speed  as 
last  report.  The  Silver  Hill  assessment  was  delinquent  in  office 
on  Tuesday  last.  The  next  assessment  to  be  delinquent  will  be 
that  of  50  cents  on  Hale  &  Norcross,  on  the  11th  inst.  The 
Yellow  Jacket  Mine  has  levied  an  assessment  of  25  cents  per 
share. 

$  S  S 

A  NUMBER  of  good  inquiries  have  been  received  recently  from 
the  East  for  California  gold  mines.  It  is  about  time  they  had 
a  turn.  Silver  has  been  king  in  the  speculative  mining  market 
for  years  past,  but  its  sovereignty  is  over  for  the  time  being. 
The  work  of  mine  development  in  California  has  been  going  on 
very  slowly  lately,  for  the  reason  that  tbe  majority  of  the  owners 
have  not  the  means  to  carry  on  the  work.  There  are  many  good 
prospects  in  different  parts  of  the  State,  ready  for  some  one  with 
the  necessary  capital  to  take  up.  "  Going  concerns"  of  the  kind, 
which  would  suit  the  grand  ideas  of  the  English  expert,  are  few 
and  far  between,  and  the  bottom  has  been  pretty  well  knocked 
out  of  this  kind  of  trading  for  some  time  past.  The  shareholders 
in  some  of  the  old  concerns  will  likely  interfere  to  a  good  pur- 
pose should  any  old  rattle-trap  be  rigged  up  for  the  market  again, 
and  tbe  promotors  will  receive  a  well-deserved  cinch.  Round 
about  Grass  Valley  there  are  a  number  of  deserving  properties, 
which  can  be  bought  on  favorable  terms.  The  veins  are  small, 
but  rich,  and  as  a  rule  mines  of  this  class  pay  the  best  in  the  long 
run.  Trinity  and  the  other  northern  counties  are  also  noted  for 
properties  which  have  proved  fortunes  to  their  owners,  and  any 
promising  prospect  in  this  section  of  the  State  are  well  worth  an 
investigation. 

UI 

OUTSIDE  stocks  continue  weak  and  dull.  AH  demand  for  them 
seems  to  have  died  out;  but  little  else  can  be  expected  when 
the  condition  of  the  Comstock  market  is  taken  into  considera- 
tion. Silver  King  shipped  9.000  pounds  of  concentrates  last 
week,  and  some  ore  is  again  reported  in  the  mine.  The  Standard, 
of  Bodie,  has  shipped  $24,132  in  bullion,  the  output  of  the  mine 
for  August.  In  the  same  camp  the  Bulwer  mine  is  making  a 
good  showing  in  the  way  of  bullion.  The  sum  of  $11,836  has 
already  been  received  from  sales  of  bullion  during  tbe  month, 
and  the  clean-up  shipment  has  not  yet  been  reported.  The  com- 
pany now  has  a  large  cash  surplus  in  the  treasury,  and  it  is  prob- 
able that  a  small  dividend  will  be  declared  during  the  month. 
The  Tuscarora  companies  are  extracting  ore  from  several  of  the 
mines,  and  selling  it  to  good  advantage  in  the  way  of  tightening 
tbe  burden  of  assessments  on  shareholders.  Nuihing  new  has 
transpired  in  the  Quijotoa  group,  and  the  stocks  are  dull. 

JOHN  HAYS  HAMMOND,  President  of  the  Bunker  Hill  and 
Sullivan  Mining  Company,  returned  during  the  week  from  a 
visit  to  the  property.  He  says  the  trouble  is  all  over  at  the 
mines,  so  far  as  the  industrious  class  of  miners  is  concerned,  and 
over  three  hundred  men  are  now  at  work.  The  company  does 
not  inquire  whether  a  man  belongs  to  a  union  or  not.  All  that 
is  asked  is  skillful  and  honest  work,  for  $3  50  a  day,  a  higher  rate 
of  wages  than  is  paid  in  any  other  western  mining  camp,  outside 
of  the  Comstock.  No  further  trouble  is  anticipated,  although  the 
idle,  worthless  characters,  who  are  responsible  for  tbe  disturb- 
ance, are  still  uttering  threats  of  vengeance.  They  feel  pretty 
sore  over  their  defeat,  and  it  will  take  them  some  time  to  cool 
down.  Mr.  Hammond  will  leave  for  the  southern  portion  of  the 
State  within  a  few  days. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


15 


'Hear  the  Crier What  the  devil  art  thou?  * 

•One  that  will  olav  the -tertl.Bir.  with  you." 


THEY  are  coming  back  from  the  seaside, 
Back  from  the  mountains  and  springs. 
Butterflies,  all  the  summer 

Who've  floated  on  careless  wings. 
The  waves  on  the  lonely  beaches 

Shall  embrace  their  beauty  no  more, 
The  vagabond  gull,  unmolested, 

Stalks  on  the  desolate  shore. 
Many  the  marvellous  stories 

Locked  up  in  the  breast  of  the  tide. 
Which  might  crimson  the  cheeks  of  the  matron, 

And  quicken  the  pulse  of  the  bride. 
For  the  sea,  though  transparent  as  amber, 

Is  kindly,  nevertheless. 
Concealing  the  amorous  clinging, 

Concealing  the  fond  caress. 

The  sirens  have  throbbed  with  passion, 

In  the  mystical  days  of  old, 
As  they  sat  on  the  rocks  of  Scylla, 

Combing  their  tresses  of  gold. 
And  the  songs  to  the  mariners  wafted 

In  the  depth  of  the  Grecian  night, 
Were  freighted  with  words  of  promise 

And  pledges  of  soft  delight. 
Has  not  Beauty's  goddess  arisen 

From  the  sea  in  her  shell  reclined? 
When  the  pearls  that  cluDg  to  her  fair  limbs. 

Were  drank  by  the  wanton  wind. 
Nor  grove,  nor  bower  nor  garden 

Nor  meadow  nor  sheltered  lea, 
Nor  chamber  from  daylight  curtained 

Is  so  fit  for  love  as  the  sea. 

ALONG  passage,  the  walls  of  which  are  draped  with  silken 
hangings,  leads  from  Peter  Robertson's  sleeping  apartment 
to  an  oratory  wherein  that  noble  and  versatile  man  has  erected  a 
statue  to  the  Welsh  rarebit.  The  shrine  is  a  simple  one,  orna- 
mented with  diamonds  and  pearls.  A  disk  about  the  size  of  a 
dinner  plate,  made  of  jade  stone,  upon  which  rests  a  representa- 
tion of  a  slice  of  toast  in  platinum,  is  supported  on  four  porter 
bottles  of  virgin  gold,  backed  up  with  pepper  and  mustard  vessels 
of  solid  silver.  Here  Mr.  Robertson  makes  his  morning  and 
evening  orisons,  and  recites  a  ritual  of  his  own  composition  in 
praise  of  the  Welsh  rarebit.  He  is  a  devout  believer  in  the  vir- 
tues of  that  wonderful  compound.  It  is  to  him  the  elixir  of  life, 
the  philosopher's  stone,  the  mote  in  the  sunbeam,  the  burning 
sun,  the  breath  of  the  morning,  the  evening  breeze,  the  leaf's  low 
murmur,  the  hush  of  the  terrible  seas.  In  his  opinion  the  priest 
who  calls  the  Welsh  rarebit  into  life  should  approach  the  shrine 
only  after  a  bath  in  perfumed  waters,  and  wearing  the  white  gar- 
ments of  virtue  and  innocence.  It  is  not  to  be  wondered  at,  then, 
that  Mr.  Robertson  always  drops  into  the  Baldwin  at  that  period 
when  Louis  Harrison  goes  through  the  mimicry  of  making  the 
critic's  beloved  dish.  The  irreverence  shocks  him,  it  is  true,  but 
nevertheless  be  cannot  restrain  his  mirth,  and  laughs  until  his 
blue  Caledonian  eyes  are  suffused  with  tears.  If  wives  loved 
their  husbands,  and  husbands  their  wives  as  Peter  Robertson 
does  the  Welsh  rarebit,  there  would  be  no  divorces. 

AROUSED  by  the  cholera  reports,  and  justly  jealous  and  in- 
dignant at  the  impression  they  have  produced  upon  the  popu- 
lation of  this  city,  Death,  the  Gripman,  has  awakened  from  his 
lethargy,  and  has  again  taken  the  trail.  He  just  wants  to  show 
us  how  utterly  ridiculous  it  is  to  grow  frenzied  over  a  possible 
epidemic,  when  he  is  on  hand  and  ready  to  pass  us  over  to 
Charon  with  one  fell  clip.  "  What  is  the  use,"  argues  this  grim 
philosopher,  "  in  you  people  dosing  yourselves  with  liver  pills, 
and  becoming  frezied  about  a  plague  several  thousand  miles  away, 
when  I  can  take  a  piece  out  of  your  skull,  or  send  your  vertebra? 
clear  into  your  heels,  even  while  your  digestion  is  perfect,  and 
you  are  the  pride  and  boast  of  the  company  in  which  you  are  in- 
sured. Perfectly  absurd,  my  slaves.  The  dummy  bell  now 
rings,  and  bears  thy  fate,  Antinous,  on  its  wings."  There  is  a 
heap  of  sound  sense  in  what  that  benefactor  to  Doctor  Williams, 
the  autopsiest,  says.  In  three  days  he  bagged  three  victims. 
And  it  is  possible  that  two  out  of  the  three  were  equipped  with 
anti-cholera  amulets.  Therefore,  my  masters,  be  ye  not  cast 
down.  Let  your  cakes  and  ale  retain  their  flavor,  and  the  fatted 
beeves  and  muttons  of  the  land  continue  to  lard  your  intestines. 
Be  happy  while  you  live,  for  no  matter  when  and  how  you  pass 
away,  depend  upon  it,  when  you  do  go,  that|you  will  be  a  long 
time  dead. 


MOONS  wax  and  wane  now  anights,  but  they  witness  no  more 
those  merry  drives  to  the  beach,  which  were  at  once  the 
pride  and  amusement  of  the  city  in  the  time  that  is  no  more. 
Alas,  for  those  golden  years  when  Hiofdiettat  habitat  was  in- 
scribed on  the  portals  of  the  Cliff  House,  and  the  mother-of-pearl 
keys  of  tbe  old  piano  (then  a  bride  among  instruments)  rattled  to 
the  Blue  Danube  waltzes.  Those  were  boom  days  in  the  stock 
market.  Money  was  easy.  Any  broker  friend  would  carry  a 
block  of  stock  for  a  cbtim,  and  belp  him  to  drink  up  the  profits 
without  a  quiver.  Moonlight  nights  were  eagerly  hailed,  for  the 
days  were  not  long  enough  for  the  spendthrifts.  The  rubicund 
nose  of  Captain  Foster,  long  since  claimed  by  pallida  mors,  glowed 
with  a  fiercer  and  more  hospitable  intensity  when  the  moon  was 
full,  and  it  was  hia  mission  to  place  her  worshipers  in  a  condition 
equally  happy.  There  were  toll-gates  in  those  times,  and  every 
one  wanted  to  pay  toll.  No  labored  groping  in  tbe  pocket  for 
the  elusive  dime  to  settle  with  the  conductor,  giving  the  other 
man  plenty  of  leeway  to  produce  his  coin,  as  in  these  degenerate 
days.  The  long  procession  has  dwindled  away  to  a  corporal's 
guard.  Ten  of  the  old  mining  lions  now  survive.  The  majority 
of  those  who  have  not  been  bowled  down  by  the  "large  bot"  are 
busted,  and  do  not  own  even  a  wheelbarrow.  The  new  genera- 
tion, then  in  short  trousers,  has  no  taste  for  horseflesh  and  moon- 
light drives,  and  prefers  to  spend  its  papa's  money  in  other  and 
tamer  pastimes.  The  spirit  of  change  has  smote  all  but  the  big 
seal,  Ben  Butler,  and  he  finds  it  difficult  to  bellow  as  musically  as 
of  yore  to  the  accompaniment  of  the  new  piano.  He  misses  the 
giddy  old  mother-of  pearl  grand.  By  the  ghost  of  Methusalem, 
of  the  shades  of  those  girls  who  have  touched  those  keys,  and 
danced  to  those  ancient  waltzes,  were  to  throng  that  apartment, 
impalpable  and  shadowy  though  they  be,  the  long  drawing-room, 
aye,  with  Sutro  Heights  added,  would  not  be  spacious  enough  to 
hold  them. 

THE  most  luxuriously  inclined  men  in  the  world  grow  weary 
at  times  of  pates  and  salmis  and  the  other  rich  kickshaws  of 
the  French  cook's  kitchen.  They  long  for  chops  and  steaks  and 
the  simple  diet  of  their  ancestors.  Hence,  the  institution  of  the 
chop  house,  where  those  humble  tastes  may  be  gratified.  The 
Palace  Hotel  tried  it  with  its  grill  room,  and  has  found  it  profita- 
ble. Some  months  ago  a  New  York  caterer  drifted  hither,  and  es- 
tablished a  chop  house  on  the  New  York  plan.  He  called  it  the 
Shakespeare  Inn,  and  got  himself  quite  cosily  fitted  out  on  O'Far- 
rell  street.  But  he  committed  a  fatal  error.  He  overcharged 
bis  customers,  or  perhaps  it  would  be  more  just  to  say  he 
guaged  his  prices  according  to  the  New  York  tariff.  This 
sort  of  thing  will  not  do  in  San  Francisco.  Given  the 
wine,  and  the  courses,  and  the  Dago  band,  and  the  bubbling 
laughter  in  the  cabi?iet  particulier,  and  no  one  questions 
the  bill.  But  when  we  come  down  to  chops  and  cheese  and  ale, 
we  want  figures  correspondingly  humble.  Mine  host  of  the  Shake- 
speare Inn  did  not  understand  this.  He  charged  too  much  for  his 
chops,  too  much  for  his  cheese,  and  too  much  for  his  ale.  Those 
who  once  were  scotched  never  came  again.  They  shuddered  and 
crossed  themselves  when  they  pdssed  the  suggestion  of  Avon's 
bard.  Shakespeare,  they  argued,  would  never  have  submitted  to 
such  prices,  and  they  did  not  intend  to  be  skinned.  They  warned 
others,  and  the  New  Yorker  went  on  burning  his  expensive  but 
ineffectual  fires  in  the  range,  and  the  English  chops  waxed  gamey, 
waiting  for  the  guests  that  never  came.  And  now  the  ominous 
sign  "  To  Let "  ornaments  the  facade  of  tbe  Shakespeare  Inn,  the 
empty  "  Toby's  "  gape  for  tbe  bitter  ale  that  never  cometh,  and  the 
precept,  "quick  sales  and  small  profits,"  waveth  triumphantly  to 
the  breeze. 

BOULDERS  in  the  track  of  love's  rapid  current  are  the  police- 
men of  the  Park.  On  those  nights  when  chaste  Diana 
smiles  upon  the  earth,  Eros,  wiping  the  stains  of  a  French  dinner 
from  his  rosy  lips,  takes  his  bow  and  quiver  from  the  rack,  and 
wings  him  to  the  Park.  They  are  tbe  happy  hunting  grounds. 
Game  abounds.  The  woods  are  full  of  lovers.  The  hum  of  the 
locust  catling  to  its  mate  mingles  with  the  ardent  sighs  of  the 
south-side  adorer  and  his  Natoma  street  inamorata.  Even  the 
blood  is  not  ashamed  to  destroy  tbe  creases  of  his  trousers  as  he 
sits  on  the  rustic  bench  and  wooes,  in  his  peculiarly  inane  fash- 
ion, the  Bociety  maiden  who,  under  tbe  pretext  of  visiting  Amelia 
on  Pacific  Heights,  has  stolen  away  to  be  his  companion  on  this 
midnight  ramble.  But  the  serpent  in  this  garden  of  Eden  is  the 
Park  policeman.  Clad  in  the  garments  of  authority,  this  direful 
person  glides  from  bower  to  bower  in  search  of  those  who  would 
taste  the  apple  from  the  tree  of  knowledge.  They  never  practice 
the  refinements  of  civilized  persons  in  those  cases  and  announce 
their  approach  by  a  cough.  By  no  means.  "See  here,  young 
feller,  you  git,"  and  "  Go  home,  sissy,  to  your  mother;  you  ought 
to  be  ashamed  of  yourself,"  and  >•  I've  a  great  mind  to  run  both 
of  yez  in,"  are  familiar  as  household  words  on  the  lips  of  those 
minions  on  moonlight  nights.  But  Diana  never  blushes.  There 
might  be  a  hundred  Actaeons  in  the  brush,  but  her  white  face  is 
impassive,  insensible  to  any  flush  of  passion. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


B_A-nsrics. 


THE  Apostolic  King  of  Hungary — King  of  Bohemia — Francia 
Joseph,  Emperor  of  Austria,  celebralei  his  sixty-second 
birthday  on  August  18th.  Imperial  Francis  is  the  nephew 
of  the  Austrian  Emperor  Ferdinand,  who  abdicated,  and  be  firs>t 
covered  his  head  with  the  Golden  Crowns  of  the  countries  when 
he  was  only  eighteen  years  of  age.  Six  years  after  he  married 
Hunting-Hark-Forard-Elizabetb,  daughter  of  the  Bavarian  Duke 
Maximilian  Joseph,  who  is  seven  years  younger  than  her  hus- 
band. Francis  Joseph  governs  the  second  largest  State  on  the 
continent  of  Europe,  and  he  is  at  the  head  of  an  army  of  nearly 
350,000  officers  and  men,  which  with  the  Landwehr  can  be  brought 
up  to  a  war  strength  of  1,805,900  officers  and  men,  with  2,020 
artillery  guns;  but  this  enormous  army  could  only  be  raised  for 
compulsory  military  service.  The  Heir-Presumptive  to  Francis 
Joseph's  Crowns  has  bad  three  wives — the  present  one  is  a 
daughter  of  Dom  Miguel — Infant  of  Portugal,  and  the  Archduchess 
Maria  Theresa. 

To  the  wit  and  ingenuity  of  a  Chicago  leader  of  fashion,  society 
is  indebted  for  a  delightfully  novel  idea  introduced  at  a 
recent  dinner-party  given  in  the  Windy  City.  For  several  weeks 
the  Chicago  papers  have  been  lauding  in  extravagant  advertise- 
ments, illuminated  with  numerous  cuts  and  diagrams,  a  patent 
"  mustache-guard  "  which,  it  was  claimed,  "  completely  obviates 
the  use  of  napkins  by  gents,''  "  gives  solid  comfort  while  eating," 
and  "  does  not  interfere  with  the  free  use  of  mouth."  As  a  foot- 
note to  these  pronounced  merits  of  the  "  mustache-guard,"  a  let- 
ter was  appended  from  one  of  Chicago's  most  exquisite  enter- 
tainers, ordering  a  full  dozen  of  the  contrivances  in  silver-plate, 
and  declaring,  furtbe.r,  that  at  all  the  future  dinners  at  her  house 
the  mustache-guard,  which,  in  her  opinion,  "  every  genteel  person 
should  have,"  would  be  as  much  a  part  of  the  table  appointments 
as  the  plates  and  forks  and  knives.  On  the  occasion  in  refer- 
ence, the  elegant  devices  were  made  to  serve  as  favors  for  the 
german — which,  after  the  Chicago  fashion,  is  made  to  precede 
the  dinner — and  when  the  company  took  their  seats  at  the 
sumptuous  board  the  male  members  of  the  party  were  initiated 
by  the  hostess  herself  into  the  use  and  manner  of  adjustment  of 
the  mysterious  bauble.  A  correspondent  describes  the  resultant 
scene  as  one  of  extraordinary  beauty  and  unique  character.  The 
long  line  of  diners,  each  with  bis  mustache  stretched  upward  by 
the  shining  bar  of  silver-plate,  gave  a  novel  and  attractive  touch 
to  the  festivity.  That  Brummel  of  Chicago  society,  Dr.  Frank 
Green,  who  sat  on  the  right  of  the  fantastical  hostess,  was  loud 
in  praise  of  the  dainty  device,  and,  indeed,  the  entire  company 
were  so  profuse  in  their  laudation  of  the  guard,  that  its  presence 
on  every  genteel  table  in  the  Windy  City  is  now  an  assured  fact. 
For  the  proper  eating  of  pigs'  feet,  bacon  cracklings,  schinken- 
wurst,  and  the  other  tid-bits  and  pick-sbaws  of  a  Chicago  menu,  it 
was  voted  an  out-and-out  sine  qua  non. 

Guests  at  the  Windsor  have  very  limited  opportunities  for  in- 
specting the  pictures,  china,  and  objects  of  art  with  which  the 
Castle  is  filled,  or  the  rare  and  splendid  collection  of  books,  prints 
and  miniatures  in  the  library.  They  do,  however,  see  the  corri- 
dor, which  extends  all  round  the  quadrangle,  and  it  is  filled  with 
cabinets  of  china,  vases,  and  old^  French  furniture,  and  bung 
from  end  to  end  with  pictures.  The  Canelettis  and  the  portraits 
are  the  feature  of  the  corridor  collection,  which  is  never  shown 
to  the  public.  There  are  particularly  fine  portraits  of  Sir  Walter 
Scott,  Lord  Thurlow,  Mr.  Pitt,  Mr.  Canning  and  Lord  Eldon,  and 
near  the  entrance  to  the  O.tk  Room  is  Angeli's  picture  of  Lord 
Beaconsfield,  which  hangs  close  to  the  portrait  of  George  XI.  At 
the  upper  end  of  the  corridor  is  a  little  cabinet  of  Rose  du  Barri 
china,  which  is  valued  at  £30,000,  and  some  superb  pieces  of 
Crown  Derby.  After  the  Queen  has  retired,  the  guests  and  the 
rest  of  the  company  adjourn  to  one  of  the  drawing-rooms,  of 
which  there  are  three  at  Windsor,  the  Red,  the  White,  and  the 
Green,  connected  by  doors  covered  with  exquisite  Chippendale 
carvings.  These  rooms  are  hung  with  portraits,  and  contain 
many  cabinets  which  are  virtually  priceless.  In  the  Green  Draw- 
ing-room is  a  Sevres  dessert  service  which  is  valued  at  £50  000. 

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Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVOKD,  President. 

Thomas  Bbown Cashier  |  B.  Mtjbbay,  Jr       .Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Moulton,  2ud  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  Bank  of  California;  BOSTON— Treraont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  In 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Const. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland, O.,  Los  Angeles,  Loudon,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland- 


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 


N.  w.  4 onier  Samtome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U    S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) $7,600,000 

SURPLUS.  1600,000]   UNDIVIDED    PROFITS... $150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN      Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT...  Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.KLINE  Ass'tCashier 

DIRECTORS: 

Geo.   A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins.  3.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  Johu  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Bnmlitew)  Transacted. 

SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 

JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 

Safes  to  rent  from  ?5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 

thrc  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  ou 

storage.    A  spe  i*lty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  M.tofi  p.m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK.  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital $3,500,000     |     Capital  paid  up 2,460,000 

Reserve     —  ....     450,000 

San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  St.  I  London  Office  ...  .73  Lombard  St.,E.  C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1006  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

.  Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  !b  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  citiesand 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY" 

Capital-- • $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851.  Sau  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York — Drexel,  Morgan  A  Co-  Boston — Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago — Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  Natioual  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris — Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS.  FARGO  &  COMPANY—BANKING  DEPARTMENT 

N.  E.  Corner  Sausoine  and  Sutter  Streets. 
SAN     FRANCISUO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL      $      500,00000 

SURPLUS  5,488  393.12 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

DIRECTORS: 

Johu  J.    Valentine.    President;    Lloyd   Tevi<,    Lelaud    Stanford,   Oliver 

Eldridge.  Jara.es  C.  Fargo.  Geo.  K.   Gray,  Chas.   F.   Crocker,  W.   F.  Goad, 

Dudley    Evans.    Henry   Wadsvvorth,  Cashier.    Homer  8.  King,  Matager. 

J.  L  Browue,  Assistant  Casnier. 

THE  CR0CKER-WOOLW3RTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  PomI  Streets. 

PAID-UP     UAPITAL  ...  »I.UUU.000. 

DIRECTORS  s 

CHA8.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  Je. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH Peesident. 

W.  E.  BROWN..        ... ViCE-PKESIDKNT. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cashier 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital SSOO.OCo 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President    W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney  SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  St'eef,  San  Francisoc. 

HlUMBOLDfTAVINiS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.   WEBER.        -President  1  ERNST   BRAND        .  ..Sbcrktaby, 
E.  D.  Jonbs. 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers    and    Commission    Merchants, 

207    AND    208  CALIFORNIA   8TBEET. 


8ept.  10,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


17 


PL  ATT  I.  TUDOR— There  It  a  ftreat  deal  in  cleanliness  being 
next  tu   godliness.     8  —You   bet;  I'm   working  to 

gH  oar  sou)  advertisement  on  the  ih-leaf  of  the  prayer-book, 

*  TVtiCfc. 
>H'I  Gent  {euemg  a  painting  marked  "  15  Cent.  Masterpiece,"  about 
which  then  u  "  eniwd  o/  cumwmw  -  i      j  'oung  man.  have  yon  got 

another  one  of  those  1    Cterk  |i  i  heavens)  no;  there  is 

not  another  in  the  country.     Why.'     Old  Qent  [putting  coin  hack) — 
Nothing,  only  I  was  going  to  offer  you  a  quarter  fur  the  two!    (  Tuna 
litappoinied.  — Tim  n  Topics. 

— A  French  Lie-Fight. — A. — Fancy,  X.  is  so  Tat  thai  he  has  not 
seen  hlfl  feet  for  the  last  ten  years,  a. — Nothing  extraordinary  in 
that.  I  know  a  .student  that  is  so  tail  that  he  has  to  climb  on  a  lad- 
der to  take  off  his  hat.  C. — That's  nothing  at  all.  I  have  a  cousin 
whose  legs  are  so  long  that  when  he  catches  cold  in  his  legs  on  the 
1st  of  January  he  does  not  begin  sneezing  until  the  24th  or  25th  of 
the  same  month.  — Courier  du   Mali. 

—  ■-German  professors  are  proverbially  absent-minded,  but  none 
of  them  more  so  than  Prof.  Dasel,  of  Bonn.  He  noticed  one  day  his 
wife  placing  a  large  bouquet  on  his  desk.  "  What  does  all  that 
mean?"  he  asked.  "  Why.  this  is  the  anniversary  of  your  mar- 
riage," replied  Mrs.  Dusel.  "Ach.Gott!  Is  that  so?  Well,  let  me 
know  when  yours  comes  around  and  I'll  reciprocate." 

— Texas  S  if  tings. 

Physician  (t»  dying  editor) — My  poor  friend,  I  cannot  conceal 

the  trutu  from  you  any  longer.  You  haveonly  half  an  hour  to  live. 
Editor  Clarion  (feebly). —  Doctor,  will  you  please  tell  the  foreman, 
when  I  am  gone,  to  place  my  obituary  on  the  front  page,  top  of  col- 
umn, next  to  pure  reading  matter?  I  wonder  if  I  am  exiravagantin 
indulging  myself  in  that  luxury  for  once  in  my  life?  —Puck. 

"  You  say  you   were  once  a  newspaperman?"  inquired  the 

kind  old  lady.  •'  Yes'm,"  said  the  sad-eyed  tourist  at  the  kitchen 
door.  "  I  once  had  a  responsible  position  on  a  big  daily  paper." 
"  Then,  haven't  you  some  newspaper  friends  that  could  help  you?  " 
"Friends?"  bitterly  replied  the  wanderer.  "No.  rna'm.  I  was  a 
copy-reader."  — Chicago  Tribune. 

■  ■  Mr.  0' Maha. — I'm  told  that  Miss  Bloodsole  belongs  to  an  old 
Chicago  family;  that  her  grandfather  was  one  of  the  earliest  pork- 
packers  in  the  city.  Miss  Porkingtvn.—  An  old  family!  Why,  Mr. 
O'Maba,  my  grandfather  packed  pork  right  here  in  Chicago  before 
hers  ever  saw  a  hog.  — Pxtck. 

— —Mr.  JiallB.  Roome. — Do  you  buy  your  sausage  bv  the  pound, 
Mrs.  Hamoneg?  Mrs.  J la  money. —Yes,  why?  Mr.  Hall  B.  Roome  — 
Nothing;  only  I  would  humbly  suggest  that  in  future  you  would 
select  a  butcher  shop   a  little   more  remote  from  that  institution. 

— Puck- 

Lady — You  said  you  had  two  cats.     Little  Girl — Yes'm ;  a  white 

one  and  a" black  one.  Lady — You  have  only  brought  me  the  black 
one.  Little  Girl— Yes.  They  is  both  sheddin'  their  coats  awful,  an*  I 
brought  the  black  one,  'cause  your  dress  is  black. 

—Street  <£•  Smith's  Good  News. 

0  leaden  messengers  of  war. 

Plow  slower!  while  the  gods  increase 
The  speed  of  District  errand  boys, 

The  leaden  messengers  of  peace.  — Puck. 

^—Mrs.  D'Avnoo  (at  front  window)—  Officer !  Policeman— -Yes, 
ma'am.  What's  wrong  ma'am?  Mrs.  B'Avnoo— Nothing's  wrong; 
but  I  wish  you'd  step  into  the  kitchen  and  tell  the  cook  not  to  burn 
the  meat,  as  she  did  last  night.     I'm  afraid  to.— New  York  Weekly. 

—Manager— I  have  a  cable  from  Madame  Patti,  stating  that  she 
will  not  come  over  this  fall,  after  all.  Downs—  Really  ?  Why  not? 
Manager—  She  cannot  find  a  new  color  for  her  hair,  and  she  has  ex- 
hausted all  her  color- repertoire  on  her  other  farewells! 

—  Town  Topics. 

^— "  Which  weeds  are  the  easiest  to  kill  ?  "  asked  young  Flickers 
of  Farmer  Sassafras,  as  he  watched  that  good  man  at  his  work. 
"  Widow's  weeds,"  replied  the  farmer,  "  you  have  only  to  say  '  wilt 
thou.'  and  they  wilt."  —Detroit  Free  Press. 

— Site  (at  the  seashore)— If  we  are  going  down  on  the  sand  hadn't 
you  better  take  your  umbrella?  He—  I  don't  know.  I  thought  you 
would  take  your  parasol.  She— I  am  afraid  that  wouldn't  be  large 
enough.  — New  York- Herald. 

—School  Teacher—  What  little  boy  can  tell  me  where  is  the  home 
of  the  swallow?  Bubbi/—l  kin. please.  School  Teacher—  Well.  Bobby? 
Bobby— The  home  of  the  swallow  is  the  stummick.  —Exchange. 

— Madge.— Why  did  you  dismiss  your  carriage  and  abandon 
your  afternoon's  shopping  expedition  when  Mrs.  Tedweller  called 
yesterday?     Mamma.—  Because  she  said  she  hadn't  a  minute  to  stay. 

—Judge. 

Katfierme.— She's  intensely    musical.    What  would   be  a  nice 

wedding  present?  Silvia  —  Why  don't  you  give  her  a  dozen  solid 
silver  tuning  forks?  „        — Judge. 

Little  Mai/—  Mamma,  what  is  the  difference  between  eccentricity 

and  insanity  ?  '  JMomma— Merely  a  difference  of  dollars  and  cents,  my 
child !  — Town  Topics. 

—-Mrs  Ray— How  can  I  ever  keep  my  daughters  pure  here  in 
Newport?  Bee  Jinks  (absently)— Boil  four  hours  and  put  in  the 
cooler.  __^ —Town  Topics. 

Inflamed  eves  aud  lids  permanently  cured  if  caused  by  defective  sight. 
Consult  (free  of  charge)  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  135  Montgomery 
street,  near  Bush,  San  Francisco. 


B^^rica. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Koy»l  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP  $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND  1,175,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sausorao  Street*. 

HEAD  OFFICE     60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Van.-nu ver,   Brillsh  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon- 

Seattle  hikI  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES—  Kam loops.  Naualmo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Hank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  Opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  aud  Special  UeposiU  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  aud  ad- 
vances made  ou  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upou  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows* 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  aud  CANADA— Bauk  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank.  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bauk  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— Loudon  Bauk 
of  Mexico  aud  South  America.  CHINA  and  JAPAN-Chartered  Bauk  of 
ludia,  Australia  aud  China;  AUSTRALIA  aud  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Baukiug  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
aud  Australian  Chartered  Bauk  aud  National  Bauk  of  Australasia.  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

032  California  street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1892 $25,890,653  00 

<iu  a  ran  feed  Capital  and  Surplus I  ,<> :'.:»,  i  :ui  00 

DIRECTORS. 

Aljert  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardmau,  J.  G.  Eastland ;    Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  aud  Loaus  only  ou  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Frauciaco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bauk  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompauy  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— y  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
eveuings,  6:30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805  market  Street   (Flood  Building,  San   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000.00  1  Surplus  Profits  ?     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital  333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATERHO USE President 

F.  V.  McDONALD  Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

This  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, in  sums  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND $    1,646,000  00. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1  ,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmaun,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbok. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,   S.  G.  MURPHY  Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubactied  Capital. $2,500,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office  58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bant 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St.,  N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  A  Cle,  17Bonle 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  ALT3CHPL,  Cashier. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up 11,500,000 

Subscribed     3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  (;ourt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seti  man  4  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  I  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world     Sends  bills  for  collection,  loaus  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
S  bullion.  ION.  STEINHART    j  ManaMr, 

auu  uuiiiuu.  p  N  LILIENTH AL,  j  "lanagers. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


J^k  B'°PCRT*i 


AFTER  a  rest  of  many  weeks,  two  firms  tested  the  market  this 
week  and  offered  lists  of  city  property  at  auction.  The  re- 
sult no  one  expected  would  be  greatly  successful,  but  it  was 
sufficiently  so  to  have  justified  the  experiment.  The  Carnall- 
Hopkins  Company's  sale  on  Monday  resulted  in  the  disposal  of 
the  lot,  23x68.7,  with  frame  Hat  improvements,  on  the  south  side 
of  Bush,  west  of  Taylor,  for  $12,500;  lot,  east  line  of  Webster, 
25  feet  south  of  O'Farreil,  for  $9,200;  three  lots  in  Ashbury 
Heights,  each  25x80,  on  the  east  line  of  Tremont  avenue,  between 
Frederick  and  Sixteenth,  one  for  $1,320  and  the  other  two  for 
$1,295  each.  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  held  an  auction  on  Tuesday 
last,  the  principal  transactions  being  the  sale  of  a  three-story 
frame  on  the  east  line  of  Howard,  75  feet  south  of  Seventeenth ; 
lot,  25x100,  sold  for  $6,650,  and  an  unimproved  lot,  60x122.6,  west 
line  of  Capp,  100  feet  south  of  Twenty-third,  for  $5,750.  Three 
good  lots  on  the  east  line  of  Broderick,  105  feet  north  of  Califor- 
nia, sold,  one  for  $3,075,  and  the  other  two,  each  27. 7x110,  for 
$3,375  and  $3,750.  The  prices  in  no  case  were  fancy,  but  were 
sufficient  to  show  that  the  bottom  has  by  no  means  dropped  out 
of  the  market,  and  that  where  desirable  property,  improved  or 
unimproved,  is  offered,  buyers  are  not  very  difficult  to  find. 

In  the  list  of  sales  made  by  private  contract,  J.  R.  Brandon 
sold  two  nine-room  houses  on  Eddy,  between  Broderick  and 
Devisadero,  for  $6,250  each.  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  sold  the  lot, 
30x80,  with  two  flats  of  six  rooms  each,  on  the  north  line  of 
Jessie,  east  of  Sixth,  renting  for  $30  apiece,  at  $7,000,  and  three 
lots,  north  line  of  Fell,  west  of  Lott,  each  25x137.6,  for  $8  500. 
The  best  sale  of  all  was  that  of  the  lot,  40x60,  north  line  of  Post,  20 
feet  east  of  Ophir  alley,  between  Taylor  and  .Jones,  for  $18,000. 
On  the  northwest  corner  of  Post  and  Ophir  avenue,  a  new  family 
hotel  is  now  being  put  up,  and  the  old  frame  buildings,  just  sold, 
to  the  east  of  the  alley,  are  to  be  pulled  down,  and  a  family  hotel 
is  to  replace  them. 

Thomas  Magee,  in  his  monthly  Circular  calls  attention  to  the 
revival  of  an  old  dyed-io-the-wool  blackmail  Buit,  which  shows 
signs  of  resuscitation.  He  says:  "  An  effort  is  again  being  made 
to  revive,  for  the  purpose  of  blackmail,  the  thieving  Moore  title— 
a  title  which  at  ten  cents  an  acre  would  be  ten  cents  thrown 
away." 

One  can  but  hail  with  feelings  of  pleasure  and  pride  the  move 
made  this  week  by  the  Hibernia  Bank.  There  is  no  worthier 
savings  and  loan  society  in  the  United  States,  and  the  career  of 
its  officers  is  as  clean  as  the  institution  is  prosperous.  The  build- 
ing inside  and  out  is  a  magnificent  structure,  and  that  the  busi- 
ness transacted  will  steadily  increase,  and  that  its  fair  name  will 
ever  remain  untarnished  is  certainly  the  wish  of  every  one  of  its 
45,000  depositors. 

The  State  Board  of  Equalization  has  decided  to  raise  the  assess- 
ment of  the  city  and  county  of  San  Francisco  20  per  cent.,  and 
the  unequal  share  of  State  expenses  which  we  have  bad  to  bear 
has  been  thus  made  still  more  onerous,  still  more  unjust;  this 
wet  blanket  has  been  added  to  diminishing  rents  and  a  dull  mar- 
ket. No  reason  that  was  adduced  for  raising  San  Francisco's  as- 
sessment was  not  equally  applicable  to  every  other  county  in  the 
State,  for  if  assessments  ought  to  be  increased  in  times  of  depres- 
sion, there  is  no  reason  why  the  increase  should  not  have  been 
made  general.  The  Mayor  has  suggested  that  the  pjwer  of  this 
arbitrary  board  be  tested  in  the  couns,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
it  will  be,  and  that  a  proper  understanding  of  its  prerogatives  will 
result. 

The  west  Mission  makes  a  handsome  showing  for  push  and  en- 
terprise in  the  building  line.  To  commence,  fifty-one  new  build- 
ings in  a  month  is  as  rapidly  as  a  new  mining  town  could  be 
built,  and  yet  that  is  what  was  done  in  August.  The  residents 
north  of  Market  and  Haight  streets  have  but  little  idea,  as  a  rule1 
of  the  great  city  that  is  growing  up  south  of  Haight  to  the  county 
line,  and  west  of  Valencia  to  the  ocean,  and  yet  in  that  area  are 
more  evidences  of  prosperity  than  in  the  mansions  of  Nob  Hill 
and  Pacific  Heights.  It  is  a  good  thing  for  San  Francisco  that 
these  little  houses  are  multiplying  so  rapidly.  It  argues  well  for 
prosperity  and  contentme.it  among  the  masses,  and  promises  a 
good  settled  population. 

Wholesale  business  property  is  not  advancing,  neither  are 
owners  inclined  to  improve.  The  reasons  are  dull  buainess,  fall- 
ing rents  and  ever  increasing  taxation,  and  in  the  face  of  these 
facts  the  incentive  to  improve  is  absolutely  lacking. 

Seventeenth  street  is  soon  to  be  an  accomplished  fact.  The 
cutting  through  the  Mission  hills  is  now  underway,  and  the  road 
from  the  Mission  to  the  Park,  with  the  benefits  it  will  confer,  is 
soon  to  be  completed. 

The  National  Real  Estate  Association  will  meet  again  at  Buffalo 
next  month.  That  more  California  real  estate  dealers  do  not  bt- 
long  to  this  organization  is  very  surprising,  as  Us  objects  are  cer- 
tainly highly  commendable.  As  stated  in  its  constitution,  its 
main  objects  are  to  acquire,  preserve  and  disseminate  valuable 
information  appertaining  to  real  estate  in  the  United  States;  to 


encourage,  establish  and  maintain  uniform  business  principles  and 
usages  in  real  estate  transactions;  to  encourage  the  organization 
of  associations  and  exchanges  in  the  various  States  and  cities  of 
the  United  States;  to  influence  and  direct  legislation  in  reference 
to  laws  touching  the  transfer  of  realty;  to  simplify  and  make 
uniform,  as  far  as  practicable,  the  laws  affecting  real  property  in 
the  various  States;  to  discourage  wild  speculation  and  fictitious 
'•  booms;  "  to  encourage  and  direct,  as  far  as  possible,  the  invest- 
ment of  money  in  those  sections  promising  thegreatest  and  safest 
returns;  to  elevate  and  dignify  the  real  estate  business;  to  en- 
courage and  improve  social  intercourse  among  the  members  of 
the  association ;  to  establish  a  high  standard  of  ethics  among  real 
estate  men  and  their  "rateing"  by  commercial  agents.  Upon  the 
list  of  vice-presidents  we  notice  that  California  is  represented  by 
Will  E.  Fisher,  of  Tevis  &  Fisher.  MK  Fisher  is  ever  to  the  front 
in  progressive  movements,  and  we  trust  that  he  will  attend  the 
Buffalo  meeting,  and  properly  represent  California  interests  there. 
If  we  had  more  progressive  real  estate  men,  the  condition  of  local 
realty  would  be  vastly  improved. 


CENTRAL     PARK. 

Eighlh  and  Market  Sts. 

ONE  WEEK,   BEGINNING  MONDAY  NIGHT,  SEPT.  12, 
6  NIGHTS— 5  MATINEES, 

JOHN  ROBINSON'S 
(i^E/ra    U/0I^£D'5    E/p05l5IOJf 

Something  new.  An  innovation.  Produced  at  an  actual  cost 
of  over  ONE  HUNDRED  THOUSAND  DOLLARS.  The  won- 
derful scriptural  pantomimic  spectacle  of 

KING  SOLOMON  I 

1,100  people  representing  characters  of  the  Wise  King's  reign. 
Over  100  beautiful  ladies  in  the  ballet,  is  the  great  feature  of  the 

i  o  — B  I  0    5J10U/S-IO 

Combined  in  one,  and  will  be  presented,  free  of  any  extra  charge' 
in  connection  with  the 

3— COMPLETE  CIRCUSES— 3 

la  three  rings. 

3— VAST  MENAGERIES— 3 

I— MONSTER  HIPPODROME— I 

And  Museum  of  Animated  Nature. 

In  the  arenic  exercises  will    be    found   110   artists,   embracing 

scores  of  specialists,  troupes  of  aerialists,  hosts  of  equestriennes. 

All  for  One  Price  of  Admission. 

.  Under  the  LargeBt  Tent  Ever  Erected. 

The  first  performance  will  be  given  at  8  p.  m.  on  September  12. 
2  performances  daily  thereafter  at  2  and  8  p.  M.  Doors  open  one 
hour  previous  to  each  performance. 

THE  GRAND  STREET  PARADE  will  take  place  Monday, 
September  12th. 

[,:>'"  NOTICE. — There  are  no  side  shows  of  any  kind  connected 
with  John  Robinson's  Great  World's  Exposition. 

$20,000. 

PACIFIC    HEIGHTS. 

Handsome  New  Res;dence;  Colonial  style;  con- 
tains lO  rooms,  finished  bassmentand  attic,  fur- 
nace and  range  included;  parlor  floor  arranged 
so  that  it  can  be  thrown  into  one  room,  and  is 
admirably  adapted  for  entertaining  purposes. 
House  is  beautifully  decorated  and  frescoed 
throughout  and  finished  in  natural  woods.  For 
full  particulars  apply  to 

SHAINWALD,  BUCKBEE  &  CO., 

407-109  Montgomery  Street. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome, 


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10,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LKTTK1.. 


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THB  Pacific  Insurance  I'nion  held  a  well  attended  meeting  on 
Wrdnesday  morning,  and  there  was  a  vast  amount  of  dia- 
0  on  tbe  subject  of  rebatinc.  The  story  told  by  the  Nf.ws 
Lbttkb  brought  it  about,  and  (he  indisputable  evidence  that  a 
Hagrant  cut  had  been  made  in  tbe  rate  on  tbe  Pioneer  Building 
was  the  immediate  cause  of  that  investigation,  which  resulted  in 
tbe  tracing  of  the  sin  of  rebating  to  tbe  door  of  several  prominent 
companies.  The  sinners,  however,  were  so  numerous  and  so 
powerful,  that  it  was  evidently  thought  to  be  tbe  part  of  discre- 
tion rather  than  of  valor,  to  temporize  with  the  offenders.  The 
executive  committee's  report  on  the  rebating  evil  is  a  rather  odd 
document.  It  states  that  while  »  the  payment  of  excessive  com- 
missions and  rebates  is  a  general  practice  in  a  few  offices,  the  oc- 
casional payment  in  each  of  a  few  offices  is  becoming  more  fre- 
quent, and  is  dangerously  exaggerated  by  rumor."  Just  what 
tbe  committee  wanted  to  say  is  a  little  difficult  to  explain,  except 
that  it  has  a  decided  objection  to  calling  a  spade  by  its  proper 
name,  and  this  is  shown  when  it  proceeds  under  tbethird  head  of 
its  sermon  of  mild  rebuke,  to  state  that  "  the  duty  of  reporting 
to  the  Union  tbe  results  of  the  investigating  committee  is  ex- 
tremeUj  delicate:  while  tbe  members  of  the  executive  committee 
agree  as  to  the  individuals  who  should  be  regarded  as  chiefly 
responsible  for  the  demoralized  condition  of  the  business,  each 
one  is  disinclined  to  assume  the  responsibility  of  naming  them, 
but  the  executive  committee  meantime  has  forwarded  to  each  of 
these  members  a  copy  of  the  resolution  offering  the  aid  of  the 
executive  committee  to  the  end  that  these  rumors  may  be  set  at 
rest." 

This  gentle  manner  of  dealing  with  the  rebating  problem  has 
not  the  approval  of  all  tbe  members.  Some  are  inclined  to  think 
that  the  hauling  up  of  the  guilty  ones,  the  enforcement  of  tines, 
etc.,  would  have  a  much  more  salutatory  effect,  and  that  there  is 
no  fear  of  a  disruption  of  the  Union,  as  it  is  to  the  benefit  of  all 
that  it  should  hold  together.  At  present  the  situation  is  appar- 
ently one  of  resignation  to  a  condition  which  the  Union  is  unable 
to  correct. 

At  the  meeting  an  amendment  of  tbe  commission  clause  was 
offered,  which,  on  tbe  face  of  it,  has  a. good  deal  of  merit,  It  is 
proposed  in  this  amendment  to  pay  twenty  per  cent,  commission 
for  cash  in  thirty  days,  in  other  words,  to  offer  five  per  cent,  dis- 
count for  cash.  This  amendment  has  the  merit  that  it  may  kill 
two  birds  with  one  stone,  or,  at  any  rate,  maim  them.  It  may 
help  to  settle  the  rebate  trouDle,  and  it  may  also  abate  the  credit 
evil,  about  which  all  insurance  companies  complain  so  loudly. 
The  insurance  companies  can  well  afford  the  five  per  cent,  extra 
for  the  sake  of  the  cash  in  thirty  days  if  it  will  save  them  the 
worry  and  expense  to  which  they  are  often  put  in  gathering  in 
overdue  premiums.  Whether  in  the  event  of  its  ultimate  adap- 
tion "the  snake  will  be  scotched,  not  killed,"  remains  to  be  seen, 
and  can  only  be  tested  by  experience. 

The  marine  underwriters  are  in  better  spirits.  Only  two  of  the 
Alaska  salmon  fleet  are  still  out,  and  there  is  no  apprehension 
felt  on  their  account,  so  the  insurance  men  believe  that  they  are 
really  going  to  make  a  little  money  where  they  have  so  steadily 
lost  for  yeara. 

Anxiety  is  felt  for  the  Robert  L>  Belknap.  She  is  considerably 
overdue  from  New  York  to  Yokohama,  and  70  per  cent,  re-in- 
surance has  been  offered  on  her. 

The  North  American  is  still  waiting  for  something  to  turn  up. 
The  particular  something  is  the  secretary  of  the  home  company, 
now  considerably  overdue,  but  likely  to  bob    up  at  any  moment. 


WE  LIVE  in  times  when  women  are  claiming  an  absolute 
equality  with  men.  It  therefore  follows  that  they  must 
be  prepared  to  accept  the  consequences  of  all  contracts,  whether 
matrimonial  or  otherwise,  into  which  they  enter.  A  young  far- 
mer in  England  has  sued  a  lady  for  damages  breach  of  promise  of 
marriage  and  she  has  had  to  pay  him  $250  damages.  This  is  a  new 
departure,  and  henceforth  the  female  flirt  will  have  to  be  as  careful 
in  her  intrigues  as  it  behoveth  the  male  charmer  to  be.  This 
young  English  farmer  has  shown  an  intrepid  spirit,  for  it  surely 
requires  moral  courage  to  sue  a  lady  for  breach  of  promise  of 
marriage  than  to  charge  a  battery  or  lead  a  forlorn  hope.  His 
pluck  is  to  be  highly  commended.  He  should  receive  some  pub- 
lic recognition  of  his  unusual  courage  and  be  allowed  a  pension 
for  the  rest  of  his  life.  In  the  interests  of  the  equality  of  the 
sexes,  it  is  well  that  a  precedent  should  be  set  for  the  award  of  a 
solatium  for  the  injured  feelings  of  an  outraged  male.  It  is  a 
veritable  turning  of  the  tables,  in  which  that  gay  deceiver- 
woman,  will  find  a  fitting  moral,  serviceable  as  a  warning  for  all 
time. 

Fall  Styles  Butterick's  celebrated  patterns  for  Ladies',  Misses',  Boys' 
and  little  Children's  garments.  Catalogues  mailed  free.  fl.  A.  Deraiug, 
124  Post  street,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 


DR.  STERLING,  an  arrival  from  the  Orient,  brings  the  news  of 
the  death  recently  at  Allahabad,  India,  of  Miss  Anna  0. 
Seward,  of  the  American  Presbyterian  Mission.  Miss  Seward  was 
a  historical  character  here,  though  for  years  she  had  been  prob- 
ably almost  forgotten,  except  perhaps  in  the  minds  of  those  who 
were  about  Washington  during  the  times  of  the  Civil  War.  Miss 
Seward  was  a  niece  of  Secretary  Seward,  and  during  the  Lincoln 
administration  she  practically  performed  all  the  social  honors  for 
the  White  House.  Subsequently,  when  Seward  died,  there  was 
some  trouble  about  the  division  of  the  property,  and  Miss  Seward 
decided  to  go  to  India.  $he  therefore  connected  herself  with  the 
Presbyterian  missionary  luovement,  and  in  1876  left  for  the  land 
of  the  Rajahs.  There  she  labored  patiently  and  nobly,  and  at  the 
time  of  her  death  was  one  of  the  most  respected  women  in  the 
whole  empire. 

THE  WHITE  HOUSE! 

Largest  Retail  Dry  Goods  Store  in  the  City. 


Great    Opening   of   the 
Season. 

Fall  and  Winter,  1892-1893, 
DRESS  GOODS!  SILKS! 

FINEST  STOCK  EVER  IMPORTED. 


Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 
Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 


Raphael  Weill  &  Co,, 

Northwest  Corner  Post  and   Kearny  Streets. 
ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Best    &    Belcher    Mining    Company. 

Location  of  Principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Virginia  City,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  siven  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  seventeenth  (17th)  day  of  August,  189.%  an  assessment  (No.  52)  of  Twenty- 
five  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital 
stock  of  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to 
the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  33,  Nevada  block,  No. 
309  Moutgomery  street.  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
Thursday,  the  22d  day  of  September.  1 892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  thirteenth  (ibtb)  day  of  October, 
1^92,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  s?1^.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co. California. „__„„__„„____„____„^__„ 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Challenge  Consolidated   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Fraucisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  oold  aill,  Storey  County,  Nev. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  twenty-  fourth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  12)  of  Ten  10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upou  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-seventh  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  18th  day  of  October,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
exoenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F  C  L.  McCOY,  Secretary. 

Office— 331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  fair;    Extras  $4.15@f4.25:    Superfine,  $2. 50(5) $3.00. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping,  $1.30;   Milling,    $1.35(9*1.40  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  9)c.<$*L  Peed,  S2,nC.@s'Sc.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  $1.40@?1.4j;  Feed,  $1.30(^*1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1-40;  Yellow,  $l.:i.*iCoi*l.37'  •>  per  ctl. 

Rye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  $1.20(9*1.25.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $y;  Oats,  $9(9$y;  Alfalfa,  $7(9JS. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $li>@$l(>.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  *2.00®$2.50  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  40c.@70c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady;  Choice,  2oc.@30c, ;  Fair,  16c.@l7c;  Eastern,  Uc@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  25c.@28c. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc.@12c. ;  Extracted,  6e.@7c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  15c@40c.     Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.(925c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried — active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c(a)7J£c.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5ViC.@5%c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15e.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Cauued  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  pleuthul;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $41.50  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demand  at  15@18c. 

Sugar,  good  stoca  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whiles,  b%(dtf%c. 

Two  legal  holidays  during  the  week  passing  under  review  leaves 
us  but  little  to  remark  concerning  business  affairs.  We,  however, 
have  on  interesting  item  to  record  respecting  the  recent  increase 
of  our  Cape  Horn  trade  route — between  the  Golden  Gate  and  New 
York.  Since  March  1st  we  have  loaded  an  average  of  two  large 
ships  per  month  for  New  York,  and  during  the  eight  months  of 
the  current  year  fifteen  ships  have  been  cleared  bence,  with  full 
cargoes  of  Barley,  Canned  Salmon,  Beans,  and  other  home  pro- 
ducts, valued  at  $3,48G,000.  Five  other  ships  and  steamers  are 
booked  here  for  the  like  service,  and  they  will  have  early  dis- 
patch, say,  in  all  this  month,  and  with  three  regular  ship  lines,  if 
not  four,  the  prospect  is  good  for  a  large  diversion  of  traffic  from 
rail  to  sea. 

The  Starr  Mills,  which  are  left  out  in  the  cold  by  the  recent 
combination  of  other  mills  here,  made  during  the  month  of 
August,  1892,  66,436  bbls.  of  Flour.  The  sales  of  Starr  Flour 
daring  the  same  month  aggregated  82,250  barrels. 

Honolulu. — The  strar.  Australia,  hence,  carried  $50,000  Gold 
Coin  and  a  full  cargo  of  produce  and  merchandise,  valued  at 
$51,302. 

The  steamship  Monowai,  from  Australia,  via  Honolulu,  had  for 
cargo  100  fisks.  Quicksilver,  1,600  ingots  Sydney  Tin,  300  bales 
Flax,  and  in  Treasure  £150,000  in  Eoglisu  sovereigns;  also,  from 
Honolulu,  300  bags  Rice,  2,100  bchs.  Bananas  and  130  pkgs. 
Fruit,  etc. 

The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  San  Juan,  from  the  Isthmus,  brought 
New  York  cargo  of  Hardware,  Iron,  Steel  and  other  heavy  mdse. 
From  Europe,  70  cs.  Tin  Plate,  374  cs.  Olive  Oil  and  120  pkgs. 
Mdse.;  from  South  America,  200  bags  Coffee;  from  Central 
America,  58  bags  ditto;  from  Mexico,  1,325  bxs.  Limes,  212  bags 
Ore,  and  in  Treasure.  $34,544. 

Flour  shipments  in  eight  months  past,  637,037  bbLs.,  wheat  and 
Hour  shipments  combined;  latter  reduced  to  grain,  7,388,175  ctls., 
value  $11,477,806,  against  same  time  1891  of  13,177,708  ctls.,  value 
$20,163,376. 

Barley  for  Leitb.— The  Br.  ship  Thirimere,  hence,  carried  54,947 
ctls.,  value  $58,000.  The  Manx  King,  for  Cork,  had  59,526  ctls., 
same  value,  $62,502. 

Honolulu. — The  bk.  Discovery,  thence,  carried  1,625  bbls. 
Flour,  2,900  cs.  Lard,  2,887  gaU  Wine,  85,145  lbs.  rolled  Barley 
and  other  mdse.,  value  $24  975. 

Salmon. — The  Jeanie,  from  Alaskan  ports,  brought  down  24.743 
cs.,  1,118  half-bbls.  Fish,  etc  Levi  G.  Burgess,  from  Cbignik 
Bay,  50,105  cs.  to  Alaska  Pkg.  Co.  Jas.  B.  Borland,  from  Alitak, 
with  21  000  cs.  and  40  bbls.  to  same. 

For  the  Isthmus. — The  P.  M.  8.  S.  San  Jose  sailed  hence  on  the 
5th  inst.,  and  had  for  cargo  to  New  York  mdse.  value  $42,230, 
consisting  in  part  of  51,000  gals.  Wine,  426  gals.  Brandy,  182,437 
lbs.  Beans,  162,213  lbs.  Borax,  110"  bales  Rags,  etc.;  for  Central 
America,  491  bbls.  Flour,  12,798  lbs.  Tallow,  25  300  lbs.  Malt,  etc., 
value  $11,233;  for  Panama,  450  bbls.  Flour,  20,500  lbs.  Sugar,  etc.; 
for  Ecuador,  1,000  bbls.  Flour;  to  Peru,  101,595  lbs,  Malt. 

Quicksilver. — The  receipts  for  the  past  eight  months,  13,877 
tlsks.;  same  time  1891,  8.985  fisks.  Exports  by  sea,  1892,  5,692 
Hsks.,  and  for  the  same  time  1891,3,000  tisks. 

Lumber  receipts  at  this  port  for  eight  months  1892:  Pine,  209,- 
471,805  feet;  eight  months  1891,  Pine,  177.566.780;  Redwood, 
1892,  118,854,970  feet;  Redwood,  1891,  104,563,183  feet;  Shingles, 
1892,  82,115,550;  Railroad  Ties,  1892,  937,867. 

New  York — The  ship  M.  P.  Grace,  hence  September  3d,  had 
10,844  sks.  Barley,  16,211  cs.  and  100  bbls.  Salmon,  4,288  sks. 
Mustard  seed,  13,736  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  2,500  sks.  Borax,  1,740 
bbls.  and  23  pchs.  Wine,  1  856  sks.  Beans,  2,000  pigs  Lead,  400 
cs.  Honey,  326  sks.  Sillicon,  100  bales  Rags,  192  sks.  Scrap  Tin, 
376  sks.  Horn,  etc. 

The  ship  Occident  arrived  from  New  York  on  the  3d  inst.  with 
a  large  cargo  of  general  merchandise,  including  1,300  kegs  Nails, 


400  bxs.  Soap,  2,000  empty  Quicksilver  Flasks,  etc. 

The  Coffee  market  is  inactive.  Imports  for  eight  months  past, 
139,564  bags;  same  time  1891,  142,500  bags;  present  stock  in  first 
hands,  25,937  bags;  same  time  last  year,  33,940  bags. 

Grain  Sacks  are  slow  of  sale,  at  very  low  figures.  Stock  here 
and  to  arrive  from  Calcutta  large,  with  no  prospect  of  a  rise. 

The  Fruit  market  is  copiously  supplied  with  all  seasonable 
varieties,  causing  low  prices  to  rule  for  all,  excepting  extra  choice 
quality  of  Mountain  Peaches,  etc. 


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CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up  $400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 278  AND  220  HANSOMF  STRtCT, 

San    Francisco,  California. 

8E0RGE  L.  BRANDER,  CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

President.  Secretary. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up *     500,000 

Assets  ...    3.181.753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,525,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
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Capital   125,000,000  00 

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Office.  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager 

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Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
known  '-champagne  "  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautifying 
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10,  1892 


.-AN   FRANCISCO  NKWs  LETTER. 


21 


1 3ST  STJ  R,  A.  1ST  C  El . 


THE   WHITE   GULL      I-    .•     Cbdmarf ft«i» fry Bltit (toman. 

More  soft.  I  deem,  from  spring  to  spring. 
Thy  sleep  would  be 
Where  tbis  far  western  headland  lies 
With  its  imperial  azure  skies. 
Under  thee  hearing  beat  and  swing 
The   eternal    sea. 

Where  all  the  livelong  brooding  day 

And   all    night  long. 
The  far  sea-journeying  wind  should  come 
l>own  to  the  doorway  of  thy  borne, 
To  lure  tbee  ever  the  old  way 

With  the  old  song. 

But  the  dim  forest  would  so  house 

Thy    heart   so  dear, 
Even  the  low  surf  of  the  rain 
Where  ghostly  centuries  complain, 
Might  beat  against  thy  door  and  rouse 

No    heartache   here. 

Kor  here  the  thrushes,  calm,  supreme, 

Forever   reign, 
Whose  glorious  kingly  golden  throats 
Kegatber  their  forgotten  notes 
In  keys  where  lurk  no  ruin  of  dream, 

No  tinge  of  pain. 

And  here  the  ruthless  noisy  sea, 

With  the  tide's  will, 
The  strong  gray  wrestler,  should  in  vain 
Put  forth  his  band  on  thee  again  — 
Lift  up  his  voice  and  call  to  thee, 

And  thou  be  still. 

For  thou  hast  overcome  at  last; 

And  fate  and  fear 
And  strife  and  rumor  now  no  more 
Vex  thee  by  any  wind-vexed  shore, 
Down  the  strewn  ways  thy  feet  have  passed 

Far,  far  from  here. 


SEPTEMBER.— Good  Housekeeping. 


September  means  the  bloom   on  purple  grapes 

Whose  ripeness  Alls  with  spice  the  hazy  air; 
It  means  full  fields— the  tiny  seeds  of  Spring 

Developed  in  rich  fruitage  everywhere. 
The  birds  make  music  soft  o'er  growing  bread, 
Which  waits  impatient  to  be  harvested. 
September  means  much  more  than  fruitful  fields, 

Than  purple  grapes,  or  birds  of  thankful  song; 
It  means  a  healthful  bloom  on  rounded  cheeks, 

Brought  back  to  cities  by  the  sick,  now  strong; 
The  springing  step  and  sparkling  eye  all  show 
A  harvest  that  mere  fields  can  scarcely  grow. 
September  means  a  firmer  grasp  on  reins 

That  somewhat   slackiy  lie  through   summer  days 
A  girding  of  the  loins  for  new  demands, 

A  closer  looking  to  the  household  ways. 
The  children,  as  they  turn  to  schoolroom  door, 
Know,  every  one,  that  holidays  are  o'er. 
September  means  a  lesson  to  the  wise, 

A  lesson  we  would  all  do  well  to  heed; 
The  fruit,  however  pleasant  of  past  days, 

Cannot  the  present  satisfy  or  feed; 
So  let  September  mean  beginnings  new 
In  work  which  waits  for  faithful  hands  to  do. 

MOZART'S    GRAVE.— Maud  Kalbfleiseh  in  Music. 

Is  there  no  stone,  no  trembling  blade  of  grass 

Taller  than  all  its  mates,  to  mark  bis  tomb? 
Is  there  no  tender  bud,  whose  sweet  perfume 

Might  breathe  reproaches  to  the  men  who  pass 
Beside  the' spot  with  light,  unhallowed  tread? 

O,  ruthless  Timel  to  steal  away  ail  trace 
Of  this,  the  master's  final  resting  place; 

To  smooth  the  very  ground  above  his  head. 
And  yet — he  needs  no  grave;  he  cannot  die, 

This  spirit  of  undying  melody. 
Who,  having  heard  the  music  he  hath  made, 

Could  look  upon  the  spot  where  he  was  laid— 
The  tomb  that  love  denied  and  strangers  gave— 

And  think  the  master  dead?— he  needs  no  grave. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

uk  HAMBUBQ,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  I..  Low.  .nmiaser  for  the  I'^elttc  toa*l  llrnmli. 

22u  Mmioiiie  \t.,  S.  t. 

Capital $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534.795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 

::r;  California  St.,  s.  l  ..  *  al. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OP  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZOB1CB. 

COMB  NED  CAPITAL     4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Uorapauies  are  liable  joiutly  aud  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustaiued. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 

410  California  St.,  aan  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  aimited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed  910,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2, 125,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,   1888  6.124,057,80 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

305  California  Street.  San  Francisco 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  I857.1 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON, 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.  J 
Office— Northwest  comer  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  URAKT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDEPA.iaT^C^lIirT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO,,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONOON. 

Established  a.  n.  1821. 
Paid-up  capital,    -    -    -     I  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, J2i,lW,2*l. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  A.  D.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,041,712. 

Assets  iu  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


Will.  J.  UMBERS,  (ien'l  Agent,  2lli>  Sansome  St.,  San  Franeisco.  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  $5,000,000 

AOKNTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON.  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.46. 

President.  RKNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND  DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  rapacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Excbauge  fall  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  snpplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat.  .  . 

Monev  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  *tored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  iu  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  ot  the  Comoanv    202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


SLITCME 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

fj   gt^K/1>\MCME:STEF=t,  EHN1E  l—AfNJQ  .  £] 

Capital  paid  6j  guaranteed  Si 3,000,00O,DD. 

ChasA  Utdh,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  francisso- 


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22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


A    COLUMBIAD.— St.  James*  Budget. 

FOUR  centuries  ago  a   caravel 
(To  speak  more  accurately  there  were  three) 
Steered  forth  to  climb  the  green  Atlantic's  swell, 

And  seeking  Asia,  stumbled  on  the  key 

Of  that  strange  continent  where  ail  is  free — 
Save  trade — and  where  the  Sawin  Eagle's  cry 
Is  pitched,  say,  half  a  dozen  notes  too  high. 

Great  is  the  debt  that  Europe  owes  to  Spain, 
For  Intellect  was  clearly  bound  to  die 

Had  Kit  Columbus  never  sailed  the  main. 

No  Mr.  Howells  had  appeared  to  tell 

Our  novelists  what  fiction  ought  to  be; 
No  Mr.  Edison  hail  dared  to  quell 

Thy  forces,  Giant  Electricity; 

If  Christopher  had  never  crossed  the  sea, 
And  with  his  keen  horizon-sweeping  eye 
Bahama's  misty  outline  chanced  to  spy: 

Britain  had  never  heard  of  Mr.  Blaine, 
Whose  trade  it  is  the  Briton  to  defy, 

Had  Kit  Columbus  never  sailed  the  main. 

That  WeBtern  Humour  that  we  know  so  well, 

Those  yarns  of  Iroquois  and  Cherokee, 
Those  Christy  songs  about  Sweet  Annabel 

Surnamed,  if  I  remember  rightly,  Lee, 

Had  been  unknown,  my  friend,  to  you  and  me: 
Snakes  had  not  prompted  journalists  to  lie, 
Our  maidens'  manners  had  remained  more  shy, 

The  clam  and  terrapin  had  lived  in  vain, 
Tourists  had  never  tasted  pumpkin-pie, 

Had  Kit  Columbus  never  sailed  the  main. 
Eh  voi. 
Stanley  1     If  Christopher  had  sauntered  by, 
Unconscious  that  the  Happy  Land  was  nigh, 

And  turned  his  battered  bowsprit  home  again, 
Some  other  Johnny  would  have  gone  to  pry: 
You  might  have  found  the  Western  World — or  I— 

Had  Kit  Colambus  never  sailed  the  main. 


HOPE    DELAYED.—  From  the  New  Orleans  Picayune. 

IN  every  sound  I  think  I  hear  her  feet, 
And  still  I  wend  ray  altered  way  alone, 
And  still  I  say:     "To-morrow  we  shall  meet." 

I  watch  the  shadows  in  the  crowded  street ; 

Each  passing  face  I  follow,  one  by  one; 
In  every  sound  I  think  I  hear  her  feet. 

And  months  go  by,  bleak  March  and  May-day  heat; 

Harvest  is  over,  winter  well  nigh  done, 
And  still  I  say:     "To-morrow  we  shall  meet." 

Among  the  city  squares,  when  flowers  are  sweet, 
With  every  breath  a  sigh  of  hers  seems  blown, 
In  every  sound  I  think  I  hear  her  feet. 

Belfry  and  clock  the  unending  hours  repeat, 

From  twelve  to  twelve,  and  still  she  comes  in  none. 
And  still  I  say:     "To-morrow  we  shall  meet." 

Oh,  long  delayed  to-morrow!     Hearts  that  beat 

Measure  the  length  of  every  minute  gone; 
In  every  sound  I  think  I  hear  her  feet. 

Ever  the  suns  rise  tardily  or  fleet 

And  light  the  letters  on  a  churchyard  stone; 
And  still  I  say:     "To-morrow  we  shall  meet." 

And  still  from  out  her  unknown  far  retreat 

She  haunts  me  with  her  tender  undertone. 
In  every  sound  I  think  I  hear  her  feet, 
And  still  I  say:     "To-morrow  we  shall  meet." 

THE    SUMMER    GIRL.— Somerville  Journal. 


The  Summer  Girl  is  coming  home, 

All  browned,  and  plump,  and  rosy, 
Prepafed  to  make  the  winter  seem 

Extremely  nice  and  cosy. 
She's  bathed,  and  danced,  and  walked,  and  sailed, 

And  read  a  book,  and  flirted, 
Till  to  the  young  men  she  has  left 

The  whole  world  seems  deserted. 
The  flush  of  health  is  in  her  cheeks, 

With  fun  her  eyes  are  dancing; 
The  flush  of  conquest  in  her  heart 

Makes  life  seem  most  entrancing. 
Ah,  soon  she'll  be  the  Winter  Girl, 

And  we  shall  bow  before  her; 
For  she  was  made  to  be  adored, 

And  therefore,  we  adore  her. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  ou 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1;,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amountB  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No,  Certificate.        No.  ShareB.      Amount. 

C.  A.  Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.A.Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  890 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  ou  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hourof  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
1  Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY",  June  23. 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  2d.  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring   Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until  WED- 
flESDVY,  September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion     Mining     Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
op  the  11th  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  39),  of  twenty-five  (25)  cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  16th  Day  of  September.  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  pavment  is  made  be- 
fore,   will    be   sold    on  TUESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  October,  1892,   to  pay 
the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Offick— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,   San  Francisco.   California 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Hale  &  Norcross  Silver  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia  Mining  District,  Story  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  11th  day  of  August.  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  102)  of  Fifty  (50)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  26,  Nevada  block,  No.  303  Montgomery  st. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Thursday  the  Fifteenth  Day  of  September,  1 892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  FRIDAY,  the  7th  day  of  October,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  B.  THOMPSON,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  26,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Confidence  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Thirteenth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  21)  of  Fifty 
(50)  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Fifteenth  (15th)  Day  of  September,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  sixth  day  of  October,  1892,  to 
pay   the   delinquent  assessment,    together  with  the   costs  of   advertising 
and  expenses  of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  S.  GROTH,  Secretary. 

Office— 414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRICAL  WORKS, 

iTo.   35   lv£a,rl=et  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS    AND     IMPORTERS     OF 


Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General  Electrical  Supplies, 


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10,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


AT  the  recent  ball  given  in  honor  of  the  birthday  of  the  Duke 
of  Edinburgh,  the  Duchess  of  Kdin burgh  wore  an  exceedingly 
elegant  gown.  The  bodice  and  train  were  in  a  soft  shade  of  grey 
brocru.  the  skirt  covered  in  front  with  a  tablier  of  very  handsome 
white  crystal  and  pearl  embroidery,  and  the  bodice  was  prettily 
finished  with  soft  grey  chitfon.  Her  Imperial  Highness  wore  a 
coronet,  necklace,  and  stomacher  of  rubies  and  diamonds.  Mrs. 
Pes  VceOZ  wore  a  very  handsome  gown  of  black  velvet,  made 
with  a  round  train,  and  trimmed  with  cascades  of  fine  old  black 
Maltese  lace.  Miss  Des  Vceux  wore  a  simple  little  gown  of  white 
Indian  silk,  figured  with  true  love  knots;  the  bodice  had  Empire 
sleeves  and  sash.  Mrs.  Myles  was  gowned  in  white  satin  and 
rose-pink  becgaline:  her  plain  skirt  bad  a  ruche  of  satin  all 
round,  and  the  sleeves  and  sash  were  of  the  rose-pink  bengaline. 
Mrs.  Norcock  was  dressed  completely  in  black  velvet,  with  a 
gauze-jetted  stripe  running  through  it,  which  was  lined  with  white 
silk;  the  bodice  was  arranged  with  white  chiffun  and  trimmed 
with  jet.  At  the  second  ball  the  Duchess  of  Edinburgh  wore  a 
very  handsome  gown  of  pink  and  gold  brocb€  satin,  trimmed 
with  brown  velvet.  Sapphires  and  diamonds  were  worn  with 
this  toilette.  Princess  Marie  looked  very  pretty  in  a  while  dress, 
and  her  sisters  were  dressed  like  her.  Lady  Watson  wore  a  hand- 
some gown  of  black  moire;  the  skirt  had  a  petticoat  of  beautiful 
Oriental  embroidery,  which  was  lined  through  with  gold  soie  de 
Chine. 

Black  velvet  ribbon,  says  the  fashion  writer  of  the  New  York 
Evening  Post,  enters  as  largely  into  the  trimming  of  late  summer 
bats  as  it  does  into  the  girdles,  belts,  cnoux  and  bows  of  light 
dresses.  Its  use  makes  the  hat  more  capable  of  being  worn 
with  various  costumes ;  and,  again,  the  shadow  or  rainbow  effects 
produced  by  contrasting  delicate  tints  in  hat  trimmings  are  as 
much  sought  as  shadow  or  shot  effects  in  dress  stuffs.  But  the 
vivid  red  hats  have  red  ribbons,  tulle  and  flowers  for  garniture, 
brightening  the  dust-gray  or  beige-colored  toilet,  or  they  have  red 
and  black  mingled,  as  in  bats  of  shirred  red  chiffon  with  trim- 
mings of  scarlet  poppies  and  cut-jet  aigrettes.  These  will  be 
worn  when  other  light  hats  are  put  aside  for  darker-hued  autumn 
headgear. 

The  Parisian  fancy  for  gay  plaids  has  reached  America,  and 
plaid  silk  blouses  are  becoming  quite  the  fashion.  Upon  those 
they  suit  they  are  very  becoming.  They  are  worn  with  dark  or 
black  lace,  or  lace  skirts,  and  many  add  a  black  sash  tied  in  front  in 
a  rosette  bow.  A  pretty  Victoria  plaid  has  a  cream-white  ground 
with  multi-colored  checks  and  lines  upon  it.  This  plaid,  formed 
into  a  French  blouse,  was  worn  with  a  skirt  of  navy-blue  China 
silk,  and  a  black  velvet  sash,  six  inches  wide,  lined  with  the 
tartan  and  finished  on  the  ends  with  long  jet  tassels.  At  the  sea- 
side and  in  the  country  these  gay  blouses  are  very  successfully 
worn  with  Holland  skirts  and  open  coats,  but  in  any  case  the 
black  sash  is  not  to  be  forgotten,  as  this  lends  a  picturesque  as 
well  as  a  becoming  finish  to  the  whole  attire. 

There  are  many  changeable  fabrics  for  fall.  Among  them  is  a 
smooth-faced  cloth,  changing  from  pink  to  gray  as  it  is  moved  in 
the  light.  The  surface  is  broken  by  fine  black  cords,  which  stand 
up  in  ridges.  Bayadere  stripes  are  numerous  among  the  new 
goods-  A  very  rich  line,  which  resembles  uncut  velvet,  but  has 
no  silk,  is  finely  striped  in  green  and  gold,  making  an  iridescent 
effect.  Persian  designs  are  among  the  new  good.  Some  pieces 
are  shown  with  the  ground  completely  covered  with  a  cashmere 
pattern  of  palms  and  scrolls.  There  are  a  number  of  handsome 
striped  goods  in  very  rough  camel's-hair  surface  and  in  odd  colors, 
and  nearly  all  have  a  changeable  effect. 

Parisian  milliners  are  trying  hard  to  popularize  a  fancy  hat, 
that  is  shaped  very  much  like  a  Salvation  Army  chapeau,  only 
much  larger  in  front.  It  fits  the  back  of  the  head  closely,  and 
has  a  huge  poke  in  front,  lined  to  about  the  depth  of  a  finger 
only,  all  around  the  face,  with  dark  velvet.  A  simple  band  of 
the  velvet  encircles  the  low  crown,  forming  a  large  bow  in  front, 
with  a  single  rose  with  foliage  standing  straight  in  the  center. 


There  is  a  new  glove  with  a  gauntlet  beaded  in  jet  or  steel,  and 
the  "  bracelet  "  glove  with  a  band  embroidered  around  the  wrist 
is  new.  * 

If  you  are  in  the  least  susceptible  to  poison  oak,  use  Grindelia  Lo- 
tion to  overcome  the  irritating  effects  of  the  unpleasant  herb.  The 
lotion  is  invaluable  on  a  camping  trip  or  a  tour  through  the  coun- 
try, in  any  district,  in  which  shrubbery  abounds.  It  is  for  sale  at 
the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street.  The  lotion  relieves  asthma. 

The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  has  for  years 
been  a  favorite  dining  resort  among  the  leaders  of  society.  It  has  a 
first-class  patronage,  on  account  of  the  general  excellence  of  all  its 
meals.  Its  menu,  which  is  unsurpassed,  is  prepared  by  a  chef  who  is 
an  artist.    All  its  accommodations  are  first-class. 


NEW     FALL 


55YC^§  /}J\|D  flOl/ETJIES 


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DRY    GOODS    AND     CLOAKS 
Jfouv   Or?    ^xbibitior?. 

Our  unequalled  importations  of  the  new  season's  goods 

place  us  in  better  position  than  ever  before  to 

meet  the  wants  of  our  patrons  with 

THE  LARGEST  AND    MOST   COMPLETE   ASSORTMENTS. 

THE  LATEST  AND  MOST  ELEGANT  STYLES,   and 

THE  VERY  BEST  VALUES  IN  THE  MARKET. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


THE  BRENT W00D-x  •      *■" 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  1883. 

Carriage   Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker*  Co,,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 

HOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  cau 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blaekheadp,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot— pot  lasts  three  mouths. 

Mks.  Nettie  Harrison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.  Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    dllAKAATEEU     PERMANEOT. 


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is  AN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


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SOME  valuable  experiments  have  been  made  at  one  of  the  most 
extensive  manufacturing  and  engineering  plants  in  Boston, 
relating  to  the  resistance  to  the  flow  of  air  through  pipes  at  a 
high  velocity.  These  experiments  show  that  a  single  opening  of 
a  given  area  is  vastly  more  effective  to  conduct  steam  or  air  than 
the  same  area  divided  into  small  separate  apertures.  It  is  evident 
that  a  long,  thin  opening  will  not  carry  the  same  amount  of 
steam  that  a  wider  and  shorter  opening  will  when  of  the  same  area, 
or  if  two  openings  have  the  same  area,  the  one  which  has  the 
width  and  length  more  nearly  the  same  will  carry  the  larger 
amount  of  steam  in  a  given  time  and  at  a  given  pressure.  Again, 
as  locomotives  are  now  built,  only  a  fraction  of  the  total  weight 
is  utilized  at  speeds  above  forty  miles  per  hour ;  hence  an  in- 
creased weight  is  not  necessary  to  pull  heavy  trains  at  high 
speeds  after  they  have  attained  speed.  There  is  also  steam 
capacity  in  the  ordinary  locomotive  to  furnish  the  steam  required 
to  do  heavy  express  work.  The  only  means,  therefore,  of  in- 
creasing the  power  of  express  locomotives  at  speed  is  to  increase 
the  mean  effective  pressure  in  the  cylinders,  and  to  do  this  there 
is  no  surer  way,  it  is  asserted,  than  to  increase  the  outside  lap 
and  the  travel  of  the  valve. 


For  use  under  certain  condiiions.au  important  improve- 
ment has  been  made  in  the  construction  of  locomotive  steam 
permanent  way  traveling  cranes.  In  a  sixteen-ton  apparatus  of 
this  kind  the  operating  engines  consist  of  a  pair  of  the  vertical 
type,  with  cylinders  eight  and  one-half  inches  diameter  and 
twelve-inch  stroke,  and  these  receive  steam  from  a  boiler  seven 
feet  six  inches  high  and  four  feet  six  inches  diameter,  low  built, 
with  a  large  combustion  chamber  over  the  fire-box,  and  Galloway 
tubes;  the  boiler  has  been  tested  hydraulically  up  to  150  pounds, 
and  by  steam  up  to  between  seventy  five  and  eighty  pounds  per 
square  inch.  The  jib  is  constructed  on  the  lattice  principle,  with 
a  curved  head  to  allow  of  heavy  loads  being  dealt  with;  the  crab 
sides  are  of  mild  steel  plates,  firmly  secured  to  the  top  and  bot- 
tom swivels,  and  the  latter  have  anti-friction  rollers  for  running 
on  a  turned  path,  to  reduce  the  stress  caused  by  the  load  on  the 
central  column.  The  hoisting  motion  is  of  double-purchase  spur 
gearing,  controlled  by  a  clutch  and  lever  and  powerful  friction 
brake.  A  feed  pump,  injector  and  tank  are  provided  for  supply- 
ing the  feed  water.  The  carriage  is  propelled  by  bevel  wheels 
gearing  with  the  engine  shaft  by  means  of  spur  and  mitre  wheels, 
and  driving  the  transverse  shaft  under  the  carriage,  on  which  are 
two  cranks  connected  up  by  coupling  rods  and  cranks  to  the 
traveling  wheels  of  the  crane. 

—  A  writer  in  the  Ironmonger  expresses  the  opinion  that  steel 
is  liable  to  be  changed  by  the  action  of  time,  unaided  by  any  ex- 
ternal, mechanical,  or  chemical  influence,  and,  in  support  of  his 
view  that  time  alone  appears  to  be  sufficient  to  produce  these 
changes,  he  cites  several  examples  of  failures  which  have  oc- 
curred within  his  own  experience,  some  flat  steel  plates  cracking 
spontaneously,  and  others  on  being  tested  by  dropping.  Mention 
is  made  of  numerous  boiler  plates  that  cracked  after  the  boilers 
had  been  at  work  for  years,  and  weeks  after  the  steam  pressure 
had  been  reduced  and  the  water  run  out,  and  this,  too,  in  face  of 
the  fact  of  every  boiler  being  tested  to  double  its  working  pressure 
when  new.  Another  instance  is  the  cracking  of  hardened  armor- 
piercing  steel  shells  several  months  after  their  delivery  to  pur- 
chasers, this  being  attributed  to  the  after  effects  of  the  hardening 
process — though,  if  independent  of  time,  the  shells  ought  to 
crack  during  the  operation  or  not  at  all.  Such  peculiarities  are 
presumed  to  be  caused  chiefly  by  the  unequal  tension  of  the 
metal,  whether  due  to  the  process  of  oil  hardening  or  to  some 
other  fact.  It  is  well  known  that  some  cutlery  manufacturers 
prefer  to  keep  their  cast-steel  ingots  two  or  three  years  before 
working  them  up,  their  experience  demonstrating  that  the  steel 
is  thereby  improved. 

According    to    a    foreign    journal,    the    most    practicable 

method  of  joining  narrow  vulcanized  rubber  belts,  both  ends 
having  been  put  together  at  a  right  angle,  they  are  to  be  pro- 
vided with  two  rows  of  holes  and  strapped  together.  With 
broad  belts,  either  a  thin  piece  of  leather  or  a  piece  of  rubber  belt 
is  to  be  used  on  the  back  side,  in  order  to  strengthen  the  con- 
nection— the  pieces  used  for  this  purpose  to  correspond  in  length 
according  to  the  width  of  the  belt,  and  sewed  or  riveted  in  place, 
and  in  sewing,  the  belts  should  be  placed  on  a  belt  stretcher,  in  or- 
der to  avoid  injury.  They  are  also  materially  improved  and  made 
more  durable  by  applying  a  coating  composed  of  equal  parts  of 
black  lead  and  litharge  boiled  in  linseed  oil,  a  sufficient  quantity 
of  lac  being  added  to  insure  speedy  drying.  If,  from  any  cause, 
the  rubber  should  scale  off,  the  belt  is  to  be  coated  anew ;  in  case 
of  any  tendency  to  slide,  the  inside  is  to  be  moistened  with  lin- 
seed oil. 

(io  to  Moraghan's  famous  stall  in  the  California  Market  and  en- 
joy some  of  the  delicious  oysters  which  can  be  obtained  only  there. 


H.     2v£.     nSTE-WX^-A-IjI-j     <Sc     CO., 

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SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS : 


AND 


GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS.  : 


Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco. 
National  Assurance  Company       -----      of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company    ------    of  Boston 

Ocean   Marine  Insurance      ------      of   London 


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Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction; 
"Wood' ■ 

Arc. 

Factories  : 
Fort  Wayne, 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn. 
New  York. 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General   Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne   Electric   Light   Company.  Fort  Wayne,   Ind, 
Estimates  furnished   for  electric   railways,  electric 
light  and  steam  plauts,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
a  specialty. 
jj  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


Steam  Boiler  Incrustations. 

Old   Scale    Removed,  Formation  of  New   Scale  Prevented, 

Without  the  Aid  of  Chemicals,  by  the  Use  of  the 
LLEWELLYN     FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

Over  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  U12°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co.? 

330  Pine  street,  8an  Francisco,  Cal. 


,   J.    WHEELER. 


J.    W,    GIRVIN. 


J.  W.   GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,  Hose,  Packing,  etc. 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  A  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F.,*'til. 

WILLIAMS.  DIMOND  &  GO. 

SHIPPING   AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS, 

UNION  BLOCK,  JUNCTION  MARKET  AND  PINE  STREETS. 

Agents  for— 

The  Cunard  Royal   Mail  Steamship  I  Vivian  Sons  Yellow  Metal  Sheathing 

Company,  Hartmann's  Rahtjen's  Composition 

"The  California  Line  of   Clippers,"  |  The  China  Traders  &  Insurance  Co. 

from  New  York,  (L'd.), 

"The  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets,"      The    Baldwin   Locomotive  Works, 
to  and  from.  Honolulu. |         Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 
SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC     STEAMSHIP     COMPANY, 

GILLINOHAM     CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

■ 8AN    FRANCI8CO. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET, 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD    AND    IRON    WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENCINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING,   OIL8  AND   SUPPLIES. 

LOUIS    CAHEN    &    SON, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters,  Cordials,  etc. 
Pacific  Coast  Agents  Bethesia  Mineral  Water. 
418  Sacramento  Street,  S.  F. 

PACIFIC    TOWEL    GO]VETPJft.3Sr"X"3 

9     LICK    PLACE, 
Furnishes  Clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates: 

Cleau  Hand  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per  month;  12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  month ;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week.  ?1.00  per 
6  month;  6  Clean  Boiler  Towels  each  week.  $1.25  per  month. 


1802. 


FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


25 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PAcmi'    BTBTIM. 


MERCHANTS     LINE. 


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CPvACfc 


T.  F. 


New    York    to    San    Franc isco. 

— T1IK    MAGNIFICENT  IRON   SHIT— 

OAKES, 

1897  Inns  register,  ki-:i:i».  Mas- 
ter, is  now  on  the  berth  at  New  York 
and  having  large  engagements  will 
receive  quick  dispatch.    For  freight  apply  to 
J.  W.  GRACE  &  CO.. 

430  California  St.,  S.  F. 
\V.  K.  GRACE  &  CO.,  Hanover  Square,  N.  Y. 


Tr»in»  l_«ave  unci    ft  re  Duolo  Arnv*  «i       NEW      LINE    CLIPPER     SHIPS- 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 

From  Sep*embjr  3. 1892.      I  Armtk 

7:00  a  Sacramento        7:15  r 

7.30a.  Harwards,  Nilesaud  San  Jn.-o      *12:lftp 
Silos  and  Sau  Jom  16:15  p 

T  30a.  Martinet.  8*u  Ramon,  Calletoga 

and  Santa  Ko>«  Cl.ip. 

*:00a.  -UcrimioA  Redding,  via  Pari*        7:15P. 
8.00  a.  Atlautic  Express  for  Ogdeu  and 

K*»l,  ....  9:46  p. 

8.30a.  Nfles,  3*n  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,   Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:4Sp. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 

SDemlag,  El   Paso,  New 
rlean*  and  East      845  p. 

*9*)a,  Stockton  and  Milton     *8:45p. 

12-00  m.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  P. 

•1:00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejo  aud  Martinez 12:45  P. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..      9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a. 

4:00  p.  Vallejo,  Calls  toga.  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9.45  a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Esparto.  Sacramento.       10:45  a. 

4:30  p.  Woodland  aud  Oroville 10:45 A. 

*4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore ...    *8:45a. 

5:30p.  Los    Angeles    Express,    Fresno, 
Baku i> field,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles 8.45a. 

5:30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  a. 

6:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  .      7:45  a. 
6:00 p.  European  Mjil  Ogden  aud  East    9:15  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo f8;45  P. 

7:00  p.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Pnget  Sound  and  East. . .     S:15a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

17:45a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 

ark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 

ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  t8:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 

Felton,    Boulder    Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz. 6:20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 

Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz-   *10:50a. 

_4:45p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  a  id  Townsend  Streets). 

*7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions   - *2:38p. 

J7:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion     J8:28  p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
(9:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  J2:45  p. 
10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  5:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations. 3:30  p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,    Salinas, 
Monterey,    Pacific   Grove  aud 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37a. 

*3:30  p.  San    JoRe,    GUroy,   Tres    Piuos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. .-  *9:47  A. 
•4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8:06  a. 

5:15  p.  San  Joseand  Way  Stations. 8:48a. 

6:30  P.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .      6:35  a. 
rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations t7:30f. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

*8undayB  excepted.  +SaturdayB  only. 

tSundays  only. 


OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP   COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,   AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 

S.  S.  Monowai  ..     Friday,  September  16,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

S.  8.  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  31,  1892,  at  2  p.  M. 
For  Freight   or    Passage  apply  at    Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 

General  Agents 


GEORGE  GOODMAN, 

PATENTEE    AND     MANUFACTTRER  OF 

ARTIFICIAL      STONE 
ix  a ix  its  branches. 

Office,  307  Montgomery  Street. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 
Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
aud  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Oct.  6,1892. 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT   REDUCED    RATE8. 

Cabin  Plans  ou  exhibition  and  Passage  TicietB 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


PACIFIC   COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  M.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregoii,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  SAN  Simeov, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Bdenaventura, 
Hoeneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeies  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m  . 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Yellow  Jacket  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  works—Gold  Hill,  Storey  County, 
Nevada.  Location  of  principal  place  of  business- 
Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  this  company,  held  on  the  5th 
day  of  September,  a.  d.,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
52)  of  Twenty-five  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon 
each  aud  every  share  of  the  capital  stock  of  the 
company,  payable  immediately  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  company,  or  to  James  Newlands,  Transfer 
Secretary,  room  3,  331  Pine  street,  San  Fraucisco, 
Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

Friday,  October  7th,  1892,  will  be  deemed  delinquent, 

and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  iB  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  10th  day  of  Nov- 
ember,;i892,  at  1  o'clock  P.  M.,  in  front  of  the  office 
of  the  company,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.  By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
W.  H.  BLAUVELi',  Secretary. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co,,  Real  Estate 
Agents,  make  a  specialty  of  taking  full  charge 
of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and 
sold  on  commission.  Office,  407-409  Montgom- 
ery street. 


Inflamed  Eyes  and  lids  permauently  cured 
if  caused  by  defective  sight,  consult  (free  of 
charge)  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  135  Mont- 
gomery street,  near  Bush. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BROAD-GAUGE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  Al'RII,  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
le.ive  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STKKKT  WHAKF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  lor  Point  Tlburon,  Selvcdere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  A.  M.,  9:20  a.  h.,   11:20  A.  M.; 

ISO  p.  M.,  3:30  p.  M.,5:05  P.  M.,  6:20  P.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  A.M., 9:30  A.M.,  11:00  A.M.:  1:30  r.M. 
3:30  P.M.,  5:00  p.  M.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Ralael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  a.    m.,  7:65  A.   M.,  9:30   A.   M. 

11:30  A.  M. ;  1:40  P.M.,  3:40  P.M.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAY'S  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:80  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  A.M..  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.M.;  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  p.  M.,  5:00p  M.,  6:25  p.  M. 

From  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:65  A.M.,  11:65 
A.  M. :  2:05  p.  M-,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at 6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAY'S— 8:35    A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.  m.,  4:05 p.m.,  5:30p.m.,  6:50  p.m. 


Leave  S.F. 

Destination. 

Arrive  ins.  F. 

Week 
Bays. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30p.m. 
6:05  p.m. 

8:00  A.M. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40a. M  8:50A.M. 
6:06  P.M  10  :30a.  m 
7:26p.m  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Heald  sburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a. M 
6:10p.h 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00  a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5:05  P.M. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00  p.M 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40A.M. 

6:05  p.m. 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  A.  M 
3:30  p.M 

8:00  A.M 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.m 

]    6:05P.M 

10:30am 
6:10  p.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  a  t  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  aud 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50 ;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25 ;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  ?  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  S.  S.  "City  of  New  York," 
September  26th;  S.  S  "San  Bias,"  October  5th; 
''San  Juan,"  September  15th. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.—  Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  aud  Puuta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Sept.  19th,  S.  S.  "  City  of  Pana- 
ma. " 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Iudies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  September  17th,  at 
3  p.  M. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Sept.  27 
1892,  at  3  p.  M. 

S.S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Riode  Jaueiio,"  Saturday,  November 
25th,  1892,  at  3  P.  M. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  10,  1892. 


^M*f$f 


SEPTEMBER  as  a  wedding  month  promises  to  equal  any  other 
of  the  eight  which  have  preceded  it.  There  have  been  one  or 
more  splicings  in  social  circles  almost  daily  ever  since  it  opened, 
and  there  are  fresh  announcements  made  every  day  of  more  to 
come.  The  first  wedding  of  the  month  was  that  of  Miss  Anita 
Plum  and  Mr.  James  Irvine.  Next  in  importance  in  a  society 
point  of  view  waa  the  marriage  of  Miss  Florence  Currier  and  Ar- 
thur F.  Barnard,  on  Monday  evening  of  this  week,  and  on 
Wednesday  evening  the  ceremony  which  united  Miss  Emma  Mc- 
Millan and  Ellis  Wooster  took  place  at  the  McMillan  residence  on 
Ridley  street.  To-morrow's  weddings  will  be  those  of  Miss  Lena 
Klomat  and  Selig  Mendelson,  and  of  Mias  Irene  Graham,  of  Ala- 
meda, to  Elvice  C.  McCall.  The  other  announcements  for  next 
week,  so  far  as  known,  are  those  of  Miss  Agnes  Hunt  to  John 
A.  Weston,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  mother,  in  Oakland,  on 
Tuesday,  the  13th.  Miss  Clara  Cuneo  will  be  married  to  A.  P. 
Giannini  at  St.  Mary's  Cathedral,  on  the  evening  of  the  14th,  and 
on  Thursday,  the  15th.  Miss  Franlrie  Sanford  aud  Edward  San- 
ford  Taylor  will  be  united  in  holy  wedlock  at  Trinity  Church,  in 
the  evening.  On  Tuesday  evening,  the  20th,  Miss  Ida  Carleton's 
marriage  to  Chaplain  Frank  Thompson,  of  the  navy,  will  be  sol- 
emnized at  St.  Luke's  Church,  on  Van  Ness  avenue. 


The  Plum  residence,  on  Page  street,  looked  very  charming  on 
Thursday  afternoon  of  last  week,  with  its  beautiful  garniture  of 
flowers  and  foliage,  arranged  in  excellent  taste,  the  occasion  be- 
ing the  marriage  of  Miss  Anita  Plum  to  James  Irvine,  the  cere- 
mony which  united  them  being  performed  by  the  Rev.  Hobart 
Chetwood,  Bishop  Nichols  pronouncing  the  nuptial  bleasing.  The 
bridal  party  entered  at  3  o'clock,  to  the  strains  of  the  Wedding 
March ,  first  coming  the  ribbon-bearers,  Miss  Gertrude  Goewy  and 
Harry  Baechtel,  then  two  small  nieces  and  nephews  of  the  bride; 
the  Misses  Adel  Kuorp  and  Louiae  Keil,  and  Master  Sydney 
Knorp  and  George  Keil,  attired  in  quaint  Kate  Greenaway  cos- 
tumes; then  Miss  Lulu  Plum,  her  sister,  maid  of  honor,  after 
whom  appeared  the  bride  and  her  father.  The  groom  and  his 
best  man  having  entered  previously,  met  the  party  in  the  big 
bow  window  of  the  front  room,  where  the  ceremony  took  place. 
A  wedding  breakfast  was  served  after  the  congratulations  which 
followed  the  ceremony,  during  which  an  orchestra  discoursed 
soft  music,  and  many  toasta  were  drank  and  telegrams  of  con- 
gratulation read  from  absent  friends.  The  bride  and  groom  de- 
parted on  the  evening  train  for  Oregon,  where  they  will  pass  their 
honeymoon,  and  upon  their  return  will  receive  their  friends  at 
308  Page  street,  on  the  first  and  fourth  Wednesdays  in  October, 
expecting  to  leave  early  in  November  for  their  future  home,  the 
San  Joaquin  ranch,  in  Orange  county.  The  bridal  robe  was  an 
elaborate  creation  of  cream-colored  brocaded  satin  and  duchesa 
lace,  a  wedding  veil  of  ducheaa  lace,  fastned  with  a  bow  of  dia- 
monds, and  a  magnificent  diamond  necklace,  the  gift  of  the 
groom.  The  hand  bouquet  was  of  atephanotes  rosea.  The  maid 
of  honor,  Miaa  Plum,  wore  a  pink  corded  silk  gown  embroid- 
ered in  gold,  and  diamond  ornaments.  Mias  Gertrude  Goewy 's 
costume  waa  of  white  and  green  silk,  with  pearl  trimmings. 

One  of  the  prettiest  borne  weddings  that  has  taken  place  for 
some  time  was  that  of  Miss  Emma  McMillan  and  Ellia  Wooster, 
which  was  solemnized  at  the  McMillan  residence,  on  Ridley 
street,  laat  Wednesday  evening.  The  whole  interior  of  the  house 
was  adorned  and  beautified  with  flowers  and  foliage;  the  parlors, 
where  the  service  took  place,  were* redolent  with  the  perfume  of 
roses,  which  were  used  in  profusion,  in  conjunction  with  smilax, 
ferns  and  vinelike  tendrila.  The  bow  window  of  the  front  room 
was  turned  into  a  veritable  bower,  over  which  was  suspended 
three  lovely  banging  baskets,  and  here,  at  half-past  eight,  the 
Rev.  Robert  McKenzie  performed  the  marriage  ceremony,  in  the 
presence  of  a  select  few,  the  majority  of  the  guests  being  invited 
to  the  reception  later.  The  bride,  who  was  given  away  by  her 
brother,  waa  lovely  in  a  beautiful  wedding  robe  of  white  brocade, 
made  with  a  court  train,  and  trimmed  with  point  lace  and  lillies 
of  the  valley.  Her  tulle  veil  waa  caught  by  a  diamond  pin,  and 
her  bouquet  was  of  lillies  of  ithe  valley  and  orange  blosaoms. 
Miss  Jennie  McMillan,  the  maid  of  honor,  looked  charmingly  in 
an  empire  gown  of  Nile  green  crepe.  The  bridesmaids,  Misses 
Lottie  Farnsworth  and  Sarah  Dean,  wore  gowns  of  lavender 
crepe,  the  Misses  Gertrude  Goewy  and  Susie  Wells  were  attired 
in  white  organdie.  Mr.  Walter  B.  Cook  was  best  roan.  The  recep- 
tion was  crowded,  and  a  handsome  supper  was  served  during  the 
evening.  The  display  of  presents  was  beautiful.  They  were 
very  numerous  and  of  much  value.  Coronado  is  the  point  chosen 
by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wooster  for  their  honeymoon,  for  which  place 
they  departed  on  Thursday. 

Senators  Felton  and  Stewart  were  both  among  the  arrivals  last 
week  from  the  East.  Miss  Mae  Dimond  will  not  return  to  the 
coast  until  some  time  in  November.  Mrs.  Smedburg  and  Miss 
Nellie  are  expected  home  about  the  middle  of  September  from  the 
East,  where  they  have  been  ever  since  last  spring. 


Returned  society  had  several  attractions  offered  them  last  Mon- 
day evening  from  which  to  choose  for  their  amusement.  First 
and  foremost  undoubtedly  waa  Lillian  Russell,  who  drew  a  large 
crowd  to  the  Baldwin  to  see  her  in  La  Cigale,  and  the  "  First 
Night  "  of  the  autumn  season  showed  many  familiar  faces  in  the 
auditorium  which  has  known  them  not  all  summer.  Second  in 
point  of  attraction  was  Mr.  Riddel's  first  reading  at  Odd  Fellows' 
Hall,  which  was  well  filled  with  old  friends  and  new  admirers. 
The  opening  night  of  the  Print  Exhibition  of  the  California 
Camera  Club,  at  the  rooms  of  the  Art  Association,  on  Pine  street, 
was  another  of  Monday  evening's  events,  and  the  place  was 
crowded  with  an  admiring  throng  for  several  hours.  It  took  the 
form  of  a  reception  offered  by  the  members  to  their  invited 
friends,  who  were  loud  in  their  expressions  of  admiratinn  for  the 
work  exhibited,  and  warm  in  their  congratulations  to  the  amateur 
artists.  The  floral  decoration  of  the  rooms  also  came  in  for  its 
meed  of  praise,  and  the  music  from  the  hidden  orchestra  added  in 
no  slight  degree  to  the  pleasure  of  the  evening. 


The  engagement  of  Mr.  E.  Sanford  Taylor  and  Miss  Frankie 
Janet  Sanford  has  been  announced,  and  cards  issued.  The  mar- 
riage ceremony  will  be  held  at  Trinity  Cbnrch,  Thursday,  the 
15th  insi,  at  8:30  o'clock,  Bishop  Nichols  officiating,  assisted  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Chetwood.  Miss  Sanford,  the  bride,  is  the  daughter  of 
the  late  Ransom  A.  Sanford.  She  ia  a  highly  accomplished  young 
lady,  whose  charming  manners  and  winning  disposition  have 
made  her  a  great  favorite  in  society.  Mr.  Taylor  comes  of  one  of 
the  oldest  and  most  honorable  families  known  in  New  York,  is 
highly  educated,  and  has  a  bright  and  honorable  record  as  a  mer- 
chant. Miss  Josephine  Dunlap  will  be  maid  of  honor;  Captain 
Irving  B.  Cook,  best  man;  Mr.  William  J.  Smith,  sponsor;  ush- 
ers, Messrs.  Chas.  F.  Adams,  Anhnr  Castelazo,  Fred.  B.  Dallam, 
and  John  W.  Doubleday.  Hugo  Mansfeldt  will  preside  at  the 
organ. 

Miss  Mary  Bates  has  every  reason  to  feel  satisfied  with  her 
initial  performance  in  the  decorative  line  this  season.  It  was 
made  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  P.  Currier,  on  Jackaon 
atreet,  last  Monday  evening,  the  occasion  being  the  marriage  of 
Miaa  Florence  Currier  and  Arthur  F.  Barnard.  The  esthetic  sun- 
flower first  met  the  eye  upon  entering  the  hall,  that  being  the 
only  (lower  visible  there,  combined  with  ferns  and  palm  leaves. 
In  the  parlors  ferns,  grasses  and  amilax  were  artistically  grouped 
with  rosea  and  cainelias,  producing  a  very  pretty  effect,  and  here 
the  ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  Robt.  McKenzie.  The  wed- 
ding party  was  composed  of  Miss  Marie  Currier,  maid-of-bonor  to 
her  aiater;  Misses  Bertha  Rice  and  Agnes  Wright,  bridesmaids; 
the  groom  and  his  best  man,  James  Suydatn,  Arthur  Shattuck 
and  Alex  Vogelsang,  who  appeared  as  ribbon  bearers,  and  the 
pretty  blonde  bride  and  her   father,    who   gave   her  away. 

It  is  not  often  that  one  has  the  chance  of  witnessing  two  auch 
realistic  performances  as  are  about  to  be  given  the  other  side  of 
the  bay — one  on  the  water,  the  other  on  dry  land,  and  both  in  the 
open  air.  For  the  first  the  Encinal  Boat  Club  of  Alameda  may  be 
thanked,  it  having  several  weeks  ago  undertaken  the  production 
of  Pinafore  on  the  deck  of  a  vessel  moored  in  front  of  their  club 
house,  and  for  which  the  auction  sale  of  seats  last  week  gives 
promise  that  it  will  be  a  decided  "go."  For  the  second  the  lawn 
of  Captain  Ainsworth's  charming  home  at  Claremont  is  the  place 
selected,  where  As  You  Like  It  will  be  presented  by  some  of  Oak- 
land's most  talented  amateurs.  Active  preparations  are  going  on 
for  both  these  affairs,  and  novelty  will  go  a  long  way  towards 
insuring  large  audiences  in  each  case,  while  that  they  will  also 
be  artistic  successes  there  appears  to  be  but  little  doubt. 


Our  German  ladies  are  busily  occupied  preparing  for  the  festival 
to  be  held  in  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion  towards  the  end  < if  this  month  . 
It  will  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  German  Old  People's  Home,  com- 
mencing on  the  20th  and  continuing  duiing  the  week.  The  Pa- 
vilion will  be  elaborately  decorated  and  transformed  into  a  sort  of 
fairy  land  in  which  there  will  be  booths  for  the  sale  of  flowers, 
bon-bons  and  cigars.  At  the  Japanese  and  Chinese  booths  tea  will 
be  dispensed;  the  one  devoted  to  the  more  substantial  needs  of 
the  inner  man  will  be  presided  over  by  German  maidens.  When 
it  is  known  that  there  are  to  be  in  the  neighborhood  of  thirty 
booths  in  all,  it  is  needless  to  say  there  will  be  a  little  of  every- 
thing in  the  combination  that  can  be  thought  of,  and  it  promises 
to  be  a  beautiful  spectacle  also. 

Society  will  sustain  a  number  of  losses  for  the  coming  winter. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  G.  Kiltie  and  their  daughter,  Mrs.  John  Boggs 
and  Miss  Boggs  contemplate  spending  the  winter  on  the  other 
side  of  the  continent;  by  the  last  steamer  this  month  Mrs.  H.  J. 
Booth  and  Miss  Booth  will  depart  for  New  York,  via  Panama, 
with  the  intention  of  making  Gotham  their  abiding  place  for  six 
months  at  least,  and  early  in  October,  possibly  sooner,  Mrs.  B.  H. 
Baird  and  her  dnughter,  Mias  Marie,  also  go  Eastward.  Mrs. 
Pedar  Sather  will  leave  next  week.  Miss  Cora  Caduc,  who  is  at 
present  in  New  York  with  her  mother,  is  on  the  eve  of  departure 
for  Europe,  and  may  not  return  for  some  time.  Miss  Eleanor 
Wood  and  Mr.  and  Miss  Yerrington  are  also  about  leaving  Ne,,r 
York  for  a  visit  to  the  old  world. 


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BAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Our  Episcopal  clergy  are  busily  preparing  for  the  annual  con- 
vention in  Boston,  to  which  many  of  them  are  going  from  San 
Francisco.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Lion,  of  St.  Stephen's  Church,  departed 
la-t  Tuesday;  I>r.  Spaulding  will  be  one  uf  the  next  to  go,  Mrs. 
and  Miss  Spauld.ng  having  already  preceded  him,  for  the  purpose 
of  visiting  relatives.  Bisbop  and  Mrs.  Nichols  and  her  sister, 
Miss  Quintard,  who  has  been  visiting  Mrs.  Nichols  for  several 
months,  expect  to  leave  for  Boston  towards  the  end  of  this 
month. 

Oakland  has  organized  a  male  choral  society,  under  the  impos- 
ing name  of  ibe  Oakland  Orpheus.  The  members  are  0.  E. 
Lloyd.  H.  A.  Kedfield,  J.  E.  Bland,  D.  R.  Coldwell,  H.  Richards, 
N.  J.  Wright,  C.  N.  Andrews,  J.  E.  Baker,  Thomas  Richard,  H. 
H.  Lawrence.  Jr.,  H.  A.  Melvin,  W.  H.  Rabe,  H.  M.  Baker,  H. 
P.  Carkton,  Bret  Gaskill,  C.  L.  Crabtree,  W.  H.  Pettis,  J.  R.  Hor- 
ton,  R.  H.  Anerbacb,  H.  H.  Haigbt,  Jr.,  A.  A.  Pennoyer,  A.  M. 
Brenham,  Victor  Carroll,  E.  Waite,  E.  E.  Brangs  and  H.  H. 
Winslow. 

Arrivals  in  town  continue  to  be  numerous,  and  residence  streets 
are  wearing  a  less  deserted  look  than  for  some  weeks  past,  and 
choice  suites  of  rooms  at  our  numerous  private  hotels  are  being 
rapidly  taken  for  the  coming  winter  season.  Mrs.  Alexander 
Forbes  and  daughters  are  located  at  the  Pleasanton,  where  Mrs. 
M.  B.  M.  Toland  is  already  at  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  0.  Alex- 
ander will  be  at  the  Colonial.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  D.  Girvin  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Bjthin  will  spend  the  winter  at  the  Richelieu. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charlemagne  Tower  return  next  week  to  their 
home  in  Philadelphia.  They  have  been  in  California  since  early 
in  the  spring,  spending  most  of  the  summer  at  Santa  Cruz. 
George  Bonney  has  been  spending  a  few  days  at  Los  Gatos.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Dunpby  and  Miss  Jenny  are  among  recent  visitors  at 
the  Hotel  Vendome. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Delmas  and  family  are  at  present  occupying  their 
country  residence  at  Mountain  View,  where  they  will  remain 
during  September.  The  engagement  of  Miss  Delphine  Delmas  to 
our  popular  young  District  Attorney,  Will  Barnes,  woich  has  just 
been  formally  aunounced,  was  spoken  of  in  the  News  Letter 
several  weeks  ago  as  being  an  accomplished  fact. 


Anmnft  the  recent  arrivals  at  the  l'leaaenton  \9  Mi**  Chaffee. 
of  Baltimore,  a  lady  who  baa  probably  done  more  to  deserve  the 
reputation  of  a  tootaJ  genius  ol  Ibe  b  gbeal  order  than  any  other 
•  man  since  .'•»■  time  of  Mme.  Le  Vest.  Her  house  in 
the  Monumental  City  was  for  years  the  centre  of  a  distinguished 
society,  where) entertaining  conversation  was  always  to  be  had. 
Tbe  hostess,  it  is  said.  r..n*  era<  d  In  live  or  six  languages  herself, 
and  Is  famous  at  b-mie  and  abroad  as  a  delightful  conversational-  t 
1st  A*  Hiss  Chaffee  Intends  to  spend  th<»  winter  here,  her  ad-  | 
vent  may  be  hailed  a*  a  grateful  acquisition  to  local  society. 

The  monthly  bop  at  Ibe  Pacific   Yacht  Clab  house,  last  Satur- 

day  evening,  wan  a  very  pleasant  atTair  and  largely  attended. 
Tbe  regatta,  which  took  place  ye-terday,  was  one  of  the  topics 
most  under  discussion  by  the  ladies,  who  were  as  enthusiastic  in 
betting  upon  the  success  of  their  favorite  yacht  as  were  the  men 
of  the  party  In  backing  their  favorite  in  the  week's  prize  rights. 
To-<l.iy  General  and  Mrs  I  icbinaon  will  give  a  reception  to  tbe 
officers  of  the  Second  Brigade  at  their  pretty  home,  Hazel  Craig, 
in  3au«alito,  and  the  indications  are  that  it  will  be  the  event,  not 
only  of  this  season,  but  that  ha^  ever  taken  place  in  that  pretty 
little  nook  in  tbe  hills  above  the  sea. 


Mrs.  Dr.  Cool's  mother,  Mrs.  George  F.  Croweli  and  brother, 
who  have  been  traveling  in  Europe  for  two  years  and  a  half,  ar- 
rived in  New  York  on  the  Bteamer  Friesland  on  September  3d, 
and  were  quarantined  thirty-six  hours.  They  will  travel  through 
the  Eastern  States  two  monihs  and  then  return  to  their  home  in 
California. 

Miss  Ada  Doherty  arrived  last  week  from  Europe,  where  she 
has  been  since  graduating,  finishing  her  musical  and  artistic 
studies.  She  will  be  a  charming  addition  to  the  young  society  the 
other  side  of  the  bay,  and  has  been  warmly  welcomed  home  as 
well  as  by  her  many  friends  in  San  Francisco. 

A  ballad  concert  and  dramatic  entertainment  was  given  in  Ala- 
meda on  Thursday  evening  for  the  benefit  of  the  Catholic  Church 
choir.  The  Arion  Musical  Society,  the  '■  Night  Off"  company,  and 
the  Young  Men's  Institute  were  the  promoters  of  the  affair,  which 
was  artistically  and  financially  a  great  success. 

The  silver  wedding  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  B.  Davis,  of  913  Kirk- 
haui  street,  Oakland,  was  celebrated  last  night  in  a  very  happy 
manner.  A  perfect  shower  of  invitations  for  the  event  had  been 
sent  out,  and  in  response  there  assembled  a  large  coterie  of  friends, 
and  a  very  happy  time  was  experienced. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Kihn  returned  from  their  visit  to  Paris, 
which  has  occupied  several  months,  last  Monday.  Mrs.  Kahn's 
sisters,  the  Mesdames  Raas,  who  have  been  passing  the  summer 
with  their  mother,  Mrs.  E.  G.  Lyons,  returned  to  their  home  at 
San  Angelo,  Texas,  during  the  week. 


Mr.  anil  Mrs.  D.  W.  Barle,  Mlsa  (Eleanor  Dlmond,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
.'.  0.  Kastland,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Dibblee,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Basil  lleath- 
OOte,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  H.  Sherwood,  Miss  Belle  Smith,  Mr.  and 
Mm,  A.  L.  Tubb3,  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Oyster  and  Mrs.  Alvord 
have  all  returned  from  Del  Monte. 

Mrs.  L.  H.Clement  and  her  daughter,  who  have  passed  the 
last  few  weeks  between  Newport  ami  New  York,  are  upon  tbe 
eve  of  their  departure  for  Europe,  where  they  will  reside  for 
some  time.  Miss  Clement  goes  abroad  for  the  purpose  of  perfect- 
ing herself  in  the  art  of  painting. 

Miss  Jennie  Catherwood  will  be  due  here  in  October  on  her  re- 
turn from  abroad,  where  for  several  years  past  she  has  been  finish- 
ing her  education.  She  will  travel  under  the  charge  of  Senator 
and  Mrs.  Stanford,  and  will  be  one  of  next  season's  debutantes  in 
San  Francisco  society. 

Mrs.  Bredon,  who,  since  her  arrival  from  China,  has  been  stay 
ing  at  the  Richelieu,  intends  going  to  house-keeping  during  the 
winter  months,  which  she  will  spend  in  San  Francisco,  while  Mr. 
Bredon  returns  to  China,  whither  he  has  been  recalled  upon  some 
business  of  importance. 

When  last  heard  from,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Rollo  Peters  were 
in  Southern  Normandy;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Spreckels  and  Miss 
Eruroa  in  Zurich,  Mrs.  Colton,  Mrs.  Martin,  Miss  Jennie  Blair 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  L.  Dodge  at  Carlesbad ;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W.  W.  Belvin  and  the  Messrs.  Thomas  and  William  Magee  and 
their  brides  in  London. 


Mrs.  Dr.  Cool  has  received  an  unusual  honor  in  being  admitted 
to  practice  at  Stanford  University,  where  she  will  hereafter  spend 
one  day  in  the  week,  during  the  remainder  of  which  she  will  be 
found  at  her  orifice  in  the  Chronicle  Building. 

On  Thursday  evening  Edgar  L.  Wakeman  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Bertha  Leist,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents  in 
East  Oakland.  The  celebration  was  a  very  quiet  one,  only  rela- 
tives and  immediate  friends  being  present. 

L.  L.  Baker  and  family  have  returned  from  Sausalito,  where 
they  spent  the  summer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Antonie  Borel  and  family 
have  left  their  summer  villa  at  San  Mateo,  and  are  occupying 
their  town  house  on  Stockton  street. 


The  rumor  is  again  started  that  Mrs.  Mackay  will  accompany 
her  husband  to  San  Francisco  when  he  next  pays  this  city  a  visit. 
But  those  friends  here  who  know  her  best  say  they  will  believe 
it  when  they  see  her,  and  not  till  then. 

Mr.  James  Otis  has  gone  on  a  visit  to  Honolulu,  sailing  by  the 
Australia  last  week.  The  same  steamer  carried  away  Mrs.  Spauld- 
ing  to  her  home  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  after  a  pleasant  visit  of 
several  months  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  Burgess. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  Kohl  and  Miss  Mamie  Kohl  will  return  to  the 
coast  in  a  couple  of  weeks.  They  have  been  doing  the  different 
Eastern  watering  places,  and  were  enjoying  a  visit  to  Newport 
when  last  heard  from. 

The  Eyres  and  Faxon  Athertons  will  remain  at  Menlo  Park  for 
several  weeks  longer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Denis  Donahue  Jr.  are  expected  in  town  from  San  Rafael 
some  time  next  month. 

Miss  Agnes  Hunt,  daughter  of  the  late  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  L. 
Hunt,  of  Oakland,  will  be  married  on  Tuesday  at  noon  to  John 
A.  Weston,  of  San  Francisco,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  mother, 
523  Hobart  street.  

One  of  the  most  popular  and  therefore  successful  houses  at 
Santa  Cruz  is  the  Pope  House,  which  enjoys  the  patronage  of 
many  of  the  society  people  who  frequent  the  popular  seaside  re- 
sort.   

Mrs.  Colin  Boyd,  who  returned  last  week  from  a  visit  to  Del 
Monte,  will  divide  the  few  remaining  weeks  of  the  season  between 
the  Napa  Soda  Springs  and  her  country  residence  near  Sari  Leandro. 

This  week's  visitors  from  San  Francisco  to  Castle  Crags  include 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hotaling,  Mrs.  Christian  Reis  and  her  son,  Chris., 
Jr.,  Mrs.  Catherwood  and  Miss  Mamie  Burling. 

The  marriage  of  B.  J.  Stokes  and  Miss  Annie  Farley,  took  place 
at  tbe  residence  of  the  bride's  parents,  817  East  Sixteenth  street, 
Oakland,  on  Tuesday  evening. 


A  very  fashionable  reception  was  given  on  Tuesday  evening  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H.  King,  of  East  Oakland,  to  the  members  of  the 
Pilgrim  Congregational  Church. 

Mrs.  Charles  M.  Plum,  Jr.,  nee  Batchelder,  will  receive  on  the 
first  and  fourth  Wednesdays  of  each  month,  after  September,  at 
her  residence,  308  Page  street. 

The  Walter  Deans  returned  from  Del  Monte  last  week,  and  left 
almost  immediately  for  Lake  Tahoe,  where  they  have  been  ever 
since,  enjoying  the  fishing,  etc. 


The  course  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club  race  will  be  from  an  im- 
aginary line  from  Meigga'  wharf  and  a  atake-boat  anchored  in  the 
stream,  leaving  stake-boat  on  the  port  hand,  thence  to  and  around 
a  atake-boat  anchored  in  deep  water  off  Southampton  Bhoala, 
passing  said  stake-boat  on  the  port  hand;  thence  to  the  stake- 
boat  off  Meiggs'  wharf,  leaving  same  on  starboard  hand;  thence 
to  and  around  stake-boat  off  Fort  Point,  leaving  same  on  port 
hand;  thence  over  the  same  course  again,  finishing  on  return 
across  the  line  of  starting.  Starting  gun  will  be  fired  from  the 
judges1  boat  at  1  p.  m.  Yachts  will  have  fifteen  minutes  to  cross 
the  line.  Any  yacht  not  crossing  the  line  at  the  expiration  of 
fifteen  minutes  will  have  ber  time  taken  as  starting  at  1:15  p.m. 
Sailing  rules  and  regulations  of  "The  Pacific  Yacht  Club"  will 
govern. 

Mr.  William  H.  Sherwood,  director  of  the  piano  department  of 
the  Chicago  Conservatory  of  Music,  in  the  Auditorium,  Chicago, 
will  give  his  first  concert  of  his  present  tour,  at  Irving  Hall,  139 
Post  street,  next  Tuesday  evening.  The  sale  of  seats  began  on 
Thursday  last,  at  Kohler  &  Chase's  Music  House,  at  2G  O'Farrell 
street.  His  programme  will  include  selections  from  Liszt, 
Beethoven,  Schubert,  Mendelssohn,  Chopin,  Wagner,  Rubenstein, 
Greig,  and  others. 

An  unusual  opportunity  to  purchasers  of  fine  art  materials  will 
be  offered  on  the  12th  inst.,  when,  on  account  of  removal  to  the 
new  stores,  at  113  Geary  street,  S.  &  G.  Gump  &  Co.  will  bold  an 
auction  sale  in  their  present  establishment,  at  581-583  Market 
street,  under  the  direction  of  B.  Scott,  Jr. 

Yosemite  travel  continues  heavy.  The  visitors  to  the  Valley 
travel  as  a  rule  by  way  of  Wawona,  stopping  at  the  Big  Tree 
Grove.  In  the  Valley  excellent  accommodations  may  be  had  at 
the  Stoneman  House.  The  drive  in  on  the  stages  of  the  Yosemite 
Stage  Company  is  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  portions  of  the  trip. 

The  California  Camera  Club  had  an  outing  at  Oakland  harbor 
at  10  a.  m.  yesterday.  On  the  17th  inst.,  at  1  p.  M.,  there  will  be 
an  excursion  on  the  bay  on  the  steamer  Caroline  from  Jackson 
street  wharf.  The  steamer  will  leave  at  1  p.  m.,  and  will  return 
at  5  p.  m. 


The  engagement  of  Miss  Rosalie  Meyer,  daughter  of  Eugene 
Meyer,  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank,  to  Mr.  Sigmund 
Stern,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Levi  Strauss  &   Co.,  is  announced. 


Mr.  A.  B.  Wilberforce  gave  a  dinner  to  the  Earl  of  Ranfurley, 
at  the  Maison  Ricbe,  the  other  day.  Among  the  guests  were  Mr. 
A.  H.  Small  and  Mr.  George  Dutel. 


The  ceremony  which  will  unite  Mrs.  Robert  Crockett  and  Alan 
M.  Clay,  of  the  Bank  of  California,  will  take  place  in  Oakland 
early  next  month. 

Miss  E.  O'Farrell,  after  an  extended  visit  to  her  brother  and 
sister-in-law,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  O'Farrell,  has  returned  to  Rose- 
dale,  Sonoma  county. 

Dr.  and  Mra.  Perrin  and  their  daughters  are  among  the  arrivals 
of  the  week  from  the  East,  and  are  occupying  their  residence  on 
Clay  street. 

Mrs.  M.  A.  Burns  and  Miss  Lillian  Burns  have  arrived  home 
after  their  long  absence  abroad,  and  are  at  the  Occidental,  where 
they  will  reside  during  the  winter. 


Mrs.  Alfred  Wilkie,  wife  of  the  well-Known  tenor,  is  spending 
some  weeks  at  the  St.  Helena  Sanitarium. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Sharon  will  leave  very   soon  for  their  home 
in  New  York.     Mrs.  Henry  Janin  will  accompany  them. 

General  and  Mrs.  Tnrnbull  have  been  visiting  Mrs.  W.  B.  Will- 
shire,  at  her  residence  on  Buchanan  street. 


J  F  you  want  a  real  bargain,  visit  the  Maze,  for  there  can  be  found  the 
best  goods  of  all  sorts  in  the  city,  and  for  absolutely  the  lowest 
rates.  The  Maze  has  no  rival  in  furnishing  goods  for  men,  women 
and  children.  It  makes  a  specialty  also  of  all  household  goods, 
which  can  always  be  bad  there  for  much  less  money  than  anywhere 
else.  It  is  the  only  department  store  in  the  city,  and  should  receive 
patronage  from  all  who  desire  good  bargains.  The  Maze  has  gained 
a  magnificent  reputation  since  its  inception,  which  it  well  sustains. 

The   Ceramic    Exhibition. 


All  lovers  of  true  art  are  invited  to  visit  the  ceramic  exhibition  to 
be  held  in  the  art  gidlery  of  Sunborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  from  Tuesday  until 
Saturday  evening  next.  It  will  be  the  finest  exhibition  of  the  sort 
ever  given  in  this  city,  and  will  be  well  worth  visiting.  The  number 
of  exhibits  already  received  testify  beyond  a  doubt  that  the  exhibi- 
tion will  be  highly  successful,  as  all  people  in  the  city  who  are  in- 
terested in  ceramic  art  have  contributed  to  the  collection.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  ceramic  exhibition,  there  will  also  be  shown  a  magnificent 
collection  of  fine  modern  paintings,  all  of  which  are  undoubted 
masterpieces.  All  the  artists  represented  are  world-renowned,  and 
need  no  commendation  whatever.  The  exhibition  will  be  by  far  the 
very  best  that  has  been  shown  in  this  city  for  years,  and  all  lovers  of 
art  should  take  advantage  of  this  opportunity  to  visit  it. 


Concessions  to  Naval  and  Grand  Army  Veterans. 

The  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroad  will  grant  most  liberal  conces- 
sions in  the  way  of  stop-over  privileges  on  the  tickets  sold  for  the  Re- 
union of  the  Naval  Veterans  at  Baltimore,  September  15th  to  19th, 
and  for  the  Grand  Army  Encampment  at  Washington,  commencing 
September  20th.  Tickets  will  be  sold  at  the  offices  of  the  company 
and  at  offices  of  the  principal  railroad  companies  of  the  West,  from 
September  13th  to  20tn  inclusive,  at  very  low  rates,  and  will  be  valid 
for  return  journey  until  October  10th.'  Both  going  and  returning 
tickets  will  be  good,  to  stop  off  at  all  stations  between  Cumberland 
and  Baltimore,  a  region  rendered  familiar  to  all  veterans  by  the  con- 
stant warfare  along  the  Potomac.  The  signature  ot  purchaser  to 
tickets  will  not  be  required,  nor  will  it  be  necessary  to  have  them 
stamped  to  make  them  valid  for  return  journey. 

For  more  detailed  information  as  to  time  of  trains,  rates,  and 
sleeping-car  accommodations,  apply  to  L.  S.  Allen.  Asst.  Gen.  Pas- 
senger Agent,  the  Rookery,  Chicago,  or  <>.  P.  McCarty,  Asst.  Gen. 
Passenger  Agent,  Cincinnati,  O. 

Baggage  Notice. 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip,  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

'•  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko, "609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use 
children  while  Teething. 


Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your 


DODGE  BROS., 


STAT10SERS. 

miuviais. 


"Hurd'a  Royal  Purple,"  the  latest  Eastern 
society  fad,  is  a  swagger  paper  of  great 
richness.     In  all  the  new  shapes. 

COPPER  PLATES.    OOC    DfiQT    CT 
WEBDUQ  CARDS.   l-LJ    lUO  I     O  I  . 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 


Belle    Isle    Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business -San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works—  Tuscarora,  Elko  Couuty,  Nev. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  twenty-second  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  15,  of  Ten 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
Twenty-sixth  Day  of  September,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;   and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  20th  day  of  October,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW.  Secretary. 

Office— 310  Piue  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,|9an  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT^ 

Alpha  Consolidated  Mill  and  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Goid  Hill,  titory  Couuiy,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meetiug  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  2d  day  of  September,  1S92,  an  assessment 'No  9)  of  Ten  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, iu  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  olfcce  of  the  com- 
pany, room  7'J,  Nevada  block,  309  Mougomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Sixth  Day  ot  October,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  uuless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  October, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  Sau  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 


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Vol.  XIV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER  17,  1892. 


Number  12. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fra7i- 
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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Paor 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 

The  President's  Circular 2 

The  Medical  "  Bogie  Man"  ...    2     - 

Evans  and  Son  tag 2     Scientific  and  Useful 


Sir  Edwin  in  Japan 

The  Lick  Observatory 3 

The  Democratic  Convention  ...    3 

Sparks.  4 

An  Oakland  Faith  Dance 5 

Mansfield's  Idiosyntracies 5 

Pleasure's  Wand       . .  6-7 

Legal  Gourmets.   ...  8 

What  the  Dressmaker  Said 9 

The  Looker-On        ...        10-11 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs 12 


Page 
The  French  in  Africa  .......  IS 

Salvation  Soldiers'  Loves    13 

Financial  Review 14 

Town  Crier  15 

16 


tiuubeams 17 

Real  Property 16 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...    19 

They  Won  the  Chorus  Girls 19 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil. 20 

The  Rose  Jar  21 

Tenuis  and  Baseball 22 

Vanities      23 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 
Society 26-27-28 


ARTOTYP£-:ndersm'  Acadamy. 


THE  Democratic  clubs  made  a  good  showing  at  the  State  Con- 
vention, which  met  in  this  city,  on  Thursday.  The  club  is 
the  primal  factor  in  the  organization  of  a  political  party,  and  not 
too  much  attention  can  be  given  to  it. 


THE  Mission  real  estate  owners  should  not  relax  in  their  en- 
deavors to  prevent  the  consummation  of  the  outrageous  street 
extension  schemes  which  tbe  Supervisors  have  foisted  upon  them. 
The  exorbitant  street  assessments  should  be  very  materially  re- 
duced, or  wiped  out  altogether. 


SIDNEY  BELL  has  been  convicted  on  two  charges  of  bighway 
robbery.  This  man  should  be  severely  punished.  He  is  no 
respecter  of  places  or  persons.  One  of  his  victims  was  Peter 
Robertson,  an  inoffensive  newspaper  man.  A  result  of  the  rob- 
bery has  been  the  appearance  of  ''The  Seedy  Man." 


HO  Wcarefnlly  all  the  gentlemen  who  made  nomination  speeches 
at  the  Democratic  Municipal  Convention  concealed  the  names 
of  the  gentremen  they  were  about  to  nominate  from  the  auditors, 
until  tbe  very  end.  This  is  the  acme  of  political  eloquence. 
first  get  your  audience  ready,  and  then  spring  the  name.  It  is 
very  effective. 

WHILE  we  fully  appreciate  the  fact  that  the  Rural  Press  and 
other  papers  of  the  State  have  so  high  a  regard  for  articles 
published  in  the  News  Letter  that  they  copy  them  bodily,  we 
suggest  to  the  publishers  of  these  sheets  tjat  it  is  considered 
proper  courtesy  to  acknowledge  tbe  original  source  of  a  purloined 
article  when  republished. 


AN  attempt  will  soon  be  made  to  float  some  mines  near  Lords- 
burg,  in  New  Mexico,  on  the  London  market..  The  reports,  as 
usual,  look  very  favorable,  but  if  Mr. Ann, of  the  defunct  Esmeralda 
concern,  could  be  prevailed  upon  to  speak  the  truth,  his  recent 
experience  in  this  direction  would  not  be  much  of  a  recommend- 
ation for  this  latest  scheme. 


THE  man-hunters  of  Fresno  and  Tulare,  notwithstanding  the 
large  reward  offered,  do  not  cut  a  very  bright  figure  in  the 
chase  for  the  train-robbers.  In  fact,  it  is  the  worst  instance  of 
funk  and  inability  we  have  noticed  for  a  long  time.  The  officers 
are  afraid  of  the  robbers,  and  the  probabilities  are  that  the 
scoundrels  never  will  be  caught. 


THE  Kelly  and  Crimmins  Convention  will  have  a  very  merry 
time  of  it  during  its  session.  Both  these  gentlemen  are  now 
wildly  eager  to  locate  a  sack  of  respectable  size  somewhere  near 
the  corner  of  Market  and  Third  streets.  As  yet,  it  is  said,  but 
few  plums  have  fallen  from  the  tables;  hence  Kelly  and  Crim- 
mins are  not  as  jolly  as  they  would  be  if  they  only  had  their 
rights. 


MR.  COGLEY,  the  Washington  lawyer,  is  doubtless  a  very 
reliable  and  estimable  gentleman,  but  he  can't  have  that 
fifth  moon  of  Jupiter.  We  claim  that  for  our  very  own.  That  a 
man  of  Mr.  Cogley's  apparent  culture  should  have  the  presump- 
tion to  claim  the  discovery  of  Jupiter's  fifth  moon  wiih  a  five- 
inch  glass,  when  it  took  all  the  power  of  tbe  Lick  telescope  to 
discover  it  is,  of  course,  ridiculous.     J  upe's  fifth  moon  is  ours. 

THERE  is  no  reason  wby  there  should  be  a  cbolera  scare  in 
this  city.  The  local  authorities  have  taken  the  matter  in 
hand,  and  are  exeicising  the  usual  precautions  to  prevent  the  en- 
trance of  the  scourge..  With  clean  streets,  flushed  sewers  and  the 
destruction  of  rubbish  heaps,  we  should  be  all  right.  Our  cli- 
mate is  not  favorable  to  tbe  propagation  of  the  microbe.  People 
should  be  careful,  however,  about  their  diet  and  the  sanitary  con- 
dition of  their  residences.  An  ounce  of  prevention  is  worth  sev- 
eral bottles  of  medicine. 


THE  celebration  of  the  discovery  of  San  Diego  by  Cabrillo,  in 
1542,  which  will  be  held  at  that  city  on  the  27th,  28th  and 
29th  of  this  month,  will  be  one  of  tbe  most  notable  celebrations 
ever  held  in  the  country.  Five  sbips  of  the  Pacific  squadron 
have  been  ordered  to  San  Diego  to  participate  in  the  affair.  Ex- 
cursions will  be  run'frooi  many  places,  and,  all  in  all,  San  Diego 
will  proudly  proclaim  to  all  the  world  that  notwithstanding  her 
age,  she  is  yet  lively  and  progressive. 

THE  Receiving  Hospital  is  now  in  new  and  comfortable  quar- 
ters. The  question  is,  will  the  staff  of  the  hospital,  by  good 
work,  and  tbe  omission  of  errors,  make  the  hospital  hereafter 
worthy  in  all  its  details?  At  present,  it  is  with  some  trepidation 
that  a  citizen  and  tax-payer  goes  to  the  Receiving  Hospital  for 
repairs.  He  is  not  certain  whether  he  will  come  out  whole  or 
not.  Tbe  hospital  should  be  one  of  the  best  on  the  coast.  That 
it  will  soon  gain  such  a  reputation,  we  sincerely  trust. 


THE  Republicans  are  in  as  unhappy  a  condition  of  mind  as  the 
Democrats.  Both  parties  are  badly  divided  on  local  issues, 
and  from  present  prospects  it  looks  very  much  as  if  the  Non- 
partisans will  step  in  between  the  two  bands  of  quarreling 
brothers,  and  carry  olf  most  of  the  persimmons.  Tbe  Non-partisans 
have  a  number  of  good  men  in  their  body,  and  they  have  named 
good  men  for  office.  There  is  no  reason,  therefore,  why  they 
should  not  give  tbe  old-liners,  of  each  political  color,  one  of  the 
hardest  fights  they  ever  had. 

THE  Methodists  have  been  holding  their  annual  conference  at 
Pacific  Grove,  and  did  not  let  the  occasion  pass  without  a 
display  of  illiberality,  not  to  say  bigotry,  which  is  out  of  place  in 
this  latter  part  of  the  nineteenth  century.  During  a  discussion 
over  the  waning  fortunes  of  the  educational  institutions  under  the 
control  of  tbe  Methodist  Church,  the  charge  was  made  openly 
that  the  Stanford  University  was  »  under  the  control  of  the  liquor 
interest,"  while,  it  was  said,  the  influence  of  the  State  University 
at  Berkeley  was  entirely  secular  and  irreligious.  Of  course  every 
sensible  man  in  the  State  knows  that  both  charges  are  without 
foundation,  but  they  were  nevertheless  urged  in  support  of  the 
demand  that  all  good  Methodists  refrain  from  patronizing  them, 
and,  instead,  bolster  up  the  so-called  Methodist  colleges.  Berke- 
ley and  Stanford  have  more  students  this  year  that  ever  before. 


A  TELEGRAM  to  the  New  York  Herald  from  Germany  states  that 
the  Empress-Dowager  is  trying  to  induce  her  son  to  make  his 
peace  with  Prince  Bismarck.  That  is  news  indeed.  Empress- 
widow  Frederick  as  a  friend  of  the  ex-Chancellor  would  be  play- 
ing quite  a  new  part.  The  fact,  however,  most  probably  is  that 
the  Herald  correspondent  has  been  so  unsuccessful  in  hunting  up 
actual  foreign  news,  since  the  cholera  scare  has  temporarily  super- 
ceded all  political  activity  on  the  European  continent,  that  he 
had  to  lake  recourse  to  a  canard.  Not  an  usual  method  for  get- 
ting out  of  such  a  difficulty,  but  he  might  have  attempted  a  some- 
what more  plausible  invention.  In  reality,  Prince  Bismarck  has 
hardly  a  more  bitter  enemy  than  the  Empress-Dowager.  It  was 
she  who  used  all  her  influence  upon  the  young  Emperor  in  order 
to  widen  the  breach  between  him  and  Prince  Bismarck,  and  it  ia 
certain  that  she  has  never  forgiven  the  great  statesman  his  pro- 
phetic bon  mot  that  she  would,  by  her  marriage  with  Crown- Prince 
Frederick,  spoil  the  Hohenzolleru  race. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


THE    MEDICAL    "BOGIE    MAN." 

NO  one  nowadays  wants  to  "  throw  physic  to  the  dogs,"  or  be- 
lieves with  Voltaire,  that  "  a  physician  is  a  man  who  pours 
drugs  of  which  he  knows  little  into  the  body  of  a  man  of  which 
he  knows  less."     All    are    now  devotees  of  medical  science,  and 
the  press  pays  as   much    attention   to  the  hunting  of  the  bacillus 
as  to  the  labor  question  or  the  free  coinage  of  silver.     Neverthe- 
less,  it   may  be  fairly  demanded  whether  medical  science  is  not 
becoming — "not  to  put  too  tinea  point  on  it  " — a  little  too  ex- 
pansive.    The  medical  alarmist  has  developed  into  an  institution 
of  ubiquitous  presence  and   universal  application.     Like  the  fat 
boy  in    Pickwick,    he    »  wants  to  make  our  flesh  creep."     He  is 
the    Demon    King   in  the  pantomime  of  Life,  the  skeleton  at  the 
feast,  the  veritable  "  bogie  man."     He  has  advauced  from  dismal 
warnings    about    drains,    arsenic    in     wall    papers,    sewage    in 
running    brooks,    and    contagion    in      almost     everything,     to 
the     attempt     to      make      "laws,      learning,    arts     and      com- 
merce,"      the    serfs      of    pathology.       Unlike     the     physician 
in    Macbeth,    he    prides     himself,     that      he      can     "administer 
to  a  mind  diseased."     He  not  only  hurls   cholera  and  influenza 
germs  at  us,  but  cows  us  with  theories  of  hypnotism  and  heredity. 
He  threatens  to  upset  our  social  system  with  bis  facile  theories  of 
"  cerebral  activities  "   and    "  moral  irresponsibilities."     We  used 
to   eat   what  we   wanted    and  drink  what  we  liked,  without  de- 
manding chemical  analysis.     We  used  to  marry  whom  we  chose, 
without  requiring  exhaustive  research  into  the  family  physiology. 
We  regarded   an    M.  D.  as  a  person  to  cure  our  diseases,  not  to 
badger    health     out     of     us.       If     a     drunken     navvy     broke 
his  pal's  head  with  a  bottle,  we  did  not  stop  to  consider  the  ques- 
tion of  his  punishment  matter  for  medical  diagnosis.     When  Bill 
Smith  garotted  a  respectable  citizen  and  stole  his  watch,  the  oc- 
currence was  explained — that  Bill  wanted  that  watch.     We  were 
not  aware,  alas!  that  Bill   Smith    was    the    victim  of   an  obscure 
hereditary  disorder;  in  fact,  rather  an  object  of  popular  pity  and 
medical  interest.     It  is  doubtful   whether   the  law-abiding  mem- 
bers of  society,  the  people  whose  cerebral  organization  does  not 
lead  them  into  contact  with  the  police,  would  welcome  the  insti- 
tution of  a  system  of  repressing  crime  based    upon   the   chicken 
broth  and  beef-tea  treatment  of  the  criminals.     It  is  just  possible 
that  the  "  criminal  habit  of  mind  "  might  come  into  greater  popu- 
larity among  persons  with  a  taste  for  nourishing  diet  and  good 
nursing.     It  is  not  alone  on  account  of  this  contingency  that  the 
thorough-going    medical   theorist   is    the   "  bogie-man  "  of   timid 
people.     He  is  intent  upon  ameliorating  the  methods  by  which 
civilization  seeks  to   deal  with  diseased  moral  tissues,  but  he  is 
also  bent  upon  making  it  rough  for  the  respectable  healthy  mem- 
bers of  the  community.     He  would  like  to  tie  every  one  down  to 
a  Procrustean  bed  of  diet  and  habit.     In    some    cases   he    abhors 
stimulants,  wherefore  there  must  be  no  more  cakes  and  ale.     In 
others  he  detests  tobacco,  for  which  reason  he  would  have  all  men 
throw  away  pipes  and  cigars.     All  these  theorists  know  nothing 
about  differences  in  constitutions.   If  you  have  dyspepsia,  one  will 
order  bread  and  milk  at  ten-minute  intervals  all  day  long;  another 
assures  you  that  the  one  chance  of  life  is  to  take  a  meal  of  raw 
meat  in  the  morning,  and  to  wait  until  night  for  another  banquet 
of  the  same  kind.     They  only  agree  in   prescribing  the  food  you 
do  not  like,  for  drinking,  the  beverages  you  detest,  and  for  exer- 
cise,   the   recreations  you  abhor.     If   you  cycle,  they  tell  you  to 
walk;  if  you  are  a  furious  athlete,  insist  on  quietude,  and  when, 
if  averse  to  all  active  exertion,  you  are   implored    to    practice  on 
the  trapeze.     The  unfortunate  wretch   devoting  himself   to  their 
regimen  is  doubly  and  trebly  accursed.     One  high  authority  tells 
him  that  alcohol  eats  away  his  "  cells;"  another  of   equal  stand- 
ing claims  that  teetotalism  leads  to  the  •'  degeneration  of  tissue." 
After  having  confined  himself  to  brown  bread  for  years,  upon  the 
advice  of  the  eminent  Herr    Von  Blowhard,  of    Berlin,  Dr.  Hard 
Koffski,  of  St.  Petersburg,  writes  in  the  paper   to  say  that  brown 
bread  is  a  toothsome  equivalent  for  a  revolver  as  a  means  of  sui- 
cide.    The  path  of  those  who  endeavor   to  follow  the  generaliza- 
tion of  medical  science  as  communicated  to  the  public,  is  not  one 
of  roses.     A  perpetual  self-sacrifice,  inefficient  to  prevent  a  perpet- 
ual experience  of  the   evils   it   seeks  to  avoid,  is  their  lot.     They 
change  from  cold    baths    and    a  light   coat   to  hot    water    baths 
and  woollen  underwear;  from  beer   to  claret,  from  ginger  ale  to 
toast  and  water,  and  they  are  always  ill  and  hopeful  of  attaining 
a  rude,  robust  vigor.     It  would  seem,  in  the  interests  of  a  confid- 
ing public,  that  the  extremists  of  medical  science  might,  with  all 
due  deference,  be  asked  to  moderate  their  ecstacies. 


THE  contest  for  the  nomination  for  Sheriff  in  the  Democratic 
Convention  promises  to  be  very  hot.  There  are  a  number  of 
candidates,  each  of  whom  has  considerable  strength.  The  last  to 
come  into  the  field  is  J.  J.  McDade,  who  has  a  strong  personal 
following  and  stands  very  well  in  the  community.  It  is  said  that 
he  has  secured  the  support  of  Dwyer  and  Sullivan.  If  so,  he 
ought  to  be  able  to  control  the  nomination.  The  friends  of  the 
other  candidates,  however,  will  give  Mr.  McDade  a  very  hard 
battle,  for  they  feel  that  they  are  not  receiving  fair  treatment,  by 
being  opposed  by  a  late  comer.  The  Sheriff's  office  is  one  of  the 
richest  in  the  city,  and  the  tight  for  it  will  be  long  and  bitter. 


THE    PRESIDENT'S    CIRCULAR. 

IT  is  said  that  President  Harrison's  circular  with  regard  to  the 
quarantining  of  vessels  carrying  immigrants,  far  from  being 
condemned  in  England  meets  with  general  approval  in  Great 
Britain.  This  is  a  new  proof  of  the  common  sense  of  the  British 
people.  It  is  absurd  always  to  imagine  that  foreign  nations, 
when  they  adopt  measures  to  provide  for  the  necessary  safe- 
guarding of  their  own  interests,  which  incidentally  somewhat  in- 
jure the  interests  of  other  countries,  are  animated  by  a  malicious 
hostility  towards  those  countries.  Unfortunately  for  the  main- 
tenance of  good  feeling  between  the  different  nations  of  the  civil- 
ized world,  this  is  too  often  forgotten  by  our  Chauvinists,  who 
seem  to  imagine  that  the  main  object  of  foreigners  is  to  attack 
their  country,  and  do  not  take  into  consideration  that  all  states 
have  in  the  first  place  to  attend  to  home  matters.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  the  President's  instructions,  if  interpreted  literally,  will  in  a 
certain  way  temporarily  injure  the  interests  of  large  foreign  nav- 
igation companies,  but  it  should  be  remembered  that  if  quaran- 
tine regulations  remained  lax,  and  if  the  dreaded  cholera  was 
permitted  to  gain  a  firm  footing  on  our  shores,  these  companies 
would  suffer  still  greater  damage,  for  after  the  plague  had  died  out 
in  Europe,  if  it  was  thriving  here,  quarantine  regulations  would 
surely  be  established  there,  and  the  export  trade  from  America, 
upon  which  the  navigation  companies  in  question  greatly  depend, 
would  be  seriously  endangered.  By  far  the  best  way  for  all  in- 
terests concerned  is  to  adopt  drastic  measures  to  confine  the 
plague  within  tha  narrowest  limits,  until  it  is  smothered,  rather 
than  for  fear  of  giving  offense  to  small  groups  of  the  commercial 
community,  to  permit  its  spreading  to  such  an  extent  that  all 
commerce  and  traffic  will  be  impeded  for  many  months  to  come. 
Another  important  feature  connected  with  the  President's  circu- 
lar, which  well  deserves  attention,  is  the  fact  that  our  constitu- 
tion enabled  the  Chief  Magistrate  to  act  so  promptly.  If  we  con- 
sider the  enormous  extent  of  our  country  and  the  immediateness 
of  the  danger.it  is  evident  that  if  the  central  government  had 
possessed  less  executive  authority  the  opportune  moment  would 
have  long  passed  ere  the  different  8tates  would  have  agreed  upon 
uniform  measures  against  a  peril  which  threatens  them  all  alike. 
It  is  quite  right  that  local  affairs  should  be  left  to  be  dealt  with 
by  local  authorities,  but  in  national  questions,  a  centralization  of 
authority  becomes  the  more  important  the  greater  the  nation. 
The  danger  of  an  abuse  of  executive  power  on  the  part  of  the 
central  government  is  infinitely  small  in  a  country  where  the  ad- 
ministration changes  at  such  short  intervals  as  in  ours,  and  where 
the  liberty  of  the  press  provides  for  so  powerful  a  restraining 
factor  that  no  public  man  who  knows  his  own  interests  would 
venture  too  far  against  sincere  and  honest  public  opinion.  The 
President's  circular  may  b<3  severely  criticized  for  the  time  being 
by  certain  parties  whose  specia  linterests  suffer  for  the  moment, 
but  by  the  public  in  general  it  will  be  approved,  and  even  those 
who  object  to  it  at  present  will  change  their  mind  after  mature 
reflection.  "  Prevention  is  better  than  cure,"  says  the  homely 
but  wise  proverb.  ' 

EVANS    AND    SONTAG. 


BY  some  queer  inversion  or  reverson  of  public  sentiment,  there 
is  actually  a  disposition  manifested  to  regard  Evans  and  Son- 
tag,  the  Tulare  train-robbers,  dynamiters  and  assassins,  as  some- 
thing like  heroes.  They  are  actually  extolled  as"gamey"and 
"  nervy  "  men,  and  all  because  they  have  killed  three  or  four 
men  from  ambush  and  wounded  several  others,  without  being 
captured.  To  the  careful  reader  of  their  exploits,  there  is  not  a 
trace  of  bravery  or  heroism  in  anything  they  have  done.  They 
have  been  careful  at  all  times  to  keep  the  advantage  on  their  side, 
and  not  to  expose  their  scoundrelly  carcasses  to  any  danger. 
They  have  never  put  themselves  in  a  position  where  they  would 
have  to  fight  fairly,  and  yet  they  are  really  looked  upon  by  many 
as  paladins  and  knigbts-errant,  fighting  against  fearful  odds,  and 
defending  themselves  by  superhuman  exertions.  If  this  is  to  be 
the  genera  drift  of  public  sentiment,  it  ought  to  be  proclaimed  so 
clearly  that  all  may  understand  it.  If  railroad  corporations 
and  express  companies  are  legitimate  objects  of  attack 
and  plunder,  and  if  the  robbers  are  at  liberty  to  commit 
murder  with  impunity  to  make  their  escape,  everybody 
ought  to  know  it,  so  as  to  have  a  chance  to 
embrace  the  profession  of  a  train-robber.  It  would  be  no  crime 
if  public  opinion  sanctioned  it,  for  there  is  no  law  so  high  as  to 
prevail  against  public  opinion.  At  first  the  novices  would  prob- 
ably have  some  scruples  about  shedding  human  blood,  but,  en- 
couraged by  the  example  of  Evans  and  Sontag,  they  would  soon 
get  over  their  squeamishness,  and  would  learn  to  shoot  a  sheriff 
from  behind  a  rock  or  hedge  as  unconcernedly  as  though  he  were 
a  coyote.  Having  accomplished  this  chivalric  feat,  the  imitator 
of  Evans  and  Sontag  will  take  himself  out  of  the  immediate  view 
and  presence  of  the  officers,  and  roam  about  at  will  through  the 
county,  living  on  the  fat  of  the  land  and  held  up  as  a  model  for 
the  rising  generation,  finding  a  friend  and  protector  in  every  man 
who  has,  or  thinks  he  has,  a  grievance  against  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific Company  or  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  This  is  the  lesson  that  is 
taugbt  by  the  supineness  of  the  people  of  Fresno  and  Tulare 
counties  in  the  case  of  Evans  and  Sontag. 


' 


THK  ilmnjt  unanimous  attack*  upon  Professor  Holden,  Direc- 
tor of  the  Lick  Observatory,  by  our  contemporaries,  have 
b*en  very  severe,  though  many  of  ihero  seem  to  have  been  per- 
fectly justified  by  the  facts.  Still,  so  much  animus  was  evinced 
in  them  that  they  partly  lost  their  effect  upon  an  unprejudiced 
mind,  and  among  those  who  knew  of  the  maladministration  of 
the  observatory  by  hearsay  only,  produced  the  impression  that 
some  kind  of  a  conspiracy  ruipht  exist  against  the  Director,  who, 
perhaps,  as  they  supposed,  might  have  made  enemies  simply  by 
bis  injudicious  and.  may  be,  overbearing  attitude  toward  the 
colleagues  who  were  obliged  to  work  with  him.  There  are,  of 
course,  circumstances  where  one's  patience  is  tried  too  hard,  and 
where  one  may  be  excused  for  forgetting  discretion,  yet  the  most 
powerful  weapon  which  we  have  against  our  antagonists  is  to 
show  that  we  not  only  appreciate  their  faults,  but  can  do  better. 
This  weapon  has  been  applied  with  decisive  effect,  during  the  last 
few  days,  by  one  of  our  most  distinguished  American  astron- 
omers, whom  California  has  the  honor  to  count  among  her  resi- 
dents at  present,  namely,  Professor  Barnard,  who,  just  a  week. 
ago.  announced  that  the  permission  granted  to  him  to  use  the 
Lick  telescope  resulted  in  his  discovery  of  a  fifth  satellite 
of  Jupitor.  to  be  added  to  the  four  discovered  by  Gallileo, 
on  January  7th,  in  1G10.  The  new  satellite  was  found  by 
our  astronomer  on  the  10th  inst.,  at  twenty  hours,  fifty- 
three  minutes  and  twenty-one  seconds,  Greenwich  mean 
time.  It  is  computed  by  him  to  have  a  periodicity  of  about 
twelve  hours  and  thirty-six  minutes,  and  a  distance  from 
the  planet's  center  of  about  112,400  miles.  The  newly  discovered 
satellite  is  a  star  of  the  thirteenth  magnitude,  i.  e.,  1,200  times 
fainter  than  the  faintest  stars  which  can  usually  be  seen  with  the 
naked  eye,  and  which  are  of  the  sixth  magnitude.  Only  an  in- 
strument of  the  largest  power,  therefore,  would  be  effective  for 
the  discovery  of  such  an  object  in  the  skies.  In  having  refused 
the  free  use  of  the  L;ck  telescope  for  so  long  a  time  to  a  man  of 
such  eminent  ability  as  Professor  Barnard  lies  the  wrong  of  which 
Professor  Holden  must  be  accused.  Although  almost  entirely 
monopolizing  the  use  of  the  great  instrument  for  nearly  five 
years,  he  has  done  but  little  to  enrich  astronomical  science  by 
valuable  discoveries.  Several  of  Mr.  Barnard's  most  able  col- 
leagues, to  mention  only  Keeler  and  Dr.  Crew,  when  they  met 
with  opposition  on  Professor  Holden's  part  with  regard  to  the 
more  liberal  use  of  the  famous  instrument,  could  not  control 
their  disappointment,  and ,  unfortunately  for  science,  retired  from 
the  Lick  Observatory.  Professor  Barnard  took  the  wiser  course, 
and  when  Professor  Holden  attempted  to  restrict  his  activity, 
appealed  to  the  feelings  of  justice  of  the  Regents,  who  forced 
Professor  Holden  to  accede  to  the  request  of  his  colleague,  who 
had  already  done  such  excellent  work  with  the  twelve-inch  tele- 
scope, and  to  permit  him  to  continue  his  studies.  Though  this 
request  was  granted  only  five  weeks  ago.  Professor  Barnard  suc- 
ceeded in  enriching  the  world  with  two  of  the  greatest  astronimical 
discoveries  of  our  time.  After  a  fortnight's  observation  he  was 
able  to  announce  that  the  new  star,  Auriga,  was  a  nebula,  and 
now  he  has  added  to  this  the  discovery  of  a  fifth  moon  of  Jupiter. 
These  discoveries  will  place  Professor  Barnard's  name  among 
those  of  the  most  famous  astronomical  discoverers  of  the  world. 
Such  excellent  results  obtained  by  the  young  Nashville  astrono- 
mer in  so  remarkably  short  a  time  prove  that  Professor  Holden, 
in  depriving  him  of  the  use  of  the  great  telescope  heretofore,  com- 
mitted a  grievous  wrong,  not  only  against  his  colleague,  but  also 
against  science  in  general,  and  it  i-  to  be  hoped  that  the  Regents 
in  future  will  absolutely  prevent  Professor  Holden  from  depriv- 
ing able  astronomers  of  the  free  use  of  an  instrument  which  was 
given  to  the  institution  for  promoting  the  interests  of  science  in 
general,  and  not  for  the  private  use  of  one  man. 


IT  is  said  that  a  political  scheme  is  in  readiness  to  be  sprung 
when  the  new  ballots  are  counted.  The  law  provides  that  if  a 
voter  puts  a  cross  opposite  the  name  of  any  party  at  the  head  of 
the  ticket,  thus  signifying  his  apparent  desire  to  cast  a  straight 
party  vote,  and  then  subsequently  makes  a  mark  opposite  the 
name  of  any  candidate  in  the  body  of  the  ticket,  the  ballot  shall 
be  thrown  out  and  not  counted  in  any  way.  It  is  said  that  un- 
scrupulous partisans  have  had  a  large  number  of  small  rubber 
stamps  made  in  such  shape  that  they  may  be  readily  concealed 
in  the  hand,  and  used  without  detection.  These  will  be  supplied 
to  clerks  who  are  as  unscrupulous  as  the  originators  of  the 
scheme,  and  at  every  opportunity,  when  ballots  are  unfolded 
which  are  marked  straight  for  the  party  to  which  the  clerks  are 
inimical,  they  will  surreptitiously  make  an  additional  mark  in 
the  body  of  the  ticket  with  the  concealed  stamp,  thus  vitiating 
the  whole  ballot  and  causing  its  rejection.  The  trick  is  an  easy 
one  to  perform,  especially  late  at  night,  when  every  one  is  tired  and 
worn  out,  as  is  certain  to  be  the  case  under  the  new  system.  The 
counting  of  ballots  under  the  Australian  system  is  apt  to  be  a 
wearisome  and  lengthy  performance,  and  will  afford  room  for  an 
abundance  of  fraud  of  this  kind.  lb  behooves  all  honest  men  of 
ail  parties  to  keep  a  close  watch  throughout  the  entire  process,  in 
order  that  such  fraud  as  this  shall  be  prevented. 


SIR  EDWIN  ARNOLD,  poet,  historian,  litterateur  and  journal- 
ist, who  has  spent  some  time  in  Japan  during  the  past  three 
years,  has  been  violently  assailed  by  a  young  American,  mission- 
ary, named  Bartlett,  who  says  that  during  Sir   Edwin's  stay  in 

Japan  his  life  was  rather  comparable  to  life  at  the  Court  of  France 
during  the  Regency,  than  to  modern  civilized  and  respectable 
ways,  as  understood  in  Europe  and  America.  The  author  of  the 
'  Light  of  Asia  "  professes  to  be  very  much  amused  by  the  on- 
slaught on  him,  but  it  is  easy  to  see  that  he  is  somewhat  nettled. 
The  joke  that  ih  flavored  too  highly  with  the  spice  of  actual  trutn 
is  apt  to  be  somewhat  indigestible.  The  fact  is,  that  Sir  Edwin 
Arnold,  on  his  arrival  in  Japan,  exemplified  the  truth  of  the  adage 
that  there  is  no  fool  like  an  old  fool.  In  spite  of  his  sixty  years, 
he  fell  as  foolishly  in  love  with  the  universal  female  sex  in  Japan 
as  though  he  had  been  a  young  naval  officer  just  off  along  cruise, 
and  his  experiences  were  a  counterpart  of  those  of  Pierre  Loti, 
as  told  in  that  most  charming  book,  "  Madame  Chrysantheme." 
He  thought  he  had  found  in  the  girls  of  Japan  the  primitive 
woman,  the  type  of  the  great  first  mother  of  the  human  family, 
and  his  researches  into  human  nature,  as  exemplified  in  the 
women  of  Japan,  were  extended  and  recondite.  As  to  the  method 
which  Sir  Edwin  selected  for  the  prosecution  of  his  studies,  it  is 
necessary  to  say  only  that  while  suited  to  Japan,  where  the  cus- 
toms of  the  country  warrant  a  great  many  things,  they  would 
certainly  have  created  a  sensation  in  London  or  Paris  or  New 
York,  or  even  in  San  Francisco,  where  we  have  a  reputation  for 
not  being  particularly  straight-laced.  The  poet  seems  to  have 
read  Pope's  celebrated  line  as  though  it  had  been  written  "  The 
proper  study  of  mankind  is  woman,"  and  to  have  stuck  to  his 
text.  But  what  of  it  ?  Who  is  the  Rev.  Bartlett,  that  he  should 
sit  in  judgment  on  Sir  Edwin  Arnold,  because  the  poet's  and  the 
missionary's  codes  of  ethics  were  not  drawn  to  the  same  scale? 
Who  made  him  a  judge  or  a  ruler  above  his  fellows,  or  vested 
him  with  authority  to  lay  down  a  code  of  laws  for  the  guidance 
of  mankind?  There  are  plenty  of  missionaries  to  Japan — too 
many,  if  some  of  the  stories  are  true — but  there  is  but  one  Edwin 
Arnold.  Like  all  men  of  genius,  he  is  a  law  unto  himself,  as  he 
has  a  right  to  be,  and  if  he  has  chosen,  for  the  sake  of  imbibing 
the  very  spirit  and  essence  of  Japan,  to  put  on  for  the  time  being 
Japanese  ways  and  customs,  and  to  affiliate  with  the  Japanese 
people,  who  shall  dare  to  blame  him?  The  world  will  be  the 
gainer,  and  while  we  may  smile  at  the  folly  of  the  man,  we  shall 
have  to  bow  in  reverence  at  the  feet  of  the  poet,  and  burn  incense 
at  his  shrine  for  a  thousand  years  after  the  name  of  Bartlett  has 
gone  down  into  the  fathomless  ocean  of  oblivion. 


THE    DEMOCRATIC    CONVENTION. 


THE  Democratic  Municipal  Convention  has  it  in  its  power  to 
present  to  the  voters  of  this  municipality  a  ticket  which  will 
easily  win  in  November.  This  is  a  Democratic  year,  and  the  peo- 
ple are  anxious  to  have  capable  and  honest  men  in  charge  of  their 
affairs.  It  is  therefore  incumbent  upon  the  Convention  to  pre- 
sent to  the  electors  such  a  list  of  names  that  no  fault  can  be 
found  with  it.  To  do  this,  and  to  secure  and  retain  the  confi- 
dence of  the  community,  there  should  not  be  allowed  anything 
that  looks  like  corruption,  even  to  the  minor  matter  of  appoint- 
ing a  slated  committee.  The  Democratic  party  was  ruined  for 
years  by  the  very  fact  that  it  was  controlled  by  a  man,  now  hap- 
pily an  exile,  who  used  the  most  corrupt  methods  to  effect  his 
ends.  The  citizens  broke  his  power,  and  drove  him  from  the  city. 
The  long  anti-Buckley  fight  will  have  affected  nothing,  however, 
if  that  political  curruptionist  is  to  be  succeded  by  other  bosses. 
The  people  are  not  now  in  a  humor  for  boss  rule,  whether  the 
boss  be  of  the  saloon  or  kid-gloved  order.  The  Democratic  masses 
favor  good  legislation  and  honest  officers,  neither  of  which  were 
ever  known  to  be  connected  with  boss  rule.  The  Democratic 
party  has  a  magnificent  opportunity  to  win  the  municipality  this 
year  if  it  puts  up  good  men  for  office.  It  is  not  necessary  to  state 
that  opposition  will  be  made  to  the  slated  candidates,  for  a  feeling 
of  great  bitterness  now  exists  among  the  various  sections  of  the 
Democratic  host  on  account  of  the  high-handed  manner  in  which 
the  alleged  bosses  have  so  far  managed  affairs.  The  story  of 
broken  pledges  to  secure  support  is  told  again,  and  it  seems 
that  the  new  firm  has  already  gained  the  distinction  of 
being  cordially  disliked  by  a  number  of  the  old  war-horses. 
The  question  arises  whether,  as  in  the  matter  of  the  Wallace  Grand 
Jury,  the  end  will  not  justify  the  means?  The  Reorganizers,  for 
instance,  promise  to  present  an  excellent  list  of  names  for  office. 
What  matters  it,  then,  in  the  general  result,  as  far  as  the  govern- 
ment of  the  municipality  is  concerned,  whether  the  Reorganizers 
have  secured  control  of  the  convention  by  peculiar  means,  or  not? 
What  the  people  are  most  interested  in  is  whether,  with  the  con- 
vention under  control,  honest  and  capable  citizens  will  be  pre- 
sented for  office?  The  weakest  place  in  our  political  system  is 
municipal  government.  Therefore  it  is  that  for  such  government 
it  is  particularly  necessary  to  have  honest  and  able  men  for  officers. 
At  this  writing  the  Democratic  Convention  has  made  no  nomina- 
tions. It  is  to  be  hoped  that  those  it  will  make  will  reflect  credit 
upon  the  convention. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


A  BUDDING  beauty,  who  will  be  rich  as  well,  and  who,  we 
venture  to  prophecy,  will  create  a  sensation  when  she  makes 
her  debut,  is  the  young  daughter  of  tbe  late  Dick  Carroll  and  his 
wife,  nee  Polly  Murphy.  The  young  lady  inherits  a  good  deal  of 
the  Irish  wit  of  ber  ancestors,  Martin  Murpby  and  his  wi  e.  tbe 
late  pioneers  of  Santa  Clara  Valley,  and  will  no  doubt  have  a  good 
slice  of  their  immense  landed  property  also. 

*  *  it 

Miss  Florence  Breckenridge  will  not  accompany  her  mother, 
Mrs.  Fred.  Sharon,  to  Italy,  for  the  purpose  of  perfecting  ber 
vocal  education.  Her  little  brother,  Harry  Sharon,  will  go  with 
his  parents,  however,  as  the  Fred.  Sharons  will  not  return  to 
America  for  some  time.  Such  at  least  is  their  latest  decision. 
When  they  get  10  New  York,  however,  they  may  find  cholera 
germs  on  shipboard  too  great  a  danger  to  risk,  so  that  the  trip 
may  be  abandoned  for  the  present.  Mrs.  Sharon  is  hoping  Mr. 
Janin  may  give  his  wife  another  holiday,  so  that  she  may  cross 
the  pond  with  them — if  they  go. 

*  *  « 

The  many  friends  of  beautiful  Miss  Marguerite  Wallace  and 
her  pretty  sister,  Mervyn  Donahue's  window,  who  have  been 
loud  in  their  commisserations,  during  the  past  fortnight,  over 
their  being  in  tbe  "  City  of  Desolation,"  Hamburg,  may  possibly 
be  consoled  at  learning  that  Horuburg  is  the  locale  of  these  sisters, 
and  not  the  plague-stricken  City  of  the  North. 

*  •  ■» 

Society  girls  are  all  agog  over  the  date  of  the  Barnes-Delmas 
wedding,  for  no  doubt  it  will  be  a  very  fashionable  event,  both 
from  the  standing  in  tbe  community  of  the  parents  of  bride  and 
groom-elect,  and  the  personal  popularity  of  the  gallant  District 
Attorney  and  piquante  Miss  Delphine.  Like  the  Admiral  in 
Pinafore,  she  is  plentifully  supplied  with  a  number  of  cousins  and 
aunts,  all  of  ibem  young  and  pretty  enough  to  add  lustre  to  a 
bridal  party,  to  say  nothing  of  her  sisters.  Tbe  number  of  young 
men  who  would  stand  by  Will  Barnes  at  such  a  moment  is 
legion. 

*  *  » 

Rather  an  amusing  incident  took  place  at  a  fashionable  hotel 
the  other  evening.  The  idea  of  a  lady  (?)  going  by  mistake  into 
a  room,  and  not  beating  instant  retreat,  instead  of  using  several 
moments  in  looking  through  bureau  drawers,  is  where  the  "  fun  " 
comes  in.  Costly  fun  it  may  yet  be  found  to  be. 
#  #  * 

Our  young  soc'ety  is  regretting  the  decision  of  the  Baron  and 
Baroness  Von  Schroeder  not  to  return  to  the  Coast  this  winter. 
It  was  tbeir  intention  when  leaving  California  to  be  back  again 
in  San  Francisco  last  month,  but  the  recent  renting  of  their  house 
on  Harrison  street  strengthens  the  rumor  which  reached  here 
sometime  ago  that  they  would  remain  abroad  until  next  spring 
at  the  earliest.  The  Baron,  in  particular,  is  missed,  as  he  was 
ever  ready  to  enter  into  any  plan  for  having  a  good  time,  and  his 
moonlight  coaching  parties  met  with  special  favor  among  the 
young  ladies.  The  Von  Scbroeders  are  delightfully  settled  in  the 
south  of  Germany,  where  the  Baron's  sister  has  a  magnificent 
country  place.  Many  people  fancy  the  wealth  of  the  couple 
comes  from  the  Donahue  side  of  the  connection.  This  is  a  mis- 
take, for  though  the  charming  Baltoness  is  worth  at  least  a  mil- 
lion, tbe  Baron's  grandfather  left  a  fortune  of  twenty  millions, 
which  was  equally  divided  among  his  sons,  of  whom  tbe  Baron's 
father  was  one. 

*  •  # 

Society  is  hoping  the  pretty  Misses  Ella  and  Aileen  Goad  may 
be  seen  again  in  tbe  swim  this  winter.  Charming,  gentle  Miss 
Alice  Hobart  will  live  in  retirement  for  some  time  to  come. 

*  *  * 

News  has  recently  been  received  here  from  the  East  of  the  en- 
gagement of  the  former  popular  San  Francisco  society  belle.  Miss 
Meta  McAllister,  to  a  son  of  Dr.  Janeway,  of  the  United  States 
Army.  Miss  McAllister's  many  friends  on  this  Coast  will  doubt- 
less be  glad  to  hear  of  her  projected  happiness,  as  there  has  sel- 
dom been  a  young  lady  in  these  parts  who  was  so  universally 
liked  as  the  fair  bride-elect. 


There  are  to  be  a  number  of  new  clubs  in  the  social  world  this 
winter.  Some  will  be  confined  to  literature,  others  will  be  strictly 
musical,  and  others  a  combination  of  music,  recitations  and  danc- 
ing, while  again  several  will  be  for  dancing  pure  and  simple.  To 
this  latter  class  belongs  the  Del  Monte  Club,  which  gave  its  first 
party  at  Union  Square  Hall,  on  Thursday  evening,  and  was  so 
successful  ,the  members  feel  encouraged  in  their  intention  of 
making  the  next  one  a  benefit  for  the  Children's  Hospital,  and, 
according  to  rumor,  the  question  has  been  mooted  of  having  it  a 
fancy  dress  affair,  but  as  yet  no  decision  has  been  arrived  at. 


The  Most  Fashionable  Stationery. 

It  is  unnecessary  to  expatiate  upon  the  many  excellencies  of  the 
famous  establishment  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  at  741-743  Market 
street.  This  house  is  acknowledged  to  be  the  leader  in  all  matters 
appertaining  to  fashionable  stationery,  and  that  it  enjoys  the  pat- 
ruiiage  of  the  best  people  in  the  city  is  well  known.  The  stationery 
department  of  Sanborn,  Vail  ife  Co.  contains  the  only  complete  line 
of  stationery  in  the  city,  for  there  may  be  found  all  the  products  of 
the  most  famous  factories  of  the  world.  It  is  a  matter  of  great  pride 
with  this  house  that  all  its  goods  are  of  the  best  possible  quality,  and 
that  they  are  nowhere  excelled.  As  tbe  firm  makes  a  specialty  of 
stationery  goods,  one  may  be  certain  of  complete  satisfaction,  be"  his 
tastes  never  so  fastidious,  if  he  but  visits  this  establishment.  The 
leather  goods  are  also  worthy  of  particular  attention,  as  they  are 
the  handsomest  ever  seen  in  this  city.  Persons  desiring  handsome 
frames  for  photographs  could  not  do  better  than  to  secure  some  of 
the  beautiful  Pans  panel  frames  to  be  seen  at  this  great  art  empo- 
rium. 


f\utU(T\T) 

5tyle5  and  Qolors. 

Our  importations  of  NOVELTIES  for 
the  fall  season  of  1892  have  all  been 
received.  Our  assortment  is  the 
largest  on  the  coast,  and  includes  the 
very  latest  novelties  of  the  world's 
production. 


A  visit  of  inspection  solicited. 


Ill  to  121  Post  Street 


CHAMPAGNE 

KRUG  &  CO.    "  PRIVATE  CUVEE." 

IN  QUARTS  AND   PINTS 


Krug  &  Co.,  Reims. 

.SOLD  BY  «U,  DB1LERS,  JOBBERS  ISD  KROCERS. 

HELLMANN    BROS.  &   CO, 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
525  Front  Street,  S/IN  FRANC/SCO.    Telephone m. m. 

MECHANICS'  PAVILION. 

Grand  Kirmbss  for  toe  Benekit  of  the  German  Old  People's 
Home.  Under  the  auspices  of  the  Associated  German  Societies 
of  San  Francisco  and  vicinity. 

September  20th  to  26th,  evenings.    Children's   matinee,  Saturday, 
September  24th,  at  2  p.  m. 

Tickets  50  cents;  children,  25  cents;  season  tickets,  $2. 


1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


ANDERSON'S    ACADEMY. 

KS  yetrs  igo,  in  a  room  only  a  <1or.en  feet  long,  and  a  foot 
O  less  in  width,  a  young  man  opened  a  private  school  in  this 
city.  It  was  devoid  of  luxurious  furnishings,  beingeven  without 
a  carpet,  iu  contents,  which  were  entirely  devoted  to  practical 
purposes,  being  twelve  desks  and  chain,  a  blackboard,  a  set  of 
small  maps  and  a  Webster's  I'nabridged  Dictionary.  The  room 
was  both  school  and  office.  The  young  teacher,  however,  bad  no 
need  for  aught  but  the  appliances  of  his  profession,  for  his  energy 
and  perseverance  were  such  that  they  more  than  made  up  for 
what  may  have  been  lacking  in  artistic  appearance.  He  had  no 
assistants,  and  besides  instructing  bis  pupil-*,  was  his  own  ac- 
countant and  janitor.  Before  the  end  of  the  second  year  his 
work  had  become  so  very  favorably  known  through  the  praises 
of  his  pupils,  that  he  found  it  necessary  to  enlarge  his  quarters 
and  to  supply  his  room  with  school  appliances.  One  pupil 
always  sent  him  from  one  to  three  more.  Assistant  teachers 
were  then  employed.  The  manager  appreciated  the  fact  that  to 
insure  further  success,  only  the  ablest  instructors  should  be  em- 
ployed. Following  out  this  idea,  and  employing  able  instructors 
as  business  demanded,  now,  seven  years  after  bis  humble  begin- 
ning. Mr.  K.  S.  Anderson  has  the  proud  satisfaction  of  being  not 
only  the  head  of  a  large  school,  but  the  owner  of  the  finest  private 
school  for  boys  in  the  city  of  San  Francisco,  and  probably  in  the 
State.  For  the  better  accommodation  of  his  rapidly  increasing 
number  of  pupils,  Mr.  Anderson,  on  June  1st  last,  purchased 
from  Col.  P.  A.  Finigan  the  valuable  property  at  1248  California 
street,  between  Jones  and  Leavenworth  streets.  This  property  is 
delightfully  situated  on  the  slope  of  Xob  Hill,  and  in  close  prox- 
imity to  the  famous  mansions  of  the  Crockers,  Floods,  Stanfords, 
Baldwins,  and  other  well-known  residences.  Desiring  to  give  his 
pupils  all  the  advantage  of  an  excellent  playground,  Mr.  Ander- 
son has  just  purchased  from  Mr.  Crocker  thirty  feet  adjoining  the 
school.  Upon  the  rear  of  the  lot  will  be  constructed  hand-ball 
and  tennis  courts,  and  the  front  will  be  laid  out  in  lawns  and 
flower  beds.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  academy  will  con- 
tinue upon  the  high  plane  upon  which  Mr.  Anderson  has  placed 
it.  He  is  a  scholar  of  more  than  usual  ability,  and  comes  from  a 
family  of  instructors,  his  father,  Professor  James  W.  Anderson, 
formerly  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  this  city,  being  now  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.  The  accompanying 
illustration  shows  the  academy  grounds  and  residence. 


AN    OAKLAND    FAITH    DANCE. 


THERE  is  nothing  in  all  Oakland  that  affords  the  young  men 
more  amusement  than  the  monthly  social  and  dance  given  by 
the  "  First  Woman's  Suffrage  Club,"  which  boasts  of  being  non- 
partisan and  creedless.  These  unique  affairs  are  held  in  Liberty 
Hall,  and  all  of  Oakland's  Four  Hundred  are  not  represented 
there.  The  President,  Mrs.  Poulson,  is  a  short-haired  spiritual- 
ist medium  with  a  very  masculine  voice,  and  she  superintends 
the  entertainments.  The  dances  might  properly  be  termed  "  faith 
dances,"  for  no  admission  fee  is  charged,  but  a  collection  is  taken 
up  to  pay  the  hall  rent  and  musicians.  This  invariably  falls 
short,  and  then  the  dignified  manager  straightens  herself  up  and 
says:  "  Young  men,  if  you  desire  a  dance  this  evening,  you  will 
have  to  contribute  your  share  of  the  proceeds."  This  appeal  never 
fails  to  bring  forth  a  few  dimes  and  nickels,  whereupon  the  merry 
dance  goes  on  for  a  few  sets.  Suddenly  the  pianist  stops  short 
and  the  violin  player  lays  his  instrument  down  and  a  look  of  de- 
termination settles  around  the  mouths  of  the  musical  strikers. 
Mrs.  Poulson's  eyes  flash  fire,  and  she  forthwith  makes  another 
speech  to  the  boys,  with  the  same  result,  and  the  musicians  thaw 
out  and  dancing  is  resumed  again.  This  same  thing  occurs  a 
number  of  times  during  the  evening,  the  money  raising  endeavors 
being  as  good  as  a  circus  for  the  young  folks,  but  exceedingly 
trying  to  the  President  and  musicians,  who  feel  the  responsibility 
of  the  occasion. 


THE  triumph  of  art  over  nature  is  illustrated  in  the  fact  that  an 
artist  recently  made  a  painting  of  some  beech  trees  in  an  old 
pasture,  that  he  sold  for  $280.  The  owner  of  the  pasture  parted 
company  with  his  property  at  about  the  same  time  for  $150,  and 
called  it  a  good  sale  at  that.  — Aiigusta  (Me.)  Farmer. 


^PRICE'S 


Powder 


Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the  Standard. 


MANSFIELD'S    IDIOSYNCRACIES. 

RICHARD  MANSFIELIi  has  been  runninR  a  tilt  against  the 
critics  in  the  North  American  Review,  and  the  irritability  he  dis- 
plays is  so  characteristic  of  the  man  that  one  cannot  help  being 
reminded  of  the  poet's  dictum  that  '•  madness  is  to  genius  near 
allied."  Thus  the  terribly  overbearing  manners  of  the  most  noble 
"  Dick  "  are  covered  with  a  mantle  of  charily  when  it  is  allowed 
that  they  are  the  necessary  accompaniment  of  the  genius  with 
which  he  is  credited— by  his  friends.  With  bis  company  he  is 
autocratic— nay,  despotic  in  his  rule,  brooking  no  opposition. 
All  must  see  with  his  eyes  and  understand  with  his  understand- 
ing, or  so  much  the  worse  for  them.  Everyone  will  remember 
pretty  Lucy  Buckstone,  the  little  Englishwoman  who  played  in 
his  company  at  the  Baldwin.  Rehearsing  one  morning  while 
here,  the  words  "  fell  not  trippingly  off  her  tongue,"  and  the 
Baron  Chevreuil  thundered  at  her.  Again  she  essayed  to  please, 
but  made  a  failure.  Crossing  the  stage  with  tragic  stride, 
and  gripping  the  little  woman  by  the  arm,  the  irate  Baron 
hissed  in  her  ear  his  disapprobation  in  forcible 
language.  The  plucky  actress,  releasing  herself  from 
his  grasp,  made  for  the  door  and  went  home,  leaving  the  rest  of 
the  company  to  enjoy  the  remainder  of  the  fun.  Later  in  the 
day  a  basket  of  lovely  roses  was  received  by  her  from  Mansfield, 
with  a  note  that  made  peace.  She  carried  blue  marks  on  her  arm, 
though.  His  passion  for  absolutely  ruling  all  with  whom  he 
comes  in  contact  amounts  almost  to  an  idiosyncracy.  At  the 
conclusion  of  the  last  season  he  intended  to  go  yachting,  and  had 
almost  concluded  negotiations  for  a  trim  little  craft.  The  owner 
waited  upon  Mansfield  one  night,  in  his  dressing-room,  for  the 
purpose  of  concluding  the  bargain,  and  was  surprised  when  the 
actor  said:  "  Now,  there's  just  one  thing  more;  the  captain  and 
crew  will  be  absolutely  under  ray  orders,  will  they  not?"  "Cer- 
tainly," was  the  reply. 

"  And  if  I  see  fit,  I  can  discharge  both  captain  and  crew  ?  " 

"  Well,  no,  that's  not  possible,"  was  the  answer. 

"  All  right,  then,"  interrupted  the  autocrat,  "the  bargain's  off, 
I  won't  go," 

All  attempts  to  explain  that  the  crew  was  a  tried  and  experi- 
enced one  were  unavailing,  and  the  yachting  trip  did  not  take 
place.  Since  then,  on  more  than  one  occasion,  while  on  tour, 
Mansfield  has  discharged  his  company — every  man-jack  of  them — 
but  when  good  sence  again  asserted  itself,  they  all  returned,  and 
things  drifted  along  peacefully  until  the  next  explosion. 


HIGHLAND 


A    TABLE    LUXURY, 

A    CULINARY    ARTICLE, 

AN    INFANTS    FOOD, 
HIGHLAND  EVAPORATED  CREAM 

Is  unsweetened  and  free  from  all  preservatives.  Retains 
its  delicious  and  wholesome  qualities  for  an  indefinite  time  in 
all  climates  and  aL  all  seasons. 

Sold  by  Grocers  and  Druggists  Everywhere. 

Write    for    our     Infant    Food    circular    and    Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  booklet  entitled  "A  Few  Dainty  Dishes." 

HELVETIA  MILK   CONDENSING  CO., 
Sole  Purveyors,  Highland,  III 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 

Mr.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

CUNNINGHAM  CURTISS,  &  WELCH, 

WHOLESALE  STATIONERS  AND  BOOKSELLERS, 

327,   329,    331    SANSOME    SIBEE1. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.   IV,  1892. 


[e&Si/jigllfctfD 


'  "We   Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


MESSRS.  B1SS0N  AND  CARRE  Beera  to  be  an  exhaustless 
fount  fur  the  ereat  American  adapter  to  draw  upon.  The 
Junior  Partner  is  in  one  respect  an  improvement  on  its  predecessors 
here.  It  is  cleaner  in  plot  and  freer  from  objectionable  suggest- 
iveness  in  dialogue,  though  the  latter  crops  out  once  or  twice — 
just  enough  to  remind  us  of  the  authorship.  Being  the  latest 
seen  here,  and  drawn  essentially  on  the  familiar  Bisson-Carr<3 
lines  of  mystification  and  entanglement  of  husbands,  wives,  and 
sweethearts,  it  is  liable  to  strike  the  average  auditor  as  less  orig- 
inal. The  charge  is  not  a  fair  one,  the  question  being  entirely  of 
precedence  in  composition,  and  some  of  the  features  are  new ; 
for  example,  the  loaned  legacy  and  the  landlord's  acting  as  a  self- 
appointed  matrimonial  broker  and  getting  young  Boulestin  into 
the  wrong  room,  a  mistake  resulting  in  his  enforced  marriage, 
which  gives  a  good  basis  for  the  well-known  superstructure  of 
misunderstandings,  deceptions,  and  final  straightening  out,  that 
form  the  essential  element  of  the  farces  of  the  prolific  collabora- 
tors. 

*  »  * 

The  play  is  more  than  lucky  in  its  interpreters  at  the  Cali- 
fornia. The  cast  is  a  short  one,  but  it  is  so  excellently  made  up 
as  to  warrant  the  credit  being  given  to  Mr.  Frohman  that  equally 
good  people  would  have  been  provided  to  fill  out  a  more 
extensive  list.  The  audience  which  filled  the  large  au- 
ditorium on  Monday  night  seemed  to  wait  with  more 
than  ordinary  interest  the  rising  of  the  curtain  on  its 
old  friends  and  favorites,  for  all  the  leading  people  are  as  well- 
known  as  well-liked  by  our  theatre-goers.  Henry  Miller,  the 
unwillingly-wed  Junior  Partner,  is  the  central  figure,  though"  the 
interest  and  the  work  are  very  evenly  apportioned.  Mr.  Miller  is 
always  Mr.  Miller  in  comedy,  but  he  makes  much  more  of  his 
part  in  the  farce  than  he  did  in  All  the  Comforts  of  Home  (in  which 
he  made  something  like  a  scoop-net  haul  of  feminine  San  Fran- 
cisco), and  shows  a  sense  of  humor  which,  if  less  finely  outlined, 
is  decidedly  more  tangible  and  intelligible  to  "  the  general."  Hugo 
Toland,  the  senior  but  not  very  senior  partner,  is  somewhat 
heavier  and  less  alert,  but  he  meets  the  requirements  of  his  role, 
and  makes  an  agreeable  foil  to  bis  more  mercurial  associate. 
Mrs.  Rantin  is  as  charmingly  easy  and  intelligent  as  of  old,  if 
even  in  this  phrase  the  word  old  will  ever  come  to  apply  to  this 
delightful  actress.  Certainly  it  will  not  while  her  eyes  are  as 
bright,  and  her  smile  as  bewitching  as  at  present.  Nothing  but 
the  most  exclusive  prior  attachment  could  have  made  it  possible 
for  Henry  Miller  to  resist  such  a  muther-in-law.  Emily  Bancker 
made  an  admirable  young  widow,  throwing  into  her  part  a  flavor 
of  well-bred  fine  ladyhood,  refreshing  indetd  in  the  general  vul- 
garization of  the  humorous  on  the  stage,  and  May  Irwin  cap- 
tured the  audience  in  her  very  first  straightforward  question, 
with  its  evident  applicability  to  fact  or  fancy,  "  Grown  fat, 
haven't  I?"  The  genuine  appreciation  of  humor,  and  the  ability 
to  make  her  audience  feel  it,  which  made  May  Irwin  exception- 
ally clever  in  specialty,  comes  out  as  effectively  in  a  sustained 
comedy  role,  and  her  personation  of  the  straightforward,  honest- 
hearted  "  Nelly"  is  a  creation  in  its  way.  The  minor  parts,  by 
Phyllis  Rankin,  Thomas  W.  Ryley,  and  P.  W.  Strong  are  similarly 
well  taken. 

w  *   * 

The  first  production  of  The  New  South,  by  Clay  M.  Greene  and 
J.  R.  Grismer,  at  Stockwell's  Theatre,  last  Monday  night,  was 
greeted  by  a  large  audience,  and  the  new  play  was  exceedingly 
well  received.  The  drama  deals  with  the  question  of  convict  la- 
bor, though  incidentally  rather  than  objectively.  The  story  is 
both  dramatic  and  interesting;  it  is  well  worked  up,  and  the  dia- 
logue has  more  than  average  merit.  Mr.  Grismer  figures,  as  usual 
as  a  persecuted  hero,  a  role  which  must  be  second  nature  to  him. 
To  enjoy  the  performance,  good  as  it  ia,  one  should  forget  that 
the  actor  wrote  it  up,  heroics  and  all,  for  himself,  but  Mr.  Gris- 
mer is  not  the  man  to  make  one  so  forget.  To  do  bim  justice,  he 
does  not  betray  outwardly  the  self-consciousness  with  which  he 
is  credited,  yet  the  persuasion  of  it  is  ever  present  and  takes 
something  from  the  satisfaction  in  his  undeniably  good  work. 
Phcebe  Davies  has  a  fine  emotional  part  in  Georgia  Gwynne,  and 
she  plays  it  with  her  accustomed  feeling  and  depth  of  sentiment 
and  emotion.  Bebe  Vining  is  too  conspicuous  and  demonstra- 
tive even  for  a  comedy  ingenue,  but  she  gives  some  spirited 
touches  to  the  part,  and  the  gallery  approves  of  her  all  the  time. 
Hevenard  Hoyte  makes  a  good  old-time  Southerner,  and  the 
minor  parts  are  acceptably  filled.  Miss  Eleanor  Barry  is  welcome 
back  to  the  local  stage,  and  plays  the  part  of  the  kindly  young 
widow,  Mrs.  Newport,  quietly  and  prettily.  There  is  a  promise 
of  excellent  business  at  the  new  theatre  during  this  engagement. 
*  •  * 

La  Cigale  continues  at  the  Baldwin  to  fairly  good  houses.  It 
may  be  a  comfort  to  the  manager  that  each  auditor  represents 


two  big  round  dollars  instead  of  one  and  a  balf,  and  that  four 
rows  of  empty  seats  at  the  back  are  more  than  offset  in  the 
money  balance  by  the  front  rows  and  orchestra.  But  the  re- 
flection is  not  so  inspiring  to  actors  or  audience.  A  full  house  is 
always  an  enthusiastic  one.  The  people  on  the  stage  feel  the  in- 
spiration, and  all  goes  merry  on  both  sides  of  the  footlights.  If 
a  manager  can  fill  a  theatre  at  two  dollars  through  bis  engage- 
ment, he  would  be  foolish  to  take  less.  If  be  cannot,  he  would 
better  charge  regular  rates  and  cram  the  house.  Humanity 
warms  up  by  contact,  and  every  space  in  a  theatre  is  a  moral  as 
well  as  physical  refrigerator.  There  may  be  as  much  money  one 
way  as  the  other,  by  present  actual  count;  but  the  impression  of 
success  is  worth    more   than   a   little,  even   as  a  factor  in  future 

money-making. 

»  »  « 

With  all  its  pretty  music  and  the  brightness  and  sparkle  of  its 
Baldwin  production,  La  Cigale  as  a  whole  would  be  dreary  stuff 
with  anything  less  excellent  than  Mr.  French's  production.  The 
application  of  the  classic  fable  is  forced;  it  arouses  no  interest 
and  inculcates  no  lesson.  Even  with  the  best  efforts  of  the  com- 
pany the  opera  drags  in  places,  and  there  is  a  feeling  of  being 
needlessly  detained,  and  that  the  waits  between  acts  are  uncon- 
scionably long.  When  an  audience  turns  its  back  on  such  sing- 
ers as  Lillian  Russell,  Ada  Dare,  Hayden  Coffin,  and  the  rest  of 
this  line  company,  and  yawns  its  way  listlessly  out  of  the  theatre, 
it  is  a  bad  sign  for  the  play.  Youth  and  beauty  and  grace  and 
good  voices  are  potent  conjurers  away  of  lagging  time,  but  La 
Cigale,  as  any  naturalist  can  tell  us,  has  no  wings  to  aid  slow 
tempus  to  fugit  withal.  The  Mountebank,  Gilbert  and  Cellier's  new 
opera,  will  doubtless  be  an  improvement.  It  will  have  its  first 
production  on  American  soil  during  this  engagement,  and  the 
prideful  interest  of  San  Francisco  is  raised  above  blood  heat  by 
the  reflection.  It  is  safe  to  promise  that  no  "two-dollars-a-seat" 
notice  will  scare  anybody  away  from  the  Baldwin  on  the  open- 
ing night  of  The  Mountebanks. 

*  #  # 

The  Bush  will  reopen  to-night  with  Daniel  Sully  in  The  Million- 
aire. Most  theatre-goers  are  familiar  with  Leander  Richardson's 
drama,  but  its  repetition  is  justifiable,  while  the  character  of 
James  O'Brien,  the  contractor,  affords  Mr.  Sully  so  fine  a  field 
for  displaying  the  quiet  strength  of  his  Irish  delineations,  in 
which  line  he  may  claim  tbe  distinction  of  being  the  most  effective 
illustrator  of  the  difference  between  the  stage  Irishman  and  the 
Irishman  as  he  is.  During  tbe  present  engagement  Mr.  Sully 
will  also  produce  Tammany  Hall. 

•  #  * 

The  Musketeers  has  been  the  week's  attraction  at  the  Tivoli. 
With  possibly  tbe  exception  of  Mr.  Knight,  who,  as  Count  de 
Pontcourlay,  seems  to  make  little  out  of  character  or  music,  the 
cast  is  so  good  as  to  make  any  distinction  almost  out  of  place. 
The  humor  in  which  Varney's  lively  opera  abounds  is  well 
brought  out,  the  familiar  convent  scene  being  especially  enjoy- 
able.    Next  week,  Olivette, 

*  *  # 

The  attention  shown  to  the  readings  of  Mr.  George  Riddle,  on 
this,  his  third  visit  to  San  Francisco,  is  a  just  tribute  to  the  read- 


17.  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


er»  abiliiy.  On  Monday  night  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  was  filled  with 
an  intelligent  ami  cultured  audience,  whose  enjoyment  rose  to 
enthusiasm  at  many  points  of  the  reading.  The  fire  and  intensity 
which  Mr.  Kiddle  throw*  into  the  more  dramatic  passages  of  his 
selections  seem  to  tit  him  peculiarly  for  an  interpreter  of  Shake- 
speare, and  it  will  be  a  welcome  announcement  that  arrangements 
are  in  progress  for  his  remarkable  presentation  of  A  Midxuvuncr 
fhtam,  with  full  orchestral  and  choral  accompaniment. 
Such  a  production  is  an  event  rare  indeed  in  this  city,  and  will 
attract  more  than  ordinary  interest  among  all  classes.  Mr. 
Riddle's  next  reading  will  be  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  on  the  28th 
inst.,  the  subject.  '*  Hamlet.  Prince  of  Denmark." 
•  •  * 
The  one  coucert.  given  last  Tuesday  evening,  by  William  H. 
Sherwood,  the  pianist,  was  too  little  to  satisfy  those  fortunate 
enough  to  hear  him.  Mr.  Sherwood  possesses  in  so  eminent  a 
degree  all  the  requirements  for  a  pianist  of  a  high  order,  that  any 
failure  to  satisfy  fully  the  most  critical  must  be  the  result  of 
differing  personal  taste  in  regard  to  the  interpretation  and  not  to 
any  fault,  technical  or  artistic,  in  the  pianist.  It  is  hard  to  say 
whether  the  satisfaction  was  greater  in  his  rendering  of  brilliant 
selections  like  the  Chopin  polonaise  or  in  the  soulful  melody  of 
his  Mendelssohn  number  (song  without  words,  No.  22  in  F  major), 
not  a  note  of  whose  exquisite  theme  was  sacrificed  to  the  equally 
delightful  accompaniment.  His  runs  are  models  of  rapidity  and 
clearness,  showily  brilliant  or  marvelously  delicate,  but  always 
distinct  even  to  the  lightest  pianissimo.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
this  is  not  Mr.  Sherwood's  last  visit. 
»  »  » 

The  subject  of  David  Lesser  Le/.ynsky's  last  reading  and  lecture, 
given  at  bis  handsome  rooms  in  the  Crocker  Building  Wednesday 
evening,  was  Shakespeare.  Mr.  Lezyinsky  displayed  a  keen  and 
loving  appreciation  of  his  subject  and  considerable  research.  An 
evening  so  spent  can  but  be  a  pleasure  and  a  benefit,  either  as 
giving  new  ideas  or  as  a  pleasant  reminder  of  facts  already  familiar. 
Mr.  Lezynsky's  readings  should  have  a  more  extensive  patronage. 
The  next  will  take  place  September  22nd. 

*  *  * 

The  coming  week  will  be  marked  by  one  dramatic  event  of 
more  than  ordinary  interest  in  the  production  of  the  The  Mounte- 
banks at  the  Baldwin  for  the  first  time  in  America.  When  Gilbert 
is  librettist,  the  words  can  never  be  secondary  to  the  music,  and 
in  The  Mountebanks  they  are  said  to  take  the  lead  in  importance. 
Cellier,  the  composer,  who  has  just  passed  away,  has  put  some 
of  his  best  work  into  the  new  opera,  and  as  he  was  a  master  of 
fanciful  orchestration,  always  tuneful,  graceful,  and  distinctly 
humorous,  the  music  should  be  worthy  of  the  words.  The  Mounte- 
banks  will  have  its  first  presentation  Thursday  evening,  Septem- 
ber 22d. 

•  •  • 

The  central  idea  in  The  Mountebanks  is  a  favorite  Gilbertian  de- 
vice, and  is  allied  to  that  of  The  Palace  of  Truth  and  The  Sorcerer, 
being  that  of  a  potion   which   can   transform   the  one  who  swal- 
lows it  into  whatever  form  he  may  choose. 
»  #  » 

The  mere  whisper  tnat  Paderewski  is  comiDg,  Paderewski, 
over  whose  wonderful  technique  and  as  wonderfully  magnetic 
personality  Europe  and  the  East  have  gone  crazy,  was  enough  to 
set  musical  San  Francisco  in  a  fl  utter ;  and  now  the  arrangements 
are  completed  and  the  date  of  the  first  recital  is  fixed  for  Novem- 
ber 19th.  Some  estimate  of  the  drawing  power  of  this  great  artist 
may  be  formed  from  the  fact  that  at  his  farewell  matinee  last 
March  at  Carnegie's  Hall,  New  York  city,  the  receipts  were 
$7,417.  The  culture  and  fashion  of  the  Pacific  Coast  will  wel- 
come with  unwonted  warmth  the  fascinating  Pole,  who  can  roar 
equally  well  as  a  social  or  artistic  lion. 
*  *  # 

The  following  numbers  will  form  the  programme  for  the  first 
Carr-Beel  "Pop,"  to  be  given  Saturday  afternoon,  September 
24th:  Trio  in  D,  Beethoven,  Mrs.  Carr  and  Messrs.  Beel  and 
Heine;  Highland  ballad,  Mackenzie,  Sigmund  Beel;  trio  for 
piano,  violin  and  cello,  Tschaikowsky,  by  the  Pop  trio.  The 
two  numbers  last  named  have  never  been  performed  here. 

#  #  * 

The  womanly  charm  of  Miss  Ada  Dare's  presence  in  La  Cigale, 
added  to  her  fine  voice  and  artistic  singing,  entitles  her  to  a  place 
differing  in  kind,  rather  than  in  rank,  from  that  of  the  starherself. 
As  the  high-born  but  facile  Duchess  of  Fayensberg,  she  wears  her 
honors  with  the  gracious  pride  of  a  great  lady  to  the  manner 
born.  If  it  is  true  that  Lillian  Russell  was  ever  so  unjust  to  her 
own  loveliness  as  to  harbor  within  her  snowy  bosom  the  monster 
jealousy,  to  the  extent  of  demanding  the  dismissal  from  the  com- 
pany of  a  fascinating   metropolitan   actress,   Ada  Dare  would  do 

well  to  look  out  for  herself. 

*  «  » 

Louis  Harrison's  encouraging  reference  to  "Between  you  and 
me — you  and  I  as  pronounced  by  the  average  man,"  might  justify 
the  hope  that  he  would  extend  his  critical  usefulness  to  the  com- 
pany, instead  of  permitting  Miss  Russell ,  unwarned  of  the  atrocity, 
to  go  on  singing  night  after  night,  "  One  to  divide  between  the 
three  1  "     Since  "among  "   is  identical  with  "between  "  in  accent 


and  syllabication,  there  is  not  even  a  rhythmic  justification  for  the 
outrage.  A  preposition  is  a  small  thing,  Lillian ;  but,  like  an  In- 
dian club,  an  actress  may  swing  one  so  clumsily  as  to  lay  herself 
out  with  it. 

*  *  • 
John  Robinson's  circus  has  been  delighting  the  children  (old 
and  young)  all  this  week  at  Central  Park.  Mr.  Robinson  gives 
his  patrons  so  many  sights  for  their  money  that  the  visitor  needs 
more  eye-lenses  than  a  fly  to  take  them  all  in  at  one  visit.  There 
will  be  a  grand  rush  to  the  final  performance  to-night. 
»  »  • 

The  Geo.  W.  Lederer  stock  company  of  comedians  will  appear 
at  Stockwell's,  Monday,  September  26th,  opening  in  Mrs.  Pa- 
checo's  new  comedy,  Nothing  But  Money.  A  new  farcical  comedy 
by  Kirke  la  Shelle,  entitled    Divorce   Day,  will   also   be   produced 

during   the   Lederer  engagement. Niobe,  a   new  comedy,  will 

follow  the   Lillian    Russell    company    at   the    Baldwin. Gus 

Heege,  in  Yon  Yonson,  will  follow  The  Junior  Partner  at  the  Cali- 
fornia.  Miss  May  Worth,  who  made  so  successful   a  debut   at 

the  Philharmonic  concert  last  spring,  has  signed  with  the  Boston 
Lyceum  Concert  company,  which  she  will  join  in  Chicago  October 
15th. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  always  has  on  hand  the 
very  latest  and  best  of  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods.  His  stock  of 
shirts  and  underwear  cannot  be  excelled  anywhere  in  the  city. 

BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

AlHayman&Co Proprietors.  I  Alfred  Bouvier Manager 

Every  evening  at  8.  Matinee  Saturday.  LILLIAN  RUSSELL  Opera  Com- 
ique  Company,  in  the  beautiful  and  successful 

"LA    CIGALE.  " 

EXTRA!  Next  week,  Monday,  Tuesday,  and  Weduesday,  last  time,  LA 
CIGALE. 

Thursday,  September  22d,  nine  nights  only,  first  American  production 
of  Cellier  &  Gilbert's  Opera,  THE  MOUNTEBANKS. 

Prices— $2,  $1.50,  SI,  50  cents. 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 


al  Hayman  (fcCo Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob  . 


.  Manager. 


:  *  Last  week !  *: 

: Matinee  Saturday.  : 

\  THE   JUNIOR    PARTNER.  \ 

Preceded  by  the  one-act  play  : 

:  *    FREDERIC  LEMAITRE.    *: 

Under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Chas.  Frohman. 
Nothing   more  uproarously  funny  than  the   first.     Nothing  more  ex- 
quisitely delicate  than  the  second  named  play. 
Monday,  September  26th,  VON  YONSON. 


STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 


L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse Business  Manager. 

Last  week.    September    19th.      Special  Thursday   matinee,    including 
matinee  Saturday. 

In  the  latest 

Joseph  R.  and  most  :        Phoebe  : 

Grismer,  successful  Davies.         : 

American  Drama,    

THE     NEW    SOUTH. 
Commencing  next  Monday,  September  26th,  The  George  W.  Lederer's 
stock    commediaus,   in    NOTHING  BUT    MONEY.      By  Mrs.    Romualdo 
Pacheco,  author  of  "Incog,"  etc.,  etc. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Beos Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  Two  Night !    Varney's  Melodious  Opera, 

THE     MUSKETEERS. 

Monday,  September  19th,  OLIVETTE. 
Popolae  Peices 25c.  and  50c* 

WIGWAM  THEATRE. 

(Corner  Stockton  and  Geary  streets,  S.  F.  Cal.) 
Chas.  Meyer    Proprietor  and  Manager 

San  Francisco's  recognized  Vaudeville  family  resort.    Week  commenc- 
ing Monday  evening,  September  12th. 

PIN-A-4, 
OR,  THE  LASS  THAT  LOVED  A  SAILOR.  Lew  Johnson's  original  Ten- 
nessee singers,  Laziola  Sisters,  in  their  novelty  dancing  act.  Mile.  Min- 
netta,  the  wonderful  female  Sampson.  Artistes:  Theo.  F.  Barretta,  Miss 
Pearl  Iuman,  Fred  Bulla  and  Frank  Foley.  Beatrice  James,  John  Perry, 
Thos.  C.  Leary.    Sept.  26th,  great  novelties  direct  from  Europe. 

Popular  Priceb  Admission  10c ;  Reserved  Seats,  25c 

SUBSCRIPTION  TICKETS  FOR  THE 

FOURTH     SERIES     OF 

CARR-BEEL    SATURDAY    POPULAR    CONCERTS 

Can  now  be  had  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.    Single  subscription  for  four 
concerts,  including  reserved  seat,  S3.  ...       „  „ 

First  concert  takes  place  September  24th  at  3  p.  m.  in  Irving  Hall. 

fS I  A  fll^\0  Knalje,    Haines, 

r  I  IK  IV  WO  Bush  &  Gerts, «»  others. 

^^  Cashorinstallnients.  Rented 

and  Repaired.     Please  call  or  send  for  circulars.' 


80S  Sutter 
St.,  S.  P. 


BANCROFT 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


LEGAL    GOURMETS. 


"  /"VNLY  two  weeks  more,  and  the  markets  will  bloom  again." 
\J  The  speaker  was  a  lawyer,  and  waa,  like  the  majority  of 
his  professional  brethren  in  San  Francisco,  a  gourmet.  He  was 
toying,  in  a  melancholy  fashion,  with  a  tough  beafsteak.  His 
eyes  had  a  dreamy,  far-away  look.  His  thoughts  at  thatmoment 
were  with  canvas  back.  Though  our  world  of  to-day  is  puny, 
indeed,  beside  the  antique  world,  and  our  banquets  mean  and 
niggardly,  compared  with  the  appalling  sumptuousness  of  the 
Roman  patricians;  though  all  San  Francisco  could  subsist  for 
twenty-four  hours  upon  the  leavings  of  one  supper  given  by  Lu- 
cullus  to  a  few  intimate  frienas,  yet,  according  to  our  circum- 
stances, we  manage  to  live  moderately  well.  True,  we  have  not 
dishes  of  phenicopter's  tongues,  and  the  livers  of  scarus  fisb  ; 
the  eels,  fattened  upon  human  flesh,  and  cooked  in  brine;  the 
dishes  of  peacock's  brains;  the  boars  stuffed  with  living  birds, 
but  we  have  the  canvas  back,  and  that  is  pretty  good  for  us,  all 
things  considered.  We  are  now  upon  the  very  threshold  of  the 
advent  of  this  well-beloved  and  gracious  bird.  He  may  be  thin 
and  a  trifle  weary,  from  his  long  journey,  when  he  comes,  but  we 
shall  take  the  lean  with  thanks,  as  a  promise  of  his  fatter  breth- 
ren when  the  wild  celery  has  done  its  good  work.  All  gourmets 
are  not  necessarily  big  and  fleshy.  The  capun  does  not  always 
lard  the  intestines  of  the  consumer,  as  wine  does  not  always 
flush  the  nose  of  the  toper.  The  world  abounds  in  pallid-nosed 
drinkers,  who  can  see  the  most  rubicund  swiper  in  a  regiment  of 
revelers  under  the  table,  while  he  remains  as  calm  and  thirsty  as 
at  the  explosion  of  the  first  cork. 

Horace  Piatt  is  a  gourmet,  yet  not  even  bis  most  enthusiastic 
admirer  could  accuse  the  gentle  and  witty  Horace  of  obesity. 
Yet  Horace  is  a  brave  trencherman.  He  wields  an  effective 
knife  and  fork,  does  Horace.  His  favorite  dish  is  a  saddle  of 
mutton.  He  declares  that  while  any  rude,  uncultured  carver, 
may  slice  the  meat  freely  and  even  porportionately  from  a  leg  of 
mutton,  or  a  round  of  beef,  it  requires  an  artist  to  disintegrate  a 
saddle  of  mutton.  When  the  keen  steel  gleams  in  the  lady-like 
hand  of  Mr.  Piatt,  a  thrill  of  expectation  goes  around  the  table 
While  another  would  be  groping  around  the  vertebral  joints,  the 
saddle  is  carved,  and  the  mouth  of  Horace  is  crimsoned  with  the 
delicious  blood  gravy. 

Colonel  Kowalsky  despises  mutton.  A  chop  he  considers 
effeminate,  a  kidney  fitted  only  for  a  lady's  boudoir,  and  not  for 
men  of  brawn  and  muscle.  The  woodquestor  wild  pigeon  is  the 
Colonel's  joy.  "  He  is  hard,"  he  says,  "  and  toagb.  Hia  sinews 
are  like  whip-cord,  his  flesh  like  glue,  his  bones  like  granite. 
No  toothless  mumbler  can  fool  with  the  wild  pigeon.  But  I, 
with  my  magnificent  molara  and  incisors,  which  come  together 
with  a  snap,  a  resonent  snap  like  the  clash  of  the  Bteel  jaws  of  a 
fox  trap— I  gr-r-r-rd  him  "—and  the  way  the  Colonel  rolls  bis 
«•  r'a  "  at  this  descriptive  passage  is  awfully  trying  to  the  nerves. 
"  There  is  marrow  in  the  pigeon's  bones,  sir,  which  must  be  got 
out,"  he  continues.  "  Ho,  ho,  ho.  It  would  require  a  mortar 
and  pestle  for  your  ordinary  feeder  to  get  at  it,  but  1  gr-r-r-rd  it 
out  with  nature's  own  quartz  mill,  my  teeth." 

Judge  Garber  is  devoted  to  wild  fowl,  but  in  the  close  season 
consoles  himself  with  turtle  steak,  a  dish  of  which  he  is  exceed- 
ingly fond.  He  likes  them  with  port  wine  sauce,  and  well  sea- 
soned with  Mexican  peppers.  The  Judge  has  a  theory  that  turtle 
tends  to  make  a  man  reflective.  "  How  can  it  be  otherwise?" 
argues  that  wise  jurist.  "Consider  the  habits  of  the  turtle. 
When  he  is  not  ashore  attending  to  his  family  duties,  he  is  float- 
ing on  the  breast  of  some  tropical  sea,  perfectly  free  from  worry, 
and  making  the  most  of  life  in  hie  own  way.  Every  one  who 
has  brain  work  to  do  should  eat  plentifully  of  turtle.  We  are 
nearly  all  of  us  too  nervous  and  high  strung  in  thia  country. 
What  we  moat  require  is  repose,  and  the  flesh  of  the  turtle  is  im- 
pregnated with  that  valuable  quality.  The  disposition  of  the 
terrapin  is  frivolous  by  comparison  with  the  staid  demeanor  of 
his  brother,  the  turtle.  No,  indeed,  nobody  can  fool  me  with 
mock  turtle,  nor  do  I  believe,  with  Mr.  Piatt,  that  the  mock  turtle 
is  an  animal  found  in  great  numbers  in  the  island  of  Catalina." 

Lyman  Mowry,  since  hia  practice  of  the  law  among  the  Chi- 
nese, has  undergone  a  complete  change  of  taste  in  regard  to 
gourmandaisc.  Mr.  Mowry,  in  the  old  days  of  the  California 
Club,  was  a  quail-on-toast  man  of  the  mostpronounced  character. 
He  liked  Burgundy,  but  waa  a  foe  to  light  red  wines,  which  he 
affirmed  thinned  the  blood,  and  were  not  wholesome in  the  ab- 
stract. Now  Mr.  Mowry  is  a  believer  in  preserved  ginger,  tiny 
confections  and  Mandarin  tea.  He  contends  that  rice  is  a  most 
nourishing  and  easily  digested  diet,  and  that  only  those  who  have 
partaken  of  glazed  hog,  properly  prepared,  can  appreciate  its  de- 
licious qualities.  There  are  dark  rumors  that  Mr.  Mowry  has 
gone  even  farther  in  his  investigations  of  a  conversion  to  Oriental 
viands,  and  that  he  has  been  heard  to  "  miaow  "  in  hia  sleep,  but 
those  have  not  been  circulated  by  any  reliable  authority.  Neither 
is  the  statement  that  Mr.  Frank  Commina'  rat  terrier  Lily  barked 
furiously  and  grew  excited  when  nosing  Mr.  Mowry,  to  be  re- 
ceived with  credence. 

Mr.  William  Beverley  Sharp  has  a  weakness  for  pork  tender- 
loins. A  heavy  consumer  of  wild  game  in  the  season,  Mr.  Sharp 
may  flit  from  snipe  to  quail,  and   from  quail  to  mallard,  bat  he 


always  returns  to  pork.  He  is  a  profound  philosopher,  and 
argues  that  the  pig  per  se  is  the  most  epicurean  animal  in  the  en- 
tire range  of  animated  nature.  <<  He  is  the  only  domestic  quad- 
ruped we  devour,"  aays  Mr.  Sharp,  "  wise  enough  to  give  nothing 
to  humanity  but  bis  remains,  and  that  only  when  he  cannot 
avert  the  final  catastrophe.  You  may  remark  that  the  ox  works 
in  harness,  the  cow  is  milked,  likewise  the  goat;  the  sheep  yields 
his  fleece,  but  the  pig  defies  man  to  make  any  use  of  him  until 
after  his  death,  unless,  indeed,  he  may  be  pressed  into  service  in 
a  circus,  and  then  he  is  treated  with  honor  and  distinction,  and 
receives  the  applause  of  multitudes.  Hia  preparation  for  the 
sacrifice  is  sublimely  exquisite.  He  exists,  in  a  hog  aense,  in 
the  lap  of  luxury.  He  is  gorged  with  corn  and  intoxicated  with 
swill.  Fair  women  bend  over  him,  and  acratch  bis  fat  sides  with 
their  pinky  and  well  manicured  nails.  He  is  the  pride  of  hia 
master,  and  the  boast  of  the  neighborhood  he  honors  by  the  tak- 
ing on  of  fat.  His  death  is  an  imposing  ceremony,  and  after 
death  he  is  illustrious,  as  he  hangs  in  the  market  stall  with  his 
full  weight  proudly  placarded  upon  him.  And  as  the  prime 
philosopher  of  the  edible  quadruped,  I  contend  that  he  is  fit  and 
becoming  food  for  the  human  sage." 

Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright, 'Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others — continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Gearj',  San  Francisco. 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-Iaw,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building:.  San  Francisco. 


/ETNA 

HOT 


Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  mouir 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac- 
commodations.   Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Wafer 

The  waters  of  the  .Etna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liverand 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  "temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
niost  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fo^s !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

TelepUone  536.  ofllce,  108  llrnnim  Street,  S. F 


YOU'RE    OUT 

If  you  don't  so  to 

NAPA  SODA 
SPRINGS 


THIS     SUMMER. 


What  Do  You  Want  ? 


A  Climate  that  beats  Italy.  No  Malaria  or  Cold 
Sea  Air.  Health-giving  Mineral  Water.  Cuisine 
and  Service  Unexceptionable.  Comfortable  Beds. 
Table  First  Quality.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Every  Room.  Hot  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  Trains  Every  Day. 
All  Visitors  are  Satisfied. 

ANDREW  JACKSON,      -       -       -       PROPRIETOR. 

Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 

LOUIS  R0EDERER  CHAMPAGNE. 

The  Highest  tirade  Champagne  in  the  World. 
C-A-IRTE    BLAHOHE." 

(WHITE    LABEL) 

A  Magnificent  Rich  Wine. 

£-C3-E-A-3srx)  srxisr  sec," 

(brown  label) 

Perfection  of  a  Dry  Wine. 

See  that  every  Bottle  bears  the  private  labelof 

MACONDRAY   &   CO., 

Soie  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 


>t.  17,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


0 


WHAT    THE    DRESSMAKER    SAID. 
[B  t    Pi    Viiioi.] 

"  \A7  ELL,"  said  Ihe  dressmaker  to  a  representative  of  the  News 
VV  Lkttf.r,  ■•  some  people  are  always  talking  about  the  dis- 
honesty of  dressmakers  ami  milliners.  They  tell  all  sorts  of 
stories  about  overcharges  ami  the  disappearance  of  yards  and 
yards  of  their  own  material,  and  the  substitution  of  an  inferior 
quality  of  linings  and  whalebones,  which  go  down  on  the  bill  as 
findings.  They  tell  how.  after  solemn  promises  not  to  duplicate 
a  dress  or  a  hat.  those  who  make  them  break  their  word,  and 
their  patrons'  hearts  at  the  same  time,  by  throwing  a  much 
prized  and  expensive  creation  into  the  shade  by  something  still 
more  elegant,  although  provokingly  like  the  first.  Well,  perhaps 
these  things  are  done.  I've  worked  in  a  shop,  and  I  know  that 
at  the  lime,  somethings  struck  me  as  a  little  crooked. 

"  But  I  wonder  that  no  one  ever  bothers  to  write  up  the  other 
side  of  the  story.  Perhaps  it  is  because  the  dressmakers  them- 
selves do  not  write  for  the  papers,  and  those  who  do,  belong  to 
the  class  who  employ  dressmakers. 

■•  What  is  the  other  side?  Well,  just  let  me  tell  you  a  few  of 
my  grievances.  You  know  that  I  began  as  a  very  young  girl,  in 
my  teens,  to  learn  tbe  dressmaking  trade.  I  worked  in  a  shop, 
that  is,  in  the  house  of  an  old  dressmaker,  who  used  to  go  out 
by  the  day,  but  who  had  arrived  at  the  dignity  of  taking  in  work 
at  her  own  home,  and  having  a  large  force  of  girls  work  under 
her  direction.  My  employer  had  a  run  of  the  very  best  custom 
in  town.  I  used  to  wonder, somewhat,  at  her  rather  rude  manner 
to  many  of  the  ladies,  but  now  I  think  I  can  understand  it. 

•'  She  was  a  hard  mistress  to  us ;  she  paid  us  by  the  week ;  five 
dollars  was  what  I  got  for  a  long  time,  and  whenever  we  had  a 
legal  holiday,  like  Fourth  of  July  or  Christmas,  she  always 
docked  us  for  that  day.  It  seemed  hard,  when  we  got  so  little, 
anyway.  Then  it  was  so  hard  to  get  our  money,  little  as  it  was. 
Why,  often  she  has  owed  me  for  at  least  six  weeks  running,  and 
she  would  be  as  mad  as  anything  if  we  ever  asked  her  for  a  cent. 
She  said  that  her  customers  kept  her  waiting  for  her  money,  and 
that  there  was  no  reason  why  we  should  not  share  the  risk  with 
her. 

"The  difficulty  that  we  bad  in  obtaining  our  salary  was  what 
caused  me  to  make  up  my  mind  to  break  away  from  her.  I 
never  shall  forget  how  angry  she  was  with  me  when  I  told  her 
that  I  thought  I  would  start  out  for  myself.  She  kept  me  over  a 
month  before  she  would  pay  what  she  owed  me.  It  was  not  so 
long  after  that  that  she  gave  up  business,  and  I  know  that  she 
owed  the  woman  on  Polk  street,  where  she  used  to  buy  whale- 
bones and  linings,  over  forty  dollars,  and  every  one  else  in  pro- 
portion.    I  understand  she  had  invested  in  stocks. 

"  Well,  after  such  an  experience  to  start  with,  you  may  im- 
agine that  I  was  charmed  with  the  first  gracious  lady  I  met.  I 
won't  go  too  much  into  particulars,  but  I'll  simply  say  that  it 
did  not  take  me  many  months  to  find  out  that  all  the  crookedness 
and  dishonesty  in  the  dressmaking  business  was  not  on  the  part 
of  the  dressmakers  themselves.  Why,  some  of  those  whom  I 
worked  for  at  first,  seemed  so  delighted  with  my  work  that  they 
engaged  me  for  ever  and  ever  so  many  days  ahead,  and  took  my 
best  time,  I  mean  in  the  first  of  the  season,  you  understand, 
when  a  dressmaker  is  most  in  demand.  Would  you  believe  it, 
some  of  that  time  I  have  not  been  paid  for  yet?  Perhaps  you 
wouldn't  believe  it,  but  we  dressmakers  have  our  blacklists  of 
customers,  women,  I  beg  their  pardon,  ladies  who  make  a  prac- 
tice of  engaging  dressmakers  for  days  and  weeks,  and  then  letting 
the  account  run  until  time,  and  frequently  they  themselves,  have 
run  away. 

"  But  even  among  those  who  are  all  right,  as  far  as  the  money 
is  concerned,  there  are  some  mighty  mean  things  done  to  a  dress- 
maker, particularly  to  a  young  and  inexperienced  one.  I  suppose 
I  hardly  need  to  tell  you  of  the  time-worn  trick  of  setting  the 
clock  back,  or  having  none  at  all  in  the  room.  Of  course,  a  dress- 
maker might  carry  a  watch,  though  it  would  never  do  for  her  to 
be  always  pulling  it  out  and  looking  at  the  time.  It  is  not  in 
every  locality  that  a  church  or  a  fire  bell  is  to  be  heard  ringing 
out  six  o'clock.  In  some  houses  where  I  have  sewed,  not  only  was 
there  no  clock,  but  also  no  dinner  bell,  until  long,  long  after  the  time 
when  I  was  supposed  to  quit  work.  Many  a  day  it  has  been  as 
late  as  a  quarter  to  seven  before  we  went  down  to  tbe  table. 
Isn't  that  mean,  to  steal  the  time  of  a  dressmaker,  who  was  never 
late  in  the  morning  ? 

"  In  some  families  I  have  been  driven  nearly  to  deatb.  It  is  a 
wonderful  help  to  have  a  good  sewer  sitting  with  one  and  taking 
the  work  from  my  hand,  and  there  is  nothing  that  I  dread  quite 
so  much  as  being  shut  up  all  day  to  sew  by  myself  alone.  Just 
here  let  me  tell  you  that  even  if  a  lady  does  not  wish  to  sew 
with  her  dressmaker,  and  prefers  not  to  have  her  at  meals,  that  is 
no  reason  why  the  dressmaker  should  be  put  in  a  room  by  her- 
Belf,  in  a  bedroom,  which  has  not  been  made  up  since  its  owner 
flung  back  the  covers  and  turned  out  of  bed  in  the  morning. 
Perhaps  I  may  be  squeamish,  but  I  won't  go  to  a  house  where  I 
not  only  have  to  sew,  but  to  eat  my  meals  in  such  an  apartment. 
»»  But,  to  go  back  to  the  subject  of  being  helped  in  my  work,  it 


is  one  thing  to  have  one  assistant,  and  to  have  all  the  sisters  and 
the  cousins  and  the  aunts,  and  the  neighborhood  friends  swarm 
into  the  sewing  room  and  poster  me  for  something  to  do.  Of 
course  that  is  another  scheme  to  get  lots  of  work  out  of  the  dress- 
maker. For  my  part  I  find  it  very  confusing.  Other  ladies  will 
expect  a  dressmaker  to  have  several  dresses  under  way  at  once. 

"  As  for  the  honesty  or  the  dishonesty  of  my  patrons,  I  leave  it 
to  you  to  judge.  I  generally  get  my  money.  But  oh,  so  many 
ladies  want  to  gossip  about  my  other  customers.  You  would  be 
surprised  to  bear  some  of  the  questions  which  are  put  unblush- 
ingly  to  me.  I  have  had  ladies  beg  me  for  scraps  of  rich  materials 
for  crazy  quilts,  and  suggest  that  I  should  bring  away  pieces 
from  where  I  was  working.  When  they  want  me  for  a  few  extra 
days  and  my  time  is  all  engaged,  many  do  not  seem  to  mind  ask- 
ing me  to  break  my  word  with  the  others,  so  as  to  give  them  the 
extra  time.  That  I  should  break  my  word  to  them  as  a  result  of 
this  example,  never  seems  to  occur  to  their  minds. 

"  So  many  ladies  are  not  exactly  honest  when  it  comes  to  giv- 
ing credit  to  the  dressmaker.  Why,  I  made  an  elegant  wedding 
dress  once,  and  imagine  ray  indignation  to  hear  it  spoken  of  as  a 

creation  of  Madame ,  the   swell    French   dressmaker   of   San 

Francisco.  Of  course  the  deceit  was  practiced  by  the  one  for 
whom  the  dress  was  made.  She  evidently  thought  it  would 
sound  better.  On  the  other  hand,  I  have  had  to  work  with  old 
materials,  make  over  old  dresses,  which,  by  the  way,  no  dress- 
maker ever  cares  to  do,  and  for  this  very  reason:  The  result  is 
seldom  satisfactory,  and  the  ladies,  instead  of  saying  '  This  is  an 

old  dress  made  over,'  will  say  «  Miss made  it,  and  I  am  not 

pleased  with  it.  I've  never  felt  comfortable  in  it  since  I  first  put 
it  on.' 

»  Sometimes  we  dressmakers  do  have  grievances,  as  well  as 
those  who  employ  us,"  said  the  little  dressmaker,  with  a  smile. 


No  Ammonia. 


mm 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 

Used  in  the  U.  S.  Army  and  by 
teachers  of  cookery. 

Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it 
never  varies,  it  does  the  most  work, 
the  best  work  and  is  perfectly  whole- 
some. 

But  your  own  experience  is  better 
than  anybody's  "  say  so,"  and  your 
own  experience  will  show  you  that 
Cleveland's  baking  powder  is  the 
strongest  and  the  best.     Trv  it. 

F.  H.  AMES  Jt  CO.,  Ascents. 


'    MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

No.  912  GRAND  STREET, ALAMEDA,   CAL. 

Mias  Manson,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  School,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.  Manson,  Late  Associate  Principal,  East  Erfd  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  began  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. 


THIS  IS  TO  ATTRACT  YOUR  ATTENTION  m 
THE    FACT    THAT    CARL    UPMANN'S     LINCOLN'S   ; 
CABINET    CIGARS    ARE    MADE    OF    THE    FINEST  ', 
VUELTA  ABAJO  TOBACCO. 

■flSfYOU  SHOULD   SMOKE  THEM.   ; 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


*-^«M  nfo^i   np^nfl   ,1  -O^^j: 


Se-LQPKER-on* 


j  y^i^J^llfcfta-OUL-- 


THE  average  newspaper  man  is  not  usually  an  apt  Biblical 
scholar,  and  so  when  he  attempts  to  display  familiarity  wiin 
the  scriptures  he  is  prone  to  make  the  most  ludicrous  blunders. 
A  ridiculous  instance  in  point  is  furnished  in  a  recent  occurrence 
at  Irvington,  in  Alameda  county.  There  was  an  excursion  of 
members  of  the  Young  People's  Christian  Endeavor  Society  to 
that  pretty  rural  retreat,  and  after  their  departure  loud  complaint 
was  made  that  the  visitors  had  not  been  regardful  of  property 
rights,  but  had  helped  themselves  without  permission  to  such 
fruit  and  flowers  as  had  attracted  their  covetous  attention.  One 
of  the  leading  city  dailies  gave  an  extended  account  of  the  heinous 
affair,  and  wound  it  up  by  indignantly  declaring  that  these 
"  quasi-Christians,"  as  it  called  them,  "  seemed  not  to  know  that 
there  was  such  a  thing  in  the  Bible  as  the  Seventh  Command- 
ment! "  It  is  quite  true  that  the  commandment  in  question  con- 
tains an  inhibition  against  the  infringement  of  certain  rights  of 
others,  but  it  is  scarcely  applicable  to  the  case  in  question.  The 
funny  part  of  it  is,  the  young  Christians,  so  far  as  heard  from, 
do  not  appear  to  have  manifested  any  indignation  at  being  ac- 
cused of  violating  the  Seventh  Commandment,  and  the  paralyz- 
ing idea  saggests  itself  that  perhaps  they  have  concluded  the  less 
said  about  it  the  better. 

*  #  * 

When  William  T.  Coleman  failed,  four  years  ago,  many  regrets 
were  expressed  for  the  embarrassment  of  the  mercantile  house 
which  had  for  many  years  been  considered  one  of  the  firmest  in 
the  city-  At  the  time  of  the  settlement  of  the  accounts,  it  was 
found  that  the  assets  were  only  sufficient  to  make  partial  pay- 
ments on  the  liabilities,  and  it  was  upon  that  standard  that  the 
firm's  affairs  were  liquidated.  Mr.  Coleman,  however,  did  not 
consider  hit  personal  liability  to  bis  creditors  removed  because  of 
the  action  of  the  law.  Since  the  failure,  therefore,  he  has  had 
one  great  point  in  view,  and  that  was  to  settle  in  full  with  all  the 
people  to  whom  he  owed  a  cent.  That  he  is  succeeding  in  this 
most  honorable  endeavor  to  remove  the  odium  of  bankruptcy 
from  his  name  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  during  the  week  some  of 
his  creditors,  who  had  received  partial  payments  on  their  accounts 
when  the  affairs  of  the  firm  were  liquidated, have  received  checks 
from  Mr.  Coleman  for  the  balance  of  their  accounts,  with  interest 
for  four  years  and  four  months,  from  the  time  of  the  failure  to 
date.  It  was  by  such  incidents  of  honorable  conduct  that  Mr. 
William  T.  Coleman,  during  his  long  residence  in  this  city,  secured 
the  excellent  reputation  of  being  a  most  upright  citizen  which  he 
enjoys.  All  the  affairs  of  his  firm  were  legally  closed,  and  there- 
fore there  was  no  obligation  upon  him  but  his  personal  sense  of 
justice  to  cause  him  to  settle  his  accounts.  That  he  is  settling 
them  redounds  greatly  to  his  honor. 

*  *  ■* 

There  are  all  sorts  of  local  stories  in  the  air  regarding  the  Sulli- 
van-Corbett  fistie  duel  at  New  Orleans,  and  one  of  the  best  is  that 
on  Jim  Phelan.  The  night  of  the  fight,  .Tim,  who  is,  or  rather 
was,  a  Sullivanite  to  the  backbone,  sat  in  the  Union  Club  descant- 
ing on  the  merits  of  the  great  slugger,  and  expressing  the  opinion 
that  the  Californian  would  not  last  a  minute  before  the  mighty 
Bostonian.  He  backed  up  his  views,  too,  with  coin,  and  the-few 
who  felt  like  risking  a  few  dollars  on  Corbett  found  in  him  a 
ready,  aye  eager  better.  Bye-and-bye  the  reports  of  the  fight  by 
rounds  began  to  pour  in,  and  despite  the  fact  that  they  were  fast 
telling  the  tale  of  Sullivan's  downfall,  Phelan  still  championed 
him  and  continued  to  offer  bets  at  odds  that  the  great  knocker- 
out  would  triumph.  No  matter  that  the  seventeenth,  eighteenth, 
nineteenth  and  twentieth  rounds  told  of  impending  defeat,  Phelan 
was  still  confident,  and  at  last  he  was  put  sorely  to  the  test,  for 
in  came  the  dispatch,  »'  Corbett  has  put  Sullivan  out  in  the 
twenty-first  round." 

There  was  a  cheer  of  delight  from  the  Corbett  men,  and  Phelan, 
white  as  a  sheet,  jumped  to  his  feet  and  said:  "  It's  not  true;  it 
can't  be  true.  I  will  still  bet  $100  that  Sullivan  will  win."  No 
one  would  accept  tbe  offer  at  first,  but  as  he  persisted  in  his  an- 
nouncement, some  one  at  last  made  the  wager  with  him  and  the 
money  was  posted.  Of  course  the  news  was  verified  later  on, 
and  then — well,  all  the  club  men  drank  wine  on  that  $100  that 
Jim  Phelan  bet  after  the  fight  was  over. 

*  #  * 

Francis  Murphy,  the  temperance  apostle,  left  for  the  East  this 
week,  after  a  crusade  along  the  coast  that   has   extended   during 


the  past  year.  Murphy  was  accompanied,  of  course,  by  his  wife. 
It  is  perhaps  an  untold  story  how  he  came  to  meet  such  a  lovely 
helpmate.  It  happened  two  years  ago,  when  Francis  opened  one 
of  his  lecture  series  at  Council  Bluffs.  The  lady  who  is  now  his 
wife  was  at  that  time  a  resident  of  the  Bluffs,  and  was  deeply  in- 
terested in  charitable  works.  Although  he  stayed  in  the  town 
only  two  weeks,  she  became  deeply  in  love  with  him,  and  he, 
learning  of  her  attachment,  was,  of  course,  naturally  attracted  to 
her.  The  affair  soon  resulted  in  a  love-match,  and  shortly  after- 
wards they  were  married,  and  in  accordance  with  the  old  fabled 
stories,  they  »  have  lived  happily  ever  since." 

There  was  an  impressive  scene  at  the  Sixteenth  street  depot  in 
Oakland  the  other  afternoon.  The  Oregon  train  bad  just  pulled 
in,  and  a  young,  fashionably  dress' d  lady  alighied  and  walked 
over  towards  the  electric  cars.  J  ust  as  she  had  reached  one  of  the 
vehicles,  though,  she  suddenly  gave  a  scream,  and  exclaiming: 
"  Oh,  my  valise  is  on  the  train,"  rushed  towards  the  cars,  which 
were  just  beginning  to  move  out  of  the  staiion.  A  tall  young 
man  (some  say  that  he  was  T.  Selby  Adams,  but  that  is  sub  rosa) 
was  among  the  throng  who  had  been  startled  by  her  cry,  and 
realizing  what  had  happened  he  rushed  to  the  train,  jumped 
aboard,  and  running  to  the  car  she  pointed  out,  he  disappeared 
for  a  moment,  and  then,  turning  up  again  a  few  seconds  later 
with  the  valise  in  his  hand,  jumped  gracefully  to  the  ground.  The 
young  fellow  fairly  danced  with  joy  as  he  came  up  to  hand  it  to 
her,  and  suddenly,  without  any  warning,  she  threw  her  arms 
around  his  neck  and  said:  "  Oh,  you  dear,  good  man,  how  can  I 
thank  you  ?  "  Poor  Selby  blushed  the  color  of  a  bucket  of  red 
paint,  and  disengaging  himself  from  the  clinch  of  the  enthusiastic 
maiden,  he  retired  and  hid  his  confusion  in  the  baggage-room, 
thinking  that  it  is  sometimes  awkward  to  be  a  hero. 

»    »    n 

There  is  an  officer  on  the  police  force  of  this  city  who  is  evi- 
dently determined  to  take  the  fullest  advantage  of  the  dead-head 
privileges  which  his  star  confers  upon  him.  He  not  only  believes 
himself  entitled  to  free  passage  over  the  mundane  routes  of  travel, 
such  as  cable  and  electric  roads,  but  evidently  fancies  that  the 
potent  bit  of  metal  over  his  heart  will  stand  sponsor  for  a  free 
passage  over  the  heavenly  road,  and-  through  the  gates  where  St. 
Peter  stands  guard.  He  is  withal  a  pious  as  well  as  a  frugal 
soul,  and  every  Sunday  is  to  be  found  at  church  devoutly  per- 
forming his  religious  duties.  That  is,  all  except  one  of  them. 
When  the  plate  is  passed  for  alms  offerings,  the  hand  of  this  offi- 
cer never  seeks  his  pocket.  On  the  contrary,  it  is  raised  to  the 
lapel  of  his  coat,  which  is  turned  proudly  back,  and  the  star  worn 
on  his  vest  is  thus  brought  into  full  view-  Thus  warned  that  the 
wearer  is  a  dead-head  in  church  as  well  as  out  of  it,  the  alms- 
gatherer,  with  a  deprecating  bow,  passes  along  to  tbe  less  favored 
worshippers. 

A  clever  Celestial  has  been  robbing  the  credulous  women  of  the 
city.  He  goes  about  from  bouse  to  house,  and  in  a  most  confi- 
dential manner  informs  the  matrons  that  his  name  is  "  George," 
and  that  he  is  the  owner  of  a  Chinese  lottery.  The  lady  im- 
presses him  greatly,  so  he  tells  her  in  very  good  English,  and 
with  a  bland  smile  be  remarks  that  he  is  anxious  for  her  to  win. 
The  tickets  are  $1  80,  $2  80  and  $3  20.  He  argues  that  it  is  best 
to  buy  a  $3  20  ticket,  as  the  prizes  are  larger  than  the  others,  and 
so  as  to  conviuce  the  suspicious,  he  agrees  to  put  in  forty  cents 
with  the  purchaser.  She  parts  with  her  $2  80,  and  away  goes 
Mr.  George,  only  to  return  tbe  next  day  to  tell  how  the  lottery 
was  raided  by  the  police  the  day  before,  but  the  drawing  will 
surely  come  off  that  day.  The  next  day  he  appears  again.  He 
is  very  sorry,  he  says,  but  the  lady  won  only  $1  SO.  The  lady 
always  considers  a  little,  but  Mr.  George  argues  well,  and  she 
agrees  to  invest  sixty  cents  more;  and  then  she  never  sees  George 
again. 

*  #  * 

Poetic  license  is  all  right,  and  under  it  much  latitude  of  expres 
sion  is  allowed,  but  sometimes  it  goes  so  far  as  to  be  ridiculous. 
In  the  last  issue  of  Lippincott's  is  a  bit  of  verse,  ••  Tu  the  Colorado 
Desert,"  written  by  Madge  Morris.     In  it  she  says: 

Thy  sharp  mescal  shoots  up  a  giant  stalk, 

Its  century  of  yearning,  to  the  snuburut  skies, 

And  drips  rare  honey  trom  the  lips 

Of  yellow  flaxen  flowers  aud  dies. 
This  is  all  well  enough,  except  for  the  fact  that  tbe  mescal  has 
no  "  century  of  yearning."  Two  years  are  all  that  are  needed 
for  this  plant  grow  from  the  seed  to  the  state  where  its 
"yellow  flaxen  flowers  drip  honey," — another  bit  of  fancy,  by 
the  way. 

*  *  * 

Martin  Kelly,  he  of  Third  street,  has  not  a  reputation  as  a  wit, 
but  he  does  sometimes  give  utterance  to  a  good  thing.  I  under- 
stand he  has  a  great  and  abiding  respect  for  Mr.  Sullivan,  whom 
he  considers  one  of  the  few  statesmen  of  the  city,  and  it  is  said 
he  frequently  quotes  some  of  tbe  Jeremiads  of  the  leader  of  the 
Reorganizers.  To  Kelly  is  attributed  tbe  following  story:  Mr. 
Sullivan,  so  the  tale  runs,  recently  went  into  the  mountains,  and 
while  there  wandered  into  a  canyon.  There,  facing  the  imposing 
cliffs,  he  threw  out  his  arms,  and  asked  of  the  rocks,  »  Why  am 
I^boss?"     Back  came  the  echo,  "  Y.  M.  I? '" 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


san   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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The  roiu-ordla  Club  jinks,  lant  Saturday  flight,  at  the  club- 
rooms,  was  a  great  iDOOeaa.  Cbarilt  Ackerntan  presided,  and 
kept  up  the  fun  until  an  early  boor  Sunday.  Bert  Coole.  of  the 
Ak-axar.  and  Saiu  Jacobl,  mad«  decided  hits,  with  their  humorous 
stories  and  songs.  The  feature  of  the  affair  was  the  mock  trial. 
Lipman  Sachs  was  the  accused,  the  charge  being  that  while  a 
member  of  the  Wallace  Grand  Jury  he  deceived  his  wife  by  re- 
maining out  late,  and  explained  at  borne  that  he  was  detained  on 
'irand  Jury  business.  Judge  J.  «'.  H.  Hebbard  presided,  and 
Charles  Ackerman  appeared  for  the  defense,  while  Messrs.  Eisner 
and  Aacb  were  the  prosecutors.  The  jury  was  composed  of 
Eugene  Meyer.  Levi  Btraasa  and  others,  who,  notwithstanding 
the  overtures  made  to  tbem,  found  the  defendant  guilty,  and  he 
was  sentenced  to  a  steam  beer  diet  for  six  months. 

*  *  * 

Now  comes  a  Mr.  Orr  into  court  and  declares  that  Dickey  .Tes- 
sup.  the  long  lost  beir,  has  been  found,  and  that  it  Is  presumed 
that  be  has  a  few  simoliaus  remaining  in  his  jeans.  Therefore, 
says  Mr.  Orr,  the  bill  of  Dr.  Galvin  should  be  paid.  A  number  of 
people  have  been  summoned  to  tell  what  they  know  about  the 
disposition  of  Jessup's  funds,  and  in  the  list  of  those  who  are 
supposed  to  know  all  about  the  affair  are  the  names  of  Colonel 
Kowalsky.  Senator  SJahoney  and  James  Gilleran.  that  intimate 
friend  of  Tom  Klynn  (Sconchinized).  I  have  been  surprised,  how- 
ever, that  Mr.  Orr  did  not  also  summon  Flynn  (Sconchinized) 
himself,  to  tell  what  be  knew  of  Jessup's  affairs,  and  of  the  man- 
ner in  which  the  gentle  Dickey  disposed  of  all  or  portion  of  his 
patrimony.  Let  the  attorney  take  this  as  a  suggestion,  and  have 
the  Sconchinized  flynn  hauled  up  before  the  tribunal  of  justice  so 
that  complete  information  regarding  the  .Tessup  thousands  may 
be  given  the  creditors  of  the  festive  heir.  Flynn  (Sconchinized) 
will  be  able  to  tell  where  at  least  a  certain  amount  of  young  .Tes- 
sup's  money  went. 

*  *  * 

For  a  man  of  his  political  experience,  E.  B.  Pond  does  make 
some  astonishingly  great  blunders.  For  instance,  at  the  first 
meeting  of  the  Democratic  Municipal  Convention,  last  Wednes- 
day evening,  because  the  representatives  of  the  Great  Unwashed 
in  the  galleries  cheered  with  more  noise  than  enthusiasm  during 
the  remarks  of  P.  F.  Dunne,  Mr.  Pond  threatened  to  have  the 
galleries  cleared.  "An'  sure,  ye'll  have  a  foine  toime  doin'  it," 
said  a  rich  Democratic  voice  from  a  back  row.  "Well,  if  you 
don't  keep  quiet  I'll  see  that  you.  don'i,  get  in  to-morrow  night," 
said  Mr.  Pond,  who  thereby,  in  the  opinion  of  many  of  the  states- 
men present,  made  one  of  the  greatest  political  blunder  that  could 
possibly  have  been  effected  by  an  aspirant  for  Gubernatorial 
honors.  It  should  be  remembered  by  all  candidates  for  high 
offices  that  the  best  manner  to  get  along  with  a  mob  is 
by  means  of  conciliation.  The  great  crowd  of  Democratic  vot- 
ers are  apt  to  take  offense  at  anything  that  sounds  like  a  threat. 
Another  curious  incident  that  occurred  during  the  evening  was 
when  Colonel  Thomas  F.  Barry  arose  and  moved  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  committee  on  platform  and  resolutions.  The  motion 
was  adopted,  and  the  chairman  then  drew  a  paper  from  his  inside 
pocket.  "As  I  anticipated  the  appointment  of  such  a  commit- 
tee," said  Mr.  Pond,  »  I  have  already  prepared  it."  Then  there 
was  a  loud  shriek  of  delight  from  the  gallery  and  the  con- 
vention. Mr.  Pond  had  produced  the  slate  with  so  much 
naivete,  and  bad  sprung  it  upon  the  convention  with  so  much 
ingenuousness  that  the  assembled  patriots  could  not  resist  ap- 
plauding. There  is  always  a  sportsmanlike  element  in  a  Demo- 
cratic gathering  that  appreciates  a  bold  play.  So  it  was  this  time. 
Mr.  Pond  drew  out  this  committee  list  so  calmly  immediately 
upon  the  adoption  of  the  motion  to  appoint,  that  at  first  the  con- 
vention was  astonished.  Presently,  however,  it  dawned  upon 
the  gentlemen  that  Mr.  Pond  was  making  an  innovation  in 
political  methods,  and  from  the  front  row  of  the  delegates-at- 
large  to  the  back  row  of  the  gallery,  a  loud  guffaw  rolled  up  and 
down.     Mr.  Pond  was  astonished  for  a  moment. 

"  Yes,  gentlemen,"  he  said,  "anticipating  the  appointment  of 
this  committee,  I  have  prepared  the  lint.  1  worked  on  it  for  two 
hours,  and  had  no  assistance,  either."  Then  everybody  smiled 
again.  Curiously  enough,  Mr.  Barry,  who  moved  the  appoint- 
ment of  the  committee,  and  who,  therefore,  according  to  parlia- 
mentary courtesy,  was  entitled  to  appointment  as  chairman  of 
it,  was  named  as  chairman  on  Mr.  Pond's  list.  Only  a  coinci- 
dence, of  course,  for  no  one,  as  Mr.  D  wyer  said,  would  charge  the 
Reorganizes  with  forcing  a  slate  upon  a  confiding  and  long-suf- 
fering pnblic. 


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BURGUNDY     WINES. 

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In  Cases,  Quarts  and  Pints. 

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MAINZ    &    HOCHHEIM, 

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Colored  Gros  Grain  at  75e.  per  yard. 
Changeable  Taffeta  at  80e.  and  75e.  per  yard.    • 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


THE  leader  of  the  revolutionists  in  Venezuela,  General  Joaquin 
Crespo,  if  the  latest  despatches  are  to  be  trusted,  yeems  to 
have  been  successful,  and  ia  reported  to  be  practically  in  posses- 
sion of  Caracas,  the  capital  of  the  country.  His  position  aa  Dictator 
for  some  time  aeems  to  be  assured,  and  he  will  now  have  an  op- 
portunity of  showing  whether  he  has  really  such  a  respect  for  the 
constitution  and  laws  of  Venezuela  as  he  pretended  when  he  took 
up  arms  against  Palacio's  government.  Leaders  of  revolutions 
usually  commence  by  maintaining  that  the  welfare  of  their  native 
country  is  their  only  aim,  but  few  of  them,  especially  in  South 
America,  have  ever  risen  to  power  without,  after  having  obtained 
it,  misui  -d  it  even  more  than  their  predecessors.  The  dictatorsh  p 
has  too  many  attractions  to  be  voluntarily  surrendered  when 
once  acquired,  and  those  sterling  old  Republicans  of  Rome  who, 
after  having  taken  up  arms  for  the  defense  and  maintenance  of 
Republican  institutions,  were  ready  to  return  to  their  plough  and 
surrender  the  power  temporarily  entrusted  to  them,  have  but  rarely 
found  imitators  in  modern  history. 

One  of  the  first  actions  of  Mr.  Morley,  upon  his  reappointment 
to  the  office  of  Chief  Secretary  for  Ireland,  was  to  use  his  power 
for  the  release  of  an  Irishman,  who  had  been  imprisoned  for  con- 
tempt of  court.  Whether  he  has  acted  wisely  in  tbis  case  or  not, 
cannot  be  learned  from  the  scanty  contents  of  the  telegrams.  At 
all  events,  he  will  not  be  able  to  take  a  very  active  part  during 
the  interregnum  in  interfering  in  Irish  affairs  as  arranged  by  the 
previous  Government,  since  he  is  bound  by  the  laws  enacted  by 
the  late  Parliament,  which  cannot  be  changed  except  by  Parlia- 
ment itself.  Mr.  Morley  has  been  urged  by  some  Irish  members 
to  refuse  the  aid  of  the  police  in  effecting  evictions,  but  he  has 
replied  that  he  is  bound  by  the  law,  which  instructs  the  officers 
to  assist  the  Sheriff  on  such  occasions,  and  that  if  he  refuses  to 
give  his  assent  he  can  be  indicted  for  breach  of  law.  To  the 
average  sons  of  Erin  this  may  seem  a  rather  weak  excuse.  But 
Mr.  Morley,  whatever  his  political  views  may  be,  is,  above  all, 
an  Englishman,  and  by  no  means  one  of  the  worst  of  them.  He 
possesses  many  of  the  most  sterling  qualities  of  his  countrymen. 
Though  perhaps  somewhat  too  sentimental  and  theoretical,  as  a 
stateman,  he  has  heretofore  always  proved  himself  to  be  a  man 
of  strict  honor,  and  would  never  think  of  committing  an  illegal 
act  to  attain  even  his  most  cherished  aims.  If  he  could  instill 
somewhat  of  this  spirit  into  his  Irish  allies,  be  would  render  the 
Irish  cause  a  far  greater  service  than  that  which  the  Irish  agitators 
have  rendered  to  it,  for  what  makes  the  British  people  pause  be- 
fore granting  to  Ireland  a  greater  measure  of  self-government,  is, 
the  Irish  disregard  for  law  and  legal  methods. 

Mr.  Gladstone's  American  friends  are  bitterly  disappointed  that 
he  and  Sir  William  Harcourt,  his  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer, 
have  openly  declared  themselves  averse  to  the  International 
Money  Conference  discussing  the  English  currency  question. 
Mr.  Gladstone  has  even  gone  to  the  length,  it  is  stated,  of  criti- 
cising the  late  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer,  Mr.  Goschen,  accus- 
ing him  of  having  gone  too  far  in  treating  with  Secretary  Foster 
and  the  Washington  Government.  This  step  has  probably  been 
prompted  partly  by  private  jealousy  towards  Mr.  Goschen,  who  not 
only  offended  his  late  colleague  when  the  Home  Rule  mania  took 
hold  of  him,  but  committed  the  by  far  greater  offense  of  proving 
himself  so  excellent  a  financier  that  even  Mr.  Gladstone's  accom- 
plishments in  that  direction  are  somewhat  thrown  into  the  shade. 
As  regards  Mr.  Gladstone's  attitode  toward  the  International 
Money  Conference,  his  refusal  to  give  the  bi-metallists  even  the 
slightest  encouragement,  should  astonish  no  one  who  considers 
how  weak  the  present  Premier's  Government  is.  It  would  take 
a  very  firm  administration  to  support  any  movement  resembling 
an  interference  with  the  present  British  gold  standard,  and  even 
Lord  Salisbury,  though  his  private  views  and  the  financial  condi- 
tion of  India  prompted  him  to  show  a  less  firm  opposition  towards 
the  aims  of  the  intended  Conference,  had  to  act  very  cautiously, 
since  the  double  standard  scheme  has,  at  present,  many  more 
stubborn  and  powerful  opponents  than  most  people  imagine,  and 
only  a  very  powerful  inducement  would  make  England  abandon 
her  .present  attitude. 

It  is  astonishing  that  even  the  most  outspoken  Radicals  in 
England  should  credit  the  rumor  that  Mr.  Gladstone  intends  to 
enter  into  negotiations  for  an  evacuation  of  Egypt.  Mr.  Glad- 
stone's previous  attitude  with  regard  to  this  question  does,  of 
course,  justify  the  belief  that  he  would  not  be  a  very  firm  oppon- 
ent to  such  an  evacuation,  provided  that  a  concession  of  that 
kind  should  gain  him  popularity  among  the  "  masses,"  who  little 
understand  England's  foreign  interest,  but  at  present  he  would 
certainly  commit  the  most  absurd  blunder  were  he  to  venture 
upon  so  serious  a  change  in  Great  Br.tain's  foreign  policy.  An 
evacuation  of  Egypt  would  not  only  arouse  against  him  the  most 


energetic  opposition  of  Egypt's  British  creditors  and  their  follow- 
ing, but  would  be  so  ominous  a  sign  of  weakness  on  England's 
part,  that  foreign  aggression  would  be  encouraged  most  strongly, 
and  the  complications  arising  from  it  might  unseat  Mr.  Gladstone 
even  more  quickly  than  his  home-rule  experiments  will  ulti- 
mately do.  The  British  Premier  is  by  far  too  wily  a  politician  to 
play  so  dangerous  a  card  at  a  moment  when  absolutely  nothing 
ia  to  be  gained  by  the  game,  and  when  ao  much  may  be  risked 
by  it. 

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17,  1392. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


THE    FRENCH    IN    AFRICA. 


TBI  French,  whn  arc  trying  to  subject  uncivilized  countries 
and  to  establish  oolODles,  seeiu  to  recognize  that  they  meet  with 
little  ^ucce.«*  a.«  colonliere.  But.  instead  of  attributing  their  fail- 
ure to  their  inability,  they  try  to  «htft  the  responsibility  upon 
the  other  Kuropean  nations  who  have  already  obtained  a  firm 
hold  in  neighboring  districts.  Two  striking  proofs  of  this  fact  are 
to  be  found  among  the  late  event?  in  Africa.  Not  long  ago  some 
border  raids  occurred  in  the  Congo  territory,  on  which  occasion 
a  French  officer,  by  the  name  of  M.  de  Poumayrac,  and  some  of 
his  escort,  were  killed.  The  French  immediately  tried  to  fasten 
the  responsibility  for  this  misadventure  upon  the  authorities  gov- 
erning the  Congo  Free  ^latc.  and  sent  a  peremptory  note  to  the 
representative  in  that  State  in  Brussels,  asking  for  prompt  repara- 
tion It  now  appeals  that  the  Congo  Free  State  bad  nothing  to 
do  with  the  matter  at  all,  and  that  the  deplorable  incident  which 
took  place  outside  of  the  jurisdiction  of  the  8tate  is  not  different 
from  those  which  many  another  African  traveler  has  had  to  meet 
with  in  bis  exploration  tour.  The  French  Government,  however, 
persists  in  its  characteristic  attitnde,  and  will  probably  continue 
to  do  so  until  further  official  reports  show  that  it  has  not  an  inch  of 
sound  ground  to  stand  upon.  A  very  similar  affair  is  the  late  quar- 
rel of  Lieutenant  Mizon  with  the  Royal  Niger  Company,  whose 
agents  he  accuses  of  having  greatly  mistreated  him,  and  having 
instigated  the  massacre  of  bis  exploration  party.  For  weeks  the 
French  papers  were  full  of  violent  attacks  upon  the  English,  and 
loudly  remonstrated  against  this  new  proof  of  British  perfidy, 
although  the  absurdity  of  the  accusation  was  plainly  visible  on 
the  face  of  it.  Of  course,  as  long  the  British  official  reports  were 
absent,  the  charge  was  credited  among  the  more  gullable  classes 
of  the  French  public.  Since,  however,  these  reports  have  been 
published,  the  French  lieutenant's  supporters  must  feel  rather 
sheepish;  for  it  is  proved  now  that  the  explorer  owes  his  mis- 
baps  to  nobody  but  himself,  since  he  ventured  upon  an  enter- 
prise which  he  lacked  the  ability  and  means  to  carry  out.  But 
what  throws  a  still  more  unfavorable  light  upon  bis  character  is 
the  fact  that  his  veracity  has  been  sadly  iropugDed,  by  the  publi- 
cation of  a  letter  in  his  own  handwriting,  the  existence  of  which 
he  probably  had  forgotten,  and  in  which  he  thanks  Mr.  Flint,  the 
head  of  the  Royal  Niger  Company,  in  the  warmest  words,  "for 
all  the  kindnesses"  which  he  had  "received  for  himself  and  his 
party"  while  living  in  the  Lower  Niger.  If  to  this  is  added  the 
fact  that  the  agent  of  the  company  lent  Lieutenant  Mizon  the 
sum  of  £400,  without  security,  and  thus  gave  him  the  assistance 
without  which  the  lieutenant's  exploration  tour  would  have 
been  rendered  impossible  long  before  the  massacre,  the  falseness 
of  the  accusations  against  the  British  company  will  be  recognized 
at  once.  It  is  a  pity  that  French  explorers — we  need  only  recall 
M.  de  Brazza's  behavior — so  frequently,  in  their  disappointment 
regarding  their  failures,  are  carried  away  to  such  a  degree  as  to 
seriously  endanger  the  amicable  relations  between  their  own  and 
foreign  countries. 

SALVATION    SOLDIERS'    LOVES. 


WHEN  Misa  Edna  Jones,  daughter  of  E.  W.  Jones,  County 
Treasurer  of  Colusa  county  and  head  of  the  firm  of  J.  E.  W. 
Jones  &  Co.,  of  that  place,  whose  wealth  is  reckoned  at  $500,000, 
joined  the  Salvation  Army,  it  caused  a  big  sensation  in  the  quiet 
town  of  Colusa.  She  is  now  spending  a  couple  of  weeks  with 
Oakland  friends.  She  is  a  remarkably  pretty  young  lady  of  the 
brunette  type,  and  is  an  accomplished  musician.  Her  voice  is 
low  and  sweet  and  she  sings  best  with  guitar  accompaniment. 
It  is  not  generally  known  even  in  the  Army  circles  that  she  is 
bethrothed  to  Captain  Cochrane,  a  well  educated,  refined  young 
man,  whose  home  is  in  the  State  of  Washington,  where  he  was  a 
school  teacher  previous  to  entering  the  8alvation  Army  ranks. 
Captain  Cochrane,  several  months  ago,  was  in  charge  of  the 
Oakland  Corps,  and  Young  Men's  Training  Home,  connected 
with  it,  but  was  transferred  to  Salt  Lake  City,  by  Major  Kyle, 
where  he  is  still  stationed.  Upon  his  return  to  California  he 
will  be  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Jones  and  there  probably  will 
be  quite  a  swell  or  hallelujah  wedding  in  Congress  Hall  or  the 
Metropolitan  Temple  in  this  city.  The  gentleman  she  is  to  marry 
is  one  of  the  most  popular  officers  in  the  Salvation  Army,  and 
were  he  not  a  Salvationist,  it  is  said  that  the  young  lady's  parents 
and  friends  would  have  no  objections  whatever  to  the  marriage. 


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14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


THE  banking  capital  of  California,  according  to  the  report  of  the 
Bank  Commissioners,  just  published,  amounted  on  July  1,  to 
$63,565,001.  The  deposits  on  that  date  amounted  to  $198,666,411, 
and  the  loans  on  all  classes  of  security  to  about  $220,000,000. 
On  this  showing  the  banks  hold,  roughly  estimated,  about  10  per 
cent,  of  their  liabilities.  The  total  number  of  banks  now  in  ex- 
istence ia  268.  One  hundred  and  fifty-six  of  these  are  State  com- 
mercial banks,  54  are  savings  banks  and  the  remainder  are 
national  and  private  banks,  together  with  the  agencies  of  foreign 
commercial  banks.  The  capital  of  the  savings  banks  is  about 
$8,000,000,  or  one-eighth  of  the  whole,  while  they  hold  five- 
eighths  of  the  total  deposits  and  about  the  same  proportion  of 
loans.  The  remaining  two-thirds  of  the  banking  capital  employed 
in  the  State  belongs  to  the  commercial  banks.  The  San  Fran- 
cisco commercial  banks  hold  as  deposits  $26,810,000,  with  a  total 
capital  of  $28,234,000.  In  the  interior,  the  commercial  banks 
have  loaned  nearly  all  their  deposits  on  personal  security,  and 
nearly  all  their  capital  on  real  estate.  The  city  banks  under 
the  same  classification  have  nearly  the  whole  of  their  capital 
loaned  on  personal  security,  and  about  half  this  amount  on  real 
estate  and  securities.  The  Commissioners  make  a  couple  of  sen- 
sible recommendations,  which  should  be  worthy  of  the  consider- 
ation of  the  Legislature  when  next  in  session.  One  is  to  prohibit 
people  from  using  the  name  of  •>  bank"  unless  they  are  licensed 
to  do  so,  in  the  same  manner  as  all  other  financial  institutions  of 
the  kind  in  California.  The  other  is  to  relieve  the  Commission 
from  the  responsibility  of  building  associations.  The  latter  in 
themselves  open  up  a  new  and  distinct  field  for  investigation, 
and  they  are  of  equal  importance  with  banking,  so  far  as  invest- 
ors are  concerned.  Taken  as  a  whole,  the  report  for  the  year  is 
entirely  satisfactory,  and  if  all  other  branches  of  business  through- 
out the  State  are  in  as  prosperous  a  condition  as  our  banks,  the 
prevailing  cry  of  dull  times  is  rather  an  exaggeration. 

1$  * 

THE  mining  market  on  Pine  street  is  assuming  a  more  healthy 
condition,  and  business  during  the  week  has  picked  up  a  little 
in  the  commission  line.  The  favorites  of  the  hour  are  Belcher 
and  Sierra  Nevada.  In  the  former  an  upraise  from  the  400  level 
has  entered  what  is  believed  to  be  the  extension  of  the  ore  cut  on 
the  300  level.  In  the  top  of  this  raise  the  ore  is  of  the 
same  grade  and  character  as  that  found  above,  lying  fiat,  with  a 
pitch  to  the  west  of  a  foot  or  eighteen  inches  in  eight  feet.  In 
Sierra  Nevada  work  in  the  face  of  the  new  drift  on  Cedar  Hill  has 
been  stopped  temporarily,  and  the  front  of  the  drift  is  being 
opened  out  in  order  to  give  more  room.  At  the  same  time  a  drift 
is  being  run  in  west  from  the  Kenosha  tunnel,  to  open  up  the 
ground  at  a  depth  of  400  feet  below  the  new  find,  to  test  its  con- 
tinuation downward.  Another  drift  is  being  sent  in  100  feet  be- 
low the  open  drift  on  Cedar  Hill,  well  to  the  south,  in  the 
hope  of  finding  an  extension  in  that  direction.  These 
are  the  two  principal  points  of  interest  in  the  market 
just  now,  and  if  one  or  the  other  comes  up  to  ex- 
pectations, especially  in  the  case  of  Sierra  Nevada, 
a  sharp  advance  in  prices  is  assured.  A  few  years  ago  a  strike  of 
six  feet  of  $30  gold  ore  on  the  Comstock  would  have  been  enough 
to  set  the  town  wild,  but  unfortunately  times  have  changed  in 
this  respect.  The  balance  of  the* Comstock  market  showed  no 
improvement  during  the  week,  but  prices  in  all  cases  held  firm. 
Outside  shares  are  quiet,  and  the  demand  for  them  is  light. 
Crown  Point  was  assessed  50  cents  per  share,  and  Mono  25  cents. 
The  Hale  &,  Norcross,  Confidence  and  Independence  assessments 
were  delinquent. 

IF  there  is  any  law  in  Great  Britain  for  the  protection  of  in- 
vestors in  mining  companies,  it  should  be  invoked  if  the  nefari- 
ous scheme  to  reconstruct  the  notorious  Valley  Gold  Mine  of  San 
Bernardino  is  to  be  carried  into  effect.  The  News  Lettek  has, 
time  and  again,  warned  the  English  dealers  against  this  out- 
rageous swindle,  ever  since  it  was  first  placed  upon  the  foreign 
market.  Look  at  the  result  of  the  company's  operations  as  they 
appear  to-day,  after  years  of  experiment,  and  a  repetition  of  the 
most  contemptible  falsehoods  regarding  the  merits  and  prospects 
of  the  property.  Now  we  find  T.  A.  Meates,  who  presided  at  an 
extraordinary  meeting  held  the  other  day  for  the  purpose 
of  reconstruction.  Extraordinary  is  a  very  appropriate 
term  to  apply  to  this  convention  of  unfortunates.  Judg- 
ing from  the  opening  announcement  of  the  chairman, 
this  is  the  second  time  that  the  reconstruction  scheme  has 
been  tried.  The  last  time  they  had  a  capital  of  £10,000.  Of  that 
sum  there  were  debts  amounting  to  £5,700,  and  the  debenture  in 
arrears  amounting  to  £3,600.  The  sum  £2.000  in  addition  was 
expended  for  superintendent's  salary,  traveling  expenses,  and  ex- 
pense on  the  spot.  The  London  expense  ran  the  bill  up  another 
£888. 


THIS  money  has,  it  appears,  been  exhausted,  and,  in  addition, 
the  property  has  been  mortgaged  for  £15,000,  and  the  interest 
on  that  was  payable  in  preference  shares  until  December  31st 
next.  Just  fancy  the  idiot  or  idiots  who  could  be  persuaded  to 
lend  £15,000,  or  $75,000  in  round  numbers,  on  property  on  which 
nobody  here,  outside  of  the  Napa  Insane  Asylum,  would  advance 
as  many  cents.  Thousands  of  dollars  squandered  for  nothing, 
and  yet  some  blamed  fool  comes  in  with  $75,000  and  dumps  it 
right  in  for  keeps.  Here  they  will  never  get  it  back,  and  as  for 
security,  so  far  as  the  property  is  concerned,  there  is  none.  On 
top  of  this  comes  the  following  nice  admission  from  a  man  who 
has  the  idea  of  raking  in  money.no  matter  what  the  cost  may  be 
to  those  who  put  it  up. 

t  s  * 

THE  following  is  the  statement  referred  to : 
"  Inasmuch  as  the  company  are  now  in  an  insolvent  condi- 
tion, he  (Mr.  Meates)  supposed  the  debenture-holders  were  enti- 
tled to  come  in  and  foreclose.  They  had  to  decide  whether  they 
would  raise  additional  funds  or  wind  up  the  company.  He  might 
state  that  they  had  had  overtures  made  of  a  different  nature, 
which  led  them  to  believe  that  if  the  company  went  into  liquida- 
tion it  would  be  possible  to  carry  on  the  company  on  the  lines 
laid  down  in  Colonel  Carey's  report.  They  must  admit  that  the 
water  supply  was  inadequate  to  carry  on  the  business  success- 
fully, and  that  with  the  addition  of  the  machines  recommended, 
by  Colonel  Carey,  they  would  be  able  to  make  the  company  pay. 
He  believed  that  the  best  course  to  adopt  was  to  pass  a  resolu- 
tion to  wind  up  the  company  for  the  purpose  of  reconstruction, 
and  he  accordingly  moved  a  resolution  to  that  effect." 

$  $  $ 

MR.  MEATES  may  be  very  virtuous  in  his  intentions,  but  be 
fore  be  gets  through  with  his  reconstruction  scheme,  we  will 
give  him  an  opportunity  to  carry  the  war  into  Africa,  if  he  and 
his  associates  dare.  We  gave  a  similar  opportunity  to  the  May 
Lundy  people  some  years  ago,  but  they  preferred  to  tackle  the 
proprietor  of  a  London  paper,  who  whipped  them  in  the  long  run. 
If  the  gentleman  with  the  highly  suggestive  cognomen  wishes  to 
try  an  issue  as  to  the  merits  of  the  thimble-rigging  scheme  he  is 
now  advocating  in  attempting  to  reconstruct  the  infamous  wild- 
cat known  as  the  Bully  Gold  Mining  Company  of  San  Bernardino 
County,  he  had  better  have  it  out  here  where  every  inch  of  the 
worthless  ground  is  known.  There  has  been  a  good  deal 
of  nonsense  in  the  past  regarding  this  nasty  little  swindle,  but  it 
will  have  to  come  to  a  bead  now  for  good  and  all.  The  whole 
business  is  a  fraud,  and  if  the  manipulators  were  within  the  juris- 
diction of  a  Court  in  this  State,  the  reconstruction  process  would 
be  going  on  in  their  own  cases.  It  would  have  been  a  great  deal 
better  for  the  managers  of  this  concern  to  have  wound  it  up  alto- 
gether, for  the  present  contract  is  more  than  they  can  fill  with 
credit  to  themselves.  The  Ljndon  financial  paper  that  backs  such 
an  outrageous  attempt  at  swindling,  will  be  a  bird  of  the  same 
feathers,  as  the  promotors  all  are  tarred  with  the  same  brush. 

$  $  « 

THE  sale  of  the  New  Almaden  mines,  in  the  Jesus  Maria  dis- 
trict, State  of  Chihuahua,  Mexico,  reported  during  the  week, 
will  interest  some  of  our  readers  in  London.  A  few  years  ago 
the  Rothschilds  had  an  opportunity  to  take  this  property  in,  but 
the  actions  of  the  promoters  drove  them  out.  They  were  not  to 
blame  for  breaking  up  the  deal.  They  found  they  were  being 
bled,  and  quit  the  game.  These  mines  were  located  about  thirty- 
five  years  ago,  by  a  Frenchman,  who  was  backed  financially  by 
a  prominent  Mexican  general.  The  Maximillian  emuete  gave 
mining  a  set-back  temporarily,  and  in  the  confnsion  which  pre- 
vailed at  that  time  the  New  Almaden  properties  dropped  out  of 
sight.  Finally,  they  drifted  into  the  hands  of  Mr.  Waittmann, 
Superintendent  of  the  Pinos  Altos  Mines  adjoining.  He,  in  turn, 
bonded  them  to  R.  B.  Harper,  who  at  one  time  was  Superintend- 
ent of  the  celebrated  Almaden  Mines  of  California,  and 
who  is  generally  recognized  as  one  of  the  best  experts  on 
quicksilver  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  On  his  report  the  Roths- 
childs became  interested,  and  sent  a  Mr.  Bernard  out 
through  Hamilton  Smith,  Jr.,  to  carry  on  the  negotiations.  The 
price  asked  was  $150,000,  and  when  Mr.  Maxwell,  Superin- 
tendent of  the  New  Idria  mine,  went  down  to  corroborate  the 
Harper  report,  he  wired  to  London  that  while  the  mines  were 
fully  worth  the  money  asked,  he  could  not  see  why  25  per  cent, 
of  the  stock  should  be  thrown  in.  Investigation  showed  that 
this  appendage  was  for  the  benefit  of  Bernard  &  Co.,  and  a  reply 
soon  came  back  that  the  offer  was  •*  declined  with  thanks." 
Harper,  who  ever  since  has  been  connected  with  the  property, 
finally  sold  the  mines  during  the  week  to  a  syndicate  of  local 
capitalists. 

?$  $ 

ANEW  gold  field  is  attracting  much  attention  near  Pretoria  in 
South  Africa.  At  the  Rand,  in  the  same  part  of  the  world,  a 
miner  who  was  too  proud  to  beg  and  ashamed  of  work,  managed 
to  get  away  with  enough  gold  amalgam  to  keep  the  wolf  from  the 
door.  He  was  not  long  in  the  business,  but  for  a  tyro  he  did 
pretty  well,  his  profits  so  far  amounting  to  2,200  ounces,  valued 
at  something  like  $42,500.     He  is  now  in  jail,  charged  with  theft.  . 


Sopt.  17,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


15 


1  Bear  the  Crier  1"    -What  the  devil  ertthou:' 
•  One lh»t  will  pl«v  the iievll. sir.  with  you." 


w 


HO  walks  about,  with  bat  in  band. 

Who's  ways  are  just  now  mild  and  bland, 
Who  bas  for  every  man  a  band? 

The  candidate. 
Who  is  the  barroom's  joy  and  pride, 
Who  makes  rum  flow,  a  royal  tide. 
And  treats  the  crowd  on  every  side? 

The  candidate. 
Who's  smile  begins  at  dawn  of  day, 
(A  sweet  smite  which  has  come  to  stay) 
Who's  voice  is  cordial,  hopeful,  gay? 

The  candidate's. 
Who's  promises  are  thick  as  leaves, 
Who  webs  of  fiction  deftly  weaves, 
As  he  the  place-hunter  deceives? 

The  candidate. 
Who  is  the  Piece  Club's  luscious  meat, 
Who  hates  the  finance  man  to  greet, 
But  skips  away  with  nimble  feet? 

The  candidate. 
Who  is,  from  daylight  unto  dark, 
The  striker's  bright,  conspicuous  mark, 
And  wishes  hira  cold,  stiff  and  stark? 

The  candidate. 
Who  boasts  about  the  G.  0.  P., 
Or  else  the  staunch  Democracy, 
And  yawps  of  freedom  and  the  free? 

The  candidate. 
When  all  the  ballots  have  been  cast, 
When  all  the  fuss  and  fume  is  past, 
Who'll  find  himself  not  first,  but  last? 

Some  candidate. 

IT  is  now  many,  many  years  ago  since  "  the  brandy  left  over 
from  the  Pioche  estate  "  was  first  thrown  upon  this  market. 
Away  back  in  those  good  old  times,  the  saloon-keeper  was  wont 
to  introduce,  with  an  impressive  whisper  to  his  customer,  a 
bottle  of  "  the  brandy  left  over  from  the  Pioche  estate."  Sum- 
mer succeeded  spring,  and  winter  took  the  place  of  summer,  and 
the  town  grew  and  prospered,  and  streets  were  widened,  and 
cable  lines  built,  and  the  school  boy,  in  the  due  course  of  nature, 
became  a  grandfather,  and  the  spirit  of  change  was  everywhere, 
but  "  the  brandy  left  over  from  the  Pioche  estate  "  scoffed  at  time, 
and  defied  the  efforts  of  an  increasing  population  to  drink  it  up. 
The  miracle  of  the  loaves  and  fishes  was  not  in  it  with  this  re- 
markable liquor.  Its  fecundity  was  positively  awe-inspiring. 
Lay  down  in  the  cellar  of  any  saloon  keeper  in  the  city  and 
county  of  Ban  Francisco  half  a  dozen  bottles  of  "  the  brandy  left 
over  from  the  Pioche  estate,"  and  in  a  single  month  they  had  in- 
creased to  six  dozen.  Sell  six  dozen,  and  then,  leaving  but  one 
male  bottle  and  two  females,  and  in  a  week,  lol  twenty  dozen 
stared  you  in  the  face.  I  have  asked  some  of  the  most  intelligent 
men  in  the  liquor  business  for  an  explanation  of  this  phenomenon, 
hut  they  have  only  scratched  their  heads,  and  declared  that  they 
could  not  understand  it.  "  Oh,  yes,1*  they  had  plenty  of  it  left. 
They  bad  been  selling  it  for  twenty  years,  at  twenty-five  cents  a 
pony,  but  they  were  not  out  of  it  yet.  The  grandchildren  of 
pioneers  are  now  drinking  "  the  brandy  left  over  from  the  Pioche 
•estate."  And  I  firmly  believe  that  when  the  world  is  standing 
-on  the  threshold  of  chaos,  should  it  happen  that  the  last  man,  the 
sole  survivor  of  humanity,  be  in  this  city,  it  may  be  fifty  thou- 
sand years  from  hence,  he  will  brace  up  for  that  fearful  plunge 
through  space  with  a  pony  glass  of  "the  brandy  left  from  the 
Pioche  estate." 

THOSE  deep  questions  of  eliquette  grow  more  involved  every 
day.  The  most  profound  student  of  the  Blue  Books  finds  it 
impossible  to  unravel  them.  The  Recording  Secretary  of  the 
Press  Club,  who  recently  devoted  hours  to  the  solution  of  those 
social  problems,  and  who  had  begun  to  consider  himself  an  au- 
thority, got  a  bewildering  set  back  a  few  days  ago.  He  was  directed 
to  invite  Lillian  Russell  to  a  club  entertainment,  and  wrote  on 
the   envelope,    Miss    Lillian    Russell,    etc..  "City,"     An   answer 

came:  Mr. ,   "Town."      Now,  this   has  driven   the  wretched 

Secretary  to  the  brink  of  distraction,  "  Why  town  ?  Ah  heavens, 
-why  town  ?  "  the  distraught  young  man  mutters  as  a  dozen  tunes 
a  day  he  takes  the  envelope  bearing  the  fair  artiste's  writing  from 
his  pocket.  "  Why  not  '  city  ?  '  Was  I  wrong  in  putting  »  city  * 
■on  mine;  why  didn't  I  put  •  town  ?  '  "  And  so  the  weary  cate- 
chism goes  on,  and  unless  Miss  Russell  enlightens  him  there  will 
foe  another  victim  expatiating  an  unpardonable  offense  on  the  altar 
of  heartless  fashion. 


TB08B  who  have  seen  Pat  Brady,  Esq.,  (in  the  French  Colony 
i'. <nnt  di  Bradl),  OD  the  street  in  the  simple  but  elegant  cos- 
tume of  the  promenade,  can  form  but  a  poor  opinion  ol  Mr. 
Brady  as  he  appears  in  his  beautiful  apartments,  which  he  has 
poetically  named  "The  Garden  of  Sleep,"  in  a  bewitching  neg- 
ligie.  Mr.  Brady's  salons  are  on  Stockton  street,  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  Wigwam,  but  sufhciently  removed  from  the  music  for  com- 
fort. The  reception  room  is  a  poem  in  itself.  The  foot  sinks  to 
the  ankle  in  the  superb  crimson  Axminster  carpets,  or  rather  the 
Oriental  rugs  with  which  this  carpet  is  covered.  Chairs  and 
lounges  and  ottomans  of  the  most  unique  designs  are  sprinkled 
throughout  this  apartment,  and  it  is  superfluous  to  remark  that 
the  visitor  need  not  take  many  paces  before  tumbling  into  a  glo- 
rious divan  or  a  Louis  Quatorze  lounge.  The  ante-room  of  Mr. 
Brady's  sleeping  salon  is  a  chaste  effect  in  medievalism.  The 
walls  are  bung  with  ancient  tapestry,  the  "Temptations  of  St. 
\nthony,"  '-The  Lists  at  Calais,"  and  "St.  Patrick  Expelling  the 
Snakes  from  Ireland,"  being  the  most  prominent.  The  mace  with 
which  an  ancester  of  Mr.  Brady  clubbed  a  burgomaster  to  death 
in  the  Flemish  wars  has  been  given  a  conspicuous  place  on  the 
walls.  If  the  reception  room  is  a  poem,  and  the  ante  room  a 
chapter  from  Froissart,  what  shall  be  said  of  Mr.  Brady's  cham- 
ber? The  walls  are  hung  with  pink  satin,  and  the  buffet,  which 
stands  near  the  head  of  the  magnificent  "four-poster"  (a  relic  of 
the  Tuilieries), is  of  carved satinwood,  ornamented  with  theamour 
of  Jupiter  in  relief.  The  paintings  in  this  room  are  of  a  great 
beauty  and  virtu.  The  chair  on  which  he  reclines  (a  silk  velvet 
pillow  with  the  arms  of  the  O'Brady's  embroidered  thereon)  when 
his  valet  is  shaving  him,  is  a  remarkable  piece  of  furniture,  cap- 
able of  being  elevated  or  lowered  in  fourteen  angles,  and  everyone 
of  them  different.  His  staff  of  attendants  are  all  Orientals,  who 
wear  list  slippers,  and  are  summoned  to  their  master's  side 
either  by  the  gentle  clapping  of  his  lily  white  hands  or  the  soft, 
mellow  tones  of  a  silver  gong.  Like  St.  Sevanus,  who,  by  the 
way,  was  a  distant  connection  of  Mr.  Brady,  that  gentleman 
never  invites  ladies  to  his  "Garden  of  Sleep."  He  bas  a  staff  of 
architects,  engineers  and  horticulturists  now  engaged  in  devising 
and  constructing  a  garden,  on  the  roof  where  that  most  luxurious 
of  men  may  sip  his  Mocha  when  the  weather  is  sultry. 

A  YOUNG  mail  who  does  business  on  Montgomery  street,  and 
who  is  addicted  to  light  summer  clothing  and  russet  shoes, 
has  been  building  up  a  reputation  as  an  art  critic  by  the  most 
meretricious  methods.  He  visits  every  morning  an  art  gallery  on 
Post  street,  carefully  inspects  the  pictures,  and  studies  the  artists' 
names  on  the  right-hand  corner.  He  also  "  crams  "  on  some  art 
slang,  and  thus  primed,  waits  for  his  audience.  His  acquaintance 
among  the  fair  sex  is  most  extensive,  so  he  chews  up  more  than 
two  tooth-picks  before  a  victim  heaves  in  sight.  "  You  are  fond 
of  pictures — of  course  yuu  are — all  refined  people  love  pictures — 
let  us  go  in  here — I  have  not  been  there  for  a  month."  They 
enter,  the  villain  squints  at  the  first  picture  on  the  easel.  "  Hum — 
Yellanu,  I  should  say — yes,  must  be  Yelland.  I  cannot  be  mis- 
taken in  his  treatment  of  those  rocks  in  the  foreground." 
"  Why,"  shrieks  the  delighted  female,  "it  is  Yelland,  sure  enough. 
Oh,  ray,  what  a  critic  you  are."  He  tells  her  one  lacks  atmos- 
phere, the  other  is  faulty  in  color;  this  is  out  of  drawing;  that  is 
realistic,  and  so  on,  and  she  toots  his  horn  for  a  week  afterwards 
as  a  man  who  is  a  born  artist,  who  ought  to  open  a  studio,  who 
ought  to  write  for  the  papers,  who  is  altogether  too  aesthetic  for 
the  ordinary  walks  of  life,  and  so  on.  Yet  I  could  solemnly  swear 
on  the  Talmud  that  he  does  not  know  a  photograph  from  a  steel 
engraving,  and  that  no  amount  of  study  or  instruction  could 
teach  him  to  distinguish  between  a  veritable  "  old  master"  and  a 
four-bit  chromo. 

THE  Apache  trailers  are  disgusted  with  having  to  fight  Evans 
and  Sontag  alone,  and  have  shaken  the  dust  of  Fresno  from 
their  feet,  and  departed  for  their  reservation  with  a  mighty  poor 
opinion  of  the  white  man's  courage.  About  the  best  method  of 
taking  those  hardy  ruffians  would  be  to  build  a  chain  of  forts 
around  their  hiding  place,  though  indeed  they  don't  seem  to  be 
doing  much  hiding  these  times,  but  to  take  it  rather  easy  in  the 
delightful  society  of  Sampson's  Flat.  Willis  Polk,  who  is  in  a 
measure  identified  with  the  business,  as  he  was  on  the  train  when 
Evans  and  Sontag  robbed  it,  should  get  the  first  chance  to  make 
the  drawings  for  those  forts.  If  they  are  to  be  built,  for  heaven's 
sake  let  them  be  artistic,  a  credit  to  the  growing  taste  of  the 
country,  and  not  monstrosities  in  logs  and  nails.  It  would  not 
take  more  than  a  couple  of  years,  perhaps  less,  to  complete 
them,  and  during  this  time  the  robbers  might  get  rheumatism  or 
pleurisy,  and  one  or  the  other  be  captured  on  his  way  to  the  drug 
store.  It  would  be  advisable  to  tit  out  one  of  the  first  of  the  forts 
with  glass  bottles  and  all  the  pharaphana  ia  of  a  drug  shop,  not 
forgetting  the  five  cent  cigars  and  the  soda  fountain.  This  would 
be  a  sort  of  lure  for  the  robbers,  and  an  additional  attraction 
would  be  the  frequent  presence  of  Mr.  Polk  himself  about  the 
chain  of  forts.  They  might  rush  it  to  capture  him,  to  take  him 
to  camp  to  sing  for  them,  and  then  they  could  be  picked  off  by 
the  troops,  led  by  Detective  Smith  in  a  stove-iron  overcoat.  The 
only  objection  to  this  plan,  however,  is  that  a  bullet  might  hit 
Mr.  Polk,  and  then  the  country  would  have  to  go  to  the  expense 
of  importing  another  architect  to  finish  the  dados  and  other  fancy 
work  in  Mr.  Polk's  picturesque  aids  to  war. 


16 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


?ept.  17,  1892. 


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THE  results  of  a  recent  prolonged  life  and  efficiency  teat  of  the 
incandescent  lamps  of  ten  different  American  makers,  made 
at  the  electrical  laboratory  of  the  Ohio  State  University,  showed 
that  the  mean  candle-power  of  the  lamps  rated  at  16  did  not  ex- 
ceed 14:5,  says  the  Engineering  Magazine;  that  the  candle-power 
falls  off  with  use  approximately  at  the  rate  of  10  per  cent,  for  each 
200  hours;  that  the  life  of  96  out  of  127  lamps  exceeded  1,100 
hours,  and  that  the  average  initial  efficiency  was  4:2;  after  600 
hours  5:6  and  after  1,200  hours  7  watts  per  cant  1  -power.  One  of 
the  most  important  results  indicated  by  the  tests  was  that  the 
blackening  of  the  lamp  bulbs  after  considerable  use  is,  in  all  pro- 
bability, largely  due  to  vapor  of  mercury  left  in  the  lamp-chamber 
by  the  Sprengler  pump,  this  evil  being  decidedly  leas  apparent  in 
certain  makes  of  lamps  which  were  claimed  to  have  been  ex- 
hausted by  mechanical  pumps.  The  tests  indicate  that  if  the 
consumer  were  permitted  to  select  his  own  lamps  without  refer- 
ence to  their  efficiency,  it  would  be  possible  for  him  to  obtain 
commercial  lamps  which  would  give  from  400  to  500  hours  service 
with  a  falling  off  in  light  not  exceeding  12  per  cent.  The  great 
difference  in  the  results  obtained  from  different  makes  of  lamps 
suggests  that  a  line  of  research  of  this  kind  might  be  made  very 
profitable  both  to  the  central   station  manager  and  the  consumer. 

A   revival   of  interest  is  to  be  noted   in  the  application  of 

the  well-kown  sand  blast  to  engraving  on  stone,  the  reason  as- 
signed for  the  exemption,  heretofore,  of  this  process  from  such 
application  of  the  blast  being  the  difficulty  of  providing  a  cheap 
paper  material  to  apply  to  the  stone — one  capable  of  resisting  the 
cutting  action  of  the  sand  for  a  sufficient  length  of  time  to  allow 
the  unprotected  portions  of  the  surface  to  be  cut  away  to  the 
required  depth.  The  prepared  paper  for  this  purpose  is  gummed 
to  the  face  of  the  stone,  and  the  design  to  be  cut  outlined  on  it, 
after  which  the  outlines  are  cut  through  with  a  sharp-pointed 
knife,  and  the  pieces  of  paper  removed  which  cover  those  parts 
of  the  stone  to  be  aunk;  the  btaat  is  now  applied  equally  over 
the  whole  stone,  and,  in  cases  where  a  greater  depth  is  required 
to  be  cut,  the  blast  is  made  to  act  upon  those  parts  for  a  greater 
length  of  time.  By  this  meana,  designs  are  produced  which  pos- 
sess a  far  greater  degree  of  sharpness  in  the  outlines,  including 
even  a  most  delicate  tracery. 

■  The  Danube  river,  which  is  the  means  of  water  communica- 
tion for  Vienna  with  the  Red  Sea,  is  not  navigable  by  large  ships, 
owing  to  shoals  and  rapid  currents ;  but  the  Austrian  Government 
is  endeavoring  to  remove  the  obstacles,  the  chief  of  these  being 
what  is  known  as  the  Iron  Gate,  a  rocky  gorge  between  Roumania 
and  Servia  on  the  Hungarian  boundary.  The  engineering  work 
now  being  conducted  for  this  purpose  contemplates  a  channel 
some  six  thousand  eight  hundred  feet  long,  the  sides  of  the  chan- 
nel to  be  formed  by  two  walls  of  maaonry;  the  river  bed  between 
these  walls  to  be  blasted  out,  the  amount  of  rock  necessary  to  be 
thus  removed  being  about  three  hundred  and  twenty-two  thou- 
sand cubic  yards,  and  in  order  to  secure  the  necessary  depth  to 
the  water  the  upper  end  of  the  walls  has  to  be  flared  out  to  form  a 
funnel-shaped  channel. 

The  German  method  of  electrotytic  bleaching,  lately  intro- 
duced, differs  from  all  others,  the  textile  or  other  material  to  be 
bleached  being  passed  between  rolls  serving  as  anode  and  cathode 
respectively,  the  electrotyte  being  used  for  the  purpose  of  saturat- 
ing the  fabric  itself.  According  tolhis  arrangement  several  pairs 
of  rollers  may  be  used,  the  anode  and  cathode  being  alternately 
the  upper,  so  that  both  sides  of  the  stuff  are  subjected  to  the 
action  of  the  products  of  electrotysia. 

—  It  is  stated  that  the  Ontario  Legislature  has  leased  the 
electric-power  rights  on  the  Canadian  side  of  the  Niagara  river  for 
a  hundred  years  to  the  same  company  which  is  operating  on  the 
American  side.  The  price  paid  is  reported  to  be  $25,000  per  an- 
num for  the  first  ten  years,  and  $30,000  per  annum  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  term.  The  vicinity  of  Niagara  Falls  is  evidently 
destined  to  become  one  of  the  great  manufacturing  centres  of  the 
world. 

—  The  introduction  of  electrically  driven  coal-cutters  and 
other  mining  machinery  is  making  rapid  progress  in  the  bitumin- 
ous mining  regions  of  the  central  west.  The  importance  of  this 
line  of  work  will  be  apparent  from  the  figures  of  production, 
which  show  that  last  year  150,000,000  tons  of  this  coal  were  mined 
in  the  United  States,  principally  west  of  the  Alleghenies. 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Vine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 

Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Wiaslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething. 


b_a_tjtk:s- 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  *3,000,OOCOO 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Brown. Cashier  |  B.  Murray,  Jr  ..   .Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Moolton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

<oriiesi>om)i;nis  : 
NEW   YORK— Agency  of   the  Bank  of   California;    B03TON— Tremont 

National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  A  Sons.  Correspondents  In  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  8altLake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland.O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  citleB  in  Italy  and  8witierland. 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 

N.  W.  corner  Sansome  and  Bash  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U   S.  Depositary. 

CA PtTAL  {PAID   UP) #7,600, 000 

SURPLUS.    1600,000      UNDIVIDED    PROFITS $150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN     Cashier 

JAMES  MOFPITT. . .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE ABs't Cashier 

DIRBCTOBS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  ?10u  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital *3,600,000     I     Capital  paid  up 2.450,000 

Reserve 450.000 

San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St.,  E.  C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM   STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRLEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  citlesand 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sathee  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  8an  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  P.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Satt«r  Streets. 
SAN     FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL  $      500,00000 

SURPLUS 5,488.393.12 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

DIRECTORS: 

John  J.  Valentine.  President;  Lloyd  Tevis,  Leland  Stanford,  Oliver 
Eldridge.  James  C.  Fargo.  Geo,  E.  Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.  F.  Goad, 
Dudley  Evans.  Henry  Wadsworth,  Cashier.  Homer  a.  King,  Manager. 
J.  L  Browne,  Assistant  Cashier. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000.000. 

DIRECTORS : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  B.  H.  MILLER,  Jb. 

R.  C.  WOOL  WORTH Pbesidbnt. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vicb-Phebident. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cabhieb 

SECORITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $800,000 

OFFICERS: 

President JEROME  LINCOLN!  Secretary S.  L.  ABBOT. Jr. 

Vice-President W.  S.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 

HUMBOLDT  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.    WEBER, PRESIDENT  |  ERNST    BRAND  SECRETARY. 

E.  D,  Jones. 

S.  L,  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers   and    Commission   Merchants, 
207  and  208  oalifornia  Street. 


8cpt.  17,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCI.SCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


5UNBCAMS 


APROPKOS  of  the  appointment  of  Robert  Smalls  to  be  Collector 
»f  the  Port  of  Beaufort.  8.  C,  the  following  story  is  told  :  Two 
negroes  were  fishing  off  the  dock  at  Beaufort.  "  Tell  you,"  said 
Ihfl  v.'unger  one.  '■  Bob  Small's  creates1  man  in  ilis  Ian'."  '*  Oh,  no." 
said'  the  other,  "  DOi  the  greatea1  man.  He  smart  man,  dough." 
"Tell  vou  he  greates'  man."  replicil  the  first  sneaker.  "Firs'  he  ran 
out  de  planter,  di'n'  he?"  "Yeah."  "Pen  he  was  made  cap'n." 
"  1  didn't  t'nk  .»'  dat."  '■  Pen  he  run  forSbertff,  di'n  he?  "  "  1  c'lar, 
I  done  forgot  dat.  Yes,  he  run  for  Sheriff."  "  Den  he  run  for  J.egis- 
laterT"  "  Yeah."  "  Den  Gub'ner  Scott  mehk  'im  Brigadier  Gin'l?  " 
'•  I  done  forgot  dat.  too."  Den  he  run  ferdeXewnited  States  Oong'ess 
fer  to  set  cross-lagged 'n' tawk  politics  wid  Gin'l  Grant?  "  "Forgot 
all  dat.  clar.  He  big  mahn,  suah,  but  he  ain't  bigger'n  Gawd." 
"  Saw."  said  tbe  first  speaker,  somewhat  nonplussed,  "  but,"  slowly, 
"  but  Bob  Smalls,  he  young  mahn  yit." 

—  Countless  stories  are  told  about  Jim  Lane  and  Chet  Thomas  by 
old  Kansans.  These  two  men  were  the  pet  politicians  of  the  State. 
Jim  was  bold  and  Chet  was  slv.  Once  Lane  visited  Junction  City  to 
make  a  speech  on  Sunday.  "  If  there  is  any  objection  to  my  speakin'," 
he  remarked  to  the  committee,  "tell  'em  I've  been  a  Methodist  on 
probation  for  forty  years."  A  great  crowd  gathered  to  hear  him.  He 
did  not  like  Junction  City.  Looking  over  the  beautiful  stretch  of 
prairie  he  began  bis  speech  in  very  solemn  tones,  saying:  "  God  has 
done  much  for  your  city."  All  his  hearers  seemed  to  think  so.  "  God 
has  done  much  for  your  city,"  he  said  again  slowly  and  thoughtfully. 
It  was  very  still;  the  great  crowd  held  its  breath,  and  Lane  continued 
"God  has  "done  much  for  your  city— man  very  little."  It  was  five 
minutes  before  the  audience"  quit  yelling  at  this. 

— He  threw  his  arms  around  her  neck, 
And  strained  her  to  his  breast, 
And  there  tbey  stuck,  for  he  had  caught 
His  whiskers  in  her  vest. 

— Clothier  and  Furnisher . 

Miss  Backbay — What   are  you  reading?      A   dictionary  of 

scientific   terms?       What    are    you    studying    up    now?      Miss 

Beacon Nothing  in  particular;  but  this   is  full  of  such  charming 

long  words  that  reading  it  seems  like  conversing  with  someone  when 
I  am  feeling  lonely.  —Town  Topics. 

"  My  friend,"  said  the  teetotaler,  placing  his  hand  on  the  tippler's 
arm,  "  beware  of  the  enemy  in  that  glass!  Rum  has  leveled  many  a 
man  much  stronger  than  you."  "All  right."  replied  the  depraved 
man  with  a  leer;  "  all  right,  but  didn't  the  man  get  the  rum  down 
fjrstt"  — Bosttn  Transcript. 

Clara— Did  you  accept  Mr.  Pelter  last  night?    Maud— Why, 

how  did  you  know  that  he  proposed?  Clara— 1  noticed  when  he  came 
out  of  the  conservatory  with  you  that  the  creases  in  his  trousers  had 
disappeared.  — Clothier  and  Furnisher. 

Merchant  {to  applicant)— Do  you  think  you  know  enough  to  as- 
sist me  in  the  office?  Boy—  Know  enough?  Why,  I  left  my  last  place 
because  the  boss  said  I  knew  more  than  he  did.  —Town  Topics. 

Round— What  makes  that  man  sweep  his  hand  in  a  circle  when- 
ever he  takes  his  cocktail?  Mound— Force  of  habit.  He's  a  baseball 
pitcher  and  still  clings  to  curved  balls !  —Town  Topics. 

Bonson— What  ever  induced  Turner  to  call  that  miserable  yel- 
low cur  of  his,  Scott?  "  Punley— Ivanhoe  idea,  unless  its  because  he's 
not  a  Kenilworth.  —King's  Jester. 

—  Mr.  Scruggs— That  man  Jones  never  pays  his  fare ;  he  just  travels 
on  his  face.  Mrs.  Scraggs  —I  wondered  what  made  his  features  look  so 
irregular.  Fuck. 

Cox  &  Henze  is  the  name  of  a  firm  doing  a  furniture  business 

in  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  They  make  a  specialty  of  feather  beds 
and  pillows. 

Be— Mrs.  Hicks  hadn't  her  pug  a  week  before  Hicks  got  him  a 

bulldog.    She— So  they  each  have  a  dog  now  ?    He— No ;  just  Hicks. 

—Puck. 
H:    Portor,  every  time  I  raise  a  band  I'm  completely  knocked 
out  with  pain.    Doctor— Then  you  had  better  play  some  other  game. 

— Judge. 

Mr  Cityman— Why  do  you  plant  beans  between  the  hills  of 

corn?    Rural— Oh,  that'sanew  way  we  have  of  raising  succotash. 
r  — King  s  Jester. 

Adeline-Wh&t  would  you  do  if  you  were  in  my  shoes ?    Madge 

(after  a  glance  at  them)-Oet  a  pair  about  four  sizes  smaller—  Judge. 

Teacher— Now,  Johnny,  tell  us  what  you  know  about  Croesus. 

Johnny—  Please,  Mum,  dudes  wear  'em  in  dier  pants.  —Puck. 

Mr.  McFad—By  jove,  I've  burst  my  suspenders.    Mrs.  McFad— 

Take  mine.    I  will  use  your  sash.  —Judge. 

Skaqqs-So  Old  Soak  is  dead  ?    Jaggs  (sadbi)-Ko ;  only  spirited 

away.  —Town  Topics. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  w!th  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  tblough  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  addrVss  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 

watt  «tvt c-ti  Ttnttericlt 's  celebrated  patterns  for  Ladies',  Misses',  Boys 
and "little "hUdreS"  garments?  Catalogues  mailed  free.  H.  A.  Deming, 
124  Post  street,  Sau  Francisco,  Cal. 


BA-InTICS. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 


lucorpornted  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND     1,250.000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  aud  Sausorae  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE  60  LOMBARD  8TREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,   British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington 
SUB-BKANCHES—  Kamloops,  Naiminio,  Nelsou,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bauk  transacts  a  General  Baukiag  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  aud  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Otliee  aud  Bnuiches,  aud  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows- 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  aud  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  aud  South  Wales  Bauk;  SCuTLAND— British  Linen  Company ;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  aud  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America.  CHINA  aud  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  aud  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

C32  California  Street.  Comer  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk, 

Deposits,  June  30,  1893 925,890,653  00 

Uuaraiiteed  Capital  aud  Surplus 1,633, I3tf  00 

DIRECTORS. 

Atiart  Miller,  Pr  esideut;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Loveil  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  aud  Loaus  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Eargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— y  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  ti  :30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805  Market  Street   (Flood  Building],  Sau   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits $     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital  333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  McDONALD Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM — Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

Tills  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
couut,  iu  nuihs  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
sysLem  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mi>uth  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $-25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  ou  Keal  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RE8ERVE  FUND $    1,645.000  OO. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  QBO.  H.  SOGERS  ;  Cashier.  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
oi  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tlllmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. ____ 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFXCEBS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Momtt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 

^||gpaid  on  Term  and  Ortln^^)^^^^  Approved 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sanaome  and.  Sutter  Sta. 

ubsciied  Capital $2,500,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital 92,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office      68  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  PariB  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St., N.  Y.    PAKIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Clef  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. ^__ 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK.  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

r  am  tal  Authorized $6,000,000  1  Paid  up ?l,5O0,0O0 

Snhiribed  8,000,000    Reserve  Fund 700,000 

SuDscnDea  ....  .^^  ootiok_b  Angel  i..ourt,  London'E.  0. 

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

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  I  usiuess,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 

eraDhie  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  f%  L™I#TH  AL.  i  Manage". 

A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


18 


feAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


A  FINE  moral  lesson  might  be  drawn  on  the  progress  of  real 
estate  firms  in  this  city,  but  for  the  fact  that  to  illustrate 
the  lesson  properly,  some  things  better  left  unsaid,  and  some 
names,  better  left  unmentioned,  would  have  to  be  quoted.  The 
moat  successful  real  estate  agents  in  Ban  Francisco  to-day, 
are  those  who  have  adhered  most  closely  to  the  truth;  who, 
when  the  facts  warranted  it,  have  without  fear  told  a  would-be 
seller  that  the  price  asked  was  exorbitant,  or  the  intending  buyer 
that  it  would  be  an  injustice  to  the  owner  to  urge  him  to  sell  at 
the  figure  offered.  There  are  some  firms  who  have  dealt  in  real 
e°tate,  the  recommendations  of  which  were  only  on  paper,  who 
have  extolled  to  the  heavens  land  that  would  not  feed  a  Mission 
goat,  and  then  they  have  quietly  dropped  out  of  sight.  People 
have  found  them  out  and  given  them  a  wide  berth.  The  tempta- 
tion to  add  a  few  hundreds  or  thousands  to  the  price  at  which  a 
property  has  been  sold,  appears  to  be  wholly  irresistible  to  some 
real  estate  agents,  and  they  boldly  give  to  the  newspaper  reporter, 
who  knows  no  better,  or  who  has  no  one  at  hand  to  point  out 
the  untruth,  statements  which  every  man  who  pays  any  atten- 
tion to  real  estate  must  know  are  bald  lies.  The  curse  of  the  real 
estate  market  is  misrepresentation,  and  it  usually  returns  home 
to  perch  on  the  shoulders  of  the  man  who  has  wantonly  deceived 
the  very  people  to  whom  he  looks  for  business.  Firms  which 
have  discountenanced  booming,  or  more  plainly  speaking,  lying 
tactics,  may  not  have  obtained  such  rapid  notoriety  as  others, 
but  they  are  to-day  the  most  reliable  in  the  city,  and  what  is 
more,  the  men  who  preside  over  them  have  made  money. 

Business  in  the  real  estate  market  is  quiet,  better  than  it  has 
been  for  some  weeks,  still  not  what  it  might  be.  The  fall  season 
will  not  be  an  active  one,  though  there  is  now  every  reason  to 
believe  that  a  fair  trade  will  be  carried  on.  The  ripening  of  many 
schemes  and  the  fullness  of  time  will  bring  a  livelier  market,  and 
so  long  as  business  does  not  become  stagnant,  real  estate  men, 
after  the  good  times  they  have  had,  cannot  complain. 

The  question  is  naturally  asked  by  some:  Is  not  this  a  good 
time  to  buy.  The  answer  is,  that  any  time  is  a  good  lime 
to  buy  if  judgment  be  used.  For  inside  property  this  time 
is  no  more  favorable  than  any  other,  because  that  class  of  property 
has  a  recognized  value,  and  the  deviation  from  the  prices  fixed  by 
the  very  few  who  desire  to  sell  wrill  be  found  to  be  very  slight.  In 
the  newer  sections  property  can  no  doubt  be  bought  cheaper  than 
some  months  ago,  and  provided  there  is  some  prospect  to  the 
property  a  buyer  can  hardly  err  by  investing,  unless  he  is  of  the 
class  that  expects  the  value  to  go  up  fifty  per  cent,  the  moment 
the  title  is  in  his  own  name. 

A  good  sale  was  closed  this  week  by  Otto  von  Rhein,  which  it 
took  nearly  three  months  to  negotiate.  He  has  sold  the  three-story 
brick  building  and  lot,  39:6x52:6,  northwest  corner  of  Bush  and 
Kearny,  for  $150,000.  Shainwald,  Buckbee  *  Co.  disposed  of 
the  much  litigated  lot  which  blocks  Oregon  street,  and  prevents  it 
from  running  through  to  East  for  $18,000,  lot  37x60. 

McAfee,  Baldwin  &  Hammond  sold  the  lot  30x137:6  on  the 
north  side  of  California,  190  feet  west  of  Jones  for  $10,500,  and 
the  lot  on  the  west  line  of  Jones,  105  feet  north  of  California,  32:6 
xl05,  for  $8,000.  The  probate  sale  held  by  the  Carnall-Hopkins 
company  on  Monday  was  more  satisfactory  in  the  case  of  the  of- 
fering of  the  three  houses  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Larkin  and 
Golden  Gate  avenue  than  on  the.  previous  Monday.  The  price 
bid  was  $63,000,  and  it  is  not  unlikely  that  the  sale  will  be  con- 
firmed at  about  this  figure  or  with  the  usual  ten  per  cent,  added. 
The  appraised  value  of  the  property,  it  is  safe  to  say,  is  too  high. 

The  movements  in  the  banks  are  not  over  yet.  The  German 
bank  is  now  within  appreciable  distance  of  getting  into  its  fine 
new  building.  Donohoe-Kelly's  bank  is  preparing  for  a  move. 
The  premises  formerly  occupied  by  Shreve  &  Co.,  under  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel,  are  now  being  prepared  for  it.  The  San  Francisco 
Savings  Union  is  only  waiting  for  the  German  bank  to  vacate  its 
old  quarters  to  commence  very  extensive  and  expensive  changes, 
which  will  make  the  building  on  the  corner  of  California  street 
and  Webb  Place  to  all  intents  and  purposes  a  new  one. 

If  the  Mission  property  owners  carry  out  all  their  intentions, 
the  Sixteenth-street  Commissioners,  who  have  doubtless  enjoyed 
to  the  full  the  pleasures  of  anticipation,  will  not  reap  much  in 
participation.  The  owners  propose  to  cut  the  Commissioners' 
expense  bill — or  extortion  bill — eighty-five  per  cent.,  and  instead 
of  $71,000,  the  Commissioners  will  get  about  $11,000.  The  esti- 
mates for  the  land  required  will  be  reduced  from  $343,000  to 
$45,000,  and  at  this  figure  something  like  an  equitable  allowance 
will  be  made. 

A  Boom  for  Haywards  — Haywaups,  Cal.,  Sept.  11th.— Parties 
from  the  East  have  secured  the  well-known  Haywards  Hotel  and  cot- 
tages, and  on  Monday  the  Monroe  Improved  Gold  Cure  Company 
opened  handsome  quarters  in  hotel  and  cottages  for  the  cure 
or  the  liquor,  opium,  morphine  and  tobacco  habits.  This  cure 
is  the  only  permanent  one.  Send  to-day  for  circulars  and  testi- 
monials.   San  Francisco  office,  111  Grant  avenue. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behrinfj  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Locatiou  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
catiou  nf  caunery — Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  lj,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.     Amount. 

C.  A.  Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.  A.Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg ...12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1S92,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  BATUR- 
DAY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until  WED- 
J\ESD\Y,  September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Best    &     Belcher    Mining     Company. 

Location  of  Principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
catiou of  works— Virginia  City,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  mcetingof  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  seventeenth  (17th)  day  of  August,  189A  an  assessment  (No.  52}of  Tweuty- 
five  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  each  and  every  share  of  the  capital 
stock  of  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to 
the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  33,  Nevada  block,  No. 
309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
Thursday,  the  22d  day  of  September.  1 892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  thirteenth  (lath)  day  of  October, 
1^92,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising 
and  expenses  of  sste.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co,  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Challenge  Consolidated   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Wold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nev. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  12)  of  Ten  10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty-seventh  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  18th  day  of  October,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C  L.  McCOY,  Secretary. 
Office— 331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Belle    Isle    Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business  -San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works — Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nev. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held , 
on  the  twenty-second  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  15,  of  Ten 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay- 
able immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 

Twenty-sixth  Day  or  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  TRUR8DAY,  the  20th  day  of  October,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office— 310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,|San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


17,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


10 


"  MOT  an  agency  in  the  city  has  made  any  money  at  all  Ihis 
IN  year."  sa  d  a  well-posted  underwriter  on  Thursday.  He  is 
lbe  manager  of  one  of  the  largest  agencies  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
an.l.  therefore,  bis  statements  are  entitled  to  all  due  respect.  •'  The 
fact  is."  he  continued.  "  that  all  the  companies  have  lost  very 
heavily  during  the  year,  collections  are  hard  to  make  and  the 
business  is  at  a  very  low  ebb  indeed.  I  do  not  remember  such  a 
bad  year  during  twenty  seasons  that  I  have  been  engaged  in  the 
insurance  business  in  this  city.  Affairs  are  now  at  a  very  low 
ebb.  Besides  the  bad  effect  on  the  business  of  the  numerous 
losses  which  have  been  recorded  this  year,  we  have  also  to  con- 
tend against  the  depression  which  seems  to  be  general  in  business 
circles  throughout  California  at  this  time.  Agents  who  have 
never  failed  us  before  are  now  sending  us  notifications  that  they 
will  not  be  able  to  forward  collections  for  some  time  yet.  The 
farmers  have  no  money,  and  the  policies  which  have  been  placed 
upon  their  standing  grain  and  other  written  property  must 
await  payment  for  some  time.  In  fact,  I  must  confess  that 
to-day  the  condition  of  the  insurance  business  in  this  city  is  not 
very  encouraging.  The  Compact,  too,  is  causing  us  trouble  in  an 
indirect  manner.  That  is  to  say,  that  the  fact  that  the  Union 
does  not  take  some  practical  steps  to  abate  the  rebate  evil,  has 
caused  a  feeling  of  uneasiness  and  insecurity  in  the  insurance 
world,  which  by  no  means  improves  the  condition  of  affairs. 
That  reoatiog  is  being  practiced  among  more  than  a  few  offices  is 
well  known;  that  the  Compact  has  done  nothing  to  estop  the 
continuance  of  this  great  evil  is  notorious.  Still  there  is  consid- 
erable more  smoke  than  fire  in  all  tbis  talk  about  rebating.  In- 
surance men,  like  all  other  men  engaged  in  business  affairs,  are 
intensely  envious  of  one  another.  As  a  rule  the  most 
cordially  bated  man  among  the  underwriters  is  he  who 
does  the  greatest  business.  The  managers  who  arrive  at 
their  offices  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  morning,  take  an 
hour  and  a  half  or  two  hours  lunch,  and  leave  for  the  club  at 
four  o'clock,  cannot  understand  how  it  is  tbat  their  companies 
do  not  increase  their  business,  while  others  do.  They  should  ap- 
preciate the  interesting  fact  that  underwriting  is  not  a  matter  of 
pleasure,  and  that  the  position  of  a  general  agent  is  by  no  manner 
of  means  a  sinecure.  Hard  work  is  necessary  for  success.  The 
luxurious  managers,  having  no  other  means  to  prove  to  their 
borne  offices  their  own  great  worth,  are  perforce  compelled  to 
charge  the  successful  companies  with  breaking  the  rules  of  the 
compact,  and  cutting  rates.  It  would  certainly  be  a  good  thing 
for  every  underwriter  in  the  city  if  the  compact  should  come  out 
boldly  and  announce  who  are  guilty  of  the  transgressions  of  the 
provisions  of  the  compact.  The  union  must  either  maintain  its 
own  rules,  or  acknowledge  its  inefficiency.  The  latter  result 
would  be  deplorable,  and  it  is  not  desired." 

Some  idea  of  the  course  of  the  fire  fiend  throughout  the  coast 
States  and  territories  during  the  year  may  be  gathered  from 
the  figures  for  August.  During  that  month  the  totals  (fire)  to 
local  agencies  in  Montana  were  $27,109;  Idaho,  $69,840;  Arizona, 
$19,334;  Washington,  $68,464;  Oregon,  $262,268;  Colorado,  $23,- 
463;  Wyoming,  $1,446;  British  Columbia,  $8,975;  New  Mexico, 
$789;  Hawaii,  $300;  Utah,  $11,442.  Total  outside  territory,  $493,- 
428,  California,  $214,764;  total  San  Francisco,  $16,430;  total 
coast,  $708,192.  The  total  for  the  coast  in  August,  1891,  was 
$478,556.  The  losses  on  the  Portland  fire  of  August  1st  are  esti- 
mated at  $223,488.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  losses  during 
last  month  were  considerably  greater  than  for  the  corresponding 
month  last  year. 

Mr.  James  D.  Bailey  has  filed  his  personal  bond  with  the  In- 
surance Commissioner  a3  General  Agent  of  the  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  North  America.  This  seems  to  indicate  that  Mr.  Bailey 
has  secured  the  general  agency  of  the  company,  beyond  the 
question  of  a  doubt.  Mr.  Bailey  is  a  gentleman  of  the  best  repu- 
tation as  an  excellent  underwriter,  and  his  many  friendB  upon 
the  street  are  congratulating  him  upon  his  good  fortune  in  being 
appointed  to  the  management  of  the  Insurance  Company  of 
North  America. 

Mr.  Brown,  of  Brown,  Craig  &  Co.,  has  returned  from  his  re- 
cent trip,  and  is  now  giving  his  associates  the  benefit  of  the 
knowledge  he  gained  by  experience  during  his  absence  from  the 
city. 

Following  is  said  to  be  the  life  insurance  upon  Louis  B.  Mc- 
Whirter,  who  was  recently  assassinated  at  Fresno  by  political 
enemies:  Provident  Savings,  $20,000;  Connecticut  Mutual,  $15,- 
000;  New  York  Life  and  Northwestern  Mutual,  $10,000  each; 
Un  on  Mutual,  $5  000.  Ho  had  applied  for  $40,000  more,  or  a 
total  of  $100,000,  as  he  feared  assassination. 

J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12  Post  street,  has  an  unparalleled  reputation 
in  the  city  as  a  tailor  who  turns  out  only  excellent  work,  and  deals 
only  in  first-class  goods.  He  is  very  popular  with  all  wearers  of 
uniforms  and  regalias,  of  which  he  makes  a  specialty,  and  his  suits 
are  worn  wherever  parades  are  known  in  the  State. 


THEY    WON    THE    CHORUS    GIRLS. 

TWO  stage-door  fiends  had  an  experience  in  Oakland  on  Mon- 
day night  that  they  will  not  forget  in  a  hurry.  Now  that 
permanent  opera  has  been  established  at  the  Auditorium,  the 
theatre  is  the  nightly  rendezvous  of  a  number  of  mashers,  who 
are  on  hand  to  win  the  smiles  of  the  chorus  girls.  Manager  Bin- 
ford,  however,  puts  his  foot  down  strongly  on  the  practice,  and 
when,  the  other  night,  he  saw  one  of  his  ushers  hurrying  towards 
the  stage  entrance  with  a  card  in  his  hand ,  he  headed  him  off  and 
found  that  the  message  was  from  two  well-known  young 
'■  bloods,"  who  were  b(gging  for  an  appointment  with  a  couple  of 
the  chorus  girls  after  the  show  was  over.  Now  Binford  likes  a 
joke  as  well  as  any  one,  so  going  into  his  office,  he  got  his  wife 
to  write  an  answer  on  the  reverse  of  the  card,  saying,  "  All  right, 
we  will  be  there."  This  was  now  dispalched  to  the  unsuspecting 
dudes,  and  Binford  proceeded  to  fix  up  the  rest  of  his  scheme  by 
telling  the  whole  company  to  remain  in  the  green-room  for  a  few 
minutes  after  the  performance  was  over.  When,  then,  the  cur- 
tain went  down  on  the  last  act,  he  dropped  around,  and  telling 
the  troupe  what  had  happened,  made  arrangements  for  them  all 
to  proceed  en  masse  to  the  trysting  place.  Meantime  the  two 
Johnnies  had  eagerly  rushed  around  to  the  corner  selected  by  ap- 
pointment, and  there  they  waited  anxiously  for  the  glorious 
time  they  anticipated.  Their  patience  was  not  tested  long,  and 
then  suddenly  round  the  corner  came  the  whole  company, 
twenty-eight  strong.  They  surrounded  the  dudes,  who  were  so 
overcome  by  surprise  that  they  were  at  first  breathless.  When 
they  realized  that  they  had  been  "jobbed,"  though,  they,  in  des- 
peration at  the  guying  that  had  started,  broke  through  the  circle 
of  laughing  Thespians,  and  fled  incontinently  down  the  street, 
pursued  by  tbe  shrieks  of  laughter  from  the  opera  people  and  the 
few  friends  who  had  been  invited  to  witness  the  fun. 

JOSEPH  A.  STEINEE,  the  popular  young  business  man,  has 
purchased  an  interest  in  the  firm  of  Leo  Zander  &  Co. 

This  is  the  season  when  all  lovers  of  nature  delight  to  have  about 
them  the  beautiful  flowers  that  now  abound  throughout  the  city.  At 
the  store  of  C.  M.  Leopold,  of  35  Post  street,  there  is  daily  a  truly 
magnificent  display  of  all  the  buds  and  blossoms  that  mother  Earth 
now  produces.  Many  of  the  flowers  are  now  in  their  greatest  glory, 
for  May  is  well  maintaining  its  reputation  as  the  month  of  blossoms. 

John  F.  Cutter's  whisky  is  the  best  ever  known.  It  has  no  supe- 
riors and  acknowledges  but  few  equals.  This  brand  of  whisky  has 
been  sold  for  years,  and  its  popularity  remains  unabated.  All  Ion 
vivants  demand  it,  and  are  satisfied  with  no  other.  There  is  a  vast 
and  increasing  cry  for  it  from  all  connoisseurs. 

The  Carpet  Beating  Machine  and  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J. 
Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  353-357  Tehama  street,  are  the  most  popular  in 
the  city,  because  the  work  of  this  establishment  is  always  satis- 
factorily done.  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.  have  the  reputation  of  being  ex- 
cellent business  men,  who  execute  excellent  work.  Ail  housewives 
should  patronize  them. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY  COMPANY 

OF    BALTIMORE     CITY. 

Cash  Capital $1,000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  ECHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL  &  BERRY,  General  Agents. 

4-21  California  Street. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Alpha  Consolidated  Mill  and  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Goid  Hill,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  2d  day  of  September,  1S92,  an  assessment  (No.  9)  of  Ten  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  states  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  com- 
pany, room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Mongomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Sixth  Day  of  October,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the    twenty-seveoth  day  of   October, 
1892.  to  pay  the  delinqueut  assessment,  together  with    the  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 


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20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


BEGGARS  swarm  so  in  Malta  that,  according  to  the  Rev.  J.  E. 
Hardy's  sketch  of  Maltese  life,  the  only  way  to  avoid  being 
pestered  by  them  is  to  put  out  the  hollow  of  your  hand  and  an- 
ticipate them  with  their  own  whining,  "Give  me  something," 
"  Me  plenty  poor  man,"  •'  Me  very  large  family."  Some  of  these 
beggars  are  supposed  to  have  acquired  a  good  deal  of  money,  and 
it  is  said  that  the  priests  order  people  to  live  by  begging  for 
awhile  as  penance.  On  the  other  hand  with  those  who  will  work 
it  is  hard  to  do  business  owing  to  their  reluctance  to  name  a  price 
for  their  services.  The  answer  is  "  What  you  like,"  which 
tempts  the  stranger  to  reply  that  he  "  would  like  to  give  nothing 
at  all."  The  poorer  Maltese  have,  it  seems,  a  ready  wit.  An 
English  officer,  failing  to  make  a  Maltese  understand  what  he 
meant,  called  the  poor  man  "a  fool."  Understanding  this  much, 
the  man,  who  had  traveled  about  a  good  deal,  though  he  did  not 
understand  English,  replied  by  asking,  "  Do  you  speak  Maltese?" 
"No."  "Do  you  speak  Arabic?"  "No."  "Do  you  speak 
Greek?"  "No."  "Do  you  speak  Italian?"  "No."  "Then, 
if  I  be  one  fool,  you  be  four  fools!  "  In  illustration  of  a  curious 
sort  of  discriminating  roguery  which  appears  to  be  characteristic 
of  the  Maltese  dealers,  Mr.  Hardy  tells  a  story  of  a  naval  friend 
who  stopped  one  Christmas-time  in  the  great  market  in  Va- 
letta  before  the  stall  of  "  a  Joe  "  with  whom  he  had  had  many 
dealings.  The  color  of  one  of  his  turkeys,  all  trussed  and 
ready  for  the  spit,  attracted  him.  The  breast  of  the  pictim  was' 
of  a  bluisb  purple,  the  legs  were  scraggy  and  also  discolored,  but 
otherwise  the  bird  seemed  to  have  been  well  fed.  Pointing  to  it, 
he  asked,  »«  How  much?  "  Joe  fell  back,  and,  beckoning  him  to 
him,  explained  matters  thus:  "  Dat  not  for  you,  signor;  dat  for 
de  hotel."  Then,  in  a  mysterious  but  impressive  whisper,  he 
added,  "  He  die." 

The  drum-major's  stick  of  the  First  Guard  Regiment  in  Berlin 
has,  says  the  Daily  News,  a  curious  history.  During  the  reign  of 
Frederick  II.  it  was  the  custom  for  Prussian  officers  to  carry  a 
stick  as  a  sign  of  their  dignity,  and  this  stick  was  used  not  only 
as  a  commander's  staff,  but  was  employed  in  keeping  up  military 
discipline.  At  that  time  a  certain  Friedrich  Wilhelm  Rohdich 
served  as  captain  in  the  King's  Life  Guard.  This  officer  had  ob- 
tained great  successes  in  the  battle  of  Prague  and  received  in 
recompense  various  orders  and  honorable  posts,  and  also  a  patent 
of  nobility.  After  his  death  in  1796  the  stick  he  had  used  was 
preserved  as  a  relic  by  his  relations,  till,  in  1840,  one  of  his  grand- 
nephews,  a  Major  Bredow,  gave  the  stick  to  the  First  Guard 
Regiment,  with  the  wish  that  it  should  be  used  for  the  drum- 
majors.  The  stick,  which  was  a  simple  bamboo,  was  provided 
with  a  silver  button,  upon  which  were  engraved  the  Rohdich 
arms,  the  Cross  of  the  Order  of  Merit,  and  the  following  words: 
"  In  memory  of  General  von  Rohdich,  from  1779  to  1796  head  of 
the  regiment  founded  by  the  Kurfiirst  Frederick,  and  reformed 
by  Frederick  II.,  as  the  Guard-Grenadier  battalion,  which,  dis- 
solved in  1806,  still  exists  in  the  First  Guard  Regiment." 

Apropos  of  bribery  and  corruption  at  elections,  an  amusing 
anecdote  is  related.  A  hot  contest  was  about  to  take  place  years 
ago  in  a  country  town,  the  candidates  being  a  Legitimist,  an 
Orleanist  and  a  Republican.  One  Saturday  morning  people  ran 
up  to  the  wife  of  the  Orleanist  politician  with  the  exclamation 
that  "  All  was  lost?  "  as  the  Legitimist  rival  was  going  to  present 
every  poor  member  of  the  congregation  with  a  four-pound  loaf 
after  Divine  service  on  the  following  day.  The  lady  reflected  a 
moment,  and  then  said  that  she  would  be  equal  to  the  occasion. 
She  kept  her  word.  As  the  people  filed  out  of  the  church  on  a 
Sunday  morning,  the  Legitimist  candidate  distributed  bis  bread; 
but,  posted  on  the  other  side  of  the  door,  the  Orleanist's  wife  pre- 
sented to  the  recipients  of  the  four-pound  loaves  a  pot  of  butter,  or 
a  pot  of  jam.  As  it  turned  out,  the  wily  Republican  carried  the 
day  after  all.  He  happened  to  be  a  dealer  in  wines,  and  sending 
round  a  bottle  to  every  poor  elector,  he  distanced  his  opponents 
and  triumphantly  headed  the  poll. 

The  Countess  Li— wife  of  the  famous  Viceroy  Li-Hung  Chang 
—  who  died  recently  at  her  palace  in  Tientsin,  played  an  import- 
ant part  in  the  spread  of  Western  ideas,  especially  as  regards 
medical  science,  in  the  north  of  China.  When  she  was  ill,  years 
ago,  she  was  attended  by  an  English  doctor,  and,  on  her  recovery, 
was  so  gratified  at  what  had  been  done  for  her  that  she  built  a 
large  hospital,  and  maintained  it  at  her  own  cost,  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Chinese  at  Tientsin.  She  was  attended  in  her  last  illness 
by  an  American  lady  doctor,  as  well  as  by  an  English  physician. 


Good  Cooking 
Is  one  of  the  chief  blessings  of  every  home.    To  always  insure  good 
custards,  puddings,  sauces,  etc.,  use  Gail  Borden  ""Eagle"  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.     Directions  on  the  label.    Sold  by  your  grocer  and 
druggist. 


IZtTSTTZR^JISrOIE  - 


Insurance  Company. 
CAPITAL $1,000,000,  (ASSETS $3,000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  In  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States . 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

rE8TABLI8HKD    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up M00.000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SANSOMC  STRtCJ, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BRANDER.  CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

President Secretary. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up *     500,000 

Assets  3.181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,525,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— SOI  Montgomery  St.     General  Office— 401  Mont's,  si. 

INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

F  I  n  r  The  Lion  Fire  ,nsurarice  Co-  L|roiH  of  London. 
r  I  n  r  Tlie  ln,l>er,al  lnsurance  Co-  Limited,  of  London 

!     j!  WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Paclnc  Branch,   214  Sansonie  St.,  S.  r. 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCK,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital  125,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office.  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL,  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 

VICHY     SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM   TJKIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
known  '■  champagne  "  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautifying 
the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladies.  Only  natural  electric  water  in 
the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR. 

OCCIDENTAL    HOTEL, 

San    Francisco. 

-A.       CJTJIET      HOME 

CENTRALLY       LOCATED, 

FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 

COKE— CHEAPEST  FUEL! 

Reduction  in  Price. 

Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more),  80c.  per  bbl.    Retail  (any  quantity 
under  50  bbls.),  00c.  per  bbl. 

AT  THE  WORKS  OF 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  GASLIGHT  COMPANY, 
HOWARD  AND  FIRST  STS..  and  FOOT  OF  SECOND  STREET. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRICAL  WORKS, 

XT©.   35   lv£a,xl=et  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS    AND     IMPORTERS     OF 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  Genaral  Electrical  Supplies. 
LAVER,    MULLANY    k   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 
Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 

Office :  93  Flood  Building,  Cor.  4t u  and  Market  S is.,  S.  F.        f 


17,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


SWEET    MARIE.—  '"j;  Winner  in  the  Crtede  Chronicle. 


I'VE  a  secret  in  my  heart,  Sweet  Marie; 
A  tale  1  wonld  impart,  love,  to  thee, 
Every  daisy  in  the  dell 
Know9  my  secret — knows  it  well, 
And  yet  I  dare  not  tell,  8weet  Marie. 

When  I  hold  your  hand  in  mine,  Sweet  Marie, 
A  feeling  most  divine  comes  to  me; 

All  the  world  is  fall  of  spring, 

Full  of  warblers  on  the  wing, 
And  I  listen  while  tbey  sing,  Sweet  Marie. 

In  the  morn  when  I  awake,  Sweet  Marie; 
Seems  to  me  my  heart  will  break,  love,  for  thee, 

Every  wave  that  shakes  the  shore 

Seems  to  sing  it  o'er  and  o'er; 
Seems  to  say  that  I  adore  Sweet  Marie. 

When  the  sunset  tints  the  west,  Sweet  Marie, 
And  I  sit  down  to  rest,  love,  with  thee, 
Every  star  that  studs  the  sky 
Seems  to  stand  and  wonder  why 
They  are  dimmer  than  your  eye,  Sweet  Marie. 

Not  the  sun-glints  in  your  hair,  Sweet  Marie, 
Nor  becanse  your  face  is  fair,  love,  to  see; 
But  your  soul  sopure  and  sweet 
Makes  my  happiness  complete, 
Makes  me  falter  at  your  feet,  Sweet  Marie. 

I  must  hush  or  I  shall  tell,  Sweet  Marie, 
But  perhaps  it's  just  as  well,  love,  for  me, 
For  my  soul  is  so  distressed 
Lean  your  head  against  my  breast; 
And  you  can  guess  the  rest,  Sweet  Marie. 


NASTURTIUMS.— Good  Housekeeping. 

Upon  the  fence  and  o'er  the  gate 
And  through  the  garden  paling, 

A  floral  host  of  warriors  bold 
Are  now  the  rampants  scaling. 

With  shields  of  green  and  banners  gay 
That  sparkle  with  the  dew, 

These  warriors  bold  with  trumpets  gold, 
Their  royal  captives  view. 

Bright  pansies  and  sweet  mignonette, 

Each  tell  their  simple  story, 
While  roses  stand,  both  red  and  white, 

In  all  their  old-time  glory. 

The  wind  sweeps  o'er  the  garden  fair, 
And  in  the  sunlight's  glances 

We  catch  a  gleam  of  flashing  lines, 
As  the  floral  host  advances. 

Upon  the  fence  and  o'er  the  gate 
And  through  the  garden  paling, 

A  floral  host  of  warriors  bold 
Are  now  the  ramparts  scaling. 


SOUGHT    AND    FOUND. 

I  am  back  from  the  surf  and  the  strand, 
The  parched  city  pavement  I  tread; 

By  no  salty  zephyrs  I'm  fanned, 
As  the  hot  sun  beats  down  on  my  head. 

My  blazer  is  packed  out  of  sight, 
In  starched  collar  and  shirt  I  appear, 

I  can't  defer  dressing  till  night 
Or  comrades  would  cut  me,  I  fear. 

Vacation  is  over,  and  yet 

I  labor  all  day  with  real  zest; 

Working  only  twelve  hours  now  I  get 
What  I  went  out  of  town  for— a  rest. 


THE    STREAM'S    SONG.— Clinton  Scollard,  in  Lippincott's. 

What  sings  the  stream  ?— Ask  him  whose  heart  is  sore, 
"Woe,''  he  will  answer,  "is  the  song  thereof;" 

Ask  him  whose  heart  with  joy  is  brimming  o'er, 
And  he  will  tell  thee,  "love." 


ii^rsTJRjivjsrcE. 


TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  L.  low,  Manager  for  the  Pacific  I  nasi  Ilrnuch, 

.  ,  220  Sausomcst..  S.  F. 

i nPitlL  ";„ "  ii  -  ■  c $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534,795.72 


GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 

232  <  allfornla  St.,  9.  F„  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL,  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL  4.000  000  DOLLARS 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
110  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

ttiMu"11 $10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up j  Bog  gg„ 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2  126  000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 6,124,067.80 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 


Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782-] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON, 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  manager. 

PACIFIC    IDIEiE^K.TIMIiElirSrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  A.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -    I  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, 510,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


WM.  J.  LMDERS.  (ien'l  Agent,  M  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL $5,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,538.46. 

President.  nENJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 

HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 


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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


&& 


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INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

ESTETF=t,  E?rMC3L_ArNC,.£l 


f^j  OF  MA  _     __  _ 

Capital  paid  oj  guaranteed  $3,000,000,00. 

Chas  A  Lato*j;  Manager, 
433  California  St.  San  fvacsi&za. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


TENNIS- 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 

THE  championships  held  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Pacific  States  Lawn  Tennis  Association  are 
over  for  this  year,  and  the  season  will  continue  with  club  tro- 
phies. 

The  California  Club  is  now  the  proud  possessor  of  two  cham- 
pionships, Taylor's  and  now  Miss  Morgan's.  The  doubles  still 
remain  with  the  Oakland  Club,  whose  champions  are  the  Hardy 
brothers.  The  rpcent  play,  on  the  whole,  was  not  brilliant, 
though  every  one  was  surprised  at  the  victory  of  the  youngsters. 
It  was  almost  a  foregone  conclusion  when  Bates  and  Haight  had 
them  two  sets  to  one  and  forty  love  that  the  match  was  over,  but 
they  pulled  up  in  great  shape,  and  won  by  three  sets  to  two. 
They,  however,  played  with  great  accuracy,  and  will  in  all  pro- 
bability improve  their  game,  which  even  now  is  very  strong. 
Their  smashing  and  general  game  was  faultless,  though  often 
their  strokes  lacked  the  severity  essential  to  a  vollying  game. 
Stetson  and  De  Long  put  np  an  almost  similar  game  to  that 
adopted  by  Bates  and  Niel,  and,  as  we  have  often  remarked  be- 
fore that  a  lobbing  game  can  easily  be  defeated  by  two  good  vol- 
lyers,  their  defeat  only  showed  that  the  vollying  game  is  the  best, 
if  properly  played.  Sanborn  and  Driscoll  lacsed  judgment,  and 
constantly  smashed  out  of  court,  which  alone  saved  the  Califor- 
nia team.  Of  the  other  teams  there  is  little  to  say,  except  that 
the  play  of  Bates  was  extremely  good.  If  his  partnt-r  had  only 
backed  him  up  a  bit  more  with  care,  instead  of  often  trying  im- 
possible drives,  the  result  would  have  been  different.  The  ladies 
showed  improvement,  especially  Miss  Roberts,  whose  vollying 
was  quite  a  feature  in  the  games.  Miss  Morgan's  lobbing,  how- 
ever, was  too  good  for  Miss  Roberts,  and  she  had  to  succumb  to 
the  California  lady.  Miss  Bates  is  quite  a  pretty  player, 
but  was  out  of  practice.  The  Presidio  lady  fought 
hard  for  the  honor  of  the  army,  and  had  many 
admirers.  One  thing,  however,  which  marred  the  pleasure  of 
many  was  the  constant  applause  of  bad  strokes,  and  the  frequent 
hissing  of  good  strokes  played  by  the  strangers.  Most  of  the 
noise  was  made  by  the  High  School  boys,  and  we  cannot  under- 
stand why  the  officers  of  the  Oakland  Club  permitted  such  con- 
duct. The  noise  was  very  ungentlemanly,  and  it  went  so  far  in 
the  match  between  Miss  Roberts  and  Miss  Morgan,  that  the 
former  lady  had  to  call  her  father,  and  request  him  to  keep  the 
onlookers  from  applauding  Miss  Morgan's  bad  strokes,  or  she 
would  give  up  the  match.  The  same  ill-feeling  existed  during 
the  Stetson-De  Long  and  the  Hardy  Bros,  match.  A  certain 
writer  in  the  Field  Sports,  who  used  to  s:gn  himself  "  l'H."  would 
only  be  too  glad  to  uphold  their  conduct,  and  say  "it  showed 
their  love  for  the  sport,"  whereas  we  think  it  showed,  to  say  the 
least,  a  distinct  sign  of  ill-breeding. 

The  least  said  about  the  accommodations  at  the  Tubbs'  Hotel 
the  better,  and  after  the  games  were  over  people  were  thankful 
to  be  able  to  get  a  decent  dinner  in  town. 

The  California  Club's  trophy  will  be  competed  for  on  the  24th 
and  25th  insts.,  and  the  entry  will  be  a  large  one.  The  annual 
meeting  of  the  club  will  be  held  at  about  the  same  date.  We 
understand  that  the  Secretaryship  of  the  Association,  rendered 
vacant  by  the  resignation  of  C.  R.  Yates,  has  been  offered  to,  and 
accepted  by  Harry  N.  Stetson,  who  we  think  will  fit  the  position 
admirably. 

BASEBALL  0N  ttie  15th  Prox-  tbe  *eague  seasons  in  the  East 
"  \J  will  close,  and  be  immediately  followed  by  a 
series  of  games  to  be  played  between  the  winners  of  the  first  and 
last  half  of  the  pennant  for  the  world's  championship.  At  this 
time,  it  seems  more  than  probabl*  that  the  games  will  be  played 
by  the  Bostons  and  Olevelands,  which  will  make  it  a  contest  be- 
tween the  East  and  the  West.  The  number  of  games  to  be  played 
will  be  largely  determined  by  the  weather.  It  is  not  improbable 
that  these  teams  will  make  a  trip  to  this  State  thi°  winter  and 
play  here  a  season  of  about  six.  weeks.  The  California  League 
season  will  close  on  November  27th.  Pitcber  Camp,  of  the  Oak- 
lands,  has  not  been  the  success  he  was  expected  to  be,  and  has 
been  bit  very  hard  in  the  games  pitched  by  him,  particularly  by 
the  Los  Angeles  team.  There  is  some  talk  of  Oakland  engaging 
Pitcher  Darby.  At  this  writing,  the  race  for  the  pennant  lies  be- 
tween the  Los  Angeles  and  home  teams.  The  former  club  relies 
on  its  batting,  as  bitting  makes  runs,  and  runs  win  games.  It 
does  not  seem  probable  at  this  time  that  the  National  League  will 
do  away  with  the  twelve  club  scheme  and  return  to  the  American 
Association  and  National  League  circuits  of  former  years,  as 
many  expected.  The  National  League  people  claim  that  the 
twelve  club  venture  has  been  a  success,  and  that  it  would  not  be 
good  financial  policy  to  have  two  large  leagues,  as  formerly.  This 
latter  position  seems  to  be  sound. 

The  Oakland  and  San  Jose  teams  will  play  in  this  city  this 
afternoon  and  to-morrow.  As  the  former  club  is  playing,  no  one 
need  be  surprised  if  new  faces  are  seen  in  the  nine  when  the  team 
appears  in  the  field. 

Swain's  Original  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  is  not  excelled  in 
thecity  as  a  first-class  establishment  for  family  dinners.  No  other 
local  restaurant  is  better  adapted  to  the  dining  of  parties,  a  specialty 
of  which  is  made  by  Swain's  Original.  It  has  very  few  equals  in  the 
city,  and  acknowledges  no  superior.    Go  there  for  good  dinners. 


pEI^Y   ^    D/M5   9  QO., 

FINE  ART  AUCTIONEERS,  I/O  Montgomery  St. 

/rt]<?5IOfl  DfUiy. 

Exhibition  liy  liaslii;hl  Saturday  anil  Sunday  from  7  P.  Jl.  to  (I  P.  )l. 

Persoual   attention  giveu  to  Household  Sales  ou  owner's  premises,  and 

outside  Store  8ales. 

COMMENCING 

MONDAY Sept.   19,   1892. 

and  following  days  at  11  o'clock  a.  m.,  a  choice  selection  of 

JAPANESE  CURIOS, 

consigued  direct  from  Japan,  consisting  in  part  of  Cloisonne  and  Satsuma 
Goods,  in  new  and  rich  designs  of  Bases,  Placaues,  Pedestals  and  numer- 
ous novelties  of  rare  workmanship  Fine  silk  haud-embroidered  Screens, 
Ladies'  Wrappers,  Gents'  Smoking  Jackets,  Table  Covers,  Spreads,  etc. 
Choice  Ebony  Tables,  Cabinets,  etc.  Oriental  Rugs  very  antique,  many 
rare  and  attractive  curios  io  Gold,  Silver,  Bronze,  Ivory,  etc. 
Chairs  provided  for  ladies  who  are  specially  invited. 

TERMS    CASH. 

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THE  EYRiE. 

Crocker    Building, 

223-224. 


flDpour^m^Dt. 


Poetry  is  Hn  translation  of  the  intuitive  trust  into  concrete  form. 


f\    U/eeH    U/itl?   Some    po^ts. 
Maple  Hall,  8  0' Clock     ------     Palace  Hotel 

Monday,  August  29th, WHITMAN The  Poet  and  Seer 

Tuesday  Sept,  6th  EMER30N  The  Poet  aud  Thinker 

Wednesday,  Sept.  14th  -  SHAKESPEARE   -   Poet  and  Artist 

One  Dollar. 
Thursday,  September  22d, LONGFELLOW  The  Poet  and  Friend 

One  Dollar. 
Friday,  September  30th  RAPHAEL.  The  Poet  and  Painter 

One  Dollar. 
Saturday,  October  8th,  LINCOLN The  Poet  and  Statesman 

One  Dollar. 
Sunday,  October  16th, ...  JESDS  The  Poet  and  Man 

Two  Dollars. 


Seats  for  these  Lectures  Can  Be  Reserved  at  the  Ticket 
Office  Without  Extra  Charge. 


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Daily:  10  to  12,2lo4. 


FINE   DIAMONDS, 

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jg       The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very    reasonable   prices. 
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Sept.  17,  1892. 


.-AN    FRANCISCO   NKWS  LETTER. 


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TELEdrauM  worn  by  Frenchwomen  at  tbe  races  are  always 
charming  in  idea  and  style,  and  those  worn  at  Deauviile 
recently  were  particularly  noticeable.  The  race  course  there  is 
so  pretty  and  well  arranged  that  it  forms  a  lovely  background  to 
show  off  to  advantage  the  pretty  summer-like  costumes  of  the 
fair  sex.  This  year's  muslins  are  delightful,  especially  those 
which  have  a  small  Mower,  or  wreath  of  flowers,  on  them  in  tbe 
old-fashioned  style.  The  first  day  of  the  races  one  of  the  prettiest 
dresses  was  that  worn  by  a  pretty  Parisian  actress.  It  consisted 
of  a  pale  yellow  muslin,  with  a  ceinture  of  black  and  white  tar. 
tan  riobon.  Tbe  bodice  of  this  dress  was  made  very  simply, 
with  cascades  of  beautiful  old  lace  falling  over  the  shoulders  and 
ending  on  each  side  of  the  front  of  the  bodice  with  a  deep  yellow 
silk  fringe.  These  falls  of  lace  only  reached  to  tbe  waist,  where 
tbey  hung  slightly  over  the  broad  sasb.  Her  bat  harmonized  to 
perfection  with  her  gown,  and  she  wore  a  thick:  white  lace  veil 
which  concealed  ber  pretty  face  too  much. 

"Serpent*'  green  is  to  be  one  of  the  favorite  colors  this  autumn, 
and  dark  blue  cloth,  relieved  with  dashes  of  vivid  green,  is  the 
last  Parisian  combination.  Those  who  know  say  that  the  fol- 
lowing description  in  a  foreign  exchange  of  a  walking  costume  is 
one  that  might  be  copied  with  perfect  safety :  "Among  the  toil- 
ettes at was  one  of  serpent-green  vicuna,  which  was  dis- 
tinguished among  all  others,  in  that  it  had  not  a  scrap  of  trim- 
ming of  any  kind,  being  exquisitely  cut,  with  a  long  cape 
gathered  up  on  each  shoulder  and  open  in  the  front,  showing 
linings  of  dull  flame  color,  which  set  off  the  figure  of  the  wearer 
in  strong  and  beautiful  relief." 

A  pretty  method  of  indicating  the  places  assigned  to  guests  a 
a  banquet  was  illustrated  at  a  garden  party  recently  which  ended 
in  a  dinner,  to  which  most  of  tbe  guests  remained.  Small 
tables  were  used  to  seat  tbe  guests,  and  each  was  decors  ted  with 
a  different  flower.  Red,  white,  and  pink  roses,  sweet  peas  and 
nasturtiums,  yellow  sweet  sultans,  and  poppies  in  all  their  gaudy 
tints  were  used.  To  each  lady  was  presented  a  fan  decorated 
with  the  flowers  of  the  table  where  her  place  was  to  be  found, 
and  each  gentleman  received  a  boutonniere  of  the  flowers  carried 
by  the  lady  he  was  to  escort,  all  of  which  saved  the  confusion 
and  scrambling  for  place  involved  in  seating  large  parties. 

A  young  man  whose  pretty  fiancee  has  the  smallest  and  most 
shapely  of  feet,  has  had  one  of  ber  slippers  made  into  a  pin- 
cushion for  his  dressing  table.  Since  the  days  of  Cinderella, 
there  has  been  a  sentiment  about  a  pretty  slipper  that  exceeds 
even  that  felt  for  a  glove,  although  the  pretty  thing  has  not  often 
been  kept  as  a  souvenir.  Most  foot  gear,  it  is  true,  is  not  inter- 
esting; but  everyone  knows  the  pathos  there  is  in  a  little  child's 
half  worn  shoe,  and  a  young  girl's  tiny  slipper  is  quite  as  sug- 
gestive in  its  way,  always  supposing  it  to  be  small  and  dainty. 


The  girl  of  the  period  is  as  particular  now  about  her  shirt  studs 
as  is  the  young  man.  Those  little  useful  ornaments  she  purloins 
with  the  same  charming  lack  of  principle  formerly  manifested 
by  her  in  the  collecting  of  scarf  pins.  It  has  been  for  some  time 
a  wise  man  that  knew  where  his  scarf  pinB  were,  and  now  he 
needs  a  combination  lock  on  the  drawer  which  contains  his 
gallusses  and  shirt  studs,  if  he  has  a  wife  or  sister,  a  girl  cousin, 
or  intimate  girl  friend. 

It  is  quite  the  custom  now  for  the  intimate  friends  of  a  bride 
elect  to  present  her  with  the  exquisitely  fine  bed  linen  now  in- 
eluded  among  the  essentials  of  the  fashionable  trousseau.  These 
sheets  and  pillowslips  are  all  made  with  hemstitched  hems  and 
an  embroidery  of  the  interlaced  initials  of  the  bride's  maiden 
name.  To  tbe  collection  each  of  the  girl  cronies  contributes  one 
set,  which  insures  a  variety  of  embroidery  designs. 

The  handkerchief  affected  by  the  young  women  of  fine  and 
original  taste  is  an  extra  sized  square  of  linen,  finished  with  a 
narrow  hem,  and  having  a  shield  in  one  corner  or  an  oval  of 
color  upon  which  is  embroidered  iu  white  her  initial  letter.  A 
pretty  idea  in  the  marking  of  handkerchiefs,  too,  is  that  of  writ- 
ing tbe  name  in  the  corner  and  embroidering  the  signature  in  old- 
fashioned  raised  lines. 

A  charming  scheme  of  decoration  for  a  dinner  comprises  a 
cover  of  pink  and  white  lisse  for  the  table,  the  pink  being  fulled 
slightly  over  the  white.  Tall  candles  in  silver  candle  sticks  are 
covered  with  shades  of  pink  and  white  lisse,  and  down  through 
the  centre  of  the  table  silver  bowls  are  placed  at  intervals  filled 
with  pale  pink  blossoms.  

All  the  bonvivants  of  the  city  visit  the  Ataison  Kiche,  at  the  corner 
of  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue,  when  they  would  have  a  good  din- 
ner.    It  is  facile  princeps. 


NEW     FALL 


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-in- 


DRY    GOODS    AND     CLOAKS 
Jfou;   Or?    Exhibition. 

Our  unequalled  importations  of  the  new  season's  goods 

place  us  in  better  position  than  ever  before  to 

meet  the  wants  of  our  patrons  with 

THE  LARGEST  AND    MOST   COMPLETE   ASSORTMENTS. 

THE  LATEST  AND  MOST  ELEGANT  STYLES,   and 

THE  VERY  BEST  VALUES  IN  THE  MARKET, 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  18SS. 

Carriage   Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N,  J.;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet&  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babcoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 

HOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with,  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot— pot  lasts  three  months . 

Mrs.  Nettie  Harbison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    GUARANTEED     PERMANENT. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  fair:    Extras  $4.15@$4.25:    Superfine,  $2.50@$3.00. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping.  51.30;   Milline.    $1.30^)11.35  per  cental, 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  9ic.(§t?L  Feed.  8)c@Sje.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milliug,  n.30@*l-35;  Feed,  $1.25fqm-30  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1  35;  Vellow,  *1.3)@*1.3712'per  ctl. 

Rye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  $i.l0$$l.i5.    Cement,  J2.00@J2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $8;  Oats,  $7(ep:jS:  Alfalfa,  ?7@?8. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $lti<&$16.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00.g)?2.50  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  40c.@70c,  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady;  Choice,  25c.@'Wc:  Fair,  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  14c@loc. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  Sc.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  25c.@30c. 

Houey,  Comb,  llc.@12c:  Extracted,  6c.@7c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  2oc(§il0c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit — all  kinds  dried — active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Kaisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7^c.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@lCc. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5J£c.@5jJ£c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c. ©2^0. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4 1.50  per  flask.    Hops  are  in  demand  at  15@18c. 

Sugar,  good  stocK  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  5}  a'cOG1  ,je. 

Our  export  trade  thus  lar  during  September  has  been  large  up 
to  the  full  average,  and  includes  Grain,  Flour,  Canned  Goods,  and 
many  other  important  items  of  State  products.  We  also  remark 
an  extensive  growing  trade  of  like  products  from  Oregon,  Wash- 
ington, etc.  The  Fuget  Sound  sea  traffic  has  become  a  big  field  of 
operations  for  a  large  fleet  of  ships. 

The  big  lumber  raft,  from  Fort  Bragg  in  34  hours,  towed  by 
the  steamer  Noye,  Captain  Noye,  entered  this  port  on  the  11th 
inst.,  having  1,900  logs  averaging  65  feet  in  length;  the  raft  is  346 
feet  in  length,  23  feet  deep,  and  40  feet  wide.  This  will  cut  up 
1,450,000  feet  of  lumber.  Were  these  logs  cut  up  at  the  point  of 
departure,  the  slabs,  saw-dust,  etc.,  would  all  be  burnt  and  go  to 
waste,  but  here  all  will  be  marketable  and  go  far  to  pay  the  ex- 
penses of  towing. 

8almon. — The  Alaska  Packers'  Association  has  made  the  fol- 
lowing price  rates  for  the  current  season  pack  :  Lot  of  350  cs.,  $1.10, 
$1.05,  $1  00  per  dozen  for  red,  silver  and  pink  respectively;  1,000 
cs.,  H.09(ai$1.04 ;  2,500  cs.  lots,  $1.07@$1.02  and  for  5,000  cs.  lots, 
$1.05@$1.10  net  cash ;  if  exported,  sellers  entitled  to  drawback. 
Borne  sales  have  already  been  made  at  these  rates,  and  now  going 
on  board  ship  for  export. 

The  Jane  A.  Falkenberg  is  in  from  the  north  with  152,000  Cod- 
fish. 

We  note  the  arrival  of  1,300  tons  of  Coal  from  Alaska,  a  new 
source  of  much  needed  supplies,  the  quality  and  the  extent  of  the 
mine  product  yet  to  be  established. 

The  Br.  ship  Candida,  148  days  from  Rangoon  to  W.  Frese  & 
Co.,  brings  a  full  cargo  of  19,260  bags  of  Rice. 

Salt  from  Carmen  Island. — The  Bkte.  Modoc,  37  days  thence, 
brings  600  tons,  1,000  bags  to  J.  R.  Wilbur.  Bk.  Harry  Morse,  49 
ds.  from  same,  has  2,100  tons  to  same  consign--, 

London. — The  Br.  bark  G  la  mis,  hence,  carried  2,466  galls. 
Brandy,  4,018  galls.  Wine,  3,250  bbls.  Flour,  16,174  cs.  Salmon, 
27,911  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  117  cs.  Asparagus,  etc.,  value  $185,694; 
also,  to  Liverpool,  5,024  galls.  Grape  Brandy,  value  $3,768. 

For  the  Orient. — The  steamer  Gaelic,  hence  for  China,  had  in 
treasure  $557,417,  and  to  Japan,  $69  000;  for  cargo  to  Hongkong, 
5,601  bbls.  Flour,  3,570  lbs.  Ginseng,  4,116  lbs.  Peas,  etc.,  value 
$55,300;  to  Japan,  630  bbls.  Flour  and  other  Mdse.,  value  $10,290; 
to  the  East  Indies,  125  cs-  Canned  Ggods,  etc.,  value  $1,000. 

Exports  to  Honolulu,  per  8.  N.  Castle,  415  bbls.  Flour,  6,968 
lbs.  Tallow,  Bread,  Corn,  Barley,  Oats,  Hay,  etc.,  value  $20,424. 
To  Kahului,  per  Anna,  87  bbls.  Flour,  400  bbls.  Lime,  58  M. 
Brick,  Barley,  etc.,  value  $4,256.  To  Central  America,  per  bark 
Ophir.  50,706  lbs.  Rice,  371,250  lbs.  Tallow,  150  M.  feet  Lumber 
and  Mdse.,  value  $33,000.  The  Planter,  for  Honolulu,  had  Mdse. 
value  $22,600,  say  1,425  bbls.  Flour,  3,250  galls.  Wine,  160,241 
lbs.  Rolled  Barley,  etc. 

Imports  from  foreign  ports  include  the  cargo  per  Br.  ship  Jor- 
danhill,  131  days  from  Barry  to  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  say  400 
tons  Pig  Iron,  1,421  Steel  Plates,  100  M.  Fire  Brick,  1,000  bxs. 
Bath  Brick,  1.025  bxs.  Tobacco  Pipes,  2,926  Blooms,  etc. 

The  steamship  City  of  Pueblo,  for  Victoria,  B.  C,  carried  Mdse. 
value  $8,904;  also,  in  transit  for  Massachusetts,  via  Central 
Pacific  route,  74,812  lbs.  Wool,  value  $11,654;  and  for  Japan,  in 
transit,  30  rolls  Leather,  value  $1,252. 

Calcutta. — The  ship  Frank  Pendleton,  thence  to  Balfour, 
Guthrie  &  Co.,  had  for  cargo  a  full  cargo  of  old  rails,  iron,  etc. 

Grain  Charter. — Br.  iron  ship  Edinballmore,  1,642  tons,  Wheat 
for  Cork,  Havre,  Antwerp  or  Dunkirk,  £1  3s.  9d. 

It  you  have  poison  oak,  do  not  delay  in  procuring  a  bottle  of 
Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  of  fluid  extract  of  grindelia,  which  is  the 
best  known  remedy  for  the  unpleasant  results  of  careless  wanderine 
in  the  woods.  The  lotion  will  also  greatly  relieve  the  asthma.  It 
may  be  procured  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street. 


Go  to  the  California   Market  for  Moraghan's  exquisite  oysters, 
which  are  the  freshest  and  most  delicious  in  the  market. 


H.    l^L.    ITEVT'HilLjL    <3z,    CO., 
"SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS: 


*       AND 

* 

;  GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco- 
National  Assurance  Company       ...        - 

Atlas  Assurance  Company 

Boylston  Insurance  Company    - 

Ocean   Marine   Insurance      ----- 


of  Ireland 

oj?  London 

-    of  Boston 

of  London 


U 


It 


II 


Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction; 
"Wood" 

Arc. 
Factories : 
Fort  Wayne, 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn. 

New  York. 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne   Electric   Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,   Ind. 
Estimates  furnished   for  electric   railways,  electric 
light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
■  a  specialty. 


U 


35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


0-D     SCALE     REMOVED.  

FORMATION    OF    NEW    SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the   use  of  


STEAM 
BOILER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 

LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER! 

vOver  800  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  al]  ImpuritieB  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


E.   J.    WHEELER. 


J.    W.   GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

—      Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,      — 
Hose,  Packing,  etc., 


Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc,    

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &.  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  G  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 


I  SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS.  I 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC     STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

GILL.INGHAM     CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont, 
8AN    FRANCISCO. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOXMD  &  CO  , 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS. 

Union       Block,     eor.      Pine     and      Market    Sts., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Agents  for 
THE  CALIFORNIA  LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPS  FROM  NEW  YORK. 
The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co. ;  the   Hawaiian  Line  of    Packets 
to  and  from  Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limi'ed);  Bald- 
win Locomotive  Works;  A.  Whitney  &  Sons  Oar  wheels;  Vivian  &  Sous 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Kails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
jen's  Composition.    Outario  <  oiton  Sail  l>aclc. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET. 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,   WOOD    AND    IRON   WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING,   OILS  AND   8UPPLIE8. 

XjOTTIS   CAHEH  <Sc   SOIT, 


-Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers.  — 
-Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters- 
Cordials,  etc.  - 


PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

418  Sacramento  Street,  S.  IF1, 


17,  1392. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 
FAC0IO    BTBTSH. 

Train*  Le»ve  and   aro  Duo  to  Arrive 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


jt*un        From  Septembir  3,  1892.      I  Arbivi 

7  00  a.  Beoicta,  Rumsey,  Sacramento         :  Iff 
7  SO  a.  Havwarde,  Niles  and  Sao  Jose      *12:16V 

Nile*  ami  San  Jose  16:15  P 

7  30a.  Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Call stoga 

and  Santa  Kosn  6:15p. 

VOOa.  Sacram 'to  A  Redding,  via  Davis.      7:16  p. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  (or  Ogdeo  aud 

East,     9:45  P. 

8:30a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

vi lie  and  Red  Bluff 1 .46  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 

Seles,  Demlng.  El    Paso,    New 
rleans  and  East 8:45  p. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:45p. 

12-OOm.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  P. 

*1:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1:30  P.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose.        9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a. 

4 :00  p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa    9.45  a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45a. 

4:30p.  Woodland  aud  Orovilie 10:45a. 

•4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore ...    *8:45a. 

5:30  p.  Los   Angeles    Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 8.45a. 

5:30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8 :45  A. 

6:00  p.  Hayvrards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  .      7:45  a. 
6:00  p.  European  Mjil  Ogden  aud  East    9:15  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00p.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Fnget  Sound  and  East. .       8:15  A 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 
J7:45a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    \8 :05  p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz. *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:50a, 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

♦7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions   *2:38P. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion    18:28  P. 

8:15  a.  8an  Jose,  Gilroy,  TresPinos.Pa- 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
19:30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.    12:45  P. 
10:37A.  SanJose,  and  Way  Stations..  5:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations -      3:30p. 

*2:80p.  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,   Salinas, 
Monterey,    Pacific    Grove  and 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37a. 

•3:30  p.  San    Jose,    Gilroy,  Tres   Pinos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. ..     *9:47  A. 
♦4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8;06  A. 

5-J5p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a, 

6:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...      6:35a. 
HI :45 p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations f7:S0p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  rSaturdays  only. 

JSundaysonly. 


OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 

Sing  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
ails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 
FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 
8.  S.  Monowai  . .   .Friday,  September  16,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

S.  S.  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  31,  1892,  at  2  p.  M. 
For  Freight   or    Passage  apply  at    Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKBLS  *  BROS.  CO, 

General  AgentB 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 

MR.  HAKPKR,  who  will  have  charge  of 
the  mines,  leaves  for  the  front  next 
week,  and  the  furnaces  are  now  contracted 
for  in  this  city.  The  company  is  limited  in 
respect  to  numbers,  and  all  the  sharehold- 
ers are  wealthy  and  prominent  men  in  the 
commercial  community. 

THE  sale  is  of  more  than  ordinary  im- 
portance, as  the  opening  of  a  quicksilver 
mine  in  Mexico  will  be  of  more  than  or- 
dinary benefit.  At  present  every  pound 
required  has  to  be  imported  at  a  heavy 
cost.  The  ore  of  the  new  mine  is  high 
grade,  averaging,  it  is  said,  over  four  per 
ceDt- 


GEORGE  GOODMAN, 

PATENTEE    AND    MANUFACTTRER  OF 

ARTIFICIAL      STONE 
in  aix  its  branches. 

Office,  307  Montgomery  Street. 


MR.  F.  BOSS,  the  well-known  mill-builder 
of  this  city,  has  been  granted  a  patent 
in  Mexico  for  twenty  years  for  a  system  of 
amalgamating  pans  for  the  separation  of 
gold  and  silver  from  thin  ores. 

THE  new  Austrian  gold  crowns  will    be 
put   in  circulation  on  October  4th  next 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate 
Agents,  make  a  specialty  of  taking  full  charge 
of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and 
sold  on  commission.  Office,  407^109  Montgom- 
ery street. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Tuesday,  Sept.  6, 1892- 

Belgic Thursday,  Oct.  6,1892- 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892- 
Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT  REDUCED  RATES. 
Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 

for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 

74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 

cIbco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PtJGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  SAN  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARC  ATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Yellow  Jacket  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  works — Gold  Hill,  Storey  County, 
Nevada.  Location  of  principal  place  of  business — 
Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  this  company,  held  on  the  5th 
day  of  September,  a.  d.,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
52)  of  Twenty-five  Centsper  share  was  levied  upon 
each  and  every  share  of  the  capital  stock  of  the 
company,  payable  immediately  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  company,  or  to  James  Newlands,  Transfer 
Secretary,  room  3,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

Friday,  October  7th,  1892,  will  be  deemed  delinquent 

and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  10th  day  of  Nov- 
ember, •1892,  at  1  o'clock  p.  M.,  in  front  of  the  office 
of  the 'company,  to  pay  ttfe  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.  By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
W.  H.  BLAUVELf,  Secretary. 


25 

SAN  FRANC/SCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BROAD-GAUGE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  AI'KIL  24.  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  lor  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  A.M.,  9:20a.m.,   11:20  A.  M.: 

1:30  p.  M.,  3:30  p.  M.,6:05  P.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  A.M.,  9:30  A.M.,  11:00  A.M. ;  1 :30  P.M. 
3:30  p.  M.,  5:00  p.  M.,  6:16  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  lor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  a.   m.,  7:55  a.   m.,  9:30  A.  M. 

11:30  a.m.;  1:40  P.M.,  3:40  P.M.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONL Y-An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m., 9:40  A.M.,  11:10A.M.;  l:40p.M. 
3:40  p.  M.,  5:00  p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M. ;  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  P.M. 
SUNDAYS-8:35   A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:05  p.  M.,  4:05 P.M.,  6:30  p.m.,  6:50  p.m. 


Leave  s.  P. 

Destination. 

Arrive  IN  8.  F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3  :30  p.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00  a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00  p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40A.M  8:60a.  m. 
6:05p.m10:30a.m 
7:25p.m  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  &. 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7':25p.'m. 

10:30a.m 

6:10p.m 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10p.m. 

7:40  a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00  a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5:05  P.M. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00  p.m. 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. |8:50a.m. 
6:05p.m.  |6:10p.m. 

7:40A.M 
3:30  p.M 

8  :00  a.  m 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.  m  1  10:30am 
i   64)5p.m  |  6:10  p.m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  a  t  Geyservllle  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To  Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  1150:  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1 80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  Yoek,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  8.  S.  "City  of  New  York," 
Beptember  26th;  S.  8  "San  Bias,"  October  5th; 
"City  of  Sydney,"  October  15th. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Sept.  19th,  S.  8.  "City  of  Pana- 
ma." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  September  17fch,  at 
3  p.  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday.  Sept. 27 
1892,  at  3  p.m. 

8.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Riode  Janeno,"  Saturday,  November 
25th,  1892,  at  3  P.  M. 

Round  Trio  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannau  Btreets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


THE  wedding  of  Miss  Lucy  Simon  and  Lionel  Hayneiuan,  on 
Wednesday  evening  of  last  week,  added  one  more  to  the  al- 
ready brilliant  list  of  marriages  for  which  this  season  has  been 
noted  among  our  Jewish  bs.au  monde,  wherein  magnificent  bridal 
entertainments  are  the  rule.  The  festivities  took,  place  at  the  resi- 
dence of  the  bride's  father,  Mr.  W.  S.  Simon,  of  Stein.  Simon  & 
Co.,  on  the  corner  of  Pine  and  Franklin  streets,  wuioh  had  been 
exa  uisitely  adorned  with  ferns,  flowers  and  ribbons,  the  bay  win- 
dow being  decked  for  the  bridal  bower,  where  Rabbi  Vonsanger 
tied  the  nuptial  knot.  The  guests  were  hearty  in  congratulation. 
An  elaborate  supper  was  served,  and  the  younger  element  also 
enjoyed  dancing.  The  bride's  costume  was  of  heavy  white  ben- 
galine  made  en  princesse,  and  richly  trimmed  with  lace  and  orange 
blossoms,  a  wreath  of  the  same  flowers  encircling  her  dainty 
tresses,  and  a  long  tulle  veil  covering  all.  Her  gifts  were  superb. 
Many  beautiful  toilettes  were  worn,  notably  those  of  Mesdames 
Eugene  Meyer  and  Ignatz  Steinhart.  Among  the  many  pretty 
girls  were  Miss  Rosalie  Meyer  (the  fair  tiancetS)  and  Miss  Alice 
Aeller.  The  ladies  were  all  charmed  to  see  handsome  Raphael 
Weil,  who  was  one  of  the  guests.  The  festivities  were  kept  up 
until  a  late  hour,  and  the  verdict  was  unanimous  upon  its  hav- 
ing been  a  delightful  wedding. 

Alameda  was  the  scene  of  a  pretty  wedding  on  Wednesday  af- 
ternoon, when,  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Leeds,  on 
Alameda  avenue,  the  marriage  of  their  daughter  Mary  and 
Samuel  Fulton  took  place.  The  day  was  perfect,  and  with  the 
scent  of  the  roses  outside  and  the  different  varieties  of  flowers  in- 
side the  house  the  air  was  fragrant.  The  house  was  profusely 
decorated,  white  satin  bands  were  drawn  across  the  chief  en- 
trance to  the  front  parlor,  where  the  ceremony  took  place,  and 
after  the  guests  had  all  assembled  and  the  notes  of  the  Lohengrin 
bridal  chorus  were  struck,  the  procession  appeared  from  the  end 
of  the  hall,  two  little  bridesmaids  coming  first,  who  took  down 
the  silken  barrier  and  let  the  bridal  cortege  pass  in.  The  bride 
looked  charmingly,  arrayed  in  a  white  silk  robe  trimmed  with 
lace  and  orange  blossoms,  tulle  veil,  and  pearl  ornaments.  The 
maid  of  honor,  Miss  Bessie  King,  was  attired  in  white  crepe  de 
chine,  with  cascades  of  duchesse  lace  and  rosebuds.  The  bride's 
young  sisters,  the  Misses  Elizabeth  and  Emma  Leeds,  wore  re- 
spectively cream  and  pink  surah  silk  gowns.  The  groom's  at- 
tendant was  Mr.  H.  W.  Leeds.  The  ceremony  was  impressively 
performed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Scudder,  assisted  by  Rev.  H.  D.  Waird, 
after  which  a  wedding  breakfast  was  served,  the  tables  being  laid 
through  the  dining-room  on  to  the  broad  verandahs  adjoining. 
Many  beautiful  and  costly  gifts  were  received.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Fulton  departed  on  Thursday  for  the  East.  Their  future  home 
will  be  in  Cincinnati,  which  was  the  former  residence  of  the 
Leeds  family. 

There  have  been  a  number  of  new  engagement  announcements 
during  the  past  week.  Of  these  the  most  prominent  are  those  uf 
Miss  Rosalie  Meyer  to  Sigmund  Stern;  Miss  Emma  Samuels  to 
Joseph  M.  Willard;  Miss  Laura  Klauber  to  Julius  Wangenbeim; 
and  Miss  Amy  Furth  to  Al.  Lavenson.  The  betrothed  couples 
have  been  holding  receptions  for  the  purpose  of  affording  their 
friends  the  opportunity  to  offer  congratulations.  The  Samuels- 
Willard  reception  was  held  at  the  Samuels  residence,  on  Sunday 
afternoon,  when  Miss  Emma  looked  her  prettiest  in  a  gown  of 
blue  and  gold  striped  brocade,  handsomely  trimmed  with  point 
lace.  Her  sister,  Sadie  Samuels,  was  attired  in  white  mull  over 
pink;  the  other  young  ladies  who  assisted  her  in  receiving  her 
friends  were  Miss  Carrie  Helbing,  who  wore  a  gown  of  black 
net  over  light  blue  silk;  Miss  EUinger,  light  blue  silk,  trimmed 
with  white  lace;  and  Miss  Stella  Sellers,  white  silk  and  lace;  Miss 
Sachs  was  in  white  brocaded  silk.  Miss  Rosalie  Meyer  also  re- 
ceived the  congratulations  of  her  host  of  friends  on  Sunday  after- 
noon, and  the  spacious  parlors  of  the  Meyer  residence  on  Pine 
street  were  crowded  for  several  hours.  The  beautiful  bride-elect 
wore  a  gown  of  pink  and  white  brocaded  silk,  and  was  the  re- 
cipient of  some  very  elegant  presents,  notably  a  very  handsome 
diamond  brooch,  presented  by  Mr.  Levi  Strauss,  and  a  valuable 
pearl  necklace  from  Mr.  Jake  Stern.  Miss  Meyer's  wedding  is 
named  to  take  place  on  October  3d,  and  it  will  be  a  very  quiet 
family  affair. 

Del  Monte  is  gradually  losing  the  majority  of  its  summer  guests. 
There  have  been  numerous  arrivals  to  replace  the  losses,  quite  a 
number  preferring  to  seek  that  charming  hostelry  after  the  fever 
and  rush  of  summer  gaiety  ia  at  an  end.  Of  these  are  many  who 
have  homes  of  their  own  in  the  country,  and  who  go  to  make  a 
brief  visit  to  the  seaside  ere  they  return  to  town  for  the  winter. 
Among  Del  Monte's  acquisitions  this  week  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will 
Crocker,  all  the  Parrott  connection,  including  Jack  and  his  wife, 
the  Paynes  and  the  Haynes,  who  will  spend  the  rest  of  the 
month  there. 


The  autumn  season  promises  to  be  replete  with  sounds,  and 
concerts  will  take  a  leading  place  as  a  means  of  passing  an  after- 
noon or  an  evening  pleasingly.  Of  course  the  Carr-Beel  concerts 
are  to  be  resumed,  and  have  been  quite  impatiently  awaited,  pos- 
sibly because  Mr.  Donald  deV.  Graham  promised  that  his  voice 
should  be  heard  at  the  opening  one  of  the  season.  The  Swedish 
Singing  Club  gave  a  very  enjoyable  concert  at  Irving  Hall  on 
Saturday  evening,  its  novelty  going  far  toward  making  it  the  suc- 
cess it  proved  to  be.  Mr.  Sherwood's  piano  recital,  at  Irving 
Hall  on  Tuesday  evening,  was  a  treat  to  all  lovers  of  the  classical. 
Last  evening  Mrs.  Marguerite  Morrow  gave  a  concert  under  the 
management  of  Henry  Heyraan;  and  to-morrow  afternoon  Mr. 
Harry  Hunt  will  give  an  organ  recital  at  the  First  Congregational 
Church,  in  Oakland,  at  which  Mrs.  Martin  Schultz  and  Miss 
Evelyn  Shepherd  will  assist,  and  the  programme  is  a  most  at- 
tractive one.  On  Friday  evening,  the  30tb,  an  amateur  per- 
formance in  aid  of  the  Woman's  Educational  Union,  will  be  given 
at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  when  a  piece  entitled  The  Confederate  Spy 
will  be  the  attraction  offered. 


The  Grand  Kirmess  which  is  shortly  to  be  held  in  the  Me- 
chanics' Pavilion,  for  the  benefit  of  the  German  Old  People's 
Home,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Associated  German  Societies  of 
San  Francisco  and  vicinity,  has  already  set  thousands  on  the  tip- 
toe of  expectation.  The  booths  will  be  very  fine,  indeed,  and  the 
costumes  magnificent.  There  will  be  a  grand  inaugural  march, 
which  will  be  participated  in  by  a  thousand  persons  in  his- 
torical costume.  This  march  will  be  led  by  a  splendidly  organ- 
ized drill  corps  of  young  ladies  and  gentlemen  from  the  American 
Political  Booth.  There  will  be  many  interesting  and  novel  fea- 
tures, one  of  which  will  be  a  fac-simile  of  the  original  Gutenberg 
printing  press,  which  will  be  in  operation.  Old  fashioned  type 
and  spelling  will  be  used,  and  the  fac-simile  of  tne  first  page  of 
the  first  Gutenberg  Bible  will  be  printed  and  sold  as  a  souvenir. 
One  feature  which  promises  to  be  exceedingly  interesting,  in  view 
of  the  approaching  elections,  will  be  a  test  vote  which  will  be 
taken  for  President. 


There  was  a  pretty  wedding  at  the  Graham  residence  on  Park 
street,  Alameda,  on  Sunday,  when  Elvia  Carlyle  McCall,  of  this 
city,  joined  hand  and  heart  for  life  with  Miss  Gertrude  Irene 
Graham,  of  the  Encinal.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev. 
A.T.Perkins;  J.  M.  Graham  gave  the  bride  away,  and  Miss 
Hattie  Cook  was  Maid  of-Honor.  Among  the  many  invited  guests 
were:  Rev.  Mr.  Perkins,  Col.  J.  B.  Danforth,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W. 
McCall,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  D.  Harvey,  Miss  B.  Harvey,  Clarence 
McCall,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Byron  Ring,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  0.  W.  Littler, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrew  Webb,  Miss  E.  L.  Webb,  Mr.  and  Mra.  M. 
S.  Martin,  Misses  Hattie  Cooke,  L.  Balknill,  Louise  Miller,  Rosa 
O'Brien,  Teresa  O'Brien,  Fred  Haywards,  M.  Haines,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  D.  W.  Merwin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  Graham,  Eugene  W. 
Graham,  W.  W.  Graham,  F.  E.  Graham. 


Society  turned  out  in  force  this  week  in  Oakland,  at  the  dona- 
tion parties  held  on  Wednesday,  Thursday  and  Friday,  for  the 
benefit  of  Fabiola  Hospital.  As  usual,  the  contributions  were 
lavish,  and  quite  a  princely  amount  of  aid  was  received  for  the 
worthy  institution.  The  ladies  who  had  charge  of  the  affair  were 
Mrs.  Standeford,  Mrs.  Chase.  Mrs.  Gdman.  Mrs.  Gunn.  Mrs. 
Hinds,  Mrs.  Horton,  Mrs.  Grant,  Mrs.  Hinckley,  Mrs.  Stolp,  Mrs. 
Winton,  Mrs.  Folger,  Mrs.  Lohse,  Mrs.  0.  D.  Pierce,  Mrs.  Brown, 
Mrs.  Chamberlain,  Mrs.  Snoot,  Mrs.  Chapman,  Mrs.  Jarvis,  Mrs. 
Gorrill,  Mrs.  Kimble,  Mrs.  Emery,  Mrs.  Carey,  Mrs.  Knowlea, 
Mrs.  Remillard,  Mrs.  Sather,  Mrs.  Austin,  Mrs.  Carothers,  Mrs. 
Pope,  Mrs.  Kittridge,  Mrs.  Chabot,  Mrs.  Harrison,  Mrs.  Barton, 
Mrs.  Handy,  Mrs.  Nagle. 

Colonel  Fred.  Crocker  and  his  party,  composed  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Rusa  Wilson  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Scott,  returned  from  a  visit 
to  Castle  Crags  early  in  the  week.  Mr.  W.  Frank  Goad  and  bis 
daughter  have  returned  from  Castle  Crags,  and  are  now  settled  at 
home  for  the  winter  season.  Mrs.  I.  L.  Poole  and  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Favre,  are  also  among  the  week's  arrivals  from  Castle  Crags, 
where  they  were  some  of  the  earliest  visitors,  when  that  popular 
resort  was  first  opened  to  the  public,  last  spring.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
M.  A.  Dorn  are  back  again  from  Fresno.  Mr.  George  Durbrow 
baa  been  in  the  city  for  the  past  ten  days. 


The  news,  just  received,  of  Mr.  J.  B.  Haggin's  purchase  of  a 
home  on  Fifth  avenue,  New  York,  puts  a  decided  quietus  upon  |. 
the  hope  of  their  friends  that  San  Francisco  was  not  to  lose  as 
residents  the  couple  who  were  among  the  earliest  members  of  its 
society.  Mrs.  Haggin  has  always  been  a  charming  hostess,  and 
some  of  the  grandest  balls  ever  given  in  this  city  were  several  at 
her  house  during  the  seventies.  Her  entertainments  of  a  more 
recent  date  were  in  the  form  of  dinners,  to  which  Mrs.  Haggin 
was  especially  partial,  and  at  which  she  presided  with  much 
grace.  Our  swim  can  therefore  only  hope  for  an  occasional  visit 
from  Mrs.  Haggin  in  the  future,  and  what  will  be  done  with 
their  palatial  residence  on  Taylor  street  is  one  of  the  questions 
most  under  discussion  just  now. 


17    1S92. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


27 


Miss  Ellen  Morgan.  Miss  Edith  McBeao  and  Miss  Carrie  Taylor 
will  say  adieu  In  San  Francisco  in  about  ten  days,  returning  to 
Karmmgton.  Conn.,  to  finish  their  studies.  Mr*  McHean  will  ac- 
company the  young  Indies  Ka*t-  Mis-  May  H'-tlman  will  also  be 
of  the  parly  as  far  a«  New  Y.irk.  where  she  goes  to  visit  some  of 
her  father's  relatives,  and  the  probabilities  are  that  she  will  re- 
main on  tbe  other  side  of  the  continent  all  winter.  She  will  be  a 
Kraal  Ion  to  our  young  society,  of  which  she  is  a  most  popular 
member.  Miss  Alice  Hobart  will,  it  is  said,  spend  part  of  the 
winter  In  Japan. 

Hidden  iinte  Congregational  Church,  in  Oakland,  was  the  scene 
of  a  very  pretty  wedding  on  la*t  Wednesday  evening,  when  Miss 
Elizabeth  Morrow  and  0.  V.  Welling  were  married  by  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Eddie.  The  church  was  most  beautifully  decorated  with 
bright-colored  Mowers,  ferns  and  garlands  of  smilax  for  the  cere- 
mony, which  took  place  at  7:30  o'clock,  after  which  followed  a 
recepl'on  and  supper  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  mother,  Mrs.  J. 
Morrow.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Welling  departed  on  tbeir  honeymoon 
trip,  showered  witb  rice  and  good  wishes  from  a  crowd  of  enthu- 
siastic friends. 

The  C.  Y.  T.  Whist  Club,  of  East  Oakland,  gave  a  charming  en- 
tertainment on  Monday  evening  last  at  Miss  Holyer's  residence 
on  Eighth  avenue.  A  musical  and  literary  entertainment  first 
took  place,  and  then  a  general  social  time  followed,  and  was 
heartily  enjoyed  until  a  late  hour.  Among  the  many  who  par- 
ticipated in  the  fun  were:  Misses  Etta  Miller,  Daisy  Buswell, 
Bessie  Blankarth.  Eda  Blankarth,  Susie  Hobart,  Maud  Allen, 
Helen  Wright,  Mabel  White,  Josie  Holyer,  May  Jackson,  Young 
Krouty;  Messrs.  Bert  Smith,  A.  K.  Lord,  Alex  Marx,  Bert  Farr, 
C.  A.  Morrill,  R.  F.  Allen,  C.  A.  Katzenbacb,  F.  S.  Hoyt,  Ben 
Marx.  Will  Hall,  Harry  Kirk. 


The  society  event  of  Dext  week  will  be  tbe  wedding  of  Miss  Ida 
Carleton  and  Chaplain  Frank  Thompson,  which  will  be  solemn- 
ized at  St.  Luke's  Churcb,  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing. The  chancel  will  be  well  filled  with  the  Episcopal  clergy  of 
tbe  city,  headed  by  Bishop  Nichols,  who,  with  the  assistance  of 
one  or  more  of  these  clergymen,  will  perform  the  ceremony. 
There  will  be  a  galaxy  of  beauty  in  tbe  attendant  bridesmaids, 
who  number  among  them  some  of  the  most  charming  belles  of 
our  swim,  while  the  groom's  attendant  will  be  resplendent  in  gold 
lace  and  bright  buttons. 

San  Rafael  is  becoming  quite  popular  as  a  winter  residence, 
some  people  going  over  from,  the  city  to  pass  that  season  in  the 
sheltered  vale,  and  many  who  have  homes  in  the  vicinity  pre- 
ferring to  remain  there  the  whole  yea-r  round.  Of  this  latter  class 
are  Consul  Donaboe's  family,  the  Andrew  Canigans,  the  Barbers, 
and  Mrs.  Hall  M'Allister  and  her  family,  all  of  whom  have  de- 
cided not  to  come  to  the  city  until  very  late  in  the  autumn,  if 
they  come  at  all.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Moody  will  spend  the  win- 
ter at  their  new  cottage  at  Oak  Grove,  near  San  Mateo. 

The  society  ladies  of  Oakland  have  announced  an  entertain- 
ment for  next  Thursday  evening,  at  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  in  that  city,  in  aid  of  a  popular  charity,  the  Y.  W.  C.  A. 
Home.  Tbe  affair  promises  to  be  an  event  of  magnitude.  Those 
who  will  assist  in  the  programme  are:  Miss  Clara  Louise  Safford, 
0.  B. ;  Mrs.  L.  8.  Anderson  and  Mrs.  Belle  C.  Fletcher,  soprani; 
Dr.  T.  B.  Richardson,  basso;  Miss  Florence  Fletcher,  violinist, 
and  the  vested  boy  choristers  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church. 


The  reception  given  by  General  and  Mrs.  Dickinson  at  Sausa- 
lito  last  Saturday  was  very  enjoyable.  The  Pacific  Yacht  Club 
house,  which  had  been  placed  at  their  disposal,  was  the  scene  of 
a  brilliant  gathering  of  gallant  citizen  defenders  and  pretty  belles, 
the  majority  of  whom  were  brought  from  the  city  by  a  tug  over 
the  moonlit  waters  of  the  bay.  Dancing  was  indulged  in  most 
enthusiastically,  and  the  supper  which  f  'Mowed  was  a  feast;  the 
affair  was  a  success  from  first  to  last. 

Mrs.  J.  P.  LeCount  and  her  daughters,  the  Misses  Ella  and 
Susie,  who  have  been  spending  the  summer  at  Bolinas,  returned 
to  their  home  in  the  city  last  week.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dick  Peace 
are  occupying  their  pretty  home  on  Pacific  avenue.  They  re- 
turned last  week  from  Santa  Cruz,  where  they  had  been  for  sev- 
eral months.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holbrooke  and  Miss  Mamie  Hol- 
brooke are  back  from  their  visit  to  Lake  Tahoe;  Mrs.  Ellis  and 
Miss  Hope  from  Del  Monte. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Agnes  Hunt  and  John  A.  Weston  was 
very  quietly  celebrated  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  mother,  Mrs. 
John  Hunt,  on  Hobart  street,  Alameda,  at  noon  last  Tuesday. 
Only  a  few  intimate  friends  were  present  in  addition  to  the  con- 
tracting parties,  owing  to  the  recent  affliction  in  the  family.  A 
wedding  breakfast  followed  the  ceremony,  and  later  in  the  day 
the  happy  pair  left  for  the  country,  where  they  will  spend  the 
honeymoon.  

Miss  Sarah  D.  Hamlin  has  been  visiting  Mrs.  B.  F.  Norris  at 
her  residence  on  Sacramento  street,  since  her  return  from  the 
East,  and  will  be  Mrs.  Norris'  guest  for  some  time  to  come. 


A  kettledrum,  under  the  auspices  of  the  ladies  of  the  Sacred 
Heart  Parish,  will  be  given  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Katharine 
Morhmann,  lis  nak  street,  on  Wednesday,  the  2Rib  inst.  There 
will  be  an  entertainment  from  :>,  to  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  and 
from  8  to  10  in  the  evening.  The  receipts  from  the  sale  of  the 
tickets,  at  one  dollar  each,  will  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  fund  for 
furnishing  the  new  pastoral  residence  attached  to  Sacred  Heart 
Church. 


The  recent  bridal  quartette,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Pope  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dan  Murpby,  are  en  route  homewards,  and  we  may 
expect  to  see  them  in  these  parts  in  the  course  of  another  fort- 
night. The  ladies  are  said  to  be  returning  well  supplied  with 
Worth  costumes  and  all  the  latest  modes  from  Paris,  so  their 
first  appearance  in  public  will  beyond  question  be  a  source 
of  great  interest  to  their  thousand  and  one  friends  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. 


Mrs.  A.  M.  Parrott  is  happy  in  the  anticipated  coming  of  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Douglas  Dick,  who,  with  Mr.  Dick  and  her  young 
family,  will  arrive  shortly  in  San  Francisco.  Mr.  Dick  has  de- 
cided to  shake  the  ancestral  dust  of  Scotland  from  his  feet,  and  In 
future  make  his  home  under  the  stars  and  stripes,  her  native  cli- 
mate best  suiting  Mrs.  Dick's  health.  They  will  probably  spend 
the  coming  winter  in  San  Francisco,  as  the  guests  of  Mrs.  Parrott. 

There  will  be  a  reception  and  lunch  at  the  Maria  Kip  Orphan- 
age, on  Harrison  street,  this  afternoon,  at  which  Bishop  Nichols 
will  make  an  address  and  present  medals.  The  Bishop  will 
officiate  to-morrow  at  two  very  interesting  ceremonies.  In  the 
morning  he  will  preach  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  sermon  at 
old  Trinity  Church,  and  in  the  afternoon  lay  the  corner-stone  of 
the  new  edifice  on  Bush  street. 


Among  the  week's  arrivals  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  C.  Board- 
man,  from  their  brief  tour  of  Europe.  Next  week  we  shall  be 
able  to  welcome  back  to  San  Francisco  Mrs.  Francis  Edgerton, 
after  a  long  absence  in  the  East  where  she  has  been  visiting  rela- 
tives and  friends,  and  thoroughly  enjoying  herself.  Mrs.  Romu- 
aldo  Pacheco  will  also  soon  be  with  us  again,  as  she  has  been 
looked  for  daily  this  week. 


Captain  and  Miss  Goodall,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spreckels  are  in 
Switzerland.  When  last  heard  from,  Mrs.  E.  J.  Bowen  and  Miss 
Mary  Bowen  were  at  Aix-Ies-Baines,  Mrs.  A.  Hotaling  was  in 
Paris,  and  Senator  and  Mrs.  Stanford  in  Battenburg.  The  Stan- 
fords  expect  to  sail  for  home  early  in  October,  and  their  many 
friends  will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  the  Senator's  health  has 
greatly  improved. 

Mrs.  John  B.  Leighton,  wife  of  J.  B.  Leighton,  secretary  of  the 
Union-street  Cable  Railroad,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Wall,  a  pilot 
of  San  Francisco  harbor,  died  suddenly,  at  her  residence,  last 
Wednesday  morning,  after  a  very  brief  illness.  She  was  a  lady 
with  many  friends,  who  deeply  deplore  her  untimely  decease. 

Tbe  departure  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Sharon  and  Mrs.  Jamie 
for  Reno,  Nevada,  whither  they  accompanied  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Newlands  when  they  returned  home,  has  quite  extinguished  the 
hopes  indulged  in  by  some  of  their  friends  here  that  they  would 
be  induced  to  remain  in  California  all  winter. 


A  high  tea  was  given  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Abercrombie,  by  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Redfield,  at  the  family  residence  on  Alice  street, 
Oakland,  on  Wednesday  last.  It  was  a  very  swell  affair,  and  the 
leading  representatives  of  the  Four  Hundred  were  on  hand  in 
strong  force. 

On  Tuesday  evening,  the  6th  inst.,  East  Oakland  was  again  the 
scene  of  another  marriage,  the  bride  being  Miss  Bertha  Leist,  the 
groom  Edgar  L.  Wakeman.  The  ceremony  was  performed  very 
quietly  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents. 

Mrs.  Robinson,  wife  of  Dr.  Luke  Robinson,  has  just  returned 
from  Castle  Crags  Tavern,  accompanied  by  her  son  and  daughter 
and  their  guests,  Misses  Welch,  Wallace  and  Schmidt.  Her  son 
will  enter  the  University  of  California. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Lang  Chapman  are  settled  in  their  rooms  at 
the  California  Hotel,  where  they  will  remain  all  winter.  They 
returned  a  few  days  ago  from  Castle  Crags,  where  they  had  been 
passing  their  honeymoon. 

The  wedding  of  Agnes  N.  Hunt,  of  Oakland,  and  John  A. 
Weston,  of  San  Francisco,  took  place  on  Tuesday  noon,  at  the 
residence  of  the  bride's  mother,  523  Hobart  street,  Oakland. 

The  Junta  Patriotica  Mexicano  celebrated  the  thirty-second 
anniversary  of  Mexican  independence  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion 
last  night.     There  were  literary  exercises  and  a  ball. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Van  Bergen  and  Miss  and  Mrs.  James  Mc- 
Guire  will  desert  their  pretty  cottage  in  Sausalito  for  the  Pleas- 
anton  about  the  end  of  this  month. 


Colonel  D.  S.  Gordon  left  for  his  new  command  at  Fort  Gaston, 
Nebraska,  on  Tuesday  last. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  17,  1892. 


The  recent  marriages  of  two  San  Francisco  ladies  in  high  life  in 
London,  has  directed  particular  attention  to  the  great  success  of 
our  Californian  beauties  in  the  great  metropolis.  The  marriage 
of  Miss  Louisa  Bonynge  to  Major  John  Grenfel  Maxwell,  of  the 
Black  Watch,  was  honored  by  the  presence  of  royalty  in  the  per- 
sons of  Prince  and  Princess  Christian,  and  by  a  large  number  of 
the  most  prominent  people  of  the  most  exclusive  set  of  London 
society.  Rev.  Canon  Fleming,  Vicar  of  St.  Michael's,  Chesley 
Square,  performed  the  ceremony  at  All  Saints'  Church,  being  as- 
sisted by  the  vicar  of  the  latter  church,  Rev.  Ravenscroft  Stewart. 
The  presents  received  were  very  numerous  and  costly,  including 
testimonials  of  esteem  from  the  London  Four  Hundred.  The 
wedding  was  the  society  event  of  the  season.  Mrs.  Bonynge 
welcomed  the  wedding  party  at  her  residence  in  Prince's  Gate. 


The  marriage  of  Sir  James  Homo,  Baronet,  and  Miss  Amy 
Green,  of  this  city,  took  place  on  August  20th,  at  8t.  George's, 
Hanover  Square,  London.  There  was  a  very  large  attendance. 
The  groom  is  the  tenth  Baronet,  and  is  a  late  Lieutenant  of  the 
Foity-second  Royal  Highlanders  (Black  Watch),  He  is  the  eldest 
son  of  Sir  George  Homo  Speirs  and  Lady  Homo  Speirs,  of  5  Ted- 
worth  Square,  Chelsea,  S.  W.  Miss  Green  is  the  daughter  of  the 
late  Wm.  A.  Green,  who  for  many  years  resided  in  this  city. 
Her  sister  is  Mrs.  Sydney  H.  Peddar,  of  Maria  House,  Fitzjohn'a 
avenue,  Hampstead,  N.  W.  The  ceremony  was  conducted  by 
Rev.  Arthur  Green,  M.  A.,  cousin  of  the  bride,  "Vicar  of  Longdon, 
Worcestershire.  He  was  assisted  by  Rev.  Alwyn  Rice,  M.  A., 
chaplain,  R.  N.,  a  broother-in-law  of  the  bridegroom.  Many 
beautiful  presents  were  received  from  the  numerous  friends  of 
the  high  contracting  parties.  The  honeymoon  will  be  Bpent  at 
Switzerland  and  the  Italian  lakes. 

Tuesday  evening  next,  at  the  Presidio,  the  ladies  will  give  a 
novel  entertainment,  in  the  form  of  a  concert.  It  will  be  ama- 
teur, of  course,  but  will  be  delightful,  from  the  fact  that  the  "art- 
ists" will  be  the  children  of  the  officers  there.  It  has  been  prom- 
ised that  "The  Maiden's  Prayer"  and  "Juanita"  shall  not  appear 
on  the  programme,  but  only  the  most  classical  works  of  eminent 
composers  be  rendered.  Mrs.  Dr.  Breicbeman  is  the  fair  and 
popular  patroness  of  the  entertainment. 


The  Swiss  Relief  Society  will  give  a  grand  festival  and  picnic  at 
Woodward's  Gardens  on  the  18th  inst.  There  will  be  a  parade  in 
the  morning,  tableaux,  singing,  dancing,  shooting,  racing,  games 
and  a  concert. 

One  of  the  principal  social  events  of  the  week,  in  Oakland,  was 
the  marriage,  on  Thursday,  of  Allen  M.  Clay,  of  the  Bank  of 
California,  to  Mrs.  Minta  Crockett. 


Mrs.  Moses  Hopkins  is  en  route  to  her  San  Francisco  home 
from  a  very  pleasant  trip  to  Europe.  So  is  Mr.  George  Brander, 
from  his  visit  to  Scotland. 


Mr.  J.  A.  Fillmore  and  Miss  Fillmore  were  among  the  East 
bound  passengers  on  Saturday  of  last  week,  expecting  to  be  away 
some  time. 


Mrs.  Joseph  G.  Eastland  has  returned  to  town  for  the  winter, 
and  will  receive  on  the  first  and  second  Thursdays  of  each 
month. 


Mrs.    B.    H.    Baird   and   her  lovely   and  accomplished  young 
daughter,  Marie,  will  leave  shortly  for  an  Eastern  trip. 


Mrs.  John  8.  Hager  and  her  attractive  daughters  are  again  domi- 
ciled at  their  home  on  Sacramento  and  Gough  streets. 

THE  Maze  is  now  offering  an  unusual  amount  of  bargains,  even 
for  this  establishment,  whose  fame  has  been  gained  by  the 
fact  that  it  is  known  to  be  the  cheapest  and  best  emporium  of 
dress  and  general  furnishing  goods  in  the  city.  Its  fall  goods  are 
of  the  latest  design,  and  cannot  be  excelled  in  the  city.  It  is 
money  in  one's  pocket  to  visit  the  Maze  and  make  purchases 
there.  Its  general  line  of  goods  includes  everything  obtainable 
in  millinery,  dress  goods,  cloaks  and  suitings,  shoes  and  general 
furnishings,  and  its  patrons  come  from  all  sections  of  the  city  to 
deal  at  its  counters. 


A  SPECIAL  meeting  of  the  Hawaiian  Commercial  Company, 
held  during  the  week,  was  well  attended.  The  Company  has 
had  a  bad  year,  the  crop  was  short,  and,  owing  to  the  McKinley 
Bill,  the  depreciation  in  the  price  of  raw  sugars  was  so  great  as 
to  increase  the  expense  of  manufacture.  Mr.  Claus  Spreckels, 
the  heaviest  shareholder  in  the  concern,  explained  the  situation, 
and  a  financial  statement  was  presented  which  showed  that  over 
$300,000  was  required  to  tide  the  company  over  until  January 
next.  There  was  no  action  taken  in  the  matter,  and  after  dis- 
cussing the  situation  for  some  time,  the  meeting  adjourned. 

For  Debilitated  Men!  If  you  desire  to  be  restored  to  complete 
vigor  and  manhood,  promptly,  permanently  and  cheaply,  we  will 
send  you  full  particulars  (sealed)  of  a  reliable,  unfailing  Home 
Treatment  free.  No  electric  nonsense,  no  stomach  drugging. 
Address  Albion  Pharmacy  Co.,  Box  L,  Albion.  Mich. 


A  farewell  reception  was  given  to  Rev.  Dr.  Heacock,  at  the 
Eighth-avenue  M.  E.  Church,  Oakland,  last  night. 

Mrs.  Hager  is  looking  forward  to  a  visit  from  her  son  and  his 
wife,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Hicks,  soon  after  her  return  from  Del 
Monte. 


Baggage  Notice. 

Round-trip  transfer  tickets  are  now  on  sale  at  any  of  our  offices  at 
reduced  rates,  viz. :  One  trunk,  round-trip,  50  cents;  single  trip.  35 
cents.  Keep  your  baggage  checks  until  you  reach  this  city.  Morton 
Special  Delivery,  17  Geary  street,  408  Taylor,  Oakland  ferry  depot. 

One  of  the  most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  within  easy  reach  of 
the  city  may  be  found  at  Laundry  Farm,  which  is  forty  minutes 
from  Oakland  and  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes  from  this  citv.  It  is 
reached  by  the  California  Railway,  which  is  also  the  only  railroad  line 
running  direct  to  Mills' Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  is  a  delighl 
spot. 


ndry  Farm  is  a  delightful 


'•  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  orpostal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 

Grandmas'  made  happy  with  perfect  fitting  glasses  from  C.  Muiler,  op- 
tician, 13"i  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 

DODGE  BR0S.,BKKffi~" 

The  Hurd-Crane  note  papers  are  in  perfect 
chime  with  everything  hightoned,  and  are 
of  the  "400"  by  right  of  merit,  and  stand 
for  the  superlatively  good  things  in  cor- 
respondence papers. 

COPPER  PLATES.    OOC    PHQT   CT 
WEDDHfi  CARDS.   ^3    I  UO  I     0  1. 

IRVING  HALL. 

CARR-BEEL   SATURDAY    P3PULAR    CONCERTS. 
First  Concert,      -     -     -     Saturday,  September  24th,  at  3   I\  M. 

Donald  de  V.  Graham,  Vocalist-     S'g.  Beel,  Soloist. 
Single  Subscription  to  Jour  Concerts,  *3.00,  to  be  had  at  Sherman  &  Clay 
corner  Sutter  and  Kearny  streets. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Crown  Point  Gold  and  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— Saa  Fraucisco,  California.  Lo- 
catiou  of  works — Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
op  the  15th  day  of  September,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  58),  of  twenty-five  (25) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  3,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  20th  Day  of  October,  1892,  will  ba  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and   unless  pavment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  10th  day  of  November,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent   assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

JAMES  NEWLANDS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  3,  331  Pine  Street,   Sau  Fraucisco.   California. 

~  NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Mono  Gold  Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works — Bodie.  Mono  couaty,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  15th  day  of  September.  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  32)  of  Twenty-five  (25) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  62,  Nevada  block,  No.  303  Montgomery  st. 
Sau  Fraucisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty  fourth  Day  of  October.  1  892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  ou  MONDAY,  the  14th  day  of  November,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of   advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

H.  D.  WALKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  No.  62,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,   Sau 
Fraucisco,  California. 

Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.  B.  CHAPMAN, 


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Vol.  XIV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER  24,  1892. 


Number  13. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor.  Frederick 
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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 

Sail  Water  Novels 2 

The  Government  of  Cities  .     ..    2 

Youuc  Dr.  Jenkins    2 

High  Morality  of  City  Papers  ..    3 

Amending  the  Wright  Act      ...    3 

Discovery  Day  ...    3 

Winter  Wraps  at  the  White  House    4 

Tennis  and  Baseball. .....      4 

Valuable    Opinions   of     "  Knee- 
sprung"  Trousers  * 

Pleasure's  Wand      . .     6-7 

A  Canterburled  Tale  (Poetry)  ...    S 

The  Tramp's  Joke   8 

Journalism  in  Del  Norte 8 

Snap  Shots  (Di  Vernon)    9 

The  Looker-On      10-11 


Page 

Sparks.  12 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs...  13 

Financial  Review 14 

Town  Crier  15 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 16 

The  Rose  Jar 17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...     19 

George  G.  Gere,  M.  D. 19 

Scientific  aud  Useful 20 

Sunbeams 21 

Obituary 22 

Sweet  Day  (Poetry) 22 

Vanities    23 

"Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 

Society    26-27-28 

|  The  "  Mountebanks  "  al  the  Bald- 


win 


AN  express  wagon,  carrying  an  open  barrel  of  chloride  of  lime, 
went  through  tbe  streets  on  Thursday.     It  was  the  only  open 
barrel  seen  so  far  in  the  campaign. 

THE  Non-Partisans  have  sent  out  three  hundred  and  twenty 
agents  to  secure  signatures  in  support  of  their  ticket,  so  that 
it  may  be  printed  on  the  regular  ballot.  The  Non-Partisans  have 
put  up  some  good  men,  and  they  should  receive  proper  consider- 
ation. 

HAWAII  is  trying  to  get  up  another  revolution,  and  this  time 
it  may  succeed,  inasmuch  as  the  revolt  is  headed  by  office- 
holders who  cannot  get  their  salaries.  When  the  finances  of  a 
country  become  so  demoralized  as  those  of  Hawaii  are,  it  is  safe 
to  expect  a  revolution  at  any  moment. 

THE  suggestion  made  by  the  News  Letter,  a  short  time  ago 
that  train  robbery  be  taken  up  as  a  regular  profession,  would 
seem  to  have  been  accepted  seriously,  judging  from  the  recent 
wreck  of  the  train  on  the  Atchison  road,  for  the  sake  of  securing 
U.000,000  in  currency,  which,  by  the  way,  the  robbers  did  not 
get.  

HARRY  T.  CRESWELL,  the  Democratic  nominee  for  Attor- 
ney and' Counselor  is  one  of  the  few  men  so  far  nominated 
for  local  offices,  who  is  in  every  way  beyoDd  reproach.  He  is  an 
able  lawyer,  an  energetic  citizen,  and  has  hosts  of  friends.  Mr. 
Oreswell,  we  venture  to  say,  will  poll  one  of  the  largest  votes 
cast  upon  election  day. 

SO  Florence  Blyihe  is  married,  and  the  prospective  millions  are 
to  be  shared  by  at  least  one  other.  No  one  can  fail  to  wish 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fritz  Hinckly  joy  and  happiness  in  the  new  rela- 
tion upon  which  they  have  entered,  for  whether  Florence  be  the 
sole  heir  to  the  Blythe  millions  or  not,  she  is  universally  con- 
ceded to  be  a  sweet  and  lovable  girl,  and  that  beats  money  out  of 

sight. 

IT  has  remained  fo7a  San  Frandsco  organ  of  rabid  trades  union- 
1  ism  to  reach  the  height  of  absurdity,  in  dealing  with  tbe  trouble 
at  Homestead.  Speaking  of  the  trial  of  Bergmann,  the  anarchist, 
who  attempted  to  murder  Frick,  it  gives  editorial  indorsement  to 
the  childishly  idiotic  assertion  that  the  assault  upon  Carnegie  s 
agent  was  a  put-up  job,  and  that  Frick  was  never  wounded  at 
all.  The  whole  affair,  it  says,  was  arranged  with  the  connivance 
of  Frick  and  associates,  for  the  sole  purpose  of  throwing  odium 
upon  the  peaceful  toilers  who  bad  engaged  in  open  rebellion  at 
Homestead.  This  is  in  line  with  the  allegation  that  all  the  mur- 
deZs  assaults  committed  during  the  car  strike,  the  iron-molders 
strike  and  other  ■•  labor  difficulties  "  which  have  occurred  in  this 
cty  were  the  work  of  capitalists,  done  solely  for  the  purpose  of 
d  serening  the  unions.  Really,  these  apologists  for  murder  are 
fu  ly  as  idiotic  as  they  evidently  suppose  the  general  public  to  be. 


ONE  of  the  best  nominations  made  by  the  Democratic  Munici- 
pal Convention  was  that  of  .1.  J.  McDade  for  Sheriff.  Mr.  Mc- 
Dade is  young,  able  and  energetic.  He  ia  a  native  of  the  State, 
and  has  made  an  excellent  record  for  himself  in  various 
public  offices.  If  elected,  he  would  make  an  honest  and  able 
Sheriff,  and  an  officer  in  whom  the  municipality  might  take  con- 
siderable pride. 


IT  is  an  old  story,  and  yet  it  never  gets  stale — the  dangers  to 
which  girls  in  this  cily  and  all  cities  are  exposed  by  the  neglect 
and  carelessness  of  their  parents,  or  those  supposed  to  be  in 
charge  of  them.  No  wonder  tbe  convent  idea  is  growing  in  favor 
again,  for  it  must  be  a  precious  boon  to  some  parents  to  be  able 
to  put  a  girl  into  a  convent  and  know  that  sheis  there  every  hour 
of  every  day  and  night.  The  parents  often  have  themselves  to 
blame,  but  that  does  not  alter  facts. 


WE  voice  public  sentiment  when  we  say  that  the  present 
political  career  of  the  Hon.  J.  F.  Sullivan  is  a  deep  disap- 
pointment to  his  many  friends  in  this  city,  who  were  to  be  found 
not  only  in  the  ranks  of  the  Democratic  party,  but  among  their 
opponents  as  well.  The  way  in  which  the  Municipal  Conven- 
tion of  the  Reorganizes  has  been  conducted  under  his  leader- 
ship makes  it  impossible  to  believe  that  Judge  Sullivan  is  pos- 
sessed of  tbe  disinterestedness    which  has    been  claimed  for  him. 


A  LEGISLATIVE  session  is  approaching,  and  already  tbe 
"school  book  ring"  of  malodorous  memory  is  getting  ready 
for  a  combined  assault  upon  the  State  series  of  school  books.  Un- 
wary newspapers — or  perhaps  they  are  not  so  innocent  after  all, 
have  been  led  into  the  publication  of  fault-finding  articles,  and 
teachers  have  been  induced  to  give  public  utterance  to  disparaging 
statements  with  regard  to  books.  It  is  said  that  in  a  number  of 
places  tbe  County  School  Superintendents  have  been  won  over  to 
the  support  of  the  ring,  presumably  by  the  same  methods  which 
have  more  than  once  been  ventilated  in  the  criminal  courts,  and 
the  result  is  that  the  State  books  are  kept  in  the  libraries,  but  are 
not  used  in  the  classes.  Then,  in  the  case  of  the  readers,  one  set 
of  them  is  kept  in  the  library  in  order  to  comply  with  the  law, 
but  the  pupils  are  required  to  read  from  histories  and  other  books 
on  the  plea  that  the  work  issued  by  the  State  is  defective.  The 
friends  of  the  State  school  book  system,  however,  are  camping  on 
the  trail  of  the  schemers,  and  do  not  propose  that  any  measure 
shall  be  sneaked  through  the  Legislature  by  which  the  parents 
of  school  children  shall  again  be  put  into  the  clutches  of  the  book 
ring.  The  memory  of  the  impositions  practiced  under  the  old 
system  is  too  fresh  yet  to  warrant  the  belief  that  the  Legislature 
will  dare  to  reject  tbe  present  plan. 


CHRISTOPHER  A.  BUCKLEY  in  his  palmiest  days  never  even 
attempted  so  gross  impositions  upon  the  people  as  did  Jere- 
miah F.  Sullivan  during  the  recent  convention  of  his  friends  and 
supporters  in  Metropolitan  Hall.  It  is  not  necessary  to  here  re- 
iterate the  statement  that  ever  since  the  establishment  of  what  is 
now  known  as  "boss  rule,"  the  News  Letter  has  been  against 
the  political  potentates.  We  believe  that  the  government  should 
be  in  very  fact  for  the  people  and  by  the  people.  Therefore  it  is 
that  we  protest  against  any  one  or  two  man  rule,  such  as  that  in- 
stituted by  Messrs.  Dwyer  and  Sullivan.  These  gentlemen,  who 
before  Ibis  unfortunate  time  in  ther  careers,  were  considered  be- 
yond reproach,  entered  the  political  arena  as  novices  personally, 
but  in  their  manipulations  they  have  shown  themselves  capable 
of  the  execution  of  more  daring  plans  than  ever  was  the 
Bush-street  Boss.  It  cannot  be  truthfully  said,  and  it  is 
not  said  truthfully,  that  the  convention  which  recently 
obeyed  the  bidding  of  its  masters  in  Metropolitan 
Hall  properly  represented  the  Democratic  party.  A  large  ma- 
jority of  the  members  had  evidently  agreed  to  do  whatever  they 
were  told,  and  to  vote  only  when  the  signal  was  given  by  Mr. 
Dwyer  or  Mr.  Sullivan,  or  one  of  the  many  menials  of  those  most 
estimable  gentlemen.  Men  went  there  to  vote  for  whomsoever 
might  be  named  by  tbe  Nevada  Block  politicians.  It  does  not 
follow  that  because  a  few  good  names  have  been  placed  upon  the 
ticket,  that  for  that  reason  all  the  people  should  rush  eagerly  to 
its  support. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


SALT    WATER    NOVELS. 


AFTER  Thomas  Carlyle  had  finished  the  manuscript  of  his  "Life 
of  Frederick  the  Great1'  it  was  destroyed  by  an  accident,  and 
the  loss  brought  on  a  severe  fit  of  illness.  When  convalescent  he 
was  advised  to  read  novels  to  relax  his  mind,  and  among  others 
he  read,  as  he  expressed  it,  a  lot  of  rubbish  by  a  silly  person  who 
had  been  a  captain  in  the  English  navy,  in  which  a  dog  was  made 
to  cut  off  his  own  tail,  and  plenty  more  of  similar  nonsense.  It 
was  in  these  words,  or  their  equivalent,  that  the  sage  of  Chelsea 
set  the  seal  of  his  disapprobation  on  the  works  of  Captain  Mar- 
ryat,  which  are  dear  to  the  heart  of  almost  every  boy  in  England 
and  America,  and  which  will  be  read  when  "Sartor  Resartus"  has 
been  forgotten  for  ages.  There  is,  and  always  will  be,  a  fascina- 
tion for  boys  about  the  salt  water  novel,  which  is  surprising  when 
one  considers  what  a  limited  field  is  open  to  the  novelist  as  com- 
pared with  the  wide  domain  which  the  solid  earth  presents.  Not 
only  is  he  hedged  in  by  a  paucity  of  incidents,  but  he  is  handi- 
capped by  the  lack  of  familiarity  on  the  part  of  the  general  reader 
with  the  scenes  he  describes,  and  the  technical  terms  he  employs. 
It  is  on  account  of  the  environment  that  the  writers  of  good  ocean 
novels  can  be  counted  on  the  fingers  and  have  some  of  them  to 
spare.  Marryat,  Clark  Russell,  Michael  Scott,  Fennimore  Cooper, 
Herman  Melville,  Charles  Readeand  J.  G.  Cupples  nearly  exhaust 
the  list  of  English-speaking  salt-water  novelists,  while  France 
can  boast  of  only  one  of  the, first  name — Pierre  Loti.  There  have 
been  a  good  many  writers  of  short  stories  who  have  succeeded 
with  the  broad  expanse  of  the  ocean  as  their  field,  but  there  is  a 
vast  difference  between  the  short  story  and  the  novel,  especially 
off  soundings.  Try  as  they  may,  the  novelists  cannot  secure  the 
variety  of  incident  at  sea  which  is  presented  on  land.  There  may 
be  storm  or  a  calm,  a  shipwreck,  a  collision,  a  fire,  or  a  mutiny, 
and  that  is  about  all.  When  the  novelist  has  rung  the  changes 
on  these  themes,  as  Clark  Russell  has  done,  his  supply  of  the  raw 
material  for  fiction  is  about  exhausted,  and  he  can  only  repeat 
himself.  Marryat  was  fortunate  in  having  a  naval  war  for  his 
piece  de  resistance,  and  Michael  Scott  in  "Tom  Cringle's  Log,"  pro- 
bably the  very  best  sea  and  land  story  ever  written,  made  most 
excellent  use  of  the  same  theme.  Clark  Russell,  who  writes  in 
the  piping  times  of  peace,  is  more  limited  in  his  choice  of  scenes 
and  incidents,  and  consequently  has  never  improved  upon  his  first 
work,  "The  Wreck  of  the  Grosvenor."  Fennimore  Cooper  knew 
the  technique  of  the  ocean,  and  consequently  wrote  some  thrill- 
ing scenes  correctly,  but  it  has  always  been  felt  that  he  did  not 
make  the  most  of  bis  opportunities,  with  Paul  Jones  as  his  hero. 
He  wasted  time  and  labor  0n  sentimental  passages  and  chapters, 
for  which  he  had  no  facility.  Herman  Melville  was  a  genuine 
prose  poet  of  the  ocean.  His  "Omo,"  "Typee"  and  "Moby 
Dick"  are  redolent  of  the  salt  spray  from  the  dash- 
ing sea,  while  even  his  "White  Jacket,"  which  was  a 
log  of  a  voyage  around  Cape  Horn  in  a  man-of-war,  is  not  only 
true  to  nature,  but  imbued  with  the  profound  philosophy  which 
the  ocean  teaches  every  contemplative  and  intellectual  man. 
Perhaps  in  the  list  of  good  novels  should  be  included  Lieut.  Wise's 
"Captain  Band,  of  the  Centipede,"  and  Lieut.  Robert  Howe 
Fletcher's  "  Bliud  Bargain,"  but  they  were  only  fugitive  essays. 
The  wonder  is  that  Lieut.  Fletcher,  wbo  is  still  among  us  in  the 
flesh,  does  not  develop  the  vein  which  showed  so  much  promise 
in  the  "  Blind  Bargain."  There  is  a  fascination  aboui  the  ocean, 
and  it  seems  to  be  stronger  with  those  who  know  little  or  nothing 
of  the  vasty  deep  than  with  those  who  have  had  actual  experi- 
ence of  it.  Charles  Reade,  for  ^xample,  whose  "  Very  Hard 
Cash  "  contains  one  of  the  most  thrilling  episodes  in  English 
maritime  fiction— the  fight  of  the  Agra  with  the  two  pirate 
vessels — was  never  out  of  sight  of  land  in  bis  life,  but  is  said  to 
have  been  more  fond  of  his  ocean  stories  than  of  any  of  his  other 
work.  It  is  a  universal  rule  that  the  unknown  is  always  magni- 
fied and  exalted,  and  this  may  be  the  reason  why  landsmen  are 
fond  of  nautical  yarns,  even  though  descriptive  of  unfamiliar 
scenes  and  couched  in  a  dialect  often  unintelligible.  They  have 
read  Byron's  poetry,  possibly,  and  the  Bible,  and  maybe  Horace 
and  Virgil,  and  believe  with  the  Psalmist,  that  "  they  that  go 
down  to  the  sea  in  ships,  that  do  business  in  great  waters,  these 
see  the  works  of  the  Lord  and  his  wonders  in  the  deep."  They 
recall  the  legends  of  sirens  and  mermaids,  the  stories  of  waves 
running  mountains  high,  the  tales  of  fiying-fish  and  the  rainbow- 
hued  dolphin,  and  the  pictures  of  tae  moon  rising,  a  mellow 
golden  orb,  from  the  far-distant  horizon,  with  no  object  interven- 
ing to  dim  its  lustre,  and  they  are  Interested  in  the  writer  who 
can  weave  this  and  more  into  a  story,  and  tell  them  of  things 
outside  of  and  beyond  their  own  experience.  The  ocean  is  an 
undiscovered  country  to  so  many  that  it  may  well  be  the  home  of 
romance  and  mystery,  and  the  novelist  who  will  suppress  the 
harsh,  unpleasant  features  of  life  at  sea,  as  is  the  manner  of  the 
writer  of  fiction,  and  put  in  only  enough  of  danger  and  privation 
to  lend  his  story  zest,  will  always  find  a  large  circle  of  admiring 
readers.  It  is  not  every  man  who  can  bend  the  bow  of  Ulysses, 
and  young  and  ambitious  novelists  should  beware  lest  they  make 
themselves  ridiculous;  but  to  the  properly  equipped  writer  of 
fiction  no  department  of  literature  will  prove  more  attractive  and 
remunerative  than  the  writing  of  salt-water  novels. 


THE    GOVERNMENT    OF    CITIES. 

OF  late  years  the  idea  that  cities  should  be  considered  mere 
business  corporations,  having  a  very  large  number  of  stock- 
holders, and  governed  by  a  board  of  directors  or  trustees,  instead 
of  being  deemed  political  subdivisions  subject  to  elective  officers, 
has  attained  considerable  popularity  in  some  parts  of  the  United 
States,  and  has  been  supported  with  much  ingenuity  of  argu- 
ment. It  has  been  urged  that  the  average  taxpayer,  who  is 
called  upon  to  contribute  to  the  expenses  of  municipal  govern- 
ment, and  wbo  gets  his  money  back  in  the  form  of  public  schools, 
good  streets  and  sewers,  police  protection,  etc.,  does  not  and 
cannot  care  whether  the  officers  of  the  corporation  call  them- 
selves by  one  political  designation  or  another,  and  that  so  long  as 
he  is  well  and  honestly  served  it  can  make  no  difference  to  him 
whether  he  be  ground  by  an  autocracy,  an  oligarchy  or  a 
democracy.  In  other  words,  it  is  asserted  that  all  the  citizen  is 
concerned  with  is  results,  and  that  the  step3  which  lead  to  the 
results  are  immaterial.  The  theory  sounds  very  attractive,  and 
even  logical  and  reasonable,  but  it  will  not  hold  water.  The 
science  of  argument,  which  is  by  far  the  most  important  branch 
of  learning  in  a  republic,  must  be  kept  one  and  iudivisible  in 
order  that  its  symmetry  and  unity  may  be  preserved.  If  we 
learn  to  tolerate  a  despot  in  a  city,  no  matter  how  wise  and  just 
and  humane  his  rule  may  be,  the  next  step  will  be  to  confer 
office  for  life,  with  arbitrary  authority,  upon  the  Governor  of  the 
State,  and  from  that  to  national  imperialism  the  transition  is  an 
easy  and  natural  one.  Municipal  elections,  with  their  antecedent 
steps,  ought  to  be  considered  the  primary  school  of  national 
politics,  and  each  party  ought  to  use  its  most  earnest  endeavors 
to  select  its  best  men  for  city  offices.  Certainly  a  man  will  be  no 
worse  a  Mayor,  or  Supervisor,  or  Auditor,  if  he  be  and  call  him- 
self Democrat  or  Republican,  than  if  he  acknowledge  allegiance 
to  some  emasculated  or  sexless  party  which  has  no  fixed  princi- 
ples and  doctrines,  but  makes  its  contest  under  a  banner  which, 
like  the  shield  of  old,  is  white  on  one  side  and  black  on  the  other. 
The  safety  of  American  institutions  lies  in  carrying  out  to  the 
last  degree  the  idea  that  a  majority  shall  rule,  which  of  coarse 
presupposes  the  division  of  the  people  into  at  least  two  parties. 
It  is  all  nonsense  to  talk  about  frequent  and  diversified  elections 
being  bad  for  the  people.  Jt  is  not  so.  If  we  had  more  frequent 
elections  the  effect  would  be  good,  for  there  cannot  be  a  political 
campaign  of  any  kind,  even  if  there  be  only  a  poundkeeper  to  be 
elected,  which  does  not  tend  to  educate  the  people  in  their  polit- 
ical duties.  Compulsory  voting  would  be  exactly  what  is  needed , 
and  it  should  be  put  into  force  except  for  the  reason  that  it  is 
not  nearly  so  simple  in  practice  as  in  theory,  and  might  do  more 
harm  than  good. 

YOUNG    DR.    JENKINS. 


IT  has  become  perfectly  apparent  to  everybody  in  the  United 
States,  except  Roswell  P.  Flower,  Governor  of  New  York, 
that  Dr.  Jenkins,  the  Health  Officer  of  the  City  of  New  York,  has 
become  entirely  too  large  for  his  nether  integuments,  and  that  he 
should  be  removed  to  make  room  for  some  one  who  thinks  more 
of  the  safety  of  the  nation  and  less  of  his  own  very  unimportant 
personality.  Dr.  Jenkins  seems  to  take  an  especial  delight  in 
thwarting  every  measure  attempted  to  be  taken  by  the  United 
States  Government  to  stay  the  onward  march  of  the  cholera, 
holding  himself  aloof  from  such  men  of  national  reputation  as  ex- 
Surgeon-General  Hamilton,  and  refusing  to  pay  any  heed  to  his 
suggestions  or  to  comply  with  his  requests.  The  foolish  conduct 
of  Dr.  Jenkins,  due,  possibly,  to  his  youth  and  inexperience,  baa 
served  to  accentuate  the  general  demand  for  the  creation  of  a 
system  of  national  quarantine,  under  which  every  seaport  of  the 
United  States  may  be  adequately  protected  against  contagious 
and  infectious  diseases,  and  quarantine  grounds  be  provided,  to 
which  the  uninfected  passengers  from  quarantined  ships  may  be 
removed.  Without  making  any  special  examination  of  the  ques- 
tion, we  venture  to  say  that  in  every  principal  harbor  of  the 
United  States  the  F'ederal  Government  has  reservations  of  land 
which  could  be  made  available  very  readily  as  quarantine 
grounds,  whereas  the  several  States  or  the  cities  on  the  harbors 
have  no  such  grounds,  as  a  rule,  or  at  least  none  that  can  supply 
the  isolation  which  is  requisite.  With  a  national  quarantine  sys- 
tem, the  appointment  of  the  medical  staff  at  each  station  would 
be  out  of  politics.  The  appointees  would  be  selected  by  one  of 
the  departments  of  the  Government,  and  would  be  Federal 
officials,  as  army  and  navy  surgeons  are.  It  would  be  a  matter 
of  indifference  to  them  which  party  controlled  the  city  nearest 
their  post  of  duty,  or  which  ruled  at  Washington,  for  that  matter. 
Their  business  would  be  to  protect  the  people  of  the  United 
States  against  an  invasion  more  to  be  dreaded  than  that  of  a  hos- 
tile army,  and  to  that  business  they  would  give  all  their  time  and 
skill.  Any  mariiinie  city  in  the  United  States  is  likely  to  be 
afiiicted  at  some  time  with  a  Dr.  Jenkins  of  its  own,  and  to  see 
some  young  doctor,  clothed  with  a  little  brief  authority,  set  him- 
self up  against  the  Federal  Government,  and,  indeed,  against  any 
government  but  that  of  his  own  will  and  ideas.  It  must  be  mani- 
fest that  the  lives  and  health  of  65,000,000  people  are  too  valuable 
to  be  intrusted  to  the  whim  or  caprice  of  any  Jenkins,  or  of  any 
man  who  assumes  to  be  an  autocrat  in  his  position. 


DISCOVERY    DAY. 

A'.KKAT  number  of  Californians  from  all  parts  of  the  Stale 
will  congregate  next  week  at  San  Diego  in  order  to  celebrate 
the  three  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  the 
roast  of  I'pper  California  by  Juan  Rodriguez  Cabrillo.  It  is  fit 
and  proper  that  the  most  important  dates  in  the  history  of  a 
country  sbouM  be  impressed  upon  the  mind  of  its  inhabitants  by 
their  public  celebration  at  appropriate  Intervals,  for  nothing  will 
contribute  more  to  inculcate  patriotism,  than  the  keeping  before 
the  eyes  of  our  youths  the  past  history  of  the  land  which  has 
given  them  birth,  and  it  is  desirable  that  from  time  to  time  they 
should  be  powerfully  urged  to  look  backward  in  order  to  com- 
prehend the  events  which  have  led  to  the  present  con- 
dition of  things  and  understand  tbe  causes  which  have 
resulted  in  the  gradual  progress  of  our  civilization. 
Through  the  discovery  of  our  coasts  by  Cabriello.  the  possibilities 
of  our  fortunate  shores  became  first  known  to  the  European 
world,  i.  e.,  to  the  countries  where  civilization  had  already  reached 
a  high  development,  and  where  the  exigencies  of  trade  and  com- 
merce made  it  desirable  for  the  inhabitants  to  look  for  new 
markets  and  new  connections.  The  daring  Spanish  voyagers  of 
the  sixteenth  century,  and  their  followers,  deserve  the  credit  of 
having  looked  for  and  found  new  countries  for  commercial  enter- 
prise, notwithstanding  the  enormous  difficulties  which  lay  in 
their  way,  and  which  would  have  deterred  from  the  voyage  all 
but  the  stoutest  hearts.  Their  courage  and  energy  deserve  to  be 
honored  by  the  present  generation,  which  owes  to  them  the  dis- 
covery of  the  soil  where  at  present  so  many  thousands  have  found 
prosperous  homes.  It  was  many  years,  however,  after  the  discov- 
ery of  our  coasts  ere  the  knowledge  could  be  utilized  by  the  pioneer 
settlers,  t.  e.,  those  who  were  most  fit  to  change  the  potential 
prosperity  of  these  regions  into  an  actual  one.  That  the  possi- 
bibihties  of  our  couutry  were  recognized  by  the  early  Spanish 
navigators  is  plainly  seen  from  tbe  glowing  descriptions  which 
they  gave  of  our  coast  and  its  resources  to  their  people  when  tney 
returned  home,  and  the  very  name,  "  California,"  which  they  be- 
stowed upon  the  newly  discovered  regions  proves  this.  The 
Spanish  author  of  the  romance,  "  Las  Sergas  de  Esplendian ,"  had 
conjured  up  before  the  eyes  of  his  readers  a  beautiful  country, 
"  the  great  Island  of  California,  where  a  great  abundance  of  gold 
and  prtcious  stoDes  is  found,'*  and  this  mythical  land  of  beauty 
and  fortune  inspired  in  the  hearts  of  many  people  at  that  time 
the  longing  toward  regions  where  such  things  actually  existed. 
When  the  Spanish  navigators  reached  our  coast,  when  they  saw 
with  their  own  .eyes  its  everlasting  charms,  when  they 
learned  from  the  natives  of  its  rich  mineral  treasures,  they  no  doubt 
thought  "California"  a  fitting  name  for  the  new  Eden,  for  here 
was  a  land  in  which  the  romance-writer's  dream  was  realized, 
and  upon  their  return  they  announced  the  joyous  message:  "  We 
have  found  tbe  poet's  California."  But  they  had  to  add  in  their 
tales  the  account  of  the  perils  they  had  met  and  the  dangers  of  the 
long  ocean  voyage,  so  that  only  the  bravest  dared  to  fol.ow  in  their 
steps.  For  many,  many  years  California  was  the  ultima  Thule 
of  tbe  mariner,  and  those  who  had  seen  the  strange  distant  coun- 
try were  justly  regarded  as  the  most  daring  and  venturesome. 
Thus  Thomas  Campbell  when  he  wanted  to  point  out  the  great 
courage  and  bravery  of  his  hero,  Waldegrave,  and  impress  upon 
his  readers,  how  far  the  latter  bad  roamed,  wrote: 

"Of  late  tbe  equator's  sun  bis  cheek  had  fanned, 
And  California's  gales  his  bosom  tauned;" 

Our  notorious  high  winds,  by  the  way,  seem  to  have 
made  a  most  as  great  on  impression  upon  travelers  at  that 
time  as  our  mineral  wealth.  Either  Campbell  or  his  hero  seems 
to  have  spent  a  summer  in  San  Francisco.  Still,  neither  high 
winds  nor  dangers  of  the  sea  could  ultimately  deter  the  people  of 
Europe  from  hastening  to  our  shores,  and  when  tbe  East  of  North 
America  had  been  settled  and  an  overland  route  had  been  discov- 
ered, tbe  pioneers  arrived  in  flocks,  took  possession  of  the  fertile 
coast  of  the  Pacific,  thanked  the  Spaniards  for  having  drawn 
their  attention  to  the  existence  of  the  charming  lands,  and  settled 
down  to  build  homes  and  to  found  a  State  which  is  destined  to 
shine  as  the  most  glorious  among  States  of  the  Onion. 


THE  Prohibition  candidate  for  President  certainly  ought  to  pray 
to  be  delivered  from  his  friends.  Certain  facts  in  regard  to  his* 
pioneer  bachelor  days  have  been  whispered  about,  concerning 
some  peccadillos  of  which  nine  out  of  ten  of  the  old-timers  were 
equally  guilty,  and  which  are  deemed  excusable  in  a  country 
where  the  only  women  are  of  aboriginal  descent.  Therefore,  one 
of  his  fool  friends,  who  owns  a  font  of  type  and  a  dozen  column 
rules,  gets  up  and  brays  out  that  he  has  known  the  gentleman  re- 
ferred to  for  forty  years,  and  can  testify  that  he  has  "bad  no  other 
wife  than  the  lady  who  bears  his  name."  As  nobody  ever  said 
that  he  had  had  another  wife,  the  force  of  the  denial  is  not  ap- 
parent- The  facts  in  the  case,  however,  are  well  known  to  all 
tbe  old  residents  of  tbe  Presidential  candidate's  home  in  Butte 
county,  and  none  of  the  old  Californians  think  one  whit  less  of 
him  because  of  them. 


HIGH    MORALITY    OF    CITY    PAPERS. 

0\  I'll  two  years  ago.  and  upon  numerous  occasions  since,  the 
Nl«-  Letteb  has  called  the  attention  of  the  public  to  the 
meretricious  advertisements  published  in  the  daily  papers  which, 
under  the  heading  of  "  Massage,"  "  Medicine"  and  similar  titles, 
have  been  merely  an  exhibition  of  theextent  of  prostitution  in 
this  ciiy.  Recently  the  Cult  has  suddenly  awakened  to  the  fact 
that  there  was  more  in  a  massage  advertisement  than  appeared 
upon  its  face,  and  it  has  attempted  to  expose  what  the  wisdom 
of  tbe  two  gentlemen  of  Clay  street  has  suddenly  discovered  to  be 

',  an  outrage  upon  a  confiding  community.  This  assumption  of 
virtue  on  tbe  part  of  tbe  Call  is  somewhat  peculiar,  when  it  is  re- 
membered that  it  is  not  many  months  since  the  Call  itself  paraded 
before  its  readers  the  names  of  a  number  of  massage  ••  ladies." 
With  its  newly-found  enterprise,  however,  it  now  attacks  those 
whose  cause  it  formerly  assisted.  The  Examiner  is  even  more 
worthy  of  severe  condemnation  than  its  Clay-street  rival,  for  the 
Monarch,  which  the  Montgomery-street  paper  calls  itself,  opens 
all  its  columns,  apparently,  to  any  advertisement  for  which  any 
massage  woman  will  pay.  Why  Mr.  Hearst,  who  is  reputed  to 
be  worth  millions  of  dollars,  should  allow  the  columns  of  his  pa- 
per to  be  used  as  the  means  of  advertising  the  places  of  business 
of  public  prostitutes,  and  the  hours  at  which  they  might  be  found 
at  borne,  cannot  be  easily  understood.  It  cannot  be  said  that  the 
managers  of  the  Examiner  are  ignorant  of  the  nature  of  the  adver- 
tisements which  they  accept  and  publish.  The  massage  cloak 
which  the  scarlet  women  have  put  on  is  as  well  known  by  reason 
of  its  notoriety  as  the  locality  of  Market  street.  The  Examiner 
publishes  daily,  under  the  heading  "  Massage,"  the  advertise- 
ments of  from  forty  to  fifty  women  whose  sole  object  in  life  is  to 
rob  the  poor   debauched  beings    who   may   have    been  guided  to 

I  their  dens  by  reading  the  columns  of  this  chaste  family  journal, 
which  takes  unto  itself  the  honor  of  being  the  leading  journal  of 
the  West.  The  Daily  Report,  not  to  be  outdone  in  nastiness  by 
the  Examiner  or  any  other  papar,  if  it  can  help  it,  is  trying  hard  to 
get  as  large  a  list  of  prostitutes  as  its  morning  contemporary. 
So  far  it  has  succeeded  in  placing  only  thirty  massage 
advertisements,  but  its  young  men  are  all  enterprising,  and  in 
time  the  Report  hopes  to  have  its  massage  list  nearly  as  large  as 
that  of  the  Examiner.  The  Chronicle  seems  very  reluctant  to  re- 
move the  names  of  its  fair  patrons  from  its  columns.  It  has  re- 
duced its  formerly  long  list  down  to  three  or  four,  and  if  the  indi- 
cations are  correct,  the  whole  line  will  soon  be  stopped.  Another 
orlendei  is  that  excuse  for  a  journal,  known  as  the  Wasp,  which, 
while  not  printing  massage  advertisements,  fills  ito  columns  with 
obscene  stories  which  would  not  be  allowed  to  be  repeated  in  any 
respectable  bar-room.  The  pulpit  and  the  people  should  combine 
in  the  endeav-or  to  suppress  this  most  outrageous  system  of  cater- 
ing to  the  sensual  and  the  obscene,  and  do  what  they  can  to  cause 
the  offending  newspapers  to  throw  out  the  offensive  advertise- 
ments. No  paper  which  accepts  and  prints  a  "  massage  "  adver- 
tisement should  be  allowed  in  a  household,  It  is  an  invitation  to 
vice.  If  the  preachers  of  the  city  who  are  ever  on  the  lookout  for 
a  sensational  topic  around  which  to  build  a  sermon  want  some- 
thing to  talk  about  to  their  congregations,  let  them  discuss  the 
massage  question. 


AMENDING    THE    WRIGHT    ACT. 

SAN  DIEGO  county  has  more  irrigation  districts  organized  un- 
der the  Wright  law  than  any  other  county  in  the  State,  and  it 
is  eminently  proper  that  the  first  steps  for  the  procurement  of 
some  needed  amendments  to  that  Act  should  be  made  in  that  lo- 
cality. Both  the  political  parties,  in  making  nominations  for 
members  of  the  Legislature  have  pledged  their  candidatos  to  work 
for  the  amendment  of  tbe  law,  though  without  specifying  in 
what  particulars  such  amendment  is  desired.  The  local  press 
also  refrain  from  discussing  the  subject,  while  any  one  who  has 
had  the  temeriry  to  point  out  the  indubitable  defects  of  the 
Wright  Act  is  at  once  accused  of  being  an  enemy  to  irrigation, 
a  friend  of  tbe  monopolist  and  all  that  sort  of  stuff  so  familiar  to 
Californians.  The  only  way,  however,  to  remedy  the  evils  which 
have  indisputably  been  brought  into  existence  by  the  operation 
of  the  district  law  is  to  have  a  free  and  open  discussion  of  its 
workings  and  of  the  amendments  that  are  desirable,  and  the  col- 
umns of  the  News  Letter  will  be  open  for  this  purpose.  Not 
long  since  a  gentleman  who  had  gone  to  England  for  the  purpose 
of  negotiating  the  sale  of  a  large  quantity  of  irrigation  district 
bonds,  made  complaint  that  the  publication  of  certain  facts  in  a 
jonrnal  devoted  to  the  collection  and  dissemination  of  irrigation 
news  had  completely  frustrated  his  object,  and  put  an  end  to  ne- 
gotiations for  tbe  purchase  by  English  capitalists  of  several  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars'  worth  of  bonds.  Yet  only  a  hint  had 
been  given  in  the  publication  referred  to  of  the  rottenness  which 
lay  beneath  the  surface,  and  which  so  far,  through  a  mistaken 
policy,  has  not  even  been  referred  to  in  the  local  press.  The  most 
urgent  need  is  for  some  form  of  supervision  by  which  the  officers 
of  districts  may  be  prevented  from  manipulating  things  for  their 
own  personal  benefit,  and  from  exchanging  the  bonds  of  their 
districts  for  intangible  water  rights  or  works  at  for  more  thau 
their  real  value. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 

T^HE  annual  meeting  of  the  California  Lawn  Tennis 
TtNNIS>.  |  club  will  be  held  to-day  at  4:30  o'clock.  A  Board 
of  Directors  will  be  elected  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  follow- 
ing addition  to  the  by-laws  voted  upon:  "There  shall  bean 
Army  and  Navy  list,  to  which  officers  of  the  United  States  army 
and  navy  and  the  members  of  their  families  shall  be  eligible; 
monthly  dues  shall  be  paid  by  such  members,  but  no  initiation 
fee."  The  gentlemen  put  up  for  directors  are  Dell  Linderman,  R. 
J.  Woods,  Joseph  Tobin,  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  E.  J.  Davis  and  H. 
N.  Stetson,  Miss  Morgan  being  the  lady  candidate.  It  is  not 
probable  that  there  will  be  any  opposition.  The  quarterly  tourna- 
ment of  the  club  will  also  be  held  to-day  and  continued  to-mor- 
row. The  tournament  to-morrow  consists  of  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr. , 
H.  N.  Stetson  and  A.  B.  Wilberforce.  Taylor  will  also  act  as 
referee.  The  games  commence  to-day  at  2:30  o'clock  and  to- 
morrow morning  at  10:30  o'clock.  The  entry  is  as  follows:  A.  J. 
Field,  Dell  Linderman,  H.  N.  Stetson,  S.  Hoffman,  A.  J.  Treat, 
W.  B.  Collier,  Jr.,  R.  N.  Whitney,  F.  M.  Mitchell,  G.  F.  Whitney, 
G.  Bradsbaw,  G.  de  Long,  W.  B.  Lee,  J.  P.  Hutchins,  D.  E.  Allison, 
Jr.,  J.  A.  Code,  A.  B.  Wilberforce,  G.  A.  Loughborough,  G.  Dutel, 
P.  Collier,  R.  J.  Davis,  H.  Haight,  R.  J.  Woods,  W.  O'Connor,  P.  C. 
Moore,  Harry  Wise.  S.  B.  de  Long  won  the  tournament  last 
quarter,  but  be  will  have  to  work  his  way  through  the  lists  to 
have  his  name  again  on  the  cup.  H.  N.  Stetson,  who  has  been 
offered  the  position  of  secretary  to  the  Pacific  States  Lawn  Tennis 
Association,  has  started  the  continuous  tournament  again.  There 
are  hardly  as  many  entries  as  before,  owing  to  the  absence  of 
several  of  the  players,  who  will  probably  enter  later.  The  entries 
close  on  September  26th,  and  challenges  will  be  issued  on  October 
1st.  The  following  have  decided  to  enter:  Hoffman,  Mitchell, 
Whitney,  Field,  Bradshaw,  Linderman,  Havens,  Hobart,  Allison, 
Collier,  Whitney,  Treat,  Stetson,  Code,  Lee,  Davis,  Haight,  Woods 
and  Moore.  The  committee  to  look  after  the  matches  are:  H.  N. 
Stetson,  R.  J.  Whitney  and  A.  G.  Field. 

There  has  been  a  great  deal  of  talk  about  the  way  the  Califor- 
nia Club  was  treated  at  the  Oakland  courts,  and  even  the  Field 
Sports,  in  a  mild  way,  said  it  was  a  pity  that  the  association 
should  have  selected  a  club's  grounds  to  play  off  a  championship. 
There  was  really  no  reason  for  such  action  on  the  part  of  the 
association,  as  they  could  easily  beforehand  have  surmised  the 
result.  The  whole  fact  of  the  matter  is,  that  the  Oakland  club 
is,  and  always  has  been,  extremely  jealous  of  the  play  and  players 
from  this  side.  One  or  two  members  of  their  clubs  have  joined 
the  California  Club,  solely,  we  believe,  to  better  their  game,  and 
after  deriving  all  the  benefits,  would,  if  possible,  resign  and  return 
to  their  former  "  hunting  grounds."  It  certainly  seems  a  pity 
that  a  pastime  should  thus  be  turned  into  a  source  of  enmity  be- 
tween people.  The  sooner  championship  meetings  can  be  held  at 
places  too  remote  for  school  boys  to  attend,  the  better. 
,  S  U8UAL  when  anything 
out  of  the    general    run 


BASEBALL. 


As 


WINTER    "WRAPS    AT    THE    WHITE    HOUSE. 

THERE  is  a  crispness  in  the  air,  and  a  sharpness  to  the  after- 
noon breeze  that  carries  a  hint  of  approaching  winter,  and 
suggests  the  comfort  of  heavier  wraps  and  soft  fur  nestling  close 
to  my  lady's  neck  and  chilly  ears.  The  question  is,  which  to 
select?  Cape  or  jacket,  long  wrap  or  ulster?  One  turns  from  a 
gorgeous  confection,  in  scarlet  and  black,  with  jet  bands  and 
fringes,  and  edged  with  Angora,  an  importation  from  Piogat,  to  a 
superb  coat  of  velvet  and  silk,  reaching  to  the  hem  of  the  dress, 
and  heavily  trimmed  in  jets.  The  newest  garments  for  carriage 
and  reception  wear,  are  the  long  capes,  forty  inches  in  length ; 
they  are  in  light  and  dark  cloth;  embroideries,  appliqued  ara- 
besques of  beads,  ribbon  and|fur,  are  used  in  the  trimming.  One 
stunning  cape  was  of  black  velvet  with  gold  embroidery  down 
the  fronts  and  center  of  back,  finished,  as  most  of  them 
are,  with  Angora  furs  at  the  neck.  The  feature  of  all  the  gar- 
ments, both  caps  and  tight-fitting,  is  the  pleat,  or  fullness  in  the 
back,  giving  the  Watteau  effect.  The  popular  fur  is  the  Angora, 
colored  to  suit  the  garment.  The  long,  comfortable  ulster  is  com- 
ing to  the  front  again,  made  with  the  pleat  in  the  back  from  the 
neck  down,  or  from  a  deep  velvet  yoke,  and  on  all  is  seen  either 
fur  or  feather  trimming.  One  unique  and  Russian  looking  affair 
was  of  bluish  gray  cloth,  with  deep  cape  edged  with  mink.  The 
peculiarity  of  the  garment  was  the  slashing  of  the  cape  on  the 
sides  to  form  the  sleeves,  while  the  front  piece  fastened  high  on 
the  shoulder.  The  theatre  capes  are  somewhat  shorter  than  the 
others,  and  are  made  up  in  the  most  fetching  styles;  most  of 
them  are  in  light-tinted  cloths,  beautifully  embroidered 
in  gold  and  colored  beads.  A  pale  lavender  cape,  covered 
with  embroidery  in  black  beads,  was  very  French  in 
its  effect;  another  beauty  was  of  lightest  tan,  with 
arabesques  of  gold  beads  appliqued  over  it.  Raised  shoulders 
and  high  collars  still  hold  their  own,  apparently,  and 
the  soft  and  becoming  fur  finish  is  on  everything.  The  sorties  du 
bal  are  lovely,  graceful  cloaks,  sweeping  from  the  neck  to  the  feet. 
A  beautiful,  bridal-looking  cloak  was  of  white  cloth  with  gold  and 
crystal  trimming  around  the  neck  and  over  the  high  shouldeis, 
edged  all  around  with  white  Angora  and  lined  with  gold-colored 
silk.  Erom  these  fascinating,  party-suggesting  wraps  one  turns 
with  regret  to  the  practical  street  jackets.  Save  that  they  are 
longer  than  ever,  the  style  is  very  similar  to  those  of  the  previous 
winter.  But  last  year's  jacket  will  not  pass  muster  as  a  new  one, 
unless  there  is  a  convenient  tuck  to  let  out  and  increase 
its  length.  The  more  dressy  jackets  have  the  same  Watteau 
pleat  as  the  loose  garments,  and  many  are  made  with  full  velvet 
sleeves — even  in  the  children's  coats  this  craze  for  the  Watteau 
effect  is  carried  out.  The  importations  of  the  White  House,  this 
year,  are  unusually  large,  and  range  from  the  artistic  creations  of 
the  Parisian  manteau-maker  to  the  quiet  garment  which  appeals 
to  the  purse  of  moderate  size. 


of  affairs  in  baseball  occurs  it  can  be 
traced  to  the  Oakland  club.  The  feat  of 
this  team  winning  its  full  series  of  five 
consecutive  games  against  the  San  Jose 
team  has  been  the  talk  in  baseball  circles 
during  the  past  week.  The  nine  kept  up  its 
br.lliant  work  this  week  by  defeating  the 
San  Franciscos,  on  Wednesday,  in  a  finely 
played  game.  Carroll  was  re-engaged,  and 
made  the  only  run  in  the  game.  With  Car- 
roll in  the  nine,  the  team  will  now  be  able 
to  more  than  hold  its  own  against  any  of 
its  fellows,  and  it  is  a  pretty  safe  predic- 
tion to  make  thai  in  a  short  while  the  club 
will  quit  the  tail-end  position  it  has  so  long 
held,  and  be  struggling  with  the  leaders  for 
first  place.  The  Oaklands  have  always  been 
popular  with  the  baseball  public,  and  the 
club's  constant  defeats  have  been  a  source 
of  regret  to  patrons  of  the  game  who  have 
always  been  anxious  to  see  the  club  occu- 
pying a  place  in  the  race.  The  attendance 
at  the  game  here,  last  Sunday,  proved  that 
the  winning  gate  which  the  club  has  struck 
was  appreciated  by  the  audience,  which 
yelled  itself  hoarse  encouraging  the  team 
against  the  San  Jose  nine.  All  the  clubs 
are  now  playing  the  very  finest  kind  of 
baseball.  Umpire  McDonald  has  been  doing 
some  very  fine  work  during  his  present  de- 
tail. Manassau  is  also  doing  good  service 
as  an  umpire  in  the  games  played  in  Los  An- 
geles. The  Oaklands  and  home  team  will 
play  in  this  city  this  afternoon  and  to-mor- 
row. Because  of  the  races  in  San  Jose,  next 
week,  the  games  scheduled  to  be  played 
there  will  take  place  in  this  city. 


Marion  Harland's  Endorsement 


OF 


Royal  Baking  Powder. 


[Extract  from  Marion  Harland's  Letter  to  the  Royal  Baking  Powder  Co.] 
ju  * 


<s& 


24,  1893. 


SAN'  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


VALUABLE  OPINIONS  OF     KNEE-SPRUNG     TROUSERS. 

IT  Is  now  over  twenty  year?  iloce  Count  John  MickiewiU.  son 
of  the  ro»lnia«ter-<teneral  of  Russia,  and  a  ■■  bowling  swell.'' 
burst  upon  Sin  Frftncisoo  s^ciaiy  like  the  Tartar  comet  that  he 
was.  In  loose  days  there  were  •  hops  "  at  the  Grand  Hotel, 
where  the  genuan,  then  in  its  beginnings,  was  danced  by  the 
elite.  literally  for  all  it  was  worth.  The  Count  was  balled  with 
joy.  Beautiful  women,  dead  years  ago.  smiled  upon  the  whisk- 
ered Cossack.  Men.  now  gray-bearded  and  grandfathered,  imi- 
tated bis  neckties,  bis  collars,  his  cuffs,  his  entire  get  up — every- 
thing but  his  manners,  which  were  Dot  good.  It  was  tbe  Count, 
who,  being  asked  what  he  thought  of  the  gallants  of  this  city, 
made  this  never-to-be-forgotten  reply  :  "  They  are  vara  goot,  and 
taev  de  kind  heart,  but  by  the  beard  of  St.  Nicholas,  dere  trousers 
are  knee-sprung."  Pants  was  the  designation  of  those  useful 
garment?  in  the  days  gone  by,  for  the  infusion  of  British  was  not 
strong  enough  to  convert  us  to  trousers  until  about  '86,  when 
"  Lord  "  Charles  Green,  a  defaulting  music  teacher  from  Mont- 
real, humougged  Nob  Hill  with  his  bogus  title,  and  taught  our 
young  men  tbe  impropriety  of  saying  pants.  The  south  of  Market 
street  faction  fought  bard  against  this  innovation,  and  gained 
their  point.  Troupers  are  never  mentioned  in  polite  circles  in 
that  quarter.  To  obtain  some  really  valuable  opinions  on  a  sub- 
ject uf  such  vital  importance  to  this  community,  a  few  of  the 
leading  authorities  were  consulted. 

Arthur  Price  does  not  remember  the  time  he  wore  knee-sprung 
trousers.  "  1  really  cannot  imagine  bow  any  gentleman  with  the 
least  pretense  to  fashion  could  be  guilty  of  such  a  monstrosity,'' 
said  Mr.  Price.  "  The  person  who  has  the  audacity  to  appear  in 
sociely  wearing  trousers  that  bag  at  the  knees  is  fit  for  treason, 
stratagems  and  spoils.  I  tell  you,  sir,  he  is  an  anarchist  at  heart, 
a  conspirator  against  the  well-being  of  our  social  structure,  a  per- 
son who  ought  to  be  frowned  upon  by  every  lover  of  humanity; 
a  Sontag,  an  Evans — in  fine,  a  wretch  whom  it  would  be  gross 
flattery  to  call  a  villain."  When  Mr.  Price  had  partially  recovered 
his  composure,  he  spoke  more  calmly  upon  this  interesting  subject: 

"  Knee  springing,  or  bagging  at  tbe  knees,  is  as  common  to 
trousers  as  measles  to  the  children,"  said  Mr.  Price.  "And  now 
for  its  treatment.  I  have  found  in  my  experience  that  a  brace  of 
flat  irons,  or  better  still,  of  seven-pound  dumbbells,  attached  to 
the  trouser  legs,  will  check  this  disease  in  its  incipiency.  The 
waist  is  attached  to  a  hook  over  night,  and  the  region  of  the  knees 
dampened  with  a  sponge.  Frequent  hitching  during  the  day,  be- 
fore assuming  a  sitting  posture,  is  recommended  by  the  best  au- 
thorities. To  make  the  cure  certain  let  the  trousers  be  worn  in 
tbe  seclusion  of  one's  own  apartment  with  the  front  side  in  the 
rear.  This  change  of  pressure  is  highly  salutary,  and  will  arrest 
the  knee  spring  when  everything  else  has  been  found  ineffective." 

James  Hamilton,  Esq.,  an  accepted  authority  on  all  matters  of 
dress,  contended  that  a  man  whose  legs  were  absolutely  straight 
could  not  suffer  from  knee-sprung  trousers.  "  There  is  much  to 
be  said  about  will-power  in  this  regard,"  Mr.  Hamilton  observed. 
"  We  will,  if  you  please,  take  two  men  of  equal  physique,  but  dif- 
ferent mental  equipment.  On  the  same  day,  at  the  same  hour, 
and  under  the  same  circumstances,  both  perceive,  with  feelings  of 
intensified  anguish,  that  their  trousers  showsymptons  of  bagging 
at  the  knees.  Now,  mark  the  contrast.  The  weak-minded  man 
will,  in  all  probability,  burst  into  tears  and  curse  his  tailor.  Not 
so  the  mental  giant.  With  a  superhuman  effort  he  will  walk  to 
his  rooms  stiff-jointed,  like  a  man  on  stilts,  at  once  remove  the 
afflicted  trousers,  apply  a  ligature  to  the  lower  portion  of  the  legs, 
attach  the  waist  band  to  his  bed  post,  and  pull  away  the  rest  of 
the  afternoon  until  he  feels  assured  that  the  disease  has  been 
checked.  Then  be  will  fold  them  up  carefully,  set  them  under 
his  trunk,  pile  all  his  furniture  on  top  of  it,  and  the  next  day  he 
finds  the  trouers  free  from  every  trace  of  this  obnoxious  com- 
plaint." 

Mr,  Louis  Sloss  said  that  knee-sprung  trousers  were  unknown 
in  Alaska.  "The  reason  of  this  is  plain,"  continued  Mr.  Sloss. 
"  The  natives  of  that  interesting  country,  when  they  receive  a 
new  pair  of  trousers  from  the  harnessmaker,  take  the  precaution 
of  greasing  them  well  in  the  region  of  the  knees.  After  a  year 
or  so  the  material  grows  so  pliable  that  its  shape  becomes  fixed, 
as  it  were.     Another  advantage  of  this  custom  is,  that  when  the 


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Baking 
Powder 

Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard. 


natives,  making  long  journeys,  find  themselves  cut  olT  from  their 
supplies,  they  cook  tbe  knees  of  their  trousers,  and  cat  them  with 
relish.  They  generally  fry  them,  and  the  accumulated  grease 
saves  them  from  burning." 

Ward  McAllister,  who,  as  the  nephew  of  his  uncle,  is  entitled 
to  much  consideration  upon  all  points  of  fashion,  treated  the  sub- 
ject lightly.  Mr.  James  Hamilton's  remarks  struck  him  as  saga- 
cious in  the  extreme.  "Certainly,"  said  Mr.  McAllister,  as  we 
say  in  the  classics,  "  bis  dat  qui  cito  dat,  or  freely  translated,  a 
stitch  in  time  saves  nine  (by  the  way,  are  you  aware  that  classical 
quotations  have  become  quite  fashionable  in  New  York  society?) 
But  there  is  one  remedy  greater  than  all  these,  and  that  is  variety. 
Every  gentleman  who  takes  a  thorough  and  sincere  interest  in  his 
personal  appearance,  should  never  have  less  than  a  dozen  pairs 
of  trousers  in  his  wardrobe.  Trousers,  like  individuals,  break 
down  from  excess  of  work.  Or  perhaps  I  may  make  the  illus- 
tration more  forcible  by  comparing  tbem  to  a  horse,  who  first 
shows  his  decline  by  giving  way  at  the  knees.  80  with  the  faith- 
ful trousers.  When  they  weaken,  it  is  at  the  knees,  and  this 
means  repose.  Turn  them  loose  in  the  closet,  groom  them  gently 
and  kindly,  give  them  a  feed  of  camphor  against  their  pestiferous 
enemy,  the  moth;  envelop  tbe  galled  spots,  if  any  there  be,  in 
tissue  paper,  take  another  pair  from  the  stalls,  and  thus  you  will 
never  find  yourself  in  that  shocking  predicament  of  being  bagged 
at  the  knees.  The  humane  man,"  remarked  Mr.  McAllister,  in 
conclusion,  his  fine  eyes  suffused  with  tears,  "is  kind  to  his 
trousers." 

highland 

Evaporated 

Cream 

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of  cut-up  peaches.  No  more  waiting  for 
the  milkman;  no  more  worrying  over  his 
stall-fed  cows.  Highland  Brand  is  uni- 
formly rich  and  perfect — there's  where  it 
differs  from  its  imitations. 

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ous novelties  of  rare  workmanship.  Fine  silk  hand-embroidered  Screens, 
Ladies'  Wrappers,  Gents'  Smoking  Jackets,  Table  Covers,  Spreads,  etc. 
Choice  Ebony  Tables,  Cabinets,  etc.  Oriental  Rugs  very  antique,  many 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


l^^S^YpfD 


'We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


*(QWEET  are  the  uses  of  advertising,  is  now  the  accepted  read- 
O  ing  of  Shakespeare's  line  in  our  end-of-the-century 
utilitarianism.  But  advertising,  like  adversity,  may  be  overdone, 
in  spite  of  the  sweetness  of  its  uses.  We  may  assume  that  it  is 
overdone  when  a  theatre  programme,  distributed  to  patrons  for 
the  ostensible  purpose  of  informing  them  as  to  the  players  and 
the  characters  in  the  play,  buries  the  information  under  such  a 
mass  of  advertising  matter  that  it  is  difficult  to  find,  and  prints 
it  in  type  so  small  that  it  is  still  more  difficult  to  read  when 
found. 

The  half  lights  in  most  of  the  local  theatres,  even  between 
acts,  are  not  conducive  to  the  deciphering  of  nonpareil  type,  es- 
pecially in  the  abstract  matter  of  proper  names,  without  the  clue 
of  context  to  aid  the  would-be  reader.  The  fin-de-siecle  eye,  like 
its  business  conscience,  is  weak  and  becoming  weaker,  and  the 
prevailing  programme  threatens  to  put  it  out  altogether. 

The  eight-page  programme  is  issued  for  money-making  pur- 
poses, and  the  advertisements  are  the  factors  in  this  perfectly 
legitimate  object.  But  need  the  nuisance  of  searching  through  a 
maze  of  advertisements  for  the  cast  of  the  play  be  made  obliga- 
tory? All  religions  admit  honesty  to  be  a  virtue,  whether 
acting  on  the  admission  or  not,  and  the  sacred  worship  of  Mam- 
mon should  yield  no  less  to  the  natural  rights  of  ticket-buyers. 
If  the  present  programme  must  be  retained,  with  all  its  adver- 
tising imperfections  on  its  head,  it  should  not,  at  least,  be  forced 
upon  patrons  who  do  not  care  to  strain  their  eyes  and  their  pa- 
tience in  a  game  of  hide-and-seek  with  the  information  it  pre- 
tends to  give.  Is  it  too  much  to  ask  that  slips  of  paper  contain- 
ing the  programme,  and  that  only,  be  printed  in  large,  clear  type, 
and  that  the  patron  be  allowed  to  take  his  choice?  The  possible 
small  diminution  of  advertising  rates  would  be  more  than  offset 
by  the  reduction  in  the  average  cost  of  printing,  and  the  scheme 
affords  the  rare  opportunity  to  be  honest  and  to  make  money  by 
it.  Let  some  complaisant  manager  try  this  plan,  and  a  large  con- 
tingent of  theatre-goers,  who  think  it  enough  to  pay  for  their 
amusement  without  working  their  passage  afterward,  will  rise 
up  and  call  him  blessed. 

»  #  # 

Daniel  Sully  opened  his  engagement  at  the  Bush  last  Saturday, 
six  days  after  schedule  time.  He  had  a  good  house  and  a  kindly 
welcome,  for  Mr.  Sully  is  a  genia  Igentleman  and  personally  pop- 
ular. The  Millionaire  and  Daddy  Nolan,  which  have  been  played 
this  week,  are  too  well  known  to  require  comment  The  play 
which  appeals  to  the  Irish  sentiment  (or  sentimentality)  may 
have  been  popular  in  the  congenial  atmosphere  of  the  New  York 
Bowery  or  Castle  Garden ;  but  it  is  doubtful  :f  it  ever  had  such  a 
day  in  this  longitude  or  surrounding.  If  it  did,  the  day  is  gone. 
The  most  bowling  appeal  to  the  Irish  heart  from  the  stage  is  apt 
to  be  met  with  smiles  instead  of  cheers  even  from  the  gallery. 
Daniel  Sully  is  an  easy  natural  stage  Irishman,  and  he  might 
make  his  talent  more  pleasantly  available  by  employing  it  in  a 
drama  which  does  not  depend  on  Irish  sentiment  for  its  interest. 
Next  week  Mr.  Sully  will  •  present  his  latest  play,  Tam- 
many Hall,  a  political  satire  written  for  him  by  Alex.  E.  Sweet, 
the  Texas  Sifting s  man. 

*  *  * 

But  for  the  very  climax  of  sensations  in  a  "  first  production  in 
America"  of  a  Gilbert-Cellier  comic  opera,  the  leading  local 
theatres  would  have  been  a  desert  waste  of  second  weeks.  Up 
to  Thursday  night,  when  The  Mountebanks  was  produced  at  the 
Baldwin  (a  review  of  the  performance  will  be  found  elsewhere  in 
this  issue  of  the  News  Letter)  this  was  th,e  case.  The  prowler 
after  amusement  last  Monday  night,  if,  like  the  ancient  Athenians, 
he  sought  some  new  thing,  would  have  .gone  home  .and,  like  the 
more  famous  sinner,  "  wept  because  he  found  it  not." 

*  *  * 

There  are  things,  however,  which  gain  an  added  charm  by 
repetition.  One  of  these  is  May  Irwin's  performance  of  Helen 
Stockton.  A  first  sitting  does  not  begin  to  reveal  the  inexplicable 
fun  and  humor  of  the  personation.  The  way  in  which  Miss 
Irwinsays  "  Mamma  "  would  alone  raise  a  smile  on  the  face  of  a 
Manchester  button-maker,  and  the  auditor  is  left  at  last  to  won- 
der whether  nature  or  art  has  had  most  to  do  with  his  amuse- 
ment. 

Frederic  Lemaitre,  Clyde  Fitch's  little  curtain-raiser,  can  hardly 
be  dismissed  with  a  wave  of  the  hand.  Trifle  as  it  seems,  it  is 
not  a  trifle,  but  a  pretty  poem — idyllic,  though  in  the  urban  at- 
mosphere of  a  Parisian  playhouse.  The  trouble  is  to  find  some 
one  who  can  act  It.  Mr.  Miller's  make-up  is  striking,  and  in  the 
simpler  touches  his  acting  is  charming.  Its  least  satisfactory  part 
is  in  his  assumption  of  the  great  French  actor's  dramatic  powers. 
It  is  not  so  much  in  the  actor,  perhaps,  as  in  the  auditor,  who  is 
all  the  time  imagining  that  he  imagines  how  Lemaitre  himself 


would  have  done  it.  The  scattering  of  the  rose  leaves  over  the 
tomb  of  his  short-lived  love  for  pretty  Madelaine,  is  a  touch  of 
pastoral  poetry — from  a  French  standpoint — and  Emily  Bancker's 
"  Monsieur,  I  love  Francois,"  is  another  line  from  the  pretty 
poem. 

*  *  * 

The  New  South  has  drawn  even  better  houses  this  week  at  Stock- 
well's  Theatre  than  during  its  first  week.  It  may  not  be  invidi- 
ous to  suggest,  by  the  way,  that  if  there  is  a  stage  manager  handy 
about  this  theatre  at  present,  he  instruct  Miss  Bebe  Vining  to 
tone  down  her  exuberance  Into  something  like  the  natural  man- 
ner of  an  innocent  young  girl  even  when  suffering  from  an  acute 
attack  of  what  in  its  masculine  phase  is  known  as  puppy  love. 

If  the  exigencies  of  the  play  do  not  absolutely  demand  that 
Joseph  Grismer  wear  the  jockey  suit  in  Act  III,  of  The  New  South, 
he  should  discard  it — for  other  habiliments,  of  course.  It  gives 
him  the  decidedly  unheroic  appearance  of  a  priggish  school-boy  in 
knickerbockers,  but,  by  some  Vice-Versaish  diablerie  endowed 
with  the  paternal  neck  and  head. 
*  *  # 

Olivette,  at  the  Tivoli,  is  one  of  the  best  light  opera  productions 
given  there  of  late.  The  music  is  in  Audran's  best  vein,  and  in 
melodious  contrast  to  some  of  his  later  work.  The  Tivoli  people 
are  all  seen  at  their  best,  with  perhaps  one  exception.  The  part 
of  Coquelicot  is  not  a  pleasant  one  at  best,  but  Mr.  Hartman 
makes  it  unnecessarily  coarse  and  vulgar.  It  seems,  however, 
not  to  lack  appreciation  in  the  audience.  His  topical  song  is  en- 
cored to  the  death,  and  to  do  the  singer  justice,  the  last  stanza  has 
more  pith  and  point  than  similar  addenda  can  usually  claim. 
Miss  Mamie  Gray's  dancing  is  graceful  and  pretty.  September 
26th,  Estrella  will  be  produced  for  the  first  time  in  this  city. 

The  Steinway  Hall  concerts,  under  the  patronage  of  Messrs.  F. 
"W.  Ludovici  and  John  Parrott,  are  to  be  resumed,  much  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  lovers  of  high-class  music.  The  dates  so  far 
fixed  are  September  27th,  October  27th,  and  November  24th. 
Steinway  Hall  being  no  longer  available,  these  concerts  (to  be 
known  hereafter  as  the  Hermann  Brandt  Quartette  concerts)  will 
be  given  at  Irving  Hall.  Persons  holding  tickets  for  the  remain- 
ing Steinway  Hall  concerts  can  exchange  them  and  secure  seats 
at  Sherman  &  Clay's  music  store.  At  the  first  concert  Miss  Alice 
Schmidt  will  take  part  in  Rubinstein's  quintette  for  piano  and 
strings. 

•  •  * 

The  first  Carr-Beel  Saturday  •  •  Pop  "  of  the  season  takes  place 
this  afternoon  at  Irving  Hall.  The  programme,  which  has  been 
already  given  in  the  News  Letter,  promises  rare  attractions  to 
the  genuine  lover  of  music,  not  the  least  being  the  voice  of  Donald 
de  V.  Graham,  the  popular  singer  having,  as  hoped,  returned  to 
the  city  in  time  for  this  occasion.  Mr.  Graham,  has  a  roll  of 
new  Spanish  songs  which  he  will  submit,  and  the  Pop  trio  has 
some  numbers  in  store  that  have  never  been  given  in  public  here. 
Among  them  is  one  by  Paderewski,  the  celebrated  Polish  pianist, 
and  another  by  Tschaikowsky.  Seats  are  on  sale  at  Sherman, 
Clay  &  Co's. 

»  »  * 

Rosewald's  opera.  Baroness  Meta,  a  comic  opera  in  three  acts, 
will  be  given  under  the  auspices  of  the  Woman's  Exchange  at 
the  Grand  Opera  House,  November  19th.  The  cast  will  comprise 
Misses  Maud  L.  Berry,  Frida  Sylvester,  Alvina  Heuer,  Mrs.  Chas. 
Dickman,  and  Messrs.  A.  C.  Hellman,  A.  M.  Thornton,  Victor 
Carroll,  and  Solly  Wolter.  Fred.  Urban  will  manage  the  stage. 
The  libretto  is  adapted  by  Professor  Rosewald  from  the  German. 
The  scene  is  laid  in  France,  and  the  period  is  the  beginning  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  The  chorus  will  be  strengthened  by 
the  San  Francisco  Operatic  Society,  and  will  number  about  eighty 
voices.  The  orchestra  will  consist  of  thirty  musicians  under 
Mr.  Rosewald's  direction.  The  orchestration  is  also  his  own. 
»  »  • 

The  long  preparation  for  the  open-air  performance  of  Pinafore 
bids  fair  to  culminate  in  a  most  elaborate  and  realistic  production, 
on  the  evenings  of  September  30th  and  October  1st.  The  perform- 
ance will  take  place  on  a  vessel  moored  off  the  landing  of  the  En- 
cinal  Yacht  Club-house,  Alameda,  the  audience  occupying  the 
club-house  and  barges  anchored  near.  Buttercup  will  come  to 
the  ship  in  a  regulation  bumboat,  and  Sir  Joseph,  with  »  his  sis- 
ters and  his  cousins  and  his  aunts,"  will  be  rowed  to  the  vessel 
and  greeted  with  a  royal  salute.  Sailors  and  marines  from  the 
U.  8.  Naval  Reserve  will  drill  on  board  ship.  Following  is  the 
cast:  Josephine,  Miss  Alvina  Heuer;  Buttercup,  Miss  Loleta 
Levet;  Hebe,  Mrs.  J.  Madden;  Sir  Joseph  Porter,  A.  F.  Schlei- 
cher; Captain  Corcoran,  Robert  Lloyd;  Ralph  Rackstraw,  Frank 
Coffin;  Dick  Deadeye,  Dr.  Humphrey;  Boatswain,  J.  Fleming; 
Bos'n's  Mate,  Messrs.  Stitch  and  De  Rocco,  alternating;  Midship- 
mite,  Master  Howard  Madden;  Captain  of  Marines,  D.  Wise. 
Owing  to  an  important  engagement  elsewhere,  Miss  Heuer  can- 
not appear  the  first  night,  and  her  place  will  be  taken  by  Mrs. 
H.  Tenney,  a  well-known  amateur  of  Alameda.  There  will  be  a 
full  orchestra  of  sixteen  pieces,  and  a  pyrotechnic  display  will 
add  to  the  enchantment.     The  affair,  which  is  under  the  musical 


34,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER, 


direction  of  Mr.  K.  DHepiane.  with  Mr.  Alphonse  Lettringer  as 
stage  manager,  will  be  the  popular  and  fashionable  event  of  the 
week.     Tickets  can  be  had  at  Sherman  A  Clay's. 

•  •  • 

Mrs.  Tacbeco's  new  play.  Notki*Q  But  Money,  will  be  given  its  first 
production  here  Monday  nipht  at  Stoekwell's  Theatre.  It  will 
be  an  unusually  interesting  first  night,  both  from  the  great  suc- 
cess of  its  predecessor.  Incog,  and  from  the  local  popularity  of 
the  authoress. 

*  •  • 

Louis  de  Lange  and  Will  S.  Rising's  comedy,  Tangled  Up,  is  com- 
ing to  the  Bush  October  3rd.  Mr.  De  Lange  is  spoken  of  as  a 
clever  light  comedian,  and  Mr.  Rising  as  equally  happy  in  hi* 
character.  Lottie  Mortimer  will  give  the  serpentine  dance  in  the 
second  act. 

George  Riddle's  next  reading  will  be  given  at  Odd  Fellows' 
Hall.  Monday  evening,  September  26th;  subject,  Hamlet.  Sep- 
tember 28th  a  mixed  programme  will  be  rendered,  including 
scenes  from  Macbeth,  The  Rivals,  etc.;  the  present  current  series 
concluding  September  30th,  with  a  request  programme.  In  ac- 
cordance with  a  general  desire,  Mr.  Riddle  will  appear  at  Odd 
Fellows'  Hall,  October  3d,  in  his  famous  interpretation  of  Shake- 
spearr'g  Midsummer  Night's  Dream.  Mendelssohn's  beautiful 
music,  written  to  illustrate  the  exquisite  fairy  comedy,  will  be 
rendered  by  an  orchestra  of  thirty  musicians  under  the  direction 
of  H.  J.  Stewart.  Wherever  this  production  has  been  given,  it 
has  been  greeted  with  delight  by  large  and  cultured  audiences, 
and  there  ia  no  reason  to  doubt  that  San  Francisco  will  show 
itself  equally  appreciative  of  a  rare  intellectual  and  musical  en- 
joyment. 

#  *  » 

A  review  of  The  Mountebanks  will  be  found    in   another   column 

of  the  News  Lettee. Dan'l   Sully   will   play  The  Corner  Grocery 

Monday  night  at  the  Bush,  and    Tammany  Hall  for  the  latter  part 

of  the  week. The  romantic  actor,   Alex.  Salvini,  who  will   be 

seen  soon  at  the  California,  will  give  a  production  of  Don  Caesar 
de  Bazan  more  elaborate  in  detail  and  appointment  than  any  here- 
tofore  given    in   America. Before   starting   for   New   Orleans 

John  L.  Sullivan  rehearsed  two  acts  of  his  new  play,  That  Man 
from  Boston.  John's  prestige  as  an  actor  has  sensibly  diminished 
since  his  appearance   at   New  Orleans   in    a  new  role— that  of  a 

whipped  pugilist. Jas,  T.  Powers  is  at  last  about  to  realize  his 

dearest  wish,  that  of  appearing  in  "straight  comedy,"  though 
with  a  modesty  not  common  in  the  profession  he  has  feared  the 
public  will  not  accept  him  without  his  specialties.     His  new  play, 

A  Mad  Bargain,  has  encouraged  him  to  make  the  venture. John 

T.  Kelly,  with  McFee  of  Dublin,  is  a  coming  attraction  at  the  Cali- 
fornia.  Tennyson  will  publish  a  new  play  this  fall. Lotta  is 

rehearsing  a  new  play  called  Clytie. The  largest  theatre  in  Lon- 
don is  the  Britannia,  which    holds   3,500  persons. Loie  Fuller, 

the  originator  of  the  serpentine  dance,  is  dancing  it  in  a  garden 
at  Berlin. Francis  Wilson  has  gone  to  Europe. 


A  LOCAL  paper  gives  a  long  account  of  the  arrival  at  Sequoia 
Mills  of  a  brother  of  Vic  Wilson,  one  of  the  officers  murdered 
by  Sontag  and  Evans  the  other  day.  The  remarkable  statement 
is  made  that  "  Wilson  is  a  quiet,  rather  gentle-faced  man,  with 
only  the  eyes  of  his  dead  brother."  No  explanation  is  vouch- 
safed as  to  what  use  he  intends  to  make  of  "  the  eyes  of  his  dead 
brother,"  nor  of  the  evident  regret  that  he  brought  only  those 
portions  of  the  departed  individual's  carcass  with  him.  Whether 
he  was  expected  to  bring  the  entire  body  with  him,  or  whether  it 
is  only  an  illustration  of  the  detective-reporter's  newspaperese, 
the  reader  must  decide  for  himself. 

FLORENCE  BLYTHE   is    married,   thank   Heaven   for   all   its 
mercies.     Now,  if  by  act  of  the  Legislature,  or  something,  all 
the    negatives   of   Florence   could   be   destroyed,  we  should  feel 

happy.     Not  that  she  is  not  pretty,  but well,  you  know,  one 

may  have  too  much  of  a  good  thing. 

A  Common  Sense  Remedy. 

In  the  matter  of  curatives  what  you  want  is  something  that  will  do 
its  work  while  you  continue  to  do  yours—a  remedy  that  will  give  you 
no  inconvenience  nor  interfere  with  your  business.  Such  a  remedy 
isAllcock's  Porous  Plasters.  These  plasters  are  not  an  experi- 
ment; they  have  been  in  use  for  over  thirty  years,  and  their  value 
has  been  attested  by  the  highest  medical  authorities,  as  well  as  by 
testimonials  from  those  who  have  used  them.  They  require  no 
change  of  diet  and  are  not  affected  by  wet  or  cold.  Their  action 
does  not  interfere  with  labor  or  business;  you  can  toil  and  yet  be 
cured  while  hard  at  work.  They  are  so  pure  that  the  youngest,  the 
oldest,  the  most  delicate  person  of  either  sex  can  use  them  with  great 
benefit. 

Beware  of  imitations  and  do  not  be  deceived  by  misrepresentations. 
Ask  for  Alcock's,  and  let  no  solicitation  or  explanation  induce  you 
to  accept  a  substitute. 

Professor  Charles  Goffne,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others—continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 


THE  cholera  scare  has  led  to  frequent  inquiry  being  made 
for  the  ingredients  of  the  Sun  cholera  mixture,  a  remedy 
which  did  good  work  in  the  epidemics  of  that  disease  in  New 
York  in  1855  and  1865,  and  is  also  highly  valuable  in  cases  of 
cholera  morbus.  Here  is  the  prescription:  Equal  parts  of  tincture 
of  opium,  tincture  of  rhubarb,  tincture  of  cayenne,  spirits  of 
camphor,  and  essence  of  peppermint.  Mix  well  together.  Dose, 
15  to  30  drops  in  water,  repeated  in  15  to  20  minutes,  as  long  as 
necessary.  This  prescription  is  kept  as  a  household  remedy  in 
thousands  of  Eastern  families,  and  has  never  been  known  to  fail 
in  giving  relief. 

C.  M.  Leopold,  the  florist,  at  35  Post  street,  evidently  must  have 
direct  communication  with  Flora  herself,  for  his  store  always  seemed 
to  be  crowded  with  all  the  very  choicest  of  the  gifts  of  the  gardens. 
Ihe  members  of  the  Four  Hundred  take  the  greatest  delight  in  pat- 
ronizing his  establishment,  for  there  they  may  always  find  the 
choicest  blossoms. ^^^ 

BALDWIN  THEATRE^ 

AlHayman&Co Proprietors.  I  Alfred  Bodvier Manager 

recIt?ocnoefeT0"Ha&RE2/oHI;o,LiIlian  EUSSe"  °Pera  C°mpany'  UQder  the  ^ 
THE     MOUNTEBANKS. 

Comic  opera,  libretto  by  W.  S.  Gilbert,  music  by  Alfred  Cellier,  which 
ran  tor  tea  mouths  at  the  Lyric  Theatre,  London,  and  which  is  now  being 
successfully  presented  throughout  En  land. 

Costumes,  scenery  and  properties  ENTIRELY  NEW  and  made  especially 
for  this  production. 

Elaborately  staged  and  sumptuously  costumed.  Cast  to  the  full  strength 
ot  the  Lillian  Russell  Opera  Company.  Seats  can  now  be  secured  for  all 
remaining  performances  of  this  company. 

Prices— 11,  $1  50.  SI,  60  cents. 

~  STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse Business  Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  September  26th,  matinees  Wednesday  and  Sat- 
urday. The  GEO.  W.  LEDERER'S  STOCK  COMEDIANS,  in  the  new  Ameri- 
can comedy, 

**  NOTHING  BUT  MONEY." 

By  Mrs.  Romualdo  Pacheco,  author  of  "INCOG,"  etc. 
Seats  now  on  sale. 
Next-"  DIVORCE  DAY." 

~Te¥mufornia  theatre. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co.. ...Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager.  . 

Two  weeks,  commencing  Monday,  September  26.  The  Trans-continental 
triumph 

YON     YONSON, 

Interpreted  by  GUS  HEEGE,  the  creator  of  Swedish  Dialect  Comedy,  and 
a  potent  company  of  players. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  |  Mr.  Chas.  P.  Hall  Manager 

A  Great  Big  Hit !  The  Favorite  Irish-American  Actor,  DAN'L  SULLY. 
Last  Week!    Last  Week! 

CORNER  GROCERY 

AND 

TAMMANY     HALL. 

Monday,  October  3rd,  Louis  De  Lange  and  Will  S.  Rising's  comedy, 

"TANGLED    UP." 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kreltng  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  Two  Night !    Andrans  ever  popular  Opera. 
OLIVETTE. 

Monday,  September  26th,  ESTRELLA! 
Popular  Prices 25c.  and  50c 

S    Fx  &  N.  P.  RAILWAY  COMPANY. 


SIXTH   GRAND   EXCURI0N 

OF  THE  SEASON  TO 

Sunday September  25,  1892. 


Tickets  for  llie  Itoiiuil  Trip  only  $2. 


Re- 


Boat   leaves  Tiburon  Ferry,  foot  of  Market  street,  at 
turning,  train  leaves  Ukiah  at  4  r.  M. 
Ticket  offices— No.  2  New  Montgomery  street,  and  Tiburon  Ferry 
H.  C.  WHITING,                                 PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 
General  Manager . G.  P.  &  T.  A. 

KMn  tic     Bush  &  Govts  Pianos 
■  ■  **  O  ^  Parlor  Organs 


HAINES 

A.  I.  Bancroft  &  Co. 

303  Sutter  St.,  S.F. 


Installments 


Rentals 


PIANOS 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


A    CANTERBURIED    TALE.—  Barry  Romaine  in  Life. 


(Recently  dug  up). 
"  In  union  there  ben  strength,  my  aonne," 

Ye  dying  warrior  sayd, 
As  he  lay  down  to  dye  upon 

His  harde  and  narrow  bedde; 
«  And  that  1  may  make  straight  and  clear 

Ye  meaning  of  this  thing, 
Giv  heed  to  what  I  shewe  you  here — 

Ye  picture  of  a  kingl 
A  mighty  kingl     Yet  all  atone, 

His  strength  may  not  defie 
Ye  foemen  whych  assail  his  throne 

And  hange  him  up  on  highl 
Here  is  a  king  of  swarthy  hue, 

Attyred  for  ye  fyght, 
Yet  cunning  foes  may  eke  undo 

His  solitary  might! 
And  this  proud  king,  with  curling  lippe, 

And  this  one — whych  makes  four — 
Alone  may  let  their  kingdoms  slip, 

Alone  they'll  do  no  more! 
Yet  he  who  holds  within  one  hande, 

These  four  fatte  kings,  God  wot; 
Hath  need  of  very  lyttle  sand, 

To  scoop  the  bloomin'  potl 

THE    TRAMP'S    JOKE. 

A  GRACELESS  scamp  enjoyed  a  beautiful  joke  which  be  had 
all  to  himself  one  day  this  week  in  a  saloon  on  Front  near  Cal- 
ifornia street.  Half  a  dozen  merchants  and  insurance  men  (one 
can't  throw  a  brick  in  any  part  of  an  acre  in  that  neighborhood 
without  hitting  an  insurance  man)  were  gathered  together  and 
enjoying  the  best  the  house  could  afford.  Presently  a  pallid, 
careworn  man  dropped  in.  He  was  good-looking  and  well- 
dressed,  and  Journalist  Ned  Hamilton,  the  basso  prof  undo,  re- 
marked that  if  his  eyes  did  not  roll  so  wildly  he  might  easily  pass 
for  a  stop-over  banker.  The  stranger,  gnashing  his  teeth  and 
muttering  to  himself,  called  hoarsely  for  a  drink.  By  this  time 
he  had  attracted  the  attention  of  every  one  in  the  saloon.  He 
tossed  off  a  bumper  of  whisky,  and  then  shouting,  <<  Now  for  the 
greathereafter!"drew  an  oblong  package  from  his  pocket,  rushed 
to  the  cigar  lighter  and  kindled  a  fuse  attached  to  the  package.  The 
scene  that  followed,  as  the  dime  novelist  says,  baffles  description. 
The  barman  cleared  the  counter  at  a  single  bound,  and  throwing 
himself  upon  the  struggling  crowd  in  the  doorway,  augured 
through  them.  Like  the  graceful  and  agile  gazelle,  which  be  so 
much  resembles,  Ned  Hamilton  climbed  over  the  shoulders  of 
merchants  and  insurance  men,  and  was  half  way  down  to  the 
ferry  before  the  last  man  out  had  struck  the  sidewalk  with  his 
nose.  When,  after  waiting  a  reasonable  time  for  the  explosion, 
the  most  valiant  of  the  crowd  made  a  careful  survey  of  the  prem- 
ises, the  stranger  was  gone.  The  unexploded  cartridge  lay 
upon  the  floor.  It  was  nothing  but  a  piece  of  gaspipe  wrapped 
in  canvaB,  to  make  a  good  imitation  of  a  dynamite  cartridge.  It 
would  have  gone  hard  with  that  melancholy  person  if  the  crowd 
had  got  their  hands  on  him.  He  had  a  real  pleasant  time,  how- 
ever, while  the  scare  lasted. 


JOURNALISM    IN    DEL    NORTE. 

UP  in  Del  Norte  county  there  is  a  newspaper  (a  good  one,  too) 
whose  editor  rivals  his  contemporary  of  the  mythical  Arizona 
Kicker  in  the  multiplicity  of  his  avocations.  He  not  only  finds 
time  to  get  up  one  of  the  best  journals  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
State,  but  he  carries  on  the  only  photograph  gallery  in  the  county, 
keeps  the  only  undertaking  establishment,  acts  as  Coroner  and 
Public  Administrator,  and  makes  himself  generally  useful  in  edu- 
cational, political  and  other  matters,  filling  all  sorts  of  honorary 
positions  with  great  eclat,  if  with  no  large  amount  of  profit.  Evi- 
dently bis  good  fortune  has  aroused  the  envy  of  his  local  con- 
temporary, whose  business  manager  sought  to  learn  the  secret  of 
his  loathsome  rival's  success,  and  in  the  pursuit  of  information 
upon  this  point  he  was  one  night  caught  crawling  through  the 
window  of  the  aforesaid  Pooh-Bah's  editorial  sanctum.  The 
owner  of  the  premises  trespassed  upon  kept  silence  at  the  time, 
but  in  the  next  issue  of  the  paper  declared  himself  after  this 
fashion:  ''Our  shot-gun  is  now  cleaned  up  and  loaded,  ready  to 
put  a  handful  of  shot  into  any  one's  system  caught  crawling 
through  our  office  windows  in  the  future.  We  will  not  charge 
anything  for  the  powder  and  shot,  and  will  throw  in  a  coffin  to 
bury  the  victim  in,  and  give  a  half  column  obituary." 

Steele's Grindelia  Lotion  is  the  arch  enemy  of  poison  oak,  and  im- 
mediately removes  all  of  the  evil  effects  of  that  unpleasant  herb. 
The  lotion  should  be  in  the  outfit  of  every  person  who  is  in  the  coun- 
try or  about  to  go  there.  It  is  also  of  great  benefit  in  asthmatic  com  - 
plaints.    It  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street. 

Moraghan.  of  the  California  Market,  is  in  daily  receipt  of  the  most 
delicious  oysters  ever  seen  in  the  city. 


/ETNA 

HOT 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun- 
tains. Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac- 
commodations.  Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  cf  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  Mtna.  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

Altitude !  lo  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  636.  OfUc-e,  108  Dmmm  Street,  S.  F 


YOU'RE    OUT 

If  you  don't  go  to 

NAPA  SODA 
SPRINGS 


THIS     SUMMER. 


What  Do  You  Want  ? 


A  Climate  that  beats  Italy.  No  Malaria  or  Cold 
Sea  Air.  Health-giving  Mineral  Water.  Cuisine 
and  Service  Unexceptionable.  Comfortable  Beds. 
Table  First  Quality.  Gas  and  Running  Water  in 
Everv  Room.  Hot  Napa  Soda  Baths. 
Two  "Trains  Every  Day. 
All  Visitors  are  Satisfied. 


ANDREW  JACKSON, 


PROPRIETOR. 


Napa  Soda  Springs  P.  O. 


MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

No.  912  GRAND  STREET,    ALAMEDA,    CAL. 

Miss  Hanson,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  School,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.  Mansou,  Late  Associate   Principal,  East  End  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  began  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panserou. 

MR.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

LAVER,    MULLANY    &    LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 
Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office:  93  Flood  Building,  < "or.  4  th  and  Market  S1A..S.  F. 


LOUIS  ROEDERER  CHAMPAGNE. 

The  Bighest  tirade  Champagne  in  the  World . 
CABTE    BLAlsTCHB  " 

(WHITE    LABEL) 

A  Magnificent  Rich  Wine. 

'■Q-U-A-irsriD  Ariirsr  sec." 

(BROWN  LABEL) 

Perfection  of  a  Dry  Wine. 
See  that  every  Bottle  bears  the  private  label  of 

MACONDRAY   &   CO., 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 


24,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER 


9 


SNAP  SHOTS. 
[By  Pi  ViiIOI.] 

NOW  that  the  question  of  how  to  avert  a  cholera  epidemic  is 
confronting  us,  and  the  city  la  undergoing  a  municipal  house- 
cleaning,  might  it  not  be  pertinent  to  inquire  why  our  City 
Fathers  do  not  take  definite  action  upon  the  '«  Ashman  "  side  of 
the  problem?  To  a  great  extent  the  filthy  condition  of  many 
houses,  back  yar  is  and  blind  alleys  is  due  to  the  fact  that  those 
most  intere?ted  will  not  pay  a  monthly  stipend  to  the  scavenger 
to  remove  tbe  debris.  In  some  portions  of  the  city  it  is  not  an 
uncommon  sight  for  tbe  residents  of  a  fine  block  of  houses  to  be 
confronted  in  the  early  morning  by  a  big  bag  of  burlap  bursting 
with  dirt  and  rubbish  and  filth  indescribable,  which  has  been 
placed  on  their  sidewalk  during  the  night.  How  the  stuff  got 
there  nobody  knows,  and  though  suspicion  may  point  strongly 
to  the  "  poor  family  in  the  rear,"  it  is  not  possible  to  prove  theiu 
the  culprits.  It  would  be  an  amusing  comedy  were  not  tbe  re- 
sults so  apt  to  be  tragic  in  their  death-dealing  influences  of  germ 
propagation;  it  would  not  be  without  its  element  of  fun,  these 
attempts  of  those  who  will  not  pay  for  the  ashman  to  foist  their 
rubbish  upon  some  one  who  does.  I  have  heard  of  fierce  ash- 
barrel  wars  where  one  neighbor  was  detected  in  stealthily  empty- 
ing ashes  into  the  zinc  tank  of  another  and  more  provident  per- 
son. Now,  is  it  not  possible  for  tbe  City  Fathers  to  do  away 
with  the  private  system  of  scavengers,  and  to  employ  a  corps  of 
men  at  tbe  city's  expense,  to  district  the  city  and  remove  all  that 
is  detrimental  to  the  health  of  a  neighborhood?  Could  not  these 
men  be  under  the  health  olricer.  with  power  to  bring  to  grief  all 
those  who  willfully  endanger  the  health  of  a  community  by  per- 
sistent uncleanliness  of  premises?  On  the  other  hand,  if  people 
were  entitled  to  have  their  rubbish  removed  free  of  charge,  it  is 
not, very  likely  that  they  would  allow  it  to  accumulate  as  it  does 
now.  For  the  very  pleasure  of  exercising  their  power  to  call 
some  one  to  do  their  behests,  they  would  be  quick  to  send  a  no- 
tice to  the  Health  Office  if  the  man  had  not  paid  them  the  regular 
visit.  Is  it  not  high  time  that  the  good  of  the  many  demands 
some  forcible  measures  to  be  taken  in  regard  to  the  great  un- 
washed and  unwashing  those  who  are  of  the  earth  earthy,  and 
who  revel  in  their  outward  demonstration  of  their  kinship  with 
Mother  Earth? 

»  *  # 

During  the  interesting  period  known  as  »  teething,"  all  things, 
from  a  dollar  strung  on  a  stiing  to  a  bone  bracelet  or  a  rubber 
ring,  find  their  way  to  the  child's  inflamed  and  aching  gums.  But 
here  comes  science,  "  science,  the  handmaiden  of  art  and  reli- 
gion," with  a  bugaboo  of  bacteria  to  terrify  the  nursery.  Recent 
investigations  by  distinguished  savants  disclose  the  fact  that  in 
the  saliva  with  which  the  children  cover  their  toys,  there  lurka 
the  possibility  of  disease  germs.  The  warm  atmosphere  of  the 
nursery  is  particularly  adapted  to  the  rapid  unfolding  of  their 
deadly  influence.  Consequently,  parents  are  by  their  Bavants  en- 
joined to  have  a  nightly  cleaning  of  the  nursery's  entire  stock  of 
toys,  an  immersion  of  them  all  in  some  sterilizing  fluid.  That 
children  will  put  their  toys  in  their  mouths  in  spite  of  injunc- 
tions to  the  contrary,  needs  no  demonstration  at  this  late  date. 
Proof  enough  has  already  been  afforded  by  the  number  of  rare 
buds  that  have  perished  from  the  too  free  use  of  Paris  green  as  a 
coloring  for  toys  and  candies. 

*  *  * 

It  has  often  struck  me  that  in  our  public  schools  we  carry  the 
doctrine  of  non-resistance  a  little  too  far,  and  by  so  doing  put  a 
premium  upon  sneakiness  and  dishonesty.  Of  course  we  can't 
have  fisticuff  arguments  all  the  time,  but,  and  it  is  a  big  but  in 
the  minds  of  many  experienced  teachers,  is  it  well  to  take  away 
a  boy's  right  to  defend  himself,  and  to  afford  him  no  redress  for 
the  wrongs  that  are  inflicted  upon  him?  For  instance,  one  boy 
has  a  grudge  against  another.  He  slips  up  in  the  yard,  when  the 
teacher  isn't  looking,  and  gives  him  a  sound  whack  on  the  side 
of  the  head.  Or,  in  the  fashion  most  in  vogue  among  the  boys  of 
the  present  day,  he  clutches  him  tightly  at  the  back  of  the  neck. 
He  gets  in  his  work  before  the  other  boy  is  aware  of  his  presence. 
Now  the  assaulted  boy,  if  he  be  a  manly  little  fellow,  is  sure  to 
strike  back.  A  boy  who  tries  to  overcome  that  sort  of  thing  by 
kindness  is  a  little  imbecile,  and  deserves  all  the  whacks  he  will 
get.  Now,  if  he  strikes  a  blow  in  return,  and  such  a  blow  as  it 
should  be  to  prevent  a  recurrence  of  the  aggression,  he  will  be 
caught,  and  he  will  be  punished  for  fighting  in  the  yard,  and  be 
will  not  be  believed  when  he  says  »•  That  boy  hit  me  first."  It  is 
a  question  that  calls  for  solution.  Some  boys'  mothers  have 
been  blamed  for  teaching  their  sons  to  fight,  but  the  art  of  self- 
defence  is  a  necessary  knowledge.  There  is  such  a  thing  as 
muscular  Christianity,  and  when  righteous  indignation  takes  that 
form,  let  transgressors  stand  from  under.  I  have  known  a  slight, 
delicate,  gentlemanly  little  boy  the  butt  of  the  whole  neighbor- 
hood, who  mistook  his  quiet  shrinking  from  a  fight  for  cowardice, 
to  sail  in  and  astonish  the  natives  by  a  hand-to-hand  encounter 
that  might  not  have  had  much  science  in  it,  but  which  sent  its 
blows  with  nerve  force  right  between   the  eyes  of  a  big  bully, 


laying  him  out  to  his  great  surprise,  and  the  consternation  of  thfl 
entire  neighborhood,  who  then  united  in  respecting  the  boy  whom 
in  their  ignorance  they  once  liml  despised. 


ClpNlfc 

/  One  ^ 

/  rounded  teaspoonful 
of  Cleveland's^ 
Baking  Powder 


does  more  and  better  work 
than  a  heaping, 
teaspoonful 
of  any  other. 
A  large  saving  on  a 
year's  bakings. 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 
Used  in   the  U.    S.  Army  and  by 
teachers  of  Cookery. 

1  Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it  never 
varies,  it  does  the  most  work,  the  best 
work  and  is  perfectly  wholesome. 
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OF 

THE  SKIN. 


Madame  Nouline,  824  Sutter  street. 
Tbe  most  skilled  Dermatologist  iu  San  "Francisco. 
The  skin  rendered  Soft.  Velvetry,  and  Elastic  with 
the  aid  of  Dermoline. 


The  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 

Freckles   and    Facial    Blemishes    Removed   and   Superfluous 
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10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


A\  a-^nm  ,-,  r^  ^  /-.  a  i-.  affi  n  w~>  r>  i*t< 


te-LQPKER-9N» 


I  ■,  ^iJUiMJ^a^a-q^ 


THE  recent  telegraphic  announcement  concerning  the  marital 
affairs  of  a  nephew  of  Ward  McAllister,  has  recalled  to  mind 
the  unhappy  condition  of  another  nephew  of  his,  Frank  McAllis- 
ter, who  lives  in  Berkeley.  A  year  ago  Frank  married  a  pretly 
soubrette,  and  thought,  in  spite  of  Uncle  Ward's  ungracious  re- 
ception of  the  wedding  cards,  all  would  be  joy  and  sunshine.  He 
bought  a  pretty  little  cottage  in  Berkeley,  and  then  advertised  for 
a  domestic  who  would  cook  beans  and  juggle  bed  clothes  in  a 
manner  suitable  to  the  McAllister  appetite  and  person.  He 
knew  not  the  sorrow  that  was  in  store  for  bim  when  he  under- 
took to  regulate  the  members  of  the  great  American  society  of 
Queens  of  the  Kitchen.  He  employed  several  girls,  but  each  re- 
mained only  a  day  or  two,  and  then  haughtily  withdrew  from 
the  McAllister  villa.  Berkeley  life,  they  said,  to  those  used  to  the 
giddy  whirl  of  San  Francisco  society,  was  tame  and  unendurable. 
Then,  while  Mrs.  McAllister  was  hunting  the  employment  offices 
for  a  new  victim,  Frank  would  don  his  apron  and  rubber  gloves 
and  sorrowfully  polish  the  dainty  family  china  and  glassware. 
He  had  only  one  companion  in  his  misery — Polly,  the  parrot. 
True,  her  repertoire  consisted  only  of  "  Polly  want  a  cracker," 
"  Go  to  Helena  "  and  "Come  in,"  but  she  had  such  a  sweet, 
sympathetic  way  of  murmuring  these  gems,  that  it  went  straight 
to  Frank's  heart,  and  upheld  him  in  his  days  of  travail.  So  he 
toiled  away,  and  hoped  for  the  girl  that  might  some  day 
come.  One  day  fortune  smiled  on  the  fated  household.  A 
daughter  of  Erin  arrived  who  was  so  pleased  with  their 
cosy  little  nest,  that  she  seemed  willing  to  remain 
until  old  age  carried  her  away.  But  Time  had  dashed 
but  a  few  laps  onward  in  his  flight  after  her  arrival  when  she 
too  packed  up  and  disappeared.  She  said  she  had  not  been 
treated  with  proper  respect.  It  seems  the  girl  was  making 
her  toilet  one  afternoon,  when  the  butcher  called  and  knocked 
at  the  back  door.  The  girl  heard  him,  of  course,  but  was  she  go- 
ing to  expose  herself  and  her  curl-papers  to  the  unappreciative 
eyes  of  a  butcher?  Neverl  She  did  not  answer  the  knock,  and 
the  butcher  rapped  again.  "Come  in!  Come  inl  cried  the  par- 
rot. The  butcher  entered  and  burst  in  upon  the  astonished  ser- 
vant, who  was  discovered  by  the  man  of  blood  en  dishabille. 
There  was  a  scream,  a  hoarse  cry  from  the  parrot,  a  stammered 
murmur  from  the  butcher,  the  door  slammed,  and  all  was  over. 
The  girl  left  that  night.  Now  there  is  again  a  vacancy  in  the 
McAllister  establishment.  Meanwhile,  the  nephew  of  his  uncle 
is  developing  considerable  talent  as  a  fire-builder  and  dishwasher. 
Any  young  lady  desirous  of  intimate  acquaintance  with  one  of 
the  leading  American  families  could  not  do  better  than  to  apply 
at  once  for  the  vacant  position  on  the  staff.  One  who  can  cook 
beans  in  four  styles  and  loves  parrots  will  be  preferred. 

#  •  # 

Have  you  seen  the  very  latest  scarf  pins?  They  are  worn  by 
a  few  of  the  chappies,  who  have  received  them  direct  from  Lon- 
don, where  they  are  all  the  rage.  As  all  swell  pins  should  be, 
they  are  small,  of  neat  design,  and  of  pure  gold.  The  pin  is  worn 
in  the  left  side  of  the  scarf,  and  always  attracts  attention.  It  is 
simply  a  small,  gold  safety  pin.  Of  those  worn  now  in  this  city, 
most  are  on  the  manly  breasts  of  young  bachelors,  whose  idea  it 
is  to  indicate  by  the  suggestive  pin  their  desire  to  change  their 
condition  in  life.  Others  are  worn  by  young  and  happy  fathers, 
who  thereby  testify  to  their  elevation  to  the  higher  rungs  of  re- 
spectability. One  happy  daddy,  who  recently  was  presented 
with  his  second  hopeful,  now  wears  two  pins.  It  is  a  great 
scheme,  this  pin  business,  but  will  it  work? 

*  *  * 

Chesterfield's  letters  of  advice  to  his  son  are  a  mere  bagatelle 
compared  with  the  words  of  counsel  that  Lincoln,  ptre,  of  the 
Union  Club,  is  in  the  habit  of  pouring  into  the  ears  of  his  son 
Jerry,  who,  by  the  way,  is  also  a  member  of  the  club. 
Now  Jerry  is  one  of  that  great  and  glorious  brother- 
hood, "the  Nighthawks,"  and  delights  to  study  the  moon. 
Lincoln,  ptre,  with  his  knowledge  of  the  world,  is  in- 
clined to  look  through  kindly  spectacles  at  these  little  weak- 
nesses of  his  hopeful,  but  with  his  own  personal  comfort  in  view, 
he  objects  strongly  to  Jerry  staying  out  late  at  night,  and  then 
returning  and  disturbing  the  whole  household.  To  put  a  stop  to 
this,  therefore,  he  called  Jerry  into  the  library  the  other  day,  and 
said:  "Now,  whenever  an  occasion  comes  up  that  you  know 
you  are  going  to  be  out  late,  I  want  you  to  send  me  word  up  to 


the  house.  It  will  relieve  our  anxiety  and  we  will  know  where 
you  are."  Jerry  promised  faithfully  to  do  as  was  requested,  and 
a  couple  of  nights  afterwards  his  pledge  was  put  to  the  test.  But 
in  view  of  the  fact  that  it  was  something  new  in  his  habits,  and 
furthermore,  as  he  had  but  little  opportunity  to  recall  the  prom- 
ise, it  was  not  until  4:45  o'clock  in  the  morning  that  his  vow 
flashed  across  him.  He  acted  promptly,  though,  when  it  did,  for, 
ringing  up  a  messenger  boy,  he  wrote  this  note:  "  Father,  I  will 
not  be  home  to-night."  and  dispatched  it  to  the  paternal  man- 
sion. The  feelings  of  Lincoln,  senior,  on  being  arousedfrom  his 
beauty  sleep  at  5  a.  m.  to  receive  the  message,  can  be  better 
imagined  than  described,  and  when  Jerry  came  marching  in  a 
couple  of  hours  later,  there  was  a  family  seance  that  made  the 
Recording  Angel  call  wildly  for  help. 
*  #  * 

Judging  by  his  appearance  very  few  would  imagine  that  Di- 
rector Cleve  Dam  of  the  Athenian  Club,  Oakland,  is  one  of  the 
best  horse-men  in  Alameda  County;  for  good  living  and  easy 
times  have  of  late  given  to  Cleve  that  globular  appearance  that 
betokens  an  individual  of  aldermanic  habits,  though  strange  to 
say,  the  increasing  amplitude  of  his  waist  band  has  not  deprived 
him  of  that  nimbleness  for  which  he  has  always  been  noted.  As 
an  equestrian  he  still  ranks  in  the  first  class,  as  was  amply  proved 
the  other  day  when  Cleve,  looking  like  a  cavalry  officer  in  mufti, 
started  on  horseback  from  San  Leandro  to  Oakland.  The  electric 
line  has  been  running  only  a  little  while  on  that  road,  and  Cleve's 
horse  was  not  accustomed  to  it,  so  when  a  car  came  whizzing 
along  from  behind,  the  nag  pricked  up  its  ears  and  began  to  grow 
uneasy.  "  So,  ho,"  said  Cleve,  patting  the  equine  on  the  neck 
and  using  all  the  endearments  proper  to  the  occasion,  though  they 
fell  flat,  for  as  the  car  got  nigh,  Cleve's  steed  gave  a  maddening 
jump  and  ran  away.  And  then — well,  John  Gilpin's  exploit  was 
not  in  the  same  class.  It  is  a  six-mile  run  into  Oakland,  and  the 
horse  kept  up  its  scared  performance  all  the  way,  Dam  meantime 
hanging  on  like  grim  death,  rapidly  repeating  bis  own  name,  and 
riding  like  «  Dare-devil  "  Fitzpatrick,  Snapper  Garrison  and  Dusky 
Hamilton  all  rolled  into  one.  His  hat  blew  away  at  the  first 
quarter,  the  buttons  started  bidding  farewell  to  his  vest  as  the 
turn  in  the  road  was  reached,  and  when  he  finally  got  to  town 
and  the  horse  slowed  up,  Cleve  looked  as  if  he  had  had  a  rough- 
and-tumble  encounter,  London  prize  ring  rules,  to  a  finish. 
■*  *  ■# 

The  true  story  of  the  trouble  in  Dr.  Ritchie's  church,  Oakland, 
is  just  coming  to  light.  Judge  Stanley,  who  was  one  of  the  vestry- 
men of  the  church,  was,  it  appears,  very  domineering,  and  in. 
sisted  on  having  everything  his  own  way.  Not  satisfied  with  the 
duties  of  his  own  office,  he  reached  out  and  tried  to  direct  every 
one  else's  work,  and  at  last  he  became  a  veritable  "  boss,"  in  the 
sense  of  the  word  as  it  is  politically  applied  nowadays.  How- 
ever, he  was  called  East  a  short  time  ago,  and  during  his  absence 
Dr.  Ritchie  made  some  important  changes  in  the  choir,  which 
was  completely  reorganized  by  the  time  of  Stanley's  return.  When 
the  Judge  heard  of  what  had  transpired  in  his  absence,  he  was 
furious,  and  sitting  down  he  indited  a  long  letter  to  Dr.  Ritchie, 
in  which  he  abused  that  divine  in  true  Billingsgate  style,  and 
wound  up  by  announcing  that  he  had  severed  all  connection  with 
the  church.  The  cleric,  remembering  the  adage  "A  soft  answer 
turneth  away  wrath,"  in  reply,  sent  tbe  Judge  a  most  conciliatory 
letter,  but  its  only  effect  was  to  produce  another  communication 
from  Stanley,  even  more  bitter  than  the  first  missive.  Tbe  breach 
is,  therefore,  now  irretrievably  made,  and  those  who  realized  that 
there  was  something  serious  underlying  the  matter,  will  now 
know  why  the  Judge  has  withdrawn  himself  and  his  family  from 
the  Ritchie  fold. 

Colonel  Theodore  C.  Marceau  and  Mrs.  Marceau  returned  dur- 
ing the  week  from  their  European  trip,  and  tell  many  tales  of  the 
wondrous  and  beautiful  things  they  saw  in  the  Eastern  world. 
It  was  their  original  intention  to  enjoy  a  year  of  traveling,  but 
the  presence  of  the  cholera  induced  them  to  change  their  plans 
and  return  home,  much  to  their  regret.  The  Colonel,  who  is  an 
old  traveler,  had  planned  a  tour  which  included  a  visit  to  Siberia, 
a  run  down  the  Caucasus,  a  possible  visit  to  the  vale  of  Cash- 
mere, and  sojourns  in  other  famed  and  beauteous  regions  but 
seldom  seen  by  travelers.  It  was  while  in  Russia,  however,  that 
his  attention  was  attracted  by  numerous  small  yellow  flags  flying 
from  housetops,  which ,  upon  inquiry,  he  ascertained  were  danger 
signals,  indicating  the  presence  of  cholera,  and  not  being  desirous 
of  making  personal  acquaintance  with  a  well  formed  and  vigor- 
ous microbe,  the  travelers  left  Russia  and  went  down  to  Constan- 
tinople. There  they  saw  the  Sublime  Porte,  attended  by  his  ever 
present  squadron  of  cavalry,  and  his  never  absent  ladies  of  the 
harem,  whirl  past  in  a  cloud  of  dust  on  the  way  to  worship. 
Through  the  intervention  of  the  American  Minister,  Colonel  and 
Mrs.  Marceau  were  within  fifteen  feet  of  the  Sultan,  and  had 
therefore  an  excellent  view  of  him.  After  Constantinople,  Italy 
and  Greece  were  visited.  At  Pompeii  the  travelers  visited  the 
scene  of  the  excavations  now  under  way,  and  they  describe  with 
great  interest  the  many  wonderful  things  to  be  seen  there.  Nu- 
merous excellent  specimens  of  petrified  Pompeiians  are  now  being 
taken  out  and  placed  in  the  museums.    It  had  been  the  intention 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


to  p&ss  a  month  about  Lake  Lucerne,  but  the  cholera  spread 
with  such  alarming  rapidity,  that  although  only  half  of  the  con- 
templated year  had  passed,  the  homeward  trip  was  undertaken. 
One  noteworthy  incident  of  the  journey  transpired  in  the  Holy 
t'Ky.  where  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Marceau  were  honored  by  a  brief 
interview  with  the  Tope.  They  describe  the  PontilT  as  being  of 
delicate  physique,  but  of  a  mosl  interesting  personality.  He 
was  very  gracious,  spoke  kindly  of  California,  and  mentioned  by 
name  several  Californians  whom  he  had  met,  and  after  whom  he 
inquired.  At  Paris.  Mrs.  Marceau  had  a  most  delightful  time  in 
the  famous  establishments  of  Worth,  Felix  and  Redfern,  and  as 
a  result  of  the  exchange  of  some  six  thousand  good  American 
dollars,  she  brought  back  with  her  a  number  of  magnificent  cos- 
tumes, which  are  dreams  of  delight,  and  will  be  a  joy  forever  to 
every  true  woman  who  may  feast  her  eyes  upon  them.  Colonel 
Marceau  has  gathered  a  unique  collection  of  photographs  from 
every  city  they  visited,  and  has  also  a  large  number  of  curios. 
He  says  that  in  every  respect  the  journey  was  most  enjoyable. 

#  »  » 

Oakland,  that  hotbed  of  religious  cranks,  has  unearthed  another 
specimen  who,  for  originality,  makes  even  Dr.  Teed  take  a  back 
seat.  Harvey  M.  Carlton  is  his  name,  and  he  announces  that  he 
is  Christ  returned  to  earth  again — or  rather,  that  the  spirit  of  Christ 
has  been  reincarnated  in  him.  He  talks  of  the  events  of  the  cruci- 
fixion a«d  the  miracles  and  parables  he  wrought  1800  years  ago, 
and  declares  that  he  has  come  to  earth  now  to  visit  in  his  wrath 
the  Jewish  nation.  It  might  be  imagined  from  all  this  that  Carl- 
ton is  a  fit  subject  fo£  the  Lunacy  Commissioners  to  interview,  but 
so  far  his  liberty  has  not  been  restrained,  and  he  is  going  around 
Oakland  telling  his  ravings  to  all  who  will  listen.  He  is  a  young 
man  of  rather  intelligent  presence,  and,  unlike  most  other  religi- 
ous cranks,  has  some  money,  for  he  has  been  hiring  halls  and 
rooms  in  which  to  preach  his  strange  creed. 

*  *  # 

It  was  at  a  dinner  in  Boston,  given  in  honor  of  the  visit  of 
Charles  G.  Yale.  As  Mr.  Yaie  is  one  of  the  best  informed  of  men 
on  California  products,  whether  it  be  overgrown  pumpkins  or  a 
fifteen-minute  canvas-back,  of  course  he  was  continually  being 
asked  questions  regarding  the  Golden  State.  After  be  had  told 
them  all  about  our  glorious  climate,  giant  trees  and  the  Bohemian 
Club,  one  of  the  gentlemen  present,  who  figures  as  quite  a  wit 
among  Bostonians,  said,  "  Oh,  I  say,  Mr.  Yale,  and  is  the  moon 
even  larger  than  ours  in  California?  "  "  Decidedly,"  said  Charlie, 
"  We  have  the  Lick  telescope." 

#  «  * 

Donald  de  "V.  Graham  was  banqueted  by  the  Knights  of  the 
Round  Table  at  the  Bohemian  Club  Wednesday  evening.  Mr. 
Graham  had  a  royal  time  in  the  East,  where  he  was  for  some 
weeks  the  Gilligs'  guest  on  board  their  yacht  the  Ramona.  She  is 
a  fast  craft,  and  can  outsail  most  yachts  of  her  class.  She  will 
shortly  go  out  of  commission,  and  the  Gilligs  will  winter  in  Eu- 
rope. 

*  *  * 

The  entertainment  to  be  given  by  the  Press  Club  in  the  Baldwin 
Theatre  next  Thursday  afternoon  promises  to  be  a  great  success 
from  an  artistic,  a  social  and  a  financial  point  of  view.  The  en- 
tertainment committee  has  secured  the  best  talent  in  the  city,  and 
the  friends  of  the  club  will  be  entertained  in  a  most  enjoyable 
manner.  Lillian  Russell  will  appear,  as  she  says,  in  a  new  song 
and  a  new  gown.  She  will  sing  »  Dear  Heart."  The  ever-popular 
Carleton  has  selected  the  Toreador  song  from  Carmen,  and  Knight 
of  the  Tivoli,  will  render  the  Armorer's  song  from  Robin  Hood. 
The  Grismers  will  present  the  third  act  of  The  New  South,  and  the 
Nothing  but  Money  company  will  present  a  curtain  raiser.  Among 
other  participants  in  the  programme  will  be  Mrs.  Carmichael-Carr, 
Siguiund  Beel,  Dan  Sully,  Mason,  TillieSallinger,  Ferris  Hartman, 
a  Tivoli  quartette,  and  Gus  Heege  of  the  Yon  Yonson  company. 
A  novel  feature  will  be  a  three-inch  gun  drill  by  a  full  company 
of  the  naval  battalion.  It  was  thought  that  the  full  strength  of 
the  Russell  company  would  be  secured  for  the  show,  but  that 
enterprising  gentleman,  Mr.  French,  stepped  in  and,  it  is  said, 
prevented  certain  members  of  his  company,  who  were  under 
contract  to  him,  from  appearing.  He  endeavored  to  prevent  the 
appearance  of  Miss  Russell,  but  that  lady  insisted  on  appearing, 
and  informed  the  committee  that  no  contract  or  arrangement  she 
might  have  with  Mr.  French  would  prevent  her  having  the 
pleasure  of  singing  at  the  entertainment.     The  programme  is  not 


completed,  but  when  it  is,  it  will  be  one  of  the  best  ever  pre- 
sented in  this  city.  George  Osborne  has  kindly  consented  to  act 
as  stage  manager. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


MISS  AMY  GREEN,  who  was  recently  married  in  London,  and 
is  described  as  a  Californian,  has  spent  so  little  of  her  life 
in  this  State  as  to  render  that  title  a  misnomer.  Her  father  was 
an  Irishman,  who  acquired  some  property  in  San  Francisco,  which 
in  process  of  time  made  him  a  rich  man,  notably  the  piece  on 
Market  street,  formerly  covered  by  the  Arcade,  adjoining  the 
Baldwin.  He  remained  here  to  look  after  his  interests,  while  his 
family  lived  in  Europe.  Several  years  ago  they  made  San  Fran- 
cisco a  brief  visit,  during  which  time  the  marriage  of  one  of  the 
daughters  to  Mr.  Pedder,  an  Englishman,  was  solemnized,  but 
they  returned  to  Great  Britain  almost  immediately.  Not  very 
long  after  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pedder  separated,  and  were  finally  (I  be- 
lieve) divorced.  The  recent  bridegroom,  Sir  James  Home-8piers, 
is  about  thirty-two  years  of  age,  and  the  son  of  the  late  Sir  George 
Home,  a  Scotch  baronet,  who  married  a  Miss  Spiers,  of  Midlothian, 
and  this  son  adopted  his  mother's  name  after  his  own,  and  so  is 
known  by  the  compound  one  of  Home-Spiers.  Private  advices 
say  that  Mrs.  Pedder  invited  to  her  sister's  wedding  a  crowd  of 
London  notables,  with  whom  she  had  not  the  slightest  acquaint- 
ance, and  naturally  very  few  responded.  But  the  invitation  list 
was  furnished  to  the  society  papers,  and  made  a  great  show  to 
the  uninitiated,  while  in  reality  she  was  the  subject  of  much 
derision  from  those  who  knew  the  facts. 
#  #  * 

From  present  appearances,  it  looks  as  though  the  approaching 
winter  season  would  be  rich  in  the  feminine  element.  To  begin 
with,  the  three  young  matrons,  Mrs.  George  Pope,  Mrs.  Dan. 
Murphy  and  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan,  will  debut  as  such.  Then  the 
buds,  Miss  Emily  Carolan,  Alice  Hager,  Jennie  Catherwood  and 
others,  will  make  their  initial  bows  to  society,  while  the  ranks  of 
acknowledged  belles  of  many  triumphant  seasons  are  unthinned, 
and  Mrs.  Will  Crocker,  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  and  Mrs.  Rutherford 
form  a  galaxy  of  social  successes  hard  to  beat.  So  the  chief  need 
will  be  the  male  quantity. 

»  #  * 

'Tis  said  Mrs.  Fred.  Sharon  has  promised  the  girls  to  send  out 
a  batch  of  beaux  from  New  York,  when  she  returns  there,  but 
the  difficulty  is,  the  supply  of  male  material  is  as  limited  in  the 
East  as  here,  and  now  that  the  British  noblemen  have  gone  in  so 
boldly  for  wedding  footligbt  belles,  the  fear  is  entertained  the 
New  York  chappies  may  go  and  do  likewise. 

*  #  * 

Miss  Emily  Hager  has  re-inaugurated  her  charming  Sunday 
afternoon  teas.  The  first  since  the  return  of  the  family  from  Del 
Monte  was  signalized  by  a  crowd  of  pretty  girls  and  appreciative 
men,  and  the  fair  hostess  served  tea  in  her  usual  graceful  manner. 
The  chat  was  lively,  and  the  latest  engagement  was  discussed. 
The  wedding  will  not  take  place  till  after  the  hurry  and  work  of 
election  is  over. 

*  *  « 

Looking  at  a  recent  advertisement  in  regard  to  the  establish- 
ment nineteen  years  ago  of  a  culture  club  for  women,  the  idea 
insensibly  strikes  one  why  would  it  not  be  a  good  thing  for 
women  to  cultivate  their  feelings  and.  emotional  powers  as  assid- 
uously as  their  knowledge  of — say  astronomy,  physics  or  bot- 
any. To  feel  liindly  towards  all,  "  with  malice  towards  none;" 
to  encourage  generous,  noole  impulses;  to  help  the  heart-hungry, 
the  care-stricken,  and  the  weary,  surely  is  as  high  a  study  for  a 
woman  as  any  of  the  "  ologies ;"  occult  science  can  never  beat 
the  science  of  doing  good. 

*  *  it- 
Owing  to  her  father's  death,  Miss  Jenny  Dunphy  will  be  lost  to 

society  this  winter,  and  her  many  friends  and  admirers  will 
deeply  regret,  not  alone  the  absence  of  the  talented  young  lady 
from  social  circles,  but  the  sad  cause  of  it.  It  will  be  some  time 
ere  her  beautiful  voice  is  heard  again. 

Recent  visitors  to  Castle  Crags  declare  that  now  is  the  delight- 
ful time  for  a  visit  there.  Fashion  has  departed, -but  comfort  re- 
mains. A  capital  cuisine,  excellent  accommodations,  no  end  of 
fine  fishing,  good  mountain  roads,  and  a  general  "  go-as-you- 
please-ativeness  "  makes  a  visit  there  a  thorough  rural  outing  in 
the  mountains. 

*  *  * 

The  beaux  are  bewailing  the  departure  of  pretty  Miss  May 
Hoffman,  who,  it  is  quite  likely,  will  not  return  from  New  York 
this  winter. 

There  is  a  rumor  to  the  effect  that  Papa  Pullman  has  his  eye 
upon  the  Haggin  house  on  Taylor  street.  The  Haggins  are  a  pe- 
culiar family,  however,  and  like  to  have  their  own  house  ready 
whenever  they  pay  a  visit  to  their  old  home.  And  although  Mr. 
Haggin  has  recently  purchased  a  Fifth  avenue  residence  in  New 
York,  he  is  rich  enough  to  keep  his  California  house  empty  if  it 
so  pleases  him.  So  Papa  Pullman  will,  no  doubt,  have  to  cast  his 
eyes  in  some  other  direction.     Mrs.  Pullman's  own  taste  inclines 


to  Santa  Barbara,  and  it  is  quite  among  the  probabilities  of  the  fu- 
ture that  the  millionaire  car-builder  will  create  a  home  for  his 
wife,  when  she  winters  on  the  coast,  in  that  southern  region. 

Charley  Fair  has  entered  the  lists  with  Porter  Ashe  in  owning 
and  running  fast  horses.  Porter  has  not  the  financial  backing  of 
young  Fair,  but  his  luck  has  of  late  become  proverbial.  It  is  not 
every  one  who  knows  what  the  jovial  R.  P.  A.  considers  his 
"  mascot." 

#  »  » 

Lieutenant  Faison  is  back  at  bis  old  post  once  more.  The  de- 
parture East  of  Lieutenant  Runcie  is  only  to  be  a  temporary  one, 
and  it  is  rumored  that  soon  after  that  gentleman's  return  here  his 
law  partnership  will  be  supplemented  by  a  partnership  for  life. 
Who  the  "  party  of  the  second  part"  will  be  is  not  hard  to  guess, 
says  society,  the  Lieutenant's  devotion  having  been  of  long  stand- 
ing in  that  quarter. 

*  *  • 

"  Who  would  have  believed  there  are  so  many  pretty  German 
girls  in  our  midst,"  has  been  a  common  remark  since  the  opening 
of  the  Kirmess  in  aid  of  the  Old  Peoples'  Home  of  the  Germans,  at 
the  Pavilion  on  Tuesday  last.  And  Iruly  a  prettier  bevy  of 
(air  girls  and  smiling  matrons  it  would  be  hard  to  find  than  those 
flitting  in  and  out  among  the  people  in  attendance  there  all  the 
week. 

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take  any  other  liquor.  Everybody  says  it  is  the  best  thing  to  drink, 
and  for  that  very  particular  reason  we  indulge  in  it.  Argonaut  has 
no  superior  in  the  market.  It  is  sold  at  every  first-class  bar  in  town , 
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BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


TH  K  Kuiprna  of  Germany  has  just  given  birth  to  her  seventh 
child.  The  new-comer  is  a  girl.  There  is  little  danger,  it 
■NIDI,  that  the  family  ol  the  Hohenzollern  \*ill  die  out  in  the 
near  future,  but  it  is  doubtful  whether  Ibedescendants  of  Emperor 
William  will  find  thrones  to  sit  upon  if  His  Majesty  continues  to 
bring  (be  monarchical  form  of  government  into  discredit  by  his 
arbitrary  rule. 

A  recent  telegram  recalls  the  bonmot  of  Mr.  Singer,  a  well- 
known  German  socialist  leader:  ■■Formerly  we  used  to  work 
pour  U  roi  de  Pruste,  bat  at  present  the  King  of  Prussia  is  working 
for  us."  There  is  unfortunately  a  deeper  truth  contained  in  these 
words  than  Mr.  Singer  imagined  when  be  uttered  them,  some 
years  ago,  at  Halle.  At  that  time  Emperor  William  ostentatious- 
ly tried  to  conciliate  the  socialists  by  having  revoked  several  of 
the  severe  measures  enacted  against  them  under  the  Bismarck 
administration,  and,  indeed,  he  was  working  for  the  socialists. 
His  work,  however,  at  that  period,  though  injudicious  and  ill- 
timed,  was  not  half  so  dangerous  for  bis  country's  welfare  as 
what  he  has  been  doing  since.  Having  recognized  too  late  that 
he  committed  a  serious  blunder  by  his  relaxation  oi  tbe  laws  at 
the  wrong  moment,  he  fell  into  a  reactionary  mood,  and  started 
upon  a  course  of  legislation  that  justly  insensed  against  him,  not 
only  bis  former  proteges,  but  also  the  moderate  Liberals.  By  his 
attempt  to  interfere  with  the  religious  liberty  of  bis  subjects,  and 
bis  ultra-conservative  rule  on  other  occasions,  he  produced  a 
serious  revolt  of  feeling  amongst  tbe  majority  of  his  subjects 
against  his  government,  and  has  indirectly  done  more  for  the  suc- 
cess of  tbe  socialist  cause  than  the  most  ardent  anarchist  agitators 
could  have  ever  accomplished  directly.  There  is  a  rumor  current 
that  be  contemplates  an  abolition  of  the  secret  vote,  and  the  bait 
held  out  for  the  adoption  of  a  measure  to  that  effect,  is  the  con- 
cession of  an  extension  of  the  franchise.  Of  course,  there  is  no 
chance  whatever  of  such  a  measure  ever  being  passed  in  the 
Reichstag.  Still,  the  very  attempt  to  pass  it  would  have  the  most 
disastrous  consequences  for  the  Emperor  and  his  government,  and 
he  may  rind  out  that  tbe  patience  of  his  subjects  is  exhausted. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  rumor  is  unfounded,  but  William  II. 
has  committed  so  many  blunders  since  his  accession  to  the  throne 
that  it  would  not  be  astonishing  to  see  bim  really  crown  his  pre- 
vious performances  by  such  a  climax.  Perhaps  the  debale  on 
the  army  bill,  when  it  is  submitted  to  the  representatives  of  the 
people,  will  open  His  Majesty's  eyes  with  regard  to  the  feeling 
existing  at  present  amongst  his  subjects,  and  serve  to  deter  him 
from  further  reckless  experiments,  before  it  is  too  late. 

The  German  Reichsanzeiger,  tLe  official  organ  of  the  empire, 
states  that  Emperor  William  said  to  Mr.  William  Steinway,  of 
New  York,  during  the  audience  granted  to  tbe  latter,  that  it  was 
"  not  quite  possible  "  for  him  to  visit  the  Columbian  Exhibition  at 
Chicago  next  year.  This  denial  of  the  report  that  His  Majesty 
was  coming  to  pay  us  a  visit  was  hardly  necessary,  for  even  his 
present  most  obedient  government  would,  no  doubt,  have  refused 
the  eccentric  monarch  the  gratification  of  making  a  show  of  him- 
self amongst  us,  where  there  exists  no  restrictions  preventing  a 
true  report  of  Emperor  William's  peculiar  after-dinner  speeches. 
Still,  even  the  young  Emperor,  in  his  position,  can  hardly  afford 
the  experiment  of  visiting  America,  though  it  might  do  him  good, 
occasionally,  to  peruse  the  American  papers,  In  order  to  learn 
what  our  people  think  of  his  cla:m  that  he  is  entitled  to  his  arbitrary 
rule  "  by  the  grace  of  God."  His  self-veneration  might  receive  a 
wholesome  shock. 

The  financial  condition  of  Great  Britain,  even  if  one  grants  that 
some  of  the  reports  may  be  exaggerated,  seems  to  have  become 
serious.  Mr.  Gladstone  will  probably  soon  find  out  that  the  Brit- 
ish people  will  not  be  in  the  humor  to  tolerate  much  longer  the 
abandonment  of  their  own  interests  to  Irish  home-rule  schemes. 
A  Prime  Minister  of  Great  Britain  is  in  duty  bound,  at  present,  to 
make  British  affairs  his  first  consideration,  and  to  relegate  IriBh 
affairs  to  a  second  place. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  French  army  has  made  wonderful 
progress  of  late  years.  All  foreign  military  experts  are  unanimous 
in  emphasizing  this  fact.  The  reason  for  this  may  be  found  in 
the  circumstance  that  France,  by  her  isolated  position,  has  been 
obliged  to  turn  her  whole  attention  to  home  interests,  and  has  had 
little  opportunity  to  indulge  in  such  far-reaching  international 
schemes  as  characterized  the  era  of  Napoleon  III.  This  enforced 
separation  from  outside  activity  has  proved  beneficial  to  her,  and 
she  will  be  ready  to  make  a  better  showing  against  her  enemies, 
in  case  of  an  eventual  war,  than  ever  before.  If  her  statesmen 
understand  tbe  interests  of  the  republic  they  will  strive  in  future 
also  to  restrict  French  political  activity  to  the  maintenance  of  the 
possessions  of  the  country  rather  than  aim  to  an  extension  of  her 
power.     Though    the  various   French   colonization  schemes  have 


proved  abortive,  internal  administration  and  home  government 
have  been  successful.  Tbe  lesson  is  instructive  if  the  present  re- 
sults are  compared  with  the  evil  consequences  arising  from  the 
ambitious  policy  of  acquisition  which  was  pursued  during  the  Em- 
pire. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


THINGS  have  changed  on  the  street  within  the  past  few  days, 
and  the  croakers  are  discomforted.  A  few  streaks  of  ore  at 
different  points  have  developed  into  proportions  wbich,  to  say 
the  least,  are  interesting  to  people  here.  There  is  plenty  of  money 
in  this  city  just  now,  and  tbe  best  of  it  is  that  no  one  will  invest 
in  anything  which  does  not  offer  the  opportunity  for  money- 
making  that  the  Comstock  does.  For  years  past  the  cuarket  on 
Pine  street  has  been  lifeless,  and  during  the  interim  coin  has  been 
stacked  up  in  the  savings  banks.  Why?  Simply  because  the 
owners  could  see  no  chance  to  make  more  than  a  beggarly  four 
or  five  per  cent,  per  year.  There  will  be  less  deposits  of  this  kind 
when  there  is  a  certainty  of  clearing  up  a  hundred  per  cent,  in 
the  mining  market.  Suppose,  for  instance,  a  dealer  had  bought 
Belcher  at  the  beginning  of  the  week  for  $2  30  or  less,  where 
would  he  have  been  to-day?  The  mines  would  have  netted  him 
more  than  his  capital  would  earn  in  any  bank,  on  the 
miserable  pittance  they  offer  on  deposits.  For  every  hun- 
dred dollars  they  pay  something  under  five  per  cent,  per  annum 
which  can  be  raked  out  of  the  mining  market  in  a  day,  when  it 
is  healthy.  The  shareholders  of  these  concerns  make  a  liberal 
profit  on  the  transactions  and  accumulate  a  handsome  surplus, 
but  the  depositors  get  left.  The  people  of  this  city  are  gamblers 
born  and  bred.  The  pulpit  and  a  portion  of  the  community  in- 
veigh against  speculation  all  the  time,  but  let  prices  of  stocks 
show  any  variation  which  offers  a  fair  profit  on  the  investment, 
and  the  divine  and  moralist  shoulder  one  another  in  an  endeavor 
to  monopolize  the  ticker  in  some  friendly  broker's  office.  Busi- 
ness all  over  has  suffered  from  tbe  depression  in  stocks,  and  a 
good  all-round  market  on  fine  street  would  be  the  greatest  bles- 
sing which  could  be  extended  to  this  community  just  now.  The 
farmers,  or  the  individuals  who  pose  as  such  have  knocked  mil- 
lions in  gold  off  the  revenue  of  the  State  for  the  past  ten  years  by 
tbe  suppression  of  hydraulic  mining.  Every  dollar  of  this  would 
have  gone  into  circulation  among  our  merchants,  tending  to  the 
prosperity  of  the  community  of  the  State.  These  advocates 
of  the  danger  to  navigable  streams  have  been  nothing  more 
nor  less  than  public  enemies,  and  the  same  might  be  truthfully 
said  of  the  hypocritical  Pecksniffs  who  have  been  sneering  at  the 
mining  market  on  Pine  street. 

?  J  $ 

MINING  has  been  the  basis  of  California's  prosperity  in  the 
past,  and  the  condition  of  trade  in  this  Queen  City  of  the 
Pacific  since  the  element  in  opposition  to  the  extraction  of  our 
own  gold  and  the  management  of  Nevada  silver  mines  got  con- 
trol, is  sufficient  in  itself  as  an  argument  on  behalf  of  the  miner. 
There  are  few  people  connected  with  the  leading  business  inter- 
ests of  the  city  who  will  not  admit  tbe  truth  of  these  remarks. 
With  a  lively  market  on  Pine  street,  money  gets  in  circulation 
which  would  never  see  daylight  under  ordinary  circumstances. 
There  is  going  to  be  a  market  now,  and  those  who  are  opposed 
to  it  are  against  the  interests  of  the  city.  The  natural  inquiry 
will  be,  is  there  any  merit  to  back  the  advance  in  prices?  This 
is  easily  answered.  The  Comstock  lode  is  a  prolific  mineral 
development,  which  will  not  be  exhausted  in  this  gen- 
eration. The  dealers  of  to-day  will  only  pass  away 
to  make  room  for  others,  with  the  chances  running  on 
eternally  for  the  development  of  a  bonanza  similar  to  that  which 
made  the  Fairs  and  Floods  metalliferous  landmarks  of  the 
period.  The  resources  of  the  lode  are  an  unknown  quantity,  and 
when  the  insignificant  habitues  of  the  street  attempt  to  predict 
the  outcome  of  a  strike,  in  their  very  limited  sphere,  they  are 
only  placing  themselves  in  evidence  as  representatives  of  the 
supreme  impudence  for  which  the  age  is  noted.  The  very  action 
of  the  stocks  to-day  gives  the  lie  lo  all  tbe  theories  which  have 
been  flouted  by  the  soreheads  of  the  street  for  months  past.  The 
unfortunate  speculator  of  the  hour  is  the  mouth-piece  of  a  clique 
which,  envious  of  those  who  have  been  successful,  would  wreck 
a  business  which  will  be  running  when  they  are  dead  and  have 
passed  into  oblivion,  «•  unwept,  unhonored  and  unsung." 
$  $  $ 

THE  business  done  in  stocks  during  the  week  cannot  be  demon- 
strated by  tbe  figures  shown  on  the  daily  lists.  They  simply 
represent  the  dealings  in  the  Board  on  Call.  Outside  of  this  tbe 
street  sales  were  enormous,  and  the  brokers  of  leading  houses 
handled  thousands  of  shares  which  were  never  reported.  Of 
course  a  great  many  people  will  fail  to  recognize  the  truth  of 
this  statement,  believing,  as  they  do,  that  all  sales  are  recorded. 
This  will  suit  the  individuals  who  have  it  in  for  some  of  the  min- 
ing managements,  but  outside  of  them,  there  are  others  inter- 
ested in  learning  the  truth.  The  stocks  which  have  been  most 
largely  traded  in  during  tbe  week  were  Sierra  Nevada,  Belcher 
and  Con.  California-Virginia.  The  daily  papers  which  keep 
posted  on  the  mining  situation  have  given  the  reason  for  this.  It 
would  take  more  space  thant  hese  columns  afford  to  go  into  par- 
ticulars, but  in  short,  the  prospect  in  Belcher  is  most  promising, 


and  while  that  in  Sierra  Nevada  is  not  as  good  as  it  was  some 
days  ago,  so  far  as  tbe  grade  of  the  ore  is  concerned,  still  there  is 
great  encouragement  in  the  fact  that  while  the  ore  is  not  so  high 
in  grade  in  the  face  of  the  drift,  it  is  still  there.  An  ore  vein 
cannot  always  be  depended  upon  to  show  a  regular  average,  but 
so  long  as  it  is  there  the  quality  is  always  apt  to  come  in  again 
as  quantity  is  gained.  Take  the  Silver  Hill  mine  as  another  in- 
stance of  the  resurection  going  on  along  the  lode.  Here  is  a  property 
that  has  not  been  heard  of  for  years  past.  In  early  days  it  pro- 
duced its  millions,  and  more  than  one  mining  millionaire  of  to- 
day date  their  financial  success  to  the  output  of  this  little  mine, 
which  has  lain  dormant  for  years.  Now  the  announcement  is 
made  that  ore  is  again  being  extracted,  of  a  grade  which,  if  off 
the  Comstock,  would  entitle  the  property  to  the  rank  of  a  bo- 
nanza. Outside  of  Con.  Cal. -Virginia,  which  is  always  liable  to 
come  to  the  front  more  unexpectedly,  there  are  several  other 
mines,  Hale  &  Norcross  among  them,  which  offer  a  good  oppor- 
tunity for  investment  outside  theCometocks.  The  mines  of  Tus- 
carora  and  the  Quijoatoas  are  still  inactive,  but  the  mines  in  both 
camps  are  in  good  condition  for  an  upheaval  in  price  at  any  mo- 
ment. 

J  $  ? 

THE  news  that  there  was  a  proposition  to  put  more  money 
into  the  Valley  Gold  swindle  down  in  San  Bernardino  county, 
was  received  with  surprise  by  many  people  here,  who  have  been 
kept  posted  by  the  News  Letter.  So  far  as  this  paper  is  con- 
cerned, it  is  fully  posted  on  the  situation,  and  if  the  thieves  in 
London  think  they  can  carry  their  scheme  to  a  successful  issue, 
they  reckon  beyond  their  strength.  What  we  happen  to  know 
about  the  internal  arrangements  of  this  concern  is  not  necessary 
for  publication  just  now,  but  we  can  tell  the  individuals  on  the 
other  side  of  the  Atlantic  that  before  they  get  through  with  their 
latest  programme,  enough  will  be  told  in  these  columns  to  show 
their  title  clear  to  a  berth  in  the  penitentiary.  The  proposition 
to  reconstruct  this  wild-cat  is  simply  a  piece  of  rascality,  which 
for  its  impudence  and  daring  is  unequaled  in  the  annals  of  min- 
ing companies.  The  mine  is  a  fraud  of  the  worst  type.  There  is 
no  gold  in  the  gravel  that  would  pay,  even  if  there  was  water 
sufficient  in  the  vicinity  to  work  it.  The  whole  concern 
was  a  fraud  from  its  conception,  and  those  who 
take  exception  to  this  remark  can  try  their  remedy  in  the  law 
court.  A  number  of  ptople  in  England,  who  were  fleeced  in  this 
company  when  it  was  first  brought  out,  were  frightened  out  of 
the  suits  which  they  brought  to  recover  the  money  they  had  paid 
in  for  their  shares.  They  were  simply  a  pack  of  cowards,  scared 
at  a  shadow,  and  they  will  recognize  the  fact  by  this  time.  If 
the  persons  at  the  head  of  this  contemptible  swindle  want  to  try 
any  conclusions  in  the  matter,  they  cannot  say  they  have  not  had 
an  abundant  opportunity  now.  If  there  is  anything  that  could 
be  said  condemnatory  of  them  and  of  their  thieving  scheme  that 
could  induce  them  to  enter  the  lists,  the  News  Letter  would  sub- 
stantiate it  under  any  circumstances.  Its  promoters  are  simply, 
in  plain  language,  a  pack  of  thieves,  who  would  not  escape  con- 
viction in  any  respectable  community. 

is  s 

THERE  were  some  people  in  town  lately  who  were  airing  thejr 
theories  that  the  Comstock  mines  were  played  out,  predicting 
all  sorts  of  unfortunate  events,  but  they  are  as  scarce  now  as  the 
gentlemen  who  betted  that  Sullivan  would  knock  Corbett  into  a 
cocked  hat.  The  tide  of  fortune  has  turned  on  Pine  street,  and 
those  who  were  the  first  to  declaim  against  the  business  are  now 
fretting  over  the  prospects  of  losing  a  fortune.  The  stock  market 
has  been  growing  for  some  time  past,  and  it  has  come  to  stay. 
The  shorts  are  feeling  most  uncomfortable,  but  unfortunately  they 
belong  to  a  class  which  counts  for  little  as  a  factor  in  the  business. 
They  are  small  in  a  financial  sense,  and  if  they  get  broke  in  the 
process  of  filling,  it  will  be  their  own  loss.  Nobody  will  mourn 
for  them,  and  if  some  of  the  revolutionists  in  the  street  get  caught 
in  their  own  trap,  it  will  only  be  a  subject  of  congratulation. 
Business  has  been  lively  during  the  week.  This  has  been  on 
merit,  on  which  every  dollar  gained  in  the  price  of  the  stocks  ef- 
fec;el  was  based.  The  ore  developments  on  the  lode  which  have 
been  made  recently  gives  the  lie  direct  to  those  who  have  been 
preacbiog  that  the  time  had  come  when  the  Comstock  was  go  ng 
to  be  relegated  to  the  past;  a  thing  of  history.  To  tbe  miner  the 
change  in  the  situation  is  not  remarkable.  Mines  come  in  go  on* 
in  the  process  of  development.  Sometimes  they  are  in  ore  and 
sometimes  they  are  in  borrasco.  The  Comstock  mines  are  not  an 
exception  to  this  well  founded  theory,  and  this  is  evidenced  by 
the  developments  which  have  been  made  recently.  They  may 
not  amount  to  much,  and  again  the  showing  of  ore  may  result 
in  as  big  a  market  as  there  ever  was  on  Pine  street. 
S  J  J 
It  is  satisfactory  to  learn  that  the  mines  in  the  new  district, 
near  Kingman,  Arizona,  are  all  right  despite  the  reports  to  the 
contrary.  A  well  known  mining  man  who  has  just  returned 
from  tbe  camp  says  that  there  is  plenty  of  high-grade  ore  there, 
and  the  only  trouble  is  a  lack  of  water.  The  recent  developments 
indicate  a  continuity  of  the  ore. 


24,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  I.KTTER. 


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aHeartbc(-rler:"   "What  the  devil  art  thou?' 
'One  that  will  pUrtbe  devil,  sir.  with  you." 


SI  K  EDWARD  in  Japan  was  a  very  wicked  man, 
So  those  pious  parsons  say; 
Never  thought  it  was  a  sin  to  chuck  ladies  neath  the  chin, 

And  be  otherwise  extremely  gay. 
In  the  snn's  oppressive  heat  Ned  could  ramble   down  that  street, 

Where  the  little  girls  dance  and  sing, 

Nor  deem  it  very  queer  to  pack  along  some  beer, 

But  thought  it  quite  the  daisy  thing. 

On  his  marrow  bones  he'd  flop  when  the  beer  began  to  pop, 

And  the  girls  tuned  riddle  and  harp, 
Pausing  now  and  then  to  cry  "You're  the  apple  of  my  eye, 

"But  Ned  don't  draw  the  beer  too  sharp." 
Then  he'd  love  them  like  a  brother,  would  discourse  with  them  of 
Buddha, 

And  beg  them  to  sit  upon  the  ground. 
It  was  a  lovely  sight  to  see  Edwin  so  polite 

And  smiling  as  he  passed  the  beer  around. 
Ever  anxious  then  to  please  with  nice  crackers  and  old  cheese, 

8ir  Edwin  would  set  out  the  dainty  lunch, 
Were  the  weather  very  hot  in  an  Oriental  pot 

He'd  brew  a  bowl  of  fascinating  punch. 
Then  at  Sir  Edwin's  tip  the  ladies  would  all  skip, 

With  a  high  kick  and  a  low  kick  here  and  there, 
Some  would  sinuously  glide,  some  with  languid  movements  slide, 

While  others  bounded  high  into  the  air. 
With  his  pipe  between  his  lips  Ed  would  clap  his  finger  tips, 

('Tis  not  strange  the  parsons  envied  so  much  bliss) 
But  when  one  excelled  the  other  his  delight  he  could  not  smother, 

But  cried,  "Koko,  little  witch,  I  want  a  kiss." 
Then  1  really  am  afraid  he'd  embrace  the  pretty  maid, 

And  while  he  told  some  legend  strange  and  weirdT 
They  did  not  think  it  queer  to  caress  the  hoary  seer, 

And  wipe  the  foamy  bubles  from  his  beard. 
No  high  bred  Damio  bad  half  the  fun  I  know, 

Of  Sir  Edwin,  though  he  wasn't  Japanese, 
But  he  plainly  understood,  'tis  not  well  to  be  too  good, 

So  he  danced  the  pretty  daisies  on  his  knees. 
When  the  parsons  with  a  frown  would  run  Sir  Edwin  out  of  town, 

As  a  very  wicked  poet  full  of  evil, 
He  cried  with  a  guffaw  he'd  take  none  of  their  slack  jaw. 

They  might  go  for  all  he  cared  unto  the  devil. 
Now,  though  Ed  is  old  and  gray,  he's  a  wicked  dog  they  say, 

And  some  insinuate  who  swear  they  know  it, 
Since  this  most  delightful  man,  sojourned  in  Japan, 

Not  a  city  in  that  land  will  lack  a  poet. 

A  FEW  years  ago  we  had  a  forestry  boom.  Trees  went  up.  It 
was  the  fashion  to  grow  sentimental  about  them.  We  had 
one  day  in  the  year  when  everybody  planted  a  tree.  Joaquin 
Miller  directed  the  embelisbment  of  Goat  Island  with  trees.  Now 
all  that  is  over,  and  it  i°  a  pity.  Trees  are  loveable  things,  and 
withal  to  be  respected.  Ancient  descent  and  glory  are  made 
audible  in  the  proud  murmur  of  immemorial  woods.  There  are 
forests  in  England  whose  leafy  noises  may  be  shaped  into  Agin- 
court,  and  the  names  of  the  battlefields  of  the  Hoses,  oaks  that 
dropped  their  acorns  in  the  year  that  Henry  VIII.  held  his  field 
of  the  Cloth  of  Gold,  and  birches  that  gave  shelter  to  the  deer 
when  Shakespeare  was  a  boy.  There  are  cedars  on  Lebanon 
which  the  axes  of  Solomon  spared,  they  say,  when  he  was  busy 
with  his  Temple.  There  are  olives  on  Olivet  that  might  have 
rustled  in  the  ears  of  the  Master  and  the  Twelve.  There  are  oaks 
in  Sherwood  which  have  tingled  to  the  horn  of  Robin  Hood,  and 
listened  to  Maid  Marian's  laugh;  and  there  are  redwoods  on  the 
California  slopes  which  were  full  grown  when  these  were  babies. 
Think  of  an  existing  Syrian  cedar  which  Is  nearly  as  old  as  his- 
tory, which  was  middle-aged  before  the  wolf  suckled  Romulus,  an 
existing  English  elm  in  whose  branches  the  heron  was  reared 
which  ihe  hawks  of  Saxon  Harold  killed.  Let  us  plant  trees. 
We  can't  all  go  down  to  posterity  as  the  owners  of  big  buildings, 
and  railroads,  and  steamship  lines,  but  it  is  better  to  plant  a  tree 
than  build  a  city  or  strike  a  medal.     It  will  outlast  both. 

THE  posse  which  is  in  pursuit  of  Evans  and  Sontag  were  about 
to  open  fire  on  the  Examiner  war  correspondent,  so  great  was 
their  timidity  and  anxiety  to  get  in  the  first  volley  on  their  guest. 
They  will  kill  somebody  yet,  those  fellows,  but  it  won't  be  Sontag 
or  Evans.  This  is  a  period  of  pleasant  surprises.  It  might  be 
Detective  Smith. 

A  CYCLE  of  railway  accidents  has  begun.     And  now  the  wise 
man  stayeth  at  home,  and   gratifies   his   taste    for   travel  by 
studying  the  picture  books. 


LET  us  not  forget  in  honoring  Columbus,  that  he  was  a  vaga- 
bond, a  Bohemian  of  the  finest  type,  and  vigorously  opposed 
to  Philistia.  Respectable  Spanish  churchmen,  with  shaven 
crowns,  scouted  the  dream  of  Columbus.  Respectable  people 
have  made  themselves  obnoxious  all  the  world  over,  and  they 
are  getting,  it  must  be  admitted  with  sorrow,  since  the  publica- 
tion of  the  Blue  Book,  a  fearful  grip  on  this  city.  They  cease  to 
be  aware  of  the  obligations  they  are  under  to  Vagabondia.  Re- 
spectable people  do  Utile  in  this  city,  as,  indeed,  the  world  over, 
except  amassing  fortunes  for  the  benefit  of  spendthrift  heirs. 
Respectable  well-to-do  Grecians  shook  their  heads  over  Leonidas 
and  his  Three  Hundred  when  they  went  down  to  Thermopylu\ 
Yet  those  same  Philistines  cannot  for  the  life  of  them  refrain 
from  loving  the  vagabonds  of  history  and  of  fiction.  Esau  was  a 
prime  vagabond,  and  who  would  not  prefer  him  to  that  sneak 
Jacob,  in  spite  of  his  fiocks  and  herds,  in  spite  of  his  splendid 
funeral,  winding  from  the  city  by  the  pyramid  and  Sphinx,  with 
which  Jere  Lynch  Pasha  has  since  familiarized  us.  Yet  his 
brother  with  his  birthright  filched  away  from  him,  bankrupt  in 
the  promise,  rich  only  in  fleet  foot  and  keen  spear,  is  better 
loved  for  that  noble  nature  he  carried  into  the  wilds  with  him, 
for  no  brother  with  his  mess  of  pottage  could  mulct  him  of  that. 

WHY  is  the  drum  silent?  Where  is  the  ear-piercing  fife? 
How  is  it  the  torches  flare  not,  nor  do  the  uniformed  hosts 
move  along  the  streets  in  cheery  array  ?  In  other  words,  where 
are  the  ii  dications  of  the  Presidential  year?  Time  was  when  at 
this  important  period  the  clans  mustered,  and  the  boys  turned 
out  in  force.  But  we  have  grown  as  lifeless  as  a  salt  codfish. 
We  don't  seem  to  care  as  much  as  we  used  to  about  the  McKinley 
bill.  We  are  not  singing  campaign  songs,  and  we  are  making 
mighty  few  campaign  speeches.  Our  domestic  affairs  have  got 
us  by  the  gizzard.  The  speculators  in  campaign  badges  are  des- 
perate. They  have  imported  the  counterfeit  presentments  of  the 
party  leaders  at  an  immense  expense,  but  nobody  wants  them. 
They  are  a  drug  in  the  market.  They  are  as  useless  as  a  package 
of  imported  fire  crackers  that  arrives  on  the  fifth  of  July.  Let  us 
whoop,  or  do  something.  The  republic  is  not  wont  to  elect  its 
presidents  in  this  tame  and  lifeless  manner. 

MESSRS.  SONTAG  AND  EVANS  lunched  one  day  this  week 
with  Mr.  Rogers,  of  Sampson's  Flat.  The  gentlemanly 
bandits  proffered  ten  dollars  in  payment  for  their  breakfast,  but 
Mr.  Rogers  politely  declined  to  receive  any  remuneration  for  his 
hospitality,  and  assured  his  guests  that  anything  they  wanted  on 
the  ranch  was  theirs  without  the  formality  of  payment,  a  fact  of 
which  the  visitors  were  doublless  aware.  If  this  brace  of  worthies 
could  be  brought  down  here  to  confront  some  of  the  restaurant 
robbers  and  tender  them  a  five  dollar  piece  for  a  two  dollar  lunch, 
we  might  look  forward  to  a  revolution  in  prices.  But  I  question 
if  the  brigands  of  the  counter  would  be  as  mild  as  Mr.  Rogers  of 
Sampson  Flat.  Aided  by  their  corps  of  efficient  waiters,  whose 
inattention  or  overcharges  everybody  is  respectfully  requested  to 
reporc  to  the  head  robber,  but  which  nobody  does,  they  would 
die  willingly  in  defense  of  their  atrocities. 

THOUGH  the  School  Department  is  thronged  with  sweet  girl 
blussoms,  some  of  the  Directors  seem  to  be  smitten  with  the 
widows.  Curious  the  fascinations  those  experienced  ladies  possess 
for  the  mature  heart.  It  must  be  the  affinity  of  like  for  like, 
the  comparing  of  notes  about  early  loves,  the  gentle  and  soothing 
association  which  accompanies  the  autumn  of  life.  No  matter 
how  deeply  engaged  those  teachers  may  be  in  the  cause  of  edu- 
cation, the  partiality  of  any  Director  for  any  one  of  their  number 
becomes  known  quick  as  winking.  No  matter  whether  those 
flirtations  be  carried  on  in  the  garden,  in  the  school-room,  or  the 
cars,  or  in  the  French  restaurant,  it  is  sure  to  be  talked  over  by 
those  ever  vigilant  instructors  of  youth.  It  is  no  use  trying  to 
hide  them;  they  will  come  to  the  surface. 

HENRY  MILLER,  actor,  has  a  very  poor  opinion  of  the  sense 
of  appreciation  of  a  San  Francisco  audience,  as  was  shown 
last  Saturday  evening.  The  curtain-raiser  at  the  California  is  en- 
titled Frederic  Lemaitre,  and  Mr.  Miller  takes  the  principal  char- 
acter. He  did  a  little  clever  work  at  the  start,  but  the  audience 
failed  to  notice  it  with  applause.  This  evidently  made  Miller 
angry,  for  he  put  but  Lttle  life  into  his  work,  and  when  in  the 
midst  of  his  best  effort,  no  applause  was  forthcoming,  he  stopped 
short,  and  remarking  in  an  audible  tone  of  voice,  that  he  guessed 
the  acting  was  "  too  rich  for  their  blood,"  gave  the  cue,  and  the 
play  was  pushed,  cut  and  concluded  ten  minutes  earlier  than 
usual.  But  few  of  the  audience  noticed  the  break,  and  those  who 
did  were  thoroughly  satisfied. 

ONE  of  the  funniest  sights  at  the  Kirmess  on  Tuesday  night 
was  an  ancient  warrior,  clad  in  armor,  sporting  a  helmet, 
breastplate,  and  all  the  other  heavy  habilements  of  ancient  war, 
who  bad  put  on  his  overcoat  over  his  tin  plate.  The  combination 
of  the  armor  and  the  overcoat  was  hugely  funny,  and  the 
ludicrous  effect  was  greatly  heightened  by  the  solemn  face  of  the 
warrior,  who  was  one  of  those  owl-faced,  stolid  Germans,  who 
always  look  wise  and  funereal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


Kwi^S^ 


THOSE  who  fondly  imagine  heraldry  to  be  among  the  lost  arts 
should  see  a  recent  production  of  the  Master  Herald  of  the 
Kinedom  of  Prussia.  This  is  nothing  less  than  the  letters  patent 
formally  making  the  Chancellor,  General  Von  Caprivi,  a  Count. 
It  is  now  many  months  since  the  bestowal  of  that  honor  was  an- 
nounced, and  all  the  time  since  Herr  Kohler,  of  the  Herald's  of- 
fice, has  been  hard  at  work  with  his  pen  on  this  remarkable  docu- 
ment. And  it  is  only  a  seven-page  document  at  that,  including 
■  the  page  which  bears  the  Count's  coat  of  arms,  painted  by  the 
Court  blazoner,  Herr  Nade.  On  the  first  page  stands  the  title  of 
the  Emperor,  surrounded  by  arabesques  on  a  gold  ground,  sur- 
mounted by  the  royal  crown.  On  the  second,  third  and  fourth 
pages  are  written  the  reasons  why  His  Majesty  raised  the  Chan- 
cellor to  the  rank  of  Count,  the  regulations  regarding  the  inherit- 
ing of  the  title,  and  the  blazon  of  the  coat  of  arms.  The  state- 
ment of  reasons  refers  to  the  Chancellor's  services  in  concluding 
the  commercial  treaties  with  Austria-Hungary  and  Italy.  It  is 
on  the  fifth  page,  however,  that  the  Herald  did  his  finest  work. 
On  that  page  are  the  old  arms  of  the  house  of  Caprivi.  Here  is  a 
description  of  the  armor  given  in  the  technical  phrases  of  the 
Herald's  office:  Quarterly — First  and  fourth,  two  red  saltires  on 
a  silver  ground,  and  a  ram  rampant,  with  a  green  nettle  leaf  in 
his  mouth,  on  a  green  ground  behind ;  second  and  third,  two  red 
beams  slanting  rightward  on  a  white  ground  in  front,  and  a 
golden  lion,  on  a  green  bill,  swinging  a  sword  in  one  of  its 
claws  on  a  blue  ground  behind.  On  the  main  shield,  which 
is  surmounted  by  a  Count's  coronet,  rest  three  open  tournament 
helmets  of  steel,  lined  with  red,  and  adorned  with  bows,  edgings 
and  hanging  jewels  of  gold.  On  the  middle  one  of  the  three,  the 
top  of  which  is  blue  and  gold,  stands  a  black  eagle  with  a  red 
tongue.  Oat  of  the  crown  of  the  right  helmet  arises  a  man  in 
armor,  with  a  golden  ostrich  feather  between  two  blue  ones  on 
his  open  helmet,  a  golden  scepter  in  his  left  hand,  and  his  right 
arm  akimbo;  out  of  the  red  and  silver  crown  of  the  left  helmet 
steps  a  ram.  The  shield  Is  held  by  the  royal  Prussian  eagle  on 
the  right,  and  the  electoral  Brandenburg  eagle  on  the  left,  both 
birds  standing  on  arabesques  of  gold.  Under  the  coat  of  arms  is 
a  charming  colored  miniature  of  Heligoland  amid  surging  waves. 
The  sixth  and  seventh  pages  contain  the  continuation  of  the 
blazon.  The  signature  of  the  patent  runs  thus:  •'So  done  and 
given  at  our  New  Palace,  near  Potsdam,  on  the  eighteenth  day 
of  the  month  of  December,  in  the  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety- 
first  year  after  the  birth  of  Christ  our  Lord,  and  in  the  fourth 
year  of  our  royal  reign. — W.  R."  The  signature  is  countersigned 
by  the  minister  of  the  Royal  House,  von  Wedell,  and  the  Home 
Minister,  Herrfurth.  The  patent  rests  in  a  closely  embossed  and 
punched  brown  leather  case,  the  middle  of  which  is  covered  by 
the  royal  Prussian  eagle  wrought  in  the  same  style.  The  corners 
are  adorned  with  artistic  silver  mountings.  The  patent  is  held 
together  by  a  black  and  silver  cord,  with  a  tassel  of  the  same,  on 
which  hangs  a  large  silver  capsule,  with  the  royal  Prussian  arms 
cast  in  red  wax.  The  whole  is  enclosed  in  a  box,  which  also  is 
a  work  of  art  of  embossed  and  punched  brown  leather,  with  the 
Prussian  eagle  on  its  lid.  Both  box  and  case  are  lined  with  yel- 
low, white-flowered  silk  damask.  And  thus  is  it  done  unto  the 
man  whom  the  Kaiser  delighteth  to  honor. 

All  queer  things  have  their  birth  in  Paris,  the  city  of  flowers. 
Clubdom,  which  really  is  supposed  to  have  originated  there,  is 
now  somewhat  startled  to  hear  of  the  birth  of  a  Guillotine  Club. 
This  new  association  is  formed  for  the  satisfaction  of  those  mor- 
bid beings  who  find  pleasure  in  witnessing  an  execution.  When- 
ever an  execution  is  to  take  place,  the  members  of  the  club  pass 
the  night  in  their  rooms  over  a  bowl  of  punch.  Parisians  have 
always  found  pleasure  in  taking  heads  off,  and  in  watching  the 
process  of  knifing.  Their  triumphs  in  this  art  are  revealed  to  us 
in  the  capacities  for  satire,  which  makes  their  writers  and  jour- 
nalists the  marvels  of  the  world.  — The  Club. 

The  small  natural  bridge  that  was  once  a  feature  in  the  rugged 
shore-line  just  above  Westport  on  LakeCbamplain  seems  to  have 
disappeared.  It  reminds  one  of  that  natural  bridge  on  the  shore 
of  a  rocky  Western  lake.  It  was  »  a  card  "  as  a  local  attraction 
til!  a  severe  storm  one  winter  blew  it  down.  Unwilling  to  lose 
such  a  necessary  attraction,  the  neighbors  carefully  rebuilt  it, 
which  might  easily  enough  have  been  a  harmless  and  successful 
deception;  but  visitors  to  the  bridge  the  following  season  were 
thunderstruck  to  read  this  sign: 


JB^HSTIKIS. 


NATURAL    BRIDGE. 

Erected  By 

John  and  William  Simonds. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  *3,000,O0C0O 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits .(July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

T  homab  Bbown Cashier  |  B.  Mdbeat,  Jr       .  Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW  YOKK— Agency  of  the  Bank  of  California;  B03TON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman'B 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  A  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Oorist. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  aU  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland, O. ,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankiort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 


JV  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bosh  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) $1,500,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  |  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY. President  IE.  D.MORGAN Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT.. .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass't Cashier 

DIBECTOaS: 

George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT   DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  (5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  aud  Packages  taken  ou 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 


Geo.  A.  Low, 
N.  Van  Bergen, 
Thomas  Jennings, 


Authorized  Capital $3,500,000 

Reserve 


Capital  paid  up. 2.450,000 

450,000 


San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  |  London  Office 73  Lombard  St.,E.C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  A  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Satheb  A  Co.,  Established  1351,  Sau  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.  L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere.  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  A  Co.  Boston— Downer  A  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  A  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  A  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  A  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutter  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL  *      500,00000 

SURPLUS 5,488393.12 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

DIRECTORS: 

John  J.  Valentine.  President;  Lloyd  Tevis,  Leland  Stanford,  Oliver 
Eldridge.  James  C.  Fargo.  Geo,  E.  Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.  F.  Goad, 
Dudley  Evans.  Henry  Wadsworth,  Cashier.  Homer  a.  King,  Maiiager. 
J.  L.  Browne,  Assistant  Cashier. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000,000. 

DIRECTORS  : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  I  E.  H.  MILLER,  Ja. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH ..President. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-Peesidbnt. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cabhibb 

SECORITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $300,000 

OFFICERS: 

President JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 

HOMBOLDT  SAVINSS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C   WEBER, President  |  ERNST   BRAND Sbcretar^ 


Sept  24,  1892. 


SAX  FKAXi'ISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


SERENADE:    TO    HEXENE. 


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illies  bend  low  in  their  tribute  before  tbee. 
Hetene,  beloved  one,  list  to  my  pleading, 
Koses  and  nightingales  live  to  adore  tbee, 

Queen  of  my  heart  to  my  love  notes  give  beeding. 
Lo!  all  my  bosom  with  rapture  is  thrilling, 
Captive  ne'er  lived  to  bis  captor  ruore  willing, 
Love  of  my  life,  tby  love  life  is  filling, 

All  of  my  being  with  ecstatic  bliss. 
Gossamer  threads  from  thy  heart  are  unwinding. 

Hark  to  my  lute  and  its  passionate  throbbing, 
Stronger  than  chains  all  my  soul  they  are  binding, 

Wood  nympbs  and  bird  notes  echo  its  sobbing. 
Diamonds  that  gleam  in  the  light  of  a  palace, 
Dewdrops  that  glitter  In  some  dryad's  cbalice, 
Lose  all  their  brilliance  in  envious  malice, 

Slain  by  thine  eyes  and  the  touch  of  thy  kiss. 
Here  by  the  stars  and  yon  fair  moon  above  me, 

Here,  by  the  faith  of  tby  truest  of  lovers, 
Let  thine  eyes  reach  me  and  tell  me  thou'ltlove  me, 

Here,  where  fond  love  so  entbrallingly  hovers. 
Star  gleams  await  tbee,  before  thy  smile  paling, 
Music  grows  faint  from  thy  beauty  assailing, 
Ecstacy  dies  in  its  ecstatic  failing, 

Of  painting  the  hne  of  a  moment  like  this. 

Robert  Gray  Mackay. 
San  Feanxisco,  Cal.,  September  17,  1892. 

IN    RELATION. 


Why  should  I  pause  to  look  at  little  things? 

Why  should  I  let  them  stop  me  in  their  passage? 

Where  it  not  better  holding  always  high 

Our  vision  on  the  point  we  would  attain  to, 

And  live  on  in  that  altitude  where  we 

No  more  are  tortured  by  the  tired  earth-groanings 

Or  weary  word-voicing  of  pain,  foreshadowing 

That  out  of  which  we  grow  to  fuller  being? 

The  grandeur  of  new-born  ideas  sweeps  down 

And  holds  in  spell-bound  reverence  the  unborn 

Grave  utterances  of  mind's  immortal  away 

That  bid  us  stand  out  in  fall  majesty 

Of  soul  resplendent! 

I  soar  away  on  clear-clipped  wings  of  love 

To  realms  infinite;  breathe  the  breath  of  God, 

And  lie  in  rapt  embrasure  of  a  new 

And  lasting  light.     Intelligence  divine! 

Awaiting  but  the  spark  within  to  rouse 

In  comprehension!  Hose  Maynaed  David. 


WHITTIER. — Margaret  E.  Sangslcr  in  Harper's  Weekly. 


September  7,  1892. 
His  fourscore  years  and  five 

Are  gone,  like  a  tale  that  is  told. 
The  quick  tears  start,  there's  an  ache  at  the  heart, 

For  we  never  thought  him  old. 
Straight  as  a  mountain  pine, 

With  the  mountain  eagle's  eye, 
With  the  hand-clasp  strong,  and  the  unhusbed  song, 

Was  it  time  for  him  to  die? 
Prophet  and  priest  be  stood 

In  the  storm  of  embattled  years; 
The  broken  chain  was  his  heart's  refrain, 

And  the  peace  that  is  balm  lor  tears. 
The  hills  and  the  valleys  knew 

The  poet  who  kept  their  tryst. 
To  our  common  life  and  our  daily  strife 

He  brought  the  blessing  of  (Jhrist. 
And  we  never  thought  him  old, 

Though  bis  locks  were  white  as  snow. 
O  heart  of  gold,  grown  suddenly  cold, 

It  was  not  time  to  go! 

THE    GRINDER.— J.  B.  0.  in  Puck. 

Hear  the  grinder,  coming  with  his  bells  I 

What  a  world  of  sharpening  his  approach  foretells, 

What  a  muscle  he  has  on  him, 

What  a  hustle  he  has  on  him, 
What  a  sturdy  fellow,  what  a  lusty  call! 

Every  knife  will  split  a  hair, 

Let  all  enemies  beware, 
He  is  working  late  and  early  for  Tammany  this  Fall. 


CAPITAL  PAID  UP 
RESERVE  FUND 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

lueorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 


$3,000,000 
.     1,250,000 


Southeast  comer  Bush  aud  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE  GO  LOMBARD  STREET,   LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;   Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  aud  Tacoraa,  \\'a.shiugtou. 
SUB-BRANCHES—  Kamluops,  Naualino,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bank  trausacts  a  Geueral  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Oilice  and  Branches,  aud  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  aud  SOUTH  AMERICA— Loudon  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America.  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

532  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1892    $25,890,653  00 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus l,o33,13ti  00 

DIRECTORS. 

At^art  Miller,  Pr  esideut;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Poud,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  ii.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Eargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Omce  Hours— y  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m,  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805  Market  Street   (Flood  liullding),  San  Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,01)0,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits $     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital 333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1,  1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATERHOUSE. President 

F.V.McDONALD  Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

Tkls  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, in  (turns  of  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mouth,  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  aud  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Heal  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  6ERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND S    1,645,000  00. 

Deposits  till  y  1,  1892 28,776.697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  BDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  j  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WH.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Erase,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  DANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

0FFICEB8. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,   S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelau. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  DANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscfied  Capital $2,600,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 92,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office      58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.).  No.  10  Wall  St.,  N.Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Boule 
yard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  DANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up ?1,500,000 

Subscribed     3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 8  Angel  vcmrt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seaman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  1  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world     Sends  bills  for  collection,  loanB  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
SS«  bullion.  IpGN.  WnHARTl  J  Manager>_ 

A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


18 


SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


THOUGH  it  is  true  that  Thomas  Magee  did  not  succeed  in  ob- 
taining a  reduction  of  taxes  on  San  Francisco  city  and  county- 
property,  and  though  more  temperate  argument  might  have  met 
with  better  results,  it  was  indeed  a  grave  error  for  a  morning 
paper  to  attack  his  integrity.  According  to  the  paper's  own 
showing,  he  did  what  every  business  man  would  do,  and  seized 
an  opportunity  which  only  a  fool  would  have  let  slip. 

The  man  who  buys  real  estate  does  so  for  one  of  two  objects, 
either  to  improve  it  and  derive  an  income  from  it,  or  to  make 
money  by  selling  it  at  a  higher  figure.  Mr.  Magee  knew  the 
value  of  the  property  he  bought,  for  either  purpose.  He  had 
plans  drawn  for  the  improvement  of  it,  and  then  Mr.  Coleman 
saw  that  the  lot  would  give  needed  depth  to  a  strip  of  water  front 
property  which  he  owned.  This  fact  was  probably  well  known 
to  Mr.  Magee,  and  whether  it  was  or  not,  he  was  justified  in  ask- 
ing whatever  figure  he  might  see  fit  to  place  on  the  property.  If 
he  made  $10,000  on  the  turn  he  did  well,  he  did  what  every  other 
agent  or  private  owner  in  this  city  would  like  to  have  done,  and 
the  transaction  was  perfectly  legitimate. 

The  solid  nine's  last  act  was  to  purchase  Shag  Rock  and  em- 
balm itself  in  the  memories  of  the  people  as  the  most  corrupt 
Board  of  Supervisors  which  up  to  that  time  ever  administered 
the  municipal  affairs  of  San  Francisco.  What  the  present  Board 
will  do  to  leave  the  trail  of  the  serpent  behind  it  remains  to  be 
seen.  It  is  openly  stated  that  there  is  a  scheme  on  foot  to  ap- 
prove the  outrageous  reports  of  certain  of  the  street  extension 
commissions  as  the  last  act  of  this  Board,  which  has  out-Heroded 
Herod,  and  exceeded  even  the  solid  nine's  infamy.  The  Six- 
teenth-street Commission's  report  is  said  to  be  one  of  those  which 
will  be  thus  suddenly  approved.  Argument  was  made  on  it 
Tuesday  evening,  but  no  decision  was  reached.  The  expense 
bill  of  this  Commission  since  the  report  was  filed  has  been  in- 
creased by  $10,000.  The  actual  expenses  are  alleged  to  have  been 
$52,013;  to  this  a  contingency  fund  of  $25,000,  and  advertising 
expenses  of  $4,000  must  be  added,  making  a  total  of  $81,013. 
Now  comes  another  story  which  hints  only  too  strongly  at  more 
plunder.  Instead  of  the  total  cost  of  the  assessment  being 
$343,000,  as  originally  claimed,  those  most  interested,  and  those 
whose  business  it  is  to  know,  say  it  is  $500,000.  The  books  are 
to  be  experted,  and  it  is  said  some  mythical  owners  to  whom  as- 
sessments for  damages  have  been  awarded  in  the  reports  will  be 
unearthed. 

The  stand-up-and-deliver  policy  carried  on  under  the  cloak  of 
the  law  affects  not  only  Mission  property  owners,  but  real  estate 
men  and  owners  all  over  the  city.  The  improvement  clubs  should 
lend  all  possible  aid,  should  give  their  moral  support  to,  and  do 
all  In  their  power  to  help  the  Mission  owners  from  the  clutches  of 
the  vultures  who  are  trying  to  swoop  down  upon  their  property. 
Business  is  so  quiet  that  real  estate  men  can  well  afford  the  time 
to  take  active  interest  in  these  matters,  and  it  will  pay  them  to 
do  so. 

The  sales  of  the  past  week  were  few  and  far  between.  Easton, 
Eldridge  &  Co.  will  hold  an  auction  sale  on  Tuesday  next,  making 
several  good  offers,  including  two  frame  buildings  and  a  lot,  50x 
100,  on  the  south  line  of  Pine,  east  of  Webster,  and  a  new  ten- 
room  house  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Lott  and  Page. 

The  stories  of  consolidation  of  the  Omnibus  Cable  Company 
and  the  North  Beach  and  Mission  horse-car  line  are  unquestion- 
ably correct,  and  it  is  only  a  matter  of  a  few  weeks  at  most  when 
the  deal  will  be  consummated. 

The  Pacific  Coast  Loan  Association  announces  a  limited  num- 
ber of  free  shares  in  its  third  series,  which  dates  from  October 
1,  1892. 

To  the  readers  of  the  News   Letter  who  are  contem- 
i  plating  a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the   Union    Pacific.     It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
.man  Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
i  from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.    You  are 
"only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days   to  New  York  or 
Boston. 

Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  25%  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use 
children  while  Teething. 


Mrs.  Wmslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 


PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

S-A-ZEsT    FBAITCISCO,       -       -       -       CAL. 
Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

Patent  Lead-Lined   Coupled   Tubing,  for   use  as 

Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap 

OLYMPIC  SALT  WATER  COMPANY. 

(Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California). 

Capital   Stock,    $350,000,    Divided    into   35,000    Shares   at 

$10  Each. 


DIRECTORS— John  D.  Spreckels,  President;  Wm.  Greer  Harrison, 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager;  adolph  B.  Spreckels,  Treasurer; 
John  Rosenpeld,  Merchant;  Chas.  A.  Wieland,  Capitalist;  Cornelius 
O'Connor,  Capitalist;  James  Spiers,  of  Hinckley,  Spiers  &  Hayes. 

CONSULTING  ENGINEER-D.  Ernest  Melliss,  Ph.D.,  C.  E.,  524  Sacra- 
mento street. 

ATTORNEY— Samuel  M.  Shortridqe,  234  Montgomery  street. 


-Applications  for  stock  will  be  received  by 

R.  D.  PERRY,  Secretary, 

At  the  office  of  the  Company,  305  California  street,  San  Francisco  Cal. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRICAL  WORKS, 

2STo.    35    *v£a,r:k:et  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS    AND     IMPORTERS     OF 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General  Electrical  Supplies. 

pacific  towel  ccn&Fj*.2<r-2:, 

9    LICK    PLACE, 

Furnishes  Clean  Towels  at  the  ("olio wins;  low  rates: 
Clean  Hand  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per  month;   12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  month;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per 

6  month :  6  Clean  Roller  TowelB  each  week,  $1.25  per  month. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

North    Belle  Isle  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works — Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  First  day  of  September,  1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  20),  of  Ten  Cents  (10c. ) 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17",  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Sixth  Day  of  October,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  7th  day  of  November,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary, 
Office— 310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Challenge  Consolidated.    Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Gold  riill,  Storey  County,  Nev. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  August,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  12)  of  Ten  ( 10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  No.  331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

The  Twenty- seventh  Day  of  September,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  18th    day  of    October,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with   the   costs   of   advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

C  L.  MCCOY,  Secretary. 

Office— 331  Pine  street,  room  3,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


[)**    P  R I N  TERS .  *y\  1 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


8oPt.  24,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


10 


GEORGE    G.    GERE,    M.    D 


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IT  is  the  same  old  story  on  the  street.  The  Compact  troubles  are 
the  only  matters  worthy  of  discussion.  Business  is  very  dull, 
and  the  prospects  are  by  no  means  bright.  Many  of  the  local 
agencies  will  make  nothing  at  all  this  year,  a  condition  of  affairs 
which  is  certainly  not  very  satisfactory.  The  underwriters  are 
now  investigating  the  Schlessinger  loss,  a  meeting  having  been 
held  on  Thursday  last  of  the  committee  appointed  to  inquire 
into  the  affair.  What  was  done  at  the  meeting  has  not  been  re- 
vealed. It  seems  certain  that  all  the  claims  of  that  fire  will  not 
be  paid,  as  there  are  indications  of  what,  to  say  the  least,  looks 
like  very  suspicious  conduct,  and  at  this  particular  time,  when 
the  only  business  general  agents  are  doing  is  figuring  up  losses, 
everything  is  looked  into  with  more  than  usual  care. 

Fred.  C.  Siebe,  Jr.,  agent  of  the  Hanover  and  the  New  York 
Underwriters,  is  dying  at  this  writing.  His  physicians  gave  him 
up  on  Thursday  afternoon.  Mr.  Siebe  suffered  from  Bright's 
disease  of  the  kidneys.  He  is  a  young  and  popular  underwriter, 
whose  decease  will  cause  sorrow  to  hundreds  of  his  friends.  He 
is  a  nephew  of  Assessor  Siebe. 

The  London  InsuraTice  World  says  that  of  four  insurance  men 
who  recently  sought  seats  in  the  House  of  Commons  not  one  was 
elected.  There  are  any  number  of  directors  in  the  Commons,  but 
not  a  single  manager  or  actuary.  Local  insurance  men  have 
taken  advantage  of  the  dullness  in  business  to  go  into  politics. 
The  various  municipal  tickets  now  bear  the  names  of  Messrs. 
Glynn,  Broderick.  and  Block,  all  active  insurance  men,  and  C.  M. 
Boyd  will  also  probably  be  a  nominee.  Local  insurance  men  are 
among  the  ablest  citizens  of  the  municipality,  and  the  local  gov- 
ernment can't  get  along  without  them. 

The  Insurance  World  compares  Pittsburg  and  San  Francisco, 
somewhat  disadvantageously  to  this  city.  Pittsburg,  like  San 
Francisco,  says  the  World,  has  grown  rapidly,  without  a  cor- 
responding increase  in  the  means  of  fire  protection.  In  Pittsburg 
there  has  been  a  marked  improvement  in  methods  and  materials 
of  construction,  and  our  city  authorities  are  at  least  partially 
aroused  to  the  necessity  of  improvements  in  the  fire  department. 
New  apparatus  is  to  be  added  to  the  department  outfit,  and  a  new 
engine  house  in  the  business  center,  now  rapidly  approaching 
completion,  will  add  materially  to  the  efficiency  of  the  service. 
Other  improvements  are  in  contemplation  also,  and  the  general 
result  will  be  to  make  the  fire  department  much  nearer  what  it 
ought  to  be. 

Daring  the  first  six  months  of  the  year  Philadelphia  had  462 
fires,  with  losses  therefrom  aggregating  $1,467,141,  against  647 
fires  and  losses  of  $1,468,451  during  the  corresponding  period  of 
1891.  Textile  works  furnished  41  fires  and  $628,575  loss,  while 
one  theater  burned  with  a  loss  of  $288,652. 

Of  the  twenty-five  fire  insurance  companies  of  France,  nine- 
teen made  some  money  in  1891,  and  the  other  six  showed  a 
balance  on  the  wrong  side.  The  percentages  of  losses,  commis- 
sions and  expenses  of  management  are  given  by  L'Argus  as 
follows:  Losses,  51.39;  commissions,  24.49;  expenses  of  man- 
agement, 10.46;  total,  84.34;  leaving  13.66  for  dividends  and  sur- 
plus. The  premium  income  of  the  French  fire  companies  has 
increased  comparatively  little  since  1881. 

The  report  of  the  Superintendent  of  Insurance  for  the  Domin- 
ion of  Canada  shows  that  in  1891  the  fire  loss  ratio  increased  from 
that  of  the  year  before  considerably — that  for  1890  being  56  per 
cent.,  while  that  for  1891  was  over  69  per  cent.  The  statistics 
show  that  the  fire  premium  rate  for  1891  was  1.16  against  1.13 
for  the  year  1890,  a  small  increase.  Thirty  life  companies  are 
competing  for  business  in  Canada — eleven  Canadian,  nine  British 
and  ten  American — and  there  was  written  in  the  Dominion  dur- 
ing 1891  about  $38,000,000  of  life  insurance.  At  the  end  of  1891 
there  was  about  145,297  persons  whose  lives  were  insured  for 
$259,000,000.  Five  Canadian  companies,  three  British  and  one 
American  company  do  the  accident  business  of  Canada.  The  pre- 
miums received  for  this  kind  of  insurance  for  the  year  amounted 
to  $313,177,  while  losses  were  $172,832,  of  which  $127,274  were 
paid  and  $45,558  remained  unsettled.  The  whole  amount  of  in- 
suranc  premiums  paid  by  the  people  of  the  Dominion  in  1891  for 
all  kinds  of  insurance  is  reported  as  having  been  $15,786,048,  and 
of  that  aura  the  Canadian  companies  received  $6,278,200,  the 
British  companies  $5,322,535,  and  the  companies  of  the  United 
States,  $4,185,313.  While  the  loss  ratios  are  high,  the  expenses 
of  running  the  business  in  Canada  are  cheaper  than  on  this  side 
of  the  border— commissions  to  agents  being  a  much  smaller  per 
cent,  there  than  here. 


DR.  GERE  is  a  persistant  student,  a  hard  worker,  and  full 
worthy  of  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  is  held  by  the  profes- 
sion. His  extensive  practice  is  due  to  skillful  and  thorough  exe- 
cution and  the  deep  personal  interest  which  be  takes  in  the  wel- 
fare of  his  patients.  He  was  born  in  Chenango  County,  N.  Y.,  in 
1848,  and  comes  of  a  hardy  and  active  stock  on  both  sides — an- 
cestors that  have  for  several 
generations  served  in  positions 
of  trust  and  distinction.  Heir 
to  a  high  ideal,  molded  by  the 
learning  and  refinement  of  his 
early  surroundings,  Dr.  Gere 
enjoys  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  those  who 
have  the  pleasure  of  meeting 
him. 

As  a  boy  he  went  to  Pawnee 
City,  Neb.,  and  received  his 
preliminary  education  in  the 
public  schools  there.  He  was 
a  prominent  member  of  Com- 
pany F,  First  Nebraska  Veter- 
an Volunteer  Cavalry,  and 
claims  the  distinction  of  being 
one  of  the  youngest  G.  A.  R. 
men  in  the  country.  He  is 
Past  Surgeon  of  Lincoln  Post, 
No.  1,  G.  A.  R.  On  receiving 
his  discharge  he  at  once  turned 
his  attention  to  medicine  and 
went  to  Cincinnatti,  O.,  where 
he  entered  the  Eclectic  Medi- 
cal College,  an  institution  of 
renown  all  over  the  world.  From  this  college  he  graduated  in 
1871,  and  returned  to  Pawnee  City  and  entered  into  partnership 
with  Dr.  Stewart,  a  well-known  physician.  He  decided  to  come 
to  this  coast,  first  going  to  the  mining  regions  In  Utah, 
where  he  had  a  varied  and  extended  practice,  chiefly  in  Burgery. 
He  next  went  to  Tulare  county,  and  practicing  there  some  time 
he  decided  to  seek  the  wider  field  which  was  offered  in  this  city, 
and  came  here  in  1881  to  fill  the  chair  of  anatomy  in  the  Califor- 
nia Medical  College.  He  held  this  position  for  four  years,  and  in 
1886  was  appointed  Professor  of  Surgery,  which  chair  he  has 
filled  ever  since  in  a  most  creditable  way.  He  is  a  general  op- 
erating and  consulting  surgeon,  and  has  given  special  attention 
to  the  correction  of  facial  and  physical  deformities.  For  two 
years  he  was  President  of  the  Eclectic  Medical  Society  of  the  State 
of  California,  and  is  President  of  the  Society  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  of  San  Francisco.  Besides,  he  has  enjoyed  many  other 
distinctions,  being  a  delegate  for  the  past  ten  years  to  the  Na- 
tional Medical  Association,  and  one  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  of 
the  Eclectic  Medical  Society  of  the*  State. 


AN  EUROPEAN  journal  states  that  a  Belgian  aeronaut,  M. 
Thiele,  being  newly  married,  has  started  on  his  honeymoon 
in  a  balloon.  It  is  said  that  when  the  happy  pair  started  the  sky 
was  cloudless.  It  is  generally  so  on  these  occasions— at  the  start. 
The  question  ia,  will  it  remain  so? 


If  you  are  well-dressed  you  will  establish  your  credit.  None  but 
well-dressed  men  can  do  a  successful  business  now-a-days.  There- 
fore, visit  Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield's  tailoring  establishment,  at  12 
Post  street,  and  get  fitted  out.  Colonel  Litchfield  is  known  all  over 
the  coast  as  a  leader  in  the  sartorial  line. 

pall  apd  U/ipter  $tyles 

332-6  l^earrjy  Sreet,  i?ear  pirje. 

COKE— CHEAPEST  FUEL  I 

Reduction  in  Price. 

Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more),  80c.  per  bbl.    Retail  (any  quantity 

under  50  bbls.),  OOc.  per  bbl. 

AT  THE  WORKS  OF 

THE  SAN   FRANCISCO  GASLIGHT  COMPANY, 
HOWARD  AND  FIRST  STS,.  and  FOOT  OF  SECOND  STREET. 

FINE   DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver   Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.   W.   STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


ADDITIONAL  teats  made  with  the  new  form  of  coast  light  de- 
vised by  Schirm,  of  Berlin,  have  proved  quite  satisfactory. 
The  trials,  which  were  made  on  the  coast  near  the  mouth  of  the 
Elbe,  show  the  light  to  be  brighter  than  either  gas  or  electricity, 
while  the  cost  of  operating  is  said  to  be  very  small.  The  appara- 
tus, with  all  its  accessories,  is  barely  seven  feet  in  height  and 
three  feet  in  diameter,  and  consists  of  a  blast  engine  for  driving 
air  through  pumice  stone  impregnated  with  benzine.  The  ben- 
zine gas  thus  obtained  is  carried  through  fine  magnesium  pow- 
der, and,  being  saturated  therewith,  proceeds  upward  through  a 
pipe  and  is  consumed  in  a  small  flame,  yielding  a  light,  it  is 
claimed,  of  400,000  candle  power.  The  apparatus  is  controlled 
by  clockwork,  and  is  enclosed  in  glass  to  protect  it  from  the  wind 
and  weather.  The  arrangement  is  especially  adapted  for  giving 
an  intermittent  light,  the  consumption  of  magnesium  being 
small,  depending  on  the  power  of  the  light  which  may  be  required 
in  any  given  case.  An  important  advantage  is  also  claimed  for 
this  apparatus,  namely,  that  it  can  be  used  without  condensers, 
fog,  arrangements,  or  reflectors,  although  the  use  of  lenses  furtber 
strengthens  the  power  of  the  light. 

Among  the  processes  forfireprooting  to  which  the  attention 

of  the  Directors  of  the  Berlin  Exposition  was  recently  drawn, 
and  for  which  awards  have  been  declared,  are  the  following:  For 
light  tissues,  a  composition  consisting  of  sixteen  pounds  ammo- 
nium sulphates,  five  pounds  ammonium  carbonate,  four  pounds 
borax,  six  pounds  boric  acid,  four  pounds  starch— or  one  pound 
dextrine  or  one  pound  gelatine — and  twenty-five  gallons  water, 
mixed  together,  heated  to  86°  Fahr.,  and  the  material  impregnated 
with  the  mixture,  centrifugated  and  dried,  and  then  ironed  as 
usual.  One  quart  of  this  mixture,  costing  only  a  few  cents,  is 
sufficient  to  impregnate  fifteen  yards  of  material.  For  curtain 
materials,  theatrical  decorations,  wood  and  furniture,  thirty 
pounds  ammonium  chloride  are  mixed  with  so  much  floated  chalk 
as  to  give  the  mass  consistency,  and  it  is  then  heated  to  from 
125°  to  150°  Fahr.,  and  the  material  to  be  treated  is  given  one  or 
two  coats  of  it  by  means  of  a  brush.  A  pound  of  this  coating 
only  a  mere  trifle,  is  sufficient  to  cover  five  square  rods. 

An  improved  system  of  ventilation  has  been  introduced  in 

the  great  hall  of  the  new  Sorbonne,  in  Paris,  the  principle  re- 
sorted to  being  that  of  maintaining  the  walls  at  a  higher  tempera- 
ture than  that  of  the  air  which  they  enclose.  In  order  to  ac- 
complish this,  a  mixing  chamber  is  located  beneath  the  audi- 
torium, and  hot  and  cold  air  are  mixed  to  the  temperature  de- 
sired; the  air  is  forced  into  the  auditorium  through  a  great  num- 
ber of  small  holes  in  the  floor  and  in  front  of  the  seats,  the  open- 
ings being  covered  by  a  wire  netting.  Before  the  entrance  of  an 
audience,  the  walls  are  thoroughly  warmed  by  forcing  air  heated 
to  two  Hundred  degrees  into  a  conduit,  which  delivers  the  air 
into  a  space  behind  the  moulding  and  close  to  the  floor.  The  wall 
is  thus  heated  to  a  temperature  of  100  degrees — a  temperature 
which,  by  radiation,  will  keep  the  audience  comfortable,  at  the 
same  time  ventilating  the  ball  with  air  at  sixty  degrees,  derived 
from  the  mixing  chamber.  All  downward  cold  drafts  are  thus 
prevented,  the  currents  of  air  all  being  upward,  owing  to  the 
heated  surface. 

A   shuttle   manufacturer  in  Massachusetts  has  effected  an 

improvement  in  that  mechanism  which  promises  to  be  of  con- 
siderable practical  value  in  the  pp*rations  of  woolen  mills.  In 
lieu  of  the  ordinary  hinged  spindle  for  receiving  and  holding  the 
bobbin  of  yarn,  a  short  rigid  spindle  is  employed  in  combination 
with  two  holding  jaws,  one  above  and  the  other  below  the  head 
of  the  bobbin ;  the  latter  they  clasp  and  securely  hold  in  a  central 
position,  a  single  spiral  spring  being  arranged  in  the  base  of  the 
shuttle  so  as  to  exert  an  equal  pressure  on  the  bobbin-holding 
jaws,  between  which  it  is  placed.  As  a  result  of  this  unique 
construction,  all  splitting  of  the  bobbins  arising  from  the  use  of 
the  long-pointed  hinged  spindle  is  obviated,  with  a  consequent 
saving  of  waste  yarn.  The  trouble  from  the  breaking  of  this 
yarn  by  the  canting  of  the  spindle  point  in  the  weaving  operation 
is  also  overcome. 

It  is  found  that  masonry  may  be  rendered  impervious  to  water, 
especially  in  positions  exposed  to  direct  contact  to  that  element, 
by  the  application  of  coal  tar.  The  latter  is  employed  in  a  boil- 
ing state,  in  one  or  more  layers,  or  it  may  be  made  to  flame  up 
before  being  used,  the  first  being  suitable  for  surfaces  exposed  to 
the  air,  while  the  second  is  appropriate  in  the  case  of  parts  in- 
tended to  be  covered  up.  This  method  of  treating  foundations  is 
declared  to  be  of  special  utility  in  all  public  buildings,  particu- 
larly those  designed  for  the  preservation  of  works  of  art,  prevent- 
ing as  it  does,  exudations  of  water  charged  with  lime  salts  from  the 
mortar. 

Why  not  dine  at  Swain's  Original  bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street, 
which  for  years  has  been  regarded  as  one  of  The  leading  restaurants 
of  the  city.  It  is  one  of  the  best  places  in  the  city  for  the  enjoyment 
of  a  quiet  little  dinner  party,  for  all  its  accommodations  and.  its  pat- 
ronage are  first-class. 


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FIRE 


Insurance  Company, 
capital $1,000,000,  |  assets 13,000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  in  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

fESTABLI8HED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up »400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SANSOME  STREET, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

QBORGE  L.  BRANDER,  CHA8.  M.  BLAIR, 

President.  Secretary. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up S     500,000 

Assets  3.181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,525,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     tieneral  office — 401  Bfont'g,  St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY  COMPANY 

OF     BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital  {1,000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over  2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  ECHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Piue  Street 

MAXWELL  &  BERRY,  General  Agents. 

■421  California  Street. 

INSURE  your  property  against  FIJAE  in 

T  I T*.  T  Ttie  Lion  Fire  ,nsurance  Co>  LMM,  of  London. 
L  I  U  L  The  Imperial  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London 

j      I    I   '!    I  WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

1     ■   "  ■  Wm  Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,    21 4  Sansooie  St.,  S.  F. 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCK,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital  $25,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office.  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL,  T.  JAMES.  Manager 

VICHY     SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM   UKIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
kuowu '-chaTr.pagne  "  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautifying 
the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladies.  Only  natural  electric  water  in 
the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PBOPKIETOB. 

OCCIDENTAL    HOTEL, 

San    Francisco. 

.A       QTJIET       HOME 

CENTRALLY       LOCATED, 

FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 


Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 

Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

INGLENOOK  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  8an 
Francisco  prices  and  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  their 
orders  in  time  with 

F.  A.  HABER, 
Office  and  Depot  Inglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


24,  1892. 


SW  FRANCISCO  NEWS  T.KTTKI; 


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5UNBCAM5 


Wt'MKN  Homelinies  say  ourioas  things;  so  do  men,  of  course, 
but  women  especially.  Here's  a  conversation  recently 
overheard  in  this  town :  Woman  in  Black— Do  you  remember  Mary 
She  wh.h  an  orphan,  you  know.  Woman  in  Blue— Yea,  I  re- 
memberher.  But  she  wasn't  an  orphan.  "Yes  she  was.  What 
makes  you  think  she  waanHT"  "Why.  she  had  a  sister  I  used  to 
kuow.*'    '*  Did  she?     Well,  maybe  she  wasn't  then." 

— Rochester  Herald. 

When   the  pugilistic  thumper  isn't  thumping, 

Isn't  thumping. 
Nor  a-Heeing  from  the  minions  of  the  law, 

Of   the  law; 
He  loves  to  keep  the  young  reporter  humping, 

'Porter  humping, 
A-taking  down  the  output  of  his  jaw. 

Of  his  jaw.  —Indianapolis  Journal. 

Superintendent  tfAsytum—1  have  a  remarkable  lot  of  stuff' there. 

Ftrftor— Seems  to  be  a  collection  of  manuscripts.  Superintendent — Yes ; 
1  require  all  the  patients  to  write  what  is  uppermost  in  their  minds 
everyday.  Visitor — Do  you  want  to  make  some  money  out  of  it? 
Superintendent — Yes,  if  it  can  be  done.  T'wrtor— — All  right.  I'll 
write  the  music  to  it  and  we'll  put  it  on  the  road  as  a  comic  opera. 

Byron. 
"  A  drop  of  ink 

May  make  a  million   think." 
Cynicds. 
"  And  nut  thy  Scribblers  into  verse, 

Would  surely  make  two  million  curse."  —Life. 

Pcncille—  Pretty  picture,  by  Jove,  old  man.  Who  was  the  model? 

Gamboge— Well,  1  got  the  right  leg  at  Long  Branch,  and  the  left  one 
at  Bar  Harbor.  The  arms  and  bust  I  got  at  the  Van  Kentsarelow  re- 
ception. The  head  is  that  of  a  pretty  cousin  of  mine,  and  the  rest  of 
the  figure  is  from  some  old  studies.  — Life. 

Mr.  Lurker — Excuse  me,  Miss  Snapper,  but  I  have  long  sought 

this  opportunity  to Miss  Snapper — Never  mind   the  preamble, 

Mr.  Lurker.  Run  right  in  and  ask  pa.  He's  been  expecting  this 
would  come  for  the  last  two  years.  — Boston  Courier. 

When  Music,  heavenly  maid,  was  young, 

To  stately  measures  she  gave  tongue; 

But  senile  now.  the  livelong  day 

She  chortles  ' '  Ta-ra-boom-de-ay  ?  ' '  — Puck. 

——"What  a  horrid  mistake,  Mr.  Jaune,  they  made  about  your 
picture  "  Readv  for  the  Ball,"  when  they  catalogued  it  "  Ready  for 
the  Bath."  "There  was  no  harm  done.  That' was  what  I  was  going 
to  call  it  at  first  myself."  — Life. 

•^—Mother— Mercy  me!  The  dentist  has  pulled  out  the  wrong 
tooth.  Little  Dick  (gleefully)— I  fooled  him.  "  Fooled  him  ?  "  "  Yes, 
ma.  I  told  him  that  was  the  one.  I  knew  if  he  touched  th'  aching 
one  it  ud  hurt  awful." 

—  He  saw  the  brethren  slumbering, 

And  heard  them  snoring  long  and  deep, 
And  to  the  choir  he  said:  "  Please  sing 

'  He  giveth  his  beloved  sleep.'  "  — Puck. 

•^—The  Village  Pastor— Johnny,  you  tell  me  you  have  been  to  Sun- 
day-school. The  Bad  Boy — Yes,  sir.  The  Village  Pastor— But,  Johnny, 
your  hair  is  wet.  The  Bad  Boy — Yes,  sir;  it's  a  Baptist  Sunday- 
school.  — Jester. 

—%i  And  so  my  little  wife  cooked  this  all  herself  ?  What  does  she 
call  it?"  "  Well,  I  started  it  for  bread,  but  after  it  came  out  of  the 
oven  I  concluded  I'd  better  put  sauce  on  it  and  call  it  pudding." 

—Life. 

That  fashion  moves  in  circles  you  may  see, 

For  in  the  good  old  days  of  sword  and  lance 
Your  fine  Sir  Knight  when  rigged  out  cap-a-pie 
Had  most  decided  creases  in  his  pants. 

— New  York  Herald. 
—  Young  Callowe—  How  strange  it  is,  darling,  that  you  should  love 
me!    Prunella— Oh,  I  don't  know.    A  phrenologist  once  told  me  that 
I  was  naturally  affectionate— that  I  had  to  have  something  to  love. 

— New  York  Herald. 

Tom — That  oat  field  doesn't  seem  to  inspire  pleasant  thoughts 

in  you.  jerry— No.  Just  look  at  the  thousands  of  lovely  straws  there 
are"  there,  and  not  a  mint-julep  in  sight!    (Bursts  into  tears).— Puck. 

"  That  was  a  pretty  hard  doctor's  bill  1  had  to  pay."    "  How 

was  that?"  "  You  see  it  was  for  injuries  received  bv  being  thrown 
from  a  horse  I  was  riding  by  the  doctor's  advice.    —New  York  Sun. 

This  summer  girl  shall  pass  away, 

Our  lovely  dream    be  o'er; 

But  do  not  weep  or  dread  the  day. 

There  will  be  plenty  more. 

— Detroit  Free  Press. 

She— How  angrily   those  little  waves  dash   against  the  boat. 

They  seem  to  be  clamoring  for  something.  .He— They  are.  But  they 
won't  get  it  if  I  can  hold  on  to  it.  —Life. 

"  That's  another  story  !"  exclaimed  Jagway,  as  he  with  diffi- 
culty reached  the  top  of  the  second  flight  of  stairs,  at  two  in  the  morn- 
ing.   —Life. 

John  W.  Carman,  of  25  Kearny  street,  is  known  as  the  best  fur- 
nisher of  gentlemen's  goods  in  the  city.  His  stock  cannot  be  ex- 
celled anywhere.    It  always  includes  the  very  latest  designs. 


XHSrSTTZR-A-IISrCIE. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY, 

Herbert  L.  Low,  Manager  for  llie  l'urlllc  I'ohnI  Branch, 

22U  SaUNome  St.,  S.  I". 

Invested  in  U.  S 534,795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
232  California  St..  S.  F.,  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OP  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL 4.000.000  DOLLARS. 

fhese  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  w.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
110  California  St.,  8au  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  arid  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed $10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 7,000.000 

Cash  Reserve  (in  addition  to  Capital) 2  725  000 

Total  Assets  December  37,  7888 6.724.067,60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 


Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  BALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    UEPAKTMEUT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  A.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -    5  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249.' 


OF   LONDON. 

Pounded  A.  D.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, J10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -   -    -     $2,222,724. 


WM.  J.  UNDERS.  flen'l  Agent,  20i  Sansome  St.,  San  Franeimo,  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  J5,O0O,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $10,724,638.46. 

President.  nENJAMIN  P.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 

HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


K 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

CM  ESTER  ,  ErNJC3L.ArMP.ff 


Capital  paid  6j  guaranteed  £83,000,000, 

ChasALatuh,  Manager. 
433  California  Sh  San  r>ane;sca. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


OBITUARY. 

IN  this  country  of  rapid  and  almost  unnoticed  change,  we  are 
apt  to  forget  to-day  the  things  of  yesterday,  and  the  names  of 
the  dead  become  unfamiliar  to  our  lips,  even  before  the  grass  has 
had  time  to  cover  their  graves  with  verdure.  But  amid  this  rapid 
current  of  events  along  which  human  recollection  is  hurried, 
there  are  some  calm  pools  marked  by  the  consideration  of  strik- 
ing circumstances,  and  the  reflection  upon  the  character  of  those 
who  have  proceeded  us  in  the  inevitable  journey  into  the  valley 
of  death.  There  are  some  whose  individuality  is  so  marked  that 
even  the  most  thoughtless  must  feel  the  void  left  by  their  ab- 
sence. Of  such  was  William  Dunphy,  who,  on  Tuesday  of  this 
week,  was  laid  to  rest  in  Mount  Calvary  Cemetery.  No  better 
type  of  that  manliness  and  generosity,  combined  with  gentleness 
and  consideration  for  the  feelings  of  others,  qualities  which  we 
pride  ourselves  on  being  distinctly  Californian,  ever  existed  than 
the  good  man  removed  almost  in  his  prime.  His  early  life  was 
one  of  trial  and  adventure.  He  was  cast  among  surroundings 
where  the  law  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest  was  eminently  ap- 
plicable. He  had  faced  death  on  the  plains  and  on  the  battle- 
field, where  his  indomitable  valor  was  recognized  by  hie  com- 
rades. He  had  been  so  severely  wounded  that  his  recovery 
seemed  impossible,  but  his  stout  heart  never  failed  him,  and  in 
the  later  years  of  bis  life  his  magnificent  physique,  his  fortitude 
in  enduring  suffering,  and  his  unfailing  courage  triumphed  over 
casualties  which  would  have  been  fatal  to  a  man  less  liberally 
endowed  with  those  characteristics.  William  Dunphy  owed  his 
success  in  life  to  his  own  energy  and  ability.  He  was  supremely 
self-confident.  He  wished  no  counsellors.  His  inflexible  will 
never  wavered  in  the  prosecution  of  his  business  enterprises.  He 
was  never  depressed  by  failure,  or  over  jubilantin  success.  Clear- 
headed and  far-seeing,  he  moved  steadily  and  strongly  toward 
the  accomplishment  of  his  purposes.  He  overcame  every  obstacle 
and  thrust  every  difficulty  aside. 

But  while  a  stern,  earnest  man  in  the  battle  of  life,  at  home 
with  his  family,  and  surrounded  by  his  friends,  Mr.  Dunphy  was 
all  gentleness  and  hospitality.  He  entertained  on  a  princely 
scale.  One  of  his  greatest  pleasures  was  the  assembling  of  all 
his  friends  at  his  ranch  in  Monterey  county,  and  giving  them  a 
grand  feast.  These  invitations  were  unlimited.  His  guests  were 
pressed  to  stay  as  long  as  they  chose.  In  the  old  Spanish  custom, 
his  house  and  alt  it  contained  was  theirs  in  true  earnest,  and  not 
in  formal  cordiality.  He  had  a  kind  word  for  everybody.  His 
charities  were  unbounded;  his  fidelity  to  his  friends  permanent 
and  unshaken,  and  his  assistance  to  those  who  faltered  on  the 
pathway  which  he  had  trodden  victoriously  was  frequent  and 
measureless.  His  heart  overflowed  with  human  affection.  He 
loved  his  fellow-men,  and  his  love  was  evinced  in  substantial 
form.  He  was  always  too  proud  to  stoop  to  an  ignoble  action, 
and  valued  his  honor  and  integrity  as  his  life.  It  is  not  to  be 
wondered  at  then  that  the  loss  of  this  good,  this  kindly,  this 
honorable  and  high-minded  man,  is  regarded  by  those  who  mourn 
him  as  irreparable;  that  they  will  never  cease  to  miss  the  warm 
clasp  of  his  hand,  the  sunshine  of  his  smile,  toe  cheery  greeting, 
the  unvarying  interest  in  them,  the  pleasure  and  encouragement 
of  his  wholesome  presence.  Those  who  nestled  in  his  heart  of 
hearts,  his  wife  and  children,  have  the  sincere  sympathy  and 
condolence  of  the  community,  but  not  they  alone,  but  a  host  of 
friends,  for  this  great  heart  was  large  enough  for  all,  will  mourn 
William  Dunphy  for  years  to  come. 


HON.  DAVID  A.  McKINLEY,  Hawaiian  Consul  at  this  port, 
died  in  his  rooms  at  the  Palace*  Hotel  last  Sunday  morning. 
He  had  been  ailing  for  some  time,  and  a  few  days  before  his 
death  was  stricken  with  paralysis,  which  caused  bis  death.  Mr. 
McKinley  was  an  old  Californian,  having  lived  in  this  State  for 
forty  years.  He  was  engaged  in  mining  and  freighting  in  the 
early  days,  and  later,  upon  his  removal  to  this  city,  became  in- 
terested in  the  wood  and  coal  business,  in  which  he  built  up  a 
large  trade.  He  was  a  Presidential  elector  from  California  on  the 
Hayes  ticket,  and  during  the  latter's  administration  was  ap- 
pointed United  States  Consul  to  Hawaii.  He  served  through  the 
Garfield  term,  but  was  relieved  by  Mr.  Severance,  who  was  Presi- 
dent Cleveland's  appointment.  King  Kalakaua  appointed  him 
Hawaiian  Consul  at  San  Francisco.  The  deceased  was  a  brother 
of  Governor  McKinley  of  Ohio.  He  left  a  widow  and  one 
daughter,  Mrs.  George  E.  Morse.  Mr.  McKinley  was  buried  in 
Odd  Fellows'  Cemetery  on  Tuesday  last.  He  was  very  well 
known  throughout  the  State,  and  bad  numerous  friends. 


Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W,  A.  Bissell,  (>50 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


SWEET    DAY.— George  Herbert. 

Sweet  Day,  so  cool,  so  calm,  so  bright, 
The  bridal  of  the  earth  and  sky, 
The  dew  shall  weep  thyfall  to-night; 

For  thou  must  die. 
Sweet  Rose,  whose  hue  angry  and  brave, 
Bids  the  rash  gazer  wipe  his  eye, 
Thy  root  is  ever  in  its  grave, 

And  thou  mnst  die. 


Only  a  sweet  and  virtuous  soul, 
Like  season'd  timber,  never  gives; 
But  though  the  whole  world  turn  to  coal, 
Then  chiefly  lives. 


WILL    NOT    LEAVE    LOUISIANA. 


What  President  Conrad  Has  to  Say  About  the  Big  Lottery. 


NEW  ORLEANS,  August  26tb.— President  Paul  Conrad,  of  the 
Louisiana  Lottery  Company,  was  interviewed  to-day  about 
the  dispatch  regarding  the  company's  attempt  to  purchase  a  location 
in    the    Sandwich    Islands.      He  said:     "  It  is  a  *fake'  sensation, 

Sure  and  simple,  or  a  malicious  concoction,  designed,  per- 
aps,  to  prejudice  the  company  in  the  minds  of  the  people 
of  the  United  States,  by  creating  the  impression  that  our  business  is 
to  be  removed  from  the  legal  restrictions  and  accountability  it  is  now 
under,  by  virtue  of  the  laws  of  Louisiana.  Were  the  Louisiana  State 
Lottery  Company  to  become  a  Hawaiian  instead  of  a  Louisiana  con- 
cern, of  course,  it  would  be  practically  an  impossibility  to  enforce 
claims  against  it;  whereas,  being  a  duly  chartered  corporation  of  this 
State,  it  is  amenable  to  the  laws.  Obligations  can  be  enforced  through 
the  courts  against  it  the  same  as  against  any  lawful  and  responsible 
company." 

"  But  what  are  the  company's  plans  for  the  future!  Might  not 
their  negotiations  be  carried  on  without  your  knowledge?" 

"  Scarcely  such  vast  sums  as  are  talked  of  are  not  carried  in  one's 
vest  pocket  nor  expended  by  one  member  of  a  concern  without  con- 
sulting his  associates.  The  owners  of  the  Louisiana  Lottery  are  now 
scattered  over  the  globe  seeking  peace  or  pleasure,  according  to  their 
condition  or  taste.  Mr.  Morris,  with  friends,  have  been  for  weeks 
cruising  about  on  his  yacht,  and  I  doubt  if  any  one  has  communi- 
cated with  him  on  business  of  any  description.  Certainly  he  is  not 
giving  himself  any  concern  about  lottery  business,  and  I  repeat  there 
is  simply  nothing  in  this  alleged  San  Francisco  story  except  idle  gos- 
sip, so  far  as  I  know,  and  I  think  I  know  all  the  facts.  The  Louisi- 
ana Lottery  Company  will  live  out  its  allotted  time  as  fixed  by  its 
vested  rights,  say  a  couple  of  years  longer,  doing  its  business  here  as 
it  always  has,  and  abiding  by  the  popular  decision  in  the  recent  con- 
test. — New  York  Times,  August  27th. 


One  of  the  most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  within  easy  reach  of 
the  city  may  be  found  at  Laundry  Farm,  which  is  forty  minutes 
from  Oakland  and  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes  from  this  city.  It  is 
reached  by  the  California  Railway,  which  is  also  the  only  railroad  line 
running  direct  to  Mills' Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  is  a  delightful 
spot. 

The  carpet-beating  machine  and  cleaning  and  dyeing  works  of  J. 
Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  353-357  Tehama  street,  need  no  praise.  The  ex- 
cellent work  done  by  them  for  years  are  their  best  recommendation. 
Their  work  is  well  known.  They  enjoy  the  patronage  of  all  careful 
housewives  who  desire  good  and  prompt  work  executed.  Go  to 
Spaulding  if  you  have  any  work  in  their  line. 

For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

WILLIAM     MONTGOMERY, 

(Proprietor  American  Exchange  Hotel.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Assembly,  3Stb  District, 

BERT     SCHLESINGER, 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  State  Senator,  31st  Senatorial  District, 

WM.     J.     BIGGY, 
(Pledged  to  support  the  Tariff  Association.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 


THIS    IS  TO  ATTRACT    YOUR   ATTENTION 
THE     FACT    THAT     CARL    UPMANN'S      LINCOLN'S 
CABINET     CIGARS    ARE     MADE    OF    THE     FINEST 
VUELTA   ABAJO  TOBACCO. 

.©S^YOll    SHOULD    SMOKE  THE 


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24    1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


TBB  fair  Viennese  are  growing  weary  of  the  tyranny  of  la 
mode  de  Paris,  and  propose  to  set  the  fashions  in  future  fur 
themselves.  Why.  they  question  with  reason,  should  we  wear 
a  particular  color  or  a  special  cut.  because  Parisian  milliners  say 
it  is  the  proper  thing?  There  seems  to  be  widespread  discon- 
tent, not  to  say  revolution,  in  ibis  respect  in  fashion's  realm. 
Only  Parisian  women  are  servile  imitators  of  the  mode,  wear  un- 
questioningly  what  the  mysterious  on  dti  of  the  oracle  commands. 
In  London  French  fashions  are  modified  until  scarcely  recogniz- 
able to  their  own  designers.  Particularly  is  this  true  among 
American  women,  whos-e  skill  in  (he  adaptation  and  manipulation 
of  modes  to  suit  various  styles  of  beauty  is  quite  equal  to  the 
fertility  of  French  invention,  and  results  in  an  originality,  in- 
dividuality, and  harmony  in  dress  unknown  even  at  the  great 
dress  centre,  Paris,  the  home  beautiful  of  costume. 

A  modern  fin  de  siecle  gown  which  is  quite  in  the  fashion  and 
yet  which  might  have  been  taken  from  an  old  picture  for  quaint 
effect  is  made  of  white  embroidered  muslin  made  up  over 
a  pale  pink  petticoat.  A  full  Empire  sash  of  soft  pink 
silk  is  passed  over  the  bust  and  tied  with  a  full 
bow  arranged  vertically  so  that  one  end  stands  up  against  the 
shoulder.  The  silk  covers  the  deep  ruffle  of  the  muslin  in  front, 
which,  however,  comes  out  on  the  shoulders  and  continues  at 
the  back.  Full  Bleeves  of  pink  silk  and  long,  loose  tan  mous- 
quetaire  gloves  complete  this  pretty  costume. 

A  novelty  from  Paris  is  a  small  powder  pouch,  which  is  at- 
tached to  the  end  of  the  left  sleeve  of  an  opera  cloak.  It  is  made 
of  the  same  material  as  the  cloak  and  is  quite  un noticeable  save 
as  a  pretty  finish.  Inside  it  is  lined  with  chamois  leather  and 
contains  a  tiny  powder  box,  a  miniature  mirror  and  any  other 
little  toilet  accessory  deemed  necessary  in  the  dressing  room. 
This  is  the  revival  of  an  old  idea,  for  in  the  days  of  powder, 
rourge  and  patches,  each  lady  carried  such  a  bag — one  probably 
of  much  ampler  proportions. 

New  waistcoats  of  Scotch  plaid  surah  or  shot  taffeta  are  made 
to  be  worn  with  open  coats  that  have  skirts,  and  also  with  the 
shorter  jackets  reaching  only  to  the  waist-line,  similar  in  shape  to 
the  Eton  and  Russian  models.  The  gay  waistcoats  have  a  loose 
blouse-front  of  the  silk,  with  a  turned-over  collar  and  broad  ends 
to  tie  in  a  large  cravat-bow.  The  back  is  merely  of  silesia.  The 
short  jackets  are  made  variously  of  black  or  blue  serge,  Harris 
tweed,  Bedford  cord,  velvet  and  Venetian  cloth. 

A  superb  evening  dress  is  of  dark  Veronese  green  velvet,  with 
panels  of  dead  white  satin.  It  is  cut  in  princess  breadths,  the 
front  folding  over  in  a  large  point  to  the  left  hip.  The  bodice 
front  and  the  tablier  are  of  very  old  and  very  fine  lace  laid  over 
satin.  Embroidery  of  silver  and  gold  proves  an  effective  garni- 
ture on  the  satin  panels.  The  full  puffed  sleeves  of  velvet  are 
bordered  with  embroidery,  and  bracelets  of  the  same  are  added. 
The  lace  tucker  is  carried   up  to  epaulette  bows  on  the  shoulders. 


Alsacian  bows  will  be  seen  on  most  of  the  hats  this  winter  and 
the  leading  novelty  at  present  are  the  immense  curved  buckles 
which  are  to  hold  them  down  in  the  center.  These  buckles  are 
of  cut  jet,  or  of  jet  with  an  inner  row  of  green  crystals,  or  of 
Rhine  stones  and  jet  or  green  crystals,  and  so  on. 

Louis  Quinze  coats  of  very  graceful  shape  are  imported  from 
Paris  for  autumn  wear  and  also  for  the  early  winter.  They  out- 
line the  figure  without  flitting  too  closely,  and  fall  open  from  the 
throat  on  a  deep  vest  of  embroidered  cloth  or  rich  brocade.  They 
are  about  32  inches  in  length. 


In  fall  fancy  cloakings  is  a  novelty  in  cheveviot,  with  raised 
hair  lines  in  shaggy  camel's  hair.  This  design  is  represented 
on  bronze  or  blue-gray  cloth  grounds,  with  richly  shaded  stripes 
that  sometimes  form  blocks. 


MARION    HARLAND'S    OPINION. 

READERS  of  the  News  Letter  are  familiar  not  only  with  the 
sprightly  writings  of  Marion  Harland,  but  also  with  her  sound 
common  sense  upon  matters  of  every  day  life  and  action.  Her 
name,  indeed,  is  a  household  word,  and  is  equally  well  known  in 
parlor  and  kitchen.  Her  celebrated  cook-book,  "  Common  Sense 
in  the  Household,"  is  without  a  peer,  and  shows  that  she  has 
made  a  careful  study  of  how  to  prepare  good,  wholesome  food,  in 
the  best  manner  by  the  best  materials.  In  this  issue  we  produce 
a  fac-aimile  letter  from  Marion  Harland  that  speaks  from  her  ex- 
perience in  the  highest  terms  of  the  unequalled  qualities  of  the 
Royal  Baking  Powder.  Housewives  everywhere  should  read  the 
opinion  of  such  an  expert  and  act  accordingly.  All  good  cooks, 
who  have  used  the  Royal,  are  of  the  same  opinion  also. 


NEW     FALL 


55YC^S  f\f\b  flOl/£CJlES 


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DRY    GOODS    AND     CLOAKS  ■ 
Jfou/  Or)   ^xbibitioQ. 

Our  unequalled  importations  of  the  new  season's  goods 

place  us  in  better  position  than  ever  before  to 

meet  the  wants  of  our  patrons  with 

THE  LARGEST  AND   MOST   COMPLETE   ASSORTMENTS. 

THE  LATEST  AND  MOST  ELEGANT  STYLES,   and 

THE  VERY  BEST  VALUES  IN  THE  MARKET. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


O.  F,  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  1855. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  NewHaven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.  J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Quiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O.  

HOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot — pot  lasts  three  months. 
F  Mrs.  Nettie  Habkisok, 

America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.  Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    GUARANTEED    PERMANENT. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


K.     3^.     IfcTE"W^I-A-I_.I_.     <Sc     CO,. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  fair;    Extras  $4.15@$4.25:    Superfine,  $2.50@$3.00. 

Wheat—  Light  trade;  Shipping.  *1.27^:   Milling,    $1.30@$1.35  per  cental. 

Barley  Is  quiet;  Brewing,  9 >c.fg>FL  Feed.  S  )c.@Sic.  per  ctl. 

Oats.  Milling,  $1.S0@$1.35;  Feed,  $1.25@$L80  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $13i;  Yellow,  *1.3  V^U37'.i  per  ctl. 

Rye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  $1.7!  £#$1.10.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  U:  Oats,  *7i®*8;  Alfalfa.  $7@$S. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $15@?16  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00  g)$2.50  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  50c.@70c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  steady;  Choice,  2r>c.@30c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  30c.@40c. 

Honey,  Comb,  llc.@12c;  Extracted,  6c.@7c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  2bc@40c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@26c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7l,4c.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  lle.@l6c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5\£c.@5££o. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C-  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kind*  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@2Jc. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4 1.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stoeK  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  5Va'S3618c. 

There  is  unmistakable  evidence  of  the  rapid  increase  of  the 
trade  between  California  and  the  cities  of  the  East.  A  short  time 
since  it  was  thought  to  divert  a  large  amount  of  tbe  so-called 
overland  traffic  by  rail  to  the  sea  route  would  correspondingly 
diminish  tbe  railroad  carrying  trade,  but  such  is  not  the  case,  for 
the  railroad  account  of  the  August  traffic  by  the  Southern  Pacific 
route  shows  a  large  increase  over  that  of  a  corresponding  period 
last  year.  The  figures  stand  thus,  for  the  last  month,  East  bound, 
45,800  tons,  and  in  August,  1891,  30,428  tons,  a  gain  for  last  month 
of  15,432  tons.  The  most  noticeable  item  of  increase  is  in  green 
fruits,  there  being  a  gain  this  yearof  8,413  tons,  as  compared  with 
August  of  1891.  The  whole  shipment  Eastward  of  green  fruit 
last  month,  17,103  tons.  Ail  this  time,  the  sea  shipments  have 
been  large,  and  there  are  now  eight  ships  loading  for  foreign  and 
Atlantic  pons,  besides  the  regular  steamers,  and  these  all  carry- 
ing more  or  less  Wine,  Brandy,  Canned  Fruits,  Salmon,  Grain  and 
other  products — all  showing  the  wonderful  growing  capacity  of 
the  Pacific  coast.  The  Southern  Pacific  reports  for  August  give 
as  total  shipments,  45,860  tons  East  bound;  of  this  San  Francisco 
contributed  18,916  tons;  6acramento,  16,374  tons;  Stockton,  3,554 
tons;  San  Jose,  3,730  tons;  Oakland,  1,268  tons;  Marysville,  1,536 
tons;  Portland,  477  tons.  San  Francisco  contributed  7,754  tons 
Sugar,  1,357  tons  Tea,  1,292  tons  Wine,  1,509  tons  Potatoes,  2,099 
tons  Canned  Goods,  etc.  Sacramento  sent  off  over  2,000  tons 
canned,  dried  and  green  Fruit,  1,863  tons  Potatoes. 

The  Cordage  Company  have  made  a  sweeping  reduction  on  all 
grades — say  from  l@2c.  per  pound. 

The  steamer  Progress,  for  New  York,  had  for  cargo  31,820  galls. 
Brandy,  107,003  galls.  Wine,  8,609  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  61,740  lbs. 
Beans,  11,986  Hides,  12,265  cs.  and  100  bbls.  Salmon,  59,496  lbs. 
Wool,  319  rolls  Leather,  etc. 

The  ship  Florence,  for  New  York ,  bad  201,023  lbs.  Borax,  19,241 
ctls.  Barley,  68,223  lbs.  Honey,  235,405  lbs.  Mustard  Seed,  5,240 
cs.  Salmon,  46,838  galls.  Wine,  16,889  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  etc. 

Orient.— The  P.  M.  S.  S.  City  of  Peking,  hence  17th  inst.,  car- 
ried in  treasure  $798,264,  say  $319,264  to  China  and  $479,000  to 
Japan;  and  for  cargo  to  Hongkong,  14,816  bbls.  Flour,  10,290  lbs. 
Ginseng,  202  bxs.  Pearl  Barley,  345  bxs.  Apples,  50  bbls.  Pork, 
etc.,  value  $100,660;  To  Japan,  76ff  bbls.  Flour,  58  rolls  Leather, 
etc.,  value  $13,592 ;  to  Vladivostock,  750  bbls.  Flour,  value  $4,368 ; 
elsewhere,  70  cs.  Salmon  and  81  cs.  Canned  Fruit. 

Marshall  Islands — The  schr.  Maid  of  Orleans  had  Mdse.,  value 
$7,920,  say  541  cs.  Canned  Meat,  200  cs.  Salmon,  Bread,  Beans, 
Sugar,  Colfee,  Lumber,  etc. 

Grain  charters  for  the  United  Kingdom  rule  at  very  low  rates. 

Australia,  etc. — The  steamer  Monowai,  hence  for  the  Colonies 
on  the  16th  inst.,  carried  cargo  valued  at  $61,660,  say  for  New 
Zealand,  415  cs.  Salmon,  7,763  lbs.  Dried  Fruit,  235  cs.  Onions,  77 
ca.  Canned  Fruit,  4,297  lbs.  Broom  Corn,  etc.  To  Australia,  958 
«B.  Canned  Fruit,  2,605  cs.  Salmon,  2,699  lbs.  Hops,  9,750  lbs.  Cod- 
fish, 2,025  gals.  Whale  Oil,  1,682  bxs.  Apples,  Lumber,  Door 
Stock,  etc. 

London. — The  Br.  ship  Dechmont,  hence  September  16th,  car- 
ried Mdse.,  value,  $172,117,  say  17,366 cs.  Salmon,  6,395  cs.  Canned 
Fruit,  7,970  bbls.  Flour,  27,745  ctls.  Barley,  16,445  gals.  Wine, 
1,524  gals.  Brandy,  etc. 

Hongkong  and  Yokohama. — The  P.  M.  S.  S.  China,  from 
thence,  had  for  cargo  1,000  bales  Hemp,  1,750  bags  Coffee,  86 
pkgs.  Silk  Goods,  510  rolls  Matting,  2,204  pkgs.  Sugar,  6,332  pkgs. 
Tea,  6224  mats'Rice,  7,750  pkgs.  mdse.;  also  in  transit  to  go  over- 
land, 2,404  pkgs.  Tea,  42  pkgs.  Silk  Goods,  1,730  pkgs.  Raw  Silk, 
237  pkgs.  Curios,  etc. 

Magdalena  Bay. — The  Mexican  schr.  Josephine  brought  for 
cargo  235  bales  Orchilla,  Old  Junk,  etc. 

Eybs  tested  according  to  physiological  laws  of  light  and  not  by  ma 
chiaery.  C.  Muller,  the  progressive  optician,  135  Montgomery  street,  near 
Bush. 


SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 


GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos.  309  and  311  Sansonie  Street,  San  Francisco- 
National  Assurance  Company      -----      of  Ireland 
Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company of  Boston 

Ocean   Marine  Insurance      -  -        -       -        -      of  London 


«- 


II 


Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction. 
"Wood" 

Arc 
Factories : 
Fort  Wayue. 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General   Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company.  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Estimates  furnished   for  electric  railways,  electric 
Indiana;:  light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 

Br0Nke,rYork:aSpeCialtJ'- 
II  II  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


0    D     SCALE     REMOVED,  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the   use  of  


STEAM 
BOIlER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 

LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

(Over  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  26  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


r.  j.  wheeler. 


j.  w.  oirvin. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

—      Rubber  and  Leather  Belting,      — 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 


Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Bostou  Beitiug  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt&Co.  e  California  St.,  S.  F.,tal. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 


I  SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS.  | 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC    STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

OILLINGHAM     CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCI8CO. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO  , 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION     MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     cor.      Pine      and      Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Agents  for 

THE  CALIFORNIA  LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPS  FROM  NEW  YORK. 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co.;  the  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packets 
to  and  from  Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limited);  Bald- 
win Locomotive  Works;  A.  Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sons 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Rahc- 
jen's  Composition.    Ontario  Cotton  Sail  Dack. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET, 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD   AND    IKON    WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING.  OIL8  AND  8UPPLIE8. 

XjOTJIS   OAHEU   <Sc   SOIT, 


-Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole — 
sale  Liquor  Dealers.  - 

-Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters- 
Cordials,  etc.  - 


PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 
-a IS  Sacramento  Street,  S.  I=\ 


M,  1892 

SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 
PACIFIC    STSTKH. 

Trmni  Lotve  and   «r«  Due  to  Arrive 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Lcavk       From  Sep*emb?r  3,  1892.      I  Arrivs 

TflOi.  Bomcia,  Bomny,  Sacramento        7:16 f 
7*0*.  Havward*.  Nile*  and  riau  Jose      '13:16 P 
HUM  aii-i  Sau  Jose  16:15  p 

7:30a.  Martinet.  San  Kamoo,  Callstogn 

and  dauU  Rosa  *:l-ip. 

8:00  a.  iacram  to  A  Beddiug,  viaPavis        7:16  P. 

$-00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East,  9:46  p. 

8  90a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton.  lone, 
Sacramento.  Marvsville,  Oro- 
vllle  and  Red  Bluff  4:15  p. 

9.00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  Au- 

Seles.  Demine,  El   Paso,   New 
rleausand  East 8:46  p. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton  ...      '-  ISP. 

12-00*.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore     7:15  p. 

•I^JOp.  Sacramento  River  Steamers  "9:00p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejoaud  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards.  Niles  and  San  Jose         9:45  a. 
4:00  P.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

.  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a. 

4  ;00  P.  Vail e jo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa       . 9.45  a. 

4-30 p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45  a. 

4:30p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45  a. 

"i-.aup.  Niles  and  Livermore '8:45  a. 

5:30p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 
Los  Angeles.     8.43a. 

5:30  p.  Santa Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  a. 

6:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  .      7:45  a. 

fi-OO  p.  European  Miil  Ogden  aud  East    9:15  a. 

|7:O0p.  Vallejo j8:45  P. 

7:00p.  ShastaRoute Express, Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Puget  Sound  and  East. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

17:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  18:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz. 6:20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder    Creek    and 

SantaCruz-   *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Ceaterville,  3an  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:50  a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

*7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions   *2:38p. 

]7:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion  18:28  p, 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gllroy,  TreB  Pinos,Pa- 
jaTO, SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove.  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
19:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.    J2:45  p. 
10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  5:03p, 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations. 3:30  p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,    Salinas, 
Moaterey,    Pacific   Grove  and 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37  A, 

*3:30  P.  San    Jose,    Gilroy,  Tres    Pinos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. ..     *9:47  a. 
*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8:06  a, 

5  3.5  P.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8 :48  a, 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .      6:35  a. 

rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations f7:30p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

ISundayB  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,   AUCKLAND  AND  SYDNEY, 

43.  S.  Monowai Friday,  September  16,  at  2  p.  M, 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

S.  S.  Australia  Wednesday,  Aug.  81,  1892,  at  2  p.  M. 
For  Freight   or   Passage  apply  at    Office,  827 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRKCKELB  &  BROS.  00, 

General  Agents 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


GEORGE  GOODMAN, 

PATENTEE   and   manufacturer  op 

ARTIFICIAL      STONE 
in  ail  its  branches. 

Office,  307  Montgomery  Street. 


THK  bowling  club  of  the  Concordia  is  be- 
coming very  popular  among  the  young- 
er members  and  their  lady  friends.  On 
Tuesday,  Thursday  and  Friday  nights  of 
each  week  the  balls  are  kept  rolling  for  two 
or  three  hours,  and  some  very  expert  bowl- 
ers are  developing.  Heretofore  the  male 
members  held  the  best  scores,  but  last  Fri- 
day night  Miss  Belle  Armer  broke  all  pre- 
vious records  made  in  the  club  by  either 
male  or  female  members,  and  has  been  duly 
declared  champion.  She  bears  ber  honors 
easily  for  a  young  lady. 

ADMIRAL  GHERHARDI,  who  is  among 
the  week's  arrivals  from  the  East,  for 
the  purpose  of  hoisting  his  flag  upon  the 
Baltimore,  is  not  quite  unknown  in  San 
Francisco  society  circles.  He  was  stationed, 
as  Captain  Gherhardi,  in  these  waters  dur- 
ing the  early  seventies,  during  which  time 
he  married  one  of  our  pioneer  belles,  Miss 
Anna  Rockwell,  who,  with  her  sister,  Miss 
Charlotte  Rockwell,  were  features  of  the 
swim  in  the  preceding  decade.  Mrs.  Gher- 
hardi died  in  New  York  about  two  years 
ago. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Belgic Thursday,  Oct.  6, 1892. 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT   REDUCED    RATE8. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.  RIPE.  Traffic  Manager. 

PACIFIC   COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregoit,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market,  street.  RanFranm'RO 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Yellow  Jacket  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County, 
Nevada.  Location  of  principal  place  of  business — 
Gold  Hill,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  this  company,  held  on  the  5th 
day  of  September,  a.  d.,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
52)  of  Twenty-five  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon 
each  and  every  share  of  the  capital  stock  of  the 
company,  payable  immediately  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  company,  or  to  .Tames  Newlands,  Transfer 
Secretary,  room  3,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 
Friday,  October  7th,  1892,  will  be  deemed  delinquent 

and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  10th  day  of  Nov- 
ember,,1892,  at  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  in  front  -of  the  office 
of  the  "company,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.  By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
W.  H.  BLAUVELf,  Secretary. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate 
Agents,  make  a  specialty  of  taking  full  charge 
of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and 
sold  on  commission.  Office,  407-409  Montgom- 
ery street. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE   DONAHUE   BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  SUNDAY,    APRIL    21.   1 
until  further   notice,  Boats   arid    Trains    will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  tin?  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tluuron,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS-7:40  a.  k     9:20  a.  «.,   11:20  A.  u.: 

1:80  f.  M.,  3:30  p.  m.,6:05  p.  m.,  6:20  p.  m. 
8UNDAYS-8:00  A.M.,  9:30  A.M.,  11:00  a.m.;  l;S0  P.H, 
3:30  p.  M.,  5:00  p.  M.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  a.   m.,  7:55  A.   M.,  9:30    l    H. 

11:30  a.m.;  1:40p.m.,  3:40  p.m.,  6:05  p.m. 
SATURDAY'S  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.  B, 
SUNDAY'S— S:10  a.m.,  9:40  A.M.,  U:10a.m.;  1:40 P.M. 
3:40  p.  M.,  5:00p  m.,  6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  a.m.,  11:65 
A.M.;  2:05  p.  m.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:36   A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,   11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.m.,  4:05p.m.,  5:30p.m.,  6:50p.m. 


Leave  S.F. 


Da^t    Sundays 


Days. 


7:40  A.M. 
3:30  P.M. 
5:05  p.m. 


8:00  A.M. 
9:30  A.M. 
5:00p.  m. 


7:40A.M. 
3:30  P.M. 


7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 


7:40a.  m 
5:05  p.m. 


8:00  a.m. 
5;00p.  m. 


DESTINATION. 


Sundays 


Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 


Pulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations, 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Guerneville. 


Sonoma  and  10:40a.m. 
Glen  Ellen.    6:05p.m. 


Arrive  in  S.  F. 


10:40  a. m 
6:05  p.  m 
7:25p.m 


Week 
Days. 


8:50a.  m. 
10:S0a.m 
6:10p.m. 


7:40a.m    8:00a.m    Sebastopol.  I  10:40a. m    10:30am 
3:30  p.m    5:00p.m  ]    6:05p.M    6:10  p. M 


10  :30a. m 
6  -.10  P.M 


6:10  P.M. 


10:30a.m. 
10  p.m. 


8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Kosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena:  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land SpringB,  Kelsey  ville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga SpringB,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Canto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  aud  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75:  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  ?1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  CloveTdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  S.  S.  "City  of  New  York," 
September  26th;  S.  S  "San  Bias,"  October  5th; 
"City  ol  Sydney,"  October  15th. 

Wau  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzamllo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto.  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Saillxg.-Oct.  18th,  S.  S.  "  Colima. 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Sept.  27 

S.'s.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  M. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 
5th,  1892,  at  3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  3  p.  M.  ,        , 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 

1  For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


ST.  LUKE'S  CHURCH,  which  has  so  often  been  the  scene  of 
brilliant  wedding  parties,  was  again  ablaze  with  light,  and 
full  of  the  perfume  of  flowers  on  Tuesday  evening,  when  the 
long  expected  wedding  of  Miss  Ida  Carleton  and  Chaplain  Frank 
Thompson,  of  the  navy,  took  place.  Early  in  the  evening,  the 
wedding  guests  began  to  assemble  and  pass  up  the  canopied  steps 
into  the  little  church,  so  that  when  the  hour  fixed  for  the  cere- 
mony, eight  o'clock,  drew  near,  every  seat  was  occupied.  The 
interior  of  the  church  looked  beautifully.  The  Chancel  with  its 
gilt  candelabras  and  altar  rails  forming  a  bright  background,  was 
elaborately  decorated  with  potted  palms,  tall  evergreens,  and 
garlands  and  bunches  of  bright  flowers  and  ferns,  intermingled 
with  trailing  satin  ribbons  caught  up  in  bows.  The  anchor,  cross 
and  star  were  outlined  in  gas  jets  above  the  altar,  and  myriads  of 
lights  were  each  side  in  the  gilt  standards.  The  pews  were  filled 
with  numberless  pretty  women  in  festive  attire,  all  smiling, 
nodding  and  chatting,  while  the  music  of  the  organ  filled  in  the 
time  till  the  bride  appeared.  The  ushers  were  naval  officers  who 
donned  full  uniform  to  do  honor  to  the  occasion,  thereby  adding  to 
the  brilliancy  of  the  scene.  Soon  after  eight  o'clock  the  bridal 
procession  entered,  the  ushers  coming  first.  These  were  Com- 
mander Wells  N.  Field,  Lieuts.  Potch,  Hunker,  Mahoney,  Willey 
and  Bassett.  Then  appeared  pretty  Miss  Gertrude  Goewey  as 
maid  of  honor.  She  was  attired  in  a  primrose-colored  silk  robe 
with  a  court  train,  the  bunch  of  jacqueminot  roses  she  carried 
making  a  bright  contrast  to  her  dress.  The  six  bridesmaids,  the 
Misses  Gibbs,  Horton,  O'Connor,  Hine,  McEwen  and  Helen  Gibbs, 
were  all  costumed  alike  in  pink  brocaded  silk,  with  court  trains, 
and  each  carried  Japanese  lillies  tied  with  ribbons.  Then  came 
the  cynosure  of  all  eyes,  the  charming  bride  who  advanced  with 
head  bent  down,  leaning  upon  the  arm  of  her  cousin,  Frank 
Norris.  The  bridal  robe  was  of  unusual  richness,  being  a  gown 
of  point  lace  made  in  one  piece  from  shoulder  to  feet.  It  fell  in 
loose  folds  over  a  heavy  velvet  corded  silk  trimmed  at  the  base 
with  velvetine  and  chitfon,  mixed  with  tiny  sprays  of  orange 
blossoms,  a  bunch  of  the  same  flower  holding  her  long  tulle  vail 
in  place  at  one  side.  The  hand  bouquet  was  also  of  natural 
orange  blossoms,  the  odor  of  which  filled  the  air.  Chaplain 
Thompson,  accompanied  by  his  best  man,  Dr.  McCormick,  met 
the  cortege  at  the  altar,  where  Mr.  Thompson  took  his  bride's 
hand  and  led  her  to  where  Bishop  Nichols  stood  wailing.  In  the 
chancel  was  also  Rev.  Frank  Church,  rector  in  charge  of  St. 
Luke's,  Rev.  R.  C.  Foute,  of  Grace  Church,  Rev.  William  Bollard 
of  Vallejo,  and  Chaplain  Lewis,  U.  S.  N.  At  the  conclusion  of 
the  ceremony,  the  wedding  party  went  to  the  residence  of  the 
bride's  aunt,  Mrs.  B.  F.  Norris,  on  Sacramento  street,  where  the 
reception  was  held.  Mrs.  Norris  was  elegantly  dressed  in  blue 
brocade  and  chantilly  lace,  and  wore  some  handsome  diamonds. 
The  bridal  bower  where  the  happy  couple  stood  to  welcome  their 
guests  was  a  new  conceit  in  that  line,  being  formed  of  a  large 
silk  flag  of  the  national  colors,  caught  up  with  flowers  and  ferns. 
A  magnificent  supper  was  served  at  20  o'clock,  and  after  which 
there  was  dancing.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson  will  upon  their 
return  from  their  honeymoon  trip  reside  in  this  city  for  a  time. 


Not  since  the  Pope-Taylor  wedding  in  the  early  springtime 
has  old  Trinity  Church  been  so  crowded  with  wedding  guests  as 
on  last  Thursday  evening,  when  Miss  Frankie  Sanford  (daughter 
of  Mrs.  M.  G.  Sanford)  and  Edward  Sanford  Taylor  were  married. 
The  church  was  beautifully  dressed  with  palms,  ferns,  flowers 
and  ribbons,  white  and  gold  predominating,  and  the  organ  pealed 
forth  several  delightful  selections  while  the  guests  were  assem- 
bling.  Presently  came  the  buz  and  hum  which  precedes  the  ar- 
rival of  the  bridal  party,  and  soon  after,  the  notes  of  the  Wed- 
ding March  heralded  their  coming.  The  four  ushers,  Messrs. 
Castelaza,  Adams,  Dallam  and  Doubleday,  led  the  cortege,  fol- 
lowed by  the  maid  of  honor  and  sole  bridesmaid,  Miss  Josephine 
Dunlop.  who  looked  charmingly  in  a  cream-colored  silk  trimmed 
with  chiffon  and  carrying  a  large  bouquet  of  pink  roses,  with 
long  satin  streamers.  Then  came  the  pretty  bride,  escorted  by 
the  old  family  friend,  Mr.  Jay  Smith,  who  performed  the  same 
service  for  her  mother  at  her  wedding  years  before.  The  bride 
wore  a  costume  of  heavy  corded  faille  francaise,  elaborately 
trimmed  with  point  lace;  a  moleine  veil  covered  her  from  head  to 
foot  literally,  and  she  carried  one  of  the  latest  devices  in  bou- 
quets, known  as  "  shower,"  the  tendrils  and  sprays  of  which 
were  tied  with  white  silk.  As  the  procession  advanced  up  the 
aisle,  the  groom  and  his  best  man,  Captain  Irving  B.  Cook,  came 
from  the  vestry  and  met  the  bride,  when  Rev.  Hobart  Chetwood 
read  the  marriage  service  and  Bishop  Nichols  pronounced  the 
benediction.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremony,  the  party  drove 
to  the  California  Hotel,  where  a  limited  number  of  guests  were 
entertained  at  an  elaborate  supper,  when  speeches  were  made 
and  many  toasts  drank  to  the  health  and  happiness  of  the  newly- 
wedded  couple.  The  wedding  presents  were  numerous  and 
costly,  and  the  favors  given  by  the  groom  to  his  ushers  were 
pearl  scarfpins. 


The  Kirmess  at  the  Pavilion  is  a  deserved  success.  Upon  the 
opening  night,  and  every  evening  since,  the  booths  and  the  hall 
have  been  crowded.  It  is  a  society  event,  and  that  insures  its 
financial  success.  All  the  booths  are  pretty,  the  decorations  are 
handsome,  and  the  ladies  are  beautiful.  What  more  could  one 
ask?  The  grand  march  was  a  wonderful  affair.  It  was  not  seen 
to  the  best  advantage  on  account  of  the  great  crowd  that  sur- 
rounded the  participants,  but  those  who  did  see  it  were  unani- 
mous in  awarding  it  the  highest  praise.  The  various  booths,  as 
usual  on  such  occasions,  rival  one  another,  and  the  friendliness 
thus  engendered  has  done  much  to  aid  the  show.  The  girls  in 
red  and  yellow  in  the  »  cigar  ranch,"  the  pretty  dancers  in  the 
Turkish  booth,  the  charming  fakirs  at  the  museum,  the  entranc- 
ing bearers  of  the  dice  at  the  raffie  booth,  the  pretty  politicians 
who  sang  now  for  Cleveland  and  now  for  Harrison,  the  grand  dames 
of  the  Arion,  the  little  Mercurys  in  blue  and  gold  uniforms,  who 
delivered  the  messages  of  Cupid,  and  the  many  other  ladies  who 
in  various  capacities  did  their  part,  all  had  their  own  circles  of 
admirers,  and  each,  in  the  name  of  charity,  did  what  she  could  to 
capture  an  admirer  of  the  other  girls.  All  the  ladies  should  be 
proud  of  the  success  of  the  great  undertaking.  It  was  one  of  the 
best  managed  affairs  of  the  kind  ever  held  in  the  city.  The  shoot- 
ing gallery,  under  the  management  of  Philo  Jacoby  and  the 
cadets  of  the  San  Francisco  Schuetzen  Verein,  did  a  good  busi- 
ness. The  booth  was  decorated  by  the  two  American  flags  car- 
ried by  Philo  Jacoby  and  John  Utschig  during  their  famous  and 
victorious  European  tour. 


The  banquet  hall  of  the  California  Hotel  was  again  the  locale  of 
a  brilliant  wedding  party  last  Sunday  evening,  the  occasion  being 
the  marriage  of  Miss  Henrietta  Kahn  and  Henry  S.  Manheim,  in 
the  presence  of  a  large  assemblage  of  guests.  The  ceremony  was 
named  for  half-past  six,  at  which  hour  the  cortege  entered,  led  by 
Mrs.  I.  Manheim  and  the  groom,  Mrs.  Kathen  and  Mr.  Man- 
heim, the  bride  and  her  brother,  Fred  Kahn,  follow- 
ing. They  at  once  took  iheir  places  in  a  bower-like  arrangement 
composed  of  palms  and  roses,  in  the  rotunda,  and  here  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Voorsanger  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  The  bridal  robe  was  of 
white  brocaded  satin,  elaborately  trimmed  with  point  lace  and 
orange  blossoms,  and  the  hand  bouquet  was  of  bridal  roses.  Mrs. 
Manheim  was  costumed  in  silver  gray  brocade,  with  diamond 
ornaments;  and  Mrs.  Kathen  wore  cream-colored  brocade, 
trimmed  with  duchess  lace,  and  a  handsome  set  of  emeralds.  A 
magnificent  dinner  followed  the  ceremony,  and  afterwards  there 
was  dancing. 

The  Lombard-Morton  wedding,  which  took  place  last  Tuesday 
evening  in  the  Eighth  avenue  Methodist  Church,  in  East  Oakland 
was  quite  an  elegant  affair,  and  the  attendance  was  very  large, 
including  the  best  people  of  East  Oakland,  as  well  as  friends  from 
San  Francisco,  Haywards  and  San  Jose.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed by  Rev.  Dr.  Heacock,  and  the  bride  was  given  away  by 
her  brother,  Henry  Morton,  a  well-known  business  man  of  San 
Jose.  The  bridesmaid  was  Miss  Edgington.  The  gentlemen  who 
acted  as  ushers  were  Charley  B.  Taylor,  L.  N.  Cobbledick,  Frank 
Taylor,  J.  J.  North,  Harry  Taylor  and  James  Cobbledick.  The 
newly-wedded  couple  left  immediately  after  the  ceremony  on  a 
bridal  tour.  Upon  their  return  they  will  reside  in  East  Oakland, 
where  both  have  lived  for  many  years  past.  Mr.  Lombard  is  well- 
known  in  San  Francisco  on  account  of  his  connection  with  the 
Golden  Gate  Flouring  Mills.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
church  in  which  he  was  married. 


There  appears  to  be  no  diminution  in  the  list  of  engagement 
announcements,  and  the  marriage  mart  would  seem  to  be  in  a 
most  satisfactory  condition.  Recent  engagements  include  those 
of  Miss  Eva  Wedekind  to  A.  A.  Johnson ,  both  of  Oakland ;  Miss 
Mabel  Tilton  White,  of  Alameda,  to  Charles  G.  Debney;  Miss 
Ella  Whitney  of  Petaluma  to  Charles  B.  Wheaton,  Secretary  of 
the  Pacific  Oil  Company,  and  they  will  be  quietly  married  in 
about  three  weeks;  Miss  Emma  Fossard,  of  Oakland,  to  Edward 
J.  Pasquale,  and  the  date  of  their  wedding  is  set  for  the  middle 
of  November.  Miss  Gussie  Bosqui  and  Archibald  Treat  will  be 
married  early  in  December;  Miss  Emma  Foster  and  William  Tel- 
ler will  be  united  in  holy  wedlock  at  the  home  of  the  bride,  in 
Alameda,  to-morrow. 

Ross  Valley  had  its  marriage  ceremony  on  Wednesday  after- 
noon of  last  week,  when  Miss  Calista  Bosqui  was  married  to 
Charles  S.  Spinney,  at  the  pretty  villa  home  of  her  parents  in  that 
lovely  vale.  Flowers  in  profusion  and  in  great  variety  were  com- 
bined with  foliage  in  adorning  the  rooms,  in  which  were  assem- 
bled relatives  and  a  few  friends  for  the  ceremony,  which  was  per- 
formed by  Rev.  Father  McKinnon,  of  San  Rafael.  The  Misses 
Spinney  and  Carrie  Bosqui  were  the  bridesmaids.  Archibald  Treat 
the  groom's  best  man.  A  reception  followed,  then  a  handsome 
wedding  dejeuner,  and  later  the  young  couple  departed  on  their 
honeymoon  trip  to  the  mountains. 


A  butterfly  social  is  to  be  given  on  the  evening  of  October  7th, 
at  the  residence  of  C.  B.  Overacker,  at  Niles,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Episcopal  Ladies'  Aid  Society.  The  proceeds  are  to  be 
used  for  paying  for  the  new  church  lot. 


1SJ2. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


27 


A  qniet.  home-like  wadding,  00  Thursday  evening  last,  at  St. 
Luke's  Church,  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  unileil  Mr?.  Uinta  Crockett 
(Bob  Crockett's  widow i  and  Mr.  Allen  Clay,  of  the  Bank  of  Cali- 
fornia, in  wedlock.  Kev.  l>r.  l.athrop.  of  Oakland,  officiating. 
The  Crockett  connection  is  a  large  one.  and  both  bride  and  groom 
boast  a  wide  circle  of  friend-,  a  goodly  number  of  whom  filled 
the  main  body  of  the  cbnrch.  and  united  in  offering  sincere  good 
-  for  the  happiness  of  the  newly  wedded  pair.  The  bride 
looked  exceedingly  well  in  a  styliso  costume  of  silver-grey.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  ('lay  will  reside  in  Alameda,  where  the  happy  groom 
has  just  completed  a  fine  residence,  in  view  of  his  marriage. 


.St.  Luke's  Church,  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  was  the  scene  of  a 
morning  wedding  last  Wednesday,  the  bride  being  the  young 
heiress,  Miss  Florence  Blytbe,  the  groom  Fred.  W.  Hinckly.  Rev. 
Frank  Church  officiated.  The  fair  young  bride,  who  wore  a 
pretty  traveling  dress  of  light  grey  cloth,  was  given  away  by  her 
lawyer,  Attorney-General  Hart,  but  was  without  any  other  at- 
tendants. The  groom's  brother  Harry  acted  as  best  man.  Later 
in  the  day  a  wedding  breakfast  was  partaken  of  at  the  residence 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  B.  Hinckley,  in  Fruit  Vale,  and  on  Thursday 
the  young  conple  left  town,  and  will  be  absent  several  months. 

The  Stanfords  will  sail  from  Liverpool  on  Wednesday,  October 
5tb.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  L.  Dodge  have  named  the  first  week 
in  November  as  the  date  when  they  will  start  for  home,  sailing 
about  the  8th.  Mrs.  Nuttall  and  Miss  Koberta  have  arrived  in 
Dresden.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Head  are  in  Paris;  the  Magee  bridal 
quartette  in  England.  From  the  East  we  hear  that  Mrs.  Ned 
Hopkins  and  family,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Hill  and  W.  S. 
McMnrtry  are  in  New  YorK.  Miss  Madeline  McKenna  is  in 
Washington  City,  where  she  will  spend  the  winter. 


Mrs.  Torbert  and  pretty  Miss  Mollie  are  settled  at  Hotel  Stew- 
art for  the  season.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  S.  Hinkle,  Mrs.  Jeremiah 
Clarke  and  her  daughters,  Miss  Clarke  and  Mrs.  Lyman  will 
spend  the  winter  at  the  Colonial;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCutchen  and 
family.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Crooks  will  be  at  the  Richelieu.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Will  Van  Bergan  at  the  Pleasanton;  Mrs.  Ellis  and  Miss 
Hope  at  the  Occidental;  Mrs.  A.  M.  Jewell  and  Miss  Mattie 
Jewell  at  the  Berkshire;  Mrs.  C.  M.  Johnson  and  Frank  Johnson 
at  the  Palace  Hotel  for  the  winter. 


The  grand  ball  of  the  Concordia  Club,  which  occurs  on  the 
evening  of  October  15th,  will  open  the  season  in  Jewish  society 
circles.  The  club  has  gained  considerably  in  younger  members, 
and  the  event  will  be  a  great  social  success.  The  number  of 
debutantes  this  year  is  quite  large,  and  several  will  reign  among 
the  belles  of  the  season.  In  November  the  entertainment  com- 
mittee intends  to  surprise  the  members  with  a  new  and  novel 
form  of  entertainment.  Just  exactly  what  the  event  will  be  is 
not  yet  known,  but  toe  committee  members  say  it  is  something 
never  before  seen  here. 


There  is  quite  a  romance  connected  with  the  marriage  which  is 
to  take  place  on  Thursday  next  at  Ophir  Farm,  Whitelaw  Reid's 
country  residence,  between  Miss  Ella  Reid  and  Judge  R.  C.  Har- 
rison. The  Judge,  who  is  a  widower,  was  paying  a  visit  East  a 
couple  of  years  ago,  when  he  met  Miss  Reid,  and  was  fascinated 
by  her  patient  endurance  of  her  invalidism  {the  young  lady  being 
a  BnfTerer  from  spinal  trouble).  Her  rare  charm  of  mind  and 
manner  won  the  stern  jurist,  who  in  turn  captivated  the  maiden 
by  his  tender  sympathy  and  attention,  and  the  coming  wedding 
is  the  climax. 

Elaborate  arrangements  are  being  made  by  the  Catholic  ladies 
of  Oakland  for  the  fair  to  be  given  next  month  at  St.  Francis  de 
Sales  church.  The  parish  is  the  swell  one  of  the  city,  and  the 
interest  is  bigbtened  by  the  fact  that  the  new  cathedral  is  ap- 
proaching completion,  and  that  the  proceeds  of  the  fair  are 
to  be  devoted  to  the  payment  of  the  debt  of  the 
old  church.  In  the  home  circles,  therefore,  all  sorts 
of  fancy  work  is  being  prepartd  for  the  booths,  and  the  zest 
that  is  being  displayed  in  all  directions  shows  that  the  event  will 
be  a  memorable  one. 


Miss  Maud  Morrow  and  Miss  Nellie  Hillyer  have  been  visiting 
Miss  Mamie  Holbrook  at  Menlo  Park.  The  Misses  Goad,  Miss 
Millie  Ashe  and  Miss  Susie  Russell  have  been  the  guests  of  Mrs. 
H.  B.  Chase,  in  Napa  Valley;  Miss  Julia  Peyton  of  her  aunt, 
Mrs.  McAllister,  at  San  Rafael;  Miss  Helen  Wheeler  of  the 
Misses  Bownee,  near  St.  Helena,  and  Miss  Blanche  Castle  of 
friends  in  Sacramento  during  the  Fair.  Mr.  Arpad  Haraszthy  has 
as  his  guest  his  daughter,  Mrs.  George  D.  Strickland,  who  is  now 
a  resident  of  Medea,  Pa. 


Recently  wedded  couples  are  scattered  all  over  the  State.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Rosenberg,  nee  Bley,  are  spending  their  honeymoon  at 
Monterey;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ellis  Wooster,  nee  McMillan,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Hinckley,  nee  Florence  Blythe,  at  Coronado  Beach;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Spinney,  nee  Bosqui,  at  Castle  Crags;  Ned  and  Mrs.  Thomp- 
son, nee  Carleton,  at  Santa  Barbara;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bliss,  nee  Will- 
iams, of  Reno,  Nevada,  are  passing  their  honeymoon  in  San 
Francisco. 


A  very  pretty  wedding  WM  celebrated  in  8an  Rafael  last 
Wednesday,  when  Miss  Emily  .1.  Mahar  was  married  to  Mr, 
William  G.  Young.  The  ceremony  took  place  at  the  resilience  of 
the  bride's  mother.     The  decorations  were  artistic  and    beautiful, 

particularly  an  Immense  arbor  that  was  constructed  ,,;,  the  lawn, 
and  under  which  the  bridal  feast  was  spread.  The  bride  was  the 
recipient  of  many  elegant  presents. 

Thursday  evening  of  last  week  was  very  prolific  of  weddings. 
for  in  addition  to  those  already  noted  were  the  nuptials  of  Miss 
Jenny  Bley  and  Charles  Rosenberg,  which  were  solemnized  at  the 
home  of  the  bride,  on  Pine  street,  Rabbi  Levy  officiating.  The 
bride's  attendants  were  her  sisters,  the  Misses  Augusta,  Hulda 
and  Selna  Bley,  and  Benjamin  Goldstone  supported  the  groom. 
Following  the  ceremony  a  handsome  wedding  dinner  was  served, 
and  later  there  was  dancing  till  a  late  hour. 

Oakland  will  see  another  very  smart  wedding  early  next  month, 
when  Miss  Louise  Breck  and  Frederick  Hathaway  will  be  mar- 
ried at  St.  Paul's  Church.  The  invitation  list  is  a  very  long  one, 
and  the  church  will  no  doubt  be  crowded  with  the  elite  of  the 
City  of  the  Oaks.  The  reception  will  be  held  at  the  family  resi- 
dence on  Fourteenth  and  Castro  streets,  and  the  groom's  sister, 
Mis°  Hathaway,  will  be  maid-of-honor. 


A  high  tea  was  given  by  Mrs.  W.  G.  Hensbaw,  at  her  residence 
in  East  Oakland  on  Thursday  last.  Choice  decorations  made  the 
pretty  home  look  more  tasteful  than  ever,  and  the  social  throng 
that  assembled  had  a  most  enjoyable  afternoon.  Among  the 
many  present  were  Mrs.  Fred  Henshaw,  Miss  Alice  Grimes,  Miss 
Cora  Tubbs,  Miss  May  Tubbs,  Mrs.  Wheaton,  Miss  Bessie 
Wheaton,  Miss  Houghton. 

The  members  of  the  Pinafore  troupe  have  been  busily  rehears- 
ing this  week,  and  preparations  for  the  production  of  that  tuney 
little  opera  are  almost  completed.  Everything  points  to  an  im- 
mense success  when  it  is  given  at  the  Encinal  Boat  Club-house  on 
Friday  and  Saturday  of  next  week.  On  Thursday  last  La  Leyra 
Francaise  gave  a  concert  and  ball  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  which  was 
a  very  pleasant  affair. 

Alameda  was  the  scene  of  a  wedding  last  Thursday,  when  Miss 
Margaret  Grace  Andrews  was  married,  at  the  residence  of  her 
sister,  Mrs.  Marcus  P.  Wiggin,  to  G.  0.  McMullin,  Rev.  A.  T. 
Perkins,  of  Christ  Church,  performing  the  ceremony  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  few  relatives.  The  same  afternoon  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Mullin departed  for  Bakersfield,  which  will  be  their  future  home. 

Col.  Smedberg.  who  went  East  last  week  to  attend  the  Grand 
Army  encampment  in  Washington  City,  will,  upon  his  return,  be 
accompanied  by  Mrs.  Smedberg  and  Miss  Nellie,  who  have  been 
visiting  relatives  in  the  East  since  early  in  the  spring.  They  are 
looked  for  about  the  first  of  the  month.  Col.  Creed  Haymond  ar- 
rived on  Tuesday  last  from  a  pleasant  tour  of  the  old  world. 

The  autumn  lunch  season  was  pleasantly  inaugurated  last  Fri- 
day by  Mrs.  George  A.  Cruz,  who  invited  a  dozen  or  more  ladies 
to  meet  Mrs.  Selfridge,  it  whose  honor  the  lunch  was  given.  The 
table  was  beautifully  dressed  with  flowers,  a  most  tempting  menu 
was  placed  upon  it,  and  discussed  by  the  guests.  Mrs.  Selfridge 
is  on  the  eve  of  her  departure  for  Washington  City. 

We  are  to  have  a  visit  during  November  and  December  from 
Mrs.  Knowls,  who  as  Miss  Nina  Adams,  was  such  a  favorite  in 
society  circles  several  years  ago,  and  so  much  regretted  when  she 
left  California  to  make  her  home  in  the  East.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Howard  will  pass  the  winter  months  in  town,  coming  up 
from  San  Mateo  about  the  first  of  November. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott  are  expected  at  their  city  resi- 
dence, from  San  Rafael,  next  week;  Mrs.  Bissell  and  her  daugh- 
ters will  return  from  Sausalito  about  the  middle  of  October;  the 
Fred  Woosters  will  return  from  Napa,  the  Delmas  from  Moun- 
tain View,  tbe  Theo.  Paynes  and  the  E.  E.  Eyres  from  Menlo 
Park  about  the  beginning  of  next  month. 

Very  quiet  but  very  swell  was  the  marriage  on  Thursday  of 
Tom  Matthewson  and  Miss  Grace  Henderson,  at  the  Wetherbee 
residence,  Fruitvale.  Miss  Henderson  is  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Wether- 
bee, the  deceased  millionaire  lumberman's  relict,  so  of  course  the 
friends  of  the  family  were  all  present  to  attend  the  ceremony. 

The  opening  ball  of  the  season  of  the  Cercle  Francais  will  be 
given  on  the  evening  of  October  8th.  The  affair,  so  those  who 
have  it  in  hand  say,  will  eclipse  all  previous  affairs.  It  is  ex- 
pected that  the  French  man-of-war  Dubordieu  will  be  here  by  that 
date,  and  the  officers  will  be  honored  guests  at  the  affair. 

Mr  and  Mrs.  W.  B.  Chapman,  Mrs.  Robert  Sherwood  and  her 
son  Will  Sherwood,  were  among  the  departures  last  week  for 
DelMonte,  where  they  will  remain  during  the  rest  of  September. 
Joe  Grant  has  gone  up  north  to  Washington  and  Oregon,  to  pay 
a  visit,  preparatory  to  a  still  longer  one  to  the  Eastern  States. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Sept.  24,  1892. 


A  kettledrum,  under  the  auspices  of  the  ladies  of  the  Sacred 
Heart  parish,  will  be  given  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Katharine 
Mnheiuann,  418  Oak  street,  on  Wednesday,  the  28th  inst.  The 
ladies,  under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  M.  D.  Nolan,  Miss  Alice  Bailey, 
Miss  Nonie  Fosarty  and  a  few  others,  have  worked  with  untiring 
energy  to  make  the  affair  a  success.  A  very  fine  programme 
will  be  rendered  from  3  to  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  and  from  8 
to  10  o'clock  in  the  evening.  Tickets  $1.  There  will  be 
nothing  for  sale.  The  receipts  of  the  entertainment  will  go  for 
the  furnishing  of  the  new  pastoral  residence  connected  with  the 
Sacred  Heart  Parish.  The  ladies  on  the  reception  committee  are 
Mrs.  M.D.Nolan,  Miss  Nonie  Fogarty,  Miss  Dorothea  Moran, 
Miss  N.  Maxwell,  Miss  Farley,  the  Misses  Cooney,  Miss  Uorbett 
and  Miss  Hennebury. 

Mrs.  Calvin  Whitney  is  occupying  her  new  residence  on  Orange 
street,  near  Vernon  Heights,  Oakland,  and  has  chosen  Thursday 
for  her  reception  day.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington  are  settled 
in  their  California  street  residence,  formerly  the  home  of  General 
and  Mrs.  Colton.     They  arrived  from  the  Bast  a  few  days  ago. 

Mrs.  Charlemagne  Towers  has  gone  East,  after  spending  the 
entire  summer  in  California,  and  will  winter  in  Philadelphia. 
Mrs.  Lilienthal,  accompanied  by  the  Misses  Adler,  left  last  Tues- 
day for  a  visit  to  New  York.  Mrs.  George  Sanderson  will  leave 
next  Saturday  to  visit  friends  in  the  Eastern  States. 


Mrs.  S.  E.  Gouldin  and  her  daughter  Aida,  who  have  been  for 
nearly  a  year  in  Washington  and  New  York,  have  returned  to 
the.  city.  They  will  spend  the  next  few  months  at  the  Ross  Val- 
ley villa  of  Mrs.  J.  N.  E.  Wilson,  who  is  a  daughter  of  Mrs. 
Gouldin. 


The  Harmonie   Club   announces   a  social  for   Friday  evening, 
October  7th .  to  take  place  in  the  club's  large  hall. 


Miss  Gertie  Gates  of  Haywards  is  visiting   Mrs.   Chapman  at 
the  California. 


THE  Maze,  always  progressive,  has  secured  the  sole  agency  of 
the  La  Mayeno  kid  gloves.  They  are  of  the  best  quality  and 
perfect  in  every  respect.  They  come  in  mosquetaire  and  full 
five-button  length,  and  are  the  finest  real  French  kid  glove  man- 
ufactured. As  a  leader  they  are  being  sold  at  $1.50  a  pair,  though 
geally  worth  $2.25.  To  insure  satisfaction,  every  pair  is  fitted  to 
the  hand  and  guaranteed.  The  fall  millinery  exhibit  will  delight 
the  eyes  of  the  fashionable  fair  ones.  Such  creations  have  never 
before  been  seen  in  this  city.  This  fact  is  evidently  appreciated, 
as  the  number  of  fair  visitors  attest. 


THE  sixth  and  last  grand  excursion  of  the  season  to  Ukiah  will 
be  given  to-morrow.  The  boats  leave  Tiburon  ferry  at  8  o'clock. 
On  the  return  trip  the  train  will  leave  Ukiah  at  4  p.  m.  The  fare 
for  the  round  trip  is  only  $2.  The  ride  through  the  beautiful 
Sonoma  valley  at  this  time  of  the  year  is  most  enjoyable,  and 
those  who  have  not  yet  availed  themselves  of  the  opportunities 
offered  by  the  San  Francisco  and  North  Pacific  Railroad  should 
not  miss  the  boat  to-morrow  morning. 


The   Latest   Stationery. 

Sanborn.  Vail  &  Co.,  say  that  the  very  latest  thing  in  fine  station- 
f  i  v  is  the  Royal  Purple  tint  in  note  paper.  It  is  a  rich  hue  and  is  of 
a  novel  and  attractive  appearance!  This  house,  as  is  well  known, 
easily  lead  in  the  stationery  line  on  the  coast.  They  are  the  agents 
for  George  B.  Hurd  &  Co.,  and  Z.  &  W.  M.  Crane,  two  of  the  famous 
paper  manufacturers  of  the  country,  and  in  the  stationery  depart- 
ment, have  a  large  and  better  assortment  of  fine  stationery  than  any 
other  house  on  the  coast.  Tinted  paper,  by  the  way,  is  now  the 
proper  thing,  and  all  who  wish  to  let  their  friends  know  that  they 
are  in  the  swin  should  use  such  and  none  other.  Sanborh,  Vail  & 
Co.  have  given  particular  attention  to  fine  paper  for  a  long  time  past, 
and  always  have  the  latest  novelties.  The  leading  popular  tints, 
such  as  heliotrope,  saphire,  opaline,  etc.,  are  all  ot  delicate  and 
artistic  appearance. 

Sickness  Among   Children, 

Especially  infants,  is  prevalent  at  all  times,  but  is  largely  avoided 
by  giving  proper  nourishment  and  wholesome  food.  The' most  suc- 
cessful and  reliable  of  all  is  the  Gail  Borden  "  Eagle"  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk.    Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko, "609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 

DODGE  BROS.,  U™S: 

It  is  whispered  that   fashion  sets  much 
store  by  tints  in  note  paper  just  at  present. 
The  more  decided  the  color  the  more 
winsome.     See  "Royal  Purple." 

COPPER  PLATES.    OOR    DH^T   QT 
TODIM  CARDS.   "3   lUO  I    01. 


THE  MOUNTEBANKS  AT  THE  BALDWIN. 

SO  numerous,  so  brilliant  and  so  keenly  expectant  was  the 
audience  assembled  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre,  Thursday  night, 
to  greet  the  opera  of  The  Mountebanks,  that  before  the  curtain  went 
up  the  event,  at  least,  had  stamped  itself  a  successs.  The  libretto 
is  distinctly  Gilbertian,  and  Gilbert  at  his  quaintest  and  and  most 
delightful.  The  central  idea,  that  of  a  potion  making  everybody 
suddenly  just  what  he  is  pretending  to  be,  while  having  a  Havor 
of  other  well-known  operatic  plots,  is  not  the  same,  and  can  claim 
originality  in  plot  as  well  as  in  every  amusing  detail  of  its  carry- 
ing out.  The  dialogue  is  full  of  the  fanciful  absurdity  and  pleas- 
ant but  incisive  sasire  which  marks  the  best  Gilbertian  librettos, 
though  not  quite  so  exuberant  and  discursive.  Celliers'  music, 
as  some  of  the  music  heretofore  joined  to  Gilbert's  words,  is,  if 
not  so  maoked  in  character,  brilliant,  melodious  and  appro- 
priete.  The  latter  characteristic  is  happy  in  songs, 
notably  that  of  the  marionettes,  where  its  humorous 
quality  is  strongly  conspicuous.  Much  of  the  en- 
semble work  is  extremely  taking.  The  Tamorras'  chorus  in 
the  first  act  and  the  Monk's  chorus  in  the  second  are  especially 
good.  The  orchestration,  while  not  assisted  well,  the  general 
musical  movement  and  makes  itself  felt  throughout.  Altogether 
the  new  opera  may  behpronounced  a  decided  and  permanent 
acquisition  to  the  list  of  comic  operas.  In  regard  to  stage  and 
scenic  appointments  the  management  left  nothing  to  be  desired. 
The  first  stage  setting  was  perhaps,  as  brilliant  as  any  ever  seen 
on  the  Baldwin  stage,  and  the  moonlight  scene  in  which  the 
second  act  is  mainly  represented  was  equally  striking  and  beau- 
tiful. The  costumes  were  not  only  effective,  but  their  elegance 
and  variety  gave  an  added  charm  to  every  stage  picture.  The 
costumes  were  not  only  effective,  but  their  elegance  and  variety 
gave  an  added  charm  to  every  stage  picture.  The  latter  quality 
was  especially  noticed  by  those  accustomed  to  the  sameness  and 
bought-by-tbe-piece  suggestion  of  the  ordinary  chorus  costum- 
ing. In  truth,  the  new  opera  owed  no  little  of  the  success  of  its 
first  production  to  the  perfection  of  its  appointments.  Lillian 
Russell  finds  in  The  Mountebanks  a  better  field  than  in 
La  Gigale.  The  improvement  in  her  voice  since  her 
opening  week  in  this  city,  was  evident  and  her  brilliant 
songs  were  well  executed  and  warmly  received.  Hayden  Coffin's 
singing  and  picturesque  appearance  were  as  they  have  been  in 
everything,  as  nearly  perfect  as  such  things  may  be,  and  he 
further  showed  himself  fully  equal  to  humorous  situation. 
Charles  Dungan  caught  the  spirit  of  Gilbert's  humor  as  well  as 
any  member  of  the  company,  distinguishing  himself  as  the  leader 
in  the  Monk's  chorus,  while  the  grotesque  grace  of  bis  dancing 
was  a  distinct  charm  in  itself.  Louis  Harrison  has,  for  once,  a 
chance  to  display  the  exuberance  of  his  fun  and  the  remarkable 
originality  of  his  humor,  without  going  outside  the  play.  He  is 
well  supported  by  Laura  Clement.  Another  charming  pair  is 
Miss  Ada  Dare,  as  Minestra,  and  John  E.  Dudley,  as  her  new- 
made  husband,  Risotto.  Mr.  Dudley  both  acts  and  sings  his 
part  excellently,  and  Ada  Dare  causes  her  auditors  only  one  re- 
gret— that  her  beauty  and  her  melodious  voice  are  so  long  hidden 
in  the  old  crone  into  which  she  is  transformed.  W.  T.  Carleton 
is  a  conspicuous  figure  in  his  brilliant  costume  as  the  mounte- 
bank, and  on  Thursday  night  both  his  singing  and  acting  were 
so  spirited  that  the  many  who  remember  kindly  his 
early  successes  were  fain  to  sing,  "  Yes.  'tis  himself  again!"  Ce- 
celia Pollock  tried  conscientiously  to  fill  her  part,  Ultrice.  and 
succeeded  measurably.  The  minor  characters  were  acceptable, 
and  the  choruses  were  admirably  rehearsed.  The  audience, 
though  keenly  and  critically  attentive,  was  somewhat  cold,  the 
directing  efforts  of  the  energetic  claque  not  always  meeting  with 
the  expected  support.  At  times,  however,  the  house  broke  into 
spontaneous  enthusiasm,  and  many  of  the  songs  and  choruses 
were  repeatedly  encored,  the  Monk's  chorus  and  the  duet  be- 
tween Miss  Russell  and  Hayden  Coffin,  in  act  II.,  being  espe- 
cially favored.  The  success  of  the  Mountebanks  will  hardly  pre- 
pare the  public  to  accept  cheerfully  a  return  of  La  Cigala,  and  the 
new  opera  will  doubtless  be  the  piece  de  resistance  of  the  rest  of 
the  rest  of  the  engagement. 

Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.B.  CHAPMAN, 

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PAOIFIO  00A8T, 

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Printed  and  Published  cceru  Saturday  bv  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Paoe 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 

Needed  Sanitary  Regulations. .    2 

The  Office  of  Sheriff      2 

A  Sham  Democratic  Party    ...     2 
Cleveland's    Letter  of  Accept- 
ance       3 

The  Australian  Ballot  Law    ...     3 

Good  Men  iu  Office 3 

A  Chauce  for  the  Prayer  Gauge    4 

John  J.  McDade 1 

Wendell  Easton 5 

Unhappy  East  Oakland   Method- 
ists     5 

Library  Table 6 

The  Low-cut  Dress  7 

Pleasure's  Wand 8-9 

Sparks 10 

Will  Poetry  Pay?  (Poetry)  11 


Page 

A  Romance  of  Curtis    11 

Woman  (Poetry)     12 

Latest  Tennis  News  •  ■  J2 

William  at  Vienua    12 

The  Looker-On }» 

Financial  Review lr' 

Town  Crier }' 

Real  Property  . .  .  1  * 

Vanities      21 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 22 

The  Rose  Jar 23 

Huubeams  .  -  f-l 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs  ...  26 
"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  27 

Love's  Philosophy  (Poetry) 28 

Working  Woman         .  2° 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  29 

Baseball  ' ' 


Society  . 


30-31-32 


ARTOTYPE-Wendell  Eas'on. 


NOW,  gentlemen,  is  the  time  to  develop  your  Columbus  relics.  A 
man  in  Beverly,  Mass.,  says  he  has  a  pinch  of  the  dust  of  the 
great  Colon.  Can't  we  go  him  one  better?  Is  it  possible  that  we 
have  not  a  shinbone  or  a  tuft  of  hair?  We  are  anxious  to  hear 
from  Fresno. 

ILLINOIS  is,  in  many  respects,  a  wonderful  State.  Nowhere 
else  in  this  or  any  other  country,  has  a  meteor  ever  been  seen 
to  explode  and  strike  the  moon.  Such  an  extraordinary  pyro- 
technical  display  should  have  been  postponed  a  month,  until  the 
opening  ceremonies  of  the  World's  Fair  take  place. 

SAMUEL  CLAY,  a  descendant  of  Henry  Clay,  the  great  "Harry 
of  the  West,"  and  a  nephew  of  Col.  Clay,  who  ran  for  Governor 
of  Kentucky  two  years  ago,  has  stolen  over  $8,000  from  a  friend 
in  New  York,  in  a  bold,  robber-like  manner.  There  must  be  a 
substratum  of  very  ordinary  dirt  somewhere  in  this  clay. 


THE  news  that  a  British  man-of-war  has  been  ordered  to  pro- 
ceed to  Vladivostock  to  investigate  the  seizure  of  Canadian 
sealers  by  the  Russians  is  not  surprising.  If  the  reports  of  the 
last  few  weeks  with  regard  to  the  seizures  are  correct,  a  thorough 
investigation  is  necessary,  for  the  Russian  captains  seem  to  have 
far  exceeded  their  power. 

MR.  JOHN  J.  McDADE,  Democratic  nominee  for  Sheriff,  has 
opened  headquarters  at  room  2,  238  Kearny  street,  where  his 
friends  gather  daily  in  large  crowds  to  consult  regarding  the  best 
form  of  campaign  to  secure  the  election  of  their  man.  McDade 
is  a  strong  man,  and  has  thousands  of  friends  in  the  city. 

THE  corollary  of  the  complete  check  of  Asiatic  cholera  in  the 
harbor  of  New  York,  and  the  prevention  of  an  epidemic  in 
the  United  States,  is  obviously  the  creation  of  a  national  system 
of  quarantine,  by  which  every  seaport  in  the  United  States  can 
be  completely  and  effectually  guarded  against  infectious  and  con- 
tagious diseases. 

AN  indisputable  proof  of  the  excellence  of  Cleveland's  letter  of 
acceptance  is  the  unanimity  with  which  it  is  assailed  by  the 
Republican  press.  If  the  letter  were  as  weak  as  the  Republican 
newspapers  declare  it  to  be,  we  may  be  sure  they  would  not  de- 
vote so  much  space  and  labor  to  the  attempt  to  minimize  it.  The 
trouble  is  that  it  is  too  conclusive  to  be  answered. 

WALTER  B.  BLAIR,  the  Republican  nominee  for  Public  Ad- 
ministrator, is  eminently  fitted  for  the  arduous  duties  of 
that  very  important  office.  He  is  chief  clerk  in  the  office  of 
District  Attorney  Barnes,  and  also  served  in  that  position  under 
District  Attorney  Page.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  high  attainments, 
who  enjoys  the  full  confidence  of  every  one  who  knows  him. 


DISTRICT  ATTORNEY  W.  S.  BARNES  has  been  renominated 
by  the  Republicans  for  his  present  position.  We  cheerfully 
indorse  Mr.  Barnes  for  District  Attorney.  He  is  a  young,  able 
and  energetic  man,  and  a  lawyer  whose  abilities  are  universally 
recognized  by  the  bar.  His  record  is  excellent,  and  he  is  certainly 
deserving  of  recognition  from  his  fellow  citizens.  Mr.  Barnes 
should  be  returned  to  the  office. 


JUDGE  COX.  of  Indianapolis,  has  set  a  good  precedent  in  re- 
fusing to  allow  the  escape  of  a  mar.  accused  of  crime  because 
the  complainant  declined  to  prosecute.  A  man  shot  another, 
and  the  latter  said  he  did  not  see  the  defendant  shoot.  Judge 
Cox  refused  to  believe  the  Story,  sentenced  the  shooter  to  im- 
prisonment, and  held  the  man  who  was  shot  to  answer  for  per- 
jury.    We  need  some  such  practical  law  here. 


THE  Reorganizes  have  won  the  day  as  far  as  the  matter  of  ap- 
pointing officers  of  election  is  concerned.  The  query  arises, 
why  did  the  Election  Commissioners  take  so  long  to  arrive  at 
their  decision  in  this  matter?  It  was  the  only  decision  possible, 
and  in  the  light  of  the  fact  that  Kelly  and  Crimmins  are  said  to 
have  a  pull  on  the  Board,  and  also  that  tbey  are  helping  the  old 
Buckley  lambs,  the  delay  of  the  decision  looks  very  curious. 


AGAIN  we  are  called  upon  to  record  another  marvelous  feat  on 
the  part  of  that  real  equine  wonder,  Nancy  Hanks.  On 
Wednesday  this  wonderful  creature  trotted  a  mile  on  a  regulation 
track,  that  is,  one  of  the  old-fashioned  elliptical  tracks,  in  two 
minutes  and  four  second.  This  record  shuts  Maud  8.  and  Sunol 
out  completely.  Robert  Bonner  bad  urged  that  Nancy's  record 
on  a  kite-shaped  track  was  not  a  fair  test,  but  now  he  will  have 
to  acknowledge  the  superiority  of  the  marvelous  mare. 


TWO  weeks  ago  the  News  Letter  published  an  account  of  the 
trick  with  concealed  rubber  stamps  which  is  to  be  played 
while  the  ballots  are  being  couDted  in  the  coming  election,  and  by 
which  it  is  expected  that  it  will  be  made  possible  to  throw  out  a 
great  many  votes  by  surreptitiously  marking  them  in  such  a 
manner  that  they  will  be  v.tiated.  The  information  came  from  a 
reliable  source,  and  may  be  depended  upon  as  being  accurate. 
Ten  days  after  the  account  appeared  in  these  columns,  the  Call 
came  out  with  one  of  its  bysterico-paragraphic  articles,  in  which 
it  claimed  the  expose  as  its  own  discovery,  and  with  much  ex- 
penditure of  exclamation  points  and  blank  spaces  filled  three  col- 
umns with  the  same  facts  already  given  in  the  News  Letter, 
Such  is  Clay  street  enterprise. 

ONE  of  the  nominees  for  Superior  Judge,  who  is  well  a„j  favor- 
ably known  throughout  the  city,  is  George  H.  Bahrs,  who  is 
on  the  Republican  ticket.  Mr.  Bahrs,  who  is  a  native  of  this 
city,  is  a  young  man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Van  Schaick  and  Bahrs,  and  is  very  prom- 
inent in  fraternal  organizations,  being  a  Past  Noble  Grand  Arch 
of  Druids,  a  Past  Chief  of  the  United  Order  of  Red  Men,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Workmen,  the  Verein  Eintracht  and  the  Knights  and 
Ladies  of  Honor;  is  Lieutenant  of  the  San  Francisco  Schueutzen- 
verein,  President  of  the  Germania  Schuetzen  Club,  and  is  one  of 
the  most  prominent  members  of  the  California  Schuetzen  Club. 
He  is  a  member  of  Pacific  Parlor,  N.  8.  G.  W.,  and  President  of 
the  Sons  of  Exempt  Firemen. 


EVERYTHING  is  fish  that  conies  to  some  people's  nets,  and  a 
political  campaign  is  prolific  of  money-making  schemes  of 
many  kinds  of  which  the  general  public  has  little  ken.  A  neat 
little  clean-up  was  made  during  the  past  week  by  certain  parties 
who  control  the  appointment  of  the  duputy  marshals  who,  this 
being  a  national  campaign,  are  required  to  be  on  duty  at  each 
polling  place.  There  will  be  275  such  places  in  this  city,  and  two 
marshals  will  be  required  at  each.  These  550  men  will  earn  some- 
thing like  $45  each  during  the  time  for  which  they  will  be  em- 
ployed. This  $45  is  regarded  as  a  sort  of  "clean  pick-up,"  and 
hence  the  individuals  who  have  the  control  of  the  appointment 
of  the  marshals,  evidently  believing  that  a  "divy  "  is  the  proper 
thing,  have  assessed  each  of  the  appointees  five  dollars.  This 
makes  a  nice  little  clean-up  of  $2,650,  which  is,  of  course,  an  ob- 
ject. It  is  evident  that  these  gentry  are  not  in  politics  for  their 
health  alone. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


THE    OFFICE    OF    SHERIFF. 


TO  the  office  of  Sheriff  the  people  should  elect  a  roan  who  in  all 
respects  is  beyond  reproach.  This  office  plays  so  very  impor- 
tant a  part  in  the  city  government  that  it  is  the  duty  of  all  good 
citizens  to  do  their  utmost  to  place  in  it  a  man  who  is  known  to 
be  honest,  whose  reputation  for  integrity  is  so  well  established 
that  it  is  unquestioned,  who  has  no  intimate  affiliation  with  polit- 
ical bosses,  nor  associations  with  men  notorious  for  their  corrup- 
tion, and  who  boast  that  it  is  their  particular  business  in  life  to 
cinch  those  unfortunates  who,  desirous  of  filling  political  office, 
are  weak  enough  to  submit  to  the  impositions  laid  upon  them 
by  their  masters.  One  of  the  main  duties  of  the  Sheriff  is  to  draw 
trial  juries,  whose  duty  it  is  to  determine  the  rights  of  the  parties 
in  action.  That  corruption  has  played  a  leading  part  in  the 
drawing  of  juries  in  past  administrations  in  this  city,  every  citi- 
zen knows.  That  it  was  well-nigh  impossible,  on  account  of  the 
baseness  of  office-holders  and  the  corruption  of  the  wholly  un- 
principled bosses  by  whom  they  were  controlled,  to  estop  the 
evil  practices  in  connection  with  the  Sheriff's  office  is  also  well 
known.  Now  we  are  again  upon  the  eve  of  an  election,  in  the 
midst  of  a  campaign  wherein  certain  evil  influences  are  at  work 
to  secure  again  for  corrupt  purposes  the  office  of  Sheriff.  If  Kelly 
and  Crimmins,  the  Republican  bosses  of  Third  street,  are  strong 
enough,  with  the  gangs  of  jail-birds  tbey  will  muster  to  their  as- 
sistance on  election  day,  to  carry  the  municipal  election,  they 
will  control  the  Sheriff's  office  absolutely  during  the  next  two 
years,  through  their  man  Blattner.  »The  latter,  who  is  the  nomi- 
nee of  the  Republican  Convention  for  the  office,  has  been  a 
"  lamb"  ever  since  he  entered  politics.  The  manner  in  which  he 
keeps  faith  with  the  people  is  well  shown  by  his  administra- 
tion of  the  office  of  County  Clerk,  of  which  he  is 
the  incumbent.  Two  years  ago  he  pledged  himself  to 
conduct  that  office  at  an  expense  not  to  exceed  $6,000  a  month. 
This  pledge  has  been  totally  disregarded,  the  expenses  of  the 
County  Clerk's  office  averaging  far  above  that  amount,  being 
much  nearer  $9,000  a  month  than  $6,000.  Some  account  of  the 
increased  expenditure  of  the  people's  funds  may  be  had  in  the 
fact  that  there  are  men  carried  upon  the  pay-roll  of  the  County 
Clerk's  office,  who  draw  thir  salaries  monthly  from  the  public 
treasury,  who  are  never  seen  in  the  office  to  which,  by  the  grace 
of  Kelly  and  Crimmins,  and  the  connivance  of  William  Blattner, 
they  are  attached.  Deputies,  whose  main  duty  it  is  to  ornament 
the  vestibule  of  the  Third  street  saloon,  and  carry  messages  for 
their  corrupt  masters,  go  smilingly  every  month  into  the  office  of 
the  City  Treasurer  and  draw  salaries  for  work  of  which  they 
know  nothing.  Yet  this  man  Blattner,  who  is  notoriously  the 
creature  of  the  Third  street  combination,  has  the  effrontery  to 
ask  the  suffrages  of  the  people  for  the  highly  important  office  of 
Sheriff  of  this  city  and  county.  Republicans,  to  whom  he  par- 
ticularly appeals,  because  his  name  appears  upon  that  ticket, 
should  consider  well  before  giving  their  aid  to  the  machinations 
of  men  who  are  as  bad  morally  as  Buckley  ever  was,  and  are  the 
greater  sinners,  beause  they  have  not  the  finesse  of  that  truly 
finished  rogue.  Opposed  to  Mr.  Blattner,  upon  the  Democratic 
ticket,  is  John  J.  McDade,  who  is  sans  reprocke.  Mr.  McDade  has 
been  a  resident  of  this  city  for  many  years,  during  the  majority  of 
which  he  has  been  prominent  in  ihe  community.  He  has  held 
public  office  in  both  State  and  municipal  positions,  and  has  done 
honor  to  himself  and  his  constituents  in  both.  He  is  a  man  of 
the  highest  sense  of  honor.  His  integrity  has  never  been  assailed. 
He  is  not  a  creature  of  any  corrupt  man  or  set  of  men,  and  if  elected 
to  the  office  of  Sheriff,  to  which  he  aspires,  it  is  almost 
needless  to  say  that  his  administration  will  (be  fulfilled  to  the 
satisfaction  and  benefit  to  the  people  and  with  honor  to  himself. 
Mr.  McDade  fully  appreciates  the  importance  of  the  Shrievalty, 
as  an  office  which  in  many  respects  is  the  guardian  of  the  liberty 
of  the  citizen.  Mr.  Blattner  fully  appreciates  it  as  an  office  whose 
patronage  and  fees  would  do  much  toward  filling  the  coffers  of 
Crimmins  and  Kelly.  Mr.  McDade  has  a  clean  record  as  an  hon- 
orable, able  and  independent  representative  of  the  people.  Mr. 
Blattner  has  for  years  been  a  creature  of  this  or  that  boss,  and 
to-day,  in  the  office  of  County  Clerk,  which  he  now  holds,  he  is 
breaking  the  pledge  that  he  made  to  the  people  two  years  ago. 
Under  Mr.  McDade,  we  have  a  right  to  assert  that  the  office  of 
Sheriff  would  be  administered  fairly,  honestly  and  for  the  best  in- 
terests of  the  community;  under  Mr.  Blattner,  ail  the  facts  show 
that  there  can  be  only  one  presumption,  that  is,  that  the  corrupt 
bosses  of  Third  street,  of  whom  he  is  in  fact  only  the  hireling, 
would  have  absolute  control  of  tbe  Sheriff,  his  deputies  and  his 
office.  Mr.  McDade  would  appoint  as  deputies  honest  men,  who 
were  not  liable  for  criminal  offenses;  Kelly  and  Crimmins  would 
fill  the  places  with  their  heelers,  none  of  whom  have  a  right  to  be 
out  of  jail.  In  voting  for  Sheriff,  citizens  should  take  all  these 
matters  into  consideration,  for  either  Mr.  McDade  or  Mr.  Blatt- 
ner seems  certain  of  election,  the  Non-Partisan  candidate  not  be- 
ing strong  enough  to  carry  the  day. 

HARRY  T.  CRESWELL.  the  Democratic  nominee  for  City  and 
County  Attorney,  will  doubtless  be  the  next  man  to  fill  that 
very  important  office.  As  adviser  to  the  Supervisors,  Mr.  Cress- 
well  would  ever  have  in  view  the  best  interests  of  the  commu- 
nity. 


A    SHAM    DEMOCRATIC    PARTY. 

THERE  has  been  much  dissatisfaction  felt  in  the  Democratic 
party  in  the  city  at  the  way  in  which  Sullivan,  Dwyer  and  a 
few  others  have  taken  the  exclusive  control  into  their  own  hands, 
but  the  events  of  the  past  week  have  done  much  to  excuse  them. 
Within  the  period  named  a  little  gang  of  men  calling  themselves 
Democrats  have  raised  the  standard  of  revolt  against  the  Re- 
organized Democracy,  have  perfected  a  sort  of  scrambling,  dis- 
jointed, weak-kneed  organization,  and  have  proclaimed  them- 
selves the  Democratic  party,  and  not  only  this,  but  have  had 
the  monumental  impudence  to  present  a  claim  for  recognition  to 
the  Board  of  Election  Commissioners,  asserting  that  they  com- 
prised the  Democratic  party  of  San  Francisco,  and  that  the  Reor- 
ganizes were  mere  ursurpers.  Of  course  their  impudent  asser- 
tions could  not  deceive  anybody  who  knew  anything  of  the  re- 
cent history  of  Democracy  in  this  city.  It  is  perfectly  well- 
known  that  with  the  consent  of  the  best  element  of  the  party,  in- 
dorsed by  the  action  of  the  State  Central  Committee,  the  interests 
of  the  party  in  this  city  were  handed  over  bodily  to  the  Reor- 
ganizes, since  which  time  there  has  been  but  one  Democratic 
party.  That  Messrs.  Dwyer  and  Sullivan  have  made  some  mis- 
takes in  the  conduct  of  the  affairs  of  the  party  does  not  cut  any 
figure  at  all  in  a  discussion  of  which  is  the  Democratic 
party  of  San  Francisco.  This  movement,  if  it  be  right 
to  compliment  it  by  that  name,  is  nothing  more  nor  less 
than  an  attempt  to  restore  the  Buckley  regime,  or,  failing  that, 
to  defeat  the  Democratic  party,  and  thus  bring  discredit  and  dis- 
trust upon  the  Reorganizes.  A  few  respectable  Democrats,  but 
a  very  few,  have  found  their  way  into  the  ranks  of  tbe  conspira- 
tors, and  they  must  be,  by  this  time,  heartily  ashamed  of  them- 
selves and  be  looking  for  a  chance  to  get  out.  The  character  of  the 
majority  of  those  who  are  responsible  for  the  movement  is  clearly 
not  such  as  to  commend  the  chism  to  the  confidence  of  the  peo- 
ple. Office-holders  out  of  a  job,  professional  politicians,  would- 
be  office-holders,  street  statues,  caucus  workers  and  primary  elec- 
tion hustlers,  make  up  the  greater  part  of  this  sham  party  which 
has  dared  to  call  itself  the  genuine  Democratic  parly.  Men 
whom  the  ReorgaLizers  have  disowned  as  being  Democrats  for 
revenue  only,  and  not  even  that  if  there  be  a  chance  to  betray 
their  employers,  stand  up  and  assert  that  the  mantles  of  Jefferson 
and  Jackson  have  fallen  on  their  shoulders,  and  that  they  are  tbe 
lawful  custodians  of  the  principles  and  traditions  of  a  great  and 
glorious  party.     Such  pretenses   cannot  deceive   anyone. 


NEEDED    SANITARY    REGULATIONS. 


WITH  the  cry  of  "cholera"  still  resounding  in  our  ears,  the 
News  Letter  again  takes  occasion  to  call  attention  to  the 
unsanitary  condition  of  this  city,  which  is  such  as  actually  to 
invite  the  microbes  of  the  dread  disease  to  come  here  and  start  a 
colony  among  us.  During  the  past  fifteen  years,  we  have  re- 
peatedly called  attention  to  the  great  dangers  to  tbe  community 
resulting  from  the  deposit  in  various  portions  of  the  city  of  tons 
and  tons  of  garbage  and  offal.  '  Even  to-day,  at  the  foot  of  Sixth 
street,  there  exists  a  dumping-ground  which  is  a  constant  menace 
to  the  health  of  the  community.  In  some  portions  of  the  lower 
section  of  the  city,  enterprising  stablemen,  who  wish  to  enrich 
the  soil  and  at  the  same  time  save  the  expense  of  properly  dis- 
posing of  their  garbage,  have  dumped  manure  upon  the  open 
ground,  until  the  mass  of  matter  thus  deposited  now  rises  to  a 
height  of  four  or  five  feet  and  extends  over  a  considerable  area. 
That  this  collection  of  decomposing  animal  matter  is  dangerous 
to  the  health  of  people  living  in  its  vicinity  is  apparent.  It 
may  not  be  generally  known  that  considerable  of  the  southern 
portion  of  the  city  is  built  on  made  ground,  or  that  the  ground 
was  "made"  by  constant  dumping  into  tbe  swamps,  creeks  or 
hollows  of  the  early  days  all  of  the  garbage  of  tbe  city.  Houses 
built  upon  such  ground  are  never  healthful  places  of  abode.  The 
soil  reeks  with  impurities  arising  from  the  animal  matter  of  which 
the  ground  is  composed;  noisome  gases  are  formed  which  find 
their  way  into  the  houses,  and  unseen  agents  of  death  loiter  upon 
every  threshold.  It  is  well  known  that  diphtheria  and  similar 
diseases  are  more  prevalent  in  the  southern  district  of  the  city 
than  in  others.  Much  of  the  disease  from  which  the  people  of 
that  section  suffer  has  its  origin  in  the  foul  soil  upon  which  they 
have  built  their  abodes.  An  added  danger  on  this  made  ground 
is  the  fact  that  the  sewers  which  run  through  it  allow  the  sewage 
which  they  convey  to  leak  out  and  into  the  loose  soil.  Through 
it  the  foul  waters  percolate,  thus  contaminating  the  sites  of 
thousands  of  homes  with  death-dealing  impurities.  It  is 
incumbent  upon  the  Board  of  Health  to  draw  some  good 
general  plan  of  action  for  the  improvement  of  the  sanitary  condi- 
tion of  this  city.  The  sewers  need  again  a  complete  overhauling. 
It  may  be  interesting  to  the  people  in  the  Army  street  district  to 
know  that  there  has  been  no  outfall  of  sewage  from  the  great 
Army  street  sewer  for  months,  nor  will  there  be  until  the  win- 
ter's rain  flushes  it.  Meanwhile  the  matter  accumulated  in 
this  large  sewer  remains  there,  giving  forth  poisonous  gases 
which  find  outlet  into  the  houses  of  the  people  for  whose  relief 
the  sewer  was  constructed. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


CLEVELAND'S    LETTER    OF    ACCEPTANCE. 


GOOD    MEN    IN    OFFICE. 


GROVJER  CLEVELAND  has  always  been  known  in  public  life 
as  a  man  having  the  courage  of  his  convictions.  This  was 
shown  in  a  very  forcible  way  in  hi?  message  of  December,  18S7, 
when  be  pulled  the  halting,  facing  bolh-waya  members  of  his 
parly  down  off  the  fence  which  they  bad  been  painfully  strad- 
dling, and  compelled  them  to  take  firm  ground  in  behalf  of  tariff 
reform.  From  that  day  until  the  present  he  has  lost  none  of  that 
sturdy  independence  which  is  his  prevailing  characteristic,  and 
which  has  so  well  earned  for  him  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the 
American  people.  His  recent  letter  of  acceptance  of  the  Demo- 
cratic nomination  to  the  Presidency  bears  every  intrinsic  evidence 
of  being  composed  entirely  by  himself,  and  of  speaking  his  exact 
sentiments,  which  the  Democratic  party  may  accept  or  not,  as  it 
sees  fit.  Cleveland  is  no  puppet,  to  be  moved  by  a  string  in  the 
hands  of  a  party  committee.  He  is  a  bold,  outspoken,  independ- 
ent American  citizen,  and  if  there  be  members  of  his  party  who 
are  more  devoted  to  policy  and  expediency  than  to  principle,  they 
are  not  genuine  Cleveland  men.  It  is  right  and  proper  that  a 
large  portion  of  his  letter  should  be  devoted  to  a  discussion  of  the 
tariff,  for  that  is  unquestionably  the  chief  issue  in  the  present 
campaign,  and  the  way  he  punctures  the  pretensions  of  those 
high-tariff  wiseacres  who  assert  in  the  same  breath  that  the  same 
policy  can  increase  the  profits  of  the  producer  and  decrease  the 
cost  to  the  consumer,  is  excellent  reading  for  any  one  who  has 
not  had  the  wool  of  protection  pulled  completely  over  his  eyes. 
As  the  New  York  Times  very  pertinently  says,  "  Mr.  Cleveland's 
letter  of  acceptance  is  a  brief,  simple,  direct  statement  of  what 
be  undoubtedly  believes  in  regard  to  the  issues  before  the  people 
in  the  present  canvass.  His  words  are  plain,  sincere  and 
explicit.  He  has  made  the  most  valuable  and  effective 
contribution  to  the  Democractic  cause  that  it  has  re- 
ceived in  this  campaign.  He  has  merited  a  vote  of  confidence 
which  all  signs  point  to  his  winning."  In  the  same  strain  the 
Herald  says:  "The  letter  is  not  an  argument,  but  a  statement. 
It  is  not  a  ringing  document,  but  a  calm  summary  of  views  In 
plain  language,  that  will  appeal  to  and  doubtless  influence  the 
thinking  masses."  The  World  says:  ««  The  letter  of  Grover  Cleve- 
land is  like  the  man — strong,  straightforward,  sensible,  honest. 
Whether  treating  of  tariff  reform  or  of  Federal  interference  in  elec- 
ons;  of  the  currency,  of  the  civil  service,  individual  liberty  or  for- 
eign relations,  Mr.  Cleveland  is  simply  virtually  Democratic."  Mr. 
Cleveland  knows  that  mere  rhetoric  does  not  appeal  to  the  plain 
common  sense  of  the  American  people.  Eloquence  has  a  place 
in  the  world  and  a  legitimate  function  to  perform,  but  it  dors  not 
belong  in  a  letter  of  acceptance  of  a  candidate  for  the  highest 
office  in  the  gift  of  any  nation  in  the  world  who  is  duly  impressed 
with  a  sense  of  his  responsibility  and  conscious  of  the  gravity  of 
the  situation.  The  advocates  of  Mr.  Cleveland's  election  can  dis- 
play all  the  eloquence  they  like.  He  has  written  the  theme  with 
a  perfection  of  harmony  seldum  equalled,  and  they  may  adorn  and 
broider  it  with  all  the  coruscations  and  scintillations;  all  the 
brilliant  variations  which  their  genius  and  talent  can  devise.  As- 
suming that  every  one  has  read  the  letter  of  acceptance,  we  have 
made  no  studied  attempt  to  go  throng1!  it  section  by  sec- 
tion and  summarize  it.  It  needs  no  words  of  enco- 
mium, no  eulogies,  no  flattering  comment.  It  is  the  work 
of  a  great  man,  and  it  speaks  for  itself.  There  are,  how- 
ever, some  gems  here  and  there  to  which  we  desire  to  call  spe- 
cial attention,  as  they  are  such  a  conclusive  answer  to  slurs  and 
inuendoes  which  have  been  directed  against  him.  One  of 
these  Is  his  allusion  to  pensions.  Mr.  Cleveland  says  on 
this  subject.  "  The  American  people  are  generous  and  grateful 
and  have  impressed  these  characteristics  on  their  Government. 
Therefore  all  patriotic  and  just  citizens  must  commend  a  liberal 
consideration  for  our  worthy  veteran  soldiers  and  for  the  families 
of  those  who  died.  No  complaint  should  be  made  of  the  amount 
of  public  money  paid  those  actually  disabled  or  made  dependent 
by  reason  of  their  army  service,  but  the  pension-roll  should  be  a 
roll  of  honor,  uncontaminated  by  ill-desert  and  unvitiated  by 
demagogic  use."  That  is  precisely  the  attitude  of  President 
Cleveland  while  he  held  office.  No  case  which  he  deemed  deserv- 
ing ever  went  unheeded  by  him,  but  he  cut  off  the  unworthy 
claims  of  bummers  and  skulkers  on  the  public  treasury  as  ruth- 
lessly as  a  good  gardener  lops  off  the  withered  and  diseased 
branches  from  his  fruit  trees.  No  good  soldier  and  honest  man 
ever  had  occasion  to  dread  the  veto  power  in  the  hands  of  Grover 
Cleveland,  but  he  was,  as  he  should  be,  a  terror  to  evil-doers  and 
dishonest  persons.  The  same  thing  may  be  said,  in  effect,  of  his 
views  as  just  expressed  on  Civil  Service  Reform.  He  has  not 
thought  it  necessary  to  write  a  treatise  on  a  system  which 
is  now  thoroughly  established  as  a  part  of  the  Govern- 
ment, and  which  his  efforts  created  and  fostered,  but  in  simple 
words  he  renews  his  allegiance  to  its  underlying  principles,  and 
promises  that  it  shall  be  carried  out  in  spirit  as  well  as  in  letter. 
Taken  as  a  whole,  the  letter  of  acceptance  will  commend  itself 
strongly  to  the  people  of  the  United  States,  to  whom  it  is  ad- 
dressed. It  will  show  them  that  if  any  mistake  has  been  made 
regarding  Mr.  Cleveland  it  was  made  in  1888  and  not  in  1884,  and 
that  now  is  the  time  to  repair  it,  and  to  call  to  the  head  of  the 
nation   a  man  who   may  well  stand  as  the  typical  American. 


CITIZENS  of  San  Francisco  need  not  be  told  of  the  necessity  of 
voting  for  honest  men  upon  election  day.  Corruption  in 
municipal  office  is  notorious  in  this  city,  and  has  been  for  years. 
The  bosses,  one  set  or  another,  have  so  long  ruled  us  that  the 
taxpayers  now  consider  it  a  matter  of  course  that  their  money 
should  go  into  the  pockets  of  the  corrupt  political  manipulators 
and  their  hirelings.  The  only  way  in  which  to  change  the  con- 
dition of  affairs  and  to  elevate  local  municipal  matters  to  the 
plane  upon  which  they  belong,  is  to  send  into  office  men  whose 
character  is  above  reproach.  In  selecting  citizens  to  fill  local 
office  no  attention  should  be  given  to  party  lines.  It  is  immat-  rial 
whether  the  Mayor  or  the  Sheriff  or  the  Supervisors  be  Democrats 
or  Republicans,  Non-Partisan  or  People's  Party.  What  we  want 
is  the  best  man  for  the  place,  no  matter  on  what  ticket  he  runs. 
Men,  notorious  for  their  affiliations  with  corrupt  political  bosses, 
and  whose  present  prominence  in  the  community  is  due  solely  to 
the  fact  that,  their  masters  have  found  them  useful  servants  and 
are  now  rewarding  them  with  greater  opportunities  for  enjoying 
political  pap;  men,  whose  reputations  are  such  that  by  no  pre- 
sumption can  they  be  considered  honest — all  these  should  be  cast 
aside.  They  should  be  thrust  into  the  pit  of  oblivion, 
from  which,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  they  may  never  emerge. 
The  Third-street  bosses,  who  seem  to  he  the  heirs  of  Buckley, 
have  placed  before  the  people  certain  men  who  are  known  to  be 
their  tools.  All  good  Republicans,  and  of  course  all  good  Demo- 
crats, should  mark  these  men  out,  and  vote  against  them  in  No- 
vember. Other  men  there  are,  who,  though  not  yet  personally 
corrupt,  have  accepted  nominations  from  the  bosses,  and  who  are 
weak  enough,  if  elected,  to  obey  the  bidding  of  their  masters. 
Care  should  be  taken  to  prevent  their  election.  If  the  people  of 
this  city  would  invite  prosperity  to  perch  upon  our  gates,  let 
them  begin  by  sending  into  office  honest  men,  whose  interests 
are  identical  with  those  of  the  city ;  whose  fortunes  are  so  wrapped 
up  in  those  of  the  city,  that  for  their  own  good  they  are  com- 
pelled to  aid  our  progress.  Particular  attention  should  be  given 
the  Board  of  Supervisors.  It  is  in  that  august  body,  as  a  rule, 
that  most  of  the  corrupt  schemes  are  hatched,  which  result  in 
the  robbery  of  the  public  till.  For  years  we  have  been  burdened 
with  Supervisors  whose  sole  object  in  life  was  to  get  all  they 
could  out  of  the  city,  and  who  plunged  their  arms  into  the  treas- 
ury repeatedly.  All  of  that  ilk  will  be  relegated  to  the  past  if 
the  citizens  stand  together  and  make  up  a  good  ticket.  The 
great  end  sought  is  honesty  in  public  office.  The  idea  that  a 
public  office  is  in  fact  a  public  trust  should  be  spread.  It  has  not 
been  acted  upon  here  for  a  long  time.  Let  the  citizens  of  all  par- 
ties join  hands  and  send  honest  men  into  office. 


THE    AUSTRALIAN    BALLOT    LAW. 

THOSE  who  are  responsible  for  the  enactment  of  the  present 
election  law  of  this  State,  familiarly  known  as  the  Australian 
ballot  law,  must  be  credited  with  good  motives  and  intentions, 
but  that  does  not  alter  the  fact  that  the  law  in  its  present  shape 
is  confused  and  bungling,  having  already  led  to  numerous  puz- 
zling complications,  and  presenting  the  probability  of  trouble  yet 
to  come.  The  law  is  the  law,  and  must  be  followed,  but  it  will 
be  well,  we  think,  to  point  out  some  of  the  defects  in  it  in  order 
that  the  remedy  may  be  considered  before  the  meeting  of  the 
next  Legislature.  The  fundamental  error  made  by  the  framers 
of  the  law  was  in  attaching  undue  importance  to  two  things, 
namely,  the  action  of  a  nominating  convention,  and  the  official 
printing  of  the  tickets  or  ballots.  Every  American  citizen  ought 
to  understand  that  the  nominating  convention  is  only  a  means  to 
an  end,  and  that  its  action  is  not  or  should  not  be  binding  upon 
any  one  except  the  candidate  who  accepts  the  nomination  and 
indorses  the  platform.  It  is  contrary  to  the  spirit  of  republican 
institutions  that  a  little  handful  of  men  chosen  from  a  party 
should  be  able  to  make  laws  for  every  member  of  that  party.  To 
take  an  extreme  case,  is  there  any  American  citizen  who  would 
be  willing  to  consider  himself  bound  to  vote  for  ex-President 
Cleveland  simply  because  he  was  nominated  by  the  Chicago  Con- 
vention, or  for  President  Harrison  because  he  was  the  choice  of 
the  Minneapolis  Convention?  To  consent  to  such  a  dogma  is  to 
abrogate  our  sovereignty  as  citizens,  and  convert  our  delegates  to 
conventions  into  attorneys-in-fact  with  powers  irrevocable.  A 
nominating  convention  expresses  the  presumptive  choice  of  the 
party,  and  tnat  is  all,  and  any  law  which  limits  the  names 
printed  on  an  official  ballot  to  the  nominees  of  a  conven- 
tion, makes  an  inroad  upon  the  independence  of  the 
voter,  which  is  the  best  safeguard  of  free  institutions.  To 
have  all  the  names  of  all  the  nominees  on  all  the  tickets  put  on 
a  single  sheet  of  paper  is  the  manifest  plan  of  the  present  law, 
the  result  being  that  the  voter  must  scrutinize  a  sheet  of  printed 
matter  three  and  one-half  feet  in  length  by  one  and  one-half  feet  in 
width  to  find  the  names  of  bis  favorite  nominees,  unless  he  is  con- 
tent to  vote  a  straight  ticket,  in  which  case  bis  task  is  very  greatly 
simplified.  We  make  these  criticisms,  not  in  any  spirit  of  cap- 
tious fault-finding,  but  because  it  has  become  entirely  apparent 
that  the  existing  law  will  not  work  well  in  its  present  form,  but 
must  be  changed. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


JOHN    J.    McDADE. 

ONE  of  the  most  commendable  nominations  made  during  this 
campaign  was  that  of  John  J.  McDade,  who  was  selected  by 
the  Democratic  convention  as  their  candidate  for  the  very  import- 
ant office  of  Sheriff.  The  Shrievalty  is  well  known  as  one  of  the 
most  important  offices  in  the  city  government.  To  it  attaches  a 
power  greater  than  that  possessed  by  any  other  department  of  the 
municipality.  It  is  the  Sheriff  who  in  fact  controls  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  criminal  courts  in  this  city,  for  to  him  belongs  the 
all-important  duty  of  drawing  the  juries  that  determine  the  guilt 
or  innocense  of  people  accused  of  crime.  That  such  an  office  re- 
quires a  man  who  is  in  all  matters  above  reproach,  whose  record 
is  open  and  honorable,  and  who  is  popular  among  a  large  class  of 
worthy  citizens,  because  of  their  knowledge  of  his  inherent 
worth,  was  appreciated  by  the  local  Democracy,  and  therefore  it 
was  that  Mr.  McDade  was  selected  as  a  gentleman  particularly 
adapted  to  the  important  place  which  he  is  destined  to  fulfill,  be- 
cause of  his  possession  in  the  highest  degree  of  the  many  excel- 
lent qualities  necessary  to  a  successful  administration  as  Sheriff. 
He  is  not  new  to  public  affairs,  having  served  with  signal  success 
in  the  State  Legislature,  and  as  Chief  Deputy  Superintendent  of 
Streets  in  this  city.  Mr.  McDade  is  in  all  respects  a  man  of  the 
people,  having  risen  to  his  present  prominent  place  in  the  com- 
munity solely  through  his  own  efforts.  Progress  and  perseverence 
have   been   the   watchwords   which   have   urg:d  him  on.     He  is 


happily  endowed  with  an  unusual  amount  of  energy,  and  this 
great  quality,  combined  with  his  known  ability,  have  placed  him 
at  or  near  the  front  of  all  the  enterprises  with  which  he  has  been 
connected. 

Mr.  McDade  is  a  native  of  J^Tew  York  city,  where  he  was 
born  thirty-seven  years  ago.  Two  years  later  he  came  to  this 
city,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  He  is  a  San  Franciscan 
in  every  particular,  all  his  interests  being  identified  with  those  of 
this  city.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  this  city,  and  grad- 
uated with  honors  from  the  Lincoln  School  and  the  Boys'  High 
School.  He  gave  particular  attention  to  mathematics  and  me- 
chanical drawing,  and  after  bis  graduation  entered  the  Union 
Iron  Works  as  an  apprentice  pattern-maker.  He  soon  became  a 
very  skillful  mechanic.  In  this,  bis  earliest  work,  he  displayed 
those  worthy  characteristics  which  have  always  distinguished 
him.  He  was  industrious,  painstaking  and  energetic,  and  at- 
tracted tbe  favorable  notice  both  of  his  employers  and  his  ac- 
quaintances. The  high  estimation  in  which  the  young  man  was 
heid  by  those  who  knew  him  best  was  shown  in  1879,  when  be 
was  elected  to  tbe  Assembly.  He  served  at  the  first  session  held 
under  the  new  constitution,  and  distinguished  himself  by  the 
gallant  battles  he  fought  against  the  passage  of  bills  for  fraudu- 
lent purposes.  This  session  was  one  of  the  most  important  in 
the  history  of  the  State,  and  corruption  stalked  rampant 
about  the  streets  of  the  capital  city.  John  McDade,  however, 
though  quite  a  young  man  at  the  time,  showed  ihe  great  integ- 
rity of  his  character  by  opposing  every  unholy  schetre.  and  bat- 
tling with  his  might  for  the  interests  of  the  people.  His  legisla- 
tive record  is  most  honorable.  Through  the  exercise  of  his 
duties  as  Chief  Deputy  in  the  office  of  the  Super- 
intendent of  Streets,  Mr.  McDade  became  well-known  to  a 
great  majority  of  the  local  property  owners.  While  in  the  Street 
Department,  he  was  chiefly  instrumental  in  the  preparation  and 
passage  of  the  Yrooman  Act,  under  which  avast  amount  of  street 


improvements  have  been  made.  He  it  was  who  made  the  assess- 
ments for  tbe  grading  of  Castro  and  Kentucky  streets  and  Railroad 
avenue.  The  work  on  these  streets  cost  $300,000,  was 
among  the  most  important  Improvements  ever  made  in  the  Btreets 
of  the  city.  Notwithstanding  his  many  daily  duties,  Mr.  McDade, 
who  evidently  has  a  regard  and  capacity  for  hard  work,  became 
the  instructor  in  mechanical  drawing  of  tbe  young  men  in  the 
evening  class  at  the  Lincoln  School.  Hundreds  of  youths,  just 
entering  upon  their  life  work  as  mechanics,  have  profited  by  his 
instructions.  In  these  young  men  he  has  a  strong  factor  for  suc- 
cess in  his  campaign,  which  cannot  well  be  overcome.  Mr.  Mc- 
Dade, a  young  man  himself,  and  of  progressive  ideas,  has  always 
had  a  sympathy  with  any  movement  for  the  advancement  of  the 
young  men  of  the  community.  He  is  interested  in  several  socie- 
ties whose  main  object  is  tbe  elevation  of  tbe  younger  element. 
Like  most  successful  men  he  is  married,  his  wife  being  a  daughter 
of  Richard  O'Neill,  the  capitalist  and  partner  of  J.  L.  Flood.  In 
electing  this  Democratic  nominee  to  office,  the  people  of  the  com- 
munity will  secure  for  themselves  a  Sheriff  who  will  be  second  to 
none  in  the  country.  His  administration  will  be  distinguished  by 
ability,  energy  and  honesty.  He  will  reflect  honor  upon  his  party 
and  his  city. 


A    CHANCE    FOR    THE    PRAYER    CjAUGE. 

WHEN  Professor  Tyndall  proposed  to  ascertain  the  exact 
value  of  prayer  by  means  of  an  elaborate  and  delicate  sys- 
tem of  gauging  the  alleged  results  of  human  appeals  to  the  Deity, 
he  was  overwhelmed  with  the  anathemas  of  the  believers,  who 
protested  that  to  suggest  such  a  thing  was  an  insult  to  the  Al- 
mighty, while  to  put  it  into  practice  would  be  a  little  less  than 
the  unpardonable  sin  itself.  So  tbe  prayer  gauge  test  went  un- 
tested. Happily,  however,  it  has  been  reserved  for  San  Fran- 
cisco to  afford  a  fine  opportunity  for  carrying  out  Professor  Tyn- 
dall's  idea,  and  this,  too,  without  shocking  the  feelings  of  our 
pious  brethren.  The  Presbyterian  Tabernacle  has  gone 
into  bankruptcy  and  the  house  of  worship  is  to  be 
sold  in  order  to  satisfy  the  mortgage  held  by  some 
stony-hearted  money  changer.  In  his  farewell  sermon, 
tbe  unpaid  pastor  of  the  defunct  church  said  that  all  human 
effort  had  been  exhausted,  and  they  had  come  to  that  point 
where  the  only  thing  that  they  could  do  was  to  trust  in  God. 
Like  the  old  lady  in  the  runaway,  they  ••  trusted  in  God  till  the 
breeching  broke,  and  then  they  didn't  know  what  they  should 
do."  If  now,  in  answer  to  the  prayers  of  tbe  elect,  some  wealthy 
man  shall  come  forward  and  lift  tbe  debt  of  the  church,  and  so 
prevent  the  sanctified  structure  from  being  put  to  base  uses,  then 
indeed  will  the  unbelieving  Tyndall  have  received  a  convincing 
reply.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  the  holder  of  the  mortgage  insists  on 
the  uttermost  farthing  of  his  dues,  and  the  auditorium  where 
Moody  first  spoke  in  this  city  be  converted  into  a  livery  stable  or 
devoted  to  some  other  unholy  calling,  will  not  tbe  wicked  have 
reason  for  wagging  their  heads  and  indulging  in  aggravating 
sneers?  But  what  a  chance  this  is  for  good  old  Deacon  Davy 
Jacks,  that  bright  Presbyterian  light  of  Monterey,  to  attest  the 
sincerity  of  his  faith  by  bis  works,  and  lift  the  burden  of  debt 
from  the  Tabernacle?  He  is  a  reputed  millionaire  many  times 
over,  and  the  sum  required  to  liquidate  the  indebtedness  is  but  a 
trifle  by  comparison.  Come,  Davy;  you  never  had  such  an  op- 
portunity to  glorify  God  in  your  life — but  don't  tie  any  strings  to 
the  gift. 

THE  award  of  a  gold  medal  to  the  wine  display  of  the  Italian- 
Swiss  agricultural  colony  of  this  State  at  tbe  exposition  at 
Genoa,  is  a  feather  in  the  cap  of  California.  It  shows  that  the 
reputation  of  California  wines  is  extending  to  Europe,  even  though 
slowly,  and  that  the  time  will  come  when  France  and  Italy  and 
Spain  will  be  bidding  as  eagerly  for  our  wines  as  we  have  in  the 
past  for  theirs. 

THE  most  heartfelt  sympathy  of  the  American  people  must  be 
extended  to  President  Harrison  in  the  domestic  affliction 
which  is  hanging  over  him.  The  life  of  Mrs.  Harrison  has  been 
given  up  by  the  best  physicians,  and  her  death  is  only  a  question 
of  time.  Such  a  bereavement  is  doubly  severe  when  public  duty 
interferes  with  the  attention  which  the  husband  would  bestow 
upon  the  partner  of  his  joys  and  sorrows. 


Ort     1.    1S92. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


WENDELL     EASTON. 

NO  more  appropriate  nomination  for  any  Offloc  in  the  gift  of 
the  people  was  ever  made  by  any  Californian  convention 
than  that  by  ibe  Republicans  of  this  city  last  week  in  naming 
Wendell  Kaston  as  their  standard  bearer  and  their  nominee  for 
Mayor  of  this  municipality.  For  the  chief  executive  of  a 
metropolis  a  citizen  is  needed  who  la  not  only  identified  with  all 
the  interests  of  the  community  in  which  be  lives,  and  is  possessed 
of  the  discernment  to  ascertain  what  is  needed  to  improve  the 
existing  condition  of  affairs,  but  one  who  also  has  the  ability  to 
institute  desired  reformations  in  the  administration  of  the  munici- 
pal government,  and  the  energy  and  determination  to  carry  them 
to  a  successful  consummation.  Executive  ability  of  the  highest 
order  is  one  of  the  necessary  characteristics  in  the  personality  of 
a  Mayor  of  a  large  city.  It  is  by  the  possession  of  this  valuable 
trait  that  Wendell  Easton  easily  towers  above  his  opponents  in 
tbe  pending  couipaign.  His  own  career,  and  the  many  successes 
which  have  attended  it,  are  tbe  bent  arguments  that  can  be  ad- 
duced in  his  favor.  A  man  who  has  raised  himself  by  the  force 
of  his  own  will  and  ability  from  a  humble  position  to  the  head  of 
his  profession  in  a  city  of  over  three  hundred  thousand  people, 
needs  no  one  to  sing  his  praise.  He  is  known  by  his  works, 
which  have  called  forth  the  admiration  and  wonder  of  all  his  fel- 
low citizens.  The  name  of  Wendell  Easton  is  a  tower  of  strength 
to  the  ticket  which  bears  it.  Identified  for  years  with  San  Fran- 
cisco as  one  of  Its  leading  business  men,  and  one  who  has  taken 
particular  interest  in  its  growth  and  development,  Mr.  Easton 
enjoys  tbe  complete  confidence  of  the  people  of  the  community, 
who  know  that  in  his  hands  their  affairs  will  be  safe.  A  con- 
servative manager,  though  ever  in  favor  of  progress,  his  admin- 
istration will  be  a  memorable  one  in  the  history  of  the  city. 

Wendell  Easton  is  of  that  sturdy,  l'uritan  stock,  which  builded 
cities,  developed  unknown  countries,  and  made  this  government 
possible.     The  island  of  Nantucket   was   his  birthplace,  on  May 
24,  1848.     His   forefathers    were   settled  long  in  the  land,  for  one 
Nicholas  Easton  was  Governor  of  Rhode  Island  in  1672,  and  his 
son  John  was  likewise  Governor  from  1690  to  1694.     Oliver  Wen- 
dell Easton,  father  of  the  future  Mayor,  came  to  this  city  in  1850, 
whither  he  was  followed  four  years  later  by  his  wife  and  children. 
Tbe   elder    Easton    was   himself  quite  a  prominent  figure  in  the 
early  days.     He  was  possessed  of  that  energy  and  determination 
which    distinguishes    his    son,   and  had  a  calm  and  logical  mind. 
Wendell  attended  the  public  schools  in  this  city,  and  after  leaving 
the  High  School  began  his  business  career  by  entering  the  real  estate 
orfice  of  Hoogs  &  Madison,  which  firm  has  since  become  Madison 
&  Burke.     Here   he   became  a  messenger  boy,  at  the  munificent 
salary  of  $7.50  a  month.     His  first  opportunity  for  advancement 
came  when  Mr.  Madison  going   away  on    a   vacation,    the   book- 
keeping,   which    bad    been    in   his  charge,  fell  to  Mr.  Hoogs,  the 
errand    boy   and    two  other  lads.     Easton  soon  had  all  the  work 
on  his  shoulders.     He  wrote  up  all  the  books,  and  on  Mr.  Madi- 
son's return  was  made  permanent  book-keeper.     Eor  nine  years 
he  retained  the  position  as  head  clerk  and  book-keeper.     He  left 
it  in  1872,  notwithstanding  the   earnest   solicitations  of  the  firm, 
who  wished   so    much  to  retain  him  that  they  offered  him  an  in- 
terest.    He  became  assistant  Secretary  of  the  Crown  Point  mine, 
at  a  salary  of  $400  a  month,  which  was  $300  a  month  more  than 
his    former   salary.     His   salary   was   soon   increased    to   $800  a 
month.     He   became   secretary   for   fourteen  mining  companies. 
Just  before  the  fall  of  bonanza  prices  Mr.  Easton  felt  the  end  was 
coming,  and  he  resigned  his  lucrative  position.     He  then  began 
his  successful  career  in  the  real  estate  business,  opening  an  office 
opposite  the  Lick  House.     Mr.  Easton  soon  found  himself  on  the 
road  to  high  success,  and  then  married,  taking  for  his   wife  Carrie 
Whitney,  daughter  of    George   O.  Whitney,  of  this  city.     It  may 
be  interesting  to  young  men  to  know  that  he  says  be  never  made 
any  money  until  after   his    marriage.     The  many  great  business 
successes    made  by  Mr.  Easton,  tbe  manner  in  which  he  has  de- 
veloped city  and    county  lands,  the  colonies  he  has  founded,  the 
homes  he  has  made  for  people  from  San  Diego  to  Sacramento,  the 
whole  story  of  the  great  enterprises  in  which  he  has  been  the  di- 
rect spirit,  are  too  well  known  to  San  Franciscans  to  need  repeti- 
tion here.     His    famous   auction    sales,  with  "Jo   Eldridge,  auc- 
tioneer," and    his  crowded    excursions    to  country  sites,  are  all 
familiar.     He  moved  about  the  State  the  embodiment  of  progress 
and  development.     Success  followed  in  his  footsteps.     The   firm 
of  which  he  is  the  senior   member  consists   of  Wendell   Easton, 
George  W.  Frink  and  George  Easton,  the  brother  of  Mr.  Easton, 
who  has  been  long  identified  with  insurance  matters  on  this  coast. 
Last  year  be  became  interested  in   the  Eddy  street  electric  road, 
which  will  soon  be  in  operation.    He  has  always  been  a  consistent 
Republican,  and  has  been  President  of  the  Union  League  Club  and 
prominent  in  other  organizations.     He  is  also  aprominent  Mason. 
Such  is  a  brief  sketch  of  the  gentleman  whom  those  citizens  who 
desire  the  city's  progress  hope  to  see  in   the   Mayor's  chair  next 
January.     Mr.  Easton  is  the  right   man   at   the  right  time  in  the 
right  place.     The  city  needs  him. 


UNHAPPY     EAST    OAKLAND    METHODISTS. 

REV.  DR.  HEACOCK,  vrbo  for  tin*  paal  five  years  has  been  pas- 
tor of  the  Eighth  Avenue  Methodist  Church  in  East  Oakland, 
left  for  his  former  home  in  Iowa  recently.  His  late  congregation* 
gave  him  a  farewell  reception,  and  presented  him  with  a  purse 
containing  one  hundred  dollars  in  gold.  One  would  naturally 
suppose  from  this  ostentation  that  Dr.  Heacock  was  greatly  be- 
loved by  the  church.  While  this  gentleman  is  a  fine  preacher 
and  scholar,  he  was  not  altogether  able  to  reach  the  hearts  of 
some  of  the  best  members  of  the  church.  Among  them  was 
Charles  Taylor,  a  prominent  business  man,  who,  with  his  family, 
were,  prior  to  Dr.  Heacock's  coming,  considered  as  almost  the 
backbone  of  the  church.  Mr.  Taylor  is  one  of  the  joyful,  big- 
hearted,  generous  kind  of  Christians  that  everybody  likes,  and 
he  wielded  great  power  in  both  Sunday  school  and  church.  When 
Dr.  Heacock  took  charge  of  the  church,  he  revolutionized  every- 
thing. He  started  all  tbe  Sunday  schools  and  churches  out  to 
raise  money  to  enlarge  the  Eighth  A  venue  Church.  Brother  Tay- 
lor, who  is  a  thorough  Methodist,  objected  to  the  pastor's 
methods  of  raising  money,  and  vowed  he  would  not  assist  him. 
This  was  the  beginning  of  a  controversy  which  was  never  ami- 
cably settled.  The  church  succeeded  in  keeping  the  matter  from 
the  public  and  out  of  the  newspapers.  Mr.  Taylor  faithfully  kept 
his  vow  up  to  the  day  of  Dr.  Heacock's  departure.  About  a 
year  ago,  during  church  service,  Dr.  Heacock  called  on  this  gen- 
tleman to  pray,  and  was  very  much  embarrassed  when  Mr.  Tay- 
lor remained  as  dumb  as  an  oyster.  Even  those  who  liked  Dr. 
Heacock  never  took  sides  against  Mr.  Taylor,  and  the  uninitiated 
would  never  have  divined  that  there  had  been  any  trouble.  The 
entire  congregation,  however,  appreciated  the  fact  that  it  was 
through  Dr.  Heacock's  efforts  aud  direction  that  over  $50, COO 
was  raised  during  his  pastorate  for  the  enlargement  and  refitting 
of  the  building,  which  is  now  one  of  the  best  arranged  churches 
in  East  Oakland. 


/Hilkman's 
Uate — regain? 

That  don't  matter  so  much,  now-a- 
days.  Dilute  one  part  of  Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  with  two  vol- 
umes of  water — for  delicious  cream; 
with  three  volumes  of  water  for  rich 
milk — You've  solved  the  milk  ques- 
tion for  all  time.  We  use  only  milk 
obtained  from  farms  under  our  own 
supervision.  Prepared  in  hermeti- 
cally sealed  cans.  Ask  for  the 
Highland  brand — take  no  other. 

HELVETIA  MILK  CONDENSING  CO. 
HIGHLAND,  ILL. 


Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun- 
tains. Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac- 
commodations.   Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  Mtna.  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

Altitude!  No  Fogs!    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  B36. Office,  108  Drumm  Street,  S.  F 


/ETNA 

HOT 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  1,  1892. 


WILLIAM  MELVILLE  KERR,  better  known  as  »  Joe  "  Kerr, 
but  wby,  deponent  saitb  not,  who  is  the  clever  editor  of  The 
Club,  a  new  and  bright  monthly,  of  New  York  City,  has  issued 
an  entertaining  volume  under  the  alliterative  title  "  Joe  Kerr's 
Jests,  Jingles  and  Jottings,"  which  he  has  "  Affectionately  Dedi- 
cated to  My  Stranger  Friend,  The  American  Dollar."  It  is  a  very 
handsome  publication,  in  heavy  boards  of  blue,  white  and  gold, 
which  is  made  as  attractive  by  its  fine  typographical  and  artistic 
work,  as  it  is  entertaining  by  the  jests,  jingles  and  jottings.  Mr. 
Kerr  is  the  happy  possessor  of  a  great  fund  of  wit  and  humor, 
and  bis  ready  pen  evidently  takes  delight  in  inditing  clever  hits, 
either  in  prose  or  verse.  There  is  much  of  philosophy  in  his 
writings,  and  he  is  also  unkind  enough  to  take  an  occasional  fling 
at  those  darlings  of  society,  the  chappy  and  the  summer  girl. 
Much  ability  is  shown  in  dialect  verse  and  prose,  •  Peanutti  and 
the  monk  '  are  evidently  favorites  of  Mr.  Kerr.  Like  most  dialect 
matter,  however,  this  should  be  recited  to  bring  out  its  best  points. 
Mr.  Kerr  has  one  sad  fault;  that  is  a  predilection  for  the  perpe- 
tration of  bad,  bad  puns,  which  a  writer  of  his  ability  should 
overcome,  before  a  much  suffering  public  rises  in  arms  against 
him.  That  he  is  as  inconstant  in  his  affections  as  most  men  of 
genius,  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  in  this  single  volume  he  has 
sonnets  to  Beatrice,  Mildred,  Helen,  Blanche,  Sweetheart,  Anna, 
Marguerite,  Sadie,  A  Cali(fornia)  Lily,  and  a  lot  of  other  girls. 
We  take  exception  to  the  picture  of  the  lily  of  California,  which 
is  a  representation  of  a  young  lady  with  a  large,  firm  mouth  and 
determined  chin,  that  form  the  prominent  features  in  a  face  that 
is  as  unladylike  as  any  woman's  can  be.  Our  girls  are  all  sweet, 
lovely  and  lovable,  and  the  outer  signs  of  firmness  do  not  detract 
from  the  beauty  of  their  angelic  countenances.  "  Jests,  Jingles 
and  Jottings  "  will  make  a  hit,  as  it  deserves. 

"Fair  to  Look  Upon,"  by  Mary  Belle  Freeley,  is  an  attempt  to 
justify  the  independence  and  waywardness  of  the  fin  de  siecle 
woman,  by  drawing  comparisons  between  her  and  the  "  holy 
women  of  old."  Even  for  a  modern  novel,  its  treatment  of  sub- 
jects which  are  usually  considered  with  reverence  is  somewhat 
audacious.  "The  holy  women  of  old,"  to  whom  the  author  re- 
fers, are  women  mentioned  in  the  Old  Testament  for  some  deed 
usually  not  of  a  kind  which  is  commendable,  but  which  has  given 
the  doer  a  place  in  history.  The  endeavor  of  the  book  is  to  es- 
tablish a  precedent  for  the  refusal  to  obey,  which  the  women  of 
this  day  and  generation  exercise.  As  a  literary  work  the  book  is 
a  disappointment,  for  though  the  author  is  very  evidently  pos- 
sessed of  ability,  and  has  more  than  the  usual  amount  of  wit, 
which  attaches  to  a  woman,  she  has  written  in  a  style  of  airy 
persiflage,  which,  though  not  offensive  at  first,  soon  becomes  so, 
with  the  result  that  the  book  is  finished  only  with  an  effort. 
Her  work  falls  far  short  of  establishing  any  precedent  or  proving 
anything.  One  might  as  well,  by  citing  incidents  of  women  who 
have  gone  to  battle,  and  enacted  prominent  parts  in  wars,  en- 
deavor to  show  that  modern  women  should  all  be  warriors, 
as  to  endeavor  to  establish  any  line  of  action  for  to-day  by 
relating  incidents  which  happened  ages  ago.  This  book,  how- 
ever, should  not  be  considered  seriously;  it  is  not  worthy  of  such 
consideration.  It  is  a  curiosity,  and  as  such  may  repay  perusal. 
The  work  is  richly  illustrated,  and  well  printed.  (Chicago, 
Morrill,  Higgins  &  Co.) 


•«  Black  Beetles  in  Amber  "  is  the  curious  title  that  Ambrose 
Blerce  has  given  to  his  latest  volume,  issued  during  the  week  by 
the  Western  Authors'  Publishing  Company,  of  this  city.  It  is  a 
collection  of  verses  which  are  now  republished,  with  considerable 
alterations,  from  various  newspapers.  Most  of  the  verses  are 
personal,  very  personal,  and  in  them  the  victims  of  Bierce's  pen 
are  impaled  and  tortured  with  all  the  delicacy  of  fine  irony  and 
bitter  satire.  Blerce  haB  a  way  of  putting  his  man  upon  a  spit 
and  then  turning  him  about  in  the  fire  of  his  wrath  until  the  poor 
unfortunate  is  browned  to  a  crisp.  Most  men  in  local  public  life 
have  roused  his  ire  in  some  manner,  and  for  that  reason  the  verse 
will  be  most  appreciated  by  the  people  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  to 
whom,  says  the  author,  the  volume  may  be  considered  to  be 
especially  addressed.  Some  of  the  men  written  about  are  now 
dead,  but  says  Bierce,  "for  the  death  of  a  man  of  whom  I  have 
written  what  I  think  worthy  to  live,  I  am  in  no  way  responsible, 
and  however  sincerely  I  may  regret  it,  I  can  hardly  be  expected 
to  let  it  affeet  my  fortunes."  In  fact,  Bierce  never  has  been  known 
to  allow  considerations  for  another,  if  he  were  ever  guilty  of  pos- 
sessing them,  to  affect  his  course  of  action  by  a  single  jot  or  tittle. 
On  account  of  their  local  coloring,  the  verses  will  not  be  appre- 
ciated as  much  by  the  general  reader  as  were  Bierce's  short  stories. 

"The  Californian  "  for  October  is  an  interesting  number  of  that 
popular  and  progressive  magazine.  Among  the  leading  articles  in 
it  are  "On  a  Coral  Reef,"  by  Chas.  Frederick  Holder;  "  Can  a 
Chinaman   Become   a   Christian?"  by  Rev.  Frederic  J.  Masters, 


D.  D.;  "Political  Duty  of  Californians,"  by  R.  H.  McDonald, 
Jr.;  "  Marketing  California  Fruits,"  by  W.  H.  Mills;  "Shall  Ma- 
chine Politics  Rule?  "  by  W.  H.  Bonsall.  The  "  Californian  "  has 
made  rapid  strides,  and  is  now  in  the  front  rank  of  the  magazines. 


FOR    OCTOBER. 

The  Baptismal  Font  of  America.   By  Frank  H.  Mason. 

With  14  Illustrations. 
Tiger-Hunting  in   Mysore.      By  R.  Caton   Woodville. 

With  5  Illustrations  by  the  Author. 
A.  B.  Frost.     By.  H.  C.  Bunner.     With  7  Illustrations  by 

Mr.  Frost,  and  a  portrait  by  J.  W.  Alexander. 
A  Collection  of  Death-Masks.      By  Laurence  Hutton. 

Part  II.     With  17  Illustrations. 
Education  in  the  West.  By  President  Charles  F.Thwing. 
The  Efferati  Family.      By  Thomas   A.  Janvier.     With 

6  Illustrations  by  W.  T.  Sraedley. 
Paris  Along  the  Seine.     By  Theodore  Child.     With  13 

Illustrations. 
Beaumont  and  Fletcher.     By  James  Russell  Lowell. 
Columbus.     By   Professor  Dr.  S.  Ruge.     With  a  Copy   of 

the  Map  used  by  Columbus  in  his  First  Voyage. 
The  World   of  Chance.      By   William   Dean   Howells, 

Part  VIII. 
Jane  Field.     By  Mary  E.   Wilkins.     Part  VI.     With  2  Il- 
lustrations by  W.  T.  Smedley. 
POEMS  by   E.  A.  U.  Valentine,   Archibald   Lampman,   and 

J.  B.  Tabb, 

AND  EDITORIAL    DEPARTMENTS. 

published  by  JHarper  0  Brotl^rs,  |\f.  V. 


MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

No,  912  GRAND  STREET, ALA.MEDA,   CAL. 

Miss  Manson,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  School,  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.   Hanson,  Late  Associate   Principal,  East  End  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  began  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  information  sent  on 
application. _^ 

ALFRED  J.   KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 

MR.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 

Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 

LAVER,    MULLANY    &    LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office:  93  Flood  Building, Cor.  4th  and  Warhpt  Stw..«.  F. 

californiaTlectricaTworks^ 

3STo-   35   Iv-Iaxlset  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS    AND     IMPORTERS     OF 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General  Electrical  Suoolies. 
COKE— CHEAPEST  FUEL! 

Reduction  in  Price. 

Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more),  80c.  per  bbl.    Retall(any  quantity 

nnder  50  bbls.),  90c.  per  bbl. 

AT  THE  WORKS  OF 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  GASLIGHT  COMPANY, 
HOWARD  AND  FIRST  STS.,  and  FOOT  OF  SECOND  STREET. 


OtoW  1,  1892. 


^\\    FKANCISiO   NEWS   '  KTTKK. 


THE    LOW -CI*  T    DRt>s 


[By    Pi    Viiioi.] 

M0DB8TY  and  morality  are  largely  matters  of  conventionality. 
It  has  long  been  a  question  fiercely  and  often  vituperatively 
debated,  as  to  bow  much  or  bow  Utile  of  a  woman's  figure  it  is 
proper  for  her  to  show.  With  his  usual  readiness  to  say  "  Thus 
far  shall  thou  go,  and  no  further,"  man  has  attempted  to  define 
wbat  a  woman  may  or  may  not  wear,  with  somewhat  in- 
congruous results  when  the  customs  of  different  lands  are  taken 
into  account.  The  Turk  lies  the  women  of  his  harem  up  in  so 
many  bags:  the  occidental  lord  of  creation  prefers  to  see  his 
womenkind  dressed  to  represent  so  many  animated  lassies,  and 
the  most  Christian  conrt  in  Christendom  has  long  since  decreed 
that  the  low-cut  corsage  is  the  only  proper  covering,  nay  the  un- 
covenng  for  the  maids,  wives  and  widows  of  the  nation, for  State 
occasions.  As  to  the  style,  fashion,  amount  and  degree  of  the 
decollete  corsage,  opinions  differ.  Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps  Ward, 
whose  early  spiritual  vision  of  the  Gates  Ajar,  broadened  into  the 
warmer-bued  scenes  of  the  Master  of  the  Magicians,  shocked  her- 
self and  then  her  friends  and  the  public  in  general  by  her  de- 
nunciations of  the  erotic  tendency  of  the  low-cnt  bodice.  It  is 
barely  possible  that  some  of  the  gowns  are  cut  lower  »  than  a 
monk  might  deem  were  good  for  the  soul  "  of  the  beholder;  but 
wilb  that  side  of  the  question  I  shall  not  concern  myself.  That 
may  be  left  for  monks  and  men  to  decide.  But  with  the  esthetic, 
the  purely  artistic  view  of  the  case,  it  is  imperative  for  every 
woman  to  have  an  intelligent  and  decided  opinion.  »  What  do 
I  think  of  low-cut  gowns?"  said  a  sweet  young  girl,  smiling  at 
me  as  she  repeated  the  question ;  »  why,  I  think  they're  perfectly 
lovely.  I'll  be  perfectly  frank  with  you,  and  admit  that  I  know 
I  have  a  pretty  neck  and  a  rounded  throat.  I  know  that  I  look 
well  decollete,  and  as  I  have  been  taught  to  eDJoy  and 
to  court  admiration.  I  wear  my  V's  back  aDd  front  whenever  I 
have  a  ghost  of  a  chance.  My  neck  and  shoulders  have  been  ad- 
mired, and  I  can't  see  that  it  is  wrong  for  me  to  show  them.  Talk 
about  the  immodesty  of  a  decollete  dress!  Bathing  costumes, 
not  ball  dresses,  are  what  should  be  criticised,"  and  the  sweet  girl 
drew  up  her  queenly  head,  and  the  soft,  full  curves  of  her  grace- 
ful throat,  and  the  regal  lines  of  her  head  and  neck  looked  more 
temptingly  beautiful  than  ever.  George  Eliot  drew  a  part  true  to 
nature  when  she  made  Grandcourt  suddenly  bend  over  and  kiss 
Gwendolen,  his  betrothed,  on  the  neck  just  below  and  behind  the 
ear.  I  have  seen  women  redeemed  from  the  stamp  of  vulgarity, 
of  deadly  commonplaceness,  by  a  V  corsage.  It  adds  height  and 
dignity  to  a  short,  fat  woman,  and  takes  away  from  the  other- 
wise helpless  roundness  of  a  full  face.  I  have  seen  the  grace  of  a 
dowager  duchess  conferred  upon  a  woman  of  the  people  by  a 
dress  that  was  decollete.  But  where  shall  the  line  be  drawn? 
How  unfortunate  that  those  who  should  know  are  not  taken  aside 
and  the  information  gently  broken  to  them  that  the  low  cut  cor- 
sage is  not  for  them !  If  they  should  ask  why,  let  them  read  Har- 
riet Martineau's  description  of  the  coronation  of  Queen  Victoria, 
and  if  the  pictures  she  draws  of  the  gaunt,  scraggy,  bony  old 
creatures  of  which  the  inviolable  court  custom  had  made  decollete 
guys,  do  not  impress  them  with  a  sense  of  their  own  unfitness 
for  "  full  dress,"  then  nothing  will.  Who  should  wear  a  low-cut 
gown?  Only  those  who  are  young,  fresh,  fair,  or  finely  formed, 
clear-skinned  and  perfectly  healthy.  Some  contend  that  a  low- 
cut  waist  is  the  shortest  cut  to  an  early  grave,  but  that  will  not 
be  accepted  as  absolutely  true.  The  appropriateness  of  a  decollete 
toilet  depends  not  so  much  upon  age  as  upon  appearance.  I  have 
seen  old  women  of  sixty  look  like  sleek,  well-fed,  well-groomed 
Maltese  cats,  in  their  bare  necks  and  shoulders.  But  when  flesh 
ceases  to  look  like  flesh — when  it  looks  like  meat  and  suggests 
the  butcher's  scales,  by  all  means  let  it  be  covered  up.  What 
can  be  moie  repugnant  to  good  taste,  more  horribly  repulsive  to 
the  eye  than  a  vast  expanse  of  beefy  avoirdupois,  a  mountainous 
bulge  of  fat  between  the  shoulders,  doing  violence  to  the  curve  of 
the  spine,  known  as  the  fat  woman's  neck,  arms  that  look  like 
haras,  a  skin  that  is  either  blotched  or  black-patched,  necks  in 
which  the  cords  and  muscles  stand  out  with  painful  distinctness, 
bony  breasts,  on  which  one  might  beat  a  resonant  tattoo  with 
real  drum-sticks,  or  an  integument  that  looks  like  leather,  and 
coarse,  second  rate  quality  at  that — these  should  never  wear  a 
low  cut  dress,  and  these  are  the  very  ones  who  revel  in  the  op- 
portunity. The  gracious  offices  of  soft  lace  or  fine  illusion  which 
would  tenderly  hide  nature's  defects  or  time's  ravages— these  they 
despise  and  will-have  none  of  them.  They  eschew  the  graceful 
V,  and  adopt  the  boldest  of  square  necks  or  heart-shaped  cor- 
sages. They  paint,  and  plaster  up  their  wrinkles,  they  gather  in 
the  slack  of  their  wobbly  necks,  and  hold  it  in  position  by  a 
broad  velvet  band,  they  seem  to  think  that  a  bold  front  will  make 
up  for  a  lack  of  charms.  Poor,  deluded  old  creatures,  some  good 
fairy  should  drop  a  hooded  cape  over  them  and  snuff  them  out  of 
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Oct.  1,  1892. 


[e^Si/ggl^D 


We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's.*' — Tom  Moore. 


THE  production  of  Mrs.  Pacheco's  new  play,  Nothing  but  Money, 
at  Stockwell's  Theatre,  was  the  dramatic  events  of  the  week. 
Society,  which  means  Mrs.  Pacheco's  circle  of  friends,  was  out  in 
force,  and  filled  the  bright  little  theatre  to  overflowing  with  fash- 
ion and  elegance.  Naturally  the  audience  was  enthusiastic 
rather  than  critical,  and  the  applause  was  frequent  and  tumultu- 
ous. At  the  end  of  the  second  act  nothing  would  satisfy  the 
swell  mob  but  a  sight  of  the  fair  author,  and  when  the  curtain 
rolled  up  and  revealed  the  lady  bowing  from  the  centre  of  a  semi- 
circle of  the  performers,  the  shouts  grew  deafening.  Mrs.  Pacheco 
should  certainly  feel  entire  satisfaction  in  the  first  reception  of 
her  play  in  this,  her  old  home. 

«  •  • 

In  point  of  fact,  Nothing  but  Money  does  not  compare  favorably 
with  Incog.  Its  plot  is  more  pretentious  and  it  may  be  more 
probable ;  its  situations  are  somewhat  more  dramatic  and  perhaps 
more  deftly  worked  up;  but  there  is  so  decided  a  drop  in  the 
dialogue  (the  essentially  intellectual  side  of  a  play)  as  to  form  an 
antithesis  to  the  agreeable  surprise  occasioned  by  the  bright  lines 
and  pointed  wit  and  satire  of  Incog.  There  is  nothing  in  the  new 
play  which  can  justly  be  called  dialogue.  The  lines  contain 
little  beyond  what  is  necessary  to  tell  the  story.  This  is  bet- 
ter than  verbiage,  but  it  is  nqt  dialogue.  The  play  has  the  dash 
and  go  which  characterize  all  the  author's  work,  and  which,  to 
the  ennuied  theatre-goer,  cover  a  multitude  of  sins;  but  the  plot 
and  situation  on  which  it  mainly  depends  are  neither  strong 
enough  nor  marked  by  a  sufficient  dramatic  "  technique  "  to  con- 
done the  lack  of  the  verbal  interest  which  gave  Incog,  despite  its 
faults,  a  promise  of  the  genuine  success  which  it  has  maintained. 
It  would  not  be  a  rash  prediction  to  foretell  for  Mrs.  Pacheco's 
new  play  a  purely  transient  hold  on  the  stage,  but  for  one  ele- 
ment— extraneous,  but  powerful.  The  influence  of  charming 
woman,  which,  according  to  history,  has  molded  the  sterner  in- 
terests of  war  and  politics,  need  not  stop  at  the  stage.  Mrs. 
Pacheco  is  still  the  charming  woman  she  has  been  from  girlhood, 
and  as  the  unquestioned  centre  of  her  own  coterie  and  a  light  in 
the  general  world  of  society,  she  possesses  a  power  over  press 
and  public  opinion  which  her  training  as  well  as  her  natural  gifts 
enable  her  to  wield  to  the  utmost.  If  Nothing  but  Money  secure  a 
permanent  foothold  on  the  stage,  it  will  owe  the  fact  to  this  in- 
fluence rather  than  to  intrinsic  merit. 
*  •  # 

George  W.  Lederer's  company  is,  like  himself,  full  of  fire  and 
enthusiasm;  but,  unlike  himself,  some  members  thereof  do  not 
temper  these  gifts  with  discretion.  Among  those  wno  need  toning 
down  very  strongly,  if  not  to  the  point  of  elimination,  are  Ramon 
Castro  {Mr.  Louis  Mann),  who  makes  an  extravaganza  of  his 
marital  jealousy,  which  is,  by  the  way,  pushed  to  the  very  limit 
of  possibility  in  the  play;  and  Clara  Lipman,  a«  Grace  Thornton, 
her  constant  and  noisy  laughter  being  as  exasperatingly  un- 
natural as  the  Don's  jealous  rage;  it  is  indictable  as  a  libel  on  the 
American  girl  she  misrepresents.  Ellen  Burg  is  incisive  enough 
as  the  deserting  wife  of  the  discursive  Wilder,  but  her  hard  voice, 
manner  and  accent  combined  evoke  about  as  much  sympathy  as 
one  could  arouse  by  skillfully  drumming  on  a  tinpan.  The  wis- 
dom of  giving  a  wearying  and  almost  unintelligible  foreign  accent 
to  a  prominent  character  in  the  development  of  the  plot  of  a 
drama  may  be  questioned.  The  redeeming  members  of  the  com- 
pany are  William  Norris  and  the  two  Davenports.  The  Baron 
Poppoff  of  the  former  is  an  admirably  conceived  characteriza- 
tion. The  ease  and  naturalness  of  E.  L.  Davenport  as  David 
Wilder  are  particularly  striking,  and  Harry  Davenport's  persona- 
tion of  the  wooden-headed  but  straightforward  young  Briton,  is 
so  good,  as,  in  conjunction  with  his  previous  work  here  to 
justify  the  belief  that  dramatic  ability,  at  least,  is  transmissible 
by  heredity. 

»  #  # 

Yon  Tonson  has  come  back  to  the  California.  The  play  has 
either  returned  from  its  travels  improved,  or  increased  familiarity 
with  the  queer  accent,  as  well  as  with  the  story,  renders  the  former 
less  wearing  on  the  auditor,  and  the  play  as  it  stands  is  a  very 
agreeable  evening's  entertainment.  The  incongruity  of  a  refined 
and  educated  young  girl  falling  in  love  up  to  the  marrying  point 
with  so  uncouth  a  suitor  (and  doing  the  courting  into  the  bargain) 
is  as  insurmountoble  as  ever,  but  the  by  play  is  good  and  amus- 
ing, the  scenery  extremely  effective,  and  the  staging  in  every  way 
well  managed  and  attractive.  The  audience  warms  up  to  the 
honest  Swede's  best  "  points,"  and  the  production  is,  altogether, 
making  a  success  of  its  second  visit  to  the  California  which  one 
would  never  have  predicted  at  its  leaving  last  year. 
*  •  # 

Abbott  and  Teal's  company  will  follow  Lillian  Russell,  at  the 
Baldwin,  in  Niobe,  opening  next  Monday  night.  »  Niobe,  all 
tears,"  hardly  seems  a  subject  for  comedy,  but  the  Messrs,  Paul- 


ton,  keeping  up  their  role  of  "  adapters  " — a  pleasant  euphemism 
for  stealing  other  people's  ideas — have  made  of  it  a  comedy  with 
the  plot  of  Anstey's  A  Tinted  Venus.  An  art  enthusiast  buys  a 
statue  of  Niobe,  which  he  believes,  ignoring  the  rock  on  Sipylus, 
to  be  the  identical  stone  into  which  the  weeping  queen,  bereft  of 
her  fourteen  children,  was  turned  by  the  relenting  gods.  He 
confides  it  to  the  care  of  an  insurance  agent,  Teter  Amos  Dunn, 
who  takes  it  to  his  own  home  for  safe-keeping.  A  stray  current 
of  electricity  restores  tbe  statue  to  life,  and  poor  Peter  Amos,  in 
alarm  at  what  his  wife  may  say  at  finding  in  tbe  house  a  live 
goddess,  arrayed  a  la  statue,  dresses  her  up  and  presents  her  as 
the  expected  governess.  Niobe  preserves  her  character  as  a 
weeper,  and  is  constantly  falling  on  »  Petramos'  "  neck  in  a  flood 
of  tears.  Mrs.  Peter  naturally  objects,  and  all  sorts  of  comedy 
troubles  result,  the  complications  being  redoubled  when  the  real 
governess  comes.  Isabelle  Coe  and  George  R.  Edeson  have  the 
leading  roles.  This  is  Mr.  Edeson's  second  visit  here,  his  first 
having  been  with  Jos.  Shannon,  in  A  Golden  Butterfly.  Isabelle 
Coe  was  here  some  time  ago  with  Nat.  Goodwin,  and  is  a  talented 
and  progressive  young  actress. 

»  #  * 
At  the  Bush-street  Theatre  Dan'l  Sully  will  produce  at  the  ma- 
tinee to-day  and  on  Saturday  and  Sunday  evenings  bis  new  play, 
Tammany  Hall.  On  Monday  evening,  October  3d,  Louis  de  Lange 
and  Will  8.  Rising  appear  at  the  Bush  in  Tangled  Up.  Both  play 
and  players  are  well  spoken  of.  Lottie  Mortimer  will  introduce 
her  serpentine  dance,  which  has  caused  a  sensation.  Burr  Mc- 
intosh's one-act  comedietta,  Why?  will  precede  the  main  piece. 

*  #  # 

Liscombe  Searelle's  new  opera,  Estrella,  has  occupied  the  week 
at  the  Tivoli.  The  plot  is  something  newer  than  that  of  mo6t 
late  comic  operas,  the  music  light  and  pretty,  and  the  humor  is  a 
prominent  feature.  The  scenes  in  Venice  during  the  days  of  the 
Doges  are  effective.  Next  Monday  night  Maritana,  "the  song 
opera,"  will  be  given,  introducing  a  new  tenor,  E.  P.  Seaman. 

*  *  * 

Mr.  George  Riddle's  readings  this  week  have  been  attended  as 
largely  as  ever,  and  the  enjoyment  afforded  by  them  gives  added 
promise  of  a  rare  treat  in  bis  famous  interpretation  of  A  Midsum- 
mer Night's  Dream,  which  will  be  given  jMonday  night,  October 
3d,  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall.  H.  J.  Stewart  will  conduct  an  orches- 
tra of  thirty  musicians  interpreting  the  music  written  by  Men- 
delssohn to  illustrate  the  play.  Mr.  Riddle's  performance  has 
been  chronicled  as  "wonderful"  wherever  it  has  been  seen. 

*  *  » 

The  first  of  the  series  of  Carr-Beel  Saturday  "  Pops"  was  given 
to  a  large  and  appreciative  audience  last  Saturday  afternoon  at 
Irving  Hall.  Tbe  numbers  were  few,  but  their  rendition  was  as 
nearly  perfect  as  musical  intuition  combined  with  technical  skill 
and  constant  practice  can  produce.  The  interest  centred  in  the 
Tschaikowsky  number.  The  composer  wrote  above  his  work, 
<•  In  memory  of  a  great  artist."  That  artist  was  Nicholas  Rubin- 
stein, and  the  composition  is  worthy  of  its  theme.  The  Carr- 
Beel-Heine  trio  brought  out  its  exquisite  coloring  just  as  three 
such  artists  can  whose  ensemble  work  has  been  brought  to  such 
a  delightful  finish.     Mr.  Beel's  playing  demonstrates  the  advance 


r. 


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j  -QuakerI^ued  White  bats  . 


1,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


9 


made  by  the  genuine  musician  after  entering  bis  professional  ca- 
reer Ai  the  impress  of  bis  master  becomes  fainter,  Mr.  Beel's 
personality  anerta  it*** If  more  strongly,  an.)  the  result  is  a  nearer 
and  nearer  approach  to  the  very  poetry  of  music  The  few  bars 
which  Mrs.  Carr  plays  alone  make  us  regret  that  a  piano  solo  is 
not  added  to  the  programme.  Mr.  Graham's  song  was  welcome 
as  hi*  songs  always  are.  but  he  wm  suffering  from  a  severe  cold 
and  consequently  not  In  his  usual  voice. 

*  •  • 

The  programme  ol  the  Hermann  Brandt  Quartette  concert  at 
Irvine  Hall  last  Tuesday  evening  was,  as  all  the  Steinway  Hall 
concerts  ithe  name  alone  being  changed)  have  been,  of  a  superior 
order.  The  fault,  if  any,  was  that  it  was  somewhat  too  long. 
The  high-wrought  tension  of  mnsical  enjoyment  cannot  be  long 
snstained  without  mental  exhaustion,  and  even  the  best  pro- 
gramme is  all  the  better  for  being  «  loo  short,"  if  one  may  employ 
the  bull.  Mrs.  Bacbelder  was  the  vocal  soloist,  and  received  a 
beany  recall  for  her  two  programme  songs.  The  quartette  did 
good  work,  anl  Mr.  Brandt  was  in  excellent  form,  his  playing 
being  delightful  throughout.  The  Goldmark  suite  for  piano  and 
violin  was  thoroughly  well  rendered,  Miss  Partridge  playing 
in  her  usual  correct  and  conscientious  style.  The  many  friends 
of  Miss  Alice  Schmidt  were  delighted  to  welcome  her  back  to  the 
musical  world  of  San  Francisco.  She  left  us  a  youthful  prodigy; 
she  returns  (unlike  most  prodigies)  with  every  promise  fulfilled. 
Her  playing  in  the  Rubinstein  Quintette  was  a  revelation.  The 
pianist  was  ably  seconded  by  the  strings,  the  entire  number 
being  exquisitely  rendered  and  receiving  the  rapturous  applause 
merited.  The  next  concert  will  lake  place  October2  7th. 
#  *  » 

Miss  Magda  Bugge.  the  Norwegian  pianist,  will  give  a  series  of 
three  concerts,  the  first  one  of  which  is  to  be  given 
this  (Saturday)  evening,  at  Irving  Hall,  under  the  pat- 
ronage of  prominent  society  ladies.  Miss  Bugge's  style  is  marked 
by  a  masculine  strength  and  boldness,  and  her  power  of  inter- 
preting difficult  music  is  more  than  uncommon.  She  will  be  as- 
sisted by  Hother  Wismer,  violinist;  Adolph  Lada,  'celloist,  and 
other  good  local  talent.  To-night's  programme  presents  some 
rare  attractions  for  the  musical. 

*  *  * 

There  has  been  considerable  talk  about  the  clashing  of  dates  in 
the  first  Paderewski  recital  and  the  Rosewald  opera.  No  such 
clash  threatens.  The  new  opera  will  be  produced  Saturday  even- 
ing, November  I9tb,  at  the  Grand  Opera  House.  The  first  Pader- 
ewski recital  was  announced  for  a  matinee  on  the  same  day  at 
Odd  Fellows'  Hall.  The  rumor  arose  from  the  fact  that  a  large 
number  of  ladies  of  the  Woman's  Exchange  (under  whose  auspices 
tbe  Rosewald  Opera  will  be  produced)  feeling  that  their  labors 
would  be  too  much  on  the  eventful  day  to  admit  of  their  witness- 
ing the  great  pianist's  debut  among  us,  wrote  to  his  Eastern  mana- 
gers asking  a  postponement.  At  this  writing  no  answer  has  ar- 
rived, but  the  fact  of  Paderewski's  serious  illness  may  cause  a 
disarrangement  of  all  his  present  dates.  In  any  case,  Baroness 
Meta  will  be  produced  as  announced,  and  present  indications  are 
that  it  will  make  a  sensstion. 

*  #  • 

McFee  of  Dublin,  with  John  T.  Kelly  in  the  title  role,  will  play 
a  one  week's  engagerhent  at  the  California,  following  Yon  Yon- 
son. The   next   Carr-Beel   Pop  will  take  place  at  Irving  Hall, 

October  8th.  A  Paderewski  sonate  for  piano  and  violin  will  be 
given,  as  apposite  to  the  great  pianist's  appearance  here.  Mrs. 
Sutherland  will  be  the  vocalist. Milton  Nobles,  in  a  new  polit- 
ical  satire   of  his  own,  will    soon    be  seen    at  the  Bush. The 

next  concert  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra 

will  be  given  November  1st. Florrie  West,  a  charming  English 

soubrette,  will  sing  some  of  the  latest  London  songs  in  McFee  of 
Dublin,  at  the  California. Manager  Wilkison  will  bring  Alex- 
ander Salvini  to  the  Pacific  coast  this  month.  His  season,  during 
which  he  will  present  D'Ennery's  and  Dumas'  romantic  dramas 
and  the  dramatic  version  of  the  Cavalleria  Rusticana,  opens  at  the 

California   October   17th. The   concert    for  the  benefit  of  Mrs. 

Marguerite  Morrow  netted  a  goodly  sum  for  a  worthy  lady  and 
singer.  The  young  violinist,  Harry  Samuels,  made  a  good  im- 
pression  as    a   player  of  promise. Lillian  Russell  has  made  a 

positive  offer  to  Mrs.  Dickman,  of  this  city,  to  go  with  her  com- 
pany as  leading  contralto.  The  beauty  heard  Mrs.  Dickman  sing 
the   aria   in   Rosewald's   new    opera,  and  was  charmed  with  her 

voice,   as    well   as  with  the  music  of  the  opera  and  the  cast. 

Divoice  Day  is  the  next  play  at  Stock  well's  Theatre. The  waltz, 

Aprez  Voils,  played  by  the  orchestra  at  StockwelPs,  was  composed 
by  E.  L.  Davenport. Mr.  Wilkie's  operetta  company  is  meet- 
ing with  success  on  its  tour.  He  was  at  Vacaville  on  the  27th 
ult.,  and  at  Suisun  on  the  29th. John  Drew  made  his  first  ap- 
pearance  as   a   star  last  Monday,  at  Chicago,  in  The  Masked  Ball, 

and  is  credited  with  a  success. 'The  J.  C.  Duff  opera  company 

will  soon  appear  at  the  Baldwin.      Miss  Helyett  is  in  the  repertory. 

Ali  Baba  will  shortly  be  produced  at  the  Grand  Opera  House, 

under  the  Baldwin  management. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Wiuslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething. 


THE  editorship  of  a  moulder  of  public  opinion  In  the  interior 
has  its  joys  as  well  as  its  sorrows — mostly  the  latter.  One  of 
the  hardeit  tasks  is  the  annual  wrestle  with  the  delinquent  sub- 
scriber— those  cattle  who,  having  greedily  consumed  the  goods 
supplied  on  credit,  refuse  to  make  payment  therefor.  The  editor 
of  the  Middleton  Independent  went  out  on  a  collecting  tour  the 
other  day,  and  after  he  had  made  the  rounds  he  found  he  had 
accumulated  the  following  property :  Five  tons  of  hay,  two  tons 
of  wheat,  three  cords  of  wood,  three  bogs,  three  calves,  three  old 
sheep,  two  spring  lambs,  one  lamb  that  couldn't  spring,  and  one 
hundred  and  eleven  dozen  eggs,  but  nary  a  nickel.  He  now  of- 
fers to  dispose  of  the  lot  at  fifty  per  cent,  discount  for  cash,  while 
his  account  of  the  hardships  of  country  journalism  would  draw 
an  irrigating  stream  from  a  boulder. 


RUSSIA  has  sent  a  note  to  Turkey,  protesting  against  her  quasi- 
official  recognition  of  Prince  Ferdinand  of  Bulgaria.  The 
note,  though  addressed  to  the  Ottoman  Government,  is  indirectly 
a  challenge  to  England  and  the  Triple-Alliance,  who  have  of  late 
indicated  plainly  enough  that  they  do  not  object  to  Prince  Ferdi- 
nand's occupation  of  the  Bulgarian  throne,  and  have  paid  him 
honors  due  only  to  a  legitimate  sovereign.  The  protest  of  Russia 
at  this  moment  is  no  doubt  entitled  to  attention,  for  it  cannot  be 
an  aimless  remonstrance,  and  if  it  is  not  merely  meant  to  make 
poor  Turkey  pay  up  another  installment  of  the  old  war  indemnity 
to  the  Czar,  it  might  be  interpreted  as  a  sign  that  Russia  is  look- 
ing for  a  plausible  cause  of  quarrel  with  her  western  neighbors. 
In  a  few  weeks  the  meaning  of  Russia's  remonstrance  will  prob- 
ably be  apparent. 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocke 
Building,  San  Francisco. 

~  BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  |  Alfred  Bouvier Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  October  3rd.    Matinee  Saturday  only. 

NIOBEI 

ABBOTT  &  TEAL'S  Comedy  Company.  All  laughter  !  150  nights  iu 
New  York;  100  nights  in  Boston;  50  nights  in  Chicago.  Is  beautifully 
staged.    13  splendidly  acted.    A  laugh  every  second.    A  roar  every  minute 

Prices— ?1,  $1  50,  SI,  50  cents. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stochlwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinohouse Business  Manager. 

Monday  October  3rd.  Second  Week.  Matinees  Wednesday  and  Sat- 
urday. The  GEO.  W.LEDERER'S  STOCK  COMEDIANS.  First  Presentation 
of  the  one  act  play,  "Victims  of  Science,"  by  Mrs.  D.  P.  Verdenal,  of 
San  Francisco;  to  be  followed  by 

"  NOTHING  BUT  MONEY." 

By  Mrs.  Romualdo  Pacheco. 
Seats  now  on  sale. 
Next— "  DIVORCE  DAY,"  by  Benj.  F.  Roeder  and  Kirke  La  Shelle. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Last  Week.    Matinee  Saturday.    The  Great  Success, 
YON     YONSON, 

Delineated  by  GUS  HEEGE,  and  an  excellent  company.    All  the  startling 
scenic  effects. 

Monday  October  10,  the  Favorite  Comedian,  JOHN  T.  KELLY,  in  his 
Merry  Eccentricity,  McVEE  OF  ul]BllN. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mb.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  |  Me.  Chas.  P.Hall  Manager 

For  Two  Weeks  Only  !  Commencing  Monday,  October  3rd.  Louis  De 
T.ange  and  Will  S.  Rising  in 

"TANGLED     UP  I  " 

and  the  Delightful  Absurdity, 

"WHY?" 
Introducing  the  famous  Serpentine  Dance. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kbbltng  Bros Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  Two  Nights  of  SEARELLE'S  sparkling  opera 

ESTRELLA. 
Monday,  October  3d,  MARITANA. 

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10 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  1,  1892. 


IN  the  reference  to  the  family  of  Miss  Amy  Green,  made  in  this 
column  last  week,  an  error  occurred  in  stating  that  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Peddar  had  separated.  We  now  understand  that  the  Ped- 
dars  always  lived  happily  together,  and  there  was  never  any  in- 
timation of  a  divorce.  They  have  one  child.  Shortly  before  the 
death  of  Mr.  Green,  who  was  an  Englishman,  the  mother  and 
daughter  went  to  England,  where  Mr.  Green  followed  them,  and 
died.  The  family  all  live  happily  together. 
*  *  # 
The  article  in  a  Sunday  daily  upon  change  of  name  recalls  the 
case  of  William  Hoag  of  this  city,  commonly  called  Billy.  By 
the  mere  dropping  of  the  superfluous  tail  in  the  third  letter  of  his 
name  he  was  transformed  from  the  uneuphonious  Hogg  into  the 
less  porcious  Hoag.  The  reason  of  the  change  was  that  his  wife 
objected  to  the  former  appellation. 

*  #  # 

A  Gothamite  who  is  "  doing  "  the  Pacific  Slope,  was  present  at 
a  very  swell  tea  last  week,  and  excited  no  small  amount  of  in- 
dignation by  saying,  in  perfect  anglo-maniac  drawl,  "Mrs. 
Pacneco  drew  the  inspiration  for  her  last  comedy  from  San  Fran- 
cisco society,  of  course." 

*  *  * 

The  pink  tea  given  for  Mrs.  Fred  Sharon  at  her  mother's,  Mrs. 
Lloyd  Tevis,  house  last  Saturday  afternoon,  drew  out  some  lovely 
toilettes.  Our  belles,  married  and  single,  seem  to  hesitate  between 
the  Russian  blouse  and  Parisian  cape  Henri  Quatre.  Mrs.  Fred 
Sharon  and  Mrs.  Will  Tevis  and  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  all  assisted 
the  hostess  in  the  duty  of  "receiving."  There  were  more  men 
present  than  is  usual  on  such  occasions,  but  then  it  was  the  first 
affair  of  the  kind  this  season,  so  they  have  yet  not  had  time  to 
be  bored.     Poor  chappies! 

»  #  * 

Charlie  Baldwin  has  emerged  from  the  seclusion  of  his  Santa 
Clara  county  ranch  life,  and  once  more  is  seen  among  his  inti- 
mate friends  in  the  city. 

*  *  # 

Society  will  have  much  cause  to  express  regret  if  Mrs.  Louis 
Haggin  should  return  East  this  winter.  The  presence  in  any 
community  of  a  lady  of  cultivation,  as  well  as  wealth,  is  a  great 
element  of  social  refinement.  How  much  more  when  in  a  small 
radius  like  ours,  when  each  individual  has  a  separate  influence. 

*  #  * 

It  was  really  charming  to  see  such  a  group  of  relatives  around 
Mrs.  Tevis  at  her  tea  reception  last  week.  It  is  not  given  to 
every  one  to  have  the  power  of  calling  about  them  so  numerous  a 
family  connection.  Yet  some  of  the  guests  missed  a  cousin  of 
Minister  Pacheco,  who  used  to  make  her  home  with  Mrs.  McAfee 
at  J.  B.  Haggin's.     The  others  were  well   represented,   however. 

*  #  # 

Little  Mrs.  Edith  Coleman  was  as  bright  as  a  cricket,  while 
stately  Mrs.  Holt  reviewed  the  many  years'  entertainments  she 
has  attended  at  the  hospitable  home  of  the  Tevises,  on  Taylor 
street. 

»  #  « 

Could  a  greater  contrast  be  found  than  those  two  popular  young 
ladies,  Miss  Lena  Blanding  and  Miss  Jessie  Newlands? 

*  #  # 

Sweet-faced  Mrs.  Hugh  Tevis  was  missed,  but  many  were  the 
congratulations  sent  her  by  the  guests  on  having  attained  the 
dignity  of  motherhood. 

m   9   * 

If  rumor  speaks  by  the  card,  and  the  old  proverb  says,  "  There 
ia  no  smoke  without  fire,"  the  conquests  made  by  the  pretty 
madchens  in  the  late  German  fair,  will  result  in  several  weddings 
later  on. 

*  *  # 

Certainly  our  German  fellow-citizens  have  cause  for  pride,  in 
the  complete  success  of  their  laudable  undertaking.  Seldom  has 
a  handsomer  set  of  ladies  been  seen  at  any  public  affair,  and  the 
universal  jollity  and  spirit  of  merriment  that  pervaded  the  throng 
spoke  well  for  the  amiability  of  the  different  booth  managers  and 
their  assistants. 

»  #  # 

"  Ma-"  Toland  has  been  besieged  with  inquiries  of  late  as  to 
whether  her  stalwart  son  Hugh  is  really  going  to  marry  the  pretty 
actress  who  plays  opposite  parts  with  him  in  his  plays.  The  girls 
are  all  anxious  to  know. 

#  #  # 

The  ladies  are  in  a  great  state  of  excitement  over  the  on  dit 
that  is  going  round,  that  the  different  artists  of  the  city  are  to  be 
interviewed  as  to  which  of  our  belles  is  the  most  classically  beau- 
tiful— by  nature,  or  art  I 

«  #  # 

Report  says  the  Barnes-Delmas  nuptials  will  take  place  in  the 
holidays. 


Several  moonlight  riding  parties  have  been  arranged  for  the 
early  part  of  next  week. 

*  *  * 

A  little  bird  has  whispered  that  Mrs.  Pacheco  has  consented  to 
write  the  play  her  charming  daughter  and  her  talented 
friends, have  in  view,  wherewith  to  delight  society  this  winter. 
Rumor  further  goes  that  several  of  the  characters  are  to  be  taken 
from  our  swim,  a  well  known  dowager  to  be  the  pivot  around 
which  the  others  revolve. 

*  #  * 

Aa  we  predicted  last  week,  the  hope  of  getting  the  Haggin 
residence  has  not  to  be  entertained  by  Papa  Pullman,  and  all  the 
other  big  houses  being  occupied,  the  Palace  hotel  has  been  defin- 
itely settled  upon  as  the  winter  abode  of  the  Carolan-Pnllman 
couple. 

*  *  * 

The  young  Britisher  with  the  very  smooth  face  and  shy  man- 
ner, who  has  been  so  largely  admired  by  the  friends  of  the  Henry 
Scotts  and  Balfours,  is.  again  to  the  fore  in  British-American 
social  circles. 

One  of  the  daughters  of  the  house  of  Eyre  has  domiciled  for  the 
winter  with  her  husband  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu,  on  Van  Ness 
avenue. 

One  of  the  most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  within  easy  reach  of 
the  city  may  be  found  at  Laundry  Farm,  which  is  forty  minutes 
from  Oakland  and  an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes  from  this  city.  It  is 
reached  by  the  California  Railway,  which  is  also  the  only  railroad  line 
running  direct  to  Mills' Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  is  a  delightful 
spot. 

John  F.  Cutter's  whisky  is  the  best  in  the  market.  It  has  no  supe- 
rior, and  is  in  high  favor  among  men  who  drink  the  good  red  liquor. 
It  has  received  the  very  high  praiseof  connoisseurs,  and  is  considered 
by  them  without  a  superior.  For  that  reason  it  is  in  high  favor  at 
all  those  resorts  famous  for  their  excellent  liquors. 


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11 


WILL     POETRY     PAY    ' 


Will  poetry  pay?     Not  in  .l.-llars  and  cents, 

But  it  must  be  inferred  there  la  some  recompense 

To  the  poet  who  revels  in  beautiful  thought. 

And  mtMM  on  fabrics  his  fancy  has  wrought. 

If  be  goes  to  the  fountain  whence  Issues  the  stream 

Of  beauty  and  truth  to  embellish  bis  dream, 

He  gathers  bright  jewels  that  glitter  and  sblne 

With  a  radiance  and  glory  that  makes  them  divine. 

Will  it  pay?     If  the  truth  must  be  told. 

Its  value  is  greater  than  silver  and  gold, 

For  the  metals  will  tarnish  with  mildew  and  rust, 

And  the  showcase  of  wealth  will  crumble  to  dust; 

But  it  gathers  great  truths  from  the  wreckage  of  time, 

And  gilds  tbem  with  lustre  that  makes  them  sublime. 

Will  it  pay?     Is  it  bartered  and  sold 

To  the  rich  who  have  coffers  of  silver  and  gold  ? 

Not  so — it  is  free  as  the  breezes  that  blow 

And  pure  as  the  leaves  that  fall  in  the  snow. 

It  is  a  rare  jewel  as  fixed  as  a  fate 

That  comes  like  a  pilgrim  and  knocks  at  tbe  gate. 

Its  garb  is  grotesque,  but  its  wonderful  fire 

Gives  voice  to  sweet  music  that  hangs  round  the  lyre. 

Its  numbers  are  written  with  stars  in  the  sky, 

And  the  strains  of  its  melody  never  can  die. 

Its  echoes  have  sounded  for  millions  of  years 

Through  the  spaces  that  reach  to  the  home  of  the  spheres. 

The  sweet  songs  of  David  are  balm  to  the  soul, 

And  thrill  it  with  rapture  that  brooks  no  control, 

'Tis  the  song  of  the  Savior  that  comes  in  its  might, 

To  lift  up  the  soul  from  the  shadows  of  night, 

To  lead  it  through  fields  that  the  spirit  doth  know, 

And  divest  onr  sad  hearts  of  all  sorrow  and  woe. 

Will  it  pay?     Never  think  of  the  cost, 

It  is  something  not  doomed  to  be  wasted  and  lost — 

'Tis  the  fragrance  of  soul,  'tis  the  gift  of  a  God 

That  comes  like  sweet  sunshine  to  smile  on  the  sod. 

Will  it  pay?     Tbe  question  is  vain; 

Would  you  ask  if  the  breezes,  the  sunshine  and  rain 

Will  pay,  when  they  come  like  sweet  angels  to  bless 

The  spirit  that  struggles  with  pain  and  distress? 

It  sings  of  the  heroes  who  fought  for  the  cause 

Of  mankind  and  justice  and  God's  equal  laws, 

It  tells  of  the  martyrs  who  stood  in  the  flame 

And  died  for  the  truth  mid  scoffing  and  shame. 

Like  thunder  that's  muffled  and  low  in  its  tone, 

It  breathes  every  language  on  earth  that  is  known. 

It  whispers  in  zephyrs,  it  sings  in  the  breeze, 

And  murmurs  in  rivers  that  flow  to  the  seas. 

It  speaks  to  the  nations  oppressed  and  enslaved, 

And  glorifies  people  that  once  were  depraved. 

It  wanders  and  sings  like  the  minsirels  of  old, 

And  cannot  be  purchased  with  silver  and  gold. 

And  I'm  led  to  believe  we  might  as  well  try 

To  buy  with  our  dollars  a  home  in  the  sky. 

A.  P.  Lohgley, 


A    ROMANCE    OF    CURTIS. 

AN  almost  forgotten  romance  is  recalled  by  tbe  recent  demise  of 
the  lamented  George  William  Curtis.  In  his  youth  he  was 
among  the  daintiest  of  New  York  dandies,  aDd  his  charm  of  per- 
son, no  less  than  the  promise  of  his  talents,  made  him  sought 
for  by  the  most  favored  belles  and  the  most  skillful  of  match- 
making mammas.  It  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  many 
tears  of  chagrin  and  disappointment  were  shed  in  old  New  York 
boudoirs  when  it  was  learned  that  the  brilliant  youth  had  been 
accepted  by  the  daughter  of  one  of  the  foremost  families  of  the 
town.  It  was  a  real  case  of  true  love,  and  its  course  ran  with 
unwonted  smoothness  until  the  budding  litterateur's  famous 
"  Potiphar  Papers  "  began  to  attract  attention  and  hostile  criti- 
cism. Tbe  favor  which  the  family  of  young  Curtis'  fiance"  had 
at  first  shown  him  cooled  in  proportion  to  the  warmth  with 
which  his  social  satires  in  Putnam1  s  Magazine  were  blamed  by 
those  who  fancied  themselves  the  subjects  of  his  keen  and  caus- 
tic caricature.  Finally  they  thought  to  discover  in  one  of  the 
"Potiphar  Papers"  satirical  and  ridiculing  allusions  to  them- 
selves, and  when  next  Mr.  Curtis  called  at  the  house  of  his  be- 
trothed, he  was  received  by  the  angry  father,  who  told  him  that 
the  engagement  was  off,  and  that  the  family  no  longer  desired  his 
acquaintance.  Young  Curtis,  although  smarting  under  the  un- 
just suspicion  to  which  his  clever  sketches  had  subjected  him, 
sought  to  convince  his  former  friends  of  his  innocence  of  any  at- 
tempt to  use  their  foibles  and  vanities  for  literary  purposes. 
Quickly  seeing  the  futility  of  such  endeavors,  he  resigned  him- 
self to  his  bitter  disappointment,  which,  followed  soon  by  the 
financial  collapse  of  Putnam's  Magazine,  with  the  severe  mone- 
tary responsibilities  which  he  choose  to  assume,  might  well  have 
crushed  a  man  less  stable  and  sturdy  than  the  hero  of  this  little 
romance  of  letters. 


Crystal 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


WOMAN- Charles  Mackay. 


Woman  may  err,  woman  may  give  her  mind 

To  evil  thoughts  and  lose  her  pure  estate. 
But  for  one  woman  who  affronts  her  kind 

By  wicked  passions  and  remorseless  hate 
A  thousand  make  amends  in  age  and  youth 

By  heavenly  pity,  by  sweet  sympathy, 
By  patient  kindness,  by  enduring  truth, 

By  love,  supremest  in  adversity. 


LATEST    TENNIS    NEWS. 


THE  quarterly  tournament  at  the  California  Club  was  played 
off  last  Saturday  and  Sunday,  and  Stetson  and  Wilberforce  are 
the  only  two  left  out  of  the  twenty-eight  entries.  The  final 
match  will  be  played  to-morrow,  and  the  winner  will  be  the  proud 
possessor  of  the  challenge  cup  for  the  next  three  months.  The 
style  adopted  was  on  the  whole  good,  and  some  excellent 
matches  were  played.  Among  others,  that  between  Stetson  and 
W.  B.  Collier,  Jr.,  was  particularly  interesting,  and  the  players 
were  equal  during  the  contest.  Stetson  won  the  first  sett,  13  to 
11,  and  the  next,  8-6.  It  was  surprising  that  Treat  should  beat 
the  last  holder  of  the  cup,  George  DeLong,  but  the  latter  was  not 
playing  his  game,  and  did  not  do  himself  justice.  Harry  Haight 
was  looked  on  as  a  winner,  but  met  defeat  at  the  hands  of  Stet- 
son, who  played  a  better  game  than  usual,  and  whose  smashing 
was  excellent.  Haight's  back-hand  strokes  were  beautiful,  but 
his  fore-hand  strokes  lack  severity.  Wilberforce  and  Allen  had 
quite  an  exciting  match,  and  the  former,  after  having  the  score 
4-2  against  him  in  the  deciding  sett,  pulled  the  match  out,  and 
took  the  next  from  James.  The  tournament  was  a  decided  suc- 
cess, and  was  better  patronized  than  usual.  The  continuous 
tournament  starts  very  soon,  and  no  doubt  will  be  highly  inter- 
esting. Miss  Poole  and  Miss  Atwell,  both  members  of  the 
"  Nothing  But  Money  Company,"  were  visitors  to  the  club,  and 
are  quite  enthusiastic  players.  Miss  Poole  used  to  play  in  the 
championship  meetings  in  the  East. 

There  will  be  a  handicap  meeting  (singles)  on  October  21st,  at 
the  Alameda  courts,  and  the  mixed  doubles  championship  meet- 
ing will  be  held  at  the  same  grounds  on  October  29th. 

"  S.  R.  Gratton  "  is  the  author  of  a  certain  "  comment  "  in  the 
Field  Sports,  last  week,  and  is  to  be  congratulated  on  his  success 
in  errors.  He  says  Messrs.  Bates  and  Haight's  experience  in  San 
Francisco  was  identical  with  that  of  Stetson  and  De  Long  in 
Oakland.  He  certainly  ought  to  be  better  informed.  Bates  and 
Haight  never  played  together  in  San  Francisco.  The  truth  is, 
Mr.  Haight  made  the  remark  that  during  their  match  with  the 
Hardy  brothers  they  received  poor  treatment  at  the  hands  of  the 
High  School  boys,  and  Mr.  Gratton  has  taken  that  remark  to 
mean  that  the  experience  was  in  San  Francisco,  instead  of  being 
in  Oakland.  The  ox  that  was  gored  was  in  this  instance  gored  by 
the  school  boys,  who,  to  say  the  least,  were  ungenttemanly,  and 
who  ought  to  have  been  turned  off  the  courts.  We  have  received 
the  following  from  the  Directors  of  the  Oakland  Club,  which 
speaks  for  itself: 

There  have  appeared  in  the  tennis  columns  of  various  papers  and 
periodicals  in  San  Francisco,  articles  reflecting  severely  and  unjustly 
upou  the  good  name  of  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club— articles  of  such  a 
nature  that  it  is  impossible  to  pass  them  by  without  comment,  as  to 
do  so  would  imply  that  the  club  admitted  their  truth.  Statements 
are  made  to  the  effect  that  the  San  Francisco  players  entering  the 
Coast  Championship  Doubles  Tournament,  held  on  the  OaKiand 
courts  September  9th  and  10th,  weje  treated  discourteously  by  the 
Oakland  Tennis  Club,  and  were  handicapped  in  their  efforts  to  win 
the  championship.  We  can  hardly  believe  that  the  gentlemen  play- 
ing in  this  tournament  can  have  instigated  these  unfair  attacks,  and 
if  they  did  not  we  must  call  upon  them  for  a  refutation  of  them,  or 
if  it  is  true  that  any  of  the  visiting  players  consider  themselves  to 
have  been  treated  discourteously,  will  they  please  come  out  and  say 
so  over  their  own  names,  when,  if  this  club  is  in  the  wrong,  ample 
apology  will  be  promptly  made.  Further,  it  was  also  stated  that  the 
Oakland  Club  made  the  most  strenuous  efforts  for  the  honor  of  hav- 
ing the  tournament  held  on  its  courts,  and  when  put  to  the  test, 
showed  themselves  "woefully  deficient"  in  their  arrangements! 
This  is  not  true.  When  the  question  of  where  to  hold  the  tourna- 
ment came  up,  it  was  found  that  it  was  impossible  to  hold  it  at  San 
Rafael,  as  the  hotel  would  not  be  open,  nor  was  Monterey  considered 
desirable.  It  was  then  suggested  by  a  California  Club  man  that  the 
tournament  be  held  on  the  grounds  of  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club. 
Mr.  Requa,  representing  us  at  the  meeting  of  the  Association,  merely 
consented  in  the  name  of  the  club,  and  offered  the  use  of  the  grounds. 
The  Tournament  Committee,  appointed  by  the  Pacific  Coast  Lawn* 
Tennis  Association,  prepared  for  the  event  to  the  best  of  its  ability, 
considering  from  past  experience  in  doubles  championship  tourna- 
ments, which  never  draws  as  large  a  crowd  as  singles— scarcely 
more  than  three  or  four  hundred  people.  Instead  of  that  number, 
owing  to  the  convenience  of  the  club's  location,  nearly  one  thousand 
people  visited  the  games,  upsetting  all  calculations. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  gentlemen  who  visited  the  Oakland  courts  on 
the  9th,  will  make  a  plain  statement  of  just  how  they  were  discourt- 
eously treated,  and  oblige.        Directors  of  Oakland'Tknnis  Ci-ub. 

Ogden  Hoffman  visited  the  scenes  of  his  former  victories 
during  the  California  tournament,  and  played  partners  with  Joe 
Daily  against  Champion  Taylor  and  S.  Hoffman.     The  result  was 


a  victory  for  the  latter,  with  a  score  of  6-4  and  6-2.  The  annual 
meeting  of  the  California  Club  was  held  last  Saturday,  and  the 
regular  ticket  was  unanimously  elected.  It  is  quite  likely  that 
Dell  Linderman  will  again  be  President,  R.  J.  Davis,  Treasurer, 
and  Harry  N.  Stetson,  Secretary. 


WILLIAM    AT    VIENNA. 


THE  proposed  and  somewhat  unexpected  visit  of  Emperor 
William  to  Vienna,  where  he  is  to  meet  Emperor  Francis 
Joseph,  naturally  gives  rise  to  all  kinds  of  rumors  as  regards  its 
object.  The  most  plausible  explanation  is  that  the  ruler  of 
Germany  desires  to  discuss  with  his  most  important  colleague  in 
the  Triple-Alliance  the  army  question,  which  will  most  likely  oc- 
cupy during  the  winter  the  Parliaments  of  Germany,  Austria  and 
Italy.  New  grants  have  to  be  asked  for,  and  even  in  the  best 
case  they  will  only  be  obtained  with  difficulty  from  the  repre- 
sentatives of  the  nations  concerned.  Italy  has  gone  already  to 
the  limit  of  her  power  in  that  direction,  and  Germany  and  Aus- 
tria will  have  to  make  up  for  the  weakness  of  the  third  ally. 
Still  in  these  two  countries  also  the  limit  will  soon  be  reached, 
for  although  the  Germans  and  Austrians  are  patriotic  enough  to 
furnish  their  governments,  even  at  great  cost  to  their  own  com- 
fort, all  the  means  necessary  for  the  defense  of  the  country,  they 
must  sooner  or  later  arrive  at  a  point  where  they  object  to  be 
further  taxed,  unless  good  cause  is  shown  for  the  necessity.  The 
continual  assurance  that  peace  in  Europe  is  not  endangered  does 
not  harmonize  with  the  reiterated  increase  of  the  army  budgets, 
and  though  of  course  no  sensible  man  takes  these  assurances  ati 
serieux,  the  people  have  suffered  by  the  postponement  of  the 
eventually  inevitable  European  war  almost  as  much  as  if  it  bad 
already  occurred.  Before  a  final  appeal  to  arms  and  a  decisive 
settlement  of  the  question  as  to  what  power  shall  have  the  hege- 
mony on  the  European  continent,  no  disarmament  is  possible, 
and  before  a  disarmament  has  taken  place  and  the  enormous  ex. 
penses  for  the  army  and  navy  have  been  reduced  to  a  reasonable 
amount,  no  country  of  Europe  will  be  able  to  occupy  itself  ex- 
clusively with  the  threatening  social  questions  which  impera- 
tively demand  solution.  The  different  rulers  of  course  all  hesi- 
tate to  provoke  the  next  war,  but  circumstances  will  soon  put 
them  into  action,  even  against  their  own  will,  and  then  the  par- 
ody of  peace  existing  at  present  will  be  ended,  to  be  followed,  it 
is  to  be  hoped,  by  a  real  peace  for  many  years  to  come. 

The  announcement  that  Augustus  von  Bismarck  and  Count 
Bismarck-Bohleu  have  resigned  their  commissions  in  the  German 
army,  owing  to  Emperor  William's  alleged  offensive  remarks 
ab  >ut  the  Bismarck  family,  shows,  provided  the  report  is  true, 
that  the  German  monarch,  though  not  daring  to  resume  an  open 
war  against  the  ex-chancellor,  has  commenced  a  petty  and  un- 
worthy campaign  against  Prince  Bismarck's  relatives,  of  whom 
he  has  less  to  fear.  That  such  machinations  will  contribute  to 
undermine  Emperor  William's  popularity  still  more  is  certain, 
while  it  will  do  absolutely  nothing  to  weaken  the  ex-chancellor's 
influence  in  the  nation. 


THE  Sacramento  Record  Union  comes  out  strongly  in  support  of 
the  News  Letter's  position  on  the  State  school  book  question , 
and  devotes  over  a  column  of  well  written  editorial  to  denuncia- 
tion of  the  insidious  machinations  of  the  book  ring.  In  the 
course  of  its  remarks,  the  Record  Union  says:  "Moreover,  a 
preponderating  fact,  that  operated  powerfully  to  bring  about  the 
adoption  of  the  State  system,  was,  that  bribery,  corruption  of 
teachers,  Boards  of  Education,  Superintendents  and  Legislatures, 
lay  behind  and  underneath  the  introduction  of  the  works  of  the 
book  ring.  Their  agents  concerned  themselves  in  all  our  political 
activities;  they  meddled  with  party  primaries  and  interfered  with 
the  making  of  tickets,  down  to  the  selection  of  dog-pelter;  they 
forced,  by  their  lobby,  the  gravest  State  measures  to  hinge  upon 
the  success  of  their  own  schemes  in  the  Legislature;  they  dictated 
municipal  policy,  and  even  invaded  the  schools  and  corrupted 
teachers,  pupils  and  sometimes  parents." 


EVER  since  the  city  press  lambasted  the  people  of  Redding  be- 
cause some  of  the  women  of  that  place  saw  fit  to  send  food 
and  flowers  to  the  Ruggles  boyB,  the  veteran  editor  of  the  Shasta 
Courier  has  been  laying  for  an  opportunity  to  get  even.  He  did 
not  have  long  to  wait,  for  the  chance  came  a  week  or  so  ago, 
when  Metropolitan  Hall  was  filled  with  lachrymose  females  and 
long-haired  men,  gathered  for  the  express  purpose  of  sympathiz- 
ing with  McNulty,  the  condemned  murderer,  whose  faithful  co- 
terie of  female  admirers  have  never  let  him  lack  for  delicacies  or 
bouquets  while  in  jail.  The  Courier  does  the  job  of  "roasting"  in 
good  shape,  and  considering  the  provocation,  can  certainly  cry 
quits. 

With  the  bright,  sunny  days  of  October  comes  a  desire  for  the 
possession  and  enjoyment  of  those  many  beautiful  flowers  which 
have  made  California  famed  as  an  earthly  paradise.  The  city  belles 
and  the  country  beauties  all  appreciate  such  perfumed  blossoms  as 
those  to  be  seen  in  the  store  of  Charles  M.  Leopold,  at  35  Post  street. 
Mr.  Leopold  always  has  a  stock  of  the  most  beautiful  flowers  of  the 
season. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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BE-LQPKER-9N® 


Jffo        -i»l^L±li— jw«^ 


THE  Grand  Army  Encampment  at  Washington,  D.  0.,  is  over. 
There  were  rot  many  Ca  ifornians  to  assist  in  the  reunion, 
Dot  so  many  as  our  increasing  pension  list  would  lead  one  to  ex- 
pect. Nearly  all  the  old  soldiers  of  this  section  have  found  their 
way  to  the  final  camping  ground.  To  those  interested  in  local 
G.  A.  R.  statistics  these  notes  may  prove  worthy  of  reading.  It 
was  in  1886  that  General  Halleck  came  to  California  to  command 
the  Division  of  the  Pacific.  After  inspecting  the  Department  of 
California  he  left  overland  upon  an  inspection  tour  of  the  De- 
partment of  Columbia,  going  through  Nevada,  Idaho, -Oregon 
and  Washington  Territory.  The  officers  accompanying  him  were 
General  Wtaittier,  Inspector-General  of  the  Divison;  Colonel 
Robert  Scott,  Assistant  Adjutant-General  and  a  brother  of  Mrs. 
N.  G.  Kittle;  Dr.  Charles  Keeney,  our  Health  Officer's  father,  who 
was  the  Chief  Surgeon  of  the  Division;  Colonel  John  McL. 
Taylor,  Chief  Commissary;  Colonel  W.  R.  Sniedberg,  A.  D.  C, 
and  Major  D.  J.  Williamson,  A.  Q.  M.  Of  ail  these  officers  but 
three  are  now  alive.  General  Wbittier  resides  in  Boston,  Colonel 
Bmedberg  and  Major  Williamson  in  San  Francisco.  General  Hal- 
leck died  in  Kentucky.  Colonel  Taylor  in  Maryland,  and  Dr. 
Keeney  in  this  city.  The  last  named's  widow  is  now  Mrs. 
William  Alvord.  At  the  time  of  Colonel  Scott's  death,  which 
occurred  in  Washington,  D.  C,  he  was  in  charge  of  the  war 
records  of  the  Confederacy,  and  had  them  nearly  ready  for  the 
printer. 

*  «  » 

A  barrel  club  has  been  formed  in  Oakland  by  the  many  candi- 
didates  who  at  the  elections  last  week  got  caught  out  in  the 
snow.  W.  E.  Dargie  is  President;  Jim  Adams,  First  Vice-Presi- 
dent; Louis  Gottschall,  Second  Vice;  D.  C.  Brown,  F.  V.  Wood 
and  W.  H.  Hussey,  Board  of  Directors,  and  Almon  Ames,  Johnny 
Teague,  E.  H.  Shaw,  J.  R.  Little,  C.  R.  Lord,  R.  F.  Tappan,  Dr. 
Webster,  W.  J.  Schmidt,  W.  C.  Mason,  B.  G.  Cram,  J.  S.  Wixon 
and  Nick  Wheeler,  Executive  Committee.  All  sorts  of  pleasant 
events  have  already  been  programmed  by  the  new  organization, 
among  the  arrangements  being  a  consolation  race  and  an  excur- 
sion to  Salt  River.  Resolutions,  headed  <<  We  are  with  you," 
have  already  been  drawn  up  and  sent  to  J.  Lawrence  Sullivan 
and  J.  G.  Blaine,  and  many  such  other  festive  surprises  are  in 
store. 

#  #  # 

The  old  Merritt  mansion,  on  JackBon  street,  Oakland,  where 
for  many  years  dwelt  the  somber  millionaire  doctor,  will  soon 
be  but  a  memory.  The  death  of  Stephen  W.  Purington  has  taken 
the  last  link  from  the  strangely-woven  chain,  and  the  old  manse, 
with  its  historic  stories  and  ghostly  associations,  is  to  be  removed 
and  the  spacious  grounds  cut  up  for  residence  purposes.  The 
web  of  romance  that  has  of  late  years  been  woven  around  the 
place  is  indeed  a  strange  one,  and  "the  mystery  of  the  street"  is 
still  weirdly  impressed  on  the  minds  of  the  few  actors  in  that 
eventful  scene  when  the  house  was  stilled  in  death.  The  disposal 
of  the  relics  of  the  place  should  be  interesting,  for  some  of  the 
cariosities  are  linked  with  odd  mementoes,  and  the  shadows  of 
the  place  lurk  grimly  in  the  antique  furniture  with  which  the 
house  is  filled.  Of  the  silent  quartette  who  for  years  tenanted 
the  establishment,  three — Dr.  Merritt,  Mrs.  Garcelon  and  Stephen 
Purington — are  now  quiet  in  the  grave;  and  the  fourth,  MisB 
McClellan,  has  wrested  herself  from  the  fitful  influence  of  the 
uncanny  years,  and  is  now  en  route  to  South  Africa,  where  she 
will  dwell  for  some  time  on  the  banics  of  the  broad  picturesque 

Orange  River. 

*  *  * 

They  bad  a  lively  time  in  the  Democratic  Convention  in  Shasta 
county  the  other  day.     For  a  long  time  there  have  been  two  fac- 


tions in  that  party,  headed  respectively  by  Clay  W.  Taylor  and 
T.  W,  H.  Shanahan.  After  a  bitter  fight  In  the  convention,  tin* 
last  named  won  the  victory  and  the  nomination  for  AsaemMy- 
man,  for  which  he  was  contending.  Thereupon,  Taylor,  who 
was  Chairman  of  the  Central  Committee,  rose  and  resigned  bis 
position.  He  said  he  had  been  Invited  by  his  party  to  take  a 
back  seat,  and  he  should  thereafter  sit  there  with  pleasure.  He 
then  went  on  to  say  that  notwithstanding  this  fact,  he  was  still  a 
Democrat,  and  that  he  would  "  vote  for  a  yellow  dog,  with  a  stub 
tail,  and  all  its  hair  growing  the  wrong  way,  if  it  was  on  the 
Democratic  ticket."  But  it  is  safe  to  bet  that  Taylor  will  devote 
the  remainder  of  the  time  until  election  in  putting  a  wire  edge  on 
the  knife  that  he  carries  for  the  aforesaid  yellow  dog. 

*  «  « 

A  chance  for  the  postolfice  department  to  distinguish  itself  in 
the  prosecution  of  a  shameless  violator  of  the  laws  is  atTorded 
right  in  this  city.  The  proprietress  of  a  certain  resort  "  where 
people  come  and  go  unquestioned,  and  family  prayers  are 
omitted,"  is  flooding  the  interior  with  handsomely  gotten  up  cir- 
culars, inviting  the  patronage  of  the  unwary.  These  circulars 
are  in  imitation  of  type-writing,  and  are  sent  to  those  who  would 
be  likely  to  patronize  such  establishments,  and  whose  addresses 
have  been  obtained  in  some  mysterious  manner.  The  letters  set 
forth  that  "  gentlemen  who  like  the  society  of  elegant  ladies,  a 
pleasant  time  and  comfortable  lodging  while  in  the  city,"  would 

do  well  to  patronize  the ,  which  is  located  on  Grant  avenue, 

has  a  public  and  a  private  entrance,  and  is  "only  one  minute's 
walk  from    the   Daily  Examiner  office."     What    inducement  this 

latter  fact   offers  is   not  explained.     Mrs. ,  the  proprietress, 

"  has  a  large  acquaintance  among  the  most  charming  and  elegant 
ladies  of  San  Francisco,  and  when  requested  by  her  gentlemen 
guests,  will  take  the  greatest  pleasure  in  introducing  to  them  her 
lady  friends,  whose  refined  society  will  contribute  materially  to 
their  pleasuree  while  in  the  city."  After  giving  the  rates  of  this 
delectable  establishment,  the  letter  concludes  with  the  informa- 
tion that  "  Mrs.  S.  receives  all  her  callers  persunally.  She  is  a 
woman  of  experience  and  judgment,  and  one  whose  sound  dis- 
cretion can  at  all  times  be  trusted  most  sacredly  with  the  confi- 
dence of  her  patrons."  "  Lastly,"  says  the  letter,  "the  reputa- 
tion of  the house  is  guarded  most  jealously  !  "     It  is  evident 

that  the  partial  suppression  of  the  massage  advertising  has  driven 
those  who  attracted  dupes  in  that  manner  to  resort  to  other  de- 
vices. But  only  fancy  a  man's  wife  finding  such  a  letter  as  this 
in  his  pocket,  just  as  he  is  about  going  to  the  city  on  a  business 
trip!  These  letters  should  not  be  allowed  the  privileges  of  the 
mails.  The  good  Mr.  Bennett,  the  Secretary  of  the  Society  for 
the  Suppression  of  Vice,  has  here  an  opportunity  to  distinguish 
himself. 

»  *  » 

Colonel  McKinley,  the  recently  deceased  Hawaiin  consul,  was 
one  of  the  best  known  men  whu  ever  pressed  a  leathern-covered 
chair  in  the  Palace  Hotel  lobby.  He  had  lived  at  the  Palace  for 
some  years  past,  and  every  evening  be  could  be  found  in  or  about 
the  court,  chewing  the  butt  end  of  a  cigar.  I  never  saw  him 
without  a  cigar,  or  a  big  wad  of  tobacco  in  his  mouth.  About  a 
week  before  his  death,  I  said  to  him:  "  Colonel,  you  must  smoke 
as  much  as  Grant  did."  "  Oh,  old  Grant  never  smoked  as  much 
as  I  do,"  he  said,  "  I  smoke  all  the  time."  So  it  seemed.  He 
must  have  consumed  over  two  dozen  cigars  and  at  least  one  plug 
of  tobacco  a  day.  Such  another  inveterate  user  of  tobacco  was 
never  known  at  the  Palace.  The  Colonel  resembled  his  famous 
brother  very  much-  He  was  a  somewhat  reserved  man,  but 
often  told  very  interesting  stories  regarding  his  very  varied  ex- 
periences. 

*  *  » 

The  San  Jose  Chamber  of  Commerce  desires  Professor  Holden's 
release.  Mr.  Holden  does  not  agree  with  that  active  and  en- 
ergetic body.  He  is  willing  to  remain  the  slave  of  the  telescope 
just  as  long  as  the  Regents  of  the  University  are  willing  to  keep 
him  fettered  to  Mount  Hamilton.  This  arrogant  person  is  not  to 
be  easily  dethroned.  He  has  friends  among  the  Regents  who 
have  a  nice  appreciation  of  dry  wine,  and  who  enjoy  the  excite- 
ment of  an  astronomical  supper.  But  these  are  his  only  friends. 
Everybody  else  wants  to  see  him  set  up  in  business  in  this  city 
with  a  smaller  investment,  making  a  nice  and  easy  independence 
at  a  nickel  a  peep  at  the  planets.  It  would  really  suit  Mr.  Holden 
much  better  than  keeping  him  perched  up  on  that  mountain, 
barking  and  snarling  at  the  world  beneath  his  feet. 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

TZBZIE     VERY     LATEST. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  1,  1892. 


THE  Mining  Journal  of  London  is  one  of  our  most  esteemed 
contemporaries  in  the  business.  There  is  no  doubt  about 
the  honesty  of  its  intentions,  which  is  more  than  can  be  said 
about  some  of  the  other  papers  in  London,  which  pose  not  only 
as  representative  mining  journals,  but  also  as  guides  to  invest- 
ors in  mines.  But  it  has  made  several  mistakes  in  a  recent  issue, 
which  we  are  sure  it  will  be  willing  to  rectify  when  they  are 
brought  to  its  notice.  In  the  first  place,  it  designates  the  Valley 
Gold  property  by  the  name  of  mine,  and  following  up  the  ab- 
surdity, it  goes  on  to  allege,  in  comparison  with  some  other  prop- 
erty, that  the  said  Valley  Gold  is  a  hydraulic  mine,  with  which 
the  only  trouble  is  the  insufficiency  of  water.  It  goes  on  to  say 
that  there  is  plenty  of  mineral,  if  only  the  means  could  be 
found  to  extract  it.  The  water  of  which  they  stand  in  so 
great  need,  can  be  got  by  the  expenditure  of  a  large  sum  of 
money,  and  it  is  in  order  to  get  these  funds  that  the  company  is 
to  be  voluntarily  wound  up  and  reconstructed.  This  paper  goes 
on  to  say  that  it  hopes  the  money  will  "  be  forthcoming,  as  the 
shareholders  seem  convinced  that  that  is  all  that  is  wanted  to 
bring  success."  A  circular  letter  has  also  been  issued  to  the 
shareholders,  informing  them  that  the  contract  with  Mr.  Ham- 
mond has  fallen  through.  Now,  with  all  due  respect  to  the  Min- 
ing Journal,  which  depends  altogether  for  information  on  its  cor- 
respondents, there  is  not  a  word  of  truth  in  these  statements, 
outside  of  that  regarding  Mr.  John  Hays  Hammond's  position. 
What  that  may  be  we  know  not,  but  if  he  has  thrown  up  any 
contract  he  may  have  had  with  the  London  gang,  it  can  only  re- 
flect to  his  credit.  Mr.  Hammond  occupies  a  position  here 
second  to  none  as  a  mining  engineer.  He  is  the  President 
of  one  of  the  biggest  mining  companies  in  America,  and  possesses 
the  confidence  of  men  in  this  State,  who,  as  far  as  wealth  and  in- 
fluence are  concerned,  rank  with  the  Rothschilds  of  Great  Britain. 
Why  he  may  have  dropped  out  of  any  contract  with  the  Valley 
Gold  people  is  not  known  to  us,  but  if  he  did  so  he  must  have  had 
good  cause,  and  the  admission  in  itself  should  suffice  to  put  sensi- 
ble people  on  their  guard  against  having  anything  to  do  with  the 
scheme.  We  tell  the  Mining  Journal,  and  we  are  prepared  to 
back  up  the  statement  in  any  court  of  law,  that  the  Valley  Gold 
is  an  infamous  swindle.  There  is  not  the  gold  there  to  justify 
the  expenditure  of  money  which  has  already  been  made,  even 
if  the  water  could  be  brought  in.  Furthermore,  we  are  certain 
Mr.  Fedley  never  made  any  of  the  remarks  accredited  to  him, 
as  we  happen  to  know  to  the  contrary.  The  business  from  be- 
ginning to  end  is  a  swindle  and  the  matter  is  susceptible  of  proof, 
when  necessary.  We  relieve  the  Mining  Journal  from  any  re- 
sponsibility in  regard  to  its  statements.  The  matter  was  un- 
doubtedly furnished  by  London  manipulators,  who  have  an  end 
in  view.  Outside  of  this,  however,  we  say  as  we  have  said  be- 
fore, that  if  this  reconstruction  scheme  is  carried  through  aome 
people  will  get  in  trouble,  even  if  the  threat  does  come  from  Cali- 
fornia. 

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THE  mining  market  on  Pine  street  has  been  active  during  the 
week,  even  if  prices  have  not  soared  sky-high,  as  aome  deal- 
ers expect  whenever  an  active  movement  springs  up.  There  are 
two  objective  points  in  the  market  just  now,  outside  of  Con.  Cal.- 
Virginia,  the  old  reliable  stand-by.  These  are  Hale  &  Norcrosa 
and  Belcher.  In  the  former  very  important  cross-cutting  opera- 
tions are  about  to  begin  on  the  1,800  level.  Good  ore  has  been 
found  on  the  1,700  level  above  and  1 ,900  level  below,  ao  that  there 
is  every  probability  of  ore  being  found  in  the  ground  lying  be- 
tween. When  the  north  lateral  drift  was  run  on  this  level  toward 
the  Savage  ground,  stringers  of  rich  ore  were  cut,  which  it  ia  be- 
lieved come  from  the  ore-vein  to  the  west  of  the  hanging  wall, 
along  which  the  drift  runs.  The  crosscuts  will  determine  whether 
they  d>  or  not,  and  during  the  time  these  are  being  run,  consider- 
able excitement  can  be  expected  in  the  atock.  In  Belcher  a  second 
upraise  has  been  run,  fifty  feet  south  of  where  the  first  connected 
with  the  decline  from  the  300  level.  It  also  got  in  ore,  which, 
although  of  not  so  high  grade  as  that  made  at  the  connection, 
was  still  high  enough  to  justify  great  expectations  for  the  dis- 
covery. 

THE  fluctuations  during  the  week  have  not  been  controlled  by 
these  mines.  Nothing  has  been  done  in  one  or  the  other  in  the 
way  of  development  to  move  prices  up  or  down.  The  market 
has  simply  been  subject  to  the  law  of  aupply  and  demand,  the 
former  being  regulated  by  the  offerings  of  dealers  who  had  got 
in  low  and  desired  to  make  a  turn.  There  is  a  bear  element,  too, 
which  has  had  more  or  less  to  do  with  the  depression  of  prices, 
and  if  all  stories  are  true,  one  branch  of  the  Comatock  manipu- 
lators are  responsible  for  the  recent  raids.  Outside  of  this,  there 
has  been  a  good  trading  market  during  (the  past  week 
or  ao,  and  every  sensible  business  man  in  town  is 
congratulating     himaelf      on      the     revival     of      business     on 


Pine  street.  An  active  mining  market  means  an  improvement  in 
trade  of  all  kinds,  and  the  recent  depression  in  commercial  circles 
is  due  alone  to  the  shutting  down  of  hydraulic  mining  and  the 
speculation  in  the  Stock  Exchange.  There  is  nothing  will  put 
money  in  circulation  quicker  than  a  lively  Comstock  deal,  and 
that  one  is  close  at  hand  is  something  for  which  everyone  must 
devoutly  pray.  There  were  no  changes  in  prices  outside  of  the 
Comstock  list  throughout  the  week,  but  all  stocks  were  largely 
dealt  in  at  higher  prices. 

i s  s 

OUTSIDE  mines  are  dull,  and  some  of  the  Tuacarora  companiea 
are  in  such  straits  that  the  managers  are  almost  ashamed  to 
own  them.  We  refer  to  those  which  have  passed  under  the  con- 
trol of  the  Bell-Hyman  clique.  There  were  bets  made  when  it 
was  first  heard  that  these  men  had  got  control  of  the  companies 
that  the  result  would  be  the  same  as  in  the  old  Paradise  Valley, 
which  soon  dropped  into  insignificance  when  Bell  got  them.  One 
thing  is  certain,  that  if  Nevada  Queen  is  not  able  to  clear  itself  of 
indebtedness  and  keep  up  like  other  first-class  companies, 
the  sooner  it  is  dropped  from  the  stock  list  the  bet- 
ter. It  is  now  over  fifty  thousand  dollars  in  debt,  and 
the  cheering  information  was  confided  at  the  office  the  other  day 
that  it  was  not  certain  thia  would  ever  be  paid  up.  There  may 
be  a  market  for  stocks  of  all  kinds  before  long,  but  dealers  will 
have  to  use  their  discrimination  in  the  aelection  of  investments. 
The  Nevada  Queen,  of  all  others,  should  have  turned  out  all  right, 
and  the  probability  is  if  it  had  been  left  under  the  Foster  manage- 
ment it  would  have.  The  present  persons  in  control  may  be  min- 
ing men  par  excellence  in  their  own  opinions,  but  they  have  not 
proved  it  publicly  since  the  unfortunate  Tuscarora  concern  passed 
into  their  hands.  If  there  is  a  mine  there,  aa  many  believe  there 
is,  they  are  not  competent  to  show  it  up.  The  best  thing  they 
can  do  ia  to  get  out  and  give  some  one  else  a  chance. 

s  ss 

ANOTHER  California  miner  has  won  fame  and  reputation 
abroad.  The  Standard  and  Diggers'  News,  a  daily  paper  pub- 
lished at  Johannesburg,  South  Africa,  has  quite  an  interesting 
item  about  James  Donald,  who  used  to  be  quite  a  prominent  citi- 
zen of  Nevada  City.  The  News  relates  that  on  Saturday  evening, 
August  13th,  the  officials,  miners  and  other  employees  of  the 
Jumpers  G.  M.  Co.  assembled  in  the  company's  reading  room  and 
presented  Mr.  Donald,  who  was  about  to  resign  the  captaincy  of 
the  mine,  with  a  handsome  tea  and  coffee  service  in  silver,  along 
with  an  illuminated  address.  A  banquet  followed,  and  speeches 
were  made.  Mr.  Donald  was  leaving  the  Jumpera  Company, 
who  own  immense  mines  and  employ  about  1,000  men,  to  take  a 
managerial  post  with  the  Deep  Level  Syndicate.  The  gentleman 
who  was  thus  honored  is  well  known  in  California,  where  he 
learned  his  business  and  made  his  reputation  aa  a  miner.  He  was 
once  foreman  in  the  Pittsburg  mine,  under  Thomas  Mein;  was 
foreman  of  the  old  California  mine,  under  J.  L.  Holland;  was 
forman  of  the  South  Banner  mine,  under  J.  E.  Brown.  He  also 
acted  as  Deputy  Assessor  of  Nevada  county  for  two  years,  under 
Asseaaor  John  T.  Morgan.  He  filled  all  these  positions  in  an  able 
manner,  and  gave  entire  satisfaction  to  his  employers,  and  bis 
old-time  friends  are  glad  to  learn  that  he  ia  still  riaing  in  the 
world. 

S  *S 

THE  Sunbeam  mine  was  incorporated  during  the  week,  with  a 
strong  directory.  Thia  property  ia  on  the  same  ledge  as  the  cele- 
brated Seven-Thirty  mine  in  Deadman'a  Flat,  Grasa  Valley  dis- 
trict. In  the  immediate  vicinity  are  the  Idaho  and  the  Old  Em- 
pire mines,  which  have  produced  their  millions,  and  the  crop- 
pings  of  the  Sunbeam  are  not  a  whit  behind  what  these  compa- 
nies had  in  point  of  value.  It  ia  a  matter  of  fact  that  capitalists 
in  the  East  will  put  up  money  on  a  Grass  Valley  mine  before 
that  in  any  other  camp  in  California,  and  it  shows  their  good 
aenae.  Thia  diatrict  will  in  time  become  what  it  was  in  years 
gone  by,  the  bonanza  mineral  section  of  the  State.  The  ground 
all  around  ia  prolific  in  mineral,  and  it  only  requires  capital, 
backed  by  the  energy  of  the  early  California  miner,  to  unearth 
untold  weauh. 

?$$ 

THE  discovery  of  an  onyx  mountain  in  Mexico  ia  reported.  The 
onyx  is  stated  to  be  of  superior  quality,  finely  grained,  and 
beautifully  marked  with  streaks  of  variegated  color.  The  find  is 
situated  thirty  miles  south  of  El  Paso,  and  only  fourteen  miles 
from  the  Mexican  Central  Railroad.  It  could  easily  be  reached  i 
by  a  branch  line  from  that  ayatem,  and  it  is  aaid  the  coat  of  quar-  j 
rying  would  be  small,  as  the  face  of  the  mountain  ia  solid  onyx, 
and  scales  off  in  large  slabs. 

I  s  t 

THE  directora  of  the  celebrated  Broken  Hill  Mines,  of  N.  S.  W., 
have  issued  a  notice  announcing  their  intention  to  reopen  the 
mines  on  the  25th  inst.,  and  declaring  that  if  the  wages  they  offer 
are  not  then  accepted  by  the  atrikers  other  labor  will  be  procured. 
The  mines  are  not  actually  in  possession  of  the  directora  at  pres- 
ent. They  are  picketed  by  the  strikers  and  all  access  forbidden. 
The  strikers'  committee  have  bluntly  refused  the  terms,  and  it  re- 
mains to  be  seen  how  the  difference  will  be  arranged. 


October  I,  1892. 


SAN  FHANClsco  NEWS  LETTER 


17 


lloiritio  I'ritr Wh»t  the  devil  irlthouT' 

•  One  that  will  pl«T  thclovll.  «lr.  with  von." 


T11K  trustees  of  tbe  Oakland  Kree  Library  have  concluded  in 
ibeir  wisdom  that  Miss  Ina  I>.  Ooolbrith.  who  has  been  for 
many  years  connected  with  that  institution,  must  resign  her  posi- 
tion. This  is  the  reward  the  self-styled  Athens  of  the  Tacilic 
Coast  confers  upon  tbe  sweetest  poet  that  ever  sang  on  California 
soil.  She  bas  been  industrious  and  efficient,  working  on  from 
one  year's  end  to  another,  quiet,  unobtrusive  and  retiring.  And 
now  the  edict  has  gone  forth  from  a  committee  of  burghers  of 
that  proudly  intellectual  town  that  they  have  no  further  use  for 
her.  Possibly  bad  she  been  a  wire-puller  and  a  schemer  she 
would  never  have  been  disturbed.  Miss  Coolbrith  has  not  been 
fortunate  in  some  of  her  friends.  Bret  Harte  admired  her  verses 
and  used  Ibem  in  tbe  Overland  Monthly,  but  Mr.  Uarte  was  a  very 
careless  sort  of  friend.  He  prevailed  upon  Miss  Coolbrith  to  en- 
trust bim  with  the  MSS.  of  a  number  of  her  unpublished  poems 
when  he  accepted  the  editorship  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly  and  was 
preparing  to  go  East.  She  did,  and  unfortunately,  as  it  proved, 
for  her.  Because  of  many  she  retained  no  duplicate  copies.  In 
Harte's  possession  they  died  as  completely  as  if  they  never  had 
been  written.  She  communicated  with  him  upon  this  to  her  all- 
important  subject.  But  the  new  literary  star  was  too  occupied 
to  take  any  notice  of  her  correspondence.  The  months  wore  on, 
and  to  this  day,  I  believe,  Harte  has  not  explained  what  he  did 
with  the  MSS.,  why  he  did  not  return  them,  what  motive  he 
had  in  ignoring  the  letters  of  a  lady  whom  in  California  he  had 
claimed  as  a  literary  frieDd.  The  position  in  the  Oakland  library, 
which  sbe  bas  so  ably  filled,  has  been  her  only  source  of  income. 
Others  who  have  given  promise  of  literary  and  artistic  ability 
have  not  lacked  friends  to  assist  them.  Charles  Warren  Stod- 
dard, Rosenthal,  Harte,  and  many  others  were,  for  the  credit  of 
the  Coast,  well  sustained  in  their  aspirations  toward  the  Parnas- 
sian Mount.  Not  so  this  lady.  She  has  had  to  work  out  her  own 
destiny.  No  Mrecenas  has  come  forth  to  tempt  her  from  her 
modest  retirement.  And  now  her  reward  from  that  ungrateful 
city  which  she  has  honored  by  her  residence  is  the  deprivation  of 
a  position  which  few  can  fill  as  well  and  none  more  faithfully 
than  she  bas  done. 

WITH  the  opening  of  the  shooting  season  comes  the  perpetual 
wrangle  between  clubs  that  have  leased  preserves  and  the 
hunters  at  large,  who  have  no  place  except  on  the  Bad  sea  waves 
where  they  can  burn  their  powder  without  molestation.  The 
farmer  is  hostile  and  truculent.  He  scents  the  gunner  afar  off, 
locks  his  gates,  drives  his  cows  into  the  corral,  and  is  prepared  by 
the  aid  of  the  revolutionary  musket  and  profanity  to  keep  all  in- 
truders off  his  land.  He  is  not  to  be  blamed,  for  the  ordinary 
hunter  workB  him  much  wrong.  Sometimes  he  does  not  hesitate 
to  bag  a  decorous  hen  or  poach  an  outlying  goose,  and  as  for  set- 
ting fire  to  a  hayfield  with  his  cigarette,  that  is  one  of  the  rules  of 
his  order.  But  though  the  preserving  of  tracts  of  marsh  and  up- 
lands for  shooting  purposes,  and  keeping  it  exclusively  for  the 
use  of  the  members  of  these  organizations  and  their  friends  may 
look  like  monopoly,  there  is  nothing  else  to  be  done  under  the 
circumstances.  The  man  with  the  gun  who  has  no  fixed  place  of 
resort,  but  wanders  over  the  country  at  his  own  sweet  will,  does 
somehow  continue  to  make  himself  especially  obnoxious  to  the 
world  outside  the  city  limits.  The  shooting  club  is  the  only  check 
upon  him,  and  the  person  he  hates  most,  the  gamekeeper,  is 
really  a  benefactor  to  tbe  rural  districts.  There  will  be  war  this 
season  in  Solano  eounty,  and  it  will  be  ushered  in  the  very  first 
week  of  the  season. 

HOW  familiar  it  is  to  read  of  Allan  Kelly  in  the  wilderness 
again;  this  time  not  bear,  but  man  hunting.  Whenever 
there  are  deeds  of  woodcraft  and  adventure  to  be  done,  Allan 
Kelly  dons  his  slouched  hat,  takes  his  trusty  ride  from  the  rack, 
and  with  his  credentials  in  his  pocket,  starts  for  the  woods.  If  a 
good  ship  goes  ashore,  Allan  Kelly  hops  into  his  cork  jacket,  and 
with  a  life  line  in  his  trousers  pocket,  straddles  a  log  and  floats 
off  to  the  wreck.  Given  a  mammoth  discovered  in  the  Mendo- 
cino woods,  and  Allan  Kelly  is  put  on  tbe  trail.  The  mammoth 
hears  of  it,  and  rubbing  the  sharp  edges  off  his  tusks,  sits  down 
to  wait  for  his  inexorable  captor.  Heaven  bless  Allan  Kelly;  he 
is  a  connecting  link  between  the  romantic  past  and  the  prosaic 
present.  In  the  heroic  reporter  line  he  stands  alone,  a  being  to 
be  admired  and  reverenced. 

AN  Oakland  Councilman  who  is  also  a  saloon-keeper  is  accused 
of  violation  of  the  saloon  ordinance.  8trange  that  in  a  city 
where  the  strong  waters  are  almost  universally  bad,  they  should 
have  so  much  trouble  about  their  drinking  places.  Why 
any  one  should  wantonly  expose  himself  to  sudden  death 
by  imbibing  alcohol  at  an  Oakland  bar,  can  be  accounted  for  only 
by  the  example  of  those  who,  carrying  accidental  insurance  poli- 
cies in  their  breast  pockets,  recklessly  court  death  by  inhaling 
the  fumes  of  an  Oakland  cigar. 


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WE  have  not  heard  for  some  time  of  the  learned  Frenchman 
who  is  now  in  the  woods  studying  the  monkey  language. 
8urely.  it  will  he  a  grand  thing  if  this  savant  is  successful.  Mon- 
key stock  will  go  up,  and  the  employ  merit  offices  will  have  a 
special  department  railed  oh*  for  the  educated  Simians.  But  a 
lady  on  Van  Ness  avenue  has  gone  further  than  this.  Some 
months  ago  she  made  a  study  of  fleas,  and  has  actually  got  to  the 
extent  of  informing  herself  that  the  pulex  irritant,  like  the  Amer- 
ican tramp,  has  a  sign  language.  The  tramp  will  inscribe  a  set 
of  cabalistic  characters  on  the  gate  of  the  farm  or  the  fence, 
which  are  understood  by  those  who  come  after  him.  The  way- 
farer may  tell  whether  the  fare  is  good  and  plenty,  or  if  the  cord 
of  wood  must  be  sawed  ere  refreshment  be  forthcoming.  80  with 
the  flea.  After  a  generous  meal,  this  intelligent  insect  marks  his 
victims,  good,  bad  or  indifferent.  The  latter  sign  to  the  fleas  who 
succeed  him,  means  "  Keep  off  the  grass,"  <«  Beware  of  the  dog," 
••  Don't  waste  your  time  on  this  party,"  and  legends  to  the  same 
effect.  The  student  of  those  mysterious  hieroglyphics,  now,  in 
the  very  height  of  flea-time,  is  safe  from  attack.  With  a  delicate 
cambric  needle  she  inscribes  the  most  formidable  warning  in  the 
flea  signology  on  her  akin,  and  though  a  host  may  invade  her 
couch,  not  one  will  pause  fora  feast.  This  secret  is  worth  a  great 
deal  of  money  in  a  flea  country,  but  the  lady  being  of  the  haul 
ton,  gives  her  intimate  friends  the  benefit  of  her  researches.  If 
she  only  strikes  the  key  to  the  mosquito  literature,  she  will  be 
the  most  valuable  woman  in  the  country. 

HERE  is  tbe  Grand  Old  Party? 

In  Colonel  Barry's  holster, 

Or  hiding  'neath  the  bolster; 

In  Clunie's  breeches  pocket, 

Or  has  Dwyer  got  it? 

A  dozen  rise  to  claim  it, 

To  mangle,  tear  and  maim  it ; 

Its  coat  is  all  in  creases, 

Its  vest  is  torn  to  pieces; 

Once  strong,  and  stout  and  hearty, 

'Tis  now  an  injured  Party. 

Each  clamoring  to  pilot 

Its  course  by  shoal  and  islet, 

While  her  short  tresses  tiring, 

The  Kplly-Crimmins  syren 

Sings  from  its  Third-street  Scylla, 

«•  Drop  in,  drop  in  and  fill  a 

**  Bumper  to  the  muddle 

"  And  I'll  stir  up  the  puddle." 

THERE  is  a  noble  exile  in  this  country  that  will  not  down,  one 
brilliant  comet  whom  many  of  us  remember  here,  to  wit, 
Count  Mitkiewicy.  This  time  the  gay  Count  is  the  defendant  in 
a  swindling  operation  in  New  York.  Twenty-two  years  ago  the 
Count  made  things  merry  in  this  western  town.  How  the  belles 
of  that  period  {some  of  them  are  grandmothers  now)  worshipped 
the  petite  Russian  and  his  whiskers.  He  was  mighty  strong  in 
the  latter  article.  There  was  nothing  like  them  in  the  city.  They 
were  the  dantiest,  the  silkiest,  the  most  killing,  the  best  grown 
of  any  whiskers  wei-t  of  Ogden.  The  Count  traveled  on  them. 
He  lavished  tbe  most  expensive  perfume  upon  them.  Attar  of 
roses  at  a  dollar  a  drop  was  not  too  good  for  them.  But  his  time 
came  at  last.  He  was  too  universal  in  his  operations.  Had  he 
confined  himself  to  the  gilded  youth,  his  downfall  might  have 
been  long  deferred.  But  on  the  journey  overland  he  borrowed 
five  hundred  dollars  from  a  butcher  whom  he  had  charmed  with 
his  description  of  the  Winter  Palace  and  sleighing  on  the  Neva. 
When  the  butcher  talked  repayment,  the  Count  endeavored  to 
turn  the  conversation  on  society  in  Moscow.  But  the  son  of  a 
cleaver  would  not  have  it.  He  knocked  the  Count  down  in  the 
hall  of  the  Occidental,  and  danced  a  break-down  in  his  rude 
brogans  on  the  aristocratic  ribs  of  the  adventurer.  Then  the 
Count  fled,  but  he  is  remembered  here  by  every  restauranteur  who 
flourished  in  those  days,  as  well  as  every  man  who  associated 
with  the  whiskered  Cossack. 

LADIES  suffering  from  religious  mania  or  hysteria  express 
their  malady  by  the  odd  method  of  tearing  off  their  clothes. 
Let  one  of  the  revivalist  cranks  for  a  moment  get  into  her  poor 
weak  brain  the  idea  that  Satan  is  laying  in  wait  for  her  around 
the  corner,  then  off  comes  the  raiment  with  the  celerity  of  an 
acrobat  shedding  his  fancy  costume  on  a  tight-rope.  This  does 
not  seem  to  be  precisely  the  way  of  renouncing  the  devil  and  all 
his  works,  and  cannot  be  but  decidedly  embarrassing  to  the  by- 
standers. Perhaps  some  inner  consciousness  may  appeal  to 
these  demented  creatures,  convincing  them  that  their  sex  err 
more  for  the  love  of  dress  than  for  any  other  canse  under  the 
sun.  The  milliner,  the  dressmaker  and  the  jeweller  are  the  par- 
ticular though  blameless  ministers  of  this  particular  set  of  weak- 
nesses. Therefore,  when  religion  strikes  the  female  sinner  hard, 
she  labors  to  return  to  the  condition  of  our  common  grandmother, 
free  from  all  contact  with  gems  and  gewgaws. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  1,  1892. 


<B^Jfc£Pewfi! 


THE  News  Letter  sonu  ied  a  warning  note  last  week  when  it 
stated  that  an  attempt  would  probably  be  made  to  rush 
the  reports  of  the  Sixteenth  street,  and  other  street  extension, 
Commissioners  through  the  Board  of  Supervisors  at  the  last 
moment,  and  tbe  Mission  Real  Estate  OwDers'  Union  and  others 
will  do  well  to  keep  a  sharp  lookout  and  be  prepared  to  take 
measures  to  head  off  any  such  action.  The  report  of  the  expert 
appointed  by  the  Union  to  investigate  the  report  of  the  Sixteenth 
Street  Commissioners  has  been  made,  and  reveals  just  what  it  was 
said  would  be  disclosed.  In  his  report,  which  suggests  how  the 
estimates  should  be  set  down,  the  expert,  Mr.  Smith,  makes 
most  liberal  allowances  for  Secretary  Hall,  for  tbe  man  who  drew 
up  the  report,  the  attorney,  and  those  gentlemen  who  have  held 
sinecures  styled  "Commissioners."  The  beauty  of  this  gouging 
estimate  is  illustrated  in  the  case  of  residents  on  opposite  sides  of 
the  same  street.  One  owner  is  assessed  for  his  single  lot  four 
times  as  much  as  all  the  owners  on  the  other  side  of  tbe  street  put 
together.  The  cost  of  opening  the  street,  even  if  the  generous  es- 
timate of  the  Mission  property-owners  is  adopted,  will  be  over 
four  times  the  cost  of  opening  Seventeenth  street,  and  when  fin- 
ished the  street  will  not  be  nearly  so  useful  to  the  city  because  of 
the  steep  grades  which  it  has  been  necessary  to  put  up  with  to 
make  the  opening  feasible. 

An  Executive  Committee  of  the  Union  is  now  dallying  with  tbe 
report  of  the  commission  having  in  charge  the  work  of  opening 
up  westward  eleven  blocks  of  the  streets  from  Nineteenth  south 
to  Twenty-third.  The  estimated  expenses  of  the  commission 
which  has  labored  to  produce  this  report  on  eleven  blocks  is  $59,- 
000;  the  land  purchased  amounts  to  a  strip  6,000  feet  long  and 
64  feet  deep,  for  which  damages  to  the  amount  of  $103,000  are  to 
be  awarded  if  tne  report  is  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors. 
The  great  foresight  of  this  commission  is  illustrated  by  an  esti- 
mated possible  outlay  of  $25,000  for  contingencies.  The  union 
of  property-owners  has  a  big  task  before  it;  but  if  it  will  only 
have  the  courage  to  defend  its  own,  usually  considered  instinct  in 
the  breast  of  every  human  being,  it  cannot  fail  to  teach  these  vul- 
tures a  sharp  lesson. 

Real  estate  business  possesses  little  that  is  exciting  at  present. 
There  is  always  something  doing — enough  to  keep  the  real  estate 
firms  active,  but  not  much  to  spare.  Those  who  had  banked  their 
hopes  on  a  good  full  business  have  now  postponed  the  expected 
realization  till  next  spring.  It  is  thought  that  by  that  time  the 
various  railroad  schemes  will  have  taken  some  definite  form, 
which  will  be  one  reason  for  basing  hopes  of  more  activity  in  real 
estate.  C.  P.  Huntington  has  said  many  hard  things  since  he  re- 
turned. One  truth  he  stated  unequivocally  when  he  pointed  out 
the  fact  that  prosperity  is  to  be  looked  for  in  increased  manufac- 
tures, greater  enterpiise  and  more  self-help.  Railroad  competition 
will  bring  down  rates,  but  it  will  not  furnish  freight. 

The  auctioneering  of  real  estate  is  again  receiving  more  attention, 
and  shows  that  there  is  some  confidence  left.  On  Monday.  Tevis 
&  Fisher  will  sell  a  fine  fifty-vara  on  the  south  side  of  Vallejo, 
west  of  Laguna.  This  is  good  residence  pioperty,  and  ought  to 
tempt  many  bidders.  The  terms  of  sale  allow  $8,000  to  remain  as 
a  mortgage  for  two  years  at  7  per  cent.;  the  balance  must  be 
cash.  An  artificial  stone  pavement  has  been  laid  on  part  of  the 
property. 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  announce  an  auction  sale  on  October 
11th.  O.  F.  von  Rhein  &  Co.  wilUaell  a  list  of  property  on  Octo- 
ber 13th.  The  latter  catalogue  includes  the  lot  75x85  on  the 
northeast  corner  of  Golden  Gate  avenue  and  Polk,  with  the  Pres- 
byterian Tabernacle  on  it. 

A.  Page  Brown  has  been  appointed  architect  to  the  Harbor 
Commission.  The  position  is  in  no  sense  a  political  one,  and 
should  insure  to  the  city  a  really  handsome  depot  building  at  the 
foot  of  Market  street.  The  present  landing  to  the  city  by  the 
Golden  Gate  is  anything  but  inviting. 

W.  P.  Moore,  the  architect,  is  here  again  from  a  tour  through 
Europe. 

Fine  Stationery  and  Pictures. 

It  is  certainly  a  great  pleasure  to  possess  that  fine  and  discrimin- 
ating taste  which  enables  one  to  always  pick  out  the  most  appropri- 
ate article  for  personal  attire  or  for  any  matter  in  which  a  knowledge 
of  the  beautiful  is  necessary.  Therefore  is  it  that  ladies  who  are  not 
possessed  of  that  most  desirable  delicate  sense  of  selecting  the  proper 
thing  at  the  proper  moment,  frequently  wonder  how  it  is  that  their 
friends  always  display  such  exquisite  taste  in  small  matters,  such, 
for  instance,  as  the  selection  and  use  of  stationery.  It  is  all  very 
simple.  The  lucky  ones  merely  go  to  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co. 's  mag- 
nificent establishment  on  Market  street,  opposite  Grant  avenue,  and 
from  the  largest  stock  in  town  of  the  latest  styles  in  stationery,  select 
whatever  in  their  opinions  is  the  most  appropriate  style  of  note  paper 
for  their  particular  kind  of  billet  douz.  This  house  has  the  reputation 
throughout  the  coast  of  dealing  in  the  best  paper  known  to  the 
market.  One  can  also  enjoy  by  a  visit  to  this  house  an  inspection  of 
numerous  beautiful  prints,  photographs,  pictures  and  oil  paintings. 


TJi^  U/^IJE  ^OtlS^. 


Largest  Retail  Dry  Goods  Store  in  the  City. 


IF-A-LXj    1892. 
INTRODUCTORY  SILK  SALE. 


CLOAK  IRXDOM- 

Great  opening  of  the  latest  and 
most  popular  styles  of  all  kinds  of 
Wraps,  directly  imported  and  made 
expressly  for  the  "White  House." 


Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 
Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 


Raphael  Weill  &  Co., 

Northwest  Corner  Post  and   Kearny  Streets. 


Don't 

Be 

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WHEN  YOU   ASK  FOR  A 

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LINCOLN'S  CABINET 

CIGAR, 

SEE  THAT   YOU    GET    IT. 

For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

WILLIAM     MONTGOMERY, 

(Proprietor  American  Exchange  Hotel.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Assembly,  38th  District, 

BERT    SCHLESINGER, 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  State  Senator,  31st  Senatorial  District, 

WM.     J.     BIGGY, 
(Pledged  to  support  the  Traffic  Association.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 
For  Coroner, 

DR.  Wm.   T.    GARWOOD, 
(Present  Incumbent.) 

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Oat  1,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


THE  following  suggestions  give  ft  pretty  and  novel  idea  for  the 
decoration  of  sachets  of  any  shape  or  size,  in  dimensions  ae- 
oording  to  the  purpose  for  which  they  are  intended,  writes  Maude 
Haywood  in  ner  department.  "Art  for  Art  Workers,"  In  the 
October  Ladita1  Home  Journal.  They  are  treated  to  represent 
framed  pictures.  A  piece  of  stiff  paper  or  thin  card  board  is  cut 
out  of  the  requisite  measurements  determined  upon  for  the  size 
of  the  sachet  in  hand.  In  the  center  of  this  an  opening  is  cut, 
which  may  be  round,  oval,  or  irregularly  and  fancifully  shaped. 
The  border  or  frame  so  left  is  covered  with  silk  or  satin  of  any 
rich  or  delicate  tone  selected,  and  the  inner  edge  treated  with  a 
cord  either  to  match,  or  of  a  gold  color,  or  any  preferred  finish 
may  be  adopted.  A  piece  of  bolting  cloth,  which  has  to  be  after. 
ward  lined  with  white,  is  inserted  in  the  frame  to  form  a  back- 
ground for  the  picture,  which  may  have  for  subject  Mowers, 
figures,  or  any  pretty  or  appropriate  group.  A  spray  or  wreath 
of  flowers  may  be  suitably  painted  upon  the  "frame. ''  The 
sachet  is  made  up  and  lined  in  the  ordinary  manner  and  may  be 
finished  with  lace,  cord,  or  ribbon,  paying  particular  attention  to 
obtain  a  good  harmony  of  the  contrasted  or  relative  tones  of 
color  employed. 

As  to  the  hair,  it  will  be  dresstd  in  a  modified  Greek  knot,  and 
fringes  will  be  altogether  abandoned.  Natural  flowers  are  to  be 
worn  in  the  hair  again,  and  tiaras  and  feathers  will  disappear 
entirely.  As  long  as  roses  are  in  season  small  wreaths  of  them 
will  be  popular,  and  later  on  violets  and  snowdrops  will  take 
their  place.  A  most  charmingly  arranged  coiffure  I  noticed  the 
other  day  bad  the  hair  closely  waved  to  the  head  and  brushed 
till  it  almost  resembled  satin.  From  the  Greek  knot  at  the  back 
three  tiny  curls  stuck  out,  and  in  front  the  hair  was  drawn  from 
the  forehead  and  raised  into  a  sort  of  peak,  which  had  the  most 
chic  effect.  The  wearer  bad  a  lovely  brow,  and  this  wavy  hair 
drawn  up  from  her  face  suited  her  to  perfection,  and  the  whole 
style  was  most  novel  and  pretty.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  she 
was  a  Frenchwoman  as  I  think  the  prevailing  fashion  of  hair 
dressing  in  England  is  most  ugly  and  unbecoming.  A  bat  that 
threatens  to  come  in  again  is  the  turban-shaped  toque,  which 
almost  covers  the  forehead,  and  therefore  needs  no  fringe.  These 
toques,  when  well  made,  are  lovely,  and  have  no  trimming  ex- 
cepting, perhaps,  an  aigrette  or  osprey  perched  in  the  front. 
Velvet  is  the  favorite  material  used  for  them,  and  this  is  folded 
into  small  folds,  and  entirely  forms  a  Turkish  turban  in  shape. 

Pink  batiste  is  liked  for  night  dresses,  writes  Mrs.  Mallon  in 
"The  Small  Belongings  of  Dress,"  in  the  October  Ladies1  Home 
Journal.  It  may  be  made  in  the  simplest  fashion,  trimmed 
around  the  neck  and  front  with  a  ruffle  of  the  same,  or  it  may  be 
elaborately  decorated  with  white  lace  and  soft  pink  ribbons. 


If  your  figure  is  slender  do  not  hesitate  to  arrange  about  it  a 
broad  sash  with  a  very  large  rosette  close  to  the  front,  writes 
Mrs.  Mallon  in  the  October  Ladies*  Home  Journal.  Thefasbion- 
ahle  tailors  say  such  an  arrangement  only  tends  to  bring  out  your 
girlish  figure  more  than  ever. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff',  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  mo3t  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  G50 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


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T1JOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
L  J  wanes  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  1,  1892. 


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THE  London  Daily  Neivs  printa  some  statistics  on  the  curious 
subject  of  Royal  appetites.  The  simplest  eater,  the  King 
with  the  largest  appetite  most  easily  satisfied,  is  the  German 
Emperor.  One  might  have  guessed  it  from  his  youth  as  well  as 
from  his  ancestry.  The  Hohenzollern  family  had  always  the 
most  primitive  tastes,  as  any  one  who  has  seen  Frederick  the 
Great's  dining-room  at  Potsdam  will  readily  credit.  William  II. 
is  said  to  be  extremely  indiscriminating,  and  with  a  most  excel- 
lent appetite.  This  is  not  the  case  either  with  King  Humberto 
or  with  the  Austrian  Emperor.  They  are  difficiles  at  the  table, 
and  in  every  way  different  to  the  King  of  Wurtemburg,  whose 
tastes  are  the  simplest,  and  who  has  a  singular  penchant  for  a 
beefsteak  served  with  onions.  And  which  of  all  European  sov- 
ereigns has  done  roost  to  advance  the  art  of  dining  to  the  dignity 
of  a  fine  art?  It  is  the  Emperor  of  Russia.  He  curiously  com- 
bines quality  and  quantity.  His  appetite  is  large,  and  his  taste 
delicate.  The  office  of  imperial  caterer  at  St.  Petersburg  is  no 
sinecure.  The  caterer,  if  bard  worked,  is  well  paid.  Of  course 
this  chef  is  a  Frenchman.  Strasbourg  has  the  honor  of  his  birth- 
place, and  France  is  glad  to  emphasize  the  fact  that  when  he 
had  to  choose  a  nationality  he  remained  a  Frenchman.  The  Czar 
knew  the  treasure  he  had  secured,  gave  him  the  rank  of  colonel, 
which  allows  him  to  bear  a  sword  as  well  as  a  stew-pan,  and, 
recognizing  his  patriotic  sentiments,  considerately  glossed  over 
the  rule  which  should  compel  his  chef  to  be  a  Russian  subject. 
Colonel  Krautz,  through  Imperial  caterer  to  the  Emperor  of  All 
the  Rusaias,  remains  a  citizen  of  France. 

Mr.  Sala,  in  his  Journal,  relates  the  following  experience  of  Mr. 
William  Black,  the  novelist:  "When  at  work  Mr.  Black  loves 
intense  quiet,  and  cannot  bear  the  slightest  noise.  For  this  rea- 
son he  always  selects  a  room  at  the  top  of  the  house  as  hia  study. 
At  one  time  it  was  his  misfortune  to  live  in  what  he  describes  as 
a  jerry-built  house,  and,  while  endeavoring  to  work  in  the  early 
hours  of  the  morning,  as  is  his  custom,  he  tells  of  one  amusing 
inconvenience  that  he  was  called  upon  daily  to  put  up  with.  The 
nursery  of  his  next-door  neighbor  was  in  a  line  with  his  study, 
and  in  this  a  somewhat  numerous  family  were  located.  Every 
morning,  aa  regular  as  clockwork,  Mr.  Black  could  hear  the  el- 
der sister  call  out,  'Now,  then,  you  horrid  little  things,  kneel 
down  and  say  your  nasty  little  prayers.'  A  profound  silence 
would  follow;  but  the  interval  was  a  brief  one.  Then  came  a 
rush  and  clatter,  and  the  shrill  voices  of  the  children  were  heard 
exclaiming,  ■  We  have  said  our  prayers;  we  have  said  our 
prayers!  '  " 

England  makes  a  great  fuss  about  having  a  few  dozen  blue 
stockings,  and  so  does  America,  but  France  claims  the  pas  for 
her  blue  stockings,  as  a  recent  counting  proves  she  has  2,133 
ladiea  who  follow  the  occupation  of  blue  stockings  for  a  living; 
1,211  write  romances,  217  learned  treatises,  280  produce  poetry, 
while  the  rest  are  in  the  journalistic  or  philosophic  line  of  busi- 
ness, with  a  few  who  cultivate  babies — that  is,  instruct  them  by 
nursery  books  and  primers. 


s_A_isrs:s. 


Suicide  in  the  little  principality  of  Montenegro  is  extremely 
rare,  and  is  looked  upon  as  an  act  of  the  greatest  cowardice.  In 
many  parts  of  the  country,  in  the"  memory  of  the  oldest  inhabit- 
ants, no  man  has  taken  his  own  life.  A  few  weeks  ago,  the 
Prince  himself  was  much  interested  in  a  certain  Llezas,  who  at- 
tempted to  end  his  life  because  he  was  unable  to  satisfy  his  cred- 
itors. He  was  unsuccessful.  The  attempt,  however,  excited  a 
sensation  throughout  Montenegro.  Prince  Nikita  visited  the  hos- 
pital where  the  wounded  man  lay,  and  upbraided  him  for  cow- 
ardice and  lack  of  manhood.  Llezas  begged  the  Prince's  pardon, 
declaring  that  the  persecutions  of  his  creditors  had  made  him 
temporarily  insane,  and  promised  never  to  repeat  the  attempt. 
The  Prince  was  touched  by  the  story  of  the  culprit,  and  ordered 
the  debts  to  be  paid  from  his  private  treasury.  At  the  same  time, 
however,  he  commanded  the  would-be  suicide  to  leave  the  coun- 
try and  to  live  down  his  disgrace  in  foreign  lands.  A  few  days 
after  visiting  the  unhappy  man,  he  issued  the  following  decree: 
"AH  persons  who  take  their  own  lives  are  to  be  declared  dis- 
honorable. Their  corpses  are  to  be  strung  to  gallows,  in  view  of 
the  public,  for  twenty-four  hours.  Suicide  ia  unworthy  of  a 
Montenegrin.  God  alone  has  power  over  a  man's  life,  which 
dare  be  sacrificed  only  on  the  battlefield ,  in  defence  of  his  country." 

Every  one  who  enjoys  a  first-class  dinner,  and  has  been  a  guest  at 
the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  knows  that  there 
one  of  the  very  best  meals  in  the  city  may  be  procured.  The  accom- 
modations are  first-class  in  every  respect,  and  the  menu  unsurpassed. 
It  includes  all  the  dainties  of  the  season.  The  proprietor  and  the 
chef  a.ct  together  in  making  certain  the  comfort  of  all  guests. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital *8t000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVOBD,  President. 

Thomas  Bsown. Cashier  |  B.  Mubeay,  Jr  ..  .Assistant Cashier 

Irving  F.  Modlton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  Bank  of  California;  B03TON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland, O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Franklort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  RANK. 

N.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) $1,600,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  1  UND1VI0ED   PROFITS $160,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN  Cashier 

JAMES  MOPFITT.. .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass't  Cashier 

DIBECTOB8: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  3.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Momtt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  ol 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  ou 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK.  Limited. 


Authorized  Capital. 
Reserve 


...?3,500,<X>0 


Capital  paid  up 2.450,000 

450,000 


San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  St.  |  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.  C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St,    Tacoma  Branch,  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ABTHUB  SCHIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GOSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parte  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 81,250.000. 

Successor  to  3 ather  &  Co.,  Established  1651,  Sau  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

j.    L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  A  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  Loudon— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FAR60  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

>.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutler  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL $      500,000  00 

SURPLUS 5,488.393.12 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS 16, 250,000.00 

DIRECTORS: 

Johu  J    Valentiue,   President;    Lloyd  Tevis,    Leland    Stanford,   Oliver 

Eldridge.  James  C.  Fargo.  Geo,  E.   Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.  F.  Goad, 

Dudley   Evaus.    Henry   Wadsworth,  Cashier.    Homer  8.  King,  Manager. 

J.  L.  Browne,  Assistant  Cashier. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL «1. 000,000. 

DIRECTORS : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  I  E.  H.  MILLER,  Ja. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH ...President. 

W  E  BROWN Vice-President. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cashier 


Moraghan,  of  the  California  Market,  has  the  most  delicious  oysters 
in  the  city.    It  is  the  only  place  where  good  oysters  may  be  had. 


Guarantee  Capital 


SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 


$300,000 


OFFICERS: 


President         ...JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President      . ...     .W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Monloomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


HUMBOLDT  SAVIN5S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.  WEBER, President  |  ERNST  BRAND  Secretary 


October  1,  1892. 


v\N   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


B-AJtSTKS. 


THE    ELEVENTH    COMMANDMENT. 

IN  agex  i>a»t  oommandmenta  were  given  unto  men 
Bj  which  th.y  should  be  governed.   These  commandments  num- 
bered ten: 
Thou  »h»1t  '">'  steal— thou  shah  nut  kill— thou  shalt  not  do  a  wrong; 
Oommll  thou  nothing  criminal,  that  thy  days  on  earth  be  long. 
Honor  thou  thy  father  and  thy  mother,  and  desist 
Prom  evil  thoughts,  from  evil  ways— all  evil  things  resist. 
Th.  N   laws  were  well— mankind  obeyed-they  were  with   wisdom 

fraught; 
But  Nineteenth  Century  people  add  another: 

"  Don't  net  Caught." 

Steal,  if  you  will;  and  further,  kill;  or  borrow,  and  don't  pay ; 
Be  anything  but  what  you  are— play  poker,  faro— play  ; 
Be  criminal  of  any  sort,  be  highwayman,  be  thief, 
Be  burglar,  actor,  lawyer,  be  a  man  without  belief; 
Be  a  gay  deceiver,  or  a  social  hypocrite; 
Be  a  villain,  demon,  devil,  be  all  bogus, counterfeit; 
Be  a  hardened,  cruel  father— be  a  drunkard— be  a  sot; 
Ubserve  the  eleventh  commandment  though— remember, 
"  Don't  Get  Caught." 

Defraud  your  friends,  abuse  your  wife,  be  treacherous  and  vile ; 

Be  double  in  your  walk  of  life— be  poor,  yet  put  on  style; 

Teach  Sunday-school— go  rob  a  bank— spread  calumny  and  lies; 

Envy  and  covet  everything— all  manner  of  good  despise; 

Dream  not  of  virtue;  vice  embrace —do  all  this  "on  the  sly;" 

The  hypocrite  world  will  say,"  How  good!  "  when'tcomes  your  turn 

to  die ; 
And  maybe  in  your  future  life  it  may  not  be  loo  hot 
If  you  observe  this  moral  law — namely, 

"  Don't  Get  Caught." 
— Joe  Kerr,  in  Jests,  Jingles  and  Jottings. 


'IF    I    SHOULD    DIE    TO-NIGHT."— Public  Opinian. 

If  I  should  die  to-night, 
My  friends  would  look  upon  my  quiet  face 
Before  they  laid  it  in  its  resting  place, 
And  dream  that  death  had  left  it  almost  fair; 
And  laying  snow-white  flowers  against  my  hair 
Would  smooth  it  down  with  tearful  tenderness, 
And  fold  my  hands  with  lingering  caress- 
Poor  bands  so  empty  and  so  cold  to-night  ! 

If  I  should  die  to-night 
My  friends  would  call  to  mind  with  loving  thought 
Some  kindly  deed  the  icy  hand  had  wrought, 
Some  gentle  word  the  frozen  lips  had  said, 
Errands  on  which  the  willing  feet  had  sped; 
The  mem'ry  of  my  selfishness  and  pride, 
My  hasty  words,  would  all  be  put  aside, 
And  so  I  should  be  loved  and  mourned  to-night. 

If  I  should  die  to-night 
E'en  hearts  estranged  would  turn  once  more  to  me, 
Recalling  other  days  remorsefully; 
The  eyes  that  chill  me  with  averted  glance 
Would  look  upon  me  as  of  yore  perchance. 
And  soften  in  the  old  familiar  way— 
For  who  could  war  with  dumb,  unconscious  clay? 
So  might  I  rest  forgiven  of   all  to-night. 

Oh,  friends,  I  pray  tonight, 
Keep  not  your  kisses  for  my  dead,  cold  brow  I 
The  way  is  lonely,  let  me  feel  them  now. 
Think  gently  of  me,  I  am  travel-worn, 
My  faltering  feet  are  pierced  with  many  a  thorn. 
Forgive,  oh,  heart  estranged,  forgive,  I  plead  ! 
When  dreamless  rest  is  mine  I  shall  not  need 
The  tenderness  for  which  I  long  to-night. 

SELL    HER— THAT'S    RIGHT.— Tom  Hall  m  Life. 

Sell  her— that's  right  1     She  is  young,  she  is  fair. 
There's  the  light  of  the  sun  in  the  coils  of   her  hair; 
And  her  soul  is  as  white  as  the  first  flake  of  snow 
That  is  falling  to-night.     "lis  ft  bargain— ago  ! 
Sell  her— that's  right  I 

Sell  her— that's  right  1     For  a  bag  full  of  gold. 
Put  her  down  in  your  ledger,  and  label  her  -sold." 
She's  only  a  beauty  with  somebody's  name, 
And  the  church,  for  a  pittance,  will  wash  out  the  shame. 
Sell  her— that's  right. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

Lnoorpor&tOd  l>y  Koyfti  Charier. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP  $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND  1,250.000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansorae  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE  SO  LOMBARD  STREET,   LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregou; 

Seattle  ami  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES- Kamioops,  Nanalmo,  Nelsou.  New  Westminster,  British 
Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  aud  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Ofliee  aud  Branches,  aud  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company:  IKE- 
LAND— Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— Loudon  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America:  CHINA  aud  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  aud  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bauk  of  Australasia;  I'KM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

632  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Beanch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1893    $£G,8U0,6G3  00 

Uuarauteed  Capital  aud  Surplus 1,633,130  00 

DIRECTORS. 

Albert  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardmau,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &.  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  ouly  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  passbook  or  entrance  fee.  OMce  Hours— t)  a.  M.to3P.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  ANO  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

80S  Market  Sireet   (Flood  Building),  San   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1883. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000.00  I  Surplus  Profits %     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital  333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1, 1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS  WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  MCDONALD Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DOKN Attorneys 

This  bank  receives  saving?  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, in  sums  ©1*  one  dollar  aud  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mouth  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  aud  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND f    1,645,000  00. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  1892 28,776,607  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gotttg,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbqe. _____ 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Pair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecnrities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  w.  Cop.  Saneome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubsctied  Capital $2,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office  58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Aqentb— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.)  No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  lVBoule 
vard  PoiBsoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  citieB  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  CaBhier. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 


N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 


(1, 500,000 
703,000 


rnnital  Authorized J6.000.000  I  Paid  up 

Subscribed  3,000,000    Reserve  Fund 

BUDScrineu  . . .   _._a_  omcE__  Angel ,  _urt|  Lonaoni  _.  0. 

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

The  Bank  transacts  a  goneral  banking  I  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 

trranhic  transfers    and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world     Sends  bills  for  collectfon,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

and  bullion.  KW.  STEINHART^  j  Managers. 

A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


5unbe:ams 


"  THEY  tell  me  you  have  learned   to  count,   Robbie,"   said  a 

1    pious  old  lady  to  her   little   grandson,  who  was  paying  her 

a  visit  out  in  the  country.     "Course  I   can,"   answered    Robbie; 

"  listen — One,  two,  three,  four,  five,  six  " "  That's  right,"  said 

the  old  lady,  encouragingly ;  go  on."  -'Seven,  eight,  nine,  ten, 
jack,  queen,  king!  " 

One  day  Johnny  Jones  was  instructed  by  his  teacher  to  write 

a  nautical  composition.    This  is  what  he  wrote: 
My  life  bark  sails  upon  the  sea, 

With  no  rough  winds  to  yank  'er; 
My  father  is  the  "  mainstay,    and 
My  mother  is  the  "  spanker." 

——A  well-known  lawyer  once  gave  a  dinner  party,  after  which  the 
gentlemen  retired  to  smbke  and  chat.  All  at  once  he  got  up,  took 
down  a  sword  which  formed  part  of  a  trophy,  and  brandishing  it  in 
the  air,  exclaimed:  "Ah,  gentlemen,  I  shall  never  forget  the  day 
when  I  drew  this  sword  for  the  first  time."  "  Pray,  where  did  you 
draw  it?"  said  an  inquiring  guest.  "  At  a  raffle,"  was  the  lawver's 
rejoinder. 

■^— "  So  you  want  to  join  our  company?  "  said  the  theatrical  mana- 
ger to  the  seedy  looking  applicant.  "In  what  attractions  have  you 
ever  appeared? "  "Well,"  replied  he,  "my  last  engagement  was 
with  the  '  Blot  on  the  Scutcheon."*  •'  What  character  did  you  enact?  " 
"  I  was  the  Blot." 

"  You  are  charged  with   running  along  the  sidewalk  at  a  rapid 

rate  and  knocking  people  down,"  said  the  Police  Justice.  "  Well,  I 
have  a  right  to,  haven  t  I?"  saucily  answered  the  prisoner.  "No, 
sir;  you  have  not.  If  you  want  to  do  that  sort  of  thing  you  must 
own  a  bicycle." 

She  was  a  girl  of  wisdom.     He  said  to  her:  "  Do  you  not  love 

^o  wander  in  the  moonlight?"  "Yes,"  she  answered,  "Why?" 
"  Because  it  saves  gas."  Then  he  did  some  mental  arithmetic,  thought 
it  over  and  said:  "  Will  you  be  mine?  " 

"  Why  does  a  woman  wear  a  tall  silk  hat  when  she  rides  on 

horseback?  "  asked  Jones  the  other  day.  "  So  that  the  horse  may  be- 
lieve she  is  a  man  and  be  frightened  of  her,"  replied  Brown,  who  has 
carefully  studied  the  subject. 

O'Giff—  An'  phwhy  are  they  wantin'  the  A.  0.  H.  to  take  part 

in  the  celebration  for  Christopher  Columbus  ?  Phwhat  did  he  iver 
do  for  Oireland  ?  O'Gaff  — Phwist,  ye  goose !  Didn't  he  discover  Am- 
erica ?  —Brooklyn  Eagle. 

The  gray  suited  actor  will  soon  have  to  shove 

His  faded  spring  clothes  up  the  spout, 

And  the  cash  he  receives  he  will  use  on  the  spot 

In  getting  his  overcoat  out.  — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

——Mrs.  Simps— Last  night  you  came  home  with  a  story  of  sitting 

up  with  a  sick  friend.     Now,  what  excuse  have  you  this  time?"    Mr. 

Stings— To-night,  my  love,  we  (hie)  all  gathered  (hie)  round  his  beer. 

"Yes,"  said  the  physician,  "  I  will  not  only  cure  yon,   but  I 

will  also  put  your  portrait  in  the  papers."  "  Then  let  me  die!  "  ex- 
claimed the  unhappy  man  in  a  voice  of  anguish.  — Judqe. 

——"  Why  does  he  go  through  such  awful  training?"  "To  make 
himself  tough."  "  Then  why  does  he  go  on  such  awful  sprees?  "  "  To 
show  how  tough  he  is,  my  dear."  —Life. 

— — "  How  did  Chollie  happen  to  get  such  a  bad  cold?  "  "  I  don't 
know,  unless  it  was  his  changing  his  suspenders  too  soon.  He's  vewy 
weckless  when  the  fall  comes.  — Judge. 

Poet— I  have  a  little  poem  here,  sir,   that  has   been  indited. 

Editor—  Well,  sir,  I  should  be  glad  to«ee  it  convicted,  but  I  can't  try 
it. 

—  Amelie— Did  you  meet  any  icebergs  when  coming  across  the 
Atlantic?     Travers — Yes,  one— an  old  maid  from  Boston. 

—  Town  Topics. 
——  Youngley—  Which  side  do  you  favor  in   these  labor  troubles? 

Mabel  (shyly)— My  sympathies  are  with  the  union  men. 

—  Town  Topics. 
"You  see  how  bald   I  am,  and   I  don't  wear  a  wig."    "True, 

sir,"  replied  the  servant,  "  an  empty  barn  requires  no  thatch." 
—Spoonson — When  I  go  back  to  the  city  will  you  think  of  me? 

Fanner's  Daughter— Yes;  every  time  I  feed  the  calves.  —Judge. 
Johnny  (studying  geography)— Papa,  what's  a  strait?      Papa— 

That  beats  two  pair  or  three  of  a  kind,  my  son.  — Judge. 

—  Punchaw— So  Corbett  has  crossed  his  Rubicon  ?  Chrunchaw— 
Yes,  over  the  bridge  of  Sullivan's  nose!  —Town .Topics. 

WITH  regard  to  the  nebulous  character  of  the  future  policy  of 
the  recently  installed  English  Government  under  Mr.  Glad- 
stone, the  mists  over  which  seem  rather  more  disposed  to  gather 
than  disperse,  some  one  has  suggested: 

"  Be  hazy  is  the  motto  of  the  Grand  Old  Irishman, 
And  if  you  can't  be  hazy,  be  as  hazy  as  you  can." 

Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield  has  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the 
very  best  sartorial  artists  in  the  city.  He  has  been  established  here 
for  many  years,  during  which  time  he  has  made  a  name  for  excellent 
work  and  honest  dealing  that  cannot  be  excelled.  He  makes  a  spe- 
cialty of  the  manufacture  of  uniforms  and  regalias. 


■ * 

SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 


GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco 
National  Assurance  Company      -----      of  Ireland 
Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company -of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


ti- 


lt 


Systems  ; 
"Slattery" 

Induction; 
"Wood" 

Arc. 
Factories  : 
Fort  Wayne. 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn, 
New  York. 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Estimates  furnished   for  electric  railways,  electric 
light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Mariue  work 
a  specialty. 
jj  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


STEAM                                     ■■■             0   D    SCALE     REMOVED, 
BOILER                             ::  FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 
iwi-»Diio-«-A-i-i*-»».ie»    :;             Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
INOKUSTATIONS.     by  the   use  of  


LLEWELLYN    FILTER-HEATER    AND    CONDENSER  I 

vOver  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.} 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn   Steam   Condenser    Manufacturing   Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


R.  J.   WHEELER. 


J.  W.   GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 

formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 


I  SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION    MERCHANTS.  I 

GBNEBAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC     STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

GILLINGHAM     CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCI8CO. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO  , 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     cor.      Pine      and      Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Agents  fob 
THE  CALIFORNIA  LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPS  FROM  NEW  YORK. 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co. ;  the  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packet 
to  and  from  Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limi'ed);  Bald- 
win Locomotive  Works;  A.  Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sons 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material ;  Hartman's  Raht- 
jeu's  Composition.    Ontario  Cotton  Sail  Duck. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET. 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD   AND    IKON   WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,   BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING,  OILS  AND  8UPPLIE8. 

XjOTTIS  CAHEN  <Sc  SOIT, 


Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Sykups,  Bitters 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

418  Saciamento  Street,  S.  1^, 


[,  1892. 


PAN   FRANCISCO  NKWS  l.KTTBR 


2.-, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AMD  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    OOH»MUE    BRO»D-G«ur,E    ROUTE." 

COMME.SrlN.,   BtTNDAT,    A  if::  I     .1,   1««.  arj.l 

uotil  further   notice,  Botta    an  1    Train*   will 

Icare  frnm  and  arrive  at  the  San  Fmnrlnco  Paa- 

»ea»cr   Depol.  MARKET 3TREKT  WHARF.  •> 

follow*: 

Fron  San  Francisco  for  Point   Tlburon.  9el»edere  and 

San  Rafael. 

Wm     HAYS-740  k.  «..  9r20  A.  «..    11:»   a.  ». : 

1  JO  r.  «..  3:30  p.  M-,  6.-06  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  H. 
SI  Nl'AYS—  8:00  ax. ,9:30  a.*. ,11:00  A.M.;  1:30  P.M. 
8  JO  P.  ».,  5K»  p.  «.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  HAYS— 6:25  a.   m.,  7:66   a.   x..  9:S0   a    m. 

11:80  a.  m.:  1:40  p.m.,  3:40  P.M.,  6:05  P.M. 
8ATTRDA  Y9  ONLY— An  exlra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
61  N I >A  Y8— 8:10  a.m..  9:40  A.M..  11:10  a.  M.;  1:40  P.M. 
3.40  p.  M.,  SAOr  «.,6:25  p.  M. 

nom  Point  Tiburon  to  San   Francisco. 
WEEK  DA Y3— 6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  a.m..  9:65  a.m.,  11:55 
a.  M. :  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  P.  M.,  5:36  P.  M. 
Saturdays  onlv.  an  extra  trip  at  6:65  P.M. 
SrNDAYS— 8:35    a.m.,    10:05  a.m.,   11:35  A.M.; 
2KB  P.  M„  4KB  P.M.,  5:30  P.M.,  6:50  P.M. 

~~ f  Abeive  in  8.  F. 


<•  T  THINK  It  a  .name  for  a  lot  of  coarse 
1  men  who  are  taking  a  swim  to  come 
out  and  sun  themselves  on  the  beach  in  full 
view  of  this  promenade  1  "  said  the  near- 
sighted woman,  greatly  shocked. 

■•That  is  not  a  crowd  of  bathers,"  ex- 
plained her  friend.  "Those  are  marble  sta- 
tues." 

"Why.  so  they  are  I"  How  lifelike!  How 
artistic!     How  beautiful ! 

—N.   Y.    11'...',/. 


Have  S.  F.  "  I 
WmV  Destination.!  Wo„v 

Da"      9an<H  !8UndayB    Da" 


7:40a.m.  8:00  a.m.     Petaluma 
3:30f.M.  9:30a.  m.  and 

5:05  P.M.  5:00p.  m.   Santa  Rosa. 


10:40 a. H  8:50a.m. 
6:05  P.M  10:30a. M 
7:25p.m  6:10p.m. 


7:40a.M. 
3:30  p.m. 


Fulton, 

Wixid6or, 

Healdsbuxg 

.    littoc  Sprues,    7:25p.  M. 

Cloverdale  & 

Way  Stations. 


7:40a.  M.  8:00a.  X. 


Hopland 
and  TJkiah. 


7:25  p.M 


7:40a.m.  8KK>a. M.|Querneville.  7:25p.M 
3:30  p.m.  I 


7 -40 a.  M.  8:00  a.m.  Sonoma  and  10 :40a. m 
5:05p.k.  5:0Op.m.:  Glen  Ellen.  ',  6:05p.M. 


7:40  a. M  I  8:00a. M  I  Sebastopol.  I  10:40a.m    10:30am 
3:30  P.M  I  5:00  p.M  I  j    6:06p.M    6:10  p.M 


10 :30a. M 
6:10p.M 


10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 


8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  SpringB, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukian  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Canto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  82  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  (3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  84  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  *5  70;  to  TJkiah,  86  75;  to  8ebastopol,  82  70; 
to  Guerneville,  83  75;  to  Sonoma,  8150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  81  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  81;  to  Santa  Rosa,  81  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, 82  25:  to  Cloverdale,  83;  to  Ukiah,  84  50;  to 
Hopland,  83  80:  to  Sebastopol,  8180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, 82  50;  to  Sonoma,  81;  to  Glen  Ellen,  81  20. 
H  C.  W.B1TTNG,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt, 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  Bail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.—  8.  S.  "San  Bias,"  October 
5th;  "City  of  Svdney,"  October  15th;  8.  S.  8an 
Jose,"  October  25th,  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Potts 
and  Panama.—  Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan.  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Sallna  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  Snn  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto.  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Salllig.-Oct.  18tb,  S.  S.  "Colima." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 
5th,  1892.  at  3  p.  M. 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  3  p.  M.  .        . 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 

'  S?S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6 
1892  at  3  P  M 

For  freight' or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner, 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Br»u,?hoaice-202 
Front  street  ALEXANDER^™,  ^ 


"Yea,"  said  the  roan  who  was  picking 
his  teeth  in  front  of  the  Michigan  Avenue 
Hotel,  "it  takes  all  kinds  of  people  to  make 
a  place  tike  Chicago.  Taking  the  whole 
town  over,  I  don't  suppose  it  has  less  than 
25,000  Hoosiers  — " 

"Say,"  fiercely  interrupted  the  man  who 
was  smoking  the  cigar,  "that's  a  term  I 
don't  allow  any  man  to  — " 

"And  I  ought  to  know  something  about 
it,  for  I  am  a  Hoosier  myself,  and  — " 

"Are  you?     So  am  I !     Shake!" 

—A',   Y.  World. 


Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate 
Agents,  make  a  specialty  of  taking  full  charge 
of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and 
sold  on  commission.  Office,  407-409  Montgom- 
ery street. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

SteamerB  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  P.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Belgic Thursday,  Oct.  6,1892. 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Belgic TnuRSDAY.Dec.  15,  1892 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT   REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.  PaBB.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE.  Traffic  Manager. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

8teamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  M,  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  SAN  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m  . 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Yellow  Jacket  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County, 
Nevada.  Location  of  principal  place  of  business- 
Gold  Hill.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  ol  this  company,  held  on  the  5th 
day  of  September,  a.  d.,  18y2,  an  assessment  (No. 
52)  of  Twenty-five  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon 
each  and  every  share  of  the  capital  stock  of  the 
company,  payable  immediately  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  company,  or  to  James  Newlauds,  Transfer 
Secretary,  room  3,  331  Pine  street,  San  Fraueibco, 
Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

Friday,  October  7th,  1 892,  will  be  deemed  delinquent 

and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  THURSDAY,  the  10th  day  of  Nov- 
ember.11892,  atl  o'clock  p.  m..  in  front  of  the  office 
of  the  "company,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assess- 
ment, together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.  By  order  of  the  Board  of  Truster  s. 
W.  H.  BLAUVELi',  Secretary. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  ** 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Lbave  '      From  September  3,  1892.      I  Abrivk 


7:00  a.  Benicta,  ftamsey,  Sacramento.       7:16  r 
7:30a.  Hay  wards,  Nlles  and  San  Jose-.  *12:16p 

Niles  and  San  Jose. .     16:15  r 

7:30a.  Martinez,  Sau  Ramon,  Callstoga 

and  Sauta  Kosa —  ...      6:15 r. 

S:00a.  iacram'toA  Redding, viaDavis.      7:15p. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  aud 

East, 9:45  p. 

8:30a.  Niles,  Sau  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

vllle  and  Red  Bluff 4:46p. 

9:00a.  Nl'w  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,   New 

Orleans  and  East. 8:45  p. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton ...      •8:45  p. 

12-OOm.  Haywards,  NiieB  and  Livermore     7:15  p. 

•1:00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00  p. 

1 :30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  aud  San  Jose. .      9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi.  Merced  and  Fresno  9:46a. 

4:00  p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Sauta  Rosa 9.45  a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45  a. 

4:30p.  Woodlandand  Oroville 10:45a. 

*4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45a. 

5:30p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,   Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 8:45a. 

5 :30  p.  Sauta  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  a. 

6:00f.  Haywards,  Niles  and  SanJose..      7:45a. 
6:00  p.  European  Mall  Ogden  and  East    9:15  a, 

17:00 p.  Vallejo +8:46  p. 

7:U0p.  ShastaRoute Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land,  Puget  Sound  and  East. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

{7:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel* 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  18:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz *10:50a. 

4:45p.  Centerville,  SanJose,  Los  Gatos.    9:50a. 


Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

*7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:38p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion     18:28  p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TreBPlnos.Pa- 
jaro.SautaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
19:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  12:45  p. 
10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  .  5:03p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,   Salinas, 
Monterey,    Pacific   Grove  and 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37  A. 

*3:30  p.  Sau    Jose,    Gilroy,   Tres   Pinos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. . .  *9:47  A. 
*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...    *8:06a. 

5:15  P.  SanJose  and  Way  Stations 8:48  a, 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .  6:35  a. 
rll;45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

{Sundays  only. 

~  OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Malls,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

For  Honolulu  Only. 
S.  S.  Australia  Wednesday,  Sept.  28, 1892,  at  2  p.  m. 
FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA,   AUCKLAND    AND  SYDNEY, 

DIRECT. 
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ForFreigm   or    Passage  apply  at    Office,  327 
Market  street. 

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General  Agents 

NEWLY  Arrived  Spirit  {fresh  from  college) 
— "Who  is  that  distinguished-looking 
personage  with  the  crowd  of  eager  listeners 
about  him?" 

Guide — "That  is  Euclid,  the  great  mathe- 
matician." 

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••Say,  where  am  1  aL?"        —N.  Y.  World. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  1,  1892. 


THE  first  signs  of  the  storm  that  Mr.  Gladstone  will  have  to 
meet  when  Parliament  reassembles  begin  already  to  appear 
upon  the  horizon,  and  the  clouds  are  gathering  fast.  The  Irish 
clamor  of  "  Home-rule  before  everything  "  continues.  The  mani- 
festo of  the  Parnellite  section  of  the  home-rule  members,  issued 
in  the  beginning  of  the  montb,  leaves  nothing  to  be  desired  as 
regards  plain  language,  and  shows  that  Messrs.  Redmond,  Har- 
rington, Leamy  &  Co.  have  decided  upon  exercising  their  power, 
small  though  it  is,  upon  Mr.  Gladstone,  and  threaten  to  embarrass 
him  in  his  actions,  provided  he  should  not  yield  to  their  special 
wishes.  The  McCarthyites  insist  upon  home-rule  as  the  first 
measure  to  be  debated  by  the  new  Parliament,  though  they  are 
not  quite  as  exacting  as  regard.,  the  treatment  of  the  evicted 
tenants  in  Ireland,  and  their  number  is  strong  enough  to  oust 
Mr.  Gladstone  at  once  if  they  should  vote  with  the  opposition. 
But  as  if  these  complications  were  not  sufficient,  the  Radicals,  in- 
censed by  Mr.  Gladstone's  refusal  to  admit  men  of  their  stamp 
into  the  respectable  society  of  cabinet  ministers,  are  reported  as 
having  commenced  the  organization  of  a  united  Radical  party, 
and  decided  upon  relegating  the  Irish  claims  to  a  second  place 
and  upon  elevating  demagogism  to  a  first  place.  In  case  of  Mr. 
Gladstone  not  yielding,  they  will,  it  is  said,  vote  against  him  in 
his  Irish  measures  for  which  he  desires  precedence.  If  the  news 
is  correct  that  forty-two  members  have  joined  this  new  Radical 
party,  they  are  able,  if  they  firmly  stand  together,  to  defeat  Mr. 
Gladstone,  even  if  he  maintains  the  allegiance  of  the  Irish.  The 
old  Ali-Baba  and  his  forty  comrades  will  in  that  case  be  driven 
from  their  cave  without  difficulty.  At  all  events,  where  so  many 
storm-clouds  meet,  there  is  sure  to  follow  lightning  and  thunder, 
and  the  reopening  of  Parliament  will  inaugurate  a  tempestuous 
period  that  promises  to  excel  in  noisiness  the  famous  home-rule 
debates  of  1885. 


There  is  a  lull  at  this  moment  in  the  excitement  due  to  the 
events  which  lately  occurred  in  the  Pamir  region  in  Central  Asia. 
Russia  having  recalled  her  expedition  from  the  debatable  terri- 
tory, and  the  official  documents  relating  what  really  happened 
not  yet  having  arrived  in  England,  the  diplomatists  of  the  inter- 
ested European  countries  have  decided  upon  temporary  silence. 
The  surmise  that  Lord  Roseberry  has  scared  Russia  by  an  ener- 
getic protest  deserves  little  credit.  Either  the  Czar  has.  after  due 
deliberation,  thought  it  wiser  not  to  embarrass  the  Gladstone 
Government  too  much  at  this  moment,  hoping  that  in  time  it 
will  gain  a  firmer  hold  and  reserving  his  action  until  then, 
or  the  official  protest  of  China — and  this  is  more  likely — 
has  resulted  in  a  temporary  suspension  of  Russian  aggres- 
sion, for  Russia  fears  to  offend  the  Celestial  Empire 
as  long  as  her  position  in  Mantchuria  and  in  the  region 
watered  by  the  Amoor  river  is  so  much  weaker  than  that  of 
China.  When  the  trans-Siberian  railway  is  completed  the  Czar 
will  be  found  less  yielding,  but  at  present  it  would  be  unwise  for 
him  to  provoke  the  Mongols  too  much,  and  perhaps  to  risk  the 
opposition  of  an  Anglo-Chinese  combination  in  Asia.  China  still 
claims,  more  or  less  unjustly,  an  interest  in  the  Pamirs  "  the  Roof 
of  the  World,"  and  it  is  dangerous  for  Russia  for  the  present  to 
dispute  this  claim.  Still  it  must  not  be  imagined  that  the  tem- 
porary withdrawal  of  the  Russian  forces  has  rendered  the  results 
of  Russia's  advance  in  the  dispute^  region  nugatory.  The  Rus- 
sians have  succeeded  in  making  a  thorough  scientific  investiga- 
tion of  the  country,  and  have  discovered  a  pass  leading  directly 
to  Jellalabad,  on  the  route  of  travel  between  Peshawur 
and  Cabul.  This  discovery  is  of  the  highest  value  from 
a  strategic  point  of  view,  and  will,  no  doubt,  be  utilized  by 
them  when  they  imagine  that  the  right  moment  for  a  descent 
upon  India  has  arrived. 

To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contem- 
,  plating  a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the   Union   Pacific.    It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
.  man  Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
I  from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.    You  are 
ronly  three  and  one-balf  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 
Boston. 

Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  2o%  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  applv 
at  the  Geueral  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


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[ESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 278  AND  220  SANSOME  STRtEJ, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BEANDEE,  CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

President  Secretary. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up  I     500,000 

Assets  3,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,526,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
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AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY  COMPANY 

OF     BALTIMORE     CITY. 

CashCapital  , tl.000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL*  BERRY,  General  Agents. 

421  California  Street. 

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I  I   L  WM-  SEXTON,  K.  C.  MEDCEAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,    214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCH,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital  $25,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office,  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 

VICHY     SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM   UKIAH. 

Only  abundaut  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the  United  States.  The  well- 
known  '■  champagne  "  baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  aud  beautifying 
the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladies.  Only  natural  electric  water  in 
the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  aud  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR, 

OCCIDENTAL     HOTEL, 

San    Francisco. 

A.       QTTIET      HOME 

CENTRALLY       LOCATED, 

FOR  THOSE  WHO  APPRECIATE  COMFORT  AND  ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 

Good  Cheer  and  a  Souvenir  of  California  for  our  Eastern  Friends. 

Parties  desiring  to  send  to  their 
friends  East  the 

INGLtlOOK  TABLE  WINES 

Can  have  their  orders  filled  at  San 
Francisco  prices  aud  of  freight  at 
car-load  rates  added,  thus  saving 
a  great  expense  by  leaving  their 
orders  in  time  with 

F.  A.  HABER, 
Office  and  Depot  tnglenook  Vineyard,  122  Sansome  St.,  S. 


OctoWr  1.  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  UTTER. 


27 


8UMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour  -  IV-miail  f«ir:     Iilru  M.1'«WS;    Silperflue.  *i.W@*3.00. 

Whc»t-U«hl  tr».le:  Shippuu.  Il.>',.   Milliiis.   I1.30^tl.:»  per  cciilnl. 

B»rler  1*  nalet:  Brewing,  9tc  &$l  Feed.  ^V,(«*^ic.  per  ell. 
MUluc  H JOMl-SSi  Peed,  fi.eatl.znf  per  ell. 
rS,  White.  »1  IS;  Vellnw,  Jl.j  <nS\  .-'  .  rcr  ctl. 

Rye,  an  .-tnok.  2'>*1  dem«n.I.  Jl."_" -  *ll.u:>,     Cement,  I2.00@f2.i5. 

Hut  li  higher;  Whe«t,  110:  Oals.  JT'iUv  Alfalfa,  t7@J9. 

MUUt'ifT*.  good  demaud.    Bran,  1159116  per  ton. 

Beans.  rood  request,  !2.oa<&$2.40  per  ell.    Potatoes,  t',0e.@7oc.  per  ctl. 

Butter  fs  higher ;  Choice,  90a&85c. :  Fair.  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  Hc@loc. 

Theese.  light  stock,  Sc.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  80c.@-10c. 

Honey.  Comb,  10c.(*12c:  Extracted.  7c.@Sc.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Ouions  are  worth  40c*(t50c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Prnit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  iu  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hil-j*  are  steady:  Dry,  6e<iZ7}  3c.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  ~>y2c.@o?.ic. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.   Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful :  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@20c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $41.50  per  flask. 

8ugar.  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  S^^ejac. 

Business  in  tbe  grain  market  is  exceedingly  quiet.  Prices  of 
wbeat  here  and  in  Europe  are  below  tbe  nominal,  and  the  freights 
to  Great  Britain  and  the  continent  are  surprisingly  low  yet  com- 
paratively. Exports  of  both  wheat  and  floor  are  high.  Our 
warehouses  are  rapidly  being  filled  with  wheat,  and  as  money  is 
plentiful  and  bankers  willing  to  accommodate  farmers  at  low 
rates  of  interest,  they  are  inclined  to  hold  for  a  season. 

Oregon  continues  to  send  us  considerable  Wbeat  and  Flour,  as 
well  as  other  produce,  although  both  Washington  and  Oregon  are 
now  liberal  exporters  of  Breadstuff's  direct  to  foreign  markets. 

Our  fruit  market  continues  to  be  well  supplied  with  all  season- 
able fruits,  including  Cranberries  from  Cape  Cod,  and  citrus  fruits 
from  Australia,  Bananas  from  Hawaii,  Limes,  etc.,  from  Mexican 
ports. 

Tbe  Pacific  Mail  steamship  City  of  New  York  sailed  hence  for 
tbe  Isthmus  on  the  26th  iust.,  carrying  to  New  York,  etc.,  Wine 
and  other  merchandise  of  the  value  of  $68, 826— say  68,000  gals. 
Wine,  4,203  gals.  Brandy,  1,785  ctls.  Beans,  240,964  lbs.  Borax, 
182  bales  Rags,  88,357  lbs.  Mustard  8eed,  5.106  ctls.  Barley,  etc. 
To  Central  America,  merchandise  value  $33,444 — say  3,549  bbls. 
Flour,  20,382  lbs.  Tallow,  46,612  lbs.  Rice,  1,730  lbs.  Lard,  etc. 
To  Panama,  23,340  lbs.  Rice,  4,107  lbs.  Beans,  10,768  lbs.  Lard, 
1,081  bbls.  Flour.  To  Mexico,  162pkgs.  Beer,  18,125  lbs.  Tallow, 
etc.  To  Ecuador,  1,750  bbls.  Flour  and  10,741  lbs.  Lard;  value, 
$7,832. 

The  schr.  Pearl  has  returned  from  Kodiak,  to  Alaska  Commer- 
cial Company,  with  70  bbls.  Salmon  and  15  pkgs.  Furs. 

Mexican  Ports — The  schr.  Lena  Sweasy,  hence,  had  for  cargo 
Mdse.  value  $9,500,  say  1,232  bales  Hay,  1,000  Fire  Brick,  Lum- 
ber, etc. 

The  steamer  Australia,  from  Honolulu,  had  for  cargo  4,971  bags 
Sugar,  6,978  bche.  Bananas,  3,597  bags  Rice,  etc. 

Wool  for  Boston,  via  Canadian  Pacific  route,  37,513  lbs.,  value 
$13,486,  shipped  per  City  of  Puebla  to  Victoria  in  transit. 

England. — The  Br.  ship  Holt  Hill,  for  Liverpool,  carried 
26,289  cs.  Salmon,  26,997  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  6,736  galls.  Wine, 
30,353  ctls.  Wheat,  13,785  ctls.  Barley,  61,272  lbs.  Tallow,  93,705 
lbs.  Borates,  235  rolls  Leather,  etc.,  value  $302,344. 

Codfish The   arrivals  thus  far  in  the  season,  eight  in  all,  have 

brought  here  1,100,000  fish.  These  are  all  dried  here  and  are  of 
superior  quality,  finding  a  market  in  Australia  and  elsewhere. 

Hawaiian  Exports  and  Imports  for  eight  mos.  of  the  past  two 
years  1892:  Exports,  $1,758,938;  1891,  $2,838,534;  Imports,  1892: 
$6,969,056;  1891,  $10,472,522.  The  two  combined  show  an  excess 
of  Imports  over  Exports  in  1892  of  $5,210,118;  in  1891,  $7,633,988. 
8ugar  imports  in  1892  were  236,192,997  lbs. ;  same  in  1891,  252,001,- 
577  lbs. 

Liverpool. — The  ship  Langdale.  thence  in  a  passage  of  136  days, 
to  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  had  for  Cargo  20,905  sks.  and  15  cks. 
8alt,  500  cs.  Vermouth,  Chemicals,  6,308  boxes  Tin  Plate,  Beer, 
Earthenware,  etc. 

Guaymas The  stmr.  Newbern   thence   had  for  Cargo  507  bxs. 

Oranges,  49  Turtles,  114  sks.  Silver  Ore,  106  bars  Bullion,  46  Seal- 
skins, 375  sks.  Shells,  Hides,  Bark,  etc. 

Salmon Schr.  Garcia,   20  days  from  Kodiak,  had  573  bbls.,  1,- 

080  half-barrels;  Schr.  Helen  Merriam,  from  Mary  Island,  had  1,- 
650  cs.  and  150  bbls;  Schr.  Zampa,  from  Klawack,  had  10,194  cs. 
Schr.  J.  M.  Weatherwax  brought  from  Karluck  16,750  cs.  Salmon 
and  23  bbls.  Sealskins. 

Honolulu,  etc The  Forest  Queen  thence  brought  us  9,883  bags 

Sugar,  etc.     The  Amelia,  from  Mahukona,  had  11,406  bags  Sugar. 

The  Freight  market  is  sluggish,  overburdened  with  ships  suited 
to  tbe  grain  trade  and  rates  to  Europe  low  and  nominal. 

Empty  Freight  return  cars  from  the  Atlantic  seaboard  are  nota- 
ble instances  of  the  great  difference  between  east  bound  and  west- 
bound traffic.  The  vast,  amount  of  Green  Fruit  going  to  Chicago, 
New  York,  etc.,  accounts  for  all  these  empty  cars. 


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OP  HAMBURG,  OBRMANY. 

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GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

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98S    California  St..  S.  F..  Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OF  ST.  OA.LL.  OF  ZURICH 

COMBINED  CAP/TAL      4  000  000  DOLLARS 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained.  a" 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  arid  Manchester. 

rZ'ti,  fJii"' iiT" vo.ooo.ooo 

capital  Paid  Up .  00Q  000 

Cash  Resettle  (in  addition  to  Capital)  '     2  126  000 

Total  Assets  December  31.  1888  '■'■'■'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'."6,124,067  00 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
305  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1 857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
473  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON, 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
CEO.  F.  BBAST,  Manager. 

pacific  :o:E:F.A.:RT:ivc:Eisr"T 
GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -   -   -    I  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, 510,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


WM.  J.  LANDERS,  flen'l  Agent,  20&  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  $6,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,538.45. 

President.  KKNJAMIN  P.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 

HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND  DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California, 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


K 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

OF-  MANCHESTER  ,   ET  fNI  E  UA  tS  pT^J 


Capital  paid  6j  guaranteed   33,000,000,00. 

ChasA  Latowt,  Manager. 
433  California  St.  San  Firarscisco 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Oct.'  1,  1892. 


LOVE'S    PHILOSOPHY. -Household  Realm. 


See  the  mountains  kiss  high  heaven, 

And  the  waves  clasp  one  another; 
No  sister  flower  would  be  forgiven 

If   it  disdained  its  brother; 
And  the  sunlight  clasps  the  earth, 

And  the  mountains  kiss  the  sea; 
What  are  all  those  kissings  worth, 

If  thou  kiss  not  me? 

WORKING     WOMAN. 


THAT  prosperous  and  comfortable  little  country,  Belgium, 
seems  disposed,  just  at  present,  to  bother  its  head  over  the 
everlasting  question  of  woman's  rights.  At  all  events,  a  league 
for  the  assertion  of  women's  rights  has  been  founded  at  Brussels, 
and  has  begun  to  spread  the  light  with  all  the  vigor  habitual  to 
the  enthusiast  astride  of  a  new  hobby.  A  certain  lawyer,  Mai're 
Frank,  has  published  a  book  in  support  of  the  claims  of  the  sex 
to  compete  with  man  in  all  departments  of  labor,  and  to  enjoy 
proportionate  political  privileges,  wherein  he  gives  statistics  of 
the  numbers  of  working  women  in  different  countries.  It  appears 
that  in  Belgium  the  ladies  have  already  obtained  a  very  consider- 
able share  in  the  work  done  in  various  callings  and  professions. 
Indeed  of  the  total  population  of  workers  in  Belgium,  while 
sixty-five  per  cent,  are  men,  thirty-five  per  cent,  are  women.  It 
is  because  of  the  existence  of  this  large  percentage  of  women 
workers  that  the  league  is  anxious  to  put  the  women  on  an  equal 
footing  with  the  men  in  the  matter  of  rights  as  well  as  of  duties. 
It  is  curious  to  note  that  of  all  European  countries,  Italy  is  the 
one  in  which  the  women  run  the  men  closest  in  the  matter 
of  work.  In  that  mainly  agricultural  country  the  number  of 
male  agricultural  laborers  is  in  round  numbers  5,000,000,  and  that 
of  females  3,000,000.  If  the  artisan  class  is  included,  the  figures 
on  each  side  come  within  a  few  thousands  of  each  oiher.  The 
women  of  Italy  ought,  therefore,  to  be  very  much  <f  cheval  on  the 
subject  of  the  rights  of  their  sex.  But  it  does  not  seem  that  they 
are  by  any  mean"  thus  inclined.  The  subjection  of  woman  is 
one  of  those  doctrines  which  seem  to  be  irradicable  in  the  Latin 
races.  However,  if  the  Italians  and  the  French  give  their  women 
the  most  work  to  do,  as  Maitre  Frank  asserts  to  be  tbe  case,  they 
ought,  in  justice,  to  allow  them  a  share  of  the  political  privileges 
at  present  enjoyed  by  the  men  alone. 


THE  Court  Circular  says  that  the  newest  skirts  will  be  very  Hat 
in  front,  but  with  full  pleats  at  the  back  and  bell-shaped  at  the 
bottom.  Deep  frills  of  lace  may  be  placed  at  the  edge,  rather  in 
Spanish  style,  though,  on  the  whole,  very  little  trimming  will  be 
used.  Bodices  will  be  made  without  darts,  and  evening  bodices 
will  have  small  sleevea,  and  will  certainly  not  be  worn  off  the 
shoulders.  Very  simple  materials  will  be  used,  and  passemen- 
terie has  almost  entirely  gone  out.  All  kinds  of  embroideries 
will  be  worn,  though  nothing  too  elaborate  in  design.  Cashmere 
shawls  are  said  to  be  coming  in  again,  and  they  are  charming 
when  converted  into  dresses  with  their  own  fringe  as  trimming, 
but  velvets  and  silks  are  rumored  to  be  the  roost  popular  ma- 
terials. The  Serpentine  shape,  wbich  has  been  almost  created 
by  8arah  Bernhart  in  her  numerous  stage  gowns,  is  very  effective, 
but  so  few  figures  can  stand  it  that  it  is  hardly  likely  to  be  very 
much  adopted.  Dresses  rather  in  the  Incroyable  style  will  be 
worn,  while  the  short-waisted  gowns  will  be  almost  given  up. 

SOME  idea  of  the  extensive  interests  of  the  New  York  Con- 
densed Milk  Company  is  gained  from  an  article  in  the  New 
York  Sun  of  the  16th  inst.,  descriptive  of  an  excursion  to  Was- 
saic,  given  by  the  company  to  over  five  hundred  of  its  employes 
from  Newark,  Orange,  Jersey  City  and  Brooklyn.  The  men  were 
accompanied  by  a  brass  band,  and  went  on  a  special  train.  At 
Wassaic  they  inspected  the  great  factory  of  tbe  company  at  that 
point,  played  a  game  of  baseball,  enjoyed  a  banquet,  and  listened 
to  timely  addresses  by  officers  of  tbe  company. 

FALLING  stars  are  called  by  the  Italians  «■  the  tears  of  St. 
Lorenzo."  The  Church  celebrates  at  this  epoch  the  anni- 
versary of  the  martyrdom  of  St.  Lorenzo,  who  came  to  Rome  at 
the  early  Christian  period,  and  was  burnt  alive  in  258.  The  poet- 
ically minded  Italians  looking  up  into  the  starry  sk-.es,  see  the 
stetle  cadenti,  which  they  named  the  tears  of  St.  Lorenzo.  Science 
has  explained  this  phenomenon,  but  il  popolo  believe  that  the 
saint  is  still  crying  over  his  atrocious  suffering. 


THEY  have  their  own  peculiar  ideas  of  a  revised  version  of 
the  Scriptures  in  Turkey.  Tbe  Sultan  has  sent  out  a  mission 
to  Arabia  with  revised  versions  of  the  Koran,  for  distribution 
among  the  cniefs.  In  this  book,  all  passages  which  condemn  op- 
pression are  omitted.  It  would  hardly  seem  to  require  a  revision 
of  the  Koran  to  establish  the  law  that  might  is  right  in  the  Sul- 
tan's dominions. 

Prepare  for  the  winter,  and  get  your  heavy  underclothing  from 
John  W.  Carmany,  the  popular  gentlemen's  furnisher,  at  25  Kearny 
street. 


EVERY  genuine  admirer  of  the  dramas  of  Wagner  will  appreci- 
ate the  decision  of  Frau  Wagner  not  to  permit  the  appear- 
ance of  her  late  husband's  Parsifal  among  the  exhibits  at  Chicago. 
Parsifal  is  conspicuous  among  the  dramas  which  require  the  com- 
pleteness of  the  setting  and  all  the  other  conditions  which  are  ob- 
tained at  Bayreuth,  and  are  absolutely  unattainable  elsewhere; 
the  inevitable  conditions  of  tbe  World's  Fair  would  be  as  fatal  to 
it,  from  every  point  of  view,  and  as  incongruous  as  the  perform- 
ance of  a  mediieval  Passion  play  in  a  nineteenth  century  music 
hall.  Parsifal  is  not  to  be  judged  as  great  music,  but  as  a  great 
illusion,  and  the  association  of  a  work  like  this,  with  the  condi- 
tions wbich  are  inseparable  from  the  very  thought  of  the 
great  city,  whose  foundations  are  pork  barrels,  would  be  impos- 
sible. The  decision  is  altogether  right  as  a  matter  of  art  as  well 
as  of  business.  Chicago  and  Parsifal  would  be  a  monstrous  com- 
bination. 

The  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Grant  avenue  and  Geary 
street,  has  the  reputation  throughout  the  city  of  being  the  most  pop- 
ular restaurant  on  the  Coast.     It  is  always  first-class. 


THE  BRENTWOOD. 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  18SS. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.  J.;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babcoek  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus.  O. 

OLYMPIC  SALT  WATER  COMPANY. 

(Incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  California). 

Capital   Stock,    $350,000,    Divided    into   35,000    Shares   at 

$10  Each. 


DIRECTORS— John  D.  Spreckels,  President;  Wm.  Greek  Harrison, 
Vice  President  and  General  Manager;  Adolph  B.  Spreckels,  Treasurer; 
John  Rosenfeld,  Merchant;  Chas.  A.  Wieland,  Capitalist;  Cornelius 
O'Connor,  Capitalist;  James  Spiers,  of  Hinckley,  Spiers  &  Hayes. 

CONSULTING  ENGINEER— D.  Ernest  Melliss,  Ph.D.,  C.  E.,  524  Sacra- 
mento street. 

ATTORNEY— Samuel  M.  SHoaTRiDGE,  234  Montgomery  street. 


Applications  for  stock  will  be  received  by 

R.  D.  PERRY,  Secretary, 

At  the  office  of  the  Company,  305  California  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

North    Belle  Isle  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora.  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  First  day  of  September,  1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  20),  of  Ten  Cents  (10c.) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Sixth  Day  of  October,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  7th  day  of  November,  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office— 310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


PAN   FRANCISCO  NKWS  BETTER 


THE  Board  of  Supervisors  has  passed  an  ordinance,  which  has 
been  signed  by  the  Mayor,  which  provides  that  after  ninety 
days  from  the  passage  of  the  ordinance,  that  is,  ninety  days  from 
Monday  last,  it  will  be  unlawful  to  store  in  any  place  in  the 
county,  within  certain  limits,  more  than  fifty  gallons  of  naphtha 
or  other  volatile  fluids.  The  enforcement  of  this  law  will  result 
in  the  immediate  removal  of  the  large  stocks  of  highly  inflam- 
mable substances  which,  it  is  said,  are  kept  stored  throughout 
the  year  in  the  warehouse  of  Whittier,  Fuller  A  Co..  on  Townsend 
street,  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  many  valuable  ware- 
houses and  buildings.  Underwriters  have  for  a  long  time  con- 
sidered the  dangerous  stock  in  this  particular  warehouse  one  of 
the  greatest  menaces  to  property  existant  in  the  city.  The  pas- 
sage of  this  ordinance  will  have  a  good  effect  upon  local  under- 
writing business.  The  presence  at  or  near  a  well  built  district  in 
any  large  city,  especially  a  city  built  as  is  this,  of  any  large 
stocks  of  highly  inflammable  fluids,  gases  or  other  substances,  is 
always  a  public  danger,  which  it  is  the  duty  of  the  City  Council 
to  remove  at  the  earliest  opportunity. 

The  Pacific  Insurance  Cnion  is  struggling  yet  with  the  questions 
of  compensations  to  agents  and  brokers.  A  meeting  was  held  yester- 
day, too  late  for  notice  in  this  column,  at  which  this  moat  impor- 
tant matter  was  discussed.  At  the  same  meeting  it  was  understood 
that  the  eternal  question  of  rebating  would  come  up  again,  and 
that  some  of  the  company  representatives  had  nerved  themselves 
up  to  the  pitch  of  demanding  that  certain  gentlemen,  who,  it  was 
said,  had  offended  by  breaking  the  laws  of  the  Union,  should  be 
held  responsible,  therefore,  and  be  heavily  fined.  Such  a  result  is 
not  at  all  probable,  however,  for  it  has  not  yet  appeared  that  the 
Union  committees  are  composed  of  gentlemen  who  have  the  nerve 
to  incur  the  enmity  of  powerful  rivals  by  citing  the  latter  to  show 
cause  why  they  should  not  be  harshly  dealt  with,  simply  because 
they  were  daring  enough  in  the  interests  of  their  home  companies 
to  secure  business  which  other  gentlemen  had  sought  for  and  lost. 
It  may  be  true,  as  a  number  of  conservative  underwriters  say, 
that  there  is  more  smoke  than  fire  in  tbis  howl  about  cut  rates. 
It  is  a  fact,  as  the  street  knows,  that  more  than  one  local  manager 
has  lost  business  simply  because  he  thought  it  more  consistent 
with  his  dignity  as  the  representative  of  a  wealthy  company  to 
get  down  to  his  office  at  ten  in  the  morning,  spend  two  hours  for 
lunch,  and  go  to  his  club  at  4  o'clock,  than  it  was  to  be  at  his 
desk  at  8  a.  m.,  take  half  an  hour  for  lunch,  and  quit  at  6  p.  m. 
Even  in  the  insurance  business,  it  must  be  understood,  though 
many  underwriters  do  not  seem  to  appreciate  it,  that  the  reward 
comes  quicker  and  more  often  to  the  hard  worker  than  to  one 
who  is  always  waiting  for  something  to  turn  up.  If  you  have  no 
opportunity,  make  one  for  yourself.  That  is  a  good  general  plan 
to  go  on,  and  some  of  the  policy-writing  kickers  should  follow  it. 

There  will  be  a  meeting  of  representatives  of  fire  insurance 
companies  doing  business  in  Texas,  at  Dallas,  next  month,  to 
consider  the  rather  depressing  situation  in  that  State.  President 
Chase,  of  the  Hartford  Fire,  suggests  that  the  meeting  shall  take 
place  after  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  has  rendered  its  de- 
cision in  the  injunction  suits  soon  to  be  heard  on  appeal,  unless 
the  decision  is  delayed  beyond  the  October  term,  in  which  case 
the  meeting  should  be  held  at  once. 

A  press  dispatch  from  the  City  of  Mexico  mentions  the  revival 
of  the  project  in  the  Mexican  Congress  to  require  all  foreign  life 
insurance  companies  doing  business  in  the  .Republic  to  erect 
buildings  therein  or  deposit  Government  bonds,  liable  to  forfeiture 
in  case  they  withdraw  from  the  country  leaving  unpaid  claims. 
The  native  life  insurance  companies  are  the  originators  of  this 
measure.  The  Mutual  Life  of  New  York  has  purchased  a  busi- 
ness site. 

The  Chicago  Tribune  says  "  there  is  much  feeling  evidenced  in 
San  Francisco  for  fear  that  with  its  many  wooden  buildings,  and 
exposed  as  it  is,  there  might  be  a  conflagration  which  would  be 
to  that  city  what  the  big  fire  in  1871  was  to  Chicago.  The  worst 
feature  of  it  all  is  that  the  fire  department  is  not  what  it  should 
be  and  there  is  an  effort  being  made  to  improve  its  condition." 
The  Tribune  is  more  concerned  regarding  the  condition  of  this  city 
than  we  are.  It  is  true  that  most  of  the  buildings  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  wooden,  but  at  the  same  time  most  of  the  wood  is  red- 
wood, and  it  is  well-known  that  redwood,  when  wet,  will  not 
burn  readily.  There  is  no  immediate  danger  of  a  great  conflagra- 
tion in  this  city,  nor  do  we  fear  such.  True,  our  fire  department 
is  not  as  good  as  it  should  be;  we  acknowledge  that,  but  we  some- 
how worry  along  with  it,  without  any  very  great  fires,  and  for 
that  reason  we  resent  erroneous  comments  upon  our  condition 
from  a  city  even  as  great  as  Chicago.  We  can  take  care  of  our- 
selves. 

The  Atlas  Accident  Insurance  Company,  of  Boston,  Mass., 
offers  prizes  to  its  agents  and  brokers  for  the  largest  number  of 
applications  during  the  months  of  October  to  January,  inclusive: 
First  prize,  $1,000  patent  cabinet  grand  piano;  second  prize,  gold 


cash  prize  of  fifty  per  Mni.  of  the  Allan  aooamolatlOO  prise  furul; 
third  prize,  gold  caj-h  prize  of  thirty  per  cent,  of  the  Atlas  arm  in  il- 
lation prize  fund ;  fourth  prize,  gold  cash  prize  of  twenty  per 
cent,  of  the  Atlas  accumulation  prize,  equally  divided  between 
the  next  highest  100  competitors.  The  -  Atlas  Accumulation 
Fund  "  is  accumulated  by  setting  aside  ten  per  cent.  o(  every  Brat 
premium  received  for  each  and  every  policy  issued  under  the 
terms  and  conditions  of  competition. 


BASEBALL. 

THE     Oakland    team    continues    to    keep  up    its  good  work, 
both     in     the    field     and     at    the     bat.       Pitchers    Horner 
and    German    are    being  well    supported,    and    are    not    afraid 

to  put  the  ball  over  the  plate.  While  it  is  nearly  impossible  for 
the  club  to  win  the  pennant,  it  will  have  a  ^reat  deal  to  say  as  to 
which  club  shall  carry  it  off.  Fanning,  of  the  home  club,  has 
been  fined  $25  and  put  under  discipline  for  failing  to  attend  to  his 
duties.  Pitcher  Knell  is  now  on  his  way  here,  and  should  he  ar- 
rive in  time,  he  may  be  played  by  the  home  team  this  afternoon 
or  to-morrow.  In  the  meantime  pitcher  Darby  will  take  the 
place  of  Fanning.  A  month  ago  it  looked  as  if  Oakland  was 
hopelessly  anchored  in  last  place.  At  this  writing  it  appears 
more  than  probable  that  the  team  will  finish  close  to  first  place. 
The  indications  are  now  that  the  close  of  the  race  will  be  very 
exciting  and  uncertain  until  the  last  game  is  finished.  Tbis  is 
brought  about  through  all  the  clubs  being  very  evenly  matched, 
the  club  winning  to-day  being  liable  to  lose  to-morrow.  The 
news  from  the  East  is  to  the  effect  that  all  the  players  in  the 
National  League  will  next  season  have  to  play  for  a  great  deal 
less  money  than  formerly,  and  that  salaries  will  be  placed  at  a 
reasonable  figure.  San  Jose  and  Oakland  will  play  in  San  Jose 
to-morrow.  This  afternoon  they  will  play  in  Oakland.  The  Los 
Angeles  and  home  teams  will  play  in  this  city  this  afternoon  and 
to-morrow.  Oakland  and  Los  Angeles  will  play  here  and  in  Oak- 
land next  week.  Oakland  will  be  doing  well  if  the  team  can  win 
the  series.  As  there  are  no  complaints  from  the  players  over  the 
decisions  of  umpires  McDonald  and  Manassau,  these  officials 
must  be  doing  well  as  a  general  rule.  A  ball  player  will  kick  at 
the  umpire  on  the  smallest  provocation. 

Desires  to  Bear  Testimony. 

Henry  Thorne,  traveling  secretary  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  writes  from 
Exeter  Hall,  Strand,  London,  February  2,  1888. 

"I  desire  to  bear  my  testimony  to  the  value  of  Allcock's  Porus 
Plasters.  I  have  used  them  for  pains  in  the  back  and  side  arising 
from  rheumatic  and  other  causes,  never  without  deriving  benefit 
from  their  application.  They  are  easily  applied  and  very  comfort- 
ing. Those  engaged  as  I  am  in  public  work  which  involves  exposure 
to  sudden  changes  of  temperature,  will  do  well  to  keep  a  supply  of 
Allcock's  Porous  Plasters  in  their  portmanteaus." 

Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  "Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

GARDEN   CITY   NURSERY, 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 

A  FULL  LINE  OF 

KUi^SEl^Y     5TO<5K 

always  on  hand  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Correspondence  solicited. 

WM.    KELLY,   Proprietor. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Nevada  Queen  Mining  Company, 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Nevada  Queen 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  20,  331 
Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

Thursday,  the  1 3th  day  of  October,  1 892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M.f 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  MONDAY,  October  10th,  1892,  at 
3  o  c  oc    p.  m.  r  r   GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

FINE   DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic  Temple. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


DINNERS,  those  avaunt  coureurs,  which  always  announce  the 
return  of  society  to  town  for  the  season,  are  becoming  quite 
numerous,  and  some  very  elaborate  menus  were  placed  before 
guests  last  week.  First  and  foremost  should  be  named  the  dinner 
given  by  Mrs.  Hager,  which  she  announced  was  the  first  of  a 
series  of  similar  affairs  that  are  to  follow  in  rapid  succession. 
Her  guests  enjoyed  not  only  a  handsome  dinner  but  a  delightful 
evening  which  followed  it.  Almost  equally  elaborate  was  the 
pink,  dinner  given  at  her  residence,  on  Sacramento  street,  by  Mrs. 
Charles  Wilson,  who  proved  to  be  so  charming  a  hostess.  San 
Francisco  society  is  to  be  congratulated  on  her  acquisition. 
Captain  and  Mrs.  Wilson  and  their  accomplished  daughter,  Miss 
Gertrude  Wilson,  are  among  recent  army  arrivals,  and  have  al- 
ready proved  welcome  additions  to  the  swim.  Another  handsome 
dinner  of  the  week  was  given  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jos.  A.  Donahoe,  on  Harrison  street,  their  guest  of  honor  being 
the  Count  Au  Locomaria,  who  has  recently  arrived  in  San  Fran- 
cisco accredited  to  Mr.  Donahoe's  bank,  as  well  as  the  bearer  of 
such  good  introductions  to  a  number  of  other  people,  that  he  will 
no  doubt  be  quite  a  lion  during  the  period  of  his  sojourn. 


It  has  been  a  long  time  since  society  in  Oakland  has  had  an 
affair  as  brilliant  as  the  tea  given  on  Tuesday  afternoon  last  by 
Mr3.  F.  S.  Stratton  at  her  new  residence,  1301  Harrison  street. 
The  house  was  handsomely  decorated,  the  hall  being  a  bower  of 
palms,  the  effect  in  the  back  drawing-room  pink,  white  in  the 
front  parlors,  and  dining-rooms  all  were  yellow.  The  kaut  ton 
of  the  Athenian  City  were  all  there  or  represented,  while  a  large 
attendance  was  also  present  from  San  Francisco.  It  is  safe  to 
say  that  it  was  the  most  exclusive  affair  given  in  Oakland  for  a 
long  time  past.  Mrs.  Stratton  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  F.  E.  Brig- 
ham,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Evarts,  Mrs.  W.  A.  Kenney,  Mrs.  H.  F.  Gordon, 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Chickering,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Hamilton,  Mrs.  V.  H.  Met- 
calf,  Mrs.  Allan  Babcock,  Miss  Knowles,  MisB  Brown,  the  Misses 
Wilson  and  Miss  Bailey.  Among  the  many  present  were  Mrs. 
Pliny  Bartlett,  Miss  Bartlett,  Mrs.  C.  O.  Alexander,  Mrs.  Edson 
Adams,  Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Augur,  Mrs.  J.  G.  Allen,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Allen, 
Miss  Brayton,  Mrs.  A.  P.  Brayton,  Mrs.  Sam  Breck,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Chickering,  Mrs.  R.  P.  Clement,  Mrs.  Spencer   Browne,  Mrs.  F. 

E.  Brigham,  Miss  Brigham,  Mrs.  Geo.  Bayley,  Miss  Gertrude 
Bayley,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Cook,  Mrs.  Renii  Cbabot,  Mrs.  S.  G.  Cham- 
berlain, Misses  Connors,  Mrs.  T.  B.  Coghill,  Mrs.  T.  C.  Coogan, 
Miss  Jessie  Coleman,  Miss  Chabot,  Mrs.  De  Golia,  Mrs.  J.  B. 
Dyer,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Dyer,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Dargie,  Mrs.  T.  T.  Dargie, 
Miss  Dargie,  Mrs.  and  Misses  De  Fremery,  Mrs.  Oscar 
Derby,  Mrs.  Guy  C.  Earl,  Mrs.  W.  B.  English,  Miss  Jennie 
Ellsworth,  Mrs.  E.  T.  Flint,  Miss  Alice  Flint,  Mrs. 
J.  A.  Folger,  Mrs.  Grimes,  Mrs.  Gaskill,  Mrs.  Edwin 
Goodall,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Hale,  Mrs.  A.  K.  P.  Harmon,  Mrs.  Socrates 
Huff,  Mrs.  Harry  Hinckley,  Miss  Hook,  Mrs.  E.  Hook,  Mrs.  W. 
B.  Hamilton,  Mrs.  W.  G.  Henshaw,  Mrs.  F.  W.  Henshaw,  Mrs. 
J.  F.  Houghton,  Miss  Minnie  Houghton,  Mrs.  H.  H.  Haight,  Miss 
Haight,  Mrs.  Hume,  Mrs.  Chas.  Webb  Howard,  Mrs.  V.  G. 
Hunt,  Mrs.  Allen  Knight,  Mrs.  R.  S.  Knight,  Mrs.  Knox, 
Misses  Knowles,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Lathrop,  Miss  Lukens,  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Morrow,  Mrs.  D.  B.  Morgan,  Mrs.  C.  0.  G.  Miller,  Mrs.  McPike, 
Mrs.  J.  B.  McChesney,  Mrs.  G.  W.  McNear,  Mrs.  G.  W.  McNear, 
Jr.,  Mrs.  V.  H.  Metcalf,  Mrs.  G.  X).  Metcalf,  Mrs.  Thomas  Pra- 
ther,  Mrs.  C.  T.  H.  Palmer,  Misses  Prather,  Misses  Playter,  Mrs. 

F.  M.  Pixley,  Mrs.  Orestes  Pierce,  Miss  Pierce,  Mrs.  Redding,  Mrs. 
Rosborough,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Rutherford,  Mrs.  0.  L.  Shafter, 
Misses  Shafter,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Sessions,  Miss  Sessions,  Mrs.  Josiah 
Stanford,  Mrs.  F.  K.  Shattuck,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Stanley,  Mrs.  Charles 
Snook,  Mrs.  A.  D.  Thompson,  Mrs.  Hy  Vrooman,  Miss  Vrooman, 
Mrs.  G.  H.  Wheaton,  Miss  Bessie  Wheaton,  Misses  Wheaton, 
Mrs.  B.  W.  Wellman,  Misses  Wellman,  Mrs.  Jesse  Wall,  Misses 
Wall,  Mrs.  Hy  Wadsworth,  Mrs.  G.  E.  Whitney,  Misses  Whit- 
ney, Mrs.  F.  E.  Whitney,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Yales. 


To  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis  belongs  the  honor  of  having  opened  the 
tea  season  of  1892.  Her  entertainment  of  last  Saturday  was  given 
in  honor  of  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Fred  Sharon,  prior  to  her  return 
to  New  York,  and  was  largely  attended,  though  the  calls  were  of 
such  brief  duration  that  at  no  time  did  the  rooms  seem  crowded. 
The  entire  lower  floor  was  thrown  open,  and  the  rooms,  from 
which  daylight  was  excluded,  were  handsomely  adorned  with 
flowers  and  foliage.  The  numerous  members  of  Mrs.  Tevis' 
family  connection  assisted  her  in  receiving.  They  formed  a  large 
party  in  themselves,  to  which  were  added  several  young  ladies, 
who  made  their  formal  debut  in  society  that  day,  so  as  a  matter 
of  course  those  on  the  outside  were  well  looked  after.  There  was 
chat,  orchestral  music,  and  delicious  refreshments  to  be  discussed, 
and,  above  all,  some  bewildering  costumes  were  worn  by  the  fair 
dames  and  demoiselles  in  attendance.  At  the  conclusion  of  the 
tea,  the  "receiving  party"  remained  to  dine  with  Mrs.  Tevis,  and 
the  evening  was  enlivened  with  music  and  an  impromptu  dance, 
thus  bringing  the  day's  enjoyment  to  a  very  pleasant  conclusion. 


Oakland  hospitalities  are  seemingly  never  ending,  to  judge 
by  the  numerous  teas,  lunches,  dinners  and  charity  affairs  of  all 
kinds  that  are  constantly  taking  place.  The  marriage  of  Miss 
Lena  Brigham  to  Newman  A.  Fuller,  of  Irving,  Mich.,  was  sol- 
emnized at  the  residence,  on  Oak  street,  of  the  bride's  parents 
last  week,  the  ceremony  taking  place  in  a  bridal  bower  in  the 
front  parlor,  Rev.  Dr.  Wendte  officiating.  The  bride,  who  was 
given  away  by  her  brother,  had  her  cousin,  Miss  Crane,  as  maid- 
of-honor,  the  Misses  Fitzgerald,  of  Oakland,  and  McKinney,  of 
Santa  Cruz,  were  the  bridesmaids,  and  Mr.  Bradford,  the  groom's 
best  man.  The  wedding  robe  was  of  white  brocaded  crepe  de 
chine,  trimmed  with  point  lace;  a  tulle  veil  and  wreath  of  orange 
blossoms,  and  a  hand  bouquet  of  jassemine.  Miss  Crane's  cos- 
tume was  also  of  white  crepe  de  chine,  as  were  those  of  the 
two  bridesmaids.  An  elaborate  supper  was  served  during  the 
evening,  and  the  presents  were  not  only  numerous  but  beautiful 
and  valuable,  the  groom's  present  being  a  parure  of  diamonds. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fuller  departed  the  next  day  for  Denver  en  route 
East.  They  will  pass  the  winter  in  Cuba.  They  will  eventually 
reside  in  San  Francisco. 


Among  the  marriages  during  the  earlier  days  of  October  are 
those  of  Miss  Rosalie  Meyer  and  Sig.  Stern,  on  the  3d;  Miss  Em- 
ily Phillips  and  Benjamin  Lauer,  on  the  4th,  Miss  Emma  Dur- 
brow  and  Spencer  Bugbee,  on  the  6th;  Miss  Bessie  Hooker  and 
George  Lent,  on  the  8th;  Miss  B.  L.  Ziel,  of  Alameda,  to  Welles- 
ley  Moore.  British  Vice-Consul,  on  the  12th.  The  Durbrow-Buck- 
bee  wedding  will  take  place  at  Mrs.  Dnrbrow's  residence,  on 
Bush  street,  next  Thursday  at  noon,  a  reception  following  the 
ceremony.  Miss  Annie  Buckbee  will  be  maid  of  honor  and  Wal- 
ter S.  Newhall  best  man  to  the  groom.  The  Hooker-Lent  nup- 
tials will  be  celebrated  at  noon  on  Saturday  next,  in  the  Unita- 
rian Church,  where  Dr.  Stebbins  officiates.  A  large  number  of 
guests  are  invited  to  the  church,  where  Messrs.  Elliott,  McAllis- 
ter, Shafter,  Howard,  Frank  Madison  and  Herbert  Carolan  will 
officiate  as  ushers.  The  bridesmaids  will  be  the  Misses  Hooker 
Holbrook,  Bates  and  Reynolds,  and  E.  L.  Eyre  best  man.  Only 
intimate  friends  will  be  present  at  the  wedding  breakfast,  which 
follows  the  church  service,  at  the  Hooker  residence,  on  Bush 
street. 


One  of  the  prettiest  weddings  of  last  week  was  that  of  Miss 
Mollie  Stearns  and  Paul  Goodlie,  who  were  married  by  Dr.  Steb- 
bins at  the  Stearns  residence,  on  Jackson  street.  Nine  o'clock 
was  the  hour  fixed  for  the  ceremony,  and  promptly  the  bridal 
party,  consisting  of  the  groom  and  his  best  man,  W.  W.  Magee, 
the  bride  and  her  father,  and  the  pretty  bridesmaid,  Miss  Clara 
Fisher,  appeared  at  the  door  of  the  drawingroom  and  proceeded 
to  the  bay  window,  which  had  been  decorated  for  the  occasion, 
and  there  the  ceremony  was  performed.  A  reception  followed, 
and  then  an  elaborate  supper.  The  bride  looked  charming  in  her 
robe  of  white  brocade,  orange  blossoms  and  veil.  The  brides- 
maids' gown  was  of  white  crepe  and  chiffon,  a  very  effective 
toilette.  The  guests  were  numerous  and  the  presents  very  hand- 
some. One  from  the  Sketch  Club  was  very  acceptable,  as  the 
bride  is  a  member  of  the  Club.  It  was  a  Portfolio  of  etchings. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Goodlie  left  on  their  bridal  tour  of  a  fortnight  on 
Wednesday,  and  upon  their  return  will  reside  with  Mr.  Stearns, 
on  Jackson  street. 


The  wedding  of  Judge  Harrison,  of  San  Francisco,  and  Miss 
Reid,  the  niece  of  Whitelaw  Keid,  took  place  on  Tuesday  last  at 
Ophia  Farm,  Mr.  Reid's  country  residence,  in  Westchester 
county,  New  York.  Archdeacon  Kirby,  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Church,  at  Rye,  officiated.  After  the  ceremony  and  congratula- 
tions, a  magnificent  wedding  breakfast  was  served.  During  the 
afternoon  Judge  and  Mrs.  Harrison  left  for  California,  intending 
to  stop  en  route  to  visit  the  bride's  grandmother  at  Cedarville, 
Ohio.  The  wedding  guests,  who  came  by  special  train,  com- 
prised some  of  the  most  distinguished  people  of  New  York  and 
other  cities.  The  gifts  were  costly  and  numerous.  Upon  the  ar- 
rival of  Judge  Harrison  and  his  bride,  cards  will  be  sent  out  for  a 
reception  to  their  friends  in  San  Francisco. 


Monday  night  last  was  the  gala  night  of  the  week.  There  were 
a  number  of  theatre  parties  at  the  Powell  Street  Theatre.  Mrs. 
Pacheco  and  her  new  play  drawing  one  of  the  most  fashionable 
audiences  of  this  or  any  other  season.  Society  was  there  in  full 
force,  and  one  was  enabled  to  judge  for  themselves  how  many 
have  returned  from  their  summer  quarteis,  and  how  much  in  the 
way  of  improvement  our  fashionable  folk  have  gained  by  country 
living  and  country  hours.  There  were  several  theatre  parties  at 
the  Baldwin  also,  followed  by  supper;  and  the  crowd  at  the  clos- 
ing night  of  the  German  Fair  at  the  Pavilion  included  many  of 
the  best  known  of  our  foreign  residents. 


Christening  parties  are  among  the  latest  fads  in  Gotham,  so 
what  more  natural  than  that  San  Francisco  Society  should,  when- 
ever practicable,  follow  suit.  There  was  a  pretty  one  at  St. 
Luke's  Church  last  week,  and  next  on  the  tapis  will  be  .the 
Christening  feast  at  which  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hugh  Tevis'  infant 
daughter  will  be  the  chief  object  of  interest. 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


HAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Monday  next  will  witness  one  of  the  biggest  events  of  the 
matrimonial  season  across  the  bay.  for  on  that  day  Miss  Mary  E. 
Fox  and  Frank  K.  Hereon  will  join  hands  for  life.  The  cere- 
mony will  be  performed  by  lit  v.  l>r.  Mcl.ean,  in  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  and  as  hundreds  of  invitations  have  been 
issued,  the  church  will  be  packed.  Miss  Fox  is  well  known  all 
over  the  coast,  her  rich  voice  having  been  heard  in  concerts  for 
long  past.  She  was  with  Mis?  Beatrice  Priest  in  the  East  for  a 
long  time,  and  won  golden  opinions  wherever  she  went.  The 
bridegroom-elect,  Mr.  Hereon,  is  a  young  clergyman  from  New 
York,  and  is  a  very  talented  worker  in  the  vineyard. 


Those  members  of  onr  society  who  enjoyed  the  hospitali- 
ties of  Mr?.  Nuttall  and  her  daughter  last  season,  will  be 
glad  to  hear  that  their  residence  on  Buchanan  and  Web- 
ster streets,  has  fallen  into  such  capable  hands  as  those  of  Col. 
and  Mrs.  Eyre,  who  have  taken  it  for  the  winter  months.  Mrs. 
Eyre  is  an  excellent  hostess  and  frequent  entertainer,  and  there- 
fore the  reputation  of  the  house  for  pleasant  little  parties  is  sure 
to  be  maintained  during  her  regime.  The  Eyres  will  come  to 
town  for  the  season  from  their  villa  at  Menlo  Park  in  about  three 
weeks. 

The  "  Diveaways,"  a  club  composed  of  a  number  of  society 
young  ladies,  is  the  latest  fashionable  organization.  The  object 
of  the  ctab  is  to  hold  monthly  swimming  tournaments.  On 
Thursday  night  of  last  week  the  first  affair  was  given  at  a  North 
Beach  natatoriara.  Miss  Helen  Frank  was  awarded  the  palm  as 
the  best  all-round  swimmer.  Among  the  other  fair  members  of 
the  club  are  Miss  Leonore  Rothschild,  Miss  Corinne  Cook,  the 
Misses  Dora  and  Josie  Saalburg,  and  the  Misses  Josie  and  Hattie 
Bloomingdale.  All  the  young  ladies  are  good  swimmers,  and  the 
next  affair  is  sure  to  draw  some  interested  spectators. 

The  second  concert  of  the  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra  will  be 
given  on  the  evening  of  Tuesday,  November  1st,  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House.  The  affair  will  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  Maria  Kip 
Orphanage  and  the  Hahnemann  Hospital.  The  orchestra  is  com- 
posed of  society  young  ladies  and  their  concerts  are  very  popular. 
Prof.  J.  H.  Rosewald  will  direct  the  affair.  The  soloists  will  be 
Mrs.  Everett  Wise,  (nee  McAllister)  and  Miss  Julia  Newman. 
There  will  be  a  violin  concert  with  Miss  Alice  Ames  as  soloistand 
with  an  orchestra  accompaniment.  The  attendance,  needless  to 
say,  will  be  large  and  fashionable. 


The  Catholic  Ladies'  Aid  Society  of  Oakland  gave  a  charming 
entertainment  last  night,  in  Elite  Hall,  that  received  the  patronage 
of  many  of  the  best  people  of  the  town.  A  general  programme 
was  presented,  but  the  feature  of  the  evening  was  the  production 
of  the  comedy,  "Married  Life,"  under  the  management  of  George 
Allen  Watson.  The  characters  were  excellently  sustained  by 
George  W.  Austin,  H.  Muhr,  Jr.,  Eugene  Z.  Cushing,  F.  A.  Saun- 
ders, Bert  Zwisler,  Mollie  A.  Milton,  Blanche  H.  Price,  Alina  L. 
Mooney,  Rose  Nolan,  Loretta  Kirk  and  Alex.  Rosborough. 


Mr.  George  Taylor  Goggin,  youngest  brother  of  Mrs.  E.  W. 
Goggin,  of  Shamrock  Lodge,  Belvedere,  who  is  stationed 
with  his  regiment  at  Misseerabad,  India,  has  been  gazetted 
in  the  Allahabad  Pioneer  of  August  6th,  as  being  promoted 
from  surgeon  to  surgeon-major.  Mr.  Goggin  is  now  one 
of  the  youngest  surgeon-majors  in  the  British  army,  and  his 
friends  are  all  elated  at  his  rapid  promotion.  He  is  a  brother-in- 
law  of  Mr.  E.  W.  Goggin,  of  Francis,  Valentine  &  Co.,  of  this 
city.  

One  by  one  we  are  losing  them,  onr  charming  California 
demoiselles.  The  recently  received  news  of  MiBS  Anna  Head's  en- 
gagement to  Lieutenant  Jephson  adding  still  another  to  the  al- 
ready long  list  of  San  Francisco  girls  who  have  chosen  foreign 
husbands,  and  whose  future  homes  will  consequently  be  in  other 
lands.  Miss  Head's  engagement  has  been  anticipated  for  several 
months.  The  date  has  not  yet  been  aet,  but  it  is  believed  that 
the  marriage  will  take  place  in  the  very  near  future. 


Our  Castilian  citizens  will  have  an  opportunity  of  enjoying 
themselves  thoroughly  on  October  12th,  as  Mrs.  Acosta  has  is- 
sued cards  for  the  marriage  of  her  daughter  to  Dr.  Maldonado.on 
that  date.  The  marriage  will  take  place  at  St.  Mary's  Cathedral, 
and  will  undoubtedly  be  quite  an  event  in  Spanish  circles,  the 
bride  being  a  well-known  belle  among  them,  and  the  groom 
equally  prominent.  The  ceremony  will  be  performed  with  a 
grand  nuptial  mass,  and  will  be  followed  by  a  reception  at  the 
Acosta  residence,  on  Taylor  street. 


The  vested  choir  of  St.  Luke's  Church  have  been  for  several 
weeks  rehearsing  Robinson's  cantata,  "God  is  Love,"  which,  in 
addition  to  a  specially  arranged  musical  programme,  will  be  sung 
at  St.  Luke's  Church  to-morrow  as  a  welcome  home  to  the  rector, 
Rev.  W.  W.  Davis,  who,  with  Mrs.  Davis,  has  been  absent  in 
Europe  for  several  months.  The  reverend  gentleman  arrived 
home  last  week,  Mrs.  Davis  having  preceded  him  a  few  days. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Herrmann  left  Wednesday  for  a  three 
months  visit  to  Pasadena. 


Mrs.  Dillon  and  her  daughters,  the  Misses  Marie  and  Kate,  are 
expected  in  town  next  week.  They  have  been  among  the  cot- 
tagers at  San  Rafael  during  the  past  summer  season.  Mrs.  E.  T. 
Greyson.  who  has  been  visiting  at  8anta  Barbara  since  early  In 
the  spring,  is  now  at  1418  Clay  street  for  the  coming  winter 
months.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan  will  leave  San  Rafael  to- 
day for  their  apartments  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  which  will  be  their 
abode  during  the  winter  season. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Pope  will  not,  it  seems,  gladden  San  Fran- 
cisco society  circles  with  their  presence  this  winter.  They  are 
still  in  Europe,  where  they  purpose  remaining  some  time  longer, 
and  may  possibly  return  home  by  way  of  Suez,  India  and  China, 
reaching  here  early  in  the  new  year.  Should  this  programme  be 
carried  out  it  is  quite  probable  that  the  Misses  Voorhies,  at  pres- 
sent  in  Europe,  will  bear  them  company  in  their  tour  round  the 
world. 


Mrs.  B.  F.  Sherwood  and  her  pretty  daughter,  Miss  Jennie,  are 
domiciled  at  the  Palace  Hotel  for  the  winter,  which  they  will 
spend  in  San  Francisco.  The  Palace  will  also  be  the  locale  of 
Mrs.  E.  J.  Santa  Marina  during  the  next  few  months.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Walter  S.  Hinkle  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Sanderson  will  pass 
the  season  at  the  Colonial.  Mrs.  E.  B.  Coleman  and  her  sister, 
Miss  Lena  Blanding,  who  have  recently  paid  a  long  visit  to  Castle 
Crags,  are  settled  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  C.  F.  Stokes,  nee  Bermingham,  whose  wedding 
was  one  of  the  society  events  of  last  season,  sailed  for  Japan  by 
the  steamer  China  last  Tuesday,  where  Dr.  Stokes  will  be  sta- 
tioned for  the  next  three  years,  having  been  detailed  for  shore 
duty  at  Yokohama.  They  were  anticipating  with  much  pleasure 
a  residence  in  that  lovely  country,  which  somewhat  softened  the 
regret  of  leaving  friends  behind  them  for  so  long  a  period. 


A  number  of  our  artists  are  leaving  us  for  foreign  lands,  for  an 
absence  of  greater  or  less  duration.  Jules  Pages,  who  departs  for 
France  direct  next  Monday,  will  be  accompanied  by  Oscar  Deakin, 
eldest  son  of  our  well  known  artist,  Edward  Deakin.  Both  will 
remain  a  couple  of  years  in  Paris.  Mr.  Willis  Polk  purposes 
leaving  in  about  two  months  for  the  gay  French  capital,  but  ex- 
pects to  return  to  California  inside  of  six  months. 


Among  returning  absentees  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dan  Murphy,  the 
J.  D.  Spreckels,  who  are  to  leave  Paris  to-day  en  route  to  New 
York,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Deakin,  who  have  been  abroad 
for  severel  months,  start  for  home  to-morrow.  Mjs.  Belle  Dona- 
hue and  Miss  Marguerite  Wallace  may  be  looked  for  about  the 
first  of  November.  Mrs.  Frances  B.  Edgerton  is  among  recent  ar- 
rivals in  San  Francisco  after  a  very  long  visit  East  to  relatives 
and  friends. 


There  was  a  large  gathering  of  Miss  May  Hoffman's  friends  at 
the  tea  which  she  gave  as  a  farewell  to  them  priop  to  her  depart- 
ure for  New  York,  and  many  were  the  good  wishes  expressed  for 
a  pleasant  visit  East  and  a  speedy  return  to  them.  A  number  of 
her  friends  accompanied  her  to  Oakland  on  Monday  evening  to 
see  her  off  and  bid  her  bon  voyage.  Dr.  Harry  Tevis  was  among 
the  Eastbound  passengers  last  Sunday. 

The  first  annual  ball  of  Company  D,  of  the  Naval  Batallion, 
given  at  the  armory  on  Pacific  street,  on  Tuesday  evening  last, 
was  an  unqualified  success.  The  rooms  were  beautifully  decor- 
ated. The  guests  were  numerous,  and  included  Gen.  Dimond 
and  members  of  his  staff.  Many  of  the  National  Guard  were 
also  among  the  guests. 

Lieut.  F.  A.  Tripp,  of  the  First  United  States  Infantry,  will  be 
a  welcome  addition  to  the  button  beaux  this  winter.  He  will 
join  his  regiment  at  Angel  Island  next  month.  Major  John  A. 
Darling  has  already  joined  his  company  at  the  Presidio,  replacing 
Col.  Wildrick,  who,  on  being  promoted,  went  East  to  his  new 
station  in  New  York  harbor. 


The  ball  to  be  given  by  Le  Cercle  Francais  next  Saturday 
evening  is  creating  quite  a  stir  among  our  French  residents,  with 
whom  the  opening  ball  of  the  season  of  that  popular  club  is  al- 
ways an  event.  Some  beautiful  toilettes  are  in  course  of  prepara- 
tion, and  the  affair  promises  to  be  one  of  great  brilliancy. 


Among  distinguished  Eastern  visitors  now  in  California,  are  the 
party  composed  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McK.  Twombley  (who  is  a 
daughter  of  Mrs.  W.  H.  Vanderbilt)  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  H. 
Williams,  who  purpose  remaining  several  weeks  hereabouts. 
They  are  at  present  among  the   guests  at  Del  Monte. 

A  big  social  event  set  for  the  coming  week  in  Oakland  is  the 
wedding  of  Louise  Breck  and  Frederick  Melville  Hathaway, 
which  will  occur  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  on  Thursday  evening. 
Miss  Breck  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  and  popular  girls  in 
Athenian  society.  

A  social  by  the  ladies  of  the  Church  of  the  Advent,  Oakland, 
was  given  on  Wednesday,  at  the  residence  of  Miss  Flynn,  on 
Lydia  street,  Oakland. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Oct.  1,  1892. 


The  Altenheim  Fair  was  a  great  success,  and  the  scenes  of  the 
closing  night  will  not  soon  pass  from  the  memory  of  those 
who  attended.  The  dancing  began  at  ten  o'clock,  and  it  was  an 
early  hour  in  the  morning  when  "  Home  Sweet  Home"  was 
played.  A  fascinating  pair  caused  Col.  Fred  Crocker  and  Hon. 
J.  B.  Crockett  to  pare  with  a  considerable  sum,  and  the  pretty 
Mrs.  Wolff  (nee  Rosenblatt)  and  her  equally  pretty  sister  broke 
the  wine-selling  record  for  the  week.  One  of  the  features  of  the 
fair  was  the  spiritual  piano,  loaned  by  Messrs.  Joseph  8.  Steiner 
and  Leo  Zander.  By  an  electrical  apparatus  the  keys  of  the 
piano  moved  and  music  played  at  the  will  of  the  operator,  who 
simply  turned  on  a  switch.  It  attracted  much  attention.  Mrs. 
John  Kreling  and  her  grab-bag  caught  many  stray  shekels,  and 
as  one  expressed  it,  "  Nobody  could  resist  those  eyes.  The  lady 
managers  and  their  fair  assistants  are  to  be  congratulated.  Their 
success  was  certainly  deserved. 

The  entertainment  of  the  Press  Club,  given  at  the  Baldwin 
Theatre,  on  Thursday  afternoon,  was  very  successful.  The. house 
was  crowded  with  a  fashionable  audience,  the  programme  was 
very  entertaining  and  the  pecuniary  result  was  highly  satisfac- 
tory. The  club  held  a  reception  at  its  rooms  on  Fine  street  last 
night,  which  was  well  attended. 


The  kettledrum  given  by  the  ladies  of  Sacred  Heart  parish,  at 
the  residence  of  Mrs.  Mohrmann,  418  Oak  street,  on  Wednesday 
last,  was  very  enjoyable.  The  handsome  residence  was  crowded ; 
a  delightful  programme  was  presented,  and  the  affair  in  all  re- 
spects was  most  enjoyable. 

John  Luning  will  send  his  yacht,  the,  Alert  round  the  Horn  to 
this  port  at  the  close  of  the  Eastern  yachting  season,  and  will 
come  overland  himself.  Captain  Luning  intends  to  challenge  our 
crack  yachts  on  this  side,  although  the  Alert  is  by  no  means  a 
flyer. 

Mrs.  Child's  and  her  daughters,  the  Misses  Emma  and  Ruth, 
who  since  their  arrival  in  town  from  Del  Monte  have  been  the 
motif  for  several  very  pleasant  parties  at  dinner,  lunch  and  the 
theatres,  have  returned  to  their  home  in  Los  Angeles. 

Mrs.  Robert  McLean's  lunch,  last  week,  was  one  of  the  pleas- 
antest  of  recent  entertainments.  It  was  given  as  a  goodbye  to 
her  guest,  Miss  Bonnel!,  who  is  about  to  say  adieu  to  California 
for  a  long  absence  on  the  Atlantic  Coast. 


The  marriage  of  Miss  Lottie  Wagoner,  of  Oakland,  and  Henry 
Clapp,  of  the  United  States  revenue  service,  has  been  set  for  No- 
vember 12th,  when  the  ceremony  will  be  performed  in  St.  Paul's 
Episcopal  Church,  in  Oakland. 


It  is  rumored  that  Mrs.  Flood  and  Miss  Jennie  contemplate 
emerging  from  their  seclusion  this  winter,  and  with  that  end  in 
viaw  are  having  their  California  street  residence  put  in  readiness 
for  an  early  occupancy. 

Upon  the  return  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sanford  Taylor  from  their 
honeymoon  tour  of  the  coast,  it  is  understood  they  will  issue 
cards  for  an  afternoon  reception  at  their  permanent  residence  in 
this  city. 

_  Mrs.  W.  M.  Lent,  accompanied  by  her  daughter,  arrived  from 
New  York  a  few  days  ago  for  the  purpose  of  being  present  at  the 
marriage  of  her  son  George  to  Miss  Bessie  Hooker  next  week. 

The  French  man-of-war  Duborjlieu  left  Vancouver  Island  last 
Wednesday,  en  route  for  this  port.  Its  coming  is  anticipated 
with  much  pleasure  by  French  society  in  San  Francisco. 

Jack  Follansbee's  friends  will  be  delighted  to  hear  that  he  has 
announced  his  intention  of  spending  a  part  of  the  coming  season 
with  them  in  San  Francisco. 


The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Daisy  L.  Crane  and  Mr. 
Horace  C.  Donnels.  The  wedding  will  take  place  on  October  17th, 
and  be  a  very  quiet  affair. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  L.  O'Neil  will  celebrate  the  fifteenth  anni- 
versary of  their  marriage  at  their  residence,  618  Pacific  avenue, 
next  Monday  evening. 


The  concert  of  Miss  Magda  Brugge  to-night  will  take  place  at 
Kohler  &  Chase's  hall,  and  not  at  Irving  Hall,  as  stated  else- 
where. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Lang  Chapman,  (nee  Mosely),  have  returned 
from  Castle  Crags,  and  are  domiciled  at  the  California  for  the 
winter. 


Mrs.  Arthur  Barnard,  nee  Currier,  will  be  at  home  to  her  friends 
on  the  first  and  third  Mondays  of  the  month,  at  1001  Pine  street. 


The  second  anniversary  party  of  the  Berlins    will  be  held  at 
Odd  Fellows'  Hall  on  Thursday  evening,  October  13,  1892. 


Mr.  and   Mrs.   Mathewson,  nee    Henderson,  are  spending  their 
honeymoon  in  Sonoma  Valley. 


On  Tuesday  evening  Miss  Flora  Brown,  daughter  of  H.  Brown, 
the  wealthy  wholesale  merchant,  will  be  wedded  to  Mr.  Max 
Gans,  of  Portland,  Or.,  at  her  parents'  residence,  corner  of  Sutter 
and  Franklin  streets.  On  account  of  the  social  standing  of  the 
bride,  the  affair  will  be  an  event  in  Jewish  society  circles. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Minnie  Myerfeld,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Myerfeld,  to  Mr.  Charles  Aronson,  a 
popular  young  business  man.  Miss  Myerfeld  is  esteemed  by  her 
acquaintances  for  her  many  amiable  and  excellent  qualities. 
They  will  receive  at  1111  Post  street,  tomorrow  afternoon  and 
evening. 

The  Concordia  Club,  owing  to  the  success  of  their  Friday  even- 
ing theatre  suppers,  have  decided  to  continue  them  during  Octo- 
ber. The  club's  opening  ball  occurs  on  the  evening  of  the  15th 
inst. 


The  Maze  will  have  a  special  sale  day  on  Monday  next.  All  the 
particulars  of  the  bargains  to  be  offered  on  that  occasion  are  not  yet 
known,  but  those  who  want  a  really  good  thing  should  not  neglect  to 
visit  the  establishment  and  take  advantage  of  the  opportunities  pre- 
sented. The  Maze  is  now  offering  new  crystal  silks  in  evening  and 
street  shades.  They  are  lovely  goods,  which  should  be  seen  by  every 
lady.  The  new  silks  are  very  popular,  and  are  in  great  demand. 
The  storm  serges  are  also  particularly  fine  goods,  which  need  to  be 
seen  to  be  thoroughly  appreciated.  The  Maze  certainly  offers  greater 
bargains  than  any  other  house  in  town. 


THE  Burton  Stanley  Opera  Comique  Company  will  open  at  the 
Wigwam  Theatre  on  Monday  evening,  October  10th.  The 
company  consists  of  thirty-five  solo  artists,  headed  by  Miss  Alice 
Neilsen,  prima  donna  soprano,  and  the  Valergas.  The  first  opera 
given  will  be  the  ever  popular  Bells  of  Comeville.  The  chorus  is 
well  drilled,  and  the  performance  is  sure  to  be  popular. 

Pure  Air  and  Sunshine.— There  is  something  charming  about  the 
town  of  Hay  wards,  Alameda  county.  Pure  air  and  sunshine  make 
it  an  attractive  resort.  The  Monroe  Improved  Gold  Cure  Company 
have  pleasant  quarters  at  Haywards  for  the  cure  of  liquor,  morphine 
and  tobacco  habits.  Send  for  circulars  and  testimonials  to-day. 
Never  wait  until  to-morrow.  San  Francisco  office,  111  Grant  avenue. 


J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  the  proprietors  of  the  Pioneer  Carpet  Beating 
Machine  and  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works,  are  located  at  353- 
357  Tehama  street.  Their  machine  is  well-known  as  the  best  and 
most  expeditious  in  the  city,  and  it  has  given  great  satisfaction  to 
the  thousands  of  the  firm's  patrons,  for  which  reason  J.  Spaulding  & 
Co.  always  do  a  large  and  rushing  business. 

Fashionable  society  ladies,  who  have  been  in  the  habit  of  patroniz- 
ing the  hair-dressing  establishments  of  Messrs.  Hayes  &  Levy,  will 
be  glad  to  hear  that  Miss  Kitty  Dowling,  formerly  one  of  their  most 
skillful  operators,  has  opened  parlors  at  room  2-4,  Phelan  Building, 
where  she  will  be  pleased  to  meet  any  of  her  former  patrons. 

Every  lady  who  desires  a  perfect  complexion  uses  Camelline, 
which  is  well  known  to  be  the  very  best  emollient  ever  manufactured 
for  the  preservation  of  facial  beauty.  Camelline  has  fame  in  two 
continents.  It  is  soothing  to  the  skin,  and  has  excellent  and  im- 
mediately beneficial  effects. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  OCTOBER  I,  IS 92. 


Number  14. 


Printed  and  Published  etrry  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor.  Frederick 
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TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 

Gladstone's  Letters 2 

Tennyson 2 

Cleveland's  Prospects    —    3 

The  Office  of  Mayor  3 

Pru-sian  Taxes    3 

A  Letter  from  "  Beauclerc". . 4 

Charles  B.  Tllton 4 

Ought  a  Bride  of  Thirty-nine  to 

Sport  Orange  Blossoms  ? 5 

Pleasure's  Wand       6-7 

After  Dinner  Oratory 8 

When  a  Woman  Holds  the  Kelns.    9 

The  Looker-On      10-11 

Sparks 12 


Page 

The  Last  Leaf  (Poetry)  13 

Zola  a  Plagiarist 13 

Financial  Review 14 

Town  Crier  . 15 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 16 

The  Rose  Jar 17 

Real  Property    18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...     19 

Scientific  and  Useful   20 

Sunbeams 21 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs —  22 

Vanities  23 

"  Biz" — Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 

Society 26-27-28 

Latest  Tennis  News 28 


DUNCAN  HAYNE  has  been  nominated  by  the  Democrats  for 
the  office  of  Superior  Judge.  He  is  an  able  lawyer  and  an 
honorable  gentleman,  who  is  entitled  to  the  suffrages  of  his 
fellow-citizens.  For  the  Superior  bench  we  need  men  in  whom 
the  community  has  perfect  trust.     Mr.  Hayne  is  such  a  man. 


GEORGE  McGILLIVRAY,  the  regular  Democratic  nominee  for 
Supervisor  of  the  Fifth  Ward,  is  one  of  the  best  known  busi- 
ness men  in  the  city.  He  is  a  native  of  the  State,  and  enjoys  an 
excellent  reputation  In  the  business  community.  He  is  connected 
with  the  Downie  B.  I.  P.  Company. 


WILLIAM  BRODERICK  should  be  elected  Auditor.  For 
many  years  Mr.  Broderick  has  been  identified  with  move- 
ments in  this  city  which  have  had  for  their  object  the  betterment 
of  the  condition  of  affairs  under  which  we  live.  He  has  a  long 
and  honorable  record  as  a  public  officer,  and  is  known  to  be  an 
able  and  an  honest  man. 


FOR  Supervisors  we  should  have  men  who  are  progressive  in 
spirit,  and  thoroughly  identified  with  the  best  interests  of  the 
city.  8uch  a  man  is  Henry  P.  Sonntag,  the  Republican  nominee 
for  Supervisor  from  the  Tenth  Ward.  Mr.  Sonntag  is  well-known 
as  a  reliable  and  progressive  citizen.  He  should  receive  strong 
support  for  the  office. 

THE  able  administration  of  the  District  Attorney's  office  by 
William  8.  Barnes,  the  incumbent,  entitles  him  to  re-election 
this  year.  Mr.  Barnes  is  a  young  and  able  man,  who  has  shown 
himself  to  be  possessed  of  far  more  than  ordinary  ability.  He 
has  proved  one  of  the  best  officers  the  city  has  had  for  some  time 
in  the  District  Attorney's  office,  and  he  should  be  kept  there. 


EVERY  San  Franciscan  and  a  great  many  Oaklanders,  too,  who 
are  obliged  to  travel  on  the  local  trains  through  the  city  across 
the  bay,  will  wish  President  Huntington  godspeed  in  his  ex- 
pressed determination  to  grapple  with  and  vanquish  the  dead- 
head evil  This  has  become  an  unbearable  nuisance,  and  the 
snpoort  of  every  good  citizen  should  be  extended  to  the  effort  to 
abate  it.  Passengers  bound  for  the  ferry  and  who  have  paid 
their  fares,  are  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten  unable  to  obtaiu  the  seats 
they  are  entitled  to,  because  of  the  swarm  of  male  and  female 
hoodlums  and  others  who  make  a  practice  of  riding  up  and  down 
on  the  trains  within  the  limits  of  Oakland,  for  no  other  reason 
in  the  world  than  that  they  can  do  so  without  paying  fare  Not 
until  the  last  station  is  passed  at  the  head  of  the  mole  is  it  fre- 
quently possible  to  obtain  a  seat,  every  one  having  been  monop- 
olized up  to  that  time  by  the  gang  of  brazen-faced,  gum-chewmg, 
loud-mouthed  youth  of  both  sexes,  who  act  as  if  the  regular 
passengers  had  no  rights  that  dead-heads  are  bound  to  respect 
Certainly,  eome  astute  railroad  man  ought  to  hit  upon  a  device 
for  heading  off  these  cattle.  Why  not  offer  a  prize  for  a  success- 
ful solution  of  the  problem  ? 


THE  Geary  Bill  may  violate  some  of  the  stipulations  of  the  ex- 
isting treaty  between  China  and  the  United  States,  but  it  must 
not  be  forgotten  that  some  of  the  best  authorities  on  international 
law  maintain  that  treaty  obligations  are  terminable  by  a  total 
change  of  circumstances,  since  a  clause  "  rebus  sic  stantibus  {"  as 
long  as  matters  remain  as  they  are  ")  must  be  a  tacit  condition  of 
every  treaty.  Now  matters  are  no  longer,  with  regard  to  the 
Chinese,  as  they  were  formerly.  Experience  has  shown  the  real 
purpose  and  aim  and  the  real  character  of  the  Chinese  immigrants, 
and  has  found  them  to  be  in  direct  opposition  to  those  of  our  own 
citizens;  their  presence  here  can,  therefore,  no  longer  be  tolerated. 


AN  official  of  the  treasury  Department  at  Washington  refering 
to  Assistant  Secretary  Spaulding's  refusal  to  admit  into  the 
United  Btates,  Chinese  laborers  who  are  naturalized  British  citi- 
zens, claims  that  it  is  a  debatable  question  if  this  refusal  is  not  in 
conflict  with  the  treaty  with  Great  Britain,  whereby  its  subjects 
are  allowed  to  enter  and  leave  the  United  States  at  any  time.  It 
is  certain  that  such  a  conflict  exists,  but  the  Geary  Bill  modifies 
this  treaty  and  here  again  it  must  be  remembered  that  in  every 
treaty  the  clause  rebus  sic  stantibus  ought  to  be  implicitely  under- 
stood. Our  immigration  laws  also  prevent  British  criminals  from 
residing  among  us,  be  they  British  citizens  or  not,  and  of  course 
England  would  never  think  this  a  violation  of  our  treaty  with 
her. 


MR.  C.  C.  WRIGHT,  the  author  of  the  district  irrigation  law,  is 
credited  by  an  interior  journal  with  the  assertion  that  he 
does  not  think  that  measure  is  in  need  of  amendrrfent,  as  its 
workings  appear  to  him  satisfactory.  If  this  be  true,  and  it  does 
not  seem  possible,  then  Mr.  Wright  is  certainly  not  well  informed. 
There-is  undoubtedly  a  strong  feeling  of  opposition  to  the  law  as 
a  whole,  while  its  workings  have  shown  that  it  needs  radical 
amendment  in  more  ways  than  one.  The  friends  of  the  law 
would  much  better  put  their  heads  together  and  agree  upon 
amendments  that  will  obviate  some  of  the  objectionable  practices 
possible  under  it,  than  to  plant  themselves  squarely  in  opposition 
to  all  amendments,  and  force  the  fight  with  those  in  favor  of  the 
repeal  of  the  law  which  will  certainly  be  made  unless  some 
changes  are  secured. 


REV.  DR.  McCHESNEY,  pastor  of  one  of  Cincinnati's  largest 
Methodist  churches,  has,  it  would  appear  from  a  recent  utter- 
ance, been  admitted  into  the  closest  intimacy  with  regard  to  the 
intentions  of  the  Almighty.  This  eminently  charitable  and  lib- 
eral-minded individual  preached  a  sermon  a  fortnight  since  in 
which  he  declared  with  unction  that  God  was  about  to  scourge 
New  Orleans  with  awful  death  as  punishment  for  the  recent 
prize-fights,  and  that  in  days  soon  to  come  the  sporting  frater- 
nity, including  editors,  would  be  too  busy  making  or  filling 
coffins  or  attending  funerals  to  give  any  attention  to  pugilistic 
events.  He  also  declared  that  if  no  other  way  offered,  the  Lord 
had  decided  to  close  the  World's  Fair  on  Sunday  by  shutting  its 
gates  every  day  with  the  choleral  And  yet  the  fool-killer  has 
not  visited  Cincinnati  since  this  deliverance. 


A  NUMBER  of  interior  journals,  blinded  by  their  insensate 
animosity  toward  the  Railroad  Company,  are  advising  their 
readers  to  vote  against  the  so-called  "  Depot  Act,"  which  is  to  be 
submitted  to  the  people  at  the  coming  election.  In  the  first  place, 
it  is  monstrous  that  people  outside  of  San  Francisco  should 
be  allowed  any  voice  in  the  matter,  as  it  is  one  that  does  not  con- 
cern them  to  the  extent  of  a  cent.  The  proposition  is  simply  to 
allow  the  revenue  of  the  wharves  of  this  city  to  be  mortgaged  in 
advance,  by  issuing  bonds  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  depot 
building  and  ferry  houses  on  the  waterfront  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  any  and  all  railroads  that  may  desire  and  which  are  wil- 
ling to  pay  for  the  accommodation.  There  is  not  a  voter  in  the 
State  who  will  be  affected  one  way  or  the  other  to  the  extent  of 
a  single  nickel,  and  yet  the  defeat  of  the  Act  is  urged  by  those 
who  ought  to  be  in  better  business.  Only  jealousy  of  San  Fran- 
cisco and  a  mean  desire  to  see  her  deprived  of  suitable  depot 
facilities  for  the  accommodation  of  visitors  and  tourists,  can 
prompt  opposition  to  this  needed  measure. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


TENNYSON. 


IN  these  last  few  days  when  Tennyson  lay  a-dying,  it  is  not  too 
much  to  say  that  the  whole  English-speaking  world  walched 
eagerly  for  news  from  his  bedside,  and  hoped  for  tidings  that  the 
evening  of  bis  long  life— serene  and  lovely  as  a  Lapland  night- 
would  be  prolonged.  No  other  living  English  poet  could  inspire 
the  same  feeling  of  personal  love  and  sorrow  that  touched  all  of 
English  birth  or  strain  when  first  they  heard  that  the  author  of 
"Lockaley  Hall"  was  on  his  death-bed.  This  is  the  highest 
proof  of  Tennyson's  genius,  as  well  as  of  the  stalwart  loyalty  of 
the  uian,  which  at  times  rose  superior  to  the  poet,  and  gave  the 
world  such  memorable  poems  as  "The  Charge  of  the  Light  Bri- 
gade "  and  the  ode  on  the  Iron  Dutte.  Wordsworth  saw  deep 
into  nature  and  into  the  heart  of  man,  but  his  blood  was  cold, 
and  he  had  little  of  Tennyson's  power  to  fuse  into  words  that 
passionate  love  of  country  which  has  carried  .the  flag  of 
England  to  all  quarters  of  the  globe.  Browning  was 
a  thorough  Englishman,  and  so,  too,  is  Swinburne, 
but  not  one  of  these,  his  only  modern  peers  in 
verse,  can  be  named  with  Tennyson  as  a  type  of  his  masterful 
nation,  whose  "  morning  drumbeat  follows  the  sun."  Therefore, 
in  estimating  Tennyson's  life,  work  and  influence,  we  must  never 
lose  sight  of  the  fact  that  the  man  was  greater  than  the  poet. 
The  few  men  who  enjoyed  the  privilege  of  his  intimacy  haver 
placed  on  record  their  estimate  of  the  sterling  qualities  of  the 
man  when  he  had  put  aside  his  singing  robes.  Carlyle  was  one 
of  the  greatest  of  these,  and  we  may  be  sure  that  had  there  been 
any  grain  of  insincerity,  any  posing  or  artificiality  about  Tenny- 
son, this  terrible  old  Scotchman,  with  his  cold,  keen  eye  and  bis 
merciless  tongue,  would  have  laid  it  bare.  But  Carlyle  found  in- 
spiration and  genuine  help  in  free  talk  and  discussion  with  the 
poet,  who  differed  from  him  so  widely  in  thought  and  mode  of 
expression,  and  yet  was  so  near  of  kin  in  scorn  of  all  deceit, 
pretence  and  sham.  Those  of  the  younger  generation,  whose 
memories  do  not  reach  back  for  forty  years,  have  little  idea  of 
the  eagerness  with  which  a  new  volume  of  poems  by  Tennyson 
was  then  awaited,  and  a  great  poem,  like  the  "  Ode  on  the  Death 
of  the  Duke  of  Wellington,"  did  not  then  come  to  us  out  here  in 
California  by  cable  and  telegraph,  as  it  does  in  these  days.  We 
waited  for  it  well  nigh  half  a  year,  but  when  the  poem  came  at 
last,  it  found  readers  whose  blood  was  stirred  as  by  noble  organ 
music.  So,  too,  we  have  seen  in  a  rough  California  mining  camp 
men  who  found  consolation  in  "  In  Memoriam  "  for  the  bitter- 
ness of  death  that  robbed  them  of  a  »  pardner  " — the  sharer  of 
good  and  evil  fortune,  who  was  closer  than  a  brother,  and  for 
whom  they  would  willingly  have  laid  down  their  own  lives. 
And  yet  the  French  critic,  Jaine.  has  declared  that  "In 
Memoriam  "  is  theatrical,  that  it  cannot  touch  the  real  emotions, 
and  that  the  flippant  De  JVIusset  is  a  nobler,  truer  poet  than  Ten- 
nyson. Well,  perhaps  he  suits  men  of  the  Latin  race  better,  but 
the  English  or  American  reader  feels  a  certain  pity  for  the  man 
who  has  the  hardihood  to  make  such  a  comparison.  It  is  much 
the  same  as  likening  Moliere  to  Shakespeare. 

Volumes  have  been  written  to  explain  what  Tennyson  meant 
in  certain  of  his  mystical  poems,  but  in  a  few  hundred  words  one 
who  knows  his  works  well  may  untangle  any  difficulties.  He 
needs  no  commentator,  as  Browning  does,  for  Tennyson  clung  to 
the  good,  old-fashioned  creed  that  genuine  poetry  needed  no 
gloss.  Hence  it  is  that  a  child  may  enjoy  most  of  bis  work,  just 
as  he  may  the  best  things  in  Shakespeare.  This  simplicity  has 
always  piqued  the  class  of  enthusiasts  who  are  never  happier 
than  when  they  imagine  themselves  the  sharers  in  something 
that  is  caviar6  to  the  vulgar  public.  Yet  to  it  Tennyson  owes  his 
great  constituency,  which  fis  as  wide  and  enduring  as  his  own 
fame.  Even  "  The  Two  Voices  "  is  not  obscure  when  one  studies 
it,  and  "  Sir  Galahad  "  and  "  The  Lady  of  Shaiott  "  preach  the 
doctrine  of  unworldliness,  each  in  its  own  way,  better  than  it 
has  ever  been  preached  from  the  pulpit.  Love  poems  that  breathe 
the  very  finest  essence  of  unselfish  passion  are  in  "The  Princess" 
and  in  "Maud" — the  latter  perhaps  the  best  work  that  Tennyson 
ever  did.  Certainly  the  rapture  of  the  lover  was  never  voiced  so 
exquisitely  as  in  that  noble  love-song,  "Come  Into  the  Garden, 
Maud,"  which  not  even  the  coarse  hand  of  parody  can  rob  of  its 
sweetness  and  charm. 

In  "The  Princess,"  too,  we  find  a  chain  of  songs  as  per- 
fect in  their  form  and  spirit  as  anything  in  the  Shakespearean 
song-writers.  The  bugle  song,  "  Home  They  Brought  Her  War- 
rior Dead,"  and  "Ask  Me  No  More" — these  are  the  songs  that 
are  the  perfect  union  of  thought  and  word,  and  that  will  live  as 
long  as  the  language.  Of  all  Tennyson's  poems,  perhaps  ><  Locks- 
ley  Hall"  is  the  one  which  has  entered  most  deeply  into  the 
hearts  of  young  readers.  It  is  rich  in  lines  which  have  passed 
into  current  speech,  and  which  have  become  so  much  a  public 
possession  that  the  marks  of  quotation  are  frequently  omitted. 
Such  lines  are: 
Cursed   be   the   gold   that   gilds   the   straiten'd    forehead   of   the 

fool  ! 
I,  the  heir  of  all  the  ages,  in  the  foremost  files  of  time. 
Better  fifty  years  of  Europe  than  a  cycle  of  Cathay. 

These  lines,  resonant  as  a  bow-string,  and  full  of  a  nameless 


power  that  flushes  the  cheek  and  makes  the  pulses  leap,  may  be 
taken  as  specimens  of  this  superb  poem  of  Tennyson's  youth. 
To  enjoy  the  poems  of  his  later  prime — the  "  Idyls  of  the  King  " 
— requires  some  special  preparation.  It  is  rather  peculiar  that 
Americans  show  more  fondness  for  the  Arthurian  legends  than 
Englishmen  themselves,  perhaps  because  our  imaginations  have 
been  starved  by  the  lack  of  a  picturesque  historical  background 
and  the  want  of  a  rich  legendary  lore.  Certain  it  is  that  he  who 
will  read  carefully  Sir  Thomas  Mallory's  prose  legends  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Round  Table,  will  get  rare  pleasure  from  the  read- 
ing of  Tennyson's  "  Idyls."  The  blank  verse  is  varied,  flexible, 
full  of  charm,  rich  in  ornament,  and  yet  limpid  and  clear  as  the 
waters  of  a  mountain  brook.  No  one  really  knows  Tennyson 
till  he  is  at  home  in  these  idyls,  for  they  have  depths  which  he 
has  not  reached  in  other  poems,  and  they  give  glimpses  of  the 
noble  ideals  that  are  well  worth  cherishing  as  a  sacred  possession. 
Tennyson  will  be  mourned  in  America  and  in  Australia  as  sin- 
cerely as  in  England.  When  we  hear  writers  like  Besant  discus- 
ing  the  small  profit  in  literature,  it  is  well  to  think  of  such  careers 
as  this  which  is  just  closed.  If  Tennyson  had  never  reaped  a 
money  reward  for  his  verse,  he  would  have  been  richly  repaid  for 
bis  labor  by  the  knowledge  that  in  far  off  California  the  news  of 
his  illness  and  death  carried  pain  to  the  hearts  of  thou- 
sands, who  love  him  because  he  has  made  life  for  them  bet- 
ter worth  living.  Could  human  reward  be  richer  than 
this?  To  know  that  thousands  breathe  your  name  in  love  and 
gratitude;  to  feel  that  you  have  been  the  guide  and  inspirer  of 
ambitious  youth,  the  consoler  of  the  weary  and  the  heavy-laden! 
Such  has  been  Tennyson's  reward  for  these  fifty  years,  and  is 
payment  meet  for  the  noblest  genius.  No  finer  epitaph  can  be 
found  for  Tennyson  than  these  lines  of  his  own  on  the  Iron 
Duke,  as  fitting  to  the  first  English  poet  of  his  age  as  to  the  first 
English  soldier: 

Gone;  but  nothing  can  bereave  him 
Of  the  force  he  made  his  own,  and 
Being  here,  and  we  believe  him 
Something  far-advanced  in  state, 
And  that  he  wears  a  truer  crown 
Than  any  wreath  that  man  can  weave  him. 


GLADSTONE'S    LETTERS. 


GLADSTONE'S  private  letters,  when  they  come  to  be  published 
one  day,  will  perhaps  throw  more  light  upon  his  cbarac:er  and 
political  understanding  than  his  public  speeches,  for  here  he  ex- 
presses often  thoughts  that  be  hardly  would  venture  to  utter  be- 
fore a  large  audience.  In  an  epistle  written  a  few  weeks  ago  to 
Mr.  Schilizzi,  in  Italy,  occur  some  passages  which  decidedly  de- 
serve to  be  commented  upon.  Among  other  things,  Mr.  Glad- 
stone says:  "In  my  presence  Cavour  called  our  minister,  Hud- 
son, •  that  very  Italian  man,'  and  such  an  appellation  seems  to 
me  enviable  (sic)  "  Now  it  was  certainly  good  taste  in  Mr. 
Cavour  by  calling  an  Englishman  an  "Italian  man,"  to  indicate 
that  he  could  confer  upon  him  no  higher  honor  than  treating  him 
as  a  citizen  of  a  country  which  he,  as  a  true  patriot,  of  course 
loved  best.  But  it  is  very  bad  taste  in  Mr.  Gladstone  to  obsequ- 
iously hint  to  an  Italian  that  he  would  consider  it  a  great  compli- 
ment to  be  an  Italian  himself.  Mr.  Gladstone  has,  during  bis 
long  life,  masqueraded  often  enough  as  a  Greek,  a  Bulgarian,  a 
Russian,  and  especially  as  an  Irishman,  but  to  show  himself  as  a 
true  Englishman  does  not  seem  to  satisfy  his  cosmopolitan  am- 
bition. 

In  the  letter  to  Mr.  Schilizzi,  above  quoted,  Mr.  Gladstone  fur- 
ther states  that  for  Italy  the  Alps  are  what  the  Channel  is  of 
England,  and  that  he  deplores  "  from  his  very  heart"  her  "em- 
barrassing alliances."  Mr.  Gladstone  shows  poor  judgment  in 
comparing  the  strategic  value  of  the  Alps,  with  their  many  passes 
and  even  railways,  to  the  British  Channel.  Neither  Hannibal 
nor  Napoleon  found  much  difficulty  in  crossing  the  Alps,  when 
they  found  it  necessary  for  their  ambitious  aims,  and.  especially 
in  modern  times,  the  entrance  into  Italy  from  the  north  is  far  from 
impossible  for  a  disciplined  army,  while  the  channel,  as  of  old, 
forms  an  effective  barrier  for  Eogland  growing  in  value  the  more, 
themore  necessary  it  becomes  for  invaders  to  move  such  large  arm- 
ies as  are  needed  in  modern  times.  As  regards  Italy's  "embarrassing 
alliances,"  Mr.  Gladstone's  remark  in  another  place  in  the  letter, 
that  be  does  not  care  for  either  the  "  triple  or  the  double  alliance," 
the  right  honorable  gentleman  seems  to  forget  that  Italy  is  not, 
like  Great  Britain,  surrounded  by  open  seas,  but  inclosed  in  the 
midst  of  an  inland  sea,  the  doors  of  which  are  the  Straits  of  Gib- 
raltar, the  Bosphorus  and  the  Suez  Canal,  all  three  in  the  hands 
of  foreign  powers.  Italy,  therefore,  cannot  afford  to  rely  upon 
herself  alone,  and  alliances  are,  under  the  circumstances,  an  ab- 
solute necessity.  As  regards  foreign  politics,  decidedly  Mr.  Glad- 
stone shows  poor  understanding,  and  it  is  a  pity  that  he  has  left, 
not  only  so  many  facts,  but  also  utterances,  on  record  to  prove 
this,  for  his  blunders  in  foreign  policy  and  in  regard  to  Ireland — 
Mr.  Gladstone  includes  probably  his  Irish  policy  in  his  foreign 
policy,  for  he  calls  Ireland  a  separate  "  nation  " — will  as  seriously 
injure  his  reputation  in  the  ages  to  come  as  they  have  done  in 
our  age. 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


-    \    KKANCISCO   NKWS  LETTER. 


CLEVELAND'S    PROSPECTS. 

ONK  month  from  to-day  the  election  will  occur  which  will  de- 
cide the  Presidency  of  the  Tinted  States  for  tbc  next  four 
years,  and  matters  political  have  50  far  shaped  themselves  that 
we  can  make  something  like  a  reasonable  conjecture  of  what  the 
outcome  will  be.  No  unprejudiced  person  who  studies  the  polit- 
ical situation  can  fail  to  be  convinced  that  at  the  present  lime 
the  advantage  lies  with  Cleveland,  and  that  the  indications  are 
that  he  will  gain  strength  rather  than  lose  it  between  now  ami 
November  Sib.  It  has  been  conceded  on  all  hands  that  New 
York  must  be  the  real  battle-ground  of  the  campaign,  and  until 
recently  some  anxiety  has  been  felt  about  the  part  that  Hill 
would  play;  but  bis  recent  speech  in  Brooklyn,  in  which  he  re- 
iterated his  declaration  of  1885,  "1  am  a  Democrat,"' and  con- 
cluded bis  eloquent  address  with  a  glowing  allusion  to  "  our 
gallant  standard-bearers,  Cleveland  and  8tevensou,"  showed  con- 
clusively that  he  was  not  carrying  that  mythical  knife  on  which 
the  Republicans  were  relying  so  much,  and  that  he  would  be 
found  In  bis  place  and  at  bis  post,  directing  and  counseling  the 
Democracy  of  New  York  in  the  coming  battle.  In  addition  to 
this  assurance  of  victory  in  New  York,  there  is  every  reason  to 
believe  that  a  number  of  the  important  Western  States,  which 
are  claimed  by  the  Republicans,  have  not  unlearned  the  lessons 
of  tariff  reform  which  they  learned  so  thoroughly  in  1890. 
Indiana,  Michigan,  Wisconsin,  Nebraska  and  Illinois  do  not  be- 
long in  the  Republican  column,  but  must  be  classed  with  Con- 
necticut, Kew  Jersey,  New  Hampshire  and  Rhode  Island  among 
the  doubtful  States,  and  to  this  category  may  be  added  Massa- 
chusetts and  Iowa,  and  possibly  California  and  Montana.  The 
Republican  State  that  hesitates  is  lost;  that  is,  lost  to  the  Re- 
publican party,  ajd  it  is  almost  certain  that  every  State  which 
can  be  classed  to-day  as  doubtful,  will  cast  its  vote  in  the  Electoral 
College  for  Cleveland  and  Stevenson.  The  advocates  of  a  high 
tariff  may  talk  as  they  like,  the  people  of  the  United  States  are 
tired  of  being  taxed  for  the  benefit  of  specialized  industries.  They 
have  no  objection  to  a  rich  man  trying  to  grow  pineapples  at  the 
North  Pole  if  he  likes,  but  they  do  not  want  to  be  obliged  to  pay 
for  his  foolish  and  futile  experiments.  They  listen  to  the  high- 
flown  talk  of  the  protectionists  about  a  tariff  conserving  the 
wages  of  the  workingman,  but  they  see  the  rich  growing  richer, 
and  the  poor  poorer,  and  they  conclude  that  the  gospel  according 
to  McKinley  is  a  gospel  for  the  rich,  and  not  for  the  poor.  They 
see  Andrew  Carnegie  taking  his  pleasure  in  Scotland  while  Henry 
C.  Frick  is  cutting  down  wages  at  Homestead,  and  they  conclude 
that  Carnegie's  book,  instead  of  being  called  "Triumphant 
Democracy,"  should  have  been  named  »  Triumphant  Plutocracy." 
As  Mr.  Cleveland  said  to  the  National  Association  of  Democratic 
Clubs  on  Tuesday:  "  The  professions  of  Democracy  embody  the 
purest  patriotism,  the  loftiest  aspirations  of  American  citizen- 
ship. Though  at  all  times  they  should  suggest  to  ua 
the  fondest  obligation  to  political  effort,  their  motive 
force  as  incentives  to  political  activity  and  watchfulness 
should  be  irresistible  at  times  when  the  Constitution  is  held  in 
light  esteem  as  against  the  accomplishment  of  selfish  purposes, 
when  8tate  boundaries  are  hardly  a  barrier  to  centralized  power 
and  local  self-government,  and  the  freedom  of  elections  is  the 
scoff  of  partisanship.  The  real  benefits  of  political  organization 
are  found  in  nearness  to  the  people  and  directness  of  action.  Of 
course  harmony  and  unity  of  purpose  are  absolutely  essential,  and 
in  this  view  your  assembling  is  most  important,  as  it  promotes 
harmony  and  unity."  These  are  the  views  of  a  sober-minded, 
sensible  representative  citizen  of  the  United  States,  not  ambitious 
to  be  considered  an  orator,  but  discussing  the  issues  of  the  day 
with  his  fellow-citizens,  in  a  calm,  deliberate  manner,  more  effect- 
ive than  the  eloquence  of  a  Demosthenes.  Cleveland  will  be 
elected,  because  he  is  a  man  of  the  people,  possessed  in  a  marked 
degree  of  that  "  nearness  and  directness"  which  he  so  ably  char- 
acterizes as  the  real  benefits  of  political  organization.  No  one 
need  approach  him  with  bated  breath  or  with  an  Oriental  salaam. 
If  a  man  has  anything  to  say  Grover  Cleveland  will  hear  him  say 
it,  and  will  tell  him  yes  or  no  without  any  unnecessary  circumlo- 
cution or  palaver.  He  will  be  elected  because  he  has  been  tried 
in  the  balance  and  found  not  wanting.  His  record  in  the  White 
House  is  the  best  guarantee  that  could  be  given  of  what  his  course 
will  be  if  elected  to  a  second  term,  and  no  man  can  say  a  word 
against  the  Cleveland  Administration  except  that  some  trifling 
mistakes  were  made,  and  from  them  not  even  the  Administration 
of  the  immaculate  Harrison  has  been  wholly  exempt.  He  will 
get  every  vote  that  he  got  in  1888,  and  more  too,  for  there  are 
many  of  the  citizens  of  this  great  republic  who  are  so  tired  of  the 
arrogance  of  the  Republican  leaders  as  to  welcome  the  change 
that  will  occur  when  the  successor  of  Jefferson  and  Jackson  and 
the  inheritor  of  the  best  traditions  of  their  Presidential  terms 
shall  resume  the  place  to  which  he  is  rightfully  entitled.  Only  a 
month  more  to  wait  before  the  voice  of  the  people  will  be  heard, 
and  the  verdict  of  the  ballot,  from  which  there  is  no  appeal,  will 
be  rendered.  Only  a  month,  and  there  will  be  weeping  and  wail- 
ing and  gnashing  of  teeth  among  the  purse-proud  representatives 
of  the  great  manufacturing  corporations  who  have  used  the 
Government  of  the  United  States  to  make  colossal  fortunes  for 
themselves. 


THE    OFFICE    OF    MAYOR. 


FOR  the  office  of  Mayor  there  are  six  candidates,  each  of  whom 
iy  well  known  ki  the  community,  but  whose  claims  to  the 
office  are  as  widely  at  variance  as  are  the  capabilities  of  the  can- 
didates themselves  We  need  as  Mayor  not  only  a  man  who  is 
thoroughly  conversant  with  all  ihe  needs  of  the  city,  who  knows 
of  himself  just  what  is  necessary  for  the  development  of  the 
municipality,  but  also  one  who  has  the  ability  to  carry  out  to  a 
successful  consummation  any  good  Ideas  which  may  be  proposed 
for  our  advancement.  The  Mayor  should  be  a  man  identified 
with  tbe  city;  one  who  has  the  confidence  of  the  community; 
one  who  has  shown  himself  to  be  possessed  of  executive  ability 
of  ihe  highest  order,  and  above  all,  a  man  endowed  with  that 
high  moral  courage  and  stability  of  character  which  places  him 
above  the  reach  of  bosses  and  boodlers  of  every  description.  In 
the  honesty  of  the  chief  executive  of  the  county  is  the  safeguard 
of  the  taxpayers,  for  he  acts  as  a  check  upon  the  Supervisors, 
and  any  nefarious  schemes  that  may  be  rushed  through  that  body 
can,  as  a  rule,  be  killed  by  the  veto  of  the  Mayor.  Of  the  gentle- 
men nominated  for  this  office,  no  one  appears  to  so  well  fill  all 
the  requirements  as  Wendell  Easton,  the  Republican  nominee. 
He  has  been  identified  with  tbe  development  of  the  city  for 
years.  In  fact,  his  very  name  is  a  synonym  for  progress. 
He  has  made  municipal  government  a  study,  and,  without 
doubt,  there  is  no  other  man  in  the  city  better  able  than  he  to 
guide  our  affairs  to  successful  ends.  His  business  Is  such  that 
the  desire  for  local  improvement  is  always  uppermost  in  his 
mind.  Through  his  direct  instrumentality  many  of  tbe  sections 
of  tbe  city  have  ereatly  improved  in  value  because  of  action  upon 
his  ideas.  His  successful  business  career  is  an  evidence  of  his  ex- 
ecutive ability,  and  his  great  popularity  is  assurance  of  the  faith 
of  bis  fellow-citizens  in  him.  Mr.  Easton  should  be  elected.  San 
Francisco  is  in  need  of  a  strong  hand  at  tbe  helm  to  guide  her  away 
from  the  shoals  toward  which,  of  late,  it  has  been  very  evident 
we  have  been  surely  drifting.  We  need  the  introduction  of  pro- 
gressive ideas  to  reap  that  prosperity  which  is  our  due.  A  safe, 
conservative  man  of  affairs,  such  as  the  Republican  nominee,  is 
the  proper  man  to  fill  the  Mayor's  chair. 


PRUSSIAN    TAXES. 


THE  Prussian  Diet  will  offer  a  lively  picture  this  month,  after 
reassembling,  when  the  Government's  new  taxation  proposals 
reach  the  staie  of  debate,  and  this  time  the  opposition  will  mainly 
come  from  the  representatives  of  the  so-called  middle-classes. 
The  new  financial  reform  bill  contains  many  features  which  de- 
serve approval,  from  an  i  mpartial  point  of  view,  and  which  seem 
to  be  modeled  after  the  English  local  government  bill.  The 
house  and  land  taxes  in  Prussia,  for  instance,  which  heretofore 
were  paid  to  tbe  state  government,  are  to  be  transferred  to  the 
communal  treasuries,  on  the  ground  that  the  communities  are 
better  able  to  administer  such  taxes,  as  the  local  authorities  pos- 
sess better  knowledge  of  lucal  affairs  than  the  state  authorities. 
This  assumption  is  a  correct  one,  and  the  proposed  extension  of 
local  government  is  a  progressive  measure  based  upon  sound 
statesmanship.  The  difficulty,  however,  arises  that  by  this  trans- 
fer the  government  will  lose  an  annual  revenue  of  100,000,000 
marks,  and  desires  to  recuperate  itself  for  the  loss  in  raising  a 
similar  sum  by  means  of  new  taxes,  mainly  imposed  upon  tbe 
middle  classes.  It  is  also  undeniably  just  that  the  poorer  classes 
should  not  bear  the  burden,  but  Mr.  Miguel  has  roused  a  storm  of 
indignation  against  himself  by  attempting  an  increased  taxation 
of  the  smaller  property  owners,  who,  it  must  be  granted,  are  not 
in  a  very  flourishing  condition,  instead  of  deriving  his  new  rev- 
enue only  from  the  richest  landed  proprietors.  The  argument  of 
tbe  opposition  is,  that  the  new  tax  should  be  mainly  obtained  by 
an  increase  of  the  death  duties,  which  in  England,  for  instance, 
yield  an  enormous  revenue.  On  the  whole,  this  argument  is  not 
easily  controverted,  since  the  justice  of  large  inheritance  has  in 
modern  times  been  seriously  questioned  by  the  soundest  thinkers. 
To  make  the  heirs  of  considerable  fortunes  pay  a  substantial 
tribute  to  tbe  taxes  seems  not  imposing  upon  them  a  great  hard- 
ship. 

THE  claim  of  certain  Chinese,  who  lately  sought  admission  to 
our  country  from  Canada  on  the  plea  that  they  are  naturalized 
British  citizens  has  not  been  recognized  by  Assistant  Secretary 
Spaulding.  This  is  quite  natural,  for  such  a  recognition  would, 
to  a  great  extent,  interfere  with  the  acknowledged  object  of  the 
Geary  Bill.  We  do  not  want  any  Chinese  in  our  country  whether 
they  are  citizens  of  a  neighboring  State  or  their  own  land.  The 
only  Chinese  permitted  to  reside  here  are  those  to  whom  the 
Geary  Bill  grants  this  permission  on  condition  of  their  registra- 
tion and  who  are  tolerated  merely  on  account  of  their  previous 
residence  here  and  because  it  would  be  cruel  to  expel  them  after 
they  have,  trusting  in  the  previous  regulations,  established  com- 
mercial and  social  connections  which  it  would  be  a  great  bard- 
ship  for  them  to  sever. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


A    LETTER    FROM    "  BEAUCLERC." 

New  York,  September  30,  1892. 

THE  lover  of  novelty  and  searcher  for  excitement  are  sure  to 
find  life  worth  living  in  this  great  metropolis.  In  smaller 
communities  one  has  to  be  contented  with  the  newspaper  narra- 
tives of  the  striking  events  of  the  day;  but  here  one  sees  them 
and  is  of  them.  They  form  part  of  one's  daily  existence.  We 
wholive  in  New  York  flatter  ourselves  that  ve  have  a  share  in 
the  importance  of  these  happenings,  and  play  a  prominent  part  in 
them.  It  is  seldom  that  a  day  passes  without  some  occurrence — 
designed  or  accidental — of  a  character  to  interest,  excite  or 
amuse  the  whole  country  with  which  we  are  con- 
nected, either  as  spectators,  auditors  or  actors.  Great 
preparations  are  being  made  for  the  Columbian  celebration. 
Immense  stands  have  been  erected  for  the  spectators  of  the  dif- 
ferent street  pageants.  They  are  to  be  decorated  in  an  artistic 
manner.  The  artistic  nature  of  this  celebration  will  be  its  dis- 
tinguishing feature.  Everything  connected  with  it  is  passed  upon 
by  a  committee  of  artists.  This  committee  has  requested  that  all 
plans  for  private  house  decoration  be  submitted  to  them  for  ap- 
proval.    All  this  is  very  encouraging  for  the  cause  of  art. 

There  were  two  quite  important  musical  events  last  week. 
One  was  the  coming  to  America  of  Dr.  Antonin  Dvorak  to  assume 
the  direction  of  the  National  Conservatory  of  Music.  The  com- 
manding positions  which  Americans  as  individuals  have  assumed 
in  music  is,  while  gratifying,  not  entirely  satisfactory.  For  while 
our  singers  and  performers  have  made  names  for  themselves,  our 
composers  have  done  nothing  to  further  the  nationality  of  their 
art.  There  are  eminent  American  composers,  but  their  music  is 
French,  German  or  Italian,  accordingly  to  the  influences  under 
which  they  studied.  If  they  had  contented  themselves  with  de- 
riving from  those  sources  their  knowledge  of  forms  and  methods, 
there  would  be  naught  to  say.  But  they  have  also  looked  there 
for  inspiration.  Nature  is  the  great  fount  of  inspiration,  and 
where,  I  pray  you,  is  nature  grander  or  nobler  than  here?  Do 
not  our  forests,  our  valleys,  our  prairies,  our  mountain  tops,  our 
giant  trees  speak  nature's  language  in  most  beautiful  and  most 
impressive  words  ? 

We  have  an  American  literature,  and  there  is  such  a  thing  as 
American  art.  We  should  have  American  music.  If  the  plans 
and  intentions  of  the  institution  of  which  Dr.  Dvorak  is  to  be  the 
head,  are  carried  out,  it  will  not  be  necessary  for  those  who  wish 
their  musical  instincts  developed  or  regulated  to  cross  the  ocean. 
They  will  find  here  all  they  can  wish  for  and  need  in  the  way  of 
instruction,  example  and  comparison,  and  if  they  are  observant 
they  will  discover  that  there  is  such  a  thing  as  a  genuine  musical 
atmosphere  being  slowly  but  surely  created.  Dr.  Dvorak  is  a 
good  selection.  He  is  a  master  in  the  science  of  music.  He 
should  exercise  a  potent  influence  in  shaping  matters  in  the  form 
desired.  He  is  an  exponent  of  nationality  in  music.  He  has 
done  for  Bohemia  what  Chopin  did  for  Poland,  Grieg  for  Norway 
and  Liszt  for  Hungary.  In  methods  and  forms  he  is  a  disciple  of 
German  masters,  but  he  has  turned  for  his  inspiration  to  his  own 
land.     He  is  an  example  for  our  composers. 

The  other  event  was  the  passing  away  of  Patrick  Sarsfield  Gil- 
more.  Music  is  not  only  a  matter  of  science,  it  is  also  a  question 
of  emotions-  In  its  simplest  forms  melody  and  rhythm  appeals 
to  our  senses.  In  this  field  Gilmore  was  an  influential  worker. 
He  was  essentially  a  popular  musician.  He  was  at  tae  head  of  a 
corps  of  instrumentalists  which  he  had  drilled  into  a  state  of  per- 
fection as  regards  precision  of  playing.  He  did  not  hesitate  to  at- 
tempt with  them  compositions  of  the  most  serious  character 
written  for  the  more  responsive*  instruments  of  a  string  or- 
chestra. But  it  was  in  the  sphere  of  popular  music  that  he  en- 
deared himself  to  us — music  which  did  not  tax  our  intellect,  but 
toyed  with  our  emotions.  He  played  the  simple  melodies  of  our 
homes,  and  tears  came  to  our  eyes.  He  played  a  dance,  and  our 
heads  nodded  and  our  bodies  swayed  in  unison  with  the  flour- 
ishes of  his  baton.  He  played  a  march,  and  our  feet  marked 
time  with  the  stirring  rhythmic  beats  of  his  drums  and  the  blare 
of  his  trumpets.  He  played  our  national  airs,  and  our  dormant 
patriotism  awoke  and  asserted  itself  in  enthusiastic  plaudits.  It 
was  not  high  art,  it  was  pleasure.  His  music  made  us  better- 
natured,  more  contented  and  happier.  And  now  he  has 
laid  down  the  baton  forever.  His  body  was  borne  down 
Fifth  avenue  a  few  days  ago  to  its  last  resting  place.  The  mourn- 
ers from  his  old  regiment,  from  his  clubs,  from  his  veteran  posts 
and  bis  musical  associates  escorted  bis  last  remains,  to  the  strains 
of  a  solemn  dirge,  played  by  a  great  band  of  two  hundred  musi- 
cians. Crowds  thronged  the  street,  remembering  the  favorite 
bandmaster's  last  march,  heading  the  white-coated  Twenty-second 
Regiment,  a  year  and  a  half  ago,  at  Sherman's  funeral. 

Beauclehc. 

ON  the  Republican  ticket  no  man  is  more  deserving  of  support 
than  George  H.  Bahrs,  who  is  a  candidate  for  Superior  Judge. 
Mr.  Bahrs  has  lived  here  all  his  life,  and  his  record  is  an  open 
book  without  a  blemish  upon  a  single  page.  That  Mr.  Bahrs  will 
reflect  credit  upon  the  office  to  which  he  will  doubtless  be  elected 
goes  without  saying.  He  is  an  honorable  man,  who  numbers  his 
friends  in  this  community  by  the  thousands. 


CHARLES    S.    TELTON. 

CHARLE8  S.  TILTON,  the  City  and  County  Surveyor,  is  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  ablest  men  on  the  coast  in  his  profession. 
He  has  been  connected  with  the  Surveyor's  office  in  this  city  for 
over  twenty  years,  and  probably  knows  more  than  any  other 
man  about  the  municipal  affairs  with  which  his  office  is  inter- 
ested. He  is  a  native  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  some  fifty  years  of  age, 
and  is  descended  from  Puritan  stock.  Though  born  in  the 
old  Bay  State,  Mr.  Tilton  is  a  true  Calif ornian  in  every 
particular.  He  has  lived  in  this  city  since  childhood, 
and  is  thoroughly  identified  with  its  interests.  He 
is  well  known  as  a  reliable  and  trustworthy  citizen, 
who  has  been  honored  by  public  office  and  has  shown  that  he  is 
truly  worthy  of  the  trust   placed   in  him.     Mr.  Tilton  is  a  gradu- 


ate  of  the  public  schools  of  this  city,  and  his  is  a  prominent 
figure  in  local  affairs.  He  first  entered  the  office  of  the  City  and 
County  Surveyor  during  its  administration  by  George  C.  Potter. 
For  two  decades  he  has  been  connected  with  that  office.  In  1885- 
86  he  was  elected  Surveyor,  and  was  again  elected  in  1890.  The 
Republican  party,  having  perfect  trust  in  his  ability  and  honesty, 
has  again  nominated  him  for  the  office.  Mr.  Tilton  is  a  member 
of  a  number  of  secret  societies,  in  all  of  which  his  executive 
ability  and  energy  have  given  him  high  rank.  He  is  certainly 
deserving  of  all  the  success  which  attaches  to  his  career,  for  in 
all  respects  is  he  a  man  worthy  of  the  highest  esteem.  In  re- 
turning bim  to  the  office  with  which  he  has  been  so  longjion- 
nected,  the  people  will  properly  testify  their  appreciation  of  his 
many  excellent  services  to  the  city. 


IS  it  not  about  time,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  he  is  asking  the 
suffrages  of  the  people  for  the  very  important  office  of  Sheriff, 
that  Mr.  Blattner  should  impress  upon  the  deputies  employed  in 
his  office  that  they  are  drawing  the  people's  money  for  city  work, 
and  not  for  acting  as  messengers  and  heelers  for  the  notoriously 
corrupt  bosses  of  Third  street?  County  Clerk  Btattner's  chief 
claim  to  support  for  the  office  of  Sheriff  seems  to  be  that  he 
evidently  believes  in  the  famous  diction  of  Vanderbilt  regarding 
the  public,  and  is  satisfied  to  rest  his  case  with  Kelly  and  Crim- 
mins.  It  will  be  a  bad  day  for  the  city  and  county  when  Blattner 
is  elected  Sheriff  of  San  Francisco. 


SOME  member  of  his  family  will  succeed  to  the  business  of  the 
late  Fred  C.  Siebe,  Jr.,  who  died  last  week.  Meanwhile,  the 
affairs  of  the  office  are  being  ably  managed  by  the  efficient  chief 
clerk,  F.  A.  Chapuis. 

^PRICE'S 


Powder 


Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard 


' 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NKWS  I.KTTKK. 


OUGHT   A    BRIDE   OF    THIRTY-NINE    SPORT    ORANGE 

BLOSSOMS? 

TBI  burning  question  is  now  agitating  the  Parisian  press 
whether  a  woman  thirty-nine  years  of  age  shall  or  shall  not 
sport  the  traditional  white  dress  with  the  conventional  orange 
bto9sonis.  The  French  papers  are  of  the  opinion  it  is  ridiculous 
for  an  aged  girl  of  the  mature  age  of  thirty-nine  to  be  so  giddy, 
and  bint  that  when  a  woman  puts  down  her  age  at  tbirty-nine  it 
is  reasonable  to  presume  she  is  well  on  in  the  forties.  The  French 
are  nothing  if  not  cruel,  and  they  solemnly  say  statistics  show 
more  women  of  twenty-nine,  thirty-nine  and  forty-nine  getting 
married  than  any  other  age,  which  is  evidence  of  their  dislike  to 
enter  on  the  next  decade. 

The  French  press  say  Americans  are  more  sensible  in  the  man- 
ner of  wedding  dress  than  themselves,  and  give  instances  of 
happy  weddings  among  the  rich  where  the  bride  wore  a  tailor- 
made  dress.  It  laughs  to  scorn  the  elaborate  bridal  dress,  and 
asks  a  halt  in  the  extravagance  of  the  ceremony.  Naturally  this 
question  is  an  all-important  one,  and  it  occupies  much  atten- 
tion. We  have  made  a  canvas  among  the  jeuncsse  doree  of  the  city 
on  the  question  whether  a  bride  of  thirty-nine  shall  wear  the 
generally  accepted  bridal  toggery  and  tiowerage  or  appear  in  some 
simple  every-day  gown,  innocent  of  the  signs  of  chastity,  for  the 
star  blossoms  are  significant  of  purity.  Incidentally  we  asked 
whether  weddings  should  be  celebrated  with  pomp  or  not. 

Mr.  James  I).  Phelan,  owing  to  his  well-known  artistic  tastes 
and  mvoir  vivre  and  savoir  faire.  was  sought  out  first,  and  after 
some  modest  hesitation,  natural  to  artists,  said:  "  Well,  my  dear 
fellow,  I'd  be  charmed  to  give  you  any  assistance  possible,  but  it 
is  perfectly  immaterial  to  me  how  a  woman  dresses.  I  never 
bother  with  such  trivial  things.  But,  as  you  press  me,  I  must 
say  that  pomp  and  ceremony,  to  dazzle  the  vulgar  public,  is  well 
and  good,  when  the  people  are  in  rich  circumstances,  but  for 
poor  people  to  mortgage  the  homes,  as  I  know  of  several  having 
done,  in  order  to  give  their  daughters  a  fashionable  marriage, 
is  the  acme  of  foolishness.  As  to  orange  blossoms,  I  am  of  the 
opinion  that  should  be  left  entirely  to  the  wearers'  tastes.  A 
matured  maiden  of  thirty-nine  or  forty-nine  would  look  ridiculous 
in  the  dress,  I  assure  you.  Oh,  I  have  nothing  to  suggest;  well, 
yes.  I  don't  see  why  a  woman  need  not  assume  a  toilette  which 
is  not  de  rigeur;  for  instance,  she  could  have  the  jupe  fourreauet  d 
traine  bouillonnee  de  huit  centimetres  au  bas  en  velours  vert  pistache 
tres  tendre.  The  corsage  should  be  short  in  velours  vert,  oavert  dans 
le  dos  but  particularly  en  devant. 

Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham,  from  his  long  association  with  the 
haute  voice  of  two  continents  and  his  having  assisted  at  many  matri- 
monial functions,  was  begged  for  an  opinion.  "  Ah,"  sighed  the 
scion  of  the  house  of  Montrose,  "a  plain 
gentleman  like  me,  who  has  almost  for- 
saken the  foibles  and  fripperies  of  fashion; 
what  do  I  care  ?  But,  hang  it  all,  dear  boy, 
why  should  a  woman  of  tbirty-nine  or  forty- 
nine  want  to  get  married?  Faugh!  Orange 
blossoms?  When  a  girl  is  fair  and  tender, 
and  when,"  commenced  Donald,  while  the 
dreamy  light  of  love  played  over  his  face, 
"her  face  is  of  that  exquisite  tinting  which 
puts  to  mournful  blush  the  hues  of  an  early 
New  York  dawn,  let  her,  I  pray  you,  de- 
spoil the  orange  groves  of  the  south  to  put 
blossoms  on  her  head;  but,  faugh,  not  a 
woman  of  forty-nine.  What  would  I  sug- 
gest— a  silk  gown  a  larges  ragures  cyclamen 
et  vert — nil;  corsage  tres  plat,  boutonne  derriere. 
You  understand  why,  eh  ?  Manches  avcc 
pouf  bouffant  tres  courts.  Au  corsage,  dontell 
fine  drapee  formant  bolero  et  retenue  par  des 
choux  de  velours  jaune." 

Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway's  opinion  was 
sought.  The  leader  of  fashion  was  found 
on  a  high  stool  making  up  some  accounts, 
and  when  told  the  mission  of  the  visitor, 
said:  "Oh,  come  off."  This  remark,  how- 
ever, would  not  pass,  and  when  he  was 
told  that  the  elite  of  the  community  had 
given  their  opinion,  and  was  shown  what 
Donald  deV.  had  said,  he  remarked  he 
«•  would  not  be  downed  ;  no,  sir."  "  I  have 
been  best  man,  everything  but  bridesmaid 
at  a  wedding,  and  I  go  in  for  a  swell  wed- 
ding. Of  course  the  Sharon  wedding  was 
the  swaggerest  ever  given  here;  but  that 
is  going  back  too  far.  About  dress,  I 
think  if  I  were  going  to  get  married,  I'd 
like  my  bride  to  be  dressed  in  canailte  vert 
avec  des  fleurs  de  pommes  de  terre  et  grisetles 
doux.  La  pelouse  should  be  well  noblesse 
oblige  and  the  demi  train  honi  soil  qui  mal 
ypense.  Par  de  tout  ravissant.  La  lingerie 
avec  boucoup  de  dentelle  tres  fine,  et  la  chemise 
ire's  ouverte.  I  don't  take  a  back  seat  to  any 


of  them,"  said  the  leader,  as  he  threw  down  his  quill  In  an  ex- 
hausted way. 

Messrs.  Gus  and  Jack  Casserly  were  decidedly  of  the  opinion  it 
was  an  absurdity  for  a  woman  of  thirty-nine  or  forty-nine  to  wear 
the  bridal  costume  which  is  affected  by  the  young  and  tender. 
"Ah,"  said  Jack,  "  when  the  subject  was  broached,  ■•  I  would  ad- 
vise brides  of  that  age,  something  of  the  withered  leaf  variety — a 
kind  of  mellon  yellow  for  the  corsage  with  a  dull  brown  for  the 
continuations." 

Mr.  Ward  McAllister's  gentle  nature  would  not  permit  him  to 
give  an  expression.  "  My  dear  sir,"  said  the  great  steamship 
councillor,  <<  let  a  woman  dress  as  she  pleases,  so  long  as  the 
breakfast  is  good  and  the  champagne  irreproachable.  I  should 
advise  a  veil,  my  dear  boy;  hide  her  blushes  at  being  caught  in 
such  an  equivocal  position.  Ah,  there  is  something  vulgar  about 
a  marriage;  don't  you  think  so?  Don't  you  think  that  as  such 
things  ought  to  be,  that  it  should  be  done  secretly.  My  dear  boy, 
the  English  marriage  service  was  brutal,  disgustful;  you  remem- 
ber it,  don't  you;  It  was  too  plain,  and  gave  a  person  very  queer 
ideas.  I  have  often  woodered  whether  English  girls  ever  read  the 
ceremony,  and  after  reading  it  ever  went  through  the  ordeal." 

Mr.  Horace  G.  Piatt,  whose  knowledge  of  law  is  only  equalled 
by  his  knowledge  of  feminines,  said  he  had  no  idea  about  dreBS, 
his  mind  being  now  a  confused  jumble  about  art  schools  and 
pictures,  and  other  important  matters.  He  would  suggest  a  kind 
of  Galatea  dress,  rather  open  and  airy.  "  It  is  my  regret,"  said 
the  great  lawyer,  <•  that  the  dress  of  man  is  so  made  as  to  veil 
from  eager  eyes  the  beauties  of  the  manly  form.  How  much  bet- 
ter would  I  not  look  in  an  Elizabethean  costume?  I  suppose  I 
must  drown  my  regrets,"  and  he  turned  to  his  immortal  book  on 
the  rights  of  married  women. 

Colonel  H.  I.  Kowalsky  was  brutal.  "  Sir,"  he  said,  "  they 
can  do  as  they  choose.  But  were  I  a  woman,  I'd  get  mar- 
ried in  a  Mother  Hubbard." 


THE  Chinese  Consul  expressed  the  opinion  that,  in  consequence 
of  the  Geary  Bill,  Chinese  merchants  on  a  tour  through  the 
United  States  could,  and  probably  would,  be  made  to  suffer  the 
indignity  of  arrest  and  the  punishment  of  lying  in  some  jail  until 
he  could  prove  his  identity.  The  possibility  of  arrest  for  not 
carrying  along  identification  papers,  of  course  exists  in  all  countries 
where  there  are  pastport  regulations;  the  probability,  however,  is 
very  small  in  a  civilized  country  like  ours,  if  the  offender  can 
show  plausible  proof  of  his  offense  having  been  caused  against 
his  will  or  by  mere  negligence.  At  all  events  the  carrying  of  identi- 
fication papers,  where  the  law  requires  it,  is  a  hardship  of  so  in- 
significant a  kind  that  no  sensible  man  ought  to  complain. 


T 


HE  ROYAL  Baking  Powder  exceeds 
all  others  in  leavening  power,  in  purity 
and  wholesomeness,  and  is  used  generally  in 
families,  exclusively  in  the  most  celebrated 
hotels  and  restaurants,  by  the  United  States 
Army  and  Navy,  and  wherever  the  best  and 
finest  food  is  required.  All  teachers  of  cook- 
ing schools  and  lecturers  upon  culinary  matters, 
except  the  employes  of  manufacturers  of  other 
brands,  use  and  recommend  the  Royal. 

New- York  State  Analyst:  •  '$ 

The  Royal  Baking  Powder  is  superior 
to  any  other  powder  which  I  have  ex- 
amined; a  baking  powder  unequaled  for 
purity,  strength  and  wholesomeness. 

The  United  States  Government  tests  (Ag'l  Dep. 
bulletin  13,  p.  599)  show  the  Royal  Baking  Powder 
superior  to  all  others. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


WD 


""We   Obey    no   Wand    but   Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

A  STATUE,  by  some  mystic  influence  endowed  with  life,  is  not 
new  to  the  stage.  Niobe  aa  an  exponent  of  the  idea  is,  how- 
ever, so  different  from  any  of  her  prototypes  as  to  claim  the  virtue 
of  novelty,  if  not  of  originality.  Any  one  who  has  read  F.  W. 
Anstey's  fantastic  tale,  A  Tinted  Venus,  will  recognize  the  motive 
of  Niobe.  But  no  reading  can  give  an  adequate  idea  of  the  thor- 
oughly delightful  manner  in  which  that  motive  is  elaborated  both 
by  the  authors  of  the  comedy  and  by  the  lovely  woman  who  forms 
its  central  figure.  Iaabelle  Coe,  as  Amphion's  royal  widow  brougbt 
up  to  date,  is  grotesque  and  amusing  as  an  anachronism  and  in 
the incongcuousness  of  the  Hellenic  del  Sarte  system  applied  to 
modern  conversational  purposes,  while  her  grace  of  movement 
and  beauty  of  pose  give  a  wonderful  charm  to  the  archaic  formality 
of  her  salutations  and  other  observances  of  every  day  social  usage. 
The  imaginative  auditor  will  find  a  decidedly  artistic  enjoyment 
in  Niobe,  as  well  as  a  fund  of  drollery  and  amusement.  The 
dialogue  is  full  of  the  spirit  of  genuine  humor,  without  running 
over  into  coarseness,  on  which,  less  skillfully  treated,  it  might  so 
easily  trench.  What  Niobe  might  be  without  so  graceful,  fair,  and 
adaptable  a  heroine  may  be  questioned — what  it  is  at  the  Baldwin 
ia  a  thoroughly  enjoyable  and  wholesome  evening's  entertainment. 
»  »  # 

George  R.  Edeson  has  an  excellent  part  in  Peter  Amos  Dunn, 
and  enters  into  it  thoroughly.  The  authors  have  given  to  the 
easy-going  insurance  man  two  characteristics,  a  positive  and  a 
negative,  not  often  combined  in  the  comedy  husband  similarly 
placed — a  notable  absence  of  anything  like  "  giddying"  propensi- 
ties under  the  most  trying  circumstances,  and  a  genuinely  good- 
natured  sympathy  for  his  unwelcome  charge.  Mr.  Edeson  makes 
both  these  items  apparent  without  effort,  and  yet  brings  out  ad- 
mirably all  the  fun  in  the  part,  and  it  is  no  little.  Minnie  Monk 
comes  out  distinctively  as  the  family  Medusa,  sister-in-law  Helen ; 
Charles  Goote  is  not  bad  as  Corney  Giirfin,  barring  the  slight 
drawback  that  his  speech  is  wholly  unintelligible,  and  the  rest 
of  the  people  come  on  and  go  off  and  say  what  is  set  down  for 
them  with  more  or  less  ability.  James  Lackaye  makes  a  good 
bit  of  humorous  by-play  of  the  old  man's  sly  inspection  of  the 
pretty  actresses'  photographs. 

•  *  • 

Tangled  Up,  which  Messrs.  de  Lang  and  Rising  present  this 
week  at  the  Bush-street  Theatre,  is  an  adaptation  from  tha 
French,  and  with  the  inevitable  French  comedy  theme — a  bus- 
band  who  goes  gallivanting  during  his  wife's  absence,  and  the 
resultant  troubles  and  woes  which  the  average  husband  in  real 
life  escapes  by  better  management  or  better  luck.  Tangled  Up  is 
neither  especially  better  nor  worse  than  its  class.  There  is  con- 
siderable humor  and  some  wit  in  its  talk,  the  main  fault  being  in 
the  construction,  which  is  not  clear  or  coherent.  Mr.  Louis  de 
Lange  bears  moat  of  the  burden  of  the  playing,  and  makes  it 
lively  and  amusing  with  an  unusual  spice  of  originality  in  his 
methods.  Alexander  Clark  plays  well  the  part  of  an  irascible  old 
soldier,  and  some  of  the  other  people  are  fairly  up  to  the  require- 
ments. Most  of  them,  however,  including  all  the  women,  are 
fairly  below  it,  and  do  about  as  little  toward  keeping  up  the  life 
of  the  comedy  as  they  could  do  and  live.  The  regulation  young 
lover,  Tom  Gilder,  is  Inane  with  an  inanity  even  beyond  that  of 
his  genus,  and  the  deep  resentment  of  the  audience  is  aroused 
against  the  unknown  rescuer  who,  we  are  told,  has  fished  him 
out  of  the  ocean  behind  the  scenes  when  he  was  safely  over- 
board. The  waiter  with  the  cough  should  go  to  a  hospital  for 
consumptives  to  learn  what  a  cough  is  like.  Even  though  con- 
sumption be  contagious,  as  asserted,  the  public  will  cheerfully 
take  the  risk.  Mr.  Rising  sings  in  a  pleasing  voice  a  merry 
chanson,  and  Gilbert  Gregory  supplements  with  some  good  steps 
a  poor  version  of  the  everlasting  Boom-de-ay.  It  is  as  bad  in 
taate  as  in  judgment  to  make  political  forecasts  in  a  comic  song, 
as  Mr.  de  Lange  should  instruct  this  singer.  In  act  1 1.  Lottie 
Mortimer  dances  the  serpentine  dance  well  and  gracefully,  and 
swings  her  diaphanous  skirts  with  charming  deftness.  Tangled 
Up  will  run  another  week. 

*  *  • 

In  McFee  of  Dublin,  which  will  follow  Ton  Tonson  at  the  Cali- 
fornia next  week,  John  T.  Kelly  has,  it  is  said,  a  novel  and 
humorous  part  as  Lord  McFee.  The  piece  was  written  by  Mr. 
Kelly  and  Charles  T.  Vincent.  The  company  includes  Florrie 
West,  Adelaide  Randall,  Harry  Kelly,  and  others,  and  the  special- 
ties introduced  will  be  a  feature.  Mr.  Kelly  remains  at  the  Cali- 
fornia but  one  week,  Monday,  October  17th,  being  the  date  of 
3  oung  Salvini'a  appearance. 

*  •  * 

Nothing  But  Money  has  been  preceded  this  week  at  Stockwell's 
by  a  one-act  play,  Victims  of  Science,  by  Mrs.  D.  F.  Verdenal.  It 
ia  strange  that  the  late  rage  for  hypnotic  experiment  has  not 
oftener  inspired   the  playwrights,  but   Mrs.  Verdenal's   attempt 


will  hardly  form  an  encouragement.  The  idea  might  be  worked 
up  into  a  good  play,  but  the  author  has  singularly  failed  to 
do  it.  If  woman  is  to  come  to  the  front  as  a  playwriter,  she  has 
certainly  had  a  set-back  to  her  onward  march  in  the  present 
Stockwell  engagement.  It  is  but  fair  to  say,  however,  that  the 
general  public  does  not  appear  to  indorse  this  critic's  view  of 
Nothing  but  Money,  as  either  the  play  or  the  bright  little  theatie 
itself  and  its  popular  management  have  enabled  Stockwell's  al- 
most to  defy  the  anti-election  excitement,  good  houses  having 
prevailed  during  the  engagement  so  far. 

•  *  * 

The  collapse  of  the  Alcazar  has  left  many  members  of  ita  com- 
pany out  of  an  engagement.  One  of  them,  Victory  Bateman,  has 
been  lucky  enough  to  secure  an  engagement  at  Stockwell's.  The 
closing  of  the  Alcazar  may  serve  to  illustrate  the  fact  that  a  close- 
fisted  policy  is  not  necessarily  good  business  management,  and 
that  a  manager  who  would  conduct  a  theatre  to  success  must  be 
able  to  see  further  than  the  end  of  his  nose,  however  difficult  of 
accomplishment  that  feat  may  be. 

*  *  * 

Maritana  is  one  of  the  operas  that  never  pall  upon  the  popular 
taste.  Its  harmonious  numbers  are  familiar,  but  never  stale. 
The  week  at  the  Tivoli  has  proved  its  popularity  anew,  and  the 
music,  which  is  well  adapted  to  the  Tivoli  singers,  has  seldom 
had  a  better  rendering  here.  It  will  be  followed  next  week  by 
Strauss'  musical  opera,  The  Bat. 

it  •  • 

George  Riddle's  last  appearance  here  was  made  on  Monday 
evening  in  the  musical  and  verbal  presentation  of  A  Midsummer 
Night's  Dream.  The  fairy  comedy  could  hardly  be  brought  out  more 
distinctively  as  to  character  by  a  full  cast  than  by  Mr.  Riddle's 
changing  voice.  The  reader  is  eminently  fitted  by  nature  for  a 
dramatic  reader,  and  has  evidently  improved  his  gifts  by  study 
and  thought.  He  is  an  ardent  Shakespearean,  and  his  best  work 
is  in  the  interpretation  of  the  master.  The  orchestra  did  marvel- 
ous work  with  the  Mendelssohn  music  written  for  this  play,  con- 
sidering the  short  time  given  for  rehearsal,  and  did  great  credit  to 
Mr.  Stewart's  ability  as  a  director.  The  entertainment  was  one 
of  the  most  refined  and  delightful  ever  given  here,  and  that  the 
hall  was  not  packed  may  be  safely  charged  to  a  lack  in  the  pres- 
ent development  of  public  taste — aided  a  little  perhaps  by  the 
bubbling  of  the  political  pot. 

#  #  « 

The  programme  for  the  Carr-Beel  concert  at  Irving  Hall  this 
afternoon  is  as  follows:  Trio,  op.  26,  Dvorak,  Mrs.  Carr,  Messrs. 
Beel  and  Heine;  song  by  Cowen,  Mrs.  Sutherland;  cello  solo, 
Mr.  Louis  Heine;  song  by  Goring  Thomas,  Mrs.  Sutherland; 
sonate  for  piano  and  violin,  op.  13,  Paderewski,  Mrs.  Carr  and 
Mr.  Beel.  The  Dvorak  and  Paderewski  numbers  are  novelties 
here,  both  being  rendered  seasonable  by  the  facts  of  Paderewski's 
coming  visit  and  Dvorak's  assumption  of  the  directorship  of  the 
New  York  Conservatory  of  Music.  Musically,  the  sonate  will  be 
equally  interesting  to  pianists  and  violinists. 

#  #  # 

The  Paderewski  question  seems  to  be  definitely  settled  by  the 
following  telegram  received  by  8herman,  Clay  &  Co.  of  this  city, 
from  C.  F.  Tretbar,  of  the  Steinway  piano  firm  of  New  York: 
"  Paderewski's  secretary  cables  from  London  that  the  pianist 
will  positively  begin  bis  American  engagement  in  San  Francisco 
December  8th.  He  is  rapidly  recovering  from  bis  attack  of  rheu- 
matic fever,  and  will  spend  a  few  weeks  in  the  south  of  France." 
»  *  # 

The  change  of  date  of  Paderewski's  first  recital  was  agreeable 
news  to  those  having  in  charge  the  first  production  of  Rosewald's 
new  opera,  Baroness  Meta,  November  19th,  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Woman's  Exchange.  A  first  general  rehearsal  was  had  last 
Sunday  afternoon,  and  the  few  admitted  to  hear  were  astonished 
and  delighted.  Both  score  and  words  are  the  sole  work  of  Mr, 
Rosewald.  The  latter  are  bright  and  sparkling  as  the  music  to 
which  they  are  set.  The  thorough  drill  of  Mr.  and  Mme.  Rose- 
wald and  the  excellent  voices  of  the  Bingers  insures  a  fine  produc- 
tion of  the  new  opera. 

•  •  • 

The  most  interesting  of  dramatic  event?  in  the  immediate  future 
will  be  the  appearance  of  Alexander  Salvini  at  the  California.  It 
is  reported  that  when  the  great  tragedian  first  saw  his  son  as  a 
player,  he  bade  him  doff  his  toga  and  buskins,  and  go  home  and 
saw  the  wood,  or  something  of  that  sort.  Genius  and  critical 
judgment  do  not  always  consort,  and  fortunately  the  son  seems 
to  have  thought  so,  and  nnfilially  went  on  acting.  He  is  now  an 
acknowledged  star  in  the  line  of  romantic  and  classic  drama 
which  he  has  adopted.  His  personation  of  Don  Cresar  de  Bazan 
is  said  to  be  very  near  perfection,  and  the  production,  as  to 
mounting  and  costuming,  the  most  gorgeous  that  stirring  drama 
has  ever  received.  He  will  come  to  the  California  on  the  17th 
Inst,  for  a  limited  engagement. 

•  #  • 

A  joint  meeting  was  held  last  Monday  evening  by  the  boards  of 
lady  managers  of  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage  and  the  Hahnemann 
Hospital,  to  perfect  arrangements  for  their  combined  benefit  at 
the  Grand  Opera  House,  November  lat.  The  Young  Ladies' 
Saturday  Morning  Orchestra  will  afford  the  entertainment,  and 


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BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LKTTEB 


none  who  Attended  the  incceuful  concert  pivcn  by  this  society 
last  February  will  doubt  that  it  will  be  ft  r»re  one.  The  orchestra 
has  been  trained  and  directed  t>y  J.  H.  Ro-ewald,  and  the  remark- 
able progress  during  the  year  will  be  evident  at  the  coming  per- 
formance. The  solo  singers  are  Mrs.  Everett  Wise,  n-'c  McAllister, 
and  Miss  Julia  Newman;  solo  violinist.  Miss  Alice  Ames.  Tickets 
for  the  concert  can  be  had  ol  the  ladies  of  either  institution,  or 
from  J.  H.  Love,  who  will  assist  in  the  management,  and  will 
have  charge  of  the  sale  of  reserved  seats.  The  box  plan  will 
open  at  Sherman  £  Clay's,  October  28th. 
•  •  » 
Mr.  Joseph  Holt?.,  treasurer  of  the  Tivoli,  wilt  take  a  benefit  at 
that  house,  October  20th.  Faithful,  efficient  and  courteous,  Mr. 
Holt£  well  deserves  the  popularity  he  enjoys,  and  which  will  in- 
sure him  a  full  house  at  the  coming  benefit. 

Monday,  October  10th,  Geo.  W.  Lederer's  company  will  pro- 
duce, at  Stock  well's,  Divorce  Bay,  a  farce  adapted  from  the  Ger- 
man by  B.  F.  Roeder  and  Kirke  la  Shelle. The  J.  C.  Duff  opera 

company  will  follow  Xiobe  at  the  Baldwin,  opening  October  17th, 
in  Trial  by  Jury  and  Cavalleria  Rusticana.——'Sext  Monday  even- 
ing Sonsa's  Marine  Band  will  have  its  formal  opening  at  the  Au- 
ditorium, Chicago.  The  second  week  will  be  devoted  to  concerts 
in    honor   of  the  dedication  of  the  World's  Fair  buildings,  with 

Theodore  Thomas  as  director-general. The  Stowaway  will  come 

to  the  Bush,  October  17th,  for  one  week  only. Ali  Baba  is  now 

in  the  2Sth  week  of  its  run  at  the  Chicago  Opera  House,  having 
already  matched  the  record  of  Sinbad.  Mr.  Henderson  has  issued 
a  beautiful  souvenir,  in  book  form,  with  illuminated  programmes 

of  all  his  extravaganzas. Clara  Morris  will  soon  play  a  limited 

engagement  here,  bringing  one  or  two  new  plays. The  Mascot 

will  be  put  on  at  the  Tivoli,  October  17th. M'Ue  Simon,  a  prima 

donna  from   Berlin,  will  give  a  concert  at  Irving  Hall,  October 

14th. The  second  of  Magda   Bugge's  interesting  concerts  will 

be  given  to-night,  at  Kohler  &  Chase's  Hall,  and  a  third  on  the 
following  Saturday  evening.  Miss  Bugge  has  a  masculine  touch 
and  a  technique  which  enables  her  to  interpret  the  most  difficult 

and  intricate  compositions. Fiji  was  the  name  of  the  German 

play  on  which  Divorce  Day  is  founded.  Its  author  is  the  famous 
German  writer,  Munsted,  and  in  its  original  form  the  play  ran 
fifteen  hundred  nights  in  Berlin,  Vienna  and  Paris. 


THE    COLEMAN,    OF    NEW    YORK    CITY. 

ONE  of  the  most  popular  houses  in  New  York  city  among  Cali- 
fornians  who  visit  the  great  metropolis  is  the  Coleman,  at 
Broadway  and  Twenty-seventh  streets.  It  is  only  natural  that 
Californians  should  be  attracted  thither,  for  the  proprietor  is  Mr. 
H.  H.  Fearson,  who  is  well  known  throughout  this  State,  of  which 
he  was  a  resident  for  some  years.  Mr.  Pearson,  it  will  be  remem- 
bered, was  the  manager  of  the  Baldwin  Hotel  just  before  he  went 
East.  In  the  Coleman  he  has  another  first-class  hotel  on  the  Eu- 
ropean plan.  As  usual  with  all  hostelries  under  his  manage- 
ment, all  the  accommodations  are  the  best.  Mr.  Pearson  fore- 
sees every  want  of  his  guests,  and  promptly  and  properly  fulfills 
them.  The  Coleman  is  very  conveniently  located,  many  of  the 
street  railroads  passing  its  door,  and  others  being  within  easy 
reach  from  the  portals.  For  instance,  the  Fifth-avenue  stages, 
the  Sixth-avenue  elevated  railroad  station  and  horse  cars  are 
within  a  block,  while  the  horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University 
Place,  West  Shore  Railroad  and  Grand  and  Houston-street  ferries 
pass  the  door.  AH  Californians  who  may  visit  New  York  city 
may  rest  assured  of  the  best  kind  of  treatment  if  they  put  up 
with  mine  host  Pearson. 


Stationery  and  Pictures. 


No  one  is  considered  properly  equipped  for  social  duties  nowadays 
unless  he  or  she  is  not  only  aware  o£  the  very  latest  styles  in  station- 
ery, but  is  also  possessed  of  a  large  and  varied  assortment  of  the 
papers  on  which  it  is  considered  the  proper  thing  to  indite  friendly 
correspondence.  The  beautiful  paper  shown  by  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co. 
in  their  stationery  department,  is  without  exception  the  most  at- 
tractive in  the  city.  It  must  not  be  forgotten,  however,  that  besides 
the  best  note  paper  in  the  market,  put  up  in  handsome  little  boxes, 
this  firm  also  has  a  magnificent  stock  of  line  leather  goods,  including 
purses,  card  cases,  and  many  of  the  various  little  articles  which  are 
so  convenient  for  personal  use.  The  art  department  of  the  house 
daily  attracts  crowds  of  people,  for  the  gallery  holds  many  beautiful 
paintings  and  etchings.  The  gallery  is  always  open,  and  those  who 
have  not  been  there  should  not  delay  a  visit  longer. 

Go  to  John  W.  Carmany,  at  25  Kearny  street  for  all  your  fur- 
nishing goods.  Mr.  Carmany  makes  a  specialty  of  having  the  latest 
styles  and  the  best  goods. 

REGISTRATION    OF    VOTERS 

Closes  at  NEW  CITY  HALL  October  15,  1892. 
On  and  after  Saturday,  October  1st,  office  will  be  open  every 
day  from  9  a.  m.  to  9:30  p.  M. 

Bring  naturalization  papers  wben  registering. 

W.  A.  BK.OWN,  Registrar  of  Voters. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  A  Co Proprietor*.  I  Ai.frkd  Booyikr Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  October  8rd.    Matinee  Suturdny  only. 

N  IOBE! 

ABBOTT  &  TBAI/s  Comedy  Company.  All  langhter  I  160  nights  In 
New  York;  100  ulghts  In  Boston;  50  nights  In  Chicago.  Is  beautifully 
staged.    U splendidly  acted.    A  laugh  o7ery  second.    A  roar  cvory  miuuto 

Prices-?!,  1 1  50,  tl,  SO  cents. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co.. Proprietors.  I  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Only  one  week,  commencing  Monday,  October  10,  Saturday  Matinee, 
the  established  Comedian,  JOHN  T.  KELLY,  aided  by  his  funny  com- 
pany,  in  the  merry  eccentricity, 

McFEE     OF     DUBLIN, 

Hear  the  new  soups!  See  Kelly  daucel  Monday  October  17th,  the  ro- 
mantic actor,  ALEXANDER  SALVINI. 


STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 


L.  R.  Stock  well Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinqhouse Business  Manager. 

Monday,  October  10th.  One  Week.  Matinees  Wednesday  and  Sat- 
urday. The  GEO.  W.  LEDERER'S  STOCK  COMEDIANS,  in  a  roaring  farce 
from  the  German,  entitled, 

DIVORCE    DAY. 

By  Benj.  F.  Roeder  and  Kirke  La  Shelle. 
Seats  now  on  sale. 
Next.— Augustin  Daly's  Great  Success,  The  Passing  Regiment. 


THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 


Mr.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  |  Mr.  Chas.  P.Hall  Manager 

Last  Week!  Commencing  Monday,  October  ICth.  Louis  De  Lanse 
and  Will  S.  Rising  in 

"TANGLED     UP  I  " 
Next  week,  October  17th,  THE  STOWAWAY. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bros Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  Two  Nights  !    W.  Vincent  Wallace's  charming  English  opera. 

MARITANA. 
Alfred  Wilkie  as  Don  Caesar  de  Bazan. 
Monday,  October  10th,  THE  BAT.    "Die  Fledermaus." 
Popular  Prices 25c.  and  60c 

WIGWAM  THEATRE- 

(Corner  Stockton  and  Geary  Streets). 

Chas.  Meyer Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Sau  Francisco's  Recognized  Vaudeville  Resort. 
Week  coommencing  Monday  evening,  Oct.  10th.  the  largest  salaried  com- 
pany traveling,  The   BURTON  STANLEY  OPERA  COMIQUE  COMPANY. 
35  Solo  Artists.    First  Opera, 

BELLS    OF     CORNEVILLE. 

MISS  LIZZIE  HASTINGS  in  her  great  specialty,  entitled  "I  Don't  Know 
and  I  Don't  Care."  First  appearance  of  the  most  finished  trapeze  artiste  on 
the  vaudeville  stage,  MISS  MINNIE  PIERCE ;  the  sketch  artists,  NED  MAR- 
TYN  and  MAMIE  WOODS;  MISS  PEARL  INMAN,  in  one  of  her  taking 
black-face  specialties;  FRED  BULLA  and  FRANK  FOLEY,  the  versatile 
knockabout  kings  of  comedy;  THOMAS  C.  LEARY.  Special  Holiday  Mati- 
nee Friday,  Oct 21. 

Every  evening  at  8.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2. 

Admission  10c.  Reserved  seats  25c.  Box-office  open  from  10  A.  m.  to  1  p.  m. 
and  from  3  to  6  p.  m. 

J^E  QIJV  pf.11^. 

BEST  ASSORTMENT  OF 

Cordials, 
Champagnes,  Wines, 
Liquors,  Table    Deli- 
cacies, Chocolat- 
Menier,  Etc.,  Etc. 
lowest  prices, 

WHOLESALE  and  KETAIL. 
SENT  BY 

EM.MEYER&.CO., 

1047-10W  Market  St.,  S.  F. 

VMADE    Bush  &  Govts  Pianos 
IV  II  A  D  E  Parlor  Organs 

HAINES  Installments         Rentals 


A.  t.  Bancroft  &  Co, 

303  Sutter  St.,  S.F. 


PIANOS 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


AFTER    DINNER    ORATORY. 


IT  seems  paradoxical  that  so  many  men  who  are  unable  to 
"  think  on  their  feet"  in  the  normal  condition  of  respectable 
humanity,  cold  sobriety  will,  under  the  influence  of  that  delight- 
ful trinity  of  joys — good  wine,  good  food  and  good  company,  be- 
come eloquent;  nay,  even  brilliant,  forgetting  all  timidity  and 
willing  to  talk  the  works  out  ot  a  clock.  Perhaps  it  is  they  find 
their  audience  in  a  more  receptive  mood,  and  are  conscious  more 
over  that  what  may  sound  as  wisdom  and  profound  philosophy 
in  the  glare  of  the  lights  and  the  sparkle  of  the  Pommery,  would 
read  like  paltry  vaporings  in  the  chill  realistic  morning  with  the 
accompaniments  of  soda  water  and  penitence.  Few  cities,  if  any, 
in  the  United  States,  can  boast  of  the  wealth  of  after-dinner 
speakers  that  we  possess.  Perhaps  this  is  due  to  the  exbuberance 
of  the  climate  or  to  that  self-confidence  which  seems  inherent  in 
every  son  of  the  Golden  West,  native  born  or  imported.  The  ob- 
servant traveler  who  is  entertained  at  any  of  our  civic  or  private 
banquets  is  impressed  with  this  fact.  In  less  favored  climea 
afterdinner  speaking  is  not  supposed  to  begin  until  after  dinner. 
In  San  Francisco  it  is  not  unusual  to  see  a  gentleman  bubbling 
over  with  enthusiasm  arise  before  the  roast  is  consumed  to  make 
a  "  few  remarks."  Naturally,  the  position  of  toastmaster  amid 
such  a  gifted  people  is  no  sinecure.  His  difficulty  is  not  in  the 
promotion,  but  in  the  restraining  of  eloquence.  He  wears  out 
the  handle  of  his  knife  and  dints  the  table  crying  »  Orderl  Gentle- 
men I   Order." 

Dr.  Edwin  Windele  occupies  an  enviable  position  in  the  role  of 
after-dinner  speakers.  When  the  Doctor  rises  to  respond  to  a 
toast  at  a  medical  banquet,  or  indeed  any  other  feast  for  that 
matter,  there  is  a  far  off  echo  of  the  "  Bells  of  Shandon,"  com- 
bined with  pleasant  murmurings  of  the  "  River  Lee"  in  Dr.  Win- 
dele's  mellifluous  accents.  When  thoroughly  warmed  up  he  soars 
to  the  very  summit  of  »  Corkagian  "  philology,  and  then  suddenly 
and  unexpectedly  will  dilate  with  rare  and  moving  pathos  upon 
the  woes  of  his  unhappy  country.  Such  is  the  art  of  this  gifted 
gentleman  that  no  matter  what  toast  he  responds  to,  the  history 
of  Cork,  his  native  city,  and  the  geneology  of. her  leading  people, 
are  curiously  and  fantastically  interwoven  in  his  speech. 

Mr.  Eugene  Deuprey  prefers  to  reply  to  the  toast  of  "  Our  Hon- 
ored Guest,"  when  the  occasion  offers,  to  any  other  on  the  list. 
Mr.  Deuprey  has  the  knack  of  laying  it  on  th.ck;  eulogy  comes 
as  easy  to  him  as  the  practice  of  usury  does  to  Asa  Fiske. 
No  matter  who  the  guest  may  be  that  is  thus  honored, 
nor  how  high  an  opinion  he  may  have  entertained  of 
himself  since  he  arrived  at  the  use  of  reason, 
Mr.  Deuprey  will  inflate  his  stock  five  hundred  per  cent.  He 
will  discourse  in  this  fashion:  "  I  have  read,  gentlemen,  in  the 
legends  of  the  past,  of  great  and  wise  rulers  donning  an  humble 
disguise  and  mingling  in  the  ranks  of  their  devoted  subjects.  I 
have  heard  of  mortals  entertaining  angels  unawares;  I  am 
familiar  with  instances  where  the  mighty  have  come 
down  from  their  lofty  pinnacles  to  mingle  with  the 
lowly,  and  all  those  beautiful  and  instructive  incidents  almost  over- 
whelm me  to-night,  when  i  lift  my  eyes  to  that  brilliant,  that  illus- 
trious, that  historic  individual  who  is  seated  on  the  right  of  the 
chairman  of  this  feast.  I  question,  gentlemen,  if  there  has  existed 
since  the  beginning  of  the  Christian  era,  a  being  so  spotless  in  his 
domestic  relations,  so  irreproachable  in  his  public  life,  so  unselfish  in 
his  devotion  to  his  country,  as  John  George  Agustus  Slickens,  the 
guest  of  this  evening."  When  the  cheers  which  greet  this  outburst 
have  subsided,  Mr.  Deuprey  will  proceed  to  work  in  his  classical 
parallels.  He  will  select  Julius  Ciesar,  Socrales  Lycurgus,  Seneca, 
Cicero  or  Eparuinondas  and  prove  that  those  people  were  mighty 
small  potatoes  by  comparison  with  the  star  of  the  feast.  In  his  per- 
sonation Mr.  Deuprey  will  bless  him,  and  will  then  sit  down  amid 
thunders  of  applause,  while  the  idol  before  whom  he  has  offered 
sacrifice  returns  thanks  in  the  voice  broken  with  emotion  usual  to 
those  occasions. 

George  R.  B,  Hayes  is  a  very  quaint  and  winning  after-dinner 
orator.  "The  future  of  the  State"  is  a  topic  most  pleasing  to  Mr. 
Hayes.  Our  towering  mountains,  our  gorgeous  rivers,  our  rippling 
streams,  and  our  unexampled  wheat  crop  receive  ample  justice  in 
this  gentleman's  hand.  He  will  begin  with  Northern  California  and 
lead  his  audience  over  every  one  of  its  marble  quarries  without  the 
least  consideration  for  their  corns  and  bunions.  He  will  spring  from 
Inyo  county  into  the  bosom  of  the  Sacramento  valley,  and  grow 
riotous  in  its  grain  fields,  and  praise  its  orchards  until  the  taste  of 
hard  cider  is  on  the  mouth  of  every  one  in  the  company.  He  will 
then  straddle  a  silver  gilt  fog  rolling  in  through  the  Golden  Gate, 
driving  all  forms  of  contagious  diseases  before  it.  Briskly  dismount- 
ing from  the  fog,  he  will  take  a  spin  on  his  intellectual  safety  bicycle 
through  the  Santa  Clara  valley,  the  Napa  valley,  the  Sonoma  valley, 
all  the  valleys,  and  steer  his  delighted  hearers  through  every  vine- 
yard and  into  every  wine  cellar  in  the  State.  Beaves  and  bread- 
stuffs,  fruits,  vegetables  and  sequoias  will  all  receive  their  full  meed 
of  praise.  Then,  with  a  brief  and  disparaging  comparison  between 
the  Land  of  Caanan  and  the  Golden  State,  Mr.  Haj'es  will  resume 
his  seat  and  calmly  receive  the  embraces  of  his  admiring  friends. 

Charles  Weller,  Esq.,  is  never  so  happy  as  when  referring  to  the 
mighty  dead.     When  the  chairman  gets  up  and  in  lachrymose  voice 


informs  the  company  that  alas!  there  is  one  vacant  seat,  one  empty 
glass,  one  knife  and  fork  out  of  commission,  one  gone  over  to  the 
great  majority  since  their  last  merry  gathering,  Mr.  Weller  rubbing 
his  eyes  with  his  napkin  and  making  up  for  his  part  as  it  were,  with 
granulated  eyelids,  will  arise  amidst  profound  silence.  Collecting 
all  the  guests  by  one  expansive  sweep  of  his  hands,  he  will  muster 
them  at  the  grave  of  the  deceased  and  proceed  to  water  the  weep- 
ing willow  with  his  tears.  ,  He  will  squat  them  down 
on  the  cold  marble  and  make  them  shiver  with  woe.  With  the  ham- 
mer of  condolence  he  will  drive  the  epitaph  into  their  bleeding  hearts. 
He  will  make  their  shoulders  ache  with  the  burdens  of  immortelles, 
and  broken  columns  and  other  floral  offerings  they  have  to  pack  to 
that  tomb  under  his  guidance.  When  he  marches  them  away  from 
the  grave,  it  is  to  conduct  them  to  the  desolate  homes  of  the  widows 
and  orphans.  Then  he  will  describe  the  departed  as  he  knew  him 
in  life,  and,  when  at  last  the  clinking  of  the  glasses  is  drowned  in  the 
sobs  of  his  sympathetic  hearers,  Mr.  Weller  will  resume  his  seat  in 
an  agony  of  woe. 

Major  Nat  Brittan  is  probably  one  of  the  readiest  after-dinner 
speakers  that  ever  lived.  Mr.  Brittan's  oratory  is  of  the  stimulating 
sort.  When  there  is  any  mighty  purpose  to  be  accomplished,  he  will 
describe  in  glowing  language  its  vast  importance,  and  it  is  well  known 
that  his  eloquence  has  resulted  in  the  building  of  more  bridges,  in 
Redwood  township,  than  that  of  any  other  orator  who  ever  strug- 
gled with  the  parsimony  of  a  country  Supervisor.  And  this,  too,  not 
unfrequently  when  a  cold  lunch  set  out  on  the  lawn  was  the  only  oc- 
casion for  speaking,  that  is,  when  the  gathering  had  no  claim  to  the 
importance  of  a  public  meeting. 

Judge  Hebbard  is  invariably  selected  to  respond  to  "  The  Ladies." 
The  Judge  always  deals  with  this  hackneyed,  but  ever  beautiful,  sub- 
ject in  a  perfectly  original  manner.  So  familiar  has  he  grown  with 
it  that  when  he  dwells  upon  the  days  of  happy  childhood,  and  the 
ministering  care  of  the  maternal  parent,  he  fingers  a  pretty  little 
charm,  a  feeding  bottle  in  gold,  which  is  attached  to  His  Honor's 
watch  chain.  He  analyzes  the  sex  in  the  most  thorough  manner. 
He  will  begin  at  the  lisping  toddler,  go  to  the  schoolgirl,  progress  to 
the  sweet  girl  graduate,  delight  everybody  with  his  picture  of  maiden- 
hood, wifehood,  and  even  widowhood,  and  top  off  with  the  vener- 
able grandmother  in  glowing  type.  His  respect  for  the  softer  sex  is 
unbounded.  When  naughty,  he  would  punish  them  with  a  whisk 
broom  of  rose  leaves,  and  to  the  man  who  lays  his  hand  upon  a  wo- 
man except  in  the  way  of  kindness,  the  Judge  would  give  the  extreme 
penalty  of  the  law.  Hearing  Judge  Hebbard  describe  woman  as  a 
ministering  angel  at  the  bedside  of  sickness,  makes  every  one  feel 
that  they  could  court  influenza,  or  the  colic,  for  the  pleasure  of  such 
tender  nursing.  As  he  dwells  on  love,  those  of  his  audience  who 
have  portraits  of  their  sweethearts  concealed  about  their  persons 
boldly  produce  them  and  kiss  them  passionately.  Those  who  have 
not,  press  their  lips  to  cigarette  pictures,  such  is  the  mighty  influence 
of  the  Judge's  oratory. 


The  Result  of  Merit. 


When  anything  stands  a  test  of  fifty  years  among  a  discriminating 
people  like  the  Americans,  it  is  pretty  good  evidence  that  there  is 
merit  somewhere.  The  value  of  a  medicine  is  best  proved  by  its  con- 
tinued use  from  year  to  year  by  the  same  persons  and  families,  as 
well  as  by  a  steady  increasing  sale.  Few,  if  any,  medicines  have  met 
with  such  continued  success  and  popularity  as  has  marked  the  intro- 
duction and  progress  of  Brandreth's  Pills,  which,  after  a  trial  of  over 
fifty  years,  are  canceded  to  be  the  safest  and  most  effective  purgative 
and  blood  purifier  introduced  to  the  public. 

That  this  is  the  result  of  merit,  and  that  Brandreth's  Pills  actually 
perform  all  that  is  claimed  for  them  is  conclusively  proved  by  the 
fact  that  those  who  regard  them  with  the  greatest  favor  are  those  who 
have  used  them  the  longest. 

Brandreth's  Pills  are  sold  in  every  drug  and  medicine  store,  either 
plain  or  sugar-coated. 

MISS  MANSON'S  SCHOOL, 

No.  912  GRAND  STREET,   ALAMEDA,    CAL. 

Miss  Manson,  late  Principal  of  Elliott  Wood  Schon],  Lynchburg,  Va,  and 
Miss  M.  E.   Manson,  Late  Associate  Principal,  East  End  Academy,  Bal- 
timore, Md. 

BOARDING  AND   DAY  SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS. 

Term  began  August  3d,  1892;  circulars  and  further  Information  sent  on 
application. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILL8'  COLLEGE  (19th  year},  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Fanseron. 

Mr.  ASHTON  P.  STEVENS, 

HAS  RESUMED  INSTRUCTIONS  ON  THE  BANJO. 


Studio— 26  Montgomery  Street,  Room  8. 


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Oct.  8,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


WHEN    A    WOMAN    HOLDS    THE    REINS. 
[By    D  i    V  xrkoh.] 

WHEN  one  woman  invites  another  woman  to  go  driving  with 
her  the  safest  course  is  to  refuse  the  invitation.  While  a 
firm  believer  in  the  higher  destiny  of  my  sex,  experience  has  com- 
pelled me  to  doubt  a  woman's  fitness  to  hold  the  reins.  Generally 
speaking,  a  woman  is  neither  a  good  nor  a  safe  driver.  To  be 
sure,  the  fame  of  an  occasional  woman  stage-driver  has  pene- 
trated beyond  the  bounds  of  the  wild  and  wooly  West,  just  as 
there  are  women  who  have  gone  to  the  wars  disguised  as  men,  or 
as  once  in  a  while  one  becomes  a  master  machinist,  or  a  steam- 
boat captain.  Some  of  the  early  residents  of  San  Francisco  may 
remember  a  woman  who  drove  a  butcher  cart  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  city.  As  they  remember  her,  she  was  a  sight  for  gods  and  men. 
8he  was  a  buxom  young  woman,  whose  husband,  the  butcher, 
being  well-stricken  in  years,  stayed  in  the  shop.  He  cut  the  meat; 
she  delivered  the  orders.  With  her  cal:co  gown  blown  out  by  the 
wind,  her  right  foot  dangling  over  the  side  of  the  wagon  after  the 
most  approved  fashion  of  Jehu  butcher-boys,  Madame  Arnetz 
drove  that  two-wheeled  butcher  cart  at  a  break  neck  pace  over 
the  cobbles,  and  every  living  thing  from  a  man  to  a  yellow  dog  did 
well  to  scurry  out  of  the  way.  If  rumor  does  not  err,  this  woman 
driver  one  day  was  flung  out  and  killed. 

Of  course,  women  will  resent  the  charge  that  they  do  not  know 
how  to  drive,  but  the  proprietor  of  more  than  one  livery  stable  in 
this  city  is  well  convinced  of  their  inability  to  hold  the  lines. 
"  Whenever  a  lady  wants  to  hire  a  rig  from  me,"  said  a  well-known 
livery-stable  man,  «•  I  always  am  very  sorry  that  my  last  rig  has 
just  been  taken  out.  Why,  I  wouldn't  let  a  woman  have  a  team 
from  my  stable  for  any  money.  Women  are  careless,  apt  to  wreck 
the  rig,  lose  the  robes ;  and  it  gives  a  place  a  bad  name  to  have  the 
horses  running  away  and  going  to  smash.  No;  there's  more  money 
in  refusing  them  than  in  renting  to  them.  Sorry  to  be  disobliging 
to  the  ladies — but — "  and  a  shrug  completed  his  sentence,  and  set 
the  seal  on  his  opinion. 

City  women  whose  muscles  are  soft,  whose  knowledge  of  horses 
is  comprised  in  an  occasional  running  drive  in  the  farmer's  "  two 
horse  wagon,"  or  semi-occasional  outing  in  a  hired  team  in  the 
city,  cannot  hope  to  equal  the  country  girl  in  the  art  of  driving. 
The  latter  has  been  used  to  horses  all  her  life,  has  ridden  them 
bareback  when  a  child,  and  driven  them  in  the  buckboard  as  she 
grew  older;  has  known  each  horse  on  her  father's  place  from  a 
colt,  and  she  probably  knows  something  about  driving.  But  just 
notice  how  she  drives.  She  keeps  one  eye  on  the  horse,  another 
on  the  road;  she  has  a  steady  hand  on  the  reins,  and  a  bridle  on 
her  own  tongue.  Instead  of  laughing  and  talking,  she  gives  her 
whole  attention  to  the  business  of  driving.  She  is  not  expecting 
a  disaster;  ahe  does  not  intend  to  have  one.  Bat  the  average  city 
woman  should  not  be  encouraged  in  the  idea  that  she  might  even 
learn  to  drive.  There  is  a  rule  which  holds  on  all  stage  routes.  One 
woman  may  ride  on  the  front  seat  with  the  driver ;  two  women  may 
not.  The  reason  may  be  that  they  take  up  too  much  room  with 
their  voluminous  skirts  and  handsachels  and  parasols.  Or  it  may  be 
that  it  is  safer  in  case  of  an  accident  to  have  the  third  person  on 
the  front  seat  a  man,  to  hold  the  woman,  while  the  driver  holds 
the  horse.  It  is  almost  safe  to  count  on  a  woman's  screaming, 
trying  to  jump,  or  to  clutch  the  reins.  Many  a  woman  has  lost 
her  life  simply  and  solely  because  she  lost  her  head  first.  It  is 
not  so  long  ago  that  a  crowded  stage  was  descending  one  of  our 
mountain  roads.  The  hillside  rose  steep  on  one  hand,  and  on  the 
other  dropped  abruptly  into  the  bed  of  the  creek  below.  On  the 
steepest  part  of  the  down-grade  the  horses  took  fright,  but  the 
driver  had  them  well  in  hand,  and  called  to  the  passengers  to 
keep  their  seats.  The  lady  who  sat  at  his  left  suddenly  seized 
the  rein  nearest  her  and  pulled  with  all  her  might.  The  horses 
swerved,  the  stage  was  overturned,  the  officious  lady  had  her 
face  cut,  her  front  teeth  knocked  out,  and  her  back  hair  knocked 
off,  and,  covered  with  mud,  confusion  and  bruises,  ahe  said,  "I 
thought  the  driver  called  to  me  to  help  him,  and  so  I  tried  to  pull 
in  the  horses."  This  was  a  very  lame  excuse.  She  limped  for 
weeks  herself. 

It  is  one  thing  to  drive  a  safe  old  plug  in  a  basket  phseton, 
along  a  wide  suburban  road,  with  plenty  of  safe  "  turn  out  " 
places,  and  quite  another  to  drive  a  hired  horse  in  the  crowded 
streets  of  a  bustling  city,  or  along  the  macadam  of  Golden  Gate 
Park.  It  is  not  to  be  denied  that  the  public  never  hear  of  one- 
half  the  accidents  that  take  place  at  the  Park,  and  that  more  are 
not  of  frequent  occurrence  in  the  apace  around  the  band  stand  is 
due  more  to  the  intervention  *of  Providence  than  to  the  good 
driving  of  the  women  who  push  themselves  into  the  throng  of 
vehicles.  Were  the  danger  only  that  of  a  runaway  horse,  it 
might  be  shorn  of  serious  results,  for  a  strong,  firm  band  may  so 
control  and  guide  a  runaway  horse  as  to  keep  the  rig  right  side 
np  on  the  road.  But  few  women  have  enough  strength  in  their 
wrists  to  be  able  to  hold  in  a  horse,  and  the  very  way  they  drive, 
sawing  on  the  bits,  clucking  and  chirruping,  and  flapping  the 
reinB  on  the  horse's  back,  is  enough  to  make  any  self-respecting 
animal  take  the  bit  in  his  teeth  and  run  away.  Women  take 
riskB  that  veteran  drivers  would  pass  by  with  averted  eyes.     For 


instance,  last  week  two  ladies  went  out  driving  to  the  Park. 
They  attempted  the  ascent  of  Strawberry  Hill  despite  the  fact 
that  a  little  steam-engine  was  toot-too-tooing  on  the  road  and  a 
train  of  dirt  cars  pulling  out. 

"  I'm  afraid  Temple's  going  to  shy,"  said  the  driver;  "  I  think 
we're  off  the  grade  as  it  is,"  said  the  other.  With  that  the  driver 
stepped  nimbly  to  the  ground,  handing  the  reins  to  her  compan- 
ion. Her  idea  was  to  take  the  horse  by  the  bridle.  It  was  too 
late;  the  whole  team  was  plunging  down  the  steep  grade  on  the 
side  of  the  road,  the  horse  describing  a  semi-circle,  as  he  dragged 
the  buggy  around  in  his  mad  endeavor  to  escape  from  the  steam 
engine.  Over  turned  the  buggy,  out  shot  the  only  occupant  of 
the  vehicle,  and  flying  upward  and  then  downward  through  space, 
landed  on  her  head,  face  foremost.  The  force  was  terrific,  and 
that  her  neck  was  not  broken  is  a  myatery.  Woman  fashion, 
the  other  stood  on  the  bank,  yelling  and  screaming  at  the  top  of 
her  voice,  "  Look  out,  look  out  for  the  buggy  I  "  It  was  surprising 
how  fast  the  one  who  had  been  dashed  to  the  earth  managed  to 
roll  out  of  the  way  of  the  descending  wreck — for  having  been 
thrown,  ahe  had  got  there  firat,  so  to  speak.  Her  first  act  was  to 
feel  her  nose,  to  see  if  that  member  was  broken.  As  the  two 
women  footed  it  to  the  cars  from  Strawberry  Hill,  leaving  the 
horae  and  the  wreck  in  the  care  of  the  workmen,  the  driver  said, 
"  Well,  I  didn't  think  Temple  would  do  that,  although,  to  be  sure, 
he  did  spill  me  out  by  the  Almshouse  last  week.  No,  women 
haven't  much  horse  sense. 


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10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


THERE  is  now  in  contemplation  a  move  in  the  musical  field  in 
this  city,  which,  if  properly  supported,  will  give  San  Francisco 
the  standing  among  similar  communities  which  it  has  never  yet 
taken.  There  is  not  in  the  United  States  a  city  of  the  same  pop- 
ulation and  artistic  pretensions  which  has  not  a  regularly  organized 
symphonic  orchestra.  San  Francisco,  outside  of  its  theatrical 
orchestras  and  its  amateur  associations,  has  nothing  whatsoever 
in  the  way  of  musical  organization.  A  few  local  musical  en- 
thusiasts are  now  making  an  attempt  to  secure  the  object  named, 
and  if  their  efforts  meet  with  the  financial  support  which  should 
be  a  foregone  conclusion  in  so  wealthy  and  public-spirited  a  com- 
munity, San  Francisco  will  soon  boast  at  least  the  inception  of  an 
orchestral  society,  which  will  eventually  redound  both  to  the  ar- 
tistic enjoyment  and  culture  of  her  people,  and  to  her  higher 
standing  among  sister  cities.  The  history  of  the  movement  is  so 
far  brief,  as  no  decided  steps  can  be  taken  without  the  promise 
of  financial  backing.  In  this  direction  Mr.  John  Parrott  and  his 
family  head  the  list  with  a  subscription  of  $200.  F.  W.  Ludovici 
follows  with  $50.  These  subscriptions,  however,  liberal  as  they 
are,  form  but  a  nucleus,  $2,500  being  needed.  Yet,  if  two  score  or 
so  of  our  citizens  will  contribute  according  to  their  ability, 
the  orchestra  will  soon  be  organized  and  at  rehearsal.  It  is 
highly  creditable  to  our  musicians,  a  tribe  proverbially  jealous 
and  antagonistic,  that  the  leading  soloists  and  directors  are,  for 
the  most  part,  heart  and  soul  for  the  work,  and  ready  to  contribute 
their  work  to  its  accomplishment.  The  Tivoli  proprietors  will 
give  that  house  free  for  day  practice  and  entertainments;  Mr. 
Adolph  Bauer,  whose  skill  and  experience  as  a  leader  are  uni- 
versally acknowledged  to  be  of  a  very  high  order,  will  act  as 
leader  and  organizer  of  the  orchestra,  and  the  majority  of  the 
best  instrumentalists  in  the  city  will  join.  Too  much  cannot  be 
said  in  the  way  of  urging  the  rich  men  of  San  Francisco  to  take 
hold  of  this  project  with  public  spirit,  and  to  carry  it  through  with 
the  energy  and  liberality  for  which  they  have  always  been  noted, 
but  for  which  they  have  lately  permitted  their  reputation  to  become 
somewhat  on  the  wane.  The  sinews  of  combined  artistic  success, 
no  less  than  those  of  war,  are  money.  If  San  Francisco  want  a 
musical  organization  which  shall  place  her  on  an  artistic  level 
with  other  leading  cities,  she  will  have  to  pay  for  the  honor  as 
they  do.  The  subjoined  list  of  subscribers  will  be  added  to  as 
names  come  in,  and  the  News  Letter  list  will  be  complete  to 
date  at  each  issue  until  the  scheme  be  accomplished:  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Parrott,  $50;  Mrs.  C.  de  Guigne,  $25;  Mrs.  J.  A.  Donahoe,  Jr., 
$25;  Mrs.  A.  H.  Payson,  25;  John  Parrott,  $50;  F.  W.  Ludovici, 
$50;  Mrs.  Neustadter,  $5;  Mrs.  D.  Neustadter,  $5;  Mrs.  S. 
Greenebaum,  $5;  Robt.  B.  Hochstadter,  $10;  A.  L.  Seligman,  $10; 
Mrs.  C.  Cushing,  $5;  W.  L.  Carrigan,  $10.  It  is  intended  to  give, 
as  a  first  series,  six  concerts  at  the  Tivoli  on  alternate  Friday 
afternoons  at  three  o'clock,  beginning  October  28th.  Each  five 
dollars  of  the  subscription  entitles  the  subscriber  to  one  ticket 
for  the  series. 


The  Pacific  Yacht  Club  will  signalize  the  closing  of  the  season 
to-day,  by  giving  a  reception  and  hop  in  the  club  house  this 
afternoon  and  evening.  The  circulars  to  members  remind  them 
of  the  interesting  fact  that  the  ducks  will  soon  begin  to  fly,  and 
for  that  reasoD  the  members  should  prepare  themselves  for  the 
duck  dinner,  which  will  soon  be  announced.  One  who  has  not 
feasted  at  a  duck  dinner  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club  has  lost  half 
the  pleasures  of  life.  These  dinners  are  always  most  enjoyable 
affairs,  and  there  is  consequently  a  great  demand  for  invitations 
to  them.  All  the  canvas-backs,  for  those  birds  are  the  favorites 
among  the  club  epicures,  are  spitted  and  cooked  over  a  hot  coal 
fire,  which  does  the  birds  to  a  turn.  Every  man  is  presented 
with  a  whole  duck,  and  required  to  carve  it  himself.  Consider- 
able of  the  fun  of  the  dinner  consists  in  dodging  stray  legs  and 
other  portions  of  the  birds,  which  are  occasionally  shied  off  plates 
by  too  enthusiastic  and  altogether  unpracticed  carvers.  It  is  a 
rule  of  the  board  that  any  duck,  or  portion  thereof,  caught  in 
mid  air,  becomes  at  once  the  property  of  him  who  captures  it.  If 
any  intending  consumer  of  duck,  therefore,  goes  hungry,  he  of 
course  has  no  one  but  himself  to  blame.  An  ode  to  the  canvas- 
back,  composed  for  the  occasion,  will  be  sung  by  Varney  Gaskell 
and  Sam  Ruddell  at  the  first  dinner  of  the  season.  There  is  no 
way  of  preventing  it. 


That  magnificent  picture  of  Joullin's  presenting  the  scene 
of  the  Chinese  mandarin  on  the  balcony  of  ajosshouse, 
offering  his  punk  to  the  gods  just  after  his  adoration  of  their 
wooden  faces,  is  again  in  his  studio  on  Sacramento  street,  which 
is  visited  daily  by  numerous  friends  of  this  able  and  popular  art- 
ist. The  picture  was  shown  at  the  State  Fair  at  Sacramento, 
where  it  attracted  favorable  notice.  It  was  a  great  favorite  with 
the  Chinese  of  the  capital  city,  who  flocked  in  hundreds  to  see  it. 
The  canvas  has  been  described  in  the  daily  press  a  number  of 
times.  Suffice  it  to  say  here  that  it  is  very  good,  and  will  at- 
tract favorable  notice  in  any  collection  of  paintings  in  which  it 
may  be  placed.  In  bis  Chinese  studies,  all  of  which  are  from  life, 
Jaullin  has  displayed  a  strength  that  had  no  opportunity  to  as- 
sert itself  in  his  flower  studies,  charming  as  all  of  them  were. 
This  painting  is  one  of  the  best  seen  in  local  studios  for  a  long 
time.  The  artist  will  send  it  to  the  World's  Fair  exposition  at 
Chicago,  where,  if  it  receives  its  due,  it  will  be  awarded  a  medal 
or  certificate  of  the  highest  merit.  Joullin  has  just  completed  his 
cartoon  of  the  recent  high  jinks  of  the  Bohemian  Club.  It  is  a 
six  foot  canvas,  showing  the  awe-inspiring  figure  of  Buddha  ris- 
ing in  the  majesty  of  its  great  stature  among  the  branches  of  the 
lofty  pines,  the  tops  of  which  are  lighted  up  from  the  blaze  upon 
the  altar  in  front  of  the  statue.  At  the  base  of  the  statue  are 
shown  the  figures  of  the  presiding  officers  of  the  night,  and  in 
the  shadows  of  the  foreground  are  grouped  the  robed  figures  of  the 
celebrants.  It  is  an  imposing  scene,  withal,  and  will  make  an 
interesting   addition   to    the   collection    now  in  the  rooms  of  the 

Bohemian  Club. 

*  »  # 

The  reception  given  by  the  Press  Club,  last  Friday  night,  to  the 
members  of  the  theatrical  profession  who  volunteered  for  the 
club's  entertainment  at  the  Baldwin  on  the  previous  Thursday 
afternoon,  was  a  howling  success.  A  very  diversified  programme 
was  presented,  which  included  vocal  and  instrumental  music,  a 
boxing  exhibition  by  two  prize  fighters,  »  procured  at  great  ex- 
pense for  this  occasion  only,"  and  an  exhibition  of  hypnotism. 
All  the  wearers  of  the  sock  and  buskin,  and  many  were  there, 
enjoyed  themselves  immensely.  The  impression  made  upon  some 
of  them  by  the  hospitality  of  the  club  may  be  judged  by  the  re- 
mark of  Dan.  Sully,  when  he  appeared  in  his  play  at  the  Bush- 
street  Theatre  last  Saturday  night.  In  one  scene,  he  entered  with 
a  sorrowful  countenance,  and  carrying  two  damp  towels  wrapped 
around  his  head.  ■«  Why,  where  have  you  been  ?  "  some  one 
asked.  "  Shure,  an'  I  have  been  up  to  the  Press  Club  reception," 
he  said,  »  an'  there  they  had  bowls  and  bowls  of  punch,  an'  some 
of  them  got  two  strawberries  in  their  punch,  but  they  gave  me 
three." 

*  *  * 

The  German  Press  Club  of  California  decided  recently  to  give 
an  entertainment  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre,  on  Thursday  afternoon, 
October  27th,  and  in  pursuaoce  of  this  plan  the  enterprise  was 
placed  in  charge  of  the  following  Entertainment  Committee:  M. 
Greenblatt,  Dr.  Bormann  Muhr,  Judge  Julius  Reimer,  M.  Koll- 
mann,  Dr.  Emil  Stoessel,  Fritz  Hitzigrath,  Theodore  Kirchoff, 
Emil  Burgh,  D.  Klintworth,  George  Schleyer,  H.  Gauch  and 
William  Saalburg.  Indications  point  to  a  benefit  entertainment 
of  splendid  proportions  and  rare  artistic  value.  A  number  of 
leading  artists  have  already  signified  their  desire  to  participate  in 
the  performance.  Among  the  novelties  in  store  for  the  San  Fran- 
cisco patrons  may  be  mentioned  the  Duff  Opera  Company,  the 
Alexander  Salvini,  Jr.,  Company,  and  the  Margaret  Mather  Com- 
pany. The  committee  has  been  assured  of  the  co-operation  of 
these  companies,  also  of  the  German  Theatre  Company  of  the 
Baldwin  Theatre.  Tickets  will  be  placed  on  sale  tnis  week.  The 
proceeds  are  to  be  devoted  to  the  sick  benefit  fund  of  the  club, 
which  is  a  branch  of  the  National  Association  of  German-Ameri- 
can Journalists  and  Authors. 

*  *  • 

This  week  has  been  replete  with  incidents  illustrative  of  the 
opportunities  offered  unknown  citizens  to  suddenly  acquire  fame 
by  endeavoring  to  aid  in  the  grand  scheme  of  municipal  govern- 
ment originated  by  those  philanthropists  and  men  of  public  spirit, 
Kelly  and  Crimmins.  The  political  outrages  committed  and  at- 
tempted have  been  the  worst  that  ever  this  city  has  known.  All 
the  forces  of  the  Third  street  boodlers  have  been  combined  in  the 
endeavor  to  place  upon  the  register  the  names  of  men  who  will 
do  their  bidding,  and  whose  principal  business  it  will  be  upon 
election  day  to  stuff  the  ballot-box  and  to  prevent  honest  citizens 
from  voting.  There  is  a  slight  satisfaction  in  the  fact  that  some 
of  these  men  have  been  arrested,  and  that  the  presence  of  the  po- 
lice at  the  registration  office  has  deterred  others  from  attempting 
to  get  their  names  upon  the  roll.  In  connection  with  the  attempts 
at  false  registration,  one  of  the  most  astonishing  evidences  of  the 
power  of  the  Third  street  bosses  was  given  by  Police  Judge  John 
Lord  Love,  who,  acting  in  his  judicial  capacity,  liberated  the  im- 
prisoned stuffers  on  bail  bonds  that  were  not  worth  the  paper 
they  were  written  on.  Judge  Love  is  a  candidate  for  Superior 
Judge,  and  he  must  surely  feel  confident  of  success  at  the  polls 
with  the  aid  of  his  corrupt  masters  when  he  debases  himself  so 
far  as  to  aid  publicly,  as  he  has  done,  the  endeavor  of  these  vile 
men  to  steal  the  city  offices  from  the  people.     It  is   not  necessary 


OrtoUr  8,  1892. 


8AN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


to  c&II  the  attention  of  the  citizens  to  the  fact  that  they  cannot 
afford  to  place  upon  the  Superior  Bench  so  servile  a  tool  of  Kelly 
and  Crimmins  as  this  disgraced  Police  Judge.  1  also  find  it  nec- 
essary to  refer  again  to  Judge  Troutt,  whose  peculiar  actions 
upon  the  bench  at  various  time?  have  called  forth  the  comments 
of  the  press  more  than  once.  This  Judge,  it  appears  from  the 
testimony  upon  the  stand  of  the  notorious  Mike  Dunn,  delivered 
to  the  latter  an  order  for  the  release  from  custody  of  one  Lambert, 
charged  with  perjury  in  connection  with  illegal  registration. 
Troutt,  it  seems,  was  in  the  office  of  Porn  &  Dorn,  the  legal  ad- 
visers of  the  Third-St.  Republicans,  when  he  accepted  bondsmen 
for  Lambert  and  signed  an  order  for  bis  release,  which  was  taken 
by  Dunn  and  presented  at  the  City  Prison.  Why  an  honorable 
Judge  of  the  Superior  Court  should  concern  himself  so  much  re- 
garding the  personal  liberty  of  a  perjurer  of  Lambert's  class,  that 
he  should  find  it  necessary  to  advise  with  the  counsel  of  Kelly 
and  Crimmins  before  taking  action  in  the  matter,  is  something  that 
no  honest  man  can  understand.  Judges  Love  and  Troutt  may  have 
distinguished  themselves  among  the  class  whom  they  evidently 
endeavor  to  protect,  but  they  have  by  no  means  strengthened 
themselves  with  the  people. 

*  *  * 

Last  summer  a  horde  of  Eastern  editors  descended  upon  Cali- 
fornia, and  were  free-lunched  and  feasted  to  repletion.  After  their 
return  homo  their  papers  were  filled  with  columns  of  praise  con- 
cerning the  hospitality  of  California,  intermingled  with  many 
ludicrous  errors  in  regard  to  the  Golden  State.  One  of  the  quill- 
drivers  hailing  from  a  town  in  Ohio  was  so  proud  of  his  achieve- 
ments in  this  line  that  he  forwarded  a  marked  copy  of  the  paper 
containing  a  four-column  aggregation  of  errors,  many  of  which 
are  positively  hilarious.  Thus,  we  are  told  that  the  writer  met 
"  W.  H.  Mills  of  Sacramento,  one  of  the  greatest  and  most  be- 
loved railroad  passenger  agents  in  this  or  any  other  country." 
In  company  with  this  gentleman,  a  visit  was  paid  to  the  Union 
Iron  Works,  »  where  we  had  the  pleasure  of  gazing  upon  the  ele- 
gant new  United  States  cruiser  No.  6,  of  the  Pacific  Mail  line.  A 
novel  sight  here  was  a  large,  smooth-bore  gun,  said  to  be  the 
heaviest  cannon  ever  cast  on  the  coast."  Shades  of  Big  Betsy 
and  the  makers  of  rifled  cannon  1  Having  exhausted  the  Pacific 
Mail  cruisers  and  their  smooth-bore  cannon,  the  observant  vis- 
itor next  visited  the  locality  known  variously  as  Sutro  Heights 
and  Golden  Gate  Park.  This  park  was  found  to  consist  of  1,015 
acres,  the  property  of  an  "old  bachelor  philanthropist  named 
8utro,  a  pioneer  of  '49."  It  is  protected  from  the  winds  of  the 
sea  by  a  high  stone  wall,  and  is  beautifully  ornamented  with  stat- 
uary, beds  of  flowers,  trysting-places,  etc.,  all  of  which  are  gen- 
erously thrown  open  for  public  use  by  its  bachelor  proprietor. 
This  gentleman  carries  his  benevolence  still  further,  for  off  the 
shore  are  a  number  of  rocks  covered  with  seals,  and  »  these  ani- 
mals are  fed  twice  a  week  with  meat  and  other  articles  of  food, 
and  are  protected  from  molestation  by  his  (the  bachelor  Sutro's) 
men."  After  this  catalogue  of  strange  discoveries,  we  are  quite 
prepared  to  learn  that  the  observant  chronicler  next  paid  a  visit 
to  Chinatown,  and  here  saw  exposed  for  food  "  flies,  grasshop- 
pers, Junebugs,  worms,  bumble  bees,  rats,  vermin  of  nearly  all 
kinds,  entrails,  hoofs,  heads  and  every  mite  of  cattle  and  hogs. 
With  this  last  effort  the  letter  closes,  and  one  can  but  wonder 
who  it  was  who  undertook  the  easy  task  of  stuffing  this  particu- 
lar tenderfoot  with  such  clotted  nonsense  as  has  been  quoted, 
and  which  is  only  a  small  portion  of  the  four  columns  published. 

*  »  * 

The  event  of  the  season  will  undoubtedly  be  the  rendition 
of  the  original  romantic  opera,  Christopher  Columbus,  at  the  San 
Francisco  Verein  rooms,  on  the  evening  of  Saturday,  October 
29th.  The  opera  is  the  work  of  the  entertainment  committee,  of 
which  Mr.  Ben  Arnold  is  chairman.  The  music  and  libretto  are 
both  entirely  new.  The  principals  and  chorus  are  all  society 
people,  and  they  are  rehearsing  now  twice  a  week.  The  progress 
made  is  very  encouraging  to  those  who  are  directing  the  affair, 
which  is  expected  to  eclipse  anything  yet  attempted  by  the 
Verein.  The  usual  supper  and  dance  will  follow  the  entertain- 
ment, and  society  will  be  present  in  full  array. 

The  original  Swain's  Bakery  of  213  Sutter  street,  is  the  favorite 
restaurant  among  the  best  people  in  town.  It  has  excellent  accom- 
modations for  family  parties,  and  its  reputation  has  been  first-class 
for  years.  All  its  appointments  are  of  the  best,  and  its  menus  in- 
clude all  its  tit-bits  of  the  season. 

The  bon  vivants  of  San  Francisco  are  unanimous  in  the  opinion 
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12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


SINCE  time  immemorial  it  has  been  the  case  that  as  the  seasons 
come  and  go  and  a  beauty  and  belle  remains  unappropri- 
ated. She  gets  more  and  more  willing  to  go  everywhere,  and  join 
circles  she  would  have  held  in  disdain  during  the  first  flush  of 
her   career.     We  have  a  vivid  illustration    of  this  in  one  of  our 

prominent  belles  of  late. 

•  *  • 

Everyone  will  be  glad  to  welcome  the  return  of  Mr.  Robert 
Sherwood,  who,  will  soon  be  among  us  again.  He  is  a  general 
favorite  with  old  and  young  alike. 

*  «  * 

There  has  been  a  whisper  going  'round  among  the  swim  which 
is  growing  quite  loud,  to  the  effect  that  the  "doing  up"  of  the 
Flood  Nob  Hill  mansion  is  a  premonitary  symptom  of  something 
thiB  winter;  "something"  is  decidedly  indefinite,  so  whether  it  be 
a  high  tea  or  a  wedding,  time  alone  will  show.  Gossip  says  the 
tender  entente  between  the  heiress  and  the  gentleman  of  sugared 
surroundings  will  culminate  in  the  latter.  Others  say  that  the 
son  of  the  house  is  the  party  of  the  first  part  who  will  assume  the 
chains  matrimonial. 

What  is  the  matter  with  our  young  men  that  they  let  the  rich 
girls  slip  through  their  fingers  so  often  ?  The  last  instance  is  that 
of  Miss  Marie  Nagle,  one  of  the  heirs  of  the  large  fortune  left  by 
her  father,  General  Nagle  of  San  Jose.  An  Eastern  gentleman 
has  picked  the  plum. 

•  *   tr 

There  is  one  social  fact — if  so  it  may  be  termed — which  is  a 
most  pleasing  one  to  note,  and  that  is  the  strong  individuality  ex- 
hibited by  young  Frank  Carolan  in  introducing  and  having 
known  in  society  his  richly  dowered  bride  as  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan, 
his  wife  solely  and  simply,  which  is  the  first  instance  of  the  kind 
on  record  in  our  swim.  Society  knows  well  enough  when  a  new 
matron  enters  its  ranks,  whether  her  father  is  "well  fixed"  or  no, 
without  advertising  the  fact  by  the  nee  Croesus'  addendum. 

«   *   «r 

Again  our  girls  have  let  "Handsome  Harry,"  as  the  agreeable 
young  Dr.  Tevis  is  called,  go  scot  free,  and  New  York  has  once 
more  received  him  as  a  resident.  However  he  will  be  back  here 
for  Christmas  and  then  our  pretty  belles  will  have  another  chance 
to  fascinate  this  exceedingly  attractive,  eligable  young  gentleman. 

*  »  • 

The  French  colony  is  pleasantly  excited  over  the  arrival  of  the 
flagship  Dubourdieu,  as  the  ship  has  an  unusually  long  list  of 
officers,  the  majority  of  whom  are  still  at  an  age  where  society 
is  attractive.  No  doubt  many  festivities  will  result  from  the  visit 
of  the  vessel  to  this  port. 

»  #  * 

Our  belles  are  growling  in  a  low  but  positive  tone  that  the  num- 
ber of  lunches  and  teas  which  seem  to  be  the  favorite  style  of  en- 
tertaining bo  far,  is  going  to  spoil  the  season.  If  householders 
get  off  the  hospitality  expected  of  them  by  a  lunch  or  afternoon 
tea,  there  is  small  likelihood  of  cotillions  or  hops,  and  even  the 
big  balls  which  used  to  dot  the  winter's  gaieties  like  lamps  at  in- 
tervals are  likely  this  year  to  be  few,  and  far  between.  The  erst- 
while givers  of  the  same  have  grown  small  by  degrees,  and  beau- 
tifully less  in  numbers. 

•  #  m 

On  dit  Mrs.  Will  Crocker  will  give  a  matinee  musicale  in  honor 
of  Paderewski,  the  piano  virtuoso,  when  he  comes  to  the  coast  in 
the  near  future. 

•  #  * 

Society  is  hoping  that  the  charming  daughter  of  Mr.  Edgar 
Mills  will  open  the  quaint  residence  which  Mr.  Mills  bought  from 
the  Atherton  estate,  and  "receive  "  their  friends  this  winter. 

*  #     9 

Mrs.  A.  M.  Parrott  is  sure  to  give  one  large  ball  in  tbe  Sutter 
street  home  and  several  musical  evenings.  Mrs.  Tevis  has  an- 
nounced her  intention  of  adhering  to  teas,  but  a  new  hostess  will 
appear  in  tbe  person  of  Mrs.  D.  M.  Delmas,  whose  daughter  Del- 
phine  is  the  fiance  of  Will  Barnes. 

#  *  « 

It  is  very  convenient  to  be  a  fashionable  kleptomaniac,  but  it  is 
also  sometimes  very  awkward.  For  instance,  a  swell  leader  of 
Oakland  society  some  time  ago  "  cribbed  "  some  antique  cups 
from  a  Jackson  street  mansion,  where  she  was  making  a  call. 
The  other  day  she  gave  a  tea,  and  forgetting  how  she  had  ac- 
quired the  treasures,  had  them  set  out  with  the  rest  of  the  ware. 
The  original  owner  of  the  cups  happened  to  be  present.  There 
was  a  little  harangue  In  a  corner,  and  then,  presto;  the  cups  had 
changed  owners  again,  and  were  booked  for  the  old  homestead. 


Fashionable  Society  Ladies  who  hive  been  in  the  habit  of  patron- 
izing the  hair-dressing  establishments  of  Messrs.  Hayes  and  Levy, 
will  be  glad  to-hear  that  Miss  Kitty  Dowling.  formerly  one  of  their 
most  skillful  operators,  has  opened  pirlors  at  room  24,  Phelan  B  lild- 
ing,  where  she  will  be  pleased  to  meet  any  of  her  former  patrons 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


THE    LAST    LEAJ\-./...iV  R.  Mcholh  in  Frank  LtMu. 

TO    "LIVER    WKM'EI  1.    HOLMES. 

IT  HA8  proved  his  lot  to  be 
"The  last  leaf  upon  the  tree." 
Even   bo, 
Aa  he  sang  by  happy  chance. 
Or  by  thought's  prophetic  glance, 
Years  ago. 

Now  the  ■•Autocrat,"  at  last 
O'er  his  favorite  repast 

Sits  alone, 
With  bis  calm,  reflective  smile 
And  the  ring  of  playful  guile 

In  bis  tone. 

Friend  of  him  whose  vision  whole 
Viewed  the  present  "over-soul"' 

Wise  and  calm, 
Which  with  compensation  sweet 
Joy  and  sorrow  doth  complete 

Like  a  psalm. 

Loved  of  him  who  dwelt  so  near 
Nature's  heart  that  he  might  hear 

Every  throb; 
And  of  him,  the  wizard  sage, 
In  whose  solitude  each  page 

Was  a  sob, 

As  be  fashioned  tales  of  fear 

Filled  with  ghosts  and  witchcraft  drear 

Night  and  morn; 
And  of  him  whose  fancy  keen 
Saw  the  fair  Evangeline 
All  forlorn. 

Last,  by  him  whose  sober  dress 
Hid  a  heart  of  tenderness 

Deep  and  grand ; 
Till  the  wintry  blast  of  death, 
With  its  desolnting  breath 

Swept  the  land. 

Ob,  let  him  the  last  leaf  be, 
Gentle  Time,  upon  the  tree 

Many  springs; 
While  we  gaze  with  reverent  brow 
At  the  quaint,  familiar  bough 

Where  he  clings. 

ZOLA    A    PLAGIARIST. 


M.  ZOLA'B  last  great  novel,  La  Debacle,  has  been  conceded  to 
be  one  of  the  greatest  of  war  novels,  and  if  any  book  could 
increase  that  author's  name  La  Debacle  has  assuredly  done  so. 
Yet  it  would  appear  that  criticism  is  not  wanting,  and  as  the 
Paris  Figaro  has  opened  its  columns  to  those  who  have  discovered 
any  "  inexactitudes  "  or  errors  of  detail,  the  correspondence  has 
been  surprisingly  large.  It  is  strange  how  men  will  overlook  the 
grandeur  of  a  book  and  pick  upon  some  trifles,  and  thereby  pro- 
ceed to  condemn  a  great  work  as  untrue.  One  gentleman  has 
gone  to  great  length  and  said  how  Zola  was  wrong  in  saying  such 
and  such  a  regiment  wore  such  and  such  a  helmet,  when  they 
had  abandoned  that  headgear  for  something  easier,  lighter  and 
cheaper.  Another  gallant  soldier,  taking  exception  to  M.  Zola's 
book  says ;  "  The  chasseurs  d'  Afrique,  to  which  Prosper  belonged , 
are  all  mounted  on  Arab  horses,  and  at  the  depots  in  Algeria  are 
"  baptized"  with  Arabian  names,  therefore  Prosper's  horse  could 
not  be  called  "  Zephyr;  "  while  a  journalist  of  Alsace  indignantly 
repudiates  the  assertion  made  by  the  author  that  hops  were  grown 
in  a  portion  of  Alsace,  as  said  by  the  author.  But  the  more  seri- 
ous charge  of  plagiarism  is  brought  against  Zola.  A  cuirassier  of 
the  6th  regiment  writes  the  editor  that  in  1872  was  published  a 
book  called  "  Belfort,  Reims,  Sedan,"  by  Prince  George  Bibesco, 
who  was  on  the  staff  of  General  Felix  Donay  in  1870.  This  officer 
then  proceeds  to  point  in  parallel  columns  passages  from  the  two 
books  which  show  that  Zola  did  certainly  consult  the  Prince's 
book.  It  is  almost  incredulous  to  believe  that  the  great  Zola,  the 
author  of  Nana  and  L'Assomvwir  should  be  judged  guilty  of  literary 
pilfering.  The  imagination  which  made  him  create  the  wonderful 
pictures  in  "those  two  most  wonderful  books  prevents  any  one 
grasping  the  idea  he  should  stoop  to  the  unworthy  course  of  even 
filching  an  idea  from  some  unknown  writer.  Despite  the  minor 
faults  as  to  wrong  uniforms,  and  hops  growing  where  they  don't 
grow,  and  a  few  passages  sailed  from  "  Belfort,  Reims,  Sedan," 
La  Debacle  will  long  be  regarded  as  a  great  and  good  book  and  one 
worthy  of  Zola's  pen. 

Argonaut  Old  Bourbon  has  no  equal.  All  men  who  drink  whisky 
acknowledge  and  appreciate  that  fact.  Argonaut  cannot  be  excelled 
anywhere.  It  is  the  leading  whisky  among  clubmen  and  patrons  of 
first-class  bars,  at  all  of  which  it  is  sold.  The  Argonaut  is  the 
choicest  and  best. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


THE  Comstock  market  was  lower  daring  the  week  under  the 
manipulation  of  inside  operators,  who  have  been  industri- 
ously weeding  out  the  shoe-string  gamblers  who  have  been 
speculating  on  the  basis  of  bloated  bondholders.  A  very  large 
amount  of  stock  has  been  concentrating  in  the  hands  of  the  com- 
mission brokers  on  a  very  slim  margin,  and  it  is  only  natural 
that  for  the  safety  of  the  market  it  should  be  forced  out  again. 
This  has  been  really  a  benefit  to  some  of  the  men  in  the  business 
who  are  weak  financially,  and  who  were  loaded  up  with 
stock  to  the  full  extent  that  their  capital  would  permit 
them  to  carry  without  assistance  from  the  banks.  So 
far  as  the  mines  are  concerned,  there  has  been  little 
change  in  the  interim.  Belcher  has  not  been  opened  up  any 
further  than  it  was  weeks  ago,  and  it  is  only  within  the  past  few 
days  that  any  work  has  been  doue  which  could  possibly  develop 
the  value  of  the  new  find.  In  Hale  &  Norcross  a  number  of  cross- 
cuts have  been  started,  but  to  declare  them  a  failure  would  be 
rather  premature,  considering  that  whereas  the  longest  is  only 
in  some  twenty-five  feet  out  of  the  two  or  three  nundred 
feet  of  ground  which  will  have  to  be  traversed  before 
the  west  wall  of  the  lode  can  be  cut.  The  whole 
situation  there,  when  summed  up,  is  about  the  same  as  it  was 
when  Belcher  sold  up  to  $6  per  share  and  Hale  &  Norcross  to 
nearly  $5  per  share.  No  change  has  taken  place  in  either  of 
the  mines,  so  that  they  cannot  be  charged  with  the  depre- 
ciation on  the  price  of  the  stock.  Manipulation  is  the  cause 
of  the  decline,  and  nothing  else,  and  the  same  financial  power 
which  lowered  values  can  raise  them  again  when  it  is  expedient. 
%  $  s 

THE  balance  of  the  market  was  tolerably  firm  and  active  under 
a  moderate  demand,  principally  from  the  small  short  sellers, 
who  have  saved  their  scalps  again  at  the  expense  of  legitimate 
dealers,  who  have  been  sacrificed  in  the  attempt  to  build  up  val- 
ues. There  is  not  much  doubt  as  regards  the  future  of  the  mar- 
ket. It  may  go  down  still  lower,  but  eventually  there  will  be  a 
rally  which  will  carry  prices  much  higher  than  they  have  been  so 
far.  The  improvements  in  the  mines  are  much  better  than  the 
manipulators  would  make  it  appear,  and  ore  is  bound  to  tell  in 
the  long  run  when  stocks  sold  in  the  late  advance  have 
been  shaken  out  to  good  advantage.  Sierra  Nevada 
has  been  a  dead  cock  in  the  pit  recently,  and 
for  the  very  good  reason  that  while  nothing  but  prepara- 
tory work  has  been  going  on  in  the  mine,  the  attention  of 
dealers  has  been  distracted  for  the  time  being  elsewhere.  It  is 
only  a  matter  of  time,  however,  until  a  renewed  activity  in  the 
stock  will  again  liven  matters  up  at  the  north  end.  It  was  this 
mine  that  first  started  the  market  on  the  up-grade,  and  when  the 
drift  on  Cedar  Hill  is  again  taken  up  it  is  likely  that  the  stock 
will  again  take  the  lead  in  the  market.  Con.  Cal. -Virginia  has 
held  its  own  pretty  well  during  the  changes  that  have 
taken  place  elsewhere.  There  is  still  some  talk  of  an 
improvement  on  the  1,700  level,  and  probably  when 
everything  is  ripe  for  an  upheaval,  we  will  hear  more  from  this 
quarter.  The  smaller  stocks  are  now  well  represented  by  Silver 
Hill  at  the  South-end,  which  is  milling  a  high  grade  ore  at  the 
Washoe  mill.  This  mine  has  developed  a  very  promising  pros- 
pect recently,  and  if  some  of  the  bigger  mines  could  make  the 
same  showing  of  ore,  they  would  be#selling  for  as  many  dollars 
as  Silver  Hill  13  in  cents.  Outside  stocks  are  dull  with  little  in- 
quiry, and  prices  are  steady  at  bed-rock  quotations. 
?  $  $ 

ABETTER  feeling  is  noted  in  the  outside  market  for  California 
mines.  The  Eastern  operators  are  the  principal  inquirers 
just  now.  London  is  still  in  the  back-ground,  owing  to  the 
financial  depression  which  prevails  there.  The  Baring  liabilities, 
guaranteed  by  the  Bank  of  England,  are  not  being  reduced  to  the 
extent  which  suggests  the  possibility  of  the  contract  being  car- 
ried through  within  the  appointed  time.  Over  £8,000,000  in 
securities  have  yet  to  be  deposited  to  close  the  account, 
and  this  can  not  possibly  be  done  within  the  given 
time.  This  will  act  as  a  drug  on  the  market  for  months  to  come, 
and  little  money  will  be  forthcoming  in  the  meantime  for  outside 
investment.  There  are  a  couple  of  men  out  here  just  now  in  the 
interests  of  London  purchasers,  one  of  them  inspecting  gravel 
mines  on  the  Klamath,  and  the  other  after  a  property  in  the 
Southern  portion  of  the  State.  Both  the  properties,  without  be- 
ing named,  are  safe  investments,  if  the  promoters  on  the  other 
side  are  inclined  to  deal  fairly  with  the  people  who  supply  the 
coin. 

sss 

THE  hydraulic  miners  of  California  are  to  be  congratulated  on 
the  recent  decision  of  Judge  Gilbert,  of  the  United  States  Cir- 
cuit Court.  It  is  the  only  just  and  sensible  opinion  which  has 
been  rendered  during  the  whole  litigation  which  has  followed  the 
iniquitous  rendition   of   an   equally   iniquitous  law   made  some 


years  ago  by  Sawyer,  who,  while  he  lived,  was  the  most  unre- 
lenting enemy  the  California  miner  ever  had,  and  the  mainstay 
of  the  clique  of  alleged  grangers,  who  have  been  able,  strange  to 
say,  to  lower  the  revenue  of  the  State  some  $8,000,000  annually. 
Judge  Gilbert  now  maintains  the  right  of  a  man  to  do  as  he  likes 
with  his  own  property  so  long  as  he  does  not  infringe  on  the 
rights  of  his  neighbor.  The  decision  referred  to  is  in  the  case  of 
the  United  States  vs.  the  North  Bloomfield  Gravel  Mining  Com- 
pany, in  which  the  name  of  the  Government  is  substituted  as  a 
cloak  for  the  real  plaintiffs,  the  spies  and  bravos  of  the  so-called 
Anti-debris  Association.  In  it  the  learned  Judge  declares  that  where 
debris  is  properly  impounded,  the  law  has  been  complied  with,  a 
common-sense  view  of  tbe  case,  which  will  meet  with  the  ap- 
proval of  every  one  who  is  not  biased  in  favor  of  the  other  side. 

t  S  l 

THIS  decision  practically  settles  the  debris  question  for  all  time 
to  come,  and  there  is  no  doubt  it  will  be  sustained  if  carried  to  a 
higher  court,  where  fortunately  the  Judges  are  not  subject  to  the 
corrupt  influences  which  too  often  interfere  with  the  administra- 
tion of  justice  in  this  State.  Miners  will  now  be  able  to  pursue 
their  avocation  without  hindrance  from  any  outside  quarter,  pro- 
vided they  comply  with  the  law  as  laid  down  by  Judge  Gilbert. 
There  will  not  be  the  delay  which  was  dreaded  through  the  pro- 
crastination of  Congress  in  the  matter  of  constructing  the  dams 
necessary  for  impounding  the  debris.  Many  of  tbe  companies 
which  have  been  tied  up  for  years  are  wealthy,  and  will  be  able 
to  construct  the  works  required  at  their  own  expense,  without 
any  national  assistance.  This  is  fortunate  in  itself,  as  it  will  do 
away  with  much  of  the  political  humbug  which  has  been  at- 
tached to  the  movement  on  behalf  of  the  miners,  both  here  and  in 
Washington.  If  the  mining  element  had  been  brought  more  to 
the  front  than  it  was  when  their  case  was  presented  before  Con- 
gress, there  is  little  doubt  but  that  the  relief  requested  would 
have  been  more  liberally  bestowed  and  with  better  grace.  As 
usual,  however,  the  men  with  axes  to  grind,  and  their  ambitious 
associates  scrambled  into  the  front  rank,  while  the  class  more 
deserving  of  notice  were  relegated  to  the  rear,  to  be  used  as  the 
pliant  tools  of  unscrupulous  politicians. 

WHEN  the  mining  interests  of  California  are  represented  by 
miners,  it  will  be  a  fortunate  day  for  the  industry,  which 
must  eventually  lead  all  others,  as  it  did  before  when  gold,  not 
grain,  was  king.  Judge  Gilbert's  decision  will  do  more  to  help 
the  good  cause  along  than  all  that  has  been  said  or  done  by  the 
friends  of  hydraulic  mining  during  the  past  seven  years.  Its 
effects  may  not  be  appreciable  immediately,  but  in  time  they  will 
be  felt  to  the  benefit  of  all  who  are  interested  in  the  mines.  It 
will  also  serve  to  strengthen  our  position  in  financial  circles 
abroad,  where  a  California  gravel  mine,  the  richest  of  its  kind  in 
the  world,  is  like  so  much  Dead  Sea  fruit — a  thing  to  be 
coveted,  but  absolutely  worthless  under  the  legal  ban  which  has 
just  been  lifted.  The  miners  of  California  are  to  be  congratulated 
on  the  fact  that  there  is  now  a  Judge  on  the  bench  who  possesses 
a  mind  of  his  own,  which  is  not  likely  to  be  swayed  by  popular 
clamor  or  self  interest. 

s  $  $ 

EVER  since  Tuscarora  came  into  prominence  as  a  mining 
camp  the  News  Letter  has  been  one  of  the  firmest  advocates 
of  the  merits  of  the  several  properties  which  gradually  developed 
into  magnificent  proportions  from  mere  prospects.  First  with 
Navajo  over  ten  years  ago  and  subsequently  with  North  Belle 
Isle,  the  support  of  this  paper  was  extended  even  in  the  darkest 
days  of  their  history,  when  the  assertion  that  dividends  were 
only  a  matter  of  time,  was  reiterated  in  face  of  a  torrent  of  per- 
sonal abuse  which  poured  in  from  all  quarters,  when  time  and 
again  one  or  other  of  tlie  properties  dropped  almost  out  of  sight, 
loaded  down  with  assessments.  This  was  notably  the  case  with 
North  Belle  Isle,  which  sold  down  as  low  as  five  cents  per  share 
three  weeks  before  it  touched  $10  per  share,  on  the  announce- 
ment that  dividends  were  about  to  be  declared,  and  which  subse- 
quently were  paid  for  many  consecutive  months.  The  manage- 
ment then  of  all  the  properties  was  most  satisfactory,  and  con- 
tinued to  be  so  until  a  short  time  ago,  when  a  number  of  tbe 
properties,  among  them  Nevada  Queen,  passed  out  of  the  old 
control,  which  fortunately,  however,  still  is  in  charge  of 
North  Belle  Isle  and  the  best  mines  in  the  camp. 
Among  the  properties  which  are  now  outside  of  the  old 
control,  none  has  been  more  talked  abon.t  than  the  Nevada  Queen. 
From  the  weekly  reports,  even  down  to  this  date,  one  would 
readily  imagine  that  it  was  a  bonanza.  It  may  be,  but  if  it  is  the 
stockholders  have  as  yet  to  receive  some  proof  of  its  intrinsic 
value.  If  this  high  grade  ore  which  is  read  about  is  simply  grist 
for  the  mill,  the  sooner  it  is  turned  into  a  private  concern  the 
better.  The  stock  is  cheap  enough  just  now  to  concentrate  the 
total  shares  in  the  company,  and  it  would  oe  a  great  deal  better 
to  do  so  at  once,  than  to  keep  the  stock  listed  on  the  Exchange. 
It  is  not  even  a  good  gambling  proposition,  and  if  the  general 
reputation  of  its  present  proprietor,  Mr.  Thomas  Bell,  is  correct, 
as  a  vigorous  opponent  of  anything  like  stock  speculation,  the 
shares  are  neither  useful  nor  ornamental  on  Pine  street. 


October  8,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


15 


•Hear  the  Crier !"   "  What  the  devil  art  thou?" 
•'  Onethat  will  plav  the  devil,  sir.  with  vou." 


MONTGOMERY  STREET  appealing  to  the  callous  public  says: 
■  Must  this  breast  be  rent  and  torn  to  the  end  of  my  sad  days?" 
The  pipe  you  lay  in  April,  in  October  you  exhume, 
You  make  my  life  a  burden  with  sewer  and  with  flume. 
My  honored  sands,  once  lapped  by  tides  in  merry  days  of  yore, 
You   rip  up   with  your  picks  and  things  to  make  a  mimic  snore; 
Gangs  of  Ireland's  exiled  children  assail  me  with  the  shovel. 
Would  those  stalwart  knaves  were  back  again  in  cottage  and  in 

hovel. 
Contractors,  Dutch  and  Celtic,  whose  appearance  suggests  dropsy, 
Upon  my  wretched  carcass  hold  jubilant  autopsy; 
I  was  once  an  honored  thoroughfare  that  did  patiently  endure 
The   most  various   kinds  of    traffic,  though   I    n'er  possessed  a 

sewer ; 
And,  without  being  egotistical,  my  breath  was  just  a%  sweet 
As  that  windy,  stuck-up  parvenu — I  allude  to  Market  street. 
Sweet  maids,  who  now  are  grandmothers,  my  footways  tripped 

along, 
And   smiled  on   youths,  now  grandpapas,  nor  ever    thought  it 

wrong. 
My  title  to  antiquity  none  ever  dared  destroy, 
Why,  I  was  quite  a  thoroughfare  when  Kube  Lloyd   was  a  boy, 
And  the  winds  that  from   the   west  came  in,  blew  always  blithe 

and  brisker 
When  they  saw  their  chance  of  whistling  through  blonde  Henry 

Chauncey's  whisker. 
Those  fine  old   times  have  gone  for  aye,  and  scenes  where  I  was 

factor 
Have  faded  quite,  and  left  me  now  the  prey  of  each  contractor. 
The  unemployed  mnst  labor  have,  so  just  before  election 
They  set  those  fellows  tearing  me — unfortunate  selection. 
Why  don't  they  dig  up  Kearny  street,  and   leave  poor  me  alone  ? 
With  Market  street  they  meddle  not,  it  is  a  street  of  tone; 
I'm  very  glad  that  D.  0.  Mills  has  recognized  my  rank, 
I  love  so  much  that  lovely  thing;  I  don't  care  for  that  bank 
That   moved   away — oh,  let  it  go,  though  'twas  an  old  landmark, 
But  I  confess  I  never  cared  about  those  Irish  clerks. 
I  do  hope  when  this  job  is  done,  and  when  those  bricks  are 

down, 
They'll  treat  me  just  as  decently  as  any  street  in  town. 
Alas,  I  fear  a  year  from  now  they'll  gall  my  half-healed  scars, 
And  dig  me  up  again  to  make  a  line  of  cable  cars." 

WHILE  the  Australians  were  slinging  their  boomerangs  at 
Central  Park,  Sam,  a  Piute  chief,  paid  the  cannibal  chief  a 
visit  of  ceremony.  Sam  argued  that  pine  nuts  were  more  tooth- 
some than  missionaries,  but  the  Australian  disagreed  with  him. 
And  while  those  distinguished  personages  discussed  those  im- 
portant topics,  anotner  great  man,  the  chef  of  a  restaurant,  the 
kitchen  window  of  which  looks  out  on  the  Park,  listened,  chop- 
ping knife  in  hand,  to  the  eloquence  of  the  aborigines,  and  smiled 
at  the  crudenes"  of  their  ideas  on  matters  gastatory.  "  I  am  ze 
grandest  chef  of  all,"  he  said.  "  Wiz  me'ze  pine  nut  can  catch  ze 
flavor  of  ze  missionary,  and  ze  missionary  taste  of  ze  pine  nut." 
The  two  leaders  bowed  to  his  wisdom,  and  owned  that  of  the 
three  he  was  the  biggest,  and  then  accepted  with  thanks  a  tender 
chop  from  the  point  of  the  chefs  sword  of  state.  And  again  the 
boomerangs  whizzed  through  space,  while  the  cheeks  of  the 
happy  Australians  glistened  with  the  grease  of  the  unctuous 
muttons. 

THERE  was  a  nice  little  row  in  the  Board  of  Education  rooms 
on  Wednesday,  which  did  not,  like  the  majority  of  rows,  get 
into  the  papers.  Mr.  French  is  the  attorney  for  the  Board,  and 
had  occasion  to  engage  Mr.  Reuf,  another  attorney,  whose  bill  of 
$500  was  under  discussion.  When  the  trouble  began,  some 
one  claimed  that  $100  had  been  paid  Reuf  on  account,  and  that 
this  was  not  deducted  from  the  full  amount  of  the  bill.  And 
then  the  ruction  set  in,  Director  Woodward  and  Mr.  French  be- 
ing the  leaders.  Remarks  of  a  profane  and  uncomplimentary 
nature  were  passed,  and  the  debate  culminated  in  the  punching 
of  Mr.  French's  nose  by  Mr.  Woodward,  and  the  consequent  re- 
taliation with  a  chair  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  French.  When  the 
janitor  picked  the  beligerents  out  of  the  cuspidores,  the  unani- 
mous decision  of  the  spectators  was  that  it  was  a  drawn  battle, 
but  that  it  should  be  repeated  on  some  stage  for  the  amusement 
and  enlightenment  of  the  teachers  in  the  primary  department. 

WHEN  the  Oakland  tailor,  who,  by  virtue  of  his  goose  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Oakland  Free  Library,  recorded  his  vote  for 
the  acceptance  of  Miss  Ina  Coolbrith's  forced  resignation,  the 
secretary  looked  up  from  his  desk  and  said,  »  This  is  not  correct; 
where  are  the  other  eight?"  And  the  other  conspirators  smiled  in 
chorus,  for  they  had  for  the  moment  forgotten  that  it  takes  nine 
tailors  to  make  one  man. 


THOUGH  the  days  of  the  hired  bravo  are  no  more,  there  is  yet 
a  small  business  done  in  the  way  of  vicarious  resentment. 
Sometime  ago  a  gentleman  began  the  publication  of  a  newspaper 
in  this  city.  He  quarreled  with  a  merchant  because  he  would 
not  advertise  with  him.  He  said  some  hard  things  about  the 
trader,  which  made  the  latter  very  mad  and  very  indignant.  But 
he  did  not  attempt  to  clean  out  the  editorial  room,  as  some  fool- 
ish people  do,  but  determined  upon  a  vicarious  revenge.  He 
hired  a  bravo,  the  toughest  of  his  class.  Now  this  minion  was 
not  instructed  to  use  knife,  or  pistol,  or  rawhide,  or  sand-club. 
His  orders  were  to  lay  in  wait  for  the  reviler,  dart  out  from  his 
ambuscade,  and  give  him  the  strongest  kick  that  human  leg 
could  administer.  The  first  night  the  offending  editor  was  kicked 
was  on  Pine  street.  The  kicker  lay  in  wait  for  him  in  the  sha- 
dows of  Belden  Place.  He  dashed  at  him,  delivered  a  terrific 
kick,  and  then  disappeared  as  effectually  as  if  the  ground  had 
swallowed  him.  The  literary  man  was  sore  and  alarmed.  But 
the  next  morning  he  bad  a  paragraph  about  the  merchant.  That 
night  he  was  kicked  again,  the  kicker  approaching  from  Leides- 
dorff  street  as  the  kickee  was  strolling  musingly  along  Clay 
street.  The  editor  got  nervous.  He  did  not  dare  to  go  home  at 
night  without  a  body-guard.  But  be  continued  to  abuse  the 
merchant,  and  one  evening,  believing  that  his  mysterious  assail- 
ant had  gone  out  of  the  kicking  business,  he  ventured  along 
Market  street  without  his  escort.  When  on  Market  street,  op- 
posite Brooke's  Place,  he  received  the  most  vigorous  and  effective 
kick  of  the  series.  It  sent  him  sprawling  on  his  face,  and  he  was 
obliged  to  call  a  carriage  to  take  him  home.  He  never  ventured 
out  alone  again.  In  the  course  of  time  he  became  reconciled  to 
the  merchant,  and  he  afterwards  learned  indirectly  that  his  mer- 
cantile friend  used  to  pay  $2.50  for  a  well-authenticated  kick. 
The  punishment  was  severe,  but  the  only  ill  effects  it  left  on  the 
recipient  was  a  disinclination  during  those  dark  days  to  occupy 
the  editorial  chair,  and  to  prefer  a  standing  posture. 

DETECTIVE  WILL  SMITH'S  description  of  Bandit  Evans  (he 
has  seen  him  at  a  distance)  has  not  up  to  this  date  been  pub- 
lished in  the  newspapers.  Mr.  Smith  says  that  Mr.  Evans  is  a 
man  of  about  fourteen  feet  in  height,  and  will  measure  six  feet 
around  the  chest.  His  biceps  are  four  feet  in  circumference,  and 
his  jaws  are  muscular  enough  to  crush  a  cobblestone.  His  voice 
is  so  loud  that  it  can  be  heard  in  ordinary  weather  two  miles 
away,  and  if  Evans  were  an  honest  man  he  would  be  of  more 
value  to  this  Government  than  any  fog- whistle  in  its  possession. 
The  light  that  flashes  from  Evans'  eyes  when  that  person  is  real 
angry,  is,  according  to  Mr.  Smith,  baleful  enough  to  still  the  beat- 
ing of  the  bravest  heart,  his  own  included.  When  Evans  walks, 
the  ground  shakes  beneath  him,  and  when  he  coughs,  the  burs 
fall  off  the  pines.  His  nails  are  eighteen  inches  long,  and  every 
hair  in  his  beard  is  as  thick  as  a  darning  needle.  Sontag  is  just 
as  formidable,  only  more  so.  Mr.  Smith  thinks  that  if  those 
bandits  should  ever  catch  him  they  will  be  exceedingly  rude 
toward  him. 

EX-DEPUTY  COLLECTOR  D.  M.  CASHIN  is  in  Victoria. 
Mr.  Cashin  has  renounced  his  allegiance  to  this  great  and 
glorious  republic,  and  has  solemnly  sworn  to  be  not  alone  the 
subject,  but  the  stalwart  friend  of  Her  Imperial  Majesty  Victoria. 
Now  when  we  pause  to  consider  all  this  country  has  done  for 
Mr.  Cashin,  his  conduct  in  throwing  us  off  in  this  matter  does 
seem  decidedly  ungrateful.  A  few  months  ago  Mr.  Cashin  was 
the  proud  recipient  of  a  salary  under  this  government.  Then  he 
"  went  wrong"  and  "  skipped,"  and  laughed  loudly  as  he  jingled 
in  his  breeches  pocket  the  good  money  of  Uncle  Sam,  to  which 
he  had  not  the  shadow  of  a  title.  Politely  speaking,  Mr.  Cashin, 
though  his  parents  were  honest,  was  a  thief,  and  if  British 
Columbia  is  willing  to  make  places  for  all  the  men  who  rob  us, 
why  that  is  their  look  out.  But  we  sincerely  wish  at  the  same 
time  that  our  hospitable  neighbor  may  not  be  exempt  from  the 
eccentricities  of  their  guests. 

LIEUTENANT  FINLEY'S  proposition  to  lecture  upon  the 
weather  has  not  been  received  with  any  burst  of  delighted 
expectancy  from  the  public.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  every  man 
thinks  he  knows  as  much  about  the  weather  as  the  next,  and  is 
slow  to  concede  to  the  right  of  being  instructed.  The  worthy 
Lieutenant  is  an  enthusiast  on  this  subject,  and  cannot  be 
restrained.  When  he  first  began  to  talk  of  air  currents  and  fogs, 
the  newspapers  were  showered  with  reams  of  weather  bulletins. 
He  has  grown  more  conservative  of  late  years,  but  has  still  so 
much  bottled  meteorology  in  stock  that  unless  he  lets  it  escape 
by  the  lecture  safety  valve,  it  will  surely  do  him  some  injury. 

FROM  all  accounts  Mr.  Edward  Russell,  the  Delsartean,  is  a 
very  pretty  boy,  and  he  will  do  well  in  this  country  and  earn 
a  nice  living  as  long  as  he  keeps  in  wilh  the  ladies.  They  are 
always  yearning  for  high  cult,  and  a  new  fad  is  sweeter  than  a 
fresh  caramel  to  these  gentle  philosophers.  By  the  way,  some 
of  Delsarte's  most  elaborate  curves,  spinal  and  from  the  shoulder, 
are  best  acquired  by  that  exquisite  domestic  exercise,  the  wash- 
ing of  dishes. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


^^®^^^^^^§f| 


JUSTICE  in  Holy  Russia  1  General  Von  WabI,  chief  constable 
of  the  police  at  St.  Petersburg,  when  he  was  Governor  at 
Kieff,  received  a  visit  one  day  from  a  poor  woman,  the  widow  of 
a  police  agent,  who  had  fallen  a  victim  to  his  duty.  For  a  Jong 
time  she  bad  solicited  the  pension  which  was  her  due.  The  head 
of  the  police  to  whom  she  had  addressed  her  demand,  sent  her 
always  brutally  away.  What  was  to  become  of  her  and  her 
children  ?  She  took  the  resolution  to  go  and  see  the  governor 
and  told  him  all  her  story.  "Sit  down  there  and  write,"  replied 
the  General,  pointing  to  a  writing  table.  The  trembling  woman 
took  her  seat,  and  wrote  from  the  General's  dictation  a  long  sup- 
plication. "Now  address  it  and  wait  for  me  in  the  next  room." 
Two  or  three  minutes  afterward  the  woman  was  recalled,  and  the 
General  gave  into  her  bands  a  sealed  letter,  saying  to  her,  "Take 
this  letter  to  the  head  constable;  take  care  not  to  open  it,  and 
come  back  to  see  me  as  soon  as  you  have  the  reply."  A  week 
passed,  at  the  end  of  which  the  woman  went  to  the  palace  again, 
but  this  time  joyfully;  her  pension  had  been  granted  to  her,  and 
she  thanked  the  Governor  with  joy.  "It  is  useless  to  thank  me, 
I  am  nothing  in  the  affair;  and  he  immediately  gave  the  follow- 
ing order:  "The  head  of  the  police  at  Kieff  is  dismissed  from 
his  post  and  sent  into  exile  I  The  reason,  because  be  granted  a 
demand  after  having  received  a  sum  of  money  for  so  doing."  In 
the  letter  which  the  widow  had  written  to  the  head  of  the  police, 
General  Waht  had,  unknown  to  her,  slipped  a  bank  note  for 
twenty-five  roubles,  which  accounted  for  her  supplication  being 
granted  I 

The  late  Earl  of  Eglinton,  who  died  the  other  day,  was  one  of 
those  two  dozen  Peers  of  the  Realm,  who  for  reasons  of  their 
own  never  took  possession  of  their  seats  in  the  House  of  Lords. 
He  succeeded  his  father  more  than  thirty  years  ago  and  spent 
almost  his  entire  life  since  then  endeavoring  to  retrive  the  shat- 
tered fortunes  of  his  House  and  pay  off  the  enormous  debts  with 
which  the  family  estates  had  been  burdened  by  his  father.  That 
he  succeeded  in  his  efforts  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  removed 
all  incumbrances  from  the  property  and  left  a  fortune  of  $300,000 
a  year  which  is  divided  into  two  parts,  one  moiety  going  to  his 
four  daughters,  and  the  other  to  his  brother,  who  succeeds  to  the 
title  as  fifteenth  Earl.  The  major  part  of  the  debts  which  the 
late  Earl  so  successfully  labored  to  wipe  out  the  weight  of  their 
armor  wrenching  down  their  saddles  directly  they  attempted  to 
mount  by  means  of  the  stirrup.  All  were  contracted  by  his 
father  in  connection  with  the  famous  Eglinton  Tournament 
which  took  place  at  Eglinton  Castle  in  the  early  part  of  the 
forties.  The  cost  of  that  gorgeous  revival  of  mediaeval  times  was 
enormous.  One  of  the  great  difficulties  of  the  knights  was  the 
mounting  of  tbe.r  horses,  the  great  excepting  Lord  Eglinton  had  to 
be  hoisted  into  their  saddles,  but  although  the  Earl's  steed  stood 
over  sixteen  hands  high,  its  rider,  heavily  burdened  with  steal 
armor,  vaulted  into  his  seat  without  touching  the  stirrup.  He 
was  indeed  remarkable  for  his  grace  of  bearing  as  well  as  for  his 
strength  and  agility;  and  in  his  day  it  was  almost  an  article  of 
faith  among  his  countrymen  that  he  could  not  be  beaten  at  any 
manly  exercise. 

M.  Henri  de  Morgan  has  been  excavating  on  the  site  of  Mem- 
phis and  has  unearthed  several  broken  statues  of  Rameses  II. 
and  two  gigantic  standing  figures  of  Pthah  of  the  glorious  Coun- 
tenance, dedicated  to  that  Memphian  god  by  the  same  King. 
These  figures  are  wrapped  in  mummy  cloths  and  hold  scepters  in 
their  closed  bands.  Another  find,  and  a  rare  one,  is  a  granite 
bark  of  the  dead  like  the  one  in  the  Turin  Museum,  but  lacking 
the  effigies  of  rowers  and  mourners. 

An  anecdote  is  told  of  a  British  painter  who  had  been  criticised 
for  painting  nude  subjects,  that  he  exhibited  the  following  year 
two  pictures  which  should  serve  to  demonstrate  to  bis  critics  that 
nudity  in  art  was  not  necessarily  indecent.  One  of  the  pictures 
showed  a  nude  figure  of  remarkable  purity  and  the  other  a  female 
figure  completely  draped,  with  the  exception  of  one  eye,  in 
which  the  artist  had  succeeded  in  suggesting  all  that  he  had  so 
carefully  avoided  in  the  nude  figure. 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  .work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled m  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12  Post  street,  clothes  all  the  well 
dressed  men  of  the  city.  He  makes  a  specialtv  ot  having  onlv  the 
best  goods  in  stock,  and  he  is  always  in  touch  with  the  latest  styles. 
If  you  would  be  considered  in  the  swim,  do  not  fail  to  get  vour  suits 
from  Litchfield. 


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October  8,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


FAN.-i?y  B.  W.  Ball. 

WHO  hears  my  reed-notes  wild,  for  evermore 
Cbarm-strack  he  wanders  from  the  haunts  of  men, 
Waiting  in  forest  dim  on  lonely  shore, 

Until  my  pipings  soothe  his  ears  again. 
I  am  the  voice  of  deserts,  and  inspire 
A  nameless  awe  amid  my  Oread  choir. 

My  coat  of  motley  is  the  stars  and  seas, 
The  shaggy  forests,  flowers,  and  grass  and  streams: 

My  breast  is  tempest  loud  or  summer  breeze; 

My  bosom  heaves  beneath   the  moon's  soft  beams 

In  foamy  tidal  waves  of  passion  wild; 

And  oft  my  heart  has  Echo's  voice  beguiled. 

I  am  the  lord  of  mountains  which  o'ergaze 

With  azure  pinnacles  the  earth  and  sea; 
I  slumber  sweetly  in  the  noontide's  blaze 

Lulled  by  tbe  npland  pine  and  murmuring  bee; 
Swiftly  the  sunset-reddened  crags  I  climb 
Waiting  the  mystic  night  and  stars  sublime. 

While  sleep  and  silence  hush  the  earth  below, 
And  tribes  of  beasts  and  birds  and  men  are  still, 

And  huge  Orion  and  Bootes  glow, 

The  brooding  night  with  melody  J  thrill. 

My  syrinx  well  may  witch  the  poet's  ears; 

It  breathes  the  music  of  the  quiring  spheres. 

My  shaggy  beard  is  rays  of  son  and  star; 

My  horns  are  names  of  empyrean  fire; 
The  dreadful  Destinies  my  sisters  are; 

Apollo's  self  I  vanquished  with  the  lyre; 
O'er  shepherds,  hunters,  tribes  of  rural  men, 
I  lordship  wield,  in  ploughland,  wood,  and  glen. 

In  pastoral  Arcady  I  wooed  the  Moon, 
Till  she  descended  through  the  stilly  air, 

While  played  I  on  my  pipes  a  wizard  tune, 
Which  made  her  deem  my  biform  body  fair; 

The  star-sown  darkness  veiled  our  dalliance  sweet, 

Hiding  the  ugliness  of  horns  and  feet. 


THE    GREAT    MISGIVING.  —  Wm.   Watson,  in  London  Speaker. 


•'Not  ours,"  say  some,  "the  thought  of  death  to  dread; 

Asking  no  heaven,  we  fear  no  fabled  hell: 
Life  is  a  feast,  and  we  have  banqueted — 

Shall  not  the  worms  as  well  ? 

"The  after-silence,  when  the  feast  is  o'er 
And  void  the  places  where  the  minstrels  stood, 

Differs  in  nought  from  what  hath  been  before, 
And  is  nor  ill  nor  good." 

Ah,  but  the  apparation — the  dumb  sign — 

The  beckoning  finger  bidding  me  forego 
The  fellowship,  the  converse  and  the  wine, 

The  songs,  the  festal  glow  I 

And  ah,  to  know  not,  while  with  friends  I  sit, 
And  while  the  purple  joy  is  passed  about, 

Whether  'tis  ampler  day  divinelier  lit 
Or  homeless  night  without; 

And  whether,  stepping  forth,  my  soul  shall  see 
New  prospects,  or  fall  sheer— a  blinded  thing  1 

There  is,  O  grave,  thy  hourly  victory, 
And  there,  O  death,  thy  sting  1 


SONG.— Town  Topics. 

My  dreams  are  all  of  thee, 

Sleeping,  love,  or  waking. 
Thy  emerald  eyes  I  see 

When  golden  morns  are  breaking 
Above  the  happy  earth 

In  red,  refulgent  splendor — 
Those  morning  eyes,  so  warm  and  wise, 

So  sweet  and  true  and  tender. 

My  heart  is  all  thine  own, 

Living,  love,  or  dying; 
And  if  it  break,  for  thy  sweet  sake, 

'Twill  break  with  worlds  of  sighing. 
Though  gone,  'twill  fly  through  space, 

And  though  with  storms  it  wrestles, 
'Twill  never  rest,  till  in  thy  breast, 

And  close  to  thine,  it  nestles. 


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Herbert  I..  Low,  Manager  for  the  Pacific  toast  Branch, 

220  Sausonie  »«.,  s.  r. 

iSSLllL  ;-•»•■  c $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534,795.72 

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232  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 


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HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  8an  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  arid  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed 1 70  000  000 

Capital  Paid  Up ......      "ffioOO 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 9  795000 

rota/  Assets  December  31,  1888 '.'.'.'." 6, 124. 067.60 

WM.   GREER    HARRISON,  Manager, 
30B  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 


Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1 857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  ] 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office — Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    3DEI'-A.iaTIsd:E3SrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO..        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     J  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, ?23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 
Cash  Assets, {10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     52,222,724. 


WM.  J.  LANDERS,  flen'l  Agent,  20,  Sausonie  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  «5,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets.  $19,724,538.46. 

President.  HUNJAM1N  F.  STEVENS.  1  Vlee-Presldent,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORTCOSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Toiw.      Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
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These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  intereston  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

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INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 


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Capital  paid  6(  guaranteed  93,000,000,00. 

Chas.A  Latoh,  Manager. 
438  California  St.  San  Fraississo. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  8,  1892. 


^JSJ^KBfcS 


ONE  job  has  been  knocked  on  the  head,  and  the  report  of  the 
Market  street  extension,  covered  with  sinuosities,  political 
and  physical,  has  been  rejected.  The  only  excuse  ever  offered 
for  the  extension  was  the  creation  of  a  splendid  diagonal  street 
from  bay  to  ocean,  and  it  being  impossible  to  make  the  street 
physically  straight,  the  politicians  made  it  in  the  image  of  them- 
selves  very  crooked.     The  scriptures  say  that  Caspar  should  get 

the  things  that  are  Cioaar's,  popular  verdict  awards  the  devil  his 
due,  and  so  the  Supervisors  are  entitled  to  whatever  credit  there 
may  be  for  them  for  throwing  out  the  report  of  the  Market  street 
extension  commissioners.  The  attorney  for  the  commission, 
R.  B.  Mitchell,  admitted  that  the  law  providing  for  the  extension 
was  "  vicious,"  and  his  only  anxiety  seemed  to  be  to  try  to  se- 
cure to  his  clients  something  for  their  exhaustive  and  extorting 
labors.  There  are  still  four  other  extension  reports  on  whichjthe 
Board  will  be  called  to  pass,  and  the  fact  that  one  victory  has 
been  gained  should  not  flush  the  property-owners  in  these  other 
schemes.  The  Post  street  opening  report  will  be  discussed  on 
November  15th,  and  as  this  work  has  already  begun  to  smell 
strongly  in  the  nostrils  of  property-owners,  the  protestants  will 
do  well  to  see  that  they  are  not  caught  napping.  The  Sixteenth 
street  report,  with  its  disgraceful  disclosures  of  extortion  from 
some  and  palpable  favoriteism  to  others,  will  be  the  next  to  come 
before  the  Board.  Expert  Smith,  engaged  by  the  Mission  Real 
Estate  Owners'  Union,  proposes  to  treat  the  commissioners  very 
liberally,  and  would  award  tbera  $3,600  out  of  the  $21,600  they 
ask  for  themselves.  He  would  give  the  alleged  secretary  $200 
instead  of  $2,100,  where  $50  would  be  excessive  pay,  and  for  the 
clerical  work  he  would  pay  $3,000  in  place  of  the  $10,400  asked. 
If,  however,  the  report  of  the  expert  should  be  finally  put 
through  as  it  is,  the  property  owners  would  not  have  much  seri- 
ous cause  for  complaint.  The  assessments  aggregate  $9,000  more 
than  the  commissioners  stated. 

The  report  of  the  commission  for  the  extension  of  Potrero  ave- 
nue from  Twenty-fifty  avenue  to  the  county  line  is  ready  for  fil- 
ing. The  total  damages  for  land  taken,  expenses,  etc.,  is  esti- 
mated at  $223,000,  and  the  expenses  alone  at  $27,000.  The  street 
opening  is  three  miles  long  and  one  hundred  feet  wide.  The 
commissioners  are  E.  R.  Swain,  Max  Goldberg  and  Daniel  Sullivan. 

Just  as  the  belief  has  been  generally  accepted  that  all  was  go- 
ing on  swimmingly  with  the  Seventeenth  street  extension,  the 
discomfiting  news  is  announced  that  the  fund  is  exhausted  and 
some  of  the  damages  still  unpaid.  It  is  explained  that  some  of 
the  officials  have  overdrawn  their  accounts.  There  is  another 
name  usually  given  to  drawing  on  other's  people's  money.  Here 
is  another  chance  for  the  property  owners. 

The  State  League  of  Mutual  Building  and  Loan  Associations 
will  hold  its  annual  meeting  at  B'nai  B'rith  Hall,  commencing 
October  13th.  The  doings  of  this  league  are  of  interest  to  thou- 
sands, as  these  loan  associations  are  in  themselves  not  only  capi- 
tal moral  lessons  on  the  benefits  of  economy,  but  also  admirable 
teachers  of  the  practical  doctrines  of  self-help  and  mutual  aid.  At 
the  coming  convention  the  misnomer  National  3Iutual  will  be  dis- 
cussed as  a  matter  of  course,  and  interesting  papers  wi'l  be  read 
on  the  United  Slates  League,  loan  association  legislation,  etc. 
These  conventions   are   an    education    for  the   young   secretary. 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.'s  principal  offering  on  Tuesday  next  is 
the  southwest  corner  of  Jackson  and  Gough  streets,  60x127.8.  A 
two  story  house  on  the  west  line  of  Walnut,  north  of  Sacramento, 
and  three  French  flats  on  the  east  line  of  Folsom,  south  of 
Twenty-third,  will  also  be  a  part  of  the  offerings. 

William  Bovee,  the  veteran  real  estate  man,  who  has  been 
suffering  from  sciatic  rheumatism,  and  has  been  for  a  couple  of 
months  at  Paso  Robles  Springs,  is  in  town  again,  and  though  a 
little  thin,  is  now  considerably  better,  and  able  to  take  his  wonted 
interest  in  real  estate. 

The  firm  of  McAfee,  Baldwin  &  Hammond  was  dissolved  by 
mutual  consent  on  September  1,  1892,  and  the  interest  of  C.  W. 
McAfee  in  the  firm  has  been  purchased  by  R.  P.  Hammond  and 
A.  S.  Baldwin,  who  will  continue  to  conduct  a  general  real  estate 
business,  under  tte  firm  name  and  style  of  Baldwin  &  Hunimond, 
giving  especial  attention  to  the  sale  of  city  property  by  private 
negotiation  and  at  auction,  and  to  the  renting  of  houses  and  col- 
lection of  rents.  Mr.  McAfee  took  the  country  business  of  the 
firm.  The  rent  department  of  the  new  firm  is  now  under  the 
management  of  Mr.  C.  R.  Dempster,  whose  long  experience  in 
this  direction  is  a  gnarantee  of  polite  and  faithful  attention  to 
both   landlord  and  tenant. 


REITS! 


We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  -ates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  &  HAMMOND, 

Real  Estate  Agents  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10    MONTGOMEKY    St. 


J^  U/HIJE  HOUS^. 

Largest  Retail  Dry  Goods  Store  in  the  City. 

F^LL    1892. 
INTRODUCTORY  SILK  SALE. 


CLOAK  ZROODVL 

Great  opening  of  the  latest  and 
most  popular  styles  of  all  kinds  of 
Wraps,  directly  imported  and  made 
expressly  for  the  "White  House." 


Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 
Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 


Raphael  Weill  &  Co. 


Northwest  Corner  Post  and   Kearny  Streets. 

pall  ar?d  U/irpter  5tyles 

fit 

332-6  ryearrjy  greet,  r>ear  pipe. 
PURCHASE      YOUR      OVERLAND      TICKETS 

For  all  Points  East  at 

UNION  TICKET  OFFICE,  VANDERBILT  LINES, 
10    MOXTUOJIEKY    STKEET. 
Steamship  Tickets  to  and  from  all  points  ill  Europe. 
CARLTON    C.    CRANE,  -         -  Pacific  Coast   Agent. 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

S-A.25T    FBAISTCISCO,  -       -       CJi.lL,. 

Manufacturers  of  aud  Dealers  iu 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

Patent  Lead-Lined   Coupled   Tubing,  for    use  as 

Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


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October  8,  1 392. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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THE  very  latest  organization  in  the  insurance  field  ie  tbat  known 
as  ■■  The  Insurance  Associate?,  the  preliminary  organization 
of  which  was  instituted  last  week,  and  which  will  become  fully 
fledged  by  Wednesday  next.  This  organization,  which  is  com- 
posed of  city  agents,  brokers,  solicitors  and  real  estate  men,  will 
act  in  conjunction  with  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union  in  endeavor- 
ing to  suppress  the  many  evils  to  which  the  local  bus  ness  is  sub- 
jected, and  to  maintain  to  the  fullest  extent  the  high  standard  of 
business  morals,  on  which,  for  a  long  time  past,  many  under- 
writers have  been  endeavoring  to  place  the  affairs  of  this  city. 
Real  estate  men  are  associated  because  of  their  allied  interests 
with  the  insurance  business.  Each  is  required  to  deposit  $250 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith  while  a  member  of  the 
association.  This  deposit,  it  is  understood,  is  a  host- 
age to  guarantee  the  good  conduct  of  the  dealer  in 
realty  who  deposits  it  upon  the  first  breach  of  the  agreement  to 
which  he  testifies  on  joining  the  Associates,  the  offending  real 
estate  dealer  will  forfeit  his  money,  and  be  forever  thereafter 
considered  in  disgrace.  The  city  agents,  brokers  and  solicitors 
are  required  to  deposit  only  $100  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 
The  idea  presumably,  is,  that  their  words  are  worth  $150  more 
than  the  words  of  real  estate  men,  or  it  may  be  that  as  men  di- 
rectly engaged  in  insurance  are  more  subjected  to  the  temptation 
of  cutting  rates  than  real  estate  men,  that  the  favored  members 
are  required  to  deposit  the  smaller  amount,  so  that  for  a  given 
number  of  offenses  they  will  forfeit  less  money  than  their  landed 
associates.  The  constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  Associates  are 
not  yet  adopted,  and  a  meeting  will  be  held  early  next  week  to 
complete  that  portion  of  the  business.  At  the  same  meeting  offi- 
cers will  probably  be  elected  and  the  new  association  will  spring 
into  existence,  fully  prepared  for  the  many  troubles  before  it. 

The  Pacific  Insurance  Union  is  yet  discussing  the  awful  prob- 
lem of  salaried  solicitors  and  commissions.  A  long  discussion 
was  held  on  the  matter  at  the  meeting  on  Friday  of  last  week, 
and  again  at  a  meeting  held  yesterday.  It  will  take  some  time 
for  the  Union  to  adjust  this  matter,  for  each  of  the  forty  or  fifty 
gentlemen  who  attend  the  meetings  has  his  ideas  on  the  subject, 
and  most  underwriters,  in  a  matter  that  directly  touches  their 
incomes,  have  very  decided  ideas,  which  are  very  hard  to  change. 
That  much  harm  has  been  done  to  the  insurance  business  by 
giving  solicitors  salaries  is  undeniable.  It  was  never  intended 
that  solicitors  should  be  paid  salaries  which  would  exceed  the 
schedule  commission  upon  the  business  they  bring  in,  but 
the  system  has  been  in  many  offices  to  give  solicitors 
salaries  equal  to  as  high  as  forty  per  cen  t.  upon 
their  business.  This  was,  of  course,  an  evasion  of 
the  spirit  of  the  agreement  entered  into  by  the  subscribers  to  the 
rules  of  the  compact.  ■  There  is  no  doubt  that  matters  have  come 
to  such  a  pass  that  unless  all  rebating  be  immediately  stopped,  or 
unless  salutary  steps  be  taken  to  estop  the  evil,  tbat  many  of  the 
companies  will  withdraw  from  the  Union.  That  is  the  expressed 
opinion  of  the  managers  and  secretaries  of  more  than  one  large 
company  which  are  now  in  the  compact. 

September  has  been  a  poor  month  to  the  underwriters.  The 
whole  year  has  been  bad,  but  it  is  hoped  that  if  the  losses  during 
the  last  quarter  be  light,  that  the  profit  column  may  about  bal- 
ance the  loss.  If  the  losses  continue,  however,  as  heavy  as  they 
have  been  for  some  months  past,  this  year  will  be  recorded  as, one 
of  the  very  worst  in  the  history  of  local  companies. 

The  Madeira,  from  Tacoma  to  Europe  with  wheat,  has  been 
given  up. 

The  Hawaiian  Isles,  from  Swansea  to  San  Francisco  with  coal, 
is  over  due,  and  25  per  cent,  has  been  paid  on  her. 

Seventy  per  cent,  was  offered  on  Thursday  on  the  Ben  Douran, 
from  San  Francisco  to  Europe  with  wheat.  It  is  evident  that 
European  marine  underwriters  have  information  regarding  this 
vessel  not  known  here,  for  the  rate  offered  on  her  on  Monday 
last  was  only  25  per  cent.,  which  was  increased  on  Tuesday  to  50; 
on  Wednesday  to  60,  and,  as  stated,  on  Thursday  to  70. 


To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contern- 
.  plating  a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the   Union   Pacific.    It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
.  man  Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
I  from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.    You  are 
f  only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 
Boston. 

Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  2b%  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

Muller's  opera,  field  and  marine  glasses,  suitable  holiday  present,  135 
Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behrincf  Sea  Packing  Company, 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  A'aska. 

NOTICE. — There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
accouut  of  assessment  (No.  1,,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.  A  Johnson  ...   1  60  $50 

C.  A.  Johnson  2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson  .     7  30  80 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  au  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  otiice  of  the 
company.  No  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Cora- 
pauy,  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  ICth  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 
„       „        .  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAl',  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 
„      „         .  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  May  25.  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  l  he  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponem  ?nt. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY, 
October  21st,  1892.  JAMEi  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco.  September  21st. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Commonwealth  Consolidated   Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business,  San  Francisco,  California;  loca- 
tion of  works,  Tuscarora,  Nev. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  seventh  day  of  September,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  9)  of  Ten  1,10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  company,  room  No.  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal., 
or  to  E.  R.  Grant,  Transfer  agent,  57  Broadway,  New  York. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Thirteenth  Day  of  October,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  he- 
fore,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  19th  day  of  November,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 
Office— 330  Pine  street,  room  20,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

May  Flower  Gravel  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  May  Flower 
Gravel  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  rooms 
18  and  19,  No  330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  1 7th  Day  of  Ociober  1 892,  at  the  hour  of  1  P.  M. 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  Thursday,  October  13,  at  12  o'clock 
M.  D.  M.  KENT,  Secretary. 

Office— 330  Pine  St.,   rooms  18  and  19,   San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Exchequer  Mining   Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Exchequer 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  79,  Ne- 
vada Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  17th  Day  of  October,  189?,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M., 

For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting. 

Transfer  hooks  will  close  on  Friday,  October  14, 1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal.  

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Consolidated;  California  and  Virginia  Mining  Company, 

The   regular   annual   meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Consolidated 

California  aud  Virginia  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the 

company,  room  58,  Nevada  ±luek  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 

California,  on 

Monday,  the  17lh  day  of  October,  1882,  at  the  hour  of  1  P.  M. 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting     Transfer  books  will  close  on  Thursday,  October  13th,  1892,  at  3 
o'clock  p.  M.  A.  W.  HAVENS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  5S,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


THls  idea  started  by  M.  F.  Deloncle,  of  making  an  immense  tele- 
scope the  great  attraction  of  the  International  Exhibition  to  be 
held  in  France  in  1900,  has  been  laughed  at  a  good  deal  on  ac- 
count of  some  one  having  pretended  that  through  it  the  moon 
would  be  seen  as  clearly  as  if  the  observer  were  standing  at  no 
more  than  a  metre's  distance.  The  project  is,  however,  the  Paris 
correspondent  of  the  London  Standard  says,  far  from  abandoned, 
notwithstanding  the  great  difficulty  of  constructing  the  huge  in- 
strument, which  is  to  be  44  yards  long.  M.  Deloncle  has  just 
had  an  interview  at  the  Paris  Observatory  with  MM.  Paul  and 
Prosper  Henry,  assistant  astronomers,  M.  P.  Gautier,  optical  in- 
strument maker,  and  two  architects.  According  to  information 
furnished  by  M.  Deloncle,  the  immense  instrument  will  be  6  feet 
10  inches  in  diameter.  M.  P.  Gautier  is  studying  the  conditions 
for  the  construction  of  the  telescope,  and  the  task  of  furnishing 
the  great  concave  mirror  will  fall  to  the  St.  Gobain  glassworks. 
The  making  of  this  mirror,  M.  Deloncle  thinks,  constitutes  the 
only  difficulty  to  the  execution  of  his  project.  The  largest  disc 
yet  made  weighs  only  12  cwt.,  whereas  the  one  it  is  proposed  to 
make  must  weigh  nearly  nine  tons.  The  cost  of  the  instrument, 
with  the  necessary  foundations  and  structures  will,  it  is  calcu- 
lated, reach  two  million  and  a  half  francs.  The  projected  instru- 
ment will,  it  is  said,  give  four  times  more  light  than  the  largest 
instrument  known,  and  will  permit  of  the  discovery  of  stars  four 
times  smaller  than  any  of  those  now  known.  Its  magnifying 
power,  it  is  expected,  will  be  15,000  times,  so  that  it  will  be  pos- 
sible to  perceive  on  the  moon  objects  no  bigger  than  21  square 
feet. 

When  people  tell  us  that  earthquakes  are  capital   things, 

we  may  reasonably  be  allowed  to  entertain  suspicions  regarding 
their  sanity;  but  if  they  follow  up  their  assertions  with  reason- 
able argument,  then  we  must,  perforce,  give  them  some  attention. 
Signor  A.  Gioran  has  been  collecting  a  number  of  observations, 
from  which  he  deduces  that  the  effects  of  seismic  shocks  upon 
vegetation  are  to  favor  a  more  rapid  germination  of  seeds,  and  a 
more  rapid  growth  of  the  young  plants,  thus  resulting  in  a  greatly 
increased  luxuriance.  These  results  he  believes  to  be  due,  not  to 
the  direct  influence  of  the  tremor,  but  to  three  secondary  causes, 
amongst  which  is  the  production  of  electricity,  which  always  ac- 
companies stresses  in  the  earth's  crust.  In  connection  with  this, 
we  may  notice  some  experiments  by  Professor  A.  Aloi,  on  the 
influence  of  atmospheric  electricity  on  the  growth  of  plants. 
From  observations  made,  he  concludes  that  this  influence  is  dis- 
tinctly beneficial.  Further  experiments  have  demonstrated  that 
the  electricity  of  the  soil  has  a  similar  influence  on  the  germina- 
tion of  seeds.  — Electrical  Review. 

Forhalf  an  hour  one  afternoon  recently,  a  crowd  surround- 
ed a  truck  which  had  halted  in  front  of  the  Exchange  Place  door 
of  the  Mills  Building.  Attached  to  the  truck  was  a  horse,  and 
there  was  a  peculiarity  in  the  animal's  appearance  which  bad 
caused  the  crowd  to  gather.  The  horse  was  doing  its  breathing, 
not  through  its  nostrils,  but  through  a  tube  inserted  in  its  neck. 
The  contrivance  looked  very  much  like  an  old-fashioned  candle 
stick  with  the  base  and  an  inch  or  two  of  the  shank  showing. 
In  the  tube  was  a  sort  of  a  filter,  to  catch  impurities  in  the  air 
which  passed  through  it,  and  the  arrangement  appeared  to  work 
very  satisfactorily.  The  driver  explained  that  tracheotomy  had 
been  resorted  to  to  save  the  life  of  the  horse,  which  had  suffered 
from  asthma.  The  tube  had  been  in  use  for  several  months,  and 
the  horse  appeared  to  be  as  well  as  ever.  It  was  certainly  able 
to  do  its  full  share  of  work.  Every  two  or  three  days  the  tube 
was  taken  out  and  cleaned,  but  the  horse  had  it  in  its  neck  the 
rest  of  the  time.  N.  Y.  Times. 

The  Birmingham  Daily  Uazette  is  said  to  be  the  first  daily 

paper  printed,  cut  and  folded  by  the  aid  of  electricity.  The  cur- 
rent is  supplied  from  the  mains  of  the  Birmingham  Electric  Sup- 
ply Company,  and  the  economy  is  probably  found  in  the  fact  that 
the  power  is  used  only  when  it  is  wanted — that  machinery  does 
not  stand  idle;  but  it  is  a  novel  experiment  for  a  daily  paper,  and 
may  be  the  forerunner  of  great  changes  in  the  distribution  of 
power  by  electrical  means.  It  is  a  mistake  to  speak  of  electricity 
as  a  "  new  power;  "  it  may  prove  to  be  an  economical  method 
of  distributing  power,  but  the  electricity  requires  power  to  gen- 
erate it.  — English  Mechanic. 

A  novelty  invented  by  a  Paris   firm   for  the  benefit  of  the 

dilettante  bathers  at  Trouville  is  described  as  a  couch  formed  of  a 
sheet  of  canvas  stretched  upon  a  very  light  metal  frame,  and 
provided  with  a  canopy  to  protect  the  eyes  of  the  occupant  from 
the  sun.  The  bed  is  kept  afloat  by  means  of  large  hollow  metal 
tubes  filled  with  air.  On  this  it  is  possible  to  recline  at  ease  float- 
ing upon  the  water  in  calm  weather.  A  small  model  of  the  con- 
trivance has  attracted  crowds  of  gazers  to  the  window  of  the 
shop  in  the  Faubourg  St. -Denis  where  it  is  exhibited. 

The  most  perfect  gift  is  perfect  vision.  Obtainable  at  C.  Muller's,  op- 
tician, 135  Montgomery  street. 


ZBJLZETIKIS. 


BANK    OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,250,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 
HEAD  OFFICE 60  LOMBARD  8TREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 
Columbia. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Businesa.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  In  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank ;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company ;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN-Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank __ 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

53a  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Beanch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1898 925,890,653  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,633,136  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Albert  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Rank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— y  a.  m .  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVIN6S  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

80S  Market  Street   (Flood  Balldlng),  San   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital Jl.OOO.OOO.OO  I  Surplus  Profits t     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital 333,833.38  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1, 1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS  WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  MCDONALD Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

Tola  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, In  sums  of  one  dollar  and  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  fire-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  hank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  mouth  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  J25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  OAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND I    1,646,000  OO. 

Deposits  <Ju  y  1,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGER8  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Ed w.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F. Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H,  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  r.  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVIN6S  DANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICEEB. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAME9  PHELAN,   8.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Dibectobs— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 

James  Phelau,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
eenrities. JAME3  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubsctled  Capital. 92,600,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital 92,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  9650,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  <&  Cie,  !7Bonle 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altbchul,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Saniome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized 16,000,000  I  Paid  up 11,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— S  Angel  court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  <&  W.  Sell  man  4  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  goneral  banking  I  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  IssueB  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sellB  exchange 
and  bullion  IGN.  STEINHART    /  „.„.„. 

ana  oumon.  p  R  LILLENTHAL  |  Managen. 

A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier.    / 


October  8,  1392. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


BB5UNBEAMS 


W 


HO  cares  who  shall   be  President — 

This  tight  'tween  fools  and  faction? 
The  nil-absorbing  query  is 

Will  Corbett  tackle  Jackson? 
Who  heeds  the  big  Chicago  Fair? 

A  oew  star  takes  its  orbit; 
And  if  the  black  rfo<\*  meet  the  white, 

Will  Jackson  blacken  Corbett?  — Zbwi  Topics. 

—  A  Savannah  physician  was  recently  called  to  prescribe  for  an 
old  negro  woman.  After  ascertaining  her  symptoms  and  assuring 
her  that  her  fears  of  instant  death  were  baseless,  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  her  children— two  rollicking  pickaninnies,  who  were  having  a 
tussle  on  the  tioor.  "  What's  the  names  of  your  boys?  "  he  asked  the 
woman.  "  That  one,  sah,  is  Lake  Genevah,"  said  the  woman,  point- 
ing to  her  younger  child;  "  and  that  one,  sab,  am  Lake  iSuperiah." 
"  Where  did  you  get  such  names?  "  asked  the  doctor  in  amazement. 
"  From  a  book,  sah,"  answered  the  woman.  — Savannah  Press, 

——The  Prince3se  de  Chimay  was  praising  a  certain  Baron  Zur- 
lauben  rather  extravagantly,  in  the  hearing  of  Mons.  de  Besenval; 
and  the  latter  showed  plainly  that  he  did  not  agree  with  her  estimate 
of  that  gentleman.  "Well,  well,  you  must  own  he  is  very  well- 
informed,  Mons.  Besenval,"  persisted  the  Princesse.  "Ah!  yes, 
Madame;  that  is  true;  he  is  just  like  a  big  library  with  a  fool  for  the 
librarian,"  growled  Besenval. 

—  Joralemon—1  hear  that  Pierrepont  has  become  very  domestic 
since  he  got  married.  Fulton — Domestic  is  no  name  for  it!  He  lives 
in  Brooklyn  now;  and  when  1  called  to  see  him  last  Sunday  he  was 
sitting  in  the  kitchen  working  out  the  puzzles  on  the  children's  page 
of  a  religious  weekly.  — Puck. 

"  Mamma,  if  a  child  should  be  born  on  the  ocean,  to  what  na- 
tion would  it  belong?  "  "  Why,  to  the  nation  to  which  his  father  and 
mother  belonged,  of  course."  "  Well,  I  know.  But  suppose  his 
father  and  mother  were  not  with  him.  Suppose  he  was  traveling 
with  his  aunt.  — Life. 

Mrs.  Chugwater— Josiah,  last  Saturday  was   my  birthday,  and 

you  forgot  all  about  it.  Mr.  Chugwater — Why,  Samantha,  my  dear, 
the  time  passes— h'm— so  swiftly  in  your  society  that  your  birthdays— 
er — come  around  before  I  know  it.  — Chicago  Daily  Tribune. 

"  Did  you  write  James  Skidmore's  name  on  this  note?  "  said 

the  judge  to  a  prisoner,  accused  of  forgery.  "  I'd  like  to  know,  Judge," 
replied  the  latter,  "  if  Jim  Skidmore  has  a  copyright  on  the  letters 
which  happen  to  form  his  name?  "  —New  York  Sun. 

Mrs.  Louis  Kanz— Why  on  earth  don't  you  get  your  husband  to 

cut  off  his  whiskers?  Mrs.  Rufus  Baird—l  wouldn't  have  him  doit 
for  the  world.  I  want  him  to  "let  them  grow  and  get  them  all  out  of 
his  system.  — Puck. 

——Maud—'M.a]oT,  is  it  true  that  once  during  the  war  one  of  the 
enemy  died  to  save  your  life?  Major  Bluntly— Yes.  Maud — How 
noble !    How  did  it  happen  ?    Major  Bluntly— Ikilled  him. 

— Town  Topics. 

—  Trivvet — There  goes  a  man  who  can  put  Corbett  to  sleep.  Dicer — 
Nonsense!  He  looks  more  like  a  clergyman  than  a  prizefighter. 
Trivvet — That's  just  it.    He  preaches  sermons  over  an  hour  long. 

— ^Dudeleigh— I  like  smart  women  well  enough,  but  I  wouldn't 
care  to  marry  a  woman  who  knew  more  than  I  did.  Rudeleigh — And 
so  you  have  been  forced  to  remain  single?  — Boston  Transcript. 

•^—Mrs.  Bleecker — We  are  thinking  of  taking  Miss  Emerson,  of 
Boston,  with  us  on  our  visit  to  England.  Mrs.  Bloobumper—  Why  is 
that?    Mrs.  Bleecker— She  knows  the  language. 

—  Caraway— 1  wonder  who  the  man  was  who  did  the  right  thing, 
in  the  right  place  and  at  the  right  time,  as  no  one  else  could  have 
done  it?    Hooks— Corbett,  I  guess.  — Town  Topics. 

— —  "  I  suppose  when  you  marry  the  Duke  you  will  go  at  once  to 
his  home  in  England  with  him?  "  "  Dear  me,  no!  I  wouldn't  trust 
myself  away  over  there  with  a  man  I  know  so  little  about." — Life. 

—  Head  #/  the  House— What  is  that  terrible  noise  upstairs? 
Datighter — Jeannette  is  running  the  new  sewing-machine.  Head  of 
the  Souse— Well,  tell  her  to  put  on  the  soft  pedal.  —Judge. 

—  Mrs.  Ketchon—V\\  wager  you  what  you  like,  the  bride  will  wear 
the  breeches.  Kelchon— I  shouldn't  wonder;  I  noticed  she  had  on 
suspenders.  — Puck. 

— "  BUI,  there's  a  deal  of  poetry  about  the  moon  after  all!" 
"  Tom,  there  ain't  no  poetry  in  nothing  when  it  gits  down  to  its  last 
quarter!"  — Life. 

^— 27e— Your  figure  is  cherubic.  She— Cherubs  have  no  figures. 
He — No.     They're  out  of  sight !  — Kale  Field's  Washington. 

A  Pair  of  Evils.  Men  drink  liquor.  Women  use  morphine.  Our 
children  suffer  thereby,  and  we  are  becoming  an  inferior  race.  These 
evils  are  not  only  corrected,  but  permanently  cured  by  the  Monroe 
Improved  Gold"  Cure  Company,  Hay  wards,  Alameda  County,  Cali- 
fornia. Write  for  circulars  and  testimonials.  San  Francisco  office, 
111  Grant  avenue. 

Laundry  Farm  is  one  of  the  most  picturesque  picnic  grounds  in 
the  State.  It  is  within  easy  reach  of  the  city,  for  which  reason  it  is 
visited  daily  by  hundreds  of  people  who  desire  an  outing.  It  is  only 
an  hour  and  fifteen  minutes  trom  this  city,  and  forty  minutes  from 
Oakland.  It  is  reached  by  the  California  Railway,  the  only  road 
running  direct  to  Mills'  Seminary  . 


b^zlstks- 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,00O,C0C0O 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Ondivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Brown Cashier  |  B.  MuBRAY.Jr  . .  .Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Modlton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

(ORKKSrOMHCNTS: 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  Bank  of  California;  BOSTON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  In  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver.  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland.O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Fraukfort-ou-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 


Geo.  A.  Low, 
N.  Van  Bergen, 
Thomas  Jennings, 


N.  w.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  TJ.  S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PA'D   UP).. $1,500,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  1  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY. President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN    Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT. . .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass't  Cashier 

DIRECTORS: 

George  C.  Perkins.  3.  G.  Murphy, 

James  D.  Phelan,  James  Momtt. 

John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  Irom  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
tho  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  aud  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK.  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital $3,500,000     |     Capital  paid  up 2,450,000 

Reserve  450,000 

San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  SI.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.  C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch,  1006  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,    QUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK—  Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  partB  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 81.250.000. 

Successor  to  Bather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

j     L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors :  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia—  Drexel  &•  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Comer  Sansome  aud  Salter  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CSPIT'L      $     500,00000 

SURPLUS  5,488,393.72 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

DIRECTORS: 

John  J  Vale  itine.  President;  Lloyd  Tevis,  Leland  Stanford,  Oliver 
Eldridse  James  0.  Fargo.  Geo,  E.  Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.  F.  Goad, 
Dudley  Evaus.  Henry  Wadsworth,  Cashier.  Homer  s.  King,  Manager. 
J.  L.  Browne,  Assistant  Cashier. 

THE  CROSKER-WOaLWJRTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Marteet,  Montffoniery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    UAPI1AL il.000,000. 

DIRECTORS: 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  I  B.  H.  MILLER,  Je. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH ■-     ..Pbestdent. 

W.  E.  BROWN VlCE-PEESIDENT. 

WM.  U.  CROCKER      Cabhieb 


Guarantee  Capital. 


SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 


$300,000 


OFFICERS: 

Prnafdent  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President"  W.A  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Streel,  San  Franclsoc. 


HUMBOLDT  SAVIN  iS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 


Incorporated. 


.November  24,  1869. 


ADOLPH  C.  WEBER. President  |  ERNST   BRAND SkcretaBY. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


THE  evicted  Irish  tenants,  relying  upon  Mr.  Moriey's  theoret- 
ical philanthropism,  have  asked  for  a  grant  of  £250,000  to  tide 
them  over  their  difficulties  until  the  Commission  which  is  to  in- 
quire into  the  question  of  evictions  has  finished  its  labors.  Mr. 
Morley  has  not  yet  given  any  reply  to  this  demand,  but  it  is  re- 
ported that  he  is  inclined  to  give  them,  if  not  all,  at  least  a  moiety 
of  what  they  ask,  though  he  is  still  unwilling  to  take  immediate 
action.  At  first  glance  it  seems  as  if  there  would  not  be  much 
harm  done  if  the  government  were  to  give  financial  aid  to  the 
evicted  families,  since  the  money  does  not  come  out  of  the 
pockets  of  the  landlords,  but  upon  closer  investigation  it  will  be 
seen  that  a  government  grant  would  have  serious  consequences 
for  the  maintenance  of  law  and  order  in  Ireland.  The  evictions 
in  the  greater  number  of  cases  are  the  result  of  the  Irish  tenants 
refusing  to  obey  the  established  laws  and  to  meet  their  obliga- 
tions. Now  it  is  clearly  the  government's  duty  to  uphold  the  ex- 
isting laws  until  Parliament  has  changed  them,  and  by  financially 
supporting  those  who  defy  the  laws,  lawlessness  will  be  encour- 
aged. If  it  is  desirable  that  those  tenants  who  are  in  distress  not 
by  their  own  fault  should  be  aided,  the  only  way  of  doing  so  with- 
out risking  dangerous  consequences  would  be  to  encourage  private 
charity  for  that  purpose.  Mr.  Morley  would  do  well  to  think 
twice  before  deciding  upon  government  aid,  for  otherwise  he  may 
find  himself  in  a  place  were  it  is  impossible  either  to  stop  or  to 
continue  without  endangering  his  position. 

The  tone  assumed  lately  by  some  of  the  most  influential  organs 
of  the  German  press  with  reference  to  the  rumors  that  the  gov- 
ernment intends  abolishing  the  secret  ballot,  ought  to  be  a  warn- 
ing to  Emperor  William,  and  show  him  that  the  danger-point  has 
been  almost  reached  in  the  pressure  which  he  attempts  to  exer- 
cise upon  his  subjects.  Some  of  the  papers  hint  openly  at  revo- 
lution. In  a  country  where  the  liberty  of  thepress  is  unrestricted 
by  the  authorities,  this  would  mean  little.  In  Germany  it  means 
much. 

Dr.  von  Pottenkofer,  one  of  the  most  famous  scientists  of 
Germany,  has  expressed  the  opinion  that  the  cholera  will  re- 
appear in  Europe  next  year.  This  view  coming  from  so  high  an 
authority,  deserves  serious  consideration,  especially  since  it  is 
supported  by  previous  experience.  The  epidemic,  whenever  it 
occurred,  has  reappeared  the  year  following,  though  fortunately 
in  a  lighter  form.  The  prediction  of  Dr.  von  Pettenkofer  should 
have  the  result  of  inducing  the  municipal  authorities,  not  only  in 
Europe  but  also  in  our  country,  to  pay  earnest  attention  to  the 
improvement  of  sanitation  in  the  great  cities.  The  winter  will 
give  abundant  time  for  measures  to  that  effect. 

New  symptoms  of  insubordination  have  made  their  appearance 
amongst  the  British  life  guards.  It  is  significant  that  such  in- 
subordination has  become  almost  endemic  just  in  those  regiments 
which  enjoy  the  greatest  privileges.  The  lesson  seems  to  be  that 
these  privileges  themselves  furnish  the  danger,  and  it  would 
perhaps  be  indicated  to  make  the  life  guards  share  more  fre- 
quently the  active  and  more  irksome  duties  of  the  other  regi- 
ments. Their  prolonged  sojourn  in  the  residence  and  their  orna- 
mental employment  apparently  sp«il  their  morals. 


For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

WILLIAM     MONTGOMERY, 
(Proprietor  American  Exchange  Hotel.) 

Regular*  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Assembly,  38tli  District, 

BERT    SCHLESINGER, 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  State  Senator,  2 1st  Senatorial  District, 

WM.     J.     BIGGY, 
(Pledged  to  support  the  Traffic  Association.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 
For  Coroner, 

dr.  wm.  t.   Garwood, 

(Present  Incumbent.) 

Regular  Republican    Nominee 


For  Sheriff, 


H.     H.     SCOTT, 

Non-partisan    Candidate. 


REGULAR 

REPUBLICAN 

MUNICIPAL     TICKET. 


Mayor WENDELL  E ASTON 

Auditor T.  J.  L.  SMILEY 

Sheriff WILLIAM  T.  BLATTNER 

Tax  Collector THOMAS  O'BRIEN 

Treasurer J.  H.  WIDBER 

Recorder E.  B.  READ 

County  Clerk GEORGE  W.  LEE 

District  Attorney WILLIAM  S.  BARNES 

City  and  County  Attorney MEYER  JACOBS 

Coroner DR.  WILLIAM  T.  GARWOOD 

Public  Administrator WALTER  B.  BLAIR 

Surveyor CHARLES  S.  TILTON 

Superintendent  of  Streets CHARLES  GREENE 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) CHARLES  W.  SLACK 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  M.  TROUTT 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) GEORGE  H.  BAHRS 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JOHN  LORD  LOVE 

Superior  Judge  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January.  1895) 

WILLIA'M  G.  BRITTAN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) H.  L.  JOACHIMSEN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) W.  A.  S.  NICHOLSON 

Police  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Police  Judge  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893) 

JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) PRANK  GRAY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) JOHN  P.  GODGH 

Justice  of  the  Peace,  (long  term) JOHN  F.  MULLEN 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) ARTHUR  M.  WILLETS 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) J.  E.  BARRY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893) 

J.E.BARRY 

Supervisor  First  ward  (unexpired  term ) EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  First  ward EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  Second  ward  (unexpired  term) DR.  R.  C.  MEYERS 

Supervisor  Second  ward DR.  R.  C.  MEYERS 

Supervisor  Third  ward CARLOS  G.  YOUNG 

Supervisor  Fourth  ward HENRY  A.  STEFFINS 

Supervisor  Fifth  ward H.  R.  ROBBINS 

Supervisor  Sixth  ward W.  E.  LANE 

Supervisor  Seventh  ward VICTOR  D.  DUBOCE 

Supervisor  Eight  ward '. P.  J.  COFFEE 

Supervisor  Ninth  ward ALBERT  HEYER 

Supervisor  Tenth  ward HENRY  P.  SONNTAG 

Supervisor  Eleventh  ward THOMAS  J.  PARSONS 

Supervisor  Twelfth  ward AUGUST  HELBING 

School  Director A.  F.  JOHNS 

School  Director DR.  C.  W.  DECKER 

School  Director GEORGE  W.  PENNINGTON 

School  Director JAMES  A.  PARISER 

School  Director LUKE  BATTLES 

School  Director J.  H.  CULVER 

School  Director J.  J.  DUNN 

School  Director PAUL  BARBIER1 

School  Director WILLIAM  H.  EASTLAND 

School  Director C.  O.  SWANBERG 

School  Director HARVEY  L.  SANBORN 

School  Director Z.  T.  WHITTEN 

School  Director  ( for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893 

A.  F.  JOHNS 


LEGISLATIVE     TICKET. 


FOR    STATE    SENATORS. 

17th  District JAMES  CRAVEN 

19th  District JOSEPH  WINDROW 

21st  District L.  H.  VANSHAICK 

23d  District CHARLES  H.  FANCHER 

25th  District JOHN  F.  MARTIN 

FOR    ASSEMBLYMEN. 

2Sth  District PETER  JOSEPH  KELLY 

2!)th  District CHARLES  E.  COREY 

30th  District JAMES  J.  FALLON 

31st  District THOMAS  F.  GRAHAM 

32d  District JOHN  A.  HOEY 

33d  District FREDERICK  WOODS 

34th  District J.  F.  McQUAID 

35th  District JOHN  S.  ROBINSON 

30th  District ALBERT  B.  MAHONEY 

37th  District JOHN  F.  O'BRIEN 

38th  District GEORGE  S.  MATHEWS 

39th  District J ULIUS  K AHN 

40th  District LOUIS  A.  PHILLIPS 

41st  District HENRY  C.  DIBBLE 

42d  District GRANT  ISRAEL 

43d   District JOHN  P.  RICE 

44th  District JAMES  McGOWEN 

45th  District '. .  .JOHN  HAYES 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


PLAIN  fine  serge9  have  been  succeeded  by  the  wide-ribbed  va- 
rieties, which  show  to  such  advantage  in  the  plain-trained 
skirts.  In  tweeds  there  is  a  distinct  feeling  for  boucle  effects, 
and  fluffy  carls  break  out  of  unexpected  places  in  all  the  smart- 
est textures.  Color  harmonies  are  daring  and  pronounced  in 
rough  woollens,  as  well  as  silks  and  brocades.  There  is  a  novelty 
known  as  the  ••  Distingue,"  with  strange  blendings  of  blue  and 
crimson,  and  here  and  there  a  boucle  knot  of  crushed  straw- 
berry; and  the  "Edinburgh,"  with  roughly  darned  effects  of 
blue,  mauve  and  crimson,  in  which  only  the  great  skill  in  weav- 
ing produces  a  pleasing  result. 

Summer  toilettes  are  pretty  well  laid  aside  now  by  our  eleganUt. 
Woollen  material  of  all  kinds,  light  and  pliable,  are  the  rage,  and 
all  the  different  tones  of  navy  blue  or  plum  color  are  the  favorite 
hues;  also  dark  shades  of  beige  and  fawn.  Parisiennes  who  re- 
visit the  capital,  either  for  a  few  days  shopping  or  on  their  way 
from  one  chateau  to  another,  wear  light  silks  in  old  blue  or  helio- 
trope or  fancy  foulards.  They  are  cut  plainly  and  flat,  and  the 
bodices  are  a  good  deal  puffed,  with  a  great  deal  of  the  "  frou- 
frou "  style  of  trimming  in  lace  or  guipure.  To  be  quite  complete 
the  costume  should  be  finished  off  by  varnished  slippers,  an 
umbrella  or  sunshade  to  match  the  toilette,  and  a  little  bag  in 
rough  leather  with  an  old  silver  clasp. 

Corded  silk  capes  matching  handsome  costnmes  are  among  the 
fall  belongings  of  tall  women.  They  are  finished  with  a  flaring 
collar  of  modified  height  or  with  "  petit  abbe  "  hoods  of  velvet. 
Why  does  not  some  modiste  introduce  the  snug  pelisses  trimmed 
with  fur  that  were  really  worn  with  the  Empire  dresses  in 
Josephine's  time,  and  the  cosy  long  muffs,  which  hide  the  hands 
and  half  the  arms?  How  much  more  graceful  and  comfortable 
are  they  than  the  flopping  monstrosities  now  prevalent? 


The  traveling  cloak  most  in  vogue  for  the  coming  season  will 
be  of  dark  red,  blue  or  dull  green  serge,  lined  with  changeable 
silk.  It  is  fully  the  length  of  the  gown,  is  double  breastea  and 
loose  in  front,  has  enormous  sleeves  and  a  loose  back,  which  is 
drawn  in  by  a  belt  of  the  same  material  buttoned  just  in  the  cen- 
ter. The  ease  with  which  it  can  be  taken  off  or  put  on  is  its 
great  advantage. 

Among  new  boots  the  smartest  is  the  heavy  calf  Blucher,  laced, 
which  will  be  worn  by  every  fashionably  right-minded  woman 
with  her  tailor  gown  when  she  walks.  These  boots  must  be 
blacked  like  a  man's,  so  the  day  of  French  dressing  is  over.  For 
rainy  days,  oddly  enough,  russet  leather  shoes  are  considered  the 
proper  choice.  They  have  pointed  toes  and  common-sense  flat 
heels. 

Trianon  blue  and  old  rose  are  gradually  usurping  the  gold  and 
white  combination  as  a  color  scheme  for  household  decoration. 
All  the  new  models  in  furniture  and  stuffs  in  hangings  are  of 
these  soft  and  pleasing  tints,  which  are  as  lovely  by  gaslight,  as 
charming  in  daylight,  and  which  clash  not  at  all  with  other  tints 
and  colors. 


The  mania  for  rainbow  effects  has  broken  out  again  in  velvets 
whose  tones  range  from  bright  cherry  red  through  harmonious 
browns  to  a  deep  olive  green.  A  plain  brown  gown  with  sleeves 
and  possibly  a  panel  graduated  and  bordered  with  mink  would 
make  a  handsome  autumn  costume. 

Somebody  says  the  great  art  of  keeping  your  hands  white  and 
soft  is  never  to  use  a  rough  towel  upon  them.  Instead,  handle 
them  as  gently  as  if  they  were  glass,  and  use  upon  them  just 
such  a  damask  cloth,  soft  and  sympathetic,  as  might  be  applied 
to  your  finest  glass  goblets. 

Women  who  have  their  diamond  necklaces  set  in  gold  will,  if 
they  wish  to  be  in  the  fashion,  have  them  reset  in  platinum. 
This,  it  is  claimed,  brings  out  the  stones  at  their  best.  It  is,  by- 
the-bye,  decidedly  suggestive  of  the  old-fashioned  setting  of  dia- 
monds in  silver. 

The  smart  woman  of  to-day  always  has  a  pin  about  her,  be- 
cause she  carries  in  her  pocket  a  tiny  velvet  cushion  stuck  full 
of  them  on  one  side,  while  her  monogram  in  silver  occupies  the 
other. 

Go  to  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  363-357  Tehama  street  if  you  want 
your  clothes  cleaned  or  dyed,  or  if  your  carpets  need  beating.  This 
establishment  has  been  noted  for  years  in  this  city  as  being  the  best 
in  its  line.  All  the  work  doue  there  is  absolutely  first-class,  for 
which  reason  it  enjoys  the  patronage  of  all  the  very  best  people  in 
town. 


NEW     FALL 

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DRY    GOODS    AND     CLOAKS 
Jfou;  Op   (octyibitiop. 

Our  unequalled  importations  of  the  new  season's  goods 

place  us  in  better  position  than  ever  before  to 

meet  the  wants  of  our  patrons  with 

THE  LARGEST  AND  MOST  COMPLETE  ASSORTMENTS. 

THE  LATEST  AND  MOST  ELEGANT  STYLES,  and 

THE  VERY  BEST  VALUES  IN  THE  MARKET. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


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O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  18S5. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker*  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babcock  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y. ;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus.  O. 

HOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot— pot  lasts  three  months. 

Mrs.  Nhttie  Habrison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.  Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    GUARANTEED    PERMANENT. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


H.     3^.     ITE-WHALL     <Sc     CO- 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  fair;    Extras  H15@M  25:  Superfine,  J2.50@?3.00. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping,  $1.30;  Milline,   $1.32M@$1.35  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet:  Brewing,  'J5c  @S1  Feed,  80c.@S5c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  »1.30@$1.35;  Feed,  Jl.25@fl.2714  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  *1  35;  Yellow,  $1.20@S1.30  per  ctl. 

Bye,  no  stock,  good  demand,  $1.02l^$1.07J-2-    Cement,  $2.00@?2.25. 

Hay  is  higher;  Wheat,  $11;  Oats,  $7(^*10;  Alfalfa.  $7@?9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $1I5@$1G,50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00@$2.40  per  ctl.    Potatoes,  60e.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  higher;  Choice,  30c. @37l£c;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10g.    Eggs,  free  supply,  30c.@38c. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c.@12c. :  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  40c(S)50c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit — all  kinds  dried — active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7J^c.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@l6c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5l^c.@534c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  I5e.@21c.  for  C.  A.   Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@20c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4 1.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Reflued.    Whites,  b%(dtGy$c. 

There  haa  been  of  late  a  large  movement  in  Chemicals  for  dis- 
infecting purposes,  for  both  home  use  and  export.  The  steamer 
City  of  New  York,  hence  for  Mexican  ports,  carried  3,000  lbs. 
Sulphur,  1,000  lbs.  Chloride  of  Lime,  and  100  bbis.  Sulphate  of 
Iron,  to  Central  America;  4  402  lbs.  Sulphate  of  Copper  to  Pana- 
ma, etc.  The  cholera  scare  seems  to  be  quite  universal  the  world 
over.  Prices  of  the  above  several  articles  have  advanced  very 
materially — say,  Chloride  of  Lime  on  the  spot  selling  at  6c.@7c. 
per  lb.,  while  to  arrive  it  can  be  bought  for  3Jc.@4c.  per  lb. 

The  ship  Bohemia,  140  days  from  New  York,  to  Williams, 
Dimond  &  Co.,  brings  2,000  kegs  Nail3,  1,250  cs.  Canned  Oysters, 
and  a  large  cargo  of  general  merchandise. 

Ounalaska. — The  Whl.  stmr.  Mary  D.  Hume,  14  ds.  thence  after 
a  three  year's  cruise,  brought  down  40,000  lbs.  Whalebone,  400 
Fox  Skins,  60  Beaver  Skins,  etc. ,  all  to  J .  N.  Knowles.  The  above, 
with  what  was  previously  sent  down,  is  valued  at  about  $300,000. 
The  Oil  (Blubber}  from  some  27  Whales  was  cast  in  the  sea,  not 
capacity  sufficient  to  carry  it. 

Eleven  thousand  dollars  were  paid  out  to  the  crew  of  the  sealing 
schooner  Henry  Dennis,  at  the  custom  house  in  Seattle  a  few  days 
ago  for  the  season's  work.  In  addition  to  this  they  had  received 
between  $1,500  and  $2,000  advance  at  the  beginning  of  the  season. 
One  of  the  hunters,  George  Wallace,  received  the  largest  sum,  get- 
ting $1,632  for  408  skins  secured  by  him.  They  were  paid  for  at 
the  rate  of  $4  per  skin.  Four  other  hunters  got  sums  amounting 
to  nearly  as  much.     The  schooner  had  been  out  since  January. 

Otter  Skins. — The  schr.  Herman,  13  days  from  Kodiak,  has  78 
of  these  valuable  skins,  also  5  sealskins,  to  H.  Liebes  &  Co.  The 
schr.  Alexander,  from  Allitak  Bay,  has  60  Otter  and  6  Sealskins  to 
same  firm. 

For  Mexican  ports — The  stmr.  Newbern,  for  Guaymas,  etc.,  on 
the  1st  inst.,  had  Mdse.  valued  at  $45,215,  consisting  in  part  of  144 
flsks.  Quicksilver,  825  bbls.  Flour,  3,260  lbs.  Tallow,  6,000  gals. 
Wine,  29,021  lbs.  Rice,  4,086  lbs.  Sago,  5,431  lbs.  Lard,  29,855  lbs. 
Coffee,  4,245  lbs.  Malt,  etc. 

Canadian  Pacific  route  on  the  1st.  inst.,  via  Victoria  per  stmr. 
Walla  Walla,  carried  for  Portland,  Maine,  300  cs.  Salmon ;  also  for 
St.  Paul,  Minn.,  350  cs.  ditto,  value  $2,600. 

Nitrate  of  Soda — The  bkte.  Catherine  Sudden,  58  days  from 
Caleta  Buena,  brought  up  4,529  bags  to  J.  W.  Grace  &  Co. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  Co.'s  stmr.  Colima,  from  Panama  and  way 
ports,  brought  up  a  very  meagre  cargo,  say  213  ska.  Coffee,  32 
bbls.  Deer  Skins,  5  bbls.  Rubber,  20  pkgs.  Mdse.,  231  aks.  Silver 
Ore,  and  16  pkgs.  Treasure,  say  $20,100. 

The  atmr.  Peru,  22  days  from  Hongkong,  via  Yokohama,  had 
for  cargo  500  bales  Hemp,  110  flsks.  Quicksilver,  4,870  pkgs. 
Sugar,  505  bags  Coffee,  255  pkgs.  Opium,  768  pkgs.  Oil,  7,406 
pkga.  Tea,  8,772  mats  Rice,  306  rolls  Matting,  47  pkgs.  Silk  Gooda, 
4,500  pkgs.  Mdse.;  also  in  tranait  to  go  overland,  1,480 pkgs.  Raw 
Silk,  10  pkgs.  Silk  Goods,  69  rolls  Matting,  909  pkgs.  Tea,  etc. 

The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  San  Bias,  from  the  Isthmua  and  way 
ports,  brought  a  large  New  York  cargo.  From  Europe,  767  pkgs. 
Sardines,  64  pkga.  Wine,  etc.;  from  Central  and  South  America, 
300  baga  Coffee,  etc.;  from  Mexico,  870  cs.  Liruea,  35  bxs.  Oranges 
and  67  pkg8.  Treaaure. 

Tbe  Britiah  ship  Eastcroft  has  just  cleared  for  Sligo,  Ireland, 
with  a  full  cargo  of  Starr  Flour.  This  makes  the  shipments  of 
Starr  Flour  to  Europe  of  this  new  crop  five  entire  cargoes,  the 
Clackmannamshire,  Ilala,  Loch  Linnhe,  Melville  Island  and  East- 
croft, besides  three  other  part  cargoes  of  the  same  brand  of  flour. 
This  must  be  a  great  help  to  our  farmers  in  selling  their  Wheat, 
as  well  as  providing  considerable  employment  for  oar  skilled 
millers,  so  that  8tarr  &  Co.,  in  the  interests  of  the  State,  are  cer- 
tainly deserving  of  every  possible  encouragement.  They  are  not 
in  the  combine  recently  formed  of  other  local  mills. 


SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS: 


* «       AND 

• » 

:  GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS.  : 
* * 

Nos.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco. 

National  Assurance  Company      -  -       -       -      of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company    ------    of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


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SYSTEM8  : 

"Slattery" 

Induction; 
"Wood" 

Arc. 
Factories : 
Fort  Wayne, 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn, 

New  York. 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Estimates  furnished   for  electric  railways,  electric 
light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
a  specialty. 
jt  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


OLD    SCALE    REMOVED.  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the  use  of  


STEAM 
BOIlER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 

LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

.Over  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  th.e  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

IllUBtrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


R.  J.  WHEELER. 


J.   W.   QIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 

formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F., Cal. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Company, 

SHIPPING  AND  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC    STEAMSHIP    COMPANY, 

GILLINGHAM     CEMENT. 

327  Market  Street,  corner  Fremont. 

8AN    FRANOI8QO. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO  , 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION     MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     cor.     Pine     and     Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Agents  for 
THE  CALIFORNIA  LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPS  FROM  NEW  YORK. 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co.;  the  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packet 
to  and  from  Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limited);  Bald* 
win  Locomotive  Works;  A..  Whitney  A  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sous 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
jen's  Composition.    Ontario  Cotton  Sail  Dack. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET. 
SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,   WOOD   AND    IKON    WOEKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING.  OIL8  AND  8UPPLIE8. 

H.OTJ-IS  CA.HE1T  <Sc  soasr, 


Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

41S  Sacramento  Street,  S.r, 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


PAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


25 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BROAD-GAUGE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY.  AI'RIL  24,  lwj.  and 
until  further  notice.  Boats  and  Tralus  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Fraucisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  (or  Point  Tiburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    PAYS— 7:40  a.  m.,  9:20  a.  m.,   11:20  A.  u.\ 

1:30  r.  M..  3:S0f.  m.,5:05  p.  m.,  6-J20  p.  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00  a.m.,  9:S0  a.m..  U:00  a.m.  ;  1:30  P.M. 
3:30  P.  M-.  5:00  p.  M.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  a.   m.,  7:55  A.   M.,  9:30   a.  m. 

11:30  a.  M. :  1:40  P.M.,  3:40  p.m.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAY'S— S:10  A.M.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.  M. ;  1:40 P.M. 
3:40  P.  M.,  5:00  P  M.,  6:25  p.  M. 

r-rom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:50  a.  m.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M. :  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  P.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  P.M. 
SUNDAY'S— 8:35    A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.: 
2:05  P.  M.,  4:05 P.M..  5:30 P.M.,  6:50  P.M. 


Leave  8.  F. 

DB8TINATION. 

ArbiveinS.F. 

Da^  !*"*•»• 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 8:00a.m.;    Petaluma 
3:30p.m.  9:30  a.  m.          and 
5:05  P.M.  5:00 P.M.    3anta  Rosa. 

10:40a. M 
6:05  p.M 
7:25  P.M 

8:50a.m. 
10:30  a.h 
6:10p.M. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:25p.'m. 

10:30A.M 
6:10p.m 



7:40a.  m. 

8:00  a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00a.  m. 

Guerneville. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30A.M. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00p.  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10  :40a.m. 
6:05p.m. 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  A.  m 
3:30  p.M 

8:00  A.M 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  I  10:40a.m 
!    6:05p.m 

10:30am 
6:10  p.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  a  t  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Port  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCUR8ION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days— To  Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1 80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $225;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $450;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  2U. 
H.  C  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Theotjgh  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  S.  S.  "San  Juau,"  Novem- 
ber 5th;  "City  of  Sydney,"  October  15th;  S.  S.  San 
Jose,"  October  25th,  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto.  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing —Oct.  18th,  8.  S.  "Colima." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 
5th,  1892,  at  3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  P.  m. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


iT  is  amusing  to  ;note  now  and  then  the 
free  and  easy  manner  in  which  some  in- 
dividuals who  are  dignified  by  the  title  of 
mining  experts  expand  under  the  genial  in- 
fluences of  some  gushing  newspaper  ap- 
prentice, when  it  comes  down  to  expatiating 
on  the  merits  of  a  reduction  process  which 
is  far  beyond  the  ken  of  either  of  the  "  ig- 
norants."  A  few  days  ago  we  were  treated 
to  a  dissertation  on  the  cyanide  process  by 
a  "well-known  assayist,"  who  evidently 
knows  as  much  about  the  subject  under  dis- 
cussion as  people  do  about  himself  as  an 
expert  on  either  mining  or  metallurgy.  If 
scientists,  so  prominent  in  their  own  opin- 
ions, would  only  cultivate  a  little  modesty 
in  addition  to  their  other  alleged  qualifica- 
tions, they  might  justly  win  the  public 
esteem  which  they  now  claim   to  possess. 


"XX/E'VE  been  bavin' great  feedin'  down 
VV    to  our  boardin'  house,"  said  Farmer 

Begosh  to  an  acquaintance  he  happened  to 

meet  in  the  city. 

"Canvas  back  duck,  eh?" 

"No,  siree.     No  canvas  back  about  them 

fowls.     I  never   et   tenderer   fowls   in    my 

life." 

HARRIE  GORGEOUS— I  saw  by  an 
English  paper  that  Orme  was  fit  to  race 
for  a  king's  ransom.  How  much  is  a  king's 
ransom,  anyhow? 

Tommy  Jones — I'm  not  sure,  but  I  think 
English  sovereigns  are  worth  about  $4  80 
just  now. 

THE  army  of  hunters  who  distributed 
the  mselves  over  plain  and  marsh  last 
week,  have  had  many  and  various  tales  to 
relate  of  their  experiences.  Although  the 
sporting  departments  of  the  dailies  con- 
tained glowing  numerical  accounts  of  their 
exploits,  few  birds,  quail  or  ducks,  were 
killed.  The  farmers,  with  their  fiercest 
and  most  trustworthy  dogs,  stood  off  the 
invaders,  and  only  those  who  had  preserves 
to  shoot  over  got  even  a  smell  of  sport. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Belgic Thursday,  Oct.  6,1892. 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Belqic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT   REDUCED    RATE8. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Omces,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 

PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  M.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a,  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


Shauvwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate 
Agents,  make  a  specialty  of  taking  full  charge 
of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and 
sold  on  commission.  Office,  407-409  Montgom- 
ery street. 


SOUTHERN  PACIFIC  COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 
Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave  '      From  Septembar  3,  7892.      [  Arrive 


7:00  a.  Beuicia,  Rumsey,  Sacramento.  7:15  f 
7:30a.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..  *12:16p 

Niles  and  San  Jose 16:15  p 

7:30  a.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Calistoga 

and  Santa  Rosa —  ...  6:15 p. 

8:00  a.  3acram'to&  Redding,  via  Davis.  7:15p. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East, 9 :45  p. 

8:30  a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4 :45  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,  New 

Orleans  and  East 8 :45  p. 

*9 :00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8 :45  P. 

12-OOm.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore  7:15  p. 

*1 :00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9 :00  p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose. .  9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno 9:45 A. 

4 :00  p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9.45  A. 

4:30p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.  10:45  a, 

4:30p.  Woodlandand  Oroville 10-.45A. 

*4 :30  p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8 :45  a. 

5:30  p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles 8:45  a. 

5:30  p.  Santa Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  A. 

6:00 p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose. .  7:45  a. 

6:00  p.  European  Mail  Ogden  and  East  9:15  a. 

J7:00p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00  p.  ShastaRoute Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .  v  gv-s 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

J7 :45  A.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  J8:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz- *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.    9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 

*7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions  *2 :38  p. 

J7:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion J8:28  p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro,SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6 :10  p. 
J9:30  a.    "Sunday  Excursion   Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  t2:45p. 

10:37a.  San  Jose.,  and  Way  Stations 5:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3 :30  p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,   Salinas, 
Monterey,    Pacific    Grove  and 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37  A. 

*3:30  P.  San    Jose,    Gilroy,  Tres    Pinos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. ..     *9:47  A. 
*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. .  -   *8:06  a. 

5 :15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8 :48  a. 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .     6:35  a. 
rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations t7:30p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  iSaturdays  only. 

JSundays  only. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 

Sing  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
ails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,   APIA,   AUCKLAND    AND  SYDNEY, 
DIRECT. 

S.  S   Alameda Friday,  October  14,  at  2  f.  m. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

S.  S.  Australia Wednesday,  Oct.  26, 1892, 

For  Freight   or   Passage  apply  at    Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRKCKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 

General  Agents 


THE  total  bank  clearings  in  this  city  for 
the  first  six  months  in  this  year  aggre- 
gated $63,000,000,  as  against  $67,000,000 
for  same  period  in  1891,  and  $64,000,000  in 
1890. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


THE  marriage  of  Sig.  Stern  and  Miss  Rosalie  Meyer  took  place 
at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  father,  E.  Meyer,  on  the  corner 
of  Pine  and  Gough  street,  last  Monday  evening.  The  ceremony 
was  witnessed  by  the  relatives  and  most  intimate  friends  only, 
but  a  reception  followed  from  9  to  11  o'clock,  and  during  those 
hours  the  house  was  thronged  with  guests,  bent  on  offering  their 
best  wishes  to  the  happy  pair.  Miss  Meyer  made  a  beautiful  pic- 
ture in  her  bridal  robe  of  heavy  white  satin  trimmed  with  chiffon, 
long  tulle  veil  and  sprays  of  orange  blossoms.  Her  two  young 
sisters  were  her  attendants;  those  who  filled  the  similar  office  for 
the  groom  were  his  brothers,  Abe  and  Louis.  Dr.  Voorsanger 
officiated,  and  Mr.  Meyer  gave  the  bride  away.  The  house  was 
redolent  of  sweet  flowers  everywhere;  palms  and  evergreens 
also  were  used  in  profusion  in  decoration.  Ballenberg's  band  dis- 
coursed delightful  music  all  the  evening,  and  supper  was  served 
at  tete-a-tete  tables.  The  wedding  gifts  were  lavish  in  number 
and  gorgeous  in  style.  The  bride's  diamonds  were  specially  no- 
ticeable, rivalling  her  lovely  eyes  in  sparkle  and  brilliancy.  Alto- 
gether, it  was  pronounced  a  charming  wedding. 

Another  prominent  wedding  of  the  week  was  that  of  Miss  Flora 
Brown  and  Max  Gauz,  of  Portland,  Or.  Rabbi  Voorsanger 
performed  the  ceremony,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's 
father,  Mr.  Maurice  Brown,  on  Sutter  street,  last  Tuesday  after- 
noon. The  ceremony  took  place  in  the  drawing-rooms,  which, 
though  not  elaborately,  were  very  prettily  dressed  with  ferns, 
clusters  of  La  France  rosea  predominating,  combined  with  maiden 
hair  and  smilax.  A  pretty  feature  was  the  chanting  of  the 
Lohengren  chorus  as  the  bridal  party  entered  the  room,  the  vo- 
calists being  Mesdames  C.  L.  Ackerman,  A.  Brown  and  Walter 
Levy,  the  Misses  Kalisher,  Meyerfeldt,  Heidermann  and  Meyer. 
The  bride,  who  was  given  away  by  her  father,  wore  a  richly  bro- 
caded white  silk  robe  trimmed  with  point  and  duchesse  lace  and 
sprays  of  orange  blossoms,  and  made  with  a  court  train.  A  dia- 
mond fleuT  de  lis  confined  the  tulle  veil  to  her  coiffeur,  and  a  hand- 
some diamond  necklace  was  also  worn  by  the  bride.  Her  sister,  Miss 
Hilda  Brown,  who  was  maid  of  honor,  was  attired  in  white  tulle 
with  elaborate  pearl  passamenterie  trimmings,  and  her  mother's 
(Mrs.  Brown)  gown  was  of  pink  and  white  brocade,  trimmed 
with  old  point  lace  and  diamond  ornaments.  Among  many  other 
beautiful  toilettes,  Mrs.  E.  Heller  wore  white  satin;  Mrs.  S.  Hel- 
ler, pale  blue  satin,  and  Mrs.  Adolph  Roose  appeared  in  light 
blue  and  gold  brocade.  An  elaborate  dinner  was  served  after  the 
congratulations,  which  followed  the  ceremony,  were  offered  and 
received,  the  guests  sitting  at  table  for  several  hours,  after  which 
there  was  dancing  until  a  late  hour.  The  presents  were  numer- 
ous and  of  great  value. 

Calvary  Presbyterian  Church  put  in  a  claim  for  recognition  as 
a  scene  for  a  pretty  wedding  on  Wednesday  last,  when  its  pastor, 
Rev.  Chalmers  Easton,  performed  the  marriage  ceremony  for 
Henry  W.  Crew,  of  Chico,  and  Miss  Lizzie  Crutchley,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  M.  E.  Donneley.  The  hour  named  was  noon,  and  under 
the  bright  rays  of  the  sun,  the  young  couple  were  made  one.  The 
bride  looked  very  pretty  in  a  gown  of  cream  brocaded  crepe, 
made  with  a  long  train,  tulle  veil  and  orange  blossoms,  and  a 
bouquet  of  rosea  completing  the  costume.  The  bridesmaids  were 
the  Misses  Emma  and  Susie  Conly'and  Anna  Crane;  the  ushers, 
Messrs.  Harry  Burroughs,  George  Graham  and  William  Donneley; 
Miss  Ethel  Crew  was  Maid  of  Honor,  and  Harry  Carroll  officiated 
aa  best  man.  The  bride  and  groom  left  for  Chico  by  the  afternoon 
train,  and  there,  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Crew,  Sr.,  the  bridal  re- 
ception will  be  held. 

At  an  early  hour  on  Wednesday  morning,  Father  Callagban,  of 
San  Mateo,  married  Miss  Mary  Bergin,  daughter  of  the  late  J.  G. 
Bergin,  to  W.  C.  Mahoney,  at  St.  Mary's  Cathedral;  the  godfather 
of  the  groom,  Father  Doogan,  also  took  part  in  the  Nuptial  Masa 
which  followed  the  wedding  ceremony.  The  bride,  who  was 
given  away  by  Michael  Flood,  wore  a  handaome  robe  of  light 
silver-gray  silk  with  court  train,  the  coiffeur  arranged  with  lilliea 
of  the  valley  and  long  tulle  veil.  Her  sole  attendant  was  the 
groom's  sister,  Miss  Mary  Mahoney,  and  his  brother,  Dennis 
Mahoney,  Jr.,  was  the  groom's  beat  man.  After  the  ceremony 
and  Mass,  the  party  adjourned  to  the  residence  of  the  bride,  on 
Turk  street,  to  partake  of  an  elaborate  wedding  breakfast,  and 
later  the  young  couple  departed  for  their  honeymoon  trip  to  the 
northern  part  of  the  State. 


There  will  be  a  gathering  of  the  Weil  family  in  Paris  next 
month,  to  celebrate  the  silver  wedding  anniversary  of  Alexander 
Weil  and  his  wife,  nee  Lazard,  who  are  old  residents  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Silvain  Weil  and  their  brother  Henri  have 
been  in  Paris  for  several  weeks,  and  will  soon  be  joined  there  by 
their  popular  brother,  Raphael  Weil,  who  left  for  New  York  en 
route  to  Paris  yesterday. 


Arrivals  in  town  from  the  country  include  the  Louis  Parr'otts 
from  San  Rafael,  the  Robert  Balfours  from  Menlo  Park,  Mrs.  W. 
B.  Wiltshire  from  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Monteagle 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Timothy  Paige,  all  of  whom  are  now  occupy- 
ing their  city  residences ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  Smith,  the  Misses 
Helen  and  Ethel  Smith  have  returned  from  Bolinas;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  B.  Stone,  from  San  Mateo;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ellis  Wooster, 
from  their  bridal  trip  to  Coronado;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  McNear, 
Jr.,  from  Castle  Crags;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilfred  Chapman,  from 
Del  Monte;  Mrs.  Dillon  and  her  daughter,  from  San  Rafael;  Mrs. 
M.  S.  Latham,  from  San  Jose;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  O'Neil  Reis,  from 
the  Hotel  Vendome,  and  are  at  the  Palace  for  the  winter  season. 
Mra.  Reis'  sisters,  the  Misses  Brookes,  have  also  returned  to  their 
city  home. 

The  First  Congregational  Church,  in  Oakland,  was  very  charm- 
ingly dreaaed  with  flowers  and  foliage  last  Monday  evening,  the 
occasion  being  the  marriage  of  Miss  Mary  Fox,  Oakland's  most 
popular  vocalist,  to  the  Rev.  Frank  E.  Pierson,  of  New  Jersey, 
and  so  great  was  the  interest  manifested  in  the  pretty  bride,  the 
church  was  filled  to  overflowing  by  friends  to  witness  the  cere- 
mony, which  was  performed  by  Rev.  Dr.  McLane.  Miss  Eva 
Hunter,  of  San  Jose,  was  Maid-of-Honor,  and  Alonza  Fox  best 
man.  The  bridal  costume  was  of  white  corded  silk,  the  hand 
bouquet  of  bridal  roses.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pierson  departed  for  their 
future  home  in  the  Eaat  on  Tueaday  last. 


Truly  has  this  been  a  week  of  weddings,  one  or  more  taking 
place  every  day  and  evening  of  the  whole  seven.  In  fact  it  has 
been  remarked  that  the  oldest  resident  cannot  call  to  mind  a  sum- 
mer and  autumn  that  has  been  so  prolific  of  splicings  aa  that  of 
1892.  Next  week  promises  well  also  in  that  line.  At  Miss 
Acosta's  wedding,  which  takes  place  at  St.  Mary's  Cathedral  on 
Wednesday,  her  sister,  Miss  Clotilda  Acosta,  will  be  Maid-of- 
Honor;  the  Misses  Lola  Loaiza,  Emma  Regensburger,  Marie 
Durand  and  Eugenia  Cabrera  will  be  bridesmaids.  Dr.  Arthur 
Regensburger,  Dr.  Albert  Maldonado,  Ed  Acosta  and  William 
Kelly  groomsmen,  and  Alonsa  Acosta  will  be  the  groom's  best 
man. 


From  the  East  comes  the  news  of  a  loss  to  us  socially  in  the 
engagement  of  another  of  our  California  heiresses,  Miss  Marie 
Naglee  to  Mr.  Henry  Robbins,  whom  she  has  met  during  her 
visit  to  Bar  Harbor  this  summer.  Miss  Naglee  is  one  of  the 
daughters,  and,  with  her  sister,  co-heiress  of  the  late  General 
Naglee,  of  San  Jose,  and  his  beautiful  wife,  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Major  Ringgold,  long  a  resident  of  San  Francisco.  The  Naglee 
home  at  San  Joae,  with  its  fine  vineyard,  has  long  been  one  of 
the  show  places  of  the  Garden  City.  Another  recently  announced 
engagement  ia  that  of  Mias  Nancie  Prather,  of  Oakland,  to  Har- 
rison Clay. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Maud  Hopkins,  who  recently  made  a 
long  visit  here  to  her  uncle,  Ned,  to  Warren  D.  Clarke,  will  take 
place  on  Monday  next  at  the  home  of  her  father,  Sherwood  Hop- 
kins, St.  Clair,  Mich.  Mr.  Clarke,  accompanied  by  Mr.  Claud 
Terry  Hamilton,  who  will  officiate  as  best  man  at  the  ceremony, 
left  for  the  Eaat  last  week,  and  the  happy  pair  may  be  expected 
to  arrive  in  San  Francisco  about  the  middle  of  the  month,  as 
they  leave  for  California  directly  after  the  wedding.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ned  Hopkins,  who  have  been  at  the  Eaat  all  summer,  and 
remained  to  be  present  at  the  nuptiala  of  their  niece,  will  return 
home  before  the  end  of  this  month. 


San  Francisco  society  will  have  an  opportunity  in  the  course 
of  a  few  weeka  of  congratulating  the  charming  fianc6e,  Miss  Anna 
Head,  in  propria  personne,  as  she  and  Mra.  Head  will  arrive  in 
thia  city  in  time  for  the  Chriatmaa  holiday  season.  They  expect 
to  leave  England  early  in  November,  and  will  remain  a  ahort  time 
on  the  Atlantic  coast  before  crossing  the  continent  to  the  Pacific. 
Miss  Aileen  Ivers,  on  the  contrary,  has  decided  not  to  visit  Cali- 
fornia again  before  her  marriage,  but  will  upon  her  return  with 
her  mother  to  America  remain  in  New  York,  where  her  wedding 
will  take  place  early  in  the  new  year. 


The  event  of  this  evening  will  be  the  ball  given  by  Le  Cercle 
Franeais,  at  their  handsome  club  rooms,  on  Post  street,  which 
will  inaugurate  their  winter  festivities.  It  will  be  very  largely 
attended,  beyond  a  doubt,  and  the  presence  of  the  Admiral  and 
the  officers  of  the  French  flagship  Doubotcrdieu  will  go  far  to  add 
to  the  brilliancy  of  the  affair.  Next  Saturday  evening  another 
club,  the  Concordia,  will  give  their  opening  ball  of  the  season  at 
the  club  house,  on  Van  Ness  avenue.  Only  a  limited  number  of 
invitations  will  be  issued,  as  the  club  has  now  such  a  large  mem- 
bership, and  of  the  invited  only  single  men  will  be  eligible  to  re- 
ceive a  card. 


The  many  friends  of  himself  and  family  will  be  pained  to  learn 
of  the  death,  on  Tuesday  last,  at  her  residence,  1228  Geary  street, 
of  Mra.  Marie  Le  Breton  de  Laveaga,  wife  of  Miguel  de  Laveaga, 
the  capitaliat,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Julia  Le  Breton  and  sister  of  A.J. 
and  E.  J.  Le  Breton.  The  latter  is  the  President  of  the  French 
Savings  and  Loan  Society.  Mrs.  Laveaga  was  well-known  in  so- 
ciety.    She  was  a  lady  esteemed  for  many  virtues.  / 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


27 


The  Bohemian  Clnb  has  decided  not  to  purchase  8equoia  Valley 
(or  a  midsummer  jinks  ground.  The  opinion  of  the  majority  of 
the  members  was  against  the  step.  Tbey  argued  that  the  valley 
was  too  damp,  and  that  as  the  Tamalpais  Land  and  Water  Com- 
pany proposed  in  the  near  future  to  erect  a  hotel  on  those 
grounds,  they  would  naturally  become  too  public  for  the  jinks 
purposes  of  the  club.  But  Mr.  Harry  Gillig.  who  bonded  the 
properly,  will  complete  his  purchase.  Those  fifteen  acres  will 
be  the  site  of  a  county  club.  It  will  be  portioned  out  to  desirable 
parties  who  will  build  log  cabins,  bungalows,  etc.,  thereon  for 
their  individual  use.  The  clubhouse  proper  will  be  a  fine  struc- 
ture, and  may  be  of  logs,  on  a  large  scale.  A  swimming-pond 
will  be  constructed  on  the  creek,  the  heavy  underbrush  dug  out 
and  the  place  improved  as  much  as  possible,  preserving,  of  course, 
its  natural  features,  and  introducing  the  artificial  only  where  it 
will  be  a  manifest  improvement.  By  next  summer  the  new  club 
will  be  born,  and  the  Men  of  the  Woods  will  take  possession  of 
their  property. 

A  concert  will  take  place  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Friday,  Octo- 
ber 14th,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  and  supported 
by  the  following  artists:  Mrs.  L.  Brechemin,  soprano;  Mrs.  E. 
Westwater,  contralto;  Mr.  Osgood  Putnam,  basso;  Mr.  W.  J. 
Maffey,  tenor;  Mr.  Nat.  Landsberger,  violin  solo;  Mr.  Otto  Ben- 
dex,  piano  solo;  Mr.  H.  Clay  Wysham,  flute  solo;  pianoforte, 
Messrs.  H.  J.  Stewart  and  M.  F.  Boswortb.  A  special  programme 
has  been  provided,  and  will  be  not  only  an  interesting  one  but 
also  containing  several  novelties. 

A  very  pretty  party  was  given  last  Friday  evening  by  the 
Union  Square  Club,  at  Pioneer  Hall,  which  was  decorated  with 
flags  and  foliage,  tastefully  arranged,  while  Blum's  band,  which 
occupied  the  platform,  was  almost  hidden  by  potted  plants  and 
flowers.  It  was  a  very  enjoyable  gathering,  and  a  great  success 
in  every  way.  The  club  purpose  giving  a  ball  during  October, 
this  party  having  been  limited  to  members  only.  They  have 
chartered  the  tug  Relief,  and  will  spend  to-morrow  npon  the  bay, 
making  its  complete  tour,  filling  in  the  hours  with  dancing  and 
feasting  while  on  the  briny  deep. 

The  ranks  of  San  Francisco's  society  belles  must  prepare  them- 
selves for  another  defection  ere  long.  Col.  and  Mrs.  Smedberg 
and  family  are  en  route  from  the  East,  where  the  ladies  have 
been  visiting  all  summer,  and  immediately  upon  their  arrival  the 
engagement  will  be  announced  of  Miss  Nellie  Smedberg  to  a 
young  Lieutenant  in  the  United  States  army,  at  present  stationed 
at  West  Point.  The  wedding  is  to  be  one  of  the  events  of  the 
Easter  season,  and  it  means,  of  course,  the  loss  to  us  of  the  fair 
bride-eiect.  

Relatives  and  intimate  friends  only  were  present  at  the  cere- 
mony which  united  Miss  Emma  Durbrow  to  Spencer  Buckbee,  on 
Thursday  last,  at  the  hour  of  noon.  It  took  place  in  the  long 
drawing  room  of  the  Durbrow  residence,  on  Bush  street,  which 
was  tastefully  adorned  with  flowers  and  garlands  of  smilax  and 
foliage.  Miss  Anna  Buckbee  appeared  as  maid  of  honor,  and 
Walter  Newball  supported  the  groom  as  best  man.  A  handsome 
wedding  breakfast  followed  the  ceremony. 

The  officers  of  the  San  Francisco  gave  a  reception  and  dance  on 
board  the  cruiser  last  Thursday  afternoon,  which,  owing  to  the 
unsettled  state  of  the  weather,  they  feared  would  not  be  the  suc- 
cess they  anticipated.  However,  it  takes  more  than  a  few  rain 
drops  to  keep  our  belles  from  the  deck  of  a  man-of-war,  when 
specially  invited  to  present  themselves,  and  that  they  enjoyed 
themselves  it  is  needless  to  say. 


The  Eyres  have  left  their  summer  home  at  Menlo  Park  for  the 
city,  and  the  Holbrooks  will  doubtless  be  the  next  to  put  in  an 
appearance  in  town.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Crocker  will  arrive  in 
town  for  the  season  about  November  1st.  Mrs.  Moses  Hopkins 
is  due  in  the  city  this  week.  Judge  and  Mrs.  Morrow  and  Miss 
Maud  Morrow  will  return  to  town  from  San  Rafael  about  the  end 
of  October. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  Clay  are  at  home  in  their  pretty  new  resi- 
dence, 1428  Oak  street,  Alameda,  having  returned  from  their 
bridal  trip.  Mrs.  Clay  has  named  the  first  and  third  Thursdays 
of.  each  month  as  her  reception  day.  Tuesday  is  the  day  chosen 
by  the  Misses  Rountree  for  being  at  home  to  their  friends.  They 
are  now  occupying  their  new  house,  1623  Center  avenue,  Alameda. 

Mrs.  A.  P.  Hotaling  sails  from  Liverpool  for  home  next  Wed- 
nesday, by  the  City  of  Paris.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Hill  are 
looked  for  upon  their  return  from  the  East  about  the  middle  of 
November.  The  Misses  Fanny  and  Julia  Crocker  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins  are  among  the  Californians  who  will  re- 
main In  the  Old  World  this  winter. 

A  number  of  persons  went  up  to  Napa  last  Friday,  to  attend 
the  party  given  there  that  evening  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Good- 
man. Among  them  were;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  M.  Estee,  John  I. 
Houseman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Fry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  L.  Requa, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  S.  King,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Drury  Malone,  Miss 
Requa. 


The  wedding  of  Miss  Anna  Irene  White,  daughter  of  W.  W. 
White,  and  Charles  Anthony  Hubbs  took  place  in  Oakland  on 
Sept.  29th,  Rev.  Dr.  Silcox  officiating.  Miss  May  Hitchcock  acted 
as  bridesmaid,  and  Mr.  8.  A.  Davies  as  grooms-man.  The  happy 
pair  will  receive  their  friends  after  October  15th. 


The  ladies  of  the  San  Francisco  Nursery  for  Homeless  Children 
take  great  pleasure  in  thanking  their  anonymous  friend  for  his 
very  generous  donation  of  $500,  as  this  sum  will  materially  help 
the  management  to  provide  some  of  the  comforts  necessary  for 
the  little  ones  under  their  care  during  the  coming  winter. 

Senator  Felton's  only  daughter,  Mrs.  Elkins,  of  Philadelphia, 
will  arrive  early  next  month  from  the  East,  and  purposes  spend- 
ing a  portion  of  the  winter  here  with  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Loomis,  of 
Menlo  Park,  who  will  therefore  not  return  to  town  as  early  as  she 
intended. 


The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Emma  Lewis,  the  tal- 
ented and  popular  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sol.  Lewis,  to  Mr. 
Samuel  Rosenbaum,  the  young  millionaire.  Sol.  Lewis  is  a 
wealthy  Arizona  banker,  but  lives  in  this  city,  at  1601  Post  street. 


Among  the  lunches  of  the  week  was  one  given  by  Mrs.  Guinan 
to  a  number  of  young  ladies,  last  Monday.  The  table  decorations 
were  novel  and  very  pretty,  and  the  menu  was  everything  that 
could  be  wished.     So  a  charming  afternoon  was  the  result. 


The  wedding  of  Miss  Dora  Goldstone  and  Mr.  Joseph  S.  Steiner 
will  take  place  at  the  Harmonie  Club  rooms,  Union  Square  Hall, 
on  the  evening  of  October  30th.  Mr.  Steiner  left  last  week  for  a 
short  business  trip  through  Southern  California. 


Southard  Hoffman  chose  the  Panama  route  for  his  trip  East,  as 
he  sailed  on  the  San  Bias  last  Wednesday,  en.  route  to  New  York, 
where  he  will  spend  a  few  weeks  visiting  relatives,  with  whom 
his  sister  May  is  at  present. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sig  B.  Schloss  have  returned  from  an  extended 
trip  through  Lake  and  Napa  counties,  and  are  domiciled  for  the 
winter  at  the  Occidental  Hotel.  They  have  postponed  their  Eu- 
ropean trip  until  February. 


The  Geographical  Society  will  meet  next  Tuesday,  in  Union 
Square  Hall,  when  Lieut.  Finley  will  deliver  a  lecture  on  »  The 
Weather  and  Storm  Phenomena,"  illustrated  by  stereoptican 
views. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alex.  Loughborough  have  recently  taken  posses- 
sion of  their  newly  built  residence,  on  O'Farrell  street,  near 
Franklin.  Miss  Loughborough  will  be  one  of  this  season's  de- 
butantes. 

Miss  Alice  Decker-will  be  with  us  again  for  the  winter  season, 
and  is  expected  to  arrive  early  next  month  from  Salt  .take,  where 
she  has  been  visiting  friends  the  greater  part  of  the  summer. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  S.  King  were  among  the  Eastbound  pas- 
sengers by  train  last  Tuesday.  New  York  being  their  destina- 
tion.    They  will  not  return  until  near  the  close  of  the  year. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  G.  Kittle,  Miss  Kittle,  Bishop  and  Mrs. 
Nichols,  and  Rev.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Foute  have  all  arrived  safely  on 
the  other  side  of  the  continent. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Kate  Olden  and  Berkeley  Kimball  Easton, 
son  of  the  Rev.  Giles  H.  Easton,  .was  very  quietly  celebrated  at 
Berkeley  last  Tuesday  evening. 

The  Unitarian  Church  Club  gave  a  reception  in  the  church 
parlors  last  night  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horatio  Stebbins,  prior  to  their 
departure  for  the  East. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Susie  Tompkins  to  Mr.  J.  B.  Brown,  of 
New  York,  will  be  solemnized  to-day  at  the  Tompkins'  residence 
in  Ross  Valley. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Carrie  Hamburger  and 
Mr.  Otto  Sweet.     They  will  receive  on  the  5th  and  9th  insts. 

Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Stoney  and  family  are  occupying  their 
quarters  at  the  Navy  Yard,  Mare  Island,  where  Lieutenant 
Stoney  was  recently  ordered. 

The  Watteau  back  is  the  rage  of  the  hour.  Any  lady  who  has 
a  cloak  which  is  not  the  proud  possessor  of  a  Watteau  back  can- 
not be  considered  of  the  swim.  The  new  and  beautiful  line  of 
cloaks  now  to  be  seen  at  the  Maze  far  surpass  anything  else  in 
town.  The  cheviots  are  very  handsome  for  fall  and  winter  goods. 
There  are  cloaks  of  cheviot  cloth  with  cape,  loose  front  and  Wat- 
teau back,  and  Scotch  cheviot  ulsters,  with  Watteau  back,  and 
edged  with  French  seal  fur.  A  very  pretty  jacket  is  the  Parisian, 
which  is  handsomely  embroidered  and  is  edged  with  Astrakhan 
fur.  The  Malo  cape  is  also  very  pretty.  It  is  a  triple  cape, 
trimmed  with  seal  fur,  and  has  a  storm  collar.  The  Russian  blouse, 
the  Norfolk  jacket  and  the  Russian  jacket  are  all  handsome  and 
popular. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  8,  1892. 


The  recent  butterfly  fete  giren  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  B. 
Overacker,  at  Niles,  was  a  very  enjoyable  and  successful  affair. 
The  beautiful  grounds  were  very  handsomely  decorated  with 
flowers,  fruits  and  lanterns.  Twenty-two  young  ladies  in  cos- 
tumes of  yellow,  decorated  with  painted  butterflies,  dispensed 
hospitalities  during  the  evening.  The  programme  opened  with  a 
tableau  of  the  butterflies,  and  included  various  charming  vocal 
and  instrumental  selections  and  readings.  The  attendance  was 
very  large  and  fashionable. 

A  Shakespearean  party  will  be  given  on  Friday  evening  next, 
at  the  residence  of  the  Misses  Buswell,  in  East  Oakland.  The  C. 
Y.  T.  Club  will  attend  in  a  body,  and  every  guest  will  represent 
some  character  in  Shakespeare.  So  it  will  be  a  very  swell  and 
novel  affair. 


LATEST    TENNIS    NEWS. 


THE  finals  of  the  quarterly  tournament  were  finished 
last  Sunday,  and  after  a  hard  fought  battle,  which 
lasted  two  hours  and  three-quarters,  was  won  by  Harry  N.  Stet- 
son, who  will  have  his  name  engraved  on  the  club  cup.  It  was 
more  a  question  of  endurance  than  brilliant  tennis,  some  of  the 
strokes,  however,  being  as  good  as  expected.  Wilberforce  began 
to  show  signs  of  weakness  in  the  third  sett,  and  towards  the  end 
of  the  fourth  was  exhausted.  The  best  tennis  was  in  the  first  two 
setts,  when  both  men  were  fresh,  and  some  of  the  strokes  made 
were  very  good.  The  score  at  the  finish  was  in  Stetson's  favor  as 
follows:  7-5.  5-7.  8-6.  6-4.  It  is  strange  that  the  previous  tourna- 
ment was  won  by  De  Long.  He  and  Stetson  are  known  as  the 
California  pony  team.  Stetson  and  De  Long  are  rapidly  coming 
to  the  front.  Should  they  not  be  styled  as  De  Long  and  Stetson  ? 
It  seems  a  pity  that  to  a  tennis  match  the  daily  papers  send  re- 
porters who  know  nothing  of  the  game,  and  who  make  ridiculous 
statements  in  their  articles. 

The  continuous  tournament  has  started,  and  the  list  is  as  fol- 
lows: Hubbard,  Tobin,  Stetson,  Allen,  W.B.Collier,  Jr.,  G.  de 
Long,  Field,  S.  Hoffman,  Hobart,  Treat,  Allison  Davis,  G.  F.  Whit- 
ney. R.  N.  Whitney,  J.  A.  Code,  F.  de  Long,  Mitchell,  Beaver, 
Lee,  Bradshaw,  Linderman,  Spencer,  Havens,  Moore,  P.  B.  Col- 
lier, Hooper,  Woods,  Keeler,  C.  Paige,   C.  R.  Winslow,  J.  Bishop. 

Last  Sunday  Hooper  beat  P.  B.  Collier,  6-3.  6-4,  and  took  the 
place  above  him.  The  fact  was  that  Collier  did  not  realize  that  he 
was  playing  a  match  till  too  late,  and  then  had  no  energy  to  pull 
up. 

It  has  been  decided  to  start  a  subscription  to  buy  two  silver 
cups  and  offer  them  for  gentleman's  doubles.  The  idea  is  the 
same  as  the  quarterly  single  tournament,  only  instead  of  having 
to  win  the  cup  five  times,  as  in  the  single  tournament,  it  will  have 
to  be  won  three  times. 

The  newly-appointed  Board  of  Directors  of  the  California  Club 
will  meet  to-day,  and  will  appoint  the  officers  of  the  season  and 
the  tournament  and  election  committees.  Miss  Gibbs  ought  to  be 
complimented  on  her  idea  of  having  army  ladies  and  gentlemen 
admitted,  as  quite  a  number  of  new  names  from  the  Presidio  are 
up  for  election. 


As  "Society," 

Within  the  true  and  real  meaning  of  the  phrase,  grows  and  devel- 
ops in  the  United  States,  there  grows  and  develops  with  it  a  cultured 
and  refined  taste  in  all  things.  This  indisputable  fact  accounts  for 
the  great  popularity  which  the  Pommery  and  Greno  Sec  Champagne 
is  lately  acquiring  in  the  more  select  circles  of  American  society. 
For  a  long  time  past  this  wine  has  been  almost  exclusively  used 
among  the  royalty  and  nobility  of  Europe,  more  particularly  in  Eng- 
land and  Russia.  Its  intrinsic  merit  commends  it  to  the  critical  and 
discerning  judgment  of  those  who  have  the  means  to  indulge  in  the 
best  of  everything  that  is  to  be  had.  Persons  who  intend  to  give  select 
entertainments  should  be  particular  to  have  this  wine  or,  the  table, 
and  bear  in  mind  the  Prince  of  Wales'  opinion:  "There  is  no  head- 
ache in  Pommery  Sec."  — London  Journal. 

Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"  609  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 


The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  G35  Market  street. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Wlnslow's  Soothing  Syrup ' 
children  while  Teething. 


for  your 


A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocke 
Building,  San  Francisco. 

All  good  livers  enjoy  fresh,  luscious  oysters,  such  as  those  to  be 
had  only  at  Moraghan's  in  the  California  Market. 


Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to"  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 

DODGE  BROS.,  emraveus.' 

Crane's  kid  finish  is  la  mode  for  wedding 
invitations,  receptions,  at  homes,  teas,  etc. 
It  is  a  delightful  paper   as   well  for  corres- 


pondence notes. 

COPPER  PLATES. 
WEDDUIffl  CAItDS. 


225  POST  ST. 


9         FALL    SEASON. 

%i  Ladies  will  find  the  Latest  styles  and  Best  Fitting 

CLOAKS 

AT    THE 

CALIFORNIA    CLOAK    COMPANY, 

CHARLES  NAYEK,  Jr„  A  CO., 

Also  a  large  stock  of 

Misses'  and  Children's  Cloaks,  Ladies'  Suits  and  Furs 

ON     HAND. 

%  CLOAKS  MADE  TO  ORDER 
105  POST  ST.  g^tX^u"6  Honse' 
IRVING_HALL. 

THE  TWENTY- SECOND  CARR-BEEL 
Saturday  popular  concert  takes  place  to-day  at  3  p.  M. 
Mrs.  Sunderland,  vocalist;  Mr.  Louis  Heine,  soloist. 
Admission 50c 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Overman  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of 
works — Gold  Hill,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  5th  day  of  October,  1892,  an  assessment  (No  65)  of  Thirty  certs  per  share 
was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  No. 
414  California  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
The  Tenth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and   unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNES  DAY,  the  30th  day  of  November.  1892,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with    costs    of   advertising  and  expen- 
ses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

GEO.  D.  EDWARDS,  Secretary. 

Office.— No.  414  California  Street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Kentuck  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
eation  of  works— Goid  Hill.  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  3d  day  of  October,  1892,  an  assessment  'No.  5)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable  imme- 
diately, in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  (.he  office  of  the  com- 
pany, rooms  15  and  17,  310  Piue  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Eight  Day  ol  November,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,   the    twenty-uiuth    day  of   November, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with    the  costs  of  adver- 
tising and  expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office— 310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  California. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.  B.  CHAPMAN, 

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PAOIFto  OOAST, 

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FOE  SALB  BT  ALL  FIRST-CLASS 

Wine    Merchants  and  Grocers. 


Plata  No.  193. 


With  S.  F.  News  Letter,  Oct.  1B,  18BS. 


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Vol  XIV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  OCTOBER  15,  IS 92. 


Number  16. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  Sari  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


Page 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  Articles  : 

Columbus  Day 2 

For  Sheriff.  Johu  J.  McDade 2 

California  Fish  Exhibition.     ..    2 
The    World's    Fair   and    Early- 
Closing    3 

A  Campaign  of  Education 3 

Our  Next  Mayor 3 

Some  Good  Candidates  —   4 

Tippling  Among  Women 5 

Pleasure's  Wand 6-7 

Sparks 8 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 9 

The  Prisoners  - 10 

Swiss  Disasters 11 

Anecdotes  of  Clerical  Life  in  Ire- 
land    11 

La  Rabide  (Poetry) 12 

Sometime  (Poetry) 12 

Hon.  Creed  Haymond 13 

ABTOTYPE-Men  We  Knc 


Page 

The  Looker-On 14 

Gossip  From  Gotham    15 

Tennis  and  Baseball 15 


Financial  Review 16 

Town  Crier  .  17 

Real  Property 18 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...    19 
Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs —  20 

Vanities  21 

The  Rose  Jar 22 

Scientific  and  Useful    23 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 
Important  Mining  Consolidation.  25 

Sunbeams 26 

Our  Fair  Ones  (Poetry) 27 

Wheu  First  We  Met  (Poetry) 27 

The  Scholar  of  Liuy 28 

A  Vanderbilt  in  Japan  29 

Society 30-31 

John  Henry  Miller 32 

w—Hon.  Creed  Hayrr.ond 


THE  office  of  the  News  Letter  in  N'ew  York:  city  has  been  es- 
tablished at  196  Broadway,  room  14,  where  information  may 
be  gained  regarding  subscription  and  advertising  rates. 


IT  will  be  some  time  before  A.  C.  Paulsell  wrestles  with  the 
National  Bank  proposition  again.  "Sine  Die"  Paulsell  will 
be  the  name  that  will  attach  to  him  after  his  Metropolitan  Hall 
experience  on  "Wednesday  night. 


THE  latest  news  from  Tonquin  shows  that  the  position  of  the 
French  troops  in  that  country  continues  to  be  very  hazard- 
ous, and  the  commander  of  the  forces  is  obliged  to  ask  for  rein- 
forcements. The  Tonquin  enterprise  was  foredoomed  in  the  be- 
ginning, and  the  maintenance  of  the  occupation  seems  a  sad 
waste  of  energy. 


THE  large  attendance  of  people  on  the  occasion  of  the  memorial 
services  in  Dublin  on  the  9Lh  inst.,  in  honor  of  Parnell's  death 
a  year  ago,  shows  that  a  great  number  of  the  Irish  realize  that 
their  cause  lost  its  most  able  champion  in  Parnell.  The  Irish 
have  indeed  reason  to  mourn,  for  not  even  the  gravity  of  the  sit- 
uation has  sufficed  to  unite  their  present  leaders  and  to  influence 
them  to  attempt  a  course  of  moderation  which  alone  could  gain 
them  the  sympathy  of  the  British  public  and  the  civilized  world 
in  general. 

A  PARTY  of  tourists  have  just  been  reported  to  the  United 
States  District  Attorney  at  Los  Angeles  for  having  mutilated 
the  big  tree,  "  General  Sherman,"  in  the  Sequoia  National  Park, 
by  cutting  their  vandalistic  and  idiotic  names  tbereoh.  They 
ought  to  be  made  an  example  of,  and  the  severest  punishment 
possible  should  be  meted  out  to  them.  Just  think  of  the  infini- 
tesimalness  of  soul  and  the  gigantic  self-conceit  that  can  prompt 
a  human  being  to  insult  one  of  these  forest  giants  by  carving  his 
own  puuy,  insignificant  name  upon  its  thousand-year  old  trunk. 
If  nothing  else  can  be  done,  those  names  should  be  published  far 
and  wide,  that  popular  execration  may  be  bestowed  in  fullest 
measure  upon  the  he  and  she  fools  who  thus  dare  to  mutilate 
these  noblest  specimens  of  nature's  handiwork.  These  are  of 
like  ilk  with  those  other  idiots  who  have  the  unspeakable  cheek 
tocarve  their  names  on  the  walls  of  the  Yosemite, 
or  scribble  them  on  the  Washington  Monument,  reckless  of  the 
indubitable  fact  that  none  but  the  names  of  fools  are  ever  seen 
in  such  places,  and  for  mortal  man  to  presume  to  thus  link  his 
own  puny,  insignificant  personality  with  the  great  things  of  this 
earth  is  to  write  himself  down  as  an  egregious  ass.  Out  upon 
such  travesties  wearing  the  name  of  men.  Their  identity  should 
be  given  the  widest  notoriety,  that  they  may  receive  the  con- 
tempt which  they  have  so  well  earned. 


THE  proposition  has  been  made  that  if  California  will  contribute 
the  trifling  sum  of  $25,000  annually  for  ten  years,  a  topo- 
graphical map  of  the  State  will  be  made,  the  work  to  be  under- 
taken by  the  same  parties  who  have  already  expended  millions 
of  the  public  money  in  the  geological  survey  of  the  United  States. 
It  has  been  openly  charged  in  Congress,  and  not  successfully  de- 
nied, that  these  surveys  have  been  made  the  means  of  providing 
"  soft  snaps  "  for  the  relatives  and  dependents  of  influential  men, 
and  that  little  real  good  has  ever  been  accomplished  by  them. 
This  State  is  already  burdened  with  a  number  of  useless  "  com- 
missions "  of  one  kind  and  another,  which  can  make  no  bene- 
ficial showing  for  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  expended 
by  them,  and  it  is  not  at  all  likely  that  the  people  will  approve 
of  the  throwing  away  oi  the  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  so  airily 
asked  for  a  thing  which  will  be  of  doubtful  utility,  even  if  success 
fully  carried  out  for  the  sum  named. 


THE  editor  of  the  Colusa  Sun  makes  the  charge  that  the  recent 
decision  rendered  by  the  Circuit  Court,  empowering  the 
owners  of  hydraulic  mines  to  resume  operations  where  proper 
precautions  were  taken  to  prevent  damage,  was  the  result  of  a 
"  fix-up  "  (whatever  that  may  mean)  with  an  imported  Federal 
Judge,  brought  here  for  the  purpose.  Farther  along  in  his  dia- 
tribe against  an  industry  which  was  once,  and  will  be  now- again 
a  leading  source  of  California's  prosperity,  this  same  sapient 
writer  explains  his  meaning  more  fully  by  saying  that  it  ought 
not  to  be  safe  for  hired  Judges  to  walk  the  streets  of  8an  Fran- 
cisco, thereby  as  directly  insinuating  as  he  ever  does  anything, 
that  Judge  Gilbert  was  bribed  by  the  North  Bioomfield  Company 
to  render  a  decision  favorable  to  them.  No  other  possible  con- 
struction can  be  put  upon  the  language  quoted.  It  is  safe  to  say 
that  there  is  not  an  unprejudiced  man  in  the  State  but  will  con- 
cede the  justice  of  Judge  Gilbert's  ruling,  and  no  one  but  a  black- 
guard, blinded  with  prejudice,  would  for  a  moment  impugn  his 
honesty. 

THE  REV.  MR.  DENNETT,  of  Oakland,  has  written  himself 
down  as  an  ignorant  bigot  of  the  worst  Kind.  At  a  church 
entertainment  the  other  evening,  a  little  ten  year  old  orphan  girl 
came  on  the  platform  to  sing  a  shepherd  song.  Her  teacher  had 
trained  her  to  advance  from  the  side  entrance  with  a  sort  of 
*'  hop,  skip  and  jump,"  such  as  happy  shepherdesses  are  sup- 
posed to  indulge  in  when  "  gamboling  on  the  green."  But  the 
Rev.  Dennett's  pious  soul  was  horrified  at  seeing  the  house  of 
God  desecrated  in  this  manner.  With  a  heavy  frown  he  dragged 
the  child  in  hysterics  from  the  platform,  declaring  that  no  un- 
godly dancing  should  be  indulged  in  if  he  could  help  it,  though  it 
was  some  time  before  the  innocent  little  offender  awoke  to  a 
realization  of  the  heinous  sin  of  which  she  had  been  guilty.  Evi- 
dently this  austere  shepherd  has  read  his  Bible  to  little  purpose, 
else  he  could  not  have  failed  to  learn  that  dancing  was  commonly 
practiced  as  a  religious  ceremony  by  those  Old  Testament 
worthies,  who  are  held  up  as  examples  for  us.  Surely  he  has 
read  of  David  and  Miriam,  and  of  the  multitude  of  others  "  after 
God's  own  heart,"  who  saw  no  harm  in  dancing.  And  had  the 
reverend  gentleman  studied  his  Bible  a  little  closer  he  might  pos- 
sibly have  found  some  reference  to  the  fate  of  those  "  who  make 
one  of  these  little  ones  to  offend." 


T 


HE  Jimmy  Long  Democracy  should  have  the  good  sense  to 
1  go  somewhere  and  die  a  quiet  death,  where  its  last  groans  and 
kicks  would  disturb  no  one.  The  endeavor  of  these  remnants  of 
the  Buckley  bandits  to  gain  recognition  as  the  Democratic  party 
of  San  Francisco  is  one  of  the  most  outrageous  things  ever  at- 
tempted, even  in  this  community.  Jimmy  Long  has  so  long  been 
a  Buckley  tool  that  we  wonder  at  his  assurance  in  now  endeav- 
oring to  assume  that  he  does  anything  politically  for  pure  mo- 
tives. The  history  of  the  Democratic  party  of  San  Francisco  is 
too  well  known  to  the  public  to  allow  the  bandits  to  succeed  in 
their  endeavors,  if  the  people  can  prevent  it.  It  is  surprising  that 
the  Election  Commissioners  should  have  listened  so  long  to  the 
claims  of  the  Buckleyites,  when  the  Chairman  of  the  Democratic 
State  Central  Committee  designates  a  certain  set  of  men  as  the 
true  Democrats  of  the  city.  That  should  be  sufficient  to  satisfy 
any  unprejudiced  man  that  that  faction  should  be  recognized. 
The  Long  party  has  no  claim  whatever  to  recognition. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  15,  1892. 


COLUMBUS    DAY. 

ON    Wednesday  last,  exactly  four  hnndred  years  had  elapsed 
since  Christopher  Columbus  first  sighted   an   island   on  the 
Western  Continent,  called  by  him  San  Salvador,  in  pious  recogni- 
tion of  his  salvation  from  the  long  and  perilous   voyage  and  the 
dangers   threatening  him   from  his  matinoas  crew.     Not  only  in 
his   native   country,  and  in  Spain,  the  country  which  furnished 
him  means  to  carry  out  his  successful  enterprise,  the  quadrocen- 
tennary  of  this  noteworthy  historical  event  is  being  celebrated  this 
month,    but   above  all,   America  honors  the  memory  of  the  man 
who  made  its  existence  known  to  the  Europeans,  and  the  whole 
civilized  world  rejoices  in  recalling  a  discovery  through  the  con- 
sequences of  which  its  limits  have  been  so  enormously  enlarged 
since  the  end  of  the   fifteenth    century.     Innumerable  volumes 
have  been   written  on  the  achievements  of  the  famous  Genoese, 
and  the  present  year,  of  course,  has  added  to  the  Columbus  litera- 
ture quite  a  number  of  contributions,  to  most  of  which  Lessing's 
criticism  would  apply,  namely,  that  they  contain  much  that  is 
good  and  new,  but   unfortunately  what  is  good  in  them  is  not 
new,  and  what  is  new  in  them  is  not  good.     It  is  in  fact  carrying 
owls  to  Athens  to  attempt  a  new  literary  tribute  to  the  memory 
of  Columbus,  but  we  need  not  apologize  lor  pointing  out  in  a  few 
words,  on  the  present  occasion,  the  salient  points  in  the  history 
of  the  great  navigator,  in  order  to  impress  upon  our  readers  why, 
among  the  many  valiant  mariners   who  visited  our  shores  in  an- 
cient times,  Columbus  deserves  honor  and  recognition  above  all. 
He  was  not  the  first  traveler  from  what  is  called  "  the  old  world  " 
who  came  to  us.     To  the  semi-barbarous  tribes  of  Eastern  Asia 
our  continent,  as  recent   historical  researches    have  shown,  was 
known  for  thousands  of  years.     And  he  was  not  even  the  first 
European  who  landed  on  our  coast,  for  there  is  no  longer  any 
doubt  that  the  Norwegian  Vikings  not  only  discovered  Greenland 
as  early  as  the  tenth  century,  but  also  visited  the  Atlantic  coast, 
of  what  is   now  known    as  the  United  States,  in  the  eleventh 
century,  and    that,   in   the   present  State  of  Rhode  Island,  or  at 
least  in  its  neighborhood,  they  even   established  colonies,  which 
remained  in  existence  for  quite  a  number  of  years.     Nor  did  Co- 
lumbus  ever  know  what  part  of  the  world  he  had  discovered. 
He  had  set  out  with  the  intention  of  finding  an  ocean  road  tothe 
eastern  part  of  Asia,  and  he  died  in  the  belief  that  he  had  accom- 
plished this  task,  and  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  he  had  touched 
the  shores  of  a  new  continent.     Still,  the  great  navigator  has  al- 
ways been,  and  will  always  be,  called  by  the  world  in  general  the 
discoverer  of  America,  and  justly  so,  for  to  his  enterprise  is  due 
the  real  discovery  of  the  New  World,  i.  e.,  its  becoming  known  to 
those  nations  of  Europe  that  possessed  the  education  and  means 
necessary  to  utilize  it  for  the  extension  of  civilization.     What, 
above  all,  however,  characterizes  the  achievements  of  Columbus 
from  those  of  bis  predecessors  and  many  of  his  followers,  is,  that 
his  voyage  of  discovery  was  scientifically  conceived,  systematic- 
ally planned,  energetically   carried    out   in   the  face  of  enormous 
obstacles,   and   logically   followed   up  by  other  voyages  with  the 
object  of  rendering  the  discovered  countries  a  permanent  posses- 
sion of  the  Europeans,  not  permitting  what  he  had  found  to  re- 
lapse    into     oblivion.       Circumstance     and    the    spirit    of     the 
times     in     which     he      lived      favored     him,     but     even     with 
this      assistance,      only      a      great      man      could      accomplish 
what  he  accomplished.     Columbus   was  a  great  man  in  the  full 
sense  of  the  word ;  not  a  mere  brave  adventurer,  but  a  man  noble 
in  courage,  estimable  in  character,  gifted  by  extraordinary  intelli- 
gence, endowed  with  an  education  far  beyond  the  average  of  his 
contemporaries,    and   possessed    of    a   perseverance    and    energy 
which  alone  would  entitle  him  to   be  remembered   by  posterity. 
His  enterprise  was    not    a   fanciful   ehase   after  some  imaginary 
Dorado,  but  a  carefully  planned  voyage  of  discovery  towards  the 
West,  where,  from  his  historical,  geographical  and   mathematical 
studies,  he  was  firmly  aDd  correctly  persuaded  the  ocean  traveler 
would  meet  land  again.     He  was  convinced  that  since  our  earth 
is  a  globe,  a  traveler,  by  journeying  continually  In  one  direction, 
must  come  back  to  the  point   of  starting.     He  consequently    as- 
sumed that  if  Asia  could  be  reached  from  Spain  by    an  eastern 
route,  it  also  could  be  reached   by  a  western  route.     In    this  as- 
sumption, natural  to   us  who  enjoy  the  benefits  of  past  experi- 
ence and  learning,  but  considered  absurd  and  ridiculous  by  his 
contemporaries,  he  was,  as  we  know,  correct.     He  imagined  that 
between  Eastern  Asia  and  Western  Europe  merely  the  ocean  in- 
tervened.    In  this,  as  his  discoveries  show,  he  was  incorrecc,  and 
he  erred  in  his  calculation   of  the  extent  of  Asia,    which  he  as- 
sumed to  be  much  greater  than  it  actually  is,  and  the  circumfer- 
ence of  the  globe,  which  he  calculated   much  smaller  than  it  is. 
His  reckoning,  on  the  whole,  however,  was  marvelously  correct, 
and  though  he  did  not  attain  the  object  of  his  voyage,  he  was  re- 
warded for  his  zeal  and  steadiness  of  purpose  by  a  much  greater 
success  than  he  ever  could  have  anticipated,  namely,  the  discov- 
ery of  a  new  and  enormous  continent.     That  he  fully  deserved 
such  a  reward  at  the  hands   of  fate,  all  will  agree  who  know  the 
history  of  his  life.  His  character,  his  life  and  his  achievements  will 
never  be  forgotten  in  history,  and  in  the  future,  as  well  as  they 
have  in  our  days,  men  will   recognize  that  the  12th  of  October, 
1492,  marked  one  of  the  epochs  of  civilization. 


CALIFORNIA    FISH    EXHIBITION. 


IN  the  forthcoming  exhibition  of  the  Mechanics'  Institute,  which 
will  open  on  January  12,  1893,  one  of  the  most  interesting 
features  will  be  an  exhibition  of  live  specimens  of  the  fresh  and 
salt  water  fish  used  in  San  Francisco  for  food.  For  some  time 
past  endeavors  have  been  made,  but  without  avail,  to  arouse  in 
this  community  some  appreciation  of  the  value  to  it  of  the  fish 
industries  which  centre  here,  and  of  the  need  of  ample  protection 
of  our  sources  of  fish  used  for  food.  The  public  have  no  idea  of 
the  vastness  of  the  fish  industry.  Some  approximate  idea  may 
be  gained  from  a  knowledge  of  the  fact  that,  exclusive  of  canning 
and  preserving,  150,000  tons  of  salmon  and  100,000  tons  of  shad, 
and  proportionate  amounts  of  other  fish,  are  sold  annually  in  our 
markets  for  local  consumption.  The  trustees  or  the  Mechanics' 
Institute,  realizing  the  importance  of  the  fish  industries  as  a 
means  of  food  supply,  concluded  it  would  be  an  attractive  means 
of  educating  the  people  to  erect  a  large  acquarium  in  their  Pa- 
vilion during  the  January  exhibition.  This  will  be  done.  The 
aquarium  will  consist  of  ten  tanks,  each  ten  feet  long  and  five 
feet  wide,  five  to  be  devoted  to  the  exhibition  of  fresh  water  fish 
and  five  to  salt  water  fish.  A  large  tank  underneath  these  ten 
tanks  will  be  devoted  to  crustacce  and  curiosities  of  marine  life. 
Every  species  of  trout  on  the  Pacific  Coast  will  find  a  place  in  the 
exhibition.  The  salmofontanales  (brook  trout),  fine  specimens 
from  the  preserves  of  the  County  Club;  salmo  myJciss  (cutthroat 
trout),  from  Weber  Lake  or  vicinity;  salmo  irxdius  (rainbow 
trout),  from  Klamath  River  and  Truckee;  white  fish  from  Lake 
Tahoe,  will  all  be  shown.  Specimens  of  black  bass,  which  is  a 
close  competitor  of  the  trout  as  a  game  fish,  wilt  also  be  exhibited. 
Besides  the  trout  family,  other  inhabitants  of  our  fresh  water 
streams  will  be  shown,  including  suckers,  minnows,  sticklebackes 
and  those  two  sad  curses  of  California  trout  streams,  the  carp 
and  the  catfish.  The  exhlb  '.-on  of  fresh  water  fish  is  under 
the  auspices  and  management  of  the  California  State 
Fish  Commission,  the  members  of  which  have  evidenced  great  in- 
terest in  the  success  of  this  exhibition.  To  them  much  praise 
is  due.  The  aquarium  will  be  arched,  and  lighted  by  electric 
lights,  placed  behind  the  tanks,  so  that  spectators  may 
have  full  views  of  the  fish  at  all  times.  The  exhibition  will 
be  the  first  of  its  knd  ever  given  here.  It  will  all  be  in  charge  of 
a  Deputy  Fish  Commissioner.  It  is  hoped  that  it  will  be  as  popu- 
lar and  successful  as  the  idea  warrants.  The  trustees  of  the  In- 
stitute are  indeed  to  be  congratulated  for  having  added  this  in- 
teresting feature  to  the  fair. 


FOR    SHERIFF,    JOHN    J.    McDADE. 


WE  are  in  favor  of  the  election  of  John  McDade  as  Sheriff  of 
this  city  and  county,  not  because  he  is  a  Democrat,  but  be- 
cause we  know  him  to  be  an  able  and  an  honest  man,  who  has 
displayed  bis  integrity  and  ability  in  more  than  one  public  office. 
In  municipal  affairs,  we  take  it,  the  best  man  named  for  the  place 
should  be  the  nominee  for  whom  the  people,  irrespective  of  party 
lines,  should  vote.  In  this  instance,  John  McDade  is  the  best 
man  named  for  the  place.  His  leading  opponent,  the  Republican 
nominee,  William  J.  Blattner,  is  a  tool  of  the  Republican  bosses, 
the  notorious  Kelly  and  Crimmins,  and  should  not  receive  the 
support  of  any  self-respecting  citizen.  He  is  now  the  County 
Clerk,  to  which  office  he  was  elected  two  years  ago  on  the 
pledge  that  he  would  conduct  the  affairs  of  that  office  so  that 
the  expenditure  should  not  be  more  than  $6,000  a  month. 
That  pledge  has  been  broken,  the  expenses  of  the  County  Clerk's 
office  being  nearer  $8,000  a  monfh  than  $6,000.  It  is  said  in  be- 
half of  Mr.  Blattner,  by  some  of  his  supporters,  that  he  is  not 
personally  responsible  for  the  breaking  of  the  pledge,  but  that  on 
account  of  the  law  he  was  required  to  increase  the  expenditure  of 
the  office.  That  statement  is  false,  as  every  one  who  knows 
anything  about  the  management  of  the  County  Clerk's  office  is 
well  aware.  Mr.  Blattner  has  carried  on  his  boobs,  as  deputies 
in  his  office,  men  who  have  spent,  and  now  epend  most  of  the 
time  supposed  to  be  devoted  to  the  business  of  the  city,  at  the 
Third  street  establishment  of  the  Republican  bosses.  He  is  not  a 
fit  man  to  be  entrusted  with  the  very  important  office  of  Sheriff, 
and  the  citizens  should  prevent  his  election  by  voting  for  McDade. 
H.  H.  Scott,  the  Non-Partisan  candidate  for  Sheriff,  makes  his  chief 
claim  to  the  franchises  of  his  fellow  citizens  in  the  fact  that  he  was 
the  elisor  of  the  Wallace  Grand  Jury.  It  may  be  true  that  Mr.  Scott 
knows  much  about  crime  and  fraud  in  this  city.  We  have  no  doubt 
that  he  is  intimately  acquainted  with  them,  but  it  is  not  apparent 
how  such  knowledge  fits  him  particularly  for  the  office  of  Sheriff. 
On  his  cards  Scott  makes  the  announcement  that  he  is  the  "  Demo- 
cratic nominee"  for  Sheriff.  This  statement  is,  of  course,  untrue,  as 
Mr.  McDade  is  the  only  Democratic  nominee  for  that  office,  and  Scott 
is  endeavoring  willfully  to  mislead  the  people.  William  McMann, 
the  nominee  of  the  Long  Democracy  for  Sheriff,  cannot,  of  course, 
be  seriously  considered  in  the  matter.  The  fact  that  he  comes  from 
the  Buckley  Bandits  ought  to  be  enough  to  snow  him  under.  John 
McDade  is  the  man  the  people  should  elect.  He  is  able,  honest  and 
t  earless,  and  is  not  nor  will  he  be  controlled  by  any  boss. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


A    CAMPAIGN    OF    EDUCATION. 


THERE  has  been  so  much  fan  made  of  the  expression,  a  »  cam- 
paign of  education,"  that  a  great  many  people  seem  to  have 
lost  sight  of  the  fact  tbat  it  has  a  real,  sincere,  actual  meaning, 
and  that  the  campaign  of  1892  is  essentially  educational.  A  mo- 
ment's reflection  will  show  why  this  is  and  must  be  so.  The  per- 
sonality of  the  candidates  is  so  well  known  and  their  records  so 
clearly  marked,  that  nobody  has  the  least  fear  that  either,  if 
elected,  will  permit  any  harm  to  come  to  the  nation  if  he  can  pre- 
vent it.  Orover  Cleveland  has  been  President  of  the  United 
States  for  four  years,  and  Benjamin  Harrison  for  nearly  the  same 
length  of  time,  and  it  would  be  absurd  to  tell  any  intelligent 
American  citizen  that  the  country  would  be  in  danger  from  either 
of  them.  Because  of  the  standing  of  the  candidates  and  the 
records  they  have  made,  the  campaign  must  be  directed  towards 
principles,  not  men,  and  hence  it  is  that  it  is  necessarily  educa- 
tional in  its  character.  This,  too,  it  may  be  remarked  in  passing, 
accounts  for  the  apparent  lack  of  enthusiasm  which  some  peo- 
ple seem  to  regret  so  keenly.  There  is  not  much  room  for  enthu- 
siasm where  the  only  question  before  the  public  is  as  to  the  re- 
sention  or  rejection  of  a  certain  economic  and  fiscal  policy.  We 
might  as  well  look  for  enthusiasm  over  the  binomial  theorem,  or 
a  hurrah  campaign  based  on  the  fact  of  the  circulation  of  the 
blood.  The  want  of  enthusiasm,  however,  does  not  detract  in 
any  degree  from  the  importance  of  the  issue,  and  California  is 
fortunate  in  having  its  educational  campaign  conducted  by  two 
such  able  men  and  skillful  debaters  as  Stephen  M.  White  and 
Morris  M.  Estee.  These  gentlemen  have  revived  the  custom  that 
used  to  be  in  vogue  in  the  West,  before  the  days  of  the  tele- 
graphs, and  when  newspapers  were  not  so  plentiful  as 
now.  They  have  arranged  for  joint  debates  on  the 
tariff  issue  at  prominent  cities  and  towns  in  the 
State,  and  their  example  cannot  be  commended  too  highly. 
They  have  held  meetings  in  several  places  already,  and  in  every 
instance  the  hall  has  been  packed  to  overflowing.  They  have 
confined  themselves  closely  and  strictly  to  the  issue,  scrupulously 
avoiding  personalities,  and  eschewing  the  argumentum  ad  hominem, 
the  result  being  that  they  have  taught  the  people  one  of  the  real 
merits  of  the  only  issue  of  the  campaign  than  they  would  have 
learned  otherwise  in  a  lifetime.  There  is  no  use  in  talking,  there 
are  a  great  many  people  who  will  not  read  tariff  literature,  no 
matter  in  what  form  it  is  presented  to  them,  and  it  is  this  class  of 
people  who  can  be  reached  by  a  joint  debate  conducted  with  so 
mnch  ability  as  Messrs.  White  and  Estee  have  displayed.  It  is 
a  very  simple  matter  to  explain  to  any  person  of  intelligence  the 
salient  points  of  the  tariff  question  if  he  will  but  listen,  but  it  re- 
quires the  stimulus  of  a  public  debate  and  the  interest  which  a 
crowd  always  creates  to  get  most  people  to  listen.  We  do  not 
care  at  this  time  to  pass  judgment  upon  the  debate  on  its  merits, 
but  we  find  the  general  impression  to  be  that  Mr.  Estee  has  pre- 
pared his  case  with  more  care  and  a  greater  attention  to  matters 
of  detail  than  Mr.  White,  and  that  his  array  of  facts  and  figures 
has  not  been  completely  or  successfully  traversed  by  Mr.  White. 
At  the  same  time  Mr.  White  has  made  some  telling  points  which 
it  has  puzzled  and  will  puzzle  Mr.  Estee  to  answer.  The  fact  that 
under  the  policy  of  protection  a  few  favored  individuals  and  cor- 
porations have  been  able  to  amass  colossal  fortunes,  while  the 
condition  of  the  great  body  of  the  American  people  has  not  been 
improved  proportionately,  is  an  awkward  thing  for  the  defend- 
ant of  high  tariff  to  encounter.  When  to  this  is 
added  the  pregnant  fact  that  protection  is  meant  for 
the  benefit  of  the  producer  and  not  of  the  consumer, 
though  the  consumers  outnumber  the  producer  a  thousand  to 
one,  it  must  be  confessed  that  Mr.  White  has  some  very  strong 
points  on  his  side  of  the  debate.  We  are  inclined  to  think  that 
this  sort  of  speeches,  based  on  facts  and  appealing  wholly  to  the 
intelligence  and  reasoning  faculties  of  an  audience,  is  much  more 
effective  in  vote-making  than  the  pyrotechnic  displays  of  elo- 
quence which  are  the  usual  accompaniment  of  a  political  cam- 
paign. The  great  orator  can  stir  the  hearts  and  fire  the  imagina- 
tion of  an  audience  by  the  witchery  of  his  words;  but  the  next 
morning,  when  the  echo  of  the  orator's  voice  has  died  away, 
there  is  nothing  left  but  a  memory  of  something  too  evanescent, 
too  intangible  to  be  grasped  and  retained.  With  a  debate  like  the 
one  under  consideration  the  case  is  very  different.  No  matter 
whether  the  audience  agree  with  this  speaker  or  that,  it  has  been 
given  something  to  think  about  and  reason  about,  and  the  man 
who  disagrees  the  most  absolutely  is  the  very  man  who  will 
afterwards  study  the  question  at  issue  to  satisfy  himself  whether 
he  or  the  speaker  is  correct.  It  is  for  these  and  other  reasons, 
which  will  suggest  themselves,  that  such  a  joint  debate  as  this  is 
of  positive  value  from  an  educational  point  of  view.  The  tariff  is 
a  thing  which  is  applicable  to  all  of  us,  in  one  way  or  another, 
and  it  is  none  the  less  real  because  we  cannot  always  see  it  in 
active  operation.  It  is  within  bounds  to  say  tbat  the  change 
from  the  present  system  to  a  system  of  free  trade — though  free 
trade  is  a  misnomer  in  this  connection — would  be  an  event  of 
greater  national  importance  than  the  civil  war,  and  infinitely 
greater  than  any  foreign  war  we  could  imagine. 


THE    WORLDS    FAIR    AND    SUNDAY    CLOSING. 


WE  desire  to  commend  to  every  reader  of  the  News  Letter 
the  admirable  article  of  Bishop  H.  C.  Potter,  in  the  October 
Forum,  on  "  Sunday  and  the  Columbian  Exposition."  No  differ- 
ence of  creed  or  belief  can  be  enough  to  persuade  any  sensible 
and  intelligent  American  that  Bishop  Potter  is  anything  but  a 
broad-minded,  liberal,  Christian  gentleman,  and  his  article  is  de- 
serving of  consideration  and  laudation  from  its  contrast  to  the 
narrow  Pharisaical  doctrine  which  holds  that  Sunday,  instead  of 
being  kept  as  a  day  of  rest  and  innocent  recreation  should  be  con- 
sidered as  a  penalty  for  having  lived  the  other  six  days  of  the 
week,  and  observed  accordingly  in  sackcloth  and  ashes  and  with 
the  frequent  repitition  of  penitential  psalms.  Bishop  Potter's  ar- 
gument, which  must  be  read  in  full  to  be  appreciated  properly,  is 
based  upon  the  idea,  for  which  the  highest  warrant  exists,  that 
the  Sabbath  was  made  for  man,  and  not  man  for  the  Sabbath.  He 
shows  that  the  Puritan  notion  of  the  observance  of  Sunday  is  de- 
rived neither  from  the  New  Testament  nor  from  the  traditions  of 
the  early  Church,  and  that  the  asceticism  of  domestic 
usage,  the  prohibition  not  only  of  amusement  but  of  recreation, 
the  dreary  denial  of  innocent  occupations,  and  the  repression  of 
the  natural  mirth  and  gaiety  of  children,  are  wholly  unlike  the 
Sundays  of  the  first  Christian  centuries.  Then  applying  these 
familiar  facts  to  the  matter  under  discussion,  he  argues  with 
much  acumen  and  with  a  spirit  of  broad  and  generous  reasoning, 
that  it  will  be  vastly  better  for  the  spiritual  health  of  the  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  people  who  will  visit  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition  that  it  should  be  kept  open  to  spectators  on  Sun- 
day, than  that  its  closure  should  drive  them  to  other  forms  of 
recreation  probably  less  innocent,  and  possibly  vastly  more 
destructive  to  the  health  of  soul  and  body.  Bishop  Potter  likens 
the  exposition,  with  its  motive  power  suspended,  to  a  library,  or 
a  well-arranged  museum,  or  a  picture-gallery,  and  the  comparison 
is  an  apt  one.  Of  course  the  argument  does  not  address  itself  to 
those  bigots  who  would  close  libraries  and  museums  and  art  gal- 
leries on  Sunday,  on  the  plea  that  to  visit  them  might  withdraw 
the  mind  from  the  contemplation  of  sacred  subjects.  As  he  puts 
it,  the  view  of  these  things  is  a  part  of  that  education  which  is 
closely  allied  to  the  highest  education  of  all,  which  is  man's  spir- 
itual education;  and,  as  he  says,  it  surely  can  be  no  incongruous 
thing  to  teach  men  to  think,  to  observe,  to  compare,  even  though 
they  will  still  need  supremely  to  be  taught  to  know  in  the  high- 
est realm  of  all.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  at  the  coming  session  of 
Congress  there  may  be  a  modification  of  the  Sabbatarian  rule 
sought  to  be  imposed  at  the  last  session.  We  are  satisfied  that 
the  plain  common  sense  of  the  American  people  will  revolt  at 
the  idea  of  closing  and  hermetically  sealing  the  World's  Fair 
grounds  and  buildings  on  Sunday,  and  we  hope  for  the  display 
of  more  wisdom  at  the  coming  session. 


OUR    NEXT    MAYOR. 


WENDELL  EASTON  will  be  the  next  Mayor  of  San  Francisco 
if  the  citizens  do  their  duty  to  themselves  and  vote  for  the 
best  man  named  for  the  office.  Mr.  Easton  is  the  nominee  of  the 
Republican  Convention,  and  is  certainly  one  of  the  best  men  named 
for  the  place  for  many  years.  He  is  well  known  as  a  business  man 
of  far  more  than  usual  ability,  as  is  evidenced  by  the  brilliant  suc- 
cess which  has  attended  his  career.  He  is  identified  with  the  city's 
progress,  and  in  his  individual  capacity  has  done  much  to  aid  it.  As 
Mayor,  he  would  ever  be  endeavoring  to  place  San  Francisco  where 
she  belongs — in  the  front  rank  of  the  municipalities  of  the  United 
States.  Mr.  Easton  has  made  a  study  of  municipal  government,  and 
is  fully  prepared  for  the  arduous  duties  of  the  Mayoralty.  Having 
been  educated  himself ,  in  the  public  schools  of  the  city,  he  would 
give  particular  attention  to  the  school  system,  and  would  do  much 
to  improve  it.  Every  good  citizen  takes  an  interest  in  the  public 
schools,  and  it  is  needless  to  refer  to  the  necessity  of  having  as  Chief 
Executive  of  the  municipality  a  man  who  would  protect  and  aid 
them.  While  considering  the  Mayoralty,  it  should  not  be  forgotten 
that  in  the  peculiar  condition  of  local  politics  surprises  are  very  prob- 
able. There  are  six  candidates  for  Mayor,  of  whom  we  consider 
Mr.  Easton  the  best,  but  the  factions  in  all  parties  may  cause  a  num- 
ber of  men  who  would  otherwise  have  supported  their  party  nomi- 
nees to  vote  for  O'Donnell,  the  infamous  independent  candidate,  or 
for  the  Non-Partisan  or  People's  Party  men.  Neither  of  the  latter 
can  be  elected,  but  a  vote  for  them  aids  O'Donnell.  Good  citizens 
should  support  Easton.  He  is  head  and  shoulders  above  the  others. 
He  is  the  ablest  man  named,  and  should  be  elected. 


THER.3  was  too  much  "  Sullivan  and  Dwyer"  in  the  Metropoli- 
tan Hall  meeting.  It  should  not  be  necessary  for  such  a  large 
assemblage  of  Democrats  as  was  there  gathered  to  refer  to  the 
fact  that  they  had  any  leaders  who  were  so  strong  that  they  ab- 
solutely controlled  the  local  Democracy.  The  truth  is  always  not 
palatable,  and  independent  men  do  not  like  to  be  told  that  if  they 
would  participate  in  the  affairs  of  their  party,  they  have  to  do  as 
they  are  told  by  its  leaders.  Sullivan  and  Dwyer  personally  are 
doubtless  honest  men,  but  they  have  shown  but  little  tact  in  their 
political  management.  They  should  keep  more  in  the  back- 
ground. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  15,  1892. 


SOME     GOOD     CANDIDATES. 

FOR  Superior  Judges  we  need  men  who  are  above  reproach; 
men  who  have  not  been  and  wilt  not  be  identified  with  politi- 
cal bosses  of  any  description ;  men  who  will  prove  to  be  simply 
expounders  of  the  law.  For  such  men  the  citizens  should  vote, 
regardless  of  party  lines.  A  judge  should  be  above  parties  and 
politics,  and  a  voter  should  not  consider  a  party  ticket  when 
casting  his  ballot  for  such  a  position.  On  both  Democratic  and 
Republican  tickets  good  men  have  been  put  up  for  these  offices. 
The  Republicans  have  nominated  George  Bahrs,  a  young  attor- 
ney of  more  than  ordinary  ability,  whose  claims  to  recognition  by 
his  fellow-citizens  are  the  highest.  Mr.  Bahrs  has  lived  in  this 
city  all  his  life,  has  grown  into  manhood  in  this  community,  and 
is  an  able  lawyer  and  an  honest  man.  That  he  is  possessed  of  the 
necessary  qualities  for  deciding  the  laws  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
in  many  of  the  fraternal  organizations  of  which  he  is  a  member  be 
has  been  elected  to  positions  of  trust  and  honor,  in  which  he  has 
been  called  on  to  adjudicate  differences.  Mr.  Bahrs  is  in  all  re- 
spects a  most  commendable  candidate. 

William  G.  Brittan,  at  present  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  has  also 
been  nominated  for  Superior  Judge  by  the  Republicans.  Mr. 
Brittan  was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  two  years  ago,  and  the 
ability  displayed  by  him  in  the  administration  of  that  judicial 
office,  which  is  the  nearest  to  the  people,  has  warranted  the  party 
to  which  he  belongs  in  nominating  him  now  to  the  higher  bench. 
He  is  learned  in  the  law,  of  unblemished  integrity,  and  exceed- 
ingly popular.  Judge  Brittan,  though  a  young  man,  will  prove 
one  of  the  ablest  Judges  the  Superior  bench  has  ever  known.  He 
is  a  true  San  Franciscan,  being  the  son  of  J.  W.  Brittan,  founder 
of  Holbrook,  Merrill  &  Stetson.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  California  and  of  Hastings  College  of  the  Law.  He  was 
elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  1890  by  a  large  majority,  and  it  is 
only  proper  that  his  good  service  should  now  be  rewarded. 


THE  Democratic  Convention  nominated  Harry  T.  Creswell  for 
City  and  County  Attorney.  It  is  a  good  nomination,  and  the 
people  should  show  their  indorsement  of  it  by  supporting  Mr. 
Creswell  at  the  polls.  The  City  and  County  Attorney,  though 
not  an  executive  officer,  holds  one  of  the  most  important  posi- 
tions in  the  city  government  as  the  legal  adviser  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors.  It  is  apparent,  therefore,  that  the  office  should  be 
filled  by  an  able  and  honest  attorney,  who  is  above  the  influence 
of  political  bosses,  and  who  has  not  been  nominated  as  a  reward 
for  services  rendered  to  such  men.  He  is  well  known  throughout 
the  city,  and  has  hosts  of  friends,  who  received  news  of  his  nom- 
ination with  great  gratification.  His  election  would  be  a  guaran- 
tee to  the  taxpayers  that  to  some  extent  there  would  be  a  check 
upon  the  nefarious  schemes  which  may  be  attempted  to  be 
forced  upon  the  city.  Mr.  Creswell  is  the  right  man  for  the  right 
place  for  City  and  County  Attorney.  He  should  be  elected.  By 
placing  him  in  the  office  the  citizens  would  show  a  proper  appre- 
ciation of  the  fact  that  a  man  of  his  ability  is  willing  to  give  his 
services  for  the  benefit  of  the  city  government.  Mr.  Creswell  has 
held  public  office  in  other  States  with  honor.  He  was  District 
Attorney  of  Lander  county,  Nev.,  and  of  Nye  county,  in  that 
State,  and  also  served  in  the  Nevada  State  Senate. 


FOR  Superintendent  of  Streets  a  man  is  needed  who  has  the 
confidence  of  the  people,  and  who  possesses  sufficient  busi- 
ness ability  to  enable  him  to  administer  the  affairs  of  this  im- 
portant office  properly.  The  Superintendent  of  Streets  has  charge 
of  all  the  streets  and  highways  in  the  city,  and  he  should  be  a 
man  acquainted  with  the  city's  needs,  and  able  to  improve 
greatly  the  condition  of  affairs.  WiUiam  W.  Ackerson,  the  Dem- 
ocratic nominee  for  this  office,  fulfills  its  requirements  in  every 
particular.  He  is  a  contractor  and  builder,  is  a  man  of  great 
executive  ability,  and  is  in  all  respects  a  most  worthy  citizen. 
Mr.  Ackerson  is  a  Native  Son.  If  elected,  it  goes  without  saying 
that  he  will  give  the  city  an  excellent  administration,  and  that 
under  his  superintendence  the  streets  will  greatly  improve.  Such 
an  officer  is  badly  needed  in  this  most  important  office.  The  tax- 
payers will  make  no  mistake  in  supporting  Mr.  Ackerson. 

FOR  Supervisor  of  the  Fifth  Ward  the  regular  Democratic 
nominee  is  George  McGillivray,  one  of  the  ablest  men  named 
for  a  City  Father.  Mr.  McGillivray  is  a  business  man  of  excel- 
lent reputation  throughout  the  county  and  State.  He  is  identified 
with  the  Downie  B.  I.  P.  Company,  and  the  Eucalyptus  Boiler 
Fluid.  He  is  a  native  of  California,  and  all  his  interests  are 
identified  with  the  progress  of  this  city  and  State.  He  is  one  of 
those  solid  men  to  whom  cities  look  to  push  them  on  to  success. 
Mr.  McGillivray  should  be  elected. 

WILLIAM  BRODERICK,  the  Democratic  nominee  for  Auditor, 
is  one  of  the  strongest  men  named  for  office  on  any  of  the 
tickets.  Mr.  Broderick  has  lived  in  this  city  for  years,  during 
which  he  has  held  many  offices  of  public  trust,  all  of  which  he 
administered  with  distinguished  ability.  He  has  the  entire  con- 
fidence of  the  people,  and  is  cerLainly  deserving  of  the  highest 
trust.  His  services  to  this  city  and  8tate  have  been  very  valu- 
able, and  he  should  be  rewarded  by  election  to  the  office  of 
Auditor. 


IT  is  a  good  practice  for  political  parties  to  renominate  for 
higher  office  men  who,  during  their  administration  of  any 
offices  entrusted  to  them  have  shown  themselves  worthy  of  the 
confidence  of  their  fellow-citizens.  In  following  out  this  idea, 
the  Republicans  have  named  for  County  Clerk,  George  W.Lee, 
the  present  License  Collector.  In  his  present  position,  Mr.  Lee 
has  increased  the  revenues  of  his  office  fully  $34,000  a  year,  an 
unprecedented  record.  Such  an  able  officer  is  surely  entitled  to 
promotion.  Mr.  Lee  is  a  young  man  of  unusual  ability,  who 
has  hosts  of  friends  throughout  the  county.  His  record  is  clean, 
and  as  he  has  already  shown  himself  to  be  a  good  public  officer, 
there  is  every  reason  why  he  should  be  elected  to  the  office  to 
which  he  aspires.  He  will  conduct  the  County  Clerk's  office  in 
the  same  able  manner  in  which  he  did  the  License  Collector's. 


HENRY  P.  SONNTAG  has  been  nominated  for  Supervisor  of 
the  Tenth  Ward  by  the  Republican  convention.  It  is  un- 
necessary to  review  Mr.  Sonntag's  eminent  qualifications  for  this 
important  office.  He  is  too  well  known  to  the  great  majority  of 
the  people.  He  is  a  member  of  the  real  estate  firm  of  Shainwald, 
Buckbee  &  Co.,  and  as  a  real  estate  dealer  is  intimately  convers- 
ant with  the  needs  of  city  improvements.  Mr.  Sonntag  stands 
high  in  the  community.  An  able  business  man  of  great  executive 
ability,  he  would  introduce  into  the  management  of  municipal 
affairs  a  number  of  business  methods  which  would  go  far  to 
facilitate  business  and  reduce  expenses.  Mr.  Sonntag  should  be 
elected,  as  there  is  no  question  that  he  would  make  an  honest  and 
able  Supervisor. 

WILLIAM  S.  BARNES  was  renominated  by  the  Republican 
Convention  to  the  office  of  District  Attorney.  No  better 
choice  could  have  been  made  than  this  brilliant  young  lawyer  for  that 
place.  During  his  present  term  as  District  Attorney  Mr.  Barnes  has 
distinguished  himself  as  one  of  the  ablest  attorneys  who  ever  filled 
that  onerous  position.  As  a  law3rer  he  has  high  rank  at  the  bar,  and 
as  a  citizen  he  is  above  reproach.  An  able  and  honest  man  is  needed 
as  District  Attorney,  and  that  is  the  reason  why  Barnes  should  be  re- 
elected. 


IT  is  unnecessary  to  say  anything  regarding  the  claims  of  Charles 
S.  Tilton,  the  incumbent,  to  the  office  of  City  and  County  Sur- 
veyor. Mr.  Tilton  has  been  identified  with  that  office  for  many  years, 
and  he  himself  is  as  much  a  part  of  the  government  as  is  the  office. 
There  is  no  doubt  of  his  re-election,  as  not  only  his  Republican  sup- 
porters, but  thousands  of  Democrats  who  know  him  and  have  faith 
in  his  integrity  and  ability  will  cast  their  ballots  for  him. 

THE  re-nomination  of  Dr.  William  T.  Garwood  for  Coroner,  by 
the  Republican  municipal  convention,  was  an  endorsement 
of  bis  present  administration  of  the  Coroner's  office.  Dr.  Gar- 
wood has  made  a  host  of  friends,  and  will  make  a  good  canvass. 
He  will  receive  the  support  of  thousands  of  citizens,  regardless 
of  party  lines,  and  will  doubtless  be  returnd  to  his  office  by  a 
large  majority. 

THE  Republican  Convention  did  well  in  renominating  for  Re- 
corder Mr.  E.  B.  Read,  the  incumbent  in  that  office.  Mr. 
Read's  administration  has  been  excellent  throughout,  and  no 
fault  can  be  found  with  his  management  of  affairs.  It  is  a  good 
idea  to  keep  in  office  men  who,  in  all  respects,  show  themselves 
able  and  worthy  of  the  trust  of  the  people. 

WILLIAM  MONTGOMERY,  proprietor  of  the  American  Ex- 
change Hotel,  has  been  nominated  by  the  Democracy  as  Su- 
pervisor of  the  Third  Ward.  Mr.  Montgomery  has  hosts  of 
friends  in  the  city,  who  know  him  as  an  upright  business  man, 
who  has  the  best  interests  of  the  community  at  heart. 


AUGUST  HELBING,  Republican  nominee  for  Supervisor  in  the 
Twelfth  Ward,  is  one  of  the  solid  men  of  the  city.  He  is  a 
pioneer  and  a  business  man  of  the  highest  repute.  It  is  of  such 
men  as  he  the  Board  of  Supervisors  should  be  composed. 


"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  m  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko,"  609  Merchant  street.  S.  F. 

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Powder 


Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard. 


Oct    15.   UJS2. 


-  lN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


TIPPLING    AMONG    WOMEN. 


[By    Di    V  ebb  OH.] 

DO  women  drink?  Do  women  drink  to  excess  at  balls,  at  borne, 
at  boiels.  at  dinners?  Is  the  babit  on  the  increase  among 
women?  Are  young  girls  fond  of  wine?  These  are  some  of  tbe 
questions  which  were  rushed  at  me  during  a  discussion  of  tbe 
subject.  I  am  not  prepared  to  say.  Lady  Frederick  Cavendish 
and  tbe  Duchess  of  Bedford,  at  the  church  congress  recently  held 
in  London,  made  the  assertion  that  drunkenness  is  alarmingly 
prevalent  aiuong  tbe  ladies  of  the  English  aristocracy,  that  women 
were  becoming  inveterate  tipplers,  and  that  chloral,  chlorodyne 
and  morphine  are  taken  in  secrecy  in  boudoirs,  adding  their  woes 
to  the  maladies  of  modern  life. 

For  making  these  charges,  the  noble  ladies  have  been  subjected 
to  not  a  little  censure,  some  of  it  bitterly  sarcastic,  or  expressive 
of  contemptuous  ridicule.  It  is  a  noteworthy  fact,  as  illustrated 
by  the  references  to  these  ladies,  that  when  a  man  wishes  to 
combat  a  proposition  raised  by  a  woman,  or  to  assail  tbe  position 
she  has  taken  in  regard  to  any  subject,  he  is  often  so  lacking  in 
chivalry  as  to  descend  to  personalities,  call  names,  and  generally 
makes  some  intentionally  insulting  reference  to  her  age.  The 
last  shot  in  tbe  locker,  the  Parthian  arrow  of  tbein  all,  is  to  call  a 
woman  old!  With  a  light  and  airy  fancy,  and  a  delicate  play 
of  wit,  one  of  our  local  dailies  indulged  in  this  style  of  argument 
in  considering  the  question,  and  called  the  ladies  Lady  Henny- 
penny  Cavendish  and  tbe  Duchess  Hennypenny  of  Bedford.  It 
is  often  possible  to  form  an  estimate  of  the  act  of  another,  but  to 
analyze  motives  is  generally  beyond  the  power  of  roost  of  us.  It 
is  manifestly  unjust  to  condemn  these  ladies  as  censorious  and 
Pharasiacal  because  they  sounded  a  note  of  alarm  in  regard  to  the 
habit.  It  is  to  be  supposed  that  they  know  whereof  they 
speak.  Both  being  members  of  the  English  aristocracy,  they 
should  be  able  to  speak  of  their  own  set.  If  they  are  convinced 
that  the  facts  are  as  they  stated  them,  tbey  could  have  chosen  no 
more  fitting  place  in  which  to  make  the  statement  than  in  a 
church  congress,  for  that  the  Church,  especially  the  Established 
Church  of  England,  and  the  Episcopal  Church  in  America,  have 
not  done  their  full  duty  in  fighting  the  evils  of  intemperance, 
even  their  most  devoted  adherents,  with  any  knowledge  of  the 
facts,  must  confess  with  shame.  By  the  clergy  of  the  Church  of 
England,  the  advocates  of  temperance  reform  have  been  char- 
acterized as  fanatics,  and  as  those  who  would  strike  a  blow  at 
the  vested  rights  of  the  English  people.  It  would  not  be  profit- 
able nor  possible  at  this  moment  to  enter  into  the  details  of  the 
controversy  over  the  use  of  fermented  wine  or  non-fermented 
grape  juice  in  the  celebration  of  the  Holy  Communion,  but  suffice 
to  say  that  it  has  been  claimed  that  the  Church  has  made  quite  as 
many  drunkards  as  she  has  reclaimed. 

If  by  their  statements  the  noble  ladies  may  startle  some  of  the 
unfaithful  stewards  into  a  different  line  of  action,  well  and  good. 
But  the  trouble  with  such  sweeping  assertions  as  these  ladies 
made,  is  that  they  never  state  the  exact  truth;  they  either  prove 
too  much  or  too  little.  From  the  very  nature  of  the  vice,  it  be- 
ing one  that  is  indulged  in  secret,  it  is  impossible  to  form  any  ex- 
act idea  of  to  what  extent  it  is  practiced.  If  physicians  say  that 
many  ladies  living  idle  lives  consult  them  for  nervous  symptoms 
which  reveal  a  condition  of  alcoholism  bordering  on  delirium  tre- 
mens, their  testimony  must  be  accepted  as  conclusive,  for  they, 
more  than  any  others,  are  directly  responsible  for  the  habit  of  tip- 
pling among  women.  They  will  prescribe  stimulants  to  keep  a 
woman  up  in  her  round  of  pleasure,  rather  than  lose  the  patient  by 
telling  plain  truths  and  insisting  upon  a  change  in  the  manner  of 
living  and  a  cessation  of  nervous  excitement.  Young  girls  are 
•dosed  with  liquors,  and  more  than  one  mother  has  given  her 
•delicate  daughter  a  stiff  dose  of  brandy  just  before  the  girl  started 
for  a  party,  "  because  the  dear  child  is  so  delicate  that  the  least 
■little  excitement  prostrates  her,  you  know." 

There  was  one  point  exceedingly  well  taken  by  the  noble  ladies 
at  the  recent  congress,  and  that  was  the  necessity  for  discontinu- 
ing the  jesting  too  commonly  used  in  reference  to  the  greatest 
evil  of  modern  life.  It  is  true  that  as  we  soften  the  term  we  lose 
tbe  full  force  of  the  idea;  it  is  only  another  form  of  the  famil- 
iarity which  leads  us  to  "  first  endure,  then  pity,  then  embrace." 
Every  social  set  is  startled  from  time  to  time  by  the  discovery 
that  some  of  its  most  prominent  members  are  too  much  under  the 
influence  of  the  wine  that  flows  like  water  at  social  functions. 
A  society  man  once  said  to  me,  "  Do  you  know  that  there  are 
certain  people  in  this  city  who  have  the  reputation  of  taking 
more  than  is  good  for  them  at  parties,  and  there  are  men  mean 
enough  to  ply  a  girl  with  punch  just  for  the  sake  of  seeing  how 
•it  will  affect  her.  Some  get  awfully  jolly,  some  quarrelsome, 
some  silly  and  some  very  demonstrative.  You  may  depend  upon 
it,  that  when  a  woman  takes  too  much  in  public,  she  is  very  apt 
to  keep  it  up  at  home.  By  taking  too  much,"  he  continued,  "  I 
do  not  mean  getting  drunk,  but  taking  just  enough  to  bring  a 
sparkle  to  the  eye,  a  looseness  to  the  tongue  and — well,  I  blame 
the  hostess  in  a  great  many  instances  for  tbe  state  of  affairs. 
The  punch-bowl  is  too  easy  of  access,  but  when  or  where  can  one 
get  a  glass  of  water  or  of  lemonade.  Strange  as  it  may  seem,  peo- 
ple who  are   warm  sometimes   are  just  as   thirsty,  for  water  as 


others  are  for  punch." 

It  is  true  that  we  have  all  heard  tales  of  girls  who  went  into 
saloons,  who  call  for  "  soda  water  with  a  wink  in  it,"  who  know 
the  back  way  to  places  where  liquor  is  served  on  the  quiet,  but 
that  these  tales  are  founded  on  truth  or  owe  their  existence  to  the 
fertile  brain  of  some  newspaper  man  on  the  keen  scent  for  a  sen- 
sation, I  am  not  prepared  to  decide.  Once  in  a  while  a  girl  will 
do  the  most  reprehensible  things  just  for  the  sake  of  bravado, 
enjoying  the  cheap  notoriety  that  her  escapades  will  give  her 
among  her  set.  I  have  seen  opera  glasses  with  a  little  flask  in 
the  middle;  I  have  heard  of  bouquets  with  collapsible  grapes  in 
the  center,  but  I  never  saw  a  lady  with  one.  They  may  carry 
them,  but  who  knows  ?  Sybil  Sanderson  used  to  drink  cologne 
from  the  silver  top  of  ber  long,  cut-glass  pungent,  and  there  were 
those  who  said  it  made  her  eyes  brighter  and  her  tongue  to  fly 
faster,  but  who  knows?  I  have  heard  that  women  not  only 
drink  socially,  but  that  they  drink  secretly,  that  they  drink  wine 
or  brandy,  or  Jamaica  ginger,  or  chew  tea  leaves,  but  who  knows? 
Perhaps  it  is  true  that  hotel  keepers  could  tell  of  more  than  one 
bottle  of  champagne  that  went  down  on  the  bill  as  fires,  lights  or 
service,  and  undoubtedly  ladies  traveling  sometimes  carry  with 
tbem  tiny  flasks  that  would  be  useful  in  case  of  accident,  but 
who  knows?  It  may  be  that  too  many  ladies  have  deserted  the 
peppermint  and  fennel  and  anise-seed  of  their  grandmothers  for 
a  dose  of  brandy  to  cure  indigestion,  but  who  knows?  I  have 
beard  of  two  or  three  society  girls  who  were  opium  fiends,  of 
others  who  have  visited  the  Keeley  Institute,  but  is  it  true  ?  Who 
knows  ? 

Whatever  may  be  true,  let  no  woman  with  her  knowledge  of 
the  complex  and  delicate  nervous  organization  of  htr  own  sex, 
be  aught  but  compassionate,  both  in  thought  and  action,  towards 
those  who  have  fallen  under  the  power  of  the  evil  thing,  and 
with  a  heart  to  pity  and  a  hand  outstretched  to  help,  let  ber  meet 
failing  with  sympathy,  and  weakness  with  strength. 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 

Used  in  the  U.  S.  Army  and  by 
teachers  of  cookery. 

Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it 
never  varies,  it  does  the  most  woik, 
the  best  work  and  is  periectly  whole- 
some. 

But  your  own  experience  is  better 
than  anybody's  "  say  so,"  and  your 
own  experience  will  show  you  that 
Cleveland's  baking  powder  is  the 
stroneest  and  the  best.     Trv  it. 

F.  H.  AMES  A  CO..  Aeents. 


ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  Ms  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.  Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 

Garcia  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Pan^eron. 


THE  SCIENCE 

OF 

THE  SKIN. 


324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  with  the  aid  of  Dermoline. 
The  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 
Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
.  moved  and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
\  by  a  new  process. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  15,  1892. 


\&£dl&  nPr'D 


"We   Obey    no   Wand    but   Pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 

TO  criticise  farce-comedy  has  come  to  be  more  absurd  than  the 
thing  itself.  Repudiating  all  claim  to  consecutiveness,  con- 
gruity,  plot  or  probability,  there  is  nothing  to  recapitulate  in 
such  a  production  but  the  specialty  work,  nothing  to  approve  or 
condemn  but  the  prevailing  flavor.  In  the  latter  respect,  McFee 
of  Dublin  may  be  pronounced  coarse  without  absolutely  offensive 
vulgarity.  John  T.  Kelly  is  so  genuinely  humorous  that  he  might 
be  funny  even  if  he  were  to  shake  off  entirely  the  objectionable 
methods  of  U  and  1  of  disgusting  memory.  As  it  is,  these  meth- 
ods still  cling  and  give  to  his  overblown  fun  as  the  false  Lord 
McFee  the  tinge  of  coarseness  aforesaid.  It  is  hard  to  fix;  it  per- 
vades his  dress,  his  speech,  his  mishaps,  his  songs,  and  himself. 
Yet  alt  are  so  full  of  whatever  bonhomie  may  be  in  Irish,  and  so 
irresistibly  funny  as  to  make  one  laugh  and  enjoy  it  all  in  despite 
of  the  qualification.  Even  his  exceedingly  funny  song — a  nov- 
elty, too,  for  a  wonder — ••  There  are  moments  when  one  likes  to 
be  alone,"  is  tinctured  with  this  suggestion,  though  it  is  so  full  of 
the  surprises  of  genuine  humor  as  to  make  one  condone  the 
less  pleasing  feature.  For  the  rest,  Harry  Kelly  has  a  part  which 
might  be  merely  nothing,  but  of  which  he  makes  so  decided  a 
something  in  the  way  of  clever  and  peculiar  specialty  as  to  mark 
him  the  son  of  his  papa,  sans  doute.  Frank  W.  Holland,  as  the 
real  Lord  McFee,  is  a  massive,  grand-looking  Irish  peer,  and 
plays  the  part  well,  as  does,  though  more  conventionally,  Mr. 
Williams  that  of  the  regulation  prize-fighter  and  James  Quinn, 
two  subordinate  characters. 

The  "  ladies  "  of  the  cast  are  just  about  what  one  has  come  to 
expect  in  this  class  of  production.  They  do  nothing  well  which 
they  are  written  down  to  do,  though  their  refreshing  self-confi- 
dence  forbids  any  fear  of  an  absolute  breaking  down.  A  voice  is 
a  rarity,  a  knowledge  of  singing  out  of  the  range  of  possibility. 
Their  accomplishment  in  the  way  of  dancing  is  confined  to  a 
greater  or  less  ability  to  kick  higher  than  their  heads.  There  are 
shining  exceptions,  no  doubt,  but  McFee  of  Dublin  hasn't  got 
hold  of  any.  They  nearly  all  look  young  and  pretty,  however, 
and  for  this  boon  let  us  be  humbly  thankful. 
»  »  * 

The  California  was  packed  even  to  the  lobby  on  Monday 
night.  This  was  a  tribute  of  welcome  to  Mr.  Kelly;  but  the 
almost  equally  good  houses  throughout  the  week  must  have  been 
the  result  of  appreciation.  The  constant  laughter  and  applause 
have  been  an  equal  encouragement  to  pursue  the  good  work  on 
present  lines.  An  effort  to  "  elevate  the  stage,"  at  the  risk,  of 
lifting  it  so  far  above  the  beads  of  the  audience  as  to  be  out  of 
hearing,  would  be  so  manifestly  absurd  that  we  can  only  praise 
the  concocter  of  plays  and  gatherer  of  companies  for  his 
astuteness  in  foregoing  so  ridiculous  an  attempt.  The  California 
will  probably  scarcely  hold  all  who  will  crowd  its  portals  to-night 
and  to-morrow  night — the  last  of  this  engagement. 
#  »  # 

Whoever  had  left  Stockwell's  Theatre  this  week  after  the  first 
two  acts  of  Divorce  Day  would  doubtless  have  gone  with  an  im- 
pression of  a  lively  play,  perhaps  a  shade  or  so  off  color.  Had 
the  same  person  dropped  in  to  sit  out  the  last  two  acts,  he  would 
have  been  likely  to  find  the  piece  flat  and  dreary,  with  a  plagiar- 
ized court  scene  for  a  redeeming  situation.  The  last  act,  where 
everything  is  explained  and  everybody  reconciled,  is  always  more 
or  less  dull,  but  the  third  act  in  Divorce  Day  is  as  sudden  a  drop  in 
interest,  though  Mr.  Julian  Steger  in  a  quiet  way  throws  into  the 
divorce  trial  a  dash  of  pleasant  novelty  in  his  prostration  before 
the  captivating  witness.  The  ''expurgation"  of  French  plays 
will  never  be  a  success;  it  generally  reaults  in  emasculation. 
With  the  riskiness  and  the  naughtiness  toned  down,  the 
Frenchiness — the  real  elan — evaporates,  and  the  coarseness  and 
suggestiveness  become  all  the  worse  for  the  conspicuous  at- 
tempt at  suppression.  Such  is  Divorce  Day,  but  Mr.  Lederer's 
company  deserves  very  different  mention.  One  and  all  do  excel- 
lent work,  some  of  them  notably  excellent.  Ellen  Burg  plays 
the  part  of  the  actress  with  infinite  spirit,  and  with  as  much 
delicacy  as  its  transparent  badness  and  vulgar  cupidity  and 
treachery  admit.  E.  L.  Davenport  as  the  party  of  the  first  part 
in  divorce  case  number  one,  does  it  bo  delightfully  as  to  remind 
one  of  the  typical  young  husband  of  a  "Daly  play,"  and  to  sug- 
gest a  likeness  to  John  Drew's  inimitable  personation  of  similar 
parts.  William  Norris  gives  some  fine  touches  to  his  acting  of 
the  divorce  lawyer  which  mark  the  true  artist  instinct,  and 
Julian  Steger  is  as  happy  in  the  character  of  his  partner.  Louis 
Mann  makes  a  capital  servant  and  fomenter  of  the  difficulty  be- 
tween Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ireton,  the  latter  character  being  well  taken 
and  beautiiully  dressed  by  Miss  Clara  Lipman,  whose  smile,  by 
the  way,  is  less  constant  and  aggressive  in  this  play.  Dell 
Douglass  made  a  good  character  part  of  Mrs.  Higgins  of  the  Ca- 
sino. This  is  not  the  first  time  we  have  seen  young  Harry  Da- 
venport in  the  part  of  an  old  man,  and  the  present  assumption  is 


in  some  respects  reminiscent  of  the  former — the  same  excellence 
in  make-up  and  detail  of  carrying  out,  and  the  same  slight  ten- 
dency  to  exaggerate  the  senile  totter  and  feebleness.  The  rela- 
tions of  Elliott  Sparkins.  his  young  wife,  and  Mile.  Victorine, 
form  the  disagreeably  suggestive  feature  of  the  play,  and  it  is  a 
credit  to  these  three  members  of  the  company  that  they  make  it 
as  little  objectionable  as  they  do. 

#  *  * 

The  classic  air,  so  suited  to  the  locale,  thrown  over  the  Baldwin 
stage  by  the  fair  and  graceful  Lydian  queen,  even  though  handi- 
capped with  so  essentially  modern  and  prosaic  an  element  as 
the  insurance  agent,  Peter  Amos  Dunn,  will  depart  with  the 
passing  week,  and  the  glories  of  opera,  more  or  less  comic,  will 
once  more  dawn  upon  the  pretty  and  high-priced  theatre.  The 
McDufT  Opera  Company  needs  no  loud  heralding.  It  is  a  long 
established  organization,  and  as  at  present  constituted,  represents 
some  of  the  best  musical  talent  of  the  East.  The  first  perform- 
ance, next  Monday  night,  will  begin  with  Mascagni's  operatic 
melodrama,  Cavalleria  Rusticana,  and  conclude  with  Gilbert  and 
Sullivan's  Trial  by  Jury.  The  same  bill  will  be  presented  Wednes- 
day and  Friday  evenings.  Tuesday  and  Saturday  evenings  A 
Trip  to  Africa  will  be  produced,  and  Thursday  evening  and  Satur- 
day matinee  The  Gondoliers.  Light  opera  of  the  high  class  rend- 
ered by  this  company  is  always  an  attraction  here.  Helen  Ber- 
tram, the  prima  donna,  is  described  as  both  pretty  and  clever,  and 
Chas.  Bassett,  the  well-known  and  popular  tenor,  will  play  lead- 
ing roles.  J.  H.  Ryley,  Helen  von  Doenboff ,  and  others,  with 
Gussie  Morgan,  dancer,  and  a  large  chorus,  complete  the  cast. 

The  resignation  of  Chas.  P.  Hall  from  the  managership  of  the 
Bush  was  learned  with  regret  by  the  patrons  of  that  theatre,  who 
will  recall  with  kindly  remembrance  his  long  association  with  its 
management.  The  positive  orders  of  his  physician  rendered  rest 
obligatory,  Mr.  Hall  having  never  quite  recovered  from  injuries 
received  in  a  railway  accident  in  Sacramento  some  time  ago.  Mr. 
Broadhurst,  a  young  man  lately  connected  with  the  Chicago 
theatres,  has  been  sent  out  by  M.  B.  Leavitt  to  succeed  Mr.  Hall 
in  the  management  of  his  San  Francisco  theatre.  The  first  pro- 
duction under  the  new  regime  will  be  The  Stowaway,  opening  next 
Monday  night.  The  real  burglars,  reformed,  with  the  nefariously 
suggestive  names,  still  perform  their  ■<  specialty  "  of  safe-crack- 
ing, and  the  full-rigged  yacht  continues  to  be  a  scenic  feature. 
The  Stowaway  remains  but  one  week  at  the  Bush. 

The  Bat  is-one  of  the  best  of  late  productions  at  the  Tlvoli.  The 
story  is  well  brought  out,  the  music  is  bright  and  melodious,  and 
all  the  players  seem  in  full  rap-port.  Mr.  Hantaan  and  Mr. 
Branson,  as  the  jailer  and  the  "  Marquis,"  give  life  and  dash  to 
the  performance,  in  which  they  are  ably  seconded  by  Gracie 
Plaisted,  who  sings  her  verse  in  the  principle  ensemble  song  with 
a  characteristic  vim  which  calls  out  an  encore  every  time.  Tillie 
Salinger,  George  Olmi,  ami  Arthur  Messmer  sing  and  look  their 
parts  well.  Next  week  The  Mascot  will  be  put  on.  Orpheus  and 
Eurydice  will  be  played  at  the  benefit  of  Joseph  Holtz,  treasurer 
of  the  Tivoli,  Wednesday  night,  October  26th. 
#  »  • 

The  second  Carr-Beel  concert  of  the  season  took  place  October 
8th,  with  even  more  than  the  usual  brilliant  success  of  the  Satur- 


Oct.  15.  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


day  "  pops."  The  two  numbers  in  which  interest  mainly  cen- 
tred were  the  Dvorak  trio  and  the  Paderewski  senate.  The  latter 
would  have  proved  a  Waterloo  as  to  time  for  less  experienced 
players.  As  it  was,  Mrs.  Carrand  Mr.  Beel  scored  probably  their 
greatest  triumph  in  duo  playing.  In  a  composition  where,  in  the 
first  hue  alone,  there  are  three  distinct  movements,  the  difficulty 
of  arriving  at  a  distinct  understanding  made  even  the  most  prac- 
ticed musician  respect  its  brilliant  achievement  by  Mrs.  Carr  and 
Mr.  Beel.  Paderewski  is  of  no  school.  Originality  breathes  in 
every  line  of  the  composition,  and  the  players  caught  admirably 
the  composer's  spirit.  Dvorak,  as  the  director  of  the  New  York 
Conservatory  of  Music,  is  virtually  at  the  head  of  American  mu- 
sical work,  and  the  ambitious  young  student  will  no  longer  be 
compelled  to  leave  his  native  land  to  gain  the  best  instruction  in 
composition  attainable  any  where.  Tbe  music  of  the  Dvorak  se- 
lection given  is  distinctively  Slavonic  in  character,  and  was  well 
interpreted  by  the  Carr-Beel-Heine  trio.  Mr.  Heine's  'cello  solo 
was  also  a  feature  of  tbe  concert.  Mrs.  Sunderland's  voice  is  of 
excellent  quality,  but  she  lacks  experience. 
*  *  * 
When  young  Alexander  Salvini  appeared  here  some  years  ago, 
supporting  his  distinguished  father,  there  was  a  general  impres- 
sion that  the  young  fellow  had  the  right  metal  in  him  for  an  actor. 
His  subsequent  career  has  demonstrated  the  correctness  of  the 
impression,  and  Mr.  Salvini  now  stands  high  among  tbe  exponents 
of  tbe  romantic  and  classic  drama.  He  will  open  next  Monday 
night,  at  the  California,  with  his  famous  production  of  Don 
Caesar  de  Bazan.  His  repertory  also  includes  The  Three  Guards- 
men and  a  dramatic  rendering  of  Mascagni's  Cavalleria  Rusticana 
and  L'Amico  Fritz.  It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  both  the  dra- 
matic and  the  operatic  version  of  the  Cavalleria  will  be  presented 
here  simultaneously  at  Mr.  Hayman's  two  theatres. 

*  *  it- 
Miss  Tennye  Poole,  a  member  of  Lederer's  company,  who  is  a 

guest  of  the  California  Club,  has  resigned  her  position  in  that 
company,  and  leaves  Monday  to  join  Jarbeau'a  company  in  Flor- 
ida. 

•  *  » 

The  new  theatre  which  Dwight  O.  Gilmore  has  recently  com- 
pleted at  Springfield,  Mass.,  causes  even  the  sober-minded  Repub- 
lican to  break  out  into  an  unwonted  fervor  of  description.  As  a 
climax  of  praise  it  is  pronounced  "even  handsomer  than  the 
California,  of  8an  Francisco."  Mr.  Gilmore  has  spent  three  years 
in  bringing  his  new  playhouse  to  completion,  and  he  seems  to 
have  given  the  famous  provincial  town  a  truly  metropolitan  the- 
atre. It  was  opened  September  5th,  by  the  Mason-Manola  com- 
pany, in  William  Young's  three-act  comedy,  If  I  Were  You. 
»  Jack"  Mason  was  for  a  long  time  a  member  of  Palmer's  Union 
Square  company  of  New  York,  and  is  a  very  popular  actor.  His 
wife,  Marion  Manola,  is  best  known  as  the  late  prima  donna  of  the 
McCautl  opera  company,  and  was  the  original  Maid  Marian  of  De 
Koven  and  Smith's  opera,  played  by  that  name  in  London.  The 
combination  is  a  strong  one,  and  the  first  production  seems  to 
have  been  worthy  of  the  theatre. 

#  *  * 

The  "  Widow's  Dance,"  at  the  Bush  this  week,  is  something  of 
a  novelty  in  the  way  of  stage  dancing.  Among  the  graceful  trio 
of  dancers,  Miss  Marie  Pixley  was  conspicuous  for  her  beauty 
and  the  quaint  grace  of  her  movements.  The  evident  talent  of 
the  young  lady  in  her  pretty  art  is  a  promise  of  future  success 
and  a  premiereship  before  she  has  attained  half  the  age  or  any  of 
the  ugliness  that  usually  accompany  that  high  estate. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Ilclyett,  the   latest  Eastern  sensation,  will   be  included  in 

the   repertory  of   the    Duff  Opera  Company  at  the  Baldwin. 

Incog,  is  doing  a  large  business.     It  will  be  seen  at  the  California 

this  season. Manager  Joseph  Arthur  seems  to  be  securing  for 

The  Still  Alarm  a  greater  success  than  falls  to  the  lot  of  most  melo- 
dramas.—Tbe  box  plan  for  the  first  production  of  J.  H.  Rose- 
wald's  opera,  Baroness  Meta,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Women's  Ex- 
change, will  open  at  Sherman  &  Clay's,  October  28th. Mar- 
garet Mather  will  follow  The  Stowaway  at  the  Bush,  opening  in  a 
new  play,  The  Egyptian,  and  a  varied  repertory  for  her  second 
week,—  The  Old  Homestead  seems  likely  to  last  forever.  It  is 
now  playing  a  two  weeks'  engagement  In  St.  Louis,  and  will 
soon  be  seen  here  at  the  California.^— Martin  Schultz  will  give 
two  more  organ  recitals  at  the  Howard  street  M.  E.  Church,  Oc- 
tober 28th   and   November   11th. -The  second  concert  of  Miss 

Magda  Bugge  will  be  given  at  Kohler  &  Chase's  Hall,  November 

6th. Clara  Morris  will  come  to  the  Baldwin  shortly. George 

W.  Lederer's  company  will  produce   next   week  at  Stockwell's 

The  Passing    Regiment. The    Henley-Boncicault     season    will 

open  at  Stockwell's  Theatre  October  24th,  with  Aubrey  Bouci- 
cault's  new  play,  The  Favorite,  its  first  presentation  on  any  stage. 

Professor  Charles  Qoffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others — continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  A  Co Proprietors.  I  Alfred  Bodvier Manager. 

Last  night!  Last  matluee  this  Saturday  !  The  brilliant  comedy 
success, 

N  I  O  BE! 

Monday  next,  October  17th,  ,1.  C.  DUFF  OPERA  CO.,  75  artists,  magnifi- 
cently equipped.    First  week— Monday,  Wednesday  and  Friday  evenings, 

CAVALLERIA     RUSTICANA, 
Grandly  Presented,  with  an  orchestra  ol  30  and  a  Powerful  east,  preceded 
each  eveuing  by  Gilbert  &  Sullivan's 

TRIAL    BY    JURY. 
Tuesday  and  Saturday 

A  TRIP  TO    AFRICA. 

Thursday  evening  and  Saturday  matinee, 

THE    GONDOLIERS. 

W Seats  now  ready.    Prices— $1,  $1  60,  $1,  50,25  cents. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse  Business  Manager. 

Monday,  October  17th.  Last  Week.  Matinees  Wednesday  and  Sat- 
urday. The  GEO.  W.  LEDERER'S  STOCK  COMEDIANS,  in  a  great  pro- 
duction  of 

THE  PASSING    REGIMENT, 

By  kind  permission  of  Angustin  Daly.    Seats  now  ready. 

NEXT-Monday,  October  '24th,  the  HEMLY-BOUGICAULT  season;  and 
Stockwell's  (new}  company  of  Players,  in  Aubrey  Boucicault's  comedy 
drama, 

THE    FAVORITE. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hiyman  &  Co.. Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Limited  engagement,  commencing  Monday,  October  17th,  the  ro- 
mantic actor,  ALEXANDER  SALVINI,  accompanied  by  Wm.  Red- 
mond and  his  company  of  players,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Wm. 
Wilkison,  in  an  adequate  scenic  production  of  D'Ennery's  famous 
romance 

DON     CAESAR  DE  BAZAN. 

Plays  in  preparation:  "  The  Three  Guardsmen,"  and  the  dramatic 
versions  of  "Cavalleria  Rusticana  "  and  "  L'Amico  Fritz." 


THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 


Mr.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Gbobge  H.  Broadhubst Resident  Manager. 

One  week,  commencing  Monday,  October  17th,  that  sterling  Eng- 
lish plav, 

THE     STOWAWAY, 

Produced  with  all  its  magnificent  scenery,  intricate  effects,  and  real 
reformed  burglars.    A  great  cast.    A  truly  big  theatrical  event. 

Next  Attraction— Margaret  Mather  in  THE  EGYPTIAN,  and 
a  splendid  repertoire. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kbeling  Bros Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night,  Strauss'  lovely  operetta, 

THE     BAT, 
"Die  Fledermaus." 
Monday,  October  17th,  THE  MASCOT. 
Popular  Prices  25c.  and  60c 

HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  San  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets,  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 

The  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature. 

Mrs.  M.   E.  PENDLETON. 

Proprietor  and  Manager. 

REGISTRATION    OF    VOTERS 

Closes  at  NEW  CITY  HALL  October  15,  1892. 
On  and  after  Saturday,  October  1st,  office   will  be  open  every 
day  from  9  a.  m.  to  9:30  p.  m. 

Bring  naturalization  papers  when  registering. 

W.  A.  BROWN,  Registrar  of  Voters. 

D|  H  Rl^\0  Knabe,    'Haines, 
r  lAIMUO  Bush  &Gerts,.>  others. 

Oashorinstallments.  Rented 
and  Repaired.     Please  call  or  send  for  circulars.' 


803  Sutter 

St.,  S.  I\ 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


SOME  people  are  born  great,  we  are  told,  some  have  greatness 
thrust  upon  them,  and  some  strive  by  means  of  "sensations" 
to  achieve  notoriety.  We  have  in  our  midst  a  young  man  who 
illustrates  the  latter  system  to  a  dot.  Harry  Kip's  first  bid  for 
notice  came  in  the  form  of  a  <•  conversion  "  to  the  Roman  Catho- 
lic Church.  Next  a  matrimonial  engagement,  formed,  announced 
and  broken  in  rapid  sequence;  an  unpaid  bill  served  for  the  next 
sensation  to  keep  his  name  before  the  public,  but  his  last  venture, 
we  prophecy,  will  achieve  fame  for  him  in  personal  chastisement, 
as  an  attempt  to  criticise  society  a  la  H.  B.  McDowell  some  years 
ago,  will  surely  so  result.  A  new  "  Jinglesnide  "  is  in  course  of 
preparation,  and  will  be  launched  with  Mr.  Kip  at  the  helm.  We 
await  development?. 

*  *  • 

Among  the  many  charming  women  at  the  ball  of  Le  Cercle 
Francais,  Mme.  Raas  shone  resplendent  in  a  magnificent  imported 
costume.  Pretty,  bright-faced  Miss  Lottie  Cerf  had  a  score  of 
admirers,  and  Mile.  Renie  Roth  also  attracted  much  attention. 
Mme.  A.  Schmidt  was  an  imposing  figure,  beautifully  gowned, 
as  she  led  the  march  with  the  president  of  the  club,  E.  Raas, 
whose  amiable  wife  was  the  partner  of  the  Admiral  of  the  French 

fleet. 

*  #  # 

On  dit,  the  French  officers  complain  of  the  lack  of  knowledge 
of  their  language  possessed,  or  rather  practiced  by  our  belles. 
Several  of  the  guests  at  the  recent  dance  on  board  the  United 
States  cruiser  San  Francisco  were  at  a  loss  to  make  themselves 
understood.  This  is  unpardonable  in  these  days  of  French 
lessons  so  universal  in  our  swim. 

»  »  » 

Opinion  is  about  equally  divided  as  to  whether  Santa  Clara 
county  is  honored  by  the  residence  there  of  Mrs.  E.  Parker 
Deacon.  While  the  foreign  correspondents  are  busy  "  interview- 
ing "  the  lady,  a  local  resident  positively  asserts  that  she  is  at 
this  time  dwelling  at  the  ranch  of  her  brother,  Charley  Baldwin, 
near  Mountain  View. 

*  »  * 

Society  is  quite  delighted  at  the  prospect  of  a  real  swagger 
English  wedding,  when  Miss  Anna  Head  and  Mr.  Jephson  are 
united.  The  fair  fiancee  and  her  mother  will  soon  be  en  route  to 
this  city,  and  when  the  happy  man  who  has  won  the  charming 
California  girl  crosses  the  ocean  and  mountains  in  search  of  his 
bride,  a  grand  wedding  will  follow.  Of  course,  it  will  be  in  the 
English  style,  a  morning  affair;  but  the  arrangements  will  be  on 
a  magnificent  scale. 

if  *  * 

Belmont,  whose  fame  is  co-existent  with  the  princely  hospital- 
ities of  California's  flush  times,  is  falling  into  ruin  and  decay.  It 
is  a  white  elephant  to  the  Sharon  heirs,  into  whose  possession  the 
place  has  passed.  None  of  them  individually  will  take  it  as 
their  portion.  Some  say  because  it  is  too  expensive  to  keep  up. 
Others  claim  it  is  too  redolent  of  ghostly  memories. 

*  #  » 

What  has  become  of  Lieutenant  Poundstone  ?  queries  a  cor- 
respondent. 

*  #  » 

The  latest  addition  to  the  Tevis  grandchildren,  the  Hugh  Tevis 
infant,  is  to  be  honored  by  its  grandma  with  a  most  elaborate 
christening  party;  and  they  say  the  robe  to  be  worn  by  the  baby 
on  the  occasion  has  been  imported  from  Paris,  and  is  of  the 
■costliest  lace. 

*  *  * 

What  a  chance  for  an  enterprising  young  man,  say  a  lawyer, 
to  gain  fortune  and  a  lovely  wife  at  one  stroke  of  good  luck, 
which  will  be  afforded  our  beaux  when  Miss  Edith  Newlands 
makes  here  debut.  The  young  lady  being  the  eldest  daughter  of 
Frank  Newlands  by  his  first  wife,  nee  Clara  Sharon,  is  therefore 
one  of  the  heiress  of  her  mother's  estate.  Miss  Edith  is  a  fine 
specimen  of  the  healthy  California  girl,  bright-eyed,  clear-skinned 
and  well  developed,  with  auburn  hair.  She  is  said  to  be  a  young 
lady  of  great  sweetness  of  disposition  and  amiability  of  charac- 
ter, and  withal  highly  accomplished. 

*  »  # 

So,  the  Heskeths'  great  chum,  he  of  the  dual  name,  did  not 
mean  "  biz  "  after  all.  Quid  nuncs  were  quite  of  the  opinion  that 
the  transplanting  of  another  California  wild  flower  to  the  con- 
servatories of  British  soil  was  a  sure  thing,  but  it  don't  look  that 
way. 

«  *  » 

On  dit,  Mrs.  Pope,  mere,  will  give  a  grand  reception  in  honor  of 
her  lately  married  daughter,  in  the  near  future. 

If  you  want  good  clothes,  why  not  patronize  Colonel  J.  M.  Litch- 
field, of  12  Post  street?  He  has  an  excellent  reputation  as  an  artist 
in  the  sartorial  line,  for  which  reason  he  enjoys  the  patronage  of  all 
the  well-dressed  men  of  the  city.  Colonel  Litchfield's  suits  are  al- 
ways perfection. 


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October  15,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


HERE  is  a  story  which  is  traveling  through  the  Paris  papers 
over  the  signature  of  no  less  a  person  than  Aim-lien  School: 
A  well-known  Paris  clubman,  the  Viscount  de  Saint-Rieul, 
came  borne  the  other  evening  at  10  o'clock.  Having  forgotten 
his  glasses,  he  wasn't  able  to  take  part  in  a  game  of  poker  at  the 
Sporting  Club.  He  hired  a  carriage  and  gave  the  driver  orders 
to  take  him  to  his  house  in  the  Rue  Saint-Florentin.  Of  course, 
at  that  hour,  his  valet  de  chamhre  was  out.  Saint-Rieul  entered 
his  apartments  by  means  of  a  night  key.  On  going  into  the 
parlor  be  found  a  stranger  endeavoring  to  open  a  little  safe.  The 
stranger  turned  around  on  hearing  him  enter.  Saint-Rieul  took 
off  his  hat,  and  in  a  courteous  tone  said,  "No  doubt,  sir,  you  are 
a  burglar?"  "Sure  enough,"  replied  the  stranger.  "I  am  sorry 
to  disturb  you,"  continued  Saint-Rieul.  "How  could  a  fellow 
imagine,"  said  the  burglar,  "that  a  man  of  the  world  like  you 
and  such  a  reputed  clubman  could  come  home  so  early  as  this." 
"I  forgot  something.  Only  for  that  my  presence  would  be  inex- 
plicable." The  burglar  sighed:  "I  have  no  sort  of  luck  of  late, 
and  while  waiting  for  a  good  stroke,  the  plans  of  which  are 
already  laid,  I  just  came  in  here  to  keep  my  hands  in,  for  I  was 
afraid  I  might  get  rusty."  "Your  explanations  are  very  satis- 
factory indeed,"  said  Saint-Rieul,  but  since  I  happened  to  come 
in  in  time,  just  be  good  enough  tD  retire."  "Certainly,  sir." 
»*Take  a  cigar?"  "With  pleasure,"  said  the  visitor,  "because  I 
would  be  sorry  to  go  away  skunked  (bredouville)."  "The  stair- 
way is  lighted,"  replied  the  Viscount,  "so  that  it  will  not  be 
necessary  for  me  to  show  you  the  way.  If  the  concierge  should 
be  indiscreet  enough  to  ask  you  where  you  are  coming  from,  tell 
him  simply  that  you  have  just  left  M.  de  Saint-Rieul."  "Thank 
you,  sir."  "Light  your  cigar."  "Oh!  don't  take  the  trouble, 
sir.  I  have  matches."  "Adieu,  monsieur."  "I  have  the  honor 
to  salute  you."     And  the  burglar  quietly  went  down  stairs. 

The  death  of  John  Graves,  a  London  print  dealer,  may  recall 
to  some  the  picture  entitled  "Can't  You  Talk?"  The  history 
of  its  production,  as  told  by  Mr.  Graves  under  the  shade  of  the 
histronic  mound  at  Waterloo,  is  interesting.  Seeing  one  of  his 
children  playing  with  a  pet  collie  dog  one  day,  the  idea  occurred 
to  him  that  the  subject  would  make  a  charming  picture,  and  he 
gave  a  commission  to  an  artist  to  carry  out  his  idea.  The  price 
was  $1000,  and  the  picture  was  exhibited  at  the  Royal  Academy's 
exhibition,  where  it  attracted  the  notice  of  the  Prince  and  Prin- 
cess of  Wales,  who  expressed  a  desire  to  purchase  it.  Mr. 
Graves,  who  had  placed  on  it  what  he  considered  the  prohibitory 
price  of  $5,000,  informed  the  Prince  that  as  he  had  had  the  pic- 
ture painted  solely  for  the  purpose  of  engraving,  he  did  not  wish 
to  dispose  of  it,  but  the  Prince  granted  graciously  the  engraving 
rights  and  became  its  purchaser.  Up  to  the  present  time  repro- 
ductions of  the  picture  have  netted  more  than  $120,000.  Near 
the  field  of  Waterloo  Mr.  Graves  purchased  an  estate  several 
years  ago,  and  he  was  almost  a  monomaniac  on  the  subject  of 
that  decisive  battle.  He  confined  his  reading  exclusively  to  it, 
and  he  possessed  a  singular  collection  of  books  that  had  reference 
to  it. 

The  Dublin  Express  says  the  banking  and  railway  statistics  just 
issued  afford  ample  proof  of  continued  progress  in  Ireland.  In 
June,  1892,  as  compared  with  the  corresponding  period  in  1891, 
there  was  an  increase  of  cash  balances  in  joint-stock  banks 
amounting  to  £865,000;  in  postoffice  savings  banks  there  was  a 
net  increase  in  deposits  amounting  to  £177,000  and  a  net  increase 
of  £95,000  in  June,  1892,  as  campared  with  December,  1891. 
Since  1886  the  amount  of  deposits  in  joint-stock  banks  has  in- 
creased from  £29,223,000  to  £34.565,000  in  1892,  each  year  being 
an  advance  upon  the  previous  one.  In  the  Post  Office  Savings 
Bank  tbere  has  also  been  a  yearly  increase,  extending  back  to 
their  initiation.  The  total  deposit  in  1886  was  £2  592,000  as  con- 
trasted with  £4,069,000  in  1892.  In  railway  receipts  there  was 
somewhat  of  a  falling  off,  the  total  for  the  first  half  of  this  year 
showing  a  decrease  of  £51,647.  The  receipts  for  1891,  however, 
exceeded  those  for  1890  by  £74,011. 

The  new  English  Ministry  contains  a  number  of  landlords,  of 
whom  Lord  Spencer  is  the  wealthiest.  His  rent  roll  is  $230,000  a 
year;  Lord  Rosebery  claims  $160,000  a  year;  Lord  Ripon's  rental 
is  $145,000;  Lord  Kimberley's,  $125,000;  Mr.  Acland  is  heir  to 
$170,000  a  year  from  land;  Lord  Houghton  has  $55,000;  Lord 
Carrington,  $200,000;  Lord  Vernon,  $120,000,  and  Lord  Ribbles- 
dale,  $135,000. 

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10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  15,  1892. 


THE    PRISONERS. 

THERE  was  no  sound  in  the  forest  except  the  slight  russle  of 
the  snow  as  it  fell  upon  the  trees.  It  had  been  falling,  small 
and  tine,  since  mid-day;  It  powdered  the  branches  with  a  frosty 
moss,  cast  a  silver  veil  over  the  dead  leaves  in  the  hollow,  and 
spread  upon  the  pathways  a  great,  soft,  white  carpet  that  thick- 
ened the  immeasurable  silence  amid  this  ocean  of  trees.  Before 
the  door  of  the  keeper's  lodge  stood  a  bare-armed  young  woman 
chopping  wood  with  an  axe  upon  a  stone.  She  was  tall,  thin  and 
strong — a  child  of  the  forest,  a  daughter  and  wife  of  gamekeepers. 
A  voice  called  from  within  the  house:  "Come  in,  Berthine;  we 
are  alone  to-night,  and  it  is  getting  dark.  There  may  be  Prussians 
or  wolves  about." 

*•  I  have  finished,  mother.  There's  nothing  to  be  frightened  at." 
Then  she  brought  in  her  fagots  and  her  logs,  and  piled  them  up 
at  the  chimney-side,  went  out  again  to  close  the  shutters — enor- 
mous shutters  of  solid  oak — and  then,  when  she  again  came  in, 
pushed  the  heavy  bolts  of  the  door. 

Her  mother  was  spinning  by  the  fire,  a  wrinkled  old  woman 
who  had  grown  timorous  with  age.  "  I  don't  like  father  to  be 
out,"  she  said.     "Two  women  have  no  strength." 

The  younger  answered:  "Oh,  I  could  very  well  kill  a  wolf  or  a 
PruBsiau,  I  can  tell  you."  And  she  turned  her  eyes  to  a  large  re- 
volver hanging  over  the  fireplace.  Her  husband  had  been  put 
into  the  army  at  the  beginning  of  the  Prussian  invasion,  and  the 
two  women  had  remained  alone  with  her  father,  the  old  game- 
keeper, Nicholas  Pichou,  who  had  obstinately  refused  to  leave 
his  home  and  go  into  the  town. 

The  nearest  town  was  Retbel,  an  old  fortress  perched  on  a  rock. 
The  Prussians  were  not  far  off;  for  their  scouts  had  already  twice 
pushed  across  the  forest  as  far  as  Nicholas  Pichou'a  lodge.  The 
old  keeper  had  gone  that  day  to  announce  that  a  small  detach- 
ment of  German  infantry  had  stopped  at  his  house  the  day  be- 
fore, about  two  in  the  afternoon,  and  had  gone  away  again  almost 
directly.  The  subaltern  in  command  spoke  French.  When  the 
old  man  went  on  such  errands  he  took  with  him  his  two  dogs, 
and  he  left  his  two  women,  advising  them  to  lock  themselves  into 
the  house  as  soon  as  night  began  to  fall. 

The  young  one  was  afraid  of  nothing.  She  was  hanging  her 
saucepan  over  the  fire  to  make  the  soup,  when  she  stopped  short, 
listened  to-  a  vague  sound  which  had  reached  her  by  way  of  the 
chimney,  and  murmured :  "There  is  some  one  walking  in  the 
wood — seven  or  eight  men  at  least." 

Her  mother,  alarmed,  stopped  her  wheel  and  muttered:  "Oh, 
good  Lord!     And  father  not  berel  " 

She  had  not  finished  speaking  when  violent  blows  shook  the 
the  door.  The  women  made  no  answer,  and  a  loud  gutteral  voice 
called  out:  '-Open  the  door."  Then,  after  a  pause,  the  same  voice 
repeated;  "Open  the  door,  or  I'll  break  it  in." 

Then  Berthine  slipped  into  her  pocket  the  big  revolver  from 
over  the  mantelpiece,  and  having  put  her  ear  to  the  crack  of  the 
door,  asked:  "  Who  are  you?  " 

The  voice  answered:  "I  am  the  detachment  that  came  the 
other  day.     Open  the  door,  or  I  will  break  it  in." 

The  keeper's  wife  had  no  choice;  she  promptly  drew  the  great 
bolt,  and  pulling  back  the  door  she  beheld  six  Prussian  men,  the 
same  who  had  come  the  day  before.  She  said  in  a  firm  tone, 
«•  What  do  you  want  here  at  this  time  of  night?  " 

The  officer  replied:  "  I  had  lost  my  way.  I  recognized  the 
house.  I  have  had  nothing  to  eat  since  the  morning,  nor  my  men 
either." 

The  keeper's  wife  stepped  back.     "Come  in,"  said  she. 

They  came  in,  powdered  with  snow  and  with  a  sort  of  mossy 
cream  on  their  helmets  that  made  them  look  like  meringues. 
They  seemed  tired,  worn  out. 

*'  Sit  down,"  said  she,  "  and  I'll  make  you  some  soup.  You  do 
look  quite  worn  out." 

Then  she  bolted  the  door  again.  She  poured  some  more  water 
into  her  saucepan,  threw  iu  more  butter  and  potatoea;  then,  un- 
hooking a  piece  of  bacon  that  hung  in  the  chimney,  she  cut  off 
half,  and  added  that  also  to  the  stew.  The  eyes  of  the  six  men 
followed  ber  every  movement  with  an  air  of  awakened  hunger. 
They  had  set  their  guns  and  helmets  in  a  corner,  and  sat  waiting 
on  their  benches  like  well-behaved  school  children.  The  mother 
had  begun  to  spin  again,  but  she  threw  terrified  glances  at  the 
invading  soldiers.  There  was  no  sound  except  the  slight  pu:ring 
of  the  wheel,  the  crackle  of  the  tire,  and  the  bubbling  of  the  water 
as  it  grew  hot. 

But  all  at  once  a  strange  noise  made  them  all  start — something 
like  a  hoarse  breathing  at  the  door,  the  breathing  of  an  animal, 
deep  and  snorting.  One  of  the  Germans  had  sprung  towards  the 
guns. 

The  woman,  with  a  movement  and  a  smile,  stopped  him.  "  It 
is  the  wolves,"  said  she.  •'  They  are  like  you;  they  are  wander- 
ing about,  hungry."  The  man  would  hardly  believe,  he  wanted 
to  see  for  himself;  and  as  soon  as  the  door  was  opened  he  per- 
ceived two  great  grey  beasts  making  off  at  a  quick,  long  trot. 
He  came  back  to  his  seat  murmuring:  "I  should  not  have  be- 
lieved it." 

The  men  ate  voraciously;  their  mouths  opened  from  ear  to  ear 
to  take  the  largest   of   gulps;  their   round  eyes   opened   sympa- 


thetically with  their  jaws,  and  their  swallowing  was  like  the  gur- 
gle of  rain  in  a  water-pipe.  Then,  as  they  were  thirsty,  the  keep- 
er's wife  went  down  into  the  cellar  to  draw  cider  for  them.  She 
was  a  long  time  gone.  When  Berthine  came  back  she  was  laugh- 
ing, laughing  slyly  to  herself.  She  gave  the  Germans  her  pitcher 
of  drink.  Then  she,  too,  had  her  supper,  with  her  mother,  at  the 
other  end  of  the  kitchen. 

The  soldiers  had  finished  eating  and  were  falling  asleep,  all  six, 
around  the  table.  From  time  to  time  a  head  would  fall  heavily 
on  the  board,  then  the  man.  starting  awake,  would  sit  up.  Ber- 
thine said  to  the  officer:  "  You  may  just  as  well  lie  down  here 
before  the  fire.  There's  plenty  of  room  for  six.  I'm  going  up  to 
my  room  with  my  mother." 

The  two  women  went  to  the  upper  floor.  The  Prussians 
stretched  themselves  on  the  stone  floor,  their  feet  to  the  fire,  their 
heads  on  the  rolled-up  cloaks,  and  soon  all  six  were  snoring. 
They  had  certainly  been  asleep  for  a  considerable  time  when  a 
shot  sounded,  and  so  loud  that  it  seemed  to  be  fired  close  against 
the  walls  of  the  house.  The  soldiers  sat  up  instantly.  There 
were  two  more  shots,  and  then  three  more. 

The  door  of  the  staircase  opened  hastily,  and  the  keeper's  wife 
appeared,  bare-footed,  a  short  petticoat  over  her  night  dress,  a 
candle  in  her  hand,  and  a  face  of  terror.  She  whispered:  "  Here 
are  the  French— two  hundred  of  them  at  least.  If  they  find  you 
here,  they  will  burn  the  house.  Go  down,  quick,  into  the  cellar, 
and  don't  make  a  noise.  If  you  make  a  noise,  we  are  lost." 
The  officer,  scared,  murmured:  "I  will,  I  will.  Which  way  do 
we  go  down?  " 

The  young  woman  hurriedly  raised  the  narrow  square  trap- 
door, and  the  men  disappeared  by  the  winding  stair,  one  after 
another  going  underground,  backwards,  so  as  to  feel  the  steps 
with  their  feet.  But  when  the  point  of  the  last  helmet  had  dis- 
appeared, Berthine,  shutting  down  the  heavy  oaken  plank,  thick 
as  a  wall  and  hard  as  steel,  kept  in  place  by  clamps  and  a  pad- 
lock, turned  the  key  twice,  slowly,  and  then  began  to  laugh  with 
a  laugh  of  silent  rapture,  and  with  a  wild  desire  to  dance  over  the 
heads  of  her  prisoners. 

Berthine  at  once  re-lighted  her  fire,  put  on  her  saucepan  once 
more,  and  made  more  soup,  murmuring:  "  Father  will  be  tired  to- 
night." Then  she  sat  down  and  waited.  A  distant  barking  reached 
her.  She  began  to  whistle  like  a  huntsman,  and  almost  immediately 
two  immense  dogs  loomed  through  the  shadows,  and  jumped  upon 
her  with  signs  of  joy.  She  held  them  by  the  neck  to  keep  them  from 
running  away,  and  called  with  all  her  might:  "  Halloa,  father!  " 

A  voice,  still  very  distant,  answered :  "  Halloa,  Berthine !  " 

She  waited  some  moments,  then  called  again:  'Halloa,  father! 
Don't  pass  in  front  of  the  grating.  There  are  Prussians  in  the  cellar." 

All  at  once  the  black  outline  of  the  man  showed  on  the  left.  He 
asked  uneasily:  "  Prussians  in  the  cellar!  What  are  they  doing 
there?" 

The  young  woman  began  to  laugh.  "  I  put  them  in  the  cellar  to 
keep  cool."  And  she  related  the  whole  adventure;  how  she  had 
frightened  them  with  shots  of  the  revolver,  and  shut  them  up  in  the 
cellar. 

The  old  man  asked:  "  What  do  you  expect  me  to  do  with  them  at 
this  time  of  night?  " 

She  answered:  "Go  and  fetch  M.  Lavigne  and  his  men.  He'll 
take  them  prisoners;  and  won't  he  be  pleased!  " 

A  quarter  of  an  hour  later  Pichou  started  again.  Berthine,  with 
her  head  in  her  hands,  waited. 

The  prisoners  were  moving  about.  They  shouted  and  called,  and 
beat  continually  with  their  guns  on  the  immovable  trap-door  of  the 
cellar.  Then  they  began  to  tire  their  guns  through  the  grating,  hop- 
ing, no  doubt,  to  be  heard  if  any  German  detachment  were  passing 
in  the  neighborhood. 

The  keeper's  wife  did  not  stir;  but  all  this  noise  tried  her  nerves 
and  irritated  her.  An  evil  anger  awoke  in  her;  she  would  have  liked 
to  kill  them,  the  wretches,  to  keep  them  quiet.  Then,  as  her  impa- 
tience increased,  she  began  to  look  at  the  clock  and  count  the  min- 
utes. At  last  the  hands  marked  the  time  which  she  had  fixed  for 
their  coming. 

She  opened  the  door  once  more  to  listen  for  them.  She  perceived 
a  shadow  moving  cautiously.  She  was  frightened  and  screamed.  It 
was  her  father.  He  said:  "They  sent  me  to  see  if  there's  any 
change." 

"  No,  nothing." 

Then  he  in  his  turn  gave  a  long,  strident  whistle  into  the  darkness. 

M,  Lavigne,  trembling  with  excitement,  appeared  with  his  men 
and  posted  them  so  as  to  surround  the  house  on  all  sides.  He 
stamped  his  foot  on  the  trap  door,  and  called:  "Mr.  Prussian  offi- 
cer! "    The  German  did  not  reply. 

The  Major  repeated:  "Mr.  Prussian  officer!"  It  was  in  vain. 
For  a  whole  twenty  minutes  he  summoned  this  silent  officer  to  ca- 
pitulate with  arms  and  baggage,  promising  him  life  and  military 
honors  for  himself  and  soldiers.  But  he  obtained  no  sign  of  con- 
sent or  of  hostility.    The  situation  was  becoming  difficult. 

Major  Lavigne  appeared  upon  the  threshold  of  the  keeper's  lodge. 
He  had  just  framed  his  plan  of  attack,  and  gave  his  word  of  com- 
mand in  a  ringing  voice:  "  Plumber  Planchet  and  his  men!  Un- 
fasten the  gutters  of  the  house." 


October  15,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


In  a  quarter  of  an  hour  some  twenty  yards  of  leaden  gutter  pipe 
were  brought  to  the  Major.  Then,  with  innumerable  prudent  pre- 
cautions, he  had  a  little  round  hole  bored  in  the  edge  of  the  trap- 
door, and  having  laid  out  an  aqueduct  from  the  pump  to  this  open- 
ing, announced  with  an  air  of  satisfaction:  "  We  are  going  to  give 
these  German  gentlemen  something  to  drink."  A  wild  cheer  of  ad- 
miration burst  forth,  followed  by  shouts  of  delight  and  roars  of 
laughter.  The  Major  organized  gangs  of  workers,  who  were  to  be 
employed  in  relays  of  five  minutes.  Then  he  commanded:  "  Pump  I" 

And  the  iron  handle  having  been  put  in  motion,  a  little  sound 
rustled  along  the  pipes  and  slipped  into  the  cellar,  falling  from  step 
to  step  with  the  tinkle  of  a  waterfall.  An  hour  passed;  then  two, 
then  three. 

The  enemy  was  moving  now.  Sounds  of  rattling,  of  speaking,  of 
splashing,  could  be  heard.  Then  towards  eight  in  the  morning  a 
voice  issued  from  the  grating:  "I  want  to  speak  to  the  French  officer." 

Levigne  answered  from  the  window  without  putting  out  his  head 
too  far:  '*  Do  you  surrender." 

"  I  surrender." 

"  Then  pass  out  your  guns." 

A  weapon  was  immediately  seen  to  appear  out  of  the  hole  and  fall 
into  the  snow;  then  a  second,  a  third — all;  and  the  same  voice  de- 
clared: "  I  have  no  more.    Make  haste.    I  am  drowned." 

The  Major  commanded :  "Stop."  And  the  handle  of  the  pump 
fell  motionless.  Then,  having  filled  the  kitchen  with  soldiers,  all 
standing  armed,  he  slowly  lifted  the  trap-door.  Six  drenched  heads 
appeared,  six  fair  heads  with  long,  light  hair,  and  the  six  Germans 
were  seen  issuing  forth  one  by  one,  shivering,  dripping,  scared. 

SWISS    DISASTERS. 


SWITZERLAND  has  really  surpassed  itself  this  year  in  its  ef- 
forts to  provide  excitement  for  its  visitors  in  the  shape  of  be- 
ing blown  up  on  a  steamer,  swept  away  by  a  flood  or  roasted  to 
death  in  a  Swiss  hotel.  Fortunately,  the  last  disaster,  the  fire  in 
the  Grindelward  was  not  attended  with  any  loss,  and  the  tourists 
escaped  the  actual  roasting.  Still,  from  all  accounts,  Grindelward 
seems  to  have  been  burnt  out  fairly,  completely,  and  the  fifteen 
hundred  tourists  who  were  supposed  to  be  taking  their  pleasure 
there  must  have  found  themselves  in  a  rather  forlorn  condition, 
having  lost  not  only  their  lodging,  but  most  likely  their  baggage 
also.  It  would  really  seem  that  some  malign  fate  has  been  haunt- 
ing the  land  of  William  Tell  this  season,  for  never  before  has  the 
"  playground  of  Europe  "  been  subject  to  such  a  succession  of 
disasters. 

IN  Italy  an  active  propaganda  has  been  resumed  by  the  Radi- 
cals in  favor  of  the  establishment  of  a  republic,  and  the  idea  is 
gaining  a  strong  hold  upon  the  masses.  The  people  seem  to 
assume  that  the  Vatican,  having  shown  so  much  favor  to  the 
French  republic  of  late,  would  be  ready  to  support  a  revolution, 
especially  since  the  Pope  has  little  to  expect  from  the  Italian 
monarchy.  It  must  not  be  forgotten,  however,  that  a  republican 
government  would  not  be  very  likely  to  restore  the  Pope's  tem- 
peral  power,  and  the  Vatican  is  too  wise  to  lend  its  services  with- 
out the  surity  of  a  reward.  Meanwhile,  thechurch  does  nothing 
to  dispel  the  idea  that  it  sympathizes  with  the  Italian  democracy, 
and  evidently  utilizes  the  present  state  of  things  to  embarrass  the 
Royal  Government,  in  order  to  obtain  concessions  from  that  quar- 
ter. King  Humbert,  however,  is  not  likely  to  yield,  and,  in  fact, 
seems  to  care  less  for  the  support  of  the  present  Pope  than  that 
of  his  eventual  successor,  whose  accession  to  the  Papacy,  consid- 
ering the  high  age  and  feeble  health  of  the  present  incumbent, 
will  almost  certainly  take  place  within  the  near  future. 

Don't  Blame 
The  Baby 

who  will  not  know  enough  to  ask  for 


-HIGHLAND 


Sweetened 


Meanwhile  its  lungs  and  stomach  are  protest- 
ing,gainstthe"inf ant-food"  that  don't  feed — 
nourish.  Highland  Evaporated  Cream 
is  the  completest,  safest  and  most  readily 
assimilated  food.  Send  your  name  and  ad- 
dress for  our  Infant  Food  Circular — it's  free. 
HELVETIA  MILK  CONDENSING  CO.,   Highland,  III. 


ANECDOTES    OF    CLERICAL    LIFE    IN    IRELAND. 

IT  IS  not  more  than  some  sixty  years  since  a  clergyman  and  an 
officer  fought  a  duel  on  the  island  of  Innisfallen,  in  Killarney 
Lakes,  says  a  writer  in  the  Churchman.  The  clergyman  had  given 
unintentional  offense  to  the  man  of  war,  one  of  the  garrison  of 
the  Castle  of  Ross.  A  challenge  followed.  The  parties  met  on 
the  lonely  island.  The  officer  fired  his  pist0I  first,  and  without 
effect,  whereon  the  clergyman  fired  his  pistol  in  the  air,  advanced 
and  shook  hands,  and  the  affair  was  happily  over.  The  same 
"Parson  D.,"  a  well-known  Kerry  rector,  happened  to  be  in 
Dublin  when  the  famous  duel  was  arranged  between  O'Connell, 
who  was  a  native  of  the  same  county,  and  D'Esterre.  The  par- 
son was  a  young  man  then,  and  failing  to  obtain  a  seat  in  the 
coach  which  plied  between  Dublin  and  the  Curragh,  where  the 
duel  was  to  be  fought,  he  traveled  the  whole  way  standing  on 
the  step  of  the  coach  door,  and  was  in  time  to  see  the  fatal  shot 
fired  which  slew  D'Esterre.  His  emotion  was  so  great  at  the 
sight  of  the  spectacle  that  he  flung  his  hat  in  the  air,  shouting, 
"Hurrah  for  the  Kerry  man!" 

Curious  stories  are  told  of  the  same  "Parson  D."  He  is  said 
once  to  have  borrowed  a  congregation  of  the  Roman 
priest  to  meet  the  bishop  of  the  diocese,  who  bad  come  to  preach 
in  his  church.  The  two  clergymen  were  on  good  terms,  too  good, 
indeed,  for  the  church  clergyman  had  allowed  many  of  his  flock 
to  stray  to  the  Roman  fold  unrebuked.  Both  were  great  hunt- 
ing men,  and  the  priest  did  not  wish  to  spoil  sport,  so  when  a 
message  came  from  the  Protestant  rector  that  the  bishop  was 
coming,  and  be  wished  to  show  him  a  good  congregation,  the 
priest  after  early  mass  bade  all  the  "boys"  go  over  to  the  parish 
church  for  the  day,  and  there  never  was  seen  such  a  congregation 
as  that  which  crowded  aisles  and  seats  alike  to  greet  his  lordship. 

It  was  far  away  in  the  North  in  those  good  old  days  that 
another  eccentric  vicar  caused  one  outer  wall  of  his  dining-room 
to  be  taken  down,  an  old  chaise  on  C-springs  to  be  brought  in, 
and  the  wall  built  up  again.  In  the  easy  old  coach  the  parson 
would  recline,  and  smoke  his  pipe  and  have  his  glass,  and  pre- 
pare his  sermons.  Late  in  life  the  good  man  married,  and  his 
lady,  who  proved  to  be  "the  better  man,"  brought  in  two  men 
with  a  cross-cut  Baw,  who  before  the  astonished  eyes  of  the  vicar 
cleared  the  parlour  of  the  cherished  divan.  This  was  the  vicar 
who  introduced  an  ingenious  mechanism  by  which,  to  the  saving 
of  the  parochial  funds,  he  acted  as  both  his  own  organist  and 
organ  blower,  working  a  barrel  organ  by  a  treadle  placed  in  the 
reading-desk  I  Speaking  of  barrel  organs,  I  well  remember  cer- 
tain churches  where  there  was  no  other  way  of  accompanying  the 
service.  In  one  church  there  was  an  organ  with  a  couple  of  popular 
double  chants  to  which  all  the  Canticles  were  sung.  The  Venite 
was  a  difficulty,  however.  What  was  to  be  done  with  the  odd 
verse  ?  The  correct  thing  to  do  was  to  let  the  organ,  then,  play 
the  first  part  of  the  chant  alone,  and  the  voices  come  in  on  the 
second  half.  This  often  led  to  amusing  mistakes,  and  the  good 
old  rector  had  been  heard  to  say,  "Boys  and  girls,  will  you  never 
learn  to  humour  the  organ  ?" 

I  myself  remember  a  worthy  West-country  vicar  who  was  both 
simple  hearted  and  absent-minded.  I  have  known  him  put  on 
one  boot  and  forget  the  other,  and  go  to  church  with  a  boot  on 
one  foot  and  a  slipper  on  the  other.  I  have  been  in  his  study, 
and  you  could  look  down  through  the  holes  in  the  floor  into  the 
kitchen  below.  And  he  did  not  seem  to  notice  that  there  was 
anything  much  amiss,  or  to  be  in  any  degree  inconvenienced. 
But  these  days  of  prose  and  Mrs.  Grundy  are  making  a  clean 
sweep  of  the  old  eccentricities.  The  rector  is  almost  an  impossi- 
bility now  (he  was  no  impossibility,  but  a  reality,  thirty  years 
ago),  who  brought  two  spaniels  to  church,  and  encouraged  them 
to  sit  perfectly  well  behaved  in  the  two  open  windowB  of  the 
chancel,  interested  spectators  of  the  service.  The  days  we  live 
in  are  pruning  down  originality,  and  improving  things  all  round 
in  the  church  of  Ireland. 


Our  Society. 
Blue  Book,  containing  the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days 
of  the  leading  society  people  of  San  Francisco  and  the  principal 
social  centers  of  the  State,  is  now  in  press,  and  will  be  issued  in 
November  at  the  opening  of  the  society  season.  We  have  been  par- 
ticularly careful  in  the  selection  of  names  to  grace  the  pages  of  the 
Blue  Book  and  have  eliminated  many  which  have  appeared  in  for- 
mer publications.  It  will  be  kept  on  file  exclusively  at  all  the  clubs, 
fashionable  hotels,  theaters,  summer  resorts,  etc.  The  arrangement 
of  names  will  be  alphabetically,  and  numerically  by  streets,  similar 
to  the  Chicago,  New  York  and  Philadelphia  bluebooks.  The  print- 
ing will  be  in  the  familiar  blue-and-gold  covers,  with  gilt-edged  text. 
The  information  conveyed  on  the  pale-blue  leaves  will  be  set  forth  in 
a  generally  attractive  manner  for  the  class  of  people  which  the  Blue 
Book  is  specially  intended.  It  has  become  the  accepted  fashionable 
private  address  directory  of  California  society  people.  The  Blue 
Book  will  be  kept  on  sale  at  all  first  class  book  stores  (excepting 
Bancroft's).  Charles  C.  Hoag,  publisher,  175  and  176  Crocker  build- 
ing, San  Francisco. 


12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  15,  1892. 


LA    RABIDE. 

STOOD  the  cloister  looking  down 
On  the  town, 
Past  the  pleasant  slopes  that  rolled 
Thro'  the  vineyard  and  the  fold 
To  the  harbor  of  renown. 

And  the  wind  blew  fitfully 

From  the  sea, 
O'er  the  stretches  of  morass 
And  the  nodding  lowland  grass 
Where  the  river  rippled  free. 

But  the  convent  on  the  height 

Glimmered  white. 
And  the  almond  blossoming 
Where  the  thrushes  sang  of  Spring, 
Was  a  vision  of  delight. 

Here  the  prior  old  and   gray 

Loved  to  pray 
When  the  sunset's  glamour  fell 
O'er  the  monastery  well 
At  the  quiet  close  of  day. 

Oft  he  marked  the  life  that  beat 

At  bis  feet, 
Heard  the  melody  that  thrills 
Thro1  the  silence  of  the  hills 
When  the  world  is  warm  and  sweet. 

But  the  porter  at  the  gate 

Soon  and  late, 
Told  his  orisons  alone 
Jn  a  whispered  monotone, 
Knowing  neither  love  nor  hate. 

Full  four  hundred  years  ago 

(As    we    know) 
That  a  pilgrim  paused  for  food 
At  the  portal  grim  and  rude, 
When  the  sun  was  sinking  low  1 

There  the  mountain  daisies  smiled 

•Jndefiled, 
And  the  oleanders  shook 
By  the  margin  of  the  brook, 
Near  the  wanderer  and  his  child. 

Now  the  prior  walks  no   more 

As  of  yore, 
'Neath  the  almond  blossoming 
Where  the  thrushes  sang  of  Spring 
In  the  Aprils  gone  before. 

But  sweet  nature  is  the  same, 

And    the    name 
Of  Columbus    shines   afar 
Like   a    solitary    star 
O'er  the  topmost  peak  of  fame. 

And  the  convent  still  looks  down 

On    the    town, 
Past  the  stretches  of    morass 
And  the  nodding  lowland  grass 
To  the  Harbor  of  Renown. 


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Martha  T.  Tyler. 


SOMETIME. 


Sometime,  when  all  life's  lessons  have  been  learned, 
And  we  shall  know  each  one  without  a  name; 

When  cheek  and  shoulder,  pressed  by  lips  that  burned, 
Shall  be  resolved  to  dust  from  whence  they  came. 

I  wonder  then — if  bared  there,  each  to  each, 
Our  souls  are  held— will  shudders  of  regret 

Come  tremulous  from  out  the  past  to  teach, 
Not  deeds,  but  sacrifice  and  lashes  wet. 

Shall  purify  and  prove  the  love  professed  ? 

Born  of  the  soul  then  shall  it  live  for  aye; 
But  love  of  flesh  shall  perish  with  the  flesh; 

Divine  exists  forever  and  a  day  I 

Eose  Maykard  David. 


AT  the  mass  meeting  in  New  York  on  September  22d,  held  un- 
der the  auspices  of  the  Chinese  Civil  Eights  League  of  New 
York,  to  protest  against  the  Geary  Bill,  the  chief  speaker.  Dr.  Thorn, 
uttered  the  platitude:  "  How  does  the  bill  conform  to  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  which  says  that  all  men  are  born  equal?" 
Does  Dr.  Thorn  imagine  that  because  all  men  are  born  equal  it  en- 
titles a  person  to  be  on  his  neighbor's  premises  without  his  permis- 
sion?" 


Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun- 
tains. Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac- 
commodations.   Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  JEtna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  Office,  108  Drnmm  Street,  S.  F 


Don't 

Be 

Deceived. 


WHEN  YOU   ASK  FOR  A 

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LINCOLN'S  CABINET 

CIGAR, 

SEE  THAT   YOU    GET   IT. 

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SAN  JOSE,  CAI,. 

A  FULL  LINE  OF 

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always  on  hand  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Correspondence  solicited. 

WM.    KELLY,  Proprietor. 

SEARCHER   OF    RECORDS 


EXAMINER  OF  TlTLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 
G.  W.  MCKEAND, 

OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and   Broadway  streets.    Residence- 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 


pall  ar^d  U/ii}ter  Styles 
<;.  j-^RRnyw  o  <;o.*s, 

332-6  r^earr;y  Sreet,  r?ear  pipe. 


PURCHASE      YOUR      OVERLAND      TICKETS 

For  all   Points  East  at 
UNION  TICKET  OFFICE,  VANDERBILT  LINES, 

10    MOSTGOMERlf    STKEET. 

Steamship  Tickets  to  and  from  all  points  ia  Europe. 

Pacific  Coast   Agent. 


CARLTON    C.    CRANE, 


"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

-A-Tosol-u-telsr      Flie-pioof. 

Central  o  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  KINZLER,  Manager. 


October  15.  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


HON.    CREED    HAYMOND. 


ABILITY,   self-reliance,   iod  us  IrjTun  tiring   energy  and   deter- 
mination to  succeed  are  the  leading  traits  in  the  personality 
of  Creed  Hajmond  that  have  made  him   one  of  the  leading  law- 
yen  of  the  country.     Every  one  on  the  Pacific  Coast  knows   Mr. 
Haymond  as  an  eminently  able  counselor,  and  his  reputation  for 
abdity  is  as  well  established  among  the  lawyers  of  the  country  as 
it  is  in  this  community,   where  he  has  lived   for  years.     A  Vir- 
ginian by  birth,  and  descended  by  both   paternal  and  maternal 
sides  from  families  that  were  prominent  in  the  American  colonies 
before  the  Revolutionary  war,  Mr.   Haymond  possesses  in  a  high 
degree  all  those  commendable  qualities   which   are  characteristic 
of  the  members  of  families  which  have  held   high   place   for  cen- 
turies.    He  was   born  at   Beverly,  Randolph   county,  in  the  Old 
Dominion,  on  April  22,  1836,  the   son  of  Hon.    W.  C.  Haymond, 
why  in   his  day  was  one  of   the  most  distinguished  lawyers  of 
Virginia.      Others  of   his    family    were   also   distinguished    men, 
some  as  members  of  Congress,   others  as  Judges,  and   others  as 
practitioners  at  the  bar.     Colonel  Haymond's  education  was  be- 
gun   in    his    native    State,    but    before    he   had   completed    the 
course     he    had     undertaken,     he     became     absorbed     by     the 
stories    of    untold  wealth  and    adventure   to   be   found   in  Cali- 
fornia.      In    1852,     in     his     sixteenth     year,     he     crossed     the 
plains      to      the     Golden     State.       He     came      well      supplied 
with  this  world's  goods,  but  following  the  custom  of  the  day,  he 
went  to    the    mines,  locating  in    the  northern   portion  of  Sierra 
county,  where  for  some  time  he  engaged  in  mining,  packing  and 
dabbling  in  merchandise.     For  seven  years  he  followed  the  rough 
life  in  the  hills,  and  then,  in  1859,  determined  to  undertake  the 
study  of  law.     He  entered  the  offices  of  James  W.  Johnson  and 
Judge  Sandy  Baldwin.     After  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession   in   Sierra   county,  where  he  soon 
eained   a   large   practice   in    both  criminal  and  civil  cases.     As  a 
criminal    lawyer    Mr.   Haymond  took  a  leading  position,  and  he 
was   retained   in  many  of  the  hardest   cases  of  his  section,  the 
management  of  all  of  which    was    conducted    with    that    signal 
ability  which  distinguishes  him.     His  greatest  triumphs  as  an  ex- 
pounder of  the  law,  however,  have  been  gained  in  his  extensive 
civil  practice.     Possessed  of  a  judicial  mind  of  the  highest  order 
and  endowed  with  legal  acumen  far  beyond  his  fellows,  Mr.  Hay- 
mond, even  in  the  opening  of  his  career,  moved    far    beyond  the 
crush,  and  marched  in  the  front  ranks.     A  notable  service  to  the 
State   which    he  performed    was  his  services  as  Chairman  of  the 
Code  Commission,  a  body  which  had  the  honor  of  preparing  the 
first  complete  code  of  laws  ever  adopted  by  any  State  in  the  Union. 
He  also  represented  the  people  in  the  State  Senate,  in  which  be 
served  for  one  term.     He   was  elected  in  a  Sacramento  district. 
Not  in  the  law  and  the  halls  of  legislation  alone   is  Colonel  Hay- 
mond known.     He  participated  in  all  the  popular   movements  of 
the  communities  in  which  he  lived,  and  always  did  good  service 
for  his  fellow  citizens.     He    was  Captain  of    the  Sierra  Grays,  of 
Sierra  county,  and  in  1860  took  his  company  out  with  the  column 
of    Colonel   Jack  Hays,  against    the   Nevada  Indians,   after  the 
Pyramid  Lake  massacre.     He  was  also  Colonel  of   the  First  Artil- 
lery Regiment  of  the   National  Guard,  at  Sacramento,  for  a  long 
time. 

The  position  in  which  Colonel  Haymond  is  now  best  known  is 
that  of  counsel  for  the  Southern  Pacific  Company.  He  entered 
the  service  of  this  great  corporation  in  May,  1882,  and  has  been 
identified  with  it  ever  since.  His  legal  services  during  this  period 
are  part  of  the  history  of  the  State.  He  was  the  first  attorney  to 
raise  the  question  of  the  protection  afforded  by  the  Fourteenth 
Amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  against  the 
discriminating  powers  exercised  by  a  State.  Colonel  Haymond 
was  the  legal  adviser  of  Senator  Stanford  in  the  matters  neces- 
sary to  the  endowment  of  the  great  Leland  Stanford  Jr.  Univer- 
sity. In  politics,  Colonel  Haymond  is  a  consistent  Republican. 
He  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Convention  in 
1884,  and  to  him  is  due  much  of  the  credit  for  the  nomination  of 
Blaine  in  that  year. 

He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  San  Francisco  Bar  Association 
and  the  National  Bar  Association,  being  an  officer  of  the  latter  body. 
In  the  Masonic  order  the  Colonel  stands  high,  being  a  member  of 
Sacramento  Chapter  No.  1,  and  a  Past  Grand  High  Priest  of  that 
jurisdiction.  He  is  also  a  Knight  of  Marysville  Comniandery,  No.  7, 
K.  T.,  and  of  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  The  Colonel  recently  returned  from  a  ten 
months'  tour  of  Europe.  He  resides  in  this  city,  though  much  of  his 
time  is  spent  at  his  ranch  in  San  Mateo  County.  In  all  respects  it 
may  be  truly  said  that  Colonel  Haymond  is  a  lawyer  and  a  gentleman 
of  the  highest  standard. 

Fashionable  Society  Ladies  who  have  been  in  the  habit  of  patron- 
ising the  hair-dressing  establishments  of  Messrs.  Hayes  and  Levy, 
will  be  glad  to  hear  that  Miss  Kitty  Dowliug,  formerly  one  of  their 
most  skillful  operators,  has  opened  parlors  at  room  21,  Phelan  Build- 
ing, where  she  will  be  pleased  to  meet  any  of  her  former  patrons 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocke 
Building,  San  Francisco. 

Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use  "Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teething. 


Largest  Retail  Dry  Goods  Store  in  the  City. 

ZF^LIL.    1892. 
INTRODUCTORY  SILK  SALE 


cloak  zr,oozlvl 

Great  opening  of  the  latest  and 
most  popular  styles  of  all  kinds  of 
Wraps,  directly  imported  and  made 
expressly  for  the  "White  House." 


Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 
Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 


Raphael  Weill  &  Co., 

Northwest  Corner  Post  and   Kearny  Streets. 
TROTTING  H3RSE  BREEDER  ASSJCATIQN. 

RACES  !  BACBS  ! 

Oakland   Trotting  Park. 

October    15,    17,    18,    19,  20,    2i    and    22d— Great    Racing 
Every   Day.     First  Day,  Saturday,  October  15th. 


PROGRAMME 

No.  1.— Stanford  Stakes  ;  b.  c.  Kebir  ;  br.  f.p  Belle  Abbot. 

No  2.— Special  Pacing  Porse,  $750.;  br.  m.  Rosie  G  ;  s.  g.  Dr.  Swift :  br. 
g.  Pluuket ;  b.  g.  Turk  Franklin;  b.  m.  Belle  Button. 

No.  3  -2:25  Class  Stallion  Purse,  51.000. ;  b.  s.  Boodle  ;  b.  s.  Lottery  Ticket ; 
ch.  s.  Chancellor;  b.  s.  Grandlssimo. 

No.  5. — Encouragement  Purse  Two  Year  Olds,  $200  ;  br.  f.  Maud  Fox  ; 
b.  c.  Cibola;  b.  f.  Phantom. 

SPECIAL   NOTICE. 

BERKELEY  Trains  connecting  with  the  12,  12:30.  1,  1:30  and  2  o'clock 
boats  make  special  stop  at  entrance  to  track.  The  Oakland  track  and  grounds 
have  been  put  in  .pleudid  condition  especially  for  this  meeting,  and  the 
races  will  be  conducted  so  to  be  over  each  day  at  as  early  an  hour  as  possi- 
ble. 

Races  commence  at  12:30  o'clock, 


F,  W.  KELLY, 

Sec'c'y. 


JOS.  CAIRN  SIMPSON; 
President. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Eureka  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  aauual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Eureka  Consoli- 
dated Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room. 
90,  216  Bush  street,  San  jfraneisco,  Cal.,  on 

Monday,  October  17,  1892.  at  11   o'clo.k  A.  M.. 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  aud  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  cotue  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  FRIDAY,    October  14th,   1S92,  at 

S0'0l0CtP'M-  H.  P.  BUSH,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  90,  216  Bush  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


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.iJHE.LQPKER-oN® 


CLJ^llLi5  U^-^m^t^^-^ 


YOSEMITE  is  the  despair  of  artists.  It  is  too  big  a  subject  for 
their  brushes,  and  paint  and  canvas  cannot  depict  its  glories. 
Keith  does  not  attempt  to  paint  Yosemite.  George  Innes  went 
there  a  year  or  two  ago,  animated  by  a  desire  to  show  the  world 
how  El  Oapitan  and  the  Half  Dome  should  be  painted.  He  car- 
ried his  tubes,  pallette,  brushes  and  easel,  and  many  yards  of 
canvas.  But  Innes  came  out  humbled,  his  tubes  of  color  intact 
and  the  virgin  white  of  his  canvas  unstained,  and  he  shook  his 
head  and  said  Yosemite  was  beyond  the  limitations  of  his  art. 
And  Keith  smiled  and  said,  »  I  told  you  so."  But  last  summer 
there  came  to  California  a  large  robustious  man,  loud,  self-confi- 
dent and  voluble.  He  wrote  bis  name  upon  hotel  registers  in  letters 
an  inch  long,  a  bumptious-looking  signature,  ,(  W.  H.  Hilliard, 
New  York,"  and  announced  that  be  had  been  commissioned  to 
come  here  and  paint  Yosemite  for  the  World's  Fair.  Mr.  Hilliard 
contrived  to  have  himself  interviewed  by  reporters,  and  he  told 
them  that  he  wag  probably  the  greatest  landscape  painter  on 
earth,  and  that  he  would  paint  Yosemite  as  it  never  before  had 
been  painted.  And  then  he  went  to  the  valley,  put  up  at  the 
Stoneman  House,  attired  himself  in  velvet  jacket,  smoking  cap 
and  other  artistic  toggery,  and  for  two  weeks  strutted  up  and 
down  the  hotel  porch,  and  made  the  valley  echo  with  boasts  of 
what  he  could  do.  He  overawed  tourists  and  natives,  and  pro- 
duced the  impression  that  he  was  the  man  for  whom  nature  had 
long  waited  to  depict  its  beauties.  There  was  in  the  valley  at 
that  time  a  rich  widow,  who  likes  to  encourage  art  and  knows  a 
pretty  good  picture  from  an  unredeemably  bad  one.  Mrs.  Corn- 
ing, impressed  by  the  manner  and  the  pretensions  of  Mr. 
Hilliard,  and  believing  that  the  World's  Fair  authorities 
would  send  only  a  great  artist  to  paint  Yosemite, 
commissioned  Hilliard  to  paint  a  picture  lor  her  for 
$100.  Hilliard  covered  many  square  yards  of  canvas  with 
pigments,  mostly  black,  green  and  dirty  gray,  and  it  is  only  fair 
to  acknowledge  that  he  did  paint  Yrosemite  as  it  had  been  never 
before  painted.  The  only  work  approaching  his  in  artistic  merit 
ever  done  in  the  Valley  was  when  Dr.  C.  C.  O'Donnell  painted 
his  own  name  upon  every  accessible  rock.  Hilliard  and  Mrs. 
Corning  met  again  at  Wawona,  and  the  great  World's  Fair  artist 
displayed  upon  an  easel  in  the  hotel  parlor  the  canvas  that  lady 
had  ordered.  With  a  flourish  he  threw  aside  the  curtain  and  re- 
vealed his  masterpiece. 

"  Whatl  "  ejaculated  Mrs.  Corning,  »  pay  a  hundred  dollars  for 
a  chromo  like  that!  Never  in  this  world!  "  and  she  cried  in  vex- 
ation and  disappointment.  Hilliard  blustered  and  stormed,  and 
talked  about  law  suits,  and  there  was  a  fine  row  altogether. 
Finally,  to  stop  the  row  and  get  rid  of  the  matter,  Mrs.  Corning 
paid  the  artist  $50,  and  then  she  seized  the  masterpiece  and  threw 
it  out  of  the  window  upon  a  pile  of  potato  sacks  in  front  of  the 
hotel,  where  it  lay  exposed  to  the  wondering  gaze  of  every  stage- 
load  of  tourists  that  arrived.  The  ne*t  morning  Hilliard  packed 
up  his  belongings  and  went  East  to  show  the  World's  Fair  people 
how  well  he  had  executed  his  mission. 

*  *  m 

J.  B.  H.  Cooper  is  the  unhappy  possessor  of  several  false  teeth, 
which  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  front  row  of  his  ivories,  caused  by 
the  disappearance  therefrom  of  several  highly-prized  molars.  The 
plate  to  which  the  sham  teeth  were  affixed  did  not  fit  his  mouth 
well,  and  consequently  the  imitations  flapped  around  occasion- 
ally. As  the  luxuries  are  of  only  recent  acquirement,  Mr.  Cooper 
did  not  manage  them  well;  hence,  this  tale  of  woe.  On  a  recent 
morning,  Mr.  Cooper  and  his  teeth  were  riding  down  town  to- 
gether in  a  crowded  California-street  car.  As  he  entered  the  car 
be  caught  a  whiff  of  cold,  damp  fog,  which  presently  set  him 
sneezing.     With  the  first  a-chew  out  flew  the  teeth  from  his  shak- 


ing head.  They  fell  into  the  lap  of  a  pretty  young  girl  sitting 
opposite,  and  then  to  the  floor.  The  old  gentleman  is  quite  cor- 
pulent, and  despite  his  efforts,  he  could  not  pick  them  up,  bo  the 
young  lady  went  to  his  aid  and  banded  him  his  teeth.  Then, 
amid  the  laughs  of  the  passengers  and  the  confusion  of  the  fair 
maiden,  he  calmly  restored  the  teeth  to  his  mouth,  and  with  a 
perfectly  sober  face,  looked  inquiringly  around  the  car.  It  hap- 
pened that  this  same  morning  Mr.  Cooper  had  occasion  to  visit 
the  Grangers'  Bank,  and  as  the  teeth  interfered  a  trifle  with  his 
articulation,  he  took  them  out  and  laid  them  on  the  counter. 
When  he  bad  concluded  his  business  he  went  out,  and  bad  not 
walked  half  a  dozen  blocks  before  he  discovered  that  he 
had  forgotten  bis  teeth.  Back  he  rushed  in  haste  to  the  bank, 
but  the  teeth  had  disappeared.  He  offered  ten  dollars  to 
anyone  who  would  restore  them  to  him.  As  ten  dollars  was  a 
fine  day's  salary  to  many  of  the  boys,  an  active  search  was  in- 
stituted, but  no  stray  teeth  were  discovered.  Mr.  Cooper  was 
then  obliged  to  order  a  new  set.  He  had  bad  them  only  a  few 
days,  however,  when  a  young  man  appeared  at  his  home  one 
evening  with  the  lost  set,  anxious  to  claim  his  reward.  The  re- 
ward was  paid.  To  be  prepared  for  future  accidents,  Mr.  Cooper 
now  carries  both  sets. 

#  #  # 

The  subscriptions  to  the  Symphonic  Orchestra  concerts  are 
coming  in  with  encouraging  rapidity.  The  following  names  have 
been  added  since  my  last  writing:  Howard  Shafter,  $10;  C.  J. 
Behlow,  $10;  F.  A.  Wheeler,  $5;  W.  N.  McCarthy,  $20;  E.J. 
Molera,  $10;  Miss  Mamie  Soher,  $5;  Mrs.  Charles  Brecht,  $5; 
Mrs.  Dr.  Brecht,  $5;  J.  D.  Redding,  $10;  H.  I.  Kowalsky,  $10; 
George  E.  Hall,  $10;  W.  Northrope  Cowles,  $10;  Hon.  Walter  H. 
Levy,  $5;  William  Wolff,  $5;  Max  Heiibronner,  $5;  Louis  81oss, 
Jr.,  S10;  F.  W.  Kreling,  $5;  Charles  A.  Zinkand,  $10;  L.  Gottig, 
$5;  P.  R.  Lilienthal,  $5;  W.  H.  Crocker,  $10;  John  L.  Koster, 
$10;  B.  Newmann,  $5;  F.  E:*ele,  $10;  M.  M.  Regensberger,  $5; 
Dr.  William  Younger,  $5;  Jos.  E.  Bier,  $5;  E.  Harding,  $5;  J.  8. 
Olsen,  $5. 

»  *  # 

Miss  Lillian  Russell  has  left  us,  and  it  is  sad  to  have  to  chroni- 
cle her  disgust  and  dissatisfaction  with  San  Francisco.  Upon  be- 
ing asked  the  other  evening  if  she  would  return  soon,  her  reply 
forcibly  expressed  her  feelings:  "No  indeed;  if  I  live  to  be  a 
hundred  years  old  I  will  never  visit  San  Francisco  again."  The 
trouble  was,  Miss  Lillian  was  not  lauded  and  worshiped  in  the 
way  her  serene  highness  considers  her  due.  She  failed  to  draw 
well,  and  the  management  was  woefully  chagrined  with  there- 
suits.  On  one  occasion  a  slim  audience  saw  fit  to  request  an  en- 
core to  one  of  Lillian's   arias,    but  she  would  not  aquieace,  saying 

pettishly;  "They  may  go   to   the   d II"     I  was   surprised   to 

hear  that  she  was  partially  satisfied  with  the  treatment  of  the 
press.  But  again,  annoyance  ensued  at  the  Press  Club  entertain- 
ment. She  failed  to  carry  off  the  honors,  which  fell  deservedly  to 
Mr.  Hayden  Coffin.  What  can  be  the  matter  with  the  fair  Lillian  ? 
Is  she  getting  pass€e,  and  ill-humored  accordingly? 

There  has  been  a  good  deal  of  speculation  abroad  as  to  how 
Florence  Blythe,  who,  by  the  way,  is  Mrs.  Hinckley  now,  has 
been  able  to  cut  such  a  big  dash  during  the  past  year  or  so. 
Although  without  any  ostensible  income,  for  she  has  so  far  not 
received  a  penny  from  the  estate,  she  has  been  living  in  fine  style, 
and  spending  money  freely,  and  it  is  of  course  certain  that  she  has 
had  a  good  golden  granary  from  which  to  take  her  stores.  For  a 
long  time  past  Florence  has  been  in  the  receipt  of  $400  a  month, 
this  amount  being  contributed  in  equal  shares  by  three  of  the  in- 
dividuals who  are  most  interested  in  her  winning  the  case.  When 
the  decision  is  made,  if  it  is  in  her  favor,  she  will,  on  receipt  of 
the  property,  pay  back  all  the  money  she  has  thus  been  getting, 
and  it  will  be  quite  a  neat  sum  when  it  is  added  up,  with  interest 
at  the  rate  of  8  per  cent.  But  Florence  will  be  able  to  stand  it. 
Those  in  charge  of  the  affairs  of  the  property  say  that  it  is  now 
worth  fully  five  millions,  perhaps  a  few  hundred  thousand  more. 
Out  of  this,  though,  for  contingent  fees  to  counsel  and  expense 
accounts,  the  heiress  will  have  to  pay  a  grand  total  of  about  a 
million  dollars,  but  then  she  will  not  miss  it  very  much,  and  she 
should  be  able  to  jog  along  very  comfortably  on  the  balance  that 
will  be  left. 

Grandmas'  made  happy  with  perfect  fitting  glasses  from  C.  Muller,  op- 
tician, 135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

THE     VERT     LATEST. 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Oct,  15,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


15 


GOSSIP    FROM    GOTHAM. 

New  York,  October  8,  1892. 

POLITICS  »re  bavins  a  bard  time  tbis  year.  The  election  is 
only  a  month  off,  and  the  usual  campaign  enthusiasm  is  not 
yet  in  evidence.  8o  far,  the  Presidential  contest  has  been  subor- 
dinated to  other  events  of  interest.  The  several  large  labor  strikes 
first  occupied  public  attention,  then  came — let  it  be  recorded  with 
shame — the  great  pugilistic  contest.  This  was  followed  by  the 
cholera  scare,  and  now  the  Columbian  celebrations  are  occupying 
the  national  mind.  If  the  newspapers  were  to  give  the  cold 
shoulder  to  political  gossip,  it  would  be  difficult  to  believe  that 
we  are  on  the  eve  of  a  struggle  in  which  the  material  interests  of 
the  country  are  at  stake.  There  is  great  apathy  in  all  circles. 
Meetings  are  slimly  attended.  Grover  Cleveland  actually  spoke 
to  empty  benches  at  the  Democratic  Club  Convention  at  the 
Academy  of  Music  one  day  last  week.  No  street  displays  have 
as  yet  taken  place,  and  Tammany  has  just  decided  on  its  usual 
great  demonstration.  There  is  little  or  no  betting  going  on,  and 
both  national  committees  are  poverty-stricken  and  are  piteously 
appealing  for  funds.  There  are  many  apparent  reasons  for  the 
dullness.  Harrison  is  not  the  sort  of  man  to  excite  enthusiasm, 
and  the  factional  squabbles  of  the  Democracy  have  dampened 
the  spirits  of  the  Democrats.  Both  sides  are  to-day  boldly  claim- 
ing the  State,  but  for  effect  only.  It  is  impossible  to  find  out  the 
exact  condition  of  the  Democratic  party  here.  The  best  judges 
believe  that  Tammany  will  be  loyal  and  true  to  Cleveland,  but 
that  the  Hill  men,  outside  of  this  county,  will  be  neutral,  if  not 
actually  antagonistic  to  the  man  selected  in  defiance  of  their 
wisbes  and  warnings  to  head  the  national  ticket  of  their  party. 
The  argument  is  advanced  that  with  Hill's  Presidential  ambition 
he  cannot  desire  Cleveland's  election.  His  followers  have  as- 
serted that  Cleveland  cannot  carry  New  York  and  that  Hill  can. 
They  point  to  1888  as  proof  of  this,  explaining  1884  by  reference 
to  the  Mugwump  movement  and  Irish  defection.  If  Cleveland  is 
elected,  Hill  is  no  longer  a  necessity,  and  he  could  less  than  ever 
expect  to  get  the  support  of  the  present  Cleveland  Democrats.  If 
Cleveland  is  defeated,  the  claims  of  the  Hillites  are  substantiated 
and  his  nomination  seems  inevitable.  It  is  said  to-day  that  Hill's 
orders  to  the  State  Committee  are  to  indorse  the  Republican  nom- 
inee for  the  Chief  Justiceship  of  the  Court  of  Appeals,  the  only 
8tate  office  to  be  filled  this  year.  The  object  of  this  is  to  prevent 
the  possibility  of  a  check  on  the  votes  of  the  anti-Cleveland  fac- 
tion. If  the  Democracy  has  a  judicial  candidate,  the  comparison 
of  his  total  vote  with  that  cast  for  the  Presidential  Electors  might 
show  up  some  curious  discrepancies,  which  it  would  be  difficult 
to  make  compatible  with  party  fealty. 

For  the  moment  we  are  all  agog  with  excitement  over  the  com- 
ing celebration.  The  promise  of  pageantry  is  so  rich  and  artistic 
that  our  anticipations  are  roused  to  the  highest  pitch.  We  are 
to  have  parades  galore — school  and  college,  Catholic,  naval,  mili- 
tary and  civic,  and  illustrative  and  allegorical.  We  are  to  have 
decorations  and  illuminations,  fireworks  and  feux  de  joie,  banquets 
and  concerts.  Art  and  science  have  joined  hands;  the  artist,  the 
architect  and  the  electrician  have  formed  an  alliance.  With  the 
palette  and  the  brush,  with  the  chisel  and  with  the  dynamo,  this 
city  is  being  made  resplendent  and  beautiful.  All  over  the  city 
the  buildings  are  bedecked  with  bunting  and  evergreens.  The 
green,  white  and  red  of  Italy,  the  yellow  and  red  of  Spain,  and 
the  red,  white  and  blue  of  America,  mingle  in  a  wierd  carnival 
of  color.  The  cross  of  Savoy,  the  crown  of  Hispania  and  the 
stars  and  stripes  are  grouped  in  emblematical  unison.  Along  the 
line  of  march  triumphal  arches  are  erected.  These  are  works  of 
art,  classical  in  construction,  and  gorgeous  in  adornment.  The 
multitude  is  coming,  from  north,  south,  east  and  west,  by  train 
loads,  and  foreign  guests  are  on  the  way.  A  formidable  Italian 
battle-sbip  is  here,  a  swift  Spanish  cruiser  is  due,  and  as  I  write 
the  cannons  in  picturesque  old  Castle  William  are  booming  in  a 
salute  of  welcome  to  a  trim  French  corvette. 

Matters  theatrical  have  been  interesting  this  week,  and  are  full 
of  promise  for  the  immediate  future.  John  Drew  made  his  aebut 
as  a  star,  and  scored  a  remarkable  success.  The  critics  are  un- 
animous in  commendation,  and  their  approval  has  been  expressed 
in  elaborate  articles.  When  we  consider  that  the  part  played  in 
The  Masked  Bali  by  Mr.  Drew  is  similar  to  a  dozen  roles  imperson- 
ated by  him  in  as  many  plays  during  the  last  decade,  and  that  in 
his  acting  of  it  he  does  not  attain  a  higher  degree  of  artistic  ex- 
cellence than  that  already  attained  by  bim,  these  critical  pane- 
gyrics have  a  belated  look,  but  their  raisin  d'Hre  is  simple.  In 
his  present  independent  capacity  Mr.  Drew  may  be  considered 
individually  and  specifically,  and  not  as  a  figure  in  a  group,  an 
element  in  a  combination,  a  part  in  a  whole.  He  might  have  re- 
mained with  Mr.  Augustin  Daly  until  the  period  of  enforced  re- 
tirement, adding  season  after  season  admirably  acted  impersona- 
tions to  his  repertoire  without  ever  receiving  the  full  recognition 
now  awarded  him.  All  this  proves  that  in  the  dramatic  profes- 
sion, as  well  as  in  all  other  spheres  of  human  activity,  merit,  in 
order  to  obtain  its  complete  acknowledgment  and  the  material 
returns  to  which  it  is  entitled,  must  assert  and  advertise  itself. 
The  man  of  talent  or  ability  must  blow  his  own  horn,  and  loudly, 
too.    Mr.  Drew's  succcess  is  a  pleasant  thing  to  record.     He  is 


admired  as  an  actor  and  esteemed  as  a  man.  He  is  an  artist  and 
a  gentleman. 

Mr.  Augustin  Daly  commenced  his  season  with  a  dull  and  un- 
interesting play.  Miss  Ada  Rehan's  part  is  of  the  kind  she 
should  no  longer  attempt.  Ingenue  roles  are  no  longer  hers.  She 
is  a  brilliant  comedienne,  and  the  art  of  comedy,  which  deals 
with  the  sunshine  of  life,  has  so  many  diversified  phases  that  her 
versatility  of  expression  has  full  liberty  of  action  without  em- 
ploying itself  in  attempting  to  illustrate  something  in  defiance  of 
nature's  limitations. 

Californians  are  now-a-days  such  familiar  figures  on  our  thor- 
oughfares, that  it  is  their  absence  more  than  their  presence  which 
causes  comment.  As  I  walk  along  Broadway  and  the  avenue  I 
meet  an  old  friend  at  every  step.  Our  greetings  are  always  cor- 
dial— they  always  are  between  Californians.  Beuclebc. 

TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 

THE  newly  appointed  Board  of  Directors  of  the  California  Club 
met  last  Saturday,  and  the  officers  for  the  year  were  elected, 
as  follows :  President,  Dell  Linderman ;  Vice-President,  Miss 
Morgan;  Treasurer,  R.  J.  Davis;  Secretary,  Harry  N.  Stetson. 
The  President  will  appoint  three  members  for  the  election  and 
tournament  committees.  It  was  decided  to  vote  $50  towards 
buying  a  silver  cup  to  be  played  for  by  the  lady  members,  upon 
the  same  basis  as  the  quarterly  tournament  now  beld  for  gentle- 
men, and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  ladies  will  take  up  tbis  new 
issue  with  interest.  The  directors  also  voted  $50  for  Professor 
Dailey,  who  has  just  lost  his  little  daughter.  We  feel  convinced 
that  the  sympathy  of  all  lawn  tennis  players  will  be  with  the 
Professor  in  his  trouble. 

The  News  Letter  has  several  times  of  late  called  attention  to 
the  numerous  errors  made  by  the  official  organ  of  the  Pacific 
States  Lawn  Tennis  Association,  and  now,  with  little  regret,  begs 
to  state  to  its  readers  that  the  Pacific  Field  Sports,  after  having 
failed  entirely  lately  to  interest  any  one  in  the  tennis  world,  has 
had  to  tender  its  resignation  as  the  "  official  organ."  Since  the 
withdrawal  of  Mr.  C.  R.  Yates,  better  known  as  the  "Referee" 
in  that  paper's  columns,  news  about  tennis  has  become  scarce. 
Mr.  Yates  took  a  great  deal  of  trouble  in  tennis  in  every  way, 
first  as  Secretary  for  the  Association,  and  secondly  as  a  writer  for 
the  Field  Sports.  He  is  one  of  the  best  players  on  the  coast.  He 
kept  the  paper  fully  posted  as  to  what  was  going  on  everywhere, 
as  he  was  in  constant  correspondence  with  a  great  many  clubs. 
We  sincerely  hope  that  the  association  will  use  some  discre- 
tion when  offering  the  business  to  another  paper,  so  that  in  fu- 
ture the  "  official  organ"  may  have  proper  and  accurate  news. 

The  subscription  list  for  the  silver  cups  for  doubles  is  now  rap- 
idly beginning  to  fill  up,  and  the  tournament  will  be  started  soon. 
Members  cannot  say  that  ttiere  is  any  lack  of  interest,  as  they 
have  now,  as  well  as  the  quarterly  tournament,  the  continuous 
and  the  doubles,  a.id  all  this  gives  the  younger  members  a  chance 
of  getting  ahead  in  good  time  for  next  year's  championship. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  some  time  ago,  during  the  match 
with  Taylor  and  Tobin,  and  Bates  and  Neel,  that  once  Mr.  Neel, 
after  returning  a  ball,  jumped  over  the  net  to  save  himself  touch- 
ing the  net,  and  thus  losing  the  stroke.  A  similar  case  occurred 
a  few  weeks  ago  in  England,  and  the  stroke  and  player's  action 
were  referred  to  the  referee.  His  decision  was,  "  If  a  player,  to 
avoid  touching  the  net,  jumps  over  it  after  properly  returning 
the  ball,  he  loses  the  stroke." 

Mr.  C.  P.  Hubbard  will  be  again  with  us  in  a  few  days.  From 
the  latest  reports  received,  it  appears  that  he  has  again  beaten 
Wren  in  a  private  tournament,  and  this,  with  his  other  victory 
over  the  same  player,  ought  cerLainly  to  have  him  ranked  in  the 
classification  of  players  of  1892. 

I  T^E  games  played  last  Saturday  and  Sunday 
BAbfc.bJAL.l_.  ^  between  the  Oakland  and  Los  Angeles  teams 
were  the  most  exciting  of  the  season,  and  drew  out  the  largest 
crowds  of  any  games  since  the  season  commenced.  The  Pacific- 
Union  and  the  other  boxes  were  filled  as  "they  have  not  been  since 
the  opening  games.  Now  that  the  Oaklands  are  becoming  so 
important  a  factor  in  the  race,  the  interest  in  the  game  is  on  the 
increase.  The  manager  of  the  Oaklands  has  secured  De  Wald, 
who,  as  a  left-hand  pitcher,  has  made  a  great  reputation  in  the 
East.  He  will  be  played  in  the  series  between  Oakland  and  Los 
Angeles  next  week,  and  is  expected  to  hold  the  batters  of  the 
latter  team  down  to  a  few  hits.  Knell  has  shown  his  want  of 
practice  in  the  opening  games  played  by  him  with  the  home  club. 
As  his  arm  is  now  in  good  condition,  and  free  from  its  pain,  he 
should  be  able  to  do  very  effective  pitching.  The  home  club  has 
less  luck  in  San  Jose  than  in  any  of  the  other  league  cities.  It 
has  not  yet  been  able  to  win  a  series  down  tbere  this  season.  It 
is  something  very  unusual  for  a  game  to  be  called  here  on  account 
of  darkness.  This  had  to  be  done  last  Wednesday  at  Piedmont; 
it  was  an  eleven  inning  game,  however.  Knell  will  go  into  the 
box  either  this  afternoon  or  to-morrow,  in  this  city,  for  the  home 
club,  against  the  Oaklands.  The  games  in  the  East  will  close  to- 
day. The  National  League  Directors  have  prevented  the  Boston 
and  Clevelands  from  playing  off  the  world's  championship  series 
in  tbis  State,  by  ordering  the  games  to  be  played  in  the  East.  We 
will  have  San  Jose  with  us  next  week. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


THERE  is  a  gravel  mine  at  Peoria  Flat,  near  Jamestown,  in 
Tuolumne  county,  which  is  managed  by  a  board  of  lady 
directors,  who  have  very  appropriately  named  it  in  honor  of  one 
af  their  own  sex,  the  Lady  Washington,  or  the  Martha  Washing- 
ton. At  any  rate,  it  is  called  after  the  worthy  wife  of  America's 
first  President,  who  is  very  naturally  worshiped  and  adored  by 
the  feminine  admirers  of  her  renowned  husband.  We  would 
like  to  speak  very  highly  in  praise  of  an  enterprise  which  reflects 
much  credit  on  the  business  instincts  of  ladies,  brainy  and 
energetic  enough  to  branch  out  for  themselves  independent  of  any 
assistance  from  the  bold,  and  oftentimes  overbearing  lords  of  crea- 
tion. It  is  painful  to  have  to  put  a  little  check  on  their  ambitions 
by  the  warning  that  less  expenditure  and  a  little 
more  prudence  would  be  advisable  before  plunging  too  deep,  there- 
by running  the  risk  of  getting  engulfed  in  a  financial  vortex.  We 
have  just  learned  from  a  thoroughly  reliable  source  that  this  prop- 
erty is  now  being  fitted  out  with  some  new  invention  in  the  form 
of  an  elevator,  patented  and  made  in  Salt  Lake,  and  also  that  the 
owner  of  the  property  has  made  it  an  essential  part  of  his  agree- 
ment with  the  ladies  that  before  the  water  is  turned  on  for  the 
operation  of  the  machine,  from  a  new  ditch  which  the  petti- 
coated  miners  have  also  paid  for,  that  he  must  be  paid  the  sum 
of  $10,000.  From  the  further  information  obtained,  that  the  last 
time  this  property  was  bydraulicked  some  years  ago,  it 
did  not  pay  one  dollar  per  day  to  the  man,  it  would 
seem  advisable  that  a  good  lengthy  run  of  the  new 
machine  should  be  made  before  any  more  money  is 
expended  out  of  the  capital  subscribed.  Let  the  good 
man  who  has  owned  the  property  for  years  still  retain  the  posses- 
sion until  after  the  merits  of  the  new  elevator  have  been  tested 
by  a  competent  expert,  who  is  also  able  to  comprehend  the  value 
of  thegravel  which  passes  through  the  machine.  The  old  Callustro 
experiment  in  company  promotion  is  a  disagreeable  reminiscence 
to  many  Oakland  ladies,  who  may  also  remember,  if  they 
try  very  hard,  that  the  News  Letter  gave  them  some  wholesome 
advice  to  leave  the  shares  severely  alone,  when  they  were  figur- 
ing up  the  future  profits  of  the  concern  at  intervals  snatched  from 
attendance  on  babies  and  household  cares.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
in  this  instance  there  will  not  be  the  same  vain  regrets  over  coun- 
sel thrown  away. 

US 

SOME  of  the  people  most  heavily  interested  in  hydraulic  min- 
ing seem  to  be  very  lukewarm  in  their  opinion  as  to  the  value 
of  the  recent  decision  by  Judge  Gilbert,  which  virtually  puts  the 
mine  owners  on  an  equal  footing  with  the  owners  of  other  classes 
of  property.  It  is  simply  disgusting  to  read  some  of  the  inter- 
views that  have  been  had  with  some  of  these  individuals — that  is, 
if  they  have  been  correctly  reported.  Stupidity  or  a  treasonable 
malevolence  to  a  great  and  worthy  cause,  or  both  combined,  is  ex- 
pressed in  every  one  of  the  published  statements.  The  represen- 
tative of  one  property  sneeringly  remarks  that  there  is  nothing 
new  in  the  decision,  and  the  claim  i°  urged  in  addition  that  only 
wealthy  corporations  can  avail  themselves  of  it  is  evidently  ap- 
preciated as  a  mere  privilege,  instead  of  a  sacred  right  generally 
supposed  to  be  guaranteed  under  the  Constitution  of  this  country, 
to  use  their  property  to  as  good  advantage  as  others  do.  It  is 
little  wonder  when  everything  is  considered  that  this  class  of  min- 
ing has  suffered  under  proscription  for  such  a  length  of  time. 
There  has  been  no  unanimity  of  Action  among  the  miDing 
men  who  have  permitted  themselves  to  be  led  around  by  the 
nose  on  every  occasion  which  presented  itself  for  obtaining  some 
relief.  Take  the  last  convention,  for  instance.  What  did  it 
evolve  into  but  a  mutual  admiration  society,  where  many  of  the 
staunchest  friends  of  the  industry  on  the  floor  were  overlooked  in 
a  wild  scramble  which  look  place  among  wire-pullers  for  pre- 
ferment. The  time  spent  at  Washington  has  been  simply  thrown 
away,  and  if  the  mines  of  the  State  were  never  to  open  up  until 
they  did  through  the  permission  of  the  Federal  Government, 
they  would  be  found  closed  at  Doomsday.  People  can  now  go  to 
work  on  tbeir  mines,  thanks  to  the  Gilbert  decision,  and  it  will 
not  take  such  an  enormous  expenditure  of  money  either,  to  com- 
ply with  the  provisions  laid  down  by  an  honest  and  intelligent 
Judge,  for  the  protection  of  the  arable  lands  in  the  vicinity. 
Hydraulic  mining  will  in  the  futnre  be  as  useless  as  the  silver 
plank  in  political  platforms,  and  some  new  subject  for  discussion 
will  have  to  be  sought  for  by  the  mountebanks  of  the  rostrum 
who  live  by  pulling  the  wool  over  the  eyes  of  the  fools  who 
listen  to  them. 

$  $  $ 

THE  annual  meeting  of  the  Bank  of  Nevada  was  held  on 
Wednesday  last,  when  a  very  prosperous  showing  was  made 
for  the  past  fiscal  year.  The  net  earnings  for  the  year  were 
$247,689  71,  out  of  which  two  quarterly  dividends,  at  the  rate  of 
six  per  cent  per  annum,  were  declared  in  July  and  October.  The 
encouraging  statement  was  made  to  the  shareholders   present  by 


the  President,  Mr.  Hellman,  that  he  had  "no  hesitancy  in  be- 
lieving that  the  dividends  will  be  paid  regularly  each  quarter 
from  now  on."  In  the  report  of  the  earnings,  no  account  was 
taken  of  accrued  interest.  The  financial  exhibit  presented 
showed  assets  and  liabilities  amounting  in  all  to  $8,606,357.  The 
following  Board  of  Directors  was  then  elected  to  serve  for  the 
ensuing  year:  John  W.  Mackay,  James  L.  Flood,  Lewis  Gerstle, 
Isaias  W.  Hellman,  Henry  F.  Allen,  O.  M.  Guigne,  Robert  Watt, 
Levi  Strauss,  D.  N.  Walter,  H.  L.  Dodge  and  John  F.  Bigelow. 
There  were  no  changes  made  in  the  officers,  who  will  remain  the 
same  as  last  year.  I.  W.  Hellman  will  be  the  President,  John  F. 
Bigelow  Vice-President,  D.  B.  Davidson  Cashier  and  George 
Grant  Assistant  Cashier.  The  stock  of  the  bank  has  never  yet 
been -listed,  as  it  is  not  desired  by  the  management  to  make  it  a 
speculative  investment.  It  is,  however,  in  good  demand,  and 
sales  have  been  made  recently  as  high  as  $130. 

Si  $  .$ 

THE  Comstock  market  has  had  a  setback  this  week  which  has 
brought  out  thousands  of  shares  of  stock  from  weak  holders. 
There  has  been  no  reason  for  this,  outside  of  manipulation. 
While  the  crosscuts  in  Norcross,  on  which  so  much  depends, 
have  been  steadily  pushed  westward,  no  change  in  the  formation 
has  taken  place  to  warrant  the  break  in  prices.  In  Belcher,  the 
upraises  to  cut  the  ore  on  the  300  level  incline  have  done  so,  but 
not  a  stroke  of  work  has  been  done  on  the  400  drift,  which  is  to 
determine  the  value  of  the  development,  by  proving  the  extent  of 
its  downward  dip.  It  is  absurd  to  place  any  importance  on  the 
upraises,  and  any  statements  tending  to  do  so  are  made  out  of 
whole  cloth*  for  the  benefit  of  bear  operators.  No  news  of  inter- 
est has  been  learned  from  any  other  point  along  the  lode  to 
influence  prices  one  way  or  the  other.  The  Middle  shares  have 
suffered  most  severely,  and  Savage  has  been  unloaded  all  the  way 
from  $3  down  to  $1.25,  with  a  weak  feeling  in  the  stock  even  at 
that  figure.  The  assessment  levied  had  probably  much  to  do  with 
the  decline,  which  took  many  dealers  unawares.  Potosf  and 
Cbollar  held  up  fairly  well,  considering  that  Hale  &  Norcross  suf- 
fered a  heavy  depreciation  under  bear  raids.  In  outside  stocks 
the  leading  Tuscarora  mines  were  steady,  with  a  stronger  tone  in 
one  or  two  of  the  Quijotoas.  Savage  was  assessed  fifty  cents  and 
Mexican  twenty-five  cents  during  the  week. 

$  t  t 

THE  annual  meeting  of  the  Bank  of  California  was  held  on 
Tuesday  last,  and  the  statement  of  the  cashier  showed  assets 
and  liabilities  aggregating  $14,026,170  31.  The  gross  earnings  for 
the  fiscal  year  then  ended  were  $718,619  88.  The  disbursements 
during  the  same  period,  making  allowance  for  bad  and  doubtful 
accounts,  were  $3S7,652.70,  which  leaves  the  sum  of  $390,904.14 
as  the  net  earnings  for  the  past  twelve  months.  The  bank  has 
paid  the  shareholders  $450,000  in  dividends,  or  at  the  rate  of  1J 
per  cent,  per  month,  being  15  per  cent,  for  the  year.  After  the 
reports  of  the  officers  had  been  presented  and  approved,  the  fol- 
lowing board  of  Directors  wac  elected  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year:  F.  G.  Newlands,  Charles  Mayne,  Adam  Grant,  Jerome 
Lincoln,  Meyer  Lewis,  H.  H.  Hewlett,  A.  K.  P.  Harmon,  Antoine 
Korel,  J.  B.  Randol,  J.  M.  Allen  and  William  Alvord.  The  old 
officers  were  subsequently  re-elected,  as  follows:  William  Alvord, 
President;  Thomas  Brown,  Cashier;  Irving  F.  Moulton,  Assist- 
ant Cashier,  and  Edward  H.  Hast,  Secretary. 

$  $  t 

MR.  W.  A.  NEVILLS,  the  wealthy  mine  owner  of  Sonora, 
arrived  in  town  early  in  the  week,  and  has  been  confined  to 
his  room  at  the  Palace  from  an  injury  received  at  the  Rawhide 
Mine,  which  he  now  owns  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Martin,  of  the 
now  celebrated  mining  and  railroad  firm  of  Martin  &  Ballard. 
This  property,  which  was  condemned  sometime  ago  by  English 
experts  (?)  has  proved  a  veritable  bonanza,  under  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Nevills,  who  always  has  had  a  reputation  for  luck 
in  his  mining  ventures,  and  the  returns  in  gold  from  ore  ship- 
ments, pending  the  completion  of  the  new  forty-stamp  mill,  have 
aggregated  more  than  the  price  asked  when  the  mine  was  offered 
in  London,  Within  the  past  week  Messrs.  Nevills  &  Martin  have 
refused  an  offer  of  $4  per  share  for  20,000  shares  of  the  stock, 
having  now  open  and  ready  for  milling  a  nice  little  bonanza 
which  will  net  them  more  than  five  times  this  sum.  Mr.  Nevills 
is  now  on  the  fair  way  to  recovery  from  the  accident,  and  will 
probably  return  to  the  mine  next  week.  It  is  thus  that  tfie  Eng- 
lish investors  suffer  through  their  dependence  on  incompetent 
experts. 

S  $  $ 

JUDGE  HEBBARD'S  decision  In  the  Hale  and  Norcross  case 
did  not  excite  as  much  surprise  as  his  remarks  as  to  the  culpa- 
bility of  the  defendants.  It  is  not  usual  in  cases  of  the  kind  for  a 
judge  to  go  outside  of  the  record  when  rendering  a  decision.  The 
gentlemen  who  were  formerly  held  up  as  thieves  before  the  com- 
munity will  probably  feel  truly  grateful  for  the  change  of  opinion 
which  now  relieves  them  from  an  unfounded  insinuation.  The  Su- 
preme Court  will  now,  fortunately  for  all  concerned,  have  jurisdiction 
of  the  case. 


October  15,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


^ 


*  Hearthe  Crier!"  "Whit  ih9  devil  art  thou? 
"One  that  will  plav  the  devil,  air.  with  you.  "' 


J  SEE  you  mark  the  ruby  stain 
1     Upon  this  ancient  goblet's  rim; 
'Twas  in  this  chamber  quaint  and  dim, 
With  many  a  scratch  upon  the  pane, 
That  looks  into  the  silent  lane, 
(The  flower  box  on  the  old  stone  ledge) 
The  lips  that  ne'er  may  touch  again 
That  goblet,  kissed  its  crystal  edge. 
And  once,  a  year  upon  this  day, 
6o  redolent  of  memories, 
This  goblet,  with  its  stain  of  lees, 
Is  set  before  me  just  this  way. 
The  knife  and  fork,  the  napkin  white, 
Except  where  here  her  mouth  was  pressed, 
And  crumpled  here,  upon  her  breast 
For  one  short  hour  the  linen  lay. 
Those  relics  for  a  sweet,  brief  space, 
Recall  her,  full  of  youthful  grace, 
Her  soft  gray  eyes,  her  winsome  face. 
She  is  not  dead,  but  dead  to  me, 
A  proud,  a  wealthy,  honored  wife, 
Gone,  like  a  dream  from  out  my  life; 
And  should  we  meet  upon  the  street, 
She  would  not  know  me — years  have  flown 
Since  in  this  room  we  sat  alone, 
And  dreading  what  might  come  to  pass, 
I  kept  those  relics  and  this  glass; 
An  idle  fancy,  but  I  swear, 
When  I  look  at  that  vacant  chair 
A  moment,  she  is  seated  there. 

MESSRS.  E3TEE  AND  WHETE  are  amusing  themselves  and 
the  public-in  their  great  gladiatorial  act  on  the  tariff  issues. 
This  is  the  very  salt  and  essence  of  political  discussion;  but,  like 
revivalists,  they  should  demand  at  the  close  of  each  meeting  a 
show  of  hands  of  the  converted  ones — free  traders  who  have  been 
won  over  to  protection,  and  vice  versa,  and  their  reasons  for  the 
profession  of  faith.  George  Francis  Train,  that  noble  American, 
when  he  lectured  for  thirty-five  consecutive  nights  in  the  old 
Metropolitan  Theatre,  and  filled  the  house  each  night,  went  in 
for  a  pyrotechnic  trick  which  won  him  great  renown.  He  en- 
gaged a  young  Englishman  to  defend  the  British  lion  against  his 
attacks,  with  the  stipulation  that  the  defense  was  to  be  so  weak 
that  Mr.  Train  could  smother  the  alien  orator  each  night  at  his 
pleasure.  One  evening,  when  Train  grew  so  personal  as  to  be 
offensive,  the  traitor  Briton  went  back  upon  his  contract  and  de- 
molished the  logic  of  George  Francis,  much  to  that  gentleman's 
indignation  and  disgust.  Now  if  Estee  and  White  had  a  cut  and 
dried  programme,  allowing  for  alternate  victories,  the  show  would 
be  more  amusing  to  the  audience,  nor  could  the  general  result  be 
affected  by  a  single  vote. 

THE  quiet  of  Pacific  Heights  was  broken  a  few  nights  ago  by 
the  strains  of  a  most  inharmonious  serenade  outside  the  gate 
of  a  house  on  the  north  side  of  the  two  thousand  block.  There 
were  apparently  two  mandolins  and  a  guitar,  all  struggling  for 
sentimental  and  discordant  supremacy.  The  young  lady  of  the 
house  lit  her  gas  and  appeared  at  the  lattice  as  in  all  cases  made 
and  provided.  Still  the  serenade  went  on.  "  Happy  be  thy 
Dreams,"  "  Under  thy  Lattice,"  "  Oft  in  the  Stilly  Night,"  etc., 
etc.,  were  "  rendered,"  and  the  minstrels  encored  themselves, 
and  the  people  of  the  house  grew  distracted.  The  gas  was  turned 
down  in  the  lady's  chamber,  but  this  had  no  effect  on  the  trouba- 
dours. A  faint  gleam  appeared  in  one  of  the  lower  apartments. 
The  sorely  tortured  besieged  were  holding  a  council  of  war.  Sud- 
denly the  Irish  gardener,  bare-headed,  and  in  his  shirt  sleeves, 
dashed  out,  shrieking,  "  Gintlemen,  run,  for  the  land's  sake. 
The  dog  has  got  loose,  an' I  niver  can  hould  him.  He  .will  ate 
every  wan  of  yez."  The  serenaders  fled,  one  in  his  haste  leaving 
his  mandolin  bag  on  the  lawn.  When  he  sent  for  it  the  next 
day  he  learned  from  an  incautious  domestic  that  there  had  not 
been  a  dog  maintained  on  the  premises  for  two  years.  And  now 
the  minstrels  are  mad,  and  are  shivering  least  their  fellow  club 
men  get  on  to  the  joke. 

THE  cyclical  circulation  controversy  has  come  around  again, 
and  this  time  all  the  dailies  are  in  the  pit,  fighting  like  game 
terriers  in  the  cause  of  veracity  or  mendacity.  They  have  piled 
on  to  the  unfortunate  Call,  and  are  determined  to  worry  the  ex- 
istence out  of  that  venerable  organ.  The  latter  keeps  on  assert- 
ing as  calmly  as  if  nothing  had  occurred  to  disturb  the  legend  it 
prints  at  the  head  of  its  editorial  column.  There  will  be  a  lull, 
presently,  and  the  even  current  of  ordinary,  everyday  vitupera- 
tion will  flow  on  as  usual.  In  the  meantime,  the  interest  of  the 
public  in  this  beaten-out  controversy  is  not  abnormal. 


THE  Mercantile  Library  has  tried  the  perilous  experiment  of  a 
"lady  assistant,"  and  the  result  was  disaster.  Ladies  and 
libraries  do  not  harmonize.  The  odor  of  Russia  leather  is  obnox- 
ious to  the  sex.  The  necessity  of  waiting  upon  illiterate  human- 
ity jars  their  fine  feelings.  Therefore  the  lady  and  the  library 
soon  parted,  but  not  before  the  former  had  said  some  unkind 
things  about  Mr.  Whittaker,  the  librarian  of  that  institution  for 
nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Those  cabals  in  libraries  are  need- 
less. The  Mercantile  has  always  maintained  a  popular  standing 
in  the  community.  It  has  been,  so  to  speak,  one  of  the  credit- 
able institutions  of  the  city.  It  has  weathered  some  heavy  finan- 
cial storms,  and  has  always  upheld  its  dignity.  Its  friends  are 
numerous,  and  nothing  mean  or  scandalous  should  be  permitted 
at  this  date  to  interfere  with  the  uniform  even  current  of  the  ad- 
ministration of  its  affairs. 

A  CONTEMPORARY  has  indulged  in  the  shocking  irreverence 
of  calling  Mr.  Bartlett,  of  the  Bulletin,  «  Old  Mortality," 
showing  thereby  that  the  writer  is  lamentably  ignorant  of  the 
character  of  that  wise  and  able  man.  True,  the  frost  of  years  has 
visited  Mr.  Bartlett's  head,  but  he  has  manfully  withstood  all  the 
attacks  of  time,  and  is  to-day  a  mellow  and  consistent  gentleman ; 
not  old,  but  mellow.  Few  men  have  afforded  such  excellent  food 
to  the  paragrapher  as  Mr.  Bartlett.  Bierce,  the  only,  has  for 
twenty  years  directed  his  shafts  against  Bartlett  of  the  Bulletin. 
When  a  callow  writer  essayed  his  untried  wings  for  the  first 
time,  he  was  directed  to  assail  Mr.  Bartlett  as  the  maiden  test  of 
his  feeble  pen.  That  grand  and  wise  person  has  floated  along, 
impervious  to  satire  and  defiant  of  Billingsgate,  and  the  sun  has 
never  set  upon  the  Saturday  that  has  not  seen  him  draw  his 
salary.  He  was  meat  for  the  paragraphers  of  a  decade  ago.  Let 
him  be  spared  now. 

AMID  all  the  groans  of  the  pessimists,  the  bars  are  reaping  a 
golden  harvest,  for  it  is  a  noticeable  fact  that  although  the 
candidates  have  economized  in  other  ways,  the  establishing  of 
their  popularity  by  giving  voters  much  strong  liquor,  was  never 
so  pronounced  as  during  the  present  campaign.  Coriolanus,  who 
made  such  a  decided  objection  to  soliciting  the  Roman  populace 
for  their  votes,  could  not  be  elected  to  the  office  of  poundkeeper 
in  this  city.  The  inexorable  custom  that  a  candidate  must  have 
cards,  and  distribute  them,  and  must  be  seen  at  the  counter,  bid- 
ding all  hands  to  refreshment,  would  never  suit  that  haughty 
warrior,  and  therefore  he  would  be  left.  Not  that  the  purchase 
of  alcohol  for  the  many  headed  secures  votes.  But  the  failure  to 
do  so  is  regarded  with  such  abhorrence  by  this  free  people  that  no 
candidate  is  found  daring  enough  to  let  the  office-makers  go  dry. 

MR.  HEAP,  of  the  Boys  and  Girls'  Aid  Society,  believes  in 
Cayenne  pepper  as  a  punishment  for  the  over-exuberance  of 
youth.  This  is  the  most  singular  method  of  mortifying  the  flesh 
of  the  unruly  on  record.  To  select  Cayenne  in  preference  to  the 
long  list  of  odious  condiments  which  furnish  forth  the  ordinary 
restaurant  table,  is  an  example  of  gross  partiality.  On  tripe, 
wild  duck  and  kidneys,  Cayenne  is  a  most  excellent  preparation. 
In  the  mouth  of  maidenhood,  taken  straight,  it  conduces  to  tears 
and  insubordination.  Even  Uriah  Heap,  who  may  be  one  of  the 
Superintendent's  revered  ancestors,  would  not  have  been  hard- 
hearted enough  to  perpetrate  such  an  atrocity. 
IMAGINE,  oh  Telemachus,  the  entire  population  of  this  grue- 
some city  running  for  office.  Think  of  it,  ingenious  boy — 
every  printing  office  running  off  election  cards,  every  man  buz- 
zing the  other  man  to  vote  for  him,  and  the  whole  town  in  con- 
fusion, envy  and  discord.  Thousands  of  candidates  for  every- 
thing— all,  Telemachus,  thirsting  to  drink  at  the  political  nursing 
bottle,  all  aching  to  knife  their  brothers.  Alas,  for  patriotism. 
We  serve  our  land  for  gain  alone.  There  is  not  room  enough  for 
all  of  us,  even  though  we  are  nominated,  and  those  who  are  left — 
for  the  land  of  the  left  is  a  desolate  land — have  no  consolation 
but  in  the  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth. 

AUSTRALIA  is  celebrated  for  kangaroos,  boomerangs  and  bal- 
lots. The  peculiarity  of  the  boomerang  is  that  it  returns  to 
the  caster.  The  Australian  ballot,  judging  from  the  dense  igno- 
rance of  the  American  public  as  to  how  it  should  be  cast,  might 
in  many  cases  be  returned  to  the  caster  for  all  the  good  it  will  do 
its  object.  Every  man  has  a  different  opinion,  and  even  the 
highest  authorities  get  mixed  when  they  penetrate  too  far  into 
the  deeper  mysteries  of  the  system.     . 

THE  East  is  not  with  us  in  the  outlaw  industry.  The  Evans- 
Sontag  combination  is  to-day  the  greatest  in  the  United  States. 
It  has  not  alone  escaped  pursuit,  but  it  has  succeeded  in  getting 
all  the  newspapers  in  the  State  into  a  controversy  about  the 
genuineness  of  an  interview.  Ordinary  outlaws  have  never 
reached  this  summit.  They  have  been  hunted  in  an  exciting,  but 
still  an  ordinary  way,  but  they  have  never  got  the  great  con- 
trollers of  public  opinion  making  the  very  atmosphere  sulphur- 
ous in  attack  and  recrimination. 

THERE'S  been  a  marvellous  adoo 
About  fair  Mrs.  Foltz's  shoe, 
They  say  that  in  the  court-room  hushed, 
E'en  lawyers  and  reporters  blushed, 
But  heavens!  how  extremely  shocking 
Had  Clara  Foltz  removed  her  stocking. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


<B^LB2Kw& 


THE  Savings  banks  of  the  city  are  considering  the  advisability 
of  reducing  the  rates  of  interest  both  to  borrowers  and  de- 
positors, the  move  is  a  wise  one,  for  several  reasons.  The  banks 
are  not  intended  for  the  accumulations  of  capitalists  who  need  do 
nothing  more  arduous  than  lie  back  and  draw  interest,  and  yet 
that  is  what  a  rate  of  interest  of  from  4J  to  5J  per  cent,  encour- 
ages. To  pay  such  interest  a  high  rate  on  loans  must  be  charged, 
and  thus  the  man  who  is  anxious  and  ready  to  improve  is  handi- 
capped. The  farmer  finds  his  profits  eaten  up  in  interest  on  the 
money  he  has  been  obliged  to  borrow,  the  would-be  builder  hesi- 
tates to  borrow,  and  so  the  borrower  who,  in  such  matters,  is  the 
man  of  enterprise,  is  thwarted.  If  money  were  not  so  dear  to  the 
borrower  or  so  remunerative  to  the  large  depositor,  the  former 
could  and  the  latter  would  be  obliged  to  seek  other  channels  for 
investment,  and  a  better  condition  of  affairs  would  result  all 
round,  and  nowhere  more  so  than  in  the  real  estate  market.  The 
objection  to  lowering  the  rate  of  interest  on  deposits  is  that  the 
workingman  will  suffer.  It  will  be  granted  that  the  savings  of 
the  average  saving  workingman  do  not  amount  to  more  than 
$1,000.  If  instead  of  4£  per  cent,  he  received  4  per  cent,  a  year, 
it  would  just  make  a  difference  of  $5  a  year.  Force  more  capital 
into  the  development  of  manufactures,  the  building  of  railroads, 
houses,  etc.,  and  the  workingman  will  have  steadier  work,  and 
will  add  $25  more  savings  where  he  loses  $5  in  interest. 

There  is  another  reason,  however,  why  the  banks  are  inclined 
to  lower  rates  of  interest.  Deposits  have  been  growing  to  such 
proportions  that  it  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the  banks  to  offer 
inducements  to  borrowers,  and  the  inducement  naturally  takes 
the  shape  of  a  reduced  rate  of  interest.  Anything  that  will  help 
the  man  who  borrows  to  develop  should  be  encuuraged  in  this  or 
any  growing  community,  as  only  too  often  does  it  happen  that 
the  energetic,  enterprising  man  who  has  developed  an  industry, 
built  a  railroad  or  opened  a  mine,  and  has  borrowed  heavily, 
meets  with  a  sudden  reverse,  and  the  capitalist  steps  in,  and  fore- 
closing, lives  to  thrive  on  the  work  of  him  whose  very  enterprise 
has  forced  him  to  the  wall.  .Reduce  the  rate  of  interest  to  the 
borrower,  and  the  people  will  appreciate  it. 

The  commissioners  appointed  to  estimate  the  damages  and  ben- 
efits of  the  opening  up  of  eleven  blocks  distributed  from  Nine- 
teenth to  Twenty-third  streets,  in  a  westerly  direction,  have  de- 
clined to  render  a  detailed  expense  account,  and  the  Real  Estate 
Owners'  Union  proposes  to  recommend  to  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors that  only  ten  per  cent  of  the  claim  be  allowed,  and  instead  of 
$60,000  they  will  be  paid  $6000,  and  likewise  that  the  estimates 
for  land  values  be  cut  from  $100,000  to  $10,000.  It  is  now  more 
than  likely  that  these  over-bashful  commissioners  will  give 
tongue,  and  there  will  be  a  dismal  howl  of  protest  against  the  cut 
in  their  «  legitimate"  expenses.  It  is  only  by  such  opposition, 
however,  that  these  legalized  robberies  can  be  checked. 

But  few  sales  of  general  interest  have  been  made  during  the 
past  week,  the  single  one  of  importance  being  that  of  a  lot  on 
the  south  side  of  Market  street,  275  east  of  Eighth,  87:6x165, 
through  to  Stevenson,  for  something  less  than  $2,000  a  front  foot. 
The  inquiry  is  strong  for  real  estate,  however,  and  buyers  are 
showing  more  confidence  than  for  weeks  past. 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  held  an  auction  sale  on  Tuesday  of  this 
week,  and  the  bidding  was  in  many  cases  very  spirited,  several 
good  transactions  resulting;  among  them  the  transfer,  for  $13,000, 
of  the  lot,  60x127:8,  southwest  corner  of  Jackson  andGoagh; 
lot,  50x103:6,  south  side  of  Sixteenth,  west  of  Sanchez,  for  $7,- 
000;  house  and  lot  northeast  corner  of  Clay  and  Steiner,  for  $5,400, 
and  a  two-story  house  on  Bartlett,  near  Twenty-first,  standing  on 
a  lot  23:4x90,  for  $4,950. 

The  Presbyterian  Tabernacle,  which  was  offered  at  auction  on 
Thursday  last,  was  not  sold,  the  highest  bid  of  $37,500  not  being 
sufficient  to  pay  the  debts  on  the  church. 

On  Wednesday  next  Tevis  &  Fisher  will  hold  an  auction  sale  of 
city  property.  The  catalogue  is  a  decidedly  attractive  one,  and 
includes  among  other  offerings  the  following:  Lot,  31:6x104, 
southwest  corner  of  Pacific  and  Webster,  new  residence,  810 
Central  avenue,  nine-room -house  on  Jackson,  No.  2908,  with  lot, 
26:6x100;  a  business  corner,  Fifth  street  and  Mint  avenue,  lot', 
25x75,  with  three-story  building  on  it,  and  a  number  of  smaller 
properties. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Presidio  Heights  Improvement  Club,  on 
Wednesday  evening,  two  plans  for  sewering  the  heights  were 
submitted  to  the  members.  The  first  plan  was  to  tunnel 
under  the  Presidio  for  a  distance  of  about  1,300  feet, 
coming  out  at  the  junction  of  Union  and  Baker  streets,' 
and  the  other  was  to  go  in  a  straight  line  from 
Laurel  street  to  the  bay.  This  plan  was  the  most  favored 
by  the  members  present.  A  petition  asking  the  right  of  way,  signed 
by  the  Mayor  and  endorsed  by  General  Ruger,  will  be  sent  to  the 
Secretary  of  War  at  Washington ,  and  the  consent  of  that  official  will  no 
doubt  arrive  before  the  end  of  this  month.  Then  arises  a  very  interest- 
ing question ;  who  is  to  pay  for  the  sewer,  the  property-owners  or  the 


city.  It  is  said  the  Supervisors  are  unable  to  declare  an  assessment 
district  covering  the  sewer  owing  to  the  fact  that  they  will  have  no 
jurisdiction  over  the  sewer  after  it  is  built,  for  it  will  not  be  city 
property.  Most  of  the  members  present  thought  the  city  should 
be  compelled  to  build  the  sewer  immediately,  but  how  they  arrived 
at  that  conclusion  it  is  hard  to  find  out.  If  the  city  government 
cannot  declare  an  assessment  district  to  pay  for  it  on  account  of 
lack  of  jurisdiction,  why  then  should  they  be  expected  to  pay 
for  work  in  Federal  property  ?  Evidently  General  Ruger  knows 
all  about  city  officials,  for  he  declares,  no  matter  which  plan  is 
selected,  they  must  commence  building  at  the  terminus,  and  work 
up  to  the  section  now  on  Laurel  street.  No  nuisance  for  the 
General,  if  he  can  help  it. 


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Oct.  15,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


THE  organization  of  the  Insurance  Associates  has  not  yet  been 
consummated.  The  gentlemen  who  will  compose  the  new 
body  are  now  discussing  the  constitution  and  by-laws,  as  the  de- 
sire is  to  bare  matters  so  well  arranged  in  the  original  plan  that 
the  association  will  be  able  to  progress  without  any  of  the  many 
hitches  to  which  insurance  associations  in  this  city  seem  to  be 
unfortunately  subjected.  The  brokers  are  unanimously  of  the 
opinion  that  unless  they  do  something  immediately  to  protect 
themselves  that  many  of  them  will  have  to  withdraw  from  the 
business,  as  under  existing  circumstances  they  find  it  very  hard 
work  to  make  both  ends  meet.  Said  a  prominent  broker  the 
other  day:  "  There  is  nothing  in  the  business  any  more  for  us. 
The  fact  is  that  the  companies  are  not  treating  us  properly.  For 
instance,  though  there  are  fully  two  hundred  brokers  regularly 
engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in  this  city,  many  of  the  com- 
panies appoint  as  solicitors  men  who  have  small  businesses  in  the 
residence  quarter,  say  a  grocer  or  a  vegetable  dealer.  Of  course, 
we  cannot  compete  with  those  men  on  an  equal  basis,  and  the 
result  is  that  our  busines  is  very  much  injured.  It  must  not  be 
understood  that  the  associated  brokers  are  antagonistic  to  the 
Pacific  Insurance  Union.  On  the  contrary,  the  members  agree  to 
comply  with  the  rules  of  the  Union  regarding  commissions,  and 
every  member  who  transgresses  these  rules  will  be  fined  or  ex- 
pelled. But,  we  also  contend,  that  as  we  fulfill  our  part  of  the 
contract  with  the  Union,  that  is,  to  do  business  for  a  certain 
amount,  then  it  is  only  fair  that  the  Union  should  protect  us  as 
much  as  it  can,  and  do  its  utmost  to  suppress  the  evils  which, for 
a  long  time  past,  have  done  so  much  to  injure  insurance  business 
in  this  city.  We  know  that  it  is  very  difficult  to  convict  an  agent 
or  a  company  of  rebating,  but  that  rebating  is  still  practiced  there 
can  be  no  doubt.  We  hope  in  time  to  have  an  organization 
strong  enough  to  compel  the  Union  to  require  compliance  with 
the  rules,  which  the  members  of  it  have  themselves  subscribed 
to.  The  association  will  benefit  local  business,  a  fact  much  de- 
sired at  this  time." 

The  Pacific  Insurance  Union  has  held  more  meetings  of  late  for 
the  discussion  of  important  matters  than  during  any  similar 
period  in  its  history.  Words,  wrrds,  words,  such  is  the  burden  of 
the  song.  Practical  results  seem  to  be  very  slow  of  development. 
During  the  week  the  companies  in  the  Union  have  all  again  sol- 
emnly agreed  to  comply  with  the  fifteen  per  cent,  clause.  The 
main  discussion  now  agitating  the  underwriters'  minds  is  that 
relative  to  the  abrogation  of  the  system  of  salaried  solicitors.  The 
idea  of  the  majority  of  the  gentlemen  seems  to  be  that  all  business 
shall  hereafter  be  done  on  commission.  If  such  a  system  is  put 
into  effect  there  will  doubtless  be  a  thinning  out  in  the  ranks  of 
the  risk  gatherers.  It  will  then  be  a  case  of  the  survival  of  the 
fittest,  and  some  of  those  gentlemen  who  now  enjoy  snug  salaried 
berths  may  find  when  they  go  out  in  competition  with  others,  all 
working  on  commission,  that  they  will  not  be  aDle  to  return  busi- 
ness enough  to  pay  them  more  than  half  the  salary  they  now  re- 
ceive. The  Union  is  also  struggling  with  a  lot  of  proposed  new 
rules.  That,is  one  of  the  queer  facts  about  some  organizations. 
Finding  that  they  cannot  comply  with  existing  rules,  they  im- 
mediately proceed  to  make  others.  Would  it  not  be  a  good  idea 
for  the  Union  to  enforce  its  present  rules  before  It  lays  upon  its 
members  additional  strictures?  It  will  only  cause  the  greater 
stretching  of  the  average  underwriters'  conscience,  which  has  al- 
ready shown  itself  to  be  very  elastic.  The  Union  is  now  in  a 
very  critical  condition.  It  must  soon  show  itself  to  be  strong 
enough  to  enforce  its  laws,  or  else  there  will  be  much  more  seri- 
ous trouble  for  it  than  has  yet  appeared.  So  say  numerous  un- 
derwriters, whose  positions  are  such  that  their  opinions  are  enti- 
led to  the  greatest  respect. 

It  is  said  that  several  Eastern  and  European  managers  are 
about  to  visit  San  Francisco  to  look  over  the  field.  Among  them 
are  Mr.  Cluness,  of  the  London  Assurance.  Mr.  Valentine,  of  the 
Northern,  is  in  Chicago,  but  will  not  come  further  west.  George 
Grant  left  for  Chicago  last  Saturday,  to  visit  his  chief.  Vice- 
President  Ellison,  of  the  Insurance  Company  of  North  America, 
is  also  about  due  here. 

The  British  iron  bark  Madeira,  that  left  TacomaforQueenstown 
on  February  13th  last,  has  been  posted  as  missing.  The  Ben 
Dauran  is  out  yet;  from  75  to  80  per  cent  is  being  paid  on  her. 
The  Hawaiian  Isles  has  arrived  with  a  scurvy-stricken  crew,  189 
days  from  Swansea,  coal  laden.  Fifty  percent,  was  paid  on  her. 
The  Robert  Suden,  from  Puget  Sound  to  Valparaiso,  has  put  into 
Tahiti,  reports  the  loss  of  her  deck  load,  and  considerable 
damage.  The  William  A.  Cameron,  from  Puget  Sound  to  Queens- 
town,  was  abandoned  and  foundered.  The  hurricane  reported 
in  the  locality  of  latitude  14  deg.  N.,  about  the  end  of  August, 
which  tossed  the  Belle  of  Oregon  and  the  A.  McCallum,  is  still  be- 
ing heard  from.  A  number  of  vessels  not  yet  reported  must  have 
been  in  that  latitude  about  the  time  of  the  hurricane. 


REGULAR 

REPUBLICAN 

MUNICIPAL     TICKET. 


Mavor WENDELL  EASTON 

Auditor T.  J.  L.  SMILEY 

Sheriff WILLIAM  T.  BLATTNER 

Tax  Collector THOMAS  O'BRIEN 

Treasurer J.  H.  WIDBER 

Recorder E.  B.  READ 

County  Clerk GEORGE  W.  LEE 

District  Attorney WILLIAM  S.  BARNES 

City  and  County  Attorney MEYER  JACOBS 

Coroner DR.  WILLIAM  T.  GARWOOD 

Public  Administrator WALTER  B.  BLAIR 

Surveyor CHARLES  S.  TILTON 

Superintendent  of  Streets CHARLES  GREENE 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) CHARLES  W.  SLACK 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  M.  TROUTT 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) GEORGE  H.  BAHRS 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JOHN  LORD  LOVE 

Superior  Judge  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1895) 

WILLIA'M  G.  BRITTAN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) H.  L.  JOACHIMSEN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) W.  A.  S.  NICHOLSON 

Police  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Police  Judge  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893) 

JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) PRANK  GRAY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) JOHN  P.  GOUGH 

Justice  of  the  Peace,  (long  term) JOHN  P.  MULLEN 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) ARTHUR  M.  WILLETS 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) J.  E.  BARRY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893) 

J.E.BARRY 

Supervisor  First  ward  (unexpired  term) EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  First  ward EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  Second  ward  (unexpired  term) DR.  R.  C.  MEYERS 

Supervisor  Second  ward DR.  R.  C.  MEYERS 

Supervisor  Third  ward CARLOS  G.  YOUNG 

Supervisor  Fourth  ward HENRY  A.  STEFFINS 

Supervisor  Fifth  ward H.  R.  ROBBINS 

Supervisor  Sixth  ward W.  E.  LANE 

Supervisor  Seventh  ward VICTOR  D.  DUBOCE 

Supervisor  Eight  ward P.  J.  COFFEE 

Supervisor  Ninth  ward ALBERT  HEYER 

Supervisor  Tenth  ward HENRY  P.  SONNTAG 

Supervisor  Eleventh  ward THOMAS  J.  PARSONS 

Supervisor  Twelfth  ward AUGUST  HELBING 

School  Director A.  F.  JOHNS 

School  Director DR.  C.  W.  DECKER 

School  Director GEORGE  W.  PENNINGTON 

School  Director JAMES  A.  PARISER 

School  Director LUKE  BATTLES 

School  Director J.  H.  CULVER 

School  Director J.  J.  DUNN 

School  Director PAUL  BARBIERI 

School  Director WILLIAM  H.  EASTLAND 

School  Director C.  O.  SWANBERG 

School  Director HARVEY  L.  SANBORN 

School  Director Z.  T.  WHITTEN 

School  Director  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893 

... ...A.  F.  JOHNS 


LEGISLATIVE     TICKET. 


FOR    STATE    SENATORS. 

17th  District JAMES  CRAVEN 

19th  District JOSEPH  WINDROW 

21st  District L.  H.  VANSHAICK 

23d  District CHARLES  H.  FANCHEr 

25th  District JOHN  F.  MARTIjr 

FOR    ASSEMBLYMEN. 

28th  District PETER  JOSEPH  KELLY 

29th  District CHARLES  E.  COREY 

30th  District JAMES  J.  FALLON 

31st  District THOMAS  F.  GRAHAM 

32d  District JOHN  A.  HOEY 

33d  District FREDERICK  WOODS 

34th  District J.  F.  McQUAID 

35th  District JOHN  S.  ROBINSON 

36th  District ALBERT  B.  MAHONEY 

37th  District.. JOHN  F.  O'BRIEN 

38th  District GEORGE  S.  MATHEWS 

39th  District JULIUS  KAHN 

40th  District LOUIS  A.  PHILLIPS 

41st  District HENRY  C.  DIBBLE 

42d  District GRANT  ISRAEL 

43d   District JOHN  P.  RICE 

44th  District JAMES  McGOWEN 

45th  District JOHN  HAYES 


20 


SAJST  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  15,  1892. 


A  LETTER  from  Bishop  Hirth,  head  of  the  French  Catholic 
missions  in  the  Victoria  Nyanza  district  of  Africa,  recently 
received  by  the  Board  of  African  Missions  in  Paris,  states  that 
the  persecutions  of  the  missionaries  by  the  natives  continue,  and 
that  thousands  of  the  Catholic  converts  are  sure  to  die.  The 
Bishop  adds  that  the  British  are  trying  to  protect  them,  but  are 
powerless.  This  addition  is  noteworthy,  since  it  flatly  contra- 
dicts the  accusations  made  by  unsuccessful  French  explorers  two 
months  ago,  that  the  British  supported  the  anti-Catholic  move- 
ment, and  from  a  comparison  of  all  the  news  that  lately  has 
come  from  the  Uganda  district,  it  must  be  surmised  that  the 
French  owe  their  failure  in  Africa  entirely  to  their  incapability  of 
dealing  with  natives  and  their  lack  of  colonization  talent. 

The  injudicious  innovation  introduced  by  Emperor  William  II. 
of  separating  the  Chancellorship  of  the  Empire  from  the  office  of 
Prime  Minister  of  the  Prussian  Cabinet,  has  resulted  as  might 
have  been  expected,  in  a  jealous  quarrel  between  Chancellor 
Caprivi  and  Prussian  Prime  Minister  von  Eulenburg,  which  is 
gradually  approaching  a  climax.  The  pretext  is  difference  of 
opinion  on  the  military  bill,  but  the  real  cause  is  that  Caprivi  is 
beginning  to  fear  for  his  place,  and  though  apparently  ready  to 
resign,  is  at  heart  anxious  to  remain  in  office  as  long  as  he  possi- 
bly can.  Count  von  Eulenburg  is  not  very  greatly  impressed 
with  Caprivi's  ability,  and  shares  in  this  regard  the  opinion  of 
the  German  public  in  general.  He  may  also  make  but  few  efforts 
to  hide  his  views  from  Prince  Bismark's  successor,  for  Count  von 
Eulenburg  is  a  personage  of  somewhat  haughty  character.  Still 
the  remark  contained  in  a  late  telegram  from  the  New  York 
Herald  correspondent  at  Berlin,  that  the  Premier  last  week 
"  sharply  rebuked  Count  von  Caprivi,  etc.,"  is  absurd  on  the  very 
face  of  it.  The  Cnancellor  of  the  Empire  is  not  in  the  position  of 
accepting  rebukes  from  the  head  of  the  Prussian  Cabinet,  who, 
after  all,  is  his  inferior  in  rank. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  depression  in  trade  and  commerce  is 
serious  at  present  in  Great  Britain,  but  similar  depressions  have 
occurred  before,  and  are  apt  to  occur  in  great  commercial  coun- 
tries whenever  exceptional  events  disturb  the  harmonious  work- 
ing of  the  complicated  trade  machinery,  and  such  events  have 
happened  this  year.  England's  internal  legislation,  which  de- 
mands some  very  necessary  reforms  with  regard  to  home  affairs, 
has  been  greatly  hampered  for  many  years  by  the  continued  op- 
position of  the  Irish  members  and  their  English  allies.  At  this 
moment  general  confidence  in  financial  circles  is  destroyed  by 
the  uncertainty  of  the  political  situation  caused  by  the  existence 
of  the  interregnum.  Matters,  however,  will  greatly  change  aft^r 
it  is  definitely  proved  that  Mr.  Gladstone  cannot  hold  his  own 
any  longer,  and  with  the  restoration  of  confidence  in  a  responsi- 
ble government  the  condition  of  trade  will  also  improve. 

The  continued  reports  of  brilliant  victories  of  the  French  troops 
in  Dahomey  show,  at  all  events,  that  the  war  is  not  yet  over, 
and  all  of  these  reports  must  be  taken  cum,  grano  satis.  Similar 
news  inaugurated  the  Tonquin  campaign,  only  to  be  followed 
afterwards  by  the  acknowledgment  of  serious  reverses.  It  is  sig- 
nificant, besides,  that  the  latest  telegrams  speak  of  the  stubborn 
resistance  of  the  Dahomeyans,  and  pay  high  tribute  to  the  fight- 
ing quality  of  the  Amazons,  which  the  French  officers  at  first  pre- 
tended to  ignore.  We  pointed  out  inthis  place  many  weeks  ago 
that  the  French  troops  would  by  no  means  have  a  walk-over, 
and  this  has  been  fully  confirmed.  If  the  Dahomeyans  were  to 
telegraph  the  result  of  the  battles,  and  if  we  vere  not  in  the  po- 
sition of  relying  upon  the  French  version  alone,  it  might  be  found 
that  the  situation  of  the  invading  troops  is  rather  less  advantag- 
eous than  reported.  The  duration  of  the  campaign  alone  does 
not  augur  very  well. 


Get  the  Genuine. 


If  you  suffer  with  lame  back,  especially  in  the  morning,  Allcock's 
Plasters  are  a  sure  relief. 

If  you  cannot  sleep,  try  an  Allcock  Plaster,  well  up  between 
the  shoulder  blades— often  relieves — sometimes  cares.  Try  this  be- 
fore you  resort  to  opiates. 

If  any  of  your  muscles  are  lame— joints  stiff— feel  as  if  they  wanted 
oiling— or  if  you  suffer  with  any  local  pains  or  aches,  these  plasters 
will  cure  you. 

If  you  use  them  once  you  will  realize  why  so  many  plasters  have 
been  made  in  imitation  of  them.  Like  all  good  things,  they  are 
copied  as  closely  as  the  law  allows.  Don't  be  duped  by  taking  an 
imitation  when  it  is  as  easy  to  get  the  genuine. 

If  you  always  insist  upon  having  Allcock's  Porous  Plasters  and 
never  accept  a  substitute,  you  will  notbe  disappointed. 

The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  G35  Market  street. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 


Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery — Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE. — There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  lj,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.        No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson  . . 1  50  $50 

C.  A.  Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  SO  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  oflice  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  M.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  uutil 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place, 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY, 
October  21st,  1892  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  September  21st. 

ANNUAL  MEETING.  ~ 

Exchequer   Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Exchequer 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  79,  Ne- 
vada Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  1  7th  Day  of  October,  1 89?,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  P.  M., 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting. 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  October  14,  1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETIN6. 

Consolidated  California  and  Virginia  Mining  Company, 

The    regular   annual    meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Consolidated 

California  and  Virginia  Miuing  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the 

company,  room  58,  Nevada  Ilock  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 

California,  on 

Monday,  the  1  7th  day  of  October.  1 882.  at  the  hour  of  1  P.  M. 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  Thursday,  October  13th,  1892,  at  3 
o'clock  P.  M.  A.  W.  HAVENS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  58,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco, 
California. 

For  Supervisor,  'Third  Ward, 

WILLIAM     MONTGOMERY, 
(Proprietor  American  Exchange  Hotel.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Assembly,  3Stb   District, 

BERT     SCHLESINGER, 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 
For  State  Senator,  21st  Senatorial  District, 

WM.     J.     BIGGY, 
(Pledged  to  support  the  Traffic  Association.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 


For  Coroner, 


For  Sheriff, 


DR.  Wm.    T.     GARWOOD, 
(Present  Incumbent.) 

Regular  Republican  Nominee 

H.     H.     SCOTT, 

Non-partisan    Candidate. 


For  County  Clerk, 


GEORGE  W.  LEE, 

Regular  Republican    Nominee. 


October  15,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


THERE  is  nothing  among  little  things  that  impresses  one  more 
in  the  fashionable  quarters  of  Paris  than  the  ganged  shades 
that  one  sees  at  almost  every  window.  They  are  the  daintiest, 
Frenchiest,  most  decorative  things  imaginable,  and  so  easy  to 
make,  withal,  that  any  one  used  to  sewing  can  manufacture 
with  little  effort  these  fetching  silken  things.  One  has  only  to 
run  on  some  stripes  lengthwise  of  the  silk  or  stuff  chosen  for  the 
shades,  as  far  apart  as  one  wishes  her  gauges  to  be,  fourteen 
inches  being  an  effective  distance,  and  then  run  tapes  through 
them  and  draw  up  till  the  silk  falls  in  festoons.  On  the  whole 
shadow  lace  is  the  prettiest  decoration  for  the  bottom,  but  on  the 
colored  one  plaited  frills  or  bright  fringe  are  required.  Cords 
and  tassels,  too,  are  often  added  where  the  gauges  end.  But 
however  treated,  whether  elaborately  or  simply,  these  shades 
are  always  beautiful.  They  are  rolled  on  a  common  roller  like 
any  plain  shade,  and  may  be  drawn  and  raised  at  will. 

There's  another  that  is  jast  as  pretty;  not  a  bit  gorgeous,  only 
truly  original  and  pleasing.  The  material  is  vigoge,  the  color  is 
bright  leopard,  that  pretty  shade  which  goes  so  well  with  a  bright 
scarlet.  The  cloak  is  cut  loosely,  falling  more  than  a  three-quar- 
ter length.  It  stands  apart  a  little  at  the  throat,  and  then  the  loose- 
ness is  gathered  together  at  the  belt,  so  that  there  is  a  narrow 
open  V  down  the  front.  There  is  a  little  pointed  fancy  belt 
catching  the  looseness.  Over  the  cloak  fall  two  capes,  lined  with 
dainty  scarlet  silk.  One  is  quite  long,  falling  to  the  waist,  the 
other  is  very  short,  just  reaching  the  shoulders.  It  is  put  on  full, 
this  second  one,  in  regular  deep  waves.  The  capes  and  the  cloak 
proper  are  all  trimmed  with  a  single  row  of  scarlet  silk  braid. 
The  high  standing  collar  has  three  rows  of  it.  Now  this  cloak  is 
designed  to  wear  with  a  dress,  finely  striped  in  exactly  the  same 
shades  as  those  of  the  coat — leopard  and  scarlet.  And  when  the 
dress  and  cloak  were  laid  together  side  by  side,  I  almost  envied 
the  girl  that  was  to  wear  them. 


A  beautiful  short  coat,  that  is,  comparatively  short,  is  made  of 
black  bengaline.  Astrakhan  of  beautiful  quality  forms  a  turn- 
down collar,  a  yoke  back  and  front,  and  a  narrow  front  which 
runs  down  straight  to  the  edge  of  the  coat.  At  each  side  of  the 
astrakhan  front,  starting  at  the  yoke,  fall  box  plaits  of  the  ben- 
galine. At  the  back  the  only  adornment  is  one  large  double 
plait.  It  is  very  dressy,  and  yet  more  quiet  than  any  of  the 
others. 

A  magnificent  carriage  cloak  is  of  pearl  gray  velveteen,  and 
falls  from  a  deep  rounding  yoke  of  sage  green  plush  in  two  box 
plaits  in  front,  and  two  likewise  in  back.  Pearl  gray  passemen- 
terie bands  with  silk  tassel  ends  fall  from  the  sage  yoke  over  on 
the  plaits.  The  sleeves  have  a  top  puff  of  sage,  and  a  tight  puff 
of  gray  below. 

Another  cloak  has  a  tight-fitting,  sbort-waisted  jacket,  com- 
pletely covered  with  delicate  braiding.  From  tne  jacket  hangs 
the  skirt  of  the  garment,  long  and  plain  in  front,  but  in  the  back 
made  of  two  box  plaits.  Over  the  skirt,  alaiost  completely  cov- 
ering it,  falls  a  deep  fringe  of  silk  and  beads. 

A  gorgeous  wrap  is  of  dark  green  velvet,  shot  with  dull  red. 
It  is  trimmed  at  the  edge  and  collar  with  very  full  feather  trim- 
ming of  the  two  colors  combined.  There  is  a  good  deal  of  gold  on 
the  wraps — bands  in  front,  sleeve  pieces  and  collar  trimming  of 
it. 

A  rich  bright  green  cloth  has  a  turn-back  collar  of  black 
astrakhan,  with  revers  so  short  and  broad  that  they  seem  to 
form  a  yoke;  then  the  astrakhan  is  continued  narrowly  down 
the  front,  and  also  in  bands  from  under  the  arms. 

A  dark  fawn  wrap,  which  touches  the  ground,  has  a  regular 
overwork  design  in  black  passementerie  and  braiding,  which  de- 
fines a  jacket  on  the  long  garment.  Over  each  high  shoulder 
hangs  long  fringes,  also  in  black. 

Nothing  gives  a  lady  greater  delight  than  the  knowledge  of 
the  fact  that  her  hat  or  bonnet  is  the  latest  out,  is  a  band- 
some  creation,  and  well  becomes  her.  The  many  ladies  of  fashion 
who  give  San  Francisco  the  reputation  of  having  the  best  dressed 
women  in  America  will  therefore  be  pleased  to  learn  that  the 
Maze,  that  popular  emporium  of  art  and  fashion,  has  received  by 
special  shipment  from  Paris  the  very  latest  designs  in  pattern 
trimmed  hats.  They  are  beautiful  works  of  art,  and  every  woman 
in  town  should  go  at  once  to  see  them.  The  Maze  is  in  direct 
communication  with  all  the  great  centres  of  fashion,  and  receives 
immediately  everything  that  is  new  in  the  millinery  world. 


NEW     FALL 

S5YCE5  j\p  fl0l/£CJIE5 


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DRY    GOODS    AND     CLOAKS 
ffou/  Or?   Imbibition. 

Our  unequalled  importations  of  the  new  season's  goods 

place  us  in  better  position  than  ever  before  to 

meet  the  wants  of  our  patrons  with 

THE  LARGEST  AND   MOST  COMPLETE  ASSORTMENTS. 

THE  LATEST  AND  MOST  ELEGANT  STYLES,   and 

THE  VERY  BEST  VALUES  IN  THE  MARKET. 


Building. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND   MCALLISTER  STS. 


THE  BRENTWOOD-^- 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  18SS. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  <&  Co.,  Now  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Quiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeock  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 


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OME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  lace  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot— pot  lasts  three  months. 

Mrs.  Nettie  Habkison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.  Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLHOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    GUARANTEED    PERMANENT. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


SONG    OF    THE    SEASONS.— E.  Nesbit. 


SING  I    Sing  of  the  birth  of  Spring, 
Bluebells,  and  violets,  and  May  ! 
Pale  sweet  primroses  blossoming 

Down   in    the   leafy    way — 
Dreams  and  hopes  as  light  as  the  bloom 

Drifted    on    orchard   grass — 
Spring  I   re  risen  from  winter's  tomb — 
Spring  that  mast  die,  alas! 

Sing  of   summer,  a  splendid  song, 

8am mer   royally    fair — 
When  nights  are  white,  and  days  are  long, 

And  the   jasmine  scents  the  air. 
When  the  nightingales  sing  of   love, 

And  the  red,  red  roses  blow — 
These  are  the  notes  to  make  music  of  1 

Ah,  that  Summer  must  go  I 

Make  a  song  for  the  Autumn  pale  ! 

Gather  the  dead  red  leaves, 
Catch  the  sob  of  the  winds  that  wail 

Over  the  lost  gold  sheaves. 
Weave  them  into  a  song  that  sighs 

Over  the  days  gone  by — 
Sing  to  the  silence  the  heart  that  cries 

Even  Autumn  must  die  !" 

Sing  of  the  Winter  !   of  ice  and  snow, 

Woodlands  dreary  and  bare, 
Haunted  by  ghosts  of  flowers  that  will  blow 

When  the  Spring  shall  be  there  ! 
"When  the  Spring  shall  be  there  !"     At  last 

Joy  through  the  song  rings  clear; 
Winter,  too,  shall  be  over  and  past — 

Past — and  the  Spring  be  here  I 


THE    BLACK    KNIGHT.  -Alfred  Austin. 


The  crab,  the  bullace  and  the  sloe, 

They  burgeon  in  the  Spring: 
And  when  the  west  wind  melts  the  snow, 

The  redstarts   build  and  sing. 
But  Death's  work  at  rind  and  root, 

And  loves  the  green  buds  best; 

And  when  the  pairing  music's  mute, 

He  spares  the  empty  nest. 

Death  1     Death  1 
Death  is  master  of  lord  and  clown; 

Close  the  coffin  and  hammer  it  down. 

When  nuts  are  brown  and  sere  without, 

And  white  and  plump  within, 
And  juicy  gourds  are  passed  about, 

And  tickle  down  tbe  chin: 
When  comes  the  reaper  with  his  scythe, 

And  reaps  and  nothing  leaves, 
Oh,  then  it  is  that  Death  is  blithe, 

And  sups  among  the  sheaves. 

Death  1     Death  ! 
Lower  the  coffin  and  slip  the  cord; 

Death  is  master  of  clown  and  lord. 

When  logs  about  the  bouse  are  stacked, 

And  next  year's  hose  is  knit, 
And  tales  are  told  and  jokes  are  cracked, 

And  faggots  blaze  and  spit; 
Death  sits  down  in  tbe  ingle-nook. 

Sits  down  and  dotb  not  speak; 
But  he  puts  his  arm  round  the  maid  that's  warm, 

And  she  tingles  in  the  cheek. 

Death  !     Death  1 
Death  is  master  of  lord  and  clown: 
Shovel  the  clay  in,  tread  it  down. 


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WHERE  EVERYBODY  COULD  SEE  THEM.- Chicago  Tribune. 


Under  a  spreading  maple  tree 
They  sat  in  a  hammock — he  and  she. 
Her  arms  arouni  his  neck  were  twined, 
And  her  head  on  his  manly  breast  reclined. 

He  whispered  into  her  willing  ear, 

He  called  her  his  love,  his  pet,  his  dear, 

To  his  heart  in  ecstasy  he  caught  her — 

Well,  why  not  ?     'Twas  his  own  little  daughter. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Bbown.    Cashier  |  B.  Murbay.Jt  ..  .  Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  Bank  of  California;  BOSTON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland.O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Main.  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama.  Genoa,  and  all  cities  In  Italy  and  Switzerland- 


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 


IS.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 
Established  1870.  U.  S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) 91.600,000 

SURPLUS. $600,000  I   UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $1  50.000 

8.  G.  MURPHY. President!  E.  D.MORGAN  Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT.. .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass  t  CaBhier 

DIRECTORS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

'A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 

S\FE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 

JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 

Safes  to  rent  from  J5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 

the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 

storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK.  Limited. 


Authorized  Capital $3,500,000 

Reserve 


Capital  paid  up.  2,450,000 

450,000 


San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  |  London  Office 73  Lombard  St.. E.  C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex* 
ohange  Business  in  London  and  San  FranciBCo,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 41,250.000. 

Successor  to  Satheb  it  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    L.N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  ",Vm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  P.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York — Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston — Downer  <fc  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago — Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  COMPANY-BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutter  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL   $      500,00000 

SURPLUS 5,488.393.12 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000^00 

01  RECTORS: 

John  J.   Valentine,   President;    Lloyd  Tevis,    Leland    Stanford,   Oliver 

Eldridge.  James  C.  Fargo.  Geo,  E.   Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.   F.  Goad, 

Dudley    Evans.    Henry    Wadsworth,  Cashier.    Homer  ti.  King,  Manager. 

J.  L.  Browne,  Assistant  Cashier. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL >l  .UOU.0OO. 

DIRECTORS : 
CHAS.  P.  CBOCKEB,  |  E.  H.  MILLEB,  Je. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W.  E.  BBOWN Vice-Peesident. 

WM.  H,  CBOCKEB       Cashieb 

SECORITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 

guarantee  Capital $800,000 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary S.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  S.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Eeal  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street.  San  Franclsoc. 

HUMBOLDT  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  18  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Incorporated November  24,  1S69. 

ADOLPH  C.   WEBER, President  |  ERNST   BRAND Secretaby. 


Oct.  15.  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


THE  prevention  of  accidents  from  explosive  gases  in  coal  mines 
by  means  of  a  water  cartridge,  as  proposed  some  time  sinGe, 
appears  on  experiment  to  have  proved  very  successful.  As 
managed  for  this  purpose,  an  explosive  charge  of  tonite  is  placed 
in  a  tin  tube  of  a  size  suitable  for  a  shot  hole,  the  tube  is  filled 
with  water,  and  the  cartridge  suspended  in  it  by  means  of  a  wire 
connection  with  the  detonator,  the  tube  being  securely  plugged, 
the  cartridge  placed  in  the  shot  bole,  and  rammed  in  the  usual 
way.  Thus,  as  is  claimed,  there  is  no  flame  when  the  charge  is 
exploded,  and  consequently  no  danger  of  igniting  gas,  while  at 
the  same  time  the  coal  is  not  shattered  as  in  ordinary  blasting.  An 
account  of  some  of  the  tests  made  with  this  cartridge  shows  that, 
in  one  case,  four  ordinary  shots  were  fired  in  the  coal  with  four- 
ounce  charges  of  tonite  without  any  flame  being  observed.  In 
another  and  severe  test  two  blow-out  shots  were  tried  in  hard 
metal,  with  no  indication  of  flame,  while,  as  a  final  test,  a  loaded 
cartridge  was  fired  on  the  mine  floor,  and  again  there  was  no  indi- 
cation of  flame,  these  results  showing  unquestionably  the  abso- 
lutely flameless  properties  of  the  cartridge. 

—  One  of  the  most  unique  mechanical  devices  resorted  to  of 
late  is  that  for  inclined  and  horizontal  log  hauling  at  the  Hudson 
River  paper  pulp  mills.  The  arrangement  consists  of  an  endless 
detached  chain  running  in  a  recess  at  the  bottom  of  a  trough, 
having  special  links  with  log  teeth  every  five  feet,  and  passing 
over  sprocket  wheels  whose  centres  are  200  feet  apart.  The  head 
wheel  is  25  feet  above  the  foot  wheel,  and  the  head  end  of  the  chain 
swings  and  can  be  raised  or  lowered  by  means  of  a  small  winch 
to  suit  the  depth  of  the  water.  The  logs  are  floated  to  the  haul- 
up,  and,  as  they  come  around  the  foot  wheel,  are  caught  on  the 
teeth  of  the  chain  and  carried  up  the  incline  at  the  rate  of  125  feet 
a  minute;  on  arriving  at  the  top  they  are  discharged  into  a  horizon- 
tal log-haul,  having  head  and  foot  wheels  nearly  600  feet  apart, 
the  whole  being  similarly  constructed  to  the  inclined  haul — the  re- 
turn chain  supported  by  toothed  idlers — and  a  deflecting  piece  is 
placed  across  the  horizontal  conveyor,  by  which  the  logs,  elevated 
by  the  chain,  are  thrown  out  of  the  trough  and  rolled  over  the 
side  upon  long  skids.  Great  saving  of  time  and  cost  is  thus  affected, 
25  horse  power  being  employed,  though  some  of  the  logs  are  of 
immense  size. 

— —  It  was  only  a  few  years  ago  that  the  first  wire  nails  were 
nsed  in  this  country,  but  now  the  industry  has  attained  large 
proportions.  This  is  well  shown  by  a  machine  recently  shipped 
from  Greenpoint,  N.  Y.,  to  Everett,  Washington.  The  machine 
weighed  twelve  and  a  half  tons,  and  turns  out  nails — spikes 
would  be  a  better  term — seven-sixteenth  of  an  inch  in  diameter, 
12  inches  long  and  weighing  just  half  a  pound  each.  The  wire 
from  which  they  are  made  passes  between  a  series  of  rolls  which 
straighten  it,  and  is  then  grasped  by  a  pair  of  jaws  which  pull  it 
forward  the  proper  distance  to  make  a  nail.  It  is  then  firmly 
gripped  in  another  set  of  jaws  and  the  head  is  formed  by  a  power- 
ful blow  with  a  die  of  the  proper  snape.  The  headed  wire  is  then 
pushed  along  until  other  dies  cut  off  and  shape  the  point  and  the 
finished  nail  falls  from  the  machine.  If  any  one  had  prophesied 
five  years  ago  that  the  little  wire  brads  then  coming  into  use 
would  be  followed  in  a  few  years  by  such  spikes,  he  would  have 
found  few  believers. 

According  to  a  paper  recently  read  before  the  Engineers'  Club, 
Philadelphia,  on  the  proper  limit  of  thickness  to  steel  which  may 
be  punched,  the  statement  is  made  that  the  thicker  the  steel  the 
greater  the  damage  caused  by  such  an  operation.  Recent  tests 
made  to  determine  this  matter  are  declared  to  indicate  that  punch- 
ing injures  steel  less  than  iron  up  to,  say,  three-quarters  of  an 
inch  in  thickness,  at  which  point  the  two  materials  are  about 
equal  in  this  respect,  and  beyond  this  point  the  value  of  steel 
after  punching  decreases  quite  rapidly  as  the  thickness  increases ; 
in  iron  the  percentage  seems  to  be  much  more  constant.  The 
character  of  the  fracture  after  punching  is  also  found  to  be  ma- 
terially affected  by  the  thickness  of  the  material.  In  view  of 
these  circumstances,  it  is  proposed  to  limit  to  one-half  inch  the 
thickness  of  the  metal  subjected  to  punching,  excepting  in  the 
case  of  girders  of  more  than  fifty  feet  in  length,  when  it  may'be 
nine-sixteenths  of  an  inch  ;  in  top  cords  and  end  posts,  five-eighths 
of  an  inch;  and  in  shoes,  pedestals,  and  bed  plates,  three-quarters 
of  an  inch. 

Drink  the  John  F.  Cutter  whisky.  It  is  unparalleled.  Nowhere 
can  better  whisky  be  found  than  this,  which  enjoys  the  proud  dis- 
tinction of  having  no  superior  in  the  market.  It  never  leaves  un- 
pleasant effects,  and  is  always  very  palatable.  The  John  F.  Cutter 
has  been  pronounced  sublime  by  the  best  judges. 

The  establishment  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  353-357  Tehama  street, 
needs  no  praise,  as  it  is  too  favorably  known  throughout  the  city  to 
require  fulsome  notice.  The  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of 
this  firm  turn  out  the  best  work  ever  executed  in  this  city.  The  firm 
enjoys  the  patronage  of  all  the  best  people  in  the  city. 


S-A_nsrjK:s- 


BANK    OF    BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,250,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE   60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nauaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  BHIb  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  aud  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

532  California  Street,  Comer  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1893 925,890,653  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  aud  Surplus 1,433, 130  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Albert  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  mouey.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Omce  Hours— y  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  ti:30  to  8. 

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVIN6S  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805  Market  Street   (Flood  Building),  San   Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital 11,000,000.00  j  Surplus  Profits %     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital 333,333.33  |  Deposits,  Jan.  1, 1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS  WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  MCDONALD . . Vice-President 

J.  E.  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

This  bank  receives  Havings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, in  sums  of  one  dollar  and  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND 5    1,646,000  00. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  [892 28,776,697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOT  TIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H,  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbqe. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELANi   S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 

interest"  naid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
eeurities.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON,  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

IS.  W.  Cop.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubBcried  Capital $2,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office       58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Bonle 
yard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altbchtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

ramtiil  Authorized {6,000,000  I  Paid  up ?1,500,000 

ffiribPd  3  000  000    Reserve  Fund 700,000 

BUDSC      eu  ■  ■  '■  head  Office-S  Angel  i.ourt,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seli-man  4  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  I  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 

srauhic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

world.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money .buys  and  sells  exchanga 

and  bullion.  fj  HS^  |  Managers. 

A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  good;    Extras  J4.15@$4  25:    Superfine,  $2  fiO@J3.10. 

Wheat— Good  trade;  Shipping,  $1.32l£:  Milling,  $1.35@tl.37%  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  95c. @?1  Feed,  81c.@S5c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  ?1.30@H.3d;  Feed,  tl.25@fl.274  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1.35;  Yellow,  fl.20@f  1.30  per  ctl. 

Rye  is  higher,  good  demand,  fl.20@fl.25.    Cement,  f2.00@f2.25. 

Hay  is  higher;  Wheat,  $11;  Oats,  $7@f9;  Alfalfa,  f7@f9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  fl6@f  16.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  f2.00@f 2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  60o.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  higher;  Choice,  35c. @40c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10e.    Eggs,  free  supply,  30e.@40c. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c. @12c. ;  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  40c@50c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25e. 

Fruit — all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@74c.     Wool  is  m  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5*^c.@5%c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  19c.@21c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  f4l.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  5%(ft6%c. 

The  first  winter  rain  atorm  of  the  season  occurred  on  Saturday 
night,  the  8th  inst.,  and  it  was  quite  general  throughout  the 
State.  Some  injury  was  done  to  the  grape  crop,  more  especially 
in  the  raisin-drying  localities,  that  had  not  been  fully  matured 
for  the  market. 

Exports  to  foreign  countries  since  January  1st,  say  for  nine 
months,  $21,998,760;  same  period  1891,  $34,018,523.  Decrease 
this  year,  $12,019,768. 

Domestic  exports  to  Eastern  States  by  sea  since  January  1st 
aggregated  $5,896,518,  and  the  combined  total  shipments  by  sea, 
home  and  foreign,  for  the  past  nine  months,  aggregate  $27,895,278. 
New  York. — The  ship  Francis,  139  daya  thence  to  Sutton  & 
Beebe,  brought  a  large  cargo  of  general  merchandise,  some  25,000 
packages. 

The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  City  of  Sydney,  from  the  Isthmus, 
brought  New  York  cargo  as  follows  :  86  bales  Sheetings,  500  cs. 
Soap,  165  pkgs.  Wine,  197  pkgs.  Steel  and  250  pkgs.  Merchandise, 
also  from  Europe,  832  cs.  Olive  Oil,  114  pkgs.  Merchandise;  from 
Central  and  South  America,  462  bags  Coffee,  200  bags  Cocoa,  etc. ; 
from  Mexico,  864  cs.  Limes,  175  sks.  Ore,  and  Treasure,  $44,299. 

The  stmr.  Belgic,  for  China,  carried  19  076  bbls.  Flour,  12,850 
lbs.  Pearl  Barley,  9.220  lbs.  Ginseng,  and  Mdse.,  value,  $100,706; 
to  Japan,  784  bbls.  Flour,  1,600  gals.  Wine,  1,405  lbs.  Dried  Fruit, 
etc.,  value,  $18,973;  to  East  Indies,  75  cs.  Salmon;  to  Manila,  500 
bbls.  Flour,  value,  $2,075. 

Ho  for  New  York — The  ship  S.  D.  Carleton,  hence,  carried  5,002 
cs.  Salmon,  2,695  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  385  Cedar  Logs,  3,673  lbs. 
Beeswax,  1,409  gals.  Brandy,  50,345  gala.  Wine,  23,805  lbs.  Copper 
Cement,  157.700  lbs.  Bone  Black,  etc.,  22,622  ctls.  Barley,  9,872 
lbs.  Copper,  113,900  lbs.  Lead,  147.672  lbs.  Mustard  Seed,  546  logs 
Primavera,  53  525  lbs.  Silicon,  etc. ;  to  other  Eastern  cities,  4,500 
ca.  Canned  Fruit,  1,050  ca.  Salmon,  2.640  gala.  Wine,  etc. 

Hawaii — The  bk.  S.  C.  Allen,  hence,  carried  975  bbls.  Flonr, 
18,586  lbs.  Rolled  Barley.  3,020  ctls.  ditto,  1,775  lbs.  Cracked  Corn, 
822  ctls.  Oats,  2,044  sks.  Bran,  etc.,  all  for  Honolulu,  value, 
$20,1,24.  The  Ceylon,  from  Honolulu,  brought  us  9,958  ska.  Sugar, 
500  aks.  Rice,  etc. 

The  strur.  San  Bias,  for  Central  America,  carried  612  bbls.  Flour, 
10,560  lba.  Lard,  25,700  lbs.  Malt,  41,240  lbs.  Tallow,  43,740  lbs. 
Sulphate  Copper,  and  other  Mdse.,  value,  $15,425;  to  South 
America,  150  bbls.  Flour,  130,210  lbs.  Malt,  value,  $3,504;  to 
Panama,  250  bbls.  Flour,  150  crts.  Onions,  20,000  Rice,  8,000  lba. 
Sugar,  etc. ;  for  New  York,  etc.,  40.000  gala.  Wine,  160  balea  Rags, 
332.767  lbs.  Mustard  Seed,  1,000  gals.  Brandy,  etc. 

Flour  for  Ecuador — The  schr.  General  Banning  sailed  hence 
for  Guayaquil  on  the  8th  inst.,  carrying  2,655  bbls.,  valued  at 
$10,620. 

Our  Wheat  and  Flour  shipments  by  sea  since  January  1st.  nine 
months,  aggregate,  Wheat,  $10,064,141;  Flour,  $3,269,505;  1891, 
Wheat,  $18  814,912;  Flour,  $4,102,169;  1892,  decrease,  Wheat, 
$8,750,771;  Flour,  $832,655. 

Kodiak — Stmr.  Jeanie,  19  days  thence,  brought  for  cargo  194 
bbla.  Salmon  to  the  Alaaka  Commercial  Company. 

The  schr.  Pitcairn,  59  days  from  Pitcairn  Island,  had  for  cargo 
3,200  Cocoanuts  and  51  bxs.  Curios  to  Pacific  Press. 

Exports  to  Mexico — The  achr.  Czar,  hence  for  Mazatlan  or.  the 
8th  inst.,  had  for  cargo  Mdse.  valued  at  $11,317,  including  7,015 
lbs.  Sago,  40  M.  feet  Lumber,  600  cs.  Dynamite,  200  gals.  Mescal, 
110  Hsks.  Quicksilver,  etc. 

Kahului — Brig  John  D.  Spreckels,  15  days  thence,  had  for 
cargo  365  bags  Sugar  and  75  tons  8crap  Iron. 


John  C.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  haa  recently  laid  in  a 
atock  of  the  finest  and  latest  furnishing  goods  for  autumn  wear.  He 
always  gives  satisfaction. 


The  most  delicious  oysters  in  the  city  are  those  to  be  found  only 
in  Moraghan's  popular  stall  in  the  California  Market. 


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capital $1,000,000,1  assets $3,000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

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THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Pali  Up $400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 2/8  AND  220  SANSOMC  STRtCT, 

San   Francisco,  California. 


GEORGE  L.  BRANDER, 

President 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up $     500,000 

Assets  .... 3,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,525,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— SOI  Montgomery  St.     General  Otnce— 401  Mont's,  St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY  COMPANY 

OF    BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital $1,000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40to44Piue  Street 

MAXWELL  &  BERRY,  Oeneral  Agents. 

421  California  Street. 


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The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London. 
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WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,    214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

SWAIN  &  MURDOCK,  City  Agents. 


ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital  $25,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office.  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 

HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY   AND   COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

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AT  THE  WOBKS  OF 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  GASLIGHT  COMPANY, 

HOWARD  AND  FIRST  STS..  and  FOOT  OF  SECOND  STREET. 

LAVER,    MULLANY    &   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office:  93  Flood  Building;,  4  or.  4th  and  Market  Sis.,  S.  F. 


Oct.   16,  1892. 


bAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


25 


IMPORTANT    MINING    CONSOLIDATION. 

WE  are  informed  that  there  has  been  concluded  this  week  in 
Ibis  city  a  very  important  arrangement,  by  which  the  Heed 
Mines  Consolidated  Company  have  acquired  possession  of  the  Kit 
Carson  and  Spanish  mines,  together  with  millsites  and  other 
property  belonging  to  the  estate  of  the  Joshua  Hendy  Machine 
Works,  The  Heed  Mines  Consolidated  Company  is  a  corporation 
whose  president  is  John  L.  Howard,  of  the  Oregon  Improvement 
Company,  and  the  secretary  is  A.  L.  Cheminant,  of  20  and  21 
Nevada  Block.  This  company  is  engaged  in  developing  a  very 
large  and  valuable  mining  property  in  the  Old  Diggings  District  of 
6basta  county,  where  they  are  in  possession  of  six  mining  claims 
and  a  stamp  null.  The  claims  have  f<>ur  separate  and  parallel 
ledges  of  gold-bearing  quartz,  running  through  five  thousand  feet 
of  the  property.  Three  of  the  ledges  have  been  cut  with  tunnels 
at  a  depth  of  50  feet,  75  feet  and  200  feet  respectively,  and  the 
rock  assays  on  an  average  from  ? 5  up  to  $25  a  ton,  many  bunches 
of  high  grade  ore  have  been  found  to  go  as  high  as  $12,000  a  ton. 
The  concentrates  from  the  average  rock,  after  the  free  gold  has 
been  extracted,  goes  over  $400  a  ton,  and  some  of  the  sulphuret 
ore  pays  to  select  and  ship  to  the  smelting  works  direct.  The 
gold-bearing  ledges  on  the  property  run  from  two  feet  to  eight 
feet  in  thickness,  and  the  formation  is  porphyritic  and  metamor- 
phic,  similar  to  the  formation  in  the  Grass  Valley  district  of  Ne- 
vada county. 

The  Joshua  Hendy  Mines,  now  acquired  by  the  Heed  Mines 
Consolidated  Co.,  lie  adjoining,  between  the  Reed  Mines  and  the 
road.  There  are  two  ledges  on  this  property  parallel  to  the  ledges 
on  the  Reea  property,  so  that  the  consolidation  will  result  in  one  of 
the  most  extensive  mining  operations  in  the  hands  of  one  company 
in  this  State.  The  managing  director,  Mr.  Kobert  Stevenson,  of  this 
city,  informs  us  that  two  shafts  will  be  sunk  on  the  property  as 
soon  as  arrangements  can  be  made  with  contractors  for  the  pur- 
pose, and  that  the  continuity  and  value  of  the  ledges  will  be 
proved  to  a  depth  of  500  feet  before  any  stopping  or  cross-cutting 
be  attempted.  One  of  the  shafts  has  already  been  sunk  40  feet 
on  the  ledge  which  was  3  feet  thick  on  the  surface,  and  yielded 
$10  a  ton  in  free  gold  and  $15  a  ton  in  sulphurets.  The  ledge  at 
the  bottom  of  the  shaft  has  widened  to  five  feet,  and  shows  a 
value  of  $20  in  free  gold  and  $25  in  sulphurets.  That  shaft  will 
be  continued  to  a  depth  of  300  feet,  following  the  ledge  all  the  way. 
"When  the  work  on  hand  is  completed,  with  the  expenditure  of 
firty-five  thousand  dollars,  to  be  raised  from  the  stock  in  the  com- 
pany's treasury,  there  will  then  be  opened  up  ready  for  sloping, 
at  the  lowest  estimate,  five  h  undred  thousand  tons  of  gold-bearing 
quartz  which  is  expected  to  yield  about  $20  a  ton.  There  will 
be  no  difficulty  then  in  selling  the  property  to  a  large  company 
for  about  five  millions  of  dollars,  and  as  this  will  be  done  ex- 
clusively by  the  sale  of  Treasury  stock,  free  from  assessments,  it 
will  be  seen  what  a  good  thing  this  is  for  an  investment. 
As  the  first  ten  thousand  shares  of  treasury  stock  are  offered 
at  $1  per  share  and  the  next  ten  thousand  will  not  be  sold  for  less 
than  $2  50  it  will  be  seen  that  the  value  of  this  stock  will  more  than 
double  every  three  months.  The  Directors  and  their  friends  have  al- 
ready taken  five  thousand  shares  at  $1  a  share,  and  the  Pacific  Bank 
being  the  Depositary  for  the  Heed  Mines  Consolidated  Company, 
will  dispose  of  the  other  five  thousand  shares  at  $1  a  share  to  the 
first  applicants,  and  no  more  stock  can  be  sold  at  that  price. 

Here  is  a  chance  for  bona  fide  investors,  who  wish  to  handle 
their  own  securities  and  not  be  called  on  to  pay  assessments.  A 
good  mine  is  never  depreciated  by  competition.  It  does  not  re- 
quire an  army  of  drummers  to  sell  the  bullion,  and  if  proper  care 
is  taken  to  make  good  selections  and  skilled  superintendents  ap- 
pointed, investments  in  mines,  taking  all  the  failures  into  con- 
sideration, should  pay  dividends  regularly  of  twenty-five  per 
cent,  per  annum  on  the  capital  invested.  The  public  are  just 
beginning  to  awaken  to  the  possibilities  of  mining  when  carried 
on  honestly  and  skillfully.  We  will  carefully  watch  the  progress 
of  this  well  considered  attempt  at  legitimate  mining,  and  will 
keep  our  readers  fully  posted  from  time  to  time  on  the  results, 
and  if  it  does  not  prove  a  very  great  success  we  will  know  the 
reason  why.  We  may  say  that  full  particulars  can  be  learned 
from  Mr.  Howard,  the  President;  A.  S.  Cheminant,  the  Secre- 
tary, and  the  Pacific  Bank,  the  Depositary. 

A  Talk  in  Private.— Some  drinking  men  dislike  the  idea  of  going 
to  a  gold  cure  institute.  There  is  no  publicity  at  Haywards,  Cal., 
where  the  Monroe  Improved  Gold  Cure  Institute  is  located.  Write 
for  circulars,  or  if  vou  prefer,  an  agent  of  the  company  will  visit 
you  at  your  home,  and  talk  it  over.  San  Francisco  office,  111  Grant 
avenue.  

Go  to  the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  213  Sutter  street,  if  you  want 
to  enjoy  one  of  the  very  best  dinners  in  town.  This  restaurant  has 
for  years  been  famous  as  a  place  where  one  could  enjoy  all  the  deli- 
cacies of  the  season,  prepared  in  a  manner  known  only  to  the  best  of 
chefs. 

Go  to  the  Maison  Hiche,  at  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue,  if  you 
would  enjoy  a  dinner  fit  for  Lucullus.  The  Pviche  is  the  favorite 
dining  place  of  epicures. 

Inflamed  eyes  and  lids  permanently  cured  if  caused  by  defective  sigh^j 
Consult  (free  of  charge)  C.  Muller,  refraction  specialist,  135  Montgomery 
street. 


IJSTSTTia-A.3SrCE. 


TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  L.  Low,  Manager  for  tile  Pacific  Coast  Branch, 

22u  SauNome  St.,  S.  F. 

Capital    ....         $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.   S *     534,795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
233  California  St.,  S.  F..  Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BA8LE.  OP  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL 4.000.000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  lor  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed $10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000  000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2  125  000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1838 6.124.057.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

305  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 


pacific  nDEPA.iaTnvc^insrT 
GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF  LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -   -    -     t  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 


OF  LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -      $2,222,724. 


■  WM.  J.  LMERS,  fien'I  Agent,  20&  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL $5,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  519,724,538.45. 

President.  -RENJAMIN  V.  STEVENS,  i  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  6tored  in  Warehouses. 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD, 

[^or  MANCHESTER  ,  Efs|  f3 1_>^,N|D.  $ 

Capital  paid  fij  guaranteed  5.13,000,000,00. 

Ci las  A  Latojst,  Manager, 
453  California  St.  San  Frairc.saa, 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


SUNBEAMS 


A  CERTAIN  minister,  not  a  thousand  miles  from  here,  loves  a 
dollar  with  a  close  affection.  Not  long  ago  a  young  man 
asked  him  how  muchhewould  charge  to  marry  a  couple.  «  Well," 
said  the  preacher.  "  the  bridegroom  payswhathe  pleases,  but  I  never 
charge  less  than  $10."  "  Whew  !  "  exclaimed  the  prospective  bride- 
groom, "  that's  a  good  lot  of  money.  I  thought  that  kind  of  work 
went  in  with  your  regular  salary."  "  Oh,  no,"  explained  the  minister, 
"  salvation  is  free,  but  it  costs  money  to  get  married." 

— Detroit  Free  Press. 

Miss  Muffit,  the  fairy, 

Sat  in  her  dairy, 

Enjoying  curd  mastication; 
A  creature  nefarious 
Grew  too  gregarious, 

And  Miss  Muffit  lost  all  her  elation. 

— Chicago  News  Record. 

Briggs  — How  is   Peterkin  getting  along  with  his  wife?      She 

seemed  rather  a  high  spirited  girl.  Griggs — Nothing  could  be  smoother. 
I  tell  you.  old  man,  it's  a  case  of  genuine  love.  That  girl  just  worships 
him.  Briggs—  What  makes  you  think  so?  Griggs—  Why,  they  have 
been  married  six  months,  and  he  told  me  confidentially  the  other  day 
that  she  still  continued  to  put  his  studs  in  his  dress  shirt. — Masson. 

The  lecturer  on  theosophy  has   concluded:  "If  there  is  any 

question,"  he  said,  "  that  any  of  you  would  like  to  ask  me  before  I 
sit  down,  I  should  be  pleased  to  answer  it."  Amid  the  deep  silence 
that  followed  this  remark  an  earnest  looking  man  near  the  door  rose 
up  and  said:  "I'd  like  to  know,  professor,  if  anybody  has  ever  yet 
discovered  a  reliable  and  certain  cure  for  warts !  " — Chicago  Tribune. 

^^Ikenstein  (to  his  little  son) — Ikey.  get  der  hatchet  und  chop  oop 
dot  parrel  into  kintlin'  vood.  Ikey — Oh.  gif  it  to  me,  Fadder!  "  Vat 
you  yant  mit  it?  "  "  Vy.  I  yoost  read  mit  der  paper  dat  a  gommon 
flour  parrel  vould  hold  678,000  silfer  tollars.  und'  I'm  goin'  to  dry  to 
till  dot  parrel  out  you  gifs  it  to  me."  "  Dot's  right,  Ikey.  Alvays 
be  egonomical,  und  ven  you  gets  dot  parrel  full  I  gifs  you  a  gouple 
more."  —Puck. 

Bingo—  I've  got  to  go  to  a  club  dinner  to-night,  my  dear.    Mrs. 

Bingo — But  you  are  not  going  to  put  on  your  dress  suit,  are  you? 
Bingo — Certainly  I  am  !  Why  not?  Mrs.  Bingo — Just  think  how  it 
will  look,  dear,  to  be  walking  along  the  street  to-morrow  morning  in 
broad  daylight  with  a  dress  suit  on.  — Masson. 

He  said  if  she  would  give  him  a  kiss  he  would  not  ask  for  an- 
other. •■  But,  dear,"  shesaid  roguishly,  "  whatif  I  wanted  another?  " 
"  Oh,  that  will  be  all  right!  "  he  assured  her ;  ■'  kisses  are  like  sheep, 
when  one  leads  the  others  follow."  — Detroit  Free  Press. 

<  Since  Earth  upon  his  shoulders  Atlas  took, 

He's  never  seen  what's  done  on  top  it. 

Could  he  but  crane  his  neck — just  once — and  look, 

How  quick  he'd  drop  it!  —  Puck. 

•^— "  We  might  as  well  consider  our  engagement  as  broken,  Regi- 
nald." "I  don't  see  why!  Your  father  said  postponed."  "Post- 
poned until  you  arrived  at  years  of  discretion.  And  in  your  case, 
Reggy  dear,  you  know  what  that  means."  *  —Life. 

—  Miss  Tenderfoot— I  would  think  with  such  glorious  surroundings 
all  of  the  miners  would  be  artists.  lied  Shirt  Bill— There's  not  a  man 
among  em' but  kin  paint  the  town  in  half  an  hour  with  a  quart  of 
whisky.  —Chicago  Inler-Ucean. 

The  Old  Friend— 1   hear  you  are  engaged,   Fanny.     Can  it  be 

possible  that  you  are  going  to  marry  that  young  Fiddleback? 
The  Heiress— Oh,  r\o.  He  asked  me  as  a  favor  to  become  engaged  to 
him  for  a  few  weeks  to  help  out  his  credit.  —Life. 

Mrs.  Inquisitive— Your  husband  must  be  earning  more  than  he 

used  to.  I  see  you  have  a  new  sealskin  jacket.  Mrs.  Straightface— 
No,  indeed.     He's  learned  how  to  fix  t-be  gas-meter. 

—Cedar  Rapids  Satttrday  Chat. 

Barclay  Wyckoff—So  your  uncle  was  eighty-eight  when  he  died; 

did  he  retain  full  possession  of  his  faculties?  Pelham  Parker— 1— er 
—really  couldn't  say.    The  will  hasn't  been  read  yet.  —Puck. 

St.  Paul  Globe:  Chicago  has  been  presented  with   a  statue  of 

Humboldt,  and  the  very  next  thing  Chicago  does  will  be  to  find  out 
who  in  thunder  Humboldt  was. 

—  i/e— Phwat  is  der  matther  wid  Misther  Murphy.  His  head  is 
all  cut.    She— Begob !    I  ate  a  philpener  wid  him  an'  tie  won. 

— Judge. 

Kirby  Stone— Do  you  write  when  the  inspiration  strikes  you? 

Algernon  S.  Hardup—No,  when  my  landlord  strikes  me.         — Puck. 

"  Say,  Miller,  why  does  yer  let  yer  mustache  grow  so  long?" 

Miller — I  use  it  to  dust  de  froth  off  de  beer.  — Judge. 

It  doesn't  take  much  of  a  hunter  to  bag  his  trousers. 

—Glens  Falls  Republican. 

First  Amateur  Water  colorist— Do  you  wash  much  ?    Second  Ditto 

Ditto— No;  I  scratch  a  good  deal !  — Punch. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street.  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


X3C-    2s&.     IfcTE^WXI.A.IjJli     «Sc     CO,, 

* * 

: SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS: 

* *        AND 

* * 

:  GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS,  i 

* * 

Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Fraacisco. 

National  Assurance  Company of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company    ------    of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


XX- 


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n 


Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction 
"Wood" 

Arc. 
Factories  ; 
Fort  Wayne, 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn, 

New  York, 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General   Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne   Electric   Light   Company,  Fort  Wayne,   Ind. 
Estimates  furnished   for  electric  railways,  electric 
light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
a  specialty. 
jj  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


O'.D     SCALE     REMOVED.  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED,:; 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals,                : : 
by  the  use  of  : 


STEAM 
BOIlER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 

LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

(Over  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

380  Fine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


B.  J.   WHEELER. 


J.   W.  GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &.  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  *'.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO  , 
SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     cor.     Pine     and     Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Agents  for 

THE  CALIFORNIA  LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPS  FROM  NEW  YORK. 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co.;  the  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packet 
to  and  from  Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limited);  Bald- 
win Locomotive  Works;  A.  Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sous 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  ftaht- 
jen's  Composition.    Ontario  Coiton  Sail  l>ucl£. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET. 

SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 

MINING,   WOOD    AND   IRON    WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,   BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING,    OILS  AND    8UPPLIE8. 

X.OTJIS  O-A-SEIfcT  =S=   SON-, 


Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bittees 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

418  Saciamento  Street,  S.  1^, 
E.  D.  Jones, 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers    and    Commission    Merchants, 
207  and  209  California  Street. 


October  15,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


27 


OUR    FAIR    ONES. 


THE  following  lines,  which  are  evidently 
a  parody  on  Byron's  "  Maid  of  Athens," 
have  tost  been  received  from  an  English- 
man making  a  short  visit  here.  Although 
shamefully  libellous,  we  pnblish  them, 
with  the  hope  that  some  fair  reader,  gifted 
with  poetical  tendencies,  will  tafce  up  the 
cudgels  and  belabor  bim  soundly  with  indig- 
nant verse.  We  will  publish  next  week  the 
beat  reply  received: 

'Frisco's  Sirens. 
Maid  of  'Frisco,  ere  we  part, 
Tell  me  if  thou  hast  a  heart. 
For  so  padded  is  thy  breast, 
I  begin  to  doubt  the  rest. 
Tell  me,  now,  before  I  go, 
Art  thou  all  made  up,  or  no? 
Are  those  tresses,  thickly  twined, 
Only  hair  pinned  on  behind, 
And  that  blush  wbicb  roses  mocks 
Bought  at  fifty  cents  the  box? 
Tell  me,  for  I  ask  in  woe, 
Art  thou  all  made  up,  or  no? 
And  those  lips  I  seem  to  taste, 
Are  they  pink  with  cherry  paste? 
Gladly  I'd  the  notion  scout, 
But  do  those  white  teeth  come  out? 
Answer  me,  is  it  not  so? 
Art  thou  all  made  up,  or  no? 
Maid  of  'Frisco,  come,  no  larks, 
For  your  shoulders  leave  white  marks. 
Quickly  tell  me,  tell  to  me 
What  is  really  real  in  thee. 
Tell  me,  or  at  once  I'll  go, 
Art  thou  all  made  up,  or  no? 

WHEN    FIRST    WE    MET. 


A   RONDOLET. 

When  first  we  met,  I  did  not  dream 
That  Love's  own  soul  was  on  me  set, 

For  friendship  was  our  only  theme 
When  first  we  met. 

Now  I  am  fast  in  Cupid's  net, 

And  see  too  late  'twas  but  a  scheme 
to  capture  me.     Oh,  vain  regret! 

But  why  repine?     There  is  a  gleam 
Of  hope  within  my  bosom  yet, 

That  stirs  up  thoughts  I  did  not  deem 
When  first  we  met. 

Robert  Gray  Mackay. 


I  SAW  an  amusing  thing  at  a  local 
depot  not  long  ago.  The  gateman  at  this 
depot  lisped  pitifully,  and  always  seemed 
pained  when  any  one  asked  him  a  ques- 
tion. On  thiB  special  day  a  woman  with  a 
small  boy  approached  him  and  asked : 
»  What  time  does  the  next  train  leave  for 
B ?" 

"Theven  thirty-theven,"  he  replied;  and 
the  woman  and  her  young  hopefull  re- 
treated to  the  waiting-room.  Bhe  soon 
emerged  again,  however,  and  approached 
the  gateman. 

*«  Excuse  me,"  she  said,  "  but  what  time 

did  you  say  the  next  train  left  for  B ?" 

The  gateman  breathed  a  deep  sigh,  and 
answered  laboriously : 

"  At  tbeven  thirty-theven."  Once  more 
the  child  and  his  ma  withdrew,  and  left  the 
poor  man  in  peace.  But  he  was  not  long 
to  enjoy  this  state  of  quiet  felicity,  for,  in 
a  few  moments,  out  she  came  again,  and 
put  the  very  same  question.  A  look  of 
exasperation  came  over  the  man's  face  as 
he  Baid,  "you  hath  lotht  that  train  now, 
madam.  I  am  tho  thorry.  It  letht  at 
theven  thirty-theven,  and  it  ith  the  latht 
that  thopth  at  B " 

"  Oh,  don't  let  that  trouble  you,"  she  re- 
plied, with  a  sweetly  patronizing  smile. 
»  We  really  didn't  want  that  train,  but  my 
little  boy  does  like  to  bear  you  say  seven 
fifty-seven." 

"  Thanks,  ever  so  muchl  "  the  Bmall  boy 
added.  «  Good-bye,  mister."— Boston  Bud- 
get. 


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"Only  Promise. '    Vocal. 

"Geraldine"  Waltz.     Great  Hit. 

"Bill  the  Bosun."    Vocal.    Sea  Song. 

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"Washington"  March 

"Love  and  Duty."    Vocal.     Great  Success. 

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"Pompadour"  Polka.  Great  Success. 

"Meta"  Sehottisehe,     Newest. 

"Always  Together."     Song. 

"Kleine  Katie."    Song.     Dutch  Yodle. 

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28 


SAN  PHANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Overman  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Go'.d  Hill, 
Storey  county,  Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  5th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No  H5)  of  Thirty  ce  ts  per 
share  was  levied  upon  thecapital  stock  of  the  cor- 
poration, payable  immediately  in  United  States 
gold  coin  to  the  Se  retary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company.  No.  4L4  California  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  ou  the 

The  Tenth  Day  of  November,  1 892,  will  be  de  inquent. 
and  advertised  for  pale  at  public  auction,  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESHAY,  the  30th  day  of  November.  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessmeui,  together  with 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

GEO.  D.  KDWART1S.  Secretary. 

Office.— No-  414  California  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Kentuck  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — ^an 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Goid 
Hill.  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  3d  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  'No.  5)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  atttm  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  and  17,  310  Pine  street, 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  ou 

The  Eight  Day  ol  November,  1892,  will  be  delin- 
quent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction:  and 
unless  pavment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
TUESDAY,  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  November. 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

.T.  W.  PEW.  Secretary. 

Office— 310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  aud  17,  San 
Francisco,  California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Savage  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — ^an 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works — Virginia 
Mining  District,   Storey  County,  State  of  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  this  company,  held  ou  the  7th 
day  of  October,  a.  d.,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
79)  of  Fifty  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the 
capital  stock  of  the  corporation  payable  immedi- 
ately in  United  States  Gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary, 
at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  4,  Nevada 
block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upou  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  9th  day  of  November,  1 892,  will  be'delinquent 
and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  29th  day  of  Nov- 
ember, 1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment, 
together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.      By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

E.  B.  HOLMES.  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  4,  Nevada  Block.  No.  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


ANNOAL  MEETING, 


May  Flower  Gravel  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stock- 
holders of  the  May  Flower  Gravel  Mining  Com- 
pany will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company, 
rooms  18  and  19,  No.  330  Pine  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California,  on 

Monday,  the  1  7th  Day  of  October  1 892,  at  the  hour 
of  1  P.  M. 

For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors 
to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  aud  the  transaction 
of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  ou  Thursday, 
October  13,  at  12  o'clock  m. 

D.  M.  KENT,  Secretary. 
Office— 330  Pine  St.,  rooms  18  and  19,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 


ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  2388.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


THE    SCHOLAR   OF    LINY. 

THE  children  of  Liny-la-Reine  have,  since 
1871,  celebrated  a  touching  anniversary. 
Monsieur  Jules  Legoux,  who  was  a  witness 
of  this  little  ceremony,  has  made  an  affect- 
ing narration  of  it. 

One  evening  he  was  strolling  curiously 
about  the  ruins  of  the  historic  old  chateau 
of  Liny-la-Reine.  All  at  once  he  heard  steps. 
A  troop  of  children  were  approaching,  led 
by  an  old  man.  They  were  the  scholars  of 
Liny,  and  the  old  man  was  their  school- 
master. The  children  arrived  before  a  wall, 
all  took  off  their  caps,  the  master  then  be- 
gan to  speak  to  them.  What  was  it  that 
could  be  the  motive  of  this  strange  discourse 
at  such  an  hour?  Here  is  what  there  was 
question  of:  During  the  war  the  country  had 
been  invaded  by  the  Prussians ;  the  Germans 
had  invested  the  village  and  permitted  no- 
body  to  leave.  However,  it  was  necessary 
to  warn  the  French  army,  whose  outposts 
were  in  the  vicinity.  Who  knew?  By 
giving  the  commading  general  some  useful 
information,  our  troops  might  perhaps  ob- 
tain a  success.  A  child  named  Pierre  Miroux 
offered  to  carry  this  information  to  the 
French;  the  mayor  gave  him  in  confidence 
what  he  should  say  to  the  general  and  kissed 
bim,  blessing  him  in  the  name  of  his  country- 
•  •  Do  not  permit  yourself  to  be  captured,'' 
he  sa.d  to  him,  simply,  ii  for  the  enemy  will 
kill  you."  "  I  know  that,"  answered 
Miroux.  •*  But  if  they  capture  roe,  have  no 
fear;  I  will  cut  my  tongue  off  with  my 
teeth  rather  than  betray  or  secret."  The 
child  went  away  and  began  running  through 
the  fields.  But  they  saw  him.  Some  Uhlans 
set  out  in  pursuit  of  him,  and  found  him 
hiding  in  the  middle  of  a  field.  He  made  a 
heroic  resistance  to  the  horsemen.  But 
what  could  a  child  of  twelve  do  against 
soldiers!  However,  he  struggled  with  so 
great  energy  that  they  were  compelled  to 
tie  him  on  a  horse  so  as  to  take  him  back  to 
the  village.  Had  he  been  betrayed  by  some 
wretch  ?  At  least  the  Prussian  commander 
seemed  to  be  aware  of  what  his  errand  was. 
»  Tell  us  the  intelligence  you  were  going  to 
carry,"  he  ordered  the  child.  He  did  not 
reply.  "I  give  you  until  the  end  of  the 
day  to  consider,"  the  German  continued. 
"  If,  this  evening,  yon  have  not  decided  to 
speak,  you  will  be  shot."  That  evening,  at 
ten  o'clock,  Pierre  Miroux  was  brought  to 
the  wall,  and  in  fact,  struck  by  twelve  bul- 
lets. It  was  the  memory  of  this  German 
cowardice  and  of  this  sublime  deed  of  a 
child  which  the  scholars  of  Liny-la-Reine 
were  piously  celebrating.  Here  then,  is 
what  M.  Legoux  saw:  The  master  briefly 
re«alled  in  an  affecting  voice  the  heroism  of 
Pierre  Miroux,  then  added:  <<  We  are  going 
to  renew  the  solemn  oath  which,  every  year, 
your  elders  have  taken,  and  which  we  will 
always  continue  to  take."  Then  he  went  for- 
ward to  the  spot  where  the  child  had  been 
assassinated ,  and  he  said :  "  Pierre  Miroux,  I 
swear  when  it  will  be  necessary,  to  die  as 
you  did  for  France.  He  then  called  each 
pupil  by  his  name;  the  scholar,  extending 
his  hand  before  the  wall,  repeated  "  I  swear 
it."  All  thus  all  took  this  solemn  oath, 
even  a  little  one  of  seven  years.  After 
which,  the  pupils  re-formed  in  ranks  and 
went  away  silently.  For  twenty  years,  in 
this  little  commune  which  remembers,  they 
have  not  failed  in  this  pious  custom.  Is  it 
not  quite  touching?  One  can  understand 
how  the  witness  of  this  solemnity,  so  simple 
and  so  grand,  was  affected  in  looking  on. 
They  will  be  good  patriots  some  day,  the 
children  of  this  village. 


VICHY    SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM   UKIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the 
United  States.  The  well-known  "  champagne  " 
baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautify- 
in?  the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladies. 
Only  natural  electric  water  in  the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR. 


J,  0,  SPRECKLES  &  BROS,  COMPANY, 

SHIPPING  AND~  COMMISSION 
MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 
GlLLINGHAM    CEMENT. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

LONG   DISTANCE 

TELEPHONE. 

Salinas,    Chualar,    Gonzales, 
Soledad,  Marysville,  Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken     communication      be- 
ween    these    towns    and    San 
rrancisco.    The  lines  are  con- 
structed of  tpecially  prepared 
extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  with  the  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  science  of 
.  , ........      and  are  "  Long    Distance  "  Lines 

_n  every  sense  of   the  word.    The  Mail  is  quick, 
the  Telegraph  i>  quicker,  but  the 

I,1»NG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRIC  WORKS, 

KTo.   35    :L*4:a,rl5:et  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS  AND  IMPORTERS 
-OF  — 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General 
Electrical  Supplies. 


Cunningham,  Curtiss  &  Welch, 

WHOLESALE       STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 

327.  329,  331   SANSOME  STREET. 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 
San    Francisco. 

A.       CJTJIIIT       H  O  Hun  IE 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED, 

FOR    THOSE   WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 

ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 
JOSEPH  GILLOTTS  STEEL  PENS. 

Gold  Medals   Paris   1878—1889. 

£&~  These  Pens  are  "the  best  in  the  world." 
Sole  Agent  for  the  United  States,  MB.  HY.  HOB, 
91JohnSt.,N.  T.    Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    8Y8TKM. 
Trains  Leave  and   are  Due  to  Arrive 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Lbati  *      from  Sep*emb3r  3.  7892.      I  Arrive 

7^0i-  Benicia,  Rumsey,  Sacramento  7:15  p 

7:30a.  Haywards,  Niles and  San  Jose  "12:15? 

Nile*  and  San  Jose 16:15  P 

7.30a.  Marlines.  San  Ramon,  Calistoga 

and  Santa  Rosa —  6  '15  P. 

8:00  a.  3acram'toA  Redding,  via  Davis.  7:15  p. 
8.-00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East,      9:45  p. 

8:30a.  Niles.  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,   Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:45  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 

Seles,  Deming.  El   Paso,   New 

rleansaud  East 8:45p. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton     *8"45p. 

1200m.  Haywards,  Niies  and  Livermore  7:15  p. 

•l:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose. .  9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a, 

4:00 p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9.45  a, 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.  10:45  a. 

4:30p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45a. 

'4:30  p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45  a. 

5:30  p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 8:45a. 

5 :30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  a. 

6:00 p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..  7:45a. 

6:00 p.  European  Mail  Ogden  and  East  9:15  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00  p.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .  v  grs 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

17:45  A.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  {8:05  P. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville.  8an  Jose.  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz H0:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.    9;50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 

*7:00a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions   *2:38p. 

J7:30a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion     J8:28p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro, SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove.  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p, 
J9:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  J2:45  p. 

10:37  a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 5:03  P. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30  p. 

*2:30p.  Ban  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,   Salinas, 
Monterey,    Pacific    Grove  and 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37  A. 

*3:30  p.  San    Jose,    Gilroy,  Tres    Pinos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. ..     *9:47  a. 
*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .   *8;06  a. 

5:15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48  a, 

6 :30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations ...      6 :35  A. 
rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  +SaturdayB  only. 

JSundays  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  0.,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  k.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  SAN  SIMEON, 
Caydcos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  AgentB, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francis  o 


A  VANDERBILT  IN  JAPAN. 

GEORGE  VANDERBILT,  son  of  William 
H.  of  that  ilk,  grandson  of  the  Commo- 
dore, and  a  young  man  of  many  millions, 
is  on  his  way  to  Japan,  wherefore  the  New 
York  World  goes  into  raptures  over  the 
strange  adventures  which  it  is  presumed 
the  gay  youth  will  have  in  the  happy  lftnd 
where  Sir  Edwin  Arnold  met  his  fate.  In 
eight  sketches  the  Yanderbilt  is  shown  in 
the  various  costumes  and  attitudes  which 
he  will  find  necessary  in  his  wild  and  tem- 
pestous  career  in  the  Mikado's  domain. 
One  scene  shows  Vanderbilt  and  Sir  Edwin 
Arnold,  in  Japanese  costume,  sitting  to- 
gether drinking  tea,  which  is  served  them 
by  a  presumably  charming  Japanese 
maiden.  The  poet  leans  forward  in  a  con- 
fidential mood,  and  is  evidently  giving 
George  some  points  on  tea  and — girls.  "Van- 
derbilt is  shown  promenading  with  Miss 
Au-yu-je-san,  who  is  described  as  being  as 
cheerful  as  Marie  Jansen,  as  graceful  as  Let- 
ty  Lind  and  as  dignified  as  Ada  Rehan.  He 
sings  a  song  to  her,  of  which  the  refrain  is: 
'  This  lady's  the  belle  of  Japan,  Japan, 
Her  name  it  is  Au-yu-je-san,  yu-je-san  ; 
Such  tenderness  lies  in  her  dark,  hazel  eyes, 
I  tell  you  she's  just  Ich-y-ban." 

The  article  concludes  with  some  rhymed 
advice  to  the   young  traveler,  in  which  the 
poet  tells  him: 
Now,  George,  if  there's  anything  there  that 

you  see 
That  may  strike  you  as  simply  immense, 
That   appeals  to  your   taste  for  the   pure 

Japanese, 
Why,  buy  it  and  hang  the  expense. 
And  if  the  Mikado  should  seem  to  demand 
That  he  ought  to  be  laid  on  the  shelf, 
Just  go  in  and  buy  up  the  whole  blooming 

land, 
And  set  up  a  kingdom  yourself. 
And     George — just     one     moment — please 
learn,  if  you  can, 
What  reason  there  may  be  to  carp 
At  the  rumor  that  "  angels  "  all  over  Japan 
Are  not  those  we  connect  with  the  harp. 
Be  prudent,  discreet;  now  perhaps  'twill  be 
well, 
In  view  of  Sir  Edwin's  research, 
To  buy  the  entire  information  we  prize, 
And  keep  up  your  standing  in  church. 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Belgic  Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan  4, 1?93 
ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT    REDUCED    RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  atthe 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.PasB.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

FOR      HONOLULU,,      AUCKLAND      AND      SYDNEY, 
DIRECT. 

S.  S   Alameda  ....Friday,  October  15,  at  2  p.  m. 
For  Honolulu  Only. 

S.  8.  Australia Wednesday,  Oct.  26,  1892, 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 

General  AgentB 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE   DONAHUE   BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tiburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  a.m.,  9:20a.m.,   11:20  A.  M.; 

1:30  p.m.,  3:30  P.  m.,5:05  p.  m.,  6:20  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  a.m., 9:30  a.m.,  11:00  A.M.;  1:30  p.m. 
3:30  P.M.,  5:00  p.  M.,  6:15  P.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  lor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  A.   M.,  7:55  A.  M.,  9:30   A.  M. 

11:30  a.m.;  1:40  p.m.,  3:40  P.M.,  6:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.  M. ;  1:40 p.m. 
3:40  p.  m.,5:00p  m.,6:25  p.  m. 

hrom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  A.  M.,  8:20  a.m.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M. ;  2:05  p.  m.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  P.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35   A.M.,    10:05  a.m.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.  M.,  4:05 p.m.,  5:30p.m.,  6:50  p.m. 


Leave  s.  f. 

Destination. 

AbeiveinS.F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 
5:05  P.M. 

8*0  A.M. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00p.  m. 

Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  a.m  8:60a.  m. 
6:05  P.M  10:80  a.m 
7:25p.M  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40A.M. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:25p.'m. 

10:30a. M 

6:10p.m 

7:40a.m. 

8:00  a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40  a.m. 
3:30  P.M. 

8:00a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a.m. 
6  :10  p.m. 

7:40A.M. 
5:05  P.M. 

8:00a.m. 

5:00p.m. 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6:05p.m. 

8:50a.m. 

6:10p.m. 

7:40A.  M 
3:30  p.M 

8:00a.  m 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.  m 
!    6:05p.m 

10:30  am 
6:10  p.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $225;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  b  Ukiah,  $450;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 

Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 
America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.—  S.  S.  "San  Juan," Novem- 
ber 5th;  "City  of  Svdney,"  October  15th;  S.  S.  San 
Jose,"  October  25th,  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
mouth,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Oeos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.—  Oct.  18th,  S.  S.  "Colima." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  October  15th,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 
5th,  1892,  at  3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  3  p.  M. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office — 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


AT  last  the  Unitarian  Church  has  had  a  swell  wedding  within 
its  doors  1  It  had  seemed  as  if  left  in  the  background,  until 
Saturday,  when  the  wedding  of  Miss  Bessie  Hooker  and  George 
Lent  served  to  render  it  the  meeting  place  for  the  beau  monde  of 
San  Francisco.  The  pretty  bride  has  been  for  several  seasons  one 
of  the  most  popular  belles  in  our  social  world,  and  the  groom  has 
also  won  his  share  of  esteem  and  regard.  The  families  of  both 
have  always  held  front  rank  in  our  community,  so  that  a  goodly 
share  of  interest  was  manifested  in  the  nuptials.  The  hour  set 
for  the  ceremony  was  noon,  but  long  before  that  time  the  church 
was  filled  with  a  gaily  dressed  throng  of  fashionables.  The 
morning  was  bright  and  sunny;  the  atmosphere  within  the 
church  sweet  with  the  perfume  of  flowers,  although  the  orna- 
mentation was  of  the  simplest  kind.  Punctually  on  time  the 
bridal  party  arrived  on  the  scene.  The  four  ushers,  Elliot  Mc- 
Allister, Shafter  Howard,  Herbert  Carolan  and  Fjank  Madison, 
led  the  way;  then  came  the  bridesmaids,  the  Misses  Laura  Bates, 
Jennie  Hooker,  Mamie  Reynolds  and  Mamie  Holbrook,  and  then 
the  bride,  with  her  father,  0.  G.  Hooker.  The  groom  and  his  best 
man,  Ed.  L.  Eyre,  met  them  at  the  reading  desk,  where  Dr. 
Stebbins  performed  the  ceremony.  The  cortege  then  reformed, 
and  soon  the  church  was  emptied  of  bridal  party  and  friends, 
who  drove  to  the  Hooker  residence  on  Bush  street,  where  a  re- 
ception was  held  and  an  elaborate  breakfast  served.  The  house 
was  decorated  in  every  room.  Yellow  was  the  tint  chosen  for 
the  main  parlor,  where  the  happy  couple  received  congratulations ; 
pink  the  hue  for  the  library  and  the  ante-rooms;  the  dining-room 
revelled  in  red,  Chili  peppers  adding  their  coloring,  a  conceit  late- 
ly sprung  into  favor,  and  very  effective.  The  bride  looked  lovely 
in  her  gown  of  white  silk,  profusely  trimmed  with  exquisite  lace. 
A  long  tulle  veil,  caught  with  spray  of  orange  blossoms,  covered 
her  from  head  to  foot.  She  and  her  husband  stood  In  a  sort  of 
bower  made  of  bamboo  poles,  trimmed  with  ferns  and  chrysan- 
themums, and  the  pretty  maids  were  arranged  on  each  side,  mak- 
ing a  charming  picture  in  their  gowns  of  white  corded  silk  and 
La  Tosca  hats,  trimmed  with  Prince  of  Wales  plumes  in  yellow. 
At  the  close  of  the  afternoon  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Lent  left  for 
the  southern  counties,  and  upon  their  return  from  the  bridal  tour, 
will  occupy  a  residence  on  Washington  street,  the  wedding  gift  of 
Mr.  W.  M.  Lent  to  his  son. 


There  were  several  weddings  last  Wednesday  of  much  interest 
in  our  social  world.  Trinity  Church  was  the  scene  of  the  nup- 
tials of  Miss  Adele  Merlin  Lusson  and  Blayney  Easterly  Maynard, 
which  were  celebrated  soon  after  the  hour  of  noon,  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  large  number  of  guests.  On  Wednesday  evening  the 
sanctuary  of  St.  Mary's  Cathedral  was  ablaze  with  light  and 
prettily  dressed  with  ferns,  palms  and  bright-colored  blossoms, 
for  the  marriage  of  Miss  Catalina  Acosta  and  Dr.  Eduard  Maldo- 
nado,  while  the  main  body  of  the  church  was  well  filled  with 
guests  to  witness  the  ceremony.  Punctually  on  time  the  bridal 
party  entered,  the  four  ushers  leading  the  procession.  These  were 
Dr.  Arthur  Regensburger,  Dr.  Albert  Maldonado,  William  Kelley 
and  Entieno  Acosta.  After  them  appeared  the  four  bridesmaids, 
the  Misses  Marie  Durand,  Emma  Regensburger,  Lola  Loaiza  and 
Eugenia  Cabrera,  then  Miss  Clotilda  Acosta  as  maid  of  honor,  and 
finally  the  bride,  with  her  brother,  who  gave  her  away.  The 
groom  and  his  best  man  awaited  their  coming  near  the  altar,  and 
there  the  Rev.  Father  Pendergastf  made  the  twain  one  flesh. 
Following  the  ceremony  in  the  church  came  the  reception  at  the 
Acosta  residence,  on  Taylor  street.  The  rooms  were  handsomely 
decorated,  roses,  smilax  and  chrysanthemums  being  used 
with  good  effect,  and  in  the  front  parlor  a  canopy  of  roses  and 
ferns  was  erected,  where  the  newly-wedded  couple  stood  while 
receiving  their  friends'  good  wishes.  The  lovely  bride  looked 
charming  in  a  magnificent  costume  of  heavy  white  satin,  com- 
pletely covered  with  rare  old  Spanish  point  lace,  and  trimmed 
with  garlands  of  orange  blossoms,  a  wreath  of  orange  blossoms 
and  a  tulle  veil.  The  pretty  bridesmaids  were  arrayed  in  con- 
trasting colors.  Miss  Loaiza  was  in  white  and  gold ;  Miss  Cabrera 
wore  red;  Miss  Durand  blue,  and  Miss  Regensburger  Nile  green. 
The  maid  of  honor,  Miss  Acosta,  also  wore  a  gown  of  Nile  green, 
trimmed  with  lilies  of  the  valley.  Later  a  handsome  supper  waB 
served,  at  which  many  speeches  of  congratulation  were  made, 
and  on  Thursday  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Maldonado  left  town  for  a  brief 
honeymoon  trip  ere  taking  up  their  residence  in  this  city. 


How  merrily  the  wedding  bells  continue  to  chime.  On  Monday 
evening  of  next  week  Miss  Daisy  L.  Crane  and  Horace  C.  Don- 
nells  will  be  very  quietly  married  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's 
parents,  on  Page  street.  On  Tuesday  next  Miss  Mattie  Kinsman 
and  Charles  S.  Smith  will  be  united  in  the  holy  bands  of  wedlock. 
The  marriage  of  Miss  Dora  Goldstone  and  Joseph  S.  Steiner  will 
be  celebrated  at  the  Harmonie  Club  rooms,  in  Union  Square  Hall, 
on  the  evening  of  the  30th  inst. 


A  wedding  that  was  of  interest  to  California  was  one  that  took 
place  on  Monday  last  at  St.  Clair,  Mich.,  for  the  groom,  Mr. 
Clark,  was  a  well-known  San  Franciscan,  and  the  bride  a  member 
of  the  Hopkins  connection.  The  residence  of  the  bride's  father, 
Mr.  W.  8.  Hopkins,  is  a  suburban  one,  thus  giving  ample  oppor- 
tunity for  elaborate  decoration  of  the  grounds.  Rev.  Mr.  Stone 
performed  the  ceremony.  The  attendants  were  Mr.  Claud  Terry 
Hamilton  of  San  Francisco  acting  as  best  man,  Miss  Florence 
Hopkins  (sister  of  the  bride)  maid  of  honor;  the  bridesmaids  were 
the  daughters  of  Ed.  Hopkins,  of  San  Francisco,  and  Miss  Maud 
Hopkins,  a  cousin.  The  bride  was  beautifully  gowned  in  heavy 
white  satin  embroidered  in  pearls;  along  train  hung  from  the 
shoulders,  and  a  tulle  vail  caught  with  orange  blossoms  and  white 
heather  completed  the  costume.  She  followed  the  new  fashion  of 
carrying  a  silver-bound  prayer-book,  as  well  as  a  boquet  of  brides 
roses.  The  young  bridesmaids  were  robed  alike  in  cream-colored 
crepe  trimmed  with  lace  and  ribbons,  and  each  wore  the  wedding 
gift  of  the  bride,  a  gold  pin  in  the  form  of  a  wreath  set  with 
pearls.  A  reception  followed  the  ceremony,  lasting  from  8  till 
10,  and  after  an  elaborate  supper  the  bridal  party  took  passage 
on  the  steam  yacht  Benton  for  Port  Haven  and  the  East.  Later 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark  will  come  to  San  Francisco,  which  will  be  their 
future  home. 

Every  one  expected  that  the  ball  given  by  Le  Cercle  Francais  in  honor 
of  Admiral  Parryon  and  the  officers  of  the  Dubonrdeau  would  be  a  suc- 
cess and  they  were  not  disappointed.  Seldom  has  our  French  colony 
made  so  unequivocal  a  success  as  on  Saturday  evening  last,  when 
the  ball  was  held  at  the  rooms  of  the  club  at  Union  Square  Hall.  The 
ballroom  was  a  beautiful  sight,  being  magnificently  decorated  with 
streamers,  and  evergreens,  ferns  and  flowers.  The  Admiral  had  sent 
his  band  to  assist  in  the  musical  programme,  and  the  music  was  ex- 
ceptionally good,  being  so  much  enjoyed,  in  fact,  that  dancing  was 
kept  up  till  morning  dawned.  The  officers  being  in  full  uniform  gave 
great  eclat  to  the  ball.  The  toilettes  of  the  ladies  had  been  in  many 
instances  imported  from  Paris  for  the  occasion.  All  the  foreign  Con- 
suls were  present,  and  many  prominent  society  people,  in  addition  to 
the  cream  of  the  French  population.  The  officers  of  the  club  (es- 
pecially the  energetic  President,  M.  Raas)  may  be  congratulated  on 
the  brilliant  success  achieved  by  the  Cercle  Francais. 

In  spite  of  the  disagreeable  windstorm  which  visited  this 
vicinity  last  Saturday  afternoon,  rendering  it  the  reverse  of  pleas- 
ant to  be  upon  the  bay,  the  closing  day  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club 
season  at  Sausalito  may  be  regarded  as  a  success.  There  were  a 
large  number  of  guests  at  the  pretty  club  house,  who  enjoyed 
dancing  to  the  strains  of  excellent  music  during  the  afternoon, 
and  did  ample  justice  to  the  delicious  lunch  provided.  In  the 
evening  there  was  a  distribution  of  the  prizes  won  at  the  club  re- 
gatta last  month  ;  then  there  was  more  dancing,  and  finally  sup- 
per. The  Corinthian  Yacht  Club  will  close  their  season  with  a 
dance  and  high  jinks  at  their  club  house  at  Tiburon  to-day.  There 
will  be  dancing  during  the  afternoon  for  the  ladies,  but  the  even- 
ing hours  will  be  sacred  to  the  men  alone,  and  the  feasting  and 
festivity  is  expected  to  last  away  into  the  wee  sma'  hours  of  Sun- 
day morning. 

It  would  seem  as  though  Oakland  was  losing  all  its  popular  young 
ladies,  so  many  of  them  are  laying  aside  the  role  of  single  blessed- 
ness to  assume  that  of  matronhood.  Last  Thursday  evening  another 
one  joined  the  list  in  the  person  of  Miss  Louise  Breck,  who  was  mar- 
ried to  Fred  M.  Hathaway  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Oakland,  the  Rev. 
Robert  Ritchie  officiating.  Evergreens  and  fragrant  Howers  were 
used  in  decorating  the  sacred  edifice,  which  was  well  filled  with 
friends  and  acquaintances  to  witness  the  ceremony,  at  which  Miss 
EllaGarvey,  of  San  Jose,  appeared  as  Maid  of  Honor,  and  the 
Misses  Agusta  and  Minnie  Gillespie  were  the  bridesmaids.  James 
Breck  was  the  groom's  best  man.  A  reception  at  the  home  of  the 
bride,  on  Fourteenth  and  Castro  streets,  followed  the  church  service, 
and  was  largely  attended. 


The  tea  season  may  now  be  said  to  be  fully  inaugurated.  More 
than  one  of  our  hostesses  has  been  beard  to  say,  >•  It  is  so  easy  to 
give  a  tea,"  therefore,  that  they  will  be  a  favorite  form  of  enter- 
tainment this  season  is  a  foregone  conclusion,  especially  as  the 
dearth  of  young  men  in  society  makes  it  a  difficult  matter  to  find 
beaux  for  the  girls  at  a  ball.  The  ladies  seem  bent  upon  reveng- 
ing themselves  on  male  society  for  their  apathy  by  leaving  them 
out  of  their  invitation  list  entirely.  One  of  the  first  to  do  so  was 
Mrs.  Wethered,  who,  last  Saturday,  gave  a  tea  at  which  the 
guests  were  all  young  ladies  to  the  number  of  several  score.  They 
wasted  their  sweetness  upon  each  other,  as  there  was  not  a  single 
man,  or  married,  either,  present.  Young  men,  have  a  care!  The 
young  ladies  all  looked  charming,  and  appeared  to  enjoy  their 
afternoon  greatly. 

The  Catholic  Fair  at  the  Pavilion  has  been  very  enjoyable, 
though  not  quite  as  successful  as  had  been  anticipated.  Pleasant 
entertainments  were  given  every  evening.  A  mong  the  singers  on 
Wednesday  evening  was  Miss  Daisy  Cohen,  who  surprised  her 
audience  by  her  excellent  renditions.  She  has  a  rich,  sweet 
soprano  voice,  with  admirable  method  and  execution. 


October  15,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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The  coming  week  will  be  a  red  letter  one  across  the  bay,  for  on 
Thursday  and  Friday  evenings  the  much  talked-of  private  theat- 
ricals, for  the  benefit  of  the  Central  Free  Kindergarten,  will  be 
given  at  the  residence  of  Edwin  Good  all,  on  Jackson  street,  Oak> 
laod.  It  is  to  be  a  very  exclusive  affair,  and  will  be  strictly  by 
invitation.  All  the  star  amateur  Thespians  are  in  the  cast  of 
The  Russian  thnet/moon,  the  principal  characters  being  allotted  to 
J.  0.  Wilson.  Jr.,  Harry  Melvin,  P.  H.  Remillard,  H.  E.  Wads- 
worth,  Mies  Albright,  Miss  Durham  and  Miss  Morrell.  A  quar- 
tette, consisting  of  Dr.  Richardson,  Shafter  Howard,  Harry  Mel- 
vin and  Harry  Haigbt  will  also  add  to  the  entertainment,  so  all 
in  all  the  affair  promises  to  be  a  big  success.  The  ladies  who  have 
the  productions  in  charge  are  Mrs.  T.  C.  Coogan,  Mrs.  George 
Wheaton  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  T.  Watkinson. 

What  with  concerts,  operatic  entertainments,  and  other  charity 
affairs,  society  promises  to  be  well  occupied  during  November. 
The  annual  Harvard-*  ale  baseball  game,  which  is  named  for  the 
18tb,  is  already  becoming  quite  a  topic,  and  the  determination  of 
Yale  to  win  back  the  laurels  captured  by  Harvard  last  year  is 
causing  the  backers  of  the  blue  to  place  some  heavy  bets  upon 
their  favorite  color.  Apropos  of  charity,  a  novel  entertainment 
will  be  given  on  Friday  evening,  the  28th,  by  the  Young  People's 
Home  Missionary  Society  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  It 
is  called  a  "ship  social,"  and  much  curiosity  is  expressed  as  to 
what  that  may  mean. 

The  Catholic  Ladies'  Aid  Society,  No.  20,  will  give  an  enter- 
tainment, in  the  form  of  a  kettle-drum,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
Katherine  Adams,  814  Hayes  street,  on  Wednesday  evening,  the 
26th  inst.  There  will  be  an  entertainment  from  3  to  6  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon,  and  from  8  to  10  in  the  evening.  Tickets  $1.  This 
society  is  non-sectarian  in  its  work,  and  as  the  ladies  of  No.  20 
are  well  known  for  their  good  work  it  is  hoped  that  their  kettle- 
drum will  be  well  patronized.  The  officers  of  this  branch  are: 
Mrs.  M.  D.  Nolan,  Misses  Alice  Bailey,  Hussey,  Houston,  Fo- 
garty,  Horan,  Ahern  and  Ambrose. 

On  Wednesday  next,  the  much-heralded  Catholic  Fair  will  open 
at  St.  Francis  de  Sales  Church,  Oakland.  The  arrangements  have 
been  the  most  extensive  ever  prepared  for  an  event  of  the  kind, 
and  a  brilliant  success  is  already  assured,  because  society  has 
taken  a  big  interest  in  the  affair.  Some  splendid  pieces  of  work- 
manship will  adorn  the  booths,  and  as  some  of  the  most  charm- 
ing young  ladies  in  Oakland  will  be  in  charge  of  them,  is  sure  to 
have  a  golden  harvest  pour  into  the  coffers. 

There  is  every  indication  that  the  season  will  be  an  early  one, 
and  the  probabilities  are  that  whatever  gaieties  are  indulged  in 
will  be  of  the  "  small  aDd  early  "  character,  and  balls  pure  and 
simple  few  and  far  between.  The  first  evening  reception  of  the 
month  was  given  by  Mrs.  E.  Avery  McCarthy,  at  her  residence 
on  Sacramento  street,  last  Thursday  evening.  She  very  sensibly 
limited  the  hours  from  9  to  12,  and  it  is  hoped  others  will  follow 
suit  in  this  particular. 

The  lady  managers  of  the  Columbus  Exhibition  paid  a  visit  to 
the  Union  Iron  Works  on  Monday  last,  as  the  special  guests  of 
Irving  M.  Scott.  A  handsome  lunch  was  served  on  board  the  tug 
which  conveyed  them  there  and  home  again,  and  the  weather 
being  delightful,  a  most  pleasant  afternoon  was  the  result. 

Adjutant  General  Green,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs.  Green  are  occupy- 
ing the  residence  of  Mr.  Sampson  Tarns  on  Van  Ness  avenue, 
which  they  have  taken  for  a  couple  of  years.  Their  son-in-law 
and  daughter,  Captain  and  Mrs.  Bonestall  and  family  will  spend 
the  winter  with  General  and  Mrs.  Green.- 

Last  season's  cotillion  clubs  are  nearly  all  in  the  field  again 
this  season,  and  are  already  setting  the  dates  for  their  dances  to 
take  place.  First  comes  the  Entre  Nous  Cotillion  Club,  which  has 
engaged  Lunt's  Hall  for  their  season,  where  the  first  cotillion 
will  be  danced  on  Tuesday  evening,  the  25th  inst. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan  have  transferred  themselves  from 
the  Palace  Hotel  to  the  Charles  Moore  residence,  on  Franklin 
street.  As  announced  in  this  column  several  weeks  ago,  Miss 
Florence  Pullman  will  be  their  guest  during  a  portion  of  the  com- 
ing season. 

Mrs.Delmas  and  her  daughters  have  arrived  in  town  from  their 
summer  home  at  Mountain  View,  and  are  occupying  their  Taylor 
street  residence.  The  marriage  of  Miss  Delphine  Delmas  and 
Will  Barnes  has  been  set  to  take  place  early  in  January.| 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Zeile  are  back  in  town  for  the  winter.  They 
have  been  spending  the  last  six  months  at  the  Ned  Hopkins  villa 
at  Menlo  Park  during  tha  absence  of  the  family  in  the  East,  and 
who  are  expected  to  return  next  week. 

A  dramatic  and  musical  entertainment  will  be  given  for  the 
benefit  of  the  San  Francisco  Nursery  for  Homeless  Children,  in 
the  banquet  hall  of  the  Hotel  California,  Bush  street,  on  Saturday, 
the  29th  inst. 

A  musicale  and  dramatic  reading  is  to  be  given,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  King's  Daughters,  at  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  Oakland,  on  Tuesday  next. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Crux  were  in  San  Jose  during  the  week 
to  attend  the  Maynard-Lusson  wedding,  the  bride  being  Mrs. 
Crux's  sister.  During  their  visit  they  were  the  guests  of  their 
aunt,  Mrs.  Edward  Stanley,  at  the  Vendome. 

A  delightful  party  was  given  last  Friday  evening  by  the  ladies' 
annex  of  the  Alameda  Bicycle  Club,  in  the  club-house,  at  Encinal 
Station,  Alameda.  A  number  of  society  ladies  and  gentlemen 
were  present  from  this  side  of  the  bay. 

On  Wednesday  of  last  week  the  young  ladies  of  the  Fruit  and 
Flower  Mission  gave  a  luncheon  to  Miss  Lizzie  Story,  their  ex- 
President,  who  will  soon  become  a  bride.  The  affair  was  most 
enjoyable. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  8.  Alexander  are  at  the  Colonial,  where  they 
will  spend  the  winter.  Mrs.  Alexander's  sister,  Miss  Lelia  Car- 
roll, will  be  their  guest  for  several  months  during  the  season. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer  Buckbee,  -nee  Durbrow,  are  spending 
their  honeymoon  in  the  Southern  counties,  and  upon  their  return 
will  reside  in  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed  Eyre  will  occupy  the  Hawes  residence  on 
Pacific  Heights,  which  they  have  taken  for  the  winter  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  T.  Dargie,  who  have  been  enjoying  a  tour  in 
the  Sacramento  river  country,  returned  to  Oakland  this  week. 

A  reception  is  to  be  given  on  Monday  evening  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frank  J.  Woodward,  at  their  home  at  Bella  Vista  Park. 

Alex.  M.  Jeffress,  of  this  city,  was  married  Wednesday  evening 
to  Miss  Georgie  E.  Paget,  of  1071  Wood  street,  Oakland. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  B.  Chase  have  been  visiting  Mrs.  H.  L.  Tatum 
at  her  residence  on  Pacific  avenue. 


Mr.  S.  Strozynaki  has  returned  to  this  city  after  a  long  sojourn 
abroad. 

Colonel  Smedburg  and  family  are  expected  to  arrive  from  their 
visit  East  to-day. 

THE  dictates  of  good  society  provide  that  we  shall  use  only  the 
finest  and  latest  styles  of  paper  in  personal  correspondence. 
It  is  for  this  reason  that  those  ladies  and  gentlemen  who  comply 
with  the  demands  of  good  form  purchase  their  stationery  from 
Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  This  popular  house  makes  a  specialty  of  ex- 
cellent writing  paper,  and  is  in  receipt  from  the  manufacturers  of 
all  that  is  new  and  fine  in  stationery.  Nothing  could  be  prettier  than 
some  of  the  new  tinted  paper  they  are  showing,  tints,  by  the 
way,  being  the  latest  artistic  effect  in  fine  note  paper.  It  comes 
in  various  delicate  shades,  and  is  very  pretty.  It  is  especially 
suitable  for  ladies'  correspondence.  Ladies  should  also  examine 
the  engraved  visiting  cards  printed  by  this  firm,  which  are  with- 
out doubt  the  finest  ever  issued  in  the  city.  When  in  the  store 
visitors  should  not  overlook  the  fact  that  one  of  its  main  features 
is  the  magnificent  free  art  gallery  on  the  second  floor. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  hondsome  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 

DODGE  BROS.i  engravers' 

Fashion's  finger  beckons  your  steps 
here  where  the  rich  and  rare  in  Writ- 
ing Papers,  Invitations,  Calling  Cards, 
etc.,  bold  sway. 

copperplates,  oof;  PORT  QT 

WEDD0G  CARDS.   CC.J    TUP  I     Ol. 

SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 


PHARMACY     FRANCAIS. 


Ill  Grant  Ave. 


Telephone  13SO 


Parfumerik  Victoria,  Rigaud's  &■  Cie's  Lucrecia  Graciosa,  Louis  XV 
andExorad'Afrique  are  the  latest  odors  and  so  different  from  perfumes 
familiar  to  everyone.  Piveot'  Legraud's  violet  and  Roger  &  Gallet's  Lubin 
and  Pinaud's  perfumes,  Soap,  Sachets,  Face  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc. 

Pinaud's  8  ouuce  bottles,  $3  50;  regular  size  reduced  from  Jl  25  to  85 
cents  per  bottle,  including  Peau  d'Espagne  in  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

Every  lady  knows  that  exclusiveness  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as  in 

WIGWAM  THEATRE. 

(Corner  Stockton  and  Geary  Streets). 

Chas.  Meyer  ■■ Proprietor  and  Manager. 

San  Francisco's  Recognized  Vaudeville  Resort. 
SPECIAL  ANNOUNCEMENT.    Week  of  October  17.    Take  notice.    MISS 
KATE  MARCHI,  MISS  ALICE  NEILSEN,  PRANK  VALERGA,  DICK  VA- 
LERGA,    LEWIS    MEDRIC.   BURTON   STANLEY,    other   Principals  and 
Grand  Chorus,  will  appear  in  Audran's  Comic  Opera, 
OLIVETTE. 
Special  Engagement  of  the  most  scientific  pugilists  in  the  world,  GEO. 
SIDDONS  and  BILLY  DACEY,  in  a  grand  exhibition  of  the  art  of  self- 
defence;  also  other  artists.    Special  Matinee  Friday,  October  21,  at  2  p.  m. 
Every  evening  at  8.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2. 
Admission  10c.  Reserved  seats  25c.  Box  office  open  from  10  A.  M.  to  1  p.  M. 
and  from  3  to  6  p.  m. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  15,  1892. 


JOHN    HENRY    MILLER. 

NO  branch  of  the  law  requires  deeper  research  and  knowledge 
and  greater  ability  than  the  trial  of  cases  involving  questions 
of  patent  rights.  No  lawyer  ever  attained  prominence  in  this 
difficult  practice  unless  he  was  possessed  in  the  highest  degree  of 
all  those  sterling  qualities  which  are  requisites  for  a  good  attor- 
ney— learning,  Industry,  perseverance  and  determination.  When 
a  young  man,  therefore,  attains  fame  as  a  patent  lawyer,  that 
fact  is  proof  of  his  great  worth.  Such  a  man  is  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  whose  advancement  at  the  bar  has  been  very  rapid. 
Mr.  Miller  has  been  a  resident  of  California  since  1875.  He  came 
to  this  State  from  Lynchburg,  Virginia,  his  native  place.  His 
family  is  one  of  the  most  distinguished  of  Virginia,  his  mother's 
grandfather  having  been  no  less  a  famous  patriot  than  the  elo- 
quent Patrick  Henry.  Mr.  Miller's  uncle  is  William  Wirt  Henry, 
grandson  of  the  Patriot.  The  lawyer's  middle  name  was  con- 
ferred upon  him  in  honor  of  his  distinguished  ancestor.  On  his 
father's  side  Mr.  Miller  also  descends  from  an  old  family,  the  Millers 
having  been  settlers  in  Cecil  county,  Maryland,  in  colonial  times. 
Though  only  nineteen  years  of  age  when  he  came  to  this  State, 
Mr.  Miller  showed  at  that  youthful  period  of  his  career  his  ex- 
cellent qualities.  He  engaged  as  a  school  teacher  in  Shasta  county, 
where  he  instructed  the  mountain  youth  for  a  year.  It  was 
while  occupied  in  this  commendable  pursuit  that  he  determined 
to  study  law.  Accordingly,  in  1877,  he  entered  the  offices  of 
Pringle  &  Hayne,  in  this  city,  and  there  for  two  years  he  studied. 
He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1879,  and  four  years  later  became 


associated  with  Mr,  Langhorne,  in  the  firm  of  Langhorne  &  Miller. 
The  partnership  was  very  successful,  controlling  a  large  business. 
In  1888  be  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States,  before  which  high  tribunal  he  has  frequently  ap- 
peared on  behalf  of  some  of  his  clients.  It  is  a  noteworthy  fact 
that  he  first  made  his  reputation  as  an  excellent  patent  lawyer  in 
a  case  in  which  he  was  opposed  to  M.  M.  Estee,  ooe  of  his  pres- 
ent, partners.  It  was  the  matter  of  Harner  vs.  the  Sutter-street 
Railroad,  which  was  tried  before  the  late  Uoited  States  Circuit 
Judge  Sawyer.  Mr.  Miller  was  for  the  plaintiff,  while  for  the  de- 
fense appeared  M.  M.  Estee,  J.  H.  Boalt  and  M.  A.  Wheaton. 
The  trial  lasted  for  a  month,  and  ended  in  a  disagreement  of  the 
jury,  which,  after  deliberating  for  twenty-three  hours,  was  un- 
able to  agree  upon  a  verdict.  It  polled  ten  for  the  plaintiff  and 
two  for  defendant.  The  case  was  then  compromised.  Judge 
Sawyer  expressed  the  opinion  that  Mr.  Miller  was  the  best  patent 
lawyer  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  present  firm  of  Estee,  Fitz- 
gerald and  Miller  was  formed  on  May  last.  Mr.  Miller  does  an 
extensive  business  for  leading  Eastern  corporations,  his  name  be- 
ing well  known  throughout  the  country,  wherever  a  patent 
lawyer  is  needed.  He  has  been  engaged  in  all  the  important 
patent  cases  tried  here  for  ten  years  past,  and  his  fame  spreads 
daily.  Personally  Mr.  Miller  is  a  courteous  gentleman,  who  is 
very  popular  with  his  associates.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Cosmos 
Club,  the  Bar  Association  and  Lhe  Mercantile  Library  Association. 
In  the  prime  of  life,  and  the  full  vigor  of  his  powers,  the  outlook 
for  this  brilliant  attorney  is  certainly  the  most  pleasant  any  of 
his  many  friends  could  wish  for  him. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate*  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
Office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 

Mrs.  Joseph  L.  Armer,  of  Guatemala,  formerly  Miss  Evelyn 
Davis,  of  this  city,  is  visiting  her  mother,  at  1611  Post  street. 


RENTS. 


San  Francisco.  Ociober  l.  1892. 

This  is  duubiless  a  subject  that  irueresis  you.  Have  you 
a  house  ihai  you  warn  a  tenant  for  t  Do  you  need  some  one 
to  look  alter  your  property  during  your  absence?  Are  you 
harassed  by  the  complaints  ol  tenants  ?  Are  any  of  your 
tenants  irregular  in  paying  their  rent?  Are  your  plumbers' 
:ind  .j'peniers  bills  eating  up  your  income?  We  may  be  of 
Service  to  you  in  all  these  matters. 

Out  Rent  Department  is  now  under  the  management 
ol  Mr  C  R  Dempster,  whose  long  expen-nce  m  this  direc- 
tion is  a  guaranty  ot  polite  and  faithful  attention  to  both 
landlord  and  tenant 

We  respectful'/  solicit  /our  business. 

Baldwin  &  Hammond, 

I O  Montgomery  Street.  pent  collectors. 


FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.B.  CHAPMAN,  EPERNAY     CHAMPAGNE. 

SOLE  AQENT  FOR  FQE  8ALE  BT  ALL  FIB8T.CL1S8 

PAOIFIO  OOAST. 

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risji  Ladies  will  find  the  Latest  styles  and  Best  Fitting 

CLOAKS 

AT    THE 

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Also  a  large  stock  of 

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STUDIO:     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Acccmplishment. 

For  Congress, 

C.    O.   ALEXANDER, 
Republican    Nominee,  4th  Congressional  District. 


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«M  l5^r\ '••S 


Vol  XLV. 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  OCTOBER  22,  1892. 


Number  16. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 


PAGK 

Editorial  Brevities 1 

Leading  articles  : 

Protection  and  Trusts    2 

Why  Wallace  Should  be  Beaten    2 

New  York  Freights 2 

John  W.  Rylaud 3 

Vote  for  Good  Men 3 

H.  S.  Rust  Should  Go.   3 

Some  Good  Candidates    4 

A  Morning  Rehearsal 5 

Pleasure's  Wand 6-7 

She  Knew  Him 7 

Sparks 8 

World,  Flesh  and  Devil 9 

Short  Creek  Dave's  Conversion.  10-11 

Phyllis  Loves  Me  (Poetry)  11 

A  Sonnet  —  11 

Columbus    Day    in    Our     Public 
Schools 12 


Page 

Hon.  Charles  0.  Alexander    13 

Tennis  and  Baseball 13 

The  Looker-On      ...14-15 

Financial  Review 16 

Town  Crier  . 17 

Real  Property IS 

The  Bourse  and  Underwriter  ...    19 

Theodore  Martin  20 

Vanities 21 

The  Rose  Jar 22 

Scientific  and  Useful   23 

"  Biz"— Summary  of  the  Markets.  24 

"'Frisco's  Sirens"  Reply 25 

Sunbeams  , 26 

Comments  on  Foreign  Affairs 27 

Left  to  the  Spooks  (Poetry)  28 

Barnum  and  Jumbo  28 

They  Wanted  a  Saint    29 

Society 30-31-32 


SOMEBODY  has  been  stuffing  the  New  York  Times  with  a  pre- 
diction that  California  will  give  at  least  30,000  votes  for 
"Weaver.  This  is  positively  humorous.  If  the  leader  of  the 
»  Populite"  movement  receives  3,000  votes  here  he  will  be  doing 
well.  

THE  Bancroft  Company  has  again  issued  its  Blue  Book,  which, 
as  usual,  is  an  imposition  upon  a  confiding  public,  for  it  is 
not  what  it  pretends  to  be.  It  is  not  a  complete  directory  of 
society  people,  but  savors  more  of  an  advertising  scheme.  An 
idea  of  the  correctness  of  the  book  may  be  gained  from  its  list  of 
city  papers.  Papers  which  declined  to  give  the  book  an  adver- 
tisement are  entirely  omitted. 

THE  teachers  of  Alameda  county,  at  their  recent  "  institute," 
adopted  resolutions  condemning  the  State  school  books  and 
demanding  a  return  to  the  old  system.  They  voted  down  an 
amendment  suggesting  a  revision  of  the  books,  thereby  distinctly 
showing  their  animus.  Now  they  are  being  roasted  by  the  press 
which  is  not  controlled  by  the  old  school-book  ring,  and  their 
ears  must  tingle  with  the  castigation  they  are  receiving. 


THE  Democratic  Convention  did  well  in  nominating  Mr.  A.  F. 
Carmody  for  School  Director.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  educa- 
tion, who  has  always  taken  great  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
pnblic  schools.  He  is  in  no  sense  a  politician,  and  his  nomination 
resulted  from  the  fact  that  he  was  considered  an  eminently  proper 
man  for  the  place.  For  many  years  Mr.  Carmody  has  been  con- 
nected with  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.'s  Bank,  He  is  a  man  of  family 
and  of  excellent  reputation. 

PROBABLY  one  of  the  most  deserving  and  popular  nomina- 
tions made  on  any  of  the  municipal  tickets  was  that  of  Will- 
iam S.  Barnes  for  District  Attorney.  Mr.  Barnes,  who  is  a  son  of 
General  W.  H.  L.  Barnes,  was  nominated  by  the  Republicans  two 
years  ago,  and  elected.  His  administration  of  the  District  At- 
torney's office  has  been  distinguished  by  much  excellent  work  in 
bringing  criminals  to  justice.  He  is  an  able,  upright  man,  and  is 
certainly  entitled  to  re-election. 


THE  assertion  is  being  made  in  the  press  of  the  interior  that  the 
State  World  s  Fair  Commissioners  have  drawn  every  dollar 
of  the  $300,000  appropriated  by  the  Legislature  to  make  an  ex- 
hibit at  Chicago,  and  that  most  of  it  has  been  squandered  in  sala- 
ries and  expenses  of  one  kind  and  another,  for  the  benefit  of  pol- 
itical bummers.  It  is  difficult  to  see  how  such  a  misapprehen- 
sion as  this  can  have  received  credence.  Not  one-sixth  of  the 
$300,000  appropriated  has  yet  been  expended,  while,  as  any  intel- 
ligent person  can  easily  learn,  a  vast  amount  of  necessary  prepar- 
atory work  has  been  done.  It  is  po°sible  that  some  of  the  money 
may  have  been  injudiciously  expended,  but  to  make  such  whole- 
sale charges  as  these  is  as  dishonest  as  it  is  contemptible. 


THERE  is  no  better  man  on  the  Democratic  ticket  than  William 
Broderick,  the  nominee  for  Auditor.  He  has  held  several 
political  positions,  in  all  of  which  he  has  been  distinguished  by 
unfailing  ability  and  probity.  He  has  lived  in  San  Francisco 
many  years,  and  enjoys  an  excellent  reputation.  Such  a  man  as 
Broderick  should  receive  the  support  of  all  good  citizens  without 
regard  to  party  lines.  The  office  of  Auditor  is  too  important  to 
be  considered  from  a  partisan  standpoint. 


THE  Chinese,  who  will  not  allow  mines  to  be  opened  for  fear  of 
disturbing  the  Earth  Spirit,  seem  according  to  Sir  Robert  Ball, 
not  to  be  so  far  out  in  their  ideas,  after  all.  This  distinguished 
astronomer  is  quite  alarmed  at  the  prospect  of  the  metallic  iron  in 
the  interior  of  the  earth,  if  exposed,  combining  with  the  oxygen 
in  the  air,  and  thereby  depriving  us  of  the  main  necessity  of  life. 
It  is  a  marvel,  between  the  astronomers  and  the  doctors,  that  we 
have  escaped  all  the  impending  dangers  of  which  we  are  being 
continually  warned.  However,  we  have  managed  to  get  along 
for  a  few  thousand  years  or  so  all  right,  so  perhaps  the  oxygen 
will  last  during  our  time  on  this  mundane  sphere. 


AT  the  Library  Congress  held  recently  in  Paris  a  very  interest- 
ing statement  was  made  by  a  Miss  James,  of  the  London 
People's  Palace,  in  a  paper  upon  women  librarians.  "She  bad 
proved,"  she  stated,  <<  at  the  east  end  of  London  that  a  look  from 
a  woman  had  more  effect  upon  a  miscreant  than  the  forcible 
ejection  or  emphatic  language  of  a  man."  In  that  case,  why 
can't  we  have  women  police  as  well  as  women  librarians  ?  Or, 
perhaps,  why  have  librarians  at  all,  and  why  not  follow  the  ex- 
ample of  the  poet  who  sang :  "  My  only  books  are  woman's  looks." 


A  REPUBLICAN  nominee  who  has  a  strong  hold  upon  the  peo- 
ple is  Mr.  J.  H.  Widber,  who  has  been  named  for  Treasurer. 
Mr.  Widber  is  a  pioneer  merchant  who  stands  high  in  the  com- 
munity. He  has  held  public  office  several  times,  and  has  always 
given  great  satisfaction.  From  1859  to  1865  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Education,  and  he  was  elected  Superintendent  of 
Public  Schools  in  1871,  serving  until  1874.  In  1881  and  1882  he 
was  elected  City  Treasurer,  and  two  years  ago  was  again  elected 
to  that  position  of  trust,  which  he  now  holds.  "There  can  be  no 
mistake  made  in  re-electing  Mr.  Widber. 


AN  interior  journal,  edited  by  a  man  who  presumably  can  read 
ordinary  English  and  understand  simple  propositions,  such 
ad  that  two  and  two  make  four,  advises  its  readers  to  vote  against 
the  so-called  depot  act,  and  asks  "  What  right  has  San  Francisco 
to  claim  tribute  from  the  whole  Slate  ?  "  If  the  sapient  "idioter" 
will  read  the  act  in  question,  he  will  see  that  he  has  made  an  in- 
decent exposure  of  his  alleged  intellect.  The  proposed  depot 
does  not  ask  a  single  cent  of  tribute  from  the  State,  but  will  only 
anticipate  by  a  term  of  years  the  revenue  derived  from  the 
wharves  of  San  Francisco.  But  since  it  is  the  people  from  the 
interior  who  will  use  the  depot  fully  as  much  as  those  of  this 
city,  would  they  have  any  real  ground  for  kicking  if  asked  to 
contribute  a  nickel  or  two  for  its  construction  ? 


A  NUMBER  of  good  men  have  been  nominated  for  School  Di- 
rectors. Among  them  is  Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  an  incum- 
bent, who  has  been  re-nominated  by  the  Republicans.  Dr.  Decker 
has  a  good  record,  and  as  he  is  thoroughly  asquainted  with  the 
schools  and  their  administration,  there  is  every  reason  why  he 
should  be  re-elected.  The  Democrats  have  put  forward  as  one  of 
their  nominees  for  School  Director,  J.  H.  Rosewald,  the  well- 
known  musical  director.  Mr.  Rosewald  needs  no  word  of  com- 
mendation, as  he  is  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the 
city.  He  has  done  much  in  the  cause  of  public  education,  and  as 
a  director  of  the  affairs  of  the  School  Department,  would  be  of 
great  benefit  to  the  city.  Mr.  S.  E.  Dutton  is  a  candidate  on  the 
Non-Partisan  ticket  for  a  place  on  the  Board.  He  is  also  an  ex- 
cellent man.  He  is  a  member  of  the  present  Board,  on  which  he 
has  done  much  good  service.  It  is  a  good  thing  for  the  city  to 
re-elect  to  office  men  who  have  properly  carried  out  their  public 
trusts.  Each  of  these  three  gentlemen  would  prove  an  honor  to 
the  city  upon  the  Board  of  Education. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  22,  1892. 


PROTECTION    AND    TRUSTS. 

IT  is  said  to  be  a  very  poor  rule  that  will  not  work  both  ways, 
but  the  Republican  party  evidently  puts  no  faith  in  the  adage. 
It  asserts  in  one  breath  that  the  policy  of  protection  has  increased 
the  prosperity  of  the  country,  but  in  the  very  next  breath  denies 
that  protection  has  any  connection  of  any  kind  with  the  enor- 
mous trusts  and  syndicates  which  have  sprung  up  all  over  the 
United  States  and  are  choking  out  individual  industry  and  legiti- 
mate competition.  They  will  argue  by  the  hour  that  protection 
has  built  up  American  industries,  but  when  asked  whether  it  has 
not  also  built  up  trusts,  they  either  deny  it  tlatly  or  evade  the 
question.  There  is  one  question,  however,  which  they  cannot 
escape,  and  that  is,  "  Did  any  one  ever  hear  of  a  trust  in  the 
United  States  before  1861— that  is,  before  the  era  of  high  tariff?" 
When  that  question  is  asked  they  take  refuge  in  silence,  for  there 
is  no  answer  to  it  except  in  the  negative.  Grover  Cleveland, 
though  he  was  not  a  profound  political  economist  or  a  skilled 
dialectician,  grasped  the  truth  intuitively  in  his  message  of  De- 
cember, 1887,  where  he  pointed  out  that  a  high  tariff  was  the 
founder  and  protector  of  trusts,  and  that  message  found  an 
affirmative  response  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States.  That  was  nearly  five  years  ago,  and  things  have  gone  on 
from  bad  to  worse,  until  to-day  any  American  citizen  who  de- 
sires to  put  under  way  a  new  industrial  enterprise,  no  matter  of 
what  kind,  must  either  part  with  the  larger  share  of  the  fruits  of 
his  inventive  genius  to  the  trusts,  or  see  ruin  staring  him  in  the 
face  if  he  attempt  to  exploit  his  invention  or  discovery  indepen- 
dently. The  tariff  has  been  a  shield  for  American  manufactures, 
to  protect  them  against  foreign  competition,  but  now  they  are  so 
strongly  intrenched  that  they  turn  the  guns  upon  domestic  in- 
dustry and  demand  an  unconditional  surrender.  They  talk  very 
loud  about  the  home  market,  but  they  are  careful  to  conceal  the 
fact  that  they  control  the  home  market,  and  that  is  sealed  as  her- 
metically against  the  home  producer  who  does  not  belong  to  the 
trust  as  against  the  foreign  producer.  Not  only  this,  but  the 
American  consumer  is  compelled  to  pay  an  extra  price  for  the 
articles  he  uses,  for  it  is  an  axiomatic  principle  with  all  monopo- 
lies to  put  the  price  of  their  products  at  the  very  highest  figure 
the  consumer  can  be  forced  or  persuaded  to  pay.  Deprived  of 
the  world's  competition,  the  American  consumer  is  at  the  mercy 
of  the  American  producer,  and  the  trusis  tell  him,  with  superb 
insolence,  that  he  can  take  their  product  or  let  it  alone,  be  cer- 
tainly cannot  get  it  elsewhere.  No  matter  how  much  more  he 
may  have  to  pay,  the  trusts  must  be  protected — and  yet  the  ad- 
vocates of  protection  deny  that  the  tariff  is  a  tax.  It  is  the  de- 
sign of  the  Democratic  party,  under  the  leadership  of  Grover 
Cleveland,  to  reform  these  abuses,  not  by  removing  all  import 
duties  on  foreign  products,  for  such  a  duty  is  essential  to  the  pro- 
duction of  revenue  for  the  needs  of  the  Government,  but  to  so 
equalize  import  duties  that  the  producer  and  consumer  shall  be 
on  the  same  plane  of  equality  and  fairness,  and  that  individual 
eenius,  industry  and  enterprise  shall  not  be  choked  out  by  those 
overgrown  and  noxious  weeds  which  we  call  trusts.  That  is  the 
platform  on  which  Grover  Cleveland  has  taken  his  stand,  and  to 
which  he  invites  every  American  citizen  who  believes  in  honest 
dealing  between  man  and  man.  He  does  not  expect  any  ma- 
terial aid  from  Andrew  Carnegie,  or  John  Wanamaker,  or  the 
Niedringhaus  Tin-plate  Company,  or  the  Cordage  Trust,  or  any  of 
the  enormously  wealthy  combinations  which  have  fattened  on 
protection  at  the  expense  of  the  people,  but  he  does  look  with 
confidence  for  the  support  of  the  bone  and  sinew  of  the  country, 
the  men  who  work  and  are  willing  to  work,  provided  they  can  be 
assured  fair  play  and  an  equal  chance.  It  is  discouraging  to  the 
American  wage-earner  to  vote  right  along,  year  after  year,  for 
the  Republican  party,  and  find  that  all  the  time  the  rich  are  get- 
ting richer  and  the  poor  poorer.  He  loses  faith  in  Carnegie's 
"Triumphant  Democracy"  when  he  knows  of  Carnegie  himself 
enjoying  ease  and  luxury  in  a  foreign  land,  while  hired  bravos 
are  shooting  down  workingmen  at  Homestead  for  the  crime  of 
daring  to  stand  up  for  tbeir  rights.  He  asks  himself  what  pro- 
tection is  for  if  it  is  not  to  protect  those  who  need  protection,  and 
why  he  should  be  expected  to  uphold  a  policy  which  benefits 
only  capital  and  leaves  labor  to  fight  its  own  battle  unaided  and 
unencouraged.  This  is  the  great  issue  of  this  campaign,  and  it  is 
one  that  the  Republicans  cannot  conceal  or  obscure.  They  may 
try  to  cover  it  up  with  elegant  phrases  and  smooth  words,  but 
the  American  workingman  is  so  constituted  as  to  do  his  own 
thinking,  and  the  more  he  thinks  the  less  he  is  satisfied  with  the 
present  condition  of  things.  The  only  alternative  he  can  see  to 
prevent  an  epoch  of  socialism  and  possibly  anarchy  is  a  relaxa- 
tion of  the  hard  and  fast  rules  by  which  he  is  bound  to  the  never- 
ceasing  wheel  of  labor,  and  that  relaxation  he  believes  he  can  find 
in  the  liberal  and  generous  policy  of  the  Democratic  party,  as  ex- 
plained by  Grover  Cleveland  in  his  letter  of  acceptance.  The 
American  workingman  is  not  Baying  much,  just  now,  but  he  is 
doing  a  great  deal  of  hard,  intelligent  thinking,  the  result  of  which 
will  be  made  manifest  on  the  8th  of  November.  With  the  Presi- 
dent, the  Senate  and  the  House  of  Representatives  all  pledged  to 
tariff  reform,  there  will  be  a  chance  to  cut  the  combs  of  the  pro- 
moters of  trusts  and  syndicates,  and  give  honest  labor  the  chance 
to  which  it  is  entitled  by  every  law,  human  and  divine. 


WHY    WALLACE    SHOULD    BE    BEATEN. 

WILLIAM  T.  WALLACE  wants  to  be  re-elected  Superior  Judge 
of  this  city  and  county.  There  are  a  great  many  reasons 
why  he  should  be  defeated,  and  we  propose  laying  some  of  them 
before  our  readers,  in  the  hope  of  inducing  them  to  vote  against 
him.  The  chief  reason  who  Judge  Wallace  should  be  defeated,  is 
that  he  is  not  an  upright  Judge,  in  the  proper  sense  of  the  term. 
He  would  not  take  money  from  litigants  to  decide  a  case  in  a  par- 
ticular way,  but  he  would  divest  himself  completely  of  all  judi- 
cial fairness  in  order  to  bring  about  a  verdict  or  decision  which  he 
might  think  would  benefit  him  politically,  as  his  course  in  the 
matter  of  Bruner  clearly  showed.  Brnner  may  be  the  vilest 
wretch  that  ever  breathed,  but  he  was  entitled  to  a  fair  trial,  and 
when  Wililam  T.  Wallace  packed  a  Grand  Jury  for  the  specific 
purpose  of  having  him  indicted,  he  gave  conclusive  and  convinc- 
ing proof  of  his  unfitness  for  a  judicial  position.  Had  he  erred 
ignorantly  there  might  have  been  some  excuse  for  him,  but  he  is 
too  good  a  lawyer  not  to  have  known  that  his  course  was  con- 
trary to  law.  His  motive  in  this  injudicial  proceeding  was  per- 
fectly manifest.  He  was,  as  he  has  always  been,  seeking  politi- 
cal preferment,  and  thought  he  saw  a  chance  to  ride  into  office  on 
a  wave  of  public  sentiment.  His  appeals  to  that  sentiment  were 
as  pure  a  piece  of  demagogy  as  ever  emanated  from  Denis  Kear- 
ney or  C.  C.  O'Donnell.  It  was  sandlotism  from  the  bench  in- 
stead of  from  the  stump.  Wallace  has  always  wanted  to  hold 
office.  His  chief  ambition  has  been  to  go  to  the  United  States 
Senate,  but  failing  that,  he  has  been  willing  to  take  anything  he 
could  get.  Even  when  Buckley  threw  him  the  gnawed  bone  of 
a  nomination  to  the  Assembly  he  snapped  at  it,  and  the  melan- 
choly sight  was  witnessed  of  an  ex-Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  being  cheek  by  jowl  with  the  scum  which  Buckley  used  to 
scrape  up  and  send  to  the  Legislature.  Wallace  should  not  be  re- 
elected, because  he  is  a  dangerous  man.  He  has  come  to  believe 
himself  greater  than  the  law,  and  when  a  Judge  reaches  that  stage 
it  is  time  to  retire  him.  Only  a  few  weeks  ago  he  declared  that 
the  time  had  come  for  vested  rights  to  make  way  and  yield  to 
personal  rights,  which  means  that  the  rights  of  property  are  not 
to  be  respected  in  his  court  if  he  has  friends  to  reward  or  enemies 
to  punish.  Personal  rights,  in  the  sense  in  which  he  used  the 
term,  mean  the  same  as  natural  rights,  and  the  logical  outcome  of 
the  doctrine  of  natural  rights  is  anarchy.  That  is  certainly 
strange  doctrine  to  be  preached  by  a  Judge  on  the  bench.  It  is 
subversive  of  law  and  a  flat  contradiction  of  his  oath  of  office. 
Wallace  should  not  be  re-elected,  because  he  does  not  intend  to 
serve  the  people,  but  himself.  So  long  as  his  own  interests  are 
not  concerned  he  may  be  trusted,  but  let  his  ambition  be  crossed 
or  threatened,  and  law  and  justice  become  very  insignificant  fac- 
tors in  determining  his  course.  He  is  able  and  brilliant,  but  so 
was  Lucifer,  and  so  have  been  the  most  unsafe  men  and  greatest 
tyrants  in  the  history  of  the  world. 


NEW    YORK    FREIGHTS. 


INVESTIGATION  into  the  methods  employed  by  the  proprietors 
of  the  clipper  ship  line,  carrying  freights  from  this  city  to  New 
York,  develops  the  fact  that  the  cost  of  transportation  is  by  no 
means  as  low  as  would  appear  at  first  glance.  John  Rosenfeld's 
line  of  ships  is  the  only  one  making  a  specialty  of  shipping  from 
this  city  to  New  York.  There  is  no  opposition,  though  there  are 
clippers  carrying  freights  from  New  York  to  San  Francisco. 
Rosenfeld  has  no  dock  at  New  York,  and  his  freights  are  un- 
shipped at  the  warehouse  of  Lawrence  Sons  &  Gerrish,  at  a  pier 
in  the  East  river.  As  a  rule,  the  consignments  are  landed  in  the 
afternoon,  and  if  not  removed  before  5  o'clock  they  are  put  in 
the  warehouse,  the  owner  paying  for  handling  and  storage.  In 
case  a  merchant  is  unable  to  remove  his  goods  before  the  hour 
set,  and  refuses  to  allow  them  to  be  housed,  each  lot  is  covered 
with  tarpaulin,  for  which  a  charge  of  $1.50  is  made  for  each  lot 
covered,  to  which  is  added  an  additional  charge  of  75  cents  a 
night  for  a  watchman  for  each  tarpaulin.  If  there  are  one  hun- 
dred lots  in  a  consignment,  as  is  very  often  the  case,  it  can  be 
readily  seen  that  the  charges  at  the  New  York  pier  amount  to 
considerable.  Canned  goods  and  wine  have  suffered  most  from 
this  iniquitous  practice,  which  is  of  course  a  gross  imposition. 
The  New  York  expenses  added  to  the  freight  rate  make  the  ex- 
pense of  shipment  equal  to  the  railroad  rate  of  transportation, 
while  the  merchant  loses  the  great  difference  in  time.  The  im- 
pression among  New  York  merchants  is,  that  the  warehousemen 
work  in  with  the  Rosenfelds.  Low  rates  may  be  good  in  their 
way.  but  the  result  is  poor  service,  and  increased  charges  at  the 
other  end  for  ordinary  work.  Goods  hauled  for  $5  a  ton  do  not, 
as  a  rule,  receive  such  considerate  treatment  as  goods  hauled  for 
$10  a  ton.  One  local  house  paid  $320  for  storage  and  incidental 
expenses  alone  on  one  shipment,  which  looks  a  great  deal  like 
extortion.  Merchants  who  are  put  to  this  unexpected  and  unfair 
expense  complain  loudiy  of  their  treatment,  but  it  avails  them 
naught.  The  handling  of  a  large  consignment  is  a  matter  that 
takes  time  in  a  big  city  like  New  York,  and  the  unfortunate 
whose  goods  arrive  on  East  river  pier  any  time  In  the  afternoon 
finds,  as  a  rule,  that  he  has  to  pay  the  exorbitant  charges  before 
he  can  get  his  consignment.  . 


October  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


VOTE    FOR    GOOD    MEN. 


THE  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  the  matter  of  the  head- 
ings npon  the  political  tickets  has  put  an  entirely  new  phase 
upon  the  municipal  campaign.  Instead  of  depending  upon  his  ticket 
to  pull  him  through,  each  candidate  will  now  find  it  necessary  to 
make  a  personal  fight,  in  which  his  popularity  will  cut  a  large 
and  interesting  figure.  It  will  also  make  a  great  difference  with 
the  electors,  for  many  men  whose  political  creed  consists  of  the 
sole  idea — vote  the  straight  ticket,  regardless  of  the  nominees — 
will  now  be  able  to  satisfy  their  consciences  that  they  are  doing 
the  proper  thing  by  picking  out  the  men  who,  in  their  opinion, 
will  make  the  best  officers  for  the  city.  City  officers  should  be 
elected  without  regard  to  the  ticket  to  which  they  are  allied  or 
the  convention  that  nominated  them.  The  main  points  are  their 
ability  and  integrity.  That  being  decided  in  their  favor,  then 
they  are  worthy  of  consideration.  It  is  from  this  standpoint  that 
we  have  selected  two  men  for  important  offices,  from  different 
tickets,  consideration  for  whom  we  ask  from  the  electors.  They 
are  Wendell  Easton.  the  Republican  nominee  for  Mayor,  and  John 
J.  McDade,  Democratic  nominee  for  Sheriff.  Both  are  notably 
able  and  honest  men,  with  clean  records,  and  in  oar  opinion  each 
is  the  best  man  named  for  the  offices  to  which  he  aspires.  Mr. 
Easton  has  been  a  business  man  in  this  city  for  years,  during  all 
of  which  time  he  has  been  known  as  one  of  the  most  progressive 
men  in  the  community.  He  is  identified  with  the  city's  growth, 
and  has  been  prominent  in  many  affairs  which  have  resulted  in 
the  advancement  of  our  material  interests.  Being  a  real  estate  ex- 
pert, Mr.  Easton,  as  Mayor,  would  be  very  happily  placed  for  the 
city,  for  at  a  glance  he  would  know  the  effect  of  any  proposed 
measure  involving  changes  of  grade,  granting  of  franchises,  ex- 
tensions of  streets,  or  any  of  the  various  schemes  which  are  the 
pets  of  contractors  and  the  bugbears  of  the  long-suffering  prop- 
erty-owners and  taxpayers.  In  him  the  small  holders  would 
have  a  Mayor  who  would  promptly  put  his  veto  upon  any  iniqui- 
tous bills.  Another  matter  in  which  Mr.  Easton  is  close  to  the  peo- 
ple, is  in  his  high  regard  for  the  welfare  of  the  public  schools  of 
the  city.  He  was  educated  in  them  himself,  and  he  knows  ex- 
actly just  what  they  want.  It  would  be  his  endeavor  to  aid 
them  as  much  as  possible.  He  possesses  all  the  broad  ideas  nec- 
essary in  the  chief  executive  of  a  large  and  progressive  city.  Silur- 
ianitm  would  hide  its  withered  head  before  him.  He  is  a  conserva- 
tive man,  however,  and  would  give  a  business-like  and  economic 
administration.  An  effort  is  being  made  to  break  the  ranks  of 
his  supporters  by  the  friends  of  the  Non-Partisan  candidate.  Mr. 
Ellert,  himself,  does  not  hope  to  be  elected,  and  the  only  effect  of 
his  canvass  seems  to  be  to  strengthen  O'Donnell.  The  good  citi- 
zens of  the  city  should  combine  in  the  determination  to  elect 
Easton,  who  is  by  far  the  most  able  man  named  this  year  for  the 
office  of  Mayor. 

If  the  Republicans  have  headed  their  ticket  with  a  good  man, 
the  Democrats  have  strengthened  theirs  greatly  by  nominating 
McDade  for  Sheriff.  No  man  in  this  city  is  better  known  nor 
more  popular  than  this  nominee.  In  the  Legislature  he  was  one 
of  the  ablest  men  of  the  session,  and  in  the  Street  Superintend- 
ent's office  he  displayed  ability  of  a  higher  order.  Above  all, 
John  J.  McDade.is  well  known  to  be  an  absolutely  honest  man, 
and  honesty  is  a  qualification  so  essential  to  a  proper  administra- 
tion of  the  olfice  of  Sheriff,  that  there  is  no  such  administration 
without  it.  He  is  not  a  creature  of  a  boss,  as  is  Blattner,  his  Re- 
publican opponent,  nor  would  his  office,  in  the  event  of  his  elec- 
tion, be  conducted  in  the  interests  of  corrupt  men,  as  it  would  be 
were  Blattner  elected.  McDade  is  by  trade  a  pattern-maker,  and 
he  is  as  popular  among  the  working  classes  as  he  is  in  the  busi- 
ness community.  He  is  a  young  man  of  bright  parts,  who  would 
make  one  of  the  best  officers  this  city  ever  had.  He  is  so  far  su- 
perior to  the  Republican  nominee  that  no  comparison  can  be 
made  between  them.  Scott,  the  Non-Partisan  candidate  for  the 
office,  has  no  claim  whatever  to  the  place.  He  was  the  tool  of 
Judge  Wallace  in  preparing  the  stuffed  Grand  Jury,  and  carried 
out  his  part  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  master.  Aside  from  the 
fact  that  in  this  instance  he  obeyed  orders,  nothing  can  be  said  in 
his  behalf.  The  people  owe  it  to  themselves  to  shake  off  the  in- 
cubus corrupt  bossisra,  snd  they  can  do  it  by  electing  McDade 
Sheriff. 


THERE  is  such  a  great  difference  between  the  Democratic  and 
Republican  nominees  for  City  and  County  Attorney  that  no 
good  citizen  will  hesitate  for  a  moment  to  stamp  the  name  of  the 
former.  Harry  T.  Creswell,  the  Democratic  nominee,  has  a  record 
equaled  by  few  men  who  have  been  in  public  life  on  the  Pacific 
Coast.  As  a  Nevada  State  Senator  and  as  District  Attorney  of 
Lander  and  Nye  counties  in  that  State,  be  showed  himself  pos- 
sessed of  far  more  than  usual  ability  and  determination,  and  he 
did  much  in  the  interests  of  the  public  and  became  one  of  the 
most  popular  men  in  Nevada.  Since  his  removal  to  this  State  his 
course  has  been  distinguished  by  the  same  ability  which  made 
him  prominent  in  the  Silver  State.  Mr.  Creswell  is  notably  well 
fitted  to  administer  the  affairs  of  the  City  and  County  Attorney's 
office.  His  Republican  opponent,  Meyer  Jacobs,  has  his  chief 
hope  for  election  in  the  fact  that  Kelly  and  Crimmins  consider 
him  favorably. 


JOHN    W.    RYLAND. 


FOR  many  years  Californians  have  complained  that  their  Con- 
gressmen did  not  represent  them  well  in  Washington.  The 
bills  that  have  passed  for  the  benefit  of  this  State  have,  as  a  rule, 
owed  their  passage  more  to  the  efforts  of  Representatives  of  other 
States  than  to  the  work  of  men  elected  by  our  people.  Our  Con- 
gressmen have  been  weak  men  in  comparison  with  the  statesmen 
of  giant  intellect  who  represented  States  west  of  the  Missouri. 
Consequently,  California's  name  has  seldom  been  recognized  as  a 
synonym  for  political  power  in  the  halls  of  the  capitol.  We  now 
have  an  opportunity  of  sending  to  Washington  a  man  who  will 
reflect  credit  upon  the  State,  and  secure  for  us  much  of  the  pres- 
tige we  have  lost  of  recent  years  among  our  sister  States.  In  the 
Fifth  Congressional  District,  John  W.  Ryland,  of  San  Jose,  has 
been  nominated  for  Congress  against  Eugene  F.  Loud,  the  Repub- 
lican incumbent.  Mr  Ryland  is  a  native  of  the  State,  whose  in- 
terests are  bound  up  with  those  of  California.  He  is  a  successful 
business  man,  and  stands  high  in  the  community.  In  Santa  Clara 
county,  his  home,  no  man  holds  more  the  confidence  of  the  people. 
They  place  their  faith  in  him,  because  they  know  his  worth.  He 
has  held  only  one  political  office,  having  been  one  of  the  free- 
holders appointed  to  frame  a  charter  for  the  city  of  San  Jose.  By 
profession  Mr.  Ryland  is  a  lawyer.  He  is  a  learned  man,  a  deep 
student,  and  of  broad  and  progressive  ideas.  He  has  in  a  marked 
degree  the  faculty  of  managing  large  affairs,  and  is  therefore  par- 
ticularly well  fitted  for  Congressional  work.  With  him  as  its 
representative  in  Congress,  the  Fifth  District,  and  the  State  at 
large,  would  have  a  champion  at  Washington  who  would  do 
much  to  increase  our  material  prosperity.  Mr.  Loud,  Mr.  Ry- 
land's  opponent,  is  a  political  accident,  whose  election  was  one  of 
the  greatest  surprises  of  the  last  Congressional  campaign.  He 
was  a  clerk  in  the  Tax  Collector's  office  at  the  time  of  his  nom- 
ination. He  had  aspired  for  the  nomination  for  the  Assembly  in 
his  district,  but  his  district  convention  put  him  aside.  The  gentle- 
man selected  as  the  Republican  nominee  for  Congress  announced 
his  inability  to  accept,  and  Loud  was  then  nominated  to  fill  the 
vacancy.  His  election  was  not  an  evidence  of  his  own  strength, 
but  rather  of  the  fact  that  his  opponent  at  that  time  had  lost 
many  friends.  Mr.  Loud  is  not  of  the  calibre  of  which  Congress- 
men are  made.  In  fact,  he  is  below  the  mark.  On  the  other 
hand,  Mr.  Ryland  is  in  every  respect  suited  for  the  high  honors 
to  which  he  aspires.  He  will  make  an  excellent  Congressman, 
and  the  people  of  the  Fifth  District  should  not  lose  this  oppor- 
tunity to  send  to  Congress  a  man  who  will  represent  them  ably 
and  well. 

H.    N.    RUST    SHOULD    GO. 


GENERAL  MORGAN,  the  chief  of  the  Indian  Bureau,. has  been 
showing  remarkable  activity  since  Senator  Vest  of  Missouri 
exploited  the  grievances  of  the  Desert  Indians  in  the  Senate.  Pre- 
viously, General  Morgan  had  such  implicit  and  child-like  faith  in 
Horatio  N.  Rust  that  the  charges  made  by  the  press  fell  before 
the  General  as  does  chaff  before  a  fierce  wind.  It  ivas  impossible 
for  an  Indian  agent  to  do  wrong,  thought  the  General,  as  the  de- 
partment bad  so  hedged  about  the  agent  that  it  was  beyond  his 
power  to  stray  from  the  paths  of  righteousness,  and  be  a  power 
for  evil  instead  of  for  good.  But  when  the  Senator  from  Mis- 
souri demanded  an  investigation  into  Mr.  Rust's  conduct,  the  In- 
dian Department  awoke  from  its  normal  lethargic  condition  and 
despatched  to  the  West,  Arthur  M.  Tinker  to  investigate  and  re- 
port on  the  alleged  misconduct.  Mr.  Tinker  is  a  genial  gentle- 
man, fond  of  his  joke,  and  has  an  abhorrence  of  hot  weather. 
His  investigation  was  farcical.  He  "  got  on  the  wrong  foot,"  as 
it  is  poetically  called  by  his  admirers,  and  he  turned  in  a  report 
which  was  not  exactly  to  the  tastes  of  the  Department,  inas- 
much as  it  showed  nothing,  while  the  press  still  maintained  its 
attacks.  Mr.  Tinker  was  then  followed  by  J.  A.  Leonard,  who 
is  now  making,  according  to  all  accounts,  a  most  thorough  and 
exhaustive  examination  into  the  doings  of  Rust.  The  two  most 
serious  charges  against  this  official  are  that  he  used  his  position 
to  secure  Indian  curios  without  payment,  and  further,  that  he 
circulated  a  petition  to  have  the  Drexel  School  at  Banning  closed. 
About  these  two  charges  there  can  be  little  doubt,  for  the  In- 
dians most  unhesitatingly  affirm  that  Mr.  Rnst  has  frequently  and 
at  various  times  and  places,  taken  baskets,  metates  and  other 
examples  of  their  ingenuity,  offering  payment  and  giving  none. 
The  second  charge  is  the  more  easily  proved,  for  Mr.  Rust  placed 
the  petition  in  the  Colton  Postoffice,  and  only  when  bis  action 
was  vigorously  opposed  did  he  draw  down  the  objectionable 
paper.  It  now  remains  to  be  seen  what  will  be  the  outcome  of 
this  last  investigation.  There  is  a  strong  desire  on  the  part  of  the 
Government  always  to  shield  their  employes  from  hostile  attack, 
and  make  It  to  appear  that  the  charges  were  inaugurated  by  per- 
sons too  ready  to  swallow  statements  inimical  to  the  one  in  pow- 
er, owing  to  a  general  feeling  against  a  government  servant.  This, 
however,  is  not  the  case.  There  is  no  disposition  on  the  part  of 
any  private  person  to  bring  the  Indian  Department  into  contempt, 
but  it  does  seem  strange  that  the  Bureau  should  continue  in  of- 
fice a  man  who  has  made  himself  so  thoroughly  disliked  by  both 
the  Indians  and  whites. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  22,  1892 


SOME     GOOD     CANDIDATES. 


GEORGE  H.  BAHRS,  a  Republican  nominee  for  Superior  Judge, 
would  honor  that  bench.  He  is  a  young  man  of  undoubted 
ability,  who  has  made  a  name  for  himself  as  a  profound  lawyer. 
Mr.  Bahrs  is  a  San  Franciscan,  and  was  educated  in  the  local 
public  schools.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1885,  after  read- 
ing law  in  the  offices  of  Eyre  &  Frank  and  Mr.  Castlehun.  Al- 
most immediately  be  took  place  among  the  leaders  in  criminal 
practice  for  in  1886,  as  attorney  for  the  defense  in  the  case  of  Gor- 
man and  Bailey,  accused  of  the  murder  of  Nugent,  his  excellent 
management  of  the  case  gained  for  him  a  name.  In  many  other 
cases  he  has  also  displayed  his  ability.  As  attorney  for  the  Cali- 
fornia Trade  Protective  Association,  the  object  of  which  is  to 
resist  the  attacks  of  the  High  License  party  on  the  wine  industry 
of  the  State,  Mr.  Bahrs  appeared  before  the  Supervisors  and  ably 
presented  the  case  of  the  brewers  and  wine  men.  He  is  Promi- 
na nt  in  a  number  of  fraternal  societies,  including  the  Druids,  in 
which  he  is  a  Past  Noble  Grand  Arch,  the  Workmen,  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men,  Verein  Eintracht  and  Knights  and  Ladies  of 
Honor.  He  is  a  Native  Son  of  the  Golden  West,  being  a  member 
of  Pacific  Parlor,  No.  10,  and  is  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Scheutzen- 
Verein.  In  all  respects  is  Mr.  Bahrs  eminently  fitted  for  the  high 
position  to  which  he  aspires. 

DUNCAN  HAYNE,  a  Democratic  nominee  for  Superior 
Judge,  is  one  of  the  ablest  men  named  for  that  high  office. 
As  a  lawyer  bis  reputation  is  excellent,  and  as  a  citizen  nothing 
can  be  said  against  him.  Mr.  Hayne  represents  the  class  of  men 
whom  we  should  get  upon  the  Superior  Bench ;  lawyers  who  are 
able  and  thoroughly  honest,  and  above  reproach  in  all  things. 
The  citizens  need,  for  their  own  protection,  Judges  whose  names 
alone  will  be  guarantee  of  their  able  and  honest  administration  of 
the  law.  Law  courts  have  long  been  improperly  conducted. 
Elect  men  like  Mr.  Hayne  and  others  here  mentioned,  and  a 
needed  improvement  will  speedily  follow. 


NOT  a  man  named  on  any  of  the  tickets  for  the  Superior  Bench 
would  give  greater  satisfaction  in  that  position  than  William 
G.  Brittan,  who  was  nominated  by  the  Republican  Convention. 
Mr.  Brittan  is  now  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  to  which  position  he  was 
elected  two  years  ago.  He  is  an  able  lawyer,  a  hard  student,  and 
in  all  respects  a  most  upright  man.  "His  strength  in  the  com- 
munity was  recognized  by  the  Republican  Convention  when  it 
nominated  him  for  the  Superior  Bench.  As  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  Mr.  Brittan  has  had  a  most  successful  administration,  dur- 
ing which  he  has  shown  himself  to  be  a  very  able  jurist.  He  is 
a  son  of  J.  W.  Brittan,  founder  of  the  firm  of  Holbrook,  Merrill 
&  Stetson,  and  numbers  his  friends  by  the  thousands  throughout 
the  State.  

IN  the  Police  Courts  we  need  men  who  know  not  only  the  law 
but  who  can  temper  justice  with  mercy,  and  give  a  proper  ad- 
ministration to  the  law  as  applied  to  petty  offenses.  Such  a  man 
is  Police  Judge  Joachimsen,  who  is  a  candidate  for  re-election. 
He  has  the  confidence  of  the  people,  and  is  deserving  of  considera- 
tion from  them.  Judge  Joachimsen  will  receive  support  from 
thousands  of  electors,  irrespective  of  party. 

FRANK  W.  LAWLER  has  been  nominated  by  the  Democrats 
for  re-election  to  the  place  he  now  holds  upon  the  Superior 
Bench.  Judge  Lawler.  during  his  term  in  this  honorable  position, 
has  shown  himself  possessed  of  a  keen,  judicial  mind,  and  a 
deep  knowledge  of  the  law,  which  is  equaled  by  but  few  of  his 
colleagues.  His  decisions  have  beea  uniformly  just,  and  he  en- 
joys enviable  popularity  among  the  members  of  the  bar. 


WILLIAM  W.  ACKERSON,  the  Democratic  nominee  for  Su- 
perintendent of  Streets,  is  the  best  man  named  for  the  place, 
and  should  be  elected.  Mr.  Ackerson  is  a  contractor  and  builder, 
and  is  conversant  with  all  the  needs  of  the  city  in  the  matter  of 
street  improvements.  He  is  a  native  8on,  and  is  very  popular. 
He  is  a  very  able  man,  who  would  administer  the  affairs  of  the 
Street  Superintendent's  office  for  the  benefit  of  the  taxpayers,  and 
not  in  the  interest  of  scheming  contractors.  Property-owners 
can  appreciate  the  advantage  of  having  in  this  office  a  roan  who 
is  above  petty  jobs,  and  who  does  not  expect  and  would  not  ac- 
cept a  dividend  on  street  work.  W.  W.  Ackerson  is  the  man  for 
the  place,  and  heshould  be  elected. 


TWO  men  who  have  a  right  to  expect  support  from  the  people 
are  James  W.  Burling,  Supervisor  from  the  Third  Ward,  who 
has  announced  himself  as  an  independent  candidate  for  that  po- 
sition, and  C.  W.  Taber.  Supervisor  from  the  Eleventh  Ward, 
who  has  also  entered  the  campaign  for  re-election.  Both  these 
gentlemen  have  made  excellent  Supervisors,  and  by  going  into 
an  independent  fight,  they  have  shown  themselves  free  from  all 
taint  of  bossism.  They  secured  places  on  the  municipal  ticket 
by  presenting  petitions  to  that  effect  signed  by  thousands  of  citi- 
zens. Mr.  Burling's  petition  bore  over  10,000  names.  The  citizens 
should  support  these  independent  candidates. 


GEORGE  W.  LEE,  the  Republican  nominee,  is  well  fitted  for 
the  office  of  County  Clerk.  For  years  he  has  been  engaged 
in  expert  accountant  work,  and  his  excellent  business  ability 
would  enable  him  to  reduce  the  expenses  of  that  office  very  ma- 
terially. By  birth  Mr.  Lee  is  a  Phitadelphian,  but  as  he  has  lived 
in  this  city  since  childhood,  and  was  educated  in  our  public 
schools,  be  properly  considers  himself  a  San  Franciscan.  His 
first  employment  was  in  the  old  Center  Market.  He  was  after- 
wards with  J.  J.  Mack  &  Co.  for  five  years.  He  left  them  to  en- 
gage in  the  tea,  coffee  and  spice  business,  and  oa  his  retirement 
from  mercantile  life  he  became  chief  bookkeeper  under  Superin- 
tendent of  Streets  Ruggles,  retaining  that  position  under  Mr.  Pat- 
terson. He  was  afterwards  with  the  Spring  Valley  Company  in 
an  important  position.  He  was  appointed  License  Collector,  and 
has  made  an  excellent  record  in  that  office.  He  has  now  been 
nominated  for  County  Clerk,  a  position  which  he  can  ably  fill. 

NO  offices  are  more  important  in  municipal  government  than 
those  of  Supervisors.  They  are  the  men  who  hold  the  des- 
tiny of  the  city  in  their  hands.  The  importance  of  their  office, 
therefore,  cannot  be  over-estimated.  For  Supervisor  in  the  Fifth 
Ward,  George  McGillivray  was  nominated  by  the  Democratic 
municapal  convention.  He  is  a  native  son,  and  has  always  been 
identified  with  the  interests  of  the  city  and  State.  A  man  of  un- 
questioned ability,  great  energy,  and  progressive  ideas,  he  would 
be  of  great  benefit  to  the  city  as  a  Supervisor.  Mr.  McGillivray 
is  identified  with  the  Downie  B.  I.  P.  Company  and  the  Euca- 
lyptus Boiler  Fluid. 

IT  is  with  great  satisfaction  that  the  voter  will  find  upon  his 
ticket  the  name  of  Henry  P.  Sonntag,  Republican  nominee  for 
Supervisor  in  the  Tenth  Ward.  Mr.  Sonntag,  who  is  a  member  of 
the  real  estate  firm  of  Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  is  one  of  the 
best  men  named  in  the  county  this  year  for  office.  Intimately 
conversant  with  the  city,  he  is  a  man  of  progressive  ideas,  whose 
endeavor  it  would  be  to  develop  the  municipality  as  rapidly  as 
possible.  He  has  an  excellent  reputation  throughout  the  com- 
munity, and  numbers  his  friends  by  thousands. 

THE  Non-Partisans  have  nominated  J.  Browell  for  Supervisor 
of  the  Second  Ward.  Mr.  Browell  is  a  Pioneer,  who  is  well 
known  in  the  business  community.  He  has  lived  in  the  Second 
Ward  for  years,  and  has  always  been  identified  with  progressive 
movements  in  that  neighborhood.  He  would  make  an  excellent 
Supervisor,  because  he  knows  what  the  city  needs,  and  is  incor- 
ruptible. 

FOR  Supervisor  of  the  Third  Ward  the  Democratic  Convention 
nominated  William  Montgomery,  proprietor  of  the  American 
Exchange  Hotel,  one  of  the  best  and  most  popular  men  in  the 
city.  He  enjoys  an  excellent  reputation  in  the  business  com- 
munity. 

ONE  of  the  best  of  the  Supervisorial  nominees  is  August  Helbing 
the  Republican  candidate  in  the  Twelfth  Ward.  He  is  a  solid 
business  man  and  a  pioneer,  who  knows  the  city's  needs  and 
would  aid  them.     We  need  such  men  for  City  Fathers. 


THERE  is  every  reason  for  the  re-election  of  Charles  S.  Tilton 
as  City  and  County  Surveyor.  He  has  been  identified  with 
the  office  Tor  over  twenty  years,  and  is  intimately  acquainted 
with  every  detail  of  city  work.  Mr.  Tilton  is  an  able  engineer, 
and  has  been  instrumental  in  advancing  city  improvements.  His 
many  good  works  should  now  be  rewarded  by  his  re-election. 


FOR  the  office  of  Coroner  is  needed  a  man  who  is  not  only  able 
to  properly  fulfill  the  duties  of  that  position,  but  who  is  also  of 
such  uprightness  that  his  name  alone  is  a  guarantee  of  an  honest 
administration.  Such  a  man  is  Dr.  William  T.  Garwood,  the  in- 
cumbent, who  has  been  renominated  by  the  Republicans.  Dr. 
Garwood  is  worthy  of  re-election. 

EB.  READ,  the  present  Recorder,  who  has  been  renominated 
,  for  that  office  by  the  Republicans,  gains  strength  with  the 
approach  of  election  day.  He  has  made  a  good  record  in  the  of- 
fice, and  the  indications  are  that  the  people  will  show  their  ap- 
proval of  him  by  re-electing  him.  It  is  a  good  idea  to  re-elect 
good  men. 

DPPRICES 


Powder 


Used  in  Millions  of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard 


Oct.   2-2    lvij 


SAN    FRANCISCO   NKWS   LKTTK"R 


A    MORNING     REHEARSAL. 

SCBNB:  Kohler  A  Chased  Music  Hall— (Young  ladies  of  the 
Saturday  Murning  Orchestra  sputtering  ab>ut  with  their  in- 
struments; a  wild  profusion  of  violin  boxes,  bags  and  articles  of 
wearing  apparel  on  cbiirs;  a  horrible  discord  in  the  striving  of 
that  "A."  and  endless  chatter). 

Rostvatd — "Young  ladies,  you  will  please  take  your  places." 
(Young  ladies  file,  one  after  tbe  other,  up  the  three  little  tem- 
porary steps  to  the  siag< ,  and  take  their  places;  Miss  Tronobcni 
stumbles  over  the  reposiug  bass  violin,  and  several  music  stands 
are  kicked  over,  sending  the  music  Hying  about  tbe  platform. 
After  much  preparation  tbe  ladies  are  seated,  and  ready  to  com- 
mence.) 

Rosewald  (tapping  conductor's  stand) — "All  ready?  The  over- 
ture!" (After  a  fluttering  pause),  "Overture!  Remember,  ladies, 
we  are  nearing  the  concert,  and  must  get  to  solid  work.  Miss 
Drummer,  we  are  waiting"  (lifting  the  baton),  "all  ready?"  (Vio- 
lincetlo's  music-stand  of  a  sudden  completely  collapses.  It  is 
fixed  again,  aud  with  the  down-beat  of  Rosewald's  baton  the  or- 
chestra strike's  out  boldly  in  some  dashing  notes  in  rapid  succes- 
sion, very  loud  and  very  much  out  of  tune,  but  full  of  interest, 
for  Miss  Trombone's  cheeks  are  like  two  apples,  Miss  Cuntra- 
basso's  face  has  already  drooped  in  her  conscientious  intensity, 
and  the  visage  of  Miss  Cornet  has  taken  on  a  crimson  hue.) 

Rosewald  (wildlv  beating  the  stand)— "Ladies,  please,"  (a  pause, 
in  which  he  sighs  despairingly;  some  in  the  audience  are  very 
much  amused  and  laugh  aloud;  the  conductor  turns  toward 
them  in  surprise);  "Thanks,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  thanks."  (A 
painful  pause.)  "Again,  please."  (Orchestra  begins  again  with 
a  better  attempt,  and  plays  on  with  good  vigor.  A  sudden  halt, 
and  Miss  Drummer  gets  in  a  oar  of  "trum-de-de-dum"  solo  with 
a  very  rattling  effect.) 

Rosewald  (still  directing,  turns  to  Miss  Drummer,  with  a  weary 
smile) — "What's  the  matter  with  the  drum?" 

Miss  Drummer  (laughing) — "I  don't  know;  it  leaks,  I  guess." 
(They  are  now  playing  in  full  sway,  and  suddenly  leave  Miss 
Drummer  rolling  out  a  tremendous  swell  to  be  caught  up  again 
by  the  orchestra.  Tbe  next  thing  realized  is  Miss  Flute  tutting 
out  some  two-fourths  time,  with  more  "tute-tute-tute"  than 
melody.) 
Rosewald  (beating  stand) — "Flute's  too  flat." 
Miss  Flute — "I  can't  help  it.  I  really  can't  push  it  In  any 
further;  it  is  as  far  as  it  will  go,  don't  you  know." 

Rosewald — "Commence  again."  (More  discord.)  "Nol  Noll 
Noll!"     (Miss  Flute  plays   one,   two,  three,  four,  five.)     "Last 

bars  alone,  please."  — 

Miss  Flute  (timidly) — "I  can  play  it,  Mr. 
Rosewald." 

Rosewald — "Well,  then,  play  it.  Let  me 
hear  you." 

Miss  Flute — (Amid  intense  hush) — "  I 
really  can't  play  it  now,  don't  you  know. 
I  have  played  it  before,  but  this  morning  I 
can't,  because  I  haven't  enough  wind." 
(The  entire  orchestra  and  audience  sing  out 
the  chorus  in  a  sort  of  loud  and  yet  polite 
chuckle,  while  Rosewald  withers.) 

Rosewald  (screaming) — "Lohengrin.young 
ladies,  Lohengrin."  (After  some  more 
scratching  for  "A"  they  start  in  a  grand 
Wagnerian  style,  the  cymbals  coming  in 
with  the  proper  bang.  After  a  few  bars  the 
conductor  comes  down  to  the  back  of  the 
hall  to  note  the  effect.) 

Rosewald— "Oh,  oh,"  (beating  the  back  of 
a  chair  with  his  baton,  and  running  up  the 
aisle  again),  "oh,  ladies,  stop!  If  Wagner 
could  hear  that  it  would  turn  him  and  his 
coffin  in  his  grave.  Begin  from  letter  B. 
Ladies,  please  (making  stand  suffer)  stopl 
If  there  is  any  talking  to  be  done  I'll  do  it. 
Letter  B,  please."  (Letter  B  is  again  taken 
up,  and  they  again  play  the  dulcet  sounds 
of  the  "Bridal  Chorus.") 

Rosewald — "There  is  some  discord  some- 
where; it  sounds  terrible.  'Cellos  and  bas- 
sos play  alone  from  letter  B."  ('Cellos  and 
bassos  feebly  jerk  their  bows  over  the 
strings  in  some  mixture  of  sounds.  It  is 
passed  over,  and  they  commence  from  let- 
ter B  again.) 

Rosewald  (tapping  stand) — "And  you  vio- 
lins, this  must  be  played  on  the  edge  of  the 
bow,  like  this"  (taking  violin  from  the 
handiest  player  and  running  the  bow  over 
the  strings).  "Ach— a,  please,  Miss  Organ- 
ist." (Miss  Organist  strikes  three  or  four 
keys  before  getting  the  right  one.  He 
tunes  up  Miss  Violin's  violin,  and  proceeds 
to  show  them  the  trick  of   the  little  jump- 


ing  notes  ) 

Rosewald — "That  way.  Now  again,  everybody,  from  letter  B." 
(The  last  note  brings  all  the  wondering  eyes  leveled  to  his  for 
some  word.) 

Rosewald  (sighs)—  •* We  mint  have  more  rehearsals  on  that;  it 
goes  very  badly.  On  next  Saturday  I  am  going  to  spend  half  the 
morning  on  this  alone"  (seeking  among  the  pack  of  music). 
"Really,  young  ladies,  I   " 

(Enter  messenger  boy  with  a  note  ) 

Rosewald  (taking  note)—  <Miss  Clarionet,  for  you.  Please  pass 
it  to  her"  (tn  messenger  boy).     "Any  answer!" 

Messenger  Boy — "Don't  know." 

Rosewa'd  palling  out)—'  -Dream  After  the  Ball,'  young  ladies." 

Miss  Clarionet  (ipeaking  from  her  placa  in  the  orchestra) — "No. 
there  is  no  answer," 

Messenger  Boy — "8ign  this." 

Rosewald—  "Got  a  lead  pencil?" 

Messenger  Boy — "No." 

Rosewald— "You  ought  to  have"  (impatiently).  "Here,  I  will 
sign  it  for  her.  'Dream  After  the  Ball,'  please,  ladies."  (Thr 
violins  dreamily  and  gracefully  bow  out  the  dream,  filling  the 
hall  and  corridors  with  the  heart-thrilling  waltz,  while  the  others 
of  the  orchestra  fill  in  the  accompaniment  with  a  "bom-tum-tum, 
bom-tum-tum"  that  is  supposed  to  bring  the  fair  ones  dancing 
about  in  fairy  grace.) 

Rosewald  (abruptly,  at  the  last  dying  note)— "Next  Saturday, 
ladies.     Close  your  folios,  please." 

(A  flutter  and  chatter.     Rehearsal  is  over.) 


AT  a  meeting  of  the  Baptist  Association  in  Sacramento,  the 
other  day,  one  of  the  good  brothers  soundly  berated  the 
church  members  for  their  backwardness  in  contributing  money 
to  the  support  of  foreign  missions.  This  cheerful  Christian  an- 
nounced that  because  of  this  unwillingness  to  send  money  to 
foreign  lands,  a  trifle  of  fifteen  and  a  half  million  heathen  "  were 
swept  into  hell  every  year."  The  News  Letter  would  respect- 
fully tender  the  suggestion  that  the  conversion  of  our  own  heathen 
should  be  brought  about  before  wasting  money  on  the  Chinese 
and  Hindoos,  who  have  a  religion  which  antedates  ours  by  sev- 
eral thousand  years,  and  whose  followers  outnumber  the  so-called 
Christians  ten  to  one. 

VELVET  sleeves  are  worn  again  with  cloth  wrap*  and  cloaks  to 
considerable  extent.  They  very  often  transform  a  coat  that  is 
really  perfectly  good,  but  has  been  worn  so  much  that  its  owner 
is  tired  of  it. 


27%  Difference 

The  "Royal"  the  Strongest  and 
Purest  Baking  Powder. 

Whether  any  other  baking  powder  is  equal  to 
"Royal,"  let  the  official  reports  decide.  When 
the  different  powders  were  purchased  on  the  open 
market  and  examined  by  Prof.  Chandler,  of  the 
New-York  Board  of  Health,  the  result  showed  that 
Royal  Baking  Powder  contained  twenty-seven 
per  cent,  greater  strength  than  any  other  brand. 

When  compared  in  money  value,  this  difference 
would  be  as  follows : 

If  one  pound  of  Royal  Baking  Powder  sells 
for  50  cents, 

One  pound  of  no  other  powder  is  worth  over 
36  cents. 

If  another  baking  powder  is  forced  upon  you 
by  the  grocer  in  place  of  the  Royal,  see  that  you 
are  charged  the  correspondingly  lower  price. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  22,  1892 


T1 


'We   Obey    no    Wand,    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 


"<HE  revival  of  the  romantic  legitimate  drama  at  the  California 
1  on  Monday  night  was  so  welcome  that  the  audience  was  fairly 
suborned  to  approval  before  the  curtain  went  up,  and  its  recol- 
lection of  the  younger  Salvini  acted  as  a  pleasant  accessory.  In 
both  his  previous  appearances  here  the  young  actor  displayed 
sufficient  talent  to  arouse  a  flattering  expectancy  on  bis  first  ap- 
pearance as  a  star.  It  is  unfair  to  judge  an  actor  by  his  assump- 
tion of  one  leading  role;  but  even  in  one  act,  perhaps  among  a 
thousand  crudities  and  redundancies,  the  fire  of  genius  will  flash 
out,  leaving  to  be  settled  only  the  question  of  the  ultimate  breaking 
to  harness  of  the  dramatic  Pegasus.  There  is  plenty  of  fire  in 
young  Salvini,  but  it  is  the  fire  of  youth  and  temperament,  not  of 
genius.  Great  talent  he  has,  and  this,  with  an  evident  zeal  and 
application,  and  the  traditional  family  bias,  will  undoubtedly 
make  him  one  day  a  great  actor  in  the  school  he  has  adopted. 

Mr.  8alvini's  rendering  of  the  fascinating  but  almost  impossible 
character  of  Don  Ciesare  de  Bazan  is,  more  than  anything,  un- 
equal. It  is  full  of  excellences  and  as  full  of  faults.  Among  the 
former  are  the  thoroughness  of  the  conception  of  the  opposing 
characteristics  of  the  brilliant  hero  of  8paniah  story,  the  rollicking 
humor  of  the  good-for-naught,  the  fiery  ardor  of  the  lover,  and 
the  touch-and-go  choler  and  overstrained  chivalry  of  the  Spanish 
grandee.  The  young  actor  evidently  understands  his  hero,  though 
he  does  not  always  adequately  represent  him.  Full  of  fervid  en- 
ergy, he  is,  on  the  whole,  more  in  touch  with  the  heroic  and  pas- 
sionate than  with  the  humorous  and  whimsical  side  of  Don  Ciesare. 
The  most  salient  and  obtrusive  of  Mr.  Salvini's  fau.ts  is  over- 
action.  Gesture  is  carried  to  a  point  that  fairly  dazes  the  audit- 
or. The  constant  trembling,  shaking  and  gyrating  of  fingers, 
arms,  head  and  body  are  so  violent  and  so  unremitting  that  sense 
is  swallowed  up  in  motion,  and  the  auditor  vainly  tries  to  catch 
a  word  an.. id  the  whirlwind.  This  may  be  merely  the  national 
proneness  to  gesticulation,  but  whatever  its  origin  it  certainly  de- 
mauds  instant  and  stringent  represeion.  The  difficulties  of  ac- 
quiring a  new  tongue  are,  of  course,  somewhat  detrimental  to  in- 
telligibility, and  in  quick  utterances  the  syllables  tumble  over 
one  another  somewhat  bewilderingly ;  but  this  will  mend  with 
practice,  and  the  wonder  is  rather  in  the  obstacles  already  sur- 
mounted than  in  those  which  remain.  Strangely  enough,  with 
all  Salvini's  fervor  and  impetuosity,  be  is  not  magnetic.  His 
smile  seems  to  come  from  without  and  to  play  over  the  surface 
of  his  face,  awakening  no  responsive  gleam  in  the  auditor. 
This  lack  of  magnetism  is  one  justification  of  the  assertion  that 
Alexander  Salvini  is  an  actor  of  ability  with  an  almost  assured 
promise  of  reaching,  by  work  and  study,  the  height  of  his  ambi- 
tion, but  without  that  spark  divine  whose  electric  power  could 
land  him  there  at  a  bound,  and  which  the  study  and  the  work 
need  only  tone  down  and  direct. 

Next  week  we  shall  see  the  young  actor  as  D'Artagnan,  in  which 
role  he  will  not  have  to  suffer  the  inevitable  comparison  with  the 
all-conquering  genius  of  Edwin  Booth,  which  is  equally  at  home 
as  the  roystering,  devil-may-care  Spaniard,  in  the  melancholy 
philosophy  of  Hamlet,  or  as  the  terrible  Richard.  The  picture  of 
Booth  throwing  about  him,  with  magnificent  audacity  and  inimi- 
table grace,  that  threadbare  cloak,  would  arise  on  Monday  night 
to  dazzle  the  eye  honestly  trying  to  discover  the  beauties  of  the 
present  performance.  Comparison*  are  so  odious  that  good  judg- 
ment usually  tries  to  avoid  challenging  them.  Without,  however, 
being  a  Booth,  it  is  much  already,  and  will  be  more,  to  be  an 
Alexander  Salvini,  and  San  Francisco  will  enjoy  to  the  depths  of 
enjoyment  the  gracious  respite  from  legs  and  horseplay  in  the 
two  weeks  of  Salvini  and  the  legitimate  at  the  California. 
•  »  » 

The  supporting  company  is  so  evidently  inadequte  to  the  de- 
mands of  high-class  legitimate  drama  as  to  call  forth  anew  the 
ever-recurring  question,  "  Is  it  possible  to  find  an  actor  or  actress 
who,  after  attaining  the  ability  to  fill  satisfactorily  a  place  in  a  good 
company,  is  willing  to  stay  there  ?  "  When  a  star  considers  it 
necessary  to  find  the  proper  person  to  fill  each  part  there  will  be 
some  satisfaction  in  seeing  good  plays.  Nor  should  this  consum- 
mation be  considered  millennial.  It  is  a  simple  matter  of  fulfill- 
ment of  a  directly  implied  contract  between  managers  and  their 
patrons.  The  star  who  imagines  that  it  is  himself  instead  of  a 
rounded  and  complete  performance  which  the  public  desires  to 
see,  makes  a  mistake.  It  is,  perhaps,  as  often  the  greed  as  the 
egotism  of  the  principal  which  results  so  disastrously;  he  de- 
mands so  much  that  the  manager  is  obliged  to  fill  out  with  in- 
ferior, low-priced  people.  Whatever  the  cause,  the  public  is  de- 
frauded, and  if  it  were  one  man  instead  of  a  million,  its  protest 
would  make  itself  heard  and  heeded.  Mr.  Salvini's  company  is 
neither  worse  nor  better  than  the  average,  and  that  is  bad  enough. 
The  part  of  the  King  may  be  measurably  exceptional,  but  not  in 
sufficient  degree  to  modify  appreciably  the  general  tone. 


An  amateur  performance  may  be  judged  in  the  rough,  but  the 
professional  presumably  studies  and  practices  his  part  till  every 
smallest  detail  has  been  perfected.  While  the  minutiie  of  cos- 
tuming, scenic  effects,  light,  and  position,  are  so  carefully  studied, 
surely  so  important  an  element  as  that  of  speech  should  be  as 
well  considered.  No  two  members  of  the  8alvini  company  pro- 
nounce alike  the  name  of  the  hero.  The  French  nasal  "  n"  is 
given  in  Bazan  by  most  of  them,  the  Don  is  Spanish  or  English, 
and  the  Ciesare  generally  uncompromisingly  Anglicized—  "Seezar." 
If  the  French  pronunciation  of  Bazan  be  adopted  as  most  sonor- 
ous, let  the  title  and  "  Ciesare"  follow  suit.  But  whether  English, 
French,  Spanish,  or  Italian,  uniformity  should  be  rigidly  enforced. 
The  same  carelessness  is  notable  in  nearly  every  visiting  com- 
pany, and  iB  the  more  surprising  in  the  present  craze  for  "detail." 
The  lack  of  attention  to  this  essential  of  unity  results  in  a  bar- 
barous polyglot,  which  jars  unpleasantly  on  the  ordinarily  sensi- 
tive ear,  and  betrays  an  unpardonable  slovenliness  in  stage 
management. 

*  ■  * 

Mr.  DeKoven,  who  as  composer  of  the  most  popular  opera  of 
the  decade,  may  certainly  be  held  competent  to  form  an  opinion 
on  the  subject,  pronounces  the  Cavalleria  Rusticana,  a  type  of 
the  opera  of  the  future,  being  serious  and  romantic  without 
either  the  neavier  elements  of  grand  opera  or  the  meretricious 
"catcbiness"  of  comic  opera.  The  exquisitely  tender  music  was 
more  than  fairly  well  rendered  by  the  Duff  Opera  Company  at 
the  Baldwin,  Monday  night.  Both  singers  and  orchestra  did 
their  work  well  and,  for  the  most  part,  in  excellent  accord. 
Charles  Bassett  (Turridu)  has  a  rich,  musical  tenor,  which  he  uses 
well.  His  voice  has  much,  too,  of  the  sympathetic  quality  with- 
out which  the  most  admirable  vocalization  fails  to  reach  deeper 
than  the  ear.  This  quality  was  as  notably  absent  in  Santuzza,  as 
sung  by  the  leading  soprano.  Miss  Bertram  has  a  brilliant  and 
well  trained  voice  and  an  evident  comprehension  of  the  music, 
but  her  singing  is  devoid  of  sentiment.  Her  face,  too,  is  impas- 
sive, though  her  action  is  generally  dramatic,  and  at  times  in- 
tense. The  other  parts  were  as  well  taken  in  their  relative  de- 
grees of  importance — Lucia  by  Helen  von  Doenhotf,  Alfio  by 
William  Schuster,  and  Lola  by  Villa  Knox.  The  main  element 
of  enjoyment  in  the  opera  was,  in  truth,  its  all  around  excellence, 
added  to  the  prevailing  restful  clearness  of  enunciation  and  the 
pleasing  orchestration. 

Trial  by  Jury  followed.  J.  H.  Ryley,  of  course,  shone  out 
grotesquely  resplendent  as  the  judge,  but  in  general  it  may  be 
doubted  if  a  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  opera  has  ever  received  a  more 
purely  perfunctory  interpretation. 

A  Trip  to  Africa  and  The  Gondoliers  have  also  been  given  during 
the  week.  The  latter  will  be  repeated  at  the  matinee  to-day  and 
the  former  this  evening. 

*  *  * 

The  Passing  Regiment  is  one  of  the  prettiest  plays  given  by  the 
Lederer  company  during  its  four  weeks  at  Stockwell's.  The  act- 
ing of  the  company  was  on  the  general  plane  of  its  previous  per- 
formances. Both  the  Davenports  are  well  suited.  Harry,  as  a 
uniformed  <<  chappie,"  and  E.  L.  as  &  young  lieutenant  some- 
what philosophically  in  love.  Ellen  Burg  is  a  vivacious  little 
Russian,  though  so  hard  and  metallic  as  to  suggest,  despite  her 
pretty  looks,  the  chink  of  coin  rather  than  love  or  sentiment. 
For  the  rest,  the  dead  level  of  the  women  and  the"Dutchy" 
thickness  of  speech,  unintelligibility,  and  over-pronounced  acting 
of  the  men,  remained  unbroken.  The  setting  of  the  interior 
scenes,  by  the  way,  deserves  special  mention,  as  illustrating  the 
resources  of  the  new  theatre  in  this  respect  and  the  taste  and  lib- 
erality which  governs  this  important  department. 
»  •  * 

At  the  Bush  the  Stowaway  has  been  delighting  the  devotees  of 
sensational  melodrama,  chiefly  confined  to  the  gallery.  The  real 
burglars,  by  the  way,  do  their  safe-cracking  act  on  so  dark  a 
stage  as  materially  to  diminish  its  value  as  a  lesson  in  the  art, 
beside  rousing  in  the  mind  of  the  cynical  looker-on  a  doubt  that 
the  "  realism"  extends  further  than  to  the  burglars.  Next  week 
Margaret  Mather  will  appear  at  the  Bush  in  two  plays  every 
night — a  one-act  play,  Nance  Oldfietd,  founded  on  a  sketch  by 
Charles  Reade,  and  The  Egyptian.  The  new  drama,  which  is  in 
five  acts,  is  founded  on  Victor  Hugo's  story.  The  Hunchback  of 
Notre  Dame.  Both  the  humor  and  the  tragically  somber  elements 
of  Hugo's  story  have  been  preserved,  and  Miss  Mather  is  said  to 
present  both  with  equal  force.  Miss  Mather  will  delight  the 
feminine  portion  of  her  audience  by  wearing  in  the  curtain-raiser 
some  beautiful  gowns  designed  by  Felix  of  Paris. 
*  •  • 

The  Mascot  has  been  the  attraction  at  the  Tivoli  this  week,  and 
its  familiar  music  has  been  well  rendered  by  the  company.  Mr. 
Hartman  is  humorous,  but  he  has  the  misfortune  of  carrying  his 
fun  into  the  region  of  stale  jokes  and  wearisome  attenuation. 
The  audience  is  to  blame  for  the  endless  recalls  after  his  song  in 
the  second  act,  but  the  singer  reaps  the  benefit  (when  at  last  he 
resorts  to  pantomime),  in  the  audible  reflection  buzzed  about  that 
Hartman's  singing  is  most  enjoyable  when  he  doesn't  sing.  The 
bright  Tivoli  comedian  should  follow  Sam  Weller's  advice,  and  by 
a  "  suddin  pull-up"  »  make  'em  wish  there  was  more."  Next 
week  Orpheus  and  Eurydice,  which,  with   an  additional  variety 


October  22,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


programme,  will  be  played  at  Treasurer  Joseph  Holtz's  benefit, 
Wednesday  night. 

•  •  • 

The  main  event  of  the  present  Baldwin  engagement  will  be  the 
first  presentation  here.  Next  Monday  night,  of  Miss  Hehjett.  The 
opera  has  had  a  gennine  success  in  the  East,  as  well  as  in  Europe, 
having  run  two  hundred  and  fifty  nights  at  the  Star  Theatre, 
New  York,  beside  two  successful  seasons  in  Philadelphia,  Boston 
and  other  cities.  The  American  adaptation  is  by  David  Belasco. 
Its  three  acts  tell  the  adventures  of  a  demure  little  Quakeress 
searching  the  Spanish  Pyrenees  for  a  lost  artist,  who  has  rescued 
her  from  peril  among  the  mountains,  and  whom  she  believes  it  her 
religrous  duty  to  marry.  N<  t  having  seen  his  features,  she  mistakes 
for  him  a  bullfighter,  an  English  and  an  Irish  tourist,  etc.,  but 
finally  a  look  in  the  artist's  sketch  book  puts  her  on  the  right  track. 

*  *  • 

Thursday  evening  next  the  Henley-Boucicault  season  opens  at 
Stockwell's  in  Bounicault's  comedy-drama.  The  Favorite,  its  first 
production  anywhere.  The  two  stars  will  be  supported  by  the 
newly-organized  Stockwell  stock  company,  the  material  of  which 
justifies  the  claim  that  it  has  no  superior  in  any  stock  company 
on  the  Coast.  Among  its  prominent  members  are  Henry  R. 
Jewell,  leading  man;  Victory  Bateman,  leading  lady;  Ethel 
Brandon,  L.  R.  Stockwell,  Nick  Long,  Eleanor  Barry,  Bebe  Vin- 
ing,  Arthur  Byron  and  others.  Monday  evening  will  be  Mr. 
Jewett's  first  appearance  in  America. 

•  *  * 

The  rehearsals  of  Baroness  Mtta,  J.  H.  Rosewald's  new  opera, 
are  progressing  finely,  and  reveal  the  fact  that  San  Francisco  is  to 
have  a  genuine  and  delightful  surprise  in  local  opera  November 
19th,  when  the  first  production  will  take  place  for  the  benefit  of 
the  Woman's  Exchange. 

»  »  • 

The  next  concert  of  the  Hermann  Brandt  Quartette  will  take 
place  Thursday  evening,  October  27th,  at  Irving  Hall.  The  pro- 
gramme includes  a  Grieg  selection  by  the  quartette;  Moszkow- 
ski's  barcarolle,  piano,  by  Otto  Bendix;  a 'cello,  solo  by  Louis 
Heine,  and  a  Dvorak  number  for  piano  and  strings.  Miss  Kath- 
erine  Kimball  will  be  the  vocalist. 

#  »  » 

At  the  Carr-Bee!  concert  at  Irving  Hall  to-day,  will  be  given  a 
new  trio  by  Godard,  a  Mendelssohn  sonata  for  piano  and  'cello 
by  Mrs.  Carr  and  Mr.  Heine,  some  dainty  numbers  by  Jensen, 
and  a  barcarolle  by  Rubinstein,  with  Mr.  Prank  Mitchell  as 
vocalist. 

•  *  * 

The  Century  Club  anounces  a  series  of  six  lectures  on  "  Per- 
sonal Culture"  and  »  Art  Criticism,"  with  readings  from  the  pre- 
Rafaelite  poets,  by  Edmund  Russell,  at  the  club-rooms,  1215  Sut- 
ter street,  on  successive  Thursday  evenings,  beginning  next 
Thursday.  Tickets  may  be  obtained  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s, 
or  at  the  clubrooms  on  the  day  of  the  lecture. 

•  •   • 

The  California  Camera  Club  will  give  their  29th  illustrated  lec- 
ture, "Two  Hours  in  the  National  Capital,"  by  Capt.  H.  F.  Ken- 
nedy, at  I.  O.  O.  F.  Hall,  7th  and  Market,  Monday  evening,  Oct. 
24th,  '92,  at  8  o'clock. 

-   *  • 

Never  mind  the  spelling;  you  must  call  it  Dvorjak. Julia 

Marlowe,  a  now  distinguished  exponent  of  the  legitimate,  fol- 
lows the  Duffs  at  the  Baldwin.— T.  H.  Wakefield,  Margaret 
Mather's  business  manager,  is  in  the  city.  — —  Miss  Ada  Weigel 
gave  an  interesting  piano  recital  last  Friday.— —  Alex.  Salvini  is 
a  skillful  swordsman,  and  will  have  a  chance  to  display  the  ac- 
complishment as  D'Artagnan,  in  The  Three  Guardsmen. 

SHE    KNEW    HIM. 


A  YOUNG  lady  entered  a  California  Street  car  recently,  and  her 
rich  and  elaborate  toilette  seemed  to  attract  considerable  at- 
tention. Drawing  her  skirts  around  her  she  gazed  persistently 
out  of  the  window  of  the  car.  On  the  opposite  side  sat  a  neatly- 
attired  young  man,  with  very  white  hands  and  an  air  generally 
suggestive  of  the  clergy.  He  glanced  at  the  fair  vision  in  the 
corner  from  time  to  time  in  a  reproachful  manner.  She  looked 
furtively  at  him  from  beneath  her  lashes,  and,  with  a  pretty 
puckering  of  the  brow,  seemed  trying  to  recall  where  she  had 
met  him.  That  his  face  was  familiar  was  evident,  and  finally 
deciding  that  he  rightfully  belonged  to  the  army  of  captives  that 
had  laid  their  hearts  at  her  feet  at  Monterey,  she  concluded  to 
end  his  misery  by  recognizing  him.  He  was  well-dressed,  and 
apparently  well-bred;  so,  turning  with  a  little  start  of  recogni- 
tion, their  eyes  met,  and  she  bowed  stiffly.  He  seemed  delighted, 
and  changing  his  seat  to  her  side,  he  said:  "  You  are  very  kind 
to  remember  me."  "Oh,  no,"  she  replied  with  an  air  of  polite  re- 
serve; «  I  recall  perfectly  the  occasion  on  which  we  met."  A 
few  commomplaces  followed,  and,  emboldened  at  his  success,  the 
gentleman  said  gravely,  as  he  produced  a  card,  "I  hope  you  will  per- 
mit me  to  call  upon  you  again."  She  glanced  at  the  card,  a  wave  of 
color  swept  over  her  face,  and  the  car  stopping,  she  drew  down  her 
veil  and  bounced  out  with  the  swiftness  of  a  tennis-ball.  The  ad- 
dress upon  the  card  was:  "J:  Goldsmith,  chiropodist.  Corns  and 
bunions  extracted  without  pain." 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co.  Proprietors.  I  Alfred  Bouvier Manager. 

Saturday  evetilrjg,  October  22(1,  last  time,  Vou  Suppe's  beautiful  drama, 

A   TRIP  TO    AFRICA. 
Monday,  October  21th, 

CAVALLERIA     RUSTICANA, 

AND 

TRIAL    BY    JURY. 

Tuesday,  October  26th, 

THE     GONDOLIERS. 
Wednesday,  October  26th, 

MISS     HELYETT. 
Seats  now  ready.    Prices-$1,  $1  60.  II,  60,  26  cents. 


STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

SS^:::::::;;:::;; ■"::::.  ::::::!irSS^SSSS^. 

Commencing  Monday,  October  21th.,  only  Matinee  Saturday.  The 
Henley-Boucicault  seasuu,  and  stockwell's  new  company  of  players  care- 
fully presenting  Aubrey  Bouclcaulfs  comedy  drama,     ' 

THE    FAVORITE. 

p  New  music,  cast  and  scenery.    Seats  now  ready. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co.. Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob    Manager. 

Second  week,  commencing  Monday,  October  24th,  the  ro- 
mantic actor,  ALEXANDER  SALVINI,  accompanied  by  Wm.  Red- 
mond and  his  company  of  players,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  W.  M. 
Wilkison,  in  an  elaborate  scenic  production  of  Dumas'  master- 
piece, 

THE    THREE    GUARDSMEN. 

Plays  in  preparation:  The  dramatic  versions  of  '•Cavalleria  Rusti- 
cana  "  and  "  L'Amico  Fritz." 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Me.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Geoese  H.  Broadhubst Resident  Manager. 

Two  weeks,  commencing  Monday.  October  24th,  Margaret  Mather,  sup- 
ported by  an  excellent  company.  First  week,  Grand  Double  Bill,  consist- 
ing of  the  one  act  comedy  curtain  raiser,  NANCE  OLDIIILU,  and  the  five 
act  tragedy, 

THE     EGYPTIAN. 

Next  Week— REPEKTOIRE. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

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feAJS  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  22,  1892. 


IT  would  seem  aa  though  a  girl 'a  matrimonial  chances  are  greater 
when  she  stops  at  home  than  when  she  goes  abroad.  In  proof 
of  which  let  any  one  remark  the  large  number  of  marriages  that 
have  taken  place  in  our  community  during  the  past  two  months, 
and  then  read  the  names  of  our  absentees  who  are  returning  in  sin- 
gle blessedness  to  their  homes  from  foreign  travel. 

*  €   w 

Society  is  busy  with  one  or  two  problems  which  only  the  winter 
will  solve,  and  even  then  may  be  in  an  indefinite  way  after  all.  One 
is  whether  the  charming  matron  who  has  set  her  heart  upon  making 
her  sister  as  happy  as  she  is  herself  will  succeed  in  her  desire  and 

see  a  double  union  of  the  families. 

*  #  * 

The  girls  are  loud  in  praise  of  the  feminine  "  tea  "  afternoon  di- 
version so  largely  adopted  of  late  by  hostesses  in  the  swim.  Whether 
this  is  mere  bravado  to  show  the  men  they  can  be  dispensed  with 
and  yet  enjoyment  be  possible,  or  whether  it  is  a  question  of  pique, 
no  one  can  tell.  The  fact  remains  that  the  girlies  declare  that  af- 
ternoon teas  are  "just  lovely." 

*  •  * 

Miss  Nellie  Smedberg's  intimate  friends  are  all  on  the  tip-toe  of 
expectation  as  to  whom  will  be  chosen  to  officiate  at  the  forthcom- 
ing nuptials.  A  whisper  is  going  round  that  the  ushers  and  maids 
will  be  selected  from  army  circles  entirely,  and  should  this  be  so, 
surely  no  prettier  girls  can  be  fouud  to  swell  a  bridal  procession 

than  those  belonging  to  the  army  stationed  here. 

*  *  * 

A  very  swell  set  of  New  Yorkers  have  been  in  town  the  past  week, 

and  been  extensively  entertained  on  Nob  Hill. 

*  #  * 

Every  girl  in  the  city  is  wild  with  desire  to  belong  to  the  Young 
Ladies'  Orchestra  of  the  Saturday  morning  rehearsals.  Just  think 
of  itl  The  members  are  to  go  to  the  World's  Fair,  all  expenses 
paid,  a  cbaperone  for  each  girl — not  one  for  all — and  a  week  of 
constant  gaiety  and  entertainment  at  Chicago;  and  in  return  for 
all  this  free  feaBting  and  festivity,  nothing  to  do  but  play  at 
swagger  concerts.  Those  girls  are  in  luck. 
»  «  * 

Madame  de  Santa  Marina  has  proved  a  veritable  Santa  Glaus 
for  the  little  Church  of  St.  Luke's,  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  her  dona- 
tion having  done  much  towards  wiping  off  the  debt  remaining  on 
the  church, 

»  *  » 

The  friends  of  that  popular  couple,  Rev.  John  and  Mrs.  Hemp- 
hill, are  hoping  the  reverend  gentleman  will  accept  the  call  ex- 
tended to  him  by  St.  John's  Presbyterian  Church.  Mrs.  Mamie 
Hastings  is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  prospect  of  having  her 
mother  near  to  her  once  more. 

*  *  • 

A  little  bird  has  whispered  in  several  ears  of  late  that  a  possi- 
ble match  may  be  made  by  that  favorite  society  beau,  Alan 
Bowie,  and  Miss  Ella  Goad,  whose  mother's  death  caused  her 
withdrawal  from  society  the  past  summer. 

•*  #  • 

The  ardor  with  which  the  young  Austrian  Count  has  entered 
upon  things  nautical  will  no  doubt  have  the  effect  of  inducing 
himself  and  his  wife  to  remain  on  this  coast  during  the  winter, 
and  then,  of  coarse  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  will  be  certain  to  be  with 
ub  also.  Their  friends  are  all  devoutly  hoping  for  this  decision  to 
be  reached  by  the  family. 

»  «  * 

A  Baltimore  lady,  who  has  been  visiting  our  city  as  a  tourist, 
was  asked  the  other  day  if  she  saw  anything  that  could  be  im- 
proved upon  in  her  view  of  'Frisco.  She  at  once  replied:  »  One 
thing,  most  decidedly,  and  that  is  the  taste  for  fine  clothes  and 
» loud  '  dressing  which  seems  to  prevail  in  your  leading  schools 
for  young  ladies.  It  is  simply  atrocious,  to  our  Eastern  eyes,  to 
see  a  flock  of  over-dresBed  school  girls  file  into  church,  evidently 
more  intent  upon  the  sit  of  their  costumes  than  the  service;"  and 
the  Baltimorean  was  right. 

»  #  * 

Among  impending  army  changes  is  the  approaching  departure 
from  8an  Francisco  of  Inspector-General  Col.  George  H.  Burton 
and  family.  This  will  cause  regret,  not  alone  in  army  circles,  but 
in  our  social  world  as  well,  where  pretty  Miss  Minnie  Burton  is 
an  especial  favorite,  and  whose  bright  eyes  has  caused  havoc  in 
many  a  masculine  breast. 


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Oct.  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dt'KLS  between  ladies  are  becoming  the  order  of  the  day,  and 
will  become  even  more  so  when  they  are  patronized  by  the 
high  and  mighty  in  the  land.  When  the  exhibition  in  Vienna 
was  first  spoken  of,  the  Princess  Metternich  and  the  Countess 
Milmansegg  nearly  came  to  blows  concerning  the  opening,  and 
again  lately,  after  mm  five  discussion,  which  ended  in  a  downright 
quarrel,  a  duel  was  decided  on  between  the  two  ladies,  and  which 
took  place  in  a  wood  in  the  environs  of  Vaduz,  in  the  princi- 
pality of  LichtenMein.  The  duel  was  with  swords,  and  at  the 
third  assault  the  Countess  Kilmausegg  was  slightly  wounded  in 
the  arm  and  the  Princess  Metternich  received  a  scratch  on  the 
nose,  as  a  means  of  improving  its  well-known  beauty.  When 
each  lady  was  satisfied  with  having  drawn  the  other's  blood, 
they  kissed  and  were  friends,  as  a  couple  of  school  children,  in- 
stead of  a  couple  of  exalted  personages  like  the  Countess  Kil- 
mansegg,  wife  of  the  Governor  of  Lower  Austria,  and  the  Prin- 
cess Scbwarzenberg-Lichtenstein,  Countess  Kinsky,  and  the 
Baroness  Lubinska,  who  had  come  expressly  from  Warsaw  for 
the  occasion.  The  Austro-Hungarian  aristocracy  are  very  scan- 
dalised at  this  duel,  and  it  has  been  forbidden  to  be  published  in 
the  newspapers. 

Mrs.  Bismarck  must  be  getting  furious  at  all  the  little  amorous 
episodes  related  of  her  good  man.  Here  is  the  latest.  On  one  of 
the  last  days  of  his  stay  at  Kissingen,  he  took  a  walk  by  himself 
in  the  forest,  and  got  caught  in  a  thunderstorm.  A  certain 
Kammerjungtrau  of  a  neighboring  inn,  seeing  the  great  man  in 
the  rain,  and  without  an  umbrella,  tripped  out  toward  him  with 
one.  The  Prince  gratefully  accepted  it,  and,  no  doubt,  chucking 
her  under  the  chin,  said,  "Thanks,  my  dear,  it's  always  better  to 
have  a  safe  shelter  than  to  walk  alone  unprotected  in  the  rain." 
There  was  nothing  very  profound  in  the  remark,  but  the  waitress 
giggled.  He  then  offered  her  his  arm  and  walked  her  off  to  a 
shed  built  for  the  protection  of  pedestrians  from  sun  and  rain. 
The  great  man  took  a  seat  till  the  rain  had  stopped,  and  then 
gave  the  girl  a  smacking  kiss,  for  which  she  thanked  him, 
humbly  remarking  that  it  was  a  great  honor  for  her.  Casuists 
might  differ  on  this  point;  but  when  the  old  Johnnie  replied, 
"The  pleasure  is  still  greater  for  me,"  we  believe  they  would 
with  one  accord  exclaim,  "I  believe  you,  my  boy."  But  there 
will  be  ructions  when  Mrs.  B.  meets  that  chambermaid. 

It  is  remarkable  to  what  extent  the  nobility  of  England  and 
other  European  countries  go  in  for  the  breeding  of  high  class 
dogs.  There  is  scarcely  a  large  public  sale  that  takes  place  in 
London,  at  which  one  or  more  of  these  aristocrat  breeders  sent 
drafts  of  surplus  stock  of  their  kennels  for  sale,  and  the  Queen 
of  England,  once  each  year,  sells  off  the  surplus  stock  of  her 
kennels,  with  the  balance  of  her  fat  stock.  At  a  recent  sale  of 
dogs  by  auction  at  Aldridges,  the  Earl  of  Glasgow  offered  a  brace 
of  Pointers,  which  sold  for  about  twenty  guineas.  This  gentle- 
man also  sold  a  few  8paniels  at  the  sale,  which  brought  fair 
prices.  The  Duke  of  Buccleuch  sent  six  Retriever  puppies  and 
four  Pointers,  which  were  knocked  down  at  a  rediculously  low 
price.  The  Earl  of  Zetland  and  Sir  Philip  Egerton  also  offered 
dogs  for  sale.  The  Duchess  of  New  Castle  is  one  of  the  most 
active  breeders  of  Clumber  Spaniels  and  Borzois  in  the  world, 
and  has  the  finest  kennel  of  the  latter  breed  out  of  Russia. 


A  curious  trait  in  the  character  of  George  IV  was  discussed 
after  his  death.  Though  his  habit  had  been  to  scatter  money 
with  reckless  prodigality  he  had  hoarded  his  cast-off  clothes  with 
extraordinary  care.  He  seemed  to  remember  every  garment  and 
described  it  when  it  was  wanted.  Tokens  were  found  of  "sixteen 
accredited  mistresses,"  and  more  than  fifty  pocket-books  scat- 
tered in  his  apartments  contained  an  aggregate  of  over  £10,000. 
He  is  said  to  have  saved  thus  at  least  £600,000  while  on  the 
throne.  Though  the  English  people  treated  him  with  indiffer- 
ence and  dislike  he  was  inclined  to  mercy's  side  and  commuted 
capital  sentences  when  possible.  He  liked  to  be  amused  and 
chose  his  friends  unwisely. 


Lord  Augustus  Loftus  in  his  "Reminiscences,"  says  that 
"Prince  Jerome  Napoleon  was  clever,  but  eccentric."  He  had 
a  strange  hallucination  that  he  had  taken  part  in  his  uncle's 
campaigns,  and  had  headed  a  charge  of  cavalry  at  Waterloo.  It 
reminds  me  that  George  IV  was  gifted  with  a  similar  hallucina- 
tion, and  on  one  occasion,  when  Prince-Regent,  bad  referred  to 
the  Duke  of  Wellington,  who  was  sitting  opposite  to  him  at  din- 
ner, to  confirm  his  statement  that  he  had  commanded  a  cavalry 
corps  at  Waterloo.  His  Grace  merely  replied  "That  he  had 
always  heard  his  Royal  Highness  say  so." 


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popular  restaurant  in  the  city  among  men  who  know  what  a  good 
dinner  is,  and  who  fully  enjoy  all  the  fine  points  in  its  construction. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


SHORT    CREEK    DAVE'S    CONVERSION. 
By  Alfred  Henry  Lewis  {Dan  Quin.)—  In  Short  Stories. 

SHORT  CREEK  DAVE  was  a  leading  citizen  of  the  little  camp 
of  Cinnabar.  In  fact  his  friends  would  not  scruple  at  the 
claim  that  Short  Creek  was  a  leading  citizen  of  Arizona.  So 
when  the  news  came  over  from  Tucson  that  Short  Creek,  who 
bad  been  paying  that  metropolis  a  breezy  visit,  bad  in  an  inad- 
vertent moment  strolled  within  the  confines  of  a  gospel  meeting 
then  and  there  being  waged,  and  suffered  conversion,  Cinnabar 
became  a  prey  to  some  excitement. 

"I  told  him,"  said  Bill  Tutt,  who  brought  back  the  tidings, 
*■  not  to  go  tamperin'  'round  this  yere  meetin'.  But  he  would 
have  it.  He  jest  kept  pervadin'  about  the  'go  in  '  place,  and 
looks  like  I  can't  get  him  away.  Says  I:  *  Bill,  you  don't  under- 
stand this  yere  game  they're  turnio'  in3ide,  so  jest  you  keep  out 
a  whole  lot;  you'll  be  safer.'  But  warnin's  weren't  no  good; 
not  as  much  as  throwin'  water  on  a  drowned  rat." 

"This  yere  Short  Creek  was  alius  spe^hul  obstinate  that  a-way," 
said  Old  Scotty,  the  driver  of  the  Tucson  stage;  "and  he  gets 
them  moods  frequent  when  he  jest  won't  stay  whar  he  is,  nor  go 
anywhar  else.     I  don't  wonder  you  don't  do  nothin'  with  him." 

"  Well,"  said  Rosewood  Jim,  otherwise  James  Rosewood,  E-sq., 
»  I  reckon  Short  Creek  knows  his  business.  I  ain't,  myself,  none 
astonished  much  by  these  yere  news.  I've  knowed  him  to  do 
mighty  flighty  things,  such  as  breakin'  a  good  pair  to  draw 
to  a  three  flush,  and  it  would  seem  like  he's  jest  a-pursooio'  of 
bis  usual  system  in  this  yere  religious  break.  However,  he'll  be 
in  Cinnabar  to-morry,  and  then  we'll  know  a  mighty  sight  more 
about  it;  pendin'  which,  let's  licker.  Mr.  Barkeep,  please  in- 
quire out  the  nose  paints  for  the  band," 

The  people  of  Cinnaba^  there  present  saw  no  reason  to  pursue 
the  discussion  so  pleasantly  ended,  and  drew  near  the  bar.  The 
discussion  took  place  in  the  Gold  Mine  saloon,  so,  as  one  ob- 
served on  the  issuance  of  Rosewood's  invitation,  •»  they  were  not 
far  from  centers."  Rosewood  himself  was  a  suave  courtier  of 
fortune  who  presided  behind  his  own  faro  game,  and  who,  being 
raputed  to  possess  a  straight  deal-box,  held  high  place  in  the  Cin- 
nabar breast. 

The  next  day  cams,  and  Cinnabar  began  to  suffer  increased  ex- 
citement. This  feeling  grew  as  the  time  for  the  coming  of  the 
Tucson  stage  approached.  An  outsider  might  not  have  detected 
this  warmth.  It  found  its  evidences  in  the  unusual  activity  of 
monte,  highball,  stud  and  kindred  devices,  while  faro  too  showed 
a  boom  spirit,  and  white  chips,  which  were  a  commodity  ordin- 
arily disposed  of  at  the  rate  of  two  bits  per  white  chip,  had, 
under  the  heightened  pulse  of  the  public,  gone  in  some  games  to 
the  dizzy  pinnacle  of  twenty  five  dollars  a  stack. 

At  last,  out  on  the  gray  and  heated  plain,  a  cloud  of  dust  an- 
nounced the  coming  of  the  stage.  Stacks  were  cashed  and  games 
cleaned  up,  and  presently  the  male  population  of  Ciunabar  was 
in  the  street  to  catch  as  early  a  glimpse  as  might  be  of  the  newly 
converted  one. 

"  I  don't  reckon  now  he's  goin'  to  look  such  a  whole  lot  differ- 
ent, neither,"  said  El  Paso  Bell,  as  she  stood  in  front  of  the  dance 
hall,  of  which  institution  she  was  a  pronounced  ornament. 

"  I  wonder  would  it  do  to  ask  Dave  for  to  drink  ?  "  said  Tutt, 
in  a  tone  of  vague  inquiry. 

"  Shore,"  said  Old  Scotty,  "  and  why  not  ?  " 

"  Oh,  nuthin',  why  not  ?  "  replied  Tutt,  as  he  watched  the  stage 
coming  up,  "only  he's  nacherally  a  mighty  peevish  man  that 
a-way,  and  I  don't  suppose  now  his  enterin'  the  fold  has  reduced 
the  restlessness  of  that  six-shooter  of  his'n,  none  whatever." 

"AH  the  same,"  said  Rosewood?  who  stood  near  at  hand, 
«'  politeness  'mong  gentlemen  should  be  allers  observed,  an'  I  asks 
this  yere  Short  Creek  to  drink  as  soon  as  ever  he  comes,  and  I 
ain't  lookin'  to  see  him  take  it  none  invidious,  neither." 

With  a  rattling  of  chains  and  a  creaking  of  straps  the  stage  and 
its  six  high-headed  horses  pulled  up  at  the  postofBce  door.  The 
mail  bags  were  kicked  off,  the  Wells-Fargo  boxes  were  tumbled 
into  the  street,  and  in  the  general  rattle  and  crash  the  eagerly  ex- 
pected Short  Creek  Dave  stepped  upon  the  sidewalk  in  the  midst 
of  his  friends.  There  was  possibly  a  more  eager  scanning  of  his 
person  in  the  thought  that  the  great  inward  ohange  might  have 
its  outward  evidences;  a  more  vigorous  shaking  of  his  hand, 
perhaps;  but  beyond  this,  curious  Interest  did  not  go.  Not  a 
word  nor  look  touching  8hort  Creek's  conversion  betrayed  the 
question  which  was  tugging  at  the  Cinnabar  heart.  Cinnabar 
was  too  polite,  and  then,  again,  Cinnabar  was  too  cautious.  Next 
to  horse-stealing,  curiosity  is  the  greatest  crime  of  the  frontier, 
and  one  most  ferociously  resented.  So  Cinnabar  just  expressed 
He  polite  satisfaction  in  Short  Creek  Dave's  return,  and  took  it 
out  in  hand-shaking.  The  only  incident  worth  a  record  was  when 
Rosewood  Jim  said  in  atone  of  bland  friendship: 

"1  don't  reckon  now,  Dave,  you're  objectin' to  whisky  after 
your  ride  ?  " 

••  I  ain't  done  so  usual,"  said  Dave,  cheerfully,  "  but  this  yere 
time,  Rosewood,  I'll  have  to  pass.  Jest  confidin'  the  truth  to  you 
all,  I'm  a  little  off  on  them  beverages  just  now,  and  I'm  allowin' 
to  tell  you  the  ins  and  outs  thereof  a  little  later  on.  And  now,  if 
you  all  will  excuse  me,  I'll  canter  over  to  the  0.  K.  House  and 
feed  myse'f  some." 


"  I  shore  reckon  he's  converted,"  said  Tutt,  as  he  shook  his 
head  gloomily.  "  I  wouldn't  care  none,  only  it's  me  as  gets  Dave 
to  go  over  to  Tucson  this  yere  time;  and  so  I  feels  more  or  less 
responsible." 

«•  Well,  what  of  it?"  said  Old  Scotty,  with  a  burst  of  energy. 
"  I  don't  see  no  kick  comin'  to  any  one,  nor  why  this  yere's  to 
be  regarded.  If  Dave  wants  to  be  religious  and  sing  them  hymns 
a  heap,  you  bet  that's  his  American  right.  I'll  jest  gamble  a 
hundred  dollars  Dave  comes  out  all  even  and  protects  his  game 
clear  through." 

The  next  day  the  excitement  had  begun  to  subside,  when  a 
notice  posted  on  the  postoffice  door  caused  it  to  rise  again.  The 
notice  announced  that  Short  Creek  Dave  would  preach  that  even- 
ing in  the  big  warehouse  of  the  New  York  store. 

<>  I  reckon  we  better  all  go,"  said  Rosewood  Jim.  "  I'm  goin' 
to  turn  up  my  box  and  close  the  game  at  7 :30  sharp ;  and  Benson 
says  he's  goin'  to  shut  up  the  dance  ball,  seein'  as  how  several  of 
the  ladies  is  due  to  sing  a  lot  in  the  choir.  We  might  jest  as  well 
turn  out  and  make  the  thing  a  universal  deal,  and  give  Short 
Creek  the  best  turn  out  in  the  wheel,  just  to  start  him  along  the 
new  trail." 

"  That's  whatever,"  said  Tutt,  who  had  recovered  from  his 
first  gloom,  and  now  entered  into  the  affair  with  great  spirit. 

That  evening  the  New  York  warehouse  was  as  brilliantly  lighted 
as  a  wild  and  unstinted  abundance  of  candles  could  make  it.  All 
Cinnabar  was  there.  As  a  result  of  a  discussion  held  in  private 
with  Short  Creek  Dave,  and  by  that  convert's  own  request.  Rose- 
wood Jim  took  a  seat  at  the  drygoods  box  which  was  to  serve  as 
a  pulpit,  to  assist  in  the  conduct  of  the  meeting.  The  congrega- 
tion disposed  itself  about  on  the  improvised  benches  which  the 
energy  of  Tutt  had  provided,  and  all  was  ready.  At  8  o'clock 
Short  Creek  Davd  walked  up  the  space  in  the  center  reserved  as 
an  aisle,  in  company  with  Rosewood  Jim;  this  latter  gentleman 
carrying  a  new  and  giant  Bible  which  he  placed  on  the  dry-goods 
box.  Rapping  gently  on  the  box  for  order,  Rosewood  then  ad- 
dressed the  meeting  briefly. 

»«  This  yere  is  a  public  meeting  of  the  camp,"  said  Rosewood, 
"  and  I  am  asked  by  Dave  to  preside,  which  I  accordin'  do.  No 
one  need  make  any  mistake  about  this  yere  gatherin'  or  its  pur- 
pose^ on  account  of  my  presence.  This  yere  is  a  religious  meet- 
in'.  I  am  not,  myself,  given  that  a-way,  but  I  am  allers  glad  to 
meet  people  what  is,  and  see  that  they  have  a  chance  in  for  their 
ante  and  their  game  is  protected.  I  am  one  of  those,  too,  who 
believe  a  little  religion  wouldn't  hurt  this  camp  much.  Next  to  a 
lynchin'  I  don't  know  of  a  more  excellent  influence  in  a  Western 
camp  than  these  yere  meetin's.  I  ain't  expectin'  to  be  in  on  this 
play  none,  myself,  and  jest  set  here  in  the  name  of  order  and  for 
the  purpose  of  a  square  deal.  I  now  introduce  to  you  a  gentle- 
man who  is  liable  to  be  as  good  a  preacher  as  ever  banged  a  Bible, 
your  townsman,  Short  Creek  Dave." 

"  Mr.  President,"  said  Short  Creek  Dave,  turning  to  Rosewood. 

"  Short  Creek  Dave,"  said  Rosewood  Jim,  sententiously,  at  the 
same  time  bowing  gravely  in  recognition. 

"  And  ladies  and  gentlemen  of  Cinnabar,"  continued  Dave,  "  I 
shall  open  this  yere  play  with  a  prayer." 

The  prayer  proceeded.  It  was  fervent  and  earnest,  and  replete 
with  unique  expression  and  personal  allusion.  In  these  last  the 
congregation  took  a  breathless  interest.  Toward  the  close  Dave 
bent  his  energies  in  supplication  for  the  regeneration  of  Bill  Tutt, 
whom  he  represented  in  his  orisons  as  a  good  man,  but  living  a 
misguided  and  vicious  life.  The  audience  were  listening  with  a 
grave  and  approving  attention,  when,  at  this  juncture,  came  an 
interruption.  It  was  Bill  Tutt,  who  arose  and  addressed  the 
chair. 

"  Mr.  President,"  said  Tutt,  uneasily,  "  I  rise  to  a  p'int  of 
order." 

"  The  gent  will  state  his  p'int,"  responded  Rosewood,  at  the 
same  time  rapping  gently  on  the  drygoods  box. 

"  Well,"  said  Tutt,  drawing  a  long  breath,  "  I  objects  to  Dave 
a-tacklin'  of  the  Redeemer  for  me,  and  a-makin'  of  statements 
which  alms  to  show  I'm  nuthin'  more'n  a  felon.  This  yere  talk 
is  liable  to  queer  me  up  on  high,  and  I  objects  to  it." 

"  Prayer  is  a  free-for-all  game,  and  thar  ain't  no  limit  onto  it," 
said  Rosewood.  "  The  chair,  therefore,  decides  ag'in' the  p'int 
of  order." 

"  Well,  then,"  said  Tutt,  "  a-waivin'  of  the  usual  appeal  to  the 
house,  all  I've  got  to  say  is  this:  I'm  a  peaceful  man,  and  have 
allers  been  the  friend  of  Short  Creek  Dave,  and  I  even  assists  at 
and  promotes  this  yere  meetin'.  But  I  gives  notice  yere  now,  if 
Dave  keeps  on  a-malignin'  of  me  to  the  Great  White  Throne,  as 
heretofore,  I'll  shore  call  on  him  to  make  them  statements  good 
with  his  gun  as  soon  as  the  contreebution-box  is  passed." 

"  The  chair  informs  the  gent,"  said  Rosewood,  with  vast  digni- 
ty, "  that  Dave,  bein'  now  a'  evangelist,  can't  make  no  gun  plays 
nor  go  canterin'  out  to  shoot  as  of  a  former  day.  However,  the 
chair  recognizes  the  rights  of  the  gentleman,  and  standin',  as  the 
chair  does,  in  the  position  of  lookout  to  this  year  game,  the  chair 
will  be  ready  to  back  the  play  with  a  '  Colt's  45,'  as  soon  as  ever 
church  is  out,  in  person." 

"  Mr.  President,"  said  Dave,  "  jist  let  me  get  a  word  in  yere. 
I've  looked  up  things  a  little  in  the  Bible,  and  I  finds  that  Peter, 
who   was   one  of  the  main  guys  of  them   days,  scrupled  not  to 


October  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


fight.  Now.  I  (oilers  Peter's  lead  in  this.  With  all  due  respect 
to  tbat  excellent  apostle,  be  ain't  got  none  tbe  best  of  me.  I 
might  add,  too,  that,  while  it  gives  me  pain  to  be  obliged  to  shoot 
up  Peacon  Tutt  in  tbe  first  balf  of  tbe  first  meetin'  we  boids  in 
Cinnabar,  still,  the  path  of  dooty  is  cl  at.  and  I  shall  shorely  walk 
tbarin,  fearin'  nuthin".  I,  tbarfore,  moves  we  adjourn  ten  min- 
utes, and  as  thar's  plenty  of  moon  outside,  if  the  chair  will  lend 
me  its  gun — I  Dot  packin'  sech  frivolities  do  more,  a-regardin1  of 
em  in  the  light  of  sinful  bluiTs — I  shall  trust  to  Providence  to 
convince  Bill  Tutt  I  know  my  business,  and  that  he's  'way  off  in 
this  matter.'' 

"  Unless  objection  is  beard,  this  yere  meetin'  will  stand  ad- 
journed for  fifteen  minutes."  said  Rosewood,  at  the  same  time 
pasting  bis  six-shooter  to  Dave. 

Thirty  paces  were  stepped  off,  and  tbe  men  stood  up  in  the 
moonlit  street,  while  tbe  congregation  made  a  line  of  admiration 
on  tbe  sidewalk. 

"I  counts  one,  two,  three,  and  drops  me  hat,"  said  Rosewood, 
"  wharupon  you  all  fires  and  advances  at  will.  Be  you  all 
ready  ?  " 

The  shooting  began  on  the  word,  and  wben  the  smoke  cleared 
away  Tutt  bad  a  bullet  in  his  shoulder. 

"The  congregation  will  now  take  its  seats  in  tbe  store,"  said 
Rosewood,  »  and  tbe  deal  will  be  resoorued.  Two  of  you'll  carry 
Bill  over  to  the  hotel  and  fix  him  up  all  right.  This  yere  shows 
concloosive  that  Short  Creek  Dave  is  licensed  from  above  to  pray 
for  whoever  he  pleases,  and  I'm  mighty  glad  it  occurred.  It's 
shorely  goin' to  promote  public  confidence  in  his  ministrations." 

The  concourse  was  duly  in  its  seats  when  Dave  again  reached 
the  pulpit. 

"I  will  now  resoome  my  intercessions  for  our  onfortunate 
brother  Bill  Tutt,"  said  Dave,  and  he  did. 

This  was  Cinnabar's  first  preaching — albeit  it  has  had  many 
more  since — under  the  instruction  of  the  excellent  Rev.  Dave. 
On  this  first  occasion  he  preached  an  earnest  sermon;  the  dance- 
hall  girls  sang  "Rock  of  Ages,"  with  spirit  and  effect;  and  the 
wounded  Tutt  sent  over  five  dollars  to  the  contribution-box  from 
the  hotel,  where  he  lay  with  his  wound. 

"I  knowed  he  would,"  said  Rosewood  Jim,  as  he  received 
Tutt's  contribution.  "Bill  Tutt  is  a  reasonable  man,  and  you 
can  gamble  religious  truths  allers  assert  themselves." 


PHYLLIS    LOVES    ME. 


I  have  no  gold,  no  lands,  no  robes  of  splendor, 
No  crowd  of  sycophants  to  siege  my  door; 

But  fortune  in  one  thing  at  least  is  tender — 

For  Phyllis  loves  mel     Could  I  ask  for  more? 

I  have  no  fame,  nor  to  the  heights  of  honor 

Will  my  poor  name  on  tireless  pinions  soar; 

Yet  Fate  has  never  drawn  my  hate  upon  her — 
For  Phyllis  loves  mel     Could  I  ask  for  more? 

I  have  no  station,  know  no  high  position, 
And  never  yet  the  robes  of  office  wore; 

Yet  I  can  well  afford  to  scorn  ambition — 

For  Phyllis  loves  mel     Could  I  ask  for  more? 

I  have  no  beauty — beauty  has  forsworn  me — 
On  others  wasting  all  her  charming  store; 

Yet  I  lack  nothing  now  which  could  adorn  me — 
For  Phyllis  loves  mel     Could  I  ask  for  more? 

I  have  no  learning — in  no  school  nor  college 

Could  I  abide  o'er  quaint  old  tomes  to  pore; 

But  this  I  know — which  passeth  all  your  knowledge- 
That  Phyllis  loves  me!     Could  I  ask  for  more? 

Now,  come  what  may — loss,  shame  or  sorrow, 
8ickness,  ingratitude,  or  treachery  sore; 

I  laugh  to-day  and  heed  not  for  the  morrow — 
For  Phyllis  loves  me,  and  I  ask   no  more! 


A    SONNET. 

[To  The  Ovee-taxed.] 

Brethren,  arise,  make  ready  for  the  fight! 

Your  foes  are  on,  a  mercenary  baud 

Of  office-holders  with  some  rich  men  bland, 
Whose  wealth  increases  fast   as  yours  takes  flight. 
The  time  has  come  to  remedy  this  blight; 

To  render  justice  to  an  injured  land, 

To  bring  back  wisdom  to  its  anelent  stand, 
And  govern  all  with  due  regard  to  right. 
'  Protection,"  now,  we  need  not  for  the  few, 

But  for  the  millions  toiling  one  and  all, 
We  look  to  Cleveland  to  adjust  anew 

Tbe  taxes  suitable  to  great  and  small. 
We  know  him  honest,  loyal,  wise  and  true, 

And  that  he'll  listen  to  his  country's  call. 

Demos. 


highland 

Evaporated 

Cream 

is  a  delicious  accessory  to  the  morning's  first 
meal.  It  combines  purity — convenience — 
economy — the  three  requisites  for  a  break- 
fast dish.  Delightful  in  your  coffee;  appe- 
tizing on  your  oatmeal;  brings  out  the  flavor 
of  cut-up  peaches.  No  more  waiting  for 
the  milkman;  no  more  worrying  over  his 
stall-fed  cows.  Highland  Brand  is  uni- 
formly rich  and  perfect — there's  where  it 
differs  from  its  imitations. 

HELVETIA  MILK   CONDENSING  CO., 
Highland,  III. 

Largest  Retail  Dry  Goods  Store  in  the  City. 


FALL  AND  WINTER   1892. 

exodus:   boom. 

Opening  of  twelve  eases  of  the  latest  and 
most  popular  styles  of  Autumn  Wraps,  Eng- 
lish Box  Coats,  French  Long  and  Short  Wraps, 
Walking  Jackets,  Fur  Trimmed  Cloaks,  Even- 
ing Wraps,  Calling  and  Carriage  Wraps. 

PUBS. 

Boas,  Muffs  and  Capes,  Mink,  Astrakhan, 
Persian   Lamb,  Seal,  Kremmer  and  Red  Lynx. 


Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 
Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 


Raphael  Weill  &  Co., 

Northwest  Corner  Post  and   Kearny  Streets. 


HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Largest.  Best  Appointed  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  San  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets.  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 

Trie  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature. 

MRS.  M.   E.  PENDLETON. 

Proprietor  and  Manager. 

The  Coleman. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS   HOTEL,  (European  Plan.) 
H.  H.  PEARSON.  Proprietor.  BROADWAY  and  27th  St ,  NEW  YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Plaee.  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  St.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
station  and  horse  cars;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


COLUMBUS    DAY    IN    OUR    PUBLIC    SCHOOLS. 

[Bi    Di    Vernon.] 


THERE  never  has  happened  before,  and  there  is  not  likely  to 
happen  very  soon  again,  such  an  opportunity  for  the  uni- 
versal expression  of  patriotism  as  has  been  afforded  by  the  cele- 
bration of  Columbus  Day  by  the  children  of  our  land,  by  the  boys 
and  girls  of  to-day,  who  are  soon  to  be  the  men  and  women  of 
our  great  republic.  Yesterday  in  every  city  and  town  and  ham- 
let of  this  great  country,  wherever  the  printing  press  has  pene- 
trated, or  the  primer  is  thumbed  and  dog-eared  by  tiny  children, 
wig  enacted  such  an  object  lesson  on  love  of  country,  and 
love  for  the  dear  old  flag,  that  must  produce  results  not  lightly  to 
be  measured  by  years.  The  celebration  of  Columbus  Day  has 
brought  thousands  of  minds  to  bear  upon  the  one  theme,  and  in 
the  midst  of  such  an  atmosphere  of  patriotism,  the  children  roust 
breathe  Freedom's  native  air.  Does  any  one  think  that  the  im- 
portance of  Columbus  Day  as  an  educational  factor,  as  an  in- 
spiration to  good  citizenship,  has  been  overrated?  He  knows 
not  whereof  he  speaks.  In  this  city  of  San  Francisco,  the  public 
schools  have  devoted  not  a  little  time  to  the  learning  of  patriotic 
songs,  the  preparation  of  patriotic  speeches,  and  of  historical  ad- 
dresses for  this  day.  It  has  varied  in  amount  and  intensity  ac- 
cording to  the  interest  taken  by  the  teachers  themselves.  While 
it  is  undoubtedly  true  that  some  have  looked  upon  the  prepara- 
tion for  Columbus  Day  in  the  light  of  an  interruption  to  the  regu- 
lar work  of  the  schoolroom,  and  have  sighfd  for  fear  the  children 
have  been  falling  behind  in  the  course  of  study,  it  is  safe  to  as- 
sume that  the  vast  majority  of  the  men  and  women  who  are 
training  the  youth  of  our  country,  have  embraced  this  oppor- 
tunity of  blending  the  different  nationalities  found  in  our  public 
schools  into  one  homogeneous  class — loyal,  true-hearted  Amer- 
icans. The  boys  and  girls  of  to-day  are  proud  of  their  country, 
and  exultant  in  the  fact  that  they  are  Americans.  Does  any  one 
question  how  tbey  enter  into  the  spirit  of  the  occasion?  Very 
well,  if  he  had  taken  the  trouble  to  enter  any  one  of  our  public 
schools  yest.  rday  at  half-pa^t  nine  in  ibe  morning,  and 
gazed  upon  the  hundreds  of  bright,  bappy-faced  children,  in  their 
best  clothes  and  with  a  general  holiday  air  which  embraces  them 
and  the  schoolrooms  and  the  teachers,  and  their  visiting  parents 
and  friends;  if  he  bad  listened  to  their  whole-souled  singing  of 
our  national  hymns,  and  noted  the  dignity  and  impressiveness 
with  which  even  the  tiniest  little  tots  said  their  lines;  if  be  had 
watched  the  orderliness  and  military  precision  and  the  patriotic 
reverence  with  which  they  saluted  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  he  would 
not  say  he  thought  the  time  had  been  wasted. 

For  weeks  the  earnest  teachers  had  been  drilling  Ibeir  classes 
for  this  eventful  day,  doing  the  very  best  with  the  material  at 
their  command,  working  early  and  late,  before  school  and  after- 
ward, sacnBctng  their  lunch  hour  to  make  some  urchin  letter  per- 
fect in  his  ••  piece."  The  children  have  caught  the  spirit  of  the 
hour,  and  the  schoolyard  has  had  a  Fourth  of  July  appearance 
for  more  than  a  week.  Boys,  and  girls,  too,  bave  been  decorated 
with  strips  of  red,  white  and  blue  ribbons  and  tiny  Hags.  Bear 
badges  and  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden  West  pins  have  been  dis- 
played upon  many  a  manly  little  breast,  some  of  the  boys  even 
going  so  far  in  tbwr  enthusiasm  as  to  buy  the  bear  pins,  and  give 
them  to  comrades  whose  command  of  ready  money  was  less  than 
their  own.  Grand  Army  buttons  have  been  worn  by  other  proud 
and  happy  youngsters,  and  our  own  dear  California  has  not  been 
forgotten. 

One  of  the  most  imposing  features  of  the  exercises  yesterday 
was  the  unfurling  of  the  flag  by  a  Relegation  of  Grand  Army 
veterans,  in  each  school,  and  no  words  can  describe  the  sense  of 
elation  and  importance  that  swelled  within  the  breasts  of  the  boys 
who  were  chosen  to  act  as  color  guards  and  escort  the  soldiers 
and  their  flag  to  the  post  of  bonor.  As  one  of  the  best  proofs  of 
how  interested  parents  are  in  whatever  makes  for  the  entertain- 
ment, the  pleasure,  or  the  instruction  of  their  children,  may  be 
instanced  the  readiness  and  the  cheerful  alacrity  with  wbich  they 
responded  to  the  request  made  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Board  of 
Education  for  voluntary  contributions  of  money  with  which  to 
purchase  flags  for  the  schools.  In  many  cases  quite  large  soms 
were  received,  and  the  children  seemed  overjoyed  at  tte  prospect 
of  Ibeir  schools  owning  flags.  The  boys  have  congregated  in 
groups  and  boasted  of  what  their  schools  were  going  to  do,  and  to 
have,  and  with  the  true  American  spirit  of  holding  their  own 
against  all  others,  each  has  declared  his  belief  that  his  school  flag 
was  going  to  be  the  best  of  all.  As  for  the  exercises  wbich  were 
held  in  our  public  schools  yesterday,  some  of  them  have  been 
taken  from  the  forms  printed  in  the  school  journals,  while  in 
some  schools  the  teachers  planned  and  printed  original  pro- 
grammes, even  furnishing  poems  and  songs  for  the  occasion 
Valuable  as  the  day  will  have  been  as  the  years  go  by,  and  the 
children  recall  how  many  of  their  Brat  ideas  in  regard  to  the  his- 
tory of  the  New  World  originated  in  the  preparation  for  Colum- 
bus Day  yet  the  mere  historical  aspect  sinks  into  insignificance 
beside  the  larger  and  patriotic  influence  upon  the  lives  and  hearts 
of  these  children  who  have  bad  the  good  fortune  to  have  been  born 
in  time  for  Columbus  Day.  It  is  not  possible  that  the  children  who 
have  gone  through  weeks  of  preparation   for  what  culminated 


yesterday  in  a  grand  and  impressive  ceremony,  will  ever  forget 
the  lessons  of  patriotism  that  they  received.  They  will  be  better 
citizens,  better  Americans  because  of  the  day.  It  will  be  a  touch- 
ing sight,  in  some  of  the  schools,  to  see  the  children  of  the  white 
and  the  black,  and  the  copper-colored  races,  stand  side  by  side 
and  join  in  a  tribute  of  love  and  respect  to  their  own  country. 
And  when  they  say  "  We  are  Americans,  we  give  our  heads  and 
our  h(  arts  to  our  country ;  we  have  one  country,  one  flag,  one 
language,"  by  the  light  in  their  eyes,  by  the  glad  ring  in  their 
voices,  by  their  proud  and  free  up-look  to  the  Star  Spangled  Ban- 
ner, those  who  have  eyes  to  see,  and  ears  to  bear,  will  know  that 
the  children  know  whereof  they  speak,  and  that  they  mean  every 
word  of  the  solemn  ritual — the  patriot's  oath  of  loving  loyalty  to 
bis  country. 

ClpAHjJs 

One  ^ 

rounded  teaspoonful 
of  Cleveland's  \^~" > 
Baking  Powder  ^IE£^ 
does  more  and  better  work 
than  a  heaping  s, 
teaspoonful 
of  any  other. 
A  large  saving  on  a 
year's  bakings. 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 
Used  in  the   U.   S.  Army  and  by 
teachers  of  Cookery. 

Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it  never 
varies,  it  does  the  most  work,  the  best 
work  and  is  perfectly  wholesome, 
F.  H.  AMIS  .1  XI..  Agentn. 


THE  SCIENCE 

OF 

THE  SKIN. 


324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elast'c  with  the  aid  of  Permoline 
The  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 
Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
.  moved  and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
\  by  a  new  process. 


GARDEN   CITY   NURSERY, 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 

A  FULL  LINE  OF 

fftJRSERY     5T0QK 

always  on  hand  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Correspondence  solicited. 

WM.    KELLY,   Proprietor. 

SEARCHER   OF    RECORDS 


EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 


G.  W.  MCKEAND, 


OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.  Residence— 
81Q  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street.  Oakland. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 
Uarcla  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 


October  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


HON.    CHARLES    O.    ALEXANDER. 

THIS  is  an  ape  and  a  country  of  young  men.  That  egregious  crime 
which  Patrick  Henry  attempted  neither  to  palliate  nor  deny  is 
now  considered  one  of  the  proudest  virtues  of  the  successful  men 
of  the  country.  We  have  found  our  progress,  our  unexampled 
prosperity  and  our  acknowledged  superiority  as  a  nation  in  the 
energy,  ability  and  confidence  of  the  young  men  who  form  the 
great  multitude  of  our  citizens.  The  people  take  delight  in  plac- 
ing in  high  places  representatives  of  this  all-powerful  class,  thus 
honoring  those  who  are  in  truth  tbe  very  mainspring  of  the  Re- 
public. The  old  idea  that  a  man's  ability  is  fixed  by  his  years  only, 
has  long  since  been  exploded.  No  longer  is  it  held  that  the  gray 
beard,  simply  because  of  bis  hoary  locks,  is  an  abler  man  than 
one  who  is  in  his  prime.  The  liberality  which  distinguishes  the 
American  people  has  entirely  removed  from  young  men  any  ban 
which  might  have  tended  to  prevent  their  public  advancement, 
and  to-day,  throughout  the  country,  the  council-halls  of  every 
State  resound  with  tbe  ringing  words  of  those  who,  though  not 
past  middle  life,  have  given  years  to  the  study  of  the  administra- 
tion of  State  affairs,  po  as  the  better  to  conduct  the  government 
of  tbe  Republic.  California,  a  comparatively  young  State,  has 
gained  fame  among  her  sisters  by  the  able  efforts  in  Congressional 


TENNIS    AND    BASEBALL. 


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halls  of  many  of  her  Representatives  who  were  young  men 
Again  is  such  a  man  presented  to  the  people  in  Hon.  Charles  0- 
Alexander,  the  Republican  nominee  for  Congress  in  the  Fourth 
Congressional  District.  Mr.  Alexander  has  already  taken  high 
place  among  the  leaders  of  the  commonwealth,  by  his  notable 
service  in  the  Legislature,  in  which  he  represented  the  Fifty- 
sixth  District,  in  1887  and  1889,  and  as  a  Harbor  Commissioner,  as 
which  he  has  servtd  since  appointed  by  Gov.  Waterman,  in  1889. 
Mr.  Alexander  was  born,  thirty-two  years  ago,  in  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  and  is  descended  on  his  father's  side  from  an  old  and  hon- 
orable Scottish  family.  His  mother  was  of  ancient  New  England 
stock.  His  father,  who  was  a  prominent  banker  at  Milwaukee, 
came  with  his  family  to  this  State  in  1875,  to  attend  to  his  mining 
interests  here.  Before  accompanying  his  father  to  this  State,  Mr. 
Alexander  spent  four  years  in  Europe.  Upon  his  arrival  here  he 
became  a  student  at  the  High  School,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1877,  going  thence  to  the  State  University.  His  business  career 
began  in  1882,  when  he  entered  into  partnership  with  his  father, 
under  the  firm  name  of  0.  Alexander  &  Son,  of  which  firm  he  is 
yet  a  member.  He  has  always  taken  great  interest  in  public 
affairs,  and  has,  as  a  public  officer,  done  much  toward  remedying 
existing  public  evils.  He  originated  and  effected  the  passage  in 
the  Legislature  of  the  University  Tax  Bill,  which  took  the  Uni- 
versity out  of  politics.  As  a  Harbor  Commissioner  he  has  been 
instrumental  in  effecting  many  improvements  upon  the  harbor 
front,  having  given  particular  attention  to  the  improvement  of 
the  ferry  accommodations  at  the  foot  of  Market  street.  That  be 
is  also  a  friend  of  the  workingman  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  he 
was  the  author  of  the  resolution  recently  adopted  by  the  Harbor 
Commissioners,  fixing  eight  hours  as  the  limit  of  a  day's  work 
for  all  men  employed  upon  the  harbor  improvements.  Mr.  Alex- 
ander is  happily  married  and  has  two  children.  His  wife  is  the 
daughter  of  John  Carroll,  of  Sacramento,  and  became  Mrs.  Alex- 
ander  two   years  ago. 


TENNIS  T^E  three  committees  of  the  California  Club  have 
'  1  been  appointed  by  the  President,  and  are  as  fol- 
lows: Election — Walter  McGavin,  Augustus  Taylor  and  H.  B. 
Havens,  who  act  with  the  Directors.  Tournament — A..  B.  Wilber- 
force,  H-  N.  Stetson  and  S.  Hoffman;  Ladies,  Miss  Morgan,  Miss 
Mason  and  Miss  Gibbs.  It  is  proposed  to  hold  a  tournament  on 
Thanksgiving  Day,  but  it  is  not  determined  what  kind  of  a  match 
shall  be  played.  It  was  first  intended  that  the  opening  tourna- 
ment of  the  doubles  should  be  held  then,  but  as  the  members  are 
rather  slow  in  coming  up  with  subscriptions  for  the  cups,  it  is 
quite  likely  that  it  will  only  be  a  subscription  affair.  It  seems  a 
pity  that  the  members  do  not  respond  better  in  this  issue,  as  the 
whole  fact  of  the  failure  of  the  California  Club  to  win  the  Double 
Championship  was  owing  to  the  lack  of  practice  given  to  the 
double  game.  To  secure  a  better  prospect  for  next  year  it  was 
thought  best  to  allow  a  double  tournament,  and  we  think  that  all 
members  should  come  up  to  the  mark  and  see  the  thing  through 
properly.  The  quarterly  tournament  has  been  a  great  success, 
and  why  should  not  the  doubles  be  the  same  ?  The  next  quarterly 
will  be  held  in  the  latter  part  of  November.  We  understand  that 
one  of  tbe  members  of  the  Club  has  addressed  a  circular  to  the 
President  and  Directors  suggesting  that  the  "  100  up  "  system  be 
adopted,  as  the  new  way  of  scoring  in  the  quarterly  and  also  any 
handicap  tournaments.  This  system  has  been  adopted  abroad 
with  universal  success,  and  we  understand  that  the  Eastern  Clubs 
have  followed  suit.  It  seems  to  us  that  this  is  a  very  fair  way  of 
scoring  by  points,  and  not  by  games  and  sets,  as  the  true  merit 
of  a  player  can  more  easily  be  determined,  for  often  in  matches 
the  defeated  gent'eman  has  won  more  strokes  and  games  than  his 
successful  rival,  but  he  loses  the  match.  In  the  "100  up"  way 
this  would  not  occur,  as  ihe  player  winning  100  points  first  is  de- 
clared the  winner.  When  looked  into,  the  scoring  is  very  simple, 
and  the  rules  governing  the  system  are  few — but  four,  and  outside 
of  these  four  the  rules  of  the  United  States  National  Lawn  Tennis 
Association  are  to  be  observed.  The  circular  has  been  posted  at  the 
California  Club,  and  will  be  left  up  for  members  to  give  their 
opinion  on,  and  if  the  idea  takes  well  the  Directors  are  going  to 
adopt  it. 

Last  week  the  News  Letter  published  a  decision  given  in  Eng- 
land about  a  player  who,  to  save  himself  touching  the  net,  jumped 
over  it,  and  had  the  point  given  against  him  by  the  referee.  This 
has  led  to  a  discussion  as  to  whether  the  referee  was  right  or  not. 
When  something  occurs  that  is  not  provided  for  in  the  rules  of 
the  game,  the  question  or  dispute  in  point  is  generally  referred  to 
the  tournament  committee,  and  an  appeal  can  be  taken  from  their 
decision,  provided  there  is  a  referee.  He,  after  learning  the  facts, 
givts  the  point  one  way  or  the  other,  and  his  judgement  is  sup- 
posed to  be  correct.  It  is,  therefore,  very  essential  to  have  a  re- 
feree who  is  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  game,  and  not  merely 
there  as  a  figure-head. 

The  continous  tournament  is  getting  on  well  and  many  games 
have  been  played,  and  others  are  on  the  tapis.  The  event  of  last 
week  was  the  defeat  of  Field  by  Hoffman ;  some  think  the  former 
is  classed  too  high. 

.  rpHE  Oaklands  made  their  trip  to  Los  Angeles  in 
BASEBALL.  ^  great  style  in  a  special  Pullman.  It  brought 
them  no  luck,  however,  as  the  team  lost  the  first  game  of  the 
series.  The  general  opinion  now  is  that  the  race  for  the  last  half 
of  the  pennant  has  narrowed  itself  to  Los  Angeles  and  Oakland. 
This  is  another  illustration  of  the  uncertainties  in  the  game  of 
baseball.  Six  weeks  ago  the  Oaklands  were  supposed  to  be  firmly 
anchored  in  the  last  place,  without  even  a  forlorn  hope  of  de- 
cently occupying  that  position.  The  San  Franciscos  were  very 
much  disappointed  at  the  ill-success  of  pitcher  Knell.  He  was 
expected  to  place  them  in  first  place,  and  as  he  failed  to  add  any 
strength  to  the  team,  the  manager  of  the  home  team  had  tore- 
move  Fanning  from  the  school  of  discipline  and  give  him  another 
lease  of  baseball  existence.  Drawn  games  and  postponed  games 
are  commencing  to  accumulate.  Good  weather  will  have  to  be 
taken  advantage  of  to  get  rid  of  them,  as  they  must  be  played 
before  the  season  ends.  The  drawn  game  of  San  Francisco  and 
San  Jose,  played  last  Wednesday  in  Piedmont,  and  called  because 
of  darkness,  will  be  played  in  this  city  to-morrow  afternoon  at 
1:15  o'clock.  The  regular  game  will  follow  at  its  termination. 
The  same  clubs  will  play  here  this  afternoon.  After  this  week 
all  week-day  games  will  commence  at  2:30  o'clock.  As  Oakland 
will  play  here  next  week,  we  will  have  a  chance  to  see  De  Wald, 
the  new  pitcher. 

From  the  news  in  the  Eastern  baseball  papers,  it  is  evident  the 
Eastern  baseball  owners  have  started  in  earnestly  on  tbe  road  to 
retrenchment.  The  Stars,  who  will  next  season  receive  above 
$300  a  month,  will  be  comparatively  few. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  tbe  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  22,  1892. 


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&E-LQPKER-9N* 


THE  honest  Parisian  of  four  centuries  ago,  who  by  some  mis- 
adventure wandered  into  the  Court  of  Miracles,  was  given  the 
alternative  of  being  immediately  banged  by  the  Truands  unless 
he  became  a  thief,  beggar  or  vagrant,  or  being  ultimately  hanged 
by  the  honest  Parisians  for  being  a  Truand.  Thus  all  thieves 
eventually  grinned  through  a  halter,  and  a  few  honest  men  who 
were  caught  in  their  company  dangled  from  the  gibbet;  but  jus- 
tice was  done  in  any  event.  In  San  Francisco's  Court  of  Miracles 
— the  Police  Courts — the  honest  man  becomes  a  thief  from  choice, 
grows  every  moment  happier,  wealthier  and  trickier,  and  finally 
dies  respected  and  unhung.  He  has  neither  a  vagrant's  conscience, 
a  thief's  honor,  nor  a  beggar's  charity.  The  meanest  pickpocket 
would  lose  bis  cunning  right  hand  before  he  would  insert  it  in 
the  pocket  of  a  confederate  or  a  Police  Court  official,  but  the  mo- 
ment he  is  lodged  behind  the  bars  of  the  City  Prison  the  unjailed 
Truands  commence  to  work  the  miracles,  by  which  the  thief  is 
robbed,  justice  defeated,  and  the  official  fattens  his  purse.  The 
rascally  Police  Court  practitioner  is  responsible  for  it  all.  With 
him  originates  all  the  bribery  and  corruption.  Not  one  of  them 
has  any  knowledge  of  law,  and  must  resort  to  trickery,  chicanery 
and  fraud,  in  order  to  benefit  a  client  in  the  slightest  degree. 
Many  of  them  are  ex-convicts  and  fugitives  from  justice,  who  do 
not  scruple  to  commit  any  crime  by  which  they  may  profit  a 
pennyworth.  They  have  no  respect  for  the  courts  that  they 
wantonly  corrupt,  and  no  fear  of  the  law  which  they  openly 
defy.  No  honest  attorney  can  compete  with  them,  for  he  cannot 
secure  a  client  unless  he  bribes  officials  or  employs  "  cappers."  If 
an  honest  lawyer  should  stray  into  the  Police  Court,  he  would  be 
jeered  and  bulldozed  by  the  ring  of  thieves  that  infest  the  court, 
until  he  left  it  in  disgust,  and  unless  he  resorts  to  their  criminal 
methods  of  defense,  he  could  be  of  no  benefit  to  bis  client. 

Every  Police  Court  practitioner  has  his  "  cappers."  They  are 
police  officers,  court  and  prison  officials,  *•  trusties  "  in  the  jail, 
and  even  prisoners  themselves.  On  the  way  to  prison  the  arrest- 
ing officer  suggests  that  a  certain  attorney  be  employed;  the 
prison  keeper  who  charges  the  prisoner  proposes  another;  the 
"  trusty  "  who  leads  him  in  his  cell  commends  another;  his  cell 
mate  puts  in  a  word  for  his  attorney;  and  finally  the  bailiff  who 
marches  the  unfortunate  into  the  prison  dock  warns  him  that  he 
need  expect  no  favors  in  that  Court  unless  he  employs  some  one 
else.  The  capper  who  secures  the  case  for  his  attorney  gets  a 
percentage  of  the  fee.  The  methods  by  which  fees  are  wrung 
from  the  unfortunate  by  these  men  of  much  pull  and  no  law,  are 
unconscionable,  and  often  criminal.  A  man's  first  anxiety  when 
he  finds  himself  behind  the  bars  is  naturally  to  secure  his  release 
on  bail  as  speedily  as  possible,  to  be  able  to  prepare  a  proper  de- 
fense to  the  charge  against  him.  His  offense  is  so  magnified,  and 
his  fears  excited  by  the  cunning  lies  of  the  lawyer  (?)  that  he  is 
soon  willing  to  part  with  any  valuable*  be  may  have  in  his  pos- 
session for  a  trifling  amount.  "Whenever  the  prisoner  or  his 
friends  have  sufficient  bail  money,  the  lawyer  (?)  secures  posses- 
sion of  it  by  some  subterfuge,  and  deposits  it  in  bis  own  name  as 
security  for  the  appearance  of  the  defendant.  When  the  case  is 
finally  disposed  of,  he  alone  can  draw  the  money,  as  it  is  deposited 
In  his  name,  and  he  pockets  it  under  the  pretense  that  it  is  his 
fee.  By  this  means  poor  housewives  and  aged  mothers,  who 
tearfully  find  their  way  to  the  prison  gate  with  the  savings  of 
months  to  bail  worthless  husbands  and  erring  sons,  are  robbed 
by  the  thieving  rascals  who  are  allowed  to  bang  about  the  Courts. 
The  service  rendered  in  return  amounts  to  the  mere  deposit  of 
the  money  with  the  prison-keeper  and  the  advice  to  the  prisoner 
to  plead  guilty  and  pay  a  small  fine,  which  is  taken  from  the  bail 
deposited. 

It  ie  aeldom  that  a  pettifogger  will  permit  the  coveted  cash  to 
remain  in  the  hands  of  the  Police  Court  Clerk  longer  than  it  takes 
to  substitute  a  worthless  bond.  Then  the  money  is  withdrawn, 
and  if  the  defendant  is  convicted  he  must  find  other  means  with 
which  to  pay  his  fine.  Bonds  in  any  amount  can  be  secured  from 
the  professional  bondsmen  about  the  Old  City  Hall  for  a  trifling 
fee.  It  matters  not  what  the  case  is,  or  who  the  prisoner  may 
be,  they  will  sign  as  sureties  for  his  appearance  if  they  are  paid 
their  price.  These  bonds  are  absolutely  worthless,  for  when  for- 
feited they  cannot  be  collected.  There  are  men  who  are  not  worth 
a  dollar,  but  appear  as  sureties  on  Police  Court  bonds  amounting 
to  thousands  of  dollars.  No  one  knows  this  better  than  the  clerks 
of  the  different  courts,  yet  they  will  accept  any  one  as  surety  on 
a  bond  so  long  as  they  receive  their  "tip."     They  do  not  demand 


it;  that  would   be   extortion.     They  are  simply  doubtful   about 
the  qualifications  of  the  sureties,  until  reassured  with  coin. 

In  emergencies,  when  professional  bondsmen  could  not  be 
found,  a  pettifogger  or  a  Police  Court  Clerk  has  been  known  to 
forge  names  to  the  bond  and  release  the  prisoner.  If  neither  a 
clerk  nor  bondsman  is  within  immediate  call,  the  pettifogger  does 
not  hesitate  to  forge  the  clerk's  name  to  an  order  of  discbarge, 
secure  the  release  of  his  client,  and  fix  the  matter  up  when  his 
fraud  is  discovered,  which  is  rare.  If  money  has  been  judiciously 
used  among  the  court  officials,  the  defendant  secures  repeated 
continuances,  until  the  witnesses  for  the  prosecution  get  dis- 
gusted, and  refuse  to  sit  day  after  day  in  the  stifling  atmosphere 
of  the  court  awaiting  another  continuance.  Then,  when  they  do 
not  appear,  the  case  is  "dismissed  for  want  of  prosecution."  If 
the  witnesses  are  unusually  patient,  a  jury  trial  is  demanded, 
and,  owing  to  the  crowded  condition  of  the  jury  calendar,  is  set 
for  trial  three  or  four  months  in  the  future.  By  that  time  the 
witnesses  cannot  be  found,  and  the  defendant  goes  free. 

The  swindling  schemes  by  which  the  unwary  are  fleeced  are 
numberless.  The  pettifogger  and  court  bailiff,  with  their  pleas 
for  the  release  of  "an  old  friend"  who  has  been  arrested  for 
drunkenness  for  the  first  time.  The  Police  Judge  orders  his  dis- 
cbarge, and  the  lawyer  (?)  takes  everything  the  poor  man  can 
beg,  borrow  or  steal,  and  divides  with  the  bailiff.  When  it  is 
exposed,  the  Judge  pleads  that  he  was  imposed  upon  by  the 
men  he  has  known  to  be  thieves  for  years.  The  next  day  he  is 
imposed  on  again.  Oftener  the  clerk  or  bailiff  of  the  court 
will  write  "  dismissed"  after  the  name  of  a  prisoner  without  con- 
sulting the  Judge.  In  that  case  he  simply  "  does  not  remember." 
The  Warrant  Clerks  are  in  the  employ  of  certain  pettifoggers.  If 
a  complainant  employs  one  of  these,  be  experiences  no  difficulty 
in  securing  a  warrant  of  arrest  for  anybody,  for  any  offense  he 
may  mention.  If  the  person  complained  of  "  sees"  the  Warrant 
Clerk  or  the  lawyer  (?)  first,  the  case  is  seldom  one  in  which  "  the 
evidence  justifies  the  issuance  of  a  warrant."  When  a  warrant  is 
issued  for  the  arrest  of  a  person  who  has  means,  his  address  is 
secured,  and  the  Warrant  Clerk  notifies  the  lawyer  (?)  who  tells 
the  accused  of  his  contemplated  arrest  and  secures  his  case.  The 
fees  in  all  these  cases  are  divided  between  the  "  shyster"  and  the 
Warrant  Clerk.  Money  is  often  extorted  from  people  upon  the 
representation  that  they  are  about  to  be  arrested,  when  as  a  mat- 
ter of  fact  nothing  of  the  sort  is  in  contemplation.  A  lawyer  (?) 
will  agree  to  acquit  or  convict,  "  square"  a  court  or  Prosecuting 
Attorney,  bribe  the  police,  or  in  fact  do  anything  else  criminal  or 
corrupt  for  a  few  dollars,  and  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten  he  is  able 
to  carry  out  his  contract.  A  few  of  the  officials  of  the  Police 
Courts  are  honest,  so  far  as  pecuniary  considerations  are  con- 
cerned, but  all  are  tractable  under  tbe  "  political  pull."  When  the 
agent  of  the  political  boss  appears  and  gives  his  orders  they  are 
carefully  executed  in  every  detail,  no  matter  whether  they  de- 
mand the  release  of  a  "  stuffer"  or  tbe  conviction  of  apolitical 
opponent.  The  "  pull"  is  powerful  and  must  prevail. 
*  •  • 

Maurice  Schmidt,  Fire  Commissioner,  politician  and  stock 
broker,  lays  claim  to  the  proud  distinction  of  being  the  most 
amiable  son  in-law  in  the  world.  Just  as  the  quarantine  launch 
was  about  to  pull  out  from  Fishermen's  wharf,  last  Wednesday, 
to  go  to  the  steamer  Australia  t  he  came  flying  down  the  dock  in 
one  of  tbe  city's  red  wagons.  The  dapper  Maurice  sprang  from 
the  wagon  and  dashed  down  toward  the  launch  at  a  Nancy  Hanks 
gait.  He  went  three  steps  and  struck  a  fish  hook,  but  he  ran 
along  on  one  leg  and  extracted  the  book.  Then  he  got  entangled 
in  a  net,  and  pulled.it  along  with  him,  and  the  air  was  filled  with 
Mafia  oaths  and  flying  Italians.  One  of  tbe  latter  caught  an  end 
of  the  net,  gave  it  a  vigorous  tug,  and  Schmidt  unwound  himself 
from  the  web,  spinning  around  like  a  top.  He  slid  down  the 
ladder  and  fell  into  Dr.  Lawlor's  arms  on  the  launch.  When  the 
Commissioner  had  sufficiently  recovered  his  equilibrium  to  answer 
questions,  be  swelled  out  bis  cheat,  straightened  up,  and  slapping 
bis  hand  on  the  second  button  of  his  coat,  he  said: 

"  Boys,  what  do  you  think  of  that?  Don't  I  deserve  great 
credit!     I'm  going  out  to  meet  my  mother-in-law." 

A  painful  silence  followed,  which  was  broken  only  by  the  puf- 
fing of  the  engine,  and  a  few  minutes  later  the  tug  was  alongside 
the  steamer,  from  tbe  deck  of  which  there  was  a  waving  of  hand- 
kerchiefs and  blowing  of  kisses  from  cherry  lips.  Maurice 
climbed  up  the  ladder,  and  the  hug  he  got  at  the  top  of  the  rail 
excited  the  envy  of  all  on  board  the  vessel.  The  lady  was  one  of 
the  prettiest  passengers  that  ever  graced  the  deck  of  the  Austra- 
lia. Dr.  Ijawlor  looked  for  a  moment  at  the  lady,  then  at 
Schmidt's  silvered  hair,  and  shook  his  head.  "Oh,  no,"  said  he, 
"that  is  no  mother-in  law." 

#  #  * 

There  will  be  a  beautiful  scene  enacted  to-day  in  Alameda, 
when  two  staid,  elderly  men  will  indulge  in  a  game  of  marbles, 
the  result  of  a  challenge  from  F.  K.  Krauth,  tbe  editor  of  the 
JSncinal,  to  City  Recorder  Charles  Uznay.  It  is  to  be  played  upon 
the  new  bituminous  pavement  in  front  of  the  Encinal  office.  D. 
W.  Martin  and  Stanley  Stephenson  will  be  time-keepers,  and  Tax 
Collector  Barber  will  act  as  judge.  A  brass  band,  and,  as  a  matter 
of  course,  an  immense  crowd,  will  be  in  attendance. 


October  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


15 


A  funny  thing  happened  at  the  Tivoli  last  Monday  evening, 
daring  the  performance  of  The  Mascot.  Shortly  before  their 
duet  Fiamette  (Tillie  Salinger)  gives  Frederic  (Mesnier)  a  rose,  and 
he  lovingly  kisses  it  and  lays  it  upon  the  table.  A  minute  after- 
ward, he  sits  upon  the  edge  of  the  table.  When  Mesmer  sat  on 
the  table,  he  also  sat  on  the  wire-stemmed  rose.  The  orchestra 
started  the  interlude  to  the  duet,  and  the  graceful  Frederic  brought 
Fiamette  to  the  front  of  the  stage,  with  the  rose  dangling  from 
the  seat  of  his  trousers.  At  the  end  of  the  first  verse  they  turned 
and  walked  up  the  stage.  The  house  quickly  saw  the  dangling 
rose,  and  set  up  a  howl  of  laughter.  The  singers  looked  upon 
the  sudden  outburst  in  great  surprise,  and  very  much  bewildered, 
commenced  the  second  verse,  with  a  load  giggling  obligato  from 
the  listeners  and  musicians.  Charming  Fiamette  was  very  much 
embarrassed  at  the  seeming  rudeness,  but  finally  discovered  the 
reason,  but  it  was  quite  impossible  to  let  him  know  of  it.  The 
last  note  is  a  cue  for  Pippe  {Fhil.  Branson),  and  he  dashes  out 
upon  the  stage.  Beads  of  suspense  were  upon  Frederic's  brow ;  he 
could  understand  the  reason  of  the  hilarity  of  the  audience,  but 
Branson,  in  bis  usual  dainty  style,  jerked  the  rose  from  the  seat 
of  Mesnier's  breeches  and  handed  it  to  him  with  a  bow.  It  nearly 
spoiled  the  performance. 

*  *  * 

The  entertainment  of  the  German  Press  Club,  to  be  given  at  the 
Baldwin  Theatre,  on  Thursday,  October  27th,  promises  to  be  a 
great  success.  The  proceeds  are  to  be  devoted  to  its  sick  benefit 
fund,  and  the  leading  companies  then  playing  here  have  assured 
the  committee  in  charge  of  their  hearty  co-operation,  among  the 
attractions  being  the  Duff  Opera  Company,  which  is  magnifi- 
cently equipped;  Alexander  Salvini,  the  great  romantic  actor, 
will  appear  in  the  third  act  of  Don  Caesar  De  Bazan;  the  German 
Stock  Company  will  present  Bine  Ehrliche  Anleike,  a  comedietta 
by  Oscar  Teuscher.  Miss  Margaret  Mather  and  her  company  will 
also  take  part.  There  will  be  no  intermissions,  and  some  of  our 
best  artists  will  appear  between  acts  in  specialties.  Miss  Tillie 
Salinger  will  for  the  first  time  appear  as  an  interpreter  of  German 
songs.  An  exhibition  drill  by  Company  C,  Naval  Battalion,  N. 
G.  C,  Lieutenant  C.  A.  Douglass,  will  be  given.  Miss  Frances 
Simon,  the  young  dramatic  soprano,  who  last  week  acquitted 
herself  so  creditably  in  some  of  the  most  difficult  operatic  selec- 
tions, will  sing  a  romance,  "The  King  of  My  Soul,"  from  a  new 
opera  by  a  local  composer,  Professor  Theo.  Vogt,  entitled  The  Lily 
of  Loo  Choo.  A.  Heinrichs,  Adolph  Bauer  and  It.  M.  Gould  will 
direct  the  orchestra  for  their  respective  companies.  Mr.  N .  Lands- 
berger  has  also  volunteered  his  services.  Tickets  are  now  on  sale 
at  the  box  office  of  the  Baldwin  Theatre.  Dr.  Eruil  Stoessel  will 
manage  the  stage. 

*  *  * 

In  these  days  of  political  excitement,  it  is  refreshing  to  observe 
that  the  clerks  of  the  new  City  Hall  have  taken  up  the  study  of 
nude  art  to  a  degree  that  limits  itself  at  nothing.  Some  of  these 
clerks  have  lady  friends  and  cameras,  and  for  some  time  past  they 
— the  clerks,  lady  friends  and  cameras — have  been  inseparable. 
This  has  been  abundantly  proved  by  the  character  of  the  nega- 
tives taken,  some  of  which  have  lately  gone  the  rounds  among 
the  City  Hall  employees.  It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  some  of 
the  private  offices  of  the  New  City  Hall  have  for  years  been  the 
rendezvous  of  men  and  women  who  there  indulged  in  Bacchana- 
lian orgies  that  would  have  put  an  ancient  Roman  to  the  blush. 
A  certain  City  Hall  watchman  yet  remembers  being  attracted  one 
night  to  the  private  office  of  a  city  official  by  tbe  sounds  of  high 
revelry  therein.  Pausing  at  the  door,  he  heard  the  soft,  melo- 
dious laughter  of  women,  the  more  stentorian  cachination 
of  men  and  the  tinkling  of  crystal  glasses.  As  the  in- 
mates drank  bumpers  of  champagne,  "  tbe  case  was 
being  heard  with  closed  doors."  The  merriment  continued  until 
nearly  morning  when  the  caroasers,  male  and  female,  left, 
scarcely  able  to  navigate.  What  took  place  within  that  room 
that  night  can  only  be  conjectured.  If  those  walls  could  speak, 
the  tale  of  many  a  midnight  carousal — orgies  that  would  shame 
the  devil — might  be  told.  Lately  these  pastimes  have  given  way 
to  the  photographic  craze,  as  is  evidenced  by  at  least  one  picture 
now  in  existence.  It  is  that  of  a  nude  woman,  her  face  concealed 
by  a  handkerchief,  reclining  upon  a  rich  sofa  bought  by  the  city's 
funds,  and  which  occupies  a  snug  corner  in  one  of  the  City  Hall 
offices.  Were  the  Society  for  tbe  Suppression  of  Vice  to  see  this 
photograph,  its  immediate  confiscation  would  be  the  result.  The 
picture  is  a  blue  tint,  but  this  does  not  detract  from  its  suggestive 
beauty.     I  do  not  like  to  think  that  the  City  Hall  Commissioners 


are  conscious  of  the  use  to  which  some  of  the  rooms  of  the  build- 
ing in  their  charge  are  often  put,  but  they  ought  to  know. 
More  than  one  couri-rooru  clerk,  I  am  told,  has  been  interested 
in  these  midnight  exhibitions.  These  clerks,  it  should  be  remem- 
bered, are  deputies  of  County  Clerk  Blattner,  that  notorious  Kelly 
and  Crimmins  tool,  who  has  the  effrontery  to  ask  the  people  to 
elect  him  to  the  important  office  of  Sheriff.  I  would  like  to  see 
an  affidavit  made  by  Blattner  to  the  effect  that  none  of  his  de- 
puties were  particeps  criminis  in  these  unholy  affairs.  I  would 
then  have  the  pleasure  of  showing  to  the  people  how  very  rotten 
his  whole  department  is. 

»  #  » 
Mrs.  D.  F.  Verdenal  is  indignant,  and  justly,  it  would  seem, 
over  the  manner  in  which  her  play,  Victims  of  Science,  was  pre- 
sented in  this  city.  According  to  her  statement,  it  was  not  in- 
tended by  her  that  the  play  should  be  presented  in  its  present 
form.  Mr.  Lederer  and  Mrs.  Pacheco  dined  with  her  one  evening 
in  New  York  city,  on  which  occasion  she  read  them  the  draft  of 
the  play.  Lederer  said  he  would  produce  it  and  took  it  away, 
Mrs.  Verdenal  imagining,  however,  that  it  would  be  changed  from 
its  then  somewhat  crude  condition  to  suit  the  stage.  On  the  Sat- 
urday before  its  presentation  in  this  city  she  was  telegraphed  that 
it  would  be  presented  the  following  Monday.  She  understood  it 
was  to  be  put  on  for  one  night  only,  to  see  how  it  would  take. 
Instead,  it  went  for  a  week,  with  a  poor  cast,  and  was  a  failure. 
Therefore,  the  lady  is  much  aggrieved,  and  does  not  think  she 
was  treated  with  proper  consideration.  The  play  will  be  revised 
and  strengthened  in  New  York,  and  will  be  presented  again. 
*  *  *■ 

She  must  have  been  very  young,  and  we  will  presume,  there- 
fore, very  charming.  She  knew  she  wanted  to  be  an  actress;  she 
could  feel  the  divine  spark  of  genius  burning  in  her  breast,  and 
she  was  certain  if  she  could  get  a  chance  she  would  soon  become 
another  Siddons.  So  she  wrote  to  the  manager  of  the  McFee  of 
Dublin  company,  saying  she  had  heard  he  was  good  and  kind  to 
his  people,  and  wouldn't  he  please  give  her  a  show  to  tread  the 
boards.  As  an  evidence  of  her  ability,  she  enclosed  her  most  re- 
cent school  class  examination  papers,  on  which  she  had  been 
marked  "  Excellent!     Excellent!  "     Poor  little  innocent. 

Our  Society. 

Blue  Book,  containing  the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days 
of  the  leading  society  people  of  San  Francisco  and  the  principal 
social  centers  of  the  State,  is  now  in  press,  and  will  be  issued  in 
November  at  the  opening  of  the  society  season.  We  have  been  par- 
ticularly careful  in  the  selection  of  names  to  grace  the  pages  of  the 
Blue  Book  and  have  eliminated  many  which  have  appeared  in  for- 
mer publications.  It  will  be  kept  on  file  exclusively  at  all  the  clubs, 
fashionable  hotels,  theaters,  summer  resorts,  etc.  The  arrangement 
of  names  will  be  alphabetically,  and  numerically  by  streets,  similar 
to  the  Chicago,  New  York  and  Philadelphia  blue  books.  The  print- 
ing will  be  in  the  familiar  blue-and-gold  covers,  with  gilt-edgea  text. 
The  information  conveyed  on  tbe  pale-blue  leaves  will  be  set  forth  in 
a  generally  attractive  manner  for  the  class  of  people  which  the  Blue 
Book  is  specially  intended.  It  has  become  the  accepted  fashionable 
private  address  directory  of  California  society  people.  The  Blue 
Book  will  be  kept  on  sale  at  all  first  class  book  stores  (excepting 
Bancroft's).  Charles  C.  Hoag,  publisher,  175  and  176  Crocker  build- 
ing, San  Francisco. 

A  Talk  in  Private.— Some  drinking  men  dislike  the  idea  of  going 
to  a  gold  cure  institute.  There  is  no  publicity  at  Haywards,  Cal., 
where  the  Monroe  Improved  Gold  Cure  Institute  is  located.  Write 
for  circulars,  or  if  you  prefer,  an  agent  of  the  company  will  visit 
you  at  your  home,  and  talk  it  over.  San  Francisco  office,  111  Grant 
avenue. 


Special  attention  given  to  all  cases  recommended  by  family  physician, 
free  of  charge.  C.  Muiler,  refraction  specialist,  135  Montgomery  street,  near 
Bush. 

FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
ellery of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic  Temple. 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

THUS     VERY     LATEST. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


THE  old  Meadow  Lake  mines  are  to  the  front  again.  Some  new 
scientists  in  metallurgy  are  ready  to  put  up  coin  on  their 
ability  to  extract  the  gold  from  the  peculiar  character  of  quartz 
which  is  found  in  the^district.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  they  will 
succeed.  If  they  do  they  have  a  bonanza  on  their  hands,  as  there 
is  no  doubt  that  the  rock  is  rich  enough  in  the  metal  if  it  could 
only  be  saved.  Innumerable  processes  have  been  tried  to  work 
these  ores,  but  all  have  hitherto  failed,  although  the  men  at  the 
head  of  the  different  enterprises  were  all  clever  and  expert  in  car- 
rying out  their  separate  theories.  The  trouble  seems  to  be  that 
the  gold  will  not  amalgamate,  for  some  reason  not  yet  explained. 
It  is  thought  that  the  difficulty  was  owing  to  a  film  upon  the  gold, 
which  prevented  the  action  of  the  quicksilver,  but  every  means 
known  by  roasting  and  the  use  of  chemicals  has  been  tried  in  the 
past  without  avail.  The  new  proprietors  propose  to  crush  the 
ore  and  then  pass  the  pulp  over  a  Frue  concentrator,  without  using 
quicksilver  in  the  battery  or  on  the  plates.  It  is  expected  that 
the  concentrator  will  not  only  save  tbe  sulphurets,  but  will  also 
catch  most  of  the  free  gold,  as  is  the  case  when  tests  are  made 
with  rock  in  a  hand  mortar  and  by  »  horning." 
Si* 

AS  for  the  concentrates,  Mr.  Hartley,  the  veteran  miner,  who 
has  held  the  fort  at  this  district  through  the  snows  of  thirty 
winters,  claims  to  be  able  to  work  them  by  a  practical  process  of 
his  own.  If  this  is  so,  tbe  question  now  is,  why  d:d  he  not  do  so  be- 
fore, when  the  concentrates  were  turned  out  ty  tons  at  the  time 
Brs.  Wbittel  and  Arnold,  of  this  city,  controlled  tbe  property. 
He  had  abundant  opportunity  then  to  shew  what  his  process 
was  worth.  It  cannot  be  denied  that  he  has  personally  always 
been  able  to  show  up  a  small  bar  of  gold  bullion  every  now  and 
then,  but  be  did  so  long  before  there  was  a  concentrator  of  any 
kind  within  fifty  miles  of  him.  He  simply  took  it  out  with  a 
hand-mortar,  pounding  out  some  of  tbe  very  rich  quartz  fouud 
in  veins  as  thick  as  a  knife-blade,  or  in  pockets,  which  from  time 
to  time  were  discovered  in  the  old  Excelsior  mine.  Quartz  has 
been  exhibited  at  tiroes  in  this  city  which  was  perfectly  full  of 
free  gold,  which  could  have  been  picked  out  with  a  bodkin,  for 
that  matter.  It  was  these  little  bars  of  bullion  which  has  kept 
up  the  reputation  of  these  mines  for  many  years,  and  attracted 
mining  men  to  them.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  over  a  quarter  of  a 
million  has  been  spent  by  prospectors  and  others  in  testing  these 
ores  during  the  past  ten  years.  Samples  have  been  sent  all  over 
the  world,  to  tbe  most  famous  laboratories  and  reduction  works 
in  existence,  but  always  with  the  result,  with  the  exception,  it  is 
said,  of  the  Swansea  smelters,  who  were  successful,  bat  at  a  cost 
which  precluded  the  possibility  of  sbippiug  to  such  a  distance. 
The  person  who  can  make  this  district  pay  will  be  a  benefactor 
to  the  State,  and  California  has  often  spent  money  in  a  manner 
which  would  merit  less  commendation  than  in  the  case  of  a  bonu3 
to  tbe  discoverer  of  the  necessary  process,  or  an  appropriation  to 
make  the  necessary  working  tests  of  these  ores. 
\  t  t 

THE  old  Rathgeb  mines  are  again  on  the  market,  and  after  rak- 
ing something  like  $500,000  out  cf  the  pockets  of  a  set  of 
idiots  in  England,  a  few  greenhorns  are  now  being  looked  for  in 
this  city  to  chip  in  on  another  deal.  This  kind  of  a  fish  has  been 
brought  to  the  wrong  market  this  time.  Once  people  are  ac- 
quainted with  the  fact  that  the  Rathgeb  mines  of  Calaveras  are 
one  and  the  same  as  the  notorious  Union  Gold,  alias  the  Cordova 
of  London,  it  will  be  sufficient  to  put  them  on  their  guard  against 
what  turned  out  to  be  one  of  the  biggest  swindles  of  the  century. 
Mr.  Rathgeb,  who  sold  the  property  to  the  English  through  tbe 
agency  of  a  photographer  named  Hamilton,  backed  by  the  notor- 
ious "  Baron  "  Grant  of  London,  has,  we  believe,  again  got  pos- 
session of  the  property,  after  raking  in  thousands  in  gold  coin, 
and  with  the  addition  of  a  fine  mill.  After  throwing  their  money 
down  the  shaft  the  British  investors  sat  quietly  by  while  the 
whole  concern  was  confiscated,  and  accepted  their  losses 
like  the  sheep  tbey  are.  Sympathy  would  be  wasted  on  such 
people,  who,  though  thoroughly  posted  on  the  scheme  from  the 
very  first,  allowed  themselves  to  be  robbed  right  and  left,  with- 
out even  turning  a  hand  in  self-defense.  The  loss  of  their  money 
is  well  deserved,  and  this  country  is  well  rid  of  them.  If  the 
shareholders  could  have  only  packed  tbe  property  with  them, 
it  would  have  saved  the  objectionable  necessity  of  having  again 
to  defile  these  columns  with  even  its  name.  The  new  promoters, 
whoever  they  may  be,  should  try  and  make  a  connection  with 
the  »  unfrocked  priest,"  Mesplie  and  give  him  another  chance  to 
work  his  friends  at  Xarbonne.  There  would  be  more  likelihood 
of  success  there,  it  has  been  so  long  now  since  the  Quartz  Moun- 
tain affair. 

$  $  $ 

THE  jackals  of  the  anti-debris  press,  among  them  the  lank  and 
hungry  scavenger  of    Marysviile,  are  snarling  out  their  disap- 
pointment over  the  fact  that  hydraulic  mining  in   California  has 


turned  out  a  more  lively  corpse  than  tbey  had  calculated  upon.  As 
moulders  of  opinion  among  the  fever  and  ague  breeding  swamps  of 
the  Sacramento,  its  tributaries  and  the  miasmatic  regions  of  Colusa 
county,  they  naturally  resort  to  throwing  mud  when  short  of  an 
argument.  The  idea  that  these  howlers  in  a  wilderness  can  carry 
any  influence  with  tbe  brainy  people  of  the  State  at  large,  on  a 
subject  of  such  vital  importance  to  the  community,  is  simply 
preposterous.  Any  person  or  persons  who  will  unbloshingly  as- 
sert that  the  advocation  of  the  resumption  of  hydraulic  mining, 
which  means  an  addition  of  nearly  $10,000,000  in  gold  to  the 
wealth  of  the  State,  is  »  incendiary  in  its  nature,"  can  hardly  ex- 
pect to  escape  suspicion  as  «  incompetents"  in  every  sense  of  tbe 
application  of  a  legal  definition  of  tbe  term.  Tbe  mining  indus- 
try of  California  is  not  going  to  be  snuffed  out  at  the  whimpering 
of  such  mental  wrecks,  afflicted  by  what  will  doubtless  be  ac- 
cepted by  their  acquaintances  as  a  providential  disposition  of 
their  lives  in  times  as  dull  and  uninviting  as  the  localities  in 
which  they  struggle  for  existence. 

ttS 

THE  mist  from  the  marshes,  which  obscures  the  vision  six 
mouths  out  of  tbe  year,  has  evidently  had  a  dampening  effect 
on  intellects,  which  it  can  be  inferred  were  never  of  average 
strength,  to  such  an  extent  that  a  reasonable  conception  of  the 
Gilbert,  or  any  other  decision,  for  that  matter,  can  hardly  be  ex- 
pected from  such  a  source.  Its  terms  are,  however,  fully  appre- 
ciated elsewhere,  by  people  who  have  still  possession  of  their 
senses,  and  the  result  will  probably  make  everything  appear  in 
its  true  light,  when  some  ingenious  inventor  devises  a  plan  to 
carry  the  debris  down  from  tbe  healthy  mountain  heights  to  fill 
up  the  malarial  swamps  around  Marysviile.  It  would  save  the 
expense  of  stilts  and  scow-shaped  small  boats  during  the  heavy 
rains.  Long  before,  however,  the  apptal  and  its  sympathizers  can 
count  on  the  realization  of  such  happiness,  they  will  have  the 
displeasure  of  knowing  that  the  hydraulic  mines  above  them  are 
running  full  blast,  and  sending  more  money  in  circulation  among 
the  people  of  the  State  every  year  than  they  can  do  in  a  century, 
with  either  their  fruit  or  grain. 

t  t 

THE  Comstock  market  has  been  smashed  during  the  week  by 
manipulation,  which  knocked  even  Con.  Virginia  below  the 
$3  mark  for  the  first  time  in  years.  Margin  holders  have  been 
heavy  sufferers  in  the  operation,  and  it  was  their  stock  coming  in 
on  a  depressed  market  which  caused  the  heavy  depreciation 
noted  at  the  close  of  business  this  week.  The  mines  have  not 
been  responsible  for  the  damage  this  time,  and  whenever  they 
are  permitted  to  influence  the  market  again  a  reaction  will  set  in, 
which  will  take  prices  up  higher  than  they  were  on  the 
last  upheaval.  It  is  unfortunate  for  dealers  that  these 
waves  of  depression  will  occur,  but  it  is  always  tbe  case  in 
speculative  markets,  and  people  must  be  prepared  for  the  in- 
evitable. With  prices  breaking  at  the  rate  they  did  this  week  in 
the  leading  Comstock  shares,  it  is  not  likely  that  trading  would 
be  lively  in  outside  mines.  Both  the  Tuscarora  mines  and  tbe 
Quijotoas  were  quiet,  with  prices  steady.  In  reference  to  Nevada 
Queen,  the  statement  was  made  a  week  or  so  ago  that  the  mine 
was  in  debt  to  the  extent  of  $50,000.  This  was  an  error,  made 
through  misconception  of  a  remark  made  by  an  officer  of  the 
company  to  tbe  effect  that  tbe  mine  bad  just  cleared  off  an  in- 
debtedness of  that  amount.  The  total  debt  accrued  is  only  $8,000, 
against  which  ore  valued  at  $25,000  is  now  on  the  dumps  ready 
for  sale.  An  assessment  of  twenty-five  cents  per  share  has  just 
been  levied  on  Bullion. 

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JOSEPH  MARKS,  tbe  well-known  broker  of  the  San  Francisco 
Stock  Exchange,  returned  during  the  week  from  a  visit  to 
Europe.  While  away  his  business  was  managed  by  Maurice 
Schmitt,  who  has  has  the  well-deserved  reputation  of  being  one 
of  the  most  shrewd  and  active  operators  in  the  Exchange.  Mr. 
Schmitt  had  been  out  of  the  harness  for  some  time  when  he  re- 
entered the  arena  where  the  festive  ball  dallies  with  his  ursine 
opponents,  but  it  was  evident  from  the  first  that  the  good  right 
band  had  not  forgotten  its  cunning  in  his  case,  and  the  experience 
gained  in  many  an  exciting  battle  in  days  gone  by  was  brought 
into  effective  play  whenever  necessity  required.  Schmitt  is  not 
very  big  in  point  of  stature,  but  he  is  a  power  on  the  floor  of  the 
Exchange  all  the  same,  where  brain  work  tells,  more  than  avoir- 
dupois. It  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  continue  to  transact  busi- 
ness in  the  Board  room,  where  he  is  a  general  favorite,  although, 
of  course,  his  time  is  pretty  fully  occupied  with  the  cares  of 
municipal  office. 

THE  annual  meeting  of  the  Con.  Virginia  mine  was  held  on 
Monday  last.  There  was  a  large  representation  of  stock, 
amounting  to  196,000  shares  out  of  a  capital  stock  of  216,000 
shares.  The  report  of  the  superintendent  was  very  satisfactory 
in  every  respect,  and  according  to  it  the  prospects  for  ore  are 
favorable.  The  secretary's  report  showed  an  indebtedness  of 
$11,000.     The  old  officers  were  re-elected. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


1: 


'Hear  toe  Crier!"   "What  the  devil  art  thou?" 
'•  Ooethat  will  plav  the  devil,  sir,  with  vou." 


H 


IS  napkin  resting  on  bis  knees, 

Upon  his  nose  the  gleam 
Good  wine  bestows,  Ned   Palmer   dreamed, 
This  after-dinner  dream: 


The  do  r  of  the  snug  room,  it  seemed, 

At  once  flew  open  wide, 
And  lo,  before  Ned's  drowsy  sense 

There  poured  a  motley  tide. 

Five  turtles  walking  bolt  upright, 

And  all  in  line  passed  in; 
And  close  upon  their  flappers  came 

8ome  fifty  terrapin. 
"  What  want  ye  here?"  the  dreamer  asked, 

His  forehead  damp  with  fear, 
"  We're  quite  old  friends,"  one  turtle  said, 

"  You  ate  us  all  last  year!  " 

"  You  ate  us,  Ned,  in  soup  and  steak, 

"  iou  called  us  rich  and   fine, 
"  You  washed  us  down,  we  recollect, 

With  old  Madeira  wine." 
Then  squeaked  a  little  terrapin, 

"And,  Ned,  you  killed  us,  too, 
And  gloated  o'er  our  juicy  bones, 

And  boasted  of  the  stew." 
"There's  some  mistake,"  Ned  Palmer  said, 

"Some  blunder  of  those  cooks, 
If  I  ate  you,  you'd  not  be  here." 

The  turtle  said,  "  We're  spooks." 

Just  then  Ned  heard  an  awful  din, 
And  groaned,  when  from  without 

A  dozen  salmon  flopped  them  in, 
With  ninety  speckled  trou*t. 

"  Ha,  ha,  behold  us,  when  before 

We  met,  'twas  on  a  dish, 
You  ate  us,  Ned — ay,  yes,  you  did, 

Nor  spared  a  single  fish." 

"Two  hundred  soft-shell  crabs  await 

Their  turn,  Ned,  outside, 
And  six  and  thirty  pompano, 

Whom  once  you  ordered  fried." 

"Six  bushel  oysters  also  crave 

An  audience  with  the  man 
Who,  from  their  cool  and  cosy  shells 

Transferred  them  to  the  pan." 

»  Oh,  spare  me,"  groaned  the  dreamer,  "  don't 

Thus  prick  me  with  your  fins." 
A  rockcod  grinned,  "  We're  here  to-night 

To  flay  you  for  your  sins." 

Then  Ned,  in  mortal  terror  heard 

Bellowing,  crow,  and  quack, 
A  capon  pecked  him  on  the  pate,     * 

A  lusty  canvas  back 

Assailed  his  legs  with  vengeful  beak, 

A  squab  perched  on  his  brow. 
Then,  horrified,  he  heard  a  shriek, 

"Room,  comrades,  for  the  cowl" 

"Keep  out  the  cow,  and,  friends,  I  swear 

I'll  never  any  more 
Touch  steak  or  joint "  just  then  a  ram 

Came  charging  in  the  door. 

"I'll  foreswear  chops" — here  Ned  awoke, 

Quite  overjoyed  to  find 
His  victims'  spooks  had  passed  away — 

A  phantom  of  the  mind. 

A  SILENT  barber  has  passed  away,  dead,  alas  by  his  own  hand, 
and  left  his  talking  brethren  and  the  public  generally  to  mourn 
his  loss.  He  died  for  love,  or  of  love,  or  because  the  lady  who 
comes  under  the  head  of  a  "  lively  brunette"  seared  his  jealous 
heart  by  going  to  parties  and  theatres  with  other  fellows.  He 
has  deserted  a  fraternity  who  will  only  imitate  his  silence  when 
they  repose  beneath  the  turf.  This  estimable  person,  a  Dane,  and 
as  melancholy  as  Hamlet,  shaved  his  customers  in  silence,  and  as 
a  natural  consequence,  accumulated  much  wealth.  His  reputa- 
tion spread,  and  bearded  men  thronged  his  shop,  and  while 
awaiting  their  opportunity,  admired  his  taciturnity.  But  he 
could  not  keep  heart-whole,  and  he  is  gone  to  that  land  where 
soap  is  unknown  and  a  razor  would  be  as  useless  as  a  fire-shovel. 


HENRY  GUY  CARLETON  has  been  giving  his  reminiscences 
of  Count  Mitkievicz.  Mr.  Carleton  had  an  interesting  ad- 
venture with  the  Count  in  this  city,  which  he  has  neglected  to 
mention.  Carleton  was  on  the  Chronicle  at  that  time,  and  was 
sent  by  Mr.  Charles  de  Young  to  interview  the  distinguished 
nobleman.  The  Count  was  delighted.  He  gave  bis  pedigree  in 
full,  he  mixed  cocktails,  he  showed  Carleton  telegrams  from 
various  noblemen  of  high  degree,  he  expressed  himself  as  so  de- 
lighted with  San  Francisco  that  he  had  determined  to  spend  his 
entire  remittance  of  60,000  roubles,  then  on  the  way,  in  real 
estate  and  entertainments.  In  return  for  Carleton's  promise  to 
write  np  those  marvels,  the  Count  promised  to  call  at  the  Chron- 
icle office  at  11  p.  m.,  and  after  reading  and  correcting  the  proof, 
to  take  him  to  supper.  Eleven  o'clock  and  the  Count  arrived 
simultaneously.  Carleton  received  the  Count,  introduced  him  to 
Mr.  de  Young,  to  Dennis  McCarthy,  the  city  editor,  and  to  sev- 
eral of  the  staff.  The  proofs  of  the  article,  strange  to  say,  were 
not  yet  ready.  "  Suppose,"  said  Henry  Guy,  affably,  "  we  five 
go  to  the  Poodle  Dog  and  get  a  little  bite,  and  when  the  proof  is 
ready  we  can  read  it  at  our  leisure.  The  Count  bowed,  we  all 
bowed,  and  moved  toward  the  restaurant.  Carleton  ordered  the 
supper.  Oysters,  with  the  best  Sauterne  in  the  house,  a  saute  of 
frogs' legs,  with  '29  Madeira,  followed;  canvas-back  with  Clos 
Vougeot  were  next  appropriately  introduced,  followed  by  ter- 
rapin stew  with  champagne  frappe.  Meanwhile  the  Count  was 
growing  uneasy,  but  Carleton  was  so  enthusiastic  over  the  mar- 
velous accounts  of  the  nobleman's  estates  in  Russia,  and  his  in- 
timacy with  the  Rothschilds,  that  he  failed  to  notice  it.  At  12:30 
the  Count  interrupted  Carleton's  flow  of  eulogy  to  remind  him  of 
the  proof.  Carleton,  who  was  running  the  whole  show,  apolo- 
gized, and  dispatched  a  messenger  at  once,  and  to  make  the  de- 
lay pleasant,  ordered  twenty-five  partagas  at  a  dollar  apiece,  and 
three  more  bottles  of  extra  dry.  The  proof  arrived,  and  Carleton 
volunteered  to  read  it.  He  improvised  the  most  brilliant  eulogy 
a  visiting  nobleman  ever  listened  to;  he  catalogued  the  decora- 
tions which  had  been  conferred  upon  the  Count  by  foreign  poten- 
tates, and  of  his  intimacy  with  the  RothBcbilds,  and  of  his  vast 
estates,  and  finally  gave  an  account  of  a  grand  ball  which  was  to 
be  given  by  the  Mayor  and  a  committee  of  millionaires  to  the 
Count  on  the  following  evening.  Then  declaring  that  the  printers 
were  waiting,  he  hurriedly  bundled  up  the  proofs  and  sent  them 
back.  After  this,  so  gratified  was  the  Count,  that  he  ordered 
regiments  of  bottles.  Finally  came  the  denouement.  Carleton 
arose  and  said  he  would  get  a  copy  of  the  Chronicle  for  the  Count. 
The  waiter  went  down  and  got  the  bill.  The  bill  gave  a  full  ac- 
count of  the  supper,  $117.50;  the  Chronicle  gave  a  full  account  of  the 
numerous  swindles  perpetrated  in  San  Francisco  and  elsewhere 
by  an  adventurer  calling  himself  Count  Edgene  de  Mitkievicz, 
and  stated  that  a  warrant  would  be  issued  for  his  arrest  the  fol- 
lowing day.  The  Count  failed  to  appreciate  Carleton's  joke,  and 
lit  out  that  evening,  deserting  the  Pacific  Coast,  let  it  be  hoped, 
forever. 

I  PREDICT  an  awful  street  accident  in  the  future.  The  doer  of 
this  calamity  will  be  a  female  doctor — a  lady  practitioner,  who 
drives  a  small  bay  horse  and  wears  spectacles  of  the  most  scien- 
tific pattern.  When  that  gentle  administerer  of  the  drastic  pill 
climbs  into  her  chariot  and  gives  her  fiery  steed  his  head,  it  is 
time  for  the  San  Francisco  pedestrian  to  hunt  his  shed.  Every 
body  knows  her,  for  three-fourths  of  the  habitues  of  Montgom- 
ery street  have  skipped  out  of  her  way.  Heavens  I  how  she 
drives.  She  shrieks  the  prelude  of  a  prescription  into  that  bay's 
ears,  and  he  is  off  like  the  wind.  His  tail  is  as  straight  as  a 
toothpick,  his  ears  extended,  hia  eyes  ablaze,  and  at  every  word 
of  encouragement  uttered  by  his  fair  charioteer,  he  jumps  as  if  a 
lancet  had  jabbed  him  in  the  tail.  The  breezes  howl  about  her 
spectacles,  but  she  heeds  them  not.  Cobblestones  fly  against 
her  dashboard,  but  they  might  as  well  be  bread  pills  for  all  the 
concern  they  give  her.  Then  the  population  begins  to  scatter 
and  huddle  in  corners  and  stand  from  under  until  the  Juggernaut 
has  passed.  Beware,  daughter  of  the  sciences,  or  we  must 
put  the  minions  of  the  law  upon  thy  track.  Go  slow,  beautiful 
poultice  sharp,  or  thou  wilt  be  pulled  and  fined,  and  a  whole- 
some lotion  of  judicial  advice  applied,  to  induce  the  inflamma- 
tion of  this  murderous  one-horse  shandaradan. 

THE  Western  Addition  was  paralyzed  a  few  evenings  ago,  by 
the  apparition  of  a  tall,  lean  young  man,  in  dark  green  livery. 
The  youth  held  the  lines  over  a  long,  low,  sway-backed,  melan- 
choly-looking nag.  The  youth's  face  was  full  of  the  most  pro- 
found gravity.  His  sighs,  audible  to  the  wonder-stricken  specta- 
tors on  the  sidewalks,  mingled  with  the  wheezy  groans  of  the 
phenomenal  horse,  and  made  strange  music  on  the  soft  autumn 
air.  The  wheel  of  the  remarkable  chariot,  fashioned  on  the 
model  of  seventeenth  century  vehicles,  sank  into  a  mud  hole. 
The  sad-eyed  driver  wept  a  few  tears  on  the  dashboard  and  laid 
the  whip  gently  on  the  shoulders  of  the  ancient  garron.  Again 
he  flicked  the  beast,  and  this  time  wearily  the  old  horse  pulled 
the  chariot  clear  of  the  mud.  "  What  is  it  ?  "  whispered  the  by- 
standers, "  who  in  the  name  of  all  the  dime  museums  in  this 
broad  and  glorious  country  is  that  skeleton  on  the  box?"  "That," 
murmured  one  of  the  oldest  inhabitants,  with  bated  breath, 
"  Hish,  do  not  give  offense.     It  is  old  man  Burr's  coachman." 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


A  WARNING  note  was  sounded  by  the  News  Letter  a  few  weeks 
ago,  when  it  was  stated  that  the  present  Board  of  Supervisors, 
whose  demise  is  fortunately  at  band,  intended  to  rush  through  the 
reports  on  certain  street  extension  schemes,  and  so  to  add  another 
to  the  long  list  of  jobs  which  has  characterized  its  deliberate 
mismanagement.  But,  however,  seeing  that  the  property-owners 
are  forewarned  of  any  such  act,  there  is  talk  of  throwing  out  the 
reports  entirely,  and  so  clouding  the  property  of  the  long-suffer- 
ing Mission  lot  owners.  An  effort  will  be  made  to  hold  the  re- 
creant Board  to  its  promise  to  make  the  cut  of  90  per  cent.,  as 
desired  by  the  Mission  Real  Estate  Owners'  Bureau.  The  latter 
body  has  decided  to  ask  that  the  total  amount  allowed  for  the  ex- 
tension of  Sixteenth  street  be  fixed  at  $34,500,  and  for  the  open- 
ing of  the  streets  from  Nineteenth  to  Twenty-third,  inclusive,  be 
$16,000  instead  of  $160,000,  the  sum  which  the  commissioners  al- 
lege as  necessary  to  do  the  work.  The  rejection  of  the  reports 
would  suit  the  commissioners,  as  it  would  mean  indefinite  con- 
tinuance of  salaries. 

The  improvement  in  the  real  estate  market  keeps  up,  in  spite 
of  the  near  approach  of  the  election,  and  promises  well  that 
business  will  not  be  appreciably  interrupted  by  the  election. 

The  sales  of  the  week  include  one  or  two  which  are  of  interest, 
as  showing  that  the  demand  for  good  property  is  strong,  and  that 
prices  keep  up  wherever  there  is  an  absence  of  fictitious  value. 
In  the  Presidio  Heights,  Baldwin  &  Hammond  sold  the  lot  137.6 
xl37. 6,  northeast  corner  of  Washington  and  Maple,  for  $10,500, 
and  Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.  sold  the  fifty-vara  on  the  north 
line  of  Jackson,  west  of  Locust,  for  $12  500.  These  two  sales  are 
representative  in  their  district.  Among  other  good  sales  are  the 
partially  improved  northwest  corner  of  California  and  Hyde, 
87.6x87.6,  by  Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  for  $27,500,  the  north- 
west corner  of  O'Farrell  and  Steiner,  41x88,  for  $10,000;  the  nine- 
room  house,  sold  by  O'Farrell  &  Co,,  on  the  west  line  of  Octavia, 
south  of  Broadway,  for  $12,000,  and  a  house  and  lot  27.6x137.6, 
north  line  of  Sutter,  137.6  east  of  Webster,  for  $12,750. 

Tevis  &  Fisher's  auction  sale,  though  it  did  not  result  in  the 
disposal  of  much  property  on  the  spot,  started  negotiations  which 
are  more  than  likely  to  ultimately  result  in  sales.  At  the  auction 
a  good  three-story  frame  building  of  two  stores  and  a  rooming 
house,  standing  on  the  west  corner  of  Mint  avenue  and  Fifth 
street,  lot  25x75,  sold  to  Frank  Maskey  for  $43,000;  J.  B.  Brown 
bought  a  ten-room  modern  house  on  the  east  side  of  Central 
avenue,  south  of  Jackson,  lot  37x100,  for  $19,000,  and  the  large 
lot  south  side  Filbert,  between  Webster  and  Fillmore,  145x137.6, 
sold  for  $9,500. 

The  State  League  of  Building  and  Loan  Associations  met  on 
Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  holding  very  interesting  and  well  at- 
tended sessions.  The  principal  business  of  public  interest  was 
the  proposition  to  amend  section  644  of  the  Civil  Code  so  as  to 
compel  all  loan  associations  to  make  annual  reports  to  the  Bank 
Commissioners,  and  to  add  to  the  duties  of  the  latter  the  examina- 
tion of  the  affairs  of  all  loan  associations,  thus  placing  these  or- 
ganizations on  the  same  footing  as  banks.  The  payment  for  such 
services  would  be  one  cent  a  share  in  force  of  each  association 
examined,  and  slight  as  this  may  seem,  as  there  are  now  over 
3,600,000  shares  in  force,  the  remuneration  would  be  $3,600.  The 
loan  associations  of  the  State  have  over  $16,000,000  in  their  pos- 
session, so  that  many  people  are  interested  in  these  very  useful 
and  helpful  concerns.  Last  year  the  total  assets  were  $12,653,000. 
The  following  officers  were  elected^  for  the  ensuing  year:  Presi- 
dent, Andrea  Sbarboro;  First  Vice-President,  F.  V.  Wright,  of 
San  Jose;  Second  "Vice-Jf resident,  E.  A.  Naylor;  Third  "Vice-Presi- 
dent, Louis  Blank ;  Secretary,  J.  J.  Tobin ;  Treasurer,  J.  D.  Case ; 
Members  of  the  Executive  Committee,  L.  L.  Dennery,  C.  K. 
Clark,  Frank  Otis;  Representatives  to  the  National  League  of 
Building  andJLoan  Associations  which  will  meet  at  Chicago  next 
year,  L.  L.  Dennery;  Alternate,  Louis  Blank. 

FOR  the  adornment  of  a  home  without  expensive  outlay,  noth- 
ing is  so  effective  from  an  artistic  standpoint  as  a  number  of 
handsomely  framed  paintings  or  photographs.  The  appearance 
of  a  picture  is  always  enhanced  by  the  manner  in  which  it  is  pre- 
sented. The  pretty,  golden  Florentine  frames  in  hand-carved 
wood,  which  were  recently  placed  on  exhibition  at  Sanborn,  Vail 
&  Co.'s,  are  without  exception  the  most  artistic  seen  in  the  city 
for  a  long  time.  They  are  shown  next  to  the  stationery  depart- 
ment. The  latter  has  recently  been  enriched  by  the  arrival  of  a 
large  assortment  of  exquisite  writing  paper,  in  the  latest  fashion- 
able tints.  This  paper  is  all  the  rage  in  the  East  and  Europe. 
The  leather  goods  in  this  department  are  exquisite  in  design,  and 
most  artistic  in  finish.  They  include  parses,  card-cases,  pocket- 
books,  and  a  great  variety  of  other  articles. 


Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  ou  commission. 
Office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 


To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contem- 
"plating  a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the  Union  Pacific.  It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
man Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
|  from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.  You  are 
'only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 
Boston. 

Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  25%  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacv.  035  Market  street. 


Mothers  be  Sure  and  Use 
children  while  Teething. 


'Mrs.  Winslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 


L0UGHM0N,    DECEASED. 


TO    MORTUARY    RECORD    KEEPERS    AND 
OTHERS. 

WANTED.— Evidence  of  the  death  of  George  Cheeves  Loughmon, 
alias  George  Leybourne  Loughmon,  formerly  of  Camden  Town, 
London,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Tubb,  builder, 
San  Francisco,  who  is  stated  to  have  been  knocked  down  and  killed 
by  a  steam  tramcar  in  the  streets  of  Oakland,  a  suburb  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, some  time  prior  to  the  month  of  January,  1886,  and  was  buried 
in  the  presence  of  Rev.  H.  W.  Tubb.    Apply  to 

MR.  D.  BRODERICK, 
3  Denmark  Villas,  Brighton,  Eng.,  Executor  of  the  will  of  C.  Lough- 
roon,  deceased. 

CYPRESS   LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

ZE\A_:tyilXj-Z"       PLOTS 
For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non-  ectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  he  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  copiug,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office.  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLA.IN,  Saperinteudent. 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

Patent  Lead-Lined    Coupled   Tubing,  for    use  as 

Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap 

We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  k  HAMMOND, 

Real  Estate  Ageuls  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


RACOEcompMIi 

L/i%    PRINTERS.  4V*4  J 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


October  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Till:  Insurance  Associates  are  yet  hard  at  work  on  their  plan 
of  organization.  Another  meet.ng  will  be  held  next  Tuesday, 
when  the  constitution  and  by-laws  will  probably  be  adopted. 
There  is  a  general  feeling  that  the  Associates  will  be  a  power  for 
good  in  the  insurance  community,  for  they  will  see  to  it  that 
only  reputable  men  are  employed  as  brokers,  city  agents  and 
solicitors,  and  the  term  "  reputable  "  includes  only  those  men 
who,  having  agreed  to  comply  with  certain  business  rules,  do  so. 
The  Pacific  Insurance  Union  will,  of  course,  recognize  the  Asso- 
ciates, and  it  is  thought  arrangements  will  be  made  between  the 
two  organizations  whereby  the  Compact  will  refer  to  the  Asso- 
ciates the  names  of  gentlemen  proposed  or  appointed  as  city 
agents  or  solicitors,  so  that  the  Associates  may  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  pass  upon  the  eligibility  or  otherwise  of  any  gentlemen 
who  may  wish  to  become  competitors  of  its  members.  The  gen- 
eral idea  of  the  association  is  protection  for  activeinsurance  men. 
No  attempt  will  be  made  to  interfere  with  those  who  are  properly 
engaged  in  a  legitimate  business,  but  those  who  are  not  legiti- 
mately engaged  in  taking  risks,  or  whose  work  is  such  that  it 
interferes  with  regular  underwriters,  will  he  hauled  over  the 
coals  with  no  gentle  hand,  much  to  the  pleasure  of  brokers 
whose  income  has  been  much  reduced  of  late  by  the  fact  that  a 
number  of  wildcats  have  been  nibbling  at  all  the  plums  to  be 
found  upon  the  street.  The  officers  of  the  Associates  have  not 
yet  been  selected,  but  indications  point  to  Colonel  W.  R.  Smed- 
berg  as  President  of  the  organization.  The  choice  of  Colonel 
Smedberg  for  that  office  will'be  a  good  one,  for  he  is  not  only  an 
old,  able  and  well-known  underwriter,  but  he  is  also  a  man  of 
determination,  who  will  not  allow  the  rules  to  be  broken  with- 
out making  the  punishment  fit  the  crime.  It  is  about  time,  as 
we  have  said  repeatedly,  that  offenders  should  be  held  responsi- 
ble for  their  offenses.  It  is  only  by  making  those  who  break 
rules  suffer  for  their  offenses,  that  a  protective  insurance  associa- 
tion can  be  sustained  in  this  city. 

The  compact  has  had  numerous  meetings  during  the  week,  at 
all  of  which  many  important  matters  were  discussed.  The  decisions 
reached  have  not  yet  been  announced,  however,  for  the  very  good 
reason  that  they  may  be  modified  before  another  week  passes.  A 
number  of  proposed  amendments  to  the  rules  have  been  considered 
favorably ,  and  will  come  up  next  week  for  final  action.  The  members 
of  the  Union  are  working  hard  to  bring  about  a  condition  of  affairs 
that  will  cause  the  compact  to  be  the  power  in  the  land  that  it  ought 
to  be.  It  is  to  be  hoped  for  the  good  of  the  insurance  business  that 
their  efforts  will  meet  with  success,  for  thereisa  great  yearning  in  all 
well-regulated  offices  for  a  return  to  a  condition  of  things  that  will 
allow  business  to  be  done  by  all  upon  a  legal  basis. 

James  D.  Bailey  has  received  a  dispatch  from  the  head-quarters 
of  the  Insurance  Company  of  North  America,  at  Philadelphia, 
notifying  him  that  he  has  been  appointed  General  Agent  for  the 
company  in  this  city.  This  is  certainly  a  high  compliment  to  Mr. 
Bailey,  for  it  is  very  seldom  that  a  company  appoints  a  general 
agent  here  before  one  of  its  head  officers  visits  the  city  and  over- 
looks the  field.  It  was  thought  that  the  President  of  the  Company 
would  come  out  this  fall,  but  he  did  not  appear,  nor  did  any  of 
the  other  leading  officers.  Mr.  Bailey  will  receive  the  congratula- 
tions of  his  many  friends  to-day. 

It  may  not  be  generally  known  that  the  Insurance  Company  of 
North  America  is  the  oldest  stock  company  in  the  United  States. 
It  will  celebrate  its  centennial  next  month,  when  proper  exercises 
will  be  held  in  the  "  City  of  Brotherly  Love." 

The  Ben  Douran  has  not  been  heard  from,  and  80  per  cent,  was 
offered  on  her  on  Wednesday  last. 

|     J.  M.  Beck,  for  sometime  special  agent   of  the  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  North  America,  is  now  with    Okell,  Donnell  &  Co. 


From  Mrs.  Henry  "Ward  Beecher. 
"40  Orange  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  February  11,  1890. 
"I  have  used  Allcock's  Plasters  for  some  years  for  myself  and 
family,  and,  as  far  as  able,  for  the  many  sufferers  who  came  to  us 
for  assistance,  and  have  found  them  a  genuine  relief  for  most  of  the 
aches  and  pains  which  flesh  is  heir  to.  I  have  used  Allcock's 
Plasters  for  all  kind  of  lameness  and  acute  pain,  and,  by  frequent 
experiments,  find  that  they  can  control  many  cases  not  noticed  in 
your  circulars. 

"The  above  is  the  only  testimonial  I  have  ever  given  in  favor  of 
any  plaster,  and  if  my  name  has  been  used  to  recommend  any  other 
it  is  without  my  authority  or  sanction. 

Mrs.  Henry  Ward  Beecher. 


Professor  Charles  Goffne,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others—continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 


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HOT 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
corumodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  ^5tna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  GO, 

Telephone  536.  Office,  108  !>i  mttm  Street,  S.  F 


SMOKE  THE   BEST. 
LINCOLN'S  CABINET 


CARL  UPMAN'S  FAMOUS  CIGAR. 

PURCHASE      YOUR      OVERLAND      TICKETS 

For  all  Points  East  at 

UNION  TICKET  OFFICE,   VANDERBILT  LINES, 

10    MONTGOMERY    STREET. 

Steamship  Tickets  to  and  from  all  points  in  Europe. 
CARLTON    C.   CRANE,         -         -         Pacific  Coast  Agent. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Commonwealth   Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
onthe7thday  of  September,  1892.  an  assessment,  (No.9), of  Ten  Cents  (10c.) 

?>er  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  331  Pine  street,  room    20,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  or  to  E.  R. 
Grant,  Transfer  Agent,  57  Broadway,  New  York. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Thirteenth  Day  of  October,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  9th  day  of  November,  1892.  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary, 
Office— 331  Pine  Street,  room  20,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Mexican  Gold  and  Silver  Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  13th  day  of  October.  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  46)  of  Twenty-five  (25) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Seventeenth  Day  of  November,  1 892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. , 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Bulwer    Consolidated    Mining    Company. 

Office  of  Bulwer  Consolidated  Mining  Company,  San  Francisco,  October 
11, 1892.  At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  above  named  com- 
pany, held  this  day,  a  dividend,  No.  21.  of  5  cents  per  share  was  declared, 
payable  Monday,  October  31,  1S92.  Transfer  books  will  be  closed  on 
THURSDAY,  October  20,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  3  p.  m.  This  dividend  is 
payable  at  the  Farmers'  Loan  and  Trust  Company,  Nos.  20  and  22  William 
street,  New  York,  on  all  stock  issued  there,  and  at  the  office  in  this  city  on 
all  stock  issued  here.  ,    .„    „,  L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  S.  F.,  Cal. 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


THEODORE    MARTIN. 

There  is  sadness  in  the  heavens,  and  a  veil  against  the  sun ; 
Who  shall  mourn  so  well  as  Nature  when  a  poet's  course  is  run? 
Let  us  in  and  join  the  gazers,  meek  of  heart  and  bare  of  brow, 
For  the  shadows  of  the  mighty  dead  are  hovering  o'er  us  now! 
Souls  that  kept  their  trust  immortal,  dwelling  from  the  herd  apart, 
Souls  that  wrote  their  noble  being  deep  into  a  nation's  heart. 

Theodobe  Martin. 

»' A  bright,  genial  Scotchman,  with  the  slightest  trace  of  his 
country's  accent  on  his  tongae,  but  with  a  full  share  of  its  energy 
and  humor;  an  able  and  successful  professional  man;  an  accom- 
plished scholar;  one  who  knows  Court,  yet  who  smacks  no  whit 
of  the  courtier;  a  shrewd  man  of  the  world,  honorably  known  to 
all  men;  a  devoted  husband  and  a  warm  friend — such  is  Theodore 
Martin.  When  the  telegraph  announced  that  the  Laureateship 
might  be  tendered  to  him  first,  combining  as  he  does  all  the  re- 
quirements for  the  lofty  position,  which,  if  not  with  glory,  he 
will  at  least  fill  with  honor,  he  being  not  only  honored  at  Court, 
but  also  respected  by  the  active  men  of  Parliament,  esteemed  and 
valued  by  every  one  in  England's  highest  literary  and  social  cir- 
cles and  a  personal  friend  of  Gladstone  and  the  late  Laureate, 
Tennyson — then  it  was  I  found  myself  asking:  "And  who  is 
Theodore  Martin  ?  " 

Theodore  Martin's  life  is  its  own  explanation.  Instead  of  being 
an  unknown  man,  one  no  sooner  makes  proper  effort  than  he 
realizes  the  truth  of  that  adage,  "  One  is  never  so  lost  as  when  in 
a  crowd."  Theodore  Martin  is  an  active  man,  in  the  very  center 
of  London's  activity.  A  man  of  so  many  parts,  and  all  so  deli- 
cately balanced,  so  modestly  maintained,  that  no  classification 
has  as  yet  distinguished  him.  But  to  a  large  class  of  his  very 
large  circle  of  friends  he  is  a  man  of  affairs,  while  to  another  he 
is  a  man  of  letters.  The  British  Museum  found  difficulty  in  clas- 
sifying him, but  all  at  once  seemed  to  have  found  in  him  another 
being,  after  it  had  been  satisfied  with  cataloguing  him  for  many 
years  as  "  Theodore  Martin,  Solicitor,"  with  a  sudden  dawning 
upon  its  intelligence,  it  realized  him  in  his  true  light,  and  with 
its  creative  pen  drew  an  erasive  line,  so  that  henceforth  he  stands 
as  "  Theodore  Martin,  Poet." 

As  a  man  of  affairs,  Mr.  Martin  followed  in  the  steps  of  his 
father,  becoming  as  a  solicitor,  and  then,  as  a  Parliamentary  agent, 
so  eminent  that  "  there  is  no  one  in  Westminster  whose  character 
ranks  higher  or  whose  professional  opinion  is  more  valued."  In 
1876,  when  a  committee  of  both  Houses  of  Parliament  was  ap- 
pointed to  inquire  as  to  the  best  means  of  placing  the  profession 
of  Parliamentary  Agency  under  proper  regulations,  his  brethren 
selected  him  to  represent  them  before  the  committee,  who  in  their 
report  substantially  adopted  his  suggestions.  Thus  making  an- 
other practical  refutation  of  the  old  fallacy — "That  success  in 
literature  is  not  compatible  with  a  capacity  for  business."  As  a 
man  of  letters,  Sir  Theodore  Martin,  knighted  because  of  his 
literary  achievements,  stands  in  England's  foremost  rank.  There 
is  no  department,  whether  of  music  or  art,  of  economics 
or  poetry,  which  his  refined  and  gifted  mind  haB 
not  adorned.  In  taking  rank  among  contemporary  poets, 
he  holds  his  position,  not  from  a  creative  power 
in  its  inspirational  spontaneity,  but  as  an  appreciative 
translator  of  poetical  masterpieces.  He  shines  by  a  reflected  light. 
Martin's  translation  of  Schiller's  poems  are  preferred  by  many  to 
Bulwer-Lytton's;  his  metrical  rendering  of  Goethe's  "Faust" 
stands  with  Hayward's  prose  masterpiece  as  the  bestEnglish  rev- 
elation of  that  greatest  poem  of  that  greatest  Gerruan  poet.  Only 
one  fully  in  the  spirit  of  Goethe's  thought  and  with  a  powerful 
mastery  over  English  metre  cotrtd  give  us  in  its  full  strength  and 
sublimity  this  rendition  of  that  beautiful  Eastern  Hymn,  the 
strains  of  which  pour  consolation  to  a  contrite  aoul  : 

CHORUS  OF  ANGELS. 

"  From  the  lap  of  corruption, 

Lo  1  Christ  has  ascended  ! 

Rejoice,  for  the  fetters 

That  bound  you  are  rended !" 
"  Praise  him  unceasingly! 

Love  one  another, 

Break  bread  together,  like 

Sister  and  brother!" 
"  Preach  the  glad  tidings 

To  all  who  will  hear  you, 

So  will  the  Master  be 

'Evermore  near  you." 
His  translations  of  Horace  and  Catullus,  of  Dante  and  of 
Heine,  show  his  power  in  grasping  the  poetical  spirit  of  the  an- 
cient, of  the  medieval  and  of  the  modern  thinker.  Little  remains 
to  be  said  of  his  other  work.  His  original  verse  is  comprised 
chiefly  in  the  privately  printed  edition  of  1863,  "  Poems  Original 
and  Translated,"  of  which  one  of  the  most  noteworthy  is  a  charm- 
ing, didactic  legend  called  "  St.  Peter  and  the  Cherries."  Inder 
the  non  deplume,  "  Bon  Gaultier,"  he  has  written  many  short  bal- 
lads, enlivened  with  quaint  touches  of  a  delicate  and  a  graceful 
humor.  His  prose  writing  consists  chiefly  of  a  memoir  of  his 
friend,  William  E.  Aytoun,  who  collaborated  with  him  in  the 
writing  of  the  ballads,  of  his  "  Life  of  the  Prince  Consort"  and  his 
many    Bcholarly    contributions    to   "  Blackwoods,"  "Fraser's," 


"Tait's"  and  the  "  Dublin  University"  magazines,  to  the  last  of 
which  I  am  especially  indebted  for  its  biographical  essay  on  him, 
in  its  October  number  of  1877. 

No  sketch  of  Theodore  Martin  would  be  complete  with- 
out at  least  a  few  words  about  his  gifted  and  inspiring 
wife,  Helen  Faucit,  as  she  was  known  to  the  Eng- 
lish stage  before  their  marriage  in  1851.  As  an  actress 
she  stood  unrivalled  among  her  contemporaries  as  an  in- 
terpreter of  Shakespeare,  and  as  a  woman,  "one  whose  worth 
and  grace  are  as  pre-eminent  as  her  public  career  was  spotlessly 
blameless  and  lastingly  brilliant."  The  romance  of  their  marriage 
can  be  only  suggested  by  these  few  lines,  which  end  the  poem, 
"To  Miss  Helen  Faucit,  as  Rosalind,"  written  before  its  author 
was  personally  known  to  the  lady  who  inspired  it: 
Such,  dear  lady,  was  the  vision,  such  the  passion  strong  and  deep, 
While  thy   magic   wrought  within   me,  laying   meaner  thoughts  to 

sleep. 
I  have  been  the  young  Orlando,  and  though  but  a  dream  it  were, 
Never  from  my  heart  shall  vanish  what  has  struck  so  deeply  there! 

When  he  would  give  his  sterner  Muse  inspiration,  Theodore 
Martin  retires  from  the  din  of  London  to  his  beautiful  home  in 
the  north  of  Wales.  There,  from  amidst  his  terraced  gardens  in 
the  vale  of  Llangollen,  he  emerges  to  give  the  countenance  of  his 
poetic  self  to  that  relic  of  the  great,  old  Druid  days — the^  Welsh 
National  Eisteddfod,  where,  surrounded  by  natural-born  poets 
and  musicians  (and  every  Welshman  is  both)  he  ranks  highest 
amongst  them  all,  and  receives  in  his  Scotch  personality  the 
homage  of  the  softer  and  sweeter  nation. 

David  Lesser  Lezinsky. 

The  Eyrie,  October  19,  1892. 

CYPRESS  LAWN  CEMETERY  is  rapidly  assuming  that  hand- 
some appearance  designed  for  it.  Stonemasons  are  now  at 
work  on  the  new  gateway,  which  will  be  an  imposing  and  ap- 
propriate structure.  Mr.  Pissis,  the  architect,  is  preparing  plans 
for  the  crematory,  which  will  soon  be  completed.  A  contract  has 
already  been  let  for  the  furnace,  and  in  a  short  time  everything 
will  be  ready  for  the  disposal  of  remains  in  this  ancient  manner. 
The  cemetery  is  located  in  a  beautiful  spot,  within  easy  reach  of 
the  city,  and  when  all  the  contemplated  improvements  have  been 
made,  it  will  be  one  of  the  most  attractive  homes  of  the  dead  in 
the  country. 

For  Mayor, 

BARRY    BALDWIN, 

Democratic    Nominee 

For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

WILLIAM     MONTGOMERY, 
(Proprietor  American  Exchange  Hotel.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Assembly,  38th  District, 

BERT     SCHLESINGER, 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 
For  State  Senator,  %  1st  Senatorial  District, 

WM.     J.     BIGGY, 
(Pledged  to  support  the  Traffic  Association.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Coroner, 

DR.  Wm.    T.    GARWOOD, 

(Present  Incumbent.) 

Regular  Republican  Nominee 


For  Sheriff, 


For  County  Clerls, 


H.     H.     SCOTT, 

Non-partisan    Candidate. 


GEORGE  W.  LEE, 

Regular  Republican    Nominee. 

For  Congress, 

C.    O.  ALEXANDER, 
Republican   Nominee,  4th  Congressional  District. 
Ft»r  Supervisor,  Eleventh  Ward, 

C.    W.    TABER. 

(Present  Incumbent ) 

Independent  Candidate. 

For  Supervisor,  Third   Ward, 

JAMES     W.     BURLING. 
(Present  Incumbent. 

Independant  Candidate. 

For  Tax-collector, 

WILLIAM     J.     G.     MUHL 

Nominee  Old   Democratic  Pai*y. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


AMONG  roost  stylish  gowns  for  elderly  ladies,  some  of  shining 
white  mohair  are  shown.  Mauve  velvet  and  dark  green  often 
trim  these  carriage  costumes,  and  sometimes  they  have  open- 
patterned  guipure  lace  in  plastrons,  cuffs  and  vandyke  points. 
Challies  in  large  designs  of  clear  gray  on  white  and  pearl-colored 
jr  mnds  are  also  shown  for  these  ladies.  A  breadth  of  gray  figured 
taffeta  silk  is  shirred  down  the  front,  and  on  each  side  there  are 
two  ruches  of  gray  taffeta  pinked  and  box-pleated.  A  stylish  ef- 
fect is  obtained  by  making  pointed  Russian  slerves  of  the  challi 
bordered  with  the  silk  ruching,  to  fall  over  c'.ose  sleeves  of  the 
taffeta,  and  the  collar  is  a  full  ruche  of  the  silk,  where  it  is  becom- 
ing, w^^k^ 

In  Paris,  for  evening  wear,  Josephine  sleeves  will  be  fashiona- 
ble. On  all  the  new  models  these  sleeves  are  held  on  by  shoulder 
straps,  which  just  prevent  the  sleeve  from  falling  off.  As  to  the 
bodice,  there  is  none  at  all.  It  is  cut  square  back  and  front,  and 
so  low  that  the  appearance  is  of  a  broad  sash  wound  round  a  fig- 
ure, and — nothing  else.  But  this  effect  is  not  enough.  To  render 
it  more  startling,  and  to  some  ideas  offensive,  contrasting  colors 
are  used.  For  instance,  supposing  the  dress  is  of  some  light 
material,  such  as  crepon  mauve,  the  corsage  is  almost  entirely 
formed  of  a  berthe  in  pale  green  velvet.  The  centres  of  these  cor- 
sages have  nearly  all  handsome  Directoire  buckles.  The  deepest 
shades  of  prunes  or  violet  have  been  chosen  to  make  the  contrast- 
ing effect.  An  exquisite  pink  moir6  glacS  Empire  dress  is  shown, 
the  berthe,  or,  better,  the  bust  definer,  being  in  a  rich  prune  vel- 
vet. 


As  regards  costumes,  the  newest  designs  bear  out  the  expecta- 
tion that  there  was  to  be  a  return  to  the  styles  of  the  Empire  per- 
iod. This  has  taken  place,  though,  of  course,  only  in  a  very  modi- 
fied degree;  still,  we  see  the  high  waist  and  the  huge  puffed  sleeve 
which  characterized  ladies'  dress  in  that  bygone  day.  This  will 
be  a  welcome  innovation,  for  it  allows  of  the  combination  of  ma- 
terials in  the  "  creation  "  of  a  dress  which,  perhaps,  for  real  effect 
has  seldom,  if  ever,  been  surpassed.  In  other  respects  we  notice 
that  skirts  are  made  a  trifle  shorter  for  walking  costumes,  that 
they  are  gathered  more  at  the  waist,  and  that  the  "umbrella" 
skirt  has  practically  become  a  relic  of  the  past. 

In  the  pocket  of  a  tailor-made  gown  the  swell  girl  carries  her 
Knife.  Anybody  who  thinks  this  is  an  ordinary  knife  such  aa 
can  be  gotten  at  any  shop  is  mistaken;  it  is  invariably  made  of 
gold,  and,  in  addition,  is  decorated  with  some  special  design.  A 
very  original  one  has  a  heart  of  lapis-lazuli  framed  in  diamonds 
set  in  one  corner  of  the  handle,  and  the  owner's  name  and  a  curi- 
ous cipher  carved  on  tl.  e  other.  A  very  general  fancy  exists  for 
having  the  name  engraved  upon  the  knife  in  an  exact  copy  of  the 
way  one  would  write  one's  own  initials. 

For  autumnal  outings  there  are  provided  the  nattiest  of  hunting 
toilettes.  These  are  so  severe  in  their  simplicity  that  only  a  per- 
fect figure  should  venture  upon  them.  They  are  made  in  riding 
habit  fashion,  with  the  skirt  as  tlu.rt  as  can  be  worn,  clinging 
tightly  over  cloth  trowsers  and  pretty  polonaise  boots.  The  fav- 
orite color  is  dark  green,  and  all  ornamentation  is  avoided. 

A  garniture  for  house  gowns  is  a  sash  composed  of  three  very 
wide  ribbons  in  different  shades,  intermixed,  and  forming  a  high 
ribbon  corselet  which  reaches  well  up  under  the  arms.  The  rib- 
bons should  contrast  strikingly,  sucn  as  purple,  pale-blue  and 
pink;  red,  lemon  and  green,  or  black  ;  orange  and  Dresden  blue. 

The  young  man  wh  i  is  sending  a  box  of  sweets  to  the  girl  he 
adores  does  it  properly  only  when  he  ties  on  top  a  Russian  en- 
ameled spoon.  With  this  she  will  convey  the  dainties  to  htr 
pretty  lips,  and  for  this  he  will  pay  about  $25.  But  when  it  conn  s 
to  a  question  of  love,  should  money  be  considered  ? 


NEW     FALL 


Just  now,  instead  of  the  dainty  perfumes,  all  the  fashionable 
girls  are  hunting  for  odd  scents.  The  Chinese  ones  are  especially 
liked,  but  a  girl  who  has  an  old  Egyptian  receipt  is  looked  at  with 
envy,  though  her  men  friends  insist  it  has  a  stuffy  smell  very  sug- 
gestive of  mummies. 

Handsome  dinner  and  evening  dresses  are  of  crepe  de  chine, 
with  English  crape  bodice,  or  after  the  first  year  of  mourning  a 
corselet  or  Figaro  jacket  of  open-patterned  jet  may  be  worn. 


John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  enjoys  the  well-earned 
reputation  of  having  the  best  assortment  of  gentlemen's  furnishing 
goods  in  the  city.         . 

The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sntter  street,  is  one  of  the 
most  popular  restaurants  in  the  city,  and  deservedly,  for  there  a 
patron  is  always  assured  of  excellent  treatment,  and  can  always  en- 
loy  a  splendid  dinner.  The  elite  of  the  city  patronize  the  Bakery. 
rts  chef  is  a  gentleman  who  has  thoroughly  mastered  his  art. 


S5Y£E5  f\p  fiO\/Er[IE5 


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DRY    GOODS    AND     CLOAKS 
Jfou;   Or?   I^xbibitior/. 

Our  unequalled  importations  of  the  new  season's  goods 

place  us  in  better  position  than  ever  before  to 

meet  the  wants  of  our  patrons  with 

THE  LARGEST  AND   MOST  COMPLETE  ASSORTMENTS. 

THE  LATEST  AND  MOST  ELEGANT  STYLES,  and 

THE  VERY  BEST  VALUES  IN  THE  MARKET. 


I 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 

FALL    SEASON. 

Ladies  will  find  the  Latest  styles  and  Best  Fitting 

CLOAKS 

AT    THE 

CALIFORNIA    CLOAK    COMPANY, 

CHARLES  MAYER,  Jr..  A  CO., 

Also  a  large  stock  of 

Misses'  and  Children's  Cloaks.  Ladies'  Suits  and  Furs 

ON     HAND. 

If  CLOAKS  MADE  TO  ORDER 
105  POST  ST.  agTiffiffSy  House' 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kevny. 

uA.Tosol-u.tely      rire-proof. 

Central  o  all  points  of  interest,  principal  store*  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Mu6ic  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A   F.  kihzi.ek.  Manaeer. 


The  Strath  more  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

HOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot — pot  lasts  three  months. 

Mrs.  Nbttib  Harbison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St,,  S.  F.  Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists.  „„„,™™, 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    GUARANTEED    PERMANENT. 


22 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  22,  1892. 


A    SUGGESTION.  —Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox  in  Life's  Calendar. 

AS  I  GO  and  shop,  air, 
If  a  car  I  stop,  sir, 
Where  you  chance   to  sit, 
And  you  want  to  read,  sir, — 
Never  mind  or  heed,  sir, — 
1*11  care  not  a  bit. 

For  it's  now  Ee3thetic 
To  be  quiet  athletic, 

(That's  our  fad,  you  know), 
I  can  hold  the  strap,  sir, 
And  not  brush  your  lap,  sir, 

As  we  jolting   go. 


If  you  read  on  blindly, 
I  shall  take  it  kindly; 

All  the  car's  not  mine. 
But  if  you  sit  and  stare,  sir, 
At  my  eyes  and  hair,  sir, 

I  must  draw  the  line. 

If  the  stare  is  meant,  sir, 
For  a  compliment,  sir. 

As  we  jolt — through  town; 
Allow  me  to  suggest,  sir, 
A  woman  oft  looks  best,  sir, 

When  she's  sitting  down. 


THE    SOUTH     WIND. 


And  now  Love  walks  the  world,  and  life  is  sweet; 
A  thousand  scents  are  poured  upon  the  air 
That  stirs  the  silence,  pure  and  calm  and  fair, 

Within  the  forest  where  the  fairies  meet; 

"Where,  dancing,  swaying,  beckoning  round  their  feet, 
The  flowers,  crowding,  take  their  happy  share 
In  paying  homage,  true  and  leal  and  rare, 

Unto  the  Spring,  that  all  too  swift  doth  fleet. 

Then,  sweetest  wind,  blow  softly  1  so  shall  rise 
Dream-palaces  of  bliss,  where  Summer  reigns 

Dowered  with  roses;  where  hot,  glowing  skies 
Bid  one  forget  keen  winter's  endless  pains; 

Thou  giv'st  us  life,  and  love — life's  highest  prize 

And  when  thou  sighest,  age  is  young  again. 


THE   CROWN    OF    THE   YEAK.— Christian  Burke  in  Atalanta. 

Give  me  the  Autumn — gracious  is  the  Spring, 
With  all  her  dainty  wayward  promising, 
Her  sweet  shy  secrets,  half  concealed,  half  told; 
But  winter  scarce  has  loosed,  on  her  his  hold, 

And  she's  as  fitful  as  her  April  days 

Give  me  the  golden  corn  where  poppies  blaze, 
The  laden  orchards,  and  the  strange  rich  glow 
That  dreaming  Sammer  o'er  the  earth  doth  throw 

To  paint  the  reddening  leaves  before  they  die 

Trysting  with  Autumn  as  she  passes  by. 

Here  is  fulfillment:    joy  of  work  that's  done, 

The  hour  of  triumph  ere  the  last  sands  run: 

Fair  is  the  Spring,  yet  tired  hearts  find  cheer 

When  Autumn's  patient  strength  crowns  all  the  Year. 


IN    THE    SHADOWS.— By  Richard  Burton  in  Harper's    Weekly. 

As  the  shadows  filled  the  room  with  peace, 

He  spoke  of  our  absent  friends: 
How  some  were  dead  and  some  were  sped 

To  the  far-away  earth  en^s. 

And  by  some  magic  of  yearning  hearts, 

The  lost  seemed  warm  and  near; 
Yea,  loved  so  much  we  could  almost  touch 

Their  hands  and  feel  them  here. 

And  when  the  lamps  were  lit,  and  speech 

Waxed  merrier,  yet  the  place 
Felt  strangely  bare,  and  each  one  there 

Missed  some  beloved  face. 


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Reserve 


Capital  paid  up.  2,450,000 

450,000 


San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1006  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GtJSTAV  PRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex* 
change  Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital SI,  250.000. 

Successor  to  Satheb  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HDTCHIN80N,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  '.Vm.  P.  John- 
son, c.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York—  Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston — Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia — Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City — First  National  Bank.  London — Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  COMPANY— BANKING  DEPARTMENT. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutler  Streets. 
SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CAPITAL  *      500,00000 

SURPLUS 5,488,393-12 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

DIRECTORS: 

John  J.  Valentine,  President;  Lloyd  Tevis,  Leland  Stanford,  Oliver 
Eldridge.  James  C.  Fargo.  Geo.  E.  Gray,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  W.  F.  Goad, 
Dudley  Evans.  Henry  Wadsworth,  Cashier.  Homer  S.  King,  Manager. 
J.  L.  Browne,  Assistant  Cashier. 

THE  CROCKER-WDOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL (I.UO0.000. 

DIRECTORS  : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  B.  H.  MILLER,  Jb. 

B.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-Pbesident. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER  Cashibb 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $800,000 

OFFICERS: 

President  JEROME  LINCOLN]  Secretary S.  L.  ABBOT.Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 

HUMBOLDT  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  1 8  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco, 

Incorporated November  24,  1869. 

ADOLPH  C.  WEBER, President  |  ERNST  BRAND Secretary,  j 


October  22, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE  Board  of  Trade  of  England  has  just  issued  an  official  pub- 
lication, giving  a  list  of  the  number  of  accidents  to  the  845,- 
000.000  passengers  carried  by  railways  in  that  country  during 
1891.  The  lives  lost  from  causes  beyond  the  control  of  the  trav- 
elers numbered  five,  the  lowest  figure  in  any  year  on  record.  The 
classified  list  of  accidents  shows  that  engines  or  cars  meeting 
with  obstructions  or  derailments  from  the  permanent  way  are 
slowly  diminishing.  In  1881  were  twenty-four  such  cases,  in  1890 
there  were  five,  and  last  year  six.  The  greatest  number  of  acci- 
dents, amounting  to  twenty-five,  came  under  the  bead  of  col- 
lisions within  fixed  signals  at  stations  or  Bidings.  With  regard  to 
derailments,  two  of  the  accidents  were  due  to  the  points 
of  the  snitches  not  being  altered  after  the  passage  of  prev- 
ious trains,  one  was  due  to  a  point  damaged  by  a  previous  train, 
one  was  caused  by  the  failure  of  a  cast  iron  girder,  one  was  due 
to  carelessness  on  the  part  of  the  engineer  of  a  relief  train,  and 
one  was  due  to  unknown  causes.  Inadequate  breaking  power 
was  responsible  for  twelve  accidents,  and  fogs  and  storms  for  the 
same  number  also.  In  eight  instances  fault  is  found  with  a  de- 
fective system  of  train  dispatching,  want  of  telegraph  communi- 
cation, or  lack  of  a  block  system.  Purely  mechanical  causea, 
apart  from  human  error,  scarcely  appear  at  all,  and  it  would  thus 
seem,  says  the  Engineer,  in  commenting  on  these  returns,  to  be 
within  human  power  to  work  the  railways  without  any  accident 
whatever.  While  few  railway  officers  will  probably  subscribe  to 
this  conclusion  of  our  English  contemporary,  the  figures  produced 
by  the  Board  of  Trade  certainly  show  that  abroad,  as  well  as  in 
the  United  States,  too  many  accidents  can  be  traced  to  negligence, 
warn  of  care  or  mistakes  on  the  part  of  officers  or  servants. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  engines  in  the  United  States  ia 

running  in  theTice  mills  of  McAlpine  and  Mclnnes  at  Savannah, 
Ga.,  interesting  not  only  on  account  of  its  long  term  of  service, 
seventy-seven  years,  but  also  for  the  fact  that  it  was  made  by 
James  Watt  himself,  in  his  works  at  Lancaster,  England.  It  haB 
a  cylinder  31  inches  in  diameter,  a  stroke  of  72  inches,  and  makes 
eighteen  revolutions  per  minute  with  a  steam  pressure  of  only  8 
pounds  an  inch.  The  recent  «  discovery  ''  of  this  engine,  which 
has  the  walking-beam,  parallel  motions  and  other  features  as- 
sociated with  the  name  of  the  great  engineer,  was  made  by  the 
editor  of  the  American  Machinist,  when  it  was  undergoing  a  few 
repairs  by  J.  Rourke  &  Sons,  of  Savannah.  An  inspection  of  its 
details  can  not  fail  to  impress  a  person  interested  in  such  matters 
with  the  immense  strides  in  mechanical  development  Bince  this 
pioneer  motor  was  built.  Machinists  smile  when  they  read  how 
Watt  congratulated  himself  at  one  time  when  he  succeeded  in 
having  the  cylinder  of  one  of  these  engines  bored  within  three- 
eighths  of  an  inch  of  the  true  circular  form,  for  many  contracts 
are  let  every  day  now  which  require  measurements  to  be  ac- 
curate for  within  a  hundredth  of  an  inch.  Possibly  the 
three-eighths  of  an  inch  may  have  had  much  to  do  with  the 
opposition  of  the  sturdy  old  engineer  to  boiler  pressures  over  9  or 
10  pounds,  although  allowance  must  also  be  made  for  his  con- 
servative disposition.  Indeed,  this  conservatism  is  in  striking 
contrast  with  the  brilliancy  of  his  inventive  faculties,  and  it  is 
noticeably  shown  in  the  provision  he  once  inserted  in  a  lease  of 
his  house,  that  no  steam  carriage  should  be  allowed  to  approach 
it  on  any  pretext,  although  in  a  patent  taken  out  in  1784  he 
describes  a  steam  locomotive. 

■  — —For  five  years  a  test  has  been  progressing  on  the  Belgian 
State  railways  to  determine  the  value  of  metal  ties  as  compared 
with  those  of  wood.  Two  kinds,  weighing  about  165  pounds 
each,  have  been  tried  with  rails  weighing  76.6  pounds  a  yard,  the 
ties  being  about  2i  feet  apart,  center  to  center.  Official  reports 
of  the  tests  state  that  it  was  very  difficult  to  keep  the  track  laid 
with  them  in  good  shape,  particularly  as  the  stone  ballast  under 
them  was  gradually  pulverized.  The  ties  themselves  were  much 
damaged  after  five  years'  wear  by  cracks  starting  from  the  bolt 
holes.  Up  to  the  time  of  making  the  reports  from  which  these 
facts  were  taken,  the  track  with  metallic  ties  has  cost  for  main- 
tenance about  nineteen  times  as  much  as  track  with  creosoted 
oak  ties,  and  many  of  the  metal  ties  are  so  damaged  that  they 
must  soon  be  removed.  All  of  which  goes  to  prove  that  the 
Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  ia  not  the  only  one  which  has 
found  metallic  ties  unsatisfactory. 

The  Argonaut  Old  Bourbon  is  considered  by  old  connoisseurs  to 
be  without  a  superior  in  the  world.  It  is  always  in  great  demand 
among  whisky  drinkers,  for  the  excellent  reason  that  it  fulfills  every 
desire  which  an  admirer  of  good,  red  liquor  may  have.  Every  man 
who  knows  good  whisky  when  he  tastes  it,  should  drink  only  the 
Argonaut  Old  Bourbon. 

Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  is  said  to  be  the  best  remedy  known  for 
poison  oak  and  asthma.  Its  curative  effects  are  excellent  and  im- 
mediate. The  lotion  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market 
street. 


Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 


HEAD  OFFICE   60  LOMBARD  8TREET,   LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nauaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America.  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)—  Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

538  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  189JS $25,890,653  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,633,130  00 

DIRECTORS. 

Albert  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland ;  Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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

PEOPLES  HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  AND  SAFE  DEPOSIT. 

805  Market  Street   (Flood  Building),  San  Francisco. 

ORGANIZED  MAY,  1888. 

Guaranteed  Capital $1,000,000,00  1  Surplus  Profits ...?     45,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital 333.33a.33  j  Deposits,  Jan.  1, 1892 1,752,000.00 

OFFICERS: 

COLUMBUS   WATERHOUSE President 

F.  V.  MCDONALD Vice-President 

J.  E .  FARNUM Secretary  and  Manager 

DORN  &  DORN Attorneys 

'1'Iils  bank  receives  savings  deposits  on  term  or  ordinary  ac- 
count, in  sums  of  one  dollar  and  upwards. 

Interest  paid  from  date  of  deposit,  semi-annually.  The  five-cent  stamp 
system  and  the  safe  deposit  department  is  a  special  feature  of  this  bank. 
Safes  to  rent  by  the  month  or  year,  from  $4.00  to  $25.00  per  annum.  We  re- 
ceive commercial  deposits,  make  collections,  issue  local  and  foreign  ex- 
change. 

Money  to  loan  on  Real  Estate  and  Approved  Collateral. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND $    1,646,000  00. 

Deposits  Ju  y  I,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Offickbs— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Beeond  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  CaBhier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  CaBhier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  P.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbqb. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFF1CBBS. 

JAMES  G.  PAIR President 

JAMES  PHEJLAN,   S.  G.  MDRPHY Vice-Presidents 

Dibectobs— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J,  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 

interest' naid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Oasliier. 

~  LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W,  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sts. 

ubsciied  Capital $2,500,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund   $660,000 

Head  Office  .  58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd)  No.  10  Wall  St.,  N.Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  A  Cie,  17Bonle 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CAUF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

CaDital  Authorized {6,000,000  I  Paid  up Sl.500,000 

BiXprihVa  3000,000    Reserve  Fund 700,000 

sudsc      ea  ' ' "  head  office-S  Angel  i,ourt,  London,  E.  C. 

Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Sell  "man  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  1  usinesa,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 

eraohie  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

work     3ends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchango 

and  bullion.  »  ¥£$£$$?&  |  Managers. 

A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Ojt    22.  U)l! 


I2ST  SUR-A-UST  cb  . 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  good:    Extras  M.15I9M  25:   Superfine.  S2  60@$3.10. 

Wheat— Good  trade:  Shipping,  $1.32!-=:  Milling.  »1.35@$1.37>^  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet:  Brewing.  95c.@!l  Feed.  81c.@35c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  ?1-30@$1.35;  Feed,  »1.25®|1.2714  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1  35:  Yellow,  $1,150*1.23  per  ctl. 

Rye  is  higher,  good  demand,  $1.15{3$1.20,    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hayis  higher;  Wheat,  $11;  Oats,  $7(0$»;  Alfalfa,  $7@*9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $15@*lli  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.OOf0.|2.4O  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  l!0c.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  35c.@36c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  30c.@33c. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c.@12c. :  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  40c@50c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7>ic.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

ProvisiouB  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5\^c.@5%e. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@2lc.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  And  ready  sale.     Hops,  19c. @21c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4 1.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  5H®6J^c. 

Early  on  the  morning  of  Sunday,  the  16th  inst.,  our  City  and  State 
was  visited  with  the  second  severe  thunder  and  rain  storm  of  the 
season ;  at  fi  o'clock  in  the  morning  our  streets  were  white  with  hail 
stones.  The  rain  fall  was  heavy  all  the  forenoon,  but  after  this  hour 
the  weather  was  clear,  with  a  pure  bracing  atmosphere.  Reports 
from  the  interior  state  the  Grape  crop  was  seriously  injured. 

On  the  15th  inst.  the  Bank  of  California  sent  to  Honolulu,  pr.  the 
Alameda,  $50,000  in  United  States  Gold  Coin. 

Business  in  general  exhibits  a  good  degree  of  activity,  shipments  by 
sea,  both  foreign  and  to  Atlantic  ports  are  large  and  free,  consisting 
of  Wheat,  Barley,  Flour,  Canned  Fruit,  Canned  Salmon,  etc.;  sea 
freights  being  low  is  a  strong  inducement  for  free  shipments  of  four 
surplus  products. 

The  ship  J.  B.  Thomas,  hence  for  New  York  on  the  17th  inst.,  car- 
ried a  large  cargo  of  produce,  consisting  in  part  of  66,191  gals.  Wine, 
5,680  gals.  Brandy,  100,406  lbs.  Borax,  6,200  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  etc. 

Salmon  receipts  have  of  late  been  of  considerable  importance.  The 
ship  America,  17  days  from  Karluck,  had  for  cargo,  70.124  cases  to 
the  Alaska  Packers  Association.  This  is  the  largest  single  cargo  ever 
brought  into  this  port.  The  schr.  Corona.  11  ds.  from  same  port,  had 
10,279  cases.  The  strur.  Jeanie,  19  days  from  the  north,  had  28,875 
cs.,  364  half  bbls. ;  also  2  tanks  and  18  bbls.  Oil,  etc.  The  schr.  Kodiak, 
11  days  from  Kodiak,  had  052  cs.  and  50  bbls.  Salmon,  and  also  87 
pkgs.  Furs  and  40  pkgs.  Sundries  to  Alaska  Commercial  Company. 
The  Bk.  Martha  Fisher  sailed  on  the  17th  inst.  from  Victoria,  B.  C. 
for  London  with  84,000  cs.  Salmon  and  some  Whalebone,  value  $165,- 
000. 

The  Whale  strnr.  Karluck.  14  days  from  Ounalaska,  had  12,000  lbs. 
Bone  and  1  bdl.  Furs  to  Roth,  Blum  &  Co. 

Grain  Freights  to  Cork  for  orders  seem  to  be  steadily  advancing — 
£1.  6s.  3d. — the  highest  rate  at  this  date. 

Tahiti — The  Tropic  Bird,  from  the  Society  Islands,  via  Honolulu, 
had  for  Cargo  71  bales  Wool.  21  bales  Cotton,  20  tins  Vanilla  Beans, 
88  500  Cocoanuts,  360  pkgs.  Shells,  etc.  Schr.  Equator.  59  days  from 
Butaritari.  had  30  tons  Copra. 

The  steamship  City  of  Sydney  on  the  15th  inst.  carried  to  the  Isth- 
mus, en  route  for  New  York,  Mdse.  value  of  $53.308— say  969  gals. 
Brandy,  34,47.3  gals.  Wine  and  19  case*  ditto,  220  bales  Rag's,  5,417  ctls. 
Barley,  231,494  lbs.  Borax,  4  40S  ctls.  Beans,  etc. ;  to  Panama  Mdse. 
valued  at  $3,0s0-say  381  bbls.  Flour,  28.736  lbs.  Rice,  etc.;  to  South 
America  75  bbls.  Flour;  to  Central  America.  3.251  bbls.  Flour,  24  130 
lbs.  Malt,  22,600  lbs.  Tallow,  4.700 lbi.  Tea.  9S  cs.  and  2,248 gals.  Wine, 
etc.,  value  $31,623;  to  Mexico  Mdse.  valued  at  $2,498. 

Flour  for  Ireland. — Starr  &  Co.  have  cleared  another  ship,  the 
Shandon,  with  48,800  bags  Starr  Extra,  value  $67,100. 

Liverpool. — The  Br.  ship  Drumrock,  hence  on  the  15th  inst.,  had 
Mdse.  valued  at  $320,500— say  42  346  ctls.  Wheat,  11.140  ctls.  Barley, 
6,722  bbls.  Flour.  44  431  lbs.  Tallow,  150  sks.  Shells,  1  392  gals.  Wine, 
40,817  cs.  Salmon,  9  928  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  etc. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  Colima,  hence  October  18;  h,  carried  to  Mexico  Mdse. 
valued  at  $26  129;  to  Central  America,  6,899  bbls.  Flour  and  Mdse. 
valued  at  $49,511. 

The  steamship  San  Jose,  from  the  Isthmus  and  way  ports,  brought 
a  large  New  York  cargo— say  101  pkgs.  Sheetings.  Iron,  Wire,  Steel, 
etc.  Also  from  South  and  Central  America  753  bags.  Coffee,  etc. ; 
from  Mexico,  1  378  cs.  Limes  and  other  Fruit. 

The  strnr.  City  of  Topeka.  from  Sitka,  etc.,  had  for  Cargo  750  bbls. 
Fish  Oil,  422  bbls.  Salmon,  etc. 

The  Orient.— The  steamship  Oceanic,  from  Hongkong,  via  Yoko- 
hama, had  for  Cargo  500  bales  Hemp,  1,700  pkgs.  Jute,  669  bags  Cof- 
fee, 205  pkgs.  Pine  Apples,  3.775  pkgs.  Sugar,  1.146  pkgs.  Oil,  4,947 
pkgs.  Tea,  8,138  mats  Rice,  100  pkgs.  Spice,  7.000  pkgs.  Mdse ;  also  in 
transit  to  go  overland  2,643  pkgs.  Raw  Silk,  10.226  pkgs.  Tea,  152  pkgs. 
Silk  Goods,  700  pkgs.  Mdse.  ForCentral  and  Sjuth  America  278pkgs. 
Tea.  ilk,  R;;,     etc. 


TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 

OF-  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  L.  low,  Manager  for  tlie  Pacific  Coast  Branch, 

22u  Sansome  St..  S.  F. 

Capital $1,500,000.00 

Infested  in  U.  S 534,795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
23%  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL  4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed $10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2,125,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,   1888 6.124,057.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782-] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BOTLER  &  SALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.1 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1886.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC!    ZDZEZF^IRTIMIIEirsrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  capital,    -    -    -    J  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, (23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    •    -     (2,222,724. 


W~?F 


'sm^f'WW 


iMi. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

fc  OF-  MANCHESTER  ,  ENGLAND.^ 

Capital  paid  c,  guaranteed  <! 3.000,000,00. 

ChasA  Latdh,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  Frairassa. 


WM.  J.  LMDERS,  fien'l  Agent,  20k  Sansome  St..  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL  «6,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON.  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets.  Si  9.724.538.40. 

President.  RKNJAMIN  P.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBBNS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montaomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat.  nt 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
If  desired,  at  current  rateB. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-Callfornla  Bank. 


Oct. 


-    X  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


FRISCO'S    SIRENS  "    REPLY. 

IN  reply  to  Ihe  verse  on  ■■  'Priaco'a  Sirens."  by  an  Englishman. 
published  last  week,  we  have  received  a  number  of  verses,  in 
all  of  which  Ihe  nngallanl  Briton  is  well  hammered.  We  append 
these: 

THE   "StBKR'B"    RETORT. 

Englishman,  who  e'er  thou  art. 

Foal  in  mind  and  false  in  heart, 

Impure  thoughts  within  tby  breast, 

We  may   well  doubt  all  the  rest. 

Tell  us  now,  before  you  go, 

Was  it  manlyf     Yes  or  no? 

These  blonde  tresses,  thickly  twinea, 

Are  not  hair  pinned  on  behind; 

And   the  blush  your  poem    (?)  mocks 

Is  not  kept  in  any  box: 

Tell  us,  please,  before  yon  go, 

Have  we  snubbed  you?     Yes  or  no? 

And  these  lips  you'll  never  taste, 

Owe  no  bloom   to  cherry  paste; 

Quickly,  too,  tbe  notion  scout, 

That  our  teeth  come  daily  out; 

Grapes  are  sour,  is  it  not  so, 

When  out  of  reach  their  beauties  grow? 

Man  of  England,  whose  remarks 

Show  a  puppy  sometimes  barks — 

Tell  me,  quickly  tell  to  me, 

What  it  is  we've  done  to  thee? 

Tell  me,  then  I  hope  you'll  go, 

Are  you  a  gentleman  or  no?  r,  m.  d. 

"  OUR    FAIR   ONES." — A   REPLY. 

"  Chappie."  from  the  British  isle — 
Thou  who,  with  tby  scoffing  smile, 
Jests  at  'Frisco's  damsels  fair — 
Ere  thou  partest,  pray  beware 
Of  their  knights,  the  'Frisco  youth; 
And  retract  thy  words  uncouth! 
Z^et  me  tell  thee,  English  clown, 
That,  for  right  to  "Beauty's"  crown, 
Critics  have,  witb  one  acclaim, 
Deigned  us  graciously  a  name. 
Our  admiring  'Frisco  youth 
Spurn  thy  dogg'rel,  void  of  truth! 
Thine  artistic  sense  is  "green:" 
And  if  thou  hast  really  seen 
Freaks  and  "  sirens,"  as  you  boast, 
Thou  must  dwell  on  "  Barb'ry  Coast." 
Ne'er  a  gallant  'Frisco  youth 
Will  support  thy  words  uncouth'. 
Thou  an  answer  dost  implore — 
Take  it,  and  be  heard  no  more! 
We  contemn  with  modest  scorn 
Thine  inquiry!    Clown,  begonel 
Our  good  knights,  the  'Frisco  youth, 
Spurn  thy  dogg'rel,  void  of  truth! 

"  Maid  of  'Frisco." 


Young  Johnny  Bull,  before  you  go, 
There  are  some  things  you  should  know; 
Tho'  so  stupid  is  your  brain. 
In  it  no  sound  sense  remain — 
I  will  plainly  tell  to  yon 
Just  a  simple  fact  or  two. 
All  those  "  tresses  thickly  twined," 
Surely  grew  on  there  behind; 
And  the  <<  blush  which  roses  mocks," 
Is  as  real  as  the  locks. 
I  tell  you  now  before  you  go, 
We  are  never  "  made  up  "  so. 
And  "  those  lips  you  seem  to  taste," 
Do  not  need  your  "cherry  paste;" 
If  you'd  tasted  them  you'd  know- 
That  must  be  what  piqued  you  so. 
Answer  me — Did  you  not  try? 
And  get  snubbed — hence  all  this  cry. 
Since,  Johnny  Bull,  you  could  not  win — 
With  all  of  your  ancestry's  tin — 
One  single  'Frisco  maiden's  heart, 
You  ask  these  questions  ere  you  start. 
I'll  tell  you  now,  before  you  go, 
You  are  too  awfully,  awfully  slow. 


At  the  sartorial  establishment  of  J.  M.  Litchfield,  at  12  Post  street, 
are  made  many  of  the  handsome  suits  that  adorn  the  forms  of  the 
city's  well-dressed  men.  Colonel  Litchfield  is  well-known  through- 
out the  city  as  an  artist  in  his  business.  His  uniforms  and  regalias, 
to  which  he  gives  special  attention,  are  unexcelled  in  San  Francisco, 


UrSTSTTIR  A.2STCE . 


Insurance  Company, 
capital 11.000.000.  |  assets  13.000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

AgentBin  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

fESTABLI8HED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  HANSOMt  STRUT, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BRANDEK,  CHAB.  M.  BLAIR, 

President.  Secretary. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up $     600,000 

Assets 8,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,525,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     General  Office— 401  Mont'ar,  St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY  COMPANY 

OF    BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital J1,000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL  &  BERRY,  Oeneral  Agents. 

421  California  Street. 

INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

T I  fl  T  Tl,e  Lion  Fire  lnsurance  G°-  L,miteil>  of  London. 
r  I  n  r  The  lm|ierial  lnsurance  C0,  Lin,'ted' of  London 

I      I    8  I   |_  WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

J      -       -  Manager'.  •     Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch ,    214  Sansome  St.,  S.F. 
SWAIN  &  MUEDOCK,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital #25,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office.  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 


--    Ji^^  TMC  BRENTWaOO-V    **- 

O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  188S. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street*  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,N.J.i  Henry  Killara  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiettft  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babcock  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


5UNBEAM5 


RIDE  a  cock-taos9 
To  Banbury  Cross 
To  see  all  us  voters  bow  down  to  the  Boss. 
Rings  in  bia  ringers, 
And  "stuff"  in  bis  clo'es, 
He  can  make  music — 
And  harmony  "goes." 

Sing  a  song  o'  sixpence, 

Bottle  full  o'  rye, 
Four-and-twenty  Senators 

Going  on  a  high. 
When  the  bot.  was  opened. 

They  opened,  too,  and  sang: 
"  Politics  is  Boodle, 

And  Boodle  is  the  gang  I" 

There  was  a  little  man,  and  he  had  a  little  hat, 
And  most  of  his  ideas  were  of  lead,  lead,  lead. 

He  filled  a  mighty  chair,  with  a  rattling  space  to  spare. 

And  the  grand-paternal  dicer  hid  his  head,  head,  head. 

— •  They  were  sitting  on  the  sofa  in  the  parlor  of  a  summer 
hotel.  He  was  holding  her  hand  and  telling  her  of  the  love 
which  was  overflowing  in  his  heart  for  her.  He  had  been  talk- 
ing for  some  time,  when  she  interrupted  him.  saying  in  a  shy,  I've- 
never-been-talked-to-hke-this-beforekind  of  way:  "  And  you  are  sure 
you  have  never  loved  any  other  girl,  Clarence?"  "Quite  sure,"  he 
replied,  as  he  slipped  his  arm  around  her  waist.  "I've  met  thous- 
ands of  girls  in  the  course  of  my  life,  but  never  until  I  met  you  has 
any  girl  ever  known  what  it  was  even  to  be  kissed  by  me."  And  as 
their  lips  met  under  the  pale  light  in  oneof  those  experienced,  we've- 
both-been-there-before-many-a-tirae,  long  drawn-out  osculations,  a 
large  picture  of  the  Father  of  his  Country,  which  was  hanging  on  the 
wall  over  the  sofa,  broke  from  its  fastenings  and  fell  upon  the  fabri- 
cators with  a  dull,  sickening  thud!  "  —Pen  and  Ink. 

—Willie  Rockingham-Snobs— -What  makes  you  cry,  dearest,  on 
this  glorious  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  America?  Mrs.  Rock- 
ing ham-  Snobs—  Ah ,  my  child,  'tis  a  sad,  sad  day  for  us  and  our  house! 
Had  America  never  been  discovered,  your  great-great-great-grand- 
father would  never  have  been  tempted  to  come  over  in  the  Mayflower, 
and.  to-day.  we  would  have  been  living  in  our  ancestral  halls  in  dear 
old  England.  — Puck. 

^—Miss  Maudie  (to  Instructor  in  languages) — Professor,  with  our 
knowledge  of  French,  do  you  think  sister  and  I  could  safely  venture 
upon  a  trip  through  France?  Instructor — With  perfect  safety,  my 
dear  young  lady.  You  and  Miss  Mabel  could  go  anywhere  in  France 
and  speak  your  minds  with  entire  freedom— in  French— without  giv- 
ing the  slightest  offense. 

"What!  back  in   town,  Smith?     I   thought  you   went  for  a 

week's  fishing?"  "I  did."  "Poor  luck,  eh?"  "Worst  in  the 
world."  "  Didn't  catch  a  thing,  I  suppose?"  "  O,  yes,  we  got  plenty 
of  fish,  but  the  cask  leaked,  and  there  wasn't  a  drop  left  the  second 
day."  — Detroit  Tribune. 

"  You  got  off  for  fifteen  minutes  to  vote,  and  yet  you  were  ab- 
sent a  whole  day.  What  excuse  have  you  got?"  "Well,  suh.dey 
was  mo'  candidates  out  dan  what  I  'lowed  dey  would  be,  en  ez  fas'  ez 
I  vote  fer  one,  hyer  come  ernuder  a-runnin'.  Dey  kinder  tuck  me  by 
surprise."  — Atlanta  Constitution. 

Doctor  (handing  receipted  bill) — Now  you  will  be  a  perfectly  well 

man  if  you  can  be  persuaded  to  diet  yourself  for  a  couple  of  weeks. 


Lord,  doctor 


,  fir 


have  to ! 


— Puck. 


Smythe — Give  me  a  Columbus  cocktail.  Bartender — A  whadyersay? 
Smythe — A  Columbus  cocktail — fouiv  fingers  of  Irish  whisky,  some 
Italian  vermouth,  a  dash  of  Spanish  bitters,  a  clove  and  a  bar  check 
for  one  dollar.  —  Town  Topics. 

——He— You  dance  like  an  angel.  She— Pshaw!  Can't  you  say 
anything  prettier  than  that?  The  people  from  the  other  place  are 
supposed  to  be  the  better  dancers.  lie— Well,  you  dance  like  the 
devil,  then.  —Truth. 

— — *'  Drink  to  me  only  with  thine  eyes, 
And  I  will  pledge  with  mine;" 
For  I  would  have  to  pledge  my  watch, 

If  you  should  ask  for  wine.  — Life. 

—— "  Do  you  know  Mrs.  Everready  ?"  "Yes,  the  woman  who  is 
such  a  friend  to  the  heathen."  "  Well,  she  has  taken  up  the  temper- 
ance fad,  and  won't  even  let  her  corsets  get  tight."  — Truth. 

—Sporting  JT/cm— He  was  a  great  pugilist  once,  but  he  doesn't 
amount  to  anything  any  more.  Jones—  Has  he  lost  his  strength? 
Sporting  Man — No;  his  voice.  — Truth. 

Teacher—  Now,  Johnnie,  how  many  times  did  Columbus  cross 

the  Atlantic?    Johnnie— Three.     Teacher—  Which  time  was  the  last? 
Johnnie — The  third.  — Boston  Courier. 

^—She — You  say  he  and  another  Chicago  man  have  a  wager  as  to 
which  one  will  marry  her?  He — No;  as  to  which  one  will  marry  her 
first.  —Life. 

"  So  you  both  love  her,  and  have  quarreled.    Shall  you  fight 

with  pistols  or  letters?"    "  Pistols— letters  are  too  dangerous." 

— Life. 
— Toots— -I'm  a  bit  ashamed  of  this  moustache,  it's  such  a  puny 
thing.    Banks—  What  do  you  expect,  bringing  it  up  on  a  bottle?" 


HT.    2M£.    3iTE"WH.A.Xjl4     <5c     CO- 
SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS: 


GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco. 

National  Assurance  Company of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      0f  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company    ------    of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


!'     ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 

Systems  :     :  

induction-        General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
"Wood"  ']  zona  and  Washington  of  the 

Factories'-0  ■      Fort  Wayne  Elec*r'c  L'9h*  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Fort  Wayne,"    :         Estimates  furnished   for  electric  railways,  electric 
Iadiana;:  light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
Brooklyn.,        .  a  specialty. 

35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


II 


New  York. : 


'XX 


0    D     SCALE     REMOVED,  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the  use  of  


STEAM 
BOIlER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 

LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

,Over  300  In  Dally  U»e  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  60  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


B.  J.  WHEELER. 


J.   W.   GIBVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRV1N  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  A  Co.  6  California  St.,  8.  F.,  4'ul. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO  , 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION     MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     cor.     Pine     and     Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Agents  for 

THE  CALIFORNIA   LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPS  FROM  NEW  YORK. 

The  Cuuard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co. ;  the  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packet 
to  and  from   Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limited);  Bald- 
win Locomotive  Works;  A.  Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sons 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
jen's  Composition.    Ontario  Cotton  Sail  J>ucK. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

21  and  23  FREMONT  STREET, 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD   AND   IRON   WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING,  OILS  AND  SUPPLIES. 

XjOTTIS  CAHEU  <&   SOIT, 


Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  EETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

418  Saciamento  Street,  S.  F, 

E.  D.  Jones. 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers   and   Commission   Merchants, 

207  AND  209  OAUFORNIA  STREET. 


October  22.  I  S92. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


27 


TH  K  report  is  repeated,  upon  apparently  good  authority,  that 
Tippoo  Tib.  the  famous  Arab  trader,  will  Portly  carry  out  his 
intended  visit  to  Europe.  This  project,  as  is  known,  he  men- 
tioned to  Mr.  Stanley  on  the  occasion  of  the  latter's  expedition 
into  Central  Africa.  A  visit  of  tbe  famous  Arab  to  Europe  might 
be  of  immense  value  in  establishing  more  amicable  relations  be- 
tween tbe  Arab  traders  and  the  Europeans  in  the  Dark  Continent, 
for  Tippoo  Tib  would  obtain  a  different  view  of  European  char- 
acter from  hid  sojourn  in  the  centers  of  European  civilization, 
than  that  afforded  him  through  his  contact  with  African  travelers, 
many  of  whom  do  not  possess  the  qualities  necessary  to  concil- 
iate the  feeling  of  either  the  Mohammedans  or  the  natives  whom 
they  meet. 

The  Prince  of  Wales  did  not  attend  Lord  Tennyson's  funeral, 
but  preferred  tbe  Newmarket  races.  That  may  be  a  sign  of  bad 
taste,  but,  at  all  events,  it  proves  that  His  Royal  Highness, 
though  by  no  means  having  an  exemplary  character,  does  not 
possess  the  vice  of  hypocrisy.  He  does  not  pretend  to  be  better 
than  he  is.  That  Mr.  Gladstone  pleaded  illness  and  overwork  as 
an  excuse  for  his  absence  from  tbe  ceremony  was  unnecessary. 
Lord  Tennyson  was  not  one  of  Mr.  Gladstone's  admirers,  and 
since  tbe  latter's  startling  volte  face  on  the  Irish  question,  the 
Poet  Laureate  made  no  secret  of  his  open  dislike  of  the  present 
Premier.  Mr.  Gladstone  no  doubt  remembers  very  well  a  little 
poem  penned  by  Tennyson,  commencing  with  the  apostrophe, 
"  Oh  thou,"  etc..  in  which  tbe  »  grand  old  man  "  is  described  in 
plain  words,  though  somewhat  tempered  by  poetical  politeness, 
as  a  traitor  to  England's  power.  That,  however,  not  a  single 
royal  personage  was  present  at  the  funeral  of  the  court  poet,  is  a 
a  slight  which  aspirants  to  the  doubtful  dignity  should  consider 
before  permitting  their  name  to  be  coupled  with  the  title  of  poeta 
laureatus,  which  secures  them,  it  is  true,  a  small  pension,  but  also 
bridles  their  genius,  provided  they  possess  that  enviable  gift,  in 
an  undesirable  manner. 

By  tbe  defeat  of  Mr.  Lawson  in  the  Cirencester  division  of 
Gloucestershire,  Mr.  Gladstone  has  lost  one  of  his  majority  of 
forty.  One  vote  in  the  House  of  Commons  does  not  count  much 
under  ordinary  circumstances,  but  its  loss  is  appreciable  where 
tbe  government  majority  is  so  small  and  so  unreliable  as  at 
present. 

There  seems  to  be  some  misconception  on  the  part  of  several  of 
our  contemporaries  with  regard  to  the  two-years  clause  of  the 
German  army  bill.  They  appear  to  believe  that  this  clause  would 
increase  the  number  of  men  in  Germany  actually  under  arms. 
This  is  by  no  means  the  case.  If  it  were,  we  may  be  certain  thaf 
tbe  Emperor  and  the  military  party  would  not  oppose  the  clause; 
on  the  contrary,  they  would  cheerfully  support  it.  The  fact  is 
that  by  reducing  the  services  under  arms  from  three  years  to  two 
years,  the  number  of  men  annually  transferred  to  the  reserves 
would  be  greater.  Since  the  reserves,  however,  are  not  constantly 
under  arms,  but  are  called  out  only  for  a  few  weeks'  exercise 
during  the  year,  which  hardly  interferes  with  their  occupations 
as  private  citizens,  they  are  not  soldiers  in  the  real  sense  of  the 
word,  but  ex-soldiers.  Of  course  tbe  liberal  members  of  the 
Reichstag  would  like  well  enough  the  reduction  of  the  service 
underarms  from  three  years  to  two  years,  which  means  an  actual 
limitation  of  the  time  of  soldiering.  They  will  oppose  tbe  clause, 
however,  on  the  ground  that,  as  the  government  claims,  it  would 
necessitate  a  considerable  increase  of  expenditure  for  the  purpose 
of  meeting  the  cost  of  drilling  and  providing  for  the  many  recruits 
which  every  year  would  be  called  in  to  take  the  place  of  the  men 
transferred  to  the  reserves,  as  well  as  for  tbe  maintenance  of  the 
increased  reserves  of  the  standing  army.  Whether  the  expense 
really  need  be  as  great  as  pretended  by  the  government,  cannot 
be  decided  until  the  text  of  the  bill  is  known.  At  all  events,  tbe 
military  authorities  will  make  it  appear  as  great  as  possible,  for 
they  do  not  like  the  two-years  clause,  which  has  slipped  into  tbe 
bill  against  the  wish  of  the  majority  of  them,  and  if  the  clause 
should  not  be  withdrawn,  it  is  certain  that  their  representatives 
will  vote  against  it,  because,  in  their  view,  two  years  do  not  suf- 
fice to  procure  that  efficiency  of  tbe  German  soldier,  which  tbe 
three  years'  service  has  so  successfully  established.  In  special 
cases,  where  two  years  have  been  found  sufficient,  and  there 
have  been  annually  thousands  of  them,  the  third  year's  drill  has 
been  dispensed  with,  even  under  the  present  law. 

The  California  Railway  runs  direct  to  Laundry  Farm,  the  most 
complete  and  picturesque  picnic  ground  in  the  State.  It  is  also  the 
only  Hue  running  direct  to  Mills'  College,  the  foremost  of  ladies' 
seminaries  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Laundry  Farm  is  very  popular 
with  people  who  desire  an  outing  and  do  not  wish  to  go  far  from  the 
city  for  their  enjoyment. 

Moraghan,  of  the  California  Market,  has  the  most  delicious  oysters 
in  the  city.    All  oyster  eaters  patronize  his  stall. 


REGULAR 

REPUBLICAN 

MUNICIPAL     TICKET. 


Mayor WEN  DELL  E A  STON 

Auditor T.  J.  L.  SMILEY 

Sheriff WILLIAM  T.  BLATTNER 

Tax  Collector THOMAS  O'BRIEN 

Treasurer j.  H.  WIDBER 

Recorder.. .   E.  B.  READ 

County  Clerk GEORGE  W.  LEE 

District  Attorney WILLIAM  S.  BARNES 

City  and  County  Attorney MEYER  JACOBS 

Coroner DR.  WILLIAM  T.  GARWOOD 

Public  Administrator WALTER  B.  BLAIR 

Surveyor CHARLES  S.  TILTON 

Superintendent  of  Streets CHARLES  GREENE 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) CHARLES  W.  SLACK 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  M.  TROUTT 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) GEORGE  H.  BAHRS 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JOHN  LORD  LOVE 

Superior  Judge  (tor  unexpired  term  ending  January.  1895) 

WILLIAM  G.  BRITTAN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) H.  L.  JOACHIMSEN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) W.  A.  S.  NICHOLSON 

Police  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Police  Judge  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January.  1893) 

JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) FRANKGRAY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) GEORGE   P.  GOFF 

Justice  of  the  Peace,  (long  term) JOHN  F.  MDLLEN 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) ARTHUR  M.  WILLETS 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) J.  E.  BARRY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893) 

•■   ■■; :■■• J.E.BARRY 

Supervisor  First  ward  (unexpired  term) EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  First  ward EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  Second  ward  (unexpired  term) DR.  R.  C.  M  E  YERS 

Supervisor  Second  ward DR.  R.  C.  MEYERS 

Supervisor  Third  ward CARLOS  G.  YOUNG 

Supervisor  Fourth  ward HEN  RY  A.  STEFFINS 

Supervisor  Fifth  ward H.  R.  ROBBINS 

Supervisor  Sixth  ward "VV.  E.  LANE 

Supervisor  Seventh  ward VICTOR  D.  DUBOCE 

Supervisor  Eight  ward p.  J.  COFFEE 

Supervisor  Ninth  ward ALBERT  HEYER 

Supervisor  Tenth  ward HENRY  P.  SONNTAG 

Supervisor  Eleventh  ward THOMAS  J.  PARSONS 

Supervisor  Twelfth  ward AUGUST  HELBING 

School  Director A.  F.  JOHNS 

School  Director DR.  C.  W.  DECKER 

School  Director GEORGE  W.  PENNINGTON 

School  Director JAMES  A.  PARISER 

School  Director...' LUKE  BATTLES 

School  Director .• J.  H.  CULVER 

School  Director J.J.  DUNN 

School  Director PAUL  BARBIERI 

School  Director WILLIAM  H.  EASTLAND 

School  Director .....CO.  SWANBERG 

School  Director HARVEY  L.  SANBORN 

School  Director ..■: Z.  T.  WHITTEN 

School  Director  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893 

. .  A.  F.  JOHNS 


LEGISLATIVE     TICKET. 


FOB    STATE    SENATORS. 

17th  District JAMES  CRAVEN 

19th  District JOSEPH  WINDROW 

21stDistrict L.  H.  VANSHAICK 

23d  District CHARLES  H.  FANCHEr 

25th  District JOHN  F.  MARTIN 

FOR    ASSEMBLYMEN. 

28th  District PETER  JOSEPH  KELLY 

29th  District CHARLES  E.  COREY 

30th  District , JAMES  J.  FALLON 

31st  District THOMAS  F.  GRAHAM 

32d  District JOHN  A.  HOEY 

33d  District FREDERICK  WOODS 

34th  District J.  F.  McQU AID 

35th  District ' JOHN  S.  ROBINSON 

36th  District ALBERT  B.  MAHONEY 

37th  District. . ..-. JOHN  F.  O'BRIEN 

38th  District GEORGE  S.  MATHEWS 

39th  District JULIUS  KAHN 

40th  District LOUIS  A.  PHILLIPS 

41st  District HENRY  C.  DIBBLE 

42d  District GRANT  ISRAEL 

43d  District JOHN  P.  RICE 

44th  District JAMES  McGOWEN 

45th  District JOHN  HAYES 


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HAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

OvdPman  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  busiue*s— ^an 
Francisco,  Gal.  Location  of  works— Go'.d  Hill, 
Storey  county,  Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  fit  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  5th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1A92,  an  assessment  (Noii5)of  Thirty  ce  tsper 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stoctt  of  the  cor- 
poration, payable  'inmediwcely  in  United  States 
gold  coin  to  the  Se  retary,  at  the  offloe  of  the 
company,  No.  414  California  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on  the 

The  Tenth  Day  of  November.  1  892.  will  be  de'inquent' 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  3  ith  day  of  November.  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  a^sessmem,  together  with 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

GEO.  D.  EDWARDS,  Secretary. 

Office.— No.  414  California  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Kentuck  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works — Goid 
Hill,  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  held  on  the  3d  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  No  5)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
he  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  and  17,  310  Pine  street, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Eight  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delin- 
quent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  Is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
TUESDAY,  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  November, 
1892.  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office— 310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San 
Francisco,  California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Savage  Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Virginia 
Mining  District.  Storey  County,  State  of  Nevada. 

Notice  la  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  this  company,  held  on  the  7th 
day  of  October,  a.  d.,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
79)  of  Fifty  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the 
capital  stock  of  the  corporation  payable  immedi- 
ately in  United  States  Gold  ooin,  to  the  Secretary, 
at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  4,  Nevada 
block,  309  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  9th  day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent 
and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  29th  day  of  Nov- 
ember, 1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment, 
together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  4,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Alpha    Consolidated    Mill    and    Mining 
Company. 
The    regular    annual    meeting    of    the    stock- 
holders of  the  Alpha  Consolidated  Mill  and  Min- 
ing  Compauy  will  be  held  at  the  office   of  the 
Company,  room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 
Tuesday,  the  25th  Day  of  October  1892,  at  the  hour 
of  1  P.  M. 

For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors 
to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  the  transaction 
of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Saturday, 
October  22d,  at  12  o'clock  m. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— 309  Montgomery  St.,    room  79,   Nevada 
block,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIC3, 


MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  2388.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


LEFT    TO    T3S    SPJJK  3.  -  Harry   Ro- 
maine,  in  Life. 

Ah,  what  achange!     The  hotel  stand*: 
An  empty  barn,  deserted — 

And  looks  across  the  barren  sands, 
Where  summer  lovers  flirted. 

A  howling  waste  of  barren  beach, 

Forsaken  by  the  million, 
The  hungry  arms  of  ocean  reach. 

The^audy  red  pavilion 

Where  once  the  band's  Teutonic  throats, 
Blew  Wagner  airs  before  m, 

Now  sounds  the  deeper,  grander  notes, 
Of  ocean'd  winter  chorus. 

The  flower  beds  are  choked  and  dead, 

Tn«  beach  has  changed   and   shifted; 
"  Keep  off  the  Grass,"  is  dimly  read. 

Where  restless  sands  have  drifted. 

And  on  the  broad  piazza  where, 

I  used  to  sit  with  Mabel, 
There  stands  a  weather-beaten  chair, 

A  seamed  and  worn-out  table. 

And  leaning  up  against  a  post, 
In  that  once  dear  location, 

I  see  the  gr.m  and  pallid  ghost. 
Of  my  two  week's  vacation! 


BARNUM    AND    JUMBO. 

MR.  GAYLORD,  who  was  with  Barnum 
when  Jumbo  was  bought,  has  been  giv- 
ing some  curious  details  to  an  interviewer 
at  Hong  Kong.  Anxious  to  get  up  a  sensa- 
tion, Barnum  (according  to  this  account) 
gave  £1,000  to  raise  an  action  to  endeavor 
to  interdict  the  departure  of  Jumbo.  No 
sooner  was  this  done  than  the  whole  of  the 
representatives  of  the  American  papers  in 
London  began  to  cable  columns  of  news 
about  Jumbo.  The  "Jumbo  fever"  soon 
»  caught  on."  Jumbo's  keeper,  Scott,  was 
secured  for  £600.  The  preparations  for  the 
shipment  were  drawn  out  as  much  as  pos- 
sible, and  a  big  demonstration  over  his  de- 
parture was  arranged.  Scott  bad  a  quiet 
sign  which  the  elephant  knew  to  mean 
"lie  down."  It  was  arranged  that  when 
he  was  to  be  taken  from  the  gardens  Scott 
should  make  this  signal,  and  the  people 
would  believe  that  Jumbo  was  unwilling  to 
leave  Alice.  »  The  thing  worked  beauti- 
fully. The  streets  of  London  were  crowded 
with  thousands  of  people.  As  had  been  ar- 
ranged, Jumbo  lay  down  and  refused  to 
budge.  All  the  while  the  wires  were  flash- 
ing the  news  to  America,  where  the  people 
were  simply  being  manipulated  in  the  hands 
of  Mr.  Barnum.  All  the  papers  had  bead- 
lines,  '  Jumbo  refuses  to  leave  Alice,'  and  a 
lot  of  rot  of  the  same  kind.  When  the  farce 
had  gone  on  long  enough,  Jumbo  was  taken 
on  board  the  car  as  quietly  as  a  lamb.  When 
Jumbo  landed  the  attendance  rose  to  76,000, 
and  for  the  two  weeks  following  the  attend- 
ance was  over  70,000.  The  net  profits  the 
year  before  they  got  Jumbo  were  £80,000; 
in  the  year  they  got  him  they  rose  to  £160,- 
000."  The  story  told  by  Scott,  the  keeper 
who  went  to  America  with  Jumbo,  of  the 
elephant's  death  is  sad.  The  animals  were 
being  loaded  while  the  circus  was  perform- 
ing, and  Scott  was  walking  Jumbo  along 
the  railroad  between  two  rows  of  trucks. 
There  was  another  elephant  with  them — a 
dwarf  elephant  bought  in  Singapore  in  1883 
to  be  "  clown  elephant."  Jumbo  would  not 
go  anywhere  without  him.  On  this  occasion 
the  small  elephant  was  going  in  front,  and 
when  the  train  came  round  the  curve  Jumbo 
caught  hold  of  his  chum  and  pushed  him 
between  two  freight  trucks.  This  saved 
the  small  one,  who  only  got  his  leg  broken; 
but  Jumbo  was  badly  cut  up  by  the  heavy 
locomotive,  and  died  about  an  hour  after. 


VICHY    SPRINGS, 

THREE  MILES  FROM   URIAH. 

Only  abundant  supply  of  Vichy  water  in  the 
United  States.  The  well-known  "champagne" 
baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautify- 
in?  the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladles. 
Ouly  natural  electric  water  in  the  world. 

Write  for  analysis  and  consult  your  physician. 

WILLIAM    DOOLAN, 

PROPRIETOR. 


J,  0,  SPRECKLES  k  BROS,  COMPANY, 

SHIPPING  AND~ COMMISSION 
MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 
GI-LINGHAM    CEMENT. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

LONG   DISTANCE 

TELEPHONE. 

Xi.A-'X'rEST   :E;x:T:E:r>rsxo:r>r. 

Salinas,  Chualar,  Gonzales, 
Soledad,  Marysville,  Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken communication  be- 
tween these  towns  and  San 
Francisco.  The  lines  are  con- 
structed of  tpecially  prepared 
extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  withtne  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  science  of 
and  are  "Long    Distance"  Lines 

in  every  sense  of  the  word.    The  Mail  is  quick, 

the  Telegraph  i*  quicker,  hut  the 

LIWG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  Instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRIC  WORKS, 

3tTo.  35   a^arlcet  Street. 

MANUFACTURERS   AND   IMPORTERS 
—  OF— 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General 
Electrical  Supplies. 


Cunningham,  Curtiss  I  Welch, 

WHOLESALE       STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 

327,  329,  331   SANSOME  STREET. 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Francisco. 

-A.       QTJIBT      HOME 
CENTRALLY    LOCATED 
FOR    THOSE   WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT   AND 
ATTENTION. 
WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 

JOSEPH  GILLOTTS  STEEL  PENS. 

Gold  Medals   Paris  1878—1889. 
H3B*-  TheBe  Pens  are  "the  best  in  the  world." 
Sole  Agent  for  the  United  States,  MR.   HT.  HOB, 
91  John  St.,  N.  T.    Sold  by  all  Stationers. 


October  22,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


SOUTHER*  PACIFIC  CQMPAMY. 

PACIFIC    8TSTKM. 
Trains  L««v©  nnd   are  Due  to  Arrive 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Liirs        From  September  3,  1892.      I  Arrive 

7.-00  a.  Benicia,  Rumsey.  Sacramento         7:15  P 
7:30  a.  Hav  wards  Nilesand  Sau  Jose.     "12:16  P 

Nile*  aad  San  Jos© 16:15  p 

7:30a.  Martinet.  San  Ramon,  Calistoga 

and  Santa  Rosa 6:15p. 

8:00  a.  3acram'toA  Redding,  via  Davis        7:15p. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East,     9:45p. 

8:30a.  Niles,  San  Jose.  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 
ville  and  Red  Bluff  4:45  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 

geles,  Demint?,  El   Paso,   New 
rleausand  East 8:45p. 

"9  A)  a.  Stockton  and  Milton     *8:45p. 

L2-00m.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  p. 

*1 :00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9 :00  p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose. .      9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno  9:45a. 

4:00  p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9.45  a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  Esparto,   Sacramento.       10:45  a. 

4:30p.  Woodlandand  Oroville 10:45a. 

'4:30 p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45a. 

5:30p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersfield,   Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 8:45a. 

5:30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  a. 

6:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose-.      7:45  a. 
6:00  p.  European  Miil  Ogden  and  East    9:15  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00p.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .     v  gjrg 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 


{7:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel* 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  t8:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  JoBe, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6:20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  JoBe,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

Santa  Cruz *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 

*7:00a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:38  p. 

17:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion    J8:28p. 

8:15  A.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6 :10  p. 
J9:30a.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  J2:45p. 
10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations..  ..  5:03p. 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations. 3:30  p. 

*2:80p.  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,   Salinas, 
Monterey,    Pacific   Grove  and 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37  A. 

*3:30  p.  San    Jose,    Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. ..  *9:47  a. 
*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .    *8:06  a. 

5'J.5p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a, 

6 :30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations ...      6 :35  A. 
tll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30p. 

A.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afte*rnoon . 

♦Sundays  excepted.  ^Saturdays  only. 

JSundayB  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  Bteamers  CITY  OF  PDBBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  M.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  A.  M.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Orego:i,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Boenavkntura, 
Hdeneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


THEY    WANTED    A    SAINT. 

Jt'ST  southwest  of  the  Tamirs,  about 
which  everybody  has  been  talking  re- 
cently, is  the  province  ef  Swat,  a  portion 
of  Afghanistan,  bordering  on  India,  where 
formerly  dwelt  a  holy  man,  a  noteworthy 
person,  the  Saint  of  Bajour.  He  claimed  to 
be  a  direct  descendant  of  Ali,  and  had  pow- 
er to  work  miracles.  He  came  to  Bajour 
from  a  distant  place,  and  was  received  with 
the  greatest  delight.  For  the  place  had  long 
been  without  a  holy  man.  And  it  had  no 
shrine  at  which  miracles  could  be  wrought. 
When  this  saint  arrived,  all  was  well,  and 
the  people  of  Bajour  held  their  heads  up  in 
conscious  pride.  Why  not?  They  had  a 
saint  of  their  own,  just  as  well  as  any  other 
place.  One  day,  however,  the  saint  started 
to  leave,  and  to  go  on  to  some  other  town. 
They  were  stricken  with  consternation.  It 
would  never  do  to  lose  him,  and  to  fall 
back  into  their  old  condition  of  saintless- 
ness.  So  they  held  a  solemn  conclave,  the 
result  of  which  was  that  they  decided  to 
kill  him.  If  they  could  not  "keep  alive 
saint,  a  dead  one  would  be  better  than  none 
at  all,  and  his  tomb  would  form  a  holy 
shrine  at  which  miracles  would  be  wrought. 
So  they  killed  him.  And  to  this  day  his 
tomb  is  one  of  the  most  hallowed  spots  in 
all  the  land. 


IT    WAS    TRUE. 


LATE  in  the  evening  a  report  spread 
through  the  train  that  we  had  as  a  fel- 
low passenger  a  man  worth  $20,000,000  who 
had  got  on  at  Buffalo.  I  made  inquiry  of 
the  porter  of  my  car  and  he  replied: 

"  Dat's  what  dey  say,  sah,  but  yo'  can't 
alius  tell.  He's  in  de  nex'  car,  but  I  can't 
dun  say  if  he's  a  rich  man  till  mawnin'." 

Next  morning  the  porter  beckoned  me 
into  the  smoking  compartment,  and  said: 

"  Dat  story  was  all  true,  sah." 

"Then  he's  worth  $20,000,000,  eh?" 

"All  of  dat,  sah,  and  mebbe  more." 

"  How  did  you  find  out?  " 

"  from  de  odder  po'tah,  sah.  Be  gem- 
Ian  has  jest  gin  him  twenty  cents,  while 
everybody  else  has  cum  down  wid  a  quar- 
ter I  " 


Mrs.  Stilish.— Who  is  doing  all  that  swear- 
ing in  the  next  room? 

Mr.  Stilish.  —I  suppose  one  of  Marie's  sus- 
pender buttons  dropped  off  again.— Truth. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  P.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Bblgic  Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan  4,  1^93 
ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT  REDUCED   RATES. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  8.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 

Sing  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
ails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

FOR      HONOLULU,,      AUCKLAND      AND      SYDNEY, 
DIRECT. 

8.  S   Mariposa  — Friday,  November  11,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

S.  S.  Australia Wednesday,  Oct.  26,  1892, 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  8PRECKELS  &  BR08.  CO, 

General  Agents 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE    DONAHUE   BROAD-GAUGE    ROUTE." 

COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
Benger  Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  A.  M„  9:20  A.  M.,   11:20  A.  M.; 

1:30  p.  M.,  3:30  P.  M.,  5:05  P.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  A.M.,  9:30  A.M.,  11:00  A.M. ;  1:30  P.M. 
3:30  p.  m.,  6:00  p.  m.,  6:15  p.  m. 

From  San  Rafael  tor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— «:25  A.   M.,  7:55  A.   M.,  9:80  A.  M. 

11:30  A.M.;  1:40  P.M.,  8:40  P.M.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8 :10  a.m., 9:40  a.m.,  11:10 a.m.;  1:40 p.m. 
3:40  p.  M.,  5:00  p  m.,  6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.M.;  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35   A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.m.,  4:05  p.m.,  5:30p.m.,  6:50  p.m. 


Leave  S.F. 

Destination. 

Arrive  in  8.  F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
8:30  p.m. 

5:05  p.m. 

8:00  a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40 a.m  8:50a.  m. 
6:05  P.M  10:30  A.M 
7:25p.m  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40A.M. 
3:30  P.M. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a.m 
6:10p.h 

7:40a.m. 

8:00  a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40  a.m. 
8  :30  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:26p.m. 

10:30a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00  a.m. 
5:00p.m. 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6:05p.m. 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m 
8:80  P.M 

8:00  a.m 
5:00  p.m 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.m 
i   6:05p.m 

10:30am 
6:10  P.M 

StageB  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Eartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Xakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  52  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  ?5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  26;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $450;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1 20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt, 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  Nbsw  Yobk,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings,  —  8.  S.  M8an  Juau,"  Novem- 
ber 5th ;  "City  of  New  York, "  November  15th ;  8.  S. 
San  Jose,"  October  25th,  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.—  Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libert-ad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Nov.  18th,  S.  S.  "Acapulco." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 
5th,  1892,  at  3  P.  M. 

S.  8.  "City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at "3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  8  p.  m. 

S.S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th,  at  3  p.  at. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
nates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street,   .  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent 


30 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


LAST  WEEK  waa  one  of  lunches,  teas  and  dinners.  Of  the 
latter,  the  dinner  at  which  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  presided  as 
hostess,  at  her  pretty  residence  on  Taylor  street,  decidedly  took 
the  lead,  although  equally  elaborate  was  the  dinner  given  by  Mr. 
N.  K.  Masten,  at  his  Claystreet  residence,  where  a  dozen  or  more 
guests  were  invited  to  meet  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington.  The 
same  evening  a  dinner  was  given  to  Major  J.  W.  Powell  by  the 
members  of  the  University  Club,  at  the  club-house,  on  Sutter 
street.  And  another  noticeable  dinner  of  the  week  was  given  by 
Mr.  Robert  Irving,  in  honor  of  the  recently  wedded  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ellis  Wooster,  nee  McMillan,  which  took  place  in  the  private 
dining-room  of  the  California  Hotel,  on  Friday  evening,  the  guests 
comprising  the  members  of  the  bridal  party.  The  lunch  given  by 
the  young  ladies  of  the  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission  was  in  honor 
of  their  popular  ex -President,  Miss  Lizzie  Storey,  whose  marriage 
to  Mr.  John  Blanchard  Maynard  followed  a  couple  of  days  later. 
Mrs.  Forbes*  lunch  at  the  Pleasanton  was  given  as  a  farewell  to 
Miss  Page,  who  has  gone  East  to  spend  the  winter  season  with 
relatives  and  friends. 

The  programme  for  the  entertainment  of  the  Saturday  Morn- 
ing Orchestra,  on  November  1st,  is  as  follows:  Overture,  Les 
Dragons  du  Villars,  Maillard;  Aria,  Sampson  and  Delilah,  Saint- 
Saens,  Mrs.  Edward  Everett  Wise;  Introduction  to  3d  act  and 
Bridal  Chorus — Lohengrin,  Wagner;  Concerto,  No.  22  (first  move- 
ment), Viotti,  Miss  Alice  Ames;  (a)  Intermezzo  (valse),  Czibulka; 
(b)  Pizzicato,  Taubert;  Aria,  Psyche,  Ambrose  Thomas,  Miss 
Julia  Newman;  Serenade,  No.  8,  in  D  Major,  Mozart;  Rhapsodic 
Hongroise,  Hauser,  orchestrated  by  J.  H.  Rosewald.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  orchestra  are:  Violins,  Miss  Helen  A.  Bosqui,  Miss 
Adele  Dannenbaum,  Miss  Roberta  E.  Lee  Wright,  Miss  Alice  Ames, 
Miss  Annie  M.  Herrick,  Miss  Charlotte  Gruenhagen,  Mrs.  Julia 
Epstein,  Miss  Emily  McClatchy,  Mrs.  Etta  McNear,  Miss  Nannie 
Van  Wyck,  Miss  Minnie  Heath,  Miss  Daisy  Polk,  Miss  Carolyn 
Knox,  Miss  Lulu  Stanford,  Miss  Mamie  Conlin,  Miss  Florence 
Hush,  Miss  Alice  McCutchen,  Miss  Belle  Jory,  Miss  Ida  Fox; 
Viola,  Miss  Marie  Hayn,  Miss  Marie  Ponton  D'Arce,  Miss  Annie 
Gibson,  Miss  Bessie  Ames,  Miss  Jean  Hush;  Violoncello,  Miss 
Wellman,  Miss  Hermione  Rey,  Miss  Ethel  J.  Jory;  Contra  Basso, 
Mrs.  Belle  Van  Buskirk,  Miss  Mary  A.  Harriss;  Flutes,  Miss 
Kate  Clement,  Miss  Annie  Lyle;  Clarinette,  Mrs.  Laura  Ray; 
Oboe,  Mrs.  Linda  Eager;  Cornets,  Miss  Pearl  Noble,  Miss  Preciosa 
Pracht,  Miss  Emily  Shepman;  Trombone,  Miss  Maude  Noble; 
Drums,  Miss  Augusta  R.  Knell;  Harp,  Miss  Marie  Dillon;  Organ, 
Miss  Lucy  M.  Jerome;  Musical  Director,  Mr.  J.  H.  Rosewald; 
President,  Mrs.  8.  S.  Wright;  Accompanist,  Miss  Ada  E.  Weigel! 

Mr.  Benjamin  Lauer  and  Miss  Emily  L.  Phillips  were  united  in 
marriage  last  Tuesday  at  the  residence" of  tbe  bride's  parents,  1247 
Franklin  street,  Rev.  M.  S.  Levy  officiating.  Miss  Phillips  was 
attended  by  her  sisters,  the  Misses  Becky  and  Estelle,  Misses 
Rose  Lauer  and  Flora  Liebea.  Messrs.  Sam,  Ike,  and  William 
Phillips,  brothers  of  the  bride,  and  Mr.  Arthur  Lauer  being 
groomsmen.  The  bride  wore  an  elegant  gown  of  white  corded 
silk,  trimmed  with  point  lace.  Mrs.  Phillips,  mother  of  the  bride, 
wore  a  black  brocaded  satin,  trimmed  with  duchesse  lace.  There 
were  present  only  the  relatives  and  most  intimate  friends  of  both 
families.  The  ceremony  took  place  at  six  o'clock,  and  was  fol- 
lowed immediately  after  by  an  elegant  dinner.  An  orchestra, 
under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Noah  Brandt,  discoursed  delightful 
music  during  the  dinner,  and  also  tor  those  who  were  inclined  to 
trip  the  light  fantastic  until  the  early  hours  of  the  morning.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Lauer  left  for  a  trip  to  San  Jose  and  Monterey,  and  on 
their  return  will  be  domiciled  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

As  the  time  draws  near  for  the  departure  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred 
Sharon  for  the  East,  they  are  being  made  the  guests  of  honor  by 
many  of  their  friends  in  San  Francisco  at  dinners  and  other 
small  gatherings,  the  most  noticeable  being  the  elaborate  dinner 
given  last  week  by  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin.  For  in  spite  of  the  efforts 
of  correspondents  at  home  and  abroad  to  place  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Sharon  in  New  York,  they  are  still  in  California,  where  they  will 
remain  until  some  time  in  November.  They  are  among  the  guests 
this  week  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Tevia,  who  are  entertaining  a 
party  of  friends  at  the  pretty  villa,  near  Bakersfield,  in  the  Eng- 
lish style. 

The  approaching  wedding  of  Miss  Lolita  Monteverde  and  Dr. 
Grant  Selfridge  promises  to  be  one  of  the  events  of  the  autumn 
season.  The  ceremony  will  take  place  at  St.  Mary's  Cathedral  on 
Thursday  evening,  November  3d.  The  array  of  young  society 
beaux  who  will  act  as  ushers  will  be  one  of  the  most  imposing 
seen  for  some  time,  the  list  including  Allan  Bowie,  Milton  La- 
tham, Harry  Wadsworth,  Sam  Knight  and  others.  Among  the 
bridesmaids  will  be  some  of  the  prettiest  of  our  young  belles,  com- 
prising Miss  Meta  Thompson,  the  Misses  May  and  Lillian  Reis, 
Miss  Edna  Robinson  and  Miss  Sallie  Hine,  and  Miss  Georgie  Mas- 
ten  will  be  maid  of  honor. 


As  usual  the  season  will  open  with  a  series  of  charitable  per- 
formances, and  November  will  be  well  filled  with  notable  events. 
First  in  line  comes  the  concert  to  be  given  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House  on  the  evening  of  November  1st,  by  the  members  of  the 
Saturday  Morning  Orchestra,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Maria  Kip 
Orphanage,  and  the  indications  are  that  they  will  have  an  over- 
flowing audience.  Pretty  Mrs.  Marion  Wise  will  be  one  of  the 
vocalists  of  the  evening,  much  to  tbe  delight  of  her  friends,  who 
are  eager  to  hear  her  voice  once  more.  For  the  benefit  of  the 
Woman's  Exchange,  the  lady  managers  will  present  the  operetta 
of  Baroness  Meta,  which  also  promises  to  be  a  fashionable  society 
assemblage.  But  possibly  the  most  novel  entertainment  attempted 
in  the  sacred  cause  will  be  the  ti  game  of  cards,  or  living  whist," 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Mission  Unitarian  Church  building  fund ,  to  be 
given  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  the  evening  of  November 
17th,  in  which  about  fifty  young  people  will  take  part. 


A  telegraphic  item  from  Boston  gives  society  in  San  Francisco 
the  promise  of  having  another  bride  within  its  circles  this  winter. 
For  one  of  our  well-known  business  men,  Mr.  E.  S.  Eldridge,  hav- 
ing captured  a  Boston  belle,  Miss  Francis  Webster,  daughter  of 
the  late  Hon.  John  G.  Webster,  a  wealthy  Boston  merchant, 
their  wedding  took  place  in  that  city  of  culture  at  the  Church  of 
the  New  Jerusalem  last  Tuesday  evening,  in  the  presence  of  a 
large  and  fashionable  gathering,  after  which  a  reception  was  held 
at  the  residence  of  tbe  bride's  mother.  The  bride,  who  was  given 
away  by  her  uncle,  David  L.  Webster,  wore  a  wedding  robe  of 
ivory  satin,  elaborately  trimmed  with  duchess  lace  and  orange 
blossoms.  Her  sister,  Miss  Mary  Webster,  was  Maid  of  Honor, 
The  newly-wedded  couple  are  expected  to  arrive  in  this  city, 
which  will  be  their  future  home,  early  in  November. 


Mr.  Donald  deV.  Graham  intends  to  follow  the  example  set  by 
Ed  Greenway  last  winter,  and  having  taken  the  Redding  fiat,  on 
Bush  street,  will  give  a  series  of  teas  and  other  entertainments  to 
his  friends  during  his  term  of  occupancy.  The  inaugural  tea  took 
place  last  Friday  afternoon,  and  was  much  enjoyed  by  the 
favored  guests  of  the  occasion.  Bachelor  parties  would  seem  to 
be  the  fad  just  now,  the  most  unique  of  recent  affairs  being  tbe 
gathering  at  the  rooms  of  Dr.  W.  J.  Younger,  prior  to  his  de- 
parture for  Chicago  with  Governor  Markham.  It  took  the  form 
of  a  Jinks,  with  Joe  Redding  as  Sire,  and  music  and  recitations 
were  the  chief  items  on  the  programme.  The  feature  of  the  fes- 
tivities was  the  skirt  dance  indulged  in  by  Sire  Redding  and  Mr. 
Graham,  and  those  who  were  there  say  it  had  to  be  seen  to  be 
appreciated,  it  was  so  excruciatingly  funny. 

The  Mission  established  by  the  millionaire  evangelist,  Charles 
N.  Crittenden,  in  memory  of  the  beloved  daughter  whose  death 
brought  his  change  of  life  to  evangelistic  work,  was  bright  with 
happy  faces,  pretty  toilettes  and  lovely  flowers  on  last  Saturday 
afternoon,  where  the  managers  gave  what  they  called  a  Harvest 
Home  tea.  Autumn  fruits  decorated  the  drawing-rooms  where 
the  tea  was  served,  and  round  the  prettily  set  tables  guests 
gathered  to  sip  their  tea,  nibble  their  cake,  and  chat  together  over 
the  encouraging  aspect  of  the  Mission.  During  the  past  year 
many  sad  lives  of  erring  women  have  been  rescued  and  brightened 
by  the  efforts  of  this  noble  band  of  workers. 

The  first  of  the  Philharmonic  concerts  for  this  season  took 
place  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  on  Tuesday  evening,  and  as  usual 
there  were  but  few  empty  seats  to  be  found  soon  after  the  open- 
ing number.  It  would,  however,  be  an  advantage  if  this  popu- 
lar organization  would  follow  the  rule  in  vogue  elsewhere,  f.  e. 
close  the  doors  when  the  concert  begins,  and  let  tardy  comers 
wait  till  the  number  is  finished,  instead  of  allowing  them  to  dis- 
turb the  enjoyment  of  those  already  in  their  seats  by  the  clatter 
and  noise  of  a  late  entrance. 


Of  last  week's  teas,  Mrs.  Hager's  pink  tea  last  Saturday,  at 
which  her  daughter-in-law,  Mrs.  Frank  Hicks,  was  the  guest  of 
honor,  carried  off  the  palm  as  the  very  prettiest  of  the  season  so 
far.  The  tea  given  by  Mrs.  A.  A.  Moore  in  Oakland,  in  honor  of 
Mrs.  Charles  H.  Phelps,  of  New  York,  waa  attended  by  all  tbe 
social  lights  of  our  sister  city  across  the  bay,  the  Misses  Tubbs, 
Pringle,  Moore,  Rawson,  Hutchinson  and  others  assisting  the  hos- 
tess in  her  duties  to  her  guests,  and  was  a  pleasant  affair. 

Mrs.  E.  A.  Heydenfeldt's  violet  dinner,  on  Saturday  last,  was 
in  honor  of  the  birthday  of  her  sons,  Dixon  and  Oxon,  who  had 
attained  the  ages  of  fourteen  and  five  years,  respectively.  Violets 
were  the  sole  flowers  used  in  adorning  the  table,  and  the  candles 
and  lamps  were  shaded  with  tbe  same  hue,  while  Mrs.  Heyden- 
feldt's gown  was  of  violet  satin.  An  elaborate  menu  was  dis- 
cussed by  fourteen  guests,  who  later  were  reinfurced  by  others, 
when  dancing  was  indulged  in  for  several  hours. 

Miss  Ella  Whitney  and  Charles  B.  Wheaton  were  united  in 
wedlock  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  mother,  in  Petaluma,  at  noon 
last  Wednesday;  and  on  Wednesday  also  the  marriage  of  Miss 
Agnes  Porter  and  the  Rev.  F.  Handy  was  solemnized  at  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  Oakland.  Miss  Mollie  Spiezolman  and  Asher 
Green,  of  New  York,  will  be  married  at  tbe  residence  of  the 
bride's  mother,  on  Gough  street,  to-morrow  evening. 


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October  99,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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The  grand  ball  given  by  the  Concordia  Club  last  Saturday 
night  was  a  great  social  success.  The  arrangements  were  perfect, 
the  supper  excellent,  and  dancing  was  enjoyed  until  daylight. 
The  clubhouse,  and  particularly  the  ballroom  and  dining-hall, 
were  beautifully  decorated.  Mr.  Maurice  Frank  was  floor  man- 
ager. The  toilettes  of  the  ladies  were  in  every  instance  elegant, 
and  the  debutantes.  Miss  Lydia  Laches.,  Miss  Florence  Lippert, 
Miss  Jennie  Seller.  Miss  Ida  Fisher,  Miss  Beatrice  Sachs  and  Miss 
Laura  Dinkle*peil.  were  all  tastefully  attired.  The  next  affair  of 
the  Concordia  will  be  a  spectacular  and  musical  presentment  of 
■  A  Night  in  Venice."  There  will  be  real,  wet  water,  gondoliers, 
Venetian  beauties,  serenades,  Venetian  shutters,  lattices,  etc.  The 
rehearsals  have  commenced,  and  early  in  November  the  affair 
will  be  presented. 

At  Notre  Dame  des  Victoires,  at  half-past  ten  o'clock  to-mor- 
row morning,  the  feast  of  its  patron  Saint  will  be  celebrated  with 
unusual  irupressiveness.  The  officers  and  men  of  the  French 
corvette  Dubourdieu  will  attend  mass,  accompanied  by  their 
music  corps,  numbering  twenty-five,  who,  during  the  offertoire 
and  benediclus,  will  render  grand  instrumental  selections.  The 
choir,  consisting  of  the  regular  quartette,  Mrs.  B.  M.  Hardisty, 
Mrs.  B.  Knell,  Mr.  E.  A.  Torpi  and  Mr.  G.  Harris,  will  render 
Eduardo  Marzo's  »  Messe  Solemnelle,"  accompanied  by  the  organ 
and  stringed  instruments,  under  the  direction  of  the  organist, 
John  Knell.  Solemn  High  Mass  will  be  read  by  Rev.  Father 
Kietfer,  and  the  sermon  will  be  delivered  by  Rev.  Pere  Gente,  S.  M. 


The  Columbus  Concert  given  by  the  Sunday  School  Orchestra 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Oakland,  last  Tuesday 
evening,  was  very  good.  It  was  thought  by  the  Oakland  people 
that  when  Rev.  John  Rea  gave  up  his  position  as  musical  director 
these  concerts  would  not  reach  their  former  standard,  but  they 
have  been  agreeably  disappointed.  The  new  director,  Alexander 
T.  Stewart,  has  filled  the  position  quite  as  acceptably  as  ever  did 
Mr.  Rea.  The  artists  who  participated  in  the  concert  were:  Mrs. 
Martin  8chultz,  soprano;  Robert  Lloyd,  baritone;  Chas.  C.  Cush- 
ing,  cornet;  accompanists,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Gutterson,  Martin  Schultz, 
Charles  E.  Purcells,  violinist,  and  the  orchestra  was  composed  of 
a  number  of  well-known  people. 


The  event  of  this  week  in  clubdom  will  be  the  production  at 
the  San  Francisco  Verein  Club,  to-night,  of  the  operatic  entertain- 
ment entitled  Christopher  Columbus,  which  has  been  for  many 
weeks  in  preparation.  Mr.  Hinz  is  the  composer  of  the  opera, 
while  the  libretto  is  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  Waldette,  and  the  work 
is  very  highiy  spoken  of  by  those  who  have  heard  the  rehearsals. 
The  scenery  is  all  new;  the  costumes  and  other  accessories  on 
a  scale  of  magnificence  seldom  seen  in  like  productions.  So  a  gala 
time  is  a  foregone  conclusion.  The  Columbus  Club  gave  a  ball  at 
B'nai  B'rith  Hall,  last  night,  in  celebration  of  Columbus  Day. 


There  will  be  a  pretty  Japanese  fete  and  garden  party  held  this 
afternoon,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Ben.  Morgan,  in  Berkeley,  the 
proceeds  of  which  will  go  towards  swelling  the  fund  of  Miss 
Head's  school  for  the  support  of  the  surgical  ward  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Hospital.  A  large  attendance  is  already  assured,  and  the 
fete  promises  to  be  a  success.  It  was  field  day  at  the  University 
last  Wednesday,  and  there  was  a  large  party  over  from  San  Fran- 
cisco to  enjoy  the  exercises. 


The  reunion  of  Camp  McAlpine  was  held  on  the  evening  of  the 
14th  inst.,  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brainard  K.  Rowley, 
305  Lott  street.  Games  and  a  musical  and  literary  entertain- 
ment were  enjoyed  until  10:30  p.  m.,  when  the  company  ad- 
journed to  the  dining-room,  where  covers  were  laid  for  thirty 
people.  The  table  was  tastefully  decorated,  the  room  brilliantly 
lighted  with  Japanese  lanterns,  and  the  walls  handsomely  draped 
with  American  flags. 

Mrs.  Volney  Spaulding  gave  a  reception  last  Wednesday  after- 
noon at  the  Bella  Vista,  at  which  Miss  Carolina  Charlie's  talk  on 
"  The  Art  of  Conversation  "  was  the  chief  feature  of  the  affair. 
Mrs.  Carl  Jungen  contributed  several  songs,  and  there  was  other 
vocal  and  instrumental  music  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  guests. 
Mrs.  Spaulding  gave  a  lunch  last  Sunday  at  her  Bungalow  in  Bel- 
vedere in  honor  of  some  Eastern  friends. 


Colonel  and  Mrs.  C.  F.  Hanlon  are  expected  in  town  from  San 
Rafael  for  the  winter  about  the  1st  of  November.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
H.  B.  Close  will  arrive  in  town  from  Napa  next  week.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Will  Crocker  are  in  town  for  the  winter,  and,  it  is  said,  in- 
tend to  make  their  residence  on  California  street  the  scene  of 
many  gay  gatherings  during  the  season.  The  Smedbergs  arrived 
from  the  East  last  Wednesday. 


News  comes  from  England  that  the  pretty  little  widow, 
Mrs.  Ruth  Blackwell,  with  her  sister,  Miss  Louise  Holladay,  is  at 
present  residing  in  London,  where  she  has  taken  a  furnished 
house  for  the  early  winter  months.  Her  friends  here  are  rather 
amused  at  the  continued  announcement  that  she  had  gone  to 
spend  the  winter  in  Russia ;  for  not  only  has  she  not  done  so,  but 
never  had  any  such  intention. 


The  Admiral  and  officers  of  the  French  flagship  Dubourdieu 
have  been  extensively  lionized  since  their  arrival  in  San  Francisco 
at  dances,  dinners  and  numerous  small  entertainments  mostly 
given  in  their  honor.  They  have  decided  to  show  their  appreci- 
ation of  the  hospitality  thus  shown  them  by  giving  a  dance  on 
board  the  ship,  which  will  take  place  this  afternoon. 

The  opening  ball  of  the  season  at  the  Concordia  Club  rooms, 
last  Saturday  night,  was  a  brilliant  affair.  The  rooms  were  hand- 
somely decorated,  and  presented  a  beautiful  appearance  when 
filled  with  guests,  the  costumes  of  the  ladies  being  in  many  in- 
stances simply  magnificent.  Dancing  was  of  course  the  feature, 
and  at  midnight  an  elaborate  supper  was  served. 

The  Nursery  for  Homeless  Children  will  be  the  beneficiary  of  a 
musical  and  literary  entertainment,  which  will  take  place  in  the 
banquet  hall  of  the  California  Hotel  on  Saturday  evening  of  next 
week,  October  29th.  It  is  a  charity  deserving  of  hearty  support, 
and  a  good  attendance  is  earnestly  hoped  for  by  the  promoters  of 
the  affair. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wildman,  nee  Aldrich,  are  expected  to  arrive  from 
the  Orient  about  the  first  of  November.  It  is  anticipated  that 
the  Sultan  of  Jehore  will  bear  them  company,  though  from  latest 
accounts  received  it  was  still  uncertain  whether  he  might  not 
postpone  coming  until  a  little  later  in  the  year. 


San  Franciscans  in  New  York  early  this  week  included  Mr. 
W.  S.  McMurtry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Valentine,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Horace  8.  King,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Spreckels,  Miss  Emma 
Spreckels,  and  Mrs.  Charles  Sontagg.  Mr.  John  Mackay  will  be 
here  from  Europe  next  week. 


The  first  cotillion  party  will  be  held  on  December  2d.  The 
grand  affair  of  the  season  will  be  the  fancy  dress  ball  on  Decem- 
ber 23d,  which  will  be  led  by  Miss  Emily  Hager.  Fancy  dress 
will  be  imperative,  and  it  will  be  a  very  swell  affair.  The  music 
will  be  by  the  famous  Hungarian  Band. 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  Moladonado,  nee  Acosta,  who  have  been  spending 
their  honeymoon  at  Castle  Crags,  will  reside  at  the  California 
Hotel  this  winter.  Mrs.  Moaldonado's  mother  and  sister,  Mrs. 
and  Miss  Acosta,  are  on  the  eve  of  departure  forMazutlan,  where 
they  will  remain  several  months. 

Mrs.  John  Vance  Cheney's  reception  to  Mr.  Edmund  Russell, 
last  Sunday  evening,  was  a  delightful  little  gathering,  her  friends 
enjoying  the  music  and  recitations  and  admiring  the  pretty  deco- 
rations of  the  rooms,  which  were  chiefly  roses  and  ferns,  taste- 
fully arranged. 


Miss  Josie  Bowie  has  been  making  a  protracted  visit  to  her 
friend  Mrs.  Collier,  at  Clear  Lake.  She  and  her  brother,  Allan 
St.  John  Bowie,  will  occupy  their  handsome  on  Jackson 
street  this  winter,  Mrs.  De  Santa  Marina  having  vacated  it, 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  Hecht  and  their  daughters  have  been  spending 
some  time  in  Baltimore  visiting  friends  since  their  return  from 
Europe.  They  were  expected  home  yesterday,  and  will  occupy 
their  residence  on  Washington  street  this  winter. 

Mrs.  Frank  Thompson,  with  her  husband,  returned  from  their 
wedding  trip  last  week,  and  are  staying  with  her  aunt,  Mrs. 
Norris,  on  Sacramonto  street,  where  she  will  receive  her  friends 
on  Fridays. 

The  first  entertainment  of  the  School  for  Scandal  will  be  held  at 
the  residence  of  Mrs.  Henry  Williams,  at  Octavia  and  Sacramento 
streets,  on  the  evening  of  the  27th  inst.  The  theatrical  perform- 
ance will  begin  at  9  o'clock,  and  will  be  followed  by  dancing. 

Miss  Nellie  Jolliffe  will  accompany  the  Robert  Oxnards  and 
J.  B.  Stetson's  East  next  Wednesday.  She  will  be  the  guest  at 
Philadelphia  during  the  winter  of  Mrs.  George  Harding  (Lillie 
Jones). 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Susie  Tompkins  and  J.  Harmon  Brown 
was  very  quietly  celebrated  at  her  father's  home  at  San  Anselmo 
last  Saturday,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Miel  tying  the  nuptial  knot.  New 
York  will  be  the  future  home  of  the  young  couple. 

Mr.  Thomas  Moore,  proprietor  of  Land  and  Water  of  London, 
Mr.  H.  C.  Drinkwater  and  Mr.  M.  N.  Ridley  are  at  the  Palace 
Hotel,  and  will  return  in  a  few  days  to  England. 

Mrs.  Rudolph  Herold  has  named  Wednesday  as  her  reception 
day,  at  the  residence  of  W.  H.  Jardine,  on  Haight  and  Laguna 
streets,  which  Mr.  Herold  has  leased  for  the  winter  season. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Raum,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ben  Lauar,  nee  Phil- 
lips, and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Marks,  will  pass  the  winter  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  where  the  ladies  will  receive  on  Mondays. 

Senator  and  Mrs.  Stanford  have  returned  from  their  trip  abroad, 
the  Senator  much  improved  by  his  visit  to  Carlsbad.  Mrs.  Stan- 
ford is  also  in  the  enjoyment  of  good  health. 

Mrs.  Clark  Crocker  and  Mrs.  Fannie  Crocker  are  en  route  to 
New  York.  They  will  remain  abroad  until  Bpring,  when  Julia 
Crocker  will  be  a  debutante. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  22,  1892. 


A  project  has  been  started  and  invitations  issued  by  the  follow- 
ing ladies,  as  patronesses  for  teas  to  be  given  at  the  Ingleside 
during  the  winter:  Mrs.  Parrott,  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  Mrs.  Hager, 
Mrs.  Otis,  Mrs.  Rathbone,  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Crocker,  Mrs.  W.  T.  Tevi3,  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Dono- 
hoe,  Jr. 

Mr.  Andrew  Marceau,  father  of  Colonel  Marceaa,  is  a  gneat  of 
his  son  and  wife,  at  their  residence,  2336  Pacific  avenue.  He  will 
be  on  the  Coast  a  few  months. 

Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham's  second  annual  concert  in  aid  of 
the  endowment  fund  of  the  Children's  Hospital  will  take  place 
about  the  end  of  November. 

Miss  Blair  will  be  the  guest  of  th  e|D  uchess  de  la  Rouchefoncanld 
in  Paris.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Blair  will  travel  on  the  Continent  this 
winter. 

Miss  Laura  McKinstry  is  visiting  relatives  in  the  East  prior  to 
her  return  to  San  Francisco  after  her  lengthened  stay  in  Europe. 

R.  M.  "Wood,  a  well-known  journalist  of  this  city,  has  returned 
from  a  prolonged  trip  through  the  Eastern  States. 

The  launch  of  the  Olympia  will  be  made  the  occasion  of  a  num- 
ber of  tug  parties. 

Mrs.  Garcia  is  visiting  her  mother,  Mrs.  George  Hyde,  at  the 
Occidental  Hotel. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tim  Hopkins  purpose  spending  the  winter  in  the 
south  of  France. 


ASOCIAL  event  of  last  Wednesday  evening  was  the  attendance 
of  over  four  hundred  Mystic  Shriners  at  the  California 
Theatre.  After  the  performance,  a  banquet  in  honor  of  the  ladies 
was  held  in  the  popular  banquet  hall  of  the  hotel,  where  an  elab- 
orate menu  and  excellent  service  concluded  a  most  enjoyable 
evening.  It  is  now  considered  the  proper  thing  by  society  people 
to  banquet  at  the  California,  the  fame  of  whose  chef,  the  general 
superiority  of  whose  service,  and  the  magnificence  of  whose 
apartments  make  it  incomparable.  Many;  society  affairs  have 
already  taken  place  there,  and  others  are  on  the  tapis.  On  the 
15th  inst.,  for  instance,  the  Druids  had  a  banquet  in  the  hall,  at 
which  seventy-five  covers  were  laid.  On  October  20th, 
the  H.  A.  Wagner  wedding  breakfast  was  a  most  delight- 
ful affair.  Eighty  guests  were  served  at  10:30  o'clock.  On 
Thursday  last,  also,  the  Patek  wedding  and  banquet  party  was  a 
brilliant  affair.  Over  one  hundred  and  fifty  people  enjoyed  the 
ball  in  the  hotel  that  evening.  The  managers  have  given  the 
services  of  the  banquet  hall  for  the  benefit  of  the  Homeless  Child- 
ren on  Saturday,  the  29th  inst.,  and  on  Wednesday,  November 
2nd.,  thereception  rooms,  banquet  hall  and  ball  room  will  be  given 
tip  to  the  magnificent  Levy  wedding  party,  which  will  be  an 
event  of  the  season.  The  hotel  is  the  best  in  the  city  for  such 
swell  affairs,  a  fact  which  its  popularity  demonstrates. 


CALIFORNIA  appears  to  be  the  first  State  in  which  a  hypnot- 
ist has  received  punishment  for  the  use  of  that  poweri  n  viola- 
tion of  the  law.  A  woman  in  Oakland,  who  «  hypnotized  an  ac- 
quaintance and  defrauded  her  of  a  large  sum  of  money,  has  been 
sentenced  to  ten  year?  imprisonment  in  San  Quentin  prison. 
Having  thus  been  given  as  it  were  a  legal  standing,  we  may  ex- 
pect to  see  hypnotism  frequently  brought  into  the  courts  here- 
after. 


S&  G.  GUMP  have  removed  their  well-known  art  emporium 
,  from  the  Market  street  quarters  to  that  handsome  new 
building  at  113  Geary  street,  where  the  famous  art  gallery  of  the 
firm  is  now  located.  The  new  store  was  fitted  with  particular 
reference  to  the  exhibition  of  paintings,  and  there  is  always  a 
clear,  strong  light  in  all  the  rooms.  The  house  is  in  recent  receipt 
of  a  quantity  of  fine  new  goods  from  Europe. 


Pommery  Sec. 

The  Illustrated  London  News  of  a  recent  issue  reports  that  Messrs 
Pommerv  &  Greno,  whose  stock  of  fine  champagnes  is  the  largest  in 
the  world  and  commands  the  highest  price  in  the  market,  have  pur- 
chased this  year  one-sixth  of  last  year's  vintage,  which  is  of  excel- 
lent quality  in  every  way.  The  price  paid  for  this  vintage,  being  the 
highest  ever  known,  the  purchase  has  cost  that  great  firm  the  laree 
sum  of  over  i(,00,000,  a  transaction  of  magnitude  never  equaled  in 
the  trade  by  any  firm  or  company.  With  such  unceasing  efforts, 
the  above  flattering  showing  of  Pommery  Sec  is  therefore  not  sur- 
prising. 


Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  hondsome  coiffures.  His  rates' 
are  reduced. 

*4  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  »  Kritiko,"G09  Merchant  street,  S.  F. 

For  Oty  and  County  Attorney, 

MYER    JACOBS. 

Regular  Republican  Nominee 


THE  business  in  California  of  the  Price  Baking  Powder  Com- 
pany has  become  so  extensive  that  the  company  has  found  it 
necessary  to  have  an  agency  here,  devoted  exclusively  to  their 
business.  They  have  therefore  taken  the  large  store  at  305  Bat- 
tery street,  which  is  now  being  suitably  fitted  up  by  Mr.  Rose. 
The  Pacific  Coast  manager  of  the  business  will  be  Mr.  F.  J.  Bosel- 
ly,  who,  for  many  years  has  been  identified  with  the  company's 
business  at  Chicago.  He  will  have  his  headquarters  at  the  Batltry 
street  establishment. 

nnnr  c  q  dhq    stationers. 

UUUUL     dnUO.j   ENGRAVERS. 

Crane's  kid  finish  is  la  mode  for  wedding 
invitations,  receptions,  at  homes,  teas,  etc. 
It  is  a  delightful  paper  as  well  for  corres- 
pondence notes. 

copper  plates,  oot;  POQT  QT 

WEDDING  CARDS.   ££J    TUO  I     Ol. 

SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 

PHARMACY     FRANCAIS. 


Ill  Grant  Ave. 


Telephone  13SO 


Parfumebie  Victoria,  Kigaud's  &  Cie's  Lucrecia  Graciosa,  Louis  XV 
and  Exora  d'Afrique  are  the  latest  odors  and  so  different  from  perfumes 
familiar  to  everyone.  Piveot'  Legrand's  violet  and  Roger  &  Gallet'sLnbin 
and  Pinaud's  perfumes,  Soap,  Sachets,  Face  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc 

Pinaud's  8  ounce  bottles,  $3  50;  regular  size  reduced  from  $1  25  to  85 
cents  per  bottle,  including  Peau  d'Espague  in  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

Every  lady  knows  that  exclusiveness  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as  in 
dress. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.  B.  CHAPMAN,  EPERNAY     CHAMPAGNE. 

SOLE  AGENT  FOR  pQE  8ALK  BT  ^  „IE8T.CLllB6 

PAOIFIO  00A8T, 

23 California 8t., 3.  F Wine    Merchants  and  Grocers. 

DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery — Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1;,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.A.Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  M.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expeuses 

°  Sa  C'  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sauy,  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinqueut  stock  was  postponed  until 
[ONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25.  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sanv  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
ATE, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until  WED- 
NESDAY-, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponem  ?  nt. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FKIDAY, 
October  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco.  September  21st. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Bebr  ng  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Eany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinqueut  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

•  '  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  October  21, 1882. 


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Vol.  XLV. 


SAN  FRAMlbLU,  ^AiUhbAY,  UCIUBER  29,  1892. 


Number  18. 


JOHN    W.    RYLAND 


DEMOCRATIC    NOMINEE    FOR    CONGRESS    IN    THE    FIFTH    DISTRICT. 


A 


THE  Democratic  nominee  for  Congress  in  the  Fifth  Congres- 
sional District  is  a  gentleman  in  every  way  fitted  to  make  an 
excellent  representative  of  California  in  the  next  Congress.  He 
is  a  native  of  this  state,  in  which  he  has  lived  all  his  life,  and 
daring  the  thirty-six  years  that  his  course  has  run,  he  has  always 
shown  himself  to  be  a  man  of  ability,  possessed  of  progressiive 
ideas,  and  ever  in  favor  of  advancement.  Mr.  Eyiand  is  one  of 
the  best  known  and  most  popular  men  of  San  Jose,  of  which  city 
he  is  a  resident.  He  obtained  the  rudiments  of  his  education  in 
St.  Ignatius  College  in  this  city,  and  graduated  from  Santa  Clara 
College.  Subsequently  he  attended  Hasting's  College  of  the  Law, 
and  after  passing  through  the  first  two  classes,  remained  half  the 
term  in  the  senior  class,  when  he  left  the  College  and  being  suffi- 
ciently prepared  by  his  additional  studies  was  admitted  to  the 
Supreme  Court.  In  the  city  of  San  Jose  he  began  the  practice  of 
the  law,  and  soon,  by  reason  of  his  evident  abilities,  advanced 
himself  to  a  leading  position  at  the  bar.  An  unfortunate  physical 
disability,  however,  caused  him  to  reluctantly  withdraw  from  a 
profession  for  which  he  had  shown  himself  eminently  well  fitted. 
Mr.  Ryland,  however,  though  no  longer  an  active  practitioner 
has  not  relinquished  his  study  of  the  law,  and  is  to-day  one  of 
the  best  lawyers  of  Santa  Clara  County.  After  withdrawing  from 
the  bar,  Mr.  Ryland  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  was  for 
some  time  proprietor  of  the  Azula  Natural  Mineral  Watei  Com- 
pany, his  interest  in  which  he  disposed  of  only  a  few  months 


ago.  Taking  a  great  pride  in  his  State  and  its  institutions,  Mr. 
Ryland  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden 
West,  an  organization  which  promises  to  be  a  power  for  good  in  ad- 
vancing the  material  interests  of  California.  He  organized  the  first 
Parior  of  Native  Sons  at  San  Jose,  San  Jose  ParlorNo.22,  and  is  First 
Past  President  of  that  body.  This  is  not  the  first  time  Mr.  Ryland 
has  appeared  before  the  public  for  elective  office.  Some  years 
ago  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  State  Senate,  and  was  defeated  by 
only  six  votes.  The  Committee  on  Elections  declared  in  favor  of 
his  election,  but  the  Senate  refused  to  seat  him  or  to  allow  a  re- 
count of  the  votes,  which,  Mr.  Ryland  claimed,  would  demon- 
strate his  election  to  the  office.  The  citizens  of  San  Jose,  recog- 
nizing his  abilities,  chose  him  as  one  of  the  Board  of  Fifteen  Free- 
holders appointed  to  frame  a  charter  for  the  city  of  San  Jose. 
Mr.  Ryland  is  io  no  sense  a  politician.  He  is  an  active  business 
man,  with  property  interests,  who  has  at  heart  the  material  pros- 
perity of  his  State  and  district.  He  is  not  a  demagogue,  nor  in- 
clined to  follow  the  many  ".  isms  "  that  now  cause  defection  in 
the  ranks  of  professional  politicians.  An  able,  independent  gen- 
tleman of  ability,  Mr.  Ryland  has  the  entire  confidence  of  the 
people  of  Santa  Clara  county,  who  believe  that  he  will,  as  he 
ought  to  be,  elected  as  the  Representative  of  the  Fifth  District  in 
Congress  in  the  place  of  the  political  accident  that  now  occupies 
the  chair. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  29,  1892 


WALLACE    AS    A    DEMAGOGUE. 

THE  history  of  the  corruption  among  some  of  the  earlier  Eng- 
lish judges  whose  names  are  led  by  Jeffries  would  and 
could  be  put  to  shame  by  a  man  who  occupies  a  position  as 
Superior  Judge  in  this  city  and  county  of  San  Francisco  at  the 
present  time,  and  who  is  now  out  for  the  suffrages  of  his  fellow 
citizens  hoping  and  trusting  to  be  re-elected.  It  would  be  useless 
to  mince  matters  or  to  speak  in  enigmas,  so  we  will  say  that  one 
of  the  brainiest  men  on  the  Bench  is  William  T.  Wallace  whose 
abilities  are  so  great,  that  he  is  capable  of  writing  an  opinion  on 
any  subject,  two  ways,  one  right  and  one  wrong,  and  both 
equally  learned.  An  old  lawyer,  long  since  deceased,  who  was 
prominent  at  this  bar,  said  that  Wallace,  when  on  the  Supreme 
Bench  had  incorporated  so  much  vicious  law  into  the  Reports  of 
this  State  that  it  would  take  fifty  years  of  zealous  labor  by  hon- 
est judges  to  get  rid  of  it.  The  first  place  a  citizen  looks  for  re- 
dress for  his  wrongs  and  for  justice  is  on  the  Bench,  where 
he  is  compelled  to  go  to  have  his  rights  adjusted,  and  just  think 
of  such  a  man  as  Wallace  being  found  there.  His  last  effort  has 
brought  him  out  most  prominently  before  the  Bar.  We  have 
always  disliked  boodlers  and  if  Bruner  is  a  boodler,  we  like  him 
no  better  than  any  other  boodler,  but  now  that  we  are  considering 
the  making  up  of  our  tickets  for  election,  the  name  of  William 
T.  Wallace  comes  before  us  more  prominently  than  any  other,  as 
we  think  of  the  $5000  check  that  was  offered  to  bribe  certain 
people  at  the  San  Jose  Convention  in  the  interest  of  this 
very  over  zealous  Judge  Win.  T.  Wallace.  The  prosecution 
in  the  Bruner  case  has  been  bitter  without  cessation.  He  has 
been  pursued  by  Wallace  and  his  blood  hounds  for  months 
and  months  until  finally,  after  many  mad  efforts  on  the  part  of 
Wallace  to  have  Bruner  tried,  every  fair-minded  citizen  knew 
that  his  prosecutor  was  Wallace  himself,  and  he  at  last  has  had 
the  opportunity  of  bringing  his  victim  into  his  own  courtroom, 
and  of  having  him  tried  on  a  charge  of  receiving  or  soliciting  a 
bribe  from  a  man  who  is  in  the  ticket-scalping  business.  Some  of 
the  most  learned  and  brainiest  members  of  this  bar,  and  even 
such  members  of  the  bar  as  were  interested  in  the  prosecution  of 
this  man,  were  so  overcome  with  indignation  at  the  unwarranted, 
vicious  and  illegal  charge  delivered  to  the  jury  in  this  Bruner 
case,  that  they  expressed  their  indignation,  and  left  the  court- 
room. It  was  not  a  judicial  charge  as  lawyers  understand  it,  but 
It  was  a  closing  argument  on  behalf  of  the  prosecution,  it  was  a 
harangue  against  corporations  and  other  citizens  as  had 
invited  the  enmity  of  this  august  Judge,  and  was  delivered  in  a 
manner  that  would  have  put  O'Donnell  or  any  Sand-Iotter  to 
shame,  and  the  court  deliberately  prostituted  itself  as  a  Judge 
for  the  purpose  of  making  political  favor  for  Wm.  T.  Wallace. 
One  of  the  oldest  lawyers  practicing  at  this  bar,  a  man  who  has 
grown  gray  in  his  devotion  to  his  practice,  was  so  overcome  with 
indignation  while  this  Judge  was  violating  every  known  principle 
of  law,  decency  and  fairness  that  a  defendant  is  entitled  to  re- 
ceive, unable  to  keep  his  seat  or  restrain  himself  any  longer,  arose 
and  said  to  the  bystanders,  that  it  had  never  been  his  misfortune 
to  be  present  and  be  forced  to  listen  to  such  an  outrageous  disregard 
of  every  fair  principle  that  governs  and  controls  legal  proceedings. 
The  moral  to  be  deducted  from  the  conduct  of  this  man  Wallace 
is,  what  would  Wallace  do  against  a  man  whom  he  personally 
disliked  if  he  had  him  in  his  clutches,  since  he  would  treat  a  fel- 
low like  Bruner  in  the  manner  he  has?  Bruner  was  only  used  as 
a  sacrifice  to  further  the  ends  and  the  political  ambition  of  this 
man,  who  is  known  to  be  the  associate  of  men  who  bear  the  re- 
putation of  being  great  bribers  and  .all-around  corruptionists. 
What  could  a  poor  victim  do  in  the  hands  of  Wallace,  if  Wallace 
were  receiving  a  goodly  compensation  for  his  victim's  destruc- 
tion? A  man  with  Wallace's  energy,  and  with  proper  assistance, 
could  ruin  the  life  and  future  happiness  of  any  person  who  would 
come  into  his  immediate  presence,  for  a  consideration. 

In  physique  Wallace  is  everything  that  is  commanding.  His 
manner  is  most  polite,  his  smile  pleasing,  and  his  speech  urbane, 
and  he  is  always  at  his  best  when  dealing  with  the  man  he  hates 
most,  and  when  breathing  to  him  words  of  apparent  friendship, 
while  within  the  next  space  of  time  he  is  seeking  to  wreck  and 
ruin  the  life  and  happiness  of  the  one  who  but  a  few  moments 
before  his  arms  had  encircled. 

There  is  a  Judge  whosits  upon  our  Superior  Bench  whose  name 
is  the  very  synomym  of  honesty,  and  who  is  as  incorruptible  as 
Heaven  itself,  and  when  this  Judge's  name  came  to  be  mentioned 
in  the  presence  of  Wallace,  and  because  this  honest  little  Judge 
sought  to  defend  the  interest  of  a  widow  and  her  orphan  children, 
this  man  Wallace,  in  speaking  of  this  honest  little  Judge,  could 
find  no  terms  too  disgusting  to  apply  to  his  brother  Judge  because 
he  prevented  the  said  Wallace  from  carrying  out  his  nefarious 
scheme. 

No  man  will  know  better  the  truth  of  these  statements  than  will 
this  man  Wallace  when  he  peruses  them  in  the  News  Letter,  and 
if  he  doeB  not,  and  will  take  the  trouble  to  inquire  concerning 
them,  nothing  will  please  the  News  Letter  better  than  to  answer 
any  question  concerning  any  of  the  statements  herein  contained. 

There  might  be  some  excuse  for  voting  for  Wallace  were  there 


a  scarcity  of  conscientious  and  learned  men,  but  this  scarcity 
does  not  exist. 

There  are  many  other  names  offered  to  the  public  for  Superior 
Judge.  First  and  forinost  is  that  of  Judge  Slack,  who  had  the 
manly  courage  to  say  in  a  meeting  before  the  Judges  that  under 
no  consideration  would  he  vote  for  Wallace,  or  words  to  that 
effect,  on  account  of  Wallace's  conduct  in  the  late  Grand  Jury 
matter.  Men  like  Slack  honor  and  adorn  a  Bench.  Judge  Slack 
is  entitled  to  all  the  kind  consideration  the  citizens  have  bestowed 
upon  him. 

Frank  W.  Lawler  is  another  capable,  honest  and  upright  man 
that  has  always  sought  to  do  his  duty,  and  when  young  men  like 
Duncan  Hayne,  James  M.  Sewell,  F.  W.  Van  Reynegom  and 
Judge  Britton,  now  Justice  of  the  Peace,  are  before  us  for  qut 
suffrages,  who  can  think  of  selecting  a  man  like  Wallace,  who 
has  defiled  every  principle  of  justice  and  who  has  outlived  his 
usefulness.     He  should  be  relegated  into  oblivion. 


THE    CONSTITUTIONAL    AMENDMENTS. 

IN  the  midst  of  the  municipal  campaign,  citizens  should  not  lose 
sight  of  the  fact  that  not  among  the  least  of  the  very  import- 
ant matters  that  will  be  decided  by  their  franchises  on  election 
day  are  the  five  proposed  amendments  to  the  Constitution,  which 
will  be  voted  for  by  their  title  on  the  general  ballot.  These  five 
proposed  amendments  come  from  the  Legislature  of  a  Thousand 
Scandals,  and  therefore  need  to  be  very  carefully  considered  be- 
fore it  is  decided  to  consider  them  at  all  favorably.  They  are  un- 
fortunate on  account  of  their  disreputable  parentage.  The  first 
amendment,  Senate  Constitution  Amendment  No.  10,  needs  only 
the  glance  of  an  honest  man  to  kill  it.  In  brief,  it  proposes  that 
the  legislative  sessions  shall  be  extended  from  sixty  to  one  hun- 
dred days,  with  pay  for  members.  With  pay.  There  is  where  the 
little  joker  comes  in.  Sixty  days  is  sufficient  for  the  transac- 
tion of  the  business  of  the  State,  provided  the  legislators  are  able 
and  honest  men.  There  is  no  occasion  for  the  lengthening  of  the 
session  to  one  hundred  days.  If  such  action  were  taken,  the  only 
result  would  be  an  increase  in  the  number  of  worthless  bills  and 
fraudulent  claims  that  would  be  presented.  Senate  Constitution 
Amendment  No.  11  should  also  be  knocked  out.  Its  only  object 
seems  to  be  to  give  the  present  Lieutenant-Governor  a  salary  of 
$4  000  a  year,  and  appoint  him  a  junketing  committee  of  one  to 
visit  various  State  institutions,  which  are  now  supposed  to  be 
under  the  direct  supervision  of  the  Governor.  The  Constitution 
now  provides  that  no  State  clerk  shall  receive  more  than  $1,600  a 
year.  In  the  proposed  amendment  this  clause  is  omitted,  so  that 
the  salaries  of  State  clerks  are  not  fixed.  This  is  so  palpable  a 
political  trick  to  make  snug  berths  for  ward  strikers  and  heelers, 
that  that  portion  of  the  proposition  alone  should  be  sufficient  to 
kill  it.  Another  amendment,  Assembly  Constitutional  Amend- 
ment No.  5,  provides  in  effect  that  the  Deficiency  Bill  may  consist 
of  as  many  items  as  there  are  deficiencies.  This  at  once  opens 
the  gates  to  a  flood  of  existing  or  soon-to  be-contracted  deficien- 
cies. Such  a  law  as  that  proposed,  it  may  be  evident  to  any 
reasoning  man,  would  certainly  be  a  very  bad  one,  for  it  at  once 
makes  the  way  to  crime  easier;  and  the  easier  the  way,  the  more 
probable  the  crime.  If  that  amendment  carries,  then  the  one 
hundred  day  proposition  should  carry  with  it,  for  it  will  certainly 
take  the  Legislature  thirty  or  forty  days  alone  to  properly  con- 
sider deficiencies  that  may  be  foisted  upon  them  under  cover  of 
this  act.  Under  the  present  process,  each  deficiency  comes  in  a 
bill  by  itself,  and  it  may  then  be  easily  disposed  of.  As  a  single 
bill,  also,  has  less  chance  of  passage  than  a  general  bill,  such  as 
that  proposed,  it  is  evident  that  office-holders  have  not  less  in- 
ducement to  make  a  deficiency,  knowing  the  chances  of  failure  of 
their  bills,  than  if  their  amounts  were  included  in  a  general  de- 
ficiency bill,  which  would  have  behind  it  the  combined  friends  of 
all  the  short  office-holders  of  the  State.  This  amendment  is  a  bad 
one,  and  should  be  defeated.  The  amendment  providing  that  a 
city  of  more  than  3,500  inhabitants  may  frame  a  charter  for  its 
own  government  seems  a  good  one,  and  should  be  adopted. 

SOME  of  the  beauties  of  a  high  protective  tariff  are  well  illus- 
trated by  the  great  existing  difference  in  prices  between  Ameri- 
can goods  of  the  same  manufacture,  when  sold  here  and  in  Europe. 
For  instance,  why  is  it  that  a  Walthara  watch,  an  American  make,  is 
sold  here  for  $50,  while  the  duplicate,  from  the  same  American  fac- 
tory, can  be  bought  in  London  or  Paris  for  $35  ?  Why  do  we  have  to 
pay  $7.50  for  a  Seth  Thomas  clock,  an  American  make,  that  can  be 
bought  in  London  for  $5.00? 

IT  is  a  well  known  fact  that  a  separate  schedule  of  prices  for 
goods  intended  for  foreign  export  is  made  by  all  American  mak- 
ers of  clocks,  Yankee  notions,  agricultural  implements,  cutlery,  car- 
penters' ;tools,  etc.  These  prices  are  from  twenty-five  to  fifty  per 
cent,  below  the  rates  quoted  to  domestic  purchasers.  An  English- 
man can  buy  an  American  tool  for  $1  that  costs  us  $1.25.  Yet  the 
protectionists  say  the  consumer  does  not  pay  the  tax. 

THE  office  of  the  News  Letter  in  New  York  City  has  been  estab- 
lished at  196  Boadway,  room  14,  where  information  may  be 
obtained  regarding  subscription  and  advertising  rates. 


October  29,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    MAYOR. 


WE  have  announced  that  we  are  in  favor  of  Wendell  Easton, 
the  Republican  nominee  for  Mayor,  and  as  the  campaign 
progresses,  and  thereby  the  opinions  of  the  people  are  the  better 
ascertained,  we  feel  that  in  selecting  Mr.  Easton  we  have  been  in 
accord  with  the  great  mass  of  the  electors;  with  the  men  who  are 
in  favor  of  enterprise  and  progress;  who  are  willing  to  advocate 
measures  which  have  as  their  ends  the  improvement  of  the  con- 
dition of  the  municipality  and  the  advancement  of  the  city.  It  is 
hardly  necessary  to  tell  thinking  men,  and  it  is  to  them  that  we 
speak,  that  San  Francisco  is  not  in  the  position  which  her  natural 
advantages  entitle  her  to  hold.  We  have  been  held  down  by  men 
who,  not  having  confidence  in  themselves,  feared  to  take  steps 
for  the  improvement  of  the  city,  knowing  that  they  could  not 
carry  them  to  the  successful  consummation  which  is  desirable. 
In  Mr.  Easton  we  have  a  man  whose  whole  life  has  been  success- 
ful. From  boyhood  he  has  lived  in  this  city,  and  he  has  grown 
with  its  growth.  In  young  manhood,  and  to-day  in  the  full 
vigor  of  his  maturer  years,  he  has  ever  been  for  whatever  had  for 
its  object  the  advancement  of  San  Francisco.  It  is  well  known 
that  repeatedly  he  has  been  signaled  out  from  his  fellow-citizens 
to  manage  matters  which  required  great  executive  ability  to 
handle,  and  has  always  carried  affairs  successfully  to  the  satis- 
faction of  the  citizens,  and  to  his  own  great  honor.  The  personal 
success  of  his  business  career  is  bis  best  eulogy.  Starting  as  an 
errand  boy  in  this  city,  he  is  to-day  considered  one  of  the  ablest 
men  in  the  community.  Notwithstanding  the  bitterness  with 
which  this  municipal  campaign  has  been  waged,  even  the  most 
rabid  supporters  of  the  other  candidates  could  find  nothing  more 
heinous  to  say  against  Mr.  Easton  than  that  he  is  a  property 
owner.  And  it  is  in  that  very  fact  that  we  join  with  him,  for  we 
hold  that  the  fact  that  a  candidate  is  a  property  owner  and  tax- 
payer, is  calculated  to  make  him  the  able,  conservative  and  safe 
business  manager  which  a  municipality  requires.  Of  Mr.  Easton's 
opponents,  Ellert,  Baldwin  and  O'Donnell,  nothing  need  be  said. 
Mr.  Ellert  is  a  young  man,  and  has  never  shown  himself  pos- 
sessed of  that  great  executive  ability  and  powers  of  determination 
and  independence  which  are  absolutely  necessary  in  the  person- 
ality of  a  successful  Mayor.  He  is  a  week  and  negative  quality. 
Mr.  Baldwin  is  a  grain  speculator.  He  has  not  had  opportunity 
to  show,  nor  do  his  best  friends  think  he  has  the  qualities  neces- 
sary to  successfully  administer  the  affairs  of  this  city  for  two 
years.  Of  O'Donnell  it  is  unnecessary  to  speak,  as  he  is  notor- 
ious. All  men  run  from  a  mad  dog.  Wendell  Easlon,  we  reiter- 
ate, is  head  and  shoulders  above  all  his  opponents,  and  he  should 
be  elected. 


FOR    SHERIFF. 


THE  nearer  the  calendar  shows  the  date  of  election  day,  the 
greater  appear  the  probabilities  of  the  election  as  Sheriff  of 
John  J.  McDade,  the  Democratic  nominee.  The  people  need  not 
be  told  of  the  importance  of  the  office,  nor  of  the  many  oppor- 
tunities for  fraud  which  it  would  present  to  a  dishonest  man.  We 
have  passed  through  that  experience  in  other  years,  and  the  elec- 
tors now  seem  determined  to  send  into  the  office  a  man  who  in 
all  respects  is  absolutely  beyond  reproach  and  above  temptation. 
Mr.  McDade's  private  and  public  life  each  give  assurance  that  he 
is  the  man  for  the  place.  As  a  member  of  the  Assembly  he 
showed  himself  as  upright  and  independent  a  representative  of 
the  people  as  ever  sat  in  the  Capitol  at  Sacramento.  At  that  time 
he  opposed  with  all  the  force  of  bis  strong  nature  many  iniqui- 
tous measures  which  were  introduced  at  the  behest  of  the  pol- 
itical bosses  of  the  times.  He  was  universally  acknowledged, 
even  by  those  whose  wicked  schemes  he  defeated,  as  a  great 
power  for  good  in  the  State  Legislature.  In  the  office  of  the 
Superintendent  of  Streets  in  this  city  he  also  showed  himself  a 
most  capable  man,  and  he  received  the  approval  of  thousands  of 
taxpayers  for  his  good  work  while  in  that  office.  Mr.  McDade 
is  a  man  of  great  energy.  Hard  work  is  his  pleasure,  and  he  is 
never  satisfied  unless  he  knows  he  is  doing  some  good.  It  was 
for  this  reason  that  he  became  an  instructor  of  the  night  classes 
of  mechanics  and  clerks  in  the  Lincoln  Evening  School  and  thou- 
sands of  his  pupils  look  upon  him  as  a  benefactor.  Among  the 
mechanics  and  laboring  classes  he  has  great  strength,  for  he  is  in 
a  certain  sense  one  of  them,  having  served  his  time  as  a  pattern- 
maker at  the  Union  Iron  Works.  We  are  confident  that  Mr.  Mc- 
Dade's election  will  result  in  great  benefit  to  the  city  and  county. 
He  is  by  all  odds  the  best  man  named  for  the  place.  He  is  not 
a  creature  of  a  boss,  being  a  man  of  a  bold  and  independent  spirit. 
The  office  of  Sheriff,  in  the  event  of  his  election,  will  not  be  filled 
by  deputies  who  are  graduates  from  prisons,  or  who  are  in  train- 
ing for  the  wearing  of  the  State  stripes.  Mr.  McDade  is  an  able 
and  an  honest  man.  He  will  give  an  honest  administration,  and 
we  feel  justified  in  saying  that  if  elected  his  term  will  be  one  of 
the  best  in  all  respects  that  the  Sheriff's  office  of  the  county  has 
ever  known.  With  perfect  confidence  in  the  man,  we  submit  his 
name  to  the  electors  of  San  Francisco,  .at  the  same  time  giving 
them  the  assurance  that  no  better  man  than  John  J.  McDade  has 
been  named  for  office  in  this  county  since  electors  voted  in  San 
Francisco. 


FOR    DISTRICT    ATTORNEY. 


NO  nominee  on  any  ticket,  whoever  he  may  be,  is  better  en- 
titled to  public  recognition  and  favor  than  William  8.  Barnes, 
the  District  Attorney.  Mr.  Barnes  was  elected  on  the  Republican 
ticket  two  years  ago,  and  he  has  been  renominated  by  the  Re- 
publican Convention  of  this  year.  The  office  of  District  Attorney 
is  one  of  the  most  important  in  the  municipality.  He  it  is  who 
is  the  public  prosecutor  in  all  cases  of  felony,  and  who,  in  the 
name  of  the  people,  presses  to  the  bar  of  justice  the  offenders 
against  the  laws.  The  District  Attorney  is,  in  many  respects,  the 
adviser  of  the  Grand  Jury,  and  his  many  important  duties  make 
him  a  very  responsible  official.  It  is  apparent  that  for  such  an 
office  an  able  lawyer  ?.Dd  an  honorable  man  is  needed.  Mr. 
Barnes,  during  his  present  administration  of  the  office,  has  shown 
himself  possessed  of  both  qualifications.  The  brilliant  manner  in 
which  he  has  managed  the  many  difficult  cases  that  have  gone 
into  his  office  has  aroused  the  admiration  of  the  Bar  and  the  warm 
approval  of  the  citizens.  During  the  administration  of  Mr.  Barnes 
no  scoundrels  have  been  attached  in  any  way  to  the  office  of  Dis- 
Attorney,  nor  has  anything  transpired  but  to  show  that  in  se- 
lecting the  incumbent  two  years  ago  to  represent  them  as  a  pub- 
lic prosecutor  the  people  did  one  of  the  few  wise  acts  which 
they  occasionally  perftrm.  Mr.  Barnes  is  now  a  candidate  for 
re-election,  and  certainly  all  the  electors  who  supported  him  in 
1890  will  vote  for  him  now.  Then  he  was  untried,  an  unknown 
quantity.  Now  he  is  a  veteran.  He  has  passed  through  the 
crucible  test,  and  has  shown  himself  a  man  of  learning,  spirit  and 
perfect  understanding  of  the  law.  Mr.  Barnes,  personally,  is  very 
popular,  being  of  a  sunny,  genial  nature,  that  attracts  friends  for 
him  wherever  he  may  go.  He  numbers  his  friends  in  this  city 
by  the  many  thousands,  and  he  will  doubtless  be  re-elected  to  the 
office  which  he  now  fills  so  very  ably. 


THE   UNION   DEPOT. 


THE  Bulletin,  in  accordance  with  its  usual  Silurian  policy,  is 
opposed  to  the  proposition  about  to  be  voted  upon  for  the 
construction  of  a  Union  Railroad  Depot  at  the  foot  of  Market 
street.  In  order  to  defeat  a  project  which  would  tend  to  the 
benefit  of  the  city,  in  more  senses  than  one,  it  does  not  hesitate 
to  misrepresent  the  facts  with  the  facility  peculiar  to  its  pica- 
yunish  owners.  It  says  that  the  railroad— and  under  this  cate- 
gory the  Southern  Pacific  is  especially  aimed  at — pays  only  some- 
thing like  $19,000  per  annum  in  rent  to  the  State  for  the  use  of 
their  landing  stages.  This  statement  is  false,  and  the  Bulletin 
knew  it  when  it  uttered  it.  The  broad-guage  road  pays  today 
to  the  Harbor  Commission  the  sum  of  $2  800  a  month,  equivalent 
to  $33,600  per  annum,  for  the  use  of  the  landing  at  the  foot  of 
Market  street,  and  the  narrow-guage  pays  ¥700  a  month,  or 
$8,400  per  annum,  for  the  same  privilege.  At  the  Second  street 
freight-slip  the  charge  is  $1,600  a  month,  and  at  the  Lombard 
street  slip  $1,800,  of  which  the  Donahue  line  pays  half,  or  $900. 
For  the  privilege  of  switching  on  the  Belt  Railroad,  the  Southern 
Pacific  Road  pays  $800  a  month,  and  the  Northern  Pacific  $500, 
making  for  the  former  a  total  annual  payment  of  $96,000,  instead 
of  the  $19,000  which  the  Bulletin  claims.  Outside  of  this,  the  tax- 
payers of  San  Francisco  recognize  the  fact  that  the  entrance  of 
strangers  ought  to  be  better  than  it  is,  and  for  the  prosperity  of 
the  city  there  are  few  who  will  agree  w;th  the  Clay  street  ravens 
in  their  arguments  against  the  proposed  improvements.  It  is  the 
same  old  story — the  direct  opposition  to  everything  that  is  not  in 
accordance  with  the  policy  of  '49. 


A    FINE    LAW    POINT. 


A  CASE  at  law  has  arisen  at  Sacramento  the  parallel  to  which 
has  seldom,  if  ever,  been  seen.  A  firm  dealing  extensively  in 
dry  goods  and  clothing  some  time  since  erected  a  handsome  build- 
ing in  which  were  included  several  novel  features,  such  as  arcade 
show  windows,  massive  arches  and  other  attractive  designs  cal- 
culated to  draw  public  attention.  The  owner  of  an  adjacent 
piece  of  property,  engaged  in  the  same  line  of  business,  thereupon 
erected  a  building  identical  in  every  respect  with  that  of  his  rivals, 
and  which  to  the  casual  observer  was  one  and  the  same  structure 
with  it.  Here  he  is  doing  a  prosperous  business.  But  the 
builders  of  the  original  structure  claim  that  they  have  suffered 
great  damage  from  this  imitative  rivalry,  and  have  commenced 
suit  against  their  cunning  competitor,  claiming  heavy  damages. 
They  go  further,  and  demand  an  order  from  court  directing  that 
such  changes  be  made  in  the  objectionable  building  as  shall  pre- 
vent it  from  being  mistaken  by  unwary  customers  for  their  own. 
The  outcome  of  thiB  suit  will  be  watched  with  interest.  It  cer- 
tainly does  not  appear  to  the  casual  observer  that  the  courts  may 
determine  the  style  of  architecture  of  any  man's  building,  pro- 
vided the  local  ordinances  be  complied  with,  and  nothing  in  the 
nature  of  a  public  nuisance  be  maintained.  It  doubtless  is  annoy- 
ing for  the  constructor  of  a  fine  building  to  find  an  imitator  in  the 
manner  which  has  aroused  the  Sacramento  merchant's  litigious 
ire,  but  it  would  seem  to  be  one  of  those  cases  where  all  the 
aggrieved  parties  can  do  is  to  grin  and  bear  it. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  29,  1892. 


SOME     GOOD     CANDIDATES. 


IT  is  needless  to  point  out  to  the  people  of  this  city  the  great  im- 
portance of  electing  as  Supervisors  men  who  are  identified 
with  the  interests  of  the  city,  and  who  are  above  the  influence  of 
corrupt  political  bosses.  It  is  in  the  chambers  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  that  in  the  past  nefarious  schemes  have  been  hatched 
with  the  object  of  defrauding  the  city  out  of  thousands  of  dol- 
lars, or  of  imposing  unjust  burdens  upon  the  taxpayers.  It  is  to 
the  honest  Supervisor  that  the  people  look  for  the  protection  of 
their  interests.  A  number  of  good  men  have  been  nominated  for 
Supervisors  this  year  by  the  different  contending  political  parties, 
and  from  the  list  we  have  selected  a  few  nominees  who  seem  to 
us  to  possess  the  necessary  requirements  for  excellent  City 
Fathers.  Henry  P.  Sonntag,  for  instance,  who  is  the  Republican 
nominee  in  the  Tenth  Ward,  is  one  of  the  most  respected  business 
men  in  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the  real  estate  firm  of  Shain- 
wald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  the  well-known  real  estate  dealers,  and  has 
for  years  been  known  as  an  able  and   progressive  business  man. 


IN  recommending  to  the  favorable  consideration  of  the  electors 
of  the  city  certain  gentlemen  who  have  been  nominated  for 
Superior  Judges,  we  wiah  to  impress  upon  the  citizens  the  im- 
portance to  them  as  a  body  of  electing  able  and  honest  men  to 
judicial  positions.  The  administration  of  the  courts  of  San  Fran- 
cisco has  not  in  the  past  been  satisfactory  to  the  people,  and  they 
now  have  an  opportunity  to  protect  their  own  interests  by  put- 
ting on  the  bench  men  in  whom  they  can  have  faith.  Above  all 
other  officers,  Judges  should  be  men  without  partisanship,  and  of 
such  broad  and  liberal  minds  and  lofty  natures,  than  they  will 
not,  as  a  prominent  Judge  did  the  other  day  in  charging  a  jury, 
allow  themselves  to  be  biassed  and  unfair  in  their  treatment  of 
parties  litigant,  because  of  personal  grievances.  We  want  men 
learned  in  the  law,  men  of  unimpeachable  integrity,  men  whose 
judgments  will  not  be  swayed  at  the  beck  and  nod  of  a  political 
boss.  Among  the  gentlemen  who  we  think  would  honor  the  Su- 
perior Bench,  is  George  H.  Bahrs,  a  nominee  of  the  Republican 
party.  He  is  a  young  man.  but  not  for  that  the  less  able  and 
worthy,  for  he  has  made  a  name  for  himself  in  the  city,  and  is  j 
known  as  a  rising  lawyer,  with  a  bright  future.  Mr.  Bahrs  is  a 
native  of  this  city,  has  lived  here  all  his  life,  was  educated  in  the 
local  public  schools,  and  since  beginning  his  professional  career 
has  shown  himself  to  be  deeply  interested  in  the  progress  of  the 
municipality.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1885,  and  a  year 
later  gained  prominence  and  established  his  high  place  as  a  crim- 
inal lawyer  by  his  brilliant  management  of  the  cases  of  Barley 
and  Gorman,  tried  for  murder.  Mr.  Bahra  has  thousands  of 
friends  and  admirers  throughout  the  city,  as,  on  account  of  his 
connection  with  a  number  of  fraternal  organizations,  he  is  exten- 
sively and  popularly  known.  He  is  prominent  in  the  Druids, 
Workmen,  Improved  Red  Men,  Verein  Eintracht,  Schuetzen 
Verein,  Native  Sons  and  Knights  and  Ladies  of  Honor.  Mr. 
Bahrs  has  done  much  for  the  benefit  of  the  wine  industries  of 
the  State  by  acting  as  attorney  for  the  Trade  Protective  Associa- 
tion. 

William  G.  Brittan  is  another  young  San  Franciscan  who 
was  put  forward  by  his  Republican  brethren  as  a  fit  man  to 
press  the  woolsack.  In  the  case  of  Mr.  Brittan  the  nomination 
is  a  reward,  or  rather  a  promotion  in  recognition  of  excellent  ser- 
vices already  rendered  to  the  bench.  He  was  elected  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace  two  years  ago,  which  position  he  now  holds.  As  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace  he  has  given  invariable  satisfaction,  his  de- 
cisions always  being  just,  and  in  accordance  with  the  law  and  the 
facts.  He  is  a  very  popular  man,  having  hosts  of  friends  through- 
out the  city.  Mr.  Brittan  has  lived  here  for  years,  his  father 
having  been  J.  W.  Brittan,  founder  of  the  firm  of  Holbrook, 
Merrill  &  Stetson.  Justice  Brittan  is  one  of  the  best  men  named 
for  the  Superior  Bench.  He  is  possessed  of  the  judicial  faculty, 
is  a  good  lawyer,  a  hard  worker,  a  deep  student,  and  above  all, 
an  absolutely  honest  man. 

Among  the  Democratic  nominees  for  the  Superior  Bench  is 
Duncrin  Hayne,  a  man  in  every  way  fitted  for  the  office  to  which 
he  aspires.  His  name  alone  is  sufficient  to  assure  the  electors 
that  he  would  be  such  an  honorable  Judge  as  we  need  upon  the 
bench.  Mr.  Hayne  is  an  able  lawyer  and  a  hard  worker,  two 
qualities  which  are  needed  in  the  personality  of  a  successful  ad- 
ministrator of  the  laws.  Such  men  we  need  upon  the  bench.  He 
is  of  the  class  of  whom  we  have  had  but  too  few  as  Judges  in 
this  county.  We  need  to  lift  our  courts  above  the  contaminat- 
ing influences  which  have  given  them  a  bad  name,  and  by  plac- 
ing good  men,  such  as  Duncan  Hayne,  upon  the  bench,  assure 
litigants  that  they  will  receive  justice. 

The  renomination  by  the  Democratic  Convention  of  Frank  W. 
Lawler  for  Superior  Judge  is  a  deserved  recognition  of  excellent 
service  rendered  by  this  able  lawyer  during  his  term  upon  the 
bench.  Judge  Lawler  is  known  as  an  able  jurist,  with  the  jud- 
icial faculty  well  developed.  He  is  popular  both  among  lawyers 
and  litigants  who  have  had  occasion  to  appear  in  his  court,  and 
his  re-election  would  receive  approval  from  many  who  admire 
him  for  his  many  excellent  qualities.  We  need  able  men  upon 
the  bench,  and  one  who  has  experience  and  has  shown  his  fitness 
for  the  place  is  certainly  well  entitled  to  recognition. 


Mr.  Sonntag  is  the  very  man  to  have  as  Supervisor,  for.  as  his 
interests  are  so  vitally  dependent  upon  the  welfare  and  pros- 
perity of  the  city,  it  is  apparent  that  he  would  be  animated  more 
than  usual  to  advance  tne  material  wealth  of  the  municipality. 
His  reputation  in  the  business  community  is  the  highest.  He 
knows  the  needs  of  the  city,  and  would  prove  an  important  factor 
in  advancing  San  Francisco. 

One  of  the  incumbents  has  announced  himself  as  a  candi- 
date for  re-election  as  Supervisor.  This  is  J.  W.  Burling,  of  the 
Tenth  Ward.  This  gentleman  has  secured  place  upon  the  muni- 
cipal ticket  by  presenting  to  the  Board  of  Election  Commis- 
sioners a  petition  signed  by  thousands  of  citizens,  Mr.  Burling's 
petition  bearing  no  less  than  ten  thousand  names.  In  these  times 
independent  candidates  should  be  considered  with  great  favor,  for 
the  bosses  of  both  the  leading  political  parties  have  put  up  so 
many  men  that  an  independent  nominee  is  a  rarity.  Mr  Burl- 
ing has  a  good  record  to  aid  him  in  his  fight  against  the  slated 
men,  and  he  should  receive  support  in  his  fight  against  the  cap- 
ture of  the  city  by  the  busses. 

In  the  Fifth  Ward  George  McGillivray  was  nominated  by  the  De- 
mocratic Municipal  Convention.  He  is  a  well-known  business 
man,  being  connected  with  the  Eucalyptus  Boiler  Fluid  Company 
and  the  Downie  B.  I.  P.  Company.  Mr.  McGillivray  is  a  native 
of  the  State,  and  is  an  enterprising  man  of  progressive  ideas.  His 
ability  has  been  repeatedly  displayed  in  his  business  career,  and 
he  has  a  grasp  of  large  affairs  and  unusual  executive  ability,  which 
will  well  fit  him  for  Supervisorial  duties. 

One  of  the  best-known  men  among  the  Supervisorial  nominees 
is  the  Non-Partisan  candidate  in  the  Second  Ward,  J.  Browell. 
Mr.  Browell  is  a  pioneer  business  man  who  stands  very  high  in 
the  community.  His  residence  has  been  in  the  Second  Ward  for 
years,  and  he  is  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  that  district.  He 
has  always  been  progressive,  and  in  him  the  Board  would  have 
one  of  the  best  men  that  have  engaged  in  the  city's  management 
for  years. 

No  better  man  has  been  named  for  Supervisor  than  William 
Montgomery,  proprietor  of  the  American  Exchange  Hotel, 
who  was  nominated  by  the  Democratic  Convention  to  represent 
the  Third  Ward.  Mr.  Montgomery  is  an  old  resident,  has  been 
engaged  in  business  in  this  city  for  years,  and  is  a  very  popular 
citizen. 

Victor  D.  Duboce  is  the  Republican  nominee  for  Supervisor  in 
the  Seventh  Ward.  He  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  where  he  was  born 
in  1856,  and  came  to  San  Francisco  in  1871.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  was  connected  with  the  Postoffice  department  in  this 
city,  and  as  Superintendent  ot  the  branch  office  at  the  ferries  dis- 
played marked  executive  ability  during  the  four  years  of  his 
administration.  He  was  afterwards  with  Wright,  Bowne  &  Co., 
and  then  organized  the  Pacific  Equipment  Company,  of  which  he 
is  now  manager.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  firm  of  F.  Person 
&  Co.  He  is  an  able  man  and  an  enterprising  citizen,  and  will 
make  an  excellent  Supervisor. 

Edward  Holland,  the  manager  of  the  Commercial  Hotel,  is  a 
nominee  for  Supervisor  in  the  First  Ward,  having  been  nominated 
by  the  Republican  Convention.  Mr.  Holland  is  one  of  the  solid 
business  men  of  the  city,  who  has  for  years  been  known  as  an 
active  and  progressive  citizen.  He  will  make  an  excellent  Super- 
visor. 


A  NOMINEE  who  is  gaining  strength  daily  is  Geo.  W.  Lee,  the 
Republican  nominee  for  County  Clerk.  As  the  campaign,  to  a 
great  extent,  has  now  become  one  of  personal  popularity  of  the 
candidates,  Mr.  Lee  stands  an  excellent  show  of  election,  as  his 
thousands  of  friends  in  the  city  have  rallied  to  his  support.  He 
is  at  present  the  License  Collector,  in  which  office  he  has  in- 
creased the  revenues  very  materially  during  the  last  year.  In  all 
respects  is  Mr.  Lee  an  able  man,  and  well  fitted  for  tne  important 
office  of  County  Clerk.  An  excellent  accountant  himself,  and  a 
man  of  much  business  experience  and  executive  ability,  he  would 
reduce  the  expenses  of  the  County  Clerk's  Office  much  below  the 
present  exorbitant  amount.  He  has  a  good  record,  is  an  able 
man  and  popular  citizen,  three  facts  which  the  electors  will 
doubtless  consider  much  to  his  advantage  on  election  day. 


D"PRICE'S 


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October  29,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


"SWEET    SIXTEEN." 
[By    D  i    V  e  r  n  o  v .) 


FAIR   picture    is    Longfellow's 
brown  eyes," 


•  maiden    with    the     meek 


"  Standing  with  reluctant  feet. 

Where  the  brook  and  river  meet, 

Where  womanhood  and  childhood  fleet;" 

and  sweet  is  the  girl  whose  budding  beauty  of  form  and  face  and 
spirit  is  the  living  poem,  the  echo  of  whose  melody  the  poet's 
soul  caught,  and  whose  brain  translated  into  the  language  that 
mortals  can  comprehend.  But  that  maiden  is  not  to  be  met  with 
every  day  in  this  age  of  progress,  in  these  times  of  parental  sub- 
mission to  the  whims  and  caprices  of  their  children — when  girls  of 
sixteen  undertake  to  bring  up  their  parents  in  the  way  that  they 
should  go,  and  with  each  year  that  passes  over  their  heads,  take 
precious  good  care  that  their  victims  shall  not  depart  from  it.  If 
the  maiden  lives  in  a  hotel  or  a  boarding  house,  good-bye  to  that 
becoming  modesty  and  that  willingness  to  remain  a  little  longer  a 
child  wh:ch  50  charmed  the  heart  of  Longfellow.  Instead  of  there 
being  anything  reluctant  about  the  maiden — instead  of  her  stand- 
ing in  hesitation  at  the  point  where  she  must  give  up  her  child- 
hood and  begin  to  assume  a  more  dignified  demeanor  in  keeping 
with  her  years,  the  girl  of  to-day  struggles  to  take  a  flying  leap 
across  the  air  line  into  the  future  and  find  herself  a  young  lady, 
as  she  understands  it.  with  her  hair  done  up  and  her  dresses  made 
long,  and  witn  a  manner  that  is  a  combination  of  a  hoodlum's 
swagger  and  a  fast  woman's  fling.  Her  voice  is  far  from  the 
Shakespearean  ideal,  and  Its  harsh,  strident  tones  may  be  heard  all 
over  the  house,  while  her  laugh  rings  out  with  all  the  seductive 
sweetness  of  the  fire  siren  and  the  enchanting  aggressiveness  of  the 
fog  horn.  She  makes  herself  generally  obnoxious,  poor  child,  by 
her  annoying  fashion  of  breaking  into  the  conversation  of  her 
elders,  with  an  incessant  "  What,  mamma  7  "  She  giggles  in  an  im- 
becile manner;  and  she  is  so  self-conscious  that  her  head  rotates 
on  a  pivot  as  she  looks  around  the  dining-room  for  glances  of  ad- 
miration, while  her  commonplace  parents,  convinced  of  the  fact 
that  they  themselves  cannot  attract  either  attention  or  admira- 
tion individually,  lie  back  complacently  and  bask  in  the  »  atten- 
tion," heaven  save  the  mark  1  that  their  daughter  receives.  Their 
egotism  is  so  great  or  their  judgment  is  so  poor  that  they  cannot 
understand  that  the  sentiment  which  the  young  woman  arouses 
is  entirely  devoid  of  that  kindly  feeling  and  sympathetic  interest 
which  might  be  a  legitimate  source  of  satisfaction  to  any  proud 
parent.  They  are  happy  in  their  fool's  paradise,  and  the  angel 
with  the  flaming  sword  who  kept  our  first  parents  from  returning 
to  the  Garden  of  Eden,  now  stands  on  the  inside  of  their  present 
Elysian  fields  and  won't  let  them  out.  They  have  to  stay  where 
they  are,  and  they  are  simple  enough  to  enjoy  it. 

The  maiden  of  to-day  is  rude  to  servants,  and  bullies  the  little 
children.  She  whistles,  and  thinks  it's  fashionable.  Inspired  by 
the  record  of  Miss  Shaw,  she  blows  out  her  soul  in  the  most 
piercing  and  unmus.cal  strains  which  she  mistakes  for 
melody,  but  which  the  other  boarders  regard  in  a  very  different 
light.  She  practices  her  fad  in  the  halls,  and  generally  when 
there  is  some  young  man  within  ear  shot,  for  the  maiden  having 
put  childhood  behind  her  with  a  resolute  hand,  is  determined  to 
live  up  to  her  new  role,  and  to  have  "flirtations."  The  silly 
child,  to  what  mortifying  experiences  does  she  expose  herself  1 
In  the  first  place,  it  generally  happens  that  she  falls  in  with 
some  one  of  those  women  whose  reputation  is  always  in  need 
of  going  to  the  cleaners.  These  women  are  to  be  found  in 
nearly  every  hotel  or  large  boarding  house  in  the  city.  Every- 
body "know  all  about  them,"  but  of  course  can  give  no  proof. 
Men  are  much  more  chivalrous  to  women  that  are  women,  and 
they  are  not  nearly  so  apt  to  start  a  scandal  about  a  respect- 
able lady.  But  when  a  man  tells  his  wife  that  he  knows  such  or 
such  a  woman  is  some  man's  kept  mistress,  he  is  very  likely  to 
know  what  he  is  talking  about,  and  his  wife  or  any  young  girl, 
who  may  be  warned  through  her  married  friend's  experience, 
will  do  well  to  let  such  people  severely  alone.  But  <«  sweet  six- 
teen "  is  too  ignorant  of  the  ways  of  the  world  to  understand, 
she  is  too  self-willed  to  take  any  one's  advice,  she  is  so  foolish 
that  she  is  flattered  by  the  shady  woman's  attention,  and,  by  the 
way,  these  ladies  of  terra  cotta  tints  are  so  soft  and  gentle,  and 
fascinating  in  their  manners,  that  no  young  girl  can  be  expected 
to  resist  the  charm  of  their  openly  expressed  desire  for  company. 
Why  these  women  always  seek  to  attach  themselves  to  some 
fresh  young  girl,  I  have  never  been  able  to  fathom.  It  cannot  be 
that  they  wish  to  force  a  contrasi  between  their  fading  charms 
and  the  sweet  freshness  of  a  young  girl.  It  cannot  be  that  they 
wish  to  introduce  a  possible  rival  to  the  young  men  who  hang 
around  the  rooms  of  an  old  haridan  of  this  sort.  Can  it  be  that 
they  seek  to  find  a  foil  to  their  own  ease  of  manner,  suavity  of 
speech,  and  perfect  poise  in  the  awkwardness,  the  lack  of  polish 
betrayed  by  the  young  girl?  But  the  maiden  is  delighted,  and  she 
seeks  the  society  of  her  shady  acquaintance  on  all  occasions;  she 
even  seeks  to  have  men  in  her  own  train,  she  waylays  the  boys 
in  the  halls,  she  rushes  out  on  the  front  steps  and  flings  herself 
around  for  the  benefit  of  the  men  in  the  club  house  opposite; 
when  they  look  out  of  the  window,  her  little  two-by-four  intel- 


lect is  swelling  with  satisfaction,  and  she  rushes  up  to  her  room 
to  have  a  flirtation  with  the  young  men  across  the  street,  by  sit- 
ting with  her  blinds  drawn  to  the  top,  her  gas  on  full  head,  and 
her  silly  self  waving  and  motioning  in  the  full  blaze  of  light, 
never  dreaming  that  the  whole  performance  is  to  be  seen  from  the 
street,  and  treasured  up  against  her. 

The  girl  of  to-day  does  not  like  school.  She  thinks  it  is  a  great 
bore,  and  she  stays  away  just  as  much  as  she  can.  She  wishes 
that  if  she  does  have  to  go  to  school  that  she  went  where  there 
were  boys,  "  because  they  will  always  prompt  you  in  your  les- 
sons and  tell  you  the  answers  In  examinations."  She  knows 
nothing  and  she  never  will,  for  what  time  she  might  be  studying 
she  is  reading  the  "  Duchess,"  and  stuffing  her  empty  head  more 
full  of  nonsense  every  day.  She  hears  that  the  President's  wife 
is  dead,  and  asks  "  What  did  she  die  of  ?"  She  is  an  adept  in 
deceit,  and  she  hoodwinks  her  mother  at  every  turn.  "Yes," 
says  the  mother  of  such  a  girl,  "  I  should  consider  it  a  kindness 
if  anyone  saw  anything  wrong  in  my  daughter  and  came  and 
told  me  of  it."  But  would  she?  Don't  let  any  one  be  de- 
ceived by  any  such  speech  as  that.  Or,  if  you  wish  to  make 
the  experiment,  what  will  you  find  out  for  your  pains?  That 
you  had  better  mind  your  own  business;  that  the  mother  ia 
capable  of  managing  her  own  affairs,  and  that  you  have  had  pre- 
cious little  to  do  to  keep  record  of  all  these  things;  that  it  looks 
as  if  you  were  making  an  attack  upon  the  girl.  When  a  mother 
deliberately  upholds  a  girl  in  such  a  course,  there  can  be  but  one 
result  for  the  girl,  and  when  sorrow  comes  to  that  mother  there 
is  but  one  thing  left  for  her  to  do,  and  that  is  to  sit  and  bemoan 
the  mysterious  ways  of  Providence  that  she,  so  good  a  mother, 
should  have  been  visited  by  such  an  affliction. 


SLAVISH  adherence  to  "style,"  without  regard  to  rhyme  or 
reason,  is  one  of  the  attributes  of  the  intelligent  compositor 
which  sometimes  produces  ludicrous  results.  Thus  it  is  the 
usual  rule  in  newspaper  offices  that  all  sums  of  money  shall  be 
designated  by  figures.  The  other  day  a  cablegram  was  published, 
in  which  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  referred  to  certain  occurrences 
in  Samoa  as  "tuppenny  affairs."  The  compositor,  with  the  rule 
referred  to  in  his  mind,  calmly  set  it  up,  "2-penny  affairs,"  and  so 
it  appeared  in  the  paper  next  morning. 


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&AIN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  29,  1892. 


'  We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's.' 


THE  first  production,  on  Monday  night,  of  The  Favorite,  Aubrey 
Boucicault'a  new  play,  called  out  oue  of  the  moat  brilliant  and 
fashionable  first-night  gatherings  yet  seen  at  Stockwell's  Theatre. 
It  is  hardly  likely  that  the  young  and  untried  playwriter  should 
bound  at  once  into  the  perfection  and  finish  which  mark  the 
work  of  his  illustrious  father;  but  the  play  is  bright  and  breezy 
throughout,  the  action  and  the  interest  never  tag,  there  is  plenty 
of  movement  and  no  lack  of  interesting  people  always  before  the 
audience,  and  taking  it  alt  in  all,  amid  much  that  is  crude  and 
apaamodic,  there  is  the  true  spirit  of  the  play  which  pleases  be- 
cause it  ia  never  dull  and  never  borea.  What  The  Favorite  mainly 
needs  is  a  stronger  undercurrent  of  meaning  and  a  wise  use  of  the 
scissors  or  the  blue  pencil  on  its  superabundant  slang  and  need- 
less roughness  and  profanity.  Even  the  horsiest  of  the  horsey 
do  not  air  the  vernacular  of  the  stable  before  an  audience. 

The  author  looks  a  mere  boy,  which  renders  more  surprising 
the  measure  of  success  attained,  and  gives  greater  promise  of  ex- 
cellence in  future  work.  If  Mr.  Boucicault  dues  not  allow  himself 
to  be  satisfied  with  his  present  success,  and  will  apply  himself  to 
study  as  a  model  bis  father's  incisive  wit  and  delicate  humor  of 
dialogue,  we  may  live  to  hail  in  this  neophyte  another  Dion  be- 
fore the  white  hairs  that  crowned  the  elder  brow  shall  have  found 
their  counterpart  on  his  youthful  head. 
»  *  * 

The  company  is  an  unusually  strong  one.  Mr.  Boucicault  him- 
self does  not  cotne  out  aaliently  in  his  own  play,  but  the  cheery 
boyishness  of  his  acting  is  pleasant,  though  not  always  entirely 
appropriate.  E.  J.  Henley  is  naturally  the  central  figure,  and  the 
easy  adaptability  with  which  he  fits  himself  into  almost  any  line 
of  character  displays  itself  well  in  his  personation  of  the  New 
York  detective  skirmishing  under  a  disguise  of  French  dialect,  per- 
siflage and  airy  exaggeration  of  manner  and  gesture.  The  sudden 
change  to  his  real  character  makes  a  dramatically  effective  point. 
Ethel  Brandon  has  a  character  of  the  adventuress  type,  and  plays 
it  with  a  dash  and  audacity,  in  strong  contrast  to  the  die-away 
heroines  usually  assigned  her.  The  new  leading  man,  Henry  R. 
Jewett,  made  a  distinct  success  with  his  audience  and  deserved 
it.  His  methods,  so  far  as  one  can  judge  by  one  appearance,  are 
refined,  gentlemanly  and  full  of  repressed  strength,  never  forced, 
yet  all  the  more  effective.  It  looks  as  if  Mr.  Stockwell  has  made 
a  "  find  "  in  Mr.  Jewett,  to  borrow  an  expression  from  the  land 
he  "  hails  "  from.  The  less  prominent  parts  are  well  sustained. 
The  three  girla,  as  represented  by  Misses  Victory  Bateman,  Bebe 
Vining  and  Josie  Gordon,  are  pretty  and  charming.  Miss  Vining, 
as  Jocelyn  Dallas,  has  made  a  great  improvement  on  her  previous 
personations  i:i  abating  the  exuberance  which  is  so  easily  over- 
done to  tiresomeness. 

*  «  * 

The  audience  was  more  than  appreciative,  applause  being  loud 
and  liberal  for  play  and  players,  as  well  as  for  the  beautiful 
scenic  setting,  which  added  no  little  to  the  pleasure  of  the  audi- 
ence and  the  success  of  the  play. 

»  •  * 

In  the  one-act  comedietta  which  preceded  the  play,  Nick  Long 
and  Mr.  Jewett  took  the  male  characters,  and  the  sympathetic 
face  and  softly  modulated  tones  of  Eleanor  Barry  were,  as 
always,  welcome. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Mather  has  not  made  a  success  of  her  engagement  at  the 
Bush,  and  the  fact  is  not  difficult  to  account  for.  With  un- 
deniable gifts  and  a  rarely  attractive  personality,  Miss  Mather 
made  a  perhaps  unfortunate  hit  on  her  setting  out  as  a  star.  She 
captivated  critica  and  audiences  alike,  and  even  those  who  saw 
her  acting  through  no  delusive  glamour  were  sufficiently  mollified 
to  condone  her  patent  failings  on  the  score  of  inexperience,  and 
to  predict  the  best  results  from  study  and  experience.  No  such 
results  are  noticeable,  and  it  is  greatly  to  be  feared  that  Miss 
Mather,  spoiled  by  premature  praise,  has  rested  satisfied  on  in- 
sufficient grounds.  Everyone  will  remember  the  ridiculous  book 
issued  by  the  critics  of  San  Francisco  in  adulation  of  Miss  Mather, 
and  in  which  those  gallant  gentlemen  exhausted  themselves  and 
the  English  language,  and  which  ought  now  to  lie  heavy  on  their 
case-hardened  consciences,  as  possibly  one  bar  in  the  way  of  the 
fair  Margaret's  past  improvement.  The  Eyyptian  is  not  a  cheer- 
ful play  at  best,  and  nothing  but  the  best  acting  could  make  it 
even  an  intellectual  enjoyment.  Neither  the  present  star  nor 
company  can  make  it  ao.  The  setting  is  commensurate  with  the 
acting.  One  among  the  many  examples  of  its  carelessness  of  de- 
tail is  recalled  in  the  fact  that  an  appointment  is  made  for  a 
meeting  "at  the  statue  of  the  Virgin"  in  the  Place  Notre  Dame, 
and  is  kept  under  a  flying  figure  hovering  over  a  fountain,  or 
something  equally  removed  from  a  virgin.  Whether  or  not  Miss 
Mather  has  abilities  worth  developing,  they  are  certainly  no  more 
developed  than  they  were  five  years  ago,  and  until  they  are,  the 


lady's  lofty  pretensions  to  starship  aavor  of  the  presumption  not 
altogether  unknown  in  the  profession. 

#  *  » 

As  anticipated,  Mr.  Salvini  makes  a  better  D'Artagnan  than 
Don  Oesar.  There  is  in  the  young  actor's  methods  a  distinct  in- 
dividuality and  an  ignoring  of  traditional  trammels  which  com- 
mand respectful  attention,  even  where  one  may  differ  with  hia 
conceptions.  The  brave,  dashing  soldier  in  Dumas'  play  is  a 
soldier  of  fortune  aa  well,  a  free  lance  in  love  and  luck,  without 
any  hampering  reminiscences  of  forfeited  family  dignities,  and 
Mr.  Salvini  throws  himself  into  the  character  con  amore.  If  he 
endows  it  at  times  with  a  trifle  too  much  of  the  swashbuckler 
and  runs  the  humor  into  low  comedy,  he  does  it  with  a  spirit 
which  is  infectious  and  which  carries  his  audience  with  him. 

The  people,  as  a  rule,  give  better  support  than  in  the  previous 
play.  The  Queen  of  Miss  Judith  Berolde  is  an  intensely  sym- 
pathetic personation,  though  with  a  somewhat  too  sustained  som- 
breness  even  for  the  stormy  phases  of  her  life  through  which 
Dumas  carries  the  fair  and  proud  Anne  of  Austria.  Wm.  Red- 
mund  makes  a  noble  and  romantic  Athos,  and  Ben  Johnson  a 
good  Cardinal.  If  poor  Louie  XIII.  ever  cut  as  sorry  and  ridicu- 
lous a  figure  as  he  does  at  the  California,  no  one  can  reproach  a 
woman  of  taste  for  looking  elsewhere — but  not,  ohl  not,  ye  gods, 
to  such  a  Buckingham!  Between  such  a  husband  and  such  a 
lover,  small  blame  to  Miss  Berolde  for  the  settled  pall-like  gloom 
which  not  even  a  bushel  or  so  of  egg-size  diamonds  can  lighten 
up.  The  setting  of  the  banquet  scene  ia  airy  and  beautiful,  but 
much  of  the  scenic  appointment  is  unworthy  the  theatre,  the  star, 
and  the  play,  being  in  some  scenes  so  entirely  inadequate  as  es- 
sentially to  mar  the  effect  of  the  acting.  This  is  the  more  disap- 
pointing after  all  that  has  been  written  about  the  "  gorgeousness  " 
of  the  Salvini  productions.  Wherever  the  fault  lies,  it  is  serious 
enough  to  call  for  instant  reformation. 

It  is  reassuring  to  know  that  the  California  has  made  a  signal 
and  unqualified  success  in  this  engagement,  and  that  the  immense 
crowds  which  throng  into  the  theatre  nightly  are  drawn  not  by  a 
vulgar  farce  comedy  or  an  off-color  French  adaptation,  but  by  a 
performance  which  appeals  for  its  enjoyment  to  the  understanding. 
The  very  expression  on  the  faces  of  the  crowd,  too,  ia  different, 
actually  betraying  here  and  there  gleams  of  thought,  and  encour- 
aging the  hope  that,  after  all,  the  public  can  respond  warmly  to 
an  intellectual  entertainment  when  offered. 

#  #  # 

The  first  production  of  Miss  Relyett  at  the  Baldwin,  Wednesday 
night,  was  by  no  means  up  to  expectation.  The  music  of  the 
comic  opera,  or  more  accurately  the  musical  comedy,  is  extreme- 
ly original  and  generally  pleasing,  and  the  dialogue  is  full  of 
humorous  touches,  many  of  the  lines  sparkling  with  genuine 
wit.  One  can  imagine  it  a  thoroughly  delightful  production,  but 
it  was  not  rendered  so  on  Wednesday  night  by  the  Duff  Opera 
Company.  Either  from  lack  of  rehearsal,  or  some  other  cause, 
there  was  a  general  uncertainty  as  to  words,  and  lack  of  force 
and  color  as  to  music.  The  action  dragged  painfully  where  it 
should  have  gone  with  a  dash,  and  the  obliviousness  of  words  so 
retarded  what  movement  there  was  that  one  felt  inclined  to  in- 
vite the  prompter  to  come  out  boldly  and  take  the  stage  as  lead- 
ing man.  These  defeets  were  most  apparent  in  the  first  act.  In 
the  second  several  of  the  people  seemed  to  rally  and  strike  fire 
occasionally.  J.  H.  Ryley,  Miss  Helen  Bertram,  and  Maurice 
Abbey  seemed,  more  than  the  others,  imbued  with  the  quaint 
and  distinctive  humor  of  the  comedy,  and  J.  H.  Raphael's  singing 
throughout,  and  Mr.  Bassett's  ballad  in  Act  III.,  were  conspicu- 
ously good  amid  much  weak  vocalism. 

#  *  » 

The  Tivoli  has  been  packed  during  the  entire  week,  and  the 
production  of  Offenbach's  spectacular  opera,  Orpheus  and  Eurydice, 
has  been  one  of  the  best  of  a  highly  creditable  season.  A  number 
of  new  people  are  in  the  cast,  and  the  old  ones  have  acquitted 
themselves  excellently.  For  the  benefit  of  Treasurer  Holz,  on 
Thursday,  an  excellent  programme  was  arranged.  The  altera- 
tions and  improvements  in  the  Tivoli  will  soon  begin. 

#  *  * 

The  Wigwam,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  and  Stockton  streets,  has 
a  very  large  patronage,  and  is  giving  a  truly  generous  entertain- 
ment for  the  small  admission  fee.  The  Valergas  and  other  popu- 
lar vocalists  begin  the  evening  with  an  operatic  performance, 
which  is  followed  by  a  taking  olio.  A  constant  change  of  pro- 
gramme is  a  rule  of  the  Wigwam, 
w  *  # 

The  last  Carr-Beel  Saturday  "pop,"  while  attended  by  the 
largest  audience  of  the  season,  was  not  artistically  equal  to  its 
predecessors.  The  Mendelssohn  and  Godard  numbers  were  up 
to  the  usual  standard,  but  the  intervening  numbers  were  not  so 
satisfactory.  Why,  to  a  man  or  woman  with  an  exceptional 
voice,  nature  so  often  denies  a  correct  ear  or  other  essential  of  a 
good  vocalist,  is  one  of  her  puzzles.  Mr.  Frank  Mitchell,  vocalist 
of  the  last  "pop,"  is  so  marked  a  case  in  point  as  to  make  it 
doubtful  if,  even  with  his  strong  and  not  unsympathetic  voice,  he 
will  ever  make  a  good   singer.     Mias  Gell,  Mr.  Mitchell's  accom- 


Oct  2!>,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


pantM,  though  she  displayed  Rood  judgment  in  playing  the  clos- 
ing chords  pianissimo,  out  of  regard  to  the  ears  of  the  audience, 
would  have  done  better  to  horn  or  the  dinger  by  boldly  striking  a 
half  tone  lower.  Miss  Bessie  Lee  Wall,  who  has  spent  seren 
years  studying  in  Europe,  played  a  Jensen  suite  for  the  piano 
and  a  Rubenstein  barcarolle  correctly  and  colorlessly.  Though 
having  considerable  experience  in  concert,  the  effect  of  her  play- 
ing is  amateurish.  Good  judgment  was  displayed  in  choosing 
the  Mendelssohn  duo,  played  by  Mrs.  Carr  and  Mr.  Heine,  and 
the  Ciodard  number,  rendered  by  the  Carr-Beel- Heine  trio,  as  giv- 
ing the  greatest  possible  diversity.  The  allegro  and  minuetto  in 
the  trio  were  especially  charming.  The  next  concert  takes  place 
8aturday,  November  5th,  when  Mrs.  Brechemln.  the  charming 
Presidio  songstress,  will  be  the  voca:ist,  and  Bernat  Jaulus,  viola 
soloist-  The  trio  will  repeat  by  request  the  Yschaikowsky's  num- 
ber for  piano,  violin  and  'cello. 

*  *  » 
The  concert  to  be  given  November  1st.,  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House,  by  the  Young  Ladies'  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra,  under 
J.  H.  Rosewald's  direction  will  be  the  musical  as  well  as  social 
event  of  the  month.  The  young  ladies  practice  regularly  every  Sat- 
urday morning  (hence  the  name  of  the  organization)  and  their  prog- 
ress in  the  last  year  has  been  remarkable.  The  Women's  Exchange 
will  be  materially  aided  by  the  proceeds  of  the  coming  concert. 
»  #  • 

Miss  Mather'i  repertory  for  next  week  is  as  follows:  Monday, 
"Wednesday,  and  Saturday  matinee,  Romeo  and  Juliet;  Tuesday 
and  Thursday,  The  Honeymoon;  Wednesday  matinee  and  Saturday 
evening,  The  Lady  of  Lyons;  Friday  night,  Leah,  the  Forsaken. 
Joseph  E.  Whiting  will  play  Claude  Melnotte  and  Duke  Aranza, 
and  Frederick  L.  Power,  Romeo. 

»  »  * 

Next  week,  Mr.  Salvini  will  present  at  the  California  a  double 
bill,  opening  each  night  with  a  dramatic  version  of  Cavalleria  Rus~ 
ticana  and  concluding  with  Erckmann-Chatrian's  play  VAmico 
Fritz,  its  first  production  in  America.  The  interest  and  novelty 
attaching  to  these  plays  will  make  the  last  week  of  Mr.  Salvini's 
California  engagement,  a  climax  to  his  success. 

*  *  » 

The  Duff  Opera  Company  will  give  Miss  Helyett  for  their  third 
and  last  week  at  the  Baldwin.  Monday  evening,  November  1st,, 
will  begin  a  notable  engagement  at  this  theatre,  that  of  Miss 
Julia  Marlowe,  one  of  the  youngest  and  most  talented  actresses  of 
the  legitimate  drama.  If  Miss  Marlowe  has  the  intelligence  indi- 
cated by  her  photographed  face  and  the  ability  with  which  she  is 
accredited,  she  should  have  an  earnest  welcome  from  all  who 
still  cling  to  the  dream  of  "  elevating  the  stage.  "  Her  repertory 
includes  Much  Ado  About  Nothing,  Cymbeline,  Romeo  and  Juliet,  The 
Hunchback,  As  You  Like  It,  Ingomar,  Pygmalion  and  Galatea,  and 
Rogues  and  Vagabonds.     She  opens  in  Much  Ado  about  Nothing. 

*  *  * 

Milton  Nobles,  who  comes  to  the  Bush  just  before  election, 
thinks  that  his  new  play,  For  Revenue  Only,  has  enough  political 
satire  in  it  to  interest  every  candidate  on  the  ticket. 

*  *  « 

The  next  Saturday  Pop,  November  5th,  will  be  the  last  of  the 
regular  fourth  season,  though  two  supplementary  ones  are  an- 
nounced. At  the  coming  concert  the  audience  will  be  requested 
to  vote  for  their  respective  favorites  among  the  numbers  given 
during  the  season,  slips  being  distributed  for  the  purpose.  The 
numbers  receiving  most  votes  will  be  repeated  at  the  two  addi- 
tional concerts.  The  scheme  is  one  employed  at  the  Crystal  Pal- 
ace concerts  in  London,  and  will  add  interest  to  the  next  occa- 
sion. 

*  *  # 

An  entertainment  for  the  benefit  of  the  San  Francisco  Nursery 
for  Homeless  Children,  will  be  given  in  the  banquet  hall  of  the 
Hotel  California,  beginning  at  8  o'clock  this  evening.  The  affair 
is  in  charge  of  many  prominent  ladies,  whose  experience  in  simi- 
lar matters  guarantees  success  for  this  entertainment.  Beside  a 
fine  musical  and  literary  programme,  for  which  many  prominent 
artists  have  volunteered  their  services,  ice  cream  and  other  re- 
freshments will  be  served  by  the  young  ladies  interested  in  the 
good  work  to  be  furthered.     Admission  fifty  cents,  at  the  door. 


WE  again  take  the  liberty  of  calling  the  attention  of  our 
readers  to  the  fact  that  no  one  nowadays  is  considered  in 
the  swim  unless  all  his  or  her  private  correspondence  is  written 
on  the  very  latest  style  stationery,  such  as  that  to  be  procured  only 
at  the  popular  establishment  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  at  741-743 
Market  street.  This  house  makes  a  specialty  of  fine  station- 
ery and  copper-plate  engraving.  Its  fine  writing  papers  are  rep- 
resentative of  all  that  is  best  from  the  famous  factories  of  the 
world,  including  Crane's,  Marcus  Ward  &  Co.'s  and  Hurd's.  These 
papers  come  in  various  styles  and  tints,  and  need  to  be  seen  to 
be  fully  appreciated.  They  are  used  by  all  the  leaders  of  the 
Four  Hundred.  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  have  also  made  a  specialty 
of  printing  visiting  cards,  invitations,  wedding  announcements, 
and  other  social  forms  from  copper-plate  engravings.  This  de- 
partment of  their  business  is  the  most  popular  in  its  line  in  the 
city. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  A  Co Proprietors.  |  Alfred  Bouvier Manager. 

Second  anil  last  week  lint  one,  J.  C.  DUFF  OPERA  COMPANY. 
Magnificently  equipped.  75  Artists.  To-night  and  every  evening, 
matinee  Saturday  only.  First  production  of  the  great  Comic  Musical 
Novelty  of  London,  Paris  and  New  York, 

MISS     HELYETT. 
Adapted  from  the  French  of  M.  Boucheron  and  E.  Audran. 
1,000  nights  in  Paris,  465  nights  in  London,  150  nights  in  New  York. 
Seats  now  on  sale.    Eegular  Baldwin  prices. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co.. Proprietors.  I  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Monday,  October  31st,  last  week  of  ALEXANDER 
SALVINI. 

First  four  nights  and  Saturday  matinee,  double  bill  consisting  of 
the  dramatic  versions  of  CAVALLERIA  RUSTICANA  and  L' AMI- 
CO  FRITZ.  On  Friday  night,  Mr.  Salvini  will  repeat  DON  CyESAR 
DE  BAZAN,  and  on  Saturday  and  Sunday  nights  THE  THREE 
GUARDSMEN. 

Monday,  November  7th,  THE  STILL  ALARM. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

George  H.  Broadhuhst Resident  Manager. 

MARGARET  MATHER, 
Assisted  by  her  own  company  in  the  following  repertory: 
Monday  and  Wednesday  evening  and  Saturday  matinee, 

ROMEO  AND  JULIET. 
Tuesday  and  Thursday  evenings. 

THE  HONEYMOON. 
"Wednesday  afternoon  and  Saturday  evening, 

THE  LADY  OF  LYONS. 
Friday  night, 

LEAH,  THE  FORSAKEN. 
Next  Attraction — Milton  Nobles  in  "  For  Revenue  Only.'' 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Bllinghouse Business  Manager. 

Second  week.    Special  matinee  Thursday.    Matinee  Saturday  at  2. 

E.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boucicault  and  Stockwell's  new  company  of 
players  in  the  successful  comedy-drama, 

THE  FAVORITE. 

Seats  now  selling. 

Next,  Monday,  November  7th,  PINK  DOMINOS. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kbeltno  Beos Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night  1  Grand  production  of  Offenbach's  Merry  Spectacular 
Opera,  ~ 

ORPHEUS    AND     EURYDICE. 

Popular  Prices  - 26c.  and  50c 

GRAND   OPERA   HOUSE. 

Tuesday  evening,  November  1, 1892.    Second  concert  of  the 
SATURDAY  MORNING  ORCHESTRA, 
Under  the  direction  of  J.  H.  Rosewald,  in  aid  of  the  Maria  Kip   Or- 
phanage, and  the  Hahnemann  Hospital.    Seats  can  be  reserved  at 
Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s  Saturday,  October 29th,  Monday,  October  31st, 
and  Tuesday,  November  1st.    Hours— From  9  A.  m.  to  5  p.  m. 

Reserved  seats,  $1  50;  Proscenium  Boxes,  seating  6  Persons,  $15, 
$12,  $10;  Mezzanine  Boxes,  seating  5  persons,  $10;  Mezzanine  Boxes, 
seating  4  persons,  $8.  

WIGWAM  THEATRE- 

(Corner  Stockton  and  Geary  Streets). 

Ceas.  Meter  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

San  Francisco's  Recognized  Vaudeville  Resort. 

"Week  commencing  Monday  evening,  October  31,  1892. 

SPECIAL. —  Manager  Meyer  has  contracted  with  the  "Western 
Union  Telegraph  Company  to  furnish  a  reliable  operator  and  run  a 
special  wire  direct  to  his  Wigwam  Theatre  stage,  and  by  so  doing  he 
will  be  able  to  receive  and  announce  the  full  election  returns  from 
all  parts  of  the  country  on  November  8th,  9th  and  10th. 

Fourth  week,  THE  BURTON  STANLEY  OPERA  COMIQUE 
COMPANY  in  Gilbert  and  Sullivan's  Successful  Comic  Opera, 

PIRATES     OF     PENZANCE, 

Next  Opera—  HE  RMINIE. 

Every  evening  at  8.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2. 
Admission  10c.  Reserved  seats  25c.   Bos-office  open  from  10  A.  m.  to  1  P.  m. 
and  from  3  to6*p.  m. 

IRVINGJjALL 

THE  TWENTY- FOURTH    CARR-BEEL 
Saturday  Pop  concert  takes  place  Nov.  5th,  at  3  p.  m. 
Mrs.  L.  Breehernin,  Vocalist.    Mr.  B.  Jaulus,  Soloist. 
AnMissioN 50c 


8 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  29,  1892 


POLICE  JUDGE  JOACHIMSEN  is  a  candidate  for  re-election, 
having  been  nominated  by  the  Republicans.  Judge  Joachiin- 
sen  is  a  good  man  for  the  hard  work  of  the  Police  Court,  for  his 
experience  enables  him  in  every  case  to  make  the  punishment  fit 
the  crime.  Police  Judges  need  to  be  men  who  not  only  know 
the  law,  but  who  can  adjudge  the  many  petty  differences  that 
come  before  them  for  adjudication  upon  their  merits.  They  should 
therefore  be  men  of  liberal  mind  and  excellent  firmness  of  judg- 
ment. Such  a  man  is  Judge  Joachimsen,  who  has  made  a  good 
record  upon  the  police  bench. 

The  Non-Partisans  have  named  Charles  A.  Low  for  Judge  of 
the  Police  Court.  Mr.  Low  is  now  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  to 
which  position  he  was  elected  two  yearg  ago.  For  some  time  he 
ably  filled  the  honorable  position  of  Presiding  Justice  of  the  Jus- 
tices Court.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  this  city  for  many  years, 
and  has  numerous  friends  who  will  support  him  at  the  polls.  He 
will  make  an  excellent  Police  Judge,  for  he  is  a  gentleman  of  the 
highest  sense  of  duty  who  would  not  allow  his  court  to  be  man- 
aged by  political  tools. 

For  the  unexpired  term  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Frank  H. 
Dunne  has  been  nominated  by  the  Democracy.  He  is  a 
young  man,  an  able  lawyer,  and  possesses  every  qualification 
for  a  good  officer.  It  is  a  good  idea  to  put  young  and  able  lawyers 
on  the  Justice's  bench,  and  Frank  H.  Dunne  is  an  excellent  man 
for  the  place. 


FOR  School  directors  we  submit  a  list  of  names  of  men,  who,  in 
our  opinion  are  the  best  in  the  various  tickets  for  the  man- 
agement of  the  affairs  of  the  School  Department.  This  is  a  de- 
partment of  the  city  government,  which  above  all  others,  needs 
able  and  honest  men  for  its  proper  administration.  Every  father 
in  the  city  should  take  pride  in  the  excellent  condition  of  our 
public  schools,  for  to  them  we  look  for  the  education  of  those 
who  are  to  uphold  the  government  in  the  years  to  come.  In 
voting  for  School  Directors,  party  nominees  should  not  be  con- 
sidered. Select  the  best  men  from  all  sides  and  support  them. 
Among  those  worthy  of  the  place,  we  name,  PelbamW.  Ames,  D. ; 
A.  F.  Carmody.  D.;  Dr.  Charles  A.  Clinton,  N.  P.  and  D. ;  E.  P. 
Cole,  N.  P.;  James  H.  Culver,  R.;  Charles  W.  Decker,  R. ;  S.  E. 
Dutton.N.  P. ;  William  H.  Eastland.  R. ;  E.  A.  Merrill,  N.  P. ;  George 
W.  Pennington,  R.;  Edward  Pollitz,  N.  P.;  J.  H.  Rosewald,  D. 


FOR  Street  Superintendent  we  need  a  man  whose  business  takes 
him  to  all  quarters  of  the  city,  and  who  is  thoroughly  ac- 
quainted with  what  San  Francisco  needs  to  make  it  the  beauti- 
ful city  it  should  be.  Our  pavements  and  sewers  are  disgrace- 
fully bad,  and  we  need  a  man  in  this  office  who  will  make  the 
needed  improvements  without  allowing  contractors  to  rob  the 
taxpayers.  Such  a  man  is  William  W.  Ackerson,  Democratic 
nominee  for  Superintendent  of  Streets.  He  is  a  native  son,  able 
and  popular,  and  is  a  good  man  for  the  place.  Mr.  Ackerson  is  a 
contractor  and  builder,  and  is  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the 
city.  As  Superintendent  of  Streets  he  would  be  the  right  man  in 
the  right  place,  for  be  knows  just  what  is  needeti,  and  has  the 
ability  to  make  proper  improvements.  Mr.  Ackerson's  name  is 
one  of  the  strongest  on  the  Democratic  ticket. 


FOR  Public  Administrator,  Walter  B.  Blair  has  been  nominated 
by  the  Republican  party,  Mr.  Blair  is  well  known  through- 
out the  city.  He  is  a  lawyer  by  profession,  and  for  some  time 
past  has  held  the  very  important  position  of  chief  clerk  in  the 
otfice  of  the  District  Attorney,  where  he  has  displayed  ability 
which  well  fits  him  for  the  more  responsible  duties  of  the  office 
to  which  he  has  been  nominated.  Being  a  gentleman  of  a  high 
sense  of  honor,  and  in  every  way  eminently  suited  for  the  place, 
there  is  no  good  reason  why  Mr.  Blair  should  not  be  elected  to  the 
office. 


CHA8.  8.  TILTON,  the  City  and  County  Surveyor,  is  the  one  man 
in  the  city  who  is  thoroughly  equipped  for  the  performance  of 
the  important  duties  of  his  office.  Having  been  connected  with 
the  office  for  over  twenty  years,  he  is  entirely  acquainted  with 
all  the  many  details  of  the  city  surveys,  and  is  a  very  valuable 
man  in  the  office.  He  has  been  nominated  for  re-election,  and  is 
certainly  deserving  of  the  suffrages  of  his  fellow-citizens. 


Largest  Retail  Dry  Goods  Store  in  the  City. 


THE  Republican  Municipal  Convention  re-nominated  Mr.  E.  B. 
Read,  the  present  Recorder.  Mr.  Read  has  given  an  excel- 
lent administration,  and  is  entitled  to  favorable  consideration 
from  the  people.  We  need  good  men  in  office,  and  it  is  certainly 
proper  to  reward  good  service  by  re-electing  those  who,  like  Mr. 
Read,  have  done  good  work  in  the  interests  of  the  people. 


FOR  Coroner  the  Republicans  have  re-nominated  Dr.Wm.  T.  Gar- 
wood, the  incumbent,  who  is  in  all  respects  an  admirable  man 
for  the  place.  Though  one  of  the  minor  officers,  the  Coroner  per- 
forms very  important  duties,  for  which  reason  only  an  honest 
and  able  man  should  be  selected  for  the  place.  Dr.  Garwood  fills 
all  the  requirements. 


FALL  AND  WINTER   1892. 

Opening  of  twelve  eases  of  the  latest  and 
most  popular  styles  of  Autumn  "Wraps,  Eng- 
lish Box  Coats,  French  Long  and  Short  "Wraps, 
Walking  Jackets,  Fur  Trimmed  Cloaks,  Even- 
ing "Wraps,  Calling  and  Carriage  "Wraps. 

FURS. 

Boas,  Muffs  and  Capes,  Mink,  Astrakhan, 
Persian   Lamb,  Seal,  Kremmer  and  Red  Lynx. 


Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 
Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 


Raphael  Weill  &  Co., 

Northwest  Corner  Post  and   Kearny  Streets. 


HOTEL  PLEASANTON, 

Sutter  Street,  corner  Jones,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  ana  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  San  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets,  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 

The  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature.  „„_.  __»,.., 

MRS.  M.   E.  PENDLETON. 

Proprietor  and  Manager. 

THE  COLEMAN. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS   HOTEL,  (European   Plan.) 
H.   H.   PEARSON.  Proprietor.  BROADWAY  and  27th  St  ,  NEW   YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  St.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
station  and  horse  cars;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

jfiuTosoliitely      ZF'ire-proof. 

Central  o  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  KIN/,1  I'lt.  Manaeer. 


The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. [ 

GARDEN   CITY   NURSERY, 

SAS  JOSE,  CAI,. 

A  FULL  LINE  OF 

pfURSERY     5TO<2K 

always  on  hand  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Correspondence  solicited. 

WM.    KELLY,   Proprietor. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO   NKWS   LKTTER. 


FRANK    W.    UWLER. 

Jl'DGK  FRANK  W.  LAWLEK,  an^incumbent  oi  the  Superior 
Bench,  and  a  Democratic  nominee  for  re-election  was  born  in 
Hart/ord,  Conn.,  in  1840.  Coming  to  California  in  1865,  when  but  1G 
year*  of  age.  he  settle d  in  Ban  Frandsoo,  of  which  place  he  has  since 
been  a  resident.  The  years  comprising  his  school  life  in  this  city 
were  spent  within  the  walb  of  the  old  City  Business  College,  while 
his  law  studies  were  pursued  under  the  supervision  of  Judge 
Daingcrfield.  In  1874  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  upon  the 
election  of  his  former  law  tutor  to  the  bench  of  the  District  Court, 
was  appointed  Court  Commissioner  of  the  Twelfth  District  Court, 
which  position  he  held  until  its  abolishment  by  the  new  Constitution 
in  1880.  In  that  year  he  was  the  nominee  of  the  Democratic  County 
Convention  for  Superior  Judge,  and  was  indorsed  by  the  Working- 


men,  and  Greenback  parties.  His  immense  popularity  manifested 
itself  in  the  election  of  that  year  when  he  ran  far  ahead  of  his  ticket 
and  was  the  only  Democrat  elected  to  the  bench. 

In  1886,  Judge  Lawler  was  re-nominated  by  acclamation  by  the 
Democratic  Convention.  He  also  received  the  nomination  of  the 
Anti-Boss  and  the  Independent  Citizens' conventions  for  the  position 
of  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  and  was  re-elected  by  an  over- 
whelming majority.  This  year  he  has  been  re-nominated  by  the 
Regular  Old  Democratic  Party. 

•The  fact  that  he  has  proved  acceptable  in  the  past  seems  a  strong 
reason  why  he  should  be  retained  on  the  judicial  bench.  He  de- 
serves to  be  re-elected  and  every  good  citizen  should  give  him  his 
vote.  His  deserved  popularity  will  swell  his  vote  at  the  approach- 
ing election.    His  success  is  a  foregone  conclusion. 

BASEBALL. 

AT  this  writing  it  is  clear  in  our  minds  that  the  Oakland 
management  made  no  mistake  when  it  engaged 
pitcher  De  Wald.  In  the  two  games  he  pitched  against  the  Los 
Angeles  team  he  defeated  it  with  ease.  Had  he  arrived  earlier  it 
is  safe  to  say  his  club  would  have  won  the  series.  The  Oaklands 
defeated  the  Los  Angeles  team  in  Los  Angeles  last  Monday.  As 
the  game  was  an  exhibition  game  for  charity  it  does  not  count  in 
the  schedule.  The  novelty  of  two  games  being  played  in  one  day 
drew  out  a  very  large  audience  to  the  Haight  street  grounds  last 
Sunday.  All  the  private  boxes  were  well  filled.  The  San  Fran- 
ciscos  took  Knell  with  them  to  Los  Angeles,  hoping  that  his  left- 
hand  twirling  would  be  as  effective  as  that  of  De  Wald.  Hoff- 
man was  left  at  home  for  a  rest.  The  San  Jose  manager  is  on  a 
quiet  hunt  for  a  left-hand  pitcher.  Oakland  has  a  fighting  chance 
for  first  place.  AH  the  games  hereafter  played  during  the  present 
season  in  this  city  and  Oakland  will  commence  at  2:30  o'clock, 
excepting  those  of  Sunday,  which  will  commence  at  the  usual 
time.  Oakland  will  probably  have  De  Wald  in  the  box  this  after- 
noon and  to-morrow. 

Boston,  having  won  five  consecutive  games  from  Cleveland, 
gained  the  championship.  This  prevented  any  games  being 
played  in  New  York  city,  which  meant  the  loss  of  several  thou- 
sands of  dollars  to  the  managers.  It  proved,  however,  that  the 
contests  were  honest,  and  were  not  played  as  a  gate-money  pro- 
position. 

It  is  not  yet  known  which  of  the  clubs  will  play  the  San  Jose 
team  for  the  championship  of  this  State.  As  the  matter  is  in  an 
uncertain  state,  it  may  require  the  last  game  of  the  season  to  de- 
termine the  matter. 

TAKING  Judge  Wallace's  address  to  the  jury,  where  every 
effort  was  made  to  coerce  them,  and  then  call  Wallace 
an  honest  man  1  Bah  1  Bruner,  as  a  boodler,  is  respectable  in 
comparison. 


The   Gump  An  Galleries  Opened   at  Last. 

By  the  recent  removal  to  their  nuigniiiecnt  new  quarters  at  113 
Geary  street,  8.  &  Q.  Gump  now  have,  beyond  a  prrailventure,  the 
most  magnificent  emporium  of  art  goods  west  of  New  York  citv. 
This  statement  is  made  without  any  exaggeration  whatever.  It  needs 
only  a  visit  and  inspection  of  the  numerous  art  treasures  in  this 
palace  of  the  beautiful  to  H-ssiire  oue  that  here  iu  our  very  midst  we  have 
an  establishment  that  in  all  respects  equals  the  famed  galleries  in  the  art 
centres  of  Europe,  where  the  products  of  the  ateliers  of  the  Coutineut  are 
exposed  for  public  admiatiou  aud  approval.  The  firm  occupies  every 
floor  of  the  haudsome  building,  which  was  erected  iu  accordauce  with 
their  desigus.  The  maiu  idea  iu  the  construction  was  lo  effect  such  ar- 
rangement as  would  bring  all  the  beautiful  goods  in  the  show  rooms  into 
the  best  light.  This  most  desirable  effect  has  been  very  happily  achieved, 
aud  now  there  is  not  a  better  lighted  store  iu  the  city  than  that  of  S.  &  G. 
Gump.  The  maiu  floor  of  the  building  is  crowded  with  beautiful  bric-a- 
brac,  and  is  iudeed  a  perfect  wilderness  of  artistic  perfection.  As  is  well 
known,  M*-.  Gump  makes  a  tour  of  Europe  every  year,  durirg  which  he 
visits  the  art  studios  of  all  the  most  famous  painters  aud  sculptors,  aud  he 
there  personally  selects  chrj  d'oruvrcs  with  which  to  adoru  his  stores  iu 
this  city  and  to  preseut  to  the  art  lovers  of  San  Francisco.  Ou  his  latest 
visit  to  Europe  he  selected  a  large  assortment  of  artistic  creations.  They 
are  now  beginning  to  arrive  at  the  new  establishment,  forty-five  cases 
having  been  received  in  oua  shipment  this  week,  among  them  being  a 
selection  of  flue  Florentine  frames.  Tbes?  selected  goods  include  the 
daintiest  of  manufactured  wares,  aud  the  most  delicate  and  perfect 
artistic  oruameuts.  Two  new  departments  Lave  been  added  to  the  store 
in  which  are  now  displayed  fiue  French  furniture  and  magnificent  porce- 
lains, crystal  aud  glsssware  for  table  ute.  The  art  galleries  in  separate 
apartments,  arc  on  the  third  floor  with  a  southern  exposure,  and  are  the 
best  ever  seen  here.  Below  them  on  the  se  ond  floor  is  the  handsome 
engraving  and  etching  room,  which  is  in  solid  oak,  and  is  filled  with  beau- 
tiful works.  The  upper  floors  are  reached  by  a  comfortable  passenger 
elevator  with  which  all  the  lady  visiters  bave  been  charmed.  The  Gump 
art  gallery,  it  must  be  remembered,  is  one  of  the  famous  sights  of  the 
Pacific  Coast.  To  it  have  beeu  added  numerous  new  paintings  by  famous 
artists.  As  Mr.  Gump  is  well  kuowu  as  a  savant  in  all  matters  of  art.it 
goes  without  saying  that  his  personal  selections  from  the  treasures  of  Eu- 
rope are  by  far  the  best  ever  seen  in  the  State.  The  new  store  is  de- 
lightfully located  ou  Geary  stree',  just  above  Grant  avenue,  aud  is  very 
convenient  for  ladies  who  are  out  shopping,  and  who  wish  during  their 
afternoon  to  have  a  view  of  the  truly  beautiful. 

Shainwald.  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
Office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 

Go  to  the  Maison  Riche,  at  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue,  if  you 
would  enjoy  a  dinner  tit  for  Lucullus.  The  Riche  is  the  favorite 
dining  place  of  epicures. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  has  recently  laid  in  a 
stock  of  the  finest  and  latest  furnishing  goods  for  autumn  wear.  He 
always  gives  satisfaction. 


'HE  IS  WAITING  FOR  ME." 

Front  "SweetBells  Out  of  Tune." 

Mrs.  Burton  Harrison  has  written  a  new 
novel  of  New  York  society,  which  is  said  to  be  a 
TJDnderfully  realistic  and  clever  story,  even  excell- 
yhg  in  interest  her  famous  novel  "The  Anglo- 
maniacs."  The  Century  has  secured  it,  and  it 
will  begin  in  the  November  number.  "Sweet 
Bells  Out  of  Tune"  opens  with  a  fashionable 
wedding.  The  Metropolitan  Opera  House,  the 
"smart  set,"  and  their  sayings  and  doings,  are 
faithfully  reflected,  and  the  pictures  by  Charles 
Dana  Gibson  are  as  brilliant  as  the  story. 

The  November  Century  will  be  ready  on  Tues- 
day, November  i.  It  will  contain  T.  Suffern 
Tailer's  article  on  "  Road-Coaching  up  to  Date," 
a  capital  story  by  Brander  Matthews,  "The 
New  Member  of  the  Club,"  etc.,  etc.  A  large 
nrst  edition  will  be  printed. 


A    GEORGIA    CAMPAIGN    INCIDENT. 
By  George  Gkantham  Bain — In  Frank  Leslie's. 

H  TF  I  can  carry  Lincoln  county,  I  will  be  the  next  Governor  of 

1   Georgia,  Sutton.     Do  you  think  it  can  be  done?" 

General  Henry  S.  Farnham  looked  at  hia  lieutenant  as  he 
spoke,  without  much  anxiety  or  emotion.  Whatever  8utton 
could  do  he  knew  he  would  do.  He  had  worked  wonders  in 
some  parts  of  the  State.  Could  he  convert  Lincoln?  It  was  the 
strongest  Thompson  county  in  the  State.  Bat  its  vote  was  needed 
in  the  convention  to  assure  him  the  Democratic  nomination;  and 
that  in  Georgia  was  equivalent  to  an  election.  Sutton  studied  the 
situation  for  a  minute  before  he  answered;  looking  at  the  floor, 
swinging  his  feet  at  the  side  of  his  chair  as  he  meditated.  He 
was  a  short,  chunky  man,  with  around,  pleasant,  non-committal 
face;  a  little  straight  mustache  bordering  his  upper  lip,  leaving 
his  mouth  perfectly  free.  His  eyes  had  a  twinkle  with  a  com- 
mercial value.  It  was  worth  a  good  many  votes  in  a  personal 
canvass. 

"  Do  you  think  we  can  do  it?"  asked  the  General  again. 

"  I  reckon,"  said  Sutton.  "  We've  done  things  just  as  hard. 
I've  carried  twelve  out  o'  fo'teen  counties  that  you'd  given  up. 
And  I'd  've  carried  the  othah  two  if  I  hadn't  been  kept  away 
f'om  'em  by  accident.  Did  you  know  I  had  to  swim  the  rivah 
twice,  gen'l,  while  I  was  out  this  las'  time?" 

"  No,"  said  the  general.     "  How  did  that  happen?" 

"High  watah.  They  wa'n't  no  bridge,  and  the  watah  was  so 
swift  I  was  afraid  to  trust  a  ho'se,  so  I  pat  my  things  on  a  log 
and  swam  across.  I  had  to  laugh,  thinkin'  of  the  time  my  clo'es 
sunk.  I  nevah  told  yoa  that,  gen'l.  You  see,  I  was  out  with 
some  o'  the  boys  near  the  rivah.  I'm  a  fust-rate  swimmer,  and  I 
was  bound  I'd  have  a  swim.  I  was  on  my  way  to  the  station, 
wheah  I  was  to  meet  the  judges  of  the  Supreme  Co't,  who'd  ac- 
cepted an  invitation  to  dine  with  me  that  day.  So,  as  the  station 
was  down  the  rivah  a  bit,  I  thought  I'd  swim  down  theah,  and  I 
put  my  clo'es  in  a  boat  I  found  on  the  bank,  intendln'  that  they 
sh'd  float  down  with  me.  Well,  suh,  the  fust  thing  I  knew  that 
dog-oned  boat  capsized,  and  theah  I  was  with  nothin*  on,  and  all 
my  clo'es  at  the  bottom  of  the  rivah.  They  wasn't  nothin'  to 
be  done  but  to  dive  and  get  'em.  My  undahclothin'  was  gone, 
but  I  managed  to  get  a  pair  of  trousahs  and  a  shuht  to  hide  my 
nakedness.  They  was  drippin',  of  co'se,  and  I  had  to  hide  be- 
hind the  station  'eel  the  train  pulled  oat.  Then  theah  I  was,  re- 
ceivin'  the  Supreme  Co't  in  my  bare  feet  and  drippin'  clo's.  They 
didn't  care,  though.     They  on'y  laughed." 

The  general  had  listened  with  marked  appreciation.  The  pic- 
ture of  the  little  man  standing  in  his  wet  shirt  and  trousers  to  re- 
ceive the  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Georgia  was  very  ludic- 
rous, and  he  laughed  over  the  conclusion  of  the  story  until  the 
tears  stood  in  his  eyes. 

"  Well,  Sutton,  he  said,  still  laughing,  "  I  hope  you  didn't  lose 
your  clothing  in  my  interest." 

•»  Not  this  trip,"  said  Sutton.  "But  tell  me,  gen'l,  when  do 
they  hold  the  mass-meetin'  in  Lincoln?" 

"  Day  after  to-morrow,"  said  the  general.  »  There  isn't  much 
time.  To  tell  the  truth,  the  country  has  seemed  so  hopeless  to 
me  I  have  given  it  very  little  thought  before.  But  now  that  I 
realize  that  I  am  so  near  the  nomination,  and  that  Lincoln 
county  will  assure  it  to  me,  I  have  a  feeling  that  we  ought  to 
make  some  effort  to  capture  it." 

"  We'll  do  it,  suh,"  said  Sutton,  confidently.  "  The  mass-meet- 
in'  will  be  held  at  Hawkins,  I  suppose."  He  pulled  a  time-table 
out  of  his  pocket.  "  By  the  regular  train  I  couldn't  get  there  befo' 
to-morrow  midnight.  But  I  can  pick  up  a  freight  at  the  junction, 
I  think,  that'll  get  me  through  befo'  that.  I  leave  heah  in  a  half- 
hour.     Good-bye,  gen'l.     I'll  let  you  know  how  we  come  out." 

At  five  o'clock  on  the  afternoon  of  the  following  day  a  pudgy 
little  man,  with  a  good-natured  but  very  dirty  face,  dropped  off  a 
freight  train  at  the  little  town  of  Hawkins.  He  wore  a  linen 
duster  and  carried  a  worn  traveling  bag  in  his  band.  There  was 
no  one  about  the  station  at  the  time  except  the  station-master; 
but  the  traveler  found  quite  a  gathering  in  the  dining-room  of  the 
little  hotel  across  the  road.  He  dropped  his  bag  at  the  dining- 
room  door,  but  he  did  not  wait  to  remove  his  duster  or  to  wash 
his  hands  before  sitting  down  at  the  table  and  calling  for  some- 
thing to  eat.  He  had  had  no  food  since  early  morning.  As  he 
ate,  though,  he  listened,  and  from  chance  remarks  he  learned 
that  Judge  Thompson  had  made  a  speech  at  Hawkins  that  day, 
and  had  deepened  the  enthusiasm  for  him. 

"  You  all  seem  to  be  havin'  right  smart  of  a  political  \xcite- 
ment,"  he  ventured,  between  mouthfuls,  to  a  quiet  man  who  sat 
almost  at  his  elbow. 

"  Right  smart,"  was  the  brief  reply. 

"  Local  election?" 

<«No;  gub'natorial." 

"  How  are  yo'  people?" 

His  questions  had  attracted  the  attention  of  several  members  of 
the  group,  and  one  of  them,  who  seemed  to  have  been  doing  most 
of  the  talking,  answered  for  the  quiet  man:  "  We're  for  Thomp- 
son, strangah.  We've  been  fo'  him  all  along,  but  since  he  was 
down  heah  to-day  and  made  us  a  talk,  we'll  wipe  up  the  ground 


with  Farnham.  They's  a  hundred  votes  in  this  place,  and  they 
ain't  but  three  of  'm  for  Farnham." 

The  stranger  smiled.  »  I'd  like  to  know  who  those  three  men 
are,"  he  said.  "They  must  be  mighty  brave  men  to  stand  out 
against  nea'Iy  a  hundred  of  you  all." 

'4  Cap'n  Forbes,  the  store-keeper,  he's  one  of  'em,"  tsaid  the 
spokesman.     "  But  who  might  you  be,  strangah?" 

*'  Oh,  I'm  just  traveling  through  this  country,"  was  the  non- 
committal reply. 

"Drumniah?" 

"No;  just  travelin',"  said  the  stranger;  and  as  he  had  finished 
his  meal,  he  got  up  and  cut  off  further  questioning  with:  "  Good- 
evenin',  gentlemen.     I  must  be  goin'." 

Then  he  sauntered  out  of  the  dining-room,  and  after  making 
arrangements  with  the  clerk  for  a  room  at  the  hotel,  went  out  on 
the  street. 

"  Look  heah,  boy,"  he  said  to  the  first  colored  man  he  met, 
"  I'll  give  you  a  half-dollah  to  take  me  to  Cap'n  Forbes'  sto'." 

The  half-dollar  was  easily  earned,  for  the  store  was  not  a  hund- 
red yards  away.  Captain  Forbes  was  busy  with  some  customers, 
and  Sutton  hung  about  until  they  left  the  store.  Then  he  took 
the  store-keeper  aside  and  said :  "  I  understand  you're  a  Farnham 
man." 

"I  am."  The  store-keeper  pointed  to  the  empty  sleeve  at  hia 
left  side.  "  I  lost  that  arm  under  General  Farnham,"  he  said  with 
aome  feeling,  "  and  I'd  give  the  other  one  to  see  him  made  Gover- 
nor." 

"  I  can  trust  you,"  said  Sutton.  »  I  come  heah  f'om  Gen'l  Farn- 
ham. He  recognizes  yo' influence,  and  he  haa  aent  me  heah  to 
see  if  Lincoln  County  can't  be  carried  fo'  him  to-morrow." 

Forbes  shook  his  head.  "  I'm  afraid  it  can't  be  done,"  he  said. 
"  There  are  only  three  Farnham  men  in  this  place.  The  country 
round  is  full  of  them,  but  just  at  this  season  the  farmers  can't  af- 
ford to  leave  their  fields.  The  town  will  do  all  the  voting,  and 
that  means  that  the  Lincoln  County  delegates  will  be  for  Thomp- 
son." 

"  Who  are  the  gen'l's  friends?"  said  Sutton. 

"There's  Keyea,  the  liveryman.  He'a  as  strong  a  Farnham 
man  as  there  is  in  the  State,  though  he  is  a  Yankee." 

"  Can  you  send  fo'  him?  " 

It  was  a  little  more  than  three  minutes  later  when  the  store- 
keeper returned,  bringing  a  tall,  thin,  sharp-featured  man.  "A 
Democratic  Yankee,"  Forbea  called  him. 

"  You  keep  the  livery  heah?"  aaid  Sutton.  "  How  many  ho'aes 
have  you?" 

"  Sixteen." 

"I  want  to  hire  all  of  'em  until  this  time  to-morrow.  What 
will  it  cost  me?" 

At  first  the  liveryman  said  fifty  dollars;  but  when  he  learned, 
a  few  minutes  later,  in  whose  interest  they  were  wanted,  he  re- 
duced the  price  to  twenty-five  dollars.  Sutton  paid  him  the 
money.     Then  he  gave  him  one  hundred  dollars  more." 

"  I  want  you  to  go  out,"  he  said,  "  and  hire  every  ho'se  and 
mule  around  heah  and  bring  them  to  yo'  stable.  Bring  two  teams 
hea — one  fo'  the  cap'n  and  one  fo'  me.  When  you've  got  all  the 
animals  in  yo'  stable  lock  'em  up  and  take  one  of  yo'  own  teams. 
The  cap'n  and  you  and  I  '11  drive  out  into  the  country.  Go  to 
every  farm-house  and  pay  the  farmer  fo'  his  day's  work  to-mor- 
row. Tell  him  to  hitch  up  his  team  and  drive  into  town 
befo'  noon.  Tell  him  to  bring  with  him  every  Farnham  man  he 
can  find.  Tell  him  that  Gen'l  Farnham's  election  depends  on 
him.     We'll  have  that  mass-meetin'  packed  plumb  full." 

The  teams  were  at  the  door  in  a  few  minutes.  Captain  Forbes 
divided  the  territory,  and  Sutton  and  he  started  in  opposite  di- 
rections, leaving  Keyea  to  gather  in  the  animals  before  canvassing 
his  section. 

At  five  o'clock  the  next  morning  Sutton  drove  up  to  the  door 
of  Keyes'  stable.  Keyes  was  lounging  on  a  small  stool  smoking 
a  pipe. 

"  How  about  the  men?"  said  Sutton,  as  he  sprang  from  the  wa- 
gon and  began  to  help  unharness  the  tired  horses. 

"There'll  be  plenty  of  them  here  before  noon,"  said  Keyes. 
"  They'll  all  come." 

"And  the  ho'ses?" 

"There  ain't  an  animal  to  be  had  within  three  miles  of  here. 
I've  got  a  drove  of  'em  inside." 

The  wagon  was  rolled  into  the  shed,  the  horses  taken  to  their 
stalls.  Keyes  locked  the  door  of  the  stable  and  handed  the  key 
to  Sutton. 

"They're  yourn  to-day,"  he  said.  "I  can  in  through  this  windy 
if  they  need  anything.  If  you've  got  the  keys  I  can't  hire  none 
of  'em  out  even  if  I  wanted  to." 

Sutton  put  the  keys  in  his  pocket  and  went  to  the  hotel.  He 
rumpled  the  sheets  and  covering  of  his  bed  to  make  it  appear  as 
though  he  had  slept  in  it.  A  little  cold  water  made  him  feel 
almost  as  fresh  as  a  good  night's  rest.  He  had  no  time  for  sleep. 
The  train  for  Beale  left  at  half-past  six.  He  went  down-stairs. 
The  clerk  was  just  up,  and  was  taking  a  dip  in  a  basin  resting  on 
one  of  the  office  chairs.  Sutton  asked  how  much  he  owed,  paid 
it,  and  walked  over  to  the  station.  In  a  few  minutes  he  was  on 
the  way  to  Beale.     It  was  only  a  ten-minutes'  ride.     Presently 


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11 


he  was  pacing  up  and  down  the  station  platform  at  Beale,  ques- 
tioning the  lank  ticket  agent.  There  were  about  forty  voters  in 
the  town,  most  of  them  employed  at  a  turpentine  still.  None  of 
them  thought  of  going  to  Hawkins.  Most  of  them  were  Farn- 
ham  men.  These  facts  Sutton  learned  before  the  little  town  was 
fairly  astir.  He  got  some  breakfast,  and  at  eight  o'clock  walked 
over  to  the  turpentine  still. 

*•  I  can  throw  any  of  you  fellows  for  a  dollah,'1  he  said,  jocu- 
larly. A  little  badinage  on  this  subject  passed.  Then  the  subject 
of  politics  was  broached. 

"  Gen'l  Farnham  thinks  he  has  a  good  many  friends  beah,"  said 
Sutton. 

■■  We're  all  for  Farnham,"  said  one  of  the  men,  "  but  I  reckon 
they've  got  things  fixed  up  at  Hawkins  for  the  other  man." 

•<  I  don't  know  'bout  that,"  said  Sutton.  "  I  think  if  you  all  '11 
come  up  to  Hawkins  we  can  beat  those  Thompson  men." 

"  What  d'ye  say,  boys9"  said  the  spokesman. 

"  We  ain't  got  any  railroad  tickets,"  said  one  of  them. 

'■  I'll  have  tickets  for  you  all,"  said  Sutton.  "  You  meet  me  at 
the  train  at  ten  minutes  to  eleven." 

It  was  quickly  understood,  and  when  the  north-bound  train 
stopped  at  the  little  station  there  were  thirty-three  passengers 
waiting  for  it.  Sutton  had  bought  thirty-two  tickets,  which  he 
handed  to  the  leader  of  the  still-workers.  He  slipped  away  from 
them  and  boarded  the  last  car,  while  they  crowded  into  the 
smoking-car  ahead.  When  the  train  reached  Hawkins,  Sutton 
came  forward. 

«  Yon  boys  go  up  to  the  co't-house,"  he  said,  "  and  I'll  betheah 
at  noon.     I  don"t  want  to  be  seen  with  you  now." 

Captain  Forbes  was  in  his  store  when  Sutton  walked  in.  "I 
want  fo'  boxes  of  axe-helves,"  he  said.  "  Send  'em  up  to  the 
Coronah'e  office."  The  Coroner  was  the  third  Farnham  man  in 
the  little  town.  His  office  was  in  the  Court  House.  On  the  way 
there  Sutton  met  the  leader  of  the  Beale  party  and  explained  the 
use  of  the  axe-helves  to  him.  They  were  to  be  distributed  among 
his  men.  Sutton  was  to  take  the  floor  as  soon  as  the  meeting  was 
called  to  order.  He  was  to  speak  as  long  as  he  could,  to  give  the 
farmers  time  to  come  in  to  the  meeting.  At  intervals  he  would 
draw  a  white  handkerchief  from  his  pocKet.  That  would  be  the 
signal  for  the  Beale  men  to  use  their  axe-helves  on  the  floor  and 
the  Court  House  benches  in  vigorous  applause.  When  he  had 
had  time  to  "get  his  wind"  again  he  would  draw  a  red  handker- 
chief from  his  pocket,  when  the  applause  would  cease. 

All  through  the  forenoon  farm  wagons  had  come  into  Hawkins, 
each  with  its  load  of  four,  five,  and  six  men.  The  first  two  or 
three  had  excited  some  surprise.  When  the  number  increased 
rapidly,  toward  eleven  o'clock,  the  local  political  leaders  began  to 
be  alarmed.  There  were  Thompson  men  out  in  the  county,  and 
after  a  brief  consultation  they  decided  to  send  for  them.  But 
they  searched  in  vain  for  horses  for  their  messengers.  The  stable 
was  locked,  and  Keyes,  when  found,  said  that  he  had  hired  out 
all  of  his  horses.  Every  man  in  the  neighborhood  who  owned  a 
horse  was  appealed  to;  but,  with  the  exception  of  the  doctor, 
everyone  had  rented  his  team  for  the  day,  and  he  did  not  know 
where  it  was.  The  noon  hour  was  drawing  near.  It  was  grow- 
ing too  late  to  send  for  any  voters,  but  the  number  in  town  would 
fairly  outbalance  those  who  had  arrived  by  wagon  and  by  train. 
The  hour  for  the  meeting  came.  The  Court  House  was  well  filled. 
Sutton  stood  near  the  Judge's  low  rostrum.  He  had  put  his  dus- 
ter on  over  his  shirt,  for  it  was  a  warm  day  and  he  had  hard  work 
before  him.  Near  the  door  stood  Captain  Forbes  checking  off  the 
Farnham  men  as  they  entered.  He  shook  his  head  at  Sutton. 
The  number  was  not  enough  to  overcome  the  Thompson  vote. 

The  meeting  was  called  to  order.  Before  any  motion  could  be 
made  or  any  name  offered  to  it  Sutton  mounted  the  rostrum,  and 
deferentially  addressing  the  chairman,  turned  to  the  audience 
and  began  to  speak.  His  talk  was  rambling.  He  began  with  a 
glowing  eulogy  of  the  Democratic  party,  drifted  from  politics  to  a 
discussion  of  the  crops,  came  back  to  politics  and  the  tariff,  acd 
talked  about  the  coming  contest  for  the  Presidency.  He  made 
only  one  allusion  to  the  Governorship — a  brief  eulogy  of  General 
Farnham. 

The  crowd  listened  with  some  curiosity  at  first.  Then,  as  the 
stranger's  talk  began  to  spin  out,  there  were  manifestations  of 
disapproval,  culminating  .in  an  interruption  by  one  of  the  Hawk- 
ins men,  who  sprang  to  his  feet  to  shout:  «'  Who  is  this  in- 
truder?" The  demand  was  drowned  in  the  rattle  of  axe-helves 
and  the  cheers  and  cries  of  the  Beale  men.  When  the  noise  had 
subsided  Sutton  went  on.  At  intervals  he  drew  out  his  white 
handkerchief,  and  the  applause  that  followed  the  signal  was 
deafening.  The  interruptions  of  the  Hawkins  men  were  met  in 
the  same  way.  After  a  time  they  were  inclined  to  pick  a  quarrel 
with  the  Beale  men;  but  the  axe-helves  looked  too  formidable, 
and  they  smothered  their  indignation.  All  of  this  time  the  farm- 
ers were  coming  into  the  room,  singly  and  in  groups,  and  Captain 
Forbes  was  checking  them  off.  At  half -past  one  o'clock  he  looked 
across  and  nodded  at  Sutton.  The  speaker  was  very  tired  by  this 
time,  and  his  voice  was  hoarse;  but  the  game  was  too  important 
for  him  to  take  any  chances  of  losing  it  now.  So  he  kept  on  talk- 
ing for  another  quarter  of  an  hour.  In  that  time  he  had  seen  at 
least  twenty  more  farmers  enter  the  room.  Then  he  bowed  to  his 
audience  and  brought  his  speech  to  an  abrupt  conclusion.    The 


Beale  brigade  made  a  determined  onslaught  on  the  benches. 
When  the  noise  had  subsided  Captain  Forbes  took  the  floor  and 
named  delegates  to  the  nominating  convention.  Thompson  dele- 
gates were  placed  in  nomination  by  the  Hawkins  men,  and  the 
voting  began.  There  was  little  doubt  of  the  result  from  the  be- 
ginning. Sutton  elbowed  bis  way  through  the  crowd  and  stood 
at  the  door  waiting  for  the  announcement.  When  it  was  made 
he  hurried  down  the  street  to  the  telegraph  office,  while  the  thun- 
der of  the  axe-helves  and  the  cheers  of  the  farmers  echoed  behind 
him.  When  he  had  made  the  distance  he  heard  the  beat  of  horseB 
hoofs.  Before  he  could  look  around  he  was  caught  by  the  arms 
on  each  side,  and  swinging  in  the  air,  held  aloft  between  two  gal- 
loping horses,  he  was  carried  in  triumph  through  the  town. 

That  evening  General  Farnham  was  seated  In  consultation  with 
some  of  his  supporters  when  a  dispatch  was  handed  to  him.  He 
read  it,  and  with  a  smile  handed  it  to  bis  secretary  to  read  aloud. 

"  There  is  only  one  man  in  the  world  who  could  have  done  it," 
he  said. 

The  telegram  read  as  follows: 

"  General  Henry  S.  Farnham,  Atlanta:~We  have  carried  Lincoln  County 
for  you  by  sixty-three.    Congratulations  to  our  next  Governor. 

"  Sutton." 

yHilkman's 
Uate — ^gain? 

That  don't  matter  so  much,  now-a- 
days.  Dilute  one  part  of  Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  with  two  vol- 
umes of  water — for  delicious  cream; 
with  three  volumes  of  water  for  rich 
milk — You've  solved  the  milk  ques- 
tion for  all  time.  We  use  only  milk 
obtained  from  farms  under  our  own 
supervision.  Prepared  in  hermeti- 
cally sealed  cans.  Ask  for  the 
Highland  brand — take  no  other. 

HELVETIA  MILK  CONDENSING  CO. 
Highland,  III. 

LOUGHMON,    DECEASED. 

TO    MORTUARY    RECORD    KEEPERS    AND 
OTHERS. 


WANTED.— Evidence  of  the  death  of  George  Cheeves  Loughmon, 
alias  George  Leybourne  Loughmon,  formerly  of  Camden  Town, 
London,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Tubb,  builder, 
San  Francisco,  who  is  stated  to  have  been  knocked  down  and  killed 
by  a  steam  tramcar  in  the  streets  of  Oakland,  a  suburb  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, some  time  prior  to  the  month  of  January,  1886,  and  was  buried 
in  the  presence  of  Rev.  H.  W.  Tubb.    Apply  to 

MR.  D.  BRODERICK, 
3  Denmark  Villas,  Brighton,  Eng.,  Executor  of  the  will  of  C.  Lough- 
mon,  deceased. 

COKE—CHEAPEST  FUEL  I 

Reduction  in  Price. 

Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more),  80c.  per  bbl.    Ketail(any  quantity 
under  50  bbls.),  90c.  per  bbl. 

AT  THE  WORKS  OF 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  GASLIGHT  COMPANY, 
HOWARD  AND  FIRST  STS..  and  FOOT  OF  SECOND  STREET. 

COLTON  DENTAL  ASSOCIATION, 

80S  Market  Street  (Phelan  Building). 

Gas  Specialists.  Originated  the  use  of  Pure  Nitrous  Oxide  Gas  for  pois- 
tively  extracting  teeth  without  pain.  "Colton  Gas"  has  an  established  and 
unrivaled  world-wide  reputation  for  its  purity,  efficacy  and  perfect  safety 
In  all  eases.  Thirty-five  thousand  references.  Established  1863.  Indorsed 
and  recommended  oy  all  reputable  dentists  and  physicians.  Also  performs 
all  operations  in  dentistry. 

DR.  CHARLES  W.  DECKER 


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THE  patrons  of  the  Auditorium  Theatre,  in  Oakland,  have  been 
having  a  novel  experience  during  the  past  week.  As  an  out- 
come of  the  sudden  departure  a  short  time  ago  of  Manager  Bin- 
ford,  a  number  of  bills  were  left  unpaid,  among  them  being  an 
indebtedness  to  the  Musicians'  Union.  Now,  the  tune-dispensers 
endeavored  to  saddle  their  bills  on  the  new  manager,  Al  Leech, 
and  when  he  attempted  to  pacify  them  they  walked  out,  leaving 
him  entirely  in  the  lurch.  A  girl  pianist,  accordingly,  was  ob- 
tained to  fill  in  the  gap  between  the  acts,  and  on  the  night  of  The 
Stowaway  a  scratch  orchestra  was  scared  up.  But  lo!  and  behold, 
the  newcomers  struck  at  the  end  of  the  first  act,  and  the  manage- 
ment was  in  despair.  Tbe  audience  became  somewhat  anxious 
as  the  last  musician  fled  from  tbe  orchestra,  and  then  came  a  lull, 
as  all  wondered  what  next  was  to  be  done.  A  small  boy  saved 
the  country.  Coatless  and  ragged  he  was  sitting  in  the  front  row 
of  the  gallery,  and  suddenly  delving  down  into  his  trousers  pocket 
he  brought  forth  a  harmonica  and  struck  up  "There's  One  More 
River  to  Cross."  The  audience  yelled,  everyone  got  in  a  good 
humor,  and  when,  later  on,  one  of  the  members  of  the  company 
came  out  and  apologized  for  the  absence  of  an  orchestra,  there 
was  no  dissent,  and  the  evening  passed  off  pleasantly. 
#  *  # 
Some  people  are  easily  insulted.  They  go  about  with  a  meta- 
phorical chip  on  their  shoulders,  on  the  constant  look  out  for  a 
quarrel  with  whomsoever  shall  have  the  temerity,  either  designed 
or  accidental  to  jostle  them.  But  the  funniest  instance  of  all 
comes  from  Nevada.  In  accordance  with  law  the  Secretary 
of  State  has  designated  the  tint  of  the  ballot  paper  to  be  used  at 
the  coming  election,  and  has  chosen  a  gold  color  with  a  silver 
water  mark.  This  harmless  and  artistic  combination  however 
has  aroused  the  wrath  of  a  sapient,  sage-brush  editor,  and  under 
the  heading  "A  Gross  Jnsult  "  he  gives  vent  to  his  feelings.  He 
charges  the  offending  official  with  being  a  man  of  "insuper- 
able gall,  "  and  claims  that  in  bis  choice  of  the  ballot  paper  he 
"  probably  thinks  that  the  selection  of  the  gold  tint  will  place 
him  in  favor  with  our  gold-bug  President,  Ben  Harrison.  Bnt 
the  insult  flung  at  every  true  lover  of  this  suffering  state  will  for- 
ever rankle  in  the  hearts  of  her  people."  It  is  evident  that  Mark 
Twain  and  Dan  de  Quille  will  have  to  look  to  their  laurels,  for  a 
humorist  greater  than  they  is  now  before  the  world. 

In  Shasta  county  the  local  campaign  waxes  warm,  and  the  re- 
spective merits  of  the  various  candidates  are  being  loudly  her- 
alded. But  the  funniest  thing  of  all  is  the  claim  advanced  on 
behalf  of  a  certain  candidate  for  Sheriff,  to  the  disparagement  of 
his  opponent.  It  is  boldly  claimed  that  one  Atkins  should  be 
elected,  because  he  is  a  married  man  and  is  the  father  of  fourteen 
children,  while  his  opponent  is  also  married,  but  as  yet  is  not  a 
parent.  The  friends  of  tbe  latter  gemtleman  retort  that  a=  Atkins 
is  sixty  years  old,  and  has  been  married  for  thirty  years,  he  has 
done  nothing  ot  which  to  boast.  Their  man  has  been  married  a 
short  time,  but  just  give  him  a  chance,  and  he  will  equal  Atkins' 
record,  or  know  tbe  reason  why.  So  the  war  wages.  All  the 
hens  in  the  county  are  in  a  loud  cackle  over  the  controversy,  and 
the  introduction  of  a  standard  of  virility  as  a  test  for  office-hold- 
ing capacity  is  apt  to  break  down  party  lines  entirely.  If  the 
women  were  allowed  to  vote  there  is  not  much  question  who 
would  be  the  lucky  condidate. 

Some  weeks  since,  when  the  matter  of  the  symphony  concerts 
was  first  submitted  to  the  public,  in  a  moment  of  enthusiasm  in- 
duced by  the  excellence  of  the  proposition,  I  promised  to  publish 
from  time  to  time  the  names  of  the  subscribers  to  the  con- 
certs. I  have  received  this  week,  however,  such  a  formidable 
list  that  lack  of  space  for  the  purpose  precludes  its  publication. 
It  is  gratifying  to  tbe  friends  of  the  concert  to  know  that  over 
$800  have  been  subscribed  toward  the  concerts.  This  movement 
is  certainly  deserving  of  success,  and  it  should  receive  the  hearty 
support  of  all  lovers  of  music. 

»  #  * 

All  sorts  of  schemes  for  "beating  the  ballot  law"  are  being 
sprung  in  these  last  few  days  before  election.  One  of  the  latest 
is  a  plan  by  which  men  who  sell  their  votes  can  prove  to  the 
buyers  that  they  have  "  delivered  the  goods."  Here  is  the  scheme : 
A  promises  B  $2.50  or  $5.00,  whatever  the  market  price  may  be, 
if  he  will  vote  for  C.     B  agrees,  and   thereupon   he   is  given   the 


name  of  some  one  not  a  candidate  for  some  minor  office,  which 
he  is  required  to  write  in  tbe  blank  space  for  such  purposes.  Each 
bribed  voter  is  given  a  different  name,  and  the  briber  keeps  a 
record  of  the  bribed  and  tbe  secret  name.  Then  when  the  ballots 
are  counted  the  watcher  employed  by  the  briber  checks  off  the 
ballots  bearing  these  names,  and  takes  notice  whether  the  rest  of 
the  ticket  has  been  marked  as  agreed  upon.  If  everything  is  all 
right,  B  gets  his  bribe.  This  is  far  more  difficult  than  the  old 
system  of  paying  cash  and  putting  a  ticket  into  the  venal  voter's 
hands  and  then  watching  it  until  deposited  in  the  box,  buttbedirfi- 
culty  will  not  prevent  it  from  being  practiced  to  a  considerable  ex- 
tent by  those  who  have  stuffed  the  registration  rolls. 
#  »  • 

A  daily  paper  recently  published  a  weak  account  of  what  pur 
ported  to  be  the  sensational  experiences  of  a  member  of  the  crew 
of  the  Montserrat,  a  vessel  employed  in  securing  from  the  islands 
of  the  South  Seas  natives  who  agreed  to  work  on  Central  and 
South  American  plantations  for  certain  specified  wages.  Attached 
as  witness  to  the  copy  of  one  contract  quoted  was  the  signature 
of  "James  8.  Osborne,"  a  young  man  well  known  in  this  city, 
who  took  passage  on  the  Montserrat  to  enjoy  a  vacation  in  the 
Southern  Pacific,  and  incidentally  to  accumulate  a  few  pounds  of 
flesh,  his  physique  having  been  sadly  injured  by  the  fogs  of  San 
Francisco.  Osborne  was  an  insurance  agent,  and  is  a  bright 
young  man,  who  makes  friends  easily.  While  the  Montserrat 
was  cruising  among  the  islands  of  the  Southern  Seas  she  bobbed 
up  againBt  Her  Majesty's  ship  Royalist,  and  the  blackbirders  and 
the  representatives  of  Victoria's  Government  became  very  friend- 
ly. Osborne  was  among  those  who  hobnobbed  with  the  English- 
men, and  he  became  very  popular  with  them.  As  he  was  in 
search  of  adventure,  and  had  had  enough  of  the  Montserrat,  he 
cultivated  the  British  officers,  and  expressed  admiration  for  them, 
their  service  and  their  ship.  What  could  they  do  but  invite  him 
to  accompany  them  on  the  cruise?  But  a  difficulty  arose.  In 
what  capacity  would  he  sail,  for  he  must  be  attached  to  the  ship's 
company  in  some  manner?  Over  this  deep  problem  there  was 
much  and  interesting  debate,  until  finally  the  whole  question  was 
settled,  when  some  subaltern  remembered  that  there  was  no  chap- 
lain on  the  ship.  That  settled  it,  and  James  S.  Osborne,  of  Ten- 
nessee, late  of  the  Montserrat,  washed  the  traces  of  cocoanut  oil 
from  his  person,  and,  putting  on  white  ducks  and  brass  buttons, 
became  the  chaplain  of  Her  Majesty's  good  ship  Royalist,  and 
now  he  sails  the  Southern  Seas.  The  Royalist  had  intended  to  put 
into  Sydney,  whence  it  was  thought,  when  she  was  at  the  islands, 
that  she  would  come  here.  At  any  rate,  go  where  she  will,  the 
spiritual  welfare  of  her  crew  will  be  well  attended  to,  for  she  car- 
ries as  prayermaker-in-chief  a  true  Southern  gentleman,  who  has 
been  an  insurance  underwriter,  and  has  sailed  on  a  "blackbird," 
and  if  that  experience  does  not  fully  enable  him  to  preach  "hell's 
fire,"  nothing  will. 

One  of  the  gang  of  key-hole  reporters  and  professional  eaves- 
droppers employed  by  the  "enterprising"  journals  of  this  city 
got  a  lesson  the  other  evening  which  should  serve  as  a  warning  to 
all  his  class.  A  certain  society  was  holding  a  meeting  at  which 
no  reporters  were  allowed  to  be  present,  the  matters  under  dis- 
cussion being  of  a  private  character  and  of  no  concern  to  the  pub- 
lic. Anxious  to  score  a  "  beat  "  on  his  competitors,  one  of  the 
reporters  skulked  about  the  place  of  meeting,  and  at  last  managed 
to  find  a  door,  where,  by  glueing  his  ear  to  the  key-hole,  he  was 
able  to  hear  much  of  what  was  said.  He  was  gleefully  taking 
notes  of  tbe  proceedings,  when  through  some  injudicious  move 
on  his  part  his  presence  was  discovered,  and  before  he  could  get 
away  he  was  in  the  grasp  of  the  men  upon  whom  he  bad  been 
spying.  And  then  there  was  a  circus.  In  vain  the  eavesdropper 
pleaded  that  he  was  a  representative  of  the  great  and  only  molder 
of  public  opinion;  this  only  made  matters  the  worse.  His  angry 
captors  literally  wiped  up  the  floor  with  him.  They  fairly  tore 
the  shirt  from  his  back,  kicked  and  cuffed  him  to  their  heart's 
content  and  finally  threw  him  into  the  street,  a  well  and  de- 
servedly thrashed  man.  There  is  not  a  reputable  reporter  or 
editor  in  town  but  will  say  this  spy  was  treated  exactly  as  he  de- 
serves. It  is  true,  there  is  a  class  of  journalstic  hangers-on  who 
fancy  that  eavesdropping  and  spying  are  praiseworthy  occupa- 
tions when  employed  to  obtain  "  scoops  "  for  their  papers,  but 
no  self-respecting  reporter  ever  conducts  himself  in  any  other 
than  a  gentlemanly  manner,  nor  will  a  decent  editor  require  him 
to  do  so.  It  is  these  eavesdroppers  who  have  brought  the  profes- 
sion into  discredit  with  many,  and  every  newspaperman  with 
pride  in  his  calling  will  rejoice  at  the  lesson  administered  to  one 
of  the  buzzards  of  tbe  press.  Let  the  good  work  go  on. 
»  »  * 

The  News  Letter  has  time  and  again  urged  the  abolition  of  the 
practice  of  extorting  "  blood  money  "  from  the  pockets  of  sailors 
shipping  from  this  port  by  crimps  and  boarding-house  masters, 
who  have  made  money  thereby.  In  dealing  with  the  mat- 
ter it  has  always  been  maintained  that  the  owners  of  British  ships 
were,  if  anything,  most  to  blame,  and  that  both  they  and  their 
captains  were  as  deep  in  the  mire  as  anybody  else.  Recent 
events  have  a  tendency  to  prove  that  these  strictures  were  in  the 
main  correct.  No  blood  money  has  been  levied  here  for  some 
time  past  by  the  regular  dealers  in  the  class  of  live  stock  which 


October  29,  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


slaves  on  the  ocean  for  a  beggarly  pittance,  and  yet  we  are  in- 
formed that  some  captains,  witb  the  consent  of  their  miserly 
owners,  still  continue  to  mulct  Jack  in  the  sum  of  $10  for  the 
privilege  of  chipping  iron  rust  and  performing  a  mechanic's  work 
in  floating  workhouses.  This  is  a  subject  which  should  be  in- 
vestigated by  ihe  proper  authorities,  and,  if  possible,  any  one 
caught  in  the  act  should  be  severely  punished.  It  is  hardly  right 
to  throw  all  the  blame  on  the  shipmasters.  They  are,  as  a  rule, 
ground  down  to  the  last  cent  by  the  parsimonious  individuals  in 
England,  who  ?crape  to  make  a  dividend  showing  on  the  low 
freights  which  are  now  obtainable.  Not  long  ago  the  story  was 
told  in  this  city  of  a  gentlemanly  fellow  in  command  of  a  fine 
ship  in  this  port,  who,  to  reciprocate  the  many  courtesies  ex- 
tended by  people  here,  gave  a  party  on  board  his  vessel,  and 
spared  no  expense  logive  bis  guests  a  pleasant  time.  The  affair  was 
subsequently  written  up  id  the  papers,  and  in  giving  the  captain 
a  good  **  send  otf,"  some  >  friendly  "  reporter  expatiated  on  the 
amount  of  money  expended,  and  stated  that  the  bills  amounted 
to  $400.  A  clipping  of  the  notice  was  cut  out  by  some  meddle- 
some person,  and  forwarded  to  the  owners  in  Great  Britain,  who 
quietly  filed  it  away  pending  the  arrival  of  the  ship.  When  the 
captain  called  on  them,  in  due  course  of  time  to  square  accounts, 
he  was  »  docked  "  the  amount  named  from  his  salary,  with  the 
intimation  that  he  could  either  pay  for  his  party  or  look  for  an- 
other ship.  This  is  only  one  of  a  number  of  mean  transactions 
which  could  be  narrated  on  the  part  of  English  ship-owners,  and 
comment  on  such  matters  could  scarcely  be  made  in  strictly  par- 
liamentary language.  A  captain's  life  on  board  many  British 
merchant  vessels  is  not  what  it  was  twenty  years  ago,  and  men 
in  the  positions  are  more  to  be  pitied  than  blamed  in  any  case. 
They  have  hard  rows  to  hoe,  and  they  must  either  keep  up  to 
the  scratch  or  get  out. 

*  •  # 
The  erection  of  a  monument  in  Golden  Gate  Park  to  Thomas 
Starr  King  is  the  payment  of  a  fitting  tribute  to  an  able  and 
patriotic  citizen,  who  in  the  hour  of  the  nation's  need,  did  much 
in  the  cause  of  the  government.  Thirty  years  ago  Thomas  Starr 
King,  a  modest  minister  of  the  Unitarian  Church,  was  one  of  the 
best  known,  most  popular  and  ablest  men  in  California.  His 
fame  rests  principally  upon  the  gigantic  efforts  he  made  through- 
out the  Stale  in  behalf  of  the  preservation  of  the  American  union. 
He  was  a  true  patriot,  and  to  him,  probably  more  than  to  any 
other  one  man,  was  due  the  fact  that  California  did  not  secede. 
During  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  was  unceasing  in  his  efforts 
for  the  preservation  of  the  Republic,  one  and  indivisible,  and  the 
fame  of  his  name  spread  throughout  the  nation.  He  was  relent- 
less in  his  fight  for  universal  freedom,  with  the  result  that  he 
overtaxed  his  energies,  and  in  the  spring  of  1864  he  passed  away. 
But  his  memory  will  live  forever  as  one  of  the  many  noble  men 
whom  California  has  given  to  the  nation.  For  some  time  past 
efforts  toward  the  erection  of  the  monument  have  been  made, 
and  crowned  with  success,  on  Wednesday  last  in  the  little  valley, 
west  of  the  aviary,  in  Golden  Gate  Park,  the  image  of  the  patriot 
and  orator  was  unveiled  by  his  three  grandchildren  in  the  pres- 
ence of  several  thousand  people.  The  eminent  preacher  is  shown 
standing  with  uncovered  bead,  holding  in  his  left  hand  a  roll  of 
manuscript,  while  his  right  rests  upon  the  American  flag  which 
is  draped  about  Roman  fasces.  The  statue  is  in  bronze  and  is  of 
heroic  size.  The  base  is  12x18  feet.  The  inscription  engraved 
upon  the  die  is 

THOMAS    STARR    KING. 

IN   HIM,    ELOQUENCE,   STRENGTH 

AND   VIRTUE,  WERE    DEVOTED   WITH 

FEARLESS    COURAGE   TO   TRUTH, 

COUNTRY   AND    HIS    FELLOWMEN. 

1824-1864. 
Addresses  were  made  by  Irving  M.  Scott,  J.  B.  Stetson  and  oth- 
ers.    Mr.  Scott,  who  was  the  orator  of   the   day,   paid  a  fitting 
tribute  to  the  great  patriot. 

■*  *  # 

A  sight  that  would  have  brought  tears  to  the  eyes  of  the 
"  man  on  Bush  street,"  had  he  heard  of  it,  was  that  presented 
on  Kearny  street,  about  two  o'clock  one  morning  last  week, 
when  Jimmy  Long,  the  head,  front  and  center  of  the  "  true  blue 
old-time  Democracy,"  was  seen  climbing  a  telegraph  pole  and 
nailing  thereto  the  cards  of  a  few  of  the  old  liners,  who,  though 
slightly  disfigured,  are  yet  in  the  ring.  Jimmy  is  a  good  climber, 
and  be  straddles  a  telegraph  pole  quite  as  readily  as  he  can  a 
political  problem ;  but  it  would  have  made  any  one  who  knew 


him  sad  to  have  seen  him  on  that  early  morning.  This  man, 
who  oftime,  in  stentorian  voice,  told  the  Judges  how  they  should 
decide;  this  man,  who,  with  the  knowledge  of  the  power  of  the 
boss  behind  him,  discharged  this  criminal,  and  convicted  that; 
this  man,  who,  of  all  men,  was  powerful  in  the  filthy  depths  of 
that  mass  of  corruption  which  finds  its  center  at  the  Old  City 
Hall— astride  a  telegraph  pole  in  the  dead  of  nightl  0  temporal 
0  Mores! 


THOSE  who  were  so  fortunate  as  to  witness  the  performance  of 
Miss  Helen  Bertram  at  the  Baldwin  Theatre,  in  the  great 
Parisian  success,  Miss  ffelyett,  on  last  Wednesday  evening,  certainly 
enjoyed  a  musical  and  artistic  treat.  Miss  Bertram  performed 
her  part  to  perfection,  and  not  the  least  attractive  feature 
in  her  appearance  was  her  costume.  Her  poke  bonnet, 
which  gave  such  a  piquant  expression  to  her  face,  and 
her  gray  shoes,  in  harmony  with  her  costume,  were  made  at  her 
desire  at  that  popular  emporium  of  fashion — The  Maze.  The  fact 
that  the  leading  lady  of  an  opera  company  orders  a  portion  of  her 
costume  for  a  new  play  at  The  Maze,  certainly  places  that  popu- 
lar house  far  ahead  of  its  envious  rivals. 


STOCKTON  comes  to  the  front  with  a  novelty  in  the  way  of 
strikes.  One  of  the  young  ladies  in  attendance  at  the  High 
School  took  umbrage  at  something  said  by  the  principal  in  the 
enforcement  of  school  discipline,  and  thereupon  persuaded  her 
classmates  to  join  her  in  a  strike.  They  refused  to  attend  school 
until  the  offending  principal  should  have  properly  apologized  to 
the  aggrieved  maiden.  Thereupon  an  unfeeling  brute  of  a  local 
editor  suggests  that  an  application  of  birch  or  the  maternal  slipper 
to  the  place  where  it  would  do  the  most  good,  would  be  the 
proper  remedy  in  dealing  with  such  adolescent  folly  as  this. 


le  lord  Fduoiicr 


. 


Qijaker  ROiiES  white  Oajs 


s& 


FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold   and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
te  ellery  of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable   prices. 
A.  W.  STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic   Temple. 


s 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

TIHIIE     VERY     LATEST. 


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14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


October  29,  1892. 


IT  is  not  always  that  the  arrangement  of  a  programme  is  so  ap- 
propriate to  the  performers  as  is  the  one  chosen  by  the  man- 
agers of  the  living  game  of  whist  to  be  shortly  produced  in  aid  of 
"  sweet  charity,"  as,  for  instance,  the  placing  of  Miss  Mabel  Love 
as  Queen  of  Hearts.  Who  so  fit  to  reign  over  hearts  as  Love? 
The  choice  of  the  brightly-tinted  Queen  of  Diamonds  is  also  apt, 
for  diamonds  generally  top  off  all  others,  and  the  illustration  of 
the  Queen  will  be  head  and  shoulders  above  many  of  the  partici- 
pants in  the  game — in  size,  at  least. 
»  #  * 
At  last  the  "  survival  of  the  fittest  "  is  to  be  put  into  active 
form  in  our  swim.  The  crudity  and  vulgar  display  which  char- 
acterized much  of  our  society  in  its  first  flush  of  millions  is  fast 
giving  way  to  refining  influences  and  experience  of  social  life.  It 
is  a  real  pleasure  to  see  the  "old  set"  once  more  taking  the  lead. 
Some  well  known  names  of  'Frisco's  earliest  entertainers  are  to 
be  found  in  a  coterie  of  ladies  who  have  organized  for  the  purpose 
of  giving  "  teas"  during  the  winter  season.  As  most  of  the  ladies 
at  the  head  of  the  movement  own  large,  well-appointed  resi- 
dences, and  have  husbands  with  plethoric  pocket-books,  it  seems 
rather  to  be  a  matter  of  regret  that  the  coterie  did  not  select  a  more 
lively  form  of  entertainment,  at  least  for  the  sake  of  the  girls. 
Hops  are  better  than  the  Chinese  weed,  after  all. 

*  *  * 

The  girls  are  wondering  if  George  Hellman  will  be  [the  "chap- 
eron" to  his  charming  fiancee  in  the  trip  to  Chicago  of  the  Ladies' 
Orchestra.  Most  likely  the  wedding  will  be  an  accomplished 
fact  by  that  time. 

*  •  # 

A  British  tourist  who  baB  just  returned  here  for  a  second  visit, 
asks:  "What  has  become  of  those  awfully  pretty  girls  with 
stunning  waists  that  one  used  to  see  so  much  when  I  was  here 
before?  "  The  Misses  Brooks  are  presumably  the  young  ladies 
referred  to,  as  their  slight  figures  are  the  admiration  of  all  who 
behold  them. 

*  *  * 

Our  wise  old  society  matrons  are  coming  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  old  saw  of  "  pastures  new  "  means  something  tangible,  and 
the  result  of  this  will  be  the  loss  to  our  swim  of  several  of  our 
stand  by  belles  whose  pretty  faces  have  adorned  social  circles  for 
many  seasons,  in  favor  of  a  winter  at  the  East. 

*  #  *■ 

Aa  novelty  seems  to  be  the  reigning  fad,  and  charity  its  motif, 
what  a  striking  success  could  be  achieved  by  some  enterprising 
man  (or  woman,  as  the  case  might  be)  who  would  engineer  an 
entertainment  which  would  knock  the  spots  out  of  the  illus- 
trated "  game  of  whist "  about  to  be  done  in  public  for  charity's 
sake,  and  that  is,  a  vivid  series  of  tableaux  of  the  game  of  poker. 
What  a  picture  could  be  made  of  "  Jack  Pot."  Every  one  in  so- 
ciety, and  many  more  out  of  it,  knows  how  gracefully  a  certain 
gentleman  presides  over  a  pot  of  beer.  Then  that  tiny  little  inge- 
nue belle  as  the  -Lkitty"  would  be  too  sweet  for  anything.  A  prom- 
inent politician  would  make  a  fine  picture  of  a  flush.  No  doubt 
any  number  of  beaux  and  belles  would  only  be  too  happy  to  pose 
as  pairs  and  four  of  a  kind.  Who  will  work  up  the  idea?  It 
would  be  a  howling  success,  and  draw  the  old  stagers,  war  horses 
and  Reform  Democracy  like  a  newly  discovered  bonanza. 

*  *  *       * 

Miss  Millie  Ashe  will  spend  the  coming  winter  in  the  National 
Capitol,  her  mother,  Mrs.  C.  L.  Ashe,  accompanying  her. 

»  •  • 

An  old  bachelor  was  heard  remarking  the  other  day,  »  How 
exactly  those  women  have  hit  it  off  in  calling  their  club  the 
"  School  for  Scandal,"  for  of  course  a  club  where  women  congre- 
gate would  be  just  that  thing."  "  Hateful  old  thing,"  said  a 
pretty  matron  who  heard  him.  "  How  about  the  men's  club 
where  my  husband  hears  all  the  tid  bits,  which  he  tells  me  when 
he  comes  home  late  at  night,  and  so  stops  my  scolding.  I  won- 
der if  any  women  in  the  world  can  equal  that  club?  " 


Pommery  Sec. 


The  Illustrated  London  News  of  a  recent  issue  reports  that  Messrs. 
Pommery  &  Greno.  whose  stock  of  fine  champagnes  is  the  largest  in 
the  world  and  commands  the  highest  price  in  the  market,  have  pur- 
chased this  year  one-sixth  of  last  year's  vintage,  which  is  of  excel- 
lent quality  in  every  way.  The  price  paid  for  this  vintage,  being  the 
highest  ever  known,  the  purchase  has  cost  that  great  firm  thelarge 
sum  of  over  £600,000,  a  transaction  of  magnitude  never  equaled  in 
the  trade  by  any  firm  or  company.  With  such  unceasing  efforts, 
the  above  flattering  showing  of  Pommery  Sec  is  therefore  not  sur- 
prising. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  enjoys  the  well-earned 
reputation  of  having  the  best  assortment  of  gentlemen's  furnishing 
goods  in  the  city. 


C.  MAREY  &  LIGER-BELAIR 

Nuits. 

BURGUNDIES. 

Beaune  (Red) 

Pommard  " 

Clos  de  Vougeout  " 

CHAMBERTIN. 
Chablis  (White) 

•'    Gold  Lac      " 
"     1878 

CHAS.  MEINECKE  &  CO., 

Sole  Agents,  314-  Sacramento  St. 

jhe  gyr  ffiii^. 

IMPORTERS. 

WHOLESALERS, 

AND  RETAILERS 

OF  ONLY  FIRST-CLASS 

Wines,  Cordials, 

Champagnes  and 
Table  Delicacies. 

Etc.,  Etc. 

Hi  niiinc  Goods.     Low  Prices. 

EM.MEYER&CO., 

1047-1049  Market  St.,  S.  F. 

CHAMPAGNE 

KRUG  &  CO.    "  PRIVATE  CUVEE." 

IN  QUARTS  AND   PINTS 

FROM 

Krug  &  Co.,  Reims. 

BY  ILL  DEALERS,  JOBBERS  AND  GROCERS. 

HELLMANN    BROS.  &   CO, 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
525  Front  Street,  SAN  FRAN  CISCO.   Telephone  no.  m. 


BANJO 

ASHTON  P.  STEVENS. 

STUDIO:     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 

HAMBURG-AMERICAN  PACKET  COMPANY. 

FASTEST  ROUTE  TO  LONDON 
Southampton,  and  the  European  Con- 
tinent. Fastest  time,  equal  to  5 
days,  20  hours  to  Queenstown.  Mag- 
nificent new  twin-screw  express 
steamers  of  10,000  tons  and  13,000  to 
16,000  horse  power.  (%,  These 
steamers  carry  no  cotton. 

Through  tickets  to  London,  Paris, 
Basle,  Geneva,  Vienna,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  etc. 

MEDITERRANEAN  EXPRESS 
LINE— Winter  service  from  New 
York  to  Genoa  and  Naples  (via  Gib- 
raltar) by  our  twin-screw  express 
steamers,  Bailing  November  17th,  De- 
cember 1st,  January  5th,  January  19th. 

Company's  office,  37  Broadway,  New  Yorx.    For  tickets,  cabin  plans  and 
information  apply  to    A.  W.  MYER,  General  agent  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
401  California  street,  corner  Sansome,  San  FranciBCo. 


LETTER. 


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SAD  is  the  fate  of  him  whose  books 
Unkind  reviewers  maim  and  kill; 
Whose  heartstrings  quiver  in  the  hooks 

That  show  their  cold  dissecting  skill. 
They  work  on  him  their  wanton  will, 

While  all  his  tenderest  hopes  are  torn — 
But  ah,  there's  something  sadder  still 
In  thinking  of  the  books  unborn! 

The  wounded  author  may  find  nooks 

Secluded,  by  some  vale  or  rill, 
Where  nevermore  the  critic  rooks 

Can  rend  him  with  their  inky  bill; 
But  oh,  what  solace  for  the  ill 

Of  hope  deferred  that  waits  forlorn 
To  feen  the  parent  raptures  thrill 

Of  books  that  yet  remain  unborn  I 

The  would-be  author,  whose  fond  looks 
Turn  ever  to  Fame's  sunlit  hill, 

Chafes  at  defeat,  and  sorely  brooks 

The  fate  that  makes  his  triumph  nil. 

He  loathes  the  phrase,  politely  chill, 
"  Declined  with  thanks."  So  let  him  mourn 

Whose  bosom  disappointments  fill 

For  books  that  never  may  be  born. 


Princes  (who  publish  books)  distil 

Some  drops  of  pity,  not  of  scorn. 
For  those  poor  toilers  of  the  quill 

Whose  books  are  waiting  to  be  born  I 

Feamcis  F.  Bkowme. 


U/oolep$ 
por 


Stylish  and  exclusive  Novelties  from 
the  most  noted  makers  of  Roubaix. 
Heavy  corded  diagonals,  sable  cloak- 

U/l'ntSr  'n9S'     r'ch    Velours'    rou9h    serges    in 

many  grades,  and  Embroidered  Robes. 


U/<?ar. 


WITH  TRUMPET  AND  DRUM.— Chicago  News  Record. 


111  to  121  Post  Street 


[DEDICATED    FOR   A    FORTHCOMING    BOOK   OF    CHILD'S  VERSE.] 

With  big  tin  trumpet  and  little  red  drum, 
Marching  like  soldiers  the  children  come; 

It's  this  way  and  that  way  they  circle  and  file — 

My!  but  that  music  of  theirs  is  finel 
This  way  and  that  way,  and  after  a  while 

They  march  straight  into  this  heart  of  mine! 
A  sturdy  old  heart,  but  it  has  to  succumb 
To  the  blare  of  that  trumpet  and  beat  of  that  drum ! 

Come  on,  little  people,  from  cot  and  from  hall, 
This  heart  it  hath  welcome  and  room  for  you  all  1 

It  will  sing  you  its  songs  and  warm  you  with  love, 

As  your  dear  little  arms  with  my  arms  intertwine; 
It  will  rock  you  away  to  your  Dreamland  above — 
Oh,  a  jolly  old  heart  is  the  old  heart  of  mine! 
And  jollier  still  is  it  bound  to  become 
When  you  blow  that  big  trumpet  and  beat  that  red  drum! 

So  come;  though  I  see  not  his  dear  little  face, 
And  hear  not  Mb  voice  in  this  jubilant  place, 
I  know  he  were  happy  to  bid  me  enshrine 

His  memory  deep  in  my  heart  with  your  play. 
Ah  mel  but  a  love  that  is  sweeter  than  mine 
Holdeth  my  boy  in  its  keeping  to-day  I 
And  my  heart  it  is  lonely,  so,  little  folk,  come, 
March  in  and  make  merry  with  trumpet  and  drum  I 

Eugeme  Field. 


— eo  to — 

0-.  ~W.   <DJL,JLtt?<Z    &c   CO.. 
663   Market  Street, 

FOR 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 


SUNSET.—  Tennyson. 


Sunset  and  evening  Star, 

And  one  clear  call  for  me! 
And  may  there  be  no  moaning  of  the  bar 

When  I  put  out  to  sea. 

But  such  a  tide  as  moving  seems  asleep, 

Too  full  for  sound  and  foam, 
When  that  which  drew  from  out  the  boundless  deep, 

Turns  home  again. 

Twilight  and  evening   bell, 

And  after  that  the  dark  I 
And  may  there  be  no  sadness  of  farewell 

When  I  embark. 

For  tho'  from  out  our  bourne  of  Time  and  Place 

The  flood  may  bear  me  far, 
I  hope  to  see  my  Pilot  face  to  face 

When  I  have  crossed   the  bar. 


GOLD  SEAL  Eubber  HOSE, 

THE  BEST  MADE. 

Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 

577  A  579  Market  Street. 


K.  H.  PEASE,    j   ,„„„,„ 
S.  M.  KHM-«s,i  Agents, 


LOUIS  COOKS. 


WILLIAM  COOKS. 


MAX  COOKS. 


COOKS     BROS, 

IHSTTIESIRIOIR.         DBCOBATOBS. 

Dealers  in  Stained  Glass,  Wall  Paper,  Lincrusta  Walton,  Paper 

Mache,  Parquet  Flooring,  Moorish  Fret  Work, 

Frescoing,  Wall   Mouldings, 

943  and  945  Market  St.,  between  5th  and  6th,  San  Francisco 


16 


£>AN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEK. 


October  29,  1892. 


THERE  seems  to  be  a  feeling  abroad  in  London  tbat  tbe 
celebrated  Montana  mine  is  played  out,  and  that  the  Directors 
will  have  to  close  down  on  the  whole  proposition  unless  some- 
thing favorable  turns  up  before  long.  The  ore  now  being  ex- 
tracted is  of  an  extremely  low  grade,  it  is  said,  and  even  with 
high  prices  ruling  for  silver,  it  would  scarcely  pay  working  ex- 
penses. When  the  mine  was  first  started  the  average  yield  per 
ton  was  $65.63,  and  in  1886  and  1887,  when  the  property  was 
fully  developed,  the  returns  averaged  $41.05  and  $27.21  per  ton, 
respectively.  Since  that  date  the  mine  has  steadily  deteriorated, 
and  for  the  year  1S91  the  yield  was  only  $9.40  per  ton,  while  for 
the  past  six  months  the  average  was  only  $6.22  per  ton.  This 
estimate,  small  and  all  as  it  is,  was  made  without  making  any 
allowance  for  the  discount  on  silver,  which  was  equivalent  to  a 
reduction  on  the  total  bullion  output  of  14.18  per  cent.  Just 
imagine  a  company  struggling  along  on  such  a  grade  of  silver 
ore.  Out  here  when  the  car  saDiples  of  ore  run  below  $20,  in  the 
majority  of  instances  the  mine  and  mill  is  closed  down.  There 
are  any  number  of  mines  of  this  class  lying  idle  in  Nevada  to-day, 
for  the  reason  that  with  silver  below  $1  there  is  little  or  no  profit 
in  milling  $20  rock.  Take  the  mines  of  Tuscarora  and  the 
Quijotoas,  for  instance,  or  even  the  Holmes  mine  of  Oandelaria. 
They  have  tons  upon  tons  of  ore  that  will  run  much  higher 
than  that  of  tbe  Montana,  which  would  enable  them  to  pay 
steady  and  good-sized  d.vidends,  if  anything  like  a  fair  price 
could  be  obtained  for  the  bullion.  It  would  mean  ruin  for  every- 
body connected  with  these  properties  to  attempt  to  work  this 
low-grade  ore  under  the  circumstances,  and  it  is  not  easy  to  un- 
derstand how  the  Montana  people  manage  to  come  out  ahead  on 
even  $10  ore,  unless  it  runs  pretty  high  in  gold,  and  the  margin 
for  a  profit  would  then  be  very  slim.  The  Montana  has  been  a 
good  mine  in  its  day,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  ore  will  again 
come  in  as  strong  as  ever,  and  that  the  dark  forebodings  of  the 
present  will  turn  out  to  be  rather  premature. 
?  ?  S 

THE  Comstock  market  has  been  slaughtered  during  the  week, 
much  to  the  benefit  of  the  bear  clique,  which  is  growing 
stronger  and  richer  every  day.  The  operators  of  this  stripe  have 
had  a  pretty  safe  and  sure  game  for  some  months  past,  and  the 
milking  has  been  going  on  over  the  fence  in  the  private  pastures 
of  the  "big"  people  instead  of  on  the  street  as  has  been  the  cus- 
tom. It  is  difficult  to  say  where  or  when  this  incongruous  state 
of  affairs  is  going  to  end.  The  leading  manipulators  have  been 
playing  at  sixes  and  sevens  among  themselves,  with  no  unani- 
mity of  action.  In  fact,  it  is  perfectly  plain  to  the  merest  tyro  in 
stock  speculation  that  the  feeling  which  exists  between  the  men 
who  now  control  the  different  sections  of  the  lode  is  anything  but 
friendly,  and  it  is  the  continued  tilts  which  take  place  over  one 
little  grievance  or  another,  which  has  placed  them  in  such  a  pecu- 
liar position  in  regard  to  outside  speculators.  Of  course  they  have 
plenty  of  stock  on  hand  in  the  different  mines,  but  the  difficulty 
is  to  market  it  when  the  inclination  of  everybody  else  is  the  same 
as  their  own  and  sellers  are  more  plentiful  than  buyers.  It  is 
amusing  at  times  to  hear  the  self-confident  remarks  made  by 
»  chippers  "  who  have  worked  themselves  into  a  position  of  in- 
difference as  to  the  course  of  the  market,  and  the  reckless  man- 
ner in  which  they  copper  every  little  advance  by  putting  out  a 
longer  line  of  shorts.  This  comes  from  the  fact  that  they  are 
well  on  "velvet, "  and  an  unheaval  of  a  few  dollars  a  share  would 
not  bother  them  much.  Some  of  these  dealers  sold  Belcher  all 
the  way  up  to  top  prices  on  the  last  rise  in  the  stock,  and  many 
of  them  have  not  filled  yet,  in  the  firm  belief  that  the  stock  is 
more  likely  to  drop  below  ?1  before  it  will  ever  touch  $6  again. 
The  News  Letter  is  not  so  sanguine  about  a  decline,  which 
should  be  deplored  on  general  principles  as  unfavorable  to  the 
business  interests  of  this  city. 

$  $  $ 

DURING  the  short-lived  bull  campaign  it  was  a  surprise  to 
every  one  connected  with  the  business  to  see  the  avidity  with 
which  the  public  came  into  the  market.  One  of  the  heavy  brok- 
ing houses  averaged  $300  a  day  on  commissions  alone,  and  opened 
no  less  than  thirty-three  new  accounts  with  people  that  had  never 
before  been  on  the  street.  There  is  no  chance  to  make  money  in 
any  other  way  here  just  now,  and  money  is  more  plentiful  than 
it  has  ever  been  before.  Everything  favors  a  lively  stock  market, 
and  investors  are  heard  from  as  far  off  as  Utah  and  the  Eastern 
States.  The  supine  action  of  those  who  have  it  in  their  power  to 
create  activity  in  this  line  of  speculation  is,  therefore,  all  the  more 
surprising.  One  would  naturally  think  that  they  would  be  pre- 
pared to  take  advantage  of  the  situation,  but,  on  the  contrary, 
when  any  of  the  more  enterprising  cliques  starts  in  to  move  the 
shares  under  their  particular  control  it  is  the  signal  for  an  attack 
by  a  combination  of  other  interests  which  should  be  friendly,  if 
only  as  a  matter  of  self-protection.  Nothing  new  of  importance 
transpired  during  the  week.     Work  is  still  progressing  in  Belcher 


and  Hale  &  Norcross,  developing  the  new  prospects,  and  it  is  said 
tbat  in  the  former  a  very  favorable  showing  has  been  made, 
although  very  little  is  said  about  it  on  the  inside,  beyond  the 
weekly  reports  of  the  Superintendent.  In  face  of  a  good  report,  and 
a  prediction  from  the  highest  official  source,  that  milling  ore  will 
be  forthcoming  from  Con-Cal-Virginia  for  many  months  to  come, 
the  stock  got  a  black  eye  in  its  turn,  and  the  price  bobbed  below 
the  $3  mark  for  the  first  time  in  years.  In  the  middle  mines  Savage 
went  to  pot  on  the  levy  of  an  assessment,  but  Potosi  and  Bullion 
have  held  up  well — in  fact,  so  well  that  dealers  are  not  monkeying 
much  with  either  of  these  stocks  on  the  short  end.  The  balance  of 
the  market  has  been  inactive  for  outside  stocks  and  the  favorite 
Comstocks,  with   a  weaker    tendency. 

$  $  $ 

SILVER  has  weakened  off  again  under  the  manipulation  of 
Eastern  speculators  who  always  give  prices  a  boost  about  the 
time  the  government  is  in  the  market,  and  when  the  purchases 
have  been  completed  for  the  time  being,  values  are  allowed  to 
drag.  The  subject  is  now  a  dead  issue  in  politics  outside  of  Ne- 
vada, where  it  is  the  battle  cry  of  the  warring  factions  for  elec- 
tioneering purposes.  It  would  be  a  hard  task  to  convince  our 
friends  of  the  Silver  State  that  it  would  be  to  their  benefit  to 
cease  an  attempt  to  bring  silver  too  prominently  to  the  front. 
This  remark  is  not  introduced  in  an  unfriendly  way,  but  simply 
because  the  News  Letter  which  has  always  been  a  stanch  sup- 
porter of  the  silver  miner  in  his  efforts  to  get  justice,  believes  that 
America  is  now  in  a  position  to  eliminate  the  question  from  poli- 
tics altogether,  and  quietly  await  the  action  of  England,  which  is 
and  will  be  a  heavy  sufferer  until  some  change  takes  place  which 
will  regulate  the  price  of  silver  bullion  on  a  higher  plane.  Amer- 
ica as  a  nation,  has  been  used  as  a  tool  by  other  foreign  govern- 
ments to  further  their  own  ends  by  allowing  us  to  take 
the  full  responsibility  of  building  up  silver  values,  or  in  other 
words  to  become  an  open  market  for  the  world's  supply.  While 
the  proposition  was  a  live  issue  of  the  day,  the  feelings  of  the 
silver  mine  owners  were  swayed  to  the  advantage  of  political 
sharpers,  who  in  many  instances  talked  by  the  hour  about  a 
matter  of  which  they  were  fully  ignorant.  What  ought  to  have 
been  done,  the  passage  of  a  clause  on  the  McKinley  Bill  taxing 
foreign  bullion  for  all  it  was  worth,  was  overlooked  by  the  bright 
Legislative  friends  of  the  metal,  and  the  best  thing  for  the 
miner  now  is  to  await  patiently  the  inevitable  capitulation  of  the 
enemy  and  discount  the  political  phase  of  the  situation,  which  is 
mere  buncome. 

S  $  $ 

THE  Hale  &  Norcross  litigation  has  developed  another  phase, 
which  will  not  serve  to  strengthen  the  judicial  opinion  ren- 
dered in  the  case  among  unbiassed  people  who  are  taxed  to  sup- 
port the  dignity  of  the  gentlemen  elected  to  hold  down  the 
benches  of  our  Superior  Courts.  After  taking  the  greatest  pains 
to  paint  the  actions  of  Major  Egan,  among  the  other  defendants, 
in  the  blackest  color,  leaving  an  opening  for  the  charge  in  public 
that  he  was  simply  a  plain,  ordinary  thief,  Judge  Hebbard  at  the 
eleventh  hour  announces  that  it  was  an  error,  and  that  he  now 
considers  that  he  had  made  a  mistake.  His  latest  impression  is 
that  Major  Egan  is  an  abused  man,  nothing  having  been  offered 
in  evidence  that  he  had  stolen  anything  from  the  mine.  This 
was  something  equivalent  to  his  decision  the  other  day,  that  out- 
side of  one  of  the  defendants,  he  did  not  see  that  the  other  parties 
to  the  suit  were  really  guilty,  but  that  they  were  made  defend- 
ants for  the  reason  tbat  their  names  happened  to  be  connected 
with  the  corporation.  Major  Egan  may  be  thankful  to  Judge 
Hebbard  for  small  favors.  He  has  been  branded  all  over  the  land 
as  a  thief,  and  now  the  learned  jurist  acknowledges  that  he  has 
made  a  mistake.  How  will  this  serve  as  an  apology  in  the  higher 
army  circles,  where  the  Major  belongs  and  is  generally  recognized 
as  a  man  of  honor  and  a  gentleman? 

*  $  * 

JOHN  HAYES  HAMMOND  and  Colonel  D.  H.Jackson  have 
jost  returned  from  a  trip  to  Sonora,  Tuolumne  county,  where 
the  latter  named  gentleman  has  a  mine  which  he  is  now  about  to 
open  up  for  all  it  is  worth.  The  Colonel  is  one  of  the  best  posted 
mining  men  on  the  Pacific  slope,  and  when  he  takes  hold  of  a 
property  it  is  bound  to  eventually  develop  into  something  of 
magnitude,  especially  if  Mr.  Hammond  expresses  a  favorable 
opinion  of  the  prospect.  Colonel  Jackson  is  one  of  the  best 
posted  miners  on  the  Coast,  and  when  the  London  company,  in 
control  of  the  Holmes  mine,  got  him  for  Superintendent,  they 
were  fortunate.  Silver  is  a  hard  game  to  play  against  just  now, 
but  Jackson  has  always  proved  himself  equal  to  the  emergency, 
so  far  as  skill  is  concerned.  It  it  had  not  been  for  him  the  Eng- 
lish company  would  have  been  in  a  worse  position  than  they  are 
to-day. 

S  5  $ 

THE  Alpha  election  was  held  on  Tuesday  last,  and  89.000 
shares  were  represented,  electing  the  following  officers  for  the 
ensuing  year:  Charles  Hirschfeld,  President;  A.  K.  P.Harmon, 
Vice  President;  C.  E.  Elliot,  Secretary,  and  A.  C.  Hamilton, 
Superintendent.     The  company  had  a  credit  balance  of  $8,000. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


'Hear  the  Crier:"   "What  the  devil  art  thou?" 
"  One  that  wlllplav  the  devil,  sir.  with  von." 


t4TK,"  when  walking  down  the  street 
1         In  a  careless  sort  of  way, 
Met  face  to  face,  and  paused  to  greet 
His  old  friend  "  Yesterday." 

Qnoth  "If,"  "I  met  a  fisherman, 

And  he  was  blithe  and  gay; 
I  said,  *yoa*d  sorely  had  some  luck 

Had  you  come  yesterday.'  " 

Then  "Yesterday"  laughed  long  and  loud, 

And  said  last  night  there  came 
Cnto  a  tavern  in  the  hills, 

A  crowd  in  quest  of   game. 

They  shot  all  day,  from   morn  to  night, 
And  then  the  host  did  say, 
"  My  friends,  the  birds  were  thick  as  flies, 
Had  you  come  yesterday." 

At  this  "If"  laughed  a  hearty  laugh, 

And  said,  "  1  met  a  man 
Who  wanted  sore  to  make  a  raise 

Upon  a  novel  plan. 

The  party  that  this  man  approached, 

Was  haughty,  cold  and  stiff, 
And  easily  escaped  the   loan 

By  simply  sayiug  'if.' 

'If  you  had  been  here  an  hour  ago, 
I  had  the  coin,  but  see 
This  note,  I  fear,  my  worthy  friend, 
You'll  have  no  help  from  me.'" 

At  this  said  »  Yesterday," 

"We  certainly  are  twins; 
Men  use  us  as  a  crutch  to  help 
Them  hobble  o'er  their  sins." 

SOCRATES  HUFF  lives  in  San  Leandro.  That  town  cannot 
help  it,  however,  as  any  man  in  this  great  and  glorious  coun- 
try has,  of  conrse,  a  right  to  choose  his  place  of  residence.  So- 
crates, who  is  a  very  thrifty  soul,  is  known  as  "  Straight  "  Huff. 
Why  he  is  thus  named,  I  do  not  presume  to  know,  except  it  be 
that  in  the  Milpitas  code  of  the  great  American  game  of  draw 
poker,  a  straight  is  said  to  beat  a  flush,  and  Socrates,  so  his  inti- 
mates say,  always  beats  anyone  who  is  flush.  As  well  becomes 
a  thrifty  soul,  he  holds  a  position  of  honor  and  profit  in  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  lives,  being  County  Treasurer  of  Alameda 
County.  That  he  properly  fulfills  the  onerous  duties  of  his  office, 
and  lives  up  to  the  fame  which  gained  him  the  cognomen  of 
"straight  "is  shown  by  the  interesting  fact  that  he  recently 
erected  a  fine  brick  building  on  Ninth  street,  Oakland,  adjoining 
the  Union  Bank.  Of  this  institution  he  is  one  of  the  Directors, 
and  the  indications  are  that  Mr.  Huff  finds  the  banking  business 
very  profitable  for  he  has  rented  a  portion  of  his  new  building  for 
another  bank.  He  thereby  displayed  his  desire  to  increase  the 
prosperity  of  Oakland,  for  he  had  not  the  slightest  objection,  it  is 
said,  against  another  banking  institution  doing  business  alongside 
that  of  which  he  was  Director.  Upon  the  door  of  the  new  bank 
is  painted  a  tiger,  couchant,  with  drawn  claws,  and  around  the 
breast  are  the  mystic  letters,  F.  A.  JR.  O.  These  letters  however 
do  not  fully  indicate  all  the  kinds  of  business  done  in  the 
rooms,  for  there  one  may  also  enjoy  a  quiet  game  of 
craps,  and  try  his  voice  calling  out,  "Come  seven  1  " 
"Come  eleven  I"  or  he  may  sit  down  beside  a  purring 
and  well-fed  "  kitty,"  and  ascertain  whether,  in  Oakland,  it  is 
worth  while  to  bluff  on  a  bob-tail  flush,  when  a  representative  of 
the  city  government  deals,  and  holds  a  pair  of  deuces.  A  curious 
fact  in  connection  with  the  establishment  of  the  thrifty  Mr.  Huff 
is  that  the  other  county  officials  did  not  seem  to  fully  appreciate 
his  efforts  to  increase  the  circulating  medium  in  the  Athens  of 
the  Pacific,  as  some  cynic  once  termed  the  city  across  the  mole. 
The  police  have  notified  Socrates  that  he  must  dispossess  the 
tiger  and  rent  out  his  rooms  for  more  holy  purposes.  Wherefore 
Mr.  Huff  has  become  very  "huffy."  What  matters  it  that  a 
public-spirited  citizen  be  known  as  "  the  good,  the  beautiful  and 
the  true,"  he  says,  if  he  cannot  coquette  with  the  king  of  beasts, 
which,  as  every  one  knows,  is,  of  course,  the  tiger.  And  there  is 
weeping  and  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth  in  the  lair  of  F.  A. 
R.  O.  Of  course  it  is  nobody's  business,  but  we  cannot  restrain 
our  curiosity,  nor  resist  expressing  the  wonder  whether  any  of 
the  funds  of  our  siBter  city  have  found  their  way  into  the  capa- 
cious maw  of  the  animal  with  the  stripes. 

THE  universal  opinion  of  the  legal  fraternity  is  that  Judge  Wal- 
lace's address   in   the   Bruner  case  was  the  most  disgraceful 
prostitution  of  the  bench  known  here  in  years. 


FROM  the  appearance  of  Market.  Kearny  and  Montgomery 
streets  a  stranger  might  imagine  from  the  many  banners  that 
flaunt  their  brassy  legends  in  the  air,  that  San  Francisco  was 
about  to  celebrate  some  great  national  anniversary.  But  we  are 
not,  my  friends.  It  is  just  the  same  thing  over  again.  There  is 
just  so  much  money  in  tbe  public  treasury,  and  just  so  much 
more  can  be  taken  out  of  it  in  the  forthcoming  two  years,  and  a 
number  of  unselfish  gentlemen,  animated  by  feelings  of  tbe  great- 
est patriotism,  have  allowed  their  names  to  be  presented  by  some 
of  their  intimate  friends  to  the  assembled  populace,  and  have 
asked  the  sutfrages  of  the  electors,  so  that  they,  the  unselfish, 
may  martyr  themselves  upon  the  public  altar  that  the  condition 
of  the  commonwealth  may  be  improved.  And  all  this  for  us,  oh 
ye  of  little  faith !  All  this  for  us,  that  our  taxes  may  be  reduced, 
and  all  lives  be  made  happy  forever  and  a  day.  Think  you  that 
our  fellow-citizens  would  become  candidates  for  office  except 
from  purest  motives?  Would  any  of  these  bow  and  turn  as  a 
mannikin  at  the  beck  and  nod  of  a  political  boss?  Nay,  nay, 
Pearline,  thou  deceivest  thyself!  These  be  all  honorable  men! 
And  Brutus  was  an  honorable  man.  But  he  was  unfortunate. 
He  was  caught— and  died  for  it.  And  if  these  be  caught  at  it, 
let  them  die  for  it.  We  have  not  yet  forgotten  where  the  strong 
ropes  are  made,  and  the  high  branches  grow. 

IF  one  is  to  burn  the  candle, 
Ii  is  better,  much  better  by  far, 
To  light  both  ends  than  to  totter 

Through  life  with  a  single  star; 
Better  the  blaze  at  its  fullest, 

Better  tbe  waste  at  its  flood, 
Than  the  dull,  sluggish  trickle  which  never 
With  ecstasy  fires  the  blood. 

Though  the  wick  be  well  trimmed  and  tended, 

Though  the  light  be  guarded  with  care, 
Though  the  days  of  its  life  be  extended 

From  care  burdened  year  to  year; 
Away  in  the  shadowy  future, 

The  terminal  moment  lies, 
When  the  candle  flares  up  in  its  socket, 

Flares  up  and  flickers  and  dies. 

Who  will  wait  for  that  dreary  moment? 

Who  the  worries  of  life  prolong? 
And  foreswear  for  a  few  months  of  respite, 

Wine,  woman,  riot  and  song? 
Who  but  fools,  while  the  wise  man  blythely 

The  sad  garb  of  propriety  rends, 
And  gleefully  watches  the  candle 

Burn  on  with  the  light  at  both  ends. 

THE  arrival  of  the  French  man-of-war  in  this  port  has  aroused 
the  latent  spirit  of  war  in  the  breasts  of  our  younger  sons, 
which  needed  only  an  opportunity  to  burst  forth  in  the  full 
effulgence  of  its  glory.  It  is  now  considered  the  proper  caper, 
my  sons,  to  twist  the  rapier  and  slash  with  the  broad  sword,  and  he 
who  knows  only  the  science  of  gloves  is  "  not  in  it."  In  fact,  he 
is  lamentably  out  of  it,  for  in  accordance  with  the  code  of  our 
very  polite  French  friends,  it  is  now  considered  quite  the  proper 
thing  to  fetch  your  opponent  a  kick  on  the  shins  before  he  has 
time  to  put  up  his  "blessed  dukes."  Oh,  the  French  style  of 
fighting  is  a  great  thing  for  a  small  man  with  a  heavy  boot,  for  it 
brings  him  at  one  jump  into  the  ranks  of  the  formidable.  Those 
young  gentlemen  of  "  our  swim  "  who  desire  showing  that  they 
are  up  to  the  times,  are  now,  I  understand,  taking  private  lessons 
in  the  skirt  dance,  so  that  if  occasion  requires,  they  can,  if  they 
consider  themselves  insulted  upon  occasion  by  an  old  line  Demo- 
crat, give  the  latter  patriot  a  kick  in  the  left  eye-brow  with  suffi- 
cient violence  to  bring  around  him  enough  stars  and  rainbows  to 
show  the  aforesaid  degenerated  the  awful  error  of  his  ways. 

I  MUST  confess  it  amuses  one  to  learn  of  a  great  artist,  or  a 
great  sculptor,  who  has  made  his  home  on  the  Pacific  Coast, 
and  who  places  a  wonderfully  big  price  upon  his  wares.  The  ad- 
miring friend  tells  us  with  bated  breath,  "  he  has  got  a  big  pic- 
ture, and  he  wants  nine  thousand  dollars  for  it."  Of  course  he 
wants  it,  and  will  keep  on  wanting.  We  are  not  paying  fancy 
prices  for  big  pictures  here,  nor  are  we  encouraging  high  priced 
men.  They  may  paint,  and  paint,  and  paint,  but  selling  their  pic- 
tures is  another  matter  altogether.  And  knowing  this,  we  are  in- 
clined to  doubt  the  ability  of  any  man  who  trusts  to  art  as  a 
road  to  fortune  on  this  side  of  the  continent. 

THOSE  mourners  who  gather  about  the  coffin,  and  whose  eyes 
grow  moist  reflecting  upon  the  merits  and  virtues  of  the  dear 
departed,  are  inclined  to  believe  that  the  elegant  new  coat  on  the 
corpse  is  really  the  straight  thing.  It  is  nothing  of  the  sort.  It 
is  a  sawed-off  coat.  There  are  no  tails  to  it.  The  remains  are  de- 
frauded. There  are  no  legs  to  the  trousers.  It  is  a  low-down 
undertakers'  trick.  And,  by  the  immortal  gods,  I  have  in 
my  mind's  eye  now  one  of  those  genial  Celtic,  military  under- 
takers, a  gay,  laughing  boy,  who  would  not  hesitate  a  moment 
about  nipping  the  tails,  ay,  even  tbe  socks,  of  the  most  respect- 
able remains  that  ever  came  within  his  jurisdiction. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


Uf 


THE  revival  of  accordion  pleating  is  beautifully  carried  out  in 
an  extremely  graceful  Paris  toilette.  The  model  ia  in  dust 
gray  veiling.  There  is  a  foundation  ekirt,  which  has  a  facing  of 
black  velvet.  Over  this  foundation  the  veiling  is  mounted  in  ac- 
cordion pleats.  The  corsage  is  of  pleated  veiling,  and  is  worn 
with  a  deep  corselet  of  black  velvet.  The  collar  is  a  straight 
band  of  black  velvet,  fastened  at  the  side  under  a  gilt  buckle. 
The  sleeves  are  full  and  straight,  pleated  into  cuffs  four  incheB 
deep  of  the  velvet.  There  is  a  long  sash  of  gray  silk  net  hung 
with  jet  drops.  About  a  quarter  of  a  yard  from  the  lower  ends  a 
velvet  chou  catches  the  sash  ends  together.  With  this  bewitch- 
ing dress  is  worn  a  hat  of  gray  net  and  black  velvet,  with  a  cream 
aigrette  and  jet  antennee.  and  a  hint  of  pink  is  introduced  to  avoid 
the  half-mourning  suspicion  that  might  attach  itself  to  such  a 
costume. 

A  bright  girl,  with  more  of  a  deposit  in  ber  head  than  at  her 
bankers,  has  made  herself  the  most  fascinating  of  fall  costumes 
out  of  a  last  year's  gown.  The  skirt  of  the  gown,  which  was  of 
dark  wool,  she  cut  and  fitted  over  to  the  desired  shape.  Fortun- 
ately, it  was  a  dull  reddish  rough  stuff,  and  with  a  little  quilling 
of  velvet  doubled  together  and  plaited  she  finished  the  edge.  Then 
a  black  velvet  coat,  relic  of  former  gentility,  was  made  to  do  duty 
as  a  little  jacket,  cut  shorter  than  the  Eton  model,  slashed  up  the 
back  to  the  neck,  and  edged  all  around  with  a  finish  of  jet.  The 
top  of  her  skirt  she  edged  about  with  a  double  bias  fold  of  velvet 
fitted  neatly,  and  less  than  two  inches  wide  when  all  finished, 
and  this  she  hooked  over  a  full  waist  of  the  gay  green  and  blue 
tartan  wool,  checked  off  with  a  thread  of  scarlet  in  silk. 


A  novelty  in  watches  is  shown  where  the  timepiece  forms  the 
center  of  a  wild  rose.  The  petals  are  of  pink  enamel,  and  a  nar- 
row rim  of  gold  encircles  the  face  of  the  watch.  The  green  stem 
of  the  flower  is  caught  through  the  loop  of  the  pink  enamel.  One 
exquisite  lace  pin  is  a  tiny  dove  of  diamonds  with  a  watch  sus- 
pended from  its  bill.  Another  watch  novelty  is  in  the  form  of  a 
diminutive  gold  shopping  bag.  In  one  corner  the  face  of  the 
watch  may  be  seen.     The  bag  is  attached  to  a  Roman  gold  bow. 

Fur  promises  to  be  even  more  popular  as  a  trimming  for  even- 
ing gowns  than  it  was  last  season,  and  white  satin  a  favorite  ma- 
terial for  the  fur  to  adorn.  White  velvet  trimmed  with  sable 
makes  an  ideal  gown,  only  possible  to  fortune's  favorites,  how- 
ever. White  or  pale  tinted  satin  with  beaver  borders  is  its  pleas- 
ing substitute  for  thewomaD  of  more  limited  means. 


Now  that  sleeves  are  once  more  fallen  from  their  high  estate  to 
symmetrical  proportion,  the  most  eccentric  revers  adorn  bodices, 
and  women  in  consequence  look  all  shoulder.  Fashion  seems 
unable  to  resist  changing  the  natural  outlines  of  grace  with  some 
absurd  dress  feature,  though  these  are,  it  is  true,  much  more  modi- 
fied than  in  past  dress  periods. 

The  woman  fortunate  enough  to  possess  handsome  emeralds  is 
in  great  good  fortune,  not  only  because  the  brilliant  Btones  prom- 
ise speedily  to  become  very  much  used  in  jewelry,  but  also  because 
their  value  is  liable  to  increase  even  beyond  that  of  diamonds,  as 
the  production  of  these  gems  is  rapidly*  decreasing  both  in  quan- 
tity and  quality. 

Very  pretty  portieres  for  white  and  gold  or  Pompadour  rooms 
may  be  made  of  the  small  embroidered  Turkish  squares  sold  for 
mats  and  cushion  covers.  They  are  joined  with  strips  of  white 
velvet  ribbon  an  inch  wide,  on  which  are  wrought  polka  dots  of 
yellow  silk.     The  drapery  is  lined  with  thin  yellow  Bilk. 


Apropos  of  mourning,  the  simplest  models  in  vogue  this  season 
for  colored  dresses  are  the  most  appropriate  for  mourning.  The 
bell  skirt  is  seen  in  preference  to  all  others — serge,  Henrietta 
cloth,  grenadine  or  crepon,  the  grenadine  lined  throughout  with 
taffeta  silk  of  very  light  quality. 


An  artistic  young  lady  has  screened  |the  rose-colored  shade  of 
her  night  lamp  with  a  network  of  clear  white  beads  and  silver 
threads.  When  the  lamp  is  lighted  the  effect  is  one  of  extreme 
beauty,  the  beads  glistening  like  drops  of  dew  entangled  in  a  sil- 
ver mesh. 

New  umbrellas  are  seen  in  grape,  garnet  and  royal  blue  silk, 
with  Dresden  or  Saxony  handles.  Silver  handles  are  less  in  favor 
than  formerly. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  hondsome  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 


NEW     FALL 


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DRY    GOODS    AND    CLOAKS 
Jfou/  On   Uocfyibitioi}. 

Our  unequalled  importations  of  the  new  season's  goods 

place  us  in  better  position  than  ever  before  to 

meet  the  wants  of  our  patrons  with 

THE  LARGEST  AND   MOST   COMPLETE   ASSORTMENTS. 

THE  LATEST  AND  MOST  ELEGANT  STYLES,   and 

THE  VERY  BEST  VALUES  IN  THE  MARKET. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND   MCALLISTER  STS. 


FALL     SEASON. 

Ladies  will  find  the  Latest  styles  and  Best  Fitting 

AT    THE 

CALIFORNIA    CLOAK    COMPANY, 

CHARLES  MAYER,  Jr„  A  CO., 

Also  a  large  stock  of 

Misses'  and  Children's  Cloaks,  Ladies'  Suits  and  Furs 

ON     HAND. 

CLOAKS  MADE  TO  ORDER 
105  POST  ST.  &r«-'Dte  House' 
SEARCHER   OF    RECORDS 


EXAMINER  OF  TITLES  TO  LANDS  IN  ALAMEDA  COUNTY. 


G.  W.  MCKEAND, 


OFFICES— Southeast  corner  Sixth  and  Broadway  streets.  Residence— 
810  Thirteenth,  near  Market  street,  Oakland. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year).  desireB 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 
arda  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  Panseron. 

HOME  COMFORTS  are  not  enough.  Every  lady 
wants  to  feel  comfortable  in  society,  but  she  can 
not  with  her  face  disfigured  by  wrinkles,  pimples, 
blackheads,  freckles,  tan,  moth-patches,  etc. 

LOLA  MONTEZ  CREAM,  THE  SKIN  FOOD, 
Restores  the  complexion  to  youth.    Price,  75  cents  per 
pot— pot  lasts  three  months. 

Mrs.  Nettie  Haerison, 
America's  Beauty  Doctor,  26  Geary  St.,  S.  F.  Cal. 
Sold  by  all  Druggists. 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR  REMOVED  by  the  ELECTRIC 
NEEDLE.    GUARANTEED    PEBJIA\EM. 


Oct    20,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


THE  Pope's  apparently  favorable  attitude  towards  republican- 
ism bas  not  only  encouraged  the  Italian  radicals,  but  also 
given  a  new  impulse  to  republican  activity  in  Spain.  Senor 
Castelar  is  quite  elated  by  tbe  Pope's  encyclical  letter,  in  which 
tbe  French  Catholics  are  advised  to  uphold  the  existing  form  of 
government  in  their  country,  and  has  declared  that  the  encycli- 
cal in  question  is  "  a  letter  from  St.  Paul  liberating  tbe  world." 
Tbe  famous  Spanish  democrat  is  also  anxious  to  obtain  an  inter- 
view with  Leo  XIII.  at  the  earliest  opportunity.  There  is  hardly 
any  doubt  that  an  audience  will  be  granted  to  him,  though  it  is 
difficult  to  see  what  good  will  come  through  it  to  the  Spanish  re- 
publicans. The  support  of  tbe  papacy — which,  by  the  way,  is 
by  no  means  assured  to  them — rather  discredits  the  cause  of  the 
Italian  and  Spauish  politicians,  who  favor  the  establishment  of 
a  republican  form  of  government.  Republics  come  into  existence 
naturally  where  government  oppression  is  great,  and  when  the 
general  public  is  enlightened  enough  to  believe  in  government  of 
the  people  by  the  people,  and  for  tbe  people.  Neither,  however, 
is  the  case  at  this  moment,  either  in  Spain  or  Italy. 

France  has  recently  renewed  her  attempts  of  inducing  Italy  to 
renounce  her  allegiance  to  the  Triple  Alliance.  The  moment 
seems  opportune,  since  the  exigencies  of  the  situation  make  a 
new  increase  of  the  army  budget  of  their  allied  powers  desirable, 
and  Italy's  finances  are  not  in  a  condition  to  bear  easily  a  new 
burden.  Still,  the  efforts  of  the  French  diplomats  will  prove  fu- 
tile as  heretofore,  for  although  there  is  a  considerable  number 
amongst,  the  Italian  deputies  who  are  strongly  opposed  to  an  in- 
crease of  the  expenditure  for  the  army,  the  Italian  people  gener- 
ally are  too  well  aware  of  the  fact  that  the  friendship  of  Germany 
is,  and  always  has  been,  more  useful  to  their  country  than  that  of 
France,  and  that  a  French  alliance  would  be  apt  to  deprive  Italy 
of  her  present  prominent  position,  and  reduce  her  to  a  second-rate 
power. 

The  Italians  of  to-day,  when  listening  to  French  offers  of  friend- 
ship, are  naturally  somewhat  shy,  since  they  remember  that 
whenever  the  relations  between  France  and  Italy 
have  been  intimate  the  attitude  of  the  former  power  has  always 
been,  to  use  a  mild  term,  patronising.  France  has  ever  posed  as 
a  kind  of  gracious  protector  of  the  Italians.  The  recollection  of 
this  alone  is  galling  to  that  proud  nation,  but  there  is  another 
reason  why  Italy  is  not  likely  to  renew  her  former  relations  with 
France.  The  friendship  of  France,  though  full  of  promises,  was 
somewhat  barren  of  advantageous  results  for  the  Italians.  Napo- 
leon III.,  in  1859,  notwithstanding  his  solemn  undertaking  to  as- 
sist King  Victor  Emmanuel,  of  Sardinia,  in  freeing  Lombardy  and 
Venice  from  Austrian  rule,  and  his  sacred  promise  "to  free  Italy 
from  the  Alps  to  the  Adriatic,"  betrayed  that  country  in  the  peace 
of  Villafranca,  and  the  Anstrians  remained  master.  For  the  as- 
sistance that  France  really  gave  to  Italian  unity — and  which  it  is 
not  necessary  to  nnder-appreciate — she  was  amply  rewarded  by 
the  session  to  her  of  Nice  and  Savoy,  and  nevertheless  the  Italians 
had  for  years  to  hear  what  France  had  done  for  them. 

Prussia's  alliance  is  valued  by  the  Italians  for  historical  reasons, 
for  when  the  Prussians  in  1866  had  defeated  the  Austrians  her 
Italian  allies  obtained  possession  of  Venetia,  and  though  this 
country  was  first  ceded  to  Napoleon,  who  afterwards  transferred 
it  to  Victor  Emmanuel,  it  was  the  success  of  the  Prussian  arms 
over  Austria  rather  than  the  diplomatic  action  of  the  Emperor  of 
the  French,  to  which  the  change  of  the  situation  must  be  at- 
tributed. The  liberation  of  Lombardy  from  the  Austrian  yoke  was 
due  entirely  to  the  Italians  themeelves,  so  that  the  services  of 
France  to  the  country  are  by  no  means  as  great  as  is  often  main- 
tained. If  to  this  is  added  the  positive  opposition  of  France  to 
the  liberation  of  Rome,  and  that  this  important  result  was  not  ob- 
tained until  France  had  been  humbled  by  Germany,  and  its  op- 
position had  been  rendered  powerless,  and  if  it  is  remembered 
how,  in  1880,  the  French  outwitted  Italy  when  she  decided  to  ob- 
tain power  over  Tunis,  the  by  far  greater  part  of  the  European 
population  of  which  consists  of  Italians,  it  will  be  understood 
that  the  really  patriotic  Italians  are  not  anxious  to  abandon  the 
German  for  a  French  alliance.  Besides,  it  is  important  to  con- 
aider  that  France  and  Italy  are  rivals  in  the  Mediterranean, 
which  renders  the  harmonious  working  of  the  two  powers  almost 
impossible,  while  the  interests  of  Germany  and  Italy  do  not  clash 
and  Germans  and  Italians  can  render  many  important  services  to 
each  other.  As  regards  the  third  power  of  the  triple  alliance,  of 
course  the  possession  by  the  Austrians  of  Trieste  and  the  Trentino 
is  disliked  hy  the  Italians,  but  after  a  definite  settlement  of  the 
Eastern  question  and  the  regulation  of  the  interests  of  the  differ- 
ent European  powers  in  the  Mediterranean,  a  modus  vtvendi  will 
most  likely  be  found  which  prevents  Austrian  and  Italian  interests 
from  interfering  with  each  other. 


A  parliamentary  return  recently  published  in  London, 
England,  gives  some  very  interesting  information  with  re- 
gard to  tbe  comparative  education  of  the  voters  of  the  three 
kingdoms.  The  rieures  for  illiteracy  show  that  the  fewest  illiter- 
ates are  found  in  Scotland;  that  in  England  the  percentage  is 
much  greater;  that,  however,  in  Ireland  it  reaches  an  enormous 
ratio.  The  percentage  in  the  Scottish  urban  districts  is  only  0.47, 
and  in  the  rural  districts  0.5.  In  England  in  the  urban  districts 
it  amounts  to  1.0,  and  in  the  rural  districts  to  1.6,  while  in  Ire- 
land 9.3  per  cent,  of  the  voters  can  neither  read  nor  write.  From 
this  it  is  apparent  that  a  bit  of  school  teaching  might  advantag- 
eously proceed  home-rule  in  the  "  Emerald  Isle." 

The  insubordination  of  squadron  C,  of  the  First  Regiment  of 
British  Life  Guards,  has  resulted  in  the  punishment  of  the  main 
offenders  by  sentences  of  a  court-martial.  These  sentences  are, 
however,  comparatively  lenient,  and  it  is  to  be  expected  that 
much  severer  measures  will  have  to  be  taken  before  the  mutin- 
ous spirit  is  crushed  which  has  been  spreading  of  late  in  the 
British  crack  regiments. 

The  Home  Secretary  of  the  present  Liberal  Government  has 
yielded  to  the  demand  of  the  Radical  societies,  and  given  permis- 
sion to  hold  public  meetings  upon  Trafalgar  Square,  in  London. 
These  meetings  are  to  be  restricted  to  Saturday  afternoons,  Sun- 
days and  holidays.  Though  the  condition  is  that  in  every  case 
the  police  is  to  be  notified  In  advance,  it  is  very  doubtful  whether 
the  permission  will  not  sooner  or  later  give  much  trouble  to  the 
authorities.  Even  if  the  concession  is  not  misused  by  the  people, 
and  if  the  speakers  do  their  best  to  prevent  riots,  the  enormous 
traffic  of  the  London  thoroughfares  leading  to  the  Square  will  be 
seriously  impeded  by  the  assembling  of  people  for  mass-meetings, 
especially  on  Saturday  afternoons,  in  the  heart  of  the  capital,  and 
accidents  are  likely  to  occur,  even  if  outrages  are  prevented. 

The  latest  news  from  Dahomey  is  that  the  French  invaders  of 
the  country  met  with  serious  losses  on  the  14th  and  15th 
inst.  Colonel  Dodd,  as  we  expected,  has  had  occasion  to  recog- 
nize that  in  his  war  against  the  troops  of  King  Behanzin  he  will 
have  no  t(  walk-over." 

According  to  the  Berlin  Post,  the  Emperor  has  signed  the  mili- 
tary bill.  The  fight  in  the  Reichstag  will  soon  begin.  Whether 
the  bill  still  contains  the  two-years  clause  is  not  mentioned  in 
the  telegram,  but  will  soon  be  known.  It  is  not  likely,  however, 
that  this  clause  will  be  pressed,  even  if  the  Emperor  should  have 
withdrawn  his  former  objection,  which  is  very  improbable. 

Perfection  in  the  gastronomic  art  has  been  attained  by  the  chef  of 
the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street.  This  restaurant  is 
one  of  the  very  best  in  the  city,  and  for  years  it  has  been  popular  with 
the  best  people  of  the  city.  It  is  an  excellent  place  for  a  good  dinner, 
for  there  even  the  most  critical  of  epicures  would  be  well  satisfied. 

If  you  want  good  oysters  do  not  fail  to  patronize  Moraghan,  who 
has  the  best  in  the  city,  because  he  gets  them  fresh  from  the  beds. 


UNA 
HOT 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Gal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
commodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  ^tna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  Office,  108  Iiriimm  street,  S.  F 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


POLITICS  being  tbe  all-absorbing  topic,  business  in  all  branches 
is  to  some  extent  neglected,  and  real  estate,  which  has  been 
none  too  active,  has  also  been  slightly  affected.  In  spite  of  this 
fact,  the  indications  favor  a  brightening  market.  As  soon  as  the 
elections  are  over,  that  very  fact  will  of  itself  have  a  quieting 
effect.  Uncertainty  is  a  disturbing  element  in  business,  and 
whatever  the  outcome,  the  fact  that  a  political  result  has  been 
reached,  will  at  once  give  a  more  settled  tone  to  the  market,  and 
so  inspire  confidence.  The  past  week  has  not  been  without  inci- 
dent, however,  even  though  sales  have  not  been  over  numerous. 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.'s  auction  sale  brought  together  many 
buyers,  but  there  was  a  good  deal  of  nervousness  in  the  bidding, 
so  that  in  but  few  instances  were  satisfactory  prices  reached.  The 
knowing  ones  certainly  missed  one  or  two  very  good  opportunities, 
and  this  was  noticeably  the  case  in  a  Presidio  Heights  corner 
worth  nearly  fifty  percent-  more  than  was  bid  for  it,  and  yet  it 
had  to  be  withdrawn  for  lack  of  a  reasonable  offer.  There  will  be 
no  more  auction  sales  of  city  property  until  after  the  general  elec- 
tion, and  not  more  than  two  or  three  more  at  most  this  year. 

In  the  line  of  private  sales,  the  best  made  public  is  that  of  an 
old  house  and  lot,  25:3x137:6,  on  the  north  line  of  Sutter,  between 
Powell  and  Mason,  for  $1,000  a  front  foot.  The  sale  was  made  by 
Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.  Madison  &  Burke  sold  the  four-flat 
frame  on  the  sonth  side  of  Oak,  between  Franklin  and  Gough 
streets,  lot  27:6x122,  for  $13,500,  and  $1,000  less  was  paid  for  the 
lot  50x137:6,  south  line  of  Pine,  between  Hyde  and  Larkin. 

The  Street  Committee  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  has  declined 
to  recommend  tbe  cut  of  ninety  per  cent,  proposed  on  the  esti- 
mates of  the  Sixteenth  street  and  Ninteenth  to  Twenty-third 
street  Extension  Commissions.  There  is  now  only  one  course 
open  to  the  Mission  Real  Estate  Owners'  Union — to  ask  the  re- 
jection of  the  entire  reports,  and  trust  to  legislative  interference 
to  give  the  commissions  their  quietus.  The  only  objection  to  re- 
jecting the  reports  in  this  way  is  the  fear  that  like  an  uneradi- 
cated  cancer,  they  will  sprout  again  more  malignantly  than  ever. 
When  the  report  of  the  Post  street  Commission  was  rejected, 
with  its  expense  bill  of  $18,000,  it  bobbed  up  a  few  weeks  later 
with  a  bill  of  expenses  swollen  to  $20,000.  The  Union  is  endeav- 
oring to  pledge  the  candidates  for  tbe  Legislature  and  for  tbe 
Board  of  Supervisors  to  afford  relief  from  the  Street  Extension 
Commission  vampires  to  reject  the  reports  and  to  prevent  the 
collections  of  tht.  assessments  levied  by  these  unornamental  and 
worse  than  innocuous  gentlemen.  A  mass  meeting  of  the  Mission 
Real  Estate  Owners'  Union  will  be  held  on  Wednesday  next,  and 
candidates  will  be  called  upon  to  declare  themselves. 

A  local  real  estate  paper,  the  Criterion,  makes  what  purports  to 
be  an  exposure.  The  object  of  its  attack  is  W.  A.  C.  Smith,  the 
real  estate  expert  of  the  Mission  Real  Estate  Owners'  Union. 
Whether  the  statements  made  are  correct,  the  News  Letter  does 
not  undertake  to  say.  It,  however,  suggests  that  the  Union 
learn  whether  W.  A.  C.  Smith  is  the  man  who,  as  a  partner  of 
Batchelder,  approved  the  titles  to  the  Monaghan  subdivision 
fraud,  under  which  so  many  people  were  sold  lots  south  of  the 
Park,  claimed  by  Joseph  P,  Monaghan  and  owned  by  the  Spring 
"Valley  Water  Works  and  others.  The  Union  cannot  afford  to 
have  such  an  expert.  There  is  an  idea,  in  which  the  News  Let- 
tee  agrees  with  the  Criterion,  that  all  the  work  of  street  extension 
should  be  in  the  hands  of  a  Board  of  Public  Works,  as  in  many 
other  large  cities  of  the  Union.  Such  a  body  of  men  might 
render  the  city  invaluable  service,  and  being  subject  to  control 
much  as  the  Bank  Commissioners  are  to  the  State,  would  reduce 
robbery  for  street  extensions  to  a  minimum. 


JUDGE  WM.  T.  WALLACE'S  latest  endeavor  to  introduce  the 
ancient  and  criminal  practice  of  coercing  and  forcing  a  jury, 
so  as  to  give  a  verdict  according  to  his  private  desire,  by  locking 
them  up  indefinitely,  should  in  itself  be  sufficient  reason  why 
every  honest  man  should  vote  against  him. 


Professor  Charles  Goffne,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violiu 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

If  you  want  good  clothes,  why  not  patronize  Colonel  J.  M.  Litch- 
field, of  12  Post  street?  He  has"  an  excellent  reputation  as  an  artist 
in  the  sartorial  line,  for  which  reason  he  enjoys  the  patronage  of  all 
the  well-dressed  men  of  the  city.  Colonel  Litchfield's  suits  are  all 
ways  perfection. 

The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grlndelia  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacv.  635  Market  street. 


CYPRESS  LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

IF.A.IMIIIj'H"       PLOTS 
For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non- sectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  ihe  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  aud  useless  expeuse  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  32;>  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 


REITS! 


We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  &   HAMMOND, 

Real  Est  ute  Agents  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


Geandmas'  made  happy  with  perfect  fitting  glasses  from  C.  Muller,  op- 
tician, 135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


For  Mayor, 

BARRY    BALDWIN, 

Democratic    Nominee 

For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

WILLIAM     MONTGOMERY, 
(Proprietor  American  Exchange  Hotel.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Assembly,  38  th  District, 

BERT     SCHLESINGER, 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 
For  State  Senator,  31st  senatorial  District, 

WM.     J.     BIGGY, 
(Pledged  to  support  the  Traffic  Association.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 


For  Coroner, 


For  sheriff', 


DR.  Wm.    T.     GARWOOD, 
(Present  Incumbent.) 

Regular   Republican  Nominee 

H.     H.     SCOTT, 

Non-partisan   Candidate. 


For  County  clerk, 

GEORGE  W.  LEE, 

Regular  Republican   Nominee. 

For  Congress, 

C.    O.   ALEXANDER, 

Republican    Nominee,  4th  Congressional  District. 

For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

JAMES     W.     BURLING. 

(Present  Incumbent. 

Independant  Candidate. 

For  Tax-Collector, 

WILLIAM     J.     G.     MUHL. 

Nominee  Old  Democratic  Party. 

For  Tax  Collector, 

THOS.     O'BRIEN, 

Republican  Nominee. 
BUSINESS    METHODS. 

HONEST  ADMINISTRATION, 

PROMPT  SERVICE, 
POLITE  TREATMENT. 

easurer, 

J.  H.  WIDBER, 

Regular  Republican  Nominee. 

For  City  aud  County  Attorney, 

MYER    JACOBS. 

Regular  Republican  Nominee 


October  29,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


HAVING  seen  the  voluminous  printed  circular  reflecting  upon 
the  standing  and  management  of  the  American  Casualty  In- 
surance and  Security  Company,  I  took  it  to  General  Agents  Max- 
well A  Berry.  In  a  pleasant  interview  I  learned  that  these  gen- 
tlemen were  little  concerned  about  it.  They  said  substantially  as 
follows:  "Success  in  individuals,  firms  or  corporations  is  alike 
regarded  with  envy  by  those  who  are  less  successful,  therefore 
these  circulars  and  similar  attacks  are  not  entirely  unexpected. 
They  have  appeared  amongst  our  policy-holders  from  time  to 
time  ever  since  our  company  was  organized,  and  it  is  a  singu- 
lar fact  that  in  every  instance  the  senders  or  the  instigators 
are  either  ashamed  to  do  so  or  dare  not  sign  their  names  to  them. 
Anonymous  communications,  in  our  minds,  are  entitled  to  little 
or  no  consideration.  The  people  who  send  them  are  not  very 
smart.  A  thoughtful  man  must  know  that  the  tearing  down  of 
one  company  rarely,  if  ever,  builds  up  another.  The  paid  in  cash 
capital  of  the  American  Casualty  is  ?1, 000,000;  the  reinsurance 
reserve,  or  the  amount  required  by  law  to  reinsure  the  company, 
exceeds  $971,000;  the  assets  are  $2,230,000;  the  net  surplus  over 
$172,000,  and  the  policy-holders'  surplus  over  $1,172,000.  These 
are  the  figures  of  the  last  sworn  statement  made  by  the  company, 
July  1,  1892.  We  doubt  if  any  competitor  or  responsible  party 
would  contradict  these  figures  in  writing  over  his  signature.  In 
short,  our  company  has  the 'largest  paid  in  cash  capital,  the 
greatest  surplus,  the  most  assets,  transacts  more  business,  and 
receives  therefor  a  larger  premium  income,  both  in  the  United 
States  and  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  than  any  other  company  of  this 
exclusive  field  in  existence.  Our  General  Managers  in  New  York 
city,  Messrs.  Beecher,  Schenck  &  Co.,  have  undertaken  the  con- 
duct of  the  company's  affairs  solely  upon  a  commission  basis; 
their  various  general  departments  consequently  are  also  thus  es- 
tablished, without  any  allowance  to  speak  of  for  other  expenses 
to  which  a  corporation  of  this  size  and  importance  is  usually  sub- 
ject to.  Nr  organization  in  this  particular  field,  in  the  history  of 
insurance,  has  ever  achieved  the  brilliant  success  that  has  come 
to  the  American  Casualty  Company,  all  owing  to  its  splendid 
management.  To  give  you  an  idea  of  the  serious  undertaking  in 
our  conduct  of  the  Pacific  Department  and  the  kinds  of  business 
we  transact,  there  is  employers'  liability  insurance,  public  liability 
insurance,  accident  and  general  casualty  insurance,  which  ne- 
cessitates a  sub-department  of  itself,  in  which  we  have  a  salaried 
adjuster  who  takes  charge  of  every  accident  which  injures  an 
employee  or  other  person  for  which  our  policy-holders  may  be 
legally  liable,  making  cash  settlements  therefor  where  liability 
exists.  And  where  there  is  no  legal  liability  we  have  still  another 
department  in  charge  of  our  attorney,  whose  defense  of  all  suits 
brought  against  our  customers  is  his  special  study  and  occupa- 
tion. Then  there  is  our  Inspection  Department,  in  charge  of  our 
chief  and  deputy  inspectors  of  steam  boilers,  elevators  and  ma- 
chinery, upon  the  result  of  which  regular  and  periodical  inspec- 
tions depends  the  safe-guard  of  this  branch.  Their  inspection  re- 
ports lay  before  the  assured  the  exact  condition  of  his  steam 
plant  or  elevators.  Then  there  is  our  Individual  Accident  Depart- 
ment, in  the  care  of  still  another  sub-manager.  Step  in  and  take 
a  look  at  our  books,  if  you  please;  there  you  may  see  that  our 
policy-holders  are  a  majority  of  the  steam-users  in  this  city  and 
of  the  entire  Coast  also,  a  majority  of  the  employers  of  labor,  the 
operators  of  mechanical  devicts,  elevators  and  machinery,  the 
users  of  horses  and  vehicles,  the  owners  of  buildings,  and  in  the 
accident  list  you  will  find  the  names  of  our  leading  capitalists, 
merchants,  manufacturers  and  individuals.  In  short,  we  not 
only  transact  a  larger  business  than  any  other  company  regis- 
tered on  this  Coast,  but  almost  as  large  as  all  other  companies 
combined.  No,  sir;  these  circulars,  as  we  said  before,  concern  us 
very  little.  We  thank  you,  however,  for  coming  to  headquarters 
and  hearing  the  other  side. 

There  is  a  lull  in  the  insurance  world  at  present,  as  the  Com- 
pact meetings  have  been  adjourned  for  some  weeks.  Though  it 
is,  of  course,  not  presumed  that  any  of  the  gentlemen  who  have 
been  present  at  the  meetings  have  divulged  what  transpired,  the 
sessions  having  been  executive,  it  is  no  secret  that  the  debates 
have  been  hot  and  heavy,  and  the  invectives  used  upon  occasion 
absolutely  torrid.  Insurance  men,  as  a  rule,  have  a  magnificent 
command  of  language,  which  is  brought  into  full  effect  when 
battling  against  one  another.  For  this  reason  it  is  best  that  the 
Compact  meetings  be  executive,  when  the  important  matters  now 
before  the  Union  are  being  discussed. 

The  insurance  magnates  of  the  West  and  Center  will  meet  at 
Denver  early  next  month  to  adjudicate  affairs  connected  with 
cities  lying  on  the  border  line  of  the  Western  and  Missouri  juris- 
dictions. The  representatives  from  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union 
are  Messrs.  Dornin  and  Dutton.  They  will  probably  be  accom- 
panied by  Messrs.  Sexton  and  Craig,  and  the  quartette  ought  to 
be  able  to  properly  represent  this  section.  Insurance  men  of  this 
city  and  coast   are   able  to   cope   with   any  of   the  sharp  under- 


writers across  the  Rockies,  and  it  will  be  with  some  satisfaction 
that  our  local  agents  will  learn,  as  they  expect  to,  that  our  repre- 
sentatives have  bravely  held  up  their  end, 

George  Croote,  of  Croote  ifc  Warren,  resident  managers  of  the 
London,  Liverpool  and  Globe  at  Chicago,  has  resigned,  to  take 
effect  at  the  end  of  the  year.  He  has  been  an  underwriter  for 
twenty-six  years,  during  over  a  score  of  which  he  has  been  with 
this  company.  W.  8.  Warren  will  succeed  him  as  resident  man- 
ager at  Chicago. 

The  fire  insurance  companies  of  New  York  have  combined  for 
protection  against  the  great  danger  from  the  Trolley  system  of 
electric  cars,  and  against  such  electric  light  plants  as  their  in- 
spectors report  unsafe. 

The  Northwestern  National,  of  Milwaukee,  has  withdrawn 
from  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union.  The  rebate  matter  was  the 
difficulty. 

The  most  delicious  oysters  in  the  city  are  those  to  be  found  only 
in  Moraghan's  popular  stall  in  the  California  Market. 

Mothers  be  dure  ana  Utse  "Mrs.  Wiuslow's  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  Teethincr. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 


Behririfj  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Sau  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation nf  cannery — Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upou  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  lj,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson... 1  50  $50 

C.A.Johnson. 2  340  340 

Chas.Carlsou 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY.  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
AY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY, 
October  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco.  September  21st. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behrng  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  October  21, 18S2. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Commonwealth   Consolidated.  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  Calitornia.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora.  Elko  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
onthe7thday  of  September,  1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  9),of  Ten  Cents  (10c.) 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  331  Pine  street,  room  20,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  or  to  E.  R. 
Grant,  Transfer  Agent,  57  Broadway,  New  York. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Thirteenth  Day  of  October,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  9th  day  of  November,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 
F  R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary, 

Office— 331  Pine  Street,  room  20,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Mexican  Gold.  and.  Silver   Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia,  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  13th  day  of  October,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  46)  of  Twenty-five  (25) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Seventeenth  Day  of  November,  1 892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of    advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 
P  "*  »tt  e  CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  good;    Extras  |3.90@$4.10:   Superfine,  $2.60@$3.10. 

Wheat— Good  trade;  Shipping.  $1.32^;  Milling.  $i.3d@$1.37}£  per  cental. 

Barley  is  quiet;  Brewing,  95c.@$l  Feed,  80c.@S2V£c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  *1.35@*1.40;  Feed,  |1.80@$1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White.  $1.30;  Yellow,  *1.15@*1.25per  ctl. 

Bye  is  higher,  good  demand,  $1.15@?1.20.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.2o. 

Hay  is  higher;  Wheat,  $11;  Oats,  ?8@$9;  Alfalfa,  $7@$9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $15@$16  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  ?2.00@?2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  45c.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  35c. @36c;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  14c@15c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  35c.@40c. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c.@12c. ;  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  40c@50c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor  at  good  paying  rates. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7J^c.      Wool  is  In  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5%c.@6c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  17c.@20c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $41.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  S^i&)6%c. 

Starr  <fc  Co.  continue  to  lead  all  others  in  supplying  the  English 
market  with  California  flour  during  the  present  Beason.  This  mill- 
ing firm  has  shipped  to  the  United  Kingdom,  not  less  than  eight 
entire  cargoes  of  Extra  Flour;  the  last  two  were  the  bark  Arthur- 
stone,  with  18,975  bbls.,  value  $75,900;  Br.  ship  Shandon,  with 
24,400  bbls.,  value  $91,500. 

East-bound  freight  by  the  Southern  Pacific  route  for  the  month 
of  September  aggregates  a  total  ot  46,400  tons.  This  plainly  in- 
dicates a  considerable  degree  of  activity,  notably  in  the  fruit  line, 
be  it  green,  dried  or  canned.  Potatoes  also  loom  up  nicely,  1,242 
tons  being  shipped  from  this  city.  Wine  and  Wool  also  come  to 
the  front.     Sugar,  Coffee  and  Tea  are  also  leading  items  of  freight. 

Another  steamship  of  the  Johnson-Locke  Mercantile  Company 
has  at  last  reached  port,  being  79  days  from  New  York  via  Redon- 
do, where  she  stopped  to  discharge  500  tons  of  cargo.  This  steamer, 
like  all  others  of  the  line,  brought  a  large  and  miscellaneous  car- 
go to  hundreds  of  consignees,  who,  like  others,  seek  to  patronize 
the  opposition  route. 

At  present  the  sea  route  via  Cape  Horn  is  giving  employment 
to  several  lines  of  ships.  Among  these  may  be  noted  those  of 
John  Kosenfeld  &  Sons,  Grace  &  Co.,  Sutton  &  Beebe,  Balfour, 
Guthrie  &  Co.,  Williams,  Dioiond  &  Co.  Low  freights  at  present 
ruling  by  sea  to  and  from  Atlantic  ports  is  the  solution  of  this 
feature  of  our  trade  at  present,  and  furnishes  an  outlet  for  our 
Barley,  Borax,  Wines,  Mustard  Seed,  Beans,  Wool,  etc.,  at 
freights  leaving  a  good  margin  for  profit. 

Specie  for  China  and  Japan — The  steamer  Oceanic  for  the 
Orient,  on  the  25th  inst.,  carried  $725,702  of  the  above,  chiefly 
Silver;  $400,000   came   from  Mexico  per  the  Newbern. 

Kodiak. — The  stmr.  St.  Paul,  thence,  had  for  cargo  15,000  lbs. 
Whale  Bone,  17  pkgs.  Curios.  John  Worster,  from  Karluck,  etc., 
brought  2,611  bbls.  and  2,076  cs.  Salmon.  8chr.  Francis  Alice,  12 
days  from  same,  had  4,000  cs.  Salmon  to  Alaska  Improvement 
Company. 

Honolulu.— Per  stmr.  Australia,  thence  on  the  19th  inst., 
brought  ub  4,490  bags  Sugar,  4,096  mats  Rice,  87  bales  Wool,  etc. 

Canadian  Pacific  Route. — The  stmr.  Umatilla,  hence  for  Vic- 
toria, B.  C,  carried  1,004  cs.  Canned  Goods  for  Duluth,  value 
$3,000. 

The  British  iron  ship  Shandon  has  juflt  cleared  for  Dublin  direct 
with  a  fine  cargo  of  24  500  bbls.  of  "Starr"  Flour,  valued  at  $91,- 
500  and  the  Paul  Isenberg  has  been  chartered  to  follow  by  Starr 
&  Co.  The  Shandon  is  the  sixth  entire  cargo  of  "Starr"  Flour 
sold  to  Europe  of  our  new  '92  crop. 


THE  twenty-knot  protected  cruiser  number  six, Olympia,  will  be 
launched  at  the  Union  Iron  Works  at  11:25  a.m.  Saturday, 
November  5,  1892.  The  cruiser  will  be  christened  by  Miss  Anna 
Belle  Dickie,  daughter  of  George  W.  Dickie,  and  the  launcbing- 
rope  will  be  cut  by  Miss  Elsie  Lilienthal,  daughter  of  Philip  Lil- 
ienthal. 


To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contem- 
plating a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the   Union   Pacific.     It  is  the  onlv  line  running  Pull- 
.  man  Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
I  from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.    You  are 
'only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 
Boston. 

Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  25%  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 


ZB^IETIKIS. 


BANK    OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,250,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE  60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;   Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

533  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1892 $25,890,653  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,533,136  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Albert  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland ;  Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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

THE  6ERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND f    1,646,000  OO. 

Deposits  Juiy  I,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Officees— President,  L.  G0TTI9;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGQERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TODRNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tiilmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabboe. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Di be ctobs— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Momtt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscried  Capital $2,500,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $660,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

A6ENTS— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  PariB  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.).No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager, 
LC.  Altschpl,  Cashier.   > 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized ?6 ,000,000  I  Paid  up .  ,?1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund.  . .   700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  uourt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seli°man  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  lusiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
worlu.    .Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    J  Manatrer8 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL.  i  managers. 
A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 

HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY      AND       COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL     EXAMINER 

Of  Handwriting,  Inks,  Papers,  etc.,  in  the  Detection  of  Forgeries , 

Counterfeits  and  Imitations. 

41  IK  CALIFORNIA  STREET,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

LAVER,    MULLANY    k   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Ofllce:  93  Flood  Building,  Cor.  4th  and  Market  sts.,  s.  F. 


Oct.  20,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


23 


THK  substitute  for  glass  brought  to  notice  some  time  ago  by  a 
manufacturer  in  Vienna.  Austria,  is  pronounced  a  practicable 
Ifatag,  likely  to  be  introduced  as  valuable  for  certain  purposes.  The 
article  is  produced  by  dissolving  from  four  to  eight  parts  of  collodion 
wool  in  about  one  hundred  parts  by  weight  of  ether,  or  alcohol,  or 
acetic  ether,  and  with  this  are  intimately  combined  from  two  to  four 
per  cent  of  castor  oil,  and  four  to  ten  per  cent  of  rosin  or  Canada 
balsam.  This  compound,  when  poured  upon  a  glass  plate  and  sub- 
jected to  the  drying  action  of  a  current  of  air  of  about  fiftj'  degrees, 
Cent.,  solidifies  in  a  comparatively  short  time  into  a  transparent 
glass-like  sheet  or  plate,  the  thickness  of  which  may  be  regulated  as 
required.  The  sheet  or  plate  so  obtained  has  substantially  the  same 
properties  as  glass,  resisting  the  action  of  salts  and  alkalies  and  of 
dilute  acids,  and.  like  glass,  is  transparent  and  has  no  smell.  Again, 
it  is  said  to  be  pliable  or  flexible  and  infrangible  to  a  great  degree, 
while  its  inflammability  is  much  less  than  that  of  the  collodion  sub- 
stitutes. Any  desired  color  may  be  imparted  to  the  compound  by 
admixture  of  the  necessary  pigment,  the  latter  to  be  soluble  in  the 
solvent  used  in  the  preparation  of  the  compound,  if  incorporated 
therewith  ;  but  color  may  be  imparted  by  surface  application,  aniline 
dies  being  employed,  and  thus  the  sheets  may  be  used  in  lieu  of 
stained  glass. 

The  introduction  of  a  new  saw  for  lumber  is  to  be  noted — 

an  upright  implement,  thin  like  a  bandsaw,  and  having  direct 
steam  attachment;  at  each  end  of  it  is  a  steam  cylinder,  each  of 
which  has  but  a  single  steam  port.  The  upper  piston  head  draws 
the  saw  and  the  lower  piston  up,  and  the  lower  piston  draws  the 
saw  and  the  upper  piston  down,  each  piston  drawing  the  saw, 
but  neither  of  them  pushing  it — this  causing  the  saw  at  all  times 
to  be  rigid,  so  that  a  very  thin  saw  can  be  employed.  Below  the 
lower  cylinder  are  a  heavy  pair  of  balance  wheels,  these  giving  a 
steady  as  well  as  uniform  motion  to  the  saw,  and  to  these  balance 
wheels  are  connected  a  pair  of  rods,  the  upper  ends  of  which  con- 
nect with  a  knuckle-joint  at  the  lower  end  of  the  saw,  thus  throw- 
ing the  lower  end  of  the  saw  out  as  it  is  going  up,  and  against  the 
log  as  it  is  coming  down.  The  log  carriage  is  operated  by  the 
same  engine  that  runs  the  saw. 

For  some  time  pasta  series  of  very  important  experiments 
have  been  in  progress,  under  the  direction  of  the  Austrian  Society  of 
Engineers,  on  the  resistance  of  masonry  arches.  Sufficient  is  now 
known  of  the  strength  and  elasticity  of  stone  and  cements  to  render 
the  theory  of  the  elastic  arch  applicable  to  masonry  arches  which 
have  been  and  still  are  designed  purely  by  empiricism— remarks  a 
writer  in  Engineering — so  that  in  many  cases  very  little  is  known  as 
to  the  actual  stresses  carried  by  the  structures,  and  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  the  factor  of  safety  is  in  many  cases  excessive.  The  ex- 
periments now  to  be  carried  forward  will  afford  the  desired  data  as 
to  the  permissible  working  stresses,  and  the  design  of  arches  will 
therefore  be  simplified.  One  interesting  group  of  these  experiments 
includes  minute  researches  into  the  elastic  and  resistant  properties 
of  the  materials  to  be  used  in  constructing  the  arches  to  be  tested; 
another  series  relates  to  the  brick,  concrete,  and  terra  cotta  floors 
commonly  used  for  warehouses,  and  a  third  series  relates  to  arches 
for  bridges  of  seventy-five  feet  span. 

K  —Attempts  have  been  made  by  M.  Paulsen  to  determine  ap- 
proximately the  height  of  the  aurora,  and  the  result  has  been  com- 
municated by  him  to  the  Royal  Danish  Academy.  It  appears  that 
at  Godthabb,  with  two  theodolites  four  miles  apart,  the  height  of 
different  aurora?  was  found  to  range  from  one-third  of  a  mile  to 
nearly  forty  miles ;  and  near  Cape  Farewell,  with  a  base  line  of  about 
three-fourths  of  a  mile,  the  results  showed  them  to  range  in  height 
from  one  to  ten  miles;  and  at  Spitzbergen,  with  a  baseline  of  about 
one-third  of  a  mile,  they  were  shown  to  be  from  three  hundred  yards 
to  eighteen  miles  high,  according  to  brilliancy.  It  is  thus  inferred 
that  the  aurora  only  appears  at  a  considerable  height  in  the  temper- 
ate zone,  while  in  the  auroral  zone  proper  it  is  generally  in  the  lower 
atmosphere. 

What  They  Are  Good  For. 

Brandreth's  Pills  are  the  best  medicine  known. 

First— They  are  purely  vegetable,  in  fact  a  medicated  food. 

Second — The  same  dose  always  produce  the  same  effect — other 
purgatives  require  increased  doses  and  finally  cease  acting. 

Third — They  purify  the  blood. 

Fourth — They  invigorate  the  digestion  and  cleanse  the  stomach 
and  bowels. 

Fifth— They  stimulate  the  liver  and  carry  off  vitiated  bile  and 
other  depraved  secretions. 

The  first  two  or  three  doses  tell  the  story.  The  skin  becomes  clear, 
the  eye  bright,  the  mind  active,  digestion  is  restored,  costiveness 
cured,  the  animal  vigor  is  recruited  and  all  decay  arrested. 

Brandreth's  Pills  are  sold  in  every  drug  and  medicine  store, 
either  plain  or  sugar  coated. 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-Iaw,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  is  the  best  known  remedy  for  poison 
oak  and  asthma.  No  one  who  contemplates  a  trip  to  the  country 
should  be  with. ml  it.  U  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  685 
Market  street.  The  lotion  is  pleasant  and  its  effects  are  immediately 
beneficial.    It  is  the  best  known  remedy  for  the  two  ailments  named. 


B^HSTIKZS- 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital *3,000,00000 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Bbown. Cashier  |  B.  Murray,  Jr  ..  .  Assistant  CaBhler 

Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW   YOKE— Agency  of  lTje  Bank  of  California;    BOSTON— Tremont 

National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Mess™.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver.  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati.Portland.O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Mafn,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switxerland. 


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 


IV.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) $1,600,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  |  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN Cashier 

JAMES  MOFPITT.. .  .Vice-President  1  GEO.  W.  KLINE Asst  CaBhier 

DIBECTOB8: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  S.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 

SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 

JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  ?5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
ths  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK.  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital . .  .J3.SOO,000     |     Capital  paid  up 2.450,000 

Reserve 450,000 

San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St. ,E.C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch,  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDEEICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank, 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  4  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  oi  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 81,250.000. 

Successor  to  Bather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    L.  N.  SHEPAFvD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  Wm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &.  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutter  Streets. 

SAN     FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

John  J.  Valentine  President. 

Homer  S.  King  Manager. 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier. 

J.  L.  Browne Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS: 
John  J.  Valentine,  Lloyd  Tevis,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Leland  Stanford,  James 
C.  Fargo,  Geo,  E.   Gray,  W.  F.  Goad,  Chas.   F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  MarKet,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL SI, 000,000. 

DIRECTORS : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  B.  H.  MILLER,  Je. 

B.  C.  WOOLWORTH Peesident. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-Peesident. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER CA8HIBB 

SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $300,000 

OFFICERS: 

President JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  S.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


GOSSIP    FROM    GOTHAM. 

New  Yobk,  Oct.  22, 1892. 

WITH  the  Columbian  celebration,  a  thing  of  the  past,  public 
attention  is  now  at  last  turning  to  political  matters.  It  is 
difficult  to  arrive  at  an  intelligent  estimate  of  the  probable  re- 
sult of  the  election.  It  is  practically  conceded  by  both  parties 
that  all  depends  upon  the  State  of  New  York.  "Under  ordinary 
circumstances,  politicians  on  the  »  inside  "  are  about  as  convinced 
as  they  can  possibly  be  of  how  things  are  going  to  go  several 
weeks  before  the  ballots  are  cast,  but  they  are  all  at  sea  this  year. 
The  elements  entering  into  the  contest  are  so  varied  with  the  fac- 
tional controversies  existing  that  the  only  thing  that  is  certain  is 
the  uncertainty.  The  conditions  as  far  as  can  be  ascertained 
are  about  as  follows :  In  this  city  and  in  Brooklyn,  Cleveland  will 
receive  the  loyal  support  of  the  "  machines  " — Tammany  here 
and  the  McLaughlin  organization  in  King's  County.  The  greater 
number  of  the  old  mugwumps  will  vote  for  the  Democratic  candi- 
date. There  will  be  a  very  large  Irish  vote  cast  for  Harrison; 
Hill's  personal  following,  estimated  at  about  25,000  voters,  will 
knife  his  successful  rival,  and  there  will  be  a  large  stay-at-home 
contingent  from  among  the  Republican  farmers,  who  have  not 
been  benefited  by  the  present  tariff.  On  these  points  there  seems 
to  be  a  general  unanimity  of  opinion.  On  some  other  points 
views  are  widely  divergent.  It  is  not  known  how  independent 
business  men  will  vote.  Republicans  assert  that,  irrespective  of 
their  personal  opinions  on  the  tariff,  they  will  vote  for  Harrison, 
so  that  trade  conditions  which  are  now  adjusted  to  the  McKinley 
Bill  may  remain  unchanged.  Republicans  believe  that  the  family 
misfortunes  of  the  President  will  gain  for  him  many  thousand 
votes  from  motives  of  sympathy.  The  sporting  men  are  in  a 
quandary,  and  betting  is  at  a  standstill. 

Reports  from  Chicago  tell  of  the  enthusiastic  reception  awarded 
to  Governor  Markham  and  staff  in  the  big  parade,  which  flatters 
the  pride  of  the  expatriated.  The  accounts  in  the  New  York  pa- 
pers of  the  celebration  in  Chicago  make  funny  reading.  It  looks 
like  a  preconcerted  attempt  to  get  even  for  all  the  jibes  and  jeers 
the  Windy  City  has  seen  fit  to  throw  on  the  Metropolis.  All  pre- 
judice aside,  it  seems  as  if  the  most  striking  features  of  the  great 
displays  were  the  general  mismanagement  and  the  resulting 
chaotic  confusion. 

An  amusing  but  somewhat  undignified  assertion  of  the  doctrine 
of  State  Rights  has  just  been  made.  By  due  proclamation  Presi- 
dent Harrison  declared  Friday,  October  21st,  a  legal  holiday.  He 
was  careful  to  use  in  the  phraseology  of  the  document  the  lan- 
guage which  would  meet  the  constitutional  requirements  of  New 
York  and  several  other  States  regarding  legal  holidays  so  declared 
by  the  Federal  power.  But  that  did  not  seem  to  have  satisfied 
Governor  Flower,  who  not  only  has  declined  to  issue  any  pro- 
clamation of  his  own,  but  has  publicly  expressed  his  opinion  that 
the  day  could  not  be  legally  considered  as  a  dies  non.  The  mercan- 
tile and  financial  interests  of  this  city  are  so  enormous  that  a 
question  of  this  sort  is  of  vast  importance.  Much  confusion 
would  have  resulted  but  for  the  action  of  the  New  York  Clearing 
House  Association,  which,  acting  under  the  advice  of  its  attor- 
neys, declared  the  day  to  be  a  legal  holiday,  thereby  practically 
assuming  all  the  responsibilities  involved. 

We  are  having  a  most  delightful  fall.  The  weather  is  bright 
and  sunny,  balmy  and  invigorating.  The  many  Californians  in 
town  are  enjoying  it  fully.  They  are  to  be  seen  everywhere. 
Those  who  have  settled  here  seem  to  make  their  mark;  there  are 
quite  a  number  of  them  now  in  the  journalistic  field. 

|Beattclerc. 

ONE  of  the  handsomest  stores  in  the  upper  portion  of  the  city 
is  "The  City  Fair,"  on  the  south  side  of  Market  street,  opposite 
the  Murphy  Building,  at  the  junction  of  Jones,  McAllister  and 
Market.  It  is  a  large  and  comfortable  establishment,  recently 
opened  by  Em.  Meyer,  the  well  known  dealer  in  fine  European 
wines  and  table  d<  licacies.  At  -'The  City  Fair"  Mr.  Meyer  has  in 
stock  the  finest  wines  in  the  city,  as  he  imports  only  the  very 
best.  His  excellent  reputation  as  a  dealer  in  high  class  foods  as- 
sures the  success  of  bis  handsome  new  establishment,  "The  City 
Fair,"  which  is  an  addition  to  the  city. 

THE  lawyers  are  men  who  know  Judges  best,  and  they  are 
most  capable  of  ascertaining  who  are  trustworthy.  Nine- 
tenths  of  them  are  against  Judee  Wallace,  and  on  election  day 
will  vote  against  him,  while  a  greater  proportion,  even,  of  the 
Judiciary  will  assist  in  relegating  Wallace  to  obscurity. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 

Go  to  the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  213  Sutter  street,  if  you  want 
to  enjoy  one  of  the  very  best  dinners  in  town.  This  restaurant  has 
for  years  been  famous  as  a  place  where  one  could  enjoy  all  the  deli- 
cacies of  the  season,  prepared  in  a  manner  known  only  to  the  bestof 
chefs. 


IITiTSTTIR  j^OST  CE  _ 


TRANSATLANTIC   FIRE   INSURANCE   COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 

Herbert  I..  Low,  Manager  for  the  Pacific  Coast  Branch, 

220  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

Capital $1,500,000.00 

Infested  in  U.  S 534J95.T2 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
238  California  St..  S.  F.,Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

[OF  BASLE.       B  OP  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

Combined  capital 4.000,000  dollars. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly. and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 

may  be  sustained,  -ttzr. 

a ,■■*..     HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, \. 

410  California  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed f  10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2,126,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 6,124,057.60 

WM.   GREER    HARRISON,  Manager, 

306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALBAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office — Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 

GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDZEZFAIRTiridllEIISrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    ■     $  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, 123,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, ?10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -   -    -     $2,222,724. 


WM.  J.  LANDERS,  flen'l  Agent,  20S  Sansomt  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL *5,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets.  $19,724,538.45. 

President.  mcHjAMTN  F.  STEVENS.  1  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.      Regular    Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  ol  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


K 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

ETs-rEZF=l  ,  ETrMC3L.>Q.r>JD.^| 


4ANCHE 


Capital  paid  oj  guaranteed  $3,000,000,00, 

Chas.A  Latoh,  Manaber. 
439  California  St.  San  Fpaocissu. 


October  29,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


25 


5UNB£AMS 


THK  spectators  stand  in  groups  around,  the  wife  of  the  tamer, 
asking  questions.  Said  one:  "Is  it  true,  Madame,  that  a 
Hon  costs  as  much  as  5000  francs?"  "That  depends;  there  are 
lions  and  lions."  "I  mean  your  lions;  Brutus  for  instance;  how 
much  is  he  worth?"  "Oh!  I  would  not  part  with  Brutus  for 
10,000  francs.     He  devoured  my  first  husband. " 

^— "Mad?  Yes.  clear  through.  If  I  found  the  fellow  that  wrote 
that  I'd  shoot  him."  "What  is  it — a  personal  attack?"  "Worse. 
Here  I've  been  and  put  in  my  time  reacting  two  columns  of  the  most 
exciting  story  I  ever  got  hold  of,  and  just  as  I  reach  the  end  I  find 
this:  'He  looked  calmly  into  the  muzzles  of  the  rifles  and  drew 
something  from  his  pocket  that  he  slipped  into  his  mouth.  Then  he 
cried  intones  of  triumph,  "Do  your  worst,  for  I  am  safe.  I  have 
just  taken  Guramidge's  patent  duplex  pills.  Best  thing  in  the  world 
for  sore  liver  and  pneumonia.    For  sale  by  all  druggists.'  " 

—"There  is  no  position  in  life,  however  great,  however  noble," 
shouted  the  orator,  "to  which  the  humblest  citizen  of  this  great  re- 
public, if  he  but  put  forth  an  effort,  may  not  attain !"  "How  about 
the  presidency  of  a  fat  man's  club?"  asked  a  little  lean  man  in  the 
midst  of  the  audience,  standing  on  his  chair  that  he  might  be  better 
seen,  whereat  the  vast  concourse  of  listening  humanity  was  so 
affected  that  the  major  portion  actually  shed  tears. 

A  man  recently  from  Iowa  says  that  he  saw  a  farmer  standing 
at  the  foot  of  an  enormous  cornstalk.  "How  big  is  your  corn?" 
asked  the  stranger.  "I  don't  know,"  answered  the  farmer;  '-I  sent 
one  of  my  boys  up  a  little  while  ago,  and  I'm  worried  to  death  about 
him."  "How  so?  Can't  he  get  back?"  "That's  the  trouble.  The 
cornstalk's  growing  up  faster  than  he  can  climb  down." 

"Why  do  so  many  English  mothers  with  their  daughters,  who 

never  drink  the  waters." frequent  the  German  spas?"  an  old  bachelor 
was  asked  at  Homburg.  "A  very  ancient  custom — date?  back  from 
the  time  of  Abraham,  when  Rebecca  met  her  future  husband  at  the 
well,"  was  the  cynical  reply. 

He — Do  you  know,  that  as  long  as  I  have  known  you,  I  have  never 
seen  you  dressed  in  white.  She — Indeed!  Are  you,  then,  so  partial 
to  the  color?  He — Not  exactly  that ;  but  whenever  I  see  a  girl  dressed 
in  white,  I  am  always  tempted  to  kiss  her.  She — Will  you  excuse 
me  for  fifteen  minutes?  — Truth. 

Hail  to  thee.  0  Paderewski, 

Of  piano  playing  fame; 
Won't  you  teach  us  please,  this  season 
How  to  say  your  blooming  name? 

Mrs.  Gooseberry— De  chile  done  gone  an' swollered 'r  bottle 'r 

ink.  Doctor  Gig  lamps  (newly  graduated)—  Ink,  plain  ordinary  ink? 
Humph!  This  is  easy.  Oxalic  acid  will  remove  ink  immediately. 
I'll  write  you  a  prescription  for  it.  — Puck, 

President  of  the  Doemup  Bond,  Investment  and  Silver  Mining 
Company — We  have  sold   every  share  of  our  stock.    Investor — But 
you  are  still  advertising  stock  for  sale.    President—  Yes;  we  are  hav- 
ing a  lot  more  printed.  —  Puck. 
—Cawker   (entering   store)— "Let  me  have  a  bottle   of    arnica, 

E lease."    Dealer — "This  isn't  a  drug  store."     Cawker — "I  know  that, 
ut  you  have  a  sign   in  your  window  which  says,  "Bicyclers'  sup- 
plies." —Judge. 

—  Teacher— In  what  part  of  the  Bible  is  it  taught  that  a  man 
should  have  only  one  wife?  Little  Boy— I  guess  it's  the  part  that 
says  no  man  can  serve  two  masters.    Street  &  Smith's  Good  News. 

Miss  Audubon— Have  you  read  "Our  Birds;  and  How  to  Know 
Them?"  Bob  White— No;  but  the  best  way  to  know  them  is  to  dine 
with  them.  —Puck. 

Foreigner—  And  how  is  Philadelphia  run  ?     Philadelphian (with 

dignity) — Run!    Philadelphia  is  not  run,  sir;  it  is  conducted ! 

"I  have  a  Hebrew  friend    who    will    never  go  near  a  dog." 

"That's  not  strange.    Hebrews  are  subject  to  the  rabbis." — Judge. 


TOLD    OF    RENAN. 


M  REN  AN  as  an  after-dinner  speaker  was  very  pointed  and 
,  pleasant.  Here  is  a  notable  example.  At  a  dinner  table, 
after  eating  was  over,  Monsieur  Jules  Simon  began  to  develop  an 
ingenious  social  theory.  Renan,  growing  tired  of  it,  was 
about  to  speak,  when  the  hostess  stopped  him  by  saying, 
» Wait  a  minute  or  two,  Monsieur  Renan,  and  then  we 
shall  he  happy  to  hear  you."  When  he  had  come 
to  an  end,  Mme.  Aubernon  rose,  and  called  on  Renan.  »  I  think 
you  bad  something  to  say,  she  remarked.  "  Yes,  madame,  you 
are  right — I  wanted  to  ask  for  a  few  more  potatoes."  Renan  was 
asked  by  a  Parisian  barber  for  a  motto  which  might  suitably  be 
placed  on  a  hairdresser's  signboard.  The  great  Orientalist  re- 
flected a  moment,  and  then  wrote  down  on  the  back  of  his  card, 
in  Greek,  the  words,  "  I  ahave  quickly  and  can  hold  my  tongue." 

This  is  the  season  of  the  year  when  ladies  most  appreciate  flowers, 
and  young  gallants  who  would  incur  favor  with  the  fair  ones,  should 
not  forget  to  bestow  bouquets  upon  them.  If  there  be  any  doubt 
regarding  the  proper  form  of  floral  token,  visit  Leopold,  the  popu- 
lar florist  of  35  Post  street,  who  is  full  of  ideas,  and  always  has  beau- 
tiful buds  and  blossoms  in  his  place. 


i:r>rsTT:R-A_:ETc:E3 . 


IN8URANOE   COMPANY. 
CAPITAL $1,000,000,  |  ASSETS 13,000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  tn  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 


THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

rESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up *400.000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SANSOME  STRtET, 

San   Francisco,  California. 


GEORGE  L.  BRANDER, 

President. 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 
Coital  Paid  Up  J  g.m  ™ 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,526,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Omce-sul  Montgomery  St.     Ceneral  OMlce— 401  Hont'g,  St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY  COMPANY 

OF    BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital !1>0^'~™ 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL  &  BERRY,  General  Agents. 


421  California  Street. 


FIRE 


INSDKE  your  property  against  FIKE  in 

The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London. 
The  Imperial  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London 

WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,    214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

SWAIN  &  MURDOCK,  City  Agents. 


$25,000,000  00 


ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 


THE  B«ENTW00D>  -     ?.  — 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  1858. 

Carriage  Builders  and   Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Kevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  A  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guieti  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeock  Co.,  Water- 
own,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Columbus,  O. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


TWO    MODERN    "WORSHIPPERS. 

To  church  the  two  together  went 
Both  doubtless  on  devotion  bent, 
The  Parson  preached  with  fluent  ease, 
On  Pharisees  and  8adducees. 
And  as  they  homeward  slowly  walked 
The  lovers  on  the  sermon  talked; 
And  he — he  deeply  loved  the  maid — 
In  soft  and  tender  accents  said: 

*  Darling,  do  you  think  that  we 
Are  Pharisee  and  Sadducee?  " 

She  flashed  on  him  her  dark  blue  eyes 
In  one  sweet  look  of  vexed  surprise, 
And  thus  he  hastened  to  aver 
He  was  her  constant  worshipper. 

•  But,  darling,  I  insist"  said  he, 
"That  you  are  very  fair-I-see." 

•And  I  know  you  don't  care  much  for  me, 
And  that  makes  me  so  Sad-you-see." 


Political  Ingratitude. 

"I  tell  you  what  it  is,"  said  Guffey,  the  ward  politician,  hammer- 
ing on  the  bar  in  a  terrible  rage,  "if  this  sort  of  thing  keeps  ou,  tha 
party  won't  have  the  shadow  of  a  show  next  election,  mark  my 
words." 

"Wot's  the  matter  now?"  yawned  the  barkeeper. 

"Why,  after  all  I've  done  for  the  gang,  and  after  shinning  around 
the  City  Hall  for  two  months  waiting  for  my  posish,  what  yer  sup- 
pose they've  done  for  me?" 

"Dunno;  left  you  out  in  the  cold,  mebbe." 

"Worse  than  that.  After  promising  positively  that  I  should  have 
a  berth  in  the  Assessor's  or  Collector's  office  they  actually  gave  me 
a  posish  where  I'll  have  to  work!" 

And  the  bystanders  shuddered  with  sympathy,  as  the  betrayed 
and  outraged  victim  of  political  ingratitude  swallowed  his  four  lin- 
gers oi  rye  with  a  face  like  a  Quaker  grave  yard,"  and  took  a  box  of 
Prentiss  Rectifying  Pills.  — Texas  Siftings. 

Our  Society. 
Blue  Book,  containing  the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days 
of  the  leading  society  people  of  San  Francisco  and  the  principa 
social  centers  of  the  State,  is  now  in  press,  and  will  be  issued  in 
November  at  the  opening  of  the  society  season.  We  have  been  par- 
ticularly careful  in  the  selection  of  names  to  grace  the  pages  of  the 
Blue  Book  and  have  eliminated  many  which  have  appeared  in  for- 
mer publications.  It  will  be  kept  on  file  exclusively  at  all  the  clubs, 
fashionable  hotels,  theaters,  summer  resorts,  etc.  The  arrangement 
of  names  will  be  alphabetically,  and  numerically  by  streets,  similar 
to  the  Chicago,  New  York  and  Philadelphia  bluebooks.  The  print- 
ing will  be  in  the  familiar  blue-and-gold  covers,  with  gilt-edged  text. 
The  information  conveyed  on  the  pale-blue  leaves  will  be  set  forth  in 
a  generally  attractive  manner  for  the  class  of  people  which  the  Blue 
Book  is  specially  intended.  It  has  become  the  accepted  fashionable 
private  address  directory  of  California  society  people.  The  Blue 
Book  will  be  kept  on  sale  at  all  first  class  book  stores  (excepting 
Bancroft's).  Charles  C.  Hoag,  publisher,  175  and  176  Crocker  build- 
ing San  Francisco. 

J.  H.  Love,  the  local  agent  for  Paderewski,  has  received  a  let- 
ter from  the  latter's  secretary,  stating  that  the  pianist  has  fully 
recovered  from  his  late  illness,  and  will  sail  for  America  Novem- 
ber 23rd.  He  will  not  be  in  San  Francisco  until  December  8th, 
but  our  musicians  and  music-lovers  are  already  agog  for  his  re- 
ception. 

*  *  *.sa"3a^*^i 

The  Favorite  will  continue  next  week  at  Stockwell's  Theatre. 
On  Thursday  afternoon  a  professional  matinee  will  be  given  in 
response  to  the  expressed  desire  of  theatrical  people  to  see  Mr. 
Boucicault's  new  play.  It  will  be  a  notable  event  and  a  novel 
one  in  this  city. 

Muller's  opera,  field  and  marine'  glasses,  suitable  holiday  present,  135 
Montgomery  street,  near  B ush.    '*&   .  ■*   -gj 


THE  Methodist  ministers  of  this  city  are  debating  the  question 
of  street  car  traffic  on  Sunday,  the  preponderance  of  opinion 
appearing  to  be  that  it  is  a  sin  for  any  one  to  patronize  public 
vehicles  of  any  kind  on  the  first  day  of  the  week — which  every 
child  knows  is  not  the  Sabbath  day.  Not  one  word,  however, 
was  said  about  the  rich  Christians  who  go  to  church  in  their  own 
vehicles,  and  whose  coachmen  may  be  seen  sitting  in  state  for 
hours  in  front  of  the  churches  every  Sunday.  The  query  natur- 
ally arises,  if  it  is  a  sin  for  a  poor  man  or  woman  to  make  use  of 
the  vehicles  provided  for  them  in  going  to  church,  is  it  not  just 
as  much  as  in  for  the  rich  man  to  do  the  same?  And  then  comes 
another  query.  Is  there  not  actual  sin  enough  in  this  city  to 
claim  all  the  attention  of  all  the  preachers,  without  splitting  hairs 
over  the  morality  of  street  car  riding  on  Sunday? 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 
sjLisr  rFiR^nsrcisco,     -     -     -     ca_Ij. 

Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

Patent  Lead-Lined   Coupled   Tubing,  for   nse  as 


Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap 


W.  F.  BECK  &  CO., 

COMMISSION       MERCHANTS. 
AGENTS 

CAPITOL   PACKING   CO., 

PACKERS  oi  the  CHOICEST  CANNED  and  DRIED  FRUITS. 
OFFICE,    II2   &   II4  CALIFORNIA   STREET. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Bulwer    Consolidated    Mining    Company. 

Office  of  Bulwer  Consolidated  Mining  Company,  San  Francisco,  October 
11,1892.  At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  above  named  com- 
pany, held  this  day,  a  dividend,  No.  21.  of  5  cents  per  share  was  declared, 
payable  Monday,  October  31,  1892.  Transfer  books  will  be  closed  on 
THURSDAY,  October  20,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  3  p.  m.  This  dividend  is 
payable  at  the  Farmers'  Loan  and  Trust  Company,  Nos.  20  and  22  William 
street,  New  York,  on  all  stock  issued  there,  and  at  the  office  in  this  city  on 
all  stock  issued  here.  L.  OSBORN,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  33,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  S.  F-,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Occidental  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  11 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Oct.  25,  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Nov.  13, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinqueat  Stock..  December  21, 1892 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  tceCretary. 
Office— Nevada  Block,  room  69.  No.  309  Montgomery  Street,  Cal. 

D|  ARIAC  Knabe,    Haines, 

"  I  ANUO  Busn  &  GertS,  *  others. 

^^  Gashorinstallmetits.  Rented 

and  Repaired.     Please  call  or  send  for  circulars.' 


803  Sutter 
St.,  S.  P. 


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Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 


CAMELLINE 


The  enly  f&ce  prep&naiien  s^ncHened  &s 
ABsebtely  harmless  by  the  medical  prefess/er? 


October  2i»,   L8&9 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY, 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 
Trtlm  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 

Leave  '      From  Septembsr  3,  1892.      I  Arrive 

7:00  a.  Bemela,  Burnley,  Sacramento.        7:16  P 
7:30  a.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose  .   *12:16p 

Niles  and  San  Jose 16:16  P 

7:30a.  Martinei.  San  Ramon,  Calistoga 

and  Santa  Ro$a ...      6:15p. 

8:00  a.  SacramtoA  Redding,  viaDavis.      7:16P. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East,     9:46p. 

8:30a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

vlUe  and  Red  Bluff 4:45p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Lob  An- 

Seles,  Deming,  El   Paso,   New 
rleaneand  East. 8:46  P. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:45p. 

1200m.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  P. 

•1:00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00  p. 

1 :30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12 :45  P. 

8 :00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose . .      9 :45  A. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Stockton 

Lodi,  Merced  and  Fresno 9:45a. 

4 :00  p.  Vallejo,  Calistoga,  El  Verano  and 

Santa  Rosa 9.45  A. 

4:30 p.  Benicia,  Esparto,  Sacramento.       10:45  A. 

4:30p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:45a. 

•4:30  p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45  a. 

5:30  p.  Los  Angeles  Express,  Fresno, 
Bakersrleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 8:45a. 

5 :30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East  8:45  A. 

6:00p.  HaywardB,  Niles  and  San  Jose. .      7:45a. 
6:00  p.  European  Mail  Ogden  and  East    9:15  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo f8;45  P. 

7:00  p.  Shasta  Route  Express,  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .     t  q\:$ 


Santa  Cruz  Division. 


J7:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  J8:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder  Creek    and 

Santa  Cruz- *10 :50  a. 

4:45p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.    9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 


*7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions   *2:38  p. 

J7:30  a.  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Sun- 
day Excursion J8:28p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro.SautaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stations  6:10  p. 
J9-.30A.    "Sunday  Excursion    Train  to 

Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.   J2:45p. 

10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 5:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations. 3:30  p. 

*2;S0p.  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,   Salinas, 
Monterey,    Pacific   Grove  and 

principal  Way  Stations *10:37  A. 

*3;80  P.  San    Jose,    Gilroy,   Tres    Pinos 

and  Principal  Way  Stations. ..     *9:47  a. 
*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...    *8:06a. 

6:15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48  a. 

6 :30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations ...      6 :35  a. 
tll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7 :30  p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

tSundays  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

SteamerB  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  M.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  SIMEON, 
Caytjcos,  Santa  Babbara,  San  Bdenaventuba, 
Hobneme,  San  Pedbo,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m  . 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


LORD  ROSEBERY  need  not  fear  that  in- 
his  opposition  to  several  other  cahinet 
members,  and  perhaps  to  Mr.  Gladstone  him- 
self, with  reference  to  Foreign  affairs  lie  will 
injure  his  popularity  with  the  British  public. 
On  the  contrary,  he  will  not  only  have  the 
approval  of  the  best  class  of  his  own  party 
but  also  that  of  the  Tories  and  Liberal- 
Unionists.  The  only  groups  in  Parliament, 
which  is  ready  to  sacrifice  one  British  acqui- 
sition after  the  other,  rather  than  vote  money 
for  their  maintenance,  consists  of  the  extreme 
Radicals  and  the  Irish,  both  of  whom  follow 
selfish  aims  and  care  little  for  the  welfare  of 
the  empire.  Fortunately  this  group  is  so 
small  as  to  be  absolutely  powerless  if  not 
assisted  by  the  Liberals ;  and  that  the  latter 
will  not  oppose  the  views  of  Lord  Rosebery 
is  clear,  so  that  his  position  is  far  from  being 
embarassing  is  immensely  more  gratifying 
than  that  of  his  colleagues  in  the  ministry. 

ONE  of  the  chief  difficulties  for  the  German 
government  will  be  to  persuade  the 
Reichstag  that  there  exists  any  just  method 
for  defraying  the  additional  expenses  pro- 
posed for  the  army.  It  has  been  rumored 
that  the  government  favors  the  taxation  of 
beer  and  tobacco.  The  idea  is  not  new,  and 
this  plan  was  also  favored  by  Prince  Bis- 
marck, at  times,  when  he  did  not  see  how  to 
make  both  ends  meet  in  the  army  bridge. 
He  met,  however,  with  such  opposition  that 
he  had  to  give  it  up  and  where  Prince  Bis- 
marck failed  Caprivi  is  not  likely  to  succeed. 


THERE  is  now  being  exhibited  in  Ceylon  a 
specimen  of  a  "jungle  man"  imported 
from  China.  The  creature  stands  two  feet 
in  height,  has  a  head  and  face  like  a  monkey, 
and  a  body  which,  but  for  its  diminutive  size, 
appears  to  be  similar  to  that  of  a  human 
being.  The  hands  and  feet  are  perfect.  This 
missing  link  is  reported  to  be  about  three 
years  old. 


Mrs.  Lewis  has  opened  a  fashionable 
lodging  house  at  1006  Pine  street,  known  as 
"The  victor,"  which  promises  to  be  one  of 
the  swell  houses  of  town.  Under  her  able 
management,  the  house  will  be  very  popular. 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  S.  $.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  corner  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama  with 
Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25, 1892. 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Belqic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan.  4, 1*93 
ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT   REDUCED    RATE8. 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage  Tickets 
for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General  Offices,  Room 
74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at  the 
Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company'B  Wharf,  San 
Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.PaBS.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line,  car- 
rying the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Colonial 
Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as  under: 

FOR      HONOLULU,,      AUCKLAND      AND      SYDNEY, 
DIRECT. 

8.  S   Mariposa Friday,  November  11,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

8. 8.  Australia Wednesday,  Oct.  26, 1892, 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  8PRECKELS  4  BROS.  CO, 

General  Agents 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BROAO-GAUBE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  ArRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  A.M.,  9:20  a.m.,   11:20  A.  M. ; 

l:30p.M.,  8:30  p.  M.,5:05  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  a.m.,  9:30  a.m.,  11:00  a.m.  ;  1:30  p.m. 
3:30  P.M.,  6:00  p.  M.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Ralael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:26  A.   M.,  7:55  A.   M.,  9:30  A.  M. 

11:30  a.m.;  1:40  p.m.,  3:40  p.m.,  6:05  p.m. 
SATURDAY8  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  A.M.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.  M.;  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  p.  M.,  6:00  p  M.,6:26  P.  M. 

t-rom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M.;  2:05  P.  M.,  4:05  P.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35    A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.m.,  4:05 p.m. ,6:80  p.m.,  6:50  p.m. 


LEAVES.  F. 

Destination. 

AbbiveinS.F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40  a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 
6:05  P.M. 

8:00  a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
6:00  p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  A.M  8:50a.  m. 

6:05  p.M  10:30a. M 
7:26  p.M  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Heald  sburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40A.  H. 
3:30  P.M. 

7!25p.'m! 

10:30A.M 
6:10p.m 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00  a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40  a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30  a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00  a.m. 
5:00  p.m. 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6:05p.m. 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  a. M 
3:30  p.M 

8:00  A.M 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.m 
1    6:05p.m 

10:30  am 
6:10  p.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukian  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  7u; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa.  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $450;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 
Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 
America. 
Through  Line  Sailings.— S.  8.  "San  Juan,"  Novem- 
ber 5th;  "City  of  New  York," November  15th;  S.  S. 
San  Bias,"  November  25th,  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama. — Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto.  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Nov.  18th,  S.  S.  "Acapulco." 
When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 

5th,  1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  3  p.  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  P.  m. 
S.S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dee.  24th,  at  3  P.  m. 
Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


si.  ime.  its:-wx3:.a.ijij  <&  oo. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


AMONGST  the  many  staunch  advocates  of  walking,  few  now- 
adays could  rival  the  feats  of  Wilson,  of  Christopher  North 
fame.  Of  him  it  is  reported,  in  an  article  on  "  Literary  Tramps," 
in  Macmillan,  that  one  morning,  in  Glenorchy,  he  started  out 
early  to  fish  in  Loch  Toila.  Its  nearest  point  was  thirteen  miles 
from  his  lodging.  On  reaching  it  and  unscrewing  the  butt-end  of 
his  fishing-rod  to  get  the  top,  ne  found  he  had  forgotten  it.  Noth- 
ing daunted,  he  walked  back,  breakfasted,  made  his  rod  complete, 
and  walked  again  to  Loch  Toila.  All  the  long  summer  day  he 
fished,  and  after  sunset  started  for  home  with  a  full  basket, 
feeling  somewhat  fatigued,  and  passing  a  familiar  farmhouse,  he 
stopped  to  ask  for  food.  It  was  near  midnight,  and  he  roused 
the  family  from  bed.  The  mistress  brought  him  a  full  bottle  of 
whisky  and  a  can  of  milk.  He  poured  half  the  whisky  into  half 
the  milk  and  drank  it  off  at  a  draught.  While  his  hostess  was 
still  staring  in  amazement,  he  poured  the  remaining  milk  and 
whisky  together,  and  finished  the  mixture.  He  then  proceeded 
homeward,  having  performed  a  journey  of  not  less  than  seventy 
miles  1 

Not  long  ago  the  Ainos  of  Yezo  were  in  a  state  of  excitement 
over  the  capture  of  a  white  bear,  an  animal  which  their  religious 
faith  declares  to  be  the  form  taken  by  their  chief  god.  However, 
they  resolved  to  send  it  to  the  Mikado,  under  the  notion  that  the 
capture  was  a  kind  of  Messiah,  the  White  Bear  God  having  never 
previously  been  seen  of  mortal  man.  In  old  times  the  Mikado 
himself  would  have  received  it  with  the  same  reverence  bestowed 
on  a  white  elephant  in  Siam;  for  an  animal  of  that  color  used  to 
be  regarded  in  the  good  old  days  as  a  happy  omen  for  the  reign- 
ing monarch.  Thus  the  reign  of  one  ancient  Mikado  is  called 
"  Hakuchi  nenkan,"  the  "  period  of  the  White  Pheasant;"  and 
that  of  another,  "Haku  hoo  nenkan,"  "  the  period  of  the  White 
Phcenix."  The  white  fox  is  often  mentioned  in  fables,  and  a 
white  serpent  always  appears  in  the  representations  of  Benten, 
the  Goddess  of  Fortune.  But  Japan  is  getting  painfully  enlight- 
ened. Accordingly  the  white  bear  was  sent  to  the  Tokio  Zoo- 
logical Gardens,  where  the  animal  was  found  to  be  not  the  Polar 
species,  as  at  first  supposed,  but  in  reality  an  albino  of  the  ordi- 
nary black  bear. 

At  one  of  the  largest  shipping  offices  in  the  city  of  London,  as 
the  majority  of  the  clerks  reside  in  the  most  distant  suburbs,  a 
certain  amount  of  grace  is  allowed  them  for  arriving  in  the  morn- 
ing. They  are,  however,  required  to  explain  on  a  list  specially  pro- 
vided for  the  purpose,  the  cause  of  their  unpunctuality.  The  first 
to  make  his  appearance  always  leads  off  with  the  words,  "  Train 
late,"  "  'Bus  horses  down,"  or  as  the  case  may  be,  and  to  this  the 
other  clerks  invariably  say  "  Ditto."  So  accustomed  have  they 
become  to  the  formal  procedure  that  they  hardly  ever  take  the 
trouble  to  see  what  excuse  heads  the  list.  One  morning  the  first 
arrival  conscientiously  pencilled  in  the  words,  "  Wife  ill—twins," 
and,  to  the  utter  amazement  of  the  chief,  this  extraordinary  ex- 
planation was  promptly  "  Dittoed  "  all  the  way  down.  Nor  was 
his  astonishment  diminished  when  he  discovered  the  office  boy's 
name  included! 

There  are  numbers  of  good  things  in  the  fifth  volume  of 
"  Moltke's  Memoirs,"  which  has  just  appeared.  It  is  told,  for 
instance,  that  as  the  King's  birthdays  successively  approached, 
there  used  to  be  bets  among  the  officers  and  the  general  staff  as 
to  how  many  words  Moltke  would  vfte  in  proposing  the  toast  of 
the  day.  Some  backed  a  nine-word  speech,  others  put  their  money 
on  eight  words.  Moltke's  habit  was  to  say,  »  To  the  health  of 
his  Majesty,  Emperor  and  King;"  or,  ••  To  his  Imperial  Majesty's 
health."  In  1884  an  oyster  breakfast  was  staked  on  the  Marshal's 
not  using  more  than  nine  words.  But,  because  he  began  with 
the  word  "  Gentlemen,"  the  bet  was  lost.  The  loser  comforted 
himself  by  saying,  <•  He's  ageing,  is  Moltke;  he's  getting  loqua- 
cious!" =  «!       1 

It  was  the  grim  humor  of  the  «  Semiramis  of  the  North,"  when 
a  courtier  offended  her,  to  put  him  into  a  cage  and  compel  him  to 
assume  the  character  of  an  animal.  Somewhat  of  that  spirit 
seems  still  to  linger  in  Russia,  if  we  may  believe  a  story  that  was 
sent  to  the  papers  recently.  During  the  recent  Russian  army 
manoeuvres  two  generals  fell  out.  One  accused  the  other  of  per- 
mitting lax  discipline,  and  threatened  a  reprimand.  The  offended 
man  proceeded  to  administer  his  reprimand  by  beating  his  accuser 
about  the  head  with  the  butt  of  a  revolver.  General  Svisdunoff, 
smarting  under  his  bruises,  telegraphed  an  account  of  General 
Risenkampf's  conduct  to  the  Czar.  There  is  a  touch  of  humor  in 
the  Czar's  order,  which  immediately  came  steaming  down  the 
wire,  that  the  pugilistic  general  was  to  be  sent  to  a  lunatic  asylum, 
while  the  other  was  to  be  court-martialled.  These  hot-headed 
warriors  would  have  done  better  to  compose  their  differences 
without  taking  the  Emperor  into  their  confidence. 


AND 
GENERAL    INSUBANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco. 

National  Assurance  Company of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company    ------    of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


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Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction; 
"Wood" 

Arc 
Factories : 
Fort  Wayne, 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn. 
New  York. 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 

Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
\         Estimates  furnished  for  electric  railways,  electric 
:  light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
:  a  specialty. 
jj  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


OLD     SCALE     REMOVED,  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the  use  of  


STEAM 
BOILER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 

LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

vOver  800  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heate  the  Water  to  212*.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

SSO  Pine  Btreet,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


R.  J.  WHEELER. 


J.  W.   GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &.  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Val. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND   &  CO  , 
SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     cor.     Pine     and     Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cai. 

Agents  for 

THE  CALIFORNIA  LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPS  FROM  NEW  YORK. 

The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co.;  the  Hawaiian  Line  of  Packet 
to  and  from  Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limited);  Bald- 
win Locomotive  Works;  A.  Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sons 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
jen's  Composition.    Ontario  Cotton  Sail  Ouclt. 

PARKE    &    LACY   CO., 

27  and  23  FREMONT  STREET. 

SAN  FRANCISCO.  CAL. 

MINING,    WOOD    AND    IRON   WORKING    MACHINERY. 

ENGINES,    BOILERS,    STEAM    PUMPS, 
BELTING.  OIL8  AND  8UPPLIE8. 

XjOTTXS  G^.tt^:2iT  cfc  SON-, 


Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

4tXS  Sacramento  Street,  S.  1^, 
E.  D.  Jones. 

S.  L.  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers    and    Commission    Merchants, 
207  and  209  California  Street. 


October  29,   H^2 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Overman  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — Sau 
Francisco.  Cal.  Location  of  worka— Gold  Hill, 
Storey  county.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  6th  day  of  Octo- 
l_tn  ■mftiinmonl  (No 65) of  Thirty cetts  per 
>hare  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  cor- 
poration, payable  immediately  in  t'utted  States 
gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  otliee  of  the 
company.  No.  414  California  itreet.  Sau  Fraucisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main uupaid  on  the 

The  Tenth  Day  of  November.  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and 
unless  pavment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  80th  day  of  November,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

GEO.  D.  EDWARDS.  Secretary. 
Office.— No-  414  California  Street,  Sau  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Kentuck  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Goid 
Hill.  Storey  County.  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  oa  the  3d  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  'No.  5)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  t.he  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  and  17,  310  Pine  street, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Eight    Day    ot    November,   1892,  will    be   delin- 
quent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
TUESDAY,  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  November, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office— 310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San 
Francisco,  California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Savage  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Virginia 
Mining  District,  Storey  County,  State  of  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  this  company,  held  on  the  7th 
day  of  October,  a.  d.,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
79)  of  Fifty  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the 
capital  stock  of  the  corporation  payable  immedi- 
ately in  United  States  Gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary, 
at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  4,  Nevada 
block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  9th  day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent 

and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before, 
willbesoldon  TUESDAY,  the  29th  day  of  Nov- 
ember, 1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment, 
together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 
Office— Room    No.  4,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Storey 
County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  20th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  40),  of  twenty-five  (25) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United 
StateB  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  offlee 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Piue  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  24th  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  un- 
less pavment  1b  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  14th  day  of  Deceember,  1892, 
to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  E.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


A  CORRESPONDENT  of  the  (,'aufois  has 
furnished  that  paper  with  some  carious 
calculations  about  the  dates  of  events  in 
France.  Louis  XVI.  ascended  the  throne 
in  1774;  the  sum  of  the  numbers  making 
up  1774  (one,  seven,  seven  and  four)  is 
nineteen,  which,  added  to  1774.  makes 
1793,  the  year  of  his  murder.  The  French 
Revolution  dates  from  1789,  the  sum  of 
which  is  twenty-five,  which,  added  to  1789, 
makes  1814,  the  year  of  the  Restoration. 
The  Restoration  was  finally  accomplished 
in  1815,  the  sum  of  which  is  fifteen,  bring- 
ing us  to  1830,  when  Louis  Philippe  seized 
upon  the  throne.  He  was  born  in  1773,  the 
sum  of  which,  eighteen,  added  to  1830, 
makes  1848,  the  year  of  the  second  Repub- 
lic. Louis  Napoleon  was  born  in  1808,  and 
his  wife  in  1826,  and  they  were  married  in 
1853;  each  of  these  three  years  give  a  total 
of  seventeen,  which,  added  to  his  wedding 
year,  gives  1870,  the  date  of  his  debacle. 
The  practical  question  then  comes  to  de- 
duce the  end  of  the  present  regime  in 
France.  If  we  date  it  from  President 
Gravy's  election  to  the  Presidency  in  1879 
we  add  twenty-five,  which  brings  us  to 
1904,  but  if  we  take  the  birth  of  Repub- 
licanism as  1789,  and  add  its  sum,  twenty- 
five,  to  the  year  1870,  the  third  Republic 
can  only  survive  until  the  year  1895. 


THE  exhibition  of  Postage  Stamps,  which 
opened  on  the  15th  inst.,  at  the  Palais 
de  l'lndustrie  in  Paris,  has  given  a  notable 
spurt  to  the  trade  in  used  stamps.  The 
Stamp  Exchange  in  the  Champs  Blysees 
fell  for  some  time  into  a  state  of  languor, but 
it  is  now  brisker  than  ever.  One  sees  there 
every  morning  between  three  or  four  hun- 
dred philatelists,  or  speculators.  They 
meet  in  the  open  air  near  the  Marigny  end 
of  the  gardens,  and  make  as  great  a  hub- 
bub as  if  they  were  at  the  Bourse.  Quota- 
tions of  the  prices  are  telegraphed  all  over 
France  and  abroad.  Recently  a  postcard 
was  sold  for  £10  because  it  had  gone  all 
round  the  world  after  the  person  to  whom 
it  was  addressed,  and  bore  seventy-two 
postmarks.  It  was  evident  that  means 
had  been  taken  beforehand  to  cause  it  to 
be  sent  on  through  seventy-two  post-offices. 
The  original  address  and  the  supplemental 
ones  were  written  in  very  small  characters, 
and  most  of  them  in  red  ink,  as  if  on  pur- 
pose, so  as  not  to  take  from  the  distinct- 
ness of  the  postmarks.  Collectors  are  be- 
ginning to  set  store  on  the  Heligoland 
stamp  bearing  Queen  Victoria's  head,  and 
issued  before  the  Postal  Union  came  into 
existence. 

THE  coffin  in  which  the  remains  of  the 
late  Earl  of  Essex  were  buried,  at  Wat- 
ford Cemetery,  was  made  Jmany  years  ago 
out  of  oak  grown  in  Cassiobnry  Park,  hewn 
by  Arthur  Algernon  Capel — the  late  old 
Earl  himself,  who  was  not  far  off  ninety 
years  old  when  he  died.  The  Earl  had 
many  a  good  snooze  in  his  coffin,  in  which 
at  one  time  he  used  to  read  and  smoke,  and 
also  keep  books  and  papers,  always  keep- 
ing the  key  himself.  There  was  open  trel- 
lis work  all  round  the  coffin,  and  by  the 
express  desire  of  the  late  earl,  it  was  filled 
with  choice  herbs  and  evergreens ;  and  after 
the  body  had  been  placed  in  its  last  resting- 
place,  it  was  covered  with  earth,  dug  up  a 
long  time  ago  by  the  Earl  himself,  on  the 
Cassiobnry  estate. 


ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

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Telephone  2388.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


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baths.  The  qualities  of  softening  and  beautify- 
ing the  skin  testified  to  by  hundreds  of  ladies. 
Only  natural  electric  water  in  the  world. 

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30 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


IT  is  rather  early  yet  to  say  with  a  degree  of  certainty  whether 
this  winter  season  will  be  a  gay  one  or  otherwise;  but  the  in- 
dications are  that  though  there  may  not  be  many  balls,  pure  and 
simple,  there  will  be  no  lack  of  small  affairs,  teas  and  the  like,  to  fill 
up  the  weeks  from  the  middle  of  November  until  the  advent  of  Lent 
rings  down  the  curtain  upon  all  festivity.  In  the  tea  line  the 
most  novel,  and  therefore  probably  the  most  popular,  as  more  likely 
to  attract  the  men,  will  be  the  Ingleside  series,  of  which  the  first  will 
be  given  on  the  12th  of  November.  The  idea  originated  this  summer 
at  Del  Monte,  among  the  set  who  are  the  Lady  Patronesses,  and 
grew  into  shape  when  Col.  Fred  Crocker  took  the  helm,  so  that  it  is 
predicted  that  under  his  leadership  a  brilliant  success  will  result  if 
only  the  weather  will  keep  fine.  The  Ingleside  is  the  locale  chosen, 
and  upon  the  day  of  the  tea  is  to  be  strictly  private,  no  other  visitor 
to  that  suburban  reatreat  being  allowed,  to  which  end  a  policeman 
will  be  on  duty  to  see  it  enforced.  The  rooms  will  be  elaborately 
decorated  with  flowers  and  ferns,  a  delicious  collation  served,  and  a 
full  band  of  music  will  be  in  attendance,  so  that  should  the  guests  de- 
sire, dancing  can  be  indulged  in.  Already  coach  parties  have  been 
made  up  for  four-in-hand  drives  to  :the  spot,  and  no  doubt  all  sorts 
of  vehicles  will  be  seen  that  day,  from  the  coach  to  the  modest  buggy. 
Each  Lady  Patroness  has  the  privilege  of  issuing  a  certain  number 
of  invitations  (the  names  to  be  submitted  to  a  committee)  and  the 
people  invited  are  then  entitled  to  attend  by  subscribing  a  fixed  fee. 
So  should  the  weather  be  propitious,  the  inaugural  tea  will  no  doubt 
be  a  great  success.  The  Lady  Patronesses  have  nearly  all  been  well 
known  entertainers  in  the  past,  and  are,  as  a  consequence,  supposed 
to  be  well  skilled  in  the  art,  and  the  invitation  list  comprises  every 
one  in  the  swim  to-day.  Next  in  importance  in  the  eyes  of  our 
belles,  will  be  the  opening  of  the  Friday  Night  Cotillion  Club  series 
of  dances,  which  will  take  place  on  the  2nd  of  December.  A  good 
many  of  our  young  ladies  who  did  not  belong  to  the  "  cotillion  set  " 
last  year,  have  enrolled  themselves  as  members  this  winter,  and  the 
first  german  of  the  season  will  present  a  more  complete  array  of 
buds  and  belles  than  has  been  seen  on  any  previous  occasion  since 
the  inaugural  year  of  the  club. 


The  Catholic  Fair  at  St.  Francis  de  Sales  Church,  Oakland,  has 
engrossed  the  attention  of  society  across  the  bay  during  the  past 
week.  It  is  hoped  that  $10,000  will  be  raised  by  the  bazaar,  and 
this  sum  wilt  liquidate  the  indebtedness  anticipated  for  fitting  up 
the  building.  Some  of  the  most  prominent  families  in  town  are 
in  charge  of  the  booths,  and  the  donations  are  rich  and  hand- 
some in  the  extreme.  Among  the  many  who  have  guided  the 
destinies  of  the  fair  successfully,  are:  Miss  Margaret  Smythe,  Miss 
Madden,  Mrs.  Quinlan,  Mrs.  Spencer,  Mrs.  Porter,  Miss  Kate 
Davis,  Miss  Anna  Smith,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Driscoll,  Mrs.  McDade,  Miss 
Slavin,  Miss  Hicksey,  Mrs.  McCawley,  Mrs.  James  Cahill,  Mrs. 
Nolan,  Mrs.  McGrath,  Miss  Cahill,  Mrs.  Keating,  Mrs.  Fredericks, 
Mrs.  Paul  Lohse,  Miss  Martin,  Miss  Glen,  Miss  Fitzgerald,  Miss 
Rice,  Miss  Woodward,  Mrs.  Raleigh,  Miss  Annie  Moffit,  Miss 
Pauline  Sweeney,  Miss  Loretta  Kirk,  Mrs.  M.  Myers,  Miss  Baker, 
Miss  Dunne,  Miss  Flora  Massey,  Miss  Mary  Lambert,  Misa 
McFeeley,  Mrs.  Hackett,  Mrs.  Remillard,  Mrs.  R.  Murphy,  Miss 
Fitzgerald,  Miss  M.  Painter,  Miss  A.  M.  McSweeney,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Dunpby,  Miss  Franklin,  Miss  McKeon,  Mrs.  Sadie  Nolan,  Mrs. 
M.  J.  Keller,  Mrs.  James  Kelley,  Jr.,  Mrs.  M.  Burns,  Mrs.  M. 
McDonald,  Mrs.  Kate  Tailor,  Mrs.  Jordan,  Mrs.  Gannon,  Miss  D. 
Anderson,  Mrs.  Selby,  Mrs.  A.  T.  McDonough,  Mrs.  Frank 
Marion,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Stanley,  Miss  Belle  Summers,  Mrs.  D. 
Prindle,  Miss  Mollie  O'Connell,  and  D.  W.  Nesfield,  the  veteran 
newspaper  man. 

On  Wednesday  evening  of  last  week  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Hunting- 
ton gave  an  elaborate  dinner  party  at  their  lately  acquired  Nob  Hill 
residence,  so  well  knowa  as  the  Colton  House,  and  once  again  the 
beautiful  dining-room  was  the  scene  of  such  festivity  as  it  has  been  a 
stranger  to  ever  since  the  death  of  General  Colton.  On  Wednesday 
also,  Mr.  E.  S.  Pilsbury  played  the  host  of  a  dinner  at  the  Palace 
Hotel,  given  in  honor  of  General  and  Mrs.  Anson  McCook,  Miss  Mc- 
Cook  and  Miss  Lindsay,  who  is  traveling  with  them,  the  party  hav- 
ing been  among  the  visitors  in  San  Francisco  during  the  past  ten 
days.  Mrs.  Volney  Spaulding  had  as  her  chief  guest  at  dinner  Mrs . 
Romualdo  Pacheco,  who  expects  to  return  East  early  next  month. 
The  dinner  given  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  A.  Frank,  on  Friday  evening, 
was  a  very  elaborate  one,  at  which  covers  were  laid  for  twenty. 

The  Nonsense  Club,  of  Ross  Valley,  held  one  of  their  revels  this 
week,  which  several  of  our  city  belles  went  over  to  enjoy.  Some  few, 
the  McAllisters  among  the  number,  will  remain  in  their  Marin 
county  homes  all  winter,  but  the  majority  of  the  summer  visitors  to 
San  Rafael  have  already  returned  to  town,  or  will  do  so  in  the  very 
near  future.  Mrs.  Harvey  E.  Wise  gave  a  tea  at  her  San  Rafael  cot- 
tage last  Saturday,  prior  to  her  return  to  town  for  the  winter,  which 
she  and  Mr.  Wise  will  pass  at  their  residence  on  Pacific  Heights. 


For  the  moment  weddings  are  decreasing  in  number,  but  several 
are  on  the  tapis  for  November.  Among  the  most  recent  was  the  cere- 
mony which  united  Miss  Adele  Wegener  and  Col.  John  A.  Koster, 
which  took  place  at  St.  Mark's  German  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church 
on  Geary  street  on  Thursday  morning  of  last  week.  The  Rev.  Julius 
Fuenderling  tied  the  nuptial  knot;  the  bride's  sister,  Miss  Carrie 
Wegener,  appeared  as  maid  of  honor,  and  William  Metson  was  best 
man.  From  the  church  the  bridal  party  and  guests  repaired  to  the 
California  Hotel,  where  a  handsome  wedding  breakfast  was  served 
and  later  the  bride  and  groom  departed  to  spend  their  honeymoon  at 
Del  Monte.  The  bride  was  handsomely  costumed  in  a  robe  of  white 
brocaded  silk,  made  with  a  court  train  and  trimmed  with  duchesse 
ace,  a  court  vail  and  wreath  of  orange  blossoms. 


A  pretty  wedding  of  last  week  was  that  of  Miss  Belie 
Reynolds,  who  was  married  to  Robert  Herbert,  of  Ala- 
meda, at  her  father's  house  on  Green  street  last  Wednesday 
evening.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  My- 
nard,  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church'  in  the  front  parlor,  which,  with 
the  rest  of  the  house,  was  beautifully  dressed  with  ferns  and  flowers 
The  bride  and  groom  dispensed  with  attendants,  and  only  the  most 
intimate  friends  of  the  young  couple  were  present  at  the  service,  but 
later  there  was  a  large  reception,  and  an  elegant  supper  was  served 
by  Ludwig.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herbert  chose  Del  Monte  for  their  honey- 
moon, and  will  make  their  home  in  Alameda,  where  a  pretty  cottage 
is  nearly  ready  to  receive  them. 

One  of  the  events  of  this  week  was  the  inauguration  of  the  club 
styled  the  "  School  for  Scandal,"  which  gave  its  first  entertainment 
on  Thursday  evening,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Henry  Williamson 
Octavia  street.  The  receptions  are  to  be  held  every  two  weeks,  and 
amateur  theatrical  performances,  followed  by  dancing,  will  be  the  at- 
tractions offered  the  guests.  Last  Thursday  evening  the  little  comedy 
of  A  Box  of  Monkeys  was  presented,  the  Misses  Juliet  Connor,  Blanche 
Castle  and  Mollie  Hutchinson ;  Frank  Mathieu  and  Milton  Latham 
taking  part.  Yesterday  afternoon  Mrs.  Moore  gave  an  afternoon  re- 
ception in  honor  of  her  twin  sister,  Mrs.  Fisher,  of  Washington ,  who 
is  at  present  here  on  a  visit. 

At  the  marriage  of  Miss  Daisy  Crane  and  Horace  0.  Donnels,  which 
was  solemnized  at  the  Crane  residence  on  Page  street  last  week,  Miss 
Lillabel  Crane  was  maid  of  honor  and  Douglass  Crane  best  man,  little 
Misses  Dita  Bradley  and  Leta  Crane  filling  the  positions  of  brides- 
maids, and  the  Rev.  J.  I.  Adams  was  the  officiating  clergyman.  The 
bride  looked  charmingly  in  a  handsome  costume  of  white  silk  trimmed 
with  point  lace,  her  hand  bouquet  being  of  white  sweet  peas.  The 
honeymoon  is  being  spent  in  Los  Angeles,  and  upon  their  return 
Mrs.  Donnels  will  receive  on  Tuesdays,  after  November  loth,  at  101 
Scott  street. 

The  delightful  reception  and  dance  on  board  the  French  flagship 
Dutovnlieu,  last  Saturday,  has  been  supplemented  by  a  number  of 
small  parties  on  the  ship  this  week,  including  several  lunches  and  a 
couple  of  dinners.  The  French  officers  are  very  popular  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, not  only  with  their  own  countrymen  but  with  Americans  as 
well,  and  their  visits  here  have  been  hailed  with  pleasure,  their  de- 
parture correspondingly  regretted.  The  ship  will  probably  sail  to- 
day, and  it  is  doubtful  if  she  is  seen  again  in  this  port.  Among 
others,  Mrs.  Tiska  gave  some  of  the  officers  a  little  party  on  Tuesday 
evening.  

General  J  ohn  T.  Cutting  will  leave  for  the  East  the  early  part  of 
next  week.  He  will  be  accompanied  by  his  niece,  Mrs.  James 
B.  Metcalf,  who  has  been  his  guest  for  the  past  two  months.  He 
will  be  entertained  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Metcalf,  at  their  home  in 
New  York,  until  the  beginning  of  the  next  Congressional  session. 
During  the  Christmas  holiday  season  the  General  and  his  daugh- 
ter, Miss  Nellie,  will  be  the  guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Metcalf,  at 
their  charming  country  home  in  Westchester,  N.  Y. 


Thursday  evening  of  last  week  appeared  to  be  a  favored  one  with 
entertainers,  Among  others,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Gallatin  gave  a 
chrysanthemum  dinner  at  their  home  on  Scott  street  to  about  a  dozen 
guests.  The  French  Admiral  and  his  Flag  Captain  were  the  guests  of 
honor  at  a  dinner  given  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  T.  Scott,  and  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Robert  McLane  gave  a  musicale  at  their  home  on  Pacific 
avenue,  at  which  a  large  number  of  guests  were  charmingly  enter- 
tained.   

The  wedding  of  Miss  Mohrman  and  H.  E.  Coffey  was  very  quietly 
performed  last  Saturday  afternoon  at  the  residence  of  the  bride 
which  was  artistically  dressed  with  flowers  and  potted  plants,  ferns 
and  palms.  Relations  only  were  present  to  witness  the  ceremony,  after 
which  a  wedding  breakfast  was  served,  and  then  the  bride  and  groom 
left  for  a  honeymoon  trip  to  Santa  Barbara. 


Lunches  and  teas  have  been  in  order  again  this  week,  and  every 
day  has  seen  one  or  more  of  the  former.  On  Tuesday  Mrs.  C.  P. 
Huntington  was  the  guest  of  honor  at  a  lunch  given  by  Mrs.  Willard 
Huntington,  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu,  which  was  one  of  the  most  en- 
joyable parties  of  the  month  of  October. 


Oct.  20,  1892. 


SW  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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ol  the  wedding!"  ol  I  season  will  be  that  of  Mrs.  A.  M. 

Eastons  niece,  Miss  Adeline  Taylor,  of  Snn  Mateo,  whose  encase- 
ment to  Fred  Paxton  Howard  has  just  been  announced.  Mrs. 
Charles  Webb  Howard  celebrated  the  majority  of  her  son.  the  groom- 
elect,  by  giving  a  dinner  to  sixteen  of  his  young  friends,  both  belles 
and  beaux,  on  his  twenty-first  birthday  anniversary,  at  her  cbarru- 
kland  home,  on  Wednesday  evening  of  last  week.  Another 
lately  made  known  engagement  is  that  of  Miss  Roberta  Wright  to 
George  Hellman.  and  the  wedding  will  probably  be  one  of  the  events 
of  the  holiday  season. 

Our  absentees  are  docking  back  to  us.  the  cold  weather  in  the  East 
not  being,  apparently,  to  their  liking.  Mr.  Robert  Sherwood  is  here 
aireadv:  and  Charley  Joscelyn  and  family  and  Con  O'Connor  were 
looked  for  yesterday.  Mrs.  Joe  Crockett  and  the  Hopkinses  are  due 
to-day  from  their  visit  to  New  York.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Crocker 
are  en  route  homewards.  Miss  Mae  Pimond's  arrival  is  looked  for 
in  about  ten  days.  General  E.  F.  Beate,  of  Washington  City,  has 
been  in  town  during  the  greater  part  of  the  week.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo. 
Lent,  nit  Bessie  Hooker  are  expected  to  arrive  from  Coronado,  where 
they  have  been  spending  their  honeymoon,  early  next  week. 

Among  San  Franciscans  in  New  York  early  this  week  were  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  T.  C.  Van  >"ess.  A.  J.  Bowie,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  I.  Sabin,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  G.  Kittle,  Miss  Lncia  Kittle,  Mrs.  Mamie  Hastings, 
B,  V..  Goodall,  Joe  Donahoe,  Captain  Griffeth,  and  Mrs.  Skea  and 
Miss  Alice,  who  will  make  Gotham  their  future  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ned  Townsend,  nfe  Annie  Lake,  are  now  permanent  residents  of 
New  York  City,  where  Mr.  Townsend  is  engaged  in  journalistic 
work,  and  Mrs.  Townsend  is  said  to  be  writing  another  novel. 

Mrs.  C.  L.  Ashe  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Millie  Athe,  do  not  leave 
for  the  East  until  about  the  middle  of  November.  Mrs.  Ashe  will  re- 
turn after  a  visit  of  two  or  three  months  to  old  friends  and  relatives 
in  the  South,  but  we  are  not  likely  to  see  Miss  Millie  again  until  next 
summer,  if  then.  She  will  spend  the  intervening  time  between  Wash- 
ington City.  New  York  and  Virginia,  and  she  may  possibly  go  to  Eu- 
rope before  her  return  to  California. 

The  residence  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Chapman,  in  East  Oakland,  was  the 
scene  of  the  third  of  the  series  of  "  at  homes"  which  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frank  Woodward  are  giving,  and  proved  to  be  the  most  enjoyable 
that  has  so  far  taken  place.  The  pretty  new  house  was  daintily  dec- 
orated with  lovely  flowers,  and  filled  with  guests  who  passed  a  de- 
lightful evening.  _ 
Miss  Jennie  Catherwood,  who  is  to  be  one  of  this  winter's  de- 
butantes returned  last  week  from  Europe,  where  she  has  been 
finishing  her  education,  traveling  home  under  the  care  of  Senator 
and  Mrs.  Stanford.  The  Stanfords  left  town  for  their  country 
villa  at  Palo  Alto  last  Tuesday. 

The  silver  wedding  anniversary  celebration  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D. 
Weill,  at  their  residence  on  Van  Ness  avenue  last  Sunday  evening, 
was  a  very  pleasant  affair,  at  which  a  large  number  of  their  friends 
congregated  to  wish  them  health  and  happiness,  and  express  the  hope 
of  meeting  them  again  twenty-five  years  hence. 

It  is  said  that  all  reports  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding,  Mrs. 
Flood  and  Miss  Jenny  will  lead  a  very  quiet,  retired  life  this  winter, 
and  rumor  also  avers  that  Mrs.  J.  L.  Kathbone,  au  conlraire,  intends 
to  keep  open  house  and  entertain  a  great  deal  this  season,  her  recent 
residence  in  Paris  having  given  her  a  decided  taste  that  way. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sig  Stern,  nee  Rosalia  Mayer,  who  returned  from 
their  honeymoon  trip  last  week,  were  given  a  theatre  party  at  the 
Baldwin,  on  Friday  evening,  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Stern,  which  was 
followed  by  supper  at  the  Concordia  Club,  and  afterwards  dancing. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stern  are  for  the  present  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  where 
Mrs.  Stern  will  receive  on  Mondays. 

Mrs.  Stedman  of  South  Bend,  who  will  be  remembered  in  our 
social  circles  as  Miss  Birdie  Deming,  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Charles 
Crocker,  with  whom  she  spent  several  months  at  one  time,  will 
again  visit  San  Francisco  in  the  near  future  as  the  guest  of  her 
cousin,  Mrs.  Van  Fleet,  nee  Crocker. 

A  very  pleasant  tea  was  given  last  Friday  by  Mrs.  M.  A.  Burns,  at 
her  residence  on  Hyde  street,  to  the  members  of  the  Browning  Club. 
The  bodily  entertainment  consisted  of  Russian  teas  and  ices,  while 
mentally  the  guests  were  refreshed  with  musical  selections,  readings 
from  the  poet's  works,  and  agreeable  chit  chat. 

Mrs.  A.  J.  Holloway  sailed  from  New  York  for  Europe  last 
week,  and  news  of  her  safe  arrival  the  other  side,  was  received 
last  Wednesday.  Miss  Cora  Caduc,  who  sailed  for  Liverpool  on 
Tuesday  last  will  remain  abroad  most  of  the  winter. 

The  amateur  historions  who  presented  A  Russian  Honeymoon 
last  week,  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  Goodall,  will 
probably  produce  it  again  at  the  new  theatre  after  the  building 
is  opened.  It  will  doubtless  be  given  as  a  benefit  to  the  Reliance 
Club. 

The  marriage  of  Laura,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  Crocker, 
to  Charles  Hall,  took  place  on  Wednesday  evening  at  the  First 
English  Lutheran  Church,  Oakland.  A  brilliant  reception  was 
afterwards   given   at   the  home  of  the  briae's  parents,  on  Ninth 

Mrs.  Percy  Selby  has  been  in  town  during  the  week  visiting 
her  daughter,  Mrs.  Austin  Moore,  and  will  probably  be  her  guest 
during  a  part  at  least  of  the  coming  winter. 


Mrs.  Dr.  Cool,  who  was  the  guest  of  Mrs.  Charles  Overacker  at 
Niles,  after  a  month's  severe  illness,  has  returned  to  the  city. 
Mrs.  Charles  Overacker  is  the  guest  of  Mrs.  0.  F.  Willey  for  a 
week. 

Frank  Johnson  and  bis  mother,  Mrs.  Johnson,  will  occupy  the 
Martin  house  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  which  Mr.  Johnson  has  rented 
for  the  winter. 

Judge  and  Mrs.  Van  Fleet  will  make  San  Francisco  their  permanent 
home,  residing  at  2721  Pacific  avenne,  where  Mrs.  Van  Fleet  will  re- 
ceive on  Fridays. 

James  L.  Flood  will  leave  for  the  East  to-day  on  a  two  weeks'  trip, 
taken  for  the  purpose  of  a  consultation  with  Mr.  Mackay,  who  is  now 
in  New  York  city. 

Mrs.  James  Turner  will  be  accompanied  by  her  sister,  Miss  Ada 
Sullivan,  when  her  husband,  Lieutenant  Turner,  is  ordered  to 
Japan. 

Mrs.  E.  0.  Smith,  lady  commissioner  for  the  World's  Fair  from 
San  Jose,  with  Miss  Kirby,  will  winter  at  the  Palace. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Breeze  has  returned  from  London,  and  is  domiciled 
at  1330  Sutter  street. 

The  residence  of  Mrs.  J.  B.  Silcox,  in  East  Oakland,  was  enliv- 
ened on  Thursday  afternoon  by  a  tea.  The  house  was  prettily 
decorated,  and  the  many  guests  had  a  glorious  time. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Crux  h  ave  removed  from  McAllister,  near 
Scott,  to  2,717  Pine  street.  Mrs.  Crux  will  receive  on  the  second 
and  fourth  Tuesday  of  each  month  this  season. 

Mr.  Edward  and  James  Jennings  left  for  a  trip  through  Southern 
California  and  Mexico  on  Wednesday  last.  They  will  not  return 
until  Christmas. 

Mrs.  Joseph  L.  Armer,  of  Guatemala,  formerly  Miss  Evelyn 
Davis,  of  this  city,  is  visiting  her  mother,  at  1611  Post  street. 

Mrs.  J.  D.  Redding,  since  her  return  from  Europe,  has  been 
quite  ill  at  her  residence  on  Pacific  ave. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  S.  Graves  will  be  with  us  again  this  winter, 
having  taken  a  house  on  Octavia  street,  near  Broadway. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  Hecht  and  family  will  spend  the  winter  at  the 
Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mrs.  B.  B.  Redding  has  returned  from  Napa  Soda  Springs,  and 
is  at  2228  California  street. 

George  Helyett  of  Carson  is  in  town. 


THE  best  emollient  for  the  complexion  is  the  famous  Camelline. 
It  is  used  by  all  the  belles  and   beauties  of  the  day,  who  find 
in  it  a  never  failing  friend ,  when  desirous  of  appearing  at  their  best. 


Fashionable  Society  Ladies  who  have  been  in  the  habit  of  patron 
izing  the  hair-dressing  establishments  of  Messrs.  Hayes  and  Levy, 
will  be  glad  to  hear  that  Miss  Kitty  Dowling,  formerly  one  of  their 
most  skillful  operators,  has  opened  parlors  at  room  24,  Phelan  Build- 
ing,  where  she  will  be  pleased  to  meet  any  of  her  former  patrons 

Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


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Parfumerie  Victoria,  Rigaud'a  &  Cie's  Lucrecia  Graciosa,  Louis  XV 
and  Exora  d'Afriq  ue  are  the  latest  odors  and  so  different  from  perfumes 
familiar  to  everyone.  Piveot'  Legrand's  violet  and  Roger  &  Gallet's  Lubia 
and  Pinaud's  perfumes,  Soap,  SaehanFace  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc. 

Pinaud's  8  ounce  bottles.  JS.50;  regular  size  reduced  from  $1.25  to  25 
cents  per  bottle,  including  Peau  d'FBpagne  in  bulk  at  50  eents  per  ounce. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Oct.  29,  1892. 


THE    PRIME    MINISTER'S    PLACE. 


MR.  GLADSTONE  will  very  shortly  accept  a  peerage,  it  is  said, 
and.  more  than  that,  the  title  which  it  ia  likely  he  will  as- 
sume is  that  of  Earl  of  Liverpool.  This  title  was  formerly  borne 
by  the  family  of  Jenkinson,  but  became  extinct  on  the  death  of 
the  third  Earl.  Years  and  years  ago  the  title  was  suggested  to 
Mr.  Gladstone  uy  his  old  friend,  Lord  Tennyson;  and  now  it  has 
been  decided  on  as  the  one  he  will  take  when  he  decides  to  allow 
himself  to  accept  a  peerage.  It  is  one  of  the  most  curious  and 
absurd  anomalies  of  the  statutory  rules  which  regulate  English 
precedence,  that  the  Prime  Minister,  if  he  happens  to  be  a  Com- 
moner, must  yield  place  at  Court,  not  only  to  all  noblemen  of 
whatever  degree  but  to  their  eldest  sons  as  well,  and  even  to 
Knights  of  the  Garter,  who  were  not  invariably  peers  of  the  realm 
in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.,  whose  enactment  in  this  matter  of 
precedence  has  never  been  repealed  or  altered.  The  position  of 
First  Lord  of  the  Treasury  will  not  entitle  Mr.  Gladstone,  under 
any  circumstances,  to  the  precedence  next  to  the  Archbishop  of 
York,  formerly  enjoyed  by  the  Lord  High  Treasurer,  which  great 
dignity,  upon  the  resignation  of  the  Duke  of  Shrewsbury  in  1714, 
consequent  upon  the  accession  of  George  I.,  was  vested  in  a  com- 
mission of  five,  under  the  presidency  of  Lord  Halifax,  and  has 
never  since  been  revived.  And,  although  the  '•  Lord  Privy  Seal  " 
has  precedence  two  degrees  below  that  of  Lord  Treasurer,  yet 
even  that  social  superiority  is  denied  to  the  present  Prime  Minis- 
ter, because  he  does  not  happen  to  be  of  "  baronial  rank."  From 
the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  and  up  to  that  of  Queen  Anne,  the  Privy 
Seal  was  never  entrusted  to  Commoners,  and  only  to  Peers  above 
the  degree  o,f  Baron;  but  before  the  year  1538  the  "Lords  Privy 
Seal"  were  usually  ecclesiastics,  and  their  services  in  this  respect 
were  dispensed  with  after  the  Reformation.  The  latter  title, 
only  dates  from  1542;  previously  to  this  they  were  called  Clerks 
of  the  Seal.  In  the  time  of  Edward  III.,  and  in  Norman-French 
documents,  the  office  is  written  "  Gardien  del  Privy  Sele,'*  and 
was  always  a  patent  office,  in  contradistinction  to  that  of  "Keeper 
of  the  Great  Seal,"  who  simply  has  the  Seal  itself  delivered  into 
his  hands  by  the  reigning  Monarch. 

There  are  three  different,  essentially  Royal  Seals,  one  in  the 
custody  of  the  Principal  Secretary  of  State,  and  known  as  the 
"  Privy  Signet."  The  other  two  are — the  "  Privy  Seal  "  above  re- 
ferred to  and  the  Great  (or  Broad)  Seal  of  England,  which  has  in 
due  course  been  delivered  to  Lord  Herschell,  in  virtue  of  his  office 
as  Lord  Chancellor.  Probably  the  first  of  the  laity  to  hold  the 
Privy  Seal  was  John  Rnssell,  Earl  of  Bedford,  1538,  and  it  was  to 
provide  him  with  special  precedence  that  his  official  position  was 
settled  as  stated  above.  In  that,  or  early  in  the  following  year, 
Lord  Russell  was  styled  "Castos  Privati  Sigilli."  Most  of  the  ec- 
clesiastical holders  of  this  office  were  simple  clerics,  such  as  "Sir 
William  Keldsly,"  20th  Ed.  III.  "Sir,"  in  those  days  was,  as  is 
well-known,  very  commonly  applied  to  the  ordinary  clergy,  John 
Thoresby,  28th  same  reign,  Master  William  Alreville,  4th  Henry 
VI.,  and  so  on;  but  yet,  from  Edward  III.,  at  all  events,  these 
"  simple-minded  "  priests  had  writ  of  summons  to  Parliament, 
and  their  place  in  the  "  Lords,"  as  shown  by  the  Rolls  of  the  15th 
of  that  King's  reign  and  down  to  4th  Henry  VI.  Similarly,  the 
Treasureship  of  the  Kingdom  was  originally  an  ecclesiastical  of- 
fice, but,  from  its  paramount  importance,  was  held  by  clerics  of  a 
higher  grade.  The  first  of  them  was  the  Conqueror's  half  brother, 
Odo,  Bishop  of  Bayeaux,  who  was  also  created  Earl  of  Kent; 
Stapeldon,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  was  another,  under  that  imbecile 
Plantagenet,  Edward  II.,  and  these  great  officers  were  said  to  be 
"  Prime  Ministers  judicatory  between  the  King  and  his  tenants." 
The  first  of  the  laity  on  record  as, Lord  Treasurer  was  Henry, 
Lord  Scrope  of  Bolton,  temp.  Henry  II.,  and  he  was  followed  by 
Thomas  Fitz-Alan,  Earl  of  Arundel.  The  office  appears  to  have 
been  first  instituted  by  William  Rufus,  and  from  his  reign  to  that 
of  Edward  IV.  forty-two  Archbishops  and  Bishops  held  it  at  vari- 
ous periods.  Since  then,  there  is  only  one  instance  of  a  Prelate 
as  Lord  Treasurer — Juxon,  Bishop  of  London  (subsequently 
Primate),  in  the  memorable  reign  of  Charles  I.  The  Lord  Treasurer 
was  at  one  time  inducted  by  the  delivery  of  a  bunch  of  golden 
keys,  more  recently  by  that  of  an  ordinary  white  staff.  The  old 
Royal  Treasury  was  in  the  Abbey  of  Westminister,  in  the  Chapel 
known  as  "  The  Chapel  of  the  Pyx,"  which  still  bears  evidence  of 
Norman  work  in  its  construction.  In  the  reign  of  Edward  I.,  it 
was  the  scene  of  a  very  remarkable  robbery  of  nearly  two  millions 
of  money,  according  to  present  value,  which  had  been  screwed 
out  of  his  afflicted  subjects,  and  stored  there  in  preparation  for 
one  of  his  Majesty's  little  wars  against  Scotland.  The  robber  is 
Baid  to  have  been  caught  and  to  have  been  flayed  alive;  his  skin 
was  subsequently  tanned  and  nailed  against  the  entrance  door  of 
"  the  Pyx,"  and  portions  of  it  were  discovered  not  very  many 
years  ago,  under  the  massive  hinges  of  the  portal  of  that  ancient 
building. 

For  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods  go  to  John  W.  Carmany,  of  25 
Kearny  street,  who  has  a  well  established  reputation  as  the  best 
gentlemen's  furnisher  in  the  city. 

Go  to  the  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  if  you  want  to  enjoy  a  dinner  fit  for  Lucullus.  The  Maison 
Riche  is  the  place  for  bon  vivants. 


REGULAR 


REPUBLICAN 

MUNICIPAL     TICKET. 


Mayor WEN  DELL  E  ASTON 

Aud!«5,r T.  J.  L.  SMILEY 

Sheriff WILLIAM  T.  BLATTNER 

Tax  Collector THO  MAS  O'BE  I  EN 

Treasurer J.  H.  WIDBEE 

Recorder g   g    EE\D 

County  Clerk GEOEGE  W.  LEE 

District  Attorney WILLIAM  S.  BARNES 

City  and  County  Attorney MEYEE  JACOBS 

Coroner DR.  WILLIAM  T.  GARWOOD 

Public  Administrator WALTEE  B.BLAIR 

Surveyor CH  AE  LES  S.  TI LTON 

Superintendent  of  Streets CHAELES  GREENE 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) CHAELES  W.  SLACK 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  M.  TEOUTT 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) GEOEGE  H.  BAHRS 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JOHN  LORD  LOVE 

Superior  Judge  (for  unexpired  term   ending  January.  1895) 

-,.-f.-.: :    ■••, WILLIAM  G.  BRITTAN 

Po  ice  Judge  (long  term) H.  L.  JOACHIMSEN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) W.  A.  S.  NICHOLSON 

Po  ice  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Police  Judge  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January  1893) 

r    .-■•■•;•.••:  w  ■  ••;,•  James  a.  Campbell 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) FRANK  GEAY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) GEOEGE    P    GOFP 

Justice  of  the  Peace,  (long  term) JOHN  F.MULLEN 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) ARTHUR  M.  WILLETS 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) J   e  BAERY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January',  1893) 

......... J.E.BARRY 

Supervisor  First  ward  (unexpired  term) EDWAED  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  First  ward EDWAED  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  Second  ward  (unexpired  term) DE.  E.  C.  MEYEES 

Supervisor  Second  ward DE.  E.  C  MEYEES 

Supervisor  Third  ward CAELOS  G.  YOUNG 

Supervisor  Fourth  ward HENRY  A.  STEFFINS 

Supervisor  Fifth  ward H.  E.  BOBBINS 

Supervisor  Sixth  ward WE  LANE 

Supervisor  Seventh  ward VICTOR  D.'  DUBOCE 

Supervisor  Eight  ward p  j  COFFEE 

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Nov.  5  1892. 


QUALIFICATION    OF    VOTERS. 

AMONG  the  propositions  to  be  voted  upon  next  Tuesday  ia  one 
demanding  an  educational  qualification  of  voters,  and  requir- 
ing every  voter  to  be  able  to  write  bis  name  and  read  any  section 
of  the  Constitution  in  the  English  language.  It  is  sincerely  to  be 
hoped  that  the  people  of  this  8tate  should  express,  in  the  most- 
unmistakable  manner,  on  election  day,  their  view  that  they  ap 
prove  of  a  law  making  an  educational  qualification  of  the  kind 
indicated  obligatory,  and  it  is  further  to  be  hoped  that  when  a  law 
to  that  effect  is  drafted,  it  will  go  beyond  the  strict  letter  of  the 
above  proposition,  and  demand  of  every  voter  that  he  should  not 
only  be  able  to  read  and  write  his  name,  but  have  a  fair  element- 
ary knowledge  of  the  language  of  the  country,  such  as  can  be 
acquired  in  any  public  school;  and  further,  that  he  should  not  only 
be  able  to  read  any  section  of  our  constitution,  bat  tbathe  should 
also  be  able  to  give  proof  that  he  understands  its  general  mean- 
ing and  the  duties  it  imposes  upon  all  those  who  claim  the  privi- 
lege of  being  American  citizens.  There  ia  really  no  excuse  now- 
adays for  any  one  to  be  without  a  reasonable  education  before  he 
becomes  of  age,  since  the  means  of  obtaining  instruction  are,  in 
the  United  States,  accessible  to  everybody,  however  situated  he 
may  be.  At  all  events,  even  if  such  an  education  should  not  have 
been  acquired  before  the  age  of  majority,  it  should  be  made  ob- 
ligatory before  any  citizen  ia  permitted  by  means  of  his  vote  to 
influence  the  destinies  of  our  country.  Citizenahip,  and  what  it 
implies  in  our  republic,  is  a  high  privilege,  and  imposes  on  those 
who  enjoy  its  sacred  duties.  The  free  vote  is  the  palladium  of 
our  republic,  and  it  should  not  be  desecrated  by  being  handed 
over  to  persons  lacking  the  mental  qualifications  necessary  for 
using  it  intelligently,  while  those  should  be  severely  punished 
who  are  morally  corrupt  enough  to  misuse  it.  No  reforms  in  our 
political  life — and  that  they  are  sadly  desired  no  one  will  deny — 
can  ever  be  hoped  for  until  the  voting  power  is  withdrawn  from 
those  who  are  mentally  or  morally  unable  to  understand  a  citi- 
zen's duty,  and  until  the  severest  penalties  have  been  established 
for  those  who  are  convicted  of  having  sold  their  votes,  or  induced 
others  to  do  so.  Nay,  even  more,  it  is  urgently  to  be  desired  that 
sooner  or  later  all  citizens  will  be  required  to  make  use  of  the 
franchise  on  election  day,  and  if  repeatedly  found  guilty  of  neg- 
lecting their  duty  in  this  respect,  thai;  they  will  forfeit  the  fran- 
chise for  a  longer  or  shorter  period.  It  is  disgraceful,  for  instance, 
that  ao  few  people,  according  to  a  reliable  authority — about  one- 
sixteenth  of  the  regiatered  votera — do  their  duty  on  the  occasion  of 
our  primary  elections,  upon  the  result  of  which  the  fate 
of  our  legislatures  depend.  But  to  return  once  more  from 
those  who  neglect  their  duty  at  the  polls  to  those  who 
should  not  be  admitted  to  the  election  booth  at  all, 
we  repeat  that  illiteracy  should  be  an  absolute  disqual- 
ification for  the  exercise  of  the  franchise.  A  person  una- 
ble to  read  and  write,  or  one  who  does  not  take  sufficient  interest 
in  his  own  improvement  to  acquire  that  knowledge,  is  either  in- 
capable of  understanding  what  is  good  for  the  country,  or  proves 
thatits  welfare  doea  not  concern  him,  and  he  should,  therefore, 
have  no  power  to  influence  it.  Often,  it  is  believed,  that  foreign- 
era  who  apply  for  citizenahip  furnish  the  largest  contingent  of 
illiterate  voters.  This,  however,  as  Mr.  J.  J.  McCook  demon- 
strated in  his  recent  articles  in  the  Forum,  is  by  no  means  the 
case.  On  the  contrary,  the  percentage  of  illiterate  foreigners  is 
comparatively  very  small,  though  there  is  one  qualification 
which  a  very  large  percentage  of  foreigners  who  deaire  to  be  nat- 
uralized lack,  namely,  the  ability,  not  to  read,  but  to  understand 
our  constitution  and  its  spirit.  Foreign  applicants  should  be 
obliged,  therefore,  to  give  a  teat,  showing  that  they  comprehend 
the  duties,  obligationa  and  aims  of  a  citizen  of  a  republic,  and  that 
they  are  fully  aware  of  what  they  are  doing  when  taking  the 
oath  of  allegiance.  If  this  should  be  insisted  upon,  the  num- 
ber of  anarchists  would  soon  diminish,  and  those  remaining  could 
be  treated  as  perjurers.  There  are  thousands  of  Sunday  schools, 
in  which  people  are  supposed  to  qualify  for  admission  to  some 
Christian  sect.  What  we  need  more  are  Sunday  schools  in 
which  all  aspiring  toward  citizenship  should  be  trained  for  an 
intelligent  exercise  of  its  privileges  before  obtaining  them. 


EASTON    FOR    MAYOR. 


THE  Chronicle  baa  been  aasailing  the  Hon.  J.  V.  Coffey,  Judge 
of  the  Probate  Court,  for  the  past  week,  because  he  sat  as  a 
committing  magistrate  in  a  few  certain  cases.  We  do  not  know 
whether  Judge  Coffey  ia  right  or  wrong  in  sitting  as  a  committing 
Judge,  but  because  he  has  done  so,  we  have  reason  to  believe  he 
is  right.  He  is  one  of  the  few  honest  Judges  who  are  on  the  local 
bench,  and  one  of  the  few  men  in  the  community  who  is  entitled 
to  the  fullest  confidence  and  respect  of  all  our  citizens.  The 
Chronicle  may  continue  to  hurl  its  vituperations  at  this  honest 
little  Judge,  but  it  cannot  hurt  him  in  the  slightest  degree,  for  it 
is  satisfactory  to  the  people  to  have  a  man  like  Judge  Coffey  to 
control  the  affairs  of  the  widows  and  orphans,  and  the  fact  that 
he  presides  over  the  court  most  sacred  to  the  average  citizen, 
makes  him  entitled  to  all  the  more  respect.  Judge  Coffey  ought 
to  be  supported  by  the  citizens,  whose  respect  he  has  always  en- 
joyed. 


ON  Tuesday  next  the  citizens  will  decide  at  the  polls  whether 
they  want  as  Mayor  of  this  great  and  growing  city  a  man 
whose  whole  life  has  been  identified  with  the  progress  of  mun- 
icipal affairs,  or  one  who  is  absolutely  without  qualifications  for 
tbe  executive  management  of  the  affairs  of  the  city.  In  Wendell 
Easton  we  have  a  gentleman  whose  very  name  is  synonymous 
with  enterprise  and  progress.  He  has  lived  and  done  business  in 
this  city  for  decades,  and  it  may  be  truthfully  said  that  no  other 
man  has  worked  harder  in  the  interests  of  the  development  of 
San  Francisco  than  has  Wendell  Easton.  Intimately  acquainted 
with  the  affairs  of  the  municipality,  and,  therefore,  knowing  well 
just  what  we  ne  need  to  cause  us  to  advance,  he  is  the  man  with 
whose  hand  at  the  helm  the  city  of  San  Francisco  would  be 
steered  to  the  seas  of  prosperity.  Mr.  Easton  is  an  extensive 
dealer  and  owner  in  real  estate  in  this  county,  and  taxpayers  can 
therefore  put  their  trust  in  him,  for  whatever  affects  them  affecta 
h:m  as  well.  A  careful  and  conservative  manager,  he  would 
make  no  mistakes.  His  whole  career  is  an  exemplification  of  tbe 
soundness  of  his  judgment,  and  the  success  that  comes  with  the 
following  of  his  advice.  That  he  possesses  the  entire  confidence 
of  the  people  has  been  repeatedly  snown,  when,  upon  occasions, 
he  has  been  selected  to  manage  the  financial  portions  of  public 
movements,  such  as  celebrations  and  demonstrations  of  different 
sorts.  Everything  that  he  has  undertaken  has  been  carried  to  a 
successful  consummation.  He  is  a  self-made  man,  and  is  of  a 
strong  and  independent  character.  Mr.  EasDn's  principal  op- 
ponents seem  to  be  Mr.  Ellert,  the  Non-Partisan  nominee,  and 
Dr.  O'Donnell,  the  notorious  Charlatan  and  perennial  candidate 
for  office.  Mr.  Ellert  is  not  a  man  of  sufficient  ability  to  manage 
successfully  the  affairs  of  this  city.  His  lack  of  business  capacity 
was  illustrated  during  his  service  as  Chairman  of  the  Finance 
Committee  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors.  Mr.  Ellert  is  a  man  of 
a  negative  quality,  while  Mr.  Eaaton  ia  strong  and  positive.  A 
weak  and  negative  man  could  never  successfully  administer  local 
affairs,  and  it  would  be  wrong  to  elect  such  a  man  as  the  Chief 
Executive  of  the  municipality.  Dr.  O'Donnell  is  running  close 
with  Ellert,  in  the  endeavor  to  beat  Mr.  Easton.  This  man 
O'Donnell  ia  a  public  nuiaance,  and  a  good  citizen  would  never 
think  of  voting  for  him.  He  haa  no  redeeming  qualities  what- 
ever, and  his  election  would  be  an  eternal  disgrace  to  the  city. 
His  candidature  is  dangerous,  for  many  unthinking  men  will  vote 
for  him  in  the  light  of  what  they  may  consider  a  joke,  but  not 
desiring  nor  expecting  his  election.  Such  votes  are  not  in  the  in- 
tereata  of  good  government.  Again,  they  tend  to  weaken  the 
most  popular  man — Mr.  Easton.  Again,  a  vote  for  Ellert,  the 
Non-Partisan  nominee,  who  does  not  hope  to  overcome  the  forces 
of  the  regular  parties,  is  just  so  much  in  favor  of  the  infamous 
O'Donnell.  Wendell  Easton  is  the  best  man  this  city  has  had 
presented  for  Mayor  for  many  years.  His  election  will  mean  a 
declaration  for  progress  and  reform. 

McDADE    FOR    SHERIFF. 


THE  citizens  Bhould  elect  John  J.  McDade  sheriff,  next  Tuesday. 
_Why  ?  Because  he  is  able,  honest  and  independent,  and  is  by 
all  odds  the  most  satisfactory  candidate  for  the  office.  His  career  in 
municipal  and  State  offices  has  been  such  that  he  has  become  known 
as  a  trustworthy  man,  and  one  by  whose  election  no  mistake  can  be 
made.  The  best  that  can  be  said  of  Henry  Scott,  the  Non-Partisan 
candidate,  is  that  he  was  the  tool  of  that  notorious  Judge,  Wallace, 
in  packing  the  illegal  Grand  Jury.  His  greatest  claim  to  fame, 
therefore,  rests  upon  his  connection  with  the  commission  of  an  illegal 
act.  Mr,  McDade  made  an  excellent  record  in  the  assembly  during 
his  term  there,  and  became  known  as  one  of  the  most  ardent  sup- 
porters of  all  the  bills  for  the  benefit  of  the  people  and  one  of  the 
most  irrepressible  opponents  of  the  many  corrupt  measures  that 
always  had  advocates  in  the  halls  of  legislature  at  Sacramento. 
Subsequently,  upon  his  return  to  this  city,  he  gained  the  approval 
of  thousands  of  property  owners  by  his  excellent  work  while  in  the 
office  of  the  superintendent  of  streets,  by  which  he  saved  the  tax- 
payers many  thousands  of  dollars.  Among  the  working  classes  he  is 
popular.  He  is  a  pattern-maker  by  profession,  and  for  years  he  was 
an  instructor  in  the  Lincoln  night  school,  and  thereby  came  into 
personal  contact  with  hundreds  of  the  representative  men  of  the 
laboring  classes.  An  industrious,  conscientious  man,  he  is  possessed 
of  immense  energy.  He  has  carried  a  number  of  great  operations  to 
a  successful  issue,  and  to  those  who  know  him  best,  he  is  recognized 
as  a  man  of  great  determination,  whose  satisfaction  comes  only  with 
the  attainment  of  the  desired  end.  He  thus  possesses  all  the  requi- 
sites desirable  in  the  personality  of  so  very  important  an  office  as 
the  sheriff  of  this  county.  For  that  place  a  firm  man  is  needed  ;  a 
man  who  cannot  be  moved  from  his  true  position,  by  persuasion, 
threats,  or  bribes.  Such  a  man  is  John  J.  McDade.  He  is  not  man- 
aged by  a  boss,  nor  would  bis  office  be  filled  with  bosses  creatures. 
His  administration  would  be  distinguished  by  absolute  probity,  and 
full  protection  of  the  interests  of  the  people.  We  recommend  Mr. 
McDade  to  the  people,  and  endorse  him  for  sheriff,  because  we  know 
him  to  be  everything  that  is  claimed  for  him.  He  is  an  able  and  an 
honest  man. 


N.v.   \  li«2. 


&AN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


WALLACE    AS    A    LAMB. 

ON  K  week  has  passtd  and  we  lave  not  b*>en  arrested  for  libel  by 
that  august  jurist.  Judge  Wallace.  Hia  silence  verifies  the 
statements  contained  in  our  last  week's  article,  for  no  man  of 
bonor  could  r**st  under  such  a  *cathing,  without  in  some  way  en- 
deavoring to  convince  the  respectable  portion  of  the  community 
that  be  is  being  attacked  unjustly.  But  Wallace  is  a  sensible 
man  alter  all  ;  he  does  not  want  anybody  to  ba  compelled  to 
prove  what  hi*  knows  himself  is  true.  The  Bruner  jtry  has 
been  discharged  :  seven  of  the  jurors  voted  steadily  for  acquittal. 
One  of  the  jurors,  a  man  of  more  fat  than  brain,  who  claimed  to 
speak  for  the  prosecutor,  said  that  Wallace  was  tried,  the  Wal- 
lace Grand  Jury  was  tried,  and  in  fact  everybody  excepting 
Bruner  was  tried.  We  do  not  wonder  at  this,  because  we  know 
the  defendant  was  the  least  guilty  of  all  his  associates,  who  were 
before  the  jury  for  its  consideration.  That  the  majority  of  the 
jurors  was  for  acquittal  has  caused  this  community  to  stop  and 
think,  and  the  more  they  think,  and  the  more  they  ponder  be- 
tween thjs  and  election,  the  worse  it  will  be  for  Wallace,  for  every 
man  who  gives  the  matter  a  thought,  will  on  election  day  give 
Wallace's  name  the  go-by.  Wallace  of  course  does  not  need  the 
judgsblp  for  the  mere  $4000  a  year  salary  ;  that  is  only  an  idle 
pretense. 

The  existing  circumstances  surrounding  Wallace  demonstrate 
this  fact.  He  has  been  on  the  Bench  nearly  all  bis  lifetime,  draw- 
ing a  small  salary,  yet  we  find  him  a  man  worth  about  a  million. 
He  has  raised  a  large  family  luxuriantly.  He  maintains  one  of 
the  largest  households  in  the  city,  while  it  is  said  that  the  Judge 
in  his  own  immediate  personal  expenditures  ia  extremely  penuri- 
ous, and  especially  so  among  bis  own  personal  friends.  His  ex- 
penditure per  annum  for  the  last  twenty-five  years  must  have 
been  at  least  $20,000.  We  say  "at  least;"  how  much  more  he 
spent  we  do  not  know.  This  being  the  fact,  we  would  like  to 
become  acquainted  with  the  system  by  which  an  honest  man, 
working  all  his  lifetime  on  an  average  salary  of  between  $4,000 
and  $5,000,  and  spending  $20,000  and  more  per  annum,  can  still 
accumulate  a  million?  A  million  dollars  is  a  goodly  sum  for  any 
man  to  accumulate  in  a  lifetime  who  has  a  large  capital  to  invest 
in  his  business.  Of  course  lawyers  have  died  worth  over  a  mil- 
lion, but  they  were  men  whose  practices  were  notoriously  large. 
Take,  for  instance,  the  late  S.  M.  Wilson.  He  was  a  man  with  a 
very  large  practice,  and  one  that  had  many  opportunities  for 
speculating,  but  he  never  was  on  the  Bench.  On  the  other  hand, 
take  men  like  Sam  Brooks,  Hall  McAllister  and  Delos  Lake,  and 
any  number  of  the  most  brainy  men  who  practiced  at  this  Bar, 
yet  they  all  died  in  far  from  wealthy  circumstances,  and  still 
they  did  not  live  anything  like  Wallace.  Yet  Wallace,  who  prac- 
ticed but  a  very  short  time  at  the  Bar,  has  visible  to  the  naked 
eye  a  million  or  better.     We  would  like  to  know  how  he  made  it? 

His  connection  with  Buckley  is  of  interest  to  those  who  believe 
him  a  reformer.  He  wormed  into  Buckley's  graces  by  first  serving 
the  blind  boss  as  a  legislator,  and  he  did  that  to  Buckley's  com- 
plete satisfaction.  He  was  the  leader  for  Mr.  Buckley  in  the 
Legislature,  sometimes  for  pretence  being  against  the  boss,  but 
whenever  a  good  argument  was  produced  by  Buckley,  Wallace 
yielded.  Wallace  was  therefore  elected  to  the  Superior  bench, 
but  when  he  aspired  to  the  Supreme  bench,  the  strong 
men  of  his  party,  like  Russell  Wilson,  W.  W.  Foote 
and  others,  openly  denounced  him  at  the  San  Jose  Con- 
vention, and  Mr.  Buckley  had  to  choose  between  the  decent  and 
rabble  elements  of  the  Democratic  party.  The  result  was  that 
Wallace  went  overboard,  and  for  this,  Wallace  has  been  on  the 
warpath,  looking  for  the  scalps  of  Buckley  and  Buckley's  friends. 
It  is  singular  to  mingle  among  the  members  of  the  bar  to-day  and 
hear  with  what  unanimity  they  announce  they  are  going  to  vote 
against  Wallace.  It  is  doubtful  if  a  single  Judge  on  the  bench 
will  vote  for  him,  while  they  are  out  openly  working  like  beavers 
for  his  opponents.  A  great  many  people  are  under  the  impres- 
sion that  Wallace  has  a  chance  of  being  elected.  In  this  they  are 
mistaken.  Every  man  feels  kindly  to  the  under  dog,  but  every 
man  also  knows  that  whenever  Wallace  has  a  chance  to  grind 
the  under  dog,  the  poor  beast  never  even  gets  a  chance  to  whim- 
per. He  is  a  dangerous  man  on  the  bench,  and  no  well-thinking, 
honest  man  ought  to  permit  himself  to  even  for  a  moment  think 
of  voting  for  Wallace.  If  you  want  tyranny  to  stride  forth  in 
this  community,  just  elect  Wallace  for  six  years,  and  in  the  six 
years  you  will  be  able  to  assail  yourselves  over  and  over  again 
for  ever  casting  your  vote  for  him. 


FOR  CITY  AND  COUNTY  ATTORNEY. 


THE  officials  who  have  in  charge  the  allotment  of  lands  in  sev- 
eralty to  the  Yuma  Indians  have  run  against  a  snag.  It  ap- 
pears that  their  intentions  are  to  allow  a  certain  amount  of  land 
to  each  head  of  a  family.  But  many  of  the  Yumas  have  prac- 
ticed Mormonism  for  years,  and  as  a  result  have  several  sets  of 
families.  One  Indian  who  has  no  less  than  three  wives  and  as 
many  broods  of  offspring,  has  applied  for  three  allotments.  He 
contends  that  if  one  allotment  is  considered  adequate  only  for  the 
support  of  a  single  family,  he  is  justly  entitled  to  three  times  the 
space,  having  three  families.  The  authorities  at  Washington 
have  been  consulted  in  order  to  unravel  the  tangle. 


THE  City  and  County  Attorney  is  a  far  more  important  officer 
of  the  municipality  than  people  may  generally  suppose.  His 
name,  as  a  rule,  is  not  blazoned  in  the  public  prints,  nor  in  the 
administration  of  his  office  does  he  always  appear  prominently 
before  the  public.  Still  he  is  a  very  important  individual,  for 
upon  his  construction  of  the  laws  very  often  depend  the  action 
of  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  and  consequently  the  progress  of 
the  city  is  to  a  certain  extent  in  his  hands.  For  this  office,  then, 
it  is  apparent,  a  man  is  needed  who  io  not  only  an  able  lawyer, 
but  who  has  also  a  good  knowledge  of  municipal  affairs,  and  is 
possessed  of  a  will-power  that  cannot  be  overcome  by  any  in- 
terests which  may  endeavor  to  use  the  city  for  their  own  selfish 
ends.  The  office  is,  in  fact,  one  of  tbe  most  important  in  the  gift 
of  the  people,  and  it  is  the  duty  of  the  citizens  to  elect  to  it  a 
man  whose  ability  is  unquestioned,  and  who  possesses  the  confi- 
dence of  tbe  community.  Such  a  man  is  found  in  Harry  T. 
Creswell,  the  Democratic  nominee  for  the  place.  Mr.  Creswell 
has  a  record  of  which  any  man  might  well  be  proud.  In  former 
years  he  was  District  Attorney  of  Lander  and  of  Nye  counties,  in 
the  State  of  Nevada,  and  in  those  offices  he  displayed  qualities 
which  marked  him  as  a  man  of  great  firmness  of  character.  He 
did  so  much  in  the  interests  of  the  people  that  he  became  famous 
throughout  Nevada,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  his  term  of  office 
was  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  the  Silver  State.  He  also 
served  as  a  Senator  of  the  State  of  Nevada,  in  which  position  he 
gained  additional  commendation  from  his  thousands  of  well- 
wishers.  Since  becoming  a  citizen  of  this  State,  Mr.  Creswell  has 
gained  a  name  at  the  local  bar,  which  makes  him  known  as  one 
of  the  ablest  lawyers  in  the  county.  As  City  and  County  At- 
torney he  would  make  an  excellent  official,  and  one  of  whom  the 
electors  might  well  be  proud.  His  Republican  opponent,  Myer 
Jacobs,  owes  his  present  prominence  solely  to  the  fact  that  he 
has  been  for  years  past,  and  is  now,  a  friend  of  the  notorious 
Third  street  political  firm  of  Crimmins  and  Kelly.  He  is  a  creature 
of  the  bosses,  and  to  them,  and  to  them  alone,  he  owes  his  nom- 
ination. No  good  citizen  should  hesitate  for  a  moment  between 
the  two  men.  Mr.  Creswell  is  a  strong  and  able  man,  who  can- 
not we  swayed  by  any  set  of  bosses;  he  is  of  a  firm  and  inde- 
pendent nature,  and  knows  only  one  rule  of  action — to  do  right. 
Mr.  Jacobs  is  a  boss,  slate  candidate,  and  it  is  only  reasonable  to 
suppose  that  with  him  in  office,  the  office  of  City  and  County 
Attorney  would  be  merely  an  attachment  to  the  Third  street  gin 
mill.  Vote  for  Creswell,  and  make  no  mistake.  Find  his  name 
on  the  ballot,  and  stamp  a  deep,  red  cross  opposite  it.  We  need 
strong  and  true  men  in  office  in  this  county,  and  he  is  one  of 
them. 

FOR    DISTRICT    ATTORNEY. 


NOTWITHSTANDING  the  unusual  vigor  with  which  the 
municipal  campaign  has  been  conducted,  we  have  yet  to  hear 
of  a  single  charge  of  any  sort  that  has  been  brought  against  Will- 
iam S.  Barnes,  the  present  District  Attorney,  which  would  go  to 
show  in  any  manner  why  he  should  not  be  re-elected  to  the  office 
which  he  has  so  ably  filled  during  the  past  two  years.  It  will  be 
admitted  on  all  sides  that  Mr.  Barnes  has  been  one  of  tbe  best 
District  Attorneys  that  San  Francisco  has  ever  had.  He  has  done 
his  duty  faithfully  and  well.  A  hard  worker,  he  has  pushed  his 
cases  to  trial  as  rapidly  as  the  calendar  would  allow,  and  in  the 
interests  of  the  people  he  has  labored  night  and  day.  His  office 
has  an  excellent  record,  for  his  administration  has  been  an  ex- 
ceptionally good  one.  A  young  and  vigorous  man,  he  has  forced 
matters  to  an  issue,  which,  with  a  less  energetic  official,  would 
have  lingered  for  years  without  a  conclusion.  Learned  in 
the  law,  and  with  great  executive  capacity,  his  admirable 
management  of  matters  brought  before  him,  has  called  forth  the 
commendation  and  admiration  of  the  lawyers  at  the  bar,  without 
regard  to  political  creed.  Lawyers  do  not  estimate  a  man  by  his 
political  belief ;  they  ascertain  whether  he  is  a  good  lawyer,  an 
honest  man  and  a  courteous  gentlemen.  All  these  they  found  Mr. 
Barnes  to  be,  and  consequently  they  have  given  him  their  sup- 
port. He  has  the  confidence  of  the  entire  community,  as  well  as 
that  of  the  lawyers,  for  the  people  have  watched  his  career  with 
great  interest,  and  know  he  has  never  been  found  wanting.  In 
the  handling  of  the  illegal  registration  cases,  which  will  have  so 
important  a  bearing  upon  the  result  of  the  municipal  election,  he 
has  acted  entirely  without  prejudice  or  partisanship,  and  for  the 
best  interests  of  the  city. 


THE  candidature  of  James  M.  Seawell  for  the  Superior  Bench, 
has  received  the  hearty  Indorsement  of  the  leading  lawyers  of 
the  city.  He  has  practiced  at  the  local  bar  for  over  thirty  years, 
and  has  gained  the  entire  confidence  of  the  bench  and  bar  of  the 
State.  He  is  an  able  and  conservative  lawyer,  a  courteous  gen- 
tleman, and  a  man  of  the  highest  integrity.  He  has  the  judicial 
faculty  developed  to  tbe  highest  degree,  and  will  make  an  excel- 
lent Judge.  Such  men  as  Mr.  Seawell  are  those  whom  we  need 
upon  our  Superior  Bench.  He  possesses  every  qualification  for 
the  bench,  and  by  electing  him  the  citizens  will  be  doing  them- 
selves justice,  for  he  is  a  man  who  will  administer  the  law  in  the 
best  possible  manner. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


SOME     GOOD     CANDIDATES. 


ABOVE  all  things,  we  want  able  and  honest  Supervisors.  We 
need  men  in  those  offices  who  do  not  require  watching;  men 
whose  integrity  is  so  well  established  that  they  are  above  re- 
proach. The  successful  Supervisor  is  the  man  in  whom  the  com- 
munity has  faith.  We  require  as  Supervisors  good  citizens,  pos- 
sessed of  energy  and  ability,  and  who  will  push  the  city  forward 
with  that  animation  which  it  requires.  San  Francisco  has  had  a 
sorry  time  with  its  city  fathers,  and  the  people  have  an  oppor- 
tunity this  year  to  send  into  office  men  who  will  fulfill  every  re- 
quirement of  good  city  administrators.  In  the  First  Ward,  an 
excellent  nominee  is  Edward  Holland,  the  manager  of  the  Com- 
mercial Hotel,  who  was  selected  by  the  Republican  Convention 
as  the  leading  man  in  his  section  of  the  city.  He  is  well  known 
as  an  able  business  man  of  excellent  standing,  and  is  an  active 
and  progressive  citizen.  He  is  well  acquainted  with  the  condi- 
tion of  the  city,  and  would  make  a  good  officer. 

No  man  on  the  ticket  is  more  entitled  to  favorable  considera- 
tion Victor  D.  Duboce,  Republican  nominee  for  Supervisor  in 
the  Seventh  Ward.  During  his  active  business  career  in  this  city, 
he  has  shown  himself  a  man  of  such  executive  ability  that  his 
affairs  have  been  always  prosperous.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
was  connected  with  the  Postoffice,  and  as  Superintendent  of  the 
branch  at  the  ferries,  he  gave  great  satisfaction  to  the  many 
merchants  with  whom  he  came  constantly  in  contact.  After  be- 
ing connected  with  the  Wright,  Bowne  &  Co.,  he  organized  the 
Pacific  Equipment  Company,  of  which  he  is  now  manager.  Mr. 
Duboce  is  also  a  member  of  the  firm  of  F.  Pierson  &  Co.  He  is  a 
representative  of  the  enterprising  young  business  men  of  the  city, 
and  is  deserving  of  support  at  the  polls. 

In  the  Tenth  Ward,  Henry  P.  Sonntag  is  the  Republican  nom- 
inee. Mr.  Sonntag  is  a  member  of  the  well-known  real  estate 
firm  of  Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  which  is  known  as  one  of  the 
most  enterprising  firms  in  the  city.  Aa  a  representative  property- 
owner  and  business  man,  he  is  in  favor  of  improvements  and 
municipal  progression.  Mr.  Sonntag  is  one  of  the  strongest  men 
on  the  Republican  ticket.  He  is  very  popular  in  the  business 
community,  and  through  his  extensive  business  has  become  well 
and  favorably  acquainted  with  thousands  of  small  property- 
holders.     In  all  respects  he  is  a  good  candidate. 

Mr.  Bnrling's  excellent  record  in  the  present  Board  is  his  best 
pleader  to  the  people  in  favor  of  bis  re-election  on  Tuesday  next, 
as  Supervisor  of  the  Third  Ward.  Mr.  Burling  is  one  of  the  few 
independent  candidates  on  the  municipal  ticket.  His  name  was 
placed  upon  the  ticket  upon  the  petition  of  over  ten  thousand 
electors,  who  signed  the  roll  in  his  favor  Such  a  candidate  cer- 
tainly commends  himself  by  his  independent  actions  to  the  peo- 
ple. That  be  stands  favorably  before  the  community  will  doubt- 
less be  shown  on  Tuesday  next. 

In  the  Fifth  Ward,  George  McGillivray  appears  before  the 
electors  as  the  nominee  of  the  Democratic  Municipal  Convention. 
Mr.  McGillivray  is  a  Native  Son,  and  like  most  of  his  fellows,  is 
a  man  of  ideas  and  enterprise.  He  is  a  prominent  business  man, 
being  connected  with  the  Downie  B.  I.  P.  Company,  and  the 
Eucalyptus  Boiler  Fluid.  He  has  displayed  executive  qualities 
of  a  high  order  in  his  business,  and  all  the  record  is  in  his  favor 
to  show  that  he  would  make  a  good  city  father. 

One  of  the  most  popular  men  in  the  northern  portion  of  the 
city  is  J.  Browell,  the  Non-Partisan  candidate  for  Supervisor  of 
the  Second  Ward.  Mr.  Browell  is  a  pioneer  business  man,  who 
has  lived  in  bis  ward  formany  years,  and  is  intimately  acquainted 
with  all  its  people.  He  is  well  fitted  in*  every  way  for  the  duties 
of  the  office  to  which  he  aspires,  and  certainly  should  be  elected. 

The  Democrats  made  a  good  choice  when  they  nominated 
William  Montgomery  for  Supervisor  of  the  Third  Ward.  He  is 
the  well-known  proprietor  of  the  American  Exchange  Hotel,  and 
is  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  town.  Mr.  Montgomery  is  a 
gentleman  of  far  more  than  usual  ability,  and  would  be  an  excel- 
lent factor  in  the  Board. 


The  NoD-Partisans  have  a  strong  candidate  for  Supervisor  of 
the  Fifth  Ward  in  Sands  W.  Forman.  Mr.  Forman  has  lived  here 
for  years,  and  is  well  known  to  thousands  of  electors  as  a  pro- 
gressive citizen.  He  has  been  actively  engaged  for  a  long  time  In 
journalism,  and  is  a  very  popular  man. 


NEXT  to  the  Supervisors,  the  most  important  officers  of  the 
city  government  are  the  Superior  Judges.  While  the  Super- 
visors make  the  laws  which  govern  our  local  affairs,  and  deter- 
mine to  an  extent  what  is  best  for  the  people  under  certain  con- 
ditions, the  Judges  of  the  Superior  Courts  are  always  arbitors  of 
disputes  between  the  citizens,  whose  welfare  is  therefore  very 
often  determined  by  the  man  on  the  bench.  It  is  unnecessary  to 
reiterate  that  the  first  quality  for  a  judge  is  honesty,  for  an  ig- 
norant but  honest  judge  is  never  so  much  to  be  feared  as  a 
learned  but  corrupt  one.  We  have  had  representatives  of  the 
latter  class  upon  the  bench,  and  all  good  citizens  having  the  in- 
terest of  the  public  at  heart,  will  do  what  they  can  to  prevent 
the  return  of  such  men  to   such    all-important  positions.     Being 


honest,  learned  in  the  law  and  possessed  of  a  judicial  mind,  there 
is  no  good  reason  why  any  of  the  gentlemen  whoBe  names  we 
herewith  submit  should  not  be  elected  to  the  offices  to  which 
they  aspire.  Judge  Slack,  for  instance,  is  recognized  by  both 
bench  and  bar  as  one  of  the  ablest  men  on  the  bench  to-day. 
He  was  formerly  a  professor  in  the  Hastings  College  of  the  Law, 
and  was  appointed  to  his  present  position  to  fill  a  vacancy.  He 
is  now  a  nominee  for  election  to  the  same  position,  and  certainly, 
if  any  man  is  entitled  to  the  suffrages  of  his  fellow-citizens,  he  is. 
He  is  a  very  learned  man,  and  enjoys  an  excellent  reputation. 
His  integrity  is  unquestionable.  During  his  brief  experience 
upon  the  bench,  Judge  Slack  has  shown  himself  eminently  fitted 
for  a  judicial  position.  He  is  popular  with  the  entire  bar  of  the 
city,  which  is  unanimously  in  his  favor.  Judge  Slack  is  the 
nominee  of  the  Republican  Convention. 

Another  incumbent,  who  has  been  renominated,  is  Judge  Frank 
W.  Lawler,  who,  during  his  career  upon  the  bench  has  displayed 
judicial  abilities  sf  a  high  order.  So  favorably  was  be  consid- 
ered by  hiB  Democratic  brethren,  that  he  was  unanimously  nomi- 
nated by  the  Democratic  Convention.  A  mistake  is  never  made 
in  returning  to  office  a  man  who  has  shown  himself  worthy  of 
the  trust  of  the  people,  as  has  Judge  Lawler.  A  deeply-read 
man,  and  eminently  fitted  for  the  duties  of  his  office,  he  will, 
during  his  next  term,  enjoy  the  continued  good  will  of  the  peo- 
ple who  may  have  cases  in  his  court.  He  is  a  popular  man,  and 
as  he  has  hosts  of  friends  throughout  the  city,  it  hardly  needs  a 
political  prophet  to  foretell  his  Buccess  on  Tuesday  next. 

Another  Republican  nominee  who  has  shown  himself  the 
right  man  for  a  judicial  position  is  William  G.  Brittan,  at  present 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  who  has  been  named  for  Superior  Judge. 
In  nominating  Judge  Brittan  for  the  higher  office,  a  proper  ap- 
preciation was  shown  for  the  excellent  work  he  has  done  as  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace.  It  is  a  deserved  promotion.  Mr.  Brittain  is  a 
young  and  able  man  and  deserves  success.  He  is  the  son  of  the 
well-known  pioneer,  J.  W.  Brittan,  founder  of  the  firm  of  Hol- 
brook,  Merrill  &,  Stetson.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Hastings  College 
of  the  Law,  and  is  a  learned  and  able  jurist.  His  decisions  have 
commended  themselves  to  the  higher  courts,  a  fact  which  is  a  de- 
monstration of  ability  and  judicial  fitness.  In  nominating  Judge 
Brittan  for  the  Superior  bench  the  Republican  Convention 
was  fortunate  in  placing  one  of  the  strongest  men  of  their  party 
on  their  ticket. 

Duncan  Hayne  is  among  the  Democratic  nominees  for  the  Su- 
perior bench.  He  is  one  of  the  men  whom  we  need  as  judges, 
as  bis  ability  as  a  lawyer  and  honesty  as  a  man  are  beyond  ques- 
tion. Mr.  Hayne  should  be  elected,  if  for  no  other  reason  than 
that  he  is  a  clean  man,  and  would  make  such  a  judge  as  those  it 
is  Decessary  to  have  in  our  courts  before  the  people  will  consider 
the  halls  of  justice  as  free  from  contaminating  influences  as  they 
should  be.  Mr.  Hayne  is  an  able,  broad-minded  man,  who  is 
above  petty  political  intrigues,  and  is  beyond  the  power  of  a  pol- 
itical boss.  A  deep  student  and  a  hard  worker,  it  would  be  his 
pride  to  give  litigants  every  opportunity  to  bring  their  cases  to 
early  trial,  and  thus  reach  decisions  without  unnecessary  delay 
and  consequent  additional  cost.  Mr.  Hayne  is  in  every  way  well 
fitted  to  serve  on  the  Superior  bench. 

One  of  the  most  popular  men  named  for  Superior  Judge  is 
George  H.  Bahrs,  a  Republican  nominee.  Mr.  Bahrs  is  a  young 
lawyer,  who  has  given  repeated  evidences  of  his  ability.  Born 
and  raised  in  this  city,  he  has  thousands  of  friends,  all  of  whom 
place  their  faith  in  him.  He  has  always  been  a  man  of  study, 
and  he  is  to-d&y  one  of  the  best  read  men  at  the  bar.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  1885,  and  almost  immediately  took  promi- 
nent place,  by  his  able  handling  of  a  very  difficult  murder  trial. 
As  attorney  for  the  Trade  Protective  Association  he  has  been  of 
great  benefit  to  the  wine  industries  of  the  State.  Being  of  a  genial 
disposition  and  a  social  nature,  he  has  become  affiliated  with  a 
number  of  societies,  in  all  of  which  he  is  prominent.  Among 
them  are  the  Native  Sons,  Druids,  Workmen,  Improved  Red  Men, 
Verein  Eintracht,  Schuetzen  Verein,  Knights  and  Ladles  of 
Honor.  Mr.  Bahrs  is  a  man  of  the  day.  He  is  bound  to  make 
his  mark.  As  a  Superior  Judge  he  would  be  one  of  the  moat  sat- 
isfactory men  on  the  bench. 


THE  Republicans  have  renominated  Police  Judge  J oachimseu, 
who  is  therefore  a  candidate  for  re-election  to  the  position 
which  he  has  so  ably  filled  for  the  last  two  yeaia.  No  position  in 
the  city  has  more  hard  work  with  less  honor  attached  to  it  than 
the  Police  Bench.  If  ever  a  man  earned  his  salary,  a  Police  Judge 
of  this  county  does.  It  is  a  position  which  few  men  are  capable 
of  filling  well,  on  account  of  the  peculiar  nature  of  the  many  cases 
that  come  before  it.  When,  therefore,  a  man  is  found  like  Judge 
Joachimsen,  who  ably  fills  tbe  place,  it  is  a  wise  plan  for  the  citi- 
zens to  retain  him  by  re-electing  him. 

Judge  Charles  A.  Low  has  been  renominated  for  Police  Judge  by 
the  Non-Partisan  Convention.  Judge  Low  is  now  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  to  which  office  he  was  elected  two  years  ago,  and  the 
duties  of  which  he  has  since  very  ably  filled.  Judge  Low  is  one 
of  the  strong  men  of  the  Non-Partisan  ticket.  Having  lived  in 
this  city  for  many  years,  he  numbers  his  friends  by  the  scores. 
Being  a  man  who  is  beyond  the  neach  of  the  bosses  and  their  net- 


Nov.  5,  1892 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


work  of  frauds,  be  is  eminently  fitted  for  a  position  on  the  Police 
bench.  The  Police  Courts  have  for  years  been  run  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  bosses.  Here  is  a  man  who  would  inaugurate  a  new 
and  clean  regime,  one  of  the  principal  features  of  which  would  be 
the  punishment  of  criminals.  For  this  reason  Judge  Low  should 
be  supported  at  the  polls  by  all  good  citizens. 


In  naming  Win.  W.  Ackerson  for  street  superintendent,  the  Dem- 
ocratic convention  presented  to  the  electors  a  gentleman  whose 
business  experience  and  well-known  executive  ability  well  fits  him 
the  onerous  duties  of  that  position.  Mr.  Ackerson  is  a  native  of 
the  state,  he  has  grown  with  its  growth,  and  is  one  of  that  class 
of  young  and  progressive  citizens  who  are  determined  to  make 
California  in  all  respects  one  of  the  greatest  of  the  states  in  the 
union.  He  is  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  would  personally 
direct  the  work  to  be  done  upon  the  streets  and  sewers  of  the 
city.  He  knows  just  what  improvements  are  meeded,  and  he  is 
the  man  to  make  them.  Mr.  Ackerson  will  receive  at  the  polls 
on  Tuesday,  the  support  of  thousands  of  the  city's  taxpayers 
who  have  faith  in  his  intentions,  to  manage  the  street  department 
for  the  best  interests  of  the  city. 

THE  best  nominee  for  the  office  of  Public  Administrator  is 
Walter  B.  Blair,  who  has  been  chosen  by  the  Republican  party 
for  that  office.  Mr.  Blair  is  a  gentleman  of  ability,  and  of  such 
experience  as  well  fits  him  to  fill  the  duties  of  the  office  of  Public 
Administrator.  By  profession  he  is  a  lawyer,  and  as  Chief  Clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  District  Attorney  during  the  two  last  adminis- 
trations, he  has  shown  himself  a  very  capable  man.  Mr.  Blair  is 
a  good  man  for  the  office  for  which  he  is  nominated. 


THE  Republican  Convention  selected  an  excellent  man  for  City 
and  County  Surveyor  in  naming  Charles  S.  Tilton,  the  incum- 
bent. Mr.  Tilton  has  been  connected  with  the  office  in  this  city 
for  the  past  twenty  years,  and  he  is  intimately  acquainted  with 
all  its  requirements.  In  re-nominating  him  the  Republicans 
named  one  of  the  strongest  men  on  their  ticket,  for  Mr.  Tilton 
numbers  his  friends  by  the  thousands  throughout  the  city,  and 
will  have  strong  support  at  the  polls. 


MR.  E.  B.  READ,  the  Recorder,  was  re-nominated  for  that  of- 
fice by  the  Republican  Convention,  and  will  probably  be 
elected.  His  administration  has  been  a  good  one;  he  has  shown 
himself  able  and  honest,  and  has  been  one  of  the  city's  best  offi- 
cials. Mr.  Read  iB  one  of  the  good  men  whom  the  citizens  elected 
last  year,  and  they  should  indorse  their  excellent  choice  at  the 
polls  next  Tuesday. 


IN  William  Broderlck,  their  nominee  for  Auditor,  the  Democrats 
have  a  very  strong  man.  Mr.  Broderick  is  an  old  and  honored 
resident  of  San  Francisco.  He  has  held  public  office  before,  and 
always  to  the  satisfaction  and  benefit  of  the  people.  He  is  known 
and  trusted  by  the  community,  and  is  the  very  man  to  act  as  the 
watehdog  of  the  county  treasury,  Mr.  Broderick  should  be 
elected. 

ALL  the  conventions  put  up  some  good 
men  for  School  Directors,  and  from  the 
complete  list  we  have  selected  twelve  who 
we  think  would  make  the  best  Board.  All 
citizens  appreciate  the  importance  of  having 
honest  and  able  men  in  the  School  Depart- 
ment, for  it  is  to  the  schools  that  we  look 
for  the  education  of  the  youth  who  are  to 
make  the  citizens  of  the  future.  For  their 
management  the  schools  need  men  who 
not  only  appreciate  what  is  needed  to  make 
the  different  establishments  actual  seats  of 
learning,  but  directors  of  executive  ability, 
who  can  manage  affairs  upon  the  appropria- 
tion without  reducing  the  teachers'  salaries. 
It  is  in  no  sense  a  partisan  office,  and  should 
not  be  so  considered.  We  recommend  for 
School  Directors:  Pelham  W.  Ames,  D. ;  A. 
F.  Carmody,  D.;  Dr.  Charles  A.  Clinton,  N. 
P.  and  D.;  E.  P.  Cole,  N.  P.;  James  H.  Cul- 
ver, R.;  Charles  W.  Decker,  R. ;  S.  E.  Dut- 
ton,  N.  P.;  William  H.  Eastland,  R.;  E.  A. 
Merrill,  N.  P. ;  George  W.  Pennington,  R. ; 
Edward  Pollitz,  N.  P.;  J.  H.  Rosewald,  D. 


JH.  WIDBER,  the  Republican  nominee  for  Treasurer,  is  one  of 
,  the  best-known  and  most  popular  men  named  for  office  this 
year.  He  is  the  present  Treasurer,  having  been  elected  by  the 
Republicans  two  years  ago.  His  management  of  the  office  has 
been  very  satisfactory  to  the  people,  who  would  doubtless  return 
him  to  bis  chair  on  Tuesday  next.  Mr,  Widberhas  the  confidence 
of  the  entire  community,  being  well  known  aa  an  honest  and  re- 
liable man.  His  first  public  office  was  School  Director,  to  which 
he  was  elected  in  1859  by  a  large  majority.  In  1861,  and  again  in 
1863,  he  was  re-elected,  and  was  subsequently  elected  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools.  He  was  first  elected  Treasurer  in  1881.  He 
is  the  best  man  named  for  the  place,  and  should  be  chosen. 


LATIN    VERSE. 


LATIN  verse  composition  has  been  often  assailed  by  the  advo- 
cates of  scientific  education;  but  not,  to  our  knowledge,  have 
its  admirers  and  champions  ever  attempted  to  defend  it  on  the 
excellent  ground  that  if  it  were  discarded  one  of  the  most  fruitt 
ful  sources  of  amusement  to  the  jaded  schoolmaster  would  be 
dried  up.  Of  all  the  stories  connected  with  verse-making,  per- 
haps the  most  enjoyable  is  that  of  the  Eton  boy,  who  had  to  ren- 
der the  words,  "A  man  struck  him  with  a  big  stick,"  into  a  hexa- 
meter line.  Turning  up  the  word  homo  in  his  Gradus  the  boy  was 
so  impressed  with  the  tag  Pulvia  et  umbra  sumus — which  he  re- 
garded as  a  synonym — that  he  put  it  down  at  once.  Obliged  to 
be  more  economical  after  this  lavish  start,  he  continued  thus: 
Magno  percussit  turn.  Only  one  syllable  remained,  but  no  mono- 
syllabic word  for  "stick"  was  to  be  found.  At  last  a  truly  bril- 
liant thought  struck  him.  If  ccmdela&rum— candlestick,  brum 
must  —  stick.  So  the  line  was  completed — Pulvis  et  umbra  sumus 
magno  percussit  cum  bro.  Charming  again  is  the  story  of  the  boy 
who,  having  to  render  Hood's  touching  lines,  "  We  watched  her 
breathing  through  the  night,"  into  Sapphics,  turned  the  couplet, 
"We  thought  her  dying  when  she  slept,  and  sleeping  when  she 
died,  as  follows: 

Dormiens  vlrgo  moriens  videtur 
Et  vice  versa. 
It  would  really  be  a  calamity  if  by  the  abandonment  of  Latin 
verse  composition  the  ingenuous  English-speaking  youth  were  to 
be  deprived  of  the  opportunity  of  contributing  to  the  gaiety 
of  those  who  understand  the  Latin  language  by  such  efforts  as 
these. 


THE  Sanitary  Congress  lately  held  in  London  has  inflicted  a 
new  horror  upon  mankind.  One  of  the  doctors  at  the  meet 
ing  suggested  that  consumption  arises  from  the  eating  of  too 
much  flesh,  which  is  a  terrible  conclusion  to  come  to  indeed.  It 
is  not  so  very  long  since  the  doctors,  or  some  of  them,  were  mak- 
ing it  out  that  our  only  safety  lay  in  a  generous  diet  of  steaks 
and  hot  water,  both  entirely  unadulterated.  Now  it  would  ap- 
pear that  even  the  beefsteak  must  go,  and  the  really  careful  per- 
son will  have  to  support  life  entirely  upon  plentiful  supplies  of 
hot  water.  What  a  lot  of  nonsense  is  foisted  on  the  public  in 
the  shape  of  science. 


DR.  WILLIAM  T.  GARWOOD  is  cer- 
tainly an  excellent  choice  for  Coroner. 
He  is  the  incumbent,  and  was  renominated 
by  the  Republican  Convention.  During  his 
term  he  has  given  great  satisfaction,  and 
has  shown  himseif  an  able  officer.  There 
is,  therefore,  every  reason  for  his  re-election . 
The  Coroner  has  many  important  duties  to 
perform,  and  it  is  wise  to  re-elect  to  the  po- 
sition one  who  has  ably  filled  it. 


Absolutely 

Pure 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892 


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"We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 

MR.  SALVINI  and  hia  manager,  Mr.  Wilkison,  evidently  be- 
lieve in  the  efficacy  of  a  climax,  as  they  have,  like  the  man 
in  gospel  story,  "kept  the  best  wine  till  now'' — the  best  plays  for 
the  last  week.  In  truth,  after  their  last  delightful  production 
at  the  California  any  other  would  seem  an  anti-climax.  The  two 
plays,  Cavalleria  Rusticana  and  L'ami  Fritz,  seem  natural  com- 
panion pictures,  as  the  sources  of  Mascagni's  operas  whose  subtle 
harmonies  ripple  around  and  How  through  tbe  acts  of  the  drama, 
stimulating  tbe  imagination  of  tbe  auditor  and  lulling  the  critical 
sense  lo  slumber.  The  Cavalleria  may  have  been  better  played, 
but  the  man  who  could  remember  that  fact  with  Mascagni's 
grand  prelude  and  intermezzo  in  his  ears,  and  Judith  Berolde's 
somber,  beautiful,  and  strangely  magnetic  face  before  bis  eyes,  is 
not  to  be  envied.  The  inspiration  of  poetic  fancy  will  never 
warp  his  stolid  judgment. 

#  •  » 

Of  the  two  plays,  that  of  Erckmann-Chatrian  probably  gives 
more  pleasure,  while  Cavalleria  Rusticana  makes  the  stronger  im- 
pression. Mr.  Salvini  looks  the  Turridu  of  Mascagni,  but  the 
common  type  of  the  character  itself — hot  in  pursuit  and  cold  in 
possession,  a  slave  when  he  sues,  and  a  brutal  master  when  he 
has  the  upper  hand — does  not  appeal  to  our  sympathy  until  the 
gloomy  march  of  events  brings  on  the  tragedy.  The  parting  with 
his  mother,  and  the  entire  scene  before  the  duel,  are  powerfully 
dramatic.  If  Turridu  is  overshadowed  by  Santuzza,  it  is  due  to 
no  lack  in  tbe  actor;  but  partly  to  the  author,  and  still  more  to 
the  spell  of  Miss  Berolde's  personality  and  her  dramatic  and  al- 
most tragic  intensity  of  speech  and  action,  which  make  her  the 
ideal  Santuzza.  Mr.  Redmond  is  an  admirable  Alfio,  and  in  the 
quarrel  scene  is  in  no  way  second  to  tbe  star. 

#  *  * 

But  it  is  as  Friend  Fritz  that  Mr.  Salvini  is  in  his  element. 
His  finished  portrayal  of  tbe  complex  character — lightbearted  and 
careless,  not  because  superficial,  but  through  unconsciousness  of 
bis  own  depths  of  passion  and  sentiment — is  at  once  so  artistic 
and  so  spontaneous  as  almost  to  suggest  inspiration  rather  than 
study  as  its  source.  Those  who  have  seen  Got  and  Mile.  Reich- 
enberg  in  tbe  famous  scene,  may  miss  something  from  the  inter- 
view at  the  well;  for  Suzel  is  undoubtedly  the  one  partial  excep- 
tion to  tbe  general  excellence  of  tbe  support.  It  is  not  easy  to 
specify  what  is  amiss  in  Miss  Dixon's  acting,  but  an  unfortunate 
hard  and  unsympathetic  voice  and  personality  mar  the  effect  of 
her  best  effort.  Wm.  Redmond  takes  the  part  of  the  rabbi, 
David,  well,  and  the  two  friends  are  easy  and  natural,  Mr.  Burke's 
Frederic,  in  particular,  being  remarkably  true  to  life.  Tbe  break- 
fast at  Fritz's  bouse  is  about  the  most  natural  and  unconventional 
scene  of  the  kind  ever  put  upon  the  stage.  This  peculiar  and 
pervading  ease  and  naturalness  is,  perhaps,  the  crowning  charm  of 
the  production. 

The  Salvini  engagement  has  been  one  of  the  most  success- 
ful, financially,  since  tbe  opening  of  the  California,  and  also, 
despitesome  disappointing  shortcomings  and  unevenness,  one  of 
the  best  from  an  artistic  standpoint.  Mr.  Salvini  will  leave 
us  with  the  assurance  that  whenever  he  shall  again  turn  his  steps 
Californiaward  it  will  be  with  the  certainty  of  a  hearty  welcome 
among  us. 

The  attraction  to  follow  the  Duff  Opera  Company,  next  Mon- 
day night  at  the  Baldwin  is  one  of  universal  interest.  In  these 
days  of  dramatic  trash  and  sensation,  tbe  actor  or  actress  who 
clings  bravely  to  the  "  good  old  paths"  of  the  legitimate,  "  to 
walk  therein,"  commands  a  respectful  hearing.  When  the  actress 
is  young  and  attractive,  the  interest  naturally  deepens.  This 
Miss  Julia  Marlowe  is  said  to  be,  and  more.  She  has  an  estab- 
lished reputation  in  the  East,  and  her  first  appearance  here  has 
been  awaited  with  much  eagerness.  She  will  open  with  Ingomar. 
her  repertory  including,  beside  Shakespearean  roles,  The  Hunch- 
back and  other  standard  dramas.  We  cannot  have  too  much  of 
this  class  of  play  and  players,  nor  give  them  too  much  encourage- 
ment when  they  come. 

*  *  * 

Following  Miss  Mather  at  the  Bush  comes  Milton  Nobles  with 
his  latest  play  For  Revenue  Only,  apolitical  satire,  showing  among 
other  things,  the  inward  working  of  a  country  newspaper  office 
during  a  campaign.  Mr.  Nobles,  as  the  editor,  reporter,  and  gener- 
al utility  man  of  the  paper,  has  given  himself  a  part  in  which  he 
ought  to  be  at  home.  The  play  will  be  timely  in  these  ante- 
election  days  and  will  no  doubt  catch  tbe  popular  fancy. 

#  »  * 

The  Favorite  has  done  an  excellent  second  week's  business  at 
Stockwell's  Theatre.  A  benefit  to  tbe  Bear  Club  Wednesday 
night  packed  the  house.  Next  week  Fink  Dominoes  will  be  given 
with  E.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boucicault,  and  Stockwell's  new  com- 
pany in  the  cast.     There  is  material  for  an  excellent  production. 


The  Still  Alarm  will  begin  a  two  weeks'  engagement  at  the  Cali- 
rnia  next  Monday  night.  Will  S.  Harkins.  Miss  Crossman,  E. 
L.  Snader,  Hugh  J.  Ward,  Miss  Edith  Pollock,  and  others  are  in 
the  cast,  not  forgetting  "  Little  Tuesday."  Tuesday  is  a  niece  of 
the  author,  Joseph  Arthur,  who  wrote  in  a  little  part  specially  for 
her.  8he  is  not  yet  six  years  old,  and,  tbe  entire  eastern  press 
seems  to  agree,  "  the  most  charming  child  on  the  stage."  Little 
Tuesday  and  the  beautiful  white  engine  horses  will  not  be  the 
least  attractions  in  The  Still  Alarm. 

*  *  » 

Bucalossi's  opera,  Three  Black  Cloaks,  has  occupied  the  Tivoli 
stage  this  week.  Gracie  Plaisted  has  shown  herself  once  more 
one  of  the  brightest  little  actresses  in  opera,  and,  notwithstanding 
a  severe  cold,  she  sang  well,  if  not  quite  so  well  as  once.  Ferris 
Hartmann  is  extremely  funny  without  overdoing  it,  and  George 
Olmi,  Phil  Branson,  and  others  are  good.  M.  Cornell  is  especial- 
ly happy  as  Don  Jose.  Next  week  Martha  will  introduce  to  the 
Tivoli  patrons  a  new  tenor,  Ferdinand  Schutze. 

The  second  concert  of  the  Young  Ladies  Saturday  Morning 
Orchestra  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  was  an  ovation  to  the 
talented  and  ambitious  young  players.  The  vast  house  was  filled, 
and  when  the  curtain  rolled  up  on  the  flower-decked  and  elabo- 
rately decorated  stage,  the  entire  house  presented  a  scene  of  bril- 
liancy seldom  equaled  in  San  Francisco.  The  vocal  soloists  were 
Mrs.  Edward  Everett  Wise  and  Miss  Julia  Newman.  Mrs.  Wise, 
who  has  a  brilliant  voice,  sang  an  aria  by  Saint-Saens.  Miss 
Julia  Newman  has  a  clear,  beautiful  voice,  admirably  trained,  and 
of  remarkable  smoothness.  Miss  Alice  Ames,  first  violinist, 
played  a  violin  solo  in  excellent  style.  The  instrumental  ensem- 
ble was  most  praiseworthy  throughout  and  excited  about  equal 
admiration  for  the  skill  and  patience  of  J.  H.  Rosewald,  director 
of  the  orchestra,  and  the  ambition  and  perseverance  of  the  fair 
performers.  It  must  be  remembered  that  these  young  ladies  do 
not  have  the  advantage  of  similar  masculine  organizations  which 
can  call  in  a  professional  or  so  to  carry  any  specially  troublesome 
passages.  The  young  ladies  have  no  such  assistance.  They 
must  attack  and  conquer  all  difficulties  by  themselves.  It  is 
hoped  that  the  Orchestra  will  give  another  concert  before  the 
year  passes. 

»  *  * 

The  Hermann  Brandt  Quartette  gave  a  most  enjoyable  con- 
cert  at  Irving  Hall  Thursday  evening  of  last  week.  The  music 
was  strictly  high-class  and  rendered  with  true  artistic  feeling  as 
well  as  with  the  precision  and  thoroughness  that  distinguish  the 
ensemble  work  of  this  quartette.  The  next  concert  will  take 
place  November  24th. 

*  *  * 

The  first  production  of  J.  H.  Rosewald's  new  opera.  Baroness 
Meta,  is  set  for  November  19th.  Rehearsals  are  going  forward 
and  everything  promises  a  splendid  production  of  an  opera  whose 
merits,  both  of  music  and  libretto  promise  it  a  permanent  place 
among  comedy  operas.  Mr.  Valentine  Gedesden's  name  has  been 
put  in  tbe  cast  in  place  of  that  of  Mr.  Hellman  whose  throat  is 
affected  by  a  bad  cold. 

Manager  Meyer  of  thr  Wigwam  Theatre  appears  imbued  with 
the  spirit  of  politics  which  hangs  around  the  historic  building 
as  well  as  with  the  desire  to  oblige  his  patrons.  He  has  made 
telegraphic  arrangements  to  have  a  wire  run  direct  to  the  stage 
bringing  latest  returns,  on  the  evenings  of  the  8th,  9th  and  10th. 
The  patrons  will  doubtless  appreciate  Mr.  Meyer's  enterprise,  as 
well  as  enjoying  The  Pirates  of  Penzance  by  the  Burton-Stanley 
opera  company. 

*  *  # 

H.  J.  Stewart  is  already  known  locally  as  a  composer  of  un- 
usual gifts,  including  originality.  He  has  now  about  completed 
the  score  of  a  new  opera,  jffis  Majesty,  the  music  of  which  is  very 
highly  praised  by  those  who  have  beard  it.  The  libretto  is  by 
Peter  Robertson,  and,  judging  by  a  few  samples,  must  be  very 
funny.  The  eyes  of  San  Francisco,  if  not  of  the  world,  (perhaps 
I  should  say  its  ears)  are  open  for  the  new  opera. 

*  *  « 

The  production  of  Wm.  A.  Brady's  After  Dark,  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  Saturday  night,  will  be  enlivened  with  Ta-ra-ra- 
boom-de-ay  sung  and  danced  by  Miss  Scanti  de  Vere.  Her  singu- 
lar front  name  might  suggest  that  it  refers  to  her  draperies,  but 
these  are  voluminous  and  long.  There  will  be  a  London  concert 
hall  scene,  bringing  in  a  host  of  specialties. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Magda  Bugge  gives  the  second  concert  of  three,  at  Kohler  & 
Chase's  Hall  to-night.     The  programme  is  an  attractive  one. 

Nary  Fairy  Lillian. — Lillian  Russell's  charge  that  San  Fran- 
cisco has  no  culture  because  it  did  not  go  wild  over  herself,  is  as 
amusing  as  the  unconscious  presumption  of  a  child.  Lillian  had 
never  any  claim  to  notice  but  her  shape,  and  now  that  is  going 
(or  rather  coming,  too  fast),  she  shouldn't  get  waspish.  The  fair 
star  of  the  music  hall  says  there's  no  culture  west  of  Chicago. 
Well,  Lillian,  it  is  only  natural  that  a  packing  center  like  Chicago, 
largely  interested  in  beef,  should  think  more  of  you  than  we 
do. 


October  29,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Pollie  Nobles  is  a  sweet  singer,  and  will  have  several  new  songs 
In  For  Revenue  Only,  to  be  bronght  out  at  the  Bush  Monday  night. 
Miss  Crossman  of  the  Stilt  Alarm  company,  which  opens  Mon- 
day night  at  the  California,  is  a  beauty.——  Settled  out  of  Court  is  a 
new  comedy  by  Bfsaon    and    Gillette   which    will    be   seen   at  the 

Baldwin  in   December. It   is   declared    that   the  Tivoli's  new 

tenor  will  make  a  sensation David  Henderson's  latest  specta- 
cle, Ali  Baba.  will  soon  end  its  remarkable  run  in  Chicago,  and 
start  westward,  playing  here  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  under  Al. 
Hay  roan's  direction. While  Ali  Baba  is  at  the  Grand  the  Bald- 
win will  take  its  annual  closnre  for  house  cleaning  and  improve- 
ments.  The  ■•  cave  of  coins  "    in    Ali  Baba  will  have  a  pathetic 

interest  for  Montgomery  street  brokers;  there  has  been  so  much 

of  that  kind  of  caving,  they  know  what  it  is Miss  Marlowe  is 

said  to  be  an   ideal    Partbenia. Milton    Nobles   wrote    his    first 

play.  The  Phocuir,  in  1875. Mr.  Robert  Taber  is  Julia  Mar- 
lowe's leading  man. Mrs.  Kingdom    mother  of  Edith  Kingdon, 

once    the    favorite    of    the    Daly   company  and  now  Mrs.  George 

Gould,  is  at    the  Palace    Hotel. My  Official  Wife,  A.  C.  Gunter's 

dramatization  of  his  own  novel,  will  soon  be  seen  at  the  California 

under  Frank  W.  Sanger's  management. Mrs.  Langtry  will  play 

"  a  new  type  of  heroine,"  an  intellectual  woman.  New,  indeed. 
Stockwell's  is  the  most  brilliantly  lighted  theatre  in  town  be- 
tween acts.  Good  for  those  who  want  to  read  the  programme, 
but  bad  for  those  who  don't  wish  light  thrown  on  their  going  out 

to  see  a  man. A  new  composition    for  piano,  Au  Priiitemps,  by 

R.  Luccbesi  of  this  city,  will  soon  be  published  by  Oliver  Ditson 
&  Co.  The  two  supplementary  "  Pops  "  will  be  given  before 
the  opening  of  the  Paderewski  season.  — The  music  of  one  of 
the  songs  to  be  sung  by  Mrs.  Brechemin  at  to-day's  "  Pop  "  was 
composed  by  Miss  Mary  Carroichael,    a  well-known  London  song 

composer,  and  a  sister  of  Mra.  Carr. Paderewski's  illness  and 

the  cancellation  of  some  of  his  dates  have  whetted  the  public 
craving  to  hear  him. —  -The  only  four  Paderewski  concerts  on 
the  Coast  will  be  in  this  ciiy,  and  arrangements  will  be  made  by 
the  railroad  companies  to  sell  excursion  tickets  from  all  points 
within   a    radius    of    100     miles. 


GEORGE    W.    LEE. 


whom  the  city  can  put  its  trust. 


NO  stronger  man  was  named  by  anyof  the  municipal  conven- 
tions this  year  than  George  W.  Lee,  the  Republican  nominee 
for  County  Clerk.  Mr.  Lee  is  a  man  of  the  people,  who,  during 
his  administration  of  the  local  office  with  wbicb  he  is  now  en- 
trusted, has  displayed  such 
signal  ability  that  his  nomina- 
tion for  the  more  important 
office  of  County  Clerk  may  be 
considered  in  the  light  of  a  de- 
served promotion  for  excellent 
services  rendered  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  municipality.  He 
is  one  of  the  young  and  able 
men  to  whom  wise  citizens 
prefer  to  trust  their  affairs 
rather  than  to  those  whose 
usefulness  long  since  depart- 
ed. San  Francisco  needs  new 
and  vigorous  blood  in  all  its 
branches;  we  look  to  our 
young  men  to  lift  us  out  of 
the  depths  of  silurianism  into 
which  the  city  has  fallen. 
Mr.  Lee  is  one  of  those  in 
His  record  shows  him  to  be  a 
clean  and  able  man.  Thought  not  by  birth  a  Califomian  his  in- 
terests have  been  identified  with  those  of  this  State  ever  since 
his  childhood,  he  having  removed  with  his  parents  from  his  na- 
tive place  in  Pennsylvania  to  this  State  in  1862,  when  he  was 
four  years  old.  He  was  educated  in  this  city,  and  has  always 
lived  here.  In  bis  business  career  he  displayed  that  ability  which 
afterwards  marked  him  in  political  office,  and  he  held  many 
important  positions.  For  some  time  he  was  identified  with  the 
well-known  drug  house  of  Mack  &  Co.,  of  Front  street,  and  sub- 
sequently became  connected  with  Max  Wolfen  &  Co.,  the  Davis 
street  commission  merchants.  He  also  held  an  important  posi- 
tion with  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Works;  under  the  adminis- 
tration of  Charles  Ruggles  he  was  head  bookkeeper  in  the  office 
of  the  Superintendent  of  Streets,  a  position  in  which  he  again 
gave  evidences  of  his  ability. 

It  has  been  as  Collector  of  Licenses,  his  present  office,  that  Mr. 
Lee  has  given  the  greatest  evidences  of  the  fact  that  he  is  a  good 
municipal  officer.  He  was  appointed  to  the  office  to  fill  an  un- 
expired term,  and  has  proved  one  of  the  best  men  that  have  ever 
filled  the  place.  During  his  term  the  revenues  of  the  office  have 
increased  over  $34,000,  a  remarkable  showing,  that  has  never 
been  equalled.  The  office  is  a  far  more  important  one  than  peo- 
ple generally  believe.  The  License  Collector  gathers  in  from  the 
city  and  county  more  than  half  a  million  dollars  paid  in  from 
twenty  thousand  accounts  every  year.  The  excellence  of  Mr. 
Lee's   work   has   been  very  favorably  commented  upon  by  both 


the  Auditor  and  Treasurer,  who  are  the  higher  officials  that  come 
directly  into  contact  with  his  office.  With  such  a  good  record  it 
is  apparent,  without  argument  of  any  sort,  that  Mr.  Lee  would 
make  an  excellent  County  Clerk.  This  office  is  one  in  which 
executive  capacity  and  a  knowledge  of  accounts  are  the  chief 
requisites.  That  he  possesses  both  has  been  shown  beyond  the 
question  of  a  doubt.  Mr.  Lee  has  demonstrated  that  he  is  the 
right  man  for  public  office.  By  his  election  a  citizen  will  be  se- 
lected who,  on  account  of  his  acquaintance  with  municipal  af- 
fairs gained  from  experience,  and  his  general  ability  and  relia- 
bility, will  make  one  of  the  best  County  Clerks  San  Francisco  has 
ever  had. 

BALDWIN  THEATRE^ 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  I  Alfred  Bouvier Manager. 

Last  week!  Last  nights!  Last  matinee  Saturday.  J.  C.  DUFF  OPERA 
COMPAN1,  presenting  every  evening  the  great  comic  musical  novelty, 

MISS     HELYETT. 
Bright.  Brilliant  and  Breezy. 

SPECIAL  AMNHnvi'EJIENT,   Nov.  7.-Seats  for   JULIA  MARLOWE 
now  on  tale. 
Repertory  First  Week.— Monday,  Tuesday,  Saturday  Matinee :  "Ingomar." 
Wednesday  and  Saturday  Evenings:  "As  You  Like  It." 
Thursday  Evening:  "The  Hunchback." 
Friday  Evening:  "  Twelfth  Night." 

"  NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  November  Tth,  Matinee  Saturday,  Joseph  Arthur's 
Comedy  Drama, 

THE     STILL     ALARM, 
UP  TO  DATE, 

AND 

LITTLE     TUESDAY. 
Next  Attraction— Minnie  Seligman  in  MY  OFFICIAL  WIFE. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwbll    Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse Business  Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  November  Tth.  Every  evening,  Matinee  Saturday. 

E.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boucicault  and  Stockwell's  Company  of  Comedians 
in  a  magnificent  production  of 

PINK     DOMINOES. 

Next— THE  SHATJGHRATJN. 

THE  ROSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Geoegb  H.  BROAnHUBST ...  Resident  Manager. 

One  week  only.  Commencing  Sunday  night,  November  6th.  Engage- 
ment of  the  dutinguished  players  and  great  popular  favorites,  MILTON  and 
DOLLIE  NOBLES,  and  powerful  supporting  company  in  a  new  play, 

FOR     REVENUE     ONLY, 
Or,  "A  Third  Party  Movement." 
A  political  and  satirical  comedy  in  four  acts  by  Milton  Nobles. 
Next  Attraction—"  Skipped  by  the  Light  of  the  Moon." 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kreltnq  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

_  To-night!    One  week  only!    Bucalossi's  romantic  opera, 

8fe  THREE     BLACK     CLOAKS. 

Monday,  November  7tb,  MARTHA.  First  appearance  of  Ferdinand 
Scbutze,  Tenor. 


Popular  Prices 


.25c  and   50c 


WIGWAM  THEATRE. 

(Corner  Stockton  and  G  eary  Streets). 

Chas.  Meyer  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

San  Francisco's  Recognized  Vaudeville  Resort. 

"Week  commencing  Monday  evening,  October  31,  1892. 

SPECIAL.—  Manager  Meyer  has  contracted  with  the  "Western 
Union  Telegrapb  Company  to  furnisb  a  reliable  operator  and  run  a 
special  wire  direct  to  his  Wigwam  Theatre  stage,  and  by  so  doing  he 
will  be  able  to  receive  and  announce  the  full  election  returns  from 
all  parts  of  the  country  on  November  8th,  9th  and  10th. 

Fourth  week,  THE   BURTON    STANLEY   OPERA  COMIQUE 
COMPANY  in  Gilbert  and  Sullivan's  Successful  Comic;  Opera, 
PIRATES     OF     PENZANCE, 

Every  evening  at  8.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2. 

Admission  10c.  Reserved  seats  25c.  Box-office  open  from  10  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m. 
and  from  3  to  6  p.  m. 


IRVING  HALL. 


This  Saturday  afternoon  at  3  o'clock, 
TWENTY-  FOURTH      CARR-BEEL      CONCERT. 

Mr.  Bernat  Jaulus,  Soloist.    Mrs.  L.  Brechemin,  Vocalist. 
Serenade  for  Flute,  Violin   and  Violo— Messrs.  Newbauer,  Beel  and 
Jaulus. 
Trio  for  Piano,  Violin  and  'Cello— Mrs.  Carr,  Messrs.  Beele  and  Hein. 
Reserved  Seats— $1.     General  Admission— 5U  cents. 
Seats  on  sale  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s. 

KusJl  ^  Gerts  Pianos 
IV  f\  B>  E.  Parlor  Organs 

HAINES  Installments         Rentals 


A.  L.  Bancrofts  Co, 

303SutterSt.,S.F. 


PIANOS 


SA1ST  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892 


WHAT    BECOMES    OF    OLD    CLOTHES? 

[By    Di    V  ebb  on.] 

"TITHATdo  you  do  with  your  old  clothes?"  is  a  question  that 

W    will  bring  a  variety  of  answers. 

«<  I  always  buy  the  best  material,  and  of  some  inconspicuous 
design,  so  that  I  can  have  it  made  over,  or  turn  the  goods,"  says 
one. 

"I  always  send  mine  East  to  some  poor  relations,"  says  an- 
other. 

"  I  often  have  my  dresses  dyed  just  as  they  are,  and  so  get  an- 
other costume  with  but  very  little  alteration,"  says  a  third,  "for 
you  know  that  nowadays  they  can  dye  a  dress  without  soiling 
the  lining  the  least  bit." 

"Dear  me!"  exclaims  another,  »  I  can't  be  bothered,  fixing 
over  old  things.  When  I'm  through  with  a  dress,  I've  done  with 
it  altogether,  and  I  don't  want  to  see  it  or  wear  it  again  in  any 
way  or  shape.  So  I  just  bundle  the  things  off  to  some  charitable 
institution,  or  to  the  Salvation  Army,  and  that's  the  end  of  it. 
Whatever  they  can  make  out  of  the  things,  I'm  sure  they  are 
welcome  to,  and  that's  all  there  is  about  it." 

"  I  sell  mine,"  says  yet  another,  "  to  a  woman  who  gives  me 
new  material  for  my  old  clothes." 

Have  you  ever  been  in  the  store-closet  of  a  society  that  makes 
a  specialty  of  giving  clothing  to  the  poor?  If  not,  you  have  lost 
an  opportunity  of  viewing  the  picturesqueness  of  rag-tag  and 
bob-tail.  I  have  seen  bundles  undone  that  were  full  of — rubbish, 
and  others  that  were  perfect  bonanzas.  Once  I  read  an  article  in 
a  fashion  magazine  on  the  "  Dimensions  of  the  Poor,"  and  it  was 
a  clever  satire  on  the  lack  of  judgment  displayed  by  those  who 
attempt  to  clothe  the  naked.  It  was  quite  a  hit  at  young 
ladies'  sewing  societies,  too,  for  it  told  how  they  would  start  to 
supply  underclothing  for  a  poor  widow  with  a  family  of  six,  and 
cut  everyone  of  the  little  garments  after  the  same  pattern,  as  if 
all  the  children  were  the  same  size  and  could  wear  each  others' 
clothes.  Many  times  what  is  sent  is  far  from  being  appropriate 
to  either  the  needs  or  the  station  of  those  to  be  the  recipients  of 
this  misfit  charity.  I  have  seen  shoes  walking  on  their  uppers, 
good  waists  out  at  elbows,  and  other  garments  in  so  tatterdemalion 
a  stage,  when  they  reach  the  place  of  distribution,  that  one  won- 
ders how  they  could  ever  have  been  reduced  to  such  extremities. 
For  years  one  old  lady,  who  contributed  things  to  the  Flower 
Mission,  always  mended  every  garment  that  she  gave,  so  that  it 
was  at  once  in  a  condition  to  do  good  service. 

"The  poor  have  not  the  time  to  sew;  besides,  they  do  not 
know  how  to  mend,  more's  the  pity,"  this  good  woman  would 
say,  when  asked  why  she  wasted  her  time  sewing  for  paupers. 
"I  cannot  give  much,"  she  would  reply,  in  her  gentle  voice.  "My 
time  is  all  I  have  to  give."  Did  you  ever  go  into  one  of  those 
second-hand  stores  where  extremes  meet  in  the  highest  prices 
paid  for  cast-off  clothing,  and  the  lowest  prices  charged  for  those 
who  wish  to  buy?  Ah,  they  are  dingy  dens,  and  make  one  think 
of  the  spider  and  the  fly.  If  you  will  notice  they  are  always  to- 
gether, two  or  three  of  them  in  a  forlorn  part  of  town.  They  are 
generally  a  combination  of  pawnbroker  or  tailor  shop,  and  the 
entrance  is  always  on  one  side.  It  is  hard  to  walk  in  without 
brushing  against  the  old  clothes  that,  like  Bluebeard's  wives,  are 
hung  UP  °y  tne  neck  along  the  walla.  Every  one  of  these  places 
alwayf  smells  stuffy,  and  it  seems  as  if  it  might  be  haunted  by 
the  spirits  oE  those  who  used  to  wear  the  garments  that  now 
hang  limP  and  lifeless  along  the  pegs.  There  is  every  variety  of 
garmen1  an(*  °*  fabric  to  be  seen.  All  fashions  and  many  a 
widely  different  period  hang  side  by«ide. 

"  Oh,  yes,"  said  one  of  the  dealers,  «<  we  can  sell  them  all. 
6ometimes  PeoP'e  come  and  buy  them  to  wear  at  masquerade 
balls,  and  very  often,  when  we  get  anything  a  little  better  than 
ordinary,  we  sell  it  right  away  to  the  theatrical  costumers, 
who  use  it  for  walking-ladies'  costumes." 

Such  fantastic  silk  dresses,  such  dirty,  bedrabbled  skirts  and 
wine-stainea  bodices  as  flaant  their  shame  in  the  pawnbroker's 
collection!  One  hates  to  think  of  where  they  have  been  and  how 
they  have  conie  to  this  pass,  and  is  glad  to  hurry  out  into  the 
outer  air. 

What  a  difference  there  is  between  baying  and  selling!  A 
lady  told  me  of  her  experience  of  trying  to  dispose  of  her  husband's 
best  prince  Albert  coat.  She  had  gone  to  a  number  of  places,  but 
nowhere  could  she  get  an  offer  of  even  a  dollar  for  the  garment. 

"  I  concluded  to  try  once  more,"'  she  said.  "  This  time  fortune 
led  me  to  a  little  hole  in  the  wall.  I  suppose  it  is  hardly  neces- 
sary to  say  that  all  this  took  place  south  of  Market  street.  I  saw 
a  nice  old  darky  sewing  on  a  blue  jacket,  and  as  I  went  up  to 
him,  a  coal  black  woman,  evidently  his  wife,  came  forward. 
«  W'at  yo'  got,  honey?1  she  asked.  I  told  her,  and  offered  her  the 
bundle.  '  No  use,  honey,  no  use,"  said  the  old  darky,  in  a  sooth- 
ing tone.  "  Don't  you  bodder  you'sef  to  open  de  bundle,  'cos  I 
tell  you,  can't  sell  coats  nowadays ;  all  the  mens  wants  pants,  dat 
what  dey  wants,  and  dey  wants  dem  cheap,  too.  Nearly  every 
day  der's  folks  come  in  here,  and  dey  asks  my  ole  man  if  he  ain't 
got  no  pants  for  dem  yet.  Yo'  see,  stuff  ain't  so  good  what  it 
uster  be,  and  dem  pants  wears  out  a  heap  sight  quicker  than  a 
coat,  'sides,  honey,  you  know  a  man  can  go  'thout  a  coat,  but  he 


must  have  de  rest  of  a  suit,  yah  hah  I  '  Well,"  said  my  friend, 
who  was  telling  this  story  of  second-hand  clothing  stores,  "  I  was 
turning  away,  when  the  old  man  spoke  up.  >  Der  was  a  young 
feller  in  here  last  night,  and  he  begged  me  to  buy  his  swaller-tail 
off'r  him,  and  I  didn't  want  it,  'cos  it  was  so  used  up,  and  he  sez 
he'd  let  me  have  it  for  two-bits,  and  I  said,  «  'Tain't  worf  to-bits 
to  me,  but  I'll  give  yon  two-bits,  and  you  can  tak  de  coat  along 
wif  you.'  " 

Speaking  about  the  crying  needs  for  trowsers,  recalls  the  case 
of  Grant  Jacobs,  a  young  fellow  of  twenty-one,  whom  the  San 
Francisco  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission  found  lying  in  a  plaster  cast 
in  a  Third-street  lodging  house.  He  was  utterly  destitute.  He 
had  come  down  from  the  mountains  to  be  treated  for  a  spinal 
trouble,  brought  on  by  the  great  strain  that  bad  been  put  upon 
the  muscles  of  a  growing  lad.  He  had  been  a  driver  of  a  logging 
team  from  early  boyhood,  and  too  much  heavy  lifting  had  hart 
his  back.  When  the  Flower  Mission  took  charge  of  him,  he  was 
In  a  forlorn  way.  He  did  not  even  know  how  to  read,  and  some 
of  the  young  ladies  took  turns  at  teaching  him  to  master  the 
three  R's.  His  delight  in  his  newly-acquired  knowledge  was  piti- 
ful, it  was  so  real,  so  intense.  He  became  able  to  move  about 
some,  but  always  walked  abroad  at  night.  At  last  it  was  dis- 
covered that  the  poor  boy  did  not  have  a  suit  of  clothes  that 
would  fit  him;  what  the  girls  had  sent  him  was  too  short  by  at 
least  a  foot,  and  he  was  ashamed  to  be  guyed  by  the  men  and 
boys  in  the  daytime.  So,  when  this  was  known,  there  was  a 
great  attempt  to  lay  some  tali  man  under  contribution  for  a  long 
pair  of  trowsers.  Some  one  responded,  and  at  last  the  tall  boy 
was  able  to  walk  about  in  the  sunlight.  Old  clothes  have  their 
mission. 


THE  propaganda  in  Italy  for  a  republican  form  of  government, 
and  which  is  mainly  based  upon  the  Illusory  hope  of  support 
on  the  part  of  the  Vatican,  is  assuming  a  decided  character,  ac- 
cording to  the  last  dispatches.  The  socialists,  for  instance,  have 
nominated  this  year  four  times  the  number  of  candidates  as  com- 
pared with  that  of  the  last  election.  Of  course  that  is  no  proof 
that  their  victory  at  the  polls  will  be  as  large  as  they  expect,  but 
at  all  events  the  government  is  awaiting  the  results  of  November 
6th  with  anxiety,  and  the  Vatican  has  succeeded  in  seriously  em- 
barrassing the  Ouirinal. 

THE  strike  amongst  the  laborers  in  the  British  cotton  mills  has 
not  yet  begun.  It  would  be  the  greatest  blessing  for  the 
weavers  if  they  should  refrain  from  striking,  for  not  only  would 
the  manufacturers  profit  by  the  strike,  but  the  employes  and 
their  families  would  suffer  enormously.  Still  there  is  little  hope 
that  common  sense  will  prevail,  and  before  another  fortnight  has 
elapsed  the  crisis  will  probably  have  been  reached. 


You  believe  in  pure  food  ; 
you  buy  the  best  flour,  the 
best  eggs,  the  best  sugar, 
yet  you  have  not  tried  the 
best  baking  powder  unless 
you  have  used  Cleveland's. 

But  do  not  take  our  word 
for  it.  Judge  for  yourself, 
try  a  can  of  Cleveland's,  and 
be  sure  to  use  a  little  less 
than  you  have  been  accus- 
tomed to  of  others,  for 
Cleveland's  is  the  strongest 

Ask  your  jjrocer  for  the  Cleveland  Cook  Book, 
40a  recipes,  Aee.  If  he  hasn't  a  copy  send  stamp 
and  address  to 

Cleveland  Baking  Powder  Co.,  New  York. 
F.  H.  AMES  A  CO.,  Agents. 


THE  SCIENCE 
OF 
THE  SKIN.   , 


f[\fr\i.  jtoiicijte, 

324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  with  the  aid  of  Dermoline. 
The  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 
Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
moved and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
by  a  new  process. 

.     Hair  Invigorator,  guaranteed  to 
\     cure  BALDNESS. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


-\\   FRANCISCO  NEWS  uETTER. 


M  MEN    WE    KNOW. 

HkM;Y    B.    Htr.HTOK. 

IF  we  were  asked  who  is  (he  most  able  lawyer  at  the  California 
bar  to-day.  we  should  have  no  hesitation  in  replying,  «  Henry 
B  BightOD."  Others  there  are,  no  doubt,  who,  in  their  various 
specialties,  may  be  deeper  read,  and  there  are  a  number  of  special- 
ists among  the  lawyers  of  this,  as  of  every  State;  but  with  a 
proper  appreciation  of  the  abilities  of  the  many  able  men  who 
practice  in  our  courts,  we  know  of  none  who  possess  in  the  same 
degree  that  great  learning  in  all  branches  of  the  law — that  power 
of  resource  to  meet  emergencies  which  is  the  mainstay  of  success- 
ful lawyers;  that  intimate  acquaintance  with  men  and  manners 
which  is  one  of  the  elements  of  greatness  in  a  practitioner  at  the 
bar,  and  that  calm,  logical  manner  of  presenting  facts,  and  the 
forensic  ability  to  sway  men  which  is  possessed  by  Mr.  Higbton. 
After  a  signally  successful  career  of  over  thirty  years  at  the  Cali- 
fornia bar,  be  lakes  rank  to-day  with  the  most  eminent  lawyers  of 
the  country.  Neither  is  this  statement  made  lightly,  nor  in  the  sense 
of  fulsome  eulogy,  for  the  record  of  Mr.  Highton's  cases  reported 
in  the  records  of  the  courts  of  the  State  is  the  best  evidence  of 
the  fact  that  he  is  the  leader  of  the  bar.  With  him,  knowledge  has 
been  tbe  power  that  bas  developed  the  poor  lad  of  the  mining  era 
into  the  brilliant  advocate  of  to-day.  «  To  know  "  was  the  legend 
on  his  shield.  A  deep  student  from  boyhood,  possessed  of  a  de- 
termination to  follow  his  object  to  its  ultimate  end,  overcoming  all 
obstacles,  and  happily  endowed  with  the  will  to  succeed,  he  has 
been  the  architect  of  his  own  fortunes,  and  has  builded  in  a 
manner  that  is  tbe  admiration  of  all  his  fellow  citizens. 
Standing  forth  above  all  the  knowledge  and  tall  the  learning  tha 
he  has  made  his  own  is  the  will — that  is  the  man.  His  strong 
character  and  his  independent  nature,  combined  with  his  acquire- 
ments, have  combined  to  make  Mr.  Highton  one  of  the  strongest 
men  of  the  day.  One  of  the  leaders  of  his  party,  and  one  of  the 
ablest  men  on  governmental  affairs  in  the  State,  he  has  never 
weakened  himself  by  accepting  public  office,  nor  by  truckling  to 
the  various  interests  which  are  considered  to  be  of  influence  in 
the  community ;  an  orator  who  has  been  selected  upon  numer- 
ous occasions  to  address  the  people,  he  has  never  played  to  the 
galleries,  nor  endeavored  oy  tricks  of  declamation  to  work  upon 
their  feelings,  but  like  a  plain,  blunt  man,  he  speaks  right  on, 
and  tells  truths;  a  practitioner  for  three  decades  at  the  California 
bar.  the  tongue  of  calumny  has  never  attacked  his  fair  fame,  nor 
has  anything  detracted  from  the  honors  which  his  virtues  merit. 
Mr.  Highton  is  a  descendant  of  an  old  English  family,  and  was 
born  at  Liverpool  on  July  31,  1836.  His  father,  Edward  Rayner 
Highton,  who  was  of  Leicestershire  lineage,  held  many  civic  and 
military  offices,  and  was  an  able  and  public-spirited  man.  Many 
of  Mr.  Highton's  immediate  relatives  have  been  men  of  note  in  the 
classics  and  the  law.  Mr.  Highton  received  his  primary  education 
at  the  school  of  Rev.  J.  C.  Prince,  in  St.  Ann's  street,  Liverpool, 
where  he  took  every  prize  for  classics  in  his  class.  In  1848,  in 
his  twelfth  year,  he  accompanied  his  father  to  this  country.  The 
elder  Highton  settled  at  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  where  Henry  was 
placed  in  a  lawyer's  office.  There  he  remained  until  the  stories 
from  tbe  gold  fields  of  the  Pacific  reached  Milwaukee,  and  de- 
termined his  future  career.  The  boy  threw  aside  his  law-books 
and  started  acrosB  the  plains.  He  arrived  in  the  promised  land  at 
Weavervllle,  near  the  place  bearing  the  suggestive  name  of  Hang- 
town  on  Sept.  3,  1849.  For  the  following  seven  years  he  lived 
and  worked  in  the  mines,  his  mind  often  returning,  however,  in 
the  midst  of  the  struggles  for  the  precious  yellow  metal,  to  his 
law  books.  He  came  to  this  city  in  his  twenty-first  year,  and 
from  that  time,  it  may  be  said  that  his  successful  career  actually 
began,  for  while  the  years  of  his  mining  experience  were  by  no 
means  unprofitable  to  him,  both  physically  and  mentally,  not 
considering  the  pecuniary  reward,  it  was  not  until  he  settled  in 
San  Francisco  that  he  applied  himself  diligently  to  the  law.  Be- 
coming associated  with  Frank  Soule  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the 
San  Francisco  Chronicle  of  that  period,  Mr.  Highton  became  the  first 
reporter  on  the  paper.  After  a  few  months  his  ability 
was  so  well  recognized  that  he  was  promoted  from 
gathering  news  to  writing  editorials  and  leading  articles. 
He  also  contributed  to  the  Golden  Era  and  the  Spirit 
of  the  Times.  He  was  attached  to  the  press  for  three  years.  In  1859 
he  was  the  legislative  correspondent  for  the  San  Francisco  Herald. 
After  the  session  he  wrote  for  that  paper  a  series  of  articles  on  the 
manufacturing  interests  of  San  Francisco.  His  newspaper  experi- 
ence was  of  considerable  benefit  to  Mr.  Highton  in  his  subsequent 
career.  It  gave  him  an  opportunity  to  study  men  and  become  ac- 
quainted with  human  nature  in  a  manner  that  no  other  employ- 
ment could  equal;  it  also  gave  him  that  training  as  a  writer  the 
good  results  of  which  are  shown  in  his  briefs  and  orations,  which 
unusual  fact,  lose  none  of  their  strength  in  being  read.  While  on 
the  press  he  had  read  law  at  night,  and  after  a  year  devoted 
exclusively  to  its  study,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the 
bar  on  July  3,  1860.  He  became  associated  with  Oscar  L. 
Shafter,  who  in  1861,  during  a  visit  East,  left  the  management  of 
several  important  cases  to  Mr.  Highton.  He  has  had  but  two 
partnerships—in  1862  with  Judge  0.  C.  Pratt  and  H.  K.  W. 
Clarke,  and  in  1864-5  with  William  P.  Daingerfield  and  J.  Doug- 
lass Hambleton.     He   was   also   often   associated  with  Hall  Mc- 


Allister in  the  trial  of  important  cases.  In  his  practice,  Mr. 
Highton  has  shown  himself  a  master  of  bis  profession.  He 
gained  such  fame  in  criminal  cases  that  they  were  considered  his 
specialty.  But  he  has  no  specialty.  He  is  too  big  a  man  for  such 
limitation.  In  the  civil  suits  involving  intricate  commercial  ques- 
tions, matters  of  medical  jurisprudence,  points  of  constitutional 
law  and  other  intricate  problems  which  would  alone  require  all 
the  abilities  of  an  ordinary  man,  Mr.  Highton  is  equally  at  home. 
Nor  bas  he  used  his  abilities  only  for  his  own  advantage,  for  he 
has  ever  been  one  of  the  most  public-spirited  of  citizens.  Old 
residents  yet  remember  his  speech  in  presenting  the  commenda- 
tory resolutions  to  Governor  Downey  at  the  old  American  The- 
atre, upon  the  visit  of  that  honest  official  to  this  city  shortly  after 
his  veto  of  the  Bulkhead  bill.  As  an  illustration  of  Mr.  High- 
ton's  strong  style,  and  also  of  his  enthusiastic  patriotism,  we  can- 
not do  better  than  quote  the  resolutions  written  by  him  and 
adopted  at  the  meeting  of  the  people  at  Montgomery  and  Market 
streets  in  April,  1861  : 

Resolved,  That  the  full  and  fair  development  of  American  civiliza- 
tion and  the  extension  of  civil  and  religious  liberty  throughout  the 
world  require  the  perpetuity  of  the  American  Union  and  the  protec- 
tion of  the  American  Government  against  any  and  all  assaults, 
whether  of  foreign  or  domestic  foes. 

Resolved,  That  the  allegiance  of  an  American  citizen  to  the  Federal 
Government  is  superior  to  all  other  obligations,  and  binds  him  in  law 
and  in  honor  to  aid  in  the  suppression  of  rebellion  and  in  the  en- 
forcement of  the  laws. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  present  great  crisis  in  the  history  of  our  coun- 
try, our  reason,  our  hearts  and  our  arms  are  with  the  constitutional 
authorities  of  the  land,  and  that  we  pledge  ourselves  now,  and  in 
every  emergency,  to  stand  by  the  Union  of  these  States  and  the  Gov- 
ernment which  has  been  instituted  for  the  perpetual  preservation  of 
that  Union,  in  peace  and  in  war,  without  reservation,  qualification  or 
condition,  and  at  any  sacrifice  of  life  or  property. 

On  numerous  occasions  since,  Mr.  Highton  has  expressed  his 
opinions,  and  in  no  measured  terms,  on  questions  of  municipal, 
State  and  Federal  government.  He  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Democratic  party,  and  has  delivered  many  speeches 
and  written  many  addresses  to  the  people  upon  points  at  issue 
between  it  and  the  party  of  "protection."  The  public  interests 
are  ever  before  him.  Service  to  the  State  he  considers  one  of  the 
highest  duties  of  a  citizen.  He  holds  that  every  man  must  do 
his  part,  be  it  humble  or  great,  in  regulating  the  affairs  of  govern- 
ment, and  he  considers  that  it  ought  to  be  held  as  treason  to 
commit  tbe  management  of  political  affairs  to  corrupt  bosses, 
purchased  demagogues,  selfish  monopolists  or  rotten  politicians,  or 
by  mere  inaction  to  ever  suffer  them  to  assume  any  political  au- 
thority whatever.  The  public  occasions  in  which  he  has  ap- 
peared as  an  orator  before  the  masses  are  numerous.  Some  of 
his  most  notable  addresses  were  on  July  4,  1869,  at  the  old  Cali- 
fornia Theatre;  July  4,  1870,  at  Stockton;  several  occasions  dur- 
ing the  local  labor  riots;  in  laying  the  corner-stone  of  the  Garfield 
monument  in  1883,  when  he  spoke  before  60,000  people  in  Golden 
Gate  Park;  at  Santa  Rosa,  July  4,  1890;  in  honor  of  the  fortieth 
anniversary  of  the  admission  of  California  into  the  Union,  at  the 
Opera  House,  September  9,  1890.  Mr.  Highton  was  Grand 
Orator  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  of  this  State.  Nearly  all 
his  public  speeches  and  his  addresses  and  memorials  have  been 
printed  and  circulated,  as  many  of  his  arguments  in  trial  cases. 
His  memorial  of  Governor  Washington  Bartlett,  delivered  before 
the  Pioneers,  of  which  society  Mr.  Highton  is  a  life-member,  is 
one  of  the  most  eloquent  tributes  paid  to  that  lamented  states- 
man. The  two  criminal  cases  in  which  Mr.  Highton  probably 
gained  his  greatest  fame  were  those  in  which  he  appeared  for  the 
defense  in  the  trial  of  young  Kalloch  for  killing  Charles  de 
Young,  and  of  A.  B.  Spreckels  for  an  assault  to  murder  M.  H.  de 
Young.  Both  cases  were  contested  very  bitterly,  eminent  coun- 
sel being  engaged  on  both  sides.  It  is  unnecessary  here  to  re- 
view them,  for  no  trials  ever  had  upon  the  Pacific  Coast  attracted 
more  attention.  Suffice  it  to  say  that,  through  the  able  efforts  of 
Mr.  Highton,  both  defendants  were  cleared.  In  the  Spreckels 
case,  in  making  the  closing  argument  for  the  defense,  the  lawyer 
spoke  for  two  days,  this  effort  being  considered  by  all  lawyers  as 
one  of  the  most  brilliant  the  American  Bar  has  known  of  recent 
years.  A  deep  student  and  a  hard  worker,  Mr.  Highton  in  his 
briefs  and  arguments  covers  every  point  in  the  case.  He  is 
minute  to  the  smallest  detail — nothing  escapes  him;  when  he  is 
through,  the  case  has  been  thoroughly  presented.  It  is  not  at- 
tempted here  to  give  a  complete  history  of  his  career.  Only  an 
estimate  of  his  character  can  be  given  in  the  limited  space  of  a 
newspaper. 

Mr.  Highton  married  in  August,  1874,  the  second  daughter  of 
P.  M.  Scoffy,  a  prominent  merchant  of  this  city  and  New  Orleans. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  an  attendant  at 
Trinity.  He  has  followed  one  rule  of  action  throughout  life.  He 
has  loved  God  and  his  neighbor,  and,  quoting  from  bis  Santa 
Rosa  address  of  1890,  "  that  implies  the  intelligent  study  and  the 
rigid  performance  of  all  our  duties  to  our  families,  to  our  friends, 
to  local  and  subordinate  departments  of  the  State,  to  the  State 
itself,  and  to  the  Federal  Government."  Practicing  the  precepts 
which  he  has  so  often  impressed  upon  the  people,  Henry  E. 
Highton  will  always  be  known  as  an  honest  and  independent 
man,  a  good  citizen,  and  an  eminent  lawyer. 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  ]892. 


MOHAMMED-FRIPOUILLE. 


( l  QHALL  we  take  our  coffee  on  the  roof  ?  "  asked  the  Captain. 
O  I  replied:  "Why,  yes;  certainly." 

He  rose.  It  was  already  dark  in  the  dining-room,  lighted  only  from 
an  inner  courtyard,  as  is  usual  in  all  Moorish  houses.  Before  the 
high,  Gothic-arched  windows  swung  clusters  of  convolvuli  that  grew 
on  the  great  terrace  above  where  we  passed  the  hot  summer  even- 
ings. Nothing  remained  on  the  table  but  the  fruit,  the  enormous 
fruit  of  Africa,  grapes  as  large  as  plums,  soft,  violet  rigs,  luscious 
yellow  pears,  loug,  plump  bananas,  and  dates  from  Tougourt  in  a 
basket  of  alfalfa. 

Our  dark-skinned  servant  opened  the  door,  and  I  mounted  the 
blue-walled  staircase  which  received  from  above  the  soft  light  of 
dying  day,  and  uttered  a  deep  sigh  of  satisfaction  when  we  reached 
the  terrace.  From  there  all  Algiers  was  visible,  as  well  as  the  har- 
bor and  distant  seacoasts. 

The  house,  which  the  Captain  had  purchased,  was  an  ancient 
Arab  dwelling,  situated  in  the  center  of  the  old  town,  in  the  very 
midst  of  that  labyrinth  of  narrow  lanes  which  swarm  with  the  curi- 
ous population  of  the  African  coast. 

Beneath  us.  the  flat,  square  roofs  descended  like  a  giant  stairway 
to  the  oblique  roofs  of  the  European  quarter.  Beyond  could  be  seen 
the  sails  of  ships  at  anchor,  then  the  sea,  the  open  sea,  blue  and  calm 
'neath  the  calm  blue  sky. 

We  extended  ourselves  on  mats,  our  heads  supported  by  cushions, 
and  while  slowly  drinking  the  savory  coffee  of  that  clime,  1  watched 
the  first  stars,  barely  visible,  appear  in  the  darkeniug  azur. 

A  light,  winged  heat  caressed  our  faces,  and  at  times  hotter, 
heavier  breezes,  bearing  a  vague  odor,  the  odor  of  Africa,  seemed  like 
a  breath  of  the  desert  come  from  over  the  summits  of  the  Atlas 
range.    The  Captain,  on  his  back,  exclaimed: 

"  What  a  country,  my  friend !  How  good  life  is  here,  so  peaceful, 
so  deliciously  reposeful  I    These  nights  were  made  for  reverie." 

1  still  watched  the  birth  of  the  stars  with  languid  interest,  drowsily 
happy.  "  You  might  tell  me  something  of  your  life  in  the  South," 
I  murmured. 

Captain  Marret  was  one  of  the  oldest  officers  of  our  army  in  Africa, 
a  soldier  of  fortune,  who,  by  force  of  saber  strokes,  from  a  mere 
spahi,  had  attained  his  present  rank.  Thanks  to  him,  his  influence 
and  friends,  I  had  just  accomplished  a  superb  trip  to  the  desert,  and 
had  come  on  the  evening  in  question  to  thank  him  before  leaving 
for  France. 

He  said :  ' '  What  sort  of  a  story  do  you  want  ?  I  have  had  so  many 
adventures  during  my  twelve  years  of  soldiering." 

"  Tell  me  about  the  Arab  women." 

He  made  no  reply,  still  extended  with  upstretched  arms  and  hands 
beneath  his  head,  and  I  caught  at  intervals  a  whiff  from  his  cigar, 
whose  smoke  mounted  straight  skywards  in  the  still  air. 

Suddenly  he  began  to  laugh. 

"Ail,  yes  1  I'm  going  to  tell  you  of  a  droll  affair  that  happened 
wnen  I  first  came  to  Algiers.  We  had  then  in  the  African  army 
some  extraordinary  types  of  men,  now  no  longer  seen,  who  would 
have  amused  you  to  such  an  extent  that  you  would  have  spent  your 
life  here.  I  was  but  a  spahi,  a  blonde  young  fellow  of  twenty,  hot- 
brained,  supple  and  vigorous,  a  true  soldier  of  Algiers.  I  had  been 
assigned  to  the  military  staff  of  Boghar.  You  know  Boghar,  called 
the  gallery  of  the  South.  Y"ou  have  seen  from  the  top  of  the  fort  the 
outskirts  of  that  fiery  region,  devastated,  barren,  red  and  rocky,  in 
truth,  the  ante-chamber  of  the  desert  to  whose  yellow  solitudes  it 
leads. 

"  We  were  at  Boghar,  then,  about  forty  of  us,  a  joyful  band  of 
spahis,  and  in  addition  a  squadron  of  African  chasseurs,  when  it  was 
learned  that  the  tribe  of  the  Ouled-Berghi  had  massacred  an  English 
traveler  whom  national  enterprise  had  imprudently  drawn  to  their 
territory. 

It  was  necessary  to  wreak  vengeance  for  that  crime  against  a  Eu- 
ropean, but  our  commander-in-chief  hesitated  over  sending  a  column, 
finding,  doubtless,  one  Englishman  not  worth  so  much  movement. 

"  While  he  was  talking  the  matter  over  with  the  captain  and  the 
lieutenant,  a  spahi  quartermaster,  who  was  waiting  to  presentrhis  ac- 
counts, suddenly  offered  to  go  and  punish  the  guilty  tribe  if  but  six 
men  were  given  him. 

"  You  know  that  in  the  South  there  is  more  freedom  than  in  town 
garrisons,  and  that  between  officers  and  soldiers  there  exists  a  cer- 
tain comradeship  unknown  elsewhere.  The  Captain  laughingly  said: 

"  '  You,  my  brave  fellow  ?  ' 

"  *  Y"es,  Captain,  and  if  you  like,  I  will  bring  back  the  whole  tribe 
prisoners.' 

"The  Commandant,  who  was  a  man  of  impulse,  took  him  at  his 
word: 

"  '  Y'ou  shall  leave  to-morrow  morning  with  six  men  of  your  selec- 
tion; but  if  you  do  not  keep  your  promise,  look  out  for  yourself!  " 

"  With  a  smile,  the  man  replied:  '  Never  fear,  Captain,  my  prison- 
ers shall  be  here,  at  latest,  by  Wednesday  noon.' 

"'The  quarter-master,  Mohammed-Fripouille,  as  he  was  called, 
was  a  remarkable  man,  a  Turk,  a  genuine  Turk,  enlisted  in  the 
French  army  after  a  life  of  adventure  none  too  creditable,  undoubt- 
edly. He  had  traveled  in  many  countries,  Greece,  Asia  Minor, 
Egypt  and  Palestine,  and  must  have  committed  numerous  misdeeds 


on  his  way.  He  was  a  specimen  bachi-bouzouk,  bold,  rollicking,  fierce 
and  gay,  with  the  calm  gaiety  of  the  Oriental.  He  was  stout,  very 
stout,  but  supple  as  an  ape,  and  he  rode  marvelously.  His  mustache 
was  incredibly  thick  and  long.  He  hated  the  Arabs  with  an  exas- 
perated hatred,  and  treated  them  with  frightful  cruelty,  unceasingly 
inventing  new  methods,  perfidiously  calculated,  for  their  torment. 
In  addition,  his  strength  was  equalled  only  by  his  audacity. 

"  'Choose  your  men,  my  bold  fellow,"  said  our  captain. 

"  Mohammed  took  me.  He  had  always  displayed  great  confidence 
in  me,  and  I  became  devoted  to  him,  body  and  soul,  for  that  choice, 
which  gave  me  quite  as  much  pleasure  as  did  the  cross  of  the  Legion 
of  Honor  at  a  later  period. 

So  we  left  the  next  morning  at  daybreak,  all  seven  of  us,  no  more. 
My  comrades  belonged  to  that  class  of  bandits  and  pirates  who,  after 
having  wandered  and  marauded  in  many  climes,  end  by  enlisting  in 
some  foreign  legion.  Our  African  army  was  at  that  time  full  of  such 
scum  of  humanity,  excellent  soldiers,  but  totally  unscrupulous. 

"  Mohammed  had  given  each  of  us  to  carry  a  dozen  rope  ends  of 
about  a  yard  in  length.  I  was  also  intrusted,  being  the  youngest  and 
least  weighty,  with  a  coil  of  rope  a  hundred  yards  long.  When  asked 
what  he  meant  to  do  with  all  that  cord,  he  replied,  with  his  habitual 
air  of  sullen  placidity: 

"  'Going  fishing  for  Arabs,'  and  he  winked  maliciously,  a  trick  he 
had  learned  of  an  old  chasseur,  a  Parisian. 

"  He  was  marching  at  the  head  of  our  tropp,  wearing  a  red  turban 
which  he  always  donned  for  action,  and  he  smiled  with  intense  satis- 
faction beneath  his  enormous  mustache.  He  was  indeed  a  handsome 
fellow,  that  great  Turk,  with  his  powerful  chest,  colossal  shoulders 
and  bold  mien.  He  rode  a  white  horse  of  medium  size,  but  vigorous ; 
though  the  rider  appeared  ten  times  too  large  for  his  steed. 

"  We  had  entered  a  small,  stony  vale,  quite  barren,  at  the  entrance 
of  the  Valley  of  Chelif,  and  were  talking  of  our  expedition.  My  com- 
panions had  the  accents  of  every  clime,  for  among  them  were  a  Span- 
iard, two  Greeks,  an  American,  and  three  Frenchmen.  As  for  Mo- 
hammed-Fripouille, he  lisped  in  an  impossible  way. 

The  sun,  the  terrible  sun  of  the  South,  unknown  on  the  other  side 
of  the  Mediterranean,  scorched  our  backs  as  we  marched  slowly  on 
our  way.  All  day  long  we  saw  neither  a  tree  nor  an  Arab.  At  about 
one  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  we  had  eaten,  near  a  small  spring  that 
flowed  amid  the  rocks,  the  bread  and  dry  mutton  carried  in  our  knap- 
sacks, then,  after  a  rest  of  twenty  minutes,  had  recommenced  our 
journey.  Atlength,  just  before  six  that  night,  after  a  long  circuit 
that  our  chief  had  ordered  us  to  make,  we  discovered  from  behind 
the  top  of  a  high  hill  a  tribe  encamped.  Their  low,  brown  tents, 
dark  against  the  yellow  earth,  seemed  like  great  mushrooms 
sprung  to  life  at  the  foot  of  that  red,  sun-calcined  mount.  They 
were  those  we  sought.  A  little  farther  on,  on  the  borders  of  an 
alfalfa  plain,  fed  their  tethered  horses. 

"Mohammed  commanded:  'Gallop  1  '  and  we  arrived  like  a 
hurricane  in  the  very  midst  of  the  camp.  The  women,  crazed 
with  fear,  covered  with  white,  tattered  garments  that  hung  and 
floated  about  them,  quickly  re-entered  their  canvas  dens,  grovel- 
ling bowed  down,  and  howling  like  hunted  wild  beasts. 

"The  men,  on  the  contrary,  appeared  on  every  side,  making 
ready  to  defend  themselves.  We  charged  directly  upon  the  high- 
est tent,  that  of  the  agha.  We  kept  our  sabres  sheathed,  follow- 
Mohammed's  example,  who  was  galloping  in  a  singular  manner. 
He  remained  quite  motionless,  erectly  seated  on  his  small  horse, 
who  struggled  furiously  beneath  him  in  the  effort  to  carry  hia 
massive  load,  and  the  tranquility  of  the  long-mustached  rider  con- 
trasted strangely  with  the  vivacity  of  the  animal. 

••  The  native  chief  was  just  coming  out  of  his  tent  as  we 
reached  it.  He  was  a  tall,  thin  man,  dark-skinned,  with  gleam- 
ing eyes  under  overhanging  brows.  'What  do  you  want?'  he 
shouted  in  Arabic. 

"Mohammed,  reigning  in  his  steed,  replied  in  that  tongue: 
•  Was  it  you  who  killed  the  English  traveler?  ' 

"  The  agha  pronounced  in  deep  tones:  •  I  have  no  questioning 
to  submit  to  from  you.' 

"A  perfect  tempest  raged  about  us.  The  Arabs  came  running 
from  all  directions,  crowding  againet  us,  enclosing  us  and  vo- 
ciferating. They  looked  like  fierce  birds  of  prey  with  their  great 
hooked  noses,  and  thin,  bony  faces,  their  wide  garments  agitated 
by  their  gestures. 

*«  Mohammed  smiled,  his  turban  awry,  his  eyes  excited,  and  I 
saw  a  quiver  of  delight  pass  over  his  fleshless,   wrinkled  cheeks. 

"  He  retorted  in  ringing  tones  that  were  heard  above  that 
clamor:  '  Death  to  the  one  who  has  given  death  I '  and  aimed  his 
revolver  at  the  agha's  dark  face.  I  saw  a  little  smoke  come  from 
the  barrel,  then  a  pink  froth  of  brain  and  blood  gushed  from  the 
chief's  forehead.  He  fell  upon  his  back  with  outspread  arms 
that  lifted  like  wings  the  floating  lappets  of  his  burnous. 

"  Truly,  I  thought  my  last  day  had  come,  so  terrible  was  the 
tumult  about  us. 

"Mohammed  had  drawn  his  sabre;  we  did  the  same.  He 
shouted,  scattering  with  a  circular  swing  of  his  weapon,  those 
who  pressed  closest  upon  him; 

"  '  Life  to  those  who  submit;  death  to  all  others.' 

"  Siezing  in  his  herculean  grasp  the  nearest  man,  he  laid  him 
over  his  saddle  and  bound  his  hands  whilst  he  yelled   toward  us: 

"  •  Do  as  I  do,  and  cut  down  all  who  resist.' 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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••  In  five  minutes  we  had  captured  twenty  Arabs,  whose  wrists 
we  securely  bound.  Then  we  pursued  those  who  were  fleeing, 
for  the  sight  of  our  naked  sabres  had  spread  panic  about  us,  and 
brought  back  about  thirty  men  more.  All  over  the  plain  could 
be  seen  (lying  white-robed  forms.  Women  dragging  their  child- 
ren and  uttering  piercing  scream*.  Yellow  dogs  that  looked  like 
jackals  turned  about  us,  barkiug   and    showing    their  pale  fangs. 

'-  Mohammed,  who  seemed  wild  with  joy,  bounded  from  bis 
horse,  and  sieted  the  rope  I  had  brought.  'Attention,  men,'  said 
be.     *  Dismount,  two  of  you.' 

•«  Then  he  did  something  terrible,  yet  droll;  he  made  a  chain  of 
prisoners,  or  ratbet  a  chain  of  hanged  men.  He  had  firmly  tied 
the  wrists  of  the  first  captive;  be  then  passed  a  slip-knot  around 
bis  neck  with  the  same  rope,  which  again  tied  tbe  next  man's 
arms  and  twined  also  about  bis  throat.  Our  fifty  prisoners  soon 
found  themselves  bound  in  snch  fashion  that  the  slightest  move- 
ment from  one  to  escape  would  have  strangled  him  as  well  as  his 
two  neighbors.  Every  gesture  that  they  made  tightened  the  slip- 
knots of  their  necks,  and  they  were  compelled  to  walk  with  even 
steps,  at  equal  distances  from  one  another,  at  risk  of  falling  like 
trapped  hares. 

*•  When  his  strange  work  was  completed  Mohammed  began 
laughing,  bis  silent  laugh  that  shook  his  great  abdomen  without 
a  sound  coming  from  his  throat.  •  That  is  an  Arab  chain-gang,' 
said  he. 

"  We  ourselves  began  to  give  way  to  mirth  at  the  scared  and 
pitiful  mien  of  our  prisoners. 

»  *  Now/  cried  our  chief,  <  a  stake  at  each  end,  boys ;  tie  that 
for  me.1  We  planted  the  stakes  as  ordered,  and  our  string  of 
white  captives,  looking  like  ghosts,  remained  as  motionless  as 
though  changed  to  stone. 

"  And  now  let  us  dine,"  said  the  Turk. 

A  fire  was  lighted  and  a  sheep  cooked,  that  we  dismembered 
with  our  hands.  Then  we  ate  dates  found  in  the  tents,  drank 
milk  found  in  tbe  same  way,  aud  picked  up  some  silver  jewelry 
forgotten  by  tbe  fugitives. 

We  were  tranquilly  finishing  our  meal  when  I  perceived,  upon 
the  hill  opposite,  a  strange  assemblage.  It  consisted  of  women 
only,  those  who  had  fled  a  while  before,  and  they  were  coming 
towards  us,  on  a  run.     I  showed  them  to    Mohammed-Friponille. 

"  Our  dessert!  "  said  he,  with  a  smile. 

Ahl  yes,  the  dessertl 

They  arrived,  racing  like  mad  women,  and  all  at  once  we  were 
covered  with  wounds  from  a  shower  of  stones  which  they  threw 
at  us  without  cease,  still  running;  we  could  see  that  they  were 
armed  with  knives,  tent  poles  and  old  pots. 

Mohammed  cried:  "To  horse!"  It  waB  time;  the  onslaught 
was  terrific.  They  strove  to  free  the  prisoners  by  cutting  the 
ropes.  The  Turk,  comprehending  .the  danger,  grew  furious,  and 
yelled:  »  Saber  them:!  saber  them!  "  and  as  we  remained  motion- 
less, uneasy  over  that  novel  order,  hesitating  to  kill  women,  he 
dashed  upon  the  invading  flock. 

Alone,  he  charged  upon  that  battalion  of  ragged  females  and 
began  sabering,  the  scoundrel,  sabering  like  a  madman,  with  such 
furious  energy  that  a  white  body  was  seen  to  fall  each  time  he 
lowered  his  arm. 

He  was  so  terrible  that  the  fear-stricken  women  fled  as  quickly 
as  they  had  come,  leaving  'behind  a  dozen  of  dead  and  wounded. 

Then  Mohammed,  with  a  convulsed  countenance,  came  towards 
us,  repeating: 

"  Let's  be  off,  men.;  they  are  coming  back." 

So  we  retreated,  slowly  leading  our  prisoners,  they  in  mortal 
dread  of  strangulation. 

Noon  was  striking,  on  the  morrow,  as  we  arrived  at  Boghar 
with  our  chain-gang,  of  whom  six  only  had  died  on  the  way;  but 
it  had  been  necessary,  very  often,  to  loosen  the  knots  of  the  en- 
tire convoy,  for  every  jolt  strangled  instantaneously  from  eight  to 
■ten  captives." 

The  captain  ceased  speaking,  but  I  made  no  comment.  I  was 
mnsing  on  the  strange  land  where  one  could  see  such  things,  as  I 
watched,  in  the  dark  sky,  the  innumerable  host  of  shining  stars. 

Guy  de  Maupassant. 

Translated  from  the  French  for  the  News  Letter  by  V.  E.  T. 


Superior  to  All  Others. 

Allcock's  Porous  Pilasters  are  the  great  external  remedy  of  the 
day.  The  quickest,  safest,  surest,  best.  Not  only  immeasurably 
superior  to  all  other  plasters,  but  also  to  liniments,  ointments,  oils 
and  similar  unctuous  compounds. 

Beware  of  imitations,  and  do  not  be  deceived  by  misrepresenta- 
tion. Ask  for  Allcock's  and  let  no  solicitation  or  explanation  in- 
duce you  to  accept  a  substitute. 

Drink  the  John  F.  Cutter  whisky,  which  has  been  pronounced  by 
connoisseurs  the  very  best  in  the  market.  It  used  in  all  the  first- 
•class  clubs  and  hotels,*  and  is  always  in  demand  among  men  who 
drink  good  whisky.  The  John  T.  Cutter  is  the  best  whisky  known 
in  the  market.  

All  well-dressed  men  get  their  furnishing  goods  from  John  W.  Car 
many,  of  25  Kearny  street,  who  is  known  as  the  best  furnisher  in  the 
city. 


JJ^  \lffl\JE  JiOilSt;. 

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SOLE  AGENTS  FOIl  THE  CELEBRATED 

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SANITARY  UNDERWEAR. 

MADE  IN  STUTTGART,  GERMANY, 

FOR 

LADIES,    GENTLEMEN_  AND    CHILDREN. 

THIS  UNDERWEAR  can  be  obtained  in 
Pure  Australian  Wool  and  also  in  Cash- 
'mere.  The  yarn  of  which  the  Cashmere  gar- 
ments are  made  is  composed  of  five  threads 
of  Australian  Wool  and  one  thread  of  Sea 
Island  Cotton,  and  does  not  shrink.  These 
goods  are  without  dye  and  are  indorsed  by 
the  highest  medical  authorities  of  Europe  and 
America  as  being  the  best  underwear  for 
health  wear.  Every  Stuttgarter  garment  is  stamped  with  this 
trade-mark — without  which  none  are  genuine. 

Mailorders  Solicited;  Samples  Sent  on  Application;  Goods 


Sent  Free  to  all  Suburban  Towns. 

Raphael  Weill  &  Co. 


Northwest  Corner  Post  and   Kearny  Streets. 
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The  Largest,  Best  Appointed  and  Most  Liberally  Managed  Family  and 
Tourist  Hotel  in  San  Francisco.    Lighted  by  Electricity  throughout. 

Elegantly  Furnished  Dining  Rooms  and  Parlors  for  Banquets,  Private 
Dinners,  Parties,  Weddings,  etc. 

The  Cuisine  a  Special  Feature. 

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Proprietor  and  Manager. 

The  Coleman. 

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Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  K.,  Grand  and 
Houston  St.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
station  and  horse  cars;  also.  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

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Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 
A.  F.  KIMZUSB.  Manager. 

The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
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Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
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WM.    KELLY,  Proprietor. 


gAfl  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


THE  Dupree  mystery  in  Oakland  is  not  a  mystery  after  all — 
when  one  knows  all  about  it.  But  the  favored  few  who  are 
on  the  inside  as  regards  the  story  are  keeping  their  knowledge  so 
strictly  to  themselves  that,  despite  desperate  efforts  on  the  part  of 
the  local  newspaper  men,  no  leak  has  so  far  been  made.  Tbe 
mystery  will,  of  course,  be  remembered.  A  few  days  ago  Mrs. 
Dr.  Dupree  took  with  suicidal  intent  an  overdose  of  opium  in  the 
residence  on  Madison  street  of  O.  H.  Burnham,  a  member  of  the 
Burnham-Standeford  Co.  and  a  director  of  the  Gurney  Refrigerating 
and  Milling  Company.  Of  course,  as  regards  her  reasons  for  so 
doing  there  bangs  a  tale  and  here  it  is. 

Mrs.  Dupree  has  for  a  long  time  past  conducted  a  massage  sani- 
tarium in  the  Athenian  city.  The  fame  of  her  treatment  reached 
the  ears  of  Burnbam,  who  is  a  fine,  strapping  man,  and  who  re- 
joices in  the  possession  of  a  fine  family.  He  was  troubled  with 
pains  that  he  thought  could  be  most  effectually  treated  by  mas- 
sage. So  he  sent  for  Mrs.  Dupree  and  she  treated  him  at  his 
house.  He  thrived  so  well  under  the  laying  on  of  the  bands  that 
he  had  the  doctor  there  again  and  again,  on  many  occasions  her 
services  being  required  late  in  the  night.  And  so  matters  ran  on 
until  a  few  days  ago,  when  the  climax  came.  Mrs.  Dupree,  it  ap- 
pears, had  by  this  time  become  completely  infatuated  with  her 
patient,  and  she  was  determined  to  make  the  wind  blow  one  way 
or  the  other.  She  accordingly  had  an  interview  with  him  in  the 
parlor  of  his  residence,  and  it  is  said  that  she  wanted  him  to  elope 
with  her.     But  Burnham  is  a  brainy  man,  and  he  said  "  No." 

"Then  I  will  disgrace  you  by  dying  in  your  own  house  "  she 
said,  and  taking  out  tbe  morphine,  she  swallowed  it  before  his 
eyes.  In  a  few  minutes  she  was  in  a  stupor  and  for  three  days 
she  hovered  between  life  and  death.  Mrs.  Burnham,  who  had 
obtained  an  inkling  of  what  had  taken  place,  insisted  on  having 
her  uninvited  guest  removed  from  the  house  as  quickly  as  pos- 
sible. So  Mrs.  Dupree  was  removed  in  the  early  part  of  this  week 
to  Fabiola  Hospital  where  she  lies  slowly  recovering  and  praying 
to  get  well,  so  that  she  can  declare  vendetta  against  the  Burn- 
hams. 

*  »  * 

Clara  Morris  and  her  company  have  played  the  week  at  the 
Tabor  Grand,  Denver,  Colo.,  producing  among  other  plays  her 
own  adaptation  from  the  German,  Claire.  Miss  Morris  opens  at 
the  Baldwin  November  21st. 

*  *  * 

Those  learned  and  athletic  young  gentlemen  from  Harvard 
and  Yale  who  are  the  envied  among  the  gilded  youth  of  the 
city,  will  drape  themselves  in  fitting  colors,  and  exhibit  their  well 
rounded  calves  and  beautifully  moulded  arms  to  the  fair  charmers 
of  the  Four  Hundred,  during  a  game  of  base  ball  that  will  bo 
played  on  the  19th  inst.,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Doctor's  Daughters, 
the  Hahnemann  Hospital  and  the  Fabiola  Hospital  of  Oakland. 
It  will  be  a  great  day,  and  "  everybody  will  be  there.  "  It  is  un- 
necessary to  say  that  every  respectable  and  self-respecting  grad- 
uate of  the  two  great  Eastern  Universities  knows  tbe  game  of  base 
ball  from  the  outfield  to  the  mask.  As  tbe  beneficiaries  are  all 
ladies  acquainted  with  medicine,  or  attached  to  hospitals,  thosb 
who  fall  upon  tbe  field  will  receive  kind  attention.  As  tbe  battle 
stands  it  is  even  up  on  the  crimson,  and  three  for  one  on  the 
blue.  Make  your  bets,  gentlemen,  make  your  bets! 
*  »  # 

The  "  girls  of  sixteen  "  received  severe  condemnation  recently, 
and  not  undeservedly  so.  But,  whose  is  the  fault  that  these 
girls  outrage  all  sense  of  propriety,  by  their  unseemly  behavior 
and  apparent  lack  of  that  maiden  modesty  and  innocence,  which 
is  the  chief  charm  of  the  budding  woman  ?     What  of  the  mothers 


of  these  girls,  that  they  permit  such  behavior  on  the  part  of  their 
daughters.  One  can  not  but  reflect  on  the  home  influences  and 
training  that  a  girl  has  received,  when  she  oversteps  the  bounds 
of  youthful  spirits  and  vivacity  and  apes  her  elders  in  the  en- 
deavor to  win  masculine  attention.  The  boarding-house  has 
never  yet  been  built  that  furnished  a  wholesome  and  healthy  at- 
mosphere for  girls  of  that  age  to  breathe.  The  child  may  receive 
physical  harm  from  an  infancy  lived  in  such  a  place,  but  to  the 
young  mind,  alive  to  every  impression  and  susceptible  to  its  sur- 
roundings, tbe  moral  effect  of  such  a  home  is  pernicious  to  an 
extreme.  The  mother,  whose  every  thought  is  for  the  right  de- 
velopement  of  the  instincts  and  thoughts  in  the  fresh  and  tender 
soul,  for  which  she  is  responsible,  would  never  risk  the  con- 
tamination engendered  by  such  environment.  The  pert  and  for- 
ward miss,  who  disregards  tbe  wishes  of  those  around  her,  and 
who  has  neither  respect  nor  courtesy  for  her  elders,  is  a  living 
testimony  to  the  indifference  to,  and  ignorance  of,  all  maternal 
duties  of  the  woman  she  calls  mother.  The  girls  are  not  to 
blame.  When  the  mothers  of  daughters  give  to  them  the  affec- 
tionate thought  and  careful  consideration,  which  is  a  shield  and 
buckler  against  the  flippancies  and  mischievous  tendencies  so 
ready  to  crop  out,  tben  tbe  "  girls  of  sixteen  "  are  the  sweet  and 
attractive  maidens  tbey  should  be.  For,  at  no  time,  than  at  tbis 
age,  is  a  girl  more  charming,  notwithstanding  Byron's  reference 
to  the  "  Bread  and  butter  period.  " 
»  *  » 
The  Woman's  Exchange,  it  is  said,  is  an  institution  established 
and  maintained  for  the  benefit  of  indigent  people.  It  has  a  store 
down  town,  where  confections  and  flowers  are  sold,  and  the  pro- 
ceeds are  supposed  to  be  devoted  to  charitable  purposes.  The 
public  understands  that  most  of  the  flowers  sold  are  contributed 
to  tbe  Exchange,  so  that  all  the  proceeds  of  their  sale  are  profit. 
If  this  be  so,  says  an  argumentive  person,  why  is  it  that  the  Ex- 
change pays  $15  a  month  to  a  young  person  who  carries  flowers 
from  the  Hotel  Rafael  to  tbe  Exchange,  and  sends  the  remainder 
of  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  these  flowers  to  the  hotel?  That's 
what  I  would  like  to  know,  also.  Does  the  Exchange  act  as  a 
broker  for  the  sale  of  goods,  or  is  it  in  fact  a  charitable  institu- 
tion, selling  only  goods  that  are  contributed  to  it? 

There  has  been  a  run  upon  the  Cliff  House  of  these  beautiful  moon- 
light nights,  and  the  quantity  of  hot  Scotches  for  whose  consumption 
fair  Lunar  is  directly  responsible  is  past  finding  out.  I  have  never 
been  able  to  understand  the  intimate  connection  between  a  beautiful 
moonlight  night  on  the  one  side,  and  a  loving  couple  and  a  hot  Scotch 
on  the  other.  Does  the  magnificence  of  the  night,  the  glorious 
appearance  of  the  heavens,  the  splendor  of  tbe  moon,  and  the  twink- 
ling stars,  superinduce  a  desire  for  a  soothing  stimulant,  which  will 
five  to  one  produce  that  inspiration  which  surely  is  necessary  for  a 
full  appreciation  of  the  beauties  of  nature  ?  Or  is  hot  Scotch  a  favor- 
ite drink  among  couples  that  sit  upon  the  Cliff  House  veranda,  and 
watch  the  twinkling  light  upon  the  Farallones,  and  listen  to  the 
barking  of  the  seals  and  booming  of  the  surf,  when  the  curtains  of 
night  are  pinned  back  by  the  stars?  Whatever  may  be  the  cause, 
and  whatever  the  effect,  the  fact  remains  that  the  Cliff  House  pro- 
prietor has  recently  tripled  his  gas  bill,  merely  from  the  fact  that  he 
has  been  compelled  to  keep  half  a  dozen  gas  jets  burning  to  supply 
the  hot  water  necessarry  in  the  composition  of  that  gift  of  the  Gods 
aforesaid.  Where  he  has  lost,  however,  the  Powell  street  extension 
steam  cars  have  gained.  For  one  of  tbe  most  delightful  of  trips  to 
take  upon  a  moonlight  night,  is  that  upon  the  cars  that  creep  along 
the  headlands  above  Baker's  Beach.  Below,  the  heaving  bosom  of 
the  deep,  rises  and  falls  with  the  calmness  and  regularity  of  a 
maiden's  charms  ;  the  face  of  the  sea  is  lighted  with  the  mellow 
light  of  the  effulgent  moon  in  the  distance,  the  lanterns  that  guard 
the  mariners  from  rocky  shores,  twinkle  like  so  many  stars;  the  girl 
beside  you  sighs  as  she  drinks  in  the  beauties  of  the  scene,  and  then, 
happy  dog,  you  fondly  imagine  she  is  endeavoring  to  suppress  until 
a  more  opportune  moment,  the  fond  emotion  caused  by  your  pres- 
ence at  her  side.  That  Baker's  Beach  moonlight  ride  is  quite  the 
proper  thing.  About  half  a  mile  from  Sutro's,  over  hanging  the  sea, 
is  a  small  station  known  as  Land's  End,  and  there  is  a  watering 
place  labelled  Bleak  House.     I  have  yet  to  hear  of  a  couple  that 

dared  to  get  off  there. 

#  #  * 

There  is  an  inside  story  connected  with  the  production  of  the 
operetta  Columbus  by  the  San  Francisco  Verein  last  Saturday  night, 
that  is  not  generally  known.     It  seems  that  Mr.  Waldeck  was  the 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

THIS     VERY     LATEST. 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


— 


N       6,  1892. 


■  \N   FRANCISCO    NEWS   LETTER. 


13 


librettist,  and  it  i->  only  fair  to  say  that  his  work  is  up  to  the  average 
for  amateur  performances.  Mux  Blum. known  as  quite  B  clever  man 
on  work  of  this  sort.  Bided  Waldeck  in  the  preparation  of  his  libretto 
and  in  the  rehearsal,  it  appears,  that  Blum's  lines  seemed  all  the  ap- 
plause. Whereupon  Mr.  Waldeck  had  an  interview  with  Mr.  Blum, 
in  which  he  called  the  attention  of  the  latter  gentleman  to  the  fact  that 
as  he,  Waldeck.  was  to  be  known  as  the  librettist,  it  becomes  very 
painfully  apparent  that  Blum's  applauded  lines  must  be  omitted  or 
Blum  would  have  to  instruct  his  friends  to  applaud  qaite  so  liberally 
when  Waldeck *s  lines  appear.  The  lines  were  omitted.  It  is  cer- 
tainly to  be  reeretted  that  Mr.  Waldeck  did  not  wear  with  more  be- 
coming: modesty  the  many  honors  that  were  thrust  thick  upon  him. 
The  programme  omitted  the  cast  entirely  showing  only  the  libretto. 
Mr.  Waldeck.  however,  is  young  yet  in  the  opera  making  business, 
and  in  the  years  to  come,  no  doubt,  he  will  learn  how  to  bring  the 
blood  to  his  cheeks,  when  he  is  complimented  for  his  excellent  work. 

#  *  * 

The  Witches'  Entertainment,  given  by  the  congregation  of  the 
Pilgrim  Church  at  Washington  Hall,  East  Oakland,  last  night 
was  a  very  novel  affair.  The  invitations  gave  an  idea  of  what  it 
was  to  be,  for  the  cards  were  blood-red,  and  illustrated  with 
sketches  of  Mother  Sbipton,  Mother  Palmer,  and  all  the  other 
mystic  celebrities  ridiDg  on  brooms,  accompanied  by  their  cats. 
The  party  carried  out  the  idea  fully,  for  everything  was  tinged 
with  witchcraft,  and  the  scene  was  as  striking  as  it  was  interest- 
ing. 

#  *  * 

The  8chool  for  Scandal  Club  will  give  its  second  entertainment 
next  Thursday  evening.  It  will  take  the  form  of  a  musicale,  and 
will,  no  doubt,  be  as  enjoyable  as  was  the  theatrical  performance 
which  was  the  feature  of  last  week's  gathering.  The  Williams 
residence,  which  has  so  kindly  been  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the 
club,  is  very  well  adapted  to  their  needs,  and  the  fortnightly 
meetings  promise  to  be  among  the  most  pleasant  of  this  winter's 
season. 

#  *  * 

The  big  fair  at  St.  Francis  de  Sale's  Church,  Oakland,  closed 
this  week,  after  a  successful  run  of  thirteen  days.  Mrs.  Driscoll, 
Mrs.  Lobse,  Mrs.  Canning,  and,  in  fact,  all  the  principal  Cath- 
olics of  Athens  interested  themselves  in  the  bazar,  and  thus  it 
was  that  it  was  such  a  pronounced  success.  The  features  of  the 
fair  were  the  evening  entertainments,  during  which  ballads  were 
charmingly  sung  by  Mrs.  W.  E.  Dargie,  Miss  Grover,  Judge  Mel- 
vin  and  others. 


d  a  c  fpai  1  T^"  *s  now  an  aImost  safe  prediction  that  Los  An- 
1  geles  will  win  the  last  half  of  the  championship. 
Oakland  has  been  and  is  making  a  hard  right  for  it,  but  the  lead- 
ers had  too  large  a  percentage  for  the  Oaklands  to  overcome 
when  the  latter  got  down  to  their  work.  Barring  accidents,  the 
struggle  for  third  place  lies  between  San  Jose  and  San  Francisco. 
At  this  writing,  De  Wald  has  won  every  game  he  has  pitched  for 
Oakland.  Had  his  manager  secured  him  a  month  ago,  he  would 
at  this  time  have  his  club  in  the  lead.  A  noticeable  feature  of 
the  games  this  season  has  been  the  number  of  clubs  shut  out 
without  making  a  run.  This  indicates  good  pitching  and  fielding 
by  the  winning  clubs.  Baseball  at  this  time  is  being  played  no- 
where in  this  country  save  in  California.  Next  Tuesday  being  a 
legal  holiday,  a  game  will  be  played  between  Oakland  and  San 
Francisco,  at  the  Haight-street  grounds.  Stalling's  injury  is  not 
so  serious  as  was  at  first  expected.  De  Wald  will  pitch  for  the 
Oaklands  in  to-morrow's  game  in  this  city.  Los  Angeles  will 
have  no  more  championship  ball  until  next  season,  unless  her 
team  comes  out  in  the  lead  during  the  finish  of  this  year.  Ex- 
cepting Sundays,  the  game  will  begin  at  3  o'clock,  as  heretofore. 
The  change  to  half  an  hour  earlier  was  not  agreeable  to  the 
patrons  of  the  game. 


At  Gump's  Art  Rooms. 


The  magnificent  new  store  of  S.  &  G.  Gump,  at  113  Geary 
street,  has  been  crowded  during  the  week,  the  wealth  of  beautiful  ob- 
jects there  exhibited  having  attracted  people,  not  only  from  this  city, 
but  from  all  the  surrouading  counties.  The  ladies  take  particular  pleas- 
ure iu  visiting  the  new  department  the  firm  has  established— that  in  which 
is  shown  a  finer  collection  of  glass  and  tableware  than  has  ever  before 
been  seen  here.  Many  of  the  tables  of  the  society  people  of  the  city  will 
sparkle  during  the  holiday  feasts  with  the  fine  cut  glass  from  this  new 
department  of  the  Messrs.  Gump.  Hundreds  of  visitors  have  enjoyed  the 
works  of  art  in  the  galleries  on  the  third  floor.  Particular  attention  has 
been  given  to  a  magnificent  work  by  C.  B.  Schreiber,  numbered  1,519,  in 
the  Salon  of  this  year.  It  is  entitled,  "Encouragement,"  the  scene  being  a 
Cardinal  and  a  Monk  commenting  upon  a  painting  of  the  Madonna,  bef-jre 
which,  palette  in  hand,  stands  a  young  brother,  who  has  endeavored  to 
portray  on  the  canvas  the  magnificence  of  his  glorious  subject.  The  canvas 
is  equal  to  Ubert,  whose  famous  Cardinals  are  portrayed  to  the  life  m  the 
figure  of  the  red-robed  critic. 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  The  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 

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14 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


THE  new  social  scheme,  "  the  Ingleside  teas,"  is  the  topic  of 
the  hour.  Pretty  costumes  and  gorgeous  gowns  are  being 
manufactured,  and  the  men  are  seeing  to  it  that  their  turn-outs 
shall  be  the  nattiest  things  going.  All  that  is  uncertain  is  the 
weather,  and  every  one  is  devoutly  praying  that  that  powerful 
factor  may  be  propitious. 

+  »  » 

Even  if  the  skies  are  dark  and  the  rain  falling,  a  goodly  number 
will  attend  notwithstanding,  as  covered  coaches  will  convey 
guests  snugly  and  dry,  and  the  contrast  between  bright,  warm, 
beautifully  decorated  rooms  and  drizzling  damp  outside  will  make 
the  visitors  all  the  merrier.  Every  one  knows  that — the  male  sex 
at  least — the  pursuit  of  pleasure  under  difficulties  is  the  most  en- 
joyable, so  it  is  safe  to  assume  that  Colonel  Crocker's  efforts  to 
have  a  brilliant  opening  of  the  tea  season  on  the  12th  will  be 
crowned  with  absolute  success. 

*  *  * 

Handsome  Charley  Baldwin  may  be  looked  for  in  the  swim  fre- 
quently this  winter,  bis  aunt,  Mrs.  Michler,  having  gone  to  Eu- 
rope to  bear  Mrs.  Deacon  company,  thus  leaving  him  alone  at  his 
ranch  in  Santa  Clara  County. 

*  #  » 

The  destruction  by  fire  of  Mr.  George  W.  Meade's  beautiful  new 
house  on  Presidio  Heights  just  as  it  was  completed  is  a  matter  of 
double  regret  to  society ;  not  alone  for  the  loss  to  the  owners, 
but  Mrs.  Meade  bad  contemplated  a  series  of  entertainments  dur- 
ing the  winter  season  which,  no  doubt,  would  have  been  events 
in  that  line,  wealth  and  taste  combining  to  render  them  such. 

*  *  * 

Mrs.  Stanford,  it  is  hoped,  will  give  her  frif  nds  the  opportunity 
of  greeting  her  and  Senator  Stanford  ere  they  depart  again  to 
spend  the  winter  in  Washington  City. 

*  #  # 

Will  Barnes'  pretty  fiancee,  Miss  Delmas,  has  chosen  her  brides- 
maids, and  they  are  now  deep  in  the  mysteries  of  the  wedding 
gowns.  An  air  of  secrecy  is  observed  as  to  what  those  gowns  will 
be;  something  original,  therefore,  'tis  certain,  and  as  the  girls  se- 
lected are,  for  the  most  part,  exceedingly  pretty,  an  attractive  af- 
fair is  a  sure  thing. 

»  #  * 

Society  is  anxiously  hoping  for  one  or  two  big  balls,  at  least, 
before  Lent  comes.  But  the  question  is,  who  is  to  give  them  ? 
Both  Mrs.  Tevis  and  Mrs.  Hager  are  "  tea  "  givers  this  year,  Mrs. 
A.  M.  Parrott  will  be  certain  to  have  one,  however,  and  Mrs.  Pope 
has  promised  a  large  reception  to  the  Dan  Murphys.  Mrs.  Caro- 
lan  will,  'tis  said,  unite  a  reception  to  her  pon's  wife  and  the  de- 
but of  her  daughter  Emily  in  one  event,  and  a  whisper  goes  that 
Miss  Fanny  Loughborough  will  be  the  motif  for  opening  the 
lately  built  Loughborough  residence  on  O'Farrell  street. 

*  *  * 

While  the  society  reporters  are  gushing  over  the  advantages  to 
accrue  to  any  of  our  young  men  who  may  be  lucky  enough  to 
capture  Frank  Carolan's  sister-in-law,  they  should  not  lose  sight 
of  the  fact  that,  although  no  doubt  the  young  lady  in  question 
possesses  charms  in  addition  to  Papa  Pullman's  golden  ones,  we 
yet  have  several  of  our  own  San  Francisco  girls  who  possess  equal 
advantages.  As  for  instance,  the  youthful  beauty,  Miss  Hal 
Floyd;  Miss  Florence  Breckenridge.  who  not  only  has  a  rich 
grandfather  but  a  millionaire  step-pa  as  well;  Miss  Edith  New- 
lands  and  sister,  Janet,  co-heiresses  of  their  grandfather,  Senator 
Sharon ;  and  then  Miss  Birdie  Fair,  who  though  a  resident  of  New 
York,  yet  claims  California  as  her  home.  All  these  maidens  have 
youth,  beauty  and  wealth,  so  why  should  the  Chicago  millionaire's 
daughter  be  considered  a  prize  for  one  of  our  native  sons  to  cap- 
ture? 

»  «  ♦ 

"  Since  Col.  Fred  Crocker  has  again  taken  his  place  in  the  swim, 
no  other  fellow  has  a  ghost  of  a  show  with  the  women,"  was  the 
plaint  of  a  society  beau  the  other  evening.  Oh,  foolish  youth  ! 
have  you  yet  to  learn  that  a  prize  like  the  gallant  Colonel  is  not 
to  be  drawn  every  day,  and  outbalances  any  attraction  offered  by 
a  good  dancer,  good  dresser,  or  small  talker  ? 

*  •  * 

The  Britisher  of  dual  nomenclature  st.U  lingers  on  our  shores. 
Society  says  it  is  a  case  of  "I  would  and  I  wouldn't,"  but  who 
can  blame  a  man  for  hesitating  in  hia  choice  when  so  many  fair 
creatures  are  in  the  market   matrimonial.     The  difficulty  is  great. 

*  #  » 

Charming  Miss  Ella  Goad  has  tested  her  powers  as  hostess,  and 
proved  her  unusual  ability  in  that  line  at  her  dinner  to  the  Bakers- 
field  "  house  party  "  so  satisfactorily  to  her  father  that  a  series  of 
dinners  may  be  looked  for  at  their  hospitable  mansion  this  season. 


Kleptomania  is  becoming  more  fashionable  than  ever  in  Oak- 
land. At  the  6t.  Francis  de  Sales  Fair  the  other  night  some 
one  walked  off  with  a  handsome  gold  watch  and  chain  that  had 
been  donated  for  raffling  purposes. 

The  very  best  dinner  in  town  may  be  enjoyed  at  the  Original 
Swain's  Bakery,  213  Sutter  street,  which  for  years  has  had  the  repu- 
tation of  being  the  favorite  among  society's  swells.  All  the  delicacies 
of  the  season  are  always  on  its  menu,  and  its  chef  being  a  past  master 
of  the  gastronomic  art,  takes  pride  in  the  creations  which  he  places 
before  the  guests. 

Go  to  Litchfield,  at  12  Post  street,  if  you  want  good  clothes.  Col- 
onel Litchfield  has  done  business  in  this  city  for  years,  and  his  repu- 
tation is  well  established  as  the  leading  tailor  in  San  Francisco.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of  uniforms  and  regalias,  and  has  clothed  most  of 
the  gallant  officers  of  the  army  and  navy  and  National  Guard  located 
here. 


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STUDIO  :     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 


N..v.  5,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


15 


BA1XAD    OF    A    JESTER.  —  J.    Red/earn      Williamson,     in 
"  Temple  Bar." 


WHEN  beards  were  brown  that  now  are  frore, 
Above  the  salt  I  used  to  sit; 
Now,  at  life's  feast,  I  am  no  more 

Than  yon  poor  dog  that  turns  the  spit, 
I  could  go  mad  to  think  of  it : 
Although  for  ever  in  mine  ears 

Rings  an  old  rhyme  that  once  was  writ : 
'Twiil  matter  nought  in  fifty  years. 

When  flagrons  with  Rhine  wine  ran  o'er: 

And  tongues  wagged  fast,  and  lamps  were  lit: 
I  "set  the  table  in  a  roar," 

With  many  a  shaft  of  wanton  wit; 

The  King  would  cry  in  boist'rous  fit, 
While  walls  and  roof-tree  rang  with  cheers: 

"Good  cousin,  never  heed  the  hit: 
'Twill  matter  nought  in  fifty  years." 

I  loved  a  maid  in  days  of  yore, 

And  thought  to  win  the  saucy  chit, 
Despite  the  "motley  suit"  I  wore; 

(Alack!  how  far  my  fancies  flit.) 

The  damsel  cared  for  me  no  whit, 
And  I  got  naught  but  japes  and  jeers 

That  chafed  me  like  a  jennet's  bit: 
'Twill  matter  nought  in  fifty  years. 

Head  weary  am  I,  and  heart  sore: 

I  meet  cold  welcomes,  and  submit, 
Like  him  that  hath  not  paid  his  score, 

The  tapster  will  no  more  admit. 

Life's  ravelled  threads  the  fates  unknit, 
And  soon,  with  fardels  and  with  tears, 

And  cap  and  bells  I  shall  be  quit: 
'Twill  matter  nought  in  fifty  years. 

LAST   WORDS. 

Friends,  though  the  grave  gapes  like  a  pit, 
And  mirth  takes  wing  when  grief  appears: 

Bear  bravely  what  the  heavens  permit; 
'Twill  matter  much  in  fifty  years. 


TWO    SWEETHEARTS.— Oy  War man  in  N.  Y.  Sun. 

The  eyes  of  Lizette  are  like  miniature  seas, 

With  ripples  that  laugh,  and  willows  that  weep 

Od  the  shore;   and  the  low-bending  boughs  of  the  trees 
Deepen  and  soften  the  shadows  that  creep 

At  night  near  the  ocean  edge,  fashioned  to  fret 

A  saint  into  sinning — the  eyes  of  Lizette. 

The  eyes  of  Marie  were  designed  to  derange 

The  minds  of  weak  mortals.     There  is  something  about 

Them  so  sweetly  pathetic,  as  deep  and  as  strange 

As  two  holes  in  the  night  where  the  stars  are  pulled  out. 

How  can  I  choose  then,  which  shall  it  be — 

Laughing  Lizette  or  little  Marie  ? 


'WHEN  I  SAW  YOU  LAST,  ROSE. 

When  I  saw  you  last,  Rose, 

You  were  only  so  high; 
How  fast  the  time  goes. 

Like  a  bud  ere  it  blows 

You  just  peeped  at  the  sky. 
When  1  saw  you  last,  Rosel 

Now  your  petals  unclose, 

Now  your  May-time  is  nigh; 
How  fast  the  time  goes. 

And  a  life — how  it  grows! 

You  were  scarcely  so  shy, 
When  I  saw  you  last,  Rose! 

In  your  bosom  it  shows 

There^s  a  guest  on  the  sly; 
(How  fast  the  time  goes!") 

Is  it  cupid  ?     Who  knows  1 
Yet  you  used  not  to  sigh, 

When  I  saw  you  last.  Rose- 
How  fast  the  time  goesl 


DOBSON. 


THE  French  Ministry  has,  it  seems,  a  hard  task  at  present  in 
maintaining  its  position,  and  a  cabinet  crisis  is  not  unlikely 
to  occur  at  any  moment.  There  is  dissatisfaction  with  the  gov- 
ernment on  account  of  its  attitude  with  regard  to  the  recent  Car- 
nianx  strikes.  The  Franco-Swiss  treaty  of  commerce  has  en- 
raged the  proportionists,  and  the  investigation  of  the  Panama 
Canal  affair  threatens  to  compromise  some  officials  of  the  highest 
standing.  The  late  telegraphic  reports  are,  however,  too  meagre 
to  permit  a  current  insight  into  the  situation,  and  it  cannot  be 
foreseen  on  which  of  the  contentious  questions  that  have  arisen 
the  government  will  elect  to  challenge  a  vote  of  confidence.  Most 
likely  the  government  attitude  with  reference  to  the  Carmaux 
trouble  will  be  chosen  as  the  test. 


FROM 

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THE  BEST  MADE. 
Goodyear  Rubber  Company, 


K.  H.  PEASE,    j  Aeents. 
S.  M.  Bl'Ji  VON,  I  Aseais. 


577  A  S79  Market  Street. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


IT  lias  been  a  pretty  diffcult  matter  to  make  head  or  tail  of  the 
mining  market  during  the  past  week.  Business  dragged  with 
the  continued  decline,  until  it  finally  died  out  altogether  of  pure 
inanition,  as  prices  swept  to  bed-rock  in  many  of  the  principal 
stocks.  Of  course  in  Belcher  and  Con.  Cal.  Virginia  there  is  still 
a  large  margin  for  depression,  but  if  they  slide  down  the  scale 
much  more,  a  number  of  other  stocks  will  go  clear  out  of  sight. 
So  far  as  the  general  run  of  the  public  is  concerned,  this  would 
not  work  much  injury.  The  majority  of  outside  dealers  are  in  a 
position  prepared  for  any  movement  in  a  downward  direction. 
It  is  seldom  that  this  has  ever  been  the  case  before,  but  the  last 
deal  was  so  short-lived  and  so  erratic  in  its  methods  of  mani- 
festation that  people  were  either  frozen  out  in  short  order  or  they 
sold  for  a  decline  on  the  first  indications — wbich  were  apparent 
to  the  merest  greenhorn — that  something  had  happened  to  change 
the  ideas  of  the  operators  behind  the  scenes.  It  is  a  pity  that 
this  was  the  case,  as  the  opportunity  was  peculiarly  favorable 
for  making  a  market.  The  fact  so  palpable  to  everyone  who 
does  not  view  the  market  from  the  standpoint  of  bear  opera- 
tors, who  hesitate  at  nothing  to  carry  out  their  ends,  that  the 
mines  had  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  the  break,  makes  the 
sudden  change  in  a  carefully  laid  programme  more  peculiar. 
What  the  wind-up  may  be  is  a  very  difficult  matter  to  predict. 
If  the  market  rallies  again  with  such  an  appearance  of  strength 
as  it  had  when  Belcher  topped  $6,  it  will  go  a  long  way  in  prov- 
ing its  ability  to  withstand  a  system  of  manipulation  which 
would  kill  business  among  a  less  mercurial  class  of  dealers  which 
is  found  in  other  speculative  exchanges  outside  of  San  Francisco. 

?  $  $ 

GEORGE  ATWOOD,  son  of  Mr.  Melville  Atwood,  the  promi- 
nent mining  engineer  and  geologist  of  this  city,  who  is  also  an 
expert  of  repute,  has  just  completed  a  tour  of  all  the  new  mining 
camps  in  British  Columbia,  in  company  with  a  number  of  wealthy 
London  capitalists,  at  the  head  of  whom  is  Mr.  Reynolds.  These 
gentlemen  determined  to  see  the  lay  of  the  land  for  themselves, 
and  for  the  past  three  months  they  have  roughed  it  in  every 
sense  of  the  term,  sometimes  going  as  long  as  two  weeks  at  a 
time  without  having  an  opportunity  to  get  a  change  of  apparel. 
They  have  just  completed  their  trip,  and  before  leaving  for  home 
enough  English  gold  was  deposited  to  secure  the  purchase  of  a 
number  of  gold  properties  at  Fairview,  B.  C,  including  the  Rat- 
tler mine  and  mill,  and  also  the  Brown  Bear,  Ontario  and  Wy- 
man  mines.  They  also  secured  land  on  the  Okawogan  river  for 
a  mill  site,  etc.  This  is  a  common  sense  way  of  purchasing 
mines,  and  the  only  safe  way  for  people  to  invest  their  money  in 
this  class  of  property.  Seeing  is  believing  in  a  case  of  this  kind, 
and  there  is  no  chance  for  any  disagreeable  aftermath  in  the  form 
of  regret  at  a  loss  for  which  others  can  be  held  responsible.  Of 
course  every  one  cannot  take  in  the  ground  for  themselves,  but 
when  the  principal  purchasers  of  a  mine  have  the  grit  to  journey 
through  a  comparatively  new  and  wild  territory  in  the  way  that 
these  gentlemen  have  just  done,  they  can  be  pretty  safe  guides  to 
follow  in  any  investment  thay  may  select,  It  is  qnite  a  different 
affair  from  an  investigation  made  by  some  "guinea-pig"  director 
of  a  company,  who  travels  at  the  expense  of  the  shareholders  he 
is  hired  to  mystify  as  much  as  possible,  and  who  is  as  wise  at  the 
end  of  his  junketing  trip  as  he  was  when  he  started. 

S  S  $ 

THE  few  dealers  who  have  stuck  to  the  market  through  thick 
and  thin  have  been  dodging  from  one  line  of  stocks  to  the 
other  during  the  week,  in  an  attempt  to  even  up  their  ever  con- 
tinuing losses.  On  the  tip  that  a  new  bonanza  was  likely  to  be 
uncovered  in  Ophir  and  Mexican,  Belcher  was  sold,  and  the  new 
purchases  sent  the  North-Ends  up  a  point,  only  to  fall  flat  again 
when  the  slight  stimulus  they  received  failed.  Then  the  Middle 
shares  received  a  little  attention,  and  prices  showed  some  strength 
for  the  time  being.  And  so  on,  but  it  was  evident  that  the  market 
had  got  into  a  condition  which  will  puzzle  those  who  are  respon- 
sible for  it  to  make  any  prolonged  change  for  the  better.  The 
only  hope  lies  in  Belcher,  which,  if  it  were  permitted,  could  pull 
business  up,  backed  by  the  necessary  coin  to  stand  the  strain  at 
the  start.  As  for  Hale  &  Norcross,  if  any  ore  is  found  in  the 
workings  which  are  now  reported  on  the  1,800-leveI,  it  can  be 
considered  a  freak  of  nature.  Accidents  are  apt  to  happen  occa- 
sionally in  mining,  and  the  discovery  of  ore  in  the  present  cross- 
cuts will  be  like  tumbling  over  a  gold  mine  in  a  Marin  county 
cow  pasture.  Whenever  the  lateral  drift  is  extended  up  to  the 
Savage  line,  preparatory  to  cross-cutting  there.it  may  be  accepted 
as  evidence  that  the  time  has  come  to  bring  Norcross  to  the 
front,  but  not  until  then.  The  only  mine  there  is  any  certainty 
about  is  Con.  Cal. -Virginia,  and  one  of  the  best  features  of  the 
situation  in  this  property  is  the  fact  that  the  cry  is  raised  again 
in  the  old  quarters  that  the  mine  is  played  out.  Every  one  con- 
nected with  mining  operations  on  Pine  street  has  heard  that  old 
story  before,  and  the  changes  have  been  rung  on  it  so  often  that 


its  reiteration   becomes  nauseating  in  the  extreme.     This   state- 
ment has  always  been  a  prelude  to  an  attempt  to  break  the  stock, 
followed  by  an  unusual  activity  in  straddling  fences. 
ti  ? 

THE  London  financial  press  acknowledges  the  failure  of  the  San 
Jacinto  tin  mines,  and  goes  on  to  deplore  the  loss  of  money 
which  the  shareholders  have  suffered  through  a  misplaced  confi- 
dence in  the  "  bull  "  tips  which  from  time  to  time  have  been 
published.  This  friendly  commiseration  with  the  victims  of  the 
deal  will  probably  be  accepted  in  the  same  good  faith  as  the  ad- 
vice was  formerly  in  regard  to  the  shares,  •>  to  buy  them  early, 
buy  them  late,  and  keep  on  a-buying."  When  such  impudent 
swindles  as  the  Valley  Gold  and  Union  Gold  are  allowed  to  pass 
unnoticed  by  our  contemporaries,  it  can  hardly  be  expected  that 
more  than  ordinary  attention  would  be  given  to  the  matter  of  in- 
vestigating the  statements  of  such  a  highly  respectable  body  as 
the  Directors  of  the  San  Jacinto.  It  does  not  speak  much  for  the 
reliability  of  English  mining  engineers  now  that  a  post-mortem  is 
held  on  their  reports,  and  the  suggestion  made  by  one  of  the  most 
powerful  financial  papers,  in  disgust  and  wrath,  that  Ananias  was 
probably  a  member  of  the  profession,  does  not  seem  out  of  place 
under  the  circumstances.  It  now  turns  out  that  Mr.  Vercoe,  who 
was  out  here  some  time  ago,  supposed  to  be  merely  taking  a  look 
at  the  country,  had  more  in  view  than  the  mere  health  and  pleas- 
ure to  be  derived  from  the  trip.  He  was  in  reality  an  accredited 
agent  of  the  company  detailed  to  investigate  the  mines,  and  his 
report  confirms  the  statement  made  that  there  is  a  true-fissure 
vein.  This  the  directors  have  decided  to  work  down  upon  at 
depth,  extracting  no  more  ore  from  what  are  termed  superficial 
levels. 

$  $  $ 

NOTWITHSTANDING  the  rose-colored  reports  which  emanate 
in  a  self-satisfied  manner  from  the  journals  which  keep  up 
the  financial  standing  of  Mexico  abroad,  foreign  investers  must 
have  a  very  confiding  spirit  to  place  their  money  in  a  country 
which,  if  all  accounts  are  true,  must  be  more  barbarous  than  Rus- 
sia under  the  rule  of  a  Czar.  Among  the  news  of  the  week  is  the 
report  of  a  whole  village  being  wiped  out  by  sword  and  flame, 
because  the  inhabitants  opposed  the  collection  of  taxes  which 
they  claimed  were  exorbitant.  If  President  Diaz  sanctioned  such 
an  infamous  outrage,  and  it  is  to  be  presumed  he  did,  he  adds 
the  bloodthirstiness  of  a  Nero  to  his  other  qualifications  for  a 
Dictator.  In  view  of  such  a  scandalous  occurrence  finding  its 
way  into  print,  what  other  outrages  might  be  reported  were  the 
press  of  the  country  free  to  do  so?  If  life  is  valued  so  little  in 
Mexico,  what  chance  has  foreign  capital  for  protection? 

$  s  $ 

THE  inevitable  kick  has  been  made  by  the  plaintiffs  in  the 
Hale  &  Norcross  case  over  the  bond  filed  by  the  defendants, 
and  a  decision  is  supposed  to  be  rendered  by  the  court  to-day. 
Not  knowing  what  this  will  be,  comment  of  course  would  be 
rather  premature.  Taking  the  statute  as  it  is,  without  contorting 
it  to  suit  the  occasion,  as  lawyers  will  attempt  to  do  at  times,  it 
seems  strange  that  any  objection  should  have  been  made.  The 
law  as  it  reads,  without  making  allowance  for  a  kick  in  the 
organs  of  vision,  says  very  plainly  and  distinctly,  that  any  incor- 
porated company  with  a  capital  paid  up  of  $100,000,  shall  and 
must  be  accepted  as  surety  on  any  undertaking,  similar  to  that 
now  under  advisement  before  the  court.  As  there  is  no  question 
about  the  capital  of  the  company  offering  to  go  on  the  bonds  be- 
ing paid  up,  the  full  amount  of  coin  named  being  on  deposit  in 
the  Bank  of  California. 

its 

THE  mill  has  been  started  up  on  the  celebrated  Reed  properties 
near  Redding,  Shasta  county,  and  the  rock  is  running  high  in 
free  gold.  The  shaft  is  being  rapidly  emptied  of  water,  and  good 
rock  and  plenty  of  it  is  being  exposed  as  depth  is  attained.  The 
hoisting  machinery  is  nearing  completion,  and  everything  will 
soon  be  in  complete  running  order  in  and  around  the  works.  The 
company  will  not  be  under  the  necessity  at  present  of  erecting 
any  boarding-houses  for  the  employees,  as  they  have  been  able 
to  lease  the  premises  of  the  Central  mine,  which  is  both  com- 
modious and  convenient.  No  time  is  being  lost  by  the  energetic 
superintendent  of  this  property  in  getting  things  in  good  shape 
for  a  long  run  of  the  mill,  and  every  improvement  is  being  put  in 
which  experience  can  suggest. 

OUTSIDE  stocks  have  been  quiet  during  the  week,  and  little 
change  has  taken  place  in  prices.  It  is  said  that  the  Tusca- 
rora  people  are  going  to  try  the  cyanide  process,  which  may  help 
matters  along  considerably  in  that  camp.  The  Quijoatoa  mines 
are  not  doing  much  outside  of  Peerless  and  Crocker,  but  the  re- 
ports from  both  these  properties  are  sufficiently  encouraging  to 
bring  in  purchasers  for  Peerless,  who  threatened  at  one  time  to 
get  away  with  the  capital  stock  on  the  quiet.  The  worst  of  it 
was  that  the  stock  gave  the  business  away  before  many  hours 
had  elapsed,  and  that  ended  the  game  for  the  present,  at  any 
rate.  Since  last  issue,  the  only  assessments  announced  in  the 
Board  were  those  of  25  cents  and  10  cents  on  Bullion  and  New 
York  Con.  respectively.     The  Bulwer  Con.  dividend  was  paid. 


N         5,    1892. 


SAX   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


"Heart  he  Orler!"   "What  the  devil  art  thou?' 
"One  that  will  plavthedevil.  sir.  with  you." 


THE  French  Colony  in  this  city  is  alt  agog  to  know  which  one 
of  its  members  so  captivated  Lieutenant  Gounaud,  of  the 
French  flagship  Dubourdieu,  that  he  braved  court-martial  to  run 
away  from  his  vessel  to  enjoy  her  company  for  a  few  brief  hours. 
The  case  is  shrouded  in  mystery,  as  far  as  the  young  lady  is  con- 
cerned, but  has  some  rich  and  racy  features  connected  with  it. 
One  thing  is  certain — the  young  French  lady  is  a  wealthy  and 
beautiful  woman,  and  she  fell  overwhelmingly  in  love  with  the 
handsome  young  lieutenant  at  first  sight.  It  is  also  said  she  is  a 
member  of  one  of  the  exclusive  French  families,  and  that  the 
greatest  endeavors  have  been  used  by  her  relatives  to  keep  the 
affair  absolutely  quiet.  The  French  frigate  had  a  great  many 
visitors  while  she  was  in  the  harbor.  One  afternoon,  about  the 
middle  of  October,  Admiral  Parrayon  gave  a  reception  aboard 
the  Dubourdieu,  and  among  the  number  was  the  young  lady  in 
question.  Lieutenant  Gounaud  was  introduced,  and  captivated. 
He  is  said  to  have  invited  the  fair  charmer  to  his  state-room, 
where  a  couple  of  bottles  of  champagne  were  opened,  and  the 
two  became  quite  friendly.  Their  laughter  soon  disturbed  the 
usual  grave-like  quietude  of  the  war  vessel,  and  the  officer  of  the 
deck  sent  word  that  the  noise  must  stop.  No  attention  was  paid 
to  the  order,  and  a  summons  was  forthcoming  that  the  young 
lady  return  on  shore.  A  boat  was  called  away,  she  was  escorted 
to  the  gangway  and  placed  in  the  boat,  which  landed  her  at  the 
foot  of  Clay  street.  There  she  waited.  The  Lieutenant  was  or- 
dered to  his  room  in  disgrace.  Without  loss  of  time  he  changed 
his  clothes,  and,  when  the  opportunity  presented  itself,  slipped 
on  board  a  tug  alongside,  and  joined  his  lady  friend  at  the  land- 
ing. So  happy  was  she  at  seeing  him  a  second  time  that  she 
threw  her  arms  around  his  neck  and  kissed  him  again  and  again 
while  standing  on  the  dock.  A  hack  was  called,  and  the  pair 
disappeared  up  town.  That  evening  the  Lieutenant's  flight  was 
discovered,  and  half  a  dozen  officers  were  sent  out  to  find  him. 
The  young  lady's  family  missed  her,  and  another  search  was  in- 
stituted. Both  proved  fruitless  for  ten  days,  and  it  looked  as  if 
the  Dubourdieu  would  sail  without  the  Lieutenant  last  Saturday. 
Fate,  however,  decided  against  the  lovers,  for  on  Friday  night 
they  left  one  of  the  principal  hotels,  at  which  they  had  been  stay- 
ing, and  went  to  the  Baldwin  Theatre.  A  brother  officer  saw  the 
two  in  the  audience,  and  lost  no  time  in  sending  word  to  the  fri- 
gate. An  officer  and  two  marines  were  sent  to  arrest  the  offender. 
They  watched  him  and  his  lady  leave  the  theatre,  followed  them 
to  the  hotel,  and  a  few  minutes  later  arrested  the  Lieutenant  in 
his  room  while  he  was  in  the  act  of  disrobing.  The  young  woman 
sprang  into  the  arms  of  her  lover,  and  had  to  be  torn  away  while 
the  arresting  force  marched  the  Lieutenant  to  the  frigate — a 
prisoner.  The  young  woman  lost  no  time,  but,  hunting  up  the 
Captain  of  the  Millie,  engaged  that  boat  to  follow  the  frigate  to 
the  heads  when  she  sailed,  and  stipulated  that  in  case  a  young 
officer  should  jump  overboard  from  the  Dubourdieu  that  he  would 
be  picked  up.  Money  was  no  object  with  her,  and  she  exhibited 
a  purse  full  of  shining  twenties.  The  tug  blew  off  steam  all  day 
Saturday,  but  the  Lieutenant's  mistress  never  appeared,  and  the 
frigate  went  to  sea.  A  few  minutes  before  Admiral  Parrayon 
went  on  board  the  frigate  he  was  asked  about  the  Lieutenant. 
With  a  cold  gleam  in  his  eye  he  replied:  "We  will  attend  to  that 
young  man's  case,  sir."  So  the  Lieutenant,  who  loved  not  wisely 
but  too  well,  will  be  court-martialed,  and  possibly  dismissed  from 
the  service,  while  the  young  woman  is  left  to  captivate  some 
other  susceptible  young  man  with  her  charms. 

I  WAS  watching  my  friend  Joullin  paint  a  portrait  of  a 
certain  good-looking  club  man  the  other  day,  and  reflected 
how  agreeable  an  art  is  his.  It  demands  some  little  manual  exer- 
tion; it  is  pleasant,  too,  in  this,  that  lines  and  colors  are  so  much 
more  palpable  than  words,  and  the  appeal  of  his  work  to  his 
practiced  eye  has  some  satisfaction  in  it.  The  portrait  painter  is 
of  all  men  the  most  beloved.  One  sits  to  him  willingly,  and  of 
course  puts  on  his  best  looks.  We  are  inclined  to  be  pleased  with 
his  work  on  account  of  our  strong  prepossession  for  the  subject. 
To  sit  for  one's  portrait  is  like  being  present  at  one's  own  crea- 
tion. It  is  an  admirable  excuse  for  egotism.  No  one  would  dis- 
course of  the  falcon-like  curve  which  distinguishes  his  nose,  or 
the  sweet  serenity  of  his  reposing  lips,  or  the  mildness  of  the  eye 
that  spreads  a  light  over  the  countenance,  in  the  presence  of  a 
fellow  creature  for  the  whole  world,  yet  we  do  not  hesitate  to 
express  the  most  favorable  opinion  of  the  features  starting  out  on 
the  wet  canvas.  The  interest  the  painter  takes  in  his  task  is 
likewise  flattering.  And  when  the  sitting  is  over,  and  the  por- 
trait is  hung  on  the  wall,  how  grateful  one  feels  to  the  artist  who 
has  painted  him  as  if  he  could  direct  kingdoms  or  lead  armies. 
Whether  it  be  a  dark,  dreamy  Joereddingism,  or  a  quick,  nervous 
Shortridgity  the  sitter  desires,  the  portrait  painter  learns  it  by  in- 
tuition, and  it  goes  into  the  picture. 


peaceable  gentlema| 
has  a  record  as  a  fig 
that  Tom  Williams* 
'HE  is  a  charmig 
lives  in  a  big  ] 
Pieasanton   or  soma 


THAT  refined  hoodlum,  Tom  Williams,  known  as  the  Duke  of 
I  nion  Island,  gave  another  exhibition  of  bis  gentle  nature  on 
Saturday  last  during  the  races  at  the  Bay  District  Track.  Fulton 
G.  Berry,  of  Fresno,  a  wealthy  vineyardist,  a  prominent  Demo- 
crat, and,  in  fact,  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the  State,  had 
gone  to  the  track  as  the  guest  of  Mr.  Seymour  and  Captain 
White.  Captain  White  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Blood 
Horse  Association,  and  as  such  was,  of  course,  entitled  lo  all  the 
privileges  of  the  clubhouse.  As  Mr.  Berry  was  his  guest,  he  in- 
vited that  gentleman  to  a  seat  on  the  clubhouse  stand.  Mr.  Berry 
accompanied'Captain  White  to  the  clubhouse,  and  was  preparing 
to  enjoy  the  races,  while  Captain  White  was  for  the  moment  en- 
gaged with  some  other  gentlemen,  when  Tom  Williams  ap- 
proached Mr.  Berry,  and  in  a  surly  and  ungentlemanly  manner, 
said:  "  Are  you  a  member  of  this  club?"  "  No,  I  am  not,"  said 
Mr.  Berry  "  I  am  here  as  a  guest  of  Captain  White."  "  Well," 
said  the  hoodlum  Duke  of  Union  Island,  "  this  stand  and  club- 
house is  for  the  use  of  members  of  the   Association  only,  and  so 

you  get  out  of  here,  and quick,  too,  you  hear  mel  "     With 

that  this  »  gentleman  member  "  of  a  gentleman's  association 
forcibly  seized  Mr.  Berry,  rushed  him  to  the  staircase,  and  threw 
him  down-stairs.  As  Mr.  Berry's  coat-tails  came  on  a  level  with 
the  Williams'  foot,  the  latter  was  raised  and  forcibly  placed 
against  the  nether  habiliments  of  the  gentleman  from  Fresno, 
much  to  the  pain,  discomfiture  and  shame  of  the  vineyardist. 
When  Mr.  Berry  arrived  without  the  clubhouse  stand,  and  came 
to  a  full  realization  of  the  insult  that  had  been  put  upon  him,  he 
did  only  what  a  gentleman  could  do  under  the  circumstances. 
He  sent  Mr.  Williams  his  card,  with  the  statement  that  he  would 
demand  satisfaction.  Subsequently  the  gentleman  and  the  fellow 
had  a  meeting,  and  according  to  the  statement  of  the  former, 
Williams  made  satisfactory  explanations  and  apologies.  What 
explanations  could  be  made  satisfactory  to  a  gentleman  who  had 
been  kicked  down-stairs,  I  cannot  imagine.  It  is  not  to  be  ex- 
pected that  the  directors  of  the  Blood  Horse  Association  will  in- 
vestigate this  affair,  and  hold  Williams  to  answer.  He  has  too 
much  money,  it  seems,  to  be  considered  as  would  an  ordinary 
man.v.  When  it  is  k^pwn,  however,  that  Mr.  Berry  is  an  old  and 
-and  that  Williams  is  a  young  man,  who 
er,  one  cannot  help  expressing  the  opinion 
a  bully  and  a  coward. 

SHE  is  a  charmij^§*woman,  but  unfortunately — married.  She 
lives  in  a  big  p*Hate  hotel,  no  matter  which;  it  may  be  the 
ther;  that  is  immaterial.  There  is  a  Yale 
lock  on  her  door,  which  can  be  opened,  of  course,  only  by  a  key 
which  has  upon  its  edge  the  proper  number  of  serrations,  and  in 
the  proper  places.  No  one  would  imagine  for  a  moment  that  she 
is  giddy,  for  she  is  altogether  too  sweet  for  that,  and  besides,  as  I 
said  at  first,  she  is  unfortunate,  being  married.  It  occurred  to 
her  the  other  day  that  she  ought  to  have  another  latchkey  for  her 
door,  so  she  told  the  janitor  to  have  another  key  made.  He  did 
so,  and  a  few  days  later,  just  before  dinner,  he  was  going  to  the 
room  to  give  it  to  her,  when  he  met  her  confiding  husband  in  the 
hall.  The  janitor,  supposing  the  new  key  was  for  the  husband, 
gave  it  to  him,  explaining  that  his  wife  had  ordered  it.  The  hus- 
band took  it,  and  then,  with  that  cold,  grim  smile  upon  his  lips, 
and  that  steely  glitter  in  his  eye  that  all  disturbers  of  the  happi- 
ness of  households  carry  with  them,  he  continued  on  his  way  to 
the  diningroom,  where  the  partner  of  his  bosom  awaited  him. 
To  her  he  walked  with  measured  tread.  Holding  the  latchkey 
aloft,  he  said  in  tones  that  attracted  the  attention  of  all  the 
boarders:  "  You  have  ordered  another  latchkey,  have  you?  And 
for  whom,  madam?  For  whom?  What  the  devil  does  this 
mean,  madam?  What  does  this  mean?  It  has  come  at  last, 
has  it?  At  last!  Ha!  ha!"  And  the  lady  mingled  her  tears  with 
her  soup  and  went  away.  The  husband  thrust  the  telltale  key 
deep  in  bi3  trousers  pocket  and  followed  her,  smoothing  the 
horns  upon  his  head  as  he  went.  All  of  which  goes  to  show  that 
most  janitors  are  fools,  and  that  most  young  and  vivacious 
women  are  unfortunate — being  married. 

JUDGE  PRYOR  of  New  York  has  enunciated  a  new  principle  in 
jurisprudence  which  will  meet  with  the  hearty  indorsement  of 
every  honorable  man.  A  divorce  case  was  being  tried  before  him, 
and  the  husband  introduced  a  witness  who  swore  that  the  wife 
had  permitted  him  certain  favors.  This  was  in  revenge,  for  the 
wife  was  the  suitor  and  had  amply  proven  her  husband's  infidelity. 
The  judge  instructed  the  jury  that  no  credence  should  be  given  to 
the  evidence  of  the  witness  against  the  wife.  "  The  man  who 
enjoys  a  woman's  favors  and  then  tells  about  it,  is  not  worthy  of 
belief,  "  said  he.  And  every  man  and  woman  will  say  amen  to 
this  ruling. 

THEY  had  a  church  entertainment  up  in  a  Nevada  mining  town 
the  other  evening,  which  was  as  prosy  as  such  affairs  usually 
are  until  a  good  deacon  with  a  slight  knowledge  of  the  use  of  punc- 
tuation, arose  to  announce  one  of  the  numbers  on  the  programme, 
which  he  did  in  this  manner  :  "  Miss  Jones  will  now  sing  •  Put 
me  in  my  little  bed  '  with  Mr.  Brown,  thepastor."  As  Mr.  Brown 
was  a  bachelor  and  had  been  the  target  of  all  the  young  ladies  and 
old  maids  of  the  place  for  months,  the  embarrassment  of  the  situ- 
ation can  be  readily  conceived.  But  the  irreverent  youth  of  the 
congregation  have  not  yet  ceased  to  snicker  over  the  remarkable 
announcement. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


5UNBCAMS 


I  HATE  to  see  a  good  story  spoiled  as  Froude,  the  historian, 
spoils  that  of  the  boy-witness,  in  a  recent  interview.  The  true 
story  was  told  of  Surrogate  Ransom,  before  whom  a  child  ap- 
peared as  a  witness  in  a  disputed  will  case.  Desiring  to  test  the 
competency  of  the  child  to  give  testimony,  the  surrogate  leaned  over 
the  bench  and  kindly  asked:  "  If  you  tell  lies,  my  boy,  do  you  know 
where  you  will  go  to  when  you  die?"  "  N-n-no.  sir,  1  don't,"  re- 
plied the  boy,  and  began  to  whimper.  "  Well,  neither  do  I,"  said  the 
surrogate;  ''  so  don't  let's  cry  about  it."  The  witness  was  allowed  to 
testify.  —Stephen  Fiske  in  Dolgeville  Herald. 

A  shipload  of  fine  horses  were  recently  consigned  from  Calcutta 

to  Bombay,  under  the  charge  of  a  very  honest  but  somewhat  dull 
agent  in  the  employ  of  an  East  India  Company.  While  the  horses 
were  being  landed  at  the  slip,  they  managed  to  break  away  from  the 
men  in  charge,  and  ran  like  wild  animals  through  the  city.  The 
agent  caught  one  of  them,  and,  mounting  him,  gave  chase.  After 
several  hours  of  exciting  work,  with  the  help  of  his  men,  he  had  cap- 
tured ail  but  one  of  the  horses,  as  he  counted  them.  Finally  he  made 
his  reluctant  way  to  the  superintendent's  office  to  give  an  account  of 
the  matter.  The  superintendent  came  to  the  door  and  listened  to  the 
story.  ''And  you  say  there  were  124  horses  in  all,  and  you  have  SO 
of  them  in  the  company's  stables  and  43  of  them  back  in  the  steamer 
temporarily?"  "  Yes,'  sir,  all  safe  but  one;  and  we  cannot  find  him 
anywhere."    "  What  is  that  horse  you  are  riding?  "        —Exchange. 

— — "There  are  no  bones  broken,"  said  the  surgeon  after  a  brief  ex- 
amination of  the  inanimate  form  that  lay  on  the  cot  in  the  drug  store, 
where  it  had  been  placed  by  willing  hand's  immediately  after  the  runa- 
way accident,  "  but  her  shoulder  is  dislocated.  It  will  have  to  be 
pulled  in  placed  by  main  strength.  That  is  all  there  is  to  it."  With 
a  sudden  expression  of  pain  the  young  woman  from  Boston  opened 
her  eyes.    "  I  think  '  that  is  all  there  is  of  it '  is  the  correct  expres- 


-Chicago  Tribune. 


Piatt; 

►  hat. 


—  Puck. 


turned  from  tea  with 
,than  you  did,  "yes, 
eating  inore'n  half 
think  you've  eaten 
•self  sick?"  And  I 
— Puck. 


'  she  said,  and  fainted  away  again. 

Benny-in-the- White-House  says 

He  has  things  fixed  up  with 

But  every  one  in  New  York  knc 

That's  he  talking  through  b1 

Mrs.  Manncrley  (to  her  daughter,  who  has  just 

friends)— 1  hope  you  said,  "no.  thank  you,"  ofttrl 

thank  you."    Mabel— Yes,  I  did.    I  hadn't  b?ej 

an  hour  before  they  began  saying,  "don't  yoj 

enough  1 "    "  Are  n't  you  afraid  you'll  make  jH 

said  "  no,  thank  you,''  every  time. 

An  Irish  corporal  who  now  and  then  indulges  in  a  "  naggin  " 

of  the  "  crather  "  was  thus  accosted  by  his  captain  while  standing  at 
ease:  "  Pat,  what  makes  your  nose  so  red?  "  "  Plase.  your  honor," 
said  Pat,  "  I  always  blush  when  I  spakes  to  an  officer." 

— Irish  Times. 

"  Hallo.  Christopher!  "  exclaimed  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  as 

Columbus  stepped  on  the  shores  of  Spain  after  his  return.  "  What 
news,  old  boy?  "  "  Your  Majesties,"  exclaimed  the  discoverer,  proud- 
"  I  got  there."  (He  was  afterwards  put  in  chains  for  using  slang  in 
the  presence  of  royalty. ) 

"  1  hear  that  Flammins  won  a  big  stake"froni  you  last  night." 

,lieS'     He  played  me  a  mighty  small  trick."    "  What  was  that?  " 

He  whistled  '  God  save  the  queen  '  when  he  drew  his  cards,  and  his 
hand  was  full  of  kings  and  aces."  —Judge. 

"  AVhat  reason  had  you  for  knocking  him  down?"  asked  the 

magistrate.  "  Had  he  made  an  assault  on  you?  "  "  Worse  than  that, 
Judge,  answered  the  prisoner.  "  He  made  fun  of  the  church  I  belong 
to!  —Chicago  Tribune. 

asked 


^  Were^ you  ever  married  by  a-justice  of  the  peace?' 

friend,    Mrs.    Brown-Smith-White-Jones. 


Mrs.  Newlywed  of  her 
"  Never  that  I  remember, 
flection. 


replied  her  friend,  after  a  moment's  re- 
— Detroit  Free  Press. 

He  came  from  the  baseball  grounds  with  his  eves  blacked,  his 

arm  in  a  sling,  and  a  decided  limp  in  his  left  leg.    "  Were  you  the  um- 
pire?    somebody  asked.    "  No;  I  was  the  mascot."  —Judge. 

,  Willie— Do  you  suppose,  mamma,  that  Columbus  looks  down 

from  heaven  and  sees  all  this?    Mamma  (sighing)— I  hope  not.  poor 
fellow!     He's  had  trouble  enough.  — Town  Topics. 

w'fe  of  his  bosom— Dearie,  do  j'ou  think  this  dress  is  cut  too 

low?     Boor  of  a  Husband—  It  all  depends  whether  you  dance  with  a 
tall  man  or  a  short  one.  Town  Topics. 

Budweisser— Have  you  seen  the  new  piscatorial  sub-aqueous 

camera?    Barlholomay—  What's  it  for?    Budweisser— To  photograph 
the  big  hsh  that  get  away.  —Life. 

RownedeBout— Doesn't  drinking  affect  your  sight?  Old  Hen- 
nessey—I  should  say  so.  1  often  see  more  in  a  minute  than  other  men 
do  in  a  life-time.  Puck. 

Irate  Parent— I  am  going  to  give  each  of  you  a  sound  thrashing. 

Now,  where  shall  I  begin?    Hopeful  Son—  Ladies   before  gentlemen, 
father.  Fuck. 

Miss  Flypp  (searching  her  purse)— Well,  I'm  bankrupt.  Mr.  As- 
ian (extending  his  arms)— Then  I  will  appoint  myself  your  receiver. 

—  Town  Topics. 

• Cubbage—l  hear  you  have  a  deep  affection  for  Miss  Brodakers. 

Hdow—  I  have,     I  love  the  ground  she  walks  on. —Judge. 

All  good  diners  like  delicious  oysters,  for  which  reason  it  is  that 
there  is  such  a  run  upon  Moraghan,  of  the  California  Market.  He 
has  the  best  oysters  in  town. 


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If) 


A  STORY  which  is  now  going  the  rounds  concerning  the  late 
Duke  of  Sutherland  reminds  one  of  another  story,  with  a  dif- 
ferent ending,  which  used  to  be  told  of  Lord  Palmerston.  The 
story  told  of  the  Duke  of  Sutherland  is  that  upon  one  occasion  he 
was  smoking  in  one  of  the  waiting  rooms  at  Stafford  when  a 
porter  came  in  an  told  him  that  it  was  forbidden.  The  noble 
Duk*»  left  orT,  but  began  again  shortly  afterwards,  and  the  same 
porter,  seeing  him,  was  about  to  remonstrate  again  when  a  passer- 
by informed  him  that  it  was  the  Duke  of  Sutherland.  The  porter 
came  up  and  apologized  for  his  first  remark.  "  I  took  you  for  an 
honest  man,"  said  the  Duke,  after  looking  at  him  for  a  moment, 
"  but  I  see  you're  a  fool."  The  other  story  is  that  Lord  Palmers- 
ton  was  walking  along  a  railway  platform  smoking  a  cigar  in  the 
days  when  no  smoking  was  permitted  upon  railway  premises. 
Well,  he  too  was  reminded  by  an  official  that  he  was  transgress 
ing  the  company's  regulations,  and,  as  he  took  not  the  slightest 
notice  of  the  reminder,  the  official  snatched  the  cigar  from  the 
noble  lord's  lips,  threw  it  upon  the  ground  and  trampled  upon  it, 
whereupon  Lord  Palmerston,  admiring  the  man's  stern  perform- 
ance of  his  duty,  made  inquiries  about  him,  and  used  his  influence 
to  get  him  promoted  to  a  higher  and  more  remunerative  post  on 
the  line. 

The  well-known  Russian  poet,  Puschkine,  who  was  always  over 
head  and  ears  in  debt,  had  a  volume  of  his  books  splendidly 
bound  and  sent  to  the  Czar,  with  this  inscription  on  the  title- 
page:  "The  works  of  Puschkine,  dedicated  to  His  Majesty."  The 
Emperor  duly  received  it,  and  in  his  turn  sent  him  a  book  of 
blank  pages,  among  which  were  several  bank  notes  of  1,000 
roubles  each,  which  he  had  forwarded  to  the  poet  with  this  auto- 
graph inscription.  On  the  first  page  was  written:  "  The  Emper- 
or's works,  to  the  poet  Puschkine."  The  following  day  the  Em- 
peror met  the  poet  at  the  Imperial  Theatre,  and  said  to  him  :  "  By 
the  bye,  Puschkine,  how  did  you  like  my  poetry?"  "Sire,"  re- 
plied he,  "  the  first  volume  filled  me  with  enthusiasm,  and  I  await 
the  second  with  great  impatience  I  " 

There  is  an  ancient  story  of  two  rival  painters  who  challenged 
each  other  to  a  trial  of  realistic  strength.  One  of  them  chose  for 
his  subject  a  bunch  of  grapes,  and  did  it  so  naturally  that  the 
birds  came  and  pecked  at  them.  "When  the  show-day  came, 
"Friend,"  he  said,  flinging  back  the  curtain  which  veiled  his 
picture,  "  I  have  won;  see,  even  the  birds  acknowledge  my  art  I 
Now,  prytbee,  draw  aside  thy  curtain,  that  all  may  behold  thy 
work  I  "  Then  the  other  said,  «•  Nay,  friend,  mine  is  the  victory. 
That  is  no  curtain,  but  my  picture."  Whereupon  the  former 
owned  himself  vanquished,  magnaminoualy  remarking  that  he 
had  deceived  only  the  birds  of  the  air,  but  the  other  had  deceived 
the  painter  himself. 


HandePs  supposed  birthplace  at  Halle,  which  has  for  some  time 
past  been  used  as  a  beer-girden,  is  shortly  to  be  offered  for  sale, 
the  intention  being  to  erect  a  lager  beer  brewery  on  its  site.  The 
exact  position  of  the  house  occupied  in  1685  by  Handel's  father, 
then  "Town  Barber-Surgeon,"  has  long  been  a  matter  of  dispute, 
but  local  tradition  has  assigned  the  premises  now  known  as  4,  Ni- 
colai  Strasse  (formerly  the  "Grosser  Schlamme ")  as  the  place 
where  the  composer  of  the  Messiah  was  born;  and  a  committee  is 
about  to  be  formed  to  collect  subscriptions  for  the  purchase  of 
the  building,  and  its  conversion  into  a  Handel  Museum. 

Patti,  too,  has  been  writing  her  memoirs  and  reminiscences 
with  great  frankness.  On  one  occasion,  she  says,  she  was  actually 
embarrassed  by  the  late  King  of  Spain.  He  was  conducting  her 
over  the  palace,  in  company  with  the  present  Queen.  Every  four 
or  five  seconds  his  Majesty  called  the  singer's  attention  to  some 
picture  or  trinket,  and  exclaimed  mournfully:  "That  belonged  to 
my  dear  Mercedes  "  (his  first  wife).  The  Queen  and  the  artiste 
tried  to  change  the  subject,  but  Alfonso  XII.  was  full  of  loving 
reminiscences,  and  he  led  the  conversation. 

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GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDIEIP^IRTMIEnSTT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO..        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE 

OF  LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     s  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 

ffffl.  J,  UNDEKS,  Gen'l  Agent,  20»  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

OAPITAI, $6,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,538.46. 

President.  ktsnjAMIN  V.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  QIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  e tored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  FirBt-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


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Capital  paid  4j  guaranteed   $3,000,000,00. 

Chas.  A  L  atom,  Manager, 
439  California  St.  San  Fi-aosssn- 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


SOME  do  find  time,  in  spite  of  a  hot  municipal  political  cam- 
paign, to  think,  of  buying  and  selling  real  estate,  and  so, 
though  few  would  have  expected  it,  a  good  sale  was  made  during 
the  week.  The  two-story  brick  warehouse,  covering  two  50-varas 
on  Greenwich,  between  Sansome  and  Battery  streets,  known  as  the 
Flint  and  Bixby  bonded  warehouse,  has  been  sold  by  Dr.  Flint  to 
A.  P.  Hotaling,  for  $85,000  in  round  figures,  the  price  being 
within  a  trifle  of  that  sum.  One  little  fact  in  connection  with  the  sale 
has  escaped  general  attention.  None  of  the  big  real  estate  firms 
made  the  sale  and  the  comfortable  commission,  but  the  affair  was 
carried  off  by  one  of  those  individuals  usually,  and  rather  con- 
temptuously referred  to  as  a  curbstone  broker.  Whether  the 
gentleman  got  his  full  two  and  a-half  per  cent,  or  not  is  a  secret 
known  only  to  his  own  bosom  and  one  of  the  other  two  parties 
for  whom  he  acted.  The  sale,  however,  comes  very  opportunely, 
as  an  illustration  of  the  improving  market  which  is  being  gen- 
erally claimed,  and  is  doubtless  a  well-founded  fact. 

Baldwin  &  Hammond  have  made  one  or  two  good  turns,  the 
best  being  the  sale  of  a  $14,000  residence  at  2028  Scott  street,  and 
others  being  the  lot  40x107  on  Lyons,  between  Bush  and  Sutter, 
for  $3,600;  and  the  lot  50x120  on  Fourth  avenue,  between  Point 
Lobos  and  Clement.  As  mentioned  some  time  ago,  the  firm  in- 
tend offering  at  auction  over  $300,000  worth  of  property  belong- 
ing to  the  John  Sullivan  estate  and  to  Andrew  B.  McCrary.  The 
first  auction  will  be  held  November  17th,  and  property  valued  at 
about  $125,000,  all  in  four  blocks,  near  the  park,  will  be  offered. 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  sold  the  corner  of  Gough  and  Jackson, 
80x127:8,  for  $13,000,  and  a  house  and  lot,  26:9x100  on  Green, 
near  Octavia,  for  $4,950. 

The  extension  of  Potrero  avenue  from  Twenty-fourth  street  to 
the  county  line,  is  just  now  the  subjected  discussion  among 
Potrero  owners.  The  commissioners  in  this  »rticularly  scandal- 
ous job  are  Charles  W.  Taber,  John  A.  Ray  »nd  Lewis  A.  Hay- 
ward.  Taber  is  the  Supervisor  for  the  Eleventh  Ward,  and  was 
instrumental  in  having  his  associates  appointed  on  the  commis- 
sion. Taber  is  Vice  President,  Ray  is  Treaftrer,  and  Hayward 
ia  President  of  the  Guadaloupe  dairy.  To  ojen  Potrero  avenue 
to  the  county  line  this  dairy  must  be  traversed,  so  that  all  these 
facts  suggest  intimate  co-relation,  and  both  lead  up  to  and  offer 
an  explanation  for  the  following  figures,  which  for  some  reason 
have  not  heretofore  been  published.  This  trio  of  commissioners, 
with  an  eye  single  to  benefiting  the  property-owner,  and  devel- 
oping that  section  of  the  city,  and  utterly  oblivious  of  any  possi- 
ble advantage  that  might  accrue  to  the  owners  of  the  Guada- 
loupe dairy,  estimate  that  the  expense  of  opening  the  street 
through  this  acreage  property  will  be  only  $241,202.  Included  in 
this  eatimate  are  the  following  items:  The  damages  for  land 
taken,  $173,676;  for  improvements,  $21,857;  nine  months' salar- 
ies for  three  commissioners,  $5,400;  surveyor  and  map  of  assess- 
ment district,  $6,500;  attorney  for  commission,  $3,880.  These  are 
not  all,  however ;  on  the  top  of  these  items  are  two  more,  described 
thus:  "other  expenses,  $6,931.55,"  and  "contingent  expenses, 
$16,987.38."  When  men  propose  such  daylight  robbery  as  this, 
they  are  running  much  greater  riaka  than  they  imagine.  These 
extension  commissions  have  so  harrassed  reaidenta  of  the  Mis- 
sion and  Potrero  that  patience  has  long  since  ceased  to  be  a 
virtue,  and  they  are  gradually  being"  goaded  to  fury.  It  would 
have  been  well  for  Mr.  Taber  and  his  colleagues  to  have  heard 
what  some  of  the  exasperated  property-owners  had  to  say  at 
their  meeting  at  the  Potrero  on  Wednesday  evening. 

The  condition  of  the  money  market  leaves  no  cause  for  com- 
plaint. Deposits  have  been  very  heavy  throughout  the  year,  and 
are  still  being  steadily  added  to.  These  large  accumulations  the 
real  estate  dealers  believe,  and  with  good  show  of  reason,  must 
find  an  outlet  in  investment,  and  in  this  fact  lies  one  of  the  sound- 
eat  reasons  for  expecting  a  lively  market  as  soon  as  the  smoke  of 
the  political  battle  has  cleared  away,  and  every  one  has  settled 
down  to  business.  October's  sales  amounted  10  390,  for  $1,136,573, 
the  mortgages  379,  for  $1,277,072,  and  the  releases  209.  for 
$645,145. 

The  sale  this  week  of  the  Grayson  Block,  in  Oakland,  enriches 
the  head  of  the  family  by  about  $47,000.  The  property  is  to  be 
all  built  on,  and  the  guests  in  Bromwell's  boarding-house  across 
the  street  will  not  in  future  have  a  vista  so  fair  to  see. 


Get  your  cleaning  and  dyeing  done  at  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and 
Dyeing  Works,  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  353-357  Tehama  street.  This 
establishment  is  the  most  famous  on  the  Coast.  Its  work  is  always 
excellent,  and  it  has  place  in  the  front  rank.  Spaulding  is  patronized 
by  all  the  leading  hotels,  private  and  public,  and  by  the  best  fami- 
lies in  the  city. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavonworth  streets  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  hondsome  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 


CALIFORNIA  WIRE  WORKS, 

9  FREMONT  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

MANUFACTURERS    OF 

WIRE  of  all  Kinds,     WIRE  HAILS,  Best  Steel, 

BARBED     WIRE,  Regularly  Licensed. 

WIRE     ROPES    AND     CABLES. 

WIRE     CLOTH    AND     NETTING. 

HALLADIB'S  ENDLESS  WIRE    ROPEWAY   for  transporting 
ore  and  other  material  over  mountains  and  difficult  roads. 
Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 

BRANCHES.— 22  Front  street,  Portland,  Or.;  201  N.  Los  Angeles  street, 
Los  Angeles,  California. 

CYPRESS   LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

IF-A-ZMZIXTX"      PLOTS 
For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non-sectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  the  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 

SMOKE  THE  BEST. 
LINCOLN'S  CABINET 


CARL  UPMAN'S  FAMOUS  CIGAR. 


RENTS! 


We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  &  HAMMOND, 

Real  Estate  Agents  and  Rent  Co) lectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


pacific  towel  ooi&^j^isriz: 

9     LICK     PLACE, 

Furnishes  Clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates: 

Clean  Hand  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per  month;   12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  mouth ;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week.  $1.00  per 
6  month;  6  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.25  per  month. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Occidental     Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  above-named  Com- 
pany will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  69,  Nevada  Block, 
309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  SI  th  day  of  November.  1 882.  at  the  hour  of  1  P.  M. 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  Fridav.  November  18th,  1892,  at  3 
o'clock  p.  m.  ALFRED  E.  DURBROW.  Secretary. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 
arcla  Vocal  Method.       Solfeggio  panseron. 

Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Feedeeick 
Mareiott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco,    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 


Nov.  5,  1892 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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THE  reason  of  the  withdrawal  of  the  Northwestern  National  is 
said  10  be  the  credit  evil,  which  the  Union  is  so  strenuously 
striving  to  remedy.  George  W.Turner  says  he  is  prepared  to  fight 
the  Union,  and  he  doubtless  means  what  he  says;  but  in  the  end, 
after  gamboling  about  like  a  stray  sheep,  it  is  a  pretty  safe  predic- 
tion that  he  will  re-enter  the  fold,  as  his  company's  business  on 
this  coast  is  not  large  enough  to  make  such  a  breach  in  the  com- 
pact fence  as  to  entice  other  companies  to  jump  out  after  it. 

The  Northwestern  National  is  a  strong  conservative  company, 
as  its  remarkably  small  losses  in  the  big  fire  at  Milwaukee,  where 
the  head  offices  are  located,  amply  prove.  The  insurance  loss 
was  over  $3,500,000,  and  the  Northwestern  National's  loss  is  loss 
is  less  than  one  per  cent,  of  the  total.  This  is  unquestionably  an 
admirable  showing  for  conservative  insurance  management  and 
care  in  the  selection  of  risks. 

The  rebated  commission  evil  is  to  be  seized  firmly.  Next  week 
the  constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  Insurance  Associates  will  be 
ready  for  adoption  and  signature.  It  has  already  been  approved, 
but  the  committee,  while  desiring  to  make  it  as  simple  and  effect- 
ive as  possible,  has  referred  it  to  a  lawyer,  with  a  view  to  hav- 
ing him  pass  on  its  ability  to  cover  all  the  points  desired.  The 
brokers  will  then  submit  the  constitution  to  the  compact  for  ap- 
proval and  endorsement.  The  constitution  re-iterates  the  qual- 
ifications for  brokers  and  solicitors  as  now  required  under  the 
compact,  and  also  the  pledges  as  to  deviations  and  violations. 
Small  dues  will  be  charged  to  meet  the  current  expenses  of  the 
association,  and  a  deposit  will  be  required  of  each  member  as 
guarantee  of  good  faith.  It  is  believed  by  those  who  are  inter- 
ested in  the  organization  of  the  association  that  the  brokers  can 
have  better  control  of  brokers  than  the  compact.  There  is  a  good 
deal  of  common  sense  in  this  idea.  A  broker  ought  to  know  the 
ways  of  his  class,  and  the  detection  of  commission-cutting  ought 
to  be  easier  for  a  broker  than  a  manager.  It  is  understood  that 
there  will  not  be  less  than  sixty  to  eighty  signatures  to  the  con- 
stitution and  by-laws  before  this  day  week. 

The  insurance  losses  on  the  Milwaukee  fire  were  not  nearly  so 
heavy  as  many  thought  they  would  be,  for  the  reason  that  the 
burned  district  was  one  of  hazardous  risks,  very  little  better  than 
the  south  of  Market  street  portion  of  San  Francisco.  The  Fire- 
man's Fund  loss  was  $10,500,  and  three  or  four  other  companies 
were  mulcted  in  an  equal  amount.  The  insurance  was  distrib- 
uted over  a  large  number  of  companies  in  small  risks. 

The  loss  on  the  Joseph  S.  Spinney  was  about  $200,000.  Much 
of  the  hull  was  carried  to  New  York.  In  this  city  the  cargo  was 
insured  for  about  $100,000,  and  the  hull  for  from  $10,000  to  $15,- 
000. 


THE  cholera  cannot  be  kept  off  by  any  legal  enactment.  The 
Russian  authorities  hardly  seem  to  have  awakened  to  the 
fact,  judging  by  some  of  the  regulations  which  they  have  pro- 
mulgated. Thus  at  .Riga  the  sale  of  meat  was  absolutely  pro- 
hibited for  twenty-four  hours  under  pain  of  a  fine  of  1,000  roubles, 
while  at  Raval  children  were  enjoined  to  sleep  on  their  backs 
only.  No  penalty,  however,  seems  to  have  been  assigned  for  a 
breach  of  this  edict.  "Would  any  youngster  who  dared  to  turn  on 
his  side  have  been  at  once  sent  to  Siberia? 

There  was  once  a  hungry  young  tiger, 
Who  was  starved  by  the  butchers  of  Riga, 

So  each  youngster  who  tried 

To  repose  on  his  side 
Was  dispatched  to  the  tiger  of  Riga. 


A  COURSE  in  general  astronomy  will  be  organized  at  the  Chabot 
Observatory,  Eleventh  and  Jefferson  streets,  Oakland,  on 
Friday  evening,  November  4th,  1892,  at  8  p.  m.  All  persons  who 
desire  to  join  such  class  are  invited  to  be  present. 


Our  Society. 
Blue  Book,  containing  the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days 
of  the  leading  society  people  of  San  Francisco  and  the  principa 
social  centers  of  the  State,  is  now  in  press,  and  will  be  issued  in 
November  at  th6  opening  of  the  society  season.  We  have  been  par- 
ticularly careful  in  the  selection  of  names  to  grace  the  pages  of  the 
Blue  Book  and  have  eliminated  many  which  have  appeared  in  for- 
mer publications.  It  will  be  kept  on  file  exclusively  at  all  the  clubs, 
fashionable  hotels,  theaters,  summer  resorts,  etc.  The  arrangement 
of  names  will  be  alphabetically,  and  numerically  by  streets,  similar 
to  the  Chicago,  New  York  and  Philadelphia  blue  books.  The  print- 
ing will  be  in  the  familiar  blue-and-gold  covers,  with  gilt-edged  text. 
The  information  conveyed  on  the  pale-blue  leaves  will  be  set  forth  in 
a  generally  attractive  manner  for  the  class  of  people  which  the  Blue 
Book  is  specially  intended.  It  has  become  the  accepted  fashionable 
private  address  directory  of  California  society  people.  The  Blue 
Book  will  be  kept  on  sale  at  all  first  class  book  stores  (excepting 
Bancroft's).  Charles  C.  Hoag,  publisher,  175  and  176  Crocker  build- 
ing San  Francisco. 


TENNIS  '"THEKE  has  not  been  much  doing  lately  in  tennis 
1  circles  owing  to  the  inclemency  ot  the  weather. 
The  mixed  doubles  championship  of  Alameda  county  was  played 
on  the  29th  ult. ,  with  the  following  results:  First  round — Miss 
Everson  and  Sanborn  defeated  Miss  Willard  and  Sherwood,  6-1, 
6-1;  Miss  Roberts  and  Sam  Hardy  defeated  Miss  Barington  and 
Myrick.6-0,  6-0;  Miss  Bates  and  C.  D.  Bates  defeated  Mrs.  S.  M. 
Haslett  and  Holmes,  6-1,  6-1;  Miss  Crouch  and  Driscoll  defeated 
Miss  Bailey  and  Harry  Haight,  6-0,  6-3.  Second  round — Miss 
Everson  and  Sanborn  defeated  Miss  Roberts  and  Hardy,  0-6,  6-4, 
6-1;  Miss  Bates  and  Bates  defeated  Miss  Crouch  and  Driscoll, 
4-6,  6-3,  6-3.  Third  round — Miss  Bates  and  Bates  defeated  Miss 
Everson  and  Sanborn,  6-4,  6-3.  The  second  prize  was  won  by 
Miss  Everson  and  Sanborn. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Alameda  L.  T.  Association,  held 
at  the  grounds  of  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club,  and  the  following 
were  elected  to  act  on  the  committee  for  the  coming  year:  Presi- 
dent, S.  M.  Haslett;  Vice-President,  J.J.Archibald;  Secretary, 
S.  T.  8anborn,  and  T.  A.  Driscoll,  Rountree  and  H.  M.  Lands- 
berger. 

The  annual  double  championship  of  Alameda  county  will  be 
held  at  the  grounds  of  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club  on  Thanksgiving 
Day.  The  Tournament  Committee  for  that  event  are:  C.  A. 
Culver,  J.  J.  Archibald  and  Henry  M.  Landsberger. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Alameda  Tennis  Club  will  be  held 
next  Monday  week  at  the  club-house.  It  is  intended  to  elect  a 
Board  of  Directors  for  the  ensuing  year.  The  nominating  Com- 
mittee have  placed  the  following  names  as  their  choice  for  Di- 
rectors :  P.  E.  Haslett,  G.  W.  Lunt,  George  Coffee  and  8.  M.  Has- 
lett. 

The  California  Lawn  Tennis  Club  will  have  a  tournament  on 
Thanksgiving  Day,  but  it  is  not  yet  decided  what  it  will  be.  If 
the  members  would  only  be  a  little  more  liberal  in  their  subscrip- 
tions for  the  cups  for  the  quarterly  double  event,  it  would  be  de- 
cided to  begin  that  tournament  on  that  day. 

AMATEUR  theatrical  performances  are  by  no  means  confined  to 
this  city.  The  production  of  The  Marble  Heart  at  the  Opera  House 
in  San  Rafael  on  Thursday  evening,  drawing  a  large  attendance 
of  residents  from  far  and  near  as  well  as  a  number  from  the  city 
who  went  over  purposely  to  enjoy  what  was  a  very  good  per- 
formance, and  netted  the  beneficiary — the  Sisters  of  the  Domini- 
can Convent  of  San  Rafael — a  nice  sum. 

Situated  in  Napa  County,  Gal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
commodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Min  eral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  Mtna.  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  Office,  108  Dmmm  Street,  S.  F 

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FINE  DIAMONDS, 

Gold    and   Silver  Watches. 

The  newest  designs  in  jew- 
bs  ellery  of  first  quality  only,  at 
very   reasonable  prices. 
A.   W.   STOTT, 

3    Montgomery  St, 
Under  Masonic  Temple. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  good;    Extras  $3.90Tq)$4  10:    Superfine,  $2  60@$3.10. 

Wheat— Good  trade;  Shipping,  $1.32V&;  Milling.  *l.35@$1.37Jji  per  cental 

Barley  is  higher;  Brewing,  9oc  @$i  Feed,  $bc.@&t\-ic.  per  cti. 

Oats.  Milling,  ?1.35@?1.40;  Feed,  $1.'25@$1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1  2):  Yellow,  $l.l5@$l.-.io  per  ctl. 

Rye  is  quiet,  good  demand,  $1.15^1.20.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hay  is  higher;  Wheat,  $12;  Oats,  $8®$y,  Alfalfa,  $8@$9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $15{g)$16  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2. 0060$.;. 40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  35c.@7oc.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  30c.@30c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c. @l0c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  35c.@i40c. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c.@12c;  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  40c@i0c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@2oc. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7J.2C      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5%c.@6c 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@22c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4 I. 50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stocK.  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.  Whites,  4^®5%c. 
Business  marts  exhibit  a  good  degree  of  activity  in  nearly  every 
department  of  traffic.  Orders  from  the  interior  for  staple  mer- 
chandise are  of  increasing  importance,  showing  a  growing  con- 
sumptive demand  for  Coffee,  Sugar,  Tea,  as  well  as  for  other  staple 
commodities.  While  executing  these  large  orders  from  the  inte- 
rior, we  are  receiving  in  turn  the  increased  products  of  the  farm, 
the  orchard  and  the  dairy.  Our  river  and  coasting  crafts,  both 
steam  and  sail,  are  fully  and  profitably  employed,  while  the  rail- 
roads are  carrying  hither  and  yon  increased  supplies,  exhibiting 
the  steady  growth  of  our  home  commerce. 

Coal  imports,  both  foreign  and  domestic,  are  free  and  liberal, 
keeping  prices  at  comparatively  low  figures. 

Sugar  prices  were  advanced  at  the  close  of  October  on  all  grades 
of  the  refined  product. 

Gold  from  Australia — During  the  last  two  months  we  have  re- 
ceived from  the  Colonies  the  equivalent  of  $2,500,000  in  English 
Sovereigns.  These  all  go  directly  to  the  United  States  Branch 
Mint  for  recoinage,  and  are  at  once  used  as  the  basis  for  Sterling 
Bills  on  London. 

The  steamship  Australia,  hence  for  Honolulu  on  the  26th  ult., 
carried  in  Gold  Coin  $75,000;  also  in  Greenback  Currency  $200. 
For  cargo,  235  bbls.  Flour  and  assorted  Mdse..  of  the  value  of 
$56,000. 

Exports  to  Santa  Rosalia,  per  James  A.  Garfield,  consisted  of 
1,500  bbls.  Flour,  28,827  lbs.  8ugar,  1,041  bales  Hay,  3,843  lbs. 
Tallow,  62,900  lbs.  Beans,  etc.  Value,  $25,572.  To  Honolulu, 
per  Ceylon,  Mdse.,  value  $15,081,  say  875  bbls.  B'lour,  3,192  ctls. 
Barley,  etc. 

To  Tahiti,  per  bkte  City  of  Papeete,  649  bbls.  Flour,  1,140  mats 
Rice,  34,000  lbs.  Bread,  4,864  lbs.  Beans,  1,806  lbs.  Lard,  etc., 
value  $12,518. 

Flour  for  Central  .America  from  the  Puget  Sound  Mills — Say 
1,200  bbls.  to  San  Salvador,  600  lbs  to  Acajutla,  600  bbls.  to  La 
Libertad,  600  bbls.  to  Corinto,  600  bbls.  to  Champerico,  1,050  bbls. 
to  San  Jose,  all  packed  to  order  in  50  lb.  sks.  In  all,  the  ship- 
ment was  3,450  bbls. 

New  York. — Ship  George  8tetson  sailed  on  the  1st.  inst.  thence, 
with  a  full  cargo,  say  63,673  galls.  Wine,  8,464  galls.  Brandy, 
6,368  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  25,453  lbs.  Beans,  19,975  ctls.  Barley,  370 
bbls.  Fish  Oil,  100  bbls.  Glue,  27,624  lbs.  Mustard  Seed,  499,600 
lbs.  Ore,  11,794  cs.  Salmon;  also,  to  ether  Eastern  cities,  1,000  cs. 
Salmon,  850  cs.  Canned  Fruit. 

Honolulu — The  S.  G.  Wilder,  hence  November  1st,  carried 
Mdse.  value  $18,653,  say  552  bbls.  Flour,  etc. 

Japan. — The  schr.  Prosper,  31  days  from  Kobe,  via  Shanghae, 
to  Siegfried  &  Brandenstien,  has  a  general  cargo  of  assorted  mer- 
chandise, consisting  in  part  of  12,677  pkgs.  Tea,  926  rolls  Matting, 
864  bdls.  Bamboo,  162  cs.  Curios,  etc. 

Oregon. — The  steamers  from  Columbia  river  continue  to  bring 
us  large  quantities  of  Wheat  and  Flour  and  other  produce. 

Central  America. — The  Br.  steamer  Grandholm,  hence  Novem- 
ber 1st,  carried  Mdse.  value  $58,761,  say  4,430  bbls.  Flour,  14,520 
lbs.  Rice,  76  M.  feet  Lumber,  1,300  bbls.  Cement,  2,500  galis. 
Wine,  etc. 

Mexico. — The  Newbern,  hence  November  1st,  carried  Mdse. 
value  $63,139 — Quicksilver,  Sugar,  Machinery,  etc. 

Good  Cooking 

Is  one  of  the  chief  blessings  of  every  home.  To  always   insure  good 

custards,  puddings,  sauces,  etc.,   use  Gail  Borden   "Eagle"   Brand 

Condensed  Milk.     Directions  on  the  label.  Sold,  by  your  grocer  and 
druggist. 

Laundry  Farm  is  one  of  the  most  popular  picnic  places  within 
easy  reach  of  the  city.  It  is  reached  by  the  California  Railway, 
which  runs  direct  to  it.  This  railway  is  also  the  only  one  running 
direct  to  Mills'  Seminary,  the  leading  ladies'  college  on  the  coast.  A 
trip  on  the  California  Railway,  starting  from  Market-street  ferry,  is 
a  delightful  outing. 


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BANK    OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,250,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE   60  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;  Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 
Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— Loudon  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

532  California  street,  corner  Webb  Street. 

Beanch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

OepOMlto,  June  30,  1893 $35,890,653  OO 

Uaaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,633,136  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Uiert  aillLar,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DePremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 


Geo.  A.  Low, 
N.  Van  Bergen, 
Thomas  Jennings, 


N.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) 91,600,000 

SURPLUS S600  000  |   UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $160,000 

8.  G.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN  Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT....  Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.KLINE Ass  tCaBhier 

DIRECTORS: 

George  C.  Perkins,  8.  G.  Murphy, 

James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.m. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  OAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND (    1,645.000  OO. 

Deposits  Juiy  I,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Offickbs— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  8CHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  r.  Jabbob. 

MOTOAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $ltOOO(000. 

OFFICER  B. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  8.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Pair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas,  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (United), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscned  Capital 92,600,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital 92,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  9660,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Aoents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St., N.Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Preres  &  Cie,  17Bonle 
vard  PoisBoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  CreditB  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. __^_ 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK.  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  j  Paid  up .  .$1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund. 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  Court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Selieman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  hanking  lusiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
worli*.    .Sends  hills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  Bells  exchanga 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    )  MftTlfttrfiTja 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL.  i  Managers. 
A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


Nov.  '.,  1892 


SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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DETAILS  have  at  last  oeen  made  public  concerning  the  Kins- 
man block  system  of  preventing  rear  collisions  on  railways. 
The  apparatus  has  been  carefully  tested  for  nearly  three  years  on 
the  Hoosac  Tunnel  route,  near  Aver  Junction,  Mass.,  and  the  trials 
have  been  so  successful  that  the  company  controlling  the  patents  has 
secured  a  contract  to  put  in  the  system  on  twenty-six  miles  of  one 
of  the  roads  entering  Chicago.  In  principle,  it  is  simplicity  itself. 
The  setting  of  a  visual  signal  along  the  track  at  danger,  switches  an 
electric  current  into  a  rail  fixed  ou  the  cross-ties  of  the  main  track 
opposite  the  signal  post  like  an  ordinary  guard  rail.  On  the  ap- 
proach of  a  train  an  electric  connection  is  made  between  this  electri- 
fied rail  and  an  electro  magnet  in  the  cab  of  the  locomotive.  When 
this  magnet  is  electrified  it  releases  a  valve  connected  with  the  air 
pump  ou  the  engine,  and  the  throttle  valve  is  closed  and  the  brakes 
set  automatically.  No  locomotive  engineer  would  care  to  have  more 
complicated  details  in  his  cab  than  are  now  found,  so  the  designer 
of  the  Kinsman  apparatus  has  arranged  his  appliances  in  such  a 
manner  that  they  take  up  very  little  space.  It  will  be  seen  that  the 
system  is  designed  to  automatically  stop  a  train  at  a  danger  signal, 
even  if  the  engineer  does  not  heed  it. 

—  The  power  used  in  iron  ore  mining  in  the  United  States  is 
enormous.  The  late  official  returns  from  the  various  mines  report  a 
total  of  more  than  1100  steam  boilers,  with  an  aggregate  of  some 
58,000  horse  power;  and  these  boilers  furnished  steam  to  about  1100 
steam  engines,  including  air  compressors,  hoisting  machinery,  en- 
gines for  driving  washers,  crushers,  etc.,  some  of  large  size.  These 
engines,  however,  do  not  in  most  instances  include  the  motive  power 
for  pumps,  in  a  majority  of  cases  the  latter  being  rated  independent 
of  steam  engines,  as  a  locomotive  would  be.  In  the  returns  made, 
however,  there  were  about  eighty  pumps  mentioned  independent  of 
steam  engines,  twenty  locomotives  used  in  and  about  the  mines,  four 
steam  shovels  employed  in  digging  or  handling  ore,  eight  turbine 
wheels  driving  machinery,  and  ten  air  compressors  worked  by  water 
power.  Of  course,  the  application  of  steam  and  compressed  air  in 
the  iron  mines  has  very  largely  reduced  the  number  of  animals  em- 
ployed in  and  about  the  mines ;  and  it  is  to  be  remarked  that  Michi- 
gan, on  account  of  its  numerous  deep  mines,  and  as  the  largest  pro- 
ducer of  iron  ore,  stands  at  the  head  of  these  data  of  machinery  and 
power. 

—  It  seems  that  a  large  number  of  puddling  furnaces  are  being 
equipped  with  the  newly  devised  "shields"  for  protecting  workmen 
from  the  furnace  heat.  The  arrangement  consists  of  a  rectangular 
iron  screen  suspended  from  an  overhead  rail,  which  can  be  made  to 
cover  the  whole  working  side  of  the  furnace,  and  can  be  pushed 
aside  when  not  required  or  when  it  interferes  with  the  work.  The 
lower  end  is  bent  into  a  gutter  having  a  slight  fall  in  the  direc- 
tion of  its  length,  and  the  upper  edge  is  provided  on  the  inside— that 
nearest  the  furnace— with  a  pipe  perforated  with  small  holes  about 
three-fourths  of  an  inch  apart,  which  is  in  connection  with  the  pipe 
supplying  water  for  cooling  the  sides  of  the  furnace  bed.  When  in 
use  the  inside  of  the  screen  is  kept  constantly  wet  from  the  supply 
pipe,  the  jets  trickling  down  the  screen ;  a  notch  is  left  at  the  bottom 
of  the  screen  for  the  passage  of  the  dregs,  and  a  short  inclined  plate 
is  provided  for  the  cinders  to  run  over— with  these  exceptions  the 
whole  of  the  furnace  being  screened  by  the  water  cooled  plate,  to  the 
great  advantage  of  the  operatives. 

— —The  interesting  fact  appears  in  a  recently  published  report 
made  to  the  French  government  that  hemp  or  aloes  ropes  are  almost 
exclusively  used  for  all  depths  of  shaft  in  Belgian  mines.  Accord- 
ing to  the  statement  made,  the  manufacturers  warrant  the  ropes  to 
serve  one  and  a  half  to  two  and  a  half  years,  and,  incase  of  their 
failing  in  a  shorter  period,  one-twelfth  to  one-twenty-fourth  of  their 
cost  is  deducted  for  every  mouth  short  of  their  stipulated  duration. 
It  is  further  stated  that  steel  wire  ropes,  when  used  for  mining  pur- 
poses, should  be  of  crucible  steel,  having  a  breaking  strength  of 
seventy  to  seventy-six  tons  per  square  inch ;  that  large  pulleys  are 
more  necessary  for  wire  than  for  hemp  ropes,  the  smallest  diameter 
permissible  being  thirteen  hundred  to  fourteen  hundred  times  the 
diameter  of  the  wire  in  the  rope  if  of  iron  and  two  thousand 
times  if  of  steel.  Wire  ropes  are  best  made  with  a  hemp  core,  being 
more  flexible. 

The  name  of  carborundum  has  recently  been  given  to  a  pe- 
culiar manufactured  substance  intended,  on  account  of  the  peculiar 
properties  which  characterize  it  when  thus  used,  to  take  the  place  of 
diamond  dust  and  bort  in  the  abrasion  of  hard  substances.  Singular 
to  say,  the  product  is  in  character  wholly  unlike  the  substances  from 
which  it  is  derived— that  is,  in  composition  it  is  almost  pure  carbon, 
in  construction  crystalline,  and  in  hardness  itis  tin,  on  Mohr's  scale. 
The  cost  of  this  material  is  said  to  be  very  moderate. 

The  Maison  Riohe  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant  ave- 
nue has  been  known  as  the  leading  restaurant  of  the  city  since  its 
establishment.    It  is  society's  favorite  resort. 


THEY  tell  a  story  of  a  mythical  dude  in  New  York,  who 
happened  to  go  borne  unexpectedly  and  found  an  acquaint- 
ance there  engaged  in  warmly  hugging  his  wife.  Asked  how  he 
conducted  himself,  he  said  be  was  »  so  angry  that  he  told  the 
couple  he  thought  tbey  were  weal  mean,  and  then  went  out  and 
slammed  the  door  weal  hard."  This  bit  of  pleasantry,  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  ordinary  dude's  manliness,  seems  to  have  had  an 
exemplification  in  real  life.  The  story  comes  from  Washington 
that  a  naval  surgeon,  who  suspected  Ihe  infidelity  of  his  wife,  actu- 
ally caught  her  in  flagrante  delictu  with  an  English  swell,  who  "  is 
a  great  society  man  and  possessed  of  wealth."  Did  the  injured 
husband  imitate  Lieutenant  Hetherington  and  bore  the  seducer 
of  his  wife  with  a  revolver  bullet  ?  Oh,  no,  not  he.  He  simply 
"  slapped  the  man's  face  and  called  him  some  hard  names,"  and 
then  proceeded  to  spread  far  and  wide  the  story  of  his  own  shame 
— for  it  certainly  is  a  man's  own  fault  if  he  cannot  keep  his  wife 
true  to  him.  His  own  conduct  shows  that  he  lacks  the  first  at- 
tributes of  a  man,  and  deserved  to  lose  bis  wife.  "Slapped  the 
seducer's  face  and  called  him  names."  Bah!  What  did  Colt  in- 
vent the  revolver  for? 

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Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


LORD  SALISBURY  in  an  article  in  the  National  Review  this 
month,  on  the  subject  of  constitutional  revision,  replies  to 
the  threat  of  the  Liberals  that  Mr.  Gladstone  will  swamp  the  House 
of  Lords  with  a  horde  of  new  Liberal  peers  in  case  a  home  rule  bill 
passed  in  the  House  of  Commons  should  be  rejected  by  the  present 
House  of  Lords,  by  saying  that  the  next  Tory  Government  would  be 
able  to  retaliate  by  a  creation  of  an  equal  number  of  conservative 
peers.  Fortunately  such  an  absurd  method  of  meeting  the  difficulty 
will  not  have  to  be  resorted  to;  for,  as  the  ex-Premier  correctly 
points  out  "Great  Britain  has  given  no  mandate  for  such  exception  al 
proceeding,  and  if  any  home-rule  mandate  has  been  given  at  all  it 
has  been  given  only  by  a  trifling  majority."  If  Mr.  Gladstone  should 
really  be  able  to  draft  a  home-rule  bill  acceptable  to  all  the  differen  t 
groups  of  his  motley  following,  and  if  he  should  succeed  in  keeping 
together  the  majority  of  the  thirty-eight  votes  which  he  still  possesses 
— and  these  are  big  "ifs*'— it  is  certain  beyond  doubt  that  he  will 
have  to  appeal  once  more  to  the  country  before  the  bill  can  becom  e 
law,  and  it  is  almost  equally  certain  that  the  British  electors  will 
offer  a  strenuous  opposition  to  Mr.  Gladstone's  remaining  in  office 
when  they  see  that  he  is  ready  to  imperil  the  union  of  Geat  Britai  n, 
as  he  must  do,  by  drafting  a  measure  that  suits  the  Irish,  for  the 
purpose  of  satisfying  the  small  group  of  Hibernian  representatives, 
notwithstanding  the  opposition  of  the  vast  majority  of  the  English 
members  of  Parliament.  Still  more  likely,  however,  it  is  that  Mr. 
Gladstone's  majority  will  vanish  at  the  moment  that  his  home-rule 
bill  is  submitted  for  a  second  reading. 

The  threatened  danger  of  a  Cabinet  crisis  on  account  of  the  Gov- 
ernment's attitude  with  regard  to  the  Carmaux  strikes  has  not  been 
averted  by  the  effort  to  submit  the  matter  to  arbitration.  M.  Lou- 
bert,  president  of  the  Chamber  of  Deputies  has  expressed  himself  in 
favor  of  this  solution;  the  miner's,  however,  are  reported  to  have 
rejected  the  proposal  and  their  leaders  clamor  for  amnesty  and  pay- 
ment of  the  strikers  for  the  whole  time  they  have  been  absent  from 
work.  M.  Clemanceau  is  enraged  at  the  Government  proposal  and 
the  ministry  has  shown  bad  judgment  in  declaring  in  favor  of  arbi- 
tration before  having  ascertained  whether  the  proposal  would  have 
the  support  of  both  contending  parties.  A  firm  attitude  of  the  Gov- 
ernment would  have  been  far  more  successful.  Meanwhile  the  vote 
of  the  Chamber  refusing  the  demand  of  the  Radicals  for  the  amnesty 
of  the  miners  has  strengthened  the  position  of  the  agitators  in  the 
mining  district  and  new  bloodshed  will  be  averted  with  difficulty, 
since  the  Government  has  now  decided  to  remain  firm  and  to  make 
no  further  concession.  The  ministry  insists  that  the  miners  shall  go 
back  to  work  before  the  troops  are  withdrawn  in  the  Carmaux  dis- 
trict, and  there  is  little  chance  of  the  strikers  yielding  since  the 
Government  in  their  eyes  has  shown  a  sign  of  weakness,  though  o  f 
course,  they  accuse  the  ministers  of  tyranny.  The  outlook,  there- 
fore, remains  as  gloomy  as  before. 

Emperor  William  seems  to  be  thirsting  for  another  opportunity  of 
speech-making  and  has  prepared  an  oration  for  the  occasion  of  the 
Lutheran  festival  of  Wittenberg.  He  is  posing  as  the  head  of 
protestant  Europe  and  endeavors  to  add  another  to  his  self-imposed 
dignities.  If  William  II  were  a  private  individual,  his  eccentricitie  s 
might  be  treated  as  those  of  a  harmless  crank,  but  being  by  an  ev  il 
fate  placed  at  the  head  of  the  German  nation  he  has  the  opportunity 
of  doing  infinite  harm  to  his  country,  and  the  ill  suppressed  indig- 
nation of  his  subjects  threaten  to  break  out  into  open  revolt  at  any 
moment.  At  one  moment  he  is  catering  to  the  Vatican  in  order  to 
obtain  the  support  of  his  new  political  measures  by  the  members  of 
the  Catholic  Centre  Party,  and  at  another  moment  he  dons  the 
cassock  of  a  Luthern  clergyman.  This  ludicrous  masquerade,  how- 
ever, helps  him  little  to  disguise  his  real  character,  or  rather  want  of 
character,  and  never  has  Germany  given  a  greater  proof  of  loyalty 
to  the  crown  than  during  the  last  few  years,  by  tolerating  the  rule  of 
a  monarch  who  seems  destined  by  fate  to  bring  into  ridicule  and  con  - 
tempt  the  very  name  of  monarchy. 

If  the  short  extract  of  the  German  bill  which  is  given  in  the  cable 
dispatches,  proves  to  be  correct,  it  demonstrates  that  the  two-years 
clause,  though  nominally  still  in  existence— a  concession  to  Caprivi, 
whose  position  by  its  abandonment  would  have  been  practically  un- 
tenable—is actually  no  longer  in  the  bill.  The  clause  as  it  appears 
to  read  now  stipulates  that  the  service  in  the  infantry  shall  be  re- 
duced to  two  years,  but  that  the  military  authorities  shall  have  the 
power  to  retain  the  men  under  arms  for  three  years  in  case  of  mis- 
behavior. If  it  is  remembered  that  heretofore  the  men  had  to  serve 
three  years,  but  that  in  case  of  good  behavior  proofs  of  efficienc  y 
the  authorities  had  the  power,  very  frequently  exercised,  of  dismiss- 
ing them  after  a  service  of  two  years,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  so- 
called  two  year's  service  clause  makes  scarcely  any  change.  The 
compromise  adopted  is  certainly  ingenious,   as  Count   Caprivi  can 


claim  that  his  two  years'  clause  has  been  approved  by  his  sovereign, 
while  the  latter  can  claim  with  equal  right  that  practically  there  is 
no  innovation.  Of  course  no  decisive  opinion  can  be  given  until  the 
full  text  of  the  bill  is  known. 

Shairrwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
Office,  407^09  Montgomery  street. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 


Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Fraucisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE. — There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  lj,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.        No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson... 1  50  $50 

C.A.Johnson 2  34U  340 

Chas.Carlsou 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany,  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
[ONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Fraucisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

E any  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
AY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponem-f  nt. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY, 
October  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  September  2lst. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behr  ng  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Bany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
fan  Francisco,  October  21, 1882. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Mexican  Gold,  and  Silver   Mining    Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Loca- 
tion of  works — Virginia.  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  13th  day  of  October,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  46)  of  Twenty-five  (25) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of   the  Company,  room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Seventeenth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  Bale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of   advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
al. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Gold  Hill,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  28th  day  of  October,  1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  34), of  Ten  Cents  (10e.) 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  oflice  of 
the  Company,  No.  79  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Thirtieth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  20th  day  of  December,  1892.  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Hawaii  Commercial  and.  Sugar  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Hawaiian  Com- 
mercial and  Sugar  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 
327  Market  st.,  San  Francisco,  Cal,  on  TUESDAY,  the  15th  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  at  the  hour  of  eleven  (11)  o'clock  a.  at.,  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing a  board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  for  the  trans- 
action of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer 
books  will  close  on  Thursday,  Nov.  3d,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 


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A  LOVELY  mantle,  especially  suited  to  receptions  or  theatre 
wear,  is  made  of  a  new  material  with  a  curiously  quilted 
effect  in  tan  color,  closely  inierthreaded  with  gold  tinsel.  It 
bangs  loosely  from  the  shoulders,  and  is  edged  with  mink,  while 
round  the  neck,  outlined  with  gold  passementerie,  studded  with 
sapphires,  is  a  short  frilled  cape  of  sapphire-blue  velvet.  The 
sleeves,  which  are  pleated  into  the  wrists  with  a  deep  frill,  and 
held  by  a  band  of  the  gold  embroidery,  are  also  made  of  the  vel- 
vet, and  the  lining  is  pale  blue  satin. 

A  rich  mantle,  which  completely  envelopes  the  figure,  is  made 
of  a  changeable  taffeta  in  green  and  rose,  garnished  with  guipure 
and  green  ribbon.  The  body  of  the  mantle  is  ample,  and  a  double 
flounce  of  the  guipare  forms  a  pelerine,  headed  by  a  torsade  of 
the  ribbon.  The  high  collar  is  covered  with  the  guipure.  A 
handsome  wrap  in  the  new  shade  of  green  cloth,  with  a  faint 
tinge  of  yellow  in  it,  which  is  at  present  delighting  the  heart  of 
the  Parisian,  is  in  the  form  of  a  full  cape,  with  a  deep  V  yoke- 
piece  of  black  velvet  at  the  back  and  front,  embroidered  in  jet 
and  edged  with  a  box -pleating  of  black  velvet  ribbon.  Over  the 
shoulders  fall  long  strands  of  chenille  and  jet. 

Some  of  the  prettiest  novelties  in  hats  are  those  in  braided  felt, 
which  imitate  straw.  They  are  sometimes  in  one  color,  with  the 
wide  brim  lined  with  another  color.  One  variety  is  made  in  a 
mixed  felt,  rather  coarse  in  texture,  in  brown  and  white  and 
cream.  In  shape  it  is  akin  to  the  sailor,  with  the  brim  turning 
up  slightly  at  the  outer  edge.  Round  the  crown  is  a  roll  of  vel- 
vet, with  rosette  bows  at  the  side,  transfixed  with  one  or  more 
quills.  Sometimes  the  trimming  will  present  a  weird  medley  of 
color  and  material — one,  for  instance,  which  combines  magenta- 
hued  velvet,  rifle-green  satin  ribbon,  mixed  with  another — a  plaid 
shading  toward  heliotrope.  The  loops  are  .held  by  vivid,  green 
quills,  and  the  result,  as  may  be  imagined,  is  rather  startling,  but, 
handled  by  an  artist,  is  remarkably  successful. 

We  have  the  pelisse  of  the  Empire  period,  and  now  it  is  but  a 
step  to  the  "tippet"  of  the  restoration,  that  fur  cape  and 
collar  combined,  broadening  over  the  shoulders,  narrowing  at  the 
waist,  and  widening  again  toward  the  bottom  of  the  gown.  The 
pelisse  is  the  more  graceful.  It  fits  the  figure  closely,  and  is  made 
of  rich  and  handsome  material.  Dark  red  frisg  cloth  is  the  material 
used  in  the  garment  illustrated,  with  black  velvet  borders  overlaid 
with  jet  and  edged  with  black  fox  fur.  The  decoration  is  reproduced 
on  the  hips,  and  a  broad  and  folded  belt  of  velvet  encircles  the  waist. 
The  skirt  is  slightly  fulled  beneath  this  belt  in  basque  effect,  and  but 
little  of  the  gown  may  be  seen  below  it. 


Many  of  the  full,  belted  coats  are  of  a  length  which  divides  the 
figure,  and  which  gives  a  double-skirted  appearance  to  the  cos- 
tume. This  is  particularly  fascinating  in  a  very  thick  make  of 
serge,  diagonally  striped  with  black  and  a  color.  In  black  with 
rifle-green,  black  with  Venetian  red,  or  black  with  blue,  it  looks 
equally  well.  It  should  be  made  with  a  yoke-piece  and  cuffs  of 
colored  velvet,  and  a  belt  at  the  waist  of  velvet  which  is  drawn 
through  the  side  seams  to  fasten  in  front  over  a  silk  or  fancy 
vest.  Among  the  simpler  forms  of  jackets,  the  box  coat  and  the 
Directoire  with  wide  revers  are  running  a  close  race  for  public 
favor. 

Stole  play  an  important  part  in  the  season's  styles,  and  no- 
where are  they  so  appropriate  as  in  the  soft  and  light  ma- 
terials of  the  tea  gown.  They  may  fall  a  little  way  below  the  waist 
or  continue  to  the  bottom  of  the  skirt.  In  embroidered  crepe  on 
gowns  of  silk  they  are  particularly  graceful,  and  lace  is  well  adapted 
to  this  purpose.  The  stole  fastens  in  at  the  shoulder  with  a  rosette 
or  bow  of  ribbon  and  falls  out  loosely  over  the  girdle. 

Five  hundred  hands  are  at  work  on  the  hridal_veil  of  the  Princess 
Margarethe  of  Prussia~ThVveins  made  of  500  different  pieces,  all 
the  work  being  done  with  the  needle,  and  the  pieces,  each  of  which 
requires  ten  days  for  completion,  are  to  be  joined  by  the  most  skil- 
ful lace  makers  in  a  pattern,  which  will  appear  as  the  work  of  the 
same  hand. 

Hosiery  displays  all  the  plaids  of  the  various  Scottish  clans, 
and  is  supplied  to  correspond  with  every  costume,  no  matter  how 
varied.     Gloves  also  are  manufactured  in  all  costume  colors. 

Wing-like  bows  of  velvet,  lace,  and  even  fine  wired  loops  of 
jet,  with  upstanding  aigrettes  of  heron  or  jet  on  the  "  Mephisto  " 
order,  are  the  accepted  hat  garnitures. 

The  most  perfect  gift  is  perfect  vision.  Obtainable  at  C.  Muller's,  op- 
tician, 185  Montgomery  street. 


THE  POPULAR  FABRIC. 

Navy  Blue 

STORM    SERGE, 

Just  Received  Another  Heavy  Shipment  of 
PLAIN  AND  FANCY  WEAVES, 

—IN— 

ENTIRELY  NEW  DESIGNS 
Now  Offered 

At  50c,  75c,  $1.00,  $1.25,  $1.50  and  $2.00  per  Yard, 


E3f"  Samples  sent  free.  Mail  orders  promptly  executed. 
Goods  delivered  free  in  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley,  San 
Rafael,  Tibaron,  Saasalito,  San  Quentin,  Mill  Valley,  Boss 
Station  and  Blilhedale. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


FALL    SEASON. 

Ladies  will  find  the  Latest  styles  and  Best  Fitting 

AT   THE 

CALIFORNIA    CLOAK    COMPANY, 

CHARLES  MAYER,  Jr„  &  CO., 

Also  a  large  stock  of 

Misses'  and  Children's  Cloaks,  Ladies'  Suits  and  Furs 

ON     HAND. 

CLOAKS  MADE  TO  ORDER 

■1HR     DHQT  QT     Opposite  White  House, 
IUO     rUO  I    O  I  .   First  Floor  Up. 


Thousands  of  delighted  ladies 
have  visited  my  parlors.  Can  I 
not  see  you  this  week?  You  can 
learn  many  of  the  serrets  of  pre- 
serving and  beautifying  the 
complexion. 

MRS.  NETTIE  HARRISON, 

26   GEARY  STREET, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


LOLA 
MONTEZ 

CREME 
The    Skin    Food 

AND 

Tissue  Builder 
75   CENTS. 


HAMBURG-AMERICAN  PACKET  COMPANY. 

FASTEST  ROUTE  TO  LONDON 
Southampton,  and  the  European  Con- 
tinent. Fastest  time,  equal  to  5 
days,  20  hours  to  Queenstown.  Mag- 
nificent new  twin-screw  express 
steamers  of  10,000  tons  and  13,000  to 
ltf.000  horse  power.  %A-  These 
steamers  carry  no  cotton. 

Through  tickets  to  London,  Paris, 
Basle,  Geneva,  Vienna,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  etc. 

MEDITERRANEAN  EXPRESS 
LINE— Winter  service  from  New 
York  to  Genoa  and  Naples  (via  Gib- 
raltar) by  our  twin-screw  express 
steamers,  sailing  November  17th,  De- 
cember 1st,  January  5th,  January  19th. 

Company's  office,  37  Broadway,  New  York.    For  tickets,  cabin  plans  and 
Information  apply  to    A.  W.  MYER,  General  agent  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
401  California  street,  corner  Sansome,  San  Francisco. 


26 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


GOSSIP    FROM    GOTHAM. 


New  York,  Oct.  29,  1892. 

CALIFORNIANS  in  New  York  were  all  startled  yesterday  after- 
noon by  reading  on  the  bulletin-boards  of  the  different  even- 
ing papers  the  news  that  the  Committee  of  Fifty  in  8an  Fran- 
cisco bad  been  called  out.  In  the  dispatches  which  announced 
this  fact,  it  was  said  that  the  purpose  in  view  was  to  guard  the 
polls  and  preserve  the  purity  of  the  ballot.  In  the  California 
colony  there  are  many  men  who  were  active  in  the  pick-handle 
brigade  of  1877,  and  the  flow  of  reminiscences  was  started  last 
night  whenever  Californians  met.  The  celebrated  charge  of  the 
gallant  One  Hundred  up  the  hill  at  Brannan  and  First  streets 
was  recalled.  It  was  an  exploit  of  great  bravery,  but  it  had  its 
humorous  features.  Among  these  was  the  precipitate  retreat, 
under  fire,  of  one  of  the  self-constituted  leaders  of  the  volunteer 
corps,  on  the  plea  of — tight  boots.  A  old  Californian  now  resi- 
dent here,  was  in  the  front  rank  of  the  heroic  band  as  it  scaled 
the  heights  commanding  the  Pacific  Mail  wharf,  under  a  shower 
of  cobblestones,  and  clubbed  the  hoodlums  into  a  disordered  rout, 
and  his  description  of  the  scene  was  most  vivid,  as  he  gave  it 
last  evening  to  a  circle  of  friends  at  an  up-town  cafe.  Several 
companies  of  the  committee  were  armed  with  Springfields.  To 
one  of  these  I  belonged.  We  were  quartered  in  the  car  stables  of 
the  Howard-street  line,  in  Union  Hall.  Our  captain  was  a  well- 
known  newspaper  ruan  of  the  absolute  Bohemian  type,  with 
long  hair,  seedy  clothes  and  soiled  linen.  He  had  made  up  his 
mind  that  our  company  should  make  a  record.  It  was  abso- 
lutely necessary  for  us  to  have  a  conflict  with  the  rioters.  Aa 
they  did  not  come  to  us,  we  went  to  them.  We  invaded  alleys, 
areas,  liquor  saloons,  climbed  on  roofs,  made  domiciliary  visits, 
and  finally,  having  exasperated  a  lot  of  people,  were  attacked 
and  fired  out,  our  captain  was  happy.  He  lives  in  New  York 
now,  and  I  see  him  occasionally  on  the  street.  He  is  to-day  still 
a  newspaper  man,  but  sedate  and  dignified  in  appearance,  and 
wears  fashionable  clothes.  Those  sandlot  days  were  stormy,  I 
tell  you. 

The  political  pot  is  fairly  bubbling  now.  But  things  are  "mighty 
onsartin',  "  and  betting  men  are  wary.  There  are  too  many  dis- 
turbing elements  in  the  contest  for  one  to  risk  money  on  the 
result. 

Joseph  Grisraer  and  wife  are  soon  to  appear  at  Proctor's  Twen- 
ty-third Street  Theatre — probably  in  The  New  South.  Friend  Joe 
has  not  acted  in  New  York  for  many  years.  In  theatrical  mat- 
ters the  week  has  been  dull.  The  only  noteworthy  event  was 
the  revival  of  Diplomacy  by  Rose  Coghlan  and  her  company. 
Compared  to  the  memorable  cast  of  the  production  at  the  Old 
California  Theatre,  fourteen  or  fifteen  years  ago,  the  one  now  em- 
ployed at  the  Star  Theatre  is  mediocrity  itself.  Charles  Coghlan 
is  an  admirable  Henry  Beauclerc.  He  is  the  easy,  self-preserved 
man  of  the  world  to  his  figer  tips.  In  appearance  he  looks  like 
an  elder  brother  of  Montague — poor  Montague,  whose  Julian 
Beauclerc  was  so  delightful.  The  present  Julian  Beauclerc  is 
John  T.  Sullivan,  an  earnest  and  energetic  actor,  but  who  lacks 
the  presence,  the  style  and  the  elegance  which  are  essentials  in  a 
proper  representation  of  the  part.  Robert  Fischer  has  modelled 
his  Baron  Stein  on  Shannon's  well-known  impersonation,  and 
plays  it  nearly  as  well.  With  Charles  Coghlan  and  Robert 
Fischer  praise  stops.  Sullivan  is,  of  course,  not  satisfactory. 
Frederic  Robinson  is  a  mechanical  Orloff,  Judie  Martinot  is  an 
artificial  Dora,  and  Rose  Coghlan  absolutely  gives  no  idea  of  the 
character  of  Zicka.  You  all  remember  Jeffreys-Lewis'  striking  im- 
personation of  the  adventuress.  The  subtle,  sinuou°,  insinuating 
expressiveness  of  her  acting,  its  marvellous  grades  and  degress  of 
emotional  significance,  its  intensify  and  its  vividness.  Well, 
Rose  Coghlan  is  a  hearty,  honest,  attractive  woman,  frank  and 
sincere,  direct  and  straight  forward.  How  is  that  for  a  Zicka? 
And  yet  most  of  the  New  York  critics  have  praised  her. 

A  revolution  in  police  methods  is  about  to  take  place.  Clubs 
are  to  be  abolished.  Byrnes,  the  new  Superintendent,  is  a  brainy 
man,  and  generally  knows  what  be  is  after.  He  has  studied  the 
question,  and  New  York  is  satisfied  to  trust  to  his  judgment. 

Beauclerc 


THE  office  of  the  News  Letter  in  New  York  City  has  been  estab- 
lished at  196  Boadway,  room  14,  where  information   may  be 
obtained  regarding  subscription  and  advertising  rates. 


Grand  Opening.— Ten  per  cent,  discount  will  be  allowed  on  all  pur 
chases  duringthis,  our  opening  week,  Nov.  14th  to  19th.  Visit  our 
emporium,  and  see  the  rare  and  new  novelties,  irom  all  parts  of  the 
world,  in  jewelry — silver,  celluloid,  carved  woods,  leather,  metal, 
plush,  etc.;  music  boxes  and  musical  novelties.  The  automatic  piano 
will  be  on  exhibition.  Store  open  until  8  p.m.  Saturday,  10  p.m. 
Novelty  Palace— Leo  Zander  &  Co.— 11G  Sutter  street. 


Nothing  is  so  pleasing  to  a  young  lady  as  a  bunch  of  choice  flow- 
ers from  an  ardent  admirer.  Remember  this,  ye  beaux,  and  cover 
the  tables  of  your  fair  ones  with  the  most  beautiful  buds  and  blos- 
soms of  the  season.  Such  as  may  be  had  at  Leopold's,  35  Post  street, 
are  the  favorites  among  the  ladies.  He  is  a  true  artist,  and  can 
create  the  most  magnificent  designs  in  bouquets,  baskets,  crosses, 
wreaths,  and  anything  else  to  which  flowers  may  be  adapted. 


A    CARD. 


MR.  JAMES  M.  SEAWELL,  a  candidate  for  the  office  of 
Judge  of  the  Superior*  Court  of  this  City,  has  been  a  practic- 
ing lawyer  here  for  over  thirty  years,  and  has  earned  the 
entire  confidence  and  respect  of  the  Bench  and  Bar  of  this 
State.  He  is  a  courteous  and  educated  gentleman,  a  lawyer 
of  the  highest  legal  attainments,  a  man  of  conservative 
habits  and  judicial  temperament. 

The  undersigned  heartily  endorse  him  as  able,  dignified 
and  honest,  and  in  every  way  fitted  forthe  position  to  which 
he  aspires  : 

CARBER,   BOLT  &  BISHOP       WILSON  &  WILSON 
JARBOE&  JARBOE  NEWUNDS,  ALLEN  & 

D.  M.    DELMAS  HERRIN 
W.  S.  GOODFELLOW                     PAGE&  ROLLS 

A.  N.  DROWN  HENRY  E.  HIGHTON 

CHICKERING,  THOMAS  &         REINSTEIN  &  EISNER 
GREGORY  STANLEY  &  HAYES 

E.  R.  TAYLOR  RHODES  &  BARSTOW 
WHEATON,  KALLOCH  &           T.  C.  VAN  NESS 

KIERCE  WILSON  &  MeCUTCHEN 

NAPTHALY,  FREIDENRICH  PIERSON  &  MITCHELL 

&  ACKERMAN  MORRISONS  FOER-TER 

WILLIAM  LOEWY  SA WYER  &  BURNETT 

GEO- A    RANKIN  GALPIN  &  ZEIGLER 

ANDROS&    FRANK  THOS.  F.  BARRY 

BOYD,   FIF1ELDA  HOBURG     T    I,  BERGIN 
A.  H.   LOUGHBOROUGH  MYR1CK&  DEER1NG. 

For  Mayor, 

BARRY    BALDWIN, 


Democratic    Nominee 


For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

WILLIAM     MONTGOMERY, 
(Proprietor  American  Exchange  Hotel.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Assembly,  3 8th  District, 

BERT     SCHLESINGER, 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 
For  State  Senator,  3 1st  Senatorial  District, 

WM.     J.     BIGGY, 
(Pledged  to  support  the  Traffic  Association.) 

Regular  Democratic  Nominee. 

For  Coroner, 

DR.  Wm.  T.    GARWOOD, 
(Present  Incumbent.) 

Regular    Republican  Nominee 


For  Sheriff, 


For  County  Cleric, 


H.     H.     SCOTT, 

Non-partisan  Candidate. 


GEORGE  W.  LEE, 

Regular  Republican   Nominee. 
For  Congress, 

C.    O.   ALEXANDER, 
Republican    Nominee,  4th  Congressional  District. 

For  Supervisor,  Third  Ward, 

JAMES     W.     BURLING. 
(Present  Incumbent. 

Independant  Candidate. 

For  Tax-Collector, 

WILLIAM     J.     G.     MUHL 

Nominee  Old  Democratic  Party. 

For  Tax  Collector, 

THOS.     O'BRIFN, 

Republican  Nominee. 
BUSINESS   METHODS, 

HONEST  ADMINISTRATION, 

PROMPT  SERVICE, 
POLITE  TREATMENT. 

For  Treas  nrer, 

J.  H.  WIDBER, 

Regular  Republican  Nominee. 

For  City  and  County  Attorney, 

MYER    JACOBS. 

Regular  Republican  Nominee 


For  Public  Administrator, 


A.  C.    FREESE, 


Democratic  Nominee 


Nov.  5.  1892. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NKWS   LETTER. 


27 


TO  THE  IONIC  PRIESTESS  IN  THE  BRITISH  MUSEUM. - 

■hr  Museum. 

Ah,  priestess  of  an  unknown  shrine, 

By  what  sad  process 
Hast  thou  in  some  long  bygone  time 

Lost  thy  proboscis? 

Was  there,  beneath  that  grave,  sweet  brow 

A  mouth  for  kissing? 
Alas!  we  cannot  know,  for  now 

Thy  lips  are  missing. 

And  yet  a  subtle,  nameless  grace 

Around  thee  lingers; 
As  there  thou  stand's!,  with  tranquil  face, 

Sans  nose.  lips,  fingers. 
The  outline  of  tby  matchless  form, 

Thy  grace  revealing; 
Tby  flowing  draperies  adorn 

Without  concealing. 

Ah,  could  he  look  upon  thy  fate, 

Whose  hand  once  wrought  thee! 
And  see  to  what  a  sad  estate 

Tne  years  have  brought  thee — 

For  him  would  live  again  that  hour 

Of  inspiration, 
When  barned  his  soul  with  new  born  power 

For  thy  creation. 

And  he  would  see  thee  now  as  then 

In  tby  perfection; 
Time's  accident  could  not  again 

Mar  recollection. 


SIMPSON  &  MILLAR,    Searchers    of    Records,  have  issued  the 
following  interesting  information  as  to  payment  of  City  and 
Town  Taxes : 


Payable 

Alameda Now 

Berkeley  " 

Fresno  " 

Los  Angeles " 

Martinez " 

Oakland " 

Santa  Cruz  " 

Santa  Rosa  " 

San  Diego    " 

San  Francisco  ...     " 

San  Jose " 

San  Rafael  " 

Sausalito 

Visalia  Now 


Delinquent 

Dec.  26 
Nov. 23 
Nov.  7 
Nov.  7 
Oct.  17 
Nov.  S8 
Nov.  21 
Nov.  21 

Rate      Installment 

1.15                 1 

.70  2 
1.00  1 
100                2 

.65                 2 

1.24  2 
1.50                 2 

.70                 1 

1.25  1 
1.43  4-10         2 

2 
.77                 1 

1.50                l' 

Second 
Installment 
Delinquent 

April  24,  '93 

May  1,  '93 
April  24,  '93 
April  28,  '93 
Apiil  24,  '93 

Nov.  28 
Nov.  28 
Nov.  28 
Oct.  5 

April  24,  '93 
April  24,  '93 

Dec.  5 

State  and  County  taxes  throughout  the  State,  payable  in  two  in- 
stallments: 1st  payable  now,  delinquent  Nov.  28,  1892;  2d  payable 
January  2,  1893,  delinquent  April  24,  1893. 


WINE    OF     BOHEMIA.' 


0UK  local  talent  is  being  appreciated.  The  beautiful  song  bear- 
ing the  above  title,  words  by  Dan  O'Connell,  music  by  Geo. 
E.  Hall,  and  recently  published  with  S.  F.  News  Letter,  was  sung 
and  enthusiastically  encored  a  few  nights  ago  at  one  of  our  theatres. 
We  herewith  print  the  words : 

Here  all  the  woes  of  life  disdaining, 

We  have  met  beneath  the  vines, 
To  fill  up  high  this  goblet  glowing, 

And  to  quaff  this  prince  of  wines. 
Mark  how  the  bubbles  gaily  shining, 

Tinge  the  clouds  of  life  with  mirth, 
And  turn  their  gloom  to  silvery  lining — 

Best  beloved  wine  on  earth ! 
Then  let  us  quaff  and  gaily  laugh, 

And  drain  this  goblet  divine. 
The  world  rolls  by,  and  grief  and  sigh 

Are  drowned  in  Pommery  wine; 
Thy  soul  inspires  the  poet's  fire, 

And  by  song's  sacred  shore, 
With  fond  desire  he  strikes  the  lyre, 

To  praise  thee  evermore. 
We  see  before  us  pleasant  visions 

In  the  golden  sunlight  gleam, 
And  in  the  fabled  fields  elysian, 

'Neath  the  lotus  blooms  we  dream ; 
And  of  the  dear  departed  kisses 

On  our  lips  that  once  were  pressed; 
Oh,  who  conjures  up  those  blisses? 

'Tis  this  wine  of  wines  the  best! 
Then  let  us  quaff  and  gaily  laugh, 

And  drain  this  goblet  divine, 
The  world  rolls  by,  and  grief  and  sigh 

Are  drowned  in  Pommery  wine; 
Thy  soul  inspires  the  poet's  fire, 

And  by  song's  sacred  shore, 
With  fond  desire  he  strikes  the  lyre. 

To  praise  thee  evermore. 


REGULAR 

REPUBLICAN 

MUNICIPAL     TICKET. 


Mayor WENDELL  EASTON 

Auditor T.  J.  L.  SMILEY 

Sheriff WILLIAM  T.  BLATTNER 

Tax  Collector THOMAS  O'BRIEN 

Treasurer J.  H.  WIDBER 

Recorder E.  B.  READ 

County  Clerk GEORGE  W.  LEE 

District  Attorney WILLIAM  S.  BARNES 

City  and  County  Attorney MEYER  JACOBS 

Coroner DR.  WILLIAM  T.  GARWOOD 

Public  Administrator WALTER  B.  BLAIR 

Surveyor CHARLES  S.  TILTON 

Superintendent  of  Streets CHARLES  GREENE 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) CHARLES  W.  SLACK 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  M.  TROUTT 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) GEORGE  H.  BAHRS 

Superior  Judge  (long  term) JOHN  LORD  LOVE 

Superior  Judge  (for  unexpired  term   ending  January.  1895) 

WILLIAM  G.  BRITTAN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) H.  L.  JOACHIMSEN 

Police  Judge  (long  term) W.  A.  S.  NICHOLSON 

Police  Judge  (long  term) JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Police  Judge  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January.  1893) 

JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) FRAN  K  GRAY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) GEORGE    P.  GOPP 

Justice  of  the  Peace,  (long  term) JOHN  F.  MULLEN 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) WALTER  M.  WILLETT 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (long  term) J.  E.  BARRY 

Justice  of  the  Peace  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January,  1893) 

J.E.BARRY 

Supervisor  First  ward  (unexpired  term) EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  First  ward EDWARD  HOLLAND 

Supervisor  Second  ward  (unexpired  term) DR.  R.  C.  MEYERS 

Supervisor  Second  ward .DR.  R.  C.  MEYERS 

Supervisor  Third  ward CARLOS  G.  YOUNG 

Supervisor  Fourth  ward HEN  RY  A.  STEFFINS 

Supervisor  Fifth  ward H.  R.  ROBBINS 

Supervisor  Sixth  ward W.  E.  LANE 

Supervisor  Seventh  ward VICTOR  D.  DUBOCE 

Supervisor  Eight  ward P.  J.  COFFEE 

Supervisor  Ninth  ward ALBERT  HEYER 

Supervisor  Tenth  ward HENRY  P.  SONNTAG 

Supervisor  Eleventh  ward THOMAS  J.  PARSONS 

Supervisor  Twelfth  ward AUGUST  HELBING 

School  Director A.  F.  JOHNS 

School  Director DR.  C.  W.  DECKER 

School  Director GEORGE  W.  PENNINGTON 

School  Director JAMES  A.  PARISER 

School  Director LUKE  BATTLES 

School  Director J.  H.  CULVER 

School  Director J.J.DUNN 

School  Director PAUL  BARBIERI 

School  Director WILLIAM  H.  EASTLAND 

School  Director C.  O.  SWANBERG 

School  Director HARVEY  L.  SANBORN 

School  Director Z.  T.  WHITTEN 

School  Director  (for  unexpired  term  ending  January.  1893 

A.  F.  JOHNS 


LEGISLATIVE     TICKET. 


FOR    STATE    SENATORS. 

17tb  District JAMES  CRAVEN 

19th  District JOSEPH  WINDROW 

21»t  District L.  H.  VANSHAICK 

23d  District CHARLES  H.  FANCHER 

25th  District JOHN  F.  MARTIN 

FOR     ASSEMBLYMEN. 

28th  District PETER  JOSEPH  KELLY 

29th  District CHARLES  E.  COREY 

30th  District JAMES  J.  FALLON 

31st  District THOMAS  F.  GRAHAM 

32d  District JOHN  A.  HOEY 

33d  District FREDERICK  WOODS 

34th  District J.  F.  McQUAID 

35th  District JOHN  S.  ROBINSON 

36th  District ALBERT  B.  MAHONEY 

37th  District JOHN  F.  O'BRIEN 

3Sth  District GEORGE  S.  MATHEWS 

39th  District J  ULIUS  KAHN 

40th  District LOUIS  A.  PHILLIPS 

41st  District HENRY  C.  DIBBLE 

42d  District GRANT  ISRAEL 

43d   District JOHN  P.  RICE 

44th  District JAMES  McGOWEN 

45th  District JOHN  HAYES 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Overman  Silver  Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Gold  Hill, 
Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  6th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No  65)  of  Thirty  cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  cor- 
poration, payable  immediately  in  United  States 
gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  414  California  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main uupaid  on  the 

The  Tenth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  30th  day  of  November,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

GEO.  D.  EDWARDS,  Secretary. 
Office.— No.  414  California  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Kentuck  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Goxd 
Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  3d  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  5)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  rooms  15  and  17,  310  Pine  street, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Eight    Day    oT   November,  1892,  will    be   delin- 
quent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
TUESDAY,  the  twenty-ninth  day  of  November, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office— 310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San 
Francisco,  California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Savage  Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— 8an 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Virginia 
Mining  District,  Storey  County,  State  of  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  this  company,  held  on  the  7th 
day  of  October,  a.  d.,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
79)  of  Fifty  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the 
capital  stock  of  the  corporation  payable  immedi- 
ately in  United  States  Gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary, 
at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  4,  Nevada 
block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  9th  day  of  November,  1 892,  will  be  delinquent 

and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  29th  d*fy  of  Nov- 
ember, 1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment, 
together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.      By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 
Office— Room    No.  4,   Nevada  Block,   No.  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Fraucisco,  California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business — San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Storey 
County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  20th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  40),  of  twenty-five  (25) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United 
States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  24th  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  un- 
ions payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  14th  day  of  Deceember,  1892, 
to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  E.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco,  California. 


SONG   TO   A   LOVELY  BELLE.— Ella 
Ifigginson,  in  Chelsea  Free  Lance, 

Thy  breast  is  like  the  hawthorne's  snow 

That  blossoms  out  in  May, 
Or  cherry  blooms  that   open  slow 

And  scent  the  April  day. 
But  chide  me  not  if  I  am  cold 

To  charms  thou  dost  not  screen — 
For  oh !  for  oh  1  their  lovely  snow 

Too  many  eyes  have  seen  ! 
Thy  month  is  like  a  fragrant  rose 

From  out  the  heart  of  June, 
Or  salvia  flowers  that  unclose 

Their  scarlet  lips  too  soon. 
But  blame  me  not  if  its  rare  sweets 

I  carelessly  have  missed — 
For  oh!  for  ohl  its  vivid  glow 

Too  many  lips  have  kissed  I 
Thy  hand  is  delicate  and  fair, 

With  dimples  soft  and  deep, 
And  thro'  the  meshes  of  thy  hair 

I  see  it,  luring,  creep. 
But  blame  me  not  if  I  should  fail 

To  clasp  it  to  my  breast — 
For  oh  !  for  oh  I  its  satin  snow 

Too  many  hands  have  pressed. 
Thy  arms  like  calla  lilies  are — 

As  velvety  and  white, 
Or  like  the  Nicotiana  star — 

As  tempting  and  as  light. 
But  lovely  maiden,  chide  me  not 

If  I  resist  alone — 
For  oh  !  for  oh !  their  yielding  snow 

Too  many  men  have  known! 


GORDON'S    TOMB. 


A  MOVEMENT  is  afoot  to  purchase  the 
spot,  lying  outside  the  Damascus 
Gate  at  Jerusalem,  which  is  commonly 
known  as  "  Gordon's  Tomb,"  from  the 
fact  that  General  Gordon,  amongst  many 
others  who  have  made  a  special  study  of 
the  question,  believed  it  to  be  the  actual 
sepulchre  of  our  Lord.  This  question  of 
identity,  write  the  secretaries  of  the 
movement,  is  one  of  the  deepest  interest, 
and  although  all  archaeologists  are  not 
agreed,  and  in  the  existing  state  of  our 
knowledge  a  complete  solution  of  it  can- 
not, perhaps,  be  looked  for,  the  proba- 
bility that  this  tomb  may  be  the  Holy 
Sepulchre  renders  it  very  desirable  that  it 
should  be  preserved  from  destruction  or 
desecration.  The  tomb,  together  with 
the  enclosure  in  which  it  stands — an 
area  of  about  four  acres— is  now  for  sale, 
and  the  time  for  which  the  would-be  pur- 
chasers have  obtained  the  refusal  of  it 
has  almost  expired.  The  price  asked  for 
the  freehold  is  four  thousand  pounds. 
Nearly  £1,000  has  already  been  collected 
privately,  and  an  earnest  appeal  is  made 
to  the  public  to  assist  in  securing  and  pre- 
serving a  locality  which  must  be  of  the 
highest  value  and  interest  to  all  Christ- 
ians. Amongst  those  who  have  ex- 
pressed their  cordial  approval  of  the  pur- 
chase of  the  site,  and  in  many  cases  have 
already  subscribed  to  the  fund,  are  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  the  Bishops 
of  Salisbury,  Rochester,  Ripon,  and 
Cashel,  the  Archdeacons  of  London  and 
Westminster,  Canon  Tristram,  the  Hon. 
and  Rev.  E.  Carr  Glyn,  Professor  R. 
Stuart  Poole,  the  Rev.  Sinclair  Paterson, 
M.D.,  the  Rev.  F.  B.  Meyer,  Lawrence 
Hardy,  Esq.,  M.P.,  P.  A.  Bevan,  Esq., 
Hon.  H.  Dudley  Ryder,  etc.  Subscrip- 
tions may  be  sent  to  either  of  the  hon. 
secretaries,  or  paid  in  to  the  Gordon 
Tomb  (Jerusalem)  Purchase  Fund  at 
Messrs.  Barclay,  Bevan  &  Co.'s  Bank,  1 
Pall  Mall  East,  S.W.,  London,  Eng. 


JOHNNY— Papa,    what    was    Richard 
Ill's  last  name  ?  Papa — Judging  from 
history,  I  should  say  it  was  Dennis. 

— Town  Topics, 


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extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
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and  are  "Long    Distance"  Lines 

in  every'sense  of   the  word.    The  Mail  is  quick, 

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San    Francisco. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 

FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

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Nov.  5,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AMD  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BHOAD-GSUGE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SCSDAV.  APRIL  24.  1892,  and 
anil)  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leare  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
lenicr  Depot.  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  a.m.,  9:20  a.m.,   11:20  A.  kt.: 

1:30  P.M.,  3:30  p.  M.,5:06  P.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
8CNDAYS— 8:00  A.M., 9:30  a.m.,  11:00  a.m.;  1:30  p.m. 
3:30  p.  m.,  5:00  p.  M.,  6:15  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  a.   m.,  7:55   A.   M.,  9:30    A.  M. 

11:30  a.m.  ;  1:40  P.M.,  3:40  P.M.,  5:05  P.M. 
8ATTRDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  A.M..  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  a.  m.  ;  1:40  P.M. 
8:40  p.  M..  5:00  P  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  a.  m.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
a.  M.:  2:05  P.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  P.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAY'S— 8:35   a.m.,    10:05  a.m.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2j05  p.  M..  4 :05p.m. ,5:30 p.m. ,6:50  p.m. 


LiatiS.  F. 

AbbiveinS.F. 

SSU!  s™*™ 

DESTINATION. 

Sundays 

Week 

Days. 

7:40a.m.  8:00a. H.     Petalnma 
8:30p. M.  :9:30a.  M.          and 
8:05  P.M. 15:00p.m.|  Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  a.  M 
6:05  P.M 
7:25P.M 

8:50a.  m. 
10:30  A.M 
6:10p.M. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.M. 

3:30p.m. 

7:25p.m. 

10  :30a.  M 
6:10  p.M 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00  A.  M. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  P.M. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8  :00a.M. 

Guerneville. 

7:25P.H. 

10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00p.  M. 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6:05p.m. 

8:50a.m. 

6:10p.M. 

7:40  A.  M 
3:30  p.  M 

8:00  a.  m 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.m 
1    6  -.05  p.M 

10 :30  AM 
6:10  p.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Kosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  a  t  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Canto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  We stport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCTJR8ION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40:  to  Cloverdale.  94  60;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa.  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $225;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $450;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.  —  8.  8.  "San  Juau,"  Novem- 
ber 5th;  "City  of  New  York, "November  15th;  S.  8. 
San  Bias,"  November  25th,  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Porta 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rlnto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Nov.  18th,  S.  S.  "Acapulco." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.: 

"City  of  Riode  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  November 
5th,  1892,  at  3  P.  M. 

S.  8.  "City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  Btreets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent, 


THE  following  account  of  the  origin  of 
a  well-known  motto  for  a  time-piece, 
whether  true  or  false,  is  worth  recording 
in  Notes  and  Queries:  "  Some  years  ago  a 
new  clock  was  made  to  be  placed  in  the 
Temple  Hall;  when  finished,  the  clock- 
make  was  desired  to  wait  on  the  Bench- 
ers of  the  Temple,  who  would  think  of  a 
suitable  motto  to  be  put  under  the  clock. 
He  applied  several  times,  but  without 
getting  the  desired  information,  as  they 
had  not  determined  on  the  inscription. 
Continuing  to  importune  them,  he  at 
last  came,  when  the  old  Benchers  were 
met  in  the  Temple  Hall,  and  had  just  sat 
down  to  dinner.  The  workman  again  re- 
quested to  be  informed  of  the  motto;  one 
of  the  Benchers,  who  thought  the  appli- 
cation ill-timed,  and  who  was  fonder  of 
eating  and  drinking  than  inventing  orig- 
inal mottoes,  testily  replied,  'Go  about 
your  business.'  The  mechanic,  taking 
this  for  an  answer  to  his  question,  went 
home  and  inserted  at  the  bottom  of  the 
clock,  *Go  about  your  business,'  and 
placed  it  on  the  Temple  Hall,  to  the  great 
surprise  of  the  Benchers,  who,  upon  con- 
sidering the  circumstance,  agreed  that 
accident  had  produced  a  better  motto 
than  they  could  think  of,  and  ever  since 
the  Temple  clock  has  continued  to  re- 
mind the  lawyers  and  public  to  go  about 
their  business." 


MISS  EMER80NIA  BEACON  HILL  (in 
the  country) — Really,  I  cannot  occupy 
this  chamber,  Mrs.  Meddergrass.  There 
are  several  spiders  in  that  web  on  the 
ceiling,  and  I  could  never  endure  to  dis- 
robe in  their  presence.  Miss  Medder- 
grass— "Why,  pshaw  !they  won't  hurt  you. 
Miss  Beaconhill — But  you  forget  that  qach 
spider  has  eight  eyes.       — Town  Topics. 


THE  ostrich  which  Queen  Victoria  has 
accepted,  and  which  is  now  on  its 
way  from  Africa,  has  executed  a  pedes- 
trian feat  which  makes  the  accomplish- 
ment of  the  long  ride  by  the  German  offi- 
cers appear  quite  insignificant.  The  bird 
was  the  property  of  an  African  King,  and 
it  had  to  walk  from  his  country  to  Sierra 
Leone — the  distance  is  700  miles.  The 
ostrich  will  be  accompanied  by  a  native 
who  feeds  it,  and  it  will  be  temporarily 
placed  in  the  London  Zoological  Gardens. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  8,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYDNEY, 
DIRECT. 

8.  S   Mariposa. .  .Friday,  November  11,  at  2  p.  m. 

For  Honolulu  Only. 

8.  8.  Australia Wednesday,  Oct.  26, 1892, 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKEL8  &  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO, 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  P.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan.  4, 1*93 
Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25,  1892 

ROUND  TRIP  TIOKET8  AT   REDUCED  RATES 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  Bale  at  8.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets,  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Franciscn, 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 

GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave  '      From  Septembsr  3,  1892.      I  Arrive 

7:00  a.  Benicla,  Rumsey,  Sacramento.  7:15  p 
7:30  a.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..  *12:15p 

....  Niles  and  San  Jose 16:16  p 

7:30a.  Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Calistoga  6-15p. 
8:00  a.  3acram'to&  Redding,  viaDavis.  7:16p. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East, 9:45  p. 

8:30  a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:45p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,   New 

Orleans  and  East 8:45  p, 

*9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:45p. 

12-OOM.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore     7:15  p. 

*1:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1 :30  p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12 :45  P. 

3 :00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose . .  9 :45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno 12:15P 

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

Rosa  9:45a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  and  Sacramento 10;46a. 

4:00p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:15a 

4 :00p  Vacaville 10  :15a 

*4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45a. 

5:00  p  European  Mail,  Ogden  and  East. .    10;45a 
5:30p.  Los   Angeles    Express,   Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles 9:45a. 

5:30p.  SantaFe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East 9:15  a. 

6:00p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..      7:45  a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00  p.    Oregon    Express.  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  EaBt. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

J7:45a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  J8:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

Santa  Cruz. *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  Ban  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:60a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets), 

♦7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:38  P. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro,8antaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and   principal  Way   Stations     6:10  p. 

10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 5:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3 :30  p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey, 
Pacific    Grove    and    principal 

Wav  Stations *10:37  A, 

*3:S0  p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations.. *9:47a. 

*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .   *8:06  a. 

5  *.15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8 :48  a. 

6:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...  6:85a. 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  P. 

a.  for  Morning .  p.  for  Afternoon. 

*SundayB  excepted.  fSaturdays  only. 

{Sundays  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  SanFranci  sco 


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SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


THE  peculiar  mixture  of  political  factions  aDd  the  fever  heat  of 
political  excitement  which  haa  culminated  this  week,  ia 
largely  responsible  for  the  stupidity  at  present  reigning  in  society 
life;  and  the  ladies  fur  a  surety,  and  not  a  few  of  the  menkind 
also,  will  heave  a  sigh  of  genuine  relief  when  next  week  comes  to 
an  end,  and  with  its  close  some  degree  of  certainty  arrived  at  as 
to  who  will  be  in  power  for  the  next  two  years  in  'Frisco,  and 
which  party  will  rule  the  nation  for  the  ensuing  four.  The  ladies, 
therefore,  resigned  themselves  to  the  situation,  and  festivity  this 
week  has  been  chiefly  confined  to  lunches  and  teas,  a  number  of 
each  taking  place. 


A  very  pretty  wedding  was  that  of  Miss  Dora  Goldstone  and 
Joseph  Steiner  on  Sunday  evening  last.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  the  rooms  of  the  Harmonie  Club,  on  Post  itreet,  which 
were  elaborately  decorated  for  the  happy  event  with  a  profusion 
of  roses,  ferns  and  chrysanthemums,  a  bridal  bower  of  flowers 
and  greens  being  a  feature  of  the  decoration.  The  hour  set  for 
the  marriage  was  half-past  seven,  and  the  guests  were  all  assem- 
bled when  the  notes  of  the  wedding  march  announced  the  com- 
ing of  the  bridal  party.  First  appeared  two  pages  in  pink  plush, 
Miss  Hilda  Steiner  and  Ray  Steiner;  then  the  six  groomsmen. 
Messrs.  Louis  Wallenstein,  M.  Alexander,  Sam  Erlanger,  Mose 
Goldstone,  Joe  Goldstone  and  N.  Cohen;  the  Misses  Lulu  Badt, 
Jennie  Franklin,  Elsie  Erlanger,  Annie  Cobn,  Emma  and  Sadie 
Steiner  and  Sarah  Franklin  formed  a  bevy  of  pretty  bridesmaids, 
and  Miss  Esther  Goldstone,  sister  of  the  bride,  was  maid-of  honor; 
Rave  Steiner,  beat  man.  Then  came  the  bride  with  her  father, 
and  the  groom  with  Mrs.  Goldstone;  and  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Voorsanger  performed  the  ceremony.  The  bridal  robe  was  of 
heavy  white  satin  trimmed  with  sprays  of  orange  blossoms  and 
exquisite  point  lace;  a  long  tulle  veil  enveloped  the  bride  from 
head  to  feet,  and  she  carried  a  bouquet  of  orange  blossoms.  The 
ceremony  over  and  congratulations  offered,  supper  was  served  in 
the  banquet  hall;  Ballenberg's  band  playing  during  supper,  at 
which  toasts  were  drank  to  the  health  of  the  newly-wedded  pair. 


Changes  have  been  made  both  in  residence  and  the  reception 
days  of  many  ladies  of  the  social  world  since  last  season.  Among 
others,  Mrs.  George  Crux  has  removed  from  McAllister  street  to 
2717  Pine  street,  where  she  will  be  at  home  on  the  second  and 
fourth  Tuesdays  of  the  month.  Mrs.  Cosmo  Morgan  will  receive 
on  Thursdays,  at  2210  Devisadero  street.  Mrs.  Laura  Buffandeau 
has  chosen  Fridays,  the  2d  and  4th  of  the  month,  at  1715  Broad- 
way. Mrs.  Susan  Crooke  is  occupying  Mrs.  W.  H.  Smith's  resi- 
dence, on  Buchanan  and  Sacramento  streets,  and  will  receive  on 
Fridays.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Manheim,  nee  Kahn,  who  returned  last 
week  from  their  bridal  trip,  are  very  comfortably  installed  in 
their  new  house,  1406  Fillmore  street,  near  Ellis,  where  Mrs. 
Manheim  will  be  at  home  to  her  friends  the  second  and  fourth 
Thursdays.  During  Mrs.  C.  T.  Ashe's  absence  in  the  East  her 
house  on  Sacramento  street  will  be  occupied  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Laren, who,  owing  to  the  return  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ford  from  Eu- 
rope, have  been  obliged  to  vacate  their  residence  where  they 
have  been  living  during  the  summer.  Miss  Bettie  Aahe  and  Mr. 
Sidney  Ashe,  with  their  aunt,  Miss  Toryall,  will  board  with  their 
sister,  Mrs.  McLaren,  while  Mrs.  Ashe  is  away  from  home,  and 
the  reception  day  of  the  ladies  will  continue  to  be  as  hitherto, 
Fridays. 

St.  Mary's  Cathedral  will  be  the  scene,  on  Wednesday  of  next 
week,  of  the  nuptials  of  Miss  Belle  A.  Garrett  and  Orville  C.  P. 
Goodspeed,  grandson  and  namesake  of  the  late  Judge  O.  C.  Pratt. 
The  ceremony  will  take  place  at  the  hour  of  noon,  and  be  fol- 
lowed by  a  small  and  informal  reception  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  parents.  The  same  day,  Wednesday  next,  Misa  Julia 
Bissell  will  be  united  to  William  Pilcher,  the  ceremony  taking 
place  in  her  mother's  rooms  at  the  Pleaaanton,  and  owing  to  ill- 
ness in  the  family,  the  wedding  will  be  a  quiet  one,  to  which 
only  relatives  and  intimate  friends  are  invited.  The  bride's  two 
sistera,  the  Misaes  Elise  and  Teresa  Bissell,  will  be  her  attendants ; 
Mr.  James  Brett  Stokes  the  groom's  best  man.  The  bridal  cos- 
tume will  be  of  white  broadcloth,  with  a  gainsborough  hat 
trimmed  with  white  ostrich  plumes,  and  the  wedding  trip,  on 
which  the  bride  and  groom  start  the  same  day,  will  be  a  pro- 
longed one,  first  to  Japan,  then  India,  and  finally  Europe,  thus 
making  a  tour  of  the  globe  before  returning  to  America.  Friday, 
the  11th,  will  be  the  wedding  day  of  Miss  Carrie  Osborne  and 
Charles  D.  Steiger. 

Recent  arrivals  from  the  East  include  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ed.  Hop- 
kins and  family,  who  have  been  away  aince  early  in  the  spring; 
Mrs.  Joe  Crockett,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Crocker,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  D.  Spreckels  and  party,  from  their  trip  to  Europe.  Mr. 
George  de  Urioste  waa  among  the  arrivals  from  the  other  side 
Saturday,  having  come  direct  from  Paris. 


The  entertainments  given  by  the  San  Francisco  Verein  are  al- 
ways acknowledged  to  be  among  the  leading  events  in  social  life 
in  our  city,  and  certainly  the  amateur  opera  which  the  members 
invited  their  friends  to  witness  on  Saturday  evening  last,  added 
fresh  laurels  to  their  wreath.  The  affair  was  a  decided  success. 
The  opera  written  by  one  of  the  club  members,  Mr.  Hugo  Wal- 
deck  was  entitled  Christopher  Columbus,  and  dealt  with  that  navi- 
gators discovery  of  America.  The  music  was  written  by  another 
member,  Mr.  William  Rinz,  and  the  cast  of  characters  comprised 
a  long  list  of  talented  amateurs.  Mrs.  Feering  who  took  the  role 
of  Juanita  waa  the  star  of  the  evening,  her  singing  and  acting 
evoking  deserved  applause.  The  chorus  dancing  girls,  Indians, 
etc.,  displayed  a  bevy  of  pretty  girls.  Dr.  Arthur  Regensburger 
made  a  hit  as  Columbus.  In  fact  the  whole  performance  was  far 
above  the  average  and  gave  general  satisfaction  to  the  large  and 
brilliant  audience  in  attendance.  The  opera  ended,  the  chairs 
were  cleared  away  and  dancing  began  and  continued  until  a  late 
hour  with  intermission  for  an  eiegant  supper  which  was  laid  for 
300  guests. 


Colonel  and  Mrs.  M.  T.  Ludington,  U.  S.  A.,  have  been  among 
our  visitors  this  week,  and  are  at  the  Palace  Hotel.  Colonel 
Ludington  comes  on  a  tour  of  inspection,  and  will  make  but  a 
brief  stay  this  time.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Smith  and  her  daughter,  Miss 
Belle  Smith,  have  been  at  the  Palace  this  week,  at  which  hotel 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dougherty  and  Miss  Ada  Dougherly,  of  Alameda, 
will  make  their  abiding  place  for  the  winter  months.  Mrs.  and 
George  Audenreid  have  changed  their  base  from  the  Richelieu  to 
the  Palace,  which  they  will  for  the  future  make  their  home. 
True  to  her  time-honored  and  long-continued  programme  of  al- 
ways coming  to  town  on  the  1st  of  November,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Par- 
rott  is  among  this  weeks  acquisitions  to  society's  ranks  in  the 
city,  and  is  now  occupying  her  handsome  mansion  on  Sutter 
street.  She  is  looking  for  the  arrival  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglas 
Dick,  who  reached  New  York  the  early  part  of  the  week,  and 
are  now  about  due  in  San  Francisco. 


The  California  Hotel  was  the  scene  of  another  elegant  wedding 
on  Wednesday  evening,  when  Miss  Cora  Levy  and  Henry  Ahpel 
were  united  in  marriage  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Voorsanger,  in  the  ro- 
tunda. The  ceremony  was  witnessed  by  a  large  number  of 
guests,  who  at  its  conclusion  repaired  to  the  banquet  hall,  where 
an  elaborate  supper  was  served.  The  floral  decorations  of  the 
rooms  were  handsome,  and  were  very  much  admired.  Mias 
Helen  Levy,  the  bride's  pretty  sister,  was  maid-of-honor,  while 
the  groom  had  a  retinue  of  friends  to  stand  up  with  him  in  the 
persons  of  Messrs.  Arthur  Bachman,  Cohn,  Waterman,  Ham- 
burger, Silverberg  and  Ed  Thurmann,  of  New  York.  The  bridal 
party  have  gone  for  a  honeymoon  trip  to  the  Southern  counties, 
and  upon  their  return  will  reside  at  the  California  Hotel. 

Lunches  are  gaining  in  favor  as  the  fall  season  progresses,  and 
among  the  prettiest  of  those  given  last  week  may  be  mentioned 
the  lunch  given  by  Mrs.  Charles  Wilson,  of  Sacramento  street,  to 
Mrs.  William  Norris,  of  Portland,  Oregon;  the  violet  lunch,  given 
by  Miss  Bessie  Shreve  to  Mrs.  Frank  Hicka,  the  same  afternoon, 
and  the  lunch  given  by  Mrs.  J.  N.  Walter,  of  Franklin  street,  in 
honor  of  Mrs.  J.  W.  Lilienthal,  of  New  York.  Among  other  gas- 
tronomic events  of  last  week,  those  meriting  notice  were  the  din- 
ner given  by  C.  F.  Mullins,  on  Wednesday  evening,  at  which  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Frank  Hicks  were  the  guests  of  honor;  Miss  Goad's 
dinner  on  Thursday  evening,  and  the  dinner  given  by  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  A.  Roos  to  the  French  Admiral  and  his  staff,  the  same 
night,  which  is  described  as  being  "simply  magnificent." 


Mrs.  Frank  McLaughlin  and  her  daughter,  Agned,  have  re- 
turned to  Oroville,  where  they  will  remain  a  couple  of  weeks 
prior  to  taking  an  Eastern  trip.  They  propose  visiting  their 
friends  in  Washington  and  New  York,  where  they  will  remain 
during  the  winter  months.  Major  McLaughlin  will  join  the  ladies 
in  March,  and  in  the  following  month  he  will  escort  them  back 
to  California.  Golden  Gate  Villa,  the  beautiful  summer  home  of 
the  McLaughlins,  will  not  open  its  hospitable  doors  until  April 
next,  when  a  series-of  brilliant  entertainments  will  be  inaugu- 
rated, equal  to  those  that  distinguished  it  last  seaaon.  Major 
McLaughlin  has  made  arrangements. for  the  building  of  *  beauti- 
ful winter  home  in  Oroville. 

Among  the  prospective  losses  in  the  near  future  will  be  that  of 
Miss  Lottie  Clarke,  who,  with  her  mother,  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Clarke, 
will  ere  long  leave  for  the  East  and  Europe,  where  they  propose 
making  a  stay  of  some  duration.  Mrs.  Lyman's  absence  will  be 
comparatively  brief,  as  she  hopes  to  return  in  time  for  the  Christ- 
mas holidays,  from  her  visit  to  New  York  and  Waahington  City. 
Pretty  Miss  Ada  Sullivan's  avowed  intention  of  accompanying 
her  sister,  Mra.  Jamea  A.  Turner,  to  the  realms  of  the  Mikado,  is 
greatly  deplored  by  her  friends  in  San  Francisco,  with  whom  ahe 
ia  auch  a  favorite,  and  who  will  sadly  miss  her  should  she  go. 


Mrs.  George  Pullman  has  accompanied  her  daughter  Florence 
to  California  for  the  purpose  of  paying  her  other  daughter,  Mrs. 
Frank  Carolan,  a  visit.  The  party  arrived  by  special  car  on 
Thursday  from  Chicago,  and  it  is  quite  probable  that  Mrs.  Pull- 
man will  remain  on  the  coast  a  good  part  of  the  winter. 


Nov.  5,   1898 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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Tbe  wedding  of  l>r.  Grant  8elfridf;e.  of  Oakland,  to  Miss  Lolita 
Monteverde  took  place  at  St  Mary's  Cathedral  on  Thursday 
evening,  in  tbe  presence  of  a  fashionable  gathering.  Miss  Georgie 
Marten,  was  raaid-of-  honor,  and  the  bridesmaids  were  Miss  May 
EUla,  Miss  Lillian  Keis.  Miss  8allie  Hine.  Miss  Edna  Robinson, 
Miss  Meta  Thompson  and  Miss  McGeoghegan.  George  James  was 
best  man  and  the  ushers  were  Milton  8.  Latham,  J.  J.  Archibald, 
Allan  St.  John  Bowie.  Frank  Owen,  Harry  Wadswortb  and  8am- 
uel  H.  Knight.  A  reception  was  held  at  the  residence  of  tbe 
bride's  parents,  on  Suiter  street. 

A  pretty  out-of-town  wedding  was  the  recent  one  at  Petaluma, 
when  Miss  Ella  Whitney  was  married  to  Charles  B.  Wheaten  of 
San  Francisco.  Tbe  natural  advantages  of  tbe  Wbeaton  residence 
in  Tetaluma  are  manifold,  and  these  were  augmented  by  the  beau- 
tiful Moral  decorations,  which  were  of  tbe  most  elaborate  descrip- 
tion, and  in  these  lovely  surroundings  the  nuptial  knot  was  tied 
by  the  Rev.  John  Partridge,  rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church  in 
Fetal u ma.  A  handsome  wedding  breakfast  followed  the  cere- 
mony, and  later  tbe  young  couple  departed  on  their  honeymoon 
trip. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Faxon  Atherton  are  occupying  their  town  house 
for  the  season,  having  come  up  from  their  Menlo  Park  cottage 
last  week.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Lent  have  returned  from 
their  bridal  tour  down  South,  and  have  taken  possession  of  their 
new  residence  on  Washington  street.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer 
Bockbee  are  also  with  us  again  from  their  honeymoon  trip,  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Sloss  and  family  have  arrived  in  town  from 
San  Rafael,  where  they  spent  the  entire  summer  season. 


Among  the  new  householders  and  consequently  possible  enter- 
tainers of  the  winter  season  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Huntington, 
who  will  shortly  leave  the  Richelieu  for  a  home  of  their  own; 
Mrs.  Alexander  Forbes  and  her  daughter,  from  the  Pleasanton,  to 
a  residence  on  Jackson  street,  near  Pierce.  George  Crocker  will 
keep  bachelor's  ball  at  the  Crocker  mansion  on  California  street, 
but  will  have  his  cousin,  Mrs.  Stedman,  to  preside  during  a  por- 
tion of  the  time,  at  least,  during  the  winter. 


At  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mme.  Adolphe  Roos,  Admiral  Par- 
rayon,  of  the  French  cruiser  Dubourdieu,  and  his  staff  officers, 
were  entertained  last  Thursday  evening.  A  dinner  for  twenty 
was  served  in  their  honor.  The  tout  ensemble  was  charming. 
Dancing  was  also  enjoyed.  It  was  early  in  the  morning  when 
best  wishes  were  expressed  to  the  Admiral  and  officers  by  their 
compatriots,  who  wished  them  a  pleasant  trip  and  au  revoir.  •]-£_$ 


Mrs.  J.  B.  Shroeder's  yellow  tea,  at  her  lovely  home  in  Red- 
wood City,  last  Saturday,  was  a  charming  affair.  Yellow  flowers 
decorated  tbe  table,  which  was  covered  with  a  yellow  silk  cloth, 
and  the  china  used,  as  well  as  the  glass,  was  also  of  the  same 
golden  hue.  The  guests  were  nearly  all  San  Francisco  ladies, 
who,  leaving  town  by  the  10  a.  m.  train,  spent  a  delightful  day  in 
the  country,  returning  to  the  city  at  7  p.  m. 

The  tea  given  by  Mrs.  Moore,  at  the  Berkshire,  last  Friday  af- 
ternoon, in  honor  of  her  sister,  Mrs.  Fisher,  was  a  complete  suc- 
cess. It  took  the  form  of  a  progressive  euchre  party,  and  be- 
tween the  hours  of  three  and  five  o'clock  the  game  was  played 
at  nine  tables,  the  prizes  being  chiefly  pretty,  quaint  articles  in 
silver,  after  which  another  hour  was  spent  in  chat  while  discuss- 
ing tea  and  light  refreshments. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  have  gone  for  a  month's  flyer  across  the 
continent,  but  expect  to  be  back  in  time  to  take  part  in  the  first 
of  the  Friday  night  cotillions.  Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington  will  return 
to  New  York  with  Mr.  Huntington  in  a  couple  of  weeks,  and  not 
remain  in  San  Francisco  all  winter,  as  she  at  one  time  contem- 
plated doing. 

Alfred  Wilkee  is  preparing  a  series  of  ballad  concerts,  which 
will  be  given  in  Maple  Hall,  Palace  Hotel,  beginning  on  the  af- 
ternoon of  the  22d  inst.  The  concerts  will  be  given  on  different 
days  of  the  week,  so  that  they  will  not  interfere  with  ladies'  call- 
ing days.  They  will  be  very  select,  and,  needless  to  say,  suc- 
cessful. 

The  8an  Francisco  Turn  Verein  will  celebrate  their  fortieth  an- 
niversary in  their  hall,  at  323  Turk  street,  to-morrow  evening.  A 
Bplendid  performance  has  been  arranged  for  the  occasion.  It 
will  include  vocal  and  instrumental  music,  a  gymnastic  exhibi- 
tion and  tableaux,  to  be  followed  by  dancing. 

Mrs.  Ivers  and  Miss  Ilene  are  among  the  arrivals  of  the  week 
in  New  York  from  Europe,  where  the  purpose  remaining  all  win- 
ter. Mrs.  D.  Callighan  and  her  daughters  have  also  arrived  in 
New  York,  after  a  pleasant  tour  of  the  Old  World,  and  will  ere 
long  be  at  home  again  in  San  Francisco. 

The  bridal  quartette,  the  Messrs.  Magee  and  their  brides,  were 
at  last  accounts  in  Italy,  and  were  about  leaving  for  Spain  and 
Algeria,  and  then  home,  so  they  may  be  looked  for  early  in  the 
new  year.     Mrs.  D.  D.  Colton  was  in  Paris  when  last  heard  from. 

One  of  the  most  delightful  events  of  the  w'eek  was  the  party 
given  on  Halloween  evening  by  Misses  Belle  and  Ruth  Kirk,  at 
their  home  in  East  Oakland.  Many  friends  from  Ban  Francisco, 
Berkeley  and  Alameda,  as  well  as  from  Oakland,  were  present. 


An  old-time  chirps  will  be  held  at  the  Athenian  Club,  Oakland, 
on  Saturday  next.  The  rail  orders  every  faithful  Athenian  to 
bring  as  an  offering  to  tbe  goddess  of  the  glittering  iegis  a  ditty 
and  an  anecdote.  Harry  Melvin  will  be  Archon,  Dr.  T.  B.  Rich- 
ardson will  have  charge  of  the  music,  and  Aleck  Rosborough  will 
conduct  the  midnight  festivities. 

Mrs.  S.  F.  Thome  gave  a  lunch  at  her  rooms  in  the  Grand  Hote1 
on  Wednesday  last,  an''  to-day  Mrs.  Jarboe  and  her  daughter) 
Miss  Kate,  will  give  a  tea  to  which  a  long  list  of  invitations  have 
been  issued,  at  their  home  on  Pine  street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  A.  Spreckels  have  arrived  in  New  York,  where 
they  were  met  by  Mrs.  Dore,  and  may  be  expected  in  8an 
Francisco  ere  long. 

Among  the  last  batch  of  engagements  announced  are  those  of 
Miss  Hilda  Hecbt  to  Marcus  Gerstle,  and  Miss  Dora  Mayrisch  to 
Frank  V.  Cramer. 

Mrs.  Dillon  and  her  daughters  have  returned  from  their  sum- 
mer sojourn  at  San  Rafael,  and  are  for  the  present  at  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel. 

Mr.  Sheath  has  returned  to  the  Hotel  Pleasanton,  having 
passed  tbe  summer  at  Sansalito. 


THE  holidays  come  on  apace,  and  householders  are  beginning  to 
estimate  on  the  decorations  they  will  procure  for  theirhomes, 
with  which  to  make  them  appear  the  brighter  in  the  festive  season. 
Nothing  can  enhance  the  appearance  of  a  room  more  than  a  hand- 
somely-framed picture.  Select  a  good  picture,  have  it  handsomely 
framed,  and  you  have  an  ornament  that  everyone  can  and  will  ad- 
mire. As  most  people  do  not  know  exactly  what  sort  of  a  picture  to 
get  to  suit  their  rooms,  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  have  placed  on  exhibi- 
tion at  their  stores,  741-743  Market  street,  a  number  of  handsome 
pictures,  in  the  beautiful  frames  that  are  made  in  this  firm's  factory. 
They  are  well  worth  examining.  While  in  the  store,  a  visit  should, 
also  be  made  to  the  stationery  department,  where  the  fine  writing 
papers,  from  all  the  great  manufactories  of  the  world,  may  be  seen. 

LADIES  desirous  of  selecting  handsome  novelties  in  dress  pat- 
terns for  Fall  and  Winter  wear,  should  not  neglect  to  visit  tbe 
Maze  and  examine  the  large  assortment  of  beautiful  goods  exhib- 
ited in  the  large  show  window  of  that  establishment.  Not  only 
is  the  appearance  of  the  goods  very  attractive,  but  not  the  least 
attractive  feature  is  the  fact  that  the  goods,  though  worth  over 
$20,  are  being  sold  at  only  $12  50.  It  is  an  unusual  and  magni- 
ficent opportunity  to  select  the  latest  and  best  dress  materials.  The 
Maze  is  in  constant  receipt  from  the  centres  of  fashion  of  all  the 
latest  designs. 


Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and.  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  .his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others — continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

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familiar  to  everyone.  Piveot'  Legrand's  violet  and  Roger  &  Gallet's  Lubin 
and  Pinaud's  perfumes,  Soap,  SachanFace  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc. 

Pinaud's  8  ounce  bottles,  $3,50;  regular  size  reduced  from  $1.25  to  85 
cents  per  bottle,  including  Peau  d'Fspagne  in  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


Nov.  5,  1892. 


MR.     GLADSTONE    AS    A    POLITICIAN. 


WE.  GLADSTONE,  the  statesman,  has  in  his  old  age  become 
.  Gladstone,  the  politician.  This  deplorable  change  of  char- 
acter in  one  of  England's  most  notable  men  dates  from  the  time 
when  Mr.  Gladstone  made  the  futile  attempt  to  increase  the  number 
of  his  supporters  in  the  House  of  Commons  by  entering  into  an  al- 
liance with  the  same  men  whom  a  few  months  previously  he  had  de 
nounced  as  "  marching  through  rapine  and  murder  to  the  dismem- 
berment of  the  Empire."  Since  turning  this  astonishing  political 
sommersault,  he  has  endeavored  to  maintain  his  own  position  by 
means  absolutely  unworthy  of  his  high  intellect  and  his  former  great 
achievements.  Hundreds  of  proofs  could  be  given  for  this  state- 
ment, but  it  will  suffice  to  refer  merely  to  his  article  in  this  month's 
North  American  Review,  supposed  to  be  a  reply  to  the  Duke  of  Ar- 
gyll's essay  in  the  August  number  of  the  same  magazine.  A  reply 
it  certainly  is  not,  for  it  contains  no  arguments,  and  its  assertions 
were  all  answered  at  the  time  of  the  Home  Rule  debate,  but  what  is 
interesting  in  the  article  is  the  method  used  by  the  English  Premier 
in  answering  a  political  opponent,  and  considered  suitable  by  him  to 
gain  favor  with  the  American  readers.  Mr.  Gladstone  must  have  a 
very  low  opinion  of  us  if  he  thinks  he  can  blind  us  to  the  truth  by 
flattery,  misrepresentation  of  facts,  vituperation  of  his  opponent  and 
rhetorical  tricks  of  the  simplest  kind.  The  Duke  of  Argyll  compared 
the  maintenance  of  our  union  during  the  war,  with  England's  desire 
to  prevent  Ireland's  separation  from  the  United  Kingdom.  Mr.  Glad- 
stone considers  it  ajeu  d'esprit  to  represent  the  Duke  as  stating  that 
the  abolition  of  slavery  in  the  South  resembled  the  maintenance  of 
tyranny  in  Ireland.  In  order  to  flatter  the  Americans  Mr.  Glad- 
stone expresses  his  delight  over  the  fact  (  ?)  that,  as  a  distinguished 
Republican  has  told  him,  twelve  and  a  half  million  votes  out  of  the 
thirteen  million  cast  in  the  United  States  next  month  would  be  fa- 
vorable to  Irish  Home  Rule.  The  bulk  of  the  article  contains,  in- 
stead of  arguments,  slurs  cast  upon  the  intelligence  and  character  of 
the  Duke  of  Argyll.  The  Duke,  towards  the  end  of  his  essay,  in  order 
to  excuse  what  he  termed  its  imperfections,  had  used  the  polite  phrase 
that  he  had  written  currente  calamo ,  i.e.,  hastily.  Of  this  conventional 
phrase  Mr.  Gladstone  makes  the  most.  "What!"  he  exclaims.  "How 
can  the  Duke  dare  to  insult  the  great  American  nation,  which  has  al- 
ways been  so  splendidly  Hibernian  in  sentiment,  and  its  wonderful 
press  by  offering  to  them  a  hastily  written  article,  and  how  can  he 
ask  them  to  listen  to  it !  "  This,  at  least,  is  the  sense,  if  not  the  textp 
of  a  great  part  of  his  article.  What  an  undignified  trick !  What  nau" 
seating  flattery  !  every  impartial  reader  will  exclaim.  And  how 
petty  are  the  attacks,  of  which  the  article  is  full,  upon  the  Duke,  who 
is  one  of  the  most  learned  and  distinguished  statesmen  and  authors 
of  England,  and  whom  Mr.  Gladstone  accuses  of  ignorance,  of  having 
read  nothing  and  of  being  unable  to  discuss  the  question  of  home-rule 
intelligently,  though,  as  all  the  world  knows,  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  more 
than  once,  in  the  House  of  Lords  has  shown  the  weakness  of  Mr. 
Gladstone's  modern  policy  in  a  manner  which  the  latter  can  hardly 
have  forgotten.  The  Duke  of  Argyle  in  his  essay  repeated  what  he 
often  had  demonstrated  before— namely,  that  Mr.  Gladstone's  state- 
ments on  Irish  history  are  untrustworthy.  Mr.  Gladstone  indig- 
nantly exclaims  in  his  article:  "  This  is  a  quiet  way  of  disposing  of  a 
series  of  utterances  which  fill  a  moderate  volume."  Of  course,  the 
Duke  cannot  be  expected  to  answer  a  "  volume  "  in  the  limited  space 
of  a  magazine  article,  and  nobody  but  Mr.  Gladstone  would  expect 
him  to  do  so,  nor  can  we  analize  within  less  than  a  column  of  the 
NewsLetter  Mr.  Gladstone's  long  magazine  article;  all  that  we 
could  do  above  was  to  point  out  its  general  method,  and  if  our  readers 
will  refer  to  the  article  itself  they  will  be  rewarded  by  the  surprise  of 
finding  that  one  of  England's  most  prominent  public  men  has  actually 
nothing  better  to  offer  to  an  intelligent  American  public  on  the  ques- 
tion of  Irish  home-rule  than  a  petty  politician's  plea,  which,  to  use 
one  of  Mr.  Gladstone's  own  dignified  phrases  is  as  full  of  tricks  as  "a 
plum  pudding  is  full  of  plums." 

IF  the  rumor  is  correct  that  the  German  Emperor  is  endeavor- 
ing to  assume  a  more  conciliating  attitude  towards  Russia,  it 
would  indicate  that  he  has  finally  begun  to  see  the  absurdity  of 
his  foreign  policy,  and  the  great  blunder  he  committed  in  entirely 
relinquishing  the  lines  followed  by  his  grandfather  and  the  ex- 
Chancellor.  Unfortunately,  even  if  the  news  is  confirmed,  re- 
pentance will  have  come  too  late,  for  the  Czar  is  not  likely  to 
cancel  the  arrangements  which  he  was  forced  to  make  in  conse- 
quence of  the  young  German  monarch's  attitude  towards  his 
government.  The  Czar  very  unwillingly  yielded  to  the  offers  pro- 
posed to  him  by  France,  but  being  a  man  of  a  firm  character,  and 
very  different  in  this  from  his  vacillating  neighbor,  he  will  no 
doubt  remain  true  to  his  pledge,  even  if  he  recognizes  that  he 
might  now  make  a  better  bargain.  There  is  only  one  man  who 
could  find  perhaps  a  method  of  rearranging  the  diplomatic  rela- 
tions between  Germany  and  Russia  without  asking  the  Czar  to 
break  his  faith  with  regard  to  other  powers;  but  this  man  will 
hardly  be  recalled  to  power  by  William  II.,  and  would  hardly 
accept  a  recall  unless  given  a  freedom  of  action  which  would 
throw  his  sovereign's  personality  absolutely  into  the  shade. 

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HAT'S  the  matter  with  Cleveland?     He's  all  right,  you  bet! 


(i  T  SUPPOSE  the  Chronicle  is  using  that  search  light  to  find 
1  some  truth  for  itself  in  the  clouds,"  said  a  spectator  of  Tues- 
day night's  exhibition.  Considering  the  manner  in  which  that 
paper  falsified  reports  of  meetings  and  other  matters,  the  remark 
was  quite  apropos. 

TAMMANY  was  true  to  its  promise,  and  brought  Cleveland  in 
a  winner.  Hill  and  his  colleagues  supported  the  party  nomi- 
nee throughout,  with  the  desired  result.  His  faithfulness,  not- 
withstanding the  suspicions  of  him  that  were  entertained,  has 
strengthened  the  Senator  considerably. 


THE  showing  made  by  Barry  Baldwin  was  one  of  the  surprises 
of  the  municipal  campaign.  Political  prophets  were  about 
unanimous  in  the  opinion  that  in  no  precinct  would  he  be  bet- 
ter than  fourth  in  the  race.  Instead,  however,  Easton  fell 
down  in  a  number  of  places,  to  the  advantage  of  the  Democratic 
nominee. 


THE  outrageous  manner  in  which  the  Chronicle  conducted  the 
Mayorality  fight  for  Easton  lost  that  gentleman  many  votes, 
and  gained  many  for  Ellert  and  O'Donnell.  Its  attacks  upon 
Ellert  were  malicious,  and  it  engaged  In  too  much  mud-slinging. 
For  a  man  of  his  position  and  ambitions,  Mr.  de  Young  probably 
has  less  good  political  sense  than  any  other  man  in  the  country. 


WILLIAM  BRODERICK,  the  Democratic  nominee  for  Audi- 
tor, ran  well  ahead  of  the  municipal  ticket,  and  polled  nearly 
as  many  votes  as  Cleveland.  He  was  the  strongest  man  on  the 
ticket,  for  personally  he  is  very  popular,  and  has  an  excellent 
record  as  a  public  officer.  He  was  elected  upon  his  personal 
merits,  as  was  Widber,  the  Republican  Treasurer,  another  strong 
man. 


THE  Australian  ballot  system  is  not  a  failure,  as  some  of  the 
supporters  of  the  old  and  certain  method  seek  to  establish.  It 
has  not  been  given  a  fair  trial  here.  The  booths  were  too  small, 
the  stamps  and  ink  were  poor,  the  ballot-boxes  were  not  large 
enough,  and  the  whole  arrangement  gave  evidence  of  poor  man- 
agement. The  system  is  all  right,  but  its  principles  should  be 
properly  applied. 

WHY  would  it  not  be  a  good  idea  to  have  a  civil  service  exam- 
ination for  election  officers  ?  Such  a  suggestion  will,  of 
course,  be  received  with  scorn  by  the  bosses,  but  that  is  one  of  the 
very  reasons  why  it  is  a  good  idea.  Many  of  the  election  officers 
of  Tuesday,  did  not  know  how  to  stamp  or  fold  their  ballots.  In 
some  precincts  the  officers  were  as  ignorant  as  cows.  It  is  dis- 
graceful to  have  such  fellows  in  such  important  places. 


ONE  of  the  things  for  which  the  people  should  warmly  congra- 
tulate themselves  is  the  defeat  of  most  of  the  Republican  can- 
didates for  the  Legislature.  Never  before  in  the  history  of  this 
city,  which,  by  the  inaction  of  its  good  citizens  and  the  activity 
of  its  political  bosses,  has  gained  the  name  of  being  one  of  the 
most  corrupt,  politically,  upon  the  earth,  was  so  bad  a  set  of  men 
presented  for  high  office  as  those  Republican  legislators.  Of  the 
whole  lot  not  more  than  three  or  four  could  be  trusted  alone  in  a 
room  for  fear  that  they  would  steal  the  paper  from  the  walls. 
Most  of  them  had  records  which  showed  them  to  be  corrupt,  and 
the  assurance  they  displayed  in  standing  for  office  was  so  re- 
markable that  one  cannot  find  words  fit  to  refer  to  it.  But  the 
citizens,  slothful  as  they  usually  are  in  political  matters,  arose 
en  masse  and  slaughtered  them. 


ASSEMBLYMAN  McGOWAN,  who  was  one  of  the  few  of  the 
Republican  Legislative  candidates  who  was  elected,  is  a  boat- 
man, and  discusses  taxation  and  laws  while  waiting  for  business 
on  the  water  front.  He  made  a  wager  that  in  the  event  of  bis 
election  he  would  row  himself  to  Sacramento  in  his  own  boat. 
This  will  be  the  closest  actual  representation  of  the  Republican- 
party  being  rowed  up  Salt  River  that  the  campaign  has  produced. 

IT  is  to  be  hoped  that  among  the  fallen  was  the  nominee,  who- 
ever he  may  be,  who  introduced  the  ringing  of  bells  as  a  cam- 
paign feature.  Why  a  man  who  is  running  for  office  should  con- 
sider it  necessary  to  use  claptrap  methods,  such  as  monster  trans- 
parencies and  nerve-destroying  bells  to  call  the  attention  of  the 
public  to  his  name,  is  past  finding  out.  He  is  a  destroyer  of 
the  public  peace,  and  therefore  is  not  a  good  citizen.  Certes, 
then,  he  should  be  defeated. 


Li  rpjjREE  red  and  three  green,  alternated  with  white:  '  Wis- 
1  consin  has  gone  Republican.'"  That  was  the  announce- 
ment the  Chronicle  was  to  have  made.  Through  some  oversight, 
it  was  not  stated  what  flashes  from  the  tower  would  announce 
that  Wisconsin  had  gone  Democratic.  The  flashlight  was  a  good 
idea,  but  it  was  probably  the  first  time  on  record  that  the  Chroni- 
cle burned  red  lights  in  honor  of  a  Democratic  victory.  That  was 
certainly  the  irony  of  fate. 

THOSE  election  officers  in  the  precinct  on  Mission,  between 
Third  and  Fourth  streets,  who  had  to  get  a  plumber  to  turn 
their  ballot-box  around  until  it  opened,  ought  to  get  leather  me- 
dals. They  are  the  most  stupid  defenders  of  the  purity  of  the 
ballot  that  developed  during  this  campaign.  The  admiring  citi- 
zens of  that  precinct  should  present  them  with  a  testimonial  of 
esteem,  and  send  the  Election  Commissioners  a  memorial  thank- 
ing them  for  the  appointment  of  such  able  officers. 

AT  last  there  is  an  end  to  the  oratorical  battles  between  the 
bland  Mr.  Dorn  and  the  fiery  Mr.  Clunie.  The  reports  of  the 
display  of  oratory  made  before  the  Election  Commission  during 
the  campaign  by  these  two  gentlemen  was  one  of  the  most  pain- 
ful of  the  many  impositions  to  which  confiding  newspaper  readers 
were  subjected.  These  political  flywheels  will  now  for  a  time, 
at  least,  retire  into  that  obscurity  in  which  they  are  so  well 
respected.  We  will  hear  no  more  of  them  for  some  time,  for 
which  let  us  be  thankful. 


THE  result  of  the  National  campaign  shows  conclusively  that 
the  people  of  the  country  voted  this  year  according  to 
their  honest  convictions,  and  not  from  the  dictates  of  politi- 
cians. It  was  a  campaign  of  education,  in  which  principles,  and 
not  men,  were  the  issue.  The  great  triumph  of  Democracy  in 
States  that  were  counted  on  by  the  Republicans,  is  an  evidence 
of  the  belief  of  the  country  in  the  soundness  of  Democratic  doc- 
trines. There  is  now  an  end  to  jingoism,  and  the  establishment 
of  an  administration  based  upon  the  wise  economic  principles 
enunciated  by  Grover  Cleveland  augurs  well  for  the  increased 
prosperity  of  the  United  States.  The  voice  of  the  people  has 
been  heard  in  the  land,  and  the  defenders  and  protectors  of  the 
monopolists  and  syndicates,  which  were  fostered  under  Repub- 
lican rule,  have  been  stunned  by  the  mighty  roar. 

ONE  of  the  most  surprising  outcomes  of  the  election  was  the 
small  vote  received  by  Easton.  It  was  confidently  thought 
by  his  friends  that  he  would  be  elected,  or  at  least  would  give  the 
winner  a  bard  race  and  come  in  a  good  second.  Instead,  how- 
ever, he  is  at  this  writing  the  fourth  man  in  the  race,  being  led 
by  Baldwin,  for  whose  election  the  political  leaders  did  not  hope 
in  their  most  sanguine  moments.  The  splitting  of  the  local  Re- 
publican party  by  the  nomination  of  Ellert  was  the  most  im- 
portant factor  against  Easton.  He  also  lost  many  hundreds  of 
votes  by  the  malicious  fight  made  in  his  behalf  by  the  Chronicle. 
That  paper's  methods  disgusted  many  men  who  had  intended  to 
support  the  Republican  nominee,  with  the  result  that  they  voted 
for  either  Ellert  or  O'Donnell.  This  fact  is  shown  by  the  returns 
from  precincts  where  most  of  the  ballots  were  cast  by  merchants 
and  other  business  men  of  good  standing,  with  Republican  pre- 
delictions,  and  who  had  no  affiliation  whatever  with  the  Non- 
partisan movement,  and  certainly  no  liking  for  O'Donnell. 
Easton  was  sacrificed  by  his  friends. 


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VOX    POPULI,    VOX    DEI. 


IF  there  can  be  any  excuse  for  using  the  hackneyed  quotation 
which  forms  the  caption  of  this  article  it  is  to  be  found  in  the 
election  which  took  place  on  Tuesday.  The  voice  of  the  people 
of  the  United  States,  which  is  as  the  voice  of  God  in  its  might 
and  majesty,  has  been  heard,  and  a  fiscal  policy  to  which  65,000,- 
000  of  people  had  submitted,  albeit  unwillingly,  has  crumbled  into 
dust  and  ashes,  and  to-day  there  is  none  so  poor  as  to  do  it  rever- 
ence. There  can  be  no  mistaking  the  meaning  of  the  election  of 
Grover  Cleveland.  It  was  not  that  he  is  a  better  or  a  wiser  or  a 
greater  man,  in  most  respects  than  Benjamin  Harrison,  or  that 
the  voters  of  the  United  States  thought  that  the  personality  of  the 
one  candidate  was  preferable  to  that  of  the  other,  The  contest  was 
a  fair  and  square  one  between  a  high  protective  tariff  and  a  tariff 
for  revenue,  and  protection  has  gone  to  the  wall.  There  was  no 
evading  the  issue  this  time,  nor  any  attempt,  as  there  was  in  1888, 
to  ni:»sk  tariff  for  revenue  behind  tariff  reform.  Henry  Watter- 
son  struck  the  keynote  at  Chicago  when  he  declared  that  the 
fight  was  a  fight  to  the  death  against  the  doctrine  of  a  protective 
tariff,  and  the  people  of  the  United  States  showed  convincingly 
on  Tuesday  that  they  understood  and  appreciated  the  situation. 
Of  course,  it  was  the  most  recent  expression  of  the  will  of  the 
protectionist  party,  the  McKinley  Bill,  that  administered  the  coup 
de  grace.  The  American  people  began  to  ask  themselves  where 
protection,  so-called,  was  to  end,  if  with  the  nation  at  profound 
peace  with  all  the  world  and  with  a  revenue  largely  in  excess  of 
proper  and  necessary  expenditures  the  party  in  power  should  go 
on  increasing  the  duties  on  imported  articles  of  necessity,  and 
adding  course  after  course  to  the  Chinese  wall  which  the  Republi- 
can parly  had  built  upon  the  shores  of  the  continent.  They  asked 
themselves  how  long  the  work  of  favoring  the  few  at  the  expense 
of  the  many  might  be  expected  to  continue;  and  receiving  no 
satisfactory  answer  they  took  the  matter  into  their  own  hands 
and  topped  down  the  whole  structure  at  a  single  blow,  burying 
in  the  ruins  the  political  hopes  and  aspirations  of  a  great  many 
men  who  had  believed  that  the  Republican  party  was  invincible, 
and  that  the  Democrats  would  have  to  wait  another  century  be- 
fore being  restored  to  power.  There  are  a  great  many  local  and 
special  matters  which  helped  along  the  downfall  of  protection  in 
the  United  States — such  as  the  Homestead  trouble,  the  insolence 
and  indifference  of  Carnegie,  the  smirching  of  Quay  and  Dudley, 
and  other  things  of  the  same  sort,  but  all  these  together  are  as 
but  a  drop  in  the  bucket  compared  to  the  tidal  wave  of,  public 
sentiment  which  has  swept  over  the  United  States,  and  from 
whose  onward,  resistless  rush  there  was  no  escape  and  no  oppor- 
tunity for  flight.  So  complete  is  the  victory  that,  for  the  first 
time  since  I860,  the  Democratic  party  will  come  into  the 
complete  control  of  the  government  in  its  executive  and  legis- 
lative branches,  and  will  find  itself  charged  with  the  full 
responsibility  for  the  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  nation. 
That  that  party  will  prove  equal  to  the  task  is  not  open  to 
doubt.  It  has  been  taught  by  experience  and  chastened  by  suc- 
cessive defeats,  until  it  may  be  confidently  expected  to  give  the 
country  a  wise,  prudent,  conservative  and  economical  adminis- 
tration; or,  to  put  it  in  the  proper  way,  a  series  of  administra- 
tions, for  no  single  term  of  four  years  is  likely  to  conclude  the 
Democratic  lease  of  power  this  time.  It  will  avoid  its  former 
mistakes,  and  govern  well  and  wisely,  on  the  principles  laid 
down  by  the  founders  of  the  party,  with  equality  fur  all  before 
the  law,  and  a  denial  of  special  privileges  to  a  favored  few.  Mr. 
Cleveland  and  his  counselors,  whoever  they  may  be,  will  know 
that  what  has  shipwrecked  the  Republican  party  is  the  fact  of 
its  wide  departure  from  the  plain  and  simple  principles  of  Sumner 
and  Lincoln  and  Seward,  and  its  conversion  froma  popular  party 
into  an  oligarchy  of  money  kings  and  a  supporter  of  trusts  and 
syndicates.  The  Democratic  party,  again  restored  to  power,  will 
be  what  its  name  indicates,  the  party  of  the  people,  and  it  will 
be  invincible,  because  it  will  be  backed  by  the  affection  and  calm 
judgment  of  a  majority  of  the  greatest  nation  on  earth.  It  is  to 
be  expected  that  the  prophets  and  soothsayers  of  the  defeated 
party  will  predict  all  sorts  of  dire  disaster  to  flow  from  the  recov- 
ery of  its  wonted  supremacy  by  the  Democratic  party,  but  no  one 
need  be  at  all  alarmed.  The  resources  of  the  United  States  are  so 
great,  so  varied,  and  so  inexhaustible,  that  no  mere  change  of 
fiscal  policy  can  affect  them  injuriously,  nor  make  any  real  differ- 
ence in  the  prosperity  of  the  people.  In  fact,  it  is  more  than 
probable  that  the  stirring  up  and  shaking  up  of  business, 
which  will  be  incident  to  the  overthrow  of  protection,  will  be 
beneficial  to  the  country.  Business  will  be  turned  into  new  chan- 
nels instead  of  going  along  forever  in  the  old  ruts,  new  combina- 
tions will  be  formed,  new  enterprises  undertaken  and  new 
schemes  planned.  Above  all,  the  whole  field  will  be  thrown 
open  to  individual  competition,  instead  of  being  controlled  as  at 
present  by  enormous  aggregations  of  capital  in  the  hands  of  a 
few  men.  The  poor  man  will  have  a  chance  to  do  something  for 
himself  as  soon  as  the  Government  dissolves  its  partnership  with 
his  rich  neighbor,  and  brains  will  once  more  come  to  the  front  of 
moneybags.  The  protected  industries  aid  their  millionaire  own- 
ers will  make  a  hard  fight,  but  they  can  do  little  against  a  united 
Congress,  with  Grover  Cleveland  in  the  White  House.  Protection 
has  had  its  day,  and  must  yield  to  a  more  rational,  popular  policy. 


THE    AUSTRALIAN '  BALLOT. 


THE  Australian  ballot  system  may  properly  be  considered  suc- 
cessful as  far  as  our  experience  with  it  goes  to  show.  The 
only  fault  found  with  it  on  Tuesday  arose  not  from  the  require- 
ments of  the  law,  but  merely  from  the  fact  that  the  officials  bad 
not  made  proper  provisions  for  the  accommodation  of  voters. 
The  booths  were  too  small,  and  there  were  not  enough  of  them  in 
the  polling  places.  Each  booth  should  be  wide  enough  to  allow 
the  ballot  to  be  spread  out  flat  between  the  partitions,  and  the 
writing  shelves  or  desks  should  be  big  enough  to  hold  the  com- 
plete ballot.  If  the  booths  had  been  of  proper  size,  there  would 
have  been  no  complaint  whatever.  These  matters  are  only  of  de- 
tail, and  can  be  very  easily  remedied.  Some  of  the  supporters  of 
the  old  system,  under  which  fraud  and  corruption  were  rampant, 
have  sought  to  show  that  the  new  system  is  defective  in  material 
matters,  because  complaint  was  made  by  men  who  found  them- 
selves inconvenienced  by  the  smallness  of  the  booths,  and  there- 
fore took  more  than  the  ten  minute  limit  to  vote.  The  old  liners 
found  it  well  nigh  impossible  to  vote  the  numerous  stuffers  who 
were,  no  doubt,  upon  the  register,  and  for  that  reason  they  have 
much  complaint  to  make  against  the  Australian  system.  Let  the 
citizens,  however,  consider  the  sources  from  which  the  main  com- 
plaints come,  and  they  may  then  readily  appreciate  the  animus 
which  causes  them.  True,  there  were  a  few  stuffers  who  man- 
aged to  vote,  but  most  of  the  heelers  were  dismayed  at  the 
chances  against  them,  and  they  dared  not  present  themselves  at 
the  polls  and  try  to  get  in  fraudulent  votes.  The  main  objection 
made  against  the  new  system  is  that  it  is  far  more  expensive 
than  the  old.  This  is,  of  course,  a  valid  objection,  and  one  to 
which  attention  should  be  paid.  Not  being  acquainted  with  the 
numerous  details  of  expenditure,  we  are  unable  to  suggest  any 
specific  reductions.  There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that  the  ex- 
penses may  be  reduced,  and  with  a  further  trial  they  doubtless 
will  be.  In  this  connection  it  is  not  inappropriate  to  call  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  the  feeling  is  rapidly  becoming  very  general 
among  merchants  and  taxpayers  of  every  sort,  that  biennial 
municipal  elections  are  a  source  of  more  injury  than  benefit  to  a 
community.  Every  two  years  business  is  prostrated  by  the 
political  campaign.  Affairs  of  the  greatest  moment  give  way  be- 
fore the  politicians,  who  never  fail  to  run  up  big  bills  that  the 
citizens  have  to  pay.  Quadrennial  elections,  it  is  thought,  would 
be  an  improvement.  They  are  held  in  some  Eastern  cities,  and 
the  system  works  well.  Let  us  first  subdue  the  bosses,  get  hon- 
est men  in  office,  and  then  reduce  election  expenses,  and  protect 
business  by  holding  city  elections  every  four  years. 

MURAT    HALSTEAD'S     OPINION. 

THE  blatant  demagogue,  Murat  Halstead,  has  written  his  opin- 
ion of  the  result  of  the  national  Democratic  victory,  and  has 
announced  that  Cleveland,  being  elected,  the  country  will  now 
proceed  to  go  to  smash  just  as  speedily  as  possible.  In  a  dispatch 
to  the  Cincinnati  Commercial  Gazette,  published  on  Wednesday, 
Mr.  Halstead  says:  "Democratic  success,  under  the  platform 
and  candidate,  means  the  demoralization  of  the  currency  and 
the  policy  of  artificial  distribution  of  money,  arbitrary  interfer- 
ence with  the  laws  of  trade  by  the  central  Government,  amount- 
ing to  the  forcing  of  local  currency,  signifying  at  once  boundless 
inflation  and  spoliation  of  the  people  by  bunco  banks.  Still 
more,  it  remands  the  struggling  people  of  the  South  to  rings  of 
tyrants  in  the  Southern  States,  and  the  combination  of  those 
rings  under  the  command  of  Tammany  for  the  sovereignty  of 
fraud  and  violence,  irrespective  of  public  policy  and  in  disregard 
of  public  opinion.  If  the  Democracy  succeeds  in  electing  the  next 
President  and  Congress,  the  country  will  have  the  first  opportu- 
nity since  Lincoln's  election,  thirty-two  years  ago,  to  know  prac- 
tically what  the  party  is,  and  the  combination  of  executive  inabil- 
ity and  constructive  incapacity  will  be  a  gigantic  misfortune, 
costing  the  people  years  of  toil  and  trouble  to  overcome."  Hal- 
stead's  opinion  reads  like  a  spreadeagle  stump  speech,  and  sounds 
like  the  utterances  of  a  college  student  statesman.  That  a  man 
of  Halstead's  political  experience  should  express  such  views  as 
these  is  more  surprising,  because  it  is  claimed  for  him  by  his 
friends  that  he  has  a  little  common  sense.  He  has  carefully  con- 
cealed it  in  this  matter.  He  calls  forth  again  the  bugbears  of 
wildcat  money  and  tyranny  in  the  South,  but  the  people  who 
had  had  a  trial  of  Republican  rule  showed  by  their  general  renun- 
ciation of  the  principles  of  the  party  of  "protection"  that  their 
eyes  have  at  last  been  opened  to  the  fallacy  of  the  arguments  of 
the  Republican  leaders. 

IN  the  midst  of  the  turmoil  and  hurly-burly  of  the  election  the 
newspapers  appear  to  have  lost  sight  entirely  of  the  result  of 
the  lams  case  at  Pittsburg.  A  jury  of  this  traitorous  soldier's 
peers  has  decided  that  the  punishment  given  him  was  no  more 
than  he  deserved.  But  the  papers  that  howled  in  his  behalf,  and 
demanded  summary  punishment  for  the  determined  officer  who 
gave  lams  what  he  so  richly  deserved,  have  not  found  time  to 
make  a  single  remark  upon  the  outcome  of  the  case.  The  News 
Letteb  said  at  the  time  that  he  only  got  his  deserts,  and  that 
judgment  is  now  corroborated  by  the  courts,  just  as  it  had  been 
coincided  with  by  every  sensible  and  unprejudiced  man. 


/ 


Nov.  12,   1892 


SAN*   FRANCISCO  NEWS   LETTER. 


THE    MUNICIPAL    ELECTION. 


IN  many  ways  the  municipal  election  was  one  of  surprises.  The 
Noo-Partisaaa,  the  first  to  b«  considered,  for  they  elected  the 
bead  of  their  ticket,  were  not  surprised  at  that  result,  but  re- 
ceived a  great  shock  by  the  failure  of  the  remainder  of  their 
ticket.  The  Democrats  were  not  surprised  at  the  failure  of  Bald- 
win to  win.  for  he  was  a  weak  man.  but  were  surprised  at  the 
anccess  of  nearly  all  the  remaining  principal  municipal  officers 
and  the  legislative  nominees,  for  with  the  strong  opposition 
against  them,  they  were  prepared  to  be  satisfied  with  a  few  of 
toe  principal  offices.  Ttu<  Republicans  were  the  most  surprised 
men  in  the  State  on  Wednesday  morning,  for  they  had  not  a  leg 
to  stand  on.  They  had  been  routed,  horse,  foot  and  dragoons,  as 
badly  as  were  Buckley  and  his  men  in  the  campaign  that  ended 
the  power  of  the  Blind  White  Devil.  Wendell  Easton  was  cut  on 
all  sides.  Easton  is  personally  a  good  and  strong  man.  He  is 
popular  in  the  community,  but  his  affiliations  told  against  him  so 
very  strongly  that  he  was  beaten  badly.  The  causes  that  led  to 
the  results  are  known  to  all  citizens  who  have  kept  in  touch  with 
passing  events  since  the  opening  of  the  campaign,  and  have  con- 
sidered matters  in  a  calm  manner.  The  people  rose  against  the 
system  of  bossism  which  had  succeeded  Buckleyisru,  and  swept 
the  forces  of  fraud  and  corruption  so  completely  out  of  sight  that 
not  a  vestige  of  them  now  remains.  The  efforts  of  the  old  Demo- 
crats, that  is,  the  remnants  of  the  Buckley  forces,  to  again  secure 
control  of  the  County  Democracy,  and  to  put  up  a  ticket  com- 
posed of  the  men  who  were  wont  in  the  old  days  to  obey  the 
orders  sent  out  from  the  Bush  street  saloon,  caused  the  formation 
of  the  so-called  Reorganized  Democracy.  This  organization  was 
managed  by  young  men,  for  the  most  part  new  in  politics,  but 
who  were  determined  to  establish  the  Democracy  upon  a  sound 
and  strong  footing  in  this  municipality,  and  to  put  up  only  good 
men  for  election  to  office.  The  fight  between  the  Old  Democracy 
and  the  Reorganizes  was  long  and  bitter.  It  resulted  in  the  great 
victory  of  the  latter,  who,  at  the  Metropolitan  Hall  convention, 
nominated  the  ticket  which,  in  the  main,  was  so  very  well  re- 
ceived by  the  people  on  Tuesday.  The  Buckleyites  then  bolted 
the  ticket,  and  under  the  leadership  of  Jimmy  Long,  a  Buckley 
lamb,  put  up  a  municipal  ticket,  with  "William  McMann  for  Sher- 
iff. They  did  not  hope  for  their  own  success,  their  only  object 
being  to  split  the  Democracy,  and  thereby  cause  the  failure  before 
the  people  of  the  Metropolitan  Hall  nominees.  Much  the  same 
procedure  was  gone  through  on  the  Republican  side.  The  Re- 
publican Municipal  Convention  was  in  the  hands  of  Kelly  and 
Crimmina,  the  Republican  bosses.  They  put  some  good  men  on 
their  ticket,  for  they  had  felt  the  public  pulse,  and  knew  the 
danger  of  forcing  the  people  too  hard.  A  great  number  of  Repub- 
licans, however,  refused  to  support  the  ticket,  not  so  much  .be- 
cause of  the  men  on  it,  but  because  Kelly  and  Crimmins  were  be- 
hind it.  The  Non-Partisans  then  organized,  with  prominent  Re- 
publicans among  their  leaders.  Ellert,  the  Non-Partisan  nom- 
inee for  Mayor,  is  a  Republican  Supervisor,  and  on  account  of  his 
excellent  record  on  the  Board,  he  was  chosen  as  an  eligible  candi- 
date for  the  Mayoralty.  One  of  the  main  causes  of  disaffection 
in  the  Republican  ranks  was  the  Legislative  ticket  put  up  by 
Third  street.  The  legislative  nominees  chosen  by  Kelly  and  Crim- 
mins, with  one  or  two  exceptions,  were  absolutely  the  worst  that  any 
of  San  Francisco's  bosses  have  ever  put  before  the  people.  They  had 
not  one  redeeming  quality,  and  this  plain  attempt  to  force  into  the 
Legislature  men  who  would  be  the  tools  of  the  bosses,  so  aroused  the 
decent  Republicans  that  they  flocked  to  the  Democrats  and  Non- 
Partisans.  Another  factor  in  the  fight  was  O'Donnell,  the  Inde- 
pendent candidate  for  Mayor.  O'Donnell  is  one  of  the  public  char- 
acters of  San  Francisco.  For  years  he  has  been  a  candidate  before 
the  public  for  some  office.  He  has  never  been  nominated  by  a  con- 
vention, but  always  pursues  his  object  under  his  own  banners.  He 
is  a  man  of  a  notoriously  bad  reputation,  notwithstanding  which 
fact  he  is  very  strong  with  the  laboring  classes,  principally  on  ac- 
count of  his  opposition  to  the  Chinese.  When  it  became  apparent 
to  Kelly  and  Crimmins  that  they  could  not  carry  their  ticket,  they 
sent  orders  to  their  men  to  knife  the  Republican  nominee  for  Mayor 
in  favor  of  O'Donnell.  This  was  done  in  the  hope  of  electing  the 
Independent  over  Ellert,  the  Kepublican,  who  had  jumped  the  bosses' 
ticket.  That  these  orders  were  carried  out  was  shown  by  the  small 
vote  received  by  Easton  in  the  strongholds  of  Republicanism.  Easton 
was  personally  the  best  candidate  for  Mayor,  but  he  was  sacrificed. 
The  success  of  Ellert  may  be  considered  a  good  thing  for  the  city.  It 
is  a  hard  blow  at  the  bosses,  from  which  they  cannot  recover,  if  the 
people  remain  firm.  Ellert  is  personally  not  a  strongman.  He  is 
honest,  no  doubt,  and  has  a  good  record  as  a  Supervisor,  but  lacks 
that  executive  ability,  and  firmness  of  character,  which  are  Easton's 
distinguishing  characteristics,  and  for  which  reason  we  thought  the 
latter  would  have  made  a  better  Mayor.  Still  Ellert  is  conservative, 
and  knows  the  city's  needs.  He  will  make  but  few  mistakes,  and 
the  city  should  congratulate  itself  that  he,  and  not  the  charlatan 
O'Donnell,  was  elected. 


WHY  CLEVELAND  WAS  ELECTED. 

IN  my  opinion  there  was  a  variety  of  causes  which  operated  to 
elect  Mr,  Cleveland  to  the  Presidency.  For  some  time  before 
the  election,  it  seemed  to  me,  the  indications  were  all  favorable 
to  Democratic  success,  and  while  I  was  too  busily  engaged  in 
looking  after  the  details  of  the  campaign  to  give  these  indications 
the  thought  they  deserved,  it  occurred  to  me  that  there  were  two 
great  reasons  for  supposingthat  we  would  come  out  after  the  fight 
victorious.  For  a  long  time  it  has  been  evident  to  the  most  ob- 
tuse observer  that  the  McKinley  bill  did  not  meet  with  the  ap- 
proval of  the  people.  It  was  entirely  too  drastic  in  its  provis- 
ions, and  these  facts  came  home  to  the  people  with  such  force 
that  they  broke  out  into  open  revolt.  There  was  a  time,  and  not 
so  many  years  ago,  when  the  West  cut  but  a  very  small  figure  in 
national  politics,  but  with  the  enormous  development  of  this  sec- 
tion within  the  last  two  decades,  the  situation  has  been  entirely 
changed.  The  balance  of  power  in  fact  has  been  transferred  from 
the  Atlantic  seaboard  to  the  States  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  and 
the  far  West.  This  fact  is  of  peculiar  significance,  for  it  is  the 
one  great  cause  of  the  recent  result.  With  the  growth  of  the 
West,  the  character  of  its  industries  has  been  changed  to  a  large 
extent.  While  it  has  depended,  and  for  that  matter  still  depends 
to  a  very  large  extent  upon  its  agricultural  industries,  at  the  same 
time  it  has  developed  mat  y  large  manufacturing  interests,  and  to 
the  promoters  of  the  latter  the  McKinley  bill  has  not  been  a  bless- 
ing. It  has,  in  fact,  shut  us  out  from  the  rest  of  the  world,  and  has 
so  limited  the  market  of  the  producer  that  a  general  revolt  was  the 
consequence.  In  common  with  his  Eastern  brothers,  the  West- 
ern manufacturer  saw  the  necessity  of  freer  trade  with  the  out- 
side world,  and  a  more  extended  and  broader  market  for  his 
products.  His  field  was  too  circumscribed  under  the  operation  of 
peculiar  tariff  laws,  and  to  him  it  became  p.ain  that  he  must 
reach  out  for  new  territory. 

In  order  to  compete  with  foreign  producers,  however,  he  real- 
ized the  need  of  free  raw  material,  which  was  not  a  possibility 
under  our  economic  laws.  This  was  particularly  plain  to  those 
engaged  in  the  production  of  woolen  goods,  and  they  grew 
restive  under  the  restraint  which  had  been  imposed  upon 
them.  For  that  reason  they  voted  for  Cleveland  and  against  the 
protection  of  Harrison  and  McKinley.  Then  came  the  revolt  of 
the  farming  element,  which  was  widespread  and  formidable.  The 
man  who  toiled  from  daylight  to  dawn  on  a  mortgaged  farm  for 
a  small  remuneration  saw  a  few  millionaires  in  the  East  piling  up 
unnumbered  millions,  while  he  slaved  for  a  bare  subsistence,  and 
he  at  once  looked  about  for  the  cause.  It  took  him  but  a  little 
time  to  discover,  like  his  manufacturing  friend,  that  it  was 
the  McKinley  bill.  Every  article  of  consumption  almost  he  found 
was  burdened  with  a  heavy  tax,  in  order  to  add  to  che  wealth  of 
some  man  who  owned  a  factory,  and  he  at  once  rebelled.  These 
facts,  when  once  fully  realized,  brought  about  a  revolt  of  the  ma- 
jority, which  is  evident  in  the  result.  But  this  revolt  was  not 
confined  to  the  "West.  The  manufacturers  of  the  East  saw  as 
plainly  as  those  of  the  great  West  that  the  time  had  at  last  come 
when  they  must  reach  out  for  new  markets,  and  this  they  could 
not  do  with  the  McKinley  bill  staring  them  in  the  face.  A  change 
was  a  necessity,  and  to  accomplish  the  result  the  tariff  laws 
needed  revision.  The  Republicans  were  pledged  to  McKinley- 
ism,  and  the  Democrats  to  the  contrary.  Their  only  relief  lay  in 
the  success  of  the  latter  party.  They,  too,  voted  for  Cleveland, 
and  added  to  the  decisiveness  of  the  verdict. 

So  far  as  I  can  judge,  these  were  the  main  causes  which  con- 
spired to  bring  about  the  election  of  Cleveland  and  the  conse- 
quent defeat  of  Harrison.  The  same  reasons,  I  should  say,  apply 
to  the  result  in  California,  where  the  Democrats,  for  the  first 
time  in  many  years,  carried  the  State  with  an  emphatic  majority, 
in  spite  of  the  influences  of  Federal  patronage  and  the  liberal  use 
of  money.  The  people  were  up  in  arms,  and  no  influence  could 
bring  about  the  suppression  of  their  will.  To  sum  it  all  up,  I 
should  say  that  the  great  victory  of  the  Democratic  party  was 
due  almost  entirely  to  the  opposition  of  the  people  to  McKinley- 
ism,  and  its  consequent  evils.  Max  Popper, 

Chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee. 


THE  members  of  the  monetary  conference  have  now  all  been 
appointed,  and  from  the  appointments  it  is  seen  that  the 
monometallists  will  be  in  the  majority,  since  the  greater  number 
of  the  representatives  of  England,  Germany,  Austria  and  Belgium 
are  against  bi-metallism.  If  the  acceptance  of  the  double  stand- 
ard, therefore,  by  these  countries  was  the  object  to  be  attained, 
the  conference  will  prove  useless.  There  only  remains  the  hope 
that  some  modus  vivendi  may  be  found  giving  atemporary  relief 
to  the  financial  difficulties. 

IN  the  heat  of  the  fight  for  Mayor  the  people  seem  to  have  over- 
looked the  fact  that  Judge  Wallace  was  a  candidate  for  re-elec- 
tion. The  latest  returns  indicate  his  success,  and  as  he  is  elected 
for  the  long  term  the  citizens  will  now  for  six  years  more  have 
the  pleasure  of  seeing  one  of  the  Superior  Courts  used  for  the  per- 
sonal ends  of  a  man  who,  to  secure  revenge  upon  his  enemies, 
stops  not  at  any  little  quibble  of  the  law,  but  takes  hold  with  a 
strong  hand,  and  acts  as  accuser,  judge  and  jury. 


SAW  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


THE    GREAT    SOCIALIST     CONGRESS     IN     GERMANY' 

THE  German  Socialist  Congress,  which  will  be  held  next  Mon- 
day, promises  to  prove  of  the  greatest  interest,  not  only  as 
regards  the  growth  of  socialism  in  Germany,  but  also  in  so  far  as 
it  will  demonstrate  that  socialism,  whatever  its  moderate 
leaders  may  say,  does  not  aim  at  a  social  reconstruction  of  so- 
ciety, but  ultimately  leads  to  anarchism  In  its  most  pronounced 
form.  Well  educated  German  socialists  like  Herr  Vollmar,  the 
leader  of  the  Bavarian  socialists,  have  long  begun  to  recognize 
that  the  great  body  of  social  Democrats  are  openly  drifting  into 
the  camp  of  nihilists  and  violent  revolutionists,  and  he  and  his 
friends  have  made  vain  efforts  to  stem  the  tide,  and  have  tried, 
if  possible,  to  conceal  the  change  of  affairs  from  the  world.  For 
this  reason,  the  moderate  Bocial  leaders  were  glad  that  the  cholera 
afforded  them  a  pretext  for  postponing  the  national  congress, 
which  should  have  been  held  in  October,  indefinitely,  since  they 
justly  feared  that  a  discussion  at  present  would  reveal  all  too 
early  the  split  which  is  growing  between  the  moderates  and  ex- 
tremists in  the  socialist  party.  They  were  forced,  however,  to 
yield  to  the  clamor  of  the  so-called  independents,  and  to  fix  a 
date  for  the  meeting  this  month,  and  the  congress  beginning 
day  after  to-morrow  will  plainly  show  to  everybody  what  has 
long  been  known  to  the  initiated,  namely,  that  the  number  of 
those  socialists  who  favor  violence,  force  and  revolutionary 
methods  is  steadily  increasing,  while  those  in  their  ranks  wbo 
rely  upon  parliamentary  methods  and  the  reconstruction  of 
society  by  legal  means  are  being  left  in  the  minority.  The  so- 
called  Independent  Socialist  party  has  already  published  its  pro- 
gramme, and  from  the  summary  mentioned  in  the  cablegrams, 
it  is  nothing  else  but  an  anarchist  manifesto.  The  leaders  of  that 
party  urge  upon  their  followers  that  they  should  reject  State 
aid  in  every  form,  and  should  abolish  the  state  entirely.  They 
should  try  to  capture  the  means  of  production,  should  ruin  the 
capitalist  by  continual  strikes,  and  refuse  to  enter  into  legal  obli- 
gations. They  should  oppose  all  leading  institutions  of  modern 
society,  such  as  the  church  and  also  the  schools,  and  they  declare 
themselves  absolute  enemies  of  individual  as  well  as  of  national 
distinction.  Vollmar  and  the  other  educated  members  of  his  party, 
notwithstanding  their  Utopian  and  radical  views,  have  always 
insisted  upon  a  social  reconstruction  of  society  by  parliamentary 
reforms,  and  although  they  believe  in  an  equality  before  the  law, 
their  very  education  has  shown  them  the  absurdity  of  equality 
in  fact  of  persons  unequal  in  moral  and  mental  character  and  as- 
pirations. His  mistake  and  that  of  his  followers  has  only  been 
that  of  counting,  for  the  reconstruction  of  society,  with  human 
beings ,  not  such  as  they  are  and  always  will  be ,  but  as  they,  the- 
oretically, might  be.  Furthermore,  Herr  Vollmar  and  his  adher- 
ents, though  socialists,  are  patriots,  and  love  their  country.  Very 
different,  however,  is  the  case  with  Mr.  Leibknecht  and  the  In- 
dependent Socialists,  who  are  ready  at  any  moment  to  make  com- 
mon cause  with  Germany's  enemies,  provided  they  can  obtain 
their  aim  to  abolish  the  modern  State.  Such  views  Liebknecht 
openly  expressea  at  a  socialist  congress  at  Marseilles  in  Septem- 
ber last.  But  though  he  thoroughly  disgusted  all  true  Germans 
by  his  utterances,  he  gained  very  little  sympathy  from  the 
French,  whom  he  tried  to  flatter,  and  when  he  advised  all  sol- 
diers to  refuse  their  duty  to  their  State,  he  met  with  strenuous 
opposition,  even  in  a  country  hostile  to  Germany.  But  such  are 
the  men  whose  machinations  Prince  Bismarck  tried  to  restrain, 
and  to  whose  intrigues  the  young  Emperor's  foolish  humanita- 
rian fit  at  one  time  gave  extended  scope.  The  French  Govern- 
ment, though  that  of  a  republic,  has  recently  forbidden  Mr.  Lieb- 
knecht and  his  ilk  ever  to  put  their  foot  on  French  soil  again,  not 
because  they  are  Germans,  but  because  they  are  anarchists,  the 
promulgation  of  whoie  doctrines#should  not  be  tolerated  in  a  civ- 
ilized country,  and  the  congress  beginning  next  Monday  will 
show,  by  revealing  what  the  majority  of  the  modern  German  so- 
cialists really  are,  that  not  only  France,  but  all  other  countries, 
would  do  well  in  refusing  them  admission  to  their  shores. 


POLITICAL  candidates  for  office  are  certainly  very  daring  men. 
Now  here  are  the  nominees  who  were  to  be  voted  for  last 
Tuesday  for  municipal  offices  and  every  man  of  them  issued 
cards  bearing  what  purported  to  be  a  good  representation  of  the 
intellectual  (?)  countenance  of  the  patriotic  citizen  whose  name 
the  card  bore.  If  that  is  not  self  sacrifice  and  political  bravery 
of  the  highest  kind,  I  don't  know  what  is.  There  are  men  whose 
faces  are  their  fortunes.  Running  their  faces  to  gain  a  prize  is  of 
course  not  a  new  thing  to  many  of  them,  and  for  that  reason, 
probably,  the  trick  was  introduced.  But  I  know  of  not  a  few 
who  lost  votes  because  electors  saw  their  »  mugs  "  »  Vote  for 
that  man  for  Assembly,"  said  an  elector.  "Not  in  a 
thousand  years.  Why,  just  look  at  his  face  ;  on  his  own  card, 
too.      Why,  he  would  even  steal  the  waste  baskets  1  " 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  The  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


W.    S.    O'BRIEN. 

A  YOUNG  lawyer  who  has  recently  established  himself  in  this 
city  is  Mr.  W.  8.  O'Brien,  who  is  known  among  the  legal 
fraternity  as  as  one  of  the  best  practitioners  in  probate  cases  that 
is  attached  to  the  San  Francisco  bar.  Mr.  O'Brien  is  a  native  of 
California,  having  been  born  in  this  city  in  1859.  He  obtained 
his  primary  education  in  the  public  schools,  after  graduation 
from  which  he  attended  the  Sacred  Heart  College,  from  which 
famous  institution  of  learning  he  graduated  with  high  honors. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1886,  and  almost  immediately  took 
prominent  place  among  the  lawyers  of  the  8tate.  He  removed  to 
Alameda  county,  and  there  soon  became  popular  and  prominent. 
He  was  elected  Public  Administrator  of  Alameda  county,  and 
served  during  1886  and  1887,  giving  great  satisfaction  to  the 
people  during  his  administration.  His  law  practice  soon  began 
to  grow,  and  was  rapidly  extended  into  this  county.  About  a  year 
ago,  on  account  of  the  growth  of  his  business  in  this  city,  Mr. 
O'Brien  took  up  his  residence  in  San  Francisco,  and  is  now  well 
established  here.  He  has  a  lucrative  practice,  representative  of 
solid  commercial  men,  and  so  satisfactory  has  been  his  manage- 
ment of  affairs,  that  he  finds  the  volume  of  his  business  very 
rapidly  increasing.  He  is  best  known  as  a  probate  lawyer,  a 
branch  of  the  law  to  which  he  has  given  special  attention.  Dur- 
ing his  term  of  office  as  Public  Administrator  of  Alameda,  he  be- 
came very  intimate  with  all  probate  matters,  which  knowledge 
now  stands  him  in  good  stead  in  his  practice.  He  has  also  been 
very  successful  in  the  management  of  several  difficult  divorce 
cases.  As  should  every  good  citizen,  Mr.  O'Brien  takes  particu- 
lar interest  in  political  affairs,  holding  it  to  be  the  duty  of  all  good 
men  to  take  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  State.  He  is  President  of 
the  Thirty-eighth  Assembly  District  Republican  Club,  and  is  rec- 
ognized as  a  strong  and  rising  man.  He  is  a  hard- 
working and  energetic  man.  Mr.  O'Brien  has  established 
his  local  office  at  24  Montgomery  street,  in  the  very  center  of  the 
business  places  of  the  men  whose  important  interests  he  so  ably 
represents.  He  is  a  man  of  family,  and  of  domestic  habits,  tak- 
ing but  little  interest  in  general  matters  outside  of  his  home  and 
his  profession.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Order  of  Elks,  though  he 
has  but  little  interest  in  fraternal  orders.  In  all,  Mr.  O'Brien  is  a 
strong  young  lawyer,  who  will  make  a  name  for  himself. 

MR.    HUNTINGTON'S    PETITION. 

MR.  HUNTINGTON  has  outlined  a  scheme  which  cannot  but  be 
of  great  benefit  to  San  Francisco  if  it  be  carried  out.  His  com- 
pany is  now  engaged  in  constructing  two  pieces  of  road  which  will 
materially  shorten  the  distance  between  this  city  and  Los  Angeles, 
and  whichwill  render  possible  the  great  advantage  of  allowing  over- 
land trains  to  arrive  at  and  depart  from  the  heart  of  the  city,  instead 
of  necessitating  the  wearisome  ferry  trip  that  is  now  the  inevitable 
concomitant  of  such  a  trip.  With  the  gaps  between  Santa  Mar- 
garita and  Ellwood,  and  between  Bakersfield  and  San  Miguel  com- 
pleted, the  bulk  of  the  passenger  and  freight  service  of  the  South- 
ern Pacific  will  be  concentrated  in  San  Francisco,  coming  over  the 
line  through  the  Santa  Clara  Valley.  But  this  concentration  will 
require  a  large  amount  of  space  for  depot  and  terminal  facilities. 
This  can  be  obtained  only  by  closing  a  number  of  streets  which 
pass  through  property  already  owned  by  the  company,  and  by 
leasing  to  the  railroad  a  couple  of  blocks  belonging  to  the  city.  An 
effort  will  be  made  to  obtain  these  concessions,  and  there  ought 
to  be  no  difficulty  in  securing  them,  for  there  is  no  need  to  enlarge 
upon  the  great  benefit  that  would  accrue  to  the  city  as  a  whole  if 
the  plan  were  carried  out.  Already,  however,  opposition  has 
been  manifested  by  those  who  cannot  see  more  than  an  inch 
in  front  of  their  noses,  so  blinded  are  they  by  prejudice,  but  it  is 
scarcely  possible  that  any  great  number  of  people  can  be  found 
who  are  so  blind  to  their  own  interests  as  to  repeat  the  Goat  Is- 
land fiasco. 


Our  Society. 
Blue  Book,  containing  the  names,  addresses  and  reception  days 
of  the  leading  society  people  of  San  Francisco  and  the  principa 
social  centers  of  the  State,  is  now  in  press,  and  will  be  issued  in 
November  at  th6  opening  of  the  society  season.  We  have  been  par- 
ticularly careful  in  the  selection  of  names  to  grace  the  pages  of  the 
Blue  Book  and  have  eliminated  many  which  have  appeared  in  for- 
mer publications.  It  will  be  kept  on  file  exclusively  at  all  the  clubs, 
fashionable  hotels,  theaters,  summer  resorts,  etc.  The  arrangement 
of  names  will  be  alphabetically,  and  numerically  by  streets,  similar 
to  the  Chicago,  New  York  and  Philadelphia  blue  books.  The  print- 
ing will  be  in  the  familiar  blue-and-gold  covers,  with  gilt-edged  text. 
The  intormation  conveyed  on  the  pale-blue  leaves  will  be  set  forth  in 
a.  generally  attractive  manner  for  the  class  of  people  which  the  Blue 
Book  is  specially  intended.  It  has  become  the  accepted  fashionable 
private  address  directory  of  California  society  people.  The  Blue 
Book  will  be  kept  on  sale  at  all  first  class  book  stores  (excepting 
Bancroft's).  Charles  C.  Hoag,  publisher,  175  and  176  Crocker  build- 
ing San  Francisco. 

Go  to  Litchfield,  at  .12  Post  street,  if  you  want  good  clothes.  Col- 
onel Litchfield  has  done  business  in  this  city  for  years,  and  his  repu- 
tation is  well  established  as  the  leading  tailor  in  San  Francisco.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of  uniforms  and  regalias,  and  has  clothed  most  of 
the  gallant  officers  of  the  army  and  navy  and  National  Guard  located 
here. 


12,  1492. 


SAX   F  R  AN  CISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    DISCOMFORT    OF    CLOTHES. 


[By    Pi    Versos.] 

EDMUND  RUSSELL,  the  apostle  of  Delsarte,  who  is  giving  a 
course  of  lectures  in  our  city,  is  nothing  if  not  epigrammatic. 
It  is  impossible  to  listen  to  him  at  all  without  carrying  away  a 
good  many  impressions.  Mr.  Kussell  has  a  serious  face,  and  he 
says  his  wittiest  speeches  with  never  so  much  as  a  smile  flitting 
across  bis  countenance,  but  instead  there  is  an  expression  which 
seems  to  say,  >■  This  is  immensely  funny,  and  you  may  laugh  if 
you  like,  but  I  have  heard  it  before,  and  you  will  please  excuse 
me  from  joining  in  your  mi'th."  He  makes  some  startling  state- 
ments. For  instance,  he  said  that  Queen  Victoria  is  the  most 
graceful  woman  that  he  has  ever  seen.  Since  the  majority  of  us 
have  never  seen  Her  Majesty,  we  must  be  content  to  take  his 
statement  for  the  fact,  bat  at  the  same  time  it  is  not  exactly  in 
the  line  of  our  preconceived  ideas.  At  least,  everybody  seemed 
surprised.  "  The  slightest  pressure  discourages  the  body,"  says 
Mr.  Russell,  "  and  prevents  it  from  being  its  own  natural  self. 
>'ot  content  with  wearing  a  corset  around  the  trunk  of  the  body, 
the  majority  of  people  wear  corsets  around  their  necks,  on  their 
bands,  on  their  feet."  His  description  and  illustration  of  the  kid 
glove  hand  which,  by  the  way,  is  as  graceful,  without  being  as  use- 
ful as  the  flipper  of  a  seal,  the  society  stiff  neck,  and  the  cramped 
foot,  were  very  amusing;  but  I  fancy  that  not  many  of  his  fash- 
ionable audience  were  willing  to  accept  him  for  their  guide  to 
such  a  degree  of  literalness  that  they  would  discard  their  gloves 
altogether,  as  he  advised  them  to  do,  or  cast  aside  their  shoes  for 
Oxford  ties.  "  Carry  your  gloves,"  said  he,  "  don't  wear  them; 
then  people  can  see  that  you  have  gloves,  and  so  the  proprieties 
will  have  been  observed." 

No  one  who  has  ever  experienced  the  painful  discomfort  of 
hands  that  have  been  exposed  to  too  much  «  weather"  can  ever 
wish  to  discard  the  protecting  glove;  but  if  we  could  discard  the 
tight-fitting  "  hand-shoe,"  which  squeezes  the  hand  into  a  shiny 
or  a  dead  finish  sausage,  and  take  to  wearing  easy-fitting,  soft, 
pliable  chamois  skin  gloves,  the  hand  would  be  protected,  and  its 
freedom  of  motion  not  be  restricted  in  the  least. 

»i  We  are  all  afraid  of  our  tailors  and  dressmakers,"  said  Mr. 
Russell,  "They  clutch  us  over  the  chest  and  we  drop  down  to 
our  smallest  size  before  them.  We  are  fitted  with  garments  that 
represent  our  smallest  size."  This  is  unfortunately  too  true,  and 
nine-tenths  of  his  audience  would  have  demonstrated  the  fact 
had  they  tried  to  follow  his  advice  and  elevate  the  chest.  I  sup- 
pose that  they  all  thought  that  they'd  better  wait  until  they  had 
gone  home  and  taken  off  their  dresses  and  their  corsets.  As  to 
bow  woman  herself  regards  the  corset  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
when  she  wants  to  be  free  for  action  or  for  an  uninterrupted 
stretch  of  mental  exertion,  she  generally  takes  it  off  and  lets  down 
her  back  hair. 

Mr.  Russell's  injunction,  "Elevate  the  chest,"  reminded  me 
of  the  old  sneer  at  pretension,  or  pride,  "high  chest  and  empty 
stomach."  But  although  be  did  not  speak  of  it  in  just  that  way, 
the  lecturer  showed  that  a  high  chest  made  a  stomach  apparently 
empty,  so  far  as  looks  go,  for  by  raising  the  chest,  not  only  is  it 
better  for  the  lungs,  but  it  elongates  the  line  from  the  neck 
to  the  waist.  Drawing  the  visceral  organs  up  to  their 
proper  position,  instead  of  crowding  them  one  upon  the  other, 
makes  the  waist  itself  smaller.  This  disposes  of  the  fear  shown 
by  women  that  if  they  went  to  stand  up  straight,  they 
will  grow  larger  around  the  waist. 

But  in  spite  of  all  the  convincing  argument  or  winning  per- 
suasiveness of  such  charming  people  as  Mr.  Russell,  I  doubt  if 
women  will  ever  emancipate  themselves  from  the  slavery  of 
fashion.  When  it  can  become  the  style  to  wear  a  tailor-made 
dress  with  a  trained  skirt  on  the  street,  and  to  increase  the  in- 
congruity by  adding  a  pair  of  suspenders  on  the  outside,  it  does 
not  seem  as  if  women  were  approaching  the  ideal  for  which  all 
of  them  sigh,  and  from  which  they  sedulously  flee,  a  sensible, 
healthful  and  comfortable  style  of  dress.  Why  is  it  so  impossible 
for  women  to  emancipate  themselves  from  the  "  fashion?"  Be- 
cause man  won't  let  Iheml  That  may  sound  ridiculous,  but  it's 
the  truth.  Men  ridicule  every  attempt  that  women  make  to 
break  away  from  the  absurdities  of  the  mode.  They  made  fun  of 
women  in  hoops,  and  they  made  fun  of  her  in  slimpsey  gowns 
when  she  discarded  the  wires.  They  burlesqued  the  bustle,  and 
then  when  the  bustle  was  cast  aside,  they  burlesqued  her  flat 
back.  They  inveige  against  wasp  waists,  and  then  they  seek  to 
embrace  them  figuratively  and  literally,  while  they  are  so  witty 
in  referring  to  the  woman  who  does  not  lace  as  being  of  one  size 
from  the  shoulders  down! 

I  knew  a  young  fellow,  a  sensible  young  man,  too,  on  many 
subjects,  who  had  a  perfect  mania  for  seeing  his  sister  with  a 
small  waist.  <<  0,  mother,"  he  would  say,  while  the  girl  was 
dressing  for  a  party,  "  do  see  that  she  pulls  in  her  corsets.  I  wish 
I  could  get  hold  of  the  strings  just  once.  I  know  I'd  make  her 
look  several  sizes  smaller!"  That  was  his  idea  of  a  fine  figure. 
At  last,  tired  of  bearing  the  same  old  subject,  the  girl  decided  to 
give  him  a  practical  illustration  of  what  it  was  to  have  a  con- 
sciousness of  clothes.     She  borrowed  a  large  pair  of  corsets,  for 


the  young  man  had  a  good  girth  of  his  own,  and  put  them  on 
over  bis  vest.  She  did  not  pull  them  in,  however,  until  she  had 
taken  a  stout  shoestring  and,  after  the  fashion  of  that  day,  tied  up 
his  "  scalp-lock  "  on  the  top  of  his  head  till  it  was  like  a  stiff 
paint  brush,  anil  then,  although  there  was  no  hair  to  coil  around 
the  tuft,  she  stuck  several  hair-pins  through  it  to  give  him  the 
proper  appreciation  of  what  it  is  to  have  the  hair  "  done  up 
high."  Then,  with  one  good,  strong  pull,  she  lashed  him  in  the 
corsets.  What  a  yell,  »  Stop  it.  I  can't  breathe!  "  he  cried,  as  he 
vainly  struggled  with  the  corset  clasps  in  his  endeavor  to  free 
himself  from  the  machine  of  cloth  and  bone  and  steel.  "Take 
those  things  out  of  my  hair,"  he  exclaimed,  trying  to  raise  bis 
arm  to  bis  head,  and  failing  by  an  inch  or  two. 

"  Oh,  that's  nothing,"  calmly  responded  his  sister,  "  nothing  at 
all  when  you  get  used  to  it.  Here,  pick  up  your  scarf-pin," 
pointing  to  it  at  his  feet.  He  could  not  get  to  the  floor.  "  Oh, 
stop  this  nonsense!  "  he  exclaimed,  getting  rather  angry;  "  untie 
those  strings  and  let  me  out  of  this  thing.  You  always  do  carry 
things  too  far,  I  believe  you  pulled  it  tighter  than  anybody  ever 
wears  a  corset." 

"  On  the  contrary,  I  assure  you  that  you  have  been  subjected 
to  only  a  very  moderate  pressure.  You  have  felt  only  a  slight 
part  of  the  discomfort  which  you  have  been  so  anxious  to  inflict 
upon  me.  Now  you  can  imagine  what  it  must  be  to  wear  a  cor- 
set all  the  time,  and  to  be  pulled  in  extra  tight  for  a  party,  to 
walk,  dance,  talk  and  bow  trussed  up  in  a  corset.  You  don't 
seem  to  find  it  any  too  comfortable  just  for  a  few  minutes."  "Oh, 
well,"  he  said,  "  it's  all  nonsense  for  you  to  have  such  a  large 
waist,  when  the  other  girls  do  not.  Of  course  the  corset  hurts 
me,  but  that's  because  I'm  not  used  to  it;  women  are  different." 
So  they  are, 

cifW 


No  Ammonia. 


m^ffi 


No  Alum. 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 

Used  in  the  U.  S.  Army  and  by- 
teachers  of  cookery. 

Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it 
never  varies,  it  does  the  most  work, 
the  best  work  and  is  perfectly  whole- 
some. 

But  your  own  experience  is  better 
than  anybody's  "  say  so,"  and  your 
own  experience  will  show  you  that 
Cleveland's  baking  powder  is  the 
strongest  and  the  best.  Try  it. 
F.  Bt.  AMES  «t  CO.,  Agents. 


THE  SCIENCE 

OF 

THE  SKIN. 


324  SUTTEE  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  with  the  aid  of  Dermoline. 
The  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 

Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
moved and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
"by  a  new  process. 

Hair  Invigorator,  guaranteed  to 
cure  BALDNESS. 


COLTON  DENTAL  ASSOCIATION, 

806  Market  Street  (Pbelan  Building). 

Gas  Specialists.  Originated  the  UBe  of  Pure  Nitrous  Oxide  Gas  for  poia- 
tlvely  extracting  teeth  without  pain.  "Colton  Gas"  has  an  established  and 
unrivaled  world-wide  reputation  for  Its  purity,  efficacy  and  perfect  safety 
In  all  eases.  Thirty-five  thousand  references.  Establiahed  1863.  Indorsed 
and  recommended  by  all  reputable  dentists  and  physicians.  Also  performs 
all  operations  in  dentistry. 

DR.  CHABLES  W.  DECKER 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892 


l^dgsYwD 


"We    Obey    no    Wand,    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

MISS  MARLOWE  appeared  at  the  Baldwin  Monday  night  as 
Parthenia  in  Mrs.  Lovell's  high-wrought,  romantic  drama, 
Ingomar.  To  one  imbued  with  a  taste  for  the  slangy  diction  and 
materialistic  realism  of  the  recent  drama,  the  lines  of  Ingomar 
may  seem  stilted  and  the  sentiment  strained.  But  full  as  it  is  of 
tender  and  heroic  sentiment,  and  of  poetic  imagery,  it  is  no  more  so 
than  we  of  this  utilitarian  generation  may  well  study  to  our  mani- 
fest and  great  improvement.  It  is  the  tenderness  and  the  hero- 
ism of  humanity,  not  of  an  abstraction,  and  to  noble  souls  neither 
impossible  nor  Utopian. 

»  »  # 

The  performance  at  the  Baldwin  Monday  night  was  a  more 
than  ordinarily  satisfactory  one.  Miss  Marlowe  has  been  called 
,i  the  ideal  Parthenia,"  and  on  Monday  evening  no  on  would 
strenuously  dispute  the  assertion.  Judgment  may  have  been 
forestalled  by  the  charm  of  youth,  an  expressive  countenance, 
attractive  personality,  and  grace  of  movement;  but  there  is  in 
Miss  Marlowe's  delineation  so  much  delicacy  and  fervor,  mingled 
with  a  childlike  simplicity  and  playfulness,  as  to  prove  her 
possession  of  both  feeling  and  versatility,  while  an  occasional 
revelatioD  of  a  deeper  and  stronger  emotion,  suggest  that  she  may 
yet  master  roles  of  a  loftier  and  more  complicated  character. 
*  *  * 

The  support  is  at  best  no  more  than  adequate  to  keep  the  star 
in  countenance.  Perhaps  the  most  satisfactory  was  the  minor 
part  of  Polydore,  in  which  Mr.  H.  A.  Weaver  showed  himself 
a  reliable  and  valuable  member  of  the  company.  Mr.  Taber's 
Ingomar  was  hardly  up  to  those  we  have  had  here  recently, 
showing  none  of  the  ruggedness  of  the  barbarian,  while  sharing 
the  common  fault  of  appearing  to  fall  too  quickly  and  too  easiJy 
under  the  spell  of  Parthenia's  womanly  loveliness.  The  Alle- 
manni,  as  a  rule,  were  transparently  in  masquerade,  and  as  un- 
real as  their  battle-axes.  The  piece  was  prettily  and  effectively 
staged. 

»  *  • 

Notwithstanding  the  political  excitement  outside,  there  was  a 
good  audience  to  greet  Miss  Marlowe,  and,  while  Ingomar  is  not  a 
play  to  capture  the  popular  fancy,  the  applause  was  both  liberal 
and  judicious,  testifying  unmistakably  to  the  favorable  impression 
made  by  the  young  actress'  first  appearance. 

The  Still  Alarm  at  the  California  is  much  the  same  as  we  have 
seen  it  before,  both  in  its  good  points  and  its  shortcomings.  All 
the  people  do  agood  bit  here  and  there,  but  none  of  them  keep  it 
up  all  through.  The  play,  however,  does  not  depend  mainly  on 
acting  for  its  interest.  The  beautiful  white  horses  and  *•  Little 
Tuesday"  would  pay  one  for  going  to  see  a  worse  play.  The 
former  were  applauded  till  the  curtain  had  to  go  up  on  the  noble 
and  intelligent  animals,  who  looked  confidingly  at  the  audience 
as  if  conscious  of  merited  approbation  for  having  done  their  best. 
"Little  Tuesday"  might  be  little  every-day-in-the-week  without 
becoming  tiresome.  Her  quaint  little  specialty  work  is  so  child- 
like and  so  spontaneous  as  to  proclaim  her  the  born  little  actress 
which  her  uncle,  Mr.  Arthur,  author  of  the  play,  asserts  that  she 
is.  The  pleasant  part  of  her  performance  is  that  there  is  none  of 
the  usual  draft  on  the  auditor's  pity,  and  none  of  that  eerie  old- 
ness  which  generally  characterises  the  infant  prodigy.  The 
famous  engine  scene  is  full  of  realism  and  red  fire,  and  all  the 
well-known  scenes  are  effective  and  well  managed. 

The  Tivoli  has  given  this  week  a  production  of  Martha,  which, 
on  the  whole,  is  hardly  likely  to  be  excelled  by  any  traveling 
company  which  may  visit  this  city.  The  addition  of  a  new 
tenor  of  fine  voice  and  of  unquestionable  excellence  of  method, 
and  of  Lizzie  Annandale,  the  well-known  contralto  of  the  Emma 
Abbott  Company,  made  up  witb  Tillie  Salinger  and  E.  N. 
Knight,  an  ensemble  of  tbe  principal  characters  seldom 
equalled.  The  new  tenor,  Ferdinand  Schuetz,  made  an  excellent 
impression,  and  has  already  been  accepted  as  a  Tivoli  favorite. 
His  solo,  "Do  not  leave  me,  Martha,"  was  finely  sung  and  en- 
thusiastically encored.  Lizzie  Annandale  has  sung  Nancy  so 
often  that  she  is  as  thoroughly  at  home  in  the  character  as  in  her 
own.  She  found  many  old  friends  ready  to  give  her  a  warm  wel- 
come to  a  permanent  place  among  our  singers.  Tillie  Salinger 
was  in  nowise  thrown  into  the  shade  by  the  new  people,  her 
singing  of  "The  Last  Rose  of  Summer"  being  a  gem  worth  the 
prolonged  applause  it  won.  Ed  Knight's  Plunkett  was  al- 
most a  surprise,  so  excellently  was  it  acted  and  sung.  The  house 
was  crowded,  and  the  large  audience  full  of  hearty  appreciation. 
The  Krelings  have  in  this  production  shown  that  in  taking  a 
new  lease  of  the  Tivoli  they  have  also  taken  a  renewal  of  the 
energy  and  enterprise  which  have  made  it  what  it  is.  The  next 
production  will  be  The  Queen's  Lace  Handkerchief. 


Milton  Nobles'  new  play,  •>  For  Revenue  only,"  is  full  of  keen 
points,  its  satire  being  as  far  removed  as  possible  from  ordinary 
farce-comedy  humor,  so-called.  Nor  is  this  all.  The  players  are 
up  to  their  lines.  There  is  a  crowd  of  men  and  one  woman  who 
come  upon  the  stage  in  the  second  act,  each  one  of  whom  has  a 
bit  of  "  character,"  which  in  make-up,  speech,  and  action  is  dis- 
tinctively excellent.  The  two  ladies  in  the  play,  as  presented  by 
Dollie  Nobles  and  Lorena  Atwood,  are  refined  and  charming,  and 
Milton  Nobles  himself  is  easy  and  natural  in  an  unusual  degree, 
seeming  fully  to  understand  the  humor  and  satire  of  his 
lines — as,  indeed,  he  should,  since  he  wrote  them. 

What,  then,  spoils  the  play  ?  For  it  drags  painfully,  is  tedious 
and  tiresome  beyond  expression.  Undoubtedly,  the  old,  old 
story:  there  is  too  much  dialogue  and  too  little  action.  Bright 
as  the  lines  are,  there  are  far  too  many  of  them.  The  poetry- 
quoting  scene  in  the  second  act  should  be  cut  out  root  and 
branch.  It  would  be  funny  to  narrate,  but  is  wearisome 
and  not  at  all  funny  in  the  doing.  If  Mr.  Nobles  had  not,  as 
author,  actor,  and  manager,  absolutely  no  one  to  hold  him  in 
leash,  he  might  have  had  in  For  Revenue  Only  a  play  that  would 
live  because  fit  to  live. 

«  •  # 

The  Wigwam  has  been  well  filled  all  the  week  in  spite  of  out- 
side excitement.  A  good  performance  of  the  kind  for  a  very 
small  investment  is  the  thing  to  draw  the  crowd,  and  Manager 
Meyer  is  showing  that  he  knows  his  clientele  and  how  to  cater  to 

its  wants. 

#  #  * 

Next  week  Miss  Marlowe  will  give  at  the  Baldwin  an  entirely 
Shakespearean  repertory:  Monday,  Tuesday,  and  Saturday  even- 
ings and  Saturday  matinee,  Much  Ado  About  Nothing;  Thursday 
and  Friday,  Cymbelinc;  Wednesday,  Romeo  and  Juliet.  Much 
interest  attaches  to  Miss  Marlowe's  personation  of  Imogen. 

*  *  * 

On  Monday  night,  to  aid  the  effect  of  the  production  of  Much 
Ado  About  Nothing,  the  Baldwin  management  has,  in  addition  to 
new  scenery,  augmented  the  orchestra,  engaged  twelve  madri- 
gal singers  and  a  double  male  quartette  of  the  best  church  choir 
soloists  in  the  city,  and  a  female  chorus,  to  render  fittingly  the 
original  music.     There  will  be  seventy-one  people  on  the  stage  in 

the  church  scene. 

•  *  # 

The  Sacramentans  seem  to  have  greatly  enjoyed  this  week  tbe 
Fowler  and  Warmington  comedians'  production  of  one  of  the  best 
and  favorite  farce-comedies,  Skipped  by  the  Light  of  the  Moon, 
which  comes  to  the  Bush  next  Monday  night  for  one  week  only. 
Theatre-goers  who  enjoy  a  hearty  laugh  will  not  neglect  to 
visit  that  Theatre  during  the  coming  week.  Skipped 
by  the  Light  of  the  Moon  is  a  magnet  that  seldom  fails  to  draw  out 
a  full  house.  The  piece  is  irresistably  funny  and  thorougly  en- 
joyable, and,  interspersed  as  it  is  with  much  new  music  and 
many  bright  songs  and  other  specialties  which  have  been  intro- 
duced for  the  present  season's  tour,  it  was  never  more  popular 
than  it  is  at  the  present  time.  There  are  several  first-class  come- 
dians in  the  company  who  are  well  adapted  to  their  respective 
parts.  Among  the  principals  will  be  found  such  well-known 
names  as  Charles  J.  Hagan,  Budd  Ross,  George  A.  Booker,  E.  8. 
Tarr,  Miss  Lida  Wells,  Estelle  Clinton,  Lizzie  Ingles,  and  others. 

GRAND   OPERA    HOUSE. 
FRIDAY  EVENING Nov.    18th 

FIRST  PERFORMANCE 

BARONESS     META, 

COMIC  OPERA  IN  THREE  ACTS  BY 

J.  H.  ROSEWALD, 

UNDER  THE  AUSPICES  OF 

WOMEN'S    EXCHANGE, 

SEATS  WILL  BE  SOLD  AT 

AUCTION,  Monday   Evening,   Nov.  14th, 

At  Women's  Exchange,    Post  Street, 
Remaining  seats  on  sale  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s. 
Admission  $2.       Reserved  Seats  SO  ets.    extra. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


After  Ajrl  finishes  Sunday  evening  its  short  season  at  the 
liran.l  '  "perm  Home  under  L.  R.  Slookwell  9  direction.  Among 
the  specially  people  in  the  concert  ball  scene,  the  black-faced 
comedians.  Mclntyre  and  Heath,  are  very  good.  Mi:-*  Hastings 
may  safely  be  announced,  as  a  genuine  importation  from  tbe 
British  music  hall,  for  she  has  ail  the  terrors  of  the  type. 
•  • 

Pint  Pominot  is  not  exactly  the  play  that  one  would  select  for 
its  high  moral  tone  or  as  an  entertainment  for  a  family  party ; 
but  it  is  lively,  if  rather  high-flavored,  and  tbe  excellent  company 
■I  Slockweli's  makes  it  still  livelier.  Ethel  Brandon's  hearty  re- 
ception whenever  she  appears  on  the  stage  is  a  pleasant  proof 
that  faithful  and  intelligent  work  sometimes  wins  its  reward  of 
appreciation.  Her  Lady  Wagstaff  has  an  off-hand  freedom  and 
vivacity  which  form  an  agreeable  foil  to  the  more  sentimental 
and  exacting  Sophie— a  part,  by  the  way,  into  which  Victory 
Bateman  puts  neither  warmth  nor  color.  Phosa  McAllister  does 
well  with  Mrs.  Tubbs;  Bebe  Vining's  Rebecca  is  better  than  any- 
thing she  has  yet  done  at  Stockwell's,  and  little  Josie  Gordon 
plays  a  small  part  very  prettily.  The  male  cast  makes  a  still  bet- 
ter average.  Henley's  ••  Tubbs  "  is  a  role  he  seems  to  revel  in, 
and  Jewett,  Arthur  Byron,  Boucicault,  and  John  Jack  keep  the 
stage  alive  every  moment.  With  all  its  good  playing,  the  public 
will  see  the  last  of  Pin*  Pominot  without  regret.  The  remark  of 
a  stranger  overheard  in  the  lobby,  "  those  players  deserve  a  better 
play,"  voices  fairly  the  general  feeling.  The  Shaughraun  will  follow 
next  week.  It  sounds  Boucicankish,  and  suits  the  name,  as  it 
doubtless  will  the  talents  of  the  company. 

#  *  » 

The  dates  of  the  Paderewski  concerts  are  fixed  for  the  evenings 
of  the  8th,  Hth,  12th,  and  the  afternoons  of   the   10th  and  13th. 
Tickets  will  be  sold  for  ?2,  $2.50,  and  $3. 
... 

Much  interest  is  being  aroused  by  the  forthcoming  production 
of  His  Majesty,  the  new  opera  by  H.  J.  Stewart  and  Peter  Robert- 
son. Rehearsals  will  begin  immediately.  Its  first  production 
will  be  in  February  next,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Polyclinic  Society. 
The  cast  is  made  out  and  will  be  given  in  this  column  at  an  early 
date. 

#  •  # 

The  next  concert  of  the  Hermann  Brandt  String  Quartette  ( the 
last  of  the  four  series  of  the  original  Steinway  Hall  concerts)  will 
take  place  November  24th,  at  Irving  Hall.  The  reputation  of 
Mr.  Brandt  as  a  skillful  and  effective  leader  and  director  gives 
assurance  that  the  fine  programme  will  be  as  finely  rendered. 

#  *  * 

Miss  Marlowe's  Rosalind  on  Wednesday  night  more  than  con- 
firmed tbe  promise  of  her  opening  night.  The  vibrating  between 
the  timidity  of  a  girl  and  the  aelf-pride  of  a  woman  which  gives  a 
strange  fascination  to  Miss  Marlowe's  personations  is  especially 
marked  in  her  Rosalind,  drawing  the  ready  sympathy  of  her 
audience  while  her  intelligence  and  ability  command  its  admira- 
tion. In  the  scene  with  the  Duke,  her  reading  of  tbe  lines  was 
in  excellent  taste  and  her  acting  spirited  and  true.  Mr.  Taber 
made  a  much  better  impression  as  Orlando  than  in  the  ruder  and 
less  manageable  role  of  Ingomar,  and  the  entire  cast  seemed  better 
suited. 

#  *  * 

The  last  Carr-Beel  concert  had  a  most  flattering  attendance 
and  an  appreciative  audience.  Mrs.  Brecbemin  was  the  vocalist, 
and  her  songs  were,  as  always,  met  with  pleased  applause.  The 
trio  repeated  by  request  the  beautiful  Tschaikowsky  number,  in 
which  Mrs.  Carr's  delicate  and  easy  touch  made  the  piano  varia- 
tion an  airy  frostwork,  sparkling  upon  the  velvety  smoothness 
and  depth  of  Mr.  Beel's  violin  and  Mr.  Heine's  'cello.  A  seren- 
ade in  fine  movements  for  flute,  violin,  and  viola  was  finely  in- 
terpreted, and  Mr.  Bernat  Jaulus'  viola  soli  were  a  treat,  the  first 
number  especially  being  marked  by  exquisite  shading.  A  new 
series  will  begin  Saturday,  November  19th,  when  the  programme 
will  include  a  string  quartette,  and  Donald  deV.  Graham  will  be 
the  vocalist. 

9    *    W 

A  rehearsal  of  the  new  opera,  Baroness  Mela,  by  J.  H.  Rose- 
wald,  took  place  last  Snnday,  and  established  beyond  question 
tbe  success,  or  at  least  the  merit  of  the  new  opera.  Miss  Maud 
Berry  has  developed  really  remarkable  dramatic  as  well  as  vocal 
gifts,  and  the  new  singer,  Mr.  Gadesden  has  proved  a  strong  ac- 
quisition. The  scenic  production  will  be  worthy  of  the  music, 
the  costumes  and  scenery  having  been  specially  designed  by  the 
distinguished  artist,  Solly  Wolters.  The  Woman's  Exchange, 
which  is  to  be  benefited  by  the  production,  is  both  a  noble  and  a 
popular  charity,  and  all  should  aid  it,  while  securing  pleasure  for 
himself,  by  buying  a  ticket  or  two  at  once  and  seeing   the  opera. 

#  »  * 

James  Whitcomb  Riley,  the  "  Hooaier  poet,"  whose  rugged 
strength  and  homely  pathos  find  their  way  straight  to  every 
heart,  is  under  engagement  to  John  F.  Bragg,  the  local  lecture 
manager,  for  a  tour  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  will  give  three  read- 
ings in  this  city  and  one  in  Oakland. 


The  ninth  ladies' social  of  Qolden  Gate  Lodge  No.  6,  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  will  be  held  on  Sunday,  November 
12th,  at  9  p.  u.,  at  the  Orand  Opera  Bouse.    Miss  Victory  Bateman 

will  act  as  chairman. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

AlHayman  &Co Proprietors.  I  Alprkd  Bodvikr Manager. 

Lmiited  engagement.  The  distinguished  actress,  JULIA  MAlt- 
P    im,-V't  SS1SU''-  by  a  co,"lietenl   company   of  players,    including 

Saturday  matinee INGOMAR 

Saturday  evening  AS  YOU  LIKE  IT 

Next  week— Special  Shakespearean  festival.  Monday,  Tuesday, 
Saturday  eve..  Saturday  matinee,  beautiful  presentation 'of  Shakes- 
peare's comedy. 

MUCH    ADO    ABOUT    NOTHING. 
Miss  Marlowe  as  Beatrice. 

Wednesday  evening,  only  time ROMEO  AND  JULIET 

Thursday  and  Friday CYMBEL1NE 

Seats  now  on  sale. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J,  Gottlob Manager. 

Last  week,  Monday,  November  14th,  Joseph  Arthur's  Comedy  Drama, 
THE     STILL     ALARM, 

UP  TO  DATE, 
AND 

LITTLE     TUESDAY. 
Monday,  November  21st— Minnie  Seligman  in  MY  OFFICIAL  WIFE. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell    Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Elljnghousb  Business  Manager. 

Commencing  Monday,  November  7th.  Every  evening,  Matinee  Saturday. 

E.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boucicault  and  Stockwell's  Company  of  Comedians 
in  the  brilliant  play, 

THE     SHAUGHRAUN. 

Seata  now  ready. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mb.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Geobge  H.  Bhoadhubst Resident  Manager. 

Commencing  Mondav,  November  14th.  for  one  week,  the  only  and 
original  FOWLER  AND  WARM  IN  GT  ON  CO.,  in  the  revised  and 
reconstructed  version  of  the  play  that  has   made  all  America  laugh, 

SKIPPED    BY    THE    LIGHT    OF    THE    MOON. 

Introducing  Chas.  S.  Hagan,  George  A.  Booker,  Budd  Ross, 
Augusta  Martine,  Lizzie  Ingles,  and  Lida  Wells,  together  with  a 
brilliant  coterie  of  comedians,  in  new  features,  new  specialties,  new 
dances  and  all  new  music.    The  loudest  laugh  of  the  season. 

Next  attraction,  Patti  Rosa  in  DOLLY  VARDIN  and  MISS 
DIXIE. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night!    Graud  production  of  Flotow's  lyric  opera, 

MARTHA. 

By  the  greatest  company  in  America.    First  appearance  of  FERD- 
INAND SCHUET2E,  tenor,  and  LIZZIE  ANNANDALE,  contralto 
Monday,  November  14th,  "Queen's  Lace  Handkerchief." 

Popular  Prices .   .  .25c.  and  50c 

WIGWAM  THEATRE. 

(Corner  Stockton  and  tieary  Streets). 

Chas.  Me yeb  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

San  Francisco's  Recognized  Vaudeville  Resort. 
Week  commencing  Monday  evening,  November  14, 1892. 
Sixth  week,  THE     BURTON    STANLEY     OPERA  COMIQUE 
COMPANY  in  Gilbert  and  Sullivan's  Successful  Comic  Opera, 
IOLANTHE. 

Every  evening  at  8.    Matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  2. 
Admission  10c.   Reserved  seats  25c.   Box-office  open  from  10  a.  m.  to  1  p.  m. 
and  from  3  to  6  p.m. 

~  GRAND  OPEU  HOUSE. 

Thursday,  November  17th, 

LIVING    WHIST. 

Prof.  0.  A.  LUNT,  director. 
.  Under  the  auspices  of  the  Woman's  Auxiliary,  Mission  Unitarian 
Church.  One  of  the  most  brilliant  novelties  ever  presented  in  San 
Francisco  will  be  the  game  of  "LIVING  WHIST"  assisted  by  THE 
BANDURA  CLUB,  uuder  the  direction  of  Professors  Sancho  and 
Lombardero. 

General  admission  $1 ;  reserved  seats,  $1.50. 

ia^.Beserved  seats  can  be  secured  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s,  on 
and  after  Monday,  November  1-lth. 

KM  SBB     Bush  A  Gerts  Pianos 
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HAINES  InstaUmeIlt*         Rentals 


A.  L.  Bancroft  &  Co 
303  Sutter  St.,S.F. 


PIANOS 


SA1ST  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892 


PEOPLE  are  asking  each  other  wby  it  is  that  Mrs.  Everett 
Wise's  beautiful  voice  and  finished  style  should  have  received 
so  little  notice  at  the  bands  of  our  local  reporters  after  the  Young 
Ladies'  Orchestra  concert;  while,  on  the  contrary,  Mr.  Rosewald's 
pupil,  Miss  Newman,  was  lauded  to  the  skies.  Both  ladies  ac- 
quitted themselves  well,  and  merited  equal  praise. 

*  *  * 

It  would  seem  that  some  discussion  has  arisen  anent  the  plac- 
ing of  the  names  of  the  ladies  who  have  been  selected  to  act  as 
Lady  Patronesses  at  the  suburban  teas.  Some  assert  it  is  an  in- 
justice to  Mrs.  Tevis  to  put  her  name  second  on  the  list  which 
Mrs.  Parrott  heads,  on  the  score  of  Mrs.  Tevis  being  known  as  a 
society  hostess  before  Mrs.  Parrott  appeared  in  that  role.  The 
truth  is  Mrs.  Parrott  was  known  as  an  entertainer  in  San  Fran- 
cisco society  long  before  the  Tevis's  moved  here,  and  while  they 
were  residents  of  Sacramento. 

»  *  * 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  attendance  at  evening  service  at 
the  little  church  on  "Van  Ness  avenue  has  doubled  since  the 
prominent  society  beau  has  donned  the  chorister's  cassock. 

*  *  # 

The  race  between  Will  and  Charley  for  the  fair  Emily's  favor 
continues  unabated.  Much  curiosity  is  being  expressed  by  their 
mutual  friends  in  the  swim  as  to  which  will  lead  at  the  suburban 
tea  to-day.  Although  one  will  have  the  pleasure  of  doing  escort 
duty,  yet  a  good  deal  can  be  done  and  said  while  sauntering 
along  corridors  between  dances  or  sipd  of  tea. 

*  »  # 

Miss  Jennie  Catherwood's  theatre  party  last  week  was  the 
scene  of  much  enjoyment  to  the  young  people  engaged  in  it,  es- 
pecially during  the  recherche  supper  which  followed  the  per- 
formance. 

*  *  » 

It  seems  to  be  a  foregone  conclusion  in  social  circles  that  the 
pretty  widow — albeit  a  trifle  older  than  he — has  captured  Al. 
Bowie  for  good  and  all.  That  young  gentleman  and  the  widow's 
son  made  a  goodly  appearance  at  the  recent  wedding  in  St. 
Mary's  Cathedral,  both  being  ushers  in  the  bridal  party. 

Miss  Maud  Lorillard,  the  New  York  belle,  whose  engagement 
to  Tailor,  of  Gothamite's  old-time  set,  has  just  been  announced, 
is  the  niece  of  Col.  Stuart  Taylor,  whose  sister  is  the  young  lady's 
mother. 

*  #  # 

The  long  anticipated  ball  which  the  swim  has  been  looking  for 
at  the  fine  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  W.  Earle,  is  said  to  be  in 
contemplation  by  that  hospitable  couple  for  the  holiday  week, 
and  will  be  in  honor  of  the  Pullman  family,  now  on  the  coast, 
and  Frank  Carolan's  bride  in  particular. 

*  *  * 

On  dit  a  ■■  tea"  is  on  the  cards,  to  be  given  in  the  near  future, 
by  Mrs.  William  Alvord. 

*  *  *  ^=S 
"  What  a  funny  thing  it  is,"  said  a  well-known  belle,  the  other 

day,  ""  that  the s  sent  cards   to  every   living  soul  in  society 

without  knowing  them,  neither  bride  nor  bridegroom  being  an 
acquaintance.  However,  it's  a  good  way  to  get  launched  in  the 
swim."| 

The  girls  have  all  been  praying  for  fine  weather  for  to-day,  and 
one  gown  which  is  to  be  worn  will  be  more  than  usually  "  fetch- 
ing," white  and  gold  being  the  predominating  features  of  its  com- 
position. 

*  *  * 

Quite  a  contingent  from  Sacramento  have  comedown  to  attend 
the  Ingleside  tea,  and  even  San  Jose  has  furnished  a  quota  of  her 
local  swim. 

*  *  * 

If  what  a  little  bird  whispers  prove  true — and  there  is  no  rea- 
son to  doubt  its  veracity — there  will  be  seen  at  the  new  cathedral 
on  Van  Ness  avenue,  one  of  the  swellest  weddings  that  a  Ponti- 
fical nuptial  mass  can  aid  ere  the  new  year  is  very  old.  It  is  too 
soon  to  do  more  than  hint  at  the  participants,  but  both  pros- 
pective bride  and  groom  are  leading  lights  in  society. 

*  *  * 

The  girls  have  already  found  out  that  young  Sherwood,  the 
handsome  son  of  the  widow  who  dwells  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  is  a 
capitalist  on  his  own  account,  being  one  of  the  rich  men  of 
Spokane,  Wash.  Our  belles  are  alive  to  the  advantages  derived 
from  the  possession  of  coin. 

*  *  * 

What  a  number  of  pretty  women,  chiefly  young  school  ma'ams, 
are  to  be  seen  in  the  elevator  of  the  new  Mills  Building  these 
days.  Can  the  fact  that  a  prominent  capitalist,  who  is  an  avowed 
admirer  uf  the  fair  sex,  has  an  office  in  the  building,  have  any- 
thing to  do  with  it? 


If  the  suburban  tea  project  proves  a  success,  the  promoters  of 
it  have  in  contemplation  another  idea,  taken  from  New  York 
swelldom.  This  it  is  their  intention  to  broach  early  in  the  new 
year. 

*  *  » 

Parties  for  Thanksgiving  are  being  made  up,  and  among  the 
family  gatherings  on  that  festive  day,  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis  will  col- 
lect probably  the  largest  of  a  strictly  family  type.  It  is  possible, 
though,  the  large  connection  of  the  Crockers  may  rival  it,  either 
at  the  home  of  Will  Crocker;  at  the  homestead  now  occupied  by 
bachelor  George  on  Nob  Hill,  or  at  Del  Monte. 

Ghakd  Opening. — Ten  per  cent,  discount  will  be  allowed  on  all  pur 
chases  during  this,  our  opening  week,  Nov.  14th  to  19th.  Visit  our 
emporium,  and  see  the  rare  and  new  novelties,  troiu  all  parts  of  the 
world,  in  jewelry— silver,  celluloid,  carved  woods,  leather,  metal, 
plush,  etc. ;  music  boxes  and  musical  novelties.  The  automatic  piano 
will  be  on  exhibition.  Store  open  until  8  p.m.  Saturday,  10  p.m. 
Novelty  Palace— Leo  Zander  &  Co.— 116  Sutter  street. 


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12,  1892. 


>\\  FRANCISCO  NEWSLETTER. 


WHAT    HE    WISHED    FOR. 

BD    LABOl  I  vvi:    in    Thr   I 

THERE  «»«  onre  a  wise  Emperor  who  made  the  following  law: 
r»rj  stranger  who  oomaa  t"  the  court  is  to  be  served  with 
fried  fish.  The  wrranta  are  to  watch  him  closely, and  if  after  eating 
the  fish  as  far  as  the  back-bone  he  turns  it  over  and  begins  OH  the 
other  side,  he  i*  to  be  Immediately  Belied,  as  guilty  of  a  crime,  and 
at  the  end  of  three  days  i«  to  be  hanged.  P.  S.— The  imperial 
clemency,  however,  ordain «  that  on  each  day  preceding  that  of  his 
death  the  prisoner  is  to  be  allowed  to  express  a  wish,  and  provided 
that  he  doe?  not  ask  for  his  life,  hi-  request  shall  be  granted." 

■lore  than  one  stranger  had  fallen  a  victim  to  the  imperial  caprice, 
when  a  count,  accompanied  by  his  young  son.  arrived  at  the  court. 
The  noble  guests  were  welcomed  cordially  and  escorted  to  the  dinner 
table,  where  there  was  soon  set  before  them  a  dish  of  fried  fish. 
They  both  partook  of  it  with  good  appetites,  but  the  old  count  hav- 
ing eaten  his  piece  as  far  as  the  bone,  turned  the  fatal  fish  over.  He 
Was  immediately  seized  and  dragged  before  the  Emperor,  who  con- 
demned him  to  imprisonment  and  death.  This  grieved  the  count's 
son  so  deeply  that  he  implored  the  Emperor  to  allow  him  to  die  in 
bis  father's  stead.  Now  the  Emperor  was  not  a  bad  man  ;  besides  it 
mattered  little  to  him  who  was  hanged,  so  that  some  one  was;  he 
agreed,  therefore,  to  the  exchange,  set  the  count  free,  and  had  the 
son  put  into  prison  instead. 

No  sooner  did  the  young  man  find  himself  in  the  cell  than  he  said 
to  the  jailer.  "You  know  that  before  I  die  I  have  the  right  to  make 
three  requests.  Go  to  the  Emperor,  and  tell  him  to  send  me,  im- 
mediately, his  only  daughter  and  a  priest  to  marry  us." 

Was  the  Emperor  surprised  by  this  insolent  demand  ?  Indeed  he 
was,  but  what  could  he  do  ?  A  sovereign  has  nothing  but  his  word, 
and  he  cannot  break  a  law  when  he  has  made  it.  The  princess, 
moreover,  seemed  to  be  resigned  to  the  three  days  marriage,  so  the 
father  gave  his  consent,  and  the  ceremony  took  place. 

The  next  day  the  prisoner  demanded  the  entire  contents  of  the  im- 
perial treasury.  This  request  was  hardly  less  preposterous  than  the 
preceding  one,  but  what  can  one  refuse  a  man  whom  one  is  going  to 
hang  to-morrow  ?  The  Emperor  sent  his  money  and  jewels  to  the 
prisoner,  who  at  once  proceded  to  divide  them  among  the  courtiers 
and  as  there  were  at  that  time  persons  weak  enough  to  love  money, 
people  began  to  take  an  interest  in  the  poor  young  man.  He  had 
evidently  been  well  brought  up. 

On  the  third  day  the  Emperor,  who  had  slept  badly  all  night,  went 
to  the  prisoner  and  said,  "Let  me  hear  your  third  wish  at  once,  and 
as  soon  as  it  is  granted  I  shall  hang  you  high,  for  I  begin  to  be  a  little 
tired  of  your  exactions." 

"Sire,"  replied  the  youth,  respectfully,  "I  shall  ask  but  one  more 
favor  of  your  majesty,  and  then  I  shall  die  content.  My  last  wish  is 
that  the  eyes  of  all  those  persons  who  saw  my  father  turn  the  fish 
over  may  be  put  out  forthwith." 

"Very  well,"  said  the  Emperor,  with  a  feeling  of  relief,  "your  de- 
sire is  a  natural  one,  and  shows  that  you  have  a  good  heart.  The 
major-domo  shall  be  blinded  this  very  hour." 

"But,  Sire,"  exclaimed  that  personage  when  informed  of  the  state 
of  affairs,  "I  did  not  witness  the  violation  of  the  law.  It  was  the 
cup-bearer  who  told  me  of  the  crime." 

"Then  seize  the  cup-bearer  and  put  out  his  eyes,"  said  the  Em- 
peror. 

The  cup-bearer  declared  with,  tears  that  he  had  seen  nothing,  and 
referred  the  matter  to  the  butler,  who,  however,  referred  to  the 
steward,  who  referred  to  the  master  of  the  pantry,  who  referred  to 
the  first  footman,  who  referred  to  the  second,  who  referred  to  the 
third,  who  referred  to  the  fourth.  In  short,  no  one  had  seen  anything. 

"Imperial  father,"  said  the  newly-wedded  princess,  "I  appeal  to 
you  as  a  second  Solomon!  Since  no  one  saw  the  crime  committed, 
the  count  has  no  accuser,  and  my  husband  is  unjustly  imprisoned." 

The  Emperor  scowled  and  the  whole  court  began  to  murmur. 
Then  he  smiled,  and  the  courtiers  did  likewise. 

"Be  it  so !"  exclaimed  his  majesty,  suddenly,  "the  youth  deserves 
to  live.  It  is  true  that  I  have  hanged  many  a  man  for  doing  less 
than  he  has  done,  but  after  all,  instead  of  being  executed  he  has  been 
married,  and  that  is  worse.    Justice  is  satisfied!" 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


THE    REAL    SOMERSBY. 


LORD  HARRY  liked  New  York.  It  was  his  first  visit  to  the 
great  American  metropolis,  and  after  the  beastly  fog  of  Lon- 
don, the  crisp  atmosphere  and  brilliant  sunlight  of  the  place  af- 
fected him  delightfully.  And  then  the  prevailing  spirit  of  indi- 
vidual independence,  which  he  caught  at  once,  accorded  precisely 
with  his  mood  and  charmed  him. 

Lord  Harry  had  come  to  America  to  be  independent.  He  had 
tired  of  the  clubs,  the  theatres,  the  balls  and  the  boudoirs  of  Lon- 
don, and  had  cut  loose  from  them  for  a  good  three  months,  at 
least.  In  company  only  with  his  valet,  he  had  come  to  New 
York  for  a  new  sensation. 

He  had  been  a  slave  to  fashion  over  there.  Everybody  knew 
him  and  everybody  courted  him.  It  was  "  toffee,  toffee  all  the 
time,"  as  the  Duke  in  Patience  would  say.  Half  the  titled  maidens 
in  the  kingdom  wanted  to  marry  him — perhaps  because  he  was 
young  and  prepossessing,  but  more  likely  because  he  was  the 
possessor  of  an  immense  fortune  and  vast  landed  estates.  To  the 
best  of  hi*  knowledge  he  hadn't  the  slightest  sentiment  for  any 
one  of  them,  and  the  prospect  of  a  three  months'  absence  from 
England  was  a  positive  relief. 

The  valet  aforesaid  was  perfect  in  his  way.  He  had  been  a 
Somersby  servant  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  exceptionally 
well  trained.  He  seemed  very  proud  of  his  position  and  was  ad- 
mirably snobbish.  There  couldn't  possibly  have  been  a  more  im- 
maculately snobbish  servant  in  all  the  British  realm.  His  par- 
ticular strong  points,  however,  were  his  distinguished  appear- 
ance and  bearing.  His  master  was  quite  his  opposite  in  these  re- 
spects. He  of  the  title  was  free  and  easy  in  his  way,  cordial  and 
entirely  natural.  At  times  it  seemed  almost  as  though  his  care- 
less manner  and  bonhomie  were  assumed  for  a  purpose,  they  were 
so  incompatible  with  the  dignity  of  his  title.  In  view  of  the 
somewhat  paradoxical  dispositions  of  the  two,  it  is  not  remark- 
able that  strangers  sometimes  found  it  difficult  to  tell  which  one 
was  the  real  lord. 

The  new  sensation  which  was  sought  by  Lord  Harry  he  was 
destined  to  experience  without  delay.  On  the  second  evening  of 
his  sojourn  in  New  York  he  attended  an  uptown  theatre,  where 
the  reigning  queen  of  light  opera  was  holding  forth  nightly  to  a 
mighty  audience  of  enthusiastic  admirers. 

Forthwith  Lord  Harry  fell  in  lovel 

That  is,  the  sentiment  that  beset  him  was  as  near  love  as  one 
of  his  variegated  career  was  capable  of  experiencing  at  first  sight. 
Literally,  perhaps,  it  was  not  love,  but  it  was  a  dangerous  inter- 
est.    Cupid  was  close  at  hand,  en  masque. 

Of  course  the  object  of  his  admiration  was  the  opera  queen. 
His  mental  conclusion  that  she  was  delicious  and  desirable  was 
quickly  formed  after  his  first  scrutiny  of  her  beautiful  face,  her 
perfect  white  throat,  and  the  exquisite  curves  of  her  willowy  fig- 
ure. The  curves  quite  fascinated  Lord  Harry,  and  he  swore  i  big 
oath  under  his  breath  to  give  them  a  closer  inspection. 

Miss  Marjory  Yost  was  the  idol  of  the  hour  in  the  metropolis. 
Born  of  honest  and  obsenre  parents  in  some  remote  Maine  vil- 
lage, she  had  found  a  patron  in  a  casual  summer  visitor  to  the 
place,  who  had  been  struck  with  her  beauty  and  the  sweetness 
of  her  voice,  and  had  given  her  the  benefit  of  a  thorough  musical 
education.  Her  professional  debut  was  a  success,  and  almost  at 
once  she  bad  Hashed  out  into  a  comic  opera  star  of  the  first  mag- 
nitude.    Now  all  the  town  was  at  her  feet. 

She  was  really  a  remarkable  young  woman.  To  her  beauty 
and  accomplishments  she  added  the  vivacity  and  a  charm  of 
manner  that  were  at  once  fascinating  and  exhilirating.  In  her 
faultless  face  there  was  no  indication  of  the  worldly  wisdom 
which  characterized  her  conduct  of  her  career.  And  she  was  not 
married.  To  the  best  knowledge  of  the  public  she  was  not  so 
much  as  in  love. 

» There's  only  one  thing  lacking,  said  her  beefy  and  be- 
diamonded  manager,  ••  to  change  this  gale  of  popular  success  into 
a  whirlwind,  and  that  is  a  bit  of  scandal,  say  with  a  real  titled 
H'ingtish  snob — a  real  blue-blooder,  with  millions,  y'  know.  If 
one  o'  them  swell  chaps  'd  turn  up  and  make  a  fool  of  himself 
over  her,  say,  wouldn't  it  be  a  howlin'  ad.?" 

Lo  and  behold,  the  real  H'inglish  swell  was  now  on  the  scene, 
and  ready  to  make  a  fool  of  himself,  with  the  proper  encourage- 
ment. 

Lord  Harry  kept  his  seat  until  the  curtain  went  down  in  the 
last  act,  the  finale  of  which  was  a  picturesque  tableau,  a  crescent 
brooch  of  dazzlingly-costumed  Amazons  set  with  the  rarest  jewel 
the  Englishman  had  ever  beheld — Majory,  transcendantly  fair  as 
she  posed  in  a  flood  of  calcium  light. 

.  "  By  GadI  I  must  be  introduced,"  said  Lord  Harry  to  himself, 
as  he  went  out  of  the  theatre.  "  I  wonder  how  they  go  about 
such  things  in  America.  I  must  learn  all  about  the  lovely  crea- 
ture, and  make  a  play  for  her  trusting  heart." 

He  was  at  the  theatre  the  following  night,  and  again  the  night 
after  that. 

He  sent  the  lady  rare  and  costly  flowers,  and  at  last  a  note. 

A  few  days  later  they  were  driving  together  in  the  Park. 

Not  so  very  long  after  that,  the  newspapers  had  the  story  of 
Lord  Harry's  infatuation  for  the  actress.  And  racy  reading  it 
made,  for  wasn't  Lord  Harry  Somersby   one  of   the  best-known 


noblemen  in  England?     Whew',  what  rich  gossip  it  made  for  the 
clubs  and  boudoirs  I 

All  sorts  of  insinuations,  were  thrown  out,  and  all  sorts  of  stories 
were  set  afloat. 

The  general  opinion  was  that  Miss  Yost  had  caught  a  veritable 
brainless  prize,  and  that  if  she  ■'  played  him  right"  she  could  be 
Lady  Somersby  any  day  she  chose. 

The  match-making  mammas  of  society  were  as  mad  as  routed 
hornets,  of  course,  Co  think  that  there  was  a  handsome  and  im- 
mensely wealthy  nobleman  right  in  their  midst  without  a  chance 
of  capturing  him.  The  400  would  have  been  glad  so  lionize 
Lord  8omersby  if  he  would  only  have  permitted  it,  and  he  could 
have  had  his  pick  of  the  bluest-blooded  heiresses  in  the  city. 

It  was  so  like  a  fine  British  nobleman  to  throw  himself  away 
on  a  creature  of  the  footlights!  British  noblemen  are  notorious 
for  that. 

"I  suppose  I  am  a  scapegrace,"  said  Lord  Harry,  thinking 
over  the  situation,  with  the  assistance  of  a  black  cigar  and  a  long 
brandy-and-soda.  "  It's  a  deuced  shame  that  I  shouldn't  fall  in 
love  with  and  marry  a  maid  of  high  degree.  But  the  fact  is, 
maids  of  high  degree  are  damned  tiresome.  There's  a  sameness 
about 'em  that's  pawsitively  exasperating.  I'm  base  enough  to 
like  a  clever  girl,  like  Majory,  and  I'm  hanged  if  I  care  what  peo- 
ple think.  Yes,  I'm  a  scapegrace,  I  suppose,  but  perhaps  I'm  not 
a  fool." 

Lord  Harry  proved  that  he  was  not  altogether  a  fool  later  on. 

Up  in  Fifty-ninth  street,  in  Majory's  dainty  flat,  the  genial 
Englishman  was  quite  at  home.  Majory  off  the  stage  was  even 
prettier  and  more  fetching  than  Majory  on  the  stage,  and  in  the 
warm  seclusion  of  her  little  home  she  was  like  some  rare  exotic 
that  lures  the  lips  with  splendid  beauty  and  intoxicates  the  senses 
with  sweetest  fragrance. 

And  Majory  was  clever;  she  had  fairly  eclipsed  herself  in  the 
manipulation  of  the  strings  attached  to  milord.  She  had  made 
him  welcome  in  her  home,  but  his  privileges  were  severely  pro- 
scribed. He  was  not  her  lord  and  master  yet.  She  allowed  him 
to  come  just  near  enough  to  singe  his  wings  without  the  recom- 
pense of  a  practical  victory.  She  had  given  him  to  understand 
the  futility  of  his  dominant  aspiration  by  the  telegraphy  of  her 
eyes,  and  they  had  not  come  to  words  over  the  repulse.  Ob,  yes, 
she  loved  him  quite  as  madly  as  he  possibly  could  love  her,  but 
she  drew  the  line  there,  unless — and  here  she  faltered  and 
blushed. 

At  first  Lord  Harry  swore  to  himself  that  he  would  give  her 
up  rather  than  marry  her;  he  wouldn't  marry  an  angel  fresh  from 
Paradise,  he  declared.  But  gradually  his  aversion  to  the  idea 
faded  away,  and  as  the  situation  grew  more  hopelessly  entan- 
gling, be  found  himself  asking,  '«  Why  not?" 

He  believed  in  her  utter  sincerity,  in  her  purity  and  in  her  love 
for  him.     That  is,  when  he  was  in  her  company. 

»  Majory,"  he  said  one  night,  "you  know  how  much  I  love 
you,  don't  you?" 

"  No,  I  can't  say  that  I  do,"  was  the  arch  reply. 

"  I  love  you  enough  to  make  you  my  wife,  if  you'll  have  it 
that  way,"  he  went  on,  looking  her  in  the  eyes  searchingly. 

"  Nothing  would  make  me  happier,  milord,"  she  replied,  de- 
murely. 

She  was  a  consummate  actress,  and  here  was  a  situation  that 
called  her  best  powers  into  play. 

ii  Never  mind  the  milord,"  returned  Lord  Harry,  a  trifle  testily, 
"  I  heard  enough  of  that  on  the  other  side,  and  I  thought  you  Am- 
ericans were  too  democratic  to  indulge  in  it.  You  seem  to  like 
the  title ;  is  it  the  title  you  are  going  to  marry  or  me  ?  " 

««  Perhaps  neither  one,"  she  replied,  smiling  at  him,  "but  if 
either,  you,  I'm  an  American  through  and  through,  and  I  care 
no  more  for  a  title  than — that!"  and  she  snapped  her  taper  fin- 
gers. Then  she  put  up  her  arms  around  his  neck  and  continued: 
"  It  is  you  I  love,  and  if  you  had  not  a  cent  in  the  world  I  should 
love  you  just  the  same.  You  believe  me,  do  you  not?  You 
must  believe  me!  I  love  yon  more  than  all  the  world  beside.  I 
should  die  without  you  1  " 

Whereupon  he  folded  her  in  his  arms  and  swore  under  his 
breath  that  she  was  holy,  and  that  he  was  a  beast  to  mistrust  her 
for  a  moment. 

So  it  was  settled  that  Marjory  Yost,  the  queen  of  comic  opera, 
was  to  become  Lady  Somersby.  The  news  was  too  important 
and  too  advantageous  from  the  box-office  point  of  view  to  remain 
secret  long,  and  presently  the  newspapers  were  prattling  over  it 
like  magpies. 

To  all  of  which  the  devil-may-care  lord  paid  not  the  slightest 
attention  further  than  to  occasionally  read  through  a  paragraph 
that  amused  bim. 

Of  course,  Lord  Somersby's  movements  in  America  had  been 
religiously  cabled  to  the  London  papers  from  the  first.  He  was 
open  in  his  attentions  to  the  actress,  and  thereby  furnished  a  con- 
tinual fund  of  gossip.  Naturally,  intelligence  of  his  contemplated 
marriage  reached  his  attorneys  in  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields. 

All  of  a  sudden,  in  consequence,  his  lordship  was  brought  up 
with  a  round  turn.  A  letter  came  one  morning  with  the  London 
postmark  that  had  a  suspiciously  business-like  look.  James 
brought  it  up  with  his  lordship's  breakfast. 


N        12,  Lttttt. 


>\N   FRANCISCO  NEWS    /ETTSR. 


11 


•*  Kead  it.  Juuruy."  *aw1  bis  lordship,  irreverently. 

"  It's  from  your  attorney;),  sir.  '  paid  James,  scanning  the  mis- 
sive. •*  It  aays  tbey  have  heard  with  much  interest  and  surprise 
of  your  lordship's  matrimonial  intentions,  and  they  beg  to  remind 
your  lordship  of  a  clause  in  your  father's  will  which  declares 
that  if  your  lordship  marries  beneath  your  rank  you  shall  forfeit 
the  £80,000  a  year  which  consulates  your  income  from  all  the  es- 
tates, sir.     And  they  beg  to  remain  your  very  humble  servants." 

■«  The  devil  they  do!  "  said  Lord  Harry,  for  want  of  something 
belter  to  say.     Then,  after  a  silence,  be  broke  out  with  : 

"  I'd  forgotten  all  about  that  cranky  business  of  the  governor's 
—  that  is,  >f  I  ever  knew  it.  I  suppose  I  heard  it  read  with  a  lot 
of  other  legal  nonsense  when  I  stepped  into  my  distinguished 
progenitor's  shoes  five  year's  ago,  but  since  I  never  had  the  re- 
motest idea  of  ever  getting  married  until  now  it  has  never  come 
op.  Well,  this  settles  it,  by  gad!  There's  not  a  woman  living 
worth  £20.000  a  year.  The  question  now  is,  how  in  the  devil  am 
I  to  get  out  of  it  with  Marjory?  Poor  little  girl!  she  loves  me,  and 
will  take  it  deuced  hard.  If  she  would  only — bat  I  would  rather 
cut  my  head  off  than  propose  that.  I'll  break  with  her,  but  I'll 
be  damned  if  I  insnlt  her." 

After  another  silence,  about  an  hoar  in  length,  he  called  James, 
and  delivered  his  ultimatum  like  a  statesman. 

"  James,"  he  said,  »  I'll  not  see  Marjory  again.  Now  I've  got 
a  scheme  I  want  you  to  work  for  me.  You're  a  fine-looking  man, 
James,  if  I  do  say  it  myself,  a  real  swell,  by  Jove!  You've  helped 
me  oat  of  many  a  scrape,  and  I  want  you  to  get  me  out  of  this 
little  entanglement.  Suppose  you  go  up  to  Marjory's  and  tell  her 
that  I'm  not  the  real  Lord  Somersby  at  all,  but  that  yoit  are  the 
real  bona  fide  blue  blood,  and  so  forth,  and  that  out  of  considera- 
tion for  her  you  have  taken  it  upon  yourself  to  tell  her  the  truth. 
Do  you  see — as  they  say  here  in  New  York?" 

"  But,  sir,  why  should  I  say  I  am  the  real  lord  ?  What  reason 
could  I  give  for  the  deception  upon  her  and  the  public?" 

"  Say  that  you  exchanged  places  with  your  valet  for  the  sake 
of  a  novel  experience.  In  escaping  from  London,  where  you  were 
sick  of  being  ran  after  by  society,  and  coming  to  America,  where 
you  were  utterly  unknown,  you  conceived  the  idea  of  humbug- 
ging everybody  into  leaving  you  to  enjoy  yourself  in  peace  and 
allowing  your  valet  to  pose  as  Lord  Somersby.  Ha,  ha!  Good 
story,  eh?  I  tell  you  it  will  go!  Why,  I'll  have  it  put  in  the 
newspapers.  That  sort  of  thing  has  been  done  in  America,  I 
know.  Yoa  see,  James,  I've  got  to  quit  Marjory  short  off,  and 
this  does  it  without  any  sort  of  a  scene,  or  trouble,  or  talk. 
Twenty  thousand  pounds  a  year  is  at  stake!  Here's  a  hundred 
for  you,  James.  Now  the  case  is  yours.  I'll  see  that  you  are 
backed  up  by  the  newspapers.     Do  your  prettiest,  old  chapl  " 

It  was  devilish  hard,  of  coarse,  to  give  Marjory  up,  but  evi- 
dently it  was  the  only  thing  to  be  done.  He  didn't  have  the  heart 
to  go  to  her  himself  and  break  with  her.  Loving  him  as  she  did, 
she  would  make  it  very  hard  for  him  to  say  good-bye  to  her  for- 
ever. It  was  better  to  kill  her  love  for  him  at  a  blow  by  making 
her  believe  that  she  was  the  victim  of  a  cruel  deception.  And  he 
would  go  back  to  England  forthwith,  and  never  see  her  again. 

As  for  his  love  for  her,  and  hiB  disappointment,  he  would  try 
to  survive  them.  But  he  should  always  remember  her  as  the  one 
woman  of  all  others  he  had  met  that  was  utterly  pure  and  sin- 
cere. 

Ju°t  how  the  absurd  story  that  the  Englishman  who  had  been 
known  as  Lord  Somersby  was  none  other  than  the  real  Lord 
Bomersby's  valet,  was  communicated  to  the  press,  it  would  be 
hard  to  say.     But  the  papers  made  a  sensation  of  it. 

With  the  first  paper  that  contained  it  in  his  pocket,  James  pre- 
sented himself  at  Marjory's  well-known  apartments. 

He  was  immaculately  dressed,  and  very  imposing  in  appear- 
ance. Why,  anybody  with  half  an  eye  should  have  known  in- 
stinctively that  he  was  the  real  Somersby,  all  the  time. 

As  I  remarked  before,  this  valet  was  perfect  in  his  way. 

That  he  entered  fully  into  the  spirit  of  the  duty  before  him  was 
manifested  by  his  eager  manner. 

The  queen  of  comic  opera  was  at  home. 

"  Poor  little  Marjory!"  his  lordship  was  saying,  as  he  paced  his 
room. 

A  few  hours  later  Lord  Harry  was  given  a  telegram,  which 
read: 

My  Lobd— The  story  was  a  perfect  success.    I  have  yielded  to  tempta- 
tion and  eloped  with  the  lady.  James. 
"  Well,  I'll  be  damned  I  "  was  all  that  Lord  Harry  could  say. 

— Town  Topics. 

Get  your  cleaning  and  dyeing  done  at  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and 
Dyeing  Works,  of  J.  Spaulding  &Co.,at  353-357Tehama  street.  This 
establishment  is  the  most  famous  on  the  Coast.  Its  work  is  always 
excellent,  and  it  has  place  in  the  front  rank.  Spaulding  is  patronized 
by  all  the  leading  hotels,  private  and  public,  and  by  the  best  fami- 
lies in  the  city. 

The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacv.  635  Market  street. 


SOME    GOOD    STORIES. 


IN  his  "Stray  Records,"  Clifford  Harrison  tells  some  good 
stories.  It  is  notorious,  he  says,  that  Dean  Stanley  could  not 
read  his  own  writing,  and,  what  was  worse,  that  nobody  else 
could.  The  illegibility  of  his  communications  constantly  put  his 
friends  in  difficulties,  as  in  a  case  narrated  by  Mr.  Harrison,  also 
in  connection  with  Kingsley:  I  remember  that  once,  at  Eversley 
Rectory,  Canon  Kingsley  received  a  letter  from  the  Dean.  Mrs. 
Kingsley  was  very  ill  at  the  time.  The  letter  arrived  at  dinner- 
time, by  the  evening  post.  Mr.  Kingsley  opened  it,  and  exam- 
ined it  for  many  minutes.  At  last  he  said,  "  I  have  every  reason 
to  believe  that  this  is  a  very  kind  letter  of  sympathy  from  Stan- 
ley. I  feel  sure  Jt  is.  Yet  the  only  two  words  I  can  even  guess 
at  are,  '  heartless  devil  I  '  But  I  pause — I  pause  to  accept  that 
suggestion,  as  a  scarcely  likely  one  under  the  circumstances." 
Long  before  he  died,  Browning  began  almost  to  hate  the  fine  and 
effective  little  poem  which  he  called,  "  How  They  Brought  the 
Good  News  from  Ghent  to  Aix."  He  found  that  it  was  almost 
the  only  bit  of  his  work  that  was  known  to  most  people,  and  that 
it  almost  invariably  did  duty  as  his  representative  at  penny  read- 
ings and  recitations  generally.  It  has  been  wickedly  suggested 
that  this  was  because  it  was  the  only  poem  of  Browning's  that 
people  could  understand.  Mr.  Harrison  reports  a  little  conver- 
sation regarding  it  which  he  had  with  the  poet:  One  of  the  last 
times  I  met  Browning  I  told  him — after  thanking  him  for  a  letter 
I  had  just  received — that  in  the  following  Saturday's  recital  1  was 
giving  the  whole  of  the  first  part  from  his  workB,  and  I  ventured 
to  say  how  much  I  should  be  pleased  if  he  would  come.  But  he 
told  me  that  he  made  a  point  of  never  going  "  to  hear  himself  re- 
cited." I  could  not  resist  saying,  "  I  know  why,  Mr.  Browning. 
You  are  afraid  of  hearing  '  How  They  Brought  Good  News  from 
Ghent  to  Aix.'  Now,  if  you  come  on  Saturday,  I  promise  you 
you  shall  not  hear  that!  "  He  told  me  that  it  was  true  he  was 
aweary  of  that  same  "  fragment,"  and  of  the  many  questions  he 
had  to  answer  about  it.  "  Upon  my  word,"  he  said,  "  I  think  it 
is  the  only  bit  of  verse  of  mine  most  people  know  anything 
about.  Certainly  it  is  the  only  one  that  is  ever  recited."  Some 
time  before  that  he  had  told  me  that,  as  I  suspected,  the  incident 
of  these  popular  verses  is  a  purely  imaginary  one.  It  catches  a 
flavor  of  history,  and  is  "  truer  than  truth  "  in  a  sense.  But  the 
good  news,  the  siege,  the  ride,  the  easy  entrance  into  a  be- 
leaguered city,  all  mean  this — that,  being  once  at  sea,  lying  in 
his  berth,  wind  and  wave  running  high,  he  longed  to  be  on  land 
and  on  the  back  of  a  favorite  horse,  and  thereon  amused  himself 
by  stringing  together  lines  that  should  catch  the  lilt  and  rush 
and  action  of  a  galloping  horse. 

With  one  more  anecdote  we  must  conclude  this  desultory  dip 
into  Mr.  Harrison's  pleasant  pages.  It  recounts  a  beautiful  snub 
which  was  once  administered  by  Macready:  Once,  on  the  occa- 
sion of  casting  a  new  play,  a  very  insignificant  part  was  assigned 
to  a  man  who  held  a  rather  high  position  in  public  estimation, 
as  well  as  in  his  own.  He  was  sorely  offended,  and  thought  it 
would  be  detrimental  to  bis  reputation.  Angry,  hurt,  and  yet 
somewhat  frightened,  he  went  up  to  Macready  and  said,  "  Mr. 
Macready,  sir  I  this  is  too  bad.  I  must  say  I  feel  deeply  hurt. 
Sir!  I  have  only  one  line  to  say  in  this  play!"  Macready  gave 
his  usual  little  exclamatory  grunt,  "  Er — er — welll  Mind  you  say 
it  well!"  and  passed  on. 

MAX  POPPER,  the  chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Central 
Committee,  deserves  great  credit  for  the  excellent  showing 
for  Democracy  in  this  State  on  Tuesday  last.  Mr.  Popper  should 
receive  the  thanks  of  his  party. 

Don't  Blame 
The  Baby 

who  will  not  know  enough  to  ask  for 


-HIGHLAND 


ZsWEETENED 


Meanwhile  its  lungs  and  stomach  are  protest- 
ing 'gainst  the"inf ant-food"  that  don't  feed — 
nourish.  Highland  Evaporated  Cream 
is  the  completest,  safest  and  most  readily 
assimilated  food.  Send  your  name  and  ad- 
dress for  our  Infant  Food  Circular — it's  free. 
HELVETIA  MILK  CONDENSING   CO.,   Highland,  lit. 


12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


*-^KH  .-.rex  .**  n  a  ^a<S 


^ 


J1e-LQPKER-9N® 


SLJ^.iJi  ^^-^'aLte**-^ 


EVERYONE  who  had  a  spark  of  patriotism  simmering  in  his 
breast  was  out  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday  nights,  eagerly 
scanning  the  election  returns,  and  figuring  up  whether  he  should 
lay  more  money  on  the  men  be  had  already  chosen,  or  should  hie 
him  hence  to  the  lair  of  the  tiger  and  there  proceed  to  hedge.  It 
was  a  great  crowd.  It  has  been  the  custom  of  writers  on  the 
daily  press  for  some  years  to  refer  to  crowds  which  collect  on 
any  public  occasion  upon  the  Btreets  ot  San  Francisco  as  a  "typ- 
ical San  Francisco  gathering."  There  ia  where  the  space-writer 
makes  a  sure  thing  of  it,  for  as  we  always  have  the  same  kind  of 
a  crowd,  as  the  same  people  are  always  out,  they  are,  of  course, 
just  as  typical  of  themselves  as  a  photograph  is  of  its  subject. 
There  was  a  difference  noticeable  on  Tuesday  night,  however,  in 
the  conduct  of  the  people.  In  years  gone  by  the  streets  have 
been  jammed  with  howling  mobs  of  enthusiasts.  In  the  Blaine 
year,  for  instance,  the  empyrean  received  several  additional 
splits,  as  both  Republicans  and  Democrats  marched  over  the 
cobbles  shouting  the  name  of  the  man  from  Maine.  This  year  a 
change  seems  to  have  come  over  the  spirit  of  the  dreams  of  the 
electors.  There  were  but  few  processions,  and  absolutely  none 
that  might  properly  be  called  enthusiastic.  True,  there  were 
numerous  groups  of  small  boys,  with  trumpets  and  tin-horns,  but 
their  only  desire  was  to  make  a  noise.  Among  the  masses  there 
was  no  exhibition  of  sentiment.  That,  as  the  issue  showed,  was 
an  indication  that  the  people  were  deliberate.  A  crowd  is  most 
to  be  feared  when  it  is  silent  or  muttering.  So  thought  the  local 
Republican  leaders  evidently,  for  they  tried  hard  to  move  the 
people  by  introducing  a  number  of  clacquers  among  them,  but 
the  citizens  had  no  voice  for  either  the  Municipal  or  the  National 
Republican  nominees.  As  the  returns  from  the  Eastern  States 
were  posted  on  the  bulletin  boards,  men  and  women  read  them 
eagerly,  as  if  news  from  a  distant  battlefield.  The  greatest  crowds 
were  in  front  of  the  Examiner  and  Chronicle  offices.  Several  clever 
cartoons  were  displayed  by  the  former  paper.  The  Chronicle 
showed  the  face  of  H.  C.  Dibble,  but  for  what  reason  was  not 
apparent.  In  Paris  photographs  of  the  dead  are  exhibited  in  the 
front  windows  of  the  Morgue,  so  that  friends  of  the  deceased  may 
see  the  pictures  and  claim  the  remains.  It  was  probably  acting 
on  the  knowledge  that  it  has  become  a  political  Morgue  that  the 
Chronicle  thus  exhibited  in  front  of  its  building  the  likeness  of  one 
of  the  defunct  Republicans.  I  do  not  understand,  however,  why  it 
should  have  been  thought  that  any  one  would  claim  the  mal- 
odorous remains  of  the  late  Mr.  Dibble.  The  Post  undertook  to 
display  posters  announcing  the  returns  during  the  night,  but  the 
news  became  so  heartrending  that  the  paint  pots  were  put  away, 
the  lights  turned  out,  and  the  effort  to  bolster  up  the  hopes  of  the 
Republicans  abandoned. 

Whatever  may  be  said  of  the  fitness  of  O'Donnell  for  the  office 
of  mayor,  it  must  be  recognized  that  tfe  possesses  certain  elements 
that  appeal  to  the  masses.  Of  course,  no  respectable  citizen  will 
openly  claim  that  he  is  the  man  San  Francisco  should  elect  as 
its  mayor.  His  public  methods  partake  too  much  of  those  of 
mountebanks,  and  his  reputation  as  a  charlatan  should  be  enough 
to  kill  him  in  any  place  he  may  go.  Still  the  fellow's  persistence, 
his  untiring  energy,  his  repeated  attacks  upon  all  the  bosses,  the 
position  he  has  assumed  as  an  independent  candidate  for  every- 
thing in  sight,  causes  a  liking  for  him  among  many  people,  who 
for  that  reason  cast  their  votes  for  him.  It  was  argued  that  even 
if  elected,  his  administration  could  be  no  worse  than  one  in 
which  this  or  that  boss  might  have  more  or  less  influence.  O'Don- 
nell is  a  factor  in  local  municipal  campaigns  that  cannot  be  over- 
looked. The  disaffection  in  the  Republican  ranks,  and  the 
weakness  of  the  Democratic  nominee,  both  resulted  in  aiding 
O'Donnell.  He  made  a  better  personal  canvass  than  any  of  his 
opponents.  For  months  he  has  harangued  the  people.  Nothing 
seemed  to  tire  him.  He  had  his  fight  well  organized,  and  went 
into  the  battle  with  vigor.  On  Monday  night,  O'Donnell  drove 
through  the  streets  in  an  open  carriage  drawn  by  four  black 
horses.  He  was  followed  by  a  number  of  wagons  bearing  his 
transparencies,  andringing  bells.  The  procession  was  surrounded 
and  accompanied  by  a  howling  crowd  of  over  two  thousand  peo- 
ple. O'Donnell  drew  up  in  front  of  the  saloon  of  Kelly  and  Crim- 
mins  and  there  began  a  pantomimic  address.  He  could  not  be 
beard  ten  feet  away,  but  the  enthusiasts  that  closely  surrounded 
his  carriage,  took  their  cues  from  a  man  who  shrieked  as  often  as 


O'Donnell  lowered  his  arms.  Then  the  crowd  yelled  and  passers- 
by  thought  they  heard  the  applause  of  the  masses.  It  was  merely 
the  noise  of  the  subsidized  yellers,  however,  that  awakened  the 
echoes.  While  O'Donnell  was  orating,  the  handsomely  costumed 
drill  corps  of  the  Union  League  with  flaming  torches,  marched  to 
the  Chronicle  building,  where  they  saluted,  yelled  and  stopped 
long  enough  for  their  band  to  give  a  serenade.  A  contingent  of 
the  O'Donnell  gang  went  over  to  them  and  hooted  loud  and  long. 
The  young  leaguers,  however,  were  warmed  up,  and  they 
retaliated  by  marching  to  O'Donnell's  carriage,  and  there  yelling 
for  Ellert.     They  then  serenaded  the  Examiner. 

*       *       T» 

There  is  a  good  story  on  the  Union  Leaguers,  which  will  be  ap- 
preciated by  all  those  youths  who  stubbed  their  toes  on  the  cob- 
bles while  yelling  for  the  Republican  nominees.  Albert  Castle, 
President  of  the  League,  and  Colonel  Macdonald,  a  prominent 
member  of  it,  were  walking  down  Montgomery  street  Wednes- 
day afternoon,  when  they  were  accosted  in  front  of  the  Mills 
building  by  a  prominent  young  Democrat,  who  is  a  leading  mem- 
ber of  a  Democratic  drill  corps: 

"Hello,  Castle!  How  are  you,  Colonel?"  said  the  jubilant 
Clevelandite.  "  How  are  you  feeling,  to-day?  Pretty  well,  I  hope. 
Now,  Castle,  the  battle  is  over,  and  I  tell  you  what  I  want  you 
to  do  for  me;  personal  favor  tome,  you  know.  I  belong  to  a 
drill  corps,  and  we  may  have  a  parade  on  Saturday  night  in 
honor  of  the  great  event.  All  our  boys  want  to  parade,  and  there 
are  hundreds  of  others  who  would  join  our  crowd  if  they  had 
uniforms.  The  fact  is,  we  are  very  short  in  uniforms.  Now,  of 
course  you  fellows  won't  parade,  and  what  I  want  you  to  do  is 
to  lend  us  the  uniforms  of  the  drill  corps  of  the  Union  League 
for  the  occasion." 

"Whatl  What's  that?"  gasped  Macdonald,  while  all  Castle 
could  say  was,  »  Well.  I'll  be  damned!" 

"Oh,  I'm  not  joking;  I  mean  it,  gentlemen,"  said  the  Demo- 
crat, who  appeared  to  be  serious.  "  The  fact  is,  we  want  those 
uniforms,  and  we  want  you  to  lend  them  tons.  If  you  don't, 
you  know,  people  will  think  you  are  sore  over  the  result 
of  the  election." 

"  Well,  we  are  Bore,  sir,"  said  Macdonald,  "  We  are  very  sore," 
and  the  genial  Colonel  looked  it.  The  fact  is,  he  Is  a  heavy  loser 
on  the  national  result,  having  lost  so  many  cigars  to  his  friends 
that  he  will  have  to  open  a  cigar  factory  to  get  material  where- 
with to  pay  his  wagers. 

"The  uniforms  are  in  charge  of  the  drill  corps,  and  I  have 
nothing  to  do  with  them,"  said  Castle.  »  If  they  want  to  lend 
them  to  you,  I  shan't  object." 

"  But  I  will,  I  will,"  interposed  Macdonald,  "  and  I  want  you 
to  know  it  right  here.  "  Wear  our  uniforms  at  a  Democratic 
parade,  indeed  1  Well,  if  that  is  not  the  coolest  thing  I  ever — . 
Come  on  Castle,  come  on,"  and  the  two  sore  men  rushed  down 
the  street. 

I?     .-lU&ja^*^  »     *     * 

There  were  a  great  many  humorous  incidents  in  connection 
with  the  election.  In  one  of  the  O'Donnell  strongholds  south  of 
Market  street,  a  man  who  did  not  understand  how  to  vote  was 
being  helped  by  a  friend.  They  got  along  together  very  well, 
until  the  proposition  regarding  the  refunding  of  the  debt  was 
reached. 

"  Refund  der  debt,  yes,  and  refund  der  debt,  no,"  read  the 
voter.  "  An'  now  shure,  Jim,  an'  what  does  that  mane?  What 
is  refund,  anyhow,  an'  what  does  it  mane?" 

"  W'y,  dat's  plain  enuff,"  said  the  mentor.  "  It  jest  means  dat 
you  pays  yer  debt  or  yer  don't,  see?  Refund  de  debt,  yes — dat 
means  yer  pays  yer  debt,  see?  Refund  de  debt,  naw;  dat  means 
yer  don't  pay  yer  debt." 

"  Yer  pays  or  yer  don't  pay  yer  debt,  hey?  Well,  den,  I  votes 
no,"  Bald  the  enlightened  elector,  who  forthwith  stamped  a  deep 
red  X  opposite  the  "  No." 

•  *  » 

It  was  said  that  in  a  precinct,  the  polling  place  of  which  was 
near  the  base  of  Lone  Mountain,  a  number  of  names  of  dead  men 
who  slumber  in  the  adjoining  cemeteries  was  voted.  The  Board 
was  composed  of  friends  of  the  machine  men,  and  no  questions 
were  asked.  One  man  who  had  voted  in  several  tombstones, 
came  up  again  in  the  afternoon  and  gave  another  name,  and  was 
immediately  challenged  by  an  inspector. 

"  W'y,  wat's  der  matter  wid  yers,"  said  the  indignant  patriot. 
"  Dat's  a  good  name,  ain't  it?  Wat's  der  matter  wid  dat  name, 
I'd  like  to  know?" 

"  No  sir,"  answered  the  inspector.  "  That  man  is  buried  in  the 
Masonic  Cemetery,  and  he  can't  vote  in  this  precinct.  He's  in 
another  district." 

#  #  » 

South  of  Market  street,  a  man  named  Brosnahau  owns  a  sa- 
loon, over  which  he  lives.  He  occupies  the  whole  house.  He 
was  in  a  polling  place  Icoking  at  the  proceedings,  when  a  man 
came  in  and  presented  himself  to  vote.  He  was  asked  his  name 
and  address,  and  gave  as  the  latter  Mr.  Brosnahan's  residence. 
He  was  about  to  be  passed,  when  Brosnahan  asked  the  man  what 
address  he  had  given.  The  stranger  repeated  it,  giving  again  the 
saloonman's  address. 

"Well,  that's  funny,"  said  Brosnahan. 


12,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


13 


•What's  funny  about  it?"  asked  the  stranRer.  -I  was  asked 
for  my  address,  and  I  gave  it.  That's  where  I  live,  and  I  have 
lived  there  for  over  a  year." 

■Yes.  that's  the  fanny  part  of  it,"  said  Brosnahan. 

"Y«,  hey?  Well.  I  don't  ste  it.  see?  Say,  is  it  any  of  yer  busi- 
ness, young  fellow,  where  I  lives?" 

">*o,  it  is  not  my  business,  of  course."  said  Brosnahan,  "but  I 
was  just  a  little  interested  in  your  statement,  that's  all,  seeing 
that  that  house  is  mine,  and  I  live  there  myself  with  my  family, 
and  have  lived  there  for  years.  I  have  a  saloon  down  stairs,  and 
I  occupy  all  the  rest  of  the  house  upstairs.  I  did  not  know  I  had 
a  lodger  there,  but  if  you  have  lived  there  for  a  year,  of  course 
you  ought  to  know  about  it.  By  the  way,  I  have  yet  to  receive 
your  rent." 

The  case  was  so  clear,  that  the  colonist  was  arrested  and  taken 
to  jail. 

*  »  » 

A  story  is  told  about  two  gentlemen  of  the  cloth  who  went  to 
the  Kew  City  Hall  and  asked  for  the  precinct  registers  of  a  cer- 
tain precinct-  The  clerk  whom  they  met  was  a  shrewd  young 
man,  and  at  once  suspected  that  they  intended  to  endeavor  to 
injure  one  of  the  Congressional  nominees.  He  did  not  want  to 
refuse  their  request,  nor  did  he  care  to  grant  it,  as  he  was  in 
favor  of  the  nominee  to  be  attacked.  So  be  went  into  another 
room,  and  there  tore  the  covers  off  of  two  precinct  registers  some 
eight  or  ten  years  old,  which  he  then  wrapped  np  and  gave  to 
visitors.  They  went  away  satisfied,  and  probably  did  not  dis- 
cover the  fraud  put  upon  them  till  they  reached  the  field  of 
battle. 

*  *  • 

The  way  of  transgressors  is  generally  hard,  even  thongh  it 
maybe  flowery  for  a  time,  while  fortune  smiles  and  detection  has 
not  taken  place.  One  rogue  met  bis  fate  not  long  ago  after  profiting 
by  a  deception  which  he  practiced  upon  a  man  who  had  be- 
friended him.  His  name  was  Williams,  and  he  came  from  New 
York,  according  to  his  statement,  which  was  probably  as  false 
as  he  proved  himself  to  be  in  other  particulars.  Well-dressed 
and  extravagant  in  his  tastes,  which  he  did  not  scruple  to  grat- 
ify by  a  lavish  expenditure  of  money,  he  soon  made  many  friends 
in  this  city.  Something  about  him,  however,  turned  his  new- 
found admirers  against  him  on  a  short  acquaintance,  and  the 
only  one  who  was  true  to  him  throughout  was  Captain  Henry 
Bingham,  the  well-known  politician,  who  has  the  reputation  of 
never  leaving  any  one  in  the  lurch  to  whom  he  once  takes  a 
fancy.  To  him  went  Williams  one  day  with  a  tale  of  woe.  He 
had  by  some  mischance  lost  $14,000  worth  of  Spring  Valley 
bonds,  be  said,  and  would  the  Captain  try  and  arrange  matters 
with  the  company  so  that  a  new  issue  could  be  made.  To  do  so, 
the  Captain  had  to  put  up  bonds  for  $28,000,  which  he  did,  and 
the  duplicate  bonds  were  issued.  Shortly  after,  Williams  left  for 
the  East,  leaving  behind  him  a  box  of  valuables  in  the  bank  of 
Donohoe,  Kelly  &  Co.,  in  this  city,  to  be  called  for  on  his  return. 
Not  very  long  ago  an  official  of  the  bank  happened  to  pull  this 
box  down  from  a  shelf,  letting  it  fall  on  the  floor,  when,  to  his 
surprise,  out  fell  the  bonds  which  were  supposed  to  have  been 
lost.  No  time  was  lost  in  returning  them  to  the  company,  who 
cancelled  them  and  released  Captain  Bingham  from  his  responsi- 
bility on  the  bond.  Williams  has  never  been  heard  from  since, 
but  no  doubt  exists  in  the  minds  of  the  detectives  and  others  on 
the  lookout  for  him,  that  had  it  not  been  for  the  timely  discovery 
of  the  missing  bonds,  they  would  have  eventually  been  floated 
abroad,  to  the  pecuniary  loss  of  Bingham,  who  had  acted  the 
part  of  a  good  Samaritan. 

*  *  # 

There  are  one  or  two  facts  about  the  recent  large  fire  at  San 
Bernardino  which  appear  to  have  so  far  escaped  the  notice  of  the 
local  and  city  press.  The  Stewart  Hotel,  the  destroyed  building, 
was  a  "hoodoo"  from  the  time  it  was  completed.  Built  during 
boom  times,  it  cost  much  more  than  it  should  have,  and  the 
amount  of  the  insurance,  $75,000,  would  suffice  at  present  to  put 
up  fully  as  fine  if  not  a  better  structure.  It  was  in  fact  a  tinder 
box,  as  the  manner  of  its  destruction  showed,  and  was  poorly 
built,  as  any  one  who  ever  visited  the  house  knows,  this  being 
manifested  by  the  uneven  floors,  settled  doors  and  windows  and 
in  other  ways.  The  first  manager  had  the  bad  taste  to  open  tbe 
house  with  a  big  ball  on  the  very  night  that  an  estimable  young 
lady  whom  he  had  deserted,  lay  dead  by  her  own  band  in  another 
part  of  the  town.  Under  him,  the  reputation  of  the  hotel  suffered 
severely,  and  although  half  a  dozen  men  tried   their  hands  at  run- 


ing  it  after  his  departure,  tbe  place  never  paid  expenses.  Only  a 
few  months  ago,  the  manager  and  principal  proprietor,  Mr.  J.  G. 
Bunt,  formerly  well  known  in  southern  Michigan,  placed  heavy 
insurance  on  the  building.  By  accident  the  agent  of  a  company 
in  which  a  policy  for  $10,000  had  been  placed  learned  a  short  time 
ago  that  no  less  than  three  mysterious  fires  had  taken  place  in 
the  hotel  within  a  week,  though  this  fact  was  carefully  suppressed 
and  no  mention  appeared  of  it  in  the  local  press.  But  the  $10,000 
policy  was  summarily  cancelled,  and  now  the  astute  agent  is 
congratulating  himself  upon  his  foresight.  At  the  same  time  he 
saved  another  company  a  heavy  loss,  by  telling  them  what  he 
had  learned,  thus  causing  the  cancellation  of  still  another  policy. 
Notwithstanding  these  cancellations  there  still  remained  at  tbe 
time  of  the  fire,  an  insurance  of  $75,000  on  the  building  and  $22,- 
500  on  the  furniture.  Whether  there  will  be  any  Investigation  is 
not  yet  known,  but  this  is  a  large  amount  to  pay  out  under  the 
circumstances.  And  this  calls  to  mind  the  grim  remark  of  an 
insurance  adjuster  who  visited  San  Bernardino  some  years  ago  to 
settle  a  fire  loss  at  a  time  when  half  a  dozen  conflagrations  m 
rapid  succession  had  visited  that  city,  then  suffering  under  a  de- 
pression in  business.  He  met  an  Eastern  man  on  the  train,  and 
that  gentleman  evinced  a  lively  curiosity  as  to  the  country 
through  which  they  were  passing.  Finally  he  asked  the  insur- 
ance man  "  What  are  the  principal  resources  of  San  Bernardino, 
anyway  ?  "     "  Fires  "  was  the  grim  response. 

LADIES  desirous  of  receiving  handsome  dress  goods  for  fall  and 
winter  wear  should  not  neglect  to  examine  the  elegant  ben- 
galine  at  The  Maze.  These  goods  are  of  the  very  best  manufac- 
ture and  the  finest  material,  and  they  cannot  be  excelled  in  the 
city.  They  include  all  the  latest  designs  in  dress  patterns,  and 
are  going  at  a  very  low  figure,  the  price  fixed  on  tbe  patterns 
being  only  twelve  and  a  half.  The  Maze  is  also  in  daily  receipt 
of  the  latest  creations  in  millinery,  which  come  direct  to  the 
establishment  from  Paris.  They  are  well  received  by  all  the 
ladies  who  see  them,  with  the  consequence  that  there  is  a  run 
upon  the  millinery  department  of  this  popular  establishment. 

ANTEDILUVIAN  WHISKY 


VERY  OLD, 


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PACIFIC    COAST    AGENTS. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


>'ov.  12,  1892. 


THE    REMINISCENCES    OF    A    SPY. 

A  BOOK  that  haa  recently  caused  something  of  a  sensation  in 
Great  Britain  is  »  Twenty-five  Years  in  the  Secret  Service; 
The  Recollections  of  a  Spy,"  which  is  the  autobiography  of  Ma- 
jor Le  Caron,  who  in  the  pages  of  this  most  interesting  volume  re- 
views his  experiences  with  the  Fenians,  and  casts  much  light  on  the 
characters  of  men  once  prominent  in  that  organization.  Le  Caron 
entered  the  English  Secret  Service  in  1867.  For  the  next  twenty 
years  he  was  busily  engaged  in  learning  Fenian  secrets  and  transmit- 
ting them  to  the  authorities  in  London.  He  was  Adjutant  General, 
with  the  rank  of  Brigadier-General,  in  the  Irish  Republican  Army 
which  twice  invaded  Canada ;  the  failure  of  this  project  being  due  to 
the  warning  he  was  able  to  convey  to  the  Canadian  Government.  He 
afterwards  became  a  member  and  office  holder  in  the  Clan-na-Gael, 
being  senior  guardian  of  one  of  the  Clan's  camps.  He  tells  us  how 
he  worked: 

"  Having  once  obtained  the  position,  I  spared  neither  pains  nor 
money  to  make  myself  secure  in  it.  My  status  and  extensive  prac- 
tice as  a  doctor  permitted  of  my  playing  of  the  role  of  the  generous 
patriot,  and  there  was  no  subscription  list  on  which  my  name  did 
not  figure  in  some  capacity  as  a  patriotic,  political,  charitable  or  re- 
ligious friend.  The  latter  was  not  by  any  means  the  most  infre- 
quent, for  religion  of  a  certain  type  plays  a  very  large  part  in  Irish 
politics.  Where  money  and  the  other  arts  failed,  then  I  took  to  di- 
plomacy. Year  in,  year  out,  I  continued  president  of  my  camp, 
though  always  at  election  time  asking  to  be  allowed  to  retire  in  favor 
of  some  better  and  more  deservine:  brother.  As  senior  guardian  of 
the  Braidwood  camp,  I  was  in  receipt  of  every  document  issued  from 
headquarters,  and  through  me  many  of  these  found  their  way  to 
Mr.  Anderson  on  the  English  side  of  the  water.  It  was,  of  course, 
impossible  for  me  to  obtain  the  originals  of  those  which  had  to  be  re- 
turned, and  of  them  I  could  only  keep  copies.  With  those  requiring 
destruction  in  the  presence  of  my  camp  I  was  enabled  to  act  differ- 
ently. Always  prepared  for  the  emergency,  I  was,  by  a  sleight-of- 
hand  performance,  enabled  to  substitute  old  and  unimportant  docu- 
ments for  those  which  really  should  have  been  burned,  and  to  retain 
in  my  possession,  and  subsequently  transmit  to  England,  the  origi- 
nals of  all  the  most  important.  I  was,  of  course,  shaking  bands 
with  danger  and  discovery  at  every  turn,  and  yet  so  marvelous  was 
my  success  that  I  not  only  escaped  betrayal,  but  that  which  would 
undoubtedly  have  led  to  it— namely,  suspicion." 

Alexander  Sullivan,  "the  arch-fiend  of  Irish-American  politics," 
who  is  alleged  to  have  been  the  chief  conspirator  in  the  murder  of 
Dr.  Cronin,  at  Chicago,  and  who  played  a  leading  part  in  the  machi- 
nations of  the  Clan-na-Gael,  was  most  successfully  beguiled.  Major 
Le  Caron  says : 

"  For  a  period  of  twenty  years  I  used  the  man  as  my  dupe.  Feed- 
ing his  vanity,  assisting  his  ambition,  helping  him  in  the  hundred 
and  odd  ways  in  which  it  was  possible  for  me  to  do,  I  gained  his 
friendship  and  his  confidence  to  such  an  extent  that  no  man  in  the 
whole  course  of  my  career  in  the  Secret  Service  proved  a  more  valu- 
able, albeit  an  unconscious,  ally  than  he." 

Le  Caron  found  no  difficulty  in  winning  the  confidence  of  "Gen- 
eral "  John  O'Neill,  President  of  the  Fenian  Brotherhood:  "O'Neill, 
as  was  customary  in  Irish  revolution  circles,  had,  in  his  capacity  of 
leader,  been  making  free  with  the  funds  of  the  organization.  In  a 
word,  he  had  been  spending  for  personal  purposes  moneys  received 
from  the  circles  or  camps.  Professor  Brophy,  the  treasurer,  one  of 
the  few  honest  deluded  Irish  patriots  of  the  time,  refused  to  cook  the 
accounts  in  order  to  cover  the  President's  delinquencies.  The  books 
had  to  be  submitted  to  the  Convention,  and  O'Neill  was  in  a  fright- 
ful difficulty.  In  his  embarrassment  he  came  to  me,  and  to  my  sur- 
prise, made  a  clean  breast  of  the  whole*matter.  The  opportunity 
was  too  good  a  one  to  be  lost.  I  advanced  the  money  and  took  his 
note  of  hand,  thus  saving  his  reputation  before  the  Convention. 
Need  I  say  that  money  was  never  repaid  me?  " 

On  one  occasion  Major  Le  Caron  went  with  O'Neill  to  visit  the 
President,  Andrew  Johnson,  at  the  White  House:  "General,"  said 
Johnson,  addressing  O'Neill,  "  your  people  unfairly  blame  me  a 
good  deal  for  the  part  I  took  in  stopping  your  first  movement.  Now 
I  want  you  to  understand  that  my  sympathies  are  entirely  with  you, 
and  anything  which  lies  in  my  power  I  am  willing  to  do  to  assist 
you.  But  yon  must  remember  that  I  gave  you  five  full  days  before 
issuing  any  proclamation  stopping  you.  What,  in  God's  name,  more 
did  you  want?  If  you  could  not  get  there  in  five  days,  by  God,  you 
could  never  get  there;  and  then,  as  President,  I  was  compelled  to 
enforce  the  Neutrality  Law  or  be  denounced  on  every  side." 

Not  the  least  sensational  of  the  revelations  the  author  now  makes 
are  those  relating  to  the  Skirmishing  Fund:  "  The  ordinary  work  of 
shipping  arms  to  Ireland,  and  communicating  with  the  sister  society 
as  regards  members,  organizations,  etc.,  was  conducted  with  regu- 
larity and  precision;  while  operations  of  an  extraordinary  character 
were  indulged  in  as  opportunity  offered.  Amongst  these  latter  must 
be  classed  the  negotiations  commenced  about  this  time  for  an  alli- 
ance between  the  revolutionary  party  in  America  and  the  Russian 
Government.  Wild  and  absurd  as  the  idea  may  at  first  appear,  it  is 
nevertheless  an  undoubted  fact  that  these  negotiations  were  not 
alone  started  in  sober  earnest,  but  they  were  in  the  end  finally  com- 


pleted and  developed  to  the  stage  of  a  regular  diplomatic  compact  at 
headquarters  in  Russia.  As  is  well  known,  the  relations  between 
England  and  Russia  were  for  some  three  or  four  years  previous  to 
1880  of  a  distinctly  strained  character,  and  war  at  many  times  ap- 
peared imminent.  Filled  with  the  idea  that  war  would  actually  take 
place,  the  Clan-na-Gael  executive  caused  overtures  to  be  made  to  the 
representative  of  the  Russian  Government,  proposing  that  they  in 
America  should  fit  out  privateers  which,  sailing  with  letters  of 
marque  from  Russia,  should  worry  English  vessels  and  assist  in  every 
way  possible  in  furthering  the  designs  of  Russia,  in  return  for  which 
Russia  should  pledge  assistance  to  the  Irish  in  their  attempt  to  wrest 
Ireland  from  English  domination.  So  satisfactory  did  the  negotia- 
tions progress  for  the  Clan-na-Gael  people  that  in  a  few  months  Dr. 
Carroll  left  America  for  the  Russian  capital,  where,  it  was  subse- 
quently reported  in  an  official  way,  the  treaty  between  the  Russian 
Government  and  the  revolutionary  organization  was  formally  ratified. 

On  the  other  plots  and  schemes  I  can  only  touch  in  the  lightest 
possible  way.  They  included  the  assassination  of  Queen  Victoria, 
the  kidnapping  of  the  Prince  of  Wales  or  Prince  Arthur,  an  attack 
on  Portland  Prison,  with  the  rescue  of  Michael  Davitt  therefrom, 
and  a  hundred-and-one  odd  schemes  in  which  Dhuleep  Singh,  Gen- 
eral Carroll  Thevis,  Aylward,  and  other  soldiers  of  fortune  or  discon- 
tent all  figured." 

When  on  a  visit  to  England  in  1881,  Major  Le  Caron,  in  his  ca- 
pacity as  a  trusted  delegate  of  the  Clan-na-Gael,  had  a  noteworthy 
interview  in  the  House  of  Commons  with  the  leader  of  the  Irish  Par- 
liamentary party :  "  Mr.  Parnell  entered  into  details  regarding  the 
position  of  the  Irish  question  at  this  time.  His  remarks  on  this  point 
were  a  veritable  bombshell  to  me.  He  started  off  by  stating  that  he 
had  long  ceased  to  believe  that  anything  but  the  force  of  arms  would 
accomplish  the  final  redemption  of  Ireland.  He  saw  no  reason  why, 
when  we  were  fully  prepared,  an  open  insurrectionary  movement 
could  not  be  brought  about.  He  went  carefully  into  the  question  of 
resources  and  necessaries.  He  stated  what  the  League  could  fur- 
nish in  the  way  of  men  and  money,  and  informed  me  as  to  the  as- 
sistance which  he  looked  for  from  the  American  organization.  He 
spoke  of  having  in  the  League  Treasury  at  the  end  of  that  year  an 
available  sura  of  £100,000.  He  discussed  with  me  the  details  of  the 
position  occupied  by  the  home  and  American  revolutionary  organi- 
zations, and  defended  the  American  policy  for  the  time  being.  I 
parted  with  him  with  the  assurance  that  I  would  do  all  he  wished." 

After  the  interview  Major  Le  Caron  went  to  the  gallery  of  the 
House  to  watch  a  debate.  Seated  next  him  was  General  Roberts,  with 
whom  he  had  "an  interesting  talk  in  an  undertone."  In  Paris,  about 
the  same  time,  the  Major  had  seen  a  good  deal  of  Mr.  Patrick  Egan : 

"Egan  lived  in  a  most  extravagant  fashion;  and  as  he  would 
pay  for  everything  and  would  not  allow  me  to  share  in  the  out- 
lay, I  had  the  best  of  all  things  without  any  strain  on  my  pocket 
whatever.  He  frequented  the  most  expensive  caf6s,  had  the 
choicest  of  dishes,  would  only  be  content  with  the  best  boxes  at 
places  of  entertainment,  and,  in  a  word,  spent  his  money  right 
royally.  The  information  should  be  pleasant  reading  for  the 
poor  dupes  in  America  and  Ireland  who  subscribed  the  funds 
over  which  he  was  then  presiding. 

Mr.  Egan  seems  to  have  been  very  open  and  frank  in  regard  to 
the  accounts  of  the  League:  He  stated  explicitly,  in  a  very  sig- 
nificant way,  that  the  money  had  been  used  for  other  purposes 
than  those  of  constitutional  agitation.  Amongst  these  sources  of 
outlay  were  the  expenses  of  the  Dutch  officers  from  Amsterdam 
to  assist  the  Boers  in  their  revolt  against  British  control  in  South 
Africa;  and,  coming  nearer  home,  the  varied  expenditure  in  con- 
nection with  parties  attached  to  the  Irish  Republican  Brother- 
hood in  Ireland."  We  would  like  to  hear  Mr.  Egan's  defense  of 
these  charges. 

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teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

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T?1£  "Ro; 


A  WORLD    OF    PROMISE.- 1  Mm   T.  Clark  in  Springfeid  (JTom.) 


rHi:  trembling  dew-drop  in  the  rose's  heart 
Mirrors  all  heaven—  tne  earliest  blue  bird's  giee 
Thrills  with  uncounted  summers  yet  to  be, 
Whose  halcyon  days  seem  life's  diviuest  part. 

The  first  south  wind  that  lifts  the  clinging  locks 
From  fevered  temples  brings  a  thousand  hopes, 
And  balmy  perfumes  from  fair  island  slopes 

Where  lapping  waves  caress  the  coral  rocks. 

The  first  frail  stems  that  pierce  tbe  stubborn  mold 
Give  promise  of  that  bounteous  world  of  green 
Where  weary  brows  on  restful  banks  may  lean, 

While  pale  hands  pluck  the  cowslip's  lavish  gold. 

Tbe  first  brave  clasp  that  raises  to  his  feet 

An  outcast  wretch,  makes  pledge  to  his  sick  soul 
Of  hope  for  after  years,  that  slowly  roll 

When  penitence  has  wrought  its  cure  complete. 


ENTHRONED.—  From  the  Yankee  Blade. 


He  sits  enthroned  who  sits  supreme 
Above  the  passions  of  his  clay; 
Nor  fears  remorse,  nor  feels  the  scourge 
Of  conscience  with  the  ended  day. 
He  has  no  greed  for  wealth  that's  won 
By  bargain  in  the  marts  of  sin, 
Nor  lust  for  fame  whose  pceans  mock 
The  hollow  heart  that  wails  within. 
His  lips  attuned  to  nature's  lyre, 
He  sings  as  sang  the  early  stars: 
His  clean  hands  ssited  to  God's  plan, 
His  handiwork  no  blemish  mars. 
He  gives  to  all  unselfish  due, 
Nor  claims  what  others  may  not  share: 
And  every  cry  of  woe  bespeaks 
His  ready  bounty  with  his  prayer. 
So,  doing  God's  will  on  the  earth 
With  love  inimitably  zoned, 
Though  waiting  yet  his  higher  birth, 
He  sits  enthroned. 


Samuel  Hoyt. 


FAR    GONE.— Richard  Watson  Gilder. 


I  count  my  time  by  the  times  that  I  meet  thee; 

These  are  my  yesterdays,  my  morrows,  noons 

And  nights;  these  my  old  moons  and  my  new  moons, 
Slowly  fly  the  hours,  or  fast  the  hours  do  flee, 
If  thou  art  far  or  near  to  me; 

If  thou  art  far  the  birds1  tunes  are  no  tunes; 

If  thou  art  near  the  wintry  days  are  Junes — 
Darkness  is  light  and  sorrow  cannot  be, 

Thou  art  my  dream  come  true,  and  thou  my  dream, 

The  air  I  breathe,  the  world  wherein  I  dwell; 
My  journey's  end  thou  art,  and  thou  the  way; 

Thou  art  what  I  would  be  yet  only  seen; 
Thou  art  my  heaven  and  thou  art  my  hell; 

Thou  art  my  ever-living  judgment  day. 


SONG.— Maurice  Gordon  in  The  Traveler's  Record. 


Sweet!  you  loved  me  yesterday, 
And   I    swore   by   yea  and    nay, 
That  the  moon  might  shift  her  place, 
Stars  go  wandering  through  space, 
Sunset  lose  tbeir  gracious  hue, 
Ere  I  ceased  to  care  for  you  ! 

Then  I  praised  you,  grave   and  gay. 
Darling  1  that   was  yesterday. 
Sweet  1  the  moon  shines  as  of  old, 
Stars  their  wonted  places  hold, 
Sunset's    hues    are   unestranged, 
Only  you  and  I  are  changed! 
Love  existed  but  to  die: 
Who's  to  blame,  dear,  you  or  I? 
Who's  to  blame?     Ah,  who  can  say  I 
Would  that  it  were  yesterday  1 


/ETNA 

HOT 


Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  rida  over  the  inou  n 
tains.    Sixteen  Mum  from  St  Helena.    Good  A  a 

commodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  ./Etna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  fur  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  office,  108  Dramm  Street,  S.  F 


The  Coleman. 


L 


STRICTLY    FjRST-CLASS   HOTEL 
H.  H.  PEARSON.  Proprietor. 


European  Plan) 
BROADWAY  and  27th  St.,  NEW  YORK 


Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  St.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
Station  and  horse  cars:  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

.A.Tosol'u.tels'-      Fire-proof. 
Central  o  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 
A.  F.  KIMZI.EK.  Manager. 

The  Strath  more  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  tbe  building,  or  to  A.  Hay  ward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

SMOKE  THE   BEST. 
LINCOLN'S  CABINET 

CARL  UPMAN'S  FAMOUS  CIGAR, 

GARDEN   CITY   NURSERY, 

SAJS  JOSE,  CAL. 

A  FULL  LINE  OF 

ytiFfSEi^Y     ST0<2K 

always  on  hand  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Correspondence  solicited. 

WM.    KELLY,  Proprietor. 

THE 

BANJO 

ASHTON  P.  STEVENS. 

STUDIO:     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year).  desireB 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 
Garcia  Vocal  Method.    Solfeggio  Panseron. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER,. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


THE  London  mining  market  is  beginning  to  pick  up  again, 
people  with  money  having  apparently  regained  their  confi- 
dence, which  was  so  badly  shattered  by  the  Baring  failure  some 
time  ago,  and  other  disagreeable  financial  complications.  Nearly 
all  the  trouble  arose  over  bad  investments  in  the  Argentine  Re- 
public, where  the  situation  had  been  going  from  bad  to  worse 
ever  since  the  Government  there  began  to  borrow  money  from 
Europe.  Unless  the  investers  intended  to  gobble  up  the  entire 
country  eventually  at  a  heavy  loss  on  their  original  advances,  it 
is  not  easy  to  understand  why  so  much  good  money  was  con- 
stantly thrown  after  bad.  If  this  was  the  game  it  was  played 
very  badly,  and  no  advantage  was  gained  when  the  recent  oppor- 
unity  occurred  to  make  the  final  coup.  Outside  of  this  disaster, 
which  resulted  from  the  most  culpable  carelessness  on  the  part 
of  the  financiers  themselves,  the  raids  on  outside  speculators  in 
the  London  market  have  been  comparatively  insignificant  for 
many  years  past.  They  have  squandered  a  million  or  two  on 
some  worthless  California  mines,  and  a  few  more  in  South  Africa 
and  other  parts  of  the  world.  These  losses  were,  however,  more 
than  made  up  by  the  output  of  some  ot  the  more  profitable  mines, 
which  turned  out  to  be  fairly  good  investments.  Private  advices 
were  received  in  this  city  during  the  week  regarding  the  improve- 
ment which  has  recently  taken  place  in  the  demand  for  mining 
shares,  especially  for  Africans.  This  suggests  the  hope  that  be- 
fore long  the  revival  will  develop  sufficient  strength  to  bear  the 
advancement  of  some  meritorious  property  from  California.  A 
few  of  the  old  sharpers  are  with  us  still,  but  the  mere  mention  of 
their  names  in  connection  with  any  scheme  will  probably  be 
enough  now  to  warn  investers,  after  the  several  bitter  experi- 
ences they  have  had  during  the  past  ten  years.  The  day  of 
thieving  promoters  is  about  run. 

IN  his  annual  report  to  the  shareholders  of  the  Sutro  Tunnel, 
Mr.  Theodore  Sutro,  President  of  the  company,  says:  "The 
funded  debt  of  the  company  remains  as  at  the  date  of  the  last 
annual  report,  $1,908,080;  the  unissued  bonds  also  remain  as  last 
reported,  $861,000.  During  the  past  fiscal  year,  $38,160  was  ap- 
plied to  the  payment  of  coupon  No.  4,  which  matured  November 
1st,  1891.  Coupon  No.  5,  maturing  May  1st,  1892,  was  passed  for 
reasons  explained  in  a  circular  notice  sent  out  at  that  time.  The 
output  of  ore  for  the  royalty  paying  mines  for  August  last 
amounted  to  only  8,633  tons,  and  for  the  entire  year,  152,809  tons. 
Its  average  yield  per  ton  has  remained  as  for  the  preceding  year, 
$15."  The  report  then  goes  on  to  show  the  different  agreements 
entered  into  during  the  year,  and  a  suggestion  is  made  that  the 
company  build  a  mill  on  its  own  land  for  the  purpose  of  working 
any  ores  which  are  taken  out  in  the  future  through  the  tunnel. 
Surveys  have  already  been  made  by  representatives  of  the  Gen- 
eral Electric  Company,  with  the  intention  of  utilizing  the  water 
power  of  the  Carson  to  run  the  mill.  The  Alta  Company  paid  up 
$12,000  in  settlement  of  claims  for  past  royalty.  The  president 
suggests  that  an  independent  company  be  formed  to  explore  the 
Tunnel  Company's  ground  thoroughly,  erect  an  electric  plant  and 
mill,  and  make  other  improvements  at  present  beyond  the  means 
of  the  Tunnel  Company.  The  bondholders  are  advised  to  have 
patience.  According  to  the  treasurer's  report,  the  total  receipts, 
including  $10,816  for  back  royalty  paid  by  the  Occidental  Mining 
Company,  and  $12,038.54  back  royalty  paid  by  the  Alta  Mining 
Company,  were  $123,024.65.  Total  disbursements  (including  cost 
of  preparing  for  transportation,  ^21.800,  and  cost  of  preparing 
Occidental  drift,  $15,987.78)  were  $148,637.59.  This  shows  an 
actual  loss  of  $25,612.94,  caused  by  the  extraordinary  expenses 
mentioned  above.  The  company,  on  the  31st  of  August  last  had 
a  balance  of  $78,085.08;  on  August  31st,  1891,  there  was  a  bal- 
ance of  $103,695.02. 

tit 

THE  mining  market  on  Pine  street  has  been  upset  by  the  political 
campaign,  which  has  interested  people  for  the  time  being  more 
than  money  making.  This  is  the  season  when  more  money  goes 
out  than  comes  in,  and  there  is  all  the  more  reason  to  expect  that 
the  average  politician  wil.  be  more  eager  than  ever  to  take  a  flyer 
when  the  market  gets  into  more  active  working  shape.  There 
has  been  nothing  new  developed  at  the  mines  for  some  days  past, 
and  from  all  that  can  be  learned  here,  Virginia  City  has  been  as 
much  interested  in  the  live  events  of  the  day  as  any  other  place 
in  the  Union,  which  means  that  business  of  all  sorts,  mining  in- 
cluded, has  been  relegated  to  the  "  demnition  bow-wows  "  until 
party  differences  have  been  settled  at  the  polls.  Now  that  every- 
thing has  passed  off  favorably  fur  our  mining  interests,  it  is  to  be 
hoped  affairs  in  the  local  market  will  brighten  up  considerably. 
With  Stewart  and  Newlands  representing  Nevada  in  both  houses 
of  Congress,  there  is  much  to  be  hoped  for  in  the  way  of  fair  play  if 
nothing  else.  Towards  the  close  of  the  week  the  props  under 
the  South  End  mines  weakened,  and  prices  declined,  with  a 
stronger  tone  in  the  North  and  Middle  shares.  Trading  was 
light,  and  confined  in  the  main  to  transactions  on  account  of  man- 


ipulators and  bear  operators,  many  of  whom  have  filled  recently. 
In  outside  stocks  there  have  been  few  sales.  The  heavy  discount 
on  silver  bears  heavily  on  these  companies,  and  it  might  have 
been  as  well  if  all  had  followed  the  example  of  the  Cortez  mines, 
which  were  closed  down  by  their  managing  owner,  Mr.  Simeon 
Wenban.  The  ore  is  quite  as  safe  in  the  stopes,  and  it  is  only 
throwing  it  away  to  extract  and  mill  it  at  the  present  prices  of 
bullion.  It  will  come  in  to  good  advantage  before  long,  when 
the  price  of  silver  rises  to  something  like  its  true  value.  The 
Yellow  Jacket  delinquent  sale  was  postponed  until  Monday 
next. 

$  $  $ 

THE  management  of  the  Palmarejo  mine,  of  Mexico,  have  just 
issued  a  circular  to  the  stockholders,  in  the  hope  that  the 
statement  it  contains  will  have  the  effect  of  restoring  confidence 
in  a  property  which  has  been  badly  weighted  down  in  the  past 
by  specious  promises.  They  lead  off  by  making  the  same  egre- 
gious mistake  which  was  made  here  by  the  compilers  of  the  stat- 
utes on  which  the  Hale  &  Norcross  judgment  was  rendered,  the 
gross  bullion  output  being  estimated  in  round  numbers  without 
any  allowance  for  working  loss  and  discount  in  bullion.  This 
looks  very  well,  of  course,  in  the  way  of  building  up  figures  for 
the  purpose  of  making  a  showing  in  an  influcted  scale,  but  the 
results,  under  analysis,  are  apt  to  be  similar  to  the  fate  which 
overtook  the  bullfrog  that  tried  to  blow  himself  up  to  the  size  of 
an  ox.  It  turns  out  now  that  this  Mexican  scheme  is  managed 
by  Superintendent  Frank  Drake,  who  ran  the  ill-fated  Eberhardt 
and  Monitor  mines,  of  Nevada,  and  that  Applejahth  was  the  pro- 
moter of  both  companies.  After  the  results  of  the  latest  experi- 
ment manipulated  by  these  gentlemen,  it  must  be  admitted  that 
the  fates  seem  against  them,  and  unlucky  people  are  poor  com- 
pany, as  a  general  rule,  for  anyone  to  travel  with.  It  will  prob- 
ably be  difficult  for  the  combination  to  again  interest  investers  in 
any  mining  enterprise  which  they  may  undertake  to  promote  or 
control.  Perhaps  if  the  Palmarejo  was  exorcised,  and  horseshoes 
were  nailed  with  ends  op  over  the  doors  and  windows  of  the 
buildings,  it  might  help  matters.  It  is  said  that  the  spirits  had 
much  to  do  with  the  failure  in  Nevada,  and  some  old  miners 
claim  to-day  that  the  lower  levels  are  haunted  by  spooks. 

*  it 

THE  report  presented  at  the  forty-fifth  general  meeting  of  the 
shareholders  of  the  Sierra  Buttes  Mining  Company  must  have 
been  considered  very  satisfactory  by  all  present,  especially  the 
portion  of  it  which  referred  to  the  Uncle  Sam,  which  was  pur- 
chased with  the  reserve  funds  when  the  Buttes  began  to  give  out. 
They  paid  £32,000  for  this  fine  little  Shasta  county  property,  which 
has  already  yielded  a  net  profit  of  £31,000.  On  top  of  this  the 
announcement  was  made  that  the  directors  had  bonded  another 
property,  which,  if  all  proved  satisfactory  on  examination,  they 
intended  to  purchase  for  £15,000.  The  shareholders  in  both  the 
Sierra  Buttes  and  the  Eureka  can  be  congratulated  on  having 
such  competent  directors  in  charge  of  their  affairs,  and  also  in 
having  a  level-headed  manager  on  this  in  Mr.  Johns.  This  gen- 
tleman has  gone  about  things  the  right  way,  taking  hold  of 
promising  prospects  and  developing  them  into  mines.  His  suc- 
cess has  been  due  more  to  the  exercise  of  common  sense  than  to 
good  luck,  and  it  is  a  pity  that  there  were  not  a  few  more  like 
him  here,  representing  English  companies.  There  would  then  be 
fewer  failures  and  less  dishonesty  to  injure  the  name  of  California 
abroad  among  mining  investors.   ■ 

$?$ 

THE  Richmond  Consolidated  Company  bad  a  meeting  of  the 
shareholders  on  October  25th  in  London,  when  a  report  and 
statement  of  accounts  was  issued.  In  February  the  amount  of 
money  on  hand  was  £2,746,  out  of  which  a  dividend  of  1  shilling 
per  share  was  paid.  Portions  of  the  old  flag  dump  are  now  being 
worked  over  by  jigging  machines,  and  a  market  for  the  concen- 
trates has  been  found  at  Salt  Lake,  the  returns  amounting  to 
something  like  £100  per  month.  No  work  is  being  done  now  in 
the  mine  at  the  company's  expense,  but  some  tributors  are  taking 
some  ore  out  under  a  lease.  The  furnaces  have  remained  closed 
down  throughout  the  year,  the  amount  of  ore  raised  from  the 
mine  being  too  small  to  admit  of  their  being  restarted. 
t  31 

COL.  D.  H.  JACKSON,  the  Superintendent  or  the  Holmes  Mine  of 
Candelaria  is  now  at  Virginia  City  awaiting  the  arrival  of  a  num- 
ber of  the  principal  mtmbers  of  the  English  Company  who  are 
about  to  visit  the  property.  Colonel  Jackson  has  quite  recov- 
ered from  his  recent  illness,  and  has  just  returned  from  a  trip  to 
Tuolumne  County  where  he  has  a  number  of  men  employed 
opening  up  the  Badger  Mine  which  be  has  purchased.  There  is 
said  to  be  a  good  prospect  in  this  mine,  and  the  new  owner  will 
spare  no  expense  to  develop  the  ground  for  all  there  is  in  it. 

at 

THE  following  local  companies  paid  dividends  during  the  week: 
Spring  Valley  Water,  50  cents;  Pacific  Borax  Company,  $1; 
Pacific  Gas  Improvement  Company,  50  cents.  The  San  Francisco 
Gas  Light  Company  has  declared  a  dividend  of  35  cents,  payable 
on  the  15th,  and  the  Central  Gas  Company  a  dividend  of  $1  per 
share.  The  Bank  of  British  North  America  has  just  paid  a  semi- 
annual dividend  of  35  shillings  per  share. 


Nov.   12.  1892. 


FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


"Hear the  Trier!"    "What  the  devil  art  thou?  " 
"Onethat  willi<l»vthe<1eTll.»lr.  wlthTou." 


W! 


FHO  walks  now  with  dejected    air, 
Whose  pocket-book  of  scads  is  bare, 
Who  hides  himself  within  his  lair? 

The  Republican. 
Who  wallows  in  the  consomme, 
Who  fonnd  it  was  a  frosty  day, 
Who  many  bets  will  have  to  pay? 

The  Republican. 
Who's  buried  'neath  the  fall  of  snows, 
Who  shudders  at  •<  I  told  you  so's," 
Who  scans  the  boards  and  sadly  goes? 

The  Republican. 
Who  in  the  East  and  in  the  West, 
Doth  button  tight  his  empty  vest, 
And  try  to  think  the  worst  the  best? 

The  Republican. 
Whose  hopes  are  shattered  trunk  and  root, 
Who  finds  himself  dead  broke,  to  boot, 
Who  clothes  his  friends  with  fine  new  suits? 

The  Republican. 
Who  swears  that  Third  street  is  a  snare 
To  denude  him,  and  leave  him  bare, 
To  freeze  outside  in  chilly  air? 

The  Republican. 
Who  is  the  bluest  of  the  blue, 
Who  swears  that  if  the  boss  were  true, 
That  he'd  be  laughing  now  at  you? 

The  Republican. 
Who  sails  upon  Salt  River  now, 
On  board  a  shattered,  rotten  scow, 
Who'll  wiser  be  next  time,  I  trow? 

The  Republican. 

STATE  MINERALOGIST  IRELAN  is  not  disposed  to  father  a 
story  now  going  the  rounds  of  the  town,  in  which  he  is  rep- 
resented as  having  smothered  an  up-country  farmer  under  a  load 
of  wit  which  was  too  much  for  the  unsophisticated  granger.  He 
says  the  story  emanated  from  Australia,  while  others  claim  that 
if  it  did,  it  originally  started  on  its  tour  of  the  world  from  the 
Mineralogist's  den  in  the  Pioneer  building.  It  appears  that  the 
granger  found  something  that  he  thought  was  coal,  and  visions 
of  a  palace  on  Nob  Hill  were  before  bim  at  the  plow  by  day  and 
in  his  dreams  at  night.  He  had  bothered  every  assayer  and 
mining  expert  in  his  vicinity,  and  finally  was  told  to  take  his 
coal  and  himself  out  of  the  country.  He  finally  sought  the  Gov- 
ernment official,  whose  vervict  on  the  "coal"  was  unfavorable. 
This  would  not  satisfy  the  granger,  and  Mr.  Irelan  finally  found 
life  beginning  to  be  unbearable.  No  matter  where  he  went,  the 
granger  was  behind  him.  Finally,  in  desperation,  Mr.  Irelan 
awaited  the  inevitable  visit,  prepared  to  end  the  difficulty  for  all 
time.  The  door  opened  and  the  victim  entered,  to  find  Irelan 
erect  and  defiant.  ■'  You  believe  that  at  the  last  day,"  he  began, 
as  the  farmer  slowly  advanced  under  the  withering  glance  from 
the  irate  official,  "  the  world  will  be  consumed  with  fire?"  "Yes," 
answered  the  bewildered  granger.  "  Well,  then,"  continued  Ire- 
lan, "you  just  go  home  and  tell  your  friends  that  you  can  make 
yourself  all  right  against  the  last  day,  for  the  stuff  on  your  prop- 
erty will  be  about  the  last  thing  on  God's  earth  to  burn."  And 
the  granger  went  out  sadly,  never  to  return. 

MI8S  KATE  FIELD  is  as  disingenuous  as  she  is  forgetful.  In 
the  last  number  of  her  bright  paper  she  gives  a  prominent 
place  to  a  letter  from  a  lady  who  prefers  a  modest  request  in  this 
manner: 

Dear  Madam  :  As  I  understand  that  you  are  in  the  pay  of  Califor- 
nia fruit  and  liquor  dealers,  won't  you  please  inform  me  which  are 
the  most  reliable.  I  intend  to  become  the  agent  for  wines,  jellies, 
marmalades,  etc.,  of  California,  and  also  to  open  a  store  and  make  it 
my  business. 

Replying  to  the  same,  Miss  Field  indignantly  denies  very  em- 
phatically that  she  was  ever  in  the  pay  of  California  fruit  and 
wine  dealers,  and  denounces  the  report  to  the  contrary 
as  a  "prohibition  lie."  Miss  Field,  in  her  virtuous  indig- 
nation, appears  to  have  lost  sight  of  the  fact  that  there  are  at 
Sacramento  itemized  vouchers  for  large  sums  of  money  paid  to 
her  by  the  wine  and  fruit  producers  and  other  tax-payers  of  this 
State,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Vilicultural  Commission,  for  cer- 
tain services  rendered  by  her  in  advancing  the  "  gospel  or.  cae 
grape" — in  other  words,  encouraging  the  use  of  California  wine 
at  the  East  and  elsewhere.  This  is  no  prohibition  lie,  for  the 
documents  are  there  to  speak  for  themselves.  What  is  the  use 
of  being  ashamed,  Kate?  Our  wines  are  good;  none  know  it 
better  than  yourself.  Why  not  tell  the  truth  and  shame  the 
devil,  and  the  prohibitionists  as  well? 


ALTHOUGH  the  noble  Duke  of  Union  Island,  Vice-President 
Williams,  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Blood  Horse  Association 
denies  the  truth  of  the  story  published  in  this  column 
last  week,  regarding  his  affray  with  Mr.  Fulton  G.  Berry,  I  re- 
|  iterate  that  the  story  as  related  is  absolutely  correct.  The  Secre- 
tary of  the  Association  has  written  to  this  office,  stating  that  the 
story  was  offensive  and  untrue,  and  therefore  the  paper  would 
oblige  by  returning  the  complimentary  tickets  issued  for  the 
races.  Offensive  the  story  may  have  been  in  one  sense,  for  it 
related  the  outrageous  act  of  an  offending  and  offensive  person, 
but  it  was  absolutely  true.  I  witnessed  the  affair,  conversed 
with  Mr.  Berry  about  it  immediately  afterwards,  and  that  gentle- 
man, yet  smarting  from  the  effect  of  Williams'  kick,  certainly 
did  not  deny  the  story,  nor  does  he  now.  On  the  day  subsequent 
to  his  interview  with  Williams,  Mr.  Berry  called  at  the  News  Let- 
ter office,  and  then  stated  that  Mr.  Williams  had  made  to  him 
satisfactory  explanations  regarding  his  conduct.  Mr.  Berry,  at 
that  time  not  having  fully  recovered  from  the  shame  of  being 
forcibly  ejected  from  the  club  house  at  the  race  track, 
asked  that  the  facts  in  the  case  should  not  be  pub- 
lished. It  was  such  an  outrageous  affair,  however,  that  we 
declined  to  accede  to  his  request,  and  the  publication  of  the  story 
followed.  The  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Association,  instead  of 
upholding  Williams,  as  they  seem  to  have  done,  should  have 
censured  him  for  his  very  ungentlemanly  conduct.  The  request 
that  complimentary  tickets  issued  to  a  paper  that  tells  the 
truth  about  the  Association  officers  shall  be  returned  seems  to 
indicate  that  the  Association  expects  to  be  defended,  and  that 
acts  Buch  as  that  of  Williams  shall  be  overlooked  because  it 
extends  the  usual  courtesies  to  the  press.  The  sooner  it  over- 
comes that  idea  the  better. 

I  MET  him  yesterday— the  I-told-you-so  man.  NothiDg  can  kill 
that  fellow  off,  it  seems.  I  thought  he  was  hibernating,  for  I 
did  not  run  across  him  before  election ;  but  no  sooner  do  the  re- 
turns begin  to  accumulate,  than  he  bobs  np  serenely,  and  his 
eternal  chatter  is  heard  again  in  the  land.  He  always  knew  just 
how  it  was  going  to  be;  he  was  certain  from  the  start  that  Har- 
rison was  not  in  it;  that  Brown  would  beat  Jones,  and  Smith  be 
elected  over  Robinson  by  an  overwhelming  majority.  Oh,  but  if 
he  could  only  overcome  his  moral  prejudices  against  gambling, 
he  would  have  won  a  pot  of  money.  But  he  never  gambles.  No, 
sirl  He  thinks  it  a  bad  habit,  which  is  sapping  the  morals  of 
the  country,  and  sending  the  youth  of  the  day  to  the  "  derunition 
bow-wows."  He  had  given  pointers  to  his  friends,  however,  and 
some  of  them  had  won  thousands  because  they  bet  according  to 
his  advice.  The  I-told-you-so  man  is  a  fraud ;  a  base-born  de- 
ceiver; a  bore;  an  ass.  The  new  Legislature  should  pass  a  law, 
making  it  a  penal  offense,  punishable  by  life  imprisonment  or  im- 
mediate death  for  a  man  to  spring  the  "  I-told-you-so  "  upon  a 
much-suffering  public.  The  I-told-you-so  man  should  be  sup- 
pressed. He  is  a  public  nuisance.  He  incites  good  citizens  of 
peaceable  dispositions  to  riot  and  rebellion,  and  he  is  the  cause  of 
swearings  loud  and  deep,  and  of  bloodshed.  He  should  die  the 
death. 

THERE  Is  mourning  and  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth  in  cer- 
tain high  (seventh  floor)  quarters  in  the  vicinity  of  Market 
and  Kearny  streets  to-day.  Two  representatives  of  a  partisan 
organ  published  thereabouts  were  on  the  war-path  during  the 
latter  part  of  last  week,  and  on  Sunday  and  Monday  last,  look- 
ing for  game.  They  announced  that  they  were  authorized  to  lay 
$1,000  against  the  election  of  Ellert.  They  took  the  field  or 
O'Donneli  against  the  Non-Partisan,  and  put  the  money  up  in  the 
Examiner  ollice.  The  fact  that  one  thousand  dollars  was  waiting 
to  be  covered  was  brought  to  the  attention  of  Dan  Burns.  Now 
Burns,  of  course,  is  a  foolish  man  in  some  things.  Everybody 
knows  that.  He  was  foolish  enough,  two  years  ago,  to  declare 
that  Markham  could  be  elected  Governor,  and  even  to  lay  some 
thousands  on  that  issue.  He  is  just  as  foolish  yet,  for  he  went  to 
the  Examiner  office  and  covered  the  thousand  dollars  there  de- 
posited, and  mildly  suggested  that  he  had  some  more  money  in 
his  jeans  that  he  might  be  induced  to  wager.  It  is  painful  to  me 
to  see  Mr.  Burns  throw  away  his  money  in  this  manner. 

TAX  COLLECTOR  O'BRIEN  is  one  of  the  Election  Commis- 
sioners who,  for  months  past,  has  talked  about  the  Australian 
ballot  system  all  day  and  dreamed  of  it  all  night.  He  knew  the 
law  from  a.  to  z.,  and  was  certain  that  any  intelligent  man  could 
easily  mark  and  fold  his  ballot  within  the  ten  minutes  allowed  by 
law.  Yet  it  took  Mr.  O'Brien  just  twenty-eight  minutes  to  get 
his  ballot  into  proper  shape  for  insertion  in  the  box.  Now,  how 
does  that  fact  agree  with  his  statement  about  the  intelligent  man  ? 
Does  Mr.  O'Brien  consider  himself  an  intelligent  man,  or  did  he 
refer  only  to  the  outside  mob  of  barbarians  when  he  made  that 
statement?  Probably  ne  puts  certain  restrictions  on  the  word 
"  intelligent  "  so  as  to  give  it  a  peculiar  O'Brienesque  meaning. 
In  the  language  of  an  election  officer:  "  How  about  that,  Mr. 
O'Brien?" 

POOR  old  Hartley,  the  "  Hermit  of  Meadow  Lake,"  has  at  last 
gone  the  way  of  all  flesh.  For  years  he  lived  his  solitary  life 
in  the  mountains  of  Nevada  county,  striving  to  discover  some 
means  of  working  the  rich  but  refractory  ores  of  that  locality, 
and  building  dazzling  hopes   of   fortune   upon    his    experiments. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


5UNBE:AM5 


ii  QEE  here!"  yelled  the  wrathful  man  as  he  took  off  his  hat 
O  and  showed  a  head  as  bald  as  a  campaign  lie.  '■  Yes,  I  see," 
said  the  druggist.  »  Did  you  ever  try  my  unparalled  capillary 
renovator?  "  "  That's  just  what  I  did,"  answered  the  bald-headed 
man  in  tones  of  wrath,  "  and  here's  the  result."  The  druggist  mused 
a  moment,  "it  works  that  way  sometimes,"  he  said.  "  The  hair 
grows  so  fast,  you  see,  that  it  pulls  itself  out  by  the  roots.  Now,  if 
you  will  only  strengthen  your  scalp  by  using  a  few  bottles  of  my  ac- 

meiatical  scalp  balm "    At  this  point  they  clinched. 

— Indianapolis  Journal. 

"  Yes,"  said  the  thick-set  man,  "  I  was  a  wicked  prize-fighter 

once,  but  now,  thank  God  !  I  am  reformed  and  will  never  enter  the 
ring  again."  "  Ah,"  said  the  Rev.  Dr.  Firstly,  "  I  am  glad  to  learn 
that.  But  tell  me  your  experience.  I  suppose  some  evangelist  showed 
you  the  error  of  your  ways?"  "No,"  replied  the  heavy-set  man, 
"  not  exactly.    You  see,  I  got  whipped."  —Buffalo  Express. 

—  Miss  Elder—  Well,  I  maintain  that  women  can  do  anything  that 
men  can.  Mr.  Gazzam. — 0,  no.  The  auctioneer's  business  is  one 
women  cannot  go  into.  Miss  Elder— Nonsense.  She'd  make  every 
bit  as  good  an  auctioneer  as  a  man.  Mr.  Gazzam—  Just  imagine  an 
unmarried  woman  getting  up  before  acrowd  and  exclaiming:  "  Now, 
gentlemen,  all  I  want  is  an  offer  !  —  Yankee  Blade. 

^^If  a  body  meet  a  body 
Filling  up  with  rye, 
Should  he  squirt  some  chloride  into 

Him  upon  the  sly.  — Town  Topics. 

—  Mrs.  Flutter — I  hear  the  dealers  are  going  to  raise  the  price  of 
sealskin  sacques  this  winter.  Mrs.  Slimpurse—l  hope  they'll  be  more 
successful  than  I  am.  I've  been  trying  to  raise  the  price  of  one  for 
the  past  three  years.  — Binghampton  Republican. 

"  But  if  you  are  afraid  of  being  a  widow,  why  do  you  marry  an 

army  officer?  "  Because  in  our  army,  you  know,  nobody  is  ever 
killed;  whereas  a  civilian,  if  ambitious,  is  almost  sure  to  go  to  pieces 
from  overwork."  —Life. 

Miss  Birch— Why  didn't  you  come  to  school  this  morning? 

Billy  Fisher— I  had  to  go  of  an  errand.  Miss  Birch — But  you  didn't 
come  this  afternoon,  either!  Billy  Fisher— Oh,  well,  you  see  I  hain't 
got  back  yet.  —  Fuck. 

Briggs— Just  for  a  joke,  I  told  Miss  Elderly  the  other  day  that 

when  she  laughed  it  was  all  1  could  do  not  to  kiss  ner.  Griggs—  What 
happened?    Briggs— The  next  time  I  saw  her  she  had  hysterics. 

— Life. 

— — "  1  think  I'll  have  an  oil  portrait  made,"  said  Mr.  Derrick,  who 
had  become  suddenly  rich  in  petroleum.  "There  you  go  talking 
shop  again  !  "  exclaimed  his  wife,  who  was  taking  lessons  in  culture. 

— Puck. 

•^—  A  hairdresser  of  fashionable  repute  says  every  woman  would 
be  a  great  deal  happier  and  more  comfortable  if  she  had  her  head 
shaved  and  wore  a  wig.     It  is  "  so  much  cooler." 

Tommy—  Don't  you  wish  you  were  a  boy  again,  Grandpa?    Mr- 

EUsha  Gowup—l  suppose  I  do.  But  why?  To mmy— Because  you 
wouldn't  have  to  have  your  hair  combed  or  your  teeth  cleaned. 

— Puck. 

"  So  you  were  not  detained  long  at  quarantine?"    "  No,  but  we 

were  stopped  at  the  bar."  "  The  bar!  O,  then,  you  were  in  no  hurry 
to  get  on,  I'll  bet."  — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

•^—She— Engaged  to  two  girls  at  the  same  time!  Well,  what  are 
you  going  to  do  about  it?  He—  O,  I  am  all  right,  but  what  are  they 
going  to  do  about  it?  — Life. 

Hicks— Which  of  the  New  York  dailies  do  you  consider  the 

worst?  Yorrick  Blithers  (who  failed  to  qet  an  engagement) — Augustin, 
by  all  means.  '  —Town  Topics. 

— —  Cora — If  I  should  marry  you,  Jake,  you  must  give  up  the  prac- 
tice of  law.  Jake— That  would  be  impossible.  Cora—  Why  so?  Jake — 
I  never  had  any.  — Town  Topics. 

Men  are  a  good  deal  better  collectively  than  they  are  individu" 

ally.  Many  a  man  will  do  that  privately  which  he  will  denounce  in  a 
crowd.  — Atchison  Globe. 

Bloobumper—  After  all,  beauty  is  only  skin  deep.    Spatts— In 

many  cases  it  is  not  so  deep  as  that."  It  is  often  laid  on  the  skin's 
surface.  —Judge. 

Cleverton — Did  you  ever  see  a  man  who  could  stand  as  much 

liquor  as  Tanker?    Jagway  (sadly)— No.    Some  men  are  born  lucky. 

— Life. 

A  mean  man  generally  feels  better  when  he  meets  a  man  who 

is  more  of  a  rogue  than  he  is.  —.Ram's  Horn. 

"  Man  proposes—"    "  Yes,  but  he  needs  encouragement." 

—Puck, 

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of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
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19 


A  NKW  attraction  is  lo  be  added  to  tbe  Imperial  Institute,  by 
an  Australian  lady  whose  name  bas  not  yet  transpired,  who 
pnposrs  to  present  to  tbe  Institute  a  magnificent  peal  of  bells,  sec- 
ond 1'iily  to  those  of  St.  Pauls  in  commemoration  of  the  Queen's 
Jubilee.  There  are  to  be  ten  bells  in  all.  and  the  Princess  of  Wales 
has  Riven  permission  for  them  to  be  called  the  "Alexandria  "  peal. 
The  tenor  bell,  a  giant  weighing  a  couple  of  tons,  will  be  inscribed: 
"  Victoria.  K.  I..  1S37-1S87 ; "  and  the  others  are  to  be  named  after 
the  Prince  and  Princess  of  Wales,  the  Puke  of  Edinburgh,  tbe  Duke 
dConnaught.  and  the  five  children  of  the  Prince  and  Princess  of 
Wales.  The  gift  is  made  to  the  Prince  of  Wales,  and  the  only  con- 
dition attached  to  it  is  that  the  bells  shall  be  rung  on  the  anniver- 
saries of  birth  and  the  accession  of  the  Queen,  and  the  birthdays  of 
the  Prince  and  Princess  of  Wales.  Whatever  may  be  the  feelings  of 
local  residents  with  •'  nerves,"  there  can  be  no  question  but  that  the 
gift  is  both  a  handsome  and  appropriate  one,  and  will  give  a  finished 
perfection  to  what  will  be  a  superb  national  building. 

The  programme  of  the  first  concert  ever  given  by  the  Abb6  Liszt, 
in  1820,  at  the  age  of  nine,  has  recently  been  discovered,  and  it  has 
been  sent  to  the  Musical  Exhibition  at  Vienna.  The  concert  took 
place  at  Oldenburg,  the  music  including  Iiies'  second  pianoforte  con- 
certo and  an  impromptu  fantasia  upon  a  theme  furnished  by  one  of 
the  audience.  Tbe  programme  ended  with  a  notable  appeal  "  To 
the  nobility,  the  military  and  the  estimable  public."  It  ran:  "lam 
Hungarian,  and  I  do  not  know  a  greater  happiness  than  to  offer  de- 
votedly to  my  dear  country,  before  my  departure  for  France  and 
England,  the  first  fruits  of  my  education  and  instruction.  That 
which  I  lack  in  maturity  and  experience  I  wish  to  acquire  by  inces- 
sant work,  which  may  perhaps  one  day  procure  me  the  immense 
pleasure  of  figuring  among  the  celebrities  of  this  great  country."  It 
was  doubtless  owing  partly  to  this  patriotic  appeal  that  directly  after 
the  concert  several  Hungarian  noblemen  subscribed  the  funds  neces- 
sary for  Liszt's  studies  for  some  years. 

A  correspondent  of  the  Standard  records  a  conversation  with  Ten- 
nyson in  the  year  18S5  in  Lincolnshire.  My  host,  he  says,  proposed 
that  we  should  call  on  tbe  Turners,  on  the  chance  of  finding  Tenny- 
son there.  The  conversation  turned  on  education,  and  the  spread 
of  scientific  knowledge.  "Yes,"  said  Tennyson,  "it  is  spreading, 
and  is  crushing  all  the  romance  and  poetry  out  of  children's  lives.  It 
was  only  yesterday  I  was  walking  in  the  fields  with  one  of  my 
nephews— a  little  chap  of  eight  or  ten — when  we  came  to  a  fairy  ring. 
Look,'  I  said,  '  look  here  my  boy;  here  is  a  fairy  ring.'  'A  what, 
uncle,' he  said.  'Why,  a  fairy  ring.  The  old  folks  would  tell  you 
that  these  fairy  rings  are  so  called  because  the  fairies  were  dancing 
here  last  night.'  'Oh,  uncle,'  he  replied,  quite  gravely,  'it  is  well 
known  that  these  fairy  rings,  as  you  call  them,  are  caused  by  a  spe- 
cies of  fungus. ' "  

Mr.  Jefferson  could  have  played  Rip  Van  Winkle  in  New  York  to 
overflowing  houses  all  winter,  probably,  but  he  did  not  care  to  stay 
longer  than  two  weeks  in  that  city.  At  one  time  Jefferson  was  afraid 
that  constant  playing  of  this  part  might  have  such  mental  effect  upon 
him  as  possibly  to  impair  his  miud.  He  found  at;  one  time  that  he 
actually  forgot,  or  was  inclined  to  forget,  not  only  his  lines,  but  cues, 
or  where  he  was  to  come  in,  so  that  he  stationed  himself  in  the  wings 
and  followed  the  narrative  of  tbe  play  as  closely  as  any  one  in  the 
audience,  so  as  to  escape  possible  mistakes.  It  was  partly  for  this 
reason  that  he  gave  up  playing  Rip  Van  Winkle  for  a  time,  and  it  is 
largely  for  this  reason  that  he  does  not  care  to  play  it  in  any  one 
place  longer  than  two  weeks. 

Charles  Dickens,  who  was  wonderfully  ingenious  in  inventing 
quaint  names  for  his  characters,  nevertheless,  often  adopted  actual 
but  uncommon  ones.  It  is  rare,  however,  to  find  combinations  used 
by  him,  and  if  the  exception  occurs  it  is  because  a  Dickens-loving 
"Weller  has  his  offspring  baptised  Samuel,  or  otherwise  arranges  the 
matter.  There  is,  however,  at  present  a  firm  known  as  Dombey  & 
Son  in  the  city  of  London;  not  a  commercial  business  on  the  scale 
of  the  famous  house  of  fiction,  but  one  that  might  have  fitted  Mr. 
Toots  admirably  had  he  ever  cause  to  leave  "  Burgess  &  Co." 

A  capital  story  is  told  in  a  recently  published  volume,  of  a  Metho- 
dist preacher  in  Birmingham,  who,  some  years  ago,  was  discussing 
the  condition  of  our  first  parents  before  the  fall.  He  said:  "It  has 
been  supposed  by  many  learned  divines,  that  when  Adam  and  Eve 
left  the  hands  of  their  maker  they  were  guarded  against  the  inclem- 
ency of  the  seasons  by  a  sort  of  natural  soft  white  down,  in  which 
their  lower  limbs  were  clothed,  very  similar  to  the  plush  of  the  pres- 
entday."    What  a  modest  man  1  

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


HsrSTTRA-lTCE. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 
Herbert  l.  Low,  Manager  for  the  I'aclflc  loan!  Branch, 

„         .    ,  220   Mi  us,,  me  St.,  S.  F. 

iSEOSLiX  «"o $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S. 534.795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
338  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED  ■ 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OK  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL 4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jolntlyland  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HAHRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 

410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed X1O.0OO.000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  tin  addition  to  Capital) 2,125,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 ,    8.124,057.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,  Manager, 
306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782-] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  BALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Koyal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  18S6.J 
Office — Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
GEO.  F.  GRANT,  Manager. 

pacific  3DEP^.iaa?3vcEi>ra? 
GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 

OF  LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -   -    -    $  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 

Will.  J.  LANDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  204  Nansoino  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL $5,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.45. 

President.  RWNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBEN8. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
324  MontQomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND  DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  Bold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-Calilornia  BaHk. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -      $2,222,724. 


%y'^iW-*vf 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

fc  OF-  MANCHESTER  ,  EM  E  L-^rslpTjJ 

Capital  paid  6j  guaranteed  93,000,000,00. 

Chas.A  Latoh,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  Fn-aoEssn- 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


^S^MRktMi 


STRICTLY  business  is  the  order  of  the  day,  and  the  real  estate 
men,  realizing  that  there  is  a  good  inquiry,  got  to  work  im- 
mediately after  casting  their  votes.  It  is  true  that  the  results 
of  resumed  business  are  not  very  large,  but  the  strength  of  the 
market  is  apparent,  if  its  activity  is  not. 

Two  auction  sales  are  to  be  held  this  month,  one  on  Thursday 
next,  the  other  on  Tuesday  fortnight.  The  former  ought  to  teat 
the  market  in  Western  Addition  park  property  pretty  thoroughly. 
As  stated  last  week,  the  Thursday  offering  is  made  by  Baldwin  & 
Hammond,  and  consists  of  thirty-six  residence  lots,  all  close  to- 
gether. The  streets  are  wide,  the  lots  are  on  the  grade,  and  the 
most  distant  is  only  two  and  a  half  blocks  from  the  Baker  street 
entrance  to  the  park  panhandle.  In  size  the  lots  vary  from  25x 
95.7  to  36  6x96.10,  some  of  them  being  137.6  deep.  The  terms  are 
liberal,  are  quarter  cash,  balance  in  three  equal  yearly  payments, 
with  interest  at  7  per  cent,  on  deferred  payments. 

The  second  auction  sale  is  tbat  of  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.,  to  be 
held  November  29th.  The  catalogue  has  not  yet  been  issued,  but 
will  be  one  of  miscellaneous  city  property. 

Of  sales  made  during  the  week,  there  were  few  worthy  of  men- 
tion. Among  them  was  a  new  house  and  lot,  26:10x100,  on  the 
north  line  of  Clay,  30  feet  west  of  Walnut,  for  $7,000.  The  house 
is  in  the  Presidio  Heights  district,  one  of  the  few  sections  of  the 
city^in  whi^h  prices  have  been  free  from  any  downward  tendency. 
The  reason  for  this  stiffness  is  explained  by  a  glance  at  the  city 
map,  which  shows  the  Western  Addition  narrowed  down  to  a 
width  of  about  six  blocks,  owing  to  the  big  slice  which  the  Pre- 
Bidio  Reservation  monopolizes.  An  unimproved  lot,  50x137:6, 
south  line  of  Oak,  100  east  of  Stanyan,  was  sold  for  $7,000,  and 
a  similar  price  was  paid  for  an  eight-room  house  and  lot,  25x90, 
on  the  west  side  of  Scott,  81:6  north  of  Clay;  in  both  cases  prices 
are  up  to  market  rates. 

From  inquiries  made  by  the  News  Letter  among  the  real  estate 
men,  it  is  evident  that  m  uch  better  times  are  expected.  The  city 
has  had  three  quiet  years,  in  fact  since  1888  and  the  spring  of  1889 
there  has  been  none  too  much  business  done  in  real  estate.  Now, 
however,  the  feeling  is  general  that  the  market  will  soon  become 
more  active.  Tbat  prices  have  declined  in  some  parts  of  the  city 
cannot  be  denied,  but  this  settling  down  is  giving  more  strength 
to  the  market,  and  when  it  is  considered  that  San  Francisco  nar- 
rowly escaped  a  boom,  with  its  inevitable  subsequent  collapse, 
there  is  a  good  deal  for  which  to  be  grateful. 

There  has  been  a  cry  raised  that  this  city  is  over-built;  but 
time,  too,  is  doing  much  to  rob  the  assertion  of  even  a  semblance  of 
truthT  The  number  of  large  structures  commenced  this  year  has 
been  very  small,  and  in  fact,  building  operations  have  been  al- 
most wholly  confined  to  residences  and  small  frame  stores,  flats 
and  tenements.  There  will  be  much  improvement  in  this  line, 
too.  The  banks  are  loaded  with  savings,  and  an  outlet  must  and 
will  be  found  for  these  accumulations,  in  the  form  of  improve- 
ments in  real  estate  and  buildings. 

The  old  Turn  Verein  Hall  building  on  Bush  street,  near  Powell, 
is  being  torn  down  to  make  room  for  a  fine  three  story  building, 
designed  by  W.  H.  Lillie  for  Mrs.  Ryer,  the  owner.  The  first 
story  of  the  new  building  will  be  of  pressed  Roman  brick,  and  the 
other  two  of  wood. 


Eve's  Daughters. 

Marion  Harland,  on  pages  103  and  445  of  her  popular  work,  "Eve's 
Daughters;  or.  Common  Sense  for  Maid,  Wife  and  Mother,"  says: 

"For  the  aching  back— should  it  be  slow  in  recovering  its  normal 
strength — an  Allcock's  Porous  Plaster  is  an  excellent  comforter, 
combining  the  sensation  of  the  sustained  pressure  of  a  strong  warm 
hand  with  certain  tonic  qualities  developed  in  the  wearing.  It  should 
be  kept  over  the  seat  of  uneasiness  for  several  days — in  obstinate 
cases,  for  perhaps  a  fortnight. 

"For  pain  in  the  back  wear  an  Allcock's  Porous  Plaster  con- 
stantly, renewing  as  it  wears  off.  This  is  an  invaluable  support 
when  the  weight  on  the  small  of  the  back  becomes  heavy  and  the 
aching  incessant. 

W.  H.  Lillie.  the  well  known  architect  of  St.  Ann's  building,  drew 
the  plans  and  designs  for  the  handsome  Rountree  houses  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Washington  and  Buchanan  streets,  which  are  presented  in  the 
artotype  in  this  week's  issue  of  the  News  Letter.  Mr.  Lillie  is  an 
architect  who  has  done  much  good  service  to  the  city  by  the  erection 
of  a  number  of  very  handsome  structures. 

The  very  best  oysters  in  town  are  those  sold  by  Moraghan,  the 
well-known  dealer  of  the  California  Market.  He  makes  a  specialty 
of  oysters,  and  his  are  always  delicious. 


GET  DOWN 

TO 

BUSINESS 


THE  COUNTRY 
IS 

SAFE- 


THE  ONLY 

TRUE 

"PROTECTION" 


IS  A  WELL 

FILLED 

PURSE, 


A  GOOD  RENT 
ROLL  OR 
A 


CHOICE 

BUILDING 

LOT. 


0 
0 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


IMPORTANT! 

ONLY  25  PER  CENT 
CASH, 

Balance  in  1,  2,  and  3 
Kears, 


REAL  ESTATE dGEJIS 
.^AUCTIONEERS:  - 


CREDIT  AUCTION, 


Thursday,  Nov.  517th. 

At  the 
Real   Estate 
Exchange, 
16  Post  St. 


36    LOTS. 


Golden  Gate  Ave. 
MeAllisteF  Street. 
Fulton  Street, 
Baker  Street, 
Broderiek  Street, 
Devisadero  St. 


SEE  CATALOGUE. 


Title  Guaranteed 
By  Cal.  Title 
Insurance  and 
Trust  Company. 


Accessible  by  two  Cable  Lines 
and  One  Electric  Road. 


NOTE  DATE  AND  TERMS. 


10  Montgomery  Street. 


RENTS! 


We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  k  HAMMOND, 

Real  Estate  Agents  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10    MONTGOMEBT    ST. 


12,   1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


21 


THE  Pacific  Insurance  Union  has  issued  a  circular  denying  cer, 
tain  rumor?  affecting  its  alleged  disintegration,  and  requesting 
Hs  members  to  pay  no  attention  to  the  published  reports.  Another 
circular  has  been  issued  which  will  act  as  a  boomerang  so  far  as 
testing  the  backbone  of  the  Union.  It  is  a  notice  that  on  and 
after  December  1st  policyholders  will  be  required  to  pay  premiums 
within  thirty  days  after  the  first  day  of  the  month  succeding  that 
in  which  the  policy  was  written.  The  penalty  of  non-payment 
will  be  the  cancellation  of  the  policy,  and  the  insured  will  not  be 
able  to  obtain  insurance  from  any  of  the  companies  until  the  de- 
linquency has  been  made  good.  Whether  this  effort  to  knock 
oat  the  credit  evil  will  be  any  more  successful  than  previous  ef- 
forts remains  to  be  seen.  If  the  P.  I.  U.  will  jump  on  the  com- 
panies that  fail  to  enforce  the  new  law,  irrespective  of  the  size  of 
the  offending  company,  then  the  evil  will  be  checked. 

In  the  meantime  the  eight  city  agents,  Maxwell  &  Berry 
8medberg  and  Mitchell,  Appel  and  Bruckman,  Wright  &  Har- 
vey, Manheiro,  Dibbern  ifc  Co.,  Fathan  &  Kingston,  Alvisa  & 
Co.,  and  Austin  &  Richards  have  joined  bands  with  brokers  J. 
B.  Davis  &  Son.  George  H.  Foster  and  Montgomery  Boggs  to  co- 
operate with  the  Union  and  enforce  the  laws. 

It  is  now  pretty  certain  that  the  Jacobs  Eastern  agency  has 
been  sold.  The  new  agency  will  be  Voss,  Conrad  &  Co.,  and  the 
price  paid  is  said  to  have  been  $2,500.  E.  P.  Farnsworth  has  re- 
tired, and  will  be  an  independent  adjuster,  while  Adolph  Wen- 
zelberger  will  be  the  "  Co."  in  the  new  firm. 

The  burniDg  of  the  Stewart  Hotel,  in  8an  Bernardino  has  car- 
ried adjuster  A.  J.  Metzlar  and  special  V.  C.  Duffield,  of  the  Lon- 
don and  Lancashire,  off  to  the  scene  on  a  mission  of  adjustment. 
The  Insurance  Company  of  North  America  had  two  policies  on 
the  hotel.  One  expired  in  August  and  the  other  in  September, 
while  luckily  for  the  company,  neither  policy  was  renewed. 

The  shipwreck  of  the  Republican  party  has  overshadowed 
everything  else  this  week,  and  there  is  not  a  single  marine  mis- 
hap to  record. 

Appel  &  Bruckmann  have  been  appointed  city  agents  for 
Paul  Nippert's  three  companies.  They  also  represent  the  Lon- 
don and  Lancashire.  Mr.  Nippert,  of  the  Fire  Association  of 
Philadelphia,  the  Granite  State,  and  Redding  Fire,  has  gone  East. 

Howard  Wright  and  L.  G.  Harvey  have  been  appointed  city 
agents  of  the  Insurance  Company  of  North  America. 

Rudolph  Herold  is  back  from  the  East,  with  increased  powers 
from  his  companies. 

Gus  P.  Burling,  Manager  of  the  Accident  Department  of  the 
American  Casualty  Company,  left  for  the  East  this  week. 

The  proposed  Insurance  Associates'  Organization  is  in  statu 
vuo — that  is  to  aay,  the  constitution  and  by-laws  have  not  yet 
been  approved;  but  next  week  a  meeting  will  be  held,  and  all 
will  be  in  readiness  for  organization. 


_A  number  of  the  unfortunate  enthusisasts  who  lost  upon  Har- 
rison are  now  paying  bets  to  their  fair  friends  in  the  choicest  flowers 
of  the  day.  As  a  consequence,  that  popular  florist,  C.  M.  Leopold, 
of  35  Post  street,  has  been  overwhelmed  with  orders.  If  there  is  one 
thing  more  than  another  that  a  lady  appreciates  it  is  a  beautiful 
bouquet,  such  as  Leopold  makes  up.  He  is  the  favorite  society 
florist. 

If  you  want  to  take  advantage  of  the  present  beautiful  weather  for 
a  day's  outing,  go  to  Laundry  Farm  for  a  day.  The  Farm  is  one  of 
the  most  beautiful  picnic  grounds  in  the  State.  The  California  Rail- 
way runs  direct  to  it.  This  railway  is  also  the  only  one  that  runs 
direct  to  the  famous  Mills'  Seminary.  A  most  delightful  outing  may 
be  enjoyed  at  the  Farm. 


If  you  wish  to  enjoy  an  excellent  meal,  go  to  the  Original  Swain's 
Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  which  is  famous  throughout  the  Pacific 
Coast  as  one  of  the  few  really  first-class  restaurants  in  San  Francisco. 
Nowhere  in  the  metropolis  is  the  service  better,  and  at  no  place  can 
a  more  excellent  menu  be  secured. 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OP  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

S.A.3ST    FBA3STCISCO,       -       -       -       CA.Ii. 
Manufacturers  ol  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description. 

Patent  Lead-Lined  Coupled  Tubing,  for  use  as 

Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap 


In   addition   to  their  large  and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 
Jackets, 

Sdit5> 

Ulsters, 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

lOB  Kearny  Street. 


COATS 


-FOE- 


MEN  AND  WOMEN. 

Are  worn  in  place  of  an  over- 
coat or  outside  wrap. 

Perfectly  Waterproof. 

GOODYEAR  RUBBER  CO 


R.JH.  Pease  — Agents— S.  M.  Runyon 
577-579  Market  St.,  8.  F, 


Gh  W.   CLARK   &   CO.. 
653  Market  Street, 

FOB 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 


A  Malt  Extract  Prepared  hy  the 
Pabst  Brewing  Co.,  Milwaukee, 

It  is  endorsed  by  the  most  eminent  medical 
authorities.  It  is  a  highly  nutritive  tonic  and 
a  valuable  substitute  for  solid  food,  especially 
when  the  appetite  is  diminished.  When  you 
ask  for  "Best"  Tonic  be  sure  to  get  it.  Do  not 
accept  any  other  Malt  Extract  because  some 
one  says  it  is  just  as  good. 


22 


SAN  PKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  good:    Extras  J3.90OH   Superfine.  12  60@S3.10. 

Wheat— Good  trade;  Shipping.  tl.32V£:  Milling,  tl.35@ll.37!^  per  cental 

Barley  is  steady;  Brewing,  95c. @$1  Feed,  S2'/2C.@85c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  $1.35@$1.40;  Feed,  il.25@»1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1.20:  Yellow,  $1.05@*1.20per  ctl. 

Rye  is  quiet,  good  demand,  $1.15@?1.17>2-    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hayis  higher;  Wheat,  $12;  Oats,  *S@$9;  Alfalfa,  *8@$9. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $15@$15.50  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  ?2.00@?2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  40c.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  30c.@32>^c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  35c.@40c. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c. @12c. :  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  40c@60c.    Beeswax  is  lower,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit — all  kinds  dried — active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  6c@7i^c.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5%c.@6c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kiuds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@22c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $41.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites.  4K@5%c. 

The  Presidential-Municipal  election,  held  on  Tuesday  last,  has 
been  the  all-absorbing  theme  of  the  business  community.  Traffic 
of  all  kinds  has  in  consequence  been  greatly  circumscribed  there- 
by. Still  indications  are  favorable  for  a  large  general  business  be- 
fore the  winter  storms  render  roads  impassable  throughout  the 
valleys  for  the  transmissions  of  heavy  goods,  wares  and  mer- 
chandise. 

The  whaling  bark  Helen  Mar  has  been  engulfed  in  the  ice  and 
totally  lost,  with  the  lives  of  thirty-five  men  and  a  valuable  cargo 
of  oil  and  bone.  This  fatality  occurred  on  the  6th  of  October, 
just  at  the  close  of  her  season's  voyage;  only  five  men  saved  to 
tell  the  story  of  the  sad  disaster.  Wright  &  Bowne  were  her 
largest  owners.  The  bark  was  commanded  by  E.  O.  Thaxter. 
The  insurance  is  reported  to  be  light. 

The  whaling  bark  Andrew  Hicks,  22  days  from  Fox  Islands,  is 
to  hand  with  5,050  lbs.  bone,  300  bbls.  oil  and  12  fox  skins.  The 
whaling  schooner  Mary  H.  Thomas,  30  days  from  Okhotsh  Sea, 
with  1,100  lbs.  bone  and  40  seal  skins.  Whaling  steamer  Beluga, 
15  days  from  Fox  Islands,  brings  800  bbls.  oil,  24,000  lbs.  bone 
and  100  fox  skins.  This  latter  vessel  comes  to  the  Pacific  Steam 
Whaling  Co.  Whaling  bark  Chas.  W.  Morgan,  26  days  from 
Okhotsh  Sea,  brings  400  bbls.  sperm  oil,  400  bbls.  whale  oil  and 
1,000  lbs.  bone  to  J.  &  W.  R.  Wing. 

Japan. — The  Br.  ship  Swanhilda,  23  days  from  Hakodate,  had 
for  cargo  2,500  tons  sulphur  to  Sherwood  &  Sherwood. 

Starr  &  Co.  cleared  on  the  5th  inst.  the  Ger.  bark  Paul  Isenberg 
for  Queenstown,  with  21,750  bbls.  Starr  Extra  flour,  valued  at 
$79,387. 

Liverpool Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  cleared  on  the  5th  inst.  the 

Br.  ship  Socotra,  with  general  cargo  valued  at  $236,247,  embrac- 
ing 3,750  bbla.  flour,  18,285  ctls.  wheat,  3,733  ctls.  barley,  39,242 
cs.  Salmon,  416  cs.  canned  fruit,  144 sks.  shell,  252  sks.  bark;  also, 
in  transit,  9,552  lbs  cotton,  value  $1,295. 

London — The  Br.  ship  Candida,  hence  on  the  4th  inst.,  carried 
cargo,  value  $227,600,  say  7,160  gals.  Brandy,  15,043  cs.  Canned 
Frnit,  1,000  bbls.  Flour,  249,670  cs.  Mustard  Seed,  26,155  cs.  Sal- 
mon, 2,290  ctls.  Barley,  116  tons  Ore,  etc. 

New  York — 8hip  Frank  Pendleton,  hence  4th  inst.,  carried  10,- 
707  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  15,458  cs.  Canned  Salmon,  36,514  gals.  Wine, 
91,748  lbs.  Wool,  98,000  lbs.  Bone  Dnst,  8,385  ctls.  Barley.  To 
other  Eastern  cities,  5,000  cs.  Salmon,  595  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  etc.; 
and  for  Boston,  58,013  lbs.  Wool.  The  bark  Belle  of  Oregon  also 
carried  to  Boston  110  bales  Wool,  etc. 

The  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Co. 'a  stmr.  San  Juan  sailed  for  the 
Isthmus  and  way  ports  on  the  5th  inst.,  carrying  New  York 
cargo  valued  at  $83,294,  say  62,000 gals.  Wine,  4,580  gals.  Brandy, 
3,140  ctls.  Beans,  201  bales  Rags,  53,282  lbs.  Antimony,  22,507 
lbs.  Glue,  48,717  lbs.  Borax,  57  pkgs.  Leather,  etc.  To  Central 
America,  19,022  lbs.  Tallow,  4905  lbs.  Lard,  25,030  lbs.  Malt,  5,393 
lbs.  Rice,  etc.,  value  $27,396.  To  Panama,  1,960  lbs.  Sugar.  To 
Peru,  101,335  lbs.  Malt,  etc. 

The  stmr.  City  of  Rio  de  Janeiro,  hence  for  the  Orient  Nov.  5th , 
carried  in  treasure  to  Hongkong  $359,431.  To  Japan,  Silver  Bars, 
$69,600. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  Rio  de  Janeiro,  hence  on  the  5th  inst. ,  carried 
to  China  Mdse.,  value  $108,625,  say  11,225  lbs.  Flour,  18,497  lbs. 
Ginseng,  14,782  lbs.  Beans,  400  bxs  Pearl  Barley,  1,924  cs.  Cheese, 
2.478  lbs.  Bacon  and  Hams,  etc.  To  Japan,  1,015  bbls.  Flour, 
209  rolls  Leather,  11,544  lbs.  Sugar,  191,116  lbs.  Cotton,  248  sks. 
Hoofs,  2,500  lbs.  Butter,  Cheese,  Hams,  etc,  value  $33,890.  To 
Manilla,  500  lbs.  Flour,  100  lbs.  Pork  and  17  cs.  Lard,  value 
$4,212. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
Office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 


BJLlSriKIS. 


BANK    OF   BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter, 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP  $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND /  ,250, 000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE   GO  LOMBARD  8TREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bauk  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America:  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

532  California  Street.  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1892 925,890,653  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,533,136  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Albert  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G-  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 


IN.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bash  Streets. 

Established  1870.  u.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) $1,600,000 

SURPLUS 1600,000  |  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $1 60,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT.. .  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Aest  Cashier 

DIRECTORS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins,  8.  G.  Murphy, 

N.  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffltt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
S^FE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

THE  6ERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  Calllomla  Street,  San  Francisco. 

QUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND S     1,846,000  OO. 

Deposits  July  1,  1882 28,776,687  81 

Officebs— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President.  BDW.  KBUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGEK8  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  B.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HEKRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOUKNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. _____ 

MUTUAL  SAVIN6S  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  *i,ooo,ooo. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,   S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-PresidentB 

Dibbctoes— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecuritiee. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscrled  Capital $2,600,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $660,000 

Head  Office 68  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),No.  10  Wall  St., N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  A  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  citieB  of  the  world.  Com 
merclal  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 8,000,000  j  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  Court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Selieman  &.  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  tusiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
worlu.    Jends  billB  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchango 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STELNHART    )  ManaMM 

P.  N.  LILIENTHAL.i  M-anagers. 
A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


Nov.  12.  1892. 


bAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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IT  BUMS  to  have  been  demonstrated  that  riveting  by  electric- 
ity is  a  successful  thing,  one  that  will  take  its  place  among  the 
most  important  Improvements  in  the  industrial  arts.  The  apparatus 
consists  of  a  transformer,  the  primary  of  which  is  formed  of  a  heavy 
-  bar  laid  parallel  to  a  coil  of  fine  wire,  and  over  the  two  are 
clamped  angular  segments  of  iron,  forming  when  united  a  com- 
pleted iron  shell— increasing  by  this  arrangement  the  efficiency  of 
Bomeraiuu;  the  structure  creates  a  current  of  great  volume  in  the 
copper  bar.  and  in  the  end  of  this  bar  are  mounted  an  anvil,  having 
a  regulating  screw  for  moving  it  up  or  down,  and  a  follower  provided 
with  a  screw.  In  the  circuit  of  a  primary  is  placed  a  choke  coil,  pro- 
vided with  a  regulating  switch,  for  cutting  in  more  or  less  of  the  coil 
by  which  the  strength  of  the  current  induced  in  the  secondary  may 
Decontrolled.  The  bars  or  pieces  of  metal  are  placed  upon  the  anvil 
and  the  rivet  dropped  in  place,  the  anvil  being  then  screwed  up  until 
the  plates  of  metal  are  firmly  held  between  it  and  the  two  insulating 
legs  secured  to  the  upper  limb  of  the  copper  bar.  The  face  of  the 
bar  is  covered  with  insulating  material,  except  at  a  central  point, 
where  it  is  left  bare,  and,  when  forced  against  the  rivet,  the  latter 
establishes  connection  from  the  upper  limb  or  the  primary  bar  to 
lower  limb,  the  current  developing  sufficient  heat  to  make  an  upset- 
ting of  the  rivet  shank  very  easy  under  the  pressure  of  the  screw. 

Lieutenant  Parkhurst,  of  the  Fourth  United  States  Artillery, 

has  recently  written  an  article  on  the  uses  of  electricity  in  forts,  in 
which  he  refers  to  its  extensive  field  in  the  plans  for  reconstructing 
Government  fortifications.  Electricity  is  the  ideal  power  for  fortifi- 
cations, and  it  is  surprising  that  it  has  received  such  tardy  recog- 
nition. From  a  well-protected  central  station  power  can  be  trans- 
mitted through  underground  conductors  to  a  network  of  conductors 
within  the  more  exposed  parts,  and  thus  insure  infinitely  more  re- 
liability than  by  any  other  means.  All  the  various  operations  in 
training  the  guns  and  handling  the  ammunition  can  best  be  done 
through  motors,  and  the  system  could  be  tapped  anywhere  for  cur- 
rent for  search-lights,  firing  mines,  signals,  etc.  He  also  makes  a 
suggestion  to  the  effect  that,  owing  to  the  vital  importance  of  the 
telegraph  in  time  of  war  to  the  Governmental  control  and  regularly 
enrolled  in  the  military  service. 

—  One  of  the  railroad  lines  near  Chicago  is  being  equipped  with 
an  electric  block  system,  by  which  not  only  is  a  signal  exhibited,  but 
the  train  is  automatically  stopped  in  case  the  track  is  obstructed. 
When  the  semaphore  signal  stands  at  "danger,"  an  electric  current 
is  turned  into  a  rail,  laid  like  a  guard-rail  parallel  to  one  of  the 
track  rails  and  opposite  the  signal  post.  When  the  locomotive 
passes  the  rail,  an  electrical  connection  is  established  between  it  and 
an  electro-magnet  in  the  cab,  which  instantly  closes  the  throttle  and 
applies  the  air  brake  to  the  train.  The  apparatus  is  stated  to  have 
been  tested  under  an  actual  use  of  three  years,  with  most  satisfac- 
tory results. 

—  It  is  found  that  a  photograph  can  easily  be  made  luminous  in 
the  dark  by  taking  a  white  mount,  and,  after  coating  it  with  starch 
paste,  sprinkle  over  it  luminous  powder,  and  press  it  down  firmly  to 
make  it  adhere.  All  that  is  now  necessary  is  to  make  the  unmounted 
silver  print  as  transparent  as  possible  by  coating  it  on  the  back  with 
castor  oil,  and  wiping  away  the  surplus  oil.  By  placing  this  over  the 
prepared  mounting  card  and  exposing  it  to  daylight  a  luminous  posi- 
tive is  obtained.  * 

^—  The  welding  and  spinning  of  brass  and  other  metals  by  what 
is  known  as  the  Bevington  process  has  been  endorsed  by  the  Frank- 
lin Institute  of  Philadelphia,  to  the  extent  of  granting  one  of  the 
only  three  medals  issued  by  the  society  during  the  last  thirty  years. 
This  method  consists,  briefly,  in  the  welding  of  the  metals  by  forcing 
them  into  rapidly  revolving  dies,  where  they  are  softened  by  Mo- 
tional heat  and  united  end  to  end  as  in  ordinary  welding. 

—  A  discussion  is  being  carried  on  in  relation  to  the  telephone 
cable  connecting  England  and  France  as  to  whether  it  is  more  eco- 
nomical to  carry  on  conversation  over  the  line  in  English  or  in 
French.  The  toll  is  about  $2  for  three  minutes'  use,  and  conse- 
quently the  relative  rapidity  of  the  two  languages  enters  as  an  im- 
portant factor.  At  present  the  Frenchmen  seem  to  have  rather  the 
better  of  the  controversy. 

The  iron  columns  of  the  Philadelphia  City  Hall  are  the  first 

extensive  iron  work  to  be  electrolytically  plated  with  aluminum  as  a 
preventive  of  rust.  If  the  experiment  is  successful  this  new  metal 
and  the  electrolytic  process  of  depositing  it  will  find  a  fertile  field 
for  use  in  preventing  oxidation  on  all  great  iron  construction  of  the 
future,  such  as  bridges,  towers,  trestles,  etc. 

The  different  effects  of  electric  light  and  gas  light  on  the  leaves 

of  books  is  shown  by  the  statement  that  550  hours  of  a  144  candle- 
power  electric  light  produced  no  yellowing  effect  upon  a  printed 
page,  while  240  hours  of  a  50  candle-power  gas  light  made  a  notice- 
able change  of  tone. 


To  the  readers  of  the  Nkus  Litter  who  are  contem- 
plating a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the  Union  Paaxno,  It  is  the  only  line  running  I'ull- 
mnn  Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
from, San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.  You  are 
only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days   to  New  York  or 

Boston. 
Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 

line  for  Chicago,  New  Ybrk  and   Boston,  making  253i  hours  quicker 

time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 

excursion  lines. 
For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and   full  information,  apply 

at  the  General  Office,   No.   1   Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

Sickness  Among  Children. 
Especially  infants,  is  prevalent  at  all  times,  but  is  largely  avoided  by 
giving  proper  nourishment  and  wholesome  food.    The  most  success- 
ful and  reliable  of  all  is  the  Gail   Borden  "Eagle"  Brand  Condensed 
Milk.    Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital 13,000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Brown Cashier  |  B.  Mubbay,  Jr . . .  .  Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  P.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  tie  Bank  of  California;  BOSTON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London — Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  <&  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver,  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland.O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paria,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Fraukfort  on-the- Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam, Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 


Authorized  Capital $3,500,000 

Reserve 


Capital  paid  up 2,450,000 

450,000 


San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch,  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  PRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank, 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    fc.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

directors:  E.  A.  Bmguiere,  P.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  'IVm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  i  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    PariB— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutler  Streets. 

SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

John  J.  Valentine President. 

Homer  S.  King  Manager. 

H.  Wadswobth Cashier . 

J.  L.  Beowne Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS:] 
John  J.  Valentine,  Lloyd  Tevis,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Leland  Stanford,  James 
C.  Fargo,  Geo.  E.  Gray,  W.  F.  Goad,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000,000. 

DIRECTORS : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  Jb. 

B.  C.  WOOLWORTH Pebsideht. 

W   E.  BROWN ViCE-Pebsioent. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cabhibb 

SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 

Ouarantee  Capital •' $800,000 

OFFICERS: 

President JEROME  LINCOLN  |  Secretary S.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President     W.  S.  JONES  |  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER- 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


GOSSIP    FROM    GOTHAM. 

New  Yoek,  Nov.  5th,  1892. 

IF  the  election  was  not  so  close  at  hand  that  the  result  would 
be  known  while  these  lines  are  still  on  their  way  West  I  would 
retail  to  you  a  tot  of  very  interesting  political  gossip.  But  it 
would  be  out  of  date  by  the  time  it  reached  you,  so  I  will  refrain. 
You  will  also  know  whether  the  fears  of  serious  troubles  at  the 
polls  Tuesday  in  this  city  will  have  been  realized.  There  hag 
been  unnecessary  and  injudicious  action  on  the  part  of  the  Demo- 
crats with  reference  to  the  respective  rights  of  State  and  Federal 
officers,  and  if  there  is  bloodshed,  the  responsibility  will  fall  on 
Lieutenant-Governor  Sheehan,  who,  as  Chairman  of  the  Demo- 
cratic Executive  Committee,  has  issued  a  most  foolish  proclama- 
tion. 

The  Californians  in  New  York  are  about  evenly  divided  in 
politics.  Several  of  them  have  been  prominent  in  the  big  betting 
which  is  going  on. 

I  have  just  received  an  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  launch  of 
the  Olympia.  We  are  all  very  proud  of  the  warships  which  have 
been  constructed  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  anxiously  await- 
ing the  arrival  of  the  Charleston  and  San  Francisco ,  so  that  we  may 
have  objective  corroboration  of  our  boats. 

From  several  sources  comes  the  news  that  there  is  a  possibility 
of  the  election  of  O'Donnell  to  the  Mayoralty.     Heaven  forbid  I 

The  Flower  Show  is  a  great  centre  of  attraction  at  present-  The 
Madison  Square  Garden  has  been  transferred  into  a  bower  of  fra- 
grant color.  With  its  garlands  of  green  drooping  from  arch  and 
pillar,  its  festoons  of  lights  from  dome  to  floor,  its  monochromic 
banks  of  flowers,  its  columns  of  palm  and  fern,  it  is  fairyland  in- 
deed. The  crowds  present  are  of  fashion  the  most  fashionable. 
The  women  are  attired  in  the  latest  conceits  of  Paris  costumes 
and  modistes — cavalier  capes  of  glossy  velvet,  sparkling  with  jet 
and  fringed  with  feathers,  three-cornered  chapeaux  beplumed  and 
diamond-buckled.  You  go  to  look  at  flowers,  yon  stay  to  admire 
women.  With  the  approach  of  crisp,  frosty  days,  pedestrianism 
becomes  a  source  of  pleasure.  There  are  pretty  walks  all  around 
Mew  York.  Van  Cortlandt  Park,  for  instance,  with  its  thousand 
acres  of  meadow  and  woodland,  its  wealth  of  virgin  nature.  It 
is  a  great  public  reserve,  unspoiled  by  the  improvements  of  the 
landscape  architect.  The  trees  are  dyed  in  rich  autumnal  tints, 
the  brush  is  colored  with  clutches  of  berries.  Narrow  footpaths — 
mere  trails — intersect  every  point  of  tnis  little  wilderness.  Every 
nook  may  be  explored  by  the  pedestrian,  and  he  will  be  rewarded 
by  a  procession  of  views,  which  for  sylvan  beauty  cannot  be  ex- 
celled anywhere.  Beauclebc. 


DIRECT   FROM    PARIS- 


LATEST    CREATIONS 

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MADE  OF 

VIGOGNE,  FLANNEL  AND  SILK. 

TRIMMED  WITH 

LACE,  PASSEMENTERIE,.  Etc.,  Etc. 

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THE  DAINTIEST  EVER  IMPORTED. 

ZPEQ-HSTOIIRS 

IN  VIGOGNE,  FLANNEL  AND  CREPON. 

NEAT    DESIGNS" 

ENTIRELY  NEW  AND  PRETTY  COLORS. 

AT 

$15,  $16.50,  $17.50,  $18.50 

UPWARDS. 


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DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1),  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.        No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.A.Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place, 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  8ATUR- 
AY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed   until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY, 
October  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  September  21st. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behr  ng  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Bany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  October  21, 18S2. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Mexican  Gold  and  Silver   Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Virginia.  Storey  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  13th  day  of  October,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  46)  of  Twenty-five  (25) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Montgomery  sL, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Seventeenth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  7th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Neyada  block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
al    . 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Gold  Hill,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  mefetlng  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  23th  day  of  October,  1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  34),  of  Ten  Cents  (10c.) 

fier  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
mmediately  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  Company,  No.  79  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Thirtieth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  Unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  20th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary, 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. 

ANNOAL  MEETING- 

Hawaii  Commercial  and  Sugar  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Hawaiian  Com- 
mercial and  Sugar  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 
327  Market  st.,  San  Francisco,  Cal,  on  TUESDAY,  the  15th  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  at  the  hour  of  eleven  (11)  o'clock  a.  m.,  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing aboard  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing  year  and  for  the  trans- 
action of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting.  Transfer 
books  will  close  on  Thursday,  Nov.  3d,  at  3  o'clock  p.  M. 

B.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

PACIFIC    TOWEL    GOl&F LISTS' 

9     LICK    PLACE, 

Furnishes  Clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates: 

Clean  Hand  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per  month ;    12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  month;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per 
6  month ;  6  Clean  Boiler  Towels  each  week,  $1.26  per  month. 


/ 


ll',  1892. 


BAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEB 


25 


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NBW  gloves  show  glaring  transgressions  of  conventional  ideas, 
and  illustrate  the  disregard  which  fashion  has  for  the  old- 
time  virtue  of  economy.  The  long-serviceable  and  useful  tan  gloves, 
which  accommodated  themselves  90 gracefully  to  all  sorts  and  condi- 
tions of  toilette,  and  harmonized  so  agreeably  with  every  tint  and 
tone  of  both  day  and  evening  wear,  arc  out.  In  their  place  has 
come  a  whole  family  of  bright  tints  and  shades,  blue  and  red,  green 
and  violet,  for  the  day.  and  reproductions  of  their  paler  shades  for 
evening  wear.  Each  gown  must  be  perfectly  matched  in  color  for 
the  street,  and  for  the  reception  or  call  the  only  exceptions  to  the 
rale  are  the  white,  pearl  and  pale  yellow  tints,  that  are  as  perishable 
as  pretty.  For  theatre  wear  come  the  new  dogskins  in  pale  but  de- 
cided tints  of  green,  blue  and  violet  to  match  the  evening  hat,  or 
bonnet  rather,  since  so  few  hats  are  worn  by  women  not  too  old  to  go 
out  evenings.  And  such  buttons,  large  and  conspicuous,  and  stitch- 
ing striking  and  contrasting!  The  wrists,  too,  are  piped  with  color, 
white  on  dark,  black  on  light  gloves,  and  gauntlets  appear  of  tre- 
mendous size,  variously  ornamented.  The  rule  for  the  elbow  gloves 
of  evening  dress  is  to  match  the  gown  in  color  with  a  suede  glove  or- 
namented with  self-stitching — that  is,  stitching  the  color  of  the  glove. 
With  very  light  gowns  white  gloves  may  be  worn,  but  this  saves  little 
in  outlay,  for  there  must  be  a  sufficient  number  of  pairs  on  hand  to 
keep  one  pair  always  en  route  to  or  from  the  cleaners. 

A  dinner  dress  made  for  the  Duchess  of  Edinburgh,  was  in  red  and 
cream  brocade  in  satin  stripes,  with  large  bunches  of  flowers  on  the 
cream;  and  it  opened  over  a  petticoat  of  deep  Aubergine  shade, 
which  was  edged  at  the  hem  with  a  frill  of  green  velvet,  brocaded 
with  flowers  in  silk  and  beads,  little  sprays  of  beads  to  match  being 
carried  up  to  the  waist.  The  bodice  had  similar  embroidery  on  it, 
and  green  velvet  sleeves.  A  deep  terra-cotta  poult-de  soie,  of  the 
tint  called  after  the  sculptor  Carpo,  had  a  jetted  front,  and  puffed 
sleeves  in  shot  gauze,  the  two  puffs  being  divided  by  jet.  The  body 
was  jetted  to  the  figure  with  large  revers.  A  second  dinner  gown 
has  large  Japanese  lilies  on  a  cream  ground,  and  is  combined  with 
trimmings  in  peach-pink. 


Frenchwomen,  it  appears,  have  been  drinking  orchid  tea  for  fifty 
years,  and  the  consumption  of  this  expensive  delicacy  has  much  in- 
creased of  late.  The  orchid  from  which  the  tea  is  made  is  a  member 
of  one  of  the  handsomest  and  most  expensive  families  which  grows 
in  the  forests  of  Bourbon  and  Mauritius.  The  decoction  is  easy. 
You  just  lay  the  leaves  and  stalks  in  cold  water,  about  one  gramme 
to  a  teacup— more  or  less,  according  to  taste— close  the  vessel  tight 
and  boil  for  ten  minutes.    The  tea  may  be  sweetened. 

French  merinos  are  now  classed  among  the  unfashionable  fabrics, 
says  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  but  they  make,  notwithstanding, 
most  becoming  and  pretty  wrappers,  house-jackets,  lounging  robes, 
etc.,  when  stylishly  fashioned  and  velvet  trimmed.  They  are  also  ex- 
cellent for  children's  dresses,  every-day  coats,  to  save  handsomer 
ones,  little  double  gowns  and  Mother  Hubbards,  and  in  pale  pink, 
blue  or  scarlet,  two  widths,  a  yard  and  a  half  long,  make  a  generous 
little  comfortable  for  a  baby's  crib. 

Some  of  the  autumn  bonnets  are  trimmed  with  ribbons  of  Otto- 
man silk  in  rich  stripes,  or  with  uncut  velvet  with  grounds  of  the 
most  exquisitely  varying  shades.  The  colors  are  of  the  oriental  type, 
richly  blended,  and  many  ribbons  show  a  bright  contrasting  color  on 
the  reverse  side.  Besides  their  use  in  the  narrow  width  for  strings, 
they  are  employed  in  making  rose  tuffets,  choux,  high  fan-pleatings, 
and  rosettes,  these  very  often  forming  the  only  garniture  upon  the 
bonnet. 

By  wearing  pure  wool  next  to  the  flesh  the  necessary  warmth  is 
given  with  fewer  clothes.  Physicians  and  women  have  become 
aroused  to  the  importance  of  light-weight  clothes,  and  manufacturers 
have  aided  them  in  every  manner  in  putting  upon  the  market  a  va- 
riety of  well-fitting  underwear  of  all  kinds. 


Overdresses  have  appeared  among  the  latest  importations  from 
abroad.  One  arrangement  shows  a  very  close  bell-skirt  with  six 
breadths  (ungored,  and  either  open  on  the  sides  or  down  the  im- 
mediate front)  falling  over  the  bell  underskirt. 

Many  women  who  follow  the  lead  of  fashion  very  closely  are,  how- 
ever, insisting  upon  serviceable  gowns  of  cloth,  tweed,  cheviot,  etc., 
being  cut  to  escape  the  ground  for  street  wear. 

Venetian  velours  is  a  soft  thick  cloth,  with  a  velvet  finish.  It  is 
used  for  jackets,  capes  and  portions  of  winter  gowns. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  hondsome  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 


THE  POPULAR  FABRIC. 
Navy  Blue 

STORM    SERGE, 

Just  Received  Another  Heavy  Shipment  of 
PLAIN  AND  FANCY  WEAVES, 

— IN— 

ENTIRELY  NEW  DESIGNS 

Now  Offered 

At  50c,  75c,  §1.00,  §1.25,  §1.50  and  §2.00  per  Yard, 

ggp*  Samples  sent  free.  Mailorders  promptly  executed. 
Goods  delivered  free  in  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley,  San 
Rafael,  Tibaron,  Saasalito,  San  Qaentin,  Mill  Valley,  Ross 
Station  and  Blithedale. 


Murphy  Building. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


FALL    SEASON. 

Ladies  will  find  the  Latest  styles  and  Best  Fitting 

CLOAKS 

AT    THE 

CALIFORNIA    CLOAK    COMPANY, 

CHARLES  MAYER,  Jr„  A  CO., 

Also  a  large  stock  of 

Misses'  and  Children's  Cloaks,  Ladies'  Suits  and  Furs 

ON     HAND. 

CLOAKS  MADE  TO  ORDER 

105  POST  ST.  s;?1"1 


Thousands  of  delighted  ladies 
have  visited  my  parlors.  Can  I 
not  see  you  this  week?  You  can 
learn  many  of  the  secrets  of  pre- 
serving and  beautifying  the 
complexion. 

MRS.  NETTIE  HARRISON, 

26   GEARY  STREET, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


LOLA 
MONTEZ 

CREME 

The    Skin    Food 

AND 

Tissue  Builder 
75    CENTS. 


HAMBURG-AMERICAN  PACKET  COMPANY. 

FASTEST  ROUTE  TO  LONDON 
Southampton,  and  the  European  Con- 
tinent. Fastest  time,  equal  to  5 
days,  20  hours  to  Queenstown.  Mag- 
nificent new  twin-screw  express 
steamers  of  10,000  tons  and  13,000  to 
16,000  horse  power.  Uk.  These 
steamers  carry  no  cotton. 

Through  tickets  to  London.  Paris, 
Basle.  Geneva,  Vienna,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  etc. 

MEDITERRANEAN  EXPRESS 
LINE— Winter  service  from  New 
York  to  Genoa  and  Naples  (via  Gib- 
raltar) by  our  twin-screw  express 
steamers,  sailing  November  17th,  De- 
cember 1st,  January  5th,  January  19th. 

Company's  office,  37  Broadway,  New  York.    For  tickets,  cabin  plans  and 
information  apply  to    A.  W.  MYER,  General  agent  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
401  California  street,  corner  Sansome,  San  Francisco. 


26 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


IN    ALGIERS.— Arthur  Blakie  In  "Love's  Victory.". 


Dreams  may  be  sweet;  more  sweet  awakenings  be; 
Bat  yesternight,  what  time  the  moon  lay  low 
Far  down  the  Atlas,  and  her  yellow  glow 

Made  spectral  fair  the  City  of  the  Sea, 

Palm-girdled,  proud,  and  throned  imperiously, 
Upon  me  came  the  faint  and  fluctuant  flow 
Of  far  mysterious  music,  soft  and  slow, 

Breathing  from  off  the  mountains  soothingly. 

Above,  a  myriad  stars,  a  shimmering  done, 

Hung  o'er  the  windless  night,  and  all  unstirred 

Lay  the  dark  floor  of  ocean   without  foam; 

When,  gathering  southward,  fast  and  still  more  fast, 
The  swirling  sand-clouds  saw  I,  and  I  heard 

The  palm-trees  clash  before  the  desert  blast. 


RUMORS    ABOUT    THE    HOME    RULE    BILL. 


THE  forecast  of  Mr.  Gladstone's  Home  Rule  bill  given  in  the  late 
telegrams  from  London,  provided  the  facts  reported  are  cor- 
rect, goes  to  show  that  the  Premier  is  not  willing  to  go  beyond  a 
certain  point  in  his  concessions  to  the  Irish,  and  that  he  intends 
to  reserve  to  the  British  Parliament  the  right  of  interfering  with 
the  legislation  of  the  prospective  Irish  Parliament,  whenever 
two-thirds  of  the  members  of  the  British  House  of  Commons 
desire,  in  any  given  case,  such  interference.  Ireland  is  to  be  rep- 
resented at  VVestminster  by  78  members — the  usual  number  being 
103 — who  shall  have  the  right  to  vote  on  Imperial  questions.  If 
such  a  restrictive  provision  is  actually  in  the  bill  when  it  is  intro- 
duced  next  session,  it  is  almost  absolutely  certain  that  it  will  not 
be  accepted  by  the  McCarthyites  and  quite  certain  that  it  will  be 
opposed  by  the  Parnellitesled  by  Mr.  Redmond,  who  have  strictly 
committed  themselves  to  such  opposition.  In  the  "  Nineteenth 
Century  "  last  month,  Mr.  John  Redmond  in  an  article  entitled 
"The  Re-adjustment  of  the  Union  "  declares  that  the  Parnellites 
expect  "  a  clause  in  the  Home  Rule  bill  to  specifically  provide  an 
undertaking  that  while  the  Irish  Parliament  continued  in  exist- 
ence the  power  of  the  Imperial  Parliament  to  legislate  for  Ireland 
would  never  be  used  "  nor  will  he  and  his  colleagues  grant  even 
to  the  crown  the  right  to  veto,  except  on  the  advice  of  the  Irish 
ministry.  From  this  it  is  clear  that  Mr.  Gladstone's  Home  Rule 
bill,  if  it  contains  the  provision  mentioned  in  the  forecast,  giving 
the  British  Parliament  a  practical  control  over  the  legislation  of 
the  Irish  parliament,  will  not  receive  the  consent  of  the  Parnell. 
ites  and  this  aloue  would  lead  to  its  defeat.  Still,  it  is  necessary 
to  wait  for  further  details  before  it  can  be  seen  on  which  stumbling 
block  the  Premier  will  elect  to  fall  next  session.  That  he  will  fall  is 
a  foregone  conclusion,  but  since  it  is  in  his  hands  to  elect  a  method, 
it  will  be  wise  for  him  to  be  defeated  rather  by  the  Irish  extremists 
than  by  the  united  opposition  of  his  own  countrymen  of  all  shades  of 
opinion  except  perhaps  the  ultra- Radicals.  Such  an  opposition  he 
would  meet  were  he  to  yield  to  the  wishes  of  John  Redmond  and  his 
colleagues,  and  a  defeat  of  that  kind  would  be  a  bad  finale  to  a  career 
which,  notwithstanding  its  many  shadows,  has  been  a  very  brilliant 
one  up  to  the  year  1885. 


THE  Flower  Show  which  opened  at  the  Pavilion  last  week  was 
one  of  the  prettiest  affairs  ever  held  in  San  Francisco;  and  if 
our  beau  monde  would  only  patronize  such  exhibits  to  the  extent 
of  a  suburban  tea,  it  would  be  a  delightful  lounge  wherein  the 
swine  could  disport  themselves  on  gay  toilettes,  look  at  exqui- 
site flowers,  listen  to  the  music  and  exchange  chat  as  they  saun. 
tered  by.  Chrysanthemums  were  the  prevailing  flower  and  here 
in  such  marvellous  variety  and  perfection  our  Eastern  and  for- 
eign v.sitors  must  have  been  lost  in  admiration  thereof.  The 
rustic  bridge  was  a  charming  conceit,  and  the  Japanese  garden, 
presided  over  by  real  Japanese,  by  the  bye, — in  fact  there  was 
so  much  to  see  and  admire,  one  was  bewildered  by  the  mass 
of  sweet  odors  and  lovely  flowers.  The  orchids  were  especially 
fine,  but,  although  every  species  of  plant  was  there,  the  chrysan- 
themums topped  them  all,  and  it  was  justly  termed  a  Chrysan- 
themum Show. 


A  DECIDEDLY  novel  and  aumeuve  tmps  beautiful  sight  was  the 
Festival  of  lanterns,  which  was  held  last  week  at  Irving  Hall  in 
aid  of  a  project  undertaken  by  a  band  of  devoted  workers, 
headed  by  Mrs.  Alpheus  Bull,  said  project  being  to  get 
funds  to  found  a  Universalist  church  in  this  city.  The  effect 
upon  the  beholder's  vision  on  entering  the  ball  was  dazzling  in 
light  and  color.  Lanterns  of  every  size,  make  and  hue  were 
there  in  abundance;  large  umbrellas  well  spread  open  down  the 
sides  of  the  hall,  the  points  hung  with  lighted  lanterns,  and  un- 
derneath the  umbrellas  were  tables  spread  with  dainty  wares, 
presided  over  by  charming  ladieB.  Then  there  were  refreshment 
stands  for  tea,  and  ice  cream  and  lemonade.  Music,  too,  both 
vocal  and  instrumental,  enhanced  the  pleasure  of  the  evening, 
and  the  affair  drew  well  both  evenings  that  it  was  open. 

Mullek's  opera,  field  and  marine  glasses,  suitable  holiday  present,  135 
Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


E3T.     1ML.     ISTETTT-H-A-IIjI-!     <Sc     CO., 

SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS: 

*       AND 

* ' 

.  GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos.  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco. 
National  Assurance  Company      -----      of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company      - of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


U. 


IX 


Systems  : 
•Slattery" 

Induction 
'Wood" 

Arc. 
Factories  : 
:Fort  Wayne, 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn. 

New  York. 

II U 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Estimates  furnished  for  electric  railways,  electric 
light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
;  a  specialty. 

35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


STEAM 
BOILER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 


OLD     SCALE     REMOVED,  

FORMATION    OF    NEW    SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the  use  of  


LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

i.Over  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  26  to  50  per  cent.  In  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


E.  J.   WHEELER. 


J.   W.  GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.HoytA  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.F..fal. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND   &  CO  , 
SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION     MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     eor.      Pine      and      Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Agents  for 
THE  CALIFORNIA  LINE  OF  CLIPPER  SHIPSJFROM  NEW  YORK. 
The  Cunard  Royal  Mail  Steamship  Co.;  the  Hawaiian  Line  of    Packet 
to  and  from   Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Insurance  Co.  (Limited);  Bald 
win  Locomotive  Works;  A.   Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sons 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
jen's  Composition.    Ontario  <  oitoii  Sail  Duck. 

XjOTTIS   CAHE1T   cSc   SOiT, 


Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

413  Sacramento  Street,  S.  3T\ 

E.  D.  JONBB. 

S.  L  JONES  &  CO., 

Auctioneers    and    Commission    Merchants, 

207  and  200  California  Street. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Occidental    Mining  Company, 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  above-named  Com- 
pany will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  69,  Nevada  Block, 
309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  21th  day  of  November.  1882.  at  the  hour  of  1  P.  M. 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year,  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer  books  will  close  on  Fridav,  November  18th,  1892,  at  3 
o'clock  p.  m.  ALFRED  £.  DURBROW.  Secretary. 


1.'.  1892. 


BAN  PRANCI8C0  \K\vs  LETTER, 


27 


THE    ROUNTREE    HOUSES. 

TBI  house*  presented  in  the  artotype  in  Ibis  week's  issue  of 
toe  New*  Letter  are  situated  in  the  heart  of  San  Francisco's 
moil  fashionable  district — the  corner  of  Washington  and  Bu- 
chanan streets.  They  belong  to  Rountree  Bros.,  the  well-known 
builders,  and  represent  four  distinct  styles  of  architecture,  the 
first  being  a  Swiss  cottage,  the  second  Venetian,  the  third  Colo- 
nial and  the  fourth  a  Queen  Anne,  or  Eastlake.  Each  ire  won- 
ders in  their  particular  style,  and  certainly  ranKs  with  the  purest 
work  of  residence  architecture  in  the  city.  The  interiors  contain 
reception  balls,  drawing-rooms  and  music-rooms  finished  in  ma- 
hogany and  Spanish  cedar;  dining-rooms  in  Eastern  quar- 
tered oak ;  kitchens  and  breakfast-rooms  in  native  woods. 
The  chambers  are  all  elegantly  tinted  and  finished  in  parti-colors, 
white  and  gold,  etc.  The  bouses  are  well  decorated  and  frescoed 
in  a  very  artistic  manner.  In  addition  to  the  above-mentioned 
rooms,  they  also  contain  billiard-rooms,  servants'  rooms,  servants' 
bathrooms,  laundry,  dry  and  wine-rooms,  with  every  improve- 
ment that  modern  architecture  can  suggest.  A  visit  to  these  res- 
idences would  certainly  result  in  great  advantage  to  anyone  wbo 
may  contemplate  building  or  purchasing  a  borne  for  themselves 
in  that  stylish  district  of  the  city,  as  they  contain  mauy  new  and 
novel  ideas.  Baldwin  &  Hammond  are  agents  for  some  of  the 
houses. 


RICH    AFRICAN    MINES. 


THE  News  Letter  received  a  cable  from  London,  yesterday, 
announcing  that  the  gold  output  of  the  Witwatersrandt  mines 
in  South  Africa  for  the  month  of  October  aggregated  the  enor- 
mous sum  of  122, 167  ounces.  This  has  been  the  largest  monthly 
production  since  the  mines  were  opened  up.  The  district  has, 
however,  shown  a  steady  increase  for  every  month  during  the 
past  tour  years,  and  if  this  is  kept  up  at  the  same  rate  as  for 
months  past,  the  record  of  the  celebrated  gold  discoveries  in  the 
past  will  be  eclipsed.  The  London  market  for  the  shares  is  much 
excited  over  the  prospects. 

UPON  one  of  the  walls  in  the  office  of  the  Registrar  of  Voters  is 
a  notice  to  the  effect  that  a  fine  saloon,  in  a  good  locality,  is 
for  sale  cheap,  because  the  proprietor  is  about  to  leave  the  coun- 
try. Now  there,  I  think,  is  an  enterprising  man,  who  knows 
where  to  go  to  sell  his  goods.  Experience  has  taught  him  that  no 
man  can  be  a  successful  political  boss  in  this  city  unless  he  runs 
a  saloon.  He  knows  that  the  occupations  of  many  of  the  Repub- 
lican heelers  are  gone  now,  and  he  intends  to  depart  for  pastures 
new.  At  the  same  time,  be  offers  those  who  remain  an  oppor- 
tunity to  build  up  their  fallen  fortunes.  The  Registrar's  room  is 
a  good  place  to  advertise  a  saloon  for  sale,  for  there,  if  any. 
where,  can  now  be  found  crowds  of  statesmen,  professional 
patriots,  who  fully  appreciate  the  value  of  having  a  visible  and 
easily  reached  supply  of  liquor. 

ACCORDING  to  the  Jewish  Talmud,  Lilith,  the  fabled  >«  mother 
of  demons,"  was  taken  to  wife  by  Adam,  our  first  parent, 
prior  to  the  appearance  of  Eve  on  the  scene.  Being  the  legendary 
mother  of  all  evil  spirits,  one  would  quite  naturally  accept  the 
story  as  a  fact,  when  told  that  she  became  unmanageble  and  tried 
to  supercede  Adam  as  lord  of  all  creation.  Thwarted  in  these, 
her  evil  designs,  she  took  to  the  regions  of  the  air,  where,  as  a 
spectre  in  the  guise  of  a  beautiful  woman,  she  lies  in  wait  for  and 
pounces  upon  defenseless  children.  Some  ignorant  European 
Jews  believe  that  the  beautiful  murderess  still  inhabits  the  air 
above  our  earthly  abodes,  waiting  with  the  patience  of  a  demon 
for  a  chance  to  murder  their  little  ones.  It  is  said  that  the  word 
"  lullaby  "  is  a  corruption  of  the  words  "  Lillii,  abi,"  or  "  Begone, 
Lilith,"  words  used  as  a  charm  by  the  superstitious  mothers  of 
the  Middle  Ages. 


New   Cook   Book  Free. 


The  Price  Baking  Powder  Co.,  Chicago,  has  just  published  its 
new  cook  book,  called  "Table  and  Kitchen,"  compiled  with  great 
care.  Besides  containing  over  500  receipts  for  all  kinds  of  pastry  and 
home  cookery,  there  are  valuable  hints  for  the  table  and  kitchen, 
showing  how  to  set  a  table,  how  to  enter  the  dining-room,  etc.;  a 
hundred  and  one  hints  in  every  branch  of  the  culinary  art.  Cookery 
of  the  very  finest  and  richest  as  well  as  that  of  the  most  economical 
and  home-like  is  provided  for. 

"Table  and  Kitchen"  will  be  sent  postage  prepaid  to  any  lady  pa- 
tron sending  her  address  (name,  town  and  State)  plainly  given. 
Postal  card  is  as  good  as  a  letter.  Address  Price  Baking  Powder  Co., 
184, 186  and  188  Michigan  street,  Chicago,  111. 

(Mention  if  desired  in  German.) 


Argonau^,  Whisky  is  one  of  the  most  celebrated  in  the  world 
It  is  sold  with  the  brand  of  J.  F.  Cutter,  whose  fame  as  a  manufac- 
turer of  tine  whiskies  is  unexcelled.  In  all  quarters  of  the  globe  Ar- 
gonaut is  known,  and  the  sun  never  sets  on  its  bottles.  If  you  are  p 
whisky  drinker,  nothing  can  give  you  greater  satisfaction  than  the 
Argonaut. 

Go  to  the  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  if  you  want  a  realty  first-class  dinner.  The  Riche  is  the 
most  most  popular  restaurant  among  the  epicures  of  the  city. 


100  ENGRAVED  CARDS  AND  COPPER  PLATE  FOR 

$1   75 
100  CARDS  PRINTEO  ON  CUSTOMER'S  OWN  PLATE 

$1  OO 
STAMPING  PAPER  AND  ENVELOPES  FROM  DIE — Any  Color. 
10c.  per  Quire. 

Order  at  once  before  Prices  Chauge. 

721  Market  Street,  S.  F. 

No  lady  or  gentleman  should  be  without  perfectly  engraved  cards  and 
elegantly  stamped  stationery  at  above  extremely  low  prices.  Engraved 
and  printed  wedding  invitations  and  announcements  at  equally  low  prices. 
Samples  mailed  on  application. 

IDEAL     COFFEE. 

This  famous  brand  of  fresh  ground  blended  coffee  is  unexcelled  for  qual- 
ity and  delicacy  of  flavor. 


No.  1 

No.  2 

No.  3 

No.  4 

25  cents 

30  cents 

35  cents 

40  cents  per  lb 

sale  only  by 

RATH  J  EN  BROS.,  Grocers. 

21  STOCKTON  STREET. 
Sole  Agents  for  the  Celebrated  IDEAL  COFFEE  POT. 

SUBSCRIPTION  LIST  NOW  OPEN. 

THACKERAY'S    COMPLETE    WORKS, 

Ed.  de  Luxe,  fully  illustrated,  limited  to  1,000  numbered  set,  to  be  com- 
pleted in  30  volumes  at  $2  50.    Send  for  circular  to 

WM.    DOXEY, 

631  Marhet  Street,  Under  Palace  Hotel.  San  Francisco. 

CYPRESS  LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

:F\A_:M::L"xr2~     plots 

For  sale  iu  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non-sectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  « he  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
he  cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 

HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY      AND       COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL     EXAMINER 

01  Handwriting,  InkB,  Papers,  etc.,  in  the  Detection  oi  Forgeries, 

ConnterieitBand  Imitations. 

41  IK  CALIFORNIA  STREET.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Perrier-Jouet  &  oo. 


W.B.  CHAPMAN,         EPERNAY    CHAMPAGNE. 


SOLE  AQENT  FOR 
PAOIFIO  OOA8T, 

123CaliforniaSt.,S.F. 


FOB  BY  ALL  FIB8T-CLA88 

Wine    Merchants  and  Grocers. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  12,  1892. 


J,  D,  SPRECKLES  &  BROS,  COMPANY, 

SHIPPING  AND~  COMMISSION 
MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

GILLINGHAM    CEMENT. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

LONG   DISTANCE 

TELEPHONE. 

Xj-AJXIESI?  ZEZXITZEIISrSIOa^r- 
Salinas,  Chualar,  Gonzales, 
Soledad.  Marysville,  Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken communication  be- 
\  tween  the.se  towns  and  San 
I  Francisco.  The  lines  are  eon- 
'  structed  of  specially  prepared 
extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  withtue  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  science  of 
and  are  "Long  Distance"  Lines 
ineveVysense  of  the  word.  The  Mail  is  quick, 
the  Telegraph  in  quicker,  but  the 

LONG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRIC  IRKS, 

InTo.   35    ^Earlset  Street. 

lANTJFACTUEEES 

AND   IMPORTERS 
—  OF— 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General 
Electrical  Supplies. 

Cunningham,  Curtiss  &  Welch, 
WHOLESALE 

STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 
327.329.  331   SANSOME  STREET. 


OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Francisco. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 
FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 
JOSEPH  GILLOTTS  STEEL  PENS. 

Sold  Medals   Paris  1878—1889. 
JW"  These  Pens  are  "  the  best  in  the  world." 
Sole  Agent  for  the  United  States,  MR.  HT.  HOB, 
91  John  St..  N.  Y.    Bold  by  all  Stationers. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 


MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  2388.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


TO    IAJGAST  A.— Richard  Lovelace. 


Tell  me  not,  sweet,  X  am  uDkind; 

That  from  the  nunnery 
Of  thy  chaste  breast  and  quiet  mind, 

To  war  and  arms  I  fly. 

True,  a  new  mistress  now  I  chase, 

The  first  foe  in  the  field; 
And  with  a  stronger  faith  embrace 

A  sword,  a  horse,  a  shield. 

Yet  this  inconstancy  is  such 

As  you,  too,  shall  adore; 
I  could  not  love  thee,  dear,  so  much, 

Loved  I  not  Honor  more. 


FRENCH  ingenuity  has  succeeded  in 
dyeing  most  attractive  alizarine  reds 
on  piece  goods  by  a  simple  process.  The 
pieces  are  prepared  for  the  dyeing  in  the 
usual  manner,  and  are  then  passed 
through  an  acetate  of  lime  bath  in  the 
cold.  This  bath  is  now  heated  to  one 
hundred  and  fifty  degrees  Fahrenheit, 
and  about  one-quarter  to  one-half  the  re- 
quired amount  of  alizarine,  dissolved  in 
water  with  the  aid  of  ammonia,  is  added; 
the  bath  is  heated  to  the  boil,  and  the 
pieces  are  run  through  and  through  in 
the  ordinary  way.  The  remainder  of  the 
alizarine  is  now  added,  and  the  dyeing 
continued  for  some  ten  to  fifteen  minutes 
longer,  when  it  will  be  completed,  the 
pieces  being  finished  according  to  the 
usual  practice.  This  alizarine  solution  is 
made  from  ten  kilos  of  the  ordinary  20 
per  cent,  paste  alizarine  mixed  with  forty 
litres  of  water  and  one  kilo  of  ammonia. 
The  color  which  is  obtained  by  this  novel 
and  ingenious  method  is  said  to  be 
brighter  and  fuller  than  any  that  results 
from  the  process  commonly  in  vogue, 
and  a  smaller  quantity  of  alizarine  is  re- 
quired. 

TWO  of  the  most  prominent  and  learned, 
professors  of  the  University  of  Buda- 
pest came  very  near  engaging  in  a  duel 
over  a  very  strange  and  senseless  cause. 
Dr.  Heinrich  and  Dr.  Ballagi  differed  in 
opinion  as  to  the  correct  way  in  which  to 
spell  the  name  of  the  famous  Prince  of 
the  Huns,  the  former  maintaining  that  it 
should  be  spelled  Attila,  while  the  latter 
insisted  that  it  should  have  but  one  »  t  " 
— Atilla.  The  controversy  became  very 
warm,  and  personalities  were  dragged  in. 
Finally  Dr.  Ballagi  sent  a  challenge  to 
Dr.  Heinrich,  and  each  appointed  two 
friends  to  meet  and  decide  how,  when 
and  where  the  controversy  should  be  set- 
tled in  accordance  with  the  code  of  honor. 
The  four  gentlemen  met,  and  after  in- 
vestigating the  facts,  decided  that  Dr. 
Heinrich  had  said  nothing  reflecting 
upon  the  honor  of  Dr.  Ballagi,  and  that  a 
pers'onal  encounter  was  uncalled  for. 
Meanwhile,  so  far  as  appears,  the  mo- 
mentuous  question  whether  it  is  Atilla  or 
Attilla  remains  unsettled. 


IT  is  reported  that  M.  Rouvier,  French 
Minister  of  Finance,  and  the  Budget 
Committee  have  agreed  upon  a  scheme  to 
tax  cycles.  This  new  tax,  which  will 
come  into  force  next  year,  will  be  8s. , 
and  as  there  are  225,000  cyclists  in 
France,  would  bring  in  about  £90,000. 
Cycles  used  otherwise  than  for  pleasnre 
will  pay  only  half  duty ;  while  those  used 
in  the  army  and  other  Government  ser- 
vices will  be  exempt.  The  proposed  tax, 
we  are  told,  Is  not  objected  to  by  cyclists, 
as  it  will  give  them  a  right  to  claim 
special  legislation  in  their  favor. 


AN  EXAMPLE Teacher—  "Give  an  il- 
lustration of  the  superiority  of  mind 
over  matter." 

Pupil  {after  prolonged  reflection)— "I  have 
to  mind  you.   That's  what's  the  matter." 
— Chicago  Tribune. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bslle  Isle  Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Tuscarora, 
Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  5th  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No  10)  of  ten  cet>ts  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  cor- 
poration, payable  immediately  in  United  States 
gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on  the 

The  12  Day  of  December,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  January,  1893,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 
Office.— No.  310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17, 
San   Francisco,  California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business — San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Storey 
County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  od  the  20th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  40),  of  twenty-five  (25) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United 
StateB  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  24th  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  un- 
less payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  14th  day  of  Deceember,  1892, 
to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  E.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated  New   York  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — 8an 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Goid 
Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  2d  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  9)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  79  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Fifth    Day   of   December,  1892,   will    be   delin- 
quent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WE  DNESDAY,  the  28th  day  of  December, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  oi  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mining  Company. 

Assessment  No.  103 

Amount  per  share 25  cents 

Levied  Nov.  9,  1892 

Delinquent  in  office  Dec.14,1892 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock. .  Jan.  3, 1893 

E   L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery 
street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Occidental  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Assessment No.  11 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Oct.  25,  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Nov.  13, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock Dec  21,  1892 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Nevada  Block,   room  69,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery Street,  Gal. 

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Nov.  12,  1892 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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SOUTHER*   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Tr*ina  Le»v«  and   ar«  Dug  to  Arrive  *** 

SAN      FRANCISCO: 


Lbatb  ■      from  September  3,  1892.      I  arrivi 

7:00  a.  Bcnicia,  Rummer,  Saorameuto  7:15  p 

7:30a.  Uarwards,  Niles  and  Sau  Jose  "12:15  p 

Niles  and  BtnJOM  16:15  p 

7:90a.  Marline*.  San  Ramoo,  Calietoga  6tH>F. 

8:00  a.  3arram  U>A  Redding,  via  Davis*  7:15  P. 

8:00  a.  Atlantic  Expros  for  Ogden  and 

Ea.<  9:45  P. 

S:30a.  Ntles,  3*n  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,   M&rverille,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:45p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 

8eles,  Deming,  El   Paso,   New 

rleans and  East      8:«5p. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:45  p. 

12-OOm.  Haywards,  Ntles  and  Livermore  7:15  p. 

•1:00  f.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejoand  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Hay-wards.  Niles  and  San  Jose. .  9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  vand 

Fresno .  12:15p 

4:00p  Martinez,    San    Ramon,    Vallejo, 
Calls  toga,  El  Verano.  and  Santa 

Rosa 9:45a. 

4:30  p.  Beuicia,  and  Sacramento 10:45a. 

4 :00  p.  Woodland  and  Oro  ville 10 :15  a 

4 :00p  Vacaviile 10:15a 

•4:30  p.  Nilee  and  Livermore *8:45a. 

5:00  p  European  Mail,  Ogden  and  East. .  10;45a 
5:3Gp.  Los    Angeles    ExpresB,    Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 9:45a. 

5:30f.  SantaFeRoute,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojave  and  East 9:15  a. 

6 :00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose . .  7 :45  A. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo.... +8:45  p. 

7:00  p.    Oregon    Express.   Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .  8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

J7:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  JS:05p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

Santa  Crux *10:50a. 

4:45p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 

*7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2 :38  p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TresPinos.Pa- 
jaro,8antaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and   principal  Way   Stations     6:10  p. 

10:87a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 5:03  p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TreB  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey, 
Pacific   Grove    and    principal 

Way  Stations *10:37A. 

*3:80  p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations *9:47a. 

*4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  - .   *8:06  a. 

5  -J.5  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8 :48  A. 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .      6:35  a. 
rll:46p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations -r7:30p. 

A.  for  Morning .  p.  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  fSaturdays  only. 

tSundays  only. 


PACIFIC  C0A$T  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Caydcob,  Santa  Babbaba,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hukneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


EVERYBODY  is  familiar  with  the  mot- 
to. •■  Die  a  bI  Mon  Droit,"  but  very 
few  know  its  origin — that  it  was  the 
parole  or  password  given  by  Richard 
CoaOT  ile  Lion  to  his  army  at  the  battle 
of  Gisors.  in  France.  The  French  were 
defeated  upon  this  occasion,  and  Rich- 
ard, to  commemorate  the  victory,  made 
•*  Pitu  et  Mon  Droit  " — »  God  and  my 
right"  the  motto  of  the  Royal  Arms  of 
England,  and  it  has  retained  its  position 
ever  since.  Queen  Elizabeth's  favorite 
motto  was  "Semper  eadem  " — "Always 
the  same;"  her  mother,  the  unfortunate 
Anne  Boleyn,  adopted  the  selfish  one  of 
"  For  me  and  mine;"  and  her  successor 
on  the  throne,  Jane  Seymour,  '<  Bound  to 
obey  and  serve."  In  the  Senate  House 
at  Frankfort  hang  portraits  of  all  the 
Emperors,  and  under  each  is  the  motto 
assumed  by  him  at  his  coronation.  One 
is  "  Among  swans  the  goose  maketh  a 
loud  noise,"  but  whether  Otto  theSuperb, 
whose  choice  it  was,  considered  himself 
a  goose,  cannot  be  told.  One  of  the  Em- 
perors, Frederick  III.,  had  a  fancy  for 
placing  upon  the  covers  of  his  books, 
furniture  and  plate,  the  initials,  "  A.  E. 
I.  O.  U.,"  and  he  was  continually  asking 
his  courtiers  to  guess  what  they  stood 
for.  They  did  their  best,  no  doubt,  but 
no  one  could  succeed  in  deciphering  the 
Royal  puzzle,  and  I  expect  they  grew 
very  tired  of  it  in  time.  It  was  fortunate 
for  them  that  their  heads  were  not  cut 
off  for  making  wrong  guesses,  as  so  often 
happens  in  fairy  tales.  After  the  Em- 
peror's death  the  secret  was  disclosed, 
and  from  a  paper  in  his  own  handwrit- 
ing it  was  found  that  the  mysterious  "A. 
E.  I.  O.  TJ."  stood  for  "Austriae  est  vm- 
perare  orbi  universo  " — "  The  whole  world 
is  subject  to  Austria."       — Little  Folks. 

THE  silver-wedding  present  to  the  King 
and  Queen  of  Greece  of  the  Emperor 
and  Empress  of  .Russia,  the  King  and 
Queen  of  Denmark,  the  Prince  and 
Princess  of  Wales,  and  the  Duke  and 
Duchess  of  Cumberland  was  a  dinner 
service  for  sixty-eight  persons,  in  solid 
silver,  inlaid  with  gold  arabesques,  each 
piece  bearing  the  monograms  of  King 
George  and  Queen  Olga.  This  service 
has  been  manufactured  at  Copenhagen, 
from  designs  by  a  well-known  Danish 
artist. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYDNEY, 
DIRECT. 

S.  S   Mariposa. .  .Friday,  November  11,  at  2  p.  m. 

For  Honolulu  Only.  , 

S.  S.  Australia Wednesday,  Oct.  26, 1892, 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Wednesday,  November  16,  1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan.  4, 1H98 
Gaelic  (via  Honolulu)  Tuesday,  Oct.  25,  1892 

ROUND  TRIP  TIOKET8  AT   REDUCED  RATES 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets.  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 
GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  D0N«HUE  BROAD-GAUGE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  Sau  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  a.  m.,  9:20  a.  m.,   11:20  A.  M.; 

1:30  p.  M.,  8:30  p.  M.,6:05  p.  M.,  6:20  P.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  a.m.,  9:30  A.M.,  11:00  a.m.;  1:30  p.m. 
3:80  p.  M.,  5:00  p.  m.,  6:15  p.  m. 

From  San  Rafael  lor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  A.    M.,  7:55   A.   M.,  9:30   A.  M. 

11:30  a.m.;  1:40  p.m.,  3:40  p.m.,  5:05  p.m. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  a.m.,  11:10  a.m.;  1:40  p.m. 
3:40  p.  m.,  5:00p  m.,  6:25  p.  M. 

From  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M.,  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  m.  ;  2:05  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  P.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6 :55  p .  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:85   A.M.,    10:05  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  p.  m.,  4:05p.m.,  5:30 p.m.,  6:60  p.m. 


Leave  S.F. 

Destination. 

ARBIVEINS.FT 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40  A.M. 
3:30  P.M. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00  A.M. 
9:30  A.M. 
5:00p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:40a. M  8:60A.M. 
6;05p.m  10:30  a.m 
7:25  p.m  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a. M 
6:10p.m 

7:40a.m. 

8:00  a.  M. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40  a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00  A.M. 

Guerneville. 

7:25p.m. 

10:80a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00A.M. 
5:00p.  m. 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6:06p.m. 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  a.  M 
3:30  p.M 

8:00A.  M 
5:00  P.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40A.H 
!    6:05p.M 

10:80  am 
6:10  p.m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springe,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  "Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  LakeB,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To  Petaluma,  $1  60;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75:  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1 80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1 ;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25 ;  to  Cloverdale,  $3 ;  to  Ukiah,  $450;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.—  "City  of  New  York,"  No- 
vember 15th;  S.  S.  San  Bias,"  November  25th,  1892. 
"City  of  Sydney,"  December  5,  1892. 

Way-Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Wag  Line  Sailing.— Nov.  18th,  S.  S.  "Acapulco." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  S  p.  M. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th,  at  8  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"  Saturday,  January 
14th,  1893,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


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SAN  FHANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.   12,  1892. 


THE  last  event  of  the  autumn  season,  or  shall  it  be  called  the 
first  one  of  the  winter  season,  will  be  the  tea  at  the  Ingleside 
this  afternoon,  and  every  possible  preparation  bas  been  made  to 
insure  a  charming  affair.  It  now  remains  to  be  seen  whether 
the  idea  will  be  a  success,  for  opinion  seems  to  be  about  equally 
divided  on  this  head.  Novelty  goes  a  long  way  to  insure  that  re- 
sult, but  because  the  first  one  will  attract  the  curious  it  does  not 
follow  that  the  succeeding  teas  will  be  equally  well  attended. 

St.  Mary's  Cathedral  has  been  the  scene  of  several  large  wed- 
ding parties  recently.  Probably  the  largest  one  ever  seen  within 
its  doors  was  gathered  to  witness  the  marriage  of  Miss  Lolita 
Monteverde  and  Dr.  Grant  Selfridge  last  week.  The  usual  hand- 
some decorations  on  and  around  the  altar  were  augmented  by  an 
artistic  arrangement  of  foliage,  La  France  roses  and  other  blos- 
soms, and  with  its  myriad  of  blazing  lights  the  scene  was  a  most 
brilliant  one.  The  ushers,  composed  of  the  flower  of  our  youth- 
ful society  beaux,  had  a  by  no  means  easy  task  seating  the  num- 
erous guests,  and  they,  at  least,  must  have  felt  relieved  when  the 
bridal  party  was  reported  to  be  at  the  doors.  The  notes  of  the 
Lohengren  Chorus  announced  their  coming  to  the  waiting  guests, 
the  procession  being  led  by  Allen  Bowie,  Milton  Latham,  Sam 
Knight,  James  Archibald,  Frank  Archibald,  Frank  Owen  and 
Harry  Wadsworth.  A  very  pretty  bevy  of  bridesmaids  then  ap- 
peared, gowned  in  crepe  de  chine  trimmed  with  chitfon,  and  carry- 
ing bouquets  of  violets.  They  were  the  Misses  Meta  Thompson, 
Lottie  Hine,  Edna  Robinson,  May  Reis,  Lillian  Reis  and  Miss 
Geohagan  of  San  Jose.  To  them  succeeded  the  lovely  maid  of 
honor,  Miss  Georgie  Masten,  whose  costume  was  of  white  faille 
Francaise  trimmed  with  white  fur,  with  a  hand  bouquet  of  Perle 
du  Jardin  roses.  Then  came  the  bride,  a  handsome  blonde,  who 
looked  charmingly  in  her  wedding  robe  of  white  India  crepe  made 
with  a  court  train  and  trimmed  with  point  lace  and  lillies  of  the 
valley.  Last  of  all  were  two  pretty  little  maidens,  the  Misses 
Murphy,  in  Directoire  gowns  of  white  India  silk,  carrying  baskets 
of  orange  blossoms.  The  groom  and  his  best  man,  George  James, 
met  the  party  at  the  sanctuary,  and  the  Rev.  Father  Prendegast 
speedily  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  A  small  reception  at  the  Monte- 
verde residence  on  Sutter  street  followed  the  ceremony.  The 
rooms  were  exquisitely  adorned  with  flowers  and  foliage  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  John  Housman;  the  season's  blossoms,  the 
stately  chrysanthemum,  predominating.  Then  came  a  delicious 
supper,  and  on  Fri.lay  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Selfridge  departed  for  a  honey- 
moon trip  to  Coronado,  and  upon  their  return  in  a  couple  of  weeks 
will  be  at  the  Palace  Hotel  for  a  while,  though  Oakland  will  be 
their  future  place  of  residence. 


About  three  hundred  ladies  and  probably  a  dozen  men  were 
assembled  in  St.  Mary's  Cathedral  on  Wednesday  at  noon,  to  see 
the  ceremony  which  converted  Miss  Belle  Garrett  into  Mrs.  O.  C. 
Goodspeed.  There  was  no  attempt  made  at  decoration  of  any 
kind,  even  the  grand  altar  was  destitute  of  its  usual  floral  adorn- 
ments; but  it  was  a  very  pretty  bridal  party  that  entered  the 
church  to  the  strains  of  the  Lohengren  chorus.  The  bridesmaids 
and  groomsmen,  arm  in  arm,  came  first,  all  young  and  good-look- 
ing; then  the  maid-of-honor,  after  whom  the  bride  followed, 
leaning  npon  the  arm  of  her  father.  The  groom  and  his  best  man 
awaited  them  inside  the  sanctuary  rails  with  Father  Montgom- 
ery, who  performed  the  marriage  service.  The  pretty  brunette 
bride  wore  a  gown  of  ashes  of  roses  corduroy,  and  a  large  white 
hat  trimmed  with  ostrich  plumes.  The  maid-of-honor  and  the 
bridesmaids  also  wore  walking  costume  of  purple,  6cru,  rose-pink 
and  grey,  respectively;  the  gentlemen  were  all  in  evening  dress. 


Nest  week  will  be  well  filled  with  enjoyable  entertainments, 
including  the  "  Living  Game  of  Whist,"  which  all  are  on  the  tip- 
toe of  cariosity  to  see,  to  be  played  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on 
Thursday  evening;  Baroness  Meta,  to  be  sung  at  the  same  theatre 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Woman's  Exchange  on  Friday  evening;  and 
on  Saturday  afternoon  Harvard  and  Yale  will  again  compete  for 
the  supremacy  at  baseball  at  Central  Park,  several  charities  be- 
ing the  beneficiaries  of  their  contest.  The  first  of  the  ballad  con- 
certs now  being  arranged  by  Alfred  Wilkie  will  be  among  the 
pleasures  of  the  following  week,  and  will  take  place  in  the 
Maple  room  of  the  Palace  Hotel. 


The  army  ladies  are  doing  a  large  share  of  entertaining  this 
autumn.  Mrs.  C.  J.  Wilson  was  the  hostess  of  another  charm- 
ing lunch ,  at  her  Sacramento  street  residence,  last  week,  the  guest 
of  honor  being  Miss  Jennie  Catherword,  to  meet  whom  a  number 
of  young  ladies  were  invited.  And  on  Friday  Mrs.  William 
Kneedler  gave  a  lunch  to  several  married  ladies,  at  her  pretty 
quarters  at  Fort  Mason.  Mrs.  A.  E.  Wood  is  entertaining  her 
father  and  mother,  the  Rev.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Mansfield,  at  the  Pre- 
sidio, and  who  will  remain  with  her  during  November.  Captain 
Wood  has  just  been  relieved  from  duty  at  his  summer  camp  at 
Sequoia  Park. 


The  participants  in  the  game  of  "Living  Whist"  will  be  as 
follows:  Six  of  hearts — trumps.  Player3,  A — Dr.  E.  H.  Fisher, 
B — Dr.  T.  L.  Hill,  Y — Georges  8.  Mearns,  Z— James  Goeway, 
Cards — Hattie  C.  Loring,  ace  diamonds;  F.  D.  P.  Theller,  jack 
diamonds;  Helen  Crocker,  ten  diamonds;  Blanche  Baldwin,  eight 
diamonds;  tSmma  Fraser,  four  hearts;  Abbie  Edwards,  three 
hearts;  Lillie  Dean,  two  hearts;  Helen  Nickerson,  four  spades; 
Miss  H.  C.  Jackson,  ten  spades ;  H.  E.  Plummer,  jack  spades  ; 
L.  C.  Kelton,  king  spades;  Kate  Paddock,  queen  clubs;  Frank  P. 
Langdon,  nine  clubs;  Bertha  Behlow,  ace  spades;  Mrs.  W.  L. 
Campbell,  eight  spades;  Lizzie  Jackson,  six  spades;  W.  L.  Camp- 
bell, five  spades;  Mabel  Love,  queen  hearts;  B.  D.  Dean,  king 
hearts;  Agnes  Sadlar,  eight  hearts;  W.  S.  Hilderbrand,  nine 
hearts;  John  A.  Shepard,  seven  clubs;  Gertrude  Peck,  four  clubs; 
Helen  Andros,  ten  clubs;  Dora  Medau,  ace  clubs;  F.  R.  Cook, 
seven  diamonds;  Edward  S.  Peck,  jack  clubs;  Sewell  Dolliver, 
six  clubs;  J.  H.  New  kirk,  five  clubs;  F.  M.  Martin,  seven  spades; 
Dr,  Prosser,  three  spades;  Florence  Warden,  two  shades;  Emma 
Fisher,  four  diamonds;  -Madaline  McKissick,  two  diamonds; 
Helen  Cohen,  queen  diamonds;  Orlo  Eastwood,  ten  hearts;  W. 
J.  L.  Kiereff,  jack  hearts;  Miss  B.  C.  Sbepard,  ace  hearts;  R.  A. 
Harrison,  king  clubs;  Ralph  Hoitt,  eight  hearts;  James  Dean, 
three  clubs;  Annie  Searles,  two  clubs;  Mrs.  F.  R.  Cook,  queen 
spades;  Mrs,  E.  H.  Parri^b,  nine  spades;  E.  H.  Parrish,  seven 
hearts;  C.  F.  Sage,  six  hearts;  W.  G.  Kalish,  five  hearts;  James 
Hobbs.  five  diamonds;  Leonard  Everett,  six  diamonds;  Walter 
Von  Bergen,  nine  diamonds;  Redick  McKee  Duperu,  king  dia- 
monds. 


The  much  discussed  wedding  of  Miss  Julia  Bissell  came  off  on 
Wednesday  at  noon  at  the  Hotel  Pleasanton,  where  the  bride's 
mother  resides.  The  suite  of  rooms  occupied  by  her  were  very 
tastefully  ornamented  with  flowers  and  ferns,  the  green  foliage 
predominating.  A  space  had  been  reserved  for  special  decoration, 
and  here  the  marriage  ceremony  was  performed,  a  fur  covered 
stool  serving  as  a  kneeling  bench,  upon  which  the  happy  pair 
knelt  to  receive  the  nuptial  blessing  bestowed  by  Rector  Davis, 
of  St.  Luke's  Church,  who  married  them.  The  bridal  party  was 
a  small  one,  consisting  of  the  bride's  sisters,  Misses  Therese  and 
Elise  Bissell,  who  attended  as  bridesmaids,  and  little  Edith 
Marshall  and  Josie  Bissell,  who  appeared  as  flower  bearers.  The 
groom's  best  man  and  only  attendant  was  Mr.  James  Brett  Stokes, 
his  intimate  friend.  Mr.  Louis  Marshall  gave  the  bride  into  Mr. 
Pilchard's  keeping  very  gracefully.  A  white  cloth  gown,  which 
came  from  London  for  the  happy  event,  was  worn  by  the  bride, 
and  made  a  very  effective  costume,  combined  with  the  large  hat 
and  white  feathers.  The  pretty  maids  were  robed  alike  in  white 
crepon  with  trimmings  of  ribbon,  blue  for  one  and  pink  for  the 
other.  The  wedding  dinner  was  served  at  the  conclusion  of  the 
congratulations  of  those  present,  and  was  confined  to  the  bridal 
party  and  relatives,  with  the  exception  of  the  life-long  friend, 
Mrs.  M.  B.  M.  Toland,  who  presented  the  bride  with  an  elegantly 
bound  copy  of  her  pictorial  Indian  tale.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pilcher 
left  on  the  evening's  Northern  express  for  Vancouver,  intending 
to  take  the  steamer  from  there  to  Japan,  and  then  proceed  on 
their  tour  around  the  world. 


In  view  of  the  big  charity  baseball  game,  Harvard  vs.  Yale,  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Hahneman  Hospital,  the  Doctors'  Daughters 
and  Maria  Kip  Orphanage,  which  is  to  take  place  at  Central  Park 
Saturday  afternoon,  November  19th,  Sigmund  Beel  has  concluded 
to  postpone  the  '<  pop"  announced  for  that  date  to  Saturday  af- 
ternoon, November  26th.  The  Kruetza  Sonata,  the  Godard  trio 
and  Flute  and  String  trio,  having  received  the  largest  number  of 
votes,  it  will  be  given  at  the  next  concert.  Donald  de  V.  Gra- 
ham, by  General  desire,  will  sing  Beethoven's  "  Adelaide"  and 
the  Kreutza  Sonata  in  its  entirety.  This  will  be  the  last  "  pop" 
this  year.  The  season  will  be  continued  January  7th,  January 
21st  and  February  4th. 


Mrs.  John  R.  Jarboe  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Kate,  opened  the 
doors  of  their  cosy  Pine  street  residence  last  Saturday,  and 
entertained  their  friends  at  a  tea.  The  rooms  were  prettily  deco- 
rated and  well  filled  with  guests — indeed,  so  pleasant  was  the 
interior,  that  it  was  with  great  reluctance  the  house  was  quitted, 
to  plunge  into  the  most  dense  and  disagreeable  fog  the  season 
has  yet  given  us,  and  made  the  scene  left  behind  appear  doubly 
attractive  to  their  friends,  by  way  of  contrast.  Music  also  added 
its  charms,  and  delicious  refreshments  were  served  during  the 
afternoon. 

Mrs.  David  Bixler  who  is  one  of  the  most  lavish  entertainers  of 
the  Western  Addition,  has  come  back  from  her  recent  tour  of 
Europe  with  a  number  of  rare  objects  of  art  culled  during  her 
travels  for  the  purpose  of  still  further  beautifying  her  charming 
home  which  she  intends  to  throw  open  to  her  friends  on  numerous 
occasions  daring  the  winter  months.  Her  sister,  Miss  Hyde,  who 
accompanied  her  abroad,  remained  in  Paris  where  she  will  pass 
the  winter.  Mrs.  Bixler's  reception  days  are  the  same  as  of  old, 
the  second  and  fourth  Fridays  of  the  month. 

The  fall  field  day  of  the  Olympic  Club  will  be  held  at  the  club's 
grounds  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  the  24th  inst.,  commencing  at  1:30 
p.  M.    The  programme  includes  runs,  jumps,  walks  aud  vaults. 


Nov.  12, 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  l.KTTER. 


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The  Mfimer  party  Riven  bj  Oolontl  SonnUg,  last  Saturday, 
was  one  of  those  enjoyable  water  frolics  that  are  rare  enough  to 
n.ake  them  doubly  appreciated  wbeo  they  occur.  The  motif  for 
the  party  was  the  launch  of  the  OtfmpUt,  but  that  by  no  means 
ended  the  pleasure  of  the  day.  for.  the  launch  successfully  ac- 
complished, a  cruise  round  the  bay  followed,  with  visits  at  some 
of  the  army  posts,  and  the  enjoyment  finally  culminated  with 
Ibe  delicious  lunch  which  was  served  and  done  ample  justice  to, 
the  sea  air  having  given  all  bands  famous  appetites. 


A  notable  banquet  of  the  week  was  the  dinner  given  on  Mon- 
day evening,  in  the  Maple  Room  of  the  Palace  Hotel,  by  the  Chit- 
Chat  Club,  it  being  their  eighteenth  annual  meeting  around  the 
social  board.  In  additiou  to  the  members  a  large  number  of 
guests  were  entertained,  and  speeches  on  religion,  literature,  sci- 
ences, social  problems,  etc.,  were  made,  a  musical  auartette  fur- 
nishing some  pleasing  selections,  finishing  with  "Auld  Lang 
Syne,"  in  which  all  present  joined. 


Mrs.  B.  J.  Bowen  and  her  daughter.  Miss  May  Bowen,  who 
have  bad  a  delightful  trip  abroad,  will  be  at  home  to  their 
friends  on  Fridays,  at  2018  Franklin  street.  Mrs.  J.  Parker  Currier's 
day  in  her  new  residence,  northwest  corner  of  California  and  De- 
visadero  streets,  are  the  first  and  third  Fridays.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sig. 
Stern,  who  are  at  tne  Palace,  will  receive  on  Mondays,  and  there, 
too.  will  be  found  another  recent  bride,  Mrs.  Sanford  Taylor,  who 
will  also  be  »  at  home''  on  Mondays. 


Those  inseparable  friends,  Mrs.  Stanley  and  Miss  Garber,  are  at 
the  Palace  Hotel  this  season,  where  they  will  receive  on  Mon- 
days. Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCutchen  and  their  daughter,  Alice,  are 
among  the  latest  additions  to  the  guests  at  the  Hotel  Kichelieu, 
where  they  will  spend  the  winter.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Appel,  nee 
Levy,  are  at  the  Berkshire.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  A.  Donahoe,  Jr.,  are 
in  town  for  the  season. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Huntington  left  for  Mexico  last  week  where 
they  will  make  a  brief  stay.  From  tbere  Mrs.  Huntington  will  go 
direct  to  Europe,  and  intends  to  spend  the  coming  winter  in 
Spain,  chiefly  at  Madrid.  Her  present  purpose  is  to  accompany 
Mr.  Huntington  when  he  returns  to  San  Francisco  early  in  the 
spring,  when  she  will  make  a  longer  stay  in  California. 


Mrs.  M.  M.  Tompkins  will  break  through  her  long  established 
rule  of  remaining  the  whole  year  round  at  her  lonely  home  in 
Ross  Valley,  and  will  pass  the  winter  season  this  year  among  her 
friends  in  San  Francisco.  She  will  be  the  guest  of  her  widowed 
mother,  Mrs.  Samuel  Hart  at  her  residence  on  Jackson  street  for 
the  ensuing  three  months  or  more. 


Among  the  pleasures  that  society  has  to  look  forward  to  is  the 
grand  ball  given  by  the  San  Francisco  Verein,  at  their  club  rooms 
on  New  Year's  Eve,  which  will  be  on  a  very  elaborate  scale.  The 
"Night  in  Venice"  entertainment  projected  by  the  Concordia 
Club,  has  been  for  the  present  postponed. 

The  Misses  Hoge,  daughters  of  the  late  J.  P.  Hoge,  are  settled 
for  the  winter  with  their  sister,  Mrs.  Tyler,  on  California  street, 
and  will  receive  on  Wednesdays  in  January.  Colonel  and  Mrs. 
Shafter  have  been  entertaining  their  daughter,  Mrs.  McKittrick, 
during  the  past  ten  days,  at  Angel  Island. 

Among  the  chanty  affairs  of  this  week  was  the  tea  given  by 
Mrs.  W.  E.  8haron  at  her  residence  on  Franklin  street,  in  Oak- 
land, laBt  Wednesday.  The  proceeds  were  for  the  new  home  of 
the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association,  and  it  was  a  very 
pleasant  gathering. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emile  Brugiere  will  be  among  society's  losses  this 
season,  as  they  left  for  Europe  last  Sunday,  for  an  absence  which 
will  extend  well  into  the  new  year.  _  Mrs.  Ashe  and  Miss  Millie 
expect  to  depart  for  Washington  City  on  Saturday  next. 

Mrs.  and  Miss  Head  were  among  the  passengers  by  the  America 
which  arrived  in  New  York  last  Monday,  and  San  Francisco 
society  will  have  the  pleasure  of  welcoming  them  ere  long.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  A.  P.  Hotaling  have  arrived  from  New  York. 

Rev.  R.  C.  Foute  returned  last  week  from  Baltimore,  where  he 
went  to  attend  the  Episcopal  Convention,  recently  in  session 
there.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Follis  and  Miss  Follis  have  returned 
to  town  from  their  summer  cottage  at  San  Rafael. 

We  are  to  have  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Hill  with  us  this  winter, 
which  is  pleasant  news  for  Mrs.  Hill's  many  friends  with  whom 
she  is  very  popular,  and  by  whom  she  has  been  much  missed 
during  her  long  absence  the  other  side  of  the  continent. 

The  University  Club  was  the  locale  of  a  stag  dinner  on  Mon- 
day evening,  when  Professor  Robert  N.  Coleman  played  the  host 
to  a  dozen  or  more  of  his  friends. 

Senator  and  Mrs.  Jones  sailed  from  New  York  for  Europe 
last  week.  This  is  Mrs.  Jones'  first  visit  to  the  Old  World  since 
her  marriage. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  S.  Crocker  arrived  last  Monday  after  having 
spent  a  greater  part  of  the  year  traveling  in  Europe. 


SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 


PHARMACY 


111  Grant  Ave. 


FRANCAIS. 

Telephone  1380 


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Plnaud'a  B  ounce  bottles.  18,60:  regular  size  reduced  from  *1.25  to  85 
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Every  lady  knows  that  exclusivencss  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as 
in  dress. 


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Crane's  Distaff,  Crane's  kid  finish,  and  Kurd's 
Royal  Purple,  are  groups  of  perfection  in  note 
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COPPER  plots,  ook  pn^T  ^T 
wplh.m;  cams,  <£^J  rUO  I    Ol, 

The  graduating  exercises  of  the  Department  of  Pharmacy  of 
the  State  University  were  held  on  Thursday  evening,  in  Odd  Fel- 
lows' Hall.  The  class  was  the  largest  and  held  the  highest  per- 
centage in  the  history  of  the  college.  The  degrees  were  con- 
ferred by  Professor  Kellogg,  who,  in  doing  so,  made  a  very  happy 
address. 

The  football  game  between  the  Olympics  and  the  University  at 
Central  Park  this  afternoon  will  be  given  under  the  patronage  of 
Mrs.  Ben  Morgan  of  Berkeley,  to  whom  the  proceeds  have  been 
promised  for  the  benefit  of  the  Surgical  Ward  Fund  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Hospital  of  San  Francisco. 

The  second  concert  of  the  Polyphonic  Club  will  be  held  on  Wednes- 
day evening,  the  lGth  inst.,  in  Metropolitan  Hall.  A  charming  pro- 
gramme will  be  presented,  including  for  the  first  time  in  this  city,  a 
presentation  of  Massenet'  "  Narcissus,"  an  idyl  for  tenor  and  chorus. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  W.  Goggin  have  returned  from  Shamrock 
Lodge,  Belvedere,  to  their  city  residence,  1913  Van  Ness  avenue, 
for  the  winter  months;  at  home  Fridays. 

The  next  club  talk  of  the  California  Camera  Club  will  take  place 
at  its  rooms  on  the  evening  of  the  15th  inst. 


AMONG  the  most  acceptable  presents  to  a  young  lady  are  one 
of  the  handsome  little  articles  in  silver  mounted  leather,  which 
are  now  the  proper  fad  in  society.  There  are  pocket-books, 
purses,  card  cases,  stamp  receivers,  sticking  plaster  recepacles, 
and  any  number  of  similar  articles.  The  collection  at  Sanborn, 
Vail  &  Co. 's  at  741  Market  street  embraces  everything  in  that 
line.  The  elegant  stationery  of  that  firm  is  also  worthy  of  more 
than  ordinary  attention.  They  show  all  the  finest  papers  from 
the  most  famous  manufactories  of  the  world,  and  in  addition 
have  a  large  assortment  of  handsome  articles  such  as  inkstands, 
penholders,  blotting  pads,  paper  cutter,  sealing  wax  outfits,  etc., 
which  are  in  constant  use  by  correspondents.  The  beautifully 
framed  pictures  to  be  seen  in  this  store  arouses  the  admiration  of 
all  its  visitors.  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  make  all  their  own  frames 
from  designs  drawn  by  their  own  artist. 


PERCY  L.  DAVIS  &  CO.,  of  110  Montgomery  street,  announce 
a  very  interesting  sale  for  next  Monday.  They  will  then  put 
on  sale  in  their  rooms  a  magnificent  collection  of  Japanese  curios, 
valued  at  fully  $100,000.  This  fine  stock,  which  came  direct  from 
Japan,  includes  fine  Satsuma  ware,  lacquered  ware,  fans,  swords, 
and  all  kinds  of  novelties  from  the  land  of  the  little  brown  men. 
An  illuminated  exhibition  of  the  goods  to  be  sold  will  be  given 
to-day,  when  all  ladies  who  attend  will  be  presented  with  beauti- 
ful souvenirs.  The  sale  will  doubtless  be  largely  attended,  as 
nothing  can  be  made  more  acceptable  as  Christmas  presents  than 
some  of  these  beautiful  goods.  During  Monday's  sale,  ladies 
will  be  served  with  tea  by  pretty  little  Japanese  maids,  dressed 
in  their  native  costume. 

^PRICE'S 


Powder 


The  only  Pure  Cream  of  tartar  Powder. — No  ammonia;   No  Alum. 
Used   in   Millions   of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard 


32 


SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.    12,  1892. 


MR.  LABOUCHERE'S  political  methods,  if  not  sound,  are  at 
least  simple.  He  proposes  to  alleviate  the  agricultural  dis- 
tress in  England  by  taking  away  from  the  great  landed  proprietors 
all  the  unoccupied  land,  making  it  the  property  of  the  different 
parishes,  which  then  would  be  able  to  let  it  to  small  tenants.  Mr. 
Laboucbere  is  not  yet  quite  advanced  enough  in  communism  to 
favor  annexation  pure  and  simple.  He  says  the  parishes  ought 
to  pay  to  the  landed  proprietors  for  the  forcibly  annexed  land  "  a 
fair  price " — whatever  that  may  mean — and  the  land-owners 
should  simply  be  coerced  to  sell  at  that  price.  Wbat  Mr.  Labou- 
cbere considers  "fair"  may  be  guessed  from  his  very  proposal; 
but,  fortunately,  the  member  from  Northampton  is  not  in  a  posi- 
tion to  do  much  barm,  since  his  political  activity  has  remained, 
and  probably  always  will  remain  theoretical  merely,  and  the 
small  number  of  his  followers  is  feared  by  nobody  except,  per- 
haps, by  Mr.  Gladstone,  who  needs  them  to  maintain  his  precari- 
ous majority. 

It  is  not  at  all  likely  that  Mr.  Gladstone,  however  much  he 
would  like  to  please  the  Irish,  will  yield  to  their  demand,  sup- 
ported, it  is  stated,  by  Mr.  Harrison's  cabinet,  to  release  Dr.  Gal- 
lagher and  the  other  Irish  dynamite  fiends.  Public  opinion  in 
England  is  such  that  an  attempt  of  that  kind  would  arouse  general 
indignation  among  the  peaceful  citizens  of  the  country.  And  as 
far  as  American  opinion  is  concerned,  Mr.  Gladstone  would  easily 
recognize,  were  he  to  study  American  politics  from  reliable 
sources,  that  our  good  people  have  no  sympathy  with  persons 
who  commit  dynamite  outrages  to  whatever  nationality  they  be- 
long. The  fate  of  the  Chicago  anarchists  and  the  approval  with 
which  their  punishment  met  all  over  the  United  States,  clearly  in- 
dicated the  tenor  of  public  opinion  amongst  us  as  regards  dastardly 
crimes.  Mr.  Gladstone  will  err  greatly  if  he  relies  for  his  opinion 
on  the  American  view  of  the  Irish  question  upon  Mr.  Chauncey 
Depew's  talk  when  the  latter  is  on  a  visit  to  England — and  which, 
by  the  way,  rarely  tallies  with  his  speeches  for  home  consump- 
tion. And  the  British  Prime  Minister,  as  regards  the  appeal  from 
Washington,  ought  to  remember  that  amongst  us  also  there  are 
politicians  who,  just  before  election  time,  do  many  things  which 
they  would  not  do  otherwise  in  order  to  conciliate  the  Irish  voters. 

Sir  Julian  Pauncefote,  the  British  Minister  to  the  United  States, 
has  wisely  postponed  his  arrival  In  Washington  until  now,  that 
the  election  is  over.  Lord  Sackville  West  had  a  rather  disagreea- 
ble experience  among  us  during  the  last  election,  when  he  at- 
tempted to  meddle  with  our  home  affairs,  and  Sir  Julian  thought 
it  wiser  to  keep  away  from  temptation,  since  especially  dur- 
ing the  present  election,  it  would  have  been  difficult  for  even  the 
most  discreet  Englishman  to  abstain  from  saying  a  few  words 
about  the  McKinley  bill,  which  so  closely  affects  Great  Britain's 
interests.  Any  such  utterances,  however,  might  have  led  to  a 
repetition  of  the  Sackville  West  unpleasantness,  and  British  Min- 
isters cannot  be  blamed  if  henceforth  they  remain  away  from 
their  post  at  Washington  until  the  election  is  over. 

The  anti-Gladstone  demonstration  at  the  recent  meeting  of  the 
North  of  England  Liberal  Association  is  a  significant  sign  of  the 
trend  of  public  opinion  in  England  at  present.  The  Liberals  have 
recognized  the  meaning  of  the  late  Conservative  victories  in  the 
bye-elections,  and  are  alarmed  at  the  unpopularity  into  which 
Mr.  Gladstone  has  brought  the  Liberal  party  with  the  general 
English  public.  If  the  British  Premier  heeds  the  development  of 
public  opinion,  his  Home  Rule  bill  will  be  drafted  in  a  manner 
showing  that  he  has  not  entirely  forgotten,  over  his  Irish  sympa- 
thies, his  duties  as  a  British  statesman.  In  that  case  his  bill,  no 
doubt,  will  be  opposed  by  the  Irish  members,  but  since  it  has  to 
be  defeated  in  any  case,  it  would  be  better  for  Mr.  Gladstone's 
reputation  if  it  should  prove  to  be  at  least  a  document  which 
does  not  stamp  him  as  a  politician  ready  to  betray  his  country 
for  a  part  of  Great  Britain  which  he  himself  calls  a  foreign 
nation. 

Prince  Bismarck  criticizes  severely  the  paragraph  in  the  new 
German  Army  bill  which  incorrectly  is  called  the  two  years'  ser- 
vice clause.  He  says  that  tfc^  announcement  that  the  third  year 
of  service  would  only  be  maintained  as  a  punishment,  would  de- 
stroy all  respect  for  the  third-year  plan.  This  criticism  is  very 
just,  and  it  also  proves  that  the  ex-Chancellor  recognizes  that, 
after  all,  the  "third-year  plan"  is  to  be  maintained  in  the  bill, 
and  that  the  clause  makes  practically  no  change,  except  in  so  far 
as  it  substitutes  a  punishment  for  inefficiency  in  place  of  a  re- 
ward for  efficiency.  Everybody  will  agree  that  in  a  country 
where,  above  all,  the  soldier  is  taught  to  consider  his  service  as 
an  honorable  occupation,  a  reward  is  sure  to  prove  a  better  and 
more  appropriate  incentive  than  the  fear  of  punishment,  and  it 
is  a  pity  that  in  order  to  maintain   Caprivi  in  office,  the  Emperor 


was  obliged  to  leave  a  so-called  two  years'  clause  in  the  bill, 
which  actually  effects  no  alteration  in  the  system,  but  is  still 
effective  enough  to  do  harm  indirectly. 

Information  received  from  Suakim  announces  that  Osman 
Digma,  the  famous  tribal  leader,  has  reappeared  in  the  Soudan, 
and  is  molesting,  as  usual,  those  Soudanese  who  are  loyal  to  the 
present  Egyptian  government.  Osman  Digma  has  been  reported 
dead  more  than  a  dozen  times  during  the  last  ten  years,  but  al- 
ways a  few  months  after  his  alleged  funeral  he  has  reappeared  se- 
renely amongst  the  living,  and  rarely  without  proving  that  he  is 
very  much  alive  indeed.  The  dry  and  warm  season  in  the  Soudan 
appears  in  October,  after  the  long  rainy  period  of  the  year,  and 
nearly  every  year  at  this  time  the  Soudanese  rebel-leaders  resume 
their  campaign.  Osman  Digma's  attacks  are  usually  directed 
against  the  tribes  near  Suakim,  who,  according  to  recent  dis- 
patches, have  again  been  put  to  flight  by  the  daring  chieftain, 
whose  victories  recall  vividly  to  mind  the  time  when  the  present 
Premier  of  England  held  office  before,  and  when  he  committed 
those  serious  blunders  in  England  which  induced  the  London  wits 
to  advise  Mr.  Gladstone  to  retire  to  the  House  of  Lords  with  the 
title  of  "  Earl  of  Kill-Gordon." 

The  report  that  Mr.  Vanden  Kerkhoeve.  an  officer  of  the  Congo 
Free  State,  accompanied  by  a  force  of  several  thousand  men,  has 
arrived  at  or  near  Wadelai  in  Emin  Pasha's  former  province  in 
Central  Africa,  may  prove  correct;  the  statement,  however,  that 
he  intends  occupying  a  large  territory  on  the  Upper  Kile,  now 
under  British  control,  or  rather,  situated  in  what  is  called  the 
British  sphere  of  influence,  ought  to  be  received  with  discretion. 
The  fact  is  that  the  Congo  Free  Slate  some  time  ago  made  pro- 
posals at  the  British  Foreign  Office  asking  England's  consent  for 
the  extension  of  the  Congo  State  as  far  East  as  the  shores  of  the 
Albert  Nyanza,  and  having  the  Nile  as  frontier  as  far  as  Lado. 
Lord  Salisbury's  government,  however,  refused  to  consider  this 
proposal.  It  was  known  even  then  that  if  Mr.  Gladstone  should 
be  re-elected  to  office,  the  attitude  of  the  British  government  might 
change,  and  that  Great  Britain  under  a  liberal  government  might 
be  ready  to  abandon  Uganda,  Wadslai  and  all  the  country  which 
connects  the  Upper  Nile  with  the  African  Lake  District.  When 
Mr.  Vanden  Kerkhoeve  started  on  his  expedition  eighteen  months 
ago  he  may  have  counted  upon  such  an  emergency  and  made 
preparations  accordingly.  Matters,  however,  to  the  disappoint- 
ment of  the  British  Radicals,  have  not  changed  as  far  as  England's 
policy  in  Central  Africa  is  concerned.  Thanks  to  Lord  Rosebery's 
firm  attitude  Ugan  la  and  the  neighboring  districts  will  not  be 
abandoned  by  Great  Britain,  and  it  is  doubtful  whether  even  Mr. 
Gladstone  ever  seriously  contemplated  such  a  step,  though  for 
policy's  sake  he  led  his  Radical  supporters  to  believe  that  he  had 
such  an  intention.  However  that  may  be,  when  Mr.  Vanden 
Kerkhoeve  receives  the  latest  home  news  he  will  recognize  that 
Great  Britain  intends  to  say  to  the  Congo  Free  State:  "  Hands  off." 

Col  >nel  Dodd,  having  received  his  needed  re-inforcements,  is 
now  better  able  to  lead  his  campaign  in  Dahomey  to  a  success- 
ful conclusion  as  far  as  the  defeating  of  King  Behanzin's  troops 
are  concerned,  but  wbat  France  is  ultimately  to  gain  by  such  a 
defeat  is  difficult  to  tell,  for  a  permanent  occupation  of  the  coun- 
try would  be  of  no  practical  advantage  whatever  to  France,  and 
woold  not  only  cause  great  expenditure  but  continual  loss  of  life, 
and  add  a  second  Tonqnin  to  the  French  colonies. 

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HOW  fortunate  that  President    Harrison   signed  the   Thanks- 
giving  proclamation  November  4th.     It  would  have  been  a 
terrible  strain  on  him  after  November  8th. 


THAT  truthful  and  accurate  journal,  the  Call,  referred  the  other 
day  to  a  reception  given  to  Hon.  Frank.  Egan,  United  States 
Minister  to  Chili.  What  became  of  the  Hon.  Patrick  of  that  ilk. 
who  was  once  in  Chili?  Was  he  lost  under  the  pile  of  slain  on 
the  political  battlefield? 


IT  is  the  duty  of  the  Superintendent  of  Streets  to  cause  the  re- 
moval from  the  public  streets  and  sidewalks  of  the  election 
booths  which  now  obstruct  the  thoroughfares.  They  have  served 
their  purpose,  and  now  have  become  public  nuisances.  They 
should  be  removed  at  once. 


(("]WTODERATION  is  wise  in  all  things,"  says  a  Republican 
jLVJL  paper,  which  then  states  that  the  Republicans  have  de- 
termined to  abandon  the  McKinley  bill.  This  is  just  as  wise  an 
act  as  that  of  a  man  who  takes  to  the  sea  rather  than  go  down 
with  a  sinking  ship. 


LAROUCHERE  has  exposed  another  fraudulent  scientific  so- 
ciety, each  fellow  of  which  was  entitled  to  wear  a  hood  of 
black  silk  lined  with  mauve.  The  organizers  of  this  fraud  will 
now  be  entitled  to  wear  costumes  of  grey  flannel,  decorated  with 
black  cross  bars;  ornaments,  a  ball  and  chain. 


THE  Guthrie  minister  who  publicly  prayed  that  Providence 
would  guide  him  so  that  he  might  vote  properly  on  election 
day,  and  who  then  voted  for  Harrison  instead  of  Cleveland,  his 
choice,  has  missed  his  calling.  He  ought  to  go  into  business 
aiming  "unloaded1'  guns.  That  is  the  only  occupation  suitable 
for  such  an  ass. 

THE  Peoples'  Party  is  a  political  factor  which  the  old  liners 
can  no  longer  afford  to  ignore.  Its  strength  was  shown  on 
election  day,  and  that  it  will  grow  with  the  people  there  is  no 
doubt.  In  these  latter  day  campaigns,  brass  bands  and  red  fire 
play  but  little  part.  The  people  have  been  awakened.  They  de- 
mand true  economic  principles  from  a  party  that  desires  its  votes. 


WE  await  with  great  expectation  the  trial  of  the  criminal  libel 
case  between  School  Directors  Decker  and  Hyde.  We  think 
that  if  the  cross-examination  on  each  side  is  pushed  with  vigor, 
that  the  people  may  gain  considerable  very  interesting  informa- 
tion regarding  the  manner  in  which  the  School  Department  has 
been  run  during  this  administration.  We  know  of  no  one  better 
able  to  tell  the  story  than  Mr.  Hyde  or  Mr.  Decker. 


JUDGE  CHARLES  OGDEN,  of  Omaha,  is  a  muscular  jurist, 
who  will  not  be  trifled  with  in  any  manner.  Two  men  have 
recently  suffered  castigation  because  they  affronted  the  dignity  of 
this  just  and  proper  man,  and  the  town  of  Omaha  is  now  in  fear 
and  trembling,  lest  the  exponent  of  law  and  muscle  should  run 
amuck  and  rip  things  generally.  We  suggest  that  our  Police 
Judges  adopt  the  Ogden  method  in  disposing  of  some  of  the  many 
petty  cases  before  them. 

MANY  of  the  election  officers  who  did  duty  in  this  city  on  the 
8th  inst.  were  not  as  well  fitted  as  school  boys  for  the  im- 
portant work  which  was  entrusted  to  them.  They  muddled  the 
returns,  and  made  as  bad  a  mess  of  the  records  as  possible.  The 
Election  Commissioners  have  only  themselves  to  blame  for  the 
present  bad  condition  of  affairs.  Hoodlums,  gamblers  and  thieves 
should  not  be  appointed  election  officers,  no  matter  how  efficient 
they  may  be  as  political  workers. 


RAY  FALK,  it  appears,  is  a  gentleman  with  a  record.  It  has 
been  shown  in  the  Brown  trial  that  Falk  changed  the  semi- 
official returns,  and  in  doing  so,  Carroll  Cook  has  endeavored  to 
show,  he  committed  a  crime.  Whether  a  crime  or  not,  it  was 
certainly  a  fraud.  Falk  has  been  in  trouble  before,  and  narrowly 
escaped  the  penitentiary.  He  is  not  a  fit  man  to  have  in  public 
office  of  any  sort,  and  should  be  dismissed. 

ONE  of  the  most  significant  facts  in  connection  with  the  election 
is  the  political  emancipation  of  the  great  West  from  the  thrall- 
dora  in  which  for  years  it  was  held  by  the  Empire  State.  For 
decades  we  all  watched  New  York  on  election  day.  As  she  went, 
so  went  the  country.  Politically,  New  York  was  the  United 
States,  for  her  electoral  votes,  it  was  held,  decided  who  should  be 
President.  Now,  however,  we  have  declared  ourselves,  where- 
fore a  mighty  roar  of  applause  has  rolled  from  the  shores  of  the 
Pacific  to  the  peaks  of  the  AUeghanies.  The  giant  has  been  over- 
thrown by  the  force  of  the  people,  and  New  York  has  been  re- 
placed in  her  original  position    as  a  co-worker  and  not  a  dictator. 

SOME  local  composer  should  attend  a  session  of  the  Election 
Commissioners,  and  then  go  home  and  write  a  comic  opera 
based  on  the  scenes  there  presented.  Let  it  be  entitled  :  "  The 
Jiggled  Returns,  or  How  Justice  Prevailed."  Auditor  Smiley  might 
be  the  tenor,  Attorney  Durst  the  bass,  Surveyor  Tilton  the  alto  and 
Mayor  Sanderson  the  beautiful  and  blonde  soprano.  Dr.  O'Donnell 
should  act  as  chorus,  assisted  at  intervals  by  Messrs.  Clunie  and 
Dorn.  A  notable  feature  of  the  show  would  be  a  cracked  fog- 
horn, to  be  called  The  Voice  of  the  People.  This  should  be  ma- 
nipulated by  Registrar  Brown,  who  is.  patted  on  the  back  by  Ray 
Falk.  Here  is  the  outline  for  the  most  successful  society  play  of 
the  season. 


THE  Chronicle  dies  hari.  On  Thursday  it  said :  »  We  are  forced 
to  conclude  that  no  verdict  was  obtained  on  the  main  issue 
discussed  in  the  recent  campaign,  and  that  the  moral  of  the  elec- 
tion is  that  third  parties  are  simply  engines  to  defeat  attempts  to 
arrive  at  a  knowledge  of  the  view  of  the  majority  on  any  parti- 
cular subject.  It  would  be  rash  to  assert  that  protection  had  been 
condemned,'1  says  this  wise  political  oracle.  The  Chronicle  can 
use  more  space  in  saying  nothing,  or  in  making  foolish  state- 
ments, such  as  that  quoted,  than  any  other  paper  on  the  coast. 
If  an  earthquake  should  overthrow  the  Chronicle  ouilding,  that 
paper  would  wisely  remark  that  the  downfall  had  been  caused, 
not  by  the  seismic  disturbance,  but  by  the  fact  that  the  wind  was 
blowing  from  the  north,  and  it  was  very  cold. 

A  CONTEMPORARY,  rejoicing  in  the  name  of  the  Paso  Robles 
Moon,  thus  describes  a  terrible  accident  that  befell  one  of  its 
"  much  esteemed  townsmen:"  »  His  horse  ran  away,  overturn- 
ing the  buggy  and  injuring  Mr.  Baker  quite  badly  about  the  hips, 
face,  hands  and  arms,  which  were  peeled  off  on  the  gravel  after 
the  buggy  overturned."  Just  fancy  a  man  having  his  hipa,  face 
hands  and  arms  peeled  off  I  What  an  extraordinary  spectacle  he 
must  have  presented  I  The  luminous  journal  also  remarks  that 
the  unfortunate  Mr.  Baker  is  in  a  fair  way  to  recover.  In  that 
case,  what  an  opportunity  for  some  dime  museum  man  to  secure 
an  attraction  in  the  person  of  a  man  sans  hips,  face,  hands  and 
arms!  Why,  the  four-headed  calf  wouldn't  be  »  in  it"  with  Mr. 
Baker  for  a  moment. 


THE  complete  change  in  the  National  Administration  decided 
upon  by  the  people  last  week  came  not  a  moment  too  soon, 
if  recent  advices  from  Washington  are  correct.  Long  continuance 
in  power  of  the  same  families  and  cliques  has  caused  a  sort  of 
official  aristocracy  to  grow  up  there,  which  aspires  more  and  more 
to  ape  the  practices  of  European  courts.  The  amount  of  etiquette 
and  official  procedure,  and  all  that  sort  of  rot,  one  hears  and  sees 
at  the  Capital  is  simply  nauseating  to  every  decent  American. 
The  recent  death  of  the  President's  wife  afforded  an  opportunity 
for  the  worst  display  of  this  sort  ever  seen.  The  Cabinet  fami- 
lies, because  of  that  event,  have  all  donned  the  deepest  mourn- 
ing, and  gone  into  strict  retirement  for  a  period  of  thirty  days. 
This  is  in  imitation  of  the  practice  when  death  occurs  in  a  royal 
family,  but  it  is  the  first,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  the  last  time  it 
has  ever  been  or  will  be  seen  in  this  country.  It  is  right  and 
proper  to  show  due  respect  for  the  President's  bereavement,  but 
such  an  exhibition  of  snobbishness  as  this  is  out  of  place  in  a  re- 
public. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,   1892, 


THE    MINERS'    CONVENTION. 

The  Convention  of  the  Miners'  Association  of  California,  which  was 
held  in  this  city  during  the  week,  has  a  significant  bearing  on  the 
future  prosperity  of  this  State;  more  so  perhaps,  than  may  appear 
from  a  cursory  review  of  the  proceedings  as  published.  The  men 
who  met  represented  the  industry  on  which  was  based  the  prosperity 
of  the  State;  an  industry  which  has  been  well  nigh  wrecked  by  un- 
friendly legislation  covering  the  past  decade.  Until  the  organization 
of  the  association  a  year  ago,  no  united  effort  had  been  made  for  self- 
protection,  and  the  owners  of  rich  and  productive  mines  were  re- 
duced to  penury.  The  heavy  falling  off  in  the  gold  output  of  the 
State  and  a  corresponding  decrease  in  trade,  at  last  had  the  effect  of 
changing  public  sentiment  in  favor  of  the  miners,  and  their  cause  has 
been  slowly  but  steadily  gaining  strength.  As  the  result  of  the  con- 
vention held  last  year.  Congress  took  up  the  subject  of  hydraulic 
mining,  and  a  bill  affording  some  relief,  was  passed  by  the  lower 
House,  and  is  now  pending  in  the  Senate.  The  Convention  this  year 
has  branched  out  considerably  and  besides  adopting  a  number  of 
suitable  amendments  to  what  is  known  as  the  Caminetti  bill,  referred 
to  above,  attention  was  paid  to  several  other  very  important  mat- 
ters connected  with  the  industry.  One  of  the  most  important 
resolutions  adopted  was  that  asking  Congress  to  amend  the 
mining  law  so  as  to  enable  the  owners  of  drift  mines  to  obtain  a 
title  without  having  to  abide  by  the  absurd  construction  of  the 
law  as  it  stands  today.  At  present  the  miner  is  required  to 
prove  that  mineral  exists  in  the  ground,  buried  hundreds  of  feet 
under  a  cap  of  lava,  and  which  it  may  take  him  years  to  explore. 
What  the  miners  very  reasonably  demand  is  that  on  the  proof 
that  mineral  exists  in  one  claim  that  a  patent  to  it  shall  issue,  cov- 
ering contiguous  claims  on  the  line  of  the  operations,  so  as  to  pro- 
tect tbem  in  the  expenditure  of  the  capital  necessary  to  develop 
the  gravel  lead.  This  is  only  a  matter  of  justice,  and  it  is  not 
likely  that  the  request  will  be  refused.  The  Convention  also 
signified  the  intention  of  asking  the  Legislature  of  this  State  for 
assistance  to  build  dams  to  restrain  the  debris  from  hydraulic 
mines,  which  will  doubtless  be  granted,  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
the  resumption  of  this  system  of  mining  means  a  heavy  increase 
in  the  yearly  revenue.  A  very  sensible  suggestion  was  also  made 
that  a  new  geological  map  of  the  State  be  made.  That  lately  is- 
sued has  been  of  great  service,  and  a  new  and  more  complete 
draught,  incorporating  the  results  of  recent  investigations  in  this 
field  iB  certainly  desirable.  Before  closing  their  labors  the  dele- 
gates discussed  the  Caminetti  bill  on  all  points,  and  if  it  is  carried 
through  the  Senate  as  amended,  by  the  continued  faithful  efforts 
of  our  Congressional  representatives,  it  will  cover  all  require 
ments  of  the  situation. 


TWO     IMPORTANT    PROPOSITIONS. 

TWO  of  the  most  important  propositions  submitted  to  the  peo- 
ple of  the  State  on  election  day  were  those  on  the  educational 
qualifications  for  voters,  and  to  elect  United  States  Senators  by 
direct  vote  of  the  people.  From  the  returns  received,  it  seems 
that  both  have  been  considered  favorably.  They  are 
both  excellent  measures,  and  their  enforcement  should  do  much 
to  improve  the  general  condition  of  the  body  politic.  The  edu- 
cational qualification  is,  in  fact,  a  matter  of  self-preservation  for 
the  government.  That  a  man  who  can  neither  read  nor  write 
should  be  allowed  to  cast  a  ballot  of  equal  value  with  that  of  any 
other  man,  to  decide  important  questions  involving  personal  or 
State  issues,  is  certainly  preposterous.  The  American  people 
have  been  altogether  too  liberal  in  admitting  all  men,  however  ig- 
norant, to  the  benefits  of  citizenship.  If  a  man  has  not  sufficient 
learning  to  know  how  to  write  his  own  name,  the  probabilities 
are  very  great  that  he  will  make  a  bad  citizen,  for,  as  a  rule,  the 
bad  citizen  is  the  ignorant  citizen.  Unable  to  comprehend  the 
questions  presented  to  him  upon  election  day,  he  either  does  not 
vote  at  all,  votes  without  understanding  the  effect  of  his  ballot, 
or  becomes  the  prize  of  a  boodling  politician.  The  ignorant 
elector,  therefore,  is  a  very  dangerous  element  in  any  community. 
In  these  days  there  is  no  excuse  for  a  man  not  being  able  to  read 
or  write.  The  State  maintains  free  schools,  night  and  day,  and 
provides  free  instruction,  books  and  other  necessities.  All  that  a 
•man  has  to  do  to  acquire  knowledge  is  to  go  to  school.  If  he  will 
not  do  that,  then  he  is  not  worthy  of  citizenship.  The  propo- 
sition that  United  States  Senators  shah  be  elected  by  the  direct 
vote  of  the  people  is  directly  in  line  with  the  necessity  for  educa- 
tional qualifications  for  electors.  The  development  of  general 
knowledge  among  the  people,  the  increase  of  interest  in  govern- 
mental affairs,  and  the  feeling  chat  the  people  should  be  in  direct 
contact  with  their  representatives  in  the  council  halls  of  the 
nation,  have  all  combined  to  make  a  necessity  of  what  some  years 
ago  was  spoken  of  only  in  whispers  among  politicians.  In  this 
State  particularly,  have  the  halls  of  the  Legislature  been  made 
clearance  houses  by  lobbyists  during  sessions  when  a  United 
States  Senator  was  to  be  elected.  Under  the  new  system  we  will 
be  liable  to  get  better  men  into  the  United  States  Senate  than 
under  the  old.  Politicians  who  found  no  difficulty  in  securing  a 
majority  of  the  Legislature  for  their  candidate,  will  find  it  a  far 
different  matter  when  they  undertake  to  force  a  man  upon  all  the 
people   of   the   State. 


POWDERLY'S    ADDRESS. 

THE  address  of  Grand  Master  Workman  Powderly  at  the  an- 
nual  convention  of  the  Knights  of  Labor  at  8t.  Louis  is  worthy 
of  great  consideration,  for  he  speaks  for  what  is  probably  the  most 
powerful  organization  in  the  world.  There  are  now  over  260,000 
Knights  of  Labor,  and  the  organization  is  a  very  powerful  factor  in 
the  country.  In  the  beginning  of  his  address  Mr.  Powderly  said  that 
in  his  opinion  there  are  too  many  labor  organizations  struggling  for 
supremacy.  In  that  very  fact,  thinking  men  have  recognized,  for 
some  years  back,  one  of  the  main  causes  of  the  many  troubles  be- 
tween employers  and  employees.  In  their  endeavors  to  gain  mem- 
bers, the  rival  labor  organizations  have  brought  about  strikes  and 
other  difficulties,  not  so  much  that  thecondition  of  the  laborer  might 
be  improved,  but  to  bring  the  name  of  the  society  before  the  public. 
These  things  have  been  done  by  the  professional  workingmen  who 
live  off  their  fellows,  while  acting  as  walking  delegates,  or  in  some 
similar  capacity.  The  workingmen  can  never  make  a  firm  stand 
until  all  are  united.  Powderly  pronounced  himself  strongly  in  favor 
of  the  educational  qualifications  for  voters,  and  said  that  no  person 
should  be  allowed  to  vote  who  could  not  read  his  ballot.  This  propo- 
sition is  so  favorably  considered  throughout  the  country,  that  com- 
ment on  it  is  unnecessary.  The  General  Master  Workman  went  fur- 
ther in  this  measure  than  has  yet  been  done.  He  suggested  that  a 
preliminary  measure  be  passed  by  Congress  providing  that  a  general 
educational  qualification  for  voters  shall  be  required  throughout  the 
country,  five  years  after  the  passage  of  the  measure.  This  would  give 
all  people,  who  cannot  now  read  and  write,  ample  time  to  prepare 
themselves.  Another  proposition  which  has  also  highly  recom- 
mended itself  to  men  who  have  considered  affairs  of  State,  was  the 
necessity  of  the  restriction  of  immigration.  He  favors  the  total  ex- 
clusion from  the  country  of  all  immigrants  who  are  not  self  sustaining 
when  they  land.  He  would  fix  a  term  of  years,  say  ten,  during  which 
time  no  immigrant  would  be  allowed  to  land  unless  he  could  prove  he 
had  sufficient  means  to  sustain  himself  and  those  dependent  on  him, 
for  one  year.  The  question  of  restricted  immigration  has  been  one 
of  the  most  important  before  the  nation's  law  makers  for  some  time. 
So  great  has  been  the  influx  of  undesirable  immigrants  from  Europe, 
that  fears  have  been  entertained  lest  this  class  should  become  so 
strong  as  actually  to  threaten  the  autonomy  of  the  government.  As 
Mr.  Powderly  properly  says,  it  is  not  a  question  as  to  whether  there 
is  room  enough  here  for  all  the  world,  but  whether  this  influx  would 
cause  us  to  lose  all  the  benefits  we  now  enjoy.  He  saw  danger,  not 
only  to  labor  but  to  the  whole  country  if  the  immigration  question 
was  not  carefully  and  properly  handled  in  the  near  future.  Pow- 
derly also  impressed  on  his  colleagues  the  need  for  their  own  protec- 
tion of  voting  at  all  elections.  If  they  would  improve  their  condition, 
he  truly  says,  they  must  save  themselves,  and  the  proper  place  to 
strike  the  blow  is  at  the  polls.  The  battles  of  the  future  must  be 
fought  at  the  ballot  box. 

THE    UNION    DEPOT. 

THE  majority  of  the  electors  of  this  city  voted  in  favor  of  the 
Union  Depot  measure,  but  a  majority  of  the  remainder  of  the 
State,  so  far  as  the  returns  show,  were  against  the  proposition. 
The  fate  of  the  act  is  not  yet  known,  as  all  the  returns  are  not  in, 
and  the  vote  so  far  is  so  close  that  the  counties  to  be  heard  from 
will  determine  the  result.  At  the  beginning  of  the  campaign,  the 
people  of  this  city  did  not  understand  the  method  by  which  it 
was  proposed  to  erect  the  Union  Depot,  and  many,  thinking  it 
was  a  scheme  to  aid  private  corporations  at  the  expense  of  the 
State,  expressed  disapproval  of  the  proposition.  When  the  idea 
became  better  understood,  however,  and  it  was  seen  that 
it  was  for  the  benefit  of  the  city  that  the  scheme  had 
been  proposed,  the  people  at  once  approved  it.  Among 
the  many  addresses  delivered  during  the  campaign,  that 
which  did  the  most  for  the  Depot  Act  was  probably  the  address 
of  Wendell  Easton,  the  Republican  nominee  for  Mayor,  Mr. 
Easton  thoroughly  appreciates  the  great  benefit  to  the  city  of  the 
establishment  of  the  Union  Depot  in  the  manner  set  forth  in  the 
bill,  and  took  occasion  to  explain  to  his  audience  its  virtues. 
That  his  remarks  fell  not  upon  unheeding  ears  is  shown  by  the 
great  vote  in  favor  of  the  Depot  Act  in  this  city.  The  vote 
against  the  bill  in  the  interior  of  the  State  can  be  explained  only 
on  the  ground  of  the  ignorance  of  voters  or  the  jealousy  of  the 
metropolis  entertained  in  many  small  towns.  This  jealousy  is 
absolutely  senseless.  Why  interior  towns  should  endeavor  to 
put  obstacles  in  the  way  of  the  progress  of  San  Francisco  cannot 
be  explained  to  anyone's  satisfaction.  Opposition  to  such  an  ex- 
cellent proposition  as  the  erection  of  the  Union  Depot  can  arise 
only  from  small  and  mean  motives. 


IF  Chancellor  Caprivi  bases  his  hope  for  the  passing  of  the  army 
bill  in  the  Reichstag  upon  the  support  of  the  Centre  party,  he 
is  likely  to  be  sadly  disappointed.  To  judge  from  recent  articles 
in  the  organs  of  that  party,  the  Centrists  have  decided  upon  op- 
position, and  by  doing  so  they  are  on  the  side  of  the  majority  in 
the  Reichstag.  The  Chancellor,  no  doubt,  awaits  the  next  session 
of  the  Reichstag  with  anxiety.  The  bill  is  to  be  introduced  on 
the  24th  inst. 


SAX    FKANriSCO  NEWS  LKTTKK. 


AKRCX3ANT    INDIAN    AGENTS- 


IT  i«  avidcnt  from  the  meagre  details  supplied  with  regard  to 
the  difficulty  between  the  Navajo  Indians  and  the  Indian  Bu- 
r*au,  that  the  Government  is  as  unfortunate  in  its  selection  of 
agents  in  Arizona  and  New  Mexico  as  it  has  been  in  California. 
Agent  Shipley,  of  Fort  Defiance,  N.  at.,  has  been  endeavoring  to 
deprive  a  number  of  these  Indians  of  their  children  in  order  that 
they  may  be  sent  to  school,  and  instead  of  using  persuasion  and 
peaceable  methods,  he  bas  threatened  force,  and  has  called  upon 
the  authorities  for  a  large  body  of  cavalry  with  which  to  coerce 
the  Indians  into  giving  up  their  offspring.  As  the  Navajos  num- 
ber upward  of  20,000.  and  are  fully  as  brave  and  warlike  as  the 
Apacbes.  it  is  not  difficult  to  predict  the  result  of  this  appeal  to 
arms.  The  Indians  will  undoubtedly  fight  as  fiercely  for  their 
homes  and  their  families  as  we  Americans  would  in  defense  of 
what  we  claim  are  our  God-given  rights — equally  their  rights. 
The  love  of  their  children  is  as  strong  with  the  Navajos  as 
with  us,  and  who  can  blame  them  for  not  wishing  to  be  forced  to 
give  them  up.  when  the  chances  are  ten  to  one  against  the  un- 
willing pupils  ever  seeing  their  parents  again.  The  Indians  ire 
amenable  to  reason  when  they  are  approached  in  the  right  way, 
and  it  is  not  difficult  to  persuade  them  to  allow  their  children  to 
attend  school,  as  witness  the  success  of  the  St.  Boniface  School,  at 
Banning,  and  similar  institutions  elsewhere.  But  when  it  conies 
to  calling  on  the  troops  to  force  the  Indian  parents  to  give  up 
their  children  against  their  desires,  that  is  a:  other  proposition, 
and  only  evil  can  result.  It  is  strange,  too,  that  the  very  people 
who  urge  this  step  are  the  ones  who  declaim  most  loudly  against 
the  wrongs  to  which  the  Indians  have  been  subjected  by  the 
whites.  Yet  they  lend  themselves  to  the  infliction  of  the  great- 
est outrage  that  can  be  devised,  aod  demand  the  aid  of  the  mili- 
tary to  accomplish  it.  it  is  safe  to  say  that  if  the  same  peace- 
able, persuasive  measures  were  adopted  with  the  Navajos  that 
have  been  so  successful  with  the  desert  Indians  in  California, 
there  would  b«  no  difficulty  in  obtaining  all  the  children  needed 
to  fill  all  the  schools  yet  established.  But  it  is  under  the  banner 
of  the  cross  that  these  peaceable  means  must  prevail.  When  the 
sword  is  appealed  to,  only  trouble  can  result,  and  if  those  only 
suffer  who  make  that  appeal,  no  fair-minded  person  will  com- 
plain. The  good  Sisters  of  Charity  who  are  now  educating  Indian 
children  by  the  thousand,  have  never  yet  been  obliged  to  ask  the 
aid  of  troops  in  order  to  obtain  pupils,  and  they  have  in  every 
case  won  the  cordial  co-operation  of  the  Indian  parents  in  better- 
ing the  condition  of  the  juvenile  savages.  The  Indian  Bureau 
should  call  off  Agent  Shipley,  who  ia  so  thirsty  for  blood,  and 
send  him,  with  Agent  Rust,  who  has  shown  himself  possessed  of 
the  same  arrogant  spirit,  to  some  locality  where  their  power  for 
evil  would  be  seriously  curtailed  or  entirely  destroyed. 


THE    GERMAN    ARMY    BILL. 


AS  was  to  be  expected,  some  of  the  German  inspired  papers  are 
trying  to  aid  the  government  in  the  army-bill  question  by 
raising  the  cry  of  "danger  ahead."  Notably  the  Militaer  Wochen- 
blatt  contains  two  articles  showing  the  unavoidability  of  a  Euro- 
pean war,  and  pointing  out  the  strength  of  the  French  and  the 
weakness  of  the  Austrian  and  Italian  armies.  The  plea  is  that 
Germany,  therefore,  the  third  power  of  the  Triple  Alliance,  must 
use  extra  efforts  to  make  up  for  the  deficiency  of  her  allies.  That 
a  European  war  is  ultimately  unavoidable  nobody  will  deny,  bul 
the  danger  at  present  is  no  greater  than  it  was  a  year  ago,  except 
perhaps  that  every  year  brings  us  nearer  to  the  moment  of  ex- 
plosion. For  this  reason  Germany,  of  course,  ought  to  be  fully 
prepared,  but  whether  any  great  increase  of  the  army  budget  as 
compared  with  former  years  is  necessary  at  present,  may  justly 
be  doubted.  Even  granted,  however,  that  it  is  necessary,  the  im- 
portant question  remains  in  what  manner  is  the  additional  ex- 
penditure to  be  raised.  This  is,  in  fact,  the  main  question  on 
which  the  fate  of  the  army  bill  depends,  now  that  the  two  years' 
clause  apparently  is  a  rather  innocuous  paragraph  from  a  practical, 
though  perhaps  not  from  a  moral  point  of  view.  The  German 
middle  classes,  not  to  speak  of  the  poorer  classes,  are  already 
taxed  to  the  limit  of  their  ability,  and  if  new  contributions 
have  to  be  made  for  the  safety  of  the  country,  it  is  not 
more  than  fair  that  the  German  representatives  should  demand  of 
the  Government  that  the  exceptional  burden  should  be  mainly  borne 
by  those  who  are  exceptionally  rich.  The  question  of  taxation  is  the 
main  issue  of  the  coming  debate  in  the  Reichstag,  and  the  Govern- 
ment will  have  to  look  out  not  to  strain  the  patience  of  the  subjects 
of  the  Empire  beyond  the  danger  point.  German  loyalty  and  patriot- 
ism, however,  are,  as  is  well  known,  very  great,  and  whenever  there 
should  come  a  moment  of  real  necessity,  the  German  people  will  be 
found  ready  to  make  any  sacrifice  for  the  defense  of  the  country.  In 
1813  the  German  women  disposed  of  all  their  jewelry,  and  even  sacri- 
ficed their  beautiful  hair  to  raise  money  for  the  fatherland's  defense; 
but  it  is  extremely  unwise  to  trifle  with  patriotism  at  the  wrong  mo- 
ment, and  it  would  be  criminal  to  exploit  the  best  feelings  of  Ger- 
many's citizens  by  pretending  that  supreme  efforts  are  needed,  when 
such  is  not  reallv  the  case. 


PLATFORM    OF    BRITISH    CONSERVATIVES. 

THE  British  Unionist*  can  certainly  not  be  accused  of  a  reac- 
tionary spirit.  It  la  almost  universally  conceded  by  the  Brit- 
isfa  public  that  some  of  the  most  liberal  measures  extending  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  people  introduced  in  parliament  of  late  years,  have 
originated  with  Lord  Salisbury's  Cabinet,  and  especially  the  work- 
ing_ classes  and  agricultural  laborers  have  greatly  benefited  by  such 
legislation.  The  Local  Government  bill,  also  extending  home-rule 
in  the  municipalities  of  the  United  Kingdom,  was,  as  will  be  remem- 
bered, a  measure  considered  in  that  Cabinet,  and  it  now  appears 
that  the  Unionists  are  contemplating  an  extension  and  reform  of  the 
franchise,  such  as  the  most  democratic  Englishman  could  not  im- 
prove upon.  The  new  programme  of  the  Conservatives'  associa- 
tions, adopted  at  their  recent  conference  in  Edinburgh,  as  reported 
in  the  cablegrams,  goes  beyond  the  Newcastle  programme  of  the  Lib- 
erals in  liberality,  and,  though  a  platform  constructed  by  Conserva- 
tives guarantees  greater  freedom  to  the  expression  of  popular  opin- 
ion than  the  measures  favored  by  those  who  consider  themselves  the 
champions  of  the  people.  This  programme  contains  provisions  for 
the  improvement  of  electoral  registration,  with  the  equalization  of 
seats,  and  reduces  the  time  of  occupancy  required  to  qualify  the 
voter.  It  further  extends  the  franchise  to  female  rate-payers,  gives 
popular  control  to  the  liquor  traffic,  makes  provisions  for  State  as- 
sistance to  aged  people,  contemplates  laws  enabling  working  men  to 
acquire  land  for  building  purposes,  and  aims  to  regulate  the  factory 
arts  in  the  workingmen's  interests.  All  these  measures  are  sure  to 
receive  the  heartiest  support  of  the  people,  at  the  next  general  elec- 
tion in  England,  and  Mr.  Gladstone  will  have  to  offer  something  be- 
sides the  Irish  Home-Rule  bill  if  he  wishes  to  secure  his  party  from 
absolute  defeat.  The  only  restrictive  measure  contemplated  by  the 
Conservatives  with  regard  to  the  popular  franchise,  is  one  depriving 
illiterate  voters  of  the  right  to  vote,  and  such  a  restriction  will  be 
hailed  with  delight  by  all  who  are  really  in  favor  of  good  government, 
for  nothing  is  more  disastrous  to  democratic  institutions  than  laws 
which  permit  illiterate,  ignorant  and  unfit  individuals  to  influence 
elections,  and  which  gives  unscrupulous  politicians  a  chance  to  use 
such  people  as  their  tools,  either  by  paying  for  their  votes  or  by  in- 
fluencing their  minds,  incapable  of  independent  judgment. 


r|  »HE  spirit  of  anarchy  seems  to  have  entered  the  ranks  of  the 
1  French  army.  According  to  a  recent  telegram,  a  private  at 
Compiegne  struck  an  officer,  felling  him  to  the  ground,  and  shout- 
ing, »  Long  live  anarchy;  down  with  the  army  and  officers. "  If 
this  spirit  ia  not  crushed  out  by  the  severest  punishment  of  the 
guilty  persons,  the  millions  expended  annually  by  the  French 
government  to  keep  the  army  in  an  effective  state,  will  have  been 
expended  in  vain,  for  decay  of  discipline  is  the  most  dangerous 
germ  of  defeat.  It  is  not  likely,  however,  that  the  French  nation  . 
will  permit  the  safety  of  the  country  to  be  thus  endangered,  and 
the  occurrence  most  likely  will  serve  as  a  timely  warning  to  the 
authorities,  and  urge  them  to  adopt  extreme  measures  before  it 
oo  late. 


THE  newspaper  men  who  went  to  San  Jose  to  solve  the  Plantz 
mystery  had  a  hard  time  of  it.  The  town  was  filled  with  de- 
tectives who  shadowed  every  one  who  differed  in  the  slightest 
degree  in  appearance  from  the  ordinary  San  Josean.  As  the  re- 
porters from  the  city  are  bright-looking  men,  they  were  at  once 
suspected  of  knowing  all  about  the  murder.  The  San  Jose  police, 
however,  may  be  excused.  They  have  no  way  of  becoming  ac- 
quainted with  real  newspaper  men  unless  they  meet  pencil  pushers 
from  outside  the  village,  and  therefore  they  did  not  know  the 
strange  beasts  when  they  saw  them. 


THE  election  of  Mr.  Cleveland  has  given  new  impulse  to  the 
German  manufacturers  to  make  a  good  show  at  the  Chicago 
World's  Fair,  since  they  hope  that  more  amicable  commercial  re- 
lations will  supersede  the  McKinley  tariff,  and  that  a  profitable 
exchange  of  goods  between  the  United  States  and  Germany  will 
be  promoted  by  demonstrating  in  what  industries  Germany  is 
especially  efficient. 

THE  announcement  that  a  number  of  society  girls  were  about 
to  appear  in  a  minstrel  show  at  once  opens  the  way  to  new 
fields  of  operation  for  our  bright  maidens,  of  shapely  limbs,  and  few 
opportunities,  who  would  become  famous  if  they  had  their  rights. 
Would  it  not  be  a  good  idea  to  get  up  an  Emelie  Melville  female  min- 
strel troupe  in  aid  of  some  charitable  society?  It  is  a  great  field,  and 
should  be  properly  and  immediately  filled. 

THE  bond  offered  by  the  defendants  in  the  Hale  &  Norcross 
case  has  been  accepted.  There  was  nothing  else  to  be  done 
under  the  circumstances,  unless  the  court  felt  equal  to  blotting 
out  the  statutes  of  the  State,  with  the  same  ease  that  the  ore 
values  were  dealt  with  in  making  up  the  celebrated  judgment. 


THE  rumors  of  the  gathering  of  Russian  troops  on  the  German 
frontier  at  this  season  deserve  no  credit  whatever.  They  are 
a  clumsy  imitation  of  the  ex-Chancellor's  methods  to  impress  the 
German  deputies  with  the  necessity  of  voting  an  increased  ex- 
penditure for  the  army  budget. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


*D7.  n. 


BY    BUDDHA'S    SHRINES. 

Nikko,  Japan,  Oct.  9,  1892. 

THE  Japanese  have  been  greatly  outraged  by  all  outside  na- 
tions, but  they  are  getting  even  now,  especially  with  the 
Americans  and  Englishmen  who  are  traveling  through  the  coun- 
try and  spending  large  sums  of  money  for  trash.  We  see  very 
little  of  our  products  to  offset  the  large  outlay  we  make  for  theirs. 
They  do  not  seem  to  need  our  goods,  unless  it  may  be  coal  oil, 
and  possibly  some  flour  and  Connecticut  clocks.  Everything  is 
made  here,  and  as  well  as  we  can  make  it.  The  English  and 
American  hotels  are  all  furnished  with  Japanese  furniture,  very 
little  else  being  used.  The  Imperial  Hotel,  at  Tokio,  is  entirely 
Japanese,  and  it  is  very  fine  and  substantial.  So  is  the  Nikko 
Hotel,  where  we  are  writing. 

Nikko  is  emphatically  a  city  of  temples,  the  finest  in  the  em- 
pire being  found  here.  Tbere  can  be  no  question  about  the  grand- 
eur and  enormous  cost  of  these  temples.  A  single  gold  bronze 
pedestal  in  one  cost  alone  $60,000,  and  that  is  but  a  mite  com- 
pared with  the  cost  of  the  temple  itself.  Some  of  the  shrines 
have  cost  enough  to  bankrupt  a  millionaire.  Monuments  are 
everywhere,  and  all  appear  to  be  of  a  stereotyped  order.  There 
are  innumerable  figures  of  Buddha,  and  strange-looking  stone  lan- 
terns, consisting  of  a  great  deal  of  stone  and  very  little  lantern. 
They  are,  in  fact,  granite  monuments,  from  seven  to  ten  feet 
high,  with  a  broad  projecting  cap,  under  which  is  a  small,  square 
hole,  in  which  may  be  inserted  at  pleasure  an  insignificant  dip. 
They  all  have  inscriptions,  of  course.  We  read  them,  but  we 
were  like  Billy  Birch,  when  he  said  he  understood  well  enough, 
but  he  did  not  know  what  he  meant. 

Everything  that  is  mysterious  or  unattainable  seems  to  be  wor- 
shipped, and  a  shrine  is  erected  for  the  purpose.  There  is  a  sa- 
cred bridge,  which  no  one  is  allowed  to  cross  but  once  a  year,  on 
the  Emperor's  birthday,  we  believe,  and  then  only  a  barefooted 
priest.  The  way  the  bridge  happened  to  be  built  was  this:  A 
good  Emperor  went  to  worship  at  the  shrine,  but  found  himself 
upon  the  wrong  side  of  the  turbulent  river.  So  he  began  to  pray 
where  he  was.  Directly  a  great  red  dragon  came  out  of  a  great 
hole  in  the  bank,  and  then  a  blue  one  followed.  Together  they 
caught  two  great  snakes  and  threw  them  across  the  stream.  The 
Emperor  walked  over  on  the  snakes'  bodies,  whereupon  he  ordered 
this  beautiful  bridge  to  be  built.  Some  of  the  romance  is  true — 
the  large  beach-hole  in  the  bank  and  the  beautiful  bridge.  The 
rest  we  may  believe  or  not,  as  we  choose.  There  are  two  hun- 
dred granite  Buddhas  placed  by  the  side  of  the  stream,  which  is 
very  rapid  and  beautiful  at  this  place.  They  have  watched  it 
with  their  stone  eyes  for  three  hundred  years,  until  their  thick, 
mossy  coats  are  not  the  least  interesting  part  of  them.  Nature 
has  gradually  clothed  them,  thicker  and  thicker,  until  now  they 
seem  equipped  for  winter's  storms.  There  they  sit,  with  folded 
hands,  as  if  in  the  act  of  worshiping  the  beautiful  river. 

Nikko  is  something  more  than  2,000  feet  above  the  sea.  Upon 
the  side  of  a  mountain,  4,000  feet  higher  still,  may  be  found 
shrines  and  monuments  dating  back  more  than  a  thousand  years. 
In  almost  inaccessable  places  will  be  found  great  bronze  and  cop- 
per gates,  through  which  one  enters  to  find  a  shrine,  The  river, 
whose  source  is  Lake  Chinzenji,  is  one  of  the  most  romantic  and 
beautiful  streams  in  the  world,  with  its  continuous  rapids  for 
miles  and  miles  and  its  great  waterfalls,  the  greatest  in  the  em- 
pire, and  its  cerulean  pools,  to  be  found  here  and  there  along  its 
course.  By  the  side  of  many  are  shrines.  The  history  of  one  is 
that  a  young  man  came  to  pray  by  the  side  of  the  stream,  by 
the  tombs  of  his  ancestors.  But  he  could  not  get  across,  as  a 
perpendicular  rock  rose  to  a  great  height  upon  the  opposite  side, 
between  him  and  which  was  the  fearful  whirlpools.  So  he  prayed 
to  have  his  prayer  inscribed  upon  the  face  of  the  rock,  and  he 
threw  his  pen  across,  and  his  prayer  in  Sanskrit  is  written  there 
on  the  rock,  in  proof  of  the  miracle.  The  pool  is  there,  the  rock 
is  there  and  the  writing  is  there. 

The  guidebooks  tell  of  the  wonderful  carvings  of  lions  and  ele- 
phants, the  like  of  which  never  existed.  It  tells  you  of  the  sa- 
cred white  pony.  Well,  the  pony  is  there,  and  there  are  some 
white  spots  on  him,  and  he  must  be  sacied,  because  he  is  wor- 
shiped, and  coins  are  thrown  to  him.  But  I  noticed  the  old 
woman  attendant  gets  the  coin  and  gives  the  pony  a  handful  of 
beans  instead,  which  we  think  he  prefers.  We  should  judge  he 
has  plenty,  as  he  is  the  only  fat  horse  we  have  seen  in  Japan. 

B.  P.  M. 


THE  authorities  of  the  Government  Ammunition  Factory  in 
Berlin  have  ordered  that  no  employee  shall  work  in  the  fac- 
tory in  stays.  There  are  some  benefits  from  living  under  a  despotic 
bureaucracy.  In  America  we  have  never  yet  dared  to  prevent  ladies 
of  the  artisan  class  from  combing  their  luxuriant  tresses  while  at 
work  with  machinery  in  motion  all  round,  and  the  consequence  is 
that  accidents  will  happen.  In  Germany  the  practice  would  have 
been  the  subject  of  an  Imperial  Rescript  years  ago.  In  America 
the  individual  must  have  full  liberty  to  commit  suicide  in  any  way 
that  may  seem  good. 

Eyes  tested  according  to  physiological  laws  of  light  and  not  by  ma 
chioery.  C.  Muller,  the  progressive  optician,  135  Montgomery  street,  nea 
Bush. 


A    STORY    OF    THE    SEA. 

T  LISTENED  to  the  music  of  a  shell 

1  I  found  upon  the  beach  one  summer  day, 

What  weird  and  wond'rous  stories  it  did  tell 

Of  other  lands  and  people  far  away. 

Methought  I  heard  its  murmurs  sad  and  low 
In  every  twist  and  curve;   and  with  a  sigh 
It  breathed  tales  of  love — of  death  and  woe — 
Of  men  who  sank  beneath  the  waves  to  die. 

It  told  of  sunlit  seas  of  emerald  hue; 
Of  castled  towns  whose  minarets  and  spires 
Are  diamond-studded,  flashing  back  their  rays 
Towards  setting  sun,  like  many-tinted  fires. 

Of  untold  treasures  in  Old  Ocean's  caves 
As  Sultan  never  saw,  nor  king  command, 
Of  jewels  glittering  like  star-lit  sky, 
As  never  yet  were  seen  upon  the  land. 

Anon  it  whispered  low,  "A  lover's  kiss  I  bear 
Within  my  heart,  perhaps  it  is  for  thee; 
I  found  it  on  the  dying  lips  of  one 
Whose  latest  sigh  was  heard  alone  by  me." 

The  weird  music  of  that  twisted  shell, 
Like  breath  of  harp  iEolian;  unto  me 
Shall  be  as  murmurs  from  the  broken  hearts 
Of  those  who  die  beneath  the  cruel  sea. 
San  Francisco,  Nov.  19,  1892.  G.  Mahoney. 


THE  fund  of  the  Irish  Nationalists  contributed  by  sympathizers 
in  America  at  a  time  when  the  latter  still  believed  that  Irish  pa- 
triotism would  at  least  be  great  enough  to  prevent  party  dissen- 
sions in  the  face  of  the  gravity  of  the  situation,  is  at  present 
locked  up  in  the  hands  of  the  banking  firm  of  Monroe  &  Co.,  in 
Paris,  which  refuses  to  surrender  it  until  having  obtained  an  order 
of  release  from  the  French  tribunals.  That  may  be  disappointing  to 
the  McCarthyites  and  Parnellites  alike,  but  cannot  be  regretted 
by  those  who  really  sympathize  with  the  poor  in  Ireland.  If  the 
fund  at  this  moment  were  in  the  hands  of  either  faction  it  would 
most  likely  be  used  for  purposes  serving  only  the  agitators,  and 
not  the  cause  of  Ireland,  while  later  on  it  may  be  revered  to  use- 
ful aims.  One  thing  is  certain,  it  was  not  contributed  tor  the 
purpose  of  carrying  on  internecine  war  amongst  the  Home  Rul- 
ers, but  intended  for  the  good  of  Ireland,  even  if  there  exists  a 
justifiable  doubt  whether  that  good  was  not  an  imaginary  one. 


THE  two  Royalist  parties  in  Spain  are  both  anxious  to  obtain 
the  Pope's  open  support  of  their  cause.  The  Spanish  Embassa- 
dor at  Rome  lately  endeavored  to  induce  His  Holiness  to  strengthen 
the  position  of  the  present  government  by  an  encyclical  addressed 
to  the  Spanish  Catholics,  countenancing  loyalty  to  the  Queen  and 
her  infant  son.  while  the  Oarlists  are  vigorously  opposing  the 
scheme.  The  Republicans  in  Spain  are  also,  as  has  been  pointed 
out  recently  in  this  column,  claiming  the  support  of  Leo  XIII., 
and  seem  to  imagine  that  they  actually  possess  it.  It  is  not  likely, 
however,  that  the  Pope  will  pronounce  openly  in  favor  of  any 
party.  In  France,  matters  having  reached  a  fairly  settled  state, 
he  could  take  the  part  of  the  existing  government  without  much 
danger,  but  in  Spain  affairs  are  very  unsettled,  and  the  Popes 
have  always  been  too  good  politicians  to  compromise  themselves 
openly  in  a  doubtful  cause. 

ONE  of  the  pet  illusions  of  the  day  has  been  destroyed  by  re- 
cent archaeological  researches  in  the  land  of  the  Pharaohs, 
resulting  in  the  discovery  that  folks  in  the  "good  old  days"  far  from 
being  secure  against  toothache,  had  it  quite  as  badly  as  the  moderns . 
Not  only  did  the  worthy  people  who  are  now  mummies,  suffer  their 
share  of  dental  agonies  three  thousand  years  ago,  but  they  endeav- 
ored to  mitigate  them  much  as  we  do  now,  and  dentists  and  arti- 
ficial teeth  were  no  more  unknown  to  Thebes  than  they  are  to-day 
to  San  Francisco. 


A  GOOD  story  is  told  by  a  London  journal  of  a  spiritualistic 
seance,  at  which  the  spirit  of  the  celebrated  pianist  Lisat  was 
invoked.  All  went  well  until  in  an  unlucky  moment,  at  the  request 
of  an  enthusiast,  the  shade  consented  to  play  the  twelfth  Rhapsody . 
It  was  then  seen  how  hopelessly  the  great  Master's  style  had  deteri- 
orated. In  the  same  way,  Sir  Isaac  Newton  has  been  known  to  oblige 
with  a  problem,  some  of  which  were  printed  a  few  years  ago  in  one 
of  the  spiritualistic  journals  to  the  great  amusement  of  all  sober 
mathematicians. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


19,  1892. 


SAN  FRAXcisco  NEWS  LETTER 


CALIFORNIANS    CRITICISED. 
[By    Pi     VilBOR.] 

OF  laie  it  has  been  my  privilege  to  meet  several  new-comers  to 
oar  State,  and  to  be  made  the  recipient  of  their  views  con- 
cerning we.  as  and  company.  It  ha?  long  since  passed  into  a 
■landing  joke  that  we  California!!?  interview  a  man  as  soon  as  he 
crosses  the  State  line,  and  that  we  a?k  him,  ■■  What  do  yon  think 
of  oar  glorious  climate?"  before  he  has  been  two  hours  in  the 
State,  t'ndonbtedly  it  is  trne  that  there  is  a  great  deal  of  the 
"  we-are-the-people  "  air  about  us:  but  while  it  may  be  that  our 
very  evident,  and  possibly  provincial  air  of  self-satisfaction  may 
add  a  zest  to  the  desire  of  our  Eastern  friends  to  tell  us  many 
things  "  in  all  kindness, "  as  they  phrase  it,  and  for  our  own 
good,  yet  are  we  wrong  in  thinking  that  when  our  critics  pretend 
to  plead  reluctance  to  being  interviewed,  and  a  backwardness 
about  coming  forward  and  giving  their  opinion,  that  they  would 
not  lose  the  coveted  chance  of  talking  for  worlds?  "  San  Fran- 
cisco is  a  very  interesting  city,"  said  a  gentleman  to  me.  I  smiled 
a  pleased  assent.  "  I  have  been  here  three  weeks,  and  I  know  it 
thoroughly."  I  elevated  my  eyebrows.  "It  is  a  very  cosmo- 
politan city."  Of  course  the  man  was  right.  "  It  is  a  very  cor- 
rupt and  wicked  city;  I  know  because  I  have  been  in  Paris,  and 
San  Francisco  is  worse  than  Paris."  *'  Possibly,"  said  I;  »  we 
have  so  many  foreigners  and  other  strangers  here."  "  I  have  not 
seen  a  man  I  can  admire,"  said  he;  »  they  are  all  rather  insignifi- 
cant looking  fellows;  don't  you  think  so?"  "  Well,  as  one  of  the 
handsomest  men  I  have  ever  seen  in  ray  life  is  a  San  Franciscan, 
as  hundreds  of  Californians  are  men  of  prominence,  both  intel- 
lectually and  physically,  wherever  they  go,  why — perhaps  I  can 
not  agree  with  you  in  that  criticism."  "  They  are  not  polite  and 
courteous,"  said  ray  friend.  "  They  are  always  in  a  great 
harry  to  make  money!  That's  their  only  thought." 
"No,  not  always  to  make  money,  but  to  do  more  work." 
"I've  not  seen  a  gentleman  make  a  complete  bow  since  I've  been 
here.  Why,  they  only  raise  their  hats;  many  of  them  just  tip 
them — that's  all."  "That's  because  of  our  high  winds  in  sum- 
mer," I  replied,  "which  not  only  disarrange  their  hair,  but  are 
apt  to  give  them  a  cold  in  the  head."  "The  men  have  no  busi- 
ness sense — no  push,  no  enterprise;  look  at  the  way  they  do 
things  in  Chicago."  "Yon  must  remember  that  for  years  San 
Francisco  was  cut  off  from  rapid  communication  with  the  rest  of 
the  world;  that  this  fact  brought  about  a  peculiar  financial  and 
commercial  condition  of  affairs.  Our  merchants  got  into  a  cer- 
tain way  of  doing  business.  To  some  extent  we  are  feeling  some 
of  the  results  to-day.  Then  San  Francisco  was  alone  in  the  field; 
to-day  she  has  competitors.  Then  they  feared  no  rivals,  because 
they  had  none;  to-day  they  fail  to  realize  that  they  have  many. 
This  state  of  affairs  finds  a  parallel  in  our  buildings.  A  newer 
city,  like  Portland,  Or.,  has  many  more  fine  business  blocks  than 
San  Francisco,  in  proportion  to  its  population  and  business 
wealth.  Why?  Because  in  San  Francisco  what  was  built  years 
ago  has  been  made  to  answer  the  purpose  long  after  the  needs  of 
the  community  called  for  a  different  style.  But  does  this  condi- 
tion of  things  prevail  to-day?  Look  at  the  Chronicle,  the  Crocker, 
the  D.  O.  Mills,  the  Pacific  Mutual  buildings,  and  a  score  of 
others,  every  one  of  them  in  the  heart  of  the  city,  and  then  say 
that  there  is  no  building  enterprise  in  San  Francisco." 

"Your  residences  are  in  the  blockhouse  and  the  repetition  row 
variety."  "Many  of  them  are;  but  go  out  through  the  Western 
Addition,  or  ride  along  the  lines  on  the  way  to  the  Park.  Notice 
that  even  small  houses  have  an  individuality  of  their  own.  They 
may  not  all  be  beautiful,  but  they  no  longer  have  the  tire- 
some sameness  of  the  blocks  in  a  child's  toy-box.  Some  artist 
once  said  that  the  majority  of  American  cities  presented 
a  monotonous  appearance  to  the  eye  that  owing  to  the  rectilinear 
features  of  the  houses  with  their  straight  across  roofs  the  sky 
line  was  flat — and  painful.  That  is  true  of  some  portions  of  our 
city,  but  take  a  ride  over  our  hills  and  look  out  towards  the 
setting  sun.  Our  glorious  sunsets,  form  a  magnificent  background 
for  a  picturesque  and  artistic  sky  line.  We  have  some  claim  to 
possessing  architectural  excellences  in  our  residence  portion. 

"  Don't  you  think  that  Californian  ladies  are  too  lax?"  I 
looked  at  him.  "  I  mean  that  they  go  out  in  the  evening  with- 
out a  gentleman  escort."  I  laughed.  "Do  you  consider  that 
the  thing?"  I  laughed  again.  "My  dear  sir,"  said  I,  desir- 
ing to  break  it  as  gently  to  him  as  I  could,  "  I  see  nothing  objec- 
tionable in  that,  providing  one  lady  is  old  enough  to  be  a 
chaperone.  In  San  Francisco  there  is  no  place  from  a  theatre  to 
the  most  formal  reception  that  a  mother  may  not  render  her 
daughter  an  all  sufficient  escort."  "It  is  not  so  elsewhere,"  said 
he.  "I  am  sorry  for  the  elsewhere,"  was  my  reply;  "and 
further  be  it  said  to  the  everlasting  credit  of  Californians  that  a 
woman  alone,  and  entirely  unprotected  save  by  the  chivalry  of 
American  manhood,  can  go  through  this  great  city  after  nightfall 
and  not  meet  with  a  word  or  even  look  of  insult.  Certainly,  there 
are  portions  of  this  city  as  there  are  of  all  large  cities  where  it 
would  not  be  safe  for  a  woman  or  even  a  man  to  go  alone — but  of 
such  places  I  am  not  speaking.  A  woman  in  San  Francisco  is 
less  apt  to  meet  wita  annoyance  than  she  is  in  almost  any  other 
equally  American  city." 


"  I  do  tint  think  that  the  boasted  hospitality  of  California  is 
more  than  a  myth.  In  8outhern  California—"  "  Permit  me  to 
remind  you  thai  Southern  California  is  the  home  of  the  one- 
lunged  contingent.  They  don't  dare  to  extend  both  hands,  for 
fear  the  exertion  will  take  too  much  breath.  They  are  from  the 
East,  and  many  of  them  so  recently  that  they  have  not  become 
acclimated  yet  as  regards  hospitality  and  other  open-hearted  vir- 
tues. Besides,  when  I  say  ■  Californian,'  in  one  way  I  mean  San 
Franciscan, 'as  the  large  city  is  apt  to  give  the  tone  to  its  dis- 
trict, or  even  its  State.  While  it  may  not  become  a  Californian 
to  boast  of  the  hospitality  of  our  people,  let  me  ask  you  if  return- 
ing members  of  visiting  commanderies,  or  conventions,  or  press 
clubs  ever  bore  home  any  news  of  the  way  in  which  they  were 
entertained  by  the  *  inhospitable  Californians?'"  "Oh,  yes," 
said  he,  "they  certainly  were  treated  royally;  notallowed  to  pay 
for  anything— they  were  under  no  expense."  And  when  Cali- 
fornians go  on  such  excursions  are  not  their  headquarters 
thronged  with  those  eager  to  partake  of  their  hospitality,  to  be 
where  wine  flows  like  water  and  champagne  never  stops  fizzing? 
Are  Californians  apt  to  extend  such  invitations  as  were  once  ex- 
tended to  them,  •  Come  to  our  hall  after  breakfast?'  Does  not  the 
Californian  say,  ■  Come,  stay  all  night,  so  as  to  be  here  in  time  for 
breakfast?'  " 

Do  Californians  seek  out  cheap  places  to  sleep  and  still  cheaper 
places  to  eat?  Never.  And  if  you  want  to  know  who  do  just 
take  a  trip  to  Monterey  or  Santa  Cruz,  or  to  any  of  our  resorts, 
and  ask  whose  money  is  held  the  tighter,  that  of  the  Californians, 
whom  you  think  care  only  for  money,  or  that  of  people  from  the 
East? 

"I  think  that  there  is  something  essentially  southern  in  the  hos- 
pitality, the  cordiality,  the  open-heartedness  of  true  Californians.  In 
early  days  the  southern  element  largely  predominated  in  San  Fran- 
cisco society,  and  to  a  great  extent  it  is  responsible  for  that  charm 
of  manner,  that  free  heart  and  open  home  which  we  Californians 
claim  as  our  characteristic. 

"Whenever  a  visitor  finds  something  to  like  or  to  admire  he 
calmly  says:  «  But  that  is  not  Californian,  it  reminds  me  of  such 
and  such  a  place ';  or  «  You  are  not  a  Californian  in  style  or  man- 
ner ;  you  would  be  at  home  in  the  society  of  such  and  such  a  city.' 
Now,  really,  you  do  us  too  much  honor.  We  are  as  we  are, 
Californians,  and  we  are  proud  of  it." 


Light  Muffins. 

By  Eliza  R.  Parker,  Bedford,  Ky. 

Sift  one  quart  of  flour,  and  two 
teaspoons  of  Cleveland's  Baking 
Powder.  Add  two  tablespoons  of 
melted  butter,  a  tea  cup  of  sweet 
milk,  a  teaspoon  of  salt,  and  the 
beaten  whites  of  six  eggs.  Bake  in 
well  greased  muffin  moulds. 

Use  only  Cleveland's  baking  powder, 
the  proportions  are  made  for  that.  508 

.,-grmg  A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 

tevoiancTs 


Baking 
Powder 


"Absolutely  the  Best.' 
F.  H.  AMES  at  CO.,  Agents. 


THE  SCIENCE 
OF 
THE  SKIN,  y 


(  AVHS-  JtouciffE, 

324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  with  the  aid  of  Dermoline. 
Tbe  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 

Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
moved and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
by  a  new  process. 

Hair  Invlgorator,  guaranteed  to 
cure  BALDNESS. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


""We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

MISS  MARLOWE'8  engagement  at  the  Baldwin  grows  so  mar- 
velously  in  interest  and  enjoyment  with  each  rapidly  recur- 
ring change  oE  programme  as  to  arouse  an  active  regret  that  it 
must  close  with  the  week.  Toe  complete  freedom  from  the  tram- 
mels of  what  are  known  as  traditional  lines  serves  to  accentuate 
the  charm  of  Miss  Marlowe's  every  pose  and  movement,  every 
inflection  of  her  voice,  and  every  passing  change  in  her  expres- 
sive face.  Nothing  could  be  more  fascinating  than  this  uncon- 
ventionally in  Miss  Marlowe's  Beatrice,  or  rather  in  Shake- 
speare's Beatrice,  for  that  is  what  she  presents,  so  far  as  the  most 
imaginative  auditor  can  judge  of  Shakespeare's  Bprightly  and 
lovely  heroine.  The  audience  on  Monday  night  seemed  to  realize 
the  value  of  this  dramatic  gem.  It  warmed  to  demonstrative  en- 
thusiasm with  each  fall  of  the  curtain,  and  could  hardly  restrain 
its  spontaneous  applause  from  interrupting  the  passage  of  the 
scene.  The  evident  intelligence  and,  at  times,  inspiration,  of 
Miss  Marlowe's  acting  is  infectious,  helping  out  and  carrying 
with  it  triumphantly  the  dullest  comprehension.  In  witnessing 
the  youthful  actress'  inspiring  and  life-like  personations  the  au- 
ditor finds  himself  congratulating  himself  and  the  world  that 
Julia  Marlowe  is  so  young,  and  that  amid  the  general  decadence 
of  dramatic  taste  we  may  safely  promise  ourselves  ior  many 
long  years  to  come  the  sight  of  Shakespeare's  sprightly,  or  tender, 
or  tragic  heroines  trooping  about  us  in  living,  breathing  reality. 
Miss  Marlowe's  repertory  for  the  week  has  also  included  Juliet 
and  Imogen,  two  of  the  most  lovely  and  most  difficult  of  ade- 
quate portrayal  of  Shakespearean  heroines.  To-night  she  bids 
us  (let  us  hope)  au  revoir  and  not  farewell,  in  a  carefully  prepared 
presentation  of  Twelfth  Night. 

»  #  # 

Miss  Marlowe's  support  is  not  entirely  adequate.  Her  leading 
man,  Mr.  Taber,  though  graceful  in  carriage,  is  unaccountably 
stiff  in  some  personations,  while  in  others,  notably  as  Benedict, 
he  is  entirely  satisfactory.  H.  A.  Weaver  has  shown  himself 
capable  of  the  best  of  work  in  his  line  of  parts,  but  he  has  been 
from  the  beginning  so  handicapped  by  an  unconquerable  hoarse- 
ness that  be  has  not  done  himself  justice  in  speech  or  even  in  ac- 
tion. Miss  Eugenia  Lindemann  makes  a  pretty  and  pleasing 
Hero,  and  Edmund  Lawrence  does  a  capital  bit  of  characteriza- 
tion as  the  headborough.  Verges.  Shakespeare's  humor  is  in  itself 
so  unctuous  and  so  irresistible  that  had  we  not  seen  a  better  Dog- 
berry, that  of  Mr.  Giles  Shine  might  have  passed  ;  as  it  is,  we  may 
pass  it.  AU  the  young  princes,  dons,  and  lords,  on  Monday 
night,  were  so  handsomely  costumed,  so  personable,  and  acted 
with  so  much  easy  and  natural  bonhomie  or  dignity,  as  to  make 
this,  perhaps,  the  most  all-around  satisfactory  performance  yet 
given.  The  scenic  and  other  material  accessories  have  been  highly 
creditable  throughout,  and  have  added  much  to  the  general  en- 
joyment of  this  memorable  engagement. 
*  *  * 

Miss  Marlowe's  Juliet  is  marked  by  the  same  sweet  girlishness, 
with  revelations  here  and  there  of  deeper  and  stronger  possibili- 
ties, which,  if  natural,  the  nicest  art  could  with  difficulty  equal. 
Mr.  Taber  makes  a  sympathetic  and  pleasing  Romeo,  and  the  en- 
tire cast,  particularly  the  Mercutio,  was  good. 

Cymbeline,  which  was  named  for  Thursday  night,  too  late  for 
criticism  here,  has  been  waite'd  for  with  great  interest,  both  from 
the  rarety  of  its  production  here  and  anxiety  to  see  how  Miss 
Marlowe  would  acquit  herself  in  tne  fascinating  but  difficult  role 
of  Imogen.  That  she  would  meet  its  requirements  well  no  one 
who  has  watched  her  thus  far  can  doubt. 
»  *■# 

The  Still  Alarm  will  have  its  final  production  at  tbe  California 
Sunday  evening.  The  next  production  at  the  California  will  be 
tbe  play  based  on  Col.  Savage's  story,  <>  My  Official  Wife,"  which 
story  was  edited  and  published,  as  well  as  dramatized,  by  A.  C. 
Gunter.  Its  interest  will  be  deepened  by  the  fact  that  it  intro- 
duces here  a  new  star,  Minnie  Seligman.  Miss  Seligman  is  in 
reality  Mrs.  Cutting,  her  husband,  Robert  L.  Cutting,  Jr.,  being  a 
member  of  New  York's  400.  Mr.  Cutting  entered  Btage  life  in 
My  Official  Wife  to  be  near  his  real  wife,  whose  important  engage- 
ments at  tbe  time  of  her  marriage  made  her  unwilling  to  give  up 
her  professional  career.  Society  women  who  have  gone  upon  the 
stage  are  many,  but  Mr.  Cutting  may  fairly  be  accorded  such  in- 
terest as  attaches  to  the  first  man  of  wealth  and  social  position 
to  become  an  actor.  Mr.  Sanger's  company  also  includes  Wm. 
F.  Owen,  J.  Patten  Gibbs  and  others. 

Tbe  Bush  has  bad  surprisingly  good  houses  considering  tbe 
election  reaction,  and  the  old  attraction,  Skipped  by  the  Light  of  the 
Moon,  has  fun  in  it  yet,  even  without  Louis  Harrison  and  John 
Gourlay,  who  made  it  just  the  funniest  thing  in  its  line.  Next 
Monday  Patti  Rosa  will  come  to  the  Bush  for  a  two  weeks'  stay, 
opening  with  Dolly  Varden.  Miss  Rosa's  dancing  and  singing  are 
said  to  be  better  than  formerly,  and    the  crudity  of   her  perform- 


ance to  have  disappeared.  During  her  second  week  she  will  pro- 
duce her  new  comedy,  Miss  Dixie.  Patti  Rosa  will  be  assisted 
by  Joe  Cawthorn,  Maurice  Davey  and  others. 

The  Shaughraun,  at  Stockwell's,  may  be  called  a  scenic  produc- 
tion. The  groupings  are  notably  artistic,  the  stage  settings  ap- 
propriate and  effective,  and  the  scenery  strikingly  beautiful.  So 
well  have  Mr.  Stockwell  and  his  staff  of  artists  and  the  stage 
manager  done  their  work  that  the  applause,  which  has  been  lib- 
eral through  the  week,  has  been  mainly  bestowed  in  this  direc- 
tion. Aubrey  Boucicault  evidently  (and  with  good  taste)  models 
his  "  Conn"  on  that  of  his  father,  and  that  he  succeeds  at  least  in 
suggesting  the  spirit  of  the  elder  player's  personation,  is  some- 
thing, even  though  its  artistic  finish  is  lacking. 

Mr.  Henley's  recent  tendency  to  exaggeration  reaches  a  climax 
in  Harvey  Duff.  In  the  last  scene,  by  the  aid  of  a  large  flapping 
cloak,  he  flops  and  flounders  all  over  the  stage,  more  like  a  colos- 
sal wounded  rook  than  a  scared  Irish  villain.  Mr.  Jewett  makes 
up  well  as  Kinshela,  and  acts  it  correctly,  though  perfunctorily. 
E.  L.  Davenport  takes  the  part  of  Captain  Molineux  comprehend- 
ingly,  but  is  so  stiff  and  woodeny  as  to  suggest  a  tight-waisted 
toy  soldier  on  an  enlarged  scale.  The  rest  of  the  cast  are  mere 
lay  figures,  the  women,  with  the  exception  of  Fanny  Young,  as 
Mrs.  O'Kelly,  standing  about  as  helpless  as  amateurs  at  a  rehears- 
al, as  if  waiting  to  be  told  what  to  do  next.  So  noticeable  is  the 
absence  of  anything  like  a  brogue  among  them  that  the  soto  voce 
admonition  from  a  rude  youth  in  tbe  gallery,  "Remember,  boy, 
you're  Irish,"  evoked  an  indulgent  smile  from  tbe  audience  be- 
low. The  large  attendance  on  Boucicault's  Irish  play  has  induced 
the  management  to  continue  it  next  week.  A  special  Shaughraun 
matinee  will  be  giv.en  on  Thursday,  Thanksgiving  day.  Two 
Roses  will  follow  Nov.  1st.  This  play,  in  which  Mr.  Henley  plays 
Henry  Irving's  great  part,  Digby  Grant,  wi.l  doubtless  bring  out 
the  largest  audience  of  the  seas  >n. 

*  #•  * 

Tbe  Tivoli  has  repeated  its  last  week's  success  with  Martha. 
Tbe  house  has  been  crowded  nightly,  and  but  one  opinion  has 
been  heard.  Martha  is  a  production  of  which  the  opera  house 
may  well  be  proud.     Next  week.  The  Queen's  Lace  Handkerchief. 

*  *  * 

The  coming  engagement  of  Clara  Morris  at  the  Baldwin  will  be 
a  brilliant  ending  for  the  present  season.  Miss  Morris  is  com- 
pletely restored  to  health,  and  has  doubtless  regained  much  of 
ber  past  strength  and  vigor  of  acting  with  that  of  physique. 
Clara  Morris'  intellectual  and  artistic  ability  needs  no  comment, 
but  health  is  an  essential  of  power,  and  this  Miss  Morris  has 
recently  lacked.  Her  intellectual  activity  is  demonstrated  by  the 
fact  that  she  has  lately  written  two  new  and  highly  emotional 
plays — one,  Claire,  an  adaptation  from  the  German;  the  other, 
Rose  Michel,  from  the  French.  Miss  Morris'  Claire  in  no  way  re- 
sembles tbe  "  Claire  "  in  George  Ohnet's  play,  Tht  Forgemaster. 
The  first  week,  beginning  November  21st,  Claire  and  Odette  will 
alternate. 

*  *  » 

David  Henderson's  last  and  greatest  spectacular  extravaganza, 
AU  Baba,  will  begin  here  December  3d.  Owing  to  the  immense 
stage  room  required,  the  Grand  Opera  House  will  be  the  place  of 
its  production,  and  as  it  is  under  the  auspices  of  Al.  Hayman, 
the  Baldwin  will  be  closed,  and  the  entire  staff  transferred  to  the 
Grand. 

#  »  # 

At  Stockwell's  Theatre  Captain  Heme,  U.  S.  A.  is  in  preparation 
and  will  be  produced  soon  for  the  first  time  in  this  city.  The 
extensive  resources  of  this  theatre  in  mechanical  and  stage  ap- 
pliances, and  its  reputation  already  achieved  for  tine  scenery  and 
staging  justify  full  confidence  in  its  managers'  assurance  that 
this  production  will  surpass  in  scenic  effects  any  recent  dramatic 
presentation  given  in  the  city. 

*  #  * 

Prof.  Riccardo  Lucchesi's  concert  on  Wednesday  evening  was 
one  of  the  musical  successes  of  the  season.  The  hall  was  packed 
and  the  large  audience  received  with  enthusiastic  but  discriminat- 
ing applause  every  number  of  a  classical  programme  whose  per- 
fect rendition  speaks  highly  for  Signor  Lucchesi  as  a  musical 
director  and  thorough  master  of  drill. 

*  »  » 

Milton  Nobles  will  play  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  all  next 
week,  producing  three  of  his  plays,  but  probably  not  For  Revenue 
Only.  There  will  be  matinfies  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday. 
Chas.  E.  Cook  will  be  in  the  box-office. 

*  »  » 

The  regular  Wednesday  matinee  at  the  Bush  will  be  omitted 
next  week,  but  an  afternoon  performance  will  be  given  on  Thurs- 
day, Thanksgiving  day,  and  on  Saturday.  At  the  latter  ten  dol- 
lars will  be  given  to  the  boy  or  girl  making  the  most  words  from 
"  Dolly  Varden."  No  letter  must  be  repeated  oftener  than  it  oc- 
curs, and  proper  names  will  not  be  counted.  Tbe  lists  must  be 
handed  in  at  the  box-office  by  Thursday  next. 
»  •  » 

The  first  of  the  series  of  Wilkie's  Palace  Ballad  Concerts,  will 
take  place  on  Tuesday,  the  29th  inst.,  at  3  p.  m.,  instead  of  the 
22nd  inst.,  as  previously  announced. 


19,  1892. 


>A\   FRANCISCO  NKWS  LETTER. 


The  neit  Hermann  Brandt  orchestra  will  take  place  November 
241b  at  Irvine  Hall. The  Cait-BmI  concert  announced  for  to- 
day \»  postponed  on  account  of  the  "  society  baseball  game."— 
Ati  Bnba  baa  run    in    Chicago    twenty ■■  o j c h t  weeks  to  undituished 

business. Joe  Cawihorn,  ol  the  Pattl  Rosa  company,  if  said  to 

be  the  equal  of  Dutch  Paly  as    a  concertina    expert. Chas.  T. 

Vincent,  who  wrote  QeiUUman  Jack  for  Jim  Corbetl.  is  the  author 

of  I'alti    Rosa's  Polly  Varden  and  Mi**  Dixie. James  Whitcomb 

Riley  will  give  three  readings  here  and  one  in  Oakland  under  the 

management    of  John  F.  Bragg Henry  E.  Pixey  will  open  at 

Albaugb's,  Baltimore.  November  21st.  in  Mr.  Dnbbs  of  Chicago. 

J.  M.  Colville  is  Clara  Morris*  leading  man. A  Trip  to  China- 
town reached  its  350th  performance  at  the  Madison  Square,  New 
York,  lately.— —Bessie  Clayton,  a  young  woman  whose  fame 
rests  on  her  ability  to  kick  backwards    as    high  as  her  head,    has 

supplanted  Bessie  Kenwood  in  A  Trip  to  Chinatown Adolf  Zink, 

the  Lilliputian  comedy  man,  gives  a  laughable  imitation  of  Lottie 

Collins'  ■•  Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay." The  advance  premiums  alone 

on  choice  of  seats  for  Baroness  Meta  on  Friday  evening,  had  reached 
on  Wednesday  last  $1,490  in  addition  to  the  regular  price  of  seats 
and  boxes.  Harry  Elmer,  manager  of  Brady's  After  Dark  tour,  is  a 
native  son  of  San  Francisco  and  a  favorite,  both  in  the  theatrical 

and  social  world. The  re-opening  for  the  winter  season  at  the 

Baldwin     will  be    by    Charles    Frohman's    company,    in  Settled 

Out  of  Court  and  The  Sportsman Claire  and  Rose  Michel,  adaped 

respectively  from  the  German   and   the   French,  by  Clara  Morris 

will  be  in  that  actress'  repertory  at  the  Baldwin. It  is  doubt 

ful.  says  a  dramatic  exchange,  that  Manager  Hooley  will  again 
book  for  Hooley's  Theatre  Imagination,  as  it  is  "  too  broad1'  for 
the  character  of  that  theatre.  Too  broad  for  Chicago  1  What 
must  it  be? Mrs.  Bernard-Beere  opened  at  Hammerstein's  Thea- 
tre,   New    York,    November  14th. Neil   Burgess,  in  A  County 

Fair,  is  one  of  the  attractions  booked  for  Stockwell's. Joseph 

Jefferson  played  Rip   Van  Winkle  October  31st,  in  Boston,  for  the 

first  time  in  twelve  years. Squire  Kate,   now   being  played  at 

several  Eastern  theatres,  was  written  by  Robert  Buchanan,  a 
poet  prominent  in  the  list  of  candidates  for  the  Iaureateship  of 

England. Trella  Foltz  is  no  longer  with  Charles  Frohman,  but 

is  playing  in  a  Philadelphia  stock  company. Emma  Nevada  is 

to  be  a  star  of  Augustus  Harris'  Opera  season  in  London. The 

Old  Homestead  will  be  run   at  the  California  this  season. Geo. 

Farren,  treasurer  of  Milton  Nobles'  company,  now  at  the 
Bush,  was  manager  of  the  Washington  Theatre,  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  during  the  war,  and  knew  President  Lincoln  well Her- 
mann has  a  new  trick  which  he  calls  Ya-Ko-Yo,  and  which  illus- 
trates how  easily  the  Chinese  can   evade    the   immigration   laws. 

The  Chinese  here  understand  the  trick. Hallen  and  Hart  have 

a    new  farce-comedy  called   Idea. The    Hanlons    lost   $25,000 

worth  of  the  costumes  and  scenery  of  Superba  in  the  fire  which 
destroyed  the  Enclid-avenue  Opera  House  at  Cleveland,  0.,  where 

they  were  playing  at  the  time. The  new  play  written  for  Charles 

Frohman  by  Sardou  is  called  La  Belle  Amcricaine. The  Strauss 

orchestra,  one  of  the  Blakely  syndicate  organizations,  will  visit 
the  Coast  this  season. 


A    BERKELEY    MILLIONAIRE'S    WAY. 

SOME  ludicrous  incidents  occur  now  and  then  at  the  ferries  by 
the  mishaps  of  thrifty  souls  across  the  bay,  who  try  to  save 
money  on  their  household  expenses  by  purchasing  goods  in. this 
city  at  lower  rates  than  they  get  at  home,  which  they  carry  with 
them  on  their  return  trips  at  night.  It  is  all  right  if  the  parcels 
are  well-made  up,  some  of  them  being  large  enough  to  necessitate 
the  use  of  a  wheel-barrow.  If  not,  trouble  invariably  follows  for 
the  economical  housekeeper,  which  creates  lots  of  fun  for  the  eye- 
witnesses. A  few  evenings  ago  a  gentleman  who  had  been  lay- 
ing in  a  supply  of  goods,  enough  to  last  a  large  family  a  month, 
waddled  to  the  landing,  weighted  down  like  a  donkey  with  pan- 
niers. Fates  were  against  him,  and  the  bundles  suddenly  dis- 
gorged their  contents  upon  the  sidewalk.  His  wife  or  daughters 
would  not  have  sympathized  with  him  a  bit  had  they  been  pres- 
ent, for  there  were  other  things  visible  besides  hair-pins,  which  are 
not  often  exposed  to  public  inspection.  Not  long  ago  the  Asa  Fisk 
of  Berkeley  found  some  potatoes  on  this  side  which,  if  not  quite 
so  good,  were,  in  his  opinion,  more  acceptable  than  the  Contra 
Costa  "  fruit,"  on  account  of  the  low  price.  He  had  purchased 
fully  half  a  sack,  and  had  carried  them  with  an  assortment  of  to- 
matoes safely  across  the  bay,  tied  up  in  such  a  cunning  manner 
as  to  make  people  believe  that  his  flinty  heart  bad  softened  to 
the  extent  of  buying  his  better  half  some  badly-needed  millinery. 
On  the  passage  from  the  boat  to  the  cars  something  gave  way, 
and  the  tubers  were  scattered  right  and  left  among  the  passen- 
gers, who  were  too  badly  scared  at  first  to  appreciate  the  joke. 
The  old  boy  was  not  phazed  a  bit  by  the  mishap,  and  to  the 
amusement  ol  every  one,  he  was  soon  occupied  in  collecting  his 
goods.  It  added  to  the  general  satisfaction  of  the  laughing  crowd 
when  he  missed  the  train  in  an  effort  to  save  a  badly  decayed 
tomato.  And  yet  this  individual  is  said  to  be  worth  half  a  mill- 
ion.    Of  such  is  the  kingdom  of  Mammon. 

The  oysters  of  Moraghan,  of  the  California  Market,  have   been 
famous  for  years  as  the  most  appetizing  in  California. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Ai,  HavmanACo Proprietors.  I  Alfred  Boi'vier Manager. 

Second  and  last  week  of 

JULIA     MARLOWE, 

Assisted  by  a  competent  company,  Including  Mr.  Robert  Tabcr. 

(.irHiid  Shakespearean  Festival. 
Saturday  Matinee.  Bciiiiful  Presentation  o(  siiakcspearc's  Comedy. 

NFl'.H  ADO  AUDIT  NOTHING.  I  Miss  Marlowe  a»  Beatrice. 
Saturday  Evening,  Grand  Farewell— TWELFTH  NIGHT. 

Monday  Next,  November  21st— <  I.Alt  A   Holt  Ills 

Monday,  Wednesday,  Friday  evenings,  Saturday  matinee— CLAIRE,  an 
adaptation  from  Ibe  German  of  Richard  Dok,  by  Clara  Morris. 

Tuesday,  Thursday  and  Saturday  evenings,  Sardou 's  great  play— ODETTE. 

Seats  now  ready. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co.. Proprietors.  I  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Monday,  Nov.  21.  Matinee  every  Saturday  and  Thanksgiving  Day,  Nov.  24 
Frank  \V.  Sanger  will  present  Archibald  claveriug  Gunter's  dramatization 

MY     OFFICIAL     WIFE 

Introducing  Minnie  Seligman  (Cutting)  as"Helene,"  supported  by  a 
strong  company.    SPECIAL  SCENERY. " 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell     Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alp  Ellinghoosb    Business  Mauager. 

Monday,  November  21,  Second  Week.  Matinee  Thanksgiving  Day  and 
Saturday.  E.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boucicault  and  Stockwell's  Company  of 
Comedians  in 

THE     SHAUGHRAUN. 

Next— TWO  ROSES.    In  preparation-"Captain  Heme,  U.  S.  A." 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Ma.  M.  B.  Levitt Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Geobge  H.  Broadhubst  ...  ....  Resident  Manager. 

To  night,  Fowler  and  Warmington's  Comedians,  presenting 

SKIPPED    BY    THE    LIGHT    OF    THE    MOON. 

Matinee  to-day  at  2  p.  m.    The  play  that  has  made  all  America  laugh. 
Monday,  Nov.  2lst— PATTI  ROSA  in  "  Dolly  Varden." 


TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kreling  Bros. — Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Last  Nights,  Flotow's  Lyric  Opera, 

MARTHA. 

A  great  success.  Instantaneous  hit  of  Ferdinand  Schuelze,  Lizzie  Annan- 
dale,  Tillie  Salinger,  Ed.  N.  Knight,  George  Olmi 

Monday,  Nov. 21st.— THE  QUEEN'S  LACE  HANDKERCHIEF. 
Popular  Prices  . ...  2bc.  and  50c 

•WE  ARE  THE  PEOPLE." 

MECHANICS'   PAVILION. 

THE  EVENT  OF  THE  SEASON. 

ANNUAL     ELK'S     CARNIVAL, 

Thanksgiving  Eve November  23d 

Grand  allegorical  pageant.  Historical  costumization.  Superb  electrical 
transformations.  Characteristic  divertisementa.  Elegant  and  costly  prizes. 
Music  by  Second  Artillery  Band — 40  pieces.  Admission  $1.  For  further  par- 
ticulars see  Annual  Elk's  Brochure. 

IBOOIKIS. 

THE  BEST  SELECTION  IN  TBE  COUNTRY  AT 

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bAh  FRAM  CISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19, 1892. 


IT  was  a  pretty  scene  on  board  the  naval  tug  at  the  launching 
of  the  Oh/mpia  when  a  young  officer  of  the  navy  ruurruured  in 
tones  which  he  no  doubt  thought  were  inaudible  to  all  but  the 
lady  at  his  side,  a  suggestion  as  to  the  advisability  of  a  launch 
into  the  matrimonial  sea  with  a  craft  like  unto  himself.  'Tis  said 
the  maiden,  bowing  her  head,  was  about  to  reply,  when,  her 
familiar  sprite — yclept  most  intimate  friend — bobbed  up  serenely, 
and  so  the  young  wearer  of  the  buttons  has  it  all  to  do  over  again. 

#  »  « 

On  dit  the  majority  of  our  belles  who  claim  a  Southern  lineage 
are  already  planning  trips  to  Washington  for  the  inauguration  of 
Cleveland  in  1893. 

#  #  # 

Any  one  of  our  swim  who  was  at  the  Ingleside  tea,  and  had 
the  chance  of  a  glimpse  of  Charley  Baldwin's  face  as  he  bent  to- 
wards the  girl  whose  head  was  shaded  by  a  flower-covered  para- 
sol, will  be  convinced  as  to  »  bow  things  are  "  in  that  quarter. 

It  is  in  contemplation  among  several  ladies  who  make  their 
homes  at  the  big  caravanserai  to  unite  in  giving  either  a  tea  or  a 
cotillion  during  the  Christmas  holidays.  The  date  will  be  set  as 
soon  as  the  style  of  the  entertainment  is  agreed  upon. 

#  #  • 

Now  that  the  Living  Whist  has  proved  such  a  success,  it  is 
quite  on  the  cards  that  a  party  of  young  »<  swimmers  "  will  get 
up  a  game  of  Living  Euchre.  The  idea  is  being  discussed  now, 
the  chief  difficulty  being  in  the  unwillingness  of  any  of  the  men 
to  appear  boldly  as  a  Knave  or  a  Jack  I  The  list  is  endless  of 
those  who  will  gladly  assume  the  part  of  the  Joker. 

The  many  friends  of  that  estimable  lady,  Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  will 
regret  to  learn  that  her  health  is  again  seriously  impaired. 

#  *  * 

What  a  terrible  black  eye — to  speak  metaphorically — the  frisky 
matrons  have  been  getting  of  late!  The  last  thing  out  is  the 
"  young  people's  cotillion,"  wherein  the  guests  are  limited  to 
strictly  young — i.  e.,  unmarried,  people;  no  married  folk  invited. 
Now,  can  this  be  the  result  of  much  coinp.aining  on  the  part  of 
the  mamas  of  the  swim  that  the  girls  have  next  to  no  chance  at 
all  in  competition  with  an  attractive  young  matron;  and  again, 
that  the  gay  benedicts  of  society  are  altogether  too  attentive  to 
the  girls,  thereby  keeping  off  the  devotion  of  the  eligible  parties. 
Be  the  cause  what  it  may,  the  fact  is  patent;  one  cotillion  has  al- 
ready taken  place  without  the  madames,  and  another  is  on  the 
tapis  for  the  near  future. 

»  »  # 

«■  What  has  become  of  pretty  MollieTorbert  that  society  sees  so 
little  of  her  lately  ?'' asked  many  a  young  man  at  the  suburban 
tea. 

It  was  said  that  a  number  of  Miss  Millie  Ashe's  naval  admirers 
were  to  come  down  from  Mare  Island  to-day  to  bid  her  bon  voyage, 
while  another  detachment  would  meet  the  overland  train  at  Port 
Costa  to  say  adieu  to  this  popular  young  lady  on  her  departure 
for  her  Eastern  quarters  for  the  winter. 

#  #  * 

* 
Mrs.  Belle  Donahue  has  gone  to  Spain,  so  the  Sprague  nuptials 
may  end  as  several  others  much  talked  of  have. 

#  *  » 

A  little  bird  whispered  to  "Sparks"  tother  day  that  the  illustrious 
son,  of  the  noble  legal  sire  now  long  dead,  who  spells  his  name  like  his 
New  York  uncle  who  says  that  "pie  should  not  be  eaten  with  can- 
vass backs,"  was  engaged  to  the  shoe  merchant's  daughter,  the  only 
Kate. 

#  #  * 

A  contretemps  occurred  at  the  reception  given  recently  by  Mrs. 
Gather  wood  which  has  caused  considerable  comment  in  the  ranks 
of  the  Four  Hundred.  Of  course,  everybody  knows,  or  ought  to 
know,  that  for  some  time  past,  it  has  been  rumored  that  an  en- 
gagement had  been  made  by  Will  Barnes  and  Miss  Delphine  Del- 
mas,  to  which,  so  the  story  goes,  General  Barnes  had  various  and 
apparently  insurmountable  objections.  His  opposition  to  the 
joining  of  his  name  with  that  of  Mr.  Delmas,  has  not  been  in  any 
way  weakened  by  the  numerous  stories  told  of  the  manner  in 
which  the  latter  gentleman  and  his  family  have  made  hay  while 
the  social  sun  has  been  shining  full  upon  them.  Mrs.  Barnes, 
the  mother  of  the  bright  young  district  attorney,  and  Miss  Del- 
mas, her  rumored  prospective  daughter-in-law  were  both  at  the 
Catherwood  reception.  Mrs.  Barnes  met  Miss  Delmas,  and  of- 
fered that  lady  her  hand  while  Miss  Delmas  was  reclining  com- 
fortably in  a  chair.  The  aristocratic  Delmas'  nose  proudly  ele- 
vated itself,  however,  when  the  aristocratic  Barnes'  hand  was 
extended,  and  the  younger  lady  drew  herself  up,  turned  her  bead 


in  a  true  Delsartean  manner,  shrugged  her  shoulders  just  like  a 
heroine  in  a  society  novel,  and  stared  into  space.  A  Barnes  had 
been  snubbed!  And,  ye  gods,  by  a  Delmas!  That  Mr.  Barnes 
was  greatly  mortified  was  a  matter  of  course.  It  was  a  very 
painful  moment  for  the  parties  participant  and  for  the  spectators. 
It  is  evident  that  Miss  Delmas  is  not  enamored  of  Mrs.  Barnes, 
but  to  a  disinterested  person  it  seems  that  the  young  lady  has 
taken  a  rather  heroic  method  of  overcoming  the  objections  of  the 
family  of  her  betrothed  to  her  alliance  with  the  pride  of  the  house. 


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§100.000  STOCK  OF  JAPANESE  CURIOS, 

Consignment  direct  from  Japan,  comprising  THOUSANDS  of  ANTIQUE 
and  MODERN  valuable  articles  too  numerous  to  mention. 

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BAN    PI  [SCO  NEWS  LETTER 


LATEST    TENNIS    NEWS. 

THKKK  bis  been  a  littlr  mora  movement  in  tennis  circles  of 
late.  a<  ihe  members  of  various  clubs  have  been  getting  into 
sbape  for  Thanksgiving  I>ay  tournaments.  The  California  Lawn 
Tennis  Club  on  that  day  will  give  their  first  quarterly  tournament 
for  the  new  subscription  cups  for  double  tennis.  There  are  more 
than  37  names  down  for  K1  W  each,  and  they  only  lack  three  to  com- 
plete the  list.  The  entries  so  far  are  Hoffman  and  Lee;  Monteagle 
and  I>avis:  Field  and  Allen;  DeLong  and  Stetson;  Allison  and 
Hobart;  Simpkins  and  Schmieden,  and  Whitney  and  Whitney. 
There  are  several  more  expected,  and  doubtless  the  first  tourna- 
ment will  receive  a  good  send  off.  Entries  close  on  the  22nd  inst., 
and  games  will  commence  at  ten  o'clock  sharp.  Since  Mr. 
Hubbard  returned  from  the  East,  he  has  not  bad  much  time  for 
practice,  yet  those  who  were  on  the  courts  on  Sunday  last,  had  a 
chance  to  see  a  very  pretty  game  between  him  and  Champion 
Taylor.  Both  played  a  quick  aggressive  game  and  some  of  the 
strokes  were  splendid.  Taylor,  even  in  bis  game  on  July  4th 
last,  never  played  belter,  and  his  form  was  if  anything,  superior 
to  bis  past  record.  His  had  everything  his  own  way  and  won 
three  straight  sets;  6-3,  6-4,  7-5.  Hubbard  was  evidently  rather 
out  of  practice  but  many  strokes  showed  that  he  has  learned 
something  in  the  East.  His  volleying  and  smashing  have  im- 
proved, and  moreover  he  has  learned  to  smash  from  the  back  hand, 
quite  a  new  feature  for  him.  One  thing,  however,  will  have  to 
be  remedied  in  the  single  court,  and  that  is,  to  have  the  net  at 
the  proper  height  at  the  sides.  As  it  is  now,  the  net  is  nearly 
the  same  height  all  along,  whereas  the  rules  read  for  three  feet  in 
the  middle  and  three  and  one-half  feet  at  the  sides.  This  will 
make  driving  down  the  side-lines  more  difficult,  but  we  certainly 
do  not  wish  for  Eastern  players  to  come  out  here  and  find  our 
nets  are  not  in  accordance  with  the  rules.  It  is  quite  probable 
that  Champion  Campbell  and  E.  L.  Hall  will  visit  us  this  winter 
and  give  exhibition  games. 

The  election  of  officers  of  the  Alameda  Tennis  Club  took  place 
a  few  days  ago,  and  the  following  were  elected:  E.  B.  de  Golia, 
President;  H.  M.  Landsberger,  Vice  President;  S.  M.  Haslett, 
George  W.    Lamb,  F.  B.  Burnell.  Directors. 

The  handicap  tournament,  with  twenty-four  entries,  was  con- 
cluded last  Sunday,  and  was  won  by  T.  A.  Landsberger,  receives 
2  bisques,  who  defeated  A.  C.  Haslett,  owe  30,  by  three  setts  to 
one. 

On  Thanksgiving  Day  the  Alameda  county  championship  will 
be  played  at  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club's  grounds,  and  the  entries 
are  coming  in  fast.  Everything  promises  to  make  it  successful. 
The  Oakland  Tennis  Club,  as  well  as  the  California  clubs,  are 
open  to    lovers  of  the  sport,  and  people  are  welcome. 

The  Alameda  Club  have  decided  to  drop  the  Stetson  continuous 
tournament  for  the  present,  as  they  do  not  believe  in  having  too 
many  tournaments  on  the  string. 


THE  San  Jose  Mercury  is  nothing  if  not  a  family  journal,  and 
admits  nothing  to  its  chaste  columns  that  could  cause  the 
blush  of  shame  to  mantle  the  brow  of  innocence.  Yet  last  Sun- 
day it  had  the  shamelessness  to  publish  a  "  scare  head  "  over  cer- 
tain dispatches,  after  this  fashion:  "A  Mississippi  Girl  Elopes 
Three  Times  in  One  Day.  The  Stallion  Record  Broken."  Fie, 
for  shame,  Charlie! 

THE  Norse  element  among  us  is  still  expressing  unintelligibly 
guttural  indignation,  because  Discovery  Day  honors  were  all 
paid  to  Columbus,  without  our  once  saying  to  the  countrymen  of 
Eriksen,  "By  your  lief." 


EUREKA    ENDOWMENT    ASSOCIATION. 


Why  the  "  Daily  Evening  Post"  Was  Sued  for  Libel. 


THE  appearance  of  the  suit  for  $30,000  libel  brought  by  the 
Eureka  Endowment  Association  against  the  Daily  Evening 
Post  this  week,  was  explained  by  Secretary  Knell,  of  the  Asso 
ciation,  to  be  for  an  unwarranted  attack  made  by  that  paper  last 
Monday,  when  it  published  the  order  of  Judge  Slack  directing 
the  payments  of  certain  moneys  to  be  paid  by  the  Receiver,  who 
was  appointed  last  June  in  the  case  of  Hugh  Smith  et  al.  vs.  Pa- 
cific Endowment  League.  Instead  of  so  publishing  the  facts,  the 
Post  put  the  court's  decision  under  the  heading  of  the  "Eureka 
Endowment."  The  publishing  of  said  article  in  that  way  natur- 
ally hurt  the  business  of  the  Association,  and  caused  a  stir 
amongst  the  members  of  the  Association,  they  believing  a  Re- 
ceiver had  been  appointed  for  the  Eureka,  whereas  the  Associa- 
tion is  to-day  in  just  as  prosperous  condition  as  ever,  considering 
the  many  obstacles  it  had  to  overcome  by  reason  of  the  failure  of 
so  many  other  institutions  within  the  past  two  years.  From 
May  1,  1891,  to  the  present  date,  the  Eureka  Endowment  has 
paid  over  $250,000  to  its  members  on  matured  coupons.  Hence 
this  action  for  libel,  the  officers  believing  that  the  publication  of 
that  article  was  done  to  injure  the  standing  of  the  Association. 


A  BILL  has  just  passed  the  Mexican  Congress,  extending  until 
June  SOU),  I  B98,  the  lime  allowed  to  mine-owners  for  the  pre- 
sentation of  their  till.-  deeds  to  the  Department  of  Finance  for  the 
assessment  of  the  new  tax.  and  reducing,  in  the  case  of  iron  and 
quicksilver  mines,  the  title-deed  tax  to  one  dollar  per  hectare  and 
the  annual  tax  to  one  dollar  and  a  half  per  hectare.  The  Execu- 
tive is  furthermore  authorized  to  modify  existing  mining  legisla- 
tion as  required  by  circumstances. 

A  DAILY   PAPER  heads   an  account  "One  Lady  Whaler,"  as 
if   she   were   a  rara   avis.     Has  the  writer  ever  been  around 
among  our  public  schools? 


Mothers  be  sure  and.  use 
children  while  teething. 


1  Mrs.  Winslows'  Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your 


I^ypi^r's 
Celebrated    Qlou^. 


A  new  assortment  in 
Swede  and  Glace  finish 
just  received. 


Ill  to  121  Post  Street 


COATS 


-FOR- 


MEN  AND  WOMEN. 

Are  worn  in  place  of  an  over- 
coat or  outside  wrap, 

Perfectly  Waterproof. 

GOODYEAR  RUBBER  CO, 


R.pi.  Pease  — Agents— S.  M.  Rtmyon, 
677-579  Market  St.,  S.F. 


GK  "W".  olabk:  &c  CO.. 
653  Market  Street, 

FOB 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW     SHADES, 

And    CORNICE    POLES. 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


A    STORY    WITHOUT    A    MORAL. 


THE  cards  were  out  for  the  wedding.  The  trousaeau  was  com- 
plete. The  best  man  had  the  ring.  The  company  had  assem- 
bled, and  the  final  touches  were  being  put  to  the  bride's  veil. 

The  maid  of  honor  and  the  four  bridesmaids  were  superintend- 
ing this  ceremony.  All  these  girls  had  graduated  together  two 
years  before,  and  had  agreed  then  to  fill  these  relative  positions 
at  the  first  wedding  among  them, 

"  There! '' said  Nettie  Valentine,  one  of  the  pink  maids;  "  I 
think  that  is  quite  perfect;  don't  you,  girls?  " 

"  Yes,  lovely  "  murmured  Theresa  Evans,  one  of  the  blues. 
"You  must  go  down  now,  of  course,"  as  an  impatient  knock 
came  at  the  door.  "Let  us  say  good-bye  to  Pauline — Pauline 
Desmond  for  the  last  time." 

»•  I  do  wish,  dear,"  said  Fannie  Graham,  the  maid  of  honor, 
"  that  you  could  have  made  up  your  mind  to  insist  that  he  should 
take  your  name  instead  of  you  his.  But  you  will  write  it  with  a 
hyphen,  won't  you  ?  " 

"  Of  course,  girls ;   we  all  promised,  and  I  certainly  will." 

"  And  you  won't  forget  what  else  you  promised  ?  "  said  several 
voices. 

"No,  girls.  You  may  depend  upon  me.  Yes,  mamma,  I  am 
ready  now." 

Five  minutes  later  the  bride  and  groom  stood  at  the  head  of 
the  long  parlor,  in  front  of  the  bay-window  where  the  clergyman 
had  been  awaiting  them. 

Frank  Lacy  was  a  fine  young  fellow,  and  they  made  a  hand- 
some couple.  To  be  sure,  one  of  the  bridesmaids  (the  blue  orje, 
who  had  kept  on  her  eye-glasses)  had  her  own  opinion  of  Pauline, 
in  that  she  had  not  preferred  the  Greek  professor ;  but  then  really, 
you  know,  the  professor  was  pretty  old,  and,  as  he  never  talked 
in  society,  it  was  not  generally  supposed  that  he  understood  Eng- 
lish as  well  as  Greek. 

Then  there  was  Mr.  Midas,  thought  one  of  the  pink  brides- 
maids. Pauline  was  a  simpleton  there.  But,  after  all,  it  was 
just  as  well,  and  when  he  took  notice  again 

At  this  point  the  pink  maid's  wandering  attention  came  back 
to  the  sentence  the  minister  was  just  finishing. 

"  — so  long  as  you  both  shall  live  ?  " 

It  was  the  bridt's  turn  to  say,  »  1  will,"  as  the  groom  had  just 
said  it. 

Pauline  stood  erect.  She  raised  her  dark  eyes  and  fixed  them 
upon  the  face  of  the  question.  She  was  pale,  but  it  was  with  an 
earnest  purpose,  not  with  nervousness. 

"  I  will  do  all  these  things,"  she  replied,  "except  that  I  will 
not  obey  him." 

Every  one  was  taken  by  surprise,  except  the  five  girls  who 
stood  about  the  bride.  There  was  a  profound  hush,  while  the 
clock  on  the  mantel  ticked  ten  times. 

"Frank,"  she  said,  turning  to  her  half-made  husband,  "you  do 
not  wish  me  to  make  this  monstrous  promise — to  drag  this  relic 
of  the  Middle  Ages — of  the  times  when  women  were  slaves  and 
playthings  of  men — into  our  lives  ?  You  do  not  expect  this  of 
me,  Frank?  " 

("  Because  if  he  does,"  murmured  the  tall  usher  to  the  pink 
bridesmaid,  "  he  is  very  sanguine,  and  he  will  apparently  be  dis- 
appointed— like  England,  you  know.") 

"  It  is  I  that  you  wish  for,  not  a  servant;  is  it  not  so,  Frank?  " 

"  Certainly,  Pauline;  you  need  not  say  it;  but  why  couldn't 
you  have  arranged  this  quietly  beforehand  ?  " 

m  Because  I  wished  to  do  it  now.  My  friends,"  she  said,  turn- 
ing to  the  assembled  guests,  "  am  I  not  right  ?  It  is  tor  you, 
my  sisters,  that  I  do  this.  A  recent  writer  has  said, '  Would  that 
some  woman  would  have  courag*e  to  make  a  scene,  if  necessary, 
on  such  an  occasion  1  It  would  be  a  glorious  scene,  if  she  pos- 
sessed the  courage  and  dignity  to  refuse  for  the  sake  of  outraged 
womanhood  to  pronounce  the  monstrous  promise.  It  would  be 
woman's  splendid  declaration  of  independence.  The  brave  bride 
would  be  the  heroine  of  the  hour.  She  would  do  more  than  a 
thousand  sermons  to  wipe  out  this  blot  upon  the  Nineteenth 
Century!  " 

("  Quoted  correctly,"  whispered  the  blue  maid.  "  What  a  mem- 
ory Pauline  hasl  ") 

»  I  am  this  brave  bride,  my  frienaa.  Now,  we  will  go  on,"  she 
said,  turning  to  the  minister. 

The  service  proceeded.  The  bride  did  not  spoil  her  point  by 
refusing  to  be  given  away.  The  vows  were  made  (leaving  out 
the  obnoxious  word).  Then  came  the  nervous  moment  while  the 
beat  man  fumbled  for  the  ring.  He  had  not  lost  it.  He  gave  it 
to  the  man,  who  gave  it  to  the  woman,  who  gave  it  to  the  minis- 
ter, who  gave  it  to  the  man,  while  the  Nineteenth  Century  stood 
by  and  coi)8ented.  The  groom  placed  it  upon  the  finger  of  the 
bride  and  hesitated  over  the  words  he  was  to  Bay: 

"  With  this  ring  I  thee  wed " 

"  And  with  all  my  worldly  goods  I  thee  endow,"  prompted  the 
minister. 

"  No,"  said  Frank,  abruptly.    "  Not  all  of  them." 

The  clock  ticked  again. 

"  My  friends,"  said  Frank,  turning  to  the  company,  "  my  brothers, 
I  call  you  to  my  support.     Why  should  a  man  be  expected  century 


after  century  to  make  this  monstrous  promise  ?  Why  should  we  give 
all  our  property  to  our  wives  ?  " 

("It's  not  a  bad  plan,  sometimes,"  said  Uncle  Canfield,  of  Canfield, 
Drew  &  Co*,  but  nobody  beard  him.) 

"  Why  should  a  self-respecting  man  be  expected  to  bring  home  all 
his  money,  like  a  model  little  boy  in  a  Sunday-school  book  ?  Let  us 
throw  off  the  yoke,  and  our  wives  will  respect  us  the  more.  There 
are  nine  hundred  and  seventy-eight  employments  open  to  women 
where  there  were  formerly  but  six.  They  are  able  to  get  worldly 
goods  themselves.  Pauline,  I  know  it  is  me  that  you  wish  for,  not 
my  money." 

("  It  is  I,"  murmured  the  blue  maid,  mechanically.) 

("  Mean  old  thing!  "  said  the  pink  maid  to  the  tall  usher.  "Mr. 
Midas  wouldn't  have  done  so.") 

"  You  can  go  on  now,"  said  Frank  to  the  minister. 

11  Wait.  Perhaps  you  had  better  not  go  on,"  said  the  bride's  mother, 
nervously. 

"  I  should  think  not,"  said  Aunt  Sophia,  severely,  to  the  bride's 
sister.  "  You  know  I  never  approved  of  your  forms,  and  you  see 
what  comes  of  them.  They  had  better  wait  a  couple  of  weeks  and 
join  some  church  where  they  don't  have  them." 

"  I  wish  they  would,"  whispered  one  guest  to  her  sister.  ''They'd 
have  to  give  back  the  presents,  and  that  pie-knife  I  gave  would  just 
do  for  Fannie  Warner.     Her  wedding's  to-morrow." 

"And  perhaps  the  caterer  will  take  back  the  wedding-cake,"  mused 
an  impertinent  youth,  and  that  will  do  for  that  same  Fannie.  But  we'll 
have  to  have  the  salads.     I'm  awfully  hungry." 

"Fun,  isn't  it?"  said  the  tall  usher  to  the  pink  maid.  "  I  don't 
often  enjoy  weddings.  But  if  they  don't  go  on  it  would  be  a  pity  to 
waste  the  minister.     Some  of  the  rest  of  us  might  use  him." 

"  Go  on,"  said  the  groom,  impatiently. 

"  Go  on,"  said  the  bride  firmly. 

"  Go  on,"  said  Uncle  Canfield  from  the  back  of  the  room. 

"Oh,  don't,"  said  the  other  pink  maid,  looking  for  her  handker- 
chief. 

Though  it  be  long  in  the  telling  how  those  behind  cried  forward 
and  those  before  cried  back,  it  was  only  fifty  seconds  by  the  clock. 
Then  the  reverend  Mr.  Blake  cut  the  Gordian  knot  by  saying,  hur- 
riedly, "  I  pronounce  you  man  and  wife."  Then  he  went  back  and 
finished  the  service  in  the  usual  fashion. 

M,  Helen  Fraser  Lovett,  in  Lip-pincoWs, 


THROUGH    TRUSTING    YEARS. 
(A  Rondolet.) 


THROUGH    trusting  years  her  heart  was  mine, 
Attuned  to  sweetest  notes  divine; 
A  melody  with  rapturous  thrill, 
Could  give  no  sweeter  strain,  or  fill 
My  soul  ao  full  of  Love's  new  wine. 
Around  her  heart  love  tendrils  twine 
Affection's  fingers  trace  the  sign, 

Expressed  in  tones  of  artist  skill 
Through  trusting  years. 
Her  praise  I'll  sing   in  lofty  line 
Of  poet's  song.     With  feeling  fine 

The   heart's   deep   chords   are    stirred   until 
Two  lives  are  joined  for  good  or  ill, 
And  at  Love's  banquet  daily  dine 
Through  trusting  years. 
San  Francisco,  Nov.  18,  1892.  Robebt  Gkay  Mackay. 


JTts  so   GooTlf" 


is  the  universal  tribute  of  the  children  who  use 


Highland 
Evaporated  Cream 

unsweetened. 
Don't  take   other,    cheap    brands— insist    on 
having  Highland. 
HELVETIA  MILK  CONDENSING  CO.,  Highland.  111. 


N        19,  1892 


s\\    PI         IISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


ROYAL     MUSICIANS. 

IT  appear*  that  ihe  Rifled  "C*rm«n    Bylva"  Is  ft  fair  pianist,  bat 
ft  far  mora  hrilhant  harpist.  »trtoa;lng  the  "lyre  of  Rod  mania" 
weird  folkloi  thai  -trance  ration.     AlaO.    we   may 

menuon  that  Ring  he  Hellenes,  brother  of  the  Princess  "t 

shows  «  curious  ear  for  music  by  delighting  in  playing  all 
kind*  of  nit-l<Hiic«  on  the  "glass  Either"  and  wine  glasses,  besides 
handling  with  ptvst  **kill  the  cymbals.  Bach  is  a  cursory  review  of 
the  primely  musicians  of  our  own  age.  But.  harking  b.ick,  we  find 
the  same  love,  if  not  general  brilliant  execution,  of  "the  art  that 
charms  a  savage  breast."  Tor  we  know  as  an  historical  fact  that 
that  curious  mixture  of  witchcraft,  superstition,  and  amour.  King 
Henry  VIII.,  composed  two  entire  masses,  often  sung  in  his 
majesty's  private  chapel,  and  that  a  good  deal  of  his  time  was  occu- 
pied with  more  or  less  artistir  pertorruances  on  the  flute!  In  ad- 
dition, the  great  Tulor  king  is  said  to  have  set  to  music  several 
madrigals  and  composed  some  ballads.  Indeed,  few  readers  would 
believe  that  some  of  the  much-abused  king's  compositions  have  en- 
dured to  the  present  day.  and  indicate  beyond  a  doubt  a  remarkable 
musical  talent,  and  that.  too.  developed— very  rare,  and  the  more 
remarkable  if  we  bear  in  mind  the  crude  and  coarse  bent  of  the 
times. 

t^ueen  Elizibeth  performed,  we  are  told  by  her  admirers,  with 
wonderful  dexterity  on  the  "  spinet,"  or,  more  correctly  speaking,  on 
the  "  virginal,"  an  earlier  form  of  the  same,  resembling  a  harpsi- 
chord. And  here  Dr.  Burney  relates  a  good  story,  which  not  only 
confirms  but  also  clearly  indicates  that  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  should 
rank  among  royal  musicians.  "  Sir  James  Melville,"  says  the  cele- 
brated historian,  "  relates  a  marvelous  conversation  with  Queen 
Elizabeth,  when,  as  envoy  of  Queen  Mary  in  15G4,  he  was  dispatched 
to  her  court.  Having  inquired  how  the  Scotch  queen  dressed,  the 
color  of  her  hair,  whether  prettier  than  her  own,  who  was  the  more 
beautiful,  "vho  was  the  taller,  Queen  Elizabeth  asked  what  she  occu- 
pied her  time  with.  '  I  answered.'  says  Melville,  '  that  when  serious 
affairs  of  State  permitted,  her  majesty  studied  history  or  amused  her- 
self by  playing  the  lute  or  the  virginal.  '  Is  she  a  good  player?'  said 
Queen  Elizabeth.  '  Irreproachably  for  a  queen,'  was  the  answer.  The 
same  afternoon  Lord  Hunsdon  took  me  to  a  gallery  at  the  palace  to 
hear  some  music — it  was  the  queen  playing  the  virginal.  Having 
listened  for  a  time,  and  lifting  the  curtain,  I  beheld  her  ma- 
jesty; but  having  her  back  turned  towards  me  1  looked  for  a  while. 
Suddenly  she  turned  and  saw  me.  appeared  surprised,  and  then  in- 
dignant. Presently  I  was  called,  when  she  said  she  only  played  to 
avoid  being  melancholy.  Next  she  asked  who  played  better,  Queen 
Elizabeth  or  Queen  Mary  ?  I,  of  course,  gave  the  prudent  answer 
that  her  Majesty  was  the  superior  executionist." 

Charles  I.,  we  are  also  told,  played  the  violoncello  or  bass-viol  with 
-great  precision;  and  James  I.  of  Scotland  was  endowed  with  such  a 
keen  ear  and  musical  nature  that  several  old  traditional  Scottish 
songs  are  attributed  to  him.  He  maintained  at  his  court  a  host  of 
lute,  harp,  violin  and  horn  players,  who,  it  is  shown  by  accounts, 
were  paid  regular  salaries.  It  is  even  said  that  King  James  was  the 
soverign  who  introduced  the  organ  in  the  kirk.  Frederick  the  Great 
was  an  enthusiastic  musician  and  a  first-rate  flute-player.  It  is  said 
that  sometimes,  after  a  victorious  battle,  he  would  repair  to  his  tent 
and  amuse  himself  with  his  favorite  instrument.  And  the  Czar 
Alexander  I.,  although  his  father,  in  blind  autocracy,  prohibited  his 
(learning  it,  practised  and  loved  music  all  his  life. 

FiiaaJly,  nearly  every  Emperor  of  the  House  of  Hapsburg  has  been 
•musical,  and  some  even  composers  of  considerable  merit.  Leopold  I . 
was  an  excellent  pianist  and  composer  of  arias  and  cantatas,  display- 
ing great  musieal  talent.  And  Queen  Hortense,  mother  of  Napoleon 
III.,  has  rendered  herself  famous  by  composing  "  Partant  pour  la 
■Syrie."  Truly,  the  list  of  royal  musicians  might  be  extended  inde- 
finitely ;  but  those  quoted  will  go  to  show  that  princes  and  princesses 
are  not  behind  ordinary  mortals  in  love  of  one  of  the  most  noble  and 
soul-stirring  gifts  of  nature. 


Skin  Diseases. 

What  spectacle  is  more  disgusting  than  that  of  a  man  or  woman 
with  a  skin  disease  which  shows  itself  in  pimples  or  blotches  on 
hands,  arms,  face  and  neck?  It  is  simply  impure  blood.  See  what 
Bkandreth's  Pills  did  for  a  chronie  case: 

George  Chapman,  Pincening,  Mich.,  says: 

"For  four  years  I  was  in  the  Mounted  Infantry  in  the  U.  S.  Army, 
residing  during  that  time  principally  in  Texas.  Almost  all  of  that 
time  I  had  a  chronic  skin  disease,  characterized  by  an  eruption  over 
the  entire  surface  of  my  legs  and  thighs,  arms  and  chest.  The  doc- 
tors termed  it  eczma.  I  had  given  up  all  hopes  of  ever  being  cured, 
when  Brandeeth's  Pills  were  recommended  to  me.  I  concluded 
to  try  them,  and  1  have  thanked  God  daily  since  then  that  I  did  so. 
I  used  them  for  about  three  months,  and  by  that  time,  was  com- 
pletely cured  and  have  never  had  any  trouble  since." 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  teature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  The  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  "West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


^HSTTIEIDILTT^IJLIN" 

WHISKY. 

m  VERY  OLD, 

RICH 
AS 
CREAM, 

AND 

SMOOTH 

AS 

SATIN, 

THE  JOHN  T.  CUTTING   CO. 

PACIFIC    COAST    AGENTS. 


■jjlTEDIUIVUn 


In  addition  to  their  large  and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 
Jackets, 

Ulsters, 
FRATINGER    &    CO., 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

lOS  Kearny   Street. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Kov.  19,  1892. 


BE-LQPKER-ON 


I  ■.  ^y^j^fcii-"^^ 


OLD  Bill  Stewart,  of  Nevada,  is  the  pride  of  his  friends  and  the 
despair  of  his  enemies.  Built  like  a  prize-fighter,  strong  as  an 
ox,  sound  as  a  rock  and  with  a  mind  as  vigorous  as  is  his  body,  he  is 
to-day  in  his  sixty-fifth  year,  one  of  the  ablest  and  most  energetic 
men  in  the  United  States  Senate.  He  is  one  of  the  few  men  of 
the  day,  who  in  their  personality  possess  the  characteristics  of 
the  ideal  miner  of  the  early  days,  whose  praises  have  for  years 
been  sounded  in  song  and  story.  He  is  over  six  feet  tall,  has 
white  bushy  hair,  and  a  long  grey  beard,  wears  a  large  slouch 
hat,  and  has  a  keen  expression  upon  his  weather-beaten  face. 
Stewart  "  never  takes  water."  When  he  goes  into  a  fight,  he  goes 
lo  stay,  whether  it  is  a  debate  from  the  rostrum,  the  settling  of 
questions  with  nature's  weapon,  or  the  pulling  of  triggers.  I  do 
not  wish  to  intimate  that  the  grey-bearded  champion  of  silver  is  a 
gentleman  who  goes  about  seeking  whom  he  may  devour,  but  he 
has  the  reputation  of  being  ready  and  willing  at  any  time  to  tight 
his  weight  in  grizzlies.  This  reputation,  I  understand,  is  necessary 
to  political  success  in  Nevada  State.  The  Senator  has  great  powers 
of  endurance.  He  never  misses  an  appointment,  and  takes  great 
delight  in  turning  up  unexpectedly  whenever  he  hears  that  his 
opponents  have  manufactured  any  scheme  for  his  discomfiture. 
Upon  one  occasion,  in  going  to  a  political  meeting,  he  killed  three 
mules  on  the  road.  He  had  to  get  to  that  meeting  on  time,  and 
one  or  more  mules  were  not  to  be  considered  when  old  Bill  Stew- 
art felt  the  call  of  the  country.  Upon  another  occasion,  during 
a  campaign,  he  traveled  over  three  hundred  miles  in  three  days, 
visiting  three  different  towns,  and  delivering  addresses  at  each. 
On  this  trip  he  did  not  take  his  clothes  off  at  all,  and  had  just 
three  hours'  sleep.  The  remarkable  thing  about  this  old  war- 
horse  is  his  ability  to  go  with  hardly  any  sleep.  He  will  take  a 
nap  in  a  buggy,  while  being  driven  from  one  town  to  another  at 
a  2:20  gait,  or  will  drop  asleep  in  a  chair  for  ten  or  fifteen  min- 
utes while  waiting  to  address  the  admiring  electors  of  the  sage 
brush  State.  He  never  rests.  His  flesh  is  as  hard  as  wood,  and 
his  health,  apparently,  absolutely  perfect.  At  present  his  war 
cry  is  Aut  silver,  aut  Nullus.  As  he  proudly  said  himself  once, 
when  asked  how  he  could  eDdure  such  fatigue,  with  such  little 
rest.  'Restl  Sleep  1  I  have  no  time  for  sleep  during  a  cam- 
paign. I  don't  need  rest.  I  can  outstay  and  out  fight  any 
man  in  the  State."  And  he  does. 
*  *  * 

The  recent  victory  of  the  Populists  and  silver  men  in  Nevada, 
as  related  in  an  interview  with  the  gentlemen  from  the  8ilver 
State,  was  mostly  due  to  a  combination  of  the  fourteen  papers 
of  the  State.  During  the  last  campaign  the  papers  published  the 
advertisements  of  the  Republican  party,  which  body  of  law- 
makers, after  the  campaign,  refused  to  pay  the  bills.  The  pa- 
pers then  made  a  combination,  and  decided  not  to  print  this  year 
any  Republican  political  advertisements  or  announcements  of 
any  sort.  This  proposition  was  carried  out,  to  the  disgust  of  the 
Republicans.  This  reminds  me  of  the  manner  in  which  the  Ne- 
vada newspaper  men  killed  off  a  politician  named  Gallagher  some 
years  ago.  A  bill  had  been  introduced  into  the  Legislature  in 
which  all  the  papers  were  interested,  for  if  the  bill  passed,  the 
probabilities  were  greatly  in  favor  of  the  income  of  the  papers 
being  materially  increased,  by  reason  of  additional  State  printing. 
The  opponents  of  the  bill  had  awaited  a  favorable  opportunity  to 
kill  it.  This  opportunity  came  one  afternoon,  when  several  of 
the  friends  of  the  bill  were  not  present  in  the  Senate,  being  for 
the  time  "off  the  reservation."  Sam  Davis  and  other 
newspaper  men  were  watching  the  proceedings,  however,  and 
communicated  their  fears  regarding  the  bill  to  the  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  who  presided  in  the  Senate,  and  was  friendly 
to  the  measure.  They  had  a  scheme,  and  it  was  a  daring 
one  enough,  which,  however,  they  had  determined  to  carry 
through  at  all  hazards  and  save  the  bill.  Before  the  bill  could  be 
called  up,  a  friend  of  it  arose  and  moved  that  the  Senate  adjourn. 
On  this  there  was  a  standing  vote.  Davis  had  stepped  into  the 
seat  of  the  absent  member  from  Ormsby  county,  and  another 
newspaper  man  had  taken  the  seat  of  the  gentleman  from  Storey. 
They  both  arose  and  voted  in  favor  of  adjournment,  being  counted 
by  the  Lieutenant-Governor.  The  motion  was  carried  by  two 
votes.  Just  as  the  presiding  officer  was  about  to  announce  the 
vote,  and  thus  save  the  newspaper  bill  for  another  day,  when  its 
friends  would  rally  to  its  support,  Gallagher,  who  had  seen  the 
interlopers  vote,  arose  and  made  a  loud  protest. 


"  I  protest,"  he  cried,  "  against  this  vote." 

"  Motion  to  adjourn  is  not  debatable,"  said  the  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  who  thereupon  dashed  down  his  gavel  and  announced 
the  8enate  adjourned  until  the  morning. 

Gallagher  then  rushed  over  to  Davis  and  his  friend,  and  shouted 
to  them,  "  Did  you  vote  on  that  motion  to  adjourn?" 

"  Of  course  we  did,"  said  Davis,  "The  gentleman  from  Orms- 
by county  was  absent,  and  as  the  people  of  that  county  have  a 
right  to  be  represented  in  the  Senate,  I  just  stepped  into  the  seat, 
and  took  the  absent  gentleman's  place.  Ormsby  county  must  be 
represented." 

"  Yes,  I  voted  too,"  said  the  other  newspaper  man.  "  You 
needn't  think  you  can  run  your  measly  old  Senate,  and  not  give 
Storey  co«nty  a  fair  deal.  No,  sir  I  The  people  of  Storey  county 
demand  to  be  heard,  and  as  their  representative  was  absent,  I  vol- 
unteered for  them,  and  acted  in  their  behalf.     Yes,  sir!" 

"  Well  I'll  have  you  both  up  before  the  Senate  to-morrow,"  said 
Gallagher.     *'  I'll  see  if  this  thing  can  be  done." 

"  Can  be  done!  Why,  it  seems  to  me  it  has  been  done,"  said 
Davis.     "  What  are  you  going  to  do  about  it?" 

Gallagher,  however,  did  not  push  the  case,  and  nothing  came 
of  the  matter.  When  the  bill  came  up  again,  its  friends  were 
present,  and  it  was  passed. 

The  newspaper  men  worked  out  a  terrible  revenge  on  Galla- 
gher. He  was  subsequently  a  candidate  for  the  nomination  for 
Governor,  and  all  the  papers  agreed  to  completely  ignore  him. 
He  went  from  one  to  auother  and  announced  his  candidacy,  but 
not  a  notice  did  he  get.  One  day  he  dropped  into  the  Carson 
Appeal  office,  and  there  asked  Sam  Davis  how  it  was  that  none 
of  the  papers  noticed  him.  "  I  suppose  if  you  tell  a  paper  you 
are  a  candidate  you'll  get  a  notice,"  said  Davis.  "  I'll  give  you  a 
notice  myself." 

Now  Gallagher  was  John  Gallagher,  of  Winnemucca.  The  Ap- 
peal next  morning  announced  that  Mr.  Henry  Clay  Gallagher,  of 
Humboldt,  was  a  candidate  for  Governor.  That  went  all  over 
the  State,  every  paper  quoting  it,  and  then  asking  who  Mr. 
Henry  Clay  Gallagher,  of  Humboldt,  was.  Gallagher  finally 
called  on  Davis  and  explained  to  him  that  the  Appeal  bad  made  a 
mistake  in  his  name.  "  I  am  John  Gallagher,  of  Winnemucca," 
he  said. 

"  Oh,  I'll  fix  that  all  right,"  said  Davis,  and  the  Appeal  then 
announced  that  in  its  previous  announcement  it  had  been  in 
error,  and  that  it  was  not  Mr.  Henry  Clay  Gallagher,  of  Hum- 
boldt, who  was  a  candidate  for  Governor,  but  that  gentleman's 
brother,  Mr.  Thomas  Jefferson  Gallagher,  of  White  Pine." 

At  the  convention,  Gallagher's  name  was  not  mentioned.  He 
spoke  to  Davis  about  the  way  in  which  the  papers  had  treated 
him,  and  said,  "This  looks  to  me  like  a  conspiracy.  You  fel- 
lows have  made  up  your  minds  to  bury  me." 

"  You  hit  it  the  first  time,"  said  Davis.     "  Right  you  are." 

Gallagher  was  afterwards  elected  to  the  Senate,  where  he  was 
when  another  newspaper  bill  came  up.  Davis  went  to  see  him. 
"  Gallagher,"  he  said,  "  how  do  you  stand  on  this  newspaper 
bill?" 

"  Davis,"  said  Gallagher,  "  if  you  fellows  will  promise  to  dig 
me  up  out  of  the  political  grave  in  which  you  have  buried  me, 
and  will  let  people  know  I  am  alive  and  on  top  of  earth,  I'll  vote 
for  any bill  you  put  in." 

And  he  did. 

*  *  • 

On  a  little  hillside  amid  the  Mower-laden  walks  of  Mountain 
View  Cemetery,  on  the  other  side  of  the  bay,  is  a  mound  turned 
towards  the  glories  of  the  Western  sun.  The  path  that  leads  to 
it  is  untrodden,  save  when  a  remembering  Bohemian  strays 
within  the  silent  city  and  wends  his  way  thither,  and  there  is  no 
stone  nor  pillar  to  tell  the  stranger  who  it  is  that  sleeps  beneath 
the  sod.  Yet  the  grave  is  that  of  one  of  the  brightest,  one  of  the 
wittiest,  the  most  accomplished  of  that  gay  set  that  founded  the 
Athenian  Club,  and  made  many  an  hour  pass  pleasantly  in  the 
brother  Bohemian  haunt  on  this  side  of  the  bay.  Alfred  Share  is 
the  name  of  the  man  whose  memory  has  thus  been  slurred,  and 
there  is  many  a  "  gay  dog"  and  "  old  boy"  who,  on  hearing  it, 
will  have  his  heart  touched,  as  memory  brings  back  for  an  in- 
stant one  of  the  noblest  Romans  of  them  all.  But  be  is  to  sleep, 
unmarked  and  unnoticed,  no  longer.  The  Athenians  started  a 
subscription  list  on  Saturday  night  for  a  monument,  to  be  erected 
over  the  little  mound,  and  despite  the  picayunishness  and  self- 
ishness of  some  of  those  who  owe  many  a  happy  hour  of  their 
lives  to  poor  Share,  $280  was  raised  directly  the  list  was  issued, 
and  much  more  is  promised  before  the  fund  closes.  A  plain 
shaft,  appropriately  inscribed,  is  the  design  that  will  probably  be 
selected  by  those  who  have  interested  themselves  in  the  move- 
ment. 

»  #  » 

Of  all  the  men  who  have  reason  to  feel  hilarious  over  recent 
political  victories  none  are  more  so  than  the  delegation  of  Sage- 
brush politicians  who  reached  this  city  last  Monday.  When  they 
came  into  the  Palace  Hotel  the  rumor  spread  throughout  the 
place  that  they  were  a  syndicate  of  London  capitalists  who  had 
come  to  foreclose  a  mortgage  on  the  house.  They  were  headed 
by  Senator  Stewart,  of  gigantic  figure  and  long  white  beard.     He 


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had  dowotd  a  carefully  planned  conspiracy  ">  "<»  own  8t*te  to 
lay  him  on  the  »helf.  and  was  proportionately  happy.  Congress- 
man Bartlne  »n.l  Stale  Senator?  M.  1>  Foley  and  Tom  lii.key. 
»innv-»itti  :  :her  «nd    lesser  ligbla.  beaded  the  job.  and 

by  ao  doing  made  a  bid  for  Administration  favors  and  the  Wail 
street  barrel.  The  Administration  went  down  and  Ibe  Wall  street 
barrel  never  materialized.  Alongside  of  Stewart  was  Congress- 
man-elect  Krank  Newlands.  who.  as  the  result  of  his  brilliant 
campaign  in  the  Sage-brush,  received  7,800  votes  oat  of  10,000, 
and  is  now  regarded  as  a  formidable  candidate  for  the  United 
Slates  Senate  against  Senator  Jones  four  years  from  now.  Jones 
bas  always  been  very  strong  in  Nevada,  but  at  the  last  moment 
be  declared  for  Harrison,  and  the  Sage-brushers  turned  Harrison 
under  by  such  a  decided  majority  that  the  Newlands  men  claim 
their  man  as  the  logical  candidate.  Along  with  Stewart  and  New- 
lands  at  the  Palace,  were  their  lieutenant  in  the  fight,  Mr.  Kep- 
pler,  Stewart's  confidential  secretary;  Senator  Billy  Sharon,  of 
Storey,  whom  the  Nevada  people  are  calling  on  to  run  for  Governor 
next  election:  W.  E.  F.  Deal,  Charles  Mack,  Frank  Golden,  and 
■Farmer"  Sam  Davis.  They  all  looked  worn  from  the  cam- 
paign and  were  covered  with  quartz  dust.  Davis  had  on  an  old 
black  alpaca  shirt,  that  he  must  have  donned  at  the  beginning  of 
the  campaign,  and  a  necktie  worse  than  anything  Colonel  Irish 
was  ever  seen  with.  They  seemed  all  to  think,  however,  that 
bosses  of  the  Populist  party  in  Nevada  were  entitled  to  wear 
gunny  sacks  in  'Frisco  if  they  felt  like  it. 

"Hard  campaign,  Senator?"  queried  the  clerk. 
"No  fight  at  all — merely  a  political  picnic,"  was  the  reply. 
"Wasn't  the  result  a  great  surprise,  Mr.  Golden?" 
"I  should  say  it  was.     I  can't  figure  out  how  the  devil  we  lost 
that  Constable  in  Gold  Hill." 

"Harrison  is  the  first  President  that  ever  squealed  after  defeat, 
tbereby  presenting  a  pitiful  spectacle  to  the  American  Republic. 
Talk  about  preparing  a  statement  for  the  public  to  explain  the 
defeat  I  Why,  hadn't  Quay  already  covered  the  ground  with  his 
report,  when  he  9aid  'Lack  of  votes?'  Nothing  could  be  clearer 
than  this,"  said  Mr.  Deal. 

"You  see  the  trouble  was,"  continued  Farmer  Davis,  of  the 
Carson  Appeal,  "Harrison  has  long  been  in  the  habit  when  he 
awakened  in  the  morning  of  telling  the  Ruler  of  the  Universe 
that  he  could  go  off  watch,  and  the  public  got  tired  of  it," 

"It  was  a  great  campaign,"  said  Mr.  Mack,  "a  campaign  of 
education.  Stewart  and  Newlands  could  have  had  the  Republican 
nominations  on  a  platter,  and  were  elected  without  spending  a 
dollar.  They  declined  it,  headed  the  silver  party  movement,  and 
made  the  most  aggressive  fight  ever  known  in  the  history  of  the 
State,  winning  by  5,000  majority  and  cleaning  up  every  county. 
Even  Ormsby  county,  the  hotbed  of  Federal  and  State  office- 
holders, was  swept  clean,  and  two  years  from  now  the  whole 
capitoi  building  will  be  swept  with  a  new  broom.  It  wasn't  a 
monied  fight,  although  a  great  deal  of  money  was  spent  by  both 
sides.  The  people  simply  got  up  and  voted.  Then,  again,  the 
Republican  party  organs  left  their  camp  and  went  with  the  peo- 
ple. It  shows  what  a  power  the  press  is  in  a  campaign.  In  some 
counties  the  Republicans  had  no  primaries,  as  the  newspapers  re- 
fused to  advertise  their  calls,  and  the  people  thought  the  party 
had  taken  in  its  sign." 

Here  Stewart  and  Newlands  slid  up  stairs  to  take  a  bath,  and 
the  rest  of  the  Nevada  Populist  leaders  adjourned  to  the  bar  and 
began  shaking  dice  to  decide  who  should  name  the  next  Warden 
of  the  Penitentiary. 

*  #  * 

Col.  T.  Pajama  Robinson,  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Oakland 
nine,  created  quite  a  diversion  in  the  Macdonough  Theatre  across 
the  bay  on  Monday  night,  when  the  new  temple  of  drama  was 
opened.  The  Colonel,  arrayed  magnificently  in  an  imported  full- 
dress  suit  from  Paris,  and  wearing  spiked  shoes,  so  as  to  make 
his  gait  slow  and  majestic,  sauntered  in  just  ten  minutes  after  the 
opera  had  started.  His  seat  was  an  inside  one,  and  necessitated 
his  climbing  over  half  a  dozen  people,  an  exertion  that  tired  him 
so  much  that  before  the  first  act  was  over  he  fell  asleep.  The 
curtain  went  down,  the  lights  were  raised,  the  hum  of  conversa- 
tion rose  on  high,  but  still  he  slumbered  on  as  peacefully  as  a 
child.  Every  one  in  the  vicinity  looked  over  at  him  and  smiled, 
but  he  remained  undisturbed  until  suddenly  an  electric  car 
stopped  outside,  and  through  the  open  window  came  clang,  clang, 
clang,  clang,  the  sound  of  a  warning  bell.  "  Four  runs  for  Oak- 
land," shouted  a  gamin  in  the  gallery,  and  at  this  cry  the  Colonel 
burst  from  his  slumbers,  and  jumping  to  his  feet,  with    his  eyes 


■till  half-closed,  yelled  "Bully  boys!"  There  was  a  roar  of 
laughter,  of  course,  and  as  It  pealed  forth,  the  Colonel  recovered 
consciousness,  and  realized   what   he  bad   done.      He  thought  of 

|    an  important  engagemeut  outside  just  about  this  time,  and  Id- 

i    continently  picked  up  his  bat,  sealskin  overcoat,  chrysanthemum 

!    case  and  gloves,  and  fled. 

*  »  » 
The  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission  has  issued  its  annual  appeal  to 

I  the  public  in  bebalf  of  the  poor  of  the  city.  It  is  tbe  endeavor 
of  the  Mission  to  furnish  all  tbe  poor  people  of  the  city  with 
Thanksgiving  dinners.  "Our  system  and  experience  enable  us 
to  do  this  work  better  than  it  can  be  done  by  the  individual,  and 
as  we  feel  certain  that  every  one  will  at  this  time  particularly, 
desire  to  do  some  little  to  brighten  the  lives  of  these  unfortunate 
ones,  we  ask  your  kindly  donations  towards  that  end.  Either 
money  or  suitable  provisions  are  alike  acceptable,  as  both  are 
used  for  the  common  purpose,"  says  the  appeal.  "  While  we 
make  this  appeal  particularly  for  this  day,  we  desire  also  to  state 
that  our  work  in  general  is  carried  on  all  the  year,  from 
January  to  December.  We  relieve  the  distress  of  hundreds  of 
sick,  poor  in  tbeirhomes,  and  endeavor  to  bring  a  ray  of  pleasure 
and  a  little  comfort  to  the  needy  and  unfortunate  in  the  various 
hospitals  in  the  city."  "The  following  articles  are  acceptable  for 
distribution  on  Thanksgiving,  and  for  use  during  the  year  : — 
Poultry  and  meats  of  all  kinds.  Fruit  and  vegetables,  fresh  and 
preserved.  Staple  groceries  of  all  kinds  and  fresh  eggs.  Wines, 
whisky,  brandy,  alcohol,  cod  liver  oil,  beef  extract,  malt  ex- 
tract, condensed  milk,  Nestle's  food,  bay  rum,  cologne,  vaseline, 
etc.  Bread,  butter,  pies,  cakes  and  crackers.  Books,  magazines, 
papers,  clothes  and  flowers.  Contributions  for  Thanksgiving 
should  reach  the  rooms  at  420  Post  street,  by  Wednesday,  Nov. 
23d.  All  city  donations  will  be  sent  for,  if  the  Mission  be  noti. 
fied.  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  have  kindly  volunteered  to  deliver 
free  all  packages  from  the  country. 

#  »  * 

A  short  while  ago  a  Chinese  highbinder  killed  a  countryman  in 
Santa  Rosa.  The  murderer  escaped,  but  his  identity  had  been 
established,  and  the  country  was  flooded  with  postal  cards  giving 
his  description  and  offering  $400  for  his  capture.  Of  course  co- 
pies of  the  description  were  sent  to  the  outside  police  stations, 
and  one  of  them  fell  into  the  hands  of  a  rising  detective.  He  has 
an  elegant  growth  of  whiskers.  The  description  of  the  Chinese 
said  that  he  had  a  mole  on  his  left  cheek,  with  three  hairs  grow- 
ing from  it.  The  detective  found  out  what  a  mole  was,  and  pull- 
ing three  long  curly  whiskers  out  from  his  beard  he  enclosed  them 
in  an  envelope  and  sent  them  to  Under-Sheriff  Felix  Mullgrew  of 
Santa  Rosa,  who  is  an  old-time  newspaper  man  well  known  on 
the  Coast.  The  letter  which  accompanied  the  whiskers  read  as 
follows: 

Cherif  Mildew 

DrSir, 

I  think  I  cum  vary  nare  gettin  yure 
Chinyman.  I  got  him  by  the  3  hares  in  that  mol',  but  he  got  away 
wid  me.  I  held  on  to  hez  wheskes,  and  I  send  them  to  yer.  Plez  let 
me  no  if  I  get  eny  uv  the  reward,  an'  ablig' 

Yurs, 

Jim  Kelly. 

detective 

#  *  * 

A  novelty  in  the  way  of  a  fashionable  entertainment  is  on  the  cards 
for  Saturday  evening,  December  3d,  at  the  Concordia  Club.  The 
members  are  to  give  a  "female  minstrel"  show.  Some  twenty  young 
ladies  will  participate  and  with  but  two  exceptions  whsn  men 
will  appear,  the  girls  will  do  all  the  joke  cracking,  singing,  clog  danc- 
ing, knock-about  specialties,  tumbling,  etc.  They  will  be  attired 
"mil  fashion"  to  the  waist  and  will  not  paint  their  faces — black. 
Miss  Henrietta  Meyer  will  be  interlocutor,  and  Miss  May  Slessinger 
will  be  one  of  the  "end  women"  and  ''handle  the  bones,"  the  other 
"end-women"  are  Miss  Helen  Schweitzer,  Miss  Ollie  Hymar,  and  Miss 
Nettie  Salz.  There  will  be  some  startling  specialties  introduced  and 
a  fine  is  to  be  imposed  on  the  first  participant  who  laughs  at  their 
own  jokes.  It  is  said  the  jokes  are  all  to  be  new  and  original.  Some 
of  the  local  theatre  managers  are  looking  for  new  talent  and  have 
eyes  on  several  of  the  "marvelous  girl  sopranos." 

False  Economy. 
Is  practiced  by  people  who   buy  inferior  articles  of  food   because 
cheaper  than  standard  goods.    Infants  are  entitled  to  the  best  food 
obtainable.    It  is  a  fact  that  the  Gail  Borden  "Eagle"  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk  is  the  best  food.     Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall 
Styles 


Overcoats 


Ulsters 


Inverness 
Full  Dress 


House  Coats 
Neckwear 
1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

THE     YBBY     LATEST. 


14 


feAJM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


THE  French  Government  has  submitted  to  the  Chamber  a  bill 
increasing  the  penalties  to  be  inflicted  on  newspapers  publish- 
ing articles  that  incite  to  murder  and  pillage.  Restrictions  of  the 
liberty  of  the  press  are  naturally  very  unpopular  in  a  republic, 
but  nevertheless  where  it  is  certain  that  a  newspaper  article  di- 
rectly incites  to  crime,  the  laws  ought  to  interfere.  When  due 
discretion  is  used,  even  the  most  liberal  citizen  of  a  republic,  pro- 
vided he  really  desires  the  welfare  of  his  country,  will  not  object 
to  the  punishment  of  those  vile  agitators  who  incite  the  ignorant 
and  vicious  to  bloodshed  and  outrages,  and  who  heretofore  have 
so  often  escaped  penalties,  while  their  deluded  tools  have  been 
delivered  to  the  prison  or  the  scaffold. 

The  recent  dynamite  outrages  in  Paris  connected  with  the  Car- 
maux  strikes,  may  serve  as  a  new  warning  to  all  civilized  gov- 
ernments that  in  the  interest  of  all  peaceful  and  loyal  citizens 
they  ought  to  make  common  cause  against  the  anarchists.  Indi- 
viduals who  openly  declare  that  they  defy  all  law,  ought  not  to 
be  tolerated  in  countries  whose  citizens  are  mutually  pledged  to 
maintain  legal  institutions.  It  is  an  absurd  leniency  to  wait 
for  the  punishment  of  anarchists  until  murder  and  crime  have 
been  committed,  and  until  they  have  slaughtered  their  innocent 
victims  or  destroyed  valuable  property.  All  persons  who  an- 
nounce that  they  are  not  willing  to  obey  the  laws  of  the  country 
in  which  they  are  living  should  be  made  to  move,  and  all  those 
who  preach  in  the  press  or  in  public  that  murder  and  outrages 
are  justifiable,  should  not  only  be  held  responsible  for  the  result 
of  such  preaching,  but  restrained  from  thus  misusing  the  power 
of  the  press  and  free  speech. 

France,  like  our  country,  is  ruled  by  a  government  elected  by 
the  people,  and  everybody  has  a  vote  and  the  right  of  agitating 
for  such  changes  in  the  government  as  he  may  deem  desirable. 
There  is  no  tyrant  or  powerful  monarch  to  prevent  the  people 
from  ruling  themselves,  and  the  will  of  the  majority  must  pre- 
vail, provided  the  majority  do  their  duty  at  the  polls.  That  in  a 
country  thus  ruled  the  dissatisfied  should  resort  to  violence  and 
crime,  proves  that  the  persons  guilty  of  such  are  unfit  to  be  citi- 
zens of  a  republic.  On  November  8th  the  anarchists  placed  dy- 
namite in  the  office  of  the  Carmaux  Mining  Company,  in  Paris, 
and  the  result  was  that  four  public  officers,  who  tried  to  remove 
the  dynamite  concealed  in  an  infernal  machine,  were  killed  by  the 
explosion.  This  horrible  fate  of  the  four  officers,  killed  while  do- 
ing their  duty,  gives  to  two  French  citizens,  , " 
Messrs.  Constant  and  Martin,  occasion  to 
say  that  they  are  delighted  with  the  result 
of  the  explosion,  and  that  they  consider  it 
a  "perfectly  splendid  success."  Can  any 
sensible  man  blame  the  French  Government 
for  favoring  a  law  summarily  dealing  with 
such  scoundrels,  and  providing  for  a  severe 
penalty  for  all  such  expressions  of  opinion? 
We  should  think  not,  and  if  anywhere  se- 
verity is  indicated  in  treating  anarchists,  it 
is  in  a  republic,  for  under  a  free  govern- 
ment the  slightest  excuse  is  wanting  for 
such  a  crime,  which  cannot  be  pardoned 
even  in  countries  where  tyranny  prevents 
people  from  using  parliamentary  means  to 
remedy    their  real  or  imaginary  wrongs. 


tor  in  modern  history,  and  the  amusing  part  of  the  circumstance 
is  that  just  those  who  desire  the  influence  of  the  papacy  in  poli- 
tics broken,  do  most  to  maintain  it  by  secretly  catering  to  it, 
while  outwardly  they  pretend  to  ignore  it. 

The  spirit  of  unrest  and  dissatisfaction  is  increasing  in  all  the 
European  monarchies,  and  many  of  the  thrones  are  shaking  on 
their  foundations.  In  Belgium,  where  Parliament  is  at  present 
engaged  in  the  revision  of  the  constitution,  the  extremists  clamor 
for  the  admission  of  all  citizens  to  the  ballot-box.  When  the 
King  recently  opened  Parliament  in  person,  and  read  his  "speech 
from  the  throne,"  the  Radical  deputies  Janson  and  Farron  rose 
from  their  seats  and  shouted  "  Long  live  universal  suffrage,"  and 
when  His  Majesty  drove  back  to  the  Palace  he  found  the  streets 
lined  with  crowds  singing  the  »  Marseillaise."  Considering  the 
depressed  state  of  affairs  existing  in  Belgium,  it  is  not  astonishing 
that  the  people  are  dissatisfied,  nor  can  one  blame  them  for  de- 
siring universal  suffrage,  provided  that  they  are  capable  of  exer- 
cising the  voting  power  intelligently.  The  latter,  however,  with 
regard  to  a  great  number  of  them,  is  very  doubtful,  and  it  is, 
therefore,  natural  that  the  more  conservative  members  of  Parlia- 
ment oppose  general  suffrage,  for  the  universal  franchise  should 
always  be  preceded  oy  universal  education.  The  history  of  mod- 
ern republics  has  shown  that  where  such  is  not  the  case,  the  re- 
sult endangers  good  government. 

The  Norwegians  desire  Home  Rule,  with  a  vengeance.  If  the 
wishes  of  the  extremists  of  the  nation  are  granted  the  union  be- 
tween Norway  and  Sweden  will  be  a  union  in  name  only.  They 
claim  the  right  of  having  their  own  Consular  representatives 
abroad,  and  also  their  own  Foreign  Minister.  In  the  person  of 
the  well-known  novelist,  Bjornstjerne  Bjornson,  the  Norwegian 
separatists  have  found  an  eloquent  advocate,  but  if  the  King  of 
Norway  and  Sweden  should  yield  to  their  demands  his  position 
would  become  a  precarious  one,  indeed,  and  even  at  present  it 
cannot  be  said  to  be  distinguished  by  security. 


M1 


TE.  ANDREW  LANG  has  taken  to  collecting  "  Malaprop- 
isras,"  which  owing  to  the  spread  of  education  since  the 
days  of  Sheridan's  personage,  not  to  speak  of  her  prototype 
Steele's  Biddy  Timkin,  must  be  supposed  to  have  become  rarer. 
One  of  these,  included  in  the  gossip  pages  of  Longman's  for  Novem- 
ber, is  as  follows:  "  Visitor— 1  am  very  sorry  for  the  death  of  your 
poor  old  aunt.  A  very  good  woman  she  must  have  been.  "The 
Bereaved  Niece— Yes,  ma'am ;  in  two  or  three  years  she  would  have 
been  a  centurian."  Another  is:  "  Rural  Parishioner  (about  to  marry 
for  the  second  time,  to  congratulatory  friend)— Weel,  I'm  marrying 
mostly  for  the  sake  o'  the  bairns.  If  it  was  just  masel',  I  could  e'en 
gang  on  being  a  celebrity.^ 


Do  You  Wish  the 
Finest  Bread  and  Cake  ? 


The  power  of  the  Vatican  in  politics  is 
plainly  apparent  if  one  considers  how  anx- 
ious the  governments  of  even  the  greatest 
countries  on  the  European  continent  are  to 
secure  representation  in  the  body  of  Cardi- 
nals, to  whom  the  election  of  the  next  Pope 
will  be  entrusted,  and  how  much  energy 
has  lately  been  exercised  by  the  German 
government  to  persuade  the  present  Pope 
to  use  bis  influence  with  the  Centre  Party 
in  the  German  Reichstag  in  support  of  the 
new  government  measures,  especially  the 
army  bill.  Of  course  the  German  govern- 
ment has  endeavored  to  discredit  the  ru- 
mors about  the  negotiations  in  question, 
since  they  are  certainly  a  decided  testi- 
monium -paupertatis,  but  all  well-informed 
persons  agree  that  such  negotiations  have 
been  carried  on,  though  the  result  is  not 
yet  known.  One  thing  is  certain,  the  Pope's 
temporal  power,  though  he  no  longer  owns 
Rome,   continues  to    be   an    important  fac- 


It  is  conceded  that  the  Royal  Baking  Powder  is  the 
purest  and  strongest  of  all  the  baking  powders. 

The  purest  baking  powder  makes  the  finest,  sweetest, 
most  delicious  food. 

The  strongest  baking  powder  makes  the  lightest  food. 

That  baking  powder  which  is  both  purest  and  strong- 
est makes  the  most  digestible  and  wholesome  feed 

Why  should  not  every  housekeeper  avail  herself  of 
the  baking  powder  which  will  give  her  Mie  best  food 
with  the  least  trouble  ? 

Dr.  Haines,  of  Rush  Medical  College,  Consulting 
Chemist  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Health,  says  :  "Royal 
is  not  only  the  purest,  but  the  strongest  baking  powder 
with  which  I  am  acquainted." 


19,  1892. 


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Hi's  a  mnn  for  a'  that,"—  Hum*. 
HAT  tho*  arrayed,  fair  renegade. 
Id  tailor-made  and  a'  that. 
Close  fitting  skirt  of  scanty  pirt. 

In  boiled  shirt  and  a'  that: 
What  tho'  you  thus  appear  so  trim, 

So  tall  and  Slim  and  a'  that. 
What's  man  that  you  should  mimic  him  ? 
A  girl's  a  girl  for  a'  that. 

What  tho'  you  wear  lull  short  the  hair, 

Assume  the  air  and  a'  that; 
What  tho'  in  coat  and  vest  and  air 

You  ape  the  men  and  a'  that; 
What  tho'  you  try  with  Oxford  tie, 

With  four-in-hand  and  a'  that, 
You'll  understand  it  by  and  by — 

A  girl's  a  girl  for  a    that. 

Suspenders,  too,  of  vivid  blue 

Or  other  hue  and  a'  that, 
Immodest  girl,  you  do  not  hide 

But  wear  outside  and  a*  that. 
You're  not  to  man  inferior, 

Of  course  your  not  and  a'  that, 
But  dress  is  quite  exterior — 

A  girl's  a  girl  for  a*  that. 

And  would  you  smoke  the  cigarette  ? 

And  would  you  bet  and  a'  that, 
And  wonld  you  don  the  walking  stick, 

Raise  merry  nick  and  a'  that  ? 
And  wonld  you  on  your  knee  propose, 

To  vulgar  man  and  a'  that  ? 
Why,  any  clever  fellow  knows 

A  girl's  a  girl  for  a'  that. 

You  follow  Fashion's  ups  and  downs 

In  hats  and  gowns  and  a'  that, 
You're  wondrous  fickle  with  your  frowns 

And  smiles  and  wiles  and  a'  that. 
Yet,  lucky  lass,  that  owns  the  earth, 

You  naughty,  haughty  autocrat — 
You  pith  o'  nonsense,  pride  o'  worth, 

We  love  you  more  for  a'  that. 

LOVE'S  SILENCE.— From  Charles  Henry  Luders' "  The  Dead  Nymph' 

A  flash  of  azure;   a  folded  wing; 

A  waft  of  song  on  the  wings  of  spring; 

Listen  !     I  hear  the  bluebird  sing. 

A  feathered  arrow;  a  bolt  far  thrown; 

The  silent  flight  of  a  form  swift  flown; 

A  pause — and  I  hear  the  wood-dove's  moan. 

Bluebird,  hued  like  the  plains  above; 
Summer's  messenger,  fleet-winged  dove; 
Hath  autumn  never  a  song  of  love? 

And  the  one  replies  from  a  bough  breeze-swung, 
And  the  other  the  still  green  glooms  among; 
"Sweet,  oh,  sweet,  are  the  songs  unsung!  " 


THE    GONDOLIER. 


In  Venice,  when  the  sinking  sun 
In  blushing  beauty  seeks  the  West; 
When  purple  shadows  softly  blend 

Their  colors  with  the  deep  blue  sea; 
A  sound  comes  stealing  near  and  near, 
Until  it  rests  within  my  heart — 
ADd  of  its  pulses  seem   a  part — 

The  singing  of  the  Gondolier. 

When  tender  flowers  droop  and  swoon 
Beneath  the  perfumed  pall  of  night, 
And  trembling  trees  show  leaflets  white, 
AU  silvered  by  the  pale  moonlight; 
Now  faintly  near,   now  sweetly  near, 
Now  faint  and  far,  now  deep  and  clear, 
A  lingering  memory  ever  dear, 
The  music  of  the  Gondolier. 

G.  Mahoney. 


/ETNA 

HOT 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  ■  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  nion  n 
tains.  Bilteen  Mill"  tr.mi  Si.  Helena,  liood  A  c 
commodations.   Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  Mtm\  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

Attitude !  No  Fogs !    No  M o s q u ito e s 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  S36.  Office,  108  itriimui  street,  S.  P 

The  Coleman. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS   HOTEL,  (European   Plan.) 

H.    H.   PEARSON.  Proprietor.  BROADWAY  and  27th  St.,  NEW   YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  St.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Aveuue  Elevated  Railroad 
Station  and  horse  cars;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bash  Street,  near  Kearny. 

-A.Tosol-u.tely      Hr'ire-proof. 
Central  o  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 
A.  F.  Klrcgl.EK.  Manager. 

The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

IDEAL    COFFEE. 

This  famous  brand  of  fresh  ground  blended  coffee  is  unexcelled  for  qual- 
ity and  delicacy  of  flavor. 


No.  1 
25  cents 


No.  2 
30  cents 


No.  3 
36  cents 


No.  4 

40  cents  per  lb, 


For  sale  only  by 

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THE 

BANJO 

ASHTON  P.  STEVENS. 

STUDIO  :     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEOE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  68.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 
Garcia  Vocal  Method.    Solfeggio  Panseron. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


THE  following  resolution,  proposed  by  the  Mayor  of  Manches- 
ter, England,  and  supported  by  the  Right  Hon.  A.  J.  Balfour. 
the  late  Conservative  leader  in  the  House  of  Commons,  was 
unanimously  adopted  at  a  recent  monster  meeting  of  merchants 
and  others  belonging  to  that  city,  which  is  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant manufacturing  centres  of  Great  Britain: 

''That  it  is  the  opinion  of  the  citizens  of  Manchester  in  public 
assembled  that  the  exceedingly  unsatisfactory  condition  of  our  pro- 
ductive industries,  and  of  commerce  generally,  is  largely  due  to  the 
appreciation  of  gold  and  the  violent  fluctuation  and  uncertainty  of 
exchange  between  gold  standard  and  silver  standard  countries;  that 
the  best  and  most  effective  remedy  would  be  secured  by  an  agree- 
ment, on  a  broad  international  basis,  to  reopen  the  mints  of  the  lead- 
ing nations  of  the  world  to  the  unrestricted  coinage  of  both  gold  and 
silver;  and  that  to  that  end  Her  Majesty's  Government  be  earnestly 
requested  to  co-operate  with  other  nations  at  the  forthcoming  Mone- 
tary Conference  to  secure  such  an  international  agreement." 

Mr.  Balfour,  in  support  of  this  resolution,  dwelt  mainly  on  the 
point  admitted  by  the  mono-metallists  themselves,  that  'he  Eng- 
lish standard  had  appreciated  in  some  fifteen  or  sixteen  years  no 
less  than  thirty  or  thirty  five  per  cent.,  and  a  monetary  standard 
of  which  that  could  be  said,  he  contended,  did  not  fulfill  the  very 
elementary  qualities  required  of  it.  Of  all  conceivable  systems 
that  was  assuredly  the  worst  which  gave  a  standard  steadily, 
continuously  and  indefinitely  appreciating,  and  which,  by  that 
very  fact,  throws  a  burden  upon  every  man  of  enterprise  who  de- 
sired to  promote  the  agricultural  or  the  industrial  welfare  of  his 
country,  and  which  benefits  no  human  being  whatever  but  the 
owner  of  fixed  debts  in  gold.  In  the  course  of  his  speech  Mr. 
Balfour  said  be  considered  the  question  was  pressing,  because  it 
was  impossible  that  things  could  remain  as  they  were.  If  a  move 
was  not  made  to  a  better  system,  only  a  worse  state  of  affairs 
could  be  expected.  Austria  and  America  would  not  go  on  as 
they  were  and  India  could  not,  the  difficulties  thrown  upon  the 
finances  of  the  latter  country  being  almost  over-wbelming.  In 
conclusion  the  speaker  expressed  the  firm  belief  that  the  bi-uaetal- 
lic  solution  was  possible  and  adequate. 

WHEN  an  ultra-conservative  politician  like  Balfour  expresses 
himself  in  such  an  off-hand  manner,  and  before  such  an  im- 
portant gathering  of  representative  manufacturers  of  Great 
Britain,  it  can  be  taken  for  granted  that  he  means  what  he  says. 
It  shows,  too,  very  clearly  that  the  question  has  a  most  serious 
bearing  on  the  commercial  interests  of  a  nation,  dependent 
largely  for  its  prosperity  on  trade  with  foreign  countries  where 
the  rates  'of  exchange  regulate  the  balances  of  profit  and  loss. 
England's  necessity  in  this  case  will  prove  to  be  America's  oppor- 
tunity, and  further  than  an  expression  of  acquiescence  in  any 
favorable  arrangement  which  will  undoubtedly  be  made  at  the 
approaching  conference,  there  will  be  little  need  for  any  special 
efforts  upon  the  part  of  representatives  from  this  country.  If 
this  could  only  have  been  recognized  years  ago,  it  would  have 
suggested  to  our  financiers  friendly  to  silver,  a  policy  of  masterly 
inactivity.  Of  course  this  would  be  unfortunate  for  many  poli- 
ticians who  have  worn  the  subject  thread-bare  in  their  efforts  to 
turn  it  to  political  account,  but  it  would  have  saved  time,  and 
probably  have  led  to  an  earlier  settlement  of  the  question.  It 
seems  scarcely  credible  that  the  friends  of  bi-metallism  in  Europe 
could  really  have  believed  in  the  clap-trap  discussions  which 
have  taken  place  in  Congress  and  out  of  it  over  suggested  solu- 
tions of  the  problem ,  or  that  they  imagined  America  had  ever  any 
bona  fide  intention  of  pulling  chestnuts  out  of  the  fire  for  their 
benefit.  If  they  did  they  have  now  been  awakened  to  the  fact 
that  the  onus  of  the  situation  rests  on  them,  as  it  has  done  in  all 
time,  and  that  any  remedial  action  under  the  circumstances  must 
be  taken  by  themselves.  America  has  everything  to  win,  and  less 
to  lose  in  any  event. 

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THE  annual  meeting  of  the  Hawaiian  Commercial  Company 
was  held  during  the  week,  and  the  reports  of  the  officers 
showed  a  most  deplorable  condition  of  affairs.  The  Company 
seems  hopelessly  bankrupt,  and  the  proposition  to  levy  an  as- 
sessment seems  absurd  under  the  circumstances.  It  would  take 
a  levy  of  $3  per  share  to  meet  present  exigencies,  and  before  this 
was  absorbed  the  financial  condition  of  the  cnmpany  would 
be  as  bad  as  it  is  now.  No  blame  can  be  attached  to  the  manage- 
ment for  the  misfortune  which  has  overtaken  the  enterprise. 
Unfavorable  seasons  and  the  action  of  the  McKinley  bill  are  the 
sole  causes  of  the  trouble.  The  one  has  blasted  the  crop  pros- 
pects and  the  other  has  depreciated  the  value  of  the  raw  sugar  to 
such  an  extent  that  manufacturing  can  only  be  carried  on  at  a 
heavy  loss.  Even  if  the  new  administration  should  adopt 
some  remedial  measures  on  behalf  of  the  Hawaiian 
sugar  plants,  it  is  impossible  to  undo  the  damage 
already  done  for  years  to  come.  With  a  fine  property  and  plant 
at  the  Islands,  the  ground  is  now  of  little  more  value  than  an 
ordinary  sand   hill  without   the  necessary  water,  every  acre  re- 


quiring a  rainfall  of  at  least  two  feet  in  the  season.  The  lack  of 
this  has  prevented  the  planting  of  new  crops,  which  require  fully 
eighteen  months  to  mature,  and  it  is  all  that  can  be  done  now  to 
protect  the  miserable  little  planting  on  band  from  total  loss. 
There  seems  no  possible  way  out  of  the  difficulty,  assessment  or 
no  assessment,  and  it  can  hardly  be  expected  that  outsiders  are 
going  to  relieve  the  present  holders  of  their  stock' at  high  figures, 
considering  the  poor  prospects  ahead.  It  can  be  safely  estimated 
that,  after  paying  off  the  present  loan  of  $300,000  and  an  accrued 
indebtedness  on  the  bonds,  it  will  take  an  additional  $1,000,000 
to  pull  the  business  through  for  the  next  two  years. 
$  $  ,| 

THE  local  mining  market  has  had  another  spasm  of  activity, 
this  time  the  middle  stocks  taking  the  lead,  with  Fotosi  the 
favorite,  on  a  reported  development  on  the  1,100-level.  A  vein  of 
ore  said  to  be  three  feet  wide  was  cut  east  of  the  old  workings, 
and  carried  up  for  a  distance  of  over  sixty  feet.  The  news  served 
to  send  the  stock  up  to  over  $2  a  share,  but  a  weakness  then  set 
in  and  lower  prices  ruled.  There  seems  to  be  a  general  impres- 
sion on  the  street  that  the  market  is  going  to  do  better,  and  times 
were  never  more  favorable  for  an  upheaval  in  stocks.  Prices  are 
low  for  shares  of  nearly  all  descriptions,  and  if  all  reports  from 
the  lode  can  be  relied  upon,  there  is  merit  enough  in  several  of 
the  leading  mines  to  justify  a  doubling  up  in  values  at  any  mo- 
ment. The  management  of  Belcher  are  still  very  sanguine  over 
the  prospects  in  that  mine,  and  Superintendent  W.  E.  Sharon, 
who  is  in  town  just  now,  takes  a  very  hopeful  view  of  the  situa- 
tion. The  north  drift  on  the  400-Ievel  is  now  in  vein  matter, 
and  the  formation  is  very  similar  to  that  which  encased  the  ore 
found  up  above,  on  and  below  the  300  level.  Another  very 
favorable  indication  is  the  immense  flood  of  water  which  still 
comes  in  above,  although  none  has  been  tapped  so  far  on  the  400- 
level.  There  is  also  some  talk  of  an  improvement  in  the  North- 
end  mines,  and  the  actions  of  Ophir,  Mexican  and  Con.  Cal.- 
Virginia  are  being  closely  watched  by  speculators.  The  only  as- 
sessment levied  during  the  week  was  one  of  ten  cents  on  North 
Belle  Isle. 

Ml 

THE  first  annual  convention  of  the  Miners'  Association  of  Cali- 
fornia met  in  this  city  during  the  week,  and  it  was  noted 
principally  for  the  harmony  which  prevailed  through  the  entire 
session  on  all  subjects  likely  to  benefit  and  advance  an  industry 
of  such  importance  to  the  general  welfare  of  the  state.  The 
miners  were  fortunate  in  having  an  opportunity  to  hear  addresses 
from  men  who  have  already  made  their  mark  as  champions  of 
mining  in  Congress.  Senator  Stewart  of  Nevada,  an  old  and  tried 
friend  of  silver,  talked  gold  to  his  California  friends  and  announced 
his  intention  to  aid  them  whenever  the  opportunity  offered. 
Congressmen  Geary,  Caminetti,  and  Newlands  were  also  present, 
and  outlined  in  brief  the  policy  which  should  be  adopted  in  the 
future.  There  was  a  large  attendance  of  delegates  from  the  dif- 
ferent mining  counties,  who  approved  the  actions  of  their  repre- 
sentatives during  the  last  session  of  Congress,  and  adopted  reso- 
lutions, reference  to  which  is  more  fully  made  in  another  column 
of  this  issue.  The  secretary  gave  the  number  of  members  now  in 
the  Association  amounting  in  all  to  437S  and  accounted  for  the 
money  already  subscribed.  Before  closing,  the  following  officers 
were  re-elected  for  the  ensuing  year:  J.  H.  Neff,  president;  W. 
C.  Ralston,  secretary  and  H.  Picholr,  treasurer. 

Ml 

IN  the  annual  report  of  the  Sierra  Buttes  Company  of  London, 
referred  to  last  week,  the  statement  was  overlooked  regarding 
the  exertions  made  by  the  representative  of  the  company  in  Cali- 
fornia to  procure  another  mine  which  it  would  pay  to  purchase. 
If  he  could  find  none,  how  is  it  that  the  directors  overlooked  the 
chance  which  was  offered  them  some  months  ago,  when  a 
Mexican  property  was  presented  to  their  attention  by  a  well- 
known  mining  man  in  this  city?  It  was  certainly  a  safe  enough 
investment  for  any  person's  money,  more  especially  as  the  re- 
port is  said  to  have  been  guaranteed  as  correct  by  Daniel  Meyer, 
the  well-known  millionaire  banker,  who  not  only  indorsed  the 
report,  but  announced  his  willingness  to  take  $50,000  in  stock  of 
any  company  which  might  be  formed  to  take  it  up.  This  was  a 
chance  which  few  people  would  refuse  if  they  meant  business, 
taking  into  consideration  the  world-wide  reputation  Mr.  Meyer 
enjoys  as  a  successful  and  conservative  business  man. 

5  $  % 

GOOD  news  continues  to  come  along  from  the  Reed  mines,  of 
Shasta  county,  and  another  strike  of  rich  ore  is  announced 
this  week,  which  has  enhanced  the  value  of  the  shares  consider- 
ably. There  seems  to  be  little  doubt  now  about  the  value 
of  this  property,  if  there  ever  was  any,  and  from  the  present 
prospects  it  will  before  long  rank  as  one  of  the  great  bullion  pro- 
ducing mines  of  the  State.  Nearly  all  of  the  properties  located 
in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  Redding  have  been  spoken  of  very 
favorably  of  late,  and  this  district  bids  fair  to  become  famous  for 
its  gold  production.  The  plant  at  the  Reed  mines  is  one  of  the 
most  complete  of  its  kind,  and  no  money  is  being  spared  in  its 
erection.  The  work  on  the  shaft  has  been  carried  on  expediti- 
ously, and  little  now  interferes  with  the  extraction  of  ore. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


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'  Hearthc  Crier Whit  the  devil  artthou?* 

"Onetbat  will pUrlhcdeTll.ilr.  with  rou.'- 


TBE  Kxaminer  published  a  cat  of  Alfred  Bouvierof  the  Baldwin 
Theatre  during  the  week,  and  labelled  it  with  the  name  of  \V. 
0.  Ralston,  secretary  of  the  Miners'  Convention.  Both  may  be 
properly  considered  handsome  men,  each  has  multitudes  of  fair 
admirers,  bat  the  question  arises,  which  is  to  be  offended  by  tue 
pobltcatioa— Bouvier,  who  bad  nothing  to  do  with  the  Miners' 
Convention,  and  whose  face  was  labelled  with  Ralston's  name; 
or  Ralston,  who  was  secretary  of  the  convention  and  whose 
aame  was  attached  to  Bouvier's  face.  The  manner  in  which 
newspapers  attempt  to  mix  up  two  prominent  gentlemen  in  this 
manner  is  certainly  very  reprehensible.  Though  Ralston  and 
Bouvier  look  enough  alike  to  be  considered  Dromios,  newspapers 
should  not  use  one  for  the  other.  Just  imagine  tbe  discomfiture 
of  Mr.  Ralston,  for  instance,  if  waylaid  on  tbe  street  by  an  indig- 
nant citizen  whose  wife's  hat  had  been  crushed  in  the  crowd  at 
tbe  Baldwin,  or  Mr.  Bouvier's  astonishment  if  a  couple  of  grey- 
beards should  accost  him  and  want  to  know  what  in  Tophet  the 
fellow  meant  who  proposed  to  assess  each  member  of  the  Miners' 
Association  $100.  What  would  Ralston  do  if  asked  to  take  charge 
of  a  Press  Club  highjinks  because  of  his  knowledge  of  weird 
effects  or  how  would  Boavier  explain  the  proper  manner  of  work- 
ing a  drift  mine  ?  Each  has  enough  of  his  own  troubles,  and  the 
Eiammer  should  not  confound  them. 

SO  successful  was  the  tea  given  at  the  Ingleaide  last  Saturday, 
that  it  is  rumored  in  high  society  circles  that  another  will  soon 
be  announced.  As  the  Ingleside  is  not  conveniently  located,  in 
the  opinion  of  some  of  tbe  guests,  the  next  tea  may  be  given  at 
the  California  House.  This  selection  may  be  considered  a  good 
one.  True,  it  is  not  so  romantic  to  go  up  to  the  Califo-nia  Home 
as  to  the  road  resort,  but  then  imagine  what  de'ightful  memories 
will  be  enjoyed  by  the  guests,  when  one  recalls  the  night  he 
dined  with  Claire,  in  the  small  room  on  the  second  floor  front;  or 
another,  when  he  breathed  hot  vows  of  love  into  Nellie's  ear,  as 
they  toyed  with  tbe  wine— this  in  the  middle  room,  facing  the 
court.  Oh,  if  the  walls  of  the  California  House  would  only  speak, 
what  an  interesting  addition  might  be  made  to  the  Blue  Book. 
One  chapter  might  tell  of  that  little  supper  party  that  occurred 
after  the  fashionable  wedding,  and  of  the  chandelier  climbing  by 
the  sweet  little  blonde;  another,  of  the  search  for  the  diamond 
pin  that  fell  within  the  well-rounded  corsage  of  the  brunette  who 
drinks  only  very  dry  wines.  If  the  California  House  would  not 
do,  why  not  have  a  small  and  early  at  Dorcy's,  and  renew  the 
times  when  only  porter  was  called  for?  A  spice  of  wickedness 
makes  the  world  akin. 

A  CORRESPONDENT  asks  the  New  York  World  if  there  is  any 
society  in  New  York  that  will  assist  widows  with  young 
families  to  reach  California.  The  paper  replies  that  probably  there 
is  a  society  here  that  will  assist  eligible  young  widows  to  immi- 
grate. Yes,  brother,  there  is.  The  Society  for  the  Cultivation  of 
Young  Widows  and  the  Propagation  of  Headless  Families  is  now 
in  a  very  flourishing  condition  in  this  city.  It  has  met  with  a 
few  drawbacks  of  late,  on  account  of  the  attempt  of  some  of  its 
wards  to  prove  in  the  courts  that  certain  recently  deceased  mill- 
ionaires were  allied  to  them  by  paternal  ties,  and  that  therefore 
the  wards  should  be  released  from  the  society,  as  they  had  estab- 
lished a  claim  to  a  family  head.  Notwithstanding,  tbe  number 
of  names  upon  the  rolls,  of  minors  who  know  not  their  fathers 
continue0  to  increase.  Young  widows  are  popular  in  California, 
despite  the  famous  injunction  of  Weller.  There  is  something  so 
attractive  about  a  young  and  charming  widow,  that  nothing 
stands  before  her.  Most  of  our  young  men  prefer  a  young  widow 
to  a  budding  girl,  because  the  widow  knows  so  much,  and  then 
she  is  so  devilish  sly.  Oh,  the  widow  is  a  prize  winner  in  the 
Golden  State. 

AND  now,  it  is  said  that  even  the  charming  Margaret  Mather  is 
married,  and — shade  of  Shakespeare,  to  a  brewer  1  The 
Mather  is,  above  all  things,  a  strictly  business  woman,  and  she 
declined,  for  .business  reasons,  to  announce  her  marriage. 
For  business  reasons!  For  know  ye,  my  masters,  that  the 
value  of  an  actress  as  a  drawing  card,  is  in  direct  proportion  to 
the  number  of  her  refusals  to  wed,  the  nearness  of  the  date  of  her 
most  recent  divorce,  the  number  of  times  she  has  committed  big- 
amy, or  the  scandal  attaching  to  her  amours.  Curious,  isn't  if 
Here  is  an  actress  who  says  it  will  hurt  her  business  to  have  it 
known  that  she  is  married.  Do  you  comprehend  all  the  hidden 
meaning  behind  the  statement?  Surely  the  beauteous  Mather  is 
not  soliciting  tbe  admiration  of  the  sapheaded  youth  of  the  pe- 
riod, nor  putting  her  charms  at  auction,  to  be  bid  for  by  the  bald- 
headed  bankers  who  pre-empt  the  front  rows.  Of  course,  if  that 
is  the  scheme  of  an  actress,  a  husband  is  an  uncomfortable  ap- 
pendage, and  evidently  would  injure  »  business."  The  modern 
actress  is  a  glorious  creation,  and  should  be  treated  with  consid- 
eration, like  any  other  curiosity. 


HB  bad  been  through  nil  tbe  Orient,  through  China  and  .lapan; 
He  had  Snapped  the  whip  In  OOnvlol   oavea,  this  mighty  Rus- 
sian man ; 
He  had  hobnobbed  with  the  Emperor,  with  Princes  and  with  Kings; 

He  had  traveled  far,  and  bossed  around,  and  done  all  sorts  o(  things; 
'Mid  Siberia's  snows  for  news  ol  him,  his  9 objects  waited  long. 
And"  Where  is  Vied?"    "Oh,  where'eour   Kick?"  was  their  ever- 
lasting song. 
Hut  Rumin  went  on  merrily,  was  wined  and  dined  galore, 
And  so  was  in  a  joyous  mood  when  be  jumped  upon  our  shore. 
The  earth  shook  as  he  walked  about,  and  in  that  eventful  hour, 
He  swore  by  all  the  gods  of  war  he'd  show  to  us  his  power. 
He  rilled  up  first  with  tanglefoot,  and  at  once  the  fun  began, 
For  Nicholas,  when  in  liquor,  is  by  no  means  a  peaceful  man. 
He  visited  the  prison  cells— a  small  tin  God  was  he, 
But  he  ran  against  a  cupper  there  who  drew  his  snickersnee, 
And  walloped  Vlad,  yea,  smote  Nick  hard,  and  banged  him 'gainst 

the  bars. 
Until  this  noble  Russian  man  saw  many  kinds  of  stars. 
They  strapped  him  on  a  lowly  cot,  amid  fleas,  and  mice,  and  bugs, 
And  closed  his  mouth  with  flannel  wraps,  just  as  is  done  with  thugs, 
Until  this  mighty  Captain  of  Siberia's  convicts  wild, 
Quite  changed  his  tone,  reduced  his  gait,  became  mild  as  a  child. 
And  now  to  Russia's  fastnesses,  Vlad  hies  himself  away, 
A  wiser  and  a  sadder  man  than  was  clubbed  the  other  day. 

THE  business  men  who  travel  on  the  California  and  Hyde  street 
car  lines  are  united  in  making  a  mighty  "  kick  "  against  the 
penurious  policy  of  the  company  managing  those  lines.  Of  late 
the  lights  in  the  cars  have  been  very  bad,  tbe  lamps  not  furnish- 
ing enough  illumination  to  enable  passengers  to  read  their  papers 
on  tbe  way  home.  This  a  direct  slap  at  the  evening  journals  of 
the  city,  each  of  which  has  at  least  half  a  dozen  subscribers  who 
ride  in  these  cars.  The  presumption  is  that  tbe  company  is  trying 
to  save  money  by  leaving  only  a  little  oil  in  the  car-lamps.  The 
people  demand  their  rights,  however,  and  if  those  lights  be  not 
turned  on  at  full  blaze  right  speedily,  I  would  not  be  surprised  to 
see  a  lot  of  downtown  merchants  going  home  in  a  California  street 
car  some  night,  each  holding  a  lighted  lantern  on  high  so  that  he 
might  be  able,  despite  the  poverty-stricken  corporation,  to  find 
out  from  his  paper  how  many  men  voted  for  O'Donnell  in  the  Pt. 
Lobos  District,  or  how  much  longer  Auditor  Smiley  will  hold  of- 
fice. 

IT  is  a  singular  and  deplorable  fact  that,  with  few  exceptions,  all 
our  best  dudes  are  of  extremely  diminutive  stature.  This,  in 
a  strict  classification,  would  make  them  dudelets,  and  not  dudes. 
I  contend,  and  I  have  been  sustained  by  some  very  good  dude 
authorty,  that  no  man  who  is  not  over  eight  feet  and  six  inches 
can  claim  to  be  a  dude  of  the  premier  class,  because  a  premier 
class  dude  must  show  off  his  trowsers.  Now  no  trowsers,  no  matter 
how  well-made,  show  to  the  best  advantage  on  a  man  of  low 
stature.  No,  no,  your  cut-down  dude  will  not  do,  and  in  this  re- 
spect we  compare  most  unfavorably  with  New  York,  where  all 
the  dudes  are  tall — or  at  least  reasonably  tall  fellows — who  fit  in  a 
trowsers  leg  as  a  knife  in  its  sheath-  But  our  little  hop-o'-my- 
thumbs  are  fit  only  for  the  short,  round  jacket  and  tall  hat  of  the 
Eton  school-boy.  In  fact,  I  must  regretfully  believe  that  they 
were  plucked  too  soon. 

THERE  is  a  large  dry  goods  house  on  Kearny  street  which  pur- 
sues a  practice  that  has  never  been  tolerated  outside  of  Baxter 
street  and  the  other  slums  of  New  York.  Ic  employs  a  gang  of 
"pullers-in,"  and  woe  to  the  unfortunate  lady  who  lingers  but  a 
portion  of  a  second  to  glance  at  anything  displayed  in  the  win- 
dow. She  will  at  once  be  approached  by  a  blear-eyed,  whisky- 
nosed,  impudent  man,  who  with  what  is  doubtless  meant  for  a 
polite  bow  and  an  engaging  Bmile,  invites  her  to  step  inside  and 
be  fleeced.  If  the  woman  bear  external  evidence  of  hailing  from 
tbe  rural  districts  this  impudent  fellow,  or  some  of  his  coad- 
jutors actually  will  lay  hands  upon  her  and  endeavor  to  force  her 
into  entering  their  lair.  Some  day  they  will  approach  the  wrong 
woman,  there  will  be  an  angry  husband  in  the  background,  and 
then  the  pavement  will  be  swept  up  in  scientific  style  with  the 
carcasses  of  these  impudent  fellows. 

THAT  gentlemanly  gambler,  Tom  Williams,  the  Duke  of  Union 
Island,  bids  fair  to  become  once  more  prominent  in  connec- 
tion with  turf  affairs.  It  seems  that  he  has  purchased  from 
Porter  Ashe's  trainer,  the  mare  Geraldine  and  other  racers  belong- 
ing to  the  Maltese  Villa  Stables.  Ashe  says  his  trainer  did  not 
own  the  horses,  but  merely  held  them  in  trust,  and  he  threatens 
to  sue  for  their  recovery.  I  would  like  to  hear  the  testimony  if 
that  suit  is  brought.  Williams  might  be  called  for  instance,  and 
cross-examined  by  a  heartless  lawyer  regarding  his  turf  career. 
His  would  prove  a  very  interesting  story. 

ONE  of  the  live  daily  papers  of  this  city  published  a  column  and 
over  of  "hog-wash,"  the  other  day,  about  a  lot  of  nasty  little 
pups  which  some  fool  women,  who  ought  to  be  raising  babies  or 
engaging  in  some  useful  occupation,  were  pampering.  These 
females,  it  appears,  have  actually  gone  through  tbe  blasphemous 
operation  of  christening  the  filthy  creatures,  paraphrasing  the  re- 
ligious formula  used  in  the  usual  ceremony,  sprinkling  and  all. 
This  is  certainly  the  acme  of  silliness. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


SUNBEAMS 


THE  young  man  was  bold  and  he  wanted  the  girl,  ao  he  inter- 
viewed the  father.  »  So,"  said  the  old  man,  after  the  proposition 
had  been  stated,  "  you  wish  to  marry  my  daughter?"  "  Exactly  so, 
sir."  "And  can  you  support  her  in  the  style  she  expects?"  "I 
think  so,  sir."  "  Are  you  sure?"  "  Well,  I  may  say  I  am."  "  Then 
take  her,  my  boy,  and  if  you  succeed  in  what  you  have  tackled,  I'll 
be  blamed  if  you  won't  be  doing  better  than  I  have  ever  been  able  to 
do,"  and  the  old  man  gloated  in  glee.  — Detroit  Free  Press. 

The  little  soprano  shook  her  fist 

In  the  leader's  whiskered  face. 
"  Your  voice  is  tenor,  she  fiercely  hissed, 
*•  But  your  conducL,  sir,  is  base !  " 
■■"  My  darling,"  she  murmured,  "  you  were  so  grand,  so  noble, 
when  you  proposed  to  me  that  day  in  the  carriage !     Shall  I  ever  for- 
get how  touchingly  you  spoke  of  yourself,  of  your  future,  of  the  sac- 
rifices you  would  make  for  me?     It  must  have  cost  you  something  to 
speak  those  words."    "  It  did,   Mabel,"  replied   the  young  man.  a 
shadow  creeping  over  his  face.     "It  cost  me  about  a  week's  salary  in 
cab  hire."  — Truth. 

Rick  'Merchant  (to  his  daughter)— \   say,   Emma,   I   think   that 

young  man  that  calls  on  you  so  much  really  means  business.  Emma— 
What  makes  you  think  so?  Merchant — Nothing,  except  he  called  at 
the  commercial  agency  last  week  to  find  out  how  much  I  was  really 
worth.  — Texas  Siftings. 

"  Mamma,  dear,"  said  Janet,  "  at  what  time  in  the  day  was  I 

born?"  "  At  2  o'clock  in  the  morning."  "And  what  time  was  I 
born?"  asked  Jack.  "Not  until  8  o'clock."  "Ah!"  cried  Janet, 
"  my  birthday's  longer  than  yours."  "  Well,"  said  Jack,  "  what's 
the  use  of  being  born  before  it's  time  to  get  up?  — Dundee  News, 

"  John,  what  are  these  round  ivory  things  in  your  dress  vest 

pocket?"  "T — those  are  samples  of  b — buttons  that  I  got  at  my 
t— tailors  t — to-day,   dear.     I   tucked  them  in   there  d— day  before 

yes "    "  Which  do  you  propose  to  use  for  steady  wear,  John— the 

red,  the  white  or  the  blue  ones?" 

Old  King  Cole  is  a  merry  old  soul, 

And  why,  pray,  shouldn't  he  be? 
When  of  all  our  coal  he  has  control. 

And  charges  furiously.  — New  York  Herald. 

— — "  My  friends  tell  me  that  there  is  a  magic  spell  about  my  writ- 
ings," said  the  author,  complacently,  as  the  editor  looked  over  some 
of  his  manuscript.  "Yes,  I  guess  there  is,  but  I  prefer  Webster's 
style  of  orthography,  myself,"  replied  the  editor,  as  he  handed  the 
manuscript  back.  — Truth. 

—Hunker—  What  odd  things  the  ladies  wear  nowadays !  Spatts — 
So  they  do.  What  were  you  thinking  about?  Hunker—  Well,  there 
is  Miss  Linger  with  a  coat  of  paint  on  each  cheek.  — Truth. 

——Jones — How  did  the  murderer  behave  on  the  scaffold?  Smith — 
He  took  it  all  as  a  joke.  Jones— What  extraordinary  coolness! 
Smith — Yes.     He  said  they  were  just  stringing  him.  — Truth. 

"  Miss  Banknote,  do  you  really  think  that  your  father  will  ob- 
ject to  my  suit?"  Miss  Banknote— 1  guess  not,  for  he  wears  one  just 
about  as  loud  himself.  — Chicago  Daily  Inter  Ocean. 

Full  many  a  flower  is  born  to  blush  unseen, 

And  on  the  desert  air  to  waste  away ; 
Full  many  a  ban  mot  bright  that  might  have  been — 

Alas — we  do  not  figure  out  until  next  day  !        — Puck. 
— —He— I  don't  like  the  man.     He  called  me  an  ass  once!     What 
do  you  think  of  that?    She— I  think  his  politeness   does  not  compare 
with  his  knowledge  of  natural  history.  — Truth. 

The  cabin  boy  was  in  the  habit  of  eating  his  loaf-bread  and 
leaving  the  crusts.  Mate — We  eat  oor  crusts  here,  laddie.  Boy — 
Weel,  I'm  leavin'  them  tae  ye.  — Dundee  News. 

— — "  How  do  you  keep  your  collarsso bright  and  clean  thesedusty 
days?"  "They're  made  of  celluloid,  and  I  polish  them  up  with 
tooth-powder  twice  a  day."  —Judge. 

—Teacher— Now.  my  boy,  tell  me  what  animals  are  best  protected 
by  Nature  from  the  ravages  of  winter?  My  Boy— Those  that  live  on 
the  line  of  the  Equator,  sir!  —  Puck. 

—"  Say,  you  know  the  play  of  Faust  that  was  here  some  time 
ago?"  "  Yes."  "  Well,  there's  been  a  book  written  about  it  by  a 
fellow  named  Goethe."  —Truth. 

Visitor — Oh  yes,  Miss  Vantyred,  I  assure  you  that  while  I  was 

on  the  other  side  I  was  considered  quite  a  lion  1  Miss  Vantyred— The 
king  of  beasts?  — Truth. 

Charlie—  Miss    Flyppe's    stockings    are    extensively    clocked. 

Jack — Yes.    They're  extensively  watched,  too.  — Truth. 

Willie— Ma,  what's  all  those  holes  in  the  Swiss  cheese  for?  Ma — 

Oh,  those  are  to  let  the  smell  out. 

Laundry  Farm  is  conceded  to  be  one  of  the  most  beautiful  picnic 
grounds  in  this  fair  State.  It  is  reached  by  way  of  the  California 
Railway,  which  is  the  only  road  running  direct  to  it.  This  railway 
also  runs  direct  to  Mills'  Seminary.  Laundry  Farm  should  be  vis- 
ited by  people  who  wish  to  enjoy  a  day's  outing  within  easy  reach 
from  the  cily. 

Drink  the  John  F.  Cutter  whisky  if  you  want  really  good  stuff.  It 
is  the  best  sold  in  the  market,  andnothing  can  excel  it.  The  John 
F.  Cutter  is  preferred  above  all  other  brands  by  whisky  drinkers,  for 
it  fulfills  in  every  sense  the  desires  of  one  who  appreciates  the  good 
red  liquor. 


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CAPITAL    STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

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San   Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BRANDER,  CHA8.  M.  BLAIR, 

President.  Secretary. 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up *     500,000 

Assets 3,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,526,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     General  Office — 401  Hlont'g,  St. 

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OF     BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital 11,000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

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ESTABLISHED  183S. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

SIT  Montgomery  Street,  Kevaua  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.J.;  Henry  Killam,  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet  &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeoek  Co.,  Water- 
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N*        19,   1892. 


-    \  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER, 


10 


ANEW  French  saint  of  Illustrious  rank,  the  Paris  correspond- 
ent of  the  «ays.  will  soon  be  added  to  the  calen- 
dar—namely. Charle-  de  Blois,  one  ol  fcbe  two  claimants  in  the 
fourteenth  century  to  the  duchy  of  Brittany.  There  are  some  stirring 
pages  about  them  in  the  "Tales  ol  :i  Grandfather."  Charles  de  Blois 
was  the  candidate  favored  by  the  King  of  France.  Edward  III.  sup- 
ported his  rival,  the  husband  of  the  heroic  Jeanne  de  Montfort. 
Charles  was  distinguished  for  bis  piety  and  his  tenderness  of  heart 
as  a  warrior,  and,  as  a  feudal  prince,  for  his  justice.  He  forbade  his 
followers  ever  to  ravage  the  fields  or  poultry-yards  of  the  poor,  al- 
though they  were  enemies,  and  could  not  even  hate  the  English  af- 
ter he  was  released  from  the  captivity  in  which  they  held  him.  The 
Pope  ha  I  the  opinion  that  the  French  clergy  would  do  well 
to  study  the  life  and  sayings  of  the  venerable  Charles  de  Blois,  and 
to  imitate  his  gentle  ways  of  dealing  with  those  who  did  him  wrong. 

Words  have  their  destinies  as  well  as  books.  Mr.  Darcy  Lever,  in 
an  amusing  article  on  this  subject  in  the  National  Review  laments 
that  the  "  good  old  English  "  word  "  fiddler"  should  have  utterly  lost 
caste,  and  dragged  down  *'  fiddle  "  with  it  in  its  fall.  "  Fiddle  "  and 
"fiddler"  have  certainly  been  names  of  scorn  since  Mrs.  Piozzi's 
second  husband  was  contemptuously  compared  with  her  first  hus- 
band, Mr.  Thrale,  and  dismissed  as  a  "fiddler."  Mr.  Lever  might 
have  cited  an  earlier  example  in  the  case  of  Lord  Chesterfield,  who 
it  will  be  remembered,  reminded  his  son  that  a  gentleman  never 
fiddles.  Had  his  Lordship  lived  to  these  days  he  would  have  ac- 
knowledged that  Princes  and  Princesses  take  delight  in  this  instru- 
ment, though,  to  be  sure,  they  call  it  a  "  violin."  But  the  question 
is.  why  is  the  word  "violin"  respectable,  while  the  old  word  "fiddle" 
— which  has  a  respectable  derivation  and  means  the  same  thing— is 
clothed  with  mean  and  ridiculous  associations?  This  question  Mr. 
Lever  confesses  himself  compelled  to  leave  to  "  sharper  wits." 

The  stumbling  block  in  pedigree  building  is  the  occasional  cropping 
up  of  a  disreputable  ancestor  whom  you  have  a  special  reason  for 
not  remembering.  Sydney  Smith  used  to  say  "that  several  mem- 
bers of  his  family  disappeared  about  the  time  of  the  assizes;"  and 
most  people  remember  the  story  of  Alexandre  Dumas,  the  elder,  who 
had  a  considerable  dash  of  the  tar  brush  in  his  veins,  and  who  was 
pestered  abouthis  pedigree  by  some  antiquarian  Smellfungus.  "  Your 
father,  M.  Dumas,"  said  the  bore,  "was,  I  take  it,  a  mulatto."  "  Yes, 
sir."  "  Thus,  your  grandfather  must  have  been  a  negro."  "  Pre- 
cisely so."  "And  your  great-grandfather,  cher  M.  Dumas?"  "A 
monkey,  sir,"  thundered  the  exasperated  Alexandre;  "  my  pedigree 
ends  where  yours  begins." 

The  Paris  Figaro  vouches  for  this  story :  When  the  King  and  Queen 
of  Italy  were  on  board  the  French  flagship  during  the  recent  fetes  at 
Genoa,  Admiral  Rieunier  asked  them  down  to  take  refreshments  in  his 
own  cabin.  The  Queen  noticed  a  tabular  list  in  gold  letters  of  all  the 
admirals  who  bad  during  sixty  years  commanded  the  Mediterranean 
Squadron.  The  tablet  hung  on  a  partition  and  had  above  it  a  royal 
crown— that  of  the  Bourbons.  Still  higher  up  was  the  portrait  of 
M.  Carnot.  Said  the  Queen  to  the  Admiral  with  a  sweet  smile,  "How 
does  M.  Carnot  like  to  be  so  near  that  Crown  ?  "  "  Why,  very  well,' 
answered  the  Admiral,  "  Your  Majesty  must  have  noticed  that  it  is 
under  his  feet."  _ 

A  curious  and  ancient  custom  has  just  been  observed  at  the  village 
of  Corby,  near  Kattering,  England,  where  the  land  belonging  to  the 
parish  charities  has  been  let  by  the  interesting  old  custom  of  a  burn- 
ing candle.  A  pin  was  inserted  in  the  candle  a  short  distance  from 
the  light,  and  the  bidding  advanced  until  the  pin  dropped.  The 
ceremony  was  directed  by  the  rector  (Rev.  B.  E.  W.  Bennett),  and 
was  attended  by  many  of  the  parishioners.  Bidding  was  brisk,  and 
the  fall  of  the  pin  was  watched  with  considerable  interest.  When 
the  heat  dislodged  the  pin  the  last  bidders  found  that  they  had  the 
land  on  a  lease  of  eight  years. 

In  answer  to  a  prize  offered  by  a  French  paper  for  the  best  exam- 
ples of  microscopic  writing,  a  constant  reader  sent  in  the  whole  his- 
tory of  Christopher  Columbus  written  on  an  egg.  Another  wrote  on 
the  back  of  a  cabinet  photograph  Francois  CoppeVs  novel  of  "Hen- 
riette  "  of  19,000  words.  The  prize  was  won  by  a  man  who  sent  in 
the  contents  written  at  length  of  the  first  two  sheets  of  a  great  news- 
paper written  on  a  post-card.  The  people  who  will  ultimately  be 
most  benefited  by  this  strange  competition  will  doubtless  be  the  Paris 
oculists. 

The  best-known  cleaning  and  dveing  establishment  on  the  coast  is 
that  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  353-357  Tehama  steeet.  This  house 
has  gained  fame  by  the  excellence  of  its  work,  and  it  is  patronized 
by  all  the  leading  families  in  the  city.  Hotels  and  families  that  de- 
sire any  of  their  carpets,  curtains  or  clothes  cleaned  or  dyed,  cannot 
do  better  than  to  patronize  Spaulding's. 


1 3sT  STJ IR  _A.  IN"  C  IE  _ 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 


llcrbrrC 


OF  HAMBTKG,  GERMANY. 


.oh,  Malinger  for  the  1'arldc  Count  Ilrmiih. 
«au  Saiuome  St.,  B,  P. 

Capital  $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S *     534,795.72 

GEO.    MARCUS    &    CO., 

Agents  City   Department, 
. 33a  California  St.,  S.  F..  Cal. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

^_         OF  BASLE.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL  :  4.000.000  DOLLARS. 

inese  tbree  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed f  10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  fin  addition  to  Capital) 2,126  000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 8.124,067.80 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782-] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BVTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

—  ZZ:                   [Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
GEO,  F.  CHANT.  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDZEZPA-IRTIVEIEirsrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -    I  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, 123,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


tt.ll.  J.  LANDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  20!.  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL J5.000.000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.46. 

President.  KUNJAMIN  p.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  OIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
Mill's  Building,  Montaomery  Street.  San  Francisco, 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


INSURANCE  GOMPANY-LTD. 

|^j   OF-  MANCHESTER  ,  E  fS|  E  I- >\  fS]  Q  .  J 

Capital  paid  6$  guaranteed  $3,000,000,00. 

ChasA  Latow,  Manafter. 
439  California  St.  Saw  Fa-aiUEicua- 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


<BQs3mw& 


IF  the  election  has  done  nothing  else,  it  has  inspired  a  feeling  of 
confidence  in  the  real  estate  market.  There  has  been  a  general 
settling  down  to  business,  and  an  expression  of  opinion  that 
times  will  be  better  in  all  branches  of  trade.  The  eagerness  with 
which  auction  sales  are  being  announced  speaks  volumes  for  the 
realty  men.  Baldwin  &  Hammond  held  one  during  the  week, 
and  promise  to  offer  $175,000  more  property  within  the  next  two 
or  three  weeks.  Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  will  run  an  excursion  to 
and  hold  a  sale  at  Vacaville  this  day  week,  while  the  co-worker 
of  the  firm,  William  J.  Dingee,  will  hold  ao  auction  sale  of  Oak- 
land homes  and  residence  sites  in  that  city  to-day.  Other  auc- 
tions have  been  announced  to  take  place  next  month,  so  that  in 
the  bestowal  of  property  under  the  hammer  there  is  no  lack  of 
activity  present  and  promised. 

The  predicted  collapse  of  the  San  Francisco  and  Great  Salt  Lake 
railroad  project  may  have  a  somewhat  depressing  effect,  and  will 
not  encourage  the  confidence  of  outside  capital  in  our  undertak- 
ings. Every  attempt,  however,  in  this  direction  is  but  one  step 
nearer  ultimate  success.  Never  have  efforts  been  pushed  ao  far 
toward  the  attainment  of  another  transcontinental  road,  and  so 
the  failure  is  the  more  disappointing.  Out  of  it,  however,  will 
grow  a  still  more  determined  and  finally  a  successful  effort.  When 
the  scheme  was  first  broached,  the  News  Letter,  while  it  encour- 
aged the  idea,  expressed  the  belief  that  there  was  not  sufficient 
enterprise  among  the  business  men  of  the  city  to  take  it  up  and 
push  it  through,  and  if  they  had  the  enterprise,  the  manufactur- 
ing industries  now  in  existence  are  not  enough  to  feed  two  rail- 
roads. It  is  all  well  enough  to  build  railroads,  to  erect  houses 
and  extend  streets;  but  factories  make  railroads,  street  exten- 
sions and  houses  a  necessity,  and  until  there  are  more  industries 
there  will  be  little  need  of  such  elaborate  street  extensions  as 
have  been  planned,  of  a  competing  railroad,  or  many  more  busi- 
ness blocks.  Railroads  don't  build  towns,  popular  fancy  not- 
withstanding. Energy  and  enterprise  do  build  them.  The  sup- 
plementary report  of  the  Assessor  shows  how  nearly  stationary 
our  manufacturing  enterprises  have  been  for  the  past  five  or  six 
years. 

The  Post  street  extension  report  is  again  under  discussion,  and 
on  Tuesday  evening  last  some  sixteen  protestants  stated  their  ob- 
jections to  its  construction  westward.  The  trouble  is  not  so  much 
that  the  extension  is  unnecessary,  as  that  the  commission,  with 
its  extravagant  estimates  and  unpardonable  expense  accounts, 
is  quite  unnecessary.  A  very  important  move  is  under  way.  A 
sort  of  ground-swell  is  growing.  The  various  anti-extension 
clubs  are  consolidating,  the  Potrero,  the  Post,  and  the  Mission 
Real  Estate  Owners'  Unions  are  joining  hands,  and  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  that  can  hold  off  the  consolidation  will  be  tougher 
even  than  the  tough  old  board  of  evil  memory. 

There  is  a  nigger  in  the  woodpile  somewhere  in  the  removal  of 
the  tall  electric  light  masts  in  the  South  Mission  district.  While 
the  owners  have  been  advocating  them,  the  Street  Light  Com- 
mittee, of  which  Supervisor  Taber  is  chairman,  has  been  ordering 
a  number  of  smaller  lights,  of  far  less  power,  substituted.  The 
removal  alone  of  each  tall  mast  costs  $250;  perhaps  there  is 
something  in  that  fact.  Action  on  this,  the  street  extension, 
"  highway"  robberies  and  several  other  matters  will,  if  possible, 
be  staved  off  until  the  new  board  is  seated  ;  but  it  will  take 
close  watching  if  something  is  not  smuggled  through  the  disrepu- 
table coterie,  at  present  doing  duty  «s  city  fathers,  at  the  elev- 
enth hour. 

The  auction  sale  of  Baldwin  &  Hammond,  held  on  Thursday, 
proved  what  the  News  Letter  said  it  would — a  test  of  the  market.  The 
sale  was  one  of  the  most  successful  held  this  year.  Of  thirty  lots 
offered,  twenty-eight  were  sold  at  good  prices,  and  property  val- 
ued at  $93,700  was  disposed  of.  The  best  corner  lot,  that  at  the  north- 
east corner  of  Fulton  and  Baker,  37.6x95.7!^,  sold  for  $5,750,  the 
same  buyer,  J.  H.  Curley,  purchasing  the  adjoining  lot  to  the  north, 
25x95.7K.  for  $2,850,  and  two  lots,  each  27.0x137.6,  on  the  north  line  of 
Fulton,  west  of  Devisadero,  for  $2,975  each.  J.  G.  Barker,  of  Barker 
&  Deneen,  purchased  the  northwest  corner  of  McAllister  and  Brod- 
erick,  37.6x87.6,  for  $5,650,  and  two  lots  on  Broderick  and  McAllister 
sold  at  an  average  of  $110  a  front  foot.  The  southeast  corner  of 
McAllister  and  Devisadero,  32.0^x110  sold  for  $6,550,  and  the  ad- 
joining lots  on  the  latter  street  for  $140  a  front  foot.  The  lots  on 
Fultou,  south  line,  east  of  Devisadero,  sold  at  an  average  of  $90  a 
front  foot.  The  sale  was  well  handled,  the  property  offered  was  of  a 
good  class,  and  the  results  proved  that  the  market  is  gaining  in 
strength. 

Shainwald,  Buokbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
Office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 


A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


DIRECT   FROM    PARIS- 


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UPWARDS. 

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CYPRESS  LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

IFVAJMIIIi-^      PLOTS 
For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non-sectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  the  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  iuformation  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
he   cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 


SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 

PHARMACY     FRANCAIS. 


Ill  Grant  Ave. 


Telephone  13SO 


Parfumebie  Victoria,  Rigaud'a  &  Cie's  Lucrecia  Graciosa,  Louis  XV 
and  Exora  d'Afrique  are  the  latest  odors  aDd  so  different  from  perfumes 
familiar  to  everyoae-  Piveot'  Legrand's  violet  and  Roger  &  Gallet's  Lubin 
and  Pinaud's  perfumes,  Soap,  SachanFace  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc. 

Pinaud's  8  ounce  bottles.  $3,50;  regular  size  reduced  from  $1.26  to  85 
cents  per  bottle,  including  Peau  d'Ft?pagne  in  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

Every  lady  knows  that  exclusiveness  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as 
in  dress. 


RENTS! 


We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  &  HAMMOND, 

Real  'Est ate  Agents  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


SAN   FRANCISCO   NEWS  l.KTTER. 


21 


THF.  I'  LD.il  wailing.  In  members  are  well  aware  that 
much  bangs  on  the  position  which  the  Northwestern  National 
may  assume  tbis  day  week.  On  Saturday  next  the  thirty  days' 
DOtloe  "f  withdrawal  served  by  George  \V.  Turner  on  behalf  of 
bis  company  will  expire,  and  if  not  reconsidered  by  bim,  the 
Northwestern  National  will  cease  to  belong  to  the  Compact,  and 
A.  E.  Magill's  company,  the  Home  and  Pbcenix.  will  of  necessity 
step  out  too  It  is  generally  understood  that  Mr.  Turner  person- 
ally is  not  anxious  to  be  an  outsider.  Mr.  James,  the  head  of  his 
conservative  Milwaukee  Company,  has  ordered  the  withdrawal. 
He  is  said  to  be  a  gentleman  who,  while  he  likes  the  effect  of 
compacts  to  maintain  rates,  prefers  to  operate  outside  of  them. 
What  the  effect  of  the  withdrawal  will  be  is  what  troubles  the 
members  of  the  F.  I.  TJ. 

The  troubles  of  the  Compact  do  not  end,  however,  with  the 
withdrawals  mentioned.  A  number  of  interior  Pacific  Coast 
towns  have  of  late  evinced  a  tendency  to  place  a  sort  of  tax  on 
insurance  agents,  ranging  from  $3  to  $8.  To  meet  this,  the  Com- 
pact has  issued  a  circular,  statiug  to  the  city  councils  that  where 
such  taxes  are  levied  the  rates  of  insurance  will  be  raised.  From 
15  to  20  per  cent,  is  the  increase  in  rates,  and  in  some  instances  the 
tax  has  been  promptly  removed.  Just  now  Prescott,  Ar.,is  thepar- 
ticular  kicker  against  insurance  agents.  San  Luis  Obispo  has 
come  to  a  better  understanding,  and  has  decided  that  it  is  better 
to  save  her  citizens  in  premiums  than  to  aid  her  treasury  by  a 
paltry  tax. 

The  year  thus  far,  and  the  end  is  now  in  sight,  has  been  a 
heavy  one  for  the  fire  insurance  men.  Losses  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
are,  for  1892,  more  than  $1,200,000  in  excess  of  those  up  to  a  simi- 
lar date  in  1891. 

H.  H.  Nagle,  of  the  Canton,  has  gone  to  Victoria,  B.  C. 

E.  W.  8.  van  Sly  tie  has  been  appointed  agent  of  the  Broadway, 
of  New  York. 

In  a  facetious  mood,  the  Coast  Review  refers  to  numerous  frame 
buildings  recently  erected  within  the  fire  limits.  The  News  Let- 
tee  could  name  frame  buildings  which  are  not  election  booths, 
but  frame  flats  erected  withm  the  fire  limits,  and  the  question  is, 
who  winked  when  they  were  built.  Other  violations  of  tbe  fire 
ordinance  are  numerous. 

The  Insurance  Associates  will  be  ready  for  business  as  a  fully 
organized  association  next  week.  They  met  on  Friday  afternoon 
and  approved  their  constitution  and  by-laws,  which  they  took 
the  precaution  to  have  carefully  examined  by  a  competent  at- 
torney before  adopting. 

There  is  good  reason  to  assert  that  the  North  German  which  is 
represented  here  by  Walter  Speyer  will  enter  Oregon  on  January  1, 
1893.  The  State  is  one  which  requires  a  cash  deposit  by  all  foreign 
or  outside  companies,  only  those  companies  having  headquarters 
in  the  state  being  free  from  such  obligation.  The  deposit  required  is 
$50,000  cash,  and  this  sum  will  be  deposited. 

News  is  light  in  marine  circles  which  means  that  losses  have  not 
been  as  numerous  as  usual.  Salvage  operations  on  the  Joseph  H. 
Spinney  are  progressing  rapidly  and  the  entire  business  will  be  cleared 
up  very  soon. 

The  Jacobs  and  Easton  agency  was,  through  a  typographical 
error,  said  last  week  to  have  been  sold  for  $2,500  instead  of  $25,- 
000.  The  value  of  the  agency  lies  largely  in  the  Jewish  patron- 
age which  it  controls.  There  were  five  partners  in  the  firm, 
Julius  Jacobs,  George  Easton,  E.  P.  Farnsworth,  A.  Wentzelburg 
and  Henry  Whitely.  On  October  15th  the  three  first  gentlemen 
purchased  the  stock  of  the  two  others,  and  on  the  following  day 
the  remaining  three  sold  their  interest  to  John  G.  Conrad  and  F. 
G.  Voss.  Conrad  and  Voss  occupy  the  offices  formerly  tenanted 
by  Jacobs  and  Easton. 


ANOTHER  brutal  murder  in  this  city  during  the  week  suggests 
the  advisability  of  some  more  speedy  and  effectual  method  of 
dealing  with  crimes  of  this  class.  The  number  of  murderers  con- 
fined in  the  local  jail  at  present,  many  of  whom  were  caught  red- 
handed,  is  a  disgraceful  commentary  on  the  manner  in  which 
our  laws  are  administered.  It  is  rather  different  in  other  parts  of 
the  world,  as  is  evidenced  by  the  rapidity  with  which  foreign 
murderers  follow  their  victims  beyond  the  river.  Here  justice  is 
trifled  with  if  the  culprit  has  money  enough  to  fee  some  lawyer 
to  block  the  courts  with  legal  technicalities.  Just  so  long  as 
criminals  can  purchase  immunity  from  punishment,  a  continu- 
ance of  bloodshed  can  be  expected.  It  is  a  disagreeable  thing  to 
say  but  the  truth,  nevertheless,  that  in  no  civilized  community 
is  life  held  so  cheaply  to-day  as  it  is  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  about 
time  that  the  courts  were  awakened  to  the  necessity  for  a  few 
severe  examples,  which  might  serve  to  ameliorate  such  a  disgrace- 
ful state  of  affairs. 


A>  \M-.moTE  OF  TENNYSON— A  married  couple,  old 
friends  of  Tennyson,  who  had  been  traveling  in  tbe  East  for 
some  years,  returning  to  England,  wrote  to  tbe  poet  to  announce 
tbeir  whereabouts  and  beg  him  to  call  nml  see  them.  Accordingly 
one  fine  afternoon  Tennyson  betook  himself  to  Shepherd's  Bush, 
and  on  ringing  at  the  bell,  learned  they  were  not  at  home.  "Well, 
then,  I  will  just  write  them  a  note,  and  arrange  for  a  day  of  meet- 
ing," said  he  to  the  housemaid.  Forthwith  he  was  conducted  to 
the  drawing-room,  where  quills,  ink  and  paper  were  supplied. 
When  signing  his  name  to  a  polite  little  note,  Ttnnyson,  by 
a  jerk  of  the  pen.  overturned  the  ink-bottle,  and  great 
was  his  dismay  at  seeing  a  large  pool  of  ink  spread- 
ing rapidly  over  his  friend's  new  white  Persian  carpet  of 
matchless  beauty.  Horror-struck,  he  rang  the  bell.  Up  ran 
the  servant.  "For  God's  sake,  help  met"  cried  the  poet. 
Now  it  happened  that  the  milkman  bad  just  left  a  can 
of  frothing  milk  at  tbe  door.  And  the  intelligent  hand- 
maid remembered,  in  the  nick  of  time,  that  new  milk,  if 
thrown  over  wet  ink  would  remove  all  traces  of  the  despoiling  fluid. 
Accordingly  she  overturned  the  jug  on  to  the  large  black  pool,  and 
with  house-flannel  and  cloths,  set  about  rubbing  and  scrubbing  at 
the  stain.  Down  went  Tennyson  on  his  hands  and  knees,  rubbing  and 
scrubbing  with  his  little  help-meet.  His  agony  of  mind  for  fear  that 
his  old  friend  should  knock  at  the  door  and  suddenly  appear  on  the 
scene  of  the  disaster  he  often  described  in  later  days,  declaring  it  "  to 
reach  to  the  infinite."  With  such  a  good  will  did  this  strange  couple 
work  together  that  every  trace  of  ink  was  removed.  "  Here  is  a  five- 
shilling  piece,  my  good  girl,"  cried  the  poet,  and  God  bless  you!" 
With  that  he  seized  his  hat  and  made  for  the  door.  Some  weeks  later 
an  invitation  to  dine  with  his  old  friends  reached  Tennyson.  He 
went.    And  the  carpet  was  in  no  way  alluded  to  on  either  side. 


With  the  approach  of  the  holidays  comes  the  desire  to  beautfy 
homes,  and  by  the  addition  of  pictures  and  handsome  furniture,  to 
make  our  abiding  places  satisfactory  to  our  artistic  tastes.  Pictures 
do  more  to  make  a  home  beautiful  than  any  other  resource  of  the 
household  decorator.  That  seems  to  be  the  opinion  entertained  by 
the  many  people  who  visit  the  art  galleries  of  S.  &  G.  Gump,  at  113 
Geary  street.  This  house  shows  an  excellent  collection  of  hand- 
somely framed  etchings,  water  color  engravings  and  oil  paintings. 
All  these  works  of  art  have  been  selected  by  a  connoisseur,  and  are 
unsurpassed  in  this  city.  Much  attention  is  also  given  by  visitors 
to  the  bronze  ornaments,  plaques,  centre-tables,  statuettes  and  other 
artistic  creations  with  which  the  store  is  crowded. 


NO  IMITATION  GOODS. 

Therefore  the  question  "is 
it  Genuine?"  is  never  raised 
concerning  any  article  pur- 
chased from 

A.  W.  STOTT, 

JEWELLER, 

3  Montgomery  St. 

(Under  Masonic  Temple.) 

DIAMONDS     and     other 

precious  stones. 
AMERICAN  and  SWISS 

WATCHES. 
And  stylish  new  designs 
GOLD      AND      SILVER 

JEWELLERY 
of  high  grade  at  surprising- 
ly low  prices. 


22 


SAN  FKANCIPCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— De maud  good;    Extras  $3.90f</}$4     Superfine.  $2  60@t3.10. 

Wheat— Good   trade;  Shipping,  $1.3  LV£:  Milling,  «l.350U.37!^  per   cental 

Barley  is  steady;  Brewing.  9>c.@$L  Feed,  8iV2e-@85c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  $1.35($$1.40;  Feed,  $1.25&$1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $12);  Yellow,  $1.05@$1.20per  ctl. 

Rye  is  quiet,  good  demand,  sfl.tfi $$1.17^2.    Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hayis  higher;  Wheat, $12;  Oats,  $8g)$iu-,  Alfalfa,  $8@$9.5U 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $14@$15  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00fg)$2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  40c.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  30c.@32^c;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.     Eggs,  free  supply,  35c.@40c 

Hooey,  Comb,  10c.®12c.;  Extracted,  7c. @8e.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  50c@76c.    Beeswax  is  steady,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  7e@7V^c.      Wool  is  iu  good  demand  at  llc.@L6c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5%c@6c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  iu  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  wale.     Hops,  18c.@2lc. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $41.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stoca  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    Whites,  4V^@5^c. 

Few  people  have  any  correct  idea  of  the  extent  ot  Coal  con- 
sumption in  this  city  and  State,  its  imports,  home  and  foreign, 
and  the  product  of  our  own  Mt.  Diablo  and  other  mines  north  of 
us.  From  a  careful  and  elaborate  history  of  this  article  recently 
compiled  in  the  commercial  column  of  the  Evening  Bulletin %  we 
find  that  from  January  1st,  1850,  to  January  1st,  1892,  the  total 
coal  receipts  at  this  port,  say  for  42  years,  aggregated  20  184.400 
tons,  and  may  be  classified  as  follows:  Domestic,  9,819,800;  for- 
eign, 10,364,600  tons.  The  source  of  supply  is  as  follows:  Cali- 
fornia, Mt.  Diablo  mines,  tons,  2,827,200:  Oregon,  Coos  Bay 
mines,  796,400;  Puget  8ound  mines,  4,821,000;  Eastern  mines, 
1,375,200;  Australian  mines,  3,577,200;  British  Columbia  mines, 
3,910,300;  European  mines,  2,718,000;  Chile,  Japan  and  other 
mines,  159,100.  In  addition  to  the  above,  San  Diego  and  other 
Southern  ports  have  had  direct  imports  from  the  above  mines  to 
the  extent  of  some  2,000,000  tons,  making  the  grand  total  of  the 
State's  consumption  since  1850,  22,684,400  tons.  The  total  cost 
averages  $8  per  ton,  and  the  entire  value  estimated  at  $200,000,- 
000.  We  are  now  consuming  1,200,000  tons  per  annum,  at  a  cost 
of  $10,000,000. 

The  whaling  fleet  from  the  North  is  now  arriving  freely,  as 
will  be  seen  from  details  following,  which  are  in  addition  to  those 
■given  last  week  in  the  News  Letter:  Wh.  stmr.  Orca,  17  days 
from  Fox  Island,  with  1,050  bbls.  Oil,  30,000  lbs.  Bone  to  Pacific 
Steam  Whaling  Co.;  wh.  stmr.  Thrasher,  20  days  from  Fox 
Island,  with  800  bbls.  Oil,  31,000  lbs.  Bone  to  J.  N.  Knowles;  wh. 
bark  California,  20  days  from  same,  to  Wm.  Lewis,  with  385  bbla. 
Oil  and  7,000  lbs.  Bone;  wh.  bark  Bounding  Billow,  to  Wright, 
Bowne  &  Co.,  20  days  from  same,  with  700  bbls.  Oil  and  7,000  lbs. 
Bone;  wh.  bark  8ea  Ranger,  20  days  from  same,  to  I.  H.  Bartlett, 
with  250  bbls.  Oil  and  7,000  lbs.  Bone;  wh.  bark  Sea  Breeze,  19 
days  from  same,  to  James  McKenna,  with  400  bbls.  Oil  and  10,000 
lbs.  Bone;  wh.  bark  Horatio,  21  days  from  Behring  Sea,  to  Wm. 
Lewis,  with  260  bbls.  Oil  and  2,3001bs.  Bone;  wh.  bark  Josephine, 
17  days  from  Fox  Island,  to  Fred  Swift,  with  530  bbla.  Oil,  900 
lbs.  Bone;  bk.  Alaska,  19 days  same,  to  F.  Swift,  380  bbls.  Oil,  900 
lbs.  Bone;  wh.  echr.  Rosario,  20  days  from  same,  to  Wright, 
Bowne  &  Co.,  with  1,600  lbs.  Bone,  700  lbs.  Ivory  and  300  Fox 
Skins;  wh.  scbr.  Bonanza,  21  days  from  same,  to  James  McKenna, 
with  5,506  lbs.  Bone;  wh.  bark  Mermaid,  21  days  from  same, 
.with  380  bbls.  Oil,  8,500  lbs.  Boner  wh.  schr.  Berkeley,  23  days 
from  same,  to  8.  Foster,  with  130  bbls.  Oil,  2,600  lbs.  Bone;  wh. 
bark  Hunter,  23  days  same,  875  bbls.  Oil,  28,000  lbs.  Bone,  etc.; 
wh.  bark  Abraham  Barker,  20  days  same,  700  bbls.  Oil,  16,000 
lbs.  Bone,  etc. ;  wh.  bark  Alice,  20  days  same,  430  bbls.  Oil,  11,000 
lbs.  Bone;  wh.  bark  Reindeer,  21  days  same,  450  bbls.  Oil,  9,000 
lbs.  Bone;  wh.  bark  F.  A.  Barstow,  23  days  same,  5,500  lbs.  Bone; 
schr.  Jane  Gray  is  in  ballast.  The  total  catch  for  the  season  ap- 
proximates 10,500  bbls.  Oil,  357,500  lbs.  Bone. 

The  Orient — The  Pacific  Mail  steamship  City  of  Peking,  23 
days  from  Hongkong,  via  Yokohama  15  days,  had  for  cargo  2,- 
844  mats  Rice,  2,147  pkgs.  Tea,  1,457  cs.  Oil,  3,376  pkgs.  Sugar, 
500  bales  Hemp,  500  bales  Jute,  615  rolls  Matting,  733  sks.  Coffee, 
1,131  bxs.  Oranges  and  6,500  pkgs.  Merchandise.  Also  in  transit 
to  go  overland,  9,077  pkgs.  Tea,  1,759  pkgs.  Raw  Silk,  113  pkgs. 
Silk  Goods,  292  rolls  Matting,  166  pkgs.  Curios,  etc.  The  steam- 
ship Gaelic  from  China  and  Japan  had  for  cargo  5,332  pkgs.  Tea, 
1,012  cs.  Oil,  1,163  bags  Spice,  237  rolls  Matting,  478  pkgs.  Curios, 
500  bales    Hemp  and  7,000  pkgs.  Merchandise. 

The  flour  mills  outside  of  the  Combine  show  large  increase  in 
their  sales  for  the  last  sixty  days. 

The  Paul  Isenberg  sailed  from  San  Francisco  to  Cork  for  orders 
on  Saturday  last,  with  a  cargo  of  87,000  quarter  sacks  Starr  Flour, 
and  the  Galgorm  Castle  is  now  loading  over  100,000  quarters  of 
the  same  brand.  As  they  are  not  in  the  Combine,  the  public 
seem  now  favoring  this  brand  of  flour,  and  the  local  sales  of  it 
during  the  last  thirty  to  sixty  days  have  been  very  largely  in- 
creased. 


BAUKS. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 


CAPITAL  PAID  UP 
RESERVE  FUND 


Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 


.$3,000,000 
.     1,250,000 


Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE     60  LOMBARD  8TREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,  British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— Loudon  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

532  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1893 $35,890,663  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,533,136  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Uierc  Millar.  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;    Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  iu  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  mouey.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Office  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 

H.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) $1,500,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  1  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS $150,000 

8.  G.  MURPHY. President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN  Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT..   .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE AsstCashier 

DIRECTORS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perking,  8.  G.  Murphy, 

N    Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
S^KFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND S    1,645,000  OO. 

Deposits  July  1,  1892 28,776,697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG  ;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KROSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  P..  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,   S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffltt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cop.  San  some  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubsciied  Capital $2,500,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Asents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St., N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  A  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altbchtjl,  Cashier. ^^ 

THE  ANGLO-CAUFORNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  |  Paid  up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  court,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Selrman  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  goneral  banking  luslness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
worlu.    Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    )  «-_.-_„„ 

P.N.LILIENTHAL.l  Managers. 
A.  L.  SEUGMAN,  Cashier. 


19,   is'.' 


\    FRANCISCO    SEWS  I  ETTEB 


2:; 


L1TTI.K  has  been  heanl  lately  about  a  scheme  for  rapid  sbaft- 
sink'ng  which  excited  much  interest   a   few  years    ago,  says 

meeting  Maganme,  That  was  the  plan  of  potUng  down  a  com- 
plete wt  of  drOI  holea  to  the  full  depth  of  the  proposed  shaft  by 
means  of  the  diamond  core  ilrill  or  by  the  use  of  an  apparatus  like 
that  in  sinking  bore  wells  for  brine,  petroleum,  and  natural  gas;  do- 
ing ail  the  drilling  at  once;  tilling  the  drill-hole  with  sand,  then  re- 
moving the  filling  section  by  section,  blasting,  hoisting  out  the  broken 
rock  and  repeating  the  process  uniil  the  whole  excavation   was  tin- 

'  'lie  notable  example  was  afforded  of  a  large  shaft  for  a  coal 
mine  being  sunk  in  this  way.  the  holes  being  bored  continuously  by 
diamond  drills,  but  the  record  was  not  sufficiently  encouraging  to 
bring  the  method  into  general  favor.  There  are  some  evident  dis- 
advantages in  the  system.  Parallel  holes  do  not  offer  the  best  chance 
for  the  explosive;  and  if  short  supplementary  converging  holes  had 
to  be  added  afterward  at  each  stage,  leaving  only  the  side  holes  for 
the  continuous-drilling  method,  there  would  be  no  apparent  gain 
from  the  latter.  It  would  be  difficult  to  send  the  holes  down  in  true 
alignment,  ar.d  if  made  by  the  well-drilling  apparatus,  they  would  be 
inconveniently  large  in  bore  for  effective  tamping.  Perhaps  a  single 
very  large  and  open  bore-hole,  drilled  by  an  exaggerated  form  of  the 
diamond  core  drill,  sunk  in  the  axis  of  a  proposed  shaft,  might  assist 
by  giving  a  central  release  for  shots  in  the  exterior  lines. 

An  English  engineer,  Mr.  Scott- Moncrieff,  has  lately  been  con- 
ducting a  series  of  remarkable  experiments  at  his  residence  in  Ash- 
tead.  on  the  purification  of  domestic  sewage.  The  investigations  of 
the  Massachusetts  State  Board  of  Health  have  shown  that  the  natu- 
ral destruction  of  the  organic  matter  in  sewage  and  its  subsequent 
nitrification,  is  due  to  the  presence  of  bacteria  in  the  upper  strata  of 
porous  soils.  M.  Pasteur  has  further  demonstrated  that  this  organ- 
ism depends  for  its  existence  on  oxyeen,  and  he  describes  it,  there- 
fore, as  an  aerobian.  At  his  residence  in  Ashtead,  Mr.  Scott-Mon- 
creiff  constructed  a  rectangular  filter  bed.  specially  designed  for  up- 
ward filtration,  in  which  the  filtering  materials,  flints,  coke  and 
gravel,  were  placed  on  a  grating  suspended  above  the  floor  of  the 
tauk.  The  whole  of  the  sewage  and  waste  water  from  the  house 
passes  into  the  bottom  of  this  tank  without  any  mechanical  separa- 
tion of  the  solids  or  suspended  matter.  Bacteriological  fermentation 
takes  place  as  the  crude  sewage  rises  through  the  tank,  with  the  re- 
sult that  an  effluent  is  discharged  from  the  outlet,  which,  after  repe- 
tition of  the  process  in  a  subsidiary  tank,  is  fit  to  pass  into  any 
stream.  After  the  filter  had  been  in  use  some  months  it  was  cleaned 
out  and  new  filtering  material  was  inserted,  the  result  being  the  im- 
mediate deterioration  of  the  effluent;  when  the  old  material  was  re- 
placed the  effluent  at  once  improved.  The  natural  inference  is  that 
the  original  material,  being  thoroughly  impregnated  with  micro-or- 
ganisms, acted  beneficially  on  the  sewage,  whereas,  if  the  tank  had 
been  a  purely  mechanical  filter  it  must  have  deteriorated  with  use. 
The  absence  of  sludge  in  the  process  is  so  very  remarkable  a  novelty 
that  one  hesitates  to  accept  it.  It  will  yet  remain  to  be  proved 
whether  this  process  of  "cultivation  filters  "  will  give  equally  satis- 
factory results  when  dealing  with  large  volumes  of  sewage.  Mr.  G. 
H.  Lawford  has  investigated  the  process  and  arranged  to  adopt  it 
experimentally  at  Hatfield.  The  result  of  the  trials  there  cannot  fail 
to  be  one  of  great  interest  to  those  who  have  to  solve  questions  of 
sewage  disposal. 

Some  new  ideas  have  lately  attracted  attention  in  the  matter  of 

pavements.  Among  these  is  the  paving  of  a  bridge  by  a  German  en- 
gineer with  India  rubber,  the  result  having  been  so  satisfactory  as  to 
induce  its  application  on  a  much  larger  scale,  a  point  in  its  favor  be- 
ing that  it  is  more  durable  than  asphalt,  and  not  slippery.  In  Lon- 
don a  section  of  roadway  under  the  gate  leading  to  the  departure 
platform  of  the  St.  Pancras  terminus  has  for  some  time  past  been 
paved  with  this  material,  with  the  effect  of  deadening  the  sound 
made  when  being  passed  over  on  wheels,  besides  the  comfortable 
elasticity  afforded  to  foot  passengers.  Another  material  which  is  be- 
ing satisfactorily  introduced  for  this  purpose  is  composed  of  granu- 
lated cork  and  bitumen  pressed  into  blocks,  and  which  are  laid  like 
bricks  or  wood  paving,  the  special  advantage  secured  in  this  case  be- 
ing that  of  elasticity ;  in  roadways  it  furnishes  a  fine  foothold  for 
horses,  and  at  the  same  time  does  away  to  a  great  degree  with  the 
noise  which  commonly  accompanies  city  traffic.  In  Australia  this 
method  has  been  resorted  to  with  excellent  results. 

If  vou  enjoy  an  excellent  meal,  served  with  perfection,  dine  at  the 
Original  Swain's  Bakery,  213  Sutter  street,  where  a  masterly  chef 
provides  that  only  the  most  delectable  dishes  appear  upon  the  table. 
This  restaurant  has  enjoyed  an  unrivaled  reputation  for  many  years 
among  the  elite  of  this  city,  for  it  has  always  been  the  rule  of  the 
house  to  serve  only  a  first-class  table. 

John  W.  Carmany,  the  popular  furnisher  of  25  Kearny  street, 
has  a  large  and  fashionable  stock  of  gentlemen's  goods  for  fall  and 
winter  wear.    The  fashionables  patronize  him. 


To  lb*-  reideraol  the  Nkwb  Lbttsr  who  are  content" 
plating  a  trip  to  the  East.raa  the  advantages  o(  taking 
the  Union  Pacific  li  is  the  only  line  running  Poll- 
man  Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Can 
I  from  San  Pranclaco  to  Chicago  without  change.    Yon  are 

inly  three  and  one-halt  days  from  >;ui  Francisco  to  t'hi- 
[O,  and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 
Boston. 

Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  25$£  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
D.  \V.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

The  leading  tailor  in  this  city  is  Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield  of  12  Post 
street.  He  has  gained  a  splendid  reputation  during  the  years  he 
has  been  in  business  here,  and  is  patronized  by  most  of  the  best 
dressed  men  in  town.  He  makes  a  specialty  of  uniforms  and  re- 
galias of  all  sorts  and  has  outfitted  many  of  the  nation's  defenders. 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital $3,000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Brown. Cashier  |  B.  MUEEAY.Jr  ,     .Assistant Cashier 

Irving  F.  Modlton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  l\e  Bank  of  California;  BOSTON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London — Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  SonB.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver.  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland,0.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital $3,500,000 

Reserve 


Capital  paid  up 2.450,000 

450,000 


San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.  C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch,  1005  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUR  SCRIVENER:  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK—  Drexel,  Morgan  <ft  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  3  at  he  it  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

JAMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    L.N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner.Alhert  Miller,  IVm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents  i  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FAR60  &  CO.'S  DANK. 

N.  £.  Corner  Saiuome  and  Sntter  Streets. 

SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

John  J.  Valentine President. 

Homer  S.  King  Manager. 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier. 

J.  L.  Browne Assistant  Cashier. 

.    DIRECTORS* 
John  J.  Valentine,  Lloyd  Tevis,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Leland  Stanford,  James 
C.  Fargo,  Geo,  E.   Gray,  W.  F.  Goad,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  C  0CKER-W00LW0RTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Marlcet,  Montgomery  ana  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL tl.000,000. 

DIRECTORS : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  B.  H.  MILLER,  Jr. 

E.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W.  E.  BROWN VICE-Peesident. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cabhieb 

SECORITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $800,000 

OFFICERS: 

President         ...JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary 8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President  W.  S.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  2Z8  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


24 


feAJM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


ANDRESY,    OCT.    6,    1892. 

"  The  Frenchmen  got  away  and  won  by  a  length  and  a  half." 
O  shades  of  Blake  and   Rodney,  can  ye  rest  within  your  graves 
As  ye  hear  the  newsboy  screaming  that  La  Belle  France  rules  the 

waves  ? 
Do  not  your  ashes  glow  again  in  your  respective  tombs 
As  ye  think  of  Thames  and  Seine,  of  Cercle  de  l'Aviron  and  Ooms  ? 
Great  Nelson !  well  may  hucksters  sell  thy  hearts  of  oak  for  chips, 
And  Gretchen  cook  her  sausages  with  British  battle-ships  1 
Trade  off  the  lot  for  lumber!     Let  them  never  more  be  seen, 
The  too  long-lived  survivors  of  a  glorious  has-been  1 
And,  sons  of  Britain,  blush  ye  not?   and  blench  ye  not  for  dread, 
That  spectral  sea-dogs  shall  rise  up  and  worry  you  in  bed  ? 
The  Frenchmen  won ,  the  English  lost ;  then  let  us  please  maintain 
That  both  crews  were  non compos,  for  both  crews  were  in-Seine  ! 
Yet  think  ye  of  the  Battle  of  the  Spurs,  and  many  a  fray 
When  not  an  Englishman  could  show  heels  half  so  clean  as  they; 
And  comfort  ye,  true  Britons,  in  your  modesty,  and  say, 
"  Of  course  we  couldn't  lick  them,  because  they  got  away!  " 

— St.  James  Budget. 


TO    AID    THE    WOUNDED. 


AT  the  general  meeting  of  the  Red  Cross  Society  held  in  Rome 
in  the  early  spring  the  King  and  Queen  of  Italy  offered  a  prize 
for  an  invention  in  connection  with  the  work  of  the  society.  The 
subject  to  be  kept  in  view  by  the  competitors  is  the  facilitating  of 
arrangements  for  the  collection  of  the  wounded  in  war,  and  their 
rapid,  safe  and  comfortable  transit  to  the  nearest  Held  hospital,  or 
to  a  place  whence  they  can  be  removed  by  the  ordinary  means 
and  appliances  to  some  appointed  place  for  treatment.  All  means 
and  appliances  which  conduce  directly  or  indirectly  to  the  above 
end  are  held  to  be  within  the  ecope  of  the  competition.  The 
total  value  of  the  honorarium  is  ten  thousand  lire  (about 
£400),  which  may  be  given  in  one  prize  or  awarded 
in  two  separate  sums.  A  number  of  silver  medals,  with  the 
heads  of  the  august  donors  engravedjon  them,  will  also  be  distrib- 
uted. An  international  combination  of  judges  will  decide  the 
awards.  The  adjudicators  will  sit  in  Rome,  under  the  president 
of  the  above-named  society,  to  examine  any  models  which  may 
be  submitted.  These  are  to  be  on  a  scale  of  one-fourth  of  the 
actual  size,  and  to  be  accompanied  by  a  written  descriptisn,  with 
explanatory  diagrams  and  particulars  as  to  mode  of  construction, 
written  in  Italian  or  French,  or  to  be  accompanied  by  a  transla- 
tion into  either  of  these  languages.  Written  descriptions  without 
accompanying  models  may  be  tested  and  criticised,  but  will  be 
excluded  from  any  award  of  a  prize.  Models  and  descriptions 
will  be  received  by  the  president  of  the  central  committee  Red 
Cross  Society  up  to  June  30,  1893,  and  on  15th  Angust,  1893,  an 
exhibition  will  be  opened  in  Rome  to  display  the  articles  for- 
warded to  the  Society,  and  the  exhibition  will  remain  open  until 
September  15th. 

iT  has  been  frequently  stated  that  since  the  war  drinking  habits 
have  increased  in  France  to  an  alarming  extent.  In  1869,  ac- 
cording to  recent  statistics,  there  were  365,875  cabarets,  or  dram- 
shops, in  France,  being  one  for  every  eighty-seven  inhabitants. 
Since  then,  by  reason  of  the  annexation  of  Alsace-Lorraine, 
France  has  lost  1,600,000  inhabitants,  but  the  cabarets  have  in- 
creased to  410,000.  In  1850  the  consumption  of  alcohol  was  585,- 
000  hectolitres  of  alcohol,  or  1.46  litre  per  head  of  the  population. 
It  has  now  risen  to  1,669,184  hectolitres,  or  4.40  litres  per  head. 
The  alcohol  formerly  was  distilled  from  wine;  it  is  now  made 
from  fruit  and  grain,  the  effects  of  which  on  the  human  organiza- 
tion are  deleterious  in  the  extreme.*  The  increased  consumption 
of  absinthe  is  specially  attended  with  the  most  deplorable  results, 
and  it  is  more  than  time  for  the  Legislature  to  interfere  in  order 
to  check  the  growing  evil. 


PEOPLE  who  make  a  practice  of  perusing  the  Eastern  news- 
papers find  frequent  occasion  to  wonder  whether  the  estab- 
lishments where  they  are  printed  boast  of  such  a  thing  as  a 
Geographical  Gazateer.  The  murderous  work  made  of  the  names 
of  localities  on  the  Pacific  coast  is  something  wonderful.  Here 
for  instance  is  a  prominent  New  York  newspaper,  which  essays 
to  give  an  account  of  the  recent  murder  on  Madame  Modjeska's 
ranch,  near  Santa  Ana,  and  in  so  doing  locates  it  in  "the  county 
of  Aranage."  Only  a  Californian  could  see  in  this  fearful  piece 
of  bungling  any  semblance  to  the  Orange  county,  of  which  Santa 
Ana  is  the  capital. 


A  PRETTY  and  altogether  modest  young  Irish  girl,  evidently 
a  nurse,  stood  patiently  waiting  her  turn  in  a  big  drug  store. 
At  last  one  of  the  clerks,  a  rather  dashing  young  fellow,  disposing 
of  his  last  customer,  made  his  way  to  the  young  woman's  side 
and  asked  politely: 

» Is  any  one  paying  you  attention,  miss  ?  " 
The  young  woman  blushed,  hesitated  a  moment  and  answered 
coyly: 

"  I  am  already  married  I  " 


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One  feature,  however,  will  be  a  repro- 
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£V  BN  IV.  dresses  are  usually  made  in  some  modification  of  the 
princess  style.  The  luuch-lalked-nf  Empire  styles  of  dress 
art-  nothing  more  than  a  princess  dresa  wonod  liigh  under  the  arms 
with  a  wide  scarf  that  hangs  low  over  the  dress  skirt.  The  prevail- 
ing colors  for  evening  wear  are  pale  Nile  greens  and  Sevres  rose  tints; 
cream  and  yellow  hues  remain  in  use,  but  are  no  longer  pre-eminent. 
There  are  also  many  pale  violet  colors  used  in  combination  with 
water  greens  or  by  themselves  in  sol  id -colored  brocade,  draped  with 
chiffon  and  finished  with  a  narrow  bayaleuse  pleating  of  velvet  of  the 
royal  purple  hue  called  this  season  eminence.  A  charming  French 
dress  of  the  new  "  vrille"  or  gimlet  corded  bengaline  (so  called  from 
the  waved  screw-like  appearance  of  the  cords)  was  recently  im- 
ported. It  was  a  pale  stem-green  in  color.  The  wide  demitrained 
skirt  was  finished  panels  of  white  satin,  embroidered  with  tiny  steel 
beads.  The  wide  Empire  belt  was  composed  of  five  rows  of  white 
satin  folds,  embroidered  on  their  overlapping  edges.  The  corsage 
was  cut  low,  pointed  sharply  back  and  front,  and  draped  slightly 
aronnd  the  neck  with  pale  shadowy  green  chiffon,  and  completed  by 
large  putted  demi-sleeves  of  palest  green  chiffon. 

A  few  rich  reception  dresses  of  dark  velvet,  striped  with  bayadere 
rainbow  stripes  of  satin  sunk  in  the  velvet  pile,  have  been  imported 
this  season,  but  it  is  not  likely  that  bayadere  stripes  will  ever  be- 
come popular  again,  as  they  are  only  becoming  to  exceptionally  tall, 
slender  women.  On  the  average  woman  wide  bayadere  stripes  give 
the  effect  of  a  hooped  barrel,  which  is  extremely  desirable  to  avoid. 
A  great  deal  of  maize  chiffon  is  used  this  season  in  connection  with 
black,  and  brilliant  coquelicot  red  is  again  combined  with  black  and 
with  the  darkest  shades  of  olive  green. 

A  lovely  dress  is  of  silver-gray  poplin  with  violet  velvet  sleeves  and 
shoulder  cape.  The  bodice  is  slightly  gathered  across  the  bust,  and 
the  fullness  is  held  in  place  with  a  rosette  of  the  velvet  which  may 
be  replaced  with  a  big  bunch  of  natural  violets  on  occasions.  A  belt 
of  the  violet  velvet  is  fitted  neatly  in  folds  and  fastened  at  the  side 
with  another  rosette.  A  narrow  band  of  velvet  finishes  the  skirt, 
which  has  an  edge  of  silver  braid  showing  above  the  hem.  Silver 
braid  shows  also  below  the  hem  of  the  cape  and  around  the  edge  of 
the  collar  and  gives  a  finish  at  the  wrist. 

The  new  sleeves  are  merely  an  amplification  of  the  full  sleeve  o 
last  summer;  they  fall  from  the  shoulder  seam  and  give  the  effect  of 
greater  length  to  it.  In  reality  this  sleeve  is  not  much  longer  than  it 
has  been,  though  it  appears  longer,  owing  to  the  manner  in  which 
the  sleeve  falls  away  from  it.  The  sleeves  of  the  new  evening  gowns 
are  huge  puffs  of  velvet  or  chiffon  or  some  material  used  in  trim- 
ming the  dress  oftener  than  of  the  dress  material  itself. 

There  is  a  new  color  this  year  which  is  a  combination  of  purple  and 
the  duller  heliotrope,  and  which  is  delightfully  "  in  touch"  with  au- 
tumn. A  lovely  costume  which  will  be  worn  at  the  approaching 
Horse  Show  is  of  this  color  in  rough,  soft  camel's  hair  trimmed  with 
dark  brown  fur  around  the  short,  round  skirt,  with  large  puffed  vel- 
vet sleeves  (Hat  revers  of  the  fur  making  a  sloping  line  from  the  neck 
to  the  sleeves)  and  a  collar  of  the  same  fur. 


The  old-fashioned  custom  of  removing  the  cloth  before  the  dessert, 
leaving  the  bare  mahogany,  is  being  revived  by  those  who  are  fortu- 
nate enough  to  possess  a  valuable  heirloom  in  the  way  of  an  old 
table  which  has  been  kept  polished  with  much  rubbing  through  sev- 
eral generations.  There  is  something  mysteriously  beautiful  in  the 
dark  depths  of  such  a  piece  of  wood,  which  is  impossible  to  imitate 
in  laquers  and  modern  veneer. 

They  say  that  the  bonnets  this  year  will  be  either  infinitesimal  or 
quite  enormous,  like  the  coal  scuttle  affairs  of  1830.  This  revival  of 
that  particular  epoch  is  a  singular  freak  of  fashion,  which  is  coming 
to  us  (or  which  will  come  to  us  as  the  case  may  be)  from  England. 
The  French  tendency  is  more  toward  the  Empire  styles,  and  it  will 
Jje  interesting  to  see  which  fashion  will  prevail. 

The  new  feather  boas,  of  the  softest  plumes  of  the  owl  and  in  taw- 
ny, natural  colors,  costlfi50,  and  measure  two  yards.  Boas  of  curled 
ostrich  feathers  in  the  same  length  cost  $35.  Little  round  collars  of 
marabout  feathers  in  gray  and  white  cost  $7  50;  in  clipped  ostrich 
plumes,  $6  50. 

Evening  capes  of  fine  ladies'  cloth,  in  delicate,  esthetic  hues  like 
terra-cotta,  Nile  green,  old  pink  or  vieux  blue,  are  being  made  up  in 
Henri  Deux  shape,  and  lined  with  striped  flowered  brocade  in  deli- 
cate  patterns  and  faint  "  fade"  colors. 

The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov    19,  1892. 


ONE    ON    O'DONNELL. 


A  GOOD  joke  was  played  on  Dr.  O'Donnell  last  Tuesday  night. 
Shortly  after  he  had  retired  his  telephone  bell  rang,  and  he 
was  informed  over  the  wire  that  his  enemies  were  cutting  into 
the  vault  in  the  Registrar's  office  where  are  stored  the  precious 
returns  from  the  election.  The  clerks  in  the  Registrar's  office, 
tired  of  work,  turned  to  play  to  keep  themselves  awake.  Outside 
the  office  is  a  beater.  One  of  the  boys  hit  its  pipes  with  the  back 
of  his  knife,  and  the  resultant  sound  was  so  musical  that  be  kept 
up  the  diversion.  O'Donnell  had  a  lynx-eyed  watcher,  with  a 
red  nose  and  a  knowing  leer,  within  the  office  to  guard  bis  inter- 
ests. The  lynx-eyed  man's  pipe  had  gone  out,  and  be  was  doz- 
ing in  the  shade.  The  noise  startled  him,  and,  as  it  continued, 
completely  awakened  him.  He  listened  intently,  and  then  he 
divined  the  cause.  Brown's  hired  men  were  undermining  the 
vault  wherein  were  the  election  returns  to  doctor  O'Donnell's 
ballots.  Ha,  hal  Villainsl  He  had  them!  Off  he  ran  to  a 
telephone  and  told  the  never  will-withdraw  Mayor  of  the  work 
that  was  going  on. 

Down  came  O'Donnell  about  4  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  he 
listened  to  the  steady  chick,  chick  of  the  chisel  against  the 
masonry,  but  failed  to  bear  the  stifled  snickers  in  the  hall  out- 
side. He  knew  that  an  entrance  to  the  vault  was  bping  effected, 
and  he  sent  the  alarm  to  Rpgistrar  Brown.  The  latter  did  not 
reach  the  hall  until  5  o'clock,  but  the  chiseling  continued  at  in- 
tervals, and  O'Donnell  was  sure  of  a  rich  capture.  Nothing  could 
be  done  without  the  Election  Commissioners,  and  shortly  after  7 
o'clock  that  body  was  all  assembled.  The  noise  ceased  as  if  by 
magic  upon  the  arrival  of  the  first  Commissioner.  An  investiga- 
tion was  in  order,  and  solemnly  the  wise-heads  proceeded  to 
make  it.  They  went  all  around  the  office,  and  in  the  garden  out- 
side they  found  one  brick.  In  vain  they  tried  to  find  a  place  to 
fit  the  brick  into,  and  somebody  began  to  smell  a  rat,  and  finally 
all  concluded  that  they  had  been  hoaxed.  O'Donnell  was  indig- 
nant, and  insisted  that  there  was  a  job.  He  grabbed  the  brick, 
and  has  it  now,  carefully  wrapped  up  in  clean  brown  paper,  and 
marked  "Evidence." 


IT  is  strange  bow  some  writers  who  aspire  to  leadership  in  the 
use  of  words  make  the  most  awkward  mistakes.  Here  is  one 
of  the  leading  New  York  journals,  which  published  a  long  and 
somewhat  fulsome  notice  of  the  life  of  the  late  Duke  of  Marlbor- 
ough, and  his  marriage  to  the  wealthy  Mrs.  Hammersley,  of  New 
York.  The  story  concluded  with  the  allegation  that  the  Duke's 
mother  condescended  to  ask,  by  letter,  the  millionaire  widow  to 
wed  (buy)  her  son,  and  then  concluded  with  this  most  extraordi- 
nary statement  :  "  The  letter  was  effectual,  and  tne  marriage  was 
consummated  in  1888,  by  Mayor  Hewett  and  a  Baptist  clergy- 
man of  this  city.  The  marriage  is  believed  to  have  proved  a 
happy  one."  It  is  of  course  well  known  that  the  Duke  had  im- 
paired his  constitution  through  excesses,  but  the  open  avowal 
thus  made  is  surely  extraordinary,  as  is  the  additional  fact  that  a 
marriage  "consummated"  by  two  men  other  than  the  bride- 
groom should  have  "  proven  happy"  to  the  unfortunate  hus- 
band.    But  then  the  types  say  queer  things  sometimes. 


THE  sudden  death  of  C.  F.  Ruggles,  in  Omaha  last  Monday,  has 
been  the  topic  of  much  discussion  in  the  Pacific-Union  and 
Concordia  Clubs.  Ruggles  was  playing  poker  with  friends;  he 
was  in  bad  luck.  He  picked  up  a  good  hand  and  dropped  dead. 
The  story  has  had  a  bad  effect  on  some  of  the  club  gamblers,  who 
consider  themselves  hoodooed  by  the  Ruggles  Spirit,  and  the 
kitty  is  growing  thin  in  consequence.  Play  at  the  clubs  has  been 
running  on  a  low  average  of  late,  there  being  but  few  sensational 
meetings.  One  man  in  the  Pacific  Union  is  considered  a  miracle 
worker  by  bis  adversaries.  He  always  draws  two  cards  to  a 
flush  and  makes  it,  and  expert  gamblers  say  that  any  one  who 
would  do  that  would  steal  chickens. 

THE  Berlin  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Herald  has  received 
notice  that  if  he  continues  to  publish  canards  with  regard  to 
German  affairs,  he  may  be  expelled  from  the  Prussian  capital. 
Such  a  step  would  only  give  undue  notoriety  to  the  gentleman  in 
question,  who  evidently  would  like  nothing  better.  If  the  Ger- 
man authorities  would  take  the  trouble  of  ascertaining  how  these 
canards  are  received  by  the  more  intelligent  class  of  our  popula- 
tion, they  would  see  that  no  barm  is  done.  Few,  if  any  news- 
paper readers,  pay  the  slightest  attention  to  them.  Count  Keder- 
len-Waechter,  of  the  German  Foreign  Office,  characterized  the 
Herald  correspondent's  dispatches,  according  to  the  latter's  own 
telegram,  as  "tissues  of  falsehood" — by  the  way.  this  seems  to 
be  a  rather  too  favorable  translation  of  the  words  used  by  the 
Count — and  our  readers  have  frequently  had  opportunity  to  see 
from  the  absurdities  quoted  in  this  column  from  the  Herald's  dis- 
patches, that  no  error  of  judgment  was  committed  by  the  German 
official  in  his  criticism.  An  expulsion,  however,  of  the  harmless 
newspaper  man  would  be  a  decided  mistake. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  hondsome  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 


NOVEMBER.— Martha  McCulloch  Williams. 

Ho!  winter's  sturdy  warder, 

Blowl  blow  thy  bngle  call! 
The  mists  in  legion  restless  wait 

To  take  the  sun  in  thrall. 
Send  far  the  sighing  south  wind; 

Nip  all  the  flowers  that  blow; 
The  clouds  in  legion  restless  wait 

To  pelt  the  world  with  snow. 
Hoi  scatter  Autumn's    embers, 

That  burn  on  plain  and  hill; 
The  north  wind  legions  restless  wait 

To  work  their  bitter  will. 
Fill  heaven  with  southward  winging 

And  wild  fowls'  shrilling  cry. 
The  flying  legions  will  not    wait 

To  see  the  last  rose  die.. 
Summer  is  dead  of  the  frost's  white  hate; 

The  wind  knows  all  the  story. 

A  queen  uncrowned,  she  shall  lie  in  state, 

With  a  winding-sheet  of  glory. 


TITLES    AND    GREAT    MEN. 

LABOUCHERE  has  an  interesting  article  in  London  Truth  in 
regard  to  the  manner  in  which  truly  great  men  are  known 
only  by  their  surname  to  the  masses.  "  When  a  man  who  has 
made  a  great  name  in  science  and  literature  tries  to  get  a  title 
il  aspire  a  descendre,  unless,  indeed,  he  wants  to  secure  it  to  help  on 
hereafter  children  who  he  feels  are  badly  qualified  to  play  of  their 
own  bats  in  the  game  of  pushing  on  in  life,*'  says  Truth.  Scott's  bar- 
onetcy won  a  country  heiress  for  his  eldest  son,  who  was  a  dunderhead. 
We  generally  speak  in  France  of  the  late  Emperor,  when  we  hate 
him,  as  "Louis  Napoleon,"  as  "the  Emperor,"  or  as  "  Napoleon 
III."  But  his  uncle  is  "  Napoleon."  Voltaire  was  belittled  by  the 
person  who,  in  announcing  his  death  in  La  Gazette  de  France,  spoke 
of  him  as  M.  Aurouet  de  Voltaire,  Membre  "Academie  et  Gentil- 
homme  de  la  Chambredu  Roi.  All  these  qualities  were  thrust  aside 
when  Paris  wanted  to  glorify  him.  He  then  became  plain  Voltaire. 
I  remember  Victor  Hugo  feeling  nettled  because  Lord  Lyons,  in 
writing  to  him,  addressed  him  as  M.  Victor  Hugo,  Senateur,  etc. 
The  poet's  idea  was  that  as  he  had  outgrown  every  possible  handle 
to  his  name  and  risen  to  glory  in  his  lifetime,  he  should  have  been 
styled  "  Victor  Hugo."  I  pleased  him  vastly  by  addressing  him  as 
"  Victor  Hugo,  dans  son  Avenue,"  the  house  he  lived  in  being  in  an 
avenue  called  after  him.  But  I  think  that  Lord  Lyons,  he  being  an 
Ambassador,  and  supposed  to  value  people  according  to  conven- 
tional standards,  was  right  in  styling  the  poet  as  "  Senator."  Louis 
Blanc  liked  to  hear  himself  spoken  of  as  Louis  Blanc,  and  winced  at 
"Monsieur."  Thiers' position  in  getting  his  cards  printed  was  c'est 
moi,  et  c'ett  assez.  He  was  only  "  Monsieur  Thiers"  on  them,  and  no 
address  was  given.  And  this  before,  when  and  after  he  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Republic.  We  say  Catherine  II.,  Marie  Antoinette,  Isa- 
bella the  Catholic,  Elizabeth  of  England,  because  one  has  the  nimbus 
of  a  martyr  round  her  head,  and  the  others  rose  superior  to  their 
stations,  great  as  they  were.  But  we  give  Anne  her  title  of  Queen, 
because  she  needs  it  to  distinguish  her  from  the  herd  of  Annes.  The 
ex-Queen  of  Spain  is  always  Isabella,  she  being  inglorious." 

JANE  HADING  has  now  the  ball  well  at  her  foot,  and  will  keep 
it  rolling.  She  can  afford  to  pay  a  penalty  of  £4000  to  a  Rus- 
sian manager  for  non-fulfilment  of  contract  to  play  at  St.  Petersburg, 
and  she  will  star  it  at  Chicago  during  the  Columbian  Exhibition 
there.  On  her  return  she  will  enter  the  Francais,  which,  as  the  man- 
ner in  which  "Frou-frou"  was  revived  there  shows,  needs  somebody 
unfrozen  by  Francais  conventionalism  to  act  the  parts  of  sinful 
heroines  in  modern  plays. ____ 

Muller's  opeea,  field  and  marine  glasses,  suitable  holiday  present,  135 
Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 

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WIRE     CLOTH    AND     NETTING. 

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ore  and  other  material  over  mountains  and  difficult  roads. 
Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 

BRANCHES.— 22  Frontstreet,  Portland,  Or.;  201  N.  Los  Angeles  street, 
Los  Angeles,  California. 


N      .  19,   1892. 


BAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  I.KTTKK. 


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REMINISCENT. 


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HERB'S  a  quaint  old  town 

With  its  one  broad  street. 
And  its  fa*-es  brown. 

And    its  fields  so  neat. 
That  has  captured 
My  fondest  atTection. 
Kor.  whither  I  tnrn, 

Or  wherever  I   go, 
There's  a  flame  that  doth  burn 
With    unquenchable  glow,     * 
And  my  heart   knows 
Its  aim  and  direction. 

Where  the  hammocks  swing 
Neath  the  rustling  trees, 
And    the  robins  sing 

To  the  tempered  breeze, 
I  have  rested 
In  rapt   adoration: 
Was  not  life  all  a  dream  ? 

Care   had    flown    far  away 
And   then  came  a  swift  gleam 
Of  the  last  perfect  day; 
X  still  rest  in 
That  sweet  consolation. 


San  Francisco.  Nov.  19,  1892. 


De  Lancey  Stone. 


THE  contemptible  tricks  that  some  wealthy  people  will  resort 
to  in  order  to  save  or  make  money  would  fill  a  volume.  They 
make  use  of  devises  that  people  in  ordinary  conditions  would 
scorn  to  be  guilty  of  under  any  circumstances.  An  example  is 
afforded  in  a  recent  occurrence  involving  a  poor  dressmaker  and 
a  wealthy  widow,  who  lives  not  more  than  nineteen  blocks  from 
the  corner  of  Buchanan  and  Pine  streets.  This  woman,  who  is 
worth  millions,  gave  her  dressmaker  (who  is  poor  and  has  a 
large  family  dependent  solely  upon  her  exertions)  orders  to  obtain 
certain  material  and  make  a  stylish  costume  from  it.  The  dress- 
maker, it  appears,  had  better  taste  than  her  patron,  for  she  hinted 
as  delicately  as  possible  that  the  desired  fabric  would  scarcely 
suit  madame's  peculiar  style  of  beauty  and  graces  of  form.  Her 
interference,  however,  was  resented,  and  she  was  haughtily  di- 
rected to  obey  orders.  The  dressmaker  was  obliged  to  borrow 
some  $50  in  order  to  obtain  the  material,  and  then  went  to  con- 
siderable additional  expense  in  making  it  up.  Sure  enough,  bow- 
ever,  when  the  costume  was  ready  for  her  ladyship,  it  became 
apparent  even  to  her  obtuse  sensibilities  that  it  made  ber  look 
even  more  line  a  guy  than  was  naturally  ihecase.  Thereupon 
she  flew  into  a  passion,  refused  to  take  the  dress,  and  positively 
declined  to  reimburse  the  dressmaker  for  a  cent  of  the  outlay. 
Knowing  that  to  sue  ber  wealthy  patron  would  ruin  her  busi- 
ness, the  poor  dressmaker  was  obliged  to  pocket  her  loss,  with 
tears  and  without  redress,  and  to  make  up  the  sum  she  had  bor- 
rowed by  starving  herself  and  her  children.  The  dress  is  a  dead 
loss  on  her  hands,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  figure  it  was  made 
to  fit  is  of  a  character  best  described  as  impossible.  Man's  in- 
humanity to  man  has  been  the  subject  of  countless  screeds,  but 
woman's  inhumanity  to  woman  can  discount  it  ten  times  over. 


THE  gentleman  who  is  filling  the  position  of  Acting  Commis- 
sioner of  the  Land  Office  at  Washington  must  be  a  man  after 
the  pious  Wanamaker's  own  heart— yea,  doubtless  he  is  himself 
a  8unday-school  superintendent.  He  may  be  all  this,  and  yet, 
in  addition,  he  is  a  peculiar  fellow,  as  his  recent  conduct  will 
show.  Miners  take  a  strange  delight  in  bestowing  all  sorts  of  odd 
names  upon  the  claims  taken  up  by  them,  and  two  jolly  pros- 
pectors up  in  Montana,  not  long  since,  applied  for  patents  upon  a 
couple  of  mines  which  they  had  named,  respectively,  the  •■  Holy 
Moses  "  and  the  "  Jumping  Jesus."  In  due  time  the  applications 
reached  the  pious  acting  commissioner,  and  he  returned  the 
papers  to  the  local  officials,  with  the  statement  that  "these 
names  were  stricken  from  the  certificate  and  receipt,  ar.d  will  not 
be  mentioned  in  the  patent  when  issued,  being  considered  blas- 
phemous and  indecent.  The  option  is  given  to  substitute  other 
names  for  these  objectionable  terms."  It  is  quite  true  that  the 
names  referred  to  are  scarcely  such  as  would  have  been  selected 
by  a  Sunday-school  teacher,  but  at  the  same  time  many  fully  as 
objectionable  have  passed  the  official  scrutiny  and  been  recorded. 
And,  by  the  way.  if  these  names  were  so  shocking,  how  in  the 
world  was  a  patent  ever  issued  for  the  W.  Y.  0.  D.  mine  in  this 
State,  a  name  which  is  certainly  as  fully  open  to  the  charge  of 
indecency  as  the  Holy  Moses. 

Professor  Charles  Gorfrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils— Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others — continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 

Those  who  desire  an  excellent  dinner,  served  in  the  highest 
style  of  art,  should  patronize  the  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of 
Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Belirfiifl  Sen  Pnckiny  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation nrcaunery—rga*.hlk  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  deliuqueut  upou  the  following  described  stock,  ou 
account  of  assessment  (No.  lj,  levied  on  the  18th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.  A.  Johnson  ......       1  50  $50 

C.  A.  Johnson  ,    2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson   7  30  30 

C.  Luudberg  .  12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
ou  the  13th  day  of  February.  L892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  otlice  of  the 
company,  No  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Gal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  deliu- 
queut assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  aud  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  deliuqueut  stock,  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  aud  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  uutil  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
8an  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  waspostponed  until  FRIDAY, 
October  Hist,  1892  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco.  September  21st. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behr'ng  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Franc!  sco,  October  21, 1832. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 

New  Basil  Consolidated   Gravel  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business  -San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works — Placer  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  eleventh  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  22,  of  Five 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay 
able  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  Cab 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  snail  remain  unpaid  on  the 

Seventeenth  Day  of  December,  1892,  will  be  delinquent. 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  9th  day  of  January,  1893,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F.  X.  SIMON,  Secretary. 
Office— 525  Commercial  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Navajo  Mining   Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Fifth  (5th,  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  23)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  No.  310  Pine  Stree,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Any  stock  upoj1  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Ninth  Day  of  December.  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on   FRIDAY,  the  30th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW.  Secretary. 

Office— No.  310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Occidental    Mining  Company, 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  above  named 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  69,  Ne- 
vada Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  21  th  day  of  November,  1882,  at  the  hour  of  1  P.  M. 

For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 

year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 

meeting. 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  November  18, 1892,  at  1  o'clock  P.  M. 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 

LAVER,    MULLANY    &    LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

Furnish  plans,  specifications,  and  Superintendence  for  the  construction 
or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  building. 
Office:  93  Flood  Building,  Cor.  4th  and  market  sis.,  s.  F. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Bullion  Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principle  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Storey 
County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  od  the  20th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  40),  of  twenty-five  (25) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upou  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United 
States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San 
Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  24th  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  un- 
less payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  14th  day  of  Deceember,  1892, 
to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  E.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Gold 
Hill,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  28th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  34),  of  Ten  Cents 
(10c.)  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock 
of  the  corporation,  payable  Immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  No.  79  Nevada  block,  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

[.The  Thirtieth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  de- 
linquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
TUESDAY,  the  20th  day  of  December,  1892,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By  or- 
der of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary, 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgom- 
ery atreet,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated.  New   York  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Goid 
Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  2d  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  au  assessment  (No.  9)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  79  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Fifth    Day   of   December,  1892,   will    be   delin- 
quent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  28th  day  of  December, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mining  Company. 

Assessment  No.  103 

Amount  per  share 25  cents 

Levied  Nov.  9,  1892 

Delinquent  in  office  Dec.  14, 1892 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock. .       . .  Jan.  3, 1893 
E  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery 
street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Occidental  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Assessment. No.  11 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied... Oct.  25,  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office . .  Nov.  25, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock..     ..Dec  21,  1892 
ALFRED  K    DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— Nevada  Block,   room  69,   No.  309  Mont- 
omery  Street,  Cal. 


ONE  OF  THE  THOUSAND  OF  GAR- 
IBALDI.— Blackwood's  Magazine. 

|  One  April  day  in   1890  1   saw  a  steamer 
draped   in   black  brine:  home  to  Cotno  for 
burial  a  soldier  of  the  immortal  One  Thou- 
sand of  Garibaldi.     By  a  strange  and  dra- 
matic coincidence  his  comrade,  an  eloquent 
scholar  of  Como,  died  a  few  hours  later  at 
his  desk,  while  preparing;  for  the  morrow  a 
tribute  to  his  friend's  memory,  and  on  the 
next  day  the  boat  bore  his  own  body  to  his 
own  kindred. — W.  B.] 
Another  gone  of  The  Thousand  brave; 
Across  Lake  Como  borne  to  the  grave. 
"  Uno  de  Mille,"  they  softly  say, 
Waiting  there  by  a  quiet  bay: 
A  crowded  piazza,  a  weeping  sky; 
Hush!  the  steamer  is  drawing  nigh. 
"  Uno  de  Millel"  who  is  he? 
A  soldier,  they  whisper,  of  liberty; 
One  of  the  thousand  from  College  Hall 
Who  rallied  at  Garibaldi's  call; 
His  voyage  finished,  the  anchor  cast, 
Home  at  Como  to  sleep  at  last. 
Home,  by  her  rippling  waters  blue, 
Mirroring  skies  of  tender  hue; 
Home,  where  a   kinsman's  heartfelt  tear 
Hallows  a  brother  soldier's  bier; 
Home,  where  a  noble  comrade  now 
Plaits  a  cbaplet  to  grace  his  brow. 
Strew  with  roses  the  hero's  way, 
Over  the  sleeping  warrior  pray; 
Home,  from  journeying  far  and  wide, 
Welcome  him  here  with  stately  pride; 
The  night,  my  brother,  comes  to  me; 
The  morn,  Italia,  to  thee! 
Strew  with  roses  the  hero's  way, 
Over  the  sleeping  warrior  pray; 
Wake,  Italia!  speak  for  me, 
Reunited  from  sea  to  sea; 
Place  a  garland  upon  his  bier, 
"  Uno  de  Mille"  is  lying  here.         [night. 
Thus   mused   his   comrade   through    the 
Weaving  a  chaplet  fresh  and  bright; 
Sorrowing  for  a  brother  dead, 
Summoning  hours  forever  tied; 
The  light  burns  dim,  the  dawning  day 
Touches  the  mountains  cold  and  gray. 
The  pen  has  fallen  from  his  grasp, 
His  head  is  bowed,  his  hands  unclasp; 
The  sunlight  pierces  the  casement  there, 
He  greets  the  morning  with  stony  stare; 
The  day,  Italia,  breaks  for  thee! 
The  night,  my  brother,  comes  to  me. 
Not  as  he  deemed.     He  little  thought 
The  morrow's  work  would  be  anwrought, 
Little  he  dreamed  the  boat  that  bore 
His  comrade  dead  to  Como's  shore, 
Dark-draped,  its  homeward  course  would 

keep 
To  bear  him  to  where  his  kinsmen  sleep. 
Hushed  again  the  crowded  square, 
Sky  and  lake  and  stillness  share; 
Over  the  mountain's  fading  glow — 
"  Duo  de  Mille,"  they  murmur  low; 
One,  with  tapers  in  yonder  dome, 
One,  'neath  the  starlight,  going  homel 
And  so  they  parted,  not  in  tears, 
Wedded  in    death  through  coming  years; 
Sleeping  remote  by  the  sunny  shore, 
Reunited  forevermore! 
Lake  Como  singsone  song  to  me: 
"  The  morn,  Italia,  to  thee!" 


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SHIPPING  AND- COMMISSION 
MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

GILLINGHAM    CEMENT. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

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Soledad,  Marysville,  Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken communication  be- 
tween these  towns  and  San 
Francisco.  The  lines  are  con- 
structed of  bpecially  prepared 
extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  with  tne  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  science  of 
and  are  "Long  Distance"  Lines 
ineve'ry'sense  of  the  word.  The  Mail  is  quick, 
the  Telegraph  in  quicker,  but  the 

LONG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
au  answer. 

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IATOFACTUEEES 

AND   IMPORTERS 
—  OF— 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General 
Electrical  Supplies. 

Cunningham,  Curtiss  &  Welch, 
WHOLESALE 

STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 
327.  329.  331  SANSOME  STREET. 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Francisco. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 

FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 


MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Simer  Street, 


Telephone  2S88. 


SAN  FRANCISCO. 


CANCER 


HAVE    NEVER    FAILED 
TO     EFFEOT     A   PERMA- 
NENT CURE  WHERE  WE 
HAVE  HAD  THE  FIRST   OR  REASONABLE   OPPORTUNITY 

for  treatment.      References  and  complete   In- 
formation free. 
the 
BERKSHIRE   HILLS 

Sanatorium, 
Drs.  W.  E.  Brown  &  Son,  North  Adams,  Mass. 


CANCER 


J- 


19,  1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 
Trains  Leave  and   are  Due  to  Arrive  ' 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


Leave*      From  Sep!emb3r  3,  1892.      I  Arrive 

7:00  a.  Beoicia,  Rumsey,  Sacramento        7:15 F 

7:30a.  Hayward*.,  Niles  and  Sad  Jose ..  19:16  P 

Nile*  End  Ban  Jose  ..  [6:15  p 

7:30a.  Martinez.  San  Ramon,  Callstoga  6:15P. 
3:00  a.  Sac  ram 'to  A  Redding,  via  Davis  7:1b  P. 
5:00  a.  Attanttc  Express  for  Ogden  and 

Ea*t.  9:45  P. 

8:30a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marvsville,  Oro- 
ville  and  Red  Bluff  4 :45  p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express.  Los  An- 

Seles,  Deming,  El    Paso,    New 
Weans  and  East        8:45  P. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton     *S:45  p. 

12-OOm.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  p. 

■1:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1:30 p.  Vallejo  and  Martinez. 12:4dp. 

3:00  p.  Haywards.  Niles  and  San  Jose. .  9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno .      12:15p 

4:O0p  Martinez,    San    Ramon,    Vallejo, 
Calistoga,  El  Verano.  and  Santa 

Rosa 9:45a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  and  Sacramento 10:45a. 

4:00p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:15a 

4:00p  Vacaville 10:15a 

•4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:45a. 

5:00  p  European  Mail,  Ogden  and  East  .     10;45a 
5:30p.  Los   Angeles    Express,   Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles.     9:45a. 

5:30p.  Santa Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East  9:15  a. 

6:O0p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  SanJose..      7:45a. 

17:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00p.    Oregon    Express.   Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 


J7:45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz  {8:05  p. 
8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6:20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

Santa  Cruz- *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  SanJose,  Los  Gatos.     9:50a. 


Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

*7 :00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions  *2:38p. 

8:15  a.  San  JoBe,  Gllroy,  Tres  Pinos.Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and   principal  Way   Stations     6:10  p. 

10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 5:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3 :30  P. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey, 
Pacific   Grove    and    principal 

Way  Stations *10:37  a. 

*3:S0  p.  SanJose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations *9:47  A. 

•4:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  -  -   *8:06  a. 

5:15  p.  SanJose  and  Way  Stations 8:48  a. 

6:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .      6;35a. 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  p. 

a,  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

JSundays  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  ClTY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregoit,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HUM- 
BOLDT Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


TIMOROUSNESS  OF  NOTABLE  MEN 

IT  has  been  recently  stated  by  those 
who  knew  him  well  that  Ur.  Spurgeon 
was  still  another  example  of  the  (act  that 
public  men  often  quake  on  the  eve  of 
great  successes.  Though  few  guessed  it, 
he  was  nervous  in  speaking,  and  one  re- 
sult of  the  disastrous  panic  at  the  Surrey 
Gardens  in  1856  was  that  he  ever  after- 
wards dreaded  excitement  in  great  audi- 
ences. At  the  Free  Trade  Hail  in  Man- 
chester, in  1872,  the  orator  was  in  buoy- 
ant and  brilliant  form.  Yet  before  deliv- 
ering his  address  he  bad  been  attacked 
by  nervous  sickness  in  the  ante-room. 
As  we  have  suggested,  this  preliminary 
recoil  seerus  to  be  a  frequent  character- 
istic of  the  efforts  that  establish  or  in- 
crease fame.  Inquiry  shows  that  some 
form  of  timorousness  dogs  distinction 
like  a  shadow.  It  may  have  pecnliar  and 
even  eccentric  features.  Mr.  Edmund 
Yates  has  mentioned  the  case  of  a  distin- 
guished living  politician,  noted  for  his 
dash  and  aplomb  while  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  to  whom  on  one  occasion  Sir 
Henry  Halford,  the  eminent  physician, 
gave  an  account  of  a  railway  accident. 
The  narrator  was  elaborate  in  his  de- 
scription, and  it  was  too  much  for  the 
listener's  nerves.  In  the  midst  of  the 
story  the  doctor  had  to  break  off.  His 
friend  was  on  the  point  of  fainting.  Con- 
dition of  mind  bordering  on  panic  has 
often  prevailed  up  to  the  test  moment 
with  men  who  have  had  to  face  critical 
audiences.  The  late  Lord  Derby  earned 
the  title  of  the  "  Rupert  of  debate"  from 
his  dashing  alacrity,  but  he  declared, 
"  When  I  am  goiDg  to  speak,  my  throat 
and  lips  are  as  dry  as  those  of  a  man  who 
is  going  to  be  hanged."  He  never  rose  to 
speak  without  experiencing  a  peculiar 
and  very  unpleasant  »  nervous  tremor." 
The  same  was  said  of  Lord  Lyndhurst. 
That  eminent  jurist  aDd  statesman  was 
totally  unable  to  free  himself,  from  be- 
ginning to  end  of  his  career,  of  trepida- 
tion and  nervous  emotion  when  he  got 
upon  his  legs  to  address  either  a  court  or 
Parliament.  Canning,  too,  told  his 
friends  that  he  knew  beforehand,  by  a 
disagreeable  set  of  symptoms,  when  he 
should  win  and  hold  the  ear  of  the  House 
aDd  extort  the  admiration  even  of  his  ad- 
versaries. He  was  always  conscious  of 
an  ominous  chill  of  fear.  It  meant  not 
failure,  as  was  his  dread,  but  a  fine  ora- 
tion.— Cassell's  Saturday  Journal t 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA,  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYD- 
NEY, DIRECT. 
S.   S    Mono  wai...  Friday,   December  9,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Honolulu   Only. 
S.  8.  Australia  .Wednesday,  Noy.  23,  1892,  2  p.m. 
For  Freight   or   Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and    HONGKONG,   connecting  at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Wednesday.  November  16,  1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan  4,1-93 
Gaelic Tuesday,  Jan.  24,  1893 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT  REDUCED  RATES 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets,  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 
GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  0ONAHUE  BROAD-GAUGE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  APRIL  24,  1892,  and 
until  further  notice,  Boats  and  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  A.  M.,  9:20  a.  M.,    11:20   A.  M. ; 

1:30  P.M..  3:30  p.  M.,6:05  P.  M.,  6:20  P.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  a.m.,  9:30  a.m.,  11:00  a.m.  ;  1:30  p.m. 
3:30  p.  m.,  5:00  p.  m.,  6:15  p.  m. 

From  San  Rafael  tor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  a.   M,,  7:55  A.   M-,  9:30   A.  M. 

11:30  A.  M.:  1:40  p.m.,  8:40  P.M.,  5:05  p.m. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  a.m.,  11:10  a.m.;  1:40  p.m. 
3:40  P.  M.,  5:00  P  M.,6:25  P.  M. 

r-rom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  A.  M.,  8:20  A.M..  9:55  A.M.,  11:55 
A.  M.;  2:05  P.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:35    a.m.,    10:06  a.m.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:05  p.  m.,  4:05p.M.,  5:30  P.M.,  6:50  P.M. 


Leave  8.  P. 

AeriveinS.P. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Destination. 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3:80  p.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00a.  m. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00  p.m. 

Fetaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

10:40 A. M  8:50a.  M 
6:05  P.M  10:30a.m 
7:26p.m  6:10p.m. 

Pulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:25  p.m. 

10:30a.  m 
6:10p.m 

7:40  a.m. 

8:00a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:25  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:25p.m. 

10:30a.m. 
6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
5 :0S  P.M. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00  p.m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a. m.|8:50a.m. 
6:05p.m.  |6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m 
3:30  p.m 

8:00  a.  M 
5:00  P.M 

Sebastopol.  |  10:40a.m  1  10:80AM 
!   6:05p.m  1  6:10  p.m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point.  Gualala  and  Point  Arena:  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lakeport  and 
Bartlett  Springs ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sara- 
toga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willltts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  60;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75:  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1 ;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $450;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Link  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Throuqh  Line  Sailings.— S.  S.  San  Bias,"  November 

25tb,  1892.     "City  of  Sydney,"  December  5,  1892. 

"SanJose,"  December  15,  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlau.  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapuleo,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Acajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto,  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 
Way  Line  Sailing.— Nov.  18th,  S.  S.  "Acapuleo." 
When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 

S.  S.  "City  of   Peking."  Saturday,  November 

26th,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  p.  M. 
S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th.  at  3  p.  m. 
"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"    Saturday,  January 
14th,  1893,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Braunan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  19,  1892. 


IN  apite  of  all  fears  to  tbe  contrary,  the  weather  last  Saturday 
couid  scarcely  have  been  more  charming  had  it  been  specially 
bespoken  for  the  grand  event  of  the  month,  tbe  suburban  tea  at 
the  Ingleside.  The  day  was  perfect,  and  the  little  roadside  stopping 
place,  which  for  the  nonce  was  the  cynosure  of  our  local  beau 
monde,  completely  transformed  by  being  decorated  with  flags, 
streamers,  ferns,  suiilax  and  flowers.  The  grounds  about  the 
place  was  enclosed  with  hedges,  and  one  space  had  been  floored 
over  and  covered  with  canvas  near  by  where  the  band  was  sta- 
tioned, in  the  vent  of  some  of  the  guests  tripping  tbe  light  fantas- 
tic upon  this  platform.  In  the  other  parts  of  tbe  enclosed  spaces 
were  placed  small  tables,  over  which  large  Japanese  umbrellas 
were  arranged  so  as  to  give  shade  and  shelter.  The  lady  patron- 
esses stood  in  the  room  in  the  house  to  receive  the  guests  as  they 
were  ushered  in  by  Col.  Fred  Crocker,  wno  greeted  them  on  ar- 
rival at  the  entrance.  This  duty  devolved  upon  Mrs.  Lucy  Otis, 
Mrs.  Henry  Scott,  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin,  Mrs.  Hagerand  Mrs.  Ratb- 
bone.  Neither  Mrs.  Tevis  nor  Mrs.  A.  M.  Parrott  were  present. 
After  a  chat  the  guests  sauntered  outside  and  took  a  look  at  the 
terrapin  in  their  tank,  or  discussed  the  punch  and  ices,  bouillon 
and  coffee.  The  guests  were  rather  late  id  arriving,  some  bent  on 
being  extra  fashionable,  getting  out  as  the  earlier  arrivals  were  en 
route  homewards.  The  costumes  worn  by  the  ladies  were  of  all 
kinds  and  description,  one  of  the  richest  being  that  of  Mrs.  Henry 
Crocker,  a  Parisian  importation,  the  wearer  having  just  returned 
from  the  gay  French  capital.  It  was  of  heavy  black  satin,  richly 
brocaded  in  colored  roses. 

Oakland  society  is  preparing  a  series  of  charity  entertainments, 
which  will  extend  over  a  period  of  several  days  and  evenings,  to 
inaugurate  the  opening  of  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation's new  home  for  working  girls.  They  will  be  given  in  the 
Dew  building  on  Franklin  street,  on  tbe  1st  and  2nd  of  December, 
and  there  will  be  a  Shakespeare  room,  under  the  charge  of  Mrs. 
Mygatt  and  her  daughter,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Sharon;  Mrs.  H.  C.  Cap- 
well  will  look  after  the  Longfellow  room,  and  Mrs.  Meads'  room 
will  be  called  the  »  Miles  Standisb,"  while  Mrs.  Albert  Mau  will 
preside  over  the  oue  dedicated  to  the  Japanese.  There  will  be 
other  rooms  besides  these,  the  titles  for  which  have  not  yet  been 
decided  upon,  save  that  the  doll's  room  will  be  replete  with 
all  the  novelties  in  dolldom,  and  there  will  be  booths  for  the  sale 
of  ices,  candy  and  lemonade.  It  is  the  intentioo  of  those  having 
the  affair  in  hand  to  make  it  one  of  the  events  of  the  winter  sea- 
son, to  which  end  they  are  leaving  no  means  untried. 


Mrs.  Will  Crocker  has  set  the  fashion  this  seasoo  of  giving 
youog  people's  parties  pure  and  simple,  and  it  is  on  the  cards 
that  several  other  hostesses  will  follow  her  lead  ere  loog.  Her 
delightful  little  gathering  of  last  week  has  been  the  theme  with 
all  who  were  lucky  enough  to  be  among  the  chosen  few,  and  who 
are  loud  in  praise  of  its  delights,  declaring  that  it  could  not  pos- 
sibly have  been  improved  upon.  Among  those  parties  in  con. 
templatioo  is  one  to  be  given  by  Mrs.  Clara  Catherwood  which 
will  also  be  strictly  confined  to  unmarried  guests.  But  therooms 
of  her  present  abode  being  rather  limited  in  size,  it  has  been  sug. 
gested  that  some  one  of  her  friends  who  has  more  space  at  her 
command,  should  place  her  house  at  Mrs.  Catherwood's  disposal, 
and  it  is  more  than  probable  that  the  suggestion  will  be  acted 
upoo. 

The  interest  of  the  dancing  portion  of  our  swim  is  now  centered 
on  the  first  of  tbe  Friday  night  cotillions,  which  will  be  danced  at 
Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  on  the  evening  of  tbe  2d  of  December.  To  be 
sure,  Mr.  Ed.  Greenway,  the  most  active  manager  and  efficient 
leader  tbe  club  has  ever  had,  will  be  conspicuous  this  time  by  his 
absence,  greatly  to  the  regret  of  all,  especially  for  so  sad  a  cauce 
as  the  death  of  his  mother.  But  it  is  doubtful  if  his  place  could 
be  more  acceptably  filled  than  by  Mr.  Ed.  Sheldon,  who  has,  after 
much  solicitation,  consented  to  lead  the  cotillion  that  evening, 
and  will  probably  be  induced  to  take  an  active  interest  in  those 
to  follow  later  on.  Mr.  Sheldon's  partner  for  the  opening  cotillion 
will  be  Mrs.  Ellicott,  of  Baltimore,  one  of  tbe  charming  young 
matrons  who  have  recently  become  members  of  oar  social  world. 


At  the  new  Macdonough  Theatre,  Oakland,  this  evening,  the 
charitable  will  assemble  to  hear  the  concert  to  be  given  by  the 
Saturday  Morning  Orchestra,  that  recently  appeared  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House,  San  Francisco,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Kip  Orphan- 
age. This  time  the  object  is  the  West  Oakland  Free  Kindergar- 
ten, the  ladies  who  are  engineering  the  affair  being  Mrs.  Robert 
Watt,  Mrs.  J.  W.  Shanklin,  Mrs.  J.  B.  Rice,  Mrs.  George  D.  Gray, 
Mrs.  S.  Newsome,  Mrs.  Hutchinson,  Mrs.  Brown,  Mrs.  Bennett, 
Mrs.  H.  K.  Belden,  Mrs.  A.  W.  Bishop,  Miss  Irvin  Ayers,  Mrs. 
Wm.  Armes  and  Mrs.  L.  M.  Merrill.  Among  the  artistes  who 
will  appear  are  Miss  Alice  Ames,  Mrs.  Lillie  Birmingham,  Miss 
Katherine  Kimball  and  J.  H.  Rosewald. 


More  novel  arrangements  have  seldom  been  made  than  those 
set  for  the  Old  Folks'  Concert,  which  is  to  be  given  in  the  Taber- 
nacle, Oakland,  on  Tuesday  next,  for  the  benefit  of  the  North 
Oakland  Free  Kindergarten  and  the  orchestra  of  'the  First  Meth- 
odist Church.  All  the  participants  will  be  in  costumes  of  the 
days  of  George  III.,  and  the  programme  announces  that  there 
will  be  presented  "  Sacrede  Musick  of  ye  olden  time  (together 
with  some  Worldlie  Songes),  which  will  be  sunge  by  ye  Old 
Menne  and  Womenne,  ye  Younge  Men  and  Maydennes  of  ye 
faire  Citie  yclept  Otklande."  The  selections  are  all  quaint  old 
melodies,  and  there  will  be  much  interest    attached   to  the  affair. 


There  is  a  decided  falling  off  in  the  number  of  city  weddings, 
but  the  country  seems  to  be  holding  its  end  up,  a  very  interesting 
ceremony  taking  place  in  the  Church  of  the  Ascension  in  Vallejo 
last  Friday  morning.  Tbe  contracting  parties  were  Mrs.  Mary 
Lynde  Hoffman,  librarian  of  tbe  Hastings  Law  College,  and 
Scipio  Craig,  editor  of  the  Redlands  Citrograpk.  Judge  E.  W. 
McKinstry  gracefully  performed  the  part  of  giving  the  bride 
away,  and  the  Rev.  Wm.  Bollard  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  After 
the  ceremony  a  cosy  little  breakfast  was  served  in  the  rectory 
wnich  was  very  prettily  decked  with  flowers,  and  on  Monday 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Craig  departed  on  a  honeymoon  trip  to  tbe 
southern  counties. 


A  good  many  who  did  not  go  to  the  suburban  tea  turned  their 
footsteps  in  the  direction  of  Central  Park,  where  a  football  match 
was  played  by  tbe  California  University  team  against  the  team  of 
the  Olympic  Club,  in  which  the  'varsity  chaps  came  off  victors. 
There  was  a  very  large  crowd  of  spectators,  most  of  whom  wore 
tbe  colors  of  their  favorite  team,  and  the  grounds  presented  a 
very  festive  appearance.  The  Olympic  Club  team  will  play  the 
Stanford  University  eleeen  at  Central  Park  on  the  26th.  Central 
Park  will  to-day,  should  the  weather  prove  auspicious,  be  the 
scene  of  another  gay  assemblage  to  see  Harvard  and  Yale  pitted 
against  each  other  at  the  national  game  of  baseball  in  the  cause 
of  charity. 

Among  San  Franciscans  in  New  York  during  the  present  week 
are  the  Kittles  and  McDonoughs,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F,  A.  Frank,  Mrs. 
Clarke  Crocker  and  Miss  Crocker,  Mr.  Theo.  Kearney,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Emiele  Brougiere,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Bagley,  nee  Gash- 
wiler,  Miss  Nellie  Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Martin,  Mrs.  Peter  Donahue,  J.  L. 
Flood,  Charles  Webb  Howard,  en  route  home  from  Europe;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Gus  Spreckels,  Mrs.  Wooster  and  Miss  Grace  Wooster, 
and  Mr,  and  Mrs.  W.  S.  Ladd,  of  Portland,  Oregon.  The  return 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  P.  Hotaling,  who  are  there  at  present,  is 
looked  for  about  the  end  of  this  month.  Captain  Millen  Griffith 
and  family  have  been  passing  some  time  visiting  friends  in  Balti- 
more. 

The  Helping  Hand  Society,  which  is  auxiliary  to  tbe  Golden 
Gate  Kindergarten  Association,  will  present  a  charming  and  orig- 
inal entertainment,  entitled  "A  Seven  Days'  Idyl,"  at  the  resi- 
dence of  Mrs.  Charles  Lux,  next  Saturday  afternoon  and  evening. 
A  fine  musical  programme  will  be  rendered.  As  the  young  ladies 
of  the  society  have  a  reputation  for  the  cleverness  of  their  enter- 
tainments, and  the  plea  of  the  children  it  one  which  appeals  to 
all  hearts,  it  may  be  safely  assumed  that  a  crowded  house  will 
reward  their  efforts. 

Miss  Nellie  McDowell  has  been  the  recipient  of  many  warm 
words  of  welcome  upon  her  return  to  California,  where  so  many 
pleasant  years  of  her  life  were  spent  when  her  father,  General 
McDowell,  was  in  command  of  this  Department.  She  has  been 
the  guest  of  Mrs.  Sidney  Smith,  at  San  Rafael,  since  her  arrival, 
but  will  pass  a  greater  part  of  the  winter  months  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. Miss  Laura  McKinstry  is  also  among  us  again,  after  sev- 
eral months  spent  in  foreign  travel. 

A  very  interesting  reception  was  given  by  the  members  of  the 
Laurel  Hall  Club,  at  the  residence  of  their  President,  Mrs.  F.  L. 
Whitney,  last  Saturday,  at  which  the  guest  of  honor  was  Miss 
Sarah  D.  Hamlin.  Refreshments  were  served  during  the  afternoon, 
and  a  musical  programme  was  greatly  enjoyed  by  a  large  number 
of  guests,  but  the  chief  feature  was  the  account  given  by  Miss 
Hamlin  of  her  labors  in  India  with  tbe  Pundita  Ramabai,  from 
which  country  she  has  but  recently  returned. 

A  very  enjoyable  entertainment  was  given  on  Friday  evening 
last,  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  by  the  Native  Sons  of  Vermont.  The 
attendance  was  large  and  the  programme  well  carried  out.  This 
consisted  of  vocal  selections,  recitations,  music  by  the  Banjo 
Club,  and  tbe  little  farce  of  Who's  Whof  which  was  quite  well 
done.  The  pleasure  of  the  evening  culminated,  however,  in  the 
dance  which  followed  the  intellectual  treat,  and  a  couple  of  hours 
was  spent  in  tripping  it  right  merrily. 

The  Philharmonic  Society  of  San  Francisco  gave  a  grand  con- 
cert at  the  First  Congregational  Church,  Oakland,  on  Tuesday 
evening,  the  orchestra  alone  consisting  of  fifty-five  artistes.  The 
vocal  numbers  were  rendered  by  Mrs.  Lena  Carroll  Nicholson; 
Miss  Florence  Fletcher  played  selections  from  Mendelssohn  on 
the  violin,  and  Signor  Ursomando  gave  acceptably  a  number  of 
solos  on  tbe  piano. 


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The  Children's  Hospital  was  the  beneficiary  of  a  pretty  little 
fair  held  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  K  Merrill  on  Washington  street 
last  Saturday  afternoon  and  event  on  which  netted  a  nice  little 
sum.  Booths  were  placed  in  the  tastefully  decorated  parlor  for  the 
sale  of  fancy  goods,  ices,  lemonade  and  candy,  and  in  the  even- 
ing the  young  people  who  had  labored  so  bard  to  make  it  a  BttC 
:ijoyed  dancing  for  a  couple  of  boors.  Taken  altogether  it 
was  a  very  pleasant  afTair. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Beatrice  Williams  and  Anthony  J.  Roberts 
was  very  quietly  celebrated  at  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church  last 
Sunday  evening,  the  Rev.  W.  0.  Breck  officiating.  The  bride,  who 
was  given  away  by  ber  brother,  wore  a  very  pretty  cream  colored 
costume  trimmed  with  ducbesse  lace,  a  bridal  veil  and  wreath  of 
orange  blossoms.  Her  sister.  Miss  Violet  Williams,  was  maid-of- 
bonor.  and  the  groom  was  supported  by  W.  Landsfield  as  best 
man. 


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The  wedding  of  Miss  Una  Hawthorne  Handy,  daughter  of  the 
late  Dr.  George  W.  Handy,  of  Madison  street,  Oakland,  and 
Frank  G.  Hume,  son  of  George  W.  Hume,  of  Piedmont,  took  place 
on  Thursday  evening,  at  Glen  Era.  near  Los  Gatos.  On  account 
of  the  recent  bereavement  in  the  Handy  family,  no  guests  were 
present  besides  the  relatives. 


Professor  Rosewald  has  been  kept  busy  this  week,  first  with 
the  rehearsals  of  Baroness  Jfeta,  then  with  the  production  of  the 
opera  itself  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  last  night,  and  to-day  he 
will  conduct  the  Saturday  morning  orchestra  at  a  concert  which 
it  will  give  in  Oakland  for  a  kindergarten  benefit.  The  Grand 
Opera  House  was  well  filled  last  night  with  a  fashionable  crowd, 
and  the  performance  was  in  every  sense  a  success. 

Oakland  has  been  revelling  in  sweet  sounds  this  week.  First, 
the  opening  of  tbe.new  theatre  by  the  Duff  Opera  Company,  in 
Cavalier ia  Rusticana  on  Monday  night,  which  was  the  event  thea- 
trical of  the  year  there,  and  on  Tuesday  evening  the  Philharmonic 
Society  of  San  Francisco  gave  a  concert  at  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Sunday  School  orchestra 
of  that  church,  and,  finally,  the  concert  to-day. 


Six  young  ladies,  all  extremely  popular  in  Jewish  society,  have 
formed  a  club  which  they  call  the  ,( Informala,"  and  they  intend 
giving  six  affairs  during  the  winter  at  each  of  the  young  ladies' 
residences.  The  first  is  set  for  Wednesday  evening,  November 
30th,  and  will  be  at  the  home  of  Miss  Alice  Geiatle.  The  other 
young  ladies  are  Misses  Helen  Schweitzer,  Stella  Greenebaum, 
Stella  Simon,  Adele  Joseph  and  Elsie  Hecht. 


Among  out  of  town  prospective  weddings  the  most  notable  are 
those  of  Miss  Cathleen  McCook  and  Charles  Craighead  of  Dayton, 
Ohio,  whose  ruarriage  will  take  place  at  Redondo  Beach  on 
Thursday,  the  20th  of  this  month,  and  will  be  a  brilliant  affair, 
and  of  Miss  Isabel  Chipman  and  James  Finnel  who  will  be  mar- 
ried at  Red  Bluff  on  the  7th  of  December.  The  wedding  reception 
will  be  held  at  the  residence  of  Gen.  Bidwell. 

Music  lovers  were  oat  in  force  last  Friday  afternoon,  the  oc- 
casion being  tbe  inauguration  of  the  series  of  Symphony  Concerts 
at  the  Tivoli,  which  was  crowded  with  a  fashionable  audience. 
The  music  was  excellent,  and  the  stage  showed  a  profusion  of 
beautiful  floral  offerings,  and  it  is  safe  to  predict  that  the  concerts 
will  be  among  the  season's  fashionable  events. 

Mr.  Denis  Donahue,  the  British  Consul,  and  his  family  have 
returned  to  town  from  8an  Rafael,  which  has  been  their  summer 
locale,  and  are  at  1710  Bush  street,  where  the  ladies  will  receive 
onThuTsdays.  Mrs.  William  Willis  is  settled  in  her  California 
street  residence  for  the  winter,  and  will  be  "  at  home  "  on  the 
second  and  fourth  Tuesdays  of  the  month. 

Among  society  losses  this  week  is  Inspector-General  Geo. 
H.  Burton,  U.  8.  A.,  and  family.  Colonel  Burton's  time  of  ser- 
vice on  this  coast  having  expired,  he  and  his  family  left  last 
Tuesday  for  San  Diego,  where  they  will  spend  his  leave  of  ab- 
sence, and  then  proceed  to  Washington  City,  which  will  probably 
be  his  next  station  for  duty. 

The  Calliopean's  opening  ball  will  occur  next  Saturday  night 
at  Union  Square  Hall.  It  will  be  exclusively  for  young  folks;  no 
married  people  have  been  invited.  A  most  enjoyable  time  is  in 
store  for  the  fortunate  single  ones,  if  the  club's  past  events  are 
any  criterion.  An  entertainment  is  to  be  given  later  in  the 
season. 

Mr.  Frank  Newlands,  who  can  now  add  the  initials  of  M.  C. 
after  his  name,  is  in  town  on  a  business  visit,  having  arrived 
from  Reno,  Nevada,  last  Monday.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglass  Dick, 
who  arrived  last  week  from  Europe,  will  be  the  guests  of  Mrs.  A. 
M.  Parrott  during  the  winter  season. 

A  feature  of  the  entertainment  given  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Children's  Hospital,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Merrill,  at  the  corner 
of  Van  Ness  avenue  and  Washington  street,  was  the  playing  by 
Professor  Charles  Geoffrie,  of  Sarasate's  Spanish  dances  and 
Paganini's  Carnival. 

On  Wednesday  evening  of  next  week  the  first  Presbyterian 
Church  on  Van  Nesa  avenue  will  be  the  locale  of  the  marriage  of 
Mrs.  Kate  Stephens  of  San  Jose,  and  Dr.  Charles  E.  Post  of  this 
city.     Nine  o'clock  is  the  hour  named  for  the  ceremony. 


We  use  Crane's  three  sheet  extra  super  Wed- 
ding Kri>tol  for  our  calling  cards.  Positively 
the  best  made. 


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On  Wednesday  evening  of  next  week  Mrs.  Alexander  Lough- 
borough will  give  a  dancing  party,  at  her  new  residence  on 
O'Farrell  street,  which  will  serve  the  double  purpose  of  a  house- 
warming  and  the  introduction  of  her  daughter,  Miss  Fanny 
Loughborough,  into  society  life. 

The  Alumni  Association  of  California  Amateur  Journalists  will 
bold  their  fifth  annual  re-union  and  banquet  this  evening.  George 
Russell  Lukens,  the  President,  will  be  toastmaster,  and  a  number 
of  distinguished  professional  journalists  will  be  among  tbe  guests. 

Among  last  week's  small  gatherings  was  the  tea  given  by  Miaa 
Watson  on  Friday  afternoon,  at  which  she  had  the  assistance  of 
Miss  Bates  and  Miss  Bessie  Shreve  in  receiving  and  entertaining 
her  friends. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Meade,  whose  beautiful  house  in  the 
Western  Addition  was  destroyed  by  fire  recently,  are  with  their 
family  at  the  Bella  Vista,  where  they  will  probably  remain  all 
winter. 

Mr.  Sig.  Schloss  and  wife  are  at  the  Hotel  Coronado,  where 
they  propose  remaining  two  or  three  months.  On  their  return  to 
this  city  they  will  leave  for  Europe  on  an  extended  trip. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  S.  Steiner,  nee  Goldstone,  are  at  the  Cali- 
fornia. They  will  reside  there  until  their  home  on  O'Farrell  and 
Buchanan  streets  is  completed. 

Another  Army  lady  at  the  Presidio  is  entertaining  a  guest,  Miss 
Archer,  of  Denver,  Colorado,  who  ia  visiting  her  sister,  the  wife 
of  Capt.  Dorst,  U.  S.  A. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Hecbt,  Miss  Helen  and  Miss  Elsie  Hecht 
will  leave  in  a  few  days  for  a  prolonged  tour  through  Southern 
California. 

The  Tennis  Club's  ball  last  Saturday  night  was  a  social  success, 
and  the  young  folks  who  attended  had  a  very  enjoyable  time. 

Mrs.  Lawrence  P.  Goldstone,  of  Grass  Valley,  who  has  been 
visiting  relatives  in  this  city,  returned  last  Tuesday. 

Mrs.  Henry  L.  Hutchinson,  who  will  spend  the  winter  at  the 
California  Hotel,  will  be  "  at  home"  on  Mondays. 

Senator  Stewart  is  among  the  arrivals  of  the  week  in  town. 

THE  millinery  department  of  The  Maze  has  been  crowded  dur- 
ing the  week  by  ladies  anxious  to  procure  some  of  the  latest 
style  Parisian  hats  and  bonnets  that  are  exhibited  there.  One  of 
the  most  artistic  millinery  creations  in  town  was  seen  there  the 
other  day.  It  is  a  plaque  of  black  velvet,  trimmed  with  felt,  fur, 
violets  and  aigrettea,  and  ia  truly  a  beautiful  conception.  The 
plaque  is  all  in  one  piece.  Part  of  the  trimming  is  of  the  same 
material  as  the  hat,  the  remainder  being  in  rich  fur.  The  violets 
nestle  in  front  of  the  plaque,  and  above  them  rise  tne  aigrettes, 
the  combination  being  most  effective  and  stylish.  These  plaques 
come  also  in  black  and  green,  black  and  tan,  black  and  old  rose, 
and  other  colors. 


THOSE  who  appreciate  artistic  creations  in  picture  frames  have 
now  an  excellent  opportunity  to  indulge  all  their  tastes,  and 
to  secure  at  small  cost  some  of  the  handsomest  frames  ever 
shown  in  the  city.  In  the  show  windows  of  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co., 
and  in  their  art  department,  are  now  shown  many  frames  of 
special  design  for  the  adornment  of  etchings  and  fac-simileH. 
The  frames  are  made  by  the  firm's  own  artists,  and  are  truly 
beautiful  creations.  The  stationery  department  of  the  store 
should  also  be  visited,  for  there  may  be  seen  handsome  leather 
goods,  such  as  purses,  pocket-booka,  and  receptacles  for  toilet 
articles,  and  handsomely  made  up  packages  of  stationery  from  all 
the  leading  manufactories  in  the  country.  It  ia  now  considered 
the  proper  thing  in  society  to  purchase  stationery  at  this  house, 
for  it  carries  only  the  leading  and  most  fashionable  styles.  The 
copperplate  engraving  of  thia  firm  is  the  beat  in  the  city. 

CAPRICES 


Powder 


The  only  Pure  Cream  of  tartar  Powder. — No  ammonia;   No  Alum. 
Used   in   Millions   of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard 


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SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Nov.    19,  1892. 


A    NOBLE    SPORTSMAN. 


JOHN  KENT,  for  many  years  trainer  to  the  Goodwood  stables, 
has  written  a  volume  of  very  interesting  reminiscences  of 
Lord  George  Bentinck  and  his  racing  career.  This  «<  lord  para- 
mount of  the  turf,"  as  Disraeli  called  him,  operated  on  such  a 
scale  that  it  is  difficult  to  afford  more  than  a  faint  notion  of  the 
part  he  played  in  the  annals  of  horse-racing.  The  Goodwood 
stable  bad  a  phenomenal  year  in  1845.  Horses  belonging  to  the 
Duke  of  Richmond  and  to  Lord  George  Bentinck  won  the  One 
Thousand  Guineas  at  Newmarket,  the  Oaks  at  Epsom,  the  Ascot 
8takes,  the  Liverpool  Cup,  the  Goodwood  Stakes  and  Cup,  the 
Champagne  and  Great  Yorkshire  Stakes  at  Doncaster  (all  of  them 
heavy  betting  races,  and  therefore  very  acceptable  to  his  lord- 
ship), in  addition  to  many  less  important  stakes,  such  as  the 
Port  at  Newmarket,  the  Mostyn  Stakes  at  Chester,  the  Surrey 
Cup  at  Epsom,  the  Great  Produce  8takes  and  the  Fern  Hill  at 
Ascot,  the  Bretby,  Prendergast,  and  Glasgow  Stakes  at  New- 
market, and,  finally,  a  great  match  between  Miss  EHs  and  Oak- 
ley, which  the  mare,  ridden  by  William  Abdale,  won  by  a  bead, 
although  the  betting — enormously  heavy — was  6  to  5  on  Oakley, 
ridden  by  Robinson.  In  fact  the  Goodwood  stable  won  eighty- 
two  races  in  1845,  the  collective  value  of  which  was  £31,502 — an 
unparalleled  sum  for  any  stable  to  win  in  those  days  when 
"  added  money  "  was  an  almost  "  unknown  quantity."  On  his 
horse  Gaper,  in  1842,  Lord  George  Bentinck  stood  to  win  £135,000. 
Some  years  earlier  it  was  reported  that  he  had  lost  £27,000  at  the 
St.  Leger  over  Lord  Scarborough's  Tarrare;  but  Mr.  Kent  thinks 
the  figure  should  be  put  much  higher,  as  Lord  George  afterwards 
told  him  that  this  was  the  most  disastrous  event  of  his  racing 
career.  Speaking  of  a  later  date,  Mr.  Kent  writes:  "  To  the  best 
of  my  belief,  Lord  George's  winnings  by  betting  during  the  year 
1845  must  have  amounted  to  close  upon  £100,000.  It  was  seldom 
his  lordship's  habit  to  speak  of  money  matters,  about  which,  as 
about  all  his  business  transactions,  he  was  one  of  the  most  reti- 
cent of  men.  His  avowal,  for  instance,  after  the  Great  Yorkshire 
Handicap,  that  he  won  more  than  £15,000  on  that  race,  was 
almost  the  only  statement  of  the  Kind  that  he  ever  vouchsafed  to 
my  father  or  myself.  Nevertheless  the  amount  of  bis  outlay  on 
a  race  was  in  every  instance  approximately  disclosed  by  the 
statement  of  the  quoted  odds  when  the  flag  fell;  and  on  such 
subjects  popular  rumor,  emanating  from  well-informed  racing  and 
betting  men,  is  seldom  far  from  the  mark.  In  this  manner  I 
could  not  help  being  made  aware  what  were  the  races  upon  which 
his  lordship  had  staked  most  money;  and  in  addition  to  the 
Goodwood  Stakes  and  Cup,  won  by  Miss  Elis,  and  to  the  Great 
Yorkshire  Handicap,  won  by  My  Mary,  it  came  to  my  knowledge 
that  his  two  best  races  in  1845  were  the  Liverpool  Cup,  won  by 
the  Duke  of  Richmond's  Lothario,  and  the  Cesarewitch,  won  by 
Mr.  Watts'  The  Baron.  Upon  these  five  races  his  lordship  must 
have  landed  in  bets  not  less  than  from  £60,000  to  £70,000,  and 
this  large  sum  was  augmented  when  the  Duke  of  Richmond's 
Red  Deer  won  the  Port  Stakes  at  Newmarket,  Picnic  won  the 
One  Thousand  Guineas,  and  Refraction  the  Oaks." 

In  1844  Lord  George  ran  thirty-eight  different  horses  in  182 
races  at  places  scattered  all  over  England;  and  the  next  year  he 
ran  thirty-six  horses  in  L90  races.  A  story  told  by  Mr.  Langley 
("  Pavo,"  of  BelVs  Life)  may  well  be  quoted  here.  Mr.  Langley 
writes :  ,l  One  of  the  most  extraordinary  matches  ever  conceived , 
for  particulars  of  which  I  am  indebted  to  a  literary  friend  of  long 
acquaintance,  originated  as  follows:  After  a  heavy  and  late  de- 
bate in  the  House  of  Commons,  Lord  George  fell  sound  asleep 
next  day  in  the  drawing-room  at  White's  Club,  so  that  all  at- 
tempts to  rouse  him  proved  unavailing  until  the  usual  afternoon 
visit  of  Lord  Glasgow,  who  was  at  once  informed  of  these  fruitless 
efforts.  '  Oh,  I'll  soon  wake  him  ! '  remarked  Lord  Glasgow,  and 
walking  up  to  the  chair  in  which  the  sleeper  was  ensconced, 
called  out,  *  Bentinck,  I  want  to  make  a  bet  with  you!  '  The 
effect  was  so  magical  that  Lord  George  instantly  opened  his  eyes, 
and  replied,  *  With  pleasure,  Glasgow;  what  is  it?'  " 

If  Lord  George  Bentinck's  career  on  the  turf  was  magnificent, 
his  withdrawal,  when  he  believed  that  the  country  required  his 
undivided  attention  to  politics,  was  pure  patriotism.  The  out- 
lines of  the  story  are  well  known,  but  it  is  now  told  by  one  who 
knows  all  the  circumstances.  Mr.  Kent  writes:  "  On  the  evening 
of  the  third  day's  racing  at  Goodwood,  in  1846,  after  the  Cup  had 
been  won  by  Mr.  O'Brien's  Griraston,  some  of  the  guests  as- 
sembled round  the  Duke  of  Richmond's  table  fell  to  discussing 
the  magnitude  of  Lord  George's  racing  establishments,  and  the 
large  number  of  horses  that  he  had  in  training.  Suddenly  his 
lordship,  who  appeared  to  be  more  than  half  asleep,  struck  into 
the  conversation  with  the  question,  '  Will  any  of  you  give  me 
£10,000  for  all  my  lot,  beginning  with  old  Bay  Middleton  and  end- 
ing with  little  Kitchener,  and  take  them  with  all  their  engage- 
ments and  responsibilities  off  my  hands?'  Mr.  George  Payne  im- 
mediately replied,  «  If  you  will  give  me  till  to-morrow  at  noon, 
Bentinck,  to  consider  the  matter,  I  will  either  accept  your  offer 
or  will  pay  you  down  £300  if  I  decline  it.'  <  Agreed,'  said  Lord 
George,  quietly;  and  upon  that  Mr.  Payne  sat  down  by  his  lord- 
ship's side,  and  they  entered  into  a  long  sotto  voce  conversation 
with  each  other."  Mr.  Payne  did  not  buy  the  stud,  and  paid 
down  £300   according   to   his   agreement;  the  horses   were  sold 


shortly  afterwards  to  the  Hon.  E.  Mostyn,  afterwards  Baron 
Mostyn.  Lord  George,  from  that  day  to  his  death,  devoted  him- 
self  to  politics,  much  to  the  disgust  of  many  of  bis  friends. 

Go  to  Litchfield,  at  12  Post  street,  if  you  want  good  clothes.  Col- 
onel Litchfield  has  done  business  in  this  city  for  vears,  and  bis  repu- 
tation is  well  established  as  the  leading  tailor  in  San  Francisco.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of  uniforms  and  regalias,  and  has  clothed  most  of 
the  gallant  officers  of  the  army  and  navy  and  National  Guard  located 
here. 

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"Wood"  ';  zona  and  Washington  of  the 

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Fort  Wayne.  Estimates  furnished  for  electric  railways,  electric 

Indiana;;  light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 

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STEAM 
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INCRUSTATIONS. 


OLD    SCALE     REMOVED.  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the  use  of  


LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

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Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

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YellowMetal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
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Number  22. 


Printed  and  Published  every  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

THE  office  of  the  News  Letter  in   New  York  City  has  been  es- 
tablished at  196  Broadway,  room  1-4,  where  information  may 
be  obtained  regarding  subscription  and  advertising  rates. 

VAN  NESS  Avenue  should  be  protected  from  a  street-car  line. 
Let  us  have  at  least  one  street  that  may  be  favorably  com- 
pared with  streets  in  other  large  cities.  The  avenue  is  a  beautiful 
boulevard;  let  it  remain  so. 


THE  Turkish  pavilion  at  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago  was  dedi- 
cated on  Wednesday  with  Moslem  rites.  Portion  of  the  cere- 
mony was  the  sacrifice  of  a  lamb,  which  causes  us  to  remark 
that,  judging  from  the  number  of  lambs  sacrificed  in  this  city  of 
late,  there  must  be  a  crowd  of  devout  followers  of  Islam  in  our 
midst. 


WE  SUGGEST  to  the  Board  of  Supervisors  the  advisability  of 
establishing  a  branch  receiving  hospital  at  the  Old  City  Hall, 
with  one  or  more  surgeons  in  attendance.  The  Barbary  Coast 
district,  which  surrounds  the  Old  City  Hall,  is  the  scene  of  most 
of  the  bloody  affairs  with  which  the  police  have  to  do.  A  branch 
hospital  in  that  district  is  almost  a  necessity. 


THE  height  of  idiocy  was  reached  the  other  day  wheD  the  Mayor 
of  Santa  Barbara  telegraphed  his  congratulations  to  the  Presi- 
dent-elect in  the  following  manner: 

"  Grover  Cleveland :  Gray  Gables. —Santa  Barbara  had  showers  of 
roses  for  President  Harrison,  but  has  oceans  for  you. 

E.  W.  Gaty,  Mayor." 


MAJOR  POWELL'S  scheme  that  the  State  shall  pay  $250,000 
for  the  pleasure  of  having  him  make  a  geological  survey  of 
the  State,  is  one  of  the  cool  propositions  that  campaign  years 
gave  birth  to.  Major  Powell  is  no  doubt  a  capable  geologist,  but 
he  comes  rather  high  at  a  quarter  of  a  million,  particularly  when 
the  results  of  his  work  are  of  doubtful  benefit. 


THE  investigation  into  the  affairs  of  the  Home  for  the  Adult 
Blind  at  Oakland  should  be  pushed.  This  is  not  the  first 
time  that  the  Superintendent  and  the  management  of  this  insti- 
tution have  been  the  objects  of  criticism.  Charges  of  fraud  have 
been  made  more  than  once  in  connection  with  the  Home.  If 
there  is  any  fraud  to  be  unearthed  now,  let  us  have  a  look  at  it. 


IF  the  reports  in  the  daily  papers  be  correct,  we  have  much  to 
be  thankful  for,  as  it  is  said  that  so  dissatisfied  have  the  Chi- 
nese merchants  become  with  the  condition  and  prospect  of  their 
affairs  in  San  Francisco  that  many  of  them  are  preparing  to  close 
their  establishments  and  leave  the  country.  The  Exclusion  Act, 
the  registration  regulation  and  the  highbinders'  wars  have  com- 
bined to  make  the  lot  of  a  Chinese  in  this  city  a  very  unhappy 
one. 


ONE  of  the  first  works  the  new  Board  of  Supervisors  should 
undertake  is  an  investigation  into  the  various  street  opening 
and  assessment  schemes  which  the  present  board  has  imposed 
upon  property  owners.  All  the  evidence  goes  to  show  that 
there  is  a  fortune  for  more  than  one  man  in  these  schemes, 
although  no  direct  proof  of  fraud  seems  to  have  been  produced  so 
far. 


A  DAY  or  two  after  the  result  of  the  election  was  known,  the 
high  tariff  papers  published  with  glee  and  with  appropriate 
editorial  comment  a  long  dispatch  from  the  South  in  which  it  was 
alleged  that  the  promoters  of  an  extensive  beet  sugar  enterprise 
at  Anaheim  had  abandoned  the  scheme  because  of  the  Democratic 
victory,  and  that  what  promised  to  be  a  lucrative  industry  had 
been  strangled  in  its  inception.  The  Anaheim  Gazette  denies  this 
point  blank,  and  says  that,  so  far  from  being  discouraged,  the  en- 
terprise is  going  ahead  successfully.  Contracts  are  being  let  for 
buildings  and  machinery,  and  those  who  are  behind  the  enter- 
prise are  as  enthusiastic  as  ever  in  their  belief  in  its  ultimate  suc- 
cess. The  calamity  howlers  will  have  to  look  somewhere  else 
than  to  Anaheim  for  a  pretext  for  their  outburst. 


A  LOT  of  idiqtic  Republicans  in  8an  Diego  made  a  show  of  them- 
selves the  day  after  election.  There  were  several  British  ships 
in  the  harbor,  and  on  Wednesday,  November  9lb,  they  were 
decked  with  bunting  and  salutes  were  fired.  This  the  Republi- 
cans, sore  over  their  overwhelming  defeat,  attributed  to  joy  at 
the  election  of  Cleveland,  and  at  once  they  set  about  to  make,  if 
possible,  another  Mnrchison  affair  out  of  the  matter.  But  they 
were  suddenly  chilled  and  bitterly  disappointed  when  they  learned 
that  the  date  given  was  the  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  the  Prince 
of  Wales,  and  it  was  in  honor  of  that  event  that  the  display  of 
bunting  and  the  discharge  of  gunpowder  had  been  made. 


ALMOST  every  afternoon,  sidewalks  on  one  or  more  of  the 
main  streets  in  the  business  district  of  the  city,  are  obstructed 
by  workmen  engaged  in  repairing  the  asphaltum  walks.  Huge 
cauldrons,  from  which  offensive  odors  emanate,  are  placed  at  the 
curbs,  and  the  workmen  ladle  dippers  of  boiling  asphaltum 
upon  the  walks,  often  brushing  against  ladies  and  nearly  scalding 
them.  All  this  work  should  be  done  in  the  early  morning  or  else 
late  at  night,  when  the  sidewalks  are  not  crowded.  The  Superin- 
tendent of  Streets  should  remember  that  the  comfort  of  citizens 
should  be  considered,  even  though  the  sidewalks  must  be  repaired. 

LD.  REYNOLDS,  of  San  Diego,  has  sued  Israel  Metz,  a  Di- 
.  rector  in  the  Perris  irrigation  district,  and  asks  that  the  lat- 
ter be  deprived  of  his  office  on  account  of  alleged  malfeasance.  It  is 
charged  that  he  voted  for  the  corrupt  disposal  of  $260,000  in 
bonds  of  the  district  without  consideration  therefor,  and  also  con- 
tracted with  J.  W.  Nance  for  the  sale  to  him  of  $12,000  in  bonds 
for  a  sum  much  below  their  value.  The  progress  of  this  case  will 
be  watched  with  great  interest  by  every  one  in  the  State  inter- 
ested in  the  irrigation  bonds.  There  has  been  much  fraud  in 
connection  with  their  manipulation,  and  it  is  time  some  one  was 
held  responsible  for  it. 


A  WASHINGTON  Judge  has  just  made  a  ruling  which  ought  to 
be  imitated  by  every  court  in  the  land.  There  were  brought 
before  him  twenty-four  foreigners  who  applied  for  naturalization 
papers.  Instead  of  issuing  the  desired  documents  in  the  usual 
perfunctory  manner,  this  Judge  questioned  the. applicants  person- 
ally, and  quickly  elicited  the  fact  that  the  only  English  word  any 
of  them  understood  was  "  yes."  To  each  query  the  same  reply 
was  returned,  and  the  result  was  a  ridiculous  series  of  assents  to 
the  most  contradictory  propositions.  Thereupon  the  Judge  re- 
fused point  blank  to  give  certificates  to  the  applicants.  The  poli- 
ticians who  presented  the  aliens  for  naturalization,  in  order  to 
control  their  votes,  stormed  and  fumed.  There  was  no  precedent, 
they  said,  for  such  refusal,  and  they  endeavored  in  every  way  to 
persuade  the  Judge  to  relent.  But  he  was  firm,  and  said  if  there 
were  no  precedent  it  was  high  time  one  was  made.  So  twenty- 
four  votes  were  lost,  but  the  Judge  who  thus  signalized  his  own 
good  sense  and  appreciation  of  the  qualities  essential  for  citizen- 
ship should  have  his  name  honored  the  country  over.  It  is  Rob- 
inson, and  he  has  set  an  example  which  should  have  imitators 
everywhere. 

THE  average  layman  of  intelligence  is  often  put  to  it  in  reconcil- 
ing legal  rulings  with  the  dictates  of  common  sense.  For  in- 
stance, the  popular  belief  is  that  when  a  criminal  case  is  tried  be- 
fore a  jury,  that  body  is  the  sole  judge  of  the  innocence  or  guilt 
of  the  accused.  Yet  it  appears  that  Judges  sometimes  assume 
the  power  to  dictate  to  the  jury  what  they  shall  do,  though  not 
always  are  their  orders  obeyed.  Thus,  a  case  was  tried  last  week 
in  Los  Angeles,  in  which  a  father  was  charged  with  a  brutal  out- 
rage upon  the  person  of  his  daughter.  The  evidence  was  clear 
and  convincing,  and  so  the  jury  believed,  as  appeared  by  their 
subsequent  action,  and  were  supported  in  that  belief  by  the  bulk 
of  popular  sentiment.  Yet,  after  the  case  had  been  submitted, 
the  Judge  quietly  ordered  the  jury  to  bring  in  a  verdict  of  ac- 
quittal. The  jury,  however,  did  not  believe  that  their  duty  lay 
in  turning  lose  such  a  monster  on  the  community,  so  they  re- 
tired, and  after  a  few  minutes'  deliberation,  "to  the  amazement 
of  the  court,"  returned  a  verdict  of  guilty  as  charged,  thus  mak- 
ing a  direct  and  clean  cut  issue  with  the  Judge.  How  the  matter 
terminated  is  not  yet  known,  but  the  jury  certainly  deserve  the 
thanks  of  right-minded  citizens  for  refusing  to  stultify  their  con- 
sciences and  their  common  sense. 


3AN   KRANCTSCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


MORE  INDIAN  MUDDLES. 

FOR  the  past  few  months  an  aged  and  energetic  woman  called 
Miss  Foote,  niece  of  Senator  Hawley  of  Maine,  has  been  stam- 
peding about  the  Mission  Indian  Reservations,  allotting  the  Indians 
their  lands.  The  allottraent  system  is  not  generally  understood  by 
the  United  States  Government,  though  a  government  for  the  people 
does  work  in  a  manner  both  mysterious  and  terrifying.  It  is  known 
the  United  States  Government  has  come  to  the  resolution  that  their 
whole  Indian  policy  has  been  insensate,  and  as  expensive  as  insen 
sate.  To  do  away  with  professional  pauperism,  for  this  is  exactly 
what  the  United  States  Government  has  been  encouraging  during 
these  several  years,  it  has  determined  upon  making  Indians  self- 
sustaining.  As  the  Mission  or  Desert  Indians  have  alwavs  been  self- 
sustaining,  of  course  the  parental,  philanthropical  and  all  wise  gov- 
ernment intended  to  experiment  with  them.  The  experiment,  was 
not  tried  first  upon  Indians  who  have  been  a  continual  source  of  ex- 
pense to  the  government,  but  on  the  contrary,  the  Indians  who  have 
been  quiet,  self-supporting  and  peaceable  should  be  worried  first  to 
see  how  they  stood  the  new  medicine.  Now,  though  the  Mission  In- 
dians are  all  self-supporting,  the  government  with  a  flourish  of  trum- 
pets, announced  it  intended  no  longer  to  aid  them.  They  have 
received  uo  aid  from  the  government,  but  have  had  a  series  of  thriv- 
ing Indian  Agents  imposed  upon  them.  The  government,  to  make 
them  self-sustaining,  determined  at  first  to  give  each  Indian  10  acres 
of  land  apiece,  and  to  that  end  an  ex-drummer,  called  Arthur  M. 
Tinker,  suddenly  burst  into  Southern  California  and  told  the  Indians 
the  government  was  good,  great  and  worthy.  "Now,"  said  he,  "You 
are  to  have  10  acres  apiece,  so  don't  let  any  other  Indians  come  here 
or  else  the  allotter  will  give  them  land  and  you  will  have  your  hold- 
ings curtailed."  The  Indians  followed  this  excellent  advice,  and,  lo 
and  behold,  here  comes  this  blossom  from  Maine  who  simply  says, 
"You  have  too  much  land  here,  I'll  bring  in  other  Indians."  Now, 
what  do  these  Indians  think?  They  have  received  no  benefits  from 
the  United  States  Government,  they  have  ever  been  self-suppporting 
and  here  they  are  being  pestered  and  bothered,  first  by  an  ex-drum- 
mer who  knew  or  cares  little  about  the  Indians,  and  then  by  a  woman 
who  knows  less  and  cares  less.  The  Democratic  administration  did 
show  itself  possessed  of  some  feeling,  and  it  is  to  be  sincerely  hoped 
that  with  Mr.  Cleveland  in  the  Presidential  chair  there  will  be  an  at- 
tempt made  to  expose  the  whole  devilishness  of  the  workings  of  T.  J. 
Morgan  and  his  bureau.  It  would  be  vastly  interesting  to  know  how 
Gird  and  North  came  into  possession  of  over  90,000  acres  in  the  vicin- 
age of  Banning,  and  why  white  settlers  thereabouts  who  had  legal 
rights  were  ignored  and  others  who  happened  to  be  bound  hand  and 
foot  to  a  little  clique  known  as  the  Banning  Land  and  Water  Com- 
pany, managed  to  make  good  their  claims  upon  lands.  The  manner 
in  which  these  land  allottments  have  been  made  on  these  reservations 
may  be  simply  called  "rotten,"  and  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Democratic 
press  to  see  that  Mr.  Cleveland  is  prompted  to  have  an  examination 
into  the  methods  employed  by  the  saintly  commission  who  worked 
these  schemes.  The  Democratic  administration  did  during  its  fourth 
year  of  power  show  some  consideration  for  the  rights  of  the  poor 
settlers,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  this  Democratic  administration 
will  see  to  it  that  more  reservation  lauds  do  not  fall  into  the  hands 
of  unscrupulous  beet-root  syndicates  or  a  water  company  that  is 
famous  for  promises  and  boasts. 

THE    FORTY    IMMORTALS. 


THERE  are  three  vacancies  in  the  French  Academy,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  death  of  MM.  Reuan,  Xavier  Marmier  and 
Camille  Rousset,  last  month,  and  since  there  are  several  octogen- 
arians among  the  "Immortals"  at  present,  mortality  will  prob- 
ably make  serious  ravages  in  yieir  number  before  long.  Aspir- 
ants for  the  honor  there  are  many,  and  as  in  France  the  immor- 
tality of  authors  seems  to  depend  not  upon  their  achievements 
bat  upon  the  vacancies  in  the  Academy,  for  there  mast  be  always 
forty  immortals  among  the  living,  literary  and  scientific  French- 
men are  elated  with  hopes.  Zola,  among  others,  will  probably 
have  a  chance,  and  even  Richepin  is  looking  longingly  for  a  seat 
"under  the  cupola."  How  many  of  the  groups  of  forty  that  have 
been  members  of  the  Academy  since  its  establishment  will  sur- 
vive in  the  memory  of  men  even  a  century,  is  another  question. 
Piron  expressed  his  contempt  for  the  honors  of  the  Academy  by 
the  well-known  sarcastic  epitaph  which  he  composed  for  him- 
self— 

"  Ci  git  Piron,  qui  ne  fut  rien 
Pas  mene  Acadcmicieu." 
Alpbonse  Daudet,  with  much  better  right  than  Piron,  satirized 
the  distinction  in  his  "L'Immortal,"  and  therefore  will  not  likely 
be  offered  it,  nor  would  he  accept  it,  though  of  all  the  living 
French  authors  he  is  perhaps  the  most  entitled  to  distinction; 
but  even  to  him  real  immortality  in  the  book  of  fame  will  not  be 
granted.  Ours  is  not  an  age  of  undying  achievement  in  litera- 
ture, and  most  of  our  contemporaries  live  and  write  for  the  day 
only. 

IT  is  satisfactory  to  know  that  the  British  authorities  have 
banded  over  the  anarchist  Francois,  who  committed  the  outrage 
at  Vary's  restaurant  in  Paris,  to  the  French  police.  Men  of  his 
stamp  should  not  find  a  safe  place  of  refuge  in  a  civilized  coun- 
try. 


THE    FUTILITY    OF    STRIKES. 


The  great  strike  at  Homestead  is  ended  and  the  strikers  acknowl- 
edge themselves  defeated.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Amalgamated  Asso- 
ciation on  Sunday  afternoon  the  strike  was  "declared  off"  by  a  vote 
of  101  against  91.  The  struggte  which  lasted  for  five  months  and 
which  was  carried  on  with  unusual  energy  by  the  laborers  had 
finally  to  be  abandoned,  as  nearly  all  great  strikes  of  recent  times,  in 
consequence  of  the  inability  of  the  strikers  to  force  the  employers  to 
yield.  What  has  been  the  result?  Loss  of  life  and  bloodshed  and  a 
loss  of  about  $2,000,000  in  wages  to  the  laborers.  The  Carnegie  com- 
pany incurred,  of  course,  even  a  greater  loss,  and  the  State  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  espescially  the  county  of  Alleghany,  had  to  pay  ex- 
penses amounting  to  nearly  half  a  million  dollars  for  the  maintenance 
of  peace.  Neither  to  the  Carnegie  Steel  Works,  however,  nor  to  the 
State,  will  the  expenditure  and  loss  prove  disastrous,  while  to  many  of 
the  workingmenand  their  families  thestrike  amounts  almost  to  ruin. 
The  men  have  now  been  advised  by  their  leaders  to  return  to  work 
but  a  great  many  of  them  will  not  be  able  to  get  again  employment 
and  none  of  them  will  receive  back  the  money  which  they  have  lost 
by  the  suspension  of  work,  or  have  spent  in  the  war  against  their 
employers.  Many  hundreds  of  them — the  strike  at  one  time,  it  is 
said,  involved  nearly  ten  thousand  men— will  therefore,  for 
a  longtime  have  nothing  to  live  on.  Such  is  the  result  of  a  labor 
war  recklessly  commenced,  brutally  carried  out,  and  foolishly  pro- 
longed, to  the  misguided  workers  who  listened  to  the  evil  advice  of 
selfish  agitators,  and  similar  has  been  the  outcome  of  alt  violent 
attempts  to  interfere  with  the  rights  of  employers.  The  unfortunate 
dupes  deserve  pity  almost  more  than  censure,  but  their  misfortune  in 
conjunction  with  that  of  other  strikers  may  have  the  beneficial  effect 
of  teaching  the  laboring  classes  in  general  that  by  strikes  and  boy- 
cotts, far  from  bettering  their  condition,  they  are  simply  ruining 
themselves  and  estranging  public  sympathy.  If  they  really  desire 
to  improve  their  lot,  they  will  have  to  adopt  other  means  and  to 
resort  to  a  civilized  warfare  in  a  civilized  country,  where  violence 
cannot  be  tolerated.  The  recognition  of  this  fact  is  fortunately 
gaining  ground  in  the  laboring  world.  The  Manchester  cotton  spin- 
ners are  reported  to  be  in  favor  of  arbitration,  the  Carmaux  miners 
have,  it  is  said,  resumed  work  pending  a  peaceful  arrangement  of 
their  differences  and,  what  is  more  important  to  us,  a  great  number 
of  the  members  of  the  labor  unions  in  our  city  are  ready  to  abandon 
strikes  and  boycotts  in  the  future  as  a  weapon,  and  to  resort  to  legal 
means  for  the  promotion  of  their  interests,  as  is  indicated  by  the 
views  expressed  at  the  gathering  of  workingmen  at  1159  Mission 
street  last  Sunday."  The  object  of  the  meeting  was  the  organization 
of  a  new  Council  of  Federated  trades,  and  several  of  the  delegates 
spoke  in  favor  of  resorting  henceforth  to  independent  political  action 
for  the  purpose  of  enforcing  the  recognition  of  the  rights  of  working- 
men  and  for  the  promotion  of  their  cause.  Delegate  Mclvor,  of 
Painter's  Union  140,  pointed  out  in  a  speech  that  athe  Jexperience  of 
the  labor  world  not  only  in  the  United  States  but  in  Australia,  Eng- 
land, France  and  Germany,  had  shown  to  laboring  men  that  strikes 
and  boycotts  are  not  only  useless,  but  dangerous  two-edged  weapons 
that  have  hurt  those  who  wielded  them,  as  much  as  those  against 
whom  they  were  used,  and  that  the  laboring  men  must  get  their  de- 
mands recognized  by  political  action.  A  resolution  embodying  these 
views  was  finally  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Constitution.  It  is 
fervently  to  be  hoped  in  the  interest  of  the  laboring  men  themselves 
that  this  resolution  will  be  endorsed  by  the  committee  and  that  the 
constitution  of  the  new  Council  of  Federated  Trade  will  adopt  a  plat- 
form, based  upon  these  enlightened  views.  In  that  case  the  laboring 
men  of  San  Francisco  may  count  upon  the  sympathy  and  support  of 
our  public  in  general  and  a  new  era  of  prosperity  will  be  inaugurated 
benefitting  emyloyers  and  employees  alike. 


WILLIAM    AND    THE    SAXON    KINCi. 


THE  German  Emperor,  according  to  recent  telegrams,  seems  to 
have  quarreled  with  Kingof  Saxony,  whose  sudden  departure 
from  Potsdam  has  created  a  sensation.  The  alleged  reason  is  that 
a  difference  arose  between  the  Emperor  and  the  King  with  regard 
to  Prince  Bismarck.  Emperor  William,  it  is  said,  has  again  had 
one  of  his  fits  of  rage  in  consequence  of  Prince  Bismarck's  inter- 
esting political  disclosures,  and  longs  to  prosecute  the  ex-Chan- 
cellor, while  the  King  of  Saxony  is  reported  to  have  expressed 
himself  against  such  a  prosecution.  If  this  really  was  the  case, 
the  King  of  Saxony  deserves  credit  for  his  discretion,  for  a  prose- 
cution of  Bismarck  not  only  might  lead  to  revelations  which 
would  do  more  harm  to  Emperor  William  than  all  other  attacks 
directed  against  him,  but  would  arouse  such  a  storm  of  indigna- 
tion against  the  young  monarch  in  Germany,  whose  insignificance 
when  compared  with  that  of  the  illustrious  statesman,  is  only  too 
apparent,  that  the  dynasty  of  the  Hohenzollern  would  hardly 
survive  it.  Whatever  the  cause  of  the  quarrel  with  the  King  of 
Saxony  may  have  been,  all  Germans  who  love  their  country  will 
regret  it,  since  nothing  would  be  more  disastrous  to  the  country 
in  case  of  complications  with  foreign  foes,  than  dissensions  be- 
tween the  rulers  of  the  different  States  in  the  Empire,  and  es- 
pecially an  estrangement  of  Saxony,  the  most  important  of  the 
Northern  German  State  next  to  Prussia,  would  be  a  very  serious 
result  of  Emperor  William's  political  blunders. 


\    FRANCI8C0  NEW  8     K!  PEB 


TBE    MONETARY    CONFERENCE    AT    BRUSSELS. 

OS  Tuesday  l»M  an  international  monetary  conference,  the  idea 
of  wh  oh  originated  wiih  the  (iovernruent  of  the  Untied  States, 
began  lis  deliberations  at  BfUMvU,  and  at  this  moment  delegates 
from  most  of  the  civilized  countries  of  the  world  are  discussing 
anew  the  question  whether  or  not  a  bi-iuetallic  standard  might 
be  adopted  by  all  the  great  nations  in  common,  with  the  result  of 
decreasing  the  fluctuation  in  the  value  of  currency.  There  was  a 
time  when  the  very  possibility  of  devising  a  universal  bimetallic 
system,  based  upon  sound  economic  principles,  was  denied  by  a 
very  large  class  of  political  economists,  and  even  at  present  men  of 
such  prominence  and  high  intellect,  for  instance,  as  Sir  John 
Lubbock,  the  famous  London  banker  and  scientist,  adhere  to 
such  a  denial.  On  the  26tb  of  last  month.  Sir  John,  presiding  at 
tbe  quarterly  meeting  of  the  London  Chamber  of  Commerce,  de- 
clared that  he  considered  it  impossible  that  a  fixed  ratio  between 
gold  and  silver  could  ever  be  maintained  by  any  artificial  ar- 
rangement. He  drew  attention  to  tbe  fact  that  the  total  annual 
production  of  silver  in  the  last  thirty  years  had  risen  from  £8,- 
000  000  to  over  £20.000.000,  while  the  production  of  gold  bad 
fallen  from  £27.000,000  to  about  £2L,000.000.  He  further  pointed 
out  that  gold  and  silver  are  not  used  in  coinage  only,  but  that  of 
the  total  annual  pro  luction  of  gold  and  silver,  amounting  to,  say, 
£42,000.000.  it  was  estimated  that  about  half,  i.  e.,  no  less  than 
£20,000,000,  was  used  in  the  arts.  Since  nobody  could  suppose 
that  a  fixed  ratio  between  gold  and  silver  used  in  tbe  arts  could 
be  maintained,  and  since,  besides,  the  annual  production  of  the 
two  commodities  changes  to  so  great  an  extent  as  above  quoted, 
he  could  not  see  how  bi-metallists  were  to  maintain  the  fixed 
ratio  for  coinage  purposes.  Sir  John  Lubbock  stands  by  no 
means  alone  in  his  view,  but,  on  the  whole,  the  maj  irity  of 
economists  no  longer  deny  that,  notwithstanding  great  difficulties 
to  be  overcome,  an  international  bi-metallic  system  may  be  es- 
tablished under  certain  conditions.  Whether  such  a  system 
would  ultimately  be  more  advantageous  than  a  future  universal 
gold  standard  system,  or  even  the  maintenance  of  the  present 
variety  of  systems,  is  a  disputed  question,  and  one  which  could 
only  be  settled  by  a  longer  experience.  But  granting  the  possi- 
bility of  the  adoption  of  an  international  bi-metallic  system,  the 
main  question  remains — the  practicability,  i.  e.,  whether  it  is  pos- 
sible to  induce  all  tbe  prominent  nations  to  agree  to  such  a  system. 
Whether  a  country  shall  adopt  a  single  or  a  double  standard,  is  not 
so  much  a  question  of  principle  as  one  of  expediency.  Thus,  there 
can  be  no  doubt  that,  for  the  United  States,  the  maintenance  of  bi- 
metallism is  desirable,  and  the  adoption  of  the  double  standard  by 
other  countries  would  be  of  great  advantage  to  us.  Germany  would 
have  no  objection,  since  it  possesses  a  great  store  of  depreciated  sil- 
ver, to  other  nations  having  a  double  standard,  as  long  as  she  her- 
self is  permitted  to  retain  a  single  standard,  and  as  regards  England, 
the  vast  balance  of  public  opinion  in  that  country  is  in  favor  of  main- 
taining her  present  monetary  system,  which  has  worked  so  well. 
The  English  people  are  so  accustomed  to  the  gold  standard  that  they 
will  not  likely  be  induced  to  make  a  change.  The  United  States' 
delegates,  therefore,  at  the  Brussels  Conference  will  have  a  .hard  task 
in  making  Germany,  and  especially  England,  listen  to  the  establish- 
ment of  an  International  Bi-metallic  League.  The  threats  that  the 
rejections  of  proposals  to  that  effect  might  lead  to  the  adoption  of 
the  gold  standard  by  the  United  States  and  produce  a  crisis  in  the 
English  money  market  by  the  resulting  gold  drain,  will  have  little 
effect,  since  England,  by  raising  the  bank  rate  could  have  restored  to 
herself  as  much  bullion  as  is  needed  in  that  country.  A  much  better 
argument  in  favor  of  the  proposals  of  the  American  delegates,  than 
he  threat  of  our  establishing  a  gold  standard,  is  the  unsatisfactory 
condition  of  the  productive  industries  of  England  at  this  moment, 
especially  in  Manchester,  and  the  fact  that  the  citizens  of  that  town 
attribute  this  condition  largely  to  the  appreciation  of  gold  and  the 
violent  fluctuations  and  uncertainty  between  gold  standard  and  sil- 
ver standard  countries.  The  great  depreciation  of  the  rupee  in 
India  also  inclines  a  good  many  British  people  at  present  to  a  more 
favorable  consideration  of  bi-metallismthan  heretofore.  Still,  neither 
the  clamor  of  the  Manchester  merchants  nor  of  the  friends  of  India 
will  suffice  to  induce  the  English  Government  to  join  a  Bi-metallic 
League,  and  its  delegates,  as  is  known,  have  been  strictly  enjoined 
from  pledging  Great  Britain  to  any  such  concession.  Similar  in- 
structions are  said  to  have  been  given  to  the  German  delegates. 
Since  without  the  joining  of  England  and  Germany,  such  a  league 
would  be  valueless.it  is  not  likely  that  the  conference  at  Brussels 
will  lead  to  any  immediate  practical  result.  Nevertheless  the  United 
States  delegates  will  not  have  worked  in  vain  if  they  establish  a  basis 
for  future  action,  and  ultimate  success  in  their  efforts  towards  inter- 
national bi-metallism  may  be  obtained  by  diplomacy. 


MRS.  PARNELL,  by  having  lately  declared  herself  bankrupt, 
has  further  embarrassed  the  disposal  of  the  Irish  fund  in 
Paris,  since  as  a  bankrupt  she  is  legally  prevented  from  acting  as 
a  trustee.  Whatever  the  object  of  her  action  may  have  been,  it 
is  auspicious  that  Mrs.  Parnell,  who  only  a  year  ago  received 
the  considerable  sum  of  £100,000  under  the  will  of  her  late  aunt, 
should  be  insolvent  at  present. 


AS  TO  SOME  TULPIT  ORATIONS. 

AS  usual  upon  occasions  of  general  festivity,  when  they  have 
opportunity  to  catch  the  public  ear,  numerous  gentlemen  of 
ili'  cloth,  upon  Thursday  Inst,  Thanksgiving  Day,  gave  vent 
("  their  opinions  upon  every  public  question  which  has  agitated 
the  wise  men  of  the  world  throughout  the  century.  Curious 
it  is,  to  one  who  watches  the  works  and  reads  the  inouthings  of  these 
modern  apostles,  to  find  by  comparing  this  reverend  gentleman  with 
that  reverend  gentleman  that  both  have  the  same  idea— the  world  is 
becoming  worse  every  year.  San  Francisco  more  offensive  than  both 
Sodom  and  Gomorrah,  and  the  only  way  to  be  saved  is  to  hire  a  pew 
in  a  fashionable  church  at  a  high  rental,  and  present  slippers,  cigars 
and  cassocks  to  the  ministers  of  God.  Pay  tribute,  ye  unbelievers! 
Pay  tribute  and  be  saved  I  Such  is  the  cry  of  tbe  modern  minister. 
Then  they  wonder  why  men  do  notgo  to  church.  Can  it  be  expected 
that  reasoning  men,  sensible  men,  men  who  have  deliberated  upon 
the  great  economic  moral  questions  of  the  day,  can  bear  to  sit  quietly 
in  a  pew  and  listen  to  such  nonsencical  rot  as  was  rolled  trippingly 
from  the  tongues  of  several  local  ministers  upon  Thanksgiving  Day? 
To  make  a  fine  oratorical  effect,  facts  are  willingly  controverted  and 
imaginations  presented  as  truths  by  these  men  who  care  more  for  the 
applause  of  the  masses  than  for  their  spiritual  welfare.  Why  is  it 
that  the  "progressive"  minister  of  the  day  insists  upon  mixing  up 
with  political  affairs,  city,  state  and  national  elections,  and  takes 
a  hand  in  matters  that  are  utterly  foreign  to  his  mission.  Let  us  not 
be  understood  as  objecting  to  a  minister  or  any  man  taking  a  proper 
part  in  the  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  community  in  which 
he  lives ;  but  we  cannot  refrain  from  saying,  that  in  view  of  the  vast 
amount  of  church  work  that  they  have  to  perform,  we  think  that 
ministers  overtax  themselves  besides  boring  the  people  by  endeavor- 
ing to  become  political  leaders.  A  minister  who  uses  his  pulpit  for 
his  personal  aggrandizement  by  preaching  sensational  sermons  upon 
the  topics  of  the  day,  does  less  good  in  a  given  time  than  another, 
who,  unostentatiously  goes  about  his  duties, and  findinga  stray  lamb 
here  and  one  there,  puts  it  in  the  proper  path.  For  what  matters  it 
that  Mr.  A.  with  bulging  eyes  and  flushed  face, should  wave  hi^arms 
and  shriek  from  the  pulpit  that  we  are  a  nation  of  slaves;  that  we 
writhe  beneath  the  lash  of  the  political  bosses;  that  we  tremble  and 
look  ashamed  when  those  mighty  potentate  do  but  speak?  Let  these 
ministers  confine  themselves  to  teaching  their  people  the  word  of 
God.  Begin  at  the  beginning  and  first  lay  the  proper  foundation  for 
the  reception  of  Divine  truths,  for  that  community  is  best  managed, 
other  things  being  equal,  by  the  men  who  have  the  highest  regard  for 
each  and  everyone  of  the  commandments.  The  difficulty  with  our 
municipal  government  has  been  that  we  have  elected  to  office  men 
whose  knowledge  was  so  very  limited  that  they  had  never  heard 
before,  nor  did  they  know  what  was  meant  by  the  injunction  "Thou 
shalt  not  steal." 


THE  Monetary  Conference  opened  last  Tuesday  at  Brussels.  The 
English  delegates  are  instructed  not  to  pledge  their  country 
to  anything,  but  to  assume,  so  to  say,  the  polite  attitude  of  at- 
tentive listeners.  The  American  delegates  will  no  doubt  urge  the 
adoption  of  a  universal  bi-metallic  standard.  There  is  no  great 
desire  on  the  part  of  most  European  countries  to  adopt  such  a 
standard,  even  if  its  feasibility  could  be  demonstrated  to  them. 
The  discussions,  therefore,  will  certainly  not  lead  to  any  im- 
mediate practical  result.  The  only  chance  is  that  later  on  the 
proposals  of  the  American  delegates  may  be  considered  in  con- 
nection with  other  proposals  referring  to  commercial  relations, 
and  any  concessions  of  the  mono-metallic  countries  with  regard 
to  the  monetary  question,  will  bave  to  be  obtained  by  reciprocal 
concessions  of  the  United  States  in  other  directions.  There  is  a 
chance  that  In  this  manner  an  agreement  may  be  arrived  at,  since 
the  consent  of  England  and  other  gold-standard  countries  to  take 
part  in  the  deliberations  is  in  itself  a  proof  of  such  a  possibility. 
On  the  whole,  however,  the  chances  are  slight,  and  our  diplomats 
will  have  a  hard  task. 


THE  decision  of  the  French  Government  to  prosecute  the  Di- 
rectors of  the  Panama  Canal  Company,  naturally  meets  with 
strong  opposition  on  the  part  of  many  of  the  Deputies,  and  it  is 
at  the  best  a  very  invidious  task  to  drag  an  aged  gentleman  of 
Count  de  Lesseps'  reputation  before  the  criminal  courts.  The 
charge  is  breach  of  trust  and  malversation  of  funds.  There  is 
little  doubt  that  it  will  be  easy  for  the  great  engineer,  and  for 
many  of  his  colleagues  who  are  accused  with  him,  to  clear  him- 
self of  the  alleged  crime,  but  the  very  fact  of  standing  accused  on 
such  a  charge  must  be  a  bitter  cup  for  a  man,  who,  whatever  his 
faults  may  be,  deserves  perhaps  the  title  of  che  greatest  French- 
man living.  France  has  always  been  found  too  ready  to  find  a 
scapegoat  on  which  to  load  the  sins  committed  by  her  people  at 
large,  and  the  intended  prosecution  savors  somewhat  of  a  similar 
design.  The  prosecution  is  prompted  by  the  wish  to  grant  ven- 
geance to  tbe  thousands  of  dissatisfied  shareholders,  but  since 
this  will  hardly  restore  to  the  latter  any  of  their  losses,  it  is  to  be 
deplored,  as  the  main  result  will  be  to  sacrifice  to  popular  clamor 
a  great  and  illustrious  name. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov  26,  1892. 


"THE    ONE-LUNGED    CONTINGENT." 

To  the  Editor  of  the  News  Letter: 

A  CERTAIN  clergyman  from  the  classic  town  of  Ponjona,  famous 
for  the  residence  of  the  author  of  the  Murchison  letter  and 
prohibition,  declares  there  are  too  many  grass  widows  in  the 
South,  who  are  as  a  snare  to  those  desiring  to  lead  virtuous  lives. 
Another  irresponsible  scribbler  declares  the  southern  part  of  the 
State  to  be  built  up  solely  by  "  a  one-lunged  contingent."  The 
parson,  who  was  unkind  to  remark  the  South  had  too  many 
grass  widows,  probably  speaks  from  experience,  as  the  saintli- 
ness  and  godliness  of  Pomona  clergymen  are  proverbial,  and  it  is 
a  very  poor  sort  of  preacher,  indeed,  who  has  not  10  defend  him- 
self from  the  onslaughts  and  assaults  of  the  feminine  portion  of 
his  community,  and  probably  the  gentleman  has  had  much  to  do 
to  keep  his  life  strictly  virtuous.  But  the  gentle  writer  who  last 
week  insinuates  the  South  was  made  up  of  "  a  one-lunged  con- 
tingent," speaks  with  charming  and  refreshing  ignorance.  If 
the  southern  and  northern  parts  of  the  State  were  to  be  contrasted 
by  unknowing  judges,  there  would  be  a  general  consensus  of 
opinion  that  the  "  one-lunged  brigade  "  inhabited  the  North,  and 
the  strong  and  healthy  had  taken  possession  of  the  South.  The 
remark  is  current  in  the  North  as  to  the  lungless  condition  of  the 
the  people  of  the  South ;  but  these  observations  are  indulged  in  sole- 
ly by  those  who  have  no  conception  of  what  the  South  has  done  and 
is  doing.  The  "  one-lunged  brigade  "  have  builttowns  which  have 
not  their  comparison  in  the  North.  Where  can  the  North  show  such 
thriving  places  as  Pasadena,  Pomona,  Riverside,  Colton,  Santa 
Ana,  Redlands,  and  a  host  of  others.  Where  in  the  North  are 
such  splendid  and  well-kept  groves?  The  truth  is,  however,  un- 
palatable it  may  sound  to  Northern  ears,  that  in  a  few  years  the 
South  will  far  surpass  the  North  in  wealth,  influence  and  culti- 
vation. The  South  is  daily  receiving  more  wealth  from  the  East 
and  England  than  any  other  part  of  the  State,  and  these  people 
are  not  backward  in  putting  their  money  out  in  land  and  build- 
ings. In  the  vicinage  of  Los  Angeles  there  are  more  important 
and  influential  people  who  have  there  made  their  homes  than  in 
the  whole  North  put  together.  There  is  no  jealousy  on  the  part 
of  the  South.  The  broad  fact  is,  the  "  one-lunged  contingent" 
are  making  a  better  showing  borticulturally  and  otherwise,  than 
the  two-lunged  up  North.  If  the  government  had  selected  Santa 
Monica  as  the  spot  for  the  deep  sea  harbor,  Los  Angeles  would  in 
a  few  years  have  been  a  still  more  formidable  rival  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. But  the  government  never  seems  to  do  that  which  is  best 
for  the  interests  of  the  people.  If  a  deep  sea  harbor  bad  been 
made  at  Santa  Monica,  it  would  only  have  taken  a  few  years  for 
Los  Angeles  to  have  completely  stretched  itself  to  Santa  Monica, 
and  make  herself  a  seaport  town.  The  ungracious  sneer  on  the 
part  of  the  North,  as  to  the  South  and  one-lungers,  is  unmanly 
and  uncalled  for,  and  proceeds  from  sheer  ignorance.  A  mere 
bird's-eye  view  of  the  8outh,  with  its  competing  lines,  its  excel- 
lent and  cheap  transportation,  its  wonderfully  kept  groves,  its 
beautiful  homes,  its  stately  churches,  and  a  population  of  "  one- 
lungers  "  who  have  made  enormous  fortunes  elsewhere,  and  are 
spending  it  here,  makes  it  appear  a  more  desirable  place  to  live 
than  in  a  community  whose  only  care  is  to  hoard  their  wealth 
and  sit  with  folded  hands  awaiting  the  coming  of  good  times,  and 
swearing  at  the  only  progressive  institution  they  have — The 
Southern  Pacific.  A  One-Lunger. 

Los  Angeles,  November  23,  1892. 

WE  are  glad  to  learn  that  our  brothers  of  the  quill  in  Missis- 
sippi maintain  those  amenities  which  make  the  lives  of 
editors  in  the  Southern  States  as  pleasant  as  sweet  dreams. 
Brother  Price,  of  the  Meridian  News  met  Brother  Gambrell,  of  the 
Meridian  Tribune,  on  the  street  the  other  day,  and  promptly  drew 
his  pistol,  knocked  Gambrell  down,  and  jumped  on  his  neck.  It 
appears  that  Brother  Gambrell  was  unarmed.  For  bis  great 
transgression  of  the  ethics  of  Southern  journalism,  in  appearing 
without  his  gun,  Brother  Gambrell  has  made  ample  apology. 
Brother  Price  regrets  that  the  affair  did  not  cause  a  funeral,  but 
he  says  he  did  his  best.  He  was  feeling  sickly,  however,  and 
was  not  i  his  usual  good  form.  The  next  meeting  between  these 
two  promnent  molders  of  public  opinion  is  awaited  by  the  public, 
with  great  expectations  of  better  results  than  came  from  the  first 
affray. 

POWDERLY  struck  the  keynote  of  the  labor  troubles  when  he 
said  there  were  too  many  labor  organizations  struggling  for 
supremacy.  If  there  were  less  labor  unions,  the  workingmen 
would  be  richer  and  happier.  They  allow  themselves  to  be 
manipulated  by  demagogues,  who,  for  the  betterment  of  their  own 
ends,  incite  them  to  revolt.  The  labor  forces  are  weakened  by 
their  many  detachments.     In  centralization  is  power. 

Good  Cooking 
Is  one  of  the  chief  blessings  of  every  home.    To  always  insure  good 
custards,  puddings,  sauce,  etc.,  useGail  Borden  "Eagle"  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk.     Directions  on  label.  Sold  by  your  grocer  and  druggist. 

On  Thanksgiving  Day  hundreds  of  people  went  to  the  Original 
Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  for  dinner  J  for  there  they  know 
they  could  procure  the  best  dinner  in  town,  and  at  reasonable  rates. 
The  popularity  of  this  excellent  restaurant  is  entirely  due  to  its  ex- 
cellent menus  and  its  perfect  service. 


ART    NOTES. 


AVERY  interesting  collection  of  paintings,  both  oil  and  water 
colors,  is  on  exhibition  at  the  gallery  of  Morris  &  Kennedy. 
It  will  well  repay  anyone  that  is  at  all  interested  in  art  matters 
to  carefully  study  this  exhibit,  for  it  includes,  perhapa,  a  greater 
variety  of  subject  and  treatment  than  has  ever  been  shown  here 
before.  One  of  the  most  notable  paintings  in  the  collection,  is 
Sinbad  and  the  Elephants.  This  canvas  is  by  the  noted  artist 
Mark  Waterman  (now  deceased),  who,  in  connection  with  Win, 
Hunt  and  Thomas  Robinson,  did  more  to  formulate  true  artistic 
taste  in  this  country,  than  any  other  man  in  the  profession.  The 
Sinbad  canvas  is  fascinating.  It  shows  the  animals  coming  up  the 
valley  in  a  cloud  of  dust,  at  a  rapid  pace.  The  leader  of  the  herd 
is  followed  by  a  very  diminutive  youngster,  who  is  struggling 
hard  to  keep  pace  with  the  older  ones.  Over  the  plain  hangs  a 
misty  veil,  reaching  back  to  the  foot  of  the  mountain  in  the  ex- 
treme distance,  which  is  partially  covered  by  a  cloud,  giving  the 
picture  an  air  of  mystery  that  comports  well  with  the  fable.  Sin- 
bad is  mounted  on  the  foremost  animal,  and  it  evidently  requires 
all  his  strength  and  agility  to  remain  on  the  back  of  the 
fleeing  monster.  The  action  of  the  animals  is  wonderfully  strong 
and  expressive.  The  story  is  well-illustrated,  and  gives  one  a 
very  comprehensive  idea  of  the  fascinating  tale.  Another  inter- 
esting picture  is  a  painting  of  the  Golden  Gate  by  Yelland;  the 
hour  chosen  by  the  artist  is  at  the  close  of  the  day.  The  sky  is  a 
deep  crimson,  and  suffuses  the  clouds  and  water  with  a  beautiful 
glow  that  mellows  and  refines  the  otherwise  cold,  bine  gray  of 
the  ocean  into  an  exquisite  panorama.  It  is  a  picture  full  of 
poetical  feeling,  and  has  a  great  local  interest  for  all  Californians. 
It  is  by  far  the  most  interesting  painting  of  the  Golden  Gate  ever 
exhibited  here.  Another  and  very  interesting  picture  by  John 
Ferry,  of  Munich,  is  "Cypress  Point,  Monterey."  It  was  painted 
by  this  distinguished  artist  during  a  short  visit  to  the  Coast,  while 
filling  some  commissions  for  a  noted  northern  railroad  magnate. 
This  picture  represents  the  extreme  point  of  th«  Coast  known  as 
Cypress  Point,  and  shows  the  peculiar  foliage  of  the  cypress  tree 
distorted  by  the  trade  winds  into  grotesque  shapes  of  birds  and 
animals.  This  tree  is  indiginous  to  only  two  localities,  Lebanon 
and  this  peninsula.  The  drive  to  this  point  is  one  familiar  to  tourists 
and  is  very  picturesque.  In  this  collection  is  a  painting  of  a 
head  by  the  celebrated  French  artist,  Courtois,  an  officer  of  the 
Legion  of  Honor,  and  a  many  time  medalist.  The  head  is  that  of 
a  famous  Duchess.  It  i°  beautifully  treated,  showing  a  graceful 
and  unconscious  pose,  full  of  beautiful  tones  and  exquisite  in 
drawing.  It  is  undoubtedly  the  master-piece  of  this  collection. 
There  is  also  a  noted  example  of  the  Italian  master,  S.  Frangim- 
rie.  It  shows  a  room  in  a  Dominican  monastery,  in  which 
the  jolly  monks  are  singing.  It  is  very  expressive,  and  portrays 
with  a  fidelity  that  seems  magical.  The  individual  expression  of 
each  singer  is  ably  shown.  An  example  of  that  noted  Spanish 
painter,  Rivas,  represents  a  couple  of  choir  boys  singing  an 
anthem.  The  expression  of  the  boys'  faces  are  very  realistic. 
The  surroundings  and  accessories  are  painted  with  the  hand  of  a 
master,  and  leave  nothing  to  be  desired.  In  this  exhibition  a 
fine  pastoral  by  Wm.  Keith  is  also  on  exhibition.  It  is  strong 
both  in  color  and  drawing,  and  is  a  sweet,  simple  composition  in 
this  great  artist's  best  style.  Hugo  Fisher  is  also  well  repre- 
sented, having  one  of  his  noted  winter  scenes.  It  is  a  birch  forest 
in  winter.  The  tree  drawing  is  strong  and  effective,  the  senti- 
ment of  wintry  solitude  is  most  graphically  depicted,  and  it  is 
one  of  the  strongest  pieces  of  this  deservedly  noted  artist.  There  is 
also  a  very  strong  representation  of  a  Roman  street  scene  by 
Simoni.  The  intensely  blue  platteau  sky,  the  street  loungers, 
the  omniprisent  donkey,  make  it  very  familiar  to  the  American 
tourist.  The  paintings  named  form  a  very  small  part  of  the  very 
interesting  collection  now  on  view  in  the  gallery  of  Messrs. 
Morris  &  Kennedy. 


MR.  J.  L.  TOOLE,  the  well-known  actor,  Is  very  tond  of  a  joke. 
The  other  day  he  entered  a  dairy  shop  in  London,  and  in  his 
most  solemn  manner  addressed  himself  to  the  man  as  follows: 
"  I  will  take  a  boy,"  looking  around  at  the  shelves.  »  A  boy, 
sir?"  asked  the  dairy  man,  fairly  puzzled.  <<  Yes,  or  a  girl,"  an- 
swered the  actor.  The  man,  thinking  him  some  Innatic,  said, 
"  Pardon  me,  this  is  a  milk  shop."  "Come  outside,"  said  Mr. 
Toole,  and  taking  the  man  by  the  arm,  led  him  to  the  door  and 
pointed  to  the  sign.  "  I'll  take  a  boy  and  a  girl,"  repeated  the 
humorist,  with  not  the  ghost  of  a  smile.  "  Read  what  your  no- 
ice  states,  "    Families  supplied  in  any  quantity." 


NOTWITHSTANDING  his  elevation  in  the  community,  Regis, 
trar  Brown,  it  is  noticeable,  still  clings  to  the  manners  of 
speech  of  his  earlier  days,  when  he  occupied  another  public  posi- 
tion. For  instance,  referring  to  the  Cook  envelope  the  other  day, 
he  said  "  some  watchman  win  it  from  my  office."  Again,  he  said 
he  would  "  chip  in  "  when  necessary.  Mr.  Brown  should  re- 
member that  he  is  now  playing  a  limit  game,  and  if  not  very 
careful  he  will  be  frozen  out. 


A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


M,  1883. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


SNAP    SHOTS 
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EVKRY  once  in  a  while  a  wail  goes  up  from  the  pulpit,  and  in 
agonized  tones  clerical  hirelings,  whose  accent  of  terror  is  in- 
creased by  the  fear  that  they  may  not  be  able  to  collect  their 
•alary,  ask  'Why  don't  men  go  to  ohonhT"  In  the  empty  pews 
they  find  evidence  of  the  irreligious  spirit  of  the  age,  and  in  the 
absence  of  men  of  brains  from  the  sanctuary  they  find  proof  that 
lo  think  at  all  is  to  become  agnostic.  That  does  not  necessarily 
follow.  Last  Sunday  I  sat  in  a  crowded  congregation  and  listened 
to  the  words  of  wisdom  that  fell  from  the  lips  of  one  of  the  braini- 
est men  in  the  pulpit  to  day.  As  I  listened,  to  myself  I  smiled. 
••Why  should  anyone  come  lo  this  church,"  I  queried,  "who 
seeks  to  find  expression  for  a  devotional  feeling?  Where  is  the 
spirit  of  religion?"  It  is  "I,"  "I,"  -I,"  everywhere,  from  the 
self-consciousness  of  the  ushers,  tbe  pew-holders,  aDd  the  choir, 
up  to  tbe  snug,  self-satisfied  "I-am-In-it"  air  of  the  preacher  him- 
self. And  such  a  sermon — full  of  "I-ani-ity,"  full  of  mannerisms, 
full  of  conceit,  full  of  self-consciousness,  absurd  gesture,  and  il- 
logical reasoning.  Granted  tbe  language  was  fine,  granted  the 
imagery  was  beautiful,  granted  the  power  of  illustration  was  al- 
most unlimited — but  to  what  effect,  since  he  wandered  away 
from  what  he  had  marked  out  for  his  line  of  thought,  and  he  failed 
to  prove  his  proposition,  bnt  rather  the  opposite.  What  force  has 
an  illustration  that  is  founded  on  a  misstatement  of  a  scientific 
fact?  What  value  has  a  thought  that  is  the  poetry  of  fancy,  not 
the  sober  prose  of  fact?  Can  it  carry  conviction  to  a  thoughtful 
mind?  Never;  and  the  whole  line  of  argument  must  be  weak- 
ened thereby,  for  a  chain  is  stronger  than  its  weakest  link. 
Once  before  I  heard  this  self-same  pulpit  orator  make  the  facts 
over  to  suit  his  purpose.  He  was  preaching  to  the  effect  that  for 
a  sinner  there  was  no  escape  from  himself  unless  he  fled  as  a 
penitent  to  God.  The  preacher  tried  to  show  that  the  logical  end 
of  a  sinful  life  was  the  death  of  both  soul  and  body.  To  prove 
this  he  sought  to  instance  two  cases  from  George  Eliot's  nov- 
els. He  said  that  Hetty,  the  poor  girl  who  went  wrong  in  "Adam 
Bede,"  and  Tito  Melema,  the  treacherous  Greek,  in  "Roraola," 
both  burdened  by  the  weight  of  their  guilt,  committed  suicide. 
Oh,  it  was  a  very  fine  sermon,  and  it  was  a  very  telling  illustra- 
tion. It  seemed  to  fit  right  into  place.  He  grew  eloquent  over 
it,  and  his  impressionable  audience  shivered  and  shuddered  with 
hiro.  But,  alas!  how  unfortunate  for  that  pufled-up  little  minis- 
ter's self-satisfaction.  A  critical,  a  well-educated,  an  intellectual, 
and  therefore  ungodly  young  man,  who  heard  the  sermon,  the 
next  day  took  the  liberty  ot  writing  a  letter  to  tbe  reverend  doc- 
tor, calling  his  attention  to  the  facts,  that  Hetty,  the  returning 
prodigal,  died  on  her  way  to  England  after  she  bad  served  out  her 
time  in  a  penal  colony;  and  that  Tito  Melema,  instead  of  commit- 
ting suicide  in  the  Tiber,  met  a  far  more  just  and  appropriate  fate 
by  being  strangled  to  death  by  Baldassarre, 

"Oh,  well,"  said  the  reverend  doctor  after  he  had  read  the  note, 
that  does  not  alter  the  facts  any.  Bab,  for  such  reasoning,  such 
sincerity,  such  fake  preaching  I  Why  don't  men  go  to  church? 
I  go  to  church;  I  go  because  church  means  something  to  me;  if  I, 
already  prejudiced  in  its  favor,  can  see  wherein  its  representative 
preachers  fail,  how  much  more  must  such  failures  Btrike  a  man 
whose  inclination  is  all  the  other  way?  Fair  play  in  the  pulpit  is 
as  imperative  as  in  the  prize  ring.  Isn't  it  strange  how  loud  the 
Lord's  voice  is  when  it  calls  a  man  to  a  bigger  church  and 
to  a  larger  salary,  even  if  to  accept  the  call  the  newcomer  must 
oust  a  former  incumbent  from  his  position  by  the  powerful  lev- 
erage of  the  toe  of  his  boot  and  the  muscular  Christianity  of  a 
strong  right  leg  1     Bah. 

The  Salvation  Army  is  making  heroic  efforts  to  meet  the  cases 
of  destitution  which  are  crowding  upon  it  this  winter.  lam  in 
receipt  of  a  letter  from  Mrs.  McFee,  one  of  the  Salvation  Army, 
asking  if  their  needs  for  cast-off  clothing  could  not  be  brought 
before  the  charitably  inclined.  When  it  is  known  that  often  there 
come  to  the  Salvation  Army  headquarters  women  whose  only 
garments  are  shoes,  a  dress-skirt  and  an  old  shawl,  it  may  be  un- 
derstood that  nothing  is  too  poor  or  too  worn-out  to  send  to  the 
Army,  whose  members  relieve  all  cases  of  destitution  that  come 
to  them,  regardless  of  race,  color  or  religious  belief.  Perhaps  it 
is  not  generally  known  that  the  Salvation  Army  ask  for  dona- 
tions of  cast-off  clothing.  Well,  they  do,  and  any  contributions 
will  be  most  gratefully  received  at  the  Divisional  Headquarters, 
1139  Market  street. 

One  of  the  most  important  factors  in  a  child's  education  is  the 
books  it  reads.  All  of  our  public  schools  seek  to  have  a  well- 
equipped  library  to  which  the  children  have  access,  the  library 
books  being  bestowed  as  a  reward  for  good  behavior  and  scholar- 
ship. Bat  sometimes  the  supply  of  books  does  not  equal  the  de- 
mand. I  have  heard  of  a  plan  by  which  the  difficulty  is  met  and 
conquered.  In  Cleveland,  Ohio,  the  free  public  library  issues  li- 
brary cards  to  the  children  in  the  public  schools.  The  teacher 
makes  out  a  list  of  the  books  desired;  these  are  sent  to  the 
schools,  a  certain  number  to  each  class,  and  thus  the  desire  of  the 
children  to  read  is  both  gratified  and  judiciously  guided.  The 
teacher  is  held  responsible  for  the  safe  return  of  the  books.    A 


love  for  reading  Is  fostered,  not  only  in  the  child  but  in  the  home 
to  which  he  lakes  bis  books.  The  insufficiency  of  the  regular 
school  library  is  thus  supplemented,  with  good  results  all  round. 
Could  not  such  a  plan  be  introduced  with  equally  satisfactory  re- 
turns in  San  Francisco?    Let  us  keep  up  with  the  time. 

■ JfiriWM— Mary,    is    it    muddy  outside  to-day?      Maid— Very. 

J/ufrrw-nu  cxtr.i  |milding  in  my  stocking*.  '  —Town  Topics. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov  26,  1892. 


"We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's."— Tom.  Moore. 

THE  stars  who  are  having  written  up  or  are  writing  up  for 
themselves  new  »  emotional"  plays  seem  to  be  laboring  under 
a  mistake.  It  is  true  that  Mrs.  Potter  and  Kyrle  Bellew ,  in  carry- 
ing out  the  nasty  realism  of  Zola's  Therese  Raquin,  have  outdone 
all  previous  license;  but  it  has  not  met  with  public  approbation. 
On  the  contrary,  it  has  called  out  a  howl  of  disgust  even  from 
those  who  do  not  class  themselves  with  the  •<  unco  guid." 

The  appropriateness  of  this  reminder  will  be  evident  to  any  one 
who  has  seen  the  new  play  at  the  Baldwin  this  week.  It  really 
looks  to  the  admirer  of  Clara  Morris,  searching  for  an  excuse  for 
Claire,  that  it  can  be  explained  only  on  the  hypothesis  that  the 
actress-author  was  fired  by  the  resolve  not  to  let  any  society 
beauty  actress  and  tier  accomplice  get  ahead  of  the  acknowledged 
queen  of  the  emotional  drama,  in  the  way  of  making  the  audit- 
or's flesh  creep  with  apprehension  as  to  what  will  be  done  next. 
It  is  a  bad  rivalry,  and  as  unworthy  of  Clara  Morris  as  is  the 
play. 

Claire  differs  from  Therese  Raquin  in  that  the  heroine  is  a  good 
woman.  But  the  situations  are  so  unpleasantly  open  in  their 
suggestion  of  what  she  is  debating  between  love  and  loyalty, 
and  so  broadly  uncompromising  in  what  her  noble  lover  debates 
with  her,  that  there  is  no  excuse  for  even  the  roost  innocent  to 
make  believe  not  to  see  it.  Clara  Morris  occupies  too  high  a 
niche  in  her  art  to  be  allowed,  without  a  protest,  to  go  so  far  as 
to  match  her  artistic  "  breadth"  with  a  still  "  broader"  play. 

Every  one  will  recall  Pope's  line,  which  has  conferred  on  the 
female  playwright  of  his  day,  Mrs.  Aphra  Bebn,  an  undesirable 
immortality;  and  from  her  day  to  this,  it  has  taken  a  woman  to 
descend  farthest,  below  the  plane  of  decency  on  the  stage;  but 
that  Clara  Morris  should  rival  the  Potters  and  Langtry*  in  this 
line,  is  "tolerable  and  not  to  be  endured."  There  are  a  few 
grandly  dramatic  situations  in  Claire,  and  grandly  Miss  Morris 
comes  up  to  them.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  scene  where  her 
husband  turns  her  out  of  doors,  the  fiery  rapidity  of  the  terse 
sentences  in  which  she  summarizes  ber  story  and  his,  with 
the  ringing  climax,  »  And  by  the  living  God,  she  obeyed  me," 
were  given  with  a  strength  and  fervor  that  almost  brought  the 
audience  to  its  feet.  But  in  spite  of  a  few  touches  like  this,  the 
fact  remains  that  the  play  is  unworthy  of  Miss  Morris' powers 
and  reputation. 

*  *  * 

Miss  Morris'  company  hardly  deserves  the  faint  praise  of  'fairly 
good."  A  woman  endowed  with  such  intellectual  and  artistic 
gifts  is  a  distinct  disappointment  when  she  shows  so  little  good 
business  sense  or  even  originality  as  to  fall  into  the  old  mistake 
of  filling  up  her  company  with  material  that  can  for  the  most  part 
be  called  rather  foils  than  "support"  to  the  star.  Mr.  J.  M.  Coi- 
ville  gives  a  hint  of  manly  strength  here  and  there,  as  John  Hart- 
ner,  but  it  never  materializes,  and  Mr.  Meldon  does  so  little  with 
his  occasional  fine  opportunities  (except  to  snap  bis  fingers  noisily 
at  them),  as  to  make  one  feel  that  the  really  best  point  io  the 
play  is  where  Mrs.  Hartner  shoots  him  dead. 

*  *     X- 

Odelte,  which  alternates  with  Claire  this  week,  is  sn  well  known, 
as  is  Miss  Morris'  strong  acting  of  the  title  role,  that  comment  is 
not  called  for. 

»  *  » 

There  were  many  circumstance?  to  cause  a  more  than  usual  in- 
terest in  the  production  of  My  Official  Wife  at  the  California,  Mon- 
day night.  Colonel  Savage's  story  seemed  a  sort  of  local  prop- 
erty, and  there  was  to  be  a  new  star,  and  a  »  society  man  "  in  a 
leading  role.  The  story  lends  itself  naturally  to  dramatization, 
and  Mr.  Gunter  has  made  it  an  interesting  and  even  absorbing 
play  with  an  unwonted  dash  of  novelty.  The  players  are  sub- 
ject to  more  qualification.  Minnie  Seligman  is  strong  where 
strength  is  required,  easy  and  natural  in  lighter  situations,  hand- 
some and  charming  always.  Miss  Seligman  is  fully  up  to  at  least 
the  patent  requirements  of  Helene,  and  while  she  does  nothing  to 
indicate  her  ability  to  cope  with  more  exacting  characterization, 
yet  the  possibilities  may  be  there.  Mr.  Cutting,  the  8acha  Welez- 
ky,  divided  witb  his  oandsome  wife  the  preliminary  interest, 
but  not  the  after  satisfaction.  Mr.  Cutting  occupies  the  novel 
position  of  a  "society  actor,"  and  he  may  be  summed  up  as  the 
exact  male  counterpart  of  his  feminine  prototypes — he  is  tall 
and  big  and  beautiful  to  look  at,  and  he  can't  act.  How  anyone 
who  can  act  so  well  on  a  wrong  tack  as  does  Mr.  Owen  as  Arthur 
Lenox  can  avoid  seeing  the  right  line,  is  a  riddle,  but  he  blunders 
along  to  the  end  of  the  travesty  in  debonair  unconsciousness  that 
he  has  not  hit  the  exact  idea  of  the  author.  A  serious  mistake  in 
this  role,  whether  due  to  author  or  actor,  is  the  prominence  given 
to  the  perhaps  natural  attempt  on  the  part  of  Lenox  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  strange  situation.  The  average  man  or  woman  can 
easily  comprehend  this  possible  complication  of  the  assumed  re- 
lationship, but  it  is  better  left  to  imagination.  It  cuts  no  figure  in 
the  story,  and  serves  no  purpose  unless  it  be  to  give  one  or  two 


scenes  of  Scarpia-like  chasing  and  scrambling,  doubly  disagree- 
able from  being  presented  in  a  low  comedy  aspect,  and  from  hav- 
ing no  excuse  in  affording  a  motive  for  the  story.  Mr.  R.  Paton 
Gibbs  makes  a  fine  study  of  Baron  Freidricb.  The  other  mem- 
bers of  the  company  create  little  impression— except,  perhaps, 
the  three  tall  ladies  who  appear  in  act  II.,  and  whose  elegant 
costumes  show  a  correct  understanding  of  the  modern  require- 
ment in  feminine  dramatic  talent,  and  drew  a  rapturous  murmur 
from  every  lady  in  the  house. 

■*  «  » 
My  Official  Wife  is  a  play,  however,  that  can  stand  on  its  own 
merits.  It  is  a  live  play,  with  a  reason  to  be;  and  it  is  sufficiently 
well  played,  and  more  than  sufficiently  well  mounted  and  staged 
at  the  California,  to  make  it  a  strong  attraction  throughout  its 
stay,  which  will  be  one  more  week. 

w    *    * 

Patti  Rosa  is  at  the  Bush  with  two  new  plays,  Dolly  Varden, 
played  this  week,  and  Miss  Dixie,  set  for  next  week,  both  written 
by  C.  T.  Vincent.  Patti  Rosa  and  Corinne  may  be  classed  as  a 
pair,  and  hardly  a  pair  to  draw  to.  Both  possess  a  certain  talent, 
not  to  be  gainsaid,  yet  reluctantly  accorded,  for  both  are  so  hard, 
metallic,  and  aggressive  that  the  audience  is  never  in  sympathy 
with  either.  One  thing,  Patti  Rosa  does  well  enough  to  cover 
many  of  her  artistic  sins — she  sings  "Over  the  High  Brick  Wall" 
irresistibly.  The  company  is,  judged  on  its  own  plane,  unusually 
good  and  even,  and  the  specialty  work  is  above  the  average. 
Maurice  Darcy  is  a  graceful  dancer  and  sings  some  pretty  songs 
in  a  pleasant  voice  and  execrable  style.  The  real  "star"  of  the 
performance  is  Joe  Cawthorn,  who  does  a  little  of  everything, 
including  dialect  songs  and  stories,  comic  dances,  and  imitations, 
beside  playing  the  concertina  like  an  "inspired  idiot,"  and  keeps 
the  audience  thoroughly  amused  every  moment  he  is  on  the 
stage-  The  Bush  has  a  guaranty  of  patronage  for  the  coming 
week  in  this  one  performer  and  the  new  play,  Miss  Dixie. 

♦  *  '# 

The  Tivoli  has  made  anotoer  success  in  The  Queen's  Lace  Hand- 
kerchief, this  week.  The  new  tenor,  Mr.  Scbuetz,  is  making  an 
enviable  reputation.  His  singing  is  of  a  high  order  of  excel- 
lence, and  his  voice  exceptionally  pleasing.  His  acting  of  Cer- 
vantes was  somewhat  tame  in  the  first  act,  but  came  out  well 
later  in  the  play.  Gracie  Plaibted,  as  Donna  Irene,  has  added  an- 
other proof  of  her  reliable  and  versatile  talent,  and  all  the  parts 
are  well  sustained.  The  chorus  and  orchestra,  needless  to  say, 
are  strong  additions  to  the  excellence  of  the  performance.  Next 
Monday  Trovatore  will  be  put  on,  and  witb  the  original  Tivoli 
company  and  its  recent  accessions,  Verdi's  musical  opera  should 
have  an  excellent  production. 

*  *  * 

The  Shaughraun  has  had  another  successful  week  atStockwell's, 
the  beautiful  Irish  play  having  apparently  a  perennial  drawing 
power  of  its  own. 

«  «  * 

The  production  of  Baroness  Meta,  on  Friday  evening  of  last 
week,  was  an  event  of  genuine  and  general  interest.  The  repu- 
tation of  J.  H.  Rosewald  as  musician  and  composer  made  his  new 
opera  a  subject  ot  serious  criticism  rather  than  of  friendly  en- 
comium, and  the  immense  and  fashionable  audience  was  evi- 
dently inspired  with  this  feeling.  Taking  into  consideration  the 
scant  justice  of  an  amateur  production,  the  spontaneous  verdict 
was  such  as  fully  to  justify  Mr.  Rosewald  in  entering  Baroness 
Meta  for  a  permanent  place  on  the  professional  operatic  stage.  It 
has  been  said  that  "Harmony  is  the  head,  melody  the  heart,  of 
music."  Mr.  Rosewald's  opera  is  undoubtedly  strongest  in  the 
former  direction,  and  while  the  latter  is  by  no  means  wanting, 
there  is  little  of  a  "catchy"  nature.  The  orchestration  and  cho- 
ruses, and  the  ensemble  work  generally,  form  the  best  points  of 
the  opera. 

»  *  * 

Miss  Maud  Berry,  by  her  spirited  acting  and  singing,  showed 
herself  adapted  to  the  operatic  stage  as  one  "to  the  manner 
born,"  and  won  both  the  hearts  and  the  judgment  of  her  audi- 
ence from  the  first.  Miss  Alvina  Heuer  deserves,  perhaps,  on 
the  whole,  the  palm  for  acting,  though  her  part  did  not  give  op- 
portunity to  her  known  gifts  in  florid  vocalization.  The  chorus, 
being  mainly  recruited  from  "society,"  was,  of  course,  finely  cos- 
tumed, and  the  entire  production  was  unusually  well  put  on  as 
to  scenery  and  other  accessories.  The  production  left  Mr.  Rose- 
wald poorer  in  pocket  but  richer  in  reputation,  but  the  charities 
to  be  benefited  must  have  netted  a  comfortable  sum. 
»  *  * 

Miss  Morris'  Rose  Michel,  which  will  succeed  Claire,  is  held  to 
be  a  much  stronger  play.  The  plot  hinges  on  a  crime  committed 
by  Rose's  husband,  a  brutal  peasant,  and  to  which  crime  she  be- 
comes an  accessory  by  concealing  it  to  save  from  suffering  and 
separation  from  a  wealthy  lover  whom  she  adores,  her  idolized 
daughter.  Her  agony  is  further  complicated  by  a  charge  of  the 
same  crime  being  laid  against  a  young  nobleman  to  whom  and 
his  mother  Rose  is  under  lasting  obligations.  The  conflict  of  feel- 
ing and  the  final  escape,  aided  by  Rose,  of  the  condemned  noble- 
man, are  powerfully  dramatic. 


1  s  1*2 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


il'i/r  wtll  continue  atlne  California  next  week.  Mon- 
day evening.  Dee.  5tt>.  JftUDM  T.  Powers  returns  to  Ihlfl  theatre 
In  hi*  n.-w  place,  A  Mad  Bargain.  Mr.  Powers1  company  Includes, 
beside  Peter  Paly  whom  San  Franciscans  will  remeniher  as  shar- 
ing the  honors  with  the  star.  Julian  Mitchell,  Krank  Ken  dick, 
w.  W.  Allen.  Kacbel  Booth,  Rose  Cooke.  Delia Stacey,  and  others. 
*   ■   ■ 

■  comedy  by  James  A I  berry,  will  be  given  next  week 
at  Stork  well's.  K.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boucicanlt,  Henry  R. 
Jewell.  Nick  Long,  and  Fanny  Young,  are  in  the  cast.  Mr. 
Henley  has  been  lor  some  time  making  a  severe  study  of  the 
character  of  Dlgby  Grant  of  which  he  will  doubtless  present  a 
powerful  personation. 

•  •  • 

The  last  concert  of  the  present  series  given  by  the  Hermann 
Brandt  Quartette  under  the  patronage  of  Mr.  P.  \V.  Ludovici  and 
Mr.  John  Tarrott.  was  announced  for  Friday  evening,  too  late  for 
reviewing  this  week.  It  is  to  the  interest  of  every  music  lover 
In  San  Francisco  that  these  concerts,  the  exponents  of  high- 
class  music,  shall  be  maintained.  Subscriptions  can  be  handed 
in  ($5  for  the  series  of  six  c  ncertsj  at  206  Post  street  and  139 
Kearny.  If  a  sufficient  number  to  warrant  it  be  received,  a  new 
series  will  be  opened  in  January.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  our  mu- 
sical population  will  not  let  this  admirable  organization  die  out 
for  want  of  support. 

•  •  < 

The  program  me  at  the  Carr-Beel  Saturday  "Pop"  to-day,  will 
include  two  songs,  one  a  "request"  song,  Beethoven's  Adelaide, 
by  Donald  de  V.  Graham;  two  Chopin  sol  for  'cello,  by  Louis 
Heine,  and  the  Kreutzer  Sonata,  by  Mrs.  Carr  and  Mr.  Beel,  this 
number  having  received  a  plurality  of  votes.  The  next  Pop  will 
not  take  place  till  January  7th. 

»  »  # 

The  moonlight  scene  in  The  Shaughraun  at  StockwelPs  is  gener 
ally  admitted  to  display  the  best  and  most  natural  looking  moon 
ever  seen  in  this  city,  with  a  single  exception,  which  being  some 
240,000  miles  away  can  hardly  be  counted  among  local  attrac- 
tions. 

•  *  * 

Alfred  Wilkie's  series  of  three  concerts  to  be  given  in  "Maple 
Hall,"  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  will  begin  December  1st,  at  3  p.  m. 
Mr.  Wilkie  is  a  great  favorite  here,  and  he  will  be  ably  assisted. 
Miss  Maude  L.  Berry  will  be  among  the  vocalists. 

The  charming  prima  donna  of  Baroness  Mtta  is  not  a  graduate, 
or  even  a  student  of  any  musical  institution  in  Boston,  as  rashly 
inferred  by  some  of  the  dailies,  because  she  recently  spent  three 
months  in  the  New  England  capital,  and  kept  up  her  studies 
by  two  or  three  lessons  while  there.  Miss  Berry  owes 
her  musical  training  entirely  to  Madame  Julie  Rosewald,  of  this 
city. 

•  #  » 

The  name  of  David  Henderson  seems  to  have  driven  all  former 
"spectacle-makers"  oat  of  the  field.  His  two  great  spectacular 
extravaganzas,  The  Crystal  Slipper  and  Sinbad,  are  now  distanced 
by  the  success  of  All  Baba,  which  will  soon  be  seen  on  the  big 
stage  of  the  Grand,  in  all  its  gorgeousness  of  costume,  scenery, 
flash-lights,  tinsel,  and  glitter.  It  will  open  Saturday  evening, 
December  3d. 

»  #  » 

John  F.  Bragg  will  introduce  to  San  Francisco  (as  a  reader,  he 
needs  no  introduction  as  a  genuine  poet)  Jamea  Whitcomb  Ri- 
ley, early  in  December.. Incog,   with  Charles    Dickson  as  the 

star,   is   coming   to  the   California.. Bernhard    Mollenbaur,   a 

famous  violinist,  the  star  player  of  Gilm ore's  Band  last  season, 
is  in  the  city,  and  may  be  induced  to  appear  in  public  before 
leaving.^—  Mrs.  Annie  Besant,  a  brilliant  and  gifted  speaker, 
will  soon  give  a  course  of  six  lectures  here,  before  the  local  The- 
osophical  Society. The  Old  Homestead,  one  of  the  most  perma- 
nently successful  of  plays,  will  be  seen  at  the  California  this  sea- 
son.  A  spectacular  and  scenic  production  of    the   melodrama, 

Capt.  Heme,    U.  S.  A.,  will  follow  Two  Roses   at  StockwelPs. ■ 

James  Whitcomb  Riley's  readings  will  be  given  at  Metropolitan 
Hall.— The  Baldwin  will   close  for  the  time  of   Alt  Baba  at  the 

Grand,  at  the  end  of   Clara   Morris' engagement. Fanny  Rice, 

in  A  Jolly  Surprise,  will  be  the   holiday  attraction  at  StockwelPs. 

A    CHOICE    DISPLAY   OF 

NEW  ETCHIN8S,  WATER  COLORS,  WOOD  ENGRAVINGS, 

Suitable  for  HOLIDAY  PRESENTS ;  also  a  complete  assortment  of  the 
latest  styles  in  frames  constantly  on  hand. 

MORRIS     &     KENNEDY, 

19  to  21  Post  Street. 

J.  A.  W.  LUNDBORC,  Dentist 

210  Geary  Street,        -  -         Opp-  Union  Square, 

(Telephone  3.375),  San  Friuiclaeo. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE, 


*i5iWic2:  Proprietor*  i  Alfbbd  Bodvibb, 

CLARA    'K. Kills      ro-nlgbi,  Budon'a 


.Malinger. 


Sfttur.lrty  Milliner, 


ODETTE. 

CLAIRE. 


Nexl  week— Miss  Morris  aa  "Rose  Michel." 

Seats  now  on  sale.  Bents  on  tale  f"r  the  American  Extravaganza  "All 
Balm    begin-,  i.nMiny.  November  Zgtb 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  i  Co.. Proprietors.  I  J.  J.  Gottlob    Manager. 

Monday, .November  28th.  Last  week,  Matinee  Saturday.  MINNIE 
fcfcfclGMAN  CUTTING  supported  by  Frank  M.  Sanger's  Couniauy  in  Archi- 
bald c.  Gunter's 

MY     OFFICIAL     WIFE 


THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr.  m.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  aud  Manager. 

George  H.  Broadhubst  Resident  Manager. 

The  only  tun  in  town.  Last  times.  Fiuil  Inn.  Monday,  November  28th. 
Only  matinee  Saturday.  Peerless  PATTI  ROSA,  aud  her  superb  company 
in  the  comedy-iarce  satire  on  Hypnotism, 


All  new  specialties. 


MISS     DIXIE 


STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE, 


L.  R.  Stockwell    ...   Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinohoose  Business  Mauager. 

This  evening  at  8.  E.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boucicault  and  StockwelPs  Com- 
pany ol  Comedians  in 

THE     SHAUGHRAUN. 

Next— TWO  ROSES.    In  preparation,  the  military  spectacle— "Captain 
Heme,  U.  S.  A." 


TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

■  - ■     -  -    .  —  .Proprietors  and  Managers . 


Kreling  Bros 

To-night,  return  of  the  favorites,  rtracie  Plaisted,  Ferris  Hartrnan,  Grace 
Vernon,  Phil  Branson.    Grand  production  of  Strauss'  lovely  opera, 

THE  QUEEN'S   LACE  HANDKERCHIEF. 
Ferdinand  Schuetz  as   "Cervantes." 
Monday,  November  28th,  "Trovatore." 
Popular  Prices 25c.  and  50c 

WILKIE'S  "PALACE  BALLAD  CONCERTS." 

FIRST  CONCERT, 

Thursday,  Dec.  1,  1892 3  P.  M. 

MAPLE  HALL,  Palace  Hotel. 

ARTISTS.— Miss  Maude  L.  Berry,  Mr.  Charles  J.  Dickman,  Alfred  Wil" 
kie,  Wm.  C.  Stadtfeld,  Victor  Carroll.  R.  F.  Tiiton,  Accompanist;  S.  G. 
Fleishman,  Solo  Pianist-    See  programme. 

Season  tickets,  reserved,  $4-    Single  reserved  seats,  $1  25.    Admission,  $1. 

Seats  may  be  secured  at  Palace  notel  until  November  29th;  and  bher- 
man,  Clay  &  Co.'s  ou  Nov.  30th. 

PHYSICAL  CULTURE  FOR  LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN. 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  FENCING  ACADEMY. 

501  Post  Street,  Corner  Mason. 
Professors  Louis  Troucliet  and  Alfred  l>e  Smet. 

Special  classes  twice  per  week  for  young  ladies  between  the  ages  of 
10  and  i5  years.    Reasonable  terms. 

ni  ARIa^N©  Knabe.    Haines, 
an  I  #*  111  WW  Bush  «fcGerts,«»  others. 

^^  Oaah  or  installments.  Rented 

and  Repaired-     Please  call  or  send  for  circulars. 


803  Sutter 

St.s  S.  T. 


BANCROFT 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.B.  CHAPMAN, 

SOLE  AQENT  FOR 
PAOIFIO  OOA8T, 

l23CaliforniaSt.,S.F 


EPERNA'V     CHAMPAGNE. 

FOR  BY  ALL  FIEBT-CLA88 

Wine    Merchants  and  Grocers. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


THANKSGIVING  DAY  IN  NEW  ENGLAND. 

A  FEELING  of  sadness,  commingled   with  gladness, 
Comes  rapidly  over  my  senses  at  sight 
Of  my  home,  and  the  meadows  that  lie  'midst  the  shadows 
Of  memory's  view,  on  this  Thanksgiving  night. 

Round-crested  with  riches,  o'er  woodland  and  ditches, 
And  turreted  hill-tops,  lies  new-fallen  snow; 

And  under  the  snowdakes  are  hidden  the  heartaches 
Of  many  a  turkey  whose  head  is  laid  low. 

The  apple  trees  barren,  have  nothing  to  wear  on 

Their  rugged  bold  bows  since  the  gobblers  have  fled : 

The  icy  twigs  rattle  as  though  doing  battle, 

And  winter  winds  moan  througb  the  perch  of  the  dead. 

Pin-feathery  and  shivery,  so  ghostly  and  qnivery, 

We  view  tbem  again  in  a  spectral  array, 
With  wish-bones  all  broken,  or  kept  as  a  token 

Of  dinner,  with  drumsticks,  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 

Here's  Thanksgiving  dinner  for  both  saint  and  sinner, 

"New  England  plum-pudding"  and  "home-made"  mince 
pies ! 

All  those  who  have  eaten  know  they  can't  be  beaten. 
Nor  the  "  apple-jack  cider,"  which  opens  your  eyes. 

I've  read  in  the  pages  of  some  wise  old  sages, 

That  "Please  a  man's  stomach  you've  conquered  his  heart." 
All  you  that  have  seen  a  good  New  England  dinner, 

Will  wish  that  Thanksgivings  came  six  months  apart. 
San  Francisco,  November  24,  1892.  Rose  Maynaed  David. 


WHEN    THEY    TAX    SURF-BATHING. 


A  COMMITTEE  of  the  French  Chamber  of  Deputies  has  re- 
ported favorably  a  bill  to  tax  those  who  bathe  in  the  surf  at 
the  seashore,  and  if  it  becomes  a  law  no  one  will  be  able  to  take 
sea  baths  in  France  without  a  permit.  Of  the  workings  of  such 
a  law  "  Escopette  "  writes  thus  in  the  Courrier  des  Etats-Unis : 

The  Superintendent  of  Permits — Whose  turn  is  it? 

The  Doorkeeper  of  the  Bureau — Two  ladies,  mother  and 
daughter. 

The  Superintendent — Let  them  come  in.  [Two  ladies  enter,  the 
older  being  plainly  the  mother  of  the  other,]     What  do  you  want? 

The  Mutber — Sir,  to-morrow  we  start  for  the  seashore. 

The  Superintendent — And  you  want  permits?  Very  well.  I 
can't  refuse  them  to  you.     Do  you  both  expect  to  bathe? 

The  Mother — Yes,  Bir. 

The  Superintendent — All  right.  You,  first.  How  much  doyou 
weigh? 

The  Mother— Sir! 

The  Superintendent — I  have  to  know.  The  tax  is  imposed  in 
direct  ratio  to  the  amount  of  water  each  person  displaces.  You 
are  large,  stout.     You  out  to  weigh  at  least  a  hundred  and  fifty. 

The  Mother — One  hundred  and  fifty-five. 

The  Superintendent — I  came  mighty  near  it.  It  will  cost  you 
200  francs. 

The  Mother — That's  awfully  dear. 

The  Superintendent — That's  the  price.  Now  for  your  daughter 
here.     Mrs. 

The  Daughter  —  Missl 

The  Superintendent — Oh  1  you're  a  Miss?  [Looking  her  over.] 
Thin,  but  with  a  pretty  figure.     You  should  not  weigh  much. 

The  Daughter — Ninety-eight. 

The  Superintendent — It  won't  cost  you  much.  But,  hold  on, 
why  do  you  bathe?     For  cleanliness? 

The  Daughter— Sir-r! 

The  Superintendent — For  your  health,  perhaps? 

The  Daughter — No. 

The  Superintendent— As  a  luxury? 

The  Daughter — Yes,  that's  it,  as  a  luxury. 

The  Superintendent — So  much  the  worse  for  you.  Luxuries 
are,  necessarily,  more  heavily  taxed.  8o  with  high-bred  dogs. 
It  will  cost  you  300  francs. 

The  Mother — As  much  as  that?  Gracious  I  But  wait  a  mo- 
ment; I  will  be  frank  with  you.  My  daughter  has  a  lovely  fig- 
ure, and  she  bathes  because  she  hopes  to  catch  a  husband. 

The  Superintendent — A  rich  husband? 

The  Mother — Why,  of  course. 

The  Superintendent — Ah !  That's  your  game,  eh?  A  nice 
thing,  this  1  -Here's  the  ocean  belonging  to  the  State,  and  you 
want  it  to  help  to  make  you  rich,  and  you  think  you  can  do  it 
cheap!  Not  much  1  This  permit,  madam,  will  cost  500  francs 
and  10  percent,  of  the  amount  your  daughter's  husband  settles 
on  her. 

The  Mother — Can't  you  make  it  any  cheaper? 

The  Superintendent — The  State  never  makes  anything  cheaper. 
Is  that  all? 

The  Mother — No,  I  have  another  daughter,  but  she  is  only  six 
years  and  a  half  old. 

The  Superintendent — Less  than  seven  years  old?  Half  price 
for  her. 


DIRECT   FROM    PARIS- 

LATEST    CREATIONS 

IN 

/tyVpflEES    f\p   U//U5JS. 

MADE  OF 

VIGOGNE,  FLANNEL  AND  SILK. 

TRIMMED  WITH 

LACE,  PASSEMENTERIE,  ETC.,  ETC. 

ZLNTIEAfir     COLONS 

THE  DAINTIEST  EVER  IMPORTED. 

ZPZEGi-IfcTOIIE^S 

IN  VIGOGNE,  FLANNEL  AND  CREPON. 


NEAT    DESIGNS. 

ENTIRELY  NEW  AND  PRETTY  COLORS. 


-AT- 


$15,  $16.50,  $17.50,  $18.50 

UPWARDS. 

JJ^  U/^lJE  JICUJS^ 
NO  IMITATION  GOODS. 


Therefore  the  question  "  is 
it  Genuine?"  is  never  raised 
concerning  any  article  pur- 
chased from 

A.  W.  STOTT, 

JEWELLER, 

3  Montgomery  St. 

(Under  Maaonic  Temple.) 

DIAMONDS     and     other 

precious  stones. 
AMERICAN  and  SWISS 

WATCHES. 
And  stylish  new  designs 
GOLD      AND      SILVER 
JEWELLERY 

of  high  grade  at  surprising- 
ly low  prices. 


N       26,  1892. 


SAN    K!      NCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


RECORDS  OF  TENNYSON  AND  OTHERS 


MRS.  KITYHIK.  whose  tender  pride  never  forgets  that  she  is 
Thackeray's  daughter,  ha-*  inherited  some  of  his  own  dis- 
criminating blindness  toward  tor  Imperfeotlona  Of  his  friends,  and  the 
same  generosity  f°r  their  perfections.  Tbta  nukes  whatever  she 
writer  of  the  celebrated  people  whom  she  knows  a  model  for  this  sort 
of  report.  She  tells  much,  yel  not  too  much,  of  their  daily  oonoern- 
m*nt9:  she  pictures  them  as  she  knows  tbein  with  a  simple  candor 
more  flattering  than  praise;  we  have  no  feel  in  t:  that  we  are  profit- 
ing by  ill-gotten  information  when  we  read  what  she  otters  in  her 
11  Records  of  Tennyson.  Ruskin  and  Rrowning,"  just  published,  in  a 
well-designed  cover  of  dark  green  and  gold,  by  the  Harpers.  Of  the 
Brownings,  for  the  paper  includes  Elizabeth  Barrett's  figure  beside 
lhat  of  her  husband,  so  much  has  been  written  that  Mrs.  Ritchie  can 
hardly  tell  us  anything  novel  as  to  their  ways,  but  she  adorns  the 
narrative  with  her  own  personal  recollections,  which  cover  a  con- 
siderable period,  from  the  time  when  she  and  her  sister  went  to  them 
to  spend  the  first  solitary  evening  after  Thackeray  had  departed  for 
his  second  American  tour,  to  the  day  of  her  last  call  upon  Browning, 
when  she  took  her  two  lads  to  ask  "  his  blessing"  before  he  went  to 
Venice,  where  he  died.  The  story  of  the  poets  is  not  very  long  in 
point  of  incident;  the  homely  details  of  their  friendly  hospitalities, 
their  benevolences,  and  Mrs.  Browning's  interest  in  her  little  son's 
clothes,  their  methods  of  work  and  their  love  of  humanity  are  all 
suited  to  Mrs.  Ritchie's  taste,  and  she  lingers  over  the 
pleasant  memories  that  had  no  skeleton  to  conceal.  Of 
Tennyson  she  has  less  that  is  intimate  to  relate — apparently  she 
never  sustained  any  very  close  relationship  with  the  laureate's  fam- 
ily ;  nor  does  she  seem  to  have  been  so  warmly  drawn  toward  him  as 
toward  Ruskin.  The  peaceful  life  that  is  just  closed  is  beautifully  de- 
picted in  this  essay,  with  descriptions  of  his  country  home  at  Fresh- 
water, Isle  of  Wight,  and  later  in  Surrey,  that  offered  a  fitting  setting 
for  the  figures  of  the  poet  and  his  wife  and  sons.  The  impression 
that  Tennyson  was  always  best  seen  and  most  impressive  when  out 
of  doors,  which  all  other  writers  convey,  is  given,  perhaps  uncon- 
sciously in  these  pages  also,  though  the  writer  notes  that  visit- 
ing him  in  a  "  common-place  London  room  with  all  the  stuc- 
co of  Belgravia  round  about,  I  found  the  old  dream 
realized,  the  old  charm  of  youthful  impressions."  The  view 
of  Ruskin  possesses  the  charm  of  unfamiliarity ;  few,  com- 
paratively, know  that  rare  personality,  and  fewer  still  report  its  as- 
pict.  The  paper  is  delightful,  not  only  for  the  biographical  matter, 
but  for  the  warm  and  delicate  appreciation  that  pervades  it.  Even 
Ruskin's  over-sensitive  ear  may  not  shrink  at  hearing  his  praises 
sounded  with  such  understanding.  A  better  picture  of  this  tine  soul, 
ill  attuned  to  the  discords  of  life,  will  hardly  be  given  within  so  small 
a  compass.  All  these  papers  are  illustrated  with  well-engraved  por- 
traits and  drawings. 

WHY  not  send  notices  to  the  proprietors  of  all  the  seaside  re 
sorts  and  watering-places  on  the  Coast  that  bids  will  be  re- 
ceived, for  the  purchase  of  those  election  booths.  They  wiU 
doubtless  prove  to  be  white  elephants  on  the  bands  of  the  Regis- 
trar, though  he  is  a  very  able  gentleman,  who  has  never  yet 
allowed  to  escape  him  anything  that  be  ever  got  his  fingers  over. 

Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Wiuslows'  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething. 


highland 

Evaporated 

Cream 

is  a  delicious  accessory  to  ihc  morning's  first 
meal.  It  combines  purity — convenience — 
economy — the  three  requisites  for  a  break- 
fast dish.  Delightful  in  your  coffee;  appe- 
tizing on  your  oatmeal;  brings  out  the  flavor 
of  cut-up  peaches.  No  more  waiting  for 
the  milkman;  no  more  worrying  over  his 
stall-fed  cows.  Highland  Brand  is  uni- 
formly rich  and  perfect — there's  where  it 
differs  from  its  imitations. 

HELVETIA   MILK    CONDENSING  CO., 
Highland,   III. 


AFRAID    OF    A    CAT. 


EVERYONE  in  India  knows  (says  "Pen,"  writing  in  the  Times 
of  India)  that  the  only  living  thing  able  to  inspire  the  present 
illustrious  head  of  the  Indian  army  with  terror,  is  the  tame  or 
domestic  cat.  Lord  Roberts  is  unable  to  be  in  the  same  room 
with  a  cat  without  undergoing  severe  physical  discomfort.  I  re- 
member an  A.  D.  O.  telling  me  a  curious  instance  of  this.  The 
Commander-in-Chief  was  on  a  tour,  and  was  putting  up  with  the 
General  officer  commanding  a  division  for  a  day  or  two.  The 
General  had  a  cat,  and  the  Chief's  A.  D.  C.  impressed  upon  the 
General's  A.  I).  C.  the  imperative  necessity  of  having  this  cat  re- 
moved or  carefully  secured  during  the  Chief's  stay.  "All  right,"  Baid 
the  General's  A.  D.  C,  "  I  live  in  a  detached  bungalow  in  the  com- 
pound, and  the  beast  shall  be  tied  up  in  my  room  until  our  visit- 
ors have  gone."  So  said,  so  done,  and  all  went  well  until  the 
night  before  the  Commander-in-Chief's  departure.  But  at  dinner 
on  that  nieht,  as  the  two  A.  D.  C.'s  were  sitting  at  the  end  of  the 
table  together,  he  of  the  headquarter  staff  said,  suddenly:  "By 
Jove,  that  cat  of  yours  hasn't  got  loose,  has  it?'*  "No,"  said  the 
other,  "it's  tied  up  safe  enough  ;  but  why?"  "I'm  sure  there's  a 
cat  in  the  room ,"  said  the  first,  "look  at  the  Chief.  He's  got  quite 
pale.  For  goodness  sake,  see  if  that  cat  is  not  somewhere  about." 
So  the  General's  A.  D.  C.  looked  about,  and  sure  enough  found 
the  house-cat  had  got  loose,  and  having  stolen  into  the  dining- 
room,  had  curled  itself  up  under  his  chair.  He  made  a  grab  at  it, 
and  conveyed  it  away  as  quietly  and  swiftly  as  possible.  Aa  soon 
as  the  animal  was  out  of  the  room  the  Chief  recovered  hia  usual 
serenity,  and  was  able  to  go  on  with  his  dinner.  Everybody 
knows  or  has  heard  of  caaes  of  this  sort,  but  who  is  able  to  ex- 
plain them? 


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10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


A    GUARDIAN    OF    MORALITY. 


MISS  TABITHA  GREY  had  not  reached  the  age  of  forty-five 
years  without  acquiring  an  extensive  and  unfavorable 
knowledge  of  her  own  sex.  Men  were  wicked;  Misa  Grey  ad- 
mitted and  deplored  the  fact,  but  it  was  so  much  in  the  order  of 
nature,  that  she  had  almost  ceased  to  cavil  at  it.  But  that  women 
should  be  wicked!  Here  Miss  Grey's  toleration  gave  out.  And 
so  many  women,  especially  young  women,  and  more  especially 
pretty  young  women,  were  wicked.  It  was  atrocious.  Enter- 
taining this  general  opinion,  Miss  Grey,  as  a  matter  of  course, 
held  Maggie  Lester  in  the  utmost  detestation.  The  Waterfall 
Hotel  was,  in  fact,  hardly  large  enough  to  contain,  in  any  com- 
fort, Miss  Grey  on  the  one  hand,  and  on  the  other  Maggie  Lester, 
her  brother  Charles,  and  their  friend  and  traveling  companion, 
Captain  Petrie.  It  is  true  that  the  feeling  of  discomfort  was  en- 
tirely confined  to  Miss  Grey.  The  young  people  were  very  civil 
to  her  when  any  one  of  them  happened  to  be  next  her  at  table 
d'kdte,  and  at  other  times  thought  nothing  about  her;  but  Miss 
Grey  endured  agonies  enough  for  an  hotel  full  of  people.  She 
shuddered  at  Maggie's  striped  waistcoat  and  white  sailor's  knot 
with  its  golden  pin,  at  her  brown  boots,  at  her  love  of  long  and 
hard  rides,  at  her  not  infrequent  slang,  above  all  at  the  terms  of 
hearty  and  familiar  camaraderie  on  which  she  thought  fit  to  con- 
duct her  acquaintance  with  Captain  Petrie.  The  decorum  of  lit- 
erature forbids  that  Miss  Grey's  inmost  suspicions  should  be  put 
in  writing;  it  must  suffice  to  say  that  they  were  very  dark  in- 
deed—so dark  that  all  the  other  ladies,  to  whom  Miss  Grey  re- 
peated them,  could  not  but  come  to  the  conclusion  that  there 
must  be  some  truth  in  them. 

One  morning,  after  breakfast,  Miss  Grey  took  her  knitting  and 
the  Ckurck  Times  and  sat  down  in  the  veranda.  A  moment 
later,  to  her  disgust,  Charlie  Lester  and  Captain  Petrie  came  out 
of  the  breakfast-room,  lit  their  pipes,  and,  after  a  polite  "Good 
morning,"  took  their  seats  a  few  yards  from  her.  Miss  Grey 
sniifed  the  tobacco-tainted  air,  and  was  about  to  rise  and  osten- 
tatiously remove  herself  from  the  infected  zone,  when  she  heard 
a  scrap  of  conversation  between  the  two  young  men  which  en- 
tirely altered  her  determination.  She  sat  still  and  listened  with 
all  her  might. 

"  I  wonder  when  Maggie  will  be  down,"  said  Lester;  <«  I  want 
to  tell  her." 

"  Oh,  you're  too  late,"  said  Petrie;  »  I've  told  her." 
"  What,  have  you  seen  her?" 

"  Yes.  I  knew  she'd  like  to  know,  so  I  went  outside  her  door 
five  minutes  ago,  and  shouted  what  we'd  heard,  and  she  came 
out  directly." 

»•  Had  she  anything  on  ?  "  inquired  Lester,  in  an  interested 
tone. 

»  No,"  responded  Captain  Petrie;  "but  that  made  no  differ- 
ence." 

"  It  would  to  me,"  said  Lester,  with  a  smile. 
»•  And  to  me,"  said  the  Captain;  "  but  it  didn't  to  her.     I  re- 
minded her  of  it,  and  she  said  that  it  made  no  odds — she  wanted 

to  hear  all  I  knew  directly.  So  we  stood  in  the  passage,  and " 

Miss  Grey  had  been  gradually  becoming  more  and  more  horri- 
fied. She  had  been  prepared  for  a  good  deal,  but  this  was  too 
much,  And  the  creature's  own  brother  listened  to  it  I  Her 
knitting  fell  from  her  grasp,  and  the  needles  jangled  on  the  tiled 
floor.  The  Captain  hastened  to  pick  them  up,  interrupting 
his  narrative  for  that  purpose;  but  Miss  Grey  froze  him  with  an 
awful  look  and  strode  into  the  house. 

Miss  Grey  was  a  woman  who  never  allowed  herself  to  be 
turned  from  the  path  of  duty,  however  painful  that  path  might 
be  to  others.  She  soon  made  up  her  mind  as  to  what  she  must 
do,  and,  having  come  to  a  resolution,  she  laid  the  whole  matter 
before  an  informal  committee  of  three  irreproachable  and  austere 
matrons,  whom  she  selected  from  among  her  fellow  guests.  The 
immediate  result  of  the  conference  was,  that  when  Maggie  Lester, 
looking  very  fresh  and  blooming  after  her  morning  gallop,  came 
in  to  luncheon  and  took  her  place  at  the  table,  no  fewer  than 
four  elderly  ladies  put  down  their  knives  ond  forks,  rose  from 
their  chairs,  and  solemnly  stalked  out  of  the  room. 
"  Hullo!  what's  up?"  said  Charlie  Lester. 

But  nobody  knew  what  was  up;  and,  to  all  appearance,  Mag- 
gie least  of  all,  for  she  cheerfully  began  her  lunch,  merely  re- 
marking to  the  Captain,  as  though  in  continuance  of  a  previous 
conversation : 

"  It  wouldn't  have  been  so  bad  if  I'd  had  anything — even  the 
least  little  bit — on,  would  it?" 

*'  Ah,  you  ought  to  have  put  your  boots  on,"  said  the  Captain, 
with  a  smile. 

A  fifth  lady,  sitting  by,  overheard  these  remarks,  and  when, 
after  lunch  Miss  Grey  informed  ber  of  the  startling  occurrence  of 
the  morning,  her  testimony  completed  the  damning  chain  of  evi- 
dence. They  made  a  joke  of  it!  What  could  tbe  suggestion  of 
boots — only  boots — be,  except  a  vulgar,  shameless  jest?  The  la- 
dies went  in  a  body  to  the  proprietor  and  intimated  that  either 
they  or  tbe  Lester  party  must  forthwith  leave  the  hotel.  The 
proprietor  demanded  reasons;  cogent,  irrefragable  reasons  were 
supplied  by  Miss  Grey  and  the  fifth  lady — reasons  clothed,  of 
course,  in   decorous   language,  but  unmistakably  revealing  the 


infamous  conduct  of  Maggie  Lester. 

"I  assure  you,  ladies,"  exclaimed  the  proprietor,  beads  of  per- 
spiration standing  on  his  brow,  "its  the  first  time  such  a  thing 
has  ever  occurred  in  my  house." 

<•  It  must  be  the  last,"  said  Miss  Grey,  firmly. 

"I  will  act  at  once,"  declared  the  proprietor.  ■  -This  is  a  respect- 
able house,  and  such  proceedings  cannot  be  tolerated.  Good 
gracious!     It  would  endanger  my  license!" 

"  And  your  soul,"  3aid  Miss  Grey,  solemnly. 

"  I  beg  pardon,  miss?"  said  the  proprietor. 

•«  And  your  soul,"  repeated  Miss  Grey. 

"  Oh,  yes,  to  be  sure — of  course,  my  soul,  miss.  Aa  it  was  I 
had  a  bother  about  it  last  year — my  license,  I  mean,  miss.  I'll  go 
to  Mr.  Lester  at  once." 

The  proprietor  was  a  nervous,  bashful  man,  and  when  he  found 
himself  standing  before  the  Lesters  and  Captain  Petrie,  as  they 
drank  their  after  luncheon  coffee,  he  was  much  embarrassed.  At 
last  he  managed  to  indicate  that  he  wished  to  speak  to  Mr.  Lester 
alone. 

"  Oh,  nonaensel"  said  Charlie.     "  Go  on.     What's  the  matter?" 

The  proprietor  nerved  himself  for  the  effort.  After  all,  if  these 
people  were  not  ashamed  for  themselves,  why  should  he  blush 
for  them?  Looking  sternly  at  Charlie,  he  began  to  formulate  his 
accusation.  He  had  not  got  far  before  Maggie  gave  a  little  shriek 
of  amazement,  and  the  Captain,  jumping  up,  seized  him  by  the 
collar  and  exclaimed: 

"  What  do  you  mean,  you  little  rascal?  What's  this  scandal- 
ous nonsense  you've  got  hold  of?"  and  the  Captain  shook  hia 
host  severely. 

"  I  am  not  to  be  bullied,  sir,"  said  the  proprietor,  stoutly.  "  I 
have  excellent  authority  for  what  I  say,  and  — " 

"  Whose  authority?" 

The  proprietor  vouched  Miss  Grey  and  the  fifth  lady. 

"  We  must  look  into  this,"  said  the  Captain. 

Maggie,  who  was  blushing  severely,  but  was  not  without  a 
secret  tendency  to  convulsive  laughter,  was  prevailed  upon  to  ac- 
company them,  and  the  four  proceeded  to  the  drawing-room, 
where  the  Inquisition  sat  enthroned  on  a  sofa,  Miss  Grey  presid- 
ing.    Miss  Grey  rose  with  a  gesture  of  horror. 

"  Not  gone  yet?"  she  exclaimed. 

"  No,  ma'am,"  said  the  Captain;  "  we  want  to  hear  your  story 
first." 

"  Have  you  no  shame?"  demanded  Miss  Grey  of  Maggie. 

"  Never  mind  that,  ma'am,"  said  the  Captain;  "  let's  have  the 
story  first." 

Miss  Grey  cast  an  appealing  glance  at  the  ceiling,  and  began: 
"  With  my  own  ears  I  heard  it.  Mrs.  Britson  [Mrs.  Britson  was 
tbe  fifth  lady]  will  confirm  what  I  say.  With  my  own  ears  I 
heard  Captain  Petrie  relate  to  Mr.  Lester — to  this  person's 
brother — that  he  had  had  an  interview  with  this  person  when 
this  person  was  entirely" —  Miss  Grey  paused  for  a  moment, 
gathered  her  courage,  and  added  in  an  awestruck  whisper,  "  dis- 
robed." 

A  shudder  ran  through  the  audience.  The  culprits' faces  ex- 
pressed real  or  simulated  astonishment. 

*»  If  I  must  put  it  plainly,"  pursued  Miss  Grey — and  at  this  sev- 
eral ladies  opened  their  fans  and  held  them  before  their  faces — 
"  Captain  Petrie  said  that  Miss  Lester — that  person — had  nothing 
on,  and  that  when  he  reminded  her  of  it,  she  stated  that  the  cir- 
cumstance was  immaterial.  Subsequently,  at  luncheon,  the 
young  woman  herself  admitted  the  fact  in  the  hearing  of  Mrs. 
Britson.     If  that  is  not  enough" — 

It  apparently  was  enough,  for  Charlie  Lester  threw  himself 
into  an  arm-chair  with  a  wild  shriek  of  laughter.  Maggie's  slight 
figure  shook  convulsively  as  she  hid  ber  face  in  her  handker- 
chief, and  Captain  Petrie,  after  a  moment's  blank  amazement, 
cried  out: 

"By  Jove!  I've  got  it.  Oh!  this  beats  anything!"  And  he 
joined  in  with  aloud  guffaw. 

"  Is  that  the  way  you  treat  such  a — an  abominable" —  began 
Miss  Grey  austerely. 

"Oh  stop;  for  heaven's  sake  stop!"  exclaimed  the  Captain; 
you'll  be  the  death  of  me,  you  really  will!" 

Silence  followed  for  a  moment,  and  the  Captain,  conquering 
his  mirth,  went  on:  <■  I  don't  know  if  any  of  you  ladies  go  in  for 
horse-racing.  Probably  not;  I'm  sure  Miss  Grey  doesn't.  *  Well, 
this  morning  I  heard  that  a  horse  of  mine  which  is  running  in  a 
race  to-day  had  done  an  exceptionally  and  quite  unexpectedly 
good  trial — I  mean  had  proved  a  far  faster  runner  than  we  had 
supposed.  In  fact  there  was  little  doubt  that  he  would  win  the 
race.  Sometimes,  ladies,  I  am  wicked  enough  to  bet.  Occasion- 
ally, Charlie  Lester  is  equally  wicked.  Now  and  then  Miss  Les- 
ter yields  to  that  vice.  Well,  as  you  know,  we  are  far  from  a 
telegraph,  here,  and  we  were  much  annoyed,  Charlie  and  I,  that 
we  could  not  take  advantage  of  our  fresh  information  to  bet  on 
the  horse — to  put  something  on,  as  we  say.  Miss  Lester  re- 
gretted also,  when  I  told  her  the  news,  that  she  had  nothing  on 
— the  horse.     Do  you  begin  to  understand,  ladies?" 

The  ladies   glanced   at  one   another   in  some  confusion.     Miss 
Grey  looked  angry  and  suspicious. 
"  And  the  boots?"  she  said. 
"  To  put  your  boots  on  a  horse,"  exclaimed    the   Captain,   po- 


Nov.  M,  1892. 


-'  '.N    FRANCISCO    NK\vs   I.KTTKR. 


Illely.'-  It  *  slingnprrjsion  for  brtilng  your  entire  available  for- 
tune on  bis  •  iher  expression  is  to  •  put  yourshirt'  " — 
-  -  ■»iil  MIn  '.rry. 
Bui  Miss  Orey'i  »>vay  was  emled.  Maggie  burst  into  a  fresh 
fit  of  laughter,  anil  afier  a  uiotuent'a  pause,  tbe  whole  company 
followed  suit.  Mi.,  lirey  tamed  and  left  the  room.  Tbe  next 
day  sbe  left  the  hotel.  She  could  not  face  ber  vicious  foes.  Cap- 
tain Pelrie  insisted  on  handing  her  into  tbe  omnibus,  saying  as 
be  did  so:  ■•  Be  easy,  my  dear  madam.  In  future  it  shall  be  my 
care  to  see  that  Miss  Lester  has  something  on." 


11 


GOSSIP    FROM    GOTHAM. 


New  York,  Nov.  15th,  1892. 

WITH  I X  a  quarter  of  an  hour  to-day  I  saw  Theodore  Kearney 
and  Joe  Austin  on  Fifth  avenue,  the  former  resplendent  in 
the  best  of  good  and  well-cut  clothes,  and  disporting  himself  with 
that  dignity  that  has  already  made  him  remarked  and  admired 
athonie;the  latter  looking  cold  and  melancholy,  and  as  if  he 
longed  for  the  comforts  of  home,  i.  e.  San  Francisco — the  Palace 
Hotel  and  tbe  Bohemian  Clnb.  Perhaps  this  week  may  cheer 
t hem  both,  as  the  Horse  Show  is  in  full  swing,  and  horses  are,  if 
I  mistake  not,  something  of  a  fad  with  Westerners.  The  bloom 
of  the  chrysanthemum  is  .carcely  off  tbe  Madison  Square  Garden 
before  the  perfume  of  tbe  hay  diffuses  itself.  The  Horse  Show 
marks  the  return  to  town  of  society.  Creighton  Webb  swaggers 
there  on  his  brother  Seward's  horses  (the  purchase  of  the  Vander- 
bilt);  W.  G.  Tiffany,  who,  through  the  friendship  of  young  Tuff- 
ern  Tailer  and  his  own  knowledge  of  horses,  has  become  a  fash- 
ionable feature  again,  makes  himself  apparent,  and  from  the 
heights  of  bis  coaching  knowledge,  declaims  to  admiring  would- 
be  whips;  Harry  Martindale,  of  the  Genesee  Valley  Ulub,  a  for- 
mer •*  winterer"  in  Southern  California,  where  his  sisters  have 
been  spending  the  spring,  is  conspicuous  among  thehunting  men. 
He  rode  Mrs.  8.  8.  Howland's  (ne'e  Belmont)  great  high  jumper 
Ontario  for  her  at  the  last  show,  I  am  told,  and  nearly  broke  bis 
neck  on  his  own  Bismarck,  who  took  a  first  prize.  Ned  Taylor, 
always  as  of  old,  tbe  man  about  town,  looking  as  young  as  of 
old,  when  he  was  the  rival  of  Dick  Pease  for  the  band  of  the 
beautiful  Lita  Ogden,  saunters  about,  bowing  frequently,  as  a 
club  man  should  do. 

In  the  Cafe"  Savarin,  down  town  in  the  Equitable  Building,  I 
was  surprised  to  ses  Mrs.  R.  T.  Huddart  and  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Stephen  Hunter,  with  her  husbaDd.  It  is  not  too  much  to  aay  of 
Mrs.  Huddart  that  she  grows  more  and  more  handsome  as  time 
goes  on.  To  see  her  now  one  forgets  entirely  how  many  years 
ago  it  is  since  she  led  the  young  idea  in  the  big  school  down  near 
South  Park,  with  her  charming  husband,  now  no  more — tbe  good 
old  Dr.  Huddart,  the  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  who  is 
held  dear  in  the  memory  of  all  his  old  pupils. 

Senator  Jones  and  his  family  sailed  the  other  day  for  Europe, 
where  Mrs.  Jones  will  no  doubt  enjoy  renewing  the  scenes  of  her 
childhood,  where,  with  Mrs.  Grattan  as  her  chaperone,  she  and 
her  sister,  now  Mrs.  Bucbnall.  spent  so  many  years.  Mrs.  Grat- 
tan, by  the  way,  is  living  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Dyckman,  at 
Plainfield,  New  Jersey.  8be  shows  very  much  the  sorrow  of  the 
last  few  years,  but  finds  great  comfort  in  her  grandchildren. 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  Richard  Savage  have  just  returned  to  their 
pretty  apartment  in  the  Rockingham  from  their  visit  to  Utica, 
where  they  went  to  see  the  first  production  of  My  Official  Wife. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gunter  were  of  the  party,  and  all  are  delighted 
with  the  success  of  the  ventufe.  Mrs  Savage's  daughter,  Chica, 
Madame  de  la  Carriere,  sailed  from,  Southampton  on  the  6th,  in 
the  Havel,  and  expects  to  remain  several  weeks  with  her  mother, 
who  hopes  to  keep  her  over  Christmas,  but  with  tbe  three  little 
daughters  claiming  her  time  in  Russia,  I  doubt  her  making  a  long 
stay  so  far  from  them. 

Mrs.  D.  C.  Nichols  has  returned  from  the  Northwest,  where 
she  has  been  visiting  her  mother,  and  has  taken  a  charming  little 
apartment  in  the  Mystic,  in  West  Thirty-ninth  street,  where  she 
gave  a  tea  on  Saturday,  at  which  her  sister-in-law,  Miss  Jennie 
O'Neill  Potter,  aided  in  entertaining  the  guests. 

I  hear  that  young  Richard  Ferrer  is  making  great  progress  as  a 
violinist  in  Berlin,  where,  if  I  mistake  not,  he  Is  pursuing  his 
studies  under  the  patronage  of  Mrs.  George  Hearst,  who  is  ever 
ready  to  help  along  struggling  talent.  Passe-Pahtout. 

Overland  passengers  via  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Railroad  (Santa 
Fe  route),  on  their  going  or  returning  trip  across  the  continent,  can 
stop  off  at  Flagstaff,  A.  T.,  and  make  the  trip  to  the  Grand  Canyon 
of  the  Colorado,  the  most  sublime  sight  on  earth,  with  comfort  and 
ease,  at  a  slight  additional  cost.  Only  twelve  hours  of  staging  from 
Flagstaff,  through  beautiful  forests,  to  the  Canyon.  For  information 
call  on  or  address  any  Santa  Fe  route  agent,  or  W.  A.  Bissell,  650 
Market  street,  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  The  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  tbe  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


WHISKY. 

VERY  OLD, 

RICH 
AS 
CREAM, 

AND 

SMOOTH 

AS 

SATIN. 

THE  JOHN  T.  CUTTING   CO. 

PACIFIC    COAST    AGENTS. 


^TtDILUV|4N 


In   addition  to  their  large  and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 
Jackets, 

5uit5, 

Ulsters, 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment*  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  [the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

105  Kearny  Street. 


12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


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CAPTAIN  E.  M.  COOKESLEY,  husband  of  the  talented  artist 
who  spent  a  short  season  in  this  city  some  months  ago,  has 
just  come  in  for  a  wind-fall  in  the  form  of  an  estate  in  England, 
worth  anywhere  from  £60,000  to  £70,000.  The  captain  is  well- 
known  in  this  city,  where  he  made  many  friends  during  his  stay, 
being  of  a  particularly  jovial  spirit  which  was  not  easily  dashed 
even  when  grass  was  short  with  him,  which  was  not  an  unusual 
occurrence.  Any  one  to  look  at  him  would  recognize  the  retired 
cavalry  officer  at  a  glance,  and  from  all  accounts  he  made  a  rat- 
tling good  officer,  having  served  with  distinction  through  the  In- 
dian mutiny,  and  afterwards  in  the  Cape  Coast  difficulty,  when 
the  savage  King  of  Abyssinia  made  so  much  trouble  for  the  Brit- 
ish. Coming  into  a  fortune  on  the  death  of  his  father,  a  wealthy 
landed  gentleman  in  County  Kerry,  the  Captain  retired,  but  proved 
less  capable  of  handling  money  than  a  saber,  and  before  long  hia 
brains  were  his  only  resource  for  a  livelihood.  These  he  turned 
to  good  advantage  in  tbe  invention  of  substantial  and  portable 
provisions  for  the  army,  which  not  only  won  him  credit  at  the 
Horseguards,  but  put  50,000  pounds  in  his  pockets.  He  was 
peculiarly  fortunate  in  wedding  a  lady  who  was  as  talented  as 
she  was  beautiful;  and  although  her  pictures  possessed  little  in- 
terest for  local  critics,  her  works  have  had  the  honorary  distinction 
of  being  hung  from  year  to  year  in  the  Royal  Academy,  London. 
It  was  throagh  the  death  of  her  brother  that  the  lady  and  her  gal- 
lant husband  have  inherited  a  fine  estate,  the  news  of  which  will 
be  very  gratifying  to  the  friends  of  both  on  this  side  of  the  water. 
As  the  climate  of  San  Francisco  has  always  had  a  great  attraction 
for  Captain  CookeBley,  it  is  not  unlikely  that  he  will  return  here 
for  a  visit  during  the  winter. 

#  #  # 

Mr.  J.  H.  Rosewald  is  rather  sore,  and  justly,  it  would  seem, 
if  his  presentation  of  the  facts  be  correct,  over  the  article  pub- 
lished in  the  Stock  Report  regarding  the  money  that  paper  said  he 
made  in  the  name  of  charity  out  of  the  production  of  his  opera, 
Baroness  Meta,  under  tbe  auspices  of  the  Woman's  Exchange.  In- 
stead of  receiving  $2,000,  clear,  as  represented  in  that  most  trust- 
worthy journal,  Mr.  Rosewald  had  to  pay  all  the  expenses  of  the 
operatic  production  out  of  that  amount,  and  as  the  expenses 
amounted  to  over  $2,300,  he  is  out  about  $300  in  cash,  without 
counting  the  value  of  his  time  given  to  the  preparation  of  the 
opera.  The  facts  are,  that  an  agreement  was  made  between 
Mr.  Rosewald  and  the  Exchange,  to  the  effect  that  he  should  re- 
ceive $1,500,  out  of  which  he  was  to  pay  all  the  expenses.  An 
additional  $500  was  to  be  awarded  him  out  of  the  net  profits.  As 
the  outlay  amounted  to  more  than  was  paid  him,  however,  he  is 
out  of  pocket,  and  therefore  objects  to  being  considered  an  elee- 
mosynary institution. 

*  *  * 

Those  kind  ladies  who  interest  themselves  in  the  welfare  of 
birds  and  beasts  should  take  steps  to  cause  severe  punishment  to 
be  administered  to  a  number  of  street  gamins  who  may  be  seen 
around  the  Post-office  almost  any  fine  afternoon.  These  young 
murderers  are  on  the  lookout  for  feathered  game.  Two  or  three 
of  them  carry  wooden  pop  guns  which  carry  slugs  heavy  enough 
to  kill  birds,  and  the  young  rascals  lounge  beneath  the  trees  sur- 
rounding the  government  building  until  a  bevy  of  birds  is  perched 
in  the  overhanging  branches.  Then  the  pop  guns  are  raised, 
with  the  result  that  the  youngsters,  all  of  whom  are  good  marks- 
men, bring  down  dozens  of  birds,  which  they  tumble  over  with 
their  little  guns  at  distances  of  from  fifty  to  a  hundred  feet.  As 
soon  as  a  wounded  bird  drops  in  the  gutter  he  is  picked  up, 
knocked  on  the  head,  and  shoved  away  in  a  pocket.  It  is  a  cruel 
sport,  and  should  be  stopped.  One  of  the  lads  was  asked  the 
other  day  what  was  done  with  tbe  dead  birds.  "  Oh,  we  sells  'em 


to  stores  what  makes  ladies'  bats,"  he  said. 

on  de  hats." 


'  Dey  puts  de  feders 


Old-timers  will  be  sorry  to  hear  of  the  sad  condition  iDto 
which  Harry  Courtaine  has  fallen.  He  asked  a  New  York 
Police  Judge,  last  week,  to  lock  him  up,  so  that  he  might  have  an 
opportunity  to  get  sober  in  preparation  for  an  engagement  he 
was  under  contract  to  keep  with  John  A.  Stevens  in  the  Unknown 
company.  Courtaine  was  one  of  the  best  known  actors  in  the 
West  some  two  decades  ago.  He  is  a  tall,  handsome  man,  and 
was  very  popular  in  this  city  during  his  palmy  days.  He  played 
at  tbe  Old  California  in  the  days  of  its  glory,  but  like  all  the 
others  who  made  the  name  of  that  theatre  famous  throughout 
the  country,  he  is  now  wellnigh  forgotten.  His  most  recent  ap- 
pearance in  this  city,  1  believe,  was  as  tbe  schoolmaster  in  Little 
Puck,  when  presented  by  Frank  Daniels  at  the  Bush  8treet  Thea- 
tre. Courtaine  is  an  Irishman,  and  about  sixty  years  old.  His 
theatrical  career  began  in  his  eighteenth  year,  at  the  Hawkins 
Street  Theatre,  in  Dublin,  his  native  city.  Thence  he  went  to 
the  Drury  Lane  Theatre,  London.  His  first  appearance  in  this 
city  was  at  Tom  Maguire's  Old  Opera  House.  He  has  supported 
Barrett  and  Edwin  Forrest,  and  played  for  three  seasons  with 
Palmer's  Union  Square  Company.  About  ten  years  ago  he  took 
to  drink,  and  his  career  since  has  been  a  checkered  one.  Now  it 
appears  that  he  is  beyond  redemption. 
*  *  * 
A  quartet  of  heartless  Market-street  mashers  received  a  dose 
last  Saturday  afternoon  which  they  will  remember  for  a  long 
time.  A  little  chap  was  stationed  in  front  of  a  well-known  ba- 
zar near  the  corner  of  Kearny  street,  handing  out  advertise- 
ments. He  was  suffering  from  the  asthma,  and  his  condition 
was  such  that  it  would  have  brought  pity  to  the  heart  of  an 
Apache.  Not  so,  these  gentry,  however.  Happening  along,  ar- 
rayed in  all  the  glory  of  the  regular  Saturday  afternoon  parade, 
they  espied  the  little  fellow,  and  bis  apparent  sufferings  aroused 
tbeir  mirth.  They  stopped,  asked  the  boy  jeering  questions,  and 
Una  ly  one  of  them  poked  the  inoffensive  chap  in  the  chest  with 
his  cane,  "  Just  to  make  him  wheeze."  A  clerk  employed  in  the 
bazar  saw  the  proceeding,  and  finally,  after  watching  the  well- 
dressed  tormentors  till  he  could  stand  it  no  longer,  he  stepped  up 
to  them  and  politely  requested  the  curs  to  desist.  The  clerk  in 
question  is  mild-mannered,  and  not  particularly  imposing  in 
physique,  but  as  the  quartet  learned  a  minute  later,  he  had  a 
perfect  knowledge  of  the  art  of  self-defense.  His  expostulations 
were  received  with  jeers,  and  he  was  asked  what  he  was  going  to 
to  do  about  it.  "  I'll  show  you  what  I'll  do  if  you  touch  that 
boy  again,"  he  said  to  the  wielder  of  the  cane.  ««  Oh ,  you  will, 
will  you?"  was  the  reply,  and  then  the  coward  poked  the  asth- 
matic boy  again  in  the  chest.  It  was  hard  to  tell  just  what  hap- 
pened next,  or  the  exact  order  of  the  subsequent  proceedings. 
There  was  a  confused  mixture  of  silk  hats,  boutoneires,  hand- 
some clothes,  canes,  etc.,  in  the  midst  of  which  the  mild  clerk 
appeared  to  be  playing  a  star  engagement  as  sidewalk  cleaner  ex- 
traordinary. The  whole  thing  lasted  about  forty-five  seconds, 
but  at  the  end  of  that  time  four  well  and  deservedly  thrashed 
mashers  sneaked  off  in  various  directions  for  repairs,  while  the 
mild-mannered  clerk  returned  to  bis  counter,  rubbed  a  little  of  the 
dust  from  his  hands  and  clothes,  and  resumed  business  at  the  old 
stand,  as  quietly  as  if  he  had  not  just  visited  righteous  wrath 
upon  four  times  his  weight. 

#  »  » 

Rev.  A.  C.  Bane,  of  the  Asbury,  Methodist  Church,  South,  of 
Oakland,  is  passing  through  deep  waters  for  the  sake  of  prin- 
ciple. Tbe  withdrawal  of  tbe  wealthiest  members  of  bis  church 
several  months  ago,  because  he  persisted  in  enforcing  the  Method- 
ist discipline  which  had  not  been  revised  to  suit  the  Christians  of 
to-day,  has  financially  embarrassed  the  church.  The  gai  and 
water  companies  propose  turning  off  the  supply  of  gas  and  water 
unless  their  back  bills  are  paid.  A  called  meeting  was  held  last 
Wednesday  evening  to  consider  the  advisability  of  assessing  the 
members  personally  to  carry  the  church  through  this  trying  time. 
Mr.  Bane  is  the  least  sufferer,  though  his  salary  comes  slowly 
when  at  all,  and  it  makes  the  withdrawn  rich  members  wrathy 
to  know  that  he  is  not  discomfited  by  their  disaffection.  They 
are  mystified  to  know  bow  he  keeps  the  wolf  from  the  door. 
Four  years  ago,  Mr.  Bane's  father  was  a  widower,  and  married 
a  wealthy  widow  of  Oakland  named  Bryan,  whose  former  home 
was  in  Colusa  County.  She  greatly  admires  the  stand  her  step- 
son has  taken  as    a  Methodist  preacher,  and  accordingly  takes 


J-loliday  doods 


Will  be  ready   for  inspection  on  and   after 
MONDAY,   DECEMBER  6th. 

215-217-219 
BrrSH     STREET. 


I.  S.  CROCKER  COMPANY. 


26.  1892. 


-  \\    KKAWISCO    \K\VS   LKTTKR. 


care  tbat  the  needs  of  him  and  his  family  are  generously  supplied. 
She  does  not  assume  to  support  the  church,  which  certainly  can- 
not thrive  much  longer  unless  some  one  with  money  goes  to  its 
rescue. 


On  dit  the  dual-named  friend  of  the  Baronet  has  made  up  his 
mind,  and  has  chosen  the  auburn-tressed  niece  of  the  recently 
made  M.  C.  to  share  his  weal  and  woe  for  future  days  in  old  Eng- 
land. 

•  •  i 

The  baseball  enthusiasts  of  the  Bohemian  and  Pacific  Union 
Clubs  are  practicing  each  week  for  the  game  of  baseball  to  be 
played  by  the  nines  of  each  club  on  December  10th,  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  California  Woman's  Hospital  and  the  Fruit  and  Flower 
Mission.  The  game  will  be  played  at  the  Haight  street  grounds, 
and  the  following  well-known  clubmen  will  chase  the  sphere: 
Pacific  Union  Nine— Messrs.  >".  G.  Kittle,  E.  L.  Bosqui,  W.  B. 
Bourne.  W.  C.  Ralston,  E.  L.  Eyre,  Faxon  Atherton,  D.  M.  Mur- 
phy. E.  P.  Danforth,  R.  H.  Delafield  and  W.  L.  Dean.  Bohemian 
Nine— Messrs.  Owens.  Small,  Flagler,  8tevens,  Chase,  Wood, 
Coleman,  Storey,  Dickman  and  Dimond. 
t  *  * 

Louis  SIoss.  Jr..  and  Paul  Neumann  who  sailed  for  the  Sand- 
wich Islands  last  Wednesday  were  the  recipients  of  many  kind 
attentions  at  the  hands  of  their  friends  prior  to  their  departure.  On 
Sunday  evening  the  members  of  the  Bohemian  Club  gave  a  fare- 
well banquet  in  tbeir  honor,  and  on  Monday  night  another  dinner 
was  given  them  as  bon  voyage  by  Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham  at 
his  flat  on  Bush  street,  and  it  ia  only  necessary  to  say  that  the 
gnests  included  George  Bromley  to  be  sure  a  jolly  time  was  had. 
#  •  * 

Elaborate  preparations  are  being  made  by  the  German  Ladies' 
Relief  Society  for  the  annual  entertainment  and  ball  on  behalf 
of  their  charity  fund,  to  be  given  at  Germania  Hall,  Oakland,  on 
Wednesday  next. 


THE  latest  popular  millinery  creation  is  the  hat  in  the  Continental 
shape.  A  beautiful  hat  of  this  design  is  exhibited  in  the  millinery 
department  of  the  Maze.  It  was  manufactured  by  the  Maze  from 
one  ofjheimported  Parisian  hats._The  Maze  hat  is  in  flaxine,  the  new 
color,  and  is  trimmed  with  ruby  roses  ~ahd  J  eandeAch  black  laceT 
It  is  a  very  handsome  creation,  and  will  be  received  with  delight 
by  the  ladies  who  make  themselves  handsomer  by  wearing  the  jnii- 
linery  confections  of  this  popular  house/  The"  Maze  is  in  "connec- 
tion with  the  fashion  centres,  and  receives  all  the  latest  designs.  Its 
millinery  department  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  city. 


ONE  cannot  write  a  society  note  or  a  business  letter  nowadays 
and  be  considered  quite  up  to  date  unless  his  stationery  is  of 
the  best  to  be  had  in  the  land.  The  fine  writing  paper  of  society 
is  a  necessity  for  success  in  the  fashionable  world.  If  one  would 
be  considered  in  the  swim  he  must  use  only  such  perfect  papers 
as  are  shown  by  Sanborn,  Vail  and  Co.  This  house  also  exhibits 
a  magnificent  collection  of  leather  goods.  The  attention  of  many 
visitors  to  the  store  is  attracted  to  the  art  galleries,  where  as  fine 
a  collection  of  framed  pictures  as  can  be  seen  in  the  city  is  ex- 
hibited. Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.  make  their  own  frames,  having  a 
designer  for  this  special  purpose,  and  all  of  them  are  works  of 
art.  The  collection  in  the  art  gallery  includes  engravings,  fac- 
similes, etchings,  water-colors  and  oil  paintings.  It  affords  an 
excellent  opportunity  to  procure  home  decorations  to  people  of 
artistic  tastes. 


A  FEW  weeks  ago  Willie  was  out  for  a  day  at  the  Golden  Gate 
Park,  and  noticed  the  gray  uniform  of  the  Park  police  for  the 
first  time.  He  had  seen  the  mail  carriers  in  town,  but  evidently 
recognized  a  difference  in  the  uniforms  somewhere.  After  gaz- 
ing at  the  guardian  of  the  Park  peace  intently  for  a  moment  he 
turned  to  his  mother  with:  "Ma,  he's  a  mail  policeman, 
ain't  he?" 


WILLIE  has  a  pet  cat  with  a  small  kitten.  The  old  cat  was 
busily  employed  one  evening  in  cleansing  her  young  one,  and 
the  operation  took  Willie's  attention.  At  last  he  asked:  "Ma, 
what's  kitrie  doing?"  "  Giving  her  baby  a  bath,"  replied  his 
mother."  "Is  it  a  Lick  bath,  mamma?"  He  had  heard  some- 
thing of  the  Lick  baths,  and  naturally  associated  them  with  the 
cat's  operation. 


LORD    CARDIGANS    DUEL. 


BALACLAVA  DAY  brings  with  it  reminiscences  and  stories  in- 
numerable, and  one  half-forgotten  story  is  of  the  trial  of  Lord 
Cardigan  by  the  House  of  Lords  for  dueling,  some  fifty  years 
ago.  *•  The  leader  of  the  Light  Brigade  at  Balaclava  had  been 
Colonel  of  a  regiment  in  India.  One  of  his  Captains  was  Harvey 
Tuckett,  a  gentleman  of  ancient  and  noble  lineage.  Between 
Lord  Cardigan  and  Tuckett's  young  and  beautiful  wife  a  flirta- 
tion soon  occurred.  One  day  Captain  Tuckett,  who,  by  the 
way,  was  twice  his  wife's  age,  found  on  the  floor  of  her  room  a 
note  from  Cardigan  containing  endearing  expressions.  He  de- 
manded of  her  an  explanation,  and  she  protested  her  innocence, 
declaring  that  that  was  the  first  note  of  the  kind  she  had  received 
from  the  Earl,  and  that  she  only  refrained  from  resenting  it  and 
showing  it  to  her  husband  at  once  through  fear  lest  the  Earl 
would,  from  his  superior  rank,  bring  harm  upon  them. 

"  Captain  Tuckett  believed  this  story,  and  forthwith  challenged 
the  Earl  to  fight  a  duel.  Lord  Cardigan  replied  that  etiquette 
forbade  him  to  fight  one  of  his  own  officers.  Then  Captain  Tuck- 
ett resigned  his  commission  and  renewed  the  challenge.  By  this 
time  they  were  all  back  in  England.  The  challenge  was  accepted 
and  they  met  at  Wimbledon.  Tuckett  was  badly  wounded  at 
the  second  shot,  and  Lord  Cardigan  was  forthwith  arrested.  The 
Peers  acquitted  him  on  a  flimsy  technicality,  and  he  went  to  the 
Crimea  to  win  everlasting  renown  by  riding  *  into  the  jaws  of 
death,  into  the  mouth  of  hell.' 

"  As  to  poor  Tuckett,  he,  too,  would  have  been  tried  and  prob- 
ably convicted,  since  he  would  have  been  brought  to  the  Old 
Bailey,  but  he  fled  to  America  with  his  pretty  wife,  and  lived  in 
obscurity  and  poverty  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  To  the  end  of 
life,  the  mutual  devotion  between  him  and  his  wife  was  perfect. 
But  after  his  death  she  led  a  checkered  career,  part  of  the  time  as 
a  theatre  manageress,  in  which  business  she  was  not  successful. 
In  the  stress  of  poverty  she  finally  revealed  the  truth  of  the  ro- 
mance and  tragedy  of  her  life  in  India.  She  wrote  to  Cardigan  : 
1  Under  the  pressure  of  necessity,  and  by  the  advice  of  friends,  I 
am  about  to  publish  in  a  little  volume  the  letters  which  you 
wrote  to  me  in  India.  May  I  be  permitted  to  dedicate  the  vol- 
ume to  your  lordship?'  Lord  Cardigan's  reply  was  a  draft  for  a 
large  sum  of  money,  and  the  letters  were  never  published." 


"A  Month 
Early 


Our  importations 
this  year  comprise 
iS    Better     the  finest  selection 

than  a 

Day 

Late." 


of  art  novelties  that 
could    be  found  in 
Day  European  and  Am- 

erican art  centers. 
Now  is  the  time  to 
select  suitable  holiday  presents. 
Our  stock  is  one  of  the  largest  in 
the  United  States.  New  store.  New- 
Goods. 


S.  &G. 
Gump, 
I  13 
Geary 
Street. 


PORCELAIN 
VASES. 
TABLE 
AND 
GLASS 
WARE. 
LAMPS. 
MARBLE 
AND 
BRONZE 
STATUARY. 
FRENCH 
FURNITURE 
MIRRORS. 
OIL 

PAINTINGS. 
WATER 
COLORS. 
EJlflRAVIl'tiS. 
ETCHINGS. 
ARTISTIC 
FRAMES. 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

THE     VERY     LATEST. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


THE  ladies  are  all  rejoicing  over  the  fact  that  Mr.  Ed.  Sheldon 
*vill  reappear  in  society  circles  this  winter-  As  not  alone  with 
the  girls  is  the  gentleman  popular,  but  the  matrons  are— as  the 
Southern  people  say,  devoted  to  him  as  well.  Now  that  he  has 
emerged  from  his  seclusion  it  is  a  mooted  question  if  the  Nob  Hill 
heiress  will  not  do  likewise.  His  influence  in  that  quarter  is  said 
to  be  very  powerful,  and  no  doubt  he  will  exert  it  in  behalf  of  so- 
ciety gaining  the  presence  of  this  fortunate  demoiselle. 

From  present  appearances  there  will  be  a  small  attendance  at 
the  opening  night  of  the  Bachelor's  Cotillions.  Many  old-time 
faces  will  be  missed,  several  girls  having  gone  East,  and  several, 
also,  have  decided  to  stop  at  home  till  they  see  how  the  partners 
will  "pan  out."  It  is  anything  but  agreeable,  say  these  pretty 
creatures,  to  sit  as  wall-flowers  and  see  the  girls  who  have  already 
secured  partners  for  the  cotillion,  carrying  it  all  their  own  way. 
So  if  the  men  wish  to  have  as  large  an  attendance  of  charming 
girls  as  on  former  occasions,  they  had  better  see  to  it  and  engage 
them  for  the  dance,  and  so  ensure  their  coming. 

A  well-known  society  leader  has,  on  dit,  the  idea  in  contem- 
plation of  trying  to  secure  the  Hopkins-Searles  house  for  the  next 
"  tea,"  which  is  to  follow  the  Ingleside  affair.  What  a  capital 
idea  it  is !  and  it  is  hoped  the  arrangement  may  be  successfully 
made  whereby  society  may  once  more  disport  itself  in  that  pala- 
tial mansion. 

»  #  * 

Does  any  one  of  our  swim  ever  stop  to  reflect  how  enormously 
the  habit  of  tippling  is  increasing  within  its  charmed  circle.  Not 
alone  are  our  youths  seen  with  flushed  faces  and  unsteady  gait, 
but  our  women  also  betray  an  excited,  heated  air  strongly  sug- 
gestive of  too  frequent  "  sips  "  of  the  punch  bowl's  contents,  to 
say  nothing  of  the  champagne  at  supper  taken  "  just  to  revive 
their  exhausted  energy."  Already  there  is  a  whisper  (which  is 
growing  into  a  decided  tone)  that  two  ladies  have  been  seen  in  a  con- 
dition that  required  their  hasty  exit  from  public  gaze.  Why  will 
not  the  fathers,  husbands,  or  brothers  of  society  look  to  it  that 
such  things  do  rot  occur?  Can  it  be  that  they  are  blind  to  the 
facts,  or  are  they  delinquent  themselves  ?  H  is  a  sad  query. 
•  • 

Ever  since  the  announcement  of  Mrs.  Belle  Donahue's  intention 
of  changing  her  name  to  Sprague,  the  question  has  been  asked 
who  that  lucky  individual  is?  He  is  an  Eastern  gentleman 
and  a  great  friend  of  the  Oxnards,  and  in  every  way  worthy  of 
the  charming  young  widow's  favor,  say  those  who  know. 
»  »  » 

Another  pretty  widow  who  claims  California  as  her  birth-place 
and  is  enjoying  life  abroad  is  Mrs.  Ruth  Blackwell,  nPe  Holladay. 
She  is  keeping  open  house  for  her  San  Francisco  friends  who  visit 
London,  where  she  and  her  sister,  Miss  Louise  Holladay,  are  in- 
stalled for  the  winter.  These  ladies  are  delighted  to  see  Califor- 
nians,  and  always  extend  warm  welcome  to  those  who  visit  them. 

What  have  become  of  those  marvelous  tiles  of  life  in  San  Fran- 
cisco for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  which  were  alike  to  astonish,  in- 
terest and  terrify  all  who  were  concerned,  and  to  be  published  as 
"  My  Memoirs,"  by  Mrs.  Dr.  *Hitchcock,  whose  well-known 
cleverness  of  tongue  and  pen  have  for  a  life  time  made  her  the  ac- 
knowledged raconieure  of  the  Coast  ?  This  question  is  frequently 
asked  of  late. 

#  *  * 

Now  that  operas  and  concerts  done  by  "society  amateurs," 
whatever  that  phrase  may  mean,  seem  to  be  the  drawing  card 
to  ensure  a  big  financial  result,  the  question  is  being  discussed  in 
fashionable  quarters  if  it  would  not  be  a  magnificent  success  to 
get  up  a  real  amateur  opera.  Not  one  composed  by  a  local  musi- 
cian, but  facts  and  features  taken  from  life  and  sung  to  the  music 
of  some  well-known  comic  opera — permission  being  obtained — 
and  done  by  prominent  people  in  our  fashionable,  literary  and 
artistic  world.  Surely  it  would  draw  a  Patti  night  house,  i.e., 
an  immense  crowd,  and  swell  the  exchequer  of  some  charity  to  a 
satisfactory  extent. 

•  •  • 

Apropos  of  the  recent  amateur  performance  of  Baroness  Mela  the 
surprises,  both  agreeable  and  otherwise,  were  marked.  Of  the 
latter,  the  moBt  pronounced  was  the  debut  of  Mr.  Gadesden.  Un- 
til the  e?ent  of  iast  week  he  had  resolutely  refused  to  be  heard  in 
public,  although  favoring  some  drawing-rooms  occasionally  in  an 
informal  manner.  We  have  been  told  that  his  voice  was  of  an 
exceptionally  fine  order,  and  naturally  expected  a  performance 
that  would  set  every  tongue  wagging  favorably.  Unfortunately, 
we  were  given  an  exhibition  of  crudeness,  diffidence  and  intolera- 
ble self-consciousness.  He  seemed  quite  unable  to  enter  into  the 
spirit  of  the  opera,  and  his  voice  once  in  a  duet  broke  from  tenor 


into  a  gurgling  gasp.  He  did  pull  himself  together  and  render 
his  solo  fairly  well,  but  all  through  was  a  disappointment.  We 
can  almost  place  credence  in  the  "  on  dit"  that  years  ago  he 
made  a  very  unsuccessful  debut  in  Milan.  Mr.  Oadesden's  forte 
may  be  drawing-room  singing,  sentimental  solos  accompanied  by 
killing  glances,  but  we  fear  he  has  been  spoiled,  or  his  over- 
burdened consciousness  of  the  "  ego  "  makes  public  performances 
a  painful  display.  We  are  hypercritical  for  the  subject's  benefit, 
and  sincerely  trust  that  if  he  appears  again  the  "  ego  "  will  be 
minimized  and  a  little  art  considered. 
»  *  # 
The  girls  are  devoutly  hoping  that  Mrs.  J.  D.  Fry  will  take  up 
some  pet  charity  and  give  another  tea  in  its  behalf,  as  she  did  last 
year.  For  they  all  declare  the  Jackson  street  abode  is  just  per- 
fect for  that  sort  of  thing;  so  many  nooks  and  corners  and  rooms 
to  get  "  away  from  the  madd'ing  crowd  "  and  enjoy  a  cosy  chat 
are  not  to  be  found  in  many  of  the  mansions  of  to-day. 

A  pitiable  scene  was  presented  in  Judge  Ellsworth's  couit  in  Oak- 
land last  Saturday  afternoon.  Mrs.  Sarah  Webster,  a  widow,  of  Ala- 
meda who  is  the  sister  of  Mrs.  E.  M.  Derby  of  East  Oakland  and  has 
figured  prominently  in  the  highest  society  in  this  State,  was  being 
examined  to  ascertain  if  she  was  insane.  Her  malady  is  delusional 
insanity  and  she  accuses  her  relatives  of  robbing  her  of  her 
property.  When  Oscar  E.  Derby,  her  nephew,  entered  the  court- 
room, she  ran  towards  him  and  embraced  him  affectionately. 
Her  pathetic  pleadings  for  protection  which  he  assured  her 
should  be  given  her,  brought  tears  into  the  eyes  of  the  spectators. 
The  poor  woman  had  roamed  from  place  to  place  to  escape  the 
supposed  robbers,  and  her  condition  was  pitiable.  She  has  been 
committed  to  Agrew's  Asylum  where  her  case  has  been  pro- 
nounced incurable. 


BOORD  &  SON, 


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OF  OSLT  FIRST-CL1SS 

Wines,  Cordials, 

Champagnes  and 
Table  Delicacies. 

Etc.,  Etc. 

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Gh 


GO    TO 

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663   Market  Street, 

FOB 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 
And    CORNICE 


PO  LES. 


2- 


1892. 


feAN  FRANCISCO  NKW  S  LETTER. 


15 


STORM    TOSSED. 


I  WATCHED  the  low-toned  waters  beat 
Upon  the  pebbles  at  hit  feet 
Id  soothing  ripples,  murmuring  sweet 
Ot  tender  love  and  true. 

And  placidly,  the  sea  so  calm 
Coquetted  in  the  sun-rays  warm, 
With  not  a  dream  of  sudden  harm 

From  burning  skies  whose  blue 

Reflected  lay  upon  her  breast; 
Until  a  surging,  deep  unrest 
Unfurled  and  burled  a  haughty  crest 
Toward  the  towering  oky. 

Black,  snllen  clouds  soon  overswept 
Those  gentler  places ;  where  had  slept 
But  tender  glances  now  there  crept 
A  look  of  mastery. 

Suppressing  force  in  rumbled  roar 
It  scans  the  seething  waters  o'er, 
And  bows  its  leaden  hangings  lower 
In  maddened  mockery. 

With  thunderous  voice  and  lightning  flash, 
While  spiteful  breakers  rend  and  crash, 
Its  torrents  pour  with  vengeful  splash 
Into  Old  Ocean's  bed. 

She  clambers  bigh  upon  the  beach 
In  vain  to  escape  the  furious  reach 
Of  this  invading  tyrant's  breach 
Of  signals  overhead. 

With  swollen  bosom,  river-rent, 
She  sobs  and  moans  her  discontent. 
The  tempest  clears,  its  fury  spent; 
The  sun  resumes  its  place. 

Again  uniting  at  the  dim 
Horizon-line,  where  sky-clouds  swim 
Across  her  bosom's  boundary  rim, 
Imprinting  there  his  face. 

Rose  Matkahd  David. 


CORYDON    AT    THE     TRYST.— Frances  Nathan,  in   November 
Lippincott's. 


ARCADIA. — 1692. 

Across  ye  hille  with  nimble  feete 

She  trippea,  my  artlesse  Phillis: 
"With  downcast  eyes  and  blushes  sweete, 

Blest  by  her  steppe  ye  hille  is; 
With  mouthe  uplifted  myne  to  meete, 

She's  fayre  as  daffodille  is; 
Sweet-throated  birds  her  coming  greete, 

Soe  pure,  soe  true  is  Phillis. 

BROADWAY — 1892. 

Where  fashion's  armor  glances  keen, 

She  saunters,  dainty  Phillis, 
Half-mocking,  chic,  with  glance  serene, 

Cold  as  the  shadowed   rill  is. 
Oh,  serpent-wise  that  suave,  white  queen, 

Who  knows  her  wish   my  will  is, 
And  breaks  my  heart  with    guileless  mien- 

A  cruel,  subtle  Phillis  1 


NIAGARA. — John  Snodgrass,  in  Temple  Bar. 

A  world's  wonder  and  joy  art  thou, 
Great  cataract!     Thy  ceaseless  voice  doth  tell 
Of  grand  and  awful  things ;  of  what  befell 

When  first  the  sun  with  glory  crowned  thy  browi 

When  moons  with  silvrry  light  did  thee  endow, 
And  gleeful  stars  hung  lamps  amid  thy  foam. 
Will  thy  wild  wrath  of  water  from  its  home 

Far  in  the  West,  forever  roll  as  now? 

Will  time  not  spoil  thee  of  thy  majesty? 
Will  men  not  slight  thee  for  some  meaner  show? 
To  me  it  matters  not,  for  this  I  know, 

That  having  seen  thee  with  a  reverent  eye 

The  world's  din,  the  mimic  of  thy  roar, 

Sank  to  an  echo  from  a  further  shore. 


Umbrellas. 


We  have  just  received 
an  exceptional  ly  large 
collection  of  Silk  Um- 
brellas for  the  winter 
of  1892.  Artistic  nan- 
dies  in  Cape  Horn  An- 
tique Ivory  with  fili- 
gree silver  mount- 
ings; also  oxidized, 
bright  and  hammered 
silver  handles. 


(£%%ntoc\4 


"^      1892. 


Ill  to  121  Post  Street 


COATS 

—  FOE. 

MEN  AND  WOMEN. 

Are  worn  in  place  of  an  over- 
coat or  outside  wrap.  .,. 

Perfectly  Waterproof. 

GOODYEAR  RUBBER  CO, 

R.|JI.  Peaso  —  Agents—  S.  M,  Ramon. 
577-679  Market  St.,  S.  P. 


CHAMPAGNE 

KRUG  &  CO.    "  PRIVATE  CUVEE." 

IN  QUARTS  ANO   PINTS 
FROM 

Krug  &  Co.,  Reims. 

by  ill  dealers,  jobbers  ami  bkoceks. 

HELLMANN    BROS.  &   CO., 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
525  Front  Street,  SAN  FRANC/SCO.   Telephone  no.  m. 
pacific  towel  co:M::F-A.:Esrir 

9     LICK     PLACE, 

Furnishes  Clean  Towels  at  the  following  low  rates: 

Clean  Hand  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per  month;  12  Clean  Hand  Towels 
each  week,  $1.50  per  month;  4  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.00  per 
6  month;  6  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.25  per  month. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


GOTTH  H.AIST,  the  well-known  mining  engineer  of  Virginia 
City,  made  an  interesting  statement  at  the  Occidental  annual 
meeting,  last  Wednesday,  concerning  the  value  and  extent  of  the 
Brunswick  lode,  which  is  reproduced,  as  follows:  "The  Bruns- 
wick lode  is  undoubtedly  a  true  fissure  vein,  lacking  none  of  the 
features  distinguishing  veins  of  that  character.  It  is  traceable  on 
the  surface  tor  a  distance  of  over  14,000  feet,  and  the  Comstock 
does  not  sbow  more  prominent  or  promising  outcrops  than  are  to 
be  seen  at  several  points  along  the  course  of  this  great  vein.  The 
outcrop  of  the  lode  for  so  great  a  distance,  and  the  indications  of 
strength,  not  only  in  the  croppings  but  also  at  every  point  aloug 
the  vein  where  any  work  has  been  done,  give  every  indication  of 
its  downward  continuance  to  great  depth.  Surface  indications  on 
the  Brunswick  lode  compare  favorably  with  those  found  in  the 
croppings  of  the  Comstock.  Not  only  do  these  croppings  pros- 
pect well  in  gold  and  silver,  but  at  several  points,  as  a",  the  Occi- 
dental, St.  John  and  Monte  Cristo  mines,  they  have  yielded  large 
returns  in  bullion  when  regularly  mined.  On  account  of  water, 
no  deep  mining  has  been  done,  except  at  the  Occidental.  Owing 
to  the  amount  of  water  encountered  at  the  Monte  Cristo,  vertical 
exploration  has  not  extended  below  150  feet,  and  at  the  St.  John's 
the  depth  is  still  less.  With  pay  of  such  value  almost  at  the 
grass  roots  on  which  to  start  in,  there  is  not  only  a  possibility 
but  a  very  great  probability  of  finding  large  deposits  at  lower 
points,  perhaps  bonanzas,  rivaling  the  best  ever  found  on  the 
Comstock.  .Furthermore,  judging  from  results  obtained  on  the 
Comstock,  these  deposits  would  in  all  likelihood  be  found  above 
the  Sutro  Tunnel  level. 

5$  $ 

COLONEL  J.  B.  LOW,  one  of  the  experts  whose  name 
was  taken  in  vain  by  some  of  the  unfriendly  newspa- 
pers in  Great  Britain,  who  mixed  him  up  with  other  experts  ac- 
cused of  taking  an  extravagant  view  of  the  value  of  the  prop- 
erty. This  shows  very  plainly  that  the  writers  of  the  heavy 
leaders  on  the  subject  have  either  never  read  the  Low  report  or 
they  have  forgotten  its  substance.  It  dealt  with  the  whole  es- 
tate, which  is  said  to  be  worth  all  the  money  which  the  vendors 
asked  for  it,  without,  of  course,  allowing  for  extravagant  outside 
allowances  afterwards  made  for  surface  improvements  and  use- 
less work.  As  for  the  mines,  they  were  dealt  with  in  a  most  con- 
servative manner,  being  merely  considered  on  the  whole  as  good 
prospects,  which  it  would  pay  to  exploit  in  an  economical  and 
businesslike  manner.  The  chances  are  that  had  the  property 
been  managed  by  Colonel  Low,  or  some  other  Western  mining 
man  of  his  mental  calibre  and  practical  experience  in  operating 
mines,  that  there  would  not  have  been  so  much  money  spent  in 
frivolous  schemes,  to  the  injury  of  the  company's  standing  and 
credit  at  home  and  abroad.  While  politics  may  have  had  some- 
thing to  do  with  the  unfriendly  comments  of  the  American  Dem- 
ocratic press,  still  there  is  no  denying  that  the  management  left 
themselves  open  to  attack  by  the  mismanagement  and  lack  of 
business  tact  displayed  by  their  employees.  It  is  not  too  late  yet 
to  undo  much  of  the  damage  which  has  been  done,  and  if  they  are 
successful  in  raising  the  necessary  funds,  the  best  way  to  do  will 
be  to  begin  again,  on  a  new  and  more  businesslike  basis,  taking 
as  much  advantage  as  possible  of  the  value  of  the  land  owned 
by  the  company,  while  developing  the  merit,  if  there  is  any,  in 
the  mines.  The  money  asked  for  is  not  an  excessive  sum  for 
what  is  required,  viz. :  £50,000,  in  -shares  of  5s.  each,  of  which 
only  Is.  is  to  be  called  up  at  different  times,  spread  over  a  period 
of  months. 

II  * 

ON  that  lode  the  bonanzas  were  encountered  between  the  1,300- 
level  and  surface,  and  it  is  at  this  depth  the  Sutro  Tunnel  taps 
the  Brunswick  vein.  At  the  St.  John's,  the  vertical  depth  of 
Sutro  Tunnel  below  the  surface  is  1,344  feet.  Therefore  it  cuts 
the  vein  at  a  depth  of  1,900  feet  (on  a  slope  of  45  degrees)  below  the 
croppings.  This  leaves  nearly  2,000  feet  of  undoubtedly  valuable 
ground  to  explore,  and  ground,  too,  that  shows  pay  ore  on  the 
surface.  Prospecting  must  be  done  by  upraises  from  the  tunnel 
now  being  run  south  along  the  foot  wall,  otherwise  some  large  and 
valuable  deposits  of  ore  may  remain  undiscovered.  The  utility  of 
these  upraises  is  apparent  when  it  is  considered  what  would  have 
been  lost  on  the  Comstock  if  the  vein  had  been  tapped  at  a 
depth  of  1,900  feet,  leaving  the  ground  above  that  level  unex- 
plored. That  pay  ore  does  not  appear  on  the  tunnel  level  is  no 
indication  that  there  is  no  pay  ore  some  place  above.  Barren 
ground  exists  under  and  above  the  best  bonanza  ever  discovered. 
The  indications  on  the  Brunswick  lode  are  really  excellent,  im- 
proving going  south,  and  also  north  from  the  Sutro  Tunnel.  The 
the  lode,  where  intersected  by  the  tunnel,  is  113  feet  wide,  and 
where  cut  by  crosscut  from  Zadig  tunnel,  running  southerly  to- 
wards Occidental,  it  is  130  feet  wide.  It  is  strongly  mineralized 
at  both  points,  assays  in  gold  and  silver  running  from  $2  to  $10 
to  $12  per  ton.  The  vein  is  of  the  same  material  as  the  Corn- 
stock,  namely,  quartz,  clay  and   porphyry,  is   well   defined  with 


the  characteristic  clay  on  the  foot-wall.  That  it  is  fertile  is 
shown  by  the  assays  obtainable  at  all  points.  It  may  be  a  pay- 
ing ore  deposit  will  be  found  in  the  present  drift  as  it  progresses 
southward,  by  intersecting  the  St.  John  ore-chimney  in  its  south- 
ward trend.  If  not,  an  upraise  should  be  started  beneath  the 
point  where  the  chimney  appears  in  the  cropping. 
$  $$ 

THE  Redding  .Free  Press,  in  discussing  the  value  of  the  discovery 
of  valuable  ore  in  the  Reed  mines  of  Shasta  county,  referred  to 
in  these  columns  last  week,  says  that  samples  tested  by  two  re- 
liable assayers  in  this  city  gave  returns  which  far  exceeded  the 
most  sanguine  expectations.  One  sample  went  $552  in  gold  and 
11  ounces  in  silver ;  the  other  $603  in  g  >ld  and  29  ounces  in  silver. 
The  ledge,  which  started  in  at  18  inches  wide,  has  increased  to  2 
feet,  the  shaft  being  down  70  feet,  or  20  feet  below  where  the 
ledge  came  in.  It  is  the  intention  of  the  company  to  sink  this 
shaft  500  feet,  and  then  crosscut  their  six  ledges  for  1,000  feet, 
which  will  give  them  1,100  feet  of  backs.  From  private  informa- 
tion the  News  Letter  is  able  to  say  that  this  company  will  likely 
pay  a  10  cent  dividend  next  month.  A  very  moderate  estimate 
places  the  average  value  of  the  two-foot  ledge  at  a  little  over  $100 
in  gold  and  $2  in  silver.  There  is  also  a  four-foot  ledge  which  will 
average  $8  per  ton  in  gold  and  $1  per  ton  in  silver,  and  another 
seven-foot  ledge,  the  croppings  of  which  for  over  500  feet  in  length 
will  average  $5  in  gold  per  ton,  with  a  trace  of  silver.  These 
ledges  which  are  being  opened  now  can  be  traced  for  5,000  feet 
through  the  property,  giving  650  feet  of  backs  from  the  water 
level  upwards.  There  are  now  twenty  men  employed  in  the 
mine,  but  within  a  month  Superintendent  Stevenson  expects  to 
have  sixty  men  at  work.  The  camp  as  yet  is  new,  and  good  men 
are  scarce.  From  present  appearances  in  the  Reed  mines,  how- 
ever, it  is  not  likely  it  will  remain  long  in  obscurity. 
f  $  t 

THE  London  management  of  the  Temescal  tin  mines  are  evi- 
dently determined  to  have  another  working  test  made  of  the 
property,  and  a  circular  has  just  been  issued  to  the  shareholders, 
asking  for  the  necessary  financial  assistance  to  carry  out  their  in- 
tentions. Great  stress  is  laid  upon  the  contradictory  statements 
made  by  the  different  experts  who  have  from  time  to  time  re- 
ported in  the  interest  of  all  parties  concerned.  »  Putting  aside 
the  reports  of  Mathey,  Craze  and  Robinson,  who  were  experts 
representing  the  vendors,"  the  circular  goes  on  to  say,  "  ignoring 
also  those  of  Francis  and  of  our  own  representative,  Purcell,  and 
taking  only  the  statements  of  Captain  Harris  and  Mr.  Vercoe, 
both  ^reporting  experts,  under  similar  conditions,  the  first  says 
that  he  «  examined  all  the  lodes,  took  different  samples  from 
each  and  assayed  them,  found  a  trace  of  tin  on  nearly  all,  and  one 
of  the  lot  to  be  very  good.'  The  other  says  that  he  «  failed  to 
find  any  tin  except  in  the  one  instance  '  beside  the  mine  we  are 
working.  The  Directors  think  that  the  shareholders  should 
know  that  they  have  taken  no  fees  for  nearly  two  years,  and, 
moreover,  that  the  Board  proper,  in  conjunction  with  a  large 
shareholder,  made  themselves  responsible  for  $25,000,  which  was 
urgently  required,  and  thus  prevented  stoppage  of  the  works 
some  time  ago. 

$  $$ 

THE  Comstock  market  has  been  weak  for  some  days  past,  and 
the  news  from  the  mines  has  been  of  a  most  conflicting  char- 
acter. There  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  the  mines  in  which 
recent  developments  have  taken  place  are  looking  as  well  as  ever, 
and  that  all  the  statements  to  the  contrary  have  emanated  from 
outside  sources  for  the  purpose  of  injuring  the  market.  Tbe 
effect  of  this  sort  of  work  can  only  be  short-lived,  and  in  due 
time,  merit  in  the  mines  is  bound  to  make  itself  felt  in  stronger 
prices. 

J  J  * 

THE  possibilities  of  the  Brunswick  lode  are  really  immense,  and 
from  the  showings  of  ore  already  made  tbe  probabilities  are 
equally  great.  No  other  vein  in  Western  Nevada  is  of  greater 
promise,  and  nowhere  can  money  be  spent  in  prospecting  with  a 
better  chance  for  valuable  developments.  There  is  room  for  a 
dozen  first  class  mines  on  the  lode,  and  at  no  very  distant  day,  it 
may  be  the  scene  of  as  great  mining  activity  as  the  Comstock. 
One  big  bonanza  in  the  St.  John's  or  any  other  mine,  would  cause 
every  company  on  the  lode  to  begin  active  operations.  Second 
only  to  the  Comstock  in  width  and  strength,  men  have  overlooked 
this  lode,  squandering  millions  elsewhere  in  a  wild  goose  chase 
for  mines.  It  is  only  at  this  late  day  the  long  neglected  lode  has 
been  taken  up  with  the  chances  that  those  engaged  in  its  develop- 
ment will  be  richly  rewarded  as  they  deserve. 

MR.  BERNARD,  who  is  said  to  be  representing  the  Rothschilds 
of   London,     is     in     town  just     now,   arranging    a    deal 
in  the  nitre  deposits  of  Lonelock.   This  is  not  the  first  time  in  the 
past  ten  years  that  this   deposit  has    been   offered  abroad,   and 
nearer  home,  but  so  far  without  success. 
$  $  $ 

GEORGE  D.  ROBERTS  is   again  on  the  Coast.     He  is  nibbling 
now  at  some  White  Pine  properties. 


Nov.  36,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO   NEWS  LETTER. 


17 


"Heart  be  Crier!"   "  What  the  devil  art  thou?' 
'•  Onetbat  will  plav  the  devil,  sir,  with  vou." 


0 


H,  bold  Porter  Asbe  is  tbe  pride  of  tbe  West, 
Upon  all  tbe  race-tracks  bis  string  is  tbe  best. 
And  save  bis  mare's  winnings,  be  income  bad  none; 
He  played  Geraldine,  bat  be  played  not  alone. 
For  he's  not  a  bad  fellow,  is  Porter,  by  far, 
And  be  often  gives  tips  on  his  fair  equine  star. 

Another  bold  sportsman.  Tom  Williams  by  name, 

Sore  and  envious  made  by  Porter's  fair  fame, 

Determined  his  colors  he'd  lay  in  the  dust, 

And  leave  Porter  nothing,  not  even  a  crust; 

So  Ashe's  false  henchman  the  Williams  bought  over, 

And  with  Geraldine  thought  himself  quite  in  clover. 

Bat  the  Ashes  are  blooded,  plucky  and  game, 

And  oft  bare  their  arms  in  defense  of  their  name. 

8o  to  Porter's  aid  rushed  his  brothers  all  three, 

Determined  to  set  the  fair  Geraldine  free. 

They  all  swore  by  the  beard  of  the  prophet  they'd  fight, 

And  forth,  then,  they  went  to  the  race  track  at  night. 

They  captured  the  racer,  and  then  they  took  flight, 
And  as  usual  the  mare  was  soon  out  of  sight. 
With  Sid  on  her  back  she  made  the  dust  fly, 
And  Porter  smiled  softly  and  winked  his  left  eye; 
And  at  Maltese  Villa,  in  the  midst  of  his  clan, 
He  landed  his  charmer  a  well  satisfied  man. 

So  let  trumpets  blare,  hit  the  drum  with  a  thud, 
For  Williams  is  Dennis,  bis  last  name  is  Mud. 
And  in  future  years  will  the  story  be  told, 
How  Gerry  was  bought,  but  her  buyer  was  sold. 
And  she'll  win  every  race  that  she  goes  in,  we  trust, 
Till  all  Ashes  are  ashes,  and  dust  turns  to  dust. 

(i  A  ND  he  is  now  beyond  my  jurisdiction"  {and  I  cannot,  there- 
J\  fore,  punch  his  head) — thus  Governor  Markham  on  Capt. 
Barry,  U.  8.  A.  "The  man  does  not  live,  be  he  ever  so  exalted, 
who  can  hope  either  for  himself  or  those  connected  with  him,  to 
escape  my  honest,  fearless  and  unbiased  judgment  " — thus  Capt. 
Barry,  U.  8.  A.,  to  Governor  Markham.  Call  out  the  gaard, 
there  is  blood  on  tbe  face  of  the  moon!  The  Governor's  staff  have 
sworn  by  the  key  of  the  cannon,  a  holy  oath,  that  they  will  not 
rest  until  they  wear  Captain  Barry's  scalp,  in  sections,  upon  their 
sword-belts;  and  Captain  Barry  has  vowed,  by  powder  and  shot, 
that  he  will  not  down.  The  disagreement  between  these  honor- 
able gentlemen  arose  from  the  army  officer's  too  outspoken  and 
somewhat  severe  criticism  upon  the  recent  division  encamp- 
ment of  the  National  Guard.  The  rough  soldier  from  Angel 
Island  offended  the  amour  propre  of  the  State's  defender's,  and 
they  are  filled  with  wrath.  Wherefore  the  exchange  of  sarcastic 
compliments  between  tbe  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  State's  force 
and  the  representative  of  the  Federal  Government.  That  any 
difference  should  have  arisen  between  gentlemen  so  absolutely 
necessary  to  the  maintenance  of  tbe  commonwealth,  is  certainly 
most  deplorable,  for  we  have  but  few  men  who  are  willing  to 
camp  in  Santa  Cruz  hotels  for  a  week,  or  do  a  tour  of  duty  on 
Angel  Island.  No,  no,  gentlemen,  put  down  your  swords;  we 
cannot  spare  you.  The  California  exhibit  for  the  World's  Fair  is 
not  yet  complete,  and  we  may  yet  find  opportunity  to  proudly 
display  you  as  our  very  own  before  the  eyes  of  the  world's  ad- 
miring millions.     Subside  now;  let  us  have  peace. 

AT  a  church  festival  the  other  day,  potatoes  were  received  at 
the  door,  they  being  the  price  of  admission.  For  one  large, 
mealy  potato,  warranted  not  to  crack  in  baking,  or  turn  up  a 
black  inside  when  opened  for  inspection,  the  holder  was  given  a 
seat  in  the  middle  aisle,  without  cushions.  For  two,  ditto,  he 
was  awarded  a  cushion  and  a  padded  rail  on  which  to  bend  his 
knees.  For  two  potatoes  and  an  apple,  the  devout  one  was 
ushered  to  a  front  seat  in  the  dress  circle,  immediately  beneath 
the  throne  of  grace,  where  he  could  listen  as  he  pleased  to  the 
exercises  presented  for  bis  delectation.  We  hail  the  potato  and 
apple  innovation  in  church  with  loud  and  warm  applause.  Truly 
this  is  a  civilized  town,  where  a  man  may  drop  a  warty  potato  in 
the  contribution  box  and  still  maintain  his  dignity,  and  be  re- 
spected by  his  fellow-citizens.  One  immediate  result  will  be  an 
increase  in  the  male  attendance  at  the  local  churches,  and  a  rise 
in  value  of  all  the  ancient  and  diseased  mealeys  that  can  be  cor- 
nered in  a  produce  store.  What  a  beautiful  sight  will  be  pre- 
sented when  a  popular  pulpit  orator  appeals  to  his  congregation 
to  immediately  contribute  toward  the  payment  of  the  debt  of  the 
church,  and  they  unable  to  overcome  their  enthusiasm,  arise  in 
a  body  and  pelt  him  with  potatoes  and  sour  apples.  It  will 
make  the  angels  weep. 


Rl  BSELL,  the  Delsartean,  will  address  the  members  of  tbe 
Women's  Press  Association  next  Monday,  and  tell  them 
bow  to  be  graceful,  for  which  lei  us  all  be  thankful.  1  hope  that  the 
ladies  of  the  quill  will  learn  much  from  the  graceful  gentleman  from 
Boston,  and  will  net  in  accordance  with  the  principles  of  bis 
esthetic  art.  Let  them  learn,  for  instance,  that  it  is  not  consist- 
ent with  esthetic  ideas  to  cover  their  manuscripts  with  ink  blots; 
nor  to  wear  garden  soil  beneath  their  finger-nails;  nor  to  have 
blue  pencils  stuck  in  their  hair;  nor  to  write  on  both  sides  of  a  piece 
of  paper  with  a  thick  (juill  pen  ;  nor  to  write  poems  on  Spring;  nor 
express  opinions  on  the  progress  of  the  world;  nor  to  write  articles 
on  the  salvation  of  mankind;  nor  to  interview  editors  three  times  a 
day  to  find  out  why  their  articles  are  not  published  ;  nor  to  write  to 
the  men  on  the  desk  asking  for  personal  interviews ;  nor  to  tell  poor, 
ignorant  man  why  he  should  be  a  protectionist  or  why  a  Democrat ; 
nor  to  visit  newspaper  offices  at  ail,  or  ever  to  write  a  line,  or  ever 
send  in  their  copy  to  a  newspaper,  or  to  have  anything:  whatever  to 
do  with  the  press.  And  if  Mr.  Russell  impresses  women  with  their 
duty  in  these  particulars,  he  will  receive  the  thanks  of  many,  many 
newspaper  men  and  relieve  the  public  from  a  weight. 

THE  humorous  paragraphers  may  write  as  they  wish  about  the 
baked  beans  of  Boston,  and  the  cartoonists  may  use  dozens  of 
pencils  and  reams  of  paper  in  making  fun  of  the  men  and  women 
who  nurture  brains  and  develop  muscle  by  indulging  in  their 
favorite  dish,  but,  for  all  that,  the  true  Bostonian  is  a  man  among 
men.  Why,  it  was  only  this  week  that  Phineas  M.  Blunt,  late 
of  Boston,  and  aged  eighty-three  years,  went  to  the  County 
Clerk's  office,  in  the  New  City  Hall,  and  procured  a  license 
whereby  he  was  empowered  by  law  to  wed  Susan  S.  Adams,  of 
Marden,  Mass.,  a  sweet  thing  of  sixty-three,  and  whom  be  bad 
not  seen  for  twenty-eight  years.  If  that  is  not  an  illustration  of 
the  lasting  power  of  love,  where  will  we  get  one?  Phineas,  despite 
his  age,  is  as  sound  as  a  dollar  and  as  spry  as  a  two-year-old — 
and  it  is  all  from  beans,  gentlemen,  all  from  beans. 

NOW  comes  Mr.  Frank  Millet,  of  Chicago,  and  with  a  great 
flourish  of  trumpets  declares  that  he  has  invented  a  machine 
whereby  the  Fair  buildings  at  Chicago  may  be  painted  with  paint 
and  dispatch,  and  at  small  cost.  He  simply  proposes  to  play  the  hose 
on  them,  paint  instead  of  water  being  forced  through  the  rubber.  It 
is  a  good  scheme,  but  very  ancient,  for  it  was  used  in  California  in 
early  days,  years  before  Chicago  was  heard  of.  Many  of  our  fore- 
most citizens  spent  numerous  weary  days  and  nights  going  around 
town  painting  things.  We  suggest  to  Mr.  Millet,  however,  that  his 
machine  might  be  used  to  great  advantage  in  manufacturing  oil 
paintings,  and  water  colors,  and  other  works  of  art,  for  the  Chicago 
galleries.  If  it  is  found  that  several  acres  of  the  art  galleries  need  to 
be  filled  with  pictures  it  will  be  an  easy  enough  matter  to  put  up 
huge  sheets  of  canvas,  get  ready  the  barrels  and  hose,  put  the  nozzles 
into  the  hands  of  modern  masters  of  Chicago  art,  and  fire  away. 
Chicago  is  nothing  if  not  rapid. 

THOSE  soldiers  of  the  Salvation  Army  may  be  fanatical  in  their 
chosen  work,  but  they  know  how  to  enjoy  a  good  time  when 
it  comes  their  way.  For  instance,  on  Thanksgiving  Day,  they  bad 
the  most  enjoyable  feast  in  town.  Tbe  idea  of  parading  the  streets, 
headed  by  four  turkey  bearers  and  a  guard  with  immense  carver  and 
fork  was  excellent.  I  begin  to  have  a  fellow-feeling  for  these  red- 
breasted  night  howlers,  for  there  is  something  about  the  proper  ap- 
preciation of  a  feast,  which  makes  fellows  of  those,  who  in  all  else  are 
widely  dissimilar.  The  Salvation  soldiers  have  struck  the  keynote  to 
the  difficulty  which  has  caused  the  ministers  of  this  city  to  grow 
gray  before  their  time.  They  do  not  ask  why  men  do  not  go  to 
church.  They  have  found  tbe  way  to  men's  hearts  through  their 
stomachs  and  have  grappled  to  their  captives  with  skewers  of  proof. 

GEORGE  W.  VANDERBILT,  the  son  of  his  father,  is  in  town, 
and  the  Chronicle  says  that  when  not  sleeping  or  eating  he  is 
reading.  Can  it  be  that  George  has  heard  of  the  wondrous  beauties 
to  be  seen  in  the  halls  of  our  Four  Hundred,  and  flying  from  the 
Orient,  has  come  to  the  land  of  the  setting  sun  to  admire  female 
loveliness.  He  denies  that  he  is  to  pay  a  million  for  a  house  to  be 
built  at  Savannah,  Ga.,'and  asks  in  a  querulous  tone,  "Do  the  people 
think  we  are  fools?"  I  feel  sorry  for  George,  though.  Just  think  of 
it — he  has  an  income  of  a  million  a  year.  He  carries  with  him  that 
weary  expression  of  countenance  which  goes  with  a  man  who  is 
haunted  by  fears  of  burglars  and  bandits,  arfd  never  is  at  ease.  He 
can  never  know  tbe  happiness  of  the  San  Francisco  reporters  who 
wrote  him  up.    They  care  not  for  to-morrow,  being  happy  to-day. 

WHY  do  the  reporters  of  the  daily  press  display  their  ignor- 
ance unnecessarily?  For  instance,  the  Chronicle  stated  yes- 
terday that  Vicomte  de  Labry  was  not  proficient  in  the  English 
language,  but  through  an  interpreter  he  was  interviewed.  Tbe  inti- 
mation was,  of  course,  that  the  Vicomte  was  a  barbarian  because  he 
did  not  understand  English,  and  that  French  was  such  a  barbarous 
tongue  that  the  intelligent  feeler  of  the  public  pulse  had  never 
thought  of  learning  it.  The  Vicomte  probably  thought  it  strange  that 
he  should  meet  a  newspaperman  who  did  not  understand  French, 
and  the  public  think  it  strange  that  an  interpreter  should  be  carried 
bodily  into  the  columns  of  a  newspaper.  Who  was  the  interpreter, 
anyway?    Let's  have  the  whole  story. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


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irDsrsTTZEaj^iNroiE; . 


LIEBIG  taught  that  fat  split  up  in  the  body,  and  that  the  free 
carbon  combined  with  the  oxygen  taken  in  respiration  to  pro- 
duce carbonic  acid,  and  that  it  was  by  the  act  of  respiratory 
combustion  that  the  body  was  maintained.  Fatty  foods  were 
hence  considered  necessary  as  heat-producers.  Recent  investiga- 
tions, however,  show  that  though  fat  is  split  up  and  combined 
with  oxygen  in  the  production  of  heat,  especially  during  mus- 
cular exercise,  the  process  is  effected  in  the  tissues  by  the  action 
of  the  cells,  and  not  in  the  lungs  as  formerly  taught.  The  use  of 
the  fat  is  now  regarded  as  threefold.  (1.)  To  maintain  the  body 
heat.  In  cold  latitudes,  where  the  body  is  subject  to  rapid  cool- 
ing, fatty  foods  become  a  necessity,  so  that  the  carbon  may  be 
easily  supplied  for  combination  with  oxygen  in  combustion. 
Hence  the  Greenlander  consumes  large  quantities  of  blubber  and 
oil.  (2.)  To  produce  force.  As  muscular  tissue  is  only  produced 
at  the  cost  of  oxidation  in  the  tissues,  fat  is  rapidly  burned  off 
during  the  exercise.  If  absent,  the  tissues  themselves  would  be 
wasted.  (3.)  To  prevent  the  waste  of  albumen,  a  purely  albu- 
minous diet  is  extremely  wasteful.  It  has  been  proved  experi- 
mentally that  a  small  amount  oi  meat  food,  taken  in  combination 
with  bread  and  fat,  suffices  to  maintain  the  albuminous  struc- 
tures of  the  body  better  than  an  exclusively  lean  diet.  Fat 
stored  in  the  body  and  adipose  tissue  is  a  bank  on  which  the  body 
may  draw  for  supplies  of  energy  and  heat  when  required.  It  is 
stated  that  in  the  Franco-German  war  of  1870  the  German  Em- 
peror, acting  on  the  strongly  expressed  opinion  of  Ebstein  that 
muscular  fatigue  could  best  be  supported  on  fat,  gave  orders  that 
each  soldier  should  have  served  out  to  him  250  grammes  of  fat 
bacon.  It  is  also  a  well-known  fact  that  fat  animals  bear  priva- 
tion of  food  better  than  thin  ones. 

An  instrument  has  been  invented  by  which    the  degree  of 

impurity  which  may  exist  in  the  air  of  any  room  or  place  can  be 
determined  easily  and  accurately.  This  invention  involves  a 
modification  of  Mr.  Aiken's  invention  for  counting  the  dust  par- 
ticles held  in  suspension  in  the  air,  both  of  them  being  based  on 
the  ascertained  fact  that  a  particle  of  dust  at  a  certain  tempera- 
ture and  degree  of  moisture  in  the  atmosphere  becomes  a  free 
surface,  which  attracts  the  moisture  and  thus  turns  into  a  cloud 
particle.  By  passing  a  jet  of  steam  through  a  tube  containing  air 
impregnated  with  dust,  colors  varying  from  a  delicate  green  to 
deep  blue  are  developed.  Each  of  these  tints  indicates  the  rela- 
tive degree  in  which  the  air  is  impregnated  with  dust  particles. 

A  fact  which  is  not  generally  known  outside  of   sporting 

circles  is,  that  a  gunner  who  seeks  to  do  the  best  work  he  is  cap- 
able of  requires  to  be  measured  for  his  gun  in  the  same  way  as 
he  would  be  for  his  suit  of  clothes.  To  facilitate  this  operation,  a 
new  adjustable  gun  has  been  devised.  The  bend  and  cast-off  of 
the  gun  are  secured  by  means  of  screws,  and  the  points  of  each 
are  placed  in  grooves  running  parallel  to  the  line  of  the  butt.  The 
length  of  the  butt  is  also  adjusted  by  screws  in  the  heel.  The 
length  and  bend  of  the  stock  can  in  this  way  be  regulated  to  the 
length  of  neck  and  arm  of  the  shooter,  as  well  as  to  the  various 
special  requirements  to  which  his  style  of  shooting  may  give  rise. 

— —  The  work  of  digging  up  a  well  macadamized  road  is  ordi- 
narily laborious  and  expensive.  The  macadam  is  pressed  so 
hard  by  the  steam  rollers  that  the  task  of  breaking  up  the  surface 
with  pick  by  hand  is  most  tedious.  A  new  steam  road  plow  has 
been  broughtjintoirequisition.jand  is^ound  a  most  valuable  adjunct 
to  the  plant  of  the  street-menders.  The  plow  is  harnessed  to  a 
powerful  traction  engine,  and  is  thus  dragged  up  and  down  the 
street  easily  and  rapidly,  tearing  open  the  surface  as  it  goes.  In 
its  path  follow  the  carts  laden  with  metal,  which  are  tipped  and 
spread.  After  this  comes  the  steam  roller,  and  the  work  is  com- 
pleted in  less  than  a  quarter  of  the  time  it  used  to  occupy. 

—  A  useful  time  indicator  for  business  and  professional  men 
has  been  patented.  It  is  fixed  on  the  outside  of  the  door  in  the 
usual  way,  but  the  face  is  covered  with  glass  and  the  hands  are 
moved  by  means  of  a  hollow  tube  running  through  the  door. 
The  face  of  the  indicatpr  is  made  like  a  clock  face,  with  hour  and 
minute  bands.  In  addition  to  this  there  is  a  slot  where  additional 
or  special  instructions,  such,  for  instance,  as  "Out  of  town,"  "Is 
within,"  "Is  engaged"  can  be  displayed.  There  is  no  possibility 
of  tampering  with  the  indicator,  as  it  can  only  be  adjused  by  a 
person  inside  the  room. 


Colonel  Litchfield,  of  12  Post  street,  has  been  awarded  the  palm 
for  excellence  in  the  sartorial  art  by  the  good  dressers  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. His  establishment  is  patronized  by  all  the  well  dressed  men 
in  town.  The  soldiers  of  the  army,  and  the  militia,  also,  get  their 
uniforms  at  Litchfield's,  for  he  makes  a  specialty  of  all  military  and 
naval  dresses. 


The  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  is  known  among  epicures  as  the  best  restaurant  in  the  city. 
All  the  bon  vivants  patronize  it. 


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I3STSTJ  K-^-JST  GIB. 


A  LONDON  pavement  novelty  thai  has  just  appeared  is  the 
character  delineator,  who  creates  considerable  fun  among  the 
crowd  which  rapidly  collects  around  him,  and  he  is  no  doubt 
making  his  four  or  five  thousand  coppers  a  week.  His  apparatus 
consists  of  a  rather  large  glass,  which  reflects,  enlarged,  the 
passers-by  on  the  opposite  pavement,  and  keeps  one  of  them  fo- 
cussed  till  another  sitter  or  walker  is  selected  to  operate  upon. 
Most  important  adjuncts  to  the  mirror  are  quick  powers  of  ob- 
servation, ready  wit.  and  a  tarn  for  sarcastic  peppering.  The 
crowd  is  delighted  as  the  operator  shows  them  an  "object,' '  speci- 
fies his  social  position,  his  occupation,  and  the  peculiarities  of  his 
character.  Personality  is  evidently  a  paying  article  with  the 
population,  and  it  is  not  confined  to  the  street  operator. 

The  writer  of  this  article  remembers,  some  forty  years  ago, 
making  the  acquaintance  of  a  very  charming  Irish  gentleman 
and  lady.  One  day  she  thought  she  observed  that  his  eyes  were 
resting  inquiringly  on  her  brooch,  which  was  of  gold,  inclosing  a 
mast  of  fractured  bone.  She  laughed,  and  said :  "Are  you  ad- 
miring my  brooch?  I  will  tell  you  the  story  of  it.  One  day, 
some  ten  years  ago,  when  I  was  a  young  girl,  I  was  staying  in 
the  house  of  a  friend  who  also  knew  Mr.  N.,  who  is  now  my  hus- 
band. We  were  having  a  game — a  romp — and  running  alter  each 
other  through  the  house,  which  was  large,  with  long  galleries  and 
chambers  communicating  with  one  another.  Mr.  N.  was  close 
behind  me,  trying  to  catch  me.  I  darted  through  a  door  and 
threw  the  door  back  behind  me.  Mr.  N.  had  his  head  down,  and 
the  handle  struck  bis  skull,  and  he  fell  stunned.  The  skull  was 
fractured,  and  to  savehis  life  he  was  obliged  to  have  it  trepanned. 
Now  he  wears  a  plate  of  silver  over  the  hole,  and  I  wear  the  por- 
tion cut  out  of  his  skull  in  this  brooch.  The  accident — I  suppose 
my  distress  and  remorse — brought  about  a  rapprochement;  we 
became  engaged,  and  are  now  man  and  wife." 

After  the  race  of  German  and  Austrian  cavalry  officers  be- 
tween Berlin  and  Vienna,  Prince  Frederick  Leopold  of  Prussia 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel.  It  is  now  162 
years  since  that  rank  was  conferred  on  a  Prussian  Prince.  The 
last  princely  Lieutenant-Colonel  was,  early  in  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury, the  Crown  Prince,  who  afterwards  became  King  Frederick 
II.,  who  was  condemned  by  court-martial  to  dismissal  from  the 
army  for  flying  the  country.  The  King,  the  Brutus  of  modern 
times,  thought  the  court-martial  should  have  regarded  the  flight 
as  desertion.  He  had  his  son  arrested  and  condemned  to  death. 
Thanks  to  numerous  appeals,  the  unfortunate  Prince  was  not  exe- 
cuted, but  he  was  shut  up  in  the  fortress  of  Kastein,  where  he  re- 
mained fifteen  years.  Restored  to  favor,  he  was  raised  to  the  rank 
of  Colonel,  but  since  that  time  the  Prussian  princes  have  passed 
from  the  rank  of  Major  to  that  of  Colonel. 

A  romantic  atory  cornea  to  hand  from  Paris.  An  eccentric 
Marquis,  whose  suit  had  been  rejected  by  a  beauty  of  the  Second 
Empire,  hired  a  coster's  stall,  planted  himself  on  the  curb  op- 
posite her  door,  and  every  day  used  to  send  in  a  pint  of  chestnuts, 
in  the  heart  of  which  pearls,  rubies  and  diamonds  were  concealed. 
After  a  week  the  fair  one  yielded,  and  bestowed  her  hand  upon 
her  devoted  admirer.  But  the  Marquis  has  since  been  ruined, 
and  now  earns  his  living  in  the  streets  of  Paris  by  the  same 
method  which  formerly  enabled  hira  to  atorm  love'a  citadel.  Let 
us  hope,  in  the  interests  of  romance,  that  the  story  itaelf  is  not  a 
chestnut. 


At  its  firat  parade  aince  its  arrival  in  London,  the  goat,  which 
the  Queen  lately  presented  to  the  Royal  Welsh  Fusiliers,  to  take 
the  place  of  Her  Majesty's  previous  gift,  did  not  prove  very 
amenable  to  discipline;  indeed,  it  developed  highly  mutinous 
conduct.  It  refused  to  accompany  the  band,  knocked  its  attend- 
ant sprawling  on  the  ground,  butted  the  drum-major,  and,  in 
fact,  behaved  so  badly  that  it  was  condemned  to  solitary  con- 
finement. 

A  new  paper  called  the  Petticoat  ia  to  make  its  appearance  ere 
long  in  London.  It  will  be  published  once  every  six  weeks.  Thia 
alone  betokens  novelty  of  thought.  The  writers  will  be  women. 
The  Marchioness  of  Granby,  Lady  Rawleigh  and  the  Hon.  Mrs. 
Alfred  Lyttleton  are  members  of  the  staff. 

There  is  no  whisky  like  Argonaut  Old  Bourbon.  It  cannot  be 
excelled,  for  it  is  excellence  itaelf.  Argonaut  haa  always  been  the 
most  popular  brand  among  men  who  really  know  what  good  whisky 
is.  It  is  used  in  all  the  clubs,  and  is  the  leading  whisky  at  all  tirst- 
•laas  bars.  

If  you  want  first-class  oysters,  go  to  Moraghan's  famous  establish- 
ment in  the  California  Market.  Moraghan  always  has  the  best 
oysters  in  the  city. 

Grandmas'  made  happy  with  perfect  fitting  glasses  from  C.  Muller,  op 
ticiau,  135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG,  GERMANY. 
Herbert  L.  Low,  Manuicer  for  the  Pacific  t  ohm  Branch, 

■:  :•>  Minome  »t„  S.  i  . 

Capital  ... •■—... $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S *     534,795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
83a  California  St.,  S.  F.,Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

^_   OF  BASLE.  OP  8T.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL.. 4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly'and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capita/  Subscribed 910,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2,126,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 6,124.057,60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

305  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1 782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1886.] 
Office — Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
«EO.  F.  GBAMT,  Manager. 

PACIFIC    ZDIEIFJ^IEaTIMIIEirSrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 

OF   LONDON. 

Established  A.  D.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -   -    -    I  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, {28,194,249. 

Will.  J.  LANDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  201,  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL J6,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,538.46. 

President.  KKNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
Mill's  Building,  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY, 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORTCOSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  Improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anglo-CaNfornia  Bank. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD, 

f^!  QF-  MANCHESTER  ,  ENGLAND.}j 

Capital  paid  &j  guaranteed  $3,000,000,00. 

Chas  A  Laton,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  rVartsifizn- 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


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KAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


4B^:J$2KW& 


THE  era  of  job  railroading  has  set  in  just  as  was  foretold  in 
these  columns  some  weeks  ago.  That  modest  creature,  Sup- 
ervisor Taber,  who  decided  not  to  run  again  for  office,  successfully- 
turned  the  trick  in  favor  of  the  Potrero  avenue  extension  to  the 
county  line  and  the  scandalous  job  was  sanctioned  by  his  associates. 
Mr.  Taber  had  just  cause  for  Thanksgiving  on  Thursday  last,  for  he 
had  successfully  engineered  a  scheme  which  wUl  doubtless  bring  him 
in  a  great  deal  of  money  in  more  ways  than  one.  He  did  not  lose 
much  either  in  the  attempt.  He  has  made  himself  a  marked  man, 
however;  there  have  been  safe-crackers  who  were  proud  of  their 
business.  The  nest  job  in  order  is  the  Post  street  extension,  and  it, 
like  the  Potrero  avenue  highway  robbery,  will  probably  be  rushed 
through.  There  is  one  consolation  in  the  whole  business;  Taber  is 
about  to  be  retired,  and  what  a  job  he  and  his  accomplices  will  have 
collecting  assessments !  The  Fell  street  sewer  might  serve  as  a  guide 
to  some  of  these  looters.  That  work,  over  which  thieves  have  fallen 
out,  was  to  have  cost  $135,000,  but  up  to  date  less  than  $40,000  has 
been  collected. 

There  is  a  plea  for  a  franchise  to  build  an  electric  road  along  Van 
Ness  avenue  before  the  Supervisors,  and  every  man  who  takes  a 
pride  in  the  city  will  pray  for  its  rejection.  This  is  the  finest  avenue 
the  city  possesses.  It  is  one  of  the  few  sights  the  city  has  to  offer, 
and  to  run  cars  over  it  means  to  spoil  it.  So  far  as  the  objects  of  Mr. 
Fair  are  concerned,  enterprising  as  he  is,  it  is  evident  that  the  same 
results  could  be  obtained  by  running  a  cross  road  along  Gough,  Oc- 
tavia  or  Franklin  streets.  The  completion -of  the  Laguna  survey 
cross  streets  will  afford  easy  access  to  North  Beach  and  the  site  of 
the  new  foundry  and  ship  building  yard  in  which  Mr.  Fair  is  inter- 
ested. To  mar  a  splendid  avenue  by  unsightly  poles,  to  line  the 
street  with  rails  is  asking  a  little  too  much,  even  when  the  request 
comes  from  a  man  who  has  done  as  much  to  improve  property  as  has 
Mr.  Fair. 

Though  the  Supervisors  may  lend  their  aid  to  a  variety  of  nefarious 
schemesjand  rush  through  at  the  eleventh  hour  of  their  existence  as 
a  board,  a  large  number  of  jobs,  they  will  still  find  when  it  comes  to 
dividing  the  plunder  that  the  property  owner  declines  to  yield.  The 
ground  swell  referred  to  last  week  is  growing,  aud  with  so  many 
thousands  of  interested  property  owners,  there  will  be  no  difficulty 
in  finding  lawyers  able  to  undo  much  that  the  Supervisors  do,  and 
the  latter  apt  to  find  before  they  touch  the  spoils  that  all  their  plans 
are  "gang  aglee." 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.,  hold  an  auction  sale  to-day  near  Vacaville. 
The  offering  consists  of  the  Boughton  ranch,  upwards  of  113  acres  in 
area,  with  residence,  cottages  and  outhouses.  On  Tuesday  next  the 
same  firm  will  offer  a  miscellaneous  catalogue  of  city  property  in- 
cluding several  good  Western  Addition  residences  and  Mission  cot- 
tages and  building  lots. 

Tevis  &  Fisher  will,  in  a  few  months,  have  to  vacate  tljeir  fine 
offices  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Lick  alley  and  Post  streets,  as  ex- 
Senator  Fair,  who  owns  the  whole  building  including  the  former  real 
estate  exchange  rooms,  intends  building  a  fine  structure  on  the  prop- 
erty. 

Plans  have  been  completed  for  the  erection  of  a  crematory  on  the 
acre  of  land  set  apart  for  the  purpose  by  the  Cypress  Lawn  Cemetery. 
The  building  is  to  be  of  stone  and  fully  equipped  and  will  cost  about. 
$5000. 

Baldwin  &  Hammond  have  been  doing  well  with  their  Potrero 
holdings.  The  firm  has  just  sold  a  wtmle  block  of  land  on  the  south- 
east corner  of  Rhode  Island  and  Twenty-fourth  streets  for  $15,000. 
In  the  Presidio  the  firm  disposed  of  the  short  fifty-vara  northwest 
corner  of  California  and  Laurel  for  $9000,  and  in  the  Mission  the  lot 
25x11-1  with  improvements,  on  the  north  side  of  Eighteenth  west  of 
Sanchez  for  $5000. 

The  market  is  in  a  fair  condition,  and  if  the  looting  schemes  are 
checkmated,  it  will  be  considerably  strengthened,  at  present  hun- 
dreds of  owners  are  waiting  to  see  whether  they  are  to  have  their 
land  virtually  confiscated  by  taxation,  or  whether  they  are  to  be  al- 
lowed to  express  their  own  opinions  and  decide  for  themselves  what 
disposition  shall  be  made  of  their  own  property. 

Shainwald.  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
Office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 


MIRAUE. 


Treasure  the  shadow,  somewhere,  firmly  based, 
Arise  those  turrets  that  in  cloud-land   shine; 

Somewhere,  to  thirsty  toilers  of  the  waste, 
Yon  phantom  well-spring  is  a  living  sign. 

Treasure  the  shadow.     Somewhere,  past  thy  sight, 

Past  all  men's  sight,  waits  the  true  heaven  at  last; 

Tell  them  whose  fear  would   put  thy  hope  to  flight; 
There  are  no  shadows  save  from  substance  cast. 


HAMBURG-AMERICAN  PACKET  COMPANY. 

FASTEST  ROUTE  TO  LONDON 
Southampton,  aud  the  European  Con- 
tinent. Fastest  time,  equal  to  5 
days,  20  hours  to  Queeusiown.  Mag- 
nificent new  twin-screw  express 
steamers  of  10,000  tous  aud  13,000  to 
1' .000  horse  power.  Vfe-  These 
steamers  carry  no  cotton. 

Through  tickets  to  London.  Paris, 
Basle,  Geneva,  Vienna,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  etc. 

MEDI TERRANEAN  EXPRESS 
LINE— Winter  service  from  New 
York  to  Genoa  and  Naples  (via  Gib- 
raltar) by  our  twin-screw  express 
steamers,  sailing  November  17th,  De- 
cember 1st,  January  5th,  January  19th. 

Company's  office,  37  Broadway,  New  Yort.    For  tickets,  cabin  plans  and 
information  apply  to    A.  W.  MYER,  General  agent  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
401  California  street,  corner  Sansome,  San  Francisco. 

CALIFORNIA  WIRE  WORKS, 

9  FREMONT  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

MANUFACTURERS    OF 

E  of  all  Kinds,    VI  NAILS, 

BARBED     WIRE,  Regularly  Licensed. 
WIRE     ROPES     AND     CABLES. 
WIRE     CLOTH     AND     NETTING. 

HALLADIE'S  ENDLESS  WIRE   ROPEWAY  for  transporting 
ore  and  other  material  over  mountains  and  difficult  roads. 
Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 

BRANCBE8.— 22  Front  street,  Portland,  Or.;  201  N.  Los  Angeles  street, 
Los  Angeles,  California. 

CYPRESS  LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

IF^IMIIIiir       PLOTS 
For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non-sectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  the  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 

The  Coleman. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS    HOTEL,    European  Plan-) 

H.   H.   PEARSON.  Proprietor.  BROADWAY  and  27th  St.,  NEW  YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place.  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 

Houston    St.  Ferries  pass   the  door.     Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 

station  and  horse  cars;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

_A.Tosoru.tely      -E^ire-proof. 
Central  to  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 
A.  F.  K1XZI.ER.  Manager. 

THE 

BANJO 

ASHTON  P.  STEVENS. 

STUDIO  :     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 


ITS! 


We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  k  HAMMOND, 

Real  list  ate  Agents  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


Nov.  26,  1-W2 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  T.KTTER. 


21 


THE  P.  I.  C.  is  not  going  to  pieces;  but  it  is  not  contentment 
that  is  holding  its  members  together.  In  the  presence  of  a 
common  (oe  they  are  inclined  to  stand  side  by  side,  and  that  foe  is 
the  bugbear  of  insurance  men—  1mm*.  The  year  has  been  a  heavy 
one.  and  in  face  of  this  fact,  insurance  men  simply  dare  not  tamper 
with  rates,  however  much  they  might  likeafree  fight.  The  compact, 
however  has  its  hands  full  just  now,  not  alone  with  troubles  at  home 
but  also  afield.  There  are  just  a  baker's  dozen  of  country  towns 
which  think  it  necessary  to  put  the  insurance  agency  in  the  same 
category  as  the  huckster  and  the  dog.  in  other  words  they  want  the 
insurance  man  to  pay  a  license.  San  Bernardino,  Riverside,  San 
Pedro  and  Hanford  all  decided  to  charge  $6  a  quarter  for  each  local 
agency,  but  are  now  re-considering  the  matter,  as  moral  suasion  pos- 
sibly carrying  a  covert  threat  has  been  brought  to  bear  upon  them. 
Petaluiua  and  Sacramento  want  to  charge  $5  a  quarter  and  are  to  be 
reasoned  with,  while  Paso  Robles.  the  city  of  mud  springs  and  train 
robbers,  asks  $11  a  quarter  for  each  local  agency,  and  must  be  brought 
to  terms  or  see  the  rate  go  up  about  20  per  cent,  as  an  offset  to  the 
tax.  Anaheim  is  on  the  list  for  SH  and  Prescott,  Arizona,  is  modest 
in  a  demand  for  $11  a  quarter  for  each  company  represented.  In  a 
large  town  like  San  Jose,  where  a  tax  of  $5  for  the  city  and  a  similar 
sum  for  the  county  a  quarter  is  asked,  the  tax  is  more  tolerable,  as 
there  is  something  like  a  show  of  business  to  offset  the  taxes ;  but 
even  then  it  is  not  desired,  while  Livermore's  $7  and  Pasadena's  $5 
taxes  are  quite  undesirable. 

The  rebate  evil  is  to  be  attacked  from  another  side.  The  San 
Francisco  Insurance  Associates  has  been  organized  with  W.  R. 
Smedberg  at  the  helm.  It  is  formed  for  mutual  protection  and  its 
membership  consists  of  all  fire  insurance  men  who  act  in  an  inter- 
mediary capacity  between  insurer  and  insured.  It  will  endeavor  to 
do  what  the  P.  I.  U.  has  failed  to  do.  The  belief  is  that  the  brokers 
city  agents  and  solicitors  know  more  about  the  rebate  evil  than  any 
other  men,  as  it  is  through  them,  with  the  connivance  of  managers, 
that  commissions  are  rebated.  All  members  are  to  be  bound  by  a 
solemn  pledge,  backed  by  a  coin  deposit  of  $100  each  for  insurance 
men,  and  $250  for  real  estate  firms  doing  an  insurance  business,  that 
each  member  will,  as  the  constitution  says,  pledge  "himself  upon  his 
honor  as  a  gentleman  that  he  will  collect  from  the  assured  on  every 
policy  of  insurance  obtained  by  him  the  full  amount  of  premium ; 
that  he  will  not  rebate  to  the  assured  under  such  policies  any  part  of 
such  premium,  and  wilt  not  return  to  the  assured,  directly  or  in- 
directly, any  part  of  such  premium,  and  that  he  will  not  ask  or  re- 
ceive from  any  agency  or  company  greater  commission  than  that 
allowed  by  the  rules  governing  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union,  and  that 
he  will  not  pay  to  any  employer,  or  to  any  other  person  who  is  not 
amember  of  the  association,  or  of  the  Pacific  Insurance  Union,  any 
commission  or  rebate  in  any  form  whatever." 

The  penalty  of  violation  is  forfeiture  of  the  deposit  and  suspension , 
for  the  first  offence,  and  for  the  second,  forfeiture  of  the  second  de- 
posit and  expulsion,  the  offending  member  being  shut  off  from  doing 
business  with  any  compact  company.  A  secret  committee,  only 
known  to  and  appointed  by  the  President,  will  ferret  out  cases  and 
endeavor  to  bring  culprits" to  the  bar  of  insurance  justice.  W.  R. 
Smedberg  is  president,  W.  S.  Davis  vice-president  and  B.  P.  Brissac 
secretary. 

Julius  Jacobs  is  still  at  "the  old  stand,"  and  explains  it  by  stating 
that  there  is  quite  an  erroneous  impression  abroad  relative  to  George 
Easton  &  Co.  He  says  that  both  he  and  Mr.  Easton  retain  their  in- 
terest in  the  firm,  which  now  consists  of  George  Easton,  Julius 
Jacobs,  Frederick  G.  Voss,  John  G.  Conrad  and  A.  Wenzelburger. 

Alfred  Stillman  has  moved  his  agencies,  the  Orientof  Hartford  and 
the  Providence  Washington  of  Rhode  Island,  into  the  handsome  new 
building,  208  Sansome  street.  The  offices  are  large,  well  lighted  and 
on  the  ground  floor. 

Hugh  Craig,  of  the  New  Zealand  Isurance  Company,  emphatically 
denies  that  his  company  intends  to  withdraw  from  the  compact.  He 
is  not  altogether  satisfied,  however,  with  the  existing  condition  of  af- 
fairs, and  proclaims  loudly  against  recent  alterations  of  the  consti- 
tution, which  he  alleges  were  made  on  the  promptings  of  his  per- 
sonal enemies.  

A  FEW  months  since,  there  was  a  new  arrival  in  the  family, 
and  Willie,  who  has  grown  up  with  the  belief  that  babies 
grow  upon  trees,  was  taken  into  the  bedroom  to  make  the  ac- 
quaintance of  a  new  brother.  He  gazed  on  him  for  a  moment, 
and  then  turned  away  with  a  look  of  disgust  on  his  face.  The 
nurse  asked  him  how  he  liked  the  baby.  "  I  think  mamma 
picked  him  too  soon,"  replied  he. 

A  FEW  days  since,  Willie  was  sitting  in  deep  meditation,  and 
his  mother  asked  him  :  "  Well,  Willie,  what  are  you  thinking 
about?"  Why,  ma,  I  was  jest  wonderin'  if  I  hadn't  been  your 
little  boy,  whose  little  boy  would  I  have  been?" 


THE  PUMPKIN  PYE.-fWi  the  Boston  Sentinel (1818). 

"■HE  bards  of  the  Hudson  may  sing  of  the  melon, 

Its  smooth  jetty  seeds  and  its  ripe,  ruddy  core, 
And  the  feast  of  the  reaper  with  ecstacy  dwell  on, 

Reclining  at  noon  on  the  cool,  breezy  shore; 
For  me,  the  rich  soil  of  New  England  produces 

An  offering  more  dear  to  the  taste  and  the  eye. 
The  bright  yellow  pumpkin — how  mellow  its  juices, 

When  tempered  with  ginger,  and  bak'd  into  pye. 

Let  others  with  dainties  their  appetites  pamper, 

And  gaze  with  delight  on  the  splendors  of  plate, 
Be  stunned  with  a  bustle,  and  bid  pages  scamper — 

Such  pleasures  as  these  I  resign  to  the  great; 
But  give  me  the  feast  when  no  knives  and  forks  clatter, 

Where  each  to  the  neat  cherry  table  draws  nigh, 
And  carves  for  himself  from  the  broad,  earthen  platter, 

A  slice  of  the  sweet,  yellow,  smooth  pumpkin  pye. 

There  are  those  who  delight  in  the  fig  and  the  raisin, 

In  quaffing  the  milk  from  the  cocoanut's  shell; 
Some  the  olive  and  pomegranate  lavish  their  praise  on, 

The  orange's  glow  and  the  pineapple's  smell; 
I  leave  them  the  products  of  both  of  the  Indies, 

And  all  the  rich  fruits  of  a  tropical  sky; 
Their  exquisite  juices  and  flavors  and  tinges, 

And  ask  no  desert  save  the  sweet  pumpkin  pye. 

Then  hail  to  the  muse  of  the  pumpkin  and  onion! 

The  Frenchman  may  laugh  and  the  Englishman  sneer 
At  the  land  of  the  Bible,  and  psalm-book,  and  Bunyan, 

Still,  still  to  my  bosom  her  green  hills  are  dear; 
Her  daughters  are  pure  as  her  bright  crystal  fountains, 

And  Hymen,  if  ever  thy  blessings  I  try, 
O!  give  the  girl  of  my  own  native  mountains, 

Who  knows  how  to  temper  the  sweet  pumpkin  pye. 


pEi^r  1^  D/M5  9  <?0„ 


FIIUE  ART  AUCTIONEERS, 
110  MOJITUOJIERY  STREET. 


AUCTION    DAILY 

At  1  and  8  p.  m.,  commencing  MONDAY,  Nov.  14, 1892, 

$100,000  STOCK  OF  JAPANESE  CURIOS, 

Consignment  direct  from  Japan,  comprising  THOUSANDS  of  ANTIQUE 
and  MODERN  valuable  articles  too  numerous  to  mention. 

The  entire  collection  will  be  sold  without  reserve  or  limit.  Chairs  pro- 
vided for  LADIES  who  are  specially  invited.    TERMS    CASH. 


PERCY  L.  DAVIS  &  CO., 


AUCTIONEERS 


COKE— CHEAPEST  FUEL! 

Reduction  in  Price. 

Wholesale  (50  bbls.  or  more),  SOc.  per  bbl.    Retail  (any  quantity 
under  50  bbls.),  90c.  per  bbl. 

AT  THE  WOBKS  OP 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  GASLIGHT  COMPANY, 
HOWARD  AND  FIRST  STS..  and  FOOT  OF  SECOND  STREET. 

HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY      AND       COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL     EXAMINER 

Of  Handwriting,  Inks,  Papers,  etc.,  In  the  Detection  of  Forgeries, 

Counterfeits  and  Imitations. 

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ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MU8IC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,   or  at  the  residence  of 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  aud  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
8an  Francisco. 
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22 


SAN  FRAN  CISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


Nov.  26,  1892, 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  good;     Extras  $3.90C<$$4.    Superfine.  $2  60@$3.10. 

Wheat— Good  trade;  Shipping,  $1,311^;  Milliug,  si.305)$i.3o    per  cental 

Barley  is  steady;  Brewing.  9  »c.@$l  Feed,  S2^c.@S5c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  $1.33@$1. 40;  Feed,  $1.25^(1.40  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  (12);  Yellow,  $1.05@(1.20per  ctl. 

Rye  is  quiet,  good  demand,  (1.15^(1.  W/i.    Cement,  ?2.00@(2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  (11.50;  Oats,  $7®(lu;  Alfalfa,  ^©O^i.'. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $14@(15  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  (2.00^1(2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  40o.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  30c.@32l^c;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  3oc.@40c. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c.@12c:  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  60c@90c.    Beeswax  is  steady,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  7c@7VaC.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  b%c.@&a. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@20c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  (4  i.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stoca  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    White,  41/£(5)5%c. 

A  good  degree  of  activity  ia  discernable  in  all  trade  depart- 
ments, notably  among  the  grocery  jobbers,  not  to  speak  of  the 
dry  goods  and  fancy  trade  in  general.  It  would  seem  as  if  the 
holiday  traffic  has  already  set  in  with  a  good  degree  of  animation. 
The  interior  demand  for  staple  goods  is  large,  and  the  producers 
of  fruit,  etc.,  are  having  a  busy  time  of  it.  The  canners  of  fruit 
have  about  completed  their  season's  work,  and  have  thus  far 
realized  an  active  export  demand  for  their  entire  product,  and  at 
remunerative  prices.  The  entire  fruit  pack,  including  150,000 
cases  of  Tomatoes,  approximates  1,000,000  cases.  Apricots  and 
Peaches,  each  200,000  cs. ;  Pears,  175,000,  cs.;  Plums,  150,000  cs. ; 
balance  scattering.  One  good  feature  of  this  trade  is  that  the 
stocks  thereof  have  been  reduced  to  about  75,000  cases.  No  ref- 
erence ia  here  made  to  Raisins  or  to  other  dried  fruits,  such  as 
Peaches,  Apples,  Apricots,  Pears,  Grapes,  etc;  suffice  it  to  aay 
the  output  of  each  is  large,  and  now  it  is  in  order  for  the  Wine 
and  Brandy  distillers  to  come  to  the  front.  Shipments  of  all 
these  several  articles  have  of  late  been  of  considerable  importance, 
both  by  sea  and  rail. 

The  Thanksgiving  demand  for  Turkeys,  Chickens,  etc.,  is  un- 
usually large,  at  full  prices. 

The  steamship  Australia,  from  Honolulu,  had  for  cargo  10,145 
bags  Sugar,  9,000  bchs.  Bananaa,  1,157  bags  Guano,  32  cs.  Pine 
Apples,  etc. 

Since  July  1st  we  have  cleared  for  European  ports  16  ships 
with  Flour  and  Grain,  and  there  are  now  22  ships  under  engage- 
ment for  like  service,  carrying  some  60,000  tons.  Wheat.  At  this 
date  there  is  125,000  tons  of  disengaged  tonnage  in  port  and  about 
double  this  amount  en  route,  so  that  there  is  little  hope  or  expecta- 
tion for  any  rise  in  grain  freights  this  season.  Present  rate  to 
Cork  for  orders,  24  and  25s. 

The  steamship  Gaelic,  hence  for  China  and  Japan,  carried  in 
treasure  to  Hongkong  $521,787,  and  to  Yokohama  $67,000  Silver 
Bullion;  also  for  cargo  to  China  Mdse.,  value  $101,599,  say :  10,- 
018  bbla.  Flour,  19,202  lbs.  Ginseng,  5,000  lbs.  Pearl  Barley,  etc.; 
to  Japan  1,630  bbla.  Flour,  100  rolla  Leather,  etc.,  value  $17,497; 
to  Calcutta  31,993  lbs.  Hops,  etc. 

The  Bark  W.  W.  Crapo,  for  Hongkong,  carried  13,725  bbla. 
Flour  and  other  Mdse.,  valued  at  $53,600. 

Rain  began  to  fall  freely  on  the  morning  of  the  23rd  inat.,  greatly 
to  the  relief  of  our  farmers. 

The  P.  M.  S.  S.  Co.  Acapulco,  hence  for  Mexico,  carried  Mdae. 
valued  at  $28,000,  aay  503  bbla.  Flour,  90,000  Ida.  Beans,  etc.;  to 
Central  America  5,975  bbls.  Flour,  61,140  lbs.  Tallow,  3,500  gala. 
Wine,  etc.,  value  $16,000. 

The  laat  of  the  Alaaka  aalmon  fleet  has  arrivod.  The  Merom's 
cargo  embraced  29,588  cs.,  500  bbls.  and  100  half  barrels  to  the 
Alaska  Commercial  Company;  total  receipts,  445,697  cases. 

The  Whaling  fleet  is  about  all  in.  The  Bk.  W.  H.  Meyer,  31  da. 
from  Okhotch  Sea,  had  98  bbls.  Oil,  and  the  Brig  Percy  Edwards, 
20  da.  from  Fox  Island,  had  4,250  lbs.  Bone,  100  lba.  Ivory,  300 
Fox  Skina  and  10  Walrus  Hides. 

Exports  include  the  cargo,  pr.  S.  N.  Castle,  for  Honolulu,  say 
265  bbls.  Flour,  Barley  Corn,  200  pkga.  Salmon  and  other  Mdae., 
value  $26,952. 

The  Brig  J.  D.  Spreckela  sailed  on  the  22nd  inst  with  Mdse. 
valued  at  $5,443;  for  Kahului  say  300  bbls.  Flour,  1,000  sks.  Bran, 
1,363  ctls.  Barley,  300  bbls.  Lime,  etc. 

For  Londonderry,  Ireland,  Starr  &  Co.  cleared  on  the  22nd  inst., 
Br.  Bk.  Galgon  Castle,  with  24,475  bbls.  Flour  and  8,031  ctla. 
Wheat,  value  $100,450. 

The  best-known  cleaning  and  dyeing  establishment  on  the  coast  is 
that  of  J.  Spauldiug  &  Co.,  at  353  357  Tehama  steeet.  This  house 
has  gained  fame  by  the  excellenee  of  its  work,  and  it  is  patronized 
by  all  the  leading  families  in  the  city.  Hotels  and  families  that  de- 
sire any  of  their  carpets,  curtains  or  clothes  cleaned  or  dyed,  cannot 
do  better  than  to  patronize  Spaulding's. 


ZBA-HSTIKIS-  __ 

BANK    OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,250,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE     60  LOMBARD  8TREET,   LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,   British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia, 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  aud  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  aud  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America*.  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  aud  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West  Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION. 

533  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

1>p  posits,  Juue  30,  1892    925,890,653  OO 

Uuarauteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,633,130  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Uiarc  Miller.  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland ;    Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  aud  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  in  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  Ottice  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  M.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 


s.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bush  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) $1,600,000 

SURPLUS $600,000|   UNDIVIDED    PROFITS $150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY. ....President  I  E.D.MORGAN  Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT.. .  .Vice-President  I  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass  t  Cashier 

DIBBCTORS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins.  8.  G.  Murphy, 

N  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 

S^VFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT. 

JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 

Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 

ho  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 

torage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND (    1,645.000  OO. 

Deposits  du  y  1,  1892 ...     28,776,597  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOT  TIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  REUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNT.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  EggerB,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICSB8. 

JAMES  G.  PAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  8.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors — James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecnrities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cop.  Sansome  and,  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscried  Capital $2,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.), No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  CaBhier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  1  Paid  up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund. 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  <,ourt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seii  man  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  lusiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
worlt*.    jends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    i  „„„„„„„„ 

P.N.LILIENTHAL.l  Managers. 
A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


26,  IS  12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


23 


I5UNBEAMS 


i(  IT  AVE  y°°  finished  that  address  of  mine  on  '  Modern  Pro- 
"1  gress? '"  asked  the  great  man  of  his  private  secretary. 
■*  Yes.  sir."  replied  the  brainy  hireling.  •■  Have  you  put  in  every- 
thing you  could  think  of  relating  to  the  subject?  ?"  "  Yea,  sir; 
I  have  made  it  very  exhaustive ;  I  don't  think  anything  further  could 
be  said."  "  Very  well;  just  sav  at  the  beginning  that  '  I  regret  that, 
owing  to  the  brief  time  allotted  to  me.  I  will  be  unable  to  go  as  fully 
into  the  subject  as  I  could  wish.'  and  let  me  have  it."  — Puck. 

— Her  Father  {interestedly)— And  you  really  enjoy  your  society  for 
the  higher  culture  of  women?  Minnie  {enthusiastically)—  Indeed  I  do, 
immensely.  Her  Father—  What  was  the  subject  yesterday,  for  in- 
stance. Minnie  {reflectively)—  Oh,  yesterday?  Let  me  see.  I  think 
the  question  for  debate  was  something  about  some  subject  that  some 
professor  has  been  lecturing  on  somewhere,  but  up  in  one  corner  we 
talked  about  those  new  fall  hats  with  the  funny  crowns.      —Judge. 

—  Cleverton— Is  it  true,  old  man,  that  your  girl  has  gone  back  on 
you,  and  returned  the  ring?  Dashaway—Vm  afraid  it's  so,  old  fellow, 
aud  I  am  all  broken  up.  Cleverton  {sympathetically) — What  did  she 
say  when  she  returned  it?  Dashaway— Ob,  she  didn't  return  it  in 
person.  She  sent  it  by  her  uncle.  Cleverton—  Her  uncle!  Why, 
what  has  he  to  do  with  it?  Dashaway  {sadly)— He  is  a  diamond 
tester  by  trade.  — Judge. 

"  You  keep  dictionaries,  I  suppose?  "  he  said  in   response  to 

the  clerk's  polite  inquiry  as  to  what  he  wished.  "  Yes,  sir.  We  have 
all  of  them,  is  there  any  special  dictionary  you  would  like  to  look 
at?"  You  have  all  kinds,  you  say?  "  "  Yes,  sir."  •'  Then  you  may 
show  me  the  bright  lexicon  of  youth  which  has  no  such  word  as  fail." 

—  Pittsburg  Chronicle. 
{A  visit  to  the  portrait  gallery  of  Brabazon  Towers.) — "Pardon  me, 
but  you  have  passed  over  that  picture  in  the  corner;  an  old  Dutch 
master,  I  think."  "Oh,  that!  The  Burgermaster,  it's  called— by  Rem- 
brank,  I  b'lieve.  It  ain't  nothing  much— only  a  work  of  hart—  not 
one  of  the  family,  you  know." — George  du  Maurier  in  Harper's  Magazine. 

"  Is  there  anything  going  on  in  the  neighborhood?"  asked  a 

transient  visitor  of  the  postmistress  at  Persimmonville.  "  I  really 
don't  know,"  she  replied.  "  People  is  puttin'  on  style  now,  an' 
writin'  to  each  other  in  letters,  'stead  o'  usin'  postal  cards  as  they 
used  to."  — Judge. 

Young  Bob  {enthusiastically)— Matrimony  is  the  thing  for  you. 
Why,  you  bachelors  don't  know  anything  about  comfort,  compan- 
ionship and  the  long-tried  years  of  comradeship   with "  How 

long  have  you  been  married?  "    "  Nearly  three  weeks." 

Marjorie—Vm  sure  you  have  a  treasurer  in  him.  my  dear.    I 

never  saw  a  more  thoughtful  young  man.  Madge— Yes;  he  never 
forgets  anything.  He  wouldn't  even  think  of  taking  part  in  one  of 
those  football  games  without  having  the  family  physician  with  him. 

Y.  M.  0.  A.  Official— Well,  Charles,  did  you  read  the  Bible 

through,  as  1  suggested?  Young  Man— Oh,  yes.  Y.  M.  C.A.  Official — 
Didn't  you  get  a  good  deal  of  information  from  it?  Young  Man — Not 
much.    Most  of  them  sayings  is  chestnuts.  — Judge. 

——Sue— You  know  that  garter  of  mine  with  the  jeweled  clasp? 
Bess — Yes.  Sue—  Well,  it  came  off  right  on  the  street.  Bess— Did  any- 
body see  it.    Sue— No,  it  was  in  the  evening.    Bess—  How  provoking. 

— Town  Topics. 

Customer — I'll  have  to  order  another  pair  of  shoes,  but  I'd  like 

to  have  you  make  them  a  little  different  in  shape  from  the  last. 
Shoemaker— You  can't  make  'em  that  way,  man!     What's  a  last  for? 

— Puck. 

Beggar  Woman— Can  yeraspist  me,  kind  lady?  My_poor 'usband 

can't  git  out  and  about.  Lady—  What's  the  matter  with  your  hus- 
band?   Beggar   Woman— He's  in  prison,  kind  lady. 

She—  I've    brought  back    these    pajamas   you  recommended. 

Saleslady — Why,  madam,  is  there  anything  wrong  with  them?  She — 
I  should  say  there  was.     Why,  I  can't  get  them  on  over  my  head. 

— Judge.. 

Mrs.  Dalybred— John,  I  see  by  the  paper  that  the  courts  have 

decided  that  the  word  "damn  "  is  not  profane.  Dalybred — Then  I'll 
have  to  get  accustomed  to  using  something  else.        — Town  Topics. 

-^—Racfiel— Vat's  der  madder,  Ikie?  Haf  you  dose  plues  again? 
Ikie—liort,  Rachel.  Vile  dot  G.  A.  R.  ves  in  town  ve  should  haf  had 
dose  balls  bainted  red,  vite  and  plue.  — Judge. 

— Brown— Yes ;  they  thought  I   was  poisoned,  and  the   doctor 

came  with  his  stomach  pump Jones— Did  he  get  anything  out  of 

you?    Brown — Yes;  five  dollars.  — Puck. 

__g/ie — You  shouldn't  make  a  face  even  when  you  have  found 
a  bad  oyster.    It  shows  very  bad  taste.    He— Yes;  I  think  it  does. 

— Judge. 

— "  Don't  you  and  Mawson  speak  any  more,  Witherup?" 
"  Nope."    "  Why  not?  "    "  He  sold  me  ahorse  once."  — Life. 

He— A  millionaire  practically  has  the  world.    Slie— Yes;  and 

not  satisfied  with  that,  you  are  after  the  flesh  and  the  devil.  —Life. 

She—  Will  you  go  to  Chicago  next  year.  He— No.  I'm  a  Pres- 
byterian, you  know,  and  I  expect  to  be  punished  enough  after  I  die. 

— Judge. 

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24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


THE     BETTERMENT    OF    OUR    HIGHWAYS. 


THE  agitation  for  the  improvement  of  the  highways  of  the 
United  States,  which  was  mainly  Btirred  up  by  Albert  A. 
Pope,  of  Boston,  continues  to  growapace.  The  latest  feature  in  the 
battle  for  good  roads  is  a  suggestion,  nay,  even  a  demand  that  one 
or  more  of  the  leading  colleges  of  the  country  include  roadmaking 
in  their  curriculum,  Professor  Nathaniel  8.  Shaler,  Dean  of  the 
Lawrence  Scientific  School  of  Harvard  University,  had  an  inter- 
esting article  on  the  topic  in  the  October  Atlantic.  In  it  he  says 
that  unless  provision  is  at  once  made  to  "educate  road-masters, 
the  present  access  of  interest  in  this  art  will  lead  inevitably  to  a 
vast  array  of  costly  mistakes  which  will  be  likely  to  discourage 
our  people,  and  to  lead  them  to  the  conviction  that  their  new 
estate  is  worse  than  the  old.  At  present  there  are  probably  not 
fifty  engineers  in  the  United  States  who  have  been  properly 
trained  for  the  work  of  constructing  highways.  There  may  be 
several  times  this  number  who  are  more  or  less  satisfactorily  ex- 
pert in  constructing  city  streets,  but  that  particular  task,  though 
difficult  enough,  is,  as  compared  with  that  which  the  rural-high- 
way engineer  has  to  take  up,  of  a  relatively  simple  nature.  Few, 
if  any,  of  our  engineering-schools  pay  any  particular  attention  to 
this  science  and  art.  The  question  of  common  ways  is 
treated  incidentally,  and  with  no  emphasis  at  all  com- 
mensurate, with  its  importance.  There  is  practically  no 
effort  made  to  develop  specialists  in  this  profession. 
The  first  step  towards  our  new  dispensation  is  to  persuade  our 
greater  schools  to  undertake  the  systematic  education  of  road- 
masters,  giving  to  the  task  the  same  care  which  they  devote  to  the 
preparation  of  young  men  for  railway  or  hydraulic  engineering. 
There  is  reason  to  hope  that  the  schools  of  this  class  which  have 
generally  shown  admirable  alacrity  in  responding  to  public  de- 
mands will  quickly  meet  this.  The  Lawrence  Scientific  School 
of  Harvard  University  has  already  arranged  for  the  services  of 
an  instructor  in  this  department,  who  will  devote  all  his  teaching 
to  matters  connected  with  road  construction.  It  is  proposed  to 
accumulate  a  sufficient  collection  of  models  and  other  apparatus 
to  illustrate  the  teaching  in  the  laboratory,  while  the  manifold 
experiments  in  the  methods  of  construction  exhibited  in  Eastern 
Massachusetts  can  be  used  as  object  lessons.  If  a  dozen  of  our 
engineering  schools  in  different  parts  of  the  country  will  provide 
similar  systematic  and  continuous  instruction,  we  may  hope,  in 
the  course  of  four  or  five  years,  to  graduate  trained  road-mastera 
who  are  well  informed  in  the  science  and  art  of  their  profession. 
Judged  by  the  standard  of  our  local  ways,  says  the  Professor, 
America,  as  a  whole,  may  be  regarded  as  the  least  advanced  of  all 
countries  which  are  commonly  classed  as  civilized.  The  diffi- 
culty of  securing  proper  engineering  skill  to  determine  the  route 
to  be  followed  by  our  ordinary  roads  arises  in  part  from  the  fact 
that  the  greater  portion  of  these  lines,  even  in  our  little-settled 
districts,  have  already  been  fixed  in  a  way  which  makes  it  al- 
most impossible  to  correct  their  course;  in  part  from  the  incom- 
petence of  our  rural  road-masters  to  do  the  kind  of  topographic 
work  which  is  demanded  of  those  who  plan  such  constructions. 
Only  slowly  can  we  hope  to  correct  the  alignment  of  these  ways. 
This  task  will  have  to  be  done  in  a  piecemeal  manner,  and  al- 
most always  the  end  will  have  to  be  attained  against  much  oppo- 
sition. In  constructing  new  roads,  much  help  will  doubtless  be 
had  from  the  contour  maps  which  the  United  States  Geological 
Survey,  in  some  cases  with  the  aid  of  the  several  States,  is  now 
making.  The  more  perfect  of  these  charts  delineate  the  surface 
of  the  country  on  the  Bcale  of  one  inch  to  the  mile,  and  the 
heights  are  indicated  by  contour  lines  which  show  in  a  generally 
accurate  way  the  form  of  the  surface  at  intervals  of  twenty  feet 
of  elevation.  So  far,  maps  of  this  description  of  Massachusetts, 
Rhode  Island,  Connecticut  and  New  Jersey  have  been  prepared, 
and  work  of  a  similar  nature  is  now  underway  in  most  of  the 
States  of  this  country.  With  such  maps,  a  discreet  engineer, 
however  limited  his  education,  can  plan  the  route  of  a  highway, 
and  determine  with  an  approximation  to  accuracy  the  aggregate 
grade  which  will  be  encountered  along  the  various  lines  which 
may  be  suggested.  Though  the  results  obtained  by  this  method 
will  be  leas  satisfactory  than  they  would  be  if  based  on  an  ac- 
curate map  prepared  for  the  particular  end  in  view,  they  will  be 
vastly  better  than  if  they  had  been  won  by  the  old  method, 
where  the  surveyor  worked  his  way  across  the  country, 
planning  the  road  with  reference  to  the  ground  which 
was  immediately  within  the  scope  of  his  vision.  Simple 
as  the  task  of  road  building  may  seem  to  be,  it  is  in  fact 
more  complicated  than  that  which  is  encountered  by  the  railway 
engineer.  It  demands  something  of  the  multifariousness  of  con- 
sideration required  in  the  architect's  art.  In  the  construction  of 
a  highway,  say  ten  miles  in  length,  designed  to  meet  the  needs  of 
a  rural  community  in  a  country  of  irregular  surface,  there  are 
needed  as  much  constructive  knowledge  and  skill,  and  perhaps  a 
larger  grasp  of  complicated  conditions,  than  are  demanded  in 
planning  a  great  building.  Professor  Shaler  recommends  mac- 
adam as  the  best  material  for  the  foundation  of  a  road.  His  ar- 
ticle has  attracted  wide  attention.  The  endeavors  of  Mr.  Pope  in 
behalf  of  the  establishment  by  the  Government  of  a  Road  Depart- 
ment, similar  to  the  Agricultural  Department,  has  also  been  very 
favorably  received. 


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One  feature,  however,  will  be  a  repro- 
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Morning,  by  A.  Achini,  Rome,  which  will 
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SAX  FRANCISCO  NBW9  LETTER, 


25 


DELICATE-COLORED  borders  are  noticeable  in  the  new  dis- 
plays of  handkerchiefs,  but  the  all-white  mouchoir  is  ever  the 
ultimatum  of  correct  ta^te.  One  of  the  novelties  is  in  French 
cambric,  with  a  border  of  single  violets  in  the  natural  color,  as 
well  as  in  pink  and  blue.  Another,  with  a  plain  colored  border, 
is  spotted  with  black.  There  is  a  large  variety  of  hem-stitched 
and  band-drawn  openwork  handkerchiefs,  and  those  with  fine 
embroidery  are  really  beautiful.  Among  the  real  lace  specimens 
there  are  some  exquisite  examples,  oue  composed  almost  entirely 
of  point  de  Venisc,  while  one  with  a  border  of  Mechlin  is  further 
embellished  with  a  narrow  embroidery  insertion.  These  are  of 
the  most  expensive  order,  while  for  those  both  pretty  and  cheap 
there  are  the  neat  trifles  of  pure  white,  with  dainty  machine- 
embroidered  edges,  which  can  be  bought  for  twenty-five  cents 
each. 

Some  of  the  new  silk  petticoats  have  tiny  flounces  on  the 
wrong  side  as  well  as  on  the  right;  and  the  newest  tailor-made 
gowns  are  lined  with  silk  and  have  little  frills  of  the  same  ma- 
terial underneath  the  edges  of  the  skirt.  No  wonder  the  women 
seem  to  love  the  masses  of  soft  silk  frilling  about  their  ankles,  so 
modest  and  feminine-looking,  and  so  altogether  dainty  are  they. 
Here  is  a  description  which  sounds  delightfully  "fetching":  "A 
brown  tailor-made  costume  lined  with  tan-colored  silk  with  tan- 
colored  frills,  a  petticoat  of  the  same  soft  silk  with  tiny  flounces 
inside  and  outside;  brown  silk  stockings  clocked  with  gold,  and 
bronze  ties  tied  with  brown  ribbon." 

The  forms  of  neglige"  shirt  will  oe  much  the  same  as  last  season. 
The  collars,  however,  will  not  be  in  the  marked  styles  of  last 
year.  There  was  a  bigness  about  the  collars  that  was  ungainly  in 
certain  makes.  This  is  now  done  away  with,  and  they  are  in 
rational,  medium,  comfortable,  yet  stylish  shapea.  There  will 
be  some  novel  blendings  of  colorings,  and  helio  will  be  more 
prominent  as  a  background  and  as  a  treatment  on  solid  white. 
There  will  be  a  large  number  of  the  down-strippings  sold,  and  in 
weaves  of  the  most  intricate  and  attractive  nature. 


The  popular  fad  in  neckwear,  on  conventional  lines  will,  as 
last  year,  be  a  small  knot  with  large  aprons.  The  size  of  this 
knot  will,  however,  be  sensibly  graduated  to  the  relative  size  of 
the  wearer.  Such  a  graduation  naturally  gives  rise  to  three  or 
four  sizes  of  scarf,  with  which  every  first-class  establishment  is 
always  provided.  There  is  always  a  tendency  to  admire  a  large 
expanse  of  exquisite  fabric,  Dut  there  is  no  more  reason  that  a 
small  man  should  attempt  to  wear  it  than  that  he  should  attempt 
to  wear  the  whole  piece  as  it  comes  from  the  loom. 

The  cheering  news  of  the  renaissance  of  the  opera  hat  has  been 
once  more  set  afloat,  and  the  authority  for  the  rumor  is  of  un- 
usual credence.  The  hat  will  not  be  utilized  to  carry  one's  gloves 
closed  in  its  folded  condition,  as  was  the  wont;  nor  will  it  be 
utilized  to  achieve  comic  effects,  such  as  the  sudden  exploding  of 
it  to  full  height.  It  will  be  regarded  with  the  same  dignified  con- 
sideration with  which  the  tall  hat  is  now  held — and  for  certain 
occasions  will  be  a  vastly  more  congenial  and  profanity-deterring 
adjunct  of  the  ensemble  of  full  dress. 


A  distinctly  Parisian  innovation,  one  that  could  not  have  other 
than  a  Frenchified  savor,  is  the  lining  of  the  dress-shirt  bosom 
with  white  washable  silk.  The  Parisian  dandy  does  not  of  course 
tell  any  one  of  this;  but  it  has  leaked  out  just  the  same,  and  the 
dainty  creature  gets  a  flurry  of  approval  from  the  fair  sex 
that  fills  his  fellows  with  envy.  The  far-fetched  palliation  of 
this  is  said  to  be  based  upon  the  fact  that  although  the  shirt  is 
only  linen,  the  howling  swell  who  wears  it  conceals  a  finer  cam- 
bric from  the  gaze.  How  long  would  it  last  in  a  New  York 
steam  laundry? 

Undressed  leather  is  to  be  the  trimming  par  excellence  for  tailor- 
made  gowns  this  coming  season,  and  is  particularly  novel  on  a 
blue  checked  tweed.  All  the  outlines  of  the  bodice  should  be 
bound  with  it  in  a  tiny  edging,  and  a  vest,  open  at  the  neck,  so 
as  to  display  a  necktie,  is  also  of  leather.  Some  of  the  high-class 
tailors  are  making  costumes  with  the  Norfolk  jacket,  in  many 
cases  employing  undressed  leather  as  facings  and  as  a  belt. 

Those  who  are  enthusiastic  about  their  canine  favorites  may 
not  be  pleased  to  hear  that  dogskin  boots  and  shoes  are  becoming 
quite  the  fashion,  and  that  many  of  these  skins  come  from  the 
lost  dogs  that  are  killed  when  not  claimed  by  their  owners.  To 
hare  an  active  demand  for  dogskins  won't  cause  much  anxiety 
to  those  who  take  their  pets  to  town. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets,  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  handsome  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 


JlOlJD/nY    q00D5. 

Special  and  Exclusive  Novelties    in 

Silks,  Fancy  Dress  Goods, 
Jackets,  Cloaks,  Gloves,  Laces,  Fans, 
Parasols,  Neckwear,  Hosiery,  Initial  Handker- 
chiefs, Purses,  Boston  Bags, 
Children's  Coats,  etc. 


Exceedingly  Cou/  pri<^5. 


U"An  early  inspection  is  cordially  invited. 

£Jf*  Samples  sent  free.  Mail  orders  promptly  executed. 
Goods  delivered  free  in  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley,  San 
Rafael,  Tibaron,  Saasalito,  8an  Qaentin,  Mill  Valley,  Ross 
Station  and  Blithedale. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


Thousands  of  delighted  ladies 
have  visited  my  parlors.  Can  I 
not  see  you  this  week  ?  You  can 
learn  many  of  the  secrets  of  pre- 
serving and  beautifying  the 
complexion. 

MRS.  NETTIE  HARRISON, 

26   GEARY  STREET, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


LOLA 
MONTEZ 

CREME 

The    Skin   Food 

AND 

Tissue  Builder 
75   CENTS. 


COLTON  DENTAL  ASSOCIATION, 

806  market  Street  (Plielan  Building.) 

Gas  Specialists.  Originated  the  use  of  Pure  Nitrous  Oxide  Gas  for  pols- 
tively  extracting  teeth  without  pain.  "Colton  Gas"  has  an  established  and 
unrivaled  world-wide  reputation  for  its  purity,  efficacy  and  perfect  safety 
in  all  eases.  Thirty-five  thousand  references.  Established  1863.  Indorsed 
and  recommended  by  all  reputable  dentists  and  physicians.  Also  performs 
all  operations  in  dentistry. 

DR.  CHARLES  W.  DECKER 


JETNA 
HOT 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Beached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
commodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATTJ.BE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  Mtna.  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs  I    Ho  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

xelephone  636. Office,  108  Drnnim  Street, S. F 


26 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892 


ALTHOUGH  M.  de  LESSEPS  no  doubt  will  be  able  to  clear 
himself  of  the  serious  charges  brought  against  the  directors  of 
the  Panama  Land  Company,  many  of  those  who  are  to  be  prose- 
cuted will  not  be  able  to  do  so,  and  the  scandal  promises  to  be 
enormous.  One  of  the  men  compromised  in  the  affair,  Baron 
Jacques  de  Keinach,  commuted  suicide  last  Sunday  rather  than 
face  the  tribunals.  His  friends  say  that  his  death  was  due  to 
natural  causes,  but  under  the  circumstances  this  statement  re- 
ceives little  credit. 

Among  the  prominent  Frenchmen  who  are  charged  with  being 
implicated  in  the  Panama  Canal  irregularities  is  M.  Floqaet,  for- 
merly President  of  the  Chamber,  who  is  accused  of  having  re- 
ceived large  sums  from  the  Canal  Company  to  carry  on  his  cam- 
paign against  General  Boulanger  in  1888;  and  M.  de  Freycinet  is 
also  accused  of  having  accepted  money  from  the  same  source  for 
political  purposes.  Article  177  of  the  French  Penal  Code  makes 
civil  degradation  the  punishment  for  such  an  offense.  A.  still 
more  serious  charge  is  brought  aeainst  M.  Rouvier,  Minister  of 
Finance,  namely,  that  of  having  derived  personal  profit  from  the 
Panama  Canal  scheme,  and  about  one  hundred  Deputies  and  as 
many  Senators  are  mentioned  as  having  been  involved  in  fraudu- 
lent transactions.  M.  Rivard,  the  Minister  of  Justice,  is  nomi- 
nally the  originator  of  the  intended  legal  proceedings,  but  M.  Con- 
stans,  the  Minister  of  the  Interior,  is  perhaps  the  prime  mover. 
Whatever  the  result  of  the  prosecutions  will  be,  one  thing  is  cer- 
tain, it  will  do  immenfe  harm  to  the  country,  by  lowering  the 
esteem  for  the  highest  officials  and  political  personages  in  France, 
not  only  in  the  eyes  of  the  French  public,  but  in  the  eyes  of  the 
world  at  large. 

Lord  Salisbury  has  characterized  the  proceedings  of  Mr.  Mor- 
ley's  Evicted  Tenants'  Commission  as  the  "  Saturnalia  for  inso- 
lent debtors,"  and  whatever  may  be  said  from  a  merely  humani- 
tarian point  of  view,  it  is  doubtful  from  a  practical  point  of  view 
whether  the  Government  will  not  do  more  barm  than  good  by  in- 
terfering with  private  contracts.  Direct  assistance  on  the  part 
of  the  Government  granted  to  the  tenants  without  due  precau- 
tion with  regard  to  the  form,  might  work  great  evil,  and  even  in 
the  best  case  Government  aid  would  establish  an  awkward  pre- 
cedent. There  seems  to  be,  however,  little  chance  that  the  Com- 
mission will  arrive  at  any  practical  results.  Internal  dissen- 
sions, as  so  frequently  is  the  case  where  Irish  affairs  aro  con- 
cerned, paralyze  the  actions  of  the  Commissioners,  and  the  pro- 
ceedings for  the  moment  are  at  a  standstill. 


The  New  York  Herald  correspondent  telegraphs  that  Chancel- 
lor Caprivi  has  been  busily  collecting  at  his  office  the  articles 
and  interviews  of  Prince  Bismarck  hostile  to  the  Emperor,  in 
order  to  enrage  the  latter  against  the  ex-Chancellor.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  all  important  attacks  upon  the  Government  contained 
in  German  and  foreign  papers  are  carefully  collected  by  the  au- 
thorities, but  this  is  not  an  innovation  introduced  by  Caprivi.  It 
has  been  done  for  years,  long  before  the  present  Chancellor  was 
appointed.  As  far  as  Prince  Bismarck  is  concerned,  he  certainly 
will  not  be  displeased  if  Count  Caprivi  should  draw  the  special 
attention  of  Emperor  William  to  his  utterances,  for  it  is  evident 
that  Prince  Bismarck's  very  object  is  that  the  Emperor  should 
hear  of  his  opinions,  and  the  Ex-Chancellor  does  not  talk  merely 
for  talking's  sake,  but  to  produce  an  impression  in  the  highest 
quarters  as  well  as  the  general  public. 

In  Vienna,  the  anarchist  editor  of  the  Zukunrt,  a  certain  Mr. 
Valencia,  has  been  arrested  for  advocating  in  his  paper  the  use  of 
dynamite  against  the  enemies  of  the  anarchists.  No  sensible  per- 
son will  characterize  such  an  arrest  as  a  tyrannical  measure,  if  it 
is  considered  how  many  innocent  victims  have  lost  their  lives  at 
the  hands  of  the  dupes  of  such  persons  as  Mr.  Valencia.  Still 
there  are  otherwise  intelligent  people  who  claim  similar  arrests 
to  be  an  undue  interference  with  the  liberty  of  the  press.  One 
would  like  to  know  whether  they  would  permit  an  editor  to  call 
upon  his  readers  to  poison  all  those  who  do  not  agree  with  them, 
or  to  exterminate  them  by  the  dagger.  If  not,  it  is  difficult  to 
see  why  they  should  make  an  exception  with  regard  to  journal- 
ists who  recommend  dynamite  outrages.  Liberty  of  the  press  is 
certainly  desirable,  but  the  open  instigation  to  crime  by  the  writ- 
ten or  spoken  word,  should  be  punished  in  monarchies  and  re- 
publics alike. 


A  NARROW-MINDED  woman  thinks  a  man  uncomplimentary 
when  he  praises  another  woman  in  her  presence.  On  the 
contrary,  he  is  paying  her  one  of  the  highest  compliments  in  imply- 
ing that  he  thinks  her  so  broad-minded  that  she  can  sincerely  share 
his  admiration. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 


Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 
Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.    Lo- 
cation of  cannery—  Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  1),  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 
Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  Shares.      Amount. 

C.A.Johnson i  50  $60 

C.A.Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auctiou,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  8ATTJR- 
AY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892, 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY, 
October  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  September  2lst. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  October  21, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com 
pauy,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinqueut  stock  was  postponed  until  TUES 
DAY,  December  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  21, 1892. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICEr 

New  Basil  Consolidated   Gravel  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business  -San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Placer  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  eleventh  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  22,  of  Five 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay 
able  immediately,  in.  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  snail  remain  unpaid  on  the 
Seventeenth  Day  of  December,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;   and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  9th  day  of  January,  18?3,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs   of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F.  X.  SIMON,  Secretary. 

Office— 525  Commercial  street.  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Navajo  Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works— Tuscarora,  Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Fifth  (5tht  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  23)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  No.  310  Pine  Stree,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Ninth  Day  of  December.  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore,  will  be  sold  on    FRIDAY,  the  30th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,   together  with  costs  of   advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

JOSHUA  HENDY  MACHINE  WORKS 

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE 

CITY  IRON  WORKS. 

Office  51  Fremont  Street, 

S-A-ZET    FBAUCISGO,       -        -       -        CA_Ii. 

Manufacturers  of  and  Dealers  in 

Boilers,  Engines,  Pumps  and  Machinery  of  Every  Description, 

Patent  Lead-Lined    Coupled   Tubing,  for   use  as 

Water  Pipe,  for  Sale  Cheap 


Kot.  26,  1892. 


BAN   FRANCISCO   NEW8  LETTER, 


27 


SOME      NEW     BOOKS. 

AN  interesting  little  volume  is  »  Amer- 
icanisms and  BriUoiama,"  by  Brander 
Matthew?,  issued  by  Harper  Brothers,  of 
New  Y-»rk.  Mr.  Matthews  is  a  well- 
known  litterateur,  and  in  this  volume  he 
takes  up  the  cudgels  as  the  champion  of 
American  writers  against  the  charges  of 
Illiteracy  ruade  by  Britishers,  who  say 
that  Americans  neither  speak  nor  write 
the  English  language  correctly.  In  his 
first  essay,  whose  title  is  that  of  the 
book,  Mr.  Matthews  amuses  himself,  in 
view  of  the  frequent  sneer  of  the  British 
critics  at  our  •*  Americanisms,"  in  select- 
ing sundry  choice  specimens  of  Brit- 
icisms from  the  works  of  English  authors 
in  good  repute,  and  contrasting  them 
with  the  abhorred  Americanisms.  The 
book  concludes  with  a  paper  on  "  Two 
Latter  Day  Humorists,"  Guthrie,  of 
Punch,  and  Bunner,  of  Puch,  being  com- 
pared. Needless  to  say,  Bunner  is 
awarded  the  palm. 

Mrs.  Frances  Hodgsdon  Burnett  has  is- 
sued a  new  book  of  children's  tales,  under 
the  title  of  "Giovanni  and  the  Other.'' 
Besides  this  pretty  tale,  there  are  those  of 
*'  The  Eight  Little  Princes,"  meaning  the 
German,  Servian,  Italian  and  Spanish 
princes;  of  "The  Boy  Who  Became  a 
Socialist,"  Mrs.  Burnett's  own  son;  and 
several  other  equally  pretty  tales,  all  of 
them  illustrated  by  Birch,  and  published 
by  the  Scribners. 

A  most  entertaining  book  for  children 
is  the  reliable  and  veracious  narrative  of 
the  strange  adventures  of  "  The  Admiral's 
Caravan,"  all  of  which  little  Dorothy 
was  concerned  in  more  or  less;  any  little 
boy  or  girl  would  have  been  glad  to  have 
been  in  her  place,  but  no  one  could  with- 
out knowing  Charles  B.  Carry!  who  told 
these  adventures  in  St.  Nicholas,  and  now 
has  allowed  the  Century  Company  to 
publish  them  in  a  book  on  whose  cover 
may  be  seen  the  Admiral,  his  caravan, 
the  ferry  house  and  other  interesting 
things.  The  illustrations  of  this  pretty 
book,  which  are  as  enticing  as  the  story, 
are  by  .Reginald  Birch. 

"Songs  of  Sunrise  Lands,"  by  Clinton 
Scollard  (Houghton,  Mifiin  &  Co.)  takes 
its  name  from  the  character  of  the  verse, 
which  is  the  result  of  Mr.  Scollard's  so- 
journ in  the  East  a  few  years  ago.  The 
first  impression  we  get  is  one  of  pleasure 
at  so  fair  a  piece  of  book-making.  The 
taste  shown  is  excellent.  The  second 
and  dominant  impression  that  one  car- 
ries away  is  quite  as  satisfactory  in  its 
way.  It  is  this :  that  the  book  is  a  book, 
and  not  a  mere  jumble  of  incongruous 
verse.  The  impulse  is  one  from  the  first 
page  to  the  last.  The  poems  blend  and 
run  one  into  the  other. 

»  The  Byzantine  Empire."  by  C.  W.  C. 
Oman,  is  the  latest  of  The  8tory  of  the 
Nations  series.  It  covers  thus  far  all  the 
earlier  civilized  nations  of  the  Old  World 
. — Assyria,  Greece,  Egypt,  the  Saracens, 
the  story  of  the  Jews,  the  Persians, 
Carthaginians,  etc. 

"Characteristics,"  by  Dr.  S.  Weir 
Mitchell,  which  was  published  as  a  serial 
in  the  Century,  is  now  issued  in  book 
form.  The  story  is  a  fascinating  one,  as 
it  shows  intimate  knowledge  of  human 
nature. 

Another  book,  which  was  certainly  in- 
tended for  the  children,  is  "  A  Book  of 
Cheerful  Cats,"  by  J.  G.  Francis.  How 
much  more  than  cheerful  Mr.  Francis' 
cats  are,  the  children  who  take  St.  Nich- 
olas can  testify,  for  they  have  seen  them. 
This  publication  is  by  the  Century  Com- 
pany. 


1893 


HOLIDAY  GIFTS 
THAT  LAST  ALL  THE  YEAR 


1893 


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arpers 


Magazine,  Weekly, 
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SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


THE  BLOUNT  DOOR  CHECK  &  SPRING. 


Sure  10  Uiose 


the  doorwith- 


outslamming 
JAS  A-  MAGUIRE,  City  Agent, 

57-661  market   St.,  S.  F. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Exchequer  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— 8aa 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Gold 
Hill,  Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  28th  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  34),  of  Ten  Cents 
(10c.)  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock 
of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  No.  79  Nevada  block.  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

L-The  Thirtieth  Day  of  November,  1892,  will  be  de- 
linquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
TUESDAY,  the  20th  day  of  December,  1892.  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By  or- 
der of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgom- 
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NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated  New  York  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Goid 
Hill,  storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  2d  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  9)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  79  Nevada  block,  No.  30J  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Fifth    Day   ol   December,   1892,   will    be   delin- 
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and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
S?i'Sx,g?yr.m??t  i!>  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,    the    28th    day     of     December, 

,A  t0.Pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block.  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mining  Company. 

Assessment , .  jj0  jq3 

Amount  per  share l.'.Y".  '.26  cents 

.Levied  -      Nov.  9  18^2 

Delinquent  in  office  Dec  14  1892 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock . .  Jan.  3,'  1893 

-_  EL.  PARKER,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  15,  Nevada  block,  309  Monteomerv 
street.  Ban  Francisco.  Cal 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Occidental  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Assessment 240    ji 

Amount  per  Share ..."..".".'.".""25  cents 

Levied  •■;•■••• Oct.  25,  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Nov  25  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock Dec  21,'  1892 

ALFRED  K    DTJRBROW,  Secretary. 

Office— Nevada  Block,  room  69,  No.  309  Mont- 
mery  Street,  Cal. 

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LOVE'S    SECRET.— By  Win.   Blake. 

Never  seek  to  tell  thy  love, 

Love  that  never  told  can  be; 
For  the  gentle  wind  doth  move 

Silently,  invisibly. 
I  told  my  love,  I  told  my  love, 

I  told  her  all  my  heart, 
Trembling,  cold,  in  ghastly  fears, 

Ah  I  she  did  depart. 
Soon  after  she  was  gone  from  me 

A  traveler  came  by, 
Silently,  invisibly, 

He  took  her  with  a  sigh. 


THE  late  Lord  Strathnaim  was  the 
most  indolent,  lackadaiscal,  languid 
perBon  who  ever  dawdled  along  Picca- 
dilly. When  he  was  devastating  Central 
India,  winning  the  splendid  victories  that 
Immortalized  his  name,  he  was  so  lazy 
that  he  could  not  be  got  to  dictate  the 
dispatches  according  to  his  triumphs. 
Months  elapsed  before  these  documents 
could  be  extracted  from  him,  and  then 
they  were  brief  and  meagre  to  the  last  de- 
gree. 

One  day,  when  Sir  Hugh  Rose,  he  was 
entertaining  a  gallant  company  to  dinner 
during  the  crisis  of  the  mutiny.  With 
the  utmost  sang  froid  he  was  delighting 
those  near  him  with  one  of  his  best  anec- 
dotes. In  the  middle  of  it  his  orderly  en- 
tered, and,  after  saluting,  exclaimed: 
"  We  have  captured  200  rebels,  sir!"  To 
him  the  General  turned,  and  with  that 
elegant  courtesy  of  manner  on  which  he 
prided  himself,  serenely  replied: 

»«  Thank  you,  Sergeant. 

But  the  man  still  remained. 

Again  interrupting  the  chief,  he  said: 
<•  But  what  are  we  to  do  with  them, 
sir?" 

"Oh,  replied  Sir  Hugh,  with  a  soft 
smile,  "  hang  them,  of  course,  and  he  re- 
sumed bis  anecdote. 

In  a  little  while  Sir  Hugh  was  again 
interrupted  in  the  middle  of  another 
story  by  the  Sergeant,  who  came  in 
and  said:  "Please,  sir,  we've  hung  the 
lot,  sir." 

The  General  turned,  bowed  slightly, 
and,   in    the    sweetest    manner,    lisped : 

"Thanks,  Sergeant,  very  many 
thanks,"  and  then  went  on  with  his 
anecdote  as  if  nothing  had  happened. 
This  story  came  to  the  ears  of  the  Queen, 
and  she  was  so  angry  it  nearly  cost  Sir 
Hugh  his  peerage. 


«  pLEOPATRA'S  NEEDLE,"  the  great 
\j  Egyptian  monolith  on  the  Thames 
Embankment,  is  to  be  eclipsed,  it  seems, 
by  an  obelisk  of  red  granite  71  feet  high, 
with  a  pedestal  of  black  porphyry, 
which  is  shortly  to  be  brought  to  Aus- 
tria from  Alexandria,  where  it  has  been 
lying  in  the  garden  of  the  Austrian  Con- 
sulate since  1847.  It  is  to  be  erected  at 
Trieste,  to  which  town  it  was  long  ago 
bequeathed  by  the  late  Austrian  Consul, 
HerrLaurin.  The  Trieste  Town  Council 
has  only  just  made  up  its  mind  to  vote 
the  necessary  funds  for  the  conveyance 
of  the  pillar  from  Egypt,  and  for  its  erec- 
tion on  the  shores  of  the  Adriatic. 


LOVE'S    LIKENESS.— By  George  Darley. 

O,  mark  yon  rose   tree,  where  the  West 
Breathes  on  her  with  too  warm  a  zest, 

She  turns  her  cheek  away; 
Yet,  if  one  moment  he  refrain, 
She  turns  her  cheek  to  him  again, 

And  woos  him  still  to  stay. 

Is  she  not  like  a  maiden  coy 

Pressed  by  some  amorous-breathing  boy? 

Though  coy,  ihe  courts  him,  too: 
Winding  away  her  slender  form, 
She  wilt  not  have  him  woo  so  warm, 

And  yet  will  have  him  woo? 


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A  Quiet  Home, 

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FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 

MOUNT  VERNON  CO., 

BALTIMORE, 

1W*  The  undersigned  having  been  appointed 
AGENTS  FOR  THE  PACIFIC  COAST  for  the  sale 
of  the  manufactures  of  above  company,  have  now 
In  store: 

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Draper  and  Wagon  Duck, 

From  80  to  120  Inehes  Wide,  and  a  Complete  As- 
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7  oib.  to  15  ois.,  Inclusive. 


N..v.  26,   1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


29 


SAM  FRANCISCO  AMD  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BROaD-GaUSE  ROUTE." 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  NOV  20,  18W,  au.l 
QQtll  runner  notice.  Boal*  and  TraiQi,  wll. 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Paa- 
MDger  Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tiburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  a.*.,  9:20  A.M.,   11:40  a.  M.; 

3:50  p,  M.,5.06  r.  M.,  6:20  r.  X. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  1:50  p.  m. 
8l"NDAYS— 8:00  a.m., 9:3Ui.M..  11:00  a.m.;  1:30  p.m. 
3:30  p.  ST.,  5-00  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 

From  San  Rsfsel  lor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  A.   M.,  7:55  a.   m„  9:30   A.  M. 

12.45  p.m.,  3  40  p.m.,  5:05  p.m. 
8ATIRDA  YS  ONLY-— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAY'S— 8  :10  a.m.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.M.;  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  p.  m..5:00p  m.,6:25  p.  m. 

r-rom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:50  A.    M„  8=20  a.  m.,  9:55    A.  M.; 
1:10  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  M.,  5:35  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:40   A.M.,    10.-O5  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.; 
I 2:05  p.  M.,  4:05p.m.,  5:30p.m.,  6:55  P.M. 


LsavkS.F. 

ABEIVKIN  S.F. 

D.Ys"   S™**,, 

Dbstinattoh. 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
8:80  p.m. 
6:05  p.m. 

8O0a.m.     Petalnma 
9:30  a.m.!         and 
6:00p.m. 1  Santa  Rosa. 

10:40  a.m 
6:05  P.M 
7:30p.m 

8:50a.  m. 
10:80a.m 
6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  «& 
Way  Stations. 

8:06a.m'. 

7:40a.  m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:30  p.m. 

10:30a.m 
6:10p.m 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00  a.m. 

Hopland 
and  ukiah. 

7:30  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
8:30  p.  m. 

8:00a.  m. 

Guerneville. 

7:30p.m. 

10:30a. M 
6:10  p.M 

7:40 a.  mJ8:O0a.m.j  Sonoma  and  110:40a.m. 
5:05P.M.i5:00p.  m.  !  Glen  Ellen.  U:05p.M. 

8:50A.M. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40 a.m  I  8:00a.m  1  Sebastopol.  I  10:40a.m 
8:30  p.m  1  5:00  p.m  1                        |    6:05 p.M 

10:S0am 
6:10  p.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  GeyserB,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lake- 
port  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lake- 
port;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sarato- 
£i  Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
ake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To  Petaluma,  ?1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  ?2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guernevllle,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma.  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $180. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
vllle, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLTNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 

PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.— S.  S.  San  Bias,"  November 
25th,  1892.  "City  of  Sydney,"  December  5,  1892. 
"San  Jose,"  December  15.  1892. 

Way  Line  to  Mexican  and  Central  American  Ports 
and  Panama.— Steamer  sails  at  noon  18th  of  each 
month,  calling  at  Mazatlan,  San  Bias,  Manzanillo, 
Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala,  San 
Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guatemala, 
Aeajutla,  La  Libertad,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Co- 
rinto.  San  Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

Way  Line  Sailing.— Nov.  18th,  S.  S.  "  Acapulco." 

When  the  regular  sailing  date  falls  on  Sunday 
steamers  will  be  despatched  the  following  Mon 
day. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 

S.  8.  "City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  November 
26th,  at  8  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th.  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Jaueiio,"  Saturday,  January 
14th,  1893,  at  3  p.  M. 

Round  TriD  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


EVENTIME— A  Triolet.— Hubert  Luckn,. 

On  the  golden  sun's  last  Hush, 
The  worker,  wearied,  listens, 
The  tender  notes  ot  a  thrusn 
At  the  golden  sun's  last  tiush, 
Break  sad  and  sweet  on  the  hush, 
Lo.  a  tear  on  his  eyelash  glistens 
At  the  golden  sun's  last  Mush . 
As  the  worker,  wearied,  listens. 


MR8.  ETHEL  COMYNS,  the  sole  pro- 
prietor and  editor  of  the  Feathered 
World,  published  in  London,  is  one  of  the 
few  women  who  own,  edit  and  run  a  pa- 
per entirely  unassisted.  Mrs.  Comyns 
was  obliged  to  fight  the  world  before 
her  girlhood  was  past.  In  partnership 
with  another  lady,  she  started  the  second 
type-writing  office  in  London,  and  it  was 
there  she  met  her  husband,  Alexander 
Comyns,  the  editor  of  Poultry.  That  pa- 
per Mr.  Comyns  left  to  start  the  Feathered 
World,  but  before  he  bad  got  his  new  ven- 
ture to  run  with  any  success  he  died, 
leaving  his  young  widow  with  three 
small  children.  She  stepped  into  his 
vacant  chair,  the  knowledge  she  bad 
gained  through  helping  him  being  inval- 
uable to  her.  That  her  courage  and  tal- 
ents have  been  rewarded  is  certain,  for 
in  the  eighteen  months  she  has  ruled  in 
the  modest  office  at  273  Strand,  the  pa- 
per has  doubled  in  circulation  and  is 
steadily  increasing  in  popularity. 


A  LADY  of  artistic  taste  has  discovered 
that  at  church-parade  her  prayer- 
book,  by  its  incongruous  color,  entirely 
ruined  the  effect  of  a  carefully-conceived 
costume.  It  struck  a  discord  in  an  other- 
wise perfectly  harmonious  dress.  This 
has  been  remedied  by  having  a  cover  to 
her  prayer-book  which  shall  be  per- 
fectly in  accord  with  the  leading  tone 
of  her  garments.  The  prayer-book  cover 
will  henceforth  receive  as  attentive  con- 
sideration as  the  bonnet,  the  gloves  and 
the  sunshade,  and  no  jarring  note  of 
color  will  be  introduced  by  means  of  a 
volume  bound  in  blue  velvet  or  in  scarlet 
morocco.  If  this  rule  was  applied  to 
everyday  garments  and  to  any  volume  a 
lady  may  feel  inclined  to  read,  the  busi- 
ness in  fancy  book-covers  cannot  fail  to 
be  extensive.  For  it  is  easy  enough  to 
imagine  that  the  most  artistic  arrange- 
ment of  color  may  be  at  once  ruined  by 
its  wearer  happening  to  take  in  hand 
some  garishly  bedizened  novel  of  to-day. 


OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA.  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYD- 
NEY, DIRECT. 
S.  S   Mono wai... Friday,  December 9, at 2 p.  m. 

For  Honolulu   Only. 

S.  8.  Australia.  .Wednesday,  Noy.  23,  1892,  2  p.m. 
For  Freight   or    Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  &  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 
Note  change  in  hour  of  Bailing, 
Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and    HONGKONG,   connecting   at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Gaelic Wednesday.  November  16,  1892. 

Belgic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan  4,1*93 
Gaelic  Tuesday,  Jan.  24,  1898 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT  REDUCED  RATES 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets.  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 
GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Trains  Leave  and  are  Due  to  Arrive  at 

SAN      FRANCISCO: 


Leave  '      From  September  3,  1892.      I  Arrive 

7:00  a,  Benicia,  Rumsey,  Sacramento.  7:16  p 

7:30a.  Haywards,  Niles and  San  Jose. .  *12:15p 

..Niles  and  San  Jose 16:15  p 

7:30a.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Calistoga  6;15p. 

8:00  a.  Sacram'toA  Redding,  viaDaviB.  7:16  p. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East, 9:45  p. 

8:30a.  Niles,  San  JoBe,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:46p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Lob  An- 
geles, Deming,  El  Paso,   New 

Orleans  and  East 8 :45  p. 

*9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:46p. 

12-OOm.  HaywardB,  Niles  and  Livermore  7:15  p. 

*1:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejoand  Martinez 12:45  P. 

3 :00  p.  Haywards.  Niles  and  San  Jose . .  9 :45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno 12:15p 

4:00p  Martinez,   San    Ramon,    VaUejo, 
Calistoga,  El  Verano.  and  Santa 

Rosa  9:45a. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  and  Sacramento 10:45a. 

4 :00  p.  Woodland  and  Oro ville 10 :16  a 

4:00p  Vacaville 10:15a 

*4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:46a. 

5:00  p  European  Mail,  Ogden  andEaBt..  10;45a 
6:30p.  Los  Angeles    Express,   Fresno, 
Bakersfield,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Lob  Angeles. 9:45a. 

5:30p.  Santa Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

for  Mojave  and  East 9 :15  a. 

6:00  p.  Haywards,  NileB  and  San  Jose..  7:45  a. 

J7:00p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00p.    Oregon    Express.  Sacramen- 
to, MaryBville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .  8:16  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

J7:45a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton.  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    $8:05  p. 

8:16a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz *10:50a. 

4:45  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

*7:00a.  SanJose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:38  p. 

8:15  A.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  LuIb  Obispo) 
and    principal  Way   Stations     6:10  p. 

10 :37  a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 5:03  p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30p. 

*2:S0p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey, 
Pacific   Grove    and    principal 

Way  Stations *10:37  a. 

*3:S0  p.  SanJose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations..   .  *9:47a. 

*4;30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  - .    *8:06  A. 

5-.15P.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48a. 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .      6:36  a. 
rll:46p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30  p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

♦Sundays  excepted.  ^Saturdays  only. 

tSundays  only. 


PACIFIC   COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA.  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregon,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucos,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  Htjm- 
boldt  Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  a.  m. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


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teAjN   EkAJN  CISCO  JNEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26,  1892. 


CHARITY  was  responsible  fur  three  entertainments  last  week, 
either  of  which  would  ordinarily  suffice  to  give  a  small  society 
like  ours  a  topic  to  discuss  for  a  week.,  at  least.  Unaccustomed 
as  we  are  to  such  a  crowd  of  events — it  being  yet  early  in  the 
season — and  following  so  closely  after  the  Ingleaide  t_-a,  suciety 
has  felt  just  a  trifle  surfeited,  especially  as  it  was  the  same  set  of 
people  who  were  gathered  at  the  "  Living  Whist."  Baroness  Meta , 
and  the  Harvard  and  Yale  contest,  at  Central  Park.  They  were 
all  successes,  all  drew  large  crowds,  and  all  passed  off  delight- 
fully, nothing  occurring  to  mar  the  pleasure  of  any  of  them,  un- 
less it  be  the  coaching  accident,  which  came  so  near  to  terminat- 
ing fatally  last  Saturday  afternoon.  Fortunately.it  bad  no  se- 
rious results,  and  all  the  sufferers  are  reported  as  convalescing. 
It  is  therefore  scarcely  to  be  wondered  that  society  has,  in  a 
measure,  been  taking  a  rest  this  week,  and  as  usual  at  Thanks- 
giving, dinners  have  been  the  prominent  features,  and  on  Thurs- 
day they  were  almost  as  numerous  as  there  were  homes  in  the 
city.  

Thursday  evening  of  last  week  was  well  filled  with  gay  affairs, 
for  in  addition  to  the  "Living  Whist"  entertainment  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House,  the  Loring  Club  gave  the  second  concert  of  their 
season,  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  at  which,  it  is  needless  to  say, 
there  was  a  large  attendance;  and  at  the  residence  of  Colonel 
George  L.  Hudson,  on  Pacific  avenue,  the  pretty  little  play  of 
Legare's  Documents  was  very  well  acted  by  a  number  of  young 
amateurs,  the  daughter  of  the  host,  Miss  Louise  Hudson,  taking 
a  prominent  part,  and  another  of  the  performers,  Miss  Mae  Mur- 
phy, executed  a  serpentine  dance  remarkably  well.  A  hand- 
some supper  followed  the  play.  All  the  entertaining  was  not, 
however,  done  in  the  evening,  for  on  Thursday  afternoon  the 
Hotel  Fleasanton  was  the  locale  of  an  elaborate  reception  and 
matinee  tea.  at  which  Mrs.  Timothy  Guy  Phelps  and  Mrs.  W.  L. 
Dickenson  were  tbe  dual  hostesses.  The  decorating  of  the  hotel 
parlor,  wherein  it  was  held,  was  chiefly  done  in  chrysanthe- 
mums and  red  berries,  artistically  combined  with  ferns  and  srui- 
lax.  Orchestral  music  added  to  the  pleasure  of  the  guests  while 
discussing  tea,  ices  and  other  refreshments,  as  well  as  the  gossip 
of  the  day.  The  Misses  Johnson,  McLane,  McCune,  Moor,  Mad- 
dock  and  Chipman  proved  valuable  assistants  to  the  hostesses,  and 
the  guests  were  charmingly  taken  care  of. 

Charity  entertainment  announcements  still  continue  to  be  heard, 
and  among  them  is  one  in  aid  of  the  Children's  Hospital,  which 
will  be  given  by  the  Abbey  Cheney  Amateurs,  at  Irving  Hall,  on 
the  6th  of  December.  The  performance  will  include  the  reading, 
by  Edward  Russell,  of  "The  Romance  of  the  White  Cowl,"  vocal 
and  instrumental  music  by  Mrs.  Nicholson,  Sigmund  Beel,  Louis 
Heine,  etc.  Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham's  annual  concert  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Endowment  Fund  of  the  Children's  Hospital  has 
been  definitely  set  for  tbe  19th  of  December,  and  that  it  will  be  a 
society  affair  in  the  fullest  meaning  of  the  word  is  a  foregone 
conclusion.  To-day,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Charles  Lux,  on 
Jackson  street,  the  Helping  Hand  Society  will  give  an  entertain- 
ment, which  they  promise  will  be  unusually  attractive.  It  will 
be  entitled  A  Seven  Days'  Idyl,  and  is  spoken  of  as  being  "charm- 
iug  and  original."  In  the  evening  a  musical  programme  will  be 
the  feature,  and  the  indications  all  point  to  a  great  success  and  a 
good  sum  being  netted  for  the  Golden  Gate  Kindergarten  Associa- 
tion. • 

The  Charity  Amateurs,  of  Oakland,  are  also  up  and  doing,  and 
in  the  beautiful  new  Macdonough  Theatre  they  will,  on  the  14th 
and  15th  of  next  month  produce  Rosedale,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Reliance  Athletic  Club  building  fund.  The  performance  is  looked 
forward  to  as  one  of  the  events  of  the  season  in  the  City  of  the 
Oaks.  Oakland  is  dividing  the  honors  with  San  Francisco  very 
equally  at  present,  and  soon  we  may  have  to  look,  to  oar  laurels 
that  we  be  not  eclipsed  as  entertainers.  Two  events  took  place 
last  week,  which  were  as  nearly  perfect  as  they  could  be  made — 
one,  the  violet  dinner  given  by  Mrs.  W.  E.  Sharon,  on  Wednes- 
day, at  which  Senator  Stewart  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  New- 
lands  were  the  guests  of  honor,  which  in  the  evening  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  musicale;  the  other  was  the  chrysanthemum  tea  of 
Mrs.  Theodore  Martin,  on  Thursday  afternoon,  at  her  pretty  resi- 
dence on  Boulevard  Terrace,  at  which  Mrs.  Rodman  Church  and 
the  Misses  Rae  Vrooman,  Mary  Wilson  ana  Georgie  Chandler  as- 
sisted the  hostess  in  caring  for  the  large  assemblage  of  guests. 


The  entertainment  of  the  ladies'  minstrels,  which  will  take 
place  at  the  Concordia  Club  on  the  evening  of  the  3d  proximo, 
is  to  be  a  unique  trial.  One  of  tbe  events  of  tbe  evening  will  be 
the  performance  of  the  fair  banjoists,  Miss  Carrie  Sachs,  Miss 
Viola  Hymen,  Mrs.  Will  Hockstadter,  Miss  Helen  Schweitzer  and 
Miss  Agnes  Hymen.  They  have  been  studying  hard  with  Ash- 
ton  Stevens  for  the  past  month,  and  every  tinkle  of  the  banjo  is 
expected  to  bring  a  responsive  foot-tap  from  the  delighted  lis- 
teners. 


An  unusual  number  of  buds  will  debut  th.s  season,  and  already 
the  premonicary  notes  are  heard  in  divers  forms  of  ihe  occasions 
so  auspicious  to  them.  A  number  have  decided  to  make  their  en- 
tree at  tbe  first  of  the  Friday  Night  cotillions  at  Odd  Fellows  Hall 
on  Friday  evening  of  next  week.  Others  will  make  their  initial 
appearance  as  young  ladies  at  teas  or  receptions  at  the  homes  of 
their  mothers  or  intimate  friends.  To  this  latter  class  belong 
Miss  Fanny  Loughborough,  Miss  Alice  Ames  and  Miss  McCut- 
cheon,  and  ou  tbe  other  side  of  the  bay  Miss  Nina  Pringle,  who 
made  her  formal  entrance  into  the  gay  world  at  a  dance  given  by 
her  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J.  Pringle,  at  their  residence  on 
Seventh  avenue  last  night.  Miss  Loughborough's  coming  out 
party  was  given  on  Wednesday  evening  at  tne  new  Loughborough 
house  on  O'Farrell  street,  while  Miss  McCutchen  and  Miss  Alice 
Ames  will  be  presented  to  tbe  Four  Hundred  at  a  tea  and  musi- 
cale which  will  take  place  at  the  Ames  residences  on  Taylor  street 
this  afternoon  and  evening. 

Other  partiei  last  week  included  Mrs.  William  Willis'  pink 
dinner  d' adieu  to  Miss  Adele  Martel,  who  will  spend  the  winter 
in  Ne"'  Orleans ;  Mrs.  Volney  Spaulding'a  dinner  to  Fred  Somers; 
Mrs.  Breylugle's  lunch  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Friday,  and  the  re- 
ception of  the  Misses  Clara  and  Nettie  Jenson  on  Webster  and 
Jackson  streets,  at  which  music  was  the  chief  feature.  To  these, 
it  may  be  added  theatre  parties,  followed  by  supper,  were  quite 
numerous,  that  of  Miss  Eva  Carolan  having  been  given  to  Miss 
Pullman,  who,  with  her  mother,  Mrs.  George  Pullman,  has  re- 
turned East,  greatly  to  the  disappointment  of  those  who  hoped 
she  would  be  one  of  the  features  of   our  social  world  this  winter. 


The  friends  and  acquaintances  of  the  Gwin  family  have  been 
greatly  pleased  this  week  at  receiving  the  cards  sent  out  by  Mrs. 
E.  J.  Coleman  and  Miss  Carrie  Gwin  announcing  aseries  of  recep- 
tions on  Tuesdays  during  December  and  January,  as  it  is  a  sign 
the  Gwin  house  will  not  remain  with  closed  doors  this  winter, 
but  be  once  again  among  those  most  pleasant  to  visit  in  this  city. 
The  Gwins  have  always  been  regarded  as  delightful  entertainers, 
and  this  emergence  of  the  daughters  of  the  house  from  their  long 
retirement  as  such  cannot  fail  to  add  materially  to  the  pleasure 
of  tbe  present  season. 

On  next  Wednesday  evening  the  musicale  at  Mrs.  Henry 
Williams'  will  be  the  second  of  the  series  of  entertainments  the 
School  for  Scandal  Club  intend  giving  this  winter,  and  which  was 
postponed  from  last  week. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Meta  McAllister  and  Mr.  John  H.  Jane- 
way,  Jr.,  illustrates  the  truth  of  the  old  saying  that  patience  and 
perseverance  accomplish  all  things,  Mr.  Janeway  having  been  an 
ardent  and  hitherto  unsuccessful  snitor  for  the  past  ten  years  of 
the  lady  who  is  now  bis  wife.  Their  wedding  was  celebrated  at  the 
residence  of  the  bride's  sister,  Miss  Julia  McAllister  in  Fifty-third 
street,  New  York  last  Monday  afternoon,  where  the  happy  pair 
stood  in  a  large  bow-window  which  was  beautifully  decorated 
with  flowers  and  foliage,  and  here  the  bride's  uncle  the  Rev. 
Marion  McAllister  who  came  on  from  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  per- 
formed the  ceremony  assisted  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Wesley  Brown, 
Bishop  Potter  bestowing  the  nuptial  blessing.  Tbe  bride,  who  is 
renowned  for  her  beauty  was  attended  by  seven  bridesmaids  and 
was  exquisitely  robed  in  a  wedding  gown  of  white  satin  and  a 
vail  of  point  lace,  her  hand  bouquet  being  composed  of  white 
roses  and  orange  blossoms.  The  maids  were  costumed  alike  in 
white  tulle.  The  musical  selections  were  sung  by  the  choir  of 
St.  Thomas' church,  and  only  relatives  were  present  at  the  ser- 
vice and  the  dejeuner  which  followed,  but  the  McAllister  connec- 
tion being  such  a  large  one  they  made  a  numerous  assemblage. 


The  Church  of  the  Immaculate  Conception  in  Oakland  was  the 
scene  of  a  pretty  French  wedding  party  last  Saturday  evening 
when  Miss  Emma  J.  Fossard  was  married  to  Edward  T.  Pasquale 
by  the  Rev.  Father  King  in  the  presence  of  a  large  number  of 
friends  who  crowded  the  church  to  witness  the  ceremony.  Messrs. 
Henry  C.  Pasquale,  and  L.  Lamory  acted  as  ushers,  Mr.  Gustave 
Bresse  as  best  man.  The  maid  of  honor  was  Miss  Olga  Mayer  and 
Miss  Emma  Marolf  the  bridesmaid.  The  bride  who  was  cos- 
tumed in  a  bridal  robe  of  white  silk  trimmed  with  Brussels  lace 
and  long  tulle  vail,  was  given  into  the  keeping  of  the  groom  by  her 
brother-in-law,  Charles  A.  Mayer.  After  the  ceremony  a  reception 
was  held  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Mayer  on  Tenth  street  where  con- 
gratulations were  received  and  then  an  elaborate  supper  partaken 
of  in  a  marque  erected  on  the  lawn,  where  toasts  were  drank, 
speeches  made  and  telegrams  of  greeting  read  from  distant 
friends.  After  supper  there  was  dancing  in  which  the  happy 
pair  joined  until  midnight  when  they  departed  amid  showers  of 
rice  and  good  wishes,  the  guests  remaining  to  dance  until  early 
morning.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pasquale  are  spending  their  honeymoon 
at  CoronadD  Beach. 


Miss  Clara  Sutro's  Bohemian  dinner,  given  by  her  at  one  of  the 
Italian  restaurants,  was  one  of  the  parties  of  Saturday  last.  After 
dinner  her  guests  accompanied  her  to  the  Sutro  residence,  on  Fill- 
more street,  and  a  merry  evening  was  passed  in  the  enjoyment  of 
music,  dancing,  games,  etc.,  and  they  did  not  separate  until  a 
late  hour. 


N'.n-.  26.  1892. 


<AN*   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LKTTEK. 


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The  dinner  given  by  Mrs.  Richard  Tobin  last  week  was  her  first 
entertainment  this  season,  but  it  is  understood  that  several 
(unction*  may  be  expected  at  her  hands  during  next  month  and 
January.  A  novel  emeriainmrnt  was  announced  to  take  place 
yesterday  afternoon  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Fiske,  2100  Bush 
street.  It  was  called  an  Indian  tea.  at  which  it  was  promised 
that  some  Indian  girls,  who  were  to  be  sent  down  from  Cbico  by 
Mrs.  John  Bldwell.  would  execute  some  native  dances.  There 
was  also  to  be  an  exhibit  of  curios.  »  native  and  to  the  manor  " 
peculiar;  the  proceeds  of  the  tea  to  be  devoted  to  the  collection  of 
an  Indian  Exhibit  for  the  Columbian  Fair.  It  was  to  take  place 
too  late  for  more  particular  mention  in  this  column  this  week. 

Among  new  residence  announcements  are  those  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  0.  Stubbs  who  are  now  occuping  their  new  residence  2519 
Pacific  avenue  where  Mrs.  Stubbs  will  receive  on  Fridays.  Mrs. 
Alex.  Forbes  and  her  daughters  are  settled  In  their  new  home  on 
the  corner  of  of  Jackson  and  Pierce  streets  and  Friday  will  also 
be  their  day  at  home,  as  it  will  be  of  Mrs.  R.  J.  W.  Cryan  who  has 
taken  the  H.  M.  A.  Miller  house,  1111  Pine  street,  for  the  winter. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  P.  Talbot  have  changed  their  locale  from  the 
Palace  Hole!  to  1910  Pacific  avenue;  and  Mrs.  Schwartz  from  1113 
Clay  street  to  2023  Pine  street,  where  the  second  Tuesday  of  the 
month  will  be  her  day  at  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Blanchard  Chase 
have  returned  from  their  summer  home.  Craigs  Leap  in  Napa  Val- 
ley, and  are  at  their  city  boms,  2217  Pacific  avenue  for  the  winter. 
Mrs.  Horace  Hill  is  domiciled  at  the  California  Hotel  for  the 
season. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  A.  Frank  have  returned  from  their  flying  trip 
East,  which  was  none  the  less  a  remarkably  enjoyable  one.  Mr. 
J.  L.  Flood  and  Nat  Measer  are  also  back  from  their  visit  to  New 
York.  Mrs.  John  D.  Yobt  and  her  daughter  were  in  New  York 
early  this  week,  en  route  home  from  Europe,  and  Joe  Grant  has 
also  been  busy  this  week  taking  in  all  the  pleasures  of  Gotham. 
Mra.[Romnaldo  Pacheco  is  pleasantly  settled  for  the  winter  at  the 
Hotel  Vendome,  New  York  city,  and  is,  as  usual,  busy  with  her 
pen. 

Mrs.  Dan  Callaghan  and  her  daughter  returned  from  a  length- 
ened tour  of  Europe,  last  Tuesday.  Mrs.  George  Hearst,  who  has 
been  abroad  most  of  the  summer,  is  expected  to  arrive  in  New 
York  from  Europe  about  the  1st  of  December,  and  is  looked  for 
in  Ban  Francisco  in  time  for  the  holidays.  She  will  probably 
make  a  visit  here  of  some  duration. 

It  is  said  that  it  is  quite  on  the  cards  that  Miss  Eva  McAllister 
will  accompany  her  sister,  Mrs.  Frank  Newlands,  to  Washington 
City,  and  spend  the  winter  there  with  her,  in  which  event  it  is 
quite  probable  that  Miss  Julia  Peyton,  of  Santa  Cruz,  will  be  the 
guest  of  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Hall  McAllister,  in  Rosa  Valley,  where 
also  will  be  Mrs.  Marion  Wise. 

San  Francisco  society,  charitable  and  otherwise,  is  about  to 
sustain  a  loss  in  the  departure  of  Mrs.  Ariel  Lathrop,  Mr.  Lathrop 
having  decided  to  return  to  his  former  Eastern  home  to  spend  the 
rest  of  his  days.  They  will  leave  for  New  York  early  next  week, 
and  that  they  will  be  missed  and  regretted  goes  without  saying. 

Mrs.  and  Miss  Acosta  sailed  for  Mazatlan  last  week,  where 
they  will  remain  until  next  spring.  Admiral  and  Mrs.  Irwin  have 
been  guests  at  the  Occidental  Hotel  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  John  Garber,  accompanied  by  her  daughter,  Miss  Garber, 
is  visiting  her  other  daughter,  Mrs.  Whitney  Polache,  in  Portland, 
Or. 


In  a  neat  programme  with  an  artistic  design  by  Dan  Polk  on 
the  front  page,  Mr.  Wilkie  announces  the  events  for  his  first  bal- 
lad concert  on  the  afternoon  of  Thursday  next,  at  3  o'clock,  in  the 
Maple  Hall,  Palace  Hotel.  The  members  are  as  follows :  Glee  (five 
voices)—"  Sigh  No  More,  Ladies,"  R.  J.  S.  Stevens  (a.  d.  1757-1837). 
Miss  Berry,  Miss  Wood,  Mrs.  Dickman,  Messrs.  Wilkie  and  Car- 
roll; Ballad — "The  Anchor's  Weighed,"  Braham  (a.  d.  1774-1856). 
Alfred  Wilkie;  Song — »  Never  Again,"  Cowen,  Mr.  Chas.  J.  Dick- 
man;  Piano  Solo — "  Idylle,"  Jensen,  Mr,  S.  G.  Fleishman;  Song — 
,(I  Dare  To  Love  Thee,"  Tosti,  Miss  Maude  L.  Berry;  Duet— r 
"Dews  of  the  Summer  Night."  Buck,  Mrs.  Dickman  and  Mr. 
Wilkie;  Song— "  A  Brigand's  Life,"  Shield  (a.  d.  1748-1829),  Mr. 
Victoria  Carroll;  Piano  Solo — "  Polonaise,"  Moszkows/ci,  Mr.  S.  G. 
Fleishman;  Madrigal  (six  voices) — "Charm  Me  Asleep,"  Leslie 
(a.  d.  1822),  Miss  Berry,  Miss  Wood,  Mrs.  Dickman,  Messrs. 
Wilkie,  Stadtfeld  and  Carroll.  R.  Fletcher  Tilton,  Ac- 
companist. 

Mesdames  Lilienthal,  Walter  Haas,  and  others,  are  preparing 
a  fair,  to  take  place  December  1st,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
William  Haas,  2007  Franklin  street,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Hospital  and  Training  School  for  Nurses.  The  house  will 
be  open  from  3  to  10  p.  m.,  for  the  sale  of  toys  and  other  dona- 
tions, and  the  affair  will  conclude  with  a  dance.  The  charity  to 
be  benefited  is  a  most  worthy  one,  and  the  fair  will  doubtless  be 
very  well  attended. 


The  Helping  Hand  Society,  auxiliary  to  the  Golden  Gate  Kin- 
dergarten Association,  will  present  A  Seven  Days'1  Idyl  to-day, 
from  2  to  11  p.  m.,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Charles  Lux,  north- 
west corner  of  Jackson  and  Gough  streets.  A  musical  pro- 
gramme will  be  presented  both  afternoon  and  evening. 


SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 

PHARMACY     FRANCAIS. 
Ill  Grant  Ave.  Telephone  103O 

Parfumkrik  Victoria.  Klgaild'*  &  Cle's  Lucrecia  Graciosa,  Louis  XV 
aud  Exora  d'Afrique  are  the  latest  odors  aud  so  diirerent  from  perfumes 
familiar  toeveryo.  e.  Plveof  Legraud's  violet  aud  Roger  &  Gallet'sLublu 
and  Piuaud's  perfumes.  Snap.  SacliauFaee  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc 

Piuand's  8  ounce  bodies.  ?3,50:  regular  size  reduced  from  $1.25  to  85 
cents  per  bot'le.  including  Peau  d^pague  in   bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

Every  lady  knows  that  exclusiveness  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as 
in  dress. 


DODGE  BROS., 


STATIIlJiKIIS. 
KKR.NERS. 


We  use  Ames'  unrivaled  wedding  paper  and 
cards  only.  They  are  the  medium  of  all  the  great 
society  events. 

COPPER  PLATES.    OOC    PfiQT   CT 
WEDDMTO  MRUS.   ££J    T  UO  I     Jl, 

The  opening  of  the  new  Young  Women's  Home  in  Oakland 
will  be  signalized  by  a  series  of  social  entertainments,  commenc- 
ing oj  December  1st.  Many  of  the  leading  charitable  ladies  in 
the  town  have  enlisted  their  sympathies  in  the  cause,  and  the 
proceedings  will  be  guide.!  by  Mrs.  Curtiss,  Mrs.  Pierce,  Mrs. 
Mygatt,  Mrs.  Sharon,  Miss  Fare,  Miss  Albright,  Miss  Clara  Hard- 
ing, Miss  Phcebe  Smith,  Miss  Clara  Louise  Safford,  Miss  Florence 
Sharon,  Miss  Pauline  Fore,  Miss  Minnie  Campbell,  Miss  Clisby, 
Mrs.  Tracy  Hardy,  Miss  Sophie  Hardy,  Mrs.  Washington  Berry, 
Mrs.  H.  C.  Capwell,  Mrs.  O.  B.  Allen,  Mrs.  Charles  Mau,  Miss 
Gussie  Fuegel,  Miss  Samon,  Miss  Westphal,  Miss  Ilsen,  Miss 
Schlund,  Miss  Sylvia  Chapman,  Miss  Blix  Smith,  Miss  Crouch, 
Miss  Murray,  Miss  Dora  Craig,  Miss  McDonald,  Miss  Lilian  Mor- 
ley,  Miss  Hazel  Curtiss,  Mrs.  T.  H.  Minon,  Mrs.  G.  M.  Stolp, 
Mrs.  John  Treadwelt,  Mrs.  John  Russ,  Mrs.  James  Treadwell. 


The  amateur  theatrical  company  in  Oakland  known  as  the 
Arcanians  and  composed  of  well  known  society  people,  propose 
giving  a  series  of  performances  this  winter  for  charitable  pur- 
poses. The  first  was  given  a  few  evenings  ago  in  Washington 
Hall,  East  Oakland,  for  the  benefit  of  tbe  Francis  Murphy  Gos- 
pel Temperance  Reading  Room  on  Seventh  and  Washington 
streets.  Quite  a  neat  sum  was  netted  on  this  occasion  "all  for 
sweet  charity."  A  farce  in  one  act  was  well  presented.  One  of 
the  best  sustained  characters  was  Mr.  Freddie  Penn  ,  "a  reporter 
for  the  San  Francisco  News  Letter"  by  Fletcher  S.  Hoyt.  "A 
Finished  Coquette,"  a  comedy,  was  also  given  well.  There  is 
considerable  talent  among  these  amateurs,  and  the  entertainments 
will  be  social  features  this  season. 


The  ladies  of  Violet  Circle  of  King's  Daughters  will  give  their 
initial  entertainment  in  the  parlors  of  the  first  United  Presby- 
terian Church  on  Tuesday  evening,  November  29th.  The  ladies 
have  secured  the  best  local  talent,  and  in  addition  to  musical 
numbers  by  well-known  people  who  have  kindly  volunteered 
their  services,  Miss  Ida  Krueger  will  give  a  miscellaneous  read- 
ing.   

About  the  most  pleasant  social  event  in  Oakland  during  the 
past  month  was  the  debut  last  night  of  Miss  Nina  Pringle,  of 
East  Oakland.  The  affair  consisted  of  a  reception  at  the  elegant 
residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J.  Pringle,  on  Seventh  avenue,  and 
in  response  to  the  many  cards  sent  out,  a  large  social  throng  as- 
sembled. 

A  fair  will  be  held  on  December  9th  by  the  lady  managers  of 
the  Free  to  All  Kindergarten,  of  Oakland,  in  the  Congregational 
Church. 

The  Berlins  will  give  their  fourteenth  hop  at  Odd  Fellows' 
Hall,  Tuesday  evening,  November  29,  1892. 

Mrs.  Louis  H.  Thibault,  from  France,  is  visiting  her  mother, 
Mrs.  Elam,  at  1915  Pierce  street. 

Mrs.  Alexander  C.  Stuart  is  passing  the  winter  with  Mrs.  Elam, 
at  1915  Pierce  street. 

Mrs.  Robert  H.  Elam  has  moved  to  her  new  home,  1915  Pierce 
street. 

QSPRICES 


® 


am  Baking 
Powder 


The  only  Pure  Cream  of  tartar  Powder. — No  ammonia;   No  Alum 
Used  in   Millions   of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard. 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Nov.  26, 1892. 


A    PROVERB.—  F.  S.  Palmer. 


Let  Beggar  Cupid  come  to  woo 
The  maiden  of  his  fancies; 

Her  mother  keeps  them  both  in  view- 
A-spoiiing  of  his  chances. 

But  Crcesus  Cupid  laughs  to  see 
The  mother  of  his  fair  go; 

Proverb  and  practice  well  agree — 
'Tis  "  money  makes  the  mere  go!  " 


CHRYSANTHEMUMS    AND    ROSES. 

FLOWERS  have  their  fashionable  innings  much  the  same  as 
colors,  and  though  the  rose  is  certainly  always  loveable,  still, 
Bomehow,  the  chrysanthemum  has  for  the  past  few  years  been 
attracting  an  admiration  which  is  certainly  remarkable.  What 
there  is  about  this  gorgeous  flower  to  create  so  much  enthusiasm 
ia  "  what  no  fellow  can  understand."  The  plain,  ragged-edged 
chrysanthemum  has  a  peculiar  sort  of  beauty,  about  the  same 
fascination  a  ragged-edged  sheet  of  paper  in  heliotrope,  or  green, 
or  mauve,  or  dyspeptic  pink  has.  They  of  course  have  their 
uses,  and  who  can  deny  that  when  a  chrysanthemum  is  worn 
in  the  lapel  of  so  distinguished  a  citizen  as  James  D.  Fhelan, 
it  takes  on  a  new  lustre.  Thechrysanthemum  show  held  last  win- 
ter in  Los  Angeles,  developed  some  remarkably  beautiful  speci- 
mens, and  the  flowerage  in  the  vast  hall  was  a  sight  which  those 
who  witnessed  it  never  shall  forget.  The  »  Cora  "  chrysanthe- 
mum belongs  to  the  "  Mrs.  Alpheus  Hardy  "  class,  and  has  the 
same  form,  but  is  much  larger  and  of  a  bright  lemon-yellow.  This 
flower  has  taken  its  name  from  Mrs.  Timothy  L.  Woodruff,  pre- 
sumably of  New  York,  and  its  peculiarity  is  the  long,  narrow 
petals  growing  up  between  the  broad,  incurved  ones,  forming  a 
compact,  massive  globe.  Then  we  have  the  <•  Nellie  Foster  Con- 
don," named  after  the  daughter  of  this  New  York  florist.  It  is 
of  the  purest  creamy  white,  tinged  in  the  center  with  clear  canary 
yellow,  and  measures  sometimes  ten  inches  in  diameter,  a  verit- 
able bonanza  for  a  corsage.  Mr.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  has  given 
a  name  to  a  chrysanthemum.  It  is  a  large  Japanese  flower, 
high  and  cup-shaped,  double,  with  thick  folded  petals.  Chauncey 
M.  Depew  is  represented  by  a  deep  magenta  purple  flower,  with 
fluffy  and  horizontal  petals,  while  Miss  Minnie  Wanamaker  can 
feel  proud  of  her  namesake,  which  is  very  large  and  very  white, 
and  very  similar  to  the  "  Mrs.  Langtry."  The  "  Billy  Florence  " 
is  a  new  creation,  and  this  is  the  year  of  its  birth.  The  inside  of 
the  petal  is  maroon  and  the  outside  pink.  It  is  of  the  reflexed 
variety,  with  erect  petals,  twisted  at  the  points.  Other  new 
chrysanthemums  of  this  year  are  the  ,(  Margaret  Rutherford," 
"  Lillian  M.  Thomas,"  "  Sister  Kate  "  and  "  Temple  of  Solomon." 
There  is  another  new  flower  called  <•  The  Clara,"  which  is  much 
admired  by  connoisseurs.  Flowers  not  generally  known  are  the 
•*  Laura  "  and  the  "Jack  Van  Nostrand."  The  "  Laura  "  is  of 
light  silver  pink  with  long  fluffy  petals,  and  the  "  Jack  Van  Nos- 
trand "  is  deep  purple  pink,  shading  to  pale  lilac,  and  merges  into 
silver  white  with  age.  Other  chrysanthemums  which  will  be  sure 
to  attract  attention  are  the  "  Mrs.  Jerome  Jones,"  a  pure  white; 
the  "  Fascination,"  which  is  lemon-yellow,  is  sure  to  become 
popular.  The  "Joseph  H.  White"  is  white,  soft  and  flaky, 
while  the  "J.  H.  Spaulding  "  is  large  and  shaded  like  autumn 
foliage,  and  the  "  Pink  Pearl  "  is  of  enormous  size,  pearl  color, 
and  lovely  form.  The  new  roses  to  dazzle  with  their  beauty  the 
lovers  of  flowers  next  spring,  are  "The  American  Belle,"  which 
has  a  lovely  satin-like  pink,  and  will  prove  a  companion  to  "The 
American  Beauty."  "  The  Mad  Caroline  Testout  "  has  a  charm- 
ing shade  of  clear  pink,  and  is'an  improvement  on  the  "  La 
France."  The  "  Mrs.  W.  C.  Whitney  "  is  a  new  seedling,  and  is 
bright  pink  in  color  and  deliciously  fragrant.  "The  Kaiserina 
Augusta  Victoria  "  is  a  new  magnolia-scented  rose.  It  is  tinted 
like  a  lemon.  A  brilliant  crimson  is  "  The  Meteor."  From  this 
short  category  the  flower  lover  will  have  a  chance  to  learn  new 
specimens  from  which  to  add  to  his  collection. 


Inferior  Goods. 

The  only  safe  way  for  purchasers  is  to  insist  on  having  the  genuine 
article,  and  not  allow  themselves  to  be  swindled  by  having  plasters 
said  to  be  "  just  as  good  "  or  "containing  superior  ingredients"  im- 
posed upon  them.  These  are  only  tricks  to  sell  inferior  goods  that 
no  more  compare  with  Allcock's  Porous  Plasters  than  copper  does 
with  gold.  One  trial  of  Allcock's  Porous  Plasters  will  convince  the 
most  skeptical  of  their  merits. 

The  eminent  Henry  A.  Mott,  Jr.,  Ph.  D.,  F.  C.  S.,  late  Government 
Chemist,  certifies: 

"  My  investigation  of  Allcock's  Porous  Plaster  shows  it  to  con- 
tain valuable  and  essential  ingredients  not  found  in  any  other  plas- 
ter, and  I  find  it  superior  to  and  more  efficient  than  any  other  plas- 
ter." 

Ask  for  Allcock's,  and  let  no  solicitation  or  explanation  induce 
you  to  accept  a  substitute. 

If  you  wish  to  get  suited  in  furnishing  goods  of  the  latest  fashions 
and  best  material  for  fall  and  winter  wear,  then  patronize  John  W. 
Carmauy,  of  25  Kearny  street.    He  always  has  the  best. 


n.   :m:.   :*te3t*7-:ei^XjI_.   <sc   co., 


SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS : 


GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco- 
National  Assurance  Company      -----      of  Ireland 
Atlas  Assurance  Company      ------      of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


«. 


« 


II 


Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction: 
"Wood" 

Arc 
Factories  : 
Port  Wayne, 

Indiana; 
Brooklyn. 
New  York. 


ELECTRICAL  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
zona and  Washington  of  the 
Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Estimates  furnished  for  electric  railways,  electric 
light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  work 
a  specialty. 
jj  35  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


STEAM 
BOILER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 


OLD     SCALE     REMOVED,  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the  use  of  


LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

vOver  800  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  50  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn   Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


R.   J.  WHEELER. 


3,   W.   QIRVIN. 


d.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Payerweather  &  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  8.  F.,  Cal. 

WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO  , 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION    MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     cor.      Pine     and      Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 


Agents    or 

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XjOTJIS   OAHE1T   <Sc   SOIT, 


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sale Liquor  Dealers. 
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Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

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Auctioneers   and    Commission   Merchants, 
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LAVER,    MULLANY    &   LAVER, 

ARCHITECTS, 

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or  renovation  of  dwelling  houses,  and  every  description  of  huilding. 
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be  obtained  regarding  subscription  and  advertising  rates. 


THE  journalistic  graveyard  in  San  Jose  has  received  another 
addition,  the  Phoenix,  of  J.  J.  Owen,  having  joined  the  silent 
majority.  For  some  time  there  have  been  more  daily  papers  in 
the  Garden  City  than  in  San  Francisco,  and  it  was  to  be  expected 
that  a  number  of  them  would  die  from  inanition.  San  Jose  is  a 
good  two-paper  town,  and  more  than  that  there  is  no  excuse  for 
existence. 


THE  San  Jacinto  Estate  (Limited)  has  increased  its  capital  stock 
by  the  issuance  of  200,000  new  shares  at  5  shillings  each,  and 
will  proceed  at  once  to  phsh  development  work  on  its  property, 
the  Temescal  Tin  Mines,  in  San  Bernardino  County.  The  expert 
sent  to  investigate  reported  that  the  lode  on  which  all  work  has 
been  done  ia  a  true  fissure  vein  and  according  to  all  experience, 
tin  should  be  found  in  it  at  a  greater  depth  than  has  yet  been 
reached. 


IN  settling  the  Senatorship  question,  one  element  appears  to 
have  escaped  the  attention  of  certain  candidates  who  believe 
that  they  have  the  prize  within  their  grasp.  This  is  the  unpleas- 
ant fact  that  when  it  comes  to  a  joint  ballot  it  will  be  found  that 
the  balance  of  power  in  the  Legislature  is  with  the  Populist 
members,  and  that  as  a  matter  of  fact  they  have  it  in  their  power 
to  name  the  next  Senator.  Candidates  should  not  lose  sight  of 
this  potent  fact. 

ONE  of  the  most  complete  and  thorough  "roastings"  that  was  ever 
given  to  a  man,  was  administered  last  week  by  Frank  Mof&tt  to 
John  P.  Irish  in  the  columns  of  the  Oakland  Times.  Irish  had  pub- 
lished an  article  in  the  Stockton  Mail  undertaking  to  demonstrate 
that  had  he  been  nominated  for  Congress  against  Hilborn  in  the  Third 
District  he  would  have  beaten  him  out  of  sight.  In  reply  Moffitt 
administers  a  "roast"  whose  ardent  heat  must  have  penetrated  the 
hide  of  even  the  pachydermatous  Irish. 


A  "CONVERTED  "  Jew,  Dr.  Kohn,  has  been  appointed  Roman 
Catholic  Archbishop  of  Olmiitz.  This  is  commented  on  by  a  good 
many  devout  Christians,  Catholic  and  otherwise,  as  quite  a  start- 
ling innovation.  They  seem  to  forget  that  the  vast  majority  of 
the  early  church  dignitaries,  self-made  or  appointed,  were  Jews 
by  birth,  and  that  the  founder  of  the  Christian  religion  and  bis 
messengers  were  Jews,  so  that  Hebrew  birth  ought  to  be  no  dis- 
qualification, but  rather  a  recommendation  for  office  in  a  church 
whose  doctrines  are  founded  for  a  great  part  upon  Jewish  the- 
ology.  ■  

COLONEL  DODDS  is  in  possession  of  the  place  where  once  the 
village  stood  which  was  called  the  capital  of  Dahomey;  not  of 
this  village  itself,  however,  for  King  Behanzin,  just  as  the  Russians 
at  the  advance  of  Napoleon  I.  destroyed  Moscow,  committed 
Abomey  to  the  flames  before  leaving,  and  the  French  invaders 
found  nothing  but  the  smouldering  ruins.  The  King  and  his 
army  have  retired  into  the  fastnesses  of  the  wilderness,  and 
Colonel  Dodds,  or  rather  General  Dodds,  as  be  will  soon  be  called, 
although  he  nominally  has  conquered  the  country,  actually  has 
added  to  France  only  a  second  Tonquin,  where  French  troops 
for  years  will  have  to  carry  on  war,  provided  France  intends  re- 
taining the  territory. 

IT  is  understood  that  the  suicide  theory  is  about  to  be  sprung  as 
a  solution  of  the  murder  mystery  that  agitates  Stockton.  Since 
it  has  been  demonstrated  that  Planz  tied  his  feet  together,  fast- 
ened his  hands  behind  his  back,  climbed  a  tree,  turned  his  pock- 
ets inside  out,  adjusted  a  rope  about  his  neck,  and  then  hanged 
himself,  there  is  nothing  intrinsically  improbable  in  the  supposi- 
tion that  the  unknown  Stockton  man  killed  himself,  cut  his  body 
into  pieces,  and  distributed  it  about  the  Slough  City.  When  in- 
competent detectives  and  <<  fly"  newspaper  fellows  fail  to  obtain 
the  correct  solution  of  a  crime  involving  murder  they  fall  back  on 
the  suicide  theory,  though  to  do  so  involves  a  series  of  insults  to 
the  common  sense  of  the  feeblest  intellect. 


THE  Sacramento  Record- Union  reads  the  daily  press  of  this  city 
a  deserved  lecture  for  the  manner  in  which  it  publishes  biased 
and  garbled  reports  of  the  meetings  of  the  Railroad  Commission- 
ers. It  asserts  that  three  of  the  leading  papers  undisguisedly  re- 
fuse to  report  those  proceedings  truly,  and  justly  claims  that  the 
public  is  entitled  to  a  colorless  account  in  the  news  columns,  ir- 
respective of  any  opinions  that  may  be  expressed  editorially. 
The  Record-Union  is  right.  It  ia  not  alone  the  proceedings  of  the 
Railroad  Commissioners  that  are  garbled.  There  is  not  a  reporter 
in  this  city  but  knows  it  ia  a  common  practice  for  some  newspa- 
per representatives  in  attendance  at  meetings  of  various  kinds 
to  agree  to  "burn  up"  somebody  or  some  member  thereof,  and  to 
supply  their  papers  with  not  only  garbled  but  absolutely  false  ac- 
counts of  the  proceedings.  It  is  thia  disgraceful  conduct  that  has 
brought  much  reproach  upon  an  honorable  profession. 


THE  average  country  minister  ia  long  suffering  and  patient,  and 
is  wont  to  eke  out  his  scanty  salary  with  "donations"  of 
wormy  apples,  knotty  wood,  and  half-decayed  potatoes  and  tur- 
nips. He  is  in  fact,  twin  brother  in  this  respect  to  the  average 
rural  journalist.  But  the  worm  sometimes  turns,  and  a  poor 
preacher  down  at  Santa  Ana  is  now  enacting  the  part  of  the 
aforesaid  worm.  A  congregation  engaged  him  to  save  their  souls 
for  the  liberal  stipend  of  ?800  a  year,  but  so  self-confessedly 
worthless  were  those  souls  that  their  ownera  paid  the  parson  only 
$173,  leaving  him  to  whistle  for  the  balance.  The  minister  has 
now  brought  suit  against  the  church  for  his  back  salary,  with 
interest.  Of  course  such  worldly  raindedneaa  as  this  has 
made  all  the  stingy  but  pious  church  members  hold  up  their 
hands  in  holy  horror,  but  it  is  to  be  hoped  the  parson  will  win 
his  suit  even  if  the  church  has  to  be  attached  and  sold  for  the 
debt. 


TO  an  unprejudiced  observer  the  shooting  of  the  two  convicts 
at  San  Quentin,  last  Tuesday  morning,  looks  very  like  a  case 
of  deliberate  murder.  According  to  the  shooter's  own  statement, 
he  was  stationed  where  the  convicts  could  by  no  possibility  have 
reached  him;  the  two  particular  prisoners  were  expected  to  at- 
tempt an  escape,  and  he  was  instructed  to  shoot  them  down  with- 
out a  word  of  warning  or  so  much  as  an  order  to  halt.  Without 
inquiring  why,  if  the  attempt  to  escape  were  known  in  advance, 
the  prisoners  were  not  searched  or  removed  to  other  cells,  one 
may  certainly  ask  if  the  laws  contemplate  or  authorize  the  self- 
constitution  of  the  prison  officials  as  judge,  jury  and  executioner 
aimply  because  some  of  their  charges  are  troublesome  and  their 
death  would  be  welcomed?  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  Guard  Alex- 
ander has  a  tough  conscience,  for  the  ordinary  citizen  would  cer- 
tainly not  care  to  have  auch  a  burden  of  blood  upon  his  mind  aa 
he  has  assumed  in  deliberately  murdering  an  unsuspecting  man 
without  giving  him  a  ghoat  of  a  chance. 


IT  is  reported  that  the  German  and  Austrian  Ambassadors  have 
made  strong  representations  lately  to  Cardinal  Rampolla,  Papal 
Secretary  of  State,  on  recent  utterances  made  or  inspired  by  the 
Vatican,  plainly  indicating  the  Pope's  sympathies  with  modern 
democratic  progress.  It  is  easily  understood  that  the  European 
monarchs  are  alarmed  at  the  attitude  of  Leo  XIII.  toward  France 
and  his  eulogy  of  the  United  States.  Catholicism  is  a  wide-spread 
religion,  and  its  power  is  so  well  organized  that  the  Pope  ia  quite 
able  to  influence  by  hia  advice  and  wishes  the  greater  number  of 
Catholics,  not  only  as  regards  their  religious,  but  also  their  social 
and  political  views  and  activity.  Leo  XIII.,  in  openly  approving 
republican  form3  of  government  where  such  are  eatabliahed,  in- 
directly aupporta  republican  aspirations  in  countries  where  mon- 
archy still  exists,  and  the  monarchs  have  good  reason  to  see  dan- 
ger for  their  thrones  in  such  encouragement.  The  Pope  is  not 
likely  to  mind  the  representations  made  to  him  by  Germany  and 
Austria.  Even  though  the  power  of  the  Vatican  can  better  be 
exercised  in  countries  ruled  by  monarchs  than  in  republics,  the 
Pope  ia  too  well  aware  of  the  modern  tendency  of  nations  to  ad- 
vance towards  democracy  not  to  make  believe  that  he  is  in  sym- 
pathy with  such  a  tendency,  which  the  Popes,  even  if  they  tried, 
would  not  be  able  to  suppress  for  any  length  of  time,  and  Leo 
XIII. 's  attitude,  whether  sincere  or  not,  is  a  sign  of  great  political 
shrewdness. 


SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


AN    EXTRA    SESSION. 

A  GREAT  deal  of  interest  is  felt  by  people  in  every  portion  of 
the  United  States  in  the  question  whether  President  elect 
Cleveland  will  convene  Congress  in  an  extra  session,  in  advance  of 
the  regular  meeting  of  that  body  in  December.  1893.  It  is  a  matter 
which  concerns  everybody,  for  the  fiscal  and  financial  policy  of  the 
Federal  Government  is  felt  in  every  uook  and  corner  of  the  nation, 
and  by  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  people.  There  can  be  no  mistaking 
the  result  of  the  recent  Presidential  and  Congressional  election.  The 
Republican  party  was  defeated  and  the  Democratic  party  restored  to 
power  simply  and  solely  because  a  majority  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States  honestly  believed  that  a  high  protective  tariff  was  det- 
rimental to  their  interests,  and  that  the  condition  of  the  coimtrv  as  a 
whole  would  be  improved  by  a  reduction  in  duties  on  imports.  It 
was  not  the  McKinley  bill  which  brought  about  this  result,  except  in 
so  far  as  that  bill  was  the  exponent  and  the  most  recent  expression 
of  a  protective  policy.  It  was  protection  itself  that  was  on  trial,  and 
it  was  against  protection  that  the  adverse  verdict  of  the  people  was 
rendered.  The  McKinley  bill  itself  was,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  a  more 
liberal  tariff  measure  than  some  that  had  preceded  it,  but  because  it 
was  a  measure  passed  by  the  party  of  protection  it  was  made  the 
focal  point  of  the  Democratic  attack  on  the  protective  policy.  The 
battle  having  been  won,  it  would  certainly  seem  the  duty  of  the  con- 
quering army  to  follow  up  its  advantage  and  secure  the  fruits  of  its 
victory  as  certainly  and  speedily  as  possible.  The  people  of  the 
United  States  have  instructed  the  Democratic  party  to  revise  the  tar- 
iff on  the  lines  of  greatly  reduced  duties  on  certain  classes  of  im- 
ports, particularly  raw  materials.  There  is  no  uncertainty  or  ambigu- 
ity in  the  instructions,  and  the  people  have  a  perfect  right  to  de- 
mand that  the  work  of  reconstruction  be  begun  at  once.  To  call  an 
extra  session  of  Congress  imposes  on  the  taxpayers  only  the  actual 
cost  of  the  employees  of  that  body  for  the  session,  for  the  Senators 
and  Representatives  are  paid  salaries,  and  these  salaries  begin  on  the 
4th  of  March  and  go  right  along,  whether  the  members  of  Congress 
are  at  work  in  Washington  or  are  doing  nothing  at  home.  If  we 
glance  over  the  files  of  the  most  influential  newspapers  in  the  coun- 
try we  shall  find  that  the  independent  papers  favor  an  extra  session, 
but  with  some  trepidation,  as  though  they  would  like  to  have  Mr. 
Cleveland  express  his  views  first;  the  Democratic  papers  are  divided 
on  the  question,  but  with  a  decided  majority  in  favor  of  an  extra  ses- 
sion, and  the  Republican  papers  generally  favor  it.  All  agree  on 
one  point,  that  revision  of  the  tariff  is  the  bounden  duty  of  the  Dem- 
ocratic party,  and  that  it  is  of  importance  that  the  work  of  reform 
should  be  begun  just  as  soon  as  possible.  One  argument  in  favor  of 
an  extra  session  does  not  seem  to  have  been  made,  as  yet,  and  that 
is  that  if  the  beginning  of  the  work  of  tariff  revision  be  put  off  to  the 
December  session  of  next  year,  there  will  be  no  real  work  done  until 
February  or  March,  1894,  and  that  not  only  will  a  whole  year  be 
wasted,  but  the  new  tariff  will  become  inextricably  mixed  up  with  the 
Congressional  election  of  1894,  which  will  not  be  to  the  advantage  of 
the  Democratic  party.  The  people  of  the  United  States  will  not  be 
satisfied  that  a  party  put  into  possession  of  the  government  by  a  vote 
cast  in  November,  1892,  should  not  have  formulated  and  put  into 
active  operation  a  tariff  policy,  in  time  to  have  the  result  of  the  new 
scheme  known  before  November,  1894.  A  tariff,  no  matter  under 
what  auspices  it  may  be  framed,  is  always  an  experiment,  and  when 
a  test  is  to  be  made,  it  should  be  made  with  just  as  little  delay  as  pos- 
sible, in  order  that  its  results  may  be  made  public  in  time  to  receive 
the  popular  approval  or  disapproval  at  the  next  succeeding  Congress, 
ional  election.  There  is,  too,  another  very  good  reason  for  the  call- 
ing of  an  extra  session  next  spring,  and  that  is  the  financial  condition 
of  the  country.  When  Mr.  Cleveland  and  his  Cabinet  take  office 
there  will  be  a  balancing  of  books  and  an  overhauling  of  accounts,  and 
while  it  is  not  charged  that  the  Harrison  Administration  has  been 
dishonest,  there  are  grave  reasons  for  believing  thatr,Secretary  Foster's 
peculiar  method  of  rendering  his  statements  does  not  show  the  actual 
state  of  the  Government's  finances,  and  that  the  surplus  of  four  years 
ago  may  have  been  replaced  by  a  deficit.  If  such  be  the  case,  Con- 
gress will  have  to  provide  for  meeting  the  current  expenses  of  the 
Government,  even  before  it  turns  its  attention  to  the  tariff,  and  the 
only  constitutional  way  will  be  to  make  a  loan  on  the  credit  of  the 
Government.  It  will  be  a  curious  commentary  on  Republican  finan- 
ciering, if  the  Democrats  on  coming  into  power  find  not  only  an 
empty  treasury,  but  an  actual  deficit  staring  them  in  the  face.  Of 
course  it  will  be  the  simplest  thing  in  the  world  to  get  the  money,  and 
at  a  low  rate  of  interest,  but  it  wdl  require  the  action  of  Congress  to 
do  it.  In  considering  these  questions  we  may  assume  that  Mr.  Cleve- 
land will  be  guided  in  a  great  measure  by  the  advice  of  the  leading 
men  of  the  Democratic  party  upon  whose  judgment  he  can  rely,  and  it 
is  understood  that  most  of  these  believe  that  the  manly  and  courage- 
ous way  is  tbe  best  way.  Charles  G.  Fairchild  is  said  to  be  booked 
for  his  former  position  as  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  and  it  will  take 
him  only  a  short  time,  with  his  familiarity  with  national  finances,  to 
determine  whether  there  is  a  financial  necessity  for  an  extra  session. 
Among  Mr.  Cleveland's  most  trusted  advisers  will  certainly  be  Wil- 
liam C.  Whitney,  and  while  Mr.  Whitney  has  not  expressed  himself 
definitely  on  the  subject  of  an  extra  session,  he  is  believed  to  favor 
it.  On  the  whole,  then,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  outlook  at  the  pres- 
ent time  is  decidedly  favorable  to  the  convening  of  Congress  next 
spring,  in  response  to  what  seems  to  be  a  general  demand. 


GLADSTONE'S  IRISH  POLICY. 

THE  Irish  policy  of  Mr.  Gladstone  and  his  friends  has  taught  the 
London  socialists  a  dangerous  lesson.  Seeing  that  the  present 
Prime  Minister  displays  strong  sympathies  for  people  in  Ireland  who 
pay  no  rents,  and  that  the  government  even  induces  the  Irish  tenants 
to  expect  financial  assistance,  the  socialist  agitators  of  the  British 
capital  call  upon  their  followers  to  imitate  the  Irish  in  refusing  to 
pay  rent,  and  it  would  not  be  astonishing  if  their  advice  were  to  be 
followed  by  the  thousands  of  unemployed  in  London,  who  during  the 
severe  winter  season  will  hardly  be  able  to  procure  even  the  merest 
necessities  of  life.  Henry  Waite,  a  well-known  Socialist  leader,  in  a 
speech  delivered  last  week,  is  reported  to  have  said  to  his  listeners: 
"Any  man  that  after  to-day  pays  a  farthing  for  rent  while  his  family 
has  not  sufficient  food  is  a  cur."  This  language,  unjustifiable  and 
immoral  though  it  may  be  under  ordinary  circumstances,  and  this 
advice  to  people  to  repudiate  their  obligations,  receives  quite  a  differ- 
ent aspect  when  it  is  considered  that  an  English  Prime  Minister  and 
an  English  Cabinet  dedicate  nearly  their  whole  time  to  tenants  in 
Ireland,  while  the  poor  in  England  are  left  to  their  own  resources. 
Whether  the  Irish  tenants,  or  a  great  number  of  them,  really  deserve 
sympathy  and  aid  or  not,  one  thing  is  certain,  thousands  and  tens  of 
thousands  of  persons  in  London  and  in  the  United  Kingdom  at  large 
are  in  just  as  distressed  a  condition  as  the  Irish  peasantry,  and  there 
is  no  just  reason  why,  if  State  aid  is  to  be  granted  at  all,  there  should 
be  an  exception  made  in  the  case  of  the  Irish.  It  must  exasperate 
the  London  unemployed  to  see  that  in  Ireland  the  non-payment  of 
rent  is  considered  no  great  crime  by  the  government  in  power,  which 
thinks  the  inability  of  the  tenants  to  pay  rent,  provided  they  want  to 
make  a  bare  living,  a  sufficient  excuse,  while  the  poor  laborers  in  the 
capital  who  should  refuse  to  pay  their  rent  would  be  evicted  merci- 
lessly without  Mr.  Gladstone  and  his  colleagues  thinking  of  inter- 
ference. From  a  just  and  impartial  point  uf  view  one  cannot  blame 
Mr.  Waite  for  claiming  the  same  rights  for  his  colleagues  which  ap- 
parently are  granted  by  the  Gladstone  Ministry  to  distressed  people 
in  Ireland.  State  aid  to  any  class  or  group  of  the  population  of  a 
country  will  naturally  induce  classes  or  groups  similarly  situated  to 
demand  the  same  aid.  Therefore  State  aid  or  direct  financial  assist- 
ance will  always  establish  a  dangerous  precedent.  All  the  govern- 
ment can  do  in  removing  the  unequal  conditions  of  prosperity  among 
the  citizens  of  a  country,  is  to  regulate  matters  so  that  all  citizens 
shall  have  equal  chances  to  obtain  an  equivalent  reward  for  their 
labors,  but  just  as  State  aid  to  manufacturers  may  be  opposed  with  good 
reasons,  State  aid  granted  to  any  of  the  other  groups  of  the  population 
is  objectionable,  for  if  aid  is  to  be  granted,  the  government,  which 
represents  all  citizens  alike,  cannot  discriminate  without  being  ac- 
cused of  unfairness. 

POORLY    BUILT    HOUSES. 


THE  News  Letter  has  had  occasion  to  refer  repeatedly  to  the 
fact  that  many  contractors  who  speculate  in  houses,  build 
solely  for  purposes  of  sale,  structures  which  are  insecure,  unsafe, 
and  by  reason  of  their  instability,  even  dangerous  to  life.  The 
truth  of  our  assertions  has  been  often  demonstrated,  and  the 
devastation  resulting  throughout  the  city  from  the  recent  storm, 
again  calls  attention  to  the  manner  in  which  fraudulent  builders 
impose  upon  people  who  purchase  their  cardboard  houses.  The 
fraud  becomes  the  more  heinous  from  the  tact  that  the  sufferers, 
as  a  rule,  are  people  of  small  means,  who,  in  their  endeavors  to 
procure  homes  for  their  families,  make  purchases  upon  the  in- 
stallment plan,  and  cannot  affort  to  sustain  losses  arising  from 
faulty  construction.  During  the  week  the  heavy  winds  blew 
down  more  than  one  house  which  had  been  built  by  fraudulent 
contractors,  and  which  had  been  purchased  by  people  of  the  class 
referred  to.  In  the  majority  of  these  cases,  investigation  of  the 
ruins  showed  that  the  timbers  in  demolished  houses  were  not  of 
sufficient  size  or  strength  for  any  domicile,  and  further,  that  if 
they  had  been  of  proper  size,  the  wrecked  houses  would  have 
withstood  the  storm.  One  house  in  particular  that  was  destroyed, 
and  reference  to  which  is  made  in  another  column,  was  so  flini- 
sily  built  that  it  is  a  wonder  that  it  did  not  fall  of  its  weight  long 
before  it  was  attacked  by  the  elements.  No  punishment  can  be 
made  too  severe  for  the  men  who  are  responsible  for  these  frauds. 
These  recent  catastrophies  show,  beyond  the  power  of  any  words, 
how  much  it  behooves  people  who  are  about  to  order  a  house 
built,  or  who  are  about  to  purchase  one,  to  employ  able  and  re- 
liable men  to  superintend  the  building,  or  to  thoroughly  examine 
the  structure  erected,  so  that  evidences  of  weak  work  will  be  de- 
veloped before  a  storm  lays  bare  the  greatness  of  the  fraud.  A 
contractor  who  puts  into  a  house  poor  timbers,  or  who,  to  save 
money,  omits  altogether  such  bracing  as  is  necessary  to  give  it 
proper  strength,  is  as  surely  guilty  of  murder  in  the  event  of  that 
house  falling  and  causing  the  death  of  any  inmate,  as  the  assassin 
who  stabs  a  man  in  the  back.  There  are  thousands  of  domiciles 
in  this  city  "  built  for  sale,"  and  paid  for  on  the  installment  plan. 
The  great  majority  of  these  are  of  faulty  construction,  which 
purchasers  have  ascertained  to  their  cost  and  sorrow.  We  would 
take  great  delight  in  witnessing  the  prosecution  of  any  of  the 
thieves  who,  by  the  erection  and  sale  of  any  of  these  houses  of 
cardboard,  have  been  guilty  of  obtaining  money  under  false  pre- 
tences. 


Dec.  3.  IS»2 


SAM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE    REPORT    OP    A    RAILROAD    EXPERT. 

COLONEL  RICHARD  P.  MORGAN,  a  railroad  engineer,  and 
a  gentleman  of  rait  experience  in  alt  that  pertains  to  the  con- 
struction, operation  and  maintenance  of  railroads,  has  made  a  report 
upon  the  steel  highways  of  California,  at  the  request  of  the  StaTe 
Board  of  Railroad  Commissioners.  He  came  here  a  stranger  to  tEe 
Commission i  and  to  the  railroad  companies,  with  his  record  behind 
him  and  the  strongest  recommendations  which  a  recognition  of  the 
ablest  railroad  men  of  this  and  other  countries  could  afford.  His 
demeanor  at  all  the  meetings  of  the  Commission  has  been  that  of  a 
modest  and  able  man.  He  went  to  work  unostentatiously,  per- 
formed the  duties  required  of  him,  and  quietly  handed  in  his  report. 
Throughout  the  trial  of  the  R.  O.  Shively  case  against  the  Southern 
Pacific  Company  it  was  a  noticeable  fact  that  the  plaintiff  fought 
hard  to  have  Colonel  Morgan's  report  introduced  as  evidence,  and 
the  defendant  company  objected  to  it,  a  majority  of  the  Commission 
also  opposing  its  introduction.  The  need  of  embodying  the  report  in 
the  annnal  report  of  the  Railroad  Commission,  so  as  to  secure  to 
Colonel  Morgan  from  the  next  Legislature  the  sum  of  money  which 
it  was  agreed  he  should  be  paid  for  his  work,  is  the  sole  reason  for 
the  introduction  and  presentation  of  the  report  in  the  midst  of  the 
proceedings  in  the  case  referred  to.  Now  the  report  has  been  intro- 
duced, and  made  common  property  for  plaintiff  and  defendant.  It 
has  proved  a  disagreeable  surprise,  it  has  upset  many  opinions 
based  on  popular  prejudice,  and  their  fallacy  has  been  exposed  in  the 
light  of  impartial  judgment.  The  document  is  a  well-written,  schol- 
arly report.  Its  argument  throughout  is  splendidly  judicial.  The 
facts  have  been  arranged  by  a  master  hand,  and  the  conclusions 
have  been  dispassionately  drawn.  Those  who  have  attacked  the  re- 
port have  resorted  only  to  general  abuse.  None  of  the  statements  of 
fact  have  been  assailed.  When  Colonel  Morgan  takes  the  railroad 
of  the  Atlantic  States  which  presents  the  greatest  engineering 
difficulties,  and  compares  it  with  the  Central  Pacific,  the  San  Fran- 
cisco and  North  Pacific,  and  the  North  Pacific  Coast,  and  by  profile 
maps  and  figures,  by  geological  data,  shows  that  the  grades  on  the 
California  roads  are  twenty-one  times  greater  and  the  horizontal 
distance  eighteen  times  greater  than  on  the  Pennsylvania  Central, 
there  is  no  one  to  gainsay  the  facts.  When  he  asserts  that  no  traffic 
arises  on  twenty  per  cent,  of  the  mileage  of  this  State,  and  that  on 
Eastern  roads  the  economic  conditions  are  such  that  the  States  abso- 
lutely invite  the  construction  of  railroads  from  the  evident  profit  in 
their  operation,  no  attempt  is  made  to  disprove  the  assertion.  When 
Colonel  Morgan  demonstrates  that  of  thirteen  States  the  population 
of  California  has  increased  less  than  any  in  the  past  twenty  years,  and 
quotes  figures  which  show  that  our  population  has  increased  but  4.63 
per  cent,  in  the  score  of  years,  while  Massachusetts  has  increased  95, 
Pennsylvania  36  and  New  York  28,  he  is  presenting  food  for  discussion, 
and  figures  which,  if  incorrect,  can  be  promptly  challenged.  When 
on  the  top  of  all  these  facts,  and  independently  of  all  the  engineering 
difficulties,  the  additional  cost  of  operation  and  the  sparse  popula- 
tion, be  quotes  rates  which  show  California  railroads  carry  both 
freight  and  passengers  at  less  rates  a  mile,  or  a  ton  a  mile,  than  do 
the  railroads  of  Illinois,  Pennsylvania  and  Massachusetts,  he  is  justi- 
fied in  saying:  "  I  am  convinced  and  believe  that  the  rates  charged 
by  the  railroad  companies  of  California  for  the  transportation  of  per- 
sons and  property  are  not  as  a  whole  unreasonably  high,  and  that  if 
they  are,  then  the  rates  for  railroad  transportation  on  the  roads  and 
systems  of  roads  throughout  the  United  States  have  been  and  now 
are  also,  as  a  whole,  unreasonably  high." 


THE    GERMAN    ARMY. 


THE  State  Board  of  Horticulture  is  being  attacked  by  a  lot  of 
disgruntled  ex-experts  who  have  had  their  fat  fees  cut  off  by 
reason  of  their  incompetency  having  been  exposed.  The  manner 
in  which  one  of  them  made  an  indecent  exhibition  of  his  alleged 
intellect  was  very  amusing.  A  fruit  grower  who  had  had  his  sus- 
picions aroused  as  to  the  capability  of  this  "expert"  happened  at 
the  same  time  to  have  in  his  home  a  cheese  which  had  reached 
the  stage  beat  described  as  "  strong  and  mitey."  In  other  words, 
it  literally  awarmed  with  minute  insects.  A  happy  thought  struck 
him.  Standing  near  his  house  was  an  orange  tree,  and  this  he 
liberally  dosed  with  the  lively  little  wrigglers  from  the  cheese, 
scattering  them  here  and  there  over  the  foliage.  Then  he  hied 
him  in  baste  to  the  local  expert  (fees  $4  a  day  and  expenses),  and 
in  great  excitement  announced  his  discovery  of  a  new  and  appar- 
ently dangerous  insect  enemy  of  the  orange.  The  expert  visited 
the  orchard,  examined  the  tree  closely,  gathered  a  supply  of  the 
new  pest,  and  devoted  much  time  to  the  investigation — at  $4  a 
day  and  expenses.  A  suitable  period  having  elapsed,  he  gravely 
informed  the  anxious  orchardist  that  his  trees  were  infested  with 
a  most  dangerous  enemy,  whose  technical  name  was  the  sic  sem- 
per trifoliata,  and  that  unless  they  were  at  once  destroyed,  ruin, 
dire  and  complete,  awaited  the  aforesaid  trees  I  And  now  this  ex- 
expert  is  loudly  denouncing  the  State  Board,  which  is  the  only 
one  among  the  various  commissions  maintained  at  the  expense  of 
the  people  which  can  make  an  adequate  showing  of  results  for  the 
money  it  has  expended.  The  annual  reports  are  filled  with  mat- 
ter of  the  greatest  value  to  the  fruit  growers,  and  the  entire 
amount  appropriated  since  the  organization  of  the  Commission 
has  been  saved  a  hundred  times  over  to  the  people. 


THERE  i.t  no  doubt  that  the  annual  expenditure  for  the  Ger- 
man army  is  enormous  and  the  almost  unanimous  protest  of  the 
leading  journals  of  the  world  against  its  increase,  re-echoing  that 
of  the  majority  of  the  German  organs,  ought  not  to  pass  unheeded 
by  the  German  government.  In  our  cosmopolitan  age,  the  views 
of  foreign  nations  on  great  issues  deserve  almost  as  much  con- 
sideration as  those  expressed  at  home.  It  must  not  be  forgotten, 
however,  that  press  comments  can  have  effect,  only  when  they 
are  based  upon  facts  and  show  a  correct  understanding  of  the 
subject  treated.  Leader-writers  who  call  upon  one  or  the  other 
European  nations  to  disarm,  seem  not  to  consider  that  only  a 
general  disarmanent  would  be  fair  to  all  the  countries  concerned, 
and  that  circumstances  have  gradually  arisen  in  Europe,  which 
make  a  general  disarmanent,  before  another  contest  of  arms, 
almost  impossible.  Still  more  absurd  and  useless  are  the  leading 
articles  which  re-echo  the  Utopian  opinions,  so  strongly  favored 
by  certain  assemblies  of  "long-haired  men  and  short-haired 
women"  who  clamor  for  eternal  peace,  a  state  of  affairs  which 
will  have  to  be  postponed  until  the  milleniura  has  arrived,  which 
has  always  been  predicted  but  failed  to  appear,  in  years  ending 
with  one  or  more  zeros.  Very  differently,  however,  should  be 
treated  the  appeal  of  the  organs  of  public  opinion  to  the  Euro- 
pean nations,  to  btay  the  increase  of  expenditure  for  military  pur- 
poses before  it  has  reached  such  a  height  that  even  the  countries 
successful  in  the  eventual  armed  conflict  will  be  paralyzed  for 
many  years,  before  being  able  to  use  their  hands  in  works  of 
peace  and  progress  in  which  not  only  they  but  all  the  world  is 
interested.  At  this  moment  it  is  Germany  whose  people  are  sup- 
ported by  the  international  press  in  their  protest  against  the  in- 
tention of  the  government  to  load  upon  them  new  burdens,  and 
this  protest  is  justified  by  the  fact  that  the  German  army  accord- 
ing to  all  competent  authorities  though,  perhaps  not  the  strongest 
numerically,  is  in  excellent  condition  and,  as  even  Prince  Bis- 
marck acknowledges,  ought  to  hold  its  own  against  any  other 
two  powers,  if  Germany  is  aided  by  her  present  allies.  By  the 
law  of  March  11,  1887,  which,  as  the  government  then  stated, 
was  to  continue  in  force  until  March  31,  1894,  the  German  army 
on  a  peace  footing,  since  October  1,  1890,  consists  of  22,250  officers 
and  468,409  men.  On  a  war  footing  Germany  is  prepared  to 
place  3,350,000  men  in  the  field  fully  armed.  This  number  is 
calculated  from  the  semi-official  figures,  but  actually,  it  prob- 
ably remains  far  below  the  mark,  since  no  official  state- 
ment respecting  the  army,  is  issued.  The  present 
intention  of  the  Government  seems  to  be,  to  increase  the  peace 
footing  by  adding  annually  100,000  more  recruits,  for  whom  room 
is  to  be  made  by  reducing  more  generally  the  three  years'  ser- 
vice to  a  two  years'  service,  than  has  been  done  heretofore.  This 
increase  is  prompted  by  a  rivalry  with  France,  and  is  considered 
not  only  unnecessary  but  even  hurtful  to  the  efficiency  of  the 
army  by  a  great  number  of  the  highest  German  military  authori- 
ties. If  to  this  is  added  the  fact  that  the  Government  has  no 
funds  for  such  an  expense,  but  wants  to  burden  the  people  with 
new  taxation,  one  can  understand  why  so  many  of  the  best  Ger- 
man patriots  are  opposed  to  the  Government  measure.  The  out- 
lay for  the  German  army,  estimated  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
March  3,  1892,  amounted  to  412,550,954  marks,  ordinary,  and  71,- 
303,510  marks  extraordinary  expenditure ;  or  all  in  all,  about  500,- 
000,000  marks,  which,  divided  by  the  number  of  inhbaitants  of  the 
empire,  estimated  at  about  51,000,000,  would  be  about  $2  50  a  head, 
which,  considering  the  fact  that  Germany  is  not  a  rich  country, 
is  a  very  great  burden  to  the  people  Indeed.  Under  these  circum- 
stances, if  the  Germans  consent  to  the  Government  proposal,  it 
will  only  be  because  they  fear  that  a  Government  criBis  and  in- 
ternal dissensions  will  do  even  more  harm  than  increased  taxa- 
tion. In  justice  to  the  German  Government,  it  may,  perhaps,  be 
mentioned  that  it  does  not  burden  its  citizens  more  than  the  gov- 
ernments of  the  neighboring  nations,  for  in  France  the  expendi- 
ture a  head  amounts  to  over  $5,  and  in  Great  Britain  to  over  $4  25, 
which,  since  Great  Britain  has  only  71,860  men  under  arms,  while 
Germany,  as  above  stated,  heretofore  has  had  a  peace  footing  of 
almost  half  a  million  men,  shows  that  the  German  Empire,  large 
as  it  is,  manages  carefully  its  expenditures. 

IT  is  evident  that  the  "  tenderfoot  crop,"  upon  which  bo  many 
localities  in  the  South  depend  for  their  annual  harvest,  is  not 
so  abundant  as  it  once  was,  and  their  plucking  is  not  the  lucra- 
tive occupation  that  yielded  such  fat  pickings  as  formerly.  A 
party  of  tourists  visited  San  Bernardino  last  week,  provided  with 
lunch  baskets,  and  so  escaped  being  charged  four  prices  for  meals 
not  fit  for  Digger  Indians.  An  argus-eyed  journalist  saw  the 
visitors  enjoying  their  lunch,  and  then  proceeded  io  unburden 
the  misery  of  his  soul  in  half  a  column  of  scolding  that  would 
put  a  Billingsgate  fish-wife  to  shame,  winding  up  with  this  de- 
lectable paragraph  :  "  We  invite  tourists,  want  them  to  investi- 
gate our  claims  to  immigration  and  make  their  homes  here,  but 
this  class  of  parsimonious,  famishing  bone-polishers,  who  leave 
their  distant  homes  with  nothing  to  subsist  upon  but  wafer 
rations  and  their  pastor's  benedition  in  a  sardine  can,  to  live  ex- 
clusively on  climate  while  making  a  poor-house  sneak  over  this 
county,  are  not  the  kind  of  home-seekers  we  will  go  out  to  meet. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


A    CORONADO    ROMANCE. 

Hotel  Cobonado,  Nov.  25tb,  1892. 

TO  THE  NEWS  LETTER  :— Having  found  a  pleasant  nook 
where  I  can  write  without  being  disturbed,  I  will  let  you 
know  what  is  going  on  here.  There  is  not  much  life  at  the  hotel 
at  present.  The  winter  guests  are  coming  in  slowly,  and  a  few 
of  those  who  stay  here  "  all  the  year  round"  live  in  expectations 
of  better  times.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitney  and  daughter  have  just 
returned  from  a  trip  north.  The  daughter,  Mrs.  Sprigg,  is  an  in- 
valid  that  is,  she  is  in  an  invalid's  chair,  but  she  looks  hale  and 

hearty,  and  enjoys  a  game  of  cards  with  tbe  rest.  I  heard 
a  good  story  about  the  Whitneys  from  one  of  the  society 
gossips  at  the  hotel.  Mr.  Whitney,  who  is  quite  wealthy,  having 
made  his  money  in  the  music  business  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  came  to 
San  Diego  during  the  boom.  He  invested  in  orchard  lands,  and 
sold  in  time  to  realize  a  fortune.  Hie  only  daughter  was  promi- 
nent in  society,  and  Mr.  Sprigg,  a  real  estate  man,  courted  and 
won  the  daughter  of  the  wealthy  music  dealer.  Everything  went 
well  for  a  year  or  so,  and  then  the  trouble  began.  Mr.  Sprigg 
speculated  unfortunately,  and  having  lost  his  money,  applied  to 
his  father-in-law  for  funds.  Mr.  Whitney  had  no  use  for  a  son-in- 
law  who  did  not  come  up  to  the  standard  of  successful  money- 
making,  and  he  not  only  told  the  unfortunate  Sprigg  that  he 
could  expect  no  help  from  him,  but  also  assured  him  that  he  had 
not  the  slightest  intention  of  ever  helping  him.  This  was  a  blow, 
but  Sprigg  remained  undaunted.  He  sent  his  wife  to  plead  his 
cause.  But  the  Whitneys  had  made  up  their  mind  to  get  rid  of 
the  obnoxious  son-in-law,  and  they  prevailed  upon  the  daughter 
to  leave  her  husband.  She  refused ;  there  was  a  scene,  and  the  Mrs. 
Sprigg.  who  had  heart  trouble,  came  very  near  dying.  The  doc- 
tor at  once  ordered  her  to  Coronado,  and  there  her  husband  took 
her.  The  Whitneys  also  moved  to  Coronado,  and  took  perma- 
nent quarters  at  the  hotel.  The  fancy  prices  at  the  hotel  soon 
exhausted  Mr.  Sprigg's  resources,  and  as  the  father-in-law  still  re- 
mained obdurate,  he  was  forced  to  look  for  cheaper  quarters. 
But  Whitney  pcre  refused  to  let  his  daughter  leave  the  hotel. 
Her  life  depended  upon  her  stay  near  the  beach,  to  have  pleas- 
ant surroundings  and  the  good  things  of  life  in  general.  Mr. 
Whitney  was  willing  to  pay  his  daughter's  expenses,  but  not 
those  of  his  son-in-law.  Sprigg  stayed  as  long  as  the  manager 
would  give  him  credit;  but  there  was  a  twinkle  in  Mr.  Whit- 
ney's right  eye  which  told  the  manager  that  he  had  the  alterna- 
tive between  the  patronage  of  Mr.  Whitney  and  that  of  his 
prodigal  son-in-law,  and  the  manager  sent  Mr.  Sprigg  his  bill, 
with  a  polite  request  that  his  room  will  be  wanted  by  some 
guests  in  a  day  or  so,  and  that  there  were  none  to  spare  at  the 
thousand-room  hotel.  It  was  a  game  of  "  freeze-out,"  and  Mr. 
Sprigg  threw  up  his  hand.  He  moved  back  to  San  Diego,  sans 
wife,  sans  fortune  and  sans  home.  In  the  meantime,  Mr.  Whit- 
ney prevailed  upon  his  daughter  to  apply  for  a  divorce  on  the 
ground  of  failure  to  provide,  and  the  erstwhile  Mrs.  8prigg  is 
now  called  Miss  Whitney,  and  continues  in  her  invalid's  chair 
albeit  a  little  paler  than  usual,  but  just  as  jolly  as  the  reBt. 

The  Spriggs,  however,  seem  to  be  an  unlucky  set,  continued 
my  informant,  for  Patterson  Sprigg,  the  brother  of  poor  Mr. 
Sprigg,  is  equally  unfortunate  in  his  love  affairs.  "  Adonis  Pat- 
terson Sprigg,"  as  his  friends  call  him,  set  his  heart  upon  win- 
ning the  only  daughter  of  Major  Chase,  the  aristocratic  lawyer  of 
Southern  California,  who  is  as  learned  in  Biblical  lore  as  in 
Roman  law,  and  would  as  lief  attack  the  devil  as  a  hard-hearted 
jury.  Patterson  Sprigg  won  the  heart  of  gentle  Miss  Chase,  and 
strutted  down  Fifth  street,  in  San  Diego,  every  inch  a  conqueror. 
But  the  wrath  of  the  gods  is  but  a  mild  spring  zephyr  compared 
to  that  of  the  learned  Major  and  bis  pious  wife.  They  felt  out- 
raged at  the  bare  thought  of  such  an  alliance,  and  flatly  refused 
to  see  Mr.  Patterson  Sprigg  at  his  momentous  call.  Poor  Pat! 
He  begged,  and  argued,  and  pleaded  with  the  hired  girl  to  admit 
him;  but  she  had  one  answer  to  his  arguments:  "An'  sure,  de 
master  said  not  to  admit  yez  ef  ye  should  call." 

But  Pat  was  not  to  be  baffled,  as  long  as  he  was  as  solid  in  the 
heart  of  Miss  Chase  as  Washington  in  that  of  his  countrymen. 
He  saw  his  sweetheart  clandestinely.  When  the  Major  heard  of 
it — as  all  Majors  are  bound  to  hear  of  it  during  a  lifetime — he 
stormed  and — but  for  his  piety  would  have  employed  a  little  pro- 
fanity— just  a  little — to  give  force  to  his  argument.  His  wife 
cried,  and  said  that  it  was  a  shame  and  an  outrage.  Her  daugh- 
ter, with  a  dowry  which  could  buy  a  Count,  a  Baron  or  a  Duke, 
to  throw  herself  away  on  a  Sprigg  1  It  was  really  unheard-of  1 
So  it  was  concluded  to  take  a  trip  to  Europe.  It  was  thought  it 
would  have  a  curative  effect;  but  the  gods  of  love  still  amile, 
for  after  tbe  return  of  the  Chases,  handsome  Patterson  has  bobbed 
up  serenely.  He  seeB  his  sweetheart  daily — of  course  by  chance, 
the  usual  way.  And  in  spite  of  the  haughty  mamma  and  the 
stern  papa,  his  success  is  but  a  question  of  time;  and  instead  of 
a  Duke,  Count  or  Baron,  the  great  and  good  Major  may  yet  call 
Adonis  Patterson  Sprigg  his  son-in-law.  Miss  Lobster  told  me 
all  this,  and  she  certainly  knows.     Ever  thine,         Dandalioh. 

If  you  want  first-class  oysters,  go  to  Moraghan's  famous  establish- 
ment in  the  California  Market.  Moraghan  always  has  the  best 
oysters  in  the  city. 


LATEST    TENNIS    NEWS. 


THE  tournaments  on  Thanksgiving  Day  were  all  successful  and 
were  finished  before  the  rain  commenced,  but  the  second 
prizes  still  remain  to  be  played  for,  and  if  the  weather  permits, 
the  matches  will  be  played  to-morrow. 

The  doubles  for  the  championship  of  Alameda  county,  played 
at  the  grounds  of  the  Oakland  Tennis  Club,  were  won  by  C.  D. 
Bates  and  Will  English  without  any  great  effort  on  their  part, 
and  the  Ladies'  Singles,  played  at  the  California  Lawn  Tennis 
Club,  were  won  by  Miss  Morgan,  who  defeated  Miss  Lord  in  the 
finals  by  two  setts  to  love,  6—4,  6 — 0. 

The  first  quarterly  double  tournament  at  the  California  Club  was  a 
success  as  far  as  it  went,  though  the  entry  was  small,  only  eleven 
pairs  competing.  The  result  was  a  great  surprise  to  the  onlookers  as 
well  as  to  the  players,  for  Stetson  and  De  Long  were  looked  upon  as 
sure  winners.  Stetson,  however,  evidently  was  not  well,  and  his  play 
at  times  was  very  weak  and  his  lobs  short.  Allison  and  Hobart 
played  a  strong  game  against  the  "ponies,"  and  it  required  their  best 
efforts  to  keep  them  from  winning.  At  times,  Hobart's  smashing  was 
very  wild,  and  again,  at  other  times,  he  made  some  very  brilliant 
shots.  Allison  played  a  very  good  game,  quite  as  good  as  he  did  a 
short  time  ago,  when  he  won  the  singles  of  the  Olympic  Club,  defeat- 
ing Stetson,  who  was  giving  a  handicap.  The  great  feature  of  the 
day  was  in  the  tinal  round,  between  Stetson  and  De  Long,  and  Allen 
and  Field,  when  Allen's  smashing  was  loudly  applauded.  He  played 
the  game  of  the  day,  and  though  his  partner  helped  him,  Mr.  Allen 
showed  himself  to  be  far  the  better  of  the  four  players.  His  partner 
played  a  very  fair  game,  but  the  brilliant  shots  were  made  by  Allen 
on  his  side,  and  by  George  De  Long  on  the  other.  The  rests  were 
long,  as  both  sides  played  carefully,  and  lobbing  was  one  of  the  chief 
features  of  the  match,  but  woe  to  any  short  lob  that  Allen  reached 
for— it  went  out  of  sight  immediately.  In  the  end,  Allen  and  Field 
won  a  hard-earned  victory  by  three  setts  to  two. 

The  pairs  defeated  by  tbe  winning  couple  will  play  off  for  the 
racquets  presented  by  the  E.  T.  Allen  Company  as  second  prizes, 
on  Sunday.  They  are  Collier  and  Collier,  Davis  and  Wilberforce, 
Whitney  and  Whitney  and  Stetson  and  DeLong.  Games  are 
called  for  10:30  o'clock  sharp. 

The  Alameda  Lawn  Tennis  Club  intends  giving  a  tournament 
on  Christmas  Day,  at  their  own  club,  for  the  club  trophy.  It  was 
won  last  time  by  Arthur  Allen. 

The  California  Lawn  Tennis  Club  will  probably  hold  another  of 
its  quarterly  single  tournaments  for  the  club  trophy,  which  was 
won  last  time  by  Harry  N.  Stetson,  and  tbe  San  Francisco  Lawn 
Tennis  Club  will  also  have  a  tournament  at  its  club. 

The  Alameda  Club  has  dropped  the  continuous  tournament 
plan,  and  interest  seems  to  be  dropping  for  the  same  tournament 
at  the  California  Club,  as  several  members  have  withdrawn  their 
names  from  the  list.  It  is  never  a  good  plan  to  have  too  many 
tournaments,  and  a  quarterly  single  and  double  tournament  ought 
to  be  sufficient  for  any  club. 


THE  opinion  that  the  Monetary  Conference  at  Brussels  will  lead 
to  no  immediate  practical  results, and  in  tbe  best  case  will  furnish 
little  more  than  data  for  future  action  dependent  upon  conces- 
sions in  other  branches  of  international  intercourse  than  the 
merely  financial  one,  has  so  far  been  fully  justified  by  the  reports 
that  have  reached  us  from  the  Belgian  capital.  The  resolution 
submitted  by  the  American  delegates  to  the  effect  that  in  the 
opinion  of  the  Conference  desirable  means  should  be  found  for 
increasing  the  use  of  silver  in  the  currency  systems  of  the  world, 
was  politely  listened  to,  but  by  the  representatives  of  all  the  im- 
portant European  powers  it  was  intimated  that  it  would  be  "de- 
clined with  thanks."  Holland,  Spain  and  Mexico  appeared  to 
favor  the  resolution,  but  their  consent  amounts  to  little.  The 
delegates  of  Russia,  Italy,  Roumania,  Switzerland  and  Greece  are 
forbidden  by  their  Governments  to  vote  on  any  resolution;  those 
of  Germany  and  Austria  stated  that  they  could  not  assent  to  any 
modification  of  tbe  monetary  systems  adopted  by  their  countries, 
and  the  English  delegates  are  instructed  by  the  British  Chancellor 
of  the  Exchequer  to  expedite  the  deliberations,  which,  it  ap- 
pears in  the  eyes  of  the  British  Government,  will  amount  to  little 
more  than  a  waste  of  time,  and  may  compromise  the  Government 
if  it  should  appear  that  its  delegates  are  taking  too  active  a  pare 
in  them.  On  the  whole,  it  looks  as  if  most  of  the  European  Gov- 
ernments accepted  President  Harrison's  invitation  to  attend  the 
Conference  for  the  sake  of  mere  politeness  without  any  intention 
of  taking  an  active  part  in  tbe  solution  of  the  problem.  The 
United  States,  however,  notwithstanding  the  indifference  dis- 
played by  the  European  delegates,  is  in  a  position  to  supply 
strong  arguments  for  the  adoption  of  the  proposals  her  delegates 
in  future,  by  making  concessions  in  commercial  intercourse  de- 
pendent upon  a  favorable  consideration  of  her  financial  proposals. 


SEVERAL  burglaries  were  committed  in  the  New  City  Hall  during 
last  week,  wherefore  the  Supervisors  discharged  the  very  efficient 
watchman  whose  duty  it  was  to  guard  the  city's  property  from  the 
hands  of  those  vandals  who  were  not  of  the  elect.  The  watchman's 
name  was  Dennis. 


• 


SAN  FRAN4  Im  0  NEWS  LETTKB 


I 


A    CRITIC    ANSWERED. 


f  B  Y      Pi       VlEJOH.] 


AOXBTAIM  young  man  said  to  rue,  ■■  I  went  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia well  armed  with  credentials.  One  of  tbeiu  was  my 
letter  from  the  church  in  my  native  town.  1  presented  it  to  an 
Elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  city  which  I  will  not 
name.  He  seemed  to  be  pleased  to  meet  me.  He  invited  me  to 
attend  a  church  sociable;  I  accepted,  and  be  introduced  me  to 
several  young  ladies,  in  tlattering  terms,  referring  to  the  letters  I 
had  brought  with  me.  You  can  imagine  how  I  regarded  the  old 
sneak  when,  afterwards,  I  found  that  to  every  one  to  whom  he 
had  Introduced  me  he  had  taken  occasion  to  say,  privately,  *  Be 
on  your  guard;  remember  we  know  nothing  of  this  young  man. 
He  may  be  just  as  the  letters  state — or  just  the  opposite,  so  be 
careful?'  Now,  if  that  be  Californian  hospitality,  I  want  none  of 
it."  I  hastened  to  assure  him  that  Southern  California  was  the 
home  of  the  one-lunged  contingent  who  were  so  recently  from  the 
East — from  the  land  ot  nutmegs  and  steady  habits;  that  they 
were  still  reserved,  cautious  and  slow  to  learn  the  hospitable  ways 
that  characterize  the  argonauts — the  men  of  '4i>.  I  am  free  to  con- 
fess that  the  Eastern  freeze-out  has  its  advantages;  that  we  of  the 
more  open-handed  and  generous-hearted  California  make  a 
mistake  in  welcoming  the  stranger,  and  in  so  royally  entertaining 
those  who  come  among  us.  Few  of  them  are  worth  it.  That  we 
have  been  victimized  time  and  again  goes  without  saying,  and  yet 
our  doors  are  still  open.  It  is  not  that  we  lose  our  heads  at  the 
thought  of  an  English  Lord  or  a  German  Baron — it  is  not  that  we 
wish  to  fall  down  and  worship  their  grandeur — although  they 
seem  to  think  it ;  not  that  we  are  dazzled  by  their  wealth,  we 
have  rich  men  of  our  own,  but  it  is  simply  that  our  only  weak- 
ness is  the  strength  of  our  affections ;  that  we  have  a  warm  heart 
for  the  world,  that  we  are  willing  to  extend  a  welcoming  or  a 
helping  hand.  This  is  our  inheritance  from  the  days  of  old,  when, 
by  our  isolated  position,  we  were  forced  to  depend  upon  each 
other — to  be  all  in  all  within  our  own  community.  Much  of  that 
spirit  yet  prevails.  We  are  independent  of  criticism,  because  we 
are  so  far  away  from  everything,  and  so  cannot  make  any  com- 
parisons for  ourselves.  What  we  have  is  our  own — we  like  it — 
and  we  don't  care  if  others  do  not.  Let  thtim  go  away  and  stay 
away  if  they  are  dissatisfied.     They  never  will  be  missed. 

1  was  much  amused  at  the  way  in  which  "  A  One-Lunger,"  as 
he  signed  himself,  took  umbrage  at  my  phrase,  a  "  one-lunged 
contingent,"  as  used  in  a  recent  article.  With  that  charming 
trust  in  his  logic  which  is  so  apt  to  characterize  those  who  seek 
to  prove  what  has  not  been  called  in  question,  he  goes  off  at  a 
tangent  concerning  the  prosperity  of  the  South,  and  flings  it  at 
us  as  if  we  had  ever  doubted  its  existence.  I  did  not  depreciate 
Southern  California.  I  spoke  of  the  difference  in  the  attitude  to- 
ward strangers,  as  shown  by  the  Eastern  importations  in  South- 
ern California  and  by  the  old  Californians  of  San  Francisco. 

We  have  all  heard  of  the  Irish  servant  who  was  told  to  give  an 
equivocal  answer  to  a  caller,  instead  of  saying  his  master  was 
out,  and  who  met  the  question,  "  Is  my  lord  at  home?"  with  the 
query,  »  Was  your  grandmother  a  monkey?"  My  critic's  line  of 
reasoning  is  very  much  in  the  same  relevant  style. 

Of  course  we  know  that  the  South  is  prosperous,  and  we  are 
proud  of  it.  We  are  Californians,  and  we  love  our' great  State 
from  northern  line  to  southern  boundary;  from  the  Pacific  Ocean 
to  the  eastern  frontier.  Besides  our  money,  the  money  of  north- 
ern California  has  helped  to  make  Southern  California  what  it  is 
to-day.  Remember  that  for  years,  instead  of  sowing  and  reaping, 
instead  of  building  towns  and  planting  groves,  we  were  taking 
millions  of  dollars  in  bright  gold  from  our  mines — that  we  paid 
our  money  into  the  treasury  of  the  State — that  we  have  appro- 
priated more  money  for  the  support  and  improvement  of  Southern 
California  than  that  portion  of  the  State  has  ever  paid  into  the 
treasury  by  taxation.  Let  the  »  One-lunger  '■  remember  that  he 
owes  something  of  the  prosperity  of  his  section  to  the  men  of  Cali- 
fornia, who  made  the  way  possible  for  the  Eastern  immigrants 
whose  "  nntold  wealth  "  is  now  doing  so  much  for  the  South ! 

Moreover,  let  me  remind  the  irate  southron  that  with  the  grati- 
tude of  a  child  of  Lear  many  of  the  inhabitants  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia,  after  having  had  their  section  fostered  and  cared-for  by 
the  more  efficient  North,  began  to  think  that  as  soon  as  the  section 
could  be  self-sustaining  that  they  would  cut  loose  from  us  entirely 
and  set  up  a  State  all  by  themselves.  It  is  not  so  long  ago  that 
both  politician  and  clergyman,  each  with  a  possible  benefit  in  his 
eye,  was  clamoring  for  a  division  of  the  State.  But  Mr.  "  One- 
lunger,"  we  won't  let  you  go  just  yet  a  while.  We  love  you  too 
dearly  for  that. 

Perhaps  you  do  not  feel  any  jealousy  of  us,  but  it  seems  to  me 
that  some  of  your  local  papers  lather  themselves  into  a  fine  foam 
of  fury  over  the  northern  citrus  belt  and  its  displays  at  fair  time. 
However,  let  that  pass.  As  far  as  climate  is  concerned  we  can 
have  all  the  changes  near  home  and  we  don't  have  to  go  to  River- 
side to  get  malaria. 

And  was  it  "unmanly"  in  me  to  refer  to  a  one-lunged  contingent, 
and  did  that  reference  proceed,  as  my  critic  avers,  "from  sheer  ignor- 
ance?"   I  suppose  there  is  no  sex  in  mind— so  I  shall  not  dispute  the 


allegation  that  I\v  been  "unmanly"— but  OS  to  the  "sheer  ignor- 
ance," let  me  Bee.  I  have  Dover  bean  South—]  hope  to  go— to  take 
my  good  two  lungs  down  there  with  me,  and  to  bring  them  safely 
home  again  to  my  dear  city  by  the  sea— dear,  sometimes  dirty,  often 
windy,  frequently  roggy, always  alive  Ban  Francisco.  But  I've  heard 
tell  of  the  Southern  country,  and  I've  seen  people  who  came  from 
there,  and  I'm  not  going  to  generalize  an  opinion  merely  on  the 
strength  of  my  slight  observation.  I've  heard  that  culture  grows  on 
every  tree  and  shrub  in  the  Eastern  settlements  in  Southern  California. 
But  because  I  have  seen  ignorance,  Bhoddyism  and  rank  vulgarity 
from  the  City  of  the  Angels  hold  high  carnival  before  my  eyes,  shall 
I  conclude  that  the  "culture"  of  Southern  California  is  a  myth? 
Far  from  it.  I  believe  in  it.  Unless  I  am  mistaken  the  foreign  ele- 
ment is  in  the  minority— and  I'm  rather  partial  to  Americans  my- 
self. 

As  to  the  health. giving  qualities  of  the  South,  the  fact  that  so 
many  invalids  seek  its  locality  proves  it  without  doubt.  I  must 
say  I'm  not  partial  to  the  sick  immigrant.  One  winter  at  Del 
Monte  there  was  quite  a  commotion  in  the  parlor,  and  a  woman 
was  carried  to  her  room.  "Oh,  she's  just  had  a  fit,"  said  one  of 
the  tourists,  in  explanation.  "She  often  has  'em.  She  had  forty 
on  the  train  coming  out."  You  see,  the  Eastern  immigrant  is  apt 
to  have  something  one  way  or  other. 

But  truly  is  it  so  long  a,°[o  that  a  congress  of  physicians  meet- 
ing somewhere  in  California  discussed  the  danger  that  menaced 
Southern  California  from  the  incursions  of  consumptives.  ,  If  I 
remember  rightly  it  was  concluded  that  it  would  be  we  well  to 
prohibit  the  coming  of  any  more  because  their  respiration  and 
their  expectorations  filled  the  air  with  the  seeds  of  consumption 
— ugh,  I  can't  go  into  detail! — but  if  any  one  wants  to  know  just 
what  was  said  on  the  subject  just  let  him  ask  a  physician  who 
will  tell  him  with  plenty  of  frankness  what  one  poor  consump- 
tive can  do  for  the  animal  life  of  one  community.  My  critic — the 
"One — Lunger"  must  not  gnash  his  teeth  at  facts. 


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SAN  FBANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


"We   Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

AVERY  poor  house  greeted  Miss  Clara  Morris  at  the  Baldwin 
Monday  evening,  notwithstanding  the  announced  new  play, 
Rose  Michel.  The  play  has  been  already  outlined  in  this  column. 
Somber  in  coloring  as  it  is,  it  is  dramatically  strong  in  situation 
and  powerful  in  character,  and  with  such  an  actress  as  Clara 
Morris,  should  draw  a  large  house,  unless  for  some  special  and 
prevailing  cause. 

The  few  who  were  there  enjoyed  an  intellectual  treat  too  rare 
on  any  stage  to-day.  As  Rose  Michel,  a  woman  of  the  people 
whose  passions  and  principles  are  deepened  and  strengthened  by 
their  directness  and  the  absence  of  all  complications  of  a  conven- 
tional morality  or  self-deception,  Miss  Morris  displays  the  very 
grandeur  of  simplicity,  both  in  her  maternal  devotion  and  the 
abiding  consciousness  of  doing  a  deadly  wrong  by  keeping 
silence  for  her  sake.  Two  scenes  are  powerful  enough  not  easily 
to  be  effaced — one  in  which  she  indirectly  implores  her  daughter 
to  set  her  free  to  accuse  Pierre  and  so  clear  the  falsely  accused ;  the 
other  where,  goaded  by  the  latter's  groans  under  the  torture,  she 
bursts  all  bonds,  and  denounces  her  husband  as  the  murderer.  To 
those  who  saw  him  last  week,  Mr.  J.  M.  Colville's  acting  was  a 
double  pleasure,  involving  as  it  did,  something  of  surprise.  He 
made  of  Pierre  Michel  a  personation  as  powerful  in  its  repulsive- 
ness  as  Rose  Michel's  was  in  devoted  heroism. 

The  rest  of  the  company  is  so  poor,  so  ill-suited  to  every  part, 
so  utterly  at  sea,  as  to  make  the  average  auditor  feel  a  savage 
satisfaction  in  the  small  audience  as  a  direct  reproof  to  the  great 
actress  for  thinking  so  poorly  of  San  Francisco  as  to  dare  to 
bring  us  such  a  load  of  conglomerate  incompetence,  and  call  it  a 
"  support." 

*  »  * 

Miss  Patti  Rosa  has  a  bright  and  not  uninteresting  setting  for 
her  dances  and  kicks  and  songs,  in  Miss  Dixie.  Her  own  part  is 
similar  to  that  of  Dolly  Varden,  but  the  other  people  are  gener- 
ally fitted  with  better  roles.  It  is  but  fair  to  repeat  here  what 
was  noted  last  week — Miss  Rosa's  company  is  far  beyond  what 
"stars"  generally  condescend  to  give  us.  There  is  no  high  flight 
of  talent  required,  but  what  is  required  is  there.  No  one  is  bad 
in  his  line,  and  the  evident  care  in  each  is  a  compliment  to  the 
audience.  Miss  Florence  Ashbrooke  deserves  mention.  She  took 
the  part  of  an  adventuress  remarkably  well. 

The  production  of  Trovatore  at  the  Tivoli  is  so  fine  as  to  merit  more 
than  the  patronizingpraise  bastowed  upon  it  by  those  who  judge 
more  by  the  place  than  the  performance.  It  is  the  musicians  and 
the  genuine  connoisseurs  who  speak  in  the  highest  terms  of  the 
present  Tivoli  singers  and  the  productions  given  there.  Of  course 
Miss  Annandale  as  Azucena  is  thoroughly  at  home.  She  gives  a 
powerful  dramatic  and  vocal  rendering  of  the  exacting  part.  Tne 
substitution  of  G.  Napoleoni  for  Mr.  Olmi  as  Count  di  Luna,  on 
account  of  Mr.  Olmi's  illness,  has  given  perfect  satisfaction,  many 
asserting  it  to  be  an  undoubted  improvement  in  the  cast.  Mr. 
Schuetz  gives  a  melodious  and  poetical  interpretation  of  Manrico. 
Tillie  Salinger  shows  that  she  is  studying  hard  and  intelligently, 
and  holds  her  high  place  as  a  favorite  in  spite  of  the  new  ma- 
terial. Trovatore  never  seems  to  wear  out,  and  its  melodious  num- 
bers are  very  pleasant  to  listen  to  as  Bung  at  the  popular  opera 
house. 

#  »  • 

The  last  of  the  delightful  series  begun  as  the  Steinway  Hall  con- 
certs and  latterly  continued  as  th#  Hermann  Brandt  Quartette 
concerts,  took  place  at  Irving  Hall  Nov.  25th.  The  house  was 
packed,  the  large  and  attentive  audience  giving  encouraging  and 
repeated  applause  to  the  artistic  rendering  of  the  fine  programme. 

The  first  number,  the  Saint-Saens  Quintette  for  piano  and 
strings,  went  well.  Miss  Alice  Bacon  playing  admirably  the  diffi- 
cult piano  part,  and  the  strings  keeping  well  together,  the  'cello 
producing  some  particularly  fine  effect?.  A  viola  solo  by  the 
veteran  Louis  Schmidt  was  a  feature  and  was  warmly  applauded. 
Mr.  8chmidt  had  not  been  heard  in  solo  for  twenty-five  years, 
but  he  brought  out  powerfully  the  rich  tones  of  his  instrument 
and  played  with  the  grace  and  fire  of  youth.  Mr.  Brandt  played 
as  a  solo  a  "rornanze"  by  Nicode;  in  which,  although  a  charming 
performance,  the  player  did  not  seem  to  be  in  quite  as  good 
form  as  at  previous  concerts.  Miss  Etta  Bayley,  the  vocal  soloist, 
has  a  rich  alto  voice  and  sings  with  feeling  and  in  an  excellent 
school.  She  received  a  determined  encore  and  on  her  second  ap- 
pearance was  loudly  applauded. 

»  *  # 

The  audiences  at  Stockwell's  Theatre  seem  to  have  been  but  little 
if  any  affected  as  to  numbers,  by  the  storms  and  all-pervading  damp 
ness  of  the  week.  There  is  a  suggestion  of  summer  and  sunshine  in 
the  pretty  cream  and  gold  interior,  with  its  delicate  flush  of  pink 
here  and  there,  which  is  alluring  on  a  stormy  night;  and  then  there 
was  a  new  play,  and  one  that  makes  but  a  light  draft  on  either  in- 


tellect or  emotion.  Two  Roses  is  a  simple,  quiet  play — perhaps  too 
quiet  for  dramatic  purposes  which  require  condensation  of  interest 
and  movement.  If  it  were  a  Chinese  play  "to  be  continued"  from 
.  night  to  night  for  several  weeks,  we  could  afford  to  let  the  people  sit 
about  and  talk  through  an  entire  act  without  in  any  degree  advan- 
cing the  development  of  the  plot  or  the  play;  but  as  it  is,  the  second 
act  is  tiresomely  talky,  and  the  same  fault  affects  more  or  less  the 
other  two  acts.  The  part  of  Digby  Grant  is  said  to  be  the  one  in 
which  Henry  Irving  first  made  his  fame.  It  is  difficult  to  realize  this 
as  Mr.  Henley  plays  it.  It  is  a  good  personation;  Mr.  Henley  could 
hardly  devote  himself  seriously  to  the  study  of  any  part  without 
making  it  good.  But  his  Digby  Grant  can  not.  in  any  sense,  be 
classed  as  a  hit,  clever  as  it  is.  Nick  Long  makes  a  thoroughly  distinc- 
tive character  of  "Our  Mr.  Jenkins"  and  Fanny  Young  is  at  home  as 
his  better  more-than-half.  Neither  Mr.  Jewettnor  Aubrey  Boucicault 
is  quite  up  to  his  own  standard  as  the  lovers  respectively  of  the  "Two 
Roses."  These,  Misses  Bebe  Vining  and  Victory  Bateman,  look 
modest  and  youthful  and  dress  prettily,  which  answers  the  purpose 
very  well.  The  scenic  accessories  are  excellent. 
*  #  # 

The  last  Carr-Beel  concert  of  the  present  season  took  place  last 
Saturday  at  Irving  Hall.  The  programme  was  selected  with  the 
same  taste  and  discretion  that  have  characterized  all  the  "  Pops." 
The  first  number,  a  string  quartette  in  B  flat  by  Haydn,  served 
to  introduce  a  new  feature,  the  well-known  artists,  Messrs.  Wis- 
merand  Janlus  having  been  added,  to  form  with  Messrs.  Beel  and 
Heine  a  regularly  organized  quartette,  so  that  the  Pops  will  now 
be  able  to  give  quartettes  and  quintettes  from  the  best  composers 
without  outside  assistance.  Donald  de  V.  Graham  sang  exquis- 
itely Beethoven's  "Adelaide,"  and  later  a  pretty  song  to  a  Rus- 
sian melody.  Mr.  Heine's  two  selections,  especially  the  Chopin 
waltz,  were  hardly  adapted  to  the  'cello,  and  were  consequently 
somewhat  disappointing;  but  the  Chopin  waltz  in  A  minor,  which 
he  gave  as  an  encore,  made  amends,  its  clinging  legato  being  ad- 
mirably suited  to  the  "  singing"  quality  of  the  instrument  which 
Mr.  Heine  handles  so  deftly.  The  final  number,  the  Kreutzer- 
Sonate,  was  selected  by  vote  at  the  last  concert.  Pleasantly  as 
its  former  rendering  will  be  remembered,  it  was  even  better  done 
at  the  repetition,  and  seemed  to  form  a  fitting  climax  to  a  most 
enjoyable  musical  series.  The  next  "  Pop"  will  not  be  given  un- 
til after  the  holidays,  the  date  as  now  fixed  being  January  7th, 
1893. 

Mr.  Bernard  Mollenhaaer,  the  famous  violinist,  whose  arrival 
in  this  city  was  noted  in  last  Saturday's  News  Letteh,  has  been 
induced  to  appear  here,  under  the  management  of  J.  H.  Love, 
Wednesday  evening,  December  7th,  at  Irving  Hall.  Mr.  Mollen- 
hauer  comes  of  a  musical  family,  his  father  and  unclehaving  been 
distinguished  violinists,  who  enjoyed  the  friendship  and  admira- 
tion of  Mendelssohn  and  Schumann.  Bernard  Mollenhauer  was 
born  in  Hamburg  in  1S50,  and  was  brought  to  America  by  his 
parents  in  1851.  Under  his  father's  able  tuition  be  could  play 
the  violin  at  five  years  of  age,  and  at  eight  played  in  public  as  a 
"  prodigy,"  since  which  time  he  has  been  constantly  before  the 
public,  chiefly  in  Europe.  Mr.  Mollenhauer's  father,  at  seventy, 
is  still  playing,  and  is  at  present  with  his  youngest  son  making  a 
highly  successful  tour  of  South  America.  The  musical  world  of 
San  Francisco  will  find  unusual  interest  in  the  first  appearance 
here  of  this  violin  virtuoso. 

My  Official  Wife  seems  as  popular  as  at  first.  It  will  have  its 
last  production  at  the  California  to-morrow  night.  Beginning 
next  Monday  night,  Miss  Clara  Morris  will  play  one  week  only 
at  the  California.  The  public  may  begin  to  arouse  to  the  fact 
that  it  is  now  having,  more  than  probably,  its  last  opportunity 
to  see  an  actress  who  may  be  pronounced  the  only  acknowledged 
rival  of  Bernhardt  in  America.  While  at  the  California  Miss 
Morris  will  present  nearly  all  her  best  plays:  Monday  night, 
Camille;  Tuesday  and  Saturday,  Renee  de  Moray;  Wednesday 
night  and  Saturday  matinee,  Odette;  Thursday  night,  Rose  Michel; 
Friday  night,  Claire. 

#  #  * 

David  Henderson's  spectacu.ar  extravaganzas  have  become  an 
institution  in  the  amusement  world,  which  to  announce  is  suffi- 
cient. The  latest  and,  so  it  is  generally  said,  best  of  these,  Alt 
Baba,  or  the  Forty  Thieves,  will  have  its  first  production  here  this 
(Saturday)  evening  at  the  Grand  Opera  House.  Already  a  very 
large  sale  has  taken  place,  and  that  the  large  house  will  be 
jammed  is  a  certainty.  The  scenery — nine  sets  and  four  tableaux 
— is  by  Frederick  Daingerfield,  who  painted  The  Crystal  Slipper 
and  Sinbad.  This  production  is  said  to  excel  in  pictorial  display 
both  its  predecessors,  and  the  costuming  has  been  made  a  feature, 
many  of  the  costumes  being  imported.  Signor  Filliberto  Marchetti 
ia  director  of  the  ballets,  and  the  music,  of  which  there  is  plenty, 
is  by  W.  H.  Batchelor.  There  will  be  seventy  dancers,  led  by 
Martha  and  Hulda  Irmler,  Madeline  Morande,  and  Herr  Paul 
Marks.  In  the  cast  are  Edwin  Foy,  Henry  Norman,  Louise  Eiss- 
ing,  Ida  Mulle,  Ada  Deaves,  and  others  almost  equally  well  re- 
membered here. 

<  *  » 

John  F.  Bragg  announces  three  readings  by  the  ••  Hoosierpoet»" 


Dec  .  3,  1892  . 


BAH    l-l  [SCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


/ 


Jas.  Wbitcomb  Kiley.  to  be  given  at  Metropolitan  Hall,  beginning 
Wednesday,  December  14th.  The  general  Impression  of  Mr.  Kiley, 
as  a  mere  ■  dialect  poet,"  does  him  scant  justice.  He  is  a  poet, 
with  alt  the  poet's  inspiration  and  a  rarely  delicate  play  of  fancy, 
coached  in  simplest  words  or  provincial  dialect ;  but  the  n  ords 
are  m*  well  chosen  in  their  way  as  the  loftier  diction  of  Browning 
or  Tennyson.  Mr.  Rtley  is  paid  to  be  a  born  actor,  and,  without 
effort,  to  give  his  poems  with  such  effect  as  to  clothe  them  in 
meanings  altogether  new  and  unthought  of.  To  bear  Mr.  Kiley 
recite  bis  own  poems  will  be  a  treat  alike  to  "  gentle  and  simple," 
to  the  cultured  and  the  unlettered,  and  one  for  which  they  will 
feel  under  infinite  obligation  to  the  enterprising  local  lecture- 
manager. 

#  •  • 

The  Bush  appears  to  have  secured  a  genuinely  enjoyable  holi- 
day amusement  in  Bili's  Boot,  if  one  may  judge  by  what  is  already 
known  here  of  the  people.  The  name,  "  Williams  Comedy  Com- 
pany,'* is  unknown  here,  but  many  of  its  members  are  old  favor- 
ites. Among  them  are  Ethel  Lynton.  the  pretty  prima  donna  of 
the  old  Winter  Garden  and  the  Tivoli ;  Jos.  L.  Sullivan,  the  »  Mr. 
Clutch  "  of  Later  On,  and  one  of  its  best  performers ;  Larry  Smith, 
German  dialect  and  female  impersonator,  late  of  Tony  Pasior's; 
R.  A.  Broderick.  basso,  and  a  number  of  others.  Bill's  Boot  has 
a  thread  of  plot  in  the  fact  of  Uncle  William's  leaving  his  money 
hidden  in  an  old  boot,  and  his  surviving  relatives'  efforts  to  get 
hold  of  it,  but  the  main  amusement  is  in  the  specialties,  which 
seem  to  be  many  and  various. 

#  •  • 

The  first  melodramatic  work  yet  given  at  the  new  Stock- 
well's  Theatre  will  be  Captain  Heme,  U.  S.  A.,  which  will  have  its 
first  production  here  next  Monday  evening.  In  the  cast  are  E. 
J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boncicault,  and  the  excellent  stock  company. 
Miss  Ethel  Brandon  will  re-appear  for  this  production.  Mr.  Stock- 
well  personally  superintends  the  staging  and  all  other  details  of 
production  at  his  theatre,  and  promises  that  this  shall  surpass  his 
previous  efforts.  There  are  few  theatres  better  equipped  with  all 
modern  stage  appliances  than  this,  its  resources  being  adequate  to 
the  proper  scenic  setting  of  any  production.  It  is  expected  that 
Captain  Heme  will  be  up  for  a  run. 

#  #  # 

The  Symphony  Concerts  continue  to  grow  in  favor,  judging 
from  the  large  and  enthusiastic  audience  which  filled  the  Tivoli 
last  Friday  afternoon,  notwithstanding  the  unpleasant  weather. 
Mr.  Bauer  has  his  large  orchestra  well  in  hand,  the  smoothness 
and  unity  of  their  playing  showing  careful  training  and  good 
practice.  The  prelude  and  intermezzo  from  Mascagni's  "  Caval- 
leria  Rusticana"  was  delightfully  given,  and  deserved  the  encore 
it  received.  The  famous  tenor  solo  from  the  same  opera  was  sung 
by  Mr.  Ferd.  Schuetz,  of  the  Tivoli,  his  fine  voice  sounding  to 
better  advantage  in  that  than  in  the  aria  from  <<  Der  Freischutz," 
which  followed.  The  symphony  for  the  afternoon  was  one  of 
Schumann's  enjoyable  compositions,  op.  38,  in  B  major.  The 
class  of  music  given  at  the  concerts  ia  of  a  high  order,  and  de- 
serves the  encouragement  of  the  public. 
»  #  * 

Miss  Ella  McCloskey,  the  popular  contralto  of  Calvary  Church, 
is  not  the  lady  of  the  same  name  now  singing  at  the  Tivoli. 
*  *  * 

The  second  open  rehearsal  of  the  Wednesday  Morning  Choral, 
Miss  Eleanora  Connell,  musical  director,  was  given  Wednesday 
afternoon,  in  the  parlors  of  the  Hotel  Pleasanton,  and  was  highly 
enjoyed.  Hother  Wismer,  violinist,  and  F.  M.  Biggerstaff, 
pianist,  assisted. 

#  #  # 

Next  Tuesday,  December  6th,  a  concert  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Children's  Hospital  will  be  given  by  the  Abbey-Cheney  Amateurs, 
assisted  by  Mrs.  Carroll-Nicholson,  vocal  soloist,  Sigmund 
Beel,  violinist,  and  Louis  Heine,  'cellist. 

#  #  # 

The  Palace  Ballad  concert  given  by  Mr.  Alfred  Wilkie  in  Maple 
Hall  of  the  Palace  Hotel,  was  one  of  the  best  attended  of  the 
the  season's  fashionable  and  musical  events.,  The  programme  was 
exactly  as  announced,  composed  of  ballad  and  other  simple  music, 
without  an  attempt  at  the  classic  or  technical.  It  was  thoroughly 
enjoyed  by  the  large  crowd  in  attendance.  Alfred  Wilkie  sang  Bra- 
ham's  ringing  song,  "  The  Anchor's  Weighed,"  and  took  part  in 
ensemble  work.  Mr.  Victor  Carroll's  rendering  of  Shield's  "A 
Brigand's  Life  "  was  enthusiastically  applauded,  while  the  singing  of 
the  two  favorites,  Mrs.  Charles  Dickman  and  Miss  Maud  Berry,  was 
equally  warmly  received.  A  more  strictly  artistic  enjoyment  was  in 
the  piano  solos  of  Mr.  S.  G.  Fleishman,  whose  brilliant  technique  and 
excellent  school  made  all  present  regret  that  he  has  so  long  kept  him- 
self from  the  public  since  his  arrival  here.  The  next  of  these  charm- 
ing affairs  will  be  Tuesday,  December  13th,  at  the  same  place. 


Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 
Geary,  San  Francisco. 


BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

AlHayman  Al'o.        ...Proprietor*..  |  Ai.piikd  IlaVYlKR Manager. 

but  night,  Saturday.  Iju.t  matinee  Siilnr.lay.  «  turn  Mori-la  In  her 
owu  adaptation  and  translation  of 

ROSE     MICHEL. 

JMMJote-Commenctiig  Monday,  I'eoembcr  !>th,  the  Baldwin  Theatre 
will  be  closed,  for  a  limited  period,  owing  to  the  necessity  ol  presenting 

ALI     BABA, 
At  tile  t-ltlM.  OPERA  HOUSE,    The  opening  night  of  -'AH  Baba" 
will  be  Saturday,  December  3d,  anil  scats  arc  now  ready  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwbll  Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

AlfEi.linqh.ouse  Business  Manager. 

Commencing  Monday  evening,  December  6th,  Matinee  Saturday  only. 
The  first  time  in  this  city  of  the  pnwerlul  melodrama, 

CAPTAIN     HERNE,    U.  S-  A. 

Presented  by  E.  J.  Henley,  Aubrey  Boncicault  aud  Stockwell's  company  of 
comedians.    Seats  now  selling. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Monday,  December  5th.  Six  nights  and  one  matinee.  Farewell  coast 
tour  and  last  appearance  of 

CLARA     MORRIS. 

Monday  night— "Camille."  Tuesday  aud  Saturday  nights— "  Kenee  de 
Moray."  Wednesday  night  and  Saturday  matinee— "Odette."  Thursday 
uight— "  Rose  Michel."    Friday  night— "Claire." 

Regular  California  Theatre  Prices. 

THE  RUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

George  H.  Beoadhubst .  Resident  Manager. 

Week  commencing  Decerrher  5th. 
FIRST  TIME  HERE.  Jos.  J.  Sullivan, 

HARRY  W.  Larry  Smith, 

WILLIAMS'  Russell  Bros., 

COMEDY  Ethel  Lynton, 

COMPANY  Maud  Raymond, 

IN  Helia  Archmere,  etc. 

BILL'S   BOOT, 
Handsome  Scenery,  Gorgeous  Costumes,  New  Music,  Funny  Situ- 
ations.    Matinees  Wednesday  and  Saturday. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kreling  Bros Proprietors  and  Managers. 

To-night,  Verdi's  most  popular  opera, 

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By  the  greatest  company  in  America.    Ferdinand  Schuetz  as  Manrico;  Til- 
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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


EMINENT  MEN  AND  THE  DICTIONARY. 

MR.  ANDREW  LA.NG  remarks  somewhere  that  he  believes  he 
has  not  a  single  dictionary  in  his  house.  There  must  be  some 
precedent  for  this  strange  omission  from  a  literary  man's  library; 
or,  if  many  of  our  "standard  authors"  had  a  dictionary,  they  never 
used  it,  or  used  it  to  poor  purpose.  Pope,  and,  indeed,  nearly  all  the 
poets,  could  not  spell,  nor  could  Sheridan,  Dickens,  Douglas  Jerrold 
and  Charles  Lamb;  and  even  Thackeray  sometimes  forgot  the  rule — 
"Put  i  before  e 
Except  after  c." 
An  eminent  Shakesperean  scholar,  too,  once  showed  that  he  had 
never  made  the  acquaintance  of  Johnson's  Dictionary.  Browning, 
on  the  other  hand,  when  it  was  definitely  decided  that  he  was  to 
adopt  literature  as  his  profession,  "qualified  himself  for  it,"  as  Mrs. 
Sutherland  Orr  tells  us,  "by  reading  and  digesting  the  whole  of  John- 
son's Dictionary."  This  fact  explains  his  mastery  of  all  the  intrica- 
cies of  the  English  language.  By  the  way,  a  legal  luminary  has  so 
high  an  opinion  of  that  superseded  work  that  he  refuses  to  accept 
definitions  from  other  sources.  Tennyson  frequently  consulted  that 
odd  aid  to  poesy,  a  rhyming  dictionary,  and  Wordsworth,  like  Byron, 
constantly  made  use  of  vocabularies.  "I  never  compose,"  he  once 
said  to  a  visitor,  "without  having  a  dictionary  at  hand,  ready  to  turn 
to  when  I  want  "  word."  In  that  case  a  dictionary  must  have  been 
his  inseparable  u  mpanion,  and  it  is  not  a  bad  one,  either,  even  for 
the  hypothetical  "desert  island."  Lord  Chatham  told  one  of  his 
friends  that  he  had  twice  read,  from  beginning  to  end,  Butler's  Dic- 
tionary. He  was  lewarded  for  his  trouble.  Fox  said  of  his  great  an- 
tagonist that  he  always  used  the  word,  and  that  each  word  had  its 
own  place  and  was  regulated,  not  by  chance,  but  bylaw.  In  later 
life  Chatham  used  to  have  the  dictionary  read  aloud  to  him  once  a 
year.  He  said  so  many  noble  and  useful  words  fell  out  of  use,  which 
is  very  true.  Emerson  also  thought  the  dictionary  "not  a  bad  book 
to  read,"  thoueh  for  another  reason:  "There  is  nocantinit.no  ex- 
cess of  explanation,  and  it  is  full  of  suggestion— the  raw  material  of 
possible  poems  and  histories.  Nothing  is  wanting  but  a  little  "shuf- 
fling, sorting,  ligature  and  cartilage."  We  have  a  singular  illus- 
tration of  this  proposition  in  the  practice  of  one  of  our  most  eminent 
men  of  letters.  This  gentleman  affirms  that  there  is  no  book  like  a 
dictionary  when  anybody  is  in  search  of  new  ideas.  If  he  is  stranded 
when  preparing  a  speech,  he  turns  over  a  few  pages  of  any  dictionj 
ary,  and  there  finds  ample  material  for  the  longest  oration.  Many 
standard  dictionaries— such,  for  instance,  as  Johnson's  and  Richard- 
son's in  English  and  Hederic  and  Seapala's  Greek  Thesaureses— have 
one  other  recommendation.  They  are  remarkable  for  the  sonorous 
majesty  of  their  prefaces,  which  have  earned  well-deserved  praise. 
It  was  the  opinion  of  a  sound  scholar  and  a  man  of  taste  that  nothing 
more  beautiful  was  ever  written  in  English  than  the  introduction  to 
Linwood's  Lexicon  to  ^Eschylus. 


IN  the  1868-74  Administration,  Mr.  Gladstone  made  no  less  than 
thirty-nine  new  peers!  The  only  record  which  beats  that  is 
that  of  Lord  Melbourne,  who  between  1835-41  added  forty-six  new 
lords  to  the  Upper  Chamber.  Earl  Grey  (1830-34)  did  not  go  beyond 
thirty-seven,  and  Lord  Aberdeen  (1853-55)  only  made  one  peer.  Lord 
Falmerston  made  two  batches:  first  of  all  from  1855  to  1858,  he  made 
twelve;  then  from  1859  to  1865  he  made  fifteen.  Sir  Robert  Peel  only 
created  six  during  the  five  years  he  was  Premier  from  1841,  and  Dis 
raeli  made  twenty-nine  from  1874  to  1880. 


THE  Pope  has  just  received  a  curious  present  from  the  con- 
verted savages  in  New  Guinea,  consisting  of  three  crowns 
formed  of  feathers  from  the  "Upi"  birds.  These  crowns  united  to- 
gether form  a  tiara,  and  were  offered  by  the  principal  chiefs  as  were 
also  battle-axes  and  other  weapons^  of  warfare.  These  gifts  were 
accompanied  by  a  curious  letter  in  the  Roro  language. 

THE  Making  of  a  Man,"  by  J.  W 
Lee,  is  a  psychologic  study  which  at 
tempts  to  determine  the  relation  existing 
between  mind  and  matter,  and  to  answer 
the  question  whether  mind  or  matter  is 
the  fundamental  creation.  The  author 
determines  in  an  elaborate  introduction 
that  mind  is  the  primal  creation,  and 
matter  only  what  mind  has  made  it.  He 
then  applies  this  philosophy  to  morality 
and  the  method  of  our  life.  (CasBell  & 
Co.). 


THE    EARLY    OWL. 

AN  owl  once  lived  in  a  hollow  tree, 
And  he  was  as  wise  as  wise  could  be. 
Tbe  branch  of  learning  he  didn't  know 
Could  scarce  on  the  tree  of  knowledge  grow, 
He  knew  the  tree  from  branch  to  root, 
And  an  owl  like  that  can  afford  to  hoot. 

And  he  hooted — until,  alasl  one  day, 

He  chanced  to  hear  in  a  casual  way, 

An  insignificant  little  bird 

Make  use  of  a  term  he  had  never  heard. 

He  was  flying  to  bed  in  the  dawning  light 

When  he  heard  her  singing  with  all  her  might, 

"Hurray!  hurray!  for  the  early  wornil" 

"Dear  me,"  said  the  owl,  "what  a  singular  term: 

I  would  look  it  up  if  it  weren't  so  late, 

I  must  rise  at  dusk  to  investigate, 

Early  to  bed  and  early  to  rise 

Makes  an  owl  healthy,  stealthy  and  wisel" 

So  he  slept  like  an  honest  owl  all  day, 
And  rose  in  the  early  twilight  gray, 
And  went  to  work  in  the  dusky  light 
To  look  for  the  early  worm  at  night. 

He  searched  the  country  for  miles  around, 
But  the  early  worm  was  not  to  be  found; 
So  he  went  to  bed  in  the  dawning  light 
And  looked  for  the  "worm"  again  next  night, 
And  again  and  again  and  again  and  again 
He  sought  and  he  sought,  but  all  in  vain, 
Till  he  must  have  looked  for  a  year  and  a  day 
For  the  early  worm  in  the  twilight  gray. 

At  last  in  despair  he  gave  up  the  search, 
And  was  heard  to  remark  as  he  sat  on  his  perch 
By  the  side  of  his  nest  in  the  hollow  tree; 
"The  thing  is  as  plain  as  night  to  me — 
Nothing  can  shake  my  conviction  firm. 
There's  no  such  thing  as  the  early  worm." 


A  RECENT  interesting  extension  of  tbe  field  of  the  submarine 
diver  has  been  made  in  Italy.  The  ordinary  submarine  vessel 
has  been  intended  and  designed  almost  exclusively  for  use  in  war 
and  as  a  weapon  of  offense;  it  has  been  left  for  the  Italians  to  or- 
ganize a  company  for  the  recovery  of  submarine  goods,  and  to  de- 
sign a  submarine  vessel  with  this  object  in  view.  It  is  a  steel 
vessel,  very  much  the  shape  of  Columbus'  egg  amidships,  28  feet 
long,  6J  feet  broad  at  its  widest  point,  and  9£  feet  deep.  The  screw 
is  driven  by  an  electric  motor,  and  it  is  intended  to  carry  five  men 
for  forty-eight  hours  under  water.  An  air-lock  arrangement  near 
the  stern  permits  the  crew,  if  properly  equipped  with  divers' 
dress,  to  leave  the  vessel  without  admitting  water  into  it. 


ONE  of  the  tersest  and  best  of  the  election  stories  is  related  by 
Chairman  Carter  of  the  National  Committee.  "It  was  getting 
rather  late  in  the  evening  of  election  day,"  he  said,  "  and  we  were 
anxious  to  bear  something  definite  from  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant districts  of  Indiana,  which  had  not  reported  for  several 
days.  I  telegraphed  over  my  own  signature  to  the  leader  of  the 
district:  <1  have  had  no  news  from  you.  Please  let  me  hear  at 
once  and  report  fully.  Send  me  a  hundred  lines  or  so  on  the 
actual  state  of  affairs.1  In  about  an  hour  I  got  his  reply.  It 
read :  '  We  have  all  gone  to  h — I  out  here,  and  it  don't  take  any 
hundred  lines  to  tell  it,  either.'  " 


RENUNCIATION.— Harry  Romaine— Life. 

I  saw  that  the  rose  was  fresh  and  fair, 
But  I  went  my  way  and  left  it  there, 
For   it  seemed   too  sweet  and    pure    to 
wear, 

Upon  my  breast. 
But  another  man  came  by  and  he 
Plucked  that  rose  from  the  parent  tree. 
He  loved  her!  yes,  but  it  seems  to  me 

I  loved  her  best! 


Pay  the  Price  of  the 
Royal  for  Royal  only. 

Actual  tests  show  the  Royal  Baking 
Powder  to  be  27  per  cent,  stronger  than 
any  other  brand  on  the  market.  If  an= 
other  baking  powder  is  forced  upon  you 
by  the  grocer,  see  that  you  are  charged 
the  correspondingly  lower  price. 


•.  1892. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


THE     ART    RCOM    AT    THE    WHITE    HOUSE. 


IN  ihe  days  of  Aladdin,  ft  rub  of  his  wonderful  lamp  produced 
the  desired  result,  but  now  one  has  only  to  press  the  all  pow- 
erful button  and  be  transported  to  realms  of  beauty:  though  this 
particular  button  happens  to  be  at  the  entrance  to  the  elevator  in  the 
White  House.  The  treasures  of  porcelain,  bric-a-brac  and  other  fas  - 
cinaling  object*  d'att.  wbichstand  revealed  as  one  step?  from  the  eleva- 
tor are  unexpected  and  bewildering.  The  choicest  productions  ot  Eu- 
rope are  to  be  seen  herein  thegreatest  profusion  and  variety.  Grace- 
ful French  cabinets  of  Mar-iuetcrie  and  gold,  are  tilled  with  fragile 
bits  of  Dresden  and  rare  Sevres.  Something  entirely  new,  from 
France,  are  the  rases  and  jars  of  enamelled  copper,  so  beautifully 
executed  that  the  work  looks  like  the  Dresden  ware.  Gorgeous  ban- 
quet lamps  of  onyx,  Sevres,  cloisonnee  and  Dresden  are  standing 
here  and  there,  crowued  with  fairy-like  shades  of  lace,  silk,  and  flow 
ers  in  every  hue.  The  popular  Rookwood  ware  from  Cincinnati,  in 
its  beautiful  coloring  of  browns  and  yellows  holds  its  own  among  the 
daintier  colored  porcelain.  A  table  covered  with  massive  cut  glass 
catches  the  sunlight  from  the  window,  and  the  rays  reflect  and 
sparkle  from  a  thousand  points.  From  the  little  town  of  Nancy,  in 
France,  comes  some  of  the  most  artistic  work  in  the  room.  It  is  the 
work  of  a  man  named  Gall£,  and  his  pottery. /at/enccrf'e,  is  something 
to  charm  the  eye  of  an  artist.  The  ornamentation  is  of  the  period  of 
Jean  de  Arc,  and  represents  some  scenes  of  her  life.  The  coloring  is 
exquisite,  though  subdued,  and  on  every  piece  is  the  fleur  de  lis. 
The  glass  from  the  same  hand,  is  unique  and  beautiful  in  design,  and 
the  same  genius  has  produced  the  most  delightful  tables  of  inlaid, 
unpolished  woods.  One  gem,  with  a  folding  top,  has  a  conventional 
border  of  orchids,  while  the  center  represents  a  scene  in  Holland, 
etched  in  the  wood  with  a  hot  point,  while  from  the  lower  edge  of  the 
picture  spring  Dutch  tulips  in  brilliant  colors.  The  table  must  be 
seen  to  be  appreciated.  The  French  Marqueterie  tables,  decorated 
in  the  Verni-Martin  style  are  very  handsome.  A  magnificent  stand 
of  onyx  and  gold  is  afac-simile  of  one  belonging  to  Marie  Antoinette 
when  she  lived  at  Versailles.  Dozens  of  fascinating  cups  and  sau- 
cers, piles  of  Royal  Worcester,  Limoges  and  Dresden  attract  the  at- 
tention, and  reposing  in  a  rose-lined  box  is  a  set  of  Sevres  plates, 
each  with  a  figure  on  it  of  exquisite  work.  To  eat  off  such  works  of 
art  would  be  desecration.  Handsome  jardinieres,  with  pedestals  to 
match,  in  dull  blues  and  browns  are  suggestive  of  graceful  palms 
and  other  house  plants.  The  French  bronzes  are  exceptionally  fine, 
and  are  a  feature  of  the  collection.  Most  of  the  pieces  are  busts  and 
statuettes.  One  piece — "Storm-beaten"  is  a  mother  endeavoring 
to  shelter  her  children  from  the  gale,  which  is  beating  down.  An- 
other essentially  French,  is  a  chic-looking  girl  holding  a  croquet 
mallet  poised  to  strike  the  ball  under  her  foot.  The  modeling  of  the 
figure  is  perfect.  There  are  a  number  of  other  pieces  equally  attrac- 
tive in  subject  and  all  of  the  finest  workmanship.  One  can  spend 
hours  looking  at  the  collection  in  this  veritable  art-room,  and  that 
unfortunate  being  who  does  not  know  what  to  buy  for  Christmas, 
can  surely  find  the  desirable  article  by— pressing  that  little  button. 


Sickness  Among  Children, 
Especially  infants,  is  prevalent  more  or  less  at  all  times,  but  is  largely 
avoided  by  giving  proper  nourishment  ana  wholesome  food.    The 
most  successful  and  reliable  of  all  is  the  Gail  Borden  "  Eagle"  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.    Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 


ANTEDILUVIAN 
WHISKY. 

VERY  OLD, 

RICH 
AS 
CREAM, 

AND 

i  SMOOTH 


AS 


SATIN. 


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popular  daily.  Its  menus  are  always  so  very  good,  and  its  service  so- 
superior  to  that  of  other  restaurants,  that  it  is  the  favorite  dining 
place  of  epicures.  If  you  wish  to  be  certain  of  a  good  dinner,  do  not 
fail  to  visit  it. 

Shainwald.  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
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They  are  the  very  best  in  the  city,  for  which  reason  all  epicures  de- 
mand them  and  none  other. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


THE    ART    OF    DYING. 


Translated  from  the  French  of  Emile  Zola. 

THE  Count  de  Verteuil  is  55.  He  belongs  to  one  of  the  most  il- 
lustrious families  of  France  and  possesses  a  large  fortune. 
Eyeing  the  Government  askance,  he  has  occupied  himself  in  such 
ways  as  he  has  been  able.  He  has  contributed  to  the  more 
serious  reviews,  articles  which  have  secured  him  a  membership 
in  the  Institute,  has  engaged  in  numerous  business  enterprises 
and  taken  a  lively  interest  successively  in  agriculture,  breeding 
and  the  fine  arts.  For  a  short  time  he  has  even  occupied  a  seat 
in  the  Chamber,  where  he  has  made  himself  remarked  by  the  vio- 
lence of  his  opposition.  The  Countess  Mathilde  de  Verteuil  is  46. 
She  is  still  pointed  out  as  the  most  beautiful  blonde  in  Paris,  for 
the  years  have  served  only  to  emphasize  the  dazzling  whiteness 
of  her  complexion.  At  one  time  she  was  inclined  to  be  thin; 
now  her  figure  in  ripening  has  taken  on  the  delicate  fullneBB  of 
fine  fruit.  Never  has  she  looked  more  charming.  When  she  en- 
ters a  ballroom,  with  her  rich  golden  hair  and  the  creamy  velvet 
of  her  skin,  she  seems  like  a  new  star  in  the  firmament,  and 
fresh  young  girl?  of  20  are  jealous  of  her. 

The  household  of  the  Count  and  Countess  is  one  of  those  estab- 
lishments of  which  one  never  speaks.  They  married  as  people 
usually  marry  in  their  world.  It  is  even  an  assured  fact  that  for 
six  years  they  lived  together  quite  harmoniously.  At  this  period 
they  had  a  son,  Roger,  who  has  become  a  lieutenant,  and  a 
daughter,  Blanche,  whom  they  married  last  year  to  the  referend- 
ary, M.  de  Bussac.  In  their  children  they  still  find  some  ground 
of  union.  In  the  years  which  have  elapsed  since  their  mutual 
coldness  became  fixed,  they  have  remained  good  friends,  with  a 
strong  background  of  egotism.  They  take  each  other's  advice  on 
some  matters,  are  simply  perfect  in  their  bearing  toward  each 
other  before  the  outer  world,  but  at  home  they  shut  themselves 
op  in  their  private  apartments,  where  they  receive  their  intimate 
friends  according  to  their  humor. 

Nevertheless,  one  night  when  the  Countess  returns  somewhat  late 
from  a  ball,  her  maid  having  disrobed  her,  pauses  a  moment  before 
retiring  and  says : 
"Monsieur  leComte  has  felt  a  little  unwell  this  evening." 
The  Countess,  half  asleep,  turns  her  head  drowsily. 
"Ah!"  she  murmurs. 
Then  she  stretches  herself  out  and  adds: 

"Wake  me  to-morrow  at  10.     I  am  expecting  the  dressmaker." 
The  next  day  at  lunch,  as  the  Count  does  not  appear,  the  Countess 
first  sends  to  inquire  about  him.    At  length  she  concludes  to  go  up 
to  his  chamber.    She  finds  him  in  bed,  very  pale,  very  correct.   Three 
doctors  have  already  consulted  together  in  low  tones  and  left  orders; 
they  are  to  come  again  in  the  evening.    The  sick  man  is  cared  for  by 
two  servants,  who  move  about  silent  and  grave,  muffling  the  sound 
of  their  feet  on  the  carpet.     The  vast  chamber  is  rigidly  cold  and 
severe;  not  a  sheet  of  the  bed  drags  loosely;  not  a  single  article  of 
furniture  is  displaced.    It  is  a  sick  room   exact  and  dignified,  the 
ceremonious  sick  room  which  is  prepared  for  visitors. 
"You  are  ill,  then,  my  dear?"  asked  the  Countess  as  she  entered. 
The  Count  tried  to  smile. 

"Oh,  a  little  run  down,"  he  replies.  "I  only  need  to  rest.  Youare 
very  good  to  put  yourself  out." 

Two  days  pass.  The  chamber  retains  its  dignity;  every  object  is 
in  its  proper  place;  the  medicines  disappear  without  staining  any- 
thing. The  smooth-shaven  faces  of  the  servants  do  not  manifest 
even  a  trace  of  weariness.  The  Count,  however,  knows  that  his  life 
is  in  danger;  he  has  compelled  the  doctors  to  be  frank  with  him,  and 
he  suffers  them  to  act  as  they  see  fit,  without  a  murmur.  For  the 
most  part  he  lies  with  his  eyes  closed,  or  else  looks  fixedly  before  him 
as  if  he  were  meditating  on  his  solitude. 

In  public  the  Countess  remarks'that  her  husband  is  ill.     In  her 
private  life  she  has    made   no   change,  but   eats    and    sleeps  and 
driveB  at  her  customary  hours.     Each  morning  and   evening  she 
comes  herself  to  ask  the  Count  how  he  is  getting  along. 
"  Ah,  welll  are  you  better,  my  love?" 
"  Yes,  yes,  much  better,  thanks,  my  dear  Mathilde." 
"  If  you  wish  I  could  stay  with  you." 

»  No,  it  is  needless.  Jalien  and  Francois  are  sufficient.  What 
is  the  use  of  fatiguing  yourself?" 

Well  do  they  understand  each  other — they  have  lived  apart  and 
wish  to  die  apart.  The  Count  enjoys  that  bitter  pleasure  of  the 
egotist  desirous  of  making  his  final  exit  alone  and  undisturbed  by 
the  mockery  of  feigned  manifestations  of  grief  about  his  death- 
bed. He  shortens  so  far  as  he  may  for  himself  and  the  Countess 
the  disagreeable  embarrassment  of  the  final  interview.  His  last 
wish  is  to 'die  with  dignified  bearing,  as  a  man  of  the  world  who 
will  not  hear  of  discommoding  any  one. 

An  evening  comes,  however,  when  he  can  no  longer  breathe 
but  with  extreme  difficulty;  he  knows  he  will  not  last  out  the 
night.  Bo,  when  the  Countess  comes  to  make  her  customary 
inquiry,  he  murmurs  faintly,  forcing  his  rigid  features  into  a  last 
smile: 

ii  stay — I  am  not  well." 

He  wishes  to  avoid  the  busy  tongues  of  the  outside  world.  She, 
on  her  part,  has  been  expecting  this  warning,  and  she  installs 
herself  at  his  side.     The  doctors  no  longer  leave  the  sufferer.  The 


two  servants  finish  their  duties  with  the  same  silent  assiduity. 
The  children  have  been  sent  for,  Roger  and  Blanche,  and  they 
take  their  places  near  the  bed  by  their  mother's  side.  Other  rel- 
atives are  in  an  adjacent  room.  The  night  passes  thus  in  silent 
expectation.  At  dawn  the  last  sacraments  are  administered,  the 
Count  receives  the  communion  in  the  presence  of  all  to  give  a  last 
testimony  to  the  cause  of  religion.  The  formalities  are  accom- 
plished— etiquette  is  satisfied — now  he  can  die. 

But  there  is  no  unseemly  haste.  He  seemed  to  regain  bis  fast 
sinking  strength  in  the  supreme  wish  to  avoid  all  semblance  of 
struggle  or  convulsive  agony.  His  breath  in  the  hollow  stillness 
of  the  vast,  room  emits  only  the  broken  sound  of  a  clock  which  is 
out  of  order.  'Tis  a  man  well  bred,  mark  you,  who  is  passing 
away.  And  when  he  has  embraced  his  wife  and  his  children,  he 
waves  them  aside  with  a  gesture,  falls  back  with  his  face  to  the 
wall,  and  dies  alone. 

One  of  the  doctors  leans  over  and  closes  his  eyes.  Then,  in  a 
whisper,  he  speaks:  "  It  is  over." 

Sighs  and  tears  break  upon  the  silence  of  the  vast  apartment. 
The  Countess,  Roger  and  Blanche  have  fallen  upon  their  knees, 
their  heads  bowed  down,  they  weep  silently;  their  faces  cannot 
be  discerned.  Then  the  two  children  lead  away  their  mother, 
who,  at  the  door,  wishing  to  give  evidence  of  her  grief,  wavers 
for  an  instant  with  a  last  convulsive  sob.  From  this  moment  the 
dead  is  left  to  the  pompous  obsequies  of  his  rank. 

The  doctors  have  taken  their  departure,  assuming  an  air  of 
vague  regret  and  sympathy  which  is  eminently  becoming.  A 
priest  has  been  sent  for  from  the  parish  to  watch  over  the  body. 
The  two  servants  remain  with  the  priest,  seated  on  chairs,  erect 
and  dignified.  One  of  them  notices  a  spoon  which  has  been  for- 
gotten on  the  table.  He  rises  and  slips  it  into  his  pocket  so  that 
the  perfect  order  of  the  chamber  may  not  be  marred.  Below,  in 
the  large  reception  room,  you  can  hear  the  sound  of  hammers.  It 
is  the  upholsterers  who  are  arranging  the  room  for  the  reception 
of  the  coffin.  The  whole  day  is  given  over  to  embalming  the 
body.  The  doors  are  closed,  the  embalmer  is  left  alone  with  his 
assistants.  When  the  Count's  body  is  brought  down  on  the  mor- 
row and  exposed  to  view,  he  is  in  full  dress  and  has  the  fresh- 
ness of  youth. 

As  early  as  9  on  the  morning  of  the  funeral  the  hotel  is  filled 
with  the  murmur  of  voices.  The  son  and  son-in-law  of  the  de- 
ceased, in  a  room  on  the  ground  door,  receive  the  throng.  They 
bow  to  each  with  the  silent  courtesy  of  those  who  have  sustained 
a  deep  affliction.  Every  class  of  society  is  represented — the  no- 
bility, the  army,  the  magistracy;  there  are  even  a  few  Senators 
and  members  of  the  Institute. 

Finally  at  10  o'clock  the  procession  moves  off  on  its  way  to  the 
church.  The  hearse  is  a  splendid  affair,  adorned  with  plumes 
and  draped  with  hangings  and  valances  of  silver.  The  pall- 
bearers are  a  Marshal  of  France,  a  Duke  who  was  a  life-long 
friend  of  the  deceased,  a  former  Cabinet  Minister,  and  an  Academ- 
ician. Roger  de  Verteuil  and  M.  de  Bussac  conduct  the  mourn- 
ing. After  them  follows  the  throng  of  friends — a  flood  of  people 
with  black  cravat  and  gloves,  all  persons  of  note  in  society,  who 
gasp  for  breath  as  they  pass  along  the  dusty  road  with  the  ir- 
regular tread  of  a  scattered  company. 

The  entire  population  of  this  quarter  of  the  city  has  flocked  to 
the  windows;  the  passers-by  stand  in  rows  on  the  sidewalks  and 
with  uncovered  heads  watch  the  passage  of  the  triumphal  cor- 
tege. The  traffic  of  the  streets  is  interrupted  by  the  interminable 
line  of  mourning  carriages,  most  of  which  are  empty.  The  om- 
nibuses and  cabs  are  drawn  up  in  the  squares,  you  hear  the  oaths 
of  the  drivers  and  the  snapping  of  whips. 

And  all  the  time  the  Countess  de  Verteuil  who  has  remained  at 
home,  is  shut  up  in  her  room,  after  giving  out  that  she  is  over- 
come with  grief.  Stretched  out  on  a  sofa,  playing  idly  with  the 
tassel  of  her  girdle,  she  looks  up  at  the  gilded  ceiling  with  a 
dreamy  sense  of  relief. 

At  the  Church  the  ceremony  lasts  nearly  two  hours.  The 
clergy  is  all  in  a  flutter.  Ever  since  morning  the  busy  priests 
have  been  seen  running  to  and  fro  in  surplice,  giving  orders, 
wiping  their  brows  and  blowing  their  noses  loudly.  In  the 
middle  of  the  long  nave  draped  with  black,  the  catafalque  blazes 
with  light.  At  length  the  crowd  is  seated,  the  women  on  the 
left,  the  men  on  the  right,  and  the  organ  rolls  out  the  lamenta- 
tion; the  choristers  cbant  their  hollow  groanings  and  the  choir- 
boys give  utterance  to  sharp  notes  of  sobbing  woe,  while  from  the 
candelabra  shoot  forth  tall  green  flames  which  add  their  wan 
luster  to  the  funeral  spectacle. 

"Is  not  Faure  going  to  sing?"  asks  a  deputy  of  his  neighbor. 
"Yes,  I  think  so,"  replied  the  latter,  a  former   Prefect   of  the 
Seine  and  a  superb  looking  man  who  ogles  the  ladies  opposite. 

And  when  the  voice  of  the  singer  thrills  through  the  echoing 
nave: 

"Ah!  what  methodl  what  richness  of  tone!"  he  murmers,  bal- 
ancing his  head  with  delight. 

The  whole  assemblage  is  fascinated.  The  women,  with  a  faint 
smile  on  their  lips,  recall  their  evenings  at  the  opera.  What  su- 
perb talent  Faure  has,  to  be  sure.  A  friend  of  the  dead  man  even 
remarks: 

"He  never  sang  better.  It  is  a  pity  that  poor  Verteuil  cannot 
hear  him,  Verteuil,  who  was  so  fond  of  him." 


Dec.  8,  iwm 


SAM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


Tbe  choristers  in  black  hoods  make  the  circuit  of  the  catafalque; 
the  pries t*  to  the  number  of  twenty  complicate  the  ceremony,  bow- 
ing, repealing  phrase*  of  Latin,  and  sprinkling  the  holy  water.  Last 
of  ail.  the  spectators  61e  past  the  bier,  crossing  themselves  reverently 
and  pass  out  after  shaking  hands  with  the  family.  As  they  emerge 
from  the  church  the  bright  sunlight  dazzles  them. 

It  is  a  beautiful  June  day.  The  warm  air  is  redolent  of  the  light 
perfumes  of  flowers.  In  the  little  square  in  front  of  the  church  there 
is  much  jostling  and  rushing.  The  procession  is  a  long  time  in  re- 
gaining its  order.  Those  who  do  not  wish  to  go  farther  withdraw. 
A  hundred  yards  away,  at  the  end  of  the  street,  can  be  seen  already 
the  wavering  plumes  of  tbe  hearse,  although  the  square  is  still  en- 
cumbered with  vehicles.  You  hear  a  shutting  of  carriage  doors  and 
the  sharp  clip-clop  of  horses*  hoofs  upon  the  wooden  pavement.  One 
by  one  the  carriages  draw  into  line  and  take  up  the  route  to  the  ceme- 
tery. 

In  the  carriages  every  one  seems  comfortable.  You  would  think 
that  they  were  going  slowly  to  the  park  in  the  raidst  of  glad  spring- 
like Paris.  As  the  hearse  is  no  longer  visible,  the  burial  is  quickly 
forgotten  and  conversations  are  launched.  The  women  speak  of  the 
summer  season,  the  men  chat  about  their  affairs. 

"Tell  me.  then,  my  dear, are  you  going  to  Dieppe  again  this  year?" 

"Yes.  perhaps.  But  not  before  Augustsurely.  We  have  Saturday 
for  cur  estate  in  the  Loire." 

"Very  true.  The  meeting  of  the  stockholders  is  the  day  after  to- 
morrow. They  want  to  put  me  on  the  committee,  but  I  am  so  busy 
that  I  don't  know  that  I  shall  accept." 

The  procession  had  just  turned  into  a  long  avenue.  A  dense  shade 
falls  from  the  trees  and  the  sun  giances  brightly  through  the  green 
leaves.  One  lady  leans  out  of  the  carriage  window  and  exclaims  de- 
lightedly— 

"Oh  !  isn't  it  charming  here !" 

A  moment  later  the  carriages  enter  the  cemetery  of  Montparnasse. 
The  voices  become  silent;  nothing  heard  but  the  crunching  of  the 
wheels  on  the  gravel  paths.  It  is  necessary  to  go  to  the  very  end. 
The  Verteuil  tomb  is  on  the  farther  side  to  the  left— a  massive  struc- 
ture of  white  marble  in  the  form  of  a  chapel  and  richly  ornamented 
with  sculptures.  The  coffin  is  deposited  before  the  door  of  the  chapel 
and  the  funeral  discourses  are  begun. 

Four  speeches  are  delivered.  The  former  Cabinet  Minister  re- 
views the  political  career  of  the  deceased,  whom  he  represents  as 
a  genius  who  would  have  saved  France  had  he  not  scorned  the 
ways  of  intrigue.  Next  a  friend  speaks  of  the  private  virtues  of 
him  whom  all  are  lamenting.  Then  follows  an  unknown  gentle- 
man as  the  delegate  of  an  industrial  society  of  which  the  Count 
de  Verteuil  was  honorary  President.  Last  of  alt,  a  little  man  with 
gray  hair  expresses  the  regrets  of  the  Academy  of  Moral  and  Pol- 
itical Sciences. 

While  this  is  going  on,  those  who  are  present  interest  them- 
selves in  the  adjacent  tombs,  and  read  the  inscriptions  on  the 
marble  slabs.  Those  who  try  to  hear  can  catch  only  a  few 
words.  An  old  man,  with  puraed-up  lips,  catching  the  phrase, 
"  the  qualities  of  heart,  the  generosity  and  unselGshness  of  his 
noble  character,"  wags  his  chin  and  murmurs: 

"  Ah,  yesl     I  knew  himl     He  was  a  polished  dog!" 

The  last  farewell  is  uttered.  When  the  priests  have  blessed  the 
body,  every  one  withdraws,  and  none  are  left  in  this  deserted 
corner  except  the  grave-diggers.  The  cords  give  forth  a  hollow 
creaking  as  the  oaken  bier  is  let  slowly  down.  Monsieur  le 
Comte  de  Verteuil  is  at  rest. 

And  the  Countess  on  her  sofa  has  not  moved.  Playing  ever 
with  the  tassel  of  her  gown,  her  eyes  fixed  on  the  ceiling,  she  is 
lost  in  a  revery  which,  little  by  little,  makes  the  rich  blood  man- 
tle her  white  cheeks. 


THREE    THINGS.— Detroit  Free  Press. 


Three  things  to  admire — Intellectual  power,  dignity  and  grace- 
fulness. 
Three  I 
Three  1 
Three  1 
Three  1 
Three  1 
Three  1 
Three  f 
Three  1 


i  things 
:  things 
!  things 
i things 
i things 
i  things 
t  things 
;  things 


to  love — Courage,  gentleness  and  affection. 

to  hate — Cruelty,  arrogance  ingratitude. 

to  delight  in — Frankness,  freedom  and  beauty. 

to  wish  for — Health,  friends  and  a  cheerful  spirit. 

to  avoid — Idleness,  loquacity  and  flipping  jesting. 

to  fight  for — Honor,  country  and  home. 

to  govern — Temper,  tongue  and  conduct. 

to  think  about — Life,  death  and  eternity. 


ANOTHER  Roman  princely  marriage  is  being  discussed  at  pres- 
ent. Prince  Paul  Borghese,  not  content  with  having  found 
such  an  excellent  marriage  in  Prince  Bsterhazy  for  his  daughter,  is 
looking  round  for  an  equally  eligible  parti  for  his  son.  The  Pope, 
also,  is  wishful  to  have  a  finger  in  the  pie,  having  a  particular  affec- 
tion for  the  Borghese  family.  On  dit  Monsignor  Satolle,  who  has 
been  deputed  to  represent  the  Pope  at  the  Chicago  Exhibition,  has  a 
double  mission,  which  is  to  arrange  a  marriage  between  Prince  Bor- 
ghese's  eldest  son  and  a  rich  American  with  uncountable  dollars  pour 
dorer  le  blazon. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  always  has  an  excellent 
stock  of  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods  on  hand.  His  shirts,  neck- 
wear, gloves  and  handkerchiefs  are  the  best. 


yHilkman's 
Late — ^gain? 

That  don't  matter  so  much,  now-a- 
days.  Dilute  one  part  of  Highland 
Evaporated  Cream  with  two  vol- 
umes of  water — for  delicious  cream; 
with  three  volumes  of  water  for  rich 
milk — You've  solved  the  milk  ques- 
tion for  all  time.  We  use  only  milk 
obtained  from  farms  under  our  own 
supervision.  Prepared  in  hermeti- 
cally* sealed  cans.  Ask  for  the 
Highland  brand — take  no  other. 
HELVETIA  MILK  CONDENSING  CO. 

HIGHLAND.  ILL. 


In  addition  to  their  large  and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 
Jae^ets, 

5uit5> 

Ulsters, 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

lOS  Kearny  Street. 


DFP<?V  I      hfll/|Q  fj   PO      FUE  ART  AUCTIONEERS, 
T       V  V    W/,UIP   °    nw„   H0  moKxdojiEftY  STREET. 

AUCTION    DAILY 

At  1  and  8  p.  m,,  Additional  Consignment  of 
$75,000  STOCK  OF  JAPANESE  CUR/OS, 

Consignment  direct  from  Japau,  comprising  THOUSANDS  of  ANTIQUE 
and  MODERN  valuable  articles  too  numerous  to  mention. 

The  entire  collection  will  be  sold  without  reserve  or  limit.  Chairs  pro- 
vided for  LADIES  who  are  specially  invited.    TERMS    CASH. 


PERCY  L.  DAVIS  &  CO., 


AUCTIONEERS 


12 


SAN  EKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEE. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


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»E-LQPKER-oN^ 


gt  ^^i^"fcfc«^W: 


JAY  GOULD  is  dead, 
Now  bow  the  head, 
Put  on  the  garbs  of  woe. 
King  out  the  bell, 
Let  funeral  knell, 
Warn  all  that  they  must  go. 

Have  millions  great, 
Have  cars  of  state, 
Wall  street  security 
Availed  him  aught? 
No,  now  he's  naught, 
And  marked  by  "  R.  I.  P." 

Let  widows  weep, 

And  brokers  keep 

With  efforts  their  tears  back; 

To  think  that  Jay 

Has  had  his  day, 

And  others  run  his  track. 

Let  Jay  Gould  rest, 

God  knows  what's  best 

For  men  who  millions  make. 

His  days  he'll  rue, 

As  by  black  crew, 

O'er  cinders  hot  he's  baked. 

*  #  * 

THERE  is  a  man  in  town  whose  personality  is  as  unique  as  his 
methods.  He  is  that  devoted  disciple  of  Delsartean  decrees, 
Mr.  Edmund  Russell,  and  the  manner  in  which  he  is  attempting 
to  decoy  the  unsuspecting  society  matron  is  certainly  a  novel 
one.  Mr.  Russell  has  his  art  down  pat,  but  is  far  more  deft  in 
applying  it  to  others  than  to  himself.  He  is  short  in  stature,  has 
an  ungainly  gait,  an  unctuous  speech,  a  shoddy  style  of  dress, 
and  a  chrysanthemum  bang  that  would  do  well  for  a  door  mat.  He 
has  his  picture  taken  in  «  low-neck  "  and  "  short  sleeves,"  gazing 
heavenward  as  though  he  were  trying  to  hypnotize  the  Cherubim. 
His  calling  cards  are  scented  with  wild  plum,  and  his  note  paper 
is  three-cornered  and  tinted  in  faded  shrimp.  He  does  not  care 
for  "  dirty  greens  "  or  "faint  lillies,"  or  anything  not  entirely 
esthetic.  For  the  munificent  sum  of  $25  he  will  teach  the  herd 
how  to  appreciate  the  beautiful.  The  other  day  Mr.  Dutton,  a 
well-known  commission  man,  who  finds  little  or  no  art  in  any- 
thing beyond  a  turnip,  returned  to  his  Pacific  avenue  home, 
where  his  spouse  met  him  with  open  arms  and  told  him  that  a 
most  charming  little  man  had  called  that  day,  and  was  going  to 
come  on  the  morrow  to  examine  her  parlors  and  tell  her  what 
to  throw  out.  And  all  for  $25.  The  commission  man  had  re- 
ceived a  load  of    unripe   cabbages    that   day,  and    was  not  in  his 

happiest  mood.     "  The. he  is,"  he  retorted  in  sonorous  tones; 

"  let  him  come,  and  I  will  be  here  and  he  will  be  the  first  to  be 
thrown  out."  A  little  note  to  Mr.  Russell,  received  by  him  next 
morning,  announced  that  Mrs.  Dutton  had  decided  to  keep  her 
bric-a-brac  intact.  There  is  yet  another  story  told  about  Russell. 
He  was  engaged  to  read  by  a  lady  who  was  about  to  give  a  tea 
for  the  benefit  of  some  charity.  When  she  told  the  dapper 
Delsartean  that  the  admission  price  would  be  a  dollar,  he  replied, 
"  You  had  better  charge  three  or  four  times  that  amount,  madam, 
as  I  will  wear  me  best  dresses  and  me  most  costly  jewels!"  Mr. 
Russell's  style  is  peculiarly  his  own.  He  may  know  a  great  deal 
about  the  vagaries  of  art,  but  his  knowledge  of  the  ethics  of 
society  seems  coincident  with  that  of  his  information  regarding 
the  dark  side  of  the  moon. 

#  #  » 

A  writer,  who  signs  her  contributions  with  three  long  and 
many-syllabled  names,  has  been  astonishing  the  effete  East 
with  a  1  >ng  description  of  a  wedding  wherein  two  alleged  "literary 
lights"  and  "prominent  journalists"  of  this  State  were  made  one. 
It  may  be  remarked  en  passant  that  the  literary  performances  of 
the  one  reach  no  further  than  the  inditement  of  a  single  article 
which  saw  the  light  in  the  columns  of  the  other's  journal.  Ac- 
cording to  the  veracious  correspondent,  the  bride  wore  a  costume 
of  blue,  "in  deference  to  the  clan  of  the  bridegroom"  (he  belongs 
to  the  genus  hoosier,  habitat  Indiana),  while  he  himself  "was  ar- 
rayed in  a  full  dress  suit  of  the  same  hue."  Whereat  the  irrever- 
ent Joe  Howard  inquires  through  the  columns  of  the  New  York 


Recorder  what  sort  of  ideas  prevail  in  the  wild  and  woolly  West 
as  to  the  requirements  of  full  dress?  "High-noon  weddings  at  the 
Golden  Gate,"  he  says,  "are  evidently  high  old  affairs,  indeed. 
The  'full  dress  suit  of  blue'  must  be  gorgeous  in  the  extremel" 

■*  *  • 
The  ball  tossers  of  the  Pacific-Union  and  the  Bohemian  Clubs 
have  been  hard  at  work  during  the  week  putting  themselves 
in  fine  condition  for  the  great  game  of  baseball  to  be  played  by 
them  at  the  Haight  street  grounds  next  Saturday.  A  number 
have  managed  to  get  blisters  on  their  hands  in  their  bold  endeavor 
to  toughen  their  cuticle,  but  they  are  proud  of  these  evidences  of 
their  devotion  to  the  national  game,  and  their  self  sacrifice  in  the 
cause  of  charity.  The  game  promises  to  be  one  of  the  best  ever 
seen  upon  any  diamond,  and  that  it  will  be  a  grand  society  event 
and  an  athletic  sensation  goes  without  saying.  Besides  the  Cali- 
fornia Woman's  Hospital,  and  the  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission,  the 
Maria  Kip  Orphanage,  will  also  be  a  beneficiary  of  the  game. 
The  positions  of  the  players  will  be  as  follows:  Bohemian — Ow- 
ens, pitcher;  Sanger,  catcher;  Flagler,  first  base;  Stevens,  second 
base;  Chase,  third  base;  De  Pue,  short  stop;  8mall,  center  field; 
Coleman,  right  field;  Wood,  left  field;  Dimond  and  Carlin,  sub- 
stitutes. Pacific  Union — Bosqui,  pitcher;  O'Neill,  catcher; 
Bourne,  first  base;  Kittle,  second  base;  Ralston,  third  base;  Ath- 
erton,  short  stop;  Danfortb,  center  field;  Eyre,  rightfield;  Boyd, 
left  field;  Delafield,  Tallant  and  Dean,  substitutes.  Game  will  be 
called  promptly  at  1 :30  o'clock. 

#  #  # 

The  decision,  which  is  generally  accepted  as  final,  rendered 
during  the  week  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  California  in  the  mat- 
ter of  the  Blythe  estate,  turns  the  valuable  property,  running  up 
into  the  millions,  over  to  Florence,  the  putative  daughter  of  the 
dead  owner.  The  result  gives  general  satisfaction  here,  where 
the  young  lady  has  resided  long  enough  to  be  known  and  recog- 
nized as  worthy  of  the  wealth  to  which  she  has  fallen  heir. 
In  connection  with  the  first  appearance  of  Florence 
and  her  relatives  in  California,  the  News  Letter  has 
an  interesting  memento  in  a  copy  of  a  letter  written 
from  Bridge  street,  in  Manchester,  England,  and  signed 
by  C.  Beach,  one  of  the  noms  de  plume  which  it  pleased  Grandpa 
Perry  to  use  occasionally  for  business  purposes.  The  letter, 
written  in  a  delicate  Italian  hand,  evidently  female,  ayks  if  a 
millionaire  called  Thomas  Blythe  had  not  died  in  San  Francisco, 
and  requesting  as  full  particulars  about  the  deceased  as  possible. 
These  were  forwarded,  and  shortly  after  the  announcement  was 
made  that  a  daughter  of  Blythe  had  been  discovered  in  England, 
and  that  she  was  about  to  depart  for  California  to  assert  her 
claim  to  the  relationship,  and  the  property.  She  came,  was 
seen,  and  to-day  is  hailed  as  conquerer  in  the 
long  and  fiercely  contested  legal  battle.  As  for 
arriving  at  any  definite  conclusion  as  to  who  Blythe  really 
was,  the  public  generally,  outside  of  the  legal  fraternity  interested  in 
the  case,  are  as  much  at  sea  as  ever.  He  has  been  proved  to  the  sat- 
isfaction of  many  of  the  claimants  to  have  been  everything  from,  a 
highwayman  down  to  a  tinker.  The  convict  story  is  rather  far 
fetched,  to  say  the  least,  and  it  had  its  foundation  when  first  hinted 
about,  in  the  fact  that  a  man  of  the  same  name,  but  old  enough  to 
be  Blythe's  grandfather,  had  taken  a  trip  early  in  the  present  century 
to  Botany  Bay  on  board  of  a  government  ship,   at  his  country's  ex- 


GEO.  C.  SHREVE  &  CO, 
OPEN  EVENINGS 

FROM 

DECEMBER  1st 

TO 

DECEMBER  25th. 

MARKET  &  POST  STS. 


s\\  n;w  [S<  0  NEWS  i.i  11  i  i; 


i  ho  traded  to  the  K*st  Indies,  before  steamers 
and  the  Sum  Tanal  kilted  trade  around  the  Cape,  will  remember  a 
fleet  of  fine  *hijv«  painted  yellow.  «»r  "pMMOtlp  color"  us  .lark  would 
term  it.  running  between  London  and  the  Mauritius.  To  these  ves- 
sels hi?  i mtic  tale  which  was  finally  worked  into  a  web  to 
highten  the  mystery  of  the  California,  millionaire's  personality  and 
descent.  Theywereowned.it  was  generally  reported,  by  a  man 
called  Myth,  residing  in  the  Mauritius  on  ■  ticket-of-Ieave  from  the 
i  Governniant.  After  regaining  his  </no-»i-freedoru,  he  entered 
the  sugar  business  and  grew  enormously  wealthy.  His  vessels  were 
so  numerous  that  they  soon  became  recognized  as  regular  liners,  and 
one  peculiar  feature  they  had  in  the  form  of  a  black  ball  on  a  staff 
which  was  blown  at  the  main  truck  in  lieu  of  the  house-flag  used  by 
other  vessels  of  the  Merchant  Marine.  Seamen  ascribed  this  pecul- 
iarity to  a  refusal  on  the  part  of  the  government  to  grant  a  convict 
the  privilege  of  a  distinguishing  pennant.  Another  tale  of  the  sea 
relates  how  the  old  man,  full  of  a  desire  to  visit  his  native  land, 
offered  an  inducement  in  the  form  of  a  first-class  man-of-war  to  be 
built  at  his  own  expense,  for  permission  to  make  a  trip  to  England, 
after  which  he  would  immediately  return  to  exile.  This  was  refused 
by  the  government,  and  the  aged  but  wealthy  sinner  died  and  was 
buried  in  a  strange  land.  The  knowledge  of  this  story  gave  a  clue 
which  was  followed  for  all  it  was  worth  by  lawyers  on  both  sides  of 
the  Atlantic,  and  many  a  wealthy  family  in  Great  Britain  had  the 
sanctity  of  their  retirement  invaded  by  a  search  into  their  past  his- 
tories much  to  their  indignation  and  disgust.  This  is  about  ail  there 
is  to  the  Blythe  convict  story,  but  it  is  less  mythical  than  many 
another  told  since  the  case  was  opened  in  the  courts. 
*  *  » 
Storm  signals  were  originally  designed  for  the  benefit  of  the 
seafaring  class,  and  when  first  displayed  it  was  always  at  points 
convenient  to  shipping.  Admiral  Fitzroy  was  the  inventor  of 
the  signals  best  known  all  over  the  world.  They  were  not  flags 
like  those  in  use  at  present,  but  consisted  of  a  canvas  drum  and 
cones,  which,  in  combination,  told  the  probable  course  of  the 
wind  and  its  velocity.  The  new  system  of  flags  is  more  compli- 
cated and  much  more  perfect,  but  to  be  useful,  as  well  as  orna- 
mental, some  means  should  be  devised  to  give  the  seamen  of  this 
port  an  opportunity  to  learn  what  is  in  store  for  them  from  the 
elements.  To  do  this,  arrangements  should  be  made  to  fly  the 
signals  where  they  can  be  seen  from  both  the  harbor  and  the 
ocean.  This  could  be  done  by  a  telephone  connection  with  the 
signal  service  at  the  Heads,  upon  a  flag-pole  on  Telegraph  Hill, 
and  at  all  the  lighthouse  stations  along  the  Coast.  The  warning 
of  storms  would  then  be  effective,  while  the  information  would 
be  highly  appreciated  by  the  men  who  go  down  to  the  sea  in 
ships. 

#  *  # 

Inspector  Noyes,  of  the  Treasury  Department,  was  at  Monterey 
the  other  day,  looking  for  opium  and  stray  Chinamen.  As  he  left 
the  porch  of  the  Hotel  del  Monte,  a  suspicious  looking  character 
stepped  up  to  him  and  greeted  him  familiarly.  The  officer  looked 
hard  at  the  stranger,  and  volunteered  the  information  that  he  was 
at  a  disadvantage,  and  carefully  .conned  in  his  mind  the  while 
the  offenders  he  had  had  to  deal  with  in  his  time. 

"  Oh,  I  know  you,"  said  his  friend;  "you're  Noyes,  the  Gov- 
ernment officer.     Got  a  light?" 

"  Where  did  I  meet  you?"  demanded  Noyes,  suspiciously. 

"Oh,  you  know;  up  North — Washington." 

"  Oh,  you're  an  informer;  you  gave  me  some  information." 

"Yes,"  interrupted  the  other,  "I  told  you  the  people  of  Wash- 
ington were  going  to  make  me  Governor,  and  they  did  it.  Let  us 
go  and  get  a  fresh  cigar." 

Governor-elect  McGraw  had  to  support  the  dazed  detective  on 

the  way  to  the  bar. 

»  # 

Since  the  misunderstanding  of  last  election  day,  Collector  of  Port 
Phelps  has  grown  reminiscent.  The  other  day  he  got  away  back  to 
his  first  law  case.  It  was  in  a  new  town  in  New  York,  and  a  man 
who  had  been  arrested  for  sheep  stealing  threw  himself  on  Mr. 
Phelps'  generosity.  It  was  his  first  client,  and  the  embryotic  at- 
torney took  the  case  for  fame,  and  put  all  his  energies  into  it.  It 
looked  like  a  forlorn  hope,  and  it  was  developed  during  the  trial  that 
the  owner  of  the  sheep  had  at  one  time  stolen  a  deer.  Attorney 
Phelps  took  off  his  coat,  rolled  up  his  shirt  sleeves,  and  made  an  im- 
passioned address  to  the  jury,  dwelling  at  length  on  the  common 
practice  of  sheep-stealing  and  the  awful  crime  of  stealing  deer.  The 
jury  returned  a  verdict  of  lt  not  guilty  "  without  leaving  their  seats, 
and  on  Mr.  Phelps'  coat  of  arms  to  this  day  is  the  legend:  Revenons 
a  nos  moutons.  


HOLIDAY  shoppers  will  miss  a  treat  if  they  fail  to  see  the 
handsome  goods  suitable  for  Christmas  presents  which  have 
just  been  put  on  exhibition  in  the  store  of  Sanborn,  Vail  .V  Co., 
at  74U7I3  Market  street.  There  are  artistic  creations  which  will 
at  once  open  the  hearts  of  even  the  most  obdurate  to  the  neces- 
sity of  remembering  their  friends,  and  others  with  closer  ties, 
during  this  festal  season.  The  firm  takes  delight  in  presenting 
before  visitors  beautiful  articles  of  every  sort  calculated  to  make 
recipients  most  happy.  People  from  the  country  cannot  com- 
plete their  visit  to  the  metropolis  without  going  to  Sanborn  & 
Vail's.  Handsomely  framed  pictures,  etchings  engravings,  fac- 
similes, water-colors  and  photographs  abound;  the  leather  goods, 
including  portfolios,  purees,  card  cases,  tablets,  etc.,  are  un- 
equalled ;  then  there  are  toilet  sets,  jewel  cases,  silver  clocks,  collar 
and  cuff  boxes,  perfumery  bottles,  and  toilet  articles  of  all  descrip- 
tions. Beautiful  ornaments  for  country  firesides  are  the  hand- 
some Japanese  screens  which  the  house  recently  received  from 
the  Orient. 


As    "  Society," 


Within  the  true  and  real  meaning  of  the  phrase,  grows  and  develops 
in  the  United  States,  there  grows  and  develops  with  it  a  cultured  and 
refined  taste  in  all  things.  This  indisputable  fact  accounts  for  the 
great  popularity  which  the  Pommery  and  Greno  Sec  Champagne  is 
lately  acquiring  in  the  more  select  circles  of  American  society.  For 
a  long  time  past  this  wine  has  been  almost  exclusively  used  among 
the  royalty  and  nobility  of  Europe,  more  particularly  in  England 
and  Russia.  Its  intrinsic  merit  commends  it  to  the  critical  ana  dis- 
cerning judgment  of  those  who  have  the  means  to  indulge  in  the 
best  of  everything  that  is  to  be  had.  Persons  who  intend  to  give  select 
entertainments  should  be  particular  to  have  this  wine  on  the  table, 
and  bear  in  mind  the  Prince  of  Wales'  opinion:  "  There  is  no  head- 
ache in  Pommery  Sec."  —London  Journal. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets,  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  handsome  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 


"THE  WHITE   HOUSE." 

THE 

FINEST    DISPLAY 

EVER  ATTEMPTED    BY   ANY  HOUSE    IN  SAN  FRANCISCO 


We  are  now  prepared  to  show  for 
the  Holidays  the  latest  European  pro- 
ductions in  Bronzes,  Terra  Cotta, 
Sevres,  Porcelain,  Limoges  Wares, 
Dresden  Wares  and  all  the  newest 
shapes  and  decorations  in  English 
Faience 

Rare  and  beautiful  goods  in  Galle 
Inlaid  Tables,  Faience  and  Crystal 
Vases. 

Our  stock  of  lamps  and  shades  is 
most  complete.  American  Cut  Glass 
in  all  the  newest  shapes  and  cuttings. 

Sole  agents  for  Roekwood  Pottery. 

RAPHAEL  WEILL   &   CO., 

N.   W.   Cor-.   Post  and  Kearny  Sts. 


S 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

THE     VERT     LATEST. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


SINCE  that  pretty,  tall  blonde  made  her  debut  as  a  »  society 
amateur"  in  an  opera,  it  makes  one  laugh  to  hear  the  number 
of  men  she  is  said  to  be  engaged  to.  But  the  dickie  birds  say  the 
favorite  man  is  the  gay  young  8utter-street  dentist  of  musical 
tastes. 

*  »  # 

A  plump,  dark-eyed  girl  from  Pacific  Heights,  and  a  petite 
blonde  from  upper  Van  Ness  avenue,  speak  no  more.  There  has 
been  a  broad  chasm  between  them  for  some  time,  owing  to  the 
unfortunate  circumstance  that  both  loved  the  same  man,  and  be 
could  be  happy  with  either.  He  took  them  both  out  rowing  a 
couple  of  weeks  ago.  They  selected  Lake  Merritt.  While  he 
was  tagging  away  at  the  oars,  the  perspiration  pouring  from  his 
manly  brow  like  cider  from  a  mill,  they  were  seated  astern,  look- 
ing out  on  the  muddy  water.  Suddenly  the  blonde  became  in- 
spired. A  thought  struck  her.  Turning  to  her  companion,  she 
said,  with  that  yearning  which  can  only  come  from  a  lovesick 
maid:  "Mary — Mary,  what  could  be  smoother  than  the  bosom 
of  this  lake?"  It  was  the  turn  Mary  had  been  waiting  for.  Her 
dark  eyes  flashed,  her  heart  throbbed,  as  she  looked  at  the  blonde 
and  calmly  answered:  "Yours."  And  that  is  why  they  never 
speak. 

It  is  surprising  to  note  the  absence  of  the  "  old  ones  "  from 
society  gatherings  this  year.  With  the  great  number  of  girls 
who  throng  the  drawing-rooms  at  swell  receptions,  men  find  but 
little  use  for  those  who  have  gone  into  the  "sere  and  yellow." 
There  have  been  regrets  to  some  invitations  sent  out  this  year, 
but  they  all  came  from  the  dear,  old  girls, 

*  #  » 

It  would  seem  as  though — notwithstanding  the  efforts  of  some 
society  matrons  to  bring  the  girls  to  the  front  by  excluding  the 
married  folk  from  their  dances — it  will  not  be  the  howling  suc- 
cess the  girls  deemed  it  would  prove,  as  the  first  cotillion  had  as 
the  leader's  partner  a  married  woman.  But  then  what  a  charm- 
ing laay  she  is,  and  quite  as  attractive  as  any  of  the  belles  who 
disport  in  our  swim  in  maiden  meditation  (but  who  can  say?) 
fancy  free  I 

Teas  still  continue  to  be  the  prevailing  style  of  entertainment. 
They  are  not  popular,  by  any  means,  with  any  save  host  and 
hostess.  Papa  does  not  growl  at  the  expense  of  a  tea.  It  is  so 
inexpensive,  says  mamma,  so  simple,  and  so  expeditious  in  wip- 
ing off  all  social  indebtedness  at  one  swoop.  Then,  too,  another 
important  item — dress.  The  fashionable  toilette  for  a  tea  serves 
for  visiting,  theatres,  etc.,  while  a  ball  costume  requires  constant 
change.  Then,  most  solid  reason  of  all  in  its  favor,  the  refresh- 
ments at  a  tea  are  of  the  lightest,  airiest  kind,  and  vastly  prefer- 
able (to  the  one  who  foots  the  bills)  to  a  supper  of  the  approved 
order  in  society.  So  no  wonder  the  tea  has  become  an  institu- 
tion in  our  fashionable  functions,  and  it  has  come  to  stay. 

*  #  » 

It  is  only  whimpered,  but  in  some  mysterious  way  the  whisper 
has  got  out,  that  at  a  certain  prominent  Pacific  avenue  mansion, 
one  day  last  week,  a  bevy  of  girls  were  congregated  for  the  pur- 
pose of  trying  a  game  of  football  all  to  themselves.  Such  a 
scramble  as  it  was,  and  bow  the  pretty  creatures  scratched  and 
shoved,  and  threw  each  other  about.  Rumor  goes  on  to  say 
that  a  well-known  belle  developed  such  unusual  force  about  her 
pedal  extremities,  that  a  pretty  matron  of  her  own  age  was 
thrown  sprawling  on  the  floor;  and  yet  another  had  such  a 
swelled  nose  at  dinner  time,  her  liege  lord  and  master  was  un- 
easy lest  a  Hood  of  tears  had  been  indulged  in  during  the  day  as 
a  result  of  bis  denial  of  a  sealskin  ulster  at  the  morning  meal.  So 
the  girlies  can  be  almost  as  frisky  as  the  men. 

Is  not  our  bpst  society  getting  to  be — well,  a  trifle  risque,  in  its 
reckless  disregard  of  proprieties?  When  a  married  woman  can 
go  to  dine  with  a  "  sporty  boy  "  at  a  swell  restaurant,  and  be 
met  on  going  out  by  her  own  husband,  who  is  conveying  a  veiled 
woman  up  the  stairs  as  shedescends  them,  and  both  husband  and 
wife  are  conveniently  blind  as  to  who   they  are  passing,  does  not 


the  reflecting  mind  find  there  is  "  something  rotten  in  Denmark?" 

*  *  * 

No  one  seems  to  know — or  care — who,  or  what,  is  answerable 
for  the  lax  state  of  social  customs,  and  the  very  liberal  view  of 
life  entertained  by  our  young  people.  The  boy  becomes  a  man 
in  dissipation  before  his  beard  is  grown;  the  girl  has  no  illusions 
left  before  her  first  season  is  ended;  nay,  ere  it  begins  in  some 
cases.  This  is  not  a  rash  statement.  Such  cases  do  exist,  and 
in  our  best  society.  Who  can  doubt  it  when  they  hear  a  promi- 
nent society  belle  calmly  discussing  with  an  Eastern  biveur  and 
tourist,  the  failure  of  the  marriage  system,  and  state  as  her  per- 
sonal conviction  that  it  would  "all  be  done  away  with  in  future 
years,  and  not  so  very  long  either." 

*  »  • 

The  amateur  play  we  hinted  at  some  time  ago,  is  rapidly  tak- 
ing shape,  although  no  one  is  allowed  to  murmur  a  word  on  the 
subject.  The  plot  and  characters  are  taken  from  our  beau  monde, 
and  those  who  have  seen  a  rehearsal,  declare  it  will  be  one  of 
the  richest  things  ever  seen  here.  The  time  for  its  production 
has  not  yet  been  fixed.  Some  of  the  people  interested  are  in 
favor  of  the  approaching  holidays,  while  others  prefer  Easter- 
tide, so  as  to  serve  as  a  refresher  to  society  after  its  long  period 
of  quiet. 


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j-ioliday  doods 


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MONDAY,  DECEMBER  5th. 


SI  3-217-2  IS 
BTTSH     STBEET. 


H.  S.  CEOCKEE  COIPAIY. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


s\N  FRANCISCO  NEWS  i.i  I  I  I  I : 


15 


WHEN    MY    SHIP    COMES    IN. -Carl  Smith 


i  WAY  in  the  sea.  oh.  I  wonder  where, 
\         Somewhere,  somewhere  in  the  waters  blue, 
Where  the  winds  are  soft  and  the  skies  are  fair, 

Id  a  mystic  country  no  man  ever  knew, 
My  ship  rides  safe  in  a  dreamy  calm; 

Perhaps  by  an  isle  where  the  lotus  grows, 
Perhaps  by  an  isle  of  the  spreading  palm. 

Perhaps — who  knows?     Ah,  yes,  who  knows  I 
But    her  cargo  is  safe  where'er  she  be, 

And  her  crew  will  tire  of  the  lazy  life, 
And  her  prow  will  cut  a  course  through  the  sea 

Some  day.  I  know,  like  a  gleaming  knife. 
But  oh,  as  I  patiently  sit  and  wait 

It  seems  so  long  to  me,  so  long 
She  lingers  outside  the  harbor  gate, 

And  her  sailors  list  to  the  mermaid's  song. 
But  ships  come  in,  and  I'll  yet  see  her 

In  time  that  is  long  or  time  that  is  short; 
Although,  forsooth,  she  seems  to  prefer 

The  sunny  isles  to  the  grimy  port. 


LOVE'S    LITTLE    DAY .—Louise  Phillips  in  Times-Democrat. 

"  There  are  many  to-morrows,  my  love,  my  love, 
But  only  one  to-day." 

Lo!  'tis  the  golden  morn, 

And  on  the  air  is  borne 
Song  of  the  wooing  bird  and  drone  of  bee, 

Awake,  on  love  of  mine  ! 

Improve   the    morning  shine — 
Sweet,  there's  but  one  to-day  for  you  and  me. 

Shadows  of  afternoon 

Fall  on  our  path   too  soon 
Deep'ning  until  they  reach  the  twilight  gray. 

From  further  shores  of  night 

May  rise  to-morrows    bright, 
But,  love,  for  us  there  is  but  one  to-day. 

Graves  of   dead  yesterdays 

Lie  all  along  the  ways 
By  which  we  came  to  stand  together,  thus; 

We  look  in  vain  to  see 

Where  the  to-morrows  be — 
Dear  heart,  there  is  but  just  to-day  for  us. 


A    TOAST.— S.  S.  Rowland. 


Fill  up  your  glasses,  let  the  bright  wine  flow, 

As  sunset  fades  to  afterglow, 

And  drink  with  rue  to  those  we  hold  most  dear, 

Present  or  absent,  far  or  near. 

Let  every  sip  recall  a  thought  of  love, 

Pure  as  the  nectar  of  the  Gods  above; 

Let  every  wish  be  heartfelt  and  be  true; 

Banish  all  anger  that  we  ever  knew; 

And  drink  with  me  a  bumper  to  the  thought 

Of  those  we  love,  of  those  we  ought 

To  wish  all  brightness  on  life's  weary  way, 

And  that  iheir  morrow  prove  a  fairer  day 

Than  any  past,  than  any  that  has  been. 

Drink  to  this  toast,  and  say  with  me,  Amen. 


WHEN. 


When  you  are  old  and  gray  and  full  of  sleep 
And  nodding  by  the  fire,  take  down  this  book, 
And  slowly  read  and  dream  of  the  soft  look 

Your  eyes  bad  once,  and  of  their  shadows  deep. 

How  many  loved  your  moments  of  glad  grace, 
And  loved  your  beauty  with  love  false  or  true, 
But  one  man  loved  the  pilgrim  soul  in  you, 

And  loved  the  sorrows  in  your  changing  face. 

And  bending  down  beside  the  glowing  bars 
Murmur,  a  little  sad,  <<  From  us  fled  Love, 
He  paced  upon  the  mountains  far  above 

And  hid  his  face  amid  a  crowd  of  stars." 


BEAUTY. — Frank  Dempster  Sherman,  in  the  Christ    us  Century. 


Among    the  weeds  let  bloom  one  rose, 
Lo,  all  the  field  with  beauty  glows  1 
So  to  the  plainest  face  a  smile 
Will  lend  it  Beauty's  mask  the  while. 


tyaQdl^eretyiefs. 

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thousands  of  choice  and  dainty  designs  speci- 
ally imported  for  the  present  season.  Initials, 
Embroidered,  Hem-stitched  and  Scalloped  Hand- 
kerchiefs; also,  Swiss  Chiffon  and  real  Duchesse 
Lace  Handkerchiefs. 


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Are  worn  in  place  of  an  over- 
coat or  outside  wrap. 

Perfectly  "Waterproof. 

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577-579  Market  St..  S.E. 


ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 
Garcia  Vocal  Method.    Solfeggio  Panseron. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Dec.  3, 1892, 


THERE  waa  a  sudden  reaction  in  the  stock  market  this  week, 
Potosi  suddenly  recovering  its  losses  of  the  previous  fortnight, 
selling  again  over  the  $2  mark.  This  mine  is  looking  very  well 
just  now,  and  not  only  has  it  been  gradually  reducing  a  heavy 
indebtedness,  but  slowly  yet  surely  it  is  getting  on  a  self  sustain- 
ing basis.  The  upraise  in  the  ore  which  was  cut  some  time  ago 
on  the  1100  level  has  been  carried  up  for  the  distance  of  72  feet, 
and  carried  the  width  of  nearly  four  feet  for  the  entire  distance. 
As  the  assays  run  high,  it  is  probable  that  a  good  sized  deposit 
will  be  opened  up  when  they  commence  to  breast  on  the  vein. 
One  thing  in  favor  of  this  mine  is  that  the  greater  portion  of  the 
ground  included  within  its  boundary  lines  is  virgin.  Belcher  has 
been  fairly  active  lately,  although  the  advance  in  prices  has  not 
been  so  marked  as  in  Potosi.  The  north  drift  on  the  400  while 
it  has  cut  the  vein,  it  has  not  got  the  ore  cut  above  on  the  300 
level,  and  a  west  crosscut  on  350  level  as  it  is  termed  has  now 
been  started  to  prospect  for  the  downward  extension  of  the  ledge. 
Con. -Cal. -Virginia  has  been  subjected  to  another  bear  raid,  and 
again  the  cry  is  raised  that  the  mine  is  played  out.  This  bug-bear 
has  been  raised  before,  but  like  many  other  points  issuing  from 
the  same  quarter,  it  is  a  safe  one  to  copper.  J  ust  about  the  time 
the  bottom  should  drop  out,  according  to  the  prophets,  another 
Btrike  of  ore  invariably  takes  place,  and  dividends  are  paid  in- 
stead of  the  threatened  assessments.  Every  competent  mining 
man  who  knows  anything  about  the  formation  encountered  in 
this  mine  will  admit  that  it  is  the  most  likely  piece  of  ground 
that  could  be  desired.  Every  foot  of  it  is  mineralized  more  or 
less,  and  there  is  no  telling  what  the  next  blow  of  a  pick  may 
develope.  It  will  be  remembered  by  old  stock  dealers  of  this 
city,  how  James  R.  Keene  expressed  himself  about  the  value  of 
the  property  at  a  time  when  he  was  shorting  the  stock.  The 
mine  was  "played  out"  then,  many  according  in  that  great 
operator's  opinion,  and  future  dividends  were  limited  to  a  very 
small  number.  Mr.  James  C.  Flood  thought  differently  and  said 
so.  The  results  have  proved  that  he  was  correct  and  Keene 
was  wrong,  like  many  more  who  have  taken  up  his  cry  in 
recent  years,  and  with  the  same  intent.  It  is  more  than  prob- 
able Keene  and  the  rest  will  have  long  passed  over  to  the  silent 
majority  before  Con. -Cal. -Virginia  is  closed  down  for  goor!  as  a 
worked  out  mine.  It  will  last  as  long  as  the  Comstock  itself  and 
no  man  living  to-day,  will  see  the  end  of  mining  on  that  lode,  the 
resources  of  which  as  a  mineral  deposit  being  simply  illimitable. 
All  that  is  required  is  a  new  system  by  which  the  immense  re- 
serves of  low-grade  ore  can  be  worked  at  a  profit. 

?  $  $ 

WHAT  is  termed  an  ■■  extraordinary  "  meeting  of  the  share- 
holders of  the  Valley  Gold  Company  has  been  held  in  Lou- 
don. The  term  is  very  appropriate,  judging  from  the  results  of 
the  conference.  In  a  statement  made  by  the  chairman  contains 
this  admission:  »  That  the  water  supply  of  the  property  was  in- 
adequate for  the  purpose  of  treating  the  gravel  by  the  hydraulic 
process."  If  this  is  not  a  direct  back-down  from  all  previous 
allegations,  we  do  not  know  what  is.  For  years  past  the  public 
of  Great  Britain  has  been  milked  to  provide  funds  for  hydraulick- 
ing  this  ground,  and  now  its  turns  out  as  the  News  Letter  has 
maintained,  that  there  is  no  water  there  for  the  purpose,  and 
this  by  the  self-confession  of  the  heads  of  the  company  them- 
selves. The  new  proposition  is  one  which  will  commend  itself  to 
local  mining  men  as  the  richest  joke  of  the  season.  The  man- 
agers now  announce  that  "  mechanical  ingenuity  has  succeeded 
in  producing  a  machine,  or  at  all  events  (mark  the  modifying  clause) 
was  alleged  to  have  succeeded  in  producing  a  machine  which  was 
capable  of  replacing  water  as  an  extracting  medium"  and  with  this 
machine  the  company  proposes  to  extract  gold  (?)  which  is  said  to 
exist  in  excess  of  what  was  originally  anticipated.  There  are  a  good 
many  people  in  California  who  will  be  glad  to  hear  of  even  the  bare 
possibility  of  such  a  machine  being  in  existence.  Tbere  have  been  a 
number  tried,  but  unfortunately  so  far  they  have  all  proved  failures. 
If  the  new  one  is  an  exception  to  the  rule,  the  News  Lettee  can  only 
sympathize  with  the  inventor,  that  he  is  not  starting  under  more 
favorable  auspices.  As  for  the  gold  prospects,  we  will  have  some- 
thing more  to  say  in  the  near  future,  which  will  settle  that  point  as 
satisfactorily  as  the  waterproposition.  For  thetime  being,  we  simply 
renew  the  warning  given  before  and  advise  investors  to  leave  the  new 
experiment  severely  alone,  it  they  want  to  save  money. 

THE  curtain  has  been  rung  down  at  last  on  the  closing  scene  in 
the  comedy  played  by  the  promoters  and  Directors  of  the  Ilex 
Gold  Mining  Company,  of  Calaveras  county.  The  valuable  mill 
which  dropped  its  stamps  for  a  limited  number  of  hours,  and 
which  cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  $60,000,  has  been  sold  to  the 
TJtica  mine,  near  by  in  Calaveras  county,  for  $8,000,  which  also 
includes  the  purchase  price  of  the  pump,  tools  and  stores;  a 
compromise  has  been  effected  with  the  Calaveras  Ditch  Company 
for  rent,  the  services  of  the  clerk  has  been  dispensed  with,  much 


to  his  relief  of  mind,  possibly,  on  the  question  of  salary,  and  now 
the  only  remaining  liability  to  bother  the  Directors  is  the  8tate 
tax  of  $50  per  annum.  With  regard  to  the  sale  of  the  mines  and 
land,  it  was  sagely  remarked  by  the  Chairman  "that  it  was  very 
difficult  to  say  when  it  would  be  possible  to  find  a  buyer  at  any 
price."  A  feature  of  the  occasion  was  the  waiver  of  salary  by 
Mr.  Petre,  and  also  of  fees  by  the  Directors.  It  would  be  more 
magnanimous,  however,  on  the  part  of  these  gentlemen  if  they 
dug  down  into  their  pockets  and  reimbursed  the  shareholders  for 
the  money  which  they  have  lost.  They  are  more  entitled  to  this 
than  to  any  sympathy  over  their  misfortune.  They  were  cautioned 
by  the  News  Letter  to  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  scheme  in 
the  first  place,  and  have  only  themselves  to  blame,  in  a  great 
measure,  for  the  unsatisfactory  results. 

$  $  $ 

THE  sins  of  omission  and  commission  perpetrated  by  London 
promoters  offers  a  fruitful  subject  for  comment  in  this  week's 
issue.  A  good  many  people  moving  in  this  circle  in  the  British 
metropolis  will  probably  remember  the  Alaska  mine  which  they 
managed  to  ruin  a  few  years  ago  when  they  were  diverting  the 
savings  of  honest  but  misguided  people  into  such  miserable 
swindles  as  the  Ilex,  Valley  and  Union  Gold.  At  the  time  re- 
ferred to  the  Alaska  had  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  richest 
and  most  prosperous  mines  of  California.  It  was  what  is  known 
as  a  "going  concern"  in  every  sense  of  the  term, 
having  a  record  of  $600,000  as  the  product  in  gold  from  some  46,000 
tons  of  ore  worked  at  desultory  periods  covering  about  three  years. 
Fire  swept  the  works  away,  and  necessitated  the  renewal  of  expen- 
sive machinery,  but  the  mine  stood  the  expense,  and  was  in  a  fair 
way  to  turn  out  at  least  a  million  in  gold,  from  ore  stopes  already 
opened  up,  when  the  gentlemen  in  London  discovered  that  it  was 
wanted  over  there  to  the  tune  of  something  like  $1,500,000.  It  never 
got  there,  but  instead  work  was  stopped  by  the  Sheriff  step- 
ping in  on  behalf  of  the  creditors  who  could  not  be  paid  for  the 
reason  that  all  surplus  funds  had  been  exhausted  to  accommo- 
date the  desire  of  the  London  people  for  timber  lands,  water 
rights  and  adjoining  claims,  which,  from  all  appearances,  they 
never  had  any  intention  of  buying.  After  getting  the  company 
into  such  a  position,  they  finally  backed  out  altogether,  and  a 
valuable  property  was  wrested  by  law  from  its  original  owners. 
The  new  purchasers  are  San  Francisco  capitalists,  headed  by 
Fred  Lux,  who  is  president  of  the  new  corporation,  known  as 
the  Alaska  Mining  and  Milling  Company.  The  other  directors 
are  Fred  P.  Low,  A.  E.  Post,  D.  A.  Foreman  and  F.  W.  Lux. 
John  S.  Wilbur  has  been  elected  Superintendent  of  the  property, 
which  is  located  at  Pike  City,  in  Sierra  county  of  this  State. 
Work  wil  begin  on  the  mines  at  once. 
$$$ 

THE  Committee  on  Legislation  of  the  California  Miner's  Asso- 
ciation has  prepared  the  draft  of  an  act  covering  the  entry  and 
patenting  of  publiclands  mineralin  character,  which  will  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  members  of  the  Association  for  their  opinion.  It  is 
as  follows: 

"Be  it  enacted  bjT  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  that  no  lands  shall 
be  subject  to  entry  and  patent  except  as  mineral  lands,  which  lands 
are  situated  in  any  locality  known  to  be  valuable  for  deposits  of  gold, 
silver,  cinnabar,  lead,  tin  or  copper,  unless  it  shall  be  clearly  estab- 
lished that  such  lands  do  not  contain  in  paying  quantities,  deposits 
of  either  gold,  silver,  cinnabar,  lead,  tin  or  copper. 

There  can  only  be  one  opinion  expressed  on  a  bill  of  this 
kind  which  should  have  been  introduced  at  Washington  years 
ago.  An  act  of  this  kind  when  it  once  becomes  law  will  settle 
many  questions  which  have  given  no  end  of  trouble  from  time  to 
time  in  this  State.  The  wording  of  the  draft  is  not  as  clear  as  it 
might  be,  and  instead  of  particularizing  the  minerals,  why  not 
make  the  clause  general.  The  sooner  a  law  to  this  effect  is 
passed  the  better.  It  will  help  the  miner,  while  at  the  same  time 
it  will  not  interfere  with  the  rights  of  agricultural  land  owners. 

t  11 

THE  London  I?ivestor's  Guardian  in  referring  to  the  recent  meet- 
ing of  the  San  Jacinto  Tin  Company,  says  that  it  was  held 
with  the  assistance  of  a  police  constable,  and  that  the  shareholders 
were  charmed  into  passing  resolutions  for  the  raising  of  £50,000  ad- 
ditional capital.  This  critic  is  of  the  opinioa  that  enough  and  a  great 
deal  too  much  money  has  been  squandered  already,  and  that  the  di- 
rectors should  be  satisfied  by  this  time  that  they  have  no  property 
worth  the  holding. 

$$$ 

GREAT  hopes  are  expressed  among  silver  men  that  the  Mone- 
tary Conference  now  in  session  will  take  some  action  which 
will  benefit  the  mining  industry.  The  representatives  present 
from  the  different  nations  are  all  capable  men,  well  posted  on  the 
situation,  which  it  is  pleasant  to  note  is  generally  regarded  as 
precarious  enough  to  justify  some  radical  measures. 

ASSESSMENTS  of  three  cents  on  Con.  Imperial  and  twenty-five 
cents  on  Challenge   Con.    were  announced   this   week.     The 
Occidental  and  Exchecquer  assessments  were  delinquent. 


Dec.  8,   1892 


SAN  FRAN  [SCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


11 


'Hear trie  Crier:"   "Whal  the  devil  artthouT' 
'Oneibmt  will  pUt  the  <levll.*lr.  with  tou." 


I  with    pleasure  thai  I    announce  for   the  benefit  of  the  dear 

chappies  who  beautify  our  promenades  and  ballrooms,  that  no 
gentleman  may  now  be  considered  attired  according  to  fashion's 
dictates  unless  he  wears  around  his  dear  little  "  tumniick"  a  cor- 
set. Fact!  All  the  swells  of  London,  Parisaod  Berlin  now  wear 
corsets,  or  corslets,  as  the  article  for  men  is  now  properly  termed. 
A  well-known  Bond-street  house,  in  London,  is  making  a  fortune 
by  manufacturing  corslets  for  men.  All  German  and  English 
army  officers  who  want  to  cat  a  swath  in  society  either  wear 
corslets  or  have  their  coats  whaleboned.  The  late  lamented  Clar- 
ence almost  squeezed  himself  to  death,  as  he  laced  as  tight  as  an 
old  maid  of  forty.  The  Johnnies  of  the  day  like  to  display  a 
taper  waist  in  a  well-fitting  waistcoat.  The  belles  of  the  city 
must  look  to  their  laurels,  for  oar  pretty  boys  are  now  endeavor- 
ing to  dislocate  their  livers  and  telescope  their  floating  ribs,  just 
as  well  as  the  wearers  of  petticoats.  While  on  the  subject,  I  may 
say  I  am  authorized  to  state  that  Clement  Bennett  and  Henry 
Kowalsky  do  not  wear  corsets,  but  that  Colonel  Harry  Brady, 
Harry  Veuve  and  Perrie  Kewen  are  looked  on  with  suspicion. 
If  women  take  our  suspenders,  neckties,  hats,  collars,  shirts  and 
pajamas,  says  Joe  Redding,  it  is  only  fair  that  we  should  take 
their  corsets. 

A  STORY  about  the  bitter  disappointment  of  some  of  the  lead- 
ers of  the  State  Democracy  on  election  day  has  just  come  to 
light.  On  the  eventful  Tuesday,  Colonel  Max  Popper  and  some  of  his 
most  trusted  lieutenants  waited  from  early  dawn  till  dewy  eve,  for 
word  as  to  how  the  battle  went  beyond  the  Rockies,  but  none  came, 
and  hence  the  faces  of  the  faithful  became  long  and  troubled.  The 
reporters  were  camped  upon  the  doorsteps,  but  they  could  learn 
nothing  of  the  condition  of  affairs.  Finally,  about  8  o'clock  in  the 
evening,  in  rushed  a  small  and  profusely  perspiring  messenger  boy, 
who  waved  a  dispatch  in  his  hand,  and  eagerly  inquired  for  Max 
Popper.  "Here,  my  boy,  bring  it  here!"  said  General  Popper,  and 
he  snatched  the  telegram  and  retired  to  his  private  room,  whither  he 
was  followed  by  a  number  of  the  inner  circle.  Then  the  door  of  the 
room  was  closed  and  locked,  and  these  State  builders  hung  around 
the  table  eagerly  awaiting  the  reading  of  the  dispatch  by  Commodore 
Popper.  That  gentleman  seated  himself  in  his  chair,  opened  the 
telegram,  looked  around  impresssively,  and  read: 

Sissons,  Nov.  8,  '92. 
Max  Poppeb,  Chairman  Dem.  St.  Cent.  Comt. : 
Advise  me ;  is  it  safe  to  bet  a  little  on  Cleveland  V 

Asa  Fisher. 
And  then  a  howl  went  up,  and  those  in  the  next  room  wondered 
whether  it  was  one  of  joy  or  anguish.  And  there  was  much  gnashing 
of  teeth,  and  each  statesman  made  exhibition  of  that  magnificent 
command  of  language  without  which  none  can  hope  to  attain  fame 
in  the  ranks  of  the  great  Democracy. 

SHE  is  one  of  the  Four  Hundred;  one  of  the  most  happy  (?)  of 
those  happy  ones,  for  she  is  young,  charming  and — married. 
She  has  a  beautiful  home  in  the  Western  Addition  where  the  presid- 
ing genius,  is  a  buxom  slap-jack  manufacturer  named  Annie.  Annie 
is  an  enterprising  underling,  and  tabes  advantage  of  every  oppor- 
tunity to  enjoy  herself.  She  did  so  the  other  night.  Her  mistress 
had  gone  out  for  a  short  call  to  a  neighbor's,  leaving  the  girl  alone  in 
the  house.  When  the  mistress  approached  her  house,  on  returning, 
she  noticed  that  there  was  a  light  in  her  parlor.  "Why,  someone 
must  have  called,"  she  said.  "I  expected  no  one  to-night."  She 
hurried  in;  Annie  met  her  at  the  door.  "Oh,  Mrs.  Black,"  she  said, 
"I'm  so  glad  you  came.  My  young  man  called,  and  my  sister  with 
him,  and  as  you  were  out,  I  showed  them  into  the  parlor.  Of 
course  you  won't  object,  will  you?  My  sister  was  playing  the  piano 
just  as  you  came  in.  Come  in,  and  I  will  introduce  you."  Mrs. 
Black  looked  at  the  girl,  gasped,  and  fled  upstairs,  and  the  sympos- 
ium in  the  parlor  continued.  But  then,  Mrs.  Black  is  young  in  niatT- 
rimony,  and  running  her  own  house  is  yet  a  novelty  to  her.  In 
future  years,  many  girls,  no  doubt,  will  suffer  for  the  sins  of  Annie. 

GOOD  and  original  examples  of  Oriental  repartee  are  so  few  among 
us,  that  I  cannot  forbear  recording  two  credited  to  Joe  Redding, 
who,  as  everybody  knows,  practices  law  and  studies  music.  Not  long 
since,  Mr.  Redding  met  Fred  Sharon.  "Ah,  Redding,"  said  Sharon, 
"are  you  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law — that  is  music — yet?"  "No, 
Mr.  Sharon,"  replied  the  gentle  Joseph,  "I  am  engaged  in  running  a 
hotel  and  raising  other  people's  children;"  which  answer,  as  the 
Bohemians  say,  "was  a  hot  one."  During  the  Russell  engagement 
at  the  Baldwin,  Redding  was  one  of  several  gentlemen  who  escorted 
the  fair  Lillian  and  some  of  her  troupe  to  Del  Monte.  There  Mr. 
Redding  met  Mrs.  Will  Crocker,  who  said,  "Mr.  Redding,  surely  this 
is  a  fine  party  you  have  brought  to  us."  "Well,  you  know,  Mrs. 
Crocker,"  said  Redding,  "I  couldn't  invite  them  to  my  house,"  which 
was  the  retort  courteous. 


ACCORDING  to  the  reports  of  police  cases  in  the  daily  papers 
there  art-  more  siren*  in  this  city  than  ever  tempted  Ulysses 
and  his  warriors.  In  the  vocabulary  of  the  police  reporter,  the 
word  siren  means  any  kind  of  a  woman  who  floats  along  the 
Barbary  Coast,  and  occasionally  plunders  some  of  the  old  hulks 
that  have  In-i-n  wrecked  there  upon  the  shoals.  The  siren  is  yel- 
low-haired and  -if  palmed  face,  and  her  voice  is  now  as  soft  as  a 
summer's  breeze,  and  again,  when  the  blue-coated  cruisers  hear 
down  upon  her,  it  has  a  roar  like  unto  that  of  the  infuriated  ba- 
boon. The  ■•  syren,"  on  the  other  hand,  is  another  member  of 
the  same  family,  who  moves  only  in  high  and  fashionable  circles, 
and  there  leads  to  dissipation  and  destruction  the  gilded  youth 
who  are  unable  to  resist  her  blandishments.  There  is  just  about 
as  much  difference  between  the  two  classes  of  women  as  there  is 
between  the  spelling  of  the  two  words  by  which  they  are  distin- 
guished by  the  brilliant  recorders  of  crime. 

THE  epicures  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club  will  eat  duck  to-night, 
for  this  will  be  that  evening  most  favored  by  the  gods,  and 
all  the  merry  tars  will  dine  upon  the  canvas-back,  and  pity  those 
benighted  ones  who  know  not  the  pleasures  of  the  fattened 
breasts  of  those  most  delightful  of  birds.  Each  member  will  be 
required  to  carve  his  own  duck,  and  will  thus  be  given  oppor- 
tunity to  demonstrate  his  eligibility  to  the  attainment  of  the  first 
degree  in  the  gastronomic  art,  or  by  his  failure  to  dismember  the 
gamey  bird,  will  confers  himself  as  not  of  the  select  circles.  One 
great  feature  of  the  evening  will  be  the  roasting  on  spits  of  the 
ducks,  to  the  accompaniment  of  slow  music,  in  the  presence  of 
the  members.  Surely  it  will  be  a  gorgeous  feast,  and  every  man 
who  attends  will  remember  it  as  long — as  his  head  lasts.  For  the 
accommodation  of  gentlemen  who  may  become  too  heavily 
loaded — with  duck — the  club  will  furnish  quarters  at  the  club- 
house. 

I  WAS  surprised  that  the  enterprising  dailies  did  not  publish  a 
cut  of  the  shorthand  reporter  who  took  the  notes  of  the  testi- 
mony in  the  Blythe  case,  and  of  the  janitor  who  filled  Judge  Coffey's 
ice-water  pitcher  and  cleared  the  courtroom.  Surely  they  were  more 
directly  connected  with  the  case  than  some  of  the  Judges  whose  faces 
were  thrust  before  a  long-suffering  public.  And  then  such  interest- 
ing stories  might  have  been  given  about  the  previous  life  of  the  jani- 
tor, and  his  favorite  way  of  rubbing  spittoons ;  or  it  could  have  been 
explained  whether  the  stenographer,  during  the  trial,  cut  his  pencils 
with  the  long  or  short  blade  of  his  penknife.  The  dailies  are  losing 
their  enterprise. 

THERE  is  wailing  and  gnashing  of  teeth  among  the  beaux  of 
this  village,  for  the  one-horse  laundrymen  have  been  frozen 
out  by  a  big  combination,  and  no  more  can  the  expert  wearer  of 
a  double-fronted  shirt  expect  to  get  his  wash  at  reduced  rates. 
The  effect  upon  swelldom  promises  to  be  terrible.  One  result 
will  doubtless  be  the  immediate  popularity  of  those  large  cravats 
that  cover  the  shirt  front  from  the  collar  to  the  second  vest  but- 
ton. The  dudes  may  not  be  quick-witted  in  some  things,  but 
when  it  comes  to  making  an  ancient  shirt  do  duty  seven  days  in 
the  week,  there  are  none  to  whom  they  will  give  way. 

TUESDAY'S  Call  soberly  announced  that  the  play  Two  Roses  was 
received  by  "  a  full  and  fashionable  audience  "  at  Stockwell's 
on  Monday  night.  It  is  truly  saddening  to  thus  learn  from  this 
most  reliable  sheet  that  dissipation  has  gone  so  far  in  this  city 
that  an  entire  audience  attends  the  theatre  in  an  inebriated  con- 
dition. I  am  anxious  to  learn  whether  the  audience  was  only 
,(  fashionably  full,"  or  whether  those  who  were  full  attained  that 
state  to  be  fashionable.  It  is  the  omission  of  these  little  things 
that  make  a  report  incomplete,  and  causes  disappointment 
among  the  readers  of  the  accurate  stories  of  the  sensational  press. 

NOW  that  Camp  and  McCIung,  the  football  fiends,  are  among 
us,  we  may  expect  to  see  the  daily  papers  decorated  with 
the  faces  of  a  lot  of  convicts  and  anarchists,  and  labeled"  College 
Team."  The  manner  in  which  Harper's  Weekly  and  other  papers  pub- 
lish selections  from  rogues' galleries  as  the  faces  of  college  students  is 
certainly  unworthy  of  imitation.  These  students  have  good  grounds 
for  criminal  libel  for  the  publication  of  these  pictures.  College  stu- 
dents  who  play  football  have  enough  to  answer  for,  and  even~if  they 
are  anarchists  at  heart,  it  is  for  the  best  interests  of  the  community 
that  such  an  awful  fact  should  be  kept  secret. 

cr  npHE  attitude  of  a  man  should  be  that  of  a  bird  poised,  ready 
1  for  flight,"  says  Mr.  Edmund  Russell.  A  bank  cashier, 
with  his  bank's  bonds  and  securities  in  his  gripsack,  anxiously 
waiting  for  the  sailing  of  the  China  steamer,  may  therefore  be 
considered  quite  esthetic,  as,  according  to  Mr.  Russell,  he  has  the 
proper  attitude,  being  "  ready  for  flight."  Messrs.  Crimmins  and 
Kelly,  I  am  glad  to  learn,  have  also  been  studying  the  principles 
of  Delsarte  of-  late. 

JUDGE  COFFEY  has  a  pretty  wit  and  a  ready  tongue.  His  latest 
illustration  of  his  delivery  of  the  retort  courteous  was  at  the  Gil- 
roy  reception  at  the  Press  Club.  He  was  addressing  the  members, 
when  the  gentle  Willis  Polk  interrupted  him  by  offering  him  a  glass 
of  foaming  lager.  "No,  thank  you,"  said  the  great  probater,  "that's 
too  fresh  for  me." 


18 


SAN  FEANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


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THE  mechanical  engineers  who  at  this  moment  are  successful, 
are  those  who  have  an  extensive  knowledge  of  machinery  as 
it  Is  practically  made  and  practically  designed,  says  the  Engineer- 
ing Magazine.  The  details  of  the  making  of  machinery,  and  the 
resources  and  limitations  of  the  machine  shop,  are  more  neces- 
sary to  successful  design  than  the  bigher  mathematics  are.  Kine- 
matics is  certainly  taught  in  the  machine  shop  more  thoroughly 
than  in  the  school,  although  most  practical  men  do  not  know  it 
by  that  name.  Its  applications  there  also. are  all  of  a  practical 
character.  What  a  movement  cannot  do  properly  is  quite  as  es- 
sential a  thing  to  know  as  what  it  can  do  possibly.  Absurd  ap- 
plications of  mechanical  powers  and  movements  are  to-day 
largely  a  specialty  of  those  without  shop  practice.  The  engineers 
again  who  are  most  successful  are  those  who,  in  addition  to  prac- 
tice, have  the  higher  school  training,  and  it  is  the  desire  of  all 
who  appreciate  the  advantages  of  abstract  science  that  it  shall  be 
taught  in  the  engineering  schools,  together  with  as  thorough 
practical  applications  to  concrete  elements  as  possible.  Schools 
of  this  kind  should  teach  other  sciences  as  thoroughly  as  they 
teach  mathematics — that  of  motion  in  particular. 

■  Drilling  contests  have  become  deservedly  popular  among 
miners  and  the  general  public  throughout  the  Rocky  Mountain 
region,  and  the  interest  taken  in  these  trials  usually  brings  to- 
gether many  of  the  best  known  competitive  drillers.  At  the 
tournament  held  at  the  recent  session  of  the  Mining  Congress  at 
Helena,  the  records  for  both  single  and  double-hand  drilling  were 
broken — the  former  by  William  Shea,  of  Montana,  with  25  5-16 
inches,  and  the  latter  by  Davy  and  Tague,  also  of  Montana,  with 
33  5-16  inches.  The  rock  was  granite,  and  the  time  fifteen  min- 
utes in  each  case.  Fifteen  teams  contested  for  the  double-hand 
honors,  and  there  were  thirteen  entries  for  the  single-hand  cham- 
pionship. Comparisons  between  the  records  made  at  different 
contests  are  somewhat  uncertain  because  of  variations  in  the 
hardness  and  toughness  of  the  rocks  drilled. 

"  Mines  and  Mining  "  is   a   stock   phrase   that   originated 

with  some  verbose  legislator,  and  has  somehow  fallen  into  such 
common  use  that  its  redundancy  escapes  notice.  It  has  a  large 
sound,  and  has  beguiled  the  managers  of  the  Chicago  Exposition 
into  the  snare.  There  are  Congressional  committees  on  "mines 
and  mining,"  and  lately  a  bill  was  introduced  in  the  House  to 
create  a  *>  Department  of  Mines  and  Mining."  There  is  sense  in 
"  mining  aDd  metallurgy,"  for  the  words  convey  distinct  mean- 
ings. But  "  mines  "  and  «  mining  "  in  this  connection  are  prac- 
tically synonymous,  and  either  word  would  fully  serve  the  pur- 
pose of  both.  People  speak  of  a  "mining  school"  or  of  a 
"  school  of  mines;"  but  who  ever  heard  of  a  ><  school  of  mines 
and  mining?" 

There  has  recently  been  brought  out  in  Boston  a  new  tool 

for  boring  holes  of  more  than  one  geometrical  form.  It  has  long 
been  known  that  a  square  hole  could  be  bored,  but  the  principle 
by  which  this  is  effected  is  now  extended  to  the  production  of 
triangular,  hexagonal  or  octagonal  shapes.  The  drill-shank  car- 
ries a  cam  attached  to  a  cam-arm,  and  on  its  end  is  a  slide-bed 
and  a  slide-carrier  with  cam-pin  and  roller.  The  necessary  ad- 
justing nuts  adapt  the  arrangement  for  different  sizes  and  for  the 
variation  in  the  shape  of  the  holes. 

—  The  ship  canal  promoted  by  Professor  Haupt  and  others 
between  the  Delaware  river  and  Chesapeake  bay  is  receiving  con- 
siderable attention.  In  consideration  of  its  evident  value  as  a 
direct  freight  communication  betwe§n  Philadelphia  and  Baltimore 
and  its  estimated  cost  of  only  $2,000,000,  including  extensive 
fluvial  improvements,  it  appears  to  be  a  project  full  of  promise. 
It  will  save  vessels  of  deep  draught  the  detour  of  200  miles  round 
the  Maryland  peninsula,  and  afford  besides  great  advantages  to 
navigation  of  the  Susquehanna  and  Delaware  rivers. 

—Among  the  largest  cables  yet  made  for  street  railways  are 
some  by  the  Washburn  &  Moen  Manufacturing  Company.  One 
for  the  Denver  Tramway  Company  is  six  miles  long  and  weighs 
forty-three  tons;  one  for  the  Portland  Railway  Company  is  six 
and  a  quarter  miles  long  and  weighs  thirty-eight  tons,  and 
another,  manufactured  for  the  Metropolitan  Street  Railway  Com- 
pany, is  6.1  miles  long,  and  weighs  -47£  tons. 

— —  The  recent  experiments  in  Harvey  nickel-steel  armor-plate 
have  shown  an  advance  in  quality  on  European  plate.  A  10J-- 
inch  plate  received  without  injury  the  impact  of  five  sharp- 
pointed  chrome  steel  shot,  each  weighing  250  pounds  and  moving 
at  the  rate  of  twenty  miles  a  minute. 

The  mileage  increase  of  United  States  railways  in  1891  is 

placed  by  Poor  at  3899,  as  against  5349  in  the  year  before.  The 
total  up  to  December  31  is  given  at  170,601  miles. 

Drink  the  John  F.  Cutter  whisky.  It  is  the  very  best  in  the  mar- 
ket, and  is  so  considered  by  all  men  who  pretend  to  know  what  good 
whisky  is  when  they  taste  it.  The  John  F.  Cutter  cannot  be  excelled 
anywhere.    All  the  leading  clubs  use  it  and  no  other. 


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I,  1892 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


19 


I  A  M  surprised  and  grieved  to  learn,  by  a  paragraph  in  an  Eng- 
lish newspaper,  that  the  grave  of  Adelaide  Neilson,  in  Bromp- 
ton  Cemetery,  is  in  a  condition  betokening  absolute  neglect,  says 
"  The  8a u merer  "  in  Town  Topics.  I  should  not,  of  course,  have 
supposed  that  any  of  the  dead  actress'  professional  or  social  ac- 
quaintances would  have  troubled  themselves  about  her  last  rest- 
ing-place. The  gay  world  and  the  world  of  art  in  which  the  art- 
ist moved  have  short  memories,  and  when  one  of  their  person- 
ages passes  away,  the  tribute  of  a  kind  word  and  a  sigh  is  all 
that  is  expected.  Adelaide  Neilson,  however,  apart  from  the 
friends  that  she  won  for  herself  by  personal  characteristics,  laid 
upon  some  people  a  debt  of  gratitude  that  it  seems  inconceivable 
they  should  be  able  to  disregard.  It  is  well  known  that  practi- 
cally her  whole  fortune,  between  £20,000  and  £25,000,  was  be- 
queathed to  Admiral  Glyn,  who.  having  survived  the  actress, 
and  received  the  money,  prompted  some  reports  that  he  would 
apply  it  to  the  construction  of  a  home  for  aged  and  indigent 
players,  or  at  least  permitted  the  story  to  go  abroad  uncontra- 
dicted, and  philosophically  kept  the  legacy  and  used  it  as  he 
thought  best.  Glyn,  who  was  so  deeply  in  love,  once  upon  a 
time,  with  Adelaide  Neilson  that  but  for  the  interposition  of  the 
Prince  of  Wales  he  would  certainly  have  married  her,  and  so  told 
his  intimates,  died  a  few  years  ago,  and,  if  I  am  not  in  error,  one 
of  his  two  children  has  since  followed  him.  The  wealth  that  the 
actress  earned,  however,  must  be  in  the  hands  of  some  of  his  de- 
scendants, and  it  speaks  poorly  for  their  sense  of  decency,  if  not 
for  their  finer  feelings,  that  the  earth  covering  her  dust  and  the 
simple  cross,  bearing  the  words  "  In  loving  memory  of  Adelaide 
Neilson.  Gifted  and  beautiful.  Resting,"  should  be  as  uncared 
for  as  that  of  a  Potter's  Field. 

One  day  last  summer  a  young  and  very  handsome  American 
woman  was  walking  down  the  Boulevard  des  Capucines  toward 
the  Avenue  de  l'Opera.  She  was  getting  on  very  leisurely,  stop- 
ping at  a  sbop  window  now  and  then.  As  she  stopped  before  a 
boot  shop,  one  of  tne  loungers  of  the  Cafe"  de  la  Paix  croasedover 
and  joined  her.  He  said  something  in  French  about  her  beauty 
and  the  great  delight  he  would  have  in  helping  her  shop.  She 
looked  at  the  boots  as  though  no  one  were  beside  her,  and  as 
though  no  one  had  spoken  to  her.  Presently  she  strolled  on, 
with  the  Frenchman  still  exclaiming  in  her  ear.  He  was  close  at 
her  heels  as  she  crossed  the  Avenue  de  l'Opera,  and  kept  beside 
her  as  she  started  out  the  Boulevard  des  Italiens.  She  paused  at 
a  window,  still  apparently  unconscious  of  her  pursuer.  He  per- 
sisted, talking  rapidly,  and  endeavoring  with  his  best  compli- 
ments to  soften  her  stony  lack  of  appreciation.  As  she  began  to 
go  on  again  she  suddenly  stopped  and  looked  straight  into  his 
eyes.  He  smiled.  He  felt  that  he  had  made  adifficult  conquest. 
She  opened  her  purse,  took  out  two  coppers  and  laid  them  in  his 
hand,  which  he  had  half  extended  the  instant  before  in  a  geBture 
of  delight.  "Now,  go  away,"  she  said  in  English,  "  and  don't 
bother  me  any  more."  She  turned  and  walked  on  as  carelessly 
as  though  nothing  had  happened.  The  Frenchman  stared  in  a 
stupor  at  the  two  coppers.  A  dozen  men  had  seen  the  incident 
and  burst  into  loud  and  jeering  laughter.  He  threw  the  coins  on 
the  pavement,  stamped  his  foot,  and  cursed  in  a  manner  horrible 
to  relate.  Then  he  walked  rapidly  away,  not  in  the  direction  of 
the  American  woman. 


A  good  story  is  told  of  Ignatius  Donnelly.  While  addressing  an 
audience  in  the  northern  part  of  the  State,  Mr.  Donnelly  com- 
pared, according  to  his  own  logic  and  reasoning,  the  condition  of 
the  farmers  of  Minnesota  with  those  in  several  New  England 
States.  "  For  instance,"  said  he,  "  you  farmers  get  only  about  $3 
for  your  sheep,  while  in  Pennsylvania  and  Massachusetts  the 
agriculturist  receives  $7.  And  again,  you  are  paid,  after  the 
shortage,  elevator  charges  and  other  expenses  are  deducted,  only 
about  forty  cents  a  bushel  for  your  wheat,  while  in  the  States  I 
have  named  the  farmer  gets  $1  a  bushel."  "  That's  no  argument 
at  all,"  remarked  a  moss-back,  interrupting  the  speaker.  <<  If  I 
had  Lake  Minnetonka  in  hades  I  could  get  $5  a  glass  for  the 
water." 

By  the  birth  on  November  8th  of  a  son  to  Princess  Louise  of 
Battenberg,  one  of  the  daughters  of  Princess  Alice,  Queen  Vic- 
toria becomes  for  the  thirteenth  time  a  great-grandmother.  The 
Queen  has  now  fifty-five  living  descendants— six  children,  thirty- 
six  grandchildren,  "and  thirteen  great-grandchildren.  The  young- 
est of  these  descendants  stands  thirty-ninth  from  the  Crown  of 
England,  to  which  there  are  now  the  astonishing  number  of 
seventy-five  possible  heirs. 

Some  one  has  noted  the  fact  that  July  has  been  a  fatal  month 
to  Presidents.  Jefferson,  Monroe,  Taylor,  Van  Buren,  Johnson 
and  Grant  died  in  that  month;  and  Garfield  was  shot  in  that 
month 


To  the  readers  of  theHiwi  Lrtbr  who  are  oootam- 
plating  a  trlpto  the  Bast,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
on  pACino.  It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
man Drawing-room  PaleceSleei.injM'HrHiiiui  Pining  Cars 
from  Ban  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.  Yoo  are 
only  three  and  one-ball  days  from  Ban  Francisco  t"  I  !hl- 
cago,  and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 
;    Boston. 

j      t  Every  Thursday  a  Tourist.  Kxcundon  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 

i    line  for  Chicago.  Sow  York  and    Boston,  making  25%  hours  .junker 

time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston   than   other 

excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and   full  information,  apply 

■    at   the  General  Office,   No.   1    Montgomery   street,   San  Francisco*. 

I>.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  teature  of  the  News  Lettrh,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  The  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
beinc  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 


zb^idtikis. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital ¥8,000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000.000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890) 3,275.919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Bbown Cashier  |  B.  Murray,  Jr  .,  .Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

<orrem'onjh;ms  : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  fie  Bank  of  California;  BOSTON— Tremont 
National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  RothBChild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  "Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver.  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland,  O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen. 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama,  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital $3,500,000     [     Capital  paid  up 2,450,000 

Reserve 450,000 

San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.  C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch,  1006  A  Street. 

Man  ARTHUK  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GOSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  Ban  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  partB  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 81,250.000. 

Successor  to  Satheb  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    L.  N.  SHEFARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Pirectors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner.  Albert  Miller,  *Vm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York — Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston — Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia — Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City — First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjea  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FAR60  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

fli.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutter  Streets. 

SAN     FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

John  J.  Valentine President. 

Homer  S.  Kino  Manager. 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier. 

J.L.Browne Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS;\ 
John  J.  Valentine,  Lloyd  Tevis,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Leland  Stanford,  James 
C.  Fargo,  Geo.  E.  Gray,  W.  F.  Goad,  Chas.   F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  CR02KEE-W00LW0RTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Marlcet,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000,000. 

OIREGTORS  : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  |  E.  H.  MILLER,  JB. 

B.  C.  WOOLWORTH PEEBIDEHT. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cashier 

SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital tSOO.OOO 

OFFICERS: 
President  ..JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary S.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President    W.  S.  JONES  |  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


20 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec. 


1892. 


<B^J%£Pew$ 


IT  is  an  ill  wind  that  blows  nobody  good,  and  the  gales  that 
have  been  blowing  during  the  past  week  should  teach  wisdom 
to  some.  "  Built  to  sell"  is  the  legend  one  reads  when  certain  of 
our  gerry-builders  contemplate  the  erection  of  a  number  of 
"  modern  homes."  Certainly  they  are  built  for  no  other  purpose 
than  to  sell,  as  many  residents  of  the  city  know  to  their  sorrow. 
Those  that  have  had  experience  of  the  "  built  to  sell"  house  usu- 
ally discover  that  it  goes  to  pieces  a  bit  at  a  time,  and  the 
plumber,  plasterer  and  painter  is  always  at  work  patching.  On 
Monday  morning  last,  an  instance  of  how  rotten  houses  of  the 
"  built  to  sell"  order  are,  was  afforded  to  San  Franciscans  when 
the  two-story,  nine-room  frame,  on  the  west  side  of  Locust  street, 
south  of  Clay  street,  was  not  merely  blown  down,  but  literally 
reduced  to  splinters.  The  wind  was  a  strong  one,  it  is  true,  and 
the  house  was  considerably  exposed,  though  it  was  not  an  "  en- 
tirely isolated  structure  standing  on  the  top  of  a  hill,"  as  some 
descriptions  would  lead  one  to  believe.  Another  house,  equally 
exposed,  stood  close  to  this  gerry-builded  gem,  and  withstood  the 
brunt  of  the  storm  which  upset  its  neighbor,  and  the  more  severe 
one  which  followed.  The  truth  of  the  matter  was  evident  in  the 
splintered  ruins.  Had  the  house  been  even  built  as  the  fire  ordi- 
nance and  underwriting  laws,  such  as  they  are,  required,  it  would 
have  been  standing  to-day.  The  joisting  of  the  gem  ought  to 
have  been  2x10,  and  was  2x8,  and  in  some  cases  2x6.  The  ridge 
rafters  ought  to  have  been  all  in  a  piece,  but  were  spliced.  No 
trace  of  bridging,  that  is  to  say  herringboning,  was  to  be  seen,  and 
there  were  no  diagonals  while  the  studding, which  should  have  been 
3x4,  was  only  2x4.  The  builder,  Louis  Landler,  must  have  had  a 
confederate  in  the  Fire  Department  who  would  pass  such  a  build- 
ing. The  utter  lack  of  sufficient  bracing  was  shown  in  the  complete 
demolition  of  the  house.  In  the  storm  of  1890,  a  similar-sized 
building,  not  two  blocks  distant  from  the  one  wrecked  on  Mon- 
day morning  last,  was  blown  over.  It  was  successfully  replaced, 
and  stands  to-day,  in  spite  of  this  week's  storms.  The  house 
was  improperly  built,  and  went  over  like  a  box.  Intending  pur- 
chasers of  "  built  to  pell"  bouses  would  do  well  to  have  an  eye  to 
the  bouses  they  buy.  It  will  be  money  in  their  pockets  to  inves- 
tigate. There  is  a  consoling  feature  in  the  destruction  of  this 
house.  The  loser  is  the  man  who  built  it.  After  having  received 
installment  payments  for  about  fifteen  monthB,  the  intending 
buyers  gave  it  up,  and  so  it  reverted  to  the  builder,  whose  match- 
wood it  now  is.  The  frames  of  another  house  built  by  the  same 
man  were  blown  down  in  the  vicinity  of  Ashbury  Heights. 

Senator  Fair's  withdrawal  of  his  application  to  steel-line  Van 
Ness  avenue  is  not  alone  gratifying  to  property  owners  along 
that  wide  avenue,  but  will  give  people  a  very  much  better  idea 
of  the  Senator's  appreciation  of  popular  desires.  He  might,  in- 
deed, have  made  a  hot  fight,  which  would  have  been  disagree- 
able, and  his  withdrawal  was  therefore  a  graceful  act,  though 
success  was  very  unlikely. 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.'s  auction  sale  on  Tuesday  last  was  well 
attended  in  spite  of  the  storm,  and  if  the  prices  were  not  high, 
they  were  reasonable.  In  this  matter,  too,  the  auction  and 
others  like  it  will  serve  a  good  purpose.  The  holder  has  been 
gettiDg  pretty  nearly  all  he  asks  for  some  years  past,  and  if  the 
auctions  will  teach  him  that  to  sell  be  must  shave  his  asking 
prices  a  little,  a  livelier  and  better  market  will  result.  The  prin- 
cipal sales  made  at  the  auction  were  a  house  and  lot,  50x112  east 
line  of  Fillmore,  south  of  Pacific  avenue,  for  $8,400;  two-story 
house  north  line  of  Turk,  87:6  west  of  Pierce,  lot  25x137:6,  for 
$5,750,  and  lot  24x125,  south  line  6f  Post,  125  west  of  Devisadero, 
for  $4,000. 

Some  little  comment  has  been  caused  by  the  discovery  that 
Frank  E.  Peabody,  who  purchased  the  1,300  acres  of  water  front 
property  at  auction,  also  bought  in  July  last  a  large  number  of 
lots,  or  rather  a  number  of  large  lots,  on  Brannan  street,  from 
Sixth  to  Ninth  streets.  Mr.  Peabody  is  a  member  of  Kidder, 
Peabody  &  Co.,  the  Boston  bankers,  and  is  also  a  Director  in  the 
Atchison,  Topeka  and  Santa  Fe.  The  fact  that  the  railroad  com- 
pany has  had  very  prosperous  times  certainly  lends  color  to  the 
theory  that  it  again  contemplates  completing  its  transcontinental 
line  up  the  San  J  oaquin  Valley  to  this  city,  Stockton  and  Antioch. 
The  interest  of  the  Santa  Fe  in  the  San  Francisco  and  San  J  oaquin 
Valley  Railroad  project  has  long  been  an  open  secret,  and  only 
the  unfortunate  killing  of  Henry  D.  Minot  is  responsible  for  the 
fact  that  Wast  spike"  driving  ceremonies  have  not  been  held. 

On  December  5th  the  South  San  Francisco  Stockyard  Company 
will  open  up  business.  In  the  meantime,  Baden,  or  new  Suuth 
San  Francisco,  whichever  it  should  be  called,  has  been  building 
up  rapidly.  Streets  have  been  cut  and  paved,  houses  and  hotels 
erected,  a  school  building  is  now  in  course  of  construction,  and  a 
church  is  to  follow,  so  that  the  plains  which  were  tenanted  by 
cattle  a  couple  of  years  ago  bid  fair  to  raise  a  small  city. 


A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


CALIFORNIA  WIRE  WORKS, 

9  FREMONT  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

MANUFACTURERS    OF 

»  of  all  Kinds,    WIRE 

BARBED     WIRE,  Regularly  Licensed. 

WIRE     ROPES     AND     CABLES. 

WIRE     CLOTH     AND     NETTING. 

HALLADIE'S  ENDLESS  WIRE   ROPEWAY   for  transporting 
ore  and  other  material  over  mountains  and  difficult  roads. 
Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 

BRANCHE8—  22  Front  street,  Portland,   Or. 
Los  Angeles,  California. 


;  201  N.  Los  Angeles  street, 


CYPRESS   LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

:e\a»:m:i:lj"X"    plots 

For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non-sectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  the  lawo.  plan,  thereby 
saving  tbe  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 

"  GARDEN  CITY   NURSERY, 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 

A  FULL  LINE  OF 

NUF?5EF?Y     sto<RK 

always  on  hand  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Correspondence  solicited. 

WM.    KELLY,  Proprietor. 

The  Strath  more  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hay  ward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

The  Coleman. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS    HOTEL,    European  Plan.) 

H.    H.    PEARSON.   Proprietor.  BROADWAY  and  27th  St.,  NEW  YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  St.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
tationand  horse  cars;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

_A.Tosol-u.tely      Fire-prooi 

Central  to  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  KINZLER,  Manager. 

THE 

BANJO 

ASHTON  P.  STEVENS. 

STUDIO:     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 

We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 


RENTS! 


BALDWIN  &  HAMMOND, 

Real  Estate  Agents  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


Doc.  ".  1892. 


s\\   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


21 


THE  compact  has  taken  a  retrograde  step,  doubtless  a  forced  one, 
and  rendered  necessary  by  internal  dissensions  and  threatened 
rupture.  It  has  now  granted  general  relief  from  the  enforcement  of 
all  recent  amendments  until  January  1st.  This  means  that  all  the 
'■yarding  the  cutting  off  of  salaried  agents,  salaried  solicitors, 
reducing  of  the  commission  of  city  agents,  and  making  the  general 
commission  all  over  the  coast  15  per  cent.,  have  been  suspended. 
They  were  to  have  been  put  into  operation  on  Thursday  last.  The 
amendment  making  premiums  payable  in  thirty  days  after  the  first 
day  of  the  month  following  the  month  in  which  a  risk  was  written,  is 
now  in  active  force,  and  went  into  effect  on  Thursday  last.  If  pre- 
miums are  not  paid,  the  policy  must  be  taken  up  and  the  thirty  days 
premium  will  be  charged  against  the  assured,  and  until  the  premiums 
are  paid,  he  is  barred  from  obtaining  insurance  from  any  company 
operating  under  the  compact  laws. 

Only  about  one-half  of  the  members  of  the  P.  I.  U.  have  complied 
with  the  anti-rebate  law  in  posting  the  required  $250  forfeitable  de- 
posit. If  the  remaining  members  do  not  come  to  time,  the  compact 
will  have  another  amendment  to  suspend  or  rescind.  The  object  of 
these  suspensions  of  proposed  legislation  is  evident.  Insurance  men 
are  getting  ready  to  close  up  the  business  of  the  year,  and  to  make  up 
their  annual  statements,  and  those  who  have  been  the  very  warmest 
advocates  of  strenuous  prohibitory  measures,  concede  that  it  would 
be  better  to  leave  matters  undisturbed,  at  least  until  the  close  of  the 
year,  as  trouble  in  the  compact  camp,  would,  if  rates  were  tampered 
with,  cause  no  end  of  trouble  and  probably  of  loss  in  the  bargain. 

William  E.  Magill,  Insurance  Commissioner  of  the  State  of 
Michigan,  is  in  the  city,  for  the  purpose  of  consulting  with  J.  N. 
E.  Wilson,  the  California  Insurance  Commissioner,  regarding  the 
requirements  of  fire  insurance  in  this  State.  Mr.  Magill  is  accom- 
panied by  Roswell  Mott,  who  is  also  connected  with  the  State  in- 
surance department  of  Michigan. 

About  thirty  of  the  fifty  insurance  solicitors,  city  agents  and 
other  intermediates  between  the  insurer  and  assured,  have  signed 
the  constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  San  Francisco  Insurance  As- 
sociates, and  the  promoters  of  the  enterprise  believe  that  all  the 
most  important  men  in  the  business  will  sign. 

Paul  Nippert,  of  the  Granite  State,  will  be  back  before  Christ- 
mas day. 

T.L.Miller,  Mercer  Otey's  partner,  returned  on  Tuesday  last 
from  a  tour  of  the  Northwest.  He  says  that  politics  and  an  un- 
easy feeling  as  to  what  the  compact  might  do,  have  jointly  con- 
spired to  make  business  very  dull.  In  Montana,  the  fight  over 
the  vote  for  the  State  Capital  city  eclipsed  everything  else,  and 
no  one  seemed  to  care  a  rap  for  business. 

W.  H.  C.  Fowler  intends  making  a  trip  abroad.  He  will  leave 
on  Tuesday  next  for  six  months  in  England,  on  business  in  the 
interest  of  Bromwell,  Fowler  &  Co.,  and  of  a  certain  patent  ship 
rudder  model,  which,  needless  to  say,  Mr.  Fowler  believes  beata 
all  creation,  and  ought  to  be  indorsed  by  the  underwriters 
of    the  world. 

The  marine  underwriters  are  in  a  state  of  expectancy  that  can 
hardly  be  described  as  blissful,  for  they  expect  that  a  good  deal 
of  bad  news  will  be  turned  in  as  the  reBUlt  of  the  severe  storms 
on  this  coast.  But  little  news  has  so  far  reached  here.  The 
schooner  Dora  Blum  has  gone  ashore  on  the  Mexican  coast,  and 
is  reported  to  be  a  total  loss.  The  insurance  loss  on  the  hull  will 
be  about  $10,000,  much  of  which  is  carried  in  this  city. 


HENRY    ATHERTON    FOX. 


AFTER  an  illness  of  several  years,  Henry  Atherton  Fox  de- 
parted this  life  November  18th,  quietly,  and  at  peace  with  all 
mankind.  During  the  fifties  and  sixties  he  was  the  head  of  the  firm 
of  Fox  &  Melville,  afterwards,  Fox  &  Porter,  at  whose  establishment 
on  Clay  street,  his  portly  figure  and  genial  face  will  be  remembered 
by  all  old  Californians.  For  many  years  he  was  a  prominent  mem- 
ber and  treasurer  of  the  British  Benevolent  Society,  and  was  always 
interested  in  the  practical  management  of  that  institution.  At 
cricket  matches  in  the  earlier  days,  he  was  invariably  chosen  as  um- 
pire, and  acted  as  judge  in  the  games  at  the  British  picnics  where  his 
sound  judgment  and  genial  good  nature  made  friends  even  of  those 
whom  he  had  to  decide  against.  For  many  years  since  he  retired 
from  active  business,  he  had  devoted  himself  to  his  ranch  and  vine- 
yard in  Solano  County  where  in  May,  1888,  he  had  a  stroke  of  paraly- 
sis, from  which  he  never  altogether  recovered.  Peace  to  his  ashes  1 
He  was  a  genial,  kind  gentleman,  loved  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him.  At  his  funeral  in  Grace  Church,  assembled  the  represen- 
tatives of  all  the  old  business  firms  of  the  city,  and  his  remains  were 
followed  to  Laurel  Hill  Cemetery  by  many  dear  friends.  The  pall- 
bearers were  David  Porter,  Robert  Sherwood,  Charles  Pace,  Welling- 
ton C.  Burnett,  Robert  Main,  S.  P.  Holden,  I.  E.  Watson,  and 
Charles  Ashton. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.  B.  CHAPMAN, 

SOLE  AGENT  FOR 
PAOIFIO  OOAST, 

123Californi»8t..S.F. 


EPERNAY     CHAMPAGNE. 

FOB  BY  ALL  FIBBT-CLA88 

Wine    Merchants  and   Grocers. 


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Early 

Our  importations 

VASES. 

this  year  comprise 

TABLE 

is  Better 

the  finest  selection 

AND 

than  a 

of  art  novelties  that 
could    be   found  in 

GLASS 
WARE. 

Day 
Late." 

European  and  Am- 
erican  art   centers. 

LAMPS. 
MARBLE 

Now  is  the  time  to 

BRONZE 

select    suitable 

holiday    presents. 

STATUARY. 

Our  stock  is   one   of  the   largest  in 

FRENCH 

the  United  States.  New  store.  New 

FURNITURE 

Goods. 

MIRRORS. 

S.  &G. 

OIL 
PAINTINGS. 

Gump, 

' 

WATER 
COLORS. 

1  13 

ENGRAVINGS. 
ETCHINGS. 

Geary 

ARTISTIC 

Street. 

FRAMES. 

THE  SCIENCE 

OF 

THE  SKIN. 


/TVn£.    flOUCIjte, 

324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  with  the  aid  of  Dermoline. 
The  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 

Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
moved and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
by  a  new  process. 

Hair  In  vigor  at  or  f  guaranteed   to 
cure  BALDNESS. 


IDEAL     COFFEE. 


This  famous  brand  of  fresh  ground  blended  coffee  is  unexcelled  for  qual- 
ity and  delicacy  of  flavor. 


No.  4 

40  cents  per  lb, 


No.  1  No.  2  No.  3 

25  cents  30  cents  35  cents 

For  sale  only  by 

RATHJEN  BROS.,  Grocers. 

21  STOCKTON  STREET. 
Sole  Agents  for  the  Celebrated  IDEAL  COFFEE  POT. 

ANNUAL  MEETING- 

Gould.  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Gould  &  Curry 
Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 
Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cat.,  on 

Monday,  the  Nineteenth  Day  of  December,  at  the  hour  of  1  O'clock  P.  M., 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Trustees  to  serve  for  the  ensulug 
year  and.  for  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  December  16, 1892,  at  3  o'clock 
p.  m.  ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3, 1892, 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  good:    Extras  $3.90rt§$4.    Superfine,  $2  60@j3.10. 

Wheat— Good  trade:  Shipping,  *1.28i£;  Milling,  J1.25@$1.30  per  cental 

Barley  is  steady;  Brewing,  95c  @$L  Feed,  8'2J-£c.@85c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  $1.3d@$l-40;  Feed,  $1.25@|1.W  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  ¥1.10:  Yellow,  ?l.P5@$1.23per  ctl. 

Rye  is  quiet,  good  demand,  $1,15$$1.  17^.    Cement,  $2.00<g>$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $10.50;  Oats,  $7@$1U;  Alfalfa,  »8@$9.50. 

Mlllstuflfs,  good  demand.    Bran,  JH@$15  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00@?2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  40?.@75c.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  30c.@32^c. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  35c.@40c 

Honey,  Comb,  10c.@12c. :  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  60c@90c.    Beeswax  iB  steady,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  7c@7^c.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5%c.@6e. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@20c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  J41.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stocx  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    White,  4K®5%c. 

All  anxiety  has  been  removed  from  the  minds  of  our  citizens  re- 
specting a  dry  season ;  the  late  heavy  rainstorms  have  been  timely 
and  of  sufficient  quantity  to  enable  the  husbandmen  to  speed  the 
plow  on  all  soils  and  to  quicken  the  grass  to  grow  upon  a  thou- 
sand hills,  thus  giving  good  pasturage  to  the  cattle  and  sheep,  and 
furnishing  the  dairyman  every  encouragement  in  the  prosecution 
of   his  industry. 

The  steamship  City  of  Peking,  hence  for  the  Orient,  on  the 
25th  ult.,  carried  in  Treasure  $383,898,  chiefly  in  silver;  of  this 
$238,898  went  to  Hongkong  and  $145,000  to  Japan.  The  cargo  to 
China,  valued  at  $122,015,  consisted  in  part  of  11,467  hbls.  Flour, 
21,633  lbs.  Ginseng,  938  galls.  Whale  Oil,  1,430  lbs.  Codfish,  etc. 
To  Japan,  Merchandise,  value  $26,175,  say  1,016  bbls.  Flour,  1,000 
galls.  Wine,  235  rolls  Leather,  etc.  To  Calcutta,  7,600  lbs.  Hops. 
To  Manilla,  11,300  lbs.  Beans.  To  Singapore,  etc.,  100  cs.  Salmon, 
38  cs.  Canned  Fruit. 

England — The  British  ship  Talisman,  hence  for  London,  carried 
Produce  cargo,  valued  at  $152,066,  consisting  in  part  of  20,070  cs. 
Salmon,  1,433  cs.  Canned  Fruit,  1,000  bbls.  Flour,  61,967  lbs. 
Mustard  Seed,  7,416  galls.  Brandy,  500  bbls.  Grape  Sugar,  765  bgs. 
Bran,  17,166  ctls.  Wheat. 

Central  America. — The  Pacific  M.  S.  8.  San  Bias,  thence  for  the 
Isthmus  on  the  25th  ulto.,  carried  492  bbls.  Flour  and  other  mdse., 
value  $11,500;  to  Mexico,  mdse.,  value  $5837;  to  Panama,  431 
bbls.  Flour  and  mdse.,  value  $5000;  to  New  York,  per  same,  30,- 
056  gals.  Wine,  4910  gals.  Brandy,  345.980  lbs.  Borax,  180  bbls. 
Rags,  etc.;  to  Baltimore,  20,375  lbs.  Beans;  to  Lynn,  4100  pbgs. 
Leather  Scraps;  to  Philadelphia,  517  gals.  Wine,  etc. 

Wool  for  Boston,  the  stmr.  City  of  Pueblo  for  Victoria,  B.  C, 
carried  thence  via  Canadian  Pacific  R.  R,,  39,561  lbs.  Wool,  value 
$14,400. 

Hawaii. — The  stmr.  Australia  hence  on  the  23d  ulto.,  carried 
cargo  to  Honolulu,  value  $80,000,  also  $25,000  gold  coin.  The 
schr.  Transit  for  same,  mdse.,  value  $17,260. 

Kodiak. — Schr.  Eliza  Miller  thence  to  William  Brown  &  Co., 
brought  us  2000  bbls.  Salmon. 

Sugar  exports  from  San  Francisco  by  sea  and  rail  the  past  ten 
months  129,213,878  lbs.;  same  period,  1891,  106,148,159  lbs;  1890, 
92,193,021  lbs. 

Sugar  imports  for  ten  months  of  1892  approximate  300,000,000 
lbs.,  which  is  somewhat  less  than'for  the  same  period  in  1891. 

The  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  China,  from  the  Orient,  on  her  last 
trip,  had  for  cargo  4,198  pkgs.  Tea.  1,439  cs.  Oil,  3,135  bags  Sugar, 
9,971  cs.  Oranges,  etc.,  444  pkgs.  Curios  and  8,000  pkgs.  Mdse. 
For  overland,  1,896  pkgs.  Tea,  1,376  pkgs.  Raw  Silk,  21  pkgs.  Silk 
Goods,  213  pkgs.  Curios  and  1,000  pkgs.  Mdse. 

Mexico — The  stmr.  Newborn,  hence,  brought  for  cargo  3,012 
bxs.  Oranges,  3,203  pkgs.  Bananas,  605  sks.  Ore,  12  pkgs.  Coin — 
$3,688— 17  sks.  Pearl  Shells,  Hides,  etc. 

The  overland  export  trade  for  the  month  of  October,  East- 
bound,  aggregated  49,193  tons,  and  since  January  1st,  323,934 
tons,  showing  an  increase  over  1891  of  48,814  tons.  The  above 
shipments  for  the  month  of  October  consisted  largely  of  Canned 
Goods,  Green  and  Dried  Fruit,  2,327  tons  Sugar,  137  tons  Coffee, 
732  tons  Tea,  besides  Wine,  Wool,  Salmon,  Leather,  etc. 

The  Steamship  Monowaii,  from  the  Colonies,  brought  up  80  bxs  En- 
glish sovereigns ;  nearly  $2,000,000  gold  for  the  United  States  Mint. 
During  September,  October  and  including  November,  we  have  re- 
ceived nearly  $4,500,000  in  gold.  The  cargo  by  the  above  steamer  in- 
cluding 365  bales  New  Zealand  Flax ;  1700  ingots  Sydney  Tin ;  17  drams 
Glycerine;  2383  bales  Wool,  etc.;  from  Honolulu, 3203  pkgs  Bananas. 

Grain  Charters— The  Swedish  ship  Lady  Lena — iron— 1422  tons 
Wheat  to  Cork,  U.  K.,  Havre,  Antwerp  or  Dunkirk,  £1  5s. 

Tbe  heavy  rainstorms  of  the  week  have  interfered,  materially  with 
business  in  all  trade  departments,  and  yet  all  interests  are  greatly 
benefitted  thereby.  The  holiday  traffic  among  the  dry  goods  and 
fancy  goods  dealers  promises  well  for  the  month  before  us. 


xzcq-sxriR^iisrciE! . 


Insurance  Company, 
capital.  11.000,009,  |  assets $3,000,000 

STRONG,  PROSPEROUS,  PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  in  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up $400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AMD  220  SAMSOME  STREET, 

San   Francisco,  California. 


0EORGE  L.  BRANDER, 

President. 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIB, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up $     500,000 

Assets 8,181,753 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders : 1,526,167 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.      General  Office— 401  Mont's, St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY  COMPANY 

OF     BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital »1,000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL  &  BERRY,  General  Agents. 

421  California  Street. 


FIRE 


INSDEE  your  property  against  FIEE  in 

The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London, 
The  Imperial  Insurance  Co.  ,  of  London 

WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Kranch,    214  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCH,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital $26,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office,  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 


O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  1S5S. 

Carriage   Builders  and    Dealers, 

317  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agency  for  Brewster  &  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.  J.;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet&Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babeock  Co.,  Water- 
own,  N.  Y.j  New  Haven  Carriage  o.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Ohio  Buggy  Co.,  Colum  tus,  O. 


:,  1892. 


SAN  FRANCIS*  0  NEWS  LETTER 


23 


ALACK  for  hiiul  the  night  be  called, 
By  fortune's  cruel  joke. 
While  he  was  telling  her  good-night. 

His  new  suspender  broke. 
But.  with  the  truest  courtesy, 

£he  did  not  let  him  roam 
Away  without  support,  and  so 
She  made  him  wear  her's  home.  — Judge. 

— BmJfcj— Did  you  hear  about  Watson's  whiskers?  Jinks — No; 
what  was  it?  Binn  "Why,  they  looked  so  homely  that  all  the  neigh- 
bors signed  a  petition  asking  Watson,  as  a  matter  of  public  policy,  to 
shave  them  off.  Jinks—  Well,  did  he  do  it?  Binks—  Yes.  he  did  it. 
Jinks— Well,  what  then?  Sinks  —  Why,  the  very  next  day  the  neigh- 
bors signed  a  petition  asking  Watson,  as  a  matter  of  public  policy, 
to  let  them  grow  again.  — Somerville  Journal. 

"  Colonel  Snort,  you  have  just  returned  from  Chicago.    Please 

tell  me,  are  there  anv  old  families  in  Chicago?"  asked  a  New  York 
lady  of  the  former  editor  of  the  Crosby  County  Clarion  and  Farmers'1 
Vindicntor.  "  Yes,  madam,"  replied  the  man  from  Texas,  "the 
rock-ribbed  aristocracy  traces  itself  back  to  the  great  fire,  while  the 
low  middling  aristocracy  loses  itself  in  the  twilight  of  the  last  black- 
berry season."  — Texas  Siftings. 

'•  What  have  you  named  your  baby,  'Rastus?"  asked  a  visitor. 

"  Samuel  Pro  Tern  Johnson,  sah."  "  What  is  the  '  Pro  Tern'  for?" 
"  To  show  that  the  name  is  only  temporary,  sah.  We  kindo'  thought 
that  Sam  might  like  to  choose  his  own  name  when  he  growedup, 
sah,  so  we  put  '  Pro  Tern'  in  as  a  warnin'  to  de  public.' 

Brown— What's  all  that  row  in  the   kitchen,  Nora?     Can't  you 

pacify  Robert  and  make  him  stop  that  infernal  howling?  Nora  (the 
cook,  indignantly)—  Young  Masther  Bobby  pulled  an  oicicle  aff  the 
back  fince,  sorr,  an' laid  it  undher  the  kitchen  shtove,  an' now  he 
shwares  Oishtoleit.  —Judge. 

— "  When  you  came  up  the  second  time,"  said  the  rescuer,  and 

saw  me  about  to  drag   you  into  the  boat,    weren't  you  filled  with 

hope?"    "  Well,  hardly,"  said  the  rescued.    "But  where  I   wasn't 

full  of  salt  water  I  had  "hope."  —Judge. 

We  must  sup  of  the  sorrows  within  life's  cup, 

Be  patient  'neath  fortune's  frown; 
But  let  us  so  live  that  when  we  are  up, 
We'll  forget  we  have  ever  been  down.  — Judge. 

—Discouraged  Artist — What  I  want  for  this  face  is  an  expression 
of  deep  and  settled  gloom — I've  tried  all  the  professional  models,  but 
they  are'nt  equal  to  it?  Friend— Why  don't  you  ask  some  Republi- 
can to  sit  for  it?  —Puck. 

Mrs.  Malaprop— Oh,  dear  I    What  do  you  think?    I've  just  had 

a  tooth  pulled  and  there  was  a  great  big  ulster  at  the  end  of  it.  Sym- 
pathizing friend— Why  don't  you  try  another?  Perhaps  you'll  strike 
a  sealskin.  — Judge. 

Dusty  Rhodes — The  keeper  of  the  penitentiary,  ma'am,  ruined 

all  my  chances  of  gaining  an  honest  livelihood.  Mrs.  Dogood— What 
line  were  you  in?    Dusty  Rhodes— I  was  a  Circassian  beauty,  ma'am. 

— Puck. 

Art  Editor — Your  work  will  not  do  now.    It  is  too  scratchy. 

Only  a  question  of  time,  though,  and  you'll  be  all  right.  Amateur — 
Well,  how  long  a  time?    Art  Editor — Eighty  years  or  so.      — Judge. 

^— "  Do  you  predict  a  large  sale  of  your  book?"  "  It's  bound  to 
have.  Why,  the  postal  authorities  have  already  decided  that  it  is 
unfit  to  be  sent  through  the  mails!"  —Judge. 

— -"  De  Mesa?  Oh,  he's  cultivating  his  voice."  "But  he  drinks  so 
hard!"  "Well,  you  know  he  is  from  the  Southwest,  where  they 
can't  cultivate  without  irrigation."  — Puck. 

Lawyer  Foggs— Madam,  1  am  compelled  to  ask  your  age.    Miss 

Sears — I  don't  remember,  exactly.  Lawyer  Foggs — Suppose  you  give 
it  to  us  in  round  numbers.  — Puck. 

—Oliver — Men  are  more  valuable  than  women.  Olivet— What 
nonsense!  Oliver— It's  a  fact.  Every  man  has  his  price,  but  brides 
are  given  away.  —Judge. 

Mrs.  de  Ruyter — Mr.  Carraway,  I  shall  have  to  go  elsewhere  for 

my  stamps  unless  the  quality  of  the  gum  on  the  back  improves.  It 
is  execrable.  — Puck. 

Mr.  Suburb— My  neighbor  has  a  big  dog   that  we  are  all  afraid 

of.  What  do  you  advise?  Lawyer— Get  a  bigger  one,  Five  dollars, 
please.  — iV.  Y.  Weekly. 

— Teacher—  What  did  Columbus  do  when  he  first  put  his  foot  on 
dry  land?    Scholar— Followed  it  up  with  the  other,  I  guess. 

— Judge. 

^—Papa—  Well,  what  sort  of  a  fellow  is  he,  Pen— Is  he  rich?  Pen- 
elope— No;  but  he's  awfully  handsome,  when  he's  shaved.    — Puck. 

-—Teacher— 'Eleven  years  old?  You  are  very  small  for  your  age. 
Little  Girl—Yes'm ;  we  have  always  lived  in  a  flat.  —Puck. 

CJo  to  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  & 
Co.,  at  353-357  Tehama  street,  if  you  want  any  clothing  dyed,  or  cur- 
tains, carpets  or  smaller  articles  cleaned.  This  establishment  leads 
the  coast  in  this  particular  line.  It  is  patronized  by  all  the  leading 
hotels  and  families  in  the  city,  and  enjoys  great  popularity  on  ac- 
count of  its  excellent  work. 


X3S- SUE -A-IsT  OIE;. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG.  GERMANY. 
Herbert  L.  Low,  Manager  for  the  Pacific  Coait  Branch, 

„      ..   ,  *2U  n.i  us, .in.  St.,  8.  F. 

Capital^..  S1.S00.000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S. 534.795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
»33  California  St.,  S.  F.,  C'ftl. 


All  the  bon  vivants  dine  at  the  Maison  Kiche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary 
street  and  Grant  avenue,  because  they  know  that  there  and  there 
alone  can  their  tastes  be  satisfied. 


THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OP  BA8LK.  OF  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL.. 4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jolntlyland  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed SIO.000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2, 125  000 

Total  Assets  December  31,  1888 6,124.067.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 

306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782-] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco- 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
GEO.  F.  GRANT.  Manager. 

PACIFIC    3DEFA.iaT3Vi:aE33Sra? 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 

OF   LONDON. 

Established  A.  D.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -    J  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 

W9I.  J.  LANDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  20!,  Sansomc  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL .' 16,000,000 

AGENTS; 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.46. 

President.  warajAMTN  P.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
Mills  Building,  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA.  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  A.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

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SAN  FEANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


SOME    QUEER    WACiERS. 

HISTORY  relates  some  curious  wagers,  one  of  the  most  unique 
of  which  ia  that  told  of  Egypt's  queen,  the  beautiful  Cleo- 
patra, with  Mark  Antony.  The  queen  invites  her  Roman  lover 
to  supper  and  bets  him  that  she  will  eat  at  one  meal  a  sum  equal 
to  $43,646.50.  Antony  accepts  the  invitation,  but  upon  coming 
to  the  table  and  observing  nothing  extraordinary  upon  it,  began 
to  rally  the  queen  upon  the  frugality  of  her  repast.  She  makes 
no  reply,  but  detaches  from  her  ears  two  pearls  of  great  value, 
one  of  which  she  throws  into  a  liquor  prepared  for  the  purpose, 
by  which  it  is  speedily  dissolved,  and  swallows  it  in  the  presence 
of  Munatius  Plaucus,  the  chosen  arbiter  of  the  wager.  As  she  is 
about  to  do  the  same  with  the  other  pearl  Plaucus  snatches 
it  away  from  her,  and  declares  that  she  has  already  won. 

The  celebrated  wager  of  Asclepiades,  the  physician  was  not  less 
extravagant.  He  wagered  against  a  great  fortune  that  he  never 
would  be  sick  in  bis  life.  Besides  the  money  he  had  bet,  his 
reputation  of  being  the  most  famous  physician  of  his  time  was 
at  stake.  He  won  his  wager,  for,  in  fact,  it  is  recorded  that  he 
never  suffered  a  single  hour  from  illness  while  he  lived,  having 
died  from  a  fall  he  received  in  extreme  old  age. 

A  certain  French  Count  made  a  wager  with  a  Duke  for  10,000 
crowns  that  he  would  go  twice  and  back  again  from  the  Porte  8t. 
Denis  to  Chantilly  in  a  certain  time.  He  had  his  whole  body 
tightly  bandaged  round,  and  a  leaden  bulletin  his  mouth  to  re- 
fresh him  by  keeping  up  a  supply  of  moisture.  Relays  of  horses 
were  disposed  from  space  to  space,  and  every  embarrassment 
prevented  that  might  in  the  least  retard  his  progress.  The  swift- 
est horses  only  were  chosen.  A  clock  was  attached  to  the  Porte 
St.  Denis  to  mark  the  time.  He  set  out  with  the  speed  of  an 
arrow,  and  in  a  moment  was  out  of  sight.  Never  did  man  cleave 
the  air  with  such  rapidity.  On  arriving  at  each  relay,  without 
alighting,  he  sprang  from  one  horse  onto  the  other  and  continued 
his  Sight.  He  arrived  at  the  Porte  St.  Denis,  having  performed 
his  course  18  minutes  before  the  appointed  time.  He  said  he  was 
still  able  to  go  to  Verseilles  to  bringthe  King  tidings  of  his  suc- 
cess. All  bathed  in  perspiration,  he  was  put  into  a  warm  bed, 
and  afterwards  died  from  the  effects  of  his  efforts.  This  noble- 
man, remarks  the  narritor  of  the  exploit,  deserves  no  praise  for 
having  run  such  a  race.  All  that  can  be  said  of  him  is,  that  he 
would  have  made  the  best  postboy  in  the  world. 

One  of  the  wildest  wagers  ever  made  was  in  Paris  in  1726,  and 
caused  the  greatest  excitement,  eventually  getting  into  the  courts. 
That  year  it  was  so  rainy  that  it  seemed  the  Hood-gates  of  heaven 
were  really  opened.  All  the  rivers  overflowed  their  banks,  and 
commerce  was  terribly  affected.  Some  superstitious  persons  pre- 
dicted a  second  deluge  and  many  were  greatly  alarmed.  A 
Parisian  banker  named  Bulliot,  having  remarked  that  it  had 
rained  excessively  on  St.  Gervais'  day,  June  19th,  persuaded  him- 
self that  it  would  rain  for  forty  days  continuously  thereafter 
basing  his  opinion  upon  the  truth  of  the  old  proverb  that  "  if  i 
rained  on  St.  Gervais'  day  it  would  rain  for  forty  days  after." 
Infatuated  by  his  faith  in  this  saying,  and  being  on  that  day  in 
the  Cafe  de  la  Regence,  near  the  Palais  Royal,  he  entered  into 
conversation  witn  some  persons  on  the  subject  of  the  incessant 
inundations  which  were  destroying  the  hopes  of  a  good  harvest. 
Bulliot  observed  that  there  would  be  more  cause  for  alarm  if  the 
rains  continued  for  forty  days  longer,  and  that  he  was  ready  to 
wager  that  this  misfortune  was  inevitable.  His  evil  prognosis 
was  received  w-ith  bad  grace  by  those  present,  and  he  was  asked 
upon  what  authority  he  based  his  prediction. 

"  I  am  sure  of  it,"  he  confidently  replied.  "Let  any  one  bet 
against  me;  I  am  ready  to  put  down  my  stake."  He  then 
threw  some  louis  on  the  table  to  excite  the  curious  and  defy  the 
incredulous. 

His  wild  task  was  not  considered  at  all  by  many  present,  who 
refused  to  enter  the  lists  against  hi  m ;  but  others,  more  interested 
and  nattered  by  the  hope  of  winning,  put  down  stakes  for  the 
same  amount  that  he  did.  The  money  was  deposited  in  the 
hands  of  the  coffee-house  keeper,  and  the  wager  registered  thus: 
If  it  rain,  little  or  much,  during  forty  days,  from  St.  Gervais' 
day,  Bulloit  has  won;  if  it  discontinues  raining  even  for  one  sin- 
gle day  during  the  40  days,  Bulliot  has  lost.  This  wager  irritated 
the  cupidity  of  the  whole  cafe,  who  were  eager  to  appropriate 
the  louis  in  which  Bulliot  so  abounded,  so  that,  after  having 
staked  against  all  who  would  bet  against  him,  and  after  having 
emptied  every  purse,  he  demanded  with  a  sort  of  insult  if  there 
were  any  others  ready  to  oppose  him.  Believing  himself  sure  of 
victory,  he  proposed  to  those  who  had  no  money  to  stake  their 
gold-headed  canes,  gold  snuff-boxes  and  other  valuable  jewelry, 
which  were  duly  appraised  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  same 
depository.  He  even  consented  that  those  who  had  neither 
money  nor  jewels  should  deposit  their  Holland  shirts,  against 
which  he  also  consigned  their  value  in  money.  The  contagion 
of  this  folly  having  spread  abroad,  the  next  day  brought  rein- 
forcements, who  put  down  their  stakes  against  Bulliot.  But  his 
money  at  last  becoming  exhausted,  he  offered  these  new-comers 
bills  payable  to  the  bearer,  or  letters  of  exchange.  As  he  stood 
high  in  the  commercial  world  and  had  never  failed  to  honor  his 
engagements,  his  proposition  was  accepted,  the  amount  of  this 
last  character  of  wager  amounting  to  50,000  crowns.     In  spite  of 


the  proverb,  the  rain  ceased  before  the  40  days;  Bulliot  lost,  and 
the  keeper  of  the  stakes  accordingly  gave  them  up  to  those  who 
bad  won.  Those  who  held  Bulliot's  bills  and  letters  of  exchange 
bad  not  such  good  luck.  Bulliot's  relatives  had  him  interdicted 
as  a  prodigal.  Lawsuits  followed,  but  in  1726  a  verdict  was  re- 
turned for  the  defendant. 


EMIGRATION     AND    IMMIGRATION. 


SOME  of  the  most  difficult  social  problems  of  the  modern  world 
are  those  presented  by  the  phenomena  of  the  emigration  and 
immigration  of  populations.  The  universal  tendency  of  cities 
and  towns  to  increase  in  size  not  only  by  natural  growth,  but  by 
the  immigration  of  people  from  the  country,  the  depopulation  of 
rural  districts,  the  effects  of  the  vast  tide  of  emigration  from  the 
Old  World  on  the  countries  which  it  leaves  as  well,  as  on  those  to 
which  it  goes,  the  causes  which  retard  and  those  which  favor  this 
vast  displacement  of  masses  of  human  beings — these  and  many 
other  questions  of  a  similar  nature  have  long  engaged  the  atten- 
tion of  statesmen  and  students  of  the  problems  offered  for  solution 
by  the  conditions  of  modern  society.  In  the  latest  number  of  the 
Edinburgh  Review  the  whole  subject  of  emigration  and  immigration 
is  discussed  with  great  weight  and  force  by  a  writer  in  that  well- 
known  periodical.  He  points  out  that  "  these  tidal  movements 
of  humanity  "  have  occurred  at  many  periods  of  the  world's  his- 
tory, but  with  great  irregularity.  At  certain  periods  mankind  is 
quiescent;  at  others,  »  the  whole  human  race  seems  to  be  in  mo- 
tion, driven  by  some  mysterious  impulse  to  seek  new  lands  to 
cultivate  and  settle,"  and  the  present  century  is  one  of  the  latter 
periods.  As  there  are  irregularities  in  this  lide  in  point  of  time, 
there  are  differences  also  as  to  place.  The  Central  Asiatic  plains, 
which  were  the  source  of  that  vast  emigration  in  the  early  centu- 
ries of  our  era,  which  laid  tbe  foundation  of  the  modern  world,  are 
now  depopulated,  and  movements  of  people  know  them  no  more. 
What,  however,  is  unique  in  the  emigration  of  our  century,  as 
Dr.  Longstaff  has  pointed  out  in  his  "  Studies  in  Statistics  "  is  that 
nothing  like  it  can  ever  occur  again,  for  "  no  such  marvel  is  in 
store  as  the  opening  up  of  the  great  western  prairies  of  North 
America  or  the  colonization  of  such  an  island  as  Australia."  Why 
men  emigrate  at  one  period,  rather  than  another,  is  not  always 
so  easy  to  discover;  there  are  special  reasons  and  peculiar  causes" 
at  work  in  each  age  and  in  each  country;  but,  in  the  present 
state  of  our  knowledge,  it  is  impossible  to  say  what  are  the  laws 
governing  humanity  in  its  great  ebbings  and  Sowings.  All  that 
can  be  said  is  that  certain  conditions  in  the  country  of  origin  and 
in  the  country  of  destination,  favor  or  retard  emigration,  and  it  is 
somewhat  surprising  to  learn  that  prosperity  and  emigration 
move  together.  One  of  the  first  signs  of  commercial  depression  in 
Europe  is  said  to  be  a  falling  off  in  tbe  number  of  emigrant's.  Thus 
in  the  past  thirty  years,  those  countries  in  which  British  imports  and 
exports  were  the  largest,  and  trade  at  its  best,  were  just  those  in 
which  the  flow  of  emigration  was  the  greatest;  while  as  trade  de- 
clined emigrants  have  been  the  fewest.  It  would  occur  to  the  ma- 
jority of  mankind,  we  conclude,  that  in  most  prosperous  years,  peo- 
ple would  stay  at  home  and  emigrate  only  when  hard  times  forced 
them  to  do  so,  but  this  is  evidently  not  the  case.  Into  the  writer's 
observations  and  suggestions  in  the  Edinburgh  Review,  in  regard  to 
the  future  consequences  to  the  United  States  of  its  present  mixed 
immigration,  we  have  not  snace  to  enter  here.  It  is,  however,  satis- 
factory to  note,  while  considering  the  political  effect  of  such  immi- 
gration, that  in  the  vote  of  our  people  in  California  at  the  election 
just  concluded,  it  has  been  five  to  one  in  favor  of  the  educational 
qualification.  The  vote  at  present  has  no  legal  effect,  but  it  is  only  a 
strong  expression  of  opinion,  which  is  equal  to  a  command  to  the 
Legislature,  to  carry  out  the  desire  of  the  people  for  an  amendment 
to  the  present  law.  There  being  an  educational  qualification  that  no 
one  shall  vote  who  can  neither  read  nor  write,  and  with  the  strict 
carrying  out  of  the  law  that  no  one  shall  become  a  citizen  until  after 
the  full  five  years  of  residence  in  the  country,  these  provisos  would 
at  least  have  the  effect  of  controlling  that  mass  of  emigrants  who 
come  here  not  knowing  the  language  and  entirely  illiterate.  It  is 
said  by  some  that  this  educational  qualification  would  be  a  hardship 
to  many  who  own  property,  and  who  cannot  read  nor  write.  That 
is  nothing;  it  would  compel  such  to  learn. 

THE  death  of  the  late  Arthur  K.  Hawkins,  on  November  23d, 
deserves  more  than  a  passing  notice,  as  Mr.  Hawkins  was  well 
known  to  almost  all  San  Franciscans,  having  grown  up  here  from 
boyhood.  Comiug  to  the  Coast  a  young  man,  he  first  entered  the 
employ  cf  the  San  Francisco  Gas  Company,  a  corporation  established 
by  his  relatives,  the  late  James  and  Peter  Donahue,  and  for  a  number 
of  years  he  was  its  Secretary.  Subsequently  he  became  a  member  of 
the  late  firm  of  McNally  &  Hawkins,  from  which  he  withdrew  to  en- 
gage in  the  mining  business,  which  he  followed  until  a  short  time  be- 
fore his  death.  When  still  a  very  young  man  he  was  elected  to  the 
Board  of  Education,  and  for  a  time  was  its  President.  Mr.  Hawkins 
married,  in  1S73,  Miss  School,  a  niece  of  the  late  Judge  Hyde,  by 
whom  he  had  four  children,  who  survive  him.  He  was  a  man  of 
brilliant  attainments,  a  bright,  genial  and  honorable  gentleman,  and 
altogether  a  splendid  specimen  of  manhood.  His  funeral,  last  Satur- 
day morning,  was  largely  attended. 


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san  FRAN"  D3<  0  NEWS  l.i  I  I'l  I: 


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AROVXLTT  in  feminine  fool  gear  ia  noted  by  ibe  Philadelphia 
Itujuirrr.  Kid  sandals,  in  the  n.ost  esthetic  tints,  such  as 
old  rote,  reaeda  green,  pale  lemon,  terra  cotta,  deep  gold  and 
electric  blue,  have  crossed  the  water  to  captivate  by  tbeir  unique 
prettineas  the  hearts  of  maids  and  madatues.  The  sandals  are  In 
reality  only  designed  for  boudoir  use,  though  the  owner  may,  if 
she  likes,  wear  them  in  the  reception  room  when  receiving  a  few 
feminine  Intimates.  The  foot  covering  is  in  sandal  shape,  with 
the  addition  of  tiny  kid  Vandykes  about  the  top,  each  one  of 
which  is  edged  with  rich  though  narrow  lace.  A  shower  of  tiny 
mock  gems  has  studded  toe  and  Vandykes  with  sparkling  atones, 
and  the  crossing  sandal  straps,  which  are  sometimes  of  kid,  but 
more  frequently  of  ribbon,  are  tbicKly  embroidered  with  jewels. 
Although  the  tinted  sandals  are  favorites,  those  in  plain  white  or 
black  kid  are  worn  by  many  in  preference. 

The  new  empire  skirt  consists  of  four  breadths.  A  straight 
breadtn,  a  yard  wide,  is  placed  at  the  back  and  front;  and  a  tri- 
angnlar-sbaped  breadth,  a  yard  wide  at  the  bottom  and  graduated 
to  a  sharp  point  at  the  top,  is  placed  on  either  side.  This  makes 
a  skirt  two  yards  around  at  the  top,  and  four  at  the  bottom.  The 
fnlness  of  the  top  is  gathered  on  to  a  band  and  arranged  to  fall 
principally  at  the  back,  though  there  is  some  fulness  in  the  front 
and  at  the  sides.  This  design  is  commended  for  light  materials, 
which  must  be  gathered  at  the  waftt  if  they  are  not  made  over  a 
foundation  of  silk.  It  will,  no  doubt,  be  a  popular  model  for  cot- 
ton dresses  next  season  when  empire  styles  in  a  modified  form 
may  be  adopted  in  general  dress.  For  this  season  this  extreme 
change  of  fashion  will  be  seen  chiefly  on  full  dress  occasions. 

The  white  trimmings,  says  the  New  York  Times,  are  far  more 
varied  and  lovely  than  usual.  White  feather  thistles  are  strung 
with  gold  bails  between  and  hung  in  12-inch  lengths  from  gold 
gimp,  making  a  wide  fringe.  Pearls  and  steel  are  in  bands  of 
rosettes.  White  ostrich  feather  tassels  are  bound  with  gold  and 
hung,  two  deep,  from  gold  gimp.  Festoons  of  pearls  have  gold 
fringe  dropping  between  the  festoons.  White  passementerie 
fringe  is  headed  by  white  swan's  down. 

It  is  said  that  the  "  Mother  Shipton,"  or  high-pointed  crown 
b-ats,  will  be  fashionable  this  year.  These,  however,  will  never 
be  so  pretty  or  becoming  as  the  Gainsboroughs.  While  hats  are 
of  the  largest,  bonnets  are  of  the  smallest ;  a  bow  with  an  aigrette 
or  flower,  or  a  tiny  capote  of  the  shape  of  a  Henri  Deux  cap, 
with  strings  to  give  a  dignified  touch  to  their  jauntiness,  are  the 
favorite  shape  so  far. 

A  charming  fire-screen  is  made  of  wrought  iron  indelicate, 
tasteful  pattern  and  set  with  stained  glass  in  the  familiar  bulls- 
eye  pattern.  A  screen  of  this  kind,  set  with  pale  yellow  and 
orange  glass  bullseyes,  would  be  especially  pretty  in  a  yellow 
room,  or  in  pink  and  turquoise  blue  in  a  little  French  reception 
room  furnished  in  enamel. 

Colored  velvet  or  satin  sleeves,  with  sash  to  match,  are  very 
pretty  with  white  ball  dresses,  and  are  very  useful  in  freshening 
up  last  season's  toilettes.  A  band  of  fur  at  the  bottom  of  a 
white  silk  or  satin  also  covers  the  marks  of  wear  on  the  edges  of 
the  skirt. 

Fringes  are  fascinating.  Though  those  of  fur  tail  have  an  air 
of  savagery  and  the  coin  fringes  are  barbaric,  there  are  innumer- 
able silk  and  other  fringes  that  are  dainty  and  Huffy,  rich  and 
heavy,  rippling  and  shimmering. 


The  pale-tinted  passementeries  are  almost  as  pretty  as  the 
white.  An  insertion  of  white  and  pink  and  blue  flowers  woven 
in  it,  and  another  of  gold  tinsel  with  green  and  blue  crystal  beads, 
were  delightful  in  their  coloring. 

A  tennis  party  is  not  complete  without  the  new  ginger  sand- 
wiches; and  what  are  tbey?  Two  thin,  delicate  slices  of  bread 
with  conserved  ginger  placed  between  them. 


THE  Maze  is  now  crowded  daily  with  hundreds  of  people,  anxious 
to  procure  Christmas  presents  for  their  loved  ones.  The  store  has  a 
large  stock  of  holiday  goods  of  all  descriptions,  and  the  business  done 
in  them  already  has  been  great,  as  the  visitors  find  that  without  a 
question  the  goods  at  the  Maze  seem  to  have  been  selected  by  Santa 
Claus  himself  for  the  delight  of  those  who  will  be  made  happy  by 
their  possession.  The  different  departments  are  filled  with  the  choic- 
est goods,  of  the  best  and  most  fashionable  make,  and  there  is  such  a 
profusion  to  choose  from  that  even  the  most  hypercritical  will  be 
sure  to  be  satisfied. 


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unrivaled  world-wide  reputation  for  its  purity,  efficacy  and  perfect  safety 
in  all  eases.  Thirty-five  thousand  references.  Established  1863.  Indorsed 
and  recommended  by  all  reputable  dentiBts  and  physicians.    Also  performs 

all  operations  in  dentistry. .„„„„ 

DR.  CHARLES  W.  DECKER 


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Situated  in  Napa  County,  Cal. 

Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
commodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  iEtna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  636.  Office,  108  Drnnn  street,  S.  F 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


MANUAL     CONCEPTS. 

IF  we  assume  that  there  have  been  three  great  steps  in  the  de- 
velopment of  man— the  biotic,  the  manual  and  the  mental — 
then,  daring  his  biotic  development,  man,  a  genus  of  animal  spe- 
cies merely,  had  progressed  so  far  as  to  have  free  hands.  Though 
these  may  have  developed  in  climbing,  he  could  now  fend  and 
defend  freely  with  them.  It  was  then  that  man  began  to  develop 
extra-naturally,  no  longer  like  the  mere  animal  by  coercion  of 
the  direct  forces  of  natural  environment,  but  rather  by  making 
an  environment  of  his  own,  and  first,  by  means  of  the  hands — 
that  is  to  say,  the  experience  in  warding  off  the  blows  of  nature 
with  his  hands — gave  rise  to  devising,  in  which  is  to  be  sought 
the  beginning  of  conscious  ratiocination,  as  compared  to  instruct- 
ive consciousness  and  volition.  Therefore,  I  have  named  the 
period  of  man's  development,  both  physically  and  mentally,  the 
manual,  says  Frank  Hamilton  Cushing  in  the  American  Anthropol- 
igist.  No  one  baa  better  defined  the  nest  stage  of  man's  develop- 
ment than  our  true-seeing  teacher.  Major  Powell,  when  he  states 
that  the  mentai  step  or  stage  depends  on  tbe  ascertainment  of 
truth,  but  man  attained  both  to  tbe  perception  and  formal  ascer- 
tainment of  truth,  first  through  the  use,  and  then  through  the 
using  of  his  hands.  The  survivals  of  this  are  as  striking  as  they 
are  abundant.  For  example,  there  are  no  records  of  any  wholly 
left-handed  or  even  ambidextrous  tribe  or  nation,  nor  is  there 
any  trace  of  them  in  art. 

Man,  tbe  savage,  fends  for  life  principally  with  weapons  of 
war  and  the  chase,  of  offense  and  defense.  His  heart,  the  most 
vulnerable  part,  is  on  the  left  side,  which  he  would  therefore, 
even  emotionally,  turn  away  from  danger.  More  than  this,  his 
condition  of  life  implies  always  tbe  shield  and  the  club.  He  has 
naturally  alwaya  carried  tbe  shield  over  his  heart  with  his  left 
hand  and  arm;  the  club,  lance  or  sword  in  the  right  hand.  He 
has  thus  acted  constantly  with  his  right  hand,  carried  as  con- 
stantly with  the  left.  It  is  only  natural,  then,  that  in  ritualistic 
talk  the  Zuni  should  have  called  tbe  personified  right  hand  the 
"Taker,'' the  left  hand,  tbe  "  Holder,"  going  so  far  as  to  deify 
the  left  and  right  members  of  the  sun-father,  as  the  Elder  and 
and  Younger  God — Twins  of  War  and  Chance — one  the  deliber- 
ate, the  councellor,  and  maintainer,  the  other  the  impetuous,  the 
proposer,  and  doer. 

In  this  already  we  have  an  example  of  the  agency  of  hand 
usage  in  framing  mind,  or  forming  both  mythic  concepts  and  re- 
ligious beliefs,  along  the  line  of  which  one  might  follow  far  the 
upward  growth  of  culture  in  a  special  people. 

Our  decimal  system  of  enumeration  is  more  cumbersome  than 
the  duodecimal  system,  but  we  adopted  tbe  decimal  system  be- 
cause we  have  pentadactylic  hands.  Whether  we  wonld  or  not, 
these  hands  have  imposed  on  us  both  the  names  and  the  figures 
for  our  numbers  and  numberings. 

By  combining  a  sense  of  manual  aptitude  with  the  etymology 
of  quantitative  terms  in,  at  least,  tbe  Zuni  language,  I  will  feel 
my  way  back,  step  by  step,  to  the  far  ancient  hand-conception 
and  birth  of  many  such  terms.  I  think  it  can  thus  be  shown 
that  while  the  creator  of  such  terms  has  been  the  human  will,  the 
father  of  them  has  been  tbe  right  hand,  the  mother  of  them  the 
left  hand;  the  numerals  have  been  finger-made  and  sums  hand- 
made; further,  that  single  terms  or  monophrastic  words  of  many 
sorts  have  beer,  single-hand  made,  and  sentence-words  or  holo- 
phrastic  terms,  have  as  often  been  double-hand  or  gesture-made. 

Tbe  hand  of  man  has  been  so  intimately  associated  with  the 
mind  of  man  that  it  has  moulded  intangible  thoughts,  noless  than 
the  tangible  products  of  his  brain.  So  intimate  indeed  was  this 
association,  during  the  very  early  manual  period  of  man's  mental 
growth,  that  it  may  be  affirmed  to  be,  like  so  many  other  heredi- 
tary traits,  still  dormantly  existent   in    the    hands    of    us  all  to  a 


greater  or  less  degree.  For  the  bands  have  alike  engendered  and 
attended  at  the  birth  of  not  only  all  primitive  arts,  but  also  many 
primitive  institutions,  and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  arts 
and  institutions  of  all  early  ages  are,  therefore,  memorized  by 
them.  In  other  words,  their  acts  and  methods  in  the  production 
and  working  out  of  all  these  arts  and  institutions  survive  as  im- 
pulses within  them.  It  is  chiefly  through  these  survivals  within 
the  hand*  that  the  embryology  of  the  arts  themselves  may  be 
traced  and  studied.  The  method  of  retracing  these  lost  steps  in 
the  growth  of  the  arts  surviving  in  the  hands  of  man  is  comprised 
in  simply  turning  these  back  to  their  former  activities,  by  re-ex- 
piercing  through  them,  in  experiment  with  the  materials  and  con- 
ditions they  (*ealt  with  in  prehistoric  times;  times  when  they 
were  so  united  with  intellect  as  to  be  fairly  apart  of  it. 

That  these  survivals  are  so  potent  still  as  to  make  the  hands 
alone  fairly  infallible  guides  almost  without  the  aid  of  mind  (save, 
as  it  was,  to  give  hynoptic  suggestions  to  them),  toward  the  con- 
struction of  any  work  or  activity,  however  complicated ,  that  was 
long  persisted  in  during  periods  in  the  development  of  our  race; 
and  that  such  experimentally  reawakened  hand-faculties  work  so 
perfectly  and  independently  in  the  main  that  they  form  almost  a 
sixth  Bense,  a  manual-mental  method  of  true  divination  concern- 
ing the  lost  arts,  I  shall  hope  to  show  hereafter. 

NO  IMTATION  GOODS. 

Therefore  the  question  "is 
it  Genuine?"  .is  never  raised 
concerning  any  article  pur- 
chased from 

A.  W.  STOTT, 

JEWELLER, 

3  Montgomery  St. 

(Under  Masonic  Temple.) 

DIAMONDS     and     other 

precious  stones. 
AMERICAN  and  SWISS 

WATCHES. 
And  stylish  new  designs 
GOLD      AND      SILVER 
JEWELLERY 

of  high  grade  at  surprising- 
ly low  prices. 


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THE    BRUNSWICK    LODE 

GOTTH  RAlflX,  the  well-known  mining  engineer  of  Virginia 
ft  tuade  »n  inieresltng  itaumral  »t  the  Occidental  annual 
meeting.  l»«t  Wednesday,  concerning  tbe  value  and  extent  of  tbe 
Brunswick  lode,  wbicb  fa  reproduced,  as  follows:  -The  Bruns- 
wick lode  is  undoubtedly  a  ti  ..in.  lacking  DODfl  o!  the 
features  distinguishing  veins  of  that  character,  ft  is  traceable  on 
tbe  surface  lor  a  distance  of  over  14,000  feet,  and  the  Oomstook 
does  not  show  more  prominent  or  promising  outcrops  than  are  to 
be  seen  at  several  points  along  tbe  course  of  this  great  vein.  The 
outcrop  of  the  lode  for  so  great  a  distance,  and  the  indications  of 
strength,  not  only  in  the  croppings  but  also  at  every  point  along 
the  vein  where  any  work  has  been  done,  give  every  indication  of 
lis  downward  continuance  to  great  depth.  Surface  indications  on 
tbe  Brunswick  lode  compare  favorably  with  those  found  in  tbe 
croppings  of  the  Corostock.  Not  only  do  these  croppings  pros- 
pect well  in  gold  and  silver,  but  at  several  points,  as  a*,  the  Occi- 
dental, St.  John  and  Monte  Cristo  mines,  they  have  yielded  large 
returns  in  bullion  when  regularly  mined.  On  account  of  water, 
no  deep  mining  bas  been  done,  except  at  the  Occidental.  Owing 
to  tbe  amount  of  water  encountered  at  the  Monte  Cristo,  vertical 
exploration  bas  not  extended  below  150  feet,  and  at  the  St.  John's 
tbe  depth  is  still  less.  With  pay  of  such  value  almost  at  the 
grass  roots  on  which  to  start  in,  there  is  not  only  a  possibility 
but  a  very  great  probability  of  finding  large  deposits  at  lower 
points,  perhaps  bonanzas,  rivaling  the  best  ever  found  on  the 
Comstock.  Furthermore,  judging  from  results  obtained  on  tbe 
Corostock,  these  deposits  would  in  all  likelihood  be  found  above 
the  Sutro  Tunnel  level. 

"On  the  Comstock  tbe  bonanzas  were  encountered  between  the 
1,300-1  eve  I  and  surface,  and  it  is  at  this  depth  the  Satro  Tunnel  taps 
the  Brunswick  vein.  At  the  St.  John's,  tbe  vertical  depth  of  the 
Sutro  Tunnel  below  tbe  surface  is  1,344  feet.  Therefore  it  cuts 
the  vein  at  a  depth  of  1 ,900  feet  (on  a  slope  of  45  degrees)  below  the 
croppings.  This  leaves  nearly  2,000  feet  of  undoubtedly  valuable 
ground  to  explore,  and  ground,  too,  that  shows  pay  ore  on  the 
surface.  Prospecting  must  be  done  by  upraises  from  the  tunnel 
now  being  run  south  along  the  foot  wall,  otherwise  some  large  and 
valuable  deposits  of  ore  may  remain  undiscovered.  The  utility  of 
these  upraises  is  apparent  when  it  is  considered  what  would  have 
been  lost  on  the  Comstock  if  the  vein  had  been  tapped  at  a 
depth  of  1.900  feet,  leaving  the  ground  above  that  level  unex- 
plored. That  pay  ore  does  not  appear  on  the  tunnel  level  is  no 
indication  that  there  is  no  pay  ore  3ome  place  above.  Barren 
ground  exists  under  and  above  the  best  bonanza  ever  discovered. 
The  indications  on  the  Brunswick  lode  are  really  excellent,  im- 
proving going  south,  and  also  north  from  the  Sntro  Tunnel.  The 
the  lode,  where  intersected  by  the  tunnel,  is  113  feet  wide,  and 
where  cut  by  crosscut  from  Zadig  tunnel,  running  southerly  to- 
wards Occidental,  it  is  130  feet  wide.  It  is  strongly  mineralized 
at  both  points,  assays  in  gold  and  silver  running  from  $2  to  $10 
to  $12  per  ton.  Tbe  vein  is  of  the  same  material  as  tbe  Com- 
stock. namely,  quartz,  clay  and  porphyry,  and  is  well  defined,  with 
the  characteristic  clay  on  the  foot-wall.  That  it  is  fertile  is 
shown  by  the  assays  obtainable  at  all  points.  It  may  be  a  pay- 
ing ore  deposit  will  be  found  in  the  present  drift  as  it  progresses 
southward,  by  intersecting  the  St.  John  ore-chimney  in  its  south- 
ward trend.  If  not,  an  upraise  should  be  started  beneath  the 
point  where  the  chimney  appears  in  the  cropping. 

'♦The  possibilities  of  the  Brunswick  lode  are  really  immense,  and 
from  the  showings  of  ore  already  made  the  probabilities  are 
equally  great.  No  other  vein  in  Western  Nevada  is  of  greater 
promise,  and  nowhere  can  money  be  spent  in  prospecting  with  a 
better  chance  for  valuable  developments.  There  is  room  for  a 
dozen  first  class  mines  on  tbe  lode,  and  at  no  very  distant  day,  it 
may  be  the  scene  of  as  great  mining  activity  as  the  Comstock. 
One  big  bonanza  in  the  St.  John's  orany  other  mine,  would  cause 
every  company  on  the  lode  to  begin  active  operations.  Second 
only  to  the  Comstock  in  width  and  strength,  men  have  overlooked 
this  lode,  squandering  millions  elsewhere  in  a  wild  goose  chase 
for  mines.  It  is  only  at  this  late  day  tbe  long  neglected  lode  has 
been  taken  up  with  the  chances  that  those  engaged  in  its  develop- 
ment will  be  richly  rewarded  as  they  deserve." 


Russell  Sage. 
The  Well-known  financier,  writes:  ''506  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 
City,  December  20,1890.  For  the  last  twenty  years  I  have  been 
using  Allcock's  Porous  Plasters.  They  have  repeatedly  cured  me  of 
rheumatic  pains  and  aches  in  my  side  "and  back.  Whenever  I  have 
a  cold,  one  on  my  chest  and  one  on  my  back  speedily  relieve  me. 
"My  family  are  never  without  them."    Russell  Sage. 


Colonel  Litchfield,  of1 12  Post  street,  has  the  reputation  of  being 
one  of  the  best  tailors  in  San  Francisco,  and  his  establishment  is  a 
favorite  among  men  who  dress  well.  He  makes  a  specialty  ■  of  uni- 
forms and  regalias,  and  is.patronized  by  all  the  State's  and  nation's 
defenders  stationed  in  this  vicinity. 

The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grindelial  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacv,  635  Market  street. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

B«hrlng  Sen   Pncklny  Company. 

■..V^*"!"'  "'  l,rl"rl,r«l  I, !'»' <  bmlMM-aan  Franclaoo,  California.    Lo- 

mlloilKf  nuni.rv      I  (Unlit  KlviT.  Ala-ka. 

noik.k.-i       i  ,i upon  tba  following  Auorltwd Hook. on 

account  of  useMmonl  (No.  1  .  levied  on  the  IStn  daj  of  February,  ism  tbe 
icvcral  amounts  «pi  opposite  the  uamei  ..I  the  raspofllive  shareholder?: 

_    ,N'"1"''-  No.  OerUfloate.      No.  Shares.     Amount. 

C.  K.  Johnson  i  60  »50 

0.  A.  Johnson  g  :m  340 

Cna*.  Carisou  7  :io  80 

,     .  ,c-  Luudberfi  12  ago  390 

A m.i  In  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  mado 

"ii  l he  13th  day  of  reuruary,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  auch 

1 '"'  k  "-  ""':'  '■■■  '" aaarj  will  I Id  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  ol  the 

company,  >..i  9  Harkel  street,  dan  Franolaco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  tbe  16th  day 
ol  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  H.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  ol  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  flehriug  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
MONDAY  ,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

_  .      .  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  slock  was  postponed  until 
PULRSDAY,  June  23,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 
„       „         ,  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  uf  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  8ATUR- 
AV,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1S92. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com, 
pany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FK1DAY 
October  21st,  1892  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  September  21st. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behr'ng  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
DAY', November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  October  21, 1832. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com 
pany,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  TUES 
DAY',  December  21, 1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  21,  1892. 

ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 

New  Basil  Consolidated   Gravel  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ol  business -San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Placer  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  eleventh  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assestment,  No.  22,  of  Five 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay 
able  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
Seventeenth  Day  of  December,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold   on  MONDAY,  the  9th  day  of  January,  1893,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F.  X.  SIMON,  Secretary. 

Office— 525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Navsjo  Mining    Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Loca- 
tion of  works — Tuscarora,  Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  Fifth  (5th)  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  23)  of  Ten  (10) 
Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation, 
payable  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  No.  310  Pine  Stree,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Ninth  Day  of  December.  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on    FRIDAY,  the  30th  day  of  December,  1892,  to  pay 
the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  Bale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW.  Secretary. 

Office— No.  310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Mexican    Gold  and  Silver    Mining    Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Mexican  Gold  and 
Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room 
79,  Nevada  Block,  No.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

Tuesday,  December  6,  1892,  at  1  o'clock  P.  M., 
For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.    Transfer' books  will  close  on  SATURDAY,  December  3,  1892, 
at  12  o'clock  m. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  79,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cIbco,  Cal. 

Grandma's  made  happy  with  perfect  fittfng  glasses  from  C.  Muller,  Op- 
tician, 135  Montgomery  street,  near  Bush,  San  FranciBCO. 


28 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


FAREWELL.—  Walter  Scott. 

OF  all  the  words  of  grief  and  woe,  where 
misery  doth  dwell, 
The  saddest  intonation  lies  within  that 

one— farewell. 
It  serves  to  sever   souls  for  aye,  for  who 

is  there  can  tell 
If  hearts  will  ever  meet  again,  when  they 

say  farewell! 
It  carries  not  a  tone  unkind;  no  wrath 

does  it  compel. 
'Tis  breathed  from  out  the  bosom's  depth, 

that  deep,  that  long  farewell. 
The  aching  heart  is  rent  in   twain,  and 

lies  a  shattered  shell, 
Then,  with  a  longing,  anguished  cry,  it 

says  its  last  farewell. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated.  New  York  Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Goid 
Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  2d  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  9)  of  Ten  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company.  No.  79  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Fifth  Day  of  December,  1892,  will  be  delin- 
quent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  28th  day  of  December, 
1892,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  79,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  California. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Belle  Isle  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Tuscarora, 
Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  5th  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No  10)  of  ten  cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  cor- 
poration, payable  immediately  in  United  States 
gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  310  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on  the 

The  12  Day  of  December,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  January,  1893,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office.— No.  310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE.. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mining  Company. 

Assessment    No.  103 

Amount  per  share 25  cents 

Levied Nov.  9,  1892 

Delinquent  in  office  Dec.  14, 1892 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock . .       . .  Jan.  3, 1893 
E  L.  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery 
street,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Occidental  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Assessment No.  11 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Oct.  25,  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Nov.  25, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock..     ..Dec  21,  1892 
ALFRED  K.  DURBROW.  Secretary. 

Office— Nevada  Block,  room  69,  No.  309  Mont- 
mery  Street,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  70 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Nov.  22, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Dec.  28  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock     ....Jan.  20, 1893 
A.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery 
street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


THE  most  eminent  consulting  lawyer 
of  Paris  at  one  time  in  the  last  century 
was  the  Abbe  May.  His  opinion  had 
great  weight  in  forming  the  decision  of 
the  Judges,  and  he  was  often  consulted 
in  important  matters  outside  the  law. 
His  fee  for  an  opinion  was  usually  a 
large  one.  The  story  of  one  of  his  ex- 
ceptional fees  is  related  by  M.  de  Bois 
Saint  Just  in  his  history  of  Paris.  A  Cure 
from  the  country  called  on  the  Abbe  one 
day,  and  after  complimenting  him  with 
earnestness  and  sincerity  on  his  credit- 
able and  deserved  reputation,  said  that 
he  was  involved  in  a  lawsuit  which  he 
did  not  understand.  He  asked  the  Abbe 
to  advise  him  whether  he  was  in  the 
right  or  in  the  wrong,  and  whether  he 
had  better  carry  on  the  suit.  8o  saying 
he  delivered  to  the  great  jurist  an  enor- 
mous package  of  papers  covered  with  al- 
most Illegible  handwriting. 

The  Abbe  cheerfully  accepted  the  task, 
and  told  the  Cure  to  call  again  in  two 
weeks.  He  was  pleased  with  the  good, 
simple-hearted  man,  and  devoted  his  best 
energies  to  clearing  up  the  case,  though 
he  was  obliged  to  put  other  matters  aside 
in  order  to  do  so.  The  Cure  called  on  the 
day  appointed,  took  the  Abbe's  written 
opinion,  and  read  it  through  critically. 
He  was  delighted  with  the  enthusi- 
asm and  clearness  with  which  his 
rights  were  set  forth.  He  embraced  the 
Abbe  gratefully,  and  cried:  "Ah,  mon- 
sieur, no  one  could  be  better  pleased  than 
I  am,  and  I  want  you  to  be  pleased  also. 
Here  is  money,  monsieur,  please  take 
what  is  due  you,"  and  he  threw  a  three- 
franc  piece  on  the  table.  Not  to  humi- 
liate the  good  man,  the  Abbe  picked  up 
the  coin,  took  thirty-sis  sous  from  his 
purse,  and  handed  his  client  "  the 
change."  Someone  said,  when  he  told 
the  story,  that  as  usual  he  had  lost  by  his 
disinterestedness.  "Lost?"  said  the  Abbe. 
"And  do  you  count  the  pleasure  of  tell- 
ing this  story  nothing?" 


THE  following  rules  were  adopted  at  a 
meeting  of  young  and  pretty  sten- 
ographers and  typewriters,  and  are  now 
published  for  the  benefit  of  that  neces- 
sary and  ornamental  order  of  office  deco- 
rators, and  for  the  enlightenment  of  their 
employers: 

Don't  bleach  your  hair  until  you  have 
secured  a  position. 

Don't  state  your  speed  when  applying 
as  more  than  200  words  per  minute  unless 
you  can  write  fifty. 

Don't  take  more  than  two  hours  for 
lunch. 

Don't  get  to  the  office  later  than  11 
o'clock  if  the  proper  time  is  9. 

Don't  worry  if  you  can't  read  your 
notes — stenographers  seldom  can. 

Don't  aik  for  a  day  off  more  than  five 
times  per  week. 

Don't  use  the  telephone  more  than  six 
hours  a  day — give  the  firm  a  show. 

Don't  forget  to  write  all  your  personal 
letters  during  office  hours. 

Don't  buy  any  postage  stamps — the  of- 
ce  owes  them  to  you. 

Don't  clean  the  typewriter — let  the  of- 
fice boy  or  the  boss  do  that. 

Don't  invite  yourself  to  lunch  with  the 
boss — let  him  ask  you. 

Don't  bother  with  the  junior  partner. 

Don't  fail  to  own  the  boss. 


THE  300th  anniversary  of  Izaak  Wal- 
ton's birth  occurs  on  August  9th, 
next  year,  and  Dr.  A.  Henschell,  in 
charge  of  the  United  States  Fishery  Com- 
missioner's exhibit  at  the  World's  Fair, 
proposes  that  the  day  be  especially  com- 
memorated with  a  fly-casting  tourna- 
ment, for  the  winners  in  which  gold  and 
silver  medals  shall  be  provided. 


J,  0,  SPRECKLES I  BROS,  COMPANY, 

.SHIPPING  AND~  COMMISSION 
MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

GILLINGHAM    CEMENT. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

LONG   DISTANCE 

TELEPHONE. 

Ii-A^IEST     IBIXl'X'IEIKrSXOIISr- 

Salinas,    Chualar,    Gonzales, 
Soledad,  Marysville,  Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken     communication      be- 
,  tween  these   towns    and   San 
I  Francisco.    The  lines  are  con- 
'oy  structed  of  specially  prepared 
'    extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  with  tbe  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  science  of 
, ......_  . ,      and  are  "  Long    Distance  "  Lines 

in  every  sense  of   the  word.    The  Mail  is  quick, 
the  Telegraph  i«  quicker,  but  the 

LONG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  Instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRIC  WORKS. 

N"o.   35    :tv£a,rl£et  Street. 


IANUFACTUEEES 

AND   IMPORTERS 
—  OF  — 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General 

Electrical  Supplies. 
OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Francisco. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 

FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  2388, SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Cunningham,  Curtiss  &  Welch, 
WHOLESALE 

STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 
327.329.  331  SANSOME  STREET. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated    Imperial  Mining  Co, 

Assessment No.  34 

Amount  per  Share Scents 

Levied Nov.  22, 1892, 

Delinquent  in  Office Dec.  29,  1892. 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock Jan.  19, 1893 

C.  L.  McCoy,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  35,  third  floor,  Mills  Building, 
corner  Bush  and  Montgomery  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 


Doc.  3,  1892. 


SAN  Fi;  INCISCO  NEWS  III  ]  I :i; 


29 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BROAOOaUGE  ROUTE." 
COMMKNi'I.Ni,  SUNDAY,  NOV  20.  1-/.'.  »n.l 
until  furtocr  noueo.  Boau  and  Train*  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pie- 
•«Dfer  Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  •■ 
follows: 
Fro"  San  Fnncllco  lor  Point  Tlburon,  Bel.edere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  a.m.,  9:20  a.  a. ,   ll:*0  a.  MV. 

IJOr.  x.iOf.  p.  «..6J0  p.  u. 
fUTl'KPAYd  ONLY— An  citratrlpat  1:50  p.  «. 
BfNDA  YS— S:O0  A.K..  9:30  A.M..  11  00  A.M.  .  1 .30  P.M. 
3  30  r.  »..  5  00  p.  a.,  6:20  p.  U. 

From  San  Ralael  lor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 636  a.   «..  7:55  a.   a.,  9:30   a.  M. 

I2l'.r.».,  3:40  P  M.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  a.m.,  11:10  a.  m.;  1:10p.m. 
3:40  p.  M.,  5K»p  M.,6:25  p.  M. 

prom  Point  Tiburon  to  San   Francisco. 
WEEK  DATS— 6:50  a.   m.,  830  A.  M.,  9:55    A.  M.; 
1:10  P.  M.,  4:05  P.  M.,  5:35  P.  M. 
Saturdays  oalv.  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
80NDAY8— 8:40    A.M.,    10:06  A.M.,  11:35  A.M.;. 
2:05  P.  M.,  t  :05p.m..  5:30p.m.,  6:55  P.M. 


LsatiS.F. 

Destination. 

ARRIVE  IS  S.  F. 

S.V.k  3m>daTS 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m.  8:00  a.m.     Petaluma 
3:80p.m.  9:30  a.  m.           and 
6:06  p.m.  15:00 p.m.   Santa  Rosa. 

10:40a.m 
6:05  P.M 
7:30  P.M 

8:50a.m. 
10:30a.m 
6:10p.m. 

Pulton, 

7:40a.m.      Healdsburg, 

3:30P.M.  8:00a.m.    Lilt. hi  Sprinsrs, 

7:30  P.M. 

10  :30a.  m 
6:10p.m 

7:40a.m.  8:00 A.  M.;aH0Plandh 

7:30  P.M. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m.  8:00a.  M.  Guerneville.  7:30p.m. 
3:80  P.M. 

10:30a.m 
6:10  p.m 

7:40a.  m. 18:00 a.m.   Sonoma  and  110:40a.m. 
5:05  p.m. '5:00p.m.    Glen  Ellen.  1  6:05 P.M. 

8:50A.M. 
6:10P.M. 

7:40  a.  M  1  8:00a.  M  1  Sebastopol.  |  10:40a.m 
3:30  p.m  (5:00p.m  1                        I    6:05p.M 

10:30  AH 
6:10  P.M 

StageB  connect  at  aanta  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyaerville  for  Skaggs  Springs. 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  KelseyVille,  Soda  Bay,  Lake- 
port  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lake- 
port;  at  Uklah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sarato- 
ga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
^ake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  ?4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  toUkiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma.  $1 ;  to  Santa  Rosa.  $1  60;  to  Heal  de- 
burg,  $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1 20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN. 

Gen,  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


E 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Link  to  New  York,  vri  Panama. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.— "City  of  Sydney,"  Decem- 
ber 5,  1892.  "San  Jose,"  December  15, 1892.  "San 
Juan,"  Sunday,  December  25, 1892. 

S.S.  "  City  of  Panama"  will  sail  for  Panama  at 
noon,  Saturday,  December  17th,  calling  at  Mazat- 
lan,  Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala, 
San  Beuito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guate- 
mala, Acajutla,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Corinto,  San 
Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 
Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 
Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 
S.S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  P.  m. 
S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th,  at  3  p.  m. 
"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"    Saturday,  Jauuary 
14th,  1893,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  8.  "City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  February 
4th,  at  3  p.m. 

Round  TriD  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent. 


TEARS,  IDLE  TEARS.-  Wm.  II.  Ilnynt 
in  JIarjtcr't   Bazaar. 

'•  Tear?,    idle    tears,"  of    which  the   poet 
sings, 
Come   from    the  heart's  deep  fountain 
unawares, 
Fed  by  the  soul's  Imperishable  springs — 

"  Tears,  idle  tears  1" 
Through   them    the   sympathizing    spirit 
hears 
Soft  threnodies   of   unforgotten  things, 
And    tender   requiems   of    the    vanished 

years. 
They  are  not  dumb  as    harps    with  shat- 
tered strings, 
Nor  voiceless  as  the   world's  unuttered 
prayers, 
But  fall  like  dew  on  memory's   deathless 
wings—  H  -—-_**  ^-SiAid 

"  Tears,  idle  tears  I" 

ADMIRAL  BAILEY  of  the  United 
States  Navy  was  a  fine  example  of 
the  delightful  combination  of  great  cour- 
age and  great  modesty,  according  to  the 
Youth's  Companion.  After  the  capture  of 
New  Orleans  during  the  Civil  War  he  at- 
tended a  dinner  given  at  the  Astor  House, 
and  was  called  upon  to  reply  to  the  toast 
of  "The  Navy."  The  President  of  the 
occasion  prefaced  the  sentiment  with 
a  eulogy  of  the  Admiral. 

As  in  duty  bound  the  old  sailor  straight- 
ened himself  up  for  the  task. 

»  Mr.  President,"  he  said,  "  and  gentle- 
men— hem — thank  ye." 

Then  after  a  lengthy  pause,  during 
which  he  took  a  fore-and-aft  survey  of 
the  table,  he  continued: 

"  Well,  I  suppose  you  want  to  hear 
about  the  New  Orleans  affair?" 

"Yes  I  yesl"  echoed  throughout  the 
room,  amid  the  stamping  of  many  feet. 

"Well,  d'ye  see,  this  was  the  way  of 
it,"  resumed  the  orator,  giving  a  nautical 
hitch  to  his  trousers,  and  evidently  em- 
barrassed. "We  were  lying  down  the 
river,  below  the  forts,  and  Farragut  he — 
he  signaled  us  to  go  in  and  take  'em.  Be- 
ing as  we  were  already  hove  short,  it 
didn't  take  much  time  to  get  under  way, 
so  that  wasn't  so  much  of  a  job  as  you 
seem  to  think. 

"And  then  the  engineers — they  ran  the 
ships,  so  all  we  had  to  do  was  to  blaze 
away  when  we  got  up  to  the  forts  and 
take  'em,  according  to  orders.  That's 
just  all  there  was  about  it." 

Thereupon  the  concise  narrator,  feeling 
that  he  had  accomplished  everything 
which  had  been  demanded  of  him,  sat 
down  amid  thunders  of  applause. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA.  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYD- 
NEY, DIRECT. 
S.  S   Monowai...  Friday,  December  9,  at  2  p.  m. 

For  Honolulu   Only. 
S.  8.  Australia.  .Wednesday,  Dec.  21, 1892,  2  p.m. 
For  Freight   or    Passage  apply  at  Office,  £27 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRECKELS  A  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOP  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  Bailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  and  BEAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  8:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and  HONGKONG,  connecting  at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Beloic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday,  Jan  4, 1S93 

Gaelic  — Tdesda y,  Jan.  24,  1893 

Belgic  Thursday,  February  23,  1893. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT   REDUCED  RATE8 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets.  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wnarf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen. Pass.  Agt. 
GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Trains  Leave  end  are  Due  to  Arrive  «t 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 


L«av«  '      From  Septembsr  3,  J  892.      I  Arrive 

7:00  a.  Benicla,  Rurasey,  8acramento.  7-16  p 
7:30a.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..  *12:16p 

.  ...  Niles  and  San  Jose 16:16  p 

7:30a.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Calistoga  6-15p 
8:00a.  3acram'to<*  Redding,  vlaDavis.  715p 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East, 9:46p. 

8:30a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton, lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:45p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Lob  An- 
geles, Deming,  El   Paso,  New 

Orleans  and  East 8  -45  p 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton »8:45  p. 

12-OOm.  HaywardB,  Niles  and  Livermore     7:16  p. 

*l:00p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9-00p. 

1:30  p.  Vallejoand  Martinez 12:46  p. 

3:00  p.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  San  Jose.  9-45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno '...  .     j2:16p 

1.  4;00p  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Calistoga,  El  Verano.  and  Santa 

Rosa  9:46a. 

4:30 p.  Beaicia,  and  Sacramento 10-45A. 

4:00p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10-16A 

4:00p  Vacaville 10:16a 

*4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8-46a 

5:00  p  European  Mail,  Ogden  and  East. .    10;45a 
6:30p.  Los  Angeles    Express,   Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles 9:45a. 

5 :30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East 9-15  a. 

6:00p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose..      7:45A. 

17:00 p.  Vallejo +8-46  F 

7:00  p.    Oregon    Express.  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. ..     8:16  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

}7 :45  a.  Sunday  Excursion  Train  for  New- 
ark, San  Jose,  Los  Gatos,  Fel- 
ton,  Big  Trees  and  Santa  Cruz    t8:05p. 

8:16a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder   Creek  and 

Santa  Cruz 6-20p 

•2:16  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz *10-50a. 

4:45p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:60a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

*7 :00  A.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    »2:S8  p. 

8:16  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,Pa- 
jaro.SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove.  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and    principal  Way   Stations     6 :10  p. 

10:S7a,  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 6:0Sp. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30p. 

*2:S0p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey, 
Pacific    Grove    and    principal 

Way  Stations *10:37  A. 

*3:30p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations *9:47a. 

*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .   *8:06a. 

5:15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8-48A. 

6:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...      6:86a. 
rll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations f7:30p. 

A.  for  Morning.  P.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  fSaturdays  only. 

tSundays  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Steamers  of  this  Company  will  sail  from 
BROADWAY  WHARF  as  follows: 

The  steamers  CITY  OF  PUEBLA,  WALLA 
WALLA  and  UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 
B.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  A.  M.  every 
five  days. 

The  steamers  sailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 
9  A.  M.  connect  at  Port  TownBend  with  steamers 
or  Alaska. 

For  PORTLAND,  Oregoii,  in  connection  with 
U.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 
Cayucob,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 
Hueneme,  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  San 
Diego,  about  every  second  day. 

For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HO0KTON,  Hum- 
boldt Bay,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 
nesday, at  9  A.  M. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &.  CO.,  Gen '1  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892. 


THE  unusual  inclemency  of  the  weather  for  so  early  in  the  win- 
ter has  somewhat  interfered  with  gaieties  this  week,  and  the 
difficulty  of  being  driven  in  safety  over  th«  streets  at  night  in 
their  present  wrecked  coudition,  has  made  timid  fair  ones  more 
inclined  to  be  satisfied  with  comfort  at  home  rather  than  seek 
pleasure  abroad.  In  spite  of  the  storm  on  Monday  night,  there 
were  several  theatre  parties  carried  oat  according  to  programme, 
possibly  the  pleasantest  being  tbat  of  Mrs.  Catherwood,  in  com- 
pliment to  Miss  Celia  Tobin,  which  ended  in  supper  and  a  dance 
at  Mrs.  Catherwood's  residence. 


The  first  of  the  series  of  private  theatricals  which  is  promised 
society  this  winter  were  given  by  the  Misses  Dimond,  at  the  resi- 
dence of  their  father,  General  Dimond,  last  Tuesday  evening. 
The  house  was  beautified  with  a  pretty  arrangement  of  ferns  and 
chrysanthemums,  and  well  filled  with  guests,  ail  young  people, 
who  thoroughly  enjoyed  the  plays  of  Behind  the  Curtain  and 
Sixes  and  Seven,*,  which  were  very  well  presented.  The  perform- 
ers were  the  Misses  Anna  Deuprey,  Nellie  Hillyer,  Juliet  Tomp- 
kins, Grace  Sherwood  and  Elinor  Dimond;  and  Messrs.  Sam 
Knight,  Milton  Latham  and  Frank  Owen.  After  the  curtain 
fell  upon  the  last  act,  a  leap  year  german  was  danced,  under  the 
leadership  of  Miss  Minnie  Houguton,  who  introduced  several 
pretty  figures,  and  finally  supper  was  served  to  revive  the  ener- 
gies, which  were  pretty  well  exhausted  with  so  much  pleasure. 


Society  was  well  occupied  last  Saturday,  for  in  addition  to  the 
Ames's  tea,  there  was  a  crowd  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Lux,  on 
Jackson  street,  where  one  of  the  prettiest  charity  entertainments 
seen  for  some  time  was  in  progress,  under  the  name  of  a  Seven 
Days  Idyl.  To  illustrate  this,  booths  for  the  different  days  of  the 
week  were  erected  in  the  spacious  parlors  and  hall  of  the  man- 
sion: Mondays  being  washing  day;  Tuesday,  ironing  day; 
Wednesday,  cleaning  day ;  Thursday,  reception  day ;  Friday, 
sweeping  day;  Saturday,  baking  day,  and  Sunday,  a  day  of  rest, 
was  illustrated  by  flowers.  All  the  booths  were  under  the  charge 
of  as  pretty  a  set  of  young  maidens  as  one  could  wish  to  see; 
the  booths  were  tastefully  decorated  and  articles  appropriate  for  the 
booth  were  for  sale  in  each.  It  was  a  great  success,  and  the  sum 
netted  for  the  Hearst  Kindergarten  must  have  been  a  good  one. 


There  will  be  two  conflicting  entertainments  this  evening,  much 
to  the  regret  of  many  unable  to  be  at  both.  At  Union  Square 
Hall  the  Harmonic  Club  will  give  its  annual  reception  and  dance, 
and  at  the  Concordia  Club  the  w  Ladies'  Minstrel  performance 
promises  to  be  a  charming  novelty,  which  all  are  anxious  to  see 
and  hear.  There  will  be  the  regular  musical  opening,  with  "  end 
men,"  jokes,  etc.,  after  which  there  will  be  an  olio,  a  "turpentine 
dance,"  promising  to  be  the  piece  de  resistance,  and  then  supper 
and  dancing. 

The  culminating  pleasure  of  this  week  was  the  first  of  the  Friday 
Night  Cotillion  Club  dances,  which  came  off  at  Odd  Fellows' Hall 
last  night,  too  late  for  more  extended  notice  here  this  week.  Mr. 
Sheldon  as  leader,  had  the  assistance  of  pretty  Mrs.  Ellicote  of  Balti- 
more, and  the  Hungarian  Band  furnished  the  music.  Miss  Emily 
Hager  will  have  sole  control  of  the  next,  or  Leap  Year  Cotillion,  on 
the  23d  inst.  It  is  to  be  strictly  fancy  dress.  The  young  ladies 
chosen  by  Miss  Hager  as  aids  are  the  Misses  Maynard  and  McNutt. 

The  second  School  for  Scandal  entertainment  took  place  at  the 
residence  of  Mrs.  Henry  Williams  on  Wednesday  evening,  and 
the  programme,  which  consisted  of  vocal  and  instrumental 
music  and  recitations,  was  enjoyed  by  a  large  number  of  guests. 
On  Thursday  evening  the  Hotel  Bella  Vista  was  the  scene  of  some 
very  pretty  amateur  theatrical  performances. 

Living  games  are  the  correct  thing  now,  apparently,  and  whist 
having  taken  the  lead,  as  was  only  right  and  proper  it  should, 
and  proved  such  a  success,  chess  and  poker  will  next  be  seen 
illustrated  by  "  living  cards."  The  game  of  poker  will  be  played 
with  living  cards  at  the  Hotel  Pleasanton  on  Tuesday  evening  of 
next  week,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Literary  Exhibit  at  the  Chicago 
Fair. 

Mrs.  E.  N.  Fritz  and  Miss  Fritz  gave  a  dance  in  their  beautiful 
home,  at  Ashbury  Heights,  on  Wednesday  evening  last.  About 
thirty  couples  were  in  the  ball-room,  and  supper  was  served  at 
midnight.  The  house  needed  no  decorations,  as  it  embodies  all 
that  art  can  do  for  it,  and  so  nothing  more  than  the  distribution 
of  cut  flowers  was  attempted. 

A  tea  and  musicale  will  be  given  for  the  benefit  of  the  San 
Francisco  Girls'  Union,  Wednesday,  December  14th,  from  2  to 
10:30  p.  M.,  at  909  Taylor  street. 

Mr.  Leo  Cooper  has  been  appointed  Professor  of  Elocution  and 
Oratory  at  the  Dominican  Monastery,  at  Benicia. 

The  date  of  the  Graham  concert  has  been  changed  to  the  14th 
inst. 

Mrs.  J.  D.  Fry  is  credited  with  the  intention  of  being  the  next 
of  society's  members  on  the  list  of  tea-givers. 


The  tea  given  by  Mrs.  Pelham  W.  Ames  and  her  friend,  Mrs. 
McCutchen,  to  introduce  their  respective  daughters,  the  Misses 
Alice  Ames  and  Alice  McCutchen,  to  society,  on  Saturday  last, 
proved  one  of  the  most  successful  and  enjoyable  affairs  of  the 
kind  of  the  season  so  far.  Possibly  it  was  so  because  dancing 
was  a  feature  of  the  occasion,  though  so  many  agreeable  elements 
were  united  it  would  be  difficult  for  the  tea  to  have  been  other- 
wise than  a  success.  The  weather  had  cleared,  society  came  out 
in  strong  numbers  in  thtir  best  attire,  and  the  floral  decorations 
were  lovely,  kind  friends  in  Ross  Valley  having  sent  over  quan- 
tities of  beautiful  chrysanthemums  and  other  bright  flowers 
wherewith  to  adorn  the  rooms,  good  music  and  appetizing  re- 
freshments were  provided,  and,  best  of  all,  there  was  an  unusual 
number  of  the  male  sex  present.  Pretty  girls  there  were  in 
abundance,  and  in  addition  to  the  daughters  of  the  hostess,  Miss 
Bee  Hooper,  a  niece  of  William  8.  Hooper,  of  the  Occidental 
Hotel,  and  cousin  of  the  Butterworth  family,  also  made  her  first 
appearance  in  society  at  the  tea,  and  Mibs  Grace  Martin  her  sec- 
ond, having  debuted  at  the  Loughborough  ball  on  the  preced- 
ing Wednesday  evening.  Miss  Graham  and  Miss  Mae  Dimond 
assisted  the  ladies  in  receiving,  and  two  young  ladies  who  were 
much  admired  were  the  Misses  Dodge,  of  Boston,  who  are  visit- 
ing the  Coast.  So,  take  it  altogether,  the  guests  thoroughly  en- 
joyed themselves. 


Charity  bazars  would  seem  to  be  the  fad  just  now.  A  very 
pretty  one  took  place  in  the  parlors  of  the  Unitarian  Church,  on 
Franklin  street,  on  Thursday  and  yesterday,  and  realized  a  goodly 
sum  for  the  charitable  purposes  of  the  Church  Society.  There 
was  an  excellent  lunch  served  both  days,  and  in  the  evening  a 
varied  entertainment  was  given.  On  Thursday,  at  the  residence 
of  Mrs.  William  Haas,  on  Franklin  street,  a  fancy  fair  was  held 
under  the  auspices  of  those  well-known  ladies,  Mrs.  Phil  Lilien- 
thal,  Mrs.  Alfred  Seligman,  Mrs.  A.  Mack  and  Mrs.  Haas  herself. 
It  was  for  the  benefit  of  that  sterling  charity,  the  Children's  Hos- 
pital, and  the  proceeds  were  most  gratifying  to  the  promoters  of 
the  affair,  terminated  with  dancing.  Last  evening  the  Ladies' 
Aid  Society  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  held  a  bazar  at  the 
residence  of  Mrs.  John  I.  Sabin,  on  California  street,  and  next 
Saturday  a  bazar  will  be  held  at  Miss  Lake's  school  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage,  and  it  is  announced  that  in  the 
evening  there  will  be  dancing. 

The  young  people  of  society,  in  general,  and  those  at  the  Presidio 
in  particular,  have  been  looking  forward  for  some  time  past  to  the 
charity  bazar  which  Mrs.  Graham  and  her  daughters  have  been  pre- 
paring, the  proceeds  to  be  devoted  towards  starting  a  fund  for  estab- 
lishing a  home  for  convalescents.  It  will  be  held  in  the  Assembly 
Hall,  at  the  Presidio,  to-day  between  the  hours  of  11a.m.  and  11 
p.  m.,  and  promises  to  be  a  very  pleasant  affair.  Quantities  of  pretty 
articles  will  be  for  sale,  together  with  tempting  refreshments,  and  the 
affair  will  end  with  a  dance  in  the  evening. 

The  ladies  of  the  Ceramic  Club  held  their  annual  reception  and  sale 
in  the  maple  room  of  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Tuesday  evening  and  Wed- 
nesday of  this  week. 

The  Misses  Emily  Carolan,  Jennie  Watson,  Bessie  Shrieve, 
Lulu  Findley,  Amy  McKee  and  Berenice  Bates  were  the  pretty 
assistants  chosen  by  Mrs.  S.  E.  Dalton  and  her  daughter,  Miss 
Louise,  to  help  them  do  the  honors  of  their  recent  tea.  The  Hun- 
garian band  was  in  attendance,  and  rendered  a  number  of  well- 
chosen  selections,  and  light  refreshments  were  served.  The  after- 
noon proved  very  agreeable. 

Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham  has  again  appeared  in  the  role  of 
host,  his  dinner  of  Saturdsy  last,  in  honor  of  Vicomte  deLabry, 
an  officer  in  the  French  army,  being  bis  latest  effort  in  that  line. 
His  other  gnests  were  mostly  United  States  army  officers,  includ- 
ing Dr.  Brecheimer,  Lieutenants  Galbraith,  Adams  and  Stevens, 
and  George  Nagle. 

The  pleasant  theatre  and  sapper  party  given  by  Mrs.  H.  M.  A. 
Miller,  last  week,  was  the  beBt  evidence  to  her  friends  of  her 
convalescence  from  her  late  illness.  She  has  decided  to  spend 
some  time  at  Santa  Barbara  to  insure  her  complete  recovery,  and 
Miss  Mamie  Burling  will  bear  her  company  during  her  visit. 


Miss  Jennie  Catherwood  was  the  guest  of  honor  at  a  lunch 
given  by  Mrs.  Jewett,  at  her  Bush-street  residence  last  Friday. 
Mrs.  Catherwood's  projected  dance,  In  honor  of  her  daughter'8 
debut  in  society  will,  it  is  said,  take  the  form  of  a  dinner  party 
in  the  very  near  future. 


.  Mrs.  Charles  Webb  Howard  was  the  hostess  at  a  very  enjoya- 
ble tea  at  her  Oakland  residence  last  Saturday,  which  she  gave  in 
compliment  to  Professor  and  Mrs.  Martin  Kellogg  and  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  Wilsey. 

What  a  lucky  thing  for  our  pretty  belles  it  is  that  Uncle  Sam's 
government  furnishes  them  with  such  a  goodly  array  of  beaux 
for  the  cotillions,  in  the  officers  of  the  army  and  navy  now  here. 
For  without  these  wearers  of  the  bright  buttons  the  girls  would 
be  badly  off  for  partners  this  winter,  the  lack  of  civilians  being 
very  apparent. 


I». 


3,  1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


31 


Miss  Emma  CbiMs.  or  Los  Angeles,  will  come  in  for  a  good  share 
of  San  fnncrtoo  gaieiiw  thi*  month,  a*  the  garni  ol  Kisa  Alice  Bimp- 
kta.  IOh  Haiti*  Belle  Ctoad.  of  Colusa,  who  is  coming  to  San  Kran- 
d*co  as  the  guest  of  her  cousin,  bliss  HI  la  Goad,  ami  nfisa  Hope  KM  is 
of  Marysrille.  who  with  her  mother  will  arrive  in  town  for  the  season 
in  about  ten  days,  and  the  Misses  Podge  of  Boston,  already  here, 
will  diride  the  honors  with  our  local  belles  this  winter.  The  Misses 
Voofhlai  were  among  the  arrivals  in  New  York  from  Europe  last 
week,  and  they  will  visit  in  Washington  City  until  Lent  approaches, 
when  they  go  to  New  Orleans  for  the  Mardi  Gras  celebration.  It  is 
quite  possible  that  we  shall  not  see  them  at  home  again  until  after 
the  opening  of  the  Columbian  Exhibition. 

General  Keyes,  who  came  over  from  Oakland  to  attend  the 
coming  ball  of  Miss  Fanny  Loughborough,  remained  as  the  guest 
of  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Loughborough,  until  after  the  Thanks- 
giving feast,  at  which  he  was  the  guest-in-chief.  Quite  a  party  of 
society  folk  passed  the  Thanksgiving  holiday  at  Del  Monle,  some 
of  whom  did  not  return  to  home  until  early  this  week.  A  still 
larger  party  ia  beii.g  arranged  to  take  in  both  Christmas  and  New 
Year  at  that  popular  watering  place,  and  some  diversions  appro- 
priate for  the  season  to  be  given  there  are  under  discussion  among 
the  matrons,  and  will  no  doubt  result  satisfactorily. 


Miss  Nellie  Jolliffe,  who  has  been  the  guest  of  Mrs.  Herman 
Oelrichs,  in  New  York,  will  spend  some  time  with  Mrs.  Hard- 
ing, in  Philadelphia.  Miss  Jolliffe  created  quite  a  sensation  at 
the  annual  horae  show  in  New  Y'ork,  where  her  beauty  was 
much  admired.  Among  other  Calitornians  in  Gotham  early  this 
week  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henley  Smith,  Mrs.  and  Misa  Head, 
Mrs.  and  Miss  Pease,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Ivers,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Jennie 
Blair,  alt  recent  arrivals  from  Europe;  Mrs.  and  Miss  Stetson, 
Miss  Decker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Valentine,  Joe  Grant,  James  V. 
Coleman,  J.  P.  LeCount  and  Dr.  Regensburger. 

Two  of  our  popular  young  society  couples  are  now  in  New 
York,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Crocker,  who  went  East  to  meet  Mrs.  and 
Miss  BelteSperry  upon  their  return  from  Europe,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Fred  Sharon,  who  are  again  at  home  in  their  Gotham  residence, 
where  they  will  probably  remain  most  of  the  winter,  and  defer 
their  visit  to  Europe  until  later,  if  not  until  the  early  spring.  Mrs. 
E.  B.  Crocker  will  also  be  a  resident  of  New  York  this  winter,  on 
Sixth  avenue  and  Forty-Eighth  street.  Her  daughter,  Mrs.  Myron 
Walker,  will  spend  the  season  with  her. 


All  those  who  have  enjoyed  the  charming  hospitality  extended 
by  Mrs.  Charles  Wilson,  whose  dinners  and  lunches  have  been 
among  the  most  recherche  of  the  autumn  season,  will  regret  to 
bear  of  the  sad  affliction  whicn  has  befallen  her  in  the  loss  of  a 
favorite  sister,  and  that  she  and  Miss  Wilson  will,  as  a  conse- 
quence, be  lost  to  society  for  a  time.  Mrs.  Wilson's  niece,  Miss 
Strain,  who  has  been  visiting  her  aunt  during  the  summer,  will 
return  to  her  home  in  Portland,  Or.,  direetly  after  the  Christmas 
holidays. 

Among  the  recent  arrivals  in  San  Francisco  is  General  James 
Simpson,  who,  with  his  bride,  is  making  a  wedding  trip  to  the 
Coast.  General  Simpson  will  be  well  remembered  by  all  old  Oali- 
fornians,  as  in  early  days  he  waa  stationed  hereabouts  for  several 
years.  He  is  now  retired  from  the  army,  and  his  first  wife  having 
died  some  time  ago,  he  is  now  enjoying  his  second  honeymoon. 
General  and  Mrs.  Simpson  are  at  the  Occidental  Hotel,  where 
they  expect  to  remain  several  weeks. 


Mrs.  Richard  Morrison,  Mrs.  Redington  and  Henry  Redington 
are  among  the  latest  acquisitions  to  the  Richelieu.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  P.  Hall  are  at  the  Occidental,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Tubbs  at 
the  Palace  for  the  season.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Grant  Selfridge,  nee 
Monteverde,  have  returned  from  their  honeymoon  trip,  and  are 
at  the  Palace  Hotel..  Mrs.  W.  H.  Smith  and  Miss  Belle  Smith 
are  at  the  Lenox,  816  Sutter  street.  Mrs.  Thomas  Breeze  and 
family  are  settled  at  1330  Sutter  street  for  the  season. 


The  middle  of  December  will  bring  us  back  a  number  of  absentees. 
From  New  York  are  expected  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Crocker,  Mrs.  and 
Miss  Sperry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Oxhard,  Mrs.  John  D.  Yost  and 
her  daughter  Miss  Mabel,  who  have  just  returned  from  a  long  visit 
abroad.  The  Misses  Florence  and  Lillian  Read  will  arrive  from  the 
East  next  week,  and  by  the  next  Panama  steamer  Everett  Bee  will 
be  due  from  his  trip  to  South  America. 


Mrs.  A.  M.  Parrott  will  soon  be  surrounded  by  her  family  at  her 
Sutter  street  mansion,  where  they  will  all  spend  the  winter  together. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglas  Dick  arrived  last  week  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  de 
Guigue  are  the  latest  additions  to  the  family  circle.  Mrs.  Parrott  is 
credited  with  the  intention  of  giving  a  large  ball  and  several  smaller 
entertainments  during  the  season. 


Bishop  and  Mrs.  Nichols  returned  last  week  after  an  absence  of  a 
couple  of  months  in  the  East,  whither  the  Bishop  went  to  attend  the 
Episcopal  Church  Convention  in  Baltimore.  It  has  been  a  gain  fol- 
lowed by  a  loss,  as  he  left  San  Francisco  again  yesterday,  for  a  visit 
to  the  southern  part  of  the  State,  whence  he  does  not  expect  to  re- 
turn until  the  Christmastide. 


SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 


PHARMACY 


FRANCAIS. 

Telephone  13SO 


111  Grnni  Ave. 

Pakfl'merib  Victoria,  Rfgaud'n  A  Cle's  Lncrecia  Gracio.sa,  Louis  XV 
and  Exora  d'Afrique  are  the  latest  odors  and  so  ditTereut  from  perfumes 
familiar  to  everyone.  IMvcot'  Legraud's  violet  aud  Roger  A  Uallot'sLubtn 
aud  Pi uaud's  perfumes,  Soap,  SachauFacc  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc 

Ploatid's  8  ouuee  bottles.  $3,60;  regular  size  reduced  from  $1.25  to  85 
cents  per  bottle,  including  Pcau  d'Ftpague  in  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

Every  lady  knows  that  delusiveness  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as 
in  dress. 


DODGE  BROS., 


ST1TIMKRS. 

EMR.HKRS. 


"  Hurd's  Royal  Purple,"  the  latest  Eastern  so- 
ciety fad,  is  a  swagger  paper  of  great  richness. 
In  all  the  new  shapes. 


COPrKIt  PLATES. 
WEIIUI.Vti  CARDS. 


225  POST  ST. 


The  marriage  of  Mrs.  Kate  Stephens  and  Dr.  Charles  E.  Post 
was  solemnized  at  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  last  week,  in 
the  presence  of  numerous  friends  and  acquaintances,  Rev.  Dr. 
McKenzie  officiating.  The  bride  dispensed  with  any  attendants, 
but  the  groom  was  supported  by  Robert  McMillan  as  best  man, 
Messrs.  Albert  Scott,  Dr.  Ruggles,  George  Wellington  and  Walter 
Lewis  appearing  as  ushers.  The  invited  guests  enjoyed  a  wed- 
ding supper,  which  was  served  at  the  residence  of  the  bride  after 
the  church  service. 


Those  who  are  well  posted  say  that  an  announcement  may  be 
looked  for  in  the  near  future  which  will  be  of  interest  to  the 
beaux  and  belles  of  San  Francisco.  They  base  their  prediction 
upon  the  fact  that  Miss  Millie  Ashe's  intention  of  spending  the 
winter  at  Washington  City,  and  the  departure  of  Lieut.  Pound- 
stone  for  the  same  locale  under  orders,  are  two  very  suspicious 
circumstances,  and  mean  more  than  appears  on  the  surface. 

Misa  Roberta  E.  Lee  Wright  and  George  Hellman  were  very 
quietly  married  at  Grace  Church  by  Rev.  Dr.  Foute.  The  mar- 
riage of  Miss  Helen  Bosqui  aud  Archibald  Treat  will  be  solemnized 
at  the  Bosqui  home  in  Ross  Valley,  at  noon  on  Wednesday  next, 
the  7th  inst. 

Senator  and  Mrs.  Stanford,  and  also  Admiral  Brown  leave  for  the 
East  next  week. 

A  concert  will  be  given  at  the  "  at  home  "  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Willey 
next  Friday  evening,  at  1222  Pine  street,  at  which,  beginning  at  7:30 
o'clock,  a  programme  will  be  presented  by  the  pupils  of  Mrs.  Mar- 
riner-Campbell,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Bermingham,  Mrs.  Frances  B.  Edgerton 
and  Mrs.  H.  B.  Stewart. 

|^At  the  suggestion  of  Adolph  Spreckels  and  Robert  Wielaud,  |the 
Blood  Horse  Association  will  give  the  gate  receipts  of  Friday,  De- 
cember 16th,  for  the  benefit  of  the  most  deserving  charities  of  this 
city.  The  bookmakers  will  present  $500  in  addition,  for  the  same 
worthy  purpose. 

One  of  the  most  delightful  of  the  gatherings  on  Thanksgiving  night 
was  that  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  E.  White,  814  Grove 
street.  The  house  was  beautifully  decorated,  and  the  guests  enjoyed 
vocal  and  instrumental  music,  and  dancing,  until  midnight. 

On  next  Tuesday  evening  a  musicale  and  reception  will  be  given  at 
the  Hotel  Pleasanton,  for 'the  benefit  of  the  California  Literary  Ex- 
hibit of  the  World's  Fair.  The  programme  will  include  vocal  and  in- 
strumental music  and  recitations,  by  well-known  artists. 

So  Karl  Kahler  is  not  going  to  marry  the  rich  widow  Johnson 
after  all,  say  his  friends.  Well,  it  is  pleasant  to  be  rich,  but 
pleasanter  to  be  your  own  boss. 

It  has  been  announced,  much  to  the  surprise  of  a  number  of  ad 
mirers  of  the  fair  singer,  that  Miss  Maude  L.  Berry  and  Dr.  Fischer 
have  been  married  since  last  September. 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  additions  recently  made  to  the  artis- 
tic beauties  of  the  churches  of  the  city  is  the  memorial  win 
dow  placed  in  St.  John's  Presbyterian  Church,  at  the  corner  of  Oc- 
tavia  and  California  streets,  by  Mrs.  A.  W.  Foster  and  her  sister,  Mrs. 
N.  G.  Kittle,  of  San  Rafael,  in  .memory  of  their  mother,  Mrs.  Dr. 
Scott. 


CAPRICES 


Powder 


The  only  Pure  Cream  of  tartar  Powder.— No  ammonia ;  No  Alum 

Used  in  Millions  of  Homes— 40  years  the   Standard. 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3,  1892, 


THE  Chancellor  of  the  German  Empire  haa  introduced  the  army 
bill  in  the  Reichstag  in  a  speech  which,  though  it  is  called  elo- 
quent in  the  cablegrams,  seems,  to  judge  from  the  short  summary 
telegraphed,  to  have  contained  but  few  arguments  which  might 
satisfactorily  explain  the  necessity  of  an  increased  expenditure 
for  the  army  at  this  moment.  Count  Caprivi  stated  that  there 
was  no  reason  to  expect  a  conflict  with  any  foreign  power  at  pres- 
ent, but  that  such  a  conflict  might  arise  in  the  future.  These  are 
truisms,  but  they  do  not  prove  why  a  present  expenditure  is 
needed  for  further  emergencies,  if  the  fact  is  considered  that  Ger- 
many has  an  excellent  array,  is  strongly  fortified  and  has  been 
preparing  for  years  without  interruption  to  maintain  the  highest 
efficiency  of  its  army.  The  annual  expenditure  for  the  German 
Army  is  enormous,  but  no  true  German  patriot  will  complain  of 
thia  as  long  as  the  existing  state  of  things  on  the  European  con- 
tinent demands  that  all  countries  who  wish  to  hold  their  own  in 
an  eventual  conflict  shoula  be  sufficiently  prepared,  and  Germany 
cannot  disarm  as  long  as  France  and  Russia  keep  up  these  enor- 
mous armaments.  Still,  there  must  be  a  limit  to  the  expenditure, 
and  this  limit  is,  for  the  present,  reached  in  the  view  of  the  peo- 
ple. If  the  Government,  with  a  deficit  of  50,000,000  marks,  wishes 
to  increase  the  annual  expenditure  by  such  an  enormous  sum  as 
is  demanded  by  the  Chancellor,  good  reason  for  the  necessity 
must  be  shown,  but  this  Count  Caprivi  has  failed  to  do  in  his  in- 
troductory speech.  The  reason  he  mentions  is,  that  France  ia 
her  armaments  has  excelled  Germany  of  late  years,  and  that  Ger- 
many, therefore,  must  try  to  get  even  again.  But  if  this  race  for 
prominence  is  to  continue,  where  is  to  be  the  end  ?  France  is  a 
richer  country  than  Germany,  and  in  the  question  of  expenditure 
is  much  more  able  to  meet  new  burdens  than  the  German  Empire. 
The  French  budget,  recently  introduced,  shows  that  the  receipts 
of  the  country  are  estimated  for  the  coming  year  at  $646,192,000, 
and  the  expenditures  at  $646,104,000,  leaving  a  surplus  of  $88,000. 
This  is  a  small  surplus,  it  is  true,  but,  after  all,  it  is  a  surplus. 
Can  Germany  show  a  similarly  favorable  state  of  things  ?  The 
German  Government  does  not  speak  of  an  income  sufficient  to 
cover  the  expenses  for  the  new  army  bill.  On  the  contrary,  it  ac- 
knowledges that  new  taxation  is  necessary  to  produce  such  an 
income,  and  it  is  easily  understood  that  the  people  will  pause  be- 
fore submitting  to  it.  Still,  even  if  the  tax  should  be  voted,  is 
there  any  guarantee  that  a  year  or  two  hence — provided  that  the 
outbreak  of  war  is  delayed — another  increase  of  taxation  will  not 
be  demanded,  for  exactly  analogous  reasons  ?  One  thing  is  almost 
certain,  namely,  that  France  will  continue  her  rivalry  in  arma- 
ments, which,  as  stated,  she  can  do  with  smaller  sacrifices  than 
Germany,  and  in  that  case  Germany,  it  Count  Caprivi's  reason  is 
a  good  one,  must  follow  suit.  Dnder  these  circumstances  it  would 
not  be  astonishing  if  the  German  people,  since  there  must  be  an 
end  to  such  a  policy,  should  say :  "  Let  that  end  be  now."  At  all 
events  it  does  not  look  as  if  the  Chancellor  will  obtain  his  grant 
without  the  severest  struggle. 


There  is  one  passage  in  Count  Caprivi's  speech,  introducing 
the  German  army  bill,  which  deserves  great  attention.  The 
Chancellor  is  reported  to  have  said :  "  In  the  face  of  the  rapproche- 
ment between  France  and  Russia  we  cannot  yield  up  Alsace- 
Lorraine  nor  break  up  relations  with  Austria."  Does  that  mean 
that  if  no  such  rapprochement  existed  or  were  to  be  maintained, 
the  German  government  would  be  ready  to  give  up  Alsace-Lor- 
raine and  to  leave  Austria  to  protect  herself  as  best  she  could 
against  Russia's  intended  advance  in  the  southwest  of  Europe? 
French  and  Austrian  statesmen  will  have  good  cause  to  seriously 
inquire  into  the  meaning  of  the  quoted  passage.  If  Prince  Bis- 
marck had  made  an  alius  on  of  that  kind  it  simportance  would  be 
overwhelming,  but  as  regards  the  present  Chancellor  it  is  not 
quite  certain  whether  he  has  fully  weighed  what  impression  his 
words  may  give.  Nevertheless  it  is  a  remarkable  passage,  and  full 
of  meaning,  if  correctly  reported. 

It  has  been  pointed  out  in  the  News  Letter  that  the  conces- 
sion of  the  present  British  Government  to  the  socialists,  to  hold 
mass  meetings  upon  Traffalgar  Square,  in  London,  would  sooner 
or  later  lead  to  unpleasant  occurrences  and  complications.  This 
prediction  has  already  been  verified.  Last  Sunday  a  number  of 
social. st  and  anarchist  agitators  succeeded  in  gathering  a  motley 
crowd  of  listeners  in  the  Square,  and  utilized  the  occasion  for  in- 
cendiary speeches  and  violent  harranguea.  The  result  was  that 
the  police  had  to  interfere  and  the  meeting  had  to  be  dispersed. 
The  Gladstone  Home  Secretary,  Mr.  Asquith,  may  find  out  that 
his  attempt  to  gain  popularity  for  his  Government  with  the  Lon- 
don populace  by  too  liberal  concessions  was  a  serious  blunder, 
and  the  interference  of  the  police  will  do  more  to  irritate  the 
masses  than  a  refusal  to  permit  mass  meetings  in  the  heart  of  the 
city  would  have  done. 


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Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Entered  at  San  Francisco  Post-office  as  Second  Class  Matter. 

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tablished at  196  Broadway,  room  14,  where  information  may 
be  obtained  regarding  subscription  and  advertising  rates. 

IN  the  review  of  Colonel  Morgan's  railroad  report,  in  last  week's 
News  Letter,  a  typographical  error  was  made  in  regard  to  the 
figures  showing  the  increase  of  population  during  the  last  twenty 
years.  The  figures  properly  indicated  the  increase  per  square 
mile,  and  not  the  percentage  of  increase,  as  printed. 


THE  long-expected  French  cabinet  crisis  occurred  last  week, 
and  the  out-going  government  will  hardly  regret  being  rid  of 
grave  responsibilities  and  awkward  duties.  The  Panama  Canal 
affair,  whatever  may  be  its  ultimate  outcome,  is  calculated  not 
only  to  bring  the  French  government  into  discredit,  but  to  raise 
innumerable  enemies  to  those  who  should  be  carried  in  their  zeal 
so  far  as  to  attempt  equal  punishment  for  equally  guilty  persons. 

THE  preacher  in  St.  Louis  who  assailed  the  memory  of  Emma 
Abbott  was  neither  just  nor  charitable.  It  was  grossly  unfair 
to  charge  the  ruin  of  ambitious  young  women  to  her  success  on 
the  stage,  and  it  was  uncharitable  to  accuse  her  when  she  could 
not  reply.  Success  in  any  calling  or  profession  induces  imitation, 
and  failure  often  ensues;  but  those  who  have  succeeded  are  cer- 
tainly not  to  blame  for  the  failure  of  others. 


McGL08HAN,  of  the  Truckee  Republicant  has  evidently  been 
playing  poker  again.  For  about  the  dozenth  time  he  has 
Bold  that  bright  sheet,  and  it  is  believed  that  just  as  soon  as  the 
cards  come  his  way  again  he  will  get  it  back.  To  be  an  editor  is 
the  very  breath  of  his  life,  and  it  will  not  be  many  moons  ere  hia 
name  is  again  at  the  head  of  the  Republican  column.  This  is  cer- 
tain, because  it  is  winter,  and  all-night  poker  games  are  the  rule 
at  Truckee  during  that  season. 


LINCOLN  County,  Nevada,  is  bankrupt — entirely  so — and  the 
people  are  in  a  quandary.  Some  years  ago  that  county  issued 
$180,000  worth  of  bonds,  upon  which  they  have  paid  neither  in- 
terest nor  principal.  The  sum  now  due  is  $440,000,  and  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court  has  given  judgment  in  that  amount 
against  the  county.  To  pay  this  last  sums  means  virtual  confisca- 
tion of  all  the  taxable  property  in  the  county.  How  to  meet  the 
diffiulty  is  the  question.  Feihaps  if  the  officials  of  Lincoln  County 
will  consult  with  the  people  of  Placerville,  in  this  State,  they 
could  obtain  some  valuable  points  on  how  to  avoid  paying  their 
just  debts. 

THE  Rev.  Dr.  Parkhurst  is  receiving  rather  more  notoriety  in 
connection  with  his  social  evil  crusade  than  he  desires. 
Police  Superintendent  Byrnes  declares  that  one  Gardner,  who  was 
Parkhurst's  favorite  sleuth-hound,  has  been  using  the  knowl- 
edge gained  in  bis  investigations  for  purposes  of  blackmail. 
Without  attempting  to  determine  this  question,  it  is  safe  to  say 
that  ab  a  general  rule  it  is  better  to  incite  the  officers  of  the  law 
to  do  their  duty  than  to  essay  to  put  down  vice  by  extraneous 
and  amateurish  methods.  Dr.  Parkhurst  may  have  meant  well, 
but  his  investigations  smacked  rather  of  sensationalism  than  of 
an  earnest  desire  to  make  the  world  better  and  purer. 


BLEEDING  Kansas  has  fallen  upon  worse  times  than  the  days 
of  border  ruffians  or  squatter  sovereignty,  since  she  has  been 
delivered,  bound  hand  and  foot,  to  the  domination  of  cranks.  It 
might  have  been  supposed  that  Jerry  Simpson,  the  sockless 
statesman,  was  as  much  of  an  infliction  as  any  one  State  could 
bear,  but  now  comes  a  formal  session  of  the  leaders  and  mana- 
gers of  the  Populist  party  and  decrees  that  there  shall  be  no  inau- 
gural ball  this  year,  on  the  ground  that  the  People's  Party  has 
nothing  to  do  with  society.  One  Praise-God  Bare4rftnes  went  so 
far  as  to  declare  that  any  woman  who  went  on  the  floor  to  dance 
departed  from  the  path  of  virtue.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  this  zealot 
did  not  speak  from  personal  or  family  experience  in  his  whole- 
sale slander  of  Kansas  women. 


M.  CONSTANT  denies  indirectly  that  be  has  been  secretly  push- 
ing the  Panama  Canal  revelations  for  private  aims.  His  denial 
should  be  taken  at  its  value  until  it  is  proved  who  will  really  be 
the  person  most  benefited  by  the  result.  The  question  "  Cui  bonoV* 
is  a  very  important  one  in  connection  with  the  intended  exposure 
of  the  Panama  Canal  frauds. 


The  Traffic  Association,  which  filled  the  soul  of  the  Report 
with  peace  in  October,  now  crams  it  with  resentment.  Two 
months  ago  the  Association  promised  to  bring  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific to  time  if  it  bad  to  spill  its  last  drop  of  blood  and  spend  its 
ultimate  nickel.  Now  it  proposes  to  salt  the  dragon's  tail 
and  tempt  the  scaly  beast's  appetite  with  conciliation.  On  this 
account  it  will  be  unwise  to  use  the  Report  for  a  few  weeks  to 
come  for  kindling  fires.     It  might  explode  and  blow  up  the  stove. 


THE  Mojave  Indians  have  sent  a  delegation  to  San  Bernardino 
to  plead  with  the  anthorities  to  stop  the  sale  of  whisky 
among  them.  They  say  with  truth  that  it  is  dragging  their 
young  men  and  women  down  to  destruction.  These  Indians  are 
under  the  "care"  of  Agent  Rust,  and  if  he  attended  to  the  duties 
he  is  so  handsomely  paid  for  performing  there  would  not  have  to 
be  such  complaints.  If  he  has  ever  bestowed  any  attention  upon 
them  however,  no  one  has  ever  heard  of  it.  His  search  for  curios 
has  not  taken  him  so  far  afield. 


IF  it  be  true,  as  reported,  that  the  Grand  Jury  of  Fresno  eoenty 
has  indicted  a  well-known  newspaper  man  of  this  city  as  an 
accessory  after  the  fact  to  the  crimes  of  Evans  and  Sontag,  there 
will  arise  some  amusing  and  interesting  complications.  For  ex- 
ample, if  the  accused  should  declare  on  oath  in  his  own  defense 
that  he  had  never  seen  Evans  and  Sontag*1  what  would  become  of 
the  long  and  detailed  interviews  with  the  banditB  which  were 
published  over  his  signature?  The  indictment  may  be  only  a 
rumor,  but  it  has  been  stated  on  seemingly  good  authority. 

A  STORY  has  been  told  recently  of  the  return  of  a  stolen  child, 
now  a  man,  to  his  mother  after  a  separation  of  twenty-six 
years,  and  the  story  sagely  concludes  by  saying,  «*  the  meeting 
between  him  and  bis  mother  was  most  affecting."  In  the  name 
of  common  sense,  what  could  or  should  it  be  if  not  affecting?1 
Not  even  the  fabled  stoicism  of  the  American  Indian  or  the  stupid' 
stolidity  of  the  English  dude  could  prevent  such  a  meeting  from 
being  affecting.  The  only  wonder  is  that  the  narrator  of  the 
story  did  not  say  that  his  mother  was  glad  ,to  see  him. 


A  GOOD  piece  of  work  was  done  in  Sacramento  in  the  convic- 
tion of  Charles  Weiger  for  obtaining  goods  under  false  pre- 
tenses. Weiger  was  in  the  dry  goods  business  and  by  falsifying 
as  to  his  capital  he  obtained  a  quantity  of  goods  from  an  Eastern 
house  on  credit.  Then  he  failed.  Thereupon  his  creditors  had 
him  arrested,  and  on  bis  own  showing  he  was  committed  and 
sentenced  to  two  years'  imprisonment.  Moat  of  the  men  of  his 
class  manage  to  keep  within  the  law  in  their  rascally  transactions, 
but  it  is  refreshing  to  find  one  who  has  received  his  deserts. 


THE  Traffic  Association  has  tried  a  new  tack.  Instead  of  wait- 
ing for  legislative  aid  it  proposes  to  bring  the  weight  of  its 
combined  influence  to  bear  on  the  railroad  companies  to  secure 
lower  fares  and  freights.  One  would  naturally  suppose  that  that 
would  be  the  first  step  to  be  taken.  A  railroad  company  can  do 
only  such  business  as  is  given  it  to  do,  and  it  is  bound  to  make 
its  rates  conform  in  a  large  degree  to  the  views  of  its  patrons.  If 
the  Traffic  Association  can  show  that  rates  are  excessive  under 
the  present  conditions  of  transportation,  no  doubt  the  railroad 
companies,  in  their  own  interest,  will  alter  them. 


COUNT CAPRIVI  is  actively  engaged  in  gathering  by  flattery 
and  promises,  a  sufficient  majority  in  the  Reichstag  for  his 
army  bill.  Caprivl  does  not  like  to  resign,  and  can  hardly  be 
blamed;  but  even  if  he  should  succeed  in  obtaining  the  desired 
majority,  which  is  very  doubtful,  it  will  be  not  for  the  bill  which 
he  introduced,  but  for  an  emasculated  form  of  it,  which  will  little 
resemble  the  original.  The  saddest  part  of  the  affair  is  that  the 
taxation  proposed,  even  if  the  Reichstag  should  accede  to  it,  will 
not  suffice  to  defray  the  expenses,  for  the  sale  of  the  taxed 
articles  will  be  so  reduced  that  the  yield  of  coin  will  fall  far  behind 
the  expectations. 


SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


WHAT    CONGRESS    SHOULD    DO. 

THE  present  session  of  Congress,  which  began  on  Monday,  and 
must  close  at  twelve  o'clock  midnight  on  March  3rd,  should 
be  a  strictly  business  session,  devoid  in  a  very  great  measure  of 
the  friction  which  is  caused  by  partisan  politics.  Neither  side  has 
anything  to  gain  by  factional  fights,  the  Democrats,  because  they 
will  come  into  the  undisputed  control  of  the  government  at  the 
succeeding  session,  and  the  Republicans  because  any  opposition 
they  might  offer  now  to  the  will  of  the  majority  would  be  foolish, 
for  the  reason  that  it  will  be  nullified  at  the  first  session  of  the 
Fifty-third  Congress.  Such  being  the  situation,  it  is  not  un- 
reasonable to  hope  that  both  the  great  parties  may  understand 
and  accept  it,  and  confine  themselves  to  legislation  which  shall 
be  for  the  benefit  of  the  United  States,  rather  than  of  some  hoped- 
for  political  advantage.  In  this  hope  it  may  be  of  interest  to 
glance  briefly  at  some  measures  of  general,  if  not  universal  inter- 
est, which  it  is  to  be  hoped  the  present  Congress  will  take  up  and 
carry  to  a  successful  conclusion.  One  of  these  is,  obviously,  the 
creation  of  a  national  system  of  quarantine,  and  with  this  is  cer- 
tainly involved  the  great  question  of  the  suspension  of  immigra- 
tion for  the  time  being.  The  United  States  has  invited  the  whole 
world  to  participate  with  it  next  year  in  celebrating  the  four 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  the  New  World  by 
Columbus,  and  nearly  every  civilized  nation  has  accepted  the  in- 
vitation, and  will  be  represented  at  the  World's  Columbian  Expo- 
sition at  Chicago.  It  is  of  vital  importance  that  we  prevent  by 
every  possible  means  an  epidemic  of  cholera  in  this  country  next 
spring  and  summer,  and  the  only  safe  and  available  means  of 
prevention  is  for  the  Federal  Government  to  take  the  matter  of 
quarantine  into  its  own  hands,  and  make  rules  and  regulations 
which  shall  be  enforced  strictly  and  uniformly  at  every  point 
where  danger  seems  to  threaten.  This,  in  turn,  should  be  sup- 
plemented by  the  measure  recommended  by  the  Senate  Commit- 
tee on  Immigration,  that  is,  the  suspension  of  immigration,  in 
the  familiar  sense  of  the  word,  for  a  year.  We  can  better  afford 
to  exclude  pauper  and  servile  labor,  whether  from  Europe,  Asia 
or  Africa,  than  to  expose  our  own  people  and  the  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  strangers  who  will  visit  us,  to  the  danger  of  infec- 
tion from  cholera.  There  is  little  or  no  danger  from  any  but 
steerage  passengers,  and  we  can  certainly  get  along  without  any 
of  them  for  a  year.  A  topic  which  ia  suggested  by  the  mention 
of  the  World's  Fair,  and  which  will  come  up  for  action  at  the 
present  session,  is  the  modification  of  the  rule  adopted  at  the  last 
session,  requiring  the  closing  of  the  exposition  buildings  and 
grounds  on  Sunday,  as  a  condition  of  the  grant  of  money  made 
by  Congress.  So  much  intelligent  and  liberal-minded  discussion 
has  ensued  upon  this  action,  and  the  clergy  of  nearly  every  de- 
nomination in  the  United  States,  that  is,  the  leading  men  among 
them,  archbishops,  bishops,  elders,  priests  and  deacons,  have 
ranged  themselves  on  the  side  of  common  sense,  and  have  pointed 
out  so  clearly  the  great  gains  to  morality  and  good  order  which 
may  be  expected  from  Sunday  opening,  that  an  effect  cannot  fail 
to  be  produced  on  Congress.  The  plan  now  proposed  is  to  have 
a  still  exhibit,  that  is,  to  shut  down  the  ponderous  machinery 
and  close  up  the  mere  places  of  amusement,  but  to  leave  the  ex- 
position proper  open  to  visitors,  just  as  art  galleries  and  museums 
and  parks  are  or  should  be  open  on  Sundays.  The  arguments  in 
favor  of  this  plan  are  unanswerable;  at  least  they  have  not  been 
answered  since  they  were  advanced.  In  addition  to  these  special 
features,  Congress,  as  is  usual,  will  have  to  provide  for  the  carry- 
ing on  of  the  Government  during  the  fiscal  year,  and  for  this  pur- 
pose must  frame  and  decide  upon  general  and  special  appropria- 
tion bills,  which  will  be  a  matter  of  work  enough  to  occupy  the 
greater  part  of  the  short  session.  It  is  not  very  likely  that  any 
serious  attempt  will  be  made  to  change  the  tariff  at  this  session, 
with  a  Republican  Senate  in  the  way  and  a  Republican  President 
in  the  White  House.  That  will  probably  go  over  until  the  entire 
administration  is  of  the  same  political  faith,  and  it  is  proper  that 
it  should,  since  the  people  of  the  United  States  have  manifestly 
devolved  upon  the  Democratic  party  the  task  of  reusing  the  tariff 
upon  the  lines  of  a  much  more  liberal  policy  than  has  prevailed 
under  the  party  of  protection.  There  are  certain  local  issues  in 
which  the  people  of  California  are  deeply  interested,  which  it  is 
to  be  hoped  may  receive  due  attention  at  the  hands  of  the  pres- 
ent Congress,  and  prominent  among  these  is  the  hydraulic  min- 
ing bill.  When  we  stop  to  reflect  that  the  monetary  conference 
now  in  session  at  Brussels  wil)  probably  accomplish  nothing  for 
the  advantage  of  silver  as  money,  and  that  the  world's  stock  of 
gold  is  diminishing  year  by  year,  instead  of  increasing,  the  im- 
portance of  California  being  able  to  add  to  that  stock  at  least 
$10,000,000  a  year  for  a  long  series  of  years  becomes  obvious.  In 
the  interests,  not  only  of  California,  but  of  the  whole  commercial 
world.  Congress  should  pass  the  Caminetti  bill  without  delay,  or 
some  bill  constructed  on  the  same  general  principles,  under  which 
hydraulic  mining  may  be  resumed  in  this  State,  with  such  con- 
ditions and  restrictions  as  shall  provide  an  absolute  guarantee 
against  damage  to  the  streams  and  rivers  of  the  State,  or  to  the 
property  of  the  farmers  who  occupy  the  low-lying  districts. 
Then,  too,  the  Nicaragua  canal  scheme  is  a  thing  in  which  Cali- 
fornia is  vitally  concerned,  and  which  will  come  before  Congress 
at  its  present  session. 


THE     SILVER    SITUATION. 


A  FAVORITE  topic  of  discussion  at  present  in  local  financial 
circles  is  the  probable  action  of  the  silver  market  in  view  of 
a  failure  of  the  Monetary  Conference,  now  in  session  at  Brussels,  to 
adopt  resolutions  of  a  remedial  character,  which  will  restore  confi- 
dence in  the  future  of  the  metal.  The  general  impression  among 
financiers  of  this  city  who  have  studied  the  subject  closely  for  years 
past,  owing  to  the  intimate  relations  which  exist  between  our  com- 
mercial interests  and  mining  industry  throughout  the  Pacific  States, 
seems  to  be  that  the  time  has  now  arrived  when  something  must  be 
done  to  establish  a  certain  basis  of  value  for  silver.  Matters  having 
been  brought  to  a  focus,  principally  bv  the  energetic  but  ineffectual 
efforts  upon  the  part  of  the  Amorican  Government  to  regulate  the 
market  by  legislation.it  is  considered  that  the  responsibility  now 
rests  with  the  European  nations,  who  are,  if  anything,  more  inter- 
ested in  the  solution  of  the  problem.  It  is  not  at  all  certain,  despite 
the  unfavorable  tone  of  the  dispatches  received  here,  that  the  Con- 
ference will  adjourn  without  doing  something  to  relieve  the  situa- 
tion. So  far  as  the  personnel  of  that  assembly  is  concerned,  it  has  a 
decided  leaning  towards  silver.  The  President  is  a  Belgian,  with  the 
modified  bi-metallist  views  which  are  befitting  the  representative  of 
one  of  the  Latin  Union  States;  the  Vice-President  is  an  American; 
the  Secretaries  are  Belgian  and  American,  and  of  the  seventeen  coun- 
tries represented,  a  good  majority  may  be  counted  upon  to  vote 
favorably  on  any  proposition  which  may  tend  to  benefit  the  metal. 
So  far  as  the  Rothschild  scheme  is  concerned,  it  was  undoubtedly 
frowned  down,  owing  to  its  general  unfairness  to  this  country.  An 
offer  to  relieve  the  market  of  $25,000,000  worth  of  silver  annually 
could  scarcely  be  accepted  as  bona  fide  or  fair  to  America,  which  now 
makes  purchases  valued  in  the  neighborhood  of  $54,000,000  every 
year.  In  any  event,  there  is  little  to  dread  on  this  side  of  the  Atlan- 
tic. A  general  suspension  of  operations  in  the  silver  mines  will  prove 
only  a  temporary  inconvenience,  necessitated  by  the  possible  sus- 
pension of  purchases  by  the  Federal  Government.  Even  this  may 
not  be  considered  expedient  should  the  tariff  be  amended,  as  many 
believe  it  should,  by  placing  a  heavy  import  on  all  foreign  silver, 
high  enough  to  make  the  importation  unprofitable.  This  would 
speedily  settle  the  question  so  far  as  America  is  concerned,  while  it 
would  also  tend  to  raise  the  market  value  of  the  home  product.  The 
metal  can  only  depreciate  to  the  cost  of  production,  and  it  is  getting 
dangerously  near  that  point  just  now.  Further  it  cannot  very  well 
decline,  for  mining  would  cease  the  minute  it  became  unprofitable. 
The  manufacturers  of  Great  Britain,  interested  directly  in  trade  with 
India,  would  then  be  worse  off  than  they  are  now,  and  the  Imperial 
Government  would  ultimately  be  forced  to  make  the  concessions 
which  it  is  now  disposed  to  evade. 

THE  GERMAN  ARMY  SCANDAL. 

GERMANY  is  greatly  scandalized  by  the  revelations  that  some 
military  officials  have  been  guilty  of  the  grossest  corruption, 
and  that  some  other  official  or  officials  must  be  charged  with  betray- 
ing Government  secrets.  A  certain  Rector  Ahlwardt  has  proved  in 
the  Moabit  Criminal  Court  that  he  is  in  possession  of  documents 
signed  by  competent  military  authorities,  showing  that  the  Lowe 
rifles,  which  have  been  introduced  in  the  German  army  to  the  num- 
ber of  425,000,  are  inefficient  weapons,  entirely  unfit  for  service. 
These  documents  were  either  stolen  or  sold,  and  in  the  latter  case  a 
betrayal  of  Government  secrets  was  committed.  Furthermore,  their 
contents  show  them  to  be  reports  made  by  Colonels  to  their  Generals 
adverse  to  the  guns  manufactured  in  Lowe's  factory,  and  since  the 
guns  of  that  factory-were  accepted  by  the  Government,  notwithstand- 
ing the  adverse  reports,  it  is  natural  to  assume,  provided  that  the 
facts  mentioned  in  the  cablegrams  are  correct,  that  some  high  Gov- 
ernment officials,  who  alone  could  have  secured  the  acceptance  of 
the  guns  for  use  in  the  army,  must  have  been  bribed,  and  are  guilty 
of  corruption.  This  is  a  very  sad  state  of  affairs,  as  Germany  is 
especially  proud  of  the  efficiency  of  her  army,  and  anything  to 
endanger  this  efficiency  must  create  the  greatest  indignation  amongst 
the  German  people,  who  annually  contribute  so  much  to  maintain  it 
by  great  money  sacrifices.  Especially  at  this  moment,  when  the 
Germans  are  asked  to  take  upon  themselves  a  new  burden  for  that 
purpose,  it  must  be  very  embarrassing  to  the  Government  that  any 
doubt  should  have  arisen  as  to  the  question  whether  the  money  voted 
for  military  purposes  is  expended  with  due  care  by  those  who  are  in- 
trusted with  its  expenditure.  Another  serious  matter  is,  that  cases 
of  corruption  in  official  circles,  which  formerly  were  almost  unknown 
in  Germany,  have  been  reported  on  frequent  occasions  of  late,  and  it 
goes  to  show  that  official  morality  in  Germany  under  its  new  Gov- 
ernment has  undergone  a  deplorable  change,  which  reflects  discredit 
upon  those  who  not  only  claim  to  have,  but  actually  possess  almost 
autocratic  powers  where  military  matters  are  concerned.  Still,  paral- 
lel cases  to  the  scandals  mentioned  have  occurred  also  in  other  coun- 
tries, and  cannot  be  entirely  avoided  in  any  Government,  however 
carefully  selected  its  officials  may  be.  There  are  black  sheep  in  every 
large  flock.  Nevertheless  that  does  not  render  the  occurrence  in 
Prussia  less  scandalous,  and  some  criticism  is  justifiable,  just  as 
some  punishment  of  the  guilty  officials  is  desirable.  To  magnify  the 
affair,  however,  by  comparing  it  with  the  Panama  Canal  scandal  in 
France,  indicates  that  those  who  make  such  comparison  have  lost  all 
sense  of  proportion. 


WHO    SHALL    t*AVE    THEM  ? 

NOW  that  the  rxciientem  of  the  political  campaign  has  BUb- 
tided,  the  mntioni)  daily  pr*M  looks  about  for  an  object  to 
flaunt  in  the  fares  of  the  people,  while  it  cries  aloud  with  all  the 
power  of  double-leaded  editorials  <<f  the  mighty  good  it  is  doing  Id  the 
world.  The  Awmfnm  appears  this  week  as  a  crusader  in  behalf  of 
the  city's  fallen  women,  and  asks  in  large-full-faced  type  "  Who  Will 
Save  Them""  It  haa  printed  an  opinion  by  Ohiefof  Police  Crowley 
that  fully  seventy-rive  per  cent  of  such  women  would  gladly  return 
|  '-otability  if  a  means  of  livelihood  offered,  and  it  has  interviewed 
a  number  of  divines  and  good  women,  most  of  whom  know  absolutely 
nothing  whatever  about  the  subject  they  have  discussed,  as  to  the 
proper  means  of  saving  the  unfortunates.  With  what  wonderful 
keenness  of  perception,  however,  the  crusader  in  behalf  of  fallen 
womankind  looks  afield  for  remedies,  while  it  notices  not  the  induce- 
ment to  vice  which  it  covers  within  its  own  pages.  We  suggest  to 
this  sensational  sheet  that  the  best  and  quickest  method  to 
suppress  vice  is  to  promote  virtue,  for  it  is  not  true  that  men 
and  women  prefer  sin  and  sorrow  to  goodness  and  happiness. 
If  it  will  act  upon  this  suggestion,  it  may  effect  some  good, 
in  the  matter  it  has  undertaken,  though  the  probabilities  are  that  the 
good  to  come  of  it  was  not  considered  when  the  first  article  was  pub- 
lished. It  was  a  sensational  story,  and  that  was  enough.  The  incon- 
sistency of  the  paper  and  the  shallowness  of  its  pretensions  to  aid  in 
the  cause  of  virtue,  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  in  the  very  issues  in 
which  it  published  the  appeals  on  behalf  of  the  fallen  sisterhood,  it 
also  published,  under  the  heading  of"  Massage,"'  the  advertisements 
ot  forty  public  orostitutes.  Is  this  its  idea  of  salvation?  To  take 
their  pittance  so  as  to  afford  them  greater  opportunity  to  plunge 
deeper  into  vice?  The  Examiner  should  know  that  the  sensational 
daily  press  is  as  much,  if  not  more  responsible  for  the  vice  that  pol- 
lutes the  very  air  in  large  cities  as  are  the  economic  conditions 
under  which  we  live.  The  glorification  of  criminals  in  columns  of 
type,  the  interviewing  of  convicts  upon  matters  of  domestic  econ- 
omy, the  disgusting  descriptions  of  meretricious  alliances,  the  blood- 
curdling accounts  of  crimes  in  low  life,  pictures  of  murderers  and 
burglars,  accouuts  of  their  lives,  inventories  of  their  weapons— all 
these  tend  to  develop  in  youth  of  both  sexes  any  latent  tendencies  to 
evil  they  may  possess,  yet  the  daily  press  defends  itself  by  the  state- 
ment that  they  give  the  people  what  they  want  ;  that  the 
paper  reflects  the  opinions  and  desires  of  the  better  class 
of  the  coniraunitv.  We  do  not  believe  it.  We  would  with  great 
reluctance,  for  instance,  believe  that  the  clergymen  and  pure  women 
whose  opinions  were  printed  the  other  day,  were  of  accord  with  the 
Examiner  in  the  opinion  that  in  the  same  paper  that  printed  their 
names,  on  the  reverse  side  of  the  same  page  mayhap,  there  should 
have  appeared  the  advertisements  of  public  prostitutes.  We  also 
will  not  believe  that  parents  would  allow  their  children  to  read  in 
this  paper  the  accounts  of  its  Christmas  festival,  if  they  were  aware 
of  the  matter  which  it  prints.  Let  the  Examiner  itself  answer  the 
question,"  Who  will  help  them?"  and  by  the  suppression,  instead  of 
the  promulgation  of  vice,  and  the  elevation  of  the  moral  tone  of  the 
community,  do  some  good  in  the  cause  of  virtue.  It  might  begin  by 
donating  to  the  Salvation  Army  Home  all  the  money  it  has  received 
for  massage  advertisements  during  the  past  year,  with  one  thousand 
dollars  added  as  an  evidence  of  good  faith. 


RECENT  events  in  France,  Germany  and  Austria  have  given  a 
new  impetus  to  the  anti-semitic  agitation  in  Europe.  It  can- 
not be  denied  that  the  Panama  Canal  scandal  in  Paris,  the  revela- 
tions of  Rector  Ahlwardt  in  Germany,  and  several  recent  events  in 
Austria  have  seriously  compromised  many  well-known  Jewish  finan- 
ciers and  bankers  who  have  played  an  important  part  in  corrupting 
government  officials.  An  agitation  against  Jewish  citizens  as  a  class 
however,  in  consequence  of  these  facts,  is  absurd,  and  ought  to  be 
condemned  by  all  intelligent  people.  Since  the  Jews,  by  Christian 
intolerance  for  centuries,  were  driven  to  money  speculations  and 
financial  operations — all  other  avenues  of  making  a  living  being 
barred  to  them — the  banking  business  is  at  present  almost  entirely  in 
their  hands.  That  some  of  them  deserve  condemnation  for  their 
corrupt  ptactices  is  certain,  but  if  it  is  true  that  in  the  Jewish  finan- 
cial world  here  and  there  dishonest  men  are  found,  it  is  equally  true 
that  the  majority  have  the  reputation  of  strict  honesty,  without 
which  they  could  not  do  business.  That  so  many  Jewish  bankers 
are  compromised  in  the  recent  government  scandals  abroad  finds  an 
explanation  in  the  fact,  not  that  so  many  Jewish  bankers  are  cor- 
rupt, but  that  among  the  bankers  are  so  many  Jews. 

A  DISTINGUISHED  London  physician,  intrusted  with  an  in- 
vestigation of  the  cholera  question,  reports  to  the  London  port 
sanitary  committee  that  there  is  almost  an  absolute  certainty  of  an 
outbreak  of  cholera  in  the  spring.  This  suggests  the  warning  of  Pro- 
fessor Virchon,  and  ought  to  be  duly  considered  in  our  own  country, 
where  quarantine  and  sanitary  regulations  are  of  the  utmost  impor- 
tance in  order  to  prevent  the  introduction  of  the  plague  next  year. 

MR.  GLADSTONE  is  not  in  a  hurry  to  make  arrangements  for 
the  opening  of  Parliament,  and  the  earliest  possible  date 
mentioned  is  the  last  week  of  January  next.  Nobody  will  blame  the 
British  Prime  Minister  for  this  delay  if  it  is  considered  that  he  is 
going  to  meet  a  storm  which  may  wreck  his  Cabinet  by  its  gusts. 


FIXING     WATER    RATES. 

A  FEW  few  weeks  ajro  rt  dail/  newspaper  <»f  this  city  was  loud 
an. I  enthusiastic  in  it*  praises  of  the  Democratic  nominees 
for  the  Board  of  Supervisors.  Lauding  their  honesty  and  integrity  to 
the  skies,  and  adjuring  every  good  citlaen  of  Ban  Francisco  to  vote 
for  them.  A  great  many  good  citizens  did  vote  for  them,  and  they 
were  elected,  and  now,  strange  to  Hay,  the  same  newspaper  is  begin- 
ning to  express  distrust  in  them,  and  to  doubt  whether  they  are  the 
right  men  for  (he  place.  No  out-and-out  charges  have  been  made 
against  them,  but  several  of  them  are  evidently  regarded  with  sus- 
picion by  the  journal  in  question.  When  inquiry  is  made  as  to  the 
cause  of  this  sudden  chang**  of  sentiment,  it  is  found  that  the  news- 
paper referred  to  has  resolved  itself  into  a  sudden  commission  to  fix 
water  rates  for  the  coming  year,  and  that  any  member  of  the  Board 
of  Supervisors-elect  who  will  not  promise  to  stand  by  the  schedule 
which  the  paper  has  determined  upon,  is  likely  to  be  branded  as  re- 
creant to  his  trust,  and  as  a  willing  tool  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water 
Company.  Our  contemporary,  in  its  new-born  zeal  for  fixing  things, 
evidently  forgets  that  the  subject  of  determining  water  rates  for  this 
city  is  not  a  new  question,  and  that  the  Board  of  Supervisors  has  not 
an  unlimited  discretion  in  the  matter.  The  Supreme  Court,  follow- 
ing the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  ha«  laid  down  the  law  so  clearly 
and  emphatically  that  it  has  never  since  been  questioned,  even  by 
the  most  rabid  anti-water  man.  That  decision  was,  in  effect,  that 
the  Board  of  Supervisors  must  fix  the  rates  at  which  water  should  be 
supplied  to  consumers  in  this  city,  whether  public  or  private,  at  a 
figure  which  would  enable  the  Spring  Valley  Company  Lo  earn  a  rea- 
sonable rate  of  interest  on  its  investment.  This  being  decided,  the 
action  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  becomes  little  more  than  a  matter 
of  very  simple  calculation,  which  a  bright  schoolboy  would  cipher  out 
in  ten  minutes  with  a  slate  and  pencil.  There  is  so  much  money  in- 
vested, and  so  much  to  be  raised  as  interest  on  the  investment,  and 
how  much  each  consumer  shall  pay  per  thousand  gallons  for  water 
does  not  rise  to  the  dignity  of  an  example  in  the  rule  of  three.  It  is 
because  of  this  absolute  rule  ot  computation ,  founded,  as  the  Supreme 
Court  said,  on  the  well-established  principles  of  equity,  that  any 
threats  against  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  or  anything  resembling 
threats,  are  utterly  puerile  and  sillv.  The  Water  Company  is  pro- 
tected by  the  arm  of  the  law  from  demagogic  attacks,  and  from  the 
folly  and  prejudice  of  those  who  might  think  it  a  meritorious  act  to 
"cinch"  a  corporation.  The  Board  of  Supervisors  is  required  to  hold 
the  scales  of  justice  with  even  hand  between  the  producer  and  the 
consumer,  having  regard  to  the  rights  of  each,  and  any  attempt  to 
deal  unfairly  with  either,  if  such  a  thing  could-  be  presumed,  would 
be  met  at  once  by  the  interposition  of  a  court  of  justice.  For  these 
reasons  the  rhetoric  of  our  contemporary  is  very  much  like  stage 
thunder— noisy,  but  ineffective. 

HARRISON'S    DEATH    CHANT. 

PRESIDENT  HARRISON  certainly  has  the  courage  of  his  con- 
victions, and  with  the  fortitude  and  stoicism  of  an  Indian 
chieftain  led  to  the  stake,  he  chants  his  song  of  defiance  in  the 
very  face  of  his  exulting  enemies  while  the  fagots  are  piled  about 
him  and  the  torch  is  ready  to  be  applied.  In  the  presence  of  an 
overwhelming  defeat  at  the  polls,  he  still  insists  that  the  people 
of  the  United  States  have  made  a  grievous  blunder,  and  that  time 
will  show  that  the  revereal  of  the  nation's  policy  and  the  adop- 
tion of  tariff  for  revenue  is  fraught  with  disaster  to  the  people. 
In  support  of  his  contention,  he  masses  statistics  showing  the 
increase  in  national  prosperity  during  the  decade  between  1880 
and  1890,  but  he  makes  the  universal  protectionist  mistake  of 
confusing  post  hoc  with  post  propter  hoc,  or,  to  put  it  into  plain 
English,  of  asserting  that  what  has  come  afterwards  is  the  neces- 
sary consequence  of  what  has  gone  before.  No  one  will  dispute 
the  advances  made  by  the  United  States  during  the  period  men- 
tioned, but  the  friends  of  tariff  revision  declare  thai  such  progress 
has  been  made  in  spite  of  the  policy  of  protection  rather  than  in 
consequence  of  it.  It  is  to  be  observed  tnat  President  Harrison, 
in  this  message,  is  very  considerate  of  the  wage-workersjof  the 
United  States,  which  naturally  suggests  the  reflection  that  if  his 
party,  before  the  election,  had  cared  more  for  the  American  work- 
ingman  and  less  for  the  trusts  and  syndicates  which  absorbed  the 
fruits  of  his  toil,  the  result  of  the  election  might  possibly  have 
been  different.  Outside  of  politics,  which  the  President  did  not 
seem  capable  of  ignoring,  the  message  is  in  complete  accord  with 
that  clause  of  the  Constitution  which  directs  the  President,  from 
time  to  time,  to  give  Congress  information  relative  to  the  state  of 
the  Union.  It  contains  a  large  amount  of  statistical  matter,  well 
arranged  and  capable  of  subdivision  into  topics,  each  under  its 
appropriate  head.  Whatever  may  be  thought  of  President  Har- 
rison as  a  political  leader,  no  one  can  deny  that  he  is  a  man  of 
ability,  clear-headed,  well  acquainted  with  public  affairs,  and 
cognizant  of  the  necessities  of  the  various  sections  of  the  Union. 
We  are  too  close  to  his  administration  to  regard  it  with  an  unpre- 
judiced eye",  but  thus  much  may  be  said  for  it,  and  it  will  be 
agreed  to  even  by  those  who  have  not  been  in  sympathy  with 
the  doctrines  it  has  represented,  that  it  has  been  clean,  manly, 
honorable  and  patriotic,  and  in  spite  of  his  crushing  defeat  at  the 
polls,  Benjamin  Harrison  occupies  a  higher  place  in  the  esteem  of 
the  nation  than  he  did  when  he  was  elected  in  1888.  He  has 
shown  himself  an  honest,  honorable  man  in  every  way,  and  his 
defeat  was  due,  not   to  any  personal   dislike  or  distrust. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


A    CHARMING    VALLEY. 

LIVERMORE,  Dec.  1,  1892 Since  the  completion,  several  yeara 
ago,  of  the  route  to  Sacramento  by  way  of  Benicia  and  Davis- 
ville,  San  Francisco  people  have  seen  little  or  nothing  of  a  section 
lying  about  at  their  doors,  and  which  presents  points  of  interest  and 
an  extent  of  development  second  to  no  other  portion  of  the  State. 
Lunching  with  a  friend  not  long  since  at  the  cafe  of  the  State  Viti- 
cultural  Commission,  the  waiter,  at  his  request,  served  us  with  some 
light  wine,  which  was  so  far  superior  to  any  of  the  products  of 
California  vineyards  that  had  yet  been  put  before  me,  that  my  curi- 
osity was  aroused,  and  I  at  once  desired  to  learn  where  so  choice  a 
beverage  was  produced.  I  was  told  that  it  was  the  product  of  a  cer- 
tain vineyard  in  the  Livermore  Valley,  and  was  further  informed 
that  the  wines  of  that  locality  had  received  high  premiums  wherever 
exhibited  in  competition  with  the  products  of  the  best  known  viticut- 
tural  sections.  Furthermore,  my  friend  told  me  that  if  I  desired  to 
see  scientific  wine-making,  I  should  by  all  means  visit  that  delightful 
valley.  Accordingly,  at  the  first  opportunity  I  did  so,  and  after  a  moat 
pleasant  ride  down  the  shores  of  the  bay,  through  the  orchards  of 
San  Leandro,  San  Lorenzo,  Haywards  and  Niies,  and  up  the  wild 
and  tortuous  Niles  Canyon,  1  find  myself  here  in  the  flourishing  little 
city  of  Livermore,  surrounded  by  a  dozen  different  points  of  attrac- 
tion. The  wide  valley  possesses  a  soil  of  great  fertility,  enclosed  by 
the  luxuriant  crops  grown  upon  it.  In  every  direction  the  orchards 
and  vineyards,  while  the  hill  slopes,  choaen  home  of  the  vine,  are 
covered  to  their  crown  with  their  thrifty  growth.  A  short  ride  from 
town  brings  us  to  the  famous  Cresta  Blanca  vineyard  of  Charles  A. 
Wetmore,  and  a  word  of  introduction  makes  us  masters  of  the  situa- 
tion. We  are  shown  through  the  magnificent  cellars,  quarried  out 
of  the  solid  rock.  The  process  of  the  vintage  is  explained  toua;  some 
choice  brands  are  sampled,  and  from  the  intelligent  conversation  of 
the  owner  of  this  magnificent  property  we  readily  gather  the  reasons 
for  the  deserved  popularity  of  the  wines  bearing  the  Cresta  Blanca 
brand.  Only  the  choicest  varieties  of  vines  are  grown  here  or  else- 
where in  the  valley;  every  care  is  taken  both  with  their  cultivation 
and  the  handling  of  the  fruit,  all  the  processes  of  fermentation  are 
closely  watched,  and  the  result  is  that  the  products  of  this  vineyard 
have  achieved  a  veritably  world-wide  reputation. 

Another  of  the  vineyards  of  which  the  people  of  the  Livermore 
Valley  are  justly  proud  is  Olivina,  the  property  of  Julius  P.  Smith. 
There  are  2000  acres  in  this  place,  which  are  devoted  to  the  culture  of 
the  vine  and  the  olive,  both  products  being  attended  with  equal  suc- 
cess. In  fact  the  olive  is  a  favorite  all  through  the  valley,  the  lovely 
silvery  gray  foliage  of  that  tree  being  seen  in  every  direction.  At 
Olivina,  too,  choice  varieties  of  the  grape  are  grown,  and  the  same 
scientific  care  is  shown  in  the  management  of  the  vintage  which  has 
made  the  Livermore  Valley  wines  famous.  The  cellars  are  hewn  from 
the  solid  rock,  and  in  their  cool,  equable  depths  are  stores  of  liquid 
sunshine  which  rival  in  appearance  and  flavor  those  of  the  sunniest 
slopes  of  France. 

Away  up  on  the  hillside,  commanding  a  magnificent  view  of  the 
entire  valley,  is  the  charming  home  of  Dr.  Hammond— his  eyrie  as 
he  delights  to  call  it.  Here,  surrounded  with  luxuriant  trees  and 
vines,  the  very  atmosphere  redolent  of  Nature's  best  gifts  to 
man,  the  Doctor  leads  an  enviable  existence,  amid  environs 
so  pleasing,  so  healthgiving,  that  it  is  little  wonder  that  the  genial 
host  remarks  facetiously  that  he  expects  to  live  on  forever,  and  in- 
deed, if  long  life  can  be  expected  anywhere,  it  certainly  should  be 
here.  Days  may  be  pleasantly  passed  in  visiting  the  many  interest- 
ing points  in  the  vicinity  af  Livermore.  Only  a  short  distance  from 
town  is  the  famous  Buckley  vineyard  of  100  acres,  where  some  wines 
of  very  good  quality  are  produced.  Then  there  are  the  Shea,  the 
Taylor  and  the  Wheeler,  and  a  score  more  vineyards,  all  equally  de- 
serving of  praise,  whose  proprietors  have  iaken  hold  determinedly  of 
the  problems  that  confront  California  viticulturists ,  and  who  are 
solving  them  in  the  only  manner  possible,  and  with  results  that 
afford  the  highest  encouragement  to  all  interested  in  the  welfare  of 
the  State. 

A  day  was  well  passed  in  a  trip  to  the  coal  mines  in  the  hills  somedis- 
tance  from  town.  The  existence  of  coal  has  been  known  here  for 
years,  the  beds  being  doubtless  a  continuation  of  those  of  the  Mount 
Diablo  field.  Considerable  coal  has  been  extracted  at  various  times 
and  a  couple  of  years  or  so  back,  Tread  well,  of  Douglass  Island  fame, 
undertook  the  systematic  exploitation  of  the  deposits.  Unfortunately, 
however,  the  coal  has  not  proved  of  a  quality  suitablefor  commercial 
purposes,  and  the  mine  will  soon  be  closed.  Nevertheless,  the  in- 
spection of  the  workings  present  many  points  of  great  interest. 

I  have  given  the  merest  suggestion  of  the  salient  features  of  inter- 
est in  the  Livermore  Valley,  in  the  hope  that  other  San  Franciscans, 
like  myself,  may  be  led  to  take  a  trip  that  cannot  fail  to  be  productive 
of  both  pleasure  and  profit.  W. 

Professor  Charles  Goffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California,  as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,   1430  Webster  street,  near 

The  most  perfect  gift  is  perfect  vision.  Obtainable  at  C.  Muller's,  the 
optician. 


F.    MARION    CRAWFORD'S    VISIT. 

THE  news  that  F.  Marion  Crawford  will  give  a  series  of  readings 
from  his  principal  novels  in  the  larger  cities  of  the  United  States 
this  winter  should  be  welcome  news  to  our  readers,  for  his  itinerary 
will  assuredly  include  San  Francisco.  It  may  notgenerally  be  known 
that  Mr.  Crawford  has  several  relatives  living  in  San  Francisco, 
among  them  being  the  family  of  Hall  McAllister,  and  his  aunt,  Mrs. 
Maillard,  of  the  San  Geronimo  rancho  in  the  hills  of  Marin  County. 
Crawford  is  an  Irish  American,  his  father  being  an  Irishman  of  no 
birth,  whose  first  start  in  life  was,  as  some  say,  a  stone-mason,  but 
he  later  developed  talent  and  became  a  sculptor,  and  some  of  his 
finer  pieces  may  be  seen  in  Washington.  If  the  story  be  true,  Craw- 
ford's marriage  into  the  aristocratic  family  of  the  Wards  was  not 
hailed  with  genuine  delight,  and  from  this  union  sprang  the  famous 
novelist  who,  on  his  mother's  side  lays  claim  to  kinship  with  some  of 
the  most  noted  families  in  the  United  States.  By  his  mother  he  is  re- 
lated to  the  great  General  Marion  and  is  named  in  honor  of  that  war- 
rior. Also  by  his  mother  he  is  nephew  to  Mrs.  Julia  Ward  Howe  and 
the  late  Sam  Ward.  His  talents  are,  therefore,  hereditary.  Marion 
Crawford  is  the  perfection  of  a  cosmopolitan  training,  he  having  been 
educated  in  Philadelphia,  Cambridge  University,  England,  Heidel- 
berg, Germany,  and  owing  to  his  mother's  second  marriage  he  spent 
a  great  many  yeara  in  Rome,  and  at  one  time  prided  himself  on  be- 
ing more  Italian  than  American.  Some  few  years  ago  he  married 
Miss  Berdan,  daughter  of  General  Berdan  of  rifle  fame,  and  by  his 
wife  is  a  connection  of  Vice-President  Morton.  Before  Crawford 
showed  his  marvelous  skill  as  a  novelist  he  dabbled  more  or  less  in 
journalism.  He  represented  the  London  Daily  TeUgraphin  Rome, 
when  some  sudden  freak  took  him  to  India.  There  he  became  editor 
of  a  paper,  and  after  a  short  stay  returned  to  Italy,  and  then  came  to 
Boston.  He  did  some  fugitive  work,  and  while  there  wrote  "  Mr. 
Isaacs,"  which,  owing  to  his  uncle's  influence,  met  with  much  favor- 
able consideration  from  the  conservative  publishing  house  of  Mac- 
Millan.  Crawford  then  produced  novels  in  great  quantity.  His 
"  Roman  Singer  "  came  next,  and  for  some  time  it  was  feared  he 
would  out-write  himself.  His  "  To  Leward  "  was  not  a  success,  but 
not  till  he  commenced  his  series  of  Italian  life,  as  shown  by  "SarFft- 
•inesca,  Sant'  Ilario"  and  ■■  Don  Unio,"  did  he  prove  himself  a 
writer  of  more  than  ordinary  power.  His  "  Sardanapulus,"  historic- 
ally and  pictorially  considered,  is  a  magnificent  piece  of  work,  and  no 
less  a  critic  than  G.  H.  Fitch,  of  this  city,  said  it  was  like  Scott  in 
some  of  its  descriptive  passages.  Undoubtedly,  there  have  been  few 
men  so  well-equipped  for  literary  work  aa  Crawford.  He  is  master 
oE  English,  French,  Italian  and  German,  and  can  write  in  all  four 
languages  with  equal  facility.  At  one  time  he  was  bent  on  taking  a 
•hair  in  Philology  in  Harvard  College.  When  the  present  adminis- 
tration came  into  power  Mr.  Crawford  tried  hard  to  get  the  Greek 
Mission,  as  he  wished  to  represent  this  country  at  Athens.  From  a 
literary  standpoint  his  failure  to  obtain  the  coveted  post  was  a  great 
loss,  as  we  would  certainly  have  had  a  novel  on  life  in  modern  Greece. 
Unfortunately,  through  Crawford's  residence  abroad,  he  is  not  re- 
garded by  the  majority  as  an  American  author,  and  there  is  nothing 
in  his  works  to  show  he  is  in  sympathy  with  American  institutions. 
The  only  time  he  did  write  a  novel  regarding  us  was  a  distinct  failure 
in  more  ways  than  one,  for  he  was  foolish  enough  to  hint  that  a  Lon- 
don bureau  manipulated  our  politics.  Socially,  Crawford  is  one  of 
the  most  delightful  men  to  meet.  He  is  tall,  blonde,  and  extremely 
handsome.  He  was  possessed  of  a  remarkably  fine  tenor  voice,  and 
delighted  in  music.  There  is  not  the  slightest  doubt  he  will  take  San 
Francisco  by  storm ,  and  having  relatives  here  it  will  not  be  a  difficult 
matter  to  lionise  him. 


THE  women  of  Ferndale  do  not  intend  that  their  sons  and  hus- 
bands shall  have  an  opportunity  to  debauch  themselves  in  the 
society  of  unchaste  women,  if  they  can  help  it.  A  building  was 
erected  in  the  heart  of  town  which  was  to  be  devoted  to  illicit 
pleasures,  and  this  fact  becoming  known,  the  wives  and  mothers 
of  the  town  determined  upon  drastic  measures.  They  met  in  the 
evening,  just  before  the  finishing  touches  had  been  put  upon  the 
building,  and  with  the  aid  of  a  team  of  horses  and  a  atoutrope, 
they  made  kindling-wood  of  the  structure.  An  officer  of  the  law 
was  on  the  ground  under  instructiona  to  prevent  damage,  but  he 
was  surrounded  by  the  women  and  prevented  from  interfering. 
An  attempt  was  subsequently  made  to  arrest  those  concerned  in 
the  affair,  but  this,  too,  proved  fruitless,  and  moral  Ferndale  will 
have  to  get  along  without  a  maison  dejoie  for  a  while  longer. 

As    "  Society," 


"Within  the  true  and  real  meaning  of  the  phrase,  grows  and  develops 
in  the  United  States,  there  grows  and  develops  with  it  a  cultured  and 
refined  taste  in  all  things.  This  indisputable  fact  accounts  for  the 
great  popularity  which  the  Pommery  and  Greno  Sec  Champagne  is 
lately  acquiring  in  the  more  select  circles  of  American  society.  For 
a  long  time  past  this  wine  has  been  almost  exclusively  used  among 
the  royalty  and  nobility  of  Europe,  more  particularly  in  England 
and  Russia.  Its  intrinsic  merit  commends  it  to  the  critical  ana  dis- 
cerning judgment  of  those  who  have  the  means  to  indulge  in  the 
best  of  everything  that  is  to  be  had.  Persons  who  intend  to  give  select 
entertainments  should  be  particular  to  have  this  wine  on  the  table, 
and  bear  in  mind  the  Prince  of  Wales'  opinion:  "  There  is  no  head- 
ache in  Pommery  Sec;"  —  London  Journal. 


Dec.  19,   1802. 


SAN    Fl      NCISCO  NEWS   LETTER, 


CRUELTY    TO    CHILDREN. 


fBv    Hi     Vibsok.] 


TI1K  world  is  growing  better.  The  world  is  becoming  more  hu- 
mane. There  is  an  increasing  interest  on  all  subjects  which 
treat  of  (be  betterment  of  this  human  race  of  ours.  Kindness  to 
men  and  to  animals,  consideration  for  women  and  children  are 
becoming  the  rule.  Nowadays  one  can  hardly  Lake  up  a  paper 
without  finding  some  item  bearing  upon  some  aspect  of  humane 
education  or  the  prevention  of  cruelty,  especially  the  prevention 
of  cruelly  to  children. 

What  is  cruelty  to  children?  Is  it  boxing  their  ears  and  pulling 
their  hair,  and  subjecting  them  to  all  sorts  of  physical  suffering 
and  brutal  treatment?  Yes.  but  that  is  not  all,  although  that 
form  of  it  is  what  arouses  the  loudest  protest  and  the  most  vig- 
orous effort  in  behalf  of  helpless  childhood.  In  nearly  every 
State  in  the  Union  there  are  societies  for  the  protection  of  those 
who  are  but  infants  in  the  eyes  of  the  law;  societies  which  not 
only  avenge  the  wrongs  of  children,  but  which  seek  to  prevent 
their  commission.  The  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to 
Children  is  the  aggressive  and  fearless  friend  and  advocate  of  de- 
fenseless childhood.  It  hears  the  cry  of  the  starved  and  cruelly 
treated,  and  goes  to  their  rescue  when  the  agents  of  the  public 
are  practically  powerless  to  act.  It  is  a  moral  sanitary  society, 
taking  out  of  morally  filthy  conditions  lives  doomed  in  them. 
But  it  is  not  only  the  children  of  the  poor  who  are  the  helpless  ob- 
jects of  parental  tyranny,  or  of  the  cruelty  of  some  alien  adult. 
There  are  blows  other  than  brutal  beatings,  torture  other  than 
that  applied  for  the  purpose  of  stunting  the  growth  or  crippling 
the  body  to  make  mendicants.  Nor  does  it  help  the  victims  of 
this  refinement  of  cruelty  that  is  so  often  performed  unintention- 
ally, as  the  result  of  ignorance,  carelessness,  or  of  what  is  infi- 
nitely worse,  that  which  so  often  is  excused  by  a  flippant  "didn't 
think,"  or  »  I  forgot." 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  refined  cruelty  to  children  by  which 
the  children  of  the  rieh  as  well  as  those  of  the  well-to-do  class 
suffer,  may  be  broadly  classed  under  the  following  heads:  phy- 
sical, mental  and  moral  or  spiritual.  To  tell  a  loving  father  that 
his  child  is  the  victim  of  his  cruelty  would  be  to  arouse  his  indig- 
nation. To  accuse  a  tender  mother  of  cruelty  to  her  offspring 
would  be  to  insult  motherhood  itself,  and  yet  it  is  true.  For  in- 
stance, too  many  babies  are  raised  in  sunless  nurseries.  Not  a 
ray  of  sunlight  ever  comes  to  brighten  the  rooms,  no  sunbeam 
ever  dances  upon  the  walls,  nor  over  the  carpet  to  elude  the 
baby  fingers  that  would  have  clutched  at  it  with  delight.  Is  it 
not  cruel  to  condemn  children  to  sleep  in  rooms  never  warmed 
by  the  sun,  to  keep  them  confined  in  dark,  cheerless  city  back 
yards,  or  worse  yet  to  let  them  play  in  damp  and  musty  cellars, 
or  to  let  them  "make  b'lieve  keeping  house,"  near  sinks  or  drains, 
or  to  expose  them  to  the  malarial  influences  that  lurk  in  many  a 
garden?  Is  it  not  cruel  to  let  children  wearclothing  of  insuf- 
ficient warmth7  "I  teach  by  killing,  let  others  learn,"  says 
Nature  when  chided  for  her  harsh  methods.  At  last,  after  child- 
ren had  succumbed  in  countless  numbers  to  coughs,  colds,  pneu- 
monia and  sore  throat  with  all  the  dreadful  forms  of  diphtheria 
and  lung  fever,  it  began  to  dawn  upon  many  minds  that  delicate 
children  needed  to  be  clad  very  differently  from  the  fairies  in  a 
Christmas  pantomime.  By  her  pictures  of  dainty  darlings,  Kate 
Greenway  set  the  fashion  for  comfortable  long  cloaks  and  coats, 
and  sensible  warm  dresses.  The  reign  of  the  fool  was  over.  Is 
it  not  cruel  to  keep  children  in  clothes  which  they  have  out- 
grown? Aside  from  the  mental  anguish  which  a  child  suffers 
from  the  consciousness  that  it  is  not  as  well  dressed  as  are  its 
mates,  there  is  the  physical  suffering  caused  by  the  human  body's 
trying  to  cramp  itself,  to  adapt  itself  to  its  outgrown  clothes. 
What  must  a  lively,  active  child,  one  whose  every  impulse  is  to 
run  and  jump  and  play,  suffer  in  a  shoe  that  is  perfectly  whole, 
yet  several  sizes  too  short  for  his  growing  foot?  How  do  you 
suppose  his  toes  feel,  all  doubled  up  and  cramped,  as  they  must 
be  to  let  him  wear  the  shoe  at  all?  May  not  the  carelessness,  the 
indifference  of  Borne  parent  or  guardian  in  this  respect  cause  the 
child  an  injury  to  his  foot,  to  his  walk,  to  his  hip,  that  will  accom- 
pany him  through  life?  Fortunately  for  the  comfort  and  the  future 
welfare  of  the  children  of  to-day,  the  sensible  shoe  with  its  broad 
flat  sole,  and  better  yet,  its  low  heel,  or  none  at  all,  has  taken  the 
place  of  the  tight,  narrow  high-heeled  shoe  once  affected  by 
fashionable  parents  for  their  darlings.  Imagine  little  tots  stilted 
on  Louis  Quatorze  heels  1  It  is  cruel  to  let  children  enter  into 
the  active  life  lame,  halt  or  blind,  when  by  a  little  care,  expense 
or  personal  sacrifice  their  parents  might  have  had  the  defect 
remedied.  It  is  also  cruel  to  neglect  the  simple  sicknesses  of 
children,  to  pay  no  attention  to  their  complaints,  for  many  are 
the  cases  of  total  blindness,  complete  deafness  or  loathsome 
catarrh,  not  to  speak  of  the  diseases  that  slay  and  kill  with 
quickness,  which  have  had  their  origin  in  some  case  of  simple 
neglect.  Much  might  be  said  on  the  practice  careless  parents 
have  of  letting  their  children  eat  how,  when  and  as  they 
like,  but  I  forbear,  merely  saying  as  I  drop  this  branch  of  the 
subject,  that  year  by  year  the  teeth  of  the  American  people  are 
deteriorating,  and  that  we  are  rapidly  becoming  a  nation  of 
dyspeptics. 


It  is  cruel  in  Boards  ol  Education,  every  member  of  which  sits 
in  the  Board  meeting  in  the  most  comfortable  chair  he  can  find, 
to  compel  little  children  to  sit  at  desks  too  high  for  them.  It  is 
cruel  to  chide  them  for  not  sitting  upright,  or  for  not  taking  the 
proper  position  in  writing.  How  can  they?  Every  moment 
brings  the  torture  of  the  rack  to  their  little  frames  stretched  out 
of  position,  the  weight  of  their  legs,  whose  feet  can  not  touch  the 
floor,  dragging  on  the  back  and  spine,  until  hip  disease  or  curva- 
ture of  the  spine  is  the  result.  In  the  long  list  of  mental,  moral 
and  spiritual  cruelties  practiced  upon  children,  some  stand  out 
with  particular  distinctness.  Is  it  not  cruel  to  purposely  puzzle 
children  over  the  mysteries  of  life,  or  to  leave  them  to  the  care  of 
ignorant  or  wicked  nurses,  who,  for  their  own  wrong  purpose, 
will  fill  the  minds  of  their  young  charges  with  a  terror  that  will 
never  losen  its  hold  as  long  as  life  lasts?  It  is  cruel  to  frighten 
children,  or  to  allow  them  to  become  afraid  of  the  dark. 

It  is  cruel  to  rob  a  child  of  the  idea  of  God  as  a  loving  father  by 
the  substitution  of  the  big-policeman-private-detective-buga- 
boo-idea, used  by  inefficient  parents  to  bolster  up  their  own  tot- 
tering authority. 

It  is  cruel  to  let  children  become  men  and  women  without  a 
clear  and  reverent  understanding  of  the  laws  of  health.  It  is  a 
sin  to  let  a  child  so  have  its  own  way  at  home  that  he  grows  up 
to  be  an  overbearing  man  abroad,  and  a  tyrant  in  bis  own  bouse. 
A  temper,  never  controlled  in  youth,  outbursts  of  passion 
allowed  to  go  unchecked,  gluttony  over  cakes  and  candies,  what 
will  these  not  make  of  a  man  whose  childhood  was  one  long 
course  of  parental  neglect? 

At  whose  door  lies  the  responsibility  for  the  misshapen  bodies, 
dwarfed  or  distorted  understandings,  perverted  moral  natures  of 
a  large  portion  of  humanity?  Who  has  perpetrated  all  this  cruelty 
upon  helpless  children?  Do  all  raotherB  realize  the  import  of 
parental  influence,  and  guard  the  unborn  child's  mind  and  soul, 
as  well  as  the  tiny  frame  from  injury?  Humane  education  must 
begin  with  the  parent. 

One 

rounded  teaspoonful 
of  Cleveland's < 
Baking  Powder 
does  more  and  better  work  | 
than  a  heaping^ 
teaspoonful 
of  any  other. 
A  large  saving  on  a 
year's  bakings. 


A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 
Used  in   the  U.   S.  Army  and  by 
teachers  »f  Cookery. 

'  Cleveland's  is  the  standard,  it  never 
varies,  it  does  the  most  work,  the  best 
work  and  is  perfectly  wholesome. 

I.  H.  AXIS  41  «.;(!.,  AMI1H. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.B.  CHAPMAN,  EPERNAY     CHAMPAGNE. 


SOLE  AQENT  FOR 
PAOIFIO  OOA8T, 

123CalitorniaBt..S.F. 


FOR  BY  ALL  FIBBT-CLA8B 

Wine   Merchants  and  Grocers. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


CfyjSi/^l^tfD 


"We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's." — Tom  Moore. 

THE  success  of  an  entertainment  depends  less  on  the  kind  than 
on  the  quality.  Even  farce-comedy,  if  good  of  its  repre- 
hensible kind,  is  better  than  a  poorly  constructed,  poorly  played 
legitimate  drama.  So  with  spectacle  and  extravaganza.  It  ia 
not  the  most  intellectual  class  of  entertainment,  yet  the  most 
intelligent  and  cultured  may,  without  a  blush,  sit  down  to  spend 
an  evening  in  seeing  the  brilliant  phantasmagoria  and  listening 
to  the  quips  and  songs  of  a  Henderson  spectacle.  And  the 
reason  has  been  anticipated  above.  The  auditor  realizes  that 
there  is  no  slipshod  work  about  it  from  beginning  to  end;  that 
the  people  are  chosen  as  best  calculated  to  meet  the  requirements 
of  the  play;  that  neither  money  nor  hard  work  has  been  spared 
in  providing  the  various  appointments;  that  the  scenery  has 
been  prepared  by  an  artist  famed  in  his  line;  that  the  cos- 
tumes are  new,  rich,  and  elegant,  and  have  cost  a  mint  of  money ; 
in  fact  that  he  is  having  all  there  is  to  be  had  in  the  line  of  spec- 
tacle and  that  his  money  is  only  a  return  and  not  a  gratuity. 

Beginning  herewith  the  Crystal  Slipper,  Mr.  Henderson  won  an 
immediate  reputation  for  all  the  good  points  in  spectacular  pro- 
duction enumerated  above.  But  he  has  done  more.  Instead  of 
depending  on  the  reputation  gained,  he  has  more  than  main- 
tained it.'  Sinbad  outshone  the  splendors  of  The  Crystal  Slipper, 
and  when  Mr.  Henderson  announced  All  Baba  as  beyond  either, 
we  believed  him.  The  Grand  Opera  House  was  packed  from  roof 
to  foundation  at  the  opening  on  Saturday  night,  the  dress  circle 
and  orchestra  showing  an  audience  which  for  fashion  and  re- 
finement would  not  have  shamed  one  of  the  most  famous  opera 
nights  at  the  big  theatre. 

The  known  favorites,  and  these  are  in  the  majority,  were 
warmly  welcomed  and  as  warmly  applauded  for  their  work 
later.  Eddie  Foy  and  Henry  Norman  are  exactly  suited  to  their 
parts.  Eddie  Foy  is  humorous  in  a  peculiar  and  original  style. 
His  wildest  exaggerations  are  tiever  ridiculous  beyond  what  he 
intends,  though  perhaps  he  might  be  as  funny  without  making 
himself  quite  such  an  object.  In  Henry  Norman's  fun  there  is  a 
something  which  one  might  almost  characterize  as  "dignity"  and 
which  marks  a  genuine  high  art  in  absurdity.  Louise  Eissing 
looks  pretty  and  moves  gracefully  through  her  part  of  Ali 
Baba,  and  little  Morgiana  is  as  lively  yet  as  modest  as  Ida  Mull 
always  is. 

But  the  acting  in  Ali  Baba  is  secondary,  after  all,  and  being  mani- 
festly so,  all  the  more  credit  is  due  to  Manager  Henderson 
for  securing  people  so  able  in  their  several  lines  as  to  make  an 
almost  startling  contrast  to  the  wooden  dolls  and  marrionettes 
who  generally  make  up  the  cast  in  a  spectacle.  The  glory  of 
Ali  Baba  is  in  the  glitter  of  gold  and  sparkle  of  lights,  the  gor 
geousness  of  color  and  costume,  the  niagn.ficent  settings  and 
artistic  scenery,  the  marches  and  the  ballets,  with  all  the  be- 
wildering accessories  forming  an  ever  revolving  kaleideoscope 
which  fascinates  the  eye  and  fixes  the  attention,  leaving  no  time 
for  the  judgment  or  the  intellect  to  say  anything  about  it.  As  a 
spectacle,  Ali  Baba  is  all  that  the  most  exacting  can  ask,  and  as 
the  holiday  spirit  is  upon  us,  the  Grand  will  show  few  vacant 
chairs  and  very  little  standing  room  during  its  stay. 
«  *  » 

The  production  ot  Capt.  Heme,  U.  S.  A.,  was  a  new  departure 
at  Stockwell'B — a  first  essay  into  the  walks  of  melodrama.  The 
production  may  be  set  down  as  Uie  most  decided  success  yet 
achieved  at  the  pretty  new  theatre.  The  play  itself  is  unequal. 
It  has  some  strong  situations  with  more  weak  ones,  and  its 
characters  are  as  unbalanced  in  interest.  The  comedy  has  so 
evident  an  air  of  not  belonging  naturally  to  the  play  as  to  strike 
the  least  critical,  and  the  last  act,  which  should  by  right  be  a 
climax,  is  tame  and  uninspiring.  No  such  word  could,  however, 
be  applied  to  the  battle  scene  in  the  third  act.  A  battle  fought 
on  the  stage  is  always  dreaded  by  the  sympathetic  auditor,  it  is 
so  nearly  certain  to  be  invested  with  an  irresistible  sense  of  the 
ludicrous.  In  Capt.  Heme  there  is  nothing  of  this.  However,  or 
with  what  superhuman  effort,  they  have  been  made  to  do  it,  the 
supers  skirmish  around  the  stage  and  lay  about  them  like  real 
soldiers  and  the  entire  scene  is  invested  with  a  realism  in  effect 
which  has  probably  not  bad  an  equal  in  a  stage  battle  scene  in 
San  Francisco.  The  entire  setting  of  the  play  is  very  near  per- 
fection. It  is  evident  that  Mr.  Stockwell  bad  determined  that  if 
the  new  melodrama  should  fail,  it  should  not  be  for  wantof  skill- 
ful effort  in  its  staging  and  appointments. 

E.  J.  Henley  as  Capt.  Heme  does  his  best  work  of  the  entire 
engagement.  Difficult  as  it  is  to  shake  off  comedy  and  character 
methods,  Mr.  Henley  does  so  with  a  completeness  that  is,  in 
itself,  a  proof  of  bis  ability.  Those  who  admire  this  actor  not 
only  for  his  talent  and  cleverness,  but  for  a  higher  faculty — that 
of  intellectual  comprehension — and  who  baye  been  disappointed 
at  some  of  his  work  as  unworthy  of  himself,  were  more  than 
delighted  with  the  vindication  of  his  powerB  given  in  Capt.  Heme. 
He  plays  the  part   in    dead    earnest,  yet    without  exaggeration. 


Miss  Brandon  makes  up  remarkably  well  as  an  octoroon,  and 
handles  her  horse  with  the  seemingly  practiced  skill  of  a  cavalry 
veteran.  Aubrey  Boucicault  seems  destined  to  be  handicapped 
with  a  part  either  too  much  or  too  little  for  him,  the  latter  in 
Capt.  Berne  Both  he  and  Bebe  Vining  make  considerable  of 
nothing  in  the  patched-on  comedy  business.  Another  of  this 
company,  Victory  Bateman,  did  the  best  work  of  her  present  en- 
gagement as  May  Heme,  although  it  gives  little  chance  for  the 
display  of  force  or  fervor  of  action;  and  Fanny  Young  was,  as 
usual,  satisfactory  as  Madame  Heme.  Henry  R.  Jewett  is  not  at 
his  best  as  the  villain,  Geoffrey  Colchester,  though  he  makes  a 
fine  appearance. 

Considering  the  evident  willingness  of  the  management  at  this 
theatre  to  give  the  public,  at  whatever  cost  and  trouble,  the  best 
possible  presentation  of  every  play  produced,  it  is  a  real  pleasure 
to  see  in  the  enthusiastic  public  reception  of  Captain  Heme,  U. 
8.  A.,  the  promise  of  a  profitable  two  weeks'  business. 

*  *  * 

Bills  Boot  at  the  Bush-street  needs  no  criticism  as  a  play,  there 
is  so  little  of  it  to  comment  upon.  The  small  thread  of  story 
is  spun  out  to  tediousness  in  the  effort  to  make  it  sufficiently 
salient  to  justify  the  name.  The  real  amusement,  as  expected, 
hangs  on  the  specialty  people  and  singers.  Ethel  Lynton  received 
a  warm  welcome,  and  both  in  her  singing  and  her  personal  appear- 
ance astonished  her  old  admirers  into  the  opinion  thr.t  she  must 
have  been  all  these  years  sojourning  where  old  Time  had  thrown 
away  his  scythe  after  cutting  off  his  wings  with  it.  All  but  the 
inevitable  fat,  which  is  the  ever-young  prima  donna's  inexorable 
foe.  Joseph  Sullivan  and  Larry  Smith  are  funny  men  in  their 
way,  and  amuse  those  not  utterly  wearied  of  the  Dutch-and-Irish 
comedy  team.  The  Russell  brothers,  as  the  respective  wives  of 
the  aforesaid,  are  extremely  good.  R.  A.  Broderick  sings  well, 
and  all  the  people  do  what  they  have  to  do  in  this  line  accepta- 
bly. A  very  good  house  and  much  applause  testified  to  the  fact 
that  a  large  portion  of  the  community  like  this  sort  of  thing  better 
than  that  which  demands  more  mental  exertion  to  understand 
and  enjoy. 

Our  people  evidently  fail  to  realize  that  in  the  present  engage- 
ment of  Clara  Morris  is  probably  their  last  chance  to  see  the  act- 
ress who,  alone,  occupies  the  high  place  in  American  dramatic 
art  accorded  to  Sarah  Bernhardt  in  that  of  France.  She  is  having 
better  bouses  at  the  California,  but  in  no  wise  commensurate  with 
her  genius.  The  extremely  poor  support  may  be  one  cause,  but 
another  may,  doubtless,  be  found  in  the  decadence  of  the  taste 
for  high  art  on  the  stage.      The  engagement   ends  to-night  with 

Renee  de  Moray. 

»  *   • 

The  Tivoli  has  had  a  crowded  and  successful  week  with  its 
production  of  The  Boh  mian  Girl.  Ferdinand  Schuetz  has  a  fame 
as  Thaddeus  and  amply  justifies  :t.  His  singing  of  "Fair  Land 
of  Poland"  is  a  gem  of  song.  Lizzie  Annandale  is  equally  at 
home  as  the  Gypsy  Queen  which  she  sings  and  acts  in  splendid 
form.  Tilhe  Salinger,  Phil  Branson,  Ed.  Knight,  and  Geo.  Oltni 
interpret  their  respective  roles  excellently.  The  enthusiasm  of 
the  house  is  so  encouraging  and  so  determined  that  but  for  good 
judgment  in  suppressing  encores  the  performance  would  end  at 
an  uncertain  hour  of  the  morning. 

A  concert  given  at  Irving  Hall  Tuesday  evening  by  Bernhard 
Mollenhauer,  a  newly  arrived  violinist,  was  very  well  attended 
and  apparently  more  than  well  enjoyed.  Mr.  Mollenhauer  is  a 
good  violinist,  but  so  far  from  a  great  one  as  to  justify  some  sur- 
prise at  his  "European  and  American  reputation."  Mr.  Mollen- 
hauer was  assisted  by  Hugo  Mansfeldt,  piano  soloist,  Signor 
Martinez  as  accompanist,  Miss  Etta  Bayley,  vocalist,  and  others. 
The  audience  was  extremely  responsive  in  applause  and  encores. 

*  #  » 

Ali  Baba  will  continue  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  the  Baldwin 
remaining  closed  till  Saturday  evening,  Dec.  31st,  when  it 
will  reopen  with  Chas.  Frohman's  company  of  comedians  in  Gil- 
lette's latest  success,  Settled  out  of  Court,  adapted  by  that  ingenious 
remodeler  of  plays  from  the  French  of  Alex.  Bisson.  Among  the 
players  are  Georgia  Drew  Barrymore,  Joseph  Holland,  and  M.  A. 
Kennedy,  strong  favorites  in  San  Francisco. 
*  *  * 

The  charming   "little  people,"  Count    Magri,    Countess    Magri 
(formerly  Mrs.  Gen.  Tom  Thumb},  and    other   representatives  of 
Lilliput,  will  give  a  two  weeks'  dramatic  season    at   Irving  Hall, 
under  the  management  of  J.  H.  Love,  beginning  Dec.  12th. 
»  *  # 

J.  T.  Powers,  the  well  remembered  comedian  of  A  Straight  Tip, 
will  begin  an  engagement  at  the  California  next  Monday  night  in 
a  new  play,  A  Mad  Bargain,  written  by  Messrs.  Mitchell  and 
McNally,  Nearly  all  the  old  company  are  with  Mr.  Powers, 
including  Peter  Daly,   with    many   new    specialty   people   and 

comedians. 

*  *  • 

Next  week  the  Tivoli  will  give  a  varied  bill — Monday  and  Fri- 
day, Martha;  Tuesday  and  Saturday,  The  Queen's  Lace  Handker- 
chief; Wednesday  and  Sunday,  Trovatore;  Thursday,  Ths  Bohe- 
mian Qirl. 


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!'■        I"    1SS2. 


S\N  FR.VNCISCO  NEWS  I.I  I  I  I  i; 


The  «erie«  of  Palace  Ballad  Concerts  civen  by  the  popular  tenor. 
Mr.  .Mired  Wilkie.  in  ibe  handsome  ■  Maple  Hall  "  al  Ibe  Palace. 
are  proving  fashionable  as  well  as  musical  events.  Tbeae  concerts 
are  doubly  enjoyable  to  the  general  music  lover  as  a  pleasant  re- 
action from  the  tension  of  classical  mu«lc.  Mr  Wilkii -s  idea  be- 
ing to  give  ballad  and  popular  music  of  Ibe  very  nest  kind,  and 
strictly  rendered.  Many  society  vocalisla  and  performers  are  on 
Mr  Wilkies  list,  which,  no  doubt,  swells  the  inltin  of  fashiona- 
ble patronage.  At  the  next  concert.  Dec.  13th.  Mr.  Wilkie  will 
sing,  by  special  request,  the  recitative  and  air.  -The  Death  of 
Nelson."  which  will  serve  to  display  the  strongly  dramatic  quality 
of  his  vocalization,  when  required.  Miss  Kimball.  Mrs  Birming- 
ham, with  Messrs.  Somers,  Stadtfelt  and  Nielson.  will  assist  Mr. 
WilKie  as  vocalists:  Miss  Groenhagen  will  play  a  violin  solo,  and 
four  young  ladies  will  play  a  Haydn  string  quartette. 

•  •  • 

Among  the  soloists  at  the  coming  Graham  concert  for  the  ben- 
efit of  the  Children's  Hospital  will  be  Miss  Ella  McCIoskey. 
This  young  lady  has  unquestionably  the  best  contralto  voice  in 
the  city,  and  her  name  on  the  programme  will  itself  prove  a 
strong  attraction. 

*  *  • 

Dunlop's  Singe  Neat  in  speaking  of  Miss  Emily  Lytton,  the 
fair  Californian,  as  one  of  the  "queens  ol  American  stage  beau- 
ties," says:  'The 'Coast,' by  the  way,  has  furnished  as  many 
beauties  of  late  as  did  Baltimore  a  half-dozen  years  ago." 

The  donkey  is  one   of  the    most   amusing  features  of  Ali  Baba. 

Paderewski.  having  concluded  to  begin  his  American  tour  on 

the  Eastern  instead  of  the  Western  side  of  the  continent,  will  not 

reach    San    Francisco  until    next  spring The   grand  ballet  of 

jewels,  act  III  of  Ali  Baba,  is  a  gorgeous  spectacle,  and  the  danse 

diabolique  in   act  II  is  weirdly  fantastic. Powers   will  have  a 

burlesque  serpentine  dance  this  time. A  Trip  to  Chinatown,  by 

Hoyt's  road  company,  will   soon    be   seen   at    the  California. 

The  Tivoli  is  making  lavish  preparation  for  a  spectacular  holi- 
day production  of  A  Trip  to  the  Moon "  Sing  Again,  Nightin- 
gale," a  duet    for  Louise    Eissing   and  Ida  Mulle,  is  the  sweetest 

song  in    Ali  Baba. A   Paltry   Million,  Charles    Dickson's  new 

play,  had  a  most  successful  production,  lately,  at  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

—  Annie  Besant,  a  talented  female  Theosophist,  will  soon  lec- 
ture here,  under  the  auspices  of   the  local  Tbeosophist's  Society. 

Fanny  Rice's  A  Jolly  Surprise  will  be  the  holiday  attraction  at 

Stockwell's. Lawrence    Hanley   has   been   recently  added  to 

Stockwell's  stock  company A  Trip  to  Chinatown,  one  of  Hoyt's 

latest  plays,    will  soon    be  seen    at  the  California. Mr.  Clay 

Clement  lately  appeared  at  Detroit  as  Matthias  in   The  Bells,  and 

proved      himself      a     powerful       tragic       actor. The      third 

Bauer  concert  was  announced  for  Friday  afternoon 
at  the  Tivoli.     The   symphonic -concerts  are   becoming  a  musical 

rage. The  Old  Homestead,  an  unchanging   favorite,  will    be  the 

holiday  attraction  at  the  California Edgar  S.  Kelley,  of  '■Mac- 
beth music"  fame,  is  passing  the  winter  in  San  Rafael,  and  is  en- 
gaged on  a  new  opera,  the  libretto  of   which  is    from  the  Greek. 

—  Margaret  Mather,  as  Mrs.  Gustav  Pabst,  retires  finally  from 
the  stage  to-night  at   Des    Moines,  Iowa. 


THAT  much  abused  article  of  midnight  diet,  the  tomale,  has 
stood  the  scurrilous  remarks  of  the  press,  and  made  a  subject 
for  the  comic-singer  for  years,  but  it  still  exists  and  flourishes  in 
our  midst.  Now  the  lowly  and  inoffensive  peanut  is  getting  into 
trouble.  An  Oakland  doctor  who  is  attending  a  son  of  P.  Camp- 
bell, declares  that  the  illness  of  that  gentleman  was  brought 
about  by  eating  peanuts  with  their  inner  shells  on.  He  also 
states  tbathe  has  had  two  other  similar  cases.  Truly  Oaklanders 
must  be  a  hungry  crowd  if  they  are  in  such  a  hurry  to  gobble  up 
a  peanut  that  they  cannot  wait  to  shell  it.  The  process  is  easy 
and  but  little  time  is  waisted  in  the  healthful  exercise. 


IT  becomes  more  and  more  probable  that  Mr.  Gladstone's  Home 
Rule  bill,  meant  for  the  Irish,  will  not  be  acceptable  to  the  Irish. 
Under  these  circumstances,  it  will  be  love's  labor  lost,  just  as  the 
whole  Irish  policy  of  Mr.  Gladstone  has  been  "  A  Comedy  of 
Errors." 


Camelline  is  the  favorite  face  preparation  among  ladies  who  desire 
to  retain  their  beauty,  for  it  is  famous  as  the  best  emollient  for  the 
complexion.  It  is  used  by  famous  beauties  and  actresses  the  world 
over. 

Mr.  S.  Strozynski,  the  leading  ladies'  hair-dresser,  at  Ellis  and 
Leavenworth  streets,  has  just  returned  from  his  European  travels, 
with  numerous  new  ideas  regarding  handsome,  coiffures.  His  rates 
are  reduced. 

XjOttis  c-a-ieiejst  <s=  son-, 

Rectifiers  or  Spieits  ahd  Whole- 
sale Liquob  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Sybups,  Bittebs 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 

■4 IS  Sacranaervto  Street,  S.  'F, 


BRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 


Brorj  night.  Including  Sunday,  Matinee  Saturday  only.  The  great- 
est of  six  great  8UC1  u  mi       \  m.-rirnii   Kxtravngnn/H  Company  111 
ALI      BABA, 
Or,  tlorglana  and  tba  F„rty  Thlcrcs. 
Mr.  David  Henderson,  Proprietor  and   Manager.    All  the  best  fea- 
»?.n,.°L^K-  ™""'dv'  romic  °P"».  ballet,  spectacle,  and   extrava- 
ganza combined  in  one  grand  entertainment. 

IMPORTANT— 8eata  for  next  week  now  on  sale.  Get  them  early, 
and  avoid  the  crush  at  night.  To  accommodate  the  crowds  two 
ticket  offices  will  be  open.    Orders  by  mail  and  telegraph  promptly 


STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

aJ^ukohoi",™ Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

alf  Elli>ohousk  Business  Manager. 

Every  evening  at  8.    Our  monarch  success, 

CAPTAIN     HERNE, 
A  powerful  melodrama  of  intense  interest. 
£ext—  FANNY  RICE,  in  "A  Jolly  Surprise." 
Seats  now  on  sale. 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

AlHayman&Co Proprietors.  [J.  J.  Gottloe   Manager. 

Monday.  December  12th,  that  prime  California  favorite,  JAMES 
T.  POWERS,  and  the  best  farcical  comedy  company  in  America  in 
McNally  &  Mitchell's  roaring  farce, 

A     MAD     BARGAIN, 


Illustrated  with  special  scenery,  together  with  the  best  dancer  on 
the  American  stage,  MISS  LEO'MA  FORREST. 


„    „  THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mb.  M.  B.  Levitt Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Geoeqe  H.  Beoadhukst Resident  Manager. 

Last  week !    Last  week !  H.  W.  Williams'  Comedy  Company  in  the 
Successful  Burlesque  Extravaganza, 

BILL'S   BOOT, 

Last  times  of  Joseph  J.  Sullivan,  Larry  Smith,  the  Russell  Bros., 
Ethel  Lynton,  Maud  Raymond  and  all  the  favorites. 
Next  Attraction— Geo.  W.  Lederer's  Laughing  Festival  ■'  U  &  I." 


TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Keeling  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers 

To-night.    One  week  only.    Balfe's  opera  of  songs, 
BOHEMIAN    GIRL, 

Week  of  December  12th— Four  Operas.    Tuesday,  December  13th 
Benefit  Hall  Fund  Mission  Turn  Verein. 
Popular  Pbices 25c.  and  60c 

WILKIE'S  "  PALACE  BALLAD  CONCERTS." 

SECOND  CONCERT  OP  FIRST  SERIES, 

Tuesday,  Dec.  13,  1892 3  P.  M. 

MAPLE  HALT,,  Palace  Hotel. 

ARTISTS— Miss  Katherine  Kimball,  Mrs.  Lillie  Birmingham,  Miss 
Roberta  Lee  Wright-Hellraan,  Miss  Daisy  Polk,  Miss  Marie  Hayn, 
Miss  Ethel  J.  Jory  and  Miss  Charlotte  Gruenhagen.  Messrs.  B.  G. 
Somers,  Wm.  C.  Stadtfeld.  Wilhelm  Nielsen  and  Alfred  Wilkie.  Sig. 
S3.  Martinez,  Accompanist. 
Season  tickets,  reserved,  $3.  Single  reserved  seats,  $1  25.  Admission,  $1, 
Seats  may  be  secured  at  Palace  Hotel  until  December  ltth;  and  at  Sher- 
man,  Clay  <fc  Co.'s  on  Monday  and  Tuesday,  December  12th  and  13th. 

IDEAL     OOFFEE. 

This  famous  brand  oi  iieeh  giuin.d    bleuded  coffee   is  unexcelled  for  qual- 
ity and  del  far y  of  flavor. 


No.  1 
25  cents 
For  sale  only  by 


No  -l 
bu  ''ems 


N.i.  :i 
So  cents 


No.  4 

40  cents  per  lb, 


RATHJEN  BROS.,  Grocers. 

21   sn>CKTO>T  =TUE£T. 
Sole  Agents  for  the  Celebrated  IllE.ti.  coffee  POT. 


ESI  A  M^>0  TCnn.be,    frames, 
r    B/%IWw  Bush;fcGerts,,,-> others. 


and  Repaired.     P!e 


Oasnorinstallments.  Rented 
)  call  or  Bend  for  cixeulara. 


TXT  BANCROFT 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


JUDGE    REDMAN'S    WAY. 


JUDGE  Redman,  who  presided  over  the  County  Court  was  a 
good  lawyer  but  was  also  a  id  an  of  many  peculiarities,  of 
strong  prejudices  and  of  eccentric  modes  of  expression.  Souie  of 
the  lawyers  of  his  Court;  he  had  a  great  liking  for,  and  toward 
others  that  manifested  dislike  without  apparent  reason.  Among 
the  former  class  was  William  T.  Wallace,  for  whom  he  bad  a  strong 
affection  and  always  out  of  court  called  him  "Billy,  my  boy." 
Among  the  latter  was  J.  Alexander  Yoell,  against  whom  fre- 
quently and  unjustly  Redman  showed  bis  feeling.  One  day  after 
tbe  trial  of  a  hotly  contested  case  in  which  Mr.  Yoell  took  a  vig- 
orous part,  Judge  Redman  limped  (he  bad  a  wooden  leg),  out  of 
the  courtroom,  leaning  on  Wallace's  arm.  Presently  he  said  in 
a  reflective  and  solemn  way,  as  though  speaking  to  himself:  '-It 
would  not  be  idolatry."  "What  would  not  be  idolatry,  Judge?" 
asked  Wallace.  "It  would  not  be  idolatry  to  bow  down  and 
worship  Yoell,"  responded  Redman.  -'And  why  not?"  said  Wal- 
lace. "Billy,  my  boy,"  said  tbe  Jadee  solemnly,  "have  you  for- 
gotten the  Commandment  which  saya:  'Thou  shalt  not  bow 
down  and  worship  any  likeness  of  anything  that  is  in  heaven 
above  or  that  is  in  tbe  earth  beneath  or  that  is  in  the  waters 
under  the  earth.'  Now  Yoell  is  not  like  anything  that  is  in  the 
heaven  above  nor  in  the  earth  beneath  nor  in  the  waters  under 
the  earth,  and  therefore  I'll  be  dashed  if  it  would  be  idolatry  to 
fall  down  and  worship  him." 

Among  tbe  attorneys  who  practiced  before  Judge  Redman  was 
Freeman  McKinney,  whom  all  the  early  pioneers  remember,  says 
the  San  Jose  Mercury.  He  was  a  little  fellow  with  a  long  red 
beard,  which  came  down  to  bis  wai-t,  and  withal  a  man  of  a 
good  deal  of  force  and  dignity.  One  day  a  fellow  was  arraigned 
before  Judge  Redman  for  horse-stealing.  He  had  no  attorney. 
The  Judge  appointed  "Free"  McKinney  to  defend  him,  with 
this  instruction:  "  Mr.  McKinney,  the  Coart  appoints  you  to  act 
as  attorney  for  this  defendant.  You  may  retire  with  him  and  get 
his  statement  of  the  case.  You  will  give  tbe  prisoner  the  best  ad- 
vice and  assistance  you  are  able  in  view  of  the  law  and  of  the 
facts  he  may  give  you."  McKinney  went  out  with  tbe  prisoner 
to  the  door  of  the  Court  House  and  asked  him  if  he  bad  any 
money.  The  fellow  said  he  had  a  fifty-dollar  slug.  "  Give  it  to 
me,"  said  McKinney.  The  fellow  reluctantly  gave  up  the  slug. 
"  Now,"  said  McKinney,  "as  a  matter  of  fact  you  stole  that 
horse,  didn't  you?"  The  prisoner  admitted  to  his  attorney  that 
he  did.  <•  In  that  case,"  said  McKinney,  "  I  advise  you  to  get 
into  the  brush  as  fast  as  the  Lord  will  let  you."  The  prisoner 
"got,"  and  McKinney  wandered  back  into  the  court-room  and 
sat  down.  Soon  the  case  of  the  horse-thief  was  called.  "Where 
is  your  client,  the  prisoner,  Mr.  McKinney,"  inquired  Judge 
Redman.  "  I  don't  know.  Your  Honor,"  answered  McKinney 
with  the  utmost  sangfroid,  "  the  last  time  I  saw  him  he  was 
making  for  the  brush  about  as  fast  as  he  could  go."  "  Is  it  pos- 
sible, sir,"  thundered  the  Court,  "  that  you  have  permitted  the 
prisoner  to  escape?"  "  Your  Honor,"  said  McKinney,  calmly, 
"I  have  obeyed  to  the  letter  the  order  of  this  Court.  Your  Honor 
appointed  me  as  tbe  attorney  for  the  defendant,  with  tbe  in- 
struction that  I  should  give  him  the  beet  advice  I  was  able  in 
view  of  the  law  and  the  facts.  The  facts  were,  as  the  defendant 
admitted  to  me,  that  he  stole  the  horse.  The  best  advice  that  I 
could  give  him  was  to  get  into  the  brush." 

"  Humph  I"  snorted  Judge  Redman,  as  McKinney  sat  down 
with  dignity,  "  call  the  next  case." 

The  story  of  how  Jo  Johnson  summoned  Judge  Redman  into 
court  one  morning,  and  the  penalty  therefor  is  fresh  in  the  minds 
of  more  than  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  bar.  Judge  Redman 
liked  bis  tipple,  and  also  would  "  buck  the  tiger"  on  occasion. 
The  County  Court  was  held  for  ..a  season  in  a  building  which 
stood  near  the  corner  of  Santa  Clara  street  and  Lightston  alley. 
A  saloon  was  across  the  street  in  which  Judge  Redman  spent 
most  of  his  time,  and  where  he  often  lingered  beyond  the  hour  of 
convening  his  court.  One  day  the  assembled  bar  grew  impatient 
at  bis  absense.  Freeman  McKinney  called  the  bar  to  order,  and 
gravely  moved  that  the  bailiff  be  instructed  to  call  »  Old"  Red- 
man at  the  door  of  the  court  three  times,  and  if  be  failed  to 
answer  he  be  fined  for  contempt  of  Court.  The  bailiff  was  Jo 
Johnson,  and  taking  the  matterin  all  seriousness,  he  went  to  the 
door,  and  in  a  powerful  voice  called  out:  "Old  RedmanI  Old 
Redmanl  Old  Redman!  if  you  fail  to  answer  you  will  be  fined 
for  contempt  of  Court."  The  stentorian  tones  of  Bailiff  Johnson 
penetrated  to  the  room  where  Judge  Redman  was  seated  at  his 
game  of  cards.  He  deliberately  finished  the  game,  and  then  tbe 
lawyers  heard  the  uneven  thump  of  the  Judge's  wooden  leg  as  he 
crossed  the  street.  He  entered  the  courtroom  slowly,  ascended 
the  bench  with  dignity,  and  then  said  with  judicial  severity: 
**  Mr.  Clerk,  enter  a  fine  of  $75  against  Bailiff  Johnson  for  con- 
tempt of  this  Court."  When  Jo  Johnson  afterward  told  this 
story  he  always  ended  it,  in  an  injured  tone,  with  tbe  statement : 
-•The  worst  of  it  was  that  the  blanked  old  fool  made  me  pay 
that  fine." 

Apropos  of  Judge  Redman's  social  infirmities,  the  following 
story  is  told  as  an  actual  fact:  The  bar  became  tired  of  tbe 
Judge's  lapses  and  eccentricities,  and  at  last  felt  called  upon  to 
request  him  to  resign.    The  request  was  signed  by  every  member 


of  the  bar  in  the  county  and  was  served  one  evening  upon  the 
Judge.  The  next  morning  his  court-room  was  full  of  lawyers  to 
see  what  effect  their  petition  would  have  upon  Judge  Redman. 
The  Judge  entered  the  room  perfectly  sober  and  with  a  sad  and 
contrite  expression  upon  his  face.  He  walked  with  baiting  step 
down  the  aisle  and  awakened  a  feeling  of  pity  in  the  breasts  of 
several  who  had  signed  the  request.  The  court  opened  with  the 
customary  "  Hear  ye,"  and  the  venerable  form  of  the  Judge  arose 
from  the  bench.  He  looked  timidly  around  as  though  searching 
for  a  friend,  and  then  in  these  flattering  tones  addressed  the  bar: 
"Gentlemen  of  the  Bar,"  he  said,  "last  night  I  received  a  petition 
from  you,  signed  by  all  your  number,  couched  in  respectful  lan- 
guage, and  setting  forth  certain  reasons  why  I  should  tender  my 
resignation  as  Judge  of  this  Court.  Conscious  of  my  many  infir- 
mities and  realizing  the  necessity  of  a  pare  judiciary  throughout 
tbe  silent  hours  of  the  past  night,  I  have  given  to  your  petition 
painful,  and  I  may  add,  prayerful  consideration.  I  feel,  gentle- 
men, that  you  have  acted  from  a  high  sense  of  duty  in  this  mat- 
ter (here  the  eyes  of  the  members  of  the  bar  began  to  moisten 
with  tears},  and  in  responding  to  your  petition  requesting  my 
resignation,  I  would  simply  say  [here  the  Judge  straightened  up 
and  altered  his  tone]  that  I  will  see  you  in  hell  first  and  then  I 
won't  resign.     Mr.  Clerk,  call  the  next  case." 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETT!  R 


LATEST    TENNIS    NEWS. 


TBI  matches  f.»r  the  tecond  priw  of  the  new  quarterly  touroi- 
meol  for  doubles'  were  OOocluded  lant  Sunday  at  the  California 
In  the  firjit  round  BteU-on  ami  l>f  Long  drfeaud  Davis  and 
Wilherforre  by  two  Mitt  t<-  lev.-  -  irt  9-8,  ft-3.  Collier  and  Collier 
won  by  default  from  Whiiney  aud  W  hiiney,  leaving  them  to  fight  it 
oot  with  the  '*  pony  "  team.  The  first  ^etl  was  quite  Interesting  and 
I'age  '"oilier  played  very  well,  even  better  than  his  brother,  but  Stet- 
aon  and  Pe  Long  were  too  strong  for  them,  and  won  tbe  first  at  fi-3, 
UMM0ODd8-2;  and  the  final  at  8-1.  The  prize  racquets  were  then 
presented  to  tbe  winners,  and  a  very  pleasant  tournament  was  brought 
to  a  close.  Ogden  Hoffman  was  down  on  a  visit  from  Stockton,  and 
showed  that,  thougb  he  was  out  of  practice,  he  had  forgotten  none  of 
bis  old-time  strokes.  He  and  Charlie  Hubbard  played  a  pretty  exhi- 
bition game,  resulting  in  a  draw  at  "  eight  all."  Hubbard  then  played 
a  single  with  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  which  was  an  excellent  game,  replete 
with  brilliant  volleying  on  the  part  of  Taylor,  and  some  very  good 
smashes  from  Hubbard's  racquet.  Taylor  eventually  took  the  sett  at 
6-1 

We  have  received  the  following  letter  which  will  be  doubtless 
interesting  to  tennis  players: 

"The  tennis  players  in  the  East  are  considered  to  be  better  than 
those  we  have  in  the  West,  which  1  think  is  true,  as  I  saw  them  at 
all  the  principal  tournaments,  where  they  are  supposed  to  be  at 
their  best.  Speaking  of  the  various  players,  Campbell,  of  course,  as 
champion,  comes  first,  but  I  think  he  is  very  closely  followed  by  E. 
L.  Hall,  who  is  the  best  all  roand  tennis  player  I  have  ever  seen. 
His  playing  at  Nahant  was  wonderful,  and  many  say  his  was  the 
best  tennis  played  this  season,  as  he  beat  Clarence  Hobart,  Hovey 
and  Malcolm  Cbace  with  perfect  ease.  Then  his  match  with  Hobart 
at  Newport  was  very  good.  There  they  were  two  setts  all,  and  in  the 
fifth  sett,  Hobart  had  four  love,  bat  Hall  won  the  final  at  G-4,  showing 
I  think,  what  a  great  player  he  is.  Hobart  undoubtedly  plays  the 
drop  stroke,  otherwise  known  as  the  "Lawford."  better  than  any 
other  Eastern  player,  but  will  not  be  ranked  as  high  as  he  perhaps 
deserves.  W.  A.  Lamed  has  made  a  name  for  himself  this  season 
by  defeating  Malcolm  Chace  in  the  Inter-Collegiate  Tournament, 
where  he  played  a  great  game.  Chace's  back  court  play  is  bis  princi- 
pal feature,  and  I  think  he  has  got  it  down  to  a  very  fine  point.  It  is 
a  pity  he  is  such  a  poor  vollyer,  tor  to  be  thoroughly  expert,  you  must 
properly  combine  tbe  two.  To  speak  of  all  I  saw  would  take  too 
much  space,  but  I  can  conclude  with  the  remark  that  the  Eastern 
players  know  equally  well  how  to  play  and  how  to  entertain. 

C.  P.  Hubbard. 

The  next  single  quarterly  tournament  will  be  held  at  the  Club 
on  the  24th  and  25th  insts.,  and  we  expect  that  there  will  be  a 
larger  entry  than  usual,  as  most  of  the  members  are  now  devoting 
themselves  to  the  single  game.  Stetson,  De  Long,  Hobart,  Alli- 
son and  Field  are  continually  practicing,  and  we  would  not  be 
surprised  to  see  one  of  them  winner,  as  Hubbard  will  not  be 
able  to  play.  There  will  be  a  tournament  at  nearly  every  club  at 
Christmas,  which  shows  clearly  that  interest  is  not  flagging  as 
much  as  was  thought  by  some,  who  seem  of  late  to  be  fonder 
of  football.  Archie  Treat,  "Vice  President  of  tbe  Pacific  States 
Lawn  Tennis  Association,  was  married  last  Wednesday.  We 
wonder  if  he  will  give  up  tbe  pastime  like  most  of  the  married 
men. 

Are  You  Going  East  ? 
Take  the  Santa  Fe  Route.  You  willfind  it  to  your  interest  to  call 
on  or  address  the  undersigned  before  purchasing  tickets.  No  other 
line  crossing  the  continent  can  offer  you  a  trip  combining  equal  com- 
fort and  pleasure.  The  only  line  running  Pullman  palace  and  tour- 
ist sleeping-cars  through  to  Chicago  on  the  same  train  every  day 
without  change.  Personally  conducted  excursions  through  to  Bos- 
ton leave  every  Wednesday.  W.  A.  BISSELL,  650  Market  street, 
Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 


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Therefore  the  question  "is 
it  Genuine?"  is  never  raised 
concerning  any  article  pur- 
chased from 

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JEWELLER, 

3  Montgomery  St. 

(Under  Masonic  Temple.) 

DIAMONDS     and     other 

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AMERICAN  and  SWISS 

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JEWELLERY 
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OBITUARY. 


THE  many  friends  of  Thomas  Magee  and  his  family  will  be  pained 
to  learn  of  the  death  in  the  Alameda  hills,  near  Fruitvale,  on 
Tuesday  last,  of  his  Eon  Edwin  Magee,  in  his  twenty-third  year 
He  was  under  medical  care  on  account  of  an  affection  of  his  throat 
and  one  of  his  lungs,  resulting  from  an  attack  of  la  grippe  about  a 
year  ago.  He  had  improved  considerably,  until,  thinking  himself 
stronger  than  he  really  was,  he  ate  some  green  fruit  and  then  walked 
up  a  steep  hill  for  over  a  mile,  some  weeks  ago.  The  result  was  a 
severe  and  protracted  attack  of  hemorrhage  of  the  bowels  and  vomit- 
ing, to  which  he  finally  succumbed.  He  was  a  bright  young  man, 
and  a  universal  favorite  whose  untimely  end  will  be  greatly  regretted. 

MISS  Emma  Nelson,  who  died  in  this  city  a  few  days  ago,  was  a 
sweet  and  lovable  character.  She  was  the  victim  of  a  long- 
standing disease,  from  which  she  could  not  recover.  In  thehearts  of 
many  friends  she  will  be  long  remembered. 


All  the  good  diners  of  the  city  goto  the  Maison  Eiche,  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Geary  Street  and  Grant  Avenue  when  they  want  a  first  class 
dinner.    It  is  the  favorite  with  bon  vivants. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


THE    CHILD    OF    THE    BALL. 


T 

I  terest  and  power,  dealing  with  elemental  passions  and  curi- 
ous superstitions,  and  at  the  same  time  depicting  personal  traits 
and  tendencies  in  a  very  skillful  manner.  Its  title  is  derived 
from  a  particular  image  of  the  infant  Jesus,  with  a  blue-painted 
globe  in  his  hand,  and  surmounted  by  a  little  gilt  cross  in  sign  of 
the  redemption  of  the  world.  This  image-  was  in  the  custody  of 
the  parish  priest,  Don  Trinidad,  a  man  who  made  up  in  practical 
goodness  what  he  lacked  in  theological  knowledge.  He  assisted 
the  unfortuoate  of  all  classes,  and  was  beloved  by  the  whole  pop- 
ulation of  the  town.  "  Every  one  respected  his  ignorance,"  the 
author  says,  "  as  if  it  were  a  species  of  innocence."  His  faith 
extended  to  a  belief  in  present  miracles,  and  his  charity  had  no 
limits  of  creed  or  distinction. 

Don  Trinidad  assumed  the  care  of  an  orphan  boy,  Manuel 
Venegas,  whose  father  had  been  ruined  by  falling  into  the  re- 
morseless clutches  of  the  usurer  of  the  town,  Don  tlias,  called 
"  Caiphas"  by  the  people,  as  if  to  signify  that  whoever  once  got 
into  bis  hands  was  certain  to  be  crucified.  The  boy  was  only 
ten  years  old,  but  his  misfortunes  made  of  him  even  at  that  early 
age  a  dangerous  character.  He  did  not  cry,  he  did  not  speak. 
What  his  thoughts  were  no  one  could  tell,  but  it  was  evident 
that  he  meditated  revenge,  for  he  daily  sat  before  the  houee  of 
the  usurer,  which  had  once  been  his  father's,  gazing  at  it  with 
knitted  brows  and  close-set  lips.  At  length,  after  three  years  of 
silence,  the  priest  overheard  him  one  day  saying  sadly  to  the 
image  of  the  Child  of  the  Ball,  "  Little  Jesus,  why  do  you  not 
speak,  either?"  It  was  a  miracle,  the  priest  said,  and  the  parish 
believed.  At  any  rate,  Manuel  was  saved.  But  he  went  on  sit- 
ting in  front  of  his  former  home  like  one  under  a  spell,  and  thus 
it  chanced  that  be  fell  in  love  with  the  usurer's  beautiful  daughter, 
Soledad,  because  he  beard  that  she  had  expressed  sympathy  for 
him.  It  was  her  mother  who  told  him  of  this,  and  who  further- 
more offered  him  money,  which  he  proudly  spurned.  He  saw 
the  girl  daily  on  her  way  to  school,  but  never  spoke  to  her. 
Once  she  passed  so  near  to  him  as  almost  to  brush  him  with  her 
dress,  and  she  gave  him  a  glance  of  curiosity  mixed  with  sweet- 
ness that  left  him  breathless.  He  did  not  understand  his  emo- 
tions, for  he  was  only  13,  and  she  was  only  12,  but  it  was  a  repe- 
tition, nevertheless,  of  the  case  of  Kotueo  and  Juliet,  with  its  bit- 
ter legacy  of  paternal  hatreds,  and  its  fatal  and  inevitable  love 
taking  root  tenaciously  in  the  rock,  of  impossibility. 

This  budding  romance  did  not  escape  the  vigilant  eye  of  the 
priest,  and  he  took  ibe  boy  to  task  about  it.  "  You  are  going 
straight  to  perdition,"  he  declared.  "  I  would  not  blame  you — 
for  it  is  not  to  be  supposed  that  every  one  is  going  to  follow  my 
example,  in  which  case  the  world  would  soon  come  to  an  end;  I 
would  not  blame  you,  I  repeat,  if  it  were  not  the  daughter  of  the 
man  who  treated  your  father  so  cruelly  that  is  in  question." 
Then  he  conjured  the  youth,  in  the  name  of  that  father,  not  to 
go  near  the  usurer's  house  again,  unless  he  wished  to  forfeit  the 
esteem  of  the  world  and  at  last  lose  his  own  soul.  Manuel's  heart 
had  already  said  as  much  to  him,  and  so  he  readily  gave  his 
solemn  promise  to  do  as  the  priest  desired.  Three  years  passed 
before  be  saw  Soledad  again.  During  this  time  he  at  first  lived 
mostly  in  the  church  with  the  image  of  the  Child  of  the  Ball, 
which  he  frequently  kissed,  and  to  which  he  talked  softly,  as  if 
reciting  his  sorrows.  But  he  never  wept;  the  gift  of  tears  bad 
been  denied  to  him.  After  a  time  he  changed  his  manner  of  life, 
and  began  to  make  long  excursions  to  the  mountains,  from  which 
he  returned  always  in  a  melancholy  mood,  tanned  by  the  sun 
and  rain,  bis  hands  and  feet  scratched  from  climbing  dizzy 
heights,  his  flesh  often  torn  by  the  teeth  and  claws  of  wild  beasts, 
and  invariably  clad  in  the  skins  of  his  quadrupedal  adversaries. 
Unknown  to  others,  he  was  making  heroic  efforts  to  tear  from 
his  soul  the  name  of  Soledad,  and  to  extinguish  his  terrible  long- 
ing for  her ;  but  he  did  not  even  partially  succeed.  At  sixteen  he 
was  still  more  than  ever  enamored  of  the  usurer's  daughter,  and 
the  good  priest,  divining  the  painful  truth,  but  bis  ecclesiastical 
wits  to  work  to  devise  a  remedy. 

The  nature  of  this  remedy  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that 
Manuel  went  the  next  day,  in  a  new  suit  of  clothes,  and  met 
Soledad  as  she  was  leaving  the  school.  "  Listen  to  me,  Senorita," 
he  said,  "  I  have  a  message  to  give  you  for  your  father.  Tell  him 
that  it  depends  on  you  alone  whether  he  and  I  are  to  become 
friends  or  not.  Tell  him  that  I  love  you  better  than  my  life,  and 
that  I  am  eager  to  forgive  him  if  he  will  consent  to  our  marriage 
when  we  shall  become  of  a  suitable  age.  Tell  him  that  I  will 
study  and  work  meanwhile,  so  that  I  may  become  a  useful  man. 
And,  finally,  that  your  mother  and  Don  Trinidad  will  gladly  enter 
into  this  reconciliation.  To-morrow  at  this  hour  I  will  wait  for 
you  here,  to  learn  his  answer."  When  the  appointed  hour  ar- 
rived Manuel. was  there,  but  not  Soledad.  "They  have  taken  her 
away  from  school — for  being  bad,"  one  of  the  pupils  informed 
him.  He  turned  to  shake  bis  clenched  fist  In  the  direction  of  the 
usurer's  house,  and  found  himself  confronted  by  Don  Trinidad, 
who  took  bis  arm  and  asked  him  to  come  away.  "  You  must 
forget  Soledad,"  the  priest  said.  "Her  father  hates  you  with 
his  whole  soul,  and  will  never  give  her  to  you.     That  is  what  her 


mother,  Maria  Josefa,  told  me  just  now.  So  make  up  your  mind 
to  it.  You  must  not  love  her,  even  if  you  were  to  die  for  it.  You 
must  forget  her  altogether."  Manuel's  answer  was  a  vehement 
outbreak  of  passion.  "Soledad  belongs  to  me,"  he  cried,  "  and 
she  will  be  my  wife!  " 

There  was  method  in  the  young  fellow's  madness,  though  no- 
body suspected  it.  He  went  to  work  in  the  mountains  as  a 
hunter  of  fur-bearing  animals,  a  collector  of  rare  and  precious 
woods  and  a  quarrier  of  valuable  stones.  Four  days  of  each 
week  he  spent  thus,  and  the  other  three  days  he  spent  in  town, 
"  doing  justice,"  as  be  called  it,  which  signified  a  course  of  action 
that  was  designed  to  inspire  respect  and  fear.  He  defended  the 
weak  and  intimidated  the  strong.  His  courage,  his  benevo- 
lence, his  nobility  of  birtb  and  his  pathos  of  misfortune  all  com- 
bined to  make  him  the  central  figure  and  virtual  dictator  of  the 
town.  In  the  course  of  time — when  Manuel  was  19,  that  is  to 
say — Soledad  persuaded  her  father  to  take  her  to  the  annual  fes- 
tival of  the  Child  of  the  Ball,  which  included  a  sermon,  a  com- 
munion, a  procession  and  a  raffle  dance.  In  this  raffle  the  public 
had  the  amplest  power  to  put  up  at  auction  the  demand  that  a 
certain  woman  should  or  should  not  dance  with  a  certain  man, 
or  that  a  certain  man  should  not  embrace,  or  should  embrace  a 
second  time  the  woman  with  whom  he  had  just  danced,  the 
dance  being  the  fandango,  which  terminates  in  an  embrace.  The 
money  thus  obtained  was  for  the  benefit  of  the  church.  Manuel 
made  a  bid  for  the  privilege  of  dancing  with  Soledad,  and  the 
angry  father  offered  a  much  larger  sum  to  prevent  it.  "He  has 
conquered  me  with  the  money  which  he  stole  from  my  father  1" 
exclaimed  Manuel,  who  could  hardly  be  restrained  from  taking 
the  old  man's  life,  and  who,  after  being  pacified,  bade  farewell  to 
the  town.  "  But  I  will  return,"  he  gravely  added.  "Soledad  is 
mine,  and  I  will  come  back  to  claim  her,  and  to  kill  the  man 
who  may  have  dared  even  to  think  of  coming  between  us  two!" 

After  an  absence  of  eight  years  Manuel  appeared  in  the  place 
again,  with  a  fortune,  and  still  loving  Soledad  as  much  as  ever.  The 
girl  had  not  been  so  faithful,  however.  At  least,  she  bad  become 
a  wife  and  a  mother.  It  was  as  if  a  world  had  fallen  upon  him. 
But  soon  the  wild  beast  in  bim  recovered  its  strength  and  fierce- 
ness. "  The  man  shall  die  1"  he  screamed.  "And  the  woman, 
tool"  A  savage  burst  of  laughter  broke  from  him.  "So  the 
shameless  creature  has  had  a  child — a  child  by  some  one  else, 
when  I  am  her  true  husband!  How  horrible!  How  loathsome!" 
It  was  the  general  impression  that  Soledad  bad  loved,  and  proba- 
bly yet  loved  Manuel,  but  that  she  did  not  possess  the  heart  of  a 
heroine,  and  hence  had  not  been  able  to  wait  for  the  bero  whose 
absence  was  the  test  of  her  fidelity.  Her  husband,  Antonio 
Arrequi,  was  a  good  enough  man,  the  people  granted — not  so 
stalwart  and  romantic  as  Manuel,  to  be  sure,  but  still  passably 
worthy;  and,  of  course,  be  would  fight  for  the  woman.  Manuel 
made  no  secret  of  his  deathly  purpose.  "Eight  years  ago,"  he 
said  to  Don  Trinidad,  "  I  contracted  an  obligation  of  honor  to- 
ward the  whole  town — I  swore  to  kill  the  man  who  should  marry 
my  beloved.  A  man  has  dared  to  take  up  my  glove;  the  whole 
town  has  its  eyes  upon  me.  What  can  I  do?  I  mustgo  to-morrow 
to  the  raffle  to  keep  my  appointment.  If  Soledad  is  there  alone, 
I  will  not  give  her  back  to  her  husband;  if  he  accompanies  her, 
I  will  kill  him;  if  neither  of  them  appears,  I  will  go  to  their 
house  for  them."  He  spoke  calmly,  but  firmly,  and  the  frightened 
priest  knew  only  too  well  that  every  word  was  desperately  sin- 
cere. 

It  was  impossible  for  Don  Trinidad  to  change  the  revengeful 
lover's  purpose  by  argument  or  entreaty,  and  finally  he  resolved 
to  seek  miraculous  intervention.  The  holy  image  of  the  Child  of 
the  Ball  was  sent  to  Manuel's  house  to  remain  for  a  day,  as  a 
special  honor.  There  it  was  on  its  frame  of  gold  and  silver,  on 
an  altar  improvised  at  the  head  of  the  room,  clad  in  costly  tissue, 
lighted  by  numerous  tapers,  and  adorned  with  beautiful  bunches 
of  natural  (lowers.  "Who  has  arranged  this  ridiculous  scene?" 
Manuel  demanded.  "Do  people  think  I  am  still  a  child  and  a 
fool?"  The  priest  was  in  despair.  "How  is  it  possible,"  he  said, 
"that  you  are  not  proud  to  see  in  your  house  the  Child  Jesus,  the 
Son  of  the  living  God?  How  is  it  possible  that  you  do  not  bend 
the  knee  before  bim  and  give  him  thanks  for  the  high  honor  he 
bestows  upon  you?"  But  Manuel  was  no  longer  devout.  "I  am 
neither  a  Jew,  nor  a  Moor,  nor  a  Christian — I  am  nothing,"  he 
answered.  "I  make  no  boast  of  this  misfortune  of  mine,"  he 
continued,  "which  I  owe  to  the  cruel  teachings  of  the  world,  to 
what  I  have  seen  among  peoples  of  different  religions,  to  what  I 
have  read  in  books  tbat  ought  never  to  have  been  written — but 
my  heart  yields  him,  now,  no  other  homage  than  such  as  we  give 
to  the  beloved  dead."  The  priest  groaned,  "And  1  brought  up 
this  man !  Child  Jesus,  hear  the  prayer  of  this,  thy  humble  ser- 
vant— in  pity  let  me  die  I" 

Manuel  was  deeply  affected  by  the  priest's  grief.  Tears  came 
into  bis  eyes,  and  Dun  Trinidad  seized  the  hand  with  which  he 
was  wiping  them  away,  saying  in  the  tone  of  one  talking  to  a 
petted  child,  "But  at  least  look  at  him,  man!  Don't  insult  him 
by  turning  your  back  upon  him.  Remember  he  is  my  God,  the 
God  of  your  father,  the  God  of  your  country,  who  has  come  to 
visit  youl"  Manuel,  in  whom  superstition  had  survived  faith, 
tried  to  turn  his  head  toward  the  Infant  Jesus,  but  his  courage 
failed  him;  he  shuddered  and  closed  hie  eyes.      "Go!"  he  cried. 


SAH    IIUM  1st  o  NEWS  LKI  |  SB 


II 


■I.r»vr  th*  n>oni.  tou  »h<>  bftV«  <  narynl  yourself  with  tbe  task 
of  tortunnfc  nir.  l>o.  go,  I  am  no  ..»np*r  master  ..I  myself  "  Tbe 
priest  withdrew  slow  ly,  lemllid  and  nurrowtul.  At  ibat  iiiomenl 
the  watcbman  calltd  tbe  hour  oC  ruidntghl.  Left  alone  with  the 
image.  Manor)  pot  out  tbe  canrtles  and  btgan  to  walk  up  and 
down  in  thr  darkfu  •->.  Vw  and  then  lie  Mot  d  still,  and  unin- 
telligible words,  sighs  and  moans  i^iud  from  his  lips,  as  if  two 
distinct  persons  were  keeping  Dp  within  him  a  fierce  and  reso- 
lute controversy.  The  pitaal  listened  on  tbe  outside  interpreting 
it  all  aa  a  coolest  between  to*  spirits  of  good  and  evil,  and  pray- 
ing that  tbe  former  might  prevail-  After  two  hours  Manuel  re- 
lighted the  candles  and  seated  himself  in  front  of  tbe  image. 
Then,  presently,  he  went  to  a  box  atid  look  from  it  a  profusion 
of  necklaces,  bracelets,  rings  and  brooches  —  the  gifts  intended  for 
bis  bride— and  adorned  tbe  image  with  them ;  and  when  that  was 
done  he  unsheathed  tbe  lod  an  dagger  that  he  wore,  raised  its 
ahintog  blade,  kissed  it  fondly  and  placed  it  at  the  feet  of  tbe 
Child  Jesus. 

When  the  priest  re-entered  the  room  in  response  to  a  call.  Man- 
uel gave  orders  for  bis  mule'eer  to  load  the  donkeys  and  saddle 
bis  burse  in  lime  to  start  by  5  o'clock.  Then  be  wept  and  clung 
lo  the  neck  of  Don  Trinidad  anc1  covered  bis  face  with  kisses, 
-sobbing  a  piea  for  forgiveness.  >•  Father,  I  adore  her,"  he  whis- 
pered. »*  And  I  you."  replied  the  priest.  "  Do  yon  wish  me  to 
go  with  you?''  He  shook  his  head.  "  Well,  then,  be  very  good, 
be  very  charitable,  and  you  shall  see  how  happy  you  will  be." 
Mannel  turned  to  go,  when  Don  Trinidad  pointed  to  the  image, 
asking.  ••  And  what  do  you  say  to  him  in  farewell?"  Manuel 
answered,  •*  I  would  ask  bicu  to  come  to  life  and  roll  the  stone 
from  tbe  sepulchre  of  my  heart,  if  such  a  miracle  were  possible." 
The  priest  raised  his  eyes  to  heaven.  **  God  grant  it  may  be," 
he  said.  »  Kiss  the  image,  Manuel.  You  lose  nothing  by  that. 
Kiss  him,  and  you  will  see  that  all  the  pride  which  remains  in 
yonr  spirit  will  dissolve  in  tears,  as  the  pride  of  your  heart  has 
dissolved.  Why  do  yon  not  venture?  Come,  see,  I  will  set  you 
tbe  example.  That  is  tbe  way  you  do — so!"  Manuel  closed 
bis  eyes  and  fell  upon  his  knees,  as  an  undermined  palace  falls 
to  the  ground.  On  his  knees,  also,  was  Don  Trinidad,  and  tbe 
tableau  was  one  to  touch  the  heart  of  the  most  hardened  unbe- 
liever, "  for  in  all  this,"  says  the  author,  "  there  was  nothing 
that  could  harm  any  one  or  anything,  or  else  we  do  not  know 
what  is  good  and  what  is  bad  in  this  miserable  life!" 

The  next  afternoon  saw  a  large  crowd  waiting  for  the  raffle  to 
begin.  There  was  the  familiar  figure  of  the  Child  of  the  Ball  glit- 
tering with  tbe  jewels  presented  to  him  a  few  hours  before  by 
Manuel  Venegas,  whose  dagger  still  lay  where  he  had  placed  it. 
The  people  were  gratefal  for  these  costly  offerings  of  the  wildest 
rage  transformed  suddenly  into  Christian  meekness — a  miracle 
they  said  beyond  any  doubt.  Nevertheless  they  were  disap- 
pointed and  dispirited.  Tbe  scene  had  taken  a  turn  which  had 
deprived  them  of  a  sensation  more  to  their  liking.  They  had 
expected  to  witness  a  tragedy,  and  here  was  only  a  religious 
poem.  Tbe  oath  of  Manuel  bad  raised  a  general  anticipation  of 
bloodshed,  and  now  there  was  to  be  nothing  of  the  kind  because 
Manuel  had  relented  at  the  last  moment,  and  departed  from  the 
town,  probably  never  to  be  seen  there  again.  Soledad  was  dressed 
in  white  like  a  bride,  and  looked  ravishiogly  beautiful.  Antonio, 
her  husband  was  pale  and  agitated,  but  very  attentive  to  his 
wife;  and  beside  him  sat  Maria  Josepha,  the  mother,  with  a 
watchful  air,  as  if  foreseeing  trouble.  At  length  the  dance  began, 
partners  being  chosen  not  by  bids,  but  by  spontaneous  preference, 
and  in  the  pleasure  all  else  was  soon  forgotten. 

It  was  not  to  end  so,  however.  All  at  once  there  was  a  com- 
motion, and  cries  that  Manuel  Venegas  was  approaching.  The 
music  and  tbe  dancing  ceased,  but  the  official  in  charge  gave 
orders  for  them  to  go  on  as  Manuel  reached  the  place  and  dis- 
mounted from  his  horse.  He  did  not  stop  to  explain  bis  return, 
which  was  due,  in  fact,  to  a  letter  from  Soledad,  which  had  been 
senc  after  him,  and  in  which  she  had  declared  that  she  still  loved 
him,  and  that  if  he  wanted  her  he  had  but  to  come  and  take  her. 
As  soon  as  he  could  properly  do  so,  he  offered  a  hundred  thousand 
reals  to  dance  with  her.  Antonio  had  not  enough  money  to  out- 
bid him,  and  so  Manuel  advanced  toward  his  beloved  with  out- 
stretched arms,  into  which  she  threw  herself  with  the  passionate 
impulse  of  her  sonl  and  of  her  race.  He  pressed  her  madly  to  his 
breast,  like  the  trophy  of  bis  whole  life.  "Helpl  He  is  strang- 
ling her,"  screamed  the  mother.  The  blood  was  seen  to  gush 
forth  from  Soledad 's  mouth  and  ears;  the  nearest  spectators 
could  hear  the  crackling  of  her  fragile  bones  in  the  iron  clasp  of 
the  man  who  seemed  to  be  challenging  the  universe  to  take  her 
from  him.  Antonio  seized  the  dagger  that  lay  at  the  feet  of  the 
Child  Jesus,  and  ran  forward,  uttering  cries  of  vengeance.  Only 
when  the  weapon  bad  transpierced  his  heart  did  Manuel  open 
his  arms;  and  the  two  lovers  fell  dead  together,  in  the  shadow  of 
the  Child  of  the  Ball. 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  always  has  an  excellent 
stock  of  gentlemen's  furnishing  goods  on  hand.  His  shirts,  neck- 
wear, gloves  and  handkerchiefs  are  the  best. 


If  you  want  first-class  oysters,  go  to  Moraghan's  famous  establish- 
ment in  the  California  Market.     Moraghan  always  has  the  best 


Such  Lovely 
Rich  Cream 

is  every  housewife's  verdict  upon  trying    her 
first  can  <»f 


^HIGHLAND 


UNSWEETENED 


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and  cooking  use. 

Write  for  our  Cook  Book  and  Infants'  Food  Circular 
Mailed  free. 

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Jn  addition  to  their  large. and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 

■ 

Jackets, 

Ulsters, 
FRATINGER    &    CO, 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

10B  Kearny  Street. 

DFRPY  I     DAl/l<;  ft  <PO     FINE  m  *DCT10SEERS. 

fCl^vi    (^    upvij   <->    SU,»   no  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 

AUCTION    DAILY 

At  11  and  8  p.  m.,  Additional  Consignment  of 

$75,000  STOCK  OF  JAPANESE  CURIOS, 

Consignment  direct  from  Japan,  comprising  THOUSANDS  of  ANTIQUE 
and  MODERN  valuable  articles  too  numerous  to  mention. 

The  entire  collection  will  be  sold  without  reserve  or  limit.  Chairs  pro- 
vided for  LADIES  who  are  specially  invited.    TERMS    CASH. 

PERCY  L.  DAVIS  &  CO.,  auctioneees. 


12 


SAN  EBANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEB. 


Dec.  10, 1892. 


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A  COOL  burglar  entered  the  store  of  Tillman,  Benciel  &  Co.,  on 
the  corner  of  Clay  and  Battery  street,  about  8  o'clock  one  even- 
ing last  week.  There  were  five  clerks  in  the  office  on  the  first 
floor  at  the  time.  "Only  five,"  whispered  the  bird  of  night  softly, 
and  he  glided  up  stairs.  Things  prospered  with  the  light-fingered 
gentleman  until  he  overturned  a  consignment  of  salmon,  which 
came  down  with  a  crash  that  startled  Manager  Forman  and  paled 
the  cheeks  of  the  clerks.  Mr.  Forman  was  equal  to  the  occasion, 
however,  and  bidding  his  men  be  quiet,  be  rushed  into  the  street 
and  blew  a  police  whistle  with  hurricane  force.  By  the  time  he 
reached  the  Bank  of  California  he  had  been  joined  by  Edward 
Casey,  of  the  American  Exchange,  and  Edward  Bertrandis,  of  the 
Pacific  Transfer  Company.  They  volunteered  to  accompany  him 
and  catch  the  burglar,  and  the  trio  returned  to  the  store,  Forman 
still  blowing  the  whiatle.  Three  policemen  responded  to  the  call, 
and  things  began  to  look  bad  for  the  burglar.  The  party  of  six, 
with  Forman  in  advance,  entered  the  store,  but  barely  had  they 
crossed  the  threshold,  when  four  clerks,  two  of  whom  were 
armed  with  revolvers  and  two  with  clubs,  sprang  out  of  the 
darkness,  and  in  concert  yelled  :  »  Stand  back !  " 

From  a  safe  distance  things  were  explained  to  the  clerical 
fire-eaters,  and  one  of  the  pencil  pushers  immediately  tbruat  hia 
howitzer  into  the  band  of  Bertrandis,  while  Casey  was  presented 
with  a  club.  There  was  some  hesitation  about  climbing  the 
stairs,  but  finally  Forman  settled  the  question  by  volunteer- 
ing to  lead  the  way.  Caaey  was  placed  on  the  sidewalk  with  hia 
club,  and  Bertrandis  was  stationed  on  the  first  floor.  Forman 
got  the  firm's  ledger  and  buttoned  it  up  under  his  coat,  across  his 
breast.  Officer  Morgan  lighted  a  candle,  Policeman  Dwyer 
gripped  his  club,  and  they  all  went  up  the  stairs.  As  the  brave 
men  cautionsly  ascended,  Bertrandis  happened  to  lean  against 
the  wall  and  press  half  a  dozen  electric  buttons,  with  the  result 
that  just  as  the  scaling  party  reached  the  top  of  the  stairs,  every 
bell  in  the  house  rang  with  startling  effect.  The  amateur  detec- 
tives thought  the  burglars  had  assaulted  them  and  they  tumbled 
over  the  officers  getting  down  stairs.  Mr.  Forman  concluded 
that  he  bad  put  his  breastplate  in  the  wrong  place  and  gladly 
resigned  his  leadership  to  Officer  Dwyer,  who  immediately  pro- 
ceeded to  business.  He  bounded  up  the  steps,  and  the  whole 
party  followed  him.  The  burglar,  meanwhile,  softly  descended 
to  the  lower  floor  by  the  elevator  at  the  other  end  of  the  building. 
While  the  searching  party  was  vainly  looking  for  him  above,  he 
walked  noiselessly  along  to  the  door,  where  Casey  guarded  the 
entrance  to  the  outside  world  with  a  baseball  bat.  Casey  stepped 
back  with  his  club  on  high,  but  thinking  he  recognized  Manager 
Forman  in  the  burglar,  he  lowered  his  club  and  inquired  if  any- 
thing had  been  seen  of  the  robbers. 

"  Robbers  be  banged  I  "  said  the  night-walker.  "One  of  the 
cats  knocked  over  some  tins  of  salmon,  and  made  all  the  racket. 
Let'a  go  and  get  a  drink  somewhere.     Ha!  ha?" 

"  Ha,  ha,"  exclaimed  Casey,  throwing  away  hia  club.  And 
they  walked  up  the  street  to  get  an  antidote  for  the  cold  and 
dreary  night.  And  now  every  clerk  in  the  establishment  sees  a 
new  beauty  in  the  lines  entitled:  "  Casey  at  the  Bat." 

*  *  * 

Governor  Markham  recently  pardoned  a  man  who  was  serving 
a  sentence  of  life  imprisonment  for  murder,  upon  the  condition 
that  he  refrain  from  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors  for  the  re- 
mainder of  his  existence.  This  appears  to  be  a  foolish  stipulation, 
for  there  is  no  earthly  way  of  enforcing  it.  If  the  pardoned 
murderer  sees  fit  to  eet  drunk  the  day  after  he  leaves  prison,  the 
Governor,  nor  any  one  else,  has  the  power  to  inflict  any  penalty 
upon  him,  or  force  him  to  serve  out  the  remainder  of  his  sentence 
because  of  the  broken  promise.  Such  pardons  only  bring  further 
contumely  upon  the  administration  of  justice  in  this  State,  which 
is  already  a  by-word  with  the  people  of  other  sections. 

*  »  # 

There  is  an  editor  in  Merced  who  is  a  perfect  hoodoo.  His 
name  is  Norvall  (not  he  of  the  Grampian  Hills),  and  at  various 
times  it  has  been  his  painful  duty  to  submit  to  a  caning  at  the 
bands  of  some  indignant  individual  whom  he  had  criticised  in  his 
paper.  Three  separate  times  has  he  thus  been  thrashed,  but 
alas  for  the  thrashers — each  and  every  one  has  soon  thereafter 
sickened  and  died.  Norvall  points  with  pride  to  his  record,  and 
is  regarded  with  deep  distrust  now  by  everyone  who  is  so  unfor- 
tunate as  to  be  the  recipient  of  his  attentions. 


Dr.  Fischer  has  received  many  congratulations  during  the  week 
upon  his  marriage  to  Miss  Maud  Berry.  The  story  of  the  love  of 
the  young  couple,  their  clandestine  marriage  and  their  reconcilia- 
tion with  Mr.  Berry  is  now  the  favorite  topic  of  society  chat. 
Fischer  is  a  dentist  by  profession  and  mandolin  and  guitar  player 
by  preference.  He  belongs  to  the  Banduristas,  and  can  twang 
the  strings  with  any  of  the  most  adept.  In  the  intereata  of 
music,  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  charity  performances  in  which 
both  were  to  take  part,  he  frequently  called  upon  Miss  Berry  at 
her  father's  residence,  on  Van  Ness  avenue,  and  there  they  dis- 
cussed together  the  difference  between  a  fiddle,  a  violin,  a  guitar 
and  a  mandolin.  The  discussion  must  have  been  most  pleasant, 
for  soon  they  became  very  much  interested  in  each  other.  Their 
affection  deepened,  and  affairs  reached  a  culminating  point  when 
Mr.  Berry  proposed  to  take  his  daughter  upon  a  European  trip 
for  a  year.  He  did  not  know  of  the  love  affair,  and  if  he  had,  it 
ia  said,  would  not  have  consented  to  the  alliance.  He  considered 
Dr.  Fischer  merely  a  friend  of  his  daughter,  whose  frequent  calls 
were  occasioned  by  the  devotion  of  both  to  the  muses.  Realizing 
the  possibilitiea  of  great  changes  in  affairs  in  a  year,  neither 
of  the  young  people  wished  to  be  separated  from  the  other  for 
that  length  of  time  without  some  other  tie  than  that  of  affection 
to  bind  them.  So  they  were  married  on  September  28th  last. 
Then  the  proposition  was,  how  should  the  news  be  broken  to  the 
father.  The  groom  did  not  care  to  face  the  parental  wrath,  nor 
did  the  bride,  and  so  they  kept  the  matter  quiet,  hoping  that 
something  would  turn  up  that  would  properly  adjuat  their 
troublous  affairs.  The  something  appeared  when  it  was  ru- 
mored among  their  friends  that  the  marriage  had  been  effected. 
Then  Dr.  Fischer  faced  the  storm,  and  told  Mr.  Berry.  The  latter 
did  just  what  he  was  forced  to  do  under  the  circumstances — gave 
them  his  blessing,  and  now,  like  the  prince  and  the  princess  in 
the  fairy  tale,  they  are  to  live  happily  ever  afterwards.  Mr. 
Berry,  who  is  at  best  a  delicate  man,  was  shocked  at  the  news  of 
the  marriage,  and  has  not  been  well  since.  He  will  probably 
soon  take  a  trip  to  Europe  in  an  endeavor  to  recover  his  waning 
strength.  Another  man  who  was  badly  shocked  waa  a  youth 
with  a  beautiful  voice,  who  bad  taken  more  interest  in  MibS 
Berry  than  was  comfortable  for  Dr.  Fischer.  When  he  heard  of 
the  marriage,  he  said,  "  Well,  there's  that  fellow  Fischer  just 
fiddled  himself  into  Maud  Berry'a  heart — and  I— with  my  voice 
and  everything,  why,  I  wasn't  in  it."  All  of  which  goes  to 
ahow  that  the  wise  youth  of  the  period  will  immediately  learn  to 
twang  the  light  guitar. 

*  *  * 

Walter  Moore  is  one  of  the  best-known  citizens  Los  Angeles  has 
ever  presented  to  the  admiring  people  of  this  State.  It  is  said  in  the 
South  that  what  he  does  not  know  about  political  matters  is  not 
worth  knowing,  for  he  has  given  great  attention  to  practical  poli 
tics  for  some  time  past,  and  is  thoroughly  conversant  with  all  the- 
maneuvers  of  statecraft.  He  was  a  candidate  for  public  office  at  the 
recent  election,  and  went  down  to  death  and  destruction  with  many 
others.  Thereby  hangs  a  tale,  which  Moore  tells  with  the  idea  of 
warning  other  ambitious  men  of  the  dangers  which  may  destroy 
them  if  tbey  wander  away  from  those  well-beaten  paths  along  which 
political  success  has  its  abiding  places.  Shortly  before  the  election, 
an  evangelist  awakened  the  latent  spirit  of  Christianity  in  the  breasts 
of  the  usually  practical  Los  Angelenos,  and  brought  many  of  them 
to  a  full  realization  of  the  awful  wickedness  and  frightful  depravity 
of  their  lives.  Among  the  converted  was  Mr.  Moore,  who  spoke  out 
in  meeting,  and  told  what  a  very  bad  man  he  had  been.  He  appeared 
honest  in  his  protestations  ot  reformation,  and  the  announcement  of 
his  salvation  caused  great  astonishment  among  the  political  workers 
of  the  city.  They  determined,  however,  to  get  even  on  him,  and  so, 
thinking  he  had  been  untrue  to  them,  because  he  had  reformed,  they 
"  threw  hiro  down  "  on  election  day.  The  true  Christians  of  the  city, 
on  the  other  hand,  had  their  doubts  about  Moore's  reformation,  and 
as  they  refused  to  consider  him  in  any  other  light  than  that  of  a  poli- 
tician, and  therefore  a  most  unholy  man,  they  also  proved  untrue  to 
him.  The  result  was  that  Moore  fell  between  the  two  stools,  and  was 
defeated  upon  election  day.  He  took  the  matter  philosophically, 
however,  and  his  sole  comment  upon  his  unexpected  political  down- 
fall was:  "  That's  the  time  1  was  caught  with  an  appolinaris  hand." 


A  good  deal  of  gossip  has  been  created  across  the  bay  by  the  fact 
that  Henry  Rogers  is  now  the  business  manager  of  the  great  Gar- 
celon  (Merritt)  estate.  Considering  the  hatred  that  existed  be- 
tween the  dead  and  the  living,  it  seems  strange  that  all  the  affairs 
should  once  more  revert  to  Rogers'  management.  There  waa  a 
time — in  fact  thirty-eight  years  passed  that  way — when  Henry 
Rogers  was  Dr.  Merritt's  most  trusted  friend  and  adviser.  Sud- 
denly there  came  a  change — why?  No  one  ever  knew,  for  the 
Doctor  carried  the  secret  to  the  grave.  Rogers,  however,  was 
exiled  from  the  Merritt  mansion  at  a  moment's  notice,  and  the 
two  men  never  spoke  again.  It  was  whispered  that  Henry  had 
incurred  the  old  doctor's  anger  by  making  collections  and  wait- 
ing a  good  many  weeks  before  entering  them  in  the  books.  All 
such  talk,  however,  was  merely  rumor,  but  it  left  an  unpleasant 
memory,  and  considering  the  peculiar  turn  things  have  taken 
now,  the  old  stories  are  being  told  over  again. 


10.  1892 


BAH  I'KWi  [S<  0  NEWS  LETT]  R 


13 


A  molt  effecting  Incident  occurred  last  Monday  morning  on 
the  Broadway  wharf,  when  the  Meamer  Santa  Kosa  sailed  for 
Ban  Diego.  The  steamer  bore  away  to  Los  Angeles,  their  future 
home,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jarnea  E.  CoDnajf,  the  bride  and  groom  of  a 
week.  The  young  wife  is  the  daughter  of  Police  Captain  Doug- 
lass, the  veteran  goardtan  of  the  peace,  and  has  always  been  bis 
favorite  child.  The  old  gentleman  had  never  known  how  much 
he  loved  his  daughter  until  the  hour  of  parting  came.  He  bore 
op  bravely  until  the  last  gong  sounded,  and  then,  as  his  daughter 
threw  herself  into  his  arms  and  sobbed  upon  his  shoulder,  bii 
emotion  overcame  him,  bis  grim  face  relaxed,  and  he  wept.  The 
crowd  upon  the  dock  looked  and  wondered.  Her  husband  gently 
led  the  bride  to  the  steamer's  side  and  there,  with  one  foot  upon 
the  gang-plank,  she  again  turned  and  bung  upon  her  father's 
neck.  The  gallant  old  police  captain,  who  had  never  known 
fear,  and  who  has  ever  presented  a  bold  front  in  the  face  of  dan- 
ger, sobbed  like  a  child.  His  body  was  shaken  like  a  leaf  by  the 
strength  of  bis  emotions.  The  spectators  turned  their  faces  away, 
and  more  than  oDe  eye  that  had  witnessed  the  affecting  scene 
winked  in  an  effort  to  keep  back  a  sympathetic  tear.  Finally 
the  lines  were  cast  off,  and  the  bride  was  supported  down  the 
steamer's  deck  by  her  husband,  while  Captain  Douglass  entered 
a  waiting  carriage  with  his  wife,  and  vainly  tried  to  master  him- 
self as  he  watched  the  Santa  Rosa  bear  off  into  the  stream. 


The  annual  exhibition  of  the  work  of  the  pupils  of  the  School 
of  Design  opened  in  the  exhibition  room  of  the  Art  Association 
on  Wednesday  last.  The  number  of  paintings  and  drawings 
shown  is  larger  than  usual,  and  the  work  shows  that  the  pupils 
of  the  school  are  on  a  par  with  those  of  the  larger  academiei  of 
Eastern  cities.  Much  of  the  work  presented  is  excellent.  A 
notable  canvas  is  a  painting  of  a  Mexican  saddle,  spurs,  hat  and 
riata.  This  will  compare  very  favorably  with  the  work  of  some 
artists  whose  paintings  have  been  accepted  at  the  regular  exhi- 
bitions of  the  Art  Association,  and  who  are  considered  more  than 
good.  On  the  other  hand,  however,  much  of  the  work  shown  ii 
bad.  The  pupils  have,  as  might  be  expected,  a  very  hard  time 
in  painting  fowl  in  still  life.  Their  birds  all  look  like  wooden 
images;  but  then,  one  must  not  expect  too  much,  for  artists  are 
not  made  in  a  day.  The  landscape  and  crayon  departments  show 
some  good  work.  The  awards  will  be  made  to-night,  when  a 
reception  will  be  held  at  the  Art  Association  rooms. 
*  *  * 

The  Press  Club  will  receive  James  Whitcomb  Riley,  tbe  "  Hoosier 
Poet,"  to-night,  and  will  have  another  of  those  enjoyable  evenings, 
in  which  this  club  excels  all  others  in  the  city.  The  rivalry  between 
the  Bohemian  and  Press  Clubs  has  become  very  warm  of  late.  This 
was  recently  shown  in  the  endeavor  of  the  former  organization  to 
capture  Riley.  The  Press  Club,  however,  secured  the  lion,  and  there 
is  mourning  in  the  Post  street  building  in  consequence. 
»  #  » 

A  full-fledged  sensation  is  very  quietly  smothered  in  Oak- 
land, a  fact  which  will  doubtless  be  deplored  by  the  dailies 
which  make  a  feature  of  furnishing  their  readers  with  racy 
and  gossipy  tid-bits.  There  is  a  young  lady  residing  in  Oakland  who 
has  passed  through  a  most  extraordinary  and  unpleasant  matrimo- 
nial experience.  Her  maiden  name  was  Baronscourt,  but  it  is  doubt- 
ful if  she  could  tell  how  she  is  entitled  to  sign  herself  since  the  wed- 
ding vows  were  exchanged  at  the  altar.  She  belongs  to  an  old  and 
aristocratic  English  family,  a  branch  of  which  is  well  known  in  the 
Irish  peerage.  Her  home  was  in  the  vicinity  of  Liverpool,  and  on 
her  occasional  visits  to  that  city  she  had  the  misfortune  to  meet  the 
man  who  has  ruined  her  peace  of  mind.  To  the  surprise  of  all  her 
friends  it  was  announced  one  day  that  she  was  missing,  and,  as 
usual,  the  tongue  of  slander  immediately  suggested  an  elopement, 
connecting  her  name  with  that  of  the  man  who  was  known  to  have 
paid  her  assiduous  court  for  months.  This  story  was  correct  in 
some  respects,  but,  if  the  young  lady  is  to  be  believed,  she  must  un- 
doubtedly be  held  blameless  in  the  matter.  According  to  her  state- 
ment, she  was  hypnotized  and,  while  under  the  spell  of  the  myste- 
rious power  and  unable  to  protect  herself,  she  was  forced  to  accom- 
pany the  villain  in  this  peculiar  case  to  this  State,  where  only  a  few 
weeks  ago  she  legained  her  normal  condition,  to  find  herself  alone, 
deserted,  and  in  a  strange  land.  To  some  charitable  people  in  Oak- 
land she  told  her  pitiful  tale.  They  took  her  in  and  their  home  will 
be  her's  until  the  arrival  of  her  father,  who  started  for  the  Pacific 
Coast  immediately  on  the  receipt  of  the  news  about  his  daughter's 


condition.  Where  she  boa  been  dating  the  past  three  months,  Or 
where  her  husband  Lb  Miss  Baronsoourl  cannot  tell.  She  cannot 
even  recall  Lhe  appearance  ol  the  reoondrel  who  so  basely  deserted 
her.    The  case  ia  a  peculiar  one;  which  will  doubtless  prove  Interest  - 

ingto  those  scientists  who  are  always  anxious  to  fathom  the  mysteries 
of  the  unknown. 

»     •    9 

Charley  Everts,  of  Oakland,  thinks  he  is  in  pretty  hard  luck, 
and  it  certainly  does  look  that  way  to  an  onlooker.  He  is  the 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs  P.  Everts,  who  own  the  Everts  Block  in  the  i 
Athenian  city,  besides  lots  of  other  valuable  property.  The  old 
folks,  by-the-way,  reside  in  fine  style  at  the  Palace  Hotel  here, 
and  Charley,  who  is  their  only  son,  lives  across  the  bay.  Some 
three  years  ago  they  bought  him  a  bay  and  grain  business,  pay- 
ing $25,000  for  it,  and  Charley  was  told  that  be  could  draw  $100 
a  month  and  pay  interest  at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent.  Everything 
ran  along  swimmingly  for  awhile,  and  then  Charley  did  what  so 
many  young  men  will  persist  in  doing,  despite  the  horrible  ex- 
amples continually  being  held  up  before  them — he  got  married. 
But  he  had  a  bard  time  before  he  could  get  the  nuptial  knot  tied. 
His  fiancee  was  lhe  daughter  of  Roland  G.  Brown,  and  was 
reared  in  and  accustomed  to  luxury.  Her  father,  therefore,  did 
not  want  her  to  go  to  a  home  that  had  for  its  income  only  $100  a 
month;  so  be  issued  the  decree  that  until  Charles  had  at  least 
$200  every  30  days  the  marriage  could  not  take  place.  The  young 
couple  determined  to  bring  the  desired  financial  end  about  as 
soon  as  possible,  and  Charley  brought  all  the  pressure  he  could 
to  bear  on  his  parents,  with  the  result  that  he  succeeded  in  rais- 
ing his  pittance  to  $150  per  mensem.  Roland  Brown  compro- 
mised at  this,  and  so  the  lovers  were  married.  According  to  time- 
honored  rules  the  story  should  end  here,  instead  of  which  it  only 
really  begins.  It  appears  that  right  after  the  marriage,  Papa 
Everts  began  skirmishing  with  his  son,  and  things  have  gone 
from  bad  to  worse  until  now  the  "  stern  parent"  has  distin- 
guished himself,  it  is  said,  by  throwing  his  son  out  of  the  busi- 
ness and  taking  charge  of  it  himself.  Now,  as  Charley  was 
reared  without  having  to  rely  on  his  own  resources,  he  is  having 
a  hard  time  of  it,  especially  as  it  is  also  said  his  mother  also  re- 
fuses to  aid  him  in  any  way.  In  fact,  if  it  were  not  for  the 
bride's  father,  who  has  now  come  to  the  rescue,  the  young  mar- 
ried couple  would  be  in  a  very  sorry  way,  and  the  few  who  have 
become  acquainted  with  the  matter  are  wondering  why  on  earth 
Everts  -p&re  and  mere  have  adopted  such  a  remarkable  line  of 
tactics. 


Christmas 
Presents. 

S.   &   G.   GUMP, 


Art 
And 
Picture 
Store. 

I  13 

Open 
Evenings 
During 
December. 


GEARY   ST- 


27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

TIHIIE     VERY     LATEST. 


14 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec-  10, 1892. 


THERE  is  a  well  known  couple  in  our  fashionable  society  who 
are  both  young,  agreeable,  bright  and  popular  withal.  He  is 
given  to  indulge  in  convivial  pleasures  which  greatly  distress  his 
wife,  while  she  is  exacting  and  dictatorial.  Rather  a  good  story  is 
"told  in  the  swim  of  how  at  a  recent  function  they  were  aruoDg  a 
"supper  party"  at  one  of  the  tUe-a-tHe  tables.  The  conversation  was 
of  the  approaching  Christmas,  and  the  gifts  each  person  hoped 
Santa  Claus  would  bring  them.  The  wife  who  had  had  her  pa- 
tience sorely  tried  during  the  evening  said  to  her  husband,  "If  you 
would  only  give  me  peace  of  mind  it  would  be  the  greatest  gift 
you  could  possibly  make  me."  "Ah,  my  dear,"  responded  the 
husband,  "you  give  me  so  much  of  your  mind  during  the  whole 
year  there  would  be  nothing  novel  in  it,  don't  you  know." 

#  »  » 

A  good  deal  of  amiable  rivalry  was  shown  at  the  opening  cotil- 
lion by  the  friends  of  the  different  debutants,  as  to  which  should 
wear  the  honors  of  the  belle.  In  truth  it  was  a  vexed  question, 
so  many  pretty  girls  vied  in  charm  of  person,  manner  and  dress. 
Miss  Jennie  Catherwood  was  the  most  assured  in  manner;  Miss 
Gertrude  Wilson  the  most  distingue  in  appearance;  Miss  Bell 
Hooper  the  most  girlish  in  costume;  Miss  Borel  the  very  type  of 
an  ingenue,  and  Miss  Merry  the  most  effective  in  looks. 

#  #  • 

From  present  appearances,  say  the  quid  nuncs,  it  looks  strongly 
as  though  the  gallant  Colonel  had  distanced  all  competitors  for 
the  fair  Emily's  favor.     What  a  match  that  would  be! 

Some  curiosity  is  felt  relative  to  the  truth  of  Mrs.  Bell  Dono- 
bue's  intention  of  changing  her  name. 

The  masculine  portion  of  the  swim  are  in  what  the  girls  call 
"a  state"  over  the  announcement  that  knee  breeches  are  de  riguer 
for  the  next  cotillion,  and  "calves"  will  be  the  object  of  much 
anxiety  and  subject  of  much  thought  before  the  fateful  night. 
Feminine  society  has  been  deeply  engaged  concocting  bewildering 
surprises  in  the  way  of  original  dominoes  to  be  worn  at  Mrs. 
Catherwood's  domino  party.  One  girl  who  said  she  would  come 
out  strong  as  a  butterfly  has  a  very  unique  mask  as  a  portion  of 
her  disguise. 

#  *  * 

Mr.  Sprague  seemed  as  happy  at  the  cotillion  on  Friday  even- 
ing as  if  the  object  of  his  {so  'tis  said)  affections  bad  not  gone  to 
Spain.  But  then  we  know  what  the  poet  tells  us:  "Man's 
nature's  such  it  is  the  loss  of  one  but  teaches  bim  to  make  an- 
other do,"  and  so  it  may  be  in  this  Instance. 

The  public  was  badly  deluded  with  the  reports  in  the  daily 
papers  of  the  Friday  Night  Club's  recent  german.  The  members, 
of  course,  barred  out  the  society  editors,  and  those  gentlemen 
bad  to  find  out  as  best  they  could  enough  about  the  affair  to 
write  up  a  decent  account.  The  Examiner's  report  was  written  at 
five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  and  it  is  said  the  Chronicle's  was  in 
type  before  the  first  carriage  had  arrived  at   the  hall. 


Another  question  for  the  curious: 
friend,  the  '  Baron?'  " 


Who  is  Edmund  Russell's 


Joe  Austin  is  the  hero  of  rather,  a  pretty  romance.  Not  long 
ago,  when  troubled  with  a  rheumatic  or  gouty  complaint,  the 
pains  of  which  are  among  the  penalties  men  pay  for  high-living, 
he  went  to  Bissons  to  recuperate.  There  he  met  Miss  Marie  Ses- 
non,  a  sister  of  the  former  Democratic  County  Clerk  of  this  city, 
of  that  name,  but  who  is  now  a  prominent  Republican  of  Fresno. 
Miss  8esnon  looked  with  pitying  eyes  upon  Mr.  Austin,  and  pity, 
says  the  poet  is  akin  to  love.  She  rendered  bim  many  kindnesses, 
and  their  friendship  soon  assumed  the  appearance  of  a  deeper 
feeling.  Presently,  thanks  to  careful  nursing  by  Miss  Sesnon, 
Mr.  Austin  fully  recovered  the  uses  of  his  agile  limbs,  and  he 
then  had  opportunity  to  press  his  suit  with  Miss  Sesnon.  This 
he  did  with  so  much  good  effect  that  the  couple  have  taken  a  flat 
on  Post  street,  which  is  now  being  handsomely  furnished  against 
the  time  when  they  will  be  wed,  wbich  will  probably  be  next 
Wednesday. 

*  *  • 

Among  Tuesday  evening's  graduates  from  the  Cooper  Medical 
College  there  was  one  to  whom  peculiar  interest  attaches  itself. 
Residents  of  Sacramento  in  the  early  sixties  and  the  years  fol- 
lowing will  remember  Dr.  Nixon,  who  was  then  the  first  phy- 
sician at  the  State  capital.  His  wife  took  a  great  interest  in  his 
medical  studies,  and  at  his  death  a  few  years  back,  determined  to 
perfect  herself  in  the  medical  profession  and  thus  keep  what  she 
could  of  her  husband's  large  practice.  His  patients,  who  knew 
her  worth,  promised  their  co-operation,  and  upheld  by  her  friends, 
the  widow  matriculated  at  Copper's.     This  is  the  explanation  of 


the   name   of   <<Anne  Wilson  Nixon"   in  the  graduating  class   of 
newly-fledged  M.  D's. 

The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street,  grows  more 
popular  daily.  Its  menus  are  always  so  very  good,  and  its  service  so 
superior  to  that  of  other  restaurants,  that  it  is  the  favorite  dining 
place  of  epicures.  If  you  wish  to  be  certain  of  a  good  dinner,  do  not 
fail  to  Yisit  it. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslows*  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 
children  while  teething. 


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WR 


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JACOBITE 


SONU-1715 .— Algernon   Charles  Swinburne,  in   the 
Athenaeum. 


N 


OW  who  will  speak,  and  lie  not. 

Ana  pledge  not  life,  but  give? 
Slaves  herd  with  herded  cattle: 
Tbe  dawn  grows  bright    for  battle, 
And  if  we  die,  we  die  not; 
And  if  we  live,  we  live. 

Tbe  faith  our  fathers  fought  for, 
Tbe  kings  our  fathers  knew, 
We  fight  but  as  they  fought  for: 
We  seek  tbe  goal  they  sought  for, 

The  chance  they  hailed  and  knew, 
The  praise  they  strove  and  wrought  for, 
To  leave  ibeir  blood  as  dew 
On  fields  that  Mower  anew. 
Men   live  that  serve  the  stranger; 

Hounds  live  that  huntsmen  tame; 
These  life-days  of  our  living 
Are  days  of  God's  good  giving, 
Where  death  smiles  soft  on  danger. 
And  life  scowls  dark  on  shame. 

And  what  would  you  do  other, 
Sweet  wife,  if  you  were  I  ? 

And  how  should  you  be  other, 

My  sister,  than  your  brother, 
If  yon  were  man  as  I, 

Born  of  our  sire  and  mother, 

With  choice  to  cower  and  fly 
And  chance  to  strike  and  die? 

•  #  *  T»  » 

Now  who  will  fight  and  fly  not, 
And  grude  not  life  to  give? 

And  who  will  strike  beside  us 

If  life's  or  death's  light  guide  us; 

For  if  we  die,  we  die  Dot; 
And  if  we  live,  we  live. 

A    LATE    ROSE.— Julia  C.  R.  JDotr. 

I  sent  a  little  maiden 

To  pluck  for  me  a  rose, 

The  sweetest  and  the  fairest 
That  in  the  garden  grows — 

A  blush-rose,  proud  and  tender, 

Upon  its  stem  so  slender, 

Swaying  in  dreamy  splendor 

Where  yellow  sunshine  glows. 

Back  came  the  little  maiden 

With  drooping,  downcast  head 
And  slow,  reluctant  footsteps, 

And  this  to  me  she  said: 
"1  find  no  sweet  blush-roses 

In  all  the  garden  closes: 
There  are  no  summer  roses; 

It  must  be  they  are   deadl  " 

Then  bent  I  to  the  maiden 

And  touched  her  shining  hair — 

Dear  heart!  in  all  the  garden 
Was  nothing  half  so  fair! 
"  Nay!"  said  I,  "  let  the  roses 

Die  in  the  garden  closes 

Whenever  fate  disposes, 

If  I  this  rose  may  wear!" 


holiday 
flouelties. 

An  Enormous  Stock. 
Silk  Handkerchiefs, 
Linen   Handkerchiefs, 
Chiffon   Handkerchiefs, 
Reynier's   Gloves, 
Silk  Umbrellas, 
Neckwear. 

E/SI^E/T)ECY  /T)ODEF^TE   pi^ES. 


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THE  DEPTHS.— Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox  Jrom  an  Erring  Womany$Love. 

Not  only  sun-kissed  heights  are  fair.     Below 
The  cold,  dark  billows  of  the  frowning  deep, 
Do  lovely  blossoms  of  tbe  ocean  sleep, 

Rocked  gently  by  the  waters  to  and  fro. 

The  coral  beds  with  magic  colors  grow, 

And  priceless  pearl-encrusted  mollusks  heap 
The  glittering  rocks  where  shining  atoms  leap 

Like  living  broken  rainbows. 

Even  so 

We  find  the  sea  of  sorrow.     Black  as  night 

The  sullen  surface  meets  our  frightened  gaze 

As  down  we  sink  to  darkness  and  despair. 

But  at  the  depths!  such  bt-auty,  such  delight  I 

Such  flowers  as  never  grew  in  pleasure's  ways. 

Ah,  not  alone  are  sun  kissed  summits  fair. 


COATS 


-FOE- 


MEN  AND  WOMEN. 

Are  worn  in  place  of  an  over- 
coat or  outside  wrap. 

Perfectly  Waterproof. 

GOODYEAR  RUBBER  CO, 


It.  If,  Pease  —  Agents—  S.  M.  Ranyon, 
577-579  Market  St.,  S.F. 


ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MU8IC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desires 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lessons  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street, 
San  Francisco. 
Garcia  Vocal  Method.    Solfeggio  PanNcron. 

DO  YOU  BUY 

BOOKS? 

THE  BEST  ASSORTED  STOCK 

IN  THE  COUNTRY. 

THREE  FLOORS  FILLED 

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Under  Palace  Hotel.  San  Francisco. 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


THE  local  mining  market  has  been  quiet  during  tbe  week,  with 
the  prices  holding  firm  notwithstanding  the  violent  efforts  of 
a  bear  clique  to  wreck  the  business  by  a  series  of  reports  which 
are  doctored  up  to  suit  the  occasion.  Business  now  is  in  a  condi- 
tion where  it  matters  little  what  is  said  about  the  mines.  Stocks 
of  all  descriptions  are  well  in  hand,  and  margin  holders  are  not 
plentiful  enough  to  be  used  as  a  factor  in  the  bear's  game.  The 
very  fact  that  prominent  operators  have  again  thought  it  worth 
their  while  to  enter  the  market  and  take  up  the  speculative 
lines  would  be  sufficient  in  itself  to  convince  anyone  but  the 
habitual  short  seller,  that  something  of  importance  had  transpired 
at  the  front  ,  which  it  was  not  desired  to  publish  to  the  wor.d 
just  yet.  It  is  useless  to  argue  on  this  point  with  the  few  bear 
operators  who  still  flourish  on  the  street.  They  are  past  redemp- 
tion, and  have  had  such  immunity  for  years  past  that  they  have 
come  to  regard  themselves  as  possessed  of  a  charmed  existence. 
With  them  it  has  been  a  case  of  sell,  sell,  month  in  and  month 
out,  and  tbe  chances  are  that  if  a  settlement  takes  place  some 
fine  morning  on  a  small-sized  jump  in  tbe  market,  that  it  will  be 
found  that  some  of  the  mines  are  sold  three  times  over  to  the  extent 
of  their  capital  stock.  This  is  not  a  very  healthy  outlook  for  the 
bear  contingent,  out  so  far  as  the  "bulls"  are  concerned  it  will 
take  mo'e  than  the  wreck  of  two  or  three  ginger-bread  concerns 
on  the  street  to  stop  the  advance  iu  prices  when  it  once  begins  in 
earnest. 

S  Si 

THE  official  reports  for  the  week  reveal  a  very  satisfactory  con- 
dition of  affairs  at  the  mints.  The  Potosi  upraise  continued 
to  look  well  up  to  81  feel,  where  it  is  likely  it  will  be  discontin- 
ued for  some  time,  until  a  crosscut  from  the  1,000  level,  now  be- 
ing run,  is  carried  out  to  connect  with  it,  a  distance  of  probably 
200  feet.  When  the  upraise  was  ended  last  week,  one-half  of  its 
width,  or  three  feet,  was  in  first-class  ore.  The  usual  amount  of 
ore  is  taken  out  of  Con. -Cal. -Virginia,  and  the  condition  of  the 
mine,  financial  or  otherwise,  is  not  so  bad  as  has  been  painted  by 
persons  who  are  interested  in  having  a  lower  range  of  prices  in 
the  stock.  It  was  expected  that  the  Kaie  &  iNorcross  crosscut,  close 
to  the  Savage  line,  would  have  been  started  this  week,  but  so  far 
no  news  has  been  obtained  from  it.  When  this  work  is  carried 
on  far  enough,  the  result  will  likely  be  favorable,  in  the  way  of 
anew  ore  discovery.  At  the  South  End,  those  who  are  gam- 
bling that  the  recent  explorations  in  Belcher  are  a  failure  are  apt 
to  find  out  their  mistake  before  long.  There  is  now  an  absolute 
certainty  that  the  300  ore  body  does  go  down,  and  furthermore, 
there  is  a  more  recent  discovery,  which  will  be  rather  a  surprise 
in  certain  quarters  when  the  strike  is  made  public.  The  Justice 
mine  is  also  looking  better,  with  brighter  prospects  for  the  share- 
holders, and  New  York  should  be  on  a  self-sustaining  basis  be- 
fore long.  "Bearing"  any  of  tbe  stocks  at  this  end  of  the  lode  just 
now  is  like  fooling  with  the  business  end  of  a  bad-tempered  mule. 

999 

THE  News  Letter  spoke  very  favorably  some  months  ago  of 
the  Shaw  mine,  in  El  Dorado  county  of  this  State,  which  was 
taken  up  by  some  capitalists  here  as  a  prospect  at  that  time.  A 
New  York  contemporary  has  just  published  a  statement  by  C.  A. 
Aaron,  a  well-known  local  mining  man,  which  fully  corroborates 
every  prediction  made  in  that  column  at  the  time  mentioned. 
The  Shaw  is  a  typical  California  mine  of  the  first  rank,  and  as  its 
shares  are  not  being  manipulated  in  any  market  at  home  or 
abroad,  it  can  be  referred  to  without  the  suspicion  of  any  attempt 
to  boom  the  property,  Many  years  ago  the  croppings  of  the 
mine  were  worked  by  pioneer  miners,  and  the  returns  were  phe- 
nomenal. It  is  said,  and  the  statement  is  susceptible  of  proof, 
that  over  $200,000  has  been  taken  out  of  the  gopher-holes  which 
have  been  run  all  over  tbe  property,  at  one  time  or  another  in 
its  history,  with  a  hand-mortar.  So  far,  the  lode  has  not  been 
cut  to  any  great  depth,  but  the  ore  that  is  taken  oat  from  the 
present  workings  is  a  fair  sample  of  the  beautiful  quartz  for 
which  the  mines  of  this  8tate  are  famous,  that  is,  any  which  are 
worthy  of  the  name.  The  vein  is  in  slate,  which  is  tbe  true 
formation  found  along  the  mother  lode.  All  the  best  paying 
mines  yet  discovered  here  are  in  slate,  and  there  are  some  in- 
cluded in  this  belt  which  have  been  steadily  enriching  their  own- 
ers for  years  past.  The  work  now  going  on  at  the  Shaw  mine  is 
not  v«ry  extensive,  but  it  does  not  take  much  exertion  to  make 
money  with  such  a  property,  which  can  be  rightfully  entitled  a 
"  poor  man's  mine"  in  every  sense  of  the  term. 

.     $  $  $ 

There  iB  some  talk  in  local  mining  circles  about  a  proposition  to 
■float  the  Good  Hope  mins,  of  San  Diego,  in  London  for  a  large 
sum  of  money.  We  sincerely  hope  nothing  of  the  kind  will  be 
done.  The  property  is  well  enough  in  its  way  as  a  small  concern, 
and  in  the  hands  of  its  present  owners,  but  to  ask  anything  like 
the  figure  which  rumor  names  will  simply  invite  another  finan- 
cial disaster  for  foreign   investors,  which  will  react  against  the 


best  interests  ot  the  State,  as  other  mining  fiascos  in  the  past 
have  done.  The  Good  Hope  mine  was  owned  and  opened  uP 
originally  by  a  miner  who  is  generally  known  as  an  expert,  wh° 
recognized  a  good  thing  when  he  saw  it.  From  all  accounts  the 
mine  has  not  yet  gone  completely  out  of  his  family,  although  a  sale 
has  been  reported.  The  great  trouble  with  the  majority  of  mine8 
in  this  section  of  tbe  State  is  that  the  ore  does  not  hold  out  in  depth. 
It  is  rich  enough  so  far  as  it  goes,  but  investing  a  large  sum  of 
money  on  supposition  that  might  hold  good  where  the  continuity 
of  ore  bodies  has  been  satisfactorily  demonstrated,  would  in  this 
instance  be  a  most  unsafe  proceeding.  As  a  small  concern  the 
Good  Hope  mine  is  all  right  in  its  way,  but  for  a  sale  outright  at 
big  figures  it  can  not  be  recommended.  8hould  this  property 
turn  up  on  the  London  market,  our  advice  to  investors  is  to  go 
slow,  and  investigate  thoroughly  before  closing  any  bargain. 
We  want  English  money  here  badly  enough  for  mining  develop- 
ment, but  care  should  be  taken  to  prevent  any  more  mistakes, 
like  those  which  have  occurred  in  instances  which  are  too  recent 
to  be  easily  forgotten. 

$$$ 

IN  regard  to  the  arrangements  for  a  mining  exhibit  from  this 
Slate  at  the  World's  Fair,  there  should  be  no  red  tape  in  the 
proceedings,  and  the  mining  men  one  and  all  should  unite  to 
make  the  display  a  credit  to  the  banner  mining  State  of  the 
Union.  The  agricultural  classes  will  doubtless  be  well  repre- 
sented, and  as  a  rule  they  never  spare  expense  to  show  off  to  the 
best  advantage  whenever  they  get  an  opportunity.  There  are 
many  wealthy  mine  owners  here  who  could  well  afford  to  put 
their  hands  in  their  pockets  for  a  good  round  sum,  instead  of  de- 
pending altogether  on  a  share  of  the  general  appropriation,  or 
chance  subscriptions.  California  stands  very  high  abroad  as  a 
producer  of  gold,  and  it  must  be  remembered  that  newer  States 
such  as  Montana,  Colorado  and  Idaho  will  be  formidable  as  rival 
exhibitors.  There  seems  to  be  a  more  liberal  spirit  among  the 
mine  owners  of  these  sections  of  the  Union,  and  a  disposition  to 
act  instead  of  laying  down  programmes  which  are  carried  out. 
They  always  manage  to  find  money  for  any  movement  which  is 
calculated  to  bring  their  respective  States  to  the  front,  which, 
unfortunately,  is  more  than  can  be  said  for  people  here.  The 
lack  of  interest  taken  in  tbe  Nicaragua  Canal,  and  other  similar 
enterprises,  is  proof  sufficient  of  the  charge.  Talk  is  cheap,  but 
it  should  be  discounted  in  the  case  of  a  mining  exhibit  at  Chicago. 

THE  announcement  that  diamonds  have  been  found  on  8nake 
River,  in  Idaho,  can  be  liberally  discounted.  There  have  been 
diamonds  found  in  that  State  many  years  ago,  but  it  is  only  within 
the  memory  of  the  oldest  inhabitant.  A  single  stone  which  was 
picked  up  at  this  time,  and  of  a  remarkably  fine  quality  at  that,  is 
owned  by  a  gentleman  in  this  city,  and  this  gave  foundation  to  the 
common  belief  that  the  gems  may  yet  be  discovered  there  in  paying 
quantities.  The  drift  where  it  was  found,  however,  is  not  near  Snake 
River,  but  in  another  section,  where  there  are  evidences  of  volcanic 
action,  which,  unfortunately  for  the  new  American  Kimberley,  is 
not  noticeable  there.  There  is  as  good  a  field  for  the  diamond  hunter 
in  California  as  there  is  in  an}'  other  part  of  the  world,  and  it  is  not 
unlikely  that  within  the  next  ten  years  there  will  be  a  new  excite- 
ment and  rush  in  this  direction,  as  there  was  when  the  first  discovery 
of  gold  took  place.  As  for  the  addition  to  the  very  questionable  dis- 
patch in  the  form  of  an  exaggercttd  statement  as  to  the  opal  product 
of  Idaho,  it  only  makes  one  more  credulous  of  the  whole  story. 

THE  California  Iron  and  Steel  Company  has  levied  another  assess- 
ment. This  will  be  rather  a  surprise  to  outside  shareholders,  at 
least  to  the  few  who  remain.  It  commences  to  look  as  if  this  com- 
pany had  drifted  into  the  rut  which  others  have  been  floundering 
along  in  for  years,  depending  mainly  on  the  funds  which  can  be 
scraped  in  from  people  who  are  unfortunate  enough  to  invest  in  the 
concern.  The  question  which  should  be  agitated  by  parties  interested 
in  this  property  is  in  regard  to  its  future  prospects.  Is  there  a  chance 
that  the  money  now  being  collected  will  be  ever  returned,  or  that  the 
company  will  get  on  a  self-sustaining  basis  ?  It  is  not  very  well  for  a 
Board  of  Directors  to  meet  and  levy  assessments  at  will.  Of  course, 
if  the  shareholders  do  not  like  it  they  can  do  the  other  thing,  but  justice 
would  suggest  that  they  have  some  rights  in  the  premises  which 
should  be  respected. 

9--*  I 

A  CARLOAD  of  rich  sulphurets  has  been  shipped  by  the  Reed 
Consolidated  Company  of  Shasta  County  to  the  Portland 
Smelting  and  Refining  Works,  Linnton,  Oregon.  Tbe  Directors 
met  in  this  city  on  Saturday  last,  and  determined  to  advance  the 
price  of  treasury  stock  to  $2.60  per  share  on  account  of  the  recent 
developments  in  the  mine,  and  as  there  are  about  90,000  of  the 
100,000  shares  still  in  the  treasury  for  sale,  according  to  a  state- 
ment published  in  the  Redding  Free  Press,  good  returns  from  the 
smelting  workB  ought  to  enable  the  payment  of  large  dividends 
on  tbe  small  amount  of  stock  sold.  The  Bank  of  Shasta  is  acting 
as  agent  for  the  sale  of  the  stock. 

\tt 

AN  ASSESSMENT  of  thirty  cents  per  share  has  been  levied  on 
Yellow  Jacket,  the  only  announcement  of  the  kind  made 
during  the  week.  The  Justice  sale  took  place,  and  the  Occidental 
assessment  was  delinquent  in  office. 


Dec.  ]0. 


SAN  in  AM  I  SCO  m:\vs  LI  .tier. 


"Hear trie  Trier What  the  deril  artthout" 

"One  mat  will  play  toe. lerll.»lr,  wlthvou.' 

IM'MIRE  the  genius  who  was  responsible  for  thai  editorial  on 
Gould's  will,  published  in  Thursday's  Pott.  His  idea  is  that  the 
SUte  should  prevent  the  entailing  of  estates  in  this  country  by  limit- 
ing the  amount  of  property  of  any  sort  that  may  be  disposed  of  by 
will.  deed  of  trust,  or  anything  of  that  sort.  If  a  man  accumulates 
a  certain  amount  of  property,  he  says,  while  the  interests  of  society 
require  that  be  may  enjoy  it  during  his  life,  the  State  might  provide 
that  he  shall  not  leave  it  intact  for  others  to  enjoy,  but  a  portion  of 
it  shall  go  to  the  State  for  the  benefit  of  the  general  public.  Now, 
there  is  a  philosopher  after  my  own  heart.  He's  a  cunning  fellow. 
too,  fordo  you  notice  the  "  anything  of  that  sort."  after  the  mention 
of  will  or  deed  of  trust?  Suppose  there  were  such  a  law,  and  it  read 
that  way.  what  a  picnic  the  lawyers  would  have,  for  it  would  be  a 
very  poor  lawyer  who  could  not  upset  a  grant,  bargain  and  sale  deed 
under  the  "  anything  of  that  sort  "  clause.  But  then  see  how  heavily 
the  Post  philosopher  bears  on  the  clauses  for  the  "  good  of  the  general 
public."  Of  course  we  favor  such  a  law ;  bow  easily  it  would  work. 
First,  certain  percentage  of  estates  valued  at  more  than  a  million 
goes  to  the  State,  for  the  benefit  of  the  general  public.  To  ensure 
that  the  dear  public  received  proper  benefits  from  these  funds,  a 
commission  would  be  created  to  handle  the  coin.  Who  are  best  fitted 
for  such  a  commission?  Why,  men  who  know  the  public  needs, 
mingle  with  the  people  and  are  aware  of  their  desires  and  wants. 
And  what  class  is  in  closer  contact  with  the  public  than  any  other? 
Why,  the  newspapermen.  Then  only  newspapermen  should  be  ap- 
pointed commissioners,  for  the  handling  of  these  millions  ?  Of  course! 
Oh,  but  that  Post  philosopher  is  a  brainy  fellow. 

AMADEE  JODLLIN,  artist  by  profession  and  pirate  king  by 
occupation,  is  liable  to  get  himself  into  trouble  unless  he  has 
more  respect  for  the  nerves  of  the  neighbors  in  his  block.  Joul- 
lin  has  a  very  roomy  and  comfortable  studio  on  the  top  floor  of  a 
8acramento-street  building,  and  frequently  entertains  the  many 
lady  and  gentlemen  friends  who  call  upon  him  by  singing  selec- 
tions from  past,  present  and  future  operas,  accompanying  him- 
self upon  a  grand  piano,  which  is  one  of  the  main  furnishings  of 
the  studio.  The  other  day  the  echoes  of  the  top  floor  were 
awakened  by  the  choruses  from  Joullin's  rooms.  Two  or  three 
other  equally  enthusiastic  musicians  had  called  upon  him,  and 
the  crowd  made  Sacramento  street  howl.  An  occasional  wild 
note  would  send  its  piercing  wail  out  into  the  street,  where  pedes- 
trians stopped  and  wondered  what  unfortunate  was  being  mur- 
dered. Crowds  gathered,  and  for  a  brief  time  the  wheels  of  com- 
merce were  blocked.  One  excited  individual  rang  a  fire  alarm, 
but  the  choruses  minded  not,  and  continued  on  its  high-strung 
way.  I  am  informed  that  the  residents  and  business  men  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  studio  have  formed  a  society  for  mutual  protection, 
each  member  of  which  is  reauired  to  take  a  solemn  oath  that 
upon  the  occasion  of  another  outburst  from  the  studio  of  the 
pirate  king,  that  he,  the  outraged  neighbor  aforesaid,  will  form 
one  of  a  crowd  that  will  storm  the  Joullin  establishment  and  visit 
dire  punishment  upon  the  offenders.  Mr.  Joullin's  young  and 
beautiful  life  may  therefore  be  brought  to  an  abrupt  termination, 
if  he  minds  not  the  voice  of  warning. 

TRUE  sportsmen  who  have  no  affiliation  with  crooked  work 
are  wondering  why  it  is  that  during  the  present  meeting  of 
the  so-called  Blood  Horse  Association,  so  many  curious  things 
have  occurred  at  the  Bay  District  Track,  at  which  the  officers  of 
the  alleged  association  have  winked.  Only  a  few  days  ago,  for 
instance,  Jockey  Ward  was  ruled  off  the  track  for  life  for  pulling 
8t.  Croix,  in  a  race,  and  yet,  if  all  accounts  be  true,  the  judges 
did  not  declare  the  race  off.  That  is  just  as  if  one  saw  a  thief 
robbing  a  man,  and  warned  the  robber  away,  but  did  not  insist 
on  the  return  of  the  stolen  money.  To  a  disinterested  party,  it 
seems  that  the  proper  and  most  honest  way  of  action  in  the  St. 
Croix  case,  would  have  been  to  declare  all  bets  off,  when  the 
jockey  was  ruled  off  for  pulling  the  horse.  As  it  was,  the  bets 
were  allowed  to  stand,  and  the  people  who  had  laid  on  the  horse 
were  robbed;  this  with  the  knowledge  and  even  the  support  of 
the  judges.  People  are  beginning  to  look  askance  at  the  Blood 
Horse  Association.  Its  meetings  will  soon  be  killed,  and 
properly,  if  such  matters  as  the  St.  Croix  affair  are  allowed  to 
pass  unnoticed. 

THOMAS  R.  BARD  is  a  bigger  man  than  the  President  of 
the  United  States,  for  he  enjoys  the  peculiar  honor  of  being 
the  only  Republican  elector  elected  in  this  State.  Why  would  it  not 
be  a  good  idea  to  remove  all  causes  for  jealousies  in  the  Democratic 
ranks  by  allowing  Mr.  Bard  to  carry  across  the  mountains  the  im- 
portant doegment  showing  the  vote  of  this  State  ?  That  would  be 
the  proper  way  to  fix  things,  provided  Mr.  Bard  and  his  Republican 
friends  did  not  object.  It  would  also  at  once  settle  the  important 
question  whether  General  Hammond  was  going  to  carry  that  en- 
velope or  not. 


On  lb.'  opening  night  of    AH    Halm,  or    th<-  Party  Thirtrs,  last  Sat- 
urday, at  tin- (irnnri  Opera   House,  ■•  Nibsy"    l.i-vv.  that   gen- 
tle pirate  and  nubetlc  highbinder,  st I    In  the  lobby  ..I  the  the. 

atre  awaiting  victims  ii.-i \wi<  crowded,  even  standing- 
room  was  at  a  premium,  and   ••  Nibsy"  held    in    bla   Mr. .ng  right 

hand  a  bunch  of    tickets   for  reserved    seats,  whioh  I ilered  to 

the  unwary  at  usurious  lates.  One  gentleman  enlered  the  lobby, 
whom  Levy  accosted  and  informed  him  that  he  would  sell  him  a 
reserved  seat  for  $5.  "  How  much?"  asked  the  pleasure-seeker. 
11  Why,  only  five  dollars,"  said  the  oleaginous  speculator.  "  Not 
If  I  know  It,"  said  the  visitor,  who  then  turned  to  go  away. 
"  Hold  on,  there,  you're  not  going?"  said  "  Nibsy."  •  .  You  bet  I 
am,"  said  the  gentleman,  "  One  thief  is  enough  ;  I  don't  want  to 
see  the  other  thirty-nine." 

That  great  Pacific-Union-Bohemian  Club  game  of  baseball  will 
come  off  today,  and  society  is  anxiously  awaiting  the  result. 
Will  the  owls'  feathers  be  ruffled,  or  will  the  gilding  be  rubbed 
off  the  gentle  Vere-de- Veres  from  Union  Square?  More  interest 
is  taken  in  that  game  than  in  the  result  of  the  Monetary  Confer- 
ence. One  thing  is  certain,  and  that  is,  that  after  the  gams 
numerous  members  of  each  club  will  have  different  ideas  on  the 
silver  question  than  they  now  entertain.  I  give  warning  that  it 
is  a  dangerous  proposition  to  bet  on,  for  no  man  ever  yet  foretold 
what  an  amateur  baseball  player  could  do  when  he  tried  hard. 
Everybody  who  is  in  town  and  considers  himself  of  the  elect 
will  certainly  be  there,  for  the  game  is  to  be  a  society  event  par 
excellence. 

Avery  astonishing  condition  of  affairs  has  been  developed  by 
the  death  on  Thursday  last  of  Porter  A.  Libby,  a  juror  in  the 
Curtis  case.  It  is  said  that  his  death  was  hastened,  if  not  directly 
caused,  by  exposure  incident  to  his  attendance  at  the  Curtis  trial  in 
Judge  Murphy's  court-room.  This  courtroom  is  heated  by  an  immense 
stove,  which  at  one  hour  may  be  red  hot,  and  the  next  hour  ice  cold. 
Sudden  and  frequent  changes  of  temperature  to  which  the  people  in 
the  court-room  were  subjected,  are  thereby  particularly  favorable  to 
the  development  of  pulmonary  complaints.  It  was  a  throat  com- 
plaint that  first  caused  Juror  Libby's  illness.  Judge  Murphy  should 
be  more  considerate  of  the  health  of  the  people  who  are  compelled 
by  law  to  attend  his  court  room;  it  is  not  presumed  that  anyone 
would  go  there  unless  compelled. 

CORBETT  has  at  last  attained  his  ambition  to  be  both  a  prize- 
fighter and  a  gentleman  at  the  same  time.  That  he  is  a  prize- 
fighter nobody  will  deny;  the  dispatches  state  that  his  wife  is 
about  to  sue  him  for  divorce  because  he  has  fallen  before  the 
charms  of  another  woman.  He  has  therefore  been  guilty  of  infi- 
delity, if  not  in  fact,  at  least  in  mind,  and  surely  that  makes  him 
a  gentleman,  within  the  meaning  given  by  the  fashionable  world 
to  the  word.  Corbett,  in  fact,  now  embodies  most  of  the  main 
characteristics  of  that  delightful  gentleman,  Van  Bibber,  whom 
Richard  Harding  Davis  has  presented  as  the  representative  of  the 
American  leisure  class. 

If  reports  be  true,  the  outlook  for  the  football  experts  of  the 
two  universities  of  the  State  are  better  than  for  the  young  gentle- 
men who  are  best  acquainted  with  the  uncertainties  of  x  and  y. 
It  is  said  that  Berkeley  will  pay  McClung  over  $400  and  expenses  for 
his  sixteen  days'  instruction,  and  Palo  Alto  will  give  Camp  $500  for 
his  tips  on  the  proper  way  of  working  the  ball.  I  venture  to  say  that 
it  will  be  many  a  weary  year  before  the  great  majority  of  the  univer 
sity  students  acquire  positions  wherein  they  can  make  $400  for  even 
sixty  days  work.  So  that  there  is  some  method  in  their  football  mad- 
ness, after  all. 

THAT  suddenly  rejuvenated  sheet,  the  Gall,  is  showing  unusual 
enterprise.  It  has  even  gone  to  coining  new  words.  In  a 
dispatch  published  during  the  week,  headed  San  Diego  and  dated 
Los  Angeles,  which  gave  an  account  of  a  street  car  accident,  the 
paper  referred  to  the  man  who  worked  the  motor  as  the  motor- 
neer.  "Motorneer"  is  good;  it  is  not  nearly  as  common-place  as 
motorman,  and  implies  that  the  gentleman  referred  to  has  a  cer- 
tain dignity  and  power  not  possessed  by  those  unfortunates 
sometimes  referred  to  as  motormen,  gripmen  or  hackmen.  If 
'.motorneer"  why  not  "gripper,"  "gripneer"  or  *>gripnearer?" 

THOSE  "canvass,returns"  in  the  daily  papers  are  getting  about 
as  tiresome  as  the  weather  predictions,  or  the  statements 
upon  the  age  of  the  Call's  press.  I  am  surprised  that  some  of 
the  bright  young  men  of  the  daily  press  have  not  ere  this  pro- 
duced a  comedy  based  upbn  our  Election  Commissioners.  The 
ancient  Mr.  O'Brien  and  the  agile  Mr.  Ciunie,  playing  hide  and 
seek,  would  make  a  great  feature.  If  the  dailies  cannot  put  some 
life  into  their  returns,    they  ought  to  leave  them  out  altogether. 

A  DISPATCH  in  Thursday's  papers  announces  that  a  company 
has  been  formed  in  Oregon  "to  salt  suckers."  It  is  not  neces. 
sary  to  go  so  far  for  news,  or  salted  suckers.  The  salting  of  suckers 
has  been  going  on  at  the  Bay  District  Track  for  some  weeks,  and 
is  not  yet  over. 

AN  item  is  going  the  rounds  of  the  London  press  to  the  effect 
that  the  author  of  that  eccentric  ballad,  "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" 
has  been  arrested  for  forgery.  '.The  mills  of  the  gods  grind 
slowly,  but  they  grind  exceeding  small." 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


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ONE  of  the  most  extensive  concerns  in  Maine  has  for  some  time 
past  been  experimenting  on  an  ingenius  process  of  burning 
lime  with  oil  instead  of  with  wood,  the  resnlt,  as  appears,  being 
of  a  very  satisfactory  character.  At  this  establishment,  the  oil 
trT  use  at  the  kilns  is  stored  for  the  purpose  in  a  huge  tank  hold- 
ing more  than  10,000  gallons,  from  which  it  is  pumped  as  desired 
into  a  pre°sure  tank  of  150  gallons'  capacity,  and  a  20-pound 
pressure  is  applied.  The  oil  is  purified  by  passing  through  water, 
and  a  meter  is  attached  to  the  kiln.  Each  kiln  has  two  arches, 
and  two  pipes  run  to  each  arch;  one  pipe  carries  the  oil,  the 
other  the  steam  to  force  the  burning  oil  up  among  the  limerock. 
The  effect  of  this  arrangement  is  the  production  of  an  intense 
heat,  making  it  necessary  to  draw  eight  times  a  day.  The  lime 
thus  produced  is  described  as  whiter  than  that  burned  with  wood, 
and  of  a  better  quality. 

■  Apparatus  has  for  some  time  been  in  operation  at  West 
Chester,  Pa.,  for  the  manufacture  of  fuel  gas,  the  remarkable 
efficiency  of  the  machine  being  shown  by  the  fact  that  it  produces 
in  one  hour  a  quantity  equal  to  what  was  formerly  made  in 
twelve  hours,  or  nearly  24,000  cubic  feet.  The  process  in  quea- 
tion  is  new  in  several  respects;  steam  is  decomposed  with  bitu- 
minous coal  enriched  with  crude  oil,  and  the  gas  is  fixed  with 
red-hot  coke,  the  product  being  not  a  strictly  water-gas,  as  it 
contains  only  about  nine  per  cent,  of  carbonic  oxide,  but  it  is  very 
rich  marsh  gas  hydrogen,  and  to  this  is  due  its  high  heating 
power.  At  the  West  Chester  plant  the  two  holders  now  in  use 
have  a  capacity  of  24,000  and  55,000  cubic  feet.  In  a  separate 
building  are  stored  about  8,000  gallons  of  crude  oil,  which  is 
used  in  the  manufacture  of  the  gas,  at  the  rate  of  about  three  and 
three-fourths  gallons  per  one  thousand  cubic  feet  of  gas;  the  oil 
is  pumped  to  a  tank  on  the  roof  of  the  building,  and  from  whence, 
by  gravity,  it  goes  to  the  furnace  and  mingles  with  the  coke.  An 
expert's  test  of  the  gas  indicates  a  candle  power  of  30.2,  and  the 
specific  gravity  .600,  and  the  heat  units  per  foot,  .698.  Only 
four  gallons  of  crude  oil  per  1,000  cubic  feet  were  used. 

—  8ome  of  the  best  specimens  of  oak  for  decorative  wood  are 
now  obtained,  it  is  stated,  by  fumigating  the  material  with  am- 
moniacal  vapor,  which  effectively  produces  the  dark  coloring  so 
much  desired.  In  accomplishing  this,  the  method  consists  in 
placing  the  material  to  be  darkened  in  an  approximately  air-tight 
room,  in  which  no  light  enters;  or  for  small  work  a  packing  box 
will  suffice,  the  joints  or  cracks  to  be  well  pasted  over  with  pa- 
per. In  this  room  or  receptacle  for  depositing  the  furniture  or 
other  articles  is  placed  a  fiat  porcelain  or  earthen  vessel  filled 
with  ammonia,  the  vessel  containing  the  liquid  being,  of  course, 
set  on  the  ground  or  floor,  that  the  fumes  or  vapor  may  strike  to 
advantage  the  articles  to  be  darkened;  if  the  apartment  is  large, 
two  or  more  vessels  containing  ammonia  may  be  employed  and 
allowed  to  remain  until  the  desired  effect  is  secured.  The  am- 
monia does  not  touch  the  oak,  but  the  gas  that  proceeds  from  it 
acts  in  a  peculiar  manner  upon  the  tannic  acid  contained  in  oak, 
browning  it  so  deeply  that  a  shaving  or  two  may  actually  be 
taken  off  without  removing  the  color.  The  depth  of  shade  de- 
pends upon  the  quantity  of  ammonia  need  and  the  duration  of 
exposure. 

In  the  preparation  of  wool  for  printing,   bleaching  powder 

is  successfully  employed  as  the  source  of  the  chlorine,  and  two 
methods  are  resorted  to  for  this  purpose,  with  about  equally  sat- 
isfactory results.  In  one  case  the  goods  are  passed  for  fifteen 
minutes  into  a  bath  of  five  pounds  pf  sulphuric  acid  in  one  hun- 
dred gallons  of  water,  this  quantity  being  sufficient  for  about 
fifty  pounds  of  woollen  cloth ;  next  the  goods  are  passed  through 
a  bath  containing  five  pounds  of  chloride  of  lime  in  one  hundred 
gallons  of  water,  care  being  taken  that  the  bath  be  quite  clear 
and  free  from  any  floating  undissolved  particles  of  bleaching  pow- 
der, which,  coming  in  contact  with  the  cloth,  would  in  a  short 
time  produce  holes.  About  ten  minutes  in  this  bath  suffices,  and 
the  cloth  being  then  rinsed  and  dried,  is  is  ready  for  printing.  In 
the  otber  method,  the  bath  consists  of  two  gallons  of  cbemic, 
chloride  of  lime  and  liquor,  11}  deg.  Tw.,  and  two  gallons  of  hy- 
drochloric acid  in  100  gallons  of  water;  through  this  the  cloth  is 
passed  two  or  three  times,  then  rinsed  and  dried  in  the  usual 
manner. 

■■  —  Cars  of  a  somewhat  original  construction  have  been 
adopted  by  the  Overhead  Railway  Company,  London,  England. 
These  cars  are  45  feet  in  length,  8J  feet  wide,  carried  upon  two 
four-wheel  trucks,  32  feet  apart  between  the  centres  of  truck 
pins.  The  truck  frames  are  of  pressed  steel,  and  the  wheels  are 
33  inches  in  diameter,  with  steel  tires  and  wrougbt-iron  spokes, 
and  each  truck  has  a  70  to  100  horse  electric  motor.  A  central 
automatic  coupler  and  buffet  arrangement  is  employed.  The 
ends  of  the  car  are  closed,  and  the  interior  is  divided  into  two 
main  compartments,  with  one  door  in  each  side  of  each  com- 
partment, and  the  car  accommodates  fifty-six  passengers.  The 
roof  is  arched  and  has  one  clear  story,  and  the  framing  is  of  oak 
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APROPOS  uf  the  rage  (or  Iidy'a  clubs  and  the  penchant  for  all 
sort?  of  ruascnline  emancipations  which  raged  among  the 
beauties  of  that  Second  Empire,  here  is  a  droll  anecdote  of  a  French 
officer  who  was  determined  to  cure  hi?  young  wife  of  her  tastes  in 
that  direction.  He  was  attached  to  the  household  of  the  Emperor. 
and  she  was  a  very  lovely  woman,  and  he  kept  her  under  a  rather 
strict  surveillance.  However,  she  became  a  little  restive  under  this 
regime,  and.  inspired  by  the  example  of  the  frisky  matrons  about  her, 
joined  one  of  those  "  mannish  "  clubs  which  were  the  vogue  for 
emancipated  grander  dame.*  in  Fans.  Her  husband  was  greatly  an- 
noyed, but  said  not  a  word,  and  bided  his  opportunity.  At  length 
belle  madame  went  into  the  country  for  a  day  or  two,  and.  Moris,  le 
mari  determined  to  give  her  a  lesson.  When  she  returned  to  the 
capital  there  was  no  indulgent  hubby  waiting  to  meet  her  at  the  rail- 
way station  ;  and  when  she  reached  home— still  greater  surprise.  She 
found  her  apartments  utterly  transformed.  All  her  pretty  little 
knick-knacks  and  feminine  tritles  had  disappeared,  and  in  their  place 
were  the  various  sundries  proper  to  a  gentleman's  dressing-room  and 
sitting-room.  She  rushed  to  her  husband's  apartment  to  ask  the 
meaning  of  this  change;  but  paused  on  the  threshold,  scarcely  be- 
lieving her  eyes,  for  there,  surrounded  by  all  his  wife's  dainty  little 
lady-like  appurtenances  and  ornaments,  sat  the  Colonel,  a  peignoir  of 
hers  over  his  stalwart  shoulders  and  his  great  hands  laboriously  stitch- 
ing at  a  piece  of  fancy  needlework.  "Are  you  mad?  "  she  cried.  "Oh, 
dear,  no,"  replied  he,  coolly  threading  his  needle:  "only,  as  you 
wish  to  change  your  sex,  I  thought  I  had  better  do  the  same." 

The  gourmands  of  Paris,  and  elsewhere,  will  doubtless  hear  with 
pleasure  that  at  the  Aquarium  of  the  Trocad6ro  an  experi- 
ment is  being  made  on  a  very  extensive' scale  which  has,  so  far,  been 
successful,  and  doubtless  will  result  in  a  very  large  supply  of  young 
salmon  being  put  into  the  Seine,  the  Marne,  and  other  rivers  of 
France.  The  parents  of  the  80,000  young  ones  at  the  Trocad6ro  are 
120  elderly  salmon,  which  have  been  brought  from  California  to 
France.  It  may  be  mentioned  that  the  flesh  of  the  Australian  sal- 
mon is  white,  but  that  does  not  cause  any  deterioration  in  the  flavor, 
No  salmon  will  appear  in  the  part  of  the  Seine  which  runs  through 
Paris,  for  the  best  of  reasons.  Stringent  legal  enactments  will  be 
necessary  for  the  protection  of  the  fish. 

Anything  more  novel  and  yet  more  ancient  has  not  occurred  than 
the  celebration  of  the  Mass  of  the  Holy  Ghost  on  the  opening  of  the 
Michaelmas  Law  sittings.  It  is  the  second  time  it  has  been  done 
since  the  Reformation.  The  mass  was  performed  at  the  Sardian 
Chapel  in  Lincoln's  Innhelds,  and  was  reproduced  for  the  benefit  of 
about  eighty  Roman  Catholic  members  of  the  Bar,  who  appeared  in 
their  legal  robes.  The  ceremony  of  the  mass  was  not  remarkably 
striking,  though  the  choir  was  excellent,  and  on  this  occasion  was 
strengthened  by  a  considerable  amount  of  amateur  talent.  The 
chapel  is  the  oldest  Catholic  one  in  London,  and  is  known  as  the 
church  of  St.  Anselm  and  Cecelia.  Those  who  were  present  at  the 
Mass  of  the  Holy  Ghost  were  very  much  impressed  at  this  revival  of 
an  ancient  religious  observance. 

No  doubt  many  sparkling  anecdotes  would  see  the  light  if  Mrs. 
Proctor's  memoirs  were  written,  but,  as  she  deprecated  any  such 
proceeding,  probably  her  wish  will  be  respected.  Kinglake  regularly 
attended  her  weekly  salon,  and  many  bright  conversations  passed 
between  them.  One  day  when  they  were  talking  of  the  pertinacity 
of  the  sex,  Mr.  Kinglake  gave  out  as  his  opinion  that  if  a  woman  ' 
took  it  into  her  head  to  marry  a  man  she  would  in  some  way  or  an- 
other contrive  that  he  should  propose  to  her,  however  averse  he  may 
have  originally  been"  to  the  idea.  "  What  a  pity,"  replied  Mrs.  Proc- 
tor, "that  you  shouldn't  have  known  me  when  I  was  young  and 
free  I"  

A  Portland  physician  and  a  Bath  theologian  were  in  the  Bowdoin 
Medical  School  recently  examining  microscopic  slides  of  peculiar 
glands.  The  physician  began  a  scientific  discussion,  and  the  clergy- 
man ,  wearied  of  the  subject,  exclaimed :  "You  doctors  know  so  much 
about  the  uncertainties  of  this  world,  that  I  should  think  you  would 
not  want  to  live."  Whereupon  the  physician  retorted:  "You  theo- 
logians tell  us  so  much  about  the  uncertainty  of  the  next  world  that 
we  don't  want  to  die."  (_[^j_uru_l 

Apropos  of  the  admission  of  women  to  the  Medical  Association,  Sir 
Spencer  Wells  consulted  an  American  examiner  on  the  snbject  of 
professional  women,  and  received  the  following  very  smart  reply: 
"  Well,  sir,  in  our  country  we  have  a  great  many  female  doctors,  fe- 
male journalists,  female  preachers  and  females  in  all  classes  of  pro- 
fessions and  trades :  but  what  we  want  is  more  female  women." 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorn ey-at-1  aw,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
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305  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  BALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

fEstablished  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.) 
Office — Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  StreetB. 
GEO.  F.  BRANT,  Manager. 

ZPA-CIiFICI    IDIEIrP.A.DEai'IIVL'lEIISrT 

6UARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF  LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     t  5,000,000. 
CashAssetB, $23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, {10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     12,222,724. 


WM.  J.  LADDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  20»  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  F0REI8N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL 16,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  EN6LAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  $19,724,638.46. 

President.  ^UNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBENS. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
Mills  Building,  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND  DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Wareaonse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 

'"Soney  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates.  '' 

Office  of  the  Company.  202  Sansome  St..  over  the  Anfllo-Callfornla  Bank. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 


[^   OF-  K/lAMfcHE:BTE:F=T  ,  ENGLAND.jj 

Capital  paid  oj  guaranteed  33,000,000,00. 

ChasA  Latum,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  Fi-artE:s:a. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  J  892. 


4I&FH2Pa*$i 


THE  Potrero  Avenue  extension  is  not  yet  a  "go"  in  the  sense 
that  Supervisor  Taber  and  some  others  of  bis  stripe  would 
wish  it  to  be.  A  spoke  is  likely  to  be  placed  in  the  wheel  of  this 
supervisorial  extortion  machine,  and  many  pretty  calculations 
are  apt  to  be  upset  by  certain  outraged  citizens.  Those  who  are 
looking  for  the  "divvy"  and  believe  that  they  will  have  only  a 
handful  of  poor  25-foot  installment-bought-lot  owners  to  fight,  will 
be  disagreeably  surprised  to  learn  that  there  are  several  wealthy 
firms  among  the  protestants.  One  large  Battery  street  firm 
which  is  assessed  for  $5000  has  a  vigorous  fight  to  make  before  it 
will  "stand  and  deliver"  and  those  who  do  the  talking  at  the 
meetings  of  the  Potrero-Avenne  Property  Owners'  Association 
know  whereof  they  speak  and  represent  much  more  than  their 
humble  selves.  If  Main  &  Winchester,  Louis  BIoss,  Louis 
Gerstle,  Ira  P.  Rankin,  8.  Gruenwald  and  others  allow  their 
pockets  to  be  picked  without  a  protest,  their  fellow  citizens  have 
for  years  had  a  very  erroneous  impression  of  them.  Over  400 
owners  have  signified  their  Intention  to  fight  the  assessment  and 
it  is  to  be  hoped  that  they  wilt  make  the  fight  so  hot  that  it  will 
make  supervisors  pause  to  consider  whether  the  game  of  a 
biennial  "cleanup"  is  worth  the  candle. 

A  petty  trick  has  been  played  on  the  Mission  residents  in  the 
removal  of  the  160  foot  electric  light  masts,  another  street  com- 
mittee job,  and  in  the  substitution  of  smaller  masts.  The  large 
masts  have  16,000  candle  power  lights,  the  small  ones  have  but 
2000  candle  power  and  there  is  a  neat  little  sum  made  by  the 
removal.  Whose  pocket  is  being  lined  by  this  job? — may  well 
be  asked. 

Property  owners  could  not  do  more  to  help  themselves  than 
they  do  in  San  Francisco;  but  at  every  step  they  are  confronted 
with  jobbery  or  neglect.  When  streets  are  put  through  at  some- 
thing like  reasonable  cost  (if  the  assessment  of  a  district  to  open 
a  street  is  a  reasonable  proposition  at  all)  trouble  is  sure  to  arise 
about  the  manner  in  which  the  work  i«  done.  The  latest  wail 
comes  from  the  Laguna  Survey  district,  and  the  condition  in 
which  the  work  has  been  left  there  is  disgraceful.  Union  street, 
from  Polk  to  Octavia,  was  to  have  been  graded,  macadamized, 
curbed  and  side-walked;  the  contract  was  let  eleven  months  ago, 
and  is  not  one-third  finished  to-day.  The  patient,  long-suffering 
property-owning  ass,  has  come  to  look  upon  this  kind  of  impo- 
sition as  a  matter  of  course,  and  between  the  Street  Committee 
and  the  contractors,  who  work  into  one  another's  hands,  he  is 
not  as  much  noticed  as  a  disinterested  onlooker  at  a  county-fair 
juggler,  except  that  he  is  obliged  to  pay  for  the  entertainment. 

Charles  Taber  pledged  his  word  that  he  would  not  sign  any  re- 
port of  the  Street  Committee  favoring  the  completion  of  the 
streets  from  Sixteenth  to  Twenty-ninth.  At  the  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  last  Monday  week,  L.  R.  Ellert  called  at- 
tention to  the  fact  that  the  report  on  those  streets  sent  in  by  the 
Street  Committee  was  not  signed  by  the  chairman,  and  was  a 
minority  report.  The  magnanimous  Taber  was  equal  to  the  oc- 
casion, and  speedily  volunteered  that  if  nothing  else  was  lacking, 
he  would  supply  the  needed  signature,  and  so  he  did.  This  is  the 
gentleman  who,  after  »  mature  consideration,"  decided  not  to 
run  as  an  independent  candidate  for  re-election  as  Supervisor. 
His  decision  in  that  respect  does  him  more  credit  than  most  of  his 
recent  acts. 

Easton,  Eldridge  &  Co.  will  hold  an  auction  sale  of  city  property 
on  Tuesday  next.  The  catalogue  is  worthy  of  study,  and  at  pres- 
ent a  good  bargain  should  not  be  difficult  to  obtain,  for  owners 
are  more  yielding  than  they  have  been  in  months  past. 

The  entrance  to  the  city  is  an  object  of  interest  to  every  San 
Franciscan.  It  has  so  long  been  so  unsightly  that  the  news  that 
the  new  year  will  see  the  commencement  of  work  on  a  handsome 
ferry  building  is  gratifying.  No  details  can  be  learned  as  yet  as 
to  the  style  of  building  to  be  erected;  but  work  is  in  progress  on 
the  plans.  Building  generally  is  quiet,  and  indeed  could  not  be 
expected  to  be  anything  else  at  this  time  of  year. 


WRITTEN    BENEATH    A    CRUCIFIX.—  Anne    Reeve    Aldrich 

He  hath  not  guessed  Christ's  agony, 

He  hath  not  dreamed  its  bitterest  woe, 
Who  hath  not  worn  the  crown  of  love 

And  felt  the  crown  of  anguish  so. 
Ah,  not  the  torments  of  the  cross, 

Or  nails  that  pierced,  or  thirst  that  burned. 
Heightened  the  kingly  victim's  pain, 

But,  grief  of  griefs— his  love  was  spurned  I 

Piano  Lamps,  from  $7.50  upwards,  at  Nathan,  Dohrraann  &  Co's, 
122-132  Sutter  st.,  below  Kearny  st. 

Shainwald.  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission. 
Office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 


"THE  WHITE   HOUSE." 

THE 

FINEST    DISPLAY 

EVER  ATTEMPTED   BY   ANY  HOUSE    IN  SAN  FRANCISCO 


We  are  now  prepared  to  show  for 
the  Holidays  the  latest  European  pro- 
ductions in  Bronzes,  Terra  Cotta, 
Sevres,  Porcelain,  Limoges  Wares, 
Dresden  Wares  and  all  the  newest 
shapes  and  decorations  in  English 
Faience. 

Rare  and  beautiful  goods  in  Galle 
Inlaid  Tables,  Faience  and  Crystal 
Vases. 

Our  stock  of  lamps  and  shades  is 
most  complete.  .  American  Cut  Glass 
in  all  the  newest  shapes  and  cuttings. 

Sole  agents  for  Roekwood  Pottery. 

RAPHAEL   WEILL   &   CO., 

N.   W.  Cor.   Post  and  Kearny  Sts. 


RENTS! 


We  collect  Rents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  &  HAMMOND, 

Real  Estate  Agents  and  Rent  Collectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


Corner  Clay  and  Sansome. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Yellow  Jacket  Silver  Mining  Company, 
Location  of  principal  plar e  of  business— Gold  Hill,  Nevada.    Location  of 
works— Gold  Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Boa'rd  of  Trustees  of  this 
company,  held  on  the  sixth  day  of  December,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  5S) 
of  Thirty ',30)  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the 
corporation,  payable  immediately,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  or  to  James  Newlands,  transfer  secretary,  room  35,  Mills  build- 
ing, third  floor,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 
Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  Tenth  Day  of  January,  1893,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made  be- 
fore, will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  Fourteenth  day  of  February  1893,  at  1 
o'clock  p.  m.,  in  front  of  the  office  of  the  company,  to  pay  the  delinquent 
assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale. 
By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 
W.  H.  BLAUVELT,  Secretary. 

ANNUAL  MEETING- 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Gould  <fe  Curry 
Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 
Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  30J  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

Monday,  the  Nineteenth  Oay  of  December,  at  the  hour  of  1  O'clock  P.  M., 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Trustees   to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  for  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  December  16, 1892,  at  8  o'clock 
p.  m.  ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  69,  Nevada  Block,  S09  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 


Dec.   10.   1892. 


BAN  FBAN1  tS<  0  NEWS  LETT]  K. 


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AM.  (be  withdrawal*  from  the  compact  have  been  held  over 
until  January  1.  1893.  This  has  been  done  fn  the  interests  of 
peate.  that  la  to  say.  bo  that  the  year  may  go  out  without  a  dis- 
turbance of  the  rates,  and  it  might  be  added,  of  the  contingents  of 
ft  number  of  managers  who  would  be  very  unwilling  to  see  them 
imperilled  at  the  eleventh  hour.  On  tbe  first  of  the  year  not 
only  will  the  notice  of  tbe  Northwestern  National,  of  Milwaukee, 
and  of  the  I'b<  nix  and  Home  expire,  but  also  of  the  Continental. 
General  Agent  D.  B.  Wilson  received  advices  from  New  York  on 
Thursday  last  "to  withdraw  from  tbe  compact  with  tbe  others." 
If  these  four  companies  withdraw  it  will  mean  an  end  to  the 
P.  I.  V.,  and  there  is  very  grave  apprehension  that  such  will  really 
be  the  case.  Alfred  Stillman  has  gone  to  Milwaukee  for  no  other 
purpose  than  to  call  upon  President  James,  of  tbe  Northwestern 
National,  and  persuade  him  to  withdraw  or  to  reconsider  the 
notice  of  withdrawal  which  George  W.  Turner,  acting  under  his 
orders,  sent  on  to  the  P.  I.  U.  over  a  month  ago.  Mr.  James  is 
an  obstinate  or  rather  a  firm-willed  man,  and  has  always  evinced 
a  peculiar  predilection  for  operating  on  tbe  outside  of  a  compact. 
He  likes  compacts  well  enough  because  they  are  compacts,  and 
because  he  can  just  shave  rates  even  so  little  and  capture  tbe 
cream  of  the  business.  That  be  did  so  is  proof  of  tbe  company's 
small  losses,  less  than  one  per  cent,  in  the  recent  big  Milwaukee 
fire.  Taking  all  these  facts  into  consideration,  Alfred  Stillman's 
chances  with  President  James,  of  the  Northwestern  National,  can 
hardly  be  said  to  glow  with  tbe  probabilities  of  success. 

Here  is  a  little  exclusive  item  which  has  caused  a  little  comment  in 
the  East.  On  Thursday  morning  a  dispatch  stated  that  the  Western 
Assurance  Company,  of  Toronto,  had  bought  out  the  British  Amer- 
ica, of  the  same  Canadian  town.  The  local  agents,  Maxwell  &  Berry, 
telegraphed  to  ex-Governor  J.  Morrison,  President  of  the  British 
America,  and  in  reply  received  a  dispatch,  reading  thus:  "  Not  sold; 
only  a  friendly  ailiance."  Now  the  question  is  "  what  does  a  friendly 
alliance  mean?"    A  coalition  and  a  joint  policy,  or  what?" 

The  loss  ratio  for  California  up  to  November  1st  is  high,  being  43 
per  cent.  For  1891  it  was  37  per  cent. ;  in  1890  it  was  43  per  cent. ;  in 
1889,  41  per  cent. ,  and  in  1888,  the  year  of  Seattle,  Spokane,  Ellensberg 
and  other  fires,  50  per  cent.  The  Coast  ratio  in  1891  was  37  per  cent. ; 
in  1890  it  was  36  per  cent. ;  in  1889  it  was  42  per  cent.,  and  in  the  con- 
flagration year  of  1888  it  was  83  per  cent. 

Paul  M.  Nippert.  of  the  Granite  State  and  Redding  Fire,  is  home 
again  after  a  joint  business  and  pleasure  trip  to  the  East. 

It  will  take  sixty  days  at  least  to  test  the  anti-credit  amendment 
which  went  into  effect  on  the  1st  instant.  Who  knows  whether  it 
will  ever  be  tested  so  long,  in  view  of  the  threatening  aspect  of  the 
P.  I.  U.  affairs  ? 

Marine  men  are  breathing  more  freely.  The  storm,  severe  as  it 
was,  did  but  little  damage  at  sea ;  and,  with  the  exception  of  the  Dora 
Blum,  there  are  no  serious  losses  to  record,  and  that  was  not  a  very 
heavy  one.    The  Point  Lorma  loss  was  trifling. 

T.  L.  Miller  is  in  Los  Angeles,  and  will  not  be  back  for  a  fortnight. 

W.  H.  C.  Fowler  leaves  to-day,  or  at  the  latest,  to-morrow,  for  six 
months'  absence  in  Europe.  He  expects  to  bring  back  an  agency  or 
two  in  his  grip  for  Bromwell,  Fowler  &  Co. 

William  E.  Magill,  insurance  commissioner  of  Michigan,  leaves  for 
home  to-night.  Roswell  Miller,  also  connected  with  Michigan's  in- 
surance department  will  remain  here  for  some  time.  He  is  engaged 
in  an  examination  of  California  companies,  and  thus  far  has  found 
them  in  splendid  condition. 


A  Million  Dozen  of  Champagne. 

OF  the  great  champagne  establishments  at  Keims,  the  moat 
striking  is  that  of  Messrs.  Pommery  &  Greno  (now  Veuve 
Pommery  Fils  et  Cie.)  situated  in  the  outskirts  of  the  city.  Its 
lofty  castellated  tower  is  visible  from  afar.  Since  Pommery  received 
such  cordial  recognition  on  the  part  of  the  British  connoisseur  sev- 
eral years  ago,  the  demand  increased  immensely,  and  the  buildings 
in  consequence  required  to  be  extended  almost  yearly.  The  cellars 
are  formed  by  130  large  shafts,  which  are  ninety  feet  deep  and  sixty 
feet  square  at  the  bottom,  connected  by  galleries  so  extensive  that 
one  may  walk  through  those  under-ground  passages  for  seven  miles 
without -going  twice  over  any  part.  They  contain  at  present  a  mil- 
lion dozen— 12,000,000  bottles— of  wine,  a  stock  being  always  kept 
equal  to  five  years'  average  supply.  These  cellars  are  visited  by 
about  three  thousand  people  in  the  course  of  the  year,  two  men 
being  regularly  employed  in  showing  them.  The  firm  is  now  com- 
posed of  the  son  and  daughter  of  the  deceased  Mme.  Pommery ;  Mr. 
Louis  Pommery,  and  Mme.  Countess  de  Polignac,  and  Mr.  Henry 
Vasnier,  the  intellectual  directeur.  who  are  also,  individually,  large 
proprietors  of  vinevards,  principally  at  Verzenay,  Ay  and  Bouzy,  the 
finest  wine-growing  districts.  Mr.  Victor  Lambert,  the  renowned 
wine  expert,  is  cellar-master  of  this  vast  establishment. 

—Frank  Leslie's  Popular  Monthly. 

MuXLER's  Pebble  Spectacles  and  eye  glasses  at  reduced  rates— suitable 
Xmas  presents. 


CALIFORNIA  WIRE  WORKS, 

9  FREMONT  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

MAKrKACTTKKKS    OF 

E  of  all  Kinds,     WIRE  MILS,  Best  Steel. 

BARBED     WIRE,  Regularly   Licensed. 

WIRE     ROPES     AND     CABLES. 

WIRE     CLOTH     AND     NETTING. 

HALLADIE'S  ENDLESS  WIRE   ROPEWAY   for  transporting 
ore  and  other  material  over  mountains  and  difficult  roads. 
Send  for  Ulnntrated  Catalogue. 

BRANCHES.— 22  Front  street,  Portland,  Or.;  201  N.  Los  Angeles  street, 
Los  Anfteles,  California. 


THE  SCIENCE 

OF 

THE  SKIN. 


-V  AW  Jtoucijte, 


324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  with  the  aid  of  Dermollne. 
Tbe  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 

Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
moved and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
by  a  new  proceaB. 

Hair  Invleorator,  guaranteed  to 
cure  BALDNESS. 


CYPRESS  LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Crosa  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

F-A.MIIiTT      PLOTS 
For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  non-sectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  the  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 

GARDEN  CITY   NURSERY, 

SAN  JOSE,  I'AL. 

A  FULL  LINE  OF 

rtfUFfSEI^V     ST0<5K 

always  on  band  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Correspondence  solicited. 

WM.    KELLY,  Proprietor, 

The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-class  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 

THE  COLEMAN. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS    HOTEL,    European  Plan.) 

H.   H.   PEARSON,   Proprietor.  BROADWAY   and  27th  St.,  NEW   YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  St.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
tation  and  horse  cars;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

-A.Tosol-u.tely      Pire-proof. 

Central  to  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  KINZLEK,  Manager. 


THE 

BANJO 

ASHTON 


P.  STEVENS. 


STUDIO  :     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.   10.   lhH2. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour—  Demand  good;    Extras  S3. 90,19-54.    SuperBue,  *2  60@t3.10. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping,  $1.27^;  Milling,  *1.30^$1.35   per  cental 

Barley  is  dull;  Brewing.  9l)c.<#$t  Feeu.  8A£c.@35c.  per  ctl. 

Oats.  Milling,  $1.35@*140;  Feed,  $1.2o@tl.lu  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  $1.10;  fellow,  »l.u5@»l.'2)per  ctl. 

Rye  is  nuiet,  good  demand,  ;i.l5;gu.l7V{.    Cement,  ?2.00@»2.25. 
.    Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $10.50:  Oats,  *7®Slu;  Alfalfa,  J8@J9.5U. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.     Bran,  Jl:!.oU(9fH  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00.<9$2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  60c.@75e.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  SOaf^^c.  ;•  Fair,  16c.@17c;^Easteru,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  35c-@40c. 
•  Honey,  Comb,  10c.rt912c. ;  Extracted;  7c. @8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Ouions  are  worth  60c@90c.    Beeswax  is  steady,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  7c@7VaC.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  5^c.@6c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15e.@2lc.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@20c: 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4 1.50  per  flask. 
!   Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  RawB  and  Reflued.    White,  4^@5?ic. 

The  rain  thus  far  in  the  season  has  been  so  .plentiful  as  to 
cause  great  joy  to  the  tillers  of  the  soil,  and  to  a-It  other  indus- 
tries throughout  our  wide  domain.  Copious  rains  are  the  sure 
precursors  of  a  prosperous  and  productive  year.  It  is  a  sure 
guarantee  of  progress  to  the  miner,  to  the  agriculturist,  horticul- 
turist and  in  fact  all  classes  of  the  community  are  jubilant.  The 
cattlemen;  dairymen,  sheepmen,  etc.,  all  rejoice  and  are  glad. 
Thus  far  in  the  season  some  seven  inches  of  rain  have  fallen, 
being  far  in  excess  of  many  preceding  seasons  at  even  date. 

Mikado  Oranges— 9000  boxes  were  received  from  Japan  by  the 
BeLgic — all  in  fine  order,  and  of  these,  five  car  loads  have  been 
Bent  east  by  rail. 

The  arrivals  of  deep  water  vessels  thus  far  during  the  current 
month  have  been  numerous,  and  include  quite  a  number  of  ships 
long  delayed,  and  for  their  safe  arrival  no  little  anxiety  had  been 
felt  by  the  owners  and  underwriters. 

■  The  severe  storms  of  late  were  not  so  disastrous  to  vessels  near- 
ing  port  as  was  feared,  and  though  the  damage  in  city  and  country 
by  floods,  washouts,  etc.,  has  been  quite  extensive,  yet  the  ag- 
gregate of  damage  in  dollars  and  cents  was  far  less  than  was 
feared. 

Hongkong The  ship  Charmer,  64  ds.   thence  to  8iegfried  & 

Brandenstien,  had  for  cargo  23,000  pkgs.  Tea  and  other  Mdse., 
2,200  rolls  Matting,  137  bags  Tapioca,  14,658  mats  Rice,  600  cases 
Nut  Oil,  etc. 

The  stmr.  Belgic,  from  same,  had  7,953  bxs.  Japanese  Oranges, 
128  bales  Gunnies,  500  bales  Hemp,  1129  rolls  Matting,  6,000  pkgs. 
Dates,  1,442  pkgs.  Sugar,  360  pkgs.  Spice,  307  pkgs.  Opium,  1,679 
pkgs.  Oil,  1,606  pkgs.  Tea,  10,099  mats  Eice,  etc.;  also  to  go  East 
overland  1,692  pkgs.  Raw  Silk,  2,367  pkgs.  Tea,  1200  pkgs.  Mdse. 
New  York — The  ship  Arabia,  164  days  thence  to  Williams,  Di- 
mond  &  Co.,  had  a  very  large  cargo  of  general  mdse.  to  various 
consignees.  Ship  8.  P.  Hitchcock,  144  days  thence  to  Sutton  & 
Beebee,  had  a  large  general  cargo  of  mdse.  Ship  San  Joaquin,  218 
days  thence  to  same  consignees,  had  a  large  cargo  of  well  assorted 
mdse. 

Liverpool — Br.  ship  Ravenscott,  163  days  thence  to  J.  D. 
Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  had  9,129  sks.  Salt  and  a  large  cargo  of  gen- 
eral mdse.  Br.  ship  Formosa,  to  same  consignees,  had  21,347 
sks.  Salt  and  Mdse  in  large  variety. 

London — Br.  ship  Balmore,  hence  on  the  1st  inat.,  carried  for 
cargo  37,564  ctls.  Barley,  9732  glls.  Brandy,  8000  cs.  canned  fruits, 
157,403  lbs.  Grape  8ugar,  133,607  lbs.  Mustard  Seed,  2115  cs.  Sal- 
mon, 24,000  glls.  Syrup,  etc.     Value,  $118,918. 

Central  America —  The  Nica.  steamer  Montserrat,  hence  1st 
inst.,  had  for  cargo  704  bbls.  Flour  and  mdse.     Value,  $34,592. 

Mexico — Per  stm.  Newbern,  hence  2d  inst.,  had  for  cargo  44,274 
lbs.  Lard  and  mdse.     Value,  $61,806. 

Hawaii The  Harvester,    for  Hilo,    had   for  cargo    101   bbls. 

Flour  and  Mdse.,  value  $6,849.  The  Bk.  S.  C.  Allen,  for  Hono- 
lulu on  the  5th  inst.,  carried    Mdse.   valued   at  $19,214,  say  1,300 

bbls.  Flour,  2,835   sks.  Bran,  7,620  ctls.   Barley,  1,163  ctls.  Oats, 
3,058  Posts,  etc. 
Tahiti Brig  Galilee,  hence  had  for  cargo  1,190  bbls.  Flour,  5,000 

Pickets,  2,000  Shakes,  50,000  Shingles,  13,821  lbs.  Sugar  and  Mdse., 

value  $23,591. 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  The  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 

The  great  reputation  gained  by  Steele's  Grindelia'  Lotion  arises 
from  the  fact  that  its  curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and  asthma.  The  lotion  is 
for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street. 


To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contem- 
plating a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the  Union  Pacific  It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
man Drawing-roopi  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.  You  are 
only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  York  or 

Boston. 
Every  Thursday  a  -Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 

line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and   Boston,  making  25%  hours  quicker 

time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 

excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and   full  information,  apply 

at  the  General  Office,   No.   1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 

■D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

Oo  to  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  & 
Co. ,  at  353-357  Tehama  street,  if  you  want  any  clothing  dyed,  or  cnr- 
.tains,  carpets  or  smaller  articles  cleaned.  This  establishment  leads 
the  coast  in  this  particular  line.  It  is  patronized  by  all  the  leading 
hotels  and  families  in  the  city,  and  enjoys  great  popularity  on  ac- 
count of  its  excellent  work. 


B-a-isrics. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  $3,000,000  00 

Surplus 1,000,000  00 

Undivided  Profits (July  1st,  1890)  . . .  .  3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Bsown .Cashier  |  B.  Mokray,  Jr  .     .  Assistant  Cashier 

Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

lORRESI'IISDISIS : 

NEW  YORK— Agency  of  l\e  Bank  of  California;  BOSTON— Tremont 
National  Bank:  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  in 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver(  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland, O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-ou-the-Main.  Antwerp,  Amsterdam,  Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama.  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK.  Limited, 

Authorized  Capital $3,500,000     |     Capital  paid  up.  2.450,000 

Reserve 450,000 

San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  SI.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch.  1006  A  Street. 

Manager,   ARTHUR  SCRIVENER;  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank, 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  A  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    L.  N.  SHEPAF.D,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  ".Vm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  <Jt  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  LouiB— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjee  &  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  CO.'S  DANK. 

N.  JE.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutter  Streets. 

SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

John  J.  Valentine President. 

HomerS.Kinq  Manager. 

H.  Wadswobth Cashier. 

J.  L.  Browne Assistant  Cashier. 

DtRECTORStl 
John  J.  Valentine,  Lloyd  Tevis,  Oliver  Eldridge,  Leland  Stanford,  James 
C.  Fargo,  Geo,  E.  Gray,  W.  F.  Goad,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  CROCKER-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  DANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL 11,000,000. 

DIRECTORS : 
CHAS.  F.  CROCKER,  I  E.  H.  MILLER,  JE. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-President. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER CASHIER 


Guarantee  Capital 


SECURITY  SAVIN6S  DANK. 


1 800,000 


OFFICERS: 


President JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary S.  L.  ABBOT.Jr. 

Vice-President W.  S.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Real  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


Doc.  10,  1892. 


s\N   FRANCISCO  NEWS  l.l  I  I  I  I; 


23 


LA  W  YER — Are  you  sore,  sir,  thai  the  moon  was  shining  at  the 
tune?     Remember,  you  are  on  oalb.      WUneu—  Ye?,  sir,  I  am 
perfectly  sure  the  moon  was  shining  at  the  time.    "  very  rood,   Now 
tell  the  jury  if  you  have  not  been   for   years   troubled    wuh  defective 
•■■ntlemen  of  the  jury.  I    have  been  blind  in  one  eve  for 
many  year?,  but  1  can  see  well  enough  with  the  other  to  read*  with 

rerft-\'t  ease  this  promissory  note  fori  H.78  which  I  hold  in  my  hand, 
t  was  given  me  sixteen  years  ago  bv  thatlawver  there,  and  I  can 
see  the  back  of  El  well  enough  to  be  perfectly  sure"  that  there  isn't  an 
indnr-ement  to  the  extent  of  a  single  cent.  Yes,  sir.  I'm  entirely 
willing  to  stand  aside  if  that's  all  you  want  to  know. 

— Chicago  Tribune. 

Little  Johnny— Does  don't   need  to  talk,   'cause  any  one  can 

understand  their  "bark.  Visitor— Can  you?  Little  Johnny— Easy  as 
rollin'  off  a  log.  When  my  dog  is  at  the  door  and  barks,  that  means 
he  wants  to  get  in ;  if  he's  inside  the  door  and  barks,  that  means  he 
wants  to  get  out.  Visitor— Humph !  Suppose  he  is  half  inside  and 
half  outside  and  barks,  what  doe?  that  mean?  Little  Johnny— That 
means  that  there's  a  bigger  dog  than  him  in  our  yard.— Good' News. 

■■  No.  miss,"  said  the  school  trustee  of  District  No.  13,  Corn- 
stalk Township,  shaking  his  bead  slowly,  "  I  don't  think  you're  quite 
the  person  we  w«nt  for  teacher  in  our  school."  "  May  I  ask  in  what 
particular  I  fail  to  meet  your  requirements?"  inquired  the  young 
woman,  timidly.  "I've  been  listening  to  vour  talk,"  rejoined  the 
official,  reluctantly,  yet  firmly.  "  and  if  I  must  tell  you  the  truth,  you 
don't  seem  to  have  no  idea  of  grammar." 

—Two  ladies,  who  had  not  seen  each  other  for  years,  recently 
met  in -the  street.  They  recognized  each  other  after  a  time,  and 
their  recognition  was  cordial:  "  So  delighted  to  .see  you  again!  Why, 
you  are  scarcely  altered."  "So  glad;  and  how  little  changed  you 
are.  Why,  how  long  is  it  since  we  met?"  "  About  ten  years." 
"  And  why  have  you  never  been  to  see  me?"  "My  dear,  just  look 
at  the  weather  we  have  had." 

-^Banker—  Herr  Baron,  it  has  not  escaped  my  notice  that  you  are 
in  love  with  my  daughter,  and  1  may  as  well  help  you  over  the  style. 
I  am  prepared  to  give  you  my  consent,  and  my  daughter  shall  have 
a  dowry  of  30,000  florins.  Baron — 1  beg  a  thousand  pardons,  but  I 
never  love,  on  principle,  under  35,000  florins.  —Schwarzwalder  Bote. 

Doctor— Why,  how  is  this,  my  dear  sir?    You  sent  me  a  letter 

stating  you  had  been  attacked  by  measles,  and  I  find  you  suffering 
from  rheumatism.  Patient—  Well,  you  see,  doctor,  it  is  like  this — 
there  wasn't  a  soul  in  the  house  that  knew  how  to  spell  rheumatism. 

— Harper's  Bazar. 

——Hc—\  can  see  your  ankle  in  the  pier-glass.  She— So  can  I ;  but 
I  don't  think  it  quite  proper  of  you  to  mention  it.  You  ought  to  re- 
flect a  little  more  before  you  speak.  He— That's  logical.  They  say 
the  ankle  of  coincidence  is  equal  to  the  ankle  of  reflection— or  some- 
thing like  that.  —  Truth, 

——"  John,"  she  said,  earnestly,  "  I  am  going  to  vote  sooner  or 
later;  mark  my  words."  "  Maria,"  he  replied,  with  equal  earnest- 
ness, "  If  you  do,  I'll  go  to  cooking-school  and  learn  to  make  bis- 
cuits." —  Washington  Star. 

——The  Husband — My  darling,  when  I  am  gone,  how  will  vou  ever 
be  able  to  pay  the  doctor's  bill?  The  Wife—  Don't  worry  about  that, 
dear.    If  worst  come  to  worst,  I  can  marry  the  doctor,  you  know. 

—Life, 

Miss  Fairwealher — What  makes  those  Larkin  girls  so  interested 

in  the  binnacle  lamp?  Miss  Cutting— Oh,  I  suppose  they're  wishing 
that  some  of  their  own  flames  were  as  steady. 

The  profound  philosopher  of  the  Atchison    Globe   remarks: 

"  There  are  some  men  who  can't  take  home  a  beefsteak  without  be- 
lieving they  are  taking  their  wives  a  present." 

Jess— I  used  to  like  poodles,  but  now  I  rave  over  pugs.    Jack— 

Those  beasts  with  the  ring-tails;  why?  Jess— You  can't  think  how 
much  easier  they  are  to  carry.  —Truth. 

"  Lemme  see;  if  my  father  hadn't  died  back  in   '36,  he'd  be 

a  hundred  and  ten  this  comin'  spring."  "  Whew !  How  come  a  man 
of  sich  vitality  to  die?"  —Arkansaw  Traveler. 

-^—  He— But  couldn't  you  learn  to  love  me,  Ida?  She— I  don't 
think  I  could,  George.  He  (reaching  for  his  hat) — It  is,  as  I  feared! 
You  are  too  old  to  learn ! 

-^—Miss  Chic  Ago— When  he  proposed  an  elopement,  I  just  put  my 
foot  down.  Miss  Clinton  Hylle — Poor  fellow ;  what  hospital  did  they 
take  him  to?  — Brooklyn  Eagle. 

—-Teaclier — Who  was  Henry  Clay,  and  what  did  he  do?  Little 
Boy — He  was  the  Englishman  who  introduced  cigars  into  America. 

—Truth. 

— "  What  kind  of  a  life  does  Miggs  lead?"  Dalton — He  doesn't 
lead  any  kind;  he  married.  — Chicago  Inter-Ocean. 

■     Johnny  (studying  geography)— Papa,  what's  a  strait?    Papa— A 
straight?    Oh,  yes;  it  beats  two  pair,  my  son. 


Stimulate  the  Blood. 
Branbreth's  Pills  are  the  great  blood  purifier.  They  are  a  purga- 
tive and  blood  tonic,  they  act  equally  on  the  bowels,  the  kidneys  and 
the  skin,  thus  cleansing  the  system  by  the  natural  outlet  of  the  body 
— they  may  be  called  the  purgative  sudorific  and  diuretic  medicine. 
They  stimulate  the  blood  so  as  to  enable  nature  to  throw  oft"  all  mor- 
bid humors,  and  cure  disease  no  matter  by  what  name  it  may  be 
called.  One  or  two  of  them  taken  every  night  will  prove  an  infall- 
ible remedy. 


ba-jstk:s. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP      ^^^^  ^y^Cn^r.      

RESERVE  FUND  1,250.000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE   SO  LOMBARD  STREET,  LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,   British  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon* 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Wahhluglon. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nan  at  mo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  Britlnh 
Columbia. 

This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Chock,  au.l  Special  Di-posits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  In  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  aud  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal;  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank:  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND— Bauk  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  aud  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America;  CHINA  aud  JAPAN-Ctaartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West Indies)— Colonial  Bauk 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

032  California  street.  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1893 (26,800,653  00 

Uuaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,533,136  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

Aloert  Miller,  Pr  esident;  George  W.  Bearer,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  B.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland ;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
Sarties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
ank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  office  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  S  p.  u.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:30  to  8. 


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK, 


Geo.  A.  Low, 
N,  Van  Bergen, 
Thomas  Jennings, 


M.  w.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bash  Streets). 

Established  1870.  TJ.  S.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  (PAID   UP) '. S1.600.000 

SURPLUS $600,000  1   UNDIVIDED   PROFITS (150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President!  E.  D.  MORGAN  Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT..   .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass  t  Cashier 

DIRECTORS:    ' 

George  C.  Perkins.  8.  G.  Murphy, 

James  D.  Phelaa,  James  Moffitt. 

John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT. 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
ho  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
tor  age.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.  m, 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  OAPITAL  AND  RESERVE  FUND I    1,645,000  00, 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,  1892 ...; 28,776,687  91 

Officebs— President,  h.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  r.  Jabbqb. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities.  JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cop.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sta. 

ubscried  Capital $2,600,000  I  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.), No.  10  Wall  St,, N.Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  FTeres  &  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  citieB  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized $6,000,000  I  Paid  up 91,600,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  <«ourt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seii  man  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  hanking  i  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
worlu.    .Sends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 
andbullion. 


IGN.  STEINHART    ,  Manfl„eTS 
P.N.LILIENTHAL.i  managers. 
A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


GENUS    HOMO.— Chicago  News  Record. 

(At  20.) 

In  a  voice  that  was  sonorous,  be  yelled  college  chorus, 

And  punctuated  stories  with  champagne; 
•■This  is  happiness,"  he  bellowed,  "for  with  seven  fellows  mel- 
lowed, 

We  are  going  to  paint  the  town  with  might  and  main." 

(At  30.) 

"  This  is  happiness,"  he  thought,  as  with  the  girl  he  brought, 

He  sat  before  the  curtain  at  the  play; 
"An  active,  genial  life,  a  good  (prospective)  wife, 

And  every  thought  of  trouble  far  away." 


{At  40.) 
I'm    thinking." 


In  his   chair   he   sat,  half 


'This  is  happiness 
blinking, 

And  smoked  a  pipe  or  watched  the  glowing  grate 
'  There  is  nothing  quite  so  good  as  a  cozy  solitude, 

And  a  quiet,  easy  way  of  meeting  fate." 


VICTORIA  IN  FANCY  DRESS. 


IT  is  fifty  years  since  Queen  Victoria  dressed  as  Queen  Philippa 
for  the  Historical  Fancy  Dress  Ball  at  Buckingham  Palace. 
She  was  made  up  splendidly  and  looked  charming,  and  the  cos- 
tume the  Queen  wore  on  the  occasion  still  exists.  Over  a  skirt 
with  a  demi-train  of  ponceau  velvet  edged  with  fur,  Her  Majesty 
wore  a  surcoat  of  brocade,  blue  and  gold,  the  center  and  edges 
lined  with  miniver.  From  the  upper  edge  of  the  center  of  the 
miniver  stomacher  was  a  band  descending  of  jewels  laid  on  gold 
tissue,  with  flowers  of  silver  mattes  and  brilliants  over  a  gold 
ground.  Her  Majesty's  Consort  wore  a  magnificent  dress  on  the 
above  occasion  (which  is  also  carefully  preserved).  The  garb  was 
in  the  character  of  King  Edward  III.  The  Royal  cloak,  which 
was  also  made  in  Spitalfields,  is  composed  of  the  richest  scarlet 
velvet,  lined  throughout  with  the  finest  ermine.  Round  the  ex- 
tremity was  splendid  gold  lace  three  inches  wide,  bearing  a  raised 
pattern  of  oak  leaves  and  acorns.  The  lace  is  edged  ou  the  top 
and  bottom  with  two  rows  of  large  pearls,  twelve  hundred  in 
number.  When  worn  the  two  sides  of  the  cloak  were  connected 
across  the  breast  by  a  band  gorgeously  studded  with  diamonds, 
emeralds,  rubies,  topazes,  and  other  precious  stones.  Under- 
neath the  cloak  the  Queen's  late  husband  wore  a  full  robe,  reach- 
ing from  the  throat  to  the  feet,  constructed  of  brocade,  of  which 
the  component  parts  were  gold  and  blue  satin  silk,  costing  fifteen 
guineas  a  yard.  The  spiendor  of  this  robe  was  enhanced  by  its 
being  slashed  with  Royal  blue  velvet,  studded  with  diamonds, 
rubies  and  emeralds.  The  Historic  Ball  was  designed  to  represent 
the  meeting  of  the  two  Courts  of  Anne  of  Brittany  and  King 
Edward  III.  and  Queen  Philippi.  Anne  of  Brittany  was  person- 
ated by  the  late  Duchess  of  Cambridge,  who  assembled  her  mimic 
Court  in  a  separate  room,  and  entered  with  great  state,  led  by  the 
Duke  of  Beaufort,  attired  as  King  Louis  XI.  of  France.  Victoria, 
Queen  of  England,  was  seated  upon  a  throne  of  the  fourteenth 
century,  placed  in  an  alcove  lined  with  purple  velvet,  on  which 
were  emblazoned  in  gold  the  English  Crown,  the  Cross  of  St. 
George,  and  the  Arms  of  England  and  France;  and  as  the  French 
procession  came  in,  marshaled  by  the  Heralds  with  tabards  of 
King  Edward  III. 'a  reign,  it  was  a  scene  that  our  Good  and 
Gracious  One  will  never  forget.  And  when  the  dancing  began 
and  the  quadrilles  were  formed,  Her  Majesty  took  a  very  active 
part.  Then  a  host  of  lovely  women,  in  the  most  gorgeous  cos- 
tumes, and  robust  men  of  mettle — assembled  round  the  fair  and 
then  youthful  Sovereign. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behrina;  Sea  Packing  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  cannery— Ugashik  River,  Alaska. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  Ij,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amounts  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 

Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  8hareB.      Amount. 

C.  A.  Johnson 1  50  $50 

C.  A.  Johnson 2  340  840 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany,  this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
[ONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  8ATUR- 
AY,  July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponemen  t. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com 
pany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY 
October  21st,  1892  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 

San  Francisco.  September  21st. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  October  21, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com 
pany,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  TOES 
DAY,  December  21, 1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  21, 1892. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Hawaiian  Commercial  and  Sugar  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— The  Ulai.d  of  Maui,  in  the  Kingdom  of  the  Hawaiian 
Islands. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held  on 
the  2-'d  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment  of  ($5)  Five  Dollars 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  the  said 
Hawaiiu  Commercial  and  Sugar  Company,  Jpayable  immediately  to  E.  H. 
Sheldon,  the  Secretary  of  the  said  company,  at  the  office  of  the  Company. 
No.  327  Market  street,  in  the  City  ana  County  of  San  Francisco,  State  of 
California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 

Friday,  the  30th  Day  of  December,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  Is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  January,  1893,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

E.  H.  SHELDON,  Secretary. 

Office— No.  327  Market  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Suitable  Holiday  Presents,  from  50  cents  upwards,  at  Nathan, 
Dohrmann  &  Co's,  122-132  Sutter  st.,  below  Kearny  st. 


CAMELLINE 

The  only  T&ce  prep&r^Hen  s&rccHened  &s 
ABselziteJy  h&rrnless  by  the  medical  prefessjer? 


10,  1892. 


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25 


AC09EY  dr«^ing-(town  is  of  pale  blue  flannel,  a  woolen  web 
with  a  soft  silk  warp,  simply  fastened  about  the  waist  with 
a  cord  and  heavy  silk  tassels  of  black.  Over  the  sleeves  are  full 
caps  embroidered  in  a  point  about  the  edge  with  black ,  and  above 
this  three  rows  of  feather  stitching,  one  above  the  other,  and  each 
extending  up  with  the  sleeve  at  the  point  where  the  scallops 
Join  together.  Around  the  neck  there  is  a  ruftie  of  flannel  em- 
broidered and  feather  stitched  in  the  same  way,  which  frills  a  lit- 
tle way  down  the  front  to  the  girdle.  More  dainty  still  are  the 
pure  white  flannel  gowns,  with  all  the  pretty  stitchings  done  in 
pale  blue  or  pink  or  heliotrope.  Sometimes  the  edges  of  the 
sleeves  are  scalloped,  and  a  single  line  of  feather  stitching  follows 
the  outline  of  the  scallop,  one  or  two  inches  above  the  edge.  In 
the  space  between,  French  knots  are  dotted  or  tiny  flower  sprays 
are  worked  at  intervals.  Or  the  scallop  may  be  omitted  for  a 
band  of  Russian  needle-work,  which  is  simply  a  pattern  in  the 
old-fashioned  cross-stitch  embroidery  that  our  grandmothers 
wrought  on  sampler  and  that  our  mothers  counted  out  on  Java 
eanvas.  And  this  pattern  is  to  be  done  in  black  or  a  mixture  of 
the  old  bines  and  reds  seen  in  Holbein  work,  if  it  would  really  be 
artistic  and  according  to  the  Russian  idea.  A  very  attractive  and 
serviceable  gown  of  this  kind  is  made  in  wool,  and  with  an  em- 
broidery of  black.  Less  elaborate,  but  equally  cosy,  are  the 
bath-robes  of  eider  down  wool,  simply  bound  with  ribbon,  which 
may  be  made  to  do  duty  as  a  dressing-gown  to  lounge  in. 

According  to  the  present  fad,  anything  that  can  show  a  twist 
in  its  tail,  a  crook,  in  its  leg  or  a  Bquint  in  its  eye  is  in  the  path  of 
glory.  One  of  the  latest  comers  is  a  grasshopper,  whose  agile  form 
Is  decked  out  in  olivines,  diamonds  and  rubies.  Its  springers  are 
finest  gold  and,  I  believe,  its  legs  are  brought  into  high  relief 
with  brilliants,  says  the  Jewelers1  Review.  Every  one  may  not  be 
aware  that  grasshoppers  have  optics  in  their  legs,  but  some  jew- 
elers over  here  are  sure  of  the  fact.  A  crane  in  full  flight  is  an- 
other order  of  the  day.  It  is  likewise  in  olivines  and  diamonds, 
with  a  majority  of  diamonds.  I  noticed  that  there  is  a  great 
deal  of  tortoise-shell  displayed  in  connection  with  jewelry.  The 
carved  shell  is  treated  to  trimmings  of  gold,  silver  and  enamel. 
Fan-sticks  and  ornaments  for  the  hair  made  of  shell  are  studded 
with  cabochon  torquoises  and  emeralds,  and  minor  stones  to  suit 
the  taste.  Enameled  ribbons  of  all  colors  is  disporting  itself  at 
will  among  portrait  frames  and  small  things  of  that  order.  It?  is 
a  pleasant  change  from  the  everlasting  pierced  silver  affair. 

One  of  the  prettiest  trifles  in  the  wedding  trousseau  of  the 
Princess  of  Edinburgh  is  a  dressing  cape,  which  is  infinitely  more 
convenient  as  a  dressing  sacque  to  throw  about  one's  shoulders 
while  the  hair  is  loosened  and  brushed  out.  It  is  copied  from 
some  old  models  furnished  by  gentlewomen  of  the  long  ago.  The 
most  fascinating  of  the  capes  are  of  muslin,  dotted  with  big 
moons  and  finished  with  a  scallop  hand-wrought  in  tints  of  blue 
or  pink  wash  silk.  But  some  of  them  are  sprayed  as  well  with 
tiny  flowerets  of  the  needlework  in  white,  with  an  edge  of  white. 
They  are  so  fitted  on  the  shoulder  that  they  stay  in  place  without 
even  being  tied  at  the  neck,  and  they  are  finished  with  a  very 
full  frill  that  turns  down  around  the  neck  in  the  back  and  jabots 
all  the  way  down  the  front  edges  in  soft  folds. 

8plendid  brocade  forms  now  the  basis  for  evening  gowns.  This 
brocade,  which  has  fantastic  bows  of  pale  lilac  ribbon  entan- 
gling sprays  of  jassamine  in  equally  faint  color,  is  so  disposed  as 
to  fall  in  graceful  folds,  which  develop  the  beauty  of  the  fabric, 
but  not  at  the  cost  of  dishonoring  the  figure  it  drapes.  The 
front  is  pure  empire,  and  is  made  of  pin-spotted  gauze  and  lace, 
with  a  belt  and  epaulettes  of  violet  velvet.  The  cloak  is  of  emi- 
nence purple,  lined  with  the  crinkly  fur  of  Persian  lamb,  pure 
white  in  color,  and  has  a  collar  of  ostrich  feathers,  purple  lined 
with  white.  _^^__ 

A  touch  of  black  is  now  introduced  into  needlework  almost  as 
frequently  as  into  trimmings  and  accessories  of  the  toilet.  Even 
pin-cushions,  covers  and  other  pieces  of  needlework  of  white 
linen  are  edged  with  black  point  d'esprit,  and  black  embroidery 
Bilk  effectively  outlines  elaborately  embroidered  designs  on  pil- 
lows and  cushions.  A  divan  pillow  seen,  worked  in  pale  old 
pink  silk,  in  shades  of  pink  and  raspberry,  is  finished  with  black 
in  the  manner  described,  and  edged  with  black  lace,  gath- 
ered on. 

Some  of  the  most  beautiful  photograph  frames  now  made  are 
of  plush,  velvet  or  heavy  ribbed  silk,  embroidered  with  shaded 
flosses,  gold  thread  and  jewels.  Exquisite  effects  are  obtained 
by  using  Indian  designs  for  such  work,  and  keeping  to  the  bril- 
liant yet  not  gaudy  colorings  seen  in  Eastern  embroideries.  The 
same  style  of  decoration  is  especially  adapted  to  book  covers  that 
are  to  be  used  in  a  room  where  other  things  are  in  keeping  with 
their  richness. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.   10,  1892. 


ALTHOUGH  a  great  many  people  in  society  make  use  of  crests, 
yet  very  few  are  cognizant  of  the  laws  and  regulations  which 
govern  the  assumption  and  the  bearing  thereof.  Thus  with  re- 
gard to  Scotch  families,  it  is  only  the  eldest  son  who  is  permitted 
to  use  his  father's  arms  or  crest,  those  borne  by  the  younger  sons 
requiring  to  be  specially  marked  by  the  College  of  Heralds  with 
an  emblem  of  cadency.  In  England  and  Ireland,  however,  the 
younger  sons  have  a  right  to  the  paternal  crest  and  arms,  though 
not  to  the  supporters.  There  is  no  prescriptive  right  to  either 
arms  or  crest.  These  must  have  been  either  inherited  by  legiti- 
mate descent  or  else  granted  by  the  Sovereign  acting  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  heraldic  office  of  the  country  in  question.  The  crest 
was  originally  the  ornament  of  the  helmet,  and  has  only  pos- 
sessed an  heraldic  meaning  since  the  XIV  or  XV  century. 


THE  newest  gloves  for  evening  wear  are  suede  mousquetaires 
in  eight-button  lengths.  Occasionally,  a  glove  of  four-button 
length  is  sold,  but  the  extremely  short  glove  finds  little  favor. 
The  very  long  glove  of  twelve  or  twenty  button  length 
extending  beyond  the  elbow  is  never  seen  to-day;  on  the  con- 
trary, the  glove  must  fit  the  arm  and  is  buttoned  closely  at  the 
slit  at  the  wrist  with  the  three  buttons.  A  favorite  glove  for 
evening  wear  is  the  pearl  gray,  though  all  the  varieties  of  what 
are  known  as  the  «  mode"  shades  are  worn,  including  deep 
shades  of  fawn  and  light  deer  tints.  Tan  colors  still  remain  pop- 
ular, though  the  gray  and  "  mode"  tints  are  newer. 


CTJMNOR  PAKE  is  going  to  be  sold.  If  romantic  associations 
have  a  market  value  there  should  be  brisk  bidding  for  the 
scene  of  Amy  Robsart's  tragedy.  Sir  Walter  Scott,  had  he  had  his 
way,  would  have  called  his  novel  Cumnor  Hall,  after  the  old  bal- 
lad, which  was  a  favorite  of  his.  "  Kenilworth  "  was  Con- 
stable's suggestion,  and  8cott  humored  him.  Constable's  vanity 
— his  partner  Cadell  said,  boiled  over  so  much  on  getting  his  way 
this  time  that  in  his  high    moods    be    stalked  up   and    down    his 

room  exclaiming:   "  By ,  I  am  all  but  the  author  of  the  Wav- 

erley  Novels."  It  might  be  interesting  to  make  a  list  of  cases 
wnere  in  Scott's  phrase  Mr.  Accoacbeur  has  set  up  for  Mr.  Spon- 
sor, too,  and  the  author  has  let  the  publisher  stand  godfather  to 
his  book.  Besides  "Kenilworth,"  Constable  christened  "Rob 
Roy,"  and  got  "  Herries"  changed  to  "  Red  Gauntlet."  He  tried 
hard  to  turn  "The  Abbot"  into  "  The  Nunnery,"  but  that  Scott 
would  not  have.  Another  eminent  and  well-known  instance 
is  "  The  Mill  on  the  Floss,"  so  named  by  Mr.  Blackwood.  "Sis- 
ter Maggie  "  was  George  Eliot's  own  title.  "The  Mill  on  the 
Floss  "  is  the  better  name,  although  the  Tulliver's  mill  was,  in 
fact,  not  actually  upon  the  Floss,  but  on  the  tributary  Ripple,  as 
is  stated  in  the  very  first  paragraph  of  the  book.  Every  worldly 
wise  novelist  should  consult  bis  publisher  about  his  title. 


Photographs  are  favorite  evidences  of  appreciation  which  are  pre- 
sented during  the  holidays.  Both  sexes  wish  art  to  mirror  them  in 
such  a  manner  that  natural  imperfections  shall  be  softened  as  much 
as  possible,  with  the  result  of  a  beautiful  picture  being  effected.  It 
has  been  found  that  the  iridium  photographs  made  by  Taber,  of  8 
Montgomery  street,  satisfy  in  every  particular  the  desires  of  the 
most  fastidious.  These  pictures  are  now  the  most  popular  among 
ladies  of  society,  many  of  the  leaders  of  our  Four  Hundred  having 
recently  had  their  photographs  taken  in  that  style.  Mr.  Taber 
received  a  dispatch  the  other  day  from  a  lady  who  had  gone  to  New 
York,  ordering  more  of  her  photographs,  and  saying  that  they  had 
been  received  with  great  favor  in  Gotham.  The  photographs  are 
taken  in  transparent  colors,  not  obliterating,  but  developing  the 
photographic  details  and  delicacy  of  shading,  and  adding  the  beauty 
and  warmth  of  natural  color.  The  color  is  permanent  and  will  with- 
stand exposure  to  the  sun,  air  or  boiling  water.  Connoisseurs  in  the 
photographic  art  agree  that  these  iridium  photograps  are  the  greatest 
and  most  needed  improvements  of  modern  times  in  this  branch  of 
science.  Specimens  taken  East  and  to  Europe  have  added  greatly  to 
Taber's  world-wide  reputation. 


A  Barefooted  boy  with  primer  in  hand,  and  by  his  side  a  parrot, 
which  the  lad  is  instructing  in  letters,  rests  upon  a  pedestal  just 
within  the  entrance  to  Gump's  new  art  store  at  113  Geary  street. 
The  piece  of  statuary  draws  the  attention  of  every  visitor,  for  the 
subject  is  an  attractive  one,  the  sculpture  the  work  of  a  true  artist, 
and  the  material  is  that  famed  marble  of  Florence  of  which  the  poets 
have  sung.  The  Gumps  have  just  received  a  very  large  consignment 
of  Florentine  marbles,  and  their  exhibit  of  statuary  is  now  the  most 
beautiful  the  city  has  ever  seen.  The  exquisite  statuettes  of  modern 
and  mythological  subjects,  in  the  beautiful,  almost  transparent 
stone,  have  received  great  praise  from  all  the  art  lovers  of  the  citv, 
who  make  regular  visitations  to  this  palace  of  art.  After  viewing  the 
statuary,  the  visitor  should  not  fail  to  visit  the  glass  and  chiuaware 
department,  where  has  just  been  shown  some  of  the  most  exquisite 
Bohemian  and  Limoges  ware,  cups  and  saucers,  s^up  ti*h  ani  g.nie 
sets,  dessert  dishes  and  all  the  various  settings  of  a  tame.  Nnr  ^hou'd 
the  art  galleries  be  overlooked,  where  a  large  number  of  aching*, 
fac-similes,  and  water  colors  has  just  b?en  received  from  Bou^sid, 
Valadon  &  Co.,  of  Paris,  and  are  now  on  exhibition.  A  number  of 
new  oil  paintings  will  be  received  n«xt.  week. 


False  Economy 
Is  practiced  by  people  who  buy  inferior  articles  of  food  because 
cheaper  than  standard  goods,     infants  are  entitled  to  the  best  food 
obtainable.     It  is  a  fact  that  the  Gail  Borden  "  Eagle"  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk  is  the  best  food.    Your  grocer  and  druggist  keep  it. 

Drink  Argonaut  Old  Bourbon  when  you  want  good  whiskey.  It 
is  the  best  in  the  market  and  cannot  be  excelled  anywhere.  Argo- 
naut is  the  favorite  in  the  leading  restaurants,  hotels  and  clubs,  be- 
cause it  is  an  excellent  drink.  When  you  want  a  satisfying  drink, 
ask  for  Argonaut. 


Colonel  Litchfield,  of  12  Post  street,  has  the  reputation  of  being 
one  of  the  best  tailors  in  San  Francisco,  and  his  establishment  is  a 
favorite  among  men  who  dress  well.  He  makes  a  specialty  of  uni- 
forms and  regalias,  and  is  patronized  by  all  the  State's  and  nation's 
defenders  stationed  in  this  vicinity. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

New  Basil  Consolidated   Gravel  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business  -dan  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— PUcer  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  eleventh  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  22,  of  Five 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay 
able  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
Seventeenth  Day  of  December,  1892.  will  be  delinquent. 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  9th  day  of  January,  1893,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F.  X.  SIMON,  Secretary. 

Office — 525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

STOCKHOLDERS  MEETING. 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,  December  6, 1892. 
To  the  Stockholders  of  the  Blacklork  Sandstone  Company: 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  a  meetingof  the  stockholders  of  the  Blaeklock 
Sandstone  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  407-409  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  Cat,  at  8  o'clock  p.m.,  on  Tuesday,  the  27th  day 
December,  a.  d.  1892,  for  tbe  purpose  of  authorizing  the  sale  of  all  the 
property  of  the  corporation,  and  the  satisfaction  and  discharge  of  all  claims 
and  demands  against  the  corporation,  and  the  raising  of  the  means  neces- 
sary therefor;  and  the  dissolution  of  the  corporation  and  all  the  proceed- 
ings to  accomplish  such  dissolution.  By  orderof  the  President  of  the  Com- 
pany. H.  SHAINWALD,  Secretary  Biacklock  Sandstone  Company. 


100     pages 

IB    PULL    PAGE 

CNCRAVINQS 
LITHOGRAPHS     IN    COLORS 
ARTOTYPES 
ILLUMINATED    COVERS 


CALIFORNIA    PRODUCTION    OF   UNEQUALLED    EXCELLENCE. 
SOUVENIR    FOR    FRIENDS    ABROAD. 


ORDER    COPIES     HOW. 


Dec.    10,  1892. 


s\\  n;  iNCISCO  m:\vs  i.i:i  i  i  i; 


8ATISFIED  WITH  HER  SURROUND- 
INGS   -'»>oiy*  Rtusell  Jackson. 

A*  t'orydon  and  Phyllis  fair 
Paused  in  the  shade  to  rest. 

He  threw  bis  arms  around  her  there. 
And  drew  her  to  bis  breast. 

1  If  I  had  gold."  be  said  to  her. 
•*  Twould  be  my  dearest  duty 
To  see  that  your  surroundings   were 
Befitting  to  your  beauty. 

Sweet  Phyllis  blushed  and  softly  sighed 

A  sigh  of  deep  content. 
And  whispering  said,  ••  I'm  satisfied 

With  my  environment." 


SUB 


ROSA.— Frank   Xerrion   llolman 
Life. 


'  Cnder  the  rose  '"  the  joys  and  woes 

Of  life  are  told;  here  belles  and  beaux 

Their  flimsy  trifles  light  as  air 

Murmur  with  fond  delight  to  share 

Their  love  of  friends,  dispraise  of  foes. 

Here  gossip  endless  ebbs  and  flows. 
Here  burdened  minds  seek  sweet  repose, 
Surceased  from  sorrow,  free  from  care, 
Under  the  rose. 

Under  the  rose,  the  sad,  pale  rose. 
Love  lies  dreaming  what  no   one  knows; 
Love  lies  dreaming  so  softly  there 
While    'gainst   his    bosom,    white    and 
bare, 
Threatens  the  thorn  that  ever  grows 
Under  the  rose. 


BY  means  of  prolonged  and  ingenious 
researches,  a  London  chemist  has 
now  succeedeo.  in  demonstrating  the  long- 
aupposed  presence  of  suspended  matter  in 
flame— a  question  so  much  discussed  by 
scientists,  some  holding  to  one  theory 
and  some  to  another.  It  now  appears 
that  the  way  this  is  optically  proved  is  to 
condense  sunlight  on  the  flame,  the  light 
being  then  scattered  by  the  solid  particles 
in  an  extremely  thin  layer,  both  where 
the  beam  enters  the  flame  and  where  it 
leaves  it — it  is  polarized  in  the  flame  of 
reflection.  This  phenomenon,  however, 
does  not  pccur  in  a  flame  where  the  sodi- 
um is  in  the  form  of  vapor  instead  of 
particles. 


A  DETROIT  man,  who  takes  great  de- 
light in  his  possession  of  a  horse 
that  can  go  in  2 :30,  was  bailed  by  a  friend 
the  other  afternoon  while  he  was  rapidly 
driving  along  Jefferson  avenue. 

"  I  can't  stop,"  he  sung  out,  "  I've  got 
to  catch  that  2:50  train." 

About  half  an  hour  later  the  friend 
met  him  again. 

"  Hello,"  he  exclaimed,  «•  I  thought 
you  were  going  away  on  that  2 :50  train7" 

■<  I  was,  but  I  missed  It." 

The  friend  became  grave. 

"  Why  don't  you  sell  that  horse?"  he 
inquired. 

"  What  do  I  want  to  sell  him  for?" 
asked  the  owner  indignantly. 

"  For  anything  you  can  get." 

"  Come  off!     What  do  you  mean?" 

"  I  mean  I'd  sell  him.  I  wouldn't  keep 
•a  2:30  horse  that  couldn't  catch  a  2:50 
train."  — Detroit  Free  Press. 


IN  youth  he  was  as  comely 
Ab  Adonis,  fair  and  bright, 
And  the  promise  of  bis  talents 

Filled  his  mamma  with  delight; 
But  he  got  the  football  habit — 

Got  it  bad  as  mortal  can, 
And  he's  now  in  a  museum 
As  a  shape- 
less 

man. 

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EMPEROR     WILLIAM     IN     BATTLE. 


It  is  not  usual  for  a  Royal  Commander 
and  his  staff  to  be  in  personal  danger  in  a 
modern  battle,  but,  it  appears  from  Forbes' 
article:  "Bismarck  in  the  Franco-German 
War,"  that  old  Emperor  William  was  for 
a  time  in  a  very  hot  corner  at  Gravelotte. 
Forbes  describes  how  Steinmetz  was  or- 
dered to  advance  on  the  French  with  all 
his  force  to  finish  the  business,  how  he  got 
more  than  he  bargained  for,  how  the 
French  dashed  forward,  and  for  the  mo- 
ment, the  whole  of  Steinmetz's  army  was 
"on  the  run."  The  Prussian  King  was 
caught  in  the  thick  of  it.  Tbe  rush  to  the 
rear  scattered  the  Royal  staff.  The  old 
King  was  whirled  backward  in  the  surging 
press,  resisting  vehemently  the  while,  and 
expostulating  with  extreme  fervour  with 
tbe  component  parts  of  the  momentary 
debacle.  But  the  German  front  braced 
itself,  and  the  panic  died  out  as  fast  as  it 
had  kindled.  Yet  still  the  French  shell-flre 
kept  crashing  into  the  masses  around 
where  tbe  King  and  his  rather  dishevelled 
staff  were  gathered  again.  The  danger  was 
so  imminent  that  after  some  nesitation 
Roon  ventured  to  remonstrate  with  the 
old  warrior,  who,  after  a  minute,  turned 
his  horse's  head  backward.  A  single 
French  shell  at  that  moment  might  have 
changed  the  course  of  history  I 


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CHEAPEST    FUEL. 

REDUCTION  IN  PRICE. 

Wholesale  (50  bbla.  or  more),  80c.  per  bbl. 

Retail  (any  quantity  under  50  bbls.), 

90c.  per  bbl. 

AT  THE  WORKS  OP 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  GASLIGHT  COMPANY 

Howard  and  First  Streets,  and  Foot 
of  Second  Street. 


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SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


THE  Rev.  Rosy  Babbleton  (examining) — 
Now,  children,  who  can  tell  me  what 
an  epidemic  is?  What,  none  of  you;  let 
me  prompt  your  memory.  It  is  something 
that  spreads;  and  now — ah,  little  Johnny 
knows,  you  see.  What  is  it,  my  little 
friend?     <<  Jam,  sir." 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Belle  Isle  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works — Tuscarora, 
Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  5th  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No  10)  of  ten  cents  per 
share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  cor- 
poration, payable  immediately  in  United  States 
gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of  the 
company,  No.  810  Pine  street,  rooms  15  and  17, 
San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  ou  the 

The  12  Day  of  December,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction,  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
WEDNESDAY,  the  4th  day  of  January,  1893,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By 
order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

J.  W.  PEW,  Secretary. 

Office.— No.  310  Pine  Street,  rooms  15  and  17, 
San  Francisco.  California. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mining  Company. 

Assessment     No.  103 

Amount  per  share 25  cents 

Levied  Nov.  9,  1892 

Delinquent  in  office  Dec.  14, 1892 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock . .       . .  Jan.  3, 1893 
E  L,  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery 
Btreet,  San  Francisco.  Cal 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Occidental  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Assessment No.  11 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Oct.  25,  1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Nov.  25, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock..     ..Dec  21,  1892 
ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 

Office— Nevada  Block,  room  69,  No.  309  Mont- 
mery  Street,  Oal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment  No.  70 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Nov.  22, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Dec.  28  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock        . .  Jan.  20,  1893 
A.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery 
Btreet,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETING- 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders 
of  the  Gould  &,  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company  will 
be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  69, 
Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal.,  on  MONDAY,  the  19th  day  of  Decem- 
ber, 1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m.,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  electing  a  board  of  Trusteed  to  serve  for 
the  ensuing  year  and  for  the  transaction  of  such 
other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meetiug. 
Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  December 
16, 1892,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 

ANNUAL  MEETING 

Andes  Silver  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders 
of  the  Andes  Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held 
at  the  office  of  the  company,  rooms  2  and  3,  Ne- 
vada Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francis- 
co. Cal.,  on  MONDAY,  the  19th  day  of  December, 
1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m  ,  for  the  purpose 
of  electing  a  board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the 
ensuing  year,  and  for  the  transaction  of  such 
other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting. 
Transfer  books  will  close  ou  Monday,  the  12th 
day  of  December,  1892,  at  3  o'cl  ck  p.  m. 

JOHN  W.  TWIGGS,  Secretary. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Ophir  Silver  Mining  Company. 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders 
In  the  Ophir  Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held 
on  WEDNESDAY,  the  21st  day  of  Dec  mber,  a.  d. 
1892,  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  4,  Nevada 
Block,  309  Montgomery  St.,  San  Francisco,  at  the 
hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  M  Transfer  books  will  close 
on  Saturday,  the  17th  day  of  December,  a.  d.  1892, 
at  12  o'clock  m.  E.  B.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 


LORD  LOFTUS'S   RECOLLECTIONS. 


THE  memoirs  of  Lord  Augustus  Loftus 
are  filled  with  interesting  stories  of 
the  many  notables  he  met  during  his  fifty 
years  of  diplomatic  service.  "The  Em- 
peror Napoleon,"  he  says,  "was  apt  to 
act  under  sudden  impulses.  He  was 
easily  impressed  by  those  feelings  for  op- 
pressed nationalities  which  he  had  im- 
bibed in  his  early  youth,  and  be  was  the 
more  easily  seduced  by  those  feelings 
when  they  harmonized  with  bis  ambi- 
tious views  of  remodelling  the  map  of 
Europe,  without  at  the  same  time  taking 
any  decided  resolution  of  carrying  them 
into  execution.  .  .  .  Thus  it  was 
that  his  policy  often  appeared  tortuous 
and  inconsistent,  and  his  apparent  want 
of  sincerity  was  productive  of  disbelief 
and  distrust. 

"  There  were  two  currents  in  the  direc- 
tion of  his  foreign  policy,  viz.,  that  of  the 
ordinary  official  current  through  his  ac- 
credited diplomacy,  and  that  carried  on 
through  the  medium  of  secret  agents  un- 
known to  his  Cabinet,  the  result  of 
which  was  that  the  language  of  his  min- 
isters abroad  was  not  always  in  har- 
mony with  the  Emperor's  views  and 
with  facts.  Thus,  while  negotiating  for 
the  pacific  settlement  of  the  affairs  of 
Italy,  he  had  predetermined  on  war,  and 
at  the  same  time  was  negotiating  with 
Count  Cavour,  through  a  secret  agent, 
the   arrangements  for  action." 

Another  curious  little  trait  of  Napoleon 
III.  is  connected  with  the  negotiations 
at  Villafranca,  which  closed  the  Italian 
war.  It  seems  that  he  shrank  from  a  per- 
sonal interview  with  the  Austrian  Em- 
peror, because,  as  he  told  Metternich,  he 
felt  sure  he  should  fall  under  Francis 
Joseph's  personal  influence.  It  could 
hardly  have  been  the  intellectual  influ- 
ence of  Francis  Joseph  that  Napoleon 
dreaded;  he  must  have  felt  that  as  a 
parvenu  and  a  usurper  he  would  suc- 
cumb to  the  majesty  of  legitimate  roy- 
alty. Probably  he  was  conscious  that 
he  was  not  only  a  parvenu  and  a  usurper, 
but  an  impostor,  and  that  there  was  no 
more  of  the  Bonaparte  in  his  true  pedi- 
gree than  there|was  in  bis  head  ana  face. 
It  is  curious  that  this  open  secret,  though 
a  perfectly  open  secret  it  was,  practically 
did  him  so  little  harm.  The  recollection 
of  the  falsehoods  that  he  had  told  wnile 
he  was  preparing  to  spring  on  Austria, 
may  also  have  bad  something  to  do  with 
his  personal  shyness  in  meeting  Francis 
Jcseph. 

Bismarck  often  said  to  Lord  Augustus 
that  "  be  gloried  in  having  no  principles, 
and  he  observed  that  when  you  wished 
to  gain  a  certain  object,  your  principles 
cross  your  path  and  defeat  your  aim." 
Bismarck's  frankness  is  astounding.  Per- 
haps it  is  calculated  and  used  as  the  best 
cloak  for  his  designs.  At  a  dinner  in 
London,  in  1861,  he  told  Disraelli,  then 
leader  of  the  Opposition,  that  he  should 
shortly  be  obliged  to  undertake  the  di- 
rection of  the  Prussian  Government,  that 
his  first  duty  would  be  to  reorganiaz  the 
army,  that  he  would  then  take  the  first 
pretext  to  declare  war  against  Austria, 
to  dissolve  the  Germanic  Diet,  to  over- 
power the  middle  and  smaller  States,  and 
to  give  a  national  unity  to  Germany 
under  the  leadership  of  Prussia.  He 
added  that  be  bad  come  to  say  this  to  the 
Queen's  Ministers.  Disraelli's  remark 
was,  "  Take  care  of  that  man,  he  means 
what  he  says." 

The  anecdotes  and  personal  touches  in 
these  volumes  are  very  few.  But  here  is 
an  amusing  little  story  of  Brougham: 
"The  King  (of  Wurtemburg)  had  a  mag- 
nificent stud  of  Arab  horses,  which  he 
procured  at  great  expense  from  Syria, 
and  of  which  he  was  very  proad.     When 


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SHIPPING  AND~ COMMISSION 
MERCHANTS. 

GENERAL  AGENTS 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 

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SAN    FRANCISCO. 

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TELEPHONE. 

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Soledad.  Marysville,  Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken communication  be- 
tween these  towns  and  Ban 
I  Francisco.  The  lines  are  con- 
structed of  specially  prepared 
extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  with  tbe  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  science  of 
"Telephony,"  and  are  "Long  Distance"  Lines 
in  every  sense  of  tne  word.  The  Mail  is  quick, 
the  Telegraph  U  quicker,  but  the 

LONG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer. 

CALIFORNIA  ELECTRIC  WORKS, 

2?To.    35    ^v^arfcet  Street. 


IAIUFACTURERS 

AND    IMPORTERS 
-OF  — 

Electrical  Appliances,  Wires  and  General 

Electrical  Supplies. 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Francisco. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 

FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

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ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  2388. SAN  FRANCI3CO, 

Cunningham,  Curtiss  k  Welch, 
WHOLESALE 

STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 
327.329.  331  SANSOME  STREET. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated   Imperial  Mining  Co. 

Assessment No.  34 

Amount  per  Share 8  cents 

Levied     Nov.  22, 1892, 

Delinquent  in  Office Dec.  29,  1892. 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock  . . .   .Jan.  19, 1893 
C.  L.  McCoy,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  85,  third  floor.  Mills  Building, 
corner  Bush  and  Montgomery  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 

/- 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


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SOUTHER*   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 

Train*  Ltivt   and    ar*  Duo  to  Arrive  ',l 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 

Uuvi       from  Decimb:r  3,  1892.       I  Arrive 


7:00  a.  Bcutcl*.   Rum-cy.  Sacramento  7:15  r 

7  JO  a.  HarwarJ*.  Nile*  and  dan  Jose  *12:15r 

Nile*  and  San  Jose  .  16:15  r 

7:30*.  Martinet.  San  Ramon,  Calistoga  flop. 

800a.  iacramTo*  Redding. Tla Davis  7:16r. 

•  00  a.  Ailaotic  Exprc»8  for  Ogden  and 
East,          .......  9:45  p. 

•  :30a.  Nlles.  San  Jose.  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 
ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:4&r. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Lob  An- 

Seles.  Demine.  El   Paso,   New 

rlean*  and  East 8:45  p. 

•9:00  a.  StocktoD  and  Milton     *S:45  P. 

12 -00m.  Bavwards,  Nlles  and  Livermore  7:15  p. 

"lsOOr.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:00r. 

1:30  P.  Vallejo  and  Martinet 12:45p. 

1:00  r.  Hay  wards.  Niles  and  San  Jose . .  9 :45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno 12:15p 

4:O0p  Martinez,   San    Ramon,   Vallejo, 
Calistoga,  El  Verano.  and  Santa 

Rosa 9:45  a. 

4:90  p.  Benicla,  and  Sacramento 10:45a. 

4:00p.  Woodland  and  Oroville  10:15a 

4$0y  Vacaville 10:15a 

•4:30  p.  Nilet  and  Livermore *8:46a. 

5:00  f  European  Mail,  Ogden  and  East. .  10;45a 
5:S0p.  Los   Angeles    Express,   Fresno, 
Rakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles.       9 :45  a. 

6:30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East 9.15a. 

6:00  p.  HaywardB,  Niles  and  San  Jose..  7:45a. 

|7:00p.  Vallejo +8:45  P. 

7:00  p.    Oregon    Express,  Sacramen- 
to, MaryBville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Pnget  Sound  aud  East. . .  8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 


■11:45  a.  Hunters  and  Theater  Train  for 
Newark,  San  Jose,  and  Los 
Gatos •  J8:05p. 

8:15a.  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6:20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centervllle,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz. *10:50a. 

4:15  p.  Centervllle,  San  Jose,  Lob  Gatos.    9:60a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 

•7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions  *2:88p. 

805  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos.Pa- 
jaro,  Santa  Cruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and   principal  Way   Stations     6:10  p. 

L0:87a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 5:03  f. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 8:30  p. 

■2:80f.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey. 
Pacific   Grove    and    principal 

Way  Stations *10:87  a. 

8:80  p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations *9:47  a. 

'4:80  f.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.  ■  ■    *8 :06  a. 

5:15  p.  San  Jose  and  WayStations 8:48a, 

6:80  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. . .     6:85  a. 
11:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7 :80  p. 

A.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

Sundays  excepted.  fSaturdays  only. 

I  Sunday  b  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

__  Steamers   of  this    Company    will    sail    from 

JROADWAY  WHARF  as  follow*?: 
i  The    steamers    CITY    OF    PUEBLA,    WALLA 

VALLA  and   UMATILLA,  direct  for  VICTORIA, 

i.  C,  and  PUGET  SOUND  ports,  at  9  a.  m.  every 

nve  days. 

[[  The  steamers  Bailing  for  Puget  Sound  ports  at 

I*  a.  m.  connect  at  Port  Townsend  with  steamers 

lor  Alaska. 

|i  For  PORTLAND,  Oregoit,  in  connection  with 

tfJ.  P.  R'y  Co.  every  four  days. 

I  For  SANTA  CRUZ,  MONTEREY,  San  Simeon, 

Kaytjcob,  Santa  Barbara,  San  Buenaventura, 

Idkneme,   San  Pedro,   Los  Angeles   and  San 
(  )ikgo,  about  every  second  day.  __ 

|    For  EUREKA,  ARCATA  and  HOOKTON,  HuM- 
tyoLDT  Bat,  steamer  LOS  ANGELES,  every  Wed- 

Tickkt  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
;omery  street. 

GOODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen '1  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 


Lord  Brougham  visited  Stuttgart,  he  was 
taken  round  ihe  stable.*  by  the  King 'a 
Master  of  the  Horse.  It  was  a  (I  i  lerly 
cold  day,  and  Lord  Brougham,  slightly 
clad,  and  with  trousers  scarcely  reaching 
to  his  ankUs.  ran  hastily  through  the 
stables,  never  looked  at  a  horse,  and  on 
coming  out  merely  observed  to  the  Mas- 
ter of  the  Horse  'that  the  money  spent 
on  the  stables  would  be  more  advant- 
ageously ^spent  in  building  a  suitable 
university  for  the  education  of  the  nobil- 
ity.' Toe  Master  of  the  Horse,  unaccus- 
tomed to  receive  any  but  loud  enconiums 
of  praise  and  admiration,  was  reduced  to 
dumb  silence." 

Here  is  a  story  of  Lord  Westmorland, 
British  Envoy  at  Berlin,  also  amusing  in 
its  way:  "On  one  occasion  an  English 
gentleman  called  to  see  Lord  Westmor- 
land on  particular  business.  He  was  at 
breakfast,  and,  receiving  him  with  his 
usual  urbanity,  asked  the  object  of  his 
visit.  The  gentleman  said  that  he  felt 
somewhat  aggrieved  that  be  had  brought 
an  official  introduction  to  him  from  the 
Foreign  Office,  and  having  learned  that 
his  Lordship  had  given  a  great  dinner  the 
night  before,  was  surprised  and  hurt  at 
receiving  no  invitation.  Lord  Westmor- 
land exclaimed,  with  his  nsual  hearti- 
ness, *God  bless  me,  sir,  I  am  really  quite 
distressed.  I  think.  I  received  the  letter 
of  which  you  speak.  I  will  send  for 
it.'  Accordingly  the  letter  was  brought 
to  him,  and  on  reading  it  he  said  to  the 
stranger,  'Ah  1  I  thought  so.  There,  sir, 
is  the  letter;  but  there  is  no  mention  of 
dinner  in  it,'  on  which  the  gentleman 
rose  and  backed  out  of  the  room  in 
confusion." 


THE    MYSTERIOUS    ONE.— From 
Amusing  Journal, 


the 


At  eve  he  sat  within  his  room, 

And  mused  with  pensive  face; 
At  morn  they  sought  in  vain  for  him 

In  the  accustomed  place; 
For,  out  he  passed,  with  silent  steps, 

Ere  yet  the  day  began — 
Beneath  the  stars  and  through  the  night, 

That  strange,  mysterious  man  I 

No  loving  lips  to  his  were  pressed; 

No  parting  words  were  said 
To  him;  no  loving  heart  invoked 

A  blessing  on  his  head. 
Unmarked,  unseen  by  mortal  eye, 

But  not  unmourn'd  he  went — 
His  landlady  bemoan'd  him,  'cause 

He  hadn't  paid  his  rent. 


OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  8,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
under: 
FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA.  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYD- 
NEY, DIRECT. 
S.  S  Mouowai. Saturday,  December  10,  at  2 p.  m . 
For  Honolulu  Only 

S.  S.  Australia.  .Wednesday,  Dec.  21, 1892,  2  p.m. 
For  Freight   or    Passage  apply  at  Office,  827 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRKCKEL8  &  BROS.  CO, 
Genera]  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  and  BRAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and    HONGKONG,   connecting   at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Beloio Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sday.  Jan  4, 1*93 

Gaelic  Tuebday,  Jan.  24,  1893 

Belqic  Thursday,  February  23,  1893. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT    REDUCED  RATES 

Oabln  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets,  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.GOODMAN, Gen. Pass. Agt. 
GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BR0AD-0AU0E  ROUTE." 
COMMKNCIMu  SUNDAY.  NuV.  ■.'0,  UK,  and 
until  flintier  notice,  Boats  aud  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  Francisco  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET  STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAY8-7:40  A.M.,  9:20a.m.,   11:40  A.  M.: 

8:80  r.  M.,5:06  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY-An  exlra  trip  at  1:60  p.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  a.m., 9:80  A.M.,  11:00  A.M.;  1:80  P.M. 
3:30  p.  M.,  6:00  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:26  A.   M.,  7:65  A.   M.,  9:80   A.  M. 

12:45  P.M.,  8:40  p.m.,  6:06  p.m. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY*— An  eilra  trip  at  6:80  P.M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  A.M.,  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.M.;  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  p.  m.,6:00p  m.,6:26  p.  m. 

from  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:50  A.    M.,  8:20  A.  M.,  9:56    A.  M.; 
1:10  p.  m.,  4:05  p.  m.,  6:86  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:65  p.K. 
SUNDAYS— 8:40   a.m.,    10:06  A.M.,  11:85  A.M.; 
2:05  P.  M.,  4:05P.M.,  5:30  p.m.,  6:66  P.M. 


Leaves.  F. 

Destination. 

AebiveinS.F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
8:80  p.m. 
6:05  p.m. 

8:00  A.M. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:O0p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

10:40 a.m 
6:05  p.m 
7:30p.m 

8:60a.m. 

10:30a. m 

6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Sprimra, 
Cloverdale  & 
WayStations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
8:30  p.m. 

7:80p.m. 

10:30a. M 
fi:10p.M 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00  a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  tJkiah. 

7:80  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:80  p.m. 

8:00  a.m. 

Guernevllle. 

7:80p.m. 

10:30a. M 
6:10  P.M 

7:40a.m. 
6:05  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 
6:00  p.m. 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 

6:05p.m. 

8:60a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  a.  M 
3:30  P.M 

8:00  A.M 
5:00  p.m 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.m 
!   6:05p.h 

10:80am 
6:10  P.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
SprlngB;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs. 
Stewart's  Point.  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  KelseyvIUe,  Soda  Bay,  Lake- 
port  and  Bart] ett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lake- 
port;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  SprlngB,  Sarato- 
ga SprlngB,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Wlllitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 
reka. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To  Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  26;  to 
Healdsburg,  $8  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  76:  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guernevllle,  $3  76;  to  Sonoma,  $160;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1 80. 

EXCURSION  TICEJCTS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1 ;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  60;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  26;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  60;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
vllle, $2  60;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama.. 
Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  16th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.— "City  of  Sydney,"  Decem- 
ber 6, 1892.  "San  Jose,"  December  15, 1892.  "San 
Juan,"  Sunday,  December  25, 1892. 

8.  8.  "City  of  Panama"  will  sail  for  Panama  at 
noon,  Saturday,  December  17th,  calling  at  Maaat- 
lan,  Acapulco,  Port  Ang«l,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala, 
San  Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  San  Jose  de  Guate- 
mala, Acajutla,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Corinto,  San 
Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 
Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 
Indies,  Straits,  etc. ; 
S.  8.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Dec.  6, 
1892,  at  3  p.  M. 
8.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th,  at  3  p.  m. 
"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"    Saturday,  January 
14th,  1893,  at  3  P.  M. 

S.  8.  "City  of  Peking."  Saturday,  February 
4th,  at  3  p.  M. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

G  eneral  Agent. 


32 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  10,  1892. 


THE  transactions  of  the  Monetary  Conference  at  Brussels,  so 
far,  nave  only  emphasized  the  fact  that  bi-metallism  is  not 
acceptable  to  the  vast  majority  of  the  delegates,  and  that  a  really 
bi-raetallistic  proposal  has  not  even  the  sham  of  consideration, 
not  to  speak  of  approval,  on  the  part  of  the  representatives  of  the 
most  important  countries.  Albert  de  Rothschild's  plan,  which 
was  rejected  by  the  committee  that  bad  it  under  consideration, 
indicated  that  the  Rothschilds,  as  well  as  many  other  prominent 
financiers,  should  like  to  avert  or  postpone  the  silver  collapse 
which  is  most  likely  to  be  the  only  tangible  result  of  the  confer, 
ence  provided  its  deliberations  show  that  no  agreement  whatever 
can  be  arrived  at.  The  steady  decline  of  silver  was  an  unpleas- 
ant phenomenon  enough  in  the  commercial  world,  and  a  sudden 
collapse  would,  of  course,  be  seriously  felt  in  the  financial  circles 
not  only  of  this  country  but  all  over  the  world.  To  avert  this  the 
Rothschilds  struck  upon  a  scheme,  intended  to  temporize,  and 
meanwhile  India  and  other  countries  most  effected  by  the  silver 
question,  might  have  obtained  a  chance  to  arrange  their  own 
financial  systems  with  a  view  to  events  to  come.  It  was  to  be 
foreseen,  however,  ;hat  the  mild  palliative  of  Mr.  Alfred  de  Roths- 
child would  be  smiled  at  by  the  mono-metallists,  and,  of  course, 
be  declared  quite  insufficient  by  the  bi-metalliats.  Its  rejection 
by  a  majority  of  the  committee  might  therefore  have  been  fore- 
told with  certainty  as  soon  as  its  details  became  known. 

The  Hon.  H.  W.  Cannon,  President  of  the  Chase  National 
Bank  of  New  York,  member  of  the  committee  to  whom  the  re- 
port on  the  Rothschild  plan  was  entrusted,  emphasizes  the  possi- 
bility of  a  panic  of  greater  or  lesses  extent  unless  the  Monetary 
Conference  should  arrive  at  some  conclusion,  and  at  his  instiga- 
tion the  minority  report  will  contain  what  is  called  an  amended 
form  of  the  Rothschild  plan  to  be  submitted  to  the  conference. 
Mr.  Alfred  de  Rothschild  proposed  that  America  continue  the 
purchase  of  silver  and  that  the  European  powers  buy  an  amount 
equal  to  £5,000,000  a  year  for  five  years  at  43d.  If  silver  should 
rise  above  that  price  the  purchases  should  be  immediately  sus- 
pended. The  amended  plan  proposes  that  no  limitation  be  made 
on  the  price  of  the  suggested  European  purchases  of  30,000,000 
ounces  of  silver,  that  the  purchase  be  over  and  above  the  ordi- 
nary purchases  for  both  coinage  and  metal,  and  that  the  purchase 
be  employed  as  money  either  by  coinage  or  as  a  metallic  basis  of 
notes  to  be  issued.  Of  course,  the  bi-metallists  would  like  this 
amended  form,  which  actually  is  an  absolute  change  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  original  plan,  well  enough  faute  de  mieux.  Since  the 
bi-metallists,  however,  have  but  little  show  at  the  Brussels  Con- 
ference, it  is  not  likely  that  the  minority  proposals  would  be  ac- 
cepted, even  if  the  delegates  had  been  authorized  to  accept  any 
proposals,  which,  as  previously  pointed  out,  most  of  them  are 
not. 

Mr.  Cannon  threatens  that  if  no  agreement  is  reached  by  the 
Conference  the  United  States  may  think  it  best  to  repeal  the  Sher- 
man Act  of  July,  1890,  and  stop  silver  purchases  for  currency 
purposes  until  such  time  as  an  international  agreement  is  made. 
He  adds  that  our  government  may  also  feel  inclined,  in  that  case, 
to  take  such  steps  as  may  be  necessary  to  maintain  its  stock  of 
gold.  Of  course,  this  prospect  is  menacing  enough  to  make  the 
European  countries  pause  before  forcing  an  iBsue  in  the  United 
States  just  at  this  moment.  Still,  if  pressure  is  to  be  brought  ul- 
timately by  the  United  States  to*  induce  the  European  countries 
to  grant  concessions  after  the  Conference  has  adjourned,  our  gov- 
ernment has  still  a  better  means  for  this  purpose  in  the  re-arrange- 
ments of  our  general  commercial  relations. 

If  foreign  countries  want  favors  from  America  in  tariff  matters 
they  may  reasonably  be  expected  to  make  some  concessions  to  us 
in  order  to  extricate  us  from  the  difficult  position  into  which  our 
efforts  to  extend  single-banded  the  use  of  silver  in  our  currency 
have  brought  us.  Our  government  is  circulating  at  present  some 
$450,000,000  in  paper,  representing  silver,  now  worth  in  the  mar- 
ket at  least  $100,000,000  less  than  the  face  of  the  notes,  but  kept 
at  par  by  the  pledge  of  the  Government  to  redeem  these  paper 
notes,  at  demand,  in  gold.  If  thispledgeis  to  be  kept,  and  it  will  and 
must  be  kept  for  the  honor  of  the  United  8tates,  the  issue  must 
be  stopped  in  time  together  with  the  purchase  of  silver,  unless 
other  countries  can  be  forced  to  assist  us  in  averting  a  crisis. 
What  will  be  the  solution  cannot  be  discussed  before  the  new 
government  is  inaugurated.  The  Monetary  Conference  at  Brus- 
sels meets  in  the  Palace  of  the  Academies,  and  its  discussions  will 
remain,  most  likely,  purely  "  Academic." 

There  is  not  the  slightest  doubt  that,  if  justice  were  to  prevail, 
hundreds  of  Frenchmen  occupying  the  highest  ranks  in  politics, 
as  well  as  society,  should  spend  the  rest  of  their  life  behind  prison 
bars.     The  very  fact,   however,    that   so  many  are  implicated  in 


the  frauds  will  secure  escape  to  the  most  influential  ones  amongst 
them.  If  all  signs  do  not  deceive 'us,  the  result  of  the  investiga- 
tion, as  well  as  of  the  prosecution,  will  be  that  few  of  the  real 
criminals  will  suffer,  that  some  who  have  been  dupes  rather  than 
free  agents  will  have  to  bear  the  main  burden;  that  a  scape-goat 
will  be  made  to  take  the  sins  of  his  brethren  upon  his  own 
shoulders;  that  honored  names  will  be  dragged  into  the  mire  and 
notoriety  will  be  granted  to  others  who,  otherwise,  would  have 
remained  in  oblivion,  and  that  no  substantial  benefit  will  accrue 
for  those  persons  who  have  really  sustained  losses. 

The  desire  to  see  the  corpse  of  Baron  de  Reinach,  the  alleged 
suicide,  who  at  the  moment  of  his  supposed  death  was  the 
possessor  of  many  millions,  is  natural  on  the  part  of  those  who 
helped  to  contribute  to  the  accumulation  of  those  millions  by 
private  losses.  A  felo  de  se  who  is  a  millionaire,  and  has  always 
enjoyed  good  health,  is  a  rara  avis  indeed,  whose  existence  ought 
to  be  doubted  until  proved  by  ocular  evidence.  Nevertheless  the 
public  prosecutor  cannot  be  blamed  for  refusing  on  his  part  to 
gratify  this  curiosity,  which  he  could  have  done  only  by  making 
illegal  and  unconstitutional  concessions,  nor  can  the  late  French 
government  be  criticized  for  upholding  the  public  prosecutor  in 
his  refusal. 

The  assassination  of  Afzul  Ul  Mulk,  Mentar  of  Chitral,  and  his 
younger  brother,  by  Shur  Afzul  Kahn,  another  brother,  is  an  event 
of  serious  importance,  in  so  far  as  the  Ameer  of  Afghanistan  is  sus- 
pected of  having  lent  assistance  to  the  deed,  or  at  least  being 
guilty  of  connivance.  Chitral  is  under  British  protection,  and 
the  English  government  is  naturally  anxious  to  know  whether 
the  Ameer  has  dared  to  interfere  in  a  district  situated  within  a 
zone  of  British  influence. 

General  Dodds  telegraphs  that  the  inhabitants  of  Whydah,  in 
Dahomey,  have  declared  their  submission  to  French  authority. 
Since,  according  to  previous  reports,  King  Behanzin  and  most  of 
bis  subjects  have  evacuated  the  country  and  retired  into  the 
forests,  many  »  inhabitants  "  cannot  have  remained  at  Whydah, 
and  their  submission,  considering  the  fact  that  they  cannot  speak 
for  their  absent  compatriots,  is  of  doubtful  value. 


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Number  25. 


Printed  and  Published  erery  Saturday  by  the  Proprietor,  Frederick 
Marriott,  Flood  Building,  Fourth  and  Market  Streets,  San  Fran. 
Cisco.     Entered  at  San  Francisco  rost-office.  as  Second  Class  Matter. 


THE  office  of  the  News  Letter  in    New  York  City  has  been  es- 
tablished at  196  Broadway,  room  14,  where  information  may 
be  obtained  regarding  subscription  and  advertising  rates. 


THE  "  correction  of  his  evidence  "  made  by  Guard  Waters  in 
the  examination  of  Alexander,  for  the  brutal  murder  of  a 
convict  at  San  Qaentin,  was  one  of  the  gauziest  things  ever  seen 
in  a  court  of  justice.  It  is  no  wonder  he  was  pale  and  spoke  in  a  low 
voice,  as  he  took  back  what  he  had  previously  said  and  held  himself 
np  as  a  self-confessed  perjurer.  It  would  be  interesting,  by  the  way, 
to  know  the  inside  history  of  how  he  came  to  stultify  himself  in  such 
away.  The  pressure  must  have  been  pretty  hard,  and  some  severe 
penalty  must  have  been  feared,  for  even  the  hardiest  falsifier  scarcely 
cares  to  get  up  in  open  court  and  own  up  that  he  has  lied. 

ONE  of  the  San  Rafael  newspapers  says  that  capital  and  popu- 
lation are  kept  away  from  Marin  county  by  the  presence 
there  of  the  San  Quentin  State  Prison.  It  suggests  that  one  of 
the  islands  in  the  Santa  Barbara  channel  be  set  apart  as  a  penal 
colony,  where  the  opportunity  for  the  friends  of  the  prisoners  to 
aid  them  to  escape  would  be  reduced  to  a  minimum,  and  the 
.  smuggling  of  opium  and  liquor  to  convicts  would  be  well  nigh 
impossible.  It  was  suggested  at  one  time  that  these  islands 
would  make  good  reservations  for  the  Indians,  and  particularly 
the  hostile  Apaches.  Either  for  convicts  or  Indians,  the  idea  is  a 
good  one,  and  it  would  be  well  if  it  were  carried  out. 


THE  editor  of  the  Colusa  Sun  took  part  in  the  recent  junketing 
excursion  of  the  Idiotorial  Association,  and  enjoyed  the  hospi- 
tality of  the  Southern  newspaper  men  to  the  utmost.  The  un- 
usual number  of  square  meals  enjoyed  appears  to  have  brought 
on  an  attack  of  dyspepsia,  or  something  akin  thereto,  and  after 
"returning  home  from  his  free-lunch,  free-drink  trip,  be  unloaded 
his  bile  in  a  column  or  so  of  abuse  of  his  hosts.  Some  of  the 
journals  in  the  section  referred  to  have  retorted  by  pointed  refer- 
ence to  their  assailant's  peculiar  and  offensive  personal  habits.  It 
is  thus  that  the  breach  between  the  North  and  the  South  is 
widened,  and  California  becomes  too  small  to  hold  these  doughty 
warriors  of  the  pen. 


SPECIAL  Agent  Allen,  wbo  has  made  a  sensation  by  recom- 
mending the  inclusion  within  a  government  reservation  of 
the  bulk  of  the  mountain  territory  from  Mariposa  County  to  the 
Mojave  Desert,  does  not  appear  to  have  created  a  very  favorable 
impression  in  Inyo  County.  He  was  sent  there  to  report  upon 
the  proposed  eastern  boundary  of  the  reservation,  but  his  investi- 
gations, so  far  as  that  section  was  concerned,  were  confined  to  a 
single  night.  He  arrived  at  Independence  one  afternoon,  passed 
the  night  there,  and  left  the  next  morning.  So  far  as  known  he 
did  not  meet  or  ask  a  single  question  of  any  person  having  any 
knowledge  of  the  region  in  question,  nor  did  he  travel  over  one 
foot  of  the  proposed  reservation.  If  Mr.  Allen's  investigations 
have  all  been  conducted  in  this  fashion,  his  recommendation 
should  have  little  weight. 

IT  is  evident  that  the  8.  B.  L.  M.  W.  F.  A.  C.  (which  being 
interpreted  means  the  State  Board  of  Lady  Managers  of  the 
World's  Fair  Association  of  California)  are  feminine  clear  through. 
The  name  they  have  chosen  would  demonstrate  this,  if  they  had 
done  nothing  else.  But  in  a  thoroughly  womanly  manner  they 
are  seeking  to  obtain  their  ends  through  abuse  instead  of  the 
exercise  of  business  like  methods. ,  Desiring  to  get  their  hands 
into  the  "State  sack,"  as  one  of  their  supporters  calls  the  World's 
Fair  appropriation,  they  have  caused  it  to  be  published  far  and 
wide  that  they  believe  the  officials  who  hold  the  strings  of  that 
sack  to  be  "mean,  measly  and  discourteous."  Having  thus 
relieved  their  overburdened  alleged  minds,  they  renew  their  de- 
mands for  a  slice  of  the  appropriation,  but  which  they  will 
hardly  get  after  their  thoroughly  feminine  exhibition  of  spite. 
They  have  in  fact  succeeded  in  making  almost  as  indecent  a  dis- 
play of  themselves  as  did  the  agents  of  the  Viticultural  Commis- 
sion who  cut  such  a  sorry  figure  before  the  World's  Fair  Com- 
mission after  having  attacked  that  body  in  the  daily  press  n  so 
unwarrantable  a  fashion. 


SINCE  the  recent  heavy  rainstorms  the  newspapers  published 
in  many  of  the  old  mining  towns  have  noted  the  fact  that 
many  small  nuggets  of  placer  gold  have  been  picked  up  in  their 
streets,  and  that  with  the  old  fashioned  pan.  boys  have  made 
good  wages  washing  out  thedeposits  left  in  hollows  and  crevices. 
This  is  only  another  proof  of  the  oft  repeated  statement  that  the 
hills  of  California  still  contains  an  abundance  of  the  precious 
and  that  metal,  it  is  not  at  all  improbable  that  the  belief  that 
there  is  as  much  or  more  still  left,  than  has  been  washed  out  up 
to  the  present  time  is  well  founded. 

AN  inmate  of  the  Whittier  Reform  School  whose  term  is  about 
to  expire,  and  who  had  devoted  himself  diligently  to  learning 
the  carpenters' trade,  wrote  to  a  man  in  Los  Angeles  whom  he 
knew  by  reputation  as  religious  and  benevolent,  related  bis  case, 
and  besought  his  aid  in  obtaining  employment  after  leaving  the 
Bchool,  in  order  that  he  might  not  relapse  into  evil  wayB.  In 
reply  he  received  the  exceedingly  comforting  announcement  that 
the  gentleman  knew  of  no  place  where  the  boy  could  obtain  work, 
but  the  letter  concluded  :  "  Give  God  your  heart  and  look  to  him 
for  everything."  This  is  much  of  the  same  character  with  the 
answer  the  Pittsburg  clergymen  gave  the  women  of  ill-repute 
who  asked  for  aid  in  leaving   their   immoral   lives. 

ONE  of  Helen  Hunt  Jackson's  most  powerful  pleas  for  the 
Mission  Indians  was  that  they  should  b<3  secured  in  the  poss- 
ession of  the  lands  that  has  belonged  to  their  ancestors  from  time 
immemorial.  The  eviction  of  the  Temescula  tribe  from  the  home 
of  their  forefathers  was  described  at  length  and  aroused  wide- 
spread indignation.  It  appears  that  Agent  Rust  has  been  repeat- 
ing exactly  this  performance,  and  recently  a  number  of  San  Diego 
Indians  were  driven  from  lands  on  which  to  use  their  own  words, 
their  fathers  and  grandfathers  have  lived,  died  and  were  buried. 
The  land  was  given  to  a  Mexican.  They  complained  to  Agent 
Rust  of  their  treatment,  and  were  brutally  told  to  go  to  the 
mountains  and  get  homes  where  best  they  could.  It  is  hard  that 
we  should  have  to  wait  until  March  4th,  to  have  this  man  RuBt 
removed  and  his  place  given  to    some  one   competent   to    fill  it. 

ABOUT  the  worst  evidence  of  trade  union  assurance  recently 
shown  is  that  reported  from  San  Jose,  where  the  Painter's 
Union  has  ordered  a  strike  because  a  firm  engaged  in  business 
there  refused  to  pay  a  ,i  tine  "  of  a  $100  ibat  bad  been  levied  upon 
them.  California  is  away  behind  the  times  in  dealing  with  such 
bold-faced  blackmailers,  and  highwaymen  as  this.  There  are  a 
couple  of  men  in  the  Slate  Prison  in  New  York  for  just  such  a 
little  affair  as  this,  and  perhaps  when  District  Attorneys  and 
Judges  in  this  State  learn  to  do  their  duty  without  regard  to  the 
vastly  overrated  labor  vote,  employers  may  enjoy  the  same  pro- 
tection here  that  is  accorded  in  the  East.  It  ia  time  that  better 
protection  were  afforded  to  both  life  and  property  on  this  coast. 
Many  people  affect  to  wonder  why  the  population  of  this  State 
does  not  increase  at  a  more  rapid  rate.  They  may  easily  find  full 
explanation  in  the  lax  manner  in  which  the  laws  are  administered 
here. 


THE  good  people  of  Pittsburg  who  attempted  to  suppress  the 
"  social  evil"  offhand,  ran  against  a  snag  which  quietly 
nullified  all  the  work  they  had  done.  They  prodded  the  police 
until  a  series  of  raids  was  carried  out  that  resulted  in  the  closing  of 
every  house  of  ill-fame  in  the  town.  But  then  the  question  arose, 
what  shall  be  done  with  the  women  thus  deprived  of  their  means  of 
livelihood,  vile  though  that  means  were?  The  women  themselves 
sent  a  delegation  to  the  ministers  who  had  engineered  the  movement 
against  them,  expressed  a  willingness  to  abandon  their  immoral 
calling,  but  asked  what  they  should  do  for  a  living.  The  ministers 
were  nonplussed,  and  after  much  hemming  and  hawing  they  all,  with 
one  accord,  returned  answer  that  that  was  none  of  their  business. 
In  fact,  if  not  in  word,  the  poor  women  were  Dolitely  told  that  they 
might  go  to  the  devil  for  all  that  decent  society  would  do  for 
them.  Thereupon  the  police,  confronted  with  a  condition  instead  of 
a  theory,  permitted  the  women  to  return  to  their  former  haunts,  and 
now  the  last  state  of  these  poor  creatures  is  worse  than  their  first, 
for  they  have  been  brought  face  to  face  with  the  utter  hollowness  and 
insincerity  of  the  average  religious  enthusiast,  who  is  possessed  with 
a  desire  for  reforming  and  regulating  the  world,  but  who  has  not  an 
atom  of  true  charily  in  his  composition.  And  of  such,  also,  is  the 
clergy  of  this  truly  good  city. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER, 


Dec.  17,  1892, 


REVISING    THE    TARIFF. 

IT  must  be  assumed  that  the  Democratic  party,  at  the  next 
session  of  Congress,  will  undertake  the  task  of  revising  the 
tariff,  in  accordance  with  the  principles  expressed  in  the  Chicago 
platform  and  Mr.  Cleveland's  letter  of  acceptance,  and  in  conso- 
nance with  the  will  of  a  majority  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States  as  manifested  at  the  recent  election.  There  is  no  substan- 
tial difference  in  the  party  as  to  the  policy  to  be  pursued,  al- 
though there  are  some  would-be  politicians  in  the  Democratic 
ranks  who  have  said  that  tariff  revision  was  good  enough  to  win 
an  election  with,  but  that  it  would  be  better  to  let  it  alone  as  a 
practical  measure.  There  are,  too,  in  the  Democratic  party,  as 
in  every  political  party,  a  few  men  of  prominence  who  never 
aspire  to  anything  higher  than  a  successful  compromise,  and  who 
would  be  glad  to  purchase  a  continuance  of  power  if  they  could, 
by  a  certain  sacrifice  of  principle  to  expediency;  but  all  these  are 
very  insignificant  when  compared  with  the  great  mass  of  the 
party  who  demand  tariff  revision  upon  tne  lines  of  decreased  du- 
ties on  many  classes  of  imports.  But  what  we  desire  to  point  out 
is  this,  that  in  tariff  revision,  as  in  everything  else,  there  is  a 
wide  distinction  between  theory  and  practice,  and  it  not  infre- 
quently seems  impossible  to  harmonize  them.  The  very  best  in- 
tentions may  be  thwarted  by  obstacles  which  are  seemingly  in- 
superable, and  the  wisest  of  policies  may  have  to  bow  to  circum- 
stances. 80  it  will  inevitably  be,  that  when  the  Democratic 
party  gets  to  the  actual  work  of  revising  the  tariff,  it  will  be 
met  with  opposition  from  the  very  quarters  where  it  has  every 
right  to  expect  assistance,  and  the  plans  of  the  Committee  on 
Ways  and  Means  will  be  subjected  to  as  much  criticism  from 
the  Democratic  side  of  the  House  of  Representatives  as  from  the 
Republican.  It  does  not  require  very  profound  reflection  to 
show  why  this  will  be  so.  Under  the  protective  policy  there 
have  been  called  into  existence  various  industries  which  have 
come  to  think  they  cannot  survive  without  protection.  These 
are  located  in  Democratic  Congressional  districts  as  well  as  Re- 
publican, and  while  employer  and  employees  may  vote  the  Dem- 
ocratic ticket,  they  will  urge  upon  the  member  of  Congress  from 
that  district — their  member  as  they  call  him — that  while  be  may 
advocate  and  vote  for  free  trade  or  low  tariff  in  the  abstract,  he 
must  not  do  anything  to  injure  the  material  interests  of  his  con- 
stituents. They  will  argue,  for  mankind  is  as  selfish  under  one 
fiscal  policy  as  another,  that  he  may  work  with  all  his  might  to 
reduce  the  import  duty  on  most  products,  but  that  their  special 
product  must  be  let  alone,  or  at  least  treated  with  the  most  ten- 
der care.  Obviously,  if  this  argument,  mutatis  mutandis,  be  ad- 
dressed to  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives, the  prospects  of  any  radical  change  in  the  tariff  will  be 
very  small.  Then,  again,  there  is  another  seemingly  irrepressi- 
ble conflict  which  the  party  will  have  to  reconcile,  and  that  is 
between  the  importers  of  raw  materials  and  the  importers  of  fin- 
ished products.  Take,  for  example,  the  woollen  manufacturers 
of  New  England.  They  want  raw  wool  to  come  in  duty  free, 
because  in  that  event  they  can  put  their  product  on  the  market 
at  a  less  cost  to  themselves,  and  thereby  make  more  profit,  even 
though  the  consumer  will  pay  less  for  the  product  than  at  pres- 
ent. But  then  comes  the  importer  of  ready-made  woolen  fabrics, 
such  as  clothes  of  all  kinds,  and  asks  why  the  manufacturer 
should  be  favored  at  his  expense.  If  cheapness  to  the  consumer 
be  the  object  to  be  subserved,  he  can,  we  will  say,  sell  his  foreign- 
made  clothes  cheaper  than  the  American  manufacturer  possibly 
can  his  product,  that  is  if  clothes  be  admitted  duty  free,  for  Eu- 
ropean wages  are  so  mnch  lower  than  American  wages  that  the 
importer  can  always  undersell  the  manufacturer.  This  is  mani- 
festly one  of  the  difficulties  to  be  reconciled  in  adjusting  tariff  on 
a  new  basis.  So  it  will  be  all  through  the  long  schedule.  There 
are  to  be  considered  the  producer,  the  consumer,  the  working- 
man,  the  importer,  the  middleman  and  the  retailer,  and  each  will 
demand  that  his  interests  be  watched  over  and  protected,  even 
tinder  a  tariff  for  revenue  only.  It  is  clear  that  to  remove  all  du- 
ties on  imports  at  one  blow,  or  even  to  adopt  the  scheme  of  a 
great  horizontal  reduction  would  be  revolutionary,  since  business 
could  not  adjust  itself  to  the  new  condition  of  things  at  once, 
and  disaster  would  be  the  result  of  a  sudden  and  violent  change. 
What,  then,  is  to  be  done?  Simply  this,  to  legislate  for  the  great- 
est good  of  the  greatest  number,  basing  action  upon  the  best  and 
wisest  opinions  that  can  be  obtained.  If  the  Democratic  party 
undertakes  to  adopt  a  tariff  which  is  satisfactory  to  everybody 
it  will  have  to  stay  in  session  until  the  millenium,  and  then  it 
would  not  accomplish  it.  No  matter  with  how  much  care,  and 
skill  and  tact  the  tariff  may  be  revised,  it  will  hurt  somebody, 
and  whoever  is  hurt  will  cry  out.  Just  as  the  rain — no  matter 
how  much  it  may  be  needed  by  the  greater  part  of  the  conntry, 
always  does  some  damage  to  somebody;  so  the  revision  of  the 
tariff  must  affect  some  interests  injuriously,  particularly  those 
which  want  only  to  be  let  alone.  With  these,  however,  the  tar- 
iff reforms  can  have  no  concern,  unless  it  be  not  to  barm  them 
wantonly  or  heedlessly.  Tbere  must  be  a  general  plan  of  tariff 
revision  agreed  upon  to  which  everything  must  be  made  to  con- 
form, even  though,  as  is  certain  to  be  the  case,  tbere  will  be  indi- 
vidual instances  of  hardship.  The  few  must  consent  to  suffer 
or  the  good  of  the  many. 


THE    BAY    DISTRICT    TRACK. 

AFTER  the  News  Letter  had  for  some  weeks  directed  the  at- 
tention :>f  the  puolic  to  the  manner  in  which  the  race  meet- 
ings of  the  Blood  Horse  Association,  at  the  Bay  District  Track, 
were  managed,  and  warned  all  those  who  might  be  about  to  lay 
money  on  any  of  the  events  against  doing  so,  the  daily  papers 
have  at  last  taken  up  the  matter,  and  with  loud  voice  now  also 
cry  "fraud!"  It  is  the  opinion  of  men  who  have  made  a  business 
of  horse  racing  for  some  years  past  in  California,  that  the  present 
meeting  of  the  Blood  Horse  Association  has  been  the  most  dis- 
graceful this  State  has  ever  known.  Whether  the  Directors  as  a 
body,  or  one  of  them  individually,  as  is  charged,  be  responsible 
for  the  condition  of  affairs,  is  not  our  purpose  to  argue.  It  is 
known  that  the  most  outrageous  robberies  have  been  committed 
on  the  Bay  District  Track,  and  the  people  hold  the  Association 
regponsible.  Horses  have  been  pulled  repeatedly;  horsemen  say 
"rank"  decisions  have  been  made,  false  starts  have  been  allowed 
to  go,  jockeys  have  been  ruled  off,  men  and  women  have  been  in- 
sulted, known  and  notorious  thieves  have  been  allowed  to  mingle 
with  spectators  for  their  own  dishonest  ends,  and,  in  all,  it  seems 
rather  that  an  effort  has  been  made  at  this  meeting  to  rob  every- 
body, right  and  left,  instead  of  fostering  good  sport.  The  Blood 
Horse  Association,  by  its  own  actions,  has  lost  the  confidence  of 
the  people.  Every  race  is  regarded  with  suspicion,  and  properly 
so,  for  the  Directors  have  not  shown  such  a  disposition  to  inves- 
tigate shady  performances  and  to  maintain  honest  methods  on  the 
track  that  the  public  has  a  right  to  expect.  Many  of  the  jobs  have 
been  open,  with  no  attempt  at  concealment;  spectators  have  publicly 
stated  their  knowledge  of  fraud,  and  are  willing  to  testify  to  the  same 
effect,  but  the  Directors  gave  them  no  opportunity  to  do  so.  Instead 
of  inviting  an  investigation  of  the  manner  in  which  races  are  run  un- 
der its  auspices,  the  Blood  Horse  Association  seems  rather  deter- 
mined to  nip  in  the  bud  all  attempts  at  ascertaining  the  truth.  This 
was  shown  this  week  in  the  case  of  Schwartz,  the  bookmaker,  who 
had  the  ''presumption"  to  demand  an  investigation  of  the  manner  in 
which  Jones,  the  starter,  had  sent  off  the  horses  in  the  race  in  which 
Schwartz's  horse  was  left  at  the  post.  After  the  race,  which  many 
men  believe  to  have  been  fixed,  had  been  run,  Schwartz  posted  a 
notice  on  his  board  at  the  track,  that  he  would  make  no  more 
books  as  long  as  Jones  held  the  flag.  Because  ol  this  action  or.  his 
part,  and  without  regard  to  the  charges  of  fraud,  or  to  any  rights 
that  Schwartz  may  have  in  the  matter,  Vice  President  Williams 
moved  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  on  Wednesday,  that 
Schwartz  should  be  fined  $500,  and  denied  the  privilege  of  making  a 
book  on  thetracK  during  the  remainderof  the  meeting.  The  motion 
was  carried,  with  the  exception  of  the  fine.  This  is  the  "fair  treat- 
ment" accorded  by  the  Directors  to  those  who  attempt  to  expose  the 
fraudulent  methods  of  the  men  upon  the  track.  Nor  is  the  dissatis- 
faction over  the  racing  frauds,  the  only  cause  of  complaint.  We 
have  already  referred  to  the  brutal  and  unprovoked  assault  made  by 
Vice  President  Williams  upon  Fulton  G.  Berry.  Now  it  appears, 
that  not  satisfied  with  attacking  an  old  man,  Williams  has  com- 
menced attacking  women,  and  subjecting  them  to  personal  indigni- 
ties. A  woman  who  had  paid  her  way  into  the  track,  entered  the 
betting  ring  this  week,  and  because  she  declined  to  leave  it,  at  the 
command  of  the  mighty  Williams,  that  "Gentleman"  set  his  special 
policemen  on  her,  and  she  was  dragged  by  force  and  arms  away 
from  the  betting  ring,  put  under  arrest  on  a  charge  of  disturbing  the 
peace,  and  taken  to  jail.  The  Police  Judge  promptly  dismissed  the 
case,  holding  very  properly  that  the  woman,  having  paid  the  price 
of  admission,  had  as  much  right  in  the  betting  ring  as  Williams  him- 
self, or  any  other  gambler.  The  assaulted  woman  and  her  husband 
will  now  sue  the  Blood  Horse  Association  for  damages,  and  we  hope 
she  wins  the  case  and  is  awarded  a  just  sum  by  the  jury  in  repara- 
tion for  the  cowardly  assault  made  upon  her.  Most  of  the  com- 
plaints made  by  the  track  frequenters  regarding  the  races  have  birth 
in  the  fact  that  Tom  Williams  acts  as  if  he  weie  the  whole  associa- 
tion. He  has  interfered  with  the  starters  and  judges,  and  it  is 
charged  that  he  has  been  at  the  flag  or  in  the  stand,  when  horses 
were  running  on  which  he  had  money.  The  fellow's  conduct  has 
been  such  that  he  should  receive  the  severest  censure  from  the 
directors.  Such  a  result,  however,  is  not  at  all  probable,  for  the 
other  directors  seem  to  have  allowed  the  whole  association  to  drift 
Into  his  hands,  and  he  is  running  it  with  a  vengeance.  If  the  Blood 
Horse  Association  would  regain  the  fair  reputation  which  it  formerly 
enjoyed  as  the  supporter  of  honorable  methods,  it  will  at  once 
entirely  revolutionize  the  conduct  of  its  meetings.  Until  it  does,  no 
man  will  feel  safe  from  the  hands  of  robbers  whenever  he  is 
unfortunate  enough,  at  this  meeting,  to  be  at  the  Bay  District  Track. 

THE  German  Chancellor  on  Monday  last  confirmed,  in  the 
Reichstag,  the  statement  that  the  German  delegates  at  the 
Monetary  Conference  at  Brussels  were  instructed  not  to  give 
their  assent  to  any  proposal  tbat  restricted  Germany's  right  to 
decide  what  should  constitute  her  own  currency,  and  to  declare 
that  Germany  is  content  with  her  present  system  and  would  not 
change  it.  This  settles  beyond  doubt  Germany's  position  in  the 
matter  for  the  moment,  and  proves  that  her  consent  to  a  bi- 
metallic scheme,  if  it  can  be  obtained  at  all,  will  have  to  be  ob- 
tained, not  during  the  conference,  but  at  some  later  date. 


Dec.   17.   I 


S\\  FKAN<  tS<  0  SEW  S  LET!  ER 


THE    BLVTHE    CASE 


T1IK  actual  kg»l  Condition  of  the  Blythe  c*«e  ha<>  not  been 
properly  rvpPBMDlvd  in  the  daily  newspapers.  It  seems  to  have 
been  assutntd  that  the  Supreme  Court  had  finally  dteidid  the 
care  in  favor  o|  Mr*.  Hinckley,  formerly  Florence  Blytbe;  bal  the 
fact  is.  that  only  two  questions  of  law  at  Issae  between  her  and 
the  Williams  claimants  were  settled  by  the  Court.  It  may  be 
well  to  make  this  clear.  On  July  3181,1890,  Judge  Coffey  «ie- 
eidi  d  tbe  ca«e.  The  Undine  and  decree  were  argued  October  22d( 
1890.  The  decis-ion  was,  Brat,  that  Florence  Blythe  was  the 
adopted  daughter  of  Thomas  H.  Blythe,  and  his  sole  heir;  sec- 
ond, that  tbe  Williams  claimant!1,  so-called,  were  the  true  collat- 
eral heirs,  and  could  inherit  but  for  the  existence  of  tbe  daughter; 
third,  that  all  the  other  claimants,  other  than  Mrs.  Blytbe,  were 
notgenuine;  and  fourth,  that  Mrs.  Blythe  bad  not  been  a  wife, 
therefore  was  not  Mr.  Blythe's  widow.  On  the  trial  of  the  case, 
the  Williams  claimants,  endorsed  in  this  respect  by  some  other 
parties  to  the  proceedings,  insisted  that,  even  though  Florence 
Blytbe  were  the  daughter  of  Thomas  H.  Blytbe,  he 
bad  never  seen  her,  and  she  was  domiciled  with  her 
mother  in  England  down  to  the  time  of  bis  death,  and, 
for  this  reason,  could  not  be  adopted  or  instituted  under  the  laws 
of  this  State.  In  this  contention  Mrs.  Alice  Edith  Blythe  declnied 
to  join,  and  consistently  held  the  position  that,  if  the  paternity  of 
Florence  Blythe  were  established,  she  had  the  legal  right  to  inherit 
to  the  amount  of  one-half  of  the  Blythe  estate.  When  the  decision 
of  Judge  Coffey  occurred,  then  tbe  situation  was,  that,  if  the  Williams 
claimants  could  maintain  these  two  legal  propositions,  that  was  an 
end  of  Florence  Blythe's  case.  An  appeal  from  the  judgment  only, 
therefore,  was  taken  by  the  Williams  claimants,  to  which  Mrs. 
Blytbe  was  not  a  party,  and  in  which  she  was  not  represented  and 
had  no  interest  whatever.  This  is  the  appeal  which  has  recently 
been  decided.  Ou  December  5.  1890,  Mrs.  Blythe  moved  for  a  new 
trial,  and  on  December  22,  1890,  she  appealed  to  the  Supreme  Court 
from  the  judgment.  On  January  14, 1891,  her  proposed  statement  on 
motion  for  new  trial  was  served,  the  original  and  copies  together 
aggregating  some  twelve  thousand  type-written  pages,  and  the 
assignment  of  alleged  errors  iu  the  trial  and  in  the  decision  was  un- 
usually full.  This  statement  embraced  two  parts;  one,  covering  the 
case  of  Florence  Blythe  on  the  issue  as  to  paternity,  and  the  other 
presenting  the  affirmative  claim  of  Mrs.  Blvthe,  as  the  widow  of  the 
deceased.  On  June  2,  1892,  the  proposed  amendments  to  Mrs. 
Blythe's  proposed  statement  were  received,  and  the  statement  is 
now  in  process  of  settlement.  "When  that  settlement  is  completed 
and  the  statement,  as  corrected,  engrossed  and  certified,  tbe  motion 
for  new  trial  will  be  heard  and,  within  sixty  days  after  it  is  decided, 
an  appeal  can  be  taken  for  the  order,  granting  or  refusing  the  new 
trial,  on  which  the  evidence  will  be  before  the  Supreme  Court. 

The  entire  case  of  Mrs.  Blythe,  therefore,  both  in  relation  to  the 
plaintiff  and  in  her  own  behalf,  is  still  undetermined,  and  cannot  le- 
gally be  affected  by  the  recent  decision.  Numerous  other  appeals 
and  motions  for  new  trial  by  other  claimants  are  also  pending. 

As  this  great  case  is  still  sub  judice,  anything  beyond  a  bare  state- 
ment of  its  legal  position  is  now  improper.  It  is  quite  probable  that 
two  or  three  exceptions  to  the  opinion  written  by  Judge  Garoutte, 
which  in  themselves  might  be  misleading,  are  attributable  to  the  fact 
that,  in  the  late  appeal,  however  vigorously  tbe  plaintiff  and  the 
Williams  claimants  dispute  the  two  questions  of  law  before  the 
Court,  they  assumed  the  fact  of  paternity  for  the  purpose  of  the  ap- 
pearand were  actually  united  against  Mrs.  Blythe's  case. 


GOVERNMENT    IN    FRANCE. 

IP  tOythlUB  were  n.  .  -t-sviry  10  ibo*  the  >  up.-:  |..nty  of  our  own 
system  of  governmenl  over  thai  ol  the  French  ltepublic.it 
may  be  found  m  recenl  events  In  Prance  a  thorough  separation 
Ol  Lbfl  executive  from  the  legislative  department,  such  M  is  pro- 
vided for  in  the  < ' in ation  ol  the   Dnlted   States,   would   have 

prevented  the  humiliating  spectacle  ol  the  government  of  a  great 
country  being  at  the  mercy  ol  agitators  and  anarchists.  In  the 
Carmaux  strikes  affair,  the  Frenen  Prime  Minister  had  to  yield 
to  the  clamor  of  the  Radicals,  and  to  interfere  in  a  difficulty  of  an 
entirely  private  nature,  a  strike  between  laborers  and  their  em- 
ployers, which  was  artificially  elevated  Into  a  question  of  public 
concern  by  the  actions  of  M.  Clemenceau  and  his  followers.  Yet 
far  from  earning  the  gratitude  of  the  strikers,  M.  Loubet,  by  tak- 
ing upon  himself  a  function  entirely  new  in  a  Minister  of  State, 
merely  compromised  his  position.  In  the  Panama  Canal  scandal, 
a  government  unwilling  lo  violate  tbe  Constitution  by  permitting 
the  Legislature  to  interfere  with  the  rights  of  the  judicature,  had 
to  resign.  The  latter  event  is  especially  significant.  The  Chamber 
of  Deputies  appointed  a  committee  of  investigation  to  look  into 
the  reported  cases  of  bribery.  The  public  prosecutor,  before  the 
appointment  of  this  committee,  instituted  criminal  proceedings 
against  tbe  alleged  criminals.  Both  actions  were  perfectly  legiti- 
mate under  tbe  circumstances;  but  both  by  this  very  nature,  the 
one  being  a  political,  tbe  other  a  legal  procedure,  ought  to  have, 
remained  separate.  When  the  Chamber  demanded  that  the  pub-; 
lie  prosecutor  should  surrender  to  the  committee  the  documents: 
prepared  by  him,  it  ventured  upon  an  infringement  of  the 
judiciary  power,  and  the  government  acted  justly  and  constitu- 
tionally in  upholding  the  public  prosecutor  in  refusing  to  sur- 
render the  documents  in  question.  The  government  of  M.  Loubet 
has  meanwhile  resigned,  and  so  has  M.  Quesnay  de  Beauraire, 
the  Public  Prosecutor.  This  resignation  was  the  only  alternative 
remaining,  unless  M.  Loubet  and  the  Procureur-General  were 
ready  to  violate  the  Constitution  and  all  precedent  in  order  to 
satisfy  the  clamor  of  tbe  extremists.  M.  Ribot,  however,  the  new 
Prime  Minister,  and  M.  Bourgeois,  as  well  as  their  colleagues,  by 
accepting  office,  must  practically  become  slaves  of  the  extremists, 
if  they  support  the  demand  on  which  the  previous  government 
fell.  M.  Bourgeois,  the  new  Minister  of  Justice,  declared  in  the 
Chamber  last  Monday  that  he  and  the  government  which  he  rep- 
resented desired  the  most  complete  and  searching  light  thrown 
upon  the  affairs  of  tbe  Panama  Canal  Company,  but  from  what 
he  added,  it  appears  that  not  even  be,  a  Radical  though  he  be,  is 
ready  to  yield  to  the  unreasonable  demands  of  the  extremists  in 
the  Chamber,  for,  he  continued,  that  he  and  his  colleagues  would 
oppose  the  passage  of  any  special  law  that  threatened  to  involve 
a  possible  conflict  between  the  executive,  legislative  and  judicial 
authorities.  Notwithstanding  this  declaration,  the  Chamber  of 
Deputies  adopted  the  proposal  of  M.  De  Boisserin,  to  transfer  to  the 
Panama  Investigation  Committee,  judicial  powers.  Since  this  action 
was  taken  despite  the  protest  of  the  Minister  of  Justice,  the  latter's 
resignation  might  not  be  unnatural,  and  at  all  events  the  present 
Ministry  has  no  more  chances  of  longevity  than  its  predecessors  un- 
less it  yields  to  the  continually  increasing  demands  of  the  dema- 
gogues in  the  Chamber.  Even  in  England,  and  among  the  more 
sedate  nations  of  modern  Eurooe,  the  unlimited  range  of  power  that' 
rests  in  the  hands  of  a  parliamentary  body,  to  whom  the  Ministry  is 
responsible,  has  on  frequent  occasions  been  proved  unwise  and  de- 
leterious by  practical  experience.  Above  all,  however,  in  a  country 
like  France,  the  population  of  which  is  sanguine  and  readily  yields! 
to  first  impulses,  it  would  be  desirable  to  have  an  independent 
executive  holding  power  for  a  fixed  number  of  years,  as  in  our  coun- 
try, for  it  is  seen  that  the  existence  of  the  Ministry  depends  en- 
tirely upon  a  vote  of  the  Chamber,  which  is  given  often  hastily. 


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Dec,  17,  1892. 


NEW    YORK    GOSSIP. 

NEW  YORK,  Dec.  17,  1892.—  Some  Californians  were  the  other 
day  talking  of  J.  J.  Valentine,  who  has  just  been  visiting 
New  York,  and  told  a  very  interesting  story  in  connection  with 
his  name.  In  the  Old  People's  Home,  in  San  Francisco,  is  an  old 
blind  paralytic,  a  Norwegian,  Harry  Tiffany,  who  many  years 
ago  was  a  driver  in  Nevada  for  Wells  and  Fargo.  By  his  devo- 
tion and  persistence  he  saved  $25  000  for  the  Wella  and  Fargo 
Company.  But  his  devotion  to  duty  cost  him  both  health  and 
sight,  and  before  a  year  he  was  helpless.  Through  the  generosity 
and  benevolence  of  Mr.  Valentine  the  company  were  not  only 
made  acquainted  with  his  condition,  but  indeed  to  pension  their 
faithful  servant,  and  ever  since  he  has  received  $25  a  month 
from  the  Express  Company,  and  because  of  the  intervention  of 
Mrs.  Lillie  Coit,  he  has  also  received  from  the  Exempt  Fire 
Company,  $20  a  month  as  a  pension  for  his  services  in  the  old 
fire  company,  of  which  Mrs.  Coit  has  long  been  the  celebrated 
No.  5. 

The  political  family'of  the  Granti  are  making  their  home  in 
San  Francisco — or  perhaps  better,  in  California.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jesse  Grant  have  gone  to  Piedmont  for  the  year,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  N.  S.  Grant  are  going  to  join  them  in  California  in  a  few 
months.  Colonel  Savage  is  in  a  state  of  intense  hilarity  because 
of  his  successful  novel,  "  Prince  Schamitz's  Wooing."  The  most 
favorable  reviews  have  followed  him  from  all  quarters  of  the 
globe,  and  Russian,  Austrian  and  Prussian  journals  have  vied 
with  each  other  in  reviews  of  the  book,  of  which  the  critics  have 
united  in  calling  "the  great  political  novel."  Oitgris  has  been 
the  scene  lately  of  a  sale  which  would  greatly  interest  Californ- 
ians, the  chief  purchasers  in  which  were  Mr.  J.  B.  Haggin  and 
Mr.  W.  B.  Brown,  who  were  deeply  attached  to  the  deceased 
artist.  The  sale  was  far  from  being  a  financial  success,  and 
brought  less  than  ten  thousand  dollars.  The  California  contin- 
gent did  its  best  to  make  the  sale  an  exciting  one,  but  was  un- 
successful. Another  Californian  in  the  artistic  life,  E.  B.  Deakin, 
has  been  prominent  recently  in  connection  with  a  sale  of  Japan- 
ese curious,  which  had  brought  a  very  good  price,  but  the  sales 
had  appealed  only  to  Eastern  enthusiasts  upon  ceramics.  It  has 
been  immensely  profitable,  and  Mr.  Deakin's  pockets  are,  doubt- 
less, much  richer  in  shekels  than  they  were. 

I  heard  a  few  days  ago  from  handsome  George  Meincke,  who  used 
to  be  called  in  San  Francisco  "  The  Beautiful."  He  is  accumulating 
a  fortune  in  the  mines  of  Carabaya,  near  Arequipa,  Peru,  and  if  hard 
work  may  be  legitimately  rewarded,  the  future  will  see  him  a  man  of 
great  wealth.  I  met  old  Tom  Maguire  in  Broadway  the  other  day. 
He  is  beginning,  at  last,  to  show  his  years ;  rather  a  shock  it  is  also 
to  discover  that  he  is  not  perennially  youthful.  He  is  as  jovial  as 
ever,  and  as  enthusiastic  as  ever  about  California.  Dear  old  boy ! 
He  loves  to  recall  his  Californian  days  and  likes  nothing  so  well  as 
talking  of  "  Lilly  Coit,"  who  was  always  kind  and  attentive  to  him. 
I  wonder  if  many  San  Francisco  theatre  goers  of  a  dozen  years  ago 
have  forgotten  old  Fred  Lyster,  the  husband  of  beautiful  Minnie 
Walton.  He  no  longer  haunts  tlieutrical  circles,  but  is  settled  down 
as  a  strictly  business  man,  and  is  one  of  the  chief  ornaments  of  tbe 
Dalziel  Cable  Bureau  in  New  York.  Henry  McDowell  is  probabljr 
the  busiest  man  in  New  York  just  now  in  the  artistic  way.  He  is 
entirely  absorbed  in  the  Theatre  of  Arts  and  Letters,  whose  first  per- 
formance will  soon  be  the  topic  of  conversation  among  the  critics 
and  the  enthusiasts.  While  this  theatre  is  modelled  upon  the 
Theatre  Libre  and  the  Theatre  d' Application  of  Paris,  and  the  Inde- 
pendent Theatre  of  London,  its  inauguration  is  not  attended  with 
any  such  difficulties,  financial  and  social,  as  attended  these  ventures. 
1  saw  one  of  the  performances  at  the  Independent  Theatre  in 
London.  The  play  was  Therese  Raqvin,  in  which  Mr.  James  Brown 
Potter  and  Kvrle  Bellew  are  struggling  with  public  opinion.  It  had 
been  very  difficult  to  obtain  the  consent  of  the  Lord  Chamberlain  to 
this  production,  and  consequently  the  performance  was  looked  upon 
as  intensely  interesting  as  well  as  typical.  The  house  was  crowded 
with  the  literary  lights  of  London— George  Moore,  Meredith,  Payne, 
Harris,  Murell  Dowie,  Jerome  Jerome,  Oscar  Wilde,  Teiserra, 
Symonds,  Gray  and  all  of  the  younger  school.  We  are  preparing 
therefore  to  see  here  a  similar  concourse  of  the  brilliant  at  the  first 
performance  at  "  Henry  McDowell's  Theatre,"  as  it  is  sometimes 
referred  to. 

Who  is  Miss  Edna  Wallace,  of  San  Francisco?  On  all  sides  I  hear 
of  her  beauty,  her  lovliness.  her  gentleness,  her  talent  and  every  one 
seems  surprised  tbat  any  Californian  exists  who  has  not  heard  of 
Edna  Wallace.  She  is  studying  singing  with  Mrs.  D.  C.  Nichols,  who 
is  enthusiastic  about  her  voice.  Miss  Kuhne  Beveridge,  your  little 
Californian  sculptor,  is  not  satisfied  with  the  artist's  career  her  talent 
promised  and  is  going  on  the  stage.  Her  bust  of  John  Drew  is  the 
souvenir  to  be  given  away  on  his  hundredth  night  in  "  The  Masked 
Ball,"  in  which  another  little  Californian,  Mamie  Adams,  has  set  all 
New  York  by  the  ears,  I  am  told  that  Mrs.  Verdenal  is  writing  a 
new  play.  It  is  said  to  be  witty.  She  belongs  to  a  witty  and  brilliant 
family. 

Mr.' Felton,  Irving  Scott  and  M.  H.  de  Young  are  in  New  York. 
I  fancy  they  find  many  old  friends  to  sympathize  with  them  over  the 
political  changes.  John  Klein,  of  Samoa  fame,  has  severed  his  con- 
nection with  tbe  World  and  is  now  on  the  Herald  staff.  I  hear  that 
Miss  Quigley  is  one  of  your  California  successes  in  journalism. 
Eastern  people  are  beginning  to  concede  that  Californians  are.  after 
all,  "  notso  far  out  of  it."  Passe-partout. 


BRAIN    AND    BRAWN. 

THE  "glorification  of  athletics"  seems  to  worry  the  Nation,  for 
in  a  recent  editorial  under  that  title,  it  says  it  regrets  to  see 
the  tendency  of  modern  university  students  to  cultivate  brawn 
at  the  expense  of  brain.  While  it  may  be  true  that  in  many  in- 
stances the  muscular  men  of  the  colleges  are  not  the  brainiest,  on 
this  coast  some  of  the  most  brilliant  students  have  been  foremost 
in  athletics.  Taking  our  own  University-of  California  for  exam- 
ple, during  the  past  five  years  those  who  have  been  in  the  van 
there  in  football,  baseball  and  track  athletics  have  been  among 
the  best  scholars.  They  have  not  been  "  digs,"  but  possessed 
healthy  minds  in  the  healthy  bodies.  With  them  it  was  never  neces- 
sary to  burn  the  candle  until  early  hours  in  tbe  tiresome  task  of 
cramming.  It  is  true  that  the  attitude  of  the  8tate  University  in 
the  past  has  not  been  the  same  toward  athletics  as  that  of  East- 
ern colleges,  and  it  does  not,  even  now,  make  the  same  conces- 
sions towards  those  who  "go  in  "  for  sports.  But  even  with 
this  difference  existing,  the  showing  made  by  the  men  of  brain, 
who  have  battled  for  college  honors  on  the  campus,  has  been 
most  creditable.  Nearly  every  baseball  or  football  team  of  the 
past  few  years  has  possessed  a  class  medalist,  or  one  or  two  of 
the  bright  lights  of  the  University.  That  love  of  muscle  need 
not  interfere  with  carrying  off  class  honors,  such  men  as  Ramm, 
SuttoD,  Bosse,  Shoaf  and  Blanchard,  in  earlier  years,  demonstrated. 
The  first-named  was  a  brilliant  scholar,  a  class  medalist,  and  one 
of  the  best  men  in  the  "rush-line"  the  U.  C.  eleven  has  ever 
known.  Both  Ramm  and  Bosse,  as  well  as  Blanchard,  were 
leading  lights  in  the  football  fraternity,  and  were  later  made  in- 
structors in  the  University.  Sutton,  the  all-round  athlete  and 
football  captain  of  the  same  year,  was  a  brilliant  scholar.  Phillip 
Woolsey,  of  the  class  of  '87,  was  equally  clever  on  the  diamond, 
as  a  half-back,  and  in  his  studies,  while  Frank  Oury,  of  the  same 
year,  captained  tbe  'varsity  nine,  and  made  his  mark  as  a  scholar. 
Fred  Turner  was  the  star  pitcher  of  the  U.  C.  nine  in  his  time, 
and  captained  the  wearers  of  the  blue  and  gold  in  their  famous 
battles  with  the  wasp  and  Reliance  football  teams;  and  both 
Turner  and  Will  Magee,  the  "full-back"  of  the  team,  led  in 
class  as  well.  Beard,  the  "center-rush"  of  the  succeeding  year, 
was  the  most  brilliant  student  then  in  attendance;  while  Reed, 
who  then  captained  both  tbe  baseball  and  football  contingents, 
was  well  up  in  his  classes.  Even  now  the  men  who  are  prepar- 
ing to  do  battle  to  Palo  Alto  to-day,  possess  two  clever  scholars 
in  Biard  and  Van  Dyke.  Both  are  in  the  "  rush-line;"  the  first- 
Damed  has  graduated,  but  has  been  made  an  instructor  in  mathe- 
matics, while  Van  Dyke  is  one  of  the  brainiest  young  men  in  the 
University.  Track  athletics,  too,  have  claimed  their  successful 
students,  and  Sutton,  Magee,  Palache,  Variel,  McNear  and  others 
are  instances.  More  attention  is  now  paid  to  all  Kinds  of  sports 
in  the  University  at  Berkeley  than  formerly.  Still  the  disposition 
to  make  concessions  to  the  athletes,  to  the  detriment  of  their 
work  as  students,  is  not  as  strong  as  at  Palo  Alto,  nor  nearly  so 
much  so  as  in  the  universities  of  the  East. 


GENERAL    GRANT'S    COURTESY. 


WHEN  General  Grant  visited  Japan  he  was  received  with 
great  hospitality,  and  every  honor  possible  was  shown  him. 
The  Japanese  hardly  knew  what  to  make  of  tbe  somewhat  grave 
and  serious  demeanor  of  the  American,  but  by  an  act  of  graceful 
consideration  he  won  their  admiration  and  remembrance. 

As  he  journeyed  toward  the  interior  of  the  country  he  came  to 
a  deep  ravine  spanned  by  two  bridges.  One  of  these  was  known 
as  the  "Sacred  Bridge,"  and  was  not  open  to  travel;  it  had  never 
been  crossed  but  once.  It  had  been  formally  opened  by  a  Prince 
who  died  shortly  after  the  ceremony.  The  bridge  was  called  by 
his  name,  and  was  not  used  afterward. 

Wishing  to  do  honor  to  General  Grant,  the  authorities  com- 
manded that  this  bridge  be  thrown  open  for  him  to  cross  upon. 
His  courier  was  told  its  history,  which  he  in  turn  told  to  General 
Grant. 

As  the  party  neared  the  two  bridges,  the  General  gave  direc- 
tions that  his  cortege  should  cross  over  the  bridge  commonly  in 
use,  and  removing  his  hat,  he  approached  the  sacred  bridge, 
bowed  to  the  official  in  charge,  and  turning,  rejoined  his  com- 
panions and  crossed  over  the  other  bridge. 

This  act  was  received  with  murmurs  of  applause.  Its  delicate 
consideration  was  highly  appreciated  by  a  people  with  whom 
courtesy  is  a  fine  art. 


A  Book  Among  Books. 
There  are  many  people  who  have  decided  that  there  can  be  no 
more  useful  and  entirely  acceptable  Christmas  gift  than  apiece  of 
furniture.  Many  of  the^e  wise  ones,  however,  are  probablv  puzzled 
as  to  what  to  buv  and  where  to  buy  it.  The  California  Furniture 
Company,  of  117  Geary  street,  have  just  issued  a  most  attractive  lit- 
tle volume  of  sixty-four  pages,  with  the  apt  title  of  "  Hints  on  Home 
Furnishing."  It  is  beautifully  illustrated,  and  is  mailed  free  to  all 
who  write  for  it.  There  are  numberless  valuable  suggestions  to  be 
found  within  its  covers,  and  it  will  certainly  prove  a  happy  solution 
of  the  problem  of  "  what  to  buy." 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Budding,  San  Francisco. 


Dec.  17,  1892 


>\\  I  l;\\<  in  0  NEWS  l.i  I  I  I  R. 


SNAP    SHOTS- 


f  B  t    Pi     Vfknon.] 


WH  Y  is  U  that  California  audiences  are  so  notoriously  rude 
and  discourteous7  As  a  people  we  pride  ourselves  upon 
our  hospitality,  and  then  we  offer  an  insult  to  those  who  would 
seek  to  entertain  us.  by  rising  abruptly  and  bustling  out  of  theatre 
or  concert  ball  before  the  performance  is  over.  It  may  be  during 
a  deatb-bed  scene  or  in  the  midst  of  a  last  grand  aria.  A  cele- 
brated actress  once  said  that  the  last  view  she  has  of  an  audience 
is  the  shaking  down  of  the  back  draperies  as  the  ladies,  who  are 
preparing  to  crowd  into  the  aisle,  make  sure  that  the  back 
breadths  of  their  gowns  are  in  position.  I  am  informed  that  such 
behavior  as  goes  on  in  American  theatres  would  not  be  tolerated 
in  Europe,  where  it  may  be  admitted  they  do  know  how  to 
recognize  and  to  treat  a  great  artist;  that  people  who  were  dis- 
turbing their  neighbors  by  talking,  laughing  or  by  moving  about 
during  the  performance,  would  receive  the  respectful,  but  de- 
cidedly peremptory  attention  of  the  ushers.  No  such  disorderly 
theatre  parties  as  often  disgrace  our  places  of  amusement  would 
be  permitted  to  ruin  the  evening's  pleasure  of  all  those  in  their 
vicinity.  But  while  our  society  people  in  their  theatre  parties, 
may  behave  no  worse  than  the  Four  Hundred  of  an  Eastern 
center,  New  York  for  instance,  it  must  be  admitted  that  our  audi- 
ences, at  a  whole,  are  guilty  of  great  rudeness  in  beginning  to 
leave  with  a  rush  before  the  curtain  goes  down.  Bad  as  this  is 
when  we  have  paid  for  our  seats,  what  shall  be  said  ot  it  when 
it  occur*,  as  it  too  often  does,  at  invitation  concerts  and  private 
entertainments?  Surely,  if  ever  those  composing  an  audience 
might  be  expected  to  remain  quietly  in  their  seats  until  the  last 
number  is  finished,  it  is  when  the  audience  is  indebted  for  its  en- 
tertainment to  the  courtesy  of  a  hospitable  host,  whether  it  be  a 
man,  or  a  club,  or  a  society. 

*  *  » 

Perhaps  it  will  dawn  some  day  upon  our  local  Boards  of  Edu- 
cation that  our  school  houses  should  not  be  towering  and  impos- 
ing triumphs  of  architecture,  but  instead,  low  two-story  buildings,, 
No  school  bouse  should  ever  be  three  stories  high.  Ask  any  phy- 
sician what  the  effect  of  too  much  stair  exercise  must  be  upon 
growing  boys  and  girls;  ask  him  if  such  structures  as  Denman 
and  Lincoln  and  the  new  Girls'  High  School  are  conducive  to  the 
health  of  their  pupils?  Take  the  girls  on  the  top  floor  of  Denman 
School,  for  instance.  They  ascend  to  their  high  perch  in  the 
morning,  they  descend  and  reascend  at  the  morning  recess,  the 
same  at  noon,  they  descend  at  dismissal — six  times  over  many 
flights  of  stairs.  Leaving  the  room  during  the  session,  or  in  the 
event  of  a  fire-drill,  necessitates  another  toilsome  double  trip.  Is 
it  right  to  exact  this  of  girls  between  the  ages  of  fourteen  and 
sixteen?  The  crying  need  of  our  city  is  more  school  houses, 
smaller  schools,  more  in  a  given  district,  and  each  one  more  ac- 
cessible to  a  large  number  of  children,  than  ours  are  now. 

To-day  many  are  compelled  to  go  quite  a  distance.  We  want 
to  do  away  with  our  underground  class-rooms  and  damp  cellar 
atmosphere.  We  want  sunlight  and  air  in  every  room.  Let 
the  buildings  have  the  stairways  and  halls  on  the  shady  side. 
We  want  warm  school-yards.  The  time  has  gone  by  when  any- 
thing will  do  in  California.  There  are  school  buildings  in  our  ciry 
that  should  be  condemned  and  torn  down  as  unfit  for  occupancy. 
There  are  school-yards  that  might  do  for  cold  storage,  but  for  no 
other  purpose.  They  are  absolutely  unfit  for  human  occupancy. 
Is  this  a  strong  sweeping  statement? 

It  is  susceptible  of  proof.  Think  of  it  for  the  children's  sake. 
Think  of  the  primary  teachers  too,  whose  turn  it  is  to  do  yard 
duty  in  such  cheerless  pens  where  the  sun  does  not  shine,  where 
the  boards  are  never  thoroughly  dry.  Think  of  these  teachers 
who  have  been  on  their  feet  all  the  morning  walking  up  and 
down  the  school  room  and  bending  over  each  little  desk,  who 
must  use  their  voices  all  day  long,  because  little  children  can  not 
be  set  at  long  written  tasks,  and  each  class  must  be  divided  into 
two  divisions,  so  that  while  one  writes  or  studies,  the  other  will 
recite.  This  is  a  clever  way  of  getting  tas  much  work  out  of  a 
teacher  as  possible.  Consequently  when  such  a  teacher  goes  into 
the  damp  yard  to  watch  the  children,  to  see  that  the  girls  do  not 
run  or  shout,  or  the  boys  run,  or  shout,  or  fight,  she  is  just  in 
the  physical  condition  to  take  cold,  which  ehe  does  with  unfail- 
ing regularity.  By  and  by  she  gets  sick  and  has  to  stay  home 
and  be  "docked"  not  only  the  pay  for  the  actual  days  of  absence, 
but  also  for  a  certain  proportion  of  the  vacation  money.  I'm 
sorry  for  the  primary  teacher.  I've  seen  her  in  the  cold  school 
yard  at  half  past  eight  on  one  of  our  coldest  mornings,  the  tears 
actually  running  down  her  cheeks  from  the  intense  cold.  I  have 
seen  her  pass  down  before  her  line  at  noon  and  stand  or  sit  in  the 

sun,  or  in  the  wind that  mattered  not;  she  had    to   stay   where 

she  could  see  the  entire  yard.  There  had  she  to  remain,  eating 
her  lunch  in  the  yard  like  any  day  laborer  sitting  on  a  pile  of 
lumber  by  an  unfinished  building.  I  have  seen  a  delicate  woman 
standing  in  the  center  of  a  mob  of  rough  school  boys  who  were 
pushing  and  thumping  each  other  around  and  even  striking  her 
in  their  rude  play,  and  yet  these  great  rough  lumps  of  humanity, 
these  cowboys  of  public  school  life,  must  not  be  whipped  because 


we  do  not  believe  in  corporal  punishment.  I  botieve  in  corpora 
punishment.  So  does  every  teacher  tn  the  department.  At  least 
they  want  the  results  which  are  to  be  attained  only  through  ja 
good  whipping.  Some  educators  pride  themselves  upon  not  show- 
ing a  single  case  of  corporal  punishment  upon  their  records.  But 
how  do  they  get  around  it?  By  sending  word  to  the  parents  of 
an  unruly  scholar  that  the  child  will  not  be  received  at  school 
until  be  has  been  whipped  at  home.  Speaking  of  corporal  pun- 
ishment, an  experienced  teacher  once  said  to  me,  "When  I  taught 
big  boys  I  did  not  believe  in  it.  I  do  not  believe  in  it  now  for 
big  boys,  but  I  think  that  all  principals  of  primary  schools  will 
sustain  me  in  saying  that  the  strap  is  an  argument  that  must  be 
uied  upon  the  small  boy — sometimes." 

The  teacher  is  too  apt  to  be  regarded  as  a  machine,  who  never 
gets  tired,  who  must  never  grow  impatient,  whose  voice  must 
never  be  raised  above  a  certain  tone,  who  has  no  nerves;— who 
will  not  mind  hearing  pencil  boxes  explode  on  the  floor,  who  can 
listen  with  pleasure  to  foot  rests  being  kicked  over,  rulers  dropped, 
pencils  made  to  screech  and  a  constant  pilgrimage  of  children  to 
and  fro.  As  some  one  said,  "All  I  could  ask  is  that  our  promi- 
nent educators  and  equally  prominent  theorizers  should  be  placed 
each  in  charge  of  a  primary  class  for  one  week.  Herod  would 
be  nowhere  in  the  slaughter  of  the  innocents." 


The  Bird  will  go 
into  the  Cage! 

Directions. — Place  one  edge  of  a 
visiting  card  along  the  line  between  the 
bird  and  the  cage,  and  rest  the  tip  ol  your 
nose  acninst  the  other  edge  of  the  card, 
llo'd  the  card  so  that  no  shadow  falls  on 
tither  side.  Watch  the  bird  a  moment, 
you  will  see  it  go  into  the  cage. 


You  will  not  believe  this 
until  you  try  i  t ;  neither  will 
you  believe  that  Cleveland's 
baking  powder  is  absolutely 
the  best  until  you  try  it. 
Try  it! 

F.  H.  AMES  A  CO.,  Agents. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


W.B.  CHAPMAN, 

SOLE  AGENT  FOR 
PAOIFIO  OOAST, 

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IN  CHANCERY  OF  LANCASHIRE,  Eng. 

WANTED.— Heir-at-law  and  next  of  kin  of  Thomas  Pierce, 
who  died  at  Southport,  Lancashire,  England,  the  30th  day 
of  May,  1891,  formerly  of  Longridge,  near  Preston  Farmer  and 
Publican,  and  son  of  James  Pierce  of  Over  Darwen,  Lancashire, 
Publican.     Apply  to  BUCK  DICK80NS  &  COCK8HOTT, 

Solicitors,  Southport,  England. 


SAN  EKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  3892. 


'  We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's. 


MR.  PO WJEKS'  new  play,  A  Mad  Bargain,  bas  a  plot;  not  a 
very  intricate  one,  still  less  probable,  probability  being  a 
handicap  to  farce  comedy.  But  it  is  original  and  humorous,  the 
latter  quality  being  well  carried  out  in  the  play. 

A  young  man  who  contemplates  suicide  and  doesn't  like  the 
job,  hires  his  cousin  to  kill  him,  and  he,  in  turn,  employs  another 
agent.  The  first  two  parties  to  this  mad  bargain  have  reason  be- 
fore long  to  declare  it  off,  but.  the  third  party  is  still  at  large 
prowling  for  prey,  and  liable  at  any  moment  to  earn  his  wages 
by  shooting  down  the  proposed  but  now  unwilling  victim  in  bis 
tracks. 

The  situation  naturally  makes  a  great  deal  of  fun,  and  that 
rather  the  most  of  it  falls  to  the  share  of  Peter  Dailey  is  no  reflec- 
tion on  Mr.  Powers.  As  the  writer  of  this  column  remarked  a 
year  ago,  it  is  really  to  the  credit  of  the  principal  that  he  acts 
more  like  a  gentleman  than  a  regulation  farce  comedy  "star"  in 
permitting  his  first  support  to  take  so  prominent  a  place,  instead 
of  "making  a  corner"  on  the  funny  business  according  to  prece- 
dent. Mr.  Dailey  is  funny  because  he  cannot  help  it.  It  is  no 
trouble  to  him  to  "get  a  laugb."  He  gets  it  without  seeming  to 
try.  Mr.  Powers  makes  an  intelligent  effort  to  the  same  end,  and 
succeeds.  He  works  hard,  has  a  peculiarly  pleasant  stage  man- 
ner and  appearance,  and  is  essentially  one  of  the  actors  whom  we 
laugh  witb,  as  well  as  at. 

The  ladies  of  the  cast  may  be  averaged  up  as  about  the  best 
dancers  and  the  worst  singers  yet.  The  last  stricture  may  be 
subject  to  slight  qualification,  but  it  is  very  slight.  The  most 
pretentious  among  them,  the  young  woman  who  sings  the  bolero 
in  Act  II.,  reminds  one  irresistibly  of  Elwood,  or  other  male  so- 
prano, in  the  metallic  and  unyielding  hardness  of  tone  and 
I  method  characteristic  of  that  nondescript  class.  There  has  cer- 
;  tainly  been  no  company  here  of  late  in  which  all  the  women  are 
:  so  agile  and  so  graceful  of  foot,  and  such  marvelous  kickers,  for 
they  kick  not  only  higher  than  the  highest,  but  gracefully.  The 
entire  performance  is  creditably  free  from  coarseness  or  vulgarity. 

Mr.  Powers'  specialties  and  songs  are  neat  and  clever  and  his 
"  serpentine  dance  "  is  a  laughable  burlesque.  Mr.  Powers'  panto- 
mime song  and  dance  and  the  dancing  of  Leonora  Forest  are  the 
features  of  the  second  act.  In  Act  III  Mr.  Dailey  comes  to  the 
front,  and  he  stays  there  as  long  as  he  will,  for  the  house  is  in  no 
hurry  to  see  him  off.  His  "Latter  Day  Parodies"  are  funny,  and  if  not 
in  themselves  original,  are  essentially  so  in  the  way  they  are  done. 

The  fact  that  most  of  the  best  hits  are  revivals  of  the  minstrel  jokes 
of  Birch  and  Backus,  of  Sam  Purely  and  George  Coes,  in  the  sixties, 
does  not  count  except  to  the  few  old-timers,  who  smile  indulgently  at 
their  familiar  friends  of  the  dead  and  buried  minstrel  days,  resur- 
rected and  galvanized  for  farce  comedy  purposes,  and  hum  softly 
:  "  Shall  anld  acquaintance  be  forget?  "  at  each  venerable  and  totter- 
ing joke  and  pun.  As  a  young  friend  sententiously  remarked:  "You 
see  they're  so  very  old,  that  they're  as  good  as  new  to  this  generation. 
Your  chestnut  is  the  one  picked  last  month  or  last  j'ear."    And  so 

•  the  old  jokes  pass  for  new,  and  everybody  laughs  and  is  contented. 

The  house  has  been  crowded  every  night,  and  the  prospect  for 
next  week  is  equally  good.    The  world  loves  to  laugh  and  well  for 

•  the  world  that  it  does  so.     A  Mod  Bargain  is  one  of  the  best  things  of 
its  kind,  and  if  the  overtaxed  brain  and   muscle  can  relax  over  its 

i    nonsense,  it  is  better  than  the  sense  which  acts  as  a  spur  to  renewed 
',    mental  exertion.     Vive  la  bagatelle!  particularly  at  Christmas  time. 

Ali  Baba  has  captured  the  eye'and  the  fancy  of  the  town  as  a 

holiday  spectacle.     No  vacant  places  are  seen  in   the    big   opera 

home  and  seats   are  being    engaged  a  week  in  advance.     Several 

■    large  theatre  parties  will  add  to    the  festal  air   at  the  Grand  this 

week. 

#  »  * 

Capt.  Heme,  U.  S.  A.  continues  a  strong  attraction  at  Stockwell's. 
A  sterling  play,  well  acted  and  finely  staged,  it  is  a  sort  of  mental 
I  breakwater  in  the  froth  and  foam  of  holiday  farce  and  spectacle. 
The  great  success  of  this  play  has  led  the  management  to  retain 
it  one  more  week,  which  will  end  the  present  season  of  Stock- 
well's  Comedy  Company  and  the  Henley-Boucicault  engagement. 
*  * 

Bill's  Boot  will  have  its  last  production  at  the  Bash  to-morrow 
night.  The  Williams  Company  carries  its  scenery  with  it,  and 
the  scene  on  the  Hudson  and  the  ruined  castle  on  the  Rhine  are 
effective  scenic  work.  Next  week  V  and  /will  be  seen  at  the 
Bush,  a  farce  comedy  which  has  always  seemed  to  be  popular 
here. 

*  a  * 

This  has  been  a  "  repertoire  week  "  at  the  Tivoli.  Martha,  The 
Bohemian  Girl,  II  Trovatore,  and  a  burlesque  on  It  Trovatore,  have 
been  excellently  played  and  sung. 

For  the  holiday  attraction  an  elaborate  production  of  Offen- 
bach's four-act  operatic  spectacle,  The  Trip  to  the  Moon,  bas  been 
long  preparing  at  the  Tivoli,  and   its    first   production,    Monday 


night,  will  doubtless  equal  anything  of  the  kind  seen  here  re- 
cently. The  cast  is  excellent,  including  Ferris  Hartmann,  TiHie 
Salinger,  Gracie  Plaisted,  Ferdinand  Schuetz,  Phil  Branson,  M. 
Cornell,  and  others.  The  final  transformation  scene  will  be  not 
only  costly  and  elaborate,  but  wilt  have  a  significance  rarely  at- 
tempted, representing  epochs  in  the  history  of  America,  pic- 
torially  presented,  from  the  Primeval  Period  to  the  World's  Fair 
in  Chicago. 

#  *  * 

The  second  of  Wilkie's  Palace  Ballad  Concerts  took  place  on 
Tuesday  last  in  the  Maple  Hall  of  the  Palace.  The  audience  was, 
if  possible,  larger,  more  brilliant,  and  more  enthusiastic  than  on 
the  last  occasion.  The  concert  opened  with  a  glee  sung  in  dash- 
ing style  by  Miss  Kimball,  Mrs.  Birmingham,  and  Messrs. 
Wilkie  and  Nielsen.  A  quintette  of  the  last  century 
composition  was  also  well  sung.  The  features  of  the  concert 
were  undoubtedly  Miss  Alice  Gruenhagen's  violin  solo,  which 
was  exquisitely  played,  and  Mr.  Wilkie's  dramatic  rendering  of 
the  favorite  old  English  eea  song,  "The  Death  of  Nelson."  The 
continued  and  almost  unprecedented  success  of  these  d^lgitful 
concerts  may  lead  to  an  arrangement  for  a  new  series.  The  third 
of  the  current  series  will  take  place  at  Maple  Hall  of  the  Palace, 
Dec.  28th. 

•  *  * 

The  complimentary  concert  tendered  to  Mrs.  Fleissner-Lewis, 
December  8th,  was  well  attended  and  greatly  enjoyed,  the  lady's 
return  to  the  concert  stage  after  her  long  retirement,  being  most 
welcome.  Mrs.  Lewis  was  assisted  by  Mr.  Ernest  Hartmann, 
Mr.  Hermann  Brandt,  Mrs.  Margaret  Morrow,  and  Mr,  Russell 
Hervey.  The  last  named,  a  pupil  of  Lamberti,  and  late  of  Milan, 
bas  a  fine  tenor  voice  and  excellent  school,  and  will  be  a  decided 
acquisition  to  local  musical  talent. 

#  *  * 

James  Whitcomb  Riley  appeared  for  the  first  time  before  a  San 
Francisco  audience  at  Metropolitan  Hall,  Wednesday  evening. 
The  modest,  unpretentious  manner  of  America's  dialect  poet  won 
bis  audience  before  a  word  was  said,  and  the  quaint  peculiar 
humor  of  his  description  and  recitations  made  the  two  hours  slip 
by  unnoted.  Mr.  Riley's  entertainment  leaned  almost  entirely  to 
the  humorous  side  of  his  poetry  and  fancy,  and  though  there 
were  occassional  touches  of  feeling,  it  gave  little  intimation  of  the 
deep  vein  of  pathos  that  pervades  his  most  humorous  poetry. 
The  audience  was  a  large  and  highly  appreciative  one.  The  en- 
tertainments of  Thursday  and  Friday  evening,  too  late  for  review 
in  this  column,  were  doubtless  of  a  somewhat  different  character. 
Mr.  Jno.  F.  Bragg's  next  announcements  are  of  "Bill  Nye,"  in 
February,  and  "  Ben  Hu^  "  Wallace,  in  March. 
■*  #  • 

Fanny  Rice,  well-known  here  as  a  member  of  the  Carleton 
company  and  others,  and  a  popular  favorite,  will  make  her  ap- 
pearance as  a  star  at  the  head  of  her  own  company,  as  Stockwell's 
holiday  attraction.  She  will  begin  her  season  at  that  theatre  Sun- 
day, December  25th  in  A  Jolly  Surprise.  In  her  much  talked  of 
cabinet  scene,  Miss  Rice  will  imitate  a  great  London  comedy 
artiste  in  the  famous  costermonger's  song.  The  Little  Broom  Seller 
which  precedes  the  main  play,  has  but  two  characters,  which  are 
taken  by  Fanny  Rice  and  Frank  Jones. 

The  re-opening  of  the  Baldwin,  announced  for  December  31st, 
will  be  witb  Charles  Froh  man's  comedy  company  in  Settled  Out  of 
Court.  Georgia  Drew  Barrymore,  M.  A.  Kennedy  and  Joseph 
Holland  are  such  established  favorities  here  that  they  will  call  out 
an  exceptional  first  night  house  on  the  re-opening  of  the  Baldwin. 

•  •  » 

From  private  letters,  as  well  as  press  notices,  it  appears  that 
San  Francisco  has  three  of  her  song  birds  in  the  East  to  be  more 
than  proud  of.  Marie  Barnard  Smith  is  the  musical  "  fad  "  of 
cultured  Boston,  whose  critics  pronounce  her  late  triumphs  in 
the  difficult  field  of  oratorio  "  phenomenal."  Cincinnati  has  been 
going  to  almost  extravagant  lengths  to  show  its  delight  over  Car- 
rie Milzner-Hamilton,  the  brilliant  prima  donna  of  the  almost 
unequaled  organization,  the  "  Bostonians."  Miss  May  Worth, 
too,  has  made  a  most  favorable  impression  on  eastern  audiences, 
the  critics  speaking  of  her  with  highest  praise.  When  Miss  Worth 
made  her  debut  here,  an  unknown  singer,  with  the  Saturday 
Morning  Orchestra,  the  News  Letter  noted  favorably  her  talent 
and  training,  and  it  is  pleasant  to  hear  that  she  is  so  amply  justi- 
fying its  good  opinion.  It  is  a  matter  of  pride  to  San  Francisco 
not  only  that  its  daughters  are  honoring  us  abroad,  but  that  they 
received  all  their  training  in  vocalization  here,  all  three 
having  been  pupils  of  Madame  Julie  Rosewald. 

*  *  • 

Miss  Merrington,  who  wrote  Sothern's  new  play,  Captain  Letter- 
blair,  is  "  awfully  clever."  She  has  resigned  theposition  of  Latin 
and  Greek  tutor  in  the  Normal  College,  New  York,  because  the 
great  success  of  her  first  play  has  brought  her  so  many  orders 
that  she  sees  more  money  in  playwriting  than  in  tutoring. 

His  Majesty,  H.  J.  Stewart  and  Peter  Robertson's  original 
opera,  will  be  produced  in  February,  and  will  be  certain  to  make 
a  local  sensation.  The  costumes  are  being  specially  designed, 
and  other  elaborate   preparations    are  in   hand.      The  new  opera 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


-AN   FRANCISi  0  NEWS  LETTER, 


baa  (tood  parentage,  and  should  be    launched    under  the   most  fa- 
vorable auspices  possible. 

•  •  • 

Charles  Dickson  and  the  (»eo.  W.  Lederer  company,  in  Incog, 
wlH  follow  A  Mad  Bargain  at  the  California,  December  26th. 

The  last  Friday  symphony  was  played  to  a  large  and  attentive 
andience.  The  public  evidently  appreciate  the  thoroughly  good 
music  riven  at  these  concerts.  The  ■Suite  L'Arlesienne,"  with 
Its  different  movements,  was  delightful,  and  Gounod's  famous 
"Funeral  March  of  a  Marionette"  has  never  received  a  better  and 
more  finished  interpretation  in  this  city.  The  symphony  for  the 
afternoon  was  Beethoven's  "Eroica,"  No.  3.  op.  55,  in  which  the 
well-known  funeral  march  occurs.  Where  all  is  so  good  there  is 
little  to  criticise,  but  an  improvement  is  possible  and  desirable  in 
the  wind  instruments.  Two  of  the  horns  are  very  tough  and  un- 
even, and  the  eifect  is  extremely  unpleasant. 

The  second  annual  concert  in  aid  of  the  Children's  Hospital 
took  place  at  Odd  Fellows'  Hall  last  Wednesday  evening,  before 
a  large  and  interested  audience.  The  central  figure  of  the  enter- 
tainment was  Mr.  Donald  deV.  Graham,  to  whom  is  due  the 
credit  not  only  of  originating  the  concert,  but  also  by  his  splendid 
singine,  of  adding  greatly  to  its  success.  Mrs.  W.  W.  Williams 
appeared  in  a  solo  and  duet,  in  both  of  which  she  sustained  her 
well-earned  reputation  of  leading  soprano  of  the  city.  The  feature 
of  the  evening  was  the  singing  of  Miss  Ella  McCloskey.to  which 
the  audience  testified  by  a  double  encore.  This  young  lady 
possesses  a  remarkable  contralto  voice,  which  for  smoothness, 
flexibility  and  richness  of  tone,  we  have  rarely  heard  equalled. 
Mrs.  Carr  and  Messrs.  Beel  and  Heine  completed  an  unusually  in- 
teresting programme. 

•  *  * 

The  German  Benevolent  Society  will  give  a  ball  in  Odd  Fellows' 
Hall  on  the  evening  of  January  2lst  next.  The  affairs  of  the 
society  are  always  very  enjoyable  and  highly  fashionable  gather- 
ings. 

The  Christmas  festivities  of  the  Pioneer  Kindergarten  Society 
will  be  held  at  Irving  Hall  at  2  p.  m.  next  Monday. 


The  Great  Increase  in  Sales  of  G.  H.  Mumm's  Extra  Dry. 

NO  DINNER  at  this  festal  season  can  be  complete  unless  the 
partakers  thereof  have  each  beside  him  an  ice-bucket  filled 
with  bottles  of  the  delicious  G.  H.  Mumm  Extra  Dry.  The  fameof  the 
champagnes  of  G.  H.  Mumm  &  Co.  is  world-wide.  Its  use  in  the 
United  States  has  increased  amazingly  the  past  two  years,  and  it  is 
now  the  most  popular  champagne  upon  the  continent.  In  clubs  and 
residences,  hotels  and  restaurants,  from  the  pine  clad  hills  of  Maine 
to  the  sunny  shores  of  the  Pacific,  the  popping  of  G.  H.  Mumm 
corks  keeps  up  a  continuous  rausketrv.  In  1891  the  importations 
into  the  United  States  amounted  to  50  9G5  cases.  Up  to  December  1st 
of  this  year  the  importations  amounted  to  65,780  cases,  which  was  an 
increase  over  all  other  leading  brands  of  several  thousand  cases.  The 
increase  in  its  use  upon  the  Pacific  Coast,  where  it  is  universally 
used  at  weddings,  banquets  and  clubs,  is  equal  to  the  increase  upon 
the  Atlantic  seaboard,  an  evidence  that  our  people  know  a  good 
thing  when  they  get  it,  as  well  as  our  Eastern  brethren.  R.  Ogden 
Doremus,  M.D.,  L.L.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry,  N.  Y.,  says:  "The 
G.  H.  Mumm  Extra  Dry  has  been  proved  by  chemical  analysis  to  be 
the  purest  and  most  wholesome  champagne." 

IT  is  with  pleasure  that  we  direct  the  attention  of  people  who 
are  engaged  at  this  happy  season  In  purchasing  tokens  of  re- 
membrance, to  the  unusually  fine  collection  of  goods  in  the  Maze. 
This  great  establishment  is  filled,  in  all  its  departments,  with  the 
finest  goods  of  all  descriptions,  and  the  popularity  it  has  attained  is 
well  evidenced  by  the  crowds  that  gather  at  its  counters.  In  the  mil- 
linery and  dress  goods  departments  the  most  recent  creations  of  Eu- 
rope's artists  of  fashion  are  diplayed  by  intelligent  assistants.  The 
household  goods,  particularly  the  glass  and  crockery  ware,  cannot  be 
excelled  anywhere,  and  that  department  is  always  crowded.  The 
Maze  is  a  vast  emporium,  in  which  may  be  had  everything  woman 
may  ask.  or  man  desire. 

THE  California  World's  Fair  Commission  have  ordered  fourteen 
of  the  Schehck  Swinging  Hose  Reels,  to  be  placed  in  the  Cali- 
fornia building  at  Chicago  for  inside  fire  protection.  This  will 
materially  reduce  the  rate  of  insurance  on  the  building  and  con- 
tents, as  by  their  use  one  man  can  put  a  stream  of  water  on  a 
fire  in  less  than  thirty  seconds. 

SUPERINTENDENT  WALTER  LINDLEY,  of  the  Whittier  Re- 
form School,  at  Whittier,  will  gratefully  receive,  in  behalf  of 
his  wards,  any  Christmas  donations  that  charitable  people  may 
send  to  Whittier.  Send  all  packages  by  Wells  Fargo  &  Co.'a  Ex- 
press. 

What  Every  Lady  Should  Know. 
Who  is  the  most  artistic  ladies'  hair  dresser?    Strozynski  1    Latest 
novelties  and  finest  hair-work ;  naturally  curly  front  pieces.    See  the 
latest— Lillian  Russell  style.    Great  reduction  in  p-ices.    S.  Stro- 
zynski, corner  Ellis  and  Leavenworth  streets. 

Xmas  Gift— Mercurial  barometer  for   hotels,    halls,   offices,   libraries, 
steamers,  club-rooms,  etc.    Muller's  optical  depot. 


GRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Krerj  nlRbt.  Including  Sunday,  Matinee  Satnrd&T  only.   American 
r.xtravaganKa  Company  in 

ALI      BABA, 

Or,  MnrgUiiaftOdlhe  Forty  Thlerea. 

Mr.  David  Henderson.  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

The  N'antch  Dance  !    The  Demon  Dance  !    The  .Tewel  Dancel 
The  Coin  Cavern  !    The  Enchanted  Forest,  etc. 
Crowded  all  the  time,  so  get  seats  early  and  avoid  the  rush  at  night! 
Seats  for  next  week  now  on  sale. 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockweu,    Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

ALP  ELLlNOHonsK Business  Mausger. 

Monday,  December  lftth.  third  and  last  week  of  the  powerful  melo- 
drama, 

CAPTAIN     HERNE,     U.   S.  A. 

Next— Sunday,  December  25th.   Matinee  Christmas  Day  (Monday). 
FANNY  RICE  and  her  own  company  of  comedians  in 

"A    JOLLY    SURPRISE." 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Last  week !  Matinee  Saturday.  Enormous  bit !  The  best  comedy 
show  of  the  year !  James  T.  Powers  and  marvellously  entertaining 
company  in 

A     MAD     BARGAIN, 

The  merriest,  wildest,  maddest  of  farces  and  that  dancer, 

LEONA  FORREST. 
Monday,  December  2(ith,  Charles  Dickson,  in  Mrs.  Pacheco'a 

INCOG. 

THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr.  M.  B.  Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

George  H.  Broadhurst Resident  Manager. 

Last  week  I  Last  week  I  H.  W.  Williams'  Comedy  Company  in  the 
Successful  Burlesque  Extravaganza, 

BILL'S  BOOT, 

Last  times  of  Joseph  J.  Sullivan,  Larry  Smith,  the  Russetl  Bros., 
Ethel  Lynton,  Maud  Raymond  and  all  the  favorites. 
Next  Attraction— Geo.  W.  Lederer's  Laughing  Festival  "  U  &  I.' ' 

CAPTAIN     HERNE, 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kbeltng  Bbob  Proprietors  and  Managers. 

This  evening,  Saturday,  December  17th, 

BOHEMIAN     GIRL. 

Monday,  December  19tb,  "  Trip  to  the  Moon." 
Popular  Prices 25c.  and  50c 

Housekeepers  and  Connoisseurs! 

WHITTAKER'S 

Celebrated  Sugar-Cured  Star  Hams  are  always  sweet,  juicy 

and  appetizing. 
WHITTAKEfc'S 

Golf  Bacon  ffor  picnic  hams)  are  better  than  two-thirds  of 

the  various  brands  of  hame  offered  for  sale. 
WHITTAKER'S 

Spiced  Rolled  Meats  are  the  most  economical  and  delicious 

parts  of  the  hog. 
WHITTAKER'S 

Patent  Bacon  is  a  table  delicacy. 
WHITTAKER'S 

Lard  is  absolutely  pure. 
MM^-As  your  grocer  for  these  goods.    Don't  let  them  palm  off  an  inferior 
article  on  you. 

THOMAS  LOUGHRAN,    Agent, 

217-223  CLAY  STREET. 


HUMBOLDT  MINERAL  WATER, 

FROM  THE 

Humboldt  Artesian  Mineral  Spring;  In  Eureka,  <al. 

"  The  specific  gravity  is  scarcely  above  that  of  distilled  water." 

Henry  G.  Hanks,  Assayer. 

We  claim  for  this  water  to  be  the  purest  in  C-lifornia. 
J.  P.  MONROE,  Mauaper. 

Crocker  Building,  San  Francisco. 

M  a»C    Bush.  <fc  Gerts  Pianos 
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PIANOS 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


JOE  MILLER'S  JESTS. 

JOE  MILLER'S  Jest  Book  was  printed  in  1789,  and  in  these 
days  of  chestnuts  some  of  his  stories  have  a  rich  flavor.  "  A 
fragmatical  young  fellow,"  says  Miller,  "sitting  at  a  table  over 
against  the  learned  John  Scott:  asked  him  what  difference  there  was 
between  Scot  and  Sot.  Just  the  breadth  of  the  table,  answered  the 
other." 

Mr.  Miller  bears  testimony  to  the  wit  of  Henry  IV.,  of  France, 
who,  upon  reading  an  ostentatious  inscription  on  the  monument  of  a 

Spanish  officer,  "  Here  lies  the  body  of  Don ,  who.never  knew 

what  fear  was,"  immediately  observed,  ''Then  he  never  snuffed  a 
candle  with  his  fingers." 

"  A  Country  Clergyman  meeting  a  Neighbour  who  never  came  to 
church,  altho'  an  old  fellow  of  above  sixty,  he  gave  him  some  reproof 
on  that  account,  and  asked  him  if  he  never  read  at  Home:  No, 
reply'd  theClown,  I  can't  read;  I  dare  say,  said  the  Parson,  you 
don't  know  who  made  you ;  not  I,  in  troth,  said  the  countryman.  A 
little  Boy  coming  by  at  the  same  time,  who  made  you,  Child,  cry'd 
the  Parson.  God,  Sir,  answered  the  Boy.  Why  look  you  there, 
quoth  the  Honest  Clergyman,  are  not  you  ashamed  to  hear  a  Child 
of  five  or  six  years  old  tell  me  who  made  him,  when  you  that  are  so 
old  a  Man  cannot:  Ah,  said  the  Countryman.it  is  no  Wonder  that  he 
should  remember,  he  was  made  but  t'other  Day,  it  is  a  great  while, 
Master,  sin  I  were  made." 

The  beggars  of  the  eighteenth  century,  if  one  can  judge  of  their 
wit  from  the  specimens  Mr.  Jenkins  has  selected  from  the  table 
talk  of  his  friend  Miller,  must  have  been  almost  as  bright  as  the 
essayists  and  poets  of  that  strangely  humorous  time.  It  is  not 
at  all  impossible  to  believe  really  ihat  had  there  been  comic 
papers  to  purchase  their  wares  in  those  bad  old  times  the  beggars 
would  have  been  relieved  of  beggary  and  raised  to  that  level  of 
affluence  which  the  professional  joker  of  to-day  enjoys. 

The  two  excerpts  following  are  fair  samples  of  the  wit  of  the 
beggars  ot  the  time: 

"Sir  William  Davenant,  the  Poet,  had  no  Nose,  who  going 
along  the  street  one  Day,  a  Beggar- Woman  followed  him,  crying, 
ah !  God  preserve  your  Eyesight;  Sir,  the  Lord  preserve  your  Eye- 
sight. Why,  good  woman,  said  he,  do  you  pray  so  much  for  my 
Eyesight?  Ah!  dear  Sir,  answered  the  Woman,  if  it  should  please 
God  that  you  grow  dim-sighted  you  have  no  place  to  bang  youi 
Spectacles  on  " 

"A  Beggar  asking  Alms  under  the  Name  of  a  poor  Scholar,  a 
Gentleman  to  whom  he  apply'd  himself  ask'd  him  a  Question  in 
Latin,  the  Fellow,  shaking  his  Head,  said  he  did  not  understand 
him:  Why,  said  the  Gentleman,  did  you  not  say  you  were  a 
poor  Scholar?  Yes,  reply'd  the  other,  a  poor  one  indeed,  Sir,  for 
I  don't  understand  one  Word  of  Latin." 

The  origin  of  a  joke  which  has  been  more  or  less  familiar  to 
the  readers  of  fa  de  Steele  fun  is  shown  in  the  following  storv 
attributed  by  Jenkins  and  Miller  to  Ben  Johnson: 

"My  Lord  Cravin,  in  King  James  the  First's  Reign,  was  very 
desirous  to  see  Ben  Jon- 
son,  which  being  told  to 
Ben,  he  went  to  my 
Lord's  House,  but  being 
in  a  very  taiter'd  condi- 
tion, as  Poets  some- 
times are,  the  Porter  re- 
fused bim  Admittance, 
with  some  saucy  Lan- 
guage, which  the  other 
did  not  fail  to  return: 
My  Lord  happening  to 
come  out  while  they 
were  ■wrangling,  asked 
the  Occasion  of  it:  Ben, 
who  stood  in  need  of 
nobody  to  speak  for 
bim,  said,  he  under- 
stood his  Lordship  de- 
sired to  see  him;  you, 
Friend,  said  my  Lord, 
who  are  you?  Ben 
Jonaon,  replied  the 
other:  No,  no,  quoth 
my  Lord,  you  cannot 
be  Ben  Jonson  who 
wrote  the  Silent  Woman, 
you  look  as  if  you 
could  not  say  Bo  to  a 
goose:  Bo,  cry'd  Ben, 
very  well,  said  my 
Lord,  who  was  better 
pleased  at  the  Joke  than 
offended  at  the  Affront, 
I  am  now  convinced  by 
your  Wit,  you  are  Ben 
Jonson." 

An  oft-quoted  wit  is 
Daniel   Puroel,    who  is 


worthy  of   immortality  as  a  master  of   repartee.    The  best  of  the 
reported  witticisms  of  this  forgotten  jester  is  as  follows: 

<<  Purcel  was  desired  one  night  in  company,  by  a  gentleman, 
to  make  a  Pun  extempore.  <  Upon  what  subject?'  said  Daniel. 
1  The  King,'  answered  the  other.  <  The  King,  sir,'  said  he,  »  is  no 
subject.'  " 

A  certain  Tom  Killigrew,  who,  like  Purcel,  belongs  to  the 
ranks  of  the  forgotten,  was  one  of  the  early  practical 
jokers.  One  of  his  jests  of  this  kind  was  played 
upon  no  less  a  person  than  Charles  II.,  who,  according  to  our 
veracious  chronicler,  had  ordered  a  suit  of  clothes  to  be  made 
"just  at  the  Time  when  Addresses  were  coming  to  him  from  all 
Parts  of  the  Kingdom.  Tom  Killigrew  went  to  the  Taylor  and 
ordered  him  to  make  a  very  large  Pocket  on  one  Side  of  the  Coat, 
and  one  so  small  on  the  other  that  the  King  could  hardly  get  his 
Hand  into  it,  which  seeming  very  odd,  when  they  were  brought 
home,  he  (the  King)  ask'd  the  Meaning  of  it.  The  Taylor  said 
Mr.  Killigrew  order'd  it  so.  Killigrew  being  sent  for,  and  inter- 
rogated, said,  one  Pocket  was  for  the  Addresses  of  his  Majesty's 
Subjects,  the  other  for  the  Money  they  would  give  him." 

The  laboring  man's  wit  was  not  wanting  in  Miller's  time,  as 
witness  this  story: 

"  Doctor  Tadloe,  who  was  a  very  fat  man,  happening  to  go 
thump,  thump  with  his  great  Legs,  thro'  a  Street  in  Oxford, 
where  some  Paviers  (Pavers)  had  been  at  Work,  in  the  Midst  of 
July,  the  Fellows  immediately  laid  down  their  Rammers.  'Ah I 
God  bless  you,  Master,'  cries  one  of  'em,  'it  was  very  kind  of 
you  to  come  this  Way;  it  saves  us  a  great  deal  of  Trouble  this 
hot  Weather.'  " 

That  Miller's  time  was  not  essentially  a  religious  period  is 
shown  in  the  story  of  the  two  "Gentlemen  who  were  disputing 
about  Religion,  in  Button's  Coffee  House.  Said  one  of  them, 'I 
wonder,  Sir,  you  should  talk  of  Religion,  when  I'll  hold  you  five 
Guineas  you  can't  say  the  Lord's  Prayer.'  'Done,'  said  the  other, 
'and  Sir  Richard  Steele  shall  bold  the  Stakes.'  The  money  being 
deposited,  the  Gentleman  began  and  went  cleverly  thro,  the 
Creed.  'Well,'  said  the  other,  'I  own  I  have  lost;  I  did  not  think 
he  could  have  done  it.'  " 

Another  good  story,  which  many  readers  may  r^coguize  as  a 
new  tale  in  nld  clothes,  is  about  "A  witty  knave  who,  coming 
into  a  Lace  Shop  upon  Ludgate  Hill,  said  he  had  Occasion  for  a 
small  Quantity  of  very  fine  Lace,  and  having  pitched  upon  some 
that  he  liked,  asked  the  Woman  of  the  Shop  how  much  she  would 
have  for  as  much  as  would  reach  from  one  of  his  Ears  to  the 
other,  and  measure  which  Way  she  pleased,  either  over  his  Head 
or  under  his  Chin  ;  after  some  words  they  agreed,  and  he  paid  the 
money  down  and  began  to  measure,  Baying,  'One  of  my  Ears  is 
here,  and  the  other  is  nailed  to  the  Pillory  in  Bristol,  therefore  I 
fear  you  have  not  enough  to  make  good  your  Bargain ;  however, 
I  will  take  this  Piece  in  part  and  desire  you  will  provide  the  rest 
with  all  Expedition.'  " 


The  United  States  Official 
Investigation  of  Baking  Powders, 

Made  under  authority  of  Congress  by  the  Chemical  Division  of  the 
Dep't  of  Agriculture,  Washington,   D.   C,  and  recently  completed, 

Shows  the  Royal  Baking  Powder 
to  be  a  cream  of  tartar  baking  pow= 
der  of  the  highest  quality,  superior 
to  all  others  in  strength,  leaven= 
ing  power,  and  general  usefulness. 

The  Royal   Baking  Powder  is   thus  distinguished  by  the  highest 
expert  official  authority  the  leading  Baking  Powder  of  the  world 

1- 


Dec.  17,  1892 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NEWS  Ml  Hi; 


CHRISTMAS    SHOPPING 


WHAT  a  delight  it  is  to  the  masculine  eye  to  watch  the  bevy 
of  pretty  women  who  thrnnp  oaf  streets  and  chops  at  this 
Sfiion  of  the  year.  Shopping  Ihey  are.  of  cour?p.  (or  surely 
there  are  none  too  poor  to  buy  something,  no  matter  how  small 
or  trifling,  for  a  gift  to  a  loved  one  at  this  holiday  time.  A  good 
place  to  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  "  society  girl  "  is  the  corner  of 
Post  and  Stockton  streets,  where  ostensibly  she  is  gazing  in  at 
the  windows  of  Weber  at  the  display  of  folding  beds;  hot  a 
shrewd  guesser  will  ••  catch  on"  tnat  the  Tacific-Union  Club  Is 
in  close  proximity,  and  the  men  are  coming  up  to  lunch.  Sup- 
pose we  stand  there,  in  our  mind's  eye,  and  see  who  comes  along. 
Mrs.  Tevis  is  taking  a  short  cut  through  the  Square  from  her 
dentists,  whose  initials  are  so  suggestive  of  the  base  of  his  oper- 
ations. 8he  meets  Mrs.  Boalt,  and  they  are  evidently  intent  on 
Christmas  purchases,  for  they  pass  on  together  to  view  the  beauties 
of  the  White  House  offerings.  Next  comes  Mrs.  Henry  Schmieden, 
who  orders  ber  coachman  to  drive  to  Gump's,  on  Geary  street — 
Bocb  a  beautiful  place,  by  the  bye.  Little  Mrs.  Bob  Woods  hur- 
ries along  in  an  effort  to  catch  up  with  her.  She  has  evidently 
been  to  Fratinger's,  for  she  has  a  parcel  marked  with  his  name 
in  her  hand — one  of  those  pretty  silk  blouses,  no  doubt.  Pretty 
Miss  Ella  Goad  and  a  younger  sister  stop  to  show  a  friend,  whom 
they  meet  on  the  corner,  the  contents  of  a  pasteboard  box  with 
Stott.  the  jeweler's,  labels  on  it;  both  girls  are  in  deep  black. 

Mrs.  Jarboe  and  her  charming  daughter,  Kate,  come  along  next 
bent  on  a  visit  to  O'Connor  <fc  Motfitt's,  to  judge  from  their  chat 
as  they  pass.  What  a  bright  face  the  young  lady  has.  They  meet 
Mrs.  Wallace  and  Miss  Romie,  who  say  they  are  en  route  to 
O'Brien's.  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker  stops  her  carriage  to  speak  to  her 
brother,  and  when  she  goes  on,  gives  the  order  for  the  Maze. 
Mrs.  Henry  Scott  and  Miss  Cunningham  walk  by  rapidly,  going 
to  Doxey's  to  choose  books.  Mrs.  J.  L.  Rathbone  emerges  from 
a  neighboring  store  and  waits  patiently  on  the  curbstone  until 
ber  husband  joins  her,  when  they  go  together  to  choose  fresh 
window-blinds  at  Clarke's,  on  Market  street,  the  storm  having 
played  havoc  with  their  old  ones.  Mrs.  Frank  Carolan  and  ber 
pretty  sisters-in-law,  Eva  and  Emily,  come  tripping  along,  a  lively 
trio.  They  are  going  to  Dodge  Bros,  to  buy  stationery  whereon 
to  answer  all  their  tea  invitations.  At  the  opposite  corner  of  the 
square  they  see  Miss  Alice  Merry,  with  her  mother,  and  stop  to 
exchange  greetings.  The  latter  ladies  have  been  to  Sanborn  &  Vaii's, 
and  show  some  of  their  purchases  in  the  shape  of  exquisi  e  Chrisv 
mas  cards;  then  they  say  they  are  bound  for  Jobson's,  on  Mis- 
sion street,  to  get  a  reclining  chair  for  Captain  Merry.  Two  of 
the  recent  pretty  debutantes  are  walking  together,  chatting  in  a 
vivacious  way.  As  they  draw  near  one  bears'  that  Miss  McCut- 
cheon  is  telling  Miss  Ames  that  Dickey's  crtme  de  lis  is  better 
than  any  other;  but  Miss  Alice  likes  Camelliue.  Mrs.  Lou  Par- 
rott  comes  by,  and  hearing  their  discussion,  says,  "Oh,  girls, 
Mrs.  Harrison,  on  Geary  street,  knows  what  to  use."  Then  she 
turns  up  Stockton  street  to  jo  n  her  friend,  Mrs.  Mozeley,  who  is 
waiting  for  her,  to  go  to  Morris  &  Kennedy's  to  select  a  water 
color,  and  then  to  Prosser's,  on  Grant  avenue,  for  some  French 
essences.  The  active  little  widow,  Mrs.  Henry  Wetherbee,  is 
walking  fast  to  Kohler  &  Chase's,  to  hear  a  wonderfully-toned 
piano  a  friend  is  going  to  try,  after  which  she  intends  going  to 
Buchanan's,  on  Sacramento  street,  for  some  brushes,  said  to  be 
something  very  good  in  that  line.  But  time  presses,  and  we 
reluctantly  cease  our  agreeable  occupation  of  watching  our  belles 
as  thpy  r»act>,  and  turn  into  .Swain's  fnr  an  appetizing  jnnch. 


ANTEDILUVIAN 


WHISKEY. 

VERY  OLD, 
RICH 
AS 

CREAM, 
AND 

SMOOTH 
AS 


SATIN. 


THE  JOHN  T.  CUTTING   CO. 

PACIFIC     COAST    AGENTS. 


Nothing  can  exceed  the  delicious  flavor,  of  the  John  F.  Cutter 
whisky.  It  is  recognized  by  connoisseurs  as  the  best  in  the  market. 
It  is  used  at  all  the  leading  clubs,  bars,  hotels  and  other  places, 
where  men  of  fine  tastes  mostly  congregate.  No  whisky  can  beat 
the  John  F.  Cutter. 


Visitors  to  the  country  should  take  with  them  Steele's  Grindelia 
Lotion  of  the  fluid  extract  of  Grindelia.  It  is  the  best  known  remedy 
for  poison  oak,  and  is  also  recognized  as  an  unrivalled  cure  for 
asthmatic  affections.  The  lotion  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy, 
at  635  Market  street. 


In  the  establishment  of  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  tinder  the  Palace 
Hotel,  is  the  best  stock  of  Japanese  goods  in  ihe  city. 


A  Sore  Throat  or  t'ongb,  if  suffered  to  prrgress,  often  results  in  an 
incurable  throat  or  lung  trouble.  "Brown's  Bronchial  Troaches"  give  in- 
stant relief. 


DON'T  YOU    SUPPOSE 

Any  woman  -would  rather  have 
a  pretty  piece  of  Furniture,  that 
lends  beauty,  grace  and  utility  to 
home  than  anything  else  ? 

OF    COURSE. 


Send  for 


"joints  op  home  purni5(?in^." 


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SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892 


THE    COURTLIEST    CLERK    IN    TEXAS. 
By  Hag ak. 

I  WAS  broke.  Not  to  a  nickel,  but  what  approximately  meant 
the  same  thing;  for  what  are  a  few  paltry  dollars  in  the  face 
of  a  hotel  proprietor  who  glares  at  you  on  the  galleries,  passes 
you  without  speaking  in  the  corridors,  looks  daggers  at  you  in 
the  dining-room?  My  mail  had  miscarried;  my  remittances  were 
delayed ;  my  detention  in  Texas  was  an  unapprehended  calamity. 
In  my  emergency  I  telegraphed  the  Commodore.  He  knows  the 
meaning  of  a  message  sent  "collect."  This  particular  message 
read,  "Stranded  on  a  barren  island.  Send  me  a  hundred  to  get 
home."  Then  I  returned  to  my  inhospitable  hotel  and — waited. 
Twenty-fours  passed.  No  answer.  Another  twenty-four  hours. 
Still  no  answer.  In  desparation  I  went  to  the  office  of  the  West- 
ern Union.  My  grim  landlord's  lips  were  at  length  unsealed.  He 
had  asked  me  for  money.  "Nothing  for  you,"  said  the  stony- 
faced  operator  in  answer  to  my  earnest  inquiry.  What  could  it 
mean?  Forty-eight  hours.  It  would  soon  be  seventy-two,  and 
no  word  from  the  Commodore.  He  must  be  absent — ill,  dead.  A 
ghastly  thought  to  me  under  the  circumstances.  What  should  I 
do?  The  situation  was  swiftly  assuming  a  serious  aspect.  I 
meditated,  pondered,  planned.  Thoughts  are  said  to  be  things, 
disembodied  deeds.     I  believe  it. 

Ah,  an  inspiration!  It  came  in  meteoric  effulgence.  My  opals! 
Those  sapphire-celled  stones  into  whose  rainbow-rimmed  depths 
I  had  so  dreamily  gazed,  and  deciphered  the  weird  legendary  lore 
of  their  fair,  far  home,  beneath  skies  of  perpetual  azure — those 
speaking  souvenirs  of  a  rapturous  season  spent  among  scenes  of 
solemn  grandeur! 

The  inspiration  was  as  monstrous  as  meteoric,  and  yet  not  to 
be  ignored.  The  money-lender,  the  usurer,  would  certainly  ap- 
preciate my  lustrous  gems  to  the  extent  of  a  timely  advance.  To 
the  lynx-eyed  money-lender  I  accordingly  went.  One  last  linger- 
ing glance,  one  touch  that  savored  of  a  caress,  and  my  memory- 
enriched  relics  were  in  the  relentless  clutches  of  a  son  of  Shylock. 

"One-third  value  is  the  rule  of  the  house,"  he  said  hoarsely, 
metallically.  I  took  it  and  hastened  back  to  my  sterner  land- 
lord. How  he  glared  at  me  as  I  passed  him  at  the  portal.  I 
heeded  him  not,  for  well  I  knew  his  frowns  would  soon  be  turned 
to  sanies.  Had  I  not  now  the  magic  oil  that  turns  all  mundane 
machinery?  Had  I  not  the  dear  ducats  he  was  desiring?  What 
cared  he  for  the  sacrifice  of  my  radiant  relics?  What  to  him  the 
means  employed  to  the  possession  of  my  present  store?  His 
business  did  not  lie  in  the  lofty  region  of  sentiment.  "My  bill," 
I  said,  summoning  him  to  the  desk.  How  quickly  he  came.  How 
eagerly  he  pocketed  the  proceeds  of  my  precious  stones.  How 
glittering  the  greed  in  his  cold  grey  eye.  How  tawdry  seemed 
the  courtesy  occasioned  by  the  cancelling  of  that  short  standing 
account.  He  actually  opened  the  door  for  me  as  I  left  him  alone 
with  his  clinking  coin.  Then  I  sought  the  tranquillity  of  my 
paid-up  apartment.  Not  long  was  I  left  to  its  serene  seclusion. 
A  loud  knock  on  the  door  recalled  me  to  ruthless  realism.  "Who's 
there?"  I  asked  through  the  transom.  "A  letter  for  you,  Missus," 
came  in  African  accents,  with  a  sultry,  gulf-girt  breeze  that 
floated  through  the  adjustable  aperture.  A  shadow  fell  across 
my  threshold  and  then  vanished  as  it  came — a  shadow  cast  by 
the  sooty  form  of  an  ex-Ethiopian  slave,  leaving  a  white-faced 
visitor  in  my  open  paliu.  The  seal  was  swiftly  broken,  and  I 
read: 

Home,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  Aug.  15.  1892. — My  Dear  Child:  Your 
telegram  recalled  me  from  the  Redwoods,  where  I  have  been  snipe- 
shooting.  Splendid  sport  that,  up  ohere  among  the  forest  kings,  with 
glimpses  of  snow-crowned  Sierras  and  the  grandest  of  all  oceans. 
Ah,  Gipsey,  child,  could  you  paint  the  sunsets  as  I  saw  them  there, 
above  the  silver  sea,  your  old  daddv  might  cherish  the  hope  of  going 
down  to  posterity  with  his  name  written  upon  the  frill  of  your  frock 
— but  I  won't  gush. 

Why  didn't  you  tell  me  you  needed  money?  Don't  wait  until  you 
are  broke,  and  then  interrupt  my  dog-day's  diversion.  I  left  the  city 
to  escape  all  such  inflictions  as  telegrams  and  letters. 

What  in  the  world  are  you  doing  down  there  in  the  Lone  Star  State 
so  long?  Have  you  struck  a  gold  mine  or  a  cattleman?  It's  all  one, 
I  suppose.  In  either  case  you'll  have  no  further  use  for  me.  Oh, 
well,  what  are  we  old  fellows  for,  anyway,  but  to  put  up  the  cash? 
Sent  you  $100  by  telegraph,  as  requested.  The  order  was  returned 
yesterday.     Please  explain. 

Before'permanently  perching  come  back  to  the  old  Toost,  Theowls 
are  pining  for  you.  Ever  yours  indulgently, 

The  Commodore. 

P.  S.  Instructed  James  to  retain  all  despatches.  Am  off  again  for 
a  ten  days'  prowl  among  the  primevals.  I..  V. 

What  did  it  mean?  With  feet  that  might  be  likened  to  livid 
flame,  and  temper  at  fever  heat  I  turned  my  face  toward  the 
ever  open  Western  Union.  "What  is  the  meaning  of  this?"  I 
asked  of  an  operator  at  a  front  desk.  "Read  for  yourself,"  I  said, 
producing  the  letter.     "Why  was  my  money  order  returned?" 

•■It  was  so  ordered  unless  called  for.  You  did  not  call  for  the 
message." 

"But  you  had  my  address,  why  was  I  not  notified?" 

"Oh,  we  can't  be  bothered  notifying  people,"  he  answered 
indifferently,  and  with  a  shrug  of  his  shoulders  he  passed  on  to 


inner  precincts,  unexplorable  to  the  humble  patron  of  despatches. 
The  insolence  of  Texan  officials  is  something  astounding  to  the 
traveller. 

In  a  frantic  frame  of  mind  I  inquired  for  the  manager  of  the 
establisnmeut.  A  small  boy  with  a  sinister  expression  of  coun- 
tenance said  he  guessed  he'd  gone  home.  In  my  crestfallen 
condition  another  blue-faced,  white-lettered  sign  attracted  my 
notice.  I  passed  beneath  it,  thence  to  the  wide  doorway  of  a 
great  railway  corporation. 

"May  I  see  the  operator  or  manager  in  charge  of  the  telegraphic 
department?"  I  said  to  an  individual  who  advanced,  removed 
his  hat  and  bowed  urbanely  as  I  passed  the  picket  fence  enclosure, 
which  separates  those  high  and  mighty  functionaries  who  direct 
Railway  enterprises  from  the  vulgar  throng. 

"Operator  has  gone  for  the  day.  manager  has  not  returned 
from  his  vacation.  What  can  I  do  for  you?"  said  this  rare-man- 
nered youn^  man.  He  was  by  far  the  most  courteous  clerk  I 
had  met  in  Texas.  I  related  my  grievances.  He  bad  an  ear  for 
listening. 

"Is  there  no  redress?"  I  asked  at  length,  my  story  ended.  "If 
they  had  your  address  and  neglected  to  notify  you  there  should 
be  redress,  most  certainly."  he  courteously  responded,  "but 
between  what  should  be  and  what  is  there  rolls  a  wide  sea.  Of 
course  you're  bothered,  who  wouldn't  be!  I've  been  in  the  same 
box  myself,  but  what  does  a  strong  corporation  care  for  the 
wrongs  of  one  weak  human  being?  Corporations  have  no  souls, 
they  are  simply  machines.  You  women  are  always  at  a  dis- 
advantage.    Yrou  haven't  the  resources  we  have." 

"I'm  well  aware  of  that  lamentable  fact,  sir;  but  what  has 
sex  to  do  with  electrical  communication?" 

"Much.  A  man  can  prosecute  the  company  and  recover  dam- 
ages. The  operator  knows  that  ladies  rarely  have  the  nerve  to 
resort  to  such  extreme  measures.  You  are  creatures  of  feeling,  not 
reason,  for  which, — may  Allah  be  praised,"  be  added  reverently. 
A  philosopher  in  the  form  of  an  office  clerkl  I  had  stumbled 
upon  a  prodigy.  "But  moralizing  is  not  in  the  line  of  helping 
you,  madame,"  said  this  sage  young  man.  He  was  not  a  Texan. 
Never  did  such  polished  deportment  emanate  from  the  precincts 
of  that  stark,  stony,  wide-margined  space. 

"Why  not  send  for  more  money?"  he  asked. 

"My  governor  has  returned  to  his  snipe-shooting.  He  doesn't 
like  being  bothered  when  he  goes  for  an  outing.  Besides,  he 
would  not  receive  another  despatch  if  I  sent  it  until  too  late  to 
be  of  service.     It  is  all  very  stupid." 

"Dreadful,"  exclaimed  the  sympathetic  youth;  "but  tell  me, 
are  you  broke?" 

The  question  came  abruptly  but  not  impertinently,  as  I  then 
interpreted  it.     "No,  not  to  a  dollar, — but, " 

"Yes,  yes;  I  see.  Here  again  you  are  hampered  by  your  sex. 
Do  you  know  wbat  I  do  when  I'm  broke?" 

'•Haven't  the  remotest  idea." 

"  Listen  and  I'll  tell  you."  The  office  was  deserted  of  all  but 
the  ebony-visaged  janitor  and  ourselves.  The  crowds  passed  by. 
The  most  elegantly  mannered  clerk  in  Texas  lowered  his  voice 
and  glanced  warily  about.  The  Ethiopian  was  in  the  rear  of  the 
building.     The  ticking  of  the  wires  was  all  the  sound  I  heard. 

"  Will  you  be  shocked?"  came  at  length,  not  from  the  talking 
brass. 

"No,  I  am  never  shocked.  I  have  passed  the  age  of  sur- 
prises." 

"  Why,  I  borrow  a  few  dollars  and — gamble."  • 

I  was  not  shocked.  I  had  beard  of  men  doing  those  things. 
"  Well,  if  you  lose,  what  then?" 

"Take  another  hand.  A  fellow  is'nt  always  down  on  his 
luck." 

"  But  what  is  this  to  me?"  I  asked,  not  inaptly. 

"  This :  you  are  a  lady,  and  cannot  shake  dice  or  shuffle  cards; 
at  least  I  infer  that  you  do  not.  I  should  be  awfully  sorry  to  Bee 
you  do  it.     Since  this  is  not  in  your  line,  1  will  do  it  for  you." 

"  But  why  for  me,  I  am  nothing  to  you?" 

"  Every  lady  in  trouble  has  a  just  claim  to  the  consideration  of 
highminded  men.  We  are  your  natural  protectors.  Why  should  you 
stand  in  need  when  we  are  so  willing  to  assist  you?  My  mother 
was  a  woman.  For  her  sake  I  honor  every  representative  of  the 
sex,  however  unfortunate — nay,  unworthy." 

"  What  a  mother  to  have  borne  such  an  offspring,"  was  ray 
mental  exclamation.  "Surely  the  age  of  chivalry  is  not  past 
when  such  shining  specimens  as  you  survive.  What  you  say 
sounds  like  a  passage  from  Sir  Walter  Scott,"  I  audibly  added. 
Perhaps  it  was,  who  knows?  Tbe  divine  William  says,  "The 
devil  oan  cite  Scripture  for  bis  purpose." 

"  Madam,  you  do  me  honor,"  he  answered,  with  a  proud  hu- 
mility that  became  him.  "  Will  you  let  me  help  you?"  How  ap- 
pealingly  he  said  it. 

"  How?     Wby  should  you?"  I  asked. 

"  I  have  told  you  why;  by  your  gracious  leave  I  will  proceed 
to  explain  how.     You  have  a  few  dollars?" 

"  Thanks  to  the  ruby  rayed  treasures — yes." 

He  looked  distressed.  This  noble,  chivalrous  youth,  the  scion 
of  sentiment,  of  Sir  Walter. 

"  If  you  can  entrust  them  to  me" —  he  said  timidly. 


S\\    FRAN4  [SCO  NEWS   U   ll  I  I; 


1  ! 


«  c*n  P     They  »re  in  the  pawn  thop." 

**  Its  shocking  bad  lorni.  you  know."  and  he  sighed  deeply, 
heavily,  "for  a  lady  !••  be  seen  Id  pawn  "hops.  1  wonder  you 
ever  bad  Ihe  courage.  Now,  if  you  will  band  the  tii-kelp  lo  DJQ  I 
will  redeem  the  itonen  and.  with  the  few  dollars  for  a  stake,  I 
will  win  for  you— Heaven  knows  how  much!  Tomorrow  by 
me  you  will  have  fOTKOtten  the  troublesome  episode  of  the 
telegram.      What  would  it  have  brought  you.  nfu-r  all'.'" 

»«  One  hundred  dollars — a  sufficient  sum  to  tide  me  over  a  tem- 
porary embarrassment." 

•  A  mere  bagatelle,  inadame.  I  will  replace  it  for  you.  Nay, 
I  will  double  it — treble  it '." 

Such  magnanimity !  1  had  read  of  such  deeds  in  Arabian  tales, 
but  witnessed  them — never.  > 

■■  No,  no.  sir:  I  cannot  permit  it.  I  do  not  accept  assistance 
without  rendering  a  recompense."  He  sighed  again — grievously, 
profoundly.  What  a  melodramatic  star  be  would  have  made. 
The  stage  has  lost  a  luminary. 

•*  You  do  not  trust  me."  he  said,  plaiutively.  "  Ah,  well,  I 
could  scarcely  expect  it.  It  is  tbe  fate  of  truth  to  be  misunder- 
stood. The  few  must  suffer  for  the  perfidy  of  the  many.  Par- 
don me,  madame,  and  forgive  me  if  I  have  presumed  too  far.  I 
meant  it  only  in  kindness.  If  I  can  hereafter  be  of  service,  do 
not  fail  to  command  me.'' 

He  rose  from  the  willow-armed  chair  in  which  he  bad  been  sit- 
ting, and  opened  tbe  swinging  gate  of  that  picket  fence  enclosure. 
I  also  rose  while  be  stood,  waiting  with  deferential  mien,  for  me 
to  pass  the  iron  environed  portal.  What  strange,  mesmeric  in- 
fluence made  me  wait?  What  wild  vagary  of  tbe  human  will 
withheld  me?  I  do  not  pretend  to  know.  I  could  no  more  help 
being  riveted  to  the  spot  than  I  could  help  breathing.  The  situ- 
ation was  not  lost  upon  this  alert  son  of  Lucifer. 

"  Of  course,"  he  said,  pleadingly,  "  I  would  not  have  you  be- 
lieve me  such  a  reptile  as  a  professional  gambler.  I  am  employed 
in  the  service  of  this  company  (be  did  not  say  in  what  capacity). 
I  take  chances  occasionally;  who  does  not?  for  the  mere  novelty 
of  it;  the  excitement,  which  is,  you  know,  the  spice  of  life. 
When  I  play  for  ladies,  I  always  win.'' 

"  Strange  coincidence,  that.     I  wonder  why?" 

"  No,  not  strange;  to  me  it  is  no  mystery.  Your  sex  are  the 
guardian  angels  who  keep  silent  watch  over  our  ventures.  Their 
gentle  influence  gives  skill  to  our  chances — success  to  our  deals." 

Was  not  that  pretty  tine  for  a  non-professional?  The  atmos- 
phere was  charged  with  electricity,  though  the  ticking  instru- 
ments had  ceased  to  talk.  "  In  case  you  should  not  win  with 
this  paltry  stake?"  I  said,  placing  what  I  had  upon  the  desk, 
41  the  loss  will  be  mine,  not  yours." 

"  By  no  means,  madame.  In  case  the  fates  do  not  favor  me, 
tbe  loss  is  mine,  wholly  mine;  but  they  will.  How  could  they 
fail  with  such  a  patroness?" 

Had  the  sum  in  my  possession  been  trebled  twenty  times,  it 
would  doubtless  have  been  left  with  the  smooth  defender  of  fe- 
male misfortunes.  Such  is  the  strange  perversity  of  the  human 
will.  Who  can  say  to  it?  uncertain  tides,  "thus  far  shalt  thou 
come,  and  no  farther." 

»  At  five  to-morrow  I  will  see  you,  and  give  you  the  result  of 
my  ventures,"  said  the  courtliest  clerk  in  Texas,  as  I  passed 
through  the  swinging  gate. 

The  morrow  came  and  went,  but  with  it  no  courtly  clerk,  no 
radiant  gems  redeemed;  no  word  of  ventures  lost  or  won.  When 
the  day  following  had  waned  until  lengthening  shadows  marked 
the  approach  of  dewy  eve,  I  called  with  a  trusty  attendant  at  the 
office  of  the  great  railroad.  I  found  the  picket  fence,  the  desk, 
the  swinging  gate,  the  willow  arm-chair,  the  talking  instruments, 
but  another  official  stood  in  the  place  of  the  one  last  interviewed 
there,  and  a  voice,  not  so  mellow,  said  in  answer  to  my  inquiry: 
m  No  person  of  that  name  here." 

Moral — When  you  are  in  trouble,  trust  not  to  man. 


SUMMER'S     A    THIEF. 


Summer's  a  thief,  who  steals  away 

Our  working  wits,  our  thinking  hours; 
Goes,  laughing,  off  with  all  our  powers; 
Bids  us  go  play  among  the  flowers, 

And  make  of  life  a  holiday  1 

But  Winter,  honester  of  kind, 

Restores  the  booty  Summer  stole; 
With  biting  blast  wakes  up  this  soul — 
And  shows  anew  ambition's  goal — 

Cries,  «>0p!     To  work  1     Thou  Slumbering  mindl" 

Extraordinary  Liberality. 

During  the  holiday  season,  the  Great  American  Importing  Tea 
Co. 's  Stores  will  present  their  customers  with  extra  premiums  over 
and  above  their  usual  presents.  Their  Teas  and  Coffees  and  Spices 
are  superior  in  quality,  purity  and  cheapness.  Their  China  and 
Crockery  department  is  replete  with  new  goods  of  new  designs. 
Prices  one-half  old-time  rates.  Special  Christmas  bargains  in  Din- 
ner, Tea  and  Toilet  Sets. 


Don't  Blame 
The  Baby 

who  will  nol  knon   enou   h  tc  ask  for 


-HIGHLAND 


UNSWEETENED 


Meanwhile  its  lungs  and  stomach  are  protest- 
ing'gainst  the"infant-food"  that  don't  feed — 
nourish.  Highland  Evaporated  Cream 
is  the  completest,  safest  and  most  readily 
assimilated  food.  Send  your  name  and  ad- 
dress for  our  Infant  Food  Circular — it's  free. 
HELVETIA  MILK  CONDENSING  CO.,   Highland,  III. 


In  addition   to  their  large  and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 
Jackets, 

Suits, 

cllsters, 
FRATINGER    &    CO., 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &    CO., 

lOS  Kearny  Street. 

The  Coleman. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS    HOTEL,    European  Plan.) 

H.   H.   PEARSON,  Proprietor.  BROADWAYland  27th  St.,  NEW  YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  Ht.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
tation  and  horse  cars ;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 

"The  California  Hotel," 

Bush  Street,  near  Kearny. 

.A.'tosol-u.tely      I^ire-proof. 

Central  to  all  points  of  interest,  principal  stores  and  places  of  amusement. 

Select  Music  in  Restaurant  every  evening  between  6  and  8. 

A.  F.  KINZLER,  Manager. 


12 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEB. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


ii-LQPKER-9N® 


tt^lJUJMJItt!"^^ 


ONE  of  the  "  mashing"  fraternity  received  a  well-deserved  chas- 
tisement from  an  old  and  well-known  citizen  the  other  day.  It 
appears  the  masher,  who  is  connected  with  a  photographic 
establishment  in  this  city  and  lives  at  Larkspur,  has  been  in  the 
habit  of  annoying  a  young  lady,  by  trying  to  force  his  attentions 
upon  her  during  the  morning  Sausalito  ferry  trip.  This  has  been 
going  on  for  some  time,  until,  unable  t--  stand  the  annoyance 
longer,  the  lady  appealed  to  her  father,  Mr.  George  A.  Worn, 
for  protection.  Mr.  Worn,  when  acquainted  with  the  facts, 
made  it  his  business  to  challenge  the  individual  in  question  on 
his  conduct,  cautioning  him  that  if  it  was  repeated,  the  offender 
would  be  treated  to  a  horse-whipping  in  public.  This  was  some 
months  ago,  but  it  seems  that  little  heed  was  given  to  the  warn- 
ing, for  within  the  past  few  days  the  indignant  father  was  forced 
to  carry  his  threat  into  execution  by  slapping  the  insulter  of 
women  in  the  face  when  he  chanced  to  meet  him.  In  all  proba- 
bility Worn  would  have  got  the  worst  of  it,  for  as  might  be  ex- 
pected, his  gray  hair  and  age  were  not  respected  by  this  speci- 
men of  modern  chivalry.  Fortunately,  however,  one  of  the 
"  masher's"  companions  interfered  and  stopped  further  hostili- 
ties. Although  what  Mr.  Worn  did  under  the  provocation  will 
be  approved  by  respectable  men  of  all  classes,  it  would  be  better 
if  the  attention  of  the  police  were  called  to  cases  of  the  kind.  A 
long  term  of  imprisonment  and  a  dose  of  the  "  cat"  is  the  only 
punishment  fit  for  such  cases. 

*  #  # 

Dr.  Eowell,  of  the  Oakland  General  Hospital,  now  claims  the 
half-mile  road  record.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  cocker  spaniel  pup 
named  "  Sport."  and  the  other  evening,  hearing  some  unusual 
noise  in  the  cellar  where  the  canine  was  quartered,  he  went 
down  to  investigate.  The  door  was  half  open,  and  as  he  entered 
be  saw  a  big  hulking  fellow  in  the  act  of  stowing  the  pup  away 
in  his  pocket.  The  burglar  became  scared  when  the  doctor  en- 
tered, and  dropping  the  canine,  made  a  desperate  dash  for  the 
door,  got  through  and  ran  away  towards  the  water  front.  The 
doctor  followed  in  hot  pursuit,  and  soon  the  settled  dis- 
trict was  traversed,  and  the  fugitive,  who  was  gaining 
steadily,  made  Btraight  for  the  untenanted  marsh  section. 
On  and  on  they  went,  and  then  suddenly  the  burglar  stopped. 
So  did  the  doctor,  for  the  idea  flashed  across  him,  what  would  he 
do  if  he  came  up  to  the  thief,  who  was  twice  as  big  and  strong  as 
his  pursuer.  The  runaway  had  evidently  been  inspired  the  same 
way,  and  now,  with  a  look  of  vengeance  on  his  face,  he  came 
straight  for  the  doctor.  Then  ensued  a  funny  scene.  The  phy- 
sician fled  and  the  burglar  chased  him,  and  thus,  in  the  role  of 
the  pursuer  pursued,  the  doctor  reached  the  electric  lights  and 
safety  again,  for  his  adversary  pulled  up  when  the  line  of  settle- 
ment was  reached.  It  was  a  run  that  will  long  be  remembered  by 
the  doctor,  for  fear  lent  him  wiogs,  and  he  struck  the  town  at  a 
Nancy  Hanks  gait  that  he  claims  cracked  all  previous  road  per- 
formances. 

*  *  • 

On  the  Japanese  training-ship  Kon-go,  now  in  the  harbor,  there 
are  342  ■>  Japs,"  including  49  midshipmen,  and  they  are  enjoying 
themselves  in  a  way  never  before  dreamed  of,  in  a  foreign  land. 
This  is  the  first  time  any  of  them,  with  the  exception  of  Lieut. 
Matsumoto,  has  been  here.  The  sights  ashore  delight  them  all, 
and  their  stay,  which  is  to  extend  to  the  first  of  the  coming  year, 
has  so  far  been  one  of  continued  festivities.  The  Kon-go  itself  is 
well  worth  seeing,  and  Japanese  fl  >wers,  articles  of  vertu  and 
curiosities  all  vie  to  make  a  visit  interesting.  The  Kon-go  ranks 
as  a  cruiser,  is  of  English  build,  has  heavy  Krupp  guns,  German 
torpedoes,  and  a  French  search  light.  It  is  a  cosmopolitan  ship. 
Captain  Kalshuro,  the  commander,  is  a  distinguished  Japanese 
naval  officer,  and  wears  several  medals,  having  been  decorated 
by  thp  Mikado.     H**  is  a  man    of    family,  having  a   wife  and  six 


children,  whose  photographs  he  points  to   with  pride,  remarking 
that  "  there's  more  a-coming." 

#  #  # 

There  are  many  able  and  clever  men  in  the  new  legislature  and 
doubtless  during  January  and  February  the  capital  at  Sacramento 
will  be  the  scene  of  many  brilliant  debates.  It  is  curious,  how- 
ever, that  as  in  each  succeeding  legislature  the  members  gain  in 
education  and  manners,  their  morals  appear  to  deteriorate.  It 
was  not  thus  in  early  days.  Good  members  who  could  neither 
read  nor  write  were  not  uncommon.  There  was  Lieutenant  Gov- 
ernor Joseph  Walker,  "Honest  Joe,"  of  Placer  County,  who  in 
his  correspondence  invariably  referred  to  himself  in  a  lower  case 
i  heavily  dotted.  Egotism  surely  could  not  have  been  highly  de- 
veloped in  his  nature.  Then  there  was  State  Comptroller  Meloney 
of  Contra  Costa,  whose  vowels  and  consonants  always  got  hope- 
lessly mixed  when  he  wished  to  sort  them.  In  a  letter  to  Col. 
Tom  Hayes,  in  which  be  urged  the  appointment  of  "Count"  P. 
8.  O'Reilly  to  a  certain  vacant  office,  Meloney  referred  to  himself 
as  a  certain  official  with  the  initial  "K."  The  late  Charles  Duane, 
though  few  knew  it  because  he  so  cleverly  disguised  the  fact, 
could  not  read.  He  would  take  his  newspaper  when  it  arrived 
and  go  to  the  clerk's  office,  where  upon  some  pretext  he  would 
have  the  clerk  to  tell  him  the  journal's  contents.  Then  brimful 
of  knowlodge  he  would  go  out  promulgating  the  news  before  a 
select  circle  of  members,  tapping  his  newspaper  with  his  fore- 
fingers in  an  owl-like  manner  as  he  expounded. 
*  #  # 

Bon  vivants  who  are  accustomed  to  look  forward  with  delight- 
ful anticipation  to  the  season  when  the  canvas  back  ducks  come 
in,  must  have  noticed  how  scarce  these  birds  have  become  of 
late  years.  Single  birds  come  in  now  where  there  were  hundreds 
before,  and  Mallard  fills  the  vacancy  on  the  tables  of  the  unsus- 
picious purchaser.  Price  must  be  no  object  now  if  a  canvas 
back  is  desired.  The  few  pairs  arriving  at  intervals  will  readily 
command  as  high  at  times  as  $15  a  dozen,  whereas,  some  years 
ago,  only  $150  was  asked  for  the  same  number  of  large,  plump 
birds  in  the  very  best  condition.  What  has  happened  to  drive 
the  bird  away  from  its  old  haunts?  People  who  ought  to  know 
all  about  it  lay  the  blame  entirely  on  the  carps,  which  are  now 
so  abundant  here.  This  worthless  mud  grubber,  imported  from 
the  East  by  admirers  of  the  bony  pest,  who  ought  to  be  adjudged 
tbe  enemies  instead  of  benefactors  of  people  who  enjoy  good  din- 
ners, has  destroyed  the  feeo  which  the  ducks  prized  so  highly, 
and  in  consequence  they  have  abandoned  their  old  feeding 
grounds  for  others,  where  the  catfish  and  carp  do  not  exist. 

The  Press  Club  will  receive  James  Whitcomb  Riley,  and  Mc- 
Clung  and  Camp,  the  great  football  players,  to-night.  The  club- 
rooms  will  be  crowded  with  a  goodly  company,  for  a  number  of 
well-known  and  brilliant  men  has  been  invited  to  meet  the 
lions  and  discuss  their  specialties  with  them.  Mr.  Riley  may 
present  an  ode  to  the  football,  in  the  dialect  of  tbe  game.  If  so, 
it  will  be  recited  in  sections,  by  the  representatives  of  Palo  Alto 
and  Berkeley.  The  peculiar  step-ladder  arrangement  of  the  last 
sentence  of  the  verse  may  be  illustrated  by  a  representation  of  a 
tussle  in  the  field.  During  the  evening  there  will  be  vocal  and 
instrumental  music,  readings,  recitations  and  other  things.  The 
"  other  things"  will  mostly  include  those  material  facts  which 
are  mostly  enjoyed  by  poet  and  athlete   alike.     It  will  be  a  great 

night. 

*  *  * 

Tbe  recent  death  of  a  juror  in  Judge  Murphy's  court-room  has 
called  forth  many  stories  regarding  the  untimely  ends  of  many 
gentlemen  who  have  sat  in  the  jury-box  and  been  compelled  to 
listen  to  the  harangues  of  voluble  attorneys.  One  of  the  best  is 
related  of  John  R.  McConnell,  formerly  Attorney-General  of  this 
8tate.  McUonnell  was  prosecuting  a  man  for  murder,  the  de- 
fense being  conducted  by  Colonel  Harry  I.  Thornton.  In  the 
closing  argument  McConnell  talked  and  talked,  and  it  seemed 
that  his  words,  like  the  waters  of  the  brook,  would  flow  on  for- 
ever. At  the  end  of  the  fourth  day  of  his  argument,  McConnell, 
as  he  gathered  his  notes,  said  :  "And  now,  gentlemen  of  the  jury, 
I  must  ask  your  indulgence  for  just  one  more  day,  for  by  this 
time  to-morrow  I  will  have  closed  the  case  for  the  people."  The 
jurors  sighed,  and  the  court  adjourned.  When  the  CDurt  wet 
next  morning  one  juror  was  absent.  He  could  be  found  no- 
where. The  bailiff  searched  everywhere,  and  finally  discovered 
his  dead  body  in  a  closet.  Tbe  man  had  committed  suicide. 
Pinned  to  his  coat  was  a  note  reading :  "1  have  died  by  my  own 
hand;  I  have  tried  to  do  my  duty  as  a  citizen,  and  I  have  sat 
throneh  four  days  of    the  closing  argument  in    this  murder  case, 


HOLIDAY    GOODS 


215,  217,  219  BUSH  STREET,  S.  F. 


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17,   1892. 


s\x  inw  [»  0  NEWS  l.i n  ii; 


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bat  I  would  rather  go  lo  bell   thin  listen  to  John    K.  McConnell 
talk  (or  another  day." 

•  •   ■ 

Porter  E.  I.ibby.  the  juror  in  the  Curtis  c»se  who  died  suddenly 
on  (he  8th  inst.,  was  a  nephew  of  the  I.ibby  whose  name  attaches 
to  the  famous  military  prison  of  that  name.  The  young  man  had 
been  with  I'srke  ,t  I.acy.  of  this  city,  for  ten  years  past,  and  was 
energetic,  industrious,  and  highly  respected. 

•  •  • 

Those  bard-time  yawpers  should  buckle  down  to  their  work 
like  industrious  men,  and  they  would  soon  realize  the  results  of 
industry.  The  Johnson-Locke  Company,  for  instance,  laughs  at 
the  cry  of  hard  times.  Tne  business  of  the  various  departments 
of  their  establishment  Increased  during  the  current  year  from  twen- 
ty to  300  percent.  But  then  they  are  hard  workers,  they  don't 
wait  for  opportunities  but  make  them,  and,  as  Kipling  says, 
that  is,  of  course,  another  story. 

•  •  • 

The  baseball  game  of  the  Pacific-7nion  and  Bohemian  Clubs, 
at  the  Haight  Street  Grounds,  last  Saturday,  was  a  great  success, 
both  socially  and  financially.  The  grounds  were  crowded  with 
the  elite  of  the  city,  and  though  the  Union  Square  supporters 
were  not  as  merry  at  the  conclusion  as  at  the  beginning  of  the 
game,  still  everyone  thoroughly  enjoyed  the  performance.  The 
three  beneficiary  societies— the  California  Woman's  Hospital,  the 
Fruit  and  Flower  Mission,  and  the  Maria  Kip  Orphanage — will 
each  receive  a  comfortable  check  for  Christmas,  as  the  clubmen 
did  everything  possible  to  induce  unwary  dollars  to  roll  into  the 
coffers.  Mr.  Grayson  and  Lieutenant  Carlin,  who  managed  the 
office,  deserve  praise  for  the  successful  manner  in  which  all  the 
details  were  carried  out.  After  the  game  the  clubs  dined,  and  at 
the  board  the  doughty  warriors  of  the  baseball  bat  fought  their 
battles  o'er  again. 

*  *  * 

Prominent  mention  has  been  made  this  week  in  connection 
with  the  Panama  Canal  scandals,  of  "a  well-known  Parisian"  by 
the  name  of  Herz.  This  M.  Herz  is  well  known  in  San  Francisco, 
for  some  years  ago  he  was  a  practicing  physician  here,  and  has 
relatives  living  in  California.  He  had  been  connected  with 
Cyrus  Field  in  prominent  financial  transactions.  Dr.  Cornelius 
Herz  was  proprietor,  in  1880,  and  perhaps  still  is,  of  a  well-known 
scientific  paper  in  Paris,  entitled  La  Lumiere  Electrique,  of  which 
at  that  time  one  of  the  most  distinguished  French  scientists, 
Count  du  Moncel,  was  editor.  Dr.  Herz  had  among  his  intimate 
friends  many  prominent  members  of  the  Chamber  and  the  Senate, 
and  that  he  knew  bow  to  use  their  friendship  to  advantage,  is 
proved  by  the  fact,  as  the  Paris  Figaro  mentioned  last  Monday, 
that  he  was  enabled  to  found,  through  their  influence,  notably, 
through  M.  Clemenceau  and  Sarrien,  an  Electric  Force  Transmis- 
sion Company,  with  a  capital  of  12,500,000  francs.  All  those 
with  whom  the  writer  came  in  contact  spoke  highly  of  the  great 
financial  ability  and  talent  of  Dr.  Herz,  which  is  also  confirmed 
by  the  fact  that  he  acquired  a  very  considerable  fortune,  and 
there  is  no  doubt  that  bis  personal  amiability  and  his  polite  man- 
ners assisted  him  greatly  in  making  firm  friends. 
*  *  * 

A  recent  occurrence  in  which  A.  K.  Coney,  the  Mexican  Consul, 
figured  in  rather  an  unenviable  role,  may  precipitate  this  country 
into  an  international  complication,  which  will  tend  to  further  sad- 
den the  closing  days  of  Harrison's  administration,  and  will  be  the 
cause  of  stacks  of  official,  red-taped  correspondence  between  the 
capitols  at  the  city  of  Washington  and  the  City  of  Mexico.  Endeav- 
ors have  been  made  to  keep  quiet  the  distressing  facts,  so  that  the 
friendly  relations  now  existing  between  our  country  and  Mexico 
may  not  be  endangered,  but  as  times  are  dull  and  I  would  just  as 
lief  see  a  war  as  not,  1  present  the  case  to  the  public  of  both  nations. 
Mr.  J.  Franklin  Brown,  lateof  London,  Eng.,  and  formerly  of  New 
Or-leans,  employs  his  leisure  moments  in  developing  the  hypnotic 
powers  of  which  he  is  possessed,  and  in  storing  in  his  finger  tips 
great  quantities  of  the  invisible  fluid,  without  which  a  hypnotist  is 
but  a  very  ordinary  person.  Being  a  gentleman  whose  gregarious- 
ness  has  been  greatly  developed  by  his  resideuce  abroad,  where  he 
was  happily  placed,  being  the  favored  friend  and  especial  associate 
of  the  leading  men  of  many  capitols,  Mr.  Brown,  since  his  return  to 
this  city,  has  been  the  host  at  a  number  of  "small  and  earlies," 
which,  as  the  society  reporters  have  it,  "were  thoroughly  enjoyed  by 
all."  He  invited  a  number  of  gentlemen  friends  to  his  chambers 
one  night  last  week,  and  it  was  then  that  occurred  the  unfortunate 
contretemps  to  which   T   have  referred.      The  particular  guests  of  the 


evening  were  the  resident  chimin  ,.[  Mexico  end  the  Centra]  Amerl- 

can  republic*,  who  ere  very  moon  Interacted  In   hy| tlarn.     i>   It 

whispered  that  they  ere  endeavoring  to  develop  In  themselves  the 
mysterious  power,  so  that,  when  occasion  oilers,  they  may  crash 
one  of  the  Incipient  rebellions  In  their  states,  where  they  are  «v  fre- 
quent as  new  moons,  by  simply  pointing  a  loaded  finger  al  the  i  In,  f 
rebel  and  telling  him  to  begone.  After  becoming  adepts,  some  ol 
them  according  to  their  plans,  will  return  home,  and  there  organise 
regiments  of  picked  men.  that  will  form  "The  Corps  of  the  Glittering 
Eye."  All  these  soldiers  will  be  hypnotists,  the  idea  being  that  when 
they  meet  the  enemy  they  will  simply  look  at  them  with  tlnir  fateful 
eyes,  and  the  enemy  will  succumb  as  readily  as  did  those  ancient 
warriors  who  gazed  upon  Medusa's  fateful  head.  But  to  resume 
the  tale  of  woe  about  Coney.  Mr.  Brown  hypnotized  a  subject,  and 
then  gave  the  latter  the  impression  that  he  was  some  sort  of  an 
official,  whose  particular  duty  was  to  prevent  improper  people  enter- 
ing or  remaining  in  the  chamber.  To  demonstrate  how  complete 
was  the  spell  that  bound  the  subject,  Brown  gave  him  the  impression 
that  Mr.  Coney  was  an  interloper  who  should  be  put  out.  The  subject 
requested  the  Mexican  Consul  to  withdraw,  but  that  gentleman  de- 
murred, whereupon  the  subject,  no  longer  patient,  ejected  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  government  of  the  Montezumas,  vt  el  artms.  Hence, 
these  rumors  of  war.  The  affair  caused  some  talk  in  the  Latin  quar- 
ter, and,  say  the  quidnuncs,  the  end  it  not  yet.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
by  the  exercise  of  his  diplomatic  powers,  Mr.  Brown  may  prevent  a 
breach  of  the  friendly  relations  we  have  held  so  long  with  Mexico. 
*  *  * 

THE  football  players  of  Palo  Alto  and  Berkeley  will  own  the 
town  today.  The  great  game  will  begin  promptly  at  2:15 
o'clock  at  the  Haight  street  grounds,  which  will  be  packed 
from  fence  to  fence  with  a  howling  mass  of  humanity.  The  Palo 
Alto  boys  have  two  great  horns  which  they  say  they  will  pipe  all  day, 
as  they  are  certain  to  win;  the  Berkeley  lads  are  also  prepared  with 
noise-making  instruments,  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  no  matter 
which  sides  wins,  the  ascending  volume  of  sound  will  cause  a  rift  in 
any  cloud  that  may  have  drifted  over  the  ball  grounds.  The  game 
will  be  the  greatest  football  contest  ever  held  in  the  State.  No 
athletic  event  has  ever  before  aroused  such  interest  in  all  classes 
bere.  The  Berkeley  boys  have  been  hard  at  work,  and  the  Palo 
Altoites  have  lost  no  opportunity.  It  will  be  a  battle  of  giants.  As 
it  stands,  the  experts  think  the  match  will  be  a  very  even  one. 

NO  holiday  shopper  can  have  made  a  complete  or  satisfactory 
tour  of  the  city  unless  she  has  visited  Sanborn,  Vail  &  Co.,  at 
641-743  Marketstreet.  This  firm  shows,  probably,  more  beautiful  and 
useful  objects,  suitable  for  holiday  presents,  than  any  other  house  in 
the  city.  Besides  the  many  beautiful  framed  pictures,  etchings,  fac- 
similes, engravings  and  photographs,  upon  which  is  based  its  great- 
est fame,  there  are  displayed  numerous  objects  of  artistic  conception 
and  excellent  execution.  A  lady  should  not  fail  to  examine  the 
silverware  goods,  such  as  inkstands,  pen  holders,  photograph  frames, 
paper  cutters,  match  boxes,  etc.,  among  which  she  will  surely  find 
something  suitable  for  a  gentleman  friend;  the  latter  should  see  the 
decorated  china,  leather  goods,  stationery  and  art  gallery,  with  a 
view  of  pleasing  his  fair  friends.  Everybody  is  invited  to  visit  the 
store  and  wander  through  its  various  departments,  enjoying  the 
sight  of  the  many  articles  of  vertu  to  be  seen. 

Found  the  place  to  purchase  Christmas  gifts.    Muller's  optical  depot,  135 
Montgomery  street. 


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27  to  37  Kearny  St. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

TIKIS     "VIEIRr^"     L^TIEST. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


IT  was  not  discovered  why  the  Occidental  instead  of  the  Palace 
was  chosen  for  the  recent  society  dance,   until    a  late   arrival 
from  the  country  met  a  couple  of  the  guests  spooning    »  down  a 

dark  passage." 

*  #  • 

Society  is  waiting  patiently  for  the  long-talked  of  Carolan  re- 
ception. The  honeymoon  is  passed  and  gone  and  yet  it  is  not 
given. 

Rumor  says  that  the  athletic  young  California  actor,  Hugo 
Toland,  has  come  out  to  coax  «•  ma  "  into  a  favorable  state  of 
mind  regarding  the  match  which  he  is  credited  with  wishing  to 
make  with  a  popular  young  actress  who  not   long   since  visited 

the  Coast. 

»  #  • 

It  is  gossiped  in  society  circles  across  the  bay  that  young  Harry 
Wadswortb  is  consumed  with  a  desire  to  go  into  the  real  business 
of  minstrel  life.  Well,  there's  no  accounting  for  tastes,  and  a 
pretty  Oakland  belle  is  said  to  have  told  him  she  had  an  objection 
to  his  pale  facel  Hence,  possibly,  his  wish  to  change  it,s  hue. 

*  #  * 

San  Francisco  is  the  paradise  of  the  traveling  Britisher  of  the 
commercial  class.  He  is  petted  and  feted,  wined,  dined  and  tea-ed 
to  his  heart's  content,  so  no  wonder  he  is  enraptured  with  the 
place.  Apparently,  the  scions  of  nobility  are  the  only  ones  who 
"obtain"  in  New  York's  Four  Hundred.  Here,  unless  they 
bring  letters  to  our  prominent  people  they  don't  seem  to  get  into 
the  swim.  Their  banker  dines  them  and  takes  them  for  a  Park- 
Cliff  House  drive,  then  comes  a  brief  visit  to  Del  Monte  and  all 
is  told,  so  far  as  their  knowledge  of  our  fashionable  world  goes. 
But  with  the  commercial  man  it's  different;  somehow  our  peo- 
ple take  to  them  at  once,  and  so  long  as  he  is  English,  you  know, 
our  girls  are  satisfied,  even  though  by  chance  at  times  his  manner 
of  saying  time  should  sound  like  toime  and  an  occasional  "  h  "  be 
missing  one  place  and  put  in  another.  Our  belles  do  not  recog- 
nize the  mark  of  class,  and  are  as  happy  as  clams  at  high  tide. 

*  #  # 

Our  ci-devant  belle,  yclept  Flo'  Sharon,  now  Lady  Hesketh,  is 
going  to  spend  a  part  of  the  winter  at  New  York  with  her  brother 
Fred  and  his  wife;  and  it  is  quite  on  the  card  that  her  little  lady- 
ship will  pay  a  visit  to  her  old  home  on  the  Coast  in  the  early 
Spring,  before  returning  to  England.  In  that  event,  a  gay  party 
will  come  out  together,  and  make  the  welkin  ring  at  old  Belmont 
once  more. 

Two  pretty  maids  well-known  in  society,  who  used  to  be  dear, 
dear  friends,  do  not  speak  as  they  pass  by,  now,  and  this  is  how 
it  came  to  pass.     One  confided  to  the  other  how  she  was  working 

day  and  night  to  get  a  Christmas  gift  finished  for  young .  The 

conception  of  its  execution  was  entirely  her  own,  and  her  skill  in 
embroidering  rendered  the  making  it  a  veritable  surprise  a  sure 
thing.  Secrecy  was  enjoined,  and  therefore  the  young  lady's  feel- 
ings may  be  better  imagined  than  described  when,  on  going  into 
the  art  room  of  one  of  our  leading  stores  she  found  the  friend 
ordering  the  counterpart  of  her  »  bright  idea,"  and,  as  the  initials 
disclosed,  for  the  same  manl 

w    *    » 

A  letter  to  a  friend  here  from  one  of  the  'Frisco  girls  who  re- 
cently departed  for  Gotham  reverfls  the  fact  that,  to  use  the  old 
saying,  fields  are  green  far  off,  but  as  they  find  it,  they  are  very 
white  and  cold.  New  York  social  life  is  in  the  same  condition  as 
we  are  for  lack  of  beaux ;  and  the  society  man  there,  disdaining  a 
look  at  any  girl  whose  pa  is  not  well-fixed,  makes  it  doubly  hard 
for  the  average  maiden.  Added  to  which  {the  writer  goes  on  to 
say)  the  New  York  women  look  with  cold  eyes  on  new  feminine 
arrivals  upon  their  territory.  So  the  girls  who  bask  in  California 
■  miles  of  nature,  and  human  nature,  are  advised  to  stay  at  home 
and  appreciate  them.     No  doubt  there  is  wisdom  in  the  advice. 

There  is  quite  a  little  romance  attached  to  the  case  of  Dr.  Rich- 
ardson, the  Vandyke-bearded  young  medico  who  is  just  now 
startling  Oakland  with  bis  English  rigs,  bob-tailed  horses  and 
swell  turn-outs.  The  doctor  owes  alt  this  elegance  to  the  fact 
that  a  couple  of  years  ago  be  married  Miss  McCone,  daughter  of 
the  well-known  capitalist  of  Virginia  City.  But  strange  to  say, 
the  McCones  and  the  doctor  are  not  on  the  best  of  terms,  and  that 
is  where  the  story  comes  in.  It  appears  that  after  the  marriage, 
Mrs.  McCone  offered  to  start  her  son-in-law  in  business  in  San 
Francisco,  and  volunteered  to  fix  Mb  affairs  up  in  fine  style,  pay 
his  rent,  and  so  forth.  But  Richardson  hankered  after  Chicago, 
and  there  be  went  with  his  wife — a  fatal  trip  for  her,  for  she  con- 
tracted pneumonia  in  the  Lake  City  and  died  there.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Cone, who  had  been  telegraphed  for,  arrived  a  couple  of  days  be- 
fore her  daughter's  death,  and   took    charge  of  her  diamond  ear- 


rings and  rings,  This  did  not  suit  the  doctor,  and  after  the  in- 
terment he  created  quite  a  scene,  insisting  on  being  given  pos- 
session of  the  gems,  and  also  a  diamond-studded  watch,  the  gift 
of  Dolly  McCone  to  her  sister,  and  which  Doliy  had  taken  after 
the  demise.  The  doctor  got  the  rings,  but  he  had  a  hard  time 
regarding  the  watch,  for  Dolly  told  him  that  if  he  wanted  it  he 
could  pay  for  it.  Richardson  then  demanded  and  got  one-half 
of  the  $20,000  his  deceased  wife  had  in  the  bank,  and  with  this 
money  he  came  to  Oakland.  The  McCones  are  very  wrathy  over 
the  whole  affair,  and  do  not  object  to  expressing  themselves  on 
the  subject. 

"  Mrs.  Charlotte  Perkins  Stetson  will  read  an  obscure  poem  by 
Browning  at  the  entertainment  of  the  First  Methodist  Church, 
to-night,"  was  the  item  that  a  city  editor  put  on  his  copy-book, 
the  other  day.  "  Mrs.  Charlotte  Perkins  Stetson  will  read  an  ob- 
scene poem  by  Browning"  is  the  way  it  appeared  in  the  paper. 
Explanations  the  next  day?     Well,  rather. 


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SAN  FRAN<  I-i  0  NEWS  III  I  i  i: 


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ITH  bray  of  lbs  irumpel. 

And  roll  ol  the  drum, 
And  keen  ring  ol  bngle, 

The  cavalry  come. 
Sharp  clank  the  steel  scabbards, 

The  bridle  chains  ring 
And  foam  from  red  nostrils 

The  wild  chargers  tling. 

One  band  on  the  saber, 

And  one  on  tbe  rein, 
The  troopers  move  forward 

In  line  on  tbe  plain- 
As  rings  the  word  "Gallop!" 

Tbe  steel  scabbards  clank. 
And  each  vowel  is  pressed 

To  a  horse's  hot  Hank; 
And  swift  is  their  rush 

As  the  wild  torrent's  flow 
When  it  pours  from  the  crag 

On    the  valley  below. 

"Charge!"  thunders  tbe  leader; 

Like  sbalt  from  the  bow 
Each  mad  horse  is  hurled 

On  the  wavering  foe. 
A  thousand  bright  sabers 

Are  gleaming  in  air; 
A  thousand  dark  horses 

Are  dashed  on  the  square. 

Resistless  and  reckless 

Of  aught  may  betide, 
Like  demons,  not  mortals, 

The  wild  troopers   ride. 
Cut  right!  and  cut  leftl 

For  the  parry  who  needs? 
The  bayonets  shiver 

Like  wind-scattered   reeds. 

Rein  up  your  hot  horses 

And  call  in  your  men, 
The  trumpet  sounds  "  rally 

To  colors  "  again. 
Some  saddles  are  empty, 

Some  comrades  are  slain, 
And  some  noble  horses 

Lie  stark  on  the  plain; 
But  war's  a  chance  game,  boys, 

And  weeping  is  vain. 

OLD1  [JOHNNY    GRUNDY—  Rudyard  Kipling. 

Old  Johnny  Grundy  had  a  grey  mare, 
Hey!     Gee  I     Whoa  I 

Her  legs  were  thin  and  her  hide  was  bare, 
Heyl     Gee  I     Whoa! 
And  when  she  died  she  made  her  will: — 
Now  old  Johnny  Grundy  has  used  me  ill; 
"  Give  every  dog  in  the  town  a  bone, 
"Bat  to  old  Johnny  Grundy  give  thou  none." 
The  carver  came  and  her  image  made 
In  the  market-place  where  the  children  played,' 

And  tbe  parson  preached  with  unction  rare: — 
»  Good  people  be  kind  to  your  old  grey  mare. 

"And  don't  you  beat  her  or  use  her  ill, 
Heyl     Gtel     Whoa! 

"Or  else  she'll  leave  you  out  of  her  will," 
Hey!     Geel     Whoa! 

A    SCRAWL.— James  Whitcnmb  Riley. 

I  want  to  sing  something — but  this  is  all — 
I  try  and  I  try,  but  the  rhymes  are  dull, 

As  though  they  were  damp,  and  the  echoes  fall 
Limp  and  unlovable. 

Words  will  not  say  what  I  yearn  to  say — 
They  will  not  walk  as  I  want  them  to; 

But  they  stumble  and   fall  in  the  path  of  the  way 
Of  my  telling  my  love  for  you. 

Simply  take  what  tbe  scrawl  is  worth — 
Knowing  I  love  you  as  sun  the  sod 

On  the  ripening  side  of  tbe  great  round  earth 
That  swings  in  tbe  smile  of  God. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


THE  Comstock  market  is  in  a  fine  active  condition  for  trading, 
and  dealers  who  have  been  successful  in  catching  the  turns 
must  have  made  a  fine  profit  during  the  week.  The  outbreak  of 
fire  in  the  old  stopes  on  the  1,500  and  1,600  levels  of  Con.  Cal. 
Virginia  threw  a  damper  on  the  stock,  which  suffered  more 
severely  when  an  assessment  of  50  cents  was  levied  immediately 
after  the  news  was  received  of  the  disaster  to  the  mine.  The 
effect,  however,  will  soon  wear  off ,  and  from  the  latest  informa- 
tion it  will  not  be  many  days  until  everything  is  running  all  rigb  t 
in  the  mine,  and  ore  extraction  will  be  resumed.  In  the  long 
run,  the  event,  unfortunate  as  it  seems  to-day,  will  prove  a  bless- 
ing in  disguise,  as  it  will  cause  the  close-down  of  a  shaft  wbich 
has  cost  the  shareholders  $20,000  a  month,  and  this  will  be  so 
much  saved.  The  present  assessment  is  the  first  since  January 
15,  1885,  and  the  third  since  the  consolidation  of  the  California 
and  Con.  Virginia  companies.  Since  this  consolidation  took  place 
the  mines  have  paid  $3,628,000  in  dividends,  while  the  assess- 
ments during  the  same  time  have  amounted  to  only  $216,000,  in- 
cluding the  present  levy  of  50  cents.  Shareholders  have  not  much 
cause  for  complaint  with  such  a  showing  as  this,  and  any  of 
them  who  are  convinced  that  the  wonderful  ore  resources  of  the 
property  are  played  out  will  find  themselves  disabused  of  the  idea 
if  they  play  any  heavy  odds  on  the  short  end.  Taking  into  ac- 
count the  fifty-three  dividends  paid  by  Con.  Virginia,  amounting 
to  $42,930,000,  aud  the  thirty-four  dividends  from  California  of 
$31,320,000  before  the  consolidation,  tbe  aggregate,  with  the  sum 
disbursed  since  then  added,  makes  a  grand  total  of  $77,878,000 
paid  out  in  dividends. 

SSI 

THE  most  active  stock  on  the  list  during  the  week  has  been 
Potosi  which  at  one  time  struck  three  dollars  per  share, 
rebounding  to  $1.60  within  two  boards.  The  fluctuations  in  this 
stock  are  due  to  the  merit  wbich  has  recently  been  developed  in  the 
mine,  and  the  confidence  which  has  been  inspired  among  heavy 
operators  regarding  its  future  value.  The  upraise  from  the  1100  level 
is  now  up  nearly  100  feet  in  ore  of  fair  grade,  whicb  lies  to  tbe  east 
of  the  raise  where  the  country  has  never  ,yet  been  explored.  Judg- 
ing frora  the  character  of  the  formation,  another  fissure  vein  has 
been  cut  and  these  are  not  apt  to  pinch  out  as  the  string- 
ers and  streaks  do  when  they  are  followed  a  short  dis- 
tance. Any  ore  in  which  an  upraise  can  be  carried 
up  to  the  height  now  attained  on  Potosi,  is  apt  to  open 
out  well  when  breasting  begins.  A  good  sized  ore  body  in  this  or 
any  other  quarter  on  the  Comstock  would  prove  a  God-send  just 
now.  Towards  the  close  of  the  week,  BeJcher  has  shown  signs 
of  returning  activity,  presumably  on  the  strength  of  another  im- 
provement in  ihe  mine,  which  has  never  at  any  time  during  the 
past  three  weeks  looked  so  bad,  as  some  bears  on  the  stock  have 
attempted  to  make  out.  The  Pumping  association  of  the  Corn- 
stock  has  made  overtures  to  the  north-end  companies  to  assist 
tbe  South-end  Mines  in  draining  tbe  lode  at  depth,  and  it  s  to  be 
hoped  that  they  will  respond  liberally  in  the  matter  which  is  one 
of  general  interest  to  all  the  mines  now  in  operation.  The  returns 
from  the  New  York  ores  worked  at  the  Justice  Mill  have  been 
received.  They  certainly  justify  the  hope  that  this  mine  will 
be  a  steady  bullion  producer  in  the  near  future. 
$  $  ? 

THE  sale  of  the  nitre  properties  in  Nevada  has  been  declared 
off,  Mr.  B.  S.  Bernard,  who  repcesented  the  Hamburg  firm  in 
the  purchase,  having  been  satisfied  that  the  quality  was  inferior. 
The  average  percentage  of  the  nitre  is  very  low,  having  deterio- 
rated owing  to  the  rainfall,  wbich  has  lately  been  quite  heavy  in 
this  portion  of  Nevada.  Mr.  Bernard  is  now  engaged  in  hand- 
ling another  enterprise  which  he  will  endeavor  to  float  abroad. 
He  has  bonded  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Lassen  county,  which  he 
proposes  to  irrigate  and  then  dispose  of  to  settlers.  It  will  re- 
quire $300,000  to  put  this  land  in  proper  condition  for  the  mar- 
ket, but  when  this  amount  has  been  expended  in  ditches  and  im- 
provements, the  value  of  the  property  will  be  greatly  enhanced. 
Mr.  Bernard  contradicts  the  story  told  sometime  ago  of  his  con- 
nection with  a  deal  in  the  Mexican  quicksilver  mines  recently 
floated  in  this  city.  The  same  property  was  offered  /ears  ago  in 
London,  but  proved  a  failure  on  the  report  of  Bernard,  who  noii- 
sed  his  principals  that  $50,000  of  the  purchase  money  represented 
commissions  on  tbe  sale.  Bernard  was  accredited  by  tbe  disap- 
pointed bonders  with  asking  a  commission,  but  instead  of  that 
he  refused  to  permit  one  being  paid  to  anyone,  and  failing  to  get 
an  agreement  on  that  point,  the  deal  was  declared  off. 
$$S 

THE  discovery  of  diamonds  within  the  past  fortnight  at  Snake 
River,  Idaho,  recalls  the  fact  that  a  find  was  made  in  this  locality 
in  the  earlysixties.  A  prospector  named  Wilson,  who  went  down 
in  the  Brother  Jonathan  some  years  later,  found  a  number  of 
va.uable  stones  wbich  he  sold  to  Tiffany,  of  New  York.     He  had 


informed  Caleb  Lyon,  at  the  time  Governor  of  the  Territory,  of 
his  discovery,  and  he  subsequently  made  an  attempt,  in  company 
with  Colonel  D.  H.  Fogus,  of  this  city,  to  relocate  the  spot  after 
the  death  of  Wilson,  but  tbe  miners  in  the  vicinity  watched  them 
so  closely  that  they  had  to  retire  from  the  field  without  accom- 
plishing anything.  Lyon  died  some  years  ago,  and  the  only  one 
who  is  left  in  possession  of  the  secret  is  Fogus,  who  in  early  days 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  Idaho.  Tbe  recent  dis- 
covery is  claimed  by  some  to  have  been  made  at  the  identical 
spot  whicb  Wilson  had  located,  but  Fogus  says  tbat  he  is  certain, 
judging  from  the  description,  that  they  are  not  within  miles  of  it, 
and,  further,  that  it  would  be  impossible  to  get  in  there  at  this 
time  of  the  year,  unless  the  season  is  remarkably  open.  The 
find,  however,  such  as  it  is,  must  be  regarded  as  interesting,  to 
say  the  least,  and  it  will  be  hoped  that  the  deposit  will  develop 
in  extent  as  work  progresses. 

I  IS 

THE  latest  reports  from  the  Golden  Gate  and  Golden  Feather 
mines,  on  the  Feather  River,  are  very  satisfactory,  showing 
as  they  do  that  with  the  exception  of  the  injury  done  to  the 
telephone  lines  by  the  winds,  the  damage  to  the  works  by  the 
heavy  rise  in  the  river  will  not  exceed  $150.  Only  a  small  strip 
of  flume,  which  was  not  worth  saving,  was  carried  away.  The 
bed  of  the  river  has  been  stripped  of  all  appliances  several  days 
ago,  and  tbe  companies  are  in  a  position  to  resume  operations 
early  next  season,  where  they  have  now  left  off.  The  dams  on 
both  claims  are  said  to  have  stood  the  tremendous  test  in  fine 
style,  although  the  water  is  pouring  over  them  in  a  volume  equal 
to  Niagara.  Attention  is  called  by  the  papers  at  Oroville,  to  the 
fact  that  it  is  probable,  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  such  mine 
ing  in  California,  tbat  complete  and  utter  ruin  did  not  follow  tbe- 
first  freshets.  This  occurred  in  tbe  case  of  tbe  Old  Cape,  Union 
Cape,  and,  in  fact,  all  the  mines  of  a  like  nature  on  the  Feather 
river.  Every  time  an  attempt  was  made  to  work  them,  thousands 
of  dollars  worth  of  improvements  were  swept  away  and  lost  dur- 
ing the  first  storms  of  the  season. 

$  $  $ 

THERE  seems  to  be  little  hope  of  a  revival  of  interest  in  the 
mines  owned  by  the  Esmeralda  Consolidated  Company,  of 
London.  If  ever  there  was  a  skinflint  game,  that  enterprise  was 
one,  and  yet  we  suppose  Mr.  Ann  and  his  associates  can  afford 
to  congratulate  themselves  on  their  success  in  emptying  tbe 
pockets  of  their  countrymen,  as  the  occupation  seems  to  have 
been  a  very  profitable  one  in  London  during  the  last  five  or  six 
years.  A  report  whicb  has  just  come  in  from  that  section  of 
Nevada  shows  that  tbe  town  of  Aurora,  which  had  at  one  time 
as  many  as  5,000  inhabitants,  and  still  has  many  handsome 
brick  buildings,  now  has  but  twenty-five  residents.  The  man- 
agement of  the  English  company  has  not  done  much  for  the 
town  in  tbe  way  of  adding  to  its  prosperity,  and  it  might  have 
been  just  as  well  for  Nevada  if  the  mines  had  been  left  undis- 
turbed in  their  condition  of  abandonment. 


THE  Maid  of  Erin  silver  mines,  a  Colorado  property  which  was 
floated  in  England  some  time  ago,  on  the  report  of  Mr. 
Hooper,  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Bewick,  Moreing  &  Hooper, 
mining  engineers,  of  London,  is  turning  out  remarkably  well. 
The  annual  meeting  has  just  been  held,  and  the  working  results 
for  the  year  have  been  exceedingly  satisfactory.  No  less  than  four 
25  cts.  dividends  have  been  paid,  and  these  are  to  be  followed 
shortly  by  anuther  of  a  similar  amount,  being  at  the  rate  of  20 
per  cent,  per  annum.  These  payments  were  on  a  restricted  out- 
put, consequent  on  the  depreciation  in  tbe  price  of  silver.  This 
is  one  property,  on  the  purchase  of  which  investors  in  Great 
Britain  can  be  congratulated.  Mr.  Hooper  has  been  remarkably 
successful  in  bis  dealings  with  American  mines,  and  so  far  he  has 
made  no  mistakes. 

sss 

THE  new  owners  of  the  Alaska  mine  at  Pike  City  have  made 
all  arrangements  for  the  immediate  resumption  of  work.  The 
old  shaft  will  not  be  used,  butan  east  drift  already  started  on  the 
vein  will  be  carried  in  to  tap  the  ledge  at  the  depth  of  1,000  feet, 
when  a  connection  will  be  made  with  the  old  drifts,  to  drain  the 
shaft  and  the  levels  run  from  it.  It  is  thought  that  enough  ore 
can  be  taken  out  of  the  east  drift  to  pay  the  greater  portion  of 
the  expenses,  as  some  of  it  was  rich  enough  toyield  handsome  re- 
turns to  prospectors  who  had  been  making  a  good  living  pound- 
ing the  ore  in  a  hand-mortar  before  they  were  dispossessed  ny 
the  present  purchasers  of  the  property. 

THE  following  local  dividends  were  paid  during  the  week: 
Oakland  Gas,  40  cents;  S.  F.  Gas,  35  cents;  Omnibus  Cable, 
40  cents;  State  Investment  Ins.  Co.,  50  cents;  Atlantic  Dyna- 
mite, 80  cents;  California  Powder,  50  cents;  and  California-street 
Railway,  50  cents. 

$  $  $ 

CON.  CAL. -VIRGINIA  was  assessed  50  cents  during  the  week, 
and  Utah  10  cents  per  share. 


Doc.  17,  1892. 


S\\   FR  \\»  Is.  0  \l  w  H   U   I  II  I; 


17 


'Hearthe  Trier:"   "Whil  the  devil  arllhour 
'Oaethftt  will  pUt  the 'lerll.iir.  with  tou." 


IN  answer  to  our  question,  "Who  is  the  Baron''"  a  correspond- 
ent writes:  Edmund  Russell's  friend,  "the  Baron."  of  the  long 
bair  and  highly  arched  nose,  is  a  Hungarian  of  noble  birth  and 
name  unpronounceable  except  by  those  born  on  the  soil.  Written 
It  looks  this  way,  Ifluof—  spoken,  it's  something  vastly  different. 
The  Baron  has  been  so  long  absent  from  bis  borne  that  he  has  for- 
gotten bis  mother-tongue,  but  be  can  play  on  the  piano  and  organ, 
and  is  an  authority  on  ladies'  bats,  Virol  not  excepted.  He  is  re- 
freshingly frank  of  speech,  and  speaks  bis  mind  with  an  ingenu- 
ousness that  is  sublime.  But  the  Baron  is  tbe  "fad"  at  present, 
so  all  these  little  eccentricities  are  overlooked,  as  being  bis  "for- 
eign way,  you  know."  He  "never  talks  to  maids,  only  to  ma- 
trons," and  does  not  hesitate  to  say  so  to  the  maids.  He  is  a 
most  devoted  admirer  and  attache  of  tbe  Delsartean,  and  con- 
siders it  a  privilege  to  sit  at  bis  feet  and  listen  to  bis  words  of 
wisdom.  It  is  a  case  of  "Where  thou  goest,  I  will  go,"  so  the 
Baron  will  continue  to  tell  "you  Americans"  what  he  thinks  of 
them  for  sometime,  as  Russell  purposes  remaining  here  till  early 
spring.  That  same  Russell,  by  the  way,  in  addition  to  his  "ar- 
tistic eye,"  has  remarkable  keen  vision  for  the  large  American 
dollar,  and  never  allows  any  sentiment  whatsoever  to  interfere 
with  his  valuation  for  "services  rendered."  There  are  some  peo- 
ple to  whom  the  plea  of  charity  is  an  open  sesame  to  their  hearts, 
but  Russell  is  not  one  of  these.  Those  who  were  present  at  the 
Abbey  Cheney  amateur  concert  last  week  commented  consider- 
ably on  the  amount  of  free  advertising  given  to  Mr.  Russell  in  the 
elaborate  programme,  for  most  of  the  book  was  devoted  to  that 
modest  gentleman  (he  compiled  the  book),  his  press  notices,  his 
pictures,  and  his  jewels.  Not  satisfied  with  this,  however,  he 
asked  and  received  a  round  one  hundred  dollars  for  his  "costume 
recital,"  and  that  sum  was  considered  a  favor,  granted  through 
friendship)!;  Truly  the  pursuit  of  the  ideal  does  not  make  him 
lose  sight  at  all  of  the  real.  If  be  keeps  on,  and  tbe  public  are 
willing  to  accept  it,  tbe  Delsarte  exponent  will  be  a  rich  man  be- 
fore he  gets  much  older.  Is  that  "chrysanthemum  bang"  and  its 
attachment  a  wig?    Some  of  tbe  girls  say  so. 

THE  baby  show  was  a  success.  That's  what  its  managers  say, 
at  least.  Then,  at  last,  there  is  a  hope  for  the  country.  As 
long  as  the  women  of  the  State  will  take  interest  in  babies  we 
cannot  have  yet  gone  to  the  "  deninition  bowbows,"  as  some  Silurians 
would  have  us  believe.  The  baby  show  is  a  great  and  glorious  insti- 
tution, and  should  be  fostered.  What  could  be  a  nobler  ambition  for 
a  man  than  for  him  to  hope  that  his  babe  will  take  the  candle  at  tbe 
show  ?  Be  awarded  the  medal  as  the  chubbiest,  rosiest  and  naughtiest 
of  all  the  little  ones  placed  on  exhibition  ?  Of  course,  all  old  bachelors 
will  scoff  at  the  very  idea  of  a  baby  show;  but  they  should  not  be 
heeded,  for  a  bachelor  is  not  wholly  a  man,  and  his  words  are  not  en- 
titled to  such  respect  as  the  opinions  of  those  gentlemen  who  are  re- 
spectable—being married.  Who  that  saw  the  collection  of  young 
ones  at  the  pavilion  during  the  week  can  have  the  assurance  to  say 
that  marriage  is  a  failure  ?  In  this  glorious  commonwealth,  gentle- 
men, marriage  is  a  howling  success.  And  we  aie  proud  of  it.  Proud  of 
our  institutions,  of  our  husbands,  our  wives,  our  fathers,  our  mothers, 
and  above  all  of  our  snub-nosed,  dirty-faced,  milk-spilling,  ear- 
splitting,  lung-straining  babies.  California  will  come  out  all  right  as 
long  as  our  young  ones  caii  yell  as  loud  as  did  those  who  scared  tbe 
spiders  on  the  pavilion  rafters  last  week. 

I  HAVE  great  admiration  for  the  Supervisors  and  the  School 
Directors.  These  gentlemen,  after  two  years  of  boiling  in  the 
cauldron  of  public  opinion,  are  so  hardened  that  they  have  no 
care  whatever  now  for  the  opinion  of  the  people,  and  they  go 
along  in  their  quiet  ways  as  if  the  press  were  not  howling  at 
them,  and  all  men  throwing  stones.  The  amount  of  energy  that 
can  be  infused  into  the  person  of  a  city  official,  with  power  and 
patronage,  during  the  last  month  of  his  administration,  is  some- 
thing wonderful.  This  is  the  month  when  all  the  loose  ends  of 
schemes  are  rounded  up,  the  work  is  completed,  and  the  official, 
satisfied  that  his  work  is  done,  may  go  forth  rejoicing.  Our  beau- 
tiful system  of  municipal  government  allows  the  same  sort  of 
thing  to  occur  every  two  years.  We  have  become  so  used  to  the 
biennial  sweep  now,  that  we  don't  mind  it.  The  taxpayers  con- 
sider it  a  necessity,  and  say  nothing  about  it.  The  most  scrupu- 
lous officials  thinks  that,  after  twenty-three  months  of  forbear- 
ance, he  is  entitled  to  pluck  at  least  one  plum,  and  the  plucking 
thus  goes  merrily  on. 

JUDGING  from  the  summary  handling  of  the  charge  that 
Schwartz,  the  bookmaker,  dared  to  make,  and  the  severe 
punishment  inBicted  upon  that  culprit  for  attempting  to  expose 
a  robbery,  Tom  Williams,  we  may  conclude,  would  take  par- 
ticular delight  in  fining  and  exiling  every  newspaperman  who  has 
exposed  his  "peculiar "  conduct.  The  pen  pushers,  however, 
have  no  fear  of  men  like  Williams.     He  is  beneath  contempt. 


Tamks  WHITCOMB  atLBY  is  rordj  a  gentle  man,  ae  well 

U  becomes  a  poet.  It  whs  only  the  other  day  that  he  showed 
be  VU  pOMesstd  of  a  calm  spirit,  when  he  said  that  he  bad 
found  cause  to  make  objection!  to  some  of  the  alleged  portraits 
of  him  published  in  the  daily  press.  Found  cause!  Ye  gods— 
and  were  the  man  not  a  poet,  or  a  tailor,  he  would  have  thought 
long  ere  this  that  be  had  been  given  cause.  His  snickersnee 
would  have  been  drawn,  and  he  would  have  spread  devastation 
and  minoe-meat  with  a  blood-red  band  among  the  business  olives 
and  artists'  departments  of  the  great  engines  of  civilization. 
Found  cause  for  anger!  Why,  those  newspaper  cuts  declare  that 
Mr.  Riley  is  without  exception  tbe  plainest  man  on  earth.  I 
don't  know  that  Riley  lays  any  particular  claim  to  personal 
beauty.  If  he  does,  his  reputation  in  this  city  has  been  ruined 
irretrievably.  He  is  truly  a  plain,  blunt  man.  After  looking  at 
bis  face  it  is  quite  a  relief  to  gaze  upon  the  features  of— of— well, 
of  that  dear  creature,  Eddie  Russell. 

THE  good  Christians  of  this  city  have  been  terribly  shocked 
during  the  week,  for  tbe  telegraph  despatches  from  New 
York  announce  that  Elliott  P.  Shepherd,  the  only  holy  news- 
paper man  in  the  country,  has  been  charged  by  his  former  business 
manager  with  the  heinous  offense  of  attempting  to  bribe  a  city  offi- 
cial. How  can  we  ever  hope  for  the  reformation  of  those  degenerate 
men  wbo  sit  up  o'nights,  and  go  home  on  the  first  car  in  the  morn- 
ing, now  that  tbe  shepherd  of  the  pencil  pushing  Mock  has  gone 
wrong?  It  is  painful  to  see  a  newspaper  man  do  anything  of  this 
sort.  It  indicates  a  woeful  fall  in  the  vaunted  power  of  the  press. 
The  best  way  for  a  newspaper  to  make  a  man  do  what  it  wants  is  to 
"roast"  him,  or  drop  him  into  utter  obscurity  by  refusing  to  publish 
his  name.  But  to  attempt  to  bribe  a  city  official  I  I  suppose  the 
Mail  and  Express  bible  column  is  now  headed :  "Go  thou  and  do  like- 
wise." 

THE  fellow  who  was  arrested  the  other  day  for  stealing  clocks,  was 
certainly  an  original  sortof  a  rascal.  He  called  at  houses  and  asked 
for  people  who  were  out,  and  while  tbe  attendant  was  making  inquiries, 
the  thief  would  take  a  clock  from  the  mantel  piece,  and  walk  off  with 
it.  There  must  have  been  a  grain  of  humor  in  this  fellow's  compo- 
sition. It  might  have  occurred  to  him  that  it  would  he  funny  to  get 
away  with  old  Father  Time  occasionally,  and  hence  his  thefts.  He 
will  probably  plead  insanity  as  a  defence,  and  bring  witnesses  to 
prove  that  his  hallucination  was  a  desire  to  regulate  the  affairs  of 
the  world,  and  that  he  was  acquiring  a  stock  of  clocks  in  preparation 
for  his  great  work.  Until  this  thief  is  securely  jailed,  and  for  some 
time,  it  will  be  wise  for  cooks  and  housewives  to  chain  down  their 
ranges  and  red  hot  stoves,  for  this  larcenist  will  stop  at  nothing. 

WHEN  the  check  is  on  the  counter,  and  your  jewelry's  in  hock, 
And  you  hear  the  copper's  whistle  as  he  walks  around  the 
block, 
And  the  waiter,  hand  outstretching,  stands  in   front,  with  look 

serene, 
And  you  feel  your  name  is  Dennis,  and  you're  in  the  soup  tureen, 
0,  it's  then  tie  times  a  feller  goes  a  diggin'  in  his  vest, 
As  with  smile  so  sad  and  sickly,  he  tries  hard  to  look  his  best. 
Then  be  leaves  the  feast  unpaid  for,  and  his    best   girl  does  he 

shock, 
When  his  check  is  on  the  counter,  and  his  jewelry's  in  hock. 

A  DAILY  paper  published  a  few  days  ago  a  number  of  opinion3 
by  newspaper  men  regarding  the  ideal  newspaper.  One  that 
was  sent  in  was  not  published.  It  read:  "My  idea  of  an  ideal 
newspaper  is  that  newspaper  that  will  pay  the  best  space  rate  to 
a  man  for  writing  his  opinion  of  an  ideal  newspaper."  There 
was  just  a  little  too  much  strength  in  that  opinion  to  be  thor- 
oughly appreciated  by  tbe  idealists. 

THE  festive  Legislator  is  abroad  in  the  land,  and  keepers  of 
swell  restaurants  and  high-priced  bars  are  jubilant  in  conse- 
quence. The  mighty  makers  of  our  laws  will  assemble  in  Sacra- 
mento in  about  two  weeks,  and  there  begin  operations  to  illustrate 
the  truth  of  the  saying  that  "  the  best-laid  plans  of  mice  and  men 
gang  aft  aglee."  Indications  are  that  this  session  of  tbe  Legislature 
will  be  replete  with  interest.  There  is  already  a  digging  up  of  old 
bills,  claims  and  waste-baskets  that  points  to  a  very  enthusiastic  dis- 
play of  patriotism  at  the  capitol.  The  schedule  for  cinch  bills  has 
not  yet  been  fixed,  but  it  is  understood  that  "  the  boys"  will  arrange 
all  matters  satisfactorily  before  beginning  business.  The  Legislature 
of  California  is  a  great. institution,  and  its  members  should  be  prop- 
erly fostered. 

EVERY  clerk  at  the  City  Hall  wears  a  broad  grin,  and  a  smile 
goes  around  tha  building  whenever  a  money  broker  is  men- 
tioned. Even  the  gargoyles  upon  tbe  facade  open  wider  their  grin- 
ning mouths  when  a  discounter  rushes  hurriedly  toward  the  Treas- 
urer's office.  The  fact  is  that  the  clerks  have  proved  untrue  to  their 
fast  friends,  the  brokers,  and  for  once  have  got  ahead  of  tbe  money 
dealers.  The  latter  were  so  anxious  to  discount  salary  warrants 
this  month  that  they  aecepted  orders  on  Treasurer,  without  the  war- 
rants. Therefore  each  of  the  clerks  sold  about  a  dozen  orders  on  the 
Treasurer,  and  the  brokers  hold  much  worthless  paper.  It  is  a 
maxim  among  City  Hall  clerks  to  always  beat  a  money  broker  when 
possible,  hence  the  smile  that  encircles  the  City  Hall,  and  therefore 
the  loud  ha,  ha's  that  may  be  heard  coming  from  the  frightful  heads 
upon  the  outer  walls. 


18 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


THE  advances  made  in  the  last  few  years  in  the  metallurgy  of 
steel  suggest  possibilities  that  have  heretofore  hardly  been 
imagined.  The  manufacture  of  armor  plate  of  nickel-steel,  and 
the  treatment  of  it  by  the  Harvey  process  and  by  oil-tempering, 
has  resulted  in  a  product  so  tough  that  it  is  very  difficult  to  tool 
it,  and  a  nickel-steel  specimen  has  been  tested  by  palling,  which 
gave,  with  98,000  pounds  tensile  strength*,  42  per  cent,  elonga- 
tion. A  rail  made  of  this  kind  of  steel  would  be  practically  in- 
destructible. It  would  cost  a  good  deal  more  than  any  chief  en- 
gineer would  dare  recommend.  Railway  directors  would  not  be 
justified  in  considering  posterity  so  far  as  to  spend  a  company's 
money  for  such  rails,  but  between  a  nickel-steel  oil-tempered  rail 
and  the  ordinary  steel  rail  of  commerce  there  is  a  line  of  greatest 
economy  which  has  not  even  been  approximated  in  rail-making. 

The  heaviest  armor-plates  yet  placed  on  an  American  war- 
ship are  those  just  secured  to  the  sides  of  the  Indiana  *  now  build- 
ing at  the  Cramp  ship-yard  in  Philadelphia.  These  plates  are 
made  of  nickel-steel,  are  14  inches  thick,  6  feet  high  and  16  feet 
long,  and  weigh  26  tons  each.  The  side  armor  of  this  ship  will 
be  18  inches  thick,  and  each  plate  will  weigh  46  tons.  The  first 
named  plates  were  forged  at  the  shops  of  the  Bethlehem  Iron 
Works,  and  they  cost  $15,000  each.  Diagonal  plates  of  the  same 
thickness  as  those  just  put  on  the  Indiana  have  also  been  shipped 
from  Bethlehem  for  the  sister  ship  Massachusetts. 

— Engineering  News. 

— The  highest  chimney  in  Germany  and  probably  on  the 
Continent  has  been  built  at  Stolberg,  near  Aix-la-Chapelle.  It  is 
407  feet  high,  and  it  stands,  moreover,  on  an  eminence  which 
rises  some  275  feet  above  the  surrounding  plain.  The  inside  dia- 
meter of  the  stalk  is  at  the  bottom  16  feet  8  inches,  at  the  top 
nearly  10  feet.  The  chimney,  provision  for  the  ascent  of  which 
has  been  made  by  fixing  iron  stips  in  the  masonry,  has  occupied 
six  months  in  erection,  and  the  work  was  carried  out  wholly 
without  accident. 

Inspector-General  Dumont,  of  the  United  States  Steamboat 

Inspection  Service,  reports  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  that 
the  number  of  persons  carried  on  steamboats  last  year  was  6,650,- 
000,000.  The  number  of  lives  lot  was  200,  or  138  less  than  in  the 
previous  year.  Of  the  lives  lost  only  48  were  passengers,  the  re- 
mainder was  made  up  of  officers  and  crews. 

The  courts  of  Georgia  have  recently  given  out  some  interesting 

telegraph  law.  One  decision  exempts  telegraph  companies  from 
penalties  for  failure  to  deliver  messages  on  Sunday,  and  another 
decides  that  a  telegraph  company  is  not  excused  from  using  care 
because  a  message  is  ungrammatical. 

•^— Some  interesting  points  on  trolley  roads  were  brought  out  at  a 
discussion  recently  carried  on  before  the  American  Street  Railroad 
Association  meeting.  Among  the  electricians  present,  representing 
various  roads  throughout  the  country,  it  seemed  to  be  the  universal 
opinion  that  the  current  of  their  roads  was  decidedly  detrimental  to 
the  gas  and  water  pipes,  as  well  as  to  grounded  circuits  within  the 
districts  in  which  their  roads  operated.  Various  suggestions  as  to 
how  electrolytic  action  on  lead  pipes  might  be  stopped  were  made, 
but  the  only  way  out  of  the  difficulty  seemed  to  be  to  stop  running 
the  road  or  give  up  the  use  of  the  earth  for  return  currents  by  run- 
ning an  overhead  return  wire. 

——Successful  experiments  have  been  made  in  France,  relative  to 
the  introduction  of  telephones  for  use  in  warfare.  The  telephonists 
are  organized  in  sets  of  two  men  each,  each  set  being  provided  witb 
equipments  for  a  mile  line.  The'very  simple  receiving  and  trans- 
mitting apparatus  remain  attached  to  the  military  cap,  and  the  wire 
on  reels  in  a  sort  of  breastplace,  being  so  light  that  a  man's  ordinary 
equipment  weighs  less  than  six  pounds.  At  a  distance  of  fourteen 
miles  an  order  for  an  assault,  setting  in  motion  two  army  corps,  was 
received  and  put  in  execution  in  ten  minutes. 

Are  You  Going  East  ? 
Take  the  Santa  Fe  Route.  You  will  find  it  to  your  interest  to  call 
on  or  address  the  undersigned  before  purchasing  tickets.  No  other 
line  crossing  the  continent  can  offer  you  a  trip  combining  equal  com- 
fort and  pleasure.  The  only  line  running  Pullman  palace  and  tour- 
ist sleeping-cars  through  to  Chicago  on  the  same  train  every  day 
without  change.  Personally  conducted  excursions  through  to  Bos- 
ton leave  every  "Wednesday.  W.  A.  BISSELL,  650  Market  street, 
Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 

Professor  Charles  Geoffrie.  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California, as  proved  by  his  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses  Blair,  Joran,  Wright,  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others — continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,   1430  Webster  street,  near 


izr>rsTj:R^.:r>ro:E_ 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE   INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

OF  HAMBURG.  GERMANY. 

Herbert  1*.  Low,  Manager  for  trie  Pacific  Coast  Brancii, 

22o  Sansome  St.,  S.  F. 

Capital $1,500,000.00 

Invested  in  U.  S 534,795.72 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agents  City  Department, 
233  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OP  BA8LB.  OP  ST.  GALL.  OF  ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPiTAL 4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed S  10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital) 2,125,000 

Total  Assets  December  31,   1888 6,124,067.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,  Manager, 

306  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,  [Established  1782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

([Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  ] 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
BEO.  F.  GBAMT.  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDIEIE^A/EaTIMIIElLSrT 

GUARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission, 
office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 

for  your 


Mothers  be  sure  aud  use 
children  while  teething. 


'Mrs.  Wiaslows'  Soothing  Syrup' 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     $  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Founded  a.  d.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


W1B.  J.  LAMDERS,  flen'l  Agent,  20S  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  GO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL 15,000,000 

AGENTS: 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON.  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets.  $19,724,638.45. 

President.  HHNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  1  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBEN8. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
Mills  Buildtn     Montgomery  Street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORTCOSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furnished 
with  the  latest  improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  hest  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

fj  or  k^i>\cvj  Chester ,  ErvjC3L->=s.rsH3.^| 
Capital  paid  4j  guaranteed  33,000,000,00. 

ChasA  1*tom,  Manager. 
439  California  St.  San  Fi-aec;sja- 


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THE  two  Roumanian  ottitt,  GalaU  and  Braila,  on  the  Danube, 
were  lately  connected  by  telephone,  which  is,  like  the  tele- 
graph in  that  country,  an  institution  of  the  State.  Before  its  open- 
tog  the  ordinance  of  the  Government  for  its  use  was  published  in 
the  official  gazette,  the  principal  part  of  which  is  as  follows :  >'  A 
person  who  wants  to  have  Intercourse  with  another  by  telephone 
is  bound  to  notify  that  person  beforehand  by  letter,  telegraph  or 
otherwise."  A  Mr.  Kir  Zaridi,  in  Braiia,  dealer  in  produce,  was 
about  to  close  a  contract  for  a  supply  of  barley.  He  desired,  how- 
ever, to  learn  beforehand  the  price  of  barley  quoted  at  the  Board 
of  trade  in  Galaiz.  For  this  purpose  he  went  to  the  telephone  of- 
fice, and  after  paying  the  fee  desired  to  get  telephone  connection 
with  a  Mr.  Fastramaki,  his  correspondent  in  Galalz.  "Very 
well;  have  you  informed  Mr.  Pastramaki?"  "What  for?  He 
is  in  Galatz,  and  the  person  to  whom  I  want  to  telephone." 
<«  That  would  not  do,  sir.  Here  is  the  ordinance.  Before  you 
can  telephone  to  him  you  must  inform  him  beforehand  by  tele- 
graph, letter,  or  in  any  other  way."  ••  Nonsense!  Is  the  Govern- 
ment crazy  ?  Maybe  they  ask  me  to  travel  to  Galatz  and  inform 
htm  that  on  a  certain  day  and  hour  he  may  be  at  the  telephone 
office  to  receive  a  communication  from  me."  "  Yes,  that  would 
do,  too,"  the  official  said.  "  Mr.  Kir  Zaridi  had  to  give  up  his 
barley  deal. 

*•  Estate  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  deceased,"  is  a  peculiar  title 
for  a  law  case  so  late  as  the  year  1892,  but  a  decision  has 
just  been  rendered  which  is  reported  under  that  title.  Benjamin 
Franklin's  will,  which  was  admitted  to  probate  in  April,  1790, 
gave  in  one  paragraph  £2000  sterling,  one-half  to  the  city  of  Bos- 
ton and  one-half  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  which  sums  were  to 
be  increased  by  interest  on  the  amounts  lent  from  the  capital 
sum  to  young  married  artisans  until  the  end  of  100  years,  when 
il  was  supposed  that  the  full  amount  would  be  over  £100,000. 
Philadelphia  received  £1000  sterling,  but  the  trust  was  misman- 
aged so  that  only  $100,000  was  obtained  at  the  end  of  100  years, 
instead  of  the  sum  of  over  $600,000,  which  Franklin  had  expected. 
Certain  heirs  of  Benjamin  Franklin  sought  to  obtain  the  accumu- 
lated sum  of  money  on  the  ground  that  the  trust  wag  void.  The 
Supreme  Court  has  decided  that  the  case  was  improperly  begun 
in  the  Orphan's  Court,  and  some  other  method  of  raising 
the  question  as  to  the  validity  of  the  trust  will  have  to  bedevised 
before  a  final  decision  can  be  obtained  as  to  whether  the  accumu- 
lation of  Franklin  legacy  shall  be  given  to  bia  heirs  or  to  thepub- 
lic  purposes  for  which  he  intended  it. 

Ad  amusing  incident  happened  in  1873  when  Don  Carlos  was 
fighting  for  the  throne  of  Spain.  He  considered  the  Provinces  of 
Biscay,  Navarre  and  Catalon:a  as  conquered,  and  be  bad  the  idea 
of  creating  for  the  provinces  a  series  of  postage  stamps  bearing 
bis  effigy,  on  which  were  inscribed  the  following  words:  "  Im- 
posto  de  guerra  "  (war  tax).  He  forbade  under  penalty  of  death 
any  inhabitant  of  the  three  provinces  to  make  use  of  any  other 
postage  stamp.  Unfortunately  for  Don  Carlos,  Alphonse  XII., 
King  of  Spain,  heard  of  the  proclamation  and  decree  the  same 
thing  in  regard  to  stamps  with  his  effigy.  So  the  poor  inhabitants, 
being  menaced  on  both  sides,  very  wisely  decided  not  to  write  at 
all.     Such  things  only  happen  in  Spain! 

The  tallest  soldier  of  the  German  army  arrived  in  Dusseldorf 
the  other  day,  where  he  attracted  universal  attention.  He  is  a 
trooper  of  the  1st  Regiment  of  the  Prussian  Guards,  and  is,  ac- 
cording to  foreign  measurement,  two  metres  six  centimetres  high 
(six  feet  eight  and  a-half  inches),  and  when  he  presented  himself 
for  bis  uniform,  a  special  instrument  had  to  be  improvised  to  take 
his  measure.  By  the  Emperor's  orders,  Pritzchau  {the  soldier) 
has  been  photographed  with  the  smallest  soldier  in  the  army — 
the  Kronprinz. 

Eenan  while  traveling  alighted  at  Naples.  One  morning  a  serv- 
ant of  the  hotel  came  to  him  and  said  that,  as  she  had  heard  the 
preacher  at  the  cathedral  make  use  of  his  name  many  times  she 
would  be  thankful  if  be  would  choose  for  her  a  number  in  the 
lottery  about  to  be  drawn.  "  If  you  are  a  saint,"  said  she,  "  tbe 
number  is  sure  to  be  a  good  one;  if  you  are  a  devil  it  will  be  still 
better."  Eenan  smiled  and  chose  a  number,  but  he  never  knew 
if  the  servant  was  lucky. 

Every  housewife  who  wishes  to  have  clean  carpets  and  curtains 
should  remember  that  tbe  only  place  in  the  city  where  her  material 
can  be  cleaned  to  her  satisfaction  is  at  the  Carpet  Beating  Machine 
and  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  553-577 
Tehama  street.  The  work  of  this  firm  is  always  first-class  in  every 
particular,  for  which  reason  it  always  has  a  great  patronage. 

Your  dinner  will  not  be  the  grand  success  which  the  season 
demands,  unless  you  begin  it  with  some  of  Moraghan's  famous 
oysters.    His  are  known  as  the  best  in  the  market. 


THE    PALM    AND    THE    PINK    TREE      V.  H\,  in  Life. 


Oh,  the  English  Earl  standi  lonely. 
On  the  turf  after  Derbv  day. 

llr  ponden  ;  for  ffani  ol  money 

aw  a  v . 

lit*  smilea  u  he  dreams  ol  nn  heiress. 

win-,  fai  in  t t«<  Wmmjiv  Weat, 
His  visions  of  shopping  In  Paris, 

And  a  trousseau  marked  with  n  crest! 


A  NEST  of  tea-tables  in  Japanese  lacquer  or  bamboo  or  of  ordi- 
nary American  make,  is  very  convenient  for  afternoon  teas 
or  any  occasion  where  a  number  of  small  tables  may  be  required. 
These  nests  consist  of  five  or  six  tables,  each  one  a  trifle  lower 
and  smaller  than  the  one  which  goes  before  It,  so  that  it  fits  snugly 
under  it,  and  thus  the  whole  nest  when  fitted  together  takes  up 
no  more  room  than  the  largest  one. 


Stood    the    Test. 

Allcock's  Porous  Plasters  are  unapproachable  in  curative  prop- 
erties, rapidity  and  safety  of  action,  and  are  the  only  reliable  plasters 
ever  produced.  They  have  successfully  stood  the  test  of  over  thirty 
years'  use  by  the  public;  their  virtues' have  never  been  equalled  by 
"the  uuscruDulous  imitators  who  have  sought  to  trade  upon  the  repu- 
tation of  Allcock's  by  making  plasters  with  holes  in  them,  and 
claiming  them  to  be  "  just  as  good  as  Allcock's,"  and  tbey  stand  to- 
day indorsed  by  not  only  the  highest  medical  authorities,  but  by  mil- 
lions of  grateful  patients  who  have  proved  their  efficacy  as  a  house- 
hold remedy. 

Beware  ot  imitations,  and  do  not  be  deceived  by  misrepresenta- 
tion. Ask  for  Allcock's,  and  let  no  solicitation  or  explanation  in- 
duce you  to  accept  a  substi  tute. 


Insurance  Company. 

CAp,TAL S1 .000,000,  |  ASSETS $3,000,000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agentsln  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.1 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SANSOME  STREET, 

San   Francisco,  California. 

GEORGE  L.  BRANDER.Bnt  CHAS.  M.  BLAIR,^ 

QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

P        tlP„TT„  NEW     YOKK'        «      ™,0OO 

Capital  Paid  Up ■  3,181,763 

Assets  •••,•* l'525157 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders i,ox>,ioi 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  Montgomery  St.     General  Offlce-401  Mont's,  St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY   COMPANY 

OF    BALTIMORE    CITY. 

_     ._      ...  11,000,000.00 

CaBhCapital a  mo  000  00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL  &  BERRY,  General  Agents. 

421  California  Street. 


FIRE 


INSURE  your  property  against  FIKE  in 

The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London. 
The  Imperial  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London 

WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

pacific  Branch,   814  Sansome  St,  S.  F, 

SWAIN  &  MURDOCH:,  City  Agents. 

ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital  ■   $25,000,000  08 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office,  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL,  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892 . 


FHHJWis 


IN  spite  of  the  two-column  boom  article  published  in  a  morning 
cotemporary,  the  Potrero-avenue  extension  scheme  does  not 
seem  to  have  grown  one  whit  in  popularity.  Although  the  awful 
majesty  of  the  law  has  been  invoked,  and  the  poor  property- 
owner  has  been  informed  that  if  he  does  not  pay  the  assessment 
the  advent  of  the  new  year  will  see  that  iniquitous  tax  increased 
by  5  per  cent.,  still  the  owner  has  not  gone  down  mtohis  pocket. 
The  threat  that  on  January  11th  the  property  will  be  sold  for 
whatever  it  will  bring  to  meet  the  assessment  levied  has  not  cre- 
ated any  great  scare,  and  of  3,000  owners,  not  a  corporal's  guard 
has  thus  far  paid  anything  to  the  clean-up  fund  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  which  will  so  soon  be  only  a  nasty  memory.  Mr. 
Taber's  scheme  does  not  yet  seem  to  be  very  sure  of  consumma- 
tion. On  the  other  hand,  the  property-owners  are  organizing  and 
subscribing  to  make  a  strong  fight.  They  will  come  before  a 
new  Board,  and  the  case  will  be  a  test  of  the  good  will  of  the 
new  Supervisors,  and  will  give  them  a  chance  to  win  or  lose  the 
friendship  of  a  large  number  of  citizens.  Whatever  redress  the 
property-owners  obtain,  and  whether  redress  is  possible  or  not 
at  the  hands  of  the  new  Board,  it  is  certain  that  the  "  job"  will 
not  be  accomplished  without  a  vigorous  tight.  Of  the  enormous 
assessment  which  the  soon-to-be-discharged  Board  has  decreed 
may  be  levied,  the  ridiculous  sum  of  about  $400  has  thus  far  been 
paid  in. 

The  Federation  of  Improvement  Clubs  has  decided  to  recom- 
mend to  the  Board  of  Supervisors  the  construction  of  a  temporary 
road  from  Sixth  street  across  the  smelling  morass  to  Kentucky 
street,  so  that  during  the  construction  of  the  new  Fourth  street 
bridge,  the  works  at  the  Potrero  may  be  reached  with  as  little  in- 
convenience as  possible.  The  road  will  be  an  absolute  necessity, 
and  should  be  commenced  at  once,  as  the  many  industries  in  the 
Potrero  employing  hundreds  of  workingmen  will  be  greatly 
hampered  if  a  ready  means  of  reaching  the  district  is  not  pro- 
vided. The  great  inconvenience  occasioned  by  the  construction 
of  Kentucky  street  is  still  fresh  in  the  memory  of  those  whose 
business  takes  them-  to  South  San  Francisco. 

The  most  interesting  news  item  of  the  past  week  is  the  fact 
that  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  or  that  portion  of  it  which 
builds  and  operates  street  railroads,  has  commenced  work  on  the 
electric  road,  which,  starting  from  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets, 
will  run  out  Kentucky  and  Railroad  avenue  to  South  San  Fran- 
cisco, a  distance  of  about  three  miles.  Work  has  been  com- 
menced on  Kentucky  street  and  about  two  hundred  men  are  at 
work  tearing  up  the  road  preparatory  to  track  laying.  Another 
electric  road  is  to  be  commenced  on  January  1st  from  Mission 
and  East  streets,  running  out  the  latter  to  the  county  line,  a  dis- 
tance of  eight  miles.  Connecting  lines  are  to  be  built  to  these 
two  roads,  one  from  Solano  and  Kentucky  streets  in  the  Potrero, 
to  Sixteenth  and  Mission  streets.  This  line  will,  with  the  other 
connecting-line,  tap  a  small  residence  section,  which  the  Real 
Estate  and  Development  Company  has  been  for  months  opening 
up  by  levelling  Potrero  Hill  and  cutting  streets  through  solid 
rock.  The  second  road  of  these  connecting  lines  will  start  at 
Center  avenue  and  run  down  Kansas  to  Brannan  street,  and 
thence  on  Sixth  street  to  Mission  street. 

A  cross-town  cable  road  is  to  be  built  on  Fillmore  street,  start- 
ing at  Bay,  and  traversing  the  city  north  and  south,  will  run  out 
Church  to  Thirtieth  street.  With  the  completion  of  the  Mission 
road,  the  Page  street  cable  line  may  be  expected  to  be  put  into 
operation,  and  one  more  road  wifl  then  have  been  opened  to  the 
Park.     The  new  roads  will  he  about  twenty  miles  in  length. 

Real  estate  is  still  very  quiet,  though  the  tone  of  the  market  is 
healthy.  Those  who  have  been  waiting  forprices  to  descend  bad 
better  buy  now  or  never.  It  is  very  unlikely  indeed  that  prices 
will  go  any  lower,  and  the  spring  will,  in  all  probability  see  a 
sharp  revival  of  business,  and  the  Silurians'  chances  of  getting 
bargains  will  have  slipped  away  altogether. 

Auction  sales  are  over  for  the  year,  and  business  will  be  almost 
at  a  standstill  until  after  the  holidays. 

Those  who  can  appreciate  true  art  have  crowded  the  new  store  of 
S.  and  G.  Gump  at  113  Geary  street  during  the  week,  and  manv  have 
been  the  expressions  of  admiration  called  forth  by  the  thousands  of 
beautiful  objects  there  exhibited.  During  the  week  twelve  cases  of 
Florentine  marbles  have  been  received,  which,  with  the  fourteen  re- 
ceived the  previous  week,  makes  twenty-six  cases  of  these  magnificent 
specimens  of  the  sculptor's  art  which  the  house  now  possesses.  The 
statuary,  representative  of  ancient  and  modern  subjects,  is  beautiful 
in  conception  and  perfect  in  execution.  The  Florentine  marbles  are 
remarkable  for  their  purity,  and  nowhere  else  upon  the  coast  can 
such  magnificent  specimens  he  obtained.  The  best  Italian  sculptors 
have  contributed  to  this  collection,  which  is  the  finest  shown  in  the 
city.  All  connoisseurs  should  visit  Gump's  to  enjoy  the  sight  of  these 
statuettes. 

Japanese  ornaments  and  curios  are  now  considered  the  proper 
thing  among  the  elect.  Get  them  at  George  T.  Marsh's,  under  the 
Palace. 


"THE  WHITE   HOUSE." 

THE 

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EVER  ATTEMPTED    BY   ANY  HOUSE   IN  SAN  FKANCISCO 


We  are  now  prepared  to  show  for 
the  Holidays  the  latest  European  pro- 
ductions in  Bronzes,  Terra  Cotta, 
Sevres,  Porcelain,  Limoges  Wares, 
Dresden  Wares  and  all  the  newest 
shapes  and  decorations  in  English 
Faience. 

Rare  and  beautiful  goods  in  Galle 
Inlaid  Tables,  Faience  and  Crystal 
Vases. 

Our  stock  of  lamps  and  shades  is 
most  complete.  American  Cut  Glass 
in  all  the  newest  shapes  and  cuttings. 

Sole  agents  for  Roekwood  Pottery. 

RAPHAEL   WEILL   &   CO., 

N.   W.  Cor.   Post  arrl   Kea^nv  Sts. 


BENTS! 


We  collect  Kents  and  place  Insurance  at 
low  rates,  and  guarantee  satisfaction. 

BALDWIN  &  HAMMOND, 

Real  Estate  Agents  and  Bent  Collectors. 

10  Montgomery  St. 


CALIFORNIA  WIRE  WORKS, 

9  FREMONT  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

MANUFACTURERS    OF 

WIRE  of  all  Kinds,     WIRE  MILS,  Best  Steel 

BARBED     WIRE,  Regularly  Licensed. 

WIRE     ROPES     AND     CABLES. 

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HALLADIE'S  ENDLESS  WIRE   ROPEWAY   for  transporting 
ore  and  other  material  over  mountains  and  difficult  roads. 
Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 

BRANCEE3.— 22  Front  street,  Portland,   Or.;  201  N.  Los  Angeles  street, 
Los  Angeles,  California. 


B.  J.  WHEELER. 


J.   W.  GIRVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  A  Ladew, 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  4  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  I'.,  t  al. 


Corner  Clay  and  ansome. 


P.    .    17,  1S92. 


SAN  FRAN  D&  <>  NEWS  l.i   I  I  ER. 


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Rt'MORS  h»»rd  on  buih  fact  and  fiction  have  been  filling  the 
air  in  insurance  circles  during  tbe  past  week.  It  is  a  fact 
tbal  tbe  Northwestern  National,  of  Milwaukee,  bas  decided  not 
to  withdraw  from  tbe  P.  I.  U.  W.  8.  Duval  went  with  Alfred 
Sullman.  a  fortnight  ago  to  Milwaukee,  bnt  the  latter  gentleman 
was  «uiunjoned  home  by  tbe  serious  illness  of  his  wife,  and  Mr. 
Duval  met,  saw,  and  won  over  the  strong  willed  President  James 
to  the  compact  fold,  so  far  as  the  Pacific  Coast  is  concerned.  The 
condition  is  that  tbe  various  amendments  which  did  not  go  into 
effect  on  tbe  1st  inst.  sball  all  be  enforced  on  the  1st  prox.  With 
the  Northwestern  National  back  in  the  compact,  the  Pho?nix  and 
Home  naturally  has  no  excuse  for  enforcing  its  notice  of  with- 
drawal, and  so  is  still  in  tbe  P.  I.  U.,  which  for  the  time  being  is 
an  entirety.  There  were  meetings  of  the  compact  on  Thursday 
and  Friday,  and  both  were  warm.  One  member  said  plainly, 
"  either  these  amendments  are  to  be  enforced  or  the  P.  1.  D.  is  to 
go  out  of  existence." 

Another  rumor  which,  however,  is  authoritatively  denied,  was  to 
the  effect  that  the  Springfield  Fire  and  Marine  was  to  be  trans- 
ferred from  the  care  of  George  Easton  &  Co.  to  that  of  Mr.  Duggan 
of  Portland,  Or.  and  a  local  underwriter,  with  headquarters  at 
San  Francisco. 

A  third  rumor  is  true,  and  proves  to  have  been  founded  on  facts 
which  were  known  on  November  1st,  to  some.  The  Buffalo  Ger- 
man, for  which  George  Easton  &  Co.  were  Pacific  Coast  Agents, 
has  retired  from  the  coast,  and  the  Dickson  General  Agency  has 
re-insured  the  business. 

The  Michigan  Fire,  of  Detroit,  bas  retired  from  the  coast  al- 
together.    Okell  &  Donnell  were  the  Pacific  Coast  Agents. 

The  largest  rumor  of  all  is  denied  by  Mann  &  Wilson,  though 
there  are  those  who  say  it  is  true.  It  is  to  the  effect  that  the 
Lancashire  is  to  be  re-insured  or  absorbed  by  the  Liverpool,  Lon- 
don, and  Globe.  The  story  may  be  incorrect,  but  it  was  current 
all  week,  and  in  fact  is  the  revival  of  a  rumor  of  three  months 
ago. 

Maxwell  &  Berry,  general  agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast,  of  the 
British  America,  have  just  learned  that  H.  T.  Laurey,  general 
manager  of  that  company  at  Denver,  has  been  appointed  general 
agent  tor  the  Western  Assurance  of  Toronto,  though  the  extent  of 
his  territory  \?  not  yet  known.  It  is  just  possible  that  this  appoint- 
ment gave  rise  to  the  rumor  last  week  that  the  two  companies  were 
to  be  consolidated. 

The  P.  1.  TJ.  will  soon  move  its  offices  from  Sansome  street  to  the 
Sherwood  building,  on  the  corner  of  Battery  and  California  streets. 

Jame3  H.  Brewster,  assistant-general  manager  of  the  Scottish 
Union  and  National,  is  in  the  city  from  New  York,  and  has  been 
looking  into  the  affairs  of  the  company  with  W.  J.  Callingham,  the 
coast  agent. 

There  is  a  little  sensation  brewing  in  marine  centres.  The  Dora 
Bluhm  was  reported  some  weeks  ago  a  total  loss,  and  the  captain 
sold  the  wreck.  Captain  H.  L.  Read  was  sent  down  to  investigate 
the  matter,  and  his  last  report  shows  that  the  Mexican  government 
has  set  aside  tbe  sale  of  the  vessel  and  will  return  it  to  the  owners. 
This  is  an  apt  illustration  of  the  dangers  of  not  having  a  regular 
system  of  certificates  for  coasting  captains. 

Much  of  the  cargo  of  the  Joseph  S.  Spinney  has  been  brought  in 
and  the  wreckers  are  making  good  progress  with  the  vessel. 

The  Ben  Douran  has  been  posted.  She  is  hence  for  Europe,  is 
long  overdue,  and  has  not  been  spoken. 

Nowhere  else  can  be  found  such  beautiful  Japanese  goods  as  those 
in  the  store  of  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  under  the  Palace  Hotel. 

STOCKHOLDERS  MEETING. 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,  Decembers,  1892. 
To  the  Stockholders  of  the  Blacklock  Sandstone  Company: 

Notice  is  hereby  giveti  that  a  meeting  of  theatoukho  ders  nf  the  Blacklock 
Sandstone  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  or  the  company,  4U7-40tf  Mont- 
g  mery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal ,  at  8  o'clock  p.m.,  on  Tuesday.  the27Lh  day 
December,  a.  n.  1*9',  for  the  purpose  of  authoriziug  the  sale  of  all  the 
property  of  the  corporation  and  the  saii.-factiou  and  discharge  of  all  claims 
aud  demauds  against  the  corporation,  aud  the  raising  of  thp  meaus  neces- 
sary therefor;  aud  the  dissolution  of  the  corporation  aud  all  tr,e  proceed- 
ings to  accomplish  Mich  dissolution.  By  ordi-rof  the  President  of  the  Com- 
pany. H.  SHAINWALD,  Secretary  Biacklock  Sandotoue  Company. 

ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Bullion  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Bullion  Mining 
Company  will  be  hell  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  2J,  331  JPine 
street,  Saa  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

Thursday,  the  12th  Day  of  January.  1893,  at  the  hour  of  2  o'clock  P.  M., 
For  the  purp  >se  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  eoiue  before  the 
meetiug.    Transfer  books    will    close    on    SATURDAY,   Jauuary  7,  1893, 
at  12  o'clock  m.  _ 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  No.  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


NO  IMITATION  GOODS. 

Therefore  the  question  "is 
it  Genuine?"  is  never  raised 
concerning  any  article  pur- 
chased from 

A.  W.  STOTT, 

JEWELLER, 

3  Montgomery  St. 

(Under  Masonic  Temple.) 

DIAMONDS     and     other 

precious  stones. 
AMERICAN  and  SWISS 

WATCHES. 
And  stylish  new  designs 
GOLD      AND      SILVER 

JEWELLERY 
of  high  grade  at  surprising- 
ly low  prices. 


THE  SCIENCE 

OF 

THE  SKIN. 


/TVm£.    JtoUCIJlE, 

324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermatologist  in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  wtih  the  aid  of  Dermol  ue 
Ihe  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 

Freckles  ami  facial  blemishes  re- 
moved and  superfluous  hair  eradicated 
by  a  new  process. 

IIj.1i-  Juvigorator,  guaranteed  to 
cure  BALDNESS. 


IDEAL     COFFEE. 


This  famous  brand  of  fresh  ground  blended  coffee  is  unexcelled  for  quality 
and  delicacy  of  flavor. 


No.  1 

No.  2 

No.  3 

No.  4 

25  cents 

30  cents 

85  cents 

40  cents  per  lb 

For  sale  only  by 

RATHJEN  BROS.,  Grocers. 

21  STOCKTON  STREET. 
Sole  Agents  for  tbe  Celebrated  IDEAL  COFFEE  POT. 

CYPRESS   LAWN    CEMETERY.  _ 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  CrosB  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

:F-A.:M:iiiir     plots 

For  Pale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  uon-  ectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  ihe  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  aud  useless  expense  of  copiug,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  State  Investment  and.  Insurance  Company. 
At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Directors  of  this  Company  held  December 
13, 18J2,  a  dividend  of  fifty  cents  a  share  on  its  Capital   Stock  was  declared, 
payable  at  its  office  in  Saa  Francis  o,  on  and  nfter  December  15th. 

CHAS.  M.  BLAIK,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  December  14, 1892. 


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SJLN  FRANCISCO  NEAYS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,   1^92 


ZB^HSTIKZS.. 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  light;    Extras  $3.90(a)*4.    Superfine.  $2.60@?3.10. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping.  $1.2%;  Milling,  $LSO(0$1.32}g   per  cental 

Barley  is  dull;  Brewing,  &5@90c.  Feea,  77^c.@30c.  per  ctl. 

Oats.  Milling,  |L85@91*W3  £ ;  Feed,  W.253W1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  fl.lu:  Yellow,  $l.i'5:#H.2)per  ctl. 

Rye  is  quiet,  good  demand,  $1.12>,2$$1.15>£.     Cement,  $2.00@$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $10.50:  Oats,  *7(#*10;  Alfalfa.  $8@|9.50. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $13.50@$H  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.UOg>$2. 40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  60c.@7-5C.  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  30e.@S2He.;  Fair,  16c.@17c:  Eastern,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@10c.    Eggs,  free  supply.  3oe.@40c. 

Houey,  Comb,  10c.($12c.:  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  90c@fl.    Beeswax  is  steady,  at  23c.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  7c@7J.-2C.      Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  Uc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  <o%a. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  15c.@21c.  for  C.  A.    Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  18c.@20c. 

Quicksilver  is  nomiual  at  $4 1.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stock  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    White,  4J..£®5%c. 

Shipments  of  produce  and  other  nidse.  to  New  York  by  steamer 
via  Cape  Horn  continues  in  order,  and  form  a  marked  feature  of 
the  trade  of  the  port.  The  ship  Louisiana,  hence  on  the  6tb  inst., 
cleared  by  John  Rosenfeld's  Sons.  Her  cargo  embraced  238.889 
lbs.  Beans,  10,223  ctls.  Barley,  3,269  cs.  Canned  Goods,  13,359  cs. 
Salmon,  127.357  gals.  Wine,  etc. 

Grain  and  other  marts  are  exceedingly  quiet,  nor  do  we  look 
for  much  improvement  until  after  the  holidays. 

Exports  for  the  period  under  review  include  the  cargo,  per  P. 
M.  8.  S.  China,  to  the  Orient,  say  to  Hongkong,  4, 365  bbls. Flour, 
14,480  lbs.  Ginseng,  10,300  lbs.  Pearl  Barley,  and  other  mdse., 
value  $64,687.  To  Japan,  2,024  bbls.  Flour,  etc.,  value  $19,000. 
To  Manila,  500  lbs.  Flour,  etc. 

The  China  steamers  are  running  light  for  outward  cargoes,  in 
fact  some  of  the  last  departures  hence  loaded  up  with  clay  for 
ballast. 

The  Coal  market  exhibits  increased  activity,  the  cool  weather 
since  the  late  heavy  rains  causing  an  increased  local  demand  for 
household  use. 

For  Mexico— Per  schooner  C.  T.  Hill,  52,000  ft.  Lumber,  500 
bbls.  Cement  and  Merchandise,  value  $5,736. 

Central  America  Coffee — The  Br.  steamer  Grandholm,  15  days 
from  Corinto,  brought  up  1,122  bags  to  Otia,  McAllister  &  Co. 

Hops — It  is  reported  that  a  London  house  recently  secured  by 
purchase  17  car-loads  of  Mendocino  Hops  at  or  about  21c.  This 
is  said  to  be  the  largest  single  shipment  ever  made  from  this 
State.  Other  small  purchases  have  been  effected  within  the  range 
of  20c  to  22c.     The  spot  market  is  by  no  means  active. 

Hawaii — Exports  per  W.  H.  Dimond  to  Honolulu,  19,985  cases 
Rolled  Barley  and  Merchandise,  value  $9,656.  To  Kahulul  per 
Anna,  16,855  cases  Rolled  Barley  and  Merchandise,  value  $13,- 
000.  The  Monowai  for  Honolulu,  on  the  10th  inst.,  had  General 
Merchandise,  value  $38,000. 

For  the  Colonies— The  steamer  Monowai  carried:  To  Sydney, 
1,084  Doors,  54,000  ft.  Lumber  and  Merchandise,  value  $20,800. 
To  Melbourne,  649  cases  Salmon  and  Merchandise,  value  $7,063. 
To  Adelaide,  2,075  lbs.  Dried  Fruit  and  Merchandise,  value 
$6,400.  To  Apia,  per  same,  Merchandise,  value  $1,506.  To  Bris- 
bane, 396  cases  Canned  Fruit, -300  cases  Salmon  and  Merchan- 
dise, value  $4,805  To  Dunnedin,  250  cases  Salmon  and  Mer- 
chandise, value  $2,637.  To  other  ports  in  the  Colonies,  Mer- 
chandise, value  $3,000. 

Treasure  shipments  to  the  Orient  per  steamer  China  ageregated 
$628,086.  Of  this  $395,806  went  to  Hongkong,  $67,780  to  Japan, 
and  $164,500  Silver  Bullion  to  Bombay. 

Riverside  Navel  Oranges  are  now  arriving  quite  freely  from  the 
South.  The  demand  is  light,  as  they  do  not  seem  to  be  fully  ripe. 
The  local  market  is,  however,  well  supplied  with  the  Mikado 
fruit  from  Japan. 

Apples  are  very  plentiful  and  cheap,  selling  as  low  as  $1  per 
box  for  good,  sound  fruit. 

The  P.  M.  S.  steamer  Peru,  twenty-four  and  a  half  days  from 
Hongkong,  via  Yokohama  fourteen  and  a  half  days,  arrived  in 
port  on  the  13th  inst.,  having  but  half  a  cargo,  and  for  leading 
items  thereof  were  2,130  bags  Sugar,  500  bales  Hemp,  175  bales 
Calcutta  Gunnies.  993  rolls  Matting,  1,130  cases  Nut  Oil,  775  pkgs. 
Tea,  740  mats  Rice  and  8,000  pkgs.  Merchandise.  Also  in  transit 
overland,  1,680  pkgs.  Raw  Silk,  1,226  pkgs.  Tea,  etc. 

Barley  for  Chili — The  German  bark  Deutchland,  hence  on  the 
13th  inst.,  carried  20,045  ctls.  Barley,  value  $19,000. 

Among  the  restaurants  of  San  Francisco,  none  have  a  higher 
place  in  popular  favor  than  the  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213 
Sutter  street,  which  for  years  has  had  the  patronage  of  the  elite  of  the 
city.  It  is  centrally  located,  and  therefore  convenient  to  ladies  out 
shopping,  and  is  also  very  popular  for  refreshments  after  the  theatres. 
It  is  very  popular  for  dinner  parties. 


BANK    OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA. 

Incorporated  by  Royal  Charter. 

CAPITAL  PAID  UP $3,000,000 

RESERVE  FUND 1,250,000 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansome  Streets. 

HEAD  OFFICE 60  LOMBARD  STREET,   LONDON. 

BRANCHES— Victoria,  Vancouver,   British  Columbia;   Portland.  Oregon; 

Seattle  and  Tacoma,  Washington. 
SUB-BRANCHES— Kamloops,  Nanaimo,  Nelson,  New  Westminster,  British 

Columbia. 
This  Bank  transacts  a  General  Banking  Business.  Accounts  opened  sub- 
ject to  Check,  and  Special  Deposits  received.  Commercial  Credits  granted 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Approved  Bills  discounted  and  ad- 
vances made  on  good  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  at  current  rates 
upon  its  Head  Office  and  Branches,  and  upon  its  Agents,  as  follows: 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  and  CANADA— Bank  of  Montreal:  LIVERPOOL 
—North  and  South  Wales  Bank;  SCOTLAND— British  Linen  Company;  IRE- 
LAND—Bank  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  SOUTH  AMERICA— London  Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America:  CHINA  and  JAPAN— Chartered  Bank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AU8TRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bauk  of 
Australasia,  Commercial  Banking  Company  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  Chartered  Bank  and  National  Bank  of  Australasia;  DEM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (Wei-t  Indies)—  Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

J332  California  Street,  Corner  Webb  Street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

Deposits,  June  30,  1893    $25,890,653  OO 

Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus 1,533, 136  OO 

DIRECTORS. 

U-)9rt  Miller,  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomaa 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daniel  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery, 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

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


THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 


JS.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Busb  Streets. 

Established  1870.  U.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) $1,600,000 

SURPLUS S600.000  |   UNDIVIDED    PROFITS (150,000 

S.  G.  MURPHY. President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN   Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT..  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass  t  Cashier 

DIBECTOBS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins.  8.  G.  Murphy, 

N   Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moflitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT   DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  ?5  to  ?100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  spe  laity  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.m.  to  6  p.m. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  526  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
QUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RE8ERVE  FUND $    1,646.000  OO. 

Deposits  Ju  y   1  ,   1892 ...     28,776,697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOT  TIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRUSE 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVIN6S  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,   8.  G.  MURPHY  Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMP8QN,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cor.  Sansome  and.  Sutter  Sts. 

ubscried  Capital $2,600,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  St.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Polssoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.   Com 
mercial  and  Travelers'  Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized ?6,000,000  I  Paid  up *1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 3  Angel  I  .ourt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seli  rran  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  goneral  banking  t  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
worlu.    Jeuds  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchango 
and  bullion.  IGN.  STEINHART    j  Man.„„ 

P.N.  LILIENTHAL.l  """""rers. 
A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  Cashier 


17,  1892 


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'<  pvvKK  there  is  Mr.  Deckerdow,  Inventor  "(  Deckerdow's  lmir 

\J  rcnower.  and  with  him  i-  Domepate.  inatructor  of 

tinnier  College.*1     'I    shouldn't    tliink  the 

«or  voold  find  anything  congenial  in  auch  company. "    ''Oh. 

•  he,  though  '  He  is  Urytns  t<>  borrow  some  money  [ram  him.1 

—Life. 

■  I'll  ki*-  you  for  the  one."  he  said, 

•■  Yon  love  the  most  outside  fit  me." 
The  maiden  blushed  and  bung  her  head. 
*'  I  love  the  human  race,"  said  *he. 

— —His  Little  Blip.— iSfc  [engaged  f-r  an  evening  party)— It  is  not 

quite  time  for  U9  to  start  yet.  is  it,  Mr.  Spoonamore?     lie — No.  Miss 

bnt    I   am   always   early.    The   early  bird,  you  know,  always 

catches  the — er—  the— the— er — that  comet.  Miss  Daisy,  they  say,  can 

be  seen  quite  distinctly  with  a  good  opera  glass.  ■ — Chicago  Tribune. 

^— "  We  went  skating  on  Christmas  day.  I  tried  hard  to  gel  him 
to  propose;  but  there  we  sat.  and  though  he  saw  I  knew  what  he  was 
thinking  of.  he  just  remained  silent  until  I  hit  uoon  an  idea."  "  What 
was  it'.'"  "  I  dug  my  skates  with  some  force  into  the  slippery  sur- 
face and  asked  him  to  notice  how  easy  it  was  to  break  the  ice." 

— Judge. 
Mrs.  lluckstep(atthe  reception) — I  am  surprised  to  see  you  look- 
ing so  thin,  Mr.  Leezer.  My  son  George  sp  ike  of  you  the  other  day 
as  feeling  quite  rugged.  Mus  Huckslep  (so  artlessly) — Why,  no, 
mamma!  Don't  you  recollect?  What  George  said  was  that  Mr.  Lee- 
zer told  him  he  was  feeling  pretty  rocky.  — Chicago  Tribune. 

Be — Kitty.  I've  heard  it  said  that  a  kiss  without  a  moustache 

is  like  an  egg  without  salt;  is  that  so?  She — Well,  really.  Mr.  Smooth- 
face,  I  don  t  know— I  can't  tell— for  in  all  my  life  1  never —    Be — 

Now,  now.  Miss  Kitty  !    She Never  ate  an  egg  without  salt. 

—Puck. 

Sea-sick  Passenger — What  is  that  person  doing  on  deck  above 

my  cabin?  Wife— Heaving  the  lead.  S.  S.  P.  (resignedly)— Well,  if 
lead  comes  up  with  some  people  I  should  not  complain  because  the 
light  things  I  eat  will  not  stay  down.  — Life. 

He  practiced  at  figures  and  w.lting,  they  say, 

When  a  lad,  in  the  old  village  schoolroom ; 
And  he's  now  in  receipt  of  five  dollars  per  day 
For  chalking  up  odds  in  a  pool-room.  — Puck. 

^— "  My  hired  man  was  kicked  in  the  stomach  by  a  horse,  stung 
by  a  swarm  of  hornets  and  ran  over  by  a  mowing  machine,  one  day 
and  died  the  next.  "  My!  What  was  the  cause  of  his  death?" 
"  Nervous  prostration."  — Cleveland  Town  Topics. 

— "  This  is  the  fourth  time  I've  fined  you  for  drunkenness,  pris- 
oner," said  the  Judge.  "Yes,  your  Honor,"  was  the  reply,  "I 
think  the  Court  ought  to  issue  commutation-books  for  men  likeme." 

— Judge. 

"Do  you  think  Charlie  loves  me,  mamma?"  asked  the  fair 

young  girl,  anxiously.  "Certainly  he  does.  Haven't  you  noticed 
that  he  always  wears  the  gloves  you  bought  him  as  a  Christmas  pres- 
ent, though  they  are  two  sizes  too  large?"  "■ — Judge. 

Small—  Why  are  you  so  anxious  to  keep  on  the  right  side  of 

that  newspaper  man?  Greathead—  He  is  a  specialist,  and  I  am  work- 
ing him  for  a  good  send-off.  Small—  What  is  his  specialty?  Great- 
head—  Obituaries.  —Puck. 

"  My  love  is  like  the  red,  red  rose," 

I  sing.    You  ask  me  whv,  fair  querist? 
Because,  sweetheart,  like  Jacqueminots, 
You  are  infinitely  dearesti 

ft Ripps— Who  is  that  impertinent  chap  handing  all  the  pretty 

girls  his  card  after  they  cross  the  muddy  street?  A  hosiery  drum- 
mer?   Dipps— Oh,  no,  he's  the  Blaek  Croak  manager! 

Landlord  -1  had  the  pleasure  of  hearing  you  sing  as  I  came  up 

the  stairs,  Madame  Highsi.  Diva— Very  well,  Mr.  de  Lease.  I'll 
deduct  five  dollars  from  my  next  rent  cheque.  —Puck. 

She— Why  do  vou  call  him  Baron?    Me— Because  his  ways  are 

so  baronial.  She— Then  they  ought  to  call  poor  dear  grandpapa  Col- 
•  onel — his  ways  are  so  colonial.  — Life. 

—Coogan  (below)— S&y ,  Murphyl"  Murphy  'above)— Phwat  do  yez 
want?    Coogan— Jist  t'ro'w  down  a  bhrick  till  Oi  fill  up  me  hod. 

— Judge. 

Chappie— If  you  want  to  have  an  air  of  distinction,  you  must 

look  a  little  tired.     Clara— Oh,  that's  easy,  while  I'm  with  you. 

— Life. 

Mr.  Addles— J  should  like  to  know  your  real  circulation.   Editor 

—Are  you  an  advertiser  or  a  tax  assessor?  —Judge. 

She— IS  you  had  never  met  me  would  you  have  loved  me  just 

the  same?    He  (convincingly)—  More.  — Life. 

Van  Gilding— Could  you  marry  a  man  who  is  your  inferior? 

Prunella— I  suppose  I  shall  have  to. —Life. 

One  of  the  best  tailors  in  the  city  is  Colonel  J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12 
Post  street.  His  suits  are  not  equalled  by  those  of  any  other  estab- 
lishment in  town,  for  he  is  a  master  of  the  sartorial  art,  and  always 
does  his  work  in  an  admirable  manner.  He  makes  a  specialty  of 
uniforms  and  regalias,  and  does  a  large  business  with  all  uniformed 
societies. 


T"  '!  tin-  Nswa  l.i  i  hi:  who  are  contem- 

plating a  trip  to  the  Bait,  ace  the  advantages  ol  • 

tllf    UHIOB     I'm  ill.         It    ll    tl ily  j niiiiin 

man  Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Can  and  1  lining  furs 
rroni  San  Francisco  lo  Chli  '     Eiout  i  nange.    i 

only  three  and  one-half  days  from  Ban  I  to  Chi- 

and  only  four  and  one-hall  days  to  New  York  or 
Boston, 
livery  Thursday  a  Tourial  Bxounion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 

line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and   Boston,  making iker 

d  two  davs  quicker  time  to  Boston  man  other 

excursion   lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  ami  fun  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  i   Montgomery  street,  Baa  Francl  bo, 

D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

Laundry  Farm  is  fast  becoming  one  of  the  most  popular  pleasure 

resorts  in  the  vicinity  of  the  city.    It  is  visited  daily  bv  many  i pie, 

who  find  great  pleasure  in  its  many  beauties.  It  is  reached  by  way 
ol  the  California  Railway,  and  is  only  an  hour  and  fifteen  minute's 
from  this  city  and  forty  minutes  from  Oakland. 


B-A-ZtSTICS. 


The  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  is  the  most  popular  restaurant  in  the  city  among  people  who 
enjoy  good  dinners.    It  enjoys  the  patronage  of  the  elite. 


BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  83,000,000  00 

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Undivided  Profits- (July  1st,  1890) 3.275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

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Irving  F.  Moulton,  2nd  Assistant  Cashier. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

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The  Bank  has  AgencleB  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
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This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
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all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

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J.    L  N.  3HEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  '.Vm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


&M® 


*s  TACK  AND  JILL"  (Second  Edition).— This  ia  a  perfect  gift- 
\J  book,  iu  conception,  in  literary  merit,  in  graceful  illustra- 
tion (by  Elizabeth  Curtis),  in  typography  and  paper  and  in  bind- 
ing. AH  are  excellent.  It  is  worth  having  intrinsically,  it  is  sure 
to  rejoice  the  heart  of  the  recipient.  By  buying  it,  you  are  aid- 
ing to  swell  the  income  and  resources  of  that  useful  institution, 
"  The  Boys'  Free  Library  and  Reading  Rooms,"  a  »  happy- 
thought"  annex  to  the  Free  Kindergarten,  at  64  Silver  street, 
San  Francisco.  Though  it  is  but  a  paraphrase  of  the  old  nursery 
rhyme,  it  covers  132  pages.  Mr.  W.  E.  Brown,  of  this  city,  is  the 
author.  By  his  rendering,  the  rhyme  has  as  much  meaning  as 
Lord  Burleigh's  shake  ot  the  head  in  the  "Critic."  We  won't 
re-tell  the  tale,  but  as  evidence  of  the  author's  elegance  of  style, 
let  us  quote  stanzas  xvi.  and  xvn. : 
XVI. 
Jack  takes  the  hand  she  offers  him. 

A  hand  ungloved,  and  soft  and  warm, 
He  presses  it  with  earnest  "  vim," 
And  gazes  on  that  lovely  form. 
XVII. 
He  puts  his  arm  around  her  waist, 
And  places  something  on  her  lips — 
Something  delicious  to  the  taste — 
And  more  delicious  as  he  sips. 
We  shall  not  be  surprised  if   it  be   our  pleasurable  task,  in  the 
near  future,  to  welcome  the  twenty-second   edition.     Published 
and  for  sale  by  Wm.  Doxey,  San  Francisco;  price,  $2  50. 

"  Atlina  "  is  a  most  dainty  volume  for  a  boudoir  or  drawing-room. 
The  theme,  poetically  rendered,  suggested  itself  to  the  gifted  author- 
ess, Mrs.  M.  B.  M.  Toland,  of  this  city,  on  reading  Plato's  dialogue, 
Tiuiasus;  and  Atlina,  the  heroine  of  the  work  under  review,  is  marie 
the  heiress  to  the  throne  of  the  Floating  Isle,  being  all  that  was  left 
of  the  lost  continent  of  Atlantis,  mentioned  by  Placo.  Atlina  is 
wooed  by  one  Diotheus,  whose  name  appears  in  no  classical  diction- 
ary, so  we  suppose  that  he  has  been  created  by  poet's  license;  he, 
coming  irom  Greece,  forthwith  wins  her.  Then  sprites  sing,  ''Ripple 
dipple,  sever  waVes  with  rhapsody;  Lightly,  sprightly,  ever  laugh 
in  gladsome  glee;  Waving, laving,  brightly,  kindest  welcome  bring; 
Proving,  loving  rightly,  welcome  to  our  King." 

The  book  is  embellished  with  artistic  photogravure  reproductions 
of  drawings  by  the  artists  to  whom  the  authoress  gratefully  dedicates 
her  work,  namely :  H.  R.  Bloomer.  F.  S.  Church,  Frederick  Dielman, 
F.  V.  Du  Mond,  A.  F.  .laccaci,  Francis  C.  Jones,  J.  H.  Twatchman 
and  J.  Alden  Weir.  They  are  certainly  the  best  specimens  of  photo- 
gravures that  we  can  recall— immense  credit  is  due  to  the  publishers 
for  the  mechanical  skill  displayed  in  their  production.  Also,  inter- 
spersed through  the  text  are  numerous  decorative  designs,  printed 
in  pale  terra-cotta  and  ocean-green  tints,  thus  making  the  book  a 
very  pretty  one.  We  regret  that  the  writer  did  not  introduce  more 
of  the  legendary  lore  that  enhaloes  both  Atlantis  and  Poseidon,  its 
protecting  deity,  but,  doubtless,  wiih  a  second  edition  this  may  be 
expected.  No  expense  has  been  spared  in  making  the  book  a  perfect 
"  edition  de  luxe,"  and  all  concerned  deserve  the  most  hearty  felicita- 
tions on  the  result.  [Published  by  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.,  and  for 
sale  bv  Joseph  A.  Hoffmann,  207  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
Price  $2.50. 


"The  Witch  Hypnotizer  "  was  amongst  us  doing  good  by 
stealth,  by  peddling  canaries,  if  «we  may  believe  Mrs.  Lena  A. 
Maher,  the  compiler  of  this  strange  little  book,  which  seems  to 
be  a  sort  of  extended  tract,  as  copious  extracts  of  Biblical  texts 
are  sandwiched  between  nearly  every  page  of  (can  we  call  it?) 
the  narrative.  It  has  an  attractive  cover  in  boards,  and  is  only 
forty-two  pages  long.  The  witch,  who  was  bred  and  born  and 
died  in  this  city,  had  an  unsatisfied  longing  to  convert  the  Czar 
of  Russia.  If  it  will  not  do  good  the  book  cannot  do  any  barm. 
It  has  been  printed  for  Mrs.  Maber  by  the  publishers,  The  Ban- 
croft Company,  San  Francisco. 

Lippincott' s  Magazine  for  this  month,  apart  from  its  pi&ce  de  re- 
sistance, "Pt-arce  Anderson's  Will,"  contains  a  Chinese  idyll,  by 
Mrs.  Ella  Sterling  Cummings,  of  this  city.  It  may  be  a  true  tale; 
the  four  illustrations  seem  true  to  life,  but  the  last  part  must  be 
an  effort  of  imagination.  We  understand  that  this  tale  of  pages, 
entitled  "An  Honest  Heathen."  was  accepted  by  L'ppincott's  six 
years  ago,  and  has  only  now  appeared  in  print.  The  adven  ures 
of  Wong  Ning  in  California  are  of  no  exciting  order;  the  tale  is 
rather  flabby,  of  a  missionary  type,  and  of  the  class  called  "goody- 
goody."  The  style  is  loose — by  no  means  as  good  as  the  present 
work  of  Mrs.  Cummings. 

"Virginia  Randall"  is  a  paper-bound  fifty  cent  novel,  No.  55 
of  the  Madison  Square  Series,  issued  monthly,  by  G  W.  Dilling- 
ham of  New  York.     It  is  a  love  tale  by  Richard  B.  Kimball. 


"Life  of  Jesus,"  by  Joseph  Ernnst  Renan.— This  is  a  trans- 
lation of  the  world-famed  book,  "  Vie  de  J  sus,"  forming  part  of 
the  series  of  Renan's  "Origines  du  Ckristianisms,"  which  beginning 
in  1863,  with  the  "Vie  de  Jesus  "  was  continued  till  1881,  thus; 
Les  Apotres,  1866,  St.  Paul,  1867,  V Antichrist,  1873;  Les  Evangiles, 
1877;  L'Eglise  Chretienne,  1879;  and  Marc  Aurele,  1881. — Consider- 
ing the  beauty  of  diction  in  the  original,  which  is  a  French  classic, 
the  present  production  is  unworthy  in  its  style  of  paper,  printing, 
and  binding.  It  is  called  cheap,  but  it  is,  we  think,  very  dear  at 
the  price,  50  cents.  It  deserves  better  handling.  We  observe, 
too,  that  this  translation,  must  have  been  from  an  early  edition. 
Our  edition  of  the  original  is  the  seventeenth,  published  in  Paris, 
1882,  which  gives  a  most  interesting  preface  of  31  pages  to  the 
thirteenth  edition.  This  is  absent  in  this  cheap  translation. 
From  that  preface  one  learns  that  very  little  change  was  made  in 
the  first  twelve  editions.  Renan  afterwards  reviewed  and  cor- 
rected his  work  with  the  greatest  care;  for  the  four  years  that 
elapsed  between  the  publication  of  the  first  and  thirteenth  editions. 
Renan  worked  incessantly  to  ameliorate  the  book.  He  also  pro. 
ceeds  to  answer  his  various  critics,  explaining  why  he  notices 
some,  and  passes  by  others.  Renan  was  a  sceptic  as  to  miracles, 
though  he  was  no  athiest,  as  he  dedicates  his  work  to  bis  dead 
sister,  "reposing  on  God's  bosom."  This  sister,  he  tells  us,  was 
with  him  when,  in  1860-1-2,  he  was  sent  on  a  scientific  mission 
to  Syria.  While  he  was  writing  his  manuscript  she  sat  by  his 
side,  read  every  page  and  then  copied  it  for  the  publishers,  until 
at  last  "  the  wing  of  death  struck  them  both."  Both  caught 
malignant  fever,  "in  the  land  of  Adonis  near  St.  Byblos,  and  the 
"  sacred  waters  where  the  women  of  the  ancient  mysteries  used 
to  mingle  their  tears."  When  Renan  recovered  consciousness, 
his  beloved  sister  Henriette  was  dead  and  buried.  At  the  time 
Vie  de  Jesus  was  published  Renan  was  professor  of  Hebrew,  in 
the  College  of  France.  Yet  because  of  that  book  he  was  dis- 
missed. In  1870,  he  was  re-instated  in  that  office.  Those  who 
desire  an  antidote  to  Renan,  may  read  with  profit,  Professor  J. 
Tullock's  book  "Christ  of  the  Gospels,'1  published  by  Macmillan,  in 
1864.  The  work  under  notice  is  published  by  G.  W.  Dillingham, 
of  New  York;  the  translation  having  been  made  by  Chas.  E. 
Wilbour;  price  50  cents. 

"Is  This  True?"  is  the  nastiest  and  most  nauseating  volume 
of  meretricious  balderdash  that  it  has  been  our  hard  lot  to  have 
to  wade  through  for  a  long  while.  It  pretends  to  be  a  true 
sketch  of  New  York  society.  It  is  only  tit  for  the  gutter;  the 
one  creditable  thing  about  it  is  that  no  publisher  could  be  found 
to  let  his  name  appear  on  the  paper  cover  or  the  title-page.  The 
name  of  the  authoress  we  withhold  out  of  charity,  as  she  will, 
we  trust,  soon  regret  that  she  ever  penned  so  disgusting  an 
effusion.  She  is  cursed  with  the  incurable  vice  of  praising  her- 
self; and  has  the  execrable  taste  of  referring  by  name  to  her  book 
at  pages  43.J5,  126,  132,  149,  170,  189,  in  fact  "partout,"  forgetting 
that  self-praise  is  no  recommendation,  and  that  it  is  the  worst 
possible  "form"  to  attempt  it  in  the  text  of  the  book  itself.  She 
occasionally  uses  French  words  which  are  hardly  ever  printed 
correctly. 

"Love's  Delirium"  is  a  translation  of  a  German  nineteenth 
century  love  tale,  of  Heinz  Tovote  by  Hettie  E.  Miller.  "Name- 
less Love  or  the  Roger  Mansion  Tragedy,"  is  a  translation  of  a 
French  tale  of  Charles  Lomon  by  Alexina  Lorager.  "A  Cardinal 
Sin"  is  also  by  the  same  translator  from  the  original  work  of 
Eugene  Sue.  Of  these  three,  the  last  has  most  merit  as  a  work 
of  fiction.  All  are  of  ephermal  interest  and  should  not  be  left 
where  children  are;  they  can  do  no  good  to  any  one,  but  may 
serve  to  while  away  the  monotony  of  a  railway  journey.  Tbey 
are  clearly  printed,  bound  in  paper,  and  all  belong  to  the  so-styled 
"Idylwild  Series,"  issued  weekly,  by  Morrill,  Higgins  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago. 

Tne  Mikado's  kingdom  has  surrendered  its  greatest  art  treasures 
to  stock  the  shelves  in  the  store  of  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  under  the 
Palace  Hotel. 


FINE  ART  AUCTIONEERS, 

110  M0ATG0J1E1IV  STREET. 


HOLIDAY   GOODS 


AT  AUCTION 

A  rare  chance  to  purchase  Holiday  Presents  at  your  own  price. 

OVER     $100,000     WOBTH 

Of  Japanese  Curios,  Fine  French  Novelties,  Parisian  Opera  Glasses, 
Bisque  and  Terra  Cotta  Figures,  etc. 

SALES  DAILY  AT  II  A.   M.  and  8  P.   M. 

Chairs  provided  for  ladies,  who  are  specially  invited.    Sale  is  per- 
emptory.   No  reserve  or  limit. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


>\N  n;\\<  tS<  0  SEWS  II  III  i; 


Till'  novelty  of  the  season  in  walking  gloves,  to  be  worn  with 
tailor-made  suits,  is  a  glace  kid  glove  of  red  tan,  with  what  is 
called  a  "welted"  back  with  "drawn"  seams.  A  "drawn"  seam 
differs  from  a  "pique"  seam  in  the  fact  that  the  two  edges  are 
drawn  together  on  the  outside  and  stitched,  both  edges  showing; 
while  in  a  ••pique"  seam  one  edge  overlaps  the  other  and  the 
seam  is  thus  stitched  in  ptace.  For  ordinary  wear,  the  suede 
glove  remains  the  favorite  choice  this  season,  as  it  was  the  last. 
It  is  chosen  in  dark  tan,  grey  and  other  colors,  to  contrast  with 
she  costume,  rather  than  to  match  it.  For  extra  warmth  and  to 
protect  the  evening  glove  from  being  soiled,  a  mitten  is  usually 
drawn  over  it  when  going  to  and  from  an  entertainment.  Mit- 
tens of  black  silk  and  chevrette  gloves,  lined  with  Angora  wool, 
are  chosen  when  especially  warm  handwear  is  desired. 

The  crystals  and  stones  of  the  Ural  Mountains  have  long  been 
famous  among  curio-hunters.  Perfect  spheres  of  smoky 
crystal  or  clear  white  crystal  are  now  made  from  these  stones. 
No  crystal  ball,  however,  is  quite  equal  to  the  Japanese  spheres 
of  polished  crystal  still  to  be  found  in  some  of  the  Oriental  stores. 
The  ancient  proof  of  a  perfectly  flawless  crystal  with  the  Japan- 
ese was  to  drop  it  in  water,  when  it  became  invisible.  A  crystal 
pure  enough  to  bear  this  test  would  bring  a  very  high  price,  and 
these  are  the  property  only  of  princely  owners  of  costly  curios. 
Exceedingly  pretty  crystals  of  moderate  size,  such  as  bring  ?15 
and  $20  in  the  shops,  have  an  imperfection,  but  so  slight  as  to  be 
invisible  to  the  caked  eye.  A  perfectly  flawless  one  of  the  same 
size  would  bring  ten  times  as  much. 

Curious  centrepieces  of  old  Dutch  silver  to  hold  flowers  are 
furnished  with  branches  of  three  candelabra  at  either  end. 
They  may  be  used  for  either  fruit  or  flowers.  All  this  silver  is 
oxidized  to  give  it  the  hue  of  antique  silver  which  has  been 
stored  away  unpolished  for  years.  Altogether,  it  has  none  of  the 
bright  polished  look  for  which  all  the  silver  and  metal  work 
about  the  houses  of  the  dames  of  New  Amsterdam  were  famous, 
if  we  may  believe  the  "veritable"  chronicles  of  those  days.  Cer- 
tainly when  considered  merely  as  tableware,  this  new  "antique" 
silver  has  anything  but  a  cleanly  look. 

Winter  petticoats  are  now  being  in  a  very  great  measure  super- 
ceded by  knickerbockers  in  London,  and  many  ladies  when  order- 
ing a  new  walking  dress  have  a  pair  of  knickerbockers  of  the 
same  material  or  in  fine  serge  sent  with  it.  They  render  walking 
far  less  fatiguing  than  the  heavy  winter  petticoats.  Each  peti- 
coat  not  only  adds  to  the  weight  of  the  dress,  but  also  impedes 
the  movement  of  the  legs  by  constantly  pressing  against  them  in 
the  act  of  walking.  That  is  one  reason  why  girls,  when  walking 
with  their  brothers,  become  fatigued  so  much  sooner  than  boys 
do.  With  serge  knickerbockers  fatigue  is  avoided  without  any 
diminution  of  warmth. 

Where  there  are  several  windows  in  a  bedroom,  a  pretty 
effect  may  be  had  by  draping  a  dressing  table  with  the  same 
material  as  the  curtains  of  the  windows  and  placing  it  within  the 
window  recess,  with  a  mirror  slightly  inclined  against  a  back- 
rest. This  method  of  arranging  a  toilet  table  gives  a  very  good 
light,  and  if  the  window  sashes  are  covered  with  white  muslin,  it 
is  quite  protected  from  outside  view.  A  kitchen  table  is  very 
easy  to  cover  with  chintz  for  such  a  purpose. 

Natural  black  fox,  one  of  the  most  costly  of  furs  next  to  Rus- 
sian sable,  shares  with  sable  the  honor  of  being  the  Court  fur  of 
Russia.  This  fur  is  far  more  valuable  than  that  of  silver  fox,  to 
which  it  is  closely  allied.  The  rare  specimens  of  genuine  black 
fox  that  are  caught  are  always  somewhat  tipped  with  silver,  only 
the  fur  at  the  neck  and  down  the  neck  being  pure  black.  The 
specimens  of  inexpensive  black  fox  in  the  market  are  dyed  fur. 

The  young  Duchess  de  Morny  recently  appeared  at  the  Opera 
in  a  long  trained  gown  of  Venetian  Point  superbly  draped  over 
purplish  violet  velvet.  Showers  of  violets  fell  from  her  belt  of 
antique  silver  work,  and  she  held  in  her  hand  a  gigantic  bouquet 
of  the  same  fragrant  flowers. 


Cinnamon  is  the  favorite  brown  this  year.  It  looks  particu- 
larly well  trimmed  with  fur  or  smartened  up  with  a  colored  waist- 
coat. 


The  best  tall  hat  of  the  season  is  the  "  make  "  having  the  most 
noticeable  bell  crown  and  the  most  pronounced  wide  curl  brim. 

Slippers  laced  with  ribbon  to  imitate  a  sandal  effect  are  worn 
with  empire  gowns. 

Suitable  Holiday  Presents,  from  50  cents  upwards,  at  Nathan, 
Dohrmann  &  Co's,  122-132  Sutter  st.,  below  Kearny  st. 


Special  and  Exclusive  Novelties    in 

Silks,  Fancy  Dress  Goods, 
Jackets,  Cloaks,  Gloves,  Laces,  Fans, 
Parasols,  Neckwear,  Hosiery,  Initial  Handker- 
chiefs, Purses,  Boston  Bags, 
Children's  Coats,  etc. 


Exceedingly  Cou;  pric;^. 


ISTAn  early  inspection  is  cordially  invited. 

By  Samples  sent  free.  Mailorders  promptly  executed. 
Goods  delivered  free  in  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley,  San 
Rafael,  Tiburon,  8ausalito,  San  Quentin,  Mill  Valley,  Boss 
Station  and  Blithedale. 


Building. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND   MCALLISTER  STS. 


Thousands  of  delighted  ladies 
have  vicited  my  parlors.  Can  I 
not  see  you  this  week  ?  You  can 
learn  many  of  the  serrets  of  pre- 
serving aud  beautifying  the 
complexion. 

MRS.  NETTIE  HARRISON, 

26   GEARY  STREET, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


LOLA 
MONTEZ 

CREME 

The    Skin    Food 

AND 

Tissue  Builder 
75    CENTS. 


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A    CHOICE    DISPLAY    OF 

NEW  ETCHINSS,  WATER  COLORS,  WOOD  ENGRAVINGS, 

Suitable  for  HOWDAY  PRESENTS ;  also  a  complete  assortment  of  the 
latest  styles  iu  frames  constantly  on  hand. 

MORRIS     &     KENNEDY, 

19  lo  21  Post  Street. 


Situated  in  Napa  County,  Gal. 

Keached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
commodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATUftE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Large  Swimming  Tank  of  Hot  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  jEtna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

High  Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

Water  from  the  Springs  bottled  by  the 

AETNA  MINERAL  WATER  CO., 

Telephone  536.  Office,  10S  Wruinni  Street,  S.  F 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892 


LATEST    TENNIS    NEWS. 

THE  coming  tournaments  at  Christmas  have  livened  things  up 
a  good  deal,  and  at  all  the  clubs  the  courts  are  well  patron- 
ized all  the  time,  and  good  games  are  the  outcome  of  days  like 
Saturday  and  Sunday.  There  was  quite  a  brilliant  match  played 
at  the  California  Club  last  Sunday,  between  C.  P.  Hubbard  and 
Professor  Joseph  Dailey.  Hubbard  was  in  exceedingly  good 
form,  and  his  back-hand  strokes  were  pretty  in  the  extreme,  and 
won  for  him  many  rounds  of  applause.  Dailey  was  not  in  it  for 
the  first  four  games,  which  fell  with  comparative  ease  to  Hub- 
bard, but  Dailey  warmed  up  and  took  the  next  five.  Then 
Hubbard  made  it  five  all,  and  after  some  rather  weak  tennis  the 
Professor  finally  won  the  sett  at  8-6. 

Hubbard  and  Taylor  had  quite  an  interesting  sett,  which  fell  to 
the  latrer  with  the  score  at  6-5. 

W.  B.  Collier,  Jr.,  and  Whitney,  a  new  team,  challenged  the 
winners  of  the  double  cup,  and  to  everyone's  surprise  beat  Allen  and 
Field  two  setts  to  one,  score,  4-6,  6-2,  6-4.  After  their  victory  they 
decided  to  enter  for  the  next  double  tournament  and  are  very  san- 
guine as  to  the  result. 

On  Christmas  Day  the  Alameda  Club  will  hold  their  single  tourna- 
ment for  the  championship  of  the  Club,  which  was  won  last  time  by 
A.  F.  Allen.  The  entry  is  expected  to  be  a  large  one,  and  names  are 
coming  in  rapidly. 

The  Oakland  Tennis  Club  has  been  the  first  to  adopt  the  "  100  up  " 
system,  which  the  California  Club  has  had  posted  up,  but  have  not 
so  far  given  it  a  trial,  and  the  ten  best  players  are  contesting,  scoring 
the  new  year  and  playing  on  the  American  plan.  Each  one  will  play 
against  the  others,  till  each  has  played  against  every  other,  and  the 
one  who  will  have  scored  the  greatest  amount  of  points,  will  be  con- 
sidered the  best. 

Playing  tennis  by  electric  light  has  been  held  with  great  suc- 
cess. A  few  days  ago,  Malcolm  Chase,  Ryerson  Carver,  W.  H. 
Slocum  and  others  played  sirgles  and  doubles  before  a  large  and 
appreciative  audience,  at  the  Auditorium,  Chicago.  The  games 
were  brilliant,  and  the  players  did  not  seem  to  mind  the  new  light 
at  all.  This  idea  will  be  good  for  rainy  and  snowy  weather  in  the 
East,  but  would  scarcely  be  needed  here  except  for  night  players, 
and  we  hardly  think  our  players  are  enthusiastic  enough  for  this 
yet. 

The  California  Club  will  hold  another  of  its  quarterly  single 
championships  on  the  24th,  25th  and  26th  inst.,  and  members 
have  been  notified  of  this  by  mail.  A  light  lunch  will  be  served 
on  the  26th,  and  a  very  successful  tournament  is  anticipated. 
The  club  always  extends  an  unwritten  invitation  to  all  lovers  of 
the  sport,  and  quite  a  large  crowd  is  expected.  The  entries  are 
as  follows:  J.  A.  Loughborough,  Dennis  Searles,  H.  R.  Simp- 
kins,  R.  N.  Whitney,  G.  F.  Whitney,  W.  B.  Collier,  Jr.,  }?.  B. 
Page  Collier,  J.  A.  Code,  E.  O.  Schmieden,  I.  8.  Mitchell,  A.  G. 
Field,  R.  S.  Davis,  A.  B.  Wilberforce,  D.  E.  Allison,  Jr.,  Dell  Lin- 
derman,  A.  F.  Keeler,  R.  M.  Eyre,  H.  N.  8tetson,  J.  H.  Bishop, 
W.  S.  Hobart,  J.  H.  Mee,  G.  B.  de  Long,  F.  de  Long,  S.  Hoff- 
man and  Ogden  Hoffman.  The  entries  close  5  p.  m.,  December 
22d,  and  the  tournament  will  be  under  the  management  of 
Messrs.  Wilberforce,  Stetson  and  S.  Hoffman. 


Christmas 
Presents. 

S.   &   G.   GUMP, 
Art 

And 

Picture 

Store. 

I  1 3    GEARY   ST. 
Open 
Evenings 
During 
December. 


DELINQUENT  SALE  NOTICE. 

Behring  Sea  Packing  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Fraucisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation nf  cannery— Ugashik  River,  A  a^ka. 

NOTICE.— There  are  delinquent  upon  the  following  described  stock,  on 
account  of  assessment  (No.  lj,  levied  on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  the 
several  amountB  set  opposite  the  names  of  the  respective  shareholders: 

Name.  No.  Certificate.       No.  ShareB.     Amount. 

C.  A.  Johnson l  50  $50 

C.  A.  Johnson 2  340  340 

Chas.  Carlson 7  30  30 

C.  Lundberg 12  390  •  390 

And  in  accordance  with  law,  and  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  made 
on  the  13th  day  of  February,  1892,  so  many  shares  of  each  parcel  of  such 
stock  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  sold  at  public  auction,  at  ihe  office  of  the 
company,  No.  9  Market  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on  Friday,  the  15th  day 
of  April,  1892,  at  the  hour  of  12  o'clock  m.  of  said  day,  to  pay  said  delin- 
quent assessment  thereon,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany,  this  day,  the  sale  of  1  he  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
[ONDAY,  the  16th  day  of  May,  1892,  at  the  same  time  aud  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  April  16, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany, this  day,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until 
THURSDAY,  June  23, 1892,  at  the  same  time  and  place. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  May  25. 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  btoek  was  postponed  until  SATUR- 
DAY, July  23,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Fraucisco,  June  23, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com- 
pany the  tale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  WED- 
NESDAY, September  21st,  1892.  JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  July  23,  1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com 
pany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  FRIDAY 
October  21st,  1892  JAMES  MADISON.  Secretary. 

San  Fraucisco,  September  21st. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behr'ng  Sea  Packing  Com- 

Sany  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  MON- 
AY,  November  21,  1892. 

JAMES  MADI90N,  Secretary. 
San  Fraucisco,  October  21, 1892. 

Postponement. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Behring  Sea  Packing  Com 
pany,  the  sale  of  the  above  delinquent  stock  was  postponed  until  TUES 
DAY,  December  21, 1892. 

JAMES  MADISON,  Secretary. 
San  Francisco,  November  21, 1892. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Commonwealth  Consolidated  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San  Fraucisco,  California.  Lo 
cation  of  works— Tuscarora  Mining  District,  Elko  county,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  23d  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment  (No.  10)  of  Ten  Centa 
per  share  was  levied  on  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  payable 
immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  ot 
the  company,   room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on 
The  28th  Day  of  December,  1892,  will  be  delinquent, 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and,  unless  payment  Is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  WEDNESDAY,  the  24th  day  of  January,  1893.  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  costs  of  advertising  and 
expenses  of  sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  R.  GKAYSON,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

New  Basil  Consolidated    Gravel  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ot  business -San  Francisco,  California.  Lo- 
cation of  works— Placer  County,  California. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  held 
on  the  eleventh  day  of  November,  1892,  an  assessment,  No.  22,  of  Five 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  pay 
able  immediately,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company,  525  Commercial  street,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  remain  unpaid  on  the 
Seventeenth  Day  of  December,  1892.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;   and  unless  payment  is  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  MONDAY,  the  9th  day  of  January,  18V3,  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the  costs   of  advertising  and  ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

F.  X.  SIMON,  Secretary. 

Office— 525  Commercial  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETIN6. 

Argenta  Mining  Company. 
The    regular   annual    meeting    of    the    stockholders    of    the    Argenta 
Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  20,  331 
Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  California,  on 

Monday,  the  9th  day  of  January.  1893.  at  the  hour  of  2  o'clock  P.  M. 

For  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting. 

Transfer  books  will  close  on  SATURDAY,  January  7,  1893.  at  12  o'clock  M. 

R  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  20,  331  Pine  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


D.*c.  17,  1892 


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TY    CONTINUED  \ 


N  are  oat  announcing  (be  marriage  at  St.  Paul's  Church.,  on 
\Vcine*<1ay  the  88th  in^t..  at  DOOD,  of  Miss  Mary  Lee  Oliver. 
daughter  of  Mr.  David  Oliver,  and  Mr.  Albert  Del  aCMs.  The  groom 
la  a  nephew  of  D.  O.  Mills,  and  is  manager  of  the  D.  0.  Mills'  ranch 
at  llllbrme. 

Miss  Susie  Woodward,  daughter  of  E.  W.  Woodward,  the 
wealthy  real  estate  man  of  Oakland,  is  to  be  married  the  latter 
part  of  ibe  month  to  James  B.  Merriam.  The  ceremony  will  take 
place  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  father. 

K  1  s.  Sbattuck  and  Grace  0.  Stoddard  of  Oakland  will  be  mar- 
ried on  Wednesday  next. 

Mr.  John  Hammond,  of  Park  «fc  Lacey,  became  the  happy  father 
of  a  bonncing  boy  last  Tuesday.. 


One  of  the  hnest  affairs  of  the  week  across  the  bay  was  the 
reception  given  last  night  by  Miss  Lottie  Cosligan  at  her  residence 
on  Eighth  avenue.  Oakland.  The  house  was  supremely  decorated 
and  a  glorious  lime  was  experienced  by  those  who  were  fortunate 
enough  to  be  invited. 

Private  theatricals  are  to  be  given  at  Christmas  time  at  the 
home  of  Mrs.  Stewart  on  East  Twenty-eighth  street,  Oakland. 
"i/i"j  Offer"  is  the  title  of  the  play  to  be  produced,  and  the  cast 
will  be  sustained  by  Miss  Myrick,  Miss  Olney,  Louis  Jones, 
James  Ireland,  Ned  Olney.  Gordon  Grant  and  Kennett  Grant. 


Mesdames  A.  H.  Ward.  L.  H.  Bissell  and  Dr.  E.  Maldonado  will 
be  the  hostesses  at  a  party,  to  be  given  by  Messrs.  Henry  Gutte  and 
Harold  Ward,  at  Harmony  Hall,  Alameda,  on  the  evening  of  Wed- 
nesday, the  21st  inst. 

"The  Jokers"  of  Oakland  will  bold  a  card  party  this  evening 
at  the  residence  of  Miss  Margaret  Stabler  on  Sixth  avenue. 

SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 

PHARMACY     FRANCAIS. 


Ill  Grant  Ave. 


Telephone  13SO 


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familiar  to  everyo  e.  Piveot'  Legrand's  violet  and  Roger  &  Gallet's  Lubiu 
and  Piuaud's  perfumes.  Soap.  SachauFace  Powder*,  Cosmetics,  etc 

Ptnatid's  8  ounce  botUes,  $3.50:  regu'ar  size  reduced  from  $1.25  to  85 
cent',  per  bot'le.  including  Peau  d'Ft-pagne  iu  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

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in  dress. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mining  Company. 

Assessment    No.  103 

Amoumper  share 25  cents 

Levied    Nov.  9,  1892 

Delinquent  in  office Dec.  14. 1892 

Day.  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock. .           Jan.  3, 1893 
E  L.  PAKKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15,  Nevada  block,  309  Montgomery 
street.  San  Francisco.  Cal 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Occidental  Consolidated  Mining  Co. 

Assessment No.  11 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

levied Oct  26.1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Nov.  25, 1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock. .     .  Dec  21,  1892 
ALFRED  K   DURBKOW,  Secretary. 

Office— Nevada  Block,  room  69,  No.  309  Moat- 
mery  Street.  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  70 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Nov.  22, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Dee.  28  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock      ...Jan.  20, 1893 
A.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  69,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery 
street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated   Imperial  Mining  Co. 

Assessment No.  34, 

Amount  per  Share 3  cents 

Levied     \ Nov.  23, 1892, 

Delinquent  in  Office Dec.  29,  1892. 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  Stock  ...   .Jan.  19,  1898 
C.L.  McCoy,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  35,  third   floor,   Mills  Building, 
corner  Bush  and  Montgomery  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 


ANNUAL  MEETING- 

Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company, 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders 
of  the  Gould  &  Curry  Silver  Mining  Compauy  will 
be  held  at  the  office  of  the  Company,  room  69, 
Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fran- 
cisco. Cal.,  on  MONDAY,  the  19th  day  of  Decem- 
ber. 1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  f.  m.,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  electing  aboard  of  Trustees  to  serve  for 
the  ensuing  year  and  f.r  the  transaction  of  such 
other  biiriiuess  as  may  come  before  the  meeting. 
Transfer  books  will  close  on  Friday,  December 
16, 1832,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m. 

ALFRED  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 

ANNUAL  MEETING- 

Andes  Silver  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders 
of  the  Andes  Silver  Mining  Company  will  be  held 
at  the  office  of  th^  compauy,  rooms  2  and  3,  Ne- 
vada Block.  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Fraucis- 
co.  Cal..  on  MONDAY,  the  19th  day  of  December, 
1892,  at  the  hour  of  1  o'clock  p.  m  . ,  for  the  purpose 
of  electing  a  board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the 
ensuing  year,  and  for  the  transaction  of  such 
other  business  as  may  come  before  the  meeting. 
Transfer  books  will  close  on  Monday,  the  12th 
day  of  December,  1892,  at  3  o'cl  ck  p.  m. 
JOHN  w.  TWIG^S^Seeretary. 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE, 

Utah  Con.  Mining;  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works- 
Story  Couuty,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  13th  day  of  Dec. 
1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  16),  of  Ten  Cents 
(10c. )  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock 
of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretarv,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  No.  58  Nevada  block,  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Nineteenth  Day  of  January,  1893,  will  be  de- 
linquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
THURSDAY,  the  9th  day  of  February,  1893,  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By  or- 
der of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

n„  A.  W.  FISH.  Secretary, 

Office— Room  58.  Nevada  biock,  309  Montgom- 
ery btreet,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TT^qth^rTngrestored 

ft^^^^J    I     by  one  who  was  deaf  for  UUyears. 


lars    and    testimonial 


Call,  or  send  stam 


jars    ana     testimonials.        JOHN  OlRNARi' 
Hammond  Building,  FourtH  and  v"e,  0ZH0™AII,O? 


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THE    HUSTLER.— Sam    Walter  Foas    in 
Yankee  Blade. 

The  hostler,  being  unbeloved 

By  every  Grace  and  Muse, 
He  eats  at  night  in  Boston  and 

Next  morn  in  Syracuse. 
From  the  Adirondack  Mountains 

To  the  far  Pacific  slopes 
He  plays  with  lines  of  latitude 

Like  little  skipping  ropes. 
His  home  is  in  the  sleeping-car — 

Wo  vine  or  fig  tree's  shade — 
His  music  is  its  clanking  wheels, 

His  poetry  is  trade. 
This  missionary  of  the  mart, 

He  spreads  the  true  faith's  germs— 
The  endless  merits  of  his  house 

Above  all  other  firms. 
He  buttonholes  the  kings  of  trade, 

His  sample  case  unrolls, 
And  talks  until  the  love  of  life 

Grows  feeble  in  their  aouls. 
The  bolted  doors  swing  wide  for  him, 

He  heeds  not  bolts  nor  bars, 
And  fears  not  any  face  of  man 

Beneath  the  sun  or  stars. 
The  heroes  of  Baronial  times 

Were  armed  from  hair  to  heel, 
With  iron  pots  upon  their  heads 

And  pantaloons  of  steel. 
The  hustler  hero  of  to-day 

Is  armorless  and  weak, 
But  for  tbe  vigor  or  his  tongue 

And  blushless  breadth  of  cheek. 
He  meets  all  men  with  fearless  mien, 

Nor  knows  to  pause  or  swerve, 
With  Lilliputian  bashfulness 

And  Brobdignagian  nerve, 
No  dim  abstractions  vex  his  soul, 

His  creed  and  happiness 
Is  just  to  make  a  sale  and  catch 

The  2  o'clock  express. 

REVENGE. 

YOU  observe  this  red  substance.  It 
looks  very  much  like  tomato  soup.  I 
see  a  lunch  party  of  distinguished  guests. 
Tbe  hostess  has  high  cheek-bones  and  a 
family  tree.  They  are  talking  of  fall 
openings  and  bargains  in  coal.  No  cock- 
tails have  been  served.  Tbis  is  a  temper- 
ance town.  That  is  a  fine  butler  with 
red  whiskers.  Take  especial  note  of  the 
butler  with  the  red  whiskers.  He  has 
been  discharged  this  morning  for  stub- 
bing his  toe  on  the  baby.  He  will  leave 
to-morrow,  so  observe  the  butler  with 
the  red  whiskers.  He  is  passing  the  soup. 
It  is  nice  tomato  soup.  The  lady  with 
tbe  high  cheek  bones  raises  her  spoon. 
Tbe  rest  do  likewise.  The  soup  goes  to 
each  mouth.  Jerusalem!!!!  Well,  let 
us  draw  the  veil.  Tomato  soup  and  to- 
basco  sause  are  of  the  same  complexion. 
But  observe  the  butler  with  the  red 
whiskers.     He  will  leave  to-morrow. 

—  Town  Topics, 

ROUGE    ET    NOIR. 

THESE  are  five  dollars.  I  was  wonder- 
ing which  color  I  liked  beat.  Red,  I 
was  always  told,  matched  my  com- 
plexion; and  then  black  is  so  mournful. 
The  man  opposite  has  pomatum  on  bis 
hair.  Is  that  a  good  sign?  Well,  here 
are*  the  five  dollars.  This  young  clerk  at 
my  elbow  is  blue-eyed.  I  like  blue  eyes 
and  blue  china.  There  is  a  picture  above 
the  mantel  with  cows  in  it.  And  here 
are  the  five  dollars.  I  notified  that  when 
that  old  man  opened  the  window  some 
air  came  in.  The  man  with  the  pomat- 
umed hair  has  a  bass  voice.  8ee  the 
marble  go.  I  play  a  simple  game — just 
red.  There's  a  good  deal  of  noise  in  that 
silence.  On  the  red — yes.  I  note  that 
the  man  with  tbe  pomatumed  hair 
stretches  forth  his  hand.  He  rakes  some- 
thing towards  him.  It  is  the  blooming 
five  dollars.  — Town  Topics. 


"Telepnu 


LONG    DISTANCE 

TELEPHONE. 

Xj-A-TIEST     ZEOCTZEnSTSXOIISr- 

Salinas,    Chualar,    Gonzales, 
Soledad,  Marysville,  Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken     communication      be- 
tween  these    towns    and    San 
1  Francisco.    The  lines  are  con- 
structed of  tpecially  prepared 
extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  with  tne  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  scieuce  of 
- 1  vrMuiiy,"  and  are  "  Long    Distance  "  Lines 
in  every  sense  of   the  word.    The  Mail  is  quick, 
the  Telegraph  in  quicker,  but  the 

LONG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  instantaneous,  and  you  dou't  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer. 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Franoisoo. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 
FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Slitter  Street, 

Telephone  2388. SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Cunningham,  Curtiss  i  Welch, 
WHOLESALE 

STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 
327.  329.  331  SANS0ME  STREET. 


J,  D,  SPRECKLES  &  BROS, 


SHIPPING  and  Commission  Merchants;  gen- 
eral agents  "Oceanic  Steamship  Company, 
Gillingham  Cement. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated.  California  and  Virginia 
Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works — Vir- 
ginia Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on   the  13th  day  of  Dec, 

1892,  an  assessment  (No.  3)  of  Fifty  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  r.ne  office  of 
the  company,  No.  58  Nevada  block,  No.  303  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  |21st   Day   of     January.   1893.  will   be  delin- 
quent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
FRIDAY,      the      Tenth      day       of       February 

1893,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  W.  HA.VENS.  Secretary. 
Office— Room  58,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mont- 
gomery Btreet,  San  Francisco,  California. 


P-    .    17, 


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SOUTH  LRU    PACIFIC   CQ*PAHY. 

PACIFIC     SYSTEM. 
Trains  Leave  and    «re  Due  to  Arrtvt 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 


L«ati  "      From  Dectmber  3,  1892. 


I  Arrive 


7:00  a.  B«alcla,  Rumscy,  3acr*mento         Tlir 

7.10a.  tUvward*.  Nile*  and  dan  Jone      *i:  16  V 
Nile-*  and  Ban  Jo*e  nvi.sr 

7:30a.  Martinet.  Ban  Ramon,  Calls  toga      6:15r. 

8:00a.  3acram  toA  Redding,  via  DrvIb       7:15  p. 

8.00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogden  and 

East,  9:46  p. 

8:30a.  Mies,  San  Jose,  Stockton.  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marvsvllle,  Oro- 
t111c  and  Red  Bluff 4:46p. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 

Seles,  Demlng,  EI   Pa&o,   New 
rleaneand  East 8:45p. 

*9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton •8:46  P. 

L2-00M.  Hay  ward  8,  Nilesand  Llvermore      7:15  p. 

•1:00  p.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:0Qp. 

1.30  p.  Vallejoand  Martinez 12:43  p. 

3.00  p.  Harwards,  Nilesand  San  Jose..      9:46  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno 12:16P 

4:00p  Martinez,    San    Ramon,    Val'ejo, 
Cali&ioga,  El  Verano.  and  Santa 

Rosa    9:45a. 

4:30  p.  Benlcia,  and  Sacramento 10 :45a. 

4O0p.  Woodland  and  Oroville 10:15a 

4O0p  Vacaville 10:16a 

•4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore *8:46a. 

5:00  p  European  Mali,  Ogden  and  East..    10;45a 
S:30p.  Los  Angeles    Express,   Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 9:45a. 

5:30  P.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East  9:15  a. 

6:00p.  Haywarda,  Niles  and  San  Jose..      7:45a. 

I7:00p.  Vallejo +3:45  p. 

7:00  p.    Oregon    Express,   Sacramen- 
to, Marysvule,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .      8:15  a 


Santa  Cruz  Division. 


rll:46A.  Hunters  and   Theater  Train  for 
Newark,    San   Jose,  and    Los 

Gatos 

8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek    and 

SantaCruz *10:50a. 

4:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:60a. 


t8;05p. 


>:20p. 


Coast  Division  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets). 

*7:00a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions   *2:38p. 

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa- 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Robles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and    principal  Way    Stations      6:10  p. 

10:37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations 6:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3:30  p. 

•2:30p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey, 
Pacific   Grove    and    principal 

Way  Stations *10:37a. 

*3:30  p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations  .  *9:47a. 

*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...    *8:06a. 

5 -.15  p.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations. 8:48a. 

6 :30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations ...      6 :35  A. 
tU:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p. for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  fSaturdays  only. 

tSundays  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Dispatch  steamers  from  San  Francisco  for  port3 
in  Alaska,  9  a.  m..  Dec.  16,  Dec.  30  and  Jan.  13. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports, 
9  a.m.  every  Friday. 

For  Eureka,  Humboldt  Bay,  Wednesdays,  9  a.  m. 

For  Santa  Ana,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
every  fourth  and  fifth  day,  8  a.  m. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  ouly  at  Los  Angeles, 
Santa  Barbara  and  Sau  Louis  Obispo,  every  fourth 
and  fifth  day,  at  11  a.  m. 

For  ports  in  Mexico,  1st  of  each  month. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

G0ODALL,  PERKINS  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Agents, 
No.  10  Market  street,  San  Francisco 

The  great  reputation  gainedby  Steele's 
Grindelia  Lotion  arises  from  the  fact  that  its 
curative  effects  are  exactly  as  they  are  repre- 
sented. It  is  a  panacea  for  poison  oak  and 
asthma.  The  lotion  is  for  sale  at  the  Palace 
Pharraacv,fi35  Market  street. 


UNREST. -/.'.M.f.m   World. 
SMpoomotb  cot,  sleep  cometh  not  I 

Thru'  all  the  long  niiil  lonely  DOOn  ■>'  night 

My  llsUtn  limbs  lie  wearily  and  itill. 

Wrarv  and  Mill-  hut  wild  thought-   give  DO 

N<»r  wild  desiree,  dot  hopes  I  cannot  kill. 
My   eebing    heart    beats    sore    within    my 
breast, 

And.  like  a  love-bird  flying  to  it-  DBBl , 
My  restless  spirit,  longing  for  thv  «ight, 
In  the  long,  lonely  hoars  oi  the  Digbt, 

Wanden  across  the  woodland  waste  to  tlice. 
Then.  Ob  my  sweet,  if  thou  art  slumbering. 
Dream  for  a  moment  I  ain  near  to  thee, 
Ur,  if  thou  dreamest  not,  remembering 
That  lam  thine,  awake  and  think  of  me. 
Yet,  if  thou  love  me,  love,  I  would  not  wish 
That  thou  should'st  feel  the  anguish  that  1 

know — 
The  fancies  strange,  the  fevered  fretfulness. 
The  great  unrest,  the  storm    that  lays  me 

low. 
Thou   hast  love's  happiness:  and  I  would 

fain 
Protect  thee  from  the  shadow  of  love's  pain. 

AN    OLD    GAG. 

TWO  glasses,  small,  with  slender  stems. 
Up  there  against  the  wall  are  a  pair 
of  painted  girls  taking  a  bath.  A  man 
over  in  the  corner  is  opening  oysters 
with  a  blase"  air.  The  youth  who  manip- 
ulates the  liquids  has  been  shaved  so  re- 
cently that  the  odor  of  bay  rum  on  his 
chin  is  still  palpable.  The  two  friends 
talk  of  Chicago  Gas  and  chorus  girls.  A 
clink  of  ice  on  a  silver  spoon,  a  faint 
whiff  of  lemon,  and  the  plash  of  aromatic 
fluid  into  the  two  glasses,  a  dash  of  ab- 
sinthe is  wafted  out  of  a  slender  bottle, 
and  then  the  friends  drink.  The  ham  on 
the  buffet  is  fresh  cut  and  stuck  with 
cloves.  Those  olives,  too,  are  plump  and 
pleasing.  The  friends  eat  and  continue 
to  talk  of  chorus  girls  and  Chicago  Gas. 
They  will  now  toddle  on  uptown,  for  it 
is  getting  late.  "Well,  as  you  were  say- 
ing— Pardon  me,  gentlemen,  you  have 
forgotten  to  pay  for  your  cocktails.  The 
spotter  had  spoken.  So  jarring  at  such 
a  time!  and  the  girls  on  the  wall  con- 
tinued bathing.  — Town  Topics. 


SOMETHING  NEW.-Pwcfc. 
He  hovered  around  her,  and  watched  her 
eyes, 
And  hung  on  each  musical  word — 
And  she  was  aware  of  his  stifled  sighs 

And  the  throbs  of  his  heart  she  heard; 
And  though  nothing    was   said    between 
these  two, 
He  knew  she   knew  that  he  knew  she 
knew. 

OCEANIC  SlEAMbftlP   COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
under: 

FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA.  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYD- 
NEY, DIRECT. 
S.  S  Mono wai.  Saturday,  December  10,  at  2  p.  M. 

For  Honolulu   Only  , 
S.  8.  Australia..  Weduebday,  Dee.  21,  1892  2  p.m. 
For  Freight   or    .Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  SPRKCKEL8&  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOB  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  oj  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  AND  BRAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and    HONGKONG,    connecting   at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI: 

Bbi.gic Thursday, Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu)   Wed'sdav,  Jan  4, 1  y3 

Gaelic    TrjEt.DAY,  Jan.  24.  1893 

Belgic  Thursday.  February  23,  1893. 

HOUND  TRIP  TICKETS  AT    REUUUtU  RATES 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  TownBend 
streets.  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 
GEO. H.RICE,  TrafficManager. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

„  ",Mt  DONAHUE  BROAD-GAU0E  ROUTE." 
COMMKM  IS..  BOHDAT,  Nov  20.  1892,  and 
until  tnrtner  DOttoe,  Bo.l.  nn.l  Train,  will 
leave  Irnm  aud  arrive  •<  the  Kirn  Pmiirt.m  Pan- 
«en«er  Depot.  MARKET  HTKKKT  WHAKF,  •■ 
follow,: 
From  Sin  Francisco  lor  Point  Tlburon,  Belvedere  ind 

Sin  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS-7:40  a.  m.,  9:20  a.  ii„   11  40  a    m  • 

8:30  p.  ii., 6:06  P.  M.,  6:20  p.  H. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  1:60  p.  M. 
BUNDAYS-SrOO  a.m.,  9:80  A.M.,  11:00  a.m.:  1:80  P.¥. 

8:80  P.  M.,  5fl0  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  m. 
„  „-      From  s,n  R»'»el  lor  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  r>AYS-«:25  a.   m.,  7:5a  a.   m.,  9:80   A.  M. 

11:45  P.M.,  8:40  P.M.,  6:05  p.m. 
8ATIRDA  YS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:80  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  a.m.,  9:40  a.m.,  11:10  a.  M.;  1-40  p.m. 
3:40  r.  m.,  5:00  r-  M.,  6:25  p.  m. 

rrom  Point  Tlburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS-6:60  A.    M.,  8:20  A.  M.,  9:65    A.  M.; 
1:10  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  m.,  5:85  p.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  au  extra  trip  at  6:65  P.M. 
6UNDAY8-8:46   A.M.,    10:05  A.  M.,  11:35  a.m.; 
2:06  p.  M.,  4:05p.m.,  6:80p.m.,  6:65  P.M. 


Leaves.  F. 

Destination. 

ABEIVEIN8.F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30p.m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
6:O0p.m. 

Petaluma 
and 

Santa  Rosa. 

10:40 A. M  8:60a.  m. 
6:05  p.m  10:30a.  m 
7:30p.m  6:10p.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  & 
Way  Stations. 

8:66a.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30p.m. 

7:30  p.m. 

10:80a. m 
6:10p.m 

7:40a.m. 

8:00a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:30  p.m. 

6:10p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.  m. 

8:00a.m. 

Guerneville. 

7:30p.m. 

10:80a.  m 
6:10  p.m 

7:40a.  m. 
5:05  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00  p.  k 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6-.06P.M 

8:50A.M. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  a.  M 
3:30  p.M 

8:00a.m 
5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.  m 
!    6:05  p.M 

10:30am 
6:10  P.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyvllle,  Soda  Bay,  Lake- 
port  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lake- 
port;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sarato- 
ga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $2  26;  to 
Healdsburg,  $3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  60;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  76:  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen,  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50:  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 
Steamers  will  Hail  at  NOON  on  the  5th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 

America. 

Through  Line  Sailings. — "San  Jose,"  December  15, 
1892  "San  Juan,"  Sunday,  December  25,  1892. 
"City  of  New  York,"  Januarys,  18y3. 

8.  8.  "City  of  Panama"  will  sail  for  Panama  at 
noon,  Saturday,  December  17th,  calling  at  Mazat- 
lan,  Acapulco,  Port  Aug  1,  Saliua  Cruz,  Touala, 
Sau  Beuito,  Ocos,  Ohamperico,  San  Jose  de  Guate- 
mala, Acajntla,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Corinto,  San 
Juan  del  Sur  aud  Puuta  Arenas. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc.; 

8.  8.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th.  at  3  P.  M. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Jaueiio,"    Saturday,  January 

14th,  1893,  at  3  p.  m. 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  February 
4th,  at  3  p  m. 

S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu),  Tuesday,  Feb.  14, 
1893,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Braunau  streets  Brauch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent 


30 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


IT  is  several  years  since  San  Francisco  has  been  visited  by  such 
trtie  "  Christmas  weather  "  as  we  have  had  of  late,  and  the 
nipping  frosts  of  the  morning's  hours  and  the  cold  air  of  the 
evening  brings  home  to  one  the  Christmas  pleasures  of  the  other 
aide  of  the  mountains  as  nothing  else  can.  This  may  possibly  be 
why  the  season  so  far  has  been  a  gayer  one  than  society  has  known 
for  some  years,  though  as  yet  balls  are  like  oases  in  the  desert 
of  teas  that  are  seemingly  the  popular  fad  of  the  hour.  Teas 
have  been  the  chief  dissipation  this  week,  commencing  with 
Monday,  when  Mrs.  Selim  Woodworth  was  at  home  from  four 
till  six  o'clock  at  her  pretty  home  on  California  street.  Wednes- 
day Mrs.  and  Miss  Catherwood  were  the  hostesses  at  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel,  and  on  Thursday  Mrs.  Samuel  L.  Theller  enter- 
tained a  large  number  of  guests  at  her  Pacific  avenue  residence. 
Miss  Owen's  lunch,  on  Wednesday,  was  given  to  the  Misses 
Breeze,  her  guests  consisting  of  a  number  of  young  ladies  and 
several  young  matrons,  who  are  little  more  than  girls  themselves. 
It  was  called  a  Mexican  lunch,  and  was  a  very  pleasant  affair. 


The  tea,  or  more  properly  speaking,  reception,  given  by  Mrs. 
Catherwood  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Jenny,  at  the  Occidental  on 
Wednesday  afternoon,  was  the  society  affair  of  the  present  week. 
The  large  parlors  and  broad  halls  on  thefirst  floor  were  canvassed, 
and  crimson  curtains,  hung  across  from  stairway  to  stairway,  in 
a  measure  shut  out  the  reception  room  from  public  gaze.  The 
decorations  were  very  pretty  and  effective,  and  strongly  sug- 
gestive of  Christmas  times.  They  consisted  of  a  very  artistic  ar- 
rangement of  pepper  tree  foliage,  red  berries  and  knots  of  red 
ribbons  which  draped  the  numerous  mirrors,  mantels,  etageres 
and  chandeliers,  the  only  drawback  being  the  sombre  colors  did 
not  light  up  well  at  night.  One  corner  of  the  room  was  devoted 
to  the  lemonade  and  punch  table,  and  refreshments  were  served 
at  tMe-ti -title  tables  in  the  adjoining  suite  of  apartments.  The 
orchestra  was  placed  in  the  hall  near  the  foot  of  the  north  stair- 
way, and  discoursed  charming  selections  during  the  afternoon 
and  early  hours  of  the  evening.  Mrs.  Catherwood  and  her 
daughter  were  assisted  by  a  whole  bevy  of  maids  and  matrons  in 
the  arduous  duty  of  looking  after  the  large  crowd  of  guests  who 
responded  to  their  invitations,  and  who  were  all  very  elegantly 
gowned.  Mrs.  Catherwood  wore  black  velvet  and  point  lace; 
Miss  Catherwood  looked  girlish  and  pretty  in  white  silk.  The 
evening  hours  were  devoted  to  dancing,  and  the  limit  named  on 
the  cards  was  long  passed  ere  the  final  adieux  were  said. 


Teas  and  lunches  were  very  numerous  last  week.  Under  the 
latter  heading  may  be  named  those  given  by  Mrs.  Mozley,  at  the 
Richelieu,  on  Wednesday — when  most  of  the  afternoon  was  spent 
at  table;  by  Miss  Masten,  at  which  Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin  was  the 
chief  guest,  aod  yellow  the  prevailing  hue  of  the  decorations ;  and 
by  Mrs.  C.  W.  Crocker,  on  Friday,  in  honor  of  Mrs.  F.  L.  Sted- 
man,  nee  Deming.  The  teas  included  those  given  by  Mrs.  John 
E.  de  Ruyter,  on  Wednesday,  Miss  Scott  on  Thursday  and  Mrs. 
I.  S.  Van  Winkle  on  Saturday,  at  her  home  on  Jackson  street, 
which  was  charmingly  decorated  with  chrysanthemums  and  La 
France  roses,  and  crowded  with  guests  during  the  afternoon. 
Mrs.  Homer  S.  King's  tea,  on  Thursday  last,  was  in  honor  of 
two  visiting  strangers,  Mrs.  George  B.  Williams,  of  London,  Eng- 
land, and  Mrs.  C.  J.  Hillyer,  of  Washington  City.  Mrs.  F.  B. 
Edgerton  assisted  Mrs.  King  in  receiving  her  guests,  and  a  num- 
ber of  pretty  maidens  supplied  them  with  tea  and  other  light  re- 
freshments during  the  afternoon  hours. 


On  Tuesday  afternoon,  the  20th,  a  paper  tea,  for  the  benefit  of 
the  Trinity  Home  Circle,  will  be  given  under  the  direction  of 
Mrs.  W.  H.Taylor,  at  the  home,  1611  Bush  street,  and  will  be 
continued  during  the  evening.  On  Wednesday  evening  of  next 
week  the  lady  members  of  the  California  Camera  Club  will  give 
a  reception,  at  which  there  will  be  literary  and  musical  selec- 
tions, refreshments,  and  a  pleasant  time  generally. 


Among  the  numerous  and  varied  entertainments  which  have 
filled  the  season  so  far  for  the  delectation  of  fashionable  folk  <<  on 
charitable  thoughts  intent,"  none  have  been  moresuccessful,  and 
deservedly  so,  than  that  given  by  the  managers  of  the  Pioneer 
Kindergarten  Society,  on  Saturday  last.  It  took  the  form  of  a 
tea  and  bazar,  with  a  musical  programme  to  enliven  the  guests, 
while  a  room  was  canvassed  and  devoted  to  those  who  wished  to 
dance.  Mrs.  N.  D.  Rideout  had  most  kindly  offered  the  use  of 
her  spacious  residence,  on  Washington  street,  for  the  occasion, 
and  the  ladies  gladly  took  advantage  of  the  offer,  to  transform 
the  rooms  into  a  perfect  wilderness  of  booths  of  all  kinds.  Fancy 
work,  candy,  flowers  and  refreshments  were  all  there  and  each  one 
presided  over  by  charming  society  belles  and  matrons.  Japanese 
lanterns  were  hung  over  the  entrance  to  the  house,  and  within 
the  rooms  were  decorated  with  greens  and  flowers,  bright-hued 
chrysanthemums  of  every  tint  lending  most  effectual  aid.  The 
musical  portion  of   the    entertainment  consisted  of    vocal  and  in- 


strumental solos  by  Mi°s  Julia  Newman,  Miss  Thoma«,  Miss 
Felton,  the  Misses  Daisy  Polk  and  Von  Mandersheed,  assisted 
by  Dan  Polk,  In  the  evening,  the  room  used  for  dancing  was 
liberally  patronized  by  the  young  people,  while  the  older  ones 
bought  pretty  articles  of  fancy  work  cheerfully.  Altogether,  the 
whole  affair  must  have  resulted  most  satisfactorily  to  the  ladies 
in  charge,  in  a  pecuniary  way  as  well  as  giving  pleasure  to  those 
who  attended. 

Those  distinguished  "amatoors"  who  have  on  many  previous 
occasions  enlivened  Oakland  society,  furnished  the  "event  of  the 
season,'  across  the  bay  this  week  by  the  production  of  "Hose- 
dale"  at  the  Macdonough  Theatre  on  Wednesday  and  Thursday 
evenings.  The  first-nighters  constituted  the  most  fashionable 
throng  that  the  City  of  Churches  can  get  together,  among  the 
well  known  families  present  being  the  Dargies,  the  Wheatons, 
the  Perkins,  the  Chabots,  the  Footes,  Braytons,  Remillards, 
Requas,  Bathers,  Houghtons,  Gordons,  Thomsons,  Conners, 
Dams,  Nusbaumers, Jones,  Costigans,  Herricks,  Henshaws,  Tubbs, 
Grimes,  Prathers,  Adams,  Jacksons,  Bonds,  Herons,  Clarks, 
Vinzents,  Kennas,  Lathrops,  and  the  Howards.  The  piece  went 
off  in  splendid  style,  the  cast  being  admirably  sustained  by  J.  C. 
Wilson,  Jr.,  P.  H.  Remillard,  Lester  Herrick,  H.  A.  Melvin,  A. 
J.  Rosborough.  J.  F.  J.  Archibald,  B.  Sherman,  J.  Dunn.  Miss 
Laura  Crews,  Miss  Marion  Albright,  Miss  Maud  Morrell,  Miss 
Minnie  Campbell,  Mrs.  E.  Beck,  Miss  Mary  Hanlon,  and  Miss 
Lucil  Donovan.  Miss  Althea  was  the  danseuse,  and  then  there  . 
was  the  Athenian  Club  chorus  consisting  of  T.  L.  Lawrence.  J.  F. 
Toler,  H.  Y.  Baker.  E.  E.  Brangs,  Dr.  Richardson,  H.  H.  Law- 
rence, Jr.,  A.  S.  Barney  and  Dr.  E.  J.  Boyes.  About  $4000  was  ; 
taken  in  at  the  two  performances,  $1865  of  which  consisted  of 
premiums  for  the  opening  night. 


Alameda  society  will  be  largely  represented  at  the  reception  to 
be  given  next  Monday  evening  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frank  H.  McCormack,  on  Alameda  avenue.  It  will  be  given  in 
celebration  of  the  fifteenth  anniversary  of  their  marriage,  and 
dancing  will  be  in  order,  and  no  doubt  kept  up  till  a  late  hour, 
so  a  delightful  evening  is  a  foregone  conclusion.  At  Mills'  Col- 
lege a  soiree  musicale  will  be  given  on  Tuesday  evening,  the  20th. 


The  amateur  theatrical  fever  which  is  so  prevalent  at  this  season 
of  the  year  has  extended  to  Fruitvate.  Arrangements  are  being 
made  there  for  an  entertainment  very  shortly  and  Miss  Kate 
Judson  and  Miss  Edna  Wyman  who  are  managing  the  company 
affirm  that  there  is  a  treat  in  store. 


On  Tuesday  evening  the  Philharmonic's  second  concert  of  the 
season  took  place  at  Metropolitan  Hall.  Apropos  of  music,  the 
Operatic  Society  of  Alameda  which  contemplated  giving  the  Bo- 
hemian Girl  at  an  early  date,  have  substituted  the  tuney  Patience 
of  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  for  Balfe's  opera,  and  will  appear  in  it  as 
their  opening  effort  in  the  near  future. 

Clubs  are  in  order  this  winter,  and  are  already  quite  numerous. 
The  December  gathering  of  the  "  Vermonters  "  was  held  at  Odd  Fel- 
lows' Hall  on  Friday  evening  of  last  week,  the  first  part  of  the  enter- 
tainment consisting  of  vocal  and  instrumental  music,  after  which  the 
little  comedy  of  True  Colors  was  very  well  performed.  Then  there 
was  dancing,  which  was  indulged  in  with  spirit  for  an  hour  or  more. 
The  Beulah  Club  had  one  of  their  enjoyable  entertainments  at  Mission 
Music  Hall  the  same  evening,  music  and  dancing  being  the  features, 
and  the  club  known  as  "  Comrades"  held  one  of  their  re-unions  at 
Union  Square  Hall  last  Saturday  evening,  it  being  the  fifth  of  their 
series.  

The  8ophomore  hop  at  Union  Square  Hall  last  week  was  a  pleas- 
ant affair,  though  the  dancing  terminated  at  midnight  to  allow 
many  of  the  guests  to  catch  the  last  boat  for  home,  i.  e.,  Berkeley. 
This  was  supplemented  by  the  celebration  of  the  Juniors  in  Berk- 
eley last  Saturday,  The  military  exercises  in  Shattuck  Hall  was 
followed  by  lunch,  and  then  came  dancing,  which  was  enthusi- 
astically indulged  in  between  the  hours  of  two  and  five  in  the 
gymnasium.  Noah  Brandt's  orchestra  supplying  the  music. 
Junior  day  comes  but  once  a  year,  but  it  is  made  the  most  of 
when  it  does  happen  along. 


The  San  Francisco  Verein  and  the  Concordia  Clubs  are  two  organi 
zations  that  are  untiring  in  their  efforts  to  cater  to  the  pleasure  and 
amusement  of  their  members  and  lady  friends.  Something  is  always 
on  the  tapis  at  both,  and  that  something  will  take  the  form  at  the 
Concordia  of  a  reception  and  dance  on  New  Year's  eve;  and  at  the 
Verein  of  a  dramatic  entertainment  to  be  followed  by  a  ball  which 
will  rival  in  brilliancy  any  of  the  other  brilliant  gatherings  heretofore 
given,  and  for  which  the  club  has  always  been  so  noted.  Our  foreign 
and  Jewish  residents  are  happy  in  the  anticipation  of  the  coming 
pleasures  at  both  clubs  on  the  eve  of  the  New  Year. 


Another  amateur  operatic  performance  will  be  given  at  Saratoga 
Hall,  early  next  month,  for  the  benefit  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Caurch.  When  the  Mikado  will  be  sung  by  a  number  of  well 
known  amateur  vocalists,  and  the  predictions  are  it  will  be  well 
sung,  too. 


17,  1*92. 


BAN  n:  \v  i><  (.  SEWS  i.i  I  n  i; 


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-rmas  gatherings  are  multiplying  in  number  n-  iho  holidays 
rij;  others  will  be  i  -'  Mr-.  A.  D.  : 

aeaday  evening  ol  next  week,  and  on  the  evening  *>f  the 
.'  h  Mr-  as  i  fcUn  larger  will  give  a  dance  in  their  rooms  at  the 
Palace  Hotel. 

The  delightful  Tuesday  evening  h«ip*  at  the  Presidio  have  re- 
commenced Again,  the  first  of  lb  la  reason  taking  place  there  last 
week.  The  assembly-room  presented  its  usual  attractive  appear- 
ance, military  adornments,  uniforms,  bright  buttons  in  abund- 
ance, and  a  crowd  of  pretty  girl-*  and  charming  matrons,  making 
a  most  pleasing  combination,  and  resulted  in  an  enjoyable  even- 
ing for  all. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Major  F.  It.  O'Brien  to  Miss 
Rosa  Thoma?.  Major  O  Brien  who  resides  in  Oakland  was  Sec- 
retary of  the  Republican  State  Central  Committee  of  happy  mem 
ory  and  also  organized  and  managed  the  Resaca  Club.  He  is  cry? 
of  the  most  popular  and  best  known  young  men  across  the  bay. 
The  bride-elect  is  a  charming  young  lady  and  is  a  niece  of  L.  E. 
W.'.MJworth.  The  happy  ceremony  will  take  place  on  the  24th 
Inst  ,  in  the  First  Congregational  Church. 


Newspaper  men  will  be  on  band  with  their  congratulations 
when  they  hear  that  Ed.  A.  Clough  the  well  known  writer  is  to 
enter  the  folds  of  the  Benedicts.  Miss  Anita  Davis  is  the  lady 
whom  he  has  selected  as  his  partner  for  life  and  the  happy  event 
will  take  place  next  month. 


The  engagement  is  out  of  Frank  P.  Thwaites  of  Oakland  to  Miss 
Morse  of  Chicago.  Miss  Morse,  who  is  a  very  wealthy  young 
lady  has  been  on  a  visit  to  the  coast  and  met  M.  Thwaites  at  the 
Metropole.  It  was  love  at  first  sight  and  the  marriage  will  take 
place  soon  after  the  New  Year  opens. 


A  pretty  and  rather  novel  wedding  ceremony  took  place  at  the 
Spanish  Church  of  our  Lady  of  Guadaloupe  on  Broadway  last  Mon- 
day, when  Miss  Mercedes  Jofre  and  Dr.  M.  Garcia  Fernandez  were 
united  in  marriage.  The  hour  set  was  9  a.  m.,  and  the  service  began 
with  Mozart's  Twelfth  Mass  which  was  sung  by  the  choir.  The 
Lohengrin  Chorus  gave  notice  of  the  advent  of  the  bridal  party 
which  entered  by  the  central  aisle  and  proceeded  to  the  altar  which 
was  adorned  with  white  flowers  and  brilliantly  lighted  with  in- 
numerable candles.  Here  Fathers  Villadomal  and  Santaudrew  tied 
the  nuptial  knot  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremony  according  to 
Spanish  custom  threw  around  the  kneeling  couple  a  white  vail 
fastened  with  a  silver  chain.  The  bride  wore  a  handsome  robe  of 
white  Bengaline  made  with  a  court  train  and  trimmed  with  orange 
blossoms,  ostrich  plumes  and  duchess  lace,  a  lace  vail  and  diamond 
ornaments.  She  was  attended  by  six  bridesmaids  and  a  maid  of 
honor,  and  in  the  wedding  cortege  were  also  three  godmothers 
according  to  Mexican  custom,  escorted  respectively  by  the  Mexican 
and  the  Chilian  Consuls,  and  Isidro  Artosano  who  gave  the  bride 
away.  Following  the  church  service  was  a  reception  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  mother  on  Stockton  street  and  then  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Fer- 
nandez departed  upon  their  bridal  trip  down  South. 


From  England  comes  the  news  of  the  marriage  in  London  of  a 
former  resident  of  San  Francisco,  the  wedding  of  Miss  Gertrude 
Loundes  and  Lieut.  Morrisey  of  the  British  Navy,  taking  place  at 
St.  Andrew's  Church  on  the  25th  of  last  month.  Miss  Loundes, 
father  and  mother  were  among  San  Francisco's  oldest  residents,  and 
are  no  doubt  still  held  in  remembrance  by  many  who  will  be  pleased 
to  hear  of  the  happiness  of  »'  A  Native  Daughter." 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  Ford  are  occupying  their  residence  at  Broad- 
way, having  returned  from  their  summer  visit  abroad,  and  Mrs. 
Ford  will  be  at  home  on  Wednesday. 


A  navy  wedding  took  place  at  Vallejo  last  week,  the  bride  being 
Miss  Ida  Anita  Campbell  of  that  place,  and  the  groom,  John  Arnold 
of  the  navy,  at  present  attached  to  the  U.  S.  S.  Mohican.  The  cere- 
mony was  performed  at  the  home  of  Senator  and  Mrs.  Campbell  by 
Chaplain  Lewis  of  Mare  Island,  in  the  presence  of  a  large  assemblage 
of  guests,  a  number  of  whom  came  from  the  navy  yard,  and  several 
from  San  Francisco ;  and  at  the  wedding  breakfast  which  followed 
many  toasts  were  drank  to  the  health  and  happiness  of  the  young 
couple.  The  pretty  bride,  who  was  attired  in  a  gown  of  heavy  white 
silk  and  the  customary  tulle  veil,  was  attended  by  little  Miss  Ciprico 
of  San  Francisco,  as  Maid  of  Honor,  who  wore  a  charming  costume 
of  cream  surah:  and  Miss  May  Robinson  of  Alameda,  who  was  sole 
bridesmaid,  wore  a  gown  of  orange  crepe.  Engineer  Hunt,  of  U.S.S. 
Albatross,  was  best  man.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arnold  are  spending  their 
honeymoon  at  Coronado. t 

■'  The  wedding  of  Miss  Mamie  Se^hon  and  Joseph  Austin  took  place 
at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Sesnon  on  Pacific  avenue  in  Alameda  last 
Wednesday,  only  relatives  and  intimate  friends  witnessing  the  cere- 
mony. Miss  Lizzie  Tilson  was  in  attendance  on  the  bride  and  R.  P. 
Hammond  supported  the  groom  as  best  man,  and  the  presents 
bestowed  upon  the  happy  pair  were  varied,  numerous  and  valuable. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Austin  are  spending  their  honeymoon  at  Coronado 
and  upon  their  return  to  San  Francisco  will  reside  at  320  Page  street. 


Hiss  Agnas  McLaughlin,  the  prott)   young  daughter  <>t  the  host 

and  hostess  •>(  Golden  <iar.-  Coti  n  in 

society  at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  New  Y<»rk.  The  McLaughlin's 
will  bo  hero  to-day  from  Oroville.  and  will  depart  for  the  Easl  In 
niaa  holidays  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  with  Mrs. 
M.-I.-inghlin's  family.  The  departure  of  I  lux-  most  hospitable  and 
charming  people  ia  always  a  source  of  regret  among  their  Callfor- 
nian  friends.  There  return  to  Santa  Cms  will  be  about  April,  when 
the  bathing  season  will  be  near  its  opening. 

Departures  Eastward  include  Major  and  Mr.s.  Frank  McLaugh- 
lin and  Miss  Agnes  McLaughlin,  who  left  for  New  York  on 
Thursday.  Miss  ("trace  Spencer,  who  has  been  visiting  Miss 
Ethel  Martel,  departed  for  Santa  Barbara  on  Wednesday,  and 
from  there  goes  East  to  visit  friends  in  Washington  City  and  New 
York,  as  well  as  New  Orleans.  Miss  Gertrude  Strain,  who  has 
been  the  guest  of  her  aunt,  Mrs.  Charles  Wilson,  has  returned  to 
her  home  in   1'ortland,  Or. 


Greatly  to  the  dissapointment  of  many  who  were  unable  to  see 
the  bie  ship  during  its  only  visit  to  this  harbor,  the  English  Flag 
Ship  Warspite  has  given  San  Francisco  the  go-bye,  and  sailed  for 
home,  without  paying  us  another  visit.  San  Diego  has  been  the 
gainer  by  our  loss,  several  of  the  British  Fleet  having  been  at 
anchor  there  this  week,  and  the  query  "  why  have  we  been  so 
slighted,"  is  a  frequent  one  from  feminine  lips  of  late.  To  be 
sure  we  have  a  Japanese  Man  of  War  in  port  at  present,  but  the 
funny  little  brown  men,  even  though  they  do  look  natty  in  their 
spotless  uniforms,  scarcely  compensate  in  the  loss  of  the  stalwart 
sons  of  the  British  Isles. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  TJphani  are  at  the  Palace  Hotel  for  the  winter, 
where  Mrs.  Upham  will  receive  on  the  1st  and  3rd  Monday.  Mr., 
and  Mrs.  George  H.  Lent  will  be  "at  home"  on  Wednesdays  in 
January,  at  their  residence,  2229  Washington  street.  Mrs.  Henry 
Wetherbee  has  come  from  her  Fruitvale  home  to  spend,  as  usual,  a 
few  winter  weeks  in  San  Francisco.  She  is  domiciled  at  the  Palace 
Hotel  and  will  receive  on  Mondays.  Mrs.  Ellis  and  her  daughter, 
Miss  Hope,  have  arrived  in  town  for  the  winter.  They  are  at  the 
Palace  Hotel. 


Jack  Hammond  and  E.  A.  Wiltsee  left  for  the  East  last  Satur- 
day. Mr.  Hammond  will  return  to  San  Francisco  in  the  course 
of  a  few  weeks,  while  Mr,  Wiltsee  expects  to  sail  for  Europe  in 
about  ten  days. 

Mrs.  Douglas  Dick  has  reconsidered  her  last  decision  to  spend  a 
part  of  the  winter  in  town  with  her  mother,  Mrs.  Parrott,  and  owing 
to  the  size  of  her  small  family  will  pass  the  season  at  San  Mateo, 
according  to  her  first  intention;  where  she  wili  occupy  her  sister's, 
Mrs.  de  Guigne's,  villa.  However,  her  friends  will  often  see  her  in 
the  city,  being  within  such  easy  access  to  it.  Miss  Julia  Peyton  is 
visiting  her  friend,  Miss  Kate  Jarboe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Crocker  were  among  the  arrivals  of  the  week, 
returning  from  their  brief  visit  East  last  Tuesday.  They  were 
accompanied  by  Mrs.  Sperry  and  Miss  Beth,  who  have  been  traveling 
in  Europe  during  the  last  three  months.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Valen- 
tine arrived  from  Gotham  on  Wednesday.  Mrs.  Flood  and  Miss 
Jenny  are  looked  for  in  time  next  week  for  the  season.  Everett  Bee 
is  back  from  his  visit  to  Guatamala. 

Society  circles  are  glad  to  welcome  again  Mrs.  J.  de  Barth 
Shorb,  of  Los  Angeles,  who  with  Mr.  Shorb  are  domiciled  at 
the  Occidental  Hotel,  on  a  visit  of  some  duration.  It  is  a  long 
time  since  Mrs.  Shorb  bas  been  in  San  Francisco,  of  which  she 
was  formerly  a  frequent  visitor,  and  her  old  friends  here  are 
charmed  to  see  her  once  more  among  them. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  T.  Marsh,  and  their  son,  Hale  Marsh, 
returned  on  Thanksgiving  Day  from  a  four  months  tour  of  Japan. 

Colonel  Edward  A.  Belcher  has  returned  from  a  long  business 
trip  in  the  northwest. 

The  engagement  of  Miss  May  Tubbsof  Oakland  to  Mr,.,.Gr^$nhood 
bas  been  officially  announced. 

(Society  Continued  on  page  26.) 


D*PRICE'S 


Baking 
Powder 


The  only  Pure  Cream  of  tartar  Powder.— No  ammonia;  No  Aluni 
Used  in   Millions   of  Homes — 40  years  the   Standard 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  17,  1892. 


NOW  that  M.  Tirard,  ex-Minister  of  Finance  of  France  and  one 
of  the  French  delegates  at  the  Monetary  Conference  at 
Brussels,  has  indicated  the  position  of  his  country  to  the  question 
of  international  bi-metallism,  it  is  almost  certain  that  the  conference 
will  adjourn  without  having  reached  any  conclusion  whatever. 
France,  the  chief  country  of  the  Latin  Union  and  the  most  promi- 
nent of  the  bi-metallic  nations,  was  expected  to  support  the  move- 
ment in  favor  of  international  bi-metallism,  by  those  who  considered 
the  present  conference  as  likely  to  lead  to  practical  results.  French 
statesmen,  however,  have  recognized  that  there  is  no  chance  of 
attempting  anything  of  that  kuid,  unless  England,  Germany  and 
Austria  give  up  their  present  attitude,  and  nothing  has  been  said  at 
the  conference  as  yet,  nor  is  it  likely  that  anything  will  be  said  to 
bring  about  such  a  change.  England,  Austria  and  Germany  have 
made  op  their  minds  to  temporize  until  diplomatic  negotiations  in 
future  should  show  them  the  advantage  of  yielding.  Mr.  Cleve- 
land's government  may  have  a  chance  to  obtain  more  practical 
results  in  the  financial  question  abroad,  by  legislation  at  home,  than 
that  of  his  predecessors,  and  thus  smooth  the  way  for  diplomacy. 

The  chances  for  the  passing  of  the  German  Army  Bill  have  been 
gradually  improving,  in  consequence  of  the  strong  appeal  to  German 
patriotism  made  by  the  Government  leaders.  If  anything  is  apt  to 
influence  Germans  it  is  to  ask  them  to  give  proofs  of  love  for  their 
country  by  sacrifices,  but  that  such  sacrifices  are  needed  at  this 
moment  is  not  clear,  and  if  the  Army  bill  passes.it  simply  proves 
that  sentinientalism  has  again  conquered  practical  oommon  sense, 
aB  has  often  been  the  case  in  German  history.  Still,  as  has  been 
pointed  out  before,  the  new  burden  which  the  nation  will  have  to 
bear,  for  its  array's  sake,  very  great  as  it  is,  will  not  be  greater  than 
that  of  its  neighbors,  and  all  depends  upon  what  modification  the 
bill  will  receive  in  committee  with  regard  to  thequestion  of  new  taxa- 
tion. So  far  the  details  of  this  taxation  problem  have  not  yet  been 
discussed  in  the  Reichstag,  and  until  this  is  done  the  result  must 
remain  doubtful,  though  it  cannot  be  denied  that  the  Government 
has  shown  considerable  skill  in  its  efforts  at  conciliating  the  opposi- 
tion. 

The  different  payees  of  checks  distributed  by  the  Panama  Canal 
Company,  who  have  so  far  been  asked  to  give  explanations,  have  in- 
variably declared  that  the  money  was  received  in  payment  of  debts. 
The  word  ''debt"  is  a  very  elastic  one  in  the  present  case,  and  if  it 
means  anything  must  mean  debts  of  gratitude,  though  this  is  a  rather 
euphemistic  explanation  of  the  services  rendered  by  these  gentlemen. 

Crown  Prince  Ferdinand  of  lloumania  was  received  last  Saturday 
by  a  large  party  of  his  future  relatives  of  the  Royal  bouse  of  Great 
Britain,  at  Windsor  Castle.  His  wedding  with  Princess  Mary, 
daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Edinburgh,  will  take  place  at  Sigmarinzen, 
in  Prussia.  To  judge  from  the  telegrams  the  bridegroom  is  persona 
grata  in  England,  and  his  relation  to  the  Prince  of  Wales  promises  to 
be  a  more  pleasant  one  than  that  of  the  Prince  of  Battenburg  and 
the  Marquis  of  Lome,  who  are  usually  snubbed  by  the  heir  presump- 
tive of  the  British  crown,  whenever  they  come  in  contact  with  him. 

Several  members  who  obtained  seats  at  the  recent  general  election 
in  England  have  lost  their  seats,  election  frauds  having  been  proved 
against  them.  The  latest  victim  is  Horatio  David  Davies,  a  Conser- 
vative, returned  from  Rochester  by  a  majority  of  407.  The  charge 
proved  against  him  is  that  he  "  treated  "  his  electors  shortly  before 
the  polling  day.  If  treating  was  take*  so  seriously  amongst  us,  we 
might  have  to  commence  our  late  election  over  again,  though  the 
result  would  hardly  be  changed,  for  "  they  all  do  it." 

Rector  Ahlwardt  in  Germany  has  been  sentenced  to  five  months 
imprisonment,  which  goes  to  show  that  his  revelations  must  have 
been  obtained  by  hira  in  a  rather  crooked  manner.  It  cannot  be 
denied  that  he  deserves  credit  for  exposing  frauds,  but  that  he  is  not 
a  person  distinguished  for  discretion  has  been  proved,  if  by  nothing 
else,  by  his  violent  anti-Semitic  agitation,  and  for  this  alone  he 
deserves  to  spend  a  short  time  in  a  place,  where  he  has  a  chance  for 
quiet  reflection. 

The  reports  of  the  serious  illness  of  Mrs.  Maybrick  have  to  be 
taken  cum  grano  snlis.  Such  powerful  influence  has  been  brought 
into  play  in  this  country  for  the  release  of  the  prisoner,  by  influential 
relations  of  Mrs.  Maybrick  and  her  friends,  that  the  mere  question  of 
justice  has  been  rather  darkened,  and  Home  Secretary  Asquilt.  like 
his  predecessor  inthe  Briiish  Home  Office,  is  not  likely  to  do  any- 
thing unless  the  reports  about  the  illness  of  the  nrisoner  are  con- 
firmed by  thorough  investigation.  Sentimentalism  rarely  enters 
into  play  in  judiciary  proceedings  in  England. 

Mr.  Morley  in  his  recent  address  to  his  constituents  at  Newcastle, 
carefully  abstained  from  giving  any  forecast  of    Mr.    Gladstone's 


Home  Rule  bill.  Sensational  correspondents  therefore  will  have  a 
chance  of  concocting,  more  or  less,  imaginary  bills  for  a  few  weeks 
more,  but  nothing  of  importance  with  regard  to  the  bill  is  likely  to 
be  known  until  Parliament  reassembles.  Mr.  Gladstone  shows  him- 
self true  to  his  reputation  of  an  "old  parliamentary  hand, "by  not 
famishing  his  opponents  at  too  early  a  date  with  material  for  con- 
structing their  plan  of  campaign. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


THE    DEMOCRACY    AND    THE 
COUNTRY. 


\  I  10  the  Editor  of  the  News  Letter:  I  know  of  nothing  more 
\  f  worthy  of  consideration  than  the  present  relation  of  the 
"\  b  Democratic  Party  to  the  future  of  the  country  ._The  sweep- 

i.  [ine:  results  of  the  last  election"  have  certainly  imposed  upon 
that  party  very  grave  responsibilities,  which  cannot  be  evaded 
and  must  be  met.  In  Mr.  Cleveland,  personally,  I  have  the  ut- 
most confidence.  He  seems  to  me  to  be  the  legitimate  successor  of 
Horatio  Seymour,  and  to  possess  a  rare  capacity  for  comprehending 
the  leading  questions  of  the  day  in  all  their  breadth,  and  for  express- 
ing views  with  regard  to  them  which  are  so  exact,  so  clear,  and  so 
true,  that  they  command  the  respect  of  intelligent  and  patriotic  citi- 
zens. His  modest,  firm,  and  finely-worded  speech ,  recently  delivered 
in  New  York,  was  the  fitting  close  to  the  terse  and  statesmanship 
addresses  delivered  by  him  during  the  campaign,  and  evinced  his 
firm  determination,  so  far  as  their  fulfillment  depends  upon  him, 
that  all  the  promises  of  the  Democratic  Party  to  the  people  shall  be 
kept. 

But  no  party  can  depend  upon  any  one  man  and  one-man  power 
or  one-man  responsibility,  is  incompatible  with  our  instituons, 
which  rest  upon  the  people.  This  is  one  of  the  many  reasons 
why  bossism  should  be  extirpated.  A  King  or  an  Emperor  may  be 
both  wise  and  good,  and  the  existence  of  a  virtuous  boss  is  not  be- 
yond conception.  The  principle,  however,  which  differentiates  our 
form  of  Government  from  pre-existing  forms,  is  that,  in  its  theory,  it 
is.  and  in  its  practice,  it  ought  to  be,  the  constant  expression  of  pub- 
lic opinion  and  of  the  public  will,  deliberately  formed  and  inexor- 
ably applied,  within  those  constitutional  limits,  which  themselves 
have  a  popular  origin  and  represent  the  voluntary  restrictions  that 
protect  communities  and  individuals. 

The  Constitution,  as  a  proposition  of  law,  and  the  Civil  War,  I. 
trust,  in  fact,  have  settled  the  indestructibility  of  the  Federal  Union, 
But  the  question  is,  what  Union  is  meant?  I  suppose  it  would  be 
hypothetically  conceded,  the  Federal  Union,  as  it  is  framed  by  the 
Federal  Constitution  and  by  the  Constitutions  of  the  severa 
States,  with  personal  rights  and  the  rights  of  municipalities 
viduals,  carefully  discriminated  and  maintained.  It  seems  to  me, 
however,  to  be  plain  that,  within  the  past  quarter  of  a  century  there 
has  been  a  wide  departure  from  the  essential  principles  of  our  pol- 
itical system  and  an  uurelaxing  tendency  towards  centralization, 
with  all  its  attendant  broods  of  evil,  including  class  legislation  and 
ithe  creation  of  plutocracies  and  oligarchies,  which,  in  a  great  degree, 
h-ave  usurped  the  sovereignty  of  the  people. 

Our  vast  territory,  our  diversified  productions,  all  the  elements 
wealth  in  our  soil,  our  climate  and  our  industries,  our 
selected  and  blending  population,  our  advance  in  intelligence 
and  in  knowledge,  are  largely  the  gifts  of  the  Almighty  and  but 
slightly  due  to  legislation  or  to  the  exercise  of  political  wisdom. 
The  waste  and  vitiation  of  our  inheritance  come  mainly  from  our- 
selves, and  have  eaten  deeply  into  our  resources.  In  many  respects 
we  have  reproduced  the  worst  features  of  the  dying  Republic  of 
Rome.  Political  corruption  has  been  prevalent.  The  consolidation 
of  wealth  in  the  few  has  been  unprecedented.  The  management  of 
business  has  been  concentrated  and  the  number  of  employers  has 
been  reduced  while  the  mass  of  middlemen,  who  have  preserved 
industries  and  independence,  has  dwindled  and  thousands  of  them 
have  been  transferred  to  the  ranks  of  the  employed.  In  every  direc- 
tion are  trusts  and  monopolies.  Corporations  are  superseding  indi- 
viduals and  partnerships.  Plutocracy  and  labor  are  in  hostile  camps. 
The  expenditures  of  the  Federal  government,  and  of  municipal  and 
State  governments,  have  increased  so  enormously  as  to  excite  won- 
der  and  even  tax  credulity. 

For  these  apparent  evils— to  counterbalance  all  disintegrating 
I  forces — nostroms  have  been  proposed  by  dreamers  and  charlatans  of 
every  grade.  We  have  in  our  midst  every  phase  through  which  as- 
pirations for  change  can  be  indulged.  The  root  idea  of  one  project 
is  to  destroy  ownership  in  land  through  the  force  of  taxation,  so  ap- 
plied as  to  meet  the  expenses  of  government.  Another  suggested 
remedy  is  to  obliterate  individualism  and  to  expand  the  functions  of 
government  so  that  it  may  become  the  universal  provider.  Co-oper- 
ation is  also  lauded  as  a  perfect  solvent  of  existing  problems.  In 
short,  it  is  beyond  human  power  merely  to  enumerate  the  complex 
methods  by  which  it  is  hoped  to  restore  our  political  administration 
to  the  simplicity  and  integrity  which  it  appears  temporarily  to  have 
lost. 

It  is  well  to  have  a  deep  affection  for  certain  platitudes.  God  and 
the  Moral  Law  are  two  of  them.  But,  for  the  purpose  of  this  article, 
the  "  platitude"  I  especially  desire  to  use  is  that  there  is  a  perfect 
remedy  for  all  our  political  evils  in  a  return  to  the  Democratic  inter- 
pretation of  constitutional  limitations,  from  which,  of  late  years, 
there  have  been  wide  deviations,  even  within  the  Democratic  Party 
-itself.  I  firmly  believe  that  this  government  is  not  necessarily  the 
best  administered,  but  in  itself,  not  only  the  best  existing  govern- 
ment, but  the  only  government  founded  on  principles  which  are  as 
old  as  the  race  itself,  and  consistent  with  the  laws  of  God  and  the 
necessities  of  man.    In  relation   to  the  Federal  Constitution,  and, 


indeed,  to  our  entire  system— underlying  all  the  forms  that  political 
organizations  have  assumed— the  two  opposing  tendencies,  centrip- 
etal and  centrifugal,  have  confronted  each  otht-r,  but  in  my  opinion, 
apart  from  excrescences  which  have  been  assumed  to  constitute  a 
part  of  its  policy,  the  Democratic  Party  has  held  the  constitutional 
balance.  History  may  be  and  is  perverted  every  day,  but  neither 
slavery  nor  secession  was  ever  a  doctrine  of  the  Democratic  Party. 
Its  essential  principles  may  be  stated  in  two  of  those  "platitudes," 
which  embody  the  deepest  truths. 

1.  The  restriction  of  the  action  of  the  Federal  Government, 
within  the  expressed  grants  of  the  Constitution  or  the  closely- 
guarded  implications  of  which  those  grants  would  admit,  to  such 
matters  as  equally  affect  all  the  people. 

2.  The  application  of  the  sovereignty  of  each  State  to  every 
question  not  embraced  within  the  preceding  definition,  and  re- 
specting also  the  rights  of  municipalities  and  individuals. 

These  propositions,  as  I  understand  them,  include  the  sub- 
stance of  American  Democracy ;  and,  familiar  as  they  are  to  every 
intelligent  and  educated  citizen,  furnish  the  means  of  settling 
every  practical  issue  of  the  day,  and  placing  the  affairs  of  the 
country  upon  a  durable  basis.  If  this i  be  true,  it  seems  to  me 
that  the  following  generalizations  may  be  indulged  as  to  the  direc- 
tion at  least  which  the  work  of   the  next  four  years  should  take. 

1.  Without  violent  disturbance  of  the  existing  order  of  things, 
the  whole  pressure  of  the  Democratic  Party  should  be  towards  a 
return  to  true  and  strict  constitutional  law,  and,  as  a  result  of 
this  policy,  the  gradual  removal  of  those  complications  which 
have  been  grafted  upon  our  government  during  twenty-five  years 
of  centralization  and  the  restoration  of  our  system  to  its  original 
simplicity.  - 

2.  The  opposition  of  the  Demooratio  Party  to  all  political  combi- 
nations which  have  for  their  object  the  correction  of  evils  and  the 
increase  of  prosperity,  by  enlarging  and  complicating  the  functions 
of  the  Federal  Government,  should  be  definite,  vigorous  and  unre- 
lenting. Our  institutions  are  a  protest  against  monarchy  and  im- 
perialism, of  which  paternalism,  in  all  its  phases,  retains  the  most 
glaring  and  inherent  vices.  Sixty-five  millions  of  people,  increasing 
in  a  geometrical  ratio,  year  by  year,  cannot  be  held  together  perma- 
nently under  any  central  agency  which  usurps  the  powers  and 
functions  of  individuals  and  of  the  State. 

3.  The  pledges  of  the  party  for  tariff  reform  should  be  promptly 
kept,  and  all  trusts  abolished  by  law.  The  arguments  for  and  against 
the  Republican  doctrine  of  protection,  in  the  new  and  extreme  cast 
which  it  assumed  in  the  McKinley  bill,  has  been  closed  and  the  ver- 
dict of  the  people  registered.  One  proposition,  however,  which  is  at 
once  a  guide  and  a  beacon  to  the  Democracy,  cannot  be  too  fre- 
quently considered,  and  that  is  that  if  foreign  competition  is  pre- 
vented by  a  tariff  and  domestic  competition  suppressed  by  trusts, 
the  consumers,  the  mechanics  and  the  laborers  of  the  country  are  at 
the  mercy  of  the  monopolists. 

4.  The  pension  laws  should  be  liberally  construed  and  honestly 
and  patriotically  executed,  but  the  frauds  which  have  been  and  are 
perpetrated  through  those  laws  should  be  investigated  and  exposed, 
until  each  pension  becomes  the  payment  of  a  sacred  debt,  and  not  a 
premium  upon  pretence  and  corruption. 

5.  The  currency  of  the  country,  and  especially  the  relation  of 
silver  to  gold,  should  be  regulated  in  such  a  manner  as  to  provide  a 
sufficient  and  sound  circulation  for  the  needs  of  the  whole  people, 
based  upon  intrinsic  value  and  conferring  no  special  benefits  upon 
debtors,  creditors  or  producers  of  either  metal. 

6.  The  expenditures  of  the  Federal  Government  should  be  largely 
and  speedily  brought  to  the  level  of  strict  economy,  without  weak- 
ening the  army  or  navy,  or  depriving  public  officers  of  just  com- 
pensation. 

These  are  leading  points,  which  involve  many  subsidiary  ques 
tions  to  which  it  is  impracticable  here  to  allude.  A  communication 
hastily  written,  amidst  manv  distractions,  and  restricted  in  its 
length,  must  obviously  omit  many  important  questions,  and  even  as 
to  those  with  which  it  deals  can  only  be  suggestive  rather  than  full 
or  precise.  Still,  I  hope  that  in  some  degree  I  have  responded  to 
your  invitation.  The  United  States,  in  my  opinion,  is  the  most  im- 
portant factor  in  modern  civilization,  and,  if  true  to  its  institutions, 
will  furnish  the  pattern  for  future  political  adjustments  throughout 
the  world.  Within  itself  it  possesses  every  element  for  growth  and 
development,  in  correspondence  with  the  highest  conceptions  of 
intelligence  and  of  morality.  The  value  and  power  of  "universal 
suffrage"  have  been  exhibited  in  every  crisis  in  our  history.  If  our 
Government  is  held  down  to  the  few  broad  principles  formalized  in 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  and  in  the  Constitution ;  if,  by  ed- 
ucation and  active  participation  in  public  affairs,  each  individual  is 
made,  as  far  as  possible,  "  a  law  unto  himself,"  and  if  party  methods 
are  revised  so  that  intellect,  knowledge,  experience  and  iutegrity  are 
no  longer  submerged,  but  brought  to  the  surface  and  invested  with 
their  legitimate  influence,  there  is  such  a  future  before  the  country 
as  will  fulfill  the  largest  predictions  of  the  statesmen  and  the 
prophets  of  past  ages. 


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THE  HOTEL  DEL  MONTE. 


;i  y0C  have  the  most  beautiful  place  and  the  cleanest  and  best  kept 
I  hotel  that  I  have  ever  visited  in  my  travels/1  said  the  Princess 
Louise  to  the  manager  of  the  Hotel  del  Monte  on  the  occasion  of  her 
visit  to  that  pleasure  resorc.  This  opinion  of  one  of  the  leaders  of 
European  life  was  subsequently  coincided  in  by  President  Harrison 
and  his  family  on  the  occasion  of  their  vi<it  to  California.  On  leav- 
ing Monterey,  President  Harrison  remarked  to  Manager  Schoeuwald 
on  behalf  of  himself  and  party,  that  Del  Monte,  with  its  magnificent 
grounds  and  elegant  surroundings,  was  the  most  delightful  spot  they 
bad  ever  visited,  and  thai  there  wa-.  nothing  in  the  world  to  compare 
with  the  eighteen-mile  drive  that  circles  the  Monterey  Peninsula. 
The  day  devoted  to  the  drive,  including  the  outdoor  luncheon  spread 
under  the  grand  old  trees  at  Cypress  Point,  was  declared  by  the  ladies 
of  the  party  to  be  the  "red  letter  day1'  of  the  Presidential  tour.  Well 
were  these  praises  deserved,  for  travelers  from  all  the  countries  of  the 
globe  agree  in  the  statement  that  nowhere  else  may  be  found  a  spot 
wherein  all  earthly  perfection  has  so  well  combined  to  make  life  a 
continuous  delight  as  in  and  about  the  beautiful  Hotel  of  tbeFor- 
iture  speaks  in  various  language  to  him  who  holds  commu- 
nion with  her  visible  forms  at  Monterey.  Reclining  beneath  the 
wide-spreading  branches  of  one  of  the  magnificent  oaks  that  raise 
their  mighty  heads  in  the  hotel  grounds,  inhaling  the  delicious  per- 
fumes of  thousands  of  Flora's  choicest  blossoms,  now  lulled  to  sleep 
by  the  soft  music  of  the  breeze  among  the  pines,  or  again  aroused  to 
a  realization  I  Septone'a  mighty  power,  as  there  breaks   upon 

the  stillness  the  boom  of  the  Pacific's  surf  upon  the  shore,  a  guest  at 
Del  Moote  may  well  imagine  himself  within  some  my3tic  domain 
ruled  by  the  enchanter's  wand.  The  hotel,  a  model  of  architectural 
beauty,  is  situate  in  the  midst  of  a  garden  which  has  no  equal  in  the 


world.  For  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  acres,  on  every  side,  are 
beds  of  flowers—  roses,  pansies.  violets,  cala  lilies,  heliotrope,  honey- 
suckles, nasturtiums,  tulips,  narcissus,  crocuses,  crown  imperials  and 
hundreds  of  beautiful  flowering  tropical  plants.  Here  the  air  is  per- 
meated with  the  sweet  odor  of  the  pine;  there  the  clinging  ivy  covers 
the  gnarled  limbs  of  an  ancient  oak.  Throughout  the  year  flowers 
are  in  bloom,  for  the  climate  of  Monterey  is  so  mild  and  equable 
that  the  summer-blooming  plants  of  other  lands  find  here,  in  the 
winter  months,  conditions  similar  to  those  of  their  native  heaths, 
-eir  heads  and  diffuse  their  fragrance,  fn  the  hotel  itself  may 
be  found  the  culmination  of  refinement,  ease  and  wholesome  luxury. 
E  :her  in  the  world  is  more  handsomely  furnished,  nor  at  any 
oiher  are  greater  facilities  afforded  for  the  comfort  and  pleasure  of 
guests.  From  the  handsome  office  to  the  magnificent  ballroom,  no 
expense  has  been  spared  in  the  interior  finish.  Residence  at  the  ho- 
tel includes  the  privileges  of  the  bathing  pavilion,  in  which  are  four 
immense  tanks,  filled  daily  with  water  from  the  Pacific  Ocean  and 
heated  to  varying  degrees  of  temperature.  Surf  bathing  may  be  en- 
joyed throughout  the  year.  Then  one  may  go  boating  upon  the  beauti- 
ful lake  within  the  hotel  grounds,  fish  in  its  private  streams,  bunt 
deer  upon  the  adjoining  hillsides,  or  in  one  of  the  handsome  rigs  with 
which  the  stables  are  filled,  enjoy  the  delights  of  the  famous  eighteen  - 
mile  drive,  than  which  there  is  none  more  beautiful  in  the  world. 
Cypress  Point  and  Pebble  Beach  are  visited  during  the  drive.  Cro- 
quet, lawn  tennis,  billiards  and  other  amusements  are  also  afforded. 
The  mean  temperature  at  Del  Monte  in  January,  1391,  was  5L50  de- 
grees; in  May,  00.10;  July.  81.40;  September,  85.20;  Decerns:  48. 
Dr.  Shew,  an  eminent  physician  of  Connecticut,  declared  that  Mon- 
i/proached  nearer  the  ideal  sanitarium  than  any  place  he  had 
visited.  Del  Monte  is  the  favorite  summer  resort  of  the  fashionables 
of  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  its  grounds  have  been  the  scene  of  many 
grand  fetes. 


Doc  •.''•.  van. 


:  \:  \  ,   ;  -  o  SE\V>   1.1  i  1 1  i; 


THE     COMMERCIAL  FUTURE 
OF    SAN    FRANCISCO. 


' — [~~7  HE  port  of  San  Francisco  occupies  an  exceptional  position. 
.  .  It  is  the  only  tirst  class  harbor  between  l'uget  Sound  and 
*J  |  ^  San  Diego,  and  having  a  splendid  territory  naturally  irib- 
_X_  utary  to  it.  has  already  made  great  progress  in  securing 
trif  trade  of  the  Pacific  Ocean.  But  a  commencement  has 
Only  been  made  in  thi*  direction.  It  has  been  an  expensive  |>orl  for 
shipping,  Pilotage,  towage  and  current  expenses  have  been  high. 
All  North  Pacific  Coast  ports  also  occupy  an  exceptional  position  in 
relation  to  the  world's  commerce.  Westward  from  the  Golden  Gate 
stretches  the  vast  Pacific,  six  thousand  miles  to  China.  Australia  is 
about  a?  distant,  and  only  a  few  island  groups  dot  the  great  ocean 
which  can  be  made  tributary  to  our  commerce.  Asiatic  commerce 
has  been  a  disappointing  factor  to  San  Francisco,  though  doubtless 
it  has  great  possibilities  in  the  future.  Let  the  student  of  commer- 
cial geography  examine  the  location  of  San  Francisco  and  compare 
it  with  the  irreat  seaports  of  the  world— with  New  York,  Liverpool. 
London.  Havre.  Uio  de  Janeiro,  Hongkong,  Calcutta.  Madras  or 
Bombay,  aud  one  important  fact  will  be  evident— San  Francisco  is 
on  the  outposts  of  the  world's  commerce,  at  the  end  of  a  long  conti- 
nental railway  haul,  and  15,000  miles  from  her  markets  by  cheap 
water  transportation.  Eastward  stretches  a  continent  3,200  miles 
wide,  with  two  mountain  ranges  over  which  its  locomotives  must 
climb.  Our  markets  are  chiefly  among  the  great  nations  of  Eu- 
rope and  on  our  Atlantic  seaboard,  and  we  now  suffer  because  wecan- 
not  reach  them  expeditiously  and  cheaply. 

Among  the  densely  populated  countries  of  Europe  and  on  our 
Eastern  seaboard  we  must  look  for  the  consumers  of  our  products. 
Draw  a  line  with  a  thirty  mile  radius  from  tbe  city  hall  of  New  York 
and  this  circle  of  sixty  miles,  extending  out  into  the  Atlantic  Ocean, 
contains  one  out  of  fourteen  of .  every  man,  woman  and  child  in  the 
United  States!  The  same  condition  applies  in  a  modified  degree  to 
all  our  Atlantic  cities.  There  are  mostly  the  American  markets  of 
California. 

In  our  modern  civilization  railways  are  indispensable,  especially  so 
in  a  continental  country,  both  as  a  factor  in  commerce,  travel  and 
national  defence,  and  they  should  be  encouraged  by  all  legitimate 
means.  But  there  are  limitations  in  railway  service,  and  railroads 
alone  never  will  make  San  Francisco  a  great  commercial  metropolis. 
Even  Chicago,  the  greatest  railroad  center  in  the  world,  is  greatly 
dependent  upon  its  water  transportation.  In  fact  it  is  its  position 
on  tbe  great  lakes  which  has  drawn  railways  there.  What  has  thus 
far  been  written  will  indicate  wherein  lies  the  great  commercial 
future  of  San  Francisco.  In  vain  has  nature  created  this  great  ocean 
port  if  it  is  not  to  be  utilized  to  its  utmost  capacity  !  Backed  by  a 
fertile  region,  with  abundant  land  transportation,  we  must  look  to 
the  ocean  as  a  necessity  of  our  future  development  and  prosperity. 

Not  so  thou ! 
Unchangeable,  save  to  thy  wild  waves' play 
Time  writes  no  wrinkle  on  thine  azure  brow. 
Such  as  creation's  dawn  beheld,  thou  rollest  now. 
The  ocean  is  Nature's  cheap  transportation  route — no  tracks  to 
maintain,  no  right  of  way  to  pay  for;  comparing  with  railways  in  the 
rates  of  one  to  seven  as  to  cost  of  carrying  freights.  Without  depre- 
ciating the  value  of  land  transportation  in  any  sense  (for  one  is  the 
complement  of  the  other),  to  ocean  transportation  San  Francisco 
must  look  for  her  future  prosperity.  The  longest  ocean  voyage  in 
the  world,  15,000  miles,  twice  across  the  tropics  and  around  the  Cape 
of  Storms,  has  detracted  from  the  value  of  our  maritime  position, 
and  thence  it  is  that  all  who  have  an  interest  in  the  future  welfare  of 
our  city  looks  to  the  Nicaragua  Canal  as  a  necessity  of  our  situa- 
tion. Decreasing  our  maritime  distance  nearly  one  half  the  earth's 
circumference  from  the  markets  we  must  reach,  it  is  a  full  solution 
of  the  great  question  of  cheap  transportation  for  the  products  of  our 
soil  and  industries,  and  this  without  injury  to  any  existing  interests, 
for  the  development  which  will  ensue  must  far  more  than  compen- 
sate for  the  disturbance  of  existing  conditions  in  land  transportation. 
The  assertion  that  the  Nicaragua  Canal  will  divert  Asiatic  com- 
merce from  San  Francisco  is  a  fallacy  easily  disputed  by  a  considera- 
tion of  conditions  appertaining  to  navigation.  The  shortest  route 
from  China  and  Japan  to  the  west  end  of  the  Nicaragua  Canal  passes 
within  one  hundred  and  eighty  miles  of  San  Francisco.  This  great 
and  indisputable  fact  is  the  solution  of  the  question,  and  its  import- 
ance is  obvious.  Ocean  steamships  must  have  coaling  stations— the 
less  coal  they  have  to  carry  the  more  space  they  have  for  cargo.  Con- 
sequently, San  Francisco  will  become  a  port  of  call  and  coaling  sta- 
tion for  trans-Pacific  steamships  proceeding  to  the  Atlantic  via  the 
Canal.  It  may  be  remarked  that  coal  is  cheaper  at  British  Columbia 
ports,  but  to  reach  them  the  distance  is  materially  increased. 

That  San  Francisco  will  become  a  coaling  station  for  this  trade 
means  a  great  deal  more.  These  ships  will  also  bring  freight  to  this 
port,  and  while  coaling,  discharge  it  and  replace  it  with  freight  for 
Atlantic  ports.  The  tendency  will  be  to  cheapen  freights  both  to  and 
from  San  Francisco,  making  it  a  distributing  point  for  the  consumers 
of  China  and  Japan  as  far  eastward  as  the  tariffs  of  railways  will  per- 
mit, and  it  will  then  be  to  their  interest  to  distribute  as  far  east  as 


I Ible,  Instead  of  trying  i  •    with  theSuei  I  anal  f..r  tin* 

i  broogfa  i  ■rrying  trade,  as  tl  pi  - 

By  the  use  ••:  the  *  !ana]  tbe  Immense  foresti  ol  the  North*  ■  I 
will  Bnd cheap  transportation  anda  qalok  market  al  Atlamfi  and 
European  pert-.  Onr  wheal  trade,  now  carried  on  ss  s  gamble 
■gains!  nature,  with  a  five  months'  voyage,  will  be  reduced  to  a  cash 
trade,  with  less  than  thirl;  days'  delivery.  The  perishable  products 
of  our  orchards  and  farms,  by  the  aid  of  marine  refrigeration,  now 
can  be  delivered  In  perfect  condition,  with  cheap 
freight,  at  the  great  consuming  markets  ■  >(  Europe  and  the  1  nited 
States;  over-production  will  become  an  impossibility,  and  we  shall 
DO  longer  hear  of  thousands  of  acres  of  potatoes  rotting  in  the  Sacra- 
mento Valley  because  it  does  not  pay  to  market  them,  while  the  mil- 
lions of  European  Russia  are  suffering  the  pangs  of  Starvation.  The 
city  of  Sun  Francisco  has  a  great  future,  because  the  new  conditions 
I  have  imperfectly  set  forth  are  a  certainty  of  the  near  future.  Even 
in  anticipation,  commercial  values  will  improve,  and  real  estate  values 
will  increase.  Throw  off  the  shackles  which  have  partly  closed  the 
Golden  Cate— open  its  portals  to  the  ocean  commerce  of  the  world 
without  restraint,  and  San  Francisco  will  become  the  commercial 
emporium  of  the  Pacifir.  Its  great  natural  advantages  will  then  tell 
in  its  favor,  without  the  present  disadvantage  of  maritime  isolation. 
New  York  in  fifteen  days,  New  Oilcans  in  ten  days  and  Europe  in  twenty 
five  days  easy  steaming,  with  freight  at  one-quarter  to  three-eighths  of  a 
cent  a  pound—this  is  what  the  future  promises.  It  needs  but  the 
gateway  of  the  Atlantic  to  be  opened,  and  San  Francisco  will  find  the 
only  obstacle  to  her  commercial  advancement  removed  from  her 
pathway  to  a  commercial  grandeur  unsurpassed  by  the  great  sea- 
ports of  ancient  and  modern  times  I 


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Dec.  25.  1892. 


Y7T7  HI     Pardon  my    severe  abstraction,  but  I  were  a  clod,  if 

Hsuch  visions  of  savory  joys,  toothsome  blessings  and 
brilliant  headsome  winea,  could  not  woo  me  into  smiling 
reveries  these  dull  times.  Christmas!  Blessed  day  of 
glorious  dinners  I— emphasis  on  the  "dinners."  Is  there 
a  field  in  Fancy's  realm  where  the  soul  may,  more  delighted,  stray? 
The  epicure  is  twice  blessed  if  he  have  a  sprightly  imagination,  for 
daintier  dinners  than  kings  ever  ate  may  be  served  at  his  bidding 
with  the  graceful  clouds  of  his  cigar  for  a  banquet  table.  No  matter 
what  ascetics  and  some  who  prance  around  on  '"higher  planes"  may 
say  about  such  talk  being  gross,  I  say  that  dinners,  and  above  all 
things,  Christmas  dinners,  are  first  class  soulometers.  The  soul  that 
is  not  tremulous  to  gastronomic  harmonies  at  Christmas-tide,  is  in- 
side of  somebody  who  will  bear  watching,  and  there  is  no  finer 
nature  in  him  who  is  not  warmed  by  glowing  fancies  of  a  feast  that 
follows  Christmas  chimes. 

Then  on  with  the  joyous  pictures  of 
our  next  Christmas  dinner!  They  are 
bright  and  welcome,  every  one.  They 
bring  to  the  coldest  nature  and  to  the  sad- 
dest heart  at  least  relenting  warmth  and 
a  sort  of  kind,  indulgent  feeling  of  antici- 
pation and  welcome.  If  you  are  real  hu- 
man you  have  thought  of  that  dinner  for 
weeks.  Every  thought  is  a  bright  and 
good  one.  Friends  come  with  the  train 
of  fancies.  How  beautiful  on  a  December 
day  are  the  features  of  him  that  comes 
with  a  bidding  to  Christmas  cheer!  No 
hospitality  so  blesses  him  that  gives,  as  that  which  the  yule  log 
warms.  You  think,  now  and  then  these  days,  of  the  dinner  you 
would  like  to  buy,  of  the  home  where  you  would  like  to  be  a  guest, 
of  the  dinner  you  expect  to  enjoy,  of  the  dinner  you  would  like  to 
give  and  of  Christmas  dinners  that  memory  brightly  recalls,  and 
of  the  joy  and  good  will  of  the  day  mingling  with  it  all.  You  are 
good  and  happy  when  you  dream  of  Christmas  dinners  and  when  you 
eat  them.  There  are  other  elements  in  this  universal  Christian  holi- 
day but  there  would  be  little  joy  left  if  the  dinner  were  out.  The 
soul  of  the  day  is,  "Peace  on  earth,  good  will  to  men,"  and  it  takesa 
well  satisfied  stomach  to  open  wide  the  heart  to  the  glorious  message. 
He  is  poor  and  wretched  who  does  not  catch  the  music  and  the  bene- 
diction of  the  time,  but  the  morning  bells  will  be  apt  to  jangle  if  he 
wonders,  as  they  peal,  where  he  can  eat  that  day.  But  to  the  rest  of 
the  world  the  glad  chimes  may  say,  "Tur-k-e-e-y  'nd  cranb'ry,  cran- 
b'ry  sau-auce."  Ah  yes,  the  human  element  is  strong  on  this  good 
old  day,  and  it's  the  feast  that  crowns  and  makes  perfect  the  joy  of 
it  all.  Whether  it  be  as  a  means  or  an  end  let  good  cheer  reign,  and 
let  anticipations  and  memories  of  it  be  cherished.  This  old  English 
Christmas  song  rings  like  a  Christmas  bell  and  it  is  worth  reading 
every  year: 

Come,  help  me  to  raise 
Loud  songs  to  the  praise 

Of  good  old  English  pleasures; 
To  the  Christmas  cheer, 
And  the  foaming  beer. 

And  the  buttery's  solid  treasures: 
To  the  stout  sirloin. 
And  the  rich  spiced  wine, 

And  the  boar's  head  grimly  staring; 
To  the  frumenty 
And  the  hot  mince  pie 

Which  all  folks  were  for  sharing. 
To  the  holly  and  bay 
In  their  green  array, 

Spread  over  the  walls  and  dishes; 
To  the  swinging  sup 
Of  the  wassail-cup, 

With  its  toasted  healths  and  wishes. 


But  fancies,  however  beautiful,  are  not  fillin'.  There  are  two  prac- 
tical questions  to  be  answered  before  the  real  delight  comes—"  Where 
are  we  going  to  dine?''  and  "  How  are  we  going  to  dine?"  Of 
course  its  "we."  May  you  stick  your  legs  under  your  own  an- 
tique oak— and  if  you  can't  do  that,  and  no  friend  will  invite  you  to 
his  board,  you're  an  unlucky  dog.  Of 
dinners,  the  Christmas  dinner  belongs  to 
the  home.  But  very  likely  you  are  part 
of  the  social  driftwood,  and  your  hearth-  _:,  W'^^t^ 
stone  is  a  little  rented  fireplace  in  a  sec- 
ond floor  back,  somewhere.  Then  you 
have    a     problem     in     boarding— houses, 

hotels  and    restaurants,  and    tbe    answer      ^^^^^J00^^^' 
is  in   your   purse.     Of   course  you    will      -(Ksj^^W;    ,         '^ 
have  a  turkey  dinner,  if  you   half  starve     "* 
yourself  for  a  week  to  pay  for  it.     There 
will  be  dinners  and  dinners  that  day.  Many 

a  one  of  them  will  be  better  for  a  pointer  or  two,  and  if  pointers  will 
help  out  that  dinner,  by  all  means  get  pointers.  Thank  heaven, 
wherever  we  eat.  however  many  the  courses,  and  however  costly  the 
wines  and  service,  we  will  all  by  common  consent,  let  us  hope,  eat 
turkey,  mince  pie  and  plum  pudding.  Hail,  great  triumvirate  that 
two  worlds  produced  !  It  is  hoary  with  antiquity,  and  if  the  turkey 
is  not,  be  loyal  to  the  Big  Three.  Their  absence  would  shift  the  cal- 
endar. You  may  get  the  three  indispensibles  where  one  thirty -five 
cent  dish  and  two  ten  cent  dishes  will  cost  you  fifty  cents,  and  if  you 
can't  raise  four  bits  on  Christmas  day,  and  find  somefriend  who  can, 
too,  j'ou  are  unrighteous  and  forsaken.  Perhaps,  though,  the  Salva- 
tion Army  will  serve  another  two-bit  turkey  dinner  that  day.  If  you 
are  distrustful  of  the  boarding-house  to  which  you  cling,  or  which 
clings  to  you,  you  may  conclude  to  go  outside  and  try  to  be  an  epi- 
cure. If  you  find  yourself  pondering  on  where  to  go  for  that  really 
fine  dinner  at  a  moderate  price,  you  may  Temember  that  the  first- 
class  hotels  charge  but  $1  or  $1  50  for  their  table  d'hote,  and  their 
holiday  dinners  could  not  be  duplicatf  d  elsewhere  for  anything  like 
that  sum.  But  may  be  now  you  really  know  a  fine  dinner  when  you 
eat  it,  and  don't  care  a  continental  what  it  costs.  Ah!  You're 
lucky,  then.  You  may  light  your  cigar  right  now,  and  dreamily  ar- 
range the  menu  you  might  enjoy  with  some  friend  in  the  private 
dining-room  of  some  first-class  rotisserie.  Here  is  a  Christmas  din- 
ner a  la  carte,  by  Jean  Giannini.  chef  de  cuisine  atthe  Maison  Kicbe: 

Transplanted  Ovsters  Sur  Rocher         Gmnd  vin  Montrachet  1868 

Little  Neck  Clams  on  the  Hall  Shell. 

SOUPS. 

Consomme  a  la  Chancelliere        Amontillado  seco  1845 

Puree  of  Game  aux  Quenelles  de  Faisan. 

HOT  SIDE  DISHES. 

Small  Patties  Princepse .Schloss  Johnnisberger  1845 

Mousse  de  Jambon  de  Bayonne  a  la  Belmont. 

COLD  SIDE    DISHES. 

Spanish  Olives Italian  Anchovies 

Canape  au  beurre  de  Montpellier. 

FISH. 

Salmon  Trout  a  la  Joinville— New  Potatoes. 
Filet  of  Turbot  a  la  Diplomate—  Cucumber 
'^(■L  Salad. 

JOINTS. 

Saddle  of  Spring  Lamb.  Mint  Sauce. 
Loin  of  Bear  a  la  Monte  Carlo. 

Grand  vin  CJmteav  Leoville  1875. 

ENTREES. 

fct&u^dtffiSU-  Sweetbreads  Larded  a  la  Pompadour. 

'^Sa^sS^-J^  Cutlets  of  Pigeon  a  la  Chevalierre. 

Supreme  of  Chicken   sur  Cronstadt  a  la 
Perigueux. 
Timballe  Ministerielle  Wooderne. 

Grand  Vin  Chateau  Lafite  1874. 

VEGETABLES. 

Fresh  Asparagus,  Hollandaise  Sauce. 

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\  1892 


5  v\  J  'RAN<  Im  0  NEWS  Ml  I  i  K 


Cantons  ■  In  Moellr. 
French  Peas  a  In  Pimm   - 

Flash  Mushrooms  broiled  b  la  ataltra  d'Hotel. 

Grand  Wu  Chateau  Latowr  1870  Magnum  Bonwm  1874, 

nrnca  v  i  \  nsAsi  di  rhumb, 

BOAST. 

Stuffed  Turkey.  American  Stvlc. 

Aloyau  of  Prime  Beef  a  la  liaison  Kiche 

"  Ornnd  win  dr  Bourgoytu  "  Bomanie  Cbnlt  1876. 

OAMK, 

Canvas-back  Dock  a  la  Gelie  de  'Jroseille. 

English  Snipe,  with  Water  Cress. 

Roman  Salad. 

Grand  Cotton  /Zoupe,  Mouttcvx. 

'  OLD  DB3HBB. 

Aspic  de  Perdraux. 

Pate  de  Foie  Gras  en  Bellevue. 

EHTBEHET. 

English  Plum  Pudding.  Charlotte  Florentine. 

Sabayon  Glace  a  la  Fiemontaise. 

Grand  vindc  Champagne  Brut. 

DESSERT. 

Gell£e  Rubanee  a  PHelvetienne. 

Glace  Creme  de  Venus. 

As-sorted  Cakes. 

Strawberries  and  Ice  Cream. 

Fresh  Pineapple  au  Marasquin. 

Gtande  Fint'  Champagne  1817. 
Cafe  Mocha. 

But  this  gastronomic  mosaic  will  not  tickle  many  of  our  palates, 
however  much  it  may  our  fancies.  The  possibilities  of  a  home  din- 
ner interest  more  people,  and  there  are  more  possibilities  to  it,  too, 
aside  from  the  things  to  be  eaten  and  drunk.  That  is  the  time  to  bid 
friends  to  your  board — not  too  many,  for  all  should  be  neighbors  at 
the  table.  The  old  rule  that  at  a  dinner 
the  number  should  be  no  fewer  than  the 
graces  nor  greater  than  the  muses,  may  or 
may  not  be  honored.  However  simple  or 
costly  your  dinner,  decorate  your  home,  or 
at  least  the  dining-room,  with  tasteand  ap- 
propriateness. Let  the  dining-room  sug- 
gest everywhere  the  particular  festival  at 
band.  A  suggestion  made  the  other  day 
by  Miss  Mary  A.  Bates  will  be  generally 
accepted:  *<  I  rarely  use  flowers  in  deco- 
rating the  dining-room,"  she  said,  "  and  then  only  a  few  white  ones. 
Holly,  evergreen,  mistletoe  and  Christmas  bells  should  be  used. 
Have  appropriate  Christmas  sentiments  on  the  walls,  and  with  little 
tinsel  or  metal  bells  tied  with  ropes  to  the  letters  and  banners.  There 
are  many  appropriate  devices  if  one  is  artistic  and  ingenious.  At 
one  of  Mrs.  Fair's  Christmas  dinners  a  few  years  ago,  the  central 
piece  on  the  table  was  a  finely-made  Santa  Claus,  in  a  sleigh  laden 
with  favors.  At  one  dinner,  I  remember  the  table  bore  a  large  bou- 
quet of  calla  lilies,  with  little  lighted  candles  substituted  for  the  pis- 
tils. At  another,  a  pile  of  fagots  was  the  central  figure.  Flowers 
may  be  used  freely  elsewhere  in  the  house."  What  a  theme  for  fan- 
cies a  home  dinner  may  be.  whether  it  brightens  and  blesses  your 
own  home  or  somebody  else's  hospitable  board.  There  may  be  mis- 
tresses of  palatial  homes  or  even  of  cosy  flats  who  are  planning 
Christmas  dinners  they  hope  to  be  proud  of,  and  who  may  receive, 
in  the  very  kind  spirit  in  which  they  are  here  given,  some  compe- 
tent suggestions  on  the  menu  of  an  elegant  home  dinner.  Mrs.  W. 
R.  A.  Johnson,  of  301  Lott  street,  has  given  some  marvelous  din- 
ners, served  amid  exquisite  decorations,  and  here  is  her  idea  of  a 
Christmas  dinner: 


. .  Haul  Sauterne 

. .  .  V.  0.  P.  Sherry 

Salted  Almonds 


Small  Eastern  Oysters  . .    

Purge  of  Chicken  a  la  Reine  

Green  Peppers  Stuffed 

Manzanita  Olives. 

Striped  Bass  a  la  Regence Rudesheimer 

Ponimes  de  terre  a  la  Maitre  d'Hotel. 

Filets  Mignons  a  la  Pompadour Pommery  Sec 

Sweetbread  Croquettes.  Perigueux  Sauce. 
Terrapin  a  la  Maryland, 
Maraschino  Punch. 
Bronze  Turkey,  stuffed  with  Chestnuts 

Cranberry  Sauce. 

Canvasback  Ducks,  Woodcock         .  

Celery  Mayonaise,  Currant  Jelly. 
Fresh  Asparagus,  Artichokes.  French  Peas. 
English  Plum  Pudding. 
Caramel  Frozen  Custard,  Orange  Ice  in  Orange  Baskets. 
Cakes,  Coffee. 
Miss  Kate  P.  Whitaker.  the  well  known  cooking  teacher  of  this 
city  and  Oakland  is  supposed  to  know  what  a  nice  home  dinner 
should  be.    She  estimates  the  cost  of  the  following  dinner  for  twelve 
persons  at  $18: 

Oysters  on  Half  Shell. 

SOUPS. 

Cream  of  Celery Consomme  a  la  Royale 


.  Chateau  Margaux 
.  Ctos  Vougeau 


Celery 


i  tail. 
Tar  ban  of  Bole  a  la  Colbert. 
Salmon  and  HollandalN  Bam  e, 
Potatoes  ;i  la  Windsor. 

i:t  i  r-in  -. 

Olives  Baited  Almonds. 

RKVOTl  9, 

sirloin  of  Beef,  larded. 

Saddle  of  Mutton.  Currant  Jelly. 

SIDE  DI8H  ES. 

Lamb  Cutlets,  a  la  Sotibise. 

Sweetbread  Croquet tes. 

BOA61  S. 

Turkey.  Cranberry  Sauce.  Roast  Beef. 

Celery  Salad.         Kemoulade  Sauce. 

DB8SBBT. 

Plum  Pudding.     Mince  Pies.    Wine  Jell  v.    Ice  Cream.    Lady's  Cake. 
Cheese.    Fruit.    Coffee. 
Miss  Whitaker  also   furnishes  a  menu   for  an  English  Christmas 
dinner  for  twelve  persons,  which  will  cost  about  $15.    It  is  as  follows: 

FIRST    COURSE. 

Puree  a  la  Pale-  'ine.  Clear  Oxtail  Soup. 

Turbota^..  Lobster  Sauce. 

Potato  Croquette. 

Entrees—  Chicken  a  la  Marengo,  Mushroom  Fancies. 

SECOND  COURSE. 

Roast  Goose,  Apple  Sauce;  Boiled  Turkey,  Oyster  Sauce, 
Roast  Beef,  Horseradish  Sauce. 

THIRD    COURSE. 

Grouse,  Fried  Bread  Crumbs;  Cream  Bread  Sauce;  Wild  Ducks. 

Plum  Pudding,  Ice  Pudding.  Mince  Pie, 

Cheese,  Strawberries,  Salad. 

Black  Coffee. 

Here  is  one  more  elaborate  home  dinner.  It  will  cost  about  $20. 
The  author  of  this  menu  is  J.  J.  Fourquet,  chef  at  the  Occidental 
hotel: 

Eastern  Oysters  on  Half  Shell. 

SOUPS. 

Consomme  de  Volaille  a  l'Emperiale. 

hors  d'osuvres. 

Salted  Almonds  Shrimp  Salad 

Olives  Farcies. 

FISH. 

Turban  of  Filet  of  Trout  a  la  Venetienne. 
Potatoes  en  Surprise. 

ENTREES. 

Small  Timbale  Palermitaine  Terrapin  Stew  a  la  Maryland 

Punch  au  Cliquot. 

ROAST, 

Stuffed  Turkey  with  Chestnuts,  Cranberry  Sauce. 

VEGETABLES. 

Fonds  d'artichauts  main  ten  on 

Baked  Sweet  Potatoes. 

GAME. 

English  Snipe  sur  Canape" 

DESSERT. 

Plum  Pudding,    Rum  Sauce.     Vanilla  Ice  Cream. 
Roquefort  Cheese.    Caf6  Noir. 

There  will  be  simple  dinners  tor  people  of  simple  tastes,  and  many 
of  them  will  be  enjoyed  quite  as  much  as  others  where  one  must 
"  parley  voo"  before  he  can  eat.  Many  a  prosperous  tradesman,  me- 
chanic or  laborer  will  gather  with  his  flushed  but  proud  and  smilimr 
wife  and  his  brood  of  big-eyed,  eager  youngsters  around  a  dinner 
about  like  this :  chicken  or  oyster  soup;  cel- 
ery, radishes,  chicken  pie  or  oyster  patties: 
roast  turkey  slutfed,  cranberry  sauce;  mashed 
potatoes,  baked  sweet  potatoes,  parsnips, car- 
rots; mince  pie,  plum  pudding,  nuts,  raisins, 
coffee.  Very  likely  there  will  be  claret  on 
the  table,  too,  gooii  vin  ordinaire,  at  $1  50  a 
gallon.  Wine  will  attend  more  dinners  here 
of  course  than  any  where  else  in  America.  It* 
use  will  depend  on  the  taste,  and  it  should 
also  depend  on  the  known  attitude  of  guests. 
The  old  London  cook,  by  the  way,  knew  a 
thing  or  two  when  he  was  told  to  prepare  a  dinner  for  twelve  clergy- 
men. "  Mgh  Church  or  Broad  Church  ?"  he  asited.  "  What  do  yon 
want  to  know  for?"  "Well,  hif  they  is  'Igh  Church,  they  wants 
more  wine.    Hif  they  is  Broad  Church,  they  wants  more  wittles." 

May  there  be  no  wretch  in  this  big  city  to  whom  Christmas  day 
gives  no  share  of  its  cheer,  and  to  whom  it  remains,  like  his  stomach, 
a  hollow  mockery.  May  all  those  dinners  be  large  and  bear  no  stings 
from  cooks'  misdeeds.  May  every  last  mince  pie  be  like  my  grand 
mother's — so  deep  and  rich,  its  flakey  crust  a  cornucopia  of  all  nutri- 
ent pleasures.    A  blessing  on  every  feast ! 

Ill  fares  the  land,  to  hastening  ills  a  prey, 
Where  turkey  dinners  bless  no  Christmas  day. 

Epicurus, 


Sweet  corn  cake. 


Romaine  Salade 


Assorted   Cakes 


Christmas  Number,  1892. 


8.  F.  News  Letter. 


THE     LITTLE     TEASE. 

From   the  Paintinq    by    Mizi   Wunsch. 


1892. 


SAX  FRANCISCO  NKWfl  LETTEB 


ON    PRECIOUS    STONES 


MHE  father  of  the  Jeweler's  trade  was  evidently  Prome- 
theus, for  when  he  was  freed  by  Jupiter  from  the  chains 
which    bound    him  to    Mount  Caucasus,  he  had    made  of 

1  them  a  ring,  on  wbicb  be  bad  imbedded  morsels  ef  rock. 
According  to  Hebrew  tradition,  the  rod  of  Moses  and  the 
table  of  the  commandments  were  in  sapphires.  This  stone  symbol- 
ises loyalty,  justice,  beauty  and  nobility.  With  some  fondness  for 
persona]  luxury.  Moses  authorized  among  his  priests  the  wearing  of 
precious  stones  beyond  their  splendid  rings.  The  Grand  Pontiff  had 
in  the  clasp  of  his  girdle  a  larpe  emerald  engraved  with  mysterious 
words.  The  emerald  has  the  honor  to  be  mentioned  by  St.  John  in 
the  Apocalypse.  An  emerald  of  unestimated  value  adorned  the  ring 
of  Polycrates.  King  of  Saraos.  This  King  had  always  been  the  fa- 
vorite of  Fortune,  and  he  bad  an  idea  to  stiil  further  tempt  her.  So 
he  threw  his  valuable  ring  into  the  sea,  and  the  next  day  it  was  found 
in  the  belly  of  a  fish  which  graced  the  royal  menu.  This  was  in  the 
year  230  of  the  building  of  Rome,  and  the  ring,  being  regarded  as  a 
talisman,  was  given  a  place  among  the  royal  treasures  in  the  Tem- 
ple of  Concord. 

Suetonius  relates  that  Nero  had  emeralds  hollowed  out  and  placed 
over  his  eyes  when  he  watched  the  bloody  gladiatorial  games.  This 
stone  is  the  emblem  of  charity,  hope,  joy  and  abundance.  It  has  the 
power  to  cure  epilepsy,  to  soften  suffering  and  to  hasten  the  deliver- 
ance of  women  in  childbirth. 

The  diamond  has  always  been  considered  the  most  precious  of  all 
stones.  It  is  impervious  to  fire  or  blows.  The  Grand  Pontiff  Aaron 
carried  on  his  finger  a  diamond  which  was  gifted  with  remarkable 
virtues.  This  diamond  turned  dark  and  nearly  black  when  the  He- 
brews were  in  a  state  of  mortal  sin.  If  the  guilty  merited  execution 
by  the  sword  it  turned  bloody,  but  before  innocenceit  remained  pure 
and  of  a  brilliant  whiteness. 

Rueus  assures  us  that  the  diamond  can  propagate,  and  that  one 
belonging  to  a  Princess  of  the  house  of  Luxemborgh  had  two  dia- 
monds which  produced  others  at  certain  seasons.  Boetius  reports 
the  same.  The  diamond  was  reputed  to  preserve  its  wearer  from 
epidemics  and  poisons,  to  cool  anger  and  foment  conjugal  love.  Tbe 
ancients  gave  it  the  name  of  Reconciliation  stone.  It  is  symbolical 
of  constancy,  strength  and  innocence.  The  prophets  Zachariaa  and 
Ezekiel  wrote  with  diamonds. 

The  name  of  the  precious  stone  which  was  hidden  in  the  ring  of 
Gyges  has  only  just  become  known.  It  is  presumed  to  be  the  topaz, 
of  which  Philostratus,  in  his  life  of  Appolonius,  recounts  several 
marvels.  It  is  an  attribute  of  the  sun  and  fire,  and  the  ancients 
called  it  "  Lover  of  Gold,  as  it  had  the  power  to  attract  this  metal, 
and  was  used  to  discover  hidden  treasures.  Heliodorus,  in  his  his- 
tory of  Theaganus  and  of  Caricles,  says  that  the  topaz  will  render  a 
person  carrying  it  invulnerable  to  fire,  and  that  Caricles  was  thus 
saved  against  the  revengeful  fury  of  Arcace,  Queen  of  Ethiopia.  This 
stone  was  the  first  talisman  thatTheagenus  possessed  in  Egypt.  The 
Hebraic  history  classes  the  topaz  the  twelfth  piece  of  the  first  rank 
in  the  breastplate  of  the  High  Priest.  On  it  was  engraved  the 
name  of  the  tribe  of  Simeon.  The  topaz  symbolizes  all  the  Christian 
virtues,  faith,  justice,  temperance,  sweetness  and  constancy. 

One  of  the  most  precious  stones  is  the  carbuncle  which  is  often  con- 
founded with  the  ruby  from  which  it  differs  by  the  intensity  of  the 
fires  produced  by  the  sparkle  when  it  is  imbedded  in  gold.  Ethiopia 
is  the  first  known  country  to  have  produced  these  precious  stones; 
and  the  Chaldeans  venerated  them  for  their  wonderful  talismanic 
powers.    Fable  gave  to  dragons  eyes  of  carbuncles. 

Garcia  sab  Horto,  a  physician  of  one  of  the  Viceroys  of  the  Indies, 
says  he  saw  in  one  of  the  Prince's  houses,  some  carbuncles  which 
looked  like  charcoals  flaming  in  utter  darkness.  Louis  Vertomau 
reports  that  the  King  of  Pegu  had  so  brilliant  a  carbuncle  that  it  ap- 
peared as  if  the  sun's  rays  were  piercing  the  sombre  shades  of  night. 
The  virtues  of  the  carbuncle  are  the  following.  They  can  resist  the 
ravages  of  fire,  cure  sick  eyes,  divert  evil  dreams,  bring  about  pleasing 
hallucinations,  and  serve  as  an  antidote  against  pestilential  airs. 

The  ruby  is  valued  more  highly  as  it  has  less  of  the  blue.  The 
largest  of  historical  rubies  belonged  to  Elizabeth  of  Austria,  wife  of 
Charles  IX,  which  was  as  large  as  a  fowl's  egg.  It  was  estimated  to 
be  worth  60,000  ducats,  and  by  succession  came  into  the  possession  of 
Rudolph  II,  brother  of  Elizabeth.  The  virtues  attributed  to  the  ruby 
were  to  banish  sadness,  restrain  luxury,  turn  idle  thoughts;  it  also 
symbolizes  cruelty,  anger,  carnage,  and  at  the  same  time  valor  and 
hardiness.  It  changes  color  at  the  approach  of  evil,  but  when  the 
danger  is  passed  it  returns  to  its  primitive  condition. 

The  amethyst  was  much  cherished  by  the  ancient  Roman  ladies, 
for  when  placed  upon  the  navel  it  there  attracted  the  fumes  of  drunk- 
enness and  took  them  away  from  the  head.  The  amethyst  dispels 
evil  thoughts  and  draws  to  one  the  favor  of  Princes,, 

The  opal,  robbed  to-day  of  its  ancient  splendor,  is  called  by  those 
Who  ever  laugh  at  ancient  superstition  an  unlucky  stone.  It  was  so 
valued  at  one  time  that  Senator  Nominius  preferred  to  renounce  his 
seat  rather  than  give  his  opal  to  Mark  Antony.  It  was  valued  at 
20,000  sesterces,  nearly  half  a  million  of  our  money.  The  opal  was 
said  to  raise  the  spirits,  preserve  cordial  relations  and  by  discolora- 


tion ebow  whether  be  waft  to  tbe  presence  of  friend  or  foe  To 
day  it  Is  generally  believed  to  bring  III  took.  Tola  belief  bad  Ita 
origin  in  a  Russian  legend,  and  wee  brought  to  Prance,  for  one  day 
press  i;  tftente,  when  at  the  TuUierles,  showed  a  iivdv  terror 
Ing  an  opal.  Then  (Hi  the  raloe  <>f  this  precious  stone  which 
was  one  da]  held  so  dear. 

The  turquoise  la  affectionately  regarded  by  Orientals,  and  to  con- 
sidered as  n  talisman  by  the  Persians  and  also  by  the  Russians.  In- 
crusted  in  an  iron  rinjt,  the  Stone  will  keep  its  wearer  from  sickness, 
from  accidents  and  assures  oonstanoy.  The  valaa  of  the  turquoise 
depends  on  Ita  shading,  its  size  and  thickness  The  oldest  stones  are 
particularly  valued.  It  in  an  emblem  of  truth,  of  tender  sentiments. 
It  breaks  on  the  death  of  its  owner,  and  also  changes  color  when  the 
wearer  is  sick.  This  last  assertion  is  undeniable,  and  can  be  certified 
to  by  all  lapidaries.  It  is  an  well  to  cite  the  words  of  Jerome  Cardan. 
"Not  only  do  these  precious  stones  live,  but  they  also  suffer  sickness 
and  the  bitterness  of  death." 

Among  the  lesser  stones  we  have  the  chrysolithe  which  is  a  pre- 
ventative against  folly  and  the  ague  marine,  which  carries  hope  in 
sickness. 

The  jade  is  the  oldest  and  most  curious  of  all  the  precious  stones. 
It  is  a  sacred  stone,  a  divine  stone,  and  no  other  but  a  prince  of  the 
blood  royal  had  the  right  to  possess  it.  under  pain  of  death,  and  it  is 
truly  interesting  to  consider  its  status  in  Europe  at  the  epoch  of  the 
Rennaissance.  This  stone  was  high-priced,  and  was  not  easily  ac- 
quired. At  this  time,  Argerius  Clutius.  a  very  famous  and  worthy 
doctor  of  Amsterdam,  wrote  a  treatise  on  it,  on  account  of  its  power 
upon  the  renal  system.  At  the  same  time  Italian  authors 
called  it  "Osiada."and  discoursed  upon  its  beneficial  properties 
against  sciatica.  A  magnificent  collection  of  jades  is  housed  in  the 
Trocadero  Museum,  at  Faris.  These  were  taken  from  the  Chinese  in 
1860,  when  the  English  and  French  disgracefully  sacked  the  summer 
palace.  The  Chinese  reverence  the  jade,  and  attribute  to  it  the  most 
marvellous  properties.  In  conclusion,  we  submit  a  calendar  of  pre- 
cious stones,  and  in  which  month  they  should  be  worn :  January,  the 
Hyacinth  garnet;  February,  amethyst;  March,  bloodstone;  April, 
sapphire;  May.  emerald;  June,  agate,  July,  ruby  cornelian;  Au- 
gust, sardonyx;  September,  chrysolite;  October,  sea  opal;  Novem- 
ber, topaz;  December,  turquoise. 

The  omission  of  the  mention  of  diamond  is  not  caused  by  forget- 
fulness,  for  it  may  be  added  that  a  diamond  is  ever  welcome  on  the 
person  of  a.  lady. 


ELUSIVE. 

The  sun  would  woo,  the  shadow  flies; 
The  king  can  never  clasp  his  prize. 
With  fleeting  foot  she  silent  speeds, 
Nor  lingers  in  the  open  meads, 
But  lurks  behind  the  old  stone  wall, 
And  under  friendly  alders  tall, 
That  stand  along  the  brook's  cool  brim 
To  guide  her  to  the  fastness  dim 

Of  forest  old, 

Nor  king  so  bold 
To  follow  in  her  footsteps  there; 
He  sets  aflame  the  trembling  air, 
And  floats  upon  a  luring  mist 
Of  crimson  and  of  amethyst. 
Unheeding  and  aloof  she  stands, 
Toward  the  gloaming  east  her  hands 

Held  longingly; 

And  frowningly 
The  king  his  flaming  banner  furled, 
And  sped  around  the  spinning  world, 
That  he  might  meet  her  as  she  stands. 
And  clasp  her  all  unwilling  hands. 
"A  sudden,  'wildering,  swift  surprise, 
And  she  is  mine!  "  Oh,  king,  most  wise  I 

In  burst  of  flame 

He  sudden  came, 

But  vain  his  quest; 

Toward  the  west 
The  shadow  turned,  a  startled  thing, 
And  poised,  as  bird  upon  the  wing; 
Then  o'er  the  dew-strewn  grasses  fled, 
Nor  dared  to  turn  her  dusky  head. 

Fly,  shadow,  fly, 
For  once  within  his  arms,  you  die! 

Celia  A.  Haywaed. 


HOW  different  robins  and  other  small  birds  are  from  chickens 
in  at  least  one  of  their  characteristics!  When  a  hen,  or  even 
a  chick  finds  a  bit  of  bread,  a  worm,  or  other  tempting  morsel,  she 
seizes  it  greedily,  and  hurries  to  a  safe  place  to  devour  it  alone ;  but 
little  birds,  in  and  out  of  the  nest,  always  agree,  many  of  them  join-  - 
ing  one  who  has  found  a  wind-fall,  if  not  by  expressedly  implied  in- 
vitation, his  enjoyment  being  increased  by  theirs.  Do  not  these  con- 
trasting instincts  find  a  parallel  in  human  nature? 


SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


PAUVRETTE." 


Arthur  H.  Barendt. 


MHERE  was  a  soft  footfall  on  the  stairs,  a  gentle  groping 
sound  and  a  timid  knock  on  the  door.  Largille,  the  artist, 
with   affected   severity  called   to  the   visitor  to   enter,  not 

1       moving  from  hia  seat  on  a  three-legged  stool,  nor  releasing 
the  knee  he  embraced. 

The  door  moved  ever  so  slowly,  the  drapery  was  pushed  aside,  and 
there  in  the  light  of  the  skyward  turned  windows  of  the  studio  stood 
a  young  woman. 

The  artist's  den  was  at  the  top  of  an  old  house  on  a  narrow  street 
in  the  Latin  quarter  of  Paris,  close  to  the  Ecole  des  Beaux  Arts,  and 
so  within  a  stone's  throw  of  the  Seine.  It  would  have  been  difficult 
to  take  in  the  quaint  gabled  building  at  a  glance,  so  tall  was  it  and  so 
narrow  was  the  winding  street.  When  all  Paris  seethed  in  July  heat 
this  alley,  with  its  sidewalks  two  feet  wide,  its  cobbled  street,  scarce 
broad  enough  for  the  charbonnier's  cart,  was  cool  and  dim.  Along 
each  side  were  little  stores,  with  small  paned  windows,  crammed  with 
photographs  of  the  masterpieces  in  the  Louvre,  the  Luxembourg  and 
Versailles.  To  one  side  of  such  a  store  was  the  slit-like  entrance 
leading  to  the  uncovered  stairs,  which  with  uncomfortably  steep 
tread  reached  the  door  which  had  just  been  opened  in  response  to  the 
artist's  sharp  call. 

A  very  pale  face  with  just  a  tinge  of  olive  in  the  complexion,  eyes 
so  dark,  so  pleading,  they  seemed  to  have  gathered  in  their  depths 
all  the  life  of  the  graceful  figure,  the  girl  stood  there  and  waited. 

Largille,  still  embracing  his  knee,  turned  towards  her,  examined 
his  visitor  critically,  then  suddenly  rising,  said  to  his  companion, 
who  had  half  risen  from  a  lounge,  "  Albert,  look  there,  I've  hunted 
Paris  from  end  to  end,  and  just  as  I  give  up  in  despair,  in  walks  my 
model." 

The  girl  stepped  to  the  middle  of  the  room,  and  turning  to  Largille, 
confirmed  his  belief  by  stating  that  she  sought  engagement  as  a 
model.  She  was  from  the  Basque  Pyrenees,  her  accent  betrayed  it. 
She  glanced  at  the  artist,  then  at  Albert,  and  mechanically  removed 
a  small  hat  and  drew  a  little  silver  dagger  from  her  hair,  which  fell 
in  reddish-gold  profusion  over  her  shoulders.  Gracefully  she  slipped 
off  a  sort  of  bodice,  revealing  neck  and  arms  of  the  ivory  whiteness 
peculiar  to  auburn  haired  women.  There  was  nothing  immodest  in 
her  demeanor,  and  no  one  would  have  accused  her  of  being  indecor- 
ous. Her  actions  merely  bespoke  the  model  who  knew  what  would 
be  required  of  her,  and  who  was  anxious  to  have  the  question  of  her 
fitness  decided  at  once.  Largille's  exclamation  had  encouraged  her, 
and  closer  study  convinced  him  that  he  had  made  no  mistake. 
Rather  above  the  average  height,  a  face  full  of  thought,  oval,  and  of 
Grecian  type,  a  mouth  suggestive  of  sympathy  and  passion,  and  a 
chin  as  round  as  beauty's  curve,  she  was  a  strikingly  handsome 
woman,  and  the  simpleness  of  her  dress  enhanced  the  shapliness  of 
her  figure. 

Without  being  a  great  artist,  Largille  was  an  excellent  draughts- 
man and  a  good  colorist.  He  was  the  very  type  of  painter  who 
could  be  counted  upon  in  time  to  become  a  member  of  the  Academy. 
How  had  this  girl  from  the  despised  Basque  country  come  by  her 
head,  her  hair,  her  shoulders?  he  asked  himself,  and  Albert  seemed  to 
be  puzzled  by  the  same  question. 

In  a  few  words  the  bargain  was  struck  with  the  young  visitor,  and 
with  the  freedom  so  easily  established  between  painter  and  model, 
the  girl  answered  questions  put  to  her  as  she  posed  for  the  first 
sketch.  She  talked  pleasantly  in  spite  of  her  accent,  and  the  very 
fact  that  she  bad  found  what  she  had  sought  made  her  more  com- 
municative than  she  might  otherwise  have  been.  Of  herself  she  said 
little,  though  from  what  she  did  say  it  was  evident  that  she  had  not 
been  long  in  the  capital,  nor  had  she  been  fortunate  in  her  efforts  to 
earn  a  living.  Albert  asked  her  one  or  two  questions  while  Largille, 
seated  before  a  gray  canvas,  with  a  stick  of  charcoal  in  his  hand, 
worked  away.  Occasionally  he  made  a  sign  to  her,  and  the  girl's 
quick  eye  catching  his  intention,  she  moved  her  head  as  slightly  as 
he  indicated. 

For  an  hour  or  more  the  model  posed,  with  short  intervals  of  rest, 
Albert  looking  at  her  and  the  canvas  alternately,  as  Largille  put  in 
a  line  or  rubbed  one  out  with  his  finger.  At  last  he  seemed  to  be 
fairly  well  satisfied,  and  standing  up,  examined  both  model  and 
sketch  critically,  then,  in  his  somewhat  brusque  style,  he  said:  '•  A 
demain  Pauvrette"  In  a  few  seconds  the  hair  had  been  rolled  up,  the 
hat  had  been  replaced,  the  fee  paid,  and  the  young  visitor,  with  a 
graceful  curtsey,  had  disappeared  behind  the  drapery,  and  her  foot- 
fall echoed  on  the  stairs. 

Largille  had  called  her"  Pauvrette,"  just  because,  from  what  she 
had  said,  he  guessed  she  was  poor,  and  while  he  sat  working  away, 
he  thought  of  her  as  a  "  poor  little  one"  who  had  strayed  into  his 
studio.  His  thoughts  had  found  involuntary  expression  in  the  name 
"  Pauvrette,"  and  by  it  she  was  thenceforth  known  to  both  her 
newly-made  acquaintances. 

*  *  *  *  # 

*  Three  months  passed.  For  an  hour  or  two,  three  or  four  days  a 
week,  Pauvrette  posed  at  the  studio.  Largille  knew  her  physically 
as  a  botanist  a  flower,  and  a  dozen  or  more  sketches  leaning  against 
the  paint-splashed  and  pencil-covered  walls  of  the  studio  were  evi- 


dences of  the  studies  he  had  made.  That  her  ankle  was  perhaps  a 
trifle  too  full ;  that  her  shoulders  were  perfect  he  well  knew;  but  of 
who  she  was,  where  she  lived  and  what  had  brought  her  to  Paris,  he 
knew  less  than  of  the  leaves  which  floated  down  the  river  within  a 
few  yards  of  the  studio.  Albert,  whenever  the  subject  of  Largille's 
sketches  were  such  that  his  presence  could  not  be  objected  to,  was 
present  in  the  studio,  and  he,  like  the  unscientific  flower  lover,  had 
studied  the  girl;  admired  her  gentle  disposition,  her  self-respecting 
manner,  and  perhaps  felt  a  stronger  feeling  than  friendship  for  her. 
He  had  on  more  than  one  occasion  tried  to  learn  more  of  her.  He 
had  even  followed  her  at  a  distance,  down  the  boulevard  Saint  Ger- 
main, up  the  boulevard  Saint  Michel  towards  the  Luxembourg,  and 
had  then  lost  sight  of  her,  as  she  had  turned  quickly  into  one  of  the 
little  side  streets  and  disappeared.  In  their  conversations  both  men 
admitted  their  strong  liking  for  the  girl  who  had  thus  accidentally 
drifted  into  the  Parisian  studio  from  the  Pyrenees,  and  both  won- 
dered who  she  could  be.  She  had  posed  before;  but  she  never  said 
for  whom,  and  adroitly  avoided  all  references  to  her  life  outside  of 
Paris.  She  sought  employment  from  no  other  artist,  and  besides 
posing  for  Largille,  her  only  other  occupation  seemed  to  be  lace-mak- 
ing, which  she  did  with  skill  and  rapidity,  often  bringing  her  work  to 
the  studio  with  her. 

Largille's  picture  was  on  the  line  at  the  salon,  had  received  honora- 
ble mention,  and,  for  a  comparatively  young  artist,  the  canvas  had 
been  the  subject  of  a  good  deal  of  inquiry.  One  afternoon,  when  Lar- 
gille was  alone  in  his  studio  looking  over  some  old  sketches,  he  was 
interrupted  by  a  visitor.  The  man  walked  in  without  knocking,  and 
with  anything  but  prepossessing  assurance  inquired  for  the  artist  tak- 
ing a  seat  in  one  of  the  X-shaped  chairs.  He  was  a  tall,  strongly 
built  man,  rather  flashily  dressed  and  possessed  of  peculiar  eyes. 
They  were  yellow,  metallic-looking,  animal  eyes ;  there  was  cruelty 
and  cunning  in  them,  and  to  most  men  they  would  have  been  a  warn- 
ing, though  to  women,  who  see  so  differently  the  opposite  sex,  it 
would  be  hard  to  say  whether  they  might  not  have  been  fascinating 
instead  of  repulsive.  He  made  himself  at  home  at  once,  examined 
many  of  the  canvasses  which  lay  one  against  the  other  towards  the 
wall,  and  interspersed  his  questions  with  critically  commendatory  re- 
marks upon  the  sketches,  as  he  held  up  one  after  another  to  the  light. 
He  had  seen  Largille's  picture  at  the  salon,  was  looking  for  a  model ,  the 
one,  in  fact,  who  had  sat  for  the  artist;  could  he  give  her  name,  ad- 
dress, or  when  could  she  be  found  at  the  studio  ? 

Largille  instinctively  opposed  the  man  and  told  him  that  he  knew 
nothing  of  the  girl  further  than  that  she  had  come  of  her  own  accord 
to  the  studio.  These  apparently  unsatisfactory  answers  seemed, 
however,  to  be  what  the  visitor  was  most  interested  in  learning,  and 
with  studied  carelessness  he  inquired  more  fully  into  "  Pauvrette's" 
first  visit,  smiling  as  though  the  oddity  of  an  artist  having  a  model 
about  whom  he  knew  nothing,  amused  him.  In  a  few  minutes,  the 
man  with  the  yellow  eyes  left,  giving  a  name  and  address  which  Lar- 
gille did  not  care  to  notice  or  remember. 

The  circumstance  of  the  visit  was  casually  mentioned  to  Albert, 
and  when  "Pauvrette"  again  called  at  the  studio  to  pose  for  the  pic- 
ture on  which  Largille  laughingly  told  her  he  intended  to  build  last- 
ing fame,  it  was  only  a  chance  reference  of  hers  to  the  painting  on 
exhibition  that  reminded  him  of  the  man  in  search  of  a  model. 
' '  Pauvrette' '  was  alarmed  when  she  heard  of  the  visitor.  The  descrip- 
tion of  the  man  she  evidently  recognized,  for  Albert  noticed  what 
Largille,  busy  mixing  his  paints  did  not  see, — she  changed  color  rap- 
idly and  slipping  from  the  raised  platform  on  which  she  was  posing 
hastily  gulped  down  a  glass  of  water.  During  the  rest  of  the  day  she 
was  much  quieter  than  usual,  she  appeared  to  be  preoccupied  and 
more  than  once  had  Largille  to  repeat  his  signs  to  her.  She  recov- 
ered her  spirits  before  she  left,  however,  and  though  so  far  as  Albert 
knew  she  never  re-entered  the  studio,  she  was  content. 

Two  days  later,  Albert  stopped  at  a  little  estaminet  behind  the 
Pantheon  as  he  had  often  done  before  retiring  and  sat  down  at  one 
of  the  tables.  Suddenly  his  attention  was  attracted  by  a  woman's 
voice;  a  familiar  one — he  was  sure  it  was  Pauvrette's.  She  was  evi- 
dently much  agitated  and  he  heard  her  repeat  again  and  again  the 
words : — l,Non,  non,  mon  cher,  je  t'asmre,  je  Vassure."  The  man  was 
angry  and  spoke  in  subdued  tones  which  none  the  less  ill-concealed 
his  passion.  Here  was  something  of  which  Albert  knew  nothing. 
Pauvrette  had  not  been  at  the  studio  for  two  days  and  yet  illness  could 
not  have  been  her  excuse.  She  had  never  spoken  of  a  single  acquaint- 
ance except  a  chance  girl  friend,  and  yet  she  was  talking  in  familiar 
terms  to  a  man.  Albert  hesitated  a  moment  and  then  mentally  re- 
proving himself  for  having  listened,  finished  his  midnight  meal  and 
left  the  restaurant  troubled  to  know  that  the  girl  evidently  had  a 
lover  and  also  that  there  was  some  serious  disagreement  between  the 
two. 

It  mitfht  have  been  a  week  or  perhaps  ten  days  later  that  Paris  re- 
ceived one  of  her  periodic  and  quickly  passing  shocks.  A  fearful  crime 
had  been  committed,  one  which  came  home  with  terrible  force  to 
Albert.  He  had  slept  late,  after  a  trip  to  the  country,  and  as  he  lay 
in  bed  his  eyes  wandered  lazily  to  the  morning  paper  which  had  been 
pusbed  under  the  door.  Thus  lying  he  leisurely  spelled  out  the 
"scare"  head  lines  of  Le  Temps.  In  an  instant  he  was  up  and  with 
beating  heart  read  of  the  discovery  of  the  body  of  his  friend  Largille 
lying  face  down  in  his  studio,  stabbed  in  the  back.  The  body  had 
been  found  by  accident.  The  concierge  had  tramped  up  those  steep 
steps  from  the  ground  floor  to  see  if  Monsieur  the  artist  wanted  a 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


BAN  1  KAV  ISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Hit,  and  in  the  dark  room  he  had  stumbled  KRM  Largille's  body. 
With  painful  exactitude  the  reporters  bad  detailed  every  incident, 
had  told  that  the  work  was  evidently  that  of  an  assassin ;  that  the  old 
man  was  so  unnerved  he  could  scarcely  recount  to  the   Prefct  de 

how  he  had  made  the  discovery,  and  so  on.  column  after  col- 
umn, concluding  with  a  short  obituary  notice  of  the  artist,  and  the 
statement  that  efforts  had  been  made  to  find  his  friend  Albert — but 
in  vain. 

■  •••«•••• 

Four  weeks  had  passed;  it  was  Christmas  Eve  and  a  heavy  thaw 
had  been  followed  by  a  sharp  frost.  Traffic  was  almost  stopped  in 
the  streets,  and  everybody  perforce  walked  along  the  slippery  side- 
walks with  the  mincing  step  of  a  dancing  master. 

Albert  had  told  the  police  all  he  knew.  He  had  seen  the  only  evi- 
dence of  how  the  deed  was  committed,  a  dagger  exactly  like  the  mina- 
ture  silver  weapon  which  Pauvrette  had  drawn  from  her  hair  that 
first  day  in  Largille's  studio.  The  Prefect  examined  Albert  very 
closely  as  to  the  young  girl's  strange  disappearance,  and  he  was  kept 
running  back  and  forth  to  the  big  stone  police  headquarters;  then  in- 
terest languished,  and  further  than  an  announcement  of  the  sale  of 
the  artist's  sketches,  Largille's  name  caused  no  further  comment. 

The  simple  facts  in  the  hands  of  the  police  were  that  the  blow  had 
evidently  been  struck  by  a  powerful  hand,  that  there  had  been  no 
struggle,  that  the  weapon  was  exactly  similar  in  design  to  the  hair 
pin  worn  by  a  young  girl  who  was  known  only  as  "Pauvrette"  and 
who  had  served  as  model  to  the  murdered  man.  Though  Albert  had 
never  seen  the  stranger  whom  he  had  heard  quarreling  with  Pauv- 
rette, he  associated  him  with  the  man  who  had  called  on  Largille  to 
learn  the  whereabouts  of  the  young  model,  but  it  was  only  a  sup- 
position that  the  two  men  were  the  same,  and  so  he  told  the  chief  of 
the  man  "aux  yeux  jaunes." 

Downcast  and  troubled  at  the  loss  of  his  friend  and  missing  more 
keenly  than  he  had  ever  expected,  the  presence  of  Pauvrette,  Albert 
was  walking  along  the  well-paved  Seine  embankment,  when  his  eye 
was  caught  by  a  countrywoman,  warmly  clad  and  carrying  a  basket 
on  one  arm.  Despite  her  peasant  like  appearance  she  was  evidently 
familiar  with  the  city,  and  as  she  tramped  with  sturdy  but  cautious 
step  he  followed  her.  She  crossed  the  Pont  Neuf  half  way,  and  on 
the  He  de  la  Cite  turned  her  steps  toward  the  Hotel  Dieu.  Noticing 
AJbert  close  to  her,  she  turned  her  apple-complexioned,  cheery  face 
oward  him  and  saluted  him  in  the  friendly  manner  of  the  French 


peasant. 

"Where  was  she  going?  Only  as  far  as  the  Morgue.  She  did  so 
every  Christmas  Kve;"  and  the  face  saddened  as  though  there  were 
a  painful  memory  connected  with  her  annual  visit.  Then  she  bright- 
ened, and  said:  "  When  all  Paris  ih  guy  I  like  t<>  remember  the  poor 
dead  ones  here,  and  take  a  few  flowers  to  lay  about  them.  It  makes 
me  feel  better,  and  I  think  that  even  if  they  are  unknown  there  is 
someone  who  would  like  to  see  the  flowers  laid  beside  them  on  those 
cold  slabs."  She  chatted  away  freely;  told  how  kind  the  keeper  was 
to  let  her  put  the  flowers  there,  explained  how  hard  it  was  to  raise 
her  "Morgue  bouquets,"  and  lifted  one  corner  of  the  cover  of  her 
basket  so  that  Albert  might  see  the  flowers  her  generous  heart  had 
prompted  her  to  gather  for  the  unknown  dead. 

Talking  together  they  reached  the  big  doors  of  the  morgue,  and 
nodding  a  friendly  good-night  she  passed  to  a  side  entrance,  while 
Albert  stepped  into  the  silent  building.  There  were  several  bodies 
tilted  towards  the  big  glass  screen,  and  the  few  people  who  looked  on 
spoke  only  in  whispers,  while  the  men  stood  with  uncovered  heads.  In 
his  morbid  frame  of  mind  Albert  scanned  the  features  of  the  silent 
dead,  and  presently  saw  the  country  woman  behind  the  glass  screen 
with  tender  reverence  place  a  little  bouquet  of  flowers,  first  on  one, 
and  then  on  another,  hushed  breast.  He  followed  her  movements  to 
the  last  slab,  and  then  he  fell.  A  pair  of  powerful  arms  picked  him 
up  and  carried  him  into  the  open  air,  where  he  soon  recovered.  The 
shock  was  too  much,  for  be  had  recognized  the  pale  face,  even  though 
the  eyes  were  closed,  and  the  reddish-gold  hair  of  little  Pauvrette.  A 
voice  which  seemed  familiar  recalled  him  to  his  senses,  and  looking 
up  he  saw  a  man  with  yellow  eyes  who  asked  where  he  wished  to  be 
taken.  To  the  Prefecture  de  Police  he  answered,  and  the  solitary 
cabman  who  had  been  in  hailing  distance  helped  Albert  in,  and  drove 
him  once  more  to  the  big  stone  building  to  add  another  fragment  to 
his  incompleted  story. 

On  the  following  day  Albert  received  a  note  written  in  a  firm  hand, 
briefly  stating  that  the  writer  had  told  "  Pauvrette"  he  would  kill 
her  lover;  that  he  had  done  so,  and,  she  being  dead,  he  had  nothing 
more  to  live  for.  He  called  her  "  Pauvrette  "  and  he  signed  his  name 
as  the  papers  had  spoken  of  him,  "  Vhomme  aux  yeux  jaunes." 

John  W.  Carmany,  of  25  Kearny  street,  has  the  reputation  of  giv- 
ing greater  satisfaction  in  his  merchant  tailoring  than  any  other  mer- 
chant in  town.  His  dress  suits  and  business  suits  of  imported  and 
domestic  goods  are  made  by  one  of  the  very  best  cutters  in  the  city. 


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Dec.  25,  1892. 


THE     YEAR'S    VINTAGE. 


KHE  vintage  of  Ibe  past  year,  while  disappointing  as  to 
quantity,  gives  every  promise  of  being  excellent  as  con- 
cerns the  quality  of  the  product.  Throughout  the  State 
the  conditions  were  perfect  at  the  tiiue  the  grapes  were 
picked,  the  fermentations  were,  as  a  rule,  good,  and  it  is 
not  too  much  to  say  that  the  wines  of  '92  give  hope  of  being  notable 
among  all  those  of  recent  years.  The  producers  and  the  wine  mer- 
chants are  in  a  better  frame  of  mind  to-day  than  at  any  time  within 
four  years.  It  is  true  that  the  phylloxera,  the  mysterious  Anaheim 
disease,  and  the  unpropitious  weather  during  the  months  of  April, 
May  and  June  all  had  the  effect  of  greatly  reducing  the  wine  yield  of 
the  year;  but  by  many,  these  ordinarily  untoward  losses  are  regarded 
by  the  most  conservative  as  beneficial  in  the  long  run  to  all  concerned. 
The  plain,  bare  fact  of  the  matter  is  that  we  have  been  making  far 
too  much  wine— good,  oad  and  indifferent— for  the  requirements  of 
the  market.  Up  to  a  short  time  ago  stocks  constantly  augmented, 
but  at  last  the  tables  have  turned.  Consumption  is  considerably 
larger  than  the  production,  and  the  supplies  of  the  older  wines  are 
diminishing  at  a  rate  which  presages  their  early  exhaustion,  and  the 
consequent  advance  all  around  in  values.  I  do  not  think  that  buyers 
will  be  able  to  secure  wines  for  many  years  at  such  low  prices  as  have 
ruled.  Throughout  the  principal  producing  sections  the  wine  makers 
are  holding  out  for  prices  that  a  year  or  two  ago  would  have  seemed 
out  of  the  question.  Their  demands  are  not  unreasonable,  consider- 
ing the  cost  of  production,  and  it  is  fair  to  believe  that  they  will  be 
met,  as  the  merchants  in  San  Francisco  find  it  absolutely  impossible 
to  secure  new  stocks  at  the  old  ruinous  rates. 

There  is  one  thing  which  these  years  of  depression  must  have 
taught  all  the  industry.  It  is  that  mere  cheapness,  when  coupled 
with  fair  quality,  will  not  induce  people  to  drink  wine.  In  times  past 
it  has  been  possible  to  buy  a  passably  fair  claret  such  as  the  great 
mass  of  the  Freneh  people  would  be  only  too  glad  to  get,  at  twenty  or 
twenty-five  cents  a  gallon.  This  is  cheaper  than  beer,  cheaper  than 
milk,  and,  I  believe,  cheaper  than  water  is  sold  for  at  certain  places. 
Yet,  withal,  the  American  people  do  not  take  kindly  to  the  wine. 
They  are,  as  a  class,  quite  innocent  of  how,  when  and  where  to  drink 
wine.  Some  serve  it  when  entertaining  their  friends,  some  labor 
under  the  impression  that  it  is  a  tipple  and  must  needs  be  gulped  as 
spirits,  but  how  many  are  there  who  appreciate  the  soothing,  health- 
giving,  blood-warming,  peace-inspiring  qualities  of  a  gently-warmed 
and  properly-served  claret  or  burgundy,  taken  in  moderation  and 
happily  blended  with  a  good  dinner?  Not  many  I  wot.  It  has  al- 
ways seemed  to  me  that  we  Americans  need  a  campaign  of  education 
on  the  question  of  wine  drinking,  and,  incidentally,  of  eating.  For 
some  reason,  entirely  unexplainable,  it  appears  that  the  proximity  of 
vineyards  is  necessary  to  make  any  people  habitual  consumers  of 
wine;  but  certainly  we  in  California)  who  are  not,  as  a  whole,  very 
steady  consumers,  cannot  say  that  the  vineyards  have  had  more  than 
a  passing  influence  upon  the  habits  of  the  people.  A  snobbish  dis- 
like Tor  domestic  wine  products,  which  had  its  effect  in  preventing 
the  American  population  of  California  from  drinking  our  own  wines 
in  times  past,  may  have  had  something  to  do  with  it;  and  the  crude- 
ness  of  the  products  of  the  early  viticulturists  undoubtedly  had  its 
share;  but  now  that  the  time  has  arrived  when  it  can  be  truthfully 
said  that  the  bulk  of  our  wines  are  equal,;  if  not  superior  to,  the 
bulk  of  the  French  wines,  and  that  we  have  in  this  State,  certain 
growths  which  rauk  well  with  the  classed  growths  of  France,  any  ob- 
jection on  the  score  of  inferiority  of  products  is  puerile,  or  worse.  I 
do  not  believe  that  Californians  know  or  appreciate  the  vast  improve- 
ments that  have  been  brought  about  in  the  quality  of  the  wines  pro- 
duced at  their  very  doors.  Certainly  recognition  at  Paris,  at  Dublin, 
at  Genoa,  such  as  California  has  received  from  foreign  and  disinter- 
ested judges,  means  something. 

It  must  not  be  supposed  that  I  intend  to  say  by  this  that  our  wines 
have  reached  the  acme  of  their  perfection.  1  believe  that  their  de- 
velopment has  only  begun.  In  every  wiue-producing  valley  are  en- 
thusiasts who  are  working  out  quietly  but  steadily  the  question  as  to 
whether  we  will  produce  the  equal  of  the  grand  vins  of  France.  These 
people  you  and  I  do  not  hear  about  frequently.  They  have  their 
plots  of  five  and  ten  and  twenty  acres,  and  are  studying  out  the 
questions  of  the  adaptability  of  the  finest  varieties  of  grapes  to  differ- 
ent soils  and  climates,  and  exposures  to  rain  and  wind.  Some  will 
achieve  success  and  some  will  fail,  but  their  earnest  work  will  count 
for  something.  One  by  one  the  really  choice  spots  will  be  discovered ; 
possibly  in  valleys  where  the  vine  now  flourishes,  and  possibly 
where  it  is  still  a  stranger  to  the  soil.  Many  of  the  choice  locations 
and  vineyards  are  known  already,  and  patient  investigation  and  ex- 
perimenting, such  as  is  going  on  all  the  time,  cannot  fail  to  reveal 
more,  and  probably  better  ones. 

The  creation  of  a  staple  viticultural  industry  is  the  matter  of  de- 
cades. The  vineyardists  of  California  have  had  a  hard  struggle,  and 
many  have  lost  their  ail  in  the  work,  but  their  ettorts  have  not  been 
for  naught.  In  spite  of  all  the  drawbacks  that  have  been  encountered, 
and  the  set-backs  in  the  wav  of  insufficient  capital,  insufficient 
markets,  the  absolute  indifference  of  the  moneyed  classes,  and  the 
steady  though  diminishing  prejudice  of  the  public  against  domestic 
wines,  a  foundation  has  been  laid  sufficiently  broad  and  deep  to  in- 


sure the  industry  being  a  lasting  source  of  wealth  and  prosperity  to 
the  State,  as  well  as  a  credit  to  all  Californians. 

It  has  been  only  abuut  five  years  since  California  wines,  true  to 
label,  have  been  sold  to  any  extent  in  the  hotels  and  restaurants  of 
San  Francisco.  Tbis  result,  which  has  brought  about  a  larger  de- 
mand from  private  families  than  would  otherwise  have  been  the 
case,  was  not  achieved  without  a  hard  battle.  With  few  exceptions, 
hotel  men  and  restaurateurs  did  not  look  kindly  on  the  proposition 
to  give  California  brands  a  place  on  the  menu,  nor  did  the  clubs  at 
first  fall  into  line.  What  we  need  now  is  an  extension  of  the  good 
work  all  over  the  State,  and  still  more  in  the  large  cities  of  the  East. 
A  proposition  to  undertake  this  work  in  the  East  has  several  times 
been  discussed  by  the  Viticultural  Commissioners,  and  it  may  be 
that  the  matter  will  be  carried  to  a  successful  conclusion. 

Turning  now  to  the  details  of  the  trade  of  the  past  year,  it  may  be 
said  that  the  volume  has  been  about  as  large  as  that  of  1891,  in  the 
matter  of  shipments  East  and  to  foreign  ports,  and  the  coast  trade 
has  been  considerably  augmented.  The  market  for  our  wines  now 
reaches  20.000,000  or  22.000.000  gallons  annually,  12,000.000  of  which 
goe«  to  the  East  and  to  foreign  ports,  and  the  rest  is  distributed  on  the 
coast.  The  trade  with  Central  America  and  Hawaii  has  fallen  off, 
on  accouut  of  the  unfavorable  condition  of  business  in  those  coun- 
tries, but  the  shipments  to  England  and  Germany  are  more  than 
double  what  they  were  in  1891.  The  rail  shipments  to  the  East  also 
show  a  hue  growth.  This  indicates  a  fine  increase  in  direct  ship- 
ments to  actual  consumers,  which  is  also  a  good  indication  for  the 
trade.  ^_ 

The  brandy  business  is  in  a  fair  state.  The  exports  to  England,  in 
1892,  were  more  than  double  what  they  were  in  1891.  The  German 
trade  also  shows  a  remarkable  increase,  and  the  European  exports 
this  calendar  year  are  about  200,000  gallons.  When  it  is  remembered 
that  five  years  ago  the  trade  to  Europe  was  substantially  nothing, 
the  hopes  that  are  entertained  for  a  still  larger  demand  abroad  do 
not  seem  unwarranted.  Up  to  this  time,  the  great  part  of  the 
brandy  sent  abroad  has  been  produced  by  the  Stanford  estate  at 
Vina,  the  great  Natoma  vineyard  at  Natoma,  which  is  largely  owned 
by  capitalists  connected  with  the  Spring  Valley  Company,  and  by 
Walden  &  Co.,  who  were  the  pioneers  in  the  business,  and  who  es- 
tablished the  standard  for  the  German  market.  It  is  worthy  to  note 
in  this  connection  that  the  hospital  science  of  the  German  army  uses 
California  brandy  exclusively,  on  account  of  its  purity  and  excel- 
lence.   Our  service  unpatriotically  clings  to  the  French  article. 

The  Eastern  trade  in  brandy  is  in  a  good  condition.  I  am  inclined 
to  believe  that  we  shall  soon  have  to  depend  largely  on  the  second 
crop  of  muscat  grapes,  which  are  produced  in  the  San  Joaquin  Val- 
ley in  the  raisin  districts,  for  our  stocks  of  brandy.  Quite  unex- 
pectedly muscat  brandy  has  met  with  a  fine  sale,  and  the  demand 
grows  apace.  The  raisin  iridustry  is  in  about  the  same  situation  as 
the  wine  industry  was  in  1885-86.  The  planting  of  raisin  grapes  has 
been  carried  beyond  all  bounds  of  reason,  and  there  are  enough 
raisin  grapevines  planted  in  the  State  to  produce  when  in  full  bear- 
ing two  and  a  half  or  three  times  as  many  raisins  as  the  people  of  the 
United  States  now  consume.  The  production  of  muscat  brandy  will 
dispose  of  some  of  the  surplus  grapes,  and  the  new  plan  to  make 
grape  syrup  for  culinary  purposes  will  undoubtedly  give  an  outlet  to 
more,  but  even  with  this  the  outlook  for  owners  of  raisin  vineyards 
is  not  bright. 


Secretary  of  the  State  Viticultural  Commission. 


((  A  "  THINKS  your  Fate  comes  to  you,  no  matter  where  yoa 
l\  go,  and  even  if  you  stay  at  home.  "  B  "  believes,  with 
Lucile,  that  "  We  are  our  own  fates;"  that  there  is  a  great  deal,  if 
not  everything  in  our  own  activity,  in  going  forth  to  meet  Fate,  not 
waiting  passively  for  it  to  come  to  you.  "  C  "  agrees  with  "  B,"  add- 
ing that  sometimes  we  meet  not  the  Fates,  but  the  Furies.  If  the 
mysterious  one,  who  is  supposed  to  hold  the  Book  of  Life,  offered  to 
show  you  the  leaf  allotted  to  you,  would  you  eagerly  read,  or  would 
you  turn  aside,  content  to  let  events  take  their  course? 


JUST  as  we  flatter  ourselves  that  we  have  grown  too  strong  or 
too  indifferent  to  be  shaken  by  any  great  joy  or  sorrow,  Fate 
sends  us  something  to  show  us  how  little  we  know  ourselves,  or 
others. 

ANDERSON'S  NORMAL  &  UNIVERSITY  SCHOOL, 

PREPARES   FOR 

Teachers'  Examinations  for  the  University  of  California  and 
Leland  Stanford  Jr.,  University. 

1248  California  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cat. 
R.  SUMTER  ANDERSON,  Principal. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


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Fill  the  golden  goblet  up, 

Let  its  ruby  nectar  shine. 
And  around  the  brimming  cup 

Bay  and  myrtle  intertwine. 

Mantling  o'er  the  poet's  brow 

Let  the  circling  roses  wreathe, 
And  the  harps  serenely   now 

All  their  sweetest  rapture  breathe. 

Louder  swell  the  lofty  measure 

Fill  the  empty  bowl  again- 
Stirring  all  the  soul  to  pleasure, 

Soothing  all  the  bosom's  pain. 

Thus  with  harp  and  wine  beguiling 

Every  winged  hour  alongj 
Sorrow  brightens  unto  smiling, 

Smiling  gladdens  unto  song. 

Here's  to  her,  the  lovely  maiden — 

Maiden  of  the  poet's  soul; 
Drain  to  her  the  ruby-laden, 

Myrtle-mantled,  flowing  bowl. 

Dash  it  down  while  it  is  glowing 

On  the  banquet's  oaken  board, 
Joy  and  peace  alike  bestowing — 

What  on  earth  can  more  afford? 

Where  the  wine  cup  overflows 

With  the  nectar  Bacchus  gave, 
Her  angelic  image  glows 

Mirrored  in  the  ruby  wave. 

Here's  a  health,  my  laughing  girl, 

Smiling  deeply  there  at  me; 
Maiden  of  the  raven  curl, 

Here's  a  health  to  love  and  thee. 

Lara  Larch. 

HAT  an  inspirer  of  pure  thought  and  action  a  sleeping  child 
is,  and  how  much  more  so  is  a  dead  child. 


No  gentleman  can  be  happy  unless  he  has  a  full  stock  of  the  latest 
gloves,  neckties  and  handkerchiefs,  all  of  which  are  indispensable  to 
fashionable  attire.  Those  to  be  had  at  Carmany's,  25  Kearny  street, 
are  the  best  and  most  fashionable  make.  Fine  linen  and  embroidered 
handkerchiefs,  cravats,  bows,  four-in-hands  and  other  neckwear,  and 
all  styles  of  gloves  are  shown. 


IT  is  generally  a  fairly  difficult  undertaking  to  lay  a  water  main 
under  |a  river,  but  a  24-inch  pipe  was  put  in  position  across 
the  Platte  river  at  Denver,  recently,  in  a  comparatively  simple 
manner.  The  river  has  a  sandy  bottom  of  considerable  depth, 
and  it  is  180  feet  wide  at  the  point  of  crossing.  Two  rows  of 
piles  were  driven  across  the  river  to  form  a  light  support  to  the 
pipe,  and  connected  at  the  top  by  cross  timbers.  A  long  screw 
was  passed  through  each  cross  timber,  and  provided  with  a 
washer  and  nut,  so  that  it  could  be  lowered  as  desired.  By  sta- 
tioning a  man  with  a  wrench  at  each  screw,  the  entire  length  of 
pipe,  which  had  meanwhile  been  well  caulked,  was  lowered  at  a 
uniform  rate.  When  the  pipe  was  within  a  few  inches  of  the 
bottom  of  the  river,  a  board  dam  was  built  the  full  length  of  the 
stream,  extending  from  a  few  inches  above  the  water  to  the  bed, 
a  distance  of  a  few  feet  only.  In  this  way  all  the  water  was 
forced  to  pass  under  the  boards  and  the  pipe  jast  behind  them, 
scouring  out  the  sand  and  leaving  a  trench  into  which  the  main 
was  easily  lowered  to  a  depth  of  about  four  feet  below  the 
natural  bottom  of  the  river.  The  board  dam  was  then  removed 
and  the  piling  cut  off  level  with  the  top  of  the  pipe,  by  means  of 
a  cross-cut  saw  rigged  to  a  frame  like  a  wagon-maker's  whipsaw. 
The  object  of  cutting  the  piles  below  the  river  bed  was  to  pre- 
vent their  catching  driftwood,  which  would  tend  to  set  up  a 
scouring  action.  In  two  or  three  days  the  trench  was  again 
filled,  and  the  river  bed  had  assumed  its  regular  grade.  In  com- 
menting on  this  method  of  laying  pipe,  the  Engineering  News 
points  out  that  it  could  only  be  used  in  a  locality  where  the  river 
bed  is  soft  and  the  flow  of  water  is  sufficient  to  produce  the  nec- 
essary scour. 

HL.  WEBER  expresses  his  conviction  that  the  vitrified  pav- 
.  ing  brick  is  the  nearest  approach  hitherto  made  to  the  ideal 
pavement  for  city  streets.  It  is  not  as  dusty  as  asphalt,  which, 
in  this  respect,  is  highly  objectionable.  Brick  pavement,  too,  is 
practically  as  smooth  as  asphalt,  and  will  retain  an  even  surface, 
which  no  other  pavement  does  so  satisfactorily  as  brick.  It  is 
easily  repaired,  and  when  it  is  necessary  to  take  it  up  for  the 
purpose  of  tapping  or  repairing  sewers,  water  and  gas  pipes,  or 
for  any  other  purpose,  the  work  can  be  done  by  ordinary  work- 
men, while  a  limited  number  only  of  skilled  and  high-priced 
workmen  can  repair  asphalt  pavement,  and  only,  moreover,  in 
certain  kinds  of  weather.  It  has  been  truly  said  that  "  the  best 
pavement  is  the  one  most  easily  repaired."  The  necessary  re- 
pairs to  water  and  gas  pipes  alone  should  convince  every  one  of 
this  fact.  Mr.  Weber  holds  that  our  cities  can  construct  and 
maintain  a  vitreous  brick  pavement  at  far  less  cost  than  any 
other  kind  of  material.  The  life  of  this  pavement  has  been  put 
at  twelve  years,  but  Mr.  Weber  insists  that  twenty-five  years  rep- 
resents more  truly  its  average  lasting  capacity. 

THE  manner  in  which  a  person    both    presents    and  receives  a 
gift  is  one  of  the  most  delicate  tests  of  character. 


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/-rylNCE  William  the  Conqueror  erected  a  stout  castle  upon 
\V  the  hill  rising  coruniandingly  from  the  river  bank,  eight  cen- 
\  (S.  turies  of  change  and  shifting  circumstance  have  swept  past 
f^J  the  towers  of  old  Windlesora,  for  it  is  to  the  extraordinary 
meanderings  of  the  Thames  at  this  spot  that  Windsor  re- 
ceived  its  name.  Commandingly  built  in  the  midst  of  a  park  of 
twenty-three  hundred  acres,  surrounded  by  terraces  and  slopes,  girt 
about  by  walls  eighty  feet  in  height,  and  diademed  with  twenty-eight 
towers,  the  magnificent  pile  of  buildings  called  Windsor  Castle  stands 
without  a  rival  among  the  royal  residences  of  Europe.  Parliaments 
and  councils  have  been  held  within  its  walls;  gorgeous  ceremonies 
and  sparkling  revels;  births,  marriages  and  deaths  of  princes  and 
princesses  have  taken  place  in  it;— indeed,  the  annals  of  Windsor 
embrace  many  of  the  most  stirring  incidents  in  English  history,  and 
invest  it  with  the  memories  of  a  deathless  past.     Here  was  born  on 


Windsor  Castle. 

the  morning  of  the  13th  day  of  November,  1312,  "the  greatest  of  the 
Plantaganets,"  Edward  of  Windsor,  afterwards  so  renowned  as 
Edward  III.  When  he  succeeded  to  the  throne  he  did  not  forget 
his  birthplace,  but  resolved  to  convert  it  into  a  palace  worthy  of  an 
English  monarch,  and  suitable  to  his  own  magnificent  tastes.  The 
erection  of  the  new  palace  was  entrusted  to  William  of  Wykeham, 
Bishop  of  Winchester.  The  grandeur  of  the  design  was  worthy  of 
the  great  priest  architect,  and  posterity  has  fully  recognized  his  right 
to  inscribe  on  the  walls  of  the  Winchester  Tower  of  the  Castle  the 
proud  epigraph, -'Hoc  fecit  Wykeham."  In  the  magnificent  pile  called 
into  existence  by  the  lavishness  of  Edward  and  the  genius  of  Wyke- 
ham was  established  the  famous  "Order  of  the  Garter."  This  was  in 
1358,  and  at  the  great  festival  the  two  captive  kings,  John  of  France 
and  David  of  Scotland,  attended  as  guests,  one  sitting  on  either  side 
of  Edward  III.  Henry  VII,  Mary,  and  Elizabeth  were  all  fond  of 
Windsor  and  disbursed  enormous  sums  in  beautifying  it.  The  Grand 
Northern  Terrace,  upwards  of  half  a  mile  in  length,  built  by  Eliza- 
beth, is  still  an  object  of  much  admiration.  Among  the  later  nion- 
archs  who  have  added  to  or  repaired  the  Castle,  George  IV  was 
the  most  lavish,  he  having  spent  sevgn  millions  of  dollars  in  extensive 
alterations.  The  present  sovereign  in  the  early  years  of  her  reign 
disbursed  large  sums  in  adding  to  its  beauty. 

The  views  from  the  windows  of  the  Castle  are  eminently  English 
in  their  characteristics;  rich,  peaceful  landscapes  where  labor  and 
culture  have  effected  their  best  during  centuries.  The  Park  is  beau- 
tifully laid  out  in  drives  and  walks,  and  is  traversed  for  three  miles 
in  a  direct  line  by  the  famous  "Long  Walk"  of  Charles  II.;  the 
lovely  Rhododendron  Walk  and  Queen  Anne's  Drive  are  equally  as 
long  and  beautiful.  Thousands  of  antlered  deer  wander  through 
leafy  glades  and  ferny  dells;  shadowy  avenues;  exquisite  woodland 
pictures  of  true  sylvan  scenery ;  haunting  associations  of  long  ago, 
dear  to  the  hearts  of  all  English  speaking  people,  centre  in  the  old 
world  park  of  Windsor.  Here  was  the  scene  of  FalstafiTs  persecution 
by  the  fairies  in  the  "Merry  Wives  of  Windsor";  here,  "in  the  times 
of  great  Elizabeth,"  was  enacted  the  exquisite  flattery  of  the  "Mid- 
summer Night's  Dream";  here  in  company  with  Vandyck  and  Ru- 
bens, wandered  the  melancholy  Charles  I.  Here,  too,  later  his 
son.  the  second  Charles,  brought  Nell  Gwynne  whose  musical  laugh- 
ter infected  every  listener  with  mirth,  while  the  "Merry  Monarch" 
toyed  with  his  favorite  spaniels,  and  Buckingham  and  Rochester 
scattered  their  wicked,  witty  persiflage  around.  The  present  Sover- 
eign, since  the  death  of  her  husband  in  December  of  1863,  has  on  only 
two  occasions  made  Windsor  the  scene  of  gorgeous  ceremonies. 

The  ancient  hall  of  the  Garter  Knights  never  witnessed  a  grander 
sight  since  the  third  Edward  held  his  great  revel  at  Windsor  than  the 
night  Victoria  welcomed  his  Imperial  Majesty  of  Russia,  Alexander 


II.  This  great  Banquetting  Room,  two  hundred  feet  long,  was 
ablaze  with  the  light  of  three  thousand  wax  candles.  Massive  side- 
boards held  tier  on  tier  of  gold  and  silver  plate  till  the  lofty 
ceiling,  forty-five  feet  high  was  reached.  There  was  Flaxman's  great 
Shield  of  Achilles;  the  St.  George  candelabrum  of  silver,  four  feet  high; 
Benvenuto  Cellini's  nautilus-shell,  set  in  gold ;  the  gold  bellows  which 
belonged  to  Nell  Gwynne;  the  gold  tiger-headed  foot  stool  of  Tippoo 
Sahib,  with  its  blazing  ruhy  eyes;  a  bread-basket  of  gold,  from  Mex- 
ico, and  many  other  art  wonders.  In  the  centre  of  the  great  Oriel 
was  the  silver-gilt  vase  called  ''George  IV's  Punch  Bowl"  filled 
with  orchids;  this  vase  stands  fully  five  feet  high,  and  during  that 
monarch's  reign  was  used  as  its  name  implies.  On  the  dinine-table 
was  the  celebrated  gold  dinner-service  purchased  by  tbe  same  Sover- 
eign at  a  cost  of  more  than  fifteen  million  dollars.  In  the  centre  of 
the  table  was  a  model  in  gold,  enamel,  and  gems  of  the  Alhambra 
Court  of  the  Lions;  from  the  mouths  of  the  lions  flowed  perfumed 
water. 

To  tbe  blare  of  trumpets  and  the  crashing  strains  of  the  Russian 
national  anthem,  the  Queen  ;  and  Emperor  entered,  followed  by 
members  of  the  royal  and  imperial  families,  tbe  highest  of  the  no- 
bility, and  the  Ambassadors  of  the  great  powers.  The  Queen  placed 
herself  at  the  centre  of  the  table  and  had  her  imperial  guest  as  vis-a- 
vis. The  object  of  the  visit  was  the  Emperor's  desire  to  see  his  only 
daughter  and  favorite  child,  who  had  married  the  second  son  of  the 
Queen,  the  Duke  of  Edinburgh.  The  Emperor,  on  leaving,  presented 
to  Her  Majesty  as  a  token  of  friendship,  two  magnificent  malachite 
tables.  The  remarkable  feature  about  these  tables  is  their  unusual 
size  for  such  material,  the  tops  being  entire.  Siberian  mines  were 
ransacked  to  obtain  the  required  size,  and  for  no  one  less  than  the 
Czar,  would  such  infinite  trouble  have  been  taken.  The  Emperor 
remained  only  one  night  at  the  Castle  and  on  his  leaving  caused  to 
be  given  to  the  housekeeper  $5000  as  well  as  generous  largesses  to 
other  retainers.  Not  long  siace  this  same  housekeeper,  Mrs.  Hen- 
derson, the  widow  of  a  captain  in  the  army,  died  leaving  $150,000  to 
her  niece  and  the  Queen  appointed  this  same  fortunate  niece  to  the 
vacant  post  of  housekeeper. 

Victoria  takes  a  great  interest  in  the  way  the  rooms  at  Windsor 
are  furnished  and  arranged,  and  personally  has  a  great  deal  to  say  in 
the  matter.  In  the  room  the  Czar  was  to  sleep  in  the  night  of  his 
visit,  after  everything  had  been  pronounced  perfect  by  those  having 
the  matter  in  charge,  the  Queen  caused  the  pictures  to  be  changed, 
and  had  brought  from  the  room  called  the  Queen's  Closet,  among 
others,  the  great  picture,  "  The  Misers,"  by  Quentin  Matsys,  as  she 
considers  tbis  tbe  gem  of  the  Windsor  collection.  But  it  is  not  only 
in  the  arrangement  of  rooms  that  tbe  Queen  interests  herself;  as  is 
well  known  she  is  a  great  admirer  of  dogs,  and  the  royal  kennels 
possess  some  beautiful  breeds.  Every  puppy  is  named  by  the  Queen 
herself,  and  the  really  remarkable  thing  about  this  is,  that  she  re- 
members each  dog's  name  as  well  as  if  it  were  that  of  some  friend.  If 
she  is  away  from  Windsor  when  a  litter  is  born,  she  is  wired  the  fact, 
and  even  the  number  of  pups,  and  is  kept  informed  of  everything 
concerning  them.  On  her  return  the  naming  of  the  puppies  is  one 
of  the  first  things  she  attends  to.  As  the  Queen  is  nearly  always  very 
plainly  dressed,  she  does  not  mind  how  much  the  animals  crowd 
around  her;  she  fondles  them  in  return,  and  I  have  seen  as  many  aa 
four  at  once  all  trying  to  attract  her  attention  by  jumping  at  her. 
One  magnificent  Dachshund  would  not  be  denied,  and  placed  his 
paws  on  her  shoulders,  and  the  fun  of  it  was  that  the  Queen  had  no 
objections  to  such  violent  attentions;  indeed,  rather  encouraged 
them  than  otherwise.  But  it  is  not  only  the  dogs  that  receive  atten- 
tion from  her.  As  long  as  they  lived,  not  a  single  day  passed,  when 
at  Windsor,  that  the  Queen  did  not  take  to  the  two  old  horses  f-he 
and  the  Prince  Consort  rode  when  they  were  young  and  happy  to- 
gether, carrots  and  sugar;  and  it  really  was  a  touching  sight  to  see 
the  Sovereign,  lonely  and  aged,  fondly  stroking  the  heads  of  these 
favorites  of  "  auld  lang  syne." 

As  a  young  woman  the  Queen  possessed  a  great  sense  of  humor; 
indeed,  she  has  it  still,  in  a  lesser  degree.  When  the  King  of  Siam  sent 
Ambassadors  to  England,  it  became  a  grave  question  as  to  their  re- 
ception. The  etiquette  of  the  Siamese  Court  is  peculiar,  to  say  the 
least  of  it,  and  it  was  urged  that  the  Ambassadors  be  instructed  in 
that  of  England.  All  instruction,  however,  proving  useless,  the 
Queen  finally  agreed  to  receive  them  according  to  the  etiquette  of 
their  own  court,  and  a  day  was  appointed  to  receive  them  at  the 
castle.  The  royal  grandchildren  were  very  anxious  to  see  the  recep- 
tion, but  so  great  was  the  fear  entertained  that  the  children  would 
not  be  able  to  control  their  risibility  at  the  audience,  that  the  Queen 
reluctantly  refused  their  presence,  but  permitted  that  a  door  near 
the  throne  be  left  partly  ajar,  so  that  they  might  see  without  being 
seen.  Seated  on  tbe  throne,  which  is  a  copy  in  ivory  of  the  corona- 
tion chair  in  Westminster  Abbey,  her  Majesty  prepared  to  receive 
her  remarkable  visitors.  Cords  had  been  stretched  the  length  of  the 
room,  and  between  these  the  Siamese  Ambassadors  crawled  in  on  all 
fours.  Sterner  and  sterner  grew  the  Queen's  face  in  its  efforts  at  im- 
mobility, while  from  behind  the  partly  open  door  came  the  sounds  of 
stifled  laughter.  But  the  crawling  in  was  nothing  to  the  crawling  out 
backwards.  In  spite  of  the  cordons  to  guide  them,  it  took  the  united 
efforts  of  Generals  of  the  army,  Admirals  of  the  navy.  Cabinet  Min- 
isters, as  well  as  a  small  army  of  ushers,  to  keep  the  crawlers  from 
crawlingall  over  the  Audience  Chamber.  Finally,  as  tbe  great  doors 
were   closed    on    the   last    of   them,  the  children  made  a    rush   at 


Dec.  25.   1892. 


BAN  FRANCISCO  \K\vs  LETTER 


the  Queen,  and  wilb  hyMeriral  .'brick*  of  Uughtrr.  precipiutnl 
IhtUWllM  upon  her.  and  for  fully  lire  minute."  the  Sovereign  and 
Court  of  Kngland  fnirlv  -hrieko.l  with  laughter. 

The  late  Dean  of  Windsor,  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Charles  Welle^ley. 
brother  of  the  Puke  of  Wellington,  wasagreat  favoriteof  iheijueen. 
The  Dean  suffered  for  many  years  from  a  painful  disease,  that  at 
times  made  sleep  impossible.  He  would  wander  for  hour--  nt  I  time 
during  the  night  round  the  cloisters  of  the  C&ttle,  the  park, and  tome- 
times  ^in  the  old  town  Itself.  One  evening,  when  dining  with  her 
Majesty,  the  Dean  related  to  her  how  the  early  hours  of  that  same 
day  found  him  walking  past  some  villa  residences  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  the  castle.  The  Dean  was  a  tall  man.  and  usually  wore  a 
dark  ulster  on  his  perambulations.  That  morning  a  servant  girl  was 
on  the  lookout  for  her  postman  lover,  and  seeing  a  tall  figure  loom- 
ing out  of  the  mist,  immediately  concluded  it  was  her  "  Bob."  and 
not  waiting  to  consider  the  possibility  of  its  being  any  one  else,  fa- 
vored the  astonished  Dean  with  a  warm  kiss  and  a  fervent  hug. 

11  And  what  did  you  say  to  that,  Mr.  Dean,"  her  Majesty  asked. 

"  I  said.  *  Get  away,  young  woman,  get  away ;  I  am  the  Dean  of 
Windsor,"  but  the  Queen  refused  to  believe  that  Mr.  Dean  said  any- 
thing of  the  kind,  and  often  inquired  of  him  if  in  his  early  perambu- 
lations he  had  seen  anything  more  of  his  "  young  woman.'1 

Sometimes  the  Dean's  stories  had  not  always  so  pleasant  an  end- 
ing, and  although  her  Majesty  laughed  at  his  manifold  experiences, 
she  advised  caution,  for  the  Dean  once  accounted  for  a  terrible  cold 
he  had  caught  by  laying  the  blame  on  one  of  the  Queen's  brave  de- 
fenders. It  appeared  that  one  night,  as  usual,  he  could  not  sleep. 
Now  be  it  known  that  when  the  Queen  is  at  Windsor  there  are  on 
doty  day  and  night  at  the  various  gates  and  entrances  of  the  Castle 
one  hundred  soldiers.  Any  one  wandering  about,  therefore,  is  very 
liable  to  be  called  to  account  for  his  late  ramblings ;  and  this  is  ex- 
actly what  happened  to  Mr.  Dean.  In  addition,  he  had  the  misfor- 
tune to  have  omitted  to  learn  the  password  for  the  night.  It  was  a 
new  recruit  who  met  the  wandering  Dean  and  ordered  him  to  stand 
and  give  the  countersign. 

"  I  forgot  to  see  what  it  was,"  was  the  reply. 

"  Yes,  I  expect  you  did.    Just  get  into  that  sentry-box." 

"  But  I  tell  you  I  am  the  Dean  of  "Windsor." 

"  I  don't  care  if  you're  the  Pope  of  Rome,  you  don't  pass  here  with- 
out giving  the  countersign,"  and  there  was  nothing  for  Mr.  Dean  to 
do  but  wait  till  the  guards  were  changed.  For  nearly  two  mortal 
hours  he  had  to  cool  his  heels  in  the  sentry-box;  and  lucky  for  him 
it  was  that  the  officer  of  the  watch  knew  him  and  released  him  from 
his  unpleasant  position,  when  he  came  on  his  rounds. 

One  last  picture  of  a  day  in  Queen  Victoria's  life,  and  I  close. 
News  had  come  from  India  that  General  Roberts  might  at  any  mo- 
ment meet  the  Afghans  in  conflict.  For  two  days  the  Queen  was 
restless  and  uneasy.  Finally,  one  bright  April  morning,  the  wires 
flashed  that  the  contending  armies  had  clashed  at  last.  Hour  after 
hour  the  Sovereign  of  England  waited  for  news  that  did  not  arrive. 
The  Queen's  life  is  carried  on  like  clockwork.  This  day,  however, 
she  was  unable  to  attend  to  anything.  Up  and  down  the  Golden 
Corridor  (nearly  six  hundred  feet  long)  she  wandered;  now  and 
again  she  withdrew  the  covering  from  before  the  exquiste  statue  of 
the  late  Prince  Consort,  and  leaned  her  forehead  against  the  cold  mar- 
ble. It  is  sad  to  be  a  Queen  and  so  lonely!  Day  passed;  the  hours 
of  night  drew  on,  and  still  no  news  from  India.  By  and  by  the  lights 
were  lighted  in  the  Queen's  private  apartments,  and  there  silent  and 
motionless  she  still  waited.  Finally,  Princess  Beatrice  ventured  to 
approach  her  mother  unsummoned,  for  be  it  well  understood  that 
not  even  her  children  dare  take  liberties  with  the  Queen  of  England, 
and  it  was  as  Queen  she  waited  for  news  of  her  troops.  The  Prin- 
cess urged  that  the  usual  hour  of  rest  had  passed,  and  begged  her 
mother  to  retire  for  the  night.  The  Queen  at  last  consented,  with 
the  command  that  sleeping  or  waking,  she  was  to  be  told  immedi- 
ately any  news  that  arrived. 

In  the  early  dawn  the  Princess  went  to  the  Queen's  bedside,  only, 
however,  to  find  her  awake.    With  old-time  energy  she  opened  the 
dispatch.  Then,  and  not  until  then,  did  the  woman  forget  the  Queen, 
as  with  tears  falling  from  her  eyes,  clasping  her  daughter's  neck,  she 
said,  "  Thank  God,  thank  God,  it  is  victory  1" 
"  As  good  and  loving  daughter; 
As  true  and  faithful  bride; 
As  mother  kind  and  tender ; 
As  Queen  thy  people's  pride. 
In  thy  dear  hand  the  sceptre, 
Made  sacred  by  thy  tears, 
With  stainless  honor  has  been  held 
For  half  ahundred  years." 


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subtle  impressions  which  formed  our  first  judgments  of  individuals. 


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Dec.  25,  1892. 


A    UNIVERSITY    EDUCATION. 

IN  tbese  days  of  fierce  business  rivalry  and  higher  education, 
any  expression  of  opinion  from  a  well-informed  source,  and 
one  entitled  to  respectful  consideration,  regarding  the  benefits  of 
a  university  education,  are  received  with  pleasure.  Andrew  P. 
Peabody,  of  the  class  of  1826,  of  Harvard  College,  recently  had  a 
paper  in  the  Harvard  Graduates'  Magazine,  in  which  he  treated 
the  subject  fully.  In  *he  trend  of  the  world  toward  specialists  in 
professions,  the  university  must  conform  or  fall  behind  the  age, 
fae  says.  Young  men  will  no  longer  tread  a  curriculum  beaten 
by  every  boot;  but  In  the  vast  range  of  possible  studies  they 
will  prefer  those  which  look,  most  directly  to  their  destined  posi- 
tions or  vocations.  The  elective  system  has  thus  become  a  neces- 
sity. Specialization  has  its  perils,  no  less  for  the  lawyer  and  the 
scientific  man  than  for  the  pin  mater.  The  mere  specialist 
dwindles  as  a  man,  even  though  he  become  more  skilled  in  in- 
sight or  in  handicraft.  Still  more,  even  in  his  own  depart- 
ment, if  he  improves  as  a  manipulator  he  degenerates  as  a 
knower  and  thinker.  Now,  a  young  man  who  begins  very  early 
his  professional  or  technical  training  is  confined  to  a  single  class 
of  subjects,  and  to  the  society  of  those  whose  limitations  are  like 
his  own,  and  the  more  thoroughly  he  does  his  required  work 
from  day  to  day,  the  less  does  he  see,  and  learn,  and  know  be- 
yond it.  The  university  student  is,  or  ought  to  be,  independent 
of  these  narrowing  influences.  In  the  first  place,  his  preparatory 
course  lays  for  him  a  foundation  of  such  knowledge  as  he  needs 
in  each  and  all  the  higher  walks  of  life — a  foundation  perhaps 
not  so  deep  as  in  earlier  time,  but — what  is  of  far  greater  impor- 
tance— very  much  broader,  and  destined  before  long  virtually  to 
include  what  used  to  be  the  studies  of  the  Freshman  year.  In 
the  next  place,  the  faithful  student,  while  chiefly  occupied  with 
but  few  of  the  large  range  of  electives  open  to  him,  in  part  pur- 
posely, in  still  greater  part  unconsciously,  becomes  more  or  less 
conversant  with  many  other  topics  within  that  range,  through  in- 
tercourse with  fellow-students,  by  university  lectures,  which  often 
draw  large  audiences,  and  from  the  atmosphere  of  the  place, 
which  ia  laden  with  the  blended  aroma  of  divers  and  unlike  cul- 
tures, and  with  which  he  breathes  in  knowledge  without  know- 
ing whence  or  how.  Such  acquisitions  are  indeed  "  a  little  learn- 
ing," which,  however,  is  not  "  adangerous  thing,"  but  eminently 
desirable,  when  one  is  aware  that  it  is  little,  hopes  to  make  it  more, 
and  has  eye,  ear  and  mind  open  to  the  opportunities  of  increasing 
it.  Then,  too,  the  methods  of  the  university  teach  a  student  how  and 
where  to  look  for  the  information  that  he  needs,  which  is  often  of 
immeasurably  more  importance  than  a  large  yet  circumscribed 
amount  of  exact  knowledge  which  cannot  be  increased  at  will. 

A  university  man  has  the  added  advantage  of  adequate  means  for 
a  due  self-estimate.  He  can  know,  if  he  will,  his  comparative  stand- 
ing with  those  of  his  own  profession,  and  well-educated  men  in  gen- 
eral. One  who  gains  superior  culture  in  less  direct  ways  is  liable,  on 
the  one  hand,  to  undue  self-conceit  and  self-glorification,  and,  on  the 
other  hand,  fully  as  often,  to  an  injuriously  low  appreciation  of  his 
own  attainments,  merits,  and  claims.  The  chief  objection  to  uni- 
versity education  is  that  it  brings  men  too  late  into  active  life.  The 
true  way  of  meeting  this  objection  is  to  shorten  the  period  of  the  pre- 
paratory course.  School  life  is  more  than  half  wasted.  Vacations 
and  holidays  take  up  a  full  third  of  it,  while  not  play,  but  the  serious 
business  that  is  made  of  play,  usurps  a  large  proportion  of  the  re- 
maining two-thirds.  Fifty  years  ago,  when  three  years,  very  often 
shortened  to  two,  sufficed  to  fit  a  boy  for  college,  the  amount  of 
close,  hard  study — whether  to  the  best  purpose  or  not — was  very 
much  greater  than  is  now  spread  over  six  years.  There  was  enough 
of  play,  then,  too ;  but  it  was  play,  not  work ;  mere  recreation,  not  an 
organized  system  of  inter-school  contests,  involving  in  its  manage- 
ment fully  as  much  of  thought  and  labor  as  is  required  in  the  school- 
room. Breaking  down  from  overwork  was  then  seldom  heard  of, 
— very  much  less  frequent  than  severe,  sometimes  lifelong,  and  even 
fatal,  injury  from  baseball  or  football.  Not  only  the  interests  of  the 
university,  but  the  permanent  well-being  and  well-doing  of  those 
who  are  to  perform  for  society  its  most  arduous  and  precious  work, 
demand  that  the  acquisition  of  knowledge  and,  still  more  of  scholarly 
habits,  become  again,  as  it  has  almost  ceased  to  be,  the  foremost 
occupation  of  the  school  boy. 

THE  eminent  authority,  Prof.  Virchow,  in  an  address  at  Berlin, 
has  called  into  question  the  study  of  grammar  as  a  means  of 
progressive  development  in  schools.  He  recommends  rather 
mathematics,  philosophy  and  the  natural  sciences,  which  give  so 
firm  an  intellectual  preparation  to  youths  that  they  can  easily 
make  themselves  at  home  in  any  department  of  learning  subse- 
quently undertaken.  No  school  boy,  he  said,  will  be  the  worse 
ror  being  able  to  name  and  distinguish  a  certain  number  of  plants , 
animals  and  stones,  and  the  essential  discipline  should  consist  in 
the  training  of  the  senses,  especially  those  of  sight  and  touch.  Dr. 
Virchow  says  that  a  large  number  of  pupils  have  no  exact  know- 
ledge of  color,  make  false  statements  about  the  forms  of  things 
they  see,  and  show  no  understanding  for  the  consistency  of 
bodies  and  for  the  nature  of  their  surfaces.  He  advocates  the 
general  teaching  of  simple  drawing  and  painting,  than  which 
nothing  is  better  calculated  to  develop  accuracy  of  judgment  re- 
garding color  and  form. 


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Dec.  25,  1892. 


IRRIGATION   PROGRESS. 


mHERE  haB  been  a  steady  growth  of  irrigation  enterprise 
daring  the  past  year,  which  has  been  diffused  over  the 
entire  Slate  and  is  about  equally  divided  between  private 
companies  and  district  organizations.  Opportunities  have 
been  afforded  for  contrasting  the  two  methods  in  con- 
tiguous districts,  by  which  the  good  and  the  bad  points  of  each  have 
been  sharply  accentuated,  with  the  result  of  bringing  out  those 
features  of  the  district  law  which  it  is  apparent  stand  most  in  need 
of  amendment  by  the  coming  Legislature.  The  most  notable  private 
enterprise  completed  during  the  year  was  that  at  Woodbridge,  San 
Joaquin  County,  by  which  an  area  of  several  thousand  acres  of  fine 
land  was  provided  with  an  abundance  of  water,  and  the  farmers  given 
an  assurance  against  all  future  possibility  of  loss  through  failure  of 
the  rainfall  to  attain  normal  proportions.  The  benefits  conferred  by 
this  irrigation  system  have  been  so  manifest  that  other  farmers  in 
the  same  county  have  expressed  a  desire  to  partake  of  them.  The 
well-known  capitalist,  P.  B.  Armstrong,  who  has  large  interests  in 
that  county,  has  obtained  possession  of  a  partially  completed  system 
of  canals,  which  he  proposes  to  carry  out  if  afforded  encouragement. 
He  has  proposed  to  the  land  owners  to  furnish  them  water  upon  pay- 
ment to  him  of  $10  an  acre  for  construction  of  canals,  and  $1.50  an- 
nually an  acre  thereafter.  He  also  stipulates  that  if,  after  one  or  two 
years'  trial,  any  land  owner  desires  to  abandon  irrigation,  he  will  re- 
turn the  money  so  paid  and  cut  off  the  water.  Furthermore,  abundant 
time  is  given  for  the  payment  of  the  $10  an  acre  for  water  rights,  no 
money  being  required  until  the  water  is  in  sight  and  ready  for  use. 
It  will  be  observed  that  in  this  respect  at  least,  the  private  system  is 
far  more  favorable  to  the  irrigator  than  the  district  organization.  In 
the  case  or"  the  two  oldest  districts  in  the  State,  located  in  the  adjoin- 
ing county  to  San  Joaquin,  the  people  have  been  paying  taxes  for 
five  years  for  the  district  canal  system  and  have  yet  to  obtain  the 
first  gallon  of  water  thereupon,  and  from  present  indications  it  will 
not  be  until  1894  that  irrigation  will  be  made  possible.  At  the  same 
time  it  has  been  found  necessary  to  vote  bonds  to  double  the  amount 
of  the  original  estimate,  and  there  is  even  now  a  question  as  to 
whether  this  will  be  sufficient  to  carry  the  water  to  the  lands  of  the 
taxpayers. 

In  Kern  County  some  very  extensive  work  has  been  done  under 
private  management,  and  with  satisfactory  results.  A  large  canal  is 
now  under  construction,  having  for  its  purpose  the  irrigation  of  an 
extensive  body  of  land  above  the  lines  of  the  old  systems.  The  own- 
ers of  this  land  have  signed  contracts  to  pay  between  $11  aud  $12  an 
acre  for  water  rights,  and  a  small  annual  rental  thereafter  for  the 
delivery  of  water.  The  feasibility  of  organizing  a  district  was  dis- 
cussed here,  but  finally  the  private  plan  prevailed.  It  is  expected 
that  water  will  be  available  for  a  portion  of  the  tract  during  the 
coming  season,  the  work  having  been  carried  out  much  more  rapidly 
than  has  been  the  case  in  any  district  yet  organized.  The  Kern 
County  Land  Company  has  extended  the  area  covered  by  some  of  its 
canals  and  is  actively  engaged  in  still  further  work  in  this  line.  This 
concern  has  in  a  number  of  cases  sold  water  rights  to  land  owners  at 
$10  an  acre  and  an  annual  rental  of  $1.50  an  acre.  As  the  most  ac- 
curate statistics  show  that  the  average  value  of  water  rights  to  the 
acre  in  this  State  is  $39.28,  the  average  first  cost  $12.95  and  the  aver- 
age annual  cost  of  water  $1.60  to  the  acre,  it  can  be  seen  that  such 
propositions  as  that  of  Mr.  Armstrong  and  the  Kern  County  Land 
Company  are  unusually  favorable  to  the  land  owner.  In  the  far 
South  the  leading  privateirrigating  enterprises  have  largely  extended 
their  operations  during  the  year.  The  Bear  Valley,  the  Semi-Tropic 
and  the  Arrowhead  Companies,  in  S»n  Bernardino  County,  have 
done  a  large  amount  of  new  work,  and  the  first  two  concerns  have 
supplied  water  to  much  new  land.  The  latter  organization  has  begun 
work  on  an  extensive  reservoir  and  canal  system,  and  promises  to 
be  ready  to  deliver  water  next  year.  In  Los  Angeles,  Orange  and 
San  Diego  counties  private  enterprise  has  also  done  much  in  pro- 
moting irrigation  schemes. 

In  regard  to  the  district  system,  the  same  difficulty  in  relation  to 
the  sale  of  bonds  prevails  that  has  from  the  outset  hampered  the 
operations  of  the  Wright  Act.  In  Colusa  County,  all  work  has  been 
suspended  during  the  year,  and  Ihe  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
heretofore  expended  remain  of  no  avail  so  far  as  actual  irrigation  is 
concerned.  A  huge,  half-completed  canal  is  all  there  is  to  show  for 
the  expenditure.  The  large  land  owners  are  as  bitter  as  everin  their 
opposition  to  the  scheme,  and  there  is  no  immediate  prospect  for  the 
completion  of  the  work,  even  to  a  point  where  a  portion  of  the  district 
can  be  supplied  with  water.  The  Modesto  and  Turlock  districts  have 
issued  bonds  in  double  the  amount  first  proposed,  and  work  is  pro- 
gressing on  the  dam  and  canals,  but  it  is  not  probable  any  water  will 
be  available  during  the  coming  season,  or  at  least  until  late.  The 
Selma  and  Sunset  Districts  remain  in  their  preliminarystages.no 
actual  work  having  yet  been  done.  The  Alta,  Tulare.  Tule  River 
and  Poso  Districts  are  progressing  favorably,  and  where  private 
canals  were  purchased  water  is  delivered  satisfactorily  and  the  ma- 
jority of  the  land  owners  benefitted  appear  to  be  satisfied.  An 
attempt  to  organize  a  district  at  Hanford  was  overwhelmingly  de- 
feated. 


In  the  south  a  new  district,  the  Riverside  Heights,  was  organized 
at  Riverside,  while  the  San  Jacinto  and  Pleasant  Valley  District 
completed  ifs  organization,  and  both  are  in  a  fair  way  to  become 
successful.  There  has  been  considerable  trouble  in  the  Perris  Dis- 
trict, and  many  land-owners  withdrew,  but  everything  is  now  said  to 
be  harmonious.  At  Anaheim  a  bid  has  been  accepted  for  the  bonds 
of  the  district,  and  rfs  soon  as  the  money  is  realized  development  work 
will  be  pushed.  At  Escondido  and  San  Marcos,  as  well  as  else- 
where in  San  Diego  county,  there  is  a  clash  between  the  friends  of 
the  private  system  and  those  of  the  district,  and  actual  work  has 
been  largely  delayed  in  consequence. 

There  has  been  much  discussion  during  the  year  as  to  the  provis- 
ions of  the  Wright  Act,  and  it  is  certain  that  measure  will  come 
before  the  next  Legislature  for  amendment,  though  it  is  reported 
that  the  leaders  in  the  enactment  of  the  law  take  the  grouud  that  no 
amendment  is  necessary.  The  simple  fact  that  capitalists  fight  shy 
of  the  district  bonds,  would  seem  to  demonstrate  that  some  change 
is  necessary;  while  those  who  are  familiar  with  what  may  be  called 
the  private  workings  of  the  law  are  fully  convinced  that  some  radical 
changes  are  needed,  both  to  protect  the  land-owners  in  the  district 
and  the  investors  in  the  bonds.  At  present  there  is  no  check  on  dis- 
trict officers,  who  may  or  may  not  be  corrupt,  and  who  have  in  more 
than  one  case  made  bargains  for  water  rights  and  works  which  will 
not  bear  the  light  of  day.  There  is  no  means  of  limiting  the  expendi- 
ture possible  upon  an  irrigation  system,  and  no  means  of  knowing  at 
the  outset  how  much  it  will  cost,  except  a  contract  be  made  with 
some  concern  owning  water  to  deliver  it  on  the  land  at  a  certain  fixed 
cost.  A  strong  point  made  by  the  opponents  of  the  Wright  Act  is 
that  under  it  the  owners  of  the  land  proposed  to  be  irrigated  are,  if  in 
the  minority,  or  in  cases  where  cities  or  towns  are  included  within 
the  limits  of  the  district,  put  entirely  at  the  mercy  of  irresponsible 
voters  who  have  not  a  dollar's  worth  at  stake  in  the  matter.  They 
claim  that  there  should  be  no  distinction  between  reclaiming  districts 
and  irrigation  districts  in  this  matter,  and  that,  as  in  the  former,  none 
but  property  owners  interested  are  allowed  a  voice,  so  it  should  be 
with  the  latter.  Many  of  the  friends  of  the  Wright  Law  are  convinced 
that  some  form  of  State  supervision  over  the  district  is  needed,  and 
with  that  nearly  all  the  objectionable  features  will  be  obviated.  Itis  cer- 
tain that  from  an  ideal  standpoint,  the  objects  of  the  district  system 
cannot  be  improved  upon.  They  contemplate  the  ownership  of  water 
and  canals  by  the  owners  of  the  land  benefited,  thus  theoretically  en- 
abling them  to  obtain  supplies  for  irrigation  at  the  lowest  possible 
cost.  This  was  the  object  of  the  framers  of  the  law,  but  the  most  ar- 
dent supporter  of  that  measure  will  scarcely  claim,  when  all  the  facts 
are  known,  that  that  object  has  been  or  can  be  obtained  without 
more  or  less  amendment  to  the  statute  as  it  now  stands.  With  a 
State  Board  of  Engineers  or  Commissioners,  to  whom  all  plans  and 
estimates  for  the  construction  of  district  irrigation  systems  must  be 
submitted,  and  who-e  approval  must  be  obtained  before  bonds  can  be 
issued  or  taxes  levied,  it  must  be  apparent  that  much  of  the  uncer- 
tainty now  felt  in  regard  to  the  security  of  district  bonds  would  be 
removed,  and  those  securities  would  become  the  favorite  with  capi- 
talists that  they  should  be  when  properly  issued.  For  nothing  is 
more  certain  than  that  a  bond,  with  irrigated  land  for  a  basis  in 
proper  proportion  to  the  total  amount  of  indebtedness,  affords  one  of 
the  very  best  imaginable  securities. 


"dec 


HOW  can  Owen  Meredith,  who  understands  woman  so  well, 
as  his  characterization  of  Lucile  proves,  say  that  "Sorrow 
beautifies  only  the  heart,  not  the  face  of  a  woman?"  Although  sor- 
row robs  the  face  and  the  figure  of  some  of  their  freshness  and  firm- 
ness, it  leaves  a  spiritual  beauty  that  far  surpasses  the  mere  fleshly. 


IT  is  with  traveling  to  far-off  countries  as  with  visiting  distant 
friends.  One  makes  an  effort  to  get  to  see  those  persons  and 
places  not  easily  reached,  thinking  he  can  always  •■  run  in  "  to  those 
near  by.  That  is  why  our  own  country  and  our  neighbors  are  so 
often  neglected. 

BROWNING  and  Wagner  are  not  unlike,  in  that  both  have 
written  much  which  is  marvelously  beautiful,  and  much 
which  seems  to  be  discordant,  but  whether  this  is  because  it  is  "  but 
harmony  misunderstood,"  is  yet  an  open  question. 


Thomas  Price. 


Arthur  F.  Price. 


THOMAS  PRICE  &.  SON, 

ASSAY  OFFICE,  CHEMICAL  LABORATORY, 
BULLION  ROOMS  and  ORE  FLOORS. 


82  I  Sacramento  St ,  S.  F. 


Dec.  26,  18*2 


.-AN   FRANCISCO   NKWS  LKTTfcK. 


THE   DEMON   OF  GOAT  ISL.AND 


By  James*    Hart>ks>  Griffes. 

¥H  V  Ootl  Island? 
I  asked  mvself  tbis  question  many  times  before  the 
answer  came.  Wny  do  the  weary  souls  choose  tbe 
waters  that  lave  the  southern  margin  of  the  little  isle 
between  San  Francisco  and  Oakland  Tor  their  leap  into 
self-forget  fulness? 

Perhaps  the  problem  has  never  presented  itself  to  you.  To  me  for 
many  days  it  was  a  burning  inigtna.  That  exceptional  facilities  are 
afforded  the  determined  suicide  by  the  deck  of  an  Oakland  ferry 
steamer  is  so  apparent  as  to  need  but  the  bare  statement.  And  that 
they  are  taken  advantage  of  each  year  by  many  scores  of  ,heu  vily- 
laden  souls,  one  hay  but  to  read  the  daily  papers  to  know. 

But  why  Goat  Island? 

Those  who  leap  from  the  decks  of  the  ferry-steamers  invariably 
choose  a  point  iu  the  vessel's  course  directly  opposite  Goat  Island. 
The  bay  is  seven  miles  wide  at  this  point.  Now  why.  in  all  these 
seven  miles,  is  this  one  spot  selected  above  alt  others  ?  This  question 
has  bad  a  strange  fascination  for  me,  and  its  solving  has  been  my 
undoing.  And  I  alone,  of  all  living  men,  know  the  true  answer  to 
that  question.  There  have  been  others  to  solve  this  riddle,  others 
before  me.  but  they  have  all  perished  for  their  knowledge.  They 
have  found  truth  but  to  be  slain  by  it.  Who  knows  the  secret  of  Goat 
Island  knows  also  death.  And  1,  too,  must  pay  the  penalty.  On 
the  night  appointed  I  shall  take  passage  on  the  steamer  Piedmont, 
leaving  San  Francisco  at  10  o'clock.  I  shall  never  return  alive.  I 
shall  never  reach  Oakland,  unless  tumid  and  swollen  beyond  sem- 
blance of  my  present  self,  for  those  who  leap  into  the  sea  at  Goat 
Island  do  not  leturn  to  the  surface  for  many  days.  The  computa- 
tion of  the  number  of  my  days  has  been  neither  difficult  nor  agreeable, 
but  as  profitable,  I  hope,  as  the  end  is  inevitable.  Profitable,  because 
it  has  shown  me  that  no  time  is  to  be  lost  if  my  life  and  death  are  to 
have  a  purpose.  Until  one  has  stood  within  the  shadow  of  a  fixed, 
impending  fate,  the  dawn  of  which  has  already  broken,  one  may 
never  know  the  preciousness  of  each  swiftly  fleeting  moment.  And 
when  death  threatens,  the  philosophers  have  noted,  one  sees  clearer 
the  errors  and  lost  opportunities  of  life.  Perhaps  it  is  so  with  me. 
And  the  clearer  vision  brings  with  it  the  desire  to  amend  for  past 
mistakes;  brings,  too,  the  craving,  that  is  not  of  selfishness  born,  to 
pay  back  to  nature  the  debt  one  owes  for  having  lived,  to  leave  the 
world  and  one's  kind  at  least  an  atom  richer  for  theshelter  and  sym- 
pathy they  gave;  in  short,  the  craving  to  have  lived  to  some  pur- 
pose. And  that  my  epitaph  shall  be  no  more  than  "  He  Lived  and 
Died  Not  in  Vain,"  though  the  name  be  missing.  I  devote  the  few 
hours  still  in  my  possession  to  pointing  out  to  others  the  dangerous 
hidden  rock  which  wrecked  me. 

Men  who  seek  out  truth  from  the  darkness  of  ignorance  are  struck 
to  death  when  the  light  breaks  upon  them.  It  is  ever  so.  Yet  those 
who  come  after  have  stronger  visions,  because  of  the  new  light,  and 
may  tread  safely  over  the  beaten  path. 

Perhaps,  in  a  small  sense,  this  same  relation  is  between  you  and 
me,  for  though  I  die  by  the  knowledge,  you  may  read  safely,  being  in 
the  end  strengthened  against  the  evil  because  of  the  warning  it  is  at 
once  my  duty  and  highest  satisfaction  to  give  you. 

How  do  I  know  the  end  is  inevitable?  That  is  what  I  have  now 
to  tell  you.  My  personality,  my  social  condition  in  life,  are  of  no  im- 
portance here;  still  less  my  vocation  before  my  avocation  became 
the  adoration  and  adulation  of  the  Demon  of  Goat  Island.  Am  I 
rich  or  poor?  Have  I  wife  or  child,  heir  or  relative?  You  need  not 
know. 

I  had  suffered  much— why  or  how  matters  not  to  this  recital. 
"  The  eyes  must  be  washed  with  tears  that  are  to  behold  wisdom," 
it  is  said,  "and  according  as  a  man  has  suffered,  wisdom  speaks." 
My  eyes  had  been  bathed  in  the  brine  wrung  from  the  soul's  tor- 
tures. I  sinned  in  that  1  grieved  too  much.  My  hours  were  wasted 
in  vain  regrets,  my  days  spent  in  the  black  abysms  of  despondency. 
I  could  see  no  light,  though  all  around  me  the  sun  was  shining.  To 
me  all  things  were  dark,  and  in  the  obstinacy  of  my  soul  I  hugged 
sorrow  and  fed  upon  the  past.  There's  a  monstrous  egotism  in  deep 
sorrow.    The  man  who  mourns  much  thinks  much  of  self. 

I  was  a  passenger  on  the  Oakland  steamer  that  night.  I  sat 
outside,  leaning  over  the  rail  and  peering  into  the  deep  waters.  They 
were  placid,  and  seemed  to  sooth  the  dire  struggles  within  me.  It 
was  near  the  end  of  one  of  my  dark  days.  At  that  period  I  had 
many  of  them.  Beside  me,  scarcely  two  feet  away,  sat  a  young 
woman  weeping  silently,  and  as  myself,  peering  into  the  salt  depths. 
We  were  opposite  the  fateful  island,  and  for  the  hundredth  time  my 
own  sorrows  were  momentarily  forgotten  and  the  question  came  to 
me,  why,  why  Goat  Island?  Presently  the  young  woman  turned 
her  tear-stained  face  toward  mine. 

"  Is  this  Goat  Island?"  she  said. 

My  eyes  must  have  given  the  answer,  for  before  my  tongue  could 
frame  the  simple  affirmative,  swift  as  the  lightning  almost,  she 
stepped  lightly  on  the  slender  rail,  leaped  high  and  fell  swiftly  into 
the  dark  waters.  I  uttered  a  cry  of  alarm,  and  would  have  leaped 
after  her  had  it  not  been  fo    the  interference  of  the  passengers.    You 


know  as  well  a?  I  what  followed,  how  the  -.trainer  VII  stopped  and  a 

boat  lowered,  ami  how  the  Ntnfa  proved  fruitless.  The  suicide  of 
poor  Ida  Jenner  was  done  fall  Juntos  by  tbe  tensetlonal  reporter. 
Those  who  mw  my  Impulsive  movement  and  held  me  hack  gave  me 
credit  For  greater  heroism  than  I  at  thai  time  possessed.  But  how- 
ever brave  and  daring  1  might  have  been.  I  must  have  known  how 
futile  an  attempt  of  mine  would  be  to  PSSOQe  Ida  .tenner  from  her 
self-sought  tomb.  We  were  on  the  forward  deck,  and  scarcely  bad 
her  feet  touched  the  water  when  all  that  was  mortal  of  her  was  swal- 
lowed up  in  the  eddies  and  maelstroms  of  the  great  puddle-wheel. 
,  More  than  that  I  saw— yet  I  should  have  made  the  leap;  was  in 
despair  that  I  could  not. 

Bat  my  promptings  were  not  heroic.  It  was  a  selfish  reason  that 
would  have  drawn  me  into  the  waters  after  Ida  Jenner,  but  for  the 
awful  eternity  of  a  single  instant  an  intensely  fascinating  reason.  I 
had  seen  the  Demon  of  Goat  Island.  Who  sees  the  Demon  for  the 
first  time  takes  his  plunge  into  eternity  as  the  vision  bursts  upon 
him.  Only  the  alertness  of  the  already  excited  passengers  spared 
my  life  to  pen  these  words.  Of  the  scores  of  souls  on  the  boat  that 
night,  only  Ida  Jenner  and  myself  saw  the  monster.  For  her  to  see 
was  to  leap.  She  had  no  volition.  "  Her  eyes  were  washed  in 
tears."  and  when  the  vision  came  it  killed.  I  have  seen  the  Demon 
many  times  since  then.  I  shall  see  it  often  again.  There  is  no  op- 
tion in  me.  I  have  seen  what  no  man  sees  and  lives,  and  the  pen- 
alty must  be  mine  to  suffer.  There  is  no  vicarious  atonement  for 
such  a  sin. 

As  I  saw  the  monster  that  night,  the  expression  of  its  countenance 
was  demoniac  and  fascinating  in  the  extreme,  and  the  written  words 
of  no  language  of  man  can  accurately  describe  the  awful  vision.  In 
Dante's  dreams  of  hades  there  are  no  such  phantasms.  The  eyes  are 
luminous,  and  red  and  green  by  turns,  and  glassy.  Yet  they  burn 
like  the  orbs  of  a  deadly  serpent  bent  on  the  unoffending  summer 
songster.  They  shoot  forth  darts  of  fire  like  chains  of  lightning  in 
the  Eastern  skies.  They  are  three  in  number,  each  fiercer  and  more 
awful  than  the  other,  and  each  penetrating  to  the  very  soul  of  the 
beholder.  They  charm  and  terrify.  They  shoot  forth  a  verile  power 
that  fascinates  and  attracts  like  the  loadstone.  They  rivet  man's 
gaze,  pierce  him  through  and  through,  then  draw  into  themselves 
all  that  is  good,  and  true,  and  noble  in  man's  soul,  suck  out  the  very 
life,  even  the  clay,  of  man  himself.  There  is  death — more,  damna- 
tion—in  every  beam  of  those  awful  eyes.  But  not  the  eyes  alone  are 
horrible.  They  are  set  deep  in  a  head  that  is  slimy  in  parts  and  in 
parts  horny,  half  snake,  half  toad.  Festering  sores,  as  of  many  ful- 
some diseases,  cover  the  trunk,  in  the  centre  of  which  is  the  head. 
The  trunk  is  horned  where  the  sores  are  not.  There's  disease 
stamped  on  the  trunk,  many,  all  diseases.  The  limbs — these  are 
thousands,  like  the  great  devil-fishes  of  Southern  waters.  They  are 
long  and  twining,  like  huge  reptiles,  and  on  every  limb  is  a  grinning 
human  skull,  like  trophies.  The  limbs  are  more  loathing  in  appear- 
ance than  the  hideous  boas  of  the  Indian  jungles.  They  glide 
and  writhe  in  the  water  like  blind  serpents.  From  the  festering 
sores  of  the  trunk  oozes  a  sickening,  phosphorescent  fluid  that  illu- 
minates the  limbs.  These  limbs  I  saw  grasp  the  slender  form  of 
poor  Ida  Jenner  as  she  sank  beneath  the  foam  of  the  paddle-wheel. 

The  sight  filled  me  with  a  loathing  unutterable,  but  the  eyes  drew 
me  with  a  power  no  man  can  resist.  Only  main  force  held  me  from  that 
embrace.  Yet  the  eyes  followed  me;  ever  and  always  they  follow  me 
still.  They  are  piercing  my  soul  as  I  write  these  words  of  warning, 
and  the  agony  is  the  more  intense  because  I  write  them. 

Why  the  monster  inhabits  the  waters  of  these  barren  shores  I  know 
not,  but  this  1  do  know:  The  Demon  is  not  indigenuous  to  those 
waters. ,  I  have  seen  it  elsewhere.  And  the  Demon  is  amphibious. 
1  have  seen  it  on  land.    To  see  it  once  is  to  see  it  often. 

I  have  seen  it  stalking  through  the  streets  after  a  funeral  proces- 
sion, its  great  orbs  fastened  gloatingly  on  the  mourner's  cab. 

I  have  found  the  Demon  in  the  cholera  districts  of  Europe,  whither 
I  had  journeyed  in  vain  to  rid  myself  of  its  fateful  eyes. 

Out  on  the  broad  Pacific,  at  the  beautiful  Island  of  Molokai,  I  saw 
the  monster.  There  it  ate,  and  slept,  and  toiled  with  the  damned 
ones. 

In  Death  Valley  I  aaw  it,  when  the  sands  of  the  desert  were  burn- 
ing the  weary  feet  of  the  lost. 

In  the  madhouse  and  prison  I  have  seen  the  monster;  in  alms- 
house and  in  tenant. 

I  have  seen  it  on  the  streets  after  nightfall,  tramping  side  by  side 
with  the  lost  daughters  of  Phryne. 

I  have  seen  it  force  its  way  into  hungry  homes,  into  the  sick  cham- 
ber; it  haunts  the  pesthouse. 

It  is  a  monster  great  in  bulk,  yet  penetrating  everything  that  is 
sombre  and  sad. 

In  the  sunlight  the  Demon  cannot  live.  Where  hope  abides  the 
Demon  may  not  come. 

And  the  name  of  the  Demon  is  Despair. 

*f\7"OTJ  should  forgive  many  things  in  others,  but  nothing  in 
jf  yourself."  This  statement  is  selfish  in  spite  of  its  seeming 
magnanimity.  By  being  less  forgiving  to  ourselves,  we  exact  a 
higher  standard  of  conduct  than  we  do  from  those  whom  we  exon- 
erate from  blame  readily.  We  allow  them  to  rest  content  with  what 
is  further  from  perfection  than  could  be  attained  by  our  severer 
judgment. 


THE     CONTRETEMPS. 

Mr. -Brown,  having  expressed  bis  regrets  at  bis  inability  to  accept  tbe  invitation  of  one  young  lady  to  escort  ber  to  the  ball, 
as  he  might  be  out  of  town,  meets  ber  there  with  the  lady  whom  he  took,  and  is  now  longing  for  a  small  bole  into  which  to  drop 
himself. 


FIRE. 


S^-A-ZRI^TIE]. 


COMMERCIAL  UNION  ASSURANCE  CO.,  Ld., 

o:f  liOnsriDOisj", 
301  California  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Subscribed   Capital  $12,300,000 

Paid-up  Capital  1,250,000 

Total  Cash  Assets  (Gold) 16,324,962 

Total  Liabilities,  Including   Re-Insurance,  Funds,  Etc.                                                   .  .  .  10,294,868 

Cash  Surplus  to    Policy  Holders  5,291,401 

All  Losses  on  the  Pacific  Coast  promptly  paid  through  the  Branch  Office  of  the  Company. 


C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager. 

Losses  Paid  by  the  Company 


$67,981,011. 


The  Liverpool  and  London  and  Globe 

INSURANCE   COMPANY 

INSTITUTED  1836 

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THE  LAMEST  FIRE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  IN  THE  WORLD 
Total  AHsefc*.  January  1,  1893 $46,832,715 

Aggregate  Losses  Paid,  $105,761,212.    Entered  United  States  1848. 
AssetB  lu  U.  S.  *7, 852,847. 

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ESTABLISHED  1852 

OFFICE,  422  CALIFORNIA   ST.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


Pacific  Surety  Co. 


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GUARANTEE  AND  ACCIDENT 

issues  Guaranteed  Bonds  Insures  Against  Accidents 


CHARLES  D.  HAVEN,  Resident  Secretary 


Paid  Up  Capital *100,000 

Surplus  as  to  Policy  Holders 150,000 


Head  Office:  308  Sansome  Street 


SAN     FRANCISCO 


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OFFICERS 
John  Birmingham 

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A.  P.  Redding 

eCCJIETARY 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec  25,   1892. 


OUR   MILITARY    FORCES. 


Y  T  may  be  well  and  truthfully  said  that  the  strong  arm  of  mili. 

i    tary  power  has  ever  been  the  vanguard  of  civilization,  and 

( )  strange  as  it  may  seem,  even  in  its  most  inhuman  oppressions 

has  been  laying  the  foundations  of  human  rights  and  human 

liberty. 

The   nations    of  olden 


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time  were  one  vast  mili- 
tary camp;  subject  and 
soldier  were  one.  The 
helmet  and  shield  and 
battle-axe  were  the  high- 
est insignia  of  honor,  the 
sword  the  emblem  of  im- 
perishable renown.  But 
civilization  ad  vanced, 
and  the  Gods  of  War 
yielded  to  the  persuas- 
ions of  the  Angel  of 
Peace. 

But  down  through  it 
all  the  gleam  of  the 
sword  has  flashed  its 
light  across  the  waving 
harvest,  and  the  rattle  of 
musketry  and  the  roar 
of  cannon  have  blended 
their  notes  with  the 
hum  of  industry  and 
enterprise. 


Gen.  John  T.  Cutting. 


Government  is  an  organized  expression  of  force  based  upon  the 
primary  idea  of  obedience  to  law,  but  if  unwilling,  then  compulsory. 
Hence  armies  have  always  been  considered  necessary  in  the  admin- 
istration of  government  as  an  indispensable  adiunct  to  the  civil 
power. 

In  all  the  upliftings  of  civilization,  one  of  the  most  difficult  tasks 
encountered  in  the  transition  from  a  period  of  force  to  a  period  of 
law  has  been  the  blending  of  military  with  civil  power  in  such  a  man- 
ner as  to  destroy,  and  yet  preserve — a  paradox  accomplished  in  the 
American  militia  system. 

The  standing  armies  of  Europe  are  but  organized  invasions  of  the 
people's  rights,  consuming  their  substance,  making  an  enforced 
enslavement  of  the  best  blood,  muscle  and  brains  of  the  nation. 
Not  so  with  us.  Here  the  mantle  of  citizenship  shields  and  pro- 
tects the  manhood  of  the  individual.  The  military  is  subordinate  to 
the  civil  power.  Every  soldier  is  a  citizen,  and  every  citizen  a  soldier: 
hence  a  large  standing  army  is  made  unnecessary  by  the  very  genius 
of  our  institutions. 

The  militia  system,  wise  in  its  conception  and  powerful  in  its  or- 
ganization, has  become  the  marked  feature  of  onr  civilization,  and 
should  be  encouraged  and  fostered  by  State  and  nation  alike.  For 
whatever  may  be  the  other  elements  of  strength  and  subjects  of 
pride  in  our  nation,  the  National  Guard  is  the  heart-beat  of  its  power 
and  is  its  safe  retreat  in  the  hour  of  emergency. 

In  all  that  goes  to  make  up  the  elements  of  true  soldiers,  the  Na- 
tional Guard  is  superior  to  any  other  body  of  men  in  the  world.  The 
men  composing  it  are  intelligent,  prompt,  obedient  and  patriotic— a 
safe  reliance  in  time  of  danger. 

Experience  having  taught  us  that  a*large  standing  army  is  unnec- 
essary for  the  enforcement  of  the  laws  of  our  Government,  it  must 
be  evident  to  all  who  have  given  the  subject  consideration,  that  the 
nation,  to  be  able  to  protect  its  government,  its  flag  and  its  citizens, 
should  at  all  times  be  prepared  towage  successful  war;  for  a  blow 
quickly  dealt  is  of  double  force. 

A  body  of  men  well  drilled  and  well  disciplined,  acting  as  one, 
holding  themselves  thoroughly  at  the  command  of  a  competent  head, 
become  a  hundred  times  the  force  and  power  they  would  be  if  act- 
ing on  individual  responsibility. 

To  maintain  a  standing  army  even  approaching  sufficient  strength 
to  successfully  repel  foreign  invasion,  in  addition  to  a  powerful  navy, 
which  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the  protection  of  our  sea-coast 
cities,  would  entail  an  annual  expenditure  of  more  than  one  hun- 
dred million  dollars.  Our  present  small  force  of  less  than  twenty- 
five  thousand  men  costs  the  Government  nearly  $25,000,000  every 
year,  or  say  $1-000  per  man,  while  the  volunteer  force  in  all  the  States 
and  District  of  Columbia  of  National  Guardsmen,  aggregating  one 
hundred  and  ten  thousand  men,  are  fairly  well  maintained  at  $2,739,- 
086  per  year.  To  say  fairly  well  maintained  is  not  to  convey  the  idea 
that  the  troops  are  properly  armed  and  equipped  or  comfortably  uni- 
formed, but  the  organizations  are  kept  up  and  a  standard  of  disci- 
pline and  drill  maintained  that  is  astounding.  It  must  not,  how- 
ever, be  understood  that  the  sum  above  mentioned  for  maintaining 
the  National  Guard  is  all  that  is  expended.  To  this  amount  there 
should  be  added  at  least  $1,100,000  more,  an  approximation  of  the 
amount  voluntarily  contributed  by  members  themselves,  making  a 


total  of  say  $3,839,086,  of  which  amount  the  Government  of  the  United 
States  appropriates  for  equipments  the  paltry  sum  of  $3  63  per  man, 
a  sum  ridiculously  inadequate  and  disproportionate,  considering  that 
the  National  Guard  is  our  only  defensive  force.  The  Government 
should  at  least  arm  and  equip  the  National  Guard,  and  the  States 
uniform  them. 

Placing  the  maximum  strength  of  the  National  Guard  at  two  hun- 
dred thousand  men.  it  would  require,  to  place  this  force  on  a  war 
footing  an  annual  outlay  of  $10,000,000,  or  $50  per  man.  Let  the  Gov- 
ernment appropriate  half  the  amount  and  the  States  would  cheer- 
fully contribute  the  other  moiety.  Then  we  would  have  a  standing 
volunteer  force  of  armed,  equipped,  trained  and  patriotic  soldiers, 
ready  at  all  times  to  respond  to  the  nation's  call,  that  would  be  a 
credit  to  the  nation  and  the  admiration  of  the  world. 

To  make  the  National  Guard  most  effectual,  there  should  be  laws 
enacted  by  Congress  providing  for  a  uniformity  of  organization,  dis- 
cipline and  drill  in  all  the  States,  which  should  be  as  near  as  possible 
that  prescribed  for  the  army.  This  accomplished,  following  the  plan 
herein  outlined,  with  the  ready  and  rapid  means  of  transportation 
established  all  over  pur  country,  an  army,  including  the  regular 
troops,  could  be  mobilized  east  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  ready  for  act- 
ive service  within  forty-eight  hours,  competent  to  repel  the  advancing 
armies  of  any  two  nations  of  the  earth  that  could  invade  our  shores, 
as  it  is  conceded  by  competent  military  authorities  that  to  move  an 
army  corps  of  one  hundred  thousand  men,  fully  equipped  for  the  field, 
would  tax  the  maritime  transportation  facilities  of  any  nation,  if 
they  had  to  be  transported  at  a  single  trip.  Some  authorities  place 
the  greatest  numberpossible  at  sixty-five  thousand. 
!  ^Granting  that  the  former  number  is  possible,  of  which  the  writer 
is  fully  convinced,  or  even  the  latter,  what  could  this  Government 
do  withits  little  army  of  twenty-five  thousand  men  scattered  from  one 
end  of  the  country  to  the  other,  a  mere  picket  guard  to  sound  the 
alarm. 

The  spirit  of  the  hour  is  against  a  large  standing  army,  but  de- 
mands that  the  National  Guard  shall  be  fostered,  encouraged  and 
maintained. 

It  is  when  the  home  is  invaded,  personal  rights  infringed,  capital 
paralyzed  by  reason  of  internal  dissensions,  property  endangered,  or 
the  dignity  of  our  flag  in  peril  that  we  need  these  men,  who  in  peace 
are  willing  to  use  the  pen,  and  who  are  willing  to  admit  that  it  is 
sometimes  mightier  than  the  sword. 


THERE  is  no  one  both  so  obtuse  and  so  acute  at  the  same  time 
as  a  man  in  love  with  a  woman  who  does  not  return  bis  af- 
fection. His  love  makes  him  jealous,  and  therefore  quick  to  see  her 
real  or  fancied  preference  for  another;  his  conceit  blinds  him  to 
the  truth  that  she  cannot  love  him. 


A  NARROW-MINDED  woman  thinks  a  man  uncomplimentary 
when  he  praises  another  woman  in  her  presence.     On  the 

contrary,  he  is  paying  her  one  of  the  highest  compliments  in  imply- 
ing that  he  thinks  her  so  broad-minded  that  she  can  sincerely  share 
his  admiration. 

CYPRESS  LAWN   CEMETERY. 

Situated  In  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  CrosB  and  Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

F-A-IMIIILVST       PLOTS 
For  sale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  is  uon—ectarian  and  is  laid  out  on  the  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  32o  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 


WILLIAMS,  DIMOND  &  CO  , 

SHIPPING    AND    COMMISSION     MERCHANTS. 

Union      Block,     eor.      Pine      and      Market    Sts., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Agents  for 

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win  Locomotive  Works;  A.   Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  A  Sons 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
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ON    THE     FERRY. 
From    the    Painting    by    Freda    Menshausen. 


SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


MY     CLEVER     WIFE. 


Comedy  in  One  Act. 


(Parth/  adapted  from  the  French  for  the  News  Letter  by  " 
opyrighted;  all  rights  reserved.) 


Thoth. 


DRAMATIS  PERSONS. 


Sam  Nubbins,  grocer,  aged  30. 
Sophronisba,  his  wife,  aged  23. 
Noea,  their  help,  aged  20. 

SCENERY— A  dining-room  (on  first  floor  of  a  block  oj  nice  fiats), three 
doorways,  the  table  laid  for  lunch;  on  a  revolving  "  what-not "  some 
books. 


SCENE  1. 
(As  the  curtain  rises,  Nora  enters  from  the  rear  and  crosses  the  stage  unth 
magazines,  etc.,  apparently  oblivious  of  Mr.  Nubbins'  presence.) 

Sam — Anything  for  me? 

Nora— I  don't  think  so,  sir.  (She  reads  the  sxtperseriptions  on  the 
papers):  The  "Chemical  Weekly,"  the  "Historical  Gazette,"  the 
"  Scientific  Review,"  the  "  Theosophist,"  all  for  missis— 

Sam  (stopping  her)— That's  enough  ;  you  can  go.  (He  yawns.)  Only 
to  hear  the  titles  makes  me  yawn.    (Exit  Nora  to  theright.) 

Sam  (alone)—  Never  marry  a  bookish  woman!  Knowledge  is  no 
misfortune,  but  it  may  contribute  to  it.  Ten  months  ago,  when  I 
asked  in  marriage  the  band  of  Miss  Sophronisba  Maybee,  I  was  told 
that  she  had  passed  all  her  university  examinations  and  many  others 
besides;  then  I,  a  mere  grocer,  felt  flattered  to  marry  a  woman  who 
had  all  these  "  diplomas,"  and  I  thought  to  myself,  "  I  shall  never 
be  bored  with  such  a  wife!"  When  I  leave  business,  I  reach  home 
full  of  gaiety,  and  I  find  (enter  Sophronisba)— you  shall  see  what  I 
find. 

Sam— Good  morning.  Pet! 

Soph.— Have  I  not  already  begged  younottocall  me  "  pet?"  It 
is  so  childish. 

Sam— Then  what  shall  I  call  you? 

Soph.— Oh!  say  "  Good  morning  my  dear  wife,"  that  is  supposing 
I  am  dear  to  you,  which,  however,  has  not  been  sufficiently  demon- 
strated to  me. 

Sam— I  will  try  for  the  future  to  be  more  demonstrative.  (Sere 
Nora  enters  and  puts  the  "hors  d'oeuvres  on  the  table.) 

Nora— Lunch  is  ready,  ma'am  ! 

Sam — Ah!  so  much  the  better;  I'm  as  hungry  as  a  hunter.  {They 
seat  themselves  at  table.) 

Soph. — Will  you  take  a  sardine? 

Sam— Yes,  please,  several. 

Soph. — I  am  willing  to  wager  that  you  don't  know  what  a  sar- 
dine is. 

Sam— It's  a  little  fish  that  is  served  as  a  relish  for  lunch— 

Soph.— That's  the  answer  of  a  mere  baby. 

Sam — And  it  is  cured  in  oil. 

Soph. — But  be  serious,  Sam;  to  what  class  does  the  sardine  belong? 

Nora  (sotto  voce  to  Sam)— To  the  anchovy  school,  sir.  (Sam  turns 
and  looks  at  her.) 

Soph,  (not  waiting  for  a  reply)— The  sardine,  Sam,  is  of  the  class 
called  "  clupeolaV' 

Sam— Ah  1 

Soph. — And  where  is  it  usually  found  ? 

Sam— Why,  in  the  sea,  of  course! 

Nora  (sotto  voce  to  Sam) — Very  good,  sir:  that's  very  good. 

Soph.— But  whereabouts  in  the  sea? 

Sam — Oh !  now  here,  now  there,  as  it  happens. 

Soph,  (shrugging  her  shoulders)— That's  trifling;  learn  then,  sir,  that 
its  usual  habitat  is  in  profound  seas. 

Sam  (bantering  and  holding  out  his  plate) — Then  give  me  some  more 
in  the  "  profundity"  of  my  plate.    (Soph,  helps  him.) 

Nora— I  will  fetch  the  eggs,  ma'am.    (Exit  Nora.) 

Soph. — You  don't  know  much,  my  dear. 

Sam.— Could  I  foresee  that  you  would  make  your  knowledge  an 
Instrument  of  torture? 

Soph.— Ah !  if  I  had  known  what  a  low  order  of  mind  you  have ! 

Sam— But  you  aren't  King  Solomon's  daughter !  Your  father  sold 
cloth. 

Soph.— More's  the  credit  to  me  for  training  my  intellect  so  high. 

Sam— You  put  yourself  too  high  above  the  level  of  your  household. 
It  is  (/to(  which  prevents  your  noticing  that  the  furniture  is  dusty, 
and  that  the  button-holes  are  mourning  for  their  lost  buttons. 

Soph.— Do  you  suppose  that  you  married  a  servant  or  a  darning- 
woman? 

Sam— I  make  no  point  of  what  1  said.    What  have  we  for  lunch? 

Soph. — As  if  /knew;  you  will  see  directly. 

Sam— Ah  !  so  much  the  better,  for  we  have  been  waiting  for  it  for  the 
last  ten  minutes,  and  I  have  only  two  or  three  specimens  of  the"  clup- 
eola"  class  in  my  poor  stomach.  (Nora  enters  and  puts  on  the  table 
boiled  eggs. ) 

Sam  (cracks  an  egg) — Why,  these  eggs  are  hard ! 

Nora  (naively)—  That's  strange;  I  boiled  'em  ten  minutes. 

Sam— Who  told  you  to  boil  them  ten  minutes? 

Nora — Missis,  sir. 

Soph,  (embarrassed)— I  thought  they  would  require  that  time. 


Nora— I  am  very  sorry,  sir — 

Soph.— Oh!  it  doesn't  matter;  instead  of  soft  eggs  we  have  hard 
ones,  that's  all. 
Sam  (to  Nora)  —But  can't  you  cook? 
Nora— No,  sir;  but  one  must  make  a  beginning. 
Sam— That's  good,  very  good. 

Soph.— The  girl  only  entered  our  service  yesterday.     One  must  be 
indulgent.     I  will  buy  you  a  cookery  book,  Nora. 
Norv—  Please,  ma'am.  I  can't  read  !     (Exit  Nora,  taking  the  plates.) 

Sam— Why  did  you  engage  her  as  a  cook? 

Soph.— Another  scene ! 

Sam— It  is  not  a  scene,  but  a  plain  question. 

Soph,  (severely)—  All  you  think  of,  sir,  is  eating. 

Sam— Yes,  at  mealtime,  principally. 

Soph.— That  is  to  live  like  a  beast  of  the  field;  but  you  have  a 
soul,  sir! 

Sam— The  existence  of  which  is  now  much  less  demonstrated  than 
my  poor  stomach. 

Soph.— You  deny  that  you  have  a  soul ! 

Sam— Pardon  me!  but  what  is  a  soul?    Is  it  bloodless,  like  a  fi*h? 

Soph.— As  blood  is  the  life  here,  so  the  soul  is  the  breath  of  life  now 
and  hereafter.  Man  is  of  a  two-fold  nature— a  physio-psychic  and  a 
psychic. 

Sam— Isn't  that  a  trifle  complex? 

Soph.— Not  when  one  examines  into  it.  In  a  way  man  resembles  a 
medal ;  on  the  "  head  "  (as  you  say)  appear  thought,  love  and  con- 
science; on  the  other  side  are  appetite,  gratification,  self-indulgence. 

Sam— But  the  "  soul,"  where  do  you  think  it  goes  to  when  a  fellow 
dies? 

Soph.— That  is  a  most  difficult  question  to  answer.  A  gloomy  Cal- 
vinist  would  probably  consign  a  "  happy-go-lucky  "  man  like  you  to 
— well,  hell!  A  Catholic  might  give  you  the  benefit  of  a  purifying 
purgatory,  but  a  Theosophist  would  say  perhaps  you  may  become  a 
"  Mahatma  "  or  "  Sage!" 

Sam— A  sage!  thanks,  I  think  I'll  join  the  Theosophists,  they  at 
least  seem  to  be  able  to  appreciate  talent. 

Soph.— Or  if  you  were  a  Hindu  (and  the  Theosophists  and  Hindus 
have  much  in  common)  you  might  eventually  become  a  Para- 
Brahni. 

Sam— What's  that? 

Soph.— It  means  literally  "  unmanifested." 

Sam— Oh  !  I  see,  a  ghost ! 

Soph.— (not  heeding  him)— And  a  para-Brahm  contains  within  itself 
every  form  of  manifestation,  whence  results  the  theory  that  there  is 
no  Creation,  only  Evolution. 

Sam—"  Evolution!"  Darwin's  theory,  that  man  was  evolved  from 
an  ape? 

Soph. — This  is  much  too  serious  a  subject  for  jest,  sir.  At  the 
proper  times  a  "para-Brahm  "  manifests  periodically  an  objective 
universe,  so  emanating  a  "First  Cause"  or  "Brahma."  Then 
"  Brahma  "  projects  its  influence  into  time,  and  this  "  projection  "  is 
the  breath  of  Brahma,  and  causes  all  the  worlds,  with  the  beings  on 
them,  gradually  to  appear. 

Sam— This  is  less  interesting  than  the  tales  of  Jupiter,  Venus, 
Vulcan,  etc. 

Soph.— That's  mere  heathen  mythology;  but  the  Greeks  had  a 
scientific  philosophy ,  which  Thales  started  about  600  B.  C. ,  at  Miletus, 
the  chief  town  of  the  Ionian  Greeks  in  Asia  Minor;  and  Pythagoras 
started  another  school  of  philosophy  at  Crotona,  in  Italy,  about  529 
B.  C,  and  their  followers  and  successors  became  known  as  the 
"  Ionic  "  and  the  "  Italic  "  philosophers  sespectivejy. 

Sam — Sects  appear  to  be  like  lawyers;  if  there's  but  one  lawyer  in 
a  parish,  he  starves;  let  a  second  come,  and  they  will  both  thrive! 

Soph. — (not  noticing  this) — According  to  Thales,  Water  was  the  sub- 
stance out  of  which  all  things  were  made,  and,  by  the  way,  Homer 
says  that  "  Oceanus  was  the  parent  of  all." 

Sam— Did  he  call  spirits  from  the  vasty  deep? 

Soph.— Tush !  The  successors  of  Thales  had  different  views; 
Anaximander  thought  that  matter  in  motion  was  the  origin  in  all 
things,  infinite  and  divine;  Anaxemenes  selected  Air  as  the  basis  of 
first  principles;  while  Heraclitus  chose  Fire  as  the  fundamental 
form  of  nature. 

Sam — It's  just  like  the  game  of  "Elements"  for  forfeits,  that  I 
played  as  a  boy— "  Earth,  Air,  Fire,  Water,"  one,  two,  three,  four, 
etc. 

Soph.— Pythagoras,  the  Italian  philosopher,  believed  in  the  trans- 
migration of  souls. 

Sam— (yawning)—  Oh !  blow  the  "Ionics"  and  "Italics!"  I  be- 
lieve that  1  have  a  soul. 

Soph. — (disdainfully) — Yes,  my   reasoning  is  too  forcible  for  you. 
(Nora  now  enters  and  puts  a  beefsteak  on  the  table.) 

Sam— Ah !  You  clever  women  ought  never  to  marry.  (He  makes 
frantic  efforts  to  carve  the  beefsteak.)  What  do  you  call  this?  It's 
"leather! 

Nora—  (ingenuously) — No,  sir,  it's  beef. 

Soph. — Your  knife  won't  cut. 

Sam — My  knife  is  sharp  enough  ;  but  it  is  impossible  to  cut  this 
steak. 

Nora — Let  me  try,  sir.  (She  tries  vainly;  red  and  panting.)  Cer- 
tainly it  is  awfully  tough;  I  can't  understand  it. 

Sam—  (Getting  cross) — Give  me  gome  cheese,  Nora. 

Nora — There  is  none,  sir. 

Sam — And  didn't  I  tell  you  to  be  sure  and  buy  some  "roquefort?' 

Nora — Missis  forbade  me,  because  it  smells  so. 


- "     :  -    : 


BAIN    l"l  IISCO  NEWS   LKTTKI 


spires  me  with  an  Insurmountable  repute- 
n»nc*.    One  day  I  fainted  from  the  stench  of  "roQuefort/' 

>\H-  PuUing  >1"%rn  his  napkin  and  hrin-j  thr  table  —That  takes 
the  mkc! 

Then-  Is  the  back  of  yesterday's  chicken,  sir.    shall  I  serve 

Bam— No,  take  it  Yourself   as  well  as  this  old  hoot    and  he  ) ttl  fo 

th'  bmfitmk.     tl*  lOCCI  »>it  hij  rigor eit ■■-■■ 

8oph. — Are  von  going  to  smoke,  3am  ' 

PosM  —Are  you  afraid  of  smoke  Lo*daj 

Boph. — No,  but  I  fear  the  nicotine  in  it  for  yon.  The  presence  of 
this  alkaloid  in  the  tobacco 

Sam—  Very  much  put  out) — No,  no.  no,  let  me  rather  listen  to  a 
street-organ  '.     1  Exit  Sam.) 

SCENE     II. 
Ball    \N1>  Bopbboxiisba. 

B  m— {Bo  enters,  holding  in  his  hand  a   flannel  waistcoat)— Here,  dar- 
ling. 
Soph.— What's  that? 

Bam — It's  a  flannel  vest;  there  are  two  buttons  missing,  see? 
SOPR.— What  do  you  wish  me  to  do? 
Sam— Sew  'em  on. 

Soph.— Too  have  tremendous  assurance!      To  whom  do  you  think 
you  are  "peaking? 
Sam— To  Mrs.  Nubbins,  my  wife. 

Boph. — Then  you  only  married  me  to  darn  your  clothes? 
Sam— Oh!   dear  no;  but  I   certainly  expect  you   to  do  ordinary 
housewifely  duties. 
Soph.— Perhaps  you  will  ask  me  to  clean  the  date? 
Sam— Perhaps— why  not? 

Soph.  (Hysterically  and  tragically)— He  wants  me  to  clean  the  knives 
and  forks. 
Sam— I? 

Soph— Yes,  you!  you!  Look  here!  See  what  I  will  do  with  your 
old  vest !  (She  snatches  it  from  him.  throws  it  o?i  the  floor  and  stamps 
on  it.) 

Sam  (coolly)— Charming  girl!     (He  feels  her  "pulse.)     Allow  me. 
Soph. — What  are  you  doing? 
Sam — I  am  seeing  if  you  are  feverish. 

Soph,  (disdainfully) — Yon !  Why,  you  absolutely  don't  know  what 
fever  means. 

Sam — Stuff!  what  next?  If  one's  pulse  beats  more  quickly  than 
usual,  one  is  feverish;  one  compares  its  beat  with  one's  watch— if 
the  pulse  goes  very  fast  the  patient  has  fever,  and  must  take  quinine. 
(Sam  mispronounces  it  kwy-nine.)  You  see?  (He  looks  hard  at  his  wife.) 
Why,  you're  blushing. 

Soph. — I  should  blush  a  great  deal  more  if  any  one  were  present, 
(adding  scornfully) — "kwy-nine,"  indeed! 

Sam  (not  catching  on) — Certainly!  I'm  sure  of  it;  "  kwi-nine"  is 
prescribed  when  one  is  feverish — I  swear  it. 

Soph,  (picking  up  a  large  dictionary  and  passing  it  to  him) — Open 
that  dictionary,  sir,  and  you  will  find  that  the  proper  way  to  pro- 
nounce q-u-i-n  i-n-e  (spelling  it)  is  "  k'neen.*' 

Sam— Oh  1  the  deuce  take  you  and  your  dictionary;  "kwy-nine" 
or  "  ka-neen."  what  does  it  matter?  (He  chucks  the  dictionary  out  of 
the  window.  He  hears  a  shout  and  looks  out.)  By  Jove!  It  has  hit 
the  janitor ! 

Soph. — See  where  ignorance  will  lead  a  man;  first,  he  insults  his 
wife  and  then  he  nearly  kills  a  janitor! 
Sam  (furious)— It  is  enough  to  madden  one.    Where  is  my  hat? 
Soph,  (taking  him  by  the  arm)—  But  you  haven't  a  notion  what  mad- 
ness is !    Do  you  feel  a  hot  sensation,  a  constriction  of  the  throat  and 
chest? 

Sam — If  only  I  could  smite  some  one !  (He  picks  up  the  flannel  vest, 
stuffs  it  in  his  mouth  aud  strides  up  and  down  the  floor). 

Soph,  (impassable) — It  would  seem  that  madness  was  early  recog- 
nized among  the  Greeks;  it  is  believed  that  traces  of  it  are  found  in 
the  writings  of  Homer  and  Xenophon.  Hippocrates  only  alludes  to 
it  vaguely ;  on  the  other  hand,  Aristotle  signals  it  with  precision. 

Nora  (enters  holding  in  her  hands  the  dictionary) — The  janitor  has 
brought  this,  sir,  and  says  "  its  two  dollars." 
Sam— Why  two  dollars? 

Nora— Because  he  says  ithit  him  on  the  shoulder;  if  ithad  hit  him 
on  the  head  he  says  he  would  then  have  wanted  ten  dollars  not  to 
sue  you  for  damages. 
Sam—  Oh  !  let  him  go  and  sleep  with  his  two  dollars ! 
Nora  (simply) — But  he  must  first  have  them,  sir! 
Sam— Here,  give  him  half  a  dollar  and— this  flannel  vest. 
Nora — Very  well,  sir.    (Exit  Nora.) 

Soph.— The  janitor  will  tell  all  the  other  tenants  that  you  are  brutal 
and  avaricious. 
Sam— Oh  !  let  him  say  what  ne  likes. 

Soph.— For  my  part,  I  shall  write  to  my   mother  and  tell  her  the 
whole  of  this  sad  history. 
Sam— What  has  your  mother  to  do  with  it? 
Soph. — I  have  no  secrets  from  her  I 
Sam— Ah  !  if  I  could  but  be  single  again  ! 

Soph.— That,  indeed,  is  a  sentiment  which  I  can,reciprocate.  (She 
turns  and  leaves  the  room.) 

Sam  (nlone)— Isn't  she  exasperating?  My  wife's  the  very  devil  of 
botheration,  and  it  is  always  like  that!  What  you  have  just  seen  is 
as  nothing  compared  to  what  one  could  see,  but  which  it  is  impossi- 
ble for  me  to  show  you.  You  can  understand  that  at  the  close  of  the 
day— at.  bedtime,  for  instance— I  may  expect — well,  a  little  happiness. 
Ah!  but  you  don't  know  my  wife.  Last  night,  for  instance,  she 
brought  her  book  on  "  Organic  Chemistry"  to  read  in  bed.  Said  she 
to  me,  "  Listen  to  this :"  at  least  fifty  lines,  till  it  was  one  o'clock  in 
the  morning,  when  I,  tired  to  death,  fell  into  a  heavy  sleep.  And 
that's  great  fun,  isn't  it?  (He  notices  some  books  )  Ah  !  there  are  the 
enemies  of  my  happiness.  It's  astonishing  how  much  they^  contain 
one  doesn't  know.    (He  opens  a  dictionary.)    It  can't  be  possible  that 


my  wifo  know  nii  tin-'    If  only  I  coold  ■■  slurapMher  '  euchre"  her, 
Hnd  heratfanltln  mv   turn  I     By  Joeel  I'M   try.    [Be  turno  over  the 
Bui  ihta  riicitnnary  1*  100  small ;  I'M  g..  and  peg  away  at  ihr 
BncycJo]  ndla  Brltannica,      Bxii  to  iht 

BOBNH  III. 

from  the  Irft,  uitb  nn  Open  Irttrr  in  her  hand)— 

Here  is  my  letter  written,  U).    "  Mv  dear  mother    The 

man  with  whom  you  permitted  me  t«>  unite  my  destiny,  Joat  now 
cast  my  dictionary  al  the  janitor's  head  !  He  la  irate  with  me  i»  i  au  -<■ 
I  am,  intellectually,  bis  superior.  Ignorance  always  was  the  foe  «if 
BClence.  I  continue  busying  niv?elfon  my  work,  '  Is  Love  Necesmrv 
t<>  Womankind?  or.  Will  Educated  Women  Marry?'    Pray,  give  me 

your  sincere  opinion  i  hereabout.   I  myself  have  almost  derided  in  the 
negative.     I  have  read  all  Schopenhauer ;  it  is  very   beautiful.     This 
is  all  I  have  to  tell  you  to-day.     I  kiss  you  tenderly;  and,  I  am, 
Your  loving  daughter. 
80PHROKI8BA  NuBBlKfl  (alas!)  but  born  '*  MAYBBB"  (happily  !) 
Shi  hides  the  letter). 
Sam— (at  he  enters)— (Aside)  I  have  been  ferreting  in  all  the  diction- 
aries and  encvclopidia-,  and    I   am   well   posted.     I  shall  be  one  too 
many  for  her.     [Aloud),    Sophronisba! 
Soph.— What  is  it? 
Sam— I  don't  feel  quite  comfortable. 
Soph. —Are  you  suffering? 

Sam— It  seems  tome  that  my  heart  is  beating  quicker.     Perhaps  I 
have  a  "  dexiocardiotopia." 
Soph.— 1  beg  your  pardon. 

S.\~si— (very  calmly)— Yet*,  a  "Dexiocardiotopia,"  from  (he  Greek 
"  dexios"  right,  "  cardia"  heart,  and  "topos"  place.  It  means  a 
deviation  of  the  heart  to  the  right. 

Soph.— What's  that  you  are  saying?  Did  a  doctor  teach  you  ibat 
big  word? 

Sam — Ob,  no;  its  a  very  well-known  word.    Every  time  the  heart 
beats  a  Jiltle  quicker,  one  naturally  exclaims,  "  Dear  me  I  why.  cer- 
tainly I  have  a  '  dexiocardiotopia;'  "  just  as  one  might  say,  ''  I  have 
4  sick  headache  "  or  neuralgia. 
Soph.— Ah! 

Sam — By  the  way,  Alexander  had  one. 
Soph.— What!     Alexander  who  was  styled  "the  Great?" 
Sam— No,  Alexander  of  Abonitichos,  of  whom   Lucia n  tells.      He 
was  brought  up  by  a  sorcerer,  who  was  a  personal  friend  of  Apollon- 
ius  of  Tyana,  the  noted  mystic  and   magician.     With  his  friend  Cuc- 
conas,  Alexander  founded  an  Oracle  in  Abonitichos,   in  Paphlagonia. 
He  was  a  charlatan  and  a  humbug,  though  on   one  occasion  tie  was 
consulted  by  the  Emperor  Marcus  Aurehus  himself. 
Soph.— Why  have  you  not  spoken  about  this  before? 
Sam— Because  I  preferred  to  talk  of  other  things.     Ah!  now  that  I 
am  on  the  subject,  have  you,  by  chance,  a  historical  grammar  in  your 
library? 
Soph.— (thunderstruck)— What's  that  you  are  saying? 
Sam — A  historical  grammar?   It  describes  the  derivatives  of  words', 
giving  their  deflections  from  their  first  meaning. 
Soph.— Strange,  that  I  have  never  heard  of  one. 
Sam— But,  my  dear,  you  can't  know  everything. 
Soph.— (vexed)— But  at  least  I   do  not  like  to  remain  ignorant  of 
anything  that  you  know.     What  else  do  you  know? 

Sam— (aside)— Nothing,  by  Jove!  I  must  invent.  (Aloud)—  Well, 
did  I  tell  you  of  the  "  otheontitondra,"  birds  with  four  claws,  which 
nourish  themselves  on  "  gramnivoraceous  "  matter? 

Soph. — (bewildered) — You   must  have  been  reading  one  of    ibose 
"  decadent  "  books,    Wait  a  second.    (She  takes  a  dictionary).    Is  it 
spelled  with  or  without  an  "  h?" 
Sam — (abstractedly) — As  you  please. 
Soph. — What  do  you  mean,  "as  I  please?" 

Sam — Oh,  because  there  are  three  "  h's  "  in  our  language;  the  as- 
prirated  "  h,"as  in  "home;"  the  closed  or  unsounded  "h,"  as  in 
"hour  "  and  "  honor,"  and  the  facultative  "  h."  (Aside)  Now.  I  have 
put  my  foot  in  it. 
Soph. — I  have  never  heard  of  the  facultative  "h.  " 
Sam— Very  likely.     (Aside)    No  more  have  I.    What,  the  deuce* 
shall  I  say?    (Aloud)  Let  me  give  you  an  example — in  -t  Ostler  "  or 
"  Hostler  "  the  "  h  "  is  facultative;  some  write  it  with  and   some 
without  an  "  h." 
Soph.— Ah  I  bah  !  you  have  been  making  fun  of  me  all  this  time. 
Sam — W7hy,  of  course,  you  goose. 
Soph.— (furiously)—  You  call  me  a  "  goose?" 

Sam — Yes,  yes,  a  "g-o-o-s-e,"  (spelling  it).  What!  here  we  have 
been  married  ten  months ;  you  are  no  wife  tome;  you  overwhelm 
me  with  your  diplomas;  you  bore  me  with  all  sorts  of  outlandish 
things  with  which  you  stuff  your  head,  piled  indiscriminately  one  on 
another,  like  your  sardines  in  their  can.  You  weary  me  with  your 
affectation  of  erudition  ;  you  strut  about  with  second-hand  informa- 
tion ,  like  the  jackdaw  in  the  fable  with  the  peacock's  plumes. 
Soph. — A  jackdaw  I 

Sam— I  can't  eat  an  egg  without  your  spouting  chemistry:  I  can't 
touch  a  salad  but  you  mouth  botany ;  and  when  I  kiss  you,  it  is  as  if 
I  were  embracing  a  dusty  encyclopedia. 
Soph.— Sir! 

Sam— Oh,  I  have  not  finished  yet.    This  is  but  the  exordium — 
(with  an  X-araple!)    When  a  woman,  like  you,  has  no  tact,  but  re-" 
peats  what  she  reads  in  or  out  of  season,  stie's  no  longer  a  woman. 
She's  a  mere  parrot. 
Soph.— Goose!    Jackdaw!!    Parrot!!!    Oh!  eo  on,  do. 
Sam— (sarcastically)— Pray  make  notes.    But  the  first  duty  of  a  wife 
is  "  to  love  her  husband."    If,  after  that,  she  wishes  to  pass  a  little 
time  with,  say,  Oharlea  XII.,  King  of  Sweden,  I  see  no  objection,  es- 
pecially as  he  is  dead.    Instruction  by  itself  is  nothing;  it  is  but  a 
grain,  it  must  germinate.     If  you  put  the  grain   in   a  sack,  you  will 
never  see  it  bud,  blossom   nor  bear  fruit;  it  must  be  sown  in  good 
ground.     In  woman,  the  flower  of  the  grain  "  instruction  "  is  educa- 
tion, and  its  fruit  is  "  good  sense;"  good  sense  or  good  feeling  is  a 
woman's  best  attribute.     What  do   I   say?     It  is   more,  it  is  her  es- 
sence, her  virtue! 


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Dec.  25,  1892 


SCARLET     FEVER. —ITS     SYMP- 
TOMS   AND    TREATMENT. 


/-^yCARLET  fever  is  an  infectious  disease,  due  to  a  specific  con- 
\Sf  tagiou,  and  characterized  by  a  peculiar  exanthem,  more  or  less 
.  jN  diffused  over  the  entire  surface,  an  angina  of  variable  intensity, 
[  v)  and  a  fever,  which  may  be  appreciable  only  with  the  ther- 
^~^  mometer  or  so  intense  as  speedily  to  destroy  life.  It  is  irregu- 
lar in  form,  intensity  and  prevalence.  These  diversities  are  exhibited 
in  individual  cases,  in  the  constitutions  of  epidemics,  and  in  the  mor- 
bid process  in  the  organs  which   may  be  involved.     Its  epidemicity 


Dr.  George  J.  Bucknull. 
and  contagiousness  are  established,  yet  the  intensity  of  the  contagion 
is  so  variable,  aud  individual  susceptibility  and  immunity  are  so  in- 
constant, that  those  who  make  escape  a  prevalent  and  virulent  epi- 
demic may  be  seized,  subsequently,  during  an  epidemic  of  lesser  pre- 
valence and  malignity,  and  in  the  same  enideniic  individual  cases 
will,  without  apparent  cause,  vary  from  the  lowest  to  the  highest 
grade  of  intensity.  The  difference  in  the  susceptibility  of  persons  and 
the  variability  of  the  poison  in  virulence  and  diffusion  are  more 
markedly  exhibited  in  this  than  in  any  other  of  the  exanthematous 
affections.  During  the  past  two  hundred  years  its  course,  progress, 
prevalence  and  epidemic  character  have  been  carefully  recorded  and 
studied.  At  the  present  time  it  is  the  most  prevalent  and  fatal  of  the 
exuuthematous  maladies.  Its  greater  prevalence  is  undoubtedly  due 
to  the  rapid  increase  in  population.  The  first  epidemic  in  this  coun- 
try occurred  in  1735. 

Scarlet  fever  is  due  to  a  specific  poison  capable  of  reproducing  it- 
self. Cases  occasionally  occur  independent  of  any  epidemic,  and, 
apparently,  of  any  contagious  element ;  but  such  cases,  like  those  oc- 
curring under  circumstances  readily  explained,  are  due  to  infection 
with  the  scarlatinous  poison.  The  nature  of  the  contagion  has  not 
been  determined.  Experimental  and  clinical  observation  point  to 
the  existence  of  a  scarlatinal  microbe,  but  such  an  organism  has  not 
been  isolated  or  demonstrated.  Its  volatility  is  established  by  its 
minute  divisibility  and  diffusibility  in  the  atmosohere.  its  rapid 
transference  from  person  to  person  without  direct  contact  or  close 
proximity,  and  its  wide-spread  prevalent  anions  unprotected  per- 
sons in  the  same  or  neighboring  communities.  The  evidence  in  favor 
of  its  portability  is  conclusive.  It  may  be  conveyed  by  the  clothing, 
furniture,  toys,  flowers,  letters,  locks  of  hair,  and  food  from  the  sick- 
rouru.  Any  article  ot  wearing  apparel,  either  from  the  sick  person, 
physician,  or  nurse  in  attendance,  or  of  any  other  person  who  may 
be  exposed  to  the  direct  contagion ,  may  convey  it.  During  such  con- 
veyance its  latent  vitality  will  remain  unimpaired  for  a  considerable 
time.  The  wearing  of  the  clothing  of  the  sick,  occupancy  ofcthe  sick- 
room, dusting,  beating  and  cleaning  the  clothing  of  the  sick, 
and  even  a  visit  to  the  house  of  a  scarlatinous  patient,  have  fre- 
quently infected  susceptible  persons.  It  may  also  be  communicated 
by  domestic  animals.  It  may  be  disseminated  by  contaminated 
drinking-water,  and  in  later  years  it  has  been  quite  frequently  com- 
municated by  infected  milk.  Three  kinds  of  milk  epidemics  are  rec- 
ognized by  Klein,  of  which  examples  may  be  found  in  the  literature 
of  recent  epidemics  in  England.  In  one  kind  the  infective  material 
is  communicated  to  milk  by  the  exposure  of  either  the  milk  or  the 
milk  cans  to  a  patient  during  the  desquamative  stage;  in  the  second 
kind,  by  the  conveyance  of  the  poison  to  the  milk  from  an  infected 
cow;  and  in  the  third  kind,  by  the  direct  poisoning  of  the  milk  of  a 
cow  suffering  with  the  disease.  The  most  common  mode  of  infection 
is,  however,  from  direct  contact  with  a  scarlatinous  patient.  The 
duration  of  its  vitality  has  not  been  ascertained.  The  contagiousness 
of  scarlatina  is  conclusively  proved  by  the  comrounicability  of  the 
disease  to  a  healthy  person   by  inoculation.    The  contagion  is  so 


volatile  and  intense  that  the  briefest  contact  with  a  scarlatinous 
patient  or  exposure  to  the  atmosphere  of  the  sick-room  may  be  suffi- 
cient for  infection.  Well-directed  ventilation,  and  isolation  of  the 
patient,  may  limit  the  spread  of  a  disease  in  a  household.  The  ac- 
cepted belief  is  that  the  poison  can  be  destroyed  only  by  heat,  and 
that  a  temperature  nearly  up  to  212  deg.  F.  is  necessary. 

The  period  of  most  intense  contagiousness  and  the  duration  of 
capacity  for  infection  have  not  been  positively  settled.  Some  con- 
tend that  the  stage  of  desquamation,  others  that  during  the  bloom  of 
the  eruption,  is  the  most  contagious  period.  The  only  fact  univer- 
sally admitted  is  that  with  restoration  to  health  the  contagiousness 
declines ;  but  it  certainly  does  not  cease  until  desquamation  has  been 
completed.  With  the  termination  of  desquamation,  convalescence, 
and  restoration  to  health,  infectivity  will  certainly  have  ceased.  In 
a  family  of  children  one  or  more  may  escape  or  suffer  but  a  mild  at- 
tack, whilst  the  remaining  members  may,  without  apparent  cause, 
exhibit  the  most  intense  susceptibility.  Social  position  and  external 
circumstances  influence  the  mortality,  but  do  not  seem  to  affect  the 
predisposition.  The  death-rate  increases  with  poverty  and  dimin- 
ishes with  affluence.  This  difference  is  undoubtedly  due  to  the  con- 
dition of  life  rather  than  to  any  difference  in  constitution.  Among 
the  well-to-do,  the  modifying  influence  of  ventilation,  diffusion  and 
dilution  of  the  poison,  more  efficient  care,  nursing,  feeding  and  med- 
ical attendance  is  very  markedly  shown  in  the  diminished  mortality. 
Age  exerts  a  very  decided  influence.  No  age  is  exempt.  Conditions 
of  soil  seem  occasionally  to  favor  the  prevalence  of  the  disease,  but  . 
residence  in  the  country  or  in  cities  does  not  show  any  marked  dif 
ference. 

Epidemics  of  scarlet  fever  occur  most  often  in  the  autumn,  and  in 
successive  order  of  frequency  during  winter,  spring  and  summer. 
The  condition  of  the  weather  does  not  influence  the  epidemics. 
Changeable,  cold,  and  moist  weather  does  not  aggravate  them.  In 
act,  they  seem  to  be  independent  of  atmospheric  conditions.  Alti- 
tude is  without  influence.  The  wounded  and  those  who  have  under- 
gone operation  seem  to  acquire  increased  susceptibility.  The  preva- 
lence of  epidemics  of  scarlet  fever  is  mainly  dependent  upon  personal 
intercourse.  All  other  conditions  and  elements  are  of  minor  im- 
portance. Epidemics  of  scarlet  fever  frequently  follow  in  the  wake 
of  epidemics  of  measles.  There  is  no  effectual  method  of  protecting 
the  susceptible  from  the  contagion  of  scarlet  fever.  Much  can  be  ac- 
complished in  limiting  the  prevalence  of  the  disease  by  prompt  and 
efficient  isolation  of  the  sick,  and  by  non-intercourse.  All  experi- 
ments to  secure  protection  by  the  internal  administration  of  drugs 
have  failed.  Separation  and  disinfection  are  the  most  effectual  pro- 
phylaxes. The  discharges  of  the  patient  and  all  vessels  employed  in 
the  six-room  should  be  thoroughly  disinfected.  The  clothing  worn 
by  the  patient,  the  bed-linen,  and  other  clothing  should  either  be  de- 
stroyed or  be  submitted  to  some  certain  disinfecting  process.  The 
mattrass  should  be  burned.  After  the  patient  is  well  and  has  re- 
turned to  the  family  circle,  the  room  should  be  subjected  to  an  equally 
effective  process  of  cleansing  and  disinfection.  No  unprotected  per- 
son should  be  permitted  to  occupy  it  for  a  reasonable  period  thereafter 
The  period  of  incubation  varies.  In  the  vast  majority  of  cases  it 
varies  from  two  to  eight  days.  There  are,  however,  many  exceptions 
to  this  general  law.  It  is  never  safe  nor  wise  to  pronounce  a  child  who 
may  have  been  exposed  to  the  contagion  free  from  the  danger  of  an 
attack  until  several  weeks,  at  least  three,  have  elapsed  after  the  date 
of  last  exposure.  The  disease  rarely  occurs  more  than  once  in  the 
same  individual.  Occasionally  instances  of  a  second,  a  third,  and 
even  a  fourth  attack  have  been  reported.  Physicians  sometimes 
pronounce  cases  of  roseola  and  erythema  to  be  mild  attacks  of  scar- 
latina, and,  when  the  mistake  is  recognized,  fail  to  correct  the  diag- 
nosis. 

The  morbid  anatomy  in  scarlet  fever  consists  mainly  in  the  changes 
which  take  place  in  theintegument,  subcutaneous  connective  tissues, 
and  mucus  membrane  of  the  oral  and  nasal  cavities  and  throat. 
The  skin  is  hyperaemic,  and  the  surface  is  more  or  less  covered  with 
an  exanthem,  which  consists  of  numerous  and  closely  aggregated 
points,  slightly  red  in  the  beginning,  but  rapidly  increasing  in  red- 
ness, sometimes  to  a  brilliant  scarlet  color.  They  are  seldom  larger 
than  a  pin's  head,  and  may  be  separated  by  pale  points  of  skin. 
They  may  be,  and  most  usually  are,  so  crowded  together  as  to  pre- 
sent to  the  naked  eye  a  uniform  scarlet  redness  of  marked  intensity. 
The  desquamation  may  be  either  branny  or  lamellar,  and  may  recur 
several  times,  dependent  upon  the  nature  of  the  epidermis  and  the 
exanthem.  The  changes  in  the  organs  of  the  throat  and  the  mucous 
membrane  of  the  oral  cavity  and  pharynx  vary.  It  may  be  a  simple 
turgescence,  with  moderate  swelling  of  the  uvula,  palatine  arches, 
and  tonsils,  and  increased  secretion :  or  it  may  be  a  much  more  ex- 
tensive inflammation,  involving  the  posterior  pharyngeal  wall  and 
the  structure  of  the  tonsils,  and  extending  throughout  the  mucous 
membrane  of  the  mouth  and  the  lining  membrane  of  the  nasal  cavity. 
The  tonsils  may  be  greatly  enlarged;  sometimes  abscesses  form  in 
them.  The  swelling  outside  about  the  neck,  jaws  and  temples  is 
sometimes  very  considerable,  and  may  result  in  very  extensive  ab- 
scesses. There  is  no  longer  any  doubt  that  scarlet  fever  may  be 
associated  with  the  formation  of  a  membrane  in  the  throat  and  upper 
air-passages  similar  to  diptheritic  exudation.^ 

The  kidneys  quite  often  present  evidences  of  derangement.  Most 
frequently  the  disease  begins  suddenly  with  a  chill,  vomiting,  a  con- 


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raWoo.ora  bigb  ferer  uvocUUd  with  the  usual  phenomena  ■•(  htgfa 
febril action,  bee daohe, freqoent pulse,  Bushed  face,  thirst.  >pnrk- 
linff  «jm,  anoraxla,  twitching  or  starting,  and  perhaps  delirium  or 
rtiipor.  The  vomiting  may  be  persistant,  bol  usually  it  i-  not  trou- 
blesome except  Ini  \  slight  diarrbms  may  supervene. 
These  sjniptoma  maj  continue  wiibom  abatement,  and  sometimea 
are  increased,  until  the  appearance  of  the  ernptlon,  which  ma] 
within  a  few  hours  or  be  delayed  one.  two,  or  three  days,  DOl  often. 
however,  later  than  twenty-four  hours.  The  rash  appears  Brsl  abonl 
the  neck,  chest,  and  shoulders  in  IndisUncl  points,  Increases  rapidly 
in  redness,  and  extends  over  the  trunk  and  extremities,  reaching  its 
maximum  development  in  rare  cases  during  the  first  day,  hut  most 
usually  during  the  second,  and  in  some  cases  not  before  the  third  or 
fourth  day.  The  throat  symptoms  begin  with  the  onset  of  the  di- 
sease and  progress  with  the  development  of  exanthem.  With  the 
fading  and  gradual  disappearance  of  the  rash  the  throat-affection 
usually  subsides.  Sudden  and  marked  elevation  of  the  temperature, 
with  corresponding  rapidity  of  the  pulse,  is  one  of  the  most  common 
initial  and  characteristic  phenomena  of  scarlet  fever.  At  the  onset 
the  fever  may  reach  102  F.  and  rapidly  rise  during  the  first  day  to 
105 to  106  F.  In  some  cases  it  may  reach  this  and  even  a  higher  ele- 
vation in  a  few  hours.  During  the  period  of  high  fever  there  is 
usually  active  delirium,  in  some  cases  stupor  and  in  others  twitching, 
jerking,  tossing  about  the  bed,  moaning,  and  occasionally  screaming 
as  if  in  pain.  The  pulse  ranges  high  from  the  beginning,  and  con- 
tinues so  with  corresponding  increase  in  frequency  with  the  rise 
of  the  temperature,  sometimes  reaching  1(!0,  "or  more,  per  minute. 
During  the  continuance  of  the  fever  the  urine  is  scanty  and  high- 
colored.  Total  suppression  is  rare,  but  in  high  grades  of  pyrexia  it 
may  occur.  Marked  diminution  of  the  quantity  is  ominous,  and  in- 
dicates renal  complication.  The  eruption  fades  and  disappears  on 
the  different  parts  of  the  body  in  the  order  of  its  appearance.  The 
complications  and  sequelae  of  scarlet  fever  are  too  numerous  to  be 
considered  here.  A  mild  conjunctivitis  is  quite  common  during 
the  eruptive  stage.  More  serious  and  protracted  opthalmias  occur 
during  the  later  stages,  and  sometimes  lead  to  grave  corneal  troubles. 
Otitis  may  be  a  complication  or  a  sequel. 

Neuralgia,  hypera-3thetic  and  anaesthetic  conditions,  epilepsy  and 
hysteria,  and  a  variety  of  mental  disturbances,  have  followed  scarlet 
fever.  Nephritis  may  appear  as  either  a  complication  or  a  sequel  of 
scarlet  fever,  and  is  as  often  associated  with  the  mild  as  with  the 
severe  forms.  No  one  can  assert,  either  at  the  beginning  or  during 
the  progress  of  any  case  of  scarlet  fever,  that  it  will  run  a  regular 
course  and  terminate  in  complete  restoration  of  health.  It  is  the 
most  fatal  of  the  exanthematous  diseases.  The  mortality  varies  with 
epidemics  and  the  circumstances  of  life.  In  some  epidemics  it  has 
reached  ten  per  cent.  The  general  management  of  scarlet  fever  after 
the  disease  has  run  its  ordinary^course,  terminating  with  the  com- 
pletion of  desquamation,  refers  to  the  treatment  of  the  complications 
and  sequelae,  the  nutrition  of  the  patient,  and  the  employment  of 
such  tonics,  especially  iron  and  quinine,  and  perhaps  alcoholic  stim- 
ulants, as  may  be  necessary  to  support  the  patient  and  obviate  fatal 
exhaustion.  There  have  been  reported  at  the  health  office  since  Jan- 
uary 1,  1892,  to  November  26,  last,  about  eight  hundred  cases  of 
scarlatina.  The  deaths  amounted  to  over  one  hundred.  In  October 
there  were  reported  102  cases. 


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ITS  SPECIAL  FEATURE 

The  Life  Rate  Endowment  Policy 

A  combination  of  all  thai  is  most  desirable  in  Life  Insuranci 
A  Liberal  Policy.     Legitimate  insurance  at  the  LOWEST 

An  Annual  Distribution  of  Surplus. 

EVERY  POLICY  ISSUED  UNDER 

The  Protection  of  the  Massachusetts  Non-Forfeiture  Law 

Iosfpii    M.  GmBKNS,  Vice  President 
WMi   B.   I  L-KNKH,  . 


Bent.  F.  Stevens,  resident 

S.  Fkanksfobu  Trull,  Sccrclary  \V||.  I:.   I  URNBR,  Asm.  Sccrclary^ 

HENRY   K.  FIELD,  general  Agent 
Mills'  Building,  M1.11I; ri  anil  Bush  St*..    San  Francisco  t-al 


Jf?e 
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Ii75urai7ee 

<?o/T)pai)y. 


OF   NEW  YORK. 
ESTABLISHED   IN  I860. 

This  company  issues  a  policy  that  is  free  from  restrictions 
and  technicalities. 

Ratep  of  inourance  lower  than  thope  cy  any  other  company. 
All  claims  settled  immediately  upon  presentation. 

PACIFIC    HF.PAKTMENT.-2J0  Montgomery  St.,  S.  F. 

JOHN  LANDERS,  MANAGER. 


USEFUL 

HOLIDAY 

PRESENTS. 


Fancy  Rockers, 
Par/or  Desks, 
Music  Cabinets,  Etc. 

STERLING  FURNITURE  CO. 

1039-104/  Market  St.,  0pp.  J.  J.   O'Brien's. 


Founded  in  1856. 


Incorporated  April,  1889. 


Tubbs   Cordage   Company. 


Manufacturers  of  all  sizes  of 
MANILA   and    SISAL   ROPE 
BINDER  TWINE 
DRILLING  CABLES 
WHALE  LINE. 


Directors: 
A.L.  Tubbs,  President. 
Hiram  Tubbs,  Vice-Pres 
Alfred  S.  Tubbs,  Treas. 
Aus'in  C.  Tubbs, 
Herman  A.  Tubbs. 


611  and  G13  Front  St.,  S.  F. 


CHAS.  W.  KELLOGG,  Seo'y. 


Established  1859. 


Incorporated  1888. 


lar^y  0  /T\iel?aels  Qo., 

U/tyolesale  Drugcjists 
and  /T\ar;ijfaeturir;cj  <5I?e/T\ist5. 

34,  36,  38  and  40  First  Street,  between  Market  and  Mission. 

5ar?  prarjeiseo,  <?al. 


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SWEETHEARTS. 
From   the    Paintinq    by   Ch.  Coessin   de  la    Fosse 


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Dec.  25,  1392. 


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THE    POSTAL    TELEGRAPH 
COMPANY. 


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'  ITH  this  we  present  our  readers  with  a  view  ol  the  San 
office  of  Ihe  Postal  Telegraph  and  Commer- 
Coropany.  the  two  great  telegraph  corpora- 
bicb  John  \V.  Mackay  Is  the  ruline  spirit. 
To  those  who  know  Mr.  Mack  ay.  it  is  needless  to  say 
that  what  heundertakestodo.be  does  well,  and  the  renmrkable 
success  that  has  attended  these  two  telegraphic  enterprises  are  the 
best  confirmation  of  this  fact.  They  have  been  the  direct  means  of  a 
noticeable  improvement  in  the  telegraph  service  throughout  the 
United  States,  as  well  as  between  this  country  and  Europe,  and  the 
mercantile  world  has  not  been  slow  to  realize  that  they  are  indebted 
to  the  originators  of  the  Commercial  Cable  Company  and  the  Postal 
Telegraph  for  these  results.  This  is  evid'  nee  i  by  the  constantly 
growing  business  of  both  companies.      In  1SS8,  the  gross  receipts  of 


:  t  similar  method!  in  order  to  bold  bnstnoea.  All  this  is  greatly 
in  the  Interact  ol  the  public,  which  bu  hitherto  recognised  Uu  i 
and  favored  the  Postal  wtlh  a  liberal  patronage.    The  i 

d  to  maintain  permanent  oompetlllon,  and  the  best  .  vldi 
tin-  li  the  feci  thai  ll  never  reeorti  to  the  destructive  methods  thai 
have  proved  ihe  ruin  ol  nil  previous  competing  telegraph  oompanlee, 
and  ii»  ambition  is  to  give  It)  patrons  the  bi  h  service  that 

It  la  possible  lo  attain,     among  thi it  Important  ol  the  improve- 

in.  nt-  thai  have  been  Introduced  by  toe  Postal  lethal  ol  type-written 

gee,  which  are  now  delivered  from  all  of  its  principal  ol 
Hi.'  .^:m  Frandsco  office  .>t  the  company  has  the  honor  ol  being  the 

lirM  large  office  in  the  world  to  turn  out  all  of  its  message  in  print 
and  Hie  successful  working  of  the  system  here  was  Ihe  means  i.f  its 
introduction  in  all  of  the  larger  cities.  Every  message  given  to  the 
Postal  is  a  vote  in  favorof  competition, good  service, and  type-written 
messages. 

The  new  building  which  the  Postal  is  erecting  on  the  corner  of 
Broadway  and  Murray  streets.  New  Y.irk,  will  be  not  only  one  of  the 
largest,  but  also  one  of  Ihe  hnndsoniest  buildings  in  that  city.  In 
style  of  architecture,  it  will   be  after  the  modern  renaissance,  and 


Main   Office,    Market  St.,   below  Montgomery. 


the  Commercial  Cable  Company  were  $1,189,000.  In  1890,  they  bad 
grown  to  $1,931  000,  with  net  earnings  of  $1,112,680,  and  for  1891  it 
was  estimated  the  gross  receipts  would  show  another  half  million 
increase.  We  take  these  figures  from  the  Financial  Times  of  New 
York.  They  show  a  remarkable  growth  of  business,  and  a  very 
healthy  condition  of  affairs,  and  we  must  congratulate  the 
holders  of  cable  stock  upon  such  a  favorable  showing,  which  evinces 
not  only  a  great  earning  capacity,  but  an  equally  successful  adminis- 
tration. It  will  no  doubt  be  remembered  by  our  readers  that  the 
"Commercial"  is  the  Company  that  fought  tbe  pool  companies  and 
compelled  them  lo  reduce  the  rate  from  fifty  cents  to  twenty-five 
cents  a  word. 

The  Postal  Telegraph  provides  in  its  service  throughout  the  United 
States  what  the  cables  do  across,  or  rather  under,  the  ocean— a 
healihy,  competitive  telegraph  service,  embracing  3,000  offices  and 
125,000  miles  of  line.  The  number  of  its  offices  is  being  added  to 
daily,  as  well  as  its  line  mileage,  and  this  company  has  during  (be 
past  five  years  had  an  unprecedented  growth.  It  has  pursued  a 
business-like  and  straightforward  policy.  It  has  not  ODly  greatly 
improved  the  handling  of  its  own  business,  in  speed,  accuracy  and 
form,  but  it  has  made  it  necessary  for  its  great  and  only  competitor 


will  be  fourteen  stories  above  ground,  with  basement,  cellar  and  sub- 
cellar.  It  will  be  about  170  feet  in  height  above  the  sidewalks,' and 
with  the  single  exception  of  the  Pulitzer  Building  will  be  the  tallest 
building  in  that  part  of  the  city.  It  will  have  a  front  on  Broadway 
of  over  70  feet,  and  extend  for  156  feet  on  Murray  street,  with  a 
wing  extension  towards  Warren  street  from  the  Murray  street  end, 
100  feet  deep  and  50  feet  wide.  The  first  four  stories  will  be  of  In- 
.diana  limestone,  finely  tooled,  above  which  the  walls  will  be  con- 
structed of  light  gray  brick  and  terra  cotta.  The  building  will  be 
made  entirely  fireproof. 

Rumors  to  the  effect  that  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Company 
has  purchased,  or  would  soon  purchase  or  control  the  Postal  have 
lately  been  in  circulation.  President  Chandler,  of  the  Postal,  in  a 
recent  circular  disposes  of  them  in  this  way.  "This  is  to  assure  our 
patrons  and  the  public  that  no  consolidation,  purchase  or  any  other 
arrangement,  by  which  the  Postal  Telegraph-Cable  Company  ceases 
to  be  an  absolutely  independent  and  competing  telegraph  system  has 
been  made  or  contemplated." 

The  Postal  is  evidently  here  to  stay,  and  all  who  use  the  telegraph 
should  be  duly  thankful  therefor. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


^C^rxCe^t^ 


How  He  Invented  the  Process  for   Condensing  Milk— The  "  Gail  Bor- 
den  Eagle   Brand1' '—  d  Great  Industry \ 

IN  1801,  in  the  town  of  Norwich,    N.  Y.,  Gail  Borden,  the  in- 
ventor of   condensed  milk,  was   born.     At   the  age  of  21,  he 
found  himself  in  command  of  a  flat  boat,  on  the  Ohio  river,  bound 
for  New  Orleans. 
In  1829  he  moved  to  Texas,  where  he  devoted  himself  to  farming 

and  stock  raising. 

In  1839  he  was  the  agent  of  the  Galveston  City  Co.  His  attention 
was  drawn  to  the  urgent  need  of  more  suitable  food  supplies  for  emi- 
grants and  travelers  crossing  the  plains,  the  want  of  which  involved 
great  suffering  and  loss  of  life. 

Going  North,  his  thoughts  turned  to  the  preservation  of  milk.  He 
desired  to  preserve  milk  in  all  its  mother  strength.  Scientific  friends 
advised  him  that  his  aim  was  too  high;  that  the  retention  of  all  the 
butter  uninjured  in  the  milk  could  not  be  accomplished  in  practice, 
and  that  the  removal  of  part  of  the  cream  would  be  found  a  neces- 
sary  first  step.  But  he  utterly  discarded  the  thought  of  condensing 
"  skimmed  milk,"  and  pushed  on,  regardless  of  the  advice,  until  his 
object  was  attained. 

His  first  application  for  a  patent  was  in  May,  1853.  It  was  granted 
on  the  principle  of  evaporation  in  vacuo,  under  date  of  August  19th, 
185G.  In  1858  he  began  the  production  of  the  "  Gail  Borden  Eagle 
Brand  "  condensed  milk.  The  New  York  Condensed  Milk  Co.  has 
works  at  Wassaic,  Duchess  county,  N.  Y.,  one  at  Brewsters,  one  at 
WallkiU,  and  still  another  at  Purdy's,  N.  Y.,  and  two  more  at  Elgin 
and  Carpentersville,  111.  In  addition,  the  company  has  bottling 
plants  for  liquid  milk  at  Oxford,  Johnsons  and  Millerton,  New  York. 
Gail  Borden  died  at  his  home  in  Texas, on  thellth  of  January,  1874, 
worth  $7,000,000. 

Having  read  and  heard  so  much  afcout  Gail  Borden,  the  New  York 
Condensed  Milk  Co.,  and  the  celebrated  "Eagle"  brand,  I  deter- 
mined to  visit,  at  the  first  opportunity,  one  of  their  condensing  fac- 
tories at  Brewsters,  N.  Y. 

Brewsters  is  a  pretty  little  town  of  some  1,200  people,  52  miles  from 
New  York. 

Taking  the  road  that  leads  through  the  midst  of  the  town  in  a 
winding  way,  by  some  foothills  and  across  a  rustic  bridge,  we  came 
to  the  factory— the  one  big  industry  of  the  town.  It  was  nine  o'clock. 
A  long  procession  of  farmers' wagons  loaded  with  milk  cans  trailed 
far  up  the  hill,  each  driver  awaiting  his  turn  to  get  before  the  door  of 
the  receiving-room.  As  the  cans  were  unloaded  each  was  inspected 
by  an  expert.  The  smallest  suspicion  of  failure  at  any  test  was  con- 
sidered sufficient  for  rejection— and  we  saw  more  than  one  can  re- 
jected and  returned  to  the  farmer's  wagon  without  a  word  of  cere- 
mony. While  we  were  at  the  factory,  the  milk  from  more  than 
5,000  cows  was  received,  inspected  and  poured  into  the  receiving-vats. 
From  these  vats  the  milk  is  discharged  into  (be  jacketed  kettles,  or 
V  wells."  in  the  well-room.  Here  it  is  heated  to  a  temperature  of 
over  212  degrees,  thus  thoroughly  sterillizing  every  particle.  The 
requisite  amount  of  pure  grannlated  sugar  is  added,  and  the  whole 
becomes  a  milk  syrup,  ltis  then  pumped  up  and  into  the  immense 
vacuum  pans  in  the  condensing-rooni,  where  it  is  evaporated  at  di- 
minished atmospheric  pressure.  These  vacuum-pans  are  a  sight  to 
behold.  By  a  vacuum-pan  the  reader  is  not  to  confuse  it  with  a  pan 
that  he  can  carry  around  under  his  arm.  They  are  large  affairs,  hold- 
ing 10,000  quarts  of  milk  each.    In  this  factory  are  three  of  them, 


costing  $12,000  apiece.  Clambering  to  the  top  of  iron  steps,  one  sees 
through  a  glass  peephole  a  boiling,  seething  mass,  tumbling  and 
foaming  like  a  Niagara  of  milk,  thousands  of  quarts  of  the  white 
liquid  fast  becoming  a  thickened  mass  for  many  tables  in  many 
lands.  From  the  vats  the  condensed  milk  is  drawn  off  through 
tubes,  with  strainers,  into  the  cooling-room  below,  where  it  is  re- 
ceived in  cans  that  revolve  in  vats  of  cool  water.  It  then  goes  to  the 
sealing-room,  where,  with  the  use  of  the  mostperfect  filling-machine 
1  ever  saw,  each  one-pound  can  is  filled  just  to  a  nicety,  the  cap  is 
put  on  and  soldered.  It  then  goes  to  the  packing-room,  and  the 
Gail  Borden  "  Eagle"  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is  ready  for  the  market. 

It  would  seem  from  appearances  at  the  Brewsters  factory  that  with 
the  New  York  Condensed  Milk  Company  cleanliness  is  away  ahead 
of  Godliness.  I  have  been  in  every  conceivable  variety  of  factory 
for  producing  food  products,  but  the  Brewsters  factory  is  the  clean- 
est plant  I  ever  saw.  One  could  "  eat  off  the  floor,"  from  the  office 
to  the  shipping-room. 

The  New  York  Condensed  Milk  Co.  makes  contracts  with  the  best 
farmers  for  miles  around  each  of  their  factories  to  take  their  milk 
the  year  around.  These  contracts  refer  to  the  feeding,  housing  and 
proper  care  of  the  cows,  the  temperature  at  which  the  milk  shall  be 
kept  until  delivered,  how  the  milk  shall  be  conveyed  to  the  factory, 
cleanliness  of  utensils  about  the  farm,  the  rejection  of  milk  from  dis- 
eased cows,  milk  from  which  any  of  the  cream  has  been  removed, 
etc.    Every  article  in  these  contracts  are  rigidly  enforced. 

A.  It.  Elliott. 

PANSIES. 

A  littie  knot  of  pansies — 

Bronze  and  purple  and  gold- 
Rise  and  fall  in  a  dainty  nest 
Of  cream  lace  on  my  ladv's  breast, 
As  we  sway  to  the  cadences  soft  and  low 
Of  dreamy  waltzes,  to  and  fro, 

This  little  knot  of  pansies 

Their  dewy  fragrance  hold. 

"  Ah,  happy  knot  of  pansies," 
1  whisper  with  a  sigh; 
"  Yet  the  tiny  faces  careless  wear 
Their  priceless  honors,  nestling  there 
In  the  heaven  of  flowers,  with  perfume  faint 
And  cool  as  in  some  garden  quaint, 
These  happy  little  pansies 
In  envied  sweetness  lie." 

"  Nay,  envy  not  my  pansies  "  — 
And  her  voice  is  silver-clear— 
"  Worn  for  an  hour,  they  fade  and  die^ 
Their  velvet  petals  withered  lie 
Crushed  and  broken  and  cast  aside, 
Vain  their  purple  and  golden  pride; 
Poor  little  knot  of  pansies 
They  buy  such  honors  dear." 

11  Yet,  blest  for  ever  these  pansies 
If  they  linger  but  an  hour; 
Nestled  in  amber  silk  and  lace, 
Clasped  by  glimmer  of  pearls  in  place, 
Sweet  were  death  in  such  royal  state- 
But  the  heaven  sweet  of  thy  bosom,  Fate 
Gives  only  to  these  pansies, 
Unconscious,  thankless  flowers," 

Withered  to-day  the  pansies, 

Tarnished  their  bronze  and  gold; 
Yet  sweetest  memories  grace  bestow, 
With  pristine  beauty  their  pale  leaves  glow. 
We  smile  and  guard  them  with  tender  thought 
Of  the  spell  their  fairy  faces  wrought. 

This  little  knot  of  pansies 

Our  joined  lives  precious  hold. 


THE  general  excellence  of  the  stall-fed  beef  sold  by  J.  H.  Mo- 
Menomy,  of  stalls  7,  8  and  9  of  the  California  Market,  is  so 
very  well  known  in  all  the  homes  of  the  city,  that  it  is  alto- 
gether unnecessary  to  expatiate  upon  it.  Captain  McMenomy 
has  for  years  led  the  local  market  in  the  matter  of  fine  beef. 
He  gives  personal  attentiont  o  his  cattle,  which  are  fed  in  his  stalls 
on  San  Pablo  avenue,  Oakland,  and  never  thinks  of  bringing  them  to 
market  until  they  have  reached  fine  condition.  He  is  the  only 
butcher  in  the  city*  who  personally  buys,  feeds  and  slaughters  his 
own  cattle.  The  result  is  that  his  beef  and  none  other  is  relied  upon 
by  good  diners  to  put  blood  in  their  \einsand  muscles  in  their  bodies. 
No  Christmas  dinner  will  be  complete  and  entirely  satisfactory  with- 
out a  roast  of  his  excellent  meat.  Captain  McMenomy's  telephone 
number  is  1481. 


9    f    Ravi  i.rrr** 


riMii-T^  **  Ni-Mnt 


A     CHRISTMAS     FESTIVAL. 

From  the  Painting  by  B.   Hall. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


\  "l   j  HE  term  ■«  the  Four  Hundred."  as  applied  to  the  upper  crust  of   the  social  sys- 
L- J      tenj,  is  frequently  beard  when  speaking  of  society  in  any  of   our  large  cities, 
v^^3     and  naturally  it  is  often  used  in  San   Francisco.     Hence   the  question  arises, 
1        have  we  really  a  Four  Hundred  among  us,  and  if  so,  who  are  they,  what  en- 
titles them  to  that  position,  and  to  be  so  called?     It  has   passed   almost   into 
an  accepted  theory  that  the  West  is    wild    and   woolly,  but   the   intelligent  traveler, 
who  has  bad  the  privilege  of  entre  to  tbe  best  circles    of  San  Francisco  society,  will 
admit  that  it  has  always  held  a  tone  of  refinement  and  culture  equal    to  that  of  any 
other  city  of  the  Union.     In  tbe  Old   World,  birth  and   breeding  stand  first  as  essen- 
tial for  a  place  in  the  best  society,  though  wealth,  such  a  powerful  factor  the  world 
over,  is  fast  becoming  a  noted  power  there  also.     In  the  New  World,  wealth  is  accu- 
mulating so  rapidly,  and  becoming  so  vast  in   possession,  it  is  largely  the  standard 
for  the  highest  social  grade,  millionaires  ranking  number  one.     That  there  is  a  "  set," 
however,  which  is  noted  for  its  families  being  of  many  years'  standing,  wherein  re- 
finement of  mind  and  manner,  and  culture  generally,  is  a  sine  qtia  non  every  one  who 
is  familiar  with  the  best  society  of  the  large  cities  of  our  country  will  admit,  and  even 
Ban  Francisco  boasts  that  it,  too,  possesses  an  old  set.     They  claim  that  in  the  earlier 
days  of  our  city  the  people  who   built    up   society   were   scions  of   refined,  well-bred 
people  tbe  other  side  of  tbe  Rockies,  who  came  to  California  bearing  all  the  traditions 
of  family  and  race,  and  having   grown   rich    here,  they    naturally  unite  both  wealth 
and  breeding,  and  so  should  be  ranked  as  leaders  of  the  swim.  How- 
ever, in  many  cases  these  families  have  led  more  or  less  retired  lives, 
and  have  not  aimed  at  ultra-fashionable  surroundings,  and  so  are 
dubbed  the  old  set;  while   the  large  fortunes  brought  into  being  by 
tbe  upheaval  of  the  Bonanza,  and  the  cumpletion  of  tbe  overland 
railroad,  introduced   a  new   element  into  society   which,  combined 
with  tbe  old,  has  produced  what  is  called  "  Our  Four  Hundred."  San 
Francisco  has  never  had  any  single  social  leader.    In  what  is  often 
termed  its  palmy  days,  several  families  held  that  position,  namely, 
the  Gwins,   McAllisters,  Parrotts,   McLanes,  Ransornes,  Maynards, 
Friedlanders,  Haggins,  Tevis\  Otis'.  Selbys  and  Maxwells,  who  were 
constant  entertainers,  and  therefore  led  society.     Many  of  them  are 
still  noted  as  fashionable  hostesses,  while  death  and  departure  have 
depleted  the  list. 


IT  'iT.  V   '**JNCU 


Mrs.  A.  M.  Parrott. 


As  in  the  past,  so  to-day, 
our  Four  Hundred  has  no 
special  leader.  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Parrott  is  certainly  the  oldest 
party  giver  in  society,  tbe 
most  noted  reception  of  early 
days  having  been  given  by 
her  in  August,  1857,  at  her 
home  on  Folsom  street,  then 
the  largest  and  handsomest 
private  dwelling  in  tbe  city. 
The  party  was  given  to  tbe 
bride  of  Captain  George  W. 
Bissell  (now  the  wife  of  Gen. 
E.  D.  Keyes).  If  wealth,  in- 
tellect, cultivation  and  re- 
finement constitute  the  es- 
sentials of  a  social  leader, 
then  Mrs.  Parrott  may  be  so 
ranked.  She  is  tbe  widow 
of  the  late  John  Parrott,  the 
pioneer  banker,   who    at  bis 


death  left  his  vast  fortune,  running  far  into  the  millions,  completely 
at  her  disposal.  During  the  winter,  her  handsome  residence  on  Sut- 
ter street  is  the  scene  of  some  of  tbe  largest  balls  of  the  season,  inter- 
spersed with  smaller  gatherings,  teas,  dinners  and  musicales;  while 
in  the  summer,  at  her  beautiful  borne,  Baywood,  near  San  Mateo, 
she  entertains  constant  house  parties.  The  branches  of  Mrs.  Par- 
rott's  family,  who  belong  to  our  Four  Hundred,  are  the  only  sun, 
Jack  Parrott,  married  to  the  only  daughter  of  Joseph  A.  Donohoe, 
the  banker,  and  six  daughters,  Mine,  de  Guigne,  Mrs.  Douglas  Dick, 
Mrs.  R.  Y.  Hayne,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Payson,  Mrs.  Jos.  Donohoe,  Jr.,  and 
the  Comtesse  de  la  Lande,  who  lives  principally  abroad. 

Mrs.  William  M.  Gwin,  widow  of  one  of  our  early-day  Senators, 
ranks  next  to  Mrs.  Parrott  as  the  hostess  longest  known  in  society. 
Mrs.  Gwin  bas  been  noted  as  a  brilliant  entertainer  for  a  long  period, 
and  still  holds  a  prominent  position  in  the  swim,  although  of  late 
years  her  entertainments  have  been  chiefly  teas,  presided  over  by 
her  daughters,  Mrs.  E.  J,  Coleman  and  Miss  Carrie  Gwin,  both  well 


known  and  popular  ladies  in  the  social  world.  Mrs.  Gwin's  only  son 
married  the  daughter  of  George  Maynard,  and  she,  as  Mrs.  Willie 
Gwin,  is  one  of  the  charming  young  matrons  of  the  day. 

The  Thornton  family  is  so  identified  with  San  Francisco  society, 
past  and  present,  that  their  place  is  next  in  precedence  in  the  "old 
set."  J  udge  Thornton's  eldest  daughter  is  Mrs.  John  C.  Fall,  one  of 
whose  daughters  married  Sam  Brookes,  ex-Sub-Treasurer,  and  an- 
other daughter  wedded  Colonel  Steuart  Taylor.  Mrs.  John  O'Neil 
Reis,  and  the  Misses  Lucy  and  Maggie  Brookes — such  ornaments  to 
our  present  Four  Hundred— are  therefore  the  great-grandchildren 
of  Judge  Thornton.  Another  of  old  Judge  Thornton's  daughters  is 
tbe  wife  of  Judge  James  D.  Thornton,  and  mother  of  Mrs.  Captain 
Watson,  whose  husband  commands  the  cruiser  San  Francisco',  and 
yet  another  is  Mrs.  Bessie  Thornton,  mother  of  Mr.*.  Harry  T.  Cres- 
well.  Old  Judge  Thornton's  only  son  is  Colonel  Harry  Thornton, 
the  noted  turf  man. 

Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Selby,  once  one  of  our  city's  prominent  social 
lights,  has,  since  the  death  of  her  husband,  ex-Mayor  Selby.  retired 
from  the  gay  world,  leaving  her  children  as  able  representatives  in 
the  Four  Hundred  of  the  well-known  name.  They  are  Mrs.  A.  J. 
Ralston,  mother  oi  Miss  Claire  Ralston,  the  popular  belle;  Cornelia, 
married  to  Captain  Kempt' of  the  Navy;  Miss  Annie  Selby;  Jennie, 
wife  of  Faxon  Atherton;  Ralph,  married  to  Miss  Adams;  and  Per- 
cival,  married  to  the  widow  of  Fred  Macondray. 

The  name  of  Mrs.  McAllister  has  always  been  as  well  known 
in  San  Francisco  society  as  it  ia  at  present  in  New  York,  both 
Hall  and  Cutler  McAllister  {brothers  of  tbe  famous  Ward,  of 
Gotham),  being  ever  foremost  in  getting  up  and  taking  part 
in  all  the  leading  social  functions  since  the  city's  earliest  days. 
Hall,  the  late  legal  luminary,  eldest  son  of  Judge  McAllister, 
the  first  of  California's  United  States  Judges,  married  Miss  Louise 
Hermann,  who  ably  seconded  ber  husband's  untiring  efforts  in 
behalf  of  social  pleasure,  they  being  constant  and  brilliant 
entertainers.  Their  children,  who  are  of  our  Four  Hundred,  are 
young  Hall,  who  married  Miss  Laura  Henehaw,  of  Boston;  Mrs.  E. 
Everett  Wise,  Mrs.  Frank  Newlands  and  Miss  Eva  McAllister,  the 
society  belle.  Cutler.  Judge  McAllister's  second  son,  who  was  San 
Francisco's  first  cotillion  leader,  married  Miss  Julia  ParKman.of 
Georgia,  and  their  children  in  the  society  of  to-day  are  M.  H.  McAl- 
lister, who  married  Miss  Lucy  Otis,  and  Elliott  McAllister,  the  ris- 
ing young  lawyer. 

The  leading  pioneer  physician,  the  late  Dr.  A.  J.  Bowie,  and 
hia  wife,  come  from  good  old  Maryland  stock,  and  were  people 
of  great  cultivation  as  well  as  wealth.  They  were  among  the 
n  'ted  d in nei -givers  of  society  for  years.  The  numerous  members  of 
tbe  Bowie  family  are  prominent  in  iLe  Four  Hundred  to-day.  The 
eldest  son,  A.J.  Buwie,  Jr.,  the  well-known  mining  engineer,  mar- 
ried Lizzie,  the  eldest  daughter  of  tbe  late  Isaac  Frit-dlander  (called 
the  Grain  King)  and  is  tbe  father  of  tbe  pretty  belle,  Bessie  Bowie. 
The  second  son,  Henry  P.  Bowie,  tbe  lawyer,  married  tbe  widow 
of  George  H.  Howard,  of  San  Mateo,  a  lady  who  is  remarkable  as  a 
linguist  and  musician,  and  possesses  much  grace  of  mind  and  man- 
ner, and  would  be  an  ornament  to  any  society. 


Mrs.  Howard-Bowie 


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U  a  woman  of  large  means,  and  has  Mione  in  Ban  Fret 
since  Id  earltesl  day*.    By   her  former  b 

Mr-  Bowifl  has  two  daughters,  who  belong  to  our  nwiiu—  Mrs.  Bey- 
lard  and  Miss   Babette  Howard— and  a  -  aho  married 

lliaa   N.-ii-   -  i-r.  Hamilton 

Bowie,  who  married  Miss  Barriolhet;  Dr.  Robert  Bowie,  man 

New  Bedford  whaling  Captain's  heiress;  and  Allan  St.  John  Bowie, 
the  favorite  beau.    The  only  daughter  i*    1089  Jessie  Bowie,  one  of 

the  brightest,  prettiest  girls  in  our  society,  as  well  as  an  heiress  in 
her  own  right. 

Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis,  a  sister 
cf  Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin,  is  an- 
other of  San  Francisco's  ear- 
ly society  lights,  who  still 
shines  in  the  fashionable  fir- 
mament of  to  -  day.  The 
Tevises  came  to  San  Fran- 
cisco from  Sacramento  dur- 
ing the  fifties,  and  ever  since 
have  been  prominentin  hos- 
pitality and  fashionable 
gatherings,  some  of  tbe  most 
noteworthy  entertainments 
>f  each  season  having  taken 
place  in  their  handsome 
borne  on  Taylor  street.  Mr. 
Tevis  is  one  of  our  leading 
,ng  millionaires  and  promi- 
nent business  men.  Tbe 
members  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Mrs.  Lloyd  Tevis.  Tevis'  family  who  constitute 

part  of  our  Four  Hundred  to-day,  are  their  two  daughters- 
Maggie,  married  to  Gordon  Blanding,  son  of  the  late  William 
Blanding;  and  Louise,  who  married  first  J.  C.  Breckenridge, 
from  whom  she  was  divorced,  and  later  married  Fred  W.  Sha- 
ron, the  only  son  of  the  late  William  Sharon,  ex-Senator  and  million- 
aire. The  Tevis'  sons  are,  Dr.  Harry,  a  bachelor;  Hugh,  who  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Judge  Boalt,  and  Will,  married  to  Miss  Mabel 
Pacheco.  whose  mother  is  the  successful  playwright,  and  whose 
father  is  the  present  United  States  Minister  to  Guatemala.  These 
four  young  matrons  are  shining  society  lights. 

One  of  the  best  known  merchants  of  pioneer  days  was  Captain  F. 
W.  Macondray,  who  established  the  tea  bouse  of  that  name.  Those 
of  his  children  who  are  prominent  in  our  present  Four  Hundred  are 
Mrs.  Lucy  Otis,  widow  of  James  Otis,  and  who,  in  early  days  as  now, 
was  a  notable  hostess,  her  parties  being  features  of  the  season.  Mrs. 
Otis  has  two  daughters,  popular  members  of  society — one  the  wife  of 
young  Hall  McAllister,  and  the  other  a  pretty  girl,  who  is  engaged  to 
the  son  of  Judge  Lake,  of  pioneer  times.  Mrs.  Otis' brother,  Fred 
Macondray,  married  Miss  Elena  Atherton,  who,  upon  his  death,  be- 
came the  wife  of  Percy  Selby,  and  her  daughters,  Mrs.  Moore  and 
Mrs.  Perry  Eyre,  are  favorite  voung  matrons  of  our  swim. 

The  name  of  Ralstoniis  known  not  alone'tin  California,  but  all  over 
the  world,  the  late  banker,  W.  C.  Ralston,  having  been  the  most 
princely  entertainer  in  the  United  States  during  his  brilliant  career. 
His  name  is  now  represented  socially  by  his  beautiful  daughter, 
Emelita,  who  married  Arthur  Page,  one  of  tbe  numerous  Page  fam- 
ily from  Chili,  and  Miss  Bertha  Ralston,  her  sister. 

Another  pioneer  banker  and  former  partner  of  Mr.  Ralston  is  Jos- 
eph A.  Donohoe,  who  is  represented  in  the  Four  Hundred  of  to-day 
by  his  only  daughter,  the  wife  of  Jack  Parrott,  and  two  sons— one, 
Joseph,  Jr.,  married  to  Miss  Christine  Parrott;  the  other,  Mr.  Ed- 
Donohoe,  a  society  beau. 

Mrs.  Charles  Brigham,  wife  of  the  well-known  physician,  is  the 
chief  representative  of  a  prominent  early  day  family,  the  W.  F.  Bab- 
cocks.  Her  sister  is  the  wife  of  Lieut.  George  M.  Stoney  of  the  navy. 
Mrs.  Brigham's  brothers  are  William  Babcock,  a  widow,  and  Harry, 
a  society  beau. 

Mrs.  D.  J.  Tallant  is  the  wealthy  widow  of  an  early  day  banker,  and 
although  in  her  husband's  lifetime  she  seldom  appeared  in  the  role  of 
a  social  hostess,  her  entertainments  since  the  debuts  of  her  daughters 
have  been  frequent  and  varied.  Both  daughters  are  now  married, 
one  to  Lieut.  Brice  of  the  navy,  the  other  to  a  son  of  Austin  Tubbe, 
the  prosperous  cordage  manufacturer.  This  rich  widow,  Mrs.  Tal- 
lant, is  the  cynosure  of  many  aspiring  young  men's  eyes. 

Mrs.  Eugene  Casserly,  widow  of  a  distinguished  lawyer  and  ex- 
United  States  Senator,  is  one  of  our  oldest  residents,  and  contributes 
to  the  Four  Hundred  to-day  a  pretty  daughter,  Miss  Daisy,  who  is 
one  of  the  most  popular  girls  in  the  swim,  and  two  sons,  beaux  of  the 
period,  Jack  and  Gus  Casserly. 

The  venerable  Episcopal  Bishop,  W.  I.  Kip,  and  his  wife  are  both 
members  of  some  of  New  York's  oldest  families.  Their  descendants 
who  figure  in  our  Four  Hundred  are  William  I.  Kip,  Jr.  and  wife, 
whose  pretty  daughter,  Miss  Clementina,  made  her  debut  this  winter. 

Mrs.  William  Alvord.  wife  of  the  President  of  the  Bank  of  Cali- 
fornia, is  the  mother  of  Charles  0.  Keeney  of  the  Rolling  Mi  lis,  and 
Dr.  James  Keeney,  the  Health  Officer  who  married  the  stepdaughter  of 
Judge  0.  C.  Pratt.  Mrs.  Alvord  ranks  as  one  of  the  "old  set,"  hav- 
ing been  on  the  Coast  from  very  early  days,  and  always  holding 
prominent  social  position.      During  the  period  when  her  first  hus- 


h*\ui  ''  I.,  was  RUUonedai  the  Preeid 

did  tnr  honor*  of  that  po*t  when  ifae  offloeri  gars  a  dance. 
i  The  Kittu-  family  have  always  been  prominent  socially  in  8an 
Mrs.  Nick  KltUe,  widow  of  %  leading  merchant,  i-  iba 
daughter  of  ;1  pioneer  clergyman,  Lai  late  it.  w.  a.  Boott,  the  moon 
esteemed  minister  ..(  the  Presbyterian  oharcb.  Her  dan 
leading  young  matrons  ol  society, are  Mrs.  William  Hinckley  Taylor, 
and  Mr-.  Basil  Heathcote.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .1.  (J.  Kittle  bare  ii  rhanning 
home  in  a  San  Rafael  where  they  principally  reside,  Their  daughter, 
Mi--  I.ucia.  is  a  favorite  belle. 

Another  old  time  family  whose  pretty  daughters  are  members  of 
the  society  ofto-day  is  that  of  Captain  Uillen  Griffith.  The  ladies  are 
among  the  most  noted  tea  givers  of  a  Mason. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Hort  is  among  those  who  were  the  very  earliest  mem- 
bers of  San  Francisco  society.  Those  of  the  family  who  are  society 
lights  to-day  are  her  two  daughters,  Mr*,  George  0.  Boimlnian,  and 
Mrs.  M.  M.  Tompkins  and  their  children.  Mrs.  Boardman  is  tbe 
wife  of  tbe  well  known  insurance  manager,  and  mother  of  tbe  late 
Mrs.  Dora  Winn  and  the  society  beaux.  Sam,  Chauncey,  and 
George  H.,  Jr. 

Mrs.  S.  M.  Wilson  is  the  widow  of  a  leading  member  of  the  San 
Francisco  bar,  and  a  lady  well  known  in  our  social  world  for  many 
years.  Mrs.  Wilson  is  one  of  the  noted  dinner  givers  of  society.  Her 
sons  and  their  wives,  who  now  represent  this  old  time  family  in 
social  life  are:  Scott,  married  to  a  daughter  of  General  Hutchinson 
of  Sacramento;  Russell,  married  to  Phcemie  King,  daughter  of  James 
King;  William  Mountford,  married  to  Miss  Carroll  of  Sacramento, 
and  Frank,  a  physician  and  bachelor. 

Mrs.  Lillie  Hitchcock  Coit  has  been  a  life-long  feature  of  San 
Francisco  society,  as  a  child,  girl  and  woman.  She  is  the  only  child 
of  the  late  Dr.  C.  M.  Hii.cb.cock  and  his  wife,  (who  as  his  widow  still 
resides  among  us.)  Mrs.  Coit  is  a  woman  of  remarkable  originalit  y, 
sparkling  wit  and  repartee.  She  is  the  widow  of  Howard  Coit,  the 
Caller  of  the  San  Francisco  Board  of  Brokers.  She  resides  at  the 
P  alace  Hotel  with  her  mother,  and  while  society  has  never  known 
her  as  a  hostess,  she  has  always  been  a  welcome  guest  at  all  its  func- 
tions. 

Mrs.  C.  L.  Ashe,  widow  of  the  well-known  old  timer,  Dr.  R.  P 
Ashe,  originally  from  North  Carolina,  is  a  lady  of  gentle  manners 
and  great  popularity.  Her  children  are  foremost  at  all  fashionable 
gatherings,  and  themselves  entertain  society  at  occasional  teas.  The 
eldest  daughter,  Lucie,  is  Mrs.  McLaren,  while  Miss  Millie  Ashe  and 
her  sister,  Miss  Bettie,  are  prominent  belles.  Her  son,  R.  Porter 
Ashe,  is  a  character  in  himself  as  a  turf  man  and  lover  of  sport 
generally.  Another,  Will  Ashe,  has  a  pretty  wife  in  Miss  Pet  Peters 
of  Stockton;  a  third  son,  Gaston,  married  Miss  Dulce  Bolado,  a 
reigning  belle,  and  the  youngest  son,  Sidney,  is  a  favorite  beau. 

The  Atherton  family  form  a  large  connection,  of  which  many  are 
members  of  the  Four  Hundred.  They  came  originally  from  Chili, 
where  Mr.  Atherton,  aBostonian,  married  a  native  lady.  Upon  arrival 
here  they  were  among  the  first  to  settle  at  Menlo  Park,  near  which 
place  the  family  homestead  still  remains,  the  nucleus  of  the  different 
branches.  The  eldest  daughter  is  tbe  wife  of  Major  .1.  L.  Rathbone, 
the  popular  club  man,  and  Ex-United-States-Consul  General  at 
Paris;  the  second  daughter, is  Mrs.  Percy  Selby ;  the  youngest  Miss 
Atherton  married  E.  L.  Eyre,  also  a  member  of  our  Four  Hundred; 
Faxon  Atherton.  a  son,  married  one  of  Thomas  H.  Selby's  daughters, 
a  lady  renowned  for  her  beauty  and  charm  of  manner. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  T.  Coleman  are  prominent  members  of  the 
Four  Hundred,  he  as  a  leading  pioneer  merchant,  she  for  her  sterling 
qualities.  Their  children  are  the  society  beaux  Carlton  C,  who  mar- 
ried Miss  Edith  Blanding,  and  is  now  divorced,  and  Robert,  a  society 
favorite. 

Mrs.  F.  F.  Low  is  known  in  social  circles  as  the  mother  of  a  young 
lady  who  has  been  a  favorite  in  society  for  many  years— Miss  Flora 
Low.  Owing  to  her  husband's  continued  ill-health,  Mrs.  Low  has 
almost  completely  withdrawn  from  the  gay  world,  Her  husband, 
Ex-Governor  F.  F.  Low,  was  also  Minister  to  China.  The  family 
came  to  San  Francisco  from  Marysville,  where  Mr.  Low  was  a 
banker  in  the  early  sixties.  Mrs.  Low  is  a  beautiful  woman  and 
would  easily  pass  for  her  daughter's  sister,  being  so  youthful  in 
appearance. 

Mrs.  M.  Mc.  M.  Latham  is  the  handsome  widow  of  Milton  S. 
Latham,  banker,  Governor  and  Senator  and  one  of  the  leading  men 
of  his  time.  Since  her  husband's  death  Mrs.  Latham  has  been  seen 
but  seldom  in  society,  her  son  Milton,  the  favorite  young  beau,  being 
the  sole  representative  therein  of  tbe  once  famous  name.  Mrs. 
Latham  was,  in  her  girlhood,  one  of  the  noted  belles  of  San  Francisco, 
the  beauty  of  Miss  Mollie  McMullin  being  renowned. 

Mrs.  Pelham  W.  Ames,  wife  of  the  newly-elected  School  Director, 
was  the  daughter  of  the  old-time  resident,  William  Hooper.  She 
lived  for  manyyears  at  San  Rafael,  but  has  again  taken  her  place  in 
San  Francisco  society  to  chaperone  her  daughter,  Miss  Alice,  the 
pretty  belle  who  made  such  a  success  as  an  amateur  violinist  at  the 
recent  charity  concert  of  the  Saturday  Morning  Orchestra. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jerome  Lincoln  are  old  and  respected  residents  of 
our  city,  who  have  recently  taken  active  part  in  the  social  world  as 
their  children  have  grown  up.  Their  charming  young  daughter.  Miss 
Ethel,  and  their  son,  Jerome,  Jr.,  are  both  prominent  young  mem- 
bers of  the  swim. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


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The  family  of  the  late  Captain  and  Mrs.  William  Blanding,  mem- 
bers of  tbe  "  old  set,"  is  represented  in  our  Four  Hundred  by  their 
only  son,  Gordon  Blanding,  the  lawyer,  Mrs.  Edith  Coleman  and 
Miss  Lena  Blanding. 

Mrs.  Morton  Cheseman  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Becker,  are  both 
widows,  well-known  for  many  years  in  San  Francisco  society.  Their 
daughters,  Miss  Jennie  Cheseman  and  Miss  Alice  Decker,  are  shining 
lights  in  our  galaxy  of  belles. 

Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin,  wife  of 
our  leading  capitalist,  has 
held  for  many  years  a  prom- 
inent position  socially,  to 
which  her  culture,  refinement 
and  wealth  entitled  ber.  Mrs. 
Haggin  was  formerly  the 
giver  of  magnificent  balls, 
but  of  late  years,  owing  to 
the  death  of  a  ton  and  daugh- 
ter, she  has  withdrawn  from 
our  gay  world,  closed  the 
beautiful  home  on  Taylor 
street,  and  gone  to  reside 
temporarily  in  New  York. 
The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Haggin  will  remain  here,  and 
hold  front  rank  in  our  swim. 
The  eldest  son,  Louis,  married 
Blanche,  second  daughter  of 
the  lateS.  F.  Butterworth  and 
Mrs.  Louis  Haggin.  this    lady,  possessing    beauty 

and  wealth,  is  this  winter  taking  a  leading  position  in  our  Four  Hun- 
dred. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin's  only  child,  Kila,  married  re- 
cently the  young  Austrian  Count  Festetics.  and  has  come  with  her 
titled  husband  to  reside  among  us.  Mrs.  Carroll  McAtfee  is  adaugh 
ter  o  f  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin. 

Mrs.  M.  B.  M.  Toland,  the  widow  of  one  of  our  old-time  physicians, 
and  mother  of  the  rising  young  Thespian,  Hugo  Toland,  has  always 
been  a  well  known  member  of  society.  In  former  days,  when 
chaperoning  her  niece,  now  Mrs.  John  O.  Earl,  she  entertained 
frequently,  but  now  is  content  to  fill  the  place  of  honored  guest  in 
society's  ranks. 

Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Holt  is  another  widow  of  the  same  kind,  a  mem- 
ber of  our  best  society  in  the  past,  as  in  the  present.  Her  late 
husband  was  a  prominent  pioneer,  and  she,  a  noted  belle  in  Wash- 
ington in  the  days  of  Fillmore.  She  has  been,  since  her  arrival  in 
San  Francisco,  one  of  the  swim's  greatest  ornaments,  being  a  delight- 
ful racuniruse  of  inexhaustible  anecdotes. 

Mrs.  William  T.  Wallace,  wife  of  the  Superior  Judge  of  that  name, 
is  a  quiet,  retiring  lady,  but  a  most  hospitable  hostess,  having  given 
several  notable  balls.  Mrs.  Wallace  is  the  daughter  of  Califon  ia's 
first  Governor,  the  venerable  Peter  Burnett.  Her  daughters  are 
well-known  members  of  the  Four  Hundred,  Mrs.  Belie  Donahue, 
widow  of  Mervyn  Donahue,  and  the  Misses  Marguerite  and  Romie 
Wallace  both  bright  handsome  girls,  and  both  favorites  in  society. 
Her  son,  Ryland  B.  Wallace,  married  Miss  Anna  Bradley,  who  is  one 
of  the  young  matrons  of  our  swim. 

The  beautiful  wifeof  the  prominent  physician,  Dr.  Paolade  Vecchi, 
is  the  daughter  of  Richard  Follis,  who  married  a  sister  of  the  late 
James  C.  Flood. 

The  daughters  of  Senator  Fair  who  represented  that  branch  of  the 
Bonanza  set  in  our  Four  Hundred,  having,  as  before  stated,  taken  up 
their  residence  in  New  York,  Tessie  as  the  wife  of  Herman  Oelrichs, 
and  Virginia  (Birdie)  electing  to  live  with  her,  our  Four  Hundred 
can  no  longer  claim  tbem. 

The  family  of  the  late  William  Sharon,  ex-United  States  Senator, 
gave  many  brilliant  entertainments  at  their  beautiful  home  on  Sutter 
street,  now  the  residence  of  Mrs.  A.  M.  Parrott,  and  also  several  nota- 
ble receptions  at  the  magnificent  country  place,  Belmont.  But  since 
the  deaths  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sharon  and  their  eldest  daughter,  Clara, 
who  married  Frank  Newlandv,  the  lawyer,  and  the  marriage  of  their 
youngest  daughter.  Flora1  to  Sir  Thomas  Hesketh,  Bart.,  of  England, 
the  Sharon  name  in  our  Four  Hundred  has  been  represented  by  the 
only  son,  F.  W.  Sharon,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Lloyd  Tevis. 
When  in  San  Francisco  the  Fred  Sharons  occupy  an  elaborate  suite 
of  apartments  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  where  (hey  give  frequent  petits 
diners  to  tbeir  intimate  friends.  But  the  glory  of  Belmont  has,  ap- 
parently, departed  forever  so  far  as  entertaining  goes. 

Mrs.  W.  H,  Smith  is  the  wealthy  wife  of  the  well-known  Nevada 
mining  man.  "  Hank  "  Smith,  who  followed  her  friends,  the  Fairs, 
to  this  city  from  the  Silver  State,  and  has  since  then  resided  here. 
Her  pretty  daughter,  Miss  Belle  Smith,  is  one  of  the  popular  girls  of 
social  circles. 

As  an  accompaniment  to  the  railroad  set  may  here  be  mentioned  a 
large  contingent  that  were  residents  of  Sacramento  in  earlier  days, 
but  since  their  transplantation  to  San  Francisco's  soil,  have  taken 
root  and  now  flourish  among  the  most  brilliant  flowers  of  society's 
■parterres.  Foremost  among  these  are  the  Carolans.  The  daughters 
Misses  Eva  and  Emily,  are  acknowledged  belles  in  society,  Miss 
Emily  making  her  debut  this  season.  Frank,  the  eldest  son,  recently 
married  Miss  Harriet  Pullman,  of  Chicago,  daughter  of  the  million- 
aire car-builder,  while  Herbert  is  a  shining  light  among  the  beaux. 


Mrs.  D.  W.  Earle  is  the  wife  of  a  leading  business  man  of  this  com- 
munity, and  their  beautiful  residence,  on  California  street,  just  com- 
pleted, will  no  doubt  be  the  scene  of  brilliant  hospitalities. 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Rutherford,  who  was  formerly  Miss  Hanchett,  of  Sac- 
ramento, and  sister  of  Mrs.  Edgar  Carrol  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Wright,  of 
that  city,  is  a  leading  favorite  among  society's  matrons,  and  although 
in  appearance  very  youthful,  will  soon  introduce  a  young  daughter 
into  society,  who,  report  says,  will  be  a  bride  ere  the  '■  long  dresses" 
are  worn  a  great  while.  Among  those  who  came  from  Sacramento, 
no  one  has  achieved  more  social  success  than  handsome  Mrs.  Torbert 
and  her  beautiful  daughters.  They  have  been  greatly  admired 
among  our  Four  Hundred,  and  hold  front  rank  therein  by  reason  of 
their  beauty  and  grace.  Of  Mrs.  Torbert's  daughters,  the  eldest, 
Emily,  married  J.  W.  Fearon,  of  China;  Sheda  wedded  Valentine, 
Snyder,  of  New  York ;  but  charming  Mollie  remains  as  an  ornament 
to  San  Francisco  society. 

The  family  of  Edgar  Mills  holds  a  prominent  place  in  our  Four 
Hundred,  by  reason  of  wealth,  culture  and  long-standing.  It  is  now 
represented  in  society  by  the  charming  daughter,  Miss  Addie  Mills, 
and  the  son,  who  has  not  yet  left  college.  Mrs.  J.  Downey  Harvey 
is  one  of  the  young  matrons  of  the  swim.  She  was  a  Miss  Cutter, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  B.  B.  Cutter,  of  Sacramento,  and  niece  of  the  late 
L.  L.  Robinson,  the  well-known  capitalist.  Downey  Harvey  is  the 
son  of  Mrs.  Edward  Martin  by  her  first  marriage. 

Of  those  who  are  popularly  termed  "  the  newer  set,"  by  reason  of 
tneir  emergence  from  domestic  life,  and  of  late  years  taking  promi 
nent  place  among  the  entertainers  of  society,  Mrs.  Clara  Catherwood" 
is  known  as  an  indefatigable  hostess.  She  is  the  eldest  daughter  of 
one  of  our  oldest  citizens,  who  is  also  one  of  our  wealthiest,  Judge  S. 
C.Hastings.  She  has  spent  many  years  in  foreign  travel,  and  re- 
cently returned  to  make  her  home  here.  Mrs.  Catherwood  is  di- 
vorced from  her  husband,  and  resides  with  her  father  on  Pacific 
avenue,  where  last  year  she  married  her  eldest  daughter  to  Mr.  La 
Montague,  of  New  York.  This  year  her  second  daughter,  Miss 
Jennie,  is  one  of  the  season's  debutantes,  and  is  spoken  of  as  a  very 
attractive  young  lady.  The  pretty  widow,  Mrs.  Bob  Hastings,  ne'e 
Mamie  Coghill,  daughter  of  one  of  San  Francisco's  pioneer  merchants, 
is  a  sister-in-law  of  Mrs.  Catherwood's,  having  married  a  son  of  Judge 
Hastings. 

Mrs.  Peter  Donahue  is  the  wealthy  widow  of  the  late  capitalist, 
Peter  Donahue,  whose  children,  by  bis  first  wife,  are  the  late  Mervyn 
Donahue  and  Minnie  Donahue,  married  to  the  Baron  Von  Schroeder. 
Mrs.  Donahue  entertains  at  formal  dinners  and  elaborate  teas,  being 
very  fond  of  society.  Her  tastes  are  cultivated,  and  she  is  a  patron 
of  the  fine  arts.  Mrs.  Edward  Martin,  sister  of  Mrs.  Donahue,  is  also 
a  rich  widow.    She  resides  with  her  sister  and  shares  her  tastes. 

Mrs.  A.  J.  Pope,  a  widow  of  great  wealth,  is  a  lady  to  whom 
society  is  much  indebted  for  many  beautiful  entertainments,  as 
since  the  death  of  ber  husband,  she  has  appeared  in  the  role  of 
hostess  frequently.  Her  children  are  all  shining  lights  in  the  social 
sphere.  Her  son  George,  married  the  pretty  belle  Miss  Edith  Tay- 
lor, and  her  two  daughters,  are  Mrs.  F.  A.  Frank,  and  the  recent 
bride,  Mrs.  Dan  Murphy. 

Another  rich  widow  with  two  fair  daughters  is  Mrs.  Jeremiah 
Clarke.  One  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Lieut.  Lyman,  U.  S.  A.;  the 
other,  Miss  Lottie,  is  a  society  pet,  and  heiress  in  prospective. 

Mrs.  Adam  Grant,  wife  of  the  prominent  merchant  (of  Murphy, 
Grant  &  Co.)  is  a  popular  member  of  society,  being  a  lady  of  charm- 
ing manners  and  kind  heart.  While  not  a  very  extensive  entertainer, 
Mrs.  Grant's  receptions  are  always  hailed  with  pleasure  by  (he  beau 
monde.  Her  only  child,  J.  D.  Grant,  is  a  widower,  having  married 
Miss  Lizzie  Hall,  and  since  her  death  he  has  not  been  seen  much  in 
the  gay  world. 

Mrs.  Henry  Scott,  and  Mrs.  Irving  Scott,  wives  of  the  well  known 
brothers  who  control  the  Union  Iron  Works,  are  both  prominent  in 
society.  Possibly  Mrs.  Henry  Scott  is  the  better  known  of  the  two, 
as  she  entertains  more  frequently  than  her  sister-in-law.  Mrs. 
Henry  Scott  is  an  English  lady.  One  of  the  popular  young  ladies  of 
society,  is  her  niece  Miss  Cunningham,  also  of  Great  Britain.  Mrs. 
Irving  Scott  is  the  mother  of  one  of  our  fairest  buds.  Miss  Alice,  who 
has  recently  made  her  dibut. 

Mrs.  Henry  Schmieden,  wife  of  the  well  known  broker,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  our  social  world  who  is  noted  for  her  exquisite  taste  in  toilettes, 
her  gowns  being  chiefly  of  Paris  importation.  She  is  a  very  hand- 
some woman,  although  the  mother  of  a  charming  young  matron, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Howard,  and  a  son,  Edward,  both  of  whom  are 
popular  in  society.  Mrs.  Charles  Peters,  sister  of  Mrs.  Schmieden, 
is  the  mother  of  another  pretty  young  matron  of  society,  Mrs.  Robert 
I.  Woods,  and  a  son,  Charley  Peters,  the  rising  young  artist. 

The  numerous  branches  of  the  Tubbs  family  are  all  active  members 
of  society.  Mrs.  A.  L.  Tubbs,  wife  of  the  well-known  merchant, 
gives  frequent  house  parties  at  her  country  place  in  Napa  Valley. 
Pier  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Lieut.  Oyster,  of  the  Armv;  one  son 
married  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  J.  D.  Tallant;  and  another,  W.  B.  Tubbs 
and  his  wife,  are  also  favorites  in  the  social  world. 

Mrs.  McNutt,  wife  of  a  leading  physician,  is  a  daughter  of  a  welt- 
known  pioneer.  Judge  Coon.ex-Mavor.  Her  pretty  daughter,  Mary, 
is  one  of  our  belles,  and  Mrs.  McNutt  is  one  of  the  tea  givers  of  the 
season  every  year. 

Mr>-.  Austin  Moore  is  the  mother-in-law  of  two  of  society's  most 
admired  young  matrons,  one  of  her  sons  having  married  Miss  Macon- 


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dny,  and  the  Other,  Mto  Barred. ,  daughter  of  ■  well-known  number 
of  New  York  society,  who  name  to  Sen  Franeboo  *  decade  or  >o  ago. 
The  afooraa  reside  In  one  of  the  many  hand-tome  rosldenoes  In  the 
Western  Addition,  and  occasionally  entertain. 

The  family  of  the  old-time  btunnOM  BUtD,  Hrnry  M.  Newhall,  arc 
numerous  and  active  member?  of  society.  Mr.  Newhali's  widow 
does  not  par:irinate  in  the  gay    worlds   fe-tivitie-,  but    his  Sons,    VY\ 

Mayo,  George  and  Walter,  are  all  well  and  favorably  known,  W. 
Mayo  NewhallS  wife  was  Mi--*  Batata  blade,  a  pretty  blonde,  who 

was  a  great  belle  before  her  marridge,  and  is  now  a  favorite  young 
matron  of  the  swim.  George  and  Waller  Newhall  are  anion?  the 
most  popular  beaux  of  eociety. 

Mr-.  William  M.  Lent  is  the  wife  of  a  prominent  mining  man. 
Their  daughter  Fanny  is  the  wife  of  Lieutenant  Alexander,  of  the 
Army,  and  their  son  George  recently  married  the  pretty  belle,  MiSB 
Bessie  Hooker. 

The  legal  profession  has  always  furnished  its  quota  to  our  best  so- 
ciety. Prominent  among  those  of  to-day  is  the  wife  of  the  well- 
know  lawyer,  John  R.  Jarboe.  who  is  n  very  popular  hostess,  in 
which  duly  *he  is  ably  assisted  by  her  gifted  daughter.  Hiss  Kate, 
one  of  the  cleverest,  brightest  girls  in  society,  and  also  among 
the  noted  swimmers  to  be  seen  at  Sinta  Cruz  during  the  summer. 
The  Jarboe  teas  are  always  among  the  most  successfulof  the  winter's 
gaieties  in  town. 

lira,  lioberi  Sherwood,  wife  of  the  successful  capitalist,  is  a  lady  of 
quiet,  gentle  manners  and  kindly  disposition,  and  is  never  happier 
than  when  dispensing  the  hospitality  of  their  charming  home  on 
California  street.  The  branches  of  the  Sherwood  family,  who  add 
lustre  to  our  Four  Hundred,  are  the  daughters,  Mrs.  W.  B.  Chap- 
man, one  of  society's  favorite  young  matrons,  and  the  equally  popu- 
lar sons,  H.  H.,  Will  and  Robert.  Will  is  the  only  bachelor,  the 
other  sons  being  married.  H.  H.  Sherwood  to  an  Eastern  lady,  who 
is  a  crack  tennis  player  and  devoted  to  the  game;  Robert  married  a 
Miss  Blethen. 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Collier  is  a  very  attractive  matron,  who  is  youthful 
enough  in  her  feelings  to  enjoy  a  dance  almost  as  much  as  her  two 
pretty  daughters,  who  are  among  this  season's  debutantes.  Although 
their  home  is  in  Lake  county,  the  Colliers  are  popular  members  of 
our  society  during  the  winter. 

Mrs.  Voorhies  is  the  mother  of  two  charming  daughters,  who  are 
pronounced  belles — the  Misses  Marie  and  Kate  Voorhies.  They  en- 
tertain delightfully  in  their  California-street  home. 

Mrs.  H.  B.  Chase  is  a  young  matron  who  is  one  of  society's  pets. 
As  Miss  Minnie  Mizner,  the  daughter  of  our  former  Minister  to 
Guatemala,  she  was  an  acknowledged  belle,  and  since  her  marriage 
has  been  equally  popular  as  a  matron.  Mrs.  Chase  entertains  largely 
during  the  summer  at  her  country  home,  Stag's  Leap,  in  Napa 
Valley. 

Mrs.  Dr.  Perrin  is  the  second  wife  of  Dr.  Perrin,  a  leading  capi- 
talist. Miss  Adele  Perrin,  the  pretty  society  belle,  is  her  step-daugh- 
ter. Mrs.  Perrin  was  a  belle  herself  in  her  time,  being  one  of  the 
daughters  of  Mrs.  John  McMullen,  who  in  former  years  was  a  fre- 
quent and  brilliant  hostess  of  social  functions, 

Mrs.  Durbrow,  widow  of  one  of  San  Francisco's  most  respected 
early  business  men,  though  never  very  prominent  as  a  hostess,  has 
always  been  known  in  social  circles  as  well  as  her  two  daughters, 
Mrs.  Spencer  Buckbee  and  Mrs.  Alfred  Hclman— one  of  her  sons 
is  married,  the  other  is  still  a  society  beau. 

Mrs.  M.  A.  Easton  is  a  lady  of  great  popularity  in  society.  She 
is  a  sister  of  D.  O.  Mills,  our  erstwhile  capitalist,  now  of  New  York, 
and  of  Edgar  Mills  of  this  city.  She  is  a  wealthy  widow.  Her  only 
daughter  married  Col.  Fred  Crocker,  and  her  only  son  is  also  mar- 
ried.   She  presides  over  Col.  Crocker's  household. 

Mrs.  J.  O.  Eastland,  wife  of  a  pioneer  capitalist,  and  daughter  of 
P.  C.  Lander,  also  a  pioneer,  was  a  belle  in  her  girlhood  days. 
Although  going  into  society  a  good  deal  as  a  matron,  Mrs.  Eastland 
does  not  entertain  generally,  and  is  therefore  better  known  as  a 
guest  than  a  hostess  in  the  Four  Hundred. 

Mrs.  D.  M.  Del  mas,  wife  of  the  lawyer  of  that  name,  (originally  ot 
San  Jose)  is  a  daughter  of  one  of  our  most  respected  citizens.,  the 
late  Judge  J.  P.  Hoge.  She  is  well  known  as  the  mother  of  three  pretty 
daughters,  and  as  an  untiring  hostess,  both  in  town  during  the 
winter,  and  at  her  country  place  near  Mountain  View  during  the 
summer, 

Mrs.  Fred  Castle,  wife  of  the  leading  merchant,  is  a  lady  of  much 
grace  of  manner  and  hospitality,  and  has  always  been  very  popular 
in  social  circles,  as  she  is  ever  ready  to  do  her  utmost  to  make  her 
friends  happy.  Her  daughters  Hilda,  Blanche  and  Eva  are  all 
favorites  in  the  swim,  and  her  son,  Albert  E.  Castle  is  a  political  light 
as  well  as  a  prosperous  business  man. 

Mrs.  W.  H.  L.  Barnes,  wife  of  the  legal  luminary,  General  W.  H. 
L.  Barnes  has  always  lived  a  very  retired  life,  appearing  but  seldom 
in  society's  gay  whirl,  and  so  has  been  best  known  socially  as  the  wife 
of  the  gallant  General,  who  is  a  host  in  himself.  She  is  the  mother 
of  the  popular  young  District  Attorney  W.  S.  Barnes,  and  the  rising 
young  beau,  Jack.  Mrs.  Barnes  was  a  Miss  Gould  of  New  York  and 
with  her  husband  has  been  one  of  our  swim  since  the  early  sixties. 

Mrs.  J.  D.  Fry  is  the  wife  of  a  pioneer,  a  man  of  great  wealth,  and 
universally  respected.  Their  only  son.R.  D.  Fry,  married  a  Miss 
Grant,  of  Napa,  and   the  young  people  are  fond  of  social  life.     Mrs. 


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■treat,  where  last  winter  a  tea  for  a  fashionable  charity  was  oneol 
the  fv.ni- ..(  th«  teason, 

I     w  m .-Kin-try.  wife  of  the  estimable  ex-Bupreme Judge, 
was  a  Mi-s  rlodges.ol  ItarysvUle.    Although  among  our  earlli 
Identa,  the  McRlnstryi  bars  never  taken  active  part  in  social  life 
QDtillhe  debut,  a  few  years  ago,  of  their  daughter,  Miss  Laura,  who 
Is  one  of  lb,-  most  accomplished  young  ladles  In  society, 

The  family  of  the  Int.-  Mr.  and  UrS.  IsBSO  Frn'dlandrr,  once  so 
prominent  in  early-day  society  In  Ban  Francisco,  i*  now  represented 

in  the    Four   Hundred    by    the    Mi Fanny   and  May.   and  their 

brother,  T.  Carey  FrledJander,  the  well-known  secretary  of  the  Pro- 
duce Kxchange. 

The  brothers,  George  W.,  0.  VS.  and  Fred  Gibbs  are  all  well- 
known  members  o(  our  community,  and  their  families  are  equally 
well  known  in  our  Four  Hundred.  Mrs.  George  YV.  Gibbs,  who  Is 
Mr.  Gibbs*  second  wife,  belongs  to  one  of  the  old  families  of  New 
York.  She  is  a  lady  of  charming  manner  an  I  attractive  appearance, 
and  shares  in  her  husband's  love  of  doing  charitable  acts.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Gibbs  are  also  great  patrons  of  nil  that  is  beautiful  in  the  fine 
arts.  They  have  no  children.  Mr,  ('.  V.S.  Gibbs  is  a  partner  of  his 
brother,  and  his  wife  is  an  excellent  lady.  Their  daughters,  well 
known  in  social  circles,  are  Miss  Nellie,  who  married  Lieut.  Stafford, 
and  Miss  Mattie  Gibbs.  Mrs.  Fred  Gibbs  is  a  very  nretty  woman 
still.     She  is  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Frank    Hoburg. 

The  family  of  Thomas  Van  Ness,  the  pioneer,  after  whom  our 
beautiful  avenue  was  named,  is  represented  in  our  Four  Hundred  by 
his  only  daughter,  Mrs.  McCoppin.  wife  of  the  well-known  citizen 
and  ex-Mayor,  Frank  McCoppin;  and  her  pretty  niece,  Leslie  Van 
Ness,  now  Mrs.  John  E.  de  Ruyter. 

Mrs.  Phccbe  Hearst  is  the  millionaire  widow  of  the  late  Senator 
George  Hearst.  Atone  time  Mrs.  Hearst  entertained  to  some  ex- 
tent, hut  of  late  years  she  has  in  a  measure  withdrawn  from  promi- 
nent part  in  the  gay  world.  She  is  a  lady  of  great  refinement  and 
culture,  and  of  broad  charity.  Her  only  child  is  Will  Hearst,  the 
owner  of  the  Examiner. 

This  closes  the  list  of  those  members  of  the  Four  Hundred  who, 
with  their  branches,  are  popularly  termed  the  "  old  set,"  dating  back 
to  San  Francisco's  earliest  social  existence,  therefore  they  are  placed 
seniores  pnores.  The  newer  set,  so-called,  which  have  become  promi- 
nent in  the  last  two  decades,  can  be  placed  under  several  headings, 
the  railroad.  Bonanza,  and  Sacramento  contingent,  as  well  as  the  San 
Franciscans  who  have  within  that  period  appeared  as  hostesses  of 
the  Four  Hundred. 

Mrs.  John  S.  Hager,  although  compared  with  the  preceding  ladies, 
a  later  member  of  our  society,  has  shown  a  marked  ability  in  social 
functions  ever  since  her  arrival  here  as  the  bride  of  Judge  Hager,  in 
1872.  She  must  be  considered  as  one  of  the  prominent  features  of 
our  Four  Hundred.  Mrs.  Hager  was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Lucas  of 
St.  Louis,  and  the  widow  of  Mr.  Hicks,  of  the  same  city,  and  very 
wealthy  when  she  married  Judge  John  S.  Hager,  ex-United  States 
Senator.  She  is  devoted  to  society,  and  is  never  more  happy  than 
when  organizing  or  arranging  something  novel  in  the  way  of  enter- 
tainment. In  this  she  is  ably  assisted  by  her  beautiful  daughter, 
Miss  Emily  (who  took  her  step-father,  Judge  Hager's  name),  and  who 
is  one  of  our  leading  belles.  Her  brother,  Frank  Hicks,  married 
Miss  Childs,  of  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Hager's  second  daughter,  Miss 
Alice,  is  one  of  this  season's  buds. 

Place  must  now  be  given  to  an  element  in  society  which  is  such  a 
power  in  our  Four  Hundred,  as  It  may  be  considered  as  among  the 
leaders;  this  is  what  is  termed  the  railroad  set.  First  and  foremost, 
of  course,  comes  Mrs.  Leland  Stanford.  The  position  of  her  husband 
as  ex-Governor  and  present  United  States  Senator,  in  addition  to 
their  immense  wealth,  entitles  her  to  be  so  ranked.  Although  nomi- 
nally a  resident  of  California,  having  a  fine  mansion  on  Nob  Hill,  and 
another  at  Palo  Alto,  Menlo  Park,  where  the  famous  educational 
memorial  to  their  son  is  erected,  she  and  the  Senator  pass  but  a  small 
portion  of  their  time  here,  being  in  Washington  City  during  the  win- 
ter and  abroad  in  the  summer,  making  but  brief  visits  to  this  Coay. 
But  California  claims  them,  alt  the  same. 

By  far  the  most  prominent  of  society  entertainers  of  this  set 
are  the  Crockfrs,  whose  name  has  become  synonymous  with 
our  Four  Hundred.  Soon  after  Charles  Crocker,  the  millionaire 
railroad  man,  moved  with  his  family  froruSacramento  to  San 
Francisco,  he  built  the  beautiful  residence  on  Nob  Hill  for 
them,  and  they  at  once  took  a  leading  position  in  our  Four  Hun- 
dred, where  Miss  Hattie,  their  only  daughter,  became  a  reigning 
belle.  Her  marriage  and  departure  for  New  York  as  the  wife  of 
Mr.  C.  B.  Alexander,  was  soon  followed  by  the  death  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Crocker,  which  closed  the  big  house,  and  society  mourned 
their  loss  for  several  seasons,  until  the  second  son,  Will  Crocker  (a 
partner  in  the  banking  house  of  Crocker,  Woolworih  &  Co.),  married 
the  beautiful  Miss  Ethel  Sperry,  of  Stockton,  and  the  young  bride 
soon  established  a  reputation  for  herself  as  being  an  accomplished 
hostess.  She  is  now  aleading  feature  of  our  Four  Hundred.  Colonel 
Fred  Crocker,  the  eldest  son  of  Charles  Crocker,  married  Miss  Jennie 
Easton,  butshe  died  several  years  ago,  leaving  a  couple  of  daughters, 
one  of  whom  will  soon  be  a  bud  in  society.  George  Crocker,  the  third 
son,  is  a  bachelor,  and  oneof  ihe  "catches"  of  the  day. 

The  Hopkins  family,  of  which  Mark,  the  husband  of  Mrs.  Hop- 


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kins-Searles,  was  the  head,  are  now  represented  in  San  Francisco 
society  by  his  adopted  son,  Timothy  Hopkins,  who  married  the 
beautiful  Miss  Crittenden,  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Hopkins;  by  a  nephew, 
Ed.  Hopkins  and  his  wife,  nee  Georgie  Smith,  one  of  the  pretty 
Smith  sisters  of  early  days,  and  who  are  now  Mrs,  James  Freeborne, 
Mrs.  De  Santa  Marina  and  Mrs.  Fred  Zeile. 

Mrs.  A.  N.  Towne,  having  left  Sacramento  several  years  ago  to 
reside  among  us,  may  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  swim,  as  her  beauti- 
ful home,  opposite  the  Crocker  Mansion  on  Nob  Hill,  seems  built  for 
entertaining,  and  the  position  of  Mr.  Towne  as  General  Manager  of 
the  Southern  Pacific  system,  entitles  himself  and  wife  to  be  placed 
among  the  railroad  set.  Their  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Mr.  Charles 
Shaw,  and  their  niece,  Miss  Hattie  Rice,  married  Mr.  Nick  Smith, 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad. 

Contemporary,  and  equal  in  importance  with  the  railroad  set,  is 
what  is  known  as  the  Bonanza  one.  comprising  the  families  of 
Mackay,  Fair,  Flood,  O'Brien  and  the  Sharon's,  and  their  branches. 
Immense  wealth,  brought  into  social  prominence  a  new  element  and 
inaugurated  a  reign  of  elaborate  expenditure  in  entertaining  never 
before  practiced  bv  our  best  society. 

The  families  of  Messrs.  Mackay  and  Fair  have  left  California.  The 
widow  of  James  C.  Flood,  one  of  the  Bonanza  kings,  has,  since  her 
husband's  death,  withdrawn  from  society,  and  the  palatial  abode  on 
California  street  has  been  closed  to  our  Four  Hundred,  and  the 
equally  splendid  residence  at  Menlo  Park  have  served  as  homes  for 
the  family  merely.  During  Mr.  Flood's  lifetime,  his  family  gave  fre- 
quent dinners  and  houseparties.  so  therefore  society  mourns  the  loss 
of  the  only  daughter,  Miss  Jennie,  who,  though  a  great  heiress,  bore 
her  honors  with  unassuming  grace. 

The  late  W.  S.  O'Brien  is  represented  in  society  by  the  children  of 
his  sister,  Mrs.  Maria  Coleman,  deceased,  whose  two  daughters  are 
Mrs.  Fred  May  and  Mrs.  Harry  May,  they  having  married  brothers ; 
a  son,  James  V.  Coleman,  is  prominent  in  public  life;  Mr.  O'Brien's 
niece,  Pauline  O'Brien,  married  Theodore  Payne,  son  of  one  of  San 
Francisco's  earliest  settlers  of  the  firm  of  Payne  &  Dewey.  Mrs. 
Payne  does  not  entertain,  but  is  a  frequent  guest  of  the  beau  monde. 
Another  sister  of  W.  S.  O'Brien  was  the  late  Mrs.  Kate  Macdonougb, 
who  rehabilitated  the  California  Theatre.  This  branch  of  the 
O'Brien  heirs  is  represented  in  society  by  her  children,  James  Mac- 
donough,  and  her  daughter.  Miss  Agnes  "Macdonough,  the  charming 
younglieiress. 

Mrs.  O.  O.  Burgess,  the  wife  of  a  leading  physician,  is  one  of  the 
must  accomplished  members  of  our  Four  Hundred.  A  cultivated 
mind  and  polished  manner  fit  her  for  the  position  she  so  grace- 
fully fills.  ' 

Mrs.  WilHam  R.  Smedberg  is  the  daughter  of  the  old-time  steam- 
ship agent  I.  W.  Raymond,  and  is  the  mother  of  pretty  Miss  Nellie 
Smedberg,  who  has  always  been  a  popular  girl  in  the  swim. 

Mrs.  Louis  Parrott  is  the  wif^  of  a  nephew  of  the  late  John  Parrott, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  energetic  of  society's  matrons,  keeping  open 
house  for  her  friends  at  San  Rafael  in  the  summer,  and  being  the 
hostess  of  frequent  functions  in  town  during  the  winter  season. 

Another  young  matron,  who  is  very  popular  in  the  swim,  is  Mrs. 
Robert  K.  Nnttall.  She  was  Miss  Hilda  Rosenstook,  daughter  of  the 
leading  merchant  of  that  name.  Mr.  Nuttall  is  the  son  of  an  old- 
time  physician,  long  since  passed  to  the  silent  majority,  and  his  wife, 
daughter  of  John  Parrott.  the  banker. 

Mrs.  S.  W.  Holladav,  wife  ot  the  prominent  lawver,  was  a  Miss 
Orrt,  sister  of  Judge  Pacihcus  Ord  and  General  Ord.'U.S.  A.,  both  of 
pioneer  days.  She  is  the  mother  of  two  charming  daughters  and  one 
son.  The  daughter  married  an  English  gentleman  named  Blacknell, 
and  is  now  his  w;dow.  The  other  daughter,  Miss  Louise  Holladay, 
is  a  delightful  vocalist— Burke  Holladay,  the  only  son,  is  a  great 
favorite  in  society. 

Mrs.  J.  D.  Redding,  wife  of  the  popular  clubman,  is  the  daugh  er 
of  the  late  George  Cowler  and  the  mother  of  Miss  Myra  Redding. 
Mr.  Redding  is  better  known  in  the  swim  than  Mrs.  Redding,  as  he 
takes  an  active  part  in  society,  his  musical  talents  bringing  him 
strongly  to  the  fore  in  that  direction.  He  created  the  part  of  "  Bluff 
King  Hal,"  in  Stewart's  opera  of  that  name  last  season,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Art  Association. 

A  lady  and  her  daughter  who  pass  ^  great  deal  of  their  time  in 
Europe  are  Mrs.  and  Miss  Head.  Mrs.  Head  is  the  wife  of  A.  E. 
Head,  the  wealthy  stage  owner  and  mining  man.  Miss  Head  is 
acknowledged  to  be  a  young  lady  of  unusual  accomplishments,  her 
education  having  been  completed  abroad.  She.  has  always  been  a 
favorite  in  our  society  circles,  but  San  Francisco  is  going  to  lose  her 
now,  as  her  marriage  to  an  English  gentleman  is  one  of  the  events 
anticipated  in  the  near  future. 

Mrs.  Southard  Hoffman,  whose  husband  is  a  brother  of  our  late 
distinguished  jurist,  Odgen  Hoffman,  is  a  lady  of  courteous,  well-bred 
manners,  and  although  she  has  not  actively  taken  part  in  society's 
functions,  she  is  well  represented  there  by  her  fascinating  daughter, 
Miss  May,  and  her  sons,  Souihard.  Jr.,  and  Ogden  Hoffman. 

Mrs.  Andrew  Carrigan,  wife  of  the  junior  partner  in  Dunham,  Car- 
rigan  &  Co.,  has  recently  taken  part  in  the  doings  of  the  gay  world, 
as  her  pretty  young  daughter  has  just  entered  upon  its  round  of 
gaiety. 

The  families  of  the  firm  of  Holbrook,  Merrill  &  Stetson  are  all  well 
represented  in  society.  They  live  on  three  opposite  corners  of  Van 
Ness  avenue.  Miss  Mamie  Holbrook  and  her  brother  Harry  are 
shining  lights  of  the  swira.  The  Stetsons  are  better  known  i'n  the 
swim,  through  their  daughter,  Nellie,  who  was  Mrs.  Ric  Pinto,  and  is 
now  Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard. 

Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker  was  the  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Stone,  so  long 
connected  with  the  First  Congregational  Church,  and  is  the  second 
wife  of  the  leading  member  of  the  firm  of  Baker  &  Hamilton,  the 
hardware  merchants.  Since  her  marriage.  Mrs.  Baker  has  presided 
over  an  elegant  home  in  the  Western  Addition,  where  each  year  she 
entertains,  in  true  Boston  style,  a  reading,  tea  or  conversazione. 

Mrs.  Horace  Davis  was  Miss  Edith  King,  onlv  daughter  of  the  dis- 
tinguished  Unitarian  minister,  Thomas    Starr    King.    She  is    Mr. 


Davis'  second  wife,  his  first  wife  having  been  Miss  Lavinia  Macon- 
dray.  Mrs.  Davis  is  a  lady  of  considerable  literary  ability,  and  is 
also  a  talented  pianist. 

Mrs.  W.  L.  Merry  has  up  to  the  present  never  taken  any  part  in 
the  social  world,  although  as  the  wife  of  a  leading  merchant,  she  is 
entitled  to  that  position.  But  this  winter,  having  a  beautiful  young 
daughter  to  introduce  into  society,  she  will  no  doubt  join  the  ranks 
of  hostesses  in  our  Four  Hundred.  Mrs.  Merry's  eldest  daughter  is 
the  recent  bride  of  Rev.  Charles  Mason,  assistant  minister  of  Grace 
Church. 

Mrs.  J .  B.  Crockett  is  the  wife  of  a  scion  of  one  of  our  oldest  fami- 
lies, the  late  Judge  J.  B.  Crockett  having  been  among  our  Justices  of 
the  Supreme  Court  at  an  early  date.  She  presides  over  a  pretty 
home  on  California  street. 

Mrs.  Girvin  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  George  Pinckard,  are  the  daughters 
of  E.  E.  Eyre,  the  capitalist.  They  are  among  the  foremost  young 
matrons  in  the  swim.  Their  sister,  Miss  Mary  Eyre,  is  a  well-known 
feature  of  the  cotillions  each  year. 

General  Dimond,  of  the  old-established  Pacific  Mail  Steamship 
Company  agency,  having  lost  his  wife,  the  hospitalities  of  his  home 
are  most  charmingly  presided  over  by  his  daughters,  the  Misses 
Elinor  and  Mae  Dimond.  Another  family  which  has  lost  its  social 
head  in  the  death  of  the  mother,  is  that  of  William  F.  Goad,  one  of 
our  capitalists,  but  his  charming  daughters  are  features  of  our  Four 
Hundred,  and  are  universal  favorites.  Miss  EUa  Goad,  the  eldest, 
presides  over  the  household  with  much  grace,  and  is  especially  skill- 
tul  as  the  hostess  of  a  dinner  party.  The  Misses  Ailene  and  Genevieve, 
her  younger  sisters,  are  among  society's  pretty  buds. 

The  family  of  James  Phelan,  the  capitalist,  is  represented  in  society 
by  his  daughter,  the  wife  of  Frank  Sullivan,  and  her  pretty  blonde 
sister.    James  D.  Phelan  is  the  only  sou. 

The  family  of  Dr.  Thomas  Page,  who  came  to  California  many 
years  ago  from  Chile,  have  ever  since  their  arrival  been  favorably 
known  in  our  Four  Hundred.  The  daughters  are  all  married  except 
one,  Miss  Meta.  Arthur  Page  married  Miss  Emelita  Ralston,  and 
George's  wife  is  the  daughter  of  the  pioneer  physician,  Dr.  William 
Hammond. 

Mrs.  Alexander  Loughborough,  although  for  many  years  a  resi- 
dent of  San  Francisco,  has  only  recently  entered  society  in  the  prom- 
inent r61e  of  hostess,  her  beautiful  new  house  being  opened  this  win- 
ter to  introduce  formally  into  the  gay  world  her  daughter  Fanny. 
Her  son  George  is  one  of  the  beaux  of  the  swim. 

Mrs.  Michael  Castle  is  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Fred  Castle,  and  has  ap- 
peared in  the  role  of  hostess  during  the  past  decade. 

Mrs.  George  Hyde,  widow  of  San  Francisco's  first  alcalde,  used  to 
be  a  brilliant  entertainer,  and  is  to-day  represented  by  her  daughters, 
Mrs.  Camitlo  Martin,  and  Miss  Mamie  Hyde,  theaccomplished  musi- 
cian. 

Mrs.  John  F.  Swift,  widow  of  the  late  Minister  to  Japan,  is  one  of 
our  earliest  society  matrons.  She  is  a  lady  of  great  beauty  and  cul- 
ture, and  a  leading  member  of  the  fashionable  charity,  the  Woman's 
Exchange.  Mrs.  Swift's  sisters.  Mrs.  Torbert  and  Mrs.  Maria  Baily- 
Norris  are  also  noted  for  their  beauty. 

The  familv  of  Antoine  Borei.  the  banker  and  Consul  of  Switzer- 
land, has  this  year  entered  the  swim.  Although  very  old  residents, 
they  have  hitherto  led  a  very  retired  life,  and  their  appearance  in  the 
gay  world  this  season  is  owing  to  the  fact  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Borel  wish- 
ing to  introduce  to  society  their  young  daughter,  who  made  her 
debut  at  the  first  of  the  Friday  Night  cotilions.  No  doubt  society 
will  be  the  recipients  of  much  hospitality  from  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Borel,  as 
they  have  a  house  well  adapted  for  entertaining,  and  also  a  delightful 
rural  home  at  San  Mateo.  Mrs.  Borel  was  a  Miss  Canitrot,  and  is  a 
Spanish  lady. 

One  of  the  most  indefatigable  hostesses  of  the  swim  is  Mrs.  Henry 
Williams,  whose  entertainments  are  frequent  and  varied.  She  is 
generally  assisted  in  her  duties  by  her  son  Alston's  wife,  who  was 
Miss  Cora  Caduc,  daughter  of  the  well-known  yachting  man,  Philip 
Caduc. 

Mrs.  F.  J.  Houghton,  wife  of  General  Houghton,  is  the  mother  of 
one  of  society's  prominent  belles,  Miss  Minnie  Houghton.  Her  eldest 
daughter,  who  married  Mayre  Bulkeley.of  Hartford,  Conn.,  was  also 
a  great  social  favorite,  and  her  son,  Harry,  is  particularly  skilled  as 
a  leader  of  cotillions. 

The  family  of  Timothy  Paige,  the  capitalist,  is  represented  in  the 
Four  Hundred  by  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Louis  Monteagle,  one  of  the  at- 
tractive young  matrons  of  the  day,  and  the  son ,  Cutler  Paige,  a  favor- 
ite beau. 

Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller,  Mrs.  Fred  Green  and  Mrs.  Webster  Jones 
are  three  young  matrons  who  are  universal  favorites  and  popular 
members  of  the  Four  Hundred. 

Mrs.  Taylor,  wife  of  Captain  W.  H.  Taylor,  of  the  Risdon  Iron 
Works,  has  been  for  several  years  a  very  popular  matron  in  society. 
She  is  the  mother  of  the  prominent  belle,  Miss  Edith  Taylor,  whose 
marriage  with  George  Pope  was  one  of  the  brilliant  events  of  last 
season.  Captain  and  Mrs.  Taylor's  son,  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  is  the  re- 
doubtable young  tennis  champion  of  the  Coast. 

Mrs.  Fred  Taliant  is  the  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Landers,  the  well- 
known  insurance  man.  Her  husband  is  the  son  of  the  late  D.  J.  Tal- 
iant, one  of  San  Francisco's  pioneer  bankers.  They  are  among  the 
popular  young  members  of  our  society. 

Mrs.  Camillo  Martin,  after  an  absence  of  many  years  from  social 
life,  has  re-entered  society  again  this  winter,  for  the  purpose  of  intro- 
ducing her  daughter,  Grace,  who  made  her  debut  at  Mrs.  Lough- 
borough's ball.  Mrs.  Martin  is  the  daughter  of  the  late  George  Hyde, 
as  hereinbefore  mentioned. 

Judge  W.  W.  Morrow,  of  the  United  States  Court,  and  his  wife  are 
popular  members  of  the  swim. and  their  young  daughter,  Miss  Maud 
Morrow,  a  decided  belle  therein.  A  son,  W.  W".  Morrow,  Jr.,  is  mar- 
ried, and  he  and  his  wife  are  also  favorites  in  the  social  world. 

Although,  as  a  matter  of  course,  this  list  does  not  embrace  all  the 
names  of  those  who  "  go  into  society,"  any  one  who  is  familiar  with 
the  personelle  of  our  most  prominent  set  will  say  it  comprises  the 
present  day  Four  Hundred,  or  upper  crust. 


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Eec.  15,  H  9V 


STUDYING    FOR    THE    STAGE. 


HEN  one  bears  tbe  familiar  announcement,  "He,  or 
she,  is  studying  for  the  stage,"  and  a  few  months  later 
the  full-fledged  actor  or  actress  bursts  upon  bis  vision 
one  naturally  looks  for  some  trace  of  the  midnight  oil 
and  toil  which  have  been  expended  on  tbe  preparatory- 
course,  or  at  least  for  their  results.  He  will  lind  neither.  He  will 
see  a  smug  and  complacent  young  person  in  an  elegant  costume, 
more  or  less  correct,  with  a  pronounced  manner— probably  as  mis- 
pronounced as  her  words— and  with  a  certain  mechanical  conven- 
tionality of  movement,  and  a  studied  pose.  If  a  man,  the  same 
points  mav  be  observed,  with  the  natural  masculine  modification. 
In  either  case,  the  studied  costume  and  pose  will  be  the  only  trace  of 
"study"  to  be  detected.  It  certainly  will  not  be  found  in  tbe  speech, 
the  all-important  implement  of  tbe  actor's  calling.  If  words  were 
indeed  the  edged-tools  which  the  gentlemen  of  the  press  are  fain  to 
believe  them,  the  players'  awkward  and  suicidal  handling  of  them 
would  insure  his  dismemberment,  and  reduce  him  to  a  heap  of  frag- 
ments before  the  very  eyes  of  a  horrified  audience.  For  of  language, 
properly  so-called ;  language  as  a  vehicle  for  conveying  with  accu- 
racy and  precision  the  niceties  of  thought,  your  average  actor  and 
actress  know  absolutely  nothing.  When  they  happen  to  be  right,  it 
is  by  a  lucky  blunder;  when  they  go  wrong,  it  is  by  following  in  the 

wake  of  their  own  ignorance. 

t  *  * 

.  The  aspiring  youth  or  maiden  assured  by  friends  of  the  possession 
of  "  wonderful  talent,"  begins  the  occult  and  mysterious  process 
known  as  '*  studying  for  the  stage,"  by  engaging  a  teacher  of  elocu- 
tion. This  lady— it  is  generally  a  lady— dwells  largely  on  gesticu- 
lation, how  to  bring  the  hand  up  gracefully  and  to  let  it  fall  with 
ease,  to  bend  the  knee  and  to  turn  the  head.  She  may,  too,  lay  con- 
siderable stress  upon  a  distinct  enunciation  (mainly  in  its  aspect  of 
labial  gymnastics),  but  tbe  humble  adjunct  of  pronunciation  she 
leaves  with  touching  confidence  to  chance.  'Open  your  lips,"  says 
the  indefatigable  instructor;  one  can  hardly  bear  the  word 'evident- 
ly' as  you  say  it."  And  the  chances  are  ten  to  one  that  it  would  be 
a  sweet  boon  to  be  unable  to  hear  it  at  all,  for  they  are  in  about  that 
proportion,  that,  when  heard,  as  the  learner  says  it,  it  will  be  "evi- 
dunt." 

I  do  not  speak  now  of  the  affectation  which  makes  a  sword  a 
"sawed;"  a  girl,  a  "g-y-url";  and  a  child  a  "cheild,"  etc.;  nor  yet 
of  the  slipshod  indifference  which  slides  a  syllable  wherever  elision 
is  possible,  and  where  it  is  not,  probably  puts  in  an  extra  one.  There 
is  a  long  list  of  words  unvaryingly  pronounced  incorrectly  by  actors 
and  actresses,  the  incorrectness  of  which  they  do  not  recognize.  All 
their  surprises  are  "supposes,"  and  "heinous  crimes  "  are  "hy- 
hous."  In  regard  to  "interesting"  and  "inquiry,"  the  actor  is 
wildly  and  hopelessly  at  sea,  and  never  gets  into  port.  The  former 
is  "  m-tres-ting,"  the  latter  "  mfc-wiry."  They  po-sess  their  souls 
in  quietness,  while  o-pressing  the  audience  in  "  portentious  "  fash- 
ion. These  and  a  score  of  similar  barbarisms  are  very  nearly  uni- 
versal on  the  stage,  as  any  one  may  convince  himself  by  listening 
critically  through  one  performance. 

But  it  is  not  in  this  field  that  the  ignorance  which  dominates  the 
stage  of  today  cavorts  most  clumsily  and  disastrously.  The  broad 
held  of  English  grammar,  with  its  fine  wire  fences  of  prohibition  and 
its  hidden  pitfalls  of  "exceptions"  may  find  even  the  expert  tripping, 
or  laid  flat  on  his  buck  as  the  penalty  of  an  unwary  step;  but  the 
happy-go-lucky  ignorance  and  self  satisfaction  of  the  average  stage 
player  breaks  airily  through  all  the  restrictions  that  trammel  the 
better  informed,  in  as  happy  unconsciousness  as  the  ruminating 
cow  walks  through  the  glistening  threads  of  the  dew  bright  cobwebs. 
Space  will  admit  of  but  few  examples  f  but  these  are  so  glaring,  so 
constant,  as  to  justify  a  peremptory  demand  for  their  instant  reform. 
The  distinction  between  nominative  and  objective  in  regard  to  the 
personal  pronouns  is  a  hopeless  muddle.  "Between  you  and  I," 
"Have  you  forgotten  mamma  and  I,  dear  papa?"  "All  but  you  and 
I  are  gone,"  etc.,  etc.,  matte  one  long  for  the  honest  and  time-hon- 
ored solecism.  "It  is  me,"  with  at  least  its  collateral  justification  in 
"c'est  wo/."  "But"  used  prepositionally  in  the  sense  of  "except,"  and 
to  be  followed  by  tne  objective,  is  always  ignored  and  we  have  in 
consequence,  "None  but  we,"  "All  but  she,"  etc.,  while  a  recent 
play  introduced  a  young  woman  who  beats  tbe  record  with,  "Every 
one  but  he  and  I  are  married,"  in  bold  defiance  of  the  old  fogy- 
conservatism  which  would  dictate,  •»  Every  one  but  him  and  me 
is  married."  Another  stumbling  block  is  "  Try  and  "  for  •<  Try 
to."  If  you  "  will  try  and  be  there,"  you  will  try  and  you  will 
be  there;  there  is  no  alternative  but  one — that  you  lied.  Bnt  you 
may  "  try  to  be  there."  and  the  effort,  whatever  its  result,  will 
satisy  the  promise.  It  is  strange  that  so  obvious  a  distinction 
does  not  strike  every  one,  yet  this  expression  may  be  safely  pro- 
nounced universal.  Even  Clara  Morris,  :_as  RenSe  de  Moray, 
promises  her  lovely  brother  to  try  and  be  there  to-morrow."  Sepa- 
rating tbe  infinitive  is  another  favorite  way  of  murdering  the 
King's  English  on  tbe  stage.  "To  humbly  beg,"  "to  blindly  fol- 
low," etc,  are  too  frequently  heard  to  need  mention.  And  these 
are  but  as  a  drop  in  tbe  ocean  of  illiteracy  which  floods  the  stage 
and  prevents  it  from  being  what  it  should  be,  an  example  and  an 


instruction  in  the  use  of  "  English  undefiled." 

No  one  but  a  prig  of  the  first  water  goes  about  among  his  friends 
and  jnto  society,  noting  these  lingual  lapses  from  grace,  and  taking 
mental  sjiort-hand  reports  of  misplaced  subjunctives  and  misused 
personal  pronouns.  The  driving  business  habits  of  the  American 
people  naturally  (though,  I  must  protest,  unfortunately)  preclude 
that  attention  to  the  niceties  of  diction  which  would  be  exacted  in 
older  and  more  leisure-gifted  communities,  and  it  would  be  the  height 
of  bad  taste  either  to  comment  upon  or  to  sneer  at  any  or  all  of  the 
errors  I  have  quoted.  But  it  may  be  claimed  fairly  that  when  a  man 
or  woman  comes  forward  for  our  entertainment  or  edification  upon 
the  platform,  in  the  pulpit,  or  on  the  stage,  that  man  or  woman 
challenges  criticism,  and  is  under  a  tacit  contract  with  the  public  to 
prepare  himself  or  herself  to  meet  it.  Allowing  that  it  is  too  late  to 
begin  at  the  foundation,  and  acquire  a  knowledge  that  will  render 
him  self-reliant,  the  actor  while  studying  a  new  part  can,  at  least,  con- 
sult some  competent  authority  and  make  himself  certain  that  his 
lines  in  that  part  are  correct,  as  to  grammar,  at  the  same  time  re- 
ferring to  a  dictionary  for  the  pronunciation  of  every  doubtful 
word.  The  flaunting  of  tbe  players'  ignorance  on  almost  every  point 
of  language,  and  of  conventional  polite  observance,  is  little  short  of 
impudence,  and  of  being  an  insult  to  tbe  cultured  portion  of  their 
audiences.  As  to  the  prevailing  profanity  which  is  dragged  in  as  a 
substitute  for  legitimate  humor,  the  News  Letter  has  already  put 
itself  unmistakably  on  record ;  but  this  may  be  added  to  the  previous 
charge  as  the  same  insult  to  decency  which  that  is  to  the  under- 
standing. 


NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Al  Hayman  &  Co Proprietors.  |  J.  J.  Gottlob Manager. 

Special  Holiday  Attraction! 

TWO  WEEKS     r,|-/"»      0/"> 
BEGINNING       I  1 1-  I  /\\ 

MONDAY  \J\-\Jt     i-\Jt 

The  Brilliant  Young  Gomedian 

ME.  CHARLES 


DICKSON, 

aud  his  own  merry  company  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Geo,  Lederer,  in 

r?S       "INCOG." 


US  NY 


MATINEES  £ 


By  Mrs.  R.  Pacheco. 


NEW  YEARS  and  SATURDAY. 


STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell    ...     Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghouse Business  Mauager. 

Commencing  Sunday  Evening,  December  25th. 

MATINEE 

CHRISTMAS  DAY  (Monday,  Dec.  26th)  and  SATURDAY. 

Limited  Engagement,  Two  Weeks  Only,  of  Dainty  and  Versatile 

FANNIE  RICE 

And  her  own  company  of  Comedians  in  her  latest  success,  con- 
structed for  laughing  purposes  only. 

"A    JOLLY    SURPRISE." 

Preceded  by  Offenbach's  operatic  gem— The  Little  Broom  Seller 

GRANO  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Al.  Hayman. 
Second  week.  Every  evening,  including  Sunday,  Matinee  Saturday 
only.    Bigger,  Brighter  and  Better  than  ever. 

AMERICAN  EXTRAVAGANZA  COMPANY  in 

ALI     BABA, 
Mr.  David  Henderson,  Proprietor  and  Manager.    The  Fun  of  Farce 
Comedy.    All  the  music  of  comic  opera.     All  the  Brilliancy  of  Spec- 
tacle, etc.    Get  seats  in  advance  and  avoid  the  crush  at  night. 

BALDWIN  THEATRE —Saturday,  December 31st.  Charles  Froh- 
man's  Comedians  in  "  Settled  Out  of  Court."  The  company  includes 
Georgie  Drew  Barrvmore,  Joseph  Holland,  M.  A.  Kennedy,  Agnes 
Miller,  William  Faversham.  etc. 

TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Kreling  Beos Proprietors  and  Managers. 

Monday,  December  19th,  one  week, 

TRIP    TO     THE     MOON. 
Popular  Prices 25c.   and  50 


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SAN   KRAXriSt'O  NT.WS  LKTTKR 


THK  mining  hid  i-iry  111  lolfl  Stale  tin-  n  i  priw-jivrttd  nit. eh 
ihrutijtbuui  in-  year  L*ro.*ptciing  baa  been  » .1  r - 1*- •  i  on  lu  a 
very  lmuu-l  exieut,  and  in  a  great  measure  i  baa  been  conQnod  i«> 
oil  il.-ir:rt?  which  have  uia.ntaiiied  »  repuiaiimi  i>  r  years  past  on 
the  sireuxih  ol  some  rich  .»re  ileveluptuenl  in  ihe  vicinity,  which  baa 
.  io  prolong  the  Mfe  "f  ihr  cam  p.  Flu-  continuity  "i  i  in  Idaho 
reins  In  depth,  eu  I  the  steady  utpatol  bul.iin  annually,  h  t>  kepi 
Q  iaa  Valley  aiive  and  proved  an  incentive  u*  prolong  the  search  lor 
oilier  lo  lea  In  the  surrounding  territory.  The  same  may  be  said  of 
the dUiricta  in  which  the  ricli  nod  paying  mines of  Shasta,  Amador, 
Nevada,  Ei  Dorad.;  and  ruohimne  counties  are  luc.tted.  Outs 
these  favored  si»ota  in  Northern  California  little  bas  been  done  in 
the  w.iy  of  develnpuient.  nil  hough  iii  many  instances  the  existence  of 
rich  and  extensive  mineral  deposits  seems  to  have  been  clearly 
died.  In  the  southern  counties  of  the  State,  in  San  Diego  and 
Ban  Bernardino  counties,  a  number  of  properties  bave  been  worked 
at  a  fair  profit,  and  some  rather  important  developments  have  been 
reported  from  time  to  time.  The  prospectors  there,  however,  has 
worked  under  more  favorable  conditions,  owing  to  the  fact  that  they 
have  been  successful  in  interesting  E  intern  capitalists  to  a  large  ex- 
tent. Wealthy  people  from  all  over  the  Onion  resort  to  this  portion 
of  the  State  in  large  numbers  for  the  benefit  of  tbeir  health  or  relax- 
ation from  the  cares  of  business,  and  tbey  are  not  slow  to  invest 
money  in  mines  on  a  favorable  prospect.  By  the  assistance  of  tbe 
capital  obtained  in  this  way.  mining  in  these  sections  has  progressed 
more  favorably  than  it  bas  elsewhere,  and  a  fairly  prosperous  show- 
ing has  been  made  for  the  year.  In  the  northern  counties,  the  main 
dependence  is  placed,  unfortunately,  on  this  city,  and  it  is  a  rare  ex- 
ception, lately,  that  any  financial  aid  has  been  extended  from  the 
East.  Local  mining  enterprise  is  dead,  and  outside  of  a  few  wealthy 
and  experienced  mining  men,  such  as  Alvinza  Hay  ward,  Frank  Mc- 
Laughlin. Martin, Ballard  and  one  or  two  others,  there  are  none  who 
can  even  be  prevailed  upon  to  discuss  the  subject  ol  ores.  The  effect 
of  this  can  be  noted  in  the  decline  of  commercial  business,  which  has 
been  steadily  falling  off  for  years  past.  Of  late  there  seems  to  be  a 
disposition  on  the  part  of  merchants  and  others  to  recognize  the  im- 
portance of  prosperity  in  the  mining  industry  in  connection  with  the 
decadence  of  local  trade,  and  it  is  probable  that  an  effort  will  be 
made  to  develop  the  mineral  resources  of  the  State  during  tbe  com- 
ing year.  If  some  action  is  not  taken  in  the  matter  before  long,  the 
present  dull  condition  of  affairs  in  this  city  will  be  intensified  to  a  de- 
gree which  is  not  pleasant  to  contemplate. 

¥¥$ 

T  NSTEA.D  of  the  merchants  waiting  for  tbe  miners  to  carry  their 
1  point  by  tbe  slow  methods  of  legislation,  following  the  still 
slower  attempt  to  build  up  public  sympathy  in  a  battle  for  their 
rights,  every  means  should  be  taken  to  help  them.  With  anything 
like  a  united  effort  on  the  part  of  all,  hydraulic  mining  would  be  in 
full  operation  by  the  coming  spring.  Why  should  a  handful  of  mal- 
contents living  on  the  outsKirts  of  civilization  be  allowed  to  continu- 
ally interfere  with  a  matter  of  vital  importance  to  the  State  at 
large,  and  to  the  future  of  this  city  in  particular?  They  are  animated 
more  by  a  spirit  of  irreconcilable  hostility  to  the  miners,  than  by  a 
regard  for  the  general  prosperity  of  California.  The  mines  can  be 
worked  without  injury  to  the  property  of  others,  and  this  has  been 
shown  time  and  agtin,  but  of  no  avail  in  subduing  the  outcry  which 
has  reduced  the  annual  output  of  gold  to  tbe  extent  of  millions  of 
dollars.     When  people  begin  to  recognize  the  idiocy   of  this  dog  in 

he  manger  policy,  it  will  not  take  long  to  sweep  those  who  advocate 
it  out  of  sheer  malice,  into  an  oblivion  from  which  it  is  to  be  hoped 
they  may  never  be  resurrected.  The  suspension  of  our  gold  produc- 
tion is  a  canker-worm  which  has  been  gnawing  the  vitality  out  of 
local  trade  for  the  past  ten  years.  No  one  can  deny  this  who  appre- 
ciates the  value  of  an  increased  circulation  of  money  throughout  the 
State,  estimated  at  eight  millions  of  dollars  annually. 
t  *  s 

WHILE  it  cannot  be  said  that  the  efforts  on  behalf  of  tbe 
hydraulic  miner  have  been  crowned  with  much  success 
during  the  year,  the  outlook  for  the  speculative  market  on  Pine 
street  has  brightened  considerably  within  the  past  three  months. 
There  are  indications  that  the  Comstock  lode  will  again  attract  in- 
vestors on  merit  in  the  mines,  and  this  in  itself  will  benefit  business 
considerably  by  putting  money  in  circulation  which  has  been  accumu- 
1  ating  for  years  in  the  banks.  The  silver  proposition  cuts  little  figure 
here,  as  the  production  is  limited  both  in  this  State  and  from  the 
mines  at  Virginia  City.  All  the  Comstock  ores  run  high  in  gold,  the 
average  in  the  leading  mines  being  more  than  enough  to  offset  the 
loss  by  depreciation  in  silver.  The  development  of  ore  in  Potosi  re- 
cently is  of  more  than  ordinary  importance,  and  should,  it  open  out 
eventually,  some  lively  turns  may  be  looked  for  in  the  market.  So 
far  as  local  stocks  ore  concerned,  the  volume  of  investment  for  the 
year  will  not  be  so  heavy  as  it  was  a  year  ago.  There  has  been,  how- 
ever, a  fair  business  transacted,  with  an  unusually  light  range  of 
fluctuation  in  prices.    Money  is  plentiful  with  the  banks. 


fcjjj  MatfD 


no    Wnnd     but     PIOMBuro's."  —  Tom    tfoore. 


THK  holiday  spirit  naturally  seeks  life's  lighter  side,  and  tbla 
Is  most  attractively  represented    In   an    urbin  con nily  by 

tbe  theatres,     With   this   faci    before   them,   u inagers  have 

made  extensive  preparations  both  to  receive  Rod  to  entertain  their 
holiday  clien 

Manager  Bouvier  and  hi-  man",  ol  tbe  Baldwin,  will  remain  this 
week  at  the  Grand,  where  Mr.  Henderson's  Inn  spectacular  ex- 
travaganssa,  Mi  Basa,  is  adding  lo  its  sucoess  with  evtty  pro- 
duction. Lias!  night  ii  was  presented  with  an  entire  new  uutfit 
of  siings,  dances,  ha. lets,  and  other  specialties,  which  cater- 
ing to  the  holiday  craving  fur  novelty  was  rewarded  by  a  repeti- 
tion of  the  first-night  attendance. 

*  m    9 

At  the  California  Manager  Gottlob  will  introduce  at  the  Christ- 
mas matinee  on  Monday  next,  Uhas.  Dickson  and  company  in 
Mrs.  Facheco's  Incog.  The  unmistakable  favor  with  which  this 
witty  and  brilliant  play  was  received  here  last  year  will  be  re- 
membered, a  favor  won  by  the  intrinsic  merit  of  play  and  players. 
Since  that  time  tbe  East  has  strongly  indorsed  San  Francisco's 
verdict;  among  oiher  ways  by  a  run  of  100  consecutive  nights  to 
crowd,  d  houses  in  New  Yurk.  Mr.  DicKson  is  an  excellent  light 
comedian  with  an  easy  and  natural,  while  essentially  refined 
style  and  presence. 

*  i  * 

Manager  Broadhurst,  at  the  Bush  has  "  letgototake  a  new  hold  " 
this  week,  which  latter  will  be  a  strong  one,  with  tbe  old  favorite, 
Uandl,  presented  by  Geo.  W.  Lsderer's  Comedy  Company.  The 
opening  performance  will  be  Christmas  Eve,  Saturday,  December 
24th.    Mdtinees  Sunday  and  Monday. 

*  *  # 

The  Trip  to  the  Moon,  which  Manager  Kreling,  of  the  Tivoli,  pre- 
sents to  his  countless  patrons  for  the  holiday  time,  is  one  of  the  most 
elaborate  spectacular  productions  yet  given  at  that  house  of  careful 
and  good  productions.  The  excellent  corps  of  singers  and  the  orches- 
tral and  mechanical  resources  of  the  Tivoli  are  too  well  known  to 
need  comment.  Crowded  houses  and  merriment  will  prevail  at  the 
Tivoli  while  Offenbach's  spectacular  opera  is  on. 
»  *  * 

Manager  Stockwell  has  A  Jolly  Surprise  for  the  patrons  of  his 
pretty  theatre  on  Monday  night,  presented  by  Fanny  Rice  and  her 
company.  It  will  continue  through  the  holiday  season,  and  with  our 
versatile-minded  people  will  be  sure  to  supplement  even  the  unquali- 
fied success  of  Capt.  Heme,  V.  S.  A.,  which  has  its  last  production 
Sunday  night. 

*  *  * 

The  Baldwin  will  remain  closed  till  Saturday,  the  31st  inst., 
when  it  will  open  for  the  New  Year  holidays,  with  an  un- 
usually strong  attraction— Charles  Frohman's  comedians  in  Settled 
Out  of  Court,  Joseph  Holland  has  a  strong  and  characteristic  part, 
and  M.  A.  Kennedy,  Georgie  Drew  Barrymore  and  other  old  friends 
are  with  the  company.  While  here,  Lestocn's  The  Sportsman  and 
Sydney  Grundy's  Arabian  Nights  will  be  given. 

*  *  * 

The  faces  of  San  Francisco's  theatrical  managers,  so  artistically 
depicted  on  another  page  of  this  issue,  will  be  universally  admitted 
to  form  a  rival,  if  not  a  superior,  to  Dickens' Mr.  Jobling's  famous 
"  Gallery  Galaxy  of  British  Beauty,"  and  to  afford,  in  connection 
with  their  acknowledged  business  success,  a  triumphant  refutation 
of  the  tacit  sneer  in  the  popular  phrase,  "  too  handsome  for  any 
thing." 

THE  charming  ballad  "  The  Year's  Sweetheart,"  by  Leila  France 
continues  popular.  It  will  be  played  at  the  Fair  in  Januaiy.  The 
■'.Star  and  the  Brook,"  "Solitude,"  and  "Four  Marguerites 
Waltz,"  are  by  tbe  same  composer. 


If  you  need  an  appetizer  ask  for  Peruvian  Bitlers,  which  is  recog- 
nized by  ali  authorities  as  the  best  incentive  to  eating  now  known.  It 
is  efficacious,  and  therefore  popular. 


For  California  Wines  of  the  highest  grade,  use  the  Napa  Valley 
Wine  Co.'s  "Privaie  Stock."  These  Wines  are  not  only  the  finest, 
but  their  quality  is  uniform  from  year  to  year. 


Moet  &  Chandon  Champ  ignes  are  the  third  on  the  list  of  impor- 
tations into  the  United  Stales. 


THE  BUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr    M.  B.  Levitt Proprietor  and  Manager. 

George  H.  Broadhurst Kesident  Mauager. 

Commencing  Christmas  Eve.,  Saturday,  December  24th,  Geo.  W. 
Lederer's  Laughing  Festival 

"U,    &.I." 

New  Songs,  Dances  and  Specialties! 


'GOING     TO     ENLIGHTEN     THE       WEST.' 


ENTERPRISE. 


RECENT  contributor  to  this  paper*  made  a  very  interest- 
ing statement  of  historic  facts  in  connection  with  the 
world-renowned  California  Geysers,  which,  as  most  of  our 
readers  are  aware,  are  located  in  the  northeastern  part  of 
Sonoma  County,  scarcely  one  hundred  miles  from  San 
Francisco,  and  it  would  repay  perusal  if  we  had  a  still  more  elaborate 
statement  concerning  those  who  came,  and  saw,  and  were  conquered 
by  the  charming  scenery,  the  rocky  grandeur  and  the  mysterious 
springs  which  render  that  place  the  most  interesting  and  delightful 
resort  in  this  State.  The  most  singular  fact  of  all  in  connection  with 
the  Geysers,  is  that  they  have  attracted  more  notice  and  received 
more  attention  and  interest  from  foreign  visitors  than  they  have 
from  native  sons  and  daughters.  Indeed,  there  are  multitudes  of 
good  American  citizens  who  could  dilate  for  hours  upon  the  awe- 
inspiring  grandeur  of  every  nook  and  cranny  which  their  own  in- 
genuity has  discovered  in  some  distant  land  beyond  the  seas,  who 
are  amazed  to  learn  that  in  California  there  are  springs  as  valuable 
as  any  the  world  contains,  and  possessing  properties  of  unrivalled 
benefit  to  the  sick  and  healthy  alike,  yet  it  is  even  so.  Unfortunately, 
hitherto  the  value  of  these  springs  has  been  comparatively  unknown 
inasmuch  as  their  waters  have  been  only  at  the  momentary  disposal 
of  the  favored  few  who  have  resorted  thither  in  quest  of  sight-seeing 
pleasure.  It  will,  therefore,  be  a  matter  of  no  small  gratification  to 
all  who  know  anything  of  the  nature  of  the  Geysers  to  be  told  that 
this  state  of  affairs  has  finally  and  forever  come  to  an  end,  for  hence- 
forth this  unrivalled  water  will  be  brought  within  the  reach  of  every 
American  citizen.  Our  friends  in  New  York  will  not  be  required  to 
take  the  long  journey  from  the  East  in  order  that  they  may  drink  of 
these  health-giving  springs.  True,  if  they  do  come,  they  will  never 
regret  a  visit  to  the  Geysers  for  the  sake  of  the  strange  sights  and 
sounds  which  await  them  there;  but  if  they  merely  wish  to  be  bene- 
fited by  the  springs,  the  difficulty  will  be  obviated  by  the  water  being 
carried  to  their  doors  in  New  York,  put  up  in  such,  shape  as  may 
well  make  them  imagine  they  are  drinking*from  the  spring  itself. 

Itconsequently  happens  that  while  the  present  writer  is  as  much 
interested  in  '  Old  Hotel  Registers"  as  the  writer  ot  the  article 
already  referred  to  could  possibly  have  been,  even  the  charm  of  the 
old  register  in  the  keeping  of  Col.  1.  R.  Bowler  dwarfed  into  utter 
insignificance  in  view  of  the  fact  that,  since  April,  extensive  prepara- 
tions have  been  going  on  with  a  view  toward  putting  the  water  of  the 
Geyser  Springs  within  the  reach  of  everybody.  Far  be  it  from  us  to 
speak  one  disrespectful  word  concerning  the  world-famed  heroes  who 
came  from  all  countries  to  see  the  wonders  of  the  Geysers  and  to 
hathe  in  their  beautiful  natatorium.  Be  mortuis  nil  nisi  bonum;  but 
the  interest  lying  around  even  such  an  autograph  as  "  Garibaldi,  Eu- 
rope," was  small  indeed  compared  with  the  interest  which,  involun- 
tarily, centred  around  a  name  unknown,  we  presume,  to  Di  Vernon, 
but  which  is  destined  to  create  a  more  universal  interest  than  the 
name  of  many  a  worthless  millionaire  and  many  a  respected  theolo- 
gian, long  since  gone  to  their  reward.  The  "Geyser  Water  Co.,  C. 
L.  Dingley,  Jr.,  Manager,"  awakened  a  genuine  enthusiasm  within 
us.  "  A  living  dog  is  better  than  a  dead  lion,"  and  Di  Vernon  will 
pardon  us  in  that  we  were  far  more  interested  in  endeavoring  to  find 
out  something  of  the  life  and  work  of  the  Geyser  Water  Company, 
exploring  its  reservoirs  and  tanks  and  bottling  establishment,  than 
we  could  possibly  have  been  in  scanning  the  well-thumbed  volume 
containing  the  name  of  many  genuine  and  many  a  would-be 
magnate. 
Our  interest  was  very  much  increased  because  there  wasaii::! 


cation  of  new  life,  energy  and  push  in  this  new  venture,  and  because 
we  were  accompanied  all  over  the  place  which  forms  the  scene  of  the 
Geyser  Water  Company's  operations  by  this  company's  popular 
manager.  It  surely  augurs  well  for  the  success  of  this  welcome 
enterprise,  that  one  possessing  the  high  character  and  dashing  busi- 
ness tact  of  Mr.  C.  L.  Dingley,  Jr.,  has  been  secured  to  manage  this 
stupendous  undertaking.  We  congratulate  the  Geyser  Water  Com- 
pany upon  this  fact,  and  we  tender  our  best  wishes  for  the  success  of 
this  great  scheme.  Mr.  Dingley  carefully  explained  the  modus  oper- 
andi, and  in  such  a  way  as  to  commend  it  to  the  most  critical  and 
observant.  As  we  went  from  place  to  place  learning  the  various 
methods  to  be  adopted  in  preparing  this  water  for  the  market,  we 
kept  our  eyes  open  to  discover  the  business  premises  of  another 
company,  which  we  understood  to  be  already  at  work  here.  We 
thought  of  an  advertisement  we  had  seen  somewhere  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, which  indicated  that  there  was  a  soda  water  on  the  market 
which  was  bottled  at  the  Geyser  Springs.  Certainly  that  is  the  infer- 
ence one  naturally  draws  after  reading  the  sign.  Our  disgust  there- 
fore was  great  when  we  found  that  this  was  a  mere  trick  to  catch 
the  unwary,  and  that  this  company  purports  to  supply  people  with 
Geyser  water,  which  had  not  the  slightest  connection  with  the  Gey- 
sers. It  is  but  just  that  we  should  here  remark  that  the  Geyser 
Water  Company  is  the  first  body  to  put  on  the  market  the  water  of 
the  Californian  Geysers,  and  it  is  important  as  well  as  interesting  to 
know  that  this  is  the  only  water  boiled  in  Nature's  boiler  which  has 
ever  been  bottled.  It  is  impossible,  in  a  short  sketch,  to  give  any 
adequate  description  of  the  various  springs.  Their  temperature 
ranging  from  70  deg.  Fahr.  to  212  deg.  Fahr.,  their  peculiar  prop- 
erties covering  all  the  nutritive  and  curative  requirements  of  the 
human  body,  and  their  absolute  freedom  from  all  ingredients  calcu- 
lated to  produce  disorder,  render  the  water  of  these  springs  destined 
to  take  the  lead  as  the  article  for  table  use.  It  is  greatly  to  be  won- 
dered at,  that  it  has  been  left  to  the  Gej'ser  Water  Company  to  intro- 
duce this  water,  as  many  years  have  passed  since  eminent  scientists 
have  first  analyzed  it  and  pronounced  it  to  be  of  peculiar  and  special 
value  to  the  human  system;  but  now  since  it  has  so  happened,  and 
since  the  company  has  left  nothing  undone  to  bring  this  unrivalled 
boon  within  the  reach  of  everybody,  we,  who  have  the  welfare  of  the 
public  at  heart,  and  who  wish  all  men  "health,  wealth  and  plenty" 
give  utterance  to  a  gratitude,  which  will,  presently,  be  universal,  for 
an  absolutely  safe,  pure,  refreshing  and  invigorating  drink  from  the 
California  Geysers. 

[*ta  S   P.  SevsLstter,  April  9th,  18)2,  "An  Obi  Hotel  Register"  by  Di 
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Dealer  in  Dairy  Produce. 

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BE    GOOD    TO    YOURSELF 


[By  Di  Vernon. 


^"  F,  instead  of  the  customary  holiday  greetings  nf  "Merry 
Christmas"  and  •■  Happy  New  Year,"  we  were  to  salute 
each  other  with  the  injunction,  «•  Be  good  to  yourself,"  to 
X.  some  it  might  lack  something  of  the  Christmas  spirit.  But 
as  Christmas  is  the  day  on  which  weexchangeappropriategifts. 
there  is  no  better  time  in  all  the  year  in  which  to  begin  to  be  gocd  to 
ourselves.  Not  but  that  we  are  selfish  enough,  when  it  comes  to  that, 
but  being  selfish  is  not  exactly  being  good  lo  ourselves.  The  truth 
is,  we  all  worry  too  much,  work  too  much— rush  at  the  wrong  time, 
do  too  little  for  others  in  the  fullness  of  our  hearts,  and  give  ourselves 
too  Httle  chance  to  know  the  joy  of  simply  being  alive.  Someone  has 
said  that  the  Englishman  takes  his  pleasure  sadly,  and  Max  O'Rell 
told  us  that  we  Americans  were  in  such  a  hurry  to  get  there— to  ac- 
complish some  set  task  or  project— that  we  do  not  enjoy  ourselves  as 
we  go  along,  leaving  that  happy  time  to  come  in  the  future,  and  the 
result  is  that  we  are  dead  before  we  know  it,  and  the  good  time  never 
comes,  at  least  in  this  world. 

There  is  too  much  truth  in  all  this,  and  happy  are  we  if  we  begin 
to  realize  it  before  it  is  too  late  for  us  to  take  pleasure  in  everyday 
life,  instead  of  waiting  until  we  have  saved  up  enough  to  go  some- 
where. I  would  rather  have  the  pleasure  of  spending  ten  cents  ten 
times  than  to  save  it  up  until  I  had  a  dollar  and  then  spend  it  all  in 
a  lump.  Old  Ben  Franklin  said.  "  A  penny  saved  is  better  than  a 
penny  earned."  That  may  be,  but  sometimes,  in  its  narrowing  hard- 
ening process,  upon  the  one  who  practices  the  economy,  a  penny 
saved  is  much  worse  than  a  penny  spent.  Is  there  anything  more 
apt  to  beget  and  foster  selfishness  and  uncharitableness  in  children 
than  the  habit  of  filling  dime  and  nickel  and  penny  banks?  Nothing. 
For  the  first  impulse  of  childhood  is  generosity.  A  child  lets  its 
playthings  roll  on  the  floor;  Us  tiny  hand  is  quite  as  apt  to  relax  as 
it  is  to  clutch  and  to  hold.  Teach  the  child  judgment,  not  strict 
economy.  I  knew  a  small  boy,  once,  who  saved  up  every  cent  he 
had  or  received,  and  then,  after  he  was  dead,  it  bought  a  magnificent 
gilt  frame  for  his  picture.  Poor  little  child,  my  heart  aches  when  I 
think  of  him ! 

"  Be  good  to  yourself;"  don't  think  of  saving  all  the  time.  Itwill 
make  you  round-shouldered,  and  hollow-chested,  and  small-lunged, 
and  give  you  a  contraction  of  the  heart.  By  the  way,  did  you  know 
that  the  mental  attitude  of  secretiveness  and  tight-screwed-up  econ- 
omy reacts  upon  the  physical  condition  of  the  body,  and  that  a  con- 
gestion of  some  organ  may  follow  and  result  fatally?  It  is  a  fact. 
Ask  a  physician.  If  one  feels  poor,  let  him  indulge  in  some  act  of 
extravagance,  such  a  wild  burst,  for  instance,  as  the  spending  of  a 
quarter  for  something  that  he  does  not  really  need.  Why.it  will 
give  him  a  pleasurable  sensation  of  affluence  which  will  carry  him 
through  many  a  day  when  he  actually  has  not  the  quarter  to  spend. 
The  ancient  Greeks  strove  for  a  sound  mind  in  a  sound  body.  If  to 
that  we  can  add  a  happy  heart  in  a  well-kept  body,  we  shall  be  as 
near  perfection  as  it  is  possible  to  be.  When  we  are  feeling  pretty 
well  satisfied  with  ourselves,  the  world  is  quite  a  delightful  place  in 
which  to  live.  The  trouble  is,  that  most  of  us  have  been  taught  to 
regard  it  a  highly  reprehensible  thing  when  we  are  satisfied  with  our- 
selves A  certain  amount  of  self-depreciation  is  thought  becoming, 
and  there  are  good  souls  who  feel  that  they  are  not  getting  the  good 
out  of  the  troubles  which  a  kind  Providence  has  sent  for  their  cor- 
rection if  they  do  not  make  themselves  and  other  people  just  as  mis- 


erable as  possible.  That  may  be  sound  doctrine,  although  I  am  dis- 
posed to  doubt  it,  but  its  wretched  practice.  I  think  that  we  should 
all  cultivate  the  gentle  art  of  forgetfulness  a  little  more  than  we  do, 
and  allow  ourselves,  as  well  as  other  people,  to  profit  by  the  oblivion 
into  which  we  can  consign  much  of  what  it  is  not  worth  while  to  re- 
member. I  don't  know  just  how  to  classify  the  feeling  that  comes 
to  me  sometimes,  in  regard  to  what  once  I  would  have  worried  and 
troubled  over,  now  I  simply  say,  "  I  don't  care"— and  I  don't.  It 
may  be  carelessness,  indifference,  spiritual  apathy  or  pious  resigna- 
tion. But  what  is  the  use  of  worrying  after  the  thing  has  happened? 
As  some  one  has  said,  '*  We  break  a  teacup  in  the  morning  and  we 
carry  the  pieces  in  our  face  all  day  !"  As  for  me,  when  anything  is 
broken,  better  far  to  throw  it  into  the  ash-barrel  and  let  it  be  carried 
out  of  sight  than  to  have  it  mended  and  always  see  the  crack.  That's 
sound  philosophy,  and  it  is  worth  practicing!  Get  lid  of  troublesome 
things— don't  think  of  them,  don't  let  them  come  back  again.  Whc 
enjoy  life  most — who  get  the' most  out  of  life?  Those  who  worry 
all  the  time,  or  those  who  laugh  and  grow  fat?  We  all  know  people 
that  we  call  "  happy-go-lucky,"  and  we  wonder  sometimes  that  wher 
they  do  so  little  to  hring  it  about,  they  generally  come  out  ai 
well  as  those  who  are  all  fuss  and  feathers.  Why,  a  little  leaven  o 
worry  is  enough  to  sour  the  sweetest  disposition. 

True,  there  are  some  people  who  are  never  so  happy  as  when  thej 
are  miserable,  and  are  never  so  content  as  when  they  are  findini 
fault.  Have  we  not  known  housewives,  blessed  among  women 
who,  when  they  cleaned  house  and  never  so  wretched  as  whei 
they  could  not  get  more  than  half  a  dustpan  full  of  dirt  after  sweep 
ing  a  room?  Rip  Van  Winkle's  wife  burst  a  blood-vessel  in  scolding 
the  peddler  who  crossed  the  freshly-sanded  floor.  She  cared  abou 
the  floor;  the  peddler  didn't.    She  died;  the  peddler  lived. 

What  is  the  use  of  worrying  at  what  angle  a  chair  stands  in  the 
room,  so  long  as  the  chair  is  a  comfortable  chair?  I  have  known* 
poor  tired  woman  to  walk  up  stairs,  and  down  stairs,  and  into  even 
room  in  the  house,  simply  to  make  sure  that  every  shade  was  pullec 
just  so  far  down  in  each  window,  so  that  it  would  look  nice  from  thi 
outside;  then  she  was  too  tired  to  go  out  that  afternoon.  Was  i 
worth  while?    Hardly. 

Remember  what  our  Lord  said  to  the  good  housewife  of  the  Bible 
"  Martha,  thou  art  careful  and  troubled  about  many  things,  but  om 
thing  is  needful."  Have  you  ever  thought  that  here  is  a  suggestioi 
for  the  over-burdened,  over-solicitous  housewife?  It  is  not  wortl 
while  to  be  troubled  about  a  superabundant  spread  for  the  invitet 
guest.  Not  a  multiplicity  of  dishes,  but  a  taste  of  comfort  is  needful 

Now,  what  shall  we  do?  Work,  and  worry,  and  fret,  or  with  up 
lifted  face  salute  each  other  with  the  heartfelt  holiday  greeting,  "  B< 
good  to  yourself?" 

If  you  are  one  of  those  who  have  no  homes,  and  firesides,  no  plaa 
at  the  family  board  at  which  to  enjoy  your  Christmas  dinner,  thei 
your  sole  recourse  is  to  dine  at  some  quiet,  home  like  place,  sucl 
as  The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213  Sutter  street.  The  dinner; 
given  at  this  favorite  restaurant  are  unexcelled  in  the  city.  It  will  b< 
crowded  with  parties  on  Christmas. 


If  you  want  to  make  yourself  a  fine  Christmas  present  why  not  g< 
to  Litchfield's,  12  Post  street,  and  order  a  fine  suit  of  clothes.  Hi; 
reputation  as  a  sartorial  artist  is  Al.  for  which  reason  he  enjoys  thi 
patronage  of  all  the  fashionable  dressers  of  town.  He  makes  t 
specialty  of  uniforms  and  regalias. 

Art  Pottery,  from  $1  upwards,  at  Nathan,  Dohrmann  &  Co's,  122 
132  Sutter  St.,  below  Kearny  st. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  2o 


92 


CHRISTMAS    FACT^    AND 
FANCIES. 


HRISTMAS  !    The  season    of   good  cheer,  of   laughter  and 
raerrinjent,  of  warm  hearts  and  kindly  feelings;   when  the 
angelic   injunction,    "On    earth,   peace,    good-will    toward 
men,"   finds    a  response    throughout   the   civilized    world. 
The  Christian  idea  of  Christmas,  with  its  love,  charity  and 
forgiveness  has  found  its  most  striking  realization  in   ihe  ''Yule 
|     peace  "  of  the  Scandinavians.     It  is  a  custom  ancient  as  the  Kunic 
stones  of  antiquity,  and  still  exists,  owing  to  the  Christian  baptism  it 
received  when  adopted  into  the  new  religion,  when  the  tierce  Norse- 
men accepted  Christianity.     Then,  as  now,  the  '■  Yule  peace"  was  a 
time  of  good-fellowship  and  brotherly  love;  quarrels  were  healed,  old 
feuds  forgotten,  and  all  were  animated  by  the  universal  spirit  of  the 
time.     Our  Christmas,  and  its  various  accompaniments  of  gifts,  deco- 
rations and  feasting,  carries  much  more  significance  than  ihe  gener- 
ally accepted  definition.  "The  celebration  of  the  binh  of  Christ. '( 
i     With  regard  to  that  one  point,  there  is  much  doubt  as  to  the  actual 
time  of  the  nativity.  That  the  watching  shepherds,  who  saw  the  star 
of  Bethlehem  and  heard  the  heavenly  host  sing  their  Gloria  in  Ex- 
—    celsis,  should  have  been  guarding  their  Hocks  on  the  hillside  in-  the 
month  of  December,  is  highly  improbable,  as  the  weather  is  extremely 
severe  and  inclement  at  that  season  of  the  year  through  the  region  of 
Judea. 

The  sun  was  the  god  of  all  the  Pagan  nations  of  antiquity,  wor- 
shipped under  different  names  in  different  countries.  Each  nation 
paid  homage  to  the  glorious  orb  of  day  by  a  grand  celebration  at  the 
time  of  the  winter  solstice,  the  turning  point  of  the  year,  symbolized 
by  the  wheel,  so  often  found  on  historic  monuments.  The  early 
-  stages  of  Christianity  were  an  amalgamation  of  customs  adopted 
j  from  Pagan  rites  and  those  practised  by  the  converts  to  the  new  faith. 
The  period  for  a  great  annual  celebration,  the  Roman  Saturnalia, 


or  "  Feast  of  Saturn" — the  sun-god — was  already  fixed.     What  more 


natural  than  that  the  early  Christians,  wishing  to  celebrate  the  birth 
of  their  Saviour,  should  select  the  same  time,  and  retain  many  of 
their  heathen  observai  ces?  When  carried  into  Britain,  the  new  re- 
ligion adopted  the  Druidical  rites  and  superstitions  already  existing 
there,  and  on  the  arrival  of  the  Saxons  it  received  the  a  Idition  of  the 
various  ceremonies  practiced  by  the  ancient  Germans  and  Scandi- 
navians. The  result  was  a  strange  medley  of  Pagan  and  Christian 
customs,  many  of  which,  in  a  modernized  form,  are  still  evident  in 
the  celebration  of  this  nineteenth  century  Christmas.  This  grand 
annual  festival  was  named  in  honor  of  the  sun,  under  the  various 
titles  given  that  shining  orb  by  its  worshippers.  It  is  from  the  early 
Christians,  who  commemorated  the  birth  of  Christ  by  singing  a  mid- 
night mass  on  the  eve  of  the  nativity,  that  we  get  the  name  of  Christ- 
mas— Christ's  mass— for  our  festal  season. 

The  floral  decorations  which  figure  so  largely  in  our  observance  of 
this  festival  and  add  so  much  to  its  beauty,  were  inaugurated  in  the 
days  of  the  Saturnalia,  when  the  Roman  temples  and  houses  were 
decked  with  flowers  and  garlands  in  honor  of  thegod  of  light.  Holly 
and  the  evergreen,  fir  and  laurel,  were  used  to  decorate  the  churches 

,    in  early  England,  as  they  are  now;  ivy.  though  occasionally  brought 

.  into  service,  being  considered  more  appropriate  lor  solemn  occasions. 
In  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century  a  decrie  was  issued  by 

,  the  Ecclesiastical  Canon  of  England  that  all  Christmas  decorations 
must  be  down  by  the  last  of  January,  ami  it  was  considered  unlucky 
to  keep  them  up  longer  in  private  houses. 

The  pale  mistletoe,  with  its  waxen  bernies,  under  whose  suspended 
bough  many  a  kiss  is  snatched,  is  surrounded  with  mystic  traditions 
and  associations.  In  the  days  of  earliest  antiquity,  the  British 
Druids  reverenced  the  plant  as  something  h  dy  when  they  found  it 
growing  on  an  oak.  the  favorite  tree  of  their  divinity,  Tutanes.  f he 
sun.  Their  \  early  festiv.il  was  celebrated  at  the  >ame  time  as  those 
of  other  pagan  nations,  at  their  winlersolstice.  When  the  time  came, 
the  ancient  Britons,  accompanied  by  their  priests,  the  Druids  went, 
with  music  and  singing,  to  gather  the  sacred  parasite,  which  was  also 
believed  to  possess  curative  powers.  Clothed  in  white,  the  chief 
priests  advanced  to  the  tree,  where  one  ascending,  cut,  with  a  golden 
knife,  the  holy  plant,  which  fell  into  the  robe  of  the  priest  standing 
below.  Tt  was  then  distributed  among  the  people,  who  carried  it  to 
their  home*  and  hung  it  under  the  roof,  as  a  propitiation  and  shelter 
to  the  sylvan  deities  during  the  reign  of  frost  and  cold.  The  Druids 
regarded  the  pearly  berries  of  the  mistletoe  as  an  emblem  of  purity, 
and  it  was  used  in  the  marriage  rites.  It  is  but  a  slight  transition 
from  that  to  the  innocent  custom  now  associated  with  the  plant,  and 
which  is  indisputably  a  relic  of  the  days  of  Druidism.  Prom  the 
fierce  Vikings  and  the  hardy  Norsemen,  with  their  ruddy  locks  and 
bright  blue  eyes,  comes  the  burning  of  the  yule,  or  Christmas  log,  a 
custom  still  observed,  even  in  America.  At  their  Feast  of  JmuI 'tu- 
Gm!,  meaning  a  wheel,  and  which  occurred  when  the  Druids  were 
gathering  mistletoe  and  the  Romans  were  decora'ing  their  temples 
in  honor  of  Saturn,  the  Scandinavians  kindled  huge  bonfires  in  honor 
of  their  sun-god.  Thor.  Immense  logs,  specially  "elected,  were 
brought  from  the  forest  in  a  triumphal  procession,  dedin  up.]  tn  Thor. 

_  and  cast  upon  the  fire   built  in   his  gl  >ry.     Th  nigh   fil'en   from   its 


original  "  high  estate,  '  ihe  yule-lug  still  receives,  in  a  measure,  the 
respect  and  ceremony  of  its  pagan  prototype.  The  great  log  is 
chosen  from  one  of  many,  hewn  in  the  midst  of  an  expectant  circle, 
and  is  carried  to  the  hearth  and  laid  upon  the  fire  with  great  rejoic- 
ing. In  it  are  seen  good  promises  for  the  future,  and  as  the  red 
flames  shoot  up.  old  wrongs  and  heart-burnings  die  out  with  the 
blaze.  But  after  the  log  is  partially  consumed  on  Christmas  Eve,  the 
remaining  portion  is  taken  from  the  fire  and  ttored  away  to  kindle 
the  new  log  the  following  year.  On  this  depends  the  luck  of  the 
coming  year,  and  it  is  also  a  protection  against  fire.  The  gentle 
Herrick,  the  great  English  poet,  thus  admonishes  concerning  the 
half-burnt  log: 

With  the  last  year's  bran«, 

Light  the  new  block,  and 
For  good  success  in  his  spending. 

On  your  psalteries  play, 

That  good  luck  may 
Come  while  the  log  is  teending  (burning). 

As  bad  luck  lies  ever  in  wait  to  follow  on  good,  so  with  the  burning 
log,  on  which  if  a  squint-eyed  person  gazed,  ill-fortune  to  the  house 
would  be  the  result.  Numberless  are  the  superstitions  which  cluster 
around  this  season,  so  closely  interwoven  with  pagan  and  Christian 
ceremonies.  In  Sweden,  on  Christmas  Eve.  the  shoes  of  the  family 
are  placed  in  a  row,  side  by  side,  that  harmony  may  prevail  during 
the  year  to  come.  Throughout  Northern  Germany  tables  are  spread 
and  the  lights  left  burning,  that  the  Virgin  Mary  and  the  Angel  who 
brings  the  presents  may  rind  refreshment.  In  Austria,  candles  burn 
in  the  windows,  that  the  Christ-child  may  not  stumble  in  the  street. 
The  bees  are  said  to  hum  at  midnight  on  the  eve  of  the  Nativity  in 
Cornwall  and  Devonshire,  and  the  belief  that  the  cattle  kneel  at  that 
hour,  in  adoration  of  the  Holy  Child,  still  exists  in  English  villages. 
At  this  magical  season  the  powers  of  darkness  are  prostrate  and  un- 
able to  work  their  evil  on  mankind.  Shakespeare  embodied  the 
superstition  of  the  time  in  Marcellus  lines: 

,(  Some  say  that  ever  'gainst  that  season  conies 
Wherein  our  Savior's  birth  is  celebrated, 
The  bird  of  dawning  singeth  all  night  long; 
And  then,  they  say,  no  spirit  can  walk  abroad; 
No  fairy  takes,  nor  witch  hath  power  to  charm  ; 
So  hallowed  and  so  gra>  ions  is  the  time." 

Thus  does  nature  join  mankind  in  celebrating  the  birth  of  Christ. 
Many  of  the  customs  especially  connected  with  the  children's  idea  of 
Christmas,  have  their  origin  in  Germany  and  the  Netherlands.  The 
American  child,  who  is  fortunate  enough  to  believe  in  the  dt- 
lightful  personality  of  Santa  Clans,  imitates  the  child  of  Holland, 
when  he  hangs  his  stockings  in  front  of  the  fire-place,  that  the  good 
Saint  may  find  them   ready   when  he  descends   the  chimney. 

The  beautiful  Christmas  tree  with  its  laden  branches  and  sparkling 
lights,  a  sina  qua  non  to  the  children's  enjoyment  of  the  season,  is 
distinctly  a  heathen  idea,  belonging  only  to  the  German  and  Scandi- 
navian races. 

The  good  cheer  of  the  Chritmas  of  Old  England  was  a  matter  of 
serious  import  and  worthy  to  be  chronicled.  The  peacock  with  his 
gorgeous  train  was  a  royal  dish,  brought  to  the  festal  board  by  fair 
hand-.  Over  his  brilliant  body  the  knights  errant  swore  to  do  and 
die  for  their '' ladyes  fay  re,"  whence  came  Ju-tice  Shallows  oath, 
"  By  cock  and  pie."  I  n  the  reign  of  Charles  1 1,  turkeys  and  capons 
became  the  regular  dish,  accompanied  with  plum  pudding.  The 
familiar  mince  pie.  which  appears  on  every  well-regulated  dinner 
table  at  the  Christmas  dinner,  was  considered  the  s;uci.d  dish  of  the 
sea-on  more  than  a  hundred  years  ago.  It  was  at  one  time  called 
shrid-pie  and  was  supposed  to  represent  the  various  offering-;  made 
to  the  infant  Christ.  In  an  old  English  book  we  fi..d  that:  '■  Every 
family  against  Christinas  makes  a  famous,  pye,  which  they  call 
Christmas  pye.  It  is  a  great  nostrum,  the  composition  of  this 
pastry."  Its  substantial  character  may  be  judged  from  the  ingre- 
dients of  one  spoken  of  in  the  Newcastle  Chronicle.  1770.  "*  *  * 
A  pie,  the  contents  whereof  are,  viz:  2  bushels  of  flour,  20Ibs.  of 
butler,  4  geese,  2  turkeys,  2  rabbits.  4  wild  duck,  2  woodcocks.  6 snipe, 
4  partridges,  2  neats  tongues,  2  curlews,  7  blackbirds  and  6  pigeons, 
with  eggs,  sugar,  raisins,  lemons,  oranges  and  various  kinds  of 
spicery."     It  weighed  twelve  stone! 

In  those  queer  times  it  was  considered  peculiarly  lucky  to  have 
Christmas  fall  on  Sunday,  and  as  the  present  generation  have  taken 
to  themselves  so  many  of  the  old  superstitions  and  customs,  it  were 
well  to  accept  the  omen  of  good  luck  which  this  Sunday  Christmas 
should  bring  us. 

An  old  song  says: 

••  Lordmges  I  warne  you  all  beforne 
Yif  that  day  that  Cfyste  was  borne 
Falli  uppon  a  Sunday, 
That  wy nter  shad  be  good  for  fay, 
But  grete  wynds  aloft  shall  he, 
The  sjmer  shall  be  fay  re  and  drye." 

Thus  it  is  that,  gathered  from  here  and  there,  the  customs  of  the 
Christian  religion,  like  everything  that  belongs  to  the  modern  world, 
are  the  growth  of  long  ages,  of  widely  different  systems,  parts  of 
which  have  been  fused  into  one  glowing  A'lule. 


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solved  the  question  in  a  satisfactory  manner  it  is 
Charles  Lyons,  the  London  Tailor  whose  portrait 
is  displayed  above,  who  makes  the  finest-fitting 
clothes  in  the  United  States. 

He  has  three  stores  in  San  Francisco,  and  has 
the  largest  stock  in  the  city  to  s«  leet  from. 

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v\\    FRANCISCO   NEWS   1  II  II  i; 


A    NEW    GAS    PLANT. 

TBI  tan  FnoclsOO  »:a*liphl  Company,  by  it*  recent  Ntftbltafa 
men!  of  new  wurks  at  the  fool  nf  Lacuna  Mreet.  ha«  ensured 
to  the  people  of  Sin  Francisco  ample  facilities  for  illuminating 
tbeir  homes  for  an  illimitable  time  to  come.  An  inspection  «»f 
the  new  works  fills  one  with  astonishment,  for  it  affords  a  view 
of  wonders  to  the  layman.  The  great  gas-bolder,  which  hat  a 
capacity  of  able  feel,  is  the  largest    west    of   Chicago; 

the  retort  bouse,  which  is  now  being  Bntahed  by  a  small  army  of 
workmen,  is  the  beM  that  scientific  ingenuity  can  sujigeM,  and 
all  the  other  buildings  are  conslrucied  in  the  best  manner 
known  to  builders  and  engineers.  The  buildings  now  complete 
and  in  use  are  the  generator  building  and  the  purifying  bouse, 
each  of  which  will  well  brar  comparison  in  their  completeness  of 
detail  with  those  of  any  of  the  great  works  of  the  world.  It  is 
noticeable  that  attention  has  been  given  as  well  to  the  interior 
finish  of  the  different  structures  as  to  the  fineness  of  the  ma- 
chinery placed  in  ihem.  The  properly  of  the  company  at  this 
point  embraces  the  district  bounded  by  Bay  and  Laguna  streets, 
a  line  running  north  and  south  206  feet  west  of  Buchanan,  and 
then  out  into  the  bay  to  the  State  line,  thus  injuring  wharfage 
for  the  largest  deep-water  vessel*.  One  of  the  company's  water 
blocks  has  been  filled  in.  Upon  this  toe  petroleum  tank  and  a 
portion  of  the  retort  house  are  located.  At  present  coal,  coke  and 
other  supplies  are  brongbt  by  light-draught  vessels  to  a  wharf 
owned  by  the  company.  An  office  82x52  feet  will  be  built  im- 
mediately upon  the  southeast  corner  of  Buchanan  and  North 
Point  streets.  While  the  extensive  works  of  the  company  at  the 
Potrer  .  are  ample  to  meet  any  demands  of  the  city,  the  directors 
of  the  cempany  fear  the  probabilities  of  a  conflagration  that 
might  destroy  those  works,  and  thereby  leave  the  city  in  dark- 
ness, if  no  other  plant  were  at  hand.  By  the  erection  of  the  new 
plant,  therefore,  such  a  contingency  is  well  guarded  against. 
The  company  also  desires  to  give  to  the  people  as  high  a  grade  of 
illuminating  gas  as  can  be  produced,  and  therefore  it  is  that,  in 
both  new  and  old  establishments,  everything  possible  has  been 
done  to  .-ecure  the  greatest  lighting  power  for  the  gas  produced. 
The  illuminant  now  being  produced  is  as  clear,  pure  and  power- 
ful as  any  in  the  country,  a  fact  which  should  be  thoroughly  ap- 
preciated by  consumers.  The  San  Franci>co  Gas  Light  Company 
endeavors  to  fully  provide  its  patrons  with  all  that  they  can  pos- 
sibly desire.  Its  directors,  all  of  whom  are  men  of  vast  experi- 
ence in  great  affairs,  see  to  it  that  all  complaints  that  may  be 
made  at  any  time  by  any  of  it*  patrons  are  promptly  attended  to, 
the  satisfaction  of  the  publ  c  being  the  end  they  earnestly  desire 
to  at'.ain.  An  inspection  of  the  new  works  will  well  repay  any 
one  of  an  investigating  turn  of  mind,  for  it  will  give  an  insight 
into  one  of  the  greatest  concerns  for  the  public  benefit  now  in  ex. 
istence  upon  the  Pacific  Coast. 

The  Original  Swain's  Baksry,  at  213  Sutter  street,  grows  more 
popular  daily.  Its  menus  are  always  so  very  good,  and  its  service  so 
superior  to  that  of  other  restaurants,  that  it  is  the  favorite  dining 
place  of  epicures.  If  you  wish  to  be  cenaiu  of  a  good  dinner,  do  not 
fail  to  visit  it. 


Colonel  Litchfield,  of  12  Post  street,  has  the  reputation  of  being 
one  of  the  best  tailors  in  San  Francisco  and  his  establishment  is  a 
favorite  among  men  who  dress  well.  He  makes  a  specialty  of  uni- 
forms and  regalias,  and  is  patronized  by  all  the  State's  and  nation's 
defenders  stationed  in  this  vicinity. 

You  have  not  lasted  all  the  satisfying  drinks  of  the  times  if  you 
are  not  acquainted  wuh  Peruvian  Biiters.  Nothing  equals  the  Bitters 
as  a  tonic.     They  are  unsurpassed. 

You  cannot  enjoy  the  pleasures  of  your  Christmas  dinner  if  your 
appetite  is  not  in  prime  condition.  Prepare  yourself  for  the  feast  by 
a  drink  of  Peruvian  Bitters,  the  famous  appetizer. 

Nowhere  else  can  beheautiful  such  found  Japanese  goods  as  those 
in  the  store  of  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.   under  the  Palace  Hotel. 

The  firmest  dessert  for  your  Christmas  dinner  is  a  Crosse  &  Black- 
well's  English  Plum  Pudding. 

Mothers  be  sure  and  use 
biidren  while  teething. 


'Mrs.  Wiusloivs'  Soothing  Syrup"  for  your 


HUMBOLDT  MINERAL  WATER, 


-FROM  THE- 


HUMBOLDT  ARTESIAN  MINERAL  SPRING 

IN  EUREKA,  CAL 


"  The  Specific  Gravity  is  scarcely  above  that  of  distilled  water.'* 
Henry  G.  Hanks,  Assayer:  "  We  claim  for  this  Water  to  be  the 
purest  in  California. 

J.   P.  MONROE, 

t'KtM  Kilt  ill  II. M  \G   >a  .  FranrlNCi).  JMS  lUEK. 


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rnt    BRCNTWOOO  ' 

O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED   1858. 

Carriage   Builders  and    Dealers, 

3i7  afoutfcotnery  Street,  Nevuda  Kiock.N.  v. 

Agency  for  Brewster  <&  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  A  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co,, 
Camden,  N.  J. ;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn. ;  Mil- 
lion Guiet &  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babcock  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y.;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New    Haven,   Conn. 


H    ROMAN  &.  CO., 

CLOTHIERS,  HATTERS  AND  FURNISHERS, 

1,000,  1,011,  1,013.  1015  Market  St.,  S.  F. 
HEADQUARTERS  FOR  $10    OVERCOATS. 
PURCHASE      YOUR      OVERLAND      TICKETS 

For   all    1*0(1118   East  at 

UNION  TICKET  OFFICE,   VANDERB1LT   LINES, 
10     iio\  I<-«mbi;k  v     STREET. 

Steamship  Tickets  to  aud  from  all  points  iu  Europe. 
CARLTON    C.   CRANE,         -         -         Pacific  Coast   Agent 

ALFRED  J.  KELLEHER, 

Professor  of  VOCAL  MUSIC  AT  MILLS'  COLLEGE  (19th  year),  desireb 
to  announce  that  he  will  give  Lebsous  at  his  office,  or  at  the  residence  of 
the  pupil. 

Office— 14  Grant  avenue,  rooms  62  and  63.     Residence— 2324  Clay  street 
San  Francisco. 
Utircia  Vocal  .llelliocl.    Solletclo  Paiiheion. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 


Authorized  Capital. 
Reserve 


,3,50u,0OU     |     Capita)  paid  up. 


2,450,000 
450,000 

San  Francisco  Office.  424  California  St.  I  London  Office 73  Lombard  St., E.  C 

Portland  Branch.  48  First  St     Tacoma  Branch.  1006  A  Street. 

Manager,   ARTHUR  bORlVEMJR    Aesii-tant   Mtuager,  WILLIAM   STEEL 

Cashier,    GUSTAV  FRIEDER1CH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  aud  Loudon  Joint  Stock  Bank, 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bauk  is  prepared  to  trausact  all  kiuds  of  Geueral  Bauking  and  Ex- 
change Business  in  London  aud  San  Francisco,  aud  between  said  cities  aud 
all  parts  of  the  world. 

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital 81,250.000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co..  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.    L  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  S.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Director**:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  *A'm.  P,  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  shepard,  James  K.  Wilson. 

Agent*:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &.  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjew  &  Co. 

THE  CRO  fir-  VOOLWGRIH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

t'orner  Mai-bet,  Montgomery  an, I  1*0*1  Streets. 

PAID-UP    UAPIIal   ti.uuu.000. 

OIHtClURU ; 
CHA8.  F.  CROCKER,  |  B.  H.  MILLER,  Je. 

R.  C.  WOOLWORTH President. 

W   E   BROWN Vice-President. 

WM.  H.  CROCKER Cashier 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital S800.000 

OFFICERS: 
President  .JEROME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary   .. .  .8.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President  W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney  SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Lordf  made  on  Real  Estale  and  other  api-roved  securities. 

office — *,"   f*'9a  Wnn'?'*-."  S'  eel.  San  Francisoc. 


B.  F.  News  Letter. 


HOMEWARD     BOUND. 

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Toilet  Waters. 

RICH  CUTGLASS 

Odor  J3oT-rL.ES, 

FANCY  CASE 

EXTRACTS, 
j3aj5ket  colognes' 

Foreign  — _ 

—  -Domestic. 


HOLIDAY    GOODS 

j\.  5.  q^ei^  <?o/r\p/i)W, 

215,^217,  219  BUSH  STREET,  S.  F. 

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GRANDMA'S      PET. 

From   the    Original    Painting    by    P.    Seaffai,    Florence.         In    the   S.    &    G.    Gump    Collectior 


Every  Woman  Loves  a  Baby, 

|      And  Her  China.     Give  her  a  Pretty  China  Closet  for  a 
Christmas  gift,  op  else  some  other  pretty  bit  of  furniture. 
^    She'll  like  it  much  better  than  anything  else. 

Send  for 

"j^nts   or?   tyome  purr^tyir^." 

CALIFORNIA     FURNITURE     CO. 

(N.  P.  C    LE  &  CO)        o 117-123  Geary  Street. 


OFFICE    DESKS, 

BANK  AND  SCHOOL 

FTTIRZCNriTTriEaiE 

Andrews  Upright  Cabinet 

Folding    Beds. 
Theatre  and  Church  Chairs. 

W.F.  WEBER  &  CO.,  I  *1M3££!"t 


T  VANITY  F, 

SATIN  STRAIGHT-CUT  CIGARETTES. 


Unsurpassed  in  quality:  used  by  people  of  refined  taste. 
1 6  First  Prize  Medals.    Our  Vanity  Fair  and  Varloui 
Smoking  Mixtures  are  the  finest  for  the  pipe. 
Wm.  S.  KIMBAIX  A  l», 

Rochester.  N.  T. 


SAN  FBANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Deo.  25,  1*12. 


SENATOR    STANFORD'S    LAND 
LOAN     BILL. 


m HE  issue  that  divides  the  political  forces  of  to-day  is  the 
money  question.  There  can  no  longer  be  any  doubt  on 
that  subject.  It  is  the  one  absorbing  element  in  ihe  ma- 
terial, if  not  even  moral,  welfare  of  the  people.  That  the 
people  are  alive  lo  this  fact  is  shown  by  the  recent  election, 
into  which  the  money  question  entered  fully  a*  much  as  did  tariff 
revision.  The  great  States  of  the  middle  West,  the  so-called 
granger  State?,  and  Colorado  and  Nevada,  all  left  their  old  political 
moorings  mainly  in  the  hope  that  the  new  party  might  bring  the 
people  relief  from  a  contracted  currency.  Those  who  were  not 
so  sanguine  deliberately  forsook  the  old  parties  and  voted  with 
the  new,  simply  to  serve  notice  on  the  old  parties  that  the  time 
for  action  on  this  question  bad  come.  The  whole  country  is  suf- 
fering from  an  abnormally  decreased  volume  of  money,  the  act  of 
the  bond-holders  and  money  loaners,  whereby  they  are  fraudu- 
lently appreciating  the  values  of  cheir  own  holdings,  increasing 
the  rate  of  intere-t  and  enslaving  the  people.  That  this  senti- 
ment and  this  feeling  is  not  singular  to  the  United  States  is  shown 
by  the  world-wide  interest  that  is  displayed  in  the  Brussels  Mone- 
tary Convention.  Even  the  great  house  of  Rothschild  was  com- 
pelled to  admit  that  the  ratio  in  monetary  values  had  to  be  re- 
established by  the  submission  to  the  Brussels  Convrntion  of  a 
paper  that  would  not  have  received  a  moment's  consideration 
had  it  come  from  a  less  important  source.  The  importance  was 
not  attached  to  what  this  greatest  of  banking  houses  might  have 
to  say,  but  to  the  fact  that  it  recognized  the  signs  of  the  times. 
It  matters  little  to  us  in  the  United  States  what  the  financial 
policy  of  other  nations  may  be.  We  have  acted  independently  of 
the  rest  of  the  world  before,  and  we  can  unquestionably  do  so  again. 
That  we  can  do  so  was  shown  by  the  fact  that  we  maintained 
the  normal  parity  between  silver  and  gold,  despite  the  action  of  the 
Latin  Union,  until  the  fraudulent  and  surreptitious  demonetization 
of  silver  in  1873.  This  being  the  case,  we  have  little  interest  in  the 
outcome  of  the  Brussels  Convention,  from  which  no  one  ever  had 
much  hope.  The  question  that  confronts  the  people  of  the  United 
States  is,  what  action  shall  we  take  to  increase  the  circulating 
medium  of  the  country  to  the  limit  of  its  highest  development  and 
prosperity?  The  evils  of  a  contracted  currency  are  well  known,  and 
they  are  appreciated  by  all  but  those  who  directly  or  indirectly  profit 
by  them.  Even  in  the  earliest  days  of  the  country  this  was  under- 
stood. Alexander  Hamilton  made  one  of  his  most  famous  speeches 
in  comparing  "  the  benefits  of  a  full,  with  the  evils  of  a  scanty,  circu- 
lation." That  relief  lies  in  the  direction  of  silver,  the  News  Letter 
does  not  believe.  A  radical  departure  from  the  present  financial  sys- 
tem is  necessary.  There  does  not  appear  to  be  anything  more  com- 
prehensive, safe  and  practical  than  the  plan  that  has  been  urged  for 
some  years  by  Senator  Stanford— government  loans  on  real  estate. 
There  has  been  a  disposition  in  some  quarters  to  ridicule  this  measure 
as  absurd,  but  the  merits  of  the  measure  have  never  been  met  with 
fair  arguments.  No  new  departure  in  any  system  has  ever  been 
made  that  ridicule  did  not  play  the  chief  part,  but  the  truth  will 
finally  prevail,  as  surely  as  Galileo  established  his  theory.  The  great 
difficulty  that  Senator  Stanford's  bill  has  encountered  is  that  finan- 
ciers say,  "  that  is  not  money."  They  inculcate  the  idea,  which  they 
know  is  false,  that  money  must  have  an  intrinsic  value,  that  it  must 
be  redeemable  in  something  substantial,  as  silver  or  gold.  They  pre- 
tend that  the  value  of  money  ought  to  be  in  the  material  of  which  it 
is  composed,  and  that  all  other  money  is  fiat  money.  That  this  as- 
sumption is  false,  and  that  the  value  oE  money  is  in  the  stamp  of  the 
government  issuing  it,  and  not  in  trfe  fact  that  it  has  been  stamped, 
and  that  notes  issued  by  the  government  upon  the  real  estate  of  the 
country  carry  the  best  intrinsic  basis  possible  to  be  obtained,  will  be 
the  object  of  a  series  of  articles  that  will  appear  in  the  News  Letter 
from  time  to  time.  The  fact  is  that  no  newspaper  of  any  circulation 
on  this  coast  has  ever  taken  up  Senator  Stanford's  ideas  as  expressed 
in  his  land  loan  bill,  and  presented  them  fairly  and  impartially. 
This  will  be  the  purpose  of  this  series.  It  will  be  demonstrated  that 
the  loaning  of  money  on  the  real  estate  of  the  country — the  one  true 
foundation  of  wealth  and  stability  and  prosperity — need  not  incite 
any  alarm.  Also,  that  it  is  not  a  new  idea  nor  a  strange  thing.  "The 
legal  tender  stamp  determines  the  value,"  declared  Senator  Stanford, 
and  no  sane  man  doubts  the  wisdom  of  the  epigram.  Indeed,  it 
leaves  nothing  to  argue  upon.  The  questions  involved  in  the  land 
loan  bill,  and  the  objections  that  have  been  raised  against  it.  will  be 
taken  up  in  logical  order,  and  we  hope  to  establish,  not  only  the  de- 
sirability of  the  enactment  of  the  bill  into  a  law,  but  the  feasibility  of 
putting  it  into  practical  operation,  to  the  relief  and  the  immense 
benefit  of  the  whole  people. 


Japanese  lunch  baskets,  with  three  pounds  broken  candy,  50  cents; 
choice  cream  mixed,  50  cents  per  pound;  one  pound  glace  fruits,  50 
cents.    Townsend's,  527  Market  street,  Palace  Hotel. 


ENTIR.fc.LY    SATISFACTORY. 

W.  J.  Arkell,  publisher  of  Judge  ami  Frank  Leslie's  Illustrated 
Newspaper,  writes: 

"  Judge  Building,  Cor.  Fifth  Ave.  and  Sixteenth  St.. 
New  York,  January  14,1891. 

"  About  three  weeks  since,  while  suffering  from  a  severe  cold 
which  settled  on  my  chest,  I  applied  an  Allcock's  Porous  Plaster, 
and  in  a  short  time  obtained  relief. 

"  In  my  opinion,  these  plasters  should  be  in  every  household,  for 
use  in  case  of  coughs,  colds,  sprains,  bruises,  or  pains  of  any  kind.  I 
know  that  in  my  case  the  results  have  been  entirely  satisfactory  and 
beneficial." 

Latest  discovery  and  craze  in  Paris. — Gray  hair  restored  to  all 
shades;  perfectly  harmless.  Face  cream,  powder  and  lotion  in- 
dorsed by  Dr.  Dennis  of  this  city;  also  the  emporium  for  Parisian 
novelties  and  manufacture  of  natural  curly  front  pieces,  from  $1  up. 
Great  reduction  in  prices  and  prompt  attention,  at  Sirozynski's,  cor- 
ner of  Ellis  and  Leavenworth  streets. 


Professor  Charles  Geoffrie.  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California, as  proved  by  bis  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses Blair,  Joran,  Wright.  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A' long  list 
of  pupils' for  reference  at  his   residence,   1430  Webster  street,  near 


Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  is  the  best  remedy  known  for  the  allevia- 
tion of  the  distress  caused  by  asthma  and  for  the  cure  of  poison  oak. 
It  may  be  purchased  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  G35  Market  street.  Its 
curative  powers  are  exactly  as  they  are  represented,  for  which  rea- 
son it  is  generally  used. 


When  in  doubt  as  to  what  you  should  drink,  because  your  stom- 
ach is  not  in  its  best  condition,  the  thing  you  want  to  do  is  to  order 
Peruvian  Bitters.    The  drink  is  unequaled. 


False  Economy 

Is  practiced,  by  people  who  buy  inferior  articles  of  food  because 
cheaper  than  standard  goods.  Infants  are  entitled  to  the  best  food 
obtainable.  It  is  a  fact  that  the  Gail  Borden  "  Eagle"  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk  is  the  best  food.    Your  grocer  and  druggist  have  it. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission, 
office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 

Peruvian  Bitters  are  unexcelled  as  a  tonic  aud  appetizer.  No 
other  drink  in  the  market  equals  them  for  these  special  purposes. 
"Whenever  in  doubt  as  to  your  drink  order  Peruvian  Bitters. 


Suitable  Holiday  Presents,  from  50  cents  upwards,  at  Nathan, 
Dohrmann  &  Co's,  122-132  Sutter  St.,  below  Kearny  st. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO.  MEW  YORPC 

VINEYARD  FR  PRIITOR)  AND  SHIPPERS 

OF 

CALIFORNIA  WINES  I  BRANDIES, 

BACCHUS     WINE     VAULTS. 

438  &  442   Bryant  St.,  S.   F. 

RHINEFARM, 

SONOMA     COUNTY. 


OFFICES: 
Corner.Market  and  Second,  S.  F.  62  Warren  St.,  New  York. 


Dec.  26    !■*  >: 


SAN   I  i:w<  [SCO  NEWS  LKTT1  R 


THE  PACIFIC  MUTUAL  LIFE 

THAT  ma*nifWnt  building  at  the  norlhMat  coratr  "f  Sim- 
mrnlo  and  Montgomery  UrMlt*  whleta   i*   DOW   ftbOQl    DOm- 
plcted.  i*  a  blodMOM  mnntiinent  by   which  i«  worked   thfl  (treat 
i  that  has  ■"■  J  the  Pacific  Mutual   Ufa  In- 

turancc  of  California,  daring  a  quarter  <>f  a  oontury  of 

The  company  will  remove  into  the  new  building 
early  in  ihe  new  year.     It  la  wuh  Ero.it  satisfaction  lhal  wo  •■ 

f  this  institution .  for opon  the  continued  prosperity  «>f 
the  differenl  euterprisea  *>f  the  Si  »t«*  depend  oar  commercial  n\ 

■■  »wth  in  a  community  of  ■  life  insorance  company  means 
more  than  one  might  suppose  al  B ret  ej  id*  ft.  I  •  la  ■  r»  ognlie  i  fad 
that  those  coinmanlties  in  which  life  insurance  is  coi  ad   mosl 

favorably  are  composed  of  Industrious  people  of  comfortable  means. 
Life  insurance  U  a  fund  by  which  the  savings  of  a  lifetime  are  fully 
secured  for  the  benefit  of  family  or  relations.  The  Pacific  Mutual 
offers  unusual  advantages  to  intending  policy  holders.  In  the  first 
place,  its  anqaestioned  reliability  is  shown  !>>•  the  fact  thai  since 
■  lias  paid  allies  losses  to  the  amount  of  $6,000,000.  Its  direct- 
ors are  men  of  high  standing  in  the  financial  world,  whose  name'? 
alone  are  as  good  as  a  view  of  money.  The  new  perfected  life  and 
endowment  policies  of  the  company  are  concise,  liberal  and  profit- 
able; protection  and  investment  are  ombined  in  the  divided  invest- 
ment plan;  the  mutual  investment  contract  shows  annual  values  of 
plain  endorsements.  This  company  provides  for  the  payment  of  a 
p  rticy  immediately  after  the  death  of  the  holder,  and  its  policies  are 
absolutely  secure.  All  profits  go  to  its  policy  holders,  none  to  the 
stockholders;  the  Latter  tx:in?  limited  to  the  interest  earned  ny  the 
money  paid  in  by  them.  The  company's  investments  earn  the 
highest  rate  of  interest  of  any  company  in  the  world.  A  very  satis- 
fying fact  to  policy  holders  is  the  fact  that  all  policies  are  exempt 
from  execution  and  the  claims  of  creditors.  After  two  years  any  in- 
correct statement  in  an  application  for  insurance  in  the  company  is 
rendered  passive,  making  the  policy  contract  absolutely  incontest- 
able for  any  cause,  excepting  fraud.  After  two  years  also  one  may 
change  his  occupation  without  permit  from  the  company,  and  with- 
out the  payment  of  additional  premium.  The  Pacific  Mutual  also 
issues  policies  covering  the  risk  of  accidental  injury  and  death,  and 
its  Accident  Department  is  becoming  more  and  more  important  as 
it  gains  age. 


THE    STRATHMORE. 


ONE  of  the  recent  additions  to  the  commodious  dwelling  houses 
of  the  city  is  the  Strathmore  Apartment  Honse,  at  the  corner 
of  Larkin  and  Fulton  streets.  The  apartment  house  is  a  new  idea  in 
San  Francisco,  though  houses  erected  on  this  plan  have  for  a  long 
time  been  popular  features  in  the  structures  of  other  cities.  The 
building  occupies  the  entire  large  lot,  has  streets  on  three  sides,  and 
is  very  substantially  built  of  stone,  with  cement  and  brick  trimmings. 
Its  central  location  makes  it  easily  accessible  from  all  lines  ot  street 
cars,  as  it  is  directly  opposite  the  New  City  Hal1.  The  general  idea 
of  the  apartment  house  is  to  afford  to  each  tenant  complete  privacy 
within  his  own  walls,  as  every  suite  includes  everything  necessary 
for  the  accommodation  of  a  household.  The  private  halls  of  the 
apartments  open  directly  on  tbe  main  hall,  which  extends  through 
the  center  of  the  building,  and  is  well  furnished  and  lighted.  All  the 
rooms  are  very  conveniently  arranged,  and  all  open  from  the  private 
halls.  The  living  rooms  front  on  streets,  while  the  kitchens,  bath- 
rooms and  servants' rooms  are  well  lighted  from  large  light  shafts. 
Thus  all  the  apartments  are  well  ventilated,  and  enjoy  a  delightful 
warmth  arising  from  the  entrance  of  the  ever-welcome  sunbeams. 
The  furnishings  of  the  house  are  well  in  accord  with  the  general  de- 
sign, the  comiort  of  the  guests  having  been  tbe  object  to  which  main 
attention  has  been  paid.  The  principal  rooms  are  beautifully  decor- 
ated in  water  colors,  while  oil  paintings  embellish  the  halls.  All  the 
apartments  are  finished  in  natural  redwood,  and  are  also  supplied 
with  neat  mantels,  grate  and  tiling.  Each  tenant  has  the  usage  of  a 
large  storeroom  in  the  basement.  These  storerooms  open  directly  on 
the  open  driveway,  so  that  stores  may  be  driven  directly  to  their  doors. 
An  elevator  is  run  for  the  convenience  of  occupants,  which,  with  the 
main  halls  and  stairways,  are  in  charge  of  a  janitor,  whose  duty  it  is 
to  maintain  everything  in  first-class  condition.  Although  the  con- 
struction of  the  building  makes  it  fireproof,  additional  precautions 
against  fire  have  been  taken  by  the  placing  on  every  floor  in  the  main 
hall  of  a  set  of  hose  reels,  which  are  connected  directly  with  tbe 
water  supply.  The  house  is  furnished  throughout  with  the  latest 
appliances  in  the  way  of  electric  bells,  speaking  tubes,  dumb-waiters, 
etc.,  and  is  in  every  respect  a  most  comfortable  establishment. 

"Where  else  can  be  found  a  better  collection  of  holiday  goods  than 
at  the  popular  store  of  Goldstein  &  Cohn,  in  the  Phelan  Building? 
Those  who  purpose  participating  in  amateur  theatricals  during  the 
Christmas-tide,  should  not  fail  to  secure  their  wigs  and  other  proper- 
ties from  Goldstein  &  Cohn.  This  house  has  enjoyed  a  large  trade 
in  this  line  for  years. 

Crosse  &  Blackwell's  Jams,  in  1  lb.  glass  jars,  still  take  the  lead. 
These  goods  are  guaranteed  to  be  made  from  selected  fresh  fruits 
and  pure  refined  sugar  only. 


fJRPRICE'S 

QtffcSEf 

The  only  Pure  Cream  of  tartar   Powder.—  No  ammonia;   No  Alum 
TIseil    in    Millions   of  Homes — 10  ypRffiJ  the    Ptandard 


IT  is  truly  stud  mat  a  man's  condition  in  life  la  often  dt-te'iuined 
by  the  appearancM  .,f  his  foot' wear  U**nilemen  who  bops  to 
be  considered  well  attired  should  bear  this  Fact  in  mind  when  pur 
chasing  shoes,  and  patronise  P.  P.  McNulty,  ul  222  Post  street,  Mr. 
McNulty's  reputation  as  a  maker  of  fine  shoes  is  excellent,  Hia  name 
tfi  a^  well  known  in  London,  P. iris  and  New  York  as  it  is  in  this  city, 
for  he  has  a  world-wide  reputation.  X  lOTistS  coming  from  those 
cities  always  avail  themselves  of  the  opportunities  presented  at  his 
local  store,  by  replenishing  their  stork  of  shoes  and  boots.  He  has 
received  eulogistic  letters  from  all  parts  ot  the  world,  from  gentle- 
men who  have  bad  the  pleasure  of  walking  in  all  countries  in  his 
famous  shoes.  McNulty  keeps  all  the  lasts  on  which  he  makes  his 
costoniers1  shoes,  so  that  all  one  has  to  do  when  ordering  a  new  pair 
is  to  send  his  name,  and  style  desired,  to  his  address,  and  the  thing 
is  done. 

HJ.  SUMMERHAYES,  who  has  been  connected  with  the  firm 
.  of  Adams  &  Carter  for  many  years  past,  is  now  the  suc- 
scesor  to  that  well  known  firm,  and  is  sole  agent  for  the  famous 
Frue  Ore  Concentrator.  The  reputation  of  this  concentrator 
among  mining  men  is  too  well  known  to  need  a  eulogy  at  our 
hands.  Over  thirty-five  hundred  are  in  actual  use,  and  in  every 
case  have  given  perfect  satisfaction.  Mr.  Summerhayes  is  always 
ready  to  supply  any  desired  information  regarding  this  concen- 
trator by  addressing  him  at  his  office  132  Market  street. 


Peruvian  Bitters  have  no  equal  in  the  market  as  a  delightful,  sat- 
isfying drink,  which  acts  at  once  as  a  thirst  destroyer  and  an  unriv- 
aled tonic.     Always  ask  for  these,  and  no  other  bitters. 


For  Bronchial,  Asthmatic  and  Pulmonary  Complaints,  "Brawn's 
Bronchial  Troches"  have  remarkable  curative  properties.  Sold  only  in 
boxes. 

Candies  put  up  in  tin  boxes  fur  shipment  by  mail  or  express,  di- 
rect  from  the  store,  at  Roberts',  Polk  and  Bush  streets. 

HOLIDAY  GOODS. 

Special  and  Exclusive  Novelties    in 

SiK.s,  Fancy  Dress  Goods, 
Jackets,  C  loaks,  Gloves,  Laces,  Fans, 
Parasols,  Neckwear,  Hosiery,  Initial  Handker- 
chiefs, Purses,  Boston  Bags, 
Children's  Coats,  etc. 

Exceedingly  Cou/  pri<^5. 

jyAn  early  inspection  is  cordially  invited. 
J3f"  Samples  sent  free.  Mail  orders  promptly  executed. 
Goods  delivered  free  in  Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley,  San 
Rafael,  Tiburon,  Sausalito,  San  Quentin,  Mill  Valley,  Ross 
Station  and  Blithedale. 


MARKET,  JONES  AND  MCALLISTER  STS. 


PALACE     HOTEL. 


The  Palace  Hotel  occupies  an  entire  block  in  the  center  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. It  is  the  model  hotel  of  the  world.  Fire  and  earthquake  proof 
Has  nine  elevators.  Every  room  is  large,  light  and  airy.  The  ventilation 
is  perfect.  A  bath  and  closet  adjoin  every  room.  All  rooms  are  easj 
of  access  from  broad,  light  corridors.  The  central  court,  illuminated  bj 
electric  light,  its  immense  glass  roof,  broad  balconies,  carriage-way  and 
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Dec.  25,  1892. 


CITY    REAL   ESTATE. 


Mr.  A.  S.  Baldwin. 


a  HE  three  most  noteworthy  events  of  the  year  1892  are  the 
completion  of  the  Mills,  Crocker  and  Donohoe  buildings. 
With  their  commencement  a  new  era  of  architectural  de- 
sign and  construction  began,  and  San  Francisco  may  be 
said  to  have  been  with  their  birth  launched  forth  into  the  sea 
of  modern  building  ideas.  Following  in  their  wake  are  the  smaller  but 
not  less  pretentious  building*  of  Mrs.  Annie  Donahue,  the  Pacific  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Company  and  the  New  York  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company.  The  first  three  buildings— the  largestin  the  West-  fin- 
ished within  a  few  months  of  each  other,  are  worthy  of  more  than  a 
passing  notice.  I  have  concluded  to  consider  them  from  two  stand- 
points: first,  in  the  light  of  investments;  and  second,  their  effect 
upon  other  property.  As  investments.it  will  be  necessary  to  dis- 
cuss them  individually.  The  other  points  may  be  covered  by  con- 
sidering them  collectively. 

The  Mills  Building,  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Bush  and  Mont- 
gomery streets,  stands  upon  a  lot  which  has  a  frontage  of  162J4  feet 
on  Montgomery  street  and  137^  feet  on  Bush  street..  Mr.  Mills  orig- 
inally owned  only  137>£  _„-  " — ■■ 
feet  square,  but  increased 
his  frontage  by  the  pur- 
chase of  a  lot  25xfi7J^  feet 
additional,  in  1890.  This 
gave  him  about  20  500 
square  feet  area.  Allow- 
ing for  the  court,  which 
is  50x56  feet,  hallways, 
etc.,  the  ten  floors  have 
a  renting  area  of  over  100, 
000  square  feet.  There 
are  384  offices  and  eight 
outside  stores,  besides 
two  having  a  frontage  on 
the  court  only.  With  the 
building  in  a  yet  uncom- 
pleted state,  nearly  sev- 
enty per  cent,  of  the  offi- 
ces have  been  rented  and 
occupied,  and  the  stores 
may  practically  be  said 
to  be  taken  as  soon  as 
the  workmen  shall  have 
made  way  forthe  tenants. 

The  gross  annual  rentals  from  this  property  when  fully  occupied  will 
amount  to  about  $220,000.  The  tenants  are  turnished  heat,  light  and 
janitor  service  without  additional  charge.  This  requires  a  force  of 
nearly  forty  men.  The  annual  expenses  are  perhaps  $45,000.  Add 
to  this  taxes  estimated  at  about  $10,000,  and  $25,000  more  for  vacan- 
cies, making  in  all  a  deduction  of  something  in  the  neighborhood  of 
$80,000  from  the  gross  estimate,  and  the  net  receipts  will  amount  to 
about  $140,000.  As  Mr.  Mills  has  owned  the  land,  with  the  exception  of 
the  twenty-five  foot  lot.  for  a  number  of  years,  the  amount  of  bis  invest- 
ment can  only  be  arrived  at  by  estimating  the  value  of  the  land  and 
the  reported  cost  of  the  building.  I  should  call  the  lot  worth  $500,- 
000.  The  building  is  represented  to  me  to  have  cost  $1,800,000.  mak- 
ing in  all  an  investment  representing  $2,300,000,  upon  which  the  net 
income  is  about  six  per  cent,  per  annum. 

The  Crocker  Building  will  not  make  so  favorable  a  showing.  This 
is  due  to  the  fact  ibat  the  lot,  although  containing  only  about  12. CC0 
square  feet,  is  worth  mo^e  than  that  upon  which  the  Mills 
Building  stands,  while  the  rents,  with  fhe  exception  of  the  ground 
floor,  are  no  higher.  The  lot.  which  is  a  gore,  has  a  frontage  of  158 
feet  on  Market  street  and  174  on  Post  street.  [The  owners  have 
regarded  the  building  more  as  a  monument  to  their  father,  the  late 
Charles  Crocker,  than  as  an  interest  paying  investment,  and  the 
architect  was  instructed  to  spare  no  expense  in  its  construction.  It 
is  probably  one  of  the  most  expensively  built  structures  per  cubic 
foot  in  the  United  States,  and  at  the  same  time  one  of  the  most  sub- 
stantial and  superb.  The  marble  work  alone  cost  over  $350  000,  and 
the  cost  of  the  entire  building  was  approximately  $1.250  000.  The 
lot  was  purchased  in  December,  1889,  at  a  cost  of  $600,000,  The 
building  contains  240  t  ffices.  The  street  floor  which  has  a  renting 
area  of  about  7000  square  feet,  is  apportioned  off  to  give  Sbreve  & 
Co.  about  5000  square  feet,  and  the  Crocker- Woolworth  Bank  about 
2000  square  feet.  These  are  the  only  tenants  on  this  floor,  except 
the  branch  post-office  station,  which  has  the  small  office  on  Post 
street,  containing  about  1C0  square  feet.  The  State  Board  of  Trade 
occupies  the  basement,  with  an  area  of  about  5000  square  feet.  I  am 
informed  that  190  of  the  offices  are  occupied  and  that  the  building  is 
rapidly  filling  up.  The  gross  annual  income  from  the  building  as  it 
stands  to-day  is,  I  judge,  not  less  than  $125,000,  with  operating 
expenses  and  taxes  against  it  of  perhaps  $-J0,000.  This  would  give  a 
net  annual  interest  on  the  investment  of  about  4%  per  cent.  Both 
the  Mills  and  Crocker  buildings  are  fire-proof  and  carry  no  insurance. 
"  The  Donohoe  Building,  at  the  intersection  "of  Market  and" Taylor 
streets  and  Golden  Gate  avenue,  although  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
city  is  dwarfed  by  comparison  with   the  Mills   Building.      It  has  a 


frontage  on  Taylor  street  of  187^  feet  and  an  average  depth  of  about 
€0  feet,  being  irregular  in  shape.  The  frontage  on  Market  street  is 
52  feet,  and  on  Golden  Gate  avenue,  29  feet.  In  the  number  of 
square  feet  it  is  about  1000  feet  short  of  the  area  covered  by  the 
Crocker  Building,  being  approximately  11.000  square  feet.  One  firm 
occupies  the  lower  floor  and  basement.  The  five  floors  above  are 
divided  into  126  effieep,  all  of  wbith  are  icnled  except  eight  or  ten. 
The  annual  income  from  the  building  as  it  stands  is  about  $40  000( 
and  the  expenses  are  about  $8000.  Tenants  are  not  furnished  light, 
fuel  or  janitor  service  as  is  the  case  in  the  Mills  and  Crocker  build- 
ings, these  items  being  extra,  but  they  are  liberally  allowed  for  in 
calculating  the  rents,  which  are  very  low  in  this  building.  Mr- 
Donohoe  realizes  that  it  is  better  to  have  geed  tenants  at  low  rents 
than  vacant  offices,  and  his  policy  is  a  wise  one.  Ttxes  constitute 
the  principal  item  of  expense  on  this  building.  They  are  about 
$5000  per  annum.  The  other  $3000  which  goes  to  make  up  the  $£000 
of  expenses  will  cover  insurance  and  incidental  expenses.  The  cost 
of  the  building  was  about  $3C0, CC0.  The  lot  was  purchased  in  1888 
at  a  cost  of  $325,000,  so,  upon  the  total  investment,  Mr.  Donohoe  is 
receiving  something  over  5  per  cent.  net. 

For  dull  days  these  properties  make  an  excellent  showing.  They 
are  worthy  monuments  in  the  city's  progress,  and  are  a  pride  and 
source  of  pleasure  to  our  people,  who  can  congratulate  themselves 
that  at  last  we  have  something  worthy  of  our  city  to  show  strangers. 
This  pleasure,  though,  is  not  unalloyed.  Since  the  construction  of 
these  buildings,  particularly  the  Mills  and  Crocker  buildings, 
tenants  have  been  deserting  the  older  edifices  like  rats  a 
sinking  ship.  "To  Let"  signs  are  conspicuous  in  every  office 
building  on  Montgomery  and  Sansome  streets,  and  it  is  perhaps  not  an 
excessive  estimate  to  say  that  there  are  two  hundred  vacant  offices  on 
these  streets.  This  means  that  office  buildings  without  fast  elevator 
service  and  a  general  reconstruction  must  either  remain  vacant  or 
the  owners  must  content  themselves  with  4  per  cent,  incomes.  Rents 
must  be  reduced  to  meet  the  views  of  those  who  can  not  afford  the 
luxury  of  an  office  in  a  modern  building.  Property -owners  are  loth 
to  do  this.  In  fact,  San  Francisco  property-owners  seem  to  be  pro- 
verbial tor  their  independence.  They  sell  only  when  they  get  their 
price,  and  accept  a  tenant  only  on  their  own  terms.  They  seem  to 
have  an  abiding  faith  in  the  ability  of  the  city  to  work  out  its  own 
salvation,  and  are  disposed  to  trust  in  Provideuce,  luck  and  the  real 
estate  agent  to  fill  up  their  vacant  buildings. 

The  condition  of  the  realty  market  is  not  altogether  satisfactory. 
I  find  that  I  have  been  saying  pretty  much  the  same  thing  in  all  my 
annual  communications  to  you,  of  which  this  is  the  fourth,  and  lean 
assure  you  1  say  it  with  deep  regret.  The  past  year  has  not 
strengthened  the  market  in  any  manner.  On  the  contrary,  there  has 
been  a  drop  in  values  almost  everywhere.  Retail  business  property 
may  be  said  to  be  an  exception.  It  has  held  its  own.  Property  in 
the  district  east  of  Sansome  street  is  not  in  favor  at  prices  of  a  year 
ago,  unless  well  leased.  It  is,  generally  speaking,  in  strong  hands, 
though,  and  thern  is  little  of  it  on  the  market.  There  is  little  sale  for 
anything  south  of  Market  street.  Values  on  Mission,  Howard  and 
Folsom  streets  have  receded  considerably,  although  they  seem  to  be 
fairly  well  sustained  on  the  cross  streets.  Third,  Fourth,  Fifth  and 
Sixth.  What  is  needed  most  for  that  section  of  the  city  at  present, 
is  a  good  conflagration  and  better  street-car  service  on  the  north  and 
south  streets  referred  to.  The  line  on  Sixth  street  will  shortly  be 
changed  to  an  electric  road,  which  is  to  extend  over  the  Potrero  dis- 
trict and  eventually  along  Kentucky  street  and  Railroad  avenue  to 
South  San  Francisco.  Values  on  the  Potrero  should  be  greatly  en- 
hanced by  this  road.  I  think  the  construction  of  the  Railroad  Com- 
pany's works  and  yards  in  Mission  Bay  will  have  a  tendency  to 
create  a  demand  for  Potrero  lots.  By  comparison  with  other  parts 
of  the  city,  prices  appear  very  low  there  to-day,  and  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  it  may  be  called  the  home  of  the  worbingman,  land  so 
close  to  the  business  center  ought  to  be  worth  more  than  from  $15  to 
$30  a  foot  for  homesteads. 

Residence  property  in  the  Western  Addition  and  in  the  Mission  has 
been  difficult  to  sell.  The  requirements  of  our  population  seem  to 
have  been  fully  met  in  this  respect,  and  the  large  amount  of  this  class 
of  property  on  the  market  will  remain  in  the  hands  of  the  present 
.owners,  unless  material  reductions  are  made  all  along  the  line.  The 
same  thing  may  be  said  of  both  improved  and  unimproved  residence 
properties.  Exceptions  are,  of  course,  found  where  the  property  has 
something  especial  to  recommend  it,  either  in  the  way  of  view  or 
neighborhood.  Some  little  demand  prevails  for  lots  in  the  Richmond 
District,  and  also  in  that  section  south  of  the  Park  as  far  as  J  street 
and  out  to  Twelfth  avenue.  Sales  are  made,  though,  only  where  in- 
ducements are  offered  in  the  shape  of  liberal  terms  and  low  prices,  or 
both.  Lots  in  the  remoter  districts  of  the  city  are  not  salable  at 
any  price. 

1  close  this  brief  and  somewhat  unsatisfactory  review  of  the  situa- 
tion with  every  confidence  in  San  Francisco  realty  as  an  investment. 


Dec  .  25,  1892  . 


BAN  1  i:\\.  l-t  o  \r\\>   l.i  III  R 


'There  goes   the   boys  what  stole  your  apples.  Mister.' 


PALATINE    INSURANCE    COMPANY     (LIMITED), 


OF    MASCHESTER,    ENGLAND. 


THE  Finance  Chronicle  and  Insurance  Circular,  of  London,  in  a 
very  recent  issue,  makes  the  following  reference  to  this  ster- 
ling fire  insurance  company,  viz. :  "Under  the  able  and  intelligent 
management  of  Mr.  Lane,  the  Palatine  (formerly  the  Mutual)  Fire 
Insurance  Company  promises  to  become  a  big  thing  and  an  excellent 
property.  The  Palatine  has  hitherto  conducted  its  American  busi- 
ness in  the  name  of  the  United  Fire  Re-Insurance  Company,  but  now 
the  two  companies  are  being  consolidated,  and  the  entire  business 
will  in  future  be  embraced  and  conducted  by  the  Palatine.  It  is 
stated  bv  the  American  papers  that  the  Palatine  has  made  the  neces- 
sary deposit  of  £40,000  at  Albany,  New  York,  and  certificates  are  be- 
ing obtained  entitling  Directors  to  do  business  in  the  United  States 
and  Canada.  The  organization  ot  the  United  will  so  far  be  utilized, 
the  management  meantime  falling  into  the  hands  of  five  managers, 
located  in  various  sections.  They  are  Mr.  William  Wood,  of  New 
York,  manager  for  the  Eastern  and  Middle  States;  Mr.  George  M, 
Fisher,  of  Chicago,  manager  of  the  "  Western  Union  "  territory;  Mr. 
L.  M.  Finley,  of  New  Orleans,  manager  for  the  entire  South;  Mr. 
Charles  A.  Laton,  manager  for  the  Pacific  Coast  Department;  and 
Mr.  P.  H.  Hudson,  of  Montreal,  manager  of  the  Canadian  branch." 
The  consolidation  of  the  Palatine  and  the  United  Fire  (together 
with  the  recent  taking  over  of  the  assets  and  business  of  the  City  of 
London  Fire  Insurance  Company,  Limited)  has  created  one  of  the 
strongest  fire  insurance  companies  now  before  the  insuring  public, 
with  resources  of  over  seven  millions  of  dollars! 

The  tendency  has  been  of  late  among  people  of  means  to  send 
their  children  to  private  schools  to  there  acquire  such  an  education 
as  the  public  schools  are  unable  to  impart.  One  of  the  private  in- 
stitutions in  this  city  which  has  come  into  great  favor  on  account  of 
the  excellent  educational  work  done  by  its  instructors  is  the  European 
Select  School  of  Miss  Jeanne  Bolte.  It  is  located  fh  a  very  comfort- 
able building  on  the  north  side  of  Jackson  street,  near  Buchanan. 
Miss  Bolte,  who  is  in  change,  is  a  lady  of  great  experience  in  educa- 
tional works.  She  was,  for  years,  an  instructor  in  some  of  the  best 
schools  of  Europe,  and  was  also  an  instructor  in  French  and  German 
in  one  of  the  leading  schools  of  this  city.  With  children,  the  kinder- 
garten system  of  instruction  is  followed  by  her  and  her  assistants.  As 
soon  as  the  child  is  able  to  fully  comprehend  books  and  their  uses, 
they  are  given  the  prints,  and  their  education  is  then  carefully  fol- 
lowed through  all  intermediary  stages  until  they  are  fitted  for  college. 
The  English  course  is  in  charge  of  Miss  Morrell;  Miss  Zimmerman  is 
the  instructor  in  German.  Miss  Brissler,  who  was  for  eleven  years 
pupil  and  teacher  in  Berlin  under  Mme.  Froebel,  widow  of  the  great 
educator,  has  charge  of  the  kindergarten.  Miss  Kenfro  gives  in- 
struction in  vocal  music,  Miss  Ada  Clark  in  dancing,  and  Miss  Bolte 
personally  looks  after  the  nhildrens'  department. 

The  recently  developed  demand  among  the  people  for  fine  illus- 
trations in  periodical  publications  of  the  first-class,  has  caused  the 
great  improvement  in  the  art  of  engraving,  whose  results  are  shown 
upon  the  pages  of  the  News  Letter  and  other  similar  publications. 
Of  all  the  papers  of  this  city,  the  News  Letter  has  catered  most  to 
the  artistic  tastes  of  the  people,  by  the  isf-uance  of  handsome  supple- 
ments,half-tone  engravings,  pen-line  drawings,  and  other  specimens 
of  fine  work.  This  number  is  illustrated  with  numerous  evidences  of 
artistic  ability.  All  these  illustrations  are  from  the  establishment  of 
Bolton  &  Strong,  the  engravers,  of  430  Pine  street.  This  firm  does 
the  best  work  in  the  city  in  the  way  of  fine  half-tone  and  line  engrav- 
ings.   Their  work  is  always  reliable  and  satisfactory. 


IMPORTERS 
of  FOREIGN 
and  DOMESTIC 
DRY  GOODS. 

l^EYJ*IErV5    GIPI/ES. 

fo?tn&V> 


III  to  121  POST  STREET, 
San  Francisco. 


Retail. 


One  of  the 
Causes  of  Hard  Times. 


The  People  of  the  State  of  California 
paid  $3,510,427.00  premiums  during  the 
year  1891  to  Eastern  Life  Insurance  Com- 
panies. Losses  and  Endowments  paid  by 
those  companies  during  the  same  year 
were  $1,476,282.00.  The  net  loss  to  the 
State  of  California  in  circulating  medium 
was  therefore  $2,034,145.00,  or  about 
FOUR  TONS  of  Twenty-Dollar  Gold 
pieces. 

How  much  better  off  would  our  popula- 
tion be  if  they  carried  their  Life  Insurance 
in  HOME  COMPANIES.  The  prosperity  of 
every  community  depends  upon  their  abil- 
ity to  take  care  of  themselves  within  them- 
selves. THE  HOME  BENEFIT  LIFE  AS- 
SOCIATION of  San  Francisco  issues  poli- 
cies on  the  Natural  Premium  Plan  at  about 
half  the  usual  rates. 

Office:  206  SANSOME  STREET. 


Send  for  Rates. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


THE    TWO    ANGELS. 

God  called  the  nearest  angels  who  dwell  with  Him  above; 

Tne  tenderest  one  was  Pity,  the  dearest  one  was  Love. 

"  Arise,"  He  said,  "  my  angels!  a  wail  of  woe  and  sin 

Steals  through  the  gates  of  Heaven,  and  saddens  all  within." 

"  My  harp  takes  up  the  mournful  strain  that  from  a  lost  world  swells; 

The  smoke  of  torment  clouds  the  light  and  blights  the  asphodels. 

"  Fly  downward  to  that  underworld,  and  on  its  souls  of  pain 

Let  Love  drop  smiles  of  sunshine  and  Pity  tears  like  rain, 

Two  faces  bowed  before  the  throne,  veiled  in  their  golden  hair; 

Four  white  wings  hastened  swiftly  down  the  dark  abyss  of  air. 

The  way  was  strange,  the  flight  was  long;  at  last  the  angels  came 

Where  swung  the  lost  and  nether  world,  red-wrapped  in  rayless 

flame. 
There  Pity,  shuddering,  wept;  but  Love,  with  faith  too  strong  for 

fear, 
Took  heart  from  God's  almightiness  and  smiled  a  smile  of  cheer. 
And  lo!  that  tear  of  Pity  quenched  the  flame  whereon  it  fell, 
And,  with  the  sunshine  of  that  smile,  hope  entered  into  hell  I 
Two  unveiled  faces  full  of  joy  looked  upward  to  the  throne ; 
Four  white  wings  folded  at  the  feet  of  Him  who  sat  thereon  1 
And  deeper  than  the  sound  of  seas,  more  soft  than  falling  flake, 
Amidst  the  hush  of  wing  and  song  the  Voice  Eternal  spake. 
"  Welcome,  my  angels!  ye  have  brought  a  holier  joy  to  heaven; 
Henceforth  its  sweetest  song  shall  be  the  song  of  sin  forgiven  1" 

John  G.  Whittier. 


A  REPRESENTATIVE  HOUSE. 

UNDOUBTEDLY  the  most  widely  known  and  popular  of  the 
leading  retail  dry  goods  bonses  of  the  West  is  the  mammoth 
establishment  of  J.  J.  O'Brien  &  Co.,  located  in  the  Murphy 
Building,  at  the  junction  of  Market,  Jones  and  McAllister  streets, 
for  this  great  hrin  is  one  of  the  most  progressive  and  successful  in 
the  Held  to-day,  and  from  a  small  beginning,  has  in  its  twenty-live 
years  of  existence,  built  up  a  trade  that  not  only  thoroughly  covers 
the  local  held,  but  has  extended  throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  the  Pacific  Coast,  until  the  firm's  name  has  become  a  familiar 
household  word  in  every  town  and  hamlet. 

A  model  institution  of  its  kind  this  vast  business  is  thoroughly 
systematised,  even  to  its  minutest  details,  and  in  its  perfect  workings 
resembles  a  gigantic,  but  delicately  adjusted  machine. 

Upwards  of  three  hundred  employees  are  required  in  its  many 
departments,  each  one  of  which  is  under  the  management  of  an 
efficient  head,  who  is  a  competent  authority  in  his  special  line,  and 
all  are  under  the  direct  supervision  of  the  members  of  the  firm,  the 
Messrs.  John  J.  and  James  O'Brien. 

In  addition  to  a  branch  in  New  York  to  attend  to,  the  forwarding 
of  its  importations  and  other  business,  the  firm  maintains  a  corps  of 
resident  buyers  in  the  principal  American  and  European  manu- 
facturing centres,  all  supplies  being  purchased  through  them  direct 
from  the  makers  and,  in  most  cases,  ordered  before  the  goods  are  put 
in  the  looms,  thus  enabling  them  to  be  manufactured  expressly  to 
suit  the  peculiar  requirements  of  the  climate  of  this  coast. 

Buying  in  this  manner,  and  in  practically  unlimited  quantities,  the 
firm  are  always  in  position  to  quote  the  lowest  prices  in  the  market, 
and  what  is  of  greater  importance  their  patrons  are  kept  fully  abreast 
with  the  latest  tashions,  for  the  system  of  direct  communication  with 
the  manufacturers  insure  the  display  of  the  newest  styles  simul- 
taneously with  their  appearance  in  the  great  European  and  Eastern 
fashion  centres,  and  far  in  advance  of  other  houses  less  thoroughly 
equipped. 

Possessing  all  these  advantages  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  that  the 
firm   has  become  so  universally  popular,  and  has  gained  such  an 
enviable  position  at  the  head  of  the  retail  dry  goods  trade  of  the 
West. 
' — » 

Since  the  invention  of  the  Blount  Door  Check  and  Spring,  profes- 
sional men,  who  are  mostly  nervous  men,  have  taken  new  leases  ol 
life,  and  no  longer  consider  this  world  a  mockery.  The  Blount  Door 
Check  is  more  than  human,  for  it  always  closes  the  door,  and  does  so 
without  slamming.  Thousands  upon  thousands  are  in  use  throughout 
the  principal  cities  of  the  United  States.  No  man  who  has  ever  had 
one  upon  his  office  door  would  think  of  being  without  it,  for  it  is  a 
blessing  and  a  boon.  Jas.  Maguire,  571  Market  St.,  is  the  Coast  agent. 

Alter  you  and  your  inner  man  have  shaken  hands  over  your 
Christmas  dinner,  you  will,  of  course,  sit  before  the  blazing  fireplace 
and  tell  or  listen  to  stones.  At  that  time,  nothing  is  more  pleasant 
than  a  hot  punch  made  of  Argonaut  Old  Bourbon,  thatfavoritedrink 
of  all  men  who  know  what  good  whisky  is. 


Send  to  Moraghan's,  in  the  California  Market,  for  the  oysters  for 
the  Christmas  dinner.     Moraghan's  oysters  are  the  best  in  town. 

Mills'  College  for  Young   Women. 

TIIE  OLDEST  PROTESTAST  SCI100L  FOR  flIRlS  L\  CALIFORlfU. 
The  next  term   begins  THURSDAY,  January  12,  1893.      For 
information  address, 

Mrs.  C.  T.  M1LL8, 
Mills'  College  Postoffice,  California. 


The  Bird  will  go 
into  the  Cage ! 

Directions. — Place  one  edge  of  a 
visiting  card  along  the  line  between  the 
bird  and  the  cage,  and  rest  the  tip  of  your 
nose  against  the  other  edge  of  the  card. 
Hold  the  card  so  that  no  shadow  falls  on 
either  side.  Watch  the  bird  a  moment, 
you  will  see  it  go  into  the  cage. 

I 
I 
I 


V 


i  ! 


You  will  not  believe  this 
until  you  try  it ;  neither  will 
you  believe  that  Cleveland's 
baking  powder  is  absolutely 
the  best  until  you  try  it. 
Try  it! 


"THE  WHITE   HOUSE." 

THE 

FINEST    DISPLAY 

EVER  ATTEMPTED   BY   ANY  HOUSE   IN  SAN  FRANCISCO 


We  are  now  prepared  to  show  for 
the  Holidays  the  latest  European  pro- 
ductions in  Bronzes,  Terra  Cotta, 
Sevres,  Porcelain,  Limoges  Wares, 
Dresden  Wares  and  all  the  newest 
shapes  and  decorations  in  English 
Faience. 

Rare  arid  beautiful  goods  in  Galle 
Inlaid  Tables,  Faience  and  Crystal 
Vases. 

Our  stock  of  lamps  and  shades  is 
most  complete.  American  Cut  Glass 
in  all  the  newest  shapes  and  cuttings. 

Sole  agents  for  Rock-wood  Pottery. 

RAPHAEL  WEILL   &   CO., 

N.   W.  Cop.   Post  and  Kearny  Sts. 

Postage 
Stamps 

For  Collections,  Bought,  Sold  and  Exchanged. 

Stamp 
Albums. 

W.    SELLSCHOPP   &  CO.,    104    OTarrell    St.,  S.  F.,    Cal 


Doc.  25.  1892. 


sv\   FRAN  [»  0  SEWS   1. 1   I  I  I  II 


A  GREAT   NATURAL    SANITARJVM 

THBOmM  Rft&gvof  BOODtalni,  running 
southward  from  juM  below  San  Kran- 
cisco  to  Monterey,  m  California,  a  distance 
of  about  100  miles,  baa  all  the  requisites  of 
a  splendid  sanitarium. 

The  summits  of  the  range  vary  in  alti- 
tude from  1,500  to  3  500  feet,  and  are  from 
six  to  fifteen  miles,  ••  as  the  crow  flies," 
from  the  ocean,  or  on  the  south,  Monterey 
Bay.  At  this  distance  fioro  the  coast,  the 
keen  ocean  winds  are  tempered,  their  sharp 
edge  taken  off.  and  they  become  genial  and 
refreshing.  Much  of  the  range  is  covered 
by  forests  of  gigantic  redwoods  and  firs, 
with  occasional  openings  where  the  oak, 
laurel  and  picturesque  madrone  are  found. 
These  forests  continue,  on  the  western 
slope,  almost  to  the  ocean,  and  on  the  east 
run  far  out  on  the  foothills. 

The  influence  of  tbe  ocean,  with  its  great 
Japan  current,  the  A'uro  Sivo.  gives  to  this 
region  a  temperature  more  equable  than  is 
found  in  any  other  part  of  the  State.  The 
thermometer  rarely  falls  below  32  degrees 
In  winter,  and  in  summer,  even  at  midday, 
it  seldom  reaches  85  degrees.  The  nights 
are  always  cool  and  refreshing,  and  it  is  an 
ideal  place  for  good  sleeping. 

The  air  is  free  from  malaria,  is  freighted 
with  (be  healing  balsamic  odors  of  the  firs, 
pines  and  redwoods,  and  when  freely  in- 
baled  on  a  clear  morning  it  stimulates  like 
wine.  Tbe  ocean  fogs,  while  crossing  the 
lower  Iand9,  are  generally  entaDgled  in  the 
evergreen  treetops  and  held  there,  making 
for  tbe  observer,  at  an  elevation  of  1,500  to 
2,000  feet,  tbe  picture  of  a  great  fog  ocean, 
with  its  ever  changing  billows  rolling  along. 
Such  a  picture  once  seen,  especially  when 
flooded  by  a  glorious  moonlight,  will  never 
be  forgotten. 

At  the  elevation  referred  to,  the  air  is 
always  rare  and  generally  dry,  two  condi- 
tions very  favorable  to  persons  suffering 
from  any  pulmonary  disease.  Asthma  and 
catarrh  are  at  once  relieved,  and  in  many 
cases  entirely  disappear,  while  the  progress 
of  bronchitis  and  consumption  is  at  once 
arrested. 

Here,  too,  is  enough  to  keep  the  mind 
continually  and  very  pleasantly  occupied, 
an  important  consideration  in  a  health 
resort.  The  scenery  is  magnificent,  and  if 
one  can  travel,  ever  changing.  Here  are 
found  in  their  perfection  the  colossal  red- 
wood cathedrals  that  so  impress  every  be- 
holder. Around  tbe  former  standing-place 
of  some  forest  giant,  now  crumbled  to  dust, 
have  sprung  up  innumerable  root-shoots, 
forming  a  thick  and  sometimes  almost  im- 
penetrable hedge,  in  circular  form,  the  en- 
closure varying  lrom  thirty  to  sixty  feet  in 
diameter.  The  stronger  shoots,  somewhat 
dwarfing  the  others,  towering  aloft,  have 
become  themselves  great  forest  trees,  and 
they  form  an  immense  cathedral,  solemn 
and  still  within,  surrounded  by  living  tow- 
ers and  minarets,  almost  as  tall  an(*  far 
more  graceful  than  any  ever  reared  by  tbe 
hand  of  man.  Are  these  not  "  Tbe  Groves" 
that  were  God's  first  temples? 

These  mountains  have  an  abundance  of 
pure  cool  water,  and  all  through  them  min- 
eral springs  abound,  whose  waters,  for 
medicinal  purposes  equal,  if  they  are  not 
superior  to,  tbe  best  foreign  mineral  waters. 


Why   Visit  California? 

The  nm?t  pointed  and  sensible  answer  it 
because  it  will  do  you  a  world  off  good. 
8eeking  affter  knowledge,  weallb.  health 
and  tbe  many  other  good  things  off  life  is 
tbe  spirit  of  this  age,  and  one  of  the  most 
agreeable  means  to  their  attainment  Is 
travel.  But  all  good  endeavor,  like  charity, 
if  possible,  should  begin  at  home. 

It  is  not  tbe  best  evidence  of  good  pur* 
pose  to  attempt  its  fulfillment  In  far  away 
places.  Sir  Launfal  explored  the  whole 
world  in  search  off  the  Holy  Grail,  only  to 
return  after  a  lifetime  of  wasted  endeavor, 
broken  in  body  and  spirit,  to  find  it  lying 
at  his  own  threshold. 

We  point  the  moral  by  asking:  Why  go 
to  Europe  for  sights  and  delights  and  bene- 
fits that  can  be  as  well  had  in  California, 
not  one  whit  lacking  in  quality,  and  at  less 
cost?  Why  go  to  Switzerland  for  scenery 
that  is  surpassed  in  Yosemite  and  equalled 
jn  many  other  portions  of  California  ?  Why 
travel  half  round  the  world  to  climb  the 
Alps,  when  the  Sierras  are  just  as  magnifi- 
cent ?  Why  indulge  in  such  extravagant 
praise  of  Lucerne  and  Geneva  without 
knowing  the  beauties  of  Taboe  and  Clear 
lakes,  and  the  weirdness  of  Crater  lake? 
Why  spend  a  fortune  and  risk  life  taking 
your  aches  and  ills  to  Carlsbad,  Vichy, 
Stachelberg  or  Weissenburg,  when  so  much 
nearer  are  Bartlett  Springs,  Harbin  Springs, 
the  Geysers,  Napa  SodaSprings.  Paso  Robles 
Hot  Springs,  Byron  Hot  Springs,  and  a 
score  more  equally  famous  for  their  cures  ? 
Why  struggle  so  hard  to  scale  Matterhorn 
and  Blanc,  when  grand  old  Shasta  towers 
equally  high  ?  Why  go  to  Italy  for  climate 
that  can  be  found  quite  as  genial  in  Cali- 
fornia? Why  boast  so  of  European  cara- 
vansaries and  watering  places,  when  Del 
Monte  leads  the  world  in  beauty,  elegance, 
delightful  hospitality  and  moderate  charges? 
Why  exclaim  in  such  amazement  at  the  en- 
gineering feats  of  Pilatus  and  St.  Gotbard, 
when  equally  difficult  feats  have  been 
achieved  over  the  Sierras,  and  through  the 
Siskiyous  by  the  Southern  Pacific  Com- 
pany? 

These  significant  questions  have  been  all 
answered  in  the  true  patriotic  way  by  the 
Southern  Pacific  Company.  Know  tbe 
worth,  beauties  and  wonders  of  your  own 
country  first.  If  you  arein  search  of  pleas- 
ure, health,  scenery,  a  place  to  build  a  home, 
genial  climate,  a  land  rich  in  the  beneficent 
gifts  of  nature,  ask  any  agent  of  this  com- 
pany for  the  desired  information. 

Tbe  three  routes  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Company  will  take  you  to  any  desired  lo- 
cality, the  '"Sunset"  by  way  of  New  Or- 
leans, through  Texas,  New  Mexico,  Arizona 
and  into  the  southern  portion  of  California; 
the  "  Ogden  "  by  way  of  Ogden,  through 
Utah,  Nevada  and  over  the  Sierra  Nevada; 
and  the  "Shasta"  by  way  of  Portland, 
through  Oregon  and  theSiskiyou  mountains 
into  the  northern  part  of  California.  These 
routes  afford  splendid  opportunities  for 
viewing  the  countries  through  which  they 
pass,  and  the  visitor  will  never  regret  hav- 
ing taken  the  trip. 


California   as  a  Place  for   Rural   Homes. 

There  Is  no  part  of  tbe  world  battel 
Adapted  by  all  that  nature  ran  do,  foi 
OOmffortabU  rural  homes,  than  is  California. 
That  this  phase  of  life  has  not  more  rapidly 
developed  is  chietly  attributable  lo  tbe  fact 
that  to  large  a  portion  of  the  parts  of  the 
State  where  permanent  settlements  were 
first  founded,  was  distributed  in  immense 
Spanish  grants,  making  large  holdings, 
whose  owners  were  averse  to  selling  any  of 
their  possessions. 

Tbe  ••  Whirligig  of  Time  "  that  makes  all 
things  even,  has  greatly  changed  this 
feature.  These  tracts  are  now  being  sub- 
divided and  sold,  and  a  home-seeker  will 
find  no  difflcuty  in  obtaining  at  a  reason- 
able outlay,  a  place  that  must  satisfy  the 
most  exacting. 

It  is  sometimes  said  that  to  live  in  Cali- 
fornia one  must  be  wealthy.  On  the  con- 
trary, there  is  no  other  place  where  a  fam- 
ily of  moderate  means  can  make  a  living 
more  easily,  or  where  they  can  enjoy  one- 
half  tbe  luxuries  that  are  within  their 
reach  in  California.  It  certainly  is  not 
wise  for  a  family  to  land  there  with  nothing 
ahead.  One  who  has  not  been  thrifty 
enough  to  accumulate  a  little  in  other 
places  would  hardly  succeed  there.  But 
little  capital,  however,  is  required.  A 
small  tract  of  land,  ten  or  twenty  acres,  is 
ample;  a  few  acres  in  vineyard  and  a  few 
in  orchard,  both  carefully  selected  in  regard 
to  varieties,  and  in  from  three  to  five  years 
there  is  assured  an  annual  income  of  $1,500 
to  $2,000.  The  work  should,  and  can  be 
done  all  within  the  family,  and  this  income 
will  therefore  be  nearly  all  net.  Expensive 
buildings  are  not  necessary,  as  tbe  weather 
is  always  mild,  life  in  the  open  air  being 
entirely  agreeable  for  ten  months  of  the 
year. 

During  the  time  the  orchard  is  coming 
into  bearing,  enough  can  be  raised  between 
the  trees  to  lurnish  a  family  with  subsist- 
ence, and  as  there  is  no  fruit  crop  to  har- 
vest on  the  home  place,  there  is  time,  as 
there  is  always  opportunity,  for  those  who 
choose,  to  find  pleasant  and  remunerative 
labor  upon  places  already  in  bearing,  and 
this  may  add  materially  to  the  income. 

Almost  tbe  entire  coast  range  of  moun- 
tains, especially  from  San  Francisco  to  near 
Monterey,  with  the  adjacent  foothills,  is 
admirably  adapted  to  home-making  in  this 
way.  The  soil  is  fertile  and  well  watered, 
the  climate  all  one  can  ask,  and  land  in 
abundance  can  be  bad  at  a  low  price  and 
on  easy  terms. 

For  information  as  to  any  of  these  locali- 
ties, and  bow  they  are  reached,  call  upon 
or  address  the  following  named  officers  of 
tbe  Southern  Pacilic  Company. 
E.  Hawley,    Aast.  General   Traffic    Manager, 

343  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
E.    E.    CurritT,    New    England    Agent,    192 

Washington  street,  Boston,  Mass. 
W.  0.  Noimyer,   General    Western  Agent,  204 

So.  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  111. 
W.  C.  Watsoil,  General  Passenger  Agent,  At- 
lantic oysiem,  New  Orleans,  La. 
T.    II.  Goodman,    General    Passenger  Agent, 
Pacific  System,  San  Francisco,  Gal. 


PJlEflll/    IflSUF^E  cp/i\p/»ffy, 


OF  BROOKLYN. 


BROWN,      CRAIG       &      CO.,     General  Agents  for  Pacific  Coast. 
ASSETS  -  -  $5,500,000.        LOSSES  PAiD  -  -  OVER  $42,000,000  || 


^BAHK    OF    CALIFORNIA  §s- 

SAN    FRANCISCO 


WM.  ALVORD,  President. 


CAPITAL,  

SURPLUS 

UNDIVIDED  PROFITS  (Julv  1.  1892.) 

THOMAS  BRO  WN,  Cashier. 


f  1,000,000.00 

,.(100.000.00 

""'"'  IRVING  F.  M0ULT0N,  Assistant  Cashier 


COBBESFOITSEN'TS. 
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0HICAGO— Union  National  Bank.  ST.   LOUIS— Boatmen's  Bank. 

NEW  ZBALAND-Tue  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  LONDON-N.  M.  Roihschild  &Sons. 

Correspondents  in  India.  China,  Japan  and  Australia.  PARIS— Oa  Rothschild  Frere-i. 

The  Bank  has  agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  correspondents  in  nil  the  principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  ~*acific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  -world 

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CAPITAL,  Sl.BOO.OOO.  SURPLUS,  $780,000. 

8.  G.  MURPHY President  I  DIRECTORS. 

JAMES  MOPFITT Vice-President        S.  G.  MORPHY,  JAMBS  MOFFITT, 

B.D.MORGAN Cashier         GEORGE  A.  LOWE,  JAMES  D.  PHELAN, 

G.W.KLINE Assistant  Cashier  |     JOHN  A.  HOOPER,  GEORGE  C.  PERKINS, 

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Manufacturers  of  the  popular  brand  of 

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For  sale  by  all  dealers. 


RODS  BROS, 

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Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

THIS     VERY     LATEST. 


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Dec.  25.  1892 


BAH  FRAN(  fSH  0  NEWS  111  n  I; 


THE    FRUIT    CROP. 


nHE  horticulturists  of  C»llfornl«.  taken  ••  a  whole,  have 
enjoyed  durini;  ihe  yesr  now  elating  *  degree  ol  prosperny 
(ally  equal  to  tliat  of  any  previous  >f«>..n.  It  It  true 
jL_  some  branches  suffered  from  drawbacks  due  to  one  cause 
or  another,  but  the  amount  of  fruit  iblpped  to  the  Kast  was 
much  lancer  than  during  the  Immediately  previous  or  any  preceding 

.  and  the  aggregate  receipts  in  all  the  leading  fruit). r 
sections  were  considerably  greater  than  had  before  been  reached.  It 
is  true  there  were  instances  where  the  yield  was  somewhat  curtailed. 
and  in  some  varieties  the  crop  did  not  come  under  the  term  of  "lull," 
but  the  area  of  young  orchard  coming  into  bearing  was  so  large  that 
its  product  more  than  made  up  for  any  falling  off  in  the  older  or- 
chards. The  record  of  individual  profits  as  given  in  the  local  press 
of  the  different  localities  was  never  so  full  and  the  figures  were  never 
larger.  Whether  the  fruit  were  sold  fresh  or  dried,  the  profits  of  the 
producers  appear  to  bave  been  uniformly  so  large  as  to  be  worthy  of 
being  called  phenomenal.  The  result  of  the  season's  operations  has 
been  of  such  a  character  as  to  largely  stimulate  the  entire  industry. 
The  area  now  under  preparation  for  the  planting  of  deciduous  trees 
was  never  larger,  while  the  demand  for  nursery  stock  is  of  such  a 
character  that  prices  for  approved  varieties  have  already  taken  an 
upward  turn,  and  bid  fair  before  the  expiration  of  the  planting  season 
to  reach  a  point  considerably  higher  than  for  many  years. 

The  orange  crop  of  1891-92  was  the  one  and  only  feature  in  which 
there  was  any  falling  off  as  compared  with  previous  years.  Up  to 
the  last  week  in  December,  1891,  there  was  every  indication  that  a 
crop  considerably  in  excess  of  the  immediately  preceding  one  would 
be  harvested.  But  at  that  inopportune  time  a  severe  frost  visited 
the  leading  orange  producing'sections,  with  tbe  result  that  the  fruit 
was  damaged  nearly  if  not  quite  fifty  per  cent.,  and  instead  of  ship- 
ments of  5.500  to  6  000  car-loads,  the  crop  was  cut  down  to  some  3,000 
car-loads,  of  which  Riverside  alone  contributed  a  little  less  than  one. 
half.  The  bearing  trees,  however,  were  not  damaged  in  tbe  slight- 
est by  the  cold  spell,  tbe  injury  having  been  confined  entirely  to  the 
ripening  fruit  and  to  the  tender  growth  of  the  immature  and  freshly 
planted  nursery  stock.  Eirly  in  the  spring  the  trees  blossomed  luxuri- 
antly, and  they  are  now  laden  with  the  promise  of  an  abundant 
fruitage— more  abundant,  in  fact,  than  has  yet  been  recorded.  Ship- 
ments have  been  made  from  Riverside  and  from  Oroville  thus  early, 
and  as  severe  frosts  have  never  been  known  to  occur  two  seasons  in 
succession  in  the  citrus  fruit  sections,  the  maturing  orange  crop  may 
be  set  down  as  certain  to  escape  material  injury.  In  this  connection 
it  may  be  remarked  that  the  shipment  of  oranges  from  Northern 
California  is  rapidly  assuming  prominence.  It  is  but  two  years  since 
tbe  first  car-load  lot  was  marketed  from  that  section.  This  year 
Oroville  alone  will  ship  twelve  to  fifteen  car-loads,  while  tbe  other 
citrus  sections  will  more  than  double  tbat  amount.  Uncharitable 
Southerners,  who  can  no  longer,  as  they  once  did,  sneer  at  the  North 
for  not  having  produced  a  single  car-load  of  oranges,  now  confine 
themselves  to  comparisons  of  the  twelve  or  fifteen  car-loads  of  Oro- 
ville's  crop  with  the  2.000  or  2,500  that  Riverside  will  send  to  market. 
They  are  seemingly  oblivious  of  the  fact  that  it  is  only  eleven  years 
ago  that  Riverside's  entire  crop  was  but  fifteen  car-loads,  and  that 
what  she  has  done  in  increasing  that  to  the  present  large  proportion 
is  not  altogether  impossible  of  imitation  by  some  other  similarly 
favored  section.  At  the  present  time  oranges  and  lemons  are  being 
successfully  grown  in  no  less  than  three-fourths  of  the  counties  in  the 
State,  the  leading  counties  in  their  respective  area  devoted  to  citrus 
fruits  being  San  Bernardino,  Los  Angeles.  San  Diego,  Orange  and 
Butte.  In  all  of  these,  and  in  others  as  well,  new  orchards  of  great 
extent  will  be  planted  during  the  coming  season,  and  there  does  not 
appear  to  beany  diminuation  in  the  demand  for  citrus  nursery  stock. 
The  shipments  of  deciduous  fruits  to  the  East  during  the  season  just 
closed  were  largely  in  excess  of  those  of  any  year  since  tbat  business 
attained  important  proportions.  In  1888  there  were  851  carloads  of 
fresh  fruit  sent  East;  in  1889 the  amount  reached  991  carloads:  in 
1890  it  increased  to  1,373  carloads;  in  1891  it  was  1  387  carloads,  while 
the  total  for  the  present  season  will  be  fully  200  carloads  in  excess  of 
the  next  preceding  year.  A  marked  feature  of  this  season's  opera- 
tions was  the  inauguration  of  quite  extensive  fresh  fruit  shipments 
from  the  southern  part  of  the  State.  For  some  reason,  little  has  been 
done  in  this  direction  heretofore,  but  the  experimental  shipments 
proved  so  successful  that  others  followed ,  and  in  the  future  this  prom- 
ises to  be  an  important  feature  of  the  fruit-growing  industry.  This 
has  stimulated  the  planting  of  extensive  areas  in  deciduous  fruits  in 
the  South,  something  that  bad  presented  no  indication  of  an  increase 
for  some  time,  citrus  fruits  having  been  held  in  the  greatest  favor  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  the  bulk  of  the  new  plantations  being  made 
up  of  those  varieties. 

Perhaps  tbe  most  important  event  connected  with  the  deciduous 
fruit  interest  occurring  during  the  season  of  1892  was  the  successful 
inauguration  of  shipments  to  England.  Several  hundred  tons  of 
assorted  fruit  were  snipped  thither,  being  carried  in  refrigerator  cars 
on  passenger  time  to  New  York  city,  there  transferred  to  cold  rooms 
on  Atlanticlines  and  hurried  to  Liverpool.  The  time  of  transitfrom 
California  to  the  destination  was  reduced  to  fifteen  days.    The  fruit 


arrived  in  uniformly  fair MUon,  and  after  Ihe  character!-' 

«■'*•'                                on  «...  overcome,  it   brought 
being  offered  at  auction,  u  ia  customary  with  inch  meltan  In  (hat 
country,    h  appear*,  however,  tbat  the  transportation  charge*  con- 
a  larpc  »hare  of  the  morn*,  and  while  loose  making  the  ihlp- 
ulbillly  ..I  making  <•  permanent  bu.l- 
sucb  dealing*.  Ibey  claim  lhal  .,  material  reduction  In  tba 
I  transportation  must  be  made  l(  ll  Is  expected  thai  -is,;,  ship. 
ments  shall  attain  very  large  proportion!     The  (allure  ol  Ihepeacfa 
and  other  fruit crout  In  a  large  portion  of  tha  Baal  necessitated  depend- 
illfornla  for  supplies,  and  as  In  1880,  tins  id  to  tha  main- 
tenance of  rates  nt  a  high  standard.    Uniforrol)  I  price*  were 

realized  by  all  orchnrdisls  who  kepi  nLreHst  «ii|,   i|„-  limes  and  war* 

posted  on  tbe  irend  of  .-vents  in  horticultural  matters. 

Tbe  output  ol  dried  frail  bai  been  large,  and  prices  In  this  direc- 
tion have  also  been  maintained,  mach  belter  rates  baying  been  ob- 
tained by  the  producers  a*  a  whole  than  doring  Ihe  season  of  1891. 
There  was  the  usual  dispute  between  the  theorists  and  ihe  practical 
men  at  I  In-  commend  mint  of  the  season  as  to  the  practice  of  sulphur, 
ing  the  freshly  cut  fruit  in  urder  to  preserve  ils  natural  color,  but  no 
change  on  tbe  part  of  the  producers  was  made.  Tbe  consumer  de- 
mands light  fresh  fruit,  and  will  pay  more  for  it  than  for  the  dark 
colored.  So  long  as  this  is  the  case,  the  grower  owes  it  to  himself  to 
meet  Ihe  demand  wilh  (be  use  of  sulphur.  Not  being  governed  by 
theories,  but  by  hard,  practical  facts,  he  certainly  is  excusable  for 
continuing  in  a  course  that  enables  him  to  obtain  a'fair  profit  for  his 
labor.  The  prune  crop  was  the  largest  ever  harvested.  In  some  lo- 
calities the  old  orchards  did  not  give  a  full  yield,  but  the  immense 
area  of  new  plantation  coming  into  bearing,  served  to  bring  tbe  total 
up  to  a  figure  considerably  in  excess  of  that  of  1891.  Last  year  the 
total  output  was  27,500.000  pounds,  but  this  season  it  is  at  least  5,000,- 
000  pounds  greater.  Large  areas  in  Tulare,  Los  Angeles,  and  other 
counties  produced  heavily  of  prunes  this  year,  while  the  output  of 
the  Santa  Clara  valley  was  upward  of  20,000.000  pounds.  It  is  claimed 
that  over-production  of  prunes  is  threatened,  and  thatwhen  Ihe  trees 
now  planted  shall  have  come  into  bearing,  the  market  will  be  largely 
overstocked.  This,  however,  appears  to  have  produced  little  effect 
upon  the  fruit  growers,  for  the  planting  of  new  prune  orchards  pro- 
ceeds at  a  rate  fully  as  great  as  at  any  time  in  the  past. 

Early  in  tbe  season  it  was  claimed  tbat  tbe  raisin  crop  would  show 
a  large  falling  off  from  last  year,  but  here  again  it  would  appear  that 
the  product  of  new  vineyards  had  been  left  out  of  the  calculation. 
While  it  is  true  the  older  vineyards  of  Fresno  county  bore  smaller 
crops  than  usual,  yet  there  are  large  areas  in  San  Diego,  San  Ber- 
nardino, Kern  and  Tulare  counties  which  produced  full  cropB  for  the 
first  time  this  year,  and  it  is  more  than  likely  that  their  product  will 
bring  the  aggregate  fully  up  to  that  of  1891,  when  the  output  was 
2,500  000  boxes.  An  illustration  of  the  increase  in  the  newer  raisin 
sections  is  furnished  by  San  Diego  county,  where  the  aggregate 
raisin  pack  was  quite  three  times  that  of  1891,  reaching  more  than 
200  carloads  in  a  single  valley— tbe  Cajon.  At  the  commencement  of 
the  season  the  growers  made  a  determined  effort  to  prevent  a  recur- 
rence of  the  demoralization  in  prices  that  marked  the  season  of  1891. 
They  held  several  meetings,  and  finally  an  agreement  was  entered 
into  by  them  and  all  the  leading  parties,  by  which  certain  prices  were 
established  and  maintained.  "  The' average  "fate  for  good  quality  fruit 
was  put  at  4J4  cents  a  pound  in  the  sweat  box,  it  being  conceded  tbat 
that  would  give  the  producer  no  more  than  a  fair  remuneration. 
There  has  been  a  hard  fight  to  maintain  prices  and  prevent  cutting, 
and  it  has  been  measurably  successful.  Toward  the  close  of  the  sea- 
son it  became  necessary  to  suspend  further  shipments  to  tbe  East,  in 
order  to  prevent  demoralization  of  the  market,  and  in  consequence 
there  is  a  large  stock  now  on  hand  in  this  State.    The  producers  are 

ferfecting  their  organization,_and  believe  that  by  next  year  they  will 
e  able  to  control  the'market  so  that  the'ruinous  cutting  of  pricesfso 
common  in  the  past,  will  be  no  longer  possible. 

The  first  California  figs  to  reach  the  New  York  market  in  any 
quantity  were  shipped  during  the  past  season.  They  created  quite  a 
sensation  and  sold  readily  at  good  prices.  They  were  packed  in 
sacks,  and  no  special  care  used  to  make  them  attractive  in  appear- 
ance. Nevertheless  Ibey  were  well  received,  and  tbe  prediction  was 
made  that  California  would  be  able  before  long  to  supply  a  large  part 
of  tbe  demand  in  this  line,  just  as  she  already  does  with  prunes  and 
raisins.  The  nut  crop  has  been  of  a  most  satisfactory  character. 
The  product  of  English  walnuts  continues  to  increase  and  a  large 
area  is  each  year  devoted  to  them,  notably  in  Santa  Barbara,  Ven- 
tura, Los  Angeles  and  Orange  counties.  Tbe  experience  of  those 
owning  bearing  groves  has  been  most  satisfactory,  and  new  orchards 
are  being  pla  nted  in  large  numbers.  The  same  is  true  of  the  almond, 
it  having  been  tbewn  1bat  varieties  originating  here  are  free  from 
the  faults  of  tbe  imported  kinds,  and  in  proper  localities  tbe  almond 
is  a  most  p  rentable  tree,  many  are  engaging  in  Ihe  pursuit  with  uni- 
form success.  As  time  goes  on,  the  baphazaid  system  of  following 
horticulture  is  abandoned.  Close  study  is  made  of  soil  and  climate, 
and  thus  much  better  results  are  realized  in  all  branches  than  when 
the  industry  was  in  its  experimental  stages. 

The  Maison  Fiche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant  avenue, 
will  be  the  locale  of  many  merry  parties  to-day.  Its  Christmas  din- 
ners will  be  superb. 


SAN  FKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


HAS 

YOUR 

BATH 

ROOM  ONE  OF  THE 


BLOUNT 

DOOR 

CHECKS? 


C'loNeft  Door. 

Pre  vein*  Slamming. 

Keeps  Out  Sewer  tias. 

JAS  A.  MAGUIRE.  City  Agent,    . 

6S7-G6I  Market  St.,  S.  F. 

LONG   DISTANCE 

TELEPHONE. 

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Soledad,  Mary&ville.Chico,  Oro- 
ville,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken communication  be- 
ween  these  towns  and  San 
rancisco.  The  Hues  are  con 
-tructed  of  rpecially  prepared 
exira  heavy  cupper  wires,  are 
equiped  with  tue  latest  appli- 
auces  known  t  >  the  bciei>ce  of 
and  are  "Long  Distance"  Lines 
of  the  word.  The  Mail  is  quick, 
thetelegraphi- quicker,  but  the 

LONG     l>ISTAX<  i:     III.EPHOM" 

Is  instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
au  auswer. 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Francisoo. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 

FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 
ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER.    Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  238H. 8 AN  FRANCISCO. 

Cunningham,  Curtiss  &  Welch, 
WHOLESALE 

STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 


327.329.  331   SANSOME  STREET. 


J,  0,  SPRECKLES  &  BROS, 


SHIPPING  and  Commission  Merchants;  gen- 
eral agents  "Oceanic  Steam&nip  Company, 
(jillinjiani  Cement. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

ESTABLISHED    1854. 

GEORGE  MORROW  &  CO., 

DEALERS  IN 

HAY    AND    GRAIN. 

Private  Trade  Solicited. 

39  Clay  Street,  San  Francisoo. 


RICHARD    J.    THOMAS. 
/ 

RICHARD  J.  THOMAS  is  one  of  those 
able  "and  enterprising  young  men  of  the 
State  of  whom  California  is  justly  proud. 
He  is  a  son  of  K.    A.    Thomas,   of  Nevada 


county,  where  he  was  born,  on  June  22, 
1870,  and  although  but  a  year  has  passed 
since  he  attained  his  majority,  Mr.  Thomas 
has  taken  place  among  the  solid  men  of  his 
section,  by  whom  he  is  considered  a  very 
able  and  rising  citizen.  His  primary  edu- 
cation was  obtained  in  the  village  school 
near  the  mines,  at  his  birthplace.  He  en- 
tered a  competitive  examination  for  ap- 
pointment to  the  West  Point  Academy, 
and  was  second  in  the  class,  and  after- 
wards attended  St.  Augustine  College,  at 
Benicia.  where  he  was  awarded  the  gold 
medal  in  1887,  as  chier  speaker.  Subse- 
quently he  entered  Hopkins  Academy, 
which  graduated  him  in  1890  He  has  been 
honored  by  being  elected  to  represent  the 
Twelfth  Assembly  District,  which  includes 
Nevada  county,  in  the  State  Assembly.  He 
represented  Nevada  county  in  the  Sacra- 
mento and  Stockton  Conventions,  and  was 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Nevada  County 
Miners'  Association. 


One  of  the  youngest  banks  in  the  city, 
but  one  which  reflects  credit  upon  our  finan- 
cial institutions,  is  the  People's  Home  Sav- 
ings Bank,  in  the  Flood  Building.  Since  its 
opening,  this  institution  has  had  a  most  suc- 
cessful career.  It  is  what  its  name  implies 
—a  bank  for  the  people.  This  tact  the  peo- 
ple appreciate,  as  is  shown  by  the  stacks  of 
their  coin  which  they  place  in  the  bank 
vaults. 

During  this  happy  holiday  week,  if  you 
wish  to  lake  a  run  into  the  country  to  some 
pretty  and  quiet  spot,  where  you  may  com- 
mune with  yourself,  you  could  not  do  better 
than  to  go  to  Laundry  Farm  It  is  reached  by 
the  California  Railway,  which  also  runs  to 
Mills'  Seminary. 


MOUNT  VERNON  CO. 

BALTIMORE, 

gjfF~  The  undersigned  having  been  appointed 
AGENTS  FOR  THE  PACIFIC  COAST  for  the  sale 
of  the  manufactures  of  above  company,  have  now 
In  store: 

Sail  Duck— all  Numbers; 

Hydraulic — all  Numbers; 

Draper  and  Wagon   Duck, 

From  SO  to  120  Inches  Wide,  and  a  Complete  As* 
sortment  of  All  Qualities  28^-Inch  DUCK,  from 
*  o89.  to  15  oiB.,  Inclusive. 

MURPHY,  GRANT  &  CO. 


"L   MGrir 

TlU  BROAD 


IjRiWfcDR/NX 

IN  Trlfc7,    .. 


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WAREHOUSES    AND    DOCKS 


Port  Gosta,  California 


•  3  I  C  ' 


Storage  Capacity,    -    -    100,000  Tons 

Regular  Warehouse  for  San  Francisco  Produce 
Exchange  Call  Board 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Cca.-t,  and  are  furnished  with  the  latest 
improvements  for  the  rapid  handling  and  storing  of  Grain.  A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the 
best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning  foul  and  smutty  wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses.  Insurance 
effected  at  lowest  rates  in  first-class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold,  if  desired,  at  current  rates. 


Information  regarding  Storage  or  other  business  can 
be  obtained  at  the  office  of  the  Company 


202    S^IDsTSOIMIIE  STREET, 
Over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


WENDELL   EASTON,  GEO.  W.  FRINK,  GEO.  EASTON, 

President.  Vice-President.  Secretary. 

ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN   BANK, 
Treasurer. 


638   MARKET  ST. 


OPPOSITE 
f'ALACE    HOTEL 


5 


UB  AGENCIES  at  every  County  Seat.  CITY  LANDS— Investments,  Homes,  Property 
improved  and  vacant  COUNTRY  LANDS— Farming  and  Fruit  Lands.  Large  Tracts  for 
Colonization.  Improved  Fruit  Farms.  Colony  Lands.  Grain  Farms.  Exchanges  made  of 
City  and  County  Lands. 

EASTON,    ELDRIDGE    &    CO. 


WILLIAM  J.  DIIGBE 


iial  estat: 

4©©  AIB  40S  EIGHTH   STKK1T,    OAKLAN»j   CA1. 


Oakland,  Alameda,  Berkeley  ti  Piedmont 

Improved  apd  Unimproved  Business  and  Residence  Property  For  Sale 


Send     for     Illustrated     Catalogue 


i^jrxje  ore  concentrator 

OVER 
3,500  in 
ACTUAL 
USE. 


Price  of  4-Foot  Wide  Plain  Belt 
Frue  Vanner — $550,  f.  o.  b. 

Price  of  a  4-Foot  Wide  Improved 
elt  Frue  Vanner— $800,  f.o.b. 

Price  of  a  6-Foot  Wide  Plain 
Belt  Frue  Vanner— $800,  f.o.b. 


For  information,  pamphlets,  circulars  or  testimonials,  call  on  r>r  address 

HI.    CT_    STTIMIIMIIEIRIHI^YIES, 


No.  132  Market  Street, 


Successor  to  ADAMS  &   CARTER,  Agent, 


San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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Dec 


SAN   IKW  l->  O  NEWS  LKTTKB 


COUNTRY     LANDS. 


I  RING  tbr  year  I  893    a  •  irmg  underlying  current  bu  been 
trending  towards  Interior  laodi  with  special  refer. 

general  farming  and  fruit  growing,  and  the  lide  which  ha* 
turned  toward*  country  lands  is  met  with  response  on  the 
part  of  land  holders  generally  and  a  disposition  is  shown 
to  meet  buyers'  ideas  with  regard  to  price  and  term*.  The  strong 
accumulation  of  money  wtai-h  has  taken  place  in  California  during 
the  past  few  years,  which  is  notably  the  case  in  onr  savings  banks, 
which  bare  now  an  accumulated  capital  of  about  $100,000  <">.  is 
causing  our  local  capital  to  seek  investment  in  a  more  extended  Held 
than  is  found  in  the  city.     A  number  of  large   properties   in   the  in 


Wendell  Easton, 
terior  of  the  State  have  been  placed  on  the  market  during  the  last 
few  years  and  with  an  immigration  uncertain,  few  and  far  between, 
the  local  market  for  purchasers  has  been  worked  over  very  thor- 
oughly, and  it  is  found  now  that  prices  of  land  are  being  regulated  by 
actual  revenue  that  can  be  shown,  and  that  tillers  of  the  soil,  with 
moderate  capital,  can  be  encouraged  to  settle  upon  and  purchase 
lands  if  terms  are  offered  which  the  tilling  of  the  land  will  cover.  In 
other  words,  in  many  important  sections  of  the  Slate,  people  who 
have  been  farming  land  as  tenants  for  a  number  of  years,  have  now 
become  purchasers  of  the  land,  paying  for  the  same  out  of  the  actual 
products  of  the  soil.  One  of  the  most  important  works  in  this  direc- 
tion was  the  disposition  of  Roberts'  Island,  lying  on  the  channel  just 
below  the  city  of  Stockton,  the  property  being  owned  by  a  Glasgow 
syndicate,  whose  investment  involved  about  $500,000.  The  property 
had  been  farmed  by  tenants  for  a  couple  of  years,  and  while  the  in- 
terest was  fairly  satisfactory,  in  the  time  the  owners  desired  to  part 
with  their  property,  and  a  plan  was  outlined  wherein  the  tenants 
who  were  renting  the  land  at  %  andV-i  crop  rental  became  purchasers 
of  the  land  without  paying  a  dollar  down,  and  from  the  crops,  with 
successful  seasons,  in  five  years  became  the  owners  of  the  land  free 
and  clear  of  incumbrances.  Something  of  this  same  work  is  now  be- 
ing done  in  the  vicinity  of  Bakersfield  on  the  "  Haggin  &  Carr  " 
lands  where  tenants  became  purchasers,  paying  for  the  land  out  of 
the  actual  returns  from  the  soil. 

From  present  appearances,  the  winter's  business  in  farming  land 
will  receive  an  impetus  in  Southern  California,  as  all  advices  from 
that  point  indicate  a  strong  influx  of  people,  and  the  results  are  be- 
ing obtained  in  the  way  of  sales  directly  due  to  the  fact  of  important 
work  done  in  the  development  of  water  for  irrigation  and  strong  in- 
ducements being  extended  to  actual  settlers  and  planters  in  the  way 
of  terms  and  price.  With  the  strong  move  that  will  be  inaugurated 
in  Southern  California  this  winter,  the  central  portion  of  the  State 
will  commence  to  feel  the  result  in  the  spring,  and  without  doubt  the 
San  Joaquin  "Valley  will  be  a  scene  of  activity  during  1893.  The 
strong  work  which  was  done  with  regard  to  planting  on  the  lands 
lying  to  the  west  of  Fresno  some  two  or  three  years  since  is  now 
commencing  to  produce  results,  and  the  well-known  properties  of 
the  Fruitvale  estate,  the  Bank  of  California  lands  and  Washington 
Irrigated  Colony  will  be  attractive  central  points  for  several  years 
to  come.  The  income-paying  sections  of  this  part  of  the  State  are 
receiving  renewed  attention.  This  is  notably  the  case  in  Santa  Clara 
Valley,  where  substantial  revenues  are  now  being  obtained  ion  an 
estimated  very  strong  price.  Contra  Costa  county  is  also  a  field  of 
revenue,  and  a  preferred  section  is  the  renowned  Vaca  Valley,  which 
will  earn  as  much  an  acre  as  any  portion  of  the  State,  from  an  early 
and  late  season. 

I  am  one  of  those  of  the  firm  opinion  that  the  result  of  the  World's 
Fair  at  Chicago  to  the  Pacific  Coast  and  California  will  be  shown 
especially  in  the  interior  lands.  I  believe  the  attractive  feature  for 
investment  for  new-comers  to  our  State  is  going  to  be  our  farming 
lands— in  the  first  place  for  the  growing  of  cereals,  and  our  fruit 
lands  will  be  especially  attractive,  as  this  class  of  farming  can  becar- 


Idenla  until  thr  trrc"  and  vines  arr  m  bearing,  end 
can  be  managed  bj   tin-  rooogi  family;  mon 

they  do  not  require  a  lifetime  itadv.  It  i-.  hardly  «••  be  presumed 
that  we  will  receive  a  direct  benefit  of  a  large  Influx  •>(  people  into 
the  i  nit  id  States  and  Pei  intfl  the  middle  or  latter  i  irtol 

ir;  but  in  the  meantime,  with  a  strong  local  Ude  turning  In 
the  direction  of  country  lands,  by  the  middle  mid  rail  --i  "OB  there 
should  be  developed  a  strong  Interior  business,  and  if  the  disposition 
i*  -iiii  maintained  thai  i-  now  shown  by  owners  "i  country  lands, 
there  should  be  considerable  done  In  this  direction  for  the  next  two 
or  three  years.  I  believe  the  besl  Investment  In  tbe  State  Isln  farm- 
ing lands  that  will  pay  a  fair  return  on  the  Investment.  Prom  the 
present  outlook,  with  transportation  companies  disturbed,  with  the 
competition  in  freight  and  fares  by  land  and  water,  with  the  actual 
showing  that  California  can  make  with  regard  lo  the  country  lands, 
and  the  outlook  for  many  thousands  of  people  coining  to  the  United 
States  for  the  next  two  or  three  years.  California  should  reei-m- 
naturally  quite  an  influx  of  population  of  B  specially  desirable  rlne-s, 
thnt  will  come  among  us  ns  investors  and  home-seekers,  with  results 
of  material  advantage  to  the  entire  State;  and  with  these  favorable 
elements,  may  be  the  turning-point  of  an  era  in  our  prosperity  which, 
benefiting  tbe  entire  State  at  large,  will  naturally  have  its  effect  in 
due  time  to  react  favorably  on  important  centers. 

Tbe  accumulated  capital  in  the  city  of  San  Francisco  will,  before 
long,  get  restless  for  investment  and  will  seek  the  avenue  in  which 
it  will  find  encouragement.  There  is  altogether  a  more  favorable 
condition  of  affairs  existing  between  tbe  seller  and  purchaser  in  the 
interior  than  in  the  cities,  and  it  is  quite  likely  the  coming  season 
will  see  quite  a  bulk  of  capital  seeking  its  investment  in  country 
lands. 


In   addition   to  their  large  and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 
Jackets, 

5uit5, 

Ulsters, 
FRATINGER    &    CO., 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &.    CO., 

105  Kearny   Street. 

The  Strathmore  Apartment  House. 

N.  W.  Cor.  Larkin  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Exclusively  for  families.  First-clasa  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
vator day  and  night.     First-class  restaurant  in  the  building. 

Apply  to  Janitor  in  the  building,  or  to  A.  Hayward,  No.  224 
California  Street. 


Christmas  Number,  18C2. 


S.  F.  News  Letter. 


WHO'S     AFRAID? 

From  the   Painting    by-H.J    Kaulbaeh,    Munich. 


THE  CALIFORNIA  POWDER  WORKS. 

203    CALIFORNIA    ST.,    SAIsT    FRA1TCISCO. 

„.    MJ*-?"!*01?™  "^Have  Constantly  on  hand  SPORTING,  MINING  and 
BLAbl  I  NO    POWDER  ;    also 

HERCULES    UDYMITE"    POWDER. 

American  Patents  !     American  Skill  1    American  Enterprise  !    Stronaer 
FUMES6!      No'  HEADACHES'"   ^    ^  '     ^^   ""^   th6  SafeSt '      *° 


— ■ 

GENUINE 

Wellington   Coal. 

BEST     FOR 

Family    Use. 

pruit  apd  Orpameptal  Jrees. 

palms,  looses,  {n/er^reeps,  Ete. 

5EEDS.  «™*  "^  ^Me*^r  apd  Tr?,        5EEDS. 

Catalogues  /Hailed  Free.                                                                     JFfiJ/T\BtJCC  0  BEEB£. 

Nursery  and  Seedsmen,    -  -  -  -    -    -  419-421  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cat. 

SAN  FBANCISGO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


THE 
CORK 
FACED 
COLLAR 


THE  WONDER  OF   THE  AGE 


We  have  recently  purchased  the  exclusive  right  to  manufac- 
facture  these  collars  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  in  a  short  time  will 
be  ready  to  furnish  the  same  in  quantities  to  suit. 

This  new  and  wonderful  invention  is  faced  about  one  inch 
thick  witn  granulated  cork,  which  keeps  the  collar  free  from 
dampness,  and  the  collar  also  does  not  gall  the  horse's  neck,  and 
is  always  cool  and  elastic  and  requires  no  sweat  collar.  It  is  very 
popular  in  the  country  east  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and  they 
have  stood  the  severest  tests  for  over  five  years,  and  wherever 
used  have  won  the  highest  praise  from  both  dealers  and  con- 
sumers. They  are  used  by  the  United  States  Government,  who 
report  them  very  satisfactory,  and  by  the  American  Express  Com- 
pany and  other  large  consumers  who  testify  that  it  is  the  most 
common  sense  collar  they  ever  handled. 

If  your  local  saddler  shops  does  not  keep  them,  send  your 
order  to 

Main  &  Winchester, 

WHO  WILL  PROMPTLY  ATTEND  TO  THEM. 

31  »,  316,  318  and    330    BATTERY    ST.,   SAN    FRANCISCO,  Cll. 


FOSTER 

of  the  S.  F.  Stock  and  Exchange  Board 


A.  W.   FOSTER  &  CO 

Stock    Brokers 
No,    32a    PINE   STREET 


SAN    FRANCISCO 


Dec.  25.  1»»2. 


-\\   I  i;\v  [»  o  NEWS  LETTKK 


DECEMBER.— front  frrmfotrr  Stirrma*.  1*  i  Lyric*. 


INSUEANCE. 


D 


EC  EMBER'S  come,  and  with  taor  brought 
A  world  in  whileM  marble  Wrought; 
The  irecs  and  fence  and  all  the  ) 
Stand  motionless  and  while  a$  gbi 
And  all  the  path*  we  ti^ed  to  know 
Are  hidden  in  ihc  dftfl 
I>ecemher  brings  the  longBfll  night, 
And  cheat**  the  day  of  half  Iti  light. 
No  song-bird  breaks  ihe  perfnt   hush; 
No  meadow-brook  with  liquid  l*ii-Ii 
linns  telling  tale?  in  babbling  rhyme 
»>f  liberty  and  summer-time. 
But  frozen  in  its  icy  cell 
Awaits  the  sun  to  break  the  spell. 
Breathe  once  upon  the  window-glnss, 
And  see  the  mimic  mists  that  pass- 
Fantastic  shapes  thai  go  and  come 
Forever  silvery  and  dumb. 

December  banta  Claus  shall  bring— 
Of  happy  children,  happy  king — 
Who  with  his  sleigh  and  reindeer  stops 
At  all  good  people's  chimney-tops. 

Then  let  the  hoily  red  be  hung 

And  all  the  sweetest  carols  sung, 

While  we  with  joy  remember  them — 

The  journeyers  to  Bethlehem, 

Who  followed,  trusting  from  afar 

The  guidance  of  that  happy  star 

Which  marked  the  spot  where  Christ  was  born, 

Long  years  ago,  one  Christmas  morn! 

Christmas  tide  is  the  time  to  get  in  a  new  outfit  of  general  furnish- 
ing goods  for  the  coming  year.  The  best  place  in  town  for  this  pur- 
pose is  John  W.  Carmany's,  25  Kearny  street.  He  makes  a  specialty 
of  fine  hosiery,  and  underwear  of  silk,  fine  balbriggan,  and  hygiene 
natural  wool,  all  of  the  best  make. 

i3srsTT:E&-A_:r>ro:E_ 


Insurance  Company, 
capital ii  .000.000,  |  assets 13,000.000 

STRONG,    PROSPEROUS,    PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  in  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  States. 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

fESTABLISHED    1871.] 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 278  AMD  220  SANSOME  STHtCI, 

San  Francisco,  California. 


GEORGE  L.  BRANDER, 

President. 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW    YOHK. 
Capital  Paid  Up $,?2?'™ 

Assets B,1B1,7D0 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,526,15? 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— SOI  Montgomery  St.      Beneral  Office— 401  Mont's.  St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY   COMPANY 

OF    BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital »1,000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YOEK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL.  &  BERRY,  General  Agents. 

421  California  Street. 


FIRE 


INSURE  your  property  against  FIRE  in 

The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London. 
The  Imperial  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London 

WM.  SEXTON,  E.  C.  MEDCEAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,    814  Sanaome  St.,  S.  F. 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCH,  City  Agents. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

01  BAMBDBQ,  '.kk.many. 

Ilrrlx-rl   I.   Lew,   l.ii, n^.r  for  Ihr  Pacific  I  n»l  Branch, 
Sau   NRMtomr  M..  V  1  . 

iffl'jL        „    c  ...................  St,  500.000.00 

Invested  in  U.   S.  S34.79S.72 

GEO.    MARCUS   &    CO., 

Aflents  City   D«pRrtment, 

23«  4nllfV>ri.lti  St.,  S.F..«a]. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

BALOISE  HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF   BASL8.  OP  BT.  OALL.  OP   ZURICH. 

COMBINED  CAPITAL  4.000,000  DOLLARS. 

These  three  Companies  are  liable  Jointly  and  severally  for  all  Losses  that 
may  be  sustained. 

HARRY  W.  SYZ,  General  Agent, 
410  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Of  Liverpool,  London  and  Manchester. 

Capital  Subscribed $10,000,000 

Capital  Paid  Up 1,000,000 

Cash  Reserve  (In  aaditlon  to  Capital) 2, 126, 000 

Total  Assets  December  31,   1888 6,124,067.60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
305  California  Street.  San  Francisco 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &  HALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Paeifie  Coast. 
413  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  OF  LONDON. 

Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
CEO.  F.  GRANT.  Manager. 

PACIFIC    IDIEPAZRTMrEIsrT 

6UARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 

OF   LONDON. 

Pounded  a.  n.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

AsBets  in  America,  -    -    -     $2,222,724. 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  n.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     t  6,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, $23,194,249. 

WM.  J.  LANDERS,  Gen'l  Agent,  201  Sansome  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  F0REI6N  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL .6,000,000 

AGENTS: 
BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

THE  NEW  ENGLAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets.  $19,724,538.45. 

President.  KKNJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  I  Vice-PreBident,  JOS.  M.  GIBBEN8. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
Mills  Building.  Montgomery  street.  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA,  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  Tor  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

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

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Grain  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 

ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OE  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 

Capital 526,000,000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office.  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 
NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 


8.  F.  News  Letter. 


Christmas  Number,  1692. 


SHIPWRECKED. 

From  the  Statue    by    M.    A.    Trillea. 


Doc.  25,  1892. 


BAN  PRANCI8C0  NEWS  LETTBB 


THE    OLD    CHIFFONNIER. 

<T**N»LATRD  rS"M  THE  FRF.*'  II    01    LBSttlVA,    FOB  THE  *F.Wk   LETTM   BY 
F     II.  «iCPHAH[>T.) 

^"  T  waa  a  very    pretty  and  a  very  coquettish  piece  of  furniture. 

i      that  old  Louis  XV   chiffonnier.  all  inlaid  and  polished,  with 

(J      glided  lock  and  burnished  binges,  and  smiling  with  rose  and 

X      white  mosaics  as    through    joyous  lips.     It  had  come  down 

to  me  from  my  grandmother,  who  had  inherited  it  from  her 

ancestors.     Briefly,  it  was  a  family  heirloom. 

Nevertheless,  never  was  chiffonnier  so  insulted,  despised,  spat  upon 
and  pitilessly  reviled  as  that  pretty  little  piece  of  furniture,  when, 
one  morning,  on  awakening  at  the  Piree—  yes,  at  the  Piree—  I  thought 
of  it. 

Why.  too.  say  you,  did  I  feverishly  tear  my  hair  and  cry  aloud, 
"Wretch!  fool!  scoundrel!'*  without  clearly  defining  if  the  oppro- 
brious epithets  I  uttered  were  heaped  upon  myself  or  the  little  rhif- 
fonnier.  Why?  Ah.  parblieul  a  man  with  a  soul  greater  than  even 
mine  wouldn't  have  left  upon  his  skull  a  single  capillary  spear. 

But  stay !  bear  me  and  judge  for  yourself. 

I  bad  been  happy  enough,  in  other  days,  to  have  been  loved  by  the 
most  charming  of  women.  1  shall  not  tell  you  her  name,  nor  even 
the  color  of  her  hair.  It  is  enough  for  you  to  know  that  for  nearly 
two  years  I  called  her  "Adored  Angel,"-'  the  Woman  of  My  Dreams," 
etc.,  but  at  the  end  of  the  second  year  I  permitted,  without  protest, 
one  of  my  friends,  in  speaking  of  her,  to  say  to  me,  "  Ach !  but  thou 
hast  surely  been  a  stupid  fellow  for  two  years  past." 

Shehadseutme  back  all  my  letters  in  going  away— something  I 
bad  never  thought  of  doing  with  hers— and  I  put  them— behold  the 
frightful  fact — I  put  them,  I  repeat,  in  a  little  drawer  of  that  oldchif- 
fonnier. 

The  old  chiffonnier  stood  then  in  my  chamber;  my  chamber  was 
in  my  mother's  chateau,  eight  hundred  leagues  from  Paris,  in  the 
heart  of  Provence,  and.  to  cat  it  short,  in  hurriedly  departing  on  a 
certain  diplomatic  mission.  I  had  absolutely  forgotten  to  destroy 
these  dear,  delicious  witnesses  of  an  episode  that  had  been  more 
charming  still — while  it  lasted. 

When  I  suddenly  made,  in  a  forgotten  corner  of  my  brain,  this 
cruel  discovery,  I  leaped  with  surprise  and  shame.  My  stupidity 
was  capable  of  compromising  a  lady  who  had  given  me  no  right  to 
thus  neglect  the  obvious  duty  of  a  chivalrous  man— that  is  to  say,  of 
being  discreet.  However,  it  was  not  yet  too  late.  I  was  young,  he- 
roic. I  ran  to  the  port  and  took  passage  on  the  first  steamer  heading 
for  Marseilles  and  France,  and  deaf  to  everything  but  the  cry  of  my 
conscience. 

Think  of  it  yourself.  The  peace  of  a  woman's  whole  life,  per- 
haps, disturbed  through  fault  of  mine,  and  who  had,  after  all,  com- 
mitted nc  worse  crime  than  placing  too  much  confidence  in  me. 

Briefly,  I  did   what  honor  demanded,  and  eight  days  after  this 

frightful  discovery.  I  rung  at  the  gate  of  the  maternal  chateau. 
•  *  *  *  -K 

I  spare  you  the  recital  of  the  cries,  the  exclamations  and  the  surprise 
that  greeted  my  arrival.  My  mother  nearly  strangled  me  in  her 
arms.  She  was  so  afraid  that  something  was  wrong  to  send  me  home 
so  unexpectedly.  I  had  all  the  trouble  in  the  world  to  reassure  her 
and  to  keep  an  indifferent  air,  when,  presently,  on  the  plea  of  dress- 
ing, I  said  carelessly: 

"  And  now,  mother,  please  have  them  carry  my  valise  to  my 
chamber.'* 

"Certainly,  certainly,  dear  boy;  you  must  surely  need  rest — 
Pierre,"  continued  she,  calling  the  servant,  "take  Mons.  Georges' 
baggage  to  the  blue  chamber." 

"Eh?  What's  that?"  I  cried,  "the  greenchamber,  mother,  you 
mean  to  say?" 

"  No,  my  child,  the  blue,  as  I  said." 

"  But,  mother,  pardon  me;  my  room,  you  know,  is  the  green,  al- 
ways the  green  chamber." 

"  It  was,  you  should  say ;  do  not  confound  things." 

"  Who,  then,  has  my  room,  mother?" 
.     "  See,"  said  she  smiling  tenderly  and  pointing  to  the  door  at  the 
moment  opening,  "  behold  the  occupant !" 

"  Gabrielle!  " 

Yes,  Gabrielle,  for  it  was  she,  my  little  cousin,  the  most  charming 
and  adorable  of  cousins,  too,  with  luxurient  blonde  hair,  eyes  that 
rivaled  the  blue  of  the  heavens,  the  smile  of  a  cherub  and  teeth  like 
pearls. 

And  it  was  she,  she  who  occupied  the  green  chamber  and  who  had 
doubtless  rumaged  all  the  furniture.  Oh!  Oh  I  my  brain  whirled  as 
I  thought  of  it !  But  Gabrielle,  innocent  and  gay,  held  out  her  hand 
confidingly,  also  a  little  timidly,  perhaps,  and  that  made  her  only  the 
more  charming. 

"  Good  day,  good  day,  cousin  Georges,"  said  she. 

I  believe  that  my  countenance  must  have  expressed  the  bewilder- 
ment I  felt.  I  trembled,  I  regarded  her  closely,  for  I  wished  to  divine 
from  those  clear,  limpid  eyes  if  dissimulation  were  not  lurking  in 
some  corner  of  that  pure  girlish  soul. 

Had  she  found  them  ?    Had  she  found  and  read  those  letters  ?^^ 

For  between  you  and  me,  she— Madame  Trois  Etoiles  will  do  as 
well  as  the  real  name— Madames  Trois  Etoiles,  then,  loving  me  as 
she  did,  had  a  very  bad  habit  of  translating  into  musical  speech  the 


hw  amotions.    Than  van  "  obi  "  and  ••  ahi  »  and  proteaia- 
Ihoas tpfeto-  well,  if  OftbrfUabad  read  tbrni     I  turned   aa 
hot  H  fire  at  merely  the  thought  of  it  I 

Just  that  calm.  wrane,  tranquil.    "  BoD  jour,  tnv  OOQtlo;*'  nothing 
more,  nothing  lc«..  and  in  my  hand  thai  OOOl.nMj  link  palm, 
an    infants.      Hut   as  the  pealmUl   nyi        Wh  deapai 

than  i  woman's  heart  !  "     //  IA4  hwi  rood  Umt    The  Only  maani  --f 
assuring,  myself  ;t.  to  this  »U  to  enter  her  chamber. 

Her  chamber  1    w/hal  harmony ,  what  iweetneestn  the  words  when 
ami  the  sanctuary  where   sleeps  a  young  girl  whom  one  has 
known  tlDoe  aha  mi  *<>  high   till  now  that  Bbc  has— but  stay,  we  di- 
gress; we  must  keep  to  the  subject,  and   that  is  how  to  enter  thai  vir- 
gin sanctuary— 1  should  never  dare! 

*  •  •  «  * 

<>h.  joy,  happiness,  delirium!  Innocence  herself  has  come  to  de- 
pravity's assistance!  She  has  called  me  in  and  I  am  saved.  How 
dainty  and  gracious  she  was!  What  a  pretty  figure!  And  I,  the  cul- 
prit, am  her  devoted— pooh  !  what  foolishness  1a  this?  It  cannot  he 
possible  that  it  is  emotion  I  thrill  with— that  I  really  am— no,  no, 
certainly  not;  it  is  my  letters,  always  my  letters  that  I  desire  and  am 
thinking  of. 

Ah,  but  it  was  charming,  that  ex-chamber  of  mine,  green  no  longer, 
but  fresh,  pure,  white,  and  decked  out  with  rose!  It  smelled  no 
more  of  pipes  and  tobacco,  and  the  bed,  a  chaste,  downy  nest,  all 
draped  in  a  drift  of  snow-white  lace  that  seemed  like  the  wings  of 
seraphim. 

The  old  chiffonnier,  too— behold  it  yonder ! 

"Cousin,  cousin,"  I  cried,  "  a  glass  of  water,  please;  I  am  dying  of 
thirst,  really  !  " 

She  smiled  and  glanced  at  the  carafe.  I,  sly  dog,  had  already 
looked  at  it — the  carafe  was  empty. 

"I  will  get  you  a  drink,"  said  she,  vanishing  swiftly. 

I  ran  to  the  cbiffonneir;  behold  the  drawer  1  I  hardly  dared  open 
it.  But  time  was  flying— I  must.  I  seized  it;  I  pulled  it  forward. 
Horror  of  horrors !  there  was  nothing,  nothing  at  all ;  the  drawer  was 
empty ! 

My  cousin,  too,  was  coming.  She  entered  and  gave  me  the  glass, 
a  drop  of  rum  in  it  to  flavor  it.  She  showed  me  her  album;  she 
laughed,  she  chatted— she  was  always  unchanged,  the  dear  little 
companion  oi  other  times. 

But  where  were  those  letters?  Had  she  taken  them,  concealed  or 
burned  them?  My  head  spun  with  conjectures— I  found  a  pretext 
presently  and  went  out  in  my  turn. 

On  the  landing  I  met  my  aunt.  Dear,  good  soul  that  she  wasl 
She  kissed  me,  embraced  me,  winked  her  eye  at  me  mysteriously, 
shook  herfinger  at  me  menacingly  and  dragged  meinto  her  chamber. 

"Come  with  me,  you  scamp!"  she  cried,  brusquely  pulled  open  a 
drawer  in  her  table  and  handed  me  a  bundle  of  letters. 

Heavens  and  earth  !  they  were  mine,  the  letters  from  the  old  chif- 
fonnier ! 

"Happily  for  you,"  continued  she,  "I  am  not  a  fool;  also,  I  have 
had  some  experience  with  men,  and  before  installing  a  young  girl  in 
a  chamber  formerly  occupied  by  a  bachelor  of  your  age,  it  was  well, 
it  seemed  to  me,  to  pass  it  under  a  critical  review." 

This  time  it  was  I  that  did  the  kissing  and  embracing,  and  I  told 
her  everything.  I  was  so  content.      I  was  saved,  saved  as  I  said! 

Ah,  my  dear  little  cousin,  how  happy  I  was,  and  I  had  been  so 
much  afraid ! 

#  »  #  # 

Eight  days,  eight  delicious  days  passed  by.  One  morning,  on 
rising,  in  the  blue  room  still,  I  perceived  on  the  floor  a  little  folded 
paper  that  seemed  to  have  been  slipped  under  my  door.  What  was 
it?    Tiens!  a  letter!    I  opened  it. 

"Dear  cousin,"  said  the  little  note,  "why  do  you  not  say  all  this — 
to  mamma?" 

Alogarithm!  "All  this?"  Tell  what  "to  mamma?"  I  had  said 
nothing  at  all.  Why,  then,  should  I  repeat  it  to  anyone?  "Dear 
cousin" — then  it  was  Gabrielle,  of  course,  that  had  written  thus. 

I  awaited  the  breakfast  hour ;  I  also  lay  in  wait  for  Gabrielle  on  the 
staircase.  I  was  going  to  speak  to  her,  but  blushing  rosily  and  avert- 
ing her  head,  she  slid  a  paper  into  my  fingers,  murmuring  softly: 

"Here,  take  your  letter  Georges,  and— s-peak  to  mamma." 

Then  she  was  gone. 

My  letter? 

I  ran  to  the  garden. 

Thunder  and  lightning!  Yes,  it  was  mine,  that  letter,  my  letter 
and  my  writing;  behold  the  style: 

"You  are  adorable  and  I  adore  you!  Will  you  listen  to  me?.  Will  you 
allow  me  to  consecrate  my  life  to  you?    One  word  and  I  fall  at  your  feet. 

Georges. 

It  was  letter  "number  1"  from  the  bundle  of  letters  from  the  ex- 
charmer  and  ex-occupant  of  my  thoughts.  And — what  did  it  all  sig- 
nify, you  say? 

The  simplest  thing  in  the  world  and  told  in  three  words.  This 
aforesaid  letter  had  slipped  into  a  crack  of  the  old  chiffonnier;  well, 
Gabrielle  had  found  it;  she  recalled  that  &he  had  seen  me  near  the 
drawer  the  day  she  gave  me  the  drink  of  water,  and  she  believed  that 
I  had  written  and  left  it  therefor  her. 

Whence  the  response,  "Speak  to  mamma." 

I  did  speak  to  "mamma,"  and  I  married  Gabrielle.  I  adore  her, 
and,  thanks  to  the  old  chiffonnier,  am  the  happiest  of  husbands. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEB. 


Dec.  25, 1892. 


THE  "BAR  L"  BRAND. 


KHE  average  cowboy  (said  Jim)  is  not  beaatiful.  We  were 
moat  of  ua  raw-boned,  ugly  ducks  at  Lucin's  and  rough 
enough  and  tough  enough,  too.  There  wasn't  another  camp 
in  all  the  south  of  Utah  where  you  could  find  men  hairier, 
horsier  or  harder-looking.  The  raw  wind  and  the  fine  dust 
of  the  desert,  with  the  creosote  stuff  they  called  whisky,  and  the  hard 
bacon  and  the  saddle  jolts  brought  out  our  cheek-bones  and  spoiled 
us  for  the  beauty  gallery. 

But  that  boy  Tappan— he  was  just  too  pretty  to  live.  Never  seemed 
to  know  it,  to  be  sure,  but  it  worked  against  him.  If  he  went  into  the 
boss'  saloon  to  get  a  drink  and  there  were  any  strangers  there,  they'd 
all  set  down  their  glasses  to  look  at  him.  I  can't  tell,  of  course,  how 
he'd  have  struck  you,  but  I  know  when  I  first  looked  at  him  he  just 
took  my  breath  away  with  those  steel-blue  eyes  of  his,  that  fine  nose 
and  that  clear  skin. 

Lucin's  was  the  wrong  place  for  Brush  Tappan,  and  it  was  par- 
ticularly wrong  when  Millie  Hessop  struck  the  camp.  She  came  from 
Salt  Lake  in  the  fall  of  the  year  to  cook  for  Old  Hessop,  who  claimed 
to  be  her  father.  Of  course  the  boys  put  more  oil  on  their  hair  and 
on  their  boots  and  made  their  saddles  look  cleaner  and  brighter  and  all 
that.  But  she  didn't  seem  to  look  at  any  of  them  for  awhile — just 
kept  that  pretty  face  of  hers  behind  the  scrim  curtains  she'd  stuck  in 
the  four  windows  of  old  Hessop's  shack. 

I  don't  suppose  Brush  had  the  slightest  notion  there  were  any 
strings  on  her  when  she  came  there.  How  could  he  tell?  Never'd 
seen  her  before.  So  he  got  friendly  all  at  once.  He  used  to  help  her 
wash  the  old  man's  dishes,  and  I've  seen  him  setting  the  table  for 
her  and  making  johnny-cake  in  the  old  man's  kitchen.  But  nobody 
thought  anything  strange  of  that.  It  was  our  way.  There  wasn't  a 
man  in  camp  that  couldn't  make  flapjacks  and  fry  bacon  as  good  as 
any  woman  you  ever  saw,  and  as  for  helping  Mill  Hessop— why,  any 
one  of  us  would  have  walked  forty  miles  through  the  sage-brush, had 
she  said  the  word. 

But  when  I  think  of  it,  I  ean  see  that  Brush  hadn't  any  business 
there.  If  a  man  wants  to  get  along  with  the  boss,  keep  his  cayuse 
fed  up  and  not  lose  any  steers,  he  don't  want  to  have  much  truck 
with  women. 

Still  Brush  meant  well,  and,  as  I  said,  he  didn't  know  there  were 
any  strings  on  Mill— that  is,  that  nobody  else  had  got  his  brand  on 
her.  She  was  as  full-cheeked  and  dark-eyed  a  Mormon  girl  as  ever  I 
saw.  Came  from  Guorgia  or  somewhere  South,  and  I  was  told  her 
brothers  were  all  killed  in  the  war.  How  the  Saints  got  hold  of  so 
many  Southern  people  I  could  never  tell,  and  she  was  as  spirited  a 
Southron  and  as  hard-bitted  as  a  four-year-old  broncho.  It  must 
have  been  the  old  man's  fault  that  she  went  with  the  Mormons. 

You  could  see  that  she  was  taken  with  Brush.  There  wasn't  any 
man  in  the  camp  excepting  him  that  she'd  pay  any  attention  to.  His 
was  a  very  bad  case,  too.  Talk  about  a  lovesick  young  saphead,  I 
think  he  was  the  worst  I  ever  laid  eyes  on. 

Things  might  have  been  all  different  if  the  old  man  himself  hadn't 
taken  such  a  shine  to  Brush.  It  was  plain  enough  that  he  thought  a 
whole  lot  of  the  boy,  and  you  couldn't  have  blamed  him  for  it,  either, 
for  the  young  fellow  was  of  that  sort  that  takes  everybody,  and  I 
don't  believe,  really,  that  he  had  an  enemy  in  the  whole  camp. 

I  guess  I  was  about  the  hardest  on  Brush,  for  I  used  to  make  a  lot 
of  fun  of  him  about  the  piece  of  calico  that  looked  so  well  to  him. 
For  the  truth  of  the  matter  was,  I  knew  that  she'd  be  a  whole  corral 
full  of  trouble  for  him  before  he  got  through. 

I  made  him  fighting  mad  two  or  three  times  by  my  remarks  on 
the  subject,  and  once  when  I  was  trying  to  tell  him  that  she  wasn't 
the  sort  of  girl  for  him  at  all,  being  a  Mormon,  he  made  a  reach  to- 
ward his  hip  pocket.  But  I  guess  he  saw  something  in  my  eye  that 
made  him  lose  bis  wrath,  for  it  didn't  go  any  further.  He  knew  well 
enough,  of  course,  that  I  was  the  best  friend  he  had  in  the  world, 
and  that  1  meant  well,  though  I  had  a  mean  way  of  putting  it. 

Then  the  boss  took  a  hand  in  the  game.  You  see,  I  told  Lucin 
how  it  was,  and  that  he  stood  to  lose  one  of  his  best  men,  all  on  ac- 
count of  the  Hessop  calico. 

"That's  fixed  easy  'nough,"  said  he.    "  I'll  stand  to  that." 

And  the  next  thing  I  heard  was  that  Brush  had  left  for  the  Cow 
Creek  range,  fifty  miles  north,  to  hunt  up  some  of  Lucin's  stock.  I 
know  the  boy  hated  to  leave,  but  then  he  couldn't  quarrel  with  his 
bread  and  butter,  and  Lucin  wasn't  a  man  that  you  could  fool  with 
very  much. 

The  stage  that  runs  over  from  Red  Butte  twice  a  week  brought  a 
passenger  to  camp  the  next  night  after  Brush  left.  He  was  rather  a 
stout  man,  with  a  red  face,  and  the  biggest,  knottiest,  ugliest  hands 
I  ever  saw. 

"  Where's  old  Hessop's  house?"  was  his  first  question,  and  the 
voice  sounded  like  the  pounding  of  a  broncho's  hoof  on  a  barn  floor 
— it  was  just  that  blunt  and  heavy.  One  of  the  boys  showed  him  the 
house  and  he  went  straight  there,  walking  in  without  knocking,  just 
as  if  he  owned  the  place  and  everybody  in  it.  As  it  so  turned  out,  he 
did  own  somebody  in  it,  and  who  should  that  be  but  Mill.  Yes,  it 
was  known  the  next  day — for  the  new  man  blurted  it  out  over  Lu- 
cin's bar— that  he  had  his  brand  on  Mill  Hessop.  They'd  been  en- 
gaged a  whole  year,  and  everybody  up  at  Salt  Lake  knew  it. 


Don't  you  know,  when  I  heard  that  thud-voiced  fellow  knock  out 
those  words,  I  felt  just  like  going  right  out  and— well,  it  just  col- 
lapsed me;  that's  what  it  did.  Here  was  Brush  making  up  to  the 
only  girl  in  the  camp  in  first-class  style,  and  she  was  willing,  and 
what's  more,  anxious,  and  then  to  have  a  chromo  like  that  come 
along  with  such  a  tale.    I  was  completely  floored. 

"  Here's  to  Mill  Hessop,  my  wife  that's  to  be,"  I  heard  the  man 
pound  out  from  his  hard  lips.  "  Come  up,  boys,  all  on  ye,  and  take 
a  drink."    And  he  did  this  several  times. 

Of  course  this  sort  of  thing  made  Steve  Menzies — that  was  his  name 
—quite  popular  all  of  a  sudden  with  the  boys,  and  particularly  with 
Lucin.  But  it  wasn't  so  much  the  liquor  he  bought  that  made  the 
boss  smile ;  it  was  the  feeling  that  he'd  got  rid  of  the  trouble  over 
Mill  Hessop  and  Brush  Tappan. 

"This'il  teach  the  young  fellow  a  lesson,"  whispered  the  boss  tome. 
"  He'll  know  enough  not  to  go  fooling  around  there  any  more. "  And 
he  let  his  one  eye  glance  in  the  direction  of  the  Hessop  house. 

Somehow  it  didn't  just  strike  me  that  way.  I  must  havefelt  in  my 
bones  that  the  "  trouble,"  as  Lucin  called  it,  was  only  just  begun. 

Of  course,  Brush  couldn't  keep  away  from  the  camp  over  Sunday. 
He  rode  in  the  worst-beat  bronco  I  ever  saw  that  afternoon,  and  ex- 
plained his  rush  by  saying  he'd  had  some  Ute  bullets  to  dodge  on  the 
way  over.  I  didn't  take  any  stock  in  that  story,  especially  as  it  wasn't 
ten  minutes  after  he'd  struck  the  camp  before  he'd  headed  toward 
Hessop's.  He  wasn't  gone  very  long  before  he  came  back  to  the  boss' 
place  looking  like  a  man  who  had  just  seen  a  big  railroad  accident,  or 
something  of  that  kind.  He  didn't  seem  to  have  nerve  enough  left 
to  tell  me  what  had  happened,  but  I  hit  if  off  first  shot.  He'd  found 
Steve  Menzies  there,  showing  how  sweet  he  was  on  Mill.  It  broke 
the  boy  all  up— never  saw  anything  like  it.  He  was  just  simply  gone, 
and  there  didn't  seem  to  be  any  help  for  him. 

He  moped  around  for  days  and  days,  and  didn't  take  any  interest 
in  anything.  She  was  changed,  too,  for  she  didn't  stick  her  head  out 
of  doors,  and  hadn't  anything  particular  to  say  to  anybody  that  called 
around. 

I  made  it  my  business  to  go  to  Mill  on  the  fifth  day,  and  I  don't 
mind  saying  that  I  went  there  to  give  her  a  good  raking  over.  She 
was  whiter  than  I  had  ever  seen  her,  and  when  she  stuck  out  that 
clean  little  hand  of  hers  to  take  my  big  grimy  one,  it  sort  of  softened 
me,  though  I  was  still  mad  to  think  what  she  had  done  for  the  boy — 
my  best  friend  in  all  the  world. 

It  was  quite  awhile  before  I  could  say  anything,  and  when  I  did  it 
was  someting  foolish. 

"You  haven't  acted  on  the  square,  Millie,"  I  bungled  out.  "If 
you  had  you'd  have  told  Brush  in  the  first  place  just  how  the  land 
lay.  If  another  man  had  got  the  first  call,  you  ought  to  have  warned 
him  away.    It  wasn't  square." 

"  I  know  it,"  said  she,  "  I—  I—,"  and  she  threw  her  head  down  on 
the  table,  and  her  shoulders  moved  in  a  way  that  took  all  the  starch 
out  of  me.  I  can  brain  a  calf  or  take  a  shot  at  a  man  without  any 
feeling,  but  when  it  comes  to  seeing  a  woman  in  tears,  and  such  a 
woman  as  Mill  Hessop — well,  it  just  beats  me. 

I  ranged  all  through  my  stock  of  comforting  words  to  get  a  rope  on 
something  I  could  say  to  her,  but  all  I  could  think  of  was,  "  It's  too 
blamed  bad."  When  I  had  said  that  about  six  times,  she  lifted  her 
head  and  said: 

"  Well,  I  don  't  know  anything  I  can  do.  It's  got  to  go  on  just  as 
it  commenced,  and  that's  all  there  is  to  it,  though  I  am  very — , 
very  —  " 

Very  what  I  never  learned,  for  the  old  man  came  in,  and  she  slipped 
out  into  the  next  room. 

The  whole  three  of  them— Hessop  and  Mill  and  Steve — were  to  start 
for  Salt  Lake  on  Sunday,  and  that  was  to  be  the  end  of  them  so  far  as 
Lucin's  was  concerned,  but  somehow  or  other  they  didn't  get  started, 
and  we  heard  Mill  had  refused  to  go.  When  Brush  heard  this  he 
picked  up  courage  a  little,  and  actually  went  lo  Hessop's  three  times 
the  next  day. 

"  That  means  shooting,"  said  everybody  in  the  camp. 

As  the  time  slipped  by  and  Mill  didn't  go,— though  she  was  pulled 
and  hauled  by  Steve  and  the  old  man  for  all  they  were  worth,— 
Brush's  handsome  face  began  to  look  as  bright  as  anew  Mexican  bit, 
while  Steve's  grew  blacker  and  uglier  than  was  necessary. 

And  then  came  the  affair  of  the  corral,  which  I  never  did  fully 
understand,  but  which  I'll  tell  you  about  as  far  as  I  know. 

You  see,  we  were  rounding  up  stock  and  putting  on  the  brands 
and  ear-marks.  Lucin  needed  all  the  help  he  could  get  and  so  he 
rung  Steve  in  on  the  job,  though  the  fellow  was  all-fired  anxious  to 
get  away  and  take  the  girl  along  with  him. 

It  was  toward  evening  and  the  last  steer  bad  been  thrown  and 
branded.  Nearly  everybody  had  left  the  corral,  and  I  had  gone 
along  with  the  rest,  when  I  happened  to  think  of  the  old  coat  I'd  left 
down  on  the  fence  and  went  back  to  get  it. 

Well,  I  got  the  coat  and  was  just  turning  away,  when  I  happened 
to  glance  through  the  fence  and  saw  Steve  there  poking  the  branding 
iron— the  big  Bar  L,  that  Lucin  always  put  on  his  stock— into  the 
fire.  I  couldn't  think  what  he  could  be  doing  with  the  brand,  but  I 
noticed  that  he  was  acting  mighty  strange  and  that  his  face  twitched, 
while  it  lighted  up  with  an  ungodly  smile.  The  fire  didn't  burn 
very  well,  and  he  seemed  to  be  in  a  wonderful  hurry  to  make  it 
hotter,  for  he  fussed  around  and  poked  and   stirred  and  piled  on 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


s\\  1  i:\\.  i-m  ,,  m  \w  I.,  in  H 


«ti<-*«.     At  lutil  blued  up  right  hn.«k  and  il  ii<n'i  rrr 

he  pulled  the  iron  out  a  cherry  red.      Then  he  ran  oTer  t..  ■ 

and  I  iu»dc  out  in  the  half-light  that  there  »•»  aotuebo.1v  rl- 

loo.      I   went  along  outside  the  fence  a  little  nearer  and"  s»»  llml  it 

was  a  man  lied  to  a  post  with  a  rial*  and  that  the  man  was  Bratk 

Tappan. 

That  was  enough  for  me.  I  got  over  that  fence  just  about  as 
lirely  as  a  man  erar  put  himself  on  the  right  side  of  tan  rails,  and 
legged  it  toward  tiic  impish  Btav*.  But  I  was  too  far  away  to  do  any 
good,  and  that  six-shooter  of  mine  was  just  where  a  careless  vaajuero 
like  me  is  likely  to  leave  it— up  in  the  shack.  I  could  hear  the  devil- 
ish hound  pant  out  as  be  rushed  up  to  Brush : 

"    I.'  for  lovely,  eh '.'     I'll  put  it  where  it'll  do  the  most  good— right 
on  that  pretty  face  of  yours,  my  boy." 
He  went  a  little  nearer  and  I  heard  him  say  ; 

"Oh.  it's  hot  enough,  never  fear— it'll  make  two  good  marks,  one 
on  each  side." 

He  raised  the  iron  and  I  could  see  poor  Brush  throw  his  head  back 
as  tar  as  he  could  and  make  a  hard  fight  with  the  riata  to  get  loose. 
The  iron  was  stuck  within  two  inches  of  the  boy's  face,  and  I  was 
half  the  length  of  the  corral  away.  I  yelled  and  was  just  going  to 
torn  my  head  to  keep  off  a  sight  that  I  didn't  want  to  see.  when  I 
heard  a  pop  and  saw  a  Hash  from  between  the  rails  on  the  side  nearest 
to  Brush.  Down  tumbled  Mr.  Steve  and  there  he  squirmed  in  the 
dust  for  about  half  a  minute  and  then  lay  as  still  as  if  he'd  been  dead 
a  month. 

I  cut  the  riata  and  helped  the  boy  home,  for  he  wap^pretty  well  used 
up  in  the  struggle  he'd  had.  We  didn'task  each  other  any  questions 
about  who  fired  that  shot.  Both  of  us  knew  that  the  little  tracks  in 
the  dust  jnst  outside  the  corral  weren't  those  of  any  man.  And  we 
kept  still  about  it. 

Brush  and  Mill  both  wanted  to  get  away  as  soon  as  they  could  after 
that.  The  wedding  was  a  very  quiet  affair.  I  think  I  was  the  only 
guest  present.  But  there  wasn't  very  much  room,  anyway,  iu  that 
little  office  of  Justice  Drew,  over  at  Nephi,  where  I  drove  them  that 
night  in  my  buckboard  buggy. 


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EMERSON  says:  »  The  ornaments  of  a  house  are  the  friends 
who  visit  it."     So  are,  or  should  be,  the  inmates,   especially 
the  children. 


WHISKY. 

VERY  OLD, 

RICH 
AS 
CREAM, 

AND 

SMOOTH 


AS 


SATIN. 


THE  JOHN  T.  CUTTING   CO. 

PACIFIC    COASTTAOENTS. 


KDWARD  R.  SWAIN 


THE     ORIGINAL 


FRANK  A.  SWAIN 


SWAIN'S  •  BAKERY 


ESTABLISHED     lBSe 


SWAIN    BROTHERS 


213  Slitter  Street,  Sai}  Francisco 


I    |  AVING  made  unusual  preparations  for  the  Holiday  Season  this  year,  we  are  prepared  to  furnish  the  best  of 
K|    Iced  and  Ornamented  Fruit  and  Pound  Cake,  Charlotte  Russe,  Ice  Cream,  Fancy  Cakes,  etc.    Call  and  in- 

J  spect  the  latest  novelties  in  Christmas  Candles,  Fancy  Bisque  Glace  Cups,  and  a  great  variety  of  Bon-bons 

etc .     We  have  the  best  of  everything  . 


&>  rbe  freshes^  latest  ^JJest^M?  (^/stePS 

jizwioRK  oYstcrs  qJi/st  arriVep 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


MY     UNCANNY     HOST. 


TN  the  month    of  November.  1886,  I   was  crossing  the  Atlantic 

\  to  Liverpool,  from  New  York.  I  had  been  out  West  for 
c)  three  months  attending  to  some  business,  and  on  reaching 
Denver  I  found  that  a  visit  to  England  would  be  necessary, 
and  therefore  telegraphed  from  there  for  my  passage  to 
Liverpool  by  the  Cunard  steamer  Umbria.  Imagine,  then,  my 
chagrin  and  vexation  on  applying  at  the  company's  office  in  New 
York  for  my  ticket,  to  Hud  that  the  Ilecla  had  been  substituted  as 
the  steamer.  The  Umbria,  it  appeared  had  experienced  a  tempestu- 
ous outward  voyage,  and  was  found  upon  survey  unfit  to  attempt 
the  homeward  passage  without  repairs,  which  would  require  a  fort- 
night to  make.  So  the  Hecla  had  been  hastily  brought  down  from 
Boston  twenty-four  hours  before  the  sailing  day  and  put  in  the  Um~ 
frria'tf  berth.  People  who  are  at  all  conversant  with  the  steamers  of 
the  different  lines,  and  know  anything  about  transatlantic  ocean 
travel,  will  appreciate  the  situation.  1  don't  know  what  the  other 
passengers  felt  about  it.  There  were  not  many.itis  true,  for  Decem- 
ber is  not  a  favorite  month  for  crossing  the  Ailantic.  either  East  or 
West.  I,  however,  was  very  much  annoyed.  The  Umbria,  as  doubt- 
less most  people  know,  is  one  of  the  company's  finest,  largest,  new- 
est and  fastest  boats,  whereas  the  Ilecla  is  (or  was,  for  she  is  proba- 
bly broken  up  ere  this)  the  poorest,  smallest,  oldest  and  slowest  of 
the  Cunard  fleet. 

"  There  is  one  thing  I  can  promise  you,  sir,*' the  clerk  said,  in 
response  to  the  growl  to  which  I  instinctively  gave  vent,  "  and  that 
is,  you  shall  have  a  stateroom  to  yourself,  which  you  wouldn't  have 
had  in  the  Umbria.    The  ship  is  comparatively  empty." 

That  was  something.  1  thought,  to  make  up  for  other  deficiencies. 
The  comfort  of  having  a  stateroom  to  ones  self  was  worth  many  a 
sacrifice:  anyhow,  I  was  compelled  to  go,  and  tried  to  feel  recon- 
ciled. We  sailed  at  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning.  The  weather  was 
fine,  with  a  cold,  crisp  air;  a  bright  sun  overhead,  and  a  smooth  sea 
as  we  dropped  down  the  harbor.  Instead  of  going  below  when  I 
came  on  board,  as  was  my  usual  custom,  I  stayed  on  deck,  giving  my 
small  traps  to  one  of  the  stewards,  who  chalked  the  number  of  my 
room,  31,  upon  them,  and  took  them  down  forme.  We  were  well 
out  past  Sandy  Hook  and  the  pilot  gone,  when  the  gong  sounded  for 
luncheon.  I  went  down  to  my  stateroom,  then,  for  the  first  time, 
to  wash  my  hands. 

"31.  sir?"  said  the  steward,  who  was  loafing  about  the  passage. 
"  There,  sir.  First  room  on  the  left  beyond  the  companion  way."  I 
turned  into  the  room.  There  was  a  man  lying  in  the  lower  berth. 
He  was  dressed,  with  his  boots  and  cap  on,  and  appeared  to  be  asleep. 
I  was  annoyed  at  the  intrusion,  and  shook  him  by  the  shoulder. 

"Here,  get  up  I"  I  shouted.  "You  have  no  business  here;  you 
have  made  a  mistake."  He  raised  himself  on  his  elbow  and  looked 
out  at  me.  Never  shall  I  forget  the  expression  of  astonishment  mixed 
with  fear  which  fixed  his  features  like  those  of  a  statue.  It  was  as 
though  he  were  staggered  by  a  blow  and  feared  a  repetition.  Imper- 
ceptibly he  seemed  to  shrink  back,  yet  there  was  nothing  cowardly  in 
the  gesture.     His  lips  moved. 

"  My  dear  sir,"  he  began  in  a  peculiarly  deep  and  gloomy  voice,  "I 
don't  quite  understand  you.  1  have  no  business  here?  1  have  made 
a  mistake?"  His  face  and  bearing  suddenly  changed  to  one  of  offen- 
sive defiance.  "  I  must  beg  your  pardon,  sir.  It  is  you  who  have  no 
business  here.    It  is  you  who  have  made  a  mistake." 

He  was  a  man  of  about  five  and  thirty  to  forty,  with  dark  hair,  eyes 
and  mustache,  of  fine,  regular  features,  and  both  by  his  speech  and 
dress  I  could  see  he  was  a  gentleman.  As  he  finished  speaking  he 
drew  a  plaid  shawl  up  over  his  legs,  and  prepared  to  lie  down  again. 
His  cool  complacency  and  assurance,  combined  with  his  independ- 
ent tone,  nettled  me. 

"Pardon  me,  sir."  I  said  sharply,  "  but  I  must  request  of  you  to 
withdraw  at  once.  This  is  my  room — do  you  hear? — my  exclusive 
room.    I  want  no  intruders. 

He  gave  me  a  fierce  glance.  Like  a  shot  it  was.  for  it  was  gone  in 
a  minute,  and  gave  way  to  an  expression  of  great  pain  and  anguish. 
He  turned  very  pale,  and  with  a  moan  fell  forward  over  the  side  of 
the  berth.  Thinking  it  was  a  sudden  attack  of  sea  sickness,  I  lifted 
him  up  as  quickly  as  I  could.  He  was  limp  and  lifeless  in  my  arms. 
He  had  fainted.  None  too  pleased  at  the  turn  affairs  had  taken,  I 
was  about  to  ring  the  bell  for  the  steward,  when  I  bethought  myself 
of  my  brandy  flask.  No  use  making  a  lot  of  bother  and  a  scene  that 
may  become  the  talk  of  the  ship  all  about  nothing,  I  said  to  myself, 
as  I  poured  out  a  good  dose  of  brandy  into  the  tumbler  on  the  wash- 
stand  and  held  it  to  his  mouth.  I  had  to  force  some  down  his  throat 
first,  but  gradually  the  color  came  back  to  his  cheeks,  his  eyelids 
quivered,  and  closing  his  lips  tigljt  to  the  edge  of  the  tumbler  he 
drained  it  to  the  bottom,  then  he  opened  his  eyes. 

"  Thank  you,"  he  said  in  a  whisper.  "It  is  very  good  of  you.  I 
am  better.     I  shall  soon  be  all  right." 

"Better  lie  down  again,"  I  said,  and  he  did  so.  Under  the  circum- 
stances I  couldn't  say  less,  and  yet,  I  confess  I  was  a  good  deal  put 
out.  Not  only  was  I  intruded  upon  by  an  utter  stranger,  and  the 
privacy  and  comfort  of  my  stateroom,  for  which  I  had  paid  so  dear, 
utterly  destroyed;  but  the  chances  were  I  was  to  have  the  pleasure 


of  the  company  of  a  sick  man— an  invalid  at  best— for  an  indefinite 
part,  if  not  all  of  the  voyage,  for  I  couldn"t  be  brute  enough  to  turn 
him  out  until  he  was  in  a  fit  condition  to  go.  A  sudden  suspicion 
flashed  through  my  mind. 

"What?"  I  cried  to  myself,  "/she  ill?  Is  he  not  only  shamming 
to  avoid  going?  Hello!"  Hiscap  had  fallen  off  and  from  his  fore- 
head blood  was  trickling  down  in  a  thin  red  stream,  as  if  from  some 
wound  hidden  by  his  hair. 

"Why,"  I  exclaimed,  "You  are  hurt!  I  did  not  see  it  before."  He 
put  his  fingers  quickly  up  to  his  forehead  and  I  thought  muttered 
something  to  himself.  With  his  other  hand  he  groped  about  in  the 
berth  for  his  cap  and  put  it  hurriedly  on  his  head. 

"Let  me  bind  it  for  you  or  get  some  sticking-plaster,"  I  said.  He 
Yfaved  his  hand  and  said  softly:  "It  is  nothing.  I  don't  mind  it. 
Let  me  be  quiet."  With  some  feeling  of  self-reproach  at  iny  unfair 
suspicion,  mingled  with  my  annoyance  at  this  unsought  care  thrust 
upon  my  bands,  I  busied  myself,  as  noiselessly  as  I  could,  stowing 
away  my  small  traps  and  arranging  my  toilet  articles.  Meanwhile 
he  lay  perfectly  still.  Presently  I  took  a  look  at  him.  He  had  ap- 
parently gone  to  sleep. 

"I'll  let  him  sleep  it  out  at  all  events,"  I  said.  "I  dare  say  he'll  be 
all  right  when  he  wakes  up.    I  wonder  who  he  is." 

At  the  moment,  as  if  by  a  sort  of  intuitive  impulse,  ray  eyes  fell 
upon  a  dark  Japanned  tin  box.  such  as  army  officers  pack  their  uni- 
forms in.  It  was  standing  on  end,  propped  up  against  the  wall  of 
the  stateroom,  and  curiously  enough  I  hadn't  noticed  it  before.  On 
the  top,  which  faced  out,  was  the  following,  painted  in  white  letters: 
Major  O.  D.  Vane,  57th  Reg't. 

"  Vane?  Vane?"  I  said  to  myself,  "  L  wonder  if  he's  any  relation 
to  the  Vanes  of  Hadleigh  Court?"  I  had  been  at  Oxford  with  one  of 
them,  Herbert  Vane,  some  tenor  twelve  years  before.  He  was  at 
Magdelene  while  I  was  at  Brazenose,  yet  I  had  seen  a  good  deal  of 
him,  as  we  were  both  boating  men,  and  passed  many  an  hour  to- 
gether on  the  river.  "  Hardly,  though,"  I  thought.  "I  remember 
he  was  an  only  son,  he  told  me.  By  Jove!"  I  exclaimed,  as  my 
eyes  rested  on  the  sleeping  man's  face.  "  I  wonder  I  never  noticed 
the  likeness  before.  Why,  the  resemblance  is  marvelous.  He's  the 
image  of  Herbert.  If  I  didn't  know  he  was  too  young  by  five  years 
I  would  swear  it  was  he.  Besides,  he  isn't  in  the  army."  I  knew 
that  fact  for  certain,  though  I  hadn't  seen  him  since  we  left  the 
University.  "But  look  here!"  I  said,  as  a  sudden  recollection 
came  to  me.  "  His  father  was  in  the  army.  I  remember  that  dis- 
tinctly. Colonel  Vane,  he  was.  Stop,  though.  Defeat  again.  If 
he  was  Colonel  Vane  ten  years  ago,  it  isn't  likely  he'd  be  Major  Vane 
to-day.  No,  that  can't  be.  Besides,  he's  too  young,  for  Herbert 
himself  must  be  close  upon  thirty.  The  box,  too,  is  quite  new."  I 
thought  of  every  pro  and  con,  and  ultimately  came  to  the  conclusion 
it  must  be  some  relation — cousin  or  uncle — with  a  strong  family 
likeness.  "  I'll  ask  him  when  he  wakes,"  I  said  at  last,  glad  to  find 
any  way  to  settle  it  in  my  mind  as  I  thought  of  luncheon.  He  still 
slept,  and  seeing  it  was  useless  to  wait,  I  went  up  to  the  saloon.  As 
I  passed  the  pursers  office  on  my  way.  I  thought  I  would  look  in 
and  see  if  the  stranger  had  been  put  into  my  stateroom  by  mistake, 
and  try  and  have  it  rectified.  But  the  purser  was  gone  below,  some- 
where, so  I  didn't  see  him. 

After  luncheon  1  went  out  and  smoked  a  cigarette  under  the  lea 
of  one  of  the  deck-houses,  for  the  breeze  had  freshened  and  blew  up 
a  good  deal  of  sea;  and  then  I  went  down  to  see  how  the  Major 
was  getting  on.  He  was  gone,  and  so  was  bis  box.  The  counter- 
pane and  pillow  of  the  berth  were  smoothed  down  neatly,  without  a 
crease  or  rumple. 

"  Poor  chap,"  I  thought,  "  I'm  afraid  I  was  rude,  but  I'll  make  it 
all  right  when  I  see  him."    Just  then   the  Stewart  came  to  the  door. 

"  The  gentleman's  gone,  I  see,"  said  I.  "  I  knew  he  was  wrong 
about  the  stateroom." 

The  man  looked  puzzled.      "Gentleman,  sir?      What  gentleman?" 

"  Why  the  one  I  left  lying  here  in  the  lower  berth  when  I  went  up 
to  luncheon  just  now.  He  got  in  here  by  mistake,  but  as  he  was  ill 
1  didn't  like  to  turn  him  out.  I'm  glad  he's  better  for  my  own  sake 
as  well  as  his." 

The  steward  looked  more  bewildered  still.  "Excuse  me  sir,"  he 
said,  "but  I  don't  know  nothing  about  it,  sir.  I  see  no  gentleman 
here." 

"Where  have  you  been?  Evidently  not  attending  to  your  work," 
I  said  sharply. 

"I  haven't  been  twenty  feet  away  from  this  here  door  since  I  saw 
you  go  up  to  luncheon,  sir." 

"Nonsense!  I  suppose  you'll  tell  me  next  that  I  didn't  see  him 
myself.  That  will  do.  I  don't  wantanytbing."  "All  thesestewards 
are  ;dike."  I  thought  to  myself,  "keep  their  eyes  open  only  for  tips. 
Of  course  the  Major  tipped  him  to  keep  his  mouth  shut  when  he  found 
he'd  got  into  the  wrong  room."  I  took  a  novel  out  of  my  portman- 
teau and  went  up  to  the  smoking  room.  The  room  was  fairly  full 
of  men,  a  motley  collection  of  commercial  men  of  various  grades  and 
descriptions,  mostly  "travelers"  and  "drummers."  I  lit  a  cigar  and 
sat  down  to  read.  Presently  I  stopped  to  cut  one  of  the  leaves  of  my 
book.  As  I  locked  up,  sitting  in  one  of  the  corner  seats  was  the 
Major.  He  was  smoking  a  short  pipe,  evidently  dozing  with  his  eyes 
half  shut.  The  seat  next  him  was  vacant  so  I  "got  up  and  went  over 
and  sat  down  beside  him. 


Dw.  25,  1892. 


s.\N   ii;  \\,  i-,  o  NBW8  LETTER. 


"  I'm  glad  to eae  you're  batter,"  said  I.    "Thanks,"  he  anawatad 

with  mrrhani.  al  civility,  not  opening  hi*  eyes      "  I'm  all  right." 

"  I  shouldn't  think  smoking  the  best  thing  in  Um  world  when  one 
it  seedy  at  sea."  I  went  on.  riled  at  hi.*  manner.     He  opened  Ins  p-vr« 
and  looked  at  me  angrily.     ■■  Sce.lv.  sir'     And  who. pray. is 
"  Why.  you  were,  half  an  hoar  ago." 

"  Me  t  "  and  he  knit  his  brows  in  a  scowl.  "  I  don't  know  what  you 
are  talking  about." 

I  noticed  tbe  other  men  in  the  room  were  regarding  us— me.  rather, 
for  their  eyes  seemed  fixed  on  me— with  glances  of  curiosity  and  won- 
der. I  felt  annoyed  at  having  attention  thus  drawn  in  »j  by  the  un- 
gracious manner  of  my  companion,  and  thought  I  would  pay  him 
out. 

■    Well,  seedy  or  no  seedy,"  said   I.    "  I'm  glad  to  find  you  have 
discovered  your  mistake  and  have  left  my  itatearoom." 
"  Left  vour  stateroom?  "  he  exclaimed. 

"  Yes,  left  my  stateroom."  I  answered,  emphasizing  the  pronoun  in 
a  loud  voice.  "  Is  that  plain  enough?  "  1  felt  a  hand  take  hold  of 
my  arm.     I  turned  round. 

"  My  friend,"  said  the  man  who  sut  next  me  on  my  left.    "  Feel 
bad.  don't  you?  " 
"  No,  sir,  I  don't,"  I  replied  tartly.    "  What  do  you  mean  ?  " 
"Well,  something  seems  outer  kilter  with    you,"  he  answered, 
"from  the  way  you  keep  on  talking  to — " 

"  I  shall  talk  to  whom  I  like,  sir,"  I  interrupted  with  on  angTy 
flush ;  "  you  are  impertinent,  sir.  Be  good  enough  to  attend  to  your 
own  business." 
I  turned  again  to  address  the  Major.  He  was  gone. 
"  Confound  your  interference !  "  I  shouted,  bestowing  a  withering 
glance  upon  the  man  on  my  left.  "  I  shall  only  have  the  trouble  of  b  unt- 
ing  him  up,  now,  thanks  to  your  stupid  meddling. 

I  rose  and  hastily  strode  from   the  room,  conscious  of  a  subdued 
murmur  folio-wing  me,  in  which  I  distinctly  caught  the  words  "  Cap- 
tain "  and  "Doctor." 
The  first  person  I  met  on  tbe  deck  outside  was  the  Major. 
"  Look  here,"  said  he  with  a  smile,  "  don't  mind  if  I  appeared  rude 
just  now.    I  have  a  good  deal  to  upset  me  that  I  can't  tell  you  about ; 
and  the  fact  is,  before  you  came  in   there  I  was  treated  in  a  way  to 
ruffle  the  temper  of  most  people.    Two  men,  one  after  another,  came 
and  sat  down  on  my  knees,  and  never  so  much  as  apologized.    One 
I  shouldn't  have  minded,  for  mistakes  will  happen.    But  two.    It 
was  a  direct  insult." 
"  And  did  you  not  expostulate  ?"  I  asked. 

"  What  would  have  been  the  use?  Only  ended  in  a  row.  But  I 
gave  them  each  a  deuced  good  shove  and  shake  that  1  don't  think 
they'll  soon  forget,"  and  he  laughed  a  low  sort  of  metallic  laugh  that 
sounded  like  the  gurgling  of  pennies  in  a  bag. 

"They  are  a  rough  forward  lot  in  there,"  said  I,  "one  of  them  bad 
the  insolence  to  chaff  me  just  now,"  and  I  told  him  of  what  had  oc- 
curred.   He  turned  very  red  and  looked  vexed,  but  said  nothing. 

"One  must  expect  it,  I  suppose,  on  a  ship  like  this,"  I  said  pres- 
ently. 

"A  thip  like  Ibis?"  he  exclaimed,  "that's  juft  where  it  is.  It's  all 
the  more  puzzling  to  have  such  a  rum  lot  on  a  boat  like  this,  the 
crack  boat  of  the  line." 

It  was  my  turn  to  exclaim.  "The  crack  boat  of  Ihe  line?"  I  said, 
almost  doubting  my  senses  of  hearing.    "You  are  not  serious?" 

A  painful  suspicion  took  possession  of  me;  and  it  was  one  to  which 
his  recent  occupation  of  my  berth  gave  much  color.  I  thought  his 
voice  sounded  unsteady  and  his  utterance  thick.  It  would  account, 
too,  for  his  rapid  transition  from  quarrelsomeness  to  good  humor, 
and  vice  versa. 

"Perfectly  serious,"  he  answered.    "I  should  think  I  ought  to 
know.    I've  crossed  in  her  before." 
"From  Boston?" 

"Boston?    No.    New  York.    Boston,  indeed." 
"Are  you  not  aware,  sir,"  I  said,  "that  this  is  the  Becla  and  not  the 
VmbriaV 

"The  Heclat    Of  course  I  am  aware  of  it.      I  know  nothing  of  the 
—  the  Umbria ;  is  it?" 
I  nodded. 

"I  never  beard  of  her." 

My  suspicions  now  fairly  confirmed,  I  turned  the  subject  to  the 
weather ;  but  saying  "Excuse  me  a  moment,  sir,"  he  quickly  turned 
and  ran  down  the  companion  ladder. 

The  short  afternoon  was  darkening  into  night.  We  bad  now  got 
out  of  sight  of  land,  and  the  wind  was  freshening  into  a  gale,  and  the 
sea  getting  up  every  minute.  The  sky  had  become  clouded,  and  it 
was  beginning  to  rain.  The  old  Becla  showed  signs  of  rapidly  in- 
creasing uneasiness.  Never  much  of  a  sailor  at  any  time,  I  grew  con- 
scious of  a  fast  tightening  forehead,  and  tbe  dozen  other  premonitary 
and  unmistakable  symptoms  which  invariably  presage  the  near  ap- 
proach of  mal  de  mer.  I  hastily  sought  my  stateroom.  Atlhefoot 
of  the  companion  ladder  I  met  the  Major. 

"Oh,  I  say,"  he  began,  "I've  just  been  to  see  the  purser.  He's 
given  me  another  room.  Its  just  as  well,  for  I  see  you  are  seedy  as 
well  as  I  am.  Good  bye."  He  waved  his  hand,  and  hurrying  along 
the  narrow  passage  between  the  staterooms  was  soon  lost  in  the  gloom. 


ror  the  tint  ten  da)  s  I  had  more  occasion  In  think  of  mv>rlf  than 
of  the  M.jor  Wr  had  •  succession  of  nnrlheuterlr  gala  and  band 
«e»»  which  kepi  ma  light  and  laat  la  mj  i.crih.  ami  made  the  ihlp 

far  too  WCt,  unsteady  and  generallv  uncomfortable  to  encourage  in 
on.  the  trial  ol  that  •overeign  reine.lv  of  Neptune's  .miction  an  ex- 
cursion on  deck. 

When  we  got  within  about  half  a  day   of  QaaanstOwH,   the  wind 
went  down  and  the  sea  with   it       lor   the   tlrst    time   -\u<  e   leaving 
New    \,,rk    I    ventured   on  deck.     '•  Land   in  sight  I "  was  tiring  pro- 
claimed  a«    I    ascended    the  companion-ladder.      Knowing   no   one 
els,-  among  the  paaaaugaia,  Ihe  Hrst  thing  I  did  was  to  look  about  for 
the  Major.     He   was    not    I..    b«    naD.     Wherever    1    looked-  in    the 
saloon,  on  deck,  in  the  smoking-room- nowhere  was  he  to  be  found. 
As  I  walked  into  the  smoking-room,  the  man  with  whom  I  had  had 
the  words,  accosted  me  with  ■  grim  : 
Peel  belter?"  he  asked. 
"  1  urn  quite  well,  thank  you,"  I  answered,  stiffly. 
"  You  was  pretty  considerable  bad  a  week  ago,  that's  a  fact,"  he 
went  on.    "  Seen  many  monkeys  or  snakes?    Ha-bal    He-hel    I've 
been  there  myself.    Guess  you're  O.  K.  now.    A  sea  voyage  is  a 
way-up  place  to  work  off  a  big  tear  and  sober  up— hey?    What'll  ye 
take?"  and  he  put  his  thumb  on  the  bell. 
"  1  don't  drink,"  said  I. 
"Phew!    Since  when?" 
"  Since— now.    Is  that  plain?" 

"  Enough  said.  No  necessity  to  get  mad  about  it,"  he  replied. 
"  But  say,  there's  something  mighty  comical  about  that  seat  over 
there  in  the  corner,"  and  he  pointed  to  the  seat  where  the  Major  had 
sat.  "See?  It's  empty  now,  isn't  it?  Well,  every  one  in  the  smok- 
ing-room has  tried  to " 

"  Hello!  Here  you  are,"  said  a  voice  behind  me,  and  I  turned  and 
beheld  the  Major. 

"  I've  been  looking  for  you  everywhere,"  I  said.  "  Where  have 
yon  been  ?" 

"  Geewhillikens!  "  shouted  the  drummer.  "If  be  ain't  got 'em  as 
bad  as  ever !  " 

"  Let  us  come  away  from  here,"  said  the  Major,  quickly,  with  a 
scowl  at  the  man. 

"He's  a  most  impertinent  fellow,"  said  I,  "and  needs  a  good 
snubbing.  He  has  been  making  remarks  of  a  similar  character  about 
me.  He  is  clearly  under  the  influence  of  drink.  But  they  are  a  bad 
lot  altogether.  By  the  bye,"  1  went  on.  as  we  walked  out  onto  the 
forecastle  and  watched  Magillicuddy's  Keeks  loom  up  on  the  port 
bow,  "  there's  something  I  have  wanted  to  ask  you  about,  but  have 
always  forgotten.  Are  you  related  to  the  Vanes  of  Hadleigh 
Court?" 

He  started  visibly,  but  answered  quickly:  "  Yes,  1  ought  to  be, 
seeing  that  Hadleigh  belongs  to  me." 

"  Oh,  come."  I  thought,  "  he  doesn't  know  that  I  know  better  than 
that,  and  is  playing  the  landed  gentleman  to  dazzle  me." 

"  Indeed."  said  I,  quietly,  "  I  thought  it  belonged  to  Herbert 
Vane's  father,  and  will  eventually  come  to  Herbert.  I  was  at  Ox- 
ford with  Herbert." 

I  expected  an  immediate  and  unconditional  surrender  in  a  state  of 
demoralized  humiliation .    But  not  a  bit  of  it. 

"Really,  were  you?"  he  said  with  an  irritating  shake  of  the  head 
as  he  stared  increduously  into  my  face.    "When,  I  should  like  to 
know?" 
"About  twelve  years  ago." 

He  laughed  outright.    "Twelve  years  ago,  Herbert  was  exactly 
three  years  old.    Hardly  an  age  for  a  'Varsity  undergraduate,  even  in 
these  progressive  days,  eh  ?    He's  at  Eton  now.    It  couldn't  have 
been  him. 
"But,"  I  began— 

"Suppose  we  change  the  subject,"  he  interrupted. 
"But  I  know  it  was  Herbert  Vane,  and  I  know  that  Hadleigh 
Court  belonged  to  his  father,"  I  went  on. 

"I  shall  only  repeat,  sir,"  he  replied  pompously,  "that  Hadleigh 
Court  belongs  to  me,  as  I  can  show  you,"  he  quickly  added,  with  one 
of  his  sudden  changes  of  manner,  "if  you  will  do  me  the  honor  to 
come  and  pay  me  a  visit  there.  I  think  you  will  find  me  in  undis- 
puted possession  of  the  premises,"  and  he  laughed  his  dry,  clinking 
laugh. 

"You  surprise  me  greatly,"  I  said,  "Herbert  Vane  told  me  himself 
that  the  Hadleigh  estates  were  his  father's  property,  and  were  en- 
tailed direct  to  him.  You  are  certainly  not  old  enough  to  be  his 
father."  He  had  shut  his  eyes  with  a  bored  look,  but  opened  them 
and  smiled  blandly  as  I  finished. 

"You  Hatter  me,  sir,"  with  a  graceful  wave  of  the  hand.  "You  for- 
get how  young  Herbert  is.  But  it  does  not  signify  in  the  least.  Pray 
say  no  more.  You  will  find  me,  as  I  tell  you,  in  undisputed,  open, 
notorious  and  exclusive  possession,  as  the  lawyers  call  it,  and  I  in- 
vite you  to  come  and  pay  me  a  visit  and  you  shall  see  for  your- 
self if  I  am  not  right.  Let  me  see.  This  is  Tuesday.  You  will  land 
in  Liverpool  to-morrow.  This  day  week  will  be  Christmas  Eve.  Come 
and  spend  it  with  me." 

I  thanked  him  and  said  he'd  leave  it  open  I'd  wire  him  "Yes,"  or 
"No."  by  the  Monday  before. 


SA>"  FRANCISCO  KEWS  LETTER . 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


"Oh.  do,"  he  said  with  a  frown.    "Come  if  you  can." 

'■  But."  said  I.  *■  how  shall  yon  be  at  Hadleieh  next  week?  Yon 
surely  must  be  able  to  get  more  leave  so  soon." 

**  I  am  not  on  leave  now,  I  tell  yon."  he  answered  sharply.    "  I'm 
coming  home  from  Canada,  where  I've  been  with  the  regiment  ever 
-he  Trent  affair." 

'    The  Trent  affair!"  I  exclaimed.    "  Why  thai  waa  in  *«LM 

"  And  who  said  it  wasn't?"  he  demanded,  with  derated  eyebrows.    ' 

"  ImpossiL.-r 

jppose  yon '11  tell  me  next  that  there's  been  no  war  going  on 
between  the  Northern  and  Southern  States  since 

*'  If  yon  mean  that  the  A  meriean  Civil  War  began  in  '61. ~  said  I, 
"  why  of  course  1  knew  that.  But  that  it  has  been  going  on  erer 
since,  why  —  " 

' ■  Really .  you  seem  to  doabt  ererything  I  say , ■  he  ans wered .  huffily. 

"  We  shan't  be  in  for  another  couple  of  hours,"  said  I. 

"  True.  But  I  have  some  letters  to  write,  and  that  with  my  pack- 
ing will  take  every  minute  of  the  time.  However,  if  you  will  be  at 
the  gangway  of  the  tender  when  she  comes  alongside,  i  dare  say  we 
shan't  miss.  But  if  by  any  chance  we  should.  111  say  good-bve  now." 
He  held  out  his  hand,  and  I  took  it.  It  was  like  grasping  a  solid 
block  of  ice.  I  shall  never  forget  the  intensity  of  the  cold,  for  it  sent 
a  *hock  of  chill  over  my  whole  system. 

"  How  deadly  cold  yon  are!"  I  exclaimed.  '•  Yon  should  wear 
gloves. 

"  I  do."  he  replied,  with  an  odd  expression  in  his  eyes  as  he  held 
up  his  hands  encased  in  thick  woolen  gloves.  "  Bat  I'm  always  like 
this.    Good-bye." 

In  a  second  he  was  out  of  sight  round  the  corner  of  one  of  the  deck- 
houses. When,  two  hoars  Later,  the  tender  from  Queenstown  came 
out  for  the  mails.  I  took  up  my  station  at  die  gangway.  Night  had 
now  fallen,  and  I  waited  by  the  light  of  the  lanterns  until  every  mail- 
bag  was  transferred,  with  my  eyes  fixed  upon  every  person  who 
crossed  the  gang-plank.  I  couldn't  possibly  have  missed  him.  yet  1 
saw  no  sign  of  the  Major.  The  last  bell  rang,  and  the  tender  cast  off 
and  dropped  slowly  astern. 

•  He's  left  behind!"  I  exclaimed.    "How  angry  he  will  be!" 

At  that  moment  a  voice  called  out  "  Good-bye  ''  to  me  from  the 
tender  deck,  and  I  saw  the  figure  of  a  man  near  the  rail  waving  a 
handkerchief.    It  was  the  Major. 

-bow  I  felt  a  keen,  almost  unaccountable  interest  in  Major 
Vane,  and  I  determined  to  accept  his  invitation.  Before  doing 
so,  1  thought  I  would  try  and  see  Herbert  Vane,  and  ascertain 
from  him  the  true  state  of  affairs.  The  only  address  1  knew  was 
Hadleigh  Court;  but  I  knew  that  wouldn't  do.  if  what  the  Major 
said  was  true.  A?  a  last  resort  I  inquired  at  his  club,  and  there 
found  he  was  in  Australia  or  New  Zealand,  having  gone  a—  i 
six  months.  There  was  nothing  for  it  but  to  go  to  Hadleigh  blindly, 
and  on  the  Tuesday  morning  I  took  the  10:37  train  from  Paddington, 
and  reached  Beyton  station  close  upon  half-past  twelve.  Beyton  was 
a  small  place,  little  more  than  a  village,  and  I  went  to  the  only  inn 
it  boasted  and  asked  for  a  cab. 

nere  to.  sir?'*  the  landlord  asked.    "  Be  it  far?" 
"  That  I  don't  know  exactly,  said  I.    "Under  five  miles,  I  should 
think.    It's  to  Hadleigh  Guar* 

"  What,  sir!'"  the  man    exclaimed,  opening  his   eyes  with  amaze- 
ment, "  ye  be  not  going  there,  surely?" 
"  Yes,  I  am,  why  not,  pray?     Haven't  you  a  horse  up  to  the  jour- 

'•  It's  not  that,  sir,"  said  he,  shaking  his  head,  "  it  is  hardly  three 
mile." 

'What  then?"  I  demanded,  annoyed  at  the  man's  mysterious 
manner. 

■■  Why.  sir.  don't  ye  know  the" —   He  stopped  short. 

"  Know  what?  know  who?  know  the  people?  Yes,  of  course. 
What  do  you  mean?" 

11  Be  ye  serious,  sir'-' 

"  Of  course  I  am.  Come.  1  shan't  waste  time  parleying  here  with 
you.  I  want  a  cab,  and  if  you  can't  or  won't  let  me  have  one,  I  most 
try  elsewher-r- 

"  Tbey  got  no  cabs  nowhere's  else  in  Beyton,"  said  the  man,  in  no 
way  rebuffed  by  my  manner. 

"  Well,  then,"  said  I.  turning  to  go,  '*  I  3b all  walk." 

i-y,  sir,"  said  the  landlord.  "  I  see  you've  never  been  in  these 
parts  afore.  There  be  no  use  in  you're  going  there.  The  house  be 
shut  up." 

*  House  be  shut  up,  indeed!"  said  I.  with  an  incredulous  sniff. 
'■  That's  a  likely  story,  seeing  I  was  asked  down  on  a  visit  only  last 
Tuesday — one  week  ago — by  Major  Vane  himself." 

The  landlord  started  back  with  staring  eyes.  "Major  Vane?"  he 
said,  hoarsely.  "  It  can't  be  possible.  Ye  mean  the  Colonel?"  and 
he  gave  a  shiver.  ■*  Oh.  I  beg  ye,  sir.  not  to  say  that.  It  hain't 
right  to  joke  on  such  a  subject." 

■■Why,  sir." — he  came  over  close  to  me.  and  bending  down  his 
head  whispered  in  my  ear — "the  place  is  haunted.** 

"  Look  here."  said  I,  "I'm  tired  of  all  this  balderdash.  Ill  pay 
you  a  sovereign  for  a  cab.    There 

"  All  right,  sir."  he  said,  touching  his  hat.  "  I  see  there  is  no  other 
way  to  convince  ye.  Ill  drive  ye  "n  your  portmanteau  over  in  my 
gig  my  ownself." 


It  was  but  three  miles  by  a  good  road,  and  in  half  an  hour  we 
were  at  the  lodge  gates.    An  old.  woman  came  out  of  the  lodge, 
but  instead  of  opening  the  gates  shoaled  through  the  iron  railing: 
'•  Ye  cant  come  in.    Tis  agin  orders." 

"  But.  my  good  woman,"  said  I,  **  I'm  coming  here  on  a  visit." 
She  held  up  her  hands,  shook  her  head,  and  mumbled  something 
to  herself. 

"  There,  sir.  hain't  that  enough  to  satisfy  ye  ?"  asked  the  landlord. 
"Shall  I  turn  back?" 

""  If  you  dare, "  said  I.  "Just  look  here!"  I  shouted  to  the  old 
woman.    "  If  you  let  us  in,  1*11  eive  you  half-a-crown." 

The  woman  hesitated  a  minute,  and  then  went  into  the  lodge  and 
came  back  with  a  key.  "  Tis  agin  orders,  she  croaked,"  an'  1*11  lose 
me  place  if  it  be  found  out.  Here,  gimme  the  money."  and  she  held 
oat  her  band  through  the  iron  bars.  I  threw  the  coin  to  her,  and 
she  immediately  unlocked  the  gates,  swung  them  hack, and  we  drove 
in.  A  drive  of  five  minutes  by  a  lime  bordered  avenue  brought  us  in 
sight  of  the  bouse,  a  gloomy .  damp  and  dismal  Elizabethan  pile  of 
dingy  red  brick,  covered  with  ivy  from  ground  to  gable  point.  As  we 
turned  into  the  carriage  drive.  I  saw  that  all  the  windows  were  dosed 
with  heavy  shutters;  and  although  it  was  a  raw.  foggy  afternoon, 
and  Christmas  Eve  also,  not  a  sign  of  smoke  issued  from  a  single 
chimney  top.    The  landlord  pulled  up  his  horse. 

"  There,  sir,"  be  said,  none  too  civiDy,  "  ye  must  be  satisfied  now. 

I  be  blessed  if  1  goes  a  step  further."  and  he  prepared  to  turn  about. 

"  Stop!  "  1  cried,  what  are  you  doing?    Look  there!" 

As  I  spoke  the  front  door  opened,  and  my  friend  of  the  Heda. 

Major  Vane,  came  out,  and  standing  bareheaded  on  the  steps,  waved 

his  hand  to  me. 

"There!  Don't  you  see.  man?  Stop.  I  say.  There  is  Major  Vane 
himself." 

The  only  answer  the  landlord  made  was  to  turn  his  horse  round, 
and  before  1  could  stop  him  or  jump  from  the  gig,  to  whip  the  ani- 
mal into  a  gallop  and  dash  back  down  the  avenue  at  full  speed. 

*•  Here!  Let  me  out!"  I  shouted,  trying  to  catch  the  reins.  But 
be  held  my  arm  with  an  iron  hand  as  on  we  flew.  The  old  woman, 
bearing  the  noise  of  the  wheels  and  the  clatter  of  the  horse's  hoofs, 
ran  out  to  open  the  gates.  For  one  moment  the  landlord  was  obliged 
to  slacken  bis  pace  to  avoid  smashing  into  the  posts  as  be  passed 
through,  and  that  moment  I  eluded  his  grasp  and  sprang  quickly 
out  over  the  back  of  the  gig.  I  alighted  on  my  feet  somewhat  shaken, 
but  otherwise  unhurt,  and  started  back  up  the  avenue  at  once  at  a 
rapid  pace.  The  old  woman  held  up  her  hands  and  shrieked  some- 
thing unintelligible  after  me,  and  the  landlord  shouted  and  wared  his 
whip.    But  I  heeded  them  not  and  kept  on. 

In  ten  minutes  1  was  in  the  carriage  drive  again  and  in  sight  of  the 
house.  There,  upon  the  steps  waiting,  as  if  he  expected  me  to  return, 
was  the  Major.  When  he  saw  me  he  came  down  the  steps  and  hur- 
ried forward  to  meet  me. 

"  I  won't  shake  hands."  said  he,  smiling,  **  for  I  haven't  got  over 
my  cold  bands  yet;  and  1  know  how  you  dislixe  the  touch  of  them. 
But  1  am  extremely  glad  to  see  you.  all  the  same,  though  I'm  sorry 
to  say  I  cannot  give  you  as  warm  a  welcome  or  as  hospitable  a  re- 
ception and  entertainment  as  I  should  wish." 

■  Yes?"  said  I,  not  knowing  what  else  to  say;  "  oh.  anything  will 
do  for  me." 

'•  The  fact  is,"  he  went  on  in  an  apologetic  tone,  "  I  only  got  here 
myself  last  night,  and  what  should  I  find  but  the  bouse  shut  up.  and 
every  man  Jack  of  the  servants  gone  away,  without  as  much  as  say- 
ing '  by  your  leave.'  "    His  face  grew  dark  and  bis  eyes  flashed. 
7„t  fools    the  idiots'.  '  he  exclaimed. 

"  Bather  an  odd  thing  for  them  to  do."  said  I.  still  at  a  loss  for  an 
original  idea  on  the  subject;  ■  especially  when  they  knew  you  were 
coming  home." 

"  Ah,  that's  where  you're  wrong.    I    never  let   'em  know  when  to 
expect  me.    I  like  to  take  'em  unawares."  and  he  laughed. 
■■  They  must  have  been  gone  some  time."  said  I;  "  fori  heard  the 

bouse  was  shut  up,  and " 

He  wheeled  about  quickly. 
"  fes?    And  from  whom?" 

"  They  told  me  at  the  inn  at  Beyton,  but  I  didn't  believe  them.  So 
I  came  on.  as  you  see." 
••  Tell  you  anything  else  ?"  be  asked,  hurriedly. 
"  Yes,"  said  I.  laughing,  "  they  said  the  (house  was  haunted,  and 
advised  me  not  to  come." 

He  knit  his  brows,  compressed  bis  lips  tightly,  and  stared  in- 
tently into  vacancy  for  some  moments. 

"  Oh.  indeed,  did  they?"  he  said  slowly  between  his  teeth.  Then 
he  was  silent,  and  his  face  worked  nervously.  "  That's  what  my  ser- 
vants said  the  last  time  I  .was  here."  he  went  on  in  a  whisper,  half 
to  himself.    "  Kubbish !" 

"  So  I  thought."  said  I.  "  But  its  curious  how  people  believe  in 
such  nonsense  as  ghosts — intelligent  people,  too.  Now  there's  the 
landlord  of  the  inn  at  Beyton,"  and  I  told  him  of  the  man's  fear  of 
coming  and  his  sudden  flight.  "  It  only  shows  what  humbug  it  all 
is,"  I  continued,  "  and  demonstrates  how  little  reasoning  power  is 
brought  to  bear  on  the  subiect,  for  the  fellow  never  stirred  until  I 
told  him  I  saw  you  come  out  of  the  bouse.  Ha',  ha!  fancy  running 
away  in  a  fright  from  a  living  man." 


H-       -'*     1892. 


MN   Il;\\<  [»  0  SEWH   II  ill  i; 


The  Major  shrouded  his  face  with  hi«  hand  and  looked  awav  4  mo- 
■MOL 

"  Hut  what  am  I  doing,  keeping  you  here  in  the  cold  like  this?"  he 
•aid.  turning  to  me  again  with  what  I  thought*  forced  smile.  'M  OlDfl 
tntothfl  BOOM  Not  that  I  can  offer  you  anv  Christmas  cheer—  there 
i?  not  eTen  a  fire  there.  Bui  it  is  warmer  than  this,  at  all  event*  " 
H'  led  the  way  op  the  itapfl  and  on  into  a  wide  and  loftv  hall. 
paved  with  tiles  and  hung  with  portraits  of  all  the  Vanes,  male  and 
female,  since  the  ConqueM.  The  air  was  cold  enough  outride,  hut  it 
was  like  walking  into  a  damp  and  iev  cellar.  There  was  a  large  fire- 
place at  one  end.  from  which  the  ashes  of  its  last  fire  had  not  been 
removed,  and  a  single  candle,  in  a  tall  brass  candlestick  burned  upon 
the  hall  table,  throwing  straggling  and  wierd  shadows  on  walls  and 
ceiling,  as  the  flame  flickered  and  flared  in  every  new  current  of  air. 
Dark  almost  as  night  it  was.  for  not  only  were  the  shutters  closed 
and  barred,  but  heavy  curtains  were  drawn  across  every  window. 
The  Major  shut  the  door  with  a  clang,  that  sounded,  as  be  shot  the 
heavy  bolts  into  their  sockets,  like  the  closing  of  a  prison  cell. 
Wheeling  the  table  in  front  of  the  fireplace,  be  put  two  chairs,  one  on 
each  side  of  the  hearth,  and  seating  himself  in  one,  motioned  me  to 
the  other.  "  This  is  the  best  I  can  do,"  he  said,  with  a  sigh.  "It 
might  be  worse." 

■■  Worse?"  thought  I.  "The  Steppes  of  Russia  are  a  conservatory 
to  it !"  But  I  couldn't  say  so.  "  Pray  don't  put  yourself  out  on  my 
account,"  I  said.  "  1  wonder  vou  don't  have  "a  fire  for  yourself, 
though?" 

"  What  should  I  want  with  a  fire?"  he  answered.  "It  wouldn't 
make  any  difference  to  me.  All  places  seem  warm  to  me."  He  fell 
into  thought  for  a  moment  or  two,  and  then  roused  himself  up  as 
though  with  an  effort.  "  You  must  think  it  an  odd  sort  of  reception 
after  coming  such  a  distance  to  see  me.  I  wish  I  could  do  better  for 
you.  but  I  can't— I  can't." 

"  Oh,  I  don't  mind,"  I  replied,  rubbing  my  hands  and  stamping 
my  feet."    It's  not  your  fault  if  your  servants  are  a  set  of  fools." 

"  No  more  it  is,"  he  exclaimed,  brightening  up.  "  You  must  only 
come  again  when  I'm  better  prepared.  I  can't  ask  you  to  stay  all 
night  nor  yet  to  dinner,  for  you  see  how  it  is.  Its  fortunate  you  had 
luncheon." 

"  But  I  hadn't,"  I  said.  "I  hurried  on  here  without  waiting." 
His  face  fell. 

"That's  unlucky,  fori  don't  believe  there's  a  morsel  of  food  in  the 
house.  "  I  shouldn't  know  where  to  look  for  it,  if  there  was.  But 
I'll  tell  you  what" — a  sudden  thought  seemed  to  strike  him—"  I  can 
give  you  a  drop  to  drink.  I  know  my  way  to  the  cellar,  fast  enough," 
and  he  laughed  his  peculiar  laugh.    "  Just  wait." 

He  rose  from  his  chair,  took  up  the  candle,  and  before  1  realized 
what  he  was  about,  darted  through  one  of  the  doors,  without  appear- 
ing to  open  it,  so  quickly  did  he  go,  and  left  me  in  apparently  total 
darkness.  I  am  a  man  of  fairly  strong  nerves,  but  I  confess  I  didn't 
feel  exactly  comfortable.  By  degrees,  as  my  eyes  grew  accustomed 
to  the  sudden  change,  a  ray  of  light  penetrated  here  and  there 
through  the  curtains,  and  the  different  objects  atnut  me  loomed  up 
dimly  and  gradually  assumed  deffinite  shape.  To  my  surprise — I 
won't  put  it  stronger— the  first  outline  that  impressed  itself  clearly 
upon  my  sight  was  that  of  the  Major  himself,  sitting  in  the  chair  op- 
posite. The  candle,  extinguished,  stood  on  the  table  by  his  side. 
"Why  !"  I  exclaimed,  starting  back,  "when  did  you  come  back? 
I  didn't  hear  you." 

'•  Nor  see  me,  either,"  he  added,  with  another  of  his  odd  laughs. 
"  It  was  too  dark,  of  course.  How  could  you?  I  unfortunately  let 
the  candle  get  blown  out  down  in  the  cellar,  and  I  haven't  another 
match.  But  I  managed  to  find  this,  all  the  same,"  and  he  pointed  to 
a  black  bottle  on  the  table.  "Have  a  drop?"  He  took  the  cork  out 
with  his  fingers  and  pushed  the  bottle  over  to  me.  "  I  can't  find  a 
glass  in  the  dark." 

"  Oh,  I've  got  some  matches,"  said  I,  fumbling  in  my  pocket.  "  No, 
confound  it  I  They're  in  my  overcoat,  and  that  scoundrel  of  a  land- 
lord has  run  away  with  it  along  with  my  portmanteau !" 

"  Never  mind,"  said  he.  "Take  a  draw  out  of  the  bottle  au  natural. 
When  you're  as  old  a  campaigneer  as  I  am  you  won't  let  trifles  like 
that  interfere  with  a  drink  of  brandy  fifty  years  old." 

"  1  don't  mind,"  said  I,  takine  up  the  bottle,  "though  I  confess  I 
prefer  the  comforts  of  civilized  life  when  one  has  them  about  one. 
Hellol  what  have  you  got  there?" 

As  I  spoke  I  saw  him  pick  up  from  the  table  a  long-barreled,  old- 
fashioned,  brass  mounted  pistol,  that  I  hadn't  observed  before,  and 
examine  it.  He  didn't  answer,  but  pointed  the  weapon  directly  at 
me.  I  involuntarily  sprang  up  from  my  chair  and  caught  at  his 
arm.  He  must  have  guessed  my  purpose,  and  adroitly  evaded  my 
grasp,  for  my  hand  closed  on  nothing.  The  next  instant  he  had 
pointed  the  pistol  at  his  own  breast,  and  ere  1  could  stay  his  arm  or 
cry  out,  there  was  a  flash  and  a  heavy  report,  and  the  Major  fell  for- 
ward, with  a  moan.  I  quickly  caughthim  in  my  arms,  and  laid  him 
backin  his  chair.  He  was  motionless  and  unconscious,  though  I  could 
hear  him  breathing  heavily ,  quickly.  I  undid  his  waistcoat  and  shirt, 
and  examined  his  breast.  In  the  dim  light  there  was  no  trace  or  sign 
of  any  wound,  or  the  faintest  indication  of  hemorrhage. 

"  It  is  possible  the  bullet  glanced  on  something,  and  he  is  only 
stunned  by  the  blow,"  I  thought.  I  had  heard  of  such  cases.  My 
eyes  fell  upon  the  brandy  bottle.  "  The  very  thing!"  thought  I,  and 
in  a  thrice  I  had  it  to  his  lips.  In  a  minute  his  eyelids  quivered,  and 
opening  his  eyes,  he  drank  down  several  mouthfuls  with  avidity. 
Like  a  flash  the  scene  in  the  state-room  on  board  the  Eecla  came 
back  to  me.  At  the  moment  the  Major  opened  his  eyes  and  whis- 
pered : 

"Thankyou.  It  is  very  good  of  you.  I  am  better.  I  shall  soon  be 
all  right." 

"The  very  words!"  I  exclaimed.  "What  can  it  mean?  It  is  most 
strange."  He  closed  his  eyes  again,  and  his  face  assumed  an  ex- 
pression of  intense  pain. 

"You  are  hurt?"  I  said.  "Are  you  not?"  He  nodded  his  head 
and  whispered  faintly,  "Yes." 

"Where?" 

He  raised  his  hand  to  his  forehead,  pointing  his  finger,  "Here." 


lie  bad  •caroaty  uttered  to*  word  when  a  thin  thread  of  blood 
trtrklrri  down  from  l»»-n.nth  his  hair  and  seemed  to  lose  Itself  in  1h^ 
eyebrow. 
"But  it  is  nothing,  I  don'l  mind  it.  I,«t  me  i.e  quiet." 
Again  the  Identical  words  he  had  used  %\  onr  ilr*t  meeting  ondei 
painfully  similar  circumstances,  low  than  three  waeki  ago!  I  wai 
bewii.i.  It  not  all  a  dream  1    <>r  wu  not  the  other  a  dream, 

and  this  ■  partial  realisation,  as  often  II  teems  to  us  to  beon  the  hap- 
pening ol  whatever  recalls  to  our  mind  a  vague  recollection  ol  i 
Similar  something  or  other  that  we  can't  actually  place. 

Von  ninsl  have  nir.     I  said  suddenly,  brought  back  to  mv  senses 
by  a  deep  drawn  Itgfa  from  the  Major. 

"No.no;  you  mustn't  do  that!  '  he  cried,  without  stirring,  as  I 
started  to  draw  back  the  curtains  and  unfasten  the  shutters. 

"Bui  what  am  I  to  do  then?"  I  asked,  and  the  difficulty  of  my 
position  struck  me  with  peculiar  force.  "If  you  are  wounded  you 
should  have  surgical  aid  without  delav.  How  can  I  go  for  it,  and  yet 
there  is  no  one  else?  I  can't  leave  you." 

"Oh,  yes,  you  can.  In  fact  you  must,  now.  It  is  the  only  way. 
Go,  go,  at  once." 

I  saw  it  was  the  only  thing  to  do.  I  could  do  him  no  good  by  re- 
maining, and  there  was  no  time  to  be  lost.  Letting  myself  out'with 
surprising  ease,  for  the  door  seemed  hardly  more  than  ajar,  I  hur- 
ried away  and  down  the  avenue  as  fast  as  my  legs  could  carry  me. 
As  I  drew  within  sight  of  the  lodge,  what  was"  my  delight  to  see  the 
landlord  sitting  in  his  gig,  evidently  waiting  for  my  return.  He 
clearly  didn't  want  to  lose  my  sovereign,  and  sober  second  thought 
suggested  this  course  to  bini.  All  my  resentment  banished  at  the 
relief  I  felt.  Before  he  could  say  a  word  I  sprang  into  the  gig  and 
cried : 

"  Drive  as  fast  back  to  Beyton  as  your  horse  is  equal  to  I  Another 
sovereign  if  you  do  it  in  a  quarter  of  an  hour!" 

"  Didn't  1  tell  ye,  sir,"  the  man  shouted.  "  I  know'd  ye'd  want  to 
get  back  faster  'an  ye  come.     Aha !  I  was  right,  ye  see. " 

"  Don't  stop  to  parley,"   I   exclaimed;  "but  drive  on.     A   man's 
life  may  depend  on  it." 
"  I  didn't  know  ye  was  so  bad  as  that.    Hi!  there  I" 
The  old  woman  came  out  of  the  lodge  and  proceeded  to  unlock  the 
gates. 

"  You'd  better  go  up  to  the  house  at  once  and  attend  to  your 
master,"  I  called  to  her,  as  we  drove  out.  "He's  had  a  bad  acci- 
dent." 

Her  only  answer  was  a  discordant  howl  and  shriek  as  she  shook 
her  fist  after  me  and  banged  to  the  gates. 

"If  that  be  all,  sir,"  said  the  landlord,  pulling  his  horse  down 
into  a  slow  trot,  "  there  be  no  need  to  hurry.  I  thought  it  really  was 
some  one." 

"  What  do  you  mean?"  I  shouted,  catching  him  by  the  shoulder. 
"  I  tell  you  Major  Vane  has  shot  himself,  by  accident,  I  hope,  and 
needs  a  surgeon  without  delay." 

"Major  Vane?    Do  you  mean  the  man  that  came  down  the  steps 
when  we  drove  in  that  time?"  and  the  landlord's  voice  grew  thick 
and  hoarse. 
"Yes,  I  do." 

"I  know'd  I  was  right!  I  know'd  it!"  he  exclaimed.  "That  there 
wasn't  no  Major  Vane.  That  was  Colonel  Vane,  Mr.  Herbert's 
father,  as—" 

"Look  here,"  said  I,  "I'm  in  no  humor  for  auy  more  of  your  non- 
sense.   I've  had  enough  of  it  and  won't  have  any  more,  I  tell  you, 
drive  on  at  once." 
"And  ye  won't  believe  me  when  I  tell  ye  that  Colonel  Vane" — 
"No.     I  won't.     So  you  can  hold  your  tongue.     Drive  on  at  once  if 
you  wish  to  earn  the  sovereign." 

The  mention  of  the  coin  recalled  the  man  to  his  senses.  He  lashed 
the  horses  into  a  gallop  and  we  whirled  along. 

"Drive  to  a  surgeon's,"  said  I,  as  we  approached  thetown.  "There 
is  one  in  Beyton,  I  suppose?" 

"Yes  there  be.    Mr.  Huntley,  and  a  right  clever  man  he  be,  too. 
Perhaps  ye'll  believe  him  when  he  tells  ye" — 
"Huntley?  Huntley?"  said  I,  "Is  his  name  Archibald?" 
"It  is  that  same,  sir,  and  no  mistake." 

"Why,  I  know  him.  I  was  at  college  with  him — if  he's  the  same. 
A  tall,  thin  man  with  dark  hair  and  eyes  and  a  lisp." 

"That's  him !  I  be  that  glad,  for  now  he'll  prove  I'm  no  liar  when 
I  tell  ye  as—" 

"Stopl  Whatever  there  is  to  tell  he  can  tell  me  himself."  In  ten 
minutes,  the  horse  in  a  lather,  we  drew  up  at  Mr.  Huntley's  surgery. 
The  landlord  followed  me  in.  It  was  my  Huntley  sure  enough.  I 
told  him  at  once  what  I  had  come  for,  ending  up  with:  "You'll 
hurry,  won't  you?'' 

He  listened:  quietly  while  I  spoke,  and  then  looked  at  me  with  a 
doubtful  expression. 

"Hurry?  No— Isn't  it  almost  time  you  gave  up  practical  joking, 
old  fellow — We  are  both  too  old  for  that  sort  of  thing— It's  rather  a 
serious  subject  too,  don't  you  think?" 
"There  is  some  mystery  about  it  that  I  can't  understand,"  said  I. 
"Do  you  mean  to  say  you  don't  know?"  said  Huntley.    "Non- 
sense." 

"  It's  no  nonsense,  I  assure  you.  I  can  swear  that  all  I  have  told 
you  is  true." 

"  Why,  sir,"  interrupted  the  landlord,  "  I  have  tried  to  tell  him  a 
dozen  times,  but  he  won't"— 

"Oh,  yes,"  said  I— "that  Hadleigh  is  haunted.  You  don't  surely 
believe  such  rubbish  as  that?" 

"  I  confess  I  have  had  my  doubts  about  it,"  replied  Huntley,  "  but 
you  have  quite  dispelled  them.  I  believe  now  that  the  house  is 
haunted.  And  so  will  you  when  I  tell  you  I  know  something  about 
the  Vane  family,  and  that  the  man  you  call  Major  Vane  is,  or  rather 
was,  Colonel  Vane,  who  commauded  the  old  Fifty-Ninth  Regiment 
some  twelve  years  ago." 
"  Well,"  said  I,  "  and  what  does  that  prove?" 
"  Nothing,  of  itself,"  said  Huntley.  "I  was  going  to  remark  fur- 
ther that  this  Colonel  Vane  shot  and  killed  himself  by  accident,  in 
precisely  the  way  you  describe,  in  the  year  1875." 


6AM  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


THE 


NEWS     LETTER  "      DIC- 
TIONARY. 


Abbott.— A  professor  of  chastity,  with  a  well  developed  knowledge 
of  the  human  form  divine. 

Adoption, — The  act  of  making  morally  certain  that  you  are  not  the 
father  of  your  child. 
Agitator.— A  gentleman  who  works  with  his  tongue. 
Agriculturist.— An  individual  who  continually  sighs  for  a  beauti- 
ful life  in  the  city. 

American.— A  perfectly  organized  Human  Being,  who  has  no  con- 
ception of  the  meaning  of  the  word  Fail. 
Agent.— A  seller  of  champagne  wine  on  commission. 
Bachelor.— The  delight  of  the  spinster,  the  despair  of  a  married 
man,  and  the  honored  and  welcome  guest  of  a  summer  or  winter  re- 
sort. 

Beauty  (ad.).— A  commodity  most  valuable  when  possessed  with  a 
total  lack  of  money. 

Beauty  (n.).— A  woman  who  has  the  privilege  of  making  herself 
agreeable  when  she  chooses. 

Blonde.— The  art  of  knowing  how  to  effectively  use  bleaching  ma- 
terial. 

Bleeching  Boards.— Rough  timbers  which  give  seating  capacity 
to  a  mob  of  disorderly  howlers. 

Baseball.— A  flourishing  industry  peculiar  to  the  United  States, 
and  vicariously  practiced  by  a  set  of  animals  who  are  fed,  clothed 
and  got  properly  drunk  by  a  league  composed  expressly  for  that  pur- 
pose. 

Benefactor.— A  man  who  desires  to  go  down  to  posterity  as  a  con- 
summate ass. 

Cafe.— A  place  where  a  ten-cent  meal  costs  two-bits. 
Carol.— A  song  indulged  in  by  a  man  when  he  is  three  sheets  in 
the  wind. 

Contractor. — A  gentleman  who  figures  on  jobs  for  those  who  can't 
figure.    Also  a  street  sweeping  machine. 

Correspondent.— A  highly  intellectual  gentleman  who  flatters 
communities  for  ducats. 

Devil.— A  mysterious  personage  whose  existence  is  necessary  for 
the  livelihood  of  a  preacher. 

Drunkard.— A  gentleman  who  never  touches  a  drop. 
Dullness.— The  felicitous  art  of  keeping  out  of  trouble. 
Dotage.— The  faculty  of  running  an  unprofitable  newspaper  on 
Clay  street. 

Eagle.— A  bird  appropriated  by  the  American  people  on  account 
of  its  freedom  from  offensive  qualities.  A  mythical  creature  which 
is  generally  supposed  to  be  engaged  in  flappingits  wings  and  screech- 
ing.    It  does  without  eating,  and  is  devoid  of  modesty. 

Equality.— The  happy  knowledge  that  the  veriest  tramp  is  mor- 
ally, socially  and  intellectually  your  equal,  and  that  you  don't  carry 
a  baccarat  ontfit  when  you  spend  two  days  in  the  country  at  a  mer- 
chant prince's  arborescent  shanty. 

Evil.— The  sweet  solace  of  knowing  you  are  pure. 
Fair. — A  combination  of  buildings  created  by  the  expansive  intel- 
lect of  M.  H.  de  Young,  to  show  Europe  that  she  isn't  in  it. 

Female  (n.).— One  section  of  the  human  race  that  has  kept  the 
other  half  busy  cutting  throats,  making  divorces,  doctors,  lawyers, 
soldiers, statesmen,  rou6s,  and  the  devil  knows  what.. 

Felicity.— A  transient  exhilaration  of  the  feelings  induced  by  ter- 
rapins, oysters  and  champagnes. 
Faith. — The  heritage  of  the  sot,  and  the  golden  egg  of  the  preacher. 
Fashion.— The  art  of  enabling  a  tailor  and  a  dressmaker  to  gouge 
the  public. 

Folly. — A  sentimental  slip  of  an  unmarried  female,  accompanied 
by  a  private  lying-in  hospital. 

Fail.— Obsolete.     Vide  English  dictionaries. 

Gaudy. — The  dress  of  a  gambler  or  a  gentleman  from  Jerusalem. 
Garden. — A  shop  where  flowers  are  bought  by  the  dozen. 
Gardenia.— An  arrangement  of  flowers  in  the  button-hole  to  hide 
the  smell  of  ten-cent  whisky. 

Gay.— A  grass  widow,  or  a  man  who  can  hold  four  aces  and  look 
unconcerned. 

Ghost. — The  stamp  of  decency  generally  possessed  by  decayed 
families. 

Hag.— A  woman  who  has  passed  the  age  of  her  maturer  charms. 
Haste. — The  stamp  and  walk  of  a  bank  clerk. 
Hotel. — A  pit-fall  for  the  stranger. 

Hotel  Keeper.— A  man  who  regards  the  public  as  his  legitimate 
prey. 

Heroism. — The  quality  of  having  your  name  in  the  paper,  and  be- 
ing called  a  blamed  fool  for  your  trouble. 

Habit.— A  mannerism  acquired  by  study  and  care. 
Israelite. — A  Jew  who  objects  to  the  word  Hebrew. 


Jag  (n.). — The  delicious  quality  of  having  consumed  sufficient  wine 
to  enable  you  to  see  stars. 

Lamb. — An  individual  who  inclines  to  politics  which  are  not  in  con- 
sonance with  the  views  of  editors. 

Landing. — A  foul  place  where  passengers  are  disembarked. 

League. — An  organization  maintained  at  the  public  expense  to 
provide  nine  men  with  canary  cages,  clubs,  spiked  boots  and  gloves. 

Longing.— The  yearning  of  an  aged  spinster  for  a  chance  to  com- 
mit a  folly. 

Lounger.— A  gentleman  who  belongs  to  one  or  more  clubs,  but 
does  not  pay  his  tailor's  bills. 

Master. — A  man  who  pays  a  man  for  the  privilege  of  living. 

Mistress. — An  uncomfortable  female,  whether  paid  or  paying. 

Mendacity. — The  art  of  being  a  successful  liar. 

Name. — A  convenient  handle  by  which  to  make  a  guess  as  to  your 
father. 

Nepotism.— Belonging  to  the  Republican  party,  as  exemplified  by 
Benjamin  Harrison. 

Nurse.— A  woman  paid  to  do  the  duties  of  a  mother. 

Nonsense. — The  gay,  loquacious  moments  of  a  savaiti,  or  the  writ- 
ings of  Edward  S.  Holden. 

Peculiarity. — A  privilege  accorded  only  to  those  with  wealth. 

Pessimism.— A  cult  practiced  by  those  who  have  more  than  ttaey 
deserve. 

Practice. — An  attorney's  privilege  to  rob  his  clients,  and  the 
doctor's  mode  of  standing  in  with  the  undertaker. 

Platonic— An  excuse  to  kiss  your  friend's  wife  whenever  she  ap- 
pears more  than  usually  attractive. 

Pal. — A  friend  whose  wife  you  love  more  than  you  honor. 

Razzle.— (a)  The  dazzling  effects  of  a  combination  of  drinks;  (b)  a 
peculiarly  inocuous  pastime  indulged  in  by  people  on  the  night  of  a 
friend's  wedding — particularly  disliked  by  the  groom  and  bride. 

Spinster.— An  undeveloped  woman. 

Soiree.— A  nondescript  entertainment  indulged  in  by  those  whose 
means  can  only  afford  cake  and  tea. 

Tea. — An  article  of  commerce  vitiated  into  an  epicene  form  of  en- 
joyment, aided  by  flowers  and  damp  herbage. 

Temptation,— A  delightful  amusement  to  females  when  offered  by 
handsome  and  unscrupulous  men. 

Tyrant. — A  man  who  thinks  his  wife  ought  to  love  him  alone. 

Trinkets.— Gewgaws  used  to  abduct  virtue. 

Wine. — A  nectar  which  makes  even  the  poor  rich. 

Wisdom.— The  attribute  of  old  age. 

Virtue.— An  unsaleable  commodity  kept  on  hand  only  by  those 
who  are  lacking  in  personal  charms.  An  intangible  quality  frefly 
bartered  for  lucre  or  a  moment's  pleasure. 

Vice. — The  art  of  exchanging  beer  for  champagne,  coarse  for  fine 
linen,  merino  for  silk  underclothes. 

Youth. — The  pride  of  the  young  man,  the  despair  of  parents,  and 
the  regrets  of  old  age. 

Zero. — The  yawning  grave.  J.  h.  g. 

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STUDIO  :     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 

HENRY  C.  HYDE 

ATTORNEY   AND   COUNSELOR  -  AT  -  LAW. 

MICROSCOPICAL.     EXAMINER 

Of  Handwriting,  Inks.  Papers,  etc.,  in  the  Detection  of  Forgeries, 

Counterfeits  and  Imitations. 

41  in  CALIFORNIA  STREET.  San  Francisco.  Cal. 


Dec.  25,  1892 


-  \N    l'l  W8  LETTER. 


A      HARD-TO-PLEASE      LOVER. 

men  the  rmiVOH  or  iouum  bcboll,  roams  skw?  lkttkb,  by  r.  11. 

GKBtlASD. 


¥HKTHKU  the  claim  that  only  old 
that  all  the  young  widows,  the 
at  least,  have  been  dead  and  bur 
Scribe,  be   true   or   false,  is  a  q 


old  widows  live  now,  and 
pretty  young  widows, 
iried  since  the  days  of 
question  upon  which  I 
shall  not  enter  here. 
It  would  be  entirely  unnecessary,  in  fact,  since  I  happen  to  know 
that  one  lived,  anyway,  not  very  long  ago,  in  a  pretty  little  hotel  of 
the  Rue  Monceau,  the  tiniest  and  prettiest  little  hotel  it  is  possible  to 
imagine,  about  ten  metres  square,  and  entirely  hidden  by  a  clematis 
vine,  sfhe  called  herself  Louise,  and  the  marriage  ceremony  had 
made  her  Madame  la  Comtess  Louise  de  Virv. 

This  pretty  little  coronated  widow  was  just  past  the  corner  of 
twenty  years,  and  her  chief  accessory  was  a  little  white  and  curly 
dog,  whose  name  was  Bally,  and  the  sole  nourishment  of  which  con- 
sisted of  a  lump  of  sugar  in  the  morning  and  a  biscuit  in  the  evening. 
The  day  this  story  opens,  at  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  Madame 
Louise  was  skimming  like  a  butterfly  along  the  neatly  graveled  paths 
of  her  little  garden,  circling  among  the  lilacs  and  rose  bushes,  and 
pausing  from  time  to  time  to  breathe  through  her  rosy  nostrils  the 
pungent  perfume  of  a  newly-opened  Mower. 

Bally,  wild  with  delight,  was  chasing  his  mistress  with  gleeful 
barks,  sometimes,  when  he  could  catch  her,  seizing  with  all  his  teeth 
the  flounce  of  the  rose-pink  muslin,  which  Louise  seemed  to  have 
fashioned  into  a  gown  from  a  bit  of  rainbow,  to  prop  himself  upon 
his  paws  and  pull  away  to  the  full  extent  of  his  pigmy  strength. 

At  the  height  of  these  amusements,  Mon.  Jacques  de  Beauchamp 
entered  the  garden.  The  little  widow  saw  him  coming  and  hid  be- 
hind an  orange  bush,  but  Jacques  was  a  lover  with  uncommonly 
good  eyes,  and  had  her  in  his  arms  before  she  knew  where  she  was. 
Of  course  she  struggled  and  cried  out  a  little— they  always  do— but  at 
the  same  time  she  knew  that  she  was  so  charming,  Jacques  or  no 
other  man  could  possibly  have  helped  it. 

Neither  tali  nor  short,  briefly,  just  medium  height,  Louise  had  too 
small  feet  and  hands,  too  white  shoulders,  and  long,  thick  hair  of  a 
too  beautiful  black.  Besides  all  this,  she  had  teeth  so  regular  and 
pearly,  and  which  sent  forth  such  gleams  of  dazzling  whiteness  when 
she  laughed  or  smiled,  it  was  almost  necessary  to  look  at  her  as  one 
looks  at  the  sun,  through  a  bit  of  smoked  glass. 

And  how  well,  too,  she  bore  her  title  of  widow,  and  always  in  a 
way  to  do  herself  credit.  A  young  girl  generally  is  timid  and  stupid, 
blushes  and  stammers  at  the  least  word  said  to  her,  and  gives  you  a 
glimpse  of  only  her  eyebrows.  A  widow,  on  the  contrary,  has  the 
right  to  hear  everything,  and  when  you  talk  to  her  of  love,  she  knows 
what  love  means. 

Louise,  then,  accepted  her  lover's  caress  as  the  natural  tribute  to 
her  charms,  and,  supported  by  his  arm,  returned  to  the  salon,  fol- 
lowed by  Bally,  his  tail  drooping  low,  and  his  eyes  green  with  jeal- 
ousy of  his  mistress'  suitor. 

In  a  word,  the  marriage  was  settled,  and  Jacques  and  Louise  made 
such  a  fine  couple  that  it  would  have  been  a  pity  had  it  been  other- 
wise, though  each  had  a  serious  fault— M.  de  Beauchamp  was  jealous 
and  Mme.  de  Viry  was  a  coquette. 

"  Louise,"  said  he,  presently,  when  they  had  talked  awhile,  "  you 
fill  me  with  despair.  You  say  that  you  love  mereven  that  confes- 
sion has  come  from  your  rosy  lips,  but  how  can  I  believe  you  when  I 
see  you  smile  on  all  alike  ?  You  receive  too  kindly  the  first  man  that 
comes  along,  and  when  I  watch  you  in  the  world  so  lively  and  gay, 
laughing  always  so  joyously  in  the  midst  of  a  crowd  of  eager  flat- 
terers, it  is  impossible  to  describe  to  you  the  torment  and  tortures 
that  I  endure." 

"  But  what  can  be  done,  my  friend  ?"  responded  Louise,  demurely. 
"  I  am  joyous,  it  is  true,  but  that  is  not  a  crime.  And  why  should  I 
repulse  men  who  like  and  seek  my  company,  and  say  only  things 
that  are  agreeable  to  listen  to?" 

"  Why,  Louise  ?  Because  you  are  a  flirt,  a  born  coquette,  and  your 
laughter  completes  my  despair,  for  you  laugh  thus  persistently,  I 
believe,  only  to  show  your  dazzling  teeth.  You  know  too  well  how 
adorable  you  are  when  laughing  thus,  your  head  thrown  back  and 
your  pretty  white  throat  displayed  to  view." 

"  But  what  can  I  do,  Jacques,  to  prove  my  love  for  you  ?    You 
break  my  heart  with  all  these  doubts.    Ask  anything  you  please  of 
me — save  not  to  laugh — and  I'll  agree  to  do  it." 
Mon.  de  Beauchamp  took  on  a  solemn  and  thoughtful  air.] 
"  You  told  me  one  evening,  Louise,"  said  he,  "  that  you  would  sac- 
rifice your  life  for  me.    I  do  not  ask  so  much  as  that  of  you,  but 
come,  tell  me,  you  can  make  me  the  happiest  of  men,  will  you  con- 
sent to  do  it?" 
"  You  have  only  to  speak." 
"  Even  at  the  price  of  suffering,  you'll  do  it?" 
"  Even  so,  at  the  price  of  suffering." 
"  Well,  make  me  the  sacrifice  of— one  of  your  teeth." 
"What!    Do  you  know  what  you  are  asking,  Jacques?    It  is  a 
piece  of  barbarity  I" 


"  One  Hula  tooth-  thi  my  smallstt,  bui  In  front;  tat*  vouoan 

laugh  •;•  roach  «*  you  plea**,  and  I  will  mj  never  a  word." 

"  Hut  you  would  think  me  ugly;  vou  would  hart  nothing  mora  to 
do  with  Dlt." 

■■  it  li  the  only  mttna    I  «wo«r  it— of  urarlng  my  bapninata." 
«■  Ultlt  I  i,.  .1  ind  rung  tht  bell.    Balnl  Joan,  her  Foot- 

man, took  htr  ordtr.  wtnf  out  And  returned  twenty  roinntta later, 
followed  by  n  gentleman  bearing,  apparently,  n  box  ol  Instruments, 

"  Who  is  he.  that  man?"  demanded  M.  de  Btancbamp,  BUSplo- 
ioualy. 

"  M.  James,  the  American  dentist,"  the  Comitate  replied,  paeatng 
into  her  boudoir.  Bally,  ji>  nana],  m  htrbtelfl  and  with  banging  head, 
as  became  a  dog  that  knew  something  very  serious  was  about  to 
happen. 

Five  minutes  later  Louise  returned,  blushing  and  humiliated,  and 
silently  laid  in  Mon.  de  Beauchamp's  hand   a  tiny  little  tooth  like  a 
.    bitof  pearl,  which  Jacques  raised  to  his  lips  and  covered  with  pas- 
sionate kisses.    Then  she  turned  and  shut  herself  in  her  chamber, 
and  no  persuasion,  for  the  moment,  could  induce  her  to  reappear. 
Jacques,  however,  all  delight,  had  the  little  pearl  enshrined  in  a 
!    golden  locket,  and  wore  it  religiously  on  his  watch-guard  like  a  holy 
i    relic.     But  from   that  moment  on,  the  poor  little  Corutesse  grew  so 
,    dull  and  gloomy,  that  she  seemed  like  a  nun.     Very  seldom,  even, 
did  a  faint  smile  light  up  her  countenance  like  a  ray  of  sunlight  on  a 
cloudy  day.    She  shunned  society,  and  if  by  chance  compelled  to  en- 
dure it.  she  sat  apart,  secluded  in  a  corner,  glum  as  an  owl,  and  with 
her  mouth  shut  as  tight  as  a  prison  door. 

Jacques  scarcely  recognized  her,  for  in  truth  she  was  unrecogniz- 
able. 

"  The  little  widow  was  ageing,"  malicious  gossips  declared,  "  she 
had  changed  beyond  telling,  and  whereas  once  she  was  gay  as  a 
cricket,  she  was  now  as  solemn  as  a  funeral  procession." 

Drop  by  drop  Jacques  felt  his  love  flowing  away,  like  water  from  an 
overturned  vase  of  flowers.  He  comprehended  that  what  he  had 
loved  in  her  above  all  else  was  her  smile,  her  wit,  her  sprightliness  and 
her  gaiety.  Then  he,  too,  grew  sombre,  reasoned  perpetually  with 
himself  to  retain  his  vanishing  love  and  to  intoxicate  himself  anew, 
only  to  more  keenly  realize  that  he  alone  had  slain  his  passion  and 
his  happiness. 

Things  went  on  thus,  till,  one  morning,  in  a  state  of  reckless  des- 
peration, he  rushed  to  Mme.  de  Viry's  house  and  flung  himself  at 
her  feer. 
"  Louise,  Louise,"  he  cried,  "  tell  me,  do  you  love  me  still?" 
"  I  have  sworn  to  love  you  always   Jacques,"  she  gently  returned. 
"And  are  willing  to  again   prove  to  me  the  sincerity  of  your 
words?" 
"  Yes,  I  ask  nothing  better." 

"  Then,  if  you  love  me  as  you  say,  have  your  tooth  put  back  im- 
mediately." 

"  What— what  nonsense  is  this?"  sobbed  Louise,  bursting  into 
tears.  "  I  told  you  it  would  be  so,  that  you  would  love  me  no  longer  1 
You  are  just  the  same  as  the  rest  of  the  men.  And  yet  they  reproach 
and  accuse  us  women  of  being  capricious!" 

"  I  know,  I  know,  Louise  darling,  but  I  beseech  you,  pardon  me  I 
I  was  a  fool,  a  dolt,  an  idiot  I    I  curse  my  own  blindness  1  " 

"  You  regret,  then,  the  weakness  that  made  me  consent  to  your 
caprice?" 

"  From  the  bottom  of  a  heart  filled  with  sorrow  and  wrung  with  re- 
morse." 
"  You  admit  the  cruelty  of  the  sacrifice  demanded  of  me?" 
"  I  shall  reproach  myself  with  it  to  the  day  of  my  death." 
"  And  you'd  have  been  glad  had  I  refused  or  disobeyed  your  de- 
sire?" 

"  I  would  give— anything  in  the  world,  no  matter  what,  had  you 
only  done  so." 

The  little  widow  threw  back  her  head,  uttered  a  peal  of  silvery 
laughter,  and  disclosed— all  of  her  teeth,  not  a  single  one  missing. 

M.  de  Beauchamp  was  thunderstruck,  bewildered,  and  turned 
stupidly  in  his  ringers  the  little  gold  shrine  wherein  lay  embedded 
the  pearl  of  sacrifice. 

"  What  does,  this  mean,  Louise?"  he  cried,  at  last,  sternly,  "  you 
never  loved  me,  never,  never;  I  see  it  plainly.  Whose  tooth  is  this 
that  I  have  here  in  this  locket?" 

The  little  Comtesse  stooped  suddenly,  caught  up  the  little  white 
ball  nestling  at  her  feet,  tenderly  drew  back  the  pouting  lips,  and 
murmured,  softly : 
"  Behold,  Jacques,  the  victim  I" 
The  tooth  was  Sally's! 


XjOTJIS   C-A-XIEiT   cSc   SOIT, 


Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters 
Cordials,  etc. 

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413  Sacrament©  Street,  S„7\ 


SAN  FBANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  24,  1892. 


A  CHRISTMAS  PROMISE. 


Dr.  Gustav  Adolf  Danziger. 

"1 — 7  HRE  sei  Gott  in  den  Hoehe  und  Fried  auf  Erden  und  den  Mensch 

I     en  ein  Wohlge fallen." 

zzte     "Glory  be  to  God  in  the  highest  and  peace  on  earth  and 

J J  good  will  to  man." 

Some  one  had  opened  the  door  of  the  church  on  the  Fried- 
rich  Platz  in  Berlin,  and  the  words  quoted  rang  out  into  the  silent 
squ  :ure,  clear  and  distinct.  Opposite  the  church,  in  the  "  Platz"  that  was 
covered  by  a  foot  and  a  half  of  snow,  but  which  had  been  cleared  in 
places  for  pedestrians,  a  lady  and  a  gentleman,  both  dressed  in  ele- 
gant furs,  their  feet  in  high  galoshes,  walked  up  and  down.  They 
were  young  and  the  lady  was  very  beautiful.  She  was  a  blonde,  and  her 
cloak  and  head  covering,  the  latter  in  the  shape  of  the  national  Polish 
"chapka,"  were  of  blue  velvet,  trimmed  with  silver  fox.  Needless  to 
say  that  this  enhanced  ner  beauty,  which  was  classical.  Her  com- 
panion was  of  medium  height,  of  dark  complexion  and  mobile  fea- 
tured. People  might  have  called  him  homely,  his  features  being 
rather  marked,  but  no  one  would  have  passed  him  without  turning 
the  head  to  catch  another  look  at  the  retreating  form.  The  remark- 
ablefeaturein  the  gentleman's  make-up  washiseyes.  Heavens!  what 
eyes  he  had.  Love,  lunacy,  joy  and  hatred  could  be  read  in  them  at 
a  glance,  and  if  one  tarried  a  little  to  have  a  good  look  into  them,  he 
might  have  read  in  those  eyes  all  that  he  wished  to  read:  par5-***  ce, 
kindness,  considerateness,  but  he  might  also  have  though  the  pos- 
sessor of  those  eyes  cruel,  impatient,  treacherous,  sinister,  small  and 
revengeful.  One  might  have  read  all  the  passions  in  those  eyes  ex- 
cept stupidity.  For  Nathan  Berger's  eyes  were  the  Eyes  of  Genius. 
They  were  positively  jet  black,  and  one  could  see  every  object  mir- 
rored in  their  spectrum. 

When  he  heard  the  words  coming  from  the  church,  he  gazed  at  the 
church,  then  at  his  companion  and  said: 

"In  there  they  sing  about  'Peace  on  earth'.    They  lie;  there  is  no 
peace  on  earth,  Sophie"  he  cried,  taking  hold  of  the  girl's  arm, 
"give  me  peace,  give  me  rest.     The  yellow  leaves,  which  the  autumn 
winds  have  blown  from  these  trees  here  are  buried  beneath  the  snow 
— they  are  at  rest— they  have  peace.    Ah,  but  who  knows."  he  said 
as  if  soliloquizing,  "maybe  some  worm  is  gnawing  their  dry  carcasses, 
then  there  is  no  peace  for  them  either.    Sophie,  do  you  love  me  as  I 
love  you?    Tell  me!" 
"Ilove  you  more  than  anyone  one  on  earth,  Nathan;  but — " 
"But,"  Nathan  cried  wheu  Sophie  hesitated,  "but  you  find  it  im- 
possible to  marry  me,  because  your  parents  are  against  it.     Do  you 
remember,  love,  when  I  first  played  in  Leipsic,  when   I  first  looked 
into  your  beauteous  face— ah,  then  I  played  for  you  only.    You  were 
my  inspiration.     My  mind  was  unconscious  of  my  playing,  because 
my  mind  was  with  you  and  my  bow   was  guided  by  the  hands  of  an 
angel.      Ah,  dear  love,  how  I  must  have  piayed  to  cause  so  much 
enthusiasm  among  the  people— and  yet  I  was  utterly  oblivious  of 
their  existence.    For  me  no  one  existed  but  you,  love.      And  now  it 
is  all  up  with  me;  I  can  not  play  any   more;   my  violin   weeps — it 
weeps,  weeps,  weeps." 
"  Und  Friede  auf  Erden,"  came  from  the  church  again. 
"And  peace  on  earth,"  he  mocked.     "Idiots,  don't  you  see  that  it 
is  all  a  farce.    There  is  no  peace  1  tell  you.     I  have  come  all  the  way 
from  America  to  your  land  of  music  and  learning.      I  was  a  child  of 
nature.      I  loved  God,  my  parents  and  my  violin,  and — I  had  peace. 
It  is  but  six  mouths  that  I  came  here,  and  I  am  stranded,  my  peace 
is  gone— because  I  love  hopelessly."  The  last  word  was  almost  a  sob. 
Sophie  leaned  her  head  on  his  shoulder  and  her  tears  trickled  down 
upon  his  fur.     The  brilliancy  of  the  tear  caught  his  eye. 

"  Don't  cry,  dear  love— Sophie,  deffr.  don't  cry,"  he  said,  forget- 
ting his  own  anguish  at  the  sight  of  her's.  "  Is  there  no  way  out  of 
this  difficulty?  Come  with  me  to  America.  My  parents  will  love 
you  as  they  love  me." 

"  And  have  a  father's  curse  upon  my  life;  break  my  mother's 
heart.  Oh,  Nathan,  dear,  wait;  may  be  father  will  give  in.  We  are 
young— we  can  afford  to  wait  a  couple  of  years." 

"  Ah,"  said  Nathan,  "  time  cures  or  kills.  In  a  couple  of  years  from 
now,  I  may  be  dead  and  you — married." 

"Never!"  cried  Sophie.  "I  will  never  marry  anyone  but  you. 
Wait,  darling,  for  my  sake." 

"  I  will,"  said  he.  "  I  will  wait  for  you.  I  will  hope— and  with 
your  promise  it  will  not  be— against  hope.  But  I  will  never  live  to 
see  you  married  to  any  one  else.  Men  of  my  character  love  but  once 
and  die."  His  dark  brow  contracted  threateningly;  his  eyes  flashed 
fire,  but  it  was  for  a  moment  only,  and,  as  the  church  door  opened 
again,  and  the  song  of  the  Christmas  service  reached  his  ear — "  Und 
Friede  auf  Erden,"  he  was  not  bitter  against  the  glorious  promise. 
He  pressed  Sophie's  arm  to  his  heart.  "  We  may  yet  have  peace  and 
happiness,"  he  said. 

"Araen,"  the  girl  responded,  and,  as  the  people  left  the  church, 
they  mingled  with  them  and  were  lost  to  view. 
Chapter  II. 
"  What  sweeter  promise  can  possibly  be  made  to  mankind  than  the 
one  which  the  angel  brought  to  the  lowly  of  Palestine:  '  Behold,  I 
bring  you  tidings  of  great  joy.'  This  promise  of  great  joy  is  the 
birth  of  Christ,"  ran  the  preacher's  sermon   in   the  church   on  the 


Friedrichs  Platz.  "  Who  would  not  rejoice  at  such  a  promise?  For 
we  know  that  the  Father  will  keep  His  promise  of  giving  to  the 
world  His  only  begotten  Son.  It  is  in  our  hearts  to  believe  it.  For 
are  not  we— weak  and  sinful,  though  we  be — eager  to  keep  our 
promises  given  to  those  we  love,  and.  we  rejoice  at  the  joy  we  shall 
give  to  those  who  expect  the  fulfillment  of  our  sacred  promises."  Aa 
be  uttered  the  last  word,  a  sob  was  heard,  that  rose  and  seemed  to 
flutter  through  the  vast  building.  Some  of  the  worshippers  turned 
to  see  whence  that  sob  had  come.  In  the  center  of  the  aisle  sat  Herr 
Marlow,  his  wife,  and  his  daughter  Sophie;  the  latter  was  weeping. 
By  her  side  sat  a  young  man,  elegantly  dressed,  who  bent  over  her 
and  whispered  in  her  ear.  Instinctively  she  drew  away  from  him ; 
he  seemed  amazed,  and  his  low  forehead  contracted;  he  looked  at 
Herr  Marlow,  the  latter  shrugged  his  shoulders  and  listened  to  the 
sermon. 
"  Are  you  ill,  Miss  Marlow?"  said  the  young  man  by  her  side. 
She  made  no  answer.  "  Are  you  weeping  for  that  fiddler?"  hissed 
Mrs.  Marlow,  in  Sophie's  ear.  "  I  will  tell  your  father  as  soon  as  we 
get  home,"  the  mother  threatened.  At  this  moment  the  preacher 
said  "Amen !"  and  the  congregation  rose. 

The  organ  pealed  forth  a  grand  overture,  and  as  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mar- 
low were  nearing  the  door  the  former  stumbled  and  fell.  Mrs.  Mar- 
low screamed,  and  Sophie  stood  as  if  petrified.  A  great  commotion 
ensued ;  everyone  wanted  to  know  what  had  happened.  A  physician 
made  his  way  to  where  Mr.  Marlow  lay;  he  looked  at  the  prostrate 
man,  who  was  blue  in  the  face,  his  eyes  staring  into  vacancy,  and  a 
white  film  on  his  lips.  The  physician  placed  his  hand  on  the  man's 
breast,  rose,  and  said,  "Apoplexy."  Mrs.  Marlow's  lamentations 
were  heartrending.  "Dead,  dead!"  she  cried.  The  well-dressed 
young  man  put  his  arm  around  Sophie's  waist,  but  she  pushed  him 
away,  and  threw  herself  by  her  father's  side.  "Oh,  father,  father," 
she  cried,  "  What  an  unhappy  lot  is  mine!" 

"  Sophie,  dear  Sophie,"  breathed  someone  by  her  side.  Sophie 
look  around;  she  knew  the  voice;  her  face  turned  crimson.  It  was 
Nathan  Berger  ,;and  Sophie  forgetting  the  world  and  all  around  her, 
laid  her  head  on  his  breast  and  wept.  All  of  a  sudden  Mrs.  Marlow's 
voice  was  heard,  shrill  and  unforgiving,  "  Leave  us.  please,"  she 
cried.  Nathan  Berger  rose  without  a  word  and  left  the  church.  As 
he  passed  by  the  well-dressed  young  man  the  latter  threw  him  a  look 
of  malicious  hatred.  "  We  don't  need  your  fiddle  here,  Herr  Berger," 
he  hissed.  Nathan  Berger  never  turned.  He  thought  that  it  was 
just  one  year  since  Sophie  Marlow  had  promised  to  be  his— hoping 
that  her  father  would  give  in.  He  now  decided  to  wait  another  year. 
Chapter  III. 
"  If  he  should  wake  while  I  am  away,"  said  Dr.  Wagner  to  the 
young  man  at^the  bed-side,  "just  give  him  a  teaspoonful  of  this  medi- 
cine. The  crisis  is  over;  he  will  pull  through.  But  be  careful  not  to 
let  him  have  any  excitement;  no  one  is  to  be  admitted.  I  will  be 
here  again  this  afternoon." 
On  the  bed,  pale  and  haggard,  lay  Nathan  Berger. 
On  his  lips  played  a  happy  smile,  as  he  repeatedly  uttered  the  name 
"Sophie."  *  *  *  *  Suddenly  he  opened  his  eyes — bis  glorious 
eyes  had  not  lost  their  lustre.  It  was  ten  o'clock  in  the  morning:  the 
bells  from  the  steeple  in  (he  neighborhood  called  the  people  to  the 
worship  of  the  annually  newly-born  joy— the  birth  of  Christ.  Nathan 
did  not  ask  the  young  man  by  his  side  any  questions— he  knew  that 
it  was  Christmas.  He  recalled  Sophie's  promise  two  year's  previous 
to  be  his,  and  then  the  announcement  of  her  engagement  to  Dr.  Pills. 
He  remembered  clearly  the  reading  of  the  paragraph ;  how  each  word 
and  each  letter  cut  his  heart  and  fell  like  molten  lead  upon  his  soul. 
Then  all  was  dark;  he  knew  no  more  until  he  awoke  this  morning. 
He  thought  that  he  must  have  fainted,  and  that  his  friend  had  put 
him  to  bed. 

It  was  about  time  to  get  up ;  he  had  an  appointment  to  play  at  the 
Academy.     He  wanted  to  rise,  but  was  quite  unable  to  move  a  limb. 
"  Keep  perfectly  quiet,  Nat,"  said  his  friend.    "  Here,  take  this 
medicine  and  try  to  sleep.    The  doctor  will  be  here  again  this  after- 
noon." 
"  How  is  that?"  said  Nathan  Berger,  "  have  I  been  ill?" 
"Yes,  very,"  his  friend  replied.    "  We    have  despaired  of  your 
life;  but  you  pulled  through,  like  a  good  fellow,  and  now,  if  you  will 
behave  properly,  you  will  soon  be  able  to  be  about." 
"  Have  1  been  ill  long?"  asked  Berger,  astonished. 
"  About  six  weeks,"  said  the  other. 

Nathan  sighed  and  turned  his  face  to  the  wall,  without  making  any 
remark.  When  his  friend  smoothed  the  pillow  and  asked  Nathan  to 
try  and  sleep,  the  latter  turned  his  face,  and  the  young  man  saw 
the  luminous  eyes  suffused  with  tears. 

Chapter  IV. 

They  stood  in  a  row  for  blocks  and  blocks  on  Mission  street  in  San 
Francisco,  each  one  eager  to  buy  a  ticket  for  the  "Berger  Concert." 
Patti,  in  her  most  palmy  days,  could  not  have  boasted  of  such  an  en- 
thusiastic throng.  Berger  had  played  at  the  Metropolitan  Temple, 
and  his  violin  had  set  music-loving  San  Francisco  people  wild  with 
enthusiasm.  "He  is  crazy,"  said  some.  "  He  is  a  genius,"  others 
said.  But  men  and  women  broke  down  and  wept  at  the  tremendous 
heartache  that  burst  forth  from  his  instrument.  And  for  weeks  his 
playing  had  been  discussed  in  the  street,  in  clubs  and  in  the  parlor. 
The  announcement  of  a  concert  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  therefore 


Dec.  26,  1892. 


SJUN   1  i;  \\-  LSCO  NEWH  1. 1  mm; 


brought  all  sorto  and  condition*!  of  people  to  Ulnloa  street.  They 
stood  in  the  pelting  mm.  heed  Irs*  of  cold  and  influenza.  Two  doors 
from  the  entrance  to  the  theatre  Mood  a  woman  dressed  in  black  and 
heaTily  veiled.  She  had  been  in  line  nearly  an  hour:  her  teeth  chattered 
and  she  seemed  faint.  A  gentleman  by  her  side  observing  her  pitiful 
condition  at  first  wondered  that  people  could  be  so  "music  crazy  "  as 
to  endanger  their  lives.  He  -poke  to  her.  telling  her  to  go  home,  as 
she  would  be  ill.     Hut  she  merely  <aid :  "1  must  have  a  ticket.  ' 

Then  out  of  sheer  pity,  he  placed  his  broad  form  in  front  of  bei  BO 
as  to  shield  her  from  the  rain— he  was  a  gentleman !  And  when  he 
was  near  the  box  office  he  took  her  money  and  bought  her  seat.  She 
thanked  him  and  entered  the  Grand  Opera  House. 

Chapter  V. 

*  *  *  Nathan  Berper's  appearance  was  erected  with  tre- 
mendous applause.  He  did  not  seem  to  notice  it.  His  pale  face  was 
impassive,  but  hi?  eyes,  those  luminous  orbs,  searched  the  vast  au- 
dience as  an  astronomer  the  skies,  and  when  the  uproar  had  sub- 
sided, he  took  his  violin,  placed  it  in  position,  and  with  a  sweep  of 
his  bow,  played  a  symphony.  It  was  a  masterful  rendition.  But  all 
of  a  sudden  he  stopped— stopped  just  for  a  moment,  and  then  there 
were  heard  those  plaintive  sounds  as  of  weeping  angels.  They  grew 
in  intensity  and  volume — they  spread  over  the  vast  house  and  fell 
upon  the  hearers  as  the  forebodings  of  a  tremendous  calamity.  Then 
there  was  heard  a  sigh,  that  fluttered  above  the  people  and  mingled 
with  those  sorrowful  strains,  and  as  Nathan  Berger  drew  out  his 
bow  in  one  prolonged  tone  of  agony,  all  the  strings  of  the  violin 
snapped  with  a  loud  report.  In  the  audience  a  cry  was  heard,  and 
Nathan  Berger  fell  upon  the  stage  in  a  faint.  Unspeakable  confu- 
sion ensued.  Women  became  hysterical,  and  men  rushed  upon  the 
stage  to  assist  as  much  as  possible.  Some  one  in  the  audience  called 
for  a  doctor— a  woman  had  fainted.  The  doctor  was  on  hand.  It 
was  the  woman  in  dark;  she  was  pale  as  death,  but  her  features, 
though  worn,  were  of  exquisite  beauty.  "  She  is  dead,"  said  the 
doctor.  She  was  at  once  conveyed  to  the  Receiving  Hospital,  be- 
cause the  doctor  might  be  mistaken,  as  some  thought.  But  she  was 
dead;  she  had  died  of  heart  failure.  In  her  pocket  was  found  an 
elegant  card-case,  with  black-rimmed  cards,  which  bore  the  inscrip- 
tion : 

"  Frau  Dr.  Sophie  Pills, 

Wittwe. 

18  Spaudanier  Strasse, 

Berlin.    W." 

She  was  buried  by  the  German  pastor  three  days  later,  and  his 
text^was  :"  Ehre  sei  Gott  iu  der  Hoehe  und  Friede  auf  Erden,  und 
den  Menschen  ein  Wohlgefallen." 

It  was  Christmas! 


INTERIOR  navigation  has  long  held  a  prominent  part  in  the 
traffic  of  France,  and  it  is  noteurprising  to  learn  that  the  length 
of  navigable  waterways  in  that  country  is  8,000  miles,  of  which 
650  miles  are  returned  as  tidal,  2,100  miles  navigable  without 
works,  2,250  miles  canalized  rivers,  and  2,000  miles  canals.  The 
8tate  lookB  out  for  all  but  7  per  cent,  of  this  network,  which  is, 
therefore,  practically  free  of  tolls.  This  system  of  inland  naviga- 
tion has  cost  about  $300  000,000  for  construction  and  purchase, 
and  $25,000,000  for  concessions.  The  annual  cost  of  mainten- 
ance is  about  $2,600,000,  or  $325  a  mile,  which  covers  all  expend- 
itures whatsoever.  The  number  of  vessels  employed  on  the 
waterways  is  between  15,000  and  16.000 ;  about  26  per  cent,  have 
a  capacity  of  300  tons  or  more,  while  more  thai,  half  have  a 
capacity  exceeding  100  tons.  Moreover,  about  2,000  foreign 
boats  use  the  French  canals  each  year.  The  motive  power  is 
now  almost  entirely  furnished  by  draft  animals,  aiUough  a  few 
steam  tugs  are  used  on  the  Seine,  tiie  Oise  and  some  other  rivers, 
and  steam  cargo  boats  are  occasionally  met.  Cable  towing  and 
tow  locomotives  are  occasionally  used  in  a  few  places.  The  aver- 
age cost  of  moving  a  ton  of  freight  one  mile  is  stated  to  be  0.064c. 
on  rivers  and  25  per  cent,  less  on  canals. 


A    PROVERB.— F.  S.  Palmer. 


Let  Beggar  Cupid  come  to  woo 
The  maiden  of  his  fancies; 

Her  mother  keeps  them   both   in  view — 
A-spoiling  of  his  chances. 

But  Croesus  Cupid  laughs  to  see 
The  mother  of  his  fair  go; 

Proverb  and  reason  well  agree — 

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qualities,  previously  latent  or  unnoticed. 

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Dec.  25,  1892. 


SHERRY,    AND    ITS   BIRTH- 
PLACE. 


mHERE  was  once  an  ardent  philologist  who  insisted  on 
tracing  the  derivation  of  pickled  cucumber  from  a  Jewish 
prophet  through  the  following  filiation:  King  Jeremiah — 
1  Jeremiah  King— Jerry  King — gherkin — pickled  cucumber; 
and  at  first  glance  it  would  seem  to  be  a  mere  attempt  to 
rival  such  a  logical  effort  as  this  to  point  out  a  verbal  connection  be- 
tween tne  wine  called  sherry  and  a  Roman  Emperor.  But  if  we  are 
strictly  to  render  unto  Ctesar  the  things  that  are  Csesar's,  amongst 
them  must  be  counted  the  winecalled  sherry.  We  take  it  for  granted 
that  everyone  knows  that  this  wine  takes  its  name  from  the  chief  seat 
of  its  production— Jerez  de  la  Frontera,  in  Andalusia.  Now  the  Roman 
name  of  the  said  town  happened  to  be  Cffisaris  Asidona.  This  was 
converted  by  the  Arabs  into  Cceris  Sidonia,  and  by  the  Spaniards  in 
turn  into  Jerez,  which  has  been  Anglicised  into  sherris,  or  sherry. 
On  this  hint,  the  antiquarian  diner-out  might  open  up  a  grand  field 
of  historical  speculation  with  the  first  glass  of  Amontillado  after  the 
soup.  He  might  intimate  that  the  wines  of  Bcetica  were  deemed 
worthy  of  honorable  mention  by  more  than  one  Latin  writer,  and 
that  traces  yet  existing  prove  that  some  of  the  Jerez  vineyards  date 
from  the  days  when  Spain  ranked  as  a  Roman  province.  Prefects 
and  Proconsuls  consoled  themselves  with  their  produce  for  their  en- 
forced exile  from  the  Seven  Hilled  City  and  the  absence  of  their  be- 
loved Palernian.  which,  according  to  the  learned  Dr.  Henderson  pre- 
sented all  the  characteristics  of  a  well-matured  brown  sherry  of  the 
old  Jerezano  type,  deepening  in  color  with  age,  and  becoming  aro- 
matic and  rich  in  pungent  bitterness.  Caesar  himself,  who  did  some 
pretty  hot  fighting  in  this  region,  may  have  quaffed  the  local  vintage 
with  approbation.  To  Vandal  chieftains  and  Gothic  kiugs  it  proved 
equally  grateful;  but  when  the  power  of  Don  Roderick  was  crushed 
on  the  banks  of  the  Guadalete,  and  the  turbaned  hordes  of  Tarik  and 
Muza  spread  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  Iberian  pen- 
insula, the  slaughter  of  the  uubeliever,  and  the  uprooting  of  his  vine- 
yard, appeared  acts  of  equal  merit  in  the  eyes  of  these  stern  followers 
of  the  prophet.  Their  more  degenerate  descendants  were,  however, 
less  abstemious;  for,  when  by  the  help  of  good  San  Dionisio,  King 
Alfonso,  the  Wise,  finally  planted  the  standard  of  the  Cross  on  the 
walls  of  Creris  Sidonia  he  was  able  to  award  each  of  the  forty  hidalgos 
who  settled  in  the  conquered  territory  in  1268.  under  Nuno  de  Lara, 
with  six  aranzadas— or  as  much  land  as  a  pair  of  oxen  could  plough 
in  a  week— of  already  flourishing  vineland.  And  to  these  the  mon- 
arch, who  had  not  disdained  to  handle  the  pruning  knife  with  Diego 
Perez  de  Vargas,  was  careful  to  add  another  six  aranzadas  expressly 
for  planting  with  vines.  From  that  time  forward,  despite  the  deso- 
lation wrought  by  Moorish  incursions  and  the  fearful  pestilences  of 
the  Middle  Ages,  the  vineyards  of  Jerez  continued  to  extend  their 
boundaries  year  after  year.  There  is  ample  testimony  amongst  the 
records  of  the  "most  noble  and  most  loyal  city"  as  to  the  importance 
of  the  traffic,  and  the  acceptability  of  such  produce  to  the  knights 
and  nobles  whom  Ferdinand  and  Isabella  led  to  the  siege  of  Granada, 
and  to  the  hardy  adventurers  who  swarmed  in  the  track  of  Colum- 
bus to  dare  the  perils  of  the  New  World 

As  to  the  date  when  sherry  first  reached  England,  this  can  only  be 
a  matter  of  conjecture.  There  is  constant  reference  to  the  "white 
wine  of  Spain"  in  the  Liber  Albas  and  other  civic  records  of  the  four- 
teenth and  fifteenth  centuries,  and  old  Geoffrey  Chaucer  has  cele- 
brated the  stealthily  intoxicating  effects  of  the  "wine  of  Lepe"  a  port 
to  the  westward  of  Jerez.  The  troubled  reign  of  Henry  VI  was 
further  disturbed  by  the  complaints  of  sundry  Spanish  merchants  as 
to  the  seizure  of  the  wine  laden  argosies,  and  the  year  of  Richard 
Crookback's  succession  is  noted  by  the  Jerez  historian,  Cardenas,  as 
one  in  which  the  price  of  wine  fell  in  consequence  of  the  non-arrival 
of  the  English  vessels  that  used  to  visit  the  port  annually  in  search 
of  it.  Looking  at  the  connection  between  England  and  Spain  brought 
about  by  Henry  VII  and  Ferdinand,  the  Catholic,  it  may  be  fairly 
assumed  that  the  vintage  of  Jerez  warmed  the  blood  of  the  first  Tu- 
dor and  inflamed  that  of  nis  hot-tempered  son.  But  it  was  under  the 
maiden  Queen  and  her  cunning  successor  that  sherry  reached  the 
acme  of  its  historical  importance.  The  gallants  who  followed  Essex 
and  Effingham  to  the  sacking  of  Cadiz  and  the  old  sea-dogs  who 
helped  Hawkins  and  Frobisher  to  singe  the  beards  of  the  Dons  on 
the  Western  main  had  ample  opportunities  of  becoming  acquainted 
with  the  genuine  juice  of  the'  Jerez  grape  in  the  cellars  of  the  Gadi- 
tanians  and  the  holds  of  captured  galleons ;  and  when  more  peaceful 
days  arrived,  gladly  "fought  their  battles  o'er  again"  overa  brimming 
measure  of  the  same  amber  fluid.  Sherry  found  favor  with  all  the 
great  Elizabethan  soldiers,  sailors,  scholars  and  statesmen.  It  fired 
the  hearts  of  the  men  who  fought  the  Armada  and  defied  the  Pope„the 
devi  and  the  Spaniard,  who  lived  like  Francis  Drake  and  died  like 
Richard  Grenville.  It  stirred  the  ponderous  brain  of  Raleigh  and 
quickened  the  keen  intellect  of  Walsingham ,  oiled  the  bitter  tongue  of 
Coke,  spurred  the  mighty  mind  of  Bacon  and  the  sprightly  fancy  of 
high  souled  Sydney,  it  cheered  Spenser  in  his  Irish  solitude  and  Ral- 
eigh in  his  gloomy  prison.  In  sherry  the  courtly  Leicester  pledged 
his  royal  mistress  amidst  the  revels  of  Kenil worth,  and  hare- Drained 


Essex  drained  a  goblet  of  the  same  liquid  topaz  to  her  health  before 
laying  his  head  on  the  executioner's  block.  And  what  does  not 
literature  owe  to  a  beverage  which  has  been  ^described  by  a  poet  as 
enabling  writers  to  "versify  most  ingeniously  without  much  cudgel- 
ing of  brains?"  What  strange  conceits  and  fancies  are  not  owing  to 
the  Jerez  grape  on  the  part  of  those  who  "outwatched  the  bear"  un- 
der the  presidency  of  Rare  Ben  Jonson  in  the  Apollo  room  of  the 
Devil  Tavern,  or  joined  in  the  mad  revelry  at  the  Mermaid  until  the 
very  atmosphere  grew  electric  with  the  wit  of  poets,  dramatists  and 
sages?  Surely  Falstaff's  eulogiumof  the  wine— which  he  maintained 
dried  up  all  the  chills  and  crudy  vapors  environing  the  brain, 
illumined  the  face  and  impelled  the  heart  to  deeds  of  courage— could 
only  have  been  penned  by  the  Bard  of  Avon  from  an  honest  convic- 
tion of  its  excellent  merits  acquired  when  "the  cup  of  sherry  hung 
at  his  muchato." 

Glorious  as  was  this  apogee  of  sherry,  it  was  destined  to  suffer  an 
eclipse.  In  the  days  of  Charles  and  Cromwell,  Canarv  ruled  the 
roost.  The  beaux  and  sparks  of  the  Revolution  brought  French 
wines  into  fashion,  and  then  came  the  Methuen  Treaty  and  the  War 
of  Succession.  Mountain  Malaga  and  Lisbon  were  the  white  wines 
in  vogue  in  "  Merrie  England"  during  the  eighteenth  century,  and 
Madeira  and  Vidonia  at  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth,  for  though 
sherry  began  to  be  imported  into  England  in  largely  increased  quan- 
tities from  1790,  it  remained  to  a  certain  extent  under  a  cloud  till 
about  1820,  when  the  "  First  Gentleman  in  Europe"  damned  Madeira 
as  gouty,  and  gave  the  wine  of  Jerez  a  position  it  has  so  worthily 
maintained. 

The  Jerez  vineyards  proper  are  upwards  of  15,000  acres  in  extent, 
and  are  distributed  over  a  tract  of  undulating  country  some  twelve 
miles  long  by  ten  broad,  with  the  town  standing  in  the  midst.  Those 
scattered  over  the  plain  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  sherry  cap- 
ital, and  particularly  to  the  north  and  northeast,  and  the  soil  of 
which  is  of  barro-arenoso,  a  sandy  clay  combined  with  oxide  of  iron, 
produce  wines  of  very  ordinary  qualities,  while  the  more  distant 
vineyards,  covering  the  chalky  slopes  and  ridges  of  theoutlying  am- 
phitheatre of  hills,  the  compact  soil  of  which  is  termed  albariza,  yield 
wines  of  the  highest  character,  developing  in  course  of  time  a  re- 
markable variety  of  flavor.  Wines  of  an  intermediate,  yet  coarse 
quality  are  yielded  by  the  vineyards  of  the  lower  slopes  and  valleys, 
the  dark  alluvial  soil  of  which  is  styled  bugeo.  There  are  altogether 
upwards  of  140  pagos  de  v inas  or  crus,  and  conspicuous  amongst  the 
vineyards  lying  northward  are  the  famous  districts  of  Macharnudo 
and  Carascal.  the  latter  deriving  its  name  from  the  evergreen  oaks 
which  at  present  are  notable  by  their  absence. 

Westward  of  Jerez,  and  in  the  direction  of  San  Lucar,  is  the  cele- 
brated Balbaina  district,  already  famous  in  the  fifteenth  century,  ow- 
ing to  the  skill  of  the  monks  of  Santo  Domingo,  to  whom  its  vine- 
yards chiefly  belonged,  and  who  encountered  friendly  rivals  in  the 
Carthusians,  builders  of  the  still  stately,  though  shattered  pile 
known  as  La  Cartuja,  situate,  with  its  vast  bodega,  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  Jerez,  on  the  banks  of  the  Guadalete,  and  in  full  view  of 
the  plain  where  one  of  the  decisive  battles  of  the  world  was  fought, 
which  resulted  in  the  defeat  of  Roderick,  the  last  of  the  Gothic 
Kings.  The  vineyards  belonging  to  the  monastery  lie  some  distance 
off,  in  a  northerly  direction,  and  retain  to-day,  in  common  with 
their  old  name  of  Las  Vinas  de  la  Cartuja,  some  of  their  ancient 
reputation.  To  the  east  of  the  sherry  capital  lie  the  pagos  of  Can- 
aleja,  Badalejo,  and  Caulina,  reputed  the  oldest  of  the  Jerez  vine- 
yards. It  was  amongst  these  that  Jussuf  of  Granada  pitched  his  camp 
when,  in  the  reign  of  Sancho  el  Bravo  (1285),  he  assailed  Jerez  at  the 
head  of  20.000  men. 

At  vintage  time  the  lonely,  sandy  roads,  bordered  by  hedges  of 
prickly  pear,  and  flanked  by  olive  groves  and  by  shady  avennes,  lead- 
ing to  snow-white  villas  embowered  in  flowering  shrubs  and  trees, 
are  more  or  less  alive  with  huge  wheeled  bullock  carts  laden  with 
butts  of  newly-pressed  mosto,  and  mules  bearing  paniers  of  dust-cov- 
ered grapes.  In  the  open  fields  are  herds  of  goats  and  oxen  feeding 
off  the  scanty  stubble,  while  herds  of  swine  fatten  on  the  refuse  of 
the  wine-press.  The  summits  of  the  hills  are  mostly  crowned  with 
snow-white  casas  de  vinas ,  while  the  vineyards  themselves  are  thronged 
with  vintagers,  sturdy,  ragged,  picturesque  looking  fellows,  in  broad 
sombreros  and  pantaloons  of  eccentric  pattern,  and  always  with  a 
brieht  crimson  or  scarlet  sash  around  the  waist.  Only  in  the  outly- 
ing districts,  which  help  to  swell  the  great  sherry  supply,  are  the 
vintagers  of  the  softer  sex.  The  bunches  of  grapes  which  they  deftly 
lop  off  with  their  navajas,  recall  by  their  size  those  brought  by 
Joshua's  spies  from  the  Promised  Land.  The  grapes  are  thrown  into 
small,  square  wooden  boxes  called  linetas,  which,  when  tilled,  are  car- 
ried by  the  men  on  their  heads  to  the  almijar.  an  open  court  adjacent 
to  the  casas  de  la  vina.  Here  they  are  spread  out  to  dry  in  the  sun 
on  circular  mats  of  esparto  from  one  to  three  days,  after  all  the 
blighted  berries  have  been  carefully  removed. 

The  pressing  of  the  grapes  usually  takes  place  at  night,  on  account 
of  the  cooler  temperature  giving  less  chance  of  precipitate  fermenta- 
tion. The  press-house  is  ordinarily  a  low  tiled  building  with  a  brick 
floor,  having  ranged  along  it  a  row  of  large  wooden  troughs,  about 
ten  feet  square  and  two  deep,  raised  a  yard  or  so  from  the  ground, 
each  having  an  upright  screw  of  wood  or  iron  fitted  in  the  center, 
and  a  broad  wooden  spout  in  frout.    These  receptacles,   known  as 


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Xsaam.  having  be*n  partially  filled  with  grapes,  which  in  turn  have 
brrn  licblly  Aprinklrd  OTcr  with  Sypsuro,  ■  OOUptt  "I  bare- legged 
men  in  pfaort  drawers.  *thp«1  shirt*  "and  heavily  bob-nailed 
jump  into  each  of  them,  and  having  carefully  Ipmd  the  bunches 
with  woodso  ahoTSts,  arc  booo  merrily  footing  it  ankle  deep  in 
crushed  fruit,  while  the  expressed  juice  pours  forth  from  thl 
through  a  strainer  into  a  Inrge  tub  placed  to  receive  It,  The  (Cimoes, 
after  befog  thoroughly  trodden,  are  shoveled  into  a  heap  lit  one 
corner  of  the /n;;<ir.  and  replaced  by  fresh  ones,  which  undergo  the 
same  procen  until  enough  of  the  "  murk  "  bat  been  accumulated 
for  the  screw  to  be  brought  into  play.  Two  thick  wooden  slabs  are 
then  bolted  together  over  the  top  of  the  pile,  with  the  nut  of  the 
■Crew  immediately  BOOTS  them.  The  handles  of  the  beam  being 
rapidly  turned,  the  slab  descend?  and  the  juice  gu^he*  copiously 
forth  from  between  the  interstices  of  the  esparto.  The  work  becomes 
gradually  harder  and  harder,  till  the  men.  by  Straining  every  muscle, 
are  only  able  to  move  the  handles,  to  which  they  have  attached  their 
to  save  them  from  falling  in  case  of  a  slip,  by  a  series  of  jerks 
a  few  inches  at  a  time.  As  the  tub  beneath  the  spout  of  the  lagar 
fills,  its  contents  are  transferred  by  the  aid  of  a  bucket  and  funnels  to 
a  butt  placed  alongside.  These  butts,  when  filled,  are  hoisted  upon 
bnllock  carts,  and  after  zigzag  metal  tubes  have  been  inserted  in  their 
bong-holes,  to  admit  of  the  escape  of  the  carbonic  acid  generated  in 
the  fermenting  mesfo,  they  are  sent  jolting  along  over  the  loose  sandy 
roads  to  the  Jerez  bodegas.  At  Jerez  the  be  all  and  end  all  of  human 
existence  is  wine,  and  the  inhabitants  seem  to  be  generally  of  the 
opinion,  not  that  sherry  is  made  to  be  consumed  by  mankind,  but 
that  mankind  was  created  for  the  especial  purpose  of  consuming 
sherry.  The  town,  however,  is  not  without  its  attractions.  The  vis- 
itor will  be  struck  with  the  general  air  of  prosperity  which  it  presents ; 
by  its  broad  streets  bordered  with  acacias  and  orange  trees;  its 
numerous  little  plazas,  gay  with  floral  parterres,  or  shaddd  with  um- 
brageous foliage;  its  picturesque  market  places;  its  pleasant  Ala- 
meda, the  dazzling  whiteness  of  its  houses,  the  emerald  brightness  of 
the  rejas  and  balconies,  the  cool  inner  courts  of  the  more  pretentious 
among  them,  set  off  with  tropical  plants  and  splashing  fountains. 
There  are  many  buildings  to  interest  the  antiquary,  and  the  student 
of  human  nature  will  be  interested  in  the  ceaseless  succession  of 
types  and  the  gay  pictures  of  Southern  life  and  manners  presented 
beneath  the  brightest  of  skies.  But  every  one  who  visits  the  place 
must  admit  that  the  deepest  and  most  lasting  impression  of  Jerez  is 
that  produced  upon  the  palate  by  its  glorious  wine,  and  upon  the 
eye  by  the  scenes  of  vast  bodegas  which  gird  it  round  like  a  rampart, 
being  scattered  about  the  old  Moorish  quarter  and  lying  close  to  the 
ancient  walls,  the  bull- ring  and  the  railway  station. 

It  will  be  as  well  here  to  give  the  reader  a  short  explanation  of  the 
word  "bodega."  Before,  however,  describing  what  a  bodega  is,  it 
will  be  in  order  to  point  out  what  it  is  not.  Bodega — to  many  read- 
ers who  may  be  familiar  with  the  numerous  establishments  under 
the  name  which ,  by  the  sale  of  good  wine,  have  become  so  popular  in 
London  and  other  large  cities  in  England  during  the  last  twenty 
years, — may  possibly  convey  the  idea  of  a  building  of  a  somewhat 
ornate  architecture,  where  wine  is  retailed  by  the  glass  over  the 
counter.  The  Jerez  bodega  is,  however,  nothing  of  this  kind.  It  ia 
a  lofty  and  capacious  store,  the  local  substitute  for  a  cellar,  built  on 
a  level  with  the  ground  and  ordinarily  entered  through  a  fore-court 
or  garden.  It  is  usually  divided  into  from  three  to  five  aisles  by  rows 
of  pillars  and  is  well  lighted  and  ventilated,  the  rays  of  the  fierce 
southern  sun  being  carefully  excluded  by  shutters  and  blinds  of 
esparto.  Many  of  the  Jerez  bodegas  are  long  enough  to  admit  of  a 
hundred  butts  of  wine  lying  side  by  side  in  a  single  row,  and  as  the 
butts  are  commonly  ranged  in  three  and  sometimes  four  tiers  and  as 
each  aisle  has  casks  stacked  along  either  side,  some  idea  may  be 
formed  of  the  number  of  butts  of  sherry  housed  beneath  a  single 
roof. 

We  have  witnessed  the  birth  and  noted  the  parentage  of  sherry. 
Now  it  is  necessary  to  say  something  about  its  education.  The  con- 
verse of  the  poets  whom  it  has  so  often  inspired,  it  may  be  said  to  be 
made,  not  born.  Its  qualities  have  to  be  slowly  brought  out  under 
most  careful  supervision,  and  the  bodega  is  the  seminary  in  which 
this  takes  place,  "We  have  seen  the  mosto  transferred  in  casks  and 
removed  to  Jerez  in  bullock  carts.  As  with  a  lad  freshly  brought  to 
school,  symptoms  of  discontent  which  assume  the  form  of  fermenta- 
tion manifest  themselves.  The  newcomers  are  therefore  carefully 
stored  apart  in  cool  isolated  bodegas,  lest  these  symptoms  should 
spread  to  their  more  matured  co-pupils.  There  they  remain  till  the 
following  February  or  March  when  they  are  drawn  off  their  lees  into 
new  casks  and  indoctrinated  with  acertain  proportion  of  spirit  in  the 
shape  of  aguardiente,  grape  spirit,  usually  from  one  to  four  per  cent. 
The  wine  now  enters  into  a  transition  period,  during  which,  despite 
the  care  bestowed  upon  it,  it  is  likely  to  be  attacked  by  the  diseases 
of  childhood  in  the  form  of  a tendency  to  turn  into  vinegar — some- 
times to  be  checked  by  a  timely  course  of  tonics  in  the  shape  of  more 
spirit— or  the  development  of  scuddiness.  The  final  result  is,  that 
just  as  we  see  children  in  thesame  family  educated  together,  turning 
out  one  a  genius,  a  second  a  scapegrace,  a  third  a  man  of  plain  com- 
mon sense,  and  a  fourth  perhaps  a  fool,  sodo  butts  of  sherry  from  the 
same  vineyard  and  experiencing  precisely  the  same  treatment,  de- 
velop totally  different  characteristics.  From  ten  to  twenty  per  cent, 
will  become  irremediably  bad.    Of  the  rest  some  remain  to  the  end  of 


Iheehaplar  rinse  Boos,  psle, dry, delloaU, sod  rreah taitlnir,  Others, 
pacing  through  the  0no  stage,  attain  to  the  dignity  .-r  emonttllado*, 
deeper  m  color,   stonier,  dryer,   more  pungent,  mid   possessing  a 

marked  etheroua  flavor.    Others,  ejaln  develop  Into  oloi -    lha 

wine  ol  Jeres,  darker,  toiler,  richer  and  mellower  with  .i  natty 
flavor  and  an  exquisite  bouquet.  Wines  below  the  rank  ol  Bnos  nre 
I  m  the  slang  of  the  bodegas  as  single,  doable  and  triple  rsyss, 
a  title  derived  from  the  -balk  marks  on  their  butts,  the  rawer  the 
lines  the  higher  being  the  quality,  Sometimes  the  wloea  are  kepi 
mtact  In  their  butts,  but  as  a  rule  they  matriculate  In  their  fourth 
year  of  residence  and  are  admitted  to  the  dignity  ol  performing  part 
of  a  solera— a  term,  the  meaning  ol  which  it  is  necessarj  to  explain. 
\  solera  i-  a  system  peculiar  to  the  sherry  district  ol  building  up 
new  wines  on  the  foundation  of  old  ones.  Aa  the  older  wines  are 
drawn  or)  for  sale,  the  deficiency  in  the  bottS  Is  made  good  With  wine 
of  the  same  character,  but  a  year  or  so  younger,  wbose  place  is  sup- 
plied in  like  manner  by  a  still  younger  growth,  and  this  proi 
continued  all  down  the  scale.  The  butts  are  never  more  than  half 
emptied,  nor  is  the  deposit  at  their  bottoms  by  any  chance  removed. 
The  solera  niadre.  or  butt  containing  the  oldest  wine,  is  often  of  great 
age  and  hence  the  system  necessitates  the  holding  of  an  immense 
stock  and  corresponding  capital,  but  at  the  same  time  it  enables  the 
shipper  to  keep  up  the  uniform  excellence  of  his  wines  despite  a  suc- 
cession of  bad  vintages. 

The  wine  we  know  as  sherry  is  not  exclusively  produced  in  the 
Jerez  vineyards,  the  extent  of  demand  and  limit  of  supply  rendering 
it  necesssary  for  the  shipper  to  go  farther  afield.  So-called  sherry,  we 
know,  is  made  in  Hamburg,  a  considerable  amount  of  which  finds  its 
way  into  various  markets;  but  we  will  confine  ourselves  to  the  more 
legitimate  sources.  The  pale,  delicate,  dry,  tonical  tasting  wine, 
known  as  Manzanilla,  is  grown  around  the  little  town  of  San  Lucar 
de  Barrameda,  the  low-pitched  roofs  of  which,  dominated  by  half  a 
dozen  church  towers,  and  the  solid  square  keep  of  an  old  Moorish 
fortress,  and  girdled  by  orange  groves,  spread  themselves  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Guadalquiver,  some  fifteen  miles  from  Jerez.  Here  the 
modns  operandi  in  vineyard  and  bodega  is  similar  to  that  we  have  de- 
scribed, although  the  soleras  are  somewhat  differently  managed.  On 
the  east  the  vineyards  of  Jerez  join  those  of  Puerto  de  Santa  Maria, 
yielding  somewhat  inferior  wines  to  those  of  their  neighbors.  In  the 
town,  which  owes  its  name  to  an  image  of  the  Virgin  found  there 
when  abandoned  by  the  Moors,  some  of  the  principal  sherry  shippers 
have  their  bodegas.  Beyond  Puerto  de  Santa  Maria,  and  on  the 
shores  of  the  Bay  of  Cadiz  is  the  ancient  Moorish  town  of  Rota,  the 
vineyards  of  which  yield,  in  addition  to  the  well-known  Sacramental 
Tent  wine,  a  fair  quantity  of  passable  sherry.  From  Puerto  Real, 
half  way  towards  Cadiz  from  Chipiona,  famous  for  its  muscatel 
grapes,  from  Cbiclana,  beyond  Cadiz,  renowned  as  the  birthplace  of 
the  most  illustrious  of  bull  fighters,  and  from  the  lovely  little  town 
of  Trebujena,  northward  of  Jerez,  many  thousand  butts  of  wine  are 
annually  sent  by  rail  or  bullock  cars  into  the  sherry  metropolis.  The 
Puerta  used  to  ship  annually  about  20,000  butts  of  sherry,  and  ten 
years  ago  laid  claim  to  a  position  inferior  only  to  Jerez. 

The  enterprising  shipper  looks  farther  yet  for  supplies.  The  tract 
of  undulating  country  extending  from  Seville  to  Huelva  is  rich  in 
miles  of  vineyard,  the  produce  of  many  of  which  serves  as  an  excel- 
lent basis  for  cheap  sherries.  Nor  must  Montilla — the  ancestral  ap- 
panage of  the  Medina  Cceli  and  the  birthplace  of  the  Gran  Capitan 
Gonzalo— perched  on  the  high  amongst  the  Cordovan  Sierras,  be  for- 
gotten. 

Some  years  ago  there  was  considerable  discussion  in  England  as  to 
the  unwholesomeness  of  sherry,  but  the  reasoning  of  the  opponents 
of  the  wine  was  as  fallacious  as  their  pretended  facts.  The  absurdity 
of  the  outcry  then  raised  has  since  been  fully  recognized,  and  lovers 
of  the  wine  of  Jerez,  banishing  vain  alarms,  may  continue  to  follow 
rare  Ben  Jonson's  recommendation — "Drink  sherry,  and  be  merry." 

In  concluding  this  writing  on  "Sherry,  and  Its  Birthplace,"  it  may 
be  mentioned  that  some  very  creditable  specimens  of  sherry  are  be- 
ing made  by  many  of  our  California  vineyardists.  It  cannot  be  ex- 
pected that  they  should  come  up  to  the  production  of  Jerez,  but  at 
the  same  time  are  very  drinkable,  giving  fair  promise  at  some  future 
day,  when,  having  the  right  grape,  suitable  soil,  and  using  the  sys- 
tem in  vogue  at  Jerez,  which  has  been  explained,  that  at  any  rate 
California  will  be  able  to  furnish  this  class  of  wine  to  drinkers  on  this 
continent,  so  as  to  render  further  importations  from  Spain  unneces- 
sary.   This  is  quite  within  the  range  of  probabilities. 


/v^<? 


IT  is  precisely  those  men  who  have  exhausted  every  vice  and 
pleasure,  who  seek  and  generally  get  the  purest  women  for 
wives.  Is  this  by  reason  of  contrast,  or  because  their  worldliness  gives 
them  charms  to  which  "  the  weaker  vessels  "  readily  succumb? 


IT  is  easy  to  be  considerate  and  good  to  others  when  one  is  him- 
self either  very  happy  or  very  unhappy. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


MY    PNEUMATIC— T.  W.  Rolieston  in  The  Spectator. 


In  the  airy,  whirring  wheel  is  the  springing  strength  of  steel, 

And  the  sinew  grows  to  steel  day  by  day, 
Till  you  feel  your  pulses  leap  at  the  easy  swing  and  sweep, 
As  the  hedges  flicker  past  upon  your  way. 

Then  it's  out  to  the  kiss  of  the  morning  breeze 

And  the  rose  of  the  morning  sky. 
And  the  long  brown  road  where  the  tired  spirits  load 
Slips  off  as  the  leagues  go  by ! 
Black-and-silver,  swift  and  strong,  with  a  pleasant  undersong 

From  the  steady  rippling  murmur  of  the  chain 
Half  a  thing  of  life  and  will,  you  may  feel  it  start  and  thrill 
With  a  quick  elastic  answer  to  the  strain, 

As  you  ride  to  the  kiss  of  the  morning  breeze 

And  the  rose  of  the  morning  sky, 
And  the  long  brown  road  where  the  tired  spirits  load 
Slips  off  as  the  leagues  go  by ! 
Miles  a  hundred  you  may  run  from  the  rising  of  the  sun 

To  the  gleam  of  the  first  white  star. 
You  may  ride  through  twenty  towns,  meet  the  sun  upon  the  downs, 
Or  the  wind  on  the  mountain  scaur. 

Then  it's  out  to  the  kiss  of  the  morning  breeze 

And  the  rose  of  the  morning  sky, 
And  the  long  brown  road  where  the  tired  spirits  load 
Slips  off  as  the  leagues  go  by ! 
Down  the  pleasant  country  side,  through  the  woodland's  summer 
pride, 
You  have  come  in  your  forenoon's  spin, 
And  you  never  would  have  gaessed  how  delicious  is  the  rest 
In  the  shade  of  the  wayside  inn, 

"When  you've  sought  the  kiss  of  the  morning  breeze, 

And  the  rose  of  the  morning  sky, 
And  the  long  brown  road  where  the  tired  spirit's  load 
Slips  off  as  the  leagues  go  by ! 

There  is  many  a  one  who  teaches  that  the  shining  river-reaches 

Are  the  place  to  spend  a  long  June  day. 
But  give  me  the  whirring  wheel  and  a  boat  of  air  and  steel 
To  float  upon  the  Queen's  highway! 

Oh,  give  me  the  kiss  of  the  morning  breeze. 

And  the  rose  of  the  morning  sky, 
And  the  long  brown  road  where  the  tired  spirit's  load 
Slips  off  as  the  leagues  go  by ! 


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SAN   FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


HIS    LONELY    CHRISTMAS. 


W"     JONATHAN  GRIGG8,  ara  not  a  sentimental  man,  yet  tbe 

l  way  I  won  my  wife  has  a  tinge  of  tbe  romantic  about  it. 
c)  There  were  only  two  days  in  the  year  I  grew  homesick, 
X  Ash  Wednesday  and  Christmas  day.  On  Ash  Wednesday 
'  cricket  commenced,  and  Christmas  had  so  many  associa- 
tions—well, the  man  who  has  no  recollections  of  thatfestival  is  worse 
than  the  brutes.  A  little  sentiment  in  our  lives  helps  to  make  all 
things  brighter,  and  colors  the  pervading  grayness  of  all  our  exist- 
ences with  enough  of  the  roseate  to  make  sadness  now  and  again  for- 
getable. 

1  was  peculiarly  gloomy  that  Christmas.  You  get  such  unaccount- 
able tits  when  you  least  want  them.  In  the  first  place,  it  was  rainy 
and  damp,  and  muggy,  and  my  detestable  friend  Muggins  had 
wakened  me  early,  and  declared  I  must  dine  with  them.;  Now 
Mucgins  and  his  family  did  contrive  to  get  a  great  deal  of  enjoyment 
out  of  Christmas.  There  were  so  many  little  Mugginses,  and  there 
was  so  much  real  happiness  in  the  bosom  of  that  family,  so  much 
real  contentment  that  I,  dismal  and  disgruntled  on  festal  days,  was 
always  more  so  when  I  had  assisted  at  their  little  festivities.  So  I 
briefly  said : 

"  No,  Muggins,  I'll  be  banged  if  I'll  come.  Give  my  love  to  all- 
wife  and  all— and  don't  be  annoyed  or  jealous— but  I'd  rather  be 
alone,  thankyou." 

"Oh,  that's  all  nonsense,"  cries  Muggins.  "You  must  come. 
There'll  be  no  strangers,  old  man,  just  ourselves,  and  my  wife  now 
will  be  awfully  put  out  if  you  refuse.  It  will  dampen  her  spirits  to 
think  of  you  alone  and  disconsolate  to-day." 

"Don't  worry  me,  old  chap,  lam  not  in  the  humor  to  go  out. 
Now,  accept  my  apologies." 

And  Muggins  went. 

#  *  *  *  * 

Well,  what  to  do  with  oneself  all  day?  Reading  was  out  of  the 
question,  and  as  to  walking!  It  is  not  peculiarly  soul-exhilarating  on 
fine  days;  but  when  the  rain  is  coming  down  in  a  fine  sheet,  1  defy 
you  to  find  any  comfort  anywhere.  Other  homeless  wretches  like 
myself  were  stretched  out  in  the  big  chairs  by  the  hotel  office,  and 
every  now  and  again  started  for  the  saloon  across  the  street,  drink- 
ing successive  toasts  to  each  other,  grumbling  at  the  condition  of 
trade,  and  wondering  whether  they  were  thought  of,  and  where  they 
should  dine. 

#  *  *  *  * 

The  evening  had  settled  tine.  I  had  dined  far  from  the  hotel,  with 
its  unmeaning,  chattering  guests,  and  its  assumption  of  gaiety, 
which  is  as  dismal  as  the  forced  laugh  and  joyous  bearing  of  a  man 
about  to  be  executed.  Why  will  American  hotels  put  on  this  hideous 
mark  of  frivolity  when  the  face  of  business  peeps  through?  It  is 
about  as  bad  as  those  vulgar  arrangements  they  call  "  hops,"  given 
by  the  "  guests"  of  a  distinguished  boarding-house. 

The  hours  must  be  killed.  I  hated  to  go  to  a  theatre.  It  was  such 
an  exhibition  of  loneliness,  unfriendliness  or  countriness.  But  I 
went.  I  sat  as  in  a  dream  through  the  play,  when  a  voice,  sweet  and 
clear,  penetrative,  and  yet  of  sympathetic  timbre,  attracted  me.  I 
was  sitting  in  the  front  row,  and  our  eyes  met.  I  don't  know  what 
it  was,  but  you  may  have  perhaps  experienced  the  same  sensation 
when  meeting  a  congenial  soul  wearied  with  the  same  trouble. 

No  longer  was  the  performance  a  dream.  I  watched  not  its  pro- 
gress, but  the  girl— a  light,  winsome  body,  with  the  sweetest  of  blue 
eyes,  the  most  golden  of  hair,  and  that  peculiar  chic  which  alone  is 
the  heritage  of  the  American  woman. 

»  »  » 

I  returned  in  somewhat  a  disconsolate  mood  to  my  hotel,  and  was 
in  the  passage  leading  to  my  room,  when  there  flashed  past  me  the 
heroine  of  the  play.  Our  eyes  met.  I  don't  know  what  impulse 
prompted  me,  but  I  said,  bitterly: 

"  This  is  a  cheerful  Christmas  for  us  V" 

"  Well— no,  not  for  me.  I  have  been  playing,  you  know,"  and  she 
laughed. 

"  May  I  walk  to  your  door?" 

"Certainly." 

"  Look  here,"  I  said,  desperately;  "  we  are  about  as  happily  situ- 
ated as  Robinson  Crusoe." 

"  Are  you  in  search  of  a  Friday?" 

"  No,  not  exactly ;  but  some  one  as  miserable  as  I  am,  and  I  be- 
lieve you  are,  despite  your  forced  gayness.  My  name  is  Griggs,  and 
your  name  is  Miss  St.  John.  Now,  Miss  St.  John,  let  us  make  each 
other  a  trifle  more  dismal.    You  can't  go  to  bed  at  10:30." 

"  Is  there  any  prevention  for  such  a  crime?" 

"  Yes,  your  duty." 

"  My  duty— what  duty?" 

"  A  solemn  one." 

"  Pray  explain?" 

"  Is  it  not  woman's  duty  to  alleviate  distress,  smooth  the  crumpled 
brow  of  sorrow?" 

"  Well,  Walter  Scott  said  so,  and  somebody  else,  too.  But  what 
application  has  it  here?" 

"  Much.  You  see  a  man  with  every  signal  of  distress  flying,  sink- 
ing, you  may  say,  and  yet  you  won't  give  him   the  tip  of  your  little 


finger  to  uphold  him  from  the  abyss." 

She  had  reached  her  door,  and  was  putting  in  the  key. 

"  One  turn  more,"  I  begged;  "  the  hall  is  quiet,  and  we  disturb  no 
one." 

"  Will  it  be  the  putting  out  of  the  little  finger?" 

"  Yes,"  I  said,  "  two  fingers." 

And  we  paced  the  gallery  again. 

"  But  one  more  turn?"  I  pleaded.  "  Put  out  your  hand  this  time." 

"  I  am  not  offering  my  band." 

"  But  if  I  offer  mine.    Would  it,  would  it  be  accepted?" 

"  I  am  not  in  the  abyss.     It  is  only  you,"  she  rejoined. 

"  Well,  we  are  on  the  ledge  now.    I  have  been  saved." 

"Ah!  And  you  wish  to  show  your  gratitude?" 

"  No,  my  devotion.  There  is  too  much  of  the  give  and  take  propo- 
sition about  gratitude." 

"Would  it  last?" 

"  Forever." 

"  Which— the  hand,  or  the  devotion." 

"Both." 

"  You  are  gallant  to-night.  You  know  we  must  accept  declara- 
tions on  Christmas  night  with  reservation." 

"  But  I  am  terribly  in  earnest." 

"  How  terribly  terrible  you  must  be.  Our  friendship  has  lasted 
but  one  half-hour." 

"  The  play  commenced  at  8  and  lasted  till  10.    And  now  it  is  11." 

"  Good  night."  and  she  vanished  through  the  door. 

•  •  *  * 

Mrs.  Griggs  has  promptly  set  her  foot  down  on  our  visiting  the 
theatres  on  Christmas  night. 

"  Jonathan,"  she  says,"  You  are  too  susceptible!  You  might  next 
be  adopting  a  soubrette  who  looked  unhappy — and  I  positively  am  in 
no  mood  to  open  a'foundling  hospital." 

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SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  25,  1892. 


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WHEAT     AND     FLOUR 


KHK  past  year's  bulnMS  in  ihr*»*  tteplM  h»«  be«n  neither 
Urije  not  profitable,  ami  the  good  fortune  «>f  thOM  r  niter, 1 
in  it  whose  profits  have  equalled  their  BzpeDMt  n  m  ■  I  • 
1  of  many  of  their  confrere?.  Wheal  WU  to  freely  sold  an. I 
exported  in  the  last  six  months  of  1891  that  but  (mill 
stocks  were  left  for  the  tirM  half  of  [892.  Kven  these  latter  afforded 
but  little  profit  t"  our  merchants,  a?  th<-  bopee  "f  mir  Bam 
pardmp  prices  had  been  so  raided  by  the  high  figures  ruling  in  Barope 
for  some  time  previously,  that  BtJee  were  email  iin«.  eTMl  more  than 
usually  close  to  ]',  iropean  values,  if  not  actually  in  excess  of  them. 
It  was  hoped  that  this  would  change  with  the  advent  of  our  new 
nop,  which  was  a  full  one  as  regards  quantity,  and  elso  well 
up  in  quality.  But  the  tenacity  of  our  farmers  continued,  to  theif 
own  detriment  as  usual,  and  they  refused  to  sell  in  July  and  August 
at  the  fair  price  ol  $1. 40  a  cental,  and  still  hold  the  bulk  of  their  crops 
for  sale  on  a  much  lower  market.  The  bay  is  crowded  with  a  large 
tleet  of  the  finest  ships  the  world  possesses,  willing  to  carry  our  grain 
to  Europe  at  low  rates  of  freight,  barely  sufficient  to  meet  their  ex- 
penses, but  although  wheal  is  here  in  abundance,  it  is  not  to  be  bod 
unless  merchants  are  willing  to  pay  all  it  can  be  sold  for  abroad. 
and  add  a  further  bonus  out  of  their  own  pockets  of  fully  $1  a  ton, 
for  the  honorof  their  being  wheat  exporters.  This  has  lasted  so  long, 
and  been  pushed  to  such  an  extreme,  that  our  exports  have  been 
light,  and  now,  in  what  has  usually  been  the  busiest  part  of  the  sea- 
son, our  merchants  are  exercising  a  wise  caution  in  chartering  ships 
thai  they  cannot  load  without  loss,  so  that  business  is  comparatively 
at  a  standstill,  and  the  demand  for  either  wheat  or  ships  is  at  the 
moment  almost  nil.  This  will  probably  continue  for  a  few  months 
yet,  when  good  rains  and  crop  prospects  may  show  the  farmers,  they 
must  be  prepared  to  add  the  new  crop  to  this  one,  the  bulk  of  which 
is  still  unsold,  or  else  pay  our  merchants  a  commission  or  profit, 
however  small,  to  continue  the  export  of  grain  to  the  foreign 
consuming  markets. 

The  figures  of  the  wheat  situation  are  about  as  follows : 
Surplus  in  State,  1st  July,  1891.    Short  Tons  100,00 

1891  Total  New  Crop 1,080  000 

Received  from  Oregon,  etc  80,000 

Total 1,260,000 

Wheat  exported,  1st  July  1891  to  1st  July,  1892    659,000 
milled        "            "              "  '•       240,000 

Seed,  100,000;  Feed,  51,000;  etc ...  151,000  1,050,000 

Instate,  1st  July,  1892  210.000 

Add,  Received  from  Oregon,  1st  July  to  1st  Nov.  1892 19.000 

1892  Total  New  Crop 1,200,000 

1,429,000 

Deduct,  1st  July  to  1st  Dec.  1892— 

Wheat  exported 23S.500 

Wheat  nulled  100,000 

Seed,  60  000;  Feed,  20,500;   80  500  419,000 

In  State,  on  1st  Dec.  1892.    Short  Tons 1010,000 

The  same  causes  which  curtailed  our  year's  wheat  business,  had  an 
equally  prejudicial  effect  on  our  milling.  The  manufacture  of  flour  in 
the  first  half  of  1892  was  unusually  light,  and  profits  small.  This 
would  have  changed  when  our  fine  new  wheat  crop  was  harvested. 
But,  unfortunately  for  themselves,  though  for  the  good  of  our  people, 
some  of  our  mills,  in  their  wisdom,  selected  just  that  time  to  part 
with  their  properties  and  businesses  to  a  large  newly  incorporated 
"combine,"  whose  first  duty  of  selling  flour  below  cost,  to  crush  out 
all  opposition,  and  at  the  same  time  earn  dividends  on  largely  in- 
flated capital,  issued  to  members  with  lavish  hand  to  atone  for  the 
lack  of  any  cash  payment  for  the  properties  surrendered  to  them — is 
now  being  duly  attempted,  much  to  the  amusement  of  the  outside 
mills.  These  last  are  content  to  quietly  wait  until  the  ''combine'' 
tries  to  sell  flour  at  a  profit,  when  their  turn  will  come  again. 

The  outside  mills,  which  have  decided  not  to  join  the  "combine" 
possess  many  favorite  brands  of  flour,  notably  the  "Starr",  "Crown" 
and  "Union",  and  their  capacity  exceeds  that  of  the  "combine";  so 
that  the  "flour  war"  may  last  for  many  months  yet,  to  the  grati- 
fication of  the  public,  whose  orders  go  to  the  "outsiders"  in  largely 
and  wisely  increased  lines.  Local  competition  has  also  been  in- 
creased by  the  starting  of  the  fine  new  Starr  Mills  at  Port  Costa,  and 
the  Farmers'  Union  Mill  at  Stockton.  There  are  rumors  of  other 
new  mills  to  be  built  shortly  at  interior  points,  which  are  now  at  the 
mercy  o£  the  "combine",  and  enjoying  the  blessing,  rare  in  our  land 
of  plenty,  of  dear  flour  and  little  of  it. 


BA.JST1CS. 

BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 


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The  good  wives  who  wish  to  make  their  husbands  suitable  pres- 
ents, and  one  that  will  be  of  a  purely  domestic  nature,  should  exam- 
ine the  handsome  dressing  gowns,  smoking  jackets,  fancy  suspenders 
and  similar  articles  at  Carmany's,  25  Kearny  street.  Carmany's  is  the 
most  popular  place  in  town. 


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R£S£RYtruSoP  S3.OO0.0OO 

RCSERVe  FUHD  ;  250  MO 

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HEAD  OFFICE  OO   LOMBARD  STREET.    LONDON 

r,  liniuh  Colombia;   Portland.  Oreton 
BmUIo  and  laooma,  Waiblnglon. 
81  BBKANCHE8    Eamloops, Nanalmo, Nolfoo,  New  WeitmluUr,  Brltinh 

(  oliiniHA 
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lectto  Check,  nu<]  Special  Uepoalti  rowlved.    Commercial  Credit,  grunted 

«v»n«!,lc  In  «ii  p.n.  ,.t  the  world.     Approved  Hliu  dim tod  mid  ed- 

rancei  made  on  > 1  counters!  wonrltj.     Drew,  direct  at  ramm  raie» 

upon  Its  H.hI  Omce  an. I  llrmirhc.  and  upon  it.  Agents,  a*  follow- 
8B.X.THHC,£S£  iNADA-  Bank  ol  Montreal.    I.IVKKPOOL 

-■>"rthaii.l  South  «ale»  Ban*;  SUOTLANIi-BrilMi  Linen  Com] v;  IKK 

LA.ND-Itauk  ol  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  BOOTH  AMXRICA— London  Bank 
fit  Meiieo  and  South  Amcrlea.  rlllNA  and  JAI'AN-cliarlered  Bank  of 
India.  Au.tralla  and  Chlua;  AUSTRALIA  and  NEW  ZEALAND— Bank  ol 
Aujtrala-ta  I'omraerolal  Bauklug  Company  ol  Sydney,  Eugllsh,  Scottlhli 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

532  California  Mn-ei,  Corner  Webb  street. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

IX-poxilM.JuilO  30,  1892    »26.8U0,8G3  OO 

Uuaranteed  Capital  anil  Surplun 1,033,130  00 

DIRECTORS. 

Vll-ri  Miller  President;  George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President;  Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace,  Daulcl  E.  Martin,  W.  C.  B.  DoFrcmery 
George  C.  Boardman,  J.  G.  Eastland  ;    Lovcll  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  Loans  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  4  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  In  San  Francisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  this  Savings 
Bank  commeuces  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money.  The  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  fee.  OfHce  Hours— 9  a.  m.  to  3  p.  m.  Saturday 
evenings.  6:30  to  8.  ' 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 

JN.  W.  corner  Saiuome  and  IIiihIi  streets. 

Established  1870.  rj.  s.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  {PAID   UP) S1.600.II00 

SURPLUS I600,000|  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS 1160  000 

S.  G.  MURPHY President  I  E.  D.  MORGAN Cashier 

JAMES  MOFFITT..  .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Ass  t  CaBhier 

DIRECTOB8; 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins.  8.  G.  Murphy, 

N   Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffitt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  Business  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT, 
JAMES  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  $5  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  ol 
the  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    TrunkB  and  Packages  taken  on 
stirage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  h.  to  6  p.  h. 

THE  6ERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  R68ERVE  FUND $    1,646,000  OO. 

Deposits  Ju  y  1,   1892 28,776,697  91 

Officers— President,  L.  GOTTIG;  Vice-President,  EDW.  KRU8E 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.  Tillmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.  A.  Becker,  H.  L.  Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbqe. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $1,000,000. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,  S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-Presidents 

Directors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffltt,  S.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cop.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Ste. 

ubacrted  Ciottal $2,500,000  \  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $650,000 

Head  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.), No.  10  Wall  St., N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cle,  17Bonle 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com. 
mercial  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.           EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC .  Altschtjl,  Cashier. 

THE  ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized 16,000,000  I  Paid  up $1,500,000 

Subscribed 3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund. 700,000 

Head  Office— 8  Angel  uourt,  London,  E.  C. 
Agents  at  New  York— J.  &  W.  Seti  man  &  Co.,  21  Broad  street. 
The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  ^  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 
graphic transfers,  and  Issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 
work.     3ends  bills  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

¥%.  S»HRATL,  i  "*»««.• 
A.  L.  SBLIGMAN,  Cashier 


THE  MEW  CHRONICLE  BUILDING 


Doc.  85,  1899 


S\N   ll;  W  1^.  O  M  W  S  LETTKR 


"A.  A.  A.,"  "Cranston    Cabinet," 

••Ctntury,"  "  Old  Stock," 

MONOGRAM, 

■  RY        OLD        A.ND        CHOICI; 

Unrivaled  Upper -Ten 

A.FD 

THREE     FEATHERS 

and     BRUNSWICK     CLUB, 

In  Cuai  of  One  Doien  Eich. 

ft^  The  above  well-known  brands  of  fine  old 
'Eutles,  equal  If  not  superior  to  any  In  this 
market,  are  offered  to  the  trade  on  favorable  term  e . 

DICKSON,   De  WOLF  Si  CO.. 

Iole  Agents,   SAN    FRANCISCO. 


GOLD  MEDAL.  PARTS  IBTO 


W.  BAEEE  &  CCS 


Is  absolutely  pure  and 
it  is  soluble. 

No  Chemicals 

are  used  In  Its  preparation.  It  baa  ww. 
than  three  times  the  strength  of  Cocoa 
mixed  with  Starch,  Arrowroot  or  Sug«a 
and  Is  therefore  far  more  economical 
costing  less  than  one  cent  a  cup.  It  '* 
delleloua,  nouriBhlng,  strengtheniag,  Ea- 
sily DIGESTED,  and  admirably  aoapte/ 
for  invalids  as  well  as  persona  in  beeJt«% 

Sold  by  Grocers  everrwaeW- 

W  MAKER  &  CO..  Dorchester  Mag* 

Liebig  Company's 
Extract  of  Beef 

THE  STANDARD  FOR  PURITY,  FLAVOR 
AND  WHOLESOMENESS- 


J^^i^^f 


Genuine  only  with 
Oustus  von  Liebig's 
signature  as  shown.      lr  ^J 


fLLERT'S 


[PHARMACY, 
Cor.  California  «i  Kearny  Sts. 
Particular  Attention  Paid  to  Prescriptions. 
First-Glass  Goods.  Reasonable  Prices. 

A  Complete  Line  of  Patent  Medicines. 

An  Elegant  Assortment  of  Toilet  Articles. 

No  Substitution.  No  Imitation.  You  receive  just  what  you  ask  for. 

ELLERTS    PHARMACY. 
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If  HTT±3 

OLD     WHISKIES! 


THE  DREAM  OF  JJHN  P.  IK1SH 


OolODfll  John    trisfa,  may  htl  tr 

Awoke  one  ni^ht  (mm    slumberi   la   lha 

But, 
And  saw,  within  the  light  that  filled  eta 

room . 

.  dejected,  and  o'en-nM   with  gloom. 
Increasing  Wttltb   has  made   John    Irish 

bold 
Btnos  the  Poslofficfi  site  was  found  and  sold. 
And  t ■>  the  presence  in  the  room  ho  said, 
"  What   want's!    thou?"      And    then    was 

raised  the  head, 
And  answer  came,  portent  it  was  with  fate: 
"  The  names  of  those  who  faithful  serve  the 

State." 
"Sure,  mine  is  one."  said  John,   not  back- 
ward he, 
For  he's  as  bold  as  brass  is  said  to  be. 
"  Not  so."  was  the   reply,  and   then  John 

said : 
"  Am  I  of  California  not  the  head?    m 
'Did  I  that  State  not  save  to  Grover  C? 
Am  I  not  leader  of  Democracy?" 
And  then  the  face  turned  silently  away. 
"  I'll  hear  no  more,"  was  what   the  voice 

did  say; 
"  But  when  the  fourth  of  March  once  more 

comes  round, 
I  then  the  people  of  that  State  shall  sound ; 
And  as  they  wish  and  publicly  express, 
I'll  public  make  of  what  they  all  confess. 
And  when   the  sun   doth   shine  upon  that 

day, 
I'll  show  you  then  what  all  thepeople  say." 
Then  Irish  slept,  and  in  his  dream  he  saw 
What  all  his  hopes  of  fame  for  aye  did  mar. 
A  scroll  appeared,  of  those  of  hope  bereft, 
And  lo,  the  Irish  name  led  all  the  rest. 

Tts  so    Gooclf 


is  the  universal  tribute  of  th   children  who  us-. 

Highland 
Evaporated  Cream 

u  ijweelenerj 

Don't  take   olh"r,    clicup    brands     insijl    ui 
having  Highland. 

Htivrii  ""•'• "  

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EPPS'S  COCOA. 

BREAKFAST. 

"  By  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  natural 
laws  which  govern  the  operations  of  digestion 
and  nutrition,  aud  by  a  careful  application  of  the 
fine  properties  of  well  selected  Cocoa,  Mr.  Epps 
has  provided  our  breakfast  tables  with  a  deli- 
cately flavored  beverage  which  may  save  us 
mauy  heavy  doctors'  b  lis.  It  is  by  the  judicious 
use  of  such  articles  of  diet  that  a  constitution 
may  be  gradually  butlt  up  until  strong  enough  to 
resist  every  teudaucy  to  disease.  Hundreds  of 
t-ubtle  maladies  are  floating  around  us  ready  to 
attack  wherever  there  is  a  weak  point.  We  may 
escape  mauy  a  latal  shaft  by  keeping  ourselves 
well  fo  tified  with  pure  blood  aud  a  properly 
nourished  frame." — "Civil  Service  Gazette." 

Made  simply  with  boiliug  water  or  milk.  Sold 
only  in  half-pound  tios,  by  Grocers,  labeled  thus: 
I  V>IK>  EPJPS  A  CO.,  Homoeopathic  Chpmiats, 
London  England. 

INCORPORATED,  A.  D.  1819. 

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< 'ash  Assets $10,050,139  03. 


PACIFIC  BKANCH-514  California  St.,  S.  F. 


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General  Agent. 


T.  E.  POPE, 

Asst.  Genl.  Agent. 


THt     VER<t    BBS/      ELOUR. 


ALL     GOOD    GROCER.':     KEEP    IT 


JOSEPH  GILLOTTS  STEEL  PENS. 

Gold  Medals  Paris   1878—1889. 

gS^T"  These  Jf  en,,  are  "  the  beat  in  the  worm. 

SoleAgenl  for  tie  United  Slate*,  MK.   HY.  4oE, 

91  John  St..  N.  Y.    Sold  hv  nil  stationers. 


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M       \l    I      MM 

IV. 


HAPPY     FIRESIDES. 


KHE  two  things  whicli  seem  to  have  engaged  the  attention 
of  the  American  public  to  the  greatest  extent,  for  the  past 
year,  were  the  Corbett-Sullivan  prize-fight  and  the  Presi- 
1  dential  election.  Bat  another  force  has  been  quietly  at 
work,  which  in  its  results  will  be  of  a  million-fold  greater 
importance  to  the  world  than  who  won  the  prize-fight,  or  who  was 
elected  President  for  the  corning  four  years.  Only  the  comparative 
few.  who  are  deeply  interested,  have  any  idea  of  the  great  work 
which  is  being  done  by  the  Keeley  Institutes  in  curing  drunkenness, 
the  opium  habit,  and  other  diseases,  to  which  the  treatment  is  pecu- 
liarly adapted. 

In  a  recent  speech.  Dr.  Keeley  stated  that  there  were  about  4,000 
patients,  constantly  under  treatment.  As  the  term  of  treatment 
averages  three  weeks  and  a  half,  this  would  make  about  60,000  people 
being  treated  per  year.  If  one  follows  out  in  their  mind  what  the  re- 
sult of  this  will  be  in  the  future,  they  will  see,  at  once,  that  the  fore- 
going statements  are  fully  substantiated.  These  facts  will  come  with 
redoubled  force  at  this  Christmas  time,  to  the  thousands  of  homes 
which  are  to-day  happy  and  prosperous,  while  but  a  few  years  ago, 
they  were  full  of  sadness  and  misery.  California  has  shared  in  com- 
mon, with  all  the  other  States  of  the  Union,  in  this  cause  for  con- 
gratulation. 

The  Keeley  Institute  at  Los  Gatos  was  established  just  a  year  ago, 
and  since  its  establishment  it  has  had  about  seven  hundred  patients 
under  treatment.  Of  this  seven  hundred,  but  a  small  percentage 
have  gone  back  to  their  old  habits,  and,  as  the  families  of  these  re- 
claimed ones  gather  at  the  Christmas  table,  there  will  be  merry  talk, 
and  smiles  and  laughter,  instead  o£  breaking  hearts  and  sorrowful 
friends  and  relatives.  But  it  is  not  to  the  firesides  of  those  who  have 
been  reclaimed  from  the  thralldom  of  their  old  enemy  that  our 
thoughts  most  revert,  but  to  the  homes  of  those  who  have  returned 
to  their  old  habits  after  having  failed  to  permanently  avail  them- 
selves of  the  relief  which  is  held   out  to   them  by  the   Keeley  treat- 


ment. For  such  our  heartfelt  sympathies  are  awakened,  for  we  are 
fully  convinced  that  their  relapse  was  due  to  some  peculiarity  of 
their  mind,  which  cannot  be  reached  by  medicine. 

If  a  man  is  so  weak  that  he  cannot,  when  he  has  no  appetite  or 
need  for  alcaholic  stimulants  or  opium,  resist  the  temptations  which 
surround  everybody,  or  if  he  deliberately  prefers  inebriety  to  ebriety, 
we  can  see  no  hope  for  him  in  the  future.  As  there  is,  unquestion- 
ably, always  a  percentage  of  people  who  are  so  weak  that  they  can- 
not say  no;  or  who  are  so  morally  degraded  that  they  find  their 
pleasures  in  a  life  of  debauchery;  or  who  will,  through  mental  de- 
pression, attempt  to  drown  their  troubles  in  alcohol,  regardless  of 
tne  future  consequences,  there  never  will  be  any  cure  for  the  dis- 
eases consequent  upon  the  excessive  use  of  alcohol  or  opium  which 
will  be  infallible;  but,  fortunately,  the  proportion  of  this  class  of 
people  is  so  small  that  the  work  being  done  is  the  greatest  the  world 
has  ever  known,  in  a  reformatory  sense,  and  this  Christmas  time 
seems  peculiarly  appropriate  for  congratulation,  that  so  great  a  work 

is  going  on. i      

Extraordinary  Liberality. 

During  the  holiday  season,  the  Great  American  Importing  Tea 
Co.'s  Stores  will  present  their  customers  with  extra  premiums  over 
and  above  their  usual  presents.  Their  Teas  and  Coffees  and  Spices 
are  superior  in  quality,  purity  and  cheapness.  Their  China  and 
Crockery  department  "is  replete  with  new  goods  of  new  designs. 
Prices  one-half  old-time  rates.  Special  Christmas  bargains  in  Din- 
ner, Tea  and  Toilet  Sets. 

Every  housewife  who  wishes  to  have  clean  carpets  and  curtains 
should  remember  that  the  only  place  in  the  city  where  her  material  ; 
can  be  cleaned  to  her  satisfaction  is  at  the  Carpet  Beating  Machine  i 
and  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  &  Co.,  at  553-577  \ 
Tehama  street.    The  work  of  this  firm  is  always  first-class  in  every 
particular,  for  which  reason  it  always  has  a  great  patronage. 

A.  H.  Ricketts.  attorney-at-law.  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco." 

Xmas  Gift— Mercurial  barometer  for  hotels,  halls,  offices,  libraries, 
steamers,  club-rooms,  etc.    Muller's  optical  depot. 


SaNFORD    s.    prosser. 

PHARMACY     FRANCAIS. 


Ill  Grant  Ave.  ~,-i^Dhonell350 

Pahpumeeis  Victoria.  Rlgaud'*  &  Cie's  Lucrecia  Graciosa,  Louis  XV 
and  Kxora  d'Afriqae  are  the  latest  odors  and  so  different  from  perfumes 
familiar  toeveryo  e  Piveot'  Legrands  violet  and  Roger  &  Gallet's  Lubin 
aud  Piuaud's  perfumes,  Soap,  SachauPace  Powder-1,  Cosmetics,  etc. 

Piuaud's  8  ouuce  bottles.  ?3,50;reguar  size  reduced  from.  $1.25  to  85 
cents  per  bntrle,  including  Peau  d'FVpagne  iu  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

Every  lady  knows  that  exclusiveness  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as 
in  dress. 

STOCKHOLDERS  MEETING. 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,  December  6, 1892. 
To  the  Stockholders  of  the  Blacklock  Sandstone  Company: 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  a  meeting  of  the  stockbo  ders  of  the  Blacklock 
Sandstone  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company,  407-409  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  at  8  o'clock  p.m..  on  Tuesday,  the  27th  d«y 
December,  a.  d.  189?,  for  the  purpose  of  authorizing  the  sale  of  all  the 
property  of  the  corporation,  and  the  satisfaction  and  discharge  of  all  claims 
and  demands  agaiust  the  corporation,  and  the  raising  of  the  means  neces- 
sary therefor;  aud  the  dissolution  of  the  corporation  and  all  the  proceed- 
ings to  accomplish  such  dissol  ution.  By  order  of  the  President  of  the  Com« 
pany. H.  SHAINWALD,  Secretary  Blacklock  Sandstone  Company. 

A.  BUSWELL, 

BOt'k  i  ISDER,  FAPEB-RULEB,  PRINTER  ASB  BUNK  BOOK  HASUFACTEBEB 

635  Clav  Street.  Near  Montaomerv,  Sail  Francisco. 


DICKER 

BROTHERS?*1  ■ 

PIANOS. 


KCHLER 


&    CHASE, 

28  O'Farrell  St. 


VIII.  

COLTON   DENTAL  ASSOCIATION, 

806  Market  street  (1'lielnn  Building.) 

Gas  Specialists.  Orlgluated  the  use  of  Pure  Nitrous  Oxide  Gas  for  pols- 
tively  extracting  teeth  without  pain.  "Colton  Gas"  has  an  established  and 
unrivaled  world-wide  reputation  for  its  purity,  efficacy  and  perfect  safety 
In  all  eases.  Thirty-five  thousand  references.  Established  1863.  Indorsed 
and  recommended  by  all  reputable  dentists  and  physicians.  Also  performs 
all  operations  In  dentistry. 

v DR.  CHARLES  W.  DECKER 

Dr.  Ricord's  Rcstorative  Pills. 

Buy  none  but  the  Genuine— A  Specific  for  Exhausted  Vitality,  Physical 
Debility,  Wasted  Forces,  etc.— Approved  by  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Paris, 
and  the  Medical  Celebrities.      Agents  For  California  aud  the  Pacific  States. 

J.  U.    MKKI.i:  A  CO., 
No.  635  Market  street  (Palace  Hotel),  San  Francisco. 
Sent  by  mail  or  express  anywhere. 

PRICES  REDUCED.  Box  of  50  pills,  |1  25:  of  100  pills,  $2;  of  '200  pills. 
$3  50:  of  400  pills,  $6;  Preptiratory  Pills,  $2.    Send  for  Circular. 

— :     J.  A.  W.  LUNDBOkG,  Dentist 

219  Geary  Street,  -        -         Opp.  Union  Square, 

(Telephone  g, 27B).  Sau  rranclwcov 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"THE  DONAHUE  BROAD-GAUGE  ROUTE.' 
COMMENCING  SUNDAY,  NOV.  20,  1892,  and 
until  furtner  notice,  Boats  aud  Trains  will 
leave  from  and  arrive  at  the  San  FranciBCO  Pas- 
senger Depot,  MARKET-STREET  WHARF,  as 
follows: 
From  San  Francisco  for  Point  Tiburon,  Belvedere  and 

San  Rafael. 
WEEK    DAYS— 7:40  A.  M.,  9:20  a.  m.,    11:40  A.  M.; 

3:30  p.  at.,  5:05  p.  M.,  6:20  P.  H. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  1:50  P.  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:00  a.m.,  9:30  a.m..  11:00  A.M. ;  1:30  P.M. 
3:30  p.  M.,  5:00  p.  M.,  6:20  p.  M. 

From  San  Rafael  for  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:25  A.    M.,  7:55   A.   M.,  9:30    A.  M. 

12:45  P.M.,  3:40  P.M.,  5:05  P.M. 
SATURDAYS  ONLY— An  extra  trip  at  6:30  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:10  A.M.,  9:40  a.m.,  11:10  a.  M.;  1:40  p.m. 
3:40  P.  M.,  5:00  p  w.,6:25  P.  M. 

rrom  Point  Tiburon  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6:50  a.    m.,  8:20  A.  M.,  9:55    A.  M. ; 
1:10  P.  M.,  4:05  P.  M.,  5:35  P.  M. 
Saturdays  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p.m. 
SUNDAYS— 8:40    A.M.,    10:05   A.M.,  11:35  A.M.; 
2:05  P.M.,  4:05p.m.,5:30p.m.,  6:55  P.M. 


Leave 8.F. 

Destination. 

Arrive  in  S.F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 

Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

5:05  p.m 

8:00  a.m. 
9:30  a.m. 
5:00  p.m. 

Petaluma 

and 
Santa  Rosa. 

10:46  a.  m 
6:05  P.M 
7:30p.m 

8:50a.m. 
10:30a.M 
6  :10p.m. 

8:00a.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Springs, 
Cloverdale  <fc 
Way  Stations. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

7:30p.m. 

10:30 a. M 
6:10  p.m 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00  a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

7:30  p.m. 

6:10p.M. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m 

8:00a.M. 

Guerneville. 

7:30p.M. 

10  :30a. m 
6:10  P.M 

7:40a.  m. 

5:05  p.  m. 

8:00a.m. 
5:00  P.M 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

10:40a.m. 
6:05p.m 

8:50a.M. 
fi:10p.M. 

7:40  a.  m 
3:30  p.m 

8:00  a  M 
5 :00  P.  M 

Sebastopol.  |  10:40a. M 
!    6:05 p.M 

10:30am 
6:10  p.m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Kosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena:  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Kelseyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lake- 
port  and  Bartlett  Springs:  at  Hopland  for  Lake- 
port  ;  at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sarato- 
ga 8prings,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  TJsal,  Hydesville  and  Eu- 

EXCURSION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  $1  50;  to  Santa  Eosa,  $2  25;  to 
Healdsburg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  50;  to  Hop- 
land,  $5  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  75;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guerneville,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $150;  to  Glen 
Ellen.  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  for  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rosa,  $1  50;  to  Healds* 
burg,  $2  25;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  50;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80:  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
ville, $2  50;  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass,  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Line  to  New  York,  via  Panama. 

Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  £th,  15th  and 

25th  of  each  mouth, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 
America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.— "flan  Jnse,"  December  15, 
181*2.  "Sau  Juan."  Sundav,  December  26,  1892. 
"City  of  New  York,"  January  5,  J893. 

S.  S.  "City  f'f  Pannma"  will  sail  for  Panama  at 
noon,  Saturday,  December  17th,  calling  at  Mazat- 
lan,  Aoapulco,  Port  Aug  1,  Saliua  Cruz,  Touala, 
Sau  Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico.  Sau  Jose  de  Guale- 
mal*,  Acaj'itla,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Corinto,  San 
Juan  del  Sur  aud  Punta  Areuas. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 
HONGKONG. 
Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 
Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 
Indies.  Straits,  etc.: 
8.8.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  Dec.  24th.  at  3  P.  M. 
"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"    Saturday,  January 
14th,  1893.  at  3  P.  M. 

S.  S.  "City  of  Peking,"  Saturday,  February 
4th,  at  3  P  M. 

S.  S.  "China,"  (via  Honolulu).  Tuesday,  Feb.  14, 
1893,  at  3  p.  m. 

Round  TriD  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Braunan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent 


The  CJhicago  and 
Northwestern  Rail- 
way with  its  connec- 
tions, is  the  fastest 
line  across  the  Con- 
inent,  landing  pas- 
sengers at  Chicago, 
New  York  and  Boston 
many  hours  ahead  of  all  competitors.  It 
is  also  the  onlv  line  running  Palace  Draw- 
ing-room slee'ners,  Dining  Cars  and  Pull- 
man Tourist  sleepirs  to  Chicago  daily 
without  change.  It  also  runs  select  Over- 
land Excursions,  with  experienced  man- 
ager in  charge  through  to  Chicago,  New 
York  and  Boston,  leaving  San  Francisco 
every  Thursday.  No  other  line  offers  facul- 
ties even  approaching  these.  For  full  in- 
formation, berths  in  through  sleepers  and 
tickets  at  lowest  rates,  apply  to  E.  A. 
Holbrook,  General  Traffic  Agent,  2  New 
Montgomery  street,  under  Palace  Hotel, 
San  Francisco.  . ,- 


POWDER 

Absolutely  Pure 


OCCIDENTAL  AND  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOP  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 
Note  change  in  hour  oj  sailing. 
Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIRST  and  BEAN- 
NAN  STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and    HONGKONG,   connectine  at  Yokohama 
with  steamers  for  SHANOHAI- 

Beloic Thursday,  Dec.  15,  1892 

Oceanic  (via  Honolulu).  Wed'sday,  Jan  4,1-93 

Gaelic Tuesday,  Jan.  24,  1893 

Belgic Thursday.  February  23,  1893. 

ROUND  TRIP  TICKET8  AT    REDUCED  RATE8 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Passage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets.  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.GOODMAN.  Gen. PasB.  Agt. 
GFO.H   RIPE.  TTflffip  Manager. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  Btates.  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
follows: 

For  Honolulu   Only  , 
S.B.  Australia.. WedDetday,  Dec,  21,  1692  2  p.m. 
FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA.  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYD- 
NEY, DIRECT. 

Alameda    Monday,  Jan.  9th. 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  at  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  8PRECKEL8  A  BROS.  CO, 
QoppTpl    4cremt8 

For  Barbers,  Bakers 
Bootblacks,  Bath-houses 
Billiard  Tables,  Brewers 
•  Bookbiu  ders,  Candy* 
makers,  Canners.  Dyers, 
Flour  Mills,  Foundries, 
Laundries,  Paper-hangers,  Painters.  Shoe  Fac- 
tories, Stablemen,  Tar-roofers,  'tanners,  Tailors, 
etc. 

BUCHANAN  BROTHERS, 
"Brush  Manufacturers,  fioo  SppTamen'o  street 


BRUSHES; 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFIC    SYSTEM. 
Trains  Leave  and  are   Due  to  Arrive 

SAN     FRANCISCO: 

Leave'      From  Decemb.r  3,  1892.       I  Arrive 

7:00  a.  Benicia,  Rumsey,  Sacramento.  7:15  p 
7:30 a.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose. .  *12:15p 

Niles  and  San  Jose 16:15  p 

7:30a.  Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Calistoga  6:15p. 
8:00a.  3acram'to&  Redding,  via  Davis.  7:15p. 
8:00  a.  Atlantic  Express  for  Ogdenand 

East, 9:45  p. 

8:30a.  Niles,  San  Jose,  Stockton,  lone, 
Sacramento,  Marysville,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4 :46  P. 

9:00a.  New  Orleans  Express,  Los  An- 
geles, Deming,  El   Paso,   New 

Orleanc  and  East 8:45  P. 

*9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton *8:45  P. 

12'OOm.  Hay  wards,  Niles  and  Livermore      7:15  h. 

*1KK)f.  Sacramento  River  Steamers *9:0f  p. 

1:30  P.  Vallejo  and  Martinez 12:45  p. 

3:00  p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  San  Jose.  9:45  a. 
4:00  p.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno .  12:15p 

4:00p  Martinez,    San    Ramon,    Val'ejo, 
Calistoga,  El  Verano.  and  Santa 

Rosa 9:45*. 

4:30  p.  Benicia,  an-d  Sacramento .    10:46a. 

4:00p.  Woodland  and  Oroville  10:15a 

4:00p  Vacaville 10:15a 

*4:30p.  Niles  and  Livermore  . .  *8:4.-i  a. 

5:00  p  European  Mail,  Ogden  and  East  .    10;45a 
5:30p.  Los   Angeles    Express,    Fref>nu. 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 
Los  Angeles. .   ...  9  4  .a. 

5:30  p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

forMojaveand  East  9:15  a, 

6:00p.  Haywards,  Niles  and  Sau  Jo*e         7:45  a. 

J7:00  p.  Vallejo +8:45  p. 

7:00p.    Oregon    Express.   Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East.        8.15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

+11:45a.  Hunters  and  Theater  Train  for 
Newark,  San  Jose,  aud  Los 
Gatos  18:05  p. 

8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulder    Creek   and 

Sauta  Cruz.   ..  6:20  p. 

*2:15p.  Centerville.  San  Jose,  AJmaden, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
SantaCruz     *10:50a. 

4:15  p.  Centerville,  Sau  Jose,  Los  Gatos.     9:oia. 

Coast  Division  (Third  a  id  Townsend  Streets). 


*7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  aud  Way  Sta- 
tions   

8:15  a.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos,  Pa 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  RobleB  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and  principal  Way  Stitions 
10  :37a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  Stations  . . 
12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TreB  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey. 
Pacific    Grove     and    principal 

Way  Stations *10:37a. 

*3;30  P.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Wav  Stations  .  

*4:30p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations.. 

5  -.15  P.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations. ., 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 
Stations 


*2:38  p. 


6:10  p. 
5:03  P. 


3:30  p. 


*9:47a. 
*8:06a. 

8:48  a. 

6:35  a. 


a.  for  Morning. 
"Sundays  excepted. 


tSundays  only. 


+7:30  p. 
p.  for  Afternoon. 
•{■Saturdays  only. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Dispatch  steamers  from  San  Francisco  for  ports 
in  Alaska,  9  a.  m..  Dec.  16,  Dec.  30  anl  Jan.  13. 

For  British  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  ports, 
9  a.  m.  every  Friday. 
For  Eureka,  Humboldt  Bay,  Wednesdays,  9  a.  m. 

For  Sauia  Ana.  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
every  fourth  and  fifth  day,  8  a.  m. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only,  at  Los  Angeles, 
Santa  Barbara  aud  Sau  Louis  Obispo,  every  fourth 
and  fifth  day,  at  11  a.  m. 

For  ports  iu  Mexico,  1st  of  each  month. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


■  Die  M  on  arc  A  of 

greakfas-r  foods 

THEJ0HN.T. CUTTING  CO,  SOLEAGENTJ 


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SAN  FRANCISCO,  SATURDAY,  DECEMBER  31,  1892. 


Number  26. 


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THE  Panama  Canal  investigation,  as  well  as  the  legal  prosecu- 
tion of  the  suspected  persons,  bears  too  much  the  evidence  of 
a  political  scheme,  to  further  the  ends  of  justice.  Private  spite, 
personal  ambition,  and  desire  for  notoriety  are  the  niaineprings 
of  action  in  these  undertakings,  while  moral  indignation  and  the 
pretence  of  purity  are  merely  masks  worn  for  the  occasion. 

IT  appears  that  by  a  law  passed  two  years  ago,  the  appointment 
of  female  engrossing  clerks  by  the  Legislature  is  forbidden. 
Now  if  they  would  pass  an  act  prohibiting  chairmen  of  commit- 
tees from  appointing  their  own  wives  or  daughters  to  the  posi- 
tions of  clerks  of  those  bodies,  with  big  salaries  and  no  duties  to 
perform,  it  would  be  another  good  step  in  the  right  direction. 
To  be  sure  it  would  materially  reduce  the  incomes  of  such  "re- 
formers "  as  Bledsoe,  of  Humboldt  county,  whose  wife  drew  a 
clerk's  salary  all  last  session,  but  the  people  would  be  relieved 
from  a  burden  little  short  of  robbery. 


THE  thrifty  one-luDgers  of  Pasadena  have  for  a  long  lime  been 
greatly  exercised  at  the  large  profits  realized  by  the  soulless 
undertakers  in  that  consumption-racked  city.  At  last,  however, 
they  have  devised  a  scheme  for  getting  the  best  of  the  highway- 
men of  the  hearse.  They  have  formed  a  society,  rented  a  shop, 
bought  lumber,  and  will  hereafter  make  their  own  coffins.  An 
undertaker  has  been  engaged  who  has  given  bonds  to  perform 
the  last  rites  at  cost  price,  and  now  there  is  great  rejoicing  among 
the  one-lunged  contingent,  who  will  thus  be  enabled  to  consign 
their  carcasses  to  mother  earth  at  a  total  expense  of  about  $2  75 
each. 


AN  idiotic  journalistic  exponent  of  the  "cause"  of  prohibition, 
named  the  Ensign  has  recently  made  an  unusually  rank  dis- 
play of  its  alleged  intellect.  Discussing  the  prevalence  of  phyl- 
loxera among  the  vineyards  of  France  and  Spain,  and  several 
reputed  cases  of  the  destruction  of  distilleries  in  this  country 
from  unknown  causes,  this  fanatical  scribbler  announces  that 
there  are  "direct  evidences  of  the  hand  of  God  in  answer  to  the 
prayer  that  the  drink  evil  may  bo  stayed."  As  the  pbylloxerated 
vineyards  are  all  being  replaced  by  others  and  the  burned  dis- 
tilleries have  been  rebuilt,  it  ia  difficult  to  see  how  the  Ensign 
claims  with  regard  to  the  designs  of  the  Almighty  are  supported 
by  the  facts. 

A  DETERMINED  effort  is  being  made  by  a  number  of  the 
largest  taxpayers  in  the  Central  Irrigation  District  of  Colusa 
county  to  dissolve  that  organization.  They  have  decided  not 
only  to  resist  the  further  payment  of  taxes,  but  to  have  the  bonds 
of  the  District  now  outstanding  declared  illegal  and  void.  The 
District  is  in  debt  $570,000,  or  over  $15  an  acre  for  the  land  in- 
cluded, while  the  taxes  average  $1  an  acre  annually.  The  canal 
remains  uncompleted,  and  not  a  drop  of  water  is  available  or  can 
be  made  available  for  irrigation,  while  the  work  already  done  is 
undergoing  constant  deterioration.  The  opponents  of  the  District 
include  many  of  the  largest  land-owners,  and  they  will  make  a 
strong  fight. 

THERE  is  much  that  is  commendable  in  the  letter  written  by 
the  new  Board  of  Supervisors  to  the  gentlemen  of  political 
wisdom  who  wish  to  assist  the  new  officers  in  the  dispensation  of  the 
patronage  of  the  board.  The  recently  elected  citv  fathers  have  an- 
nounced, to  the  utter  amazement  of  the  Democratic  political  man- 
agers, that  they  will  have  to  decline  to  discuss  questions  of  patron- 
age with  the  party  leaders.  The  Supervisors  say  they  propose  to 
make  their  own  appointments  without  ulterior  assistance,  wherefore 
there  is  much  gnashing  of  teeth  in  the  Sutter  street  head- 
quarters. Considered  in  any  light  the  independent  position  taken 
by  the  new  board  is  an  indication  for  improvement  in  matters  politi- 
cal in  this  city.  The  men  who  are  responsible  for  the  appointments 
should  make  them. 


ANEW  party  is  in  course  of  formation  in  Germany  chiefly  to 
be  composed  of  adherents  of  Prince  Bismarck's  political 
views.  There  tfl  no  doubt  the  moment  [a  opportune  for  such  a  ven- 
ture, for  since  the  late  Chancellor's  enforced  resignation,  matters 
have  been  going  from  bad  to  worse  in  the  Empire.  The  only  pity  i- 
tbat  the  party  will  have  difficulty  In  finding  n  competent  leadex 
unless  Prince  Bismarck  himself  should  once  more  enter  into  active 
politics.  Bach  a  sacrifice  on  his  part  could  only  be  expected  at  the 
moment  of  an  actual  crisis  which,  however,  may  occur  at  any  time. 

ONE  of  the  legacies  left  to  their  successors  by  the  present  Board 
of  Supervisors  is  a  shortage  in  ihe  public  funds,  for  which 
there  is  no  explanation  except  that  of  extravagance.  Particular 
attention  should  be  given  by  the  new  men  to  the  bills  contracted  by 
the  Fire  Department  Committee.  Many  of  these  accounts  were 
entered  into  illegally,  most  are  extravagant,  and  all  should  be  thor- 
oughly investigated.  As  these  bills  have  not  been  approved  by  all 
the  members  of  the  committee,  on  account  of  a  refusal  of  the  chair- 
man of  the  committee  to  acquiesce  in  certain  other  accounts  pre- 
sented for  passage  by  his  fellow  committeemen,  the  new  board  will 
have  to  deal  with  them.  Members  of  the  present  board  have  used 
the  public  funds  without  any  regard  whatever  to  the  city's  needs. 

THE  announcement  that  two  large  sections  of  mountain  land 
in  this  State  were  to  be  reserved  by  the  Government  for  the 
protection  of  the  sources  of  streams  whose  waters  are  utilized  for 
irrigation,  has,  as  is  natural,  aroused  some  opposition.  That  op- 
position, however,  comes  almost  wholly  from  the  men  who  have 
grown  wealthy  by  pasturing  their  horses,  cattle  and  sbeep  on 
the  public  domain  for  many  years.  These  men  not  only  enjoy 
free  pasturage,  but  they  largely  escape  taxation  by  the  well- 
known  device  of  driving  their  herds  from  one  county  to  another 
when  the  Assessor  makes  his  rounds,  and  pay  only  when  actually 
forced  to  do  so.  They  are  kicking  now,  like  their  own  steers,  at 
the  prospect  of  being  forced  to  conduct  their  business  in  a  legiti- 
mate manner,  but  all  their  objections  will  scarcely  avail  to  pre- 
vent the  carrying  out  of  so  necessary  a  plan  as  that  entered  upon 
by  the  Government  for  the  protection  of  the  watersheds. 


PLYMOUTH  CHURCH,  Brooklyn,  the  church  which  Henry 
Ward  Beecher  built  up,  has  taken  a  radical  departure  upon 
the  missionary  question.  At  a  recent  meeting  it  refused  point 
blank  to  continue  any  further  contributions  to  the  American 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions.  That  refusal  was  accompanied  by 
this  unmistakable  language,  uttered  by  a  prominent  officer  of 
the  church  :  "  I  am  sick  and  tired  of  going  to  the  American  Board 
in  sufferance  to  aid  in  supporting  missionaries  who  believe  out 
and  out  in  the  damnation  of  all  the  heathen,  and  that  damnable 
heresy  that  God  doesn't  love  the  heathen.  I  am  tired  of  the 
whole  miserable  humbug,  and  I  won't  give  a  cent  to  spread  the 
news  of  damnation.  I  won't  let  the  damnable  doctrine  be  dis- 
seminated by  my  money."  This  is  certainly  a  religious  revolu- 
tion with  a  vengeance. 


ONE  of  the  most  urgent  necessities  is  an  amendment  of  the  laws 
relating  to  vagrants,  and  the  Legislature  should  consider  the 
matter  at  an  early  day.  Under  the  present  system  a  gigantic 
system  of  robbery  has  grown  up,  by  which  thousands  of  dollars 
are  squandered  every  year.  Constables  and  Justices  situated  in 
places  located  on  main  lines  of  travel  make  a  business  of  arrest- 
ing and  sentencing  every  blanket  carrier  or  pedestrian  who 
reaches  their  bailiwick  no  matter  whether  he  be  a  professional 
tramp  or  not.  These  officials  are  paid  in  fees  for  each  conviction, 
and  a  regular  industry  of  tramp  catching  has  been  built  up. 
When  a  batch  has  been  sentenced,  the  officer  who  takes  them 
to  the  county  jail  charges  transportation  for  himself  and  for  each 
prisoner,  though  he  takes  them  in  one  party.  When  they  are 
liberated  they  are  frequently  rearrested  before  they  have  a  chance 
to  get  away,  arid  when  this  is  not  done  word  is  sent  down  the 
line  to  the  Constable  in  the  next  township,  who  arrests  them 
when  they  reach  his  precinct,  and  who  returns  the  favor  in  the 
same  manner.  There  are  Constables  and  Justices  in  many  locali- 
ties in  this  State  whose  fees  aggregate  fully  as  much  as  the  sala- 
ries of  the  highest  judicial  officers,  and  it  is  high  time  that  the 
»<  tramp  industry  "  were  abrogated. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEB. 


Dec.  31,   1NS»2. 


THE    FRENCH    SECRET    SERVICE    FUND. 


MROUVIER,  French  ex-Minister  of  Finance,  whose  prosecu- 
,  tion  for  bribery  was  demanded  by  the  Public  Prosecutor 
and  received  the  assent  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Cham- 
ber on  December  20th,  declared  that  the  money  received  by  him 
was  "  borrowed"  from  personal  friends  in  the  interest  of  the 
government,  since  the  secret  service  fond  was  at  low  ebb  when  he 
took  office,  and  needed  replenishing.  He  declared  that  be  had  but 
done  "  what  all  public  men  have  done,"  and  when  this  statement 
provoked  the  derisive  laughter  of  some  of  the  Deputies,  he  ex- 
claimed: "  Had  I  not  adopted  that  course,  the  men  now  inter- 
rupting me  would  not  be  seated  on  these  benches."  To  fully  un- 
derstand the  significance  of  these  words,  it  will  be  interesting  to 
refer  to  another  feature  of  "French  politics  which  was  not  touched 
upon  in  our  editorial  in  the  News  Letter  of  December  17th  on 
"  Government  in  France,"  but  which  is  well  worthy  of  considera- 
tion, namely,  tbe  employment  which  is  made  in  the  French  Re- 
public of  the  so-called  "secret  service  fund."  It  cannot  be  de- 
nied, unfortunately,  that  in  the  United  8tates,  also,  at  election 
time,  a  great  deal  of  money  is  spent  more  or  less  illegitimately  in 
order  to  influence  the  result  at  the  polls,  but  at  all  events  this 
money  comes  mainly  out  of  the  pockets  of  the  persons  chiefly 
interested  and  desiring  to  obtain  seats.  In  France  the  people  at 
large,  to  whatever  party  they  belong,  are  forced  to  contribute  for 
the  election  of  government  candidates,  for  a  part  of  tbe  public 
revenues  is  used  for  a  secret  service  fund,  which  is  mainiy  ex- 
pended in  securing  the  election  of  candidates  of  the  govern- 
ment in  power.  This  is  done  quite  openly,  and  up  to  the  pres- 
ent, the  French  people  have  submitted  to  this  disgraceful  state  of 
affairs  without  even  making  an  effort  to  remedy  it.  If  the  reve- 
lations of  the  Panama  Canal  scandal  should  lead  to  reforms  in 
tne  administration,  abolishing  so  unrepublican  a  feature  in  the 
French  Republic,  at  least  some  good  will  have  come  from  tbe 
nauseous  scandal.  As  matters  stand,  tbe  Minister  of  Finance 
furnishes  his  colleague,  the  Minister  of  the  Interior,  annually  a 
neat  little  sum  from  the  treasury,  which  tbe  latter  disposes  of 
at  his  own  free  will,  without  being  obliged  to  render  any  ac- 
count. The  election  bribery  is  managed  by  the  government  quite 
satisfactorily.  The  Minister  of  the  Interior  distributes,  shortly 
before  tbe  general  election,  to  the  Prefects  of  the  different "  Dt- 
partments"  into  which  the  country  is  divided,  such  sums  as  pre- 
sumably will  be  required,  and  the  Prefects  use  the  money  where 
it  will  "do  the  most  good."  If  the  secret  service  fund 
is  at  a  low  ebb,  and  as  not  too  large  a  sum  can  be 
asked  for  from  the  Chamber  without  exposing  the  Ministry 
to  unpleasant  interpellations  on  the  part  of  the  opposition,  the 
government  appeals  privately  to  its  friends  amongst  tbe  "haute 
finance".  M.  Constans  is  a  past  master  in  managing  such  affairs, 
as  his  successful  defeat  of  the  Bonlangists  has  shown.  They  had 
plenty  of  money  to  spend  against  him.  The  glittering  crosses 
and  grand  crosses  of  tbe  Legion  of  Honor  which  the  Minister 
keeps  dangling  before  the  eyes  of  his  supporters,  are  usually  con- 
sidered a  valuable  equivalent  for  services  to  be  rendered.  Of 
course  the  government  does  not  directly  ask  the  members  of  "La 
France  Juive,"  against  whom  there  is  such  a  great  outcry  at 
present,  to  contribute  money  for  election  purposes.  The  Minister 
simply  intimates  to  the  respective  banker  or  financier  that  tbe 
government  expenses  are  higher  than  anticipated,  that  it  would 
be  awkward  to  ask  for  new  grants  from  the  chamber  in  conse- 
quence of  the  outcry  which  the  opposition  is  apt  to  raise;  he 
interlards  his  speeches  with  hints  that  the  government  is  always 
trying  to  do  its  best  for  the  country,  and  above  all  never  forgets 
its  friends,  and  a  short  interview  usually  suffices  to  induce  the 
flattered  possessor  of  wealth  to  offer  a  contribution,  wbich  with 
some  show  of  hesitancy  is  accepted  as  a  "loan."  Of  course  it  is 
understood  that  this  loan  will  never  be  repaid  in  cash,  but  there 
are  hundreds  of  other  ways  for  a  powerful  ministry  to  reward  its 
friends,  and  if  Mr.  Rouvier  should  execute  his  tbreat  and  break 
thesilence  with  regard  to  "certain  facts"  which  be  always  "con- 
sidered it  his  duty  Heretofore  to  conceal,  but  now  feels  at  liberty 
to  proclaim  openly,"  the  world  at  large  would  see  that  the  above 
is  not  in  the  least  exaggerated,  as  is  well  known  to  all  those  who 
have  taken  the  trouble  to  study  French  politics  during  recent 
years.  Whatever  M.  R>uvier  may  have  done,  it  is  not  likely 
tiat  he  has  been  worse  than  many  of  his  predecessors  in  office. 
But  of  course  that  does  not  alter  tbe  case,  and  it  is  high  time  that 
the  French  Chamber  passed  a  law  abolishing  the  secret  service 
fund,  or  at  least  reducing  it  to  the  smallest  sum  possible.  It 
should  be  remembered,  however,  that  in  Europe,  France  is  not 
the  only  country  where  such  a  fund  exists.  It  is  maintained 
even  in  England  and  neither  the  Tory  nor  the  Liberal  Govern- 
ment ever  ventured  to  do  without  it,  though  to  the  honor  of 
Great  Britain  it  may  be  said,  that  the  fund  is  never  suspected 
of  being  used  for  electioneering  purposes  and  is  chiefly  employed 
for  purposes  of  foreign  diplomacy.  To  prevent  the  French  minis- 
try from  appealing  to  its  friends  amongst  the  financiers,  will  be 
a  more  difficult  task  since  their  contributions  are  not  easy  to 
prove,  unless  such  scandals  as  that  of  the  Panama  Canai  Com- 
pany were  to  be  stirred  up  every  few  years,  but  laws  might  very 
well  be  passed  rendering  the  interference  of  the  government  at 
election  time,  if  not  impossible,  at  least  comparatively  harmless. 


BAR    AND    BENCH. 

DURING  the  year  just  closing,  the  attention  of  the  people  has 
been  more  than  usually  directed  to  the  peculiar  practices  of 
attorneys  in  this  city,  by  tbe  exposure  of  a  number  of  malodorous 
incidents  in  connection  with  litigation  in  local  courts.  Attorneys 
have  been  charged  with  criminal  practices  by  both  the  bar  and 
the  press;  others,  it  has  been  shown,  have  engaged  in  worthless 
causes  for  the  sake  of  procuring  contingent  fees,  and  others  have 
indulged  in  such  sharp  maneuvers  that  only  the  technicalities  of 
the  law  wh?cb  they  know  so  well  have  kept  them  out  of  Ban 
Quentin.  It  is  said  that  in  San  Francisco  there  are  over  two  thous- 
and practicing  attorneys,  though  all  the  legitimate  business  of  the 
courts  might  well  be  transacted  by  one-fifth  that  number.  The 
number  of  attorneys  increases  yearly,  and  the  number  of  liti- 
gants keep  pace  with  it,  for  it  is  noticeable  that  the  greater  the 
number  of  attorneys  in  a  community  the  more  extensive  is  the 
litigation  therein.  That  our  courts  are  not  the  proper  tribunals 
for  the  adtoijistration  of  justice  that  they  should  be,  has  long 
been  admitted.  How  the  condition  of  affairs  shall  be  improved 
is  a  question  that  should  receive  the  attention  of  thinking  men. 
One  great  evil,  and  one  that  leads  to  much  useless  litigation,  is 
the  practice  of  attorneys  engaging  in  a  case  for  a  contingent  fee. 
When  a  lawyer  not  over-scrupulous  takes  a  case  upon  a  contin- 
gency, if  the  stake  at  issue  be  large  enough  to  induce  the  risk, 
the  probabilities  are  very  great  that  he  will  engage  in  crooked 
practices  to  gain  his  case  an  \  thereby  gain  the  fee.  Too  many  cases 
of  this  nature  are  now  before  the  local  bar  to  insure  honesty  in  all  the 
trials.  True  it  is,  that  in  some  suits,  wherein  the  poor  plaintiff  has  a 
just  claim  and  is  without  means  to  employ  an  attorney,  his  only  means 
of  securing  proper  management  of  his  case  is  to  agree  to  pay  a  con- 
t'ngent  fee.  Such  cases,  however,  are  but  few  and  far  between,  most 
of  the  contingent  fee  cases  being  those  in  wbich  the  claims  are  very 
questionable.  Both  bench  and  bar  should  combine  to  rid  us  of  this 
practice.  Another  cause  for  complaints  among  litigants  rests  in  the 
excessive  fees  charged  by  lawyers  for  service.  Toe  Probate  Court,  by 
some  lawyers,  is  considered  a  gold  mine,  which  needs  ouly  proper 
working  to  develop  untold  treasures.  Such  attorneys  have  no  hesi- 
tation, in  the  matter  of  small  estates,  in  running  up  their  fees  to  fig- 
ures equaling  the  amount  at  which  the  estate  is  valued,  for  rich 
estates,  tbe  fee  charged  i«*  usually  a  large  percentage  of  the  value  of 
the  property.  Judge  Coffey  has  done  much  to  protect  the  interests 
of  heirs  from  the  demands  of  rapacious  lawyers,  but  he  needs  support 
from  the  other  judges  of  the  Superior  Bench,  and  also  from  the 
reputable  lawyers  of  the  city,  if  we  would  have  a  bench  and  bar  above 
reproach.  The  Bar  Association,  for  instance,  should  be  more 
than  a  social  club.  It  should  demonstrate  a  greater  interest 
in  the  proper  administration  of  the  courts  in  the  interests 
of  litigants.  For  the  benefit  of  the  people  it  should  be  bold 
enough  to  denounce  and  expose  those  attorneys,  whoever  they  may 
be  who  engage  in  unprofessional  conduct. 

AS    TO    NEW    COUNTIES. 

IT  is  said  that  among  tbe  bills  to  be  presented  to  the  Legislature 
will  be  several  having  for  their  motives  the  organization  of 
new  counties  in  the  State  by  the  simple  method  of  cutting  up 
some  of  tbe  present  ones,  or  combining  sections  of  two  or  more 
adjoining  counties.  The  propositions  in  favor  of  new  counties 
are  as  sure  to  come  before  each  succeeding  Legislature  as  tbe  law- 
makers are  to  go  to  Sacramento.  The  county  bills  are  godsends 
to  the  hungry  lobbyists,  and  are  often  the  foundations  of  fortunes 
for  enterprising  legislators.  That  this  State  may  with  advantage 
to  its  government  be  divided  into  a  greater  number  of  counties 
than  it  has  at  present,  may  well  be  true,  but  under  the  present 
condition  "of  affairs,  except  in  a  few  cases,  tbe  benefits 
to  accrue  from  organizing  new  counties  do  not  appear. 
There  have  been  so  many  outrageous  jobs  hidden  under  the 
title  of  a  bill  to  organize  a  new  county,  that  the  people  have 
learned  to  look  with  great  suspicion  upon  any  measure  having 
that  end  in  view.  Experience  with  certain  bills  that  have  been 
presented  at  Sacramento,  and  the  exposure  subsequent  to  the 
bribery  that  was  attendant  upon  the  endeavor  to  pass  these  bills, 
have  taught  property-owners  throughout  tbe  State  that  danger 
lurks  in  these  measures.  Yet  it  does  not  follow  as  a  matter  of 
course  that  every  new  county  bill  is  born  in  fraud;  many  are 
backed  by  the  desires  of  the  people  of  the  whole  county  to  be 
affected.  Some  of  our  counties  are  so  large,  and  have  such  a 
small  population,  that  in  some  cases  it  would  be  to  tbe 
interests  of  business  if  the  territory  were  cut  up  into 
two  or  more  independent  subdivisions.  The  proposi- 
tion that  then  arises  is  whether  the  expense  attendant  upon 
the  establinhment  of  a  new  county  seat  and  the  necessary 
machinery  would  be  offset  by  the  advantages  of  increased 
business  facilities.  But  few  communities  in  the  State  are  large 
or  prosperous  enough  to  undertake  the  expense  of  a  new  county 
government  without  thereby  placing  a  very  uncomfortable  bur- 
den upon  the  people.  It  should  be  remembered  by  those  whose 
business  it  will  be  to  vote  upon  the  county  bills  that  may  be  pre- 
sented to  the  Legislature,  that  many  of  these  proposed  acts  are 
merely  the  evidences  of  the  selfish  wishes  of  a  few  land-owners, 
who,  for  their  personal  ends,  desire  the  organization  of  new 
county  governments  in  the  territory  in  which  their  lands  are 
situate. 


COUNTY    CLERKS    FEES 


DITRIKU  ihe  past  year  the  County  i  lerk's  office  in  Ibx 
rnnebeobaaooltectad  -  ires  and  and  bu  paid  ml 

J  I  in  expenses,  leaving  a  deficit  nipi.lft;.  and    it   is   now   pro- 

posed to    amend   thi«   condition  of  thing!  by  increasing   the  lec« 
charged  to  litigants,  especially  in  the  Probate  Department,  where  ihe 
receipts  were  only  $.'J  s->i.  as  against  expenses  of  PO.000.    Complaint 
ia  made  that  a  million  dollar  estate  in  probate  pay*  no  mora  in  fees 
than  an  estate  with  little  or  nothing  in   it,    though   the  actual   work 
involved  in  the  former  is  much  greater  than  in  the  latter.      While  it 
is  eminently  desirable  to  make  the  County  Clerk*  offlea  ol  Ihll  •  ny 
self-supporting,  the  remedy  proposed  is  not  the  right  one  nor  the 
best  one.  [or  it   begins  in  the  wrong  place.     Instead  of  increasing  the 
receipts  by  additional  burdens  on   litigants  what  is  needed  is  to  cut 
oft* expenses,  and  this  can  be  ilone  very  effectually  by  reducing  the 
number  of  deputies  allowed  the  County   Clerk,  and   then   reducing 
the  salaries  of  the  deputies    who  are  left.      As  is  well   known   ihe 
Cmnty  Clerk  at  the  present  time  has  no  control  either  over  his 
number  of  deputies  or  the  salaries  thev  shall  receive.      The  Legisla- 
ture has  determined  the  whole  matter,  and  all  the  County  Clerk  can 
do  is  to  select  the  men  for  the  various  positions.     Even  if  be  obtain! 
Irom  them  written  promises  to  work  for  less  salary  than  the  law  pro- 
vides, the  contract  cannot  be  maintained,  but  the  deputy  can  recover 
the  full  amount  of  his  salary  from  the  city.     What   the  Legislature 
should  do  then,  to  make  the  County  Clerk's  office  self-supporting  is, 
first,  to  cut  down  the  number  of  deputies,  which  is  unnecessarily 
large.    The  deputies  simply  stand  or  sit  around  in  each  others'  way, 
in  many  iustances,  and  there  are  often  times  when  enough  work  can- 
not be  louud  for  them  to  keep  them  busy.     The  Legislature  should 
tas,e  the  opinion  of  some  ex-County  Clerk  who  is  not  a  candidate  for 
any  office  as  to  the  number  of  deputies   necessary  to  do  the  work  of 
tbe  office  well  and  expeditiously,  and  then  reduce  the  County  Clerk's 
force  to  that  number.      If  such  a  thing  were  done  the  public  service 
would  not  be  harmed  at  all,  but  on  the  contrary  benefited  by  the 
change.    Then  should  come  the  reduction  in  salaries,  many  if  not 
most  of  which  are  entirely  disproportionate  to  the  skill  and  knowl- 
edge involved  as  well  as  the  labor, to  be  performed.     Deputies  are 
paid  $175,  $150,  or  $125  a  month  for  clerical  work  which  would  be  well 
repaid  by  a  salary  not  to  exceed  $100  a  month  at  the  very  outside. 
When  we  remember  that  the  State  of  California  pays  such  officers  as 
her  Secretary  of  State,  State  Controller,  and  others  of  the  same  rank 
only  $3000  a  year  salary,  the  absurdity  will  be  apparent  of  this  city 
paying  Deputy  County  Clerks $2100  a  year  for  services  which  require 
only  the  ability  to  write  a  good,  clear  hand  and  keep  simple  records 
in  an  intelligent  manner.    It  was  charged  long  ago  against  the  United 
States  as  well  as  the  several  States  of  the  Union  that  the  tendency 
was  to  pay  high  officials  too  little  and  the  subordinates  too  much,  and 
thisseeras  to  justify  the  accusation.    There  is  a  very  potent  argument 
against  the  graduated  system  of  fees  for  services  performed  by  County 
Clerks,  and  that  is  that  the  office  is  onemerely  for  the  use  of  litigants, 
n  it  a  source  of  revenue,  and  that  inasmuch  as  all  men  are  equal  in  the 
eyes  of  the  law,  there  is  no  reason,  at  least  logically,  why  the  heirs  of 
a  millionaire  should  pay  more  for  clerk's  fees  than  the  heirs  of  a 
m  in  worth  not  more  than  the  thousandth  part  of  a  million.    As  has 
b'en  suggested,  it  is  as  though  a  millionaire  were  to  be  compelled  to 
pay  more  for  postage  stamps  than  a  poor  man  pays,  on  the  ground 
that  the  Postoffice  Department  is  not  self-supporting.    Ohviously.  if 
fees  are  to  be  increased  they  must  be  increased  all  along  tbe  line,  for 
even  the  rich  man  has  rights  that  are  entitled  to  respect.    So  long  as 
the  County  Clerks  of  the  various  counties  of  the  State  were  feed  offi- 
cers instead  of  salaried,  the  matter  adjusted  itself  fairly  well,  for  in 
probate  business,  where  the  chief  discrepancy  occurs,  a  large  estate, 
as  a  rule,  paid  more  than  a  small  one,  the  clerk  being  entitled  to  a 
fee  for  every  paper  filed,  every  motion  or  order  entered,  and  every 
record  made,  and  the  large  estates  almost  always  had  more  papers 
and  involved  more  legal  business  than  the  small  ones.    If  it  should 
be  found,  after  an  honest  attempt  to  make  both  ends  meet  by  reduc- 
ing the  number  of  deputies  and  scaling  down  salaries,  that  there 
was  still  a  deficit,  the  Legislature  might  provide  for  fees  in  propor- 
tion to  the  amount  of  work  actually  done  in   tbe  County  Clerk's 
office,  and  that  would  tend  to  equalize  matters;  but  so  long  as  the 
present  system  is  in  vogue  there  can  be  neither  sense  nor  justice  in 
taxing  costs  in  proportion  to  the  amount  involved  in  the  litigation  or 
proceedings.    It  would  be  just  as  reasonable,  perhaps  more  so,  to  fix 
the  salaries  of  J  udges   by  relation  to  the  value  of  the  property  in- 
volved in  litigation  in  their  courts.    It  is  a  frequent  cause  of  com- 
plaint against  County  Clerks  in  this  city,  and  possibly  elsewhere, 
that  whereas  they  pledge  themselves  to  carry  on  their  office  for  a 
certain  sum,  they  almost  universally  exceed  it.     But  how  can  they 
help  it?    They  are  bound  hand  and  foot  by  the  acts  of  the  Legisla- 
ture and  by  the  decisions  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  while  they  may 
intend  in  good  earnest  to  keep  their  pledges,  it  becomes  an  impossi- 
bility.   The  work  must  be  done,  the  deputies  must  be  appointed  and 
the  salaries  must  be  paid,  and  after  that,  if  there  is  a  deficit,  it  is  the 
fault  of  the  law,  not  of  the  officer.    "When  this  matter  comes  before 
the  next  Legislature,  as  it  probably  will,  the  members  of  that  body 
should  be  careful  not  to  be  led  into  injustice  to  anybody  and  not  to 
lay  blame  where  it  does  not  belong. 


AMENDING    THE    ELECTION    LAW 

Til ''UK  Is  a  manifest  disposition  i.n  the  pari  of  thapoopli  of 
lallfornla  to  retain  the  Australian  ballot  law  for  ihr  peasant, 
hut  ihere  I.  an  equally  strong  disposition  to  hav.  it  to  •mm, led 
by  the  coming  l-eglslatiire  ■•  to  make  II  much  more  efficient  than 
II  is  In  IK  present  form.  The  recent  election  demnnairali-d  thai 
there  are  a  ureal  many  good  points  about  It,  bnl  II  itowod  at  the 
same  lime  thai  II  needs  alteration  ami  revision  to  a.lapl  II  lo  tha 
needi  ol  the  people  and  to  make  It  a  perfect  Inalriimenl  for  It! 
purpose.  It  ll  not  Ihe  Intent  of  Ibis  article  lo  point  OOI  in  what 
respects  the  law  ahould  be  amended.  That  may  very  properly 
be  left  lo  those  who  have  made  a  special  study  of  tbe  question! 
Involved,  and  who  have  scrutinized  the  remits  of  the  late  election 
with  an  especial  view  lo  the  amendment  of  the  law.  What  wa 
desire  lo  Impress  upon  tbe  people  of  California,  and  particularly 
upon  every  member  of  tbe  coming  Legislature,  is  this,  Ibat  lha 
question  Is  one  of  too  much  Importance  to  be  complicated  with 
partisan  politics  or  to  be  dragged  through  Ihe  mud  and  mire  of 
acrimonious  controversy.  Ii  Is  a  subject  in  which  every  voter 
In  California  has  an  equal  interest,  and  the  Legislature  must,  If 
it  does  its  duty,  frame  and  adopt  amendments  to  the  law  which 
shall  be  solely  for  the  interests  of  the  people  of  California.  There 
can  be,  properly,  no  shadow  or  suspicion  of  partisan  politics  in 
such  legislation,  for  an  election  law  must  be  general  and  uniform 
in  all  respects,  as  no  partisan  legislation  can  be.  How,  then,  la 
this  to  be  accomplished?  Best,  we  think ,  by  the  selection  of  a 
special  committee  from  each  House,  to  act  in  conjunction  each 
with  tbe  other,  and  bear  and  decide,  so  far  as  a  committee  can, 
among  tbe  various  plans  and  schemes  lhat  will  be  submitted. 
This  committee  would  have  an  advantage  over  the  Judiciary 
Committee,  in  that  its  time  and  attention  would  not  be  occupied 
with  other  matters,  a-  must  be  the  case  with  every  standing 
committee  of  the  Senate  and  Assembly.  It  should  be  composed 
of  tbe  very  best  material  which  each  House  can  afford,  and 
should  be  appointed  early  in  the  session,  so  that  lis  work  can  be 
discussed  before  adoption  or  rejection,  not  only  by  the  Legislature 
itself,  but  by  the  press  of  the  State  and  by  individuals  who  have 
views  and  ideas  on  the  subject.  We  can  say  with  assurance  that 
there  will  be  no  disposition  to  find  fault  needlessly,  nor  to  split 
hairs  about  the  action  of  the  committee.  All  that  is  desired  is  lo 
get  an  election  law  which  shall  be  clear,  secret,  accurate,  inex- 
pensive and  uniform.  Jtnd  one  under  which  the  results  of  an 
election  can  be  ascertained  definitely  within  a  short  time.  All 
these  requisites  can  be  attained  by  the  proper  alteration  and 
amendment  of  tbe  existing  law,  and  a  special  legislative  com- 
mittee is  just  tbe  body  to  devise  ways  and  means  to  secure  tbe 
desired  end.  No  doubt  there  will  be  plenty  of  ballot  reformers  at 
Sacramento  with  axes  to  grind,  to  say  nothing  of  tbe  well-mean- 
ing but  impractical  cranks  and  theorists  with  plans  which  conld 
not  be  made  to  work,  and  all  these,  whatever  be  tbeir  motives  or 
plans,  should  be  referred  to  a  special  committee  on  election  law, 
which  should  separate  the  wheat  from  the  chair. 

IN  his  annual  report  for  1892  to  the  coal  importers  and  wholesale 
dealers  of  this  city,  J.  W.  Harrison,  the  coal  broker  says:  The 
consumption  of  coal  this  year,  as  compared  with  last,  shows  an 
apparent  falling  off  of  about  109,000  tons,  but  it  must  be  remem- 
bered wf  ejmmenced  this  year  with  excessive  stocks  on  hand, 
probably  50,000  tons  more  than  there  is  in  yard  to-day.  Low  prices 
have  ruled  throughout  the  year;  in  fact  the  average  quotations 
have  bsen  the  lowest  on  record,  and  under  ordinary  circumstances 
such  low  priced  fuel  should  have  made  our  large  manufacturing 
interests  very  profitable,  but,  unfortunately,  general  business  in 
that  line  haB  been  below  the  average.  The  importers  of  foreign 
grades  have  been  the  principal  sufferers,  as  there  have  been 
losses  made  in  every  cargo  of  British  and  Australian  which  haB 
arrived  unsold,  nothwithstanding  the  rates  of  freight  paid  for  the 
carriage  of  the  coal  have  been  exceptionally  low.  The  market  is 
now  recovering  somewhat,  with  every  evidence  of  further 
strengthening,  as  this  is  assuredly  not  a  seductive  port  for  vessels 
to  seek,  with  the  present  low  charter  rates  for  grain  now  ruling, 
and  the  prospectB  of  any  marked  improvement  seem  very  remote. 
If  the  incoming  administration  should  abolish  the  duty  on  coal, 
this  would  lead  to  an  increase  of  consumption." 

THE  chief  interest  in  foreign  affairs  still  centers  in  the  Panama 
Canal  revelations,  and  it  is  now  evident  that,  as  was  indi- 
cated in  the  News  Letter  over  two  months  ago,  the  agitation,  far 
from  being  one  of  genuine  reform,  was  prompted  chiefly  by  political 
motives.  Mud  has  been  stirred  up  in  an  appalling  quantity,  but  the 
process,  instead  of  being  inaugurated  for  a  general  cleaning  up,  was 
mainly  begun  to  besmirch  political  adversaries.  The  instigators  in 
this  respect  have  succeeded  only  too  well,  but  thev  have  overshot 
their  own  mark  and  would  probably  be  very  glad  if  they  could  undo 
now  what  they  have  done,  since  in  trying  to  overthrow  others  they 
have  drawn  into  the  general  ruin  their  own  friends. 

MICHAEL  DAVITT  has  lost  his  seat  in  Parliament,  the  court 
charged  with  the  inquiry  into  his  election  having  decided 
that  he  was  returned  through  undue  influence  of  tbe  priesthood.  Mr. 
Davitt  will  probably  in  future  try  to  "paddle  his  own  canoe"  and  ask 
from  the  Irish  clergy  no  other  service  than  that  of  administering  to 
his  "spiritual  wants."  The  task  should  not  be  a  difficult  one  if 
gauged  by  the  wants  rather  than  by  the  necessity. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


Hardy  Brothers. 


LAWN    TENNIS. 

THIS  year's  lawn  tennis  has  been,  if  anything,  more  inter- 
esting than  the  last.  Players  from  our  coast  have  attend- 
ed the  Eastern  tournaments,  and  Bhown  that  we  know 
more     about    tennis   than     was    supposed.      C.    P.     Hubbard, 

especially,  represented 
California  In  the  East,  and 
I  can  say  with  compara- 
tive safety,  that  he  will 
be  in  the  classification  of 
the  ten  best  players  in 
the  United  States,  which 
will  be  fgiven  out  early 
next  year,  and  which  I 
will  append  below.  This 
ranking  I  have  received 
on  good  authority,  and  it 
will  probably  be  identical 
to  the  one  which  will  be 
issued.  O.  8.  Campbell, 
champion  of  the  United 
StateB,  went  to  England 
this  year,  and  played  in 
most  of  the  best-known 
tournaments  with  but 
little  success,  in  so 
much  that  he  has 
been  ranked  only  seventeenth  in  the  classification  of  players  in  the 
United  Kingdom.  Mr.  Campbell  was  evidently  out  of  form  while  in 
Europe,  and  ought  to  have  made  a  better  showing.  If  he  had  really 
played  his  game,  he  would  have  been  placed  somewhere  about  elev- 
enth, but  even  this  ranking  would  show  him  to  be  somewhat  behind 
his  English  cousins.  In  the  list  of  players  of  the  United  States,  I  be- 
lieve Campbell  comes  first,  followed  by  E.  L.  Hall,  F.  H.  Hovey, 
W.  A.  Larned,  Malcolm  G.  Chace,  Clarence  Hobart,  W.  P.  Knapp, 
R.  Stevens,  C.  P.  Hubbard,  R.  D.  Wren.  These  are  entitled,  by  their 
play,  to  this  classification.  It  is  therefore  encouraging  to  think  that 
Mr.  W.  H.  Taylor,  Jr.,  who  has  held  the  championship  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  for  five  years,  would  be  entitled  to  a  higher  place  than  number 
nine,  as  he  has  always  beaten  Mr.  Hubbard.  Is  was  quite  a  disap- 
pointment to  tennis  players  on  this  coast  that  Mr.  Taylor  was  un- 
able to  attend  the  Eastern  tournaments  this  year,  but  I  sincerely 
hope  he  will  represent  California  next  year  at  Newport, 

The  classification  of  the  twelve  best  players  of  the  Pacific  Coast  is 
a  very  difficult  one  to  make,  and  one  which  I  would  not  have  cared 
to  make  myself.  I  had  the  opinion  of  various  well  known  players, 
and  with  them  I  compiled  the  following:  W.  H.  Taylor  comes  first, 
followed  by  C.  P.  Hubbard,  Sumner  Hardy,  S.  S.  Sanborn,  J.  Tobin, 
C.  D.  Bates,  A.  B.  Wilberforce.  H.  N.  Stetson,  G.  B.  De  Long,  T.  F. 
Driscoll,  Sam  Hardy  and  W.  English.  There  are  others  who,  if  they 
had  played  during  the  season,  would  be  entitled  to  a  ranking,  and  a 
high  one  at  that,  such  as  C.  R.  Yates,  Ogden  Hoffman,  G.  V.  Grey, 
S.  Neel  and  Carr  Neel.  It  would  be  quite  impossible  to  put  a  rank- 
ing on  the  double  teams,  but  I  can  say  that  the  Hardy  Brothers 
played  one  of  the  most  brilliant  games  ever  seen  on  this  coast,  and 
were  far  ahead  of  any  of  their  opponents,  though  they  were  nearly 
defeated  by  Messrs.  Bates  and  Haight,  who  put  up  the  best  game 
played  against  them.  It  has  been  an  interesting  fact  that  the  Hardy 
boya  won  the  double  championships,  and  that  Sumner  Hardy  won 
the  single  championship  of  Alameda  County,  though  heretofore  they 
were,  like  the  Baddeleys  in  England,  comparatively  unknown  in  ten- 
niscircles.  The  Jarvies  also  have  been  wakinglup  this  year,  and  in- 
terest seems  gradually  to  be  increasing  with  them.  Miss  Morgan, 
of  the  California  Lawn  Tennis  Club,  carried  away  the  honors  this 
year,  but  so  few  tournaments  have  been  played  that  I  find  it  per- 
fectly impossible  to  give  any  kind  of  a  ranking.  The  clubs  in  the 
State  have  been  increasing  "all  the  time,  the  membership  is  getting 
larger  and  larger,  and  improvements  are  to  be  seen  in  every  first- 
class  club.  A  brilliant  future  for  tennis  seems  now  to  be  assured, 
and  it  is  solely  due  to  the  interest  that  some  few  have  taken  in  the 
matter.  When  C.  R.  Yates  was  Secretary  of  the  Pacific  States  Lawn 
Tennis  Association,  interest  never  flagged,  and  he  was  an  untiring 
worker.  1  hope  the  Association  will  retain  the  position  his  efforts 
pained  for  it.  Speaking  from  personal  observation,  I  must  say  that 
the  success  that  the  California  Lawn  Tennis  Club  has  achieved  is  due 
indirectly,  if  not  wholly,  to  its  worthy  President,  Colonel  Linder- 
man,  who,  assisted  by  Mr.  R.  J.  Davis",  has  brought  the  club,  with 
help  of  its  playing  members,  to  its  present  high  standard.  I  cannot 
help  saying  that  the  above  gentlemen  deserve  all  the  praise  the  mem- 
bers can  give  them.  Unfortunately,  I  cannot  speak  in  these  terms  of 
other  clubs,  being  unfamiliar  with  their  state  of  affairs;  but  I  am 
snre  there  are  hard  workers  in  every  club  who  are  trying  to  make 
lawn  tennis  what  it  ought  to  be. 

In  conclusion,  I  hope  that  all  tennis  players,  especially  the  newer 
members  of  clubs  here,  will  try  to  make  1893  even  more  interesting 
than  this  very  successful  season. 


LIFE'S    SHADOWS. 

A  wee  baby  mother  puts  "  dollie"  to  bed, 
With  tender  caresses  for  each  dainty  care; 

The  tiny  night-gown  and  the  coverlet  spread 
She  tiptoes  away,  in  the  twilight  to  prayer. 

A  fair  maiden  stands  at  the  toilet  to-night 
The  innocent  lovelight  less  deep  in  her  ej'es, 

She  waits  for  her  lover !  He  comes  and  love's  bright 
Rapture  is  winging  on  time,  as  it  flies. 

A  young  wife  sits  silently  listening  alone 
For  footsteps  which  quiet  the  heart's  anxious  beat, 

She  wishes  and  waits  till  deep  shadows  have  grown 
And  lengthened  the  day  where  in  darkness  they  meet. 

A  mother  is  rocking  her  baby  to  sleep ; 

He  looks  at  her  gravely  as  they  move  to  ana  fro, 
As  if  wondering  why  sunshine  leaves  life  incomplete, 

While  the  wealth  of  our  wisdom  from  shadows  must  grow. 

The  shadows  kiss  lightly  the  tast-closing  eyes— 
The  loving  hand  gently  lays  baby  to  rest; 

Still  locked  to  her  mother-heart  sweetly  he  lies 

In  dreams,  and  floats  calmly  to  realms  of  the  blest. 

A  woman  kneels  low  by  a  freshly-made  grave; 

The  heaastone  stares  coldly,  "  He  was  her  one  child," 
With  tear-laden  eyes  she  bends  lower,  yet  brave, 

Till  her  lips  meet  the  earth  in  her  agony  wild. 

The  twilight  comes  hurrying  past  her  again 
To  lose  itself  gladly  in  darkness  of  night, 

Leaving  her  sadly  alone  in  her  pain, 
To  mingle  with  shadows  her  tear-bedimmed  sight. 

A  care-worn  old  woman  waits,  watching  them  come— 
The  gathering  shadows  she  welcomes ;  they  sing 

The  same  sweet  song  to  her,  "  One  day  nearer  home!" 
And  the  weary  heart  longs  for  the  peace  it  will  bring. 

The  grandeur  of  living  in  earth-life  is  past, 
The  spirit  reposes  where  shadows  ne'er  fall ; 

So  life — woman's  life— goes  on  till  the  last 
To  find  in  the  dawning  her  rest  after  all. 

THE  resignation  of  President  Carnot  would  be  a  very  serious 
event  for  the  French  Republic.  It  is  deplorable  enough  that 
one  ministry  after  the  other  should  have  to  fall  in  consequence 
of  disturbances  in  the  chamber,  but  ft  would  be  disastrous  if  the 
position  of  the  President  were  to  depend  on  the  ever-changing 
political  situation  of  the  republic.  There  is  nothing  to  show 
that  President  Carnot  himself  has  been  guilty  of  any  doubtful 
financial  transactions  and  neither  the  alleged  guilt  of  his  relatives 
nor  of  his  ministers  should  suffice  to  endanger  the  tenure  of  his 
office.  Whatever  may  be  said  in  favor  of  the  present  form  of 
government  in  France,  one  thing  is  apparent,  although  the  new 
French  Republic  has  shown  far  greater  signs  of  vitality  than  its 
predecessors — its  stability  may  be  jeopardized  at  any  moment, 
unless  the  executive  is  rendered  less  dependent  upon  the  vacilat- 
ing  popular  sentiment,  than  is  the  case  under  the  existing  consti- 
tution. The  chances  of  intending  usurpers  will  never  be  entire- 
ly hopeless  as  long  as  the  sanguine  temperament  of  the  French 
people  is  permitted  to  have  free  scope  as  it  seems  to  possess  now, 
influencing  the  position  of  those  who  have  been  placed  at  the 
helm. 


THE  decision  upon  the  German  Army  Bill  has  been  postponed 
until  next  month  and  there  remains  several  weeks  yet  in 
which  Count  Caprivi  can  exercise  his  diplomatic  skill  in  gaining 
votes  in  the  Reichstag.  The  chief  labcr,  however,  will  have  to  be 
done  in  committee  afterwards,  and  if  the  measure  should  obtain 
a  majority  for  its  acceptance,  in  principle,  it  will  probably  reap- 
pear utterly  remodelled  in  detail  ere  it  has  to  face  the  vote  in  the 
plenary  sitting.  Whether,  then,  sentimental  patriotism  or  prac- 
tical common  sense  will  carry  the  day  is  a  question  which  is 
difficult  to  decide  upon  from  the  contradictory  reports  contained 
in  the  cablegrams. 

If  you  are  going  to  drink  at  all  next  year,  be  sure  that  you  start  off 
right  by  getting  in  a  good  supply  of  the  famous  John  F.  Cutter 
Whisky.  It  is  known  as  the  best  in  the  market,  for  its  excellence 
cannot  be  excelled.  It  is  in  use  at  all  the  leading  clubs,  bars  and 
restaurants  of  the  country. 


If  you  eat  some  of  Monaghan's  famous  oysters  to-morrow,  you 
will  have  good  luck  throughout  the  year.  His  are  the  best  in  "the 
market. 


Dec.  81,  1**2 


s\\  FRAN<  [»  0  M  \V8  LI  Ml  I; 


SNAP    SHOTS. 

(By    Di     VlllOI.] 

1  oulh  «f  Ion  the  «hadr  liwn. 

1     Brushed  by  the  owlet's  wing." 

wrote  I.Tdi»  Maria  Child,  a  poet  of  a  byegone  (feneration,  and 
only  on  such  a  hypothesis,  can  be  explained  the  instinctive 
craving  for  solitude  and  the  delight  in  horrors  »  hich  every  child 
has  experienced.  What  games  are  most  in  favor  with  children? 
Not  "King-a-round-a-rosy."  nor  "Charlie  over  the  water"  nor 
'•playing  lady,"  but  games  bordering  on  high  tragedy.  Children 
slaughter  imaginary  foes,  with  all  the  sanguinary  horrors  of  war. 
They  delight  in  a  make  believe  killing  of  each  otherand  in  mock 
funerals.  A  dead  canary  is  an  inexhaustible  source  of  mournful 
entertainment.  A  funeral  oration  is  pronounced  over  the  de- 
parted favorite,  a  Sabbath  School  song  is  sung,  the  bird  buried, 
a  mound  heaped  over  the  spot,  and  a  rude  board  inscribed  with 
the  name  and  age  of  the  deceased  is  placed  at  the  head  to  mark 
the  resting  place  of  the  remains,  while  not  a  few  tears  are  shed 
by  the  little  mourners.  I  know  of  one  child's  bringing  home  a 
dead  linnet  that  she  found  in  the  street  that  she  might  go 
through  the  pleasure  of  burying  it.  The  game  of  '-Old  Diggely 
bones"  sends  children  into  convulsions  of  terror,  real  or  affected, 
and  with  great  zeal  they  enter  into  the  frightening  frolic  with 
hideous  masks  which  draw  shrieks  of  indefinable  dread  from  the 
younger  children  to  the  great  delight  and  satisfaction  of  the  rest. 
With  what  solemn  unction  do  they  relate  to  each  other  that  most 
alarming  fiction  of  the  »  Bad  Man"  who  carries  away  little  girls  to  a 
dark  cellar  in  the  ground  1 

Children  live  in  an  ideal  world — a  world  peopled  with  good 
fairies  and  wicked  gnomes,  with  guardian  angels  and  dreadful 
ghosts.  The  unreal,  the  supernatural  have  the  greatest  hold 
on  their  imagination.  When  will  »«  Bluebeard,"  the  grewsome 
tale,  cease  to  fascinate,  even  while  it  frightens?  Even  the  young- 
est reader  lingers  longest  at  the  threshold  of  the  dark  closet 
where  Bluebeard's  murdered  victims  are  hanging  by  the  hair. 

The  Arabian  Nights  charm  by  the  boldness  of  their  imagery 
and  the  power  of  their  genii.  Fox's  Book  of  Martyrs  enchains 
the  attention  by  its  chronicles  of  blood-curdling  horrors,  and  the 
child  gloats  over  the  page  of  persecution,  though  its  sool  revolts 
at  the  thumb-screw,  the  rack  and  the  iron  embrace.  Then  there 
are  the  thrilling  ghost  stories!  How  great  is  the  charm  at  twi- 
light, when  the  fire  flame  casts  grotesque  shadows  on  the  wall, 
and  the  little  group  draw  close  to  the  narrator  as  they  cast  ap- 
prehensive glances  backward,  and  their  fears  chant  the  refrain, 
"  The  gobble-uns  will  catch  you  if  you  don't  watch  out." 

These  tales,  horrible  as  they  are,  gain  additional  terrors  when 
related  at  the  dead  of  night  by  one  wakeful  bedfellow  to  his 
startled  little  auditor,  who  expected  to  be  snatched  through  the 
ceiling  the  very  next  moment.  How  unearthly  sound  the  rats 
in  the  old  wall,  the  creak  of  a  board,  the  flapping  of  the  window 
shade  against  the  sash!  What  wonder  the  frightened  children 
cuddle  together  under  the  covers! 


THE    WINTER    GIRL. 

THE  8uniroer  maiden's  tender  eyes 
Have  lost  their  charm  entrancing, 
And   Winter's  social  notices 

Now  set  the  world  to  dancing; 
Men  look  about  to  find   a  flame 

To  warm  their  hearts  to  sparking, 
Then  with  the  merry   Winter  girl 
Straightway  they  go  a-larking. 

The  diamonds  on  her  snowy  neck 

Like  icicles  are  dripping. 
And  far  outweigh  the  butterflies 

That  set  Love's  scale  a-tipping; 
But  when  one  looks  into  her  eyes 

And  dreams    her  love  perchance  his, 
She  tries  her  very  coldest  way 

To  freeze  him  with  her  glances. 
San  Francisco,  December  31,  1892.  J.  S.  Tyler. 


SWEETHEART,    TO    YOU ' !— ■William  IT.  Hayne,  in  January 
LivpincotCs. 

SWEETHEART,  to  you  all  things  are  clear, 
The  sky  a  pure  perpetual  blue, 
And  youth's  elixir  in  tne  air, 

Sweetheart,  to  youl 

But  joy  to  me  is  never  true; 
For  though  her  fairy  feet  draw  near, 
They  swiftly  vanish  out  of  view. 

My  life  is  like  a  garden  drear 

Whose  rose  of  hope  has  lost  its  dew; 
But  morning  buds  are  opening  fair, 

Sweetheart,  to  youl 


Light  Miffins. 

By  Elita  R.  P.irlrr,   r<r,if.-r,l.  A',-. 

Sift  one  quart  of  flour,  and  two 
teaspoons  of  Cleveland's  Baking 
Powder.  Add  two  tablespoons  of 
melted  butter,  a  tea  cup  of  sweet 
milk,  a  teaspoon  of  salt,  and  the 
beaten  whites  of  six  eggs.  Bake  in 
well  greased  muffin  moulds. 

Usi  only  ClcvctoneTs  baking  fvwdir, 
tht  proportions  art  made  for  thol.  uA 

(dg   A  pure  cream  of  tartar  powder. 
jgwiands 


Perfect 
health- 
fulness 
is  its 
chief 
merit. 


Baking 
Powder 

"  Absolutely  the  Beat.' 


Housekeepers  and  Connoisseurs! 

WHITTAKER'S 

Celebrated  Sugar-Cured  Star  Hams  arc  always  sweet,  juicy 

and  appetizing. 
WHITTAKEh's 

Golf  Bacon  (for  picnic  hams)  are  bettor  than  two-thirds  of 

the  various  brands  of  hams  offered  for  sale. 
WHITTAKER'S 

Spiced  Rolled  Meats  are  the  most  economical  and  delicious 

parts  of  the  hog. 
WHITTAKER'S 

Patent  Bacon  is  a  table  delicacy. 
WHITTAKER'S 

Lard  is  absolutely  pure. 
4^- As  your  grocer  for  these  goods.    Don't  let  them  palm  off  an  inferior 
article  on  you. 

THOMAS  LOUGHRAN,    Agent, 

217  223  CLAY  8TREET. 

IDEAL    COFFEE. 

This  famous  brand  of  fresh  ground  blended  coffee  is  unexcelled  for  quality 
and  delicacy  of  flavor. 


No.  1 
25  cents 


No  2 
30  cents 


No.  3 
35  cents 


No.  4 

40  cents"|per  lb, 


For  sale  only  by 

RATHJEN  BROS.,  Grocers. 

21  STOCKTON  BTREET. 
Sole  Agents  for  the  Celebrated  IDEAL  COFFEE  POT. 

CYPRESS  LAWN   CEMETERY." 

Situated  in  San  Mateo  County,  between  the  Holy  Cross  and  |Home  of 
Peace  Cemeteries,  now  ready  for  interment. 

ZF-A-IMTII/ST       PLOTS 
For  pale  in  any  size  required. 

The  cemetery  Is  non-iectariau  and  is  laid  out  on  the  lawn  plan,  thereby 
saving  the  lot  owners  the  great  and  useless  expense  of  coping,  at  the  same 
time  making  it  a  beautiful  burial  place. 

For  further  information  apply  at  the  office,  325  Montgomery  street,  or  at 
the  cemetery,  of  W.  J.  BLAIN,  Superintendent. 

THE  COLEMAN. 

STRICTLY    FIRST-CLASS    HOTEL,    European  Plan.) 

H.   H.   PEARSON,  Proprietor.  BR0ADWAY£and  27th  St.,  NEW  YORK 

Horse  cars  of  Broadway,  University  Place,  West  Shore  R.  R.,  Grand  and 
Houston  8t.  Ferries  pass  the  door.  Sixth  Avenue  Elevated  Railroad 
tation  and  horse  cars;  also,  Fifth  avenue  stages  within  one  block. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


December  31,  1892. 


?\SPSiJfZS}fWD 


"We    Obey    no    Wand    but    Pleasure's."— Tom  Moore. 

THERE  seems  to  be  a  generally  accepted  belief  that  ''Christmas 
comes  but  once  a  year,"  witb  tbe  implication  that  the  rarity 
of  its  advent  carries  with  it  a  justification  for  much  and  varied 
tom-foolery,  and  a  general  unbending  from  the  dignity  suited  to 
the  common  and  familiar  day  which  comes  three  hundred  and 
sixty-four  times  in  the  same  cyclic  period. 

This  reflection  is  naturally  suggested  by  a  round  of  the  theatres 
just  at  present,  all  of  them  appearing  to  have  been  inspired  in 
the  selection  of  their  holiday  pieces  by  the  laisser-aller  spirit  and 
pleasant  folly  of  the  season.  All  are  full  of  laughter  and  with 
so  very  small  a  mingling  of  sense  as  not  materially  to  impair  the 
unities. 

»  •  # 

All  Baba  at  the  Grand,  and  the  spectacular  Trip  to  the  Moon  at 
the  Tivoli  have  had  crowded  and  delighted  audiences  for  the  last 
two  weeks,  giving  the  eye  a  feast  of  color  and  brilliancy  and  the 
shifting  glories  of  costume,  ballet,  and  calcium  lights,  and  the 
ears  a  surfeit  of  nonsense,  such  nonsense  as  hurts  no  one  now 
and  then.  All  Baba  will  finish  its  present  visit  this  week  and 
then  will  betake  itself  to  the  road  once  more  with  its  seven  car- 
loads of  "properties"  and  its  merry  jesters  and  mummers.  The 
Trip  to  the  Moon  will  be  kept  on  at  the  Tivoli  over  the  New  Year 
holiday.  There  is  as  yet  no  lessening  of  the  crowds  that  fill  the 
favorite  opera  house  every  night  and  which  warrant  the  contin- 
uance of  the  bright  and  musical  spectacular  opera. 

Stock  well's  holiday  piece,  A  Jolly  Surprise,  opened  Sunday 
night  to  an  audience  which  filled  every  seat  and  stood  in  rows 
along  the  walls  two  or  three  deep.  The  audiences  have  kept  up 
through  the  week,  but  to  the  judgment  not  utterly  carried  away 
by  the  holiday  spirit,  which  laughs  at  anything,  there  is  a  de- 
cided disappointment  in  Miss  Fanny  Rice  and  her  "Jolly  Surprise." 
The  surprise  is  there,  if  he  looked  to  being  amused,  but  it  is  not 
jolly.  In  fact,  Fanny  herself  is  not  jolly,  nor  does  she  inspire 
anything  akin  to  jollity  in  the  auditor.  She  may  be  accorded  the 
distinction  of  having  the  most  unpleasing  speaking  voice  ever 
heard  on  tbe  stage.  This  answers  one  purpose — the  audience 
does  not  feel  quite  so  impatient  to  have  her  stop  singing,  with 
the  alternative  staring  it  in  tbe  face  that  she  will  talk.  Miss  Rice 
has  apparently  a  very  bad  cold;  but  as  this  affiant  has  never 
heard  her  when  she  did  not  seem  to  have  a  bad  cold,  it  amounts 
to  much  the  same  if  the  voice  is  her  natural  one  or  chronically 
"acquired."  So  far  from  being  jolly,  Miss  Rice  appears  essen- 
tially serious,  her  smile  being  a  mechanical  flash  across  the 
qutrulous,  not  to  say  anguished  expression,  which  irresistibly 
suggests  that  of  a  young  woman  in  tight  shoes.  The  "  magic 
cabinet"  is  by  far  the  best  part  of  Miss  Rice's  performance.  It 
is  clever  and  ingenious,  and  is  well  worth  spending  an  evening 
and  a  dollar  to  see. 

Chas.  H.  Bradbur  does  his  very  best  and  spares  no  demonstra- 
tion; but  the  central  idea  of  a  fond  yet  giddy  husband  and  an  en- 
tanglement with  a  "  gaiety  "  actress  is  too  threadbare  to  be  worn 
gracefully.  We  have  bad  it  in  doses  of  all  colors  and  sizes  until 
it  has  become  suggestive  of  nausea. 

If  Melville  Stewart,  as  Charles  Carroll,  does  his  very  best,  he 
would  probably  do  still  better  by  retiring  behind  tbe  scenes  and 
doing  nothing  at  all.  K.  McDonough  has  an  amusing  make-up 
as  the  seedy  actor,  Hustle,  and  the  jokes  he  perpetrates  would 
not  be  bad  but  for  tbe  painfully  labored  accentuation  and  the 
long  pause  fur  the  anticipated  laughter,  which  antagonizes  into  a 
fixed  solemnity  the  San  Franciscan  auditor,  who  at  least  believes 
that  he  does  not  need  his  jokes  diagramed. 

The  women — there  are  eight — are,  contrary  to  the  general  run 
of  similar  productions,  better  than  the  men.  Especially  is  this  the 
case  with  the  young  wife  and  the  motuer-in-law,  taken  respect- 
ively by  Olive  Evans  and  Eva  Randolph,  the  former  being  pretty, 
graceful,  and  natural,  while  the  latter  carries  about  all  the  "  go" 
of  the  piece.  Frank  Jones  is  a  very  fair  singer,  with  a  good 
voice,  but  his  sudden  change  from  the  Irish  accent  of  Patsy 
McGuire  to  the  »  ballad  dialect  "  when  he  sings,  is  hardly  artistic. 
*  *  * 

U and  /at  the  Bush  is  the  same  noisy  farce-comedy  it  always 
was,  but  it  is,  on  tbe  whole,  better  as  to  company  than  when 
last  seen  here.  Mr.  George  P.  Murphy  is  a  better  Dutch  com- 
edian than  Daly,  though  as  O'Donovan  Innes,  Mr.  Heffernan  is 
hardly  equal  to  Kelly.  There  are  plenty  of  songs  and  dances, 
some  of  the  former  shaving  very  close  on  the  objectionable.  One 
in  particular,  ••  Duet  in  a  Minute"  could  be  cut  out  to  advantage. 
Miss  Kittle  Kursale  dances  nimbly  and  tirelessly,  and  imitates 
Lottie  Collins  accurately,  we  are  assured.  It  is  bad  enough  to  be 
accurate.  If  the  vox  populi  counts  for  anything,  U  and  I  has  it, 
for  the  audience  shouts  and  claps  its  hands  from  the  rising  of  the 
curtain  "  even  unto  the  going  down  of  the  same."  The  piece 
continues  next  week,  with  matinees  on  Sunday,  Monday,  and 
Saturday.  After  next  week  the  regular  Wednesday  matinee  at 
the  Bush  will  be  resumed. 


Incog,  Mrs.  Pacheco's  bright  play,  has  renewed  at  the  Califor- 
nia its  original  success  here.  The  charm  of  the  play  is  not  in  its 
plot,  which  is  transparently  impossible,  but  in  the  airy  graceful 
wit  of  dialogue  and  the  humor  of  situation.  Mr.  Dickson's  easy 
and  natural  comedy  methods  are  as  conspicuous  as  ever.  Miss 
Maud  Haslam  and  tbe  entire  company  form  a  support  of  unu- 
sual evenness  of  excellence.  The  play  opened  at  the  Christmas 
matinee,  the  attendance  giving  no  augury  of  the  fine  houses 
which  have  followed  all  the  week.  Incog,  is  a  more  than  ordi- 
narily good  play  and  more  than  ordinarily  well  played,  and  de- 
serves the  good  encouragement  it  has  received. 

•  *  • 

The  Salt  Cellar  is  a  pretty  little  one-act  play  which  precedes 
Incog,  every  evening  at  the  California.  It  is  adapted  from  the 
German  by  Mr.  Henry  Doblin,  who  will  remain  here  as  a  mem- 
ber of  tbe  California  staff.  The  piece  is  played  with  so  much 
artistic  delicacy  of  outline  and  coloring  by  Mr.  Dickson  and  Miss 
Haslam,  and  is  invested  with  so  quaint  a  vein  of  humor  by  Mr. 
Yorke,  that  it  fairly  divides  interest  with  the  more  important 
production. 

»  #  • 

Next  week  Mr.  Dickson  and  the  George  W.  Lederer  company 
will  give  an  entire  change  of  programme  at  the  California,  pro- 
ducing a  new  play  which  has  met  with  success  elsewhere.  A 
Paltry  Million.  Even  the  curtain-raiser  will  be  changed,  The  Salt 
Cellar  being  replaced  by  The  Man  About  Town,  by  Stanislaus 
Stange.  The  leading  character — that  of  a  man  whose  own  Ufa 
having  been  wrecked  on  the  shoals  of  dissipation,  makes  an  heroic 
sacrifice  to  save  the  brother  of  the  girl  he  loves  from  the  same 
fate — gives  a  chance  for  greater  strength  and  depth  of  portrayal 
than  Mr.  Dickson  has  yet  been  called  upon  to  display. 
*  *  * 

The  Baldwin  will  reopen  this  (Saturday)  evening,  December 
31st,  with  what  promises  to  be  one  of  the  pleasantest  engage- 
ments of  the  season.  The  leading  members  of  Mr.  Charles  Froh- 
man's  comedy  company  are  so  well  and  favorably  known  here 
that  prejudgment  is  safe.  In  Settled  Out  of  Court,  a  recent  Gillette 
adaptation,  with  which  the  engagement  opens,  Joseph  Holland 
has  a  strong  as  well  as  a  very  long  part,  in  which  he  is  said  to 
acquit  himself  even  more  admirably  than  in  Mr.  Wilkinson's 
Widows  The  length  of  the  part  calls  out  the  creditable  fact  that 
at  its  first  production  Mr.  Holland  was  letter  perfect  in  hia 
lines — a  rare  fact  in  this  day  of  slip-shod  preparation  and  care- 
less rehearsal.  M.  A.  Kennedy  is  another  long-established 
favorite  here,  and  in  certain  lines  almost  inimitable.  Other 
members  of  the  company  are  Georgie  Drew  Barryniore,  Agnes 
Miller,  Evelyn  Campbell,  Minnie  Tittell,  Margaret  Craven,  Ada 
Curry,  William  Faversham,  Robert  Hickman,  T.  C.  Valentine, 
and  Charles  Greene. 

During  the  engagement  the  company  will  also  play  Lestocq's 
The  Sportsman  and  Sydney  Grundy's  Arabian  Nights. 

*  *  » 

A  strong  interest  is  manifested  in  the  resumption  of  the  Carr-Beel 
Pops,  which  were  so  marked  a  musical  feature  of  the  year  past.  The 
first  of  the  new  series  will  take  place  next  Saturday,  Jan.  7th.  Many 
new  features  h;ive  been  planned  for  this  season,  among  them  the 
addition  of  new  instrumentalists,  so  that  quartettes  and  quintettes 
can  be  played  without  impressing  outside  talent.  The  programme 
for  Saturday  next  is  a  fine  one.  The  box  office  will  be  open  at  Sher- 
man &  Clay's  by  Manager  J.  H.  Love. 

#  #  # 

The  third  Ballad  Concert,  giver  by  Mr.  Alfred  Wilkie  in  the 
beautiful  Maple  Room  at  tbe  Palace,  was  even  more  largely  at- 
tended than  either  of  the  preceding  ones,  the  audience  being 
largely  composed  of  people  of  social  prominence  and  known 
music  lovers.  The  programme  was  one  to  attract  at  a  glance, 
and  was  exceptionally  rendered,  applause  and  encores  rewarding 
the  artists,  all  of  whom  deserve  mention  did  space  permit.  Mr. 
Wilkie,  both  in  his  two  solos  and  in  the  exquisite  duet,  "  Eden- 
land,"  was  in  magnificent  voice,  and  held  the  audience  breathless 
from  beginniog  to  end  of  his  performance. 

The  great  success  of  these  concerts  has  led  to  numerous  re- 
quests for  a  new  series,  also,  in  behalf  of  business  men  who  can 
not  attend  a  matineJe  performance,  that  half  of  tbe  series  be  given 
in  the  evening.  Probably  both  requests  will  be  met.  The  next 
concert  will  be  given  Friday }  January  13th. 

*  *  # 

Mrs.  Annie  Besant,  a  brilliantly  gifted  speaker,  who  has  created 
more  than  a  passing  sensation  in  Boston  and  other  eastern  cities, 
will  be  heard  in  this  city  under  the  management  ofJJ.  H.  Love.  She 
will  give  three  lectures  on  tbeoscphy,  hypnotism,  and  kindred 
topics,  at  Metropolitan  Temple,  January  2nd,  5th,  and  6th.  Mrs. 
Besant  is  undoubtedly  a  remarkable  woman  and  all  persons  of  cul- 
ture should  hear  her  whether  agreeing  with  her  views  or  not.  The 
mental  attrition  will  be  worth  something  as  a  brain  awakener  in 
these  days  of  subordination  of  intellect  to  business. 
*  • 

A  mandolin  musicale  will  be  given  by  Mr.  Samuel  Adelstein  at 
Metropolitan  Hall  on  Friday  evening,  January  13.  1894.  Mr. 
Adelstein  will  be  assisted  by  a  number  of  well-known  performers. 


Dec 


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•Udie*  will  be  interrM*-]  t<>  lc»rn  thai  Pad-rrwkt  briofl  t. 
•nd  h«ir  with   him  to  America         Rudolph   \ron»on    bai 

no  the  manu- 
script   libretto    ant    toon    Ol    Van 

ii"w   running  at  the   Ronai««anc*.  Paris,  with   The..  In  the 

leading  role. Tbe  simple,  bomdj  interest  and  ainotr*  Mntimral 

• Hd  Homestead  render?  it  nnr  «.f  the  pla>  «  which  do  n«  I 
of  the  popular  fancy.    It  will  soon  be  mod  at  the  California         ao 

ty  lady,  from  near  afodjeaka*f  California  li 
forwarded  a  larpc  boJ  ..f  exquisite  i  ameUlU  to  the  aclresi,  who  was 

playing  Chn£ff«  In  Chicago. Mr.    II.  J.  Stewart's   lri*h  cantata— 

Vorda  by  Peter  Robertson— wa«  produced  lately  nt  the  Lamb's  Club 
entertainnient  by  tb<  as  and  was  most  warmly  r«  .-.tvcl,  the 

finale  beiuR  demanded  four  time?  n  h    Yaw  and 

Mi?"  Kathryo  Fleming  are  two  more  young  California  rocaUata  who 

are  winning  KaMern  laurels. Mrs.   Langtry'a  physician 'a  latest 

bulletin  is  that  while  the  actre*>"  il.tir--   may  be  longandprtinful.it 

tot  threaten  her  life. Lord  Lonsdale  hat  given  Boflal 

$500  for  tbe  broncho  ridden  by  the  latter  in  his  Wild  Went  Bhow, 

The  Little  Broom  Seller  '\»  a  pretty  bit  ?et  to  Oflenbach  music  and 
pi  iyed  by  Fannie  Rice  and  Frank  Jones  as  a  curtain  raiser  to  .1  Jolly 

Surprise. Tony  Pastor  held  his  usual  annual  dolt-matinee  on  the 

Z3d  inat.     Every   lady   and  child   in  the  house  received  a  doll. 

Minna  (tale-Haynes  began  her  starring  reason  in  Shakespearean  and 

legitimate  drama   Dec.  2Uth  at  tbe  Star  Theatre,  New   York. A 

T'ip  to   Chinatown  continues   its   remarkable  success  at  the   Hoyt 

Madison  Square  Theatre. A  play  now   running  at  the  Broadway 

Theatre,  New  York,   reverses  the  accepted  idea.     It  is  called  The 

Prodigal  Father. Professor  Bartholomew's  twelve  trained  horses, 

which  once  piayed  a  very  successful  engagement  here,  are  exciting  a 

genuine  sensation   at  the  Broadway,   New  York. There  will  be 

matinees  at   all   the   theatres    Monday.  Jan.  2d. Mesdemoiselles 

Follette,  Serpolette.  Clair  de  Lune.and  Risetteare  presenting  at  Ros- 
ter &  Bial's  for  the  first   time  in    America   their  famous  quadrille, 

Fin  de-Siede. The  oldest  living  American  actresses  are  Mrs.  John 

Drew,  born  in   ISIS,  and   Clara    Fisher   Maeder,   born  in  1.S11. 

Kelley's  Puritania  made  a  run  of  100  consecutive  nights  in  Boston. 
— —  Neil  Burgess  carries  about  for  The  Count;/  Fair  a  carload  of 
scenery  and  thirteen  horses.— — 3ronson  Howard's  new  four-act 
eomedy.  Aristocracy,  produced  at  Palmer's  Theatre,  New  York,  Nov. 
14th,  by  Chas.  Frohruan's  company,  is  pronounced  an  unqualified 
success. — Lotta  is  again  able  to  be  abroad. After  a  short  wed- 
ding trip  Mrs.  Agnes  Huntington-Cravath  will  return  to  New  York 
with  her  husband  and  will  reside  at  the  Salamanco,  one  of  the  big 

Kavarro  flat-houses. Minna  K.  Gale  will  be  known  hereafter  on 

tbe  stage  as  Miss  Minna  Gale-Haynes.*^— Dunlap's  Stage  News  says: 
"M.  B.  Leavitt^ays  that  he  is  going  to  build  theatres  in  Salt  Lake, 
Denver,  and  Omaha,  and  that  a  son  of  millionaire  Flood  of  S;in 
Francisco  is  his  backer.'' The  Lilliputians,  E.  W.  Sothern,  Rich- 
ard Mansfield.  Dan'l.  Frohrnan's  Lyceum  Co..  The  Bostonian",  and 
Aristocracy,  are  coming  attractions  at  the  Baldwin. 

I>e*tervirijr  4'onftrtenre.— There  ia  no  article  which  so  richly  deserves 
the  entire  c^ufid^nce  of  the  commuoity  as  Brown's  Bronchial  Tbochbs. 
Those  fsufferiue  from  \sthmitic  and  Bronchial  Diseases,  Coughs  and  Colds, 
should  try  them.    Piice  25  cents. 


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parisons.   Muller's  Optical  Depot. 


Perrier-Jouet  &  Co. 


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Wine    Merchants  and  Grocers. 


THEOSOPHICAL  NEWS- 

ANNIE     BESANT, 

The  Gifted  Orator  and  Advocate  tor  Free  Speech  and  Equal  Rights 

will  speak  at  

METROPOLITAN    HAM,. 

On  MONDAY  EVENING,  January  2d,  THURSDAY  EVENING, 

January  Oth,  and  FRIDAY  EVENING,  January  Bth. 
SUBJECTS—"  Evolution  of  Man  from  tbe  Animal  to  the  Divine. 
•'  Death— and  After."    "  Mesmerism  and  Hypnotism. 

Reserved  seats  now  on  sale  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.  s,  except  Mon- 
day, when  they  can  be  secured  at  the  Temple.     Prices— 60c,  75c,  Tl. 


A  SO  ihe  gentleman  mmilooad  tot  Bp*mk«  of  ihr  ttMmbly, 
none  are  OODtldttTad  more  favorably  by  the  majority  "I  the 
legialllon  wbo  will  assemble  at  Karranirnto  nrtt  Monday  than 
T.  YV  II  . Hhanahan.  the  •  Tall  Bjoamora  (rem  Hba.ta."  «- 
londly  known  by  ibe  people  of  hi*  .li.in.  i  Tln»  la  Mr.  Sliana- 
ban >  filth  term  In  tbe  LtgltlatOfV,  lb.  poopll  ..(  bll  dlalrll  l  lha 
Kifih.  which  Includes  Bbaala  ami  Modoc  Monti**,  having  lOOb 
fallh  in  hi«  ability  and  Integrity  that  they  have  relumed  him  l" 
represent  tbnr  mi. t.. |.  m  the  capital  as  often  as  be  bai  a^kid 
their  suffrage*.  Mr  Sbanaban's  reputation  a*  a  fearless  advo- 
cate of  memaofM  Intended  for  the  public  good  la  known  From 
Shasta  to  Ban  Diego,  for  in  every  session  of  the  Legislator* 
in  which  he  has  participated,  he  has  made  himself  heard  and  fall 
He  Is  a  man  of  decided  vitws.  wbo  always  expresses  himself 
frankly.  There  la  no  mistake  in  his  position  upon  any  question 
before  tbe  House.  His  legislative  experience  has  made  him  an 
authority  upon  parliamentary  laws,  and  being  an  ever  ready 
man,  quick  to  grasp  any  situation  that  may  arise,  he  would  make 
an  excellent  Speaker.  For  that  important  position  a  member  is 
needed  who  is  able,  independent,  quick,  and  above  reproach. 
Mr.  Shanahan  possesses  these  four  virtues.  He  ia  deeply  read  in 
the  laws  of  the  State,  being  a  lawer  by  profession,  and  always 
having  been  in  close  touch  with  the  people,  tbe  public  interests 
would  be  safe  in  bis  bands. 

BALDWIN  THEATRE. 

Ai,  Hatman  A  Co. Proprietor?. 

Opening  night,  Saturday,  December  31st, 

CHARLES  FROHMAN'S  COMEDIANS, 
Presenting  Gillette's  Latest  Adaptation,    i**jM>3 

SETTLEDSOUTlOF     COURT. 

Joseph  Holland,  Oeorgie  Drew  Barrymore,  M.  A.  Kennedy,  Frank 
Gill  more,  Minnie  Tittle,  Evelyn  Camnpel',  Charles  Abbe,  Stella  Ten- 
ton,  Robert  Hickman,  Ada  Curry,  T.  C.  Valentine,  Margaret  Craven. 

Extra  Holiday  Matinee,  Monday,  January  2d. 

Seats  now  on  Sale. 

>n»M>  IV.  Jan.  9tli— "The  Sportsman/'  by  William  Lestocq, 
author  of  "Jane." 

STOCKWELL'S  THEATRE. 

L.  R.  Stockwell Lessee  and  Proprietor. 

Alf  Ellinghousb  Business  Maua&er, 

Last  week.    Everv  evening  at  S.  Matinees  Saturdays  ami  Monday, 

January  2d.    Dainty  FANNY  RICE  "Has  Hit  the  Town  "  in 
A     JOLLY     SURPRISE. 
Next— Monday.  January  9th,  Mit.  Barnes  of  New  Yokk." 
Seats  now  on  Sale. 

NEW  CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

AlHayman  &  Co Proprietors.  I  J.  J.  Gottlob — Manager. 

Last  week.  Beginnine  Monday  Matinee.  January  2d.  Unabated 
Success.    The  Comedian,  MR.  CHARLES  DICKSON,  in 

INCOG, 
Preceded  by  "  THE  MAN  ABOUT  TOWN,"  (first  production  here.) 
Mr.  Dickson  will  appear  in  boih  plays. 

Monday,  January  nth— The  Old  Homestead, 

WolFoPMA~HOUSE7~ 

Kbelinq  Bros  Proprietors  and  Managers 

Tu-night.    SECOND  WEEK.    A  Grand  Success.     Houses  crowded 

Every  Evening.    Offenbach's  Operatic  Spectacle, 

TRIP    TO    THE     MOON. 
populae  Prices 26  and  50c. 


THE  RUSH  STREET  THEATRE. 

Mr    M.B.Levitt  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

George  H.  Bboadhuest Resident  Manager' 

Matinee  Saturday,  Dec.  31st.,  and  Saturday  night, 

"U,    &   I." 

New  Songs,  Dances  and  Specialties  1 


6RAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Farewell!    Good-bye  Forever.    AMERICAN  EXTRAVAGANZA 
COMPANY  in  the  Greatest  of  all  Successes, 

ALI     BABA, 

Or,  MORGIANA  AND  THE  FORTY  THIEVES. 

Mr.  David  Henderson,  Proprietor  and  Manager. 

Remember,  Last  Nights!    Last  Time,  Monday  Night,  January  2. 

t  ««t  Matinees,  Saturday,  December  31st  and  Monday  Jan.  2d. 

Brine  thgchildren  Once  More.  POPULAR  PRICES. 


Dl  ■  HI  AC  Knabe,  Haines, 
T*  I  #\ 111  UO  Bush  &  ( ,'crls,->  others. 
■  ""  "  ™^^^  Oashorinstallraeuts.  Rented 
and  Repaired.     Please  call  or  send  for  circulars. 

ST  BANCROFT 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


December  31,  18 


SONS 


/* 


UCH  has  been  said  and  written  of  our  California  million- 
aires, but  as  yet  no  special  notice  has  been  taken  of  our 
millionaires'  sons  and  therefore  we  have  prepared  a  list  of 
_ _eXs_[_  the  most  noteworthy  of  these  young  gentlemen,  the 
bachelor  portion  being  offered  for  the  delectation  of  our 
maids  at  home  and  for  those  who  visit  our  coast  to  see  the  famed 
wonders  of  its  varied  celebrities,  j,  A  more  natural,  unaffected  set  of 
young  men  it  would  be  difficult  to  rind,  than  these  same  "  Native 
Sons,"  who  are  luckily  provided  with  gold  spoons  though  not  in 
every  instance  born  with  them  in  their  mouths.  To  begin,— suppos- 
ing the  unmarried  sons  will  prove  the  most  interesting  to  the  girls, — 
we  place  at  the  head  John  Mackay,  Jr.,  who,  although  but  seldom 
seen  on  our  coast,  yet  claims  the  title  Californian.  and  therefore  is 
entitled  to  be  so  ranked.  Young  Mackay  is  about  twenty-four,  small 
in  stature,  and  dark  in  complexion  like  his  mother.  Having  been 
educated  in  England,  he  naturallyfhas  imbibed  many  of  the  British 
mannerisms  in  speech  and  dress.  He  is  of  quiet  manner  and  very 
musical  in  his  tastes  and  a  great  patron  of  artin  all  its  branches.  He 
will  inherit  an  immense  fortune  one  of  these  days. 

James  L.  Flood,  the 
only  son  of  the  late  bo- 
nanza king,  is  slight  or 
build,  with  fair  hair  and 
moustache,  and  blue 
eyes,  and  about  thirty- 
five.  Young  Flood  has 
been  educated  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  since  his  fath- 
er's death  has  developed 
much  business  talent  and 
ability  in  handling  the 
vast  interest  of  the  es- 
tate. He  is  not  fond  of 
society,  and  is  never  seen 
in  the  swim,  his  tastes 
inclining  more  to  those 
of  a  masculine  order, 
ungoverned  by  conven- 
tionality. Mr.  Flood's 
fortune  runs  far  into  the 
millions. 
James  L.  Flood. 
Charles  L.  Fair  is  the  only  surviving  son  of  the  Bonanza  magnate 
and  ex-Senator,  James  G.  Fair.  He  is  tall,  broad-shouldered  and  fine- 
looking,  and  about  twenty-five  years  old.  Like  young  Flood,  he  has 
shown  a  disinclination  for  society,  and  has  turned  his  attention  of 
late  to  the  turf,  having  purchased  and  run  fast  horses  recently.  His 
fortune  in  possession  is  a  monthly  income  allowed  by  his  father,  and 
the  interest  of  a  sum  left  him  by  his  mother,  aggregating  a  very 
large  amount,  which  upon  the  attainment  of  a  certain  age,  will 
accrue  to  him  entire.  This,  with  the  future  bequest  of  his  father  to 
anticipate,  makes  this  lucky  young  gentleman  beyond  the  fear  of 
"  biting  blasts  of  poverty  "  forever. 

James  V.  Coleman,  the  nephew  and  representative  of  the  O'Brien 
interests  in  the  Bonanza  quartet,  is  a  very  fine  looking  man  of  tall 
stature,  well  built,  and  with  dark  hair  and  mustache.  He  is  a  poli- 
tician as  well  as  financier.  Mr.  Coleman  is  a  widower.  His  wife  was 
the  beautiful  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Nuttall.  She  died  a  few  years 
after  marriage.  Mr.  Coleman  has  inherited,  with  his  two  sister's,  the 
Mesdames  Harry  and  Fred  May,  that  portion  of  the  estate  of  the 
late  William  S.  O'Brien  willed  to  his  sister,  Mr.  Coleman's  mother. 

Charles  Felton.  Jr.,  is  the  only  son  of  our  present  United  States 
Senator  C.  N.  Felton  and  with  his  sister,  Mrs.  Elkins.  is  co-heir 
of  Senator  Felton 's  millions.     He  is  a  slender  young  man  of  fair 


complexion,  and  of  a  very  retiring  nature, 
and  is  not  much  given  to  general  society. 
He  spends  most  of  his  time  at  the  hand- 
some country  home  at  Menlo  Park,  presided 
over  by  his  aunt,  Mrs.  George  Loomis.  A 
bachelor,  good  looking  and  a  millionaire's 
son,  he  is  a  prize  in  the  marriage  mart  for 
some  one  of  our  pretty  belles  to  draw. 

Charles  H.  Baldwin,  the  only  son  of  the 
late  Admiral  Baldwin,  of  the  United  States 
Navy,  is  already  in  possession  of  his  share  of 
the  millions  left  by  his  father  to  him  and  his 
only  sister,  the  somewhat  famous  Mrs.  E. 
P.  Deacon  of  Paris.  In  appearance,  Mr. 
Baldwin  is  tall  and  well  proportioned,  with  a 
dark  complexion  and  grey  eyes,  and  is  con- 
sidered very  handsome.  He  has  polished 
manners  and  is  a  great  social  favorite.  He 
is  not  engaged  in  professional  business,  de- 
voting his  time  to  his  ranch  at  Mountain 
View,  where  he  resides  with  his  aunt,  Mrs. 
Michler,  who  keeps  house  for  the  young  bachelor;  but  in  the 
gay  season,  in  town,  Mr.  Baldwin  can  be  considered  one  of  the 
chief  beaux  in  our  society. 

Fred  W.  Sharon  ,  the 
the  only  son  of  the  late 
mining  magnate  and  ex- 
United  States  Senator, 
William  Sbaron,  is  a  small 
man,  of  about  thirty-five 
years,  with  brown  hair 
and  mustache,  inclined  to 
baldness,  and  possessed  of 
blue  eyes.  He  is  scrupul- 
ously neat  in  his  dress, 
and  is  tinged  with  Anglo- 
mania to  a  great  degree. 
Mr.  Sharon  is  a  man  of 
polished  manners  and  cul- 
tivated tastes,  his  love  for 
the  beautiful  in  nature  and 
art  being  a  marked  feature 
of  his  character.  He  has 
a  genial  smile,  which  dis- 
closes a  set  of  fine  white 

teeth.     He  does  not  devote  Fred   W.  Sharon. 

himself  to  any  business  or  profession,  leaving  the  care  of  the  im- 
mense Sharon  estate  in  the  hands  of  his  co-trustee,  Frank  Newlands, 
and  spends  his  time  as  a  dilletante  decorator,  and  in  constant  travel- 
ing. Mr.  Sharon  is  married  and  the  father  of  one  son.  His  fortune 
is  vast,  being  a  third  share  in  the  estate  left  by  his  father,  and  which 
is  estimated  as  one  of  the  largest  in  California. 

Charles  F.  Crocker  is  the 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Charles 
Crocker,  the  "Railroad 
King."  He  is  a  blonde,  of 
medium  height  and  build, 
wears  a  moustache  and  has 
blue  eyes.  Having  been 
on  the  Governor's  Staff,  he 
holds  the  rank  of  Colonel, 
by  which  title  he  is  gener- 
ally known.  Col.  Crocker 
is  Vice  President  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  Railroad, 
and  as  the  representative 
of  the  Crocker  interests  in 
that  system,  has  shown 
marked  ability  as  a  railroad 
man  and  financier.  He  is 
somewhat  of  a  politician, 
and  a  leading  club  man. 
He  has  only  recently  taken 
active  interest  in  social 
matters,  as  since  the  death 
\, Colonel  Charles  F.  Crocker.  of  his  wife  (nee  Jennie  Easton) 

he  has  but  rarely  entered  society.  This  winter,  however,  his  lady 
friends  are  looking  forward  to  seeing  him  frequently  in  the  swim. 
Colonel  Crocker  has  three  children,  who  live  under  the  care  of  their 
grandmother,  Mrs.  Easton,  at  his  residence.  His  fortune  is  one  of 
the  huge  million  ones  of  the  Coast. 

Walter  L.  Dean  is  another  young  gentleman  who  has  made  a  suc- 
cess in  society.  He  inherits  to  a  great  degree  the  good  looks  of  his 
father,  Walter  E.  Dean  the  capitalist.  He  is  of  medium  height  and 
rather  squarely  built  with  brown  hair  and  moustache,  and  clearly 


Dec 


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► 


Hugh  Tevis. 


cut  feature*  and  what  the  girl«  rail  melting  eye-       Me    ha«   an  onlv 
si«ler.  at  present  a  very  young  prl.    and   with    her   will   inb. 
father'-   grr.t   wraith.      lie  i-  »   bachelor  and  extremely    fond     ■( 
society,  m  which  favored  sphere  III  Is  a  grtal  favorite. 

I>r.  li 

millionaire     Dr.  rerisis   <  ol  rating   ll.iggm.  hut  not  like 

him  in  appearance,  being  Ull  and  athletic,  with  (air  hair  ami  ni.ti- 
tarhe.  hriuli    blue  eyes  and  of  a  simple,  kindly,  courtc-y  ,,(  manner 
thalisver.   winning.     He  is  a  specialist  Id  hi-  profc--ion.  which he 
practices  In    New    York,   thoogb   he   spend-  a  goodly  part 
year  here  with  his  parents,  and  so  is   frequently  seen  in  our 
Dr.  T>  n  i.  lor.  a  man  of   very  artistic   la-tes   and   adl 

of  music,  being  him-elf  no  mean  performer  on  the  pianoforte.    .\t 
'  he  enjoys  a  liberal  allowance  from  his  father,  but  will  event- 
ually inherit  a  very  large  fortune. 

HnghTevis  second  son 
of  Lloyd  Tevis.  is  a  part-  ^^ww-^Kf*^ * 

ner  in  the  mercantile 
bouse  of  Coburn  A  Tevis. 
Like  his  brothers,  he  is  a 
blonde,  and  is  large  and 
well  made.  He  is  more 
brusque  than  Harry,  and 
not  so  cultivated  in  his 
tastes.  He  inclines  to 
the  drama,  and  has 
shown  a  decided  talent 
for  the  stage,  having 
acted  with  great  success 
in  several  amateur  per- 
formances given  in  aid  of 
fashionable  charities  by 
society  people.  Mr. 
Tevis  is  married  to  a 
daughter  of  J  udge  Boalt, 
and  is  the  father  of  one 
cbild. 

Will  Tevis,  the  young- 
est of  Lloyd  Tevis'  sons,  is  a  small,  sparely-built  young  man  with  ligh  t 
blue  eyes  and  pale  complexion,  strongly  resembling  his  father.  Will 
Tevis  is  the  business  man  of  all  the  capitalists'  sons,  being  a  partner 
in  the  flourishing  firm  of  Tevis  &  Fisher.     He  specially  attends  to 

his  father's  large  inter- 
ests in  Kern  county.  He 
is  a  married  man,  hav- 
ing wedded  the  beautiful 
Miss  Mabel  Pacheco, 
and  has  three  children. 
James  D.  Pbelan  is 
the  only  son  of  the  prom- 
inent Irish  capitalist, 
James  Phelan.  He  is  of 
medium  height  and  com- 
pactly built,  with  blonde 
hair  and  beard  and 
bright  blue  eyes.  Mr. 
Phelan  is  associated  witb 
bis  father  in  the  care  of 
his  millions,  and  is  a 
prominent  club  man, 
having  been  at  one  time 
President  of  the  Bohe- 
mian Club.  He  is  a  bach- 
elor and  a  great  admirer 
of  the  fair  sex,  although 
Will  Tevis.  not  very   pronounced  in 

his  social  attentions  to  any. 

Louis  Sloss,  Jr.,  is  a  son  of  the  well  known  capitalist  of  that  name. 
He  is  of  small  stature  and  solidly  built,  possessed  of  a  genial  nature 
and  jovial  disposition,  and  is  a  good  companion  and  general  favorite. 
He  is  a  leading  member  of  the  Bohemian  Club,  a  bachelor,  and  con- 
nected with  his  father  in  the  business  of  the  Alaska  Fur  Company. 
Mr.  Sloss  is  a  good  musician,  and  made  quite  a  success  in  Stewart 
and  O'Connell's  Opera  of  "Bluff  King  Hal"  upon  its  initial  produc- 
tion for  the  benefit  of  the  Art  Association  when  he  took  the  part  of 
the  Constable  of  Windsor.   , 

Jack  Parrott,  son  of  the  late  banker,  John  Parrott,  of  pioneer 
days,  is  a  tall  loosely  built  young  man  of  the  type  known  as  Anglo- 
maniac.  He  is  on  the  sunny  side  of  forty  and  has  dark  closely  cut 
brown  hair  and  blue  eyes.  Mr.  Parrott  was  educated  in  Europe 
and  is  an  enthusiast  on  music,  devoting  much  of  his  time  to  its 
scientific  study.  He  has  entered  the  field  of  composition  and 
achieved  much  favorable  criticism  on  his  work.  He  is  married  and 
lives  near  his  mother  at  San  Mateo.  Mr.  Parrott  will  with  his 
sisters,  inherit  the  enormous  fortune  left  by  his  father  under  his 
mother's  sole  control.  Mr.  Parrott  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  chief 
patrons  of  classical  music  ou  the  coast. 

Louis  T.  Haggin  is  the  oldest  and  only  living  son  of  James  B.  Hag- 
gin,  the  well-known  capitalist.  He  is  a  small,  alight  man  of  about 
forty-two,  of  very  dark  complexion.  He  is  quiet,  reserved  and  pol- 
ished in  manner  and  of  a  cultivated  mind.    Mr.   Haggin  was  e iu- 


cated  at  out  of  the  Kngllsh  uniter-nir.  and  In  ,„,,., 

ibilll]    tod    great 
I  l«  a  daugfa 
Mr.  ILggln  hu  a  I  urge  fortune,  hoi    will   Inherit  from  hi- 
father  one  of  m«n>  million.. ; 

Janir.  IXinpliy  fa  „    „(    the  late    William    Duopfay,  II,.- 

to.  k  man  and  rattle  breeder.    He  i.  »  middlr-.iaed  dark- 
skinned  young  fellow,  with  curly  hnira.nl  b 

"'  "«  family 'a  man  |  pen  ,,„  ,,„.r ■,  ,,,.,,,,, 

I  in-  father's  null: 
eph  a.  Donohoe,  Jr.,  eldest  eon  of  tot  well  known  banker  ol 

that  name,  i.  a  tall,  broi  young  fellow,  will,  brown  hair 

and  merry,  twinkling  eye-.    Bel*  In  the  bank  with  hi-  rather    i- 
niarnedto  Mr-   Parrotfa  youngest  daughter,  la  „  good  choi 
and  an  exemplary  yonng  husband  and  faiher. 

■  ,:''  """"' ■ »"'  banker's  youngeal  ion,  la  the  bean  ,,f  the  family 

"r-v  Pppolar  i lal  cirdi       He  la  a  big,  deep-,  beat*  .1  fellow, 

fond  "f  baseball  and  athli  I  ,||,ge  graduate  and 

a  bng ht  young  man.    lie  will  he  co-heir,  witb  hi   brother  and  sister 
Mr-.  Jack  Parrott,  to  his  father's  many  million-. 

Pobin  i.i-  he  ia  besl  known)  is  a  son  of  the  late  Richard  robin 
of  the  Hiberola  Bank.  Both  he  and  his  brother,  Richard  Tobin  Jr  ' 
are  popular  yonng  members  of  society.  Thej  are  both  slendei 
of  the  blonde  type.  Joe  married,  some  years  ago,  the  daughter  of 
the  late  millionaire,  D,  .1.  Oliver.  Bhedied  soon  after  marriage,  and 
the  galland  widower  is  the  target  for  many  a  bright  glance.  Richard 
is  also  much  sought  as  a  guest  in  the  swim.  They  both  live  with 
their  mother  at  the  family  residence,  on  Nob  Hill,  and  will  be  worth 
landing  as  financial  big  fish  by  the  pretty  anglers  of  the  gay  world. 

Lansing  Kellogg  is  the  son  of  a  man  well  known  in  our  business 
community  years  ago.  His  mother  was  Miss  Kilty  Lyon,  ol  Oswego. 
New  York.  Young  Kellogg  is  a  good  type  of  a  handsome  voting 
man,  being  stalwart,  tall  and  athletic.  He  is  a  bachelor,  and  pos- 
sessed of  health,  wealth  and  breeding,  and  is  considered  one  of  <.i 
ety's  pets,  being  always  a  welcome  guest,  whether  at  cotillion  or  lea, 
tennis  match  or  house  party.  A  graduate  of  an  Eastern  college,  he 
is  an  enthusiastic  lover  of  baseball,  and  is  one  of  the  "  team"  of  his 
university  on  this  coast. 

George  Crocker,  the  sec- 
ond son  of  Charles  Crock- 
er, is  the  bachelor  of  the 
family.  He  is  more  heav- 
ily built  than  either  of  his 
brothers,  yet  he  bears  a 
strong  resemblance  to  them 
in  feature  and  complexion. 
George  Crocker  does  not 
ogo  in"  for  society  in  gen- 
eral, and  is  best  known  as 
a  club  man.  He  owns  a 
large  stock  ranch  in  the 
interior,  where  he  spends 
much  of  his  time.  He  is 
one  of  the  "catches"  of  the 
swim  in  the  matrimonial 
market. 

Will  Crocker,  the  young- 
est son  of  the  millionaire, 
is  smaller  of  stature  than 
either  of  his  brothers.  He 
has  light  blue  eyes,  fair  bair 

and  close-cut  beard,  though  at  times  be  appears  with  a  moustache 
only.  He  is  the  senior  partner  in  the  banking  house  of  Crocker- 
Woolworth  &  Co.,  and  is  favorably  known  in  business  circles  as  a 
clever  financier.  Society  sees  more  of  Will  Crocker  than  of  any 
other  member  of  the  Crocker  family,  as  his  beautiful  young  wife  is 
one  of  the  leading  features  of  the  fashionable  world,  and  their  home 
on  California  street,  "  Nob  Hill,"  is  the  centre  of  a  refined  hospital- 
ity, at  times  brilliant  in  the  extreme. 

William  F.  Babcock  is  a  young  gentleman  who  has  taken  a  very 
high  place  in  the  mercantile  community  ever  since  he  assumed  his 
late  father's  interest  in  the  house  of  Parrott  &  Co.  He  is  the  eld- 
est son  of  the  late  William  Babcock,  one  of  San  Francisco's  earliest 
merchants  and  rich  men.  He  resembles  his  father  in  personal  ap- 
pearance, being  tall  and  slight,  with  clearly  cut  features  and  dark 
hair  and  eyes  of  bluish  tint.  Mr.  Babcock  is  a  widower,  a  man  of 
very  subdued  tastes,  devoted  to  country  life  and  pursuits,  reading 
and  driving. 

Harry  Babcock  is  William's  youngest  brother,  and  much  more 
given  to  social  pleasures  than  he,  as  during  the  gay  season  in  town 
Harry  is  a  frequent  guest  at  all  the  fashionable  functions.  He  lives 
in  the  summer  with  his  brother  at  the  latter  gentleman's  residence 
in  San  Rafael. 

Shatter  Howard,  son  of  the  wealthy  President  of  the  Spring  Valley 
Water  Company,  is  a  thick-set,  broad-shouldered  young  fellow, 
strongly  resembling  his  father,  even  to  wearing  low-cut  collars.  He 
is  fond  of  society,  and  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  cotillion  coterie,! 
and  a  sure  attendant  at  all  social  functions  during  the  season. 


George   Crocker. 


10 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEK. 


Dec.  31.  1892. 


Will  Sherwood,  son  of  the  leading  capitalist,  Robert  Sherwood,  is 
one  of  the  most  popular  beaux  in  society.  Of  tall,  slight,  elegant 
figure,  he  has  auburn  hair  and  closely-cut  beard,  and  boasts  a  pair 
of  brilliant  blue  eyes.  Coming  from  a  good  English  stock,  his  man- 
ner has  a  strong  coloring  of  the  quiet,  well-bred  style  so  indicative  of 
the  cultivated  Britisher.  He  is  always  faultlessly  neat  and  well- 
dressed,  and  being  an  admirable  horseman,  much  enjoys  a  canter  in 
the  Park.  He  is  a  bachelor  and  a  great  society  man,  and  is  in  busi- 
ness with  his  brothers  in  the  firm  of  Sherwood  &  Sherwood,  and  with 
them  an  only  sister,  will  inherit  the  millions  of  bis  father. 

Robert  Sherwood,  Jr.,  and  H.  H.  Sherwood,  his  brothers,  are  both 
married.  Robert  is  dark  of  coloring  in  hair  and  eyes.  H.  H.  Sher- 
wood is  blonde,  like  Will.  They  are  all  good  business  men,  and 
worthy  sons  of  an  able  sire. 

The  Newhall  brothers  are  all  big,  handsome,  manly-looking  men. 
N.  Mayo  Newhall  is  married,  and  his  prematurely  gray  hair  and 
whitening  whiskers  give  him  an  older  look  than  his  years.  George 
i3  very  stout.  He  is  a  great  lover  of  society,  where  he  is  also  well 
liked.  Walter,  too,  is  a  ladies'  pet,  and  always  sure  of  a  pretty  part- 
ner for  the  Friday  Night  Cotillion.  They  are  all  good  types  of  the 
millionaire's  son  and  successful  business  men  on  their  own  account. 

Claus  Spreckels,  the  many-times  millionaire,  has  three  sons,  who 
are  "  chips  of  the  old  block"  in  being  shrewd  business  men  as  manip- 
ulators of  their  father's  large  interests  in  sugar,  etc.  Adolph  and 
Gus  are  both  married.  Adolph  is  very  nautical  in  his  tastes,  and  is 
the  Commodore  of  the  Pacific  Yacht  Club.  He  is  a  handsome  man, 
with  dark  hair  and  a  heavy  moustache,  and  a  frank,  manly  face. 
John  D.  Spreckels  is  of  trim  build,  and  has  keen  eyes,  which  lightup 
a  very  intelligent  face.     He  is  a  shrewd  and  able  business  man. 

THE    NEW    NAVY. 

IT  is  comforting  to  feel  that  the  change  of  Presidents  is  not 
likely  to  stop  the  building  of  war  ships.  Happily  there  is  one 
national  doctrine  which  Democrats  and  Republicans  view  alike, 
and  that  is  the  creation  of  a  navy  strong  enough  for  coast  de- 
fense and  large  enough  for  moral  effect  abroad.  It  was  the 
Arthur  administration  that  laid  the  first  keels  of  the  white  squad- 
ron, but  some  of  the  staunchest  cruisers  now  flying  the  American 
flag  were  begun  during  the  four  years  of  Cleveland's  ascendency. 
Upon  Mr.  Cleveland's  pride  in  this  fact,  and  upon  the  close  rela- 
tions now  borne  to  him  by  ex-Secretary  Whitney,  much  may  be 
predicated  in  the  way  of  naval  progress  and  development.  It  is 
trne  that  the  opponents  in  Congress  of  naval  appropriation  bills 
are  mainly  Democrats,  but  a  Democratic  President,  of  whom 
such  objectors  are  always  asking  favors,  can  curb  them,  and 
bring  them  to  his  views  far  more  easily  than  a  Republican 
executive  is  able  to.  Hence,  in  spite  of  Holman  and  his  ilk,  the 
development  of  naval  strength  during  the  next  administration 
may  be  looked  forward  to  with  some  degree  of  certainty.  The 
American  people  are  not  likely,  we  think,  to  be  disappointed, 
either  in  the  number  of  ships  built  or  in  their  character  as  fight- 
ing machines.  Towards  the  end  of  his  term  President  Cleveland 
showed  a  purpose  to  make  the  navy  powerful  in  war,  as  well  as 
destructive  to  merchantmen.  The  initial  object  of  the  new  ves- 
els  ha  1  bien  to  prey  upon  commerce  and  show  a  clean  pair  of 
heels  to  marine  batteries.  With  something  of  the  old  Jacksonian 
instinct,  Mr.  Cleveland  wanted  to  have  ships  that  could  show  a 
good  set  of  teeth.  From  this  spirit  came  the  battle-ship  idea 
which  materialized  in  the  noble  creations  that  are  soon  to  make 
the  American  name  formidable,  as  in  times  gone  by,  upon  the 
maritime  highways  of  the  world.  Good  speed  to  the  patriotic 
consummation!  No  matter  what  the  auspices  under  which  our 
ships-of-war  are  fashioned;  no  matter  whether  the  patron  saints 
of  Democracy  or  Republicanism  propitiate  the  winds  and  tides  in 
their  behalf;  no  matter  to  whose  political  credit  the  vessels  may 
go  on  the  ledger  of  national  achievement,  the  one  fact  in  which 
all  patriotic  Americana  may  take  pride  remains — they  will  do 
honor  to  our  common  country  wherever  they  miygoandin 
whatever  presence  they  may  show  their  broadsides. 

HIS   ANSWER. 


Why  do  I  love  you?     Dear,  your  tender  eyes 
Grow  wistful  as  your  lips  this  question  frame. 
Sweet  eyes,  that  drew  me  first  to  hope  that  Love 
Might  soften  their  dark  brightness  at  my  name. 
I  loved  you  then.  I  think,  because  yon  seemed 
So  cold,  so  far  removed;  I  had  not  dreamed 
That  you  would  learn  for  my  poor  self  to  care. 
I  loved  you  after  that  for  Love's  sweet  sake; 
Now  for  your  own ;  your  very  self  I  take 
Into  my  inmost  heart  and  worship  there, 
Not  for  your  eyes,  nor  lips,  nor  clinging  arms, 
Nor  all  your  endless  rosary  of  charms, 
But  for  yonr  steadfast  soul,  a  jewel  rare 
That  shines  for  me  from  out  its  setting  fair. 

Ella  M.  Sexton. 

Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "Mrs.  Winslows'  Soothing  9yrup  "  for  your 
hildreii  while  teething. 


prar>k  J.  5ynmes, 

president. 


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Jreasurer. 


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11 


THE 


YEAR     THAT     DIES    B,    TUmmt   ttmd     mm   of  ti* 
Thomas  //«*/    -5    /•    fffM  UtUr.  1858. 

CLh«7  look  to  cold 
Oal  i>'r<M*  ihf  snowy  wold; 
I)r»w  the  cnruini*  plow  Around, 
Thai  (be  bells  with  joyous  sound. 
His  dull  hearing  may  not  wound. 

Clasp  his  hands — so  long  and  thin , 
Tbey  were  full    when  he  camr  m 
Just  twelve  months  ago:  with  grain— 
Seed  of  happiness  and  pain, 
That  is  scattered  round  like  rain  I 

Hush!— he's  gone— adown  the  wind 
Died  that  last  vague  undc6ned 
Word  '■  Farewell"— 'twas  more  a  sigh 
Than  a  word ;  I  heard  it  die 
On  the  breeze  that  moanetb  by. 

Smooth  the  wrinkles  on  his  brow— 
He'll  not  feel  the  pressure  now. 
Hark !  the  rain  sobs  at  the  door, 
Thinking  how  it  saw  of  yore 
Old  Year  die— anu  shall  see  more! 

Lay  him  out  ere  he  grow  cold, 
Clothe  him  for  the  churchyard  mould. 
Who  is  this  among  us  here, 
Standi  ne  by  the  Old  Man's  bier? 
'Tis  his  heir— 'tis  the  New  Year! 

Hail  to  thee!  thou  lost  of  Years. 
With  thy  young  eyes  wet  with  tears; 
But  the  woe  of  youth  is  brief, 
Thou  wilt  soon  forget  the  grief; 
Thy  new  power  will  bring  relief! 

Leave  us— gray  old  man,  New  Year! 
To  the  earth  his  corpse  to  bear. 
Got  the  world  with  mirth  and  glee, 
Waits  impatiently  for  thee. 
Leave  the  dead,  so  cold  and  grim  ! 
Some  day  thou  shalt  be  like  him  1 


BISMARCK'S    TWO    FAITHFUL    FRIENDS. 


IN  his  recent  interview  with  Dr.  Hans  Blum,  the  National  Lib- 
eral politician,  Prince  Bismarck  did  not  confine  himself  alto- 
gether to  charging  Caprivi  with  incompetency.  Radowitz  with 
drunkenness,  and  the  late  Emperor  Angusta  with  intriguing  op- 
position, but  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Princess  related  a  few  stor- 
ies concerning  his  two  faithful  friends,  the  late  imperial  dogs, 
Saltan  and  Tiras. 

"  Whenever  I  went  away  from  home,"  said  Bismarck,  "  Saltan 
nosed  about  everywhere  for  me,  with  every  evidence  of  deep  sor- 
row. Finally  be  would  always  seek  consolat.on  in  my  wh.te 
military  cap  and  my  deerskin  gloves,  which  he  would  carry  in 
his  mouth  to  ray  workroom  and  drop  on  the  floor.  He  would  then 
lie  down  with  bis  nose  on  them,  and  would  not  leave  them  except 
for  meals  until  I  came  back. 

"  Old  Tiras,  too,  was  very  intelligent  and  faithful.  I  used  to  go 
to  the  Reichstag  through  the  garden  behind  the  Chancellor's  pal- 
ace, and  thence  through  the  Koaiggralzer  strasse.  As  I  went  out 
the  gate  into  the  street  I  would  turn  to  Tiras,  who  had  followed 
roe  so  far,  and  say  simply  ■  Reichstag  '  in  my  ordinary  tone  of 
voice.  At  once  Tiras  would  drop  his  head  and  tail  and  sneak 
back,  to  the  bouse.  Once  when  I  started  out  in  uniform  I  left 
my  walking  stick  just  inside  the  garden  wall.  I  returned  four 
hours  later  from  the  Reichstag,  and  as  1  entered  the  house  I 
noticed  that  Tiras  was  not  there  as  usual  to  welcome  me.  To  my 
inquiry  about  the  dog's  whereabouts  the  watchman  replied:  <  He 
has  stood  for  four  hours  at  the  back  garden  wall,  and  will  not  let 
anybody  go  near  your  Excellency's  walking  stick.  At  Varzin 
one  day  I  found  by  the  roadside  a  wood  cart,  which  I  thought 
had  been  stolen,  because  the  wood  was  green.  I  told  Tiras  to 
watch  it  while  I  went  to  make  inquiries.  Neverless,  he  began  to 
sneak  after  me.  I  turned  back  and  laid  my  glove  on  the  cart, 
and  Tiras  remained,  watching  it  for  more  than  an  hour  as  if  he 
had  taken  root  in  the  ground." 


Safe  and  Effective. 


Brandbeth's  Pills  are  the  safest  and  most  effective  remedy  for 
Indigestion,  Irregularity  of  the  Bowels,  Constipation,  Billiousness, 
Headache,  Dizziness,  Malaria,  or  any  disease  arising  from  an  impure 
state  of  the  blood.  They  have  been  in  use  in  this  country  for  over 
fifty  years,  and  the  thousands  of  unimpeachable  testimonials  from 
those  who  have  used  them,  and  their  constantly  increasing  sale,  is 
incontrovertible  evidence  that  they  perform  all  that  is  claimed  for 
them. 

Sold  in  every  drug  and  medicine  store,  either  plain  or  sugar-coated. 


•in«  Uw  Army.  Nary  an  1  Iniian  Department 


The  purchasing  a«mt*  of  ihr  I  nit«d  tttata*  OoT«rnm«ol  hmrr 
ordrrr,!  nearly  on«  hundrnl  thou  wo d  pounds  of  Dr.  I'lirc'i  lUking 
1  nwdir  m  thr  flnri  Bra  months  «-f  thU  vr»r 

The  government  rtcr.  it.  Crr«i  t  ure  in  vln-ttng  il«  luppllt*  of 
■"  ""'  ■v.-rylhing  Hint  U  OOl   Ol    lh.-  U»l.  mid    the    verv 

[act  lost  It  has  adopted  Dr.  Prios'a  Baking   Powdsr  Unroof  that  ft 

ind lit  the  beat  of  all   thr  baking  pOWdsfB.     l>r.   Wi-e 
cnlla\riy  adaptsd  for  axport.  at  nsitbtr long  •«•  royajni  n-.r  riimat« 
changes  anVct  it.  IhU  brand  keeping  fresh  and  sweet  for  yeara,  while 
other  baking  powder*  dfltoriomte  rapidly. 

It  ia  guaranteed  to  the  g>>w-ri>nii  nt  t<i  be  a  pure  eream  of  tartar 
powder  rroe  from  ammonia,  alum  or  other  harmful  rabttanoM,  «nd 
it  is  also  the  only  baking  powder  prepared  by  a  physician  of  high 
standing.  ° 


highland 

Evaporated 

Cream 

is  a  delicious  accessory  to  the  morning's  first 
meal.  It  combines  purity — convenience — 
economy — the  three  requisites  for  a  break- 
fast dish.  Delightful  in  your  coffee;  appe- 
tizing on  your  oatmeal;  brings  out  the  flavor 
of  cut-up  peaches.  No  more  waiting  for 
the  milkman;  no  more  worrying  over  his 
stall-fed  cows.  Highland  Brand  is  uni- 
formly rich  and  perfect — there's  where  it 
differs  from  its  imitations. 

HELVETIA    MILK    CONDENSING   CO., 
Highland,    111. 


In   addition   to  their  large  and  care- 
fully selected  stock  of 

LADIES',  MISSES  AND  CHILDREN'S 
Jael^ets, 

Ulsters, 
FRATINGER    &    CO., 

also  carry  the  finest  assortment  of 
LADIES'  FUR  CAPES,  in  the  lat- 
est and  most  fashionable  shapes,  and 
at  prices  the  lowest  in  the  city. 

FRATINGER    &    CO,, 

lOB  Kearny  Street. 
THE 

BANJO 

ASHTON  P.  STEVENS. 

STUDIO  :     26  MONTGOMERY  STREET. 
The  Fashionable  Accomplishment. 


12 


SAN  FEANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


WLm  -LQPKER-  o  n 


■s 


|/  ,  htAii-J-"l£(ifc«ran: 


FRANK  A.  VAIL  is  a  common,  common  man — and  he  knows 
it.  He  has  been  so  designated  by  the  local  representative  of 
His  Imperial  Majesty,  the  Mikado  of  the  Flowery  Kingdom,  and 
whenever  he  thinks  of  it  a  blush  suffuses  his  handsome  countenance, 
his  hand  grips  the  hilt  of  his  trusty  saber,  which  always  is  near  his 
desk,  and  he  swears  by  the  God  of  War  that  he  will  have  satisfaction. 
It  all  came  about  in  a  peculiar  rnamer.  It  seems  that  the  fame  of 
the  copper  plate  printing  of  the  house  of  Vail  has  penetrated  even 
unto  the  walls  of  the  imperial  palace  of  Japan  and  an  edict  has  been 
issued  that  all  stationery  needed  by  the  local  consulate  for  occasions 
of  ceremony  shall  be  printed  at  the  big  white  and  gold  house  on 
Market  street.  Lasi  week,  the  Japanese  Consul  ordered  a  lot  of  in- 
vitations printed  for  a  reception  to  be  given  on  board  the  Japanese 
man-of-war.  The  order  was  executed,  the  cards  packed,  and  a  mes- 
senger ordered  to  take  them  to  the  consulate.  Just  as  the  hoy  was 
leaving  the  store,  F*"ank,  who  is  proud  of  his  joke,  said  in  a  laughing 
manner,  "You  present  my  compliments  to  the  gentleman,  when  you 
deliver  the  package,  and  say  that  if  I  receive  an  invitation  I  will 
honor  the  assemblage  by  my  presence."  Then  he  went  into  his 
office,  took  a  dive  into  his  accounts,  and  thought  no  more  about  it. 
Not  so  the  clerk,  however.  He  is  a  conscientious  employee  to  whom 
the  wish  of  an  employer  is  a  law  as  strong  as  holy  writ.  He  took 
the  package  to  the  consulate,  delivered  it  as  ordered,  hoped  the 
work  suited  the  gentlemen,  and  then,  having  paved  the  way  by 
gracefully  complimenting  all  Japanese  affairs  said:  "Mr.  Vail  says 
if  you've  got  one  of  these  invitations  to  spare,  he  wouldn't  mind 
going  to  the  show." 

"Oh.  oh,  my  dear  sir,  my  dear  sir,"  exclaimed  the  diplomat,  ''I 
am  very  sorry,  very  sorry  I  assure  you.  But  this  affair  is  not  for  the 
common  people;  no,  indeed,  only  the  others,  the  nobility,  you  know, 
will  be  invited ;  but  none  will  be  sent  to  the  common  people.  I  am 
very  sorry,  but  I  cannot,  I  cannot,  I  am  very  sorry." 

Then  the  clerk  returned  to  the  store,  and  reported  the  interview, 
wherefore  Major  Frank  A.  Vail  now  has  his  snickersnee  always  be- 
side him  in  the  office,  and  is  practicing  drawing  it  rapidly  from  its 
scabbard.  Meanwhile  he  is  wondering  whether  to  laugh  at  the  naive 
reply  of  the  Consul  or  to  demand  satisfaction.  He  is  much  in  the 
position  of  the  man  in  AH  Baba  who  is  sat  upon  by  the  donkey  and 
takes  consolation  in  the  remark :  "That's  a  horse  on  me ! " 
#  #  # 

From  time  to  time  the  News  Lettee  has  called  attention  to  the 
lamentable  fact  that  the  choirs  of  tha  local  churches  were  not 
composed,  for  the  most  part,  of  people  who  can  sing  well,  or  who 
have  the  slightest  conception  of  the  art.  That  the  same  fault  yet 
exists  in  many  of  the  churches  was  shown  upon  Christmas  day, 
when  the  prayers  of  many  of  the  devout  in  numerous  churches 
were  interrupted  by  most  inharmonious  renditions  of  hymns  and 
masses.  It  is  certainly  an  insult  to  the  education  of  the  people 
to  force  them  to  listen  to  the  howls  and  screeches  with  which 
many  churches  are  filled  by  the  people  in  the  organ  lofts,  who 
murder  good  music  in  a  determined  and  self-satisfied  manner 
that  arouses  the  woDder  of  those  who  delighi  in  sacred  song.  It 
must  be  with  a  view  to  saving  the  lives  of  bad  singers  that  archi- 
tects put  choirs  out  of  the  reach  of  congregations,  else  there  is  no 
doubt  that  many  of  the  sufferers  would  turn  from  the  prayer- 
books  to  do  bodily  harm  to  the  assassins  up  aloft.  It  is  with 
much  satisfaction  that  I  am  able  to  say  that  in  one  church,  at 
least,  good  music  may  always  be  heard.  The  choir  of  Notre 
Dame  des  Victoires,  on  Bush  street,  takes  great  pride  in  its  work, 
rehearses  frequently,  and  as  a  consequence  has  the  reputation  of 
being  the  best  choir  in  the  city.  On  Christmas,  the  following 
music  was  sung:  Opening  chorus,  "  Adeste  Fidelis,"  by  the 
choir;  Giorza's  First  Mass,  by  the  regular  quartet — Mrs.  Har- 
disty,  Mrs.  Knell,  Mr.  Torpi,  Mr.  Harris;  Veni  Creator,  "  I  Mar- 
tiri"  (quartet),  by  Danizette;  At  the  Offertoire,  Adam's  "  Noel," 
was  rendered  by  Mrs.  B.  M.  Hardlsty;  After  the  Elevation,  the 
"  Adagie,"  by  Senman,  for  string  quartet.  The  services  closed 
with  Lambillotte's  » Pastorale."  In  the  opening  and  closing 
numbers  the  choir  was  assisted  by  the  following  gentlemen: 
violins— 8.  Savanah,  W.  Hoffman,  T.  F.  Blake,  G.  Fleissner; 
violas — F.  Reichers,  M.  Lee;  'cellos — M.  Wallack,  W.  Wertsh, 
A.  Hotfman;  cornets — A.Daniels,  J.  Kroeger;  trombone,  F.  R. 
Grant.  The  choir  of  the  French  church  does  no  better  than 
others  can,  provided  the  latter  be  composed  of  people  with 
good  voices,  knowledge  of  the  art,  and   who  will  agree  to   work. 


Deputy  County  Assessor  Jim  Baker,  of  Oakland,  has  a  congestive 
chill  nowadays  every  time  he  thinks  of  what  happened  to  him  at  the 
Macdonough  Theatre  last  Monday  evening.  Jim  was  under  engage- 
ment to  take  a  lady  to  the  show  and  a  street-corner  discussion  that 
he  engaged  in  early  in  the  evening  delayed  him  so  much  that  he  had 
to  go  with  a  rush  to  his  rooms  to  dress.  Jim's  locks  are  inclined  to 
be  obstreperous  at  times,  so,  on  occasions  when  he  wants  to  make  a 
good  showing  he  uses  hair  oil.  He  therefore  rushed  into  his  closet, 
picked  up  what  he  thought  was  the  article  needed,  and  poured  a  lib- 
eral dose  of  it  on  his  head.  But,  alas !  it  was  a  quart  bottle  of  muci- 
lage that  he  had  used,  though  he  knew  it  not  as  he  combed  down  his 
hair,  which  shone  and  was  as  slick  as  a  perruquier  could  desire.  He 
kept  his  appointment  on  time,  rode  down  with  his  friend  in  a  car- 
riage, and  arrived  at  the  theatre  just  as  the  first  act  was  in  full 
swing.  His  seats  were  in  the  orchestra,  and  with  his  fair  companion 
he  strolled  down  the  aisle,  all  eyes  being  turned  in  his  direction,  for 
Jim  is  very  well  known.  So  far  he  had  not  removed  his  hat,  but 
when  his  seats  were  reached  it  was  time  to  doff  his  chapeau.  He 
took  it  gracefully  by  the  brim,  but  it  would  not  budge.  He  gave  it  a 
savage  wrench,  and  the  audience,  realizing  that  something  queer 
was  happening,  turned  their  attention  from  the  stage  to  him.  The 
hat  still  declined  to  leave  its  resting  place,  and  at  last,  in  desperation, 
he  took  both  hands  to  it  and  gave  a  twenty-horse  power  push.  Up 
it  went,  but  Baker's  hair  went  up  with  it  and  formed  a  fringe  so 
comical  that  everyone  laughed  aloud,  The  camel's  back  was  broken 
by  this  time  and  Baker  beat  a  hasty  retreat,  never  stopping  until  he 
reached  Dr.  Bateau's  office,  where  he  got  that  worthy  to  perform  a 
surgical  operation  that  atlastgave  relief.  Don't  say  "mucilage"  to 
him  now-a-days— it's  dangerous. 

■*  #  » 
At  last  the  cat  is  out  of  the  bag,  and  now  I  understand  the  pe- 
culiar coincidence  between  the  visit  to  this  city  at  the  same 
time  of  the  Hoosier  Poet  and  the  football  experts,  and  the  further 
coincidence  that  on  the  day  the  great  game  was  played  Hi  ley 
should  have  given  his  last  reading  in  the  city.  Walter  Camp  has 
told  all  about  it,  and  he  is  a  truthful  man,  for  he  has  not  written 
for  the  papers.  He  says  that  before  he  and  McClong  came  here 
they  met  Riley  in  the  East,  and  he  said  he  was  going  to  California. 
"  Come  out  with  me,"  said  the  gentle  rhymster;  "  Why,  there's 
the  biggest  snap  in  California  you  ever  saw.  You  work  'em  all 
day  and  I'll  work  'em  at  night."  And  the  ball  players  came  and 
the  poet  came,  and  gentlemen,  we  have  been  worked.  Did  not 
Riley  have  crowded  houses,  and  were  not  over  ten  thousand 
people  at  a  dollar  a  head  at  the  ball  game,  and  was  not  that  game 
a  tie?  Did  not  McClung  act  as  umpire,  and  Camp  as  referee? 
And  are  not  the  three  wise  men  who  came  out  of  the  East  about 
to  depart  for  the  land  beyond  the  big  river  with  their  gripsacks 
heavy  with  bonds  and  boodle?  Verily,  have  we  been  worked. 
Camp  says  so,  and  he  is  a  truthful  man,  having  written  for  the 
papers. 

There  is  a  well-known  newspaper  man  in  town  who  has 
grown  bald  and  gray  while  pointing  out  to  the  governments  of 
Europe  the  many  mistakes  in  their  lines  of  action.  His  sole  joy 
in  life  consists  in  sitting  with  his  wife  in  the  evening,  after  roast- 
ing the  Czar  of  Russia,  and  discussing  the  green  pea  crop.  On 
Christmas  Day  his  wife  presented  him  with  twins,  as  fine  a  pair 
of  youngsters  as  ever  delighted  a  happy  father.  Of  course  papa's 
friends  soon  heard  of  the  increase  in  his  household,  and  ever 
since  nearly  every  man  he  has  met  has  wished  him  "  many 
happy  returns  of  the  day."  Now  he  is  engaged  in  figuring  up 
how  big  a  family  he  will  have  if  all  the  good  wishes  are  realized. 
Consequently,  for  the  moment,  Russia  and  Emperor  William  are 
left  in  peace. 

*  *  * 

Opposite  the  Tivoli,  on  Eddy  street,  is  an  undertaking  place  con- 
ducted by  the  McGinn  Brothers.  Probably  everybody  who  has  ever 
been  to  the  Tivoli  has  noticed  the  firm's  sign  when  coming  out  the 
door.  It  stands  out  in  bold  relief  in  gilt  and  black,  and  although 
rather  oddly  lettered  is  not  any  different  from  the  other  signs  around 
town,  with  one  slight  exception;  that  is,  the  street  number  of  the 
place,  which  is  31,  is  exactly  the  size  of  the  other  lettering.  Even 
this  has  never  attracted  any  attention  and  perhaps  never  would 
have  had  it  not  been  for  an  inebriated  Irishman  one  night  last  week. 
The  crowd  was  slowly  leaving  the  Tivoli,  the  night  being  a  little 
misty,  making  things  across  the  street  not  quite  so  plain  as  usual* 
When  the  inebriated  individual  reached  the  porch  the  sign  caught 
his  eye.  After  studying  it  a  minute  he  set  the  crowd  into  a  roar  of 
laughter  by  exclaiming,  "Holy  Moses!  thirty-wan  McGinn  brothers! 
O'i  wonder  if  there's  any  girls  in  the  family  !" 

*  *  * 

Oakland  club  circles  have  been  stirred  up  a  good  deal  lately 
over  an  incident  which  happened  at  the  Athenian  Club  two 
weeks  ago  to-night,  and  which  may  end  in  the  expulsion  of  one 
of  its  members,  or  a  request  that  he  resign.  On  the  evening  in 
question  a  number  of  Oakland's  jeunesse  dore,  who  call  themselves 
the  Reminiscence  Club,  held  an  annual  banquet.  Among  the 
members  present  was  Frank  Smith,  a  young  real  estate  agent, 
who  is  very  popular  in  the  city  across  the  bay,  and  was  always 
thought  to  be  without  an  enemy.  The  evening,  however, 
proved  to  the  contrary.     Nothing  happened  during  the  dinner  to 


Dec.  31.  1893 


BAN  ri;\\.  \B  0  NEWS  LETTER 


I.T 


n.ar  the  pleasanlnets  ol  the  meeting,  but.  unfortunately,  on  IK 
conclusion.  several  ol  (be  party,  unlading  Smith,  went  10  the 
Athenian  Club  on  the  invitation  ol  a  gentleman  who  It  a  member 
ol  both  club...  Here  a  dinner  waa  juM  finishing  when  Ih. 
arrived.  Ai  tbe  Athenian  dinner  was  l>r.  Boa  ( tool,  well  known 
In  Oakland  Bohemian  circles,  an.l  a  prominent  member  ,.(  the 
club.  He  seemed  to  enjoy  himself  as  well  m  anybody  during  the 
evening,  but  13  said  to  hare  frequently  cast  wicked  look  I  in 
Smith's  direction.  Suddenly,  without  any  warning,  he  walked 
the  room  and  felled  Smith  to  tbe  Boor  by  a  blow  in  the 
face.  Immediately  a  tumuli  arose,  and  it  looked  as  If  iliere 
would  be  a  free  light;  but  some  of  tbe  members  managed  to  quiet 
Ibe  disturbance,  and  then  a  wordy  war  ensued,  which  Anally 
concluded  in  an  apology  from  Cool.  The  gentleman  who  Invited 
bis  friends  from  the  Reminiscence  was  not  disposed  to  treat  the 
insult  so  lightly,  however,  and  has  threatened  to  make  it  pretty 
hot  for  Cool.  It  was  even  said  that  a  meeting  would  be  held  to 
have  the  latter  expelled  from  the  club  lor  conduct  unbecoming  a 
gentleman.  No  cause  for  bis  action  is  known  so  far,  although  it 
is  said  to  have  originated  in  the  late  election  over  some  political 
deferences.  Neither  of  the  principals  will  talk,  so  there  the  mat- 
ter rests. 

•  •  a 

There  is  an  inside  story  in  connection  wiih  the  renting  to  the  uni- 
versity students  of  the  Haight-street  baseball  grounds  for  that 
famous  football  game,  which  until  now  has  not  been  recorded  in  Ihe 
prints.  Before  the  first  game  of  football  was  played  by  Palo  Alto 
and  Berkeley  a  committee  ol  students  went  to  the  baseball  magnates 
and  endeavored  to  negotiate  with  them  for  the  use  of  the  field,  upon 
th  ■  basis  of  payment  of  half  the  gate  receipts.  But  the  magnate, 
would  have  none  of  it;  they  wanted  a  sure  thing  and  demanded  $50 
cash  for  the  grounds  for  the  day.  declining  the  gate-receipt  proposi- 
tion with  scorn.  The  fifty  was  paid  them.  The  receipts  of  the  day 
were  abont  $1,500,  much  to  the  surprise  of  the  baseball  men  and  tbe 
delight  of  the  students.  This  year  a  committee  again  went  to  the 
managers  to  secure  the  grounds,  and  the  latter  graciously  proposed 
to  accept  half  the  gate  receipts  and  call  it  square.  But  this  the  stu- 
dents refused.  They  had  ascertained  their  value  as  drawing 
cards  to  make  all  the  money  they  could.  Finally  about  $200 
was  agreed  upon  as  the  day's  rental  for  the  grounds,  and  the 
money  was  paid.  As  everyone  knows  the  grounds  were  crowded  on 
the  day  of  the  game,  there  being  about  18,000  people  there,  all  at  a 
dollar  a  bead.  Now  conies  the  sequel.  A  bicycle  club  held  a  lease  of 
the  grounds  at  $30  a  month,  which  gave  them  all  the  rights  and 
privileges  for  every  day  when  baseball  was  not  played.  This  club 
now  proposes  to  sue  the  baseball  men  to  recover  the  $200  received  as 
rental  from  the  students,  claiming  that  under  the  contract  the 
grounds  belonged  to  the  bicyclers  that  day  and  the  magnates  had  no 
right  to  sublet  it  without  the  consent  of  the  prior  tenants.  From  all 
of  which  it  would  seem  that  the  shrewd  baseball  men  have  for  otice 
overreached  themselves. 

*  *  » 

The  display  ol  masculine  legs  at  the  recent  bat  poudre  was  not  as 
satisfactory  to  the  fair  sex  as  they  had  hoped,  judging  from  the 
opinions  1  have  heard  them  express  upon  that  very  important  topic. 
Our  gilded  youths,  it  seems,  are  not  anxious  to  show  to  the  girls  the 
true  foundations  of  their  greatness.  Only  a  few,  comparatively, 
appeared  in  knee  breeches,  and  those,  it  is  said,  by  no  means  possess 
the  handsomest  legs  in  town.  It  is  too  bad  that  the  girls  are  not 
given  an  opportunity  to  enjoy  a  masculine  leg  show.  They  are  as 
great  admirers  as  the  male  sex  of  the  human  form  divine,  and  suffer 
from  a  lack  of  opportunity  to  enjoy  a  sight  of  manly  beauty.  It  is 
due  to  them,  then,  I  take  it,  that  our  gallants  shall  appear  in  doublet 
and  hose  at  all  swell  affairs  hereafter,  and  show  the  ladies  their 
silken  socks,  and  further,  that  they  are  in  them. 
«  *  » 

Mr.  James  V.  Coleman,  as  was  announced  in  tbe  daily  papers, 
purchased  a  few  weeks  ago  a  crack  yacht  in  New  York,  the 
Miranda,  built  by  Harvey,  in  England,  some  years  ago.  The 
Miranda  is  schooner-rigged,  ninety  feet  on  the  water-line,  and 
a  hundred  and  forty  tons.  She  has  been  a  cup  winner  in  the 
Eastern  regattas,  and  has  always  been  considered  a  fast,  safe  and 
reliable  cruising  yacht.  She  bas  a  flush  deck,  and  her  between 
deck  accommodations  are  ample  and  well  arranged.  She  is  known 
in  Eastern  waters  as  one  of  the  best  yachts  ever  brought  here 
from  the  other  side.  Mr.  Coleman  had  ber  thoroughly  surveyed 
and  bored  before  purchasing,  and  will  put  a  crew  on  board  and 
send  her  around  the  Horn  to  this    coast.     The   Miranda    has  the 


regular  English  cotter  hull.  1.    very    l.,f,y.  and    sparred    ...  ».  to 
I  »  great  deal  ..I    oufll  |  ,,, 

""-rachl    J  ,.,„,,    h„r,,    .,,   ,.,„„„    ,  ,„„„,„•, 

see,  iban  ha  freely  expraamd   hi.   willing 1..   u 

elusions  with  the    .«„„,„,„    f  ,  ,,mn,„dore 

*»y«  he  will  expect  a  lime  allow. nee  ol  Ave  minute,,  hut  when 
he  thoroughly  understand,  the  nature  of  the  t».k  baton  him.  ha 
will  very  likely  not  he  content  Willi  (his,  hut  In  order  to  make  a 
more  equal  oontwt,  will  ,le,„»,„|  mora  time    Tni  •  venty 

ion.,  j.i.t  one  hall  the  tin  „(  u,e  Miranda,  and  I.  a  good  boat  In 
light  weather,  without  any  relation  Dpon  her  sailing  powers  or 
stillness  under  large  canvas  in  heavy  winds.  Tbe  race,  If  It  does 
take  place,  will  most  likely  be  outside,  where  the  sailing  quahiies 
ol  both  boats  can  be  battel  le.te.l  than  in  the  harbor,  should  light 
winds  prevail.  This  prospective  match  Is  the  all-absorbing  topic 
with  the  yachtsmen,  and  should  it  come  to  pass,  it  will  be.  It  la 
safe  to  say.  lne  moal  interesting  nautical  event  that  has  ever 
taken  place  in  these  waters.  The  Jrult  wa,  built  on  the  coast, 
and  tbe  Miranda  is  a  fine  specimen  of  the  English  cutter  model. 
scbooner-rigged,  so  the  trial  will  have  a  national  as  well  as  a  local 
interest. 


NO  present  can  be  more  acceptable  to  a  young  lady  than  a  box 
of  finestalionery.  Fashion  now  requires  that  all  correspondence 
shall  be  written  upon  the  very  best  r.f  note  paper,  and  enclosed  in  one 
of  those  handsome  envelopes  of  varied  tints  that  arc  now  the  proper 
things.  One  who  wants  t.,  gel  tome  Idea  of  the  most  recent  oreattona 
in  the  stationery  line  should  visit  Sanborn  &  Vail'e  establishment  at 
741-743  Market  street,  opposite  Grant  avenoe.  There  a  great  assort- 
ment may  be  seen-papers  and  envelopes  in  royal  purple,  heliotr 1, 

pink,  cream,  rose,  while  ami  other  fav.  rile  hues.  All  are  of  Kurd's 
famous  make,  and  come  in  neat  boxes  for  fifty  cents.  When  procur- 
ing your  stationery  also  remember  that  your' friends  will  expect  to 
r.-ceive  a  card  from  you  on  New  Year's 'l lav  extending  the  compli- 
ments of  the  season.  The  copper-plate  cards  of  this  bouse  are  the 
most  artistic  in  the  city. 


ANTEDILUVIAN 

WHISKEY. 
VERY  OLD, 


RICH 


AS 


.HTEDILU^ 


CREAM 


SMOOTH 
AS 


SATIN. 


THE  JOHN  T.  CUTTING   CO. 

PAf-IFIO     COAST    AOENTS. 


Fall         Overcoats         Inverness         House  Coats 
Styles      Ulsters  Full  Dress        Neckwear 

1892        Officer  Capes    Suits  Underwear 

the    ■vieir/x'    latest. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


CLARA  MORRIS  and  Marie  Waiuwright  promoted  themselves 
from  page  and  peasant  parts  to  » Canaille "  and  the 
legitimate.  Nowadays  the  positions  are  reversed,  and  the  aspiring 
amateur  who  makes  his  debut  as  Hamlet  gratefully  accepts  an 
engagement  to  interpret  a  minor  role  in  Little  Puck  or  A  Brass 
Monkey.  A  case  in  point  is  that  of  Percy  Garvey,  who  in  the 
Incog  company  is  known  as  Barton  Bancroft.  Percy  is  a  Native 
Son,  twenty-five  years  of  age,  and  is  related  to  a  number  of  San 
Francisco's  swagger  set.  He  is  a  cousin  of  Mrs.  Bessie  Garvey 
Wilcox,  of  New  York's  California  colony,  and  a  nephew  of  tbe 
beautiful  Mre.  H.  I*.  Sonntag.  When  Percy  was  about  ten  he  at- 
tended a  private  school,  where  he  specially  distinguished  himself 
in  recitations  of  the  pathetic  order.  At  the  Hayes  Valley — now 
the  John  Swett— Grammar  8chool,  he  likewise  made  quite  a  hit 
with  his  recitations  at  class  exhibitions.  From  this  to  amateur 
acting  was  but  a  step,  and  be  appeared  with  success  in  Richeli.u 
and  other  legitimate  plays.  Fired  by  Hugo  Toland's  example, 
and  against  his  mother's  wishes,  he  decided  to  adopt  the  stage 
as  a  profession.  With  Daly  and  Frohman,  he  went  East,  his 
friends  predicting  his  becoming  surely  a  Booth  or  a  Barrett.  Yet 
now  he  returns  to  us  in  Incog,  where,  like  Anita  Bridger,  whose 
debut  was  made  in  Galatea,  he  is  intrusted  with  one  of  the  minor 

parts. 

*  *  « 

An  enfant  terrible  created  a  sensation  at  a  wedding  in  this  city 
one  evening  last  week.  One  of  the  ladies  present  was  dressed 
in  a  very  decollette  costume,  which  left  very  little  to  the  imagin- 
ation. In  tbe  course  of  the  evening  she  began  to  pay  some 
attention  to  a  miss  of  four  or  five  summers.  The  youngster 
gazed  at  the  display  of  feminine  charms  with  wide-eyed  dismay, 
not  unmixed  with  pity.  Vague  recollections  of  her  nursing 
days  evidently  came  to  her  mind,  and  finally,  without  paying 
tde  slightest  attention  to  what  the  undressed  woman  was  saying 
to  her,  the  little  tot  said:  "Poor  lady,  ain't  you  dot  anymore 
clothes  at  home?'*  The  blush  that  followed  reached  clear  to  the 
woman's  waist  band. 

j*  *  # 
The  kleptomaniac  propensities  of  the  fashionable  ladies  of 
Oakland  are  becoming  more  and  more  developed.  They  were 
fully  displayed  at  a  swell  church  on  Sunday  last  where  the  choir 
is  composed  of  ladies  whose  only  reward  for  their  services  is  the 
appreciation  they  get  on  earth  and  the  recompense  they  expect 
in  heaven.  Into  tbe  choir  occasionally  strays  a  dude  or  two, 
and  on  Christmas  morning,  one,  wearing  a  handsome  bouton- 
niere  of  violets  in  his  overcoat,  appeared  on  the  scene  and  took 
a  front  seat.  It  was  warm  so  he  removed  his  top  garment, 
throwing  it  across  the  back  of  the  bench  on  which  he  was 
seated.  During  tbe  sermon  the  ladies  of  the  choir  were  seated 
immediately  behind  him,  and  as  they  bent  over  in  silent  prayer 
the  fragrance  of  the  violets  attracted  their  attention.  Away  to 
the  four  winds  went  all  remembrance  of  the  commandment 
"Thou  shalt  not  steal"  and   as   deftly  aa  expert  fingers  could  act 

they  removed  the  flowers  and  divided  their  spoils.  Meantime 
the  victim  of  the  plot  was  unconscious  of  the  theft,  and  it  was 
not  until  the  services  were  over  that  he  discovered  his  loss  and 
also  realized  why  it  was  that  all  tbe  members  of  the  choir  were 
decorated  with  tbe  sweet  smelling  emblem   of    modesty    that  he 

had  thought  peculiarly  appropriate  to  himself. 
»  •#* 

There  is  a  tinge  of  sadness,  mingled  with  the  joy  of  Christmas 
revelry,  in  the  hearts  of  those  of  our  pretty  maids — aye,  and  ma- 
trons as  well,  who  retain  tender  memories  of  the  gallant  Tate,  so 
loog  a  pet  of  society  during  his  station  at  the  Presidio.  The  intel- 
ligence has  reached  us  of  his  engagement  to  an  Eastern  girl,  so  of 
course  that  ends  all  hope  of  a  return  of  the  handsome  Lieutenant 
to  the  scene  of  his  former  triumphs  among  us. 
*  »  » 

At  a  recent  lunch  party  given  by  a  leading  belle  to  some  of  her 
most  intimate  girl  friends  they  were  enumerating  their  Christmas 
gifts,  and  upon  comparison  found  that  a  certain  beau  had  sent  iden- 
tical gifts  to  each  one  of  the  girls  present,  whereupon  one  of  them 
suggested  he  had  got  his  gifts  wholesale  on  Battery  street.  Another 
said,  "  Well,  so  long  as  he  gives  his  presents  labeled  '  sweets  to 
tbe  sweet,'  it's  all  right,  but  if  some  unfortunate  woman  is  pre- 
sented with  tbe  '  essence  of  stupidity,'  oh,  how  I  do  pity  her,  for 
it  would  be  himself." 

•  •  * 

The  recent  Leap  Year  cotillion  so  ably  led  by  Miss  Emily 
Hager,  (the  second  one  this  year,  by  the  bye)  was  a  brilliant  sight 
with  its  assemblage  of  glittering  uniforms,  bright  hued  costumes 
and  pretty  women.  Several  of  the  fancy  dress  characters  chosen 
were  artistic  and  beautiful,  in  some  instances  duplicated,  as  the 
variety  of  "  butterflies  "  testified  the  popularity  of  that  role.  Of 
the  "  Juliets,"  Miss  Gertrude  Wilson  undoubtedly  bore  off  the 
palm,  her  queenly  grace,  stylish  costume  and  fresh  young  face 
combining  to  render  it  a  charming  impersonation. 


One  of  the  sights  of  the  giddy  whirl  was  the  dancing  of  Henry 
Redingtou,  (who  is  showing  signs  this  winter  of  •'  getting  on  ")  in 
a  somewhat  labored  step,  and  his  mature  partner.  At  one  time  it 
seemed  to  the  looker  on  to  be  a  decided  pursuit  of  pleasure  under 

difficulties  to  the  veteran  couple. 

»  #  • 

The  pretty  petite  blonde,  Mrs.  Ellicott,  who  is  one  of  oar  recent 
social  acquisitions,  charmed  all  by  her  delightful  dencing  and 
sprightly  grace  at  the  cotillion. 

•    *    # 

The  dance  which  will  be  given  to-night  by  Miss  Jennie  Cather- 
wood  is  looked  forward  to  by  our  belles  and  beaux  with  much 
pleasurable  anticipation.  On  dit,  the  Christmas  mistletoe  will  be 
there,  and  other  delightful  adjuncts  to  the  dance.     

Begin  the  New  Year  with  new  ideas,  new  resolutions  and  new 
clothes.  If  you  wish  to  cast  off  all  semblance  of  the  old  garb,  go  to 
J.  M.  Litchfield,  of  12  Post  street.  He  has  the  reputation  of  being 
one  of  tbe  best  tailors  of  the  city.  All  the  well  dressed  men  of  the 
city  patronize  him  in  consequence. 


If  you  wish  to  go  out  of  town  to-morrow,  and  to  welcome  the  New 
Year  amid  the  charms  of  nature,  you  cannot  find  a  more  delightful 
spot  than  Laundry  Farm.  It  is  reached  by  way  of  the  California 
Railway,  which  is  also  the  only  road  that  leads  direct  to  Mills' 
Seminary. 

The  Maison  Riche,  at  the  corner  of  Geary  street  and  Grant 
avenue,  is  the  leading  restaurant  of  the  town.  That's  the  place  to 
go  when  you  want  a  good  dinner. 


DEUTZ  &  GELDERMANN'S 


GOLD    LACK 


The  Leading  Fine  Champagne  of  Europe* 


Extra    Quality 
Champagne. 


CHARLES  MEINECKE  $  CO., 
Sole  Agents. 


CHAMPAGNE 

CO.    "  PRIVATE  CUVEE." 

QUARTS  AND   PINTS 
FROM 

Krug  &  Co.,  Reims. 

BY  ILL  DEALERS,  JOBBEBS  A8D  GBOCEBS. 

HELLMANN    BROS.  &   CO., 

Sole  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
525    Front  Street,  SAN  FRANC/SCO.    Telephone  no.  m. 

j^e  qjr  p/rii^ 

IMPORTERS. 

WHOLESALERS, 

and  RETAILERS 

OF  OSLY  FIRST-CLASS 
Wines.  Cordials, 

Champagnes  and 
Table  Delicacies. 

Etc.,  Etc. 

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EM.MEYER&.CO., 

1047-1049  Market  St.,  S.  F. 


J- 


RAN    PR  W  I-  "  XKWfi   I  III  BR 


IS 


TO    MY     SWEETHEART.-Iwdon  P*nck. 


\   HOTHOUSE  where  some  roses    blew. 
And,   whilst  the  outer  world  wis  white. 
The  gentle    roses  softly  grew 

To  fragrant  visions  of   delight. 

8oone  wretched  florist  owned  them  all. 

And  plucked  them  from  their  native  bowers, 
Then  gayly  showed   them  on  his  stall 

To  swell  the  ranks  of  ■■  Fresh-Cut  Flowers. " 

Borne  went  beside  a  bed  of  pain 

Where  influenza  claimed   its  dne; 

They  drooped  aod  never  smiled  again, 
The  epidemic  bad  them  too. 

A  gay  young  gallant  bought    some  buds. 

And  j'.untily  went  out  to  dine, 
With  other  reckless  sporting    bloods, 

Who  talked  of  women,  drank  of  wine. 

But  whilst  they  talked  and  smoked  and  drank. 
And  told  tales  not  loo  sanctified, 

Abashed  tbe  timid    blossoms  t-hrank. 

Changed  color,  faded,  and  then  died. 

Yet  rose?,  too,    I  gave  to  you, 

I  saw  you  place  them  near  your  heart, 
You  wore  them  all  the  evening  through, 

You  wore  them  when  we  came  to  part. 


But  now  you  write  to  me,  my  dear, 
And  marvel  that  they  are  not  dead, 

Their  beauty  does  not  disappear, 

Their  fragrant  perfume  has  not    fled. 

The  reason's  plain.     Somehow  aright 

The  flowers  know  if  we  ignore  them, 

The  roses  live  for  sheer  delight 

At  knowing,  sweetheart,  that  you  wore  them. 


Bargains  ir) 

Dn?s$  (joods. 


RQO  f"eccs  "civ  fabrics.  Tweeds,  English  and 
Scotch  Cheviots  and  French  Armures  at 
almost  half  the  cost  of  production. 


Write  for  samples. 


INDECISION.— J?.  H.  W. 


With  bow  unbent,  why  standest  thus, 
O  Archer,  while  thy  comrades  shout 
Kings  gladly  in  the  rapid   rout 

Amid    these  hills  ensshadowing  us? 

Thy  quiver  is  unemptied  yet, 

Of  winged  arrows  strong  and  straight, 
Then  rouse    thy  soul,   time   wilt  not  wait; 

The  leaves  with  evening  dew  are  wet. 

Up  !  join  those  companies  that  throng 
The  rugged  heights  in  stirring  chase, 
With  brightening  eye,  expectant  face 

And    on  thy  lips  a  manly  song. 

For  numbness  seizeth  sluggard  might, 

And  shadows  darken  doubting  hearts, 

But  action  fullest  joy  imparts 

And  happy  weariness  at  night. 


THE    WORLD.-^/a  W  teeter  Wilcox  in  Once  a  Week. 

The  world  is  well  lost  when  tbe  world  is  wrong, 

No  matter  how  men  deride  you; 
For  if  you  are  patient  and  firm  and  strong, 
You  will  find  in  time  (though  the  time  be  long) 

That  the  world  wheels  'round  beside  you. 

If  you  dare  to  sail  first  o'er  a  new-thought  track, 

For  awhile  it  will  scourge  and  score  you; 
Then,  coming  abreast  with  a  skillful  tack, 
It  will  clasp  your  hand  and  slap  your  back, 
And  vow  it  was  there  before  you. 

Aye,  many  an  error  the  old  world  makes, 

And  many  a  sleepy  blunder; 
But  ever  and  always  at  last  it  wake?, 
With   pitiless  scorn  for  another's  mis-takes, 

And  the  fools  who  have  followed  go  under. 

The  world  means  well,  though  it  wander  and  stray 

From  the  straight,  short  cut  to  duty; 
So  go  ahead  in  that  path,  I  say, 
For  after  awhile  it  will   come  your  way, 
Bringing  its  pleasure  and  beauly. 


Ill  to  121  Post  Street 


COATS 


-FOR- 


MEN  AND  WOMEN. 

Are  worn  in  place  of  an  over- 
coat or  outside  wrap. 

Per  recti  y  Waterproof. 

GOODYEAR  RUBBER  CO, 


R.  II.  Pease  —  Agents—  S.  !l.  Runinn. 
677-579  Market  St.,  S.  P. 


«0    TO 

Q-.  W.   OLJLK/IC    &c   CO.. 
663   Market  Street, 

FOB 

WALL      PAPER, 

WINDOW      SHADES, 

And    CORNICE     POLES. 

HUMBOLDT  MINERAL  WATER," 

FROM  THE 

HUMBOLDT  ARTESIAN  MINERAL  SPRING 

IN  EUREKA,  CAL 


"The  Specific  Gravity  is  scarcely  above  that  of  distilled  water." 
Henry  G.  Hanks,  Assayer:  "  We  claim  for  this  Water  to  be  the 
purest  in  California. 

J.  P.  MONROE, 

CBtH'KIB  BC1LDIKG,  San  Francisco.  JiiMUEK 


16 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


FROM  all  accounts  the  old  Joanna  Mine,  of  White  Pine,  Nev., 
is  destined  to  be  owned  by  Eastern  capitalists,  instead  of  by 
people  in  this  city,  where  it  has  been  hawked  around  for  some 
months  past  prior  to  and  during  the  suit  which  has  just  ended  in 
confirming  the  ownership  in  Watson,  who,  to  give  him  credit, 
must  be  acknowledged  as  the  discoverer  of  the  mine,  which  he 
subsequently  developed  into  a  paying  proposition.  Nevertheless, 
if  the  story  which  is  told  here  is  true,  and  there  is  every  reason  to 
believe  that  it  is,  he  was  indebted  for  the  means  which  enabled 
him  to  prospect  for  mines  until  he  discovered  the  Joanna,  to  a 
widow  lady  of  this  city  named  Walcott,  who  was  the  other  party 
to  the  suit  which  has  just  been  decided  in  Watson's  favor.  Mrs. 
Walcott  alleged  that  it  was  understood  from  the  beginning  of  the 
partnership  that  she  was  to  own  a  half-interest  in  anything  of 
value  found  by  Watson  during  the  journeys  which  he  made  on 
her  money.  Watson's  word  was  good  enough  for  her  at  the  time 
he  was  drawing  on  her  purse,  but  eventually  her  statements 
were  not  considered  sufficient  to  establish  the  agreement  between 
them  after  a  bonanza  was  struck  in  the  Joanna.  There  may  have 
been  a  good  deal  of  law  at  the  bottom  of  the  late  decision  which 
was  adverse  to  the  lady,  but  those  who  are  acquainted  with  the  in- 
side particulars  of  the  case  fail  to  see  where  the  justice  came  in. 
The  manager  of  the  deal  which  is  now  outlined  to  float  the  pro- 
perty on  the  New  York  market  is  a  warm  personal  friend  of  the 
writer,  but  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  he  has  seen  fit  to  connect 
himself  with  an  enterprise  weighted  down  with  such  an  un- 
pleasant history  from  the  date  of  its  earliest  conception.  Noth- 
ing but  misfortune  can  be  expected  to  follow  a  trade  based  upon 
what  all  honest  people  would  consider  a  rank,  injustice  to  a 
woman,  and  a  widow  at  that.  The  Joanna  Mine  may  be  a  very 
rich  mine  in  its  way,  but  if  there  is  anything  in  the  doctrine  of 
earthly  retribution,  the  shares  are  apt  to  prove  an  uncanny  in- 
vestment at  the  best.  It  will  be  interesting  to  follow  the  future 
history  of  this  property,  and  of  those  who  may  share  in  such  an 
iniquitous  scheme. 

$  $  $ 

FROM  all  that  can  be  learned,  the  recent  decline  iu  silver  is 
based  entirely  on  the  operations  of  a  number  of  speculators 
who  have  been  bearing  the  market  by  wash  sales.  The  tran- 
sactions on  paper  run  up  into  millions  in  the  monthly  aggregate, 
against  which  there  is  a  deposit  of  the  metal,  not  to  exceed  $750,. 
000,  against  seven  million  dollars  and  upwards  which  were  on 
hand  some  time  time  ago,  This  discovery,  accredited  to  a  New 
York  banker,  exposes  the  very  root  of  the  evil.  With  silver 
stricken  off  the  list  of  the  exchange,  the  market  for  bullion 
would  be  regulated  entirely  by  the  supply  and  demand.  As  it 
is  to-day,  the  mines  are  suffering  through  the  depression  in 
values,  maintained  by  dealers  who  manipulate  certificates  which 
represent  absolutely  nothing  beyond  the  flimsy  paper  on  which 
they  are  printed.  Silver  is  scarcer  in  America  at  the  present 
than  many  people  would  imagine,  and  the  surplus  which  is 
quoted  now  and  again  for  speculative  purposes,  is  made  up  from 
a  bogus  estimate.  The  true  position'of  silver  in  this  country 
to-day,  would  be  a  revelation  to  mar^y  who  think  they  are  well 
posted  on  the  subject  in  all  its  different  branches. 


THE  Comstock  market  has  been  very  dull  during  the  week,  a 
condition  which  might  naturally  be  expected  about  holiday 
times.  Prices  have  held  up  well  notwithstanding,  especially  in 
the  north  and  middle  shares.  Con.  Cal.  "Virginia  has  proved  a 
great  disappointment  to  the  bears,  who  expected  to  see  the  price 
collapse  under  the  pressure  of  an  assessment  on  top  of  the  dis- 
aster in  the  mine,  which  had  caused  a  temporary  suspension  of 
ore  extraction.  The  decline,  however,  was  very  serious  in  its 
proportions,  and  the  news  which  has  just  come  to  hand,  that  the 
fire  is  very  nearly  extinguished,  has  had  the  effect  of  strengthen- 
ing tbe  stock  considerably  within  the  past  day  or  so.  There  are 
all  the  indications  that  the  worst  has  passed,  in  »o  far  as  the  value 
of  these  shares  is  concerned,  for  sometime  to  come,  and  when  the 
present  assessment  is  collected  the  company  will  be  in  a  good 
financial  condition  for  sometime  to  come,  when  bullion  produc- 
tion will  probably  stave  off  any  further  levies.  Very  little  has 
been  said  recently  about  the  new  find  in  Potosi,  but,  judging 
from  the  strong  tone  of  the  stock,  everything  is  looking  all  right 
in  the  mine.  The  other  middle  mines,  Norcross  and  Savage, 
have  had  a  bad  set-back  in  the  matter  of  prices,  but  it  is  hoped  that 
the  wcrk  now  going  on  at  the  1,800  level  will  pull  values  up  con- 
siderably. The  prospects  in  No.  4  crosscut  in  Norcross,  well  up 
to  the  Savage  line,  are  said  to  be  very  favorable  just  at  present. 


OUTSIDE  of  the  Comstock  and  Virginia  City,  it  is  not  difficult 
to  predict  what  will  become  of  the  other  and  smaller  towns  of 
Nevada,  should  silver  remain  down  for  any  length  of  time  at  Us 
present  price,  not  to  speak  of  a  still  further  decline.  Of  course  the 
percentage  of  gold  in  the  Comstock  ores  will  stand  that  district  in 
good  stead  and  enable  the  miners  to  make  a  living  on  a  small  scale, 
but  elsewhere  there  is  no  redeeming  feature  of  the  kind  in  the  situa- 
tion, and  the  future  is  gloomy  in  the  extreme.  Take  Tuscarora  for 
instance,  where  a  few  years  ago,  business  was  lively  enough  for  more 
than  one  storekeeper  to  realize  a  fortune,  now  trade  has  fallen  off  to 
such  an  extent,  that  the  very  existence  of  the  mercantile  community 
is  threatened.  Only  three  out  of  a  dozen  mines  are  running,  and  it 
is  questionable  if  they  are  paying  expenses.  It  is  certain  that  even 
these  companies  cannot  keep  up  long  with  such  a  discount  on  silver 
bullion.  Down  in  Esmeralda  County  the  town  of  Candelaria  is  fall- 
ing into  decay,  and  the  newspaper  published  there,  suspended  dur- 
ing the  week.  Only  the  Mt.  Diablo  mine  is  running  there  now,  and 
the  Holmes,  on  which  the  prosperity  of  the  town  mainly  depends, 
closed  down  months  ago,  with  no  likelihood  of  work  being  resumed 
unless  silver  picks  up  again.  The  other  silver  camps  of  Nevada  are 
in  a  similar  condition  ot  decay,  and  tbe  only  hope  for  the  inhabitants 
seems  to  lie  in  the  development  of  the  agricultural  resources  of  the 
State,  which  have  hitherto  been  neglected.  This  will  unfortunately 
in  many  instances  prove  an  expensive  matter,  as  the  bulk  of  the 
available  land  requiies  irrigation.  In  Utah,  at  the  first  of  the  year, 
miners'  wages  will  be  cut  in  all  the  principal  districts,  and  where  no 
agreement  can  be  arrived  at  with  the  men,  there  will  be  a  closedown 
of  mines  and  mills.  That  is  the  way  they  are  feeling  the  depression 
over  there,  and  Montana,  Idaho,  and  Colorado  are  not  much  better 
off. 

$  $$ 

AT  tbe  South  End,  the  Belcher  official  letter  for  the  week  is  fa- 
vorable, although  the  condition  of  the  stock  does  not  show  it. 
Streaks  of  ore  have  been  cut  in  the  process  of  extending  the 
different  drifts  and  upraises  between  the  300  and  400  levels. 
It  is  hoped  by  dealers  that  these  different  streaks  will  eventually 
make  into  a  good  ore  body,  and  the  management  of  the  mine  are 
more  than  satisfied  with  the  prospects.  Quite  a  lot  of  the  stock 
got  out  on  the  public  when  the  prices  jumped  to  $6  some  weeks 
ago,  and  if  they  are  ever  going  to  get  out  even,  the  purchasers 
of  to-day  ought  to  be  able  to  make  a  good  clean-up.  Outside  of 
these  mines,  there  are  several  smaller  properties  at  the  South 
End  which  are  looking  very  well,  and  the  stocks  are  worth  much 
more  than  they  are  selling  for  to-day,  on  the  present  showing  of 
ore  alone.  Take  New  York,  for  instance,  selling  at  the  rate  of 
$50,000  for  the  whole  mine,  with  enough  ore  on  the  dump,  run- 
ning high  in  gold,  to  pay  double  the  amount  in  a  single  month's 
run  of  a  mill.  Some  of  these  small  mines  will  probably  be  heard 
from  in  the  future,  and  it  would  not  surprise  people  who  know 
their  true  worth  if  the  shares  led  in  the  market,  as  other  mines 
are  doing  to-day,  on  tbe  strength  of  a  location  next  to  some 
wealthy  bullion  producer.  The  only  assessment  announced  dur- 
ing tbe  week  was  one  of  75  cents  on  Confidence.  The  Gould  & 
Curry  and  Con.  Imperial  were  delinquent  in  office. 

$  $  $ 

THERE  is  said  to  be  another  movement  on  foot  to  resuscitate 
the  old  Eberhardt  Mining  Company,  which  has  been  cropping 
up  periodically  for  years  past  od  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  It  is 
now  called  the  "New"  Eberhardt,  and  on  tbe  strength  of  its  re- 
juvenation the  Directors  have  had  tbe  temerity  to  levy  an  assess- 
ment, or,  to  put  it  politely,  "make  another  call,"  of  six  pence 
per  share,  for  the  purpose  of  resuming  operations  in  the  mine. 
The  statements  of  the  chairman,  on  the  auspicious  occasion,  were 
enough  to  enthuse  the  most  dispirited  shareholder,  and  one  can 
imagine  the  burst  of  enthusiasm  (they  call  it  "cheers"  over  there 
in  the  newspaper  reports)  when  the  sanguine  clipper-tongue  ran 
the  assays  up  to  $100,  and  showed  up  some  sample  rock  as  high 
as  $1,175  per  ton.  This  enabled  the  good  people  present  to 
grapple  with  the  belief  that  they  were  on  the  eve  of  breaking 
into  a  "rich  chamber"  of  ore,  like  the  one  which,  the  speaker 
said,  sent  up  the  £10  shares  up  to  £50.  He  might  have  added 
that  fifty  cents  would  have  been  a  high  price  for  the  stock  at 
that  time,  and  that  the  rich  chamber  was  only  a  "pocket,"  and  a 
mighty  small  one  at  that. 

* ;? 

IT  is  now  said  that  the  Good  Hope  mine  of  Southern  California 
has  been  bonded  and  leased  by  Denver  mining  men.  The 
same  paragrapher  goes  on  to  say  that  the  mine  has  got  upwards 
of  $1,000,000  net  profit  in  sight,  and  that  there  is  an  unbroken 
chute  of  free  milling  gold  ore  2,500  feet  in  length.  If  the  mine  is 
such  a  wonder,  how  does  it  come  that  the  owners  are  so  anxious 
to  get  out  of  this  particularly  soft  snap  at  all  hazards.  The  bait 
looks  too  templing,  especially  on  top  of  the  information  which 
led  the  News  Letter  to  advise  caution  at  the  time  it  announced 
that  a  scheme  was  on  foot  to  dispose  of  the  property  in  London. 
It  would  appear  that  the  information  on  that  point  was  straight 
enough,  as  despite  the  fact  that  these  Denver  people  are  reported 
as  lessees,  foreign  capitalists  are  also  said  to  be  negotiating  for 
the  property. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


BAH  PRAM  I»  0  NEWS  LETTER 


IT 


•Hearmerner' 


'What  the  devil  .rtlhnn-' 


"  On.  that  vill  put  the  devil.  .Ir.  with  too.' 


OLD  «S  ll  dying  fast, 
lis  hours  are  numbered  now. 
Young  "93,  a  bealtby  child. 

Will  shortly  make  bia  bow. 

And  greet  the  world  quite  merrily. 

And  bid  us  wish  adieu 
To  vain  regrets  and  vanished  hopes, 

And  life  begin  anew. 

There  never  was  a  buman  heart 

With   weeds  so  overgrown. 
But  ope'd  to  seeds  of  belter  things 

With  New  Year's  advent  sown. 

The  barkeeper  who  taps  the  till 

For  two  or  three  or  four 
Round  dollars  daily,  will  resolve 

To  tap  that  till  no  more. 

The  little  boy  wbo  pilfers  jams, 
Or  shakes  out  papa's  pants, 

Will  vow  to  ask  mamma,  nor  seek 
By  theft  to  fill  his    wants. 

Papa  himself  will  view  his  head, 

And  earnestly  declare 
His  tissanes  shall  be  moderate 

Through  all  the  coming  year. 

Tbe  giddy  clerk,  whose  hairless  chin, 

In  debt's  sea  is  immersed, 
Who's  threatened  by  his  landlady, 

And  by  his  tailor  cursed, 

Will  make  unto  himself  an  oath 

That  he'll  economize, 
Have  last  year's  clothes  cleaned  up  and  patched, 

And  spring  designs  despise. 

The  flirt,  whose  snares  for  tender  hearts 

Are  spread  on  every  side, 
Will  take  the  next  young  man  that  pops, 

And  be  a  modest  bride. 

The  parson,  in  his  library, 

Regret's  keen  pangs  may  feel, 

And  write  his  Sabbath  talks  himself, 
Nor  others'  sermons  steal. 

Perchance  the  plumber's  callous  heart 

To  honor  may  expand, 
And  this  year  bring  to  reason's  bounds 

Non-itemized  demands. 

The  lawyer  may  the  client  spare 

A  dollar  for  his    meal; 
Ten  dollars  on  a  dollar  drug 

The  druggist  cease  to  steal. 

The  milkman  may  the  faucet  spare. 
When  morning's  milking's  done, 

And  with  a  cart  of  honest  milk 
Behold  the  rising  sun. 

And  thus  in  every  walk  of  life, 

The  hearts,  of  mortals  warm 
To  greet  and  bless  the  coming  year, 

With  promise  of  reform. 

THE  young  men  who  bang  about  the  Grand  Opera  House  to 
take  the  coryphees  to  supper  have  no  chance  with  the  bald 
heads.  The  latter  have  more  capacity  for  champagne,  longer 
heads,  and,  moreover,  don't  want  to  slobber  during  supper. 
Therefore  the  poor,  hard-worked  dancer  can  have  her  meal  in 
peace,  and  when  the  coffee  and  brandy  are  disposed  of,  feels  in- 
clined to  kiss  tbe  tonsure  on  the  entertainer's  poll,  and  call  him 
a  dear,  generous  darling.  The  blood  wants  to  place  the  hugging 
business  ahead  of  the  eating,  a  custom  no  spectacular  artist  can 
endure. 

ALL  day  long  Thursday  and  Friday  an  anxious  and  expectant 
crowd  watched  tbe  rigging  of  a  h  uge  shears  against  the  Pacific 
Mutual  building  on  Montgomery  street.  Morning  was  merged 
with  noon,  noon  into  afternoon,  and  afternoon  into  evening,  but 
the  shears  continued  to  stand,  and  no  one  was  hurt.  Tbe  crowd 
grew  uneasy,  and  a  few  daring  souls  clamored  for  a  following  to 
throw  down  the  big  timbers  and  hurt  somebody,  just  to  relieve 
the  monotony,  but  there  were  no  volunteers,  and  the  disgusted 
spectators  went  home  goreless. 


THOI..H    ,„,    n,..r.l,.t.    «,ih    frownln,    br..w.    and    uplifted 
li.KM  ."'. ,d»n""n"     S'«      *•""•    <-•>■■>■    »r»l    their    .equel    of 

and  „,ici„v    rlr..„„       Then    .here    ...    ,„„,hrr    .Id*    10    then, 

which  th...e  n,.,r.li.|,  MM i.ve    forgotten    •JlOfetbtf       Tliev 

enable  the  budding    maiden.    |0    ho    how    ll.e    loppllool  for  b« 
band  looked  win,  ,  j.g.  |„  ,,„,„  wori|.    mhub„   ,,„  r,rr|p(|  hi< 

liquor  with  i  »nd  placidity  of   .   veteran,  or    wh, 

he  m,,nkeye,l  ar„„n.ljl:ke  .  hen  «l  h  .  maggot  i„  „.  I,r.,n.  Till, 
ll  nail*  one  loo  raloabll  to  l.r  ntglralad.  Iletter  .h  far 
better,  to  behold  how  the  lag  worked  |,ef,,re  m.rrl.g.  than  to 
wail  until  the  knot  was  lied  in  understand  the  ,,„„  ,„„„,  ana 
regret  that  she  did  not  wed  a  cocktail,  milk  poncb,  Dot  Irlib 
proof  man.  Tin.  moreover,  eave  the  veteran  warrior,  who  had 
early  enlisted  und.r  the  blood  red  banner  of  Bacchus  an  Im- 
mense advantage  over  his  puny  Ice  cream  lemonade  rival.  A  few 
doses  of  tbe  potent  nogg,  and  the  latter  became  a  driveller,  and 
a  pawer.  while  Ihe  old  soldier's  cheeks  assumed  a  becoming  Bub 
and  he  cautiously  concealed  the  aroma  of  his  breath  with  the 
useful  cacbou.  a  precaution  ihe  tyro  never  dreamed  of.  Some  of 
Ibe  most  harmonious  and  surcesslul  marriages  have  been  tbe  re- 
suit  of  tbo-.e  moist  and  mciry  New  Year's  calls.  Let  us  renew 
them,  and  give  our  young  men  the  licence  once  a  year,  at  least 
to  show  the  ladies  how  they  look  with  a  gallon  or  two  comfort- 
ably stowed  away  in  their  anatomy. 

ACCORDING  to  their  wont,  a  practice  which  is  never  honored 
in  the  breach,  because  it  is  always  observed,  the  worthy 
shopkeepers  have  sent  up  a  wail  that  the  weather  played  tbe 
deuce  with  their  business,  and  took  thousands  upon  thousands  of 
dollars  out  of  their  gaping  pockets,  or  rather  diverted  tbe  in  from 
the  entrance  thereof.  False,  gentlemen  I  false  as  dicera'  oaths  I 
Given  a  women  with  money  on  the  one  side,  and  the  howling 
elements  on  tbe  other,  and  the  woman  will  conquer  every  time. 
Does  she  care  about  the  wet  and  the  wind?  Not  she.  If  she  is 
dainty,  and  has  a  well-turned  ankle  and  shapely  underpinnings, 
the  wet  dampens  the  dress,  and  the  wind  brings  tbe  outlines  of 
those  perfections  most  delightfully  to  tbe  front.  She  has  money, 
money  to  spend,  which  need  not  be  accounted  for.  It  is  hers  to 
buy  things  with,  and  to  wander  in  delicious  perplexity  from 
counter  to  counter,  knowing  that  her  cash  commands  the  pos- 
session of  the,e  btw  Idering  anicles  under  ner  nose.  Psbaw  1  A 
tig  for  the  weather?  ft  has  no  terrors  for  her.  She  does  not 
worry  about  pneumonia.  That,  like  the  barber's  itch,  is  almost 
altogether  a  masculine  ailment.  Therefore  she  was  out  in  force, 
heaven  bless  her!  And  tbe  young  ones  did  not  suffer  Ibe  loss  of 
a  single  doll  because  of  tbe  storm.  Allot  wbicb  is  good  reason 
for  saying  that  tbe  merchant  did  not  adhere  strictly  to  the  truth 
when  he  declares  he  did  not  have  a  profitable  holiday  trade. 

I  BEGIN  to  believe  that  the  Legislature,  without  any  appeal 
to  the  sentiments  of  the  southern  delegation,  should  by  an 
unanimous  vote  change  the  name  of  that  city  now  marked  on  the 
maps  as  Los  Angeles.  By  the  rind  of  the  juiceless  orange  there 
is  nothing  angelic  about  Los  Angeles,  It  has  succeeded  Oakland 
in  the  notoriety  of  its  illegitimate  love  affairs.  If  warmih  of 
climate  seems  marvelously  well-adapted  for  the  hatching  of 
scandals  in  brief  periods,  after  incubaiion.  A  hack  man  is  shot 
off  bis  perch,  and  the  community  smiles,  and  says  he  ruined  three 
girls,  and  it  was  high  time  he  had  received  a  leaden  anti-love  pill. 
Divorces  are  plentiful  in  Los  Angeles.  Gentlemen  who  take  a 
fancy  to  run  away  with  the  wives  of  other  men,  even  from  the 
remote  cities  of  the  East,  steer  as  surely  for  Los  Angeles  as  the 
needle  points  to  the  pole.  No  other  tewn  in  the  State  seems  a  fit 
abiding  place  to  these  fugitives.  Possibly  they  have  dreams  of 
coquetting  under  orange  trees,  and  nonsense  of  that  sort,  which  is 
altogether  nonsense,  for  any  one  who  trepasses  on  an  oianga 
grove  in  Los  Angeles  is  at  once  attacked  by  those  ferocious  dogs 
for  which  that  village  is  famous.  There  are  many  other  reasons 
why  it  should  cease  to  be  called  Los  Angeles — most  of  which  are, 
like  the  biography  of  a  once  celebrated  statesman — unfit  for  publi- 
cation. 


MFn 


RCANTILE  JACK  is  out  of  hick  all  the  time.  When  he  is 
ot  submitting  to  having  his  head  battered  by  a  belaying- 
pin  in  the  hands  of  an  irate  and  muscular  mate,  he  is  slugged  by 
a  boarding-house  keeper  or  caned  in  a  Barbary  Coast  dive.  One 
fell  overboard  this  week,  and  was  strangled  by  his  comrades  in 
their  haste  to  drag  him  out  of  the  cold  water.  A  landsman  could 
not  have  made  a  running  bowline,  because  he  could  not  know 
how,  but  would  have  cast  a  line  to  the  drowning  man  with  a 
cow-hitch  attached,  and  have  thus  saved  his  life,  without  stran- 
gling him  to  death  in  shipshape,  deep  sea-going  fashion,  as  the 
poor  wretch's  shipmates  did  the  other  night.  Knowledge  may 
be  power,  but  it  is  not  without  its  dangers. 

PUT  away  the  jumping  Jack 
Tbe  go-cart  now  withdraw, 
Tbe  sleeping  doll,  the  squeaking  Punch, 

The  steam  engine,  the  taw; 
Let  them  slumber  in  the  basement, 
With  the  seasons  vanished  joys, 
Drag  them  out  next  year,  and  advertise 
"Our  new  stock  of  Christmas  toys." 


18 


SAN  FEANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


OAK  for  decorative  wood  work  is  produced  by  fumigating  the 
material  with  ammoniacal  vapor,  which  effectively  produces 
the  dark  coloring  so  much  desired.  In  accomplishing  this,  the 
method  consists  in  placing  the  material  to  be  darkened  in  an  approx- 
imately air-tight  room  in  which  no  light  enters;  or  for  small  work  a 
packing  box  will  suffice,  the  joints  or  cracks  to  be  well  pasted  over 
with  paper.  In  this  room  or  receptacle  for  derositing  the  furniture 
or  other  articles  is  placed  a  flat  porcelain  or  earthen  vessel  filled  with 
ammonia,  the  vessel  containing  the  liquid  being,  of  course,  set  on 
the  ground  or  floor,  that  the  fumes  or  vapor  may  strike  to  advantage 
the  articles  to  be  darkened;  if  the  apartment  is  large,  two  or  more 
vessels  containing  ammonia  may  be  employed  and  allowed  to  re- 
main until  the  desired  effect  is  secured.  The  ammonia  does  not 
touch  the  oak,  but  the  gas  that  proceeds  from  it  acts  in  a  peculiar 
manner  upon  the  tannic  acid  contained  in  oak,  browning  it  so  deeply 
that  a  shaving  or  two  may  actually  be  taken  oft"  without  removing 
the  color.  The  depth  of  shade  depends  upon  the  quantity  of  ammo- 
nia used  and  the  duration  of  exposure. 

The  cables  of  a  suspension  bridge  are  subjected  to  great  strains, 

and  therefore  are  firmly  anchored  at  each  shore  end  to  heavy  masses 
of  masonry,  generally  by  means  of  long  bars  of  iron  or  steel  having 
holes  at  each  end  by  which  they  are  bolted  or  pinned  together.  In 
examining  the  anchorage  of  one  end  of  the  smaller  suspension 
bridges  at  Niagara  recently  one  of  these  bars  was  found  to  be  broken , 
and  the  problem  of  replacing  it  was  quite  difficult,  since  the  wires 
attached  to  it  had  to  have  the  same  tension  when  it  was  in  place  as 
they  had  when  the  old  oar  was  intact.  The  new  bar  was  formed  of 
a  piece  of  steel  20  feet  long,  G  inches  wide,  and  %  inch  thick,  with  a 
hole  in  one  end  and  provided  at  the  other  with  a  band  bolted  into  it. 
This  band  was  designed  to  pass  around  an  iron  bar  in  the  abutment 
and  resist  the  pull  of  the  wires.  When  the  band  had  been  placed 
about  this  pin  in  the  masonry  and  bolted  to  its  bar,  the  latter  was 
carefully  heated  by  a  wooden  tire  in  a  trough  below  it  until  it  had 
expanded  sufficiently  to  allow  the  end  of  the  wire  cable  to  be  con- 
nected with  it.  As  it  cooled  down  it  contracted  more  and  more  un- 
til at  the  normal  temperature  the  wires  attached  to  it  were  strained 
to  the  same  amount  as  the  others,  and  in  this  way  a  difficult  prob- 
lem was  easily  and  cheaply  solved. 

•^— The  new  method  of  twisting  strings  for  musical  instruments  by 
electricity  is  being  utilized  in  producing  strings  for  banjos,  guitars, 
violins,  harps,  bass  viols  and  many  other  musical  instruments.  The 
work  is  done  by  electric  motors,  one  machine  being  used  exclusively 
for  making  banjo  fourth  strings,  which  are  only  .0023-inch  thick 
when  finished.  It  will  make  a  string  40  inches  long  in  forty-five 
seconds,  the  wire  used  for  winding  the  silk  being  .003-inch  thick. 
This  fine  wire  is  carried  and  directed  by  hand,  and  two  wires  can  be 
wound  at  once.  On  such  a  string  there  are  no  fewer  than  13,333  coils 
along  a  40-inch  length.  The  motor  used  for  this  purpose  runs  at 
2,100  revolutions  per  minute,  driving  the  string  machine  by  means 
of  fiber  gearing  at  13,000  revolutions.  Another  small  electric  motor, 
which  runs  2  200  revolutions,  actuates  a  machine  making  5  GOO  revo- 
lutions, used  for  the  making  of  violin  G  strings,  covered  with  copper 
wire,  silver-plated,  and  only  .006-inch  thick.  By  this  machine  a  man 
can  make  108  strings  an  hour.  Another  machine,  which  is  run  by  a 
larger  motor,  is  so  arranged  that  every  kind  of  string  can  be  made 
on  it  from  15  to  84  inches  in  length.  /The  wire  used  for  the  various 
kinds  of  strings  runs  from  .006  to  .0017-inch  in  thickness. 

The  virtue  of  ozone  in  therapeutics  is  now  widely  recognized, 

hut  its  general  use  has  been  hitherto  impracticable  in  consequence 
of  the  trouble  and  expense  of  its  production.  A  machine  is  now 
made  for  employment  in  hospitals  and  private  sick  rooms,  or  for  the 
disinfection  of  large  public  halls  or  buildings,  which  renders  the  pro- 
duction of  ozone  a  simple  and  comparatively  inexpensive  operation. 
The  ozonizing  of  atmospheric  air  by  this  machine  is  accomplished  by 
employing  a  small  motor,  driving  a  blower,  which  forces  the  air 
through  the  apparatus,  the  current  for  operating  the  motor  being 
taken  from  any  available  electric  plant.  The  air  is  first  passed 
through  a  drying  tube  to  eliminate  any  possible  moisture,  and  is  then 
conveyed  to  a  cluster  of  tubes  forming  the  ozone  generator.  Each 
tube  consists  of  two  concentric  thin  glass  tubes,  the  inner  one  being 
nearly  filled  with  water,  into  which  one  electrode  dips.  A  silent 
discharge  of  electricity,  derived  from  the  current  driving  ihe  motor, 
and  passed  through  a  specially  wound  transformer,  takes  place 
through  the  space  intervening  between  the  thin  walls  of  the  glass 
tubes,  and  ozonizes  the  air  flowing  through  to  the  outlet  of  the  ap- 
paratus, where  it  is  distributed  or  stored,  as  required. 

Latest  discovery  and  craze  in  Paris,— Gray  hair  restored  to  all 
shades;  perfectly  harmless.  Face  cream,  powder  and  lotion  in- 
dorsed by  Dr.  Dennis  of  this  city;  also  the  emporium  for  Parisian 
novelties  and  manufacture  of  natural  curly  front  pieces,  from.  $1  up. 
Great  reduction  in  prices  and  prompt  attention,  at  Strozynski's,  cor- 
ner of  Ellis  and  Leavenworth  streets. 


Boston. 


To  the  readers  of  the  News  Letter  who  are  contem- 
plating a  trip  to  the  East,  see  the  advantages  of  taking 
the  Union  Pacific.  It  is  the  only  line  running  Pull- 
man Drawing-room  Palace  Sleeping  Cars  and  Dining  Cars 
from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago  without  change.  You  are 
only  three  and  one-half  days  from  San  Francisco  to  Chi- 
cago, and  only  four  and  one-half  days  to  New  .York  or 


Every  Thursday  a  Tourist  Excursion  leaves  San  Francisco  via  this 
line  for  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston,  making  25%  hours  quicker 
time  to  Chicago  and  two  days  quicker  time  to  Boston  than  other 
excursion  lines. 

For  sleeping-car  reservations,  tickets  and  full  information,  apply 
at  the  General  Office,  No.  1  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 
D.  W.  Hitchcock,  General  Agent. 

Steele's  Grindelia  Lotion  is  the  best  remedy  known  for  the  allevia- 
tion of  the  distress  caused  by  asthma  and  for  the  cure  of  poison  oak. 
It  may  be  purchased  at  the  Palace  Pharmacy,  635  Market  street.  Its 
curative  powers  are  exactly  as  they  are  represented,  for  which  rea- 
son  it  is  generally  used. 

IBAJa-IKIB- 

BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital  *8,000,00C  00 

Surplus 1,000,00000 

Undivided  Profits (July  Ut,  1890) 3,275,919  48 

WM.  ALVORD,  President. 

Thomas  Brown Cashier  |  Irvino  F.  Moolton,  Assistant  Cashier. 

Edward  S.  Hast,  Secretary. 

CORRESPONDENTS : 

NEW   YORK— Agency  of   i\e  Bank  of  California;    BOSTON— Tremont 

National  Bank;  CHICAGO— Union  National  Bank;  ST.  LOUIS— Boatman's 
Bank;  NEW  ZEALAND— The  Bank  of  New  Zealand.  Correspondent  In 
London— Messrs.  N.  M.  Rothschild  &  Sons.  Correspondents  in  India,  China, 
Japan  and  Australia. 

The  Bank  has  Agencies  at  Virginia  City,  and  Correspondents  in  all  the 
principal  Mining  Districts  and  Interior  Towns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Letters  of  Credit  issued,  available  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  Draw  direct 
on  New  York,  Boston,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  New  Orleans,  Denver.  Salt  Lake, 
Cincinnati,  Portland, O.,  Los  Angeles,  London,  Dublin,  Paris,  Berlin,  Bremen, 
Hamburg,  Frankfort-oo-the-Mai n,  Antwerp,  Amsterdam, Copenhagen,  Stock- 
holm, Christiana,  Locarno,  Melbourne,  Sydney,  Auckland,  Hongkong 
Shanghai,  Yokohama.  Genoa,  and  all  cities  in  Italy  and  Switzerland. 

LONDON  AND  SAN  FRANCISCO  BANK,  Limited. 

Authorized  Capital {3,500,000     I     Capital  paid  up 2.450,000 

Reserve 450,000 

San  Francisco  Office,  424  California  St.  1  London  Office 73  Lombard  St.. E.  C 

Portland  Branch,  48  First  St.    Tacoma  Branch,  1005  A  Street. 

Manager,  ABTHUR  SCRIVENER:  Assistant  Manager,  WILLIAM  STEEL 

Cashier,   GUSTAV  FRIEDERICH. 

LONDON  BANKERS— Bank  of  England  and  London  Joint  Stock  Bank. 
NEW  YORK— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.    BOSTON— Third  National  Bank. 

This  Bank  is  prepared  to  transact  all  kinds  of  General  Banking  and  Ex- 
change Business  In  London  and  San  Francisco,  and  between  said  cities  and 
all  parte  of  the  world.  

THE  SATHER  BANKING  COMPANY. 

Capital $1,250,000. 

Successor  to  Sather  &  Co.,  Established  1851,  San  Francisco. 

J  AMES  K.  WILSON President 

J.   L.  N.  SHEPARD,  Vice-President.  J.  8.  HUTCHINSON,  Manager 

Directors:  E.  A.  Bruguiere,  F.  W.  Sumner,  Albert  Miller,  "Vm.  P.  John- 
son, C.  F.  A.  Talbot,  J.  L.  N.  Shepard,  James  K.  WilBOn. 

Agents:  New  York— Drexel,  Morgan  &  Co.  Boston— Downer  &  Co. 
Philadelphia— Drexel  &  Co.  Chicago— Atlas  National  Bank.  St.  Louis— The 
Mechanics'  Bank.  Kansas  City— First  National  Bank.  London— Brown, 
Shipley  &  Co.    Paris— Drexel,  Harjes  A  Co. 

WELLS,  FARGO  &  CO.'S  BANK. 

N.  E.  Corner  Sansome  and  Sutter  Streets. 

SAN    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 

CASH  CAPITAL  AND  SURPLUS $6,250,000.00 

John  J.  Valentine President. 

Homer  S.  King  Manager. 

H.  Wadsworth Cashier. 

J.  L.  Browne Assistant  Cashier. 

DIRECTORS  i\ 
John  J.  Valentine,  Lloyd  Tevls.  Oliver  Eldridge,  Leland  Stanford,  James 
C.  Fargo.  Geo,  E.   Gray,  W.  F.  Goad,  Chas.  F.  Crocker,  Dudley  Evans. 

THE  CROuKEP-WOOLWORTH  NATIONAL  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO 

Corner  .Market,  Montgomery  and  Post  Streets. 

PAID-UP    CAPITAL II  ,000,000. 

0IRECT0R8 : 
CHA8.  P.  CBOCKEB,  |  E.  H.  MILLEB,  Je. 

B.  C.  WOOLWOBTH President. 

W.  E.  BROWN Vice-Peesident. 

WM.  H.  CBOCKEB Cashier 

~  SECURITY  SAVIN6S  BANK. 

Guarantee  Capital $800,000 

OFFICERS: 

President JEBOME  LINCOLN  I  Secretary B.  L.  ABBOT.  Jr. 

Vice-President W.  8.  JONES  I  Attorney SIDNEY  V.  SMITH 

Loans  made  on  Beal  Estate  and  other  approved  securities. 

OFFICE— No.  228  Montgomery  Street,  San  Franclsoc. 


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A00RRC8P0NDKHT  ol  the  ^ptahdv  gtv«a  an  lat«rMttD«  ac- 
count of  the  feats  of  the  elephants  at  the  Belle  Vue  (.ardent, 
Manchester.  When  a  penny  is  given  to  one  of  these  animals,  it 
pats  the  coin  into  the  slot  of  a  box,  where,  as  it  falls,  it  releases 
a  biscuit,  which  the  elephant  takes  with  evident  satisfaction. 
Some  of  the  visitors  occasionally  give  the  animal  a  half-penny, 
and  as  experience  has  taught  them  that  this  coin  is  of  no  value 
for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  biscuits,  it  is  generally  thrown  con- 
temptuously back  to  the  giver.  A  more  marvelous  fact,  however, 
is  to  come.  One  day  a  visitor  gave  the  "  baby  "  elephant  a  num- 
ber of  half-pennies  in  succession,  each  of  which  was  thrown  at 
him  again  as  soon  as  received.  The  visitor  then  gave  the  animal 
two  half-pennies  at  the  same  time.  The  animal's  demeanor  im- 
mediately changed.  For  more  than  five  minutes  be  held  the  two 
coins  in  his  trunk,  rubbing  tbem  together,  and  now  rocking  from 
side  to  side,  and  presently  seeming  to  be  pondering  deeply  while 
perfectly  still.  At  last  he  dropped  the  two  half-pence  in  the  box 
together,  with  the  result  that  their  combined  weight  gave  him  the 
desired  biscuit  at  which  he  gamboled  about  in  a  manner  which 
exhibited  extravagant  delight. 

A  remarkable  "rent  audit  "  is  held  at  Breiienberg  Castle,  near 
Itzeboe,  on  the  occasion  of  tribute  being  paid  to  Count  Rantzau 
for  a  piece  of  land  owned  by  a  peasant  working  on  his  estate. 
Every  year,  on  the  11th  of  November,  punctually  at  noon,  the 
peasant  presents  himself  and  tenders,  an  old  Danish  silver  penny 
as  rent  for  bis  holding.  The  origin  of  this  tenure  is  as  follows: 
Some  years  ago  a  Count  Rantzau,  while  hunting  a  stag,  rode  upon 
a  boggy  piece  of  land  and  found  himself  sinking  into  the  morass. 
A  peasant,  bearing  the  Count's  cries,  was  just  in  time  to  save  his 
life,  but  declined  to  receive  any  reward.  On  being  pressed,  how- 
ever, thepeasant  agreed  finally  to  accept  the  piece  of  land  whereon 
the  rescue  took  place.  The  Count  agreed,  but  added  that  tosatisfy 
the  outward  signs  of  dependency  he  must  pay  every  year  a  Dan- 
ish silver  penny  as  tribute  to  the  Castle  and  be  his  guest  on  that 
occasion.  The  land  is  arable  now,  and  goes  by  the  name  of  the 
"  Pfennigwiese "  (or  Penny  Meadow).  The  former  scheme  of 
tenure  is  still  in  force.  But  the  old  Danish  silver  pennies  are  be- 
coming scarce,  and  the  probability  is  that  some  day  the  land  will 
revert  to  its  former  owner. 


B  v\  PR  \\<  1^'  O  NEWS  LETTER 


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A  reporter  of  the  Times,  named  Neilson,  who  was  in  the  gallery 
of  the  House  of  Commons,  was  useful  to  Lord  Beaconsfield  in  the 
early  days  of  his  career.  Years  afterward  Mr.  Disraeli  paid  his 
first  visit  to  the  Guildhall  as  Prime  Minister.  As  he  stood  on  the 
dais  beside  his  wife,  surrounded  by  a  brilliant  group  of  princes, 
statesmen,  warriors  and  civic  magnates,  while  the  deafening 
cheers  still  rang  in  his  ears,  he  looked  before  him,  and  saw  at  a 
little  distance,  among  a  crowd  of  humbler  guests,  his  old  acquaint- 
ance, "  Neilson  of  the  Times."  Instantly  he  stepped  from  the  dais, 
and  going  up  to  Neilson,  shook  him  warmly  by  the  hand.  "I 
want  to  introduce  you  to  my  wife,"  he  said,  and  forthwith  led  the 
reporter  into  the  innermost  circle  of  celebrities.  "  My  dear,"  he 
said,  addressing  Lady  Beaconsfield,  "  this  is  Mr.  Neilson,  of  whom 
I  have  so  often  spoken  to  you,  and  to  whom  I  owe  more  than  I 
do  to  any  other  man."  Neilson,  in  that  proud  moment,  standing 
on  that  historic  spot  by  the  hero  of  the  hour,  must  have  felt  more 
than  repaid  for  his  services.  It  is  a  pretty  story,  and  a  pleasant 
memory  of  the  great  statesman. 


Southampton  Fields,  known  to  the  curiosily  seekers  of  the 
world  as  "The  Field  of  the  Forty  Footsteps,"  is  a  small  plot  of 
ground  lying  directly  to  the  rear  of  the  British  Museum,  London. 
Tradition  says  that  two  brothers,  some  time  during  the  Duke  of 
Monmouth's  rebellion,  engaged  in  a  deadly  duel  up  in  this  little 
piece  of  vacant  ground.  Both  were  killed.  When  the  grass  be- 
gan to  grow  in  the  following  spring  there  were  forty  dead  patches 
in  it,  corresponding  exactly  in  shape  and  size  to  impressions  left 
by  human  feet;  superstitious  people  said  that  they  were  the  last 
steps  taken  by  the  brothers  before  exchanging  the  fatal  shots.  To 
this  day  the  place  is  known  by  the  name  given  in  the  headlines 
of  this  article. 

In  the  peninsula  of  Abeheron,  formerly  belonging  to  Persia,  but 
now  a  part  of  Russia,  there  is  a  perpetual,  or,  rather,  what  the  na- 
tives call  an  eternal  sacred  fire,  which  is  known  to  have  been 
burning  continually  for  more  than  2,000  years.  It  rises  from  an 
irregular  orifice  of  about  12  feet  in  depth  and  120  feet  square.  The 
flames,  which  are  constant,  rise  to  a  height  of  from  six  to  eight 
feet,  unaccompanied  with  smoke  or  disagreeable  sm*ll,  waving 
back  and  forth  with  the  wind  like  a  field  of  golden  grain. 

Tiie  Mikado's  kingdom  has  surrendered  its  greatest  art  treasures 
to  stock  the  shelves  in  the  store  of  George  T.  Marsh  &  Co.,  under  the 
Palace  Hotel. 


BANK    OF    BRITISH    COLUMBIA. 

CAPITAl  PAin  IIP      'nr"rPnnt*4  b»  ""T"  01 

{.APIIAL  PAID  UP  $3,000  000 

RES£RV£  FUND  I.ISO.MO 

Southeast  corner  Bush  and  Sansorac  HtrccU. 

HEAD  OFFIOE    60  LOMBARD  STREET.   LONDON. 

BRANCHES—  Vlrt..rl«,  Vancouver,   lltlti.h  Columbia;    Portland,  Oregon 

.-i-ntii..  and  raoonu,  Wuhlnj  »■"». 

SUB  -BKANfllKS-Kamloops,  Nanalmo,  Nelson.  New  Wc.tmlh.ler,  Hrltl.h 

OoliunblA. 
i  T.hi"  *?f  "k  tran.acts  ii  ijcncral  Bunking  Bunlncu.  Account,  opened  sub- 
ject to  (heck,  mul  Special  DepoalU  received.  Commercial  rrr.lil.  granted 
available  in  All  part.  ..r  the  world.  Approved  Bill.  dl.c.nintrd  And  ad- 
vances made  on  go...!  collateral  security.  Draws  direct  At  current  rales 
upon  Its  Hcs.l  Ofllcc  And  llranrhc,  an.l  upon  It.  Agents,  A»  follows- 

NhntOKK,  CHICAGO  Aud  CANADA— Bank  of  M.. >.'  lll'OOL 

rf\°.Sh  t"'1 8o"lh  Wale"  B""* :  Bi:oTI.ANH-Brlti«ii  Linen  Company;  1RK- 
L,*«I>-Bauk  of  Ireland;  MEXICO  and  BOOTH  AMBRIC A-London Bank 
of  Mexico  and  South  America  CHINA  and  JAPAN-charlercd  Hank  of 
India,  Australia  and  China;  AUSTRALIA  aud  NEW  ZEALAND- Hank  of 
Australasia.  Commercial  Banking  Compauy  of  Sydney,  English,  Scottish 
and  Australian  chartered  Bank  and  National  Bauk  ol  Australasia;  DKM- 
ERARA  and  TRINIDAD  (West Indies)— Colonial  Bank 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVIN6S  UNION. 

532  California  Street,  corner  Webb  Mr.  it. 

Branch  Office 1700  Market  Street,  Corner  Polk. 

O.'posIlK,  .Iw in-  30,  1892    •2S.8U0.0S3  OO 

(Guaranteed  Capital  and  Surplus l,o;i3,i:tu  OO 

DIRECTORS. 
Albert  Miller,    President;   George  W.  Beaver,  Vice-President:   Thomas 
Magee,  E.  B.  Pond,  Charles  Pace.  Daniel  E.  Martlu,  W.  C.  B.  DeFremery 
George  C.  Board  man,  J.  o.  Eastland;   Lovell  White,  Cashier. 

Receives  Deposits,  and  LoauB  only  on  real  estate  security.  Country  re- 
mittances may  be  sent  by  Wells,  Fargo  4  Co.,  or  by  checks  of  reliable 
parties,  payable  In  San  Fraucisco,  but  the  responsibility  of  tblsSavlugs 
Bank  commences  only  with  the  actual  receipt  of  the  money,  'i'be  signature 
of  the  depositor  should  accompany  the  first  deposit.  No  charge  Is  made 
for  pass  book  or  entrance  lee.  Offlce  Hours— »  A.  m.  to  8  p.  x.  Saturday 
evenings,  6:80  to  8. 

THE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK. 

N.  W.  Corner  Sansome  and  Bash  Streets. 

Established  1870.  TJ.  8.  Depositary. 

CAPITAL  [PAID   UP) 91,600,000 

SURPLUS $600,000  I  UNDIVIDED   PROFITS 1150.000 

8.  G.  MURPHY. President  IE.  D.MORGAN CaBhier 

JAMES  MOFFITT..   .Vice-President  |  GEO.  W.  KLINE Aatvt  Cashier 

DIBECTOBS: 

Geo.  A.  Low,  George  C.  Perkins.  8.  G.  Murphy, 

N  Van  Bergen,  James  D.  Phelan,  James  Moffltt. 

Thomas  Jennings,  John  A.  Hooper,  J.  D.  Harvey. 

A  General  Banking  BuNlness  Transacted. 
SAFE    DEPOSIT    DEPARTMENT. 
JAME8  K.  LYNCH,  Manager, 
Safes  to  rent  from  ?6  to  $100  per  annum  (under  the  exclusive  control  of 
tho  renter),  for  the  care  of  all  valuables.    Trunks  and  Packages  taken  on 
storage.    A  specialty  made  of  the  care  of  wills.    Office  hours,  8  a.  m.  to  6  p.m. 

THE  GERMAN  SAVIN6S  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY. 

No.  626  California  Street.  San  Francisco. 

~  GUARANTEE  CAPITAL  AND  RE8ERVE  FUND $    I,e46,000  OO. 

Deposits  Ju  y  I,  1892 28,776,697^31 

~ OirlCEKB— Presidentrn- 0 :OT  f  I G  ;  Vice-President!"  EDVfV  KROSE' 
Second  Vice-President,  GEO.  H.  EGGERS  ;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  SCHMIDT 
Assistant  Cashier,  WM.  HERRMANN  ;  Secretary,  GEO.  TOURNY.  Board 
of  Directors— L.  Gottig,  Edw.  Kruse,  George  H.  Eggers,  O.  Schoemann,  E. 
Meyer,  F.Tlllmann,  H.  Horstmann,  B.A.Becker,  H.L.Simon.  Attorney, 
John  R.  Jabbob. 

MUTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO, 

33  Post  Street,  below  Kearny... Mechanics'  Institute  Building 

Guaranty  Capital,  $ltO0O,OOO. 

OFFICERS. 

JAMES  G.  FAIR President 

JAMES  PHELAN,   S.  G.  MURPHY Vice-PreB.dentB 

Dibectors— James  G.  Fair,  Edward  Barron,  J.  A.  Hooper,  C.  G.  Hooker, 
James  Phelan,  James  Moffitt,  8.  G.  Murphy,  Chas.  Cadwalader  and  James 
D.  Phelan. 

Interest  paid  on  Term  and  Ordinary  Deposits.  Loans  on  Approved 
ecurities. JAMES  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 

LONDON.  PARIS  AND  AMERICAN  BANK  (Limited), 

N.  W.  Cop.  Sansome  and  Sutter  Sts. 

ubBt-tied  Capital $2,500,000  |  Paid  Up  Capital $2,000,000 

Reserve  Fund  $660,000 

Hbad  Office 58  Old  Broad  Street,  London 

Agents— NEW  YORK— Agency  of  the  London,  Paris  and  American  Bank 
(Ltd.),  No.  10  Wall  8t.,N.  Y.    PARIS— Messrs.  Lazard  Freres  &  Cie,  17Boule 
vard  Poissoniere.    Draw  direct  on-  the  principal  cities  of  the  world.  Com 
mercial  and  Travelers' Credits  issued.          EUGENE  MEYER,  Manager. 
LC.  Altschul,  Cashier. 

THE  AN6L0-CALIF0RNIAN  BANK,  Limited. 

N.  E.  Corner  Pine  and  Sansome  Streets. 

Capital  Authorized ?6,000,000  I  Paid  up . fl.600,000 

Subscribed     3,000,000  |  Reserve  Fund 700,000 

Head  Office— 8  Angel  f.ourt,  London,  E.  C. 

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

The  Bank  transacts  a  general  banking  l  usiness,  sells  drafts,  makes  tele- 

eT&nhic  transfers,  and  issues  letters  of  credit  available  throughout  the 

worl.      Jends  bille  for  collection,  loans  money,  buys  and  sells  exchange 

SlTliENTHM,.!  Managers. 

A.  L.  SELIGMAN,  !  Hi     II 


and  bullion. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1&92. 


^S^M?-&3n 


THE  year  is  closing  with  a  healthier  aspect  in  the  real  estate 
market  than  it  has  worn  since  its  dawn.  When  firms  like 
Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Baldwin  &  Hammond,  and  Easton, 
Eldridge  &  Co.  concur  in  stating  that  not  only  is  there  a  promise 
of  better  business,  but  that  better  business  has  already  set  in, 
there  is  very  likely  to  be  a  good  deal  of  truth  in  the  statement. 
One  of  these  firms  sold  two  good  fifty-varas  in  the  Western  Addi- 
tion to  two  different  purchasers  within  three  hours  on  Tuesday 
last,  and  when  the  time  comes  details  will  be  published.  Bald- 
win &  Hammond  have  made  several  good  sales,  among  them  the 
residence  and  lot,  30x100,  southeast  corner  of  Webster  and  Pacific 
avenue,  for  $17,500,  and  a  number  of  lots  in  the  fotrero.  With 
regard  to  this  section  of  the  city,  it  may  be  well  to  state  that  few 
seem  aware  of  its  future  as  a  manufacturing,  small  residence  and 
retail  basiness  center.  The  factories  of  the  city  must  all  sooner 
or  later  leave  the  district  south  of  Market  and  east  of  Third,  and 
in  fact  they  are  now  fast  migrating  either  to  North  Beach  or  the 
Potrero.  This  south  of  Market  street  section  will  be  required  by 
wholesalers,  printers,  bookbinders,  and  for  the  erection  of  ware- 
houses. 

O'Farrell  &  Lang  have  sold  a  residence  and  lot,  25x137:6, 
south  line  of  McAllister,  west  of  Fillmore,  for  $7,500;  and  a  house 
on  the  south  line  of  Twenty-first  east  of  Castro,  25x114,  for 
$5,400.  There  are  just  half  a  dozen  good  sales  which  will  make 
interesting  reading  in  a  week  or  ten  days,  and  will  confirm  the 
encouraging  reports. 

The  anti-extension  fight  has  commenced  in  earnest,  and  though 
no  conclusion  has  yet  been  reached  in  the  injunction  suits  brought, 
enough  has  been  done  to  show  that  a  fight  is  to  be  made.  Judge 
Troutt,  in  dissolving  injunctions  sued  by  certain  owners,  did  so 
without  prejudice,  pointing  out  the  fact  that  the  fault  lay  in  their 
being  inopportune,  and  suggesting  that  the  proper  course  to  pur- 
sue is  to  give  the  Supervisors  an  opportunity  to  confirm  or  reject 
a  report,  and  then  to  enjoin.  Whether  this  is  sound  law  or  not 
remains  to  be  seen.  There  is,  however,  a  plan  on  foot  which 
promises  to  upset  a  number  of  the  proposed  extensions,  and  if 
the  newly  elected  Senators  and  Assemblymen  do  not  violate  their 
pledges,  thirty  days  more  will  see  the  plans  of  certain  scheming 
Supervisors  all  aglee. 

The  loan  associations  are  busy  discussing  a  trio  of  amendments 
to  the  law  of  March  31,  1891.  These  amendments  are  aimed  di- 
rectly at  the  "  national  "  order  of  loan  associations;  that  is  to  say, 
the  class  which  has  failed  in  England  recently.  One  of  the  amend- 
ments is  to  provide,  by  assessments  on  the  share  of  all  loan  asso- 
ciations stock  at  the  rate  of  one  cent  a  share,  funds  for  the  bona 
fide  examination  of  the  affairs  of  all  so-called  mutual  loan  associa- 
tions, and  to  prevent  these  masqueraders  from  claiming,  as  they 
now  do,  that  they  are  "  under  the  supervision  of  the  bank  com- 
missions," when,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  they  can  send  into  that 
body  almost  any  kind  of  a  doctored  statement  they  please,  and  as 
the  law  now  stands,  it  must  be  accepted  as  bouafid\  Another 
amendment  strikes  a  body  blow  at  these  pseudo-co-operative  na- 
tionals by  requiring  that  they  shall  pay  to  withdrawing  members 
at  least  the  amount  paid  in  for  dues  instead  of  deducting,  as  they 
now  do,  from  20  to  30  per  cent.  The  third  amendment  liiui's  the 
entrance  fee  a  share  to  25  cents.  Regular  local  loan  associations 
charge  only  10  cents;  the  "nationals"  charge  from  $1  up.  These 
amendments  interest  thousands  throughout  the  State,  and  as  they 
threaten,  the  existence  of  the  "nationals*1  a  hot  fight  may  be  expected. 
The  bank  commissioners  estimate  that  the  sum  of  money  invested  in 
mutual  loan  associations  is  over  $13,500,000.  That  the  amendments 
are  made  in  the  interests  of  the  masses  there  can  be  no  question. 
They  are  formulated  with  a  view  to  protecting  the  investors  in  loan 
associations  of  all  kinds  and  to  make  these  associations,  which  are 
being  worked  for  the  profit  of  the  few  instead  of  for  every  individual 
shareholder,  show  their  hands.  If  the  amendm  ents  are  carried  the 
reason  for  the  existence  of  the  national  shams  will  be  taken  away 
and  the  field  will  have  been  cleared  of  them,  so  that  the  endowment 
frauds  can  next  be  legislated  out  of  existence. 


HERR  Krupp  has  eone  to  Berlin  to  explain,  or  rather,  perhaps,  to 
excuse  himself  for  having  offered  cannons  of  his  invention  to  the 
government  of  Napoleon  Hi  in  13G8.  The  explanation  should  not  be 
difficult,  for  if  we  are  not  mistaken  Herr  Krupp  at  that  time  had 
signed  no  contract  to  be  the  sole  provider  of  Germany,  and  even  in 
recent  years  his  guns  have  been  furnished  to  many  of  the  less 
important  countries,  Turkey  for  instance,  outside  of  Germany.  It 
was  perhaps  not  a  very  patriotic  act  of  the  great  gunmaker  to  offer 
his  services  to  France,  but  patriotism  and  the  exigencies  of  money- 
making  often  clash,  and  unless  Herr  Krupp  was  at  that  time  in  pos- 
session of  a  "retaining  fee"  from  the  German  government,  he  prob- 
ably felt  at  liberty  to  offer  his  goods  in  the  best  market.  At  present 
the  German  government  pays  him  a  large  sum  to  secure  his  entire 
services,  and  it  is  natural  that  he  should  like  to  remain  on  good 
terms  with  the  Prussian  authorities.  Hence  probably  his  desire  to 
"explain." 


NO  IMITATION  GOODS. 

Therefore  the  question  "is 
it  Genuine?"  is  never  raised 
concerning  any  article  pur- 
chased from 

A.  W.  STOTT, 

JEWELLEB, 

3  Montgomery  St. 

{Under  Masonic  Temple.) 

DIAMONDS     and     other 

precious  stones. 
AMERICAN  and  SWISS 

WATCHES. 
And  stylish  new  designs 
GOLD       AND      SILVER 

JEWELLERY 
of  high  grade  at  surprising- 
ly low  prices. 


Our  House  Renting  Department  is  one  of 
the  best  equipped  in  the  city.  We  guarantee 
prompt  and  efficient  service  in  renting 
bouses,  collecting  rents  and  placing  insur- 
ance. 

BALDWIN  &  HAMMOND, 

10  Montgomery  St. 


CALIFORNIA  WIRE  WORKS, 

9  FREMONT  STREET,  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


MANOTACTORERS    OF 

WIRE  of  all  Us,    WIRE  US,  Best  Steel. 

BARBED     WIRE,  Regularly  Licensed. 
WIRE     ROPES    AND     CABLES.] 
WIRE     CLOTH     AND     NETTING.', 

HALLADIE'S  ENDLESS  WIRE    ROPEWAY   for  transporting 
ore  and  other  material  over  mountains  and  difficult  roads. 
Send  for  Illustrated  Catalogue. 


BRANCHES.— 22  Front ttreet,  Portland,   Or.;  201  N.  Los  Angeles  street, 
Los  Angeles,  California. 


E.  J.  WHEELER. 


J.   W.  GIEVIN. 


J.  W.  GIRVIN  &.  CO., 

Rubber  and  Leather  Belting, 

Hose,  Packing,  etc., 

Rubber  Clothing,  Boots,  Shoes,  etc, 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  Boston  Belting  Co.  and  Fayerweather  &  Ladew. 
formerly  J.  B.  Hoyt  &  Co.  6  California  St.,  S.  F.,  Cal. 


RHGON&eoMPJlp 

il/J*    PRINTERS.    u*l 


Corner  Clay  and  ansome. 


Dw 


BAH    1  I;  \N'   [SCO    \l  Us    1.1    in  i; 


91 


THE  year  has  not  been  a  particularly  hippy  one  for  underwriters 
bol  there  is  a  BODaoUUoa  in  the  fact  that  the  loss  ratio  has 
been  higher  in  former  years.  Kor  ISM.  with  incompleted  returns 
at  hand,  the  loss  ratio  on  the  const  is  about  forty  per  cent.,  very 
high,  It  is  true,  but  nothing  to  I---  >  overwhelming  Bguri 
per  cent.  The  loss  ratio  In  this  State  is  high,  about  43  to  45  per 
cent;  that  ol  1888  was  BO  per  cent.  The  year  lias  brought  many 
change',  has  seen  several  te-insurances,  heard  ominous  growling* 
In  the  P.  I.  r.,  and  witnessed  a  number  of  agency  modifications 
or  expansions.  One  of  the  most  noteworthy  events  of  the  year 
happened  at  the  very  outset,  when  the  Armstrong  Mutual  lire 
Companies  were  reinsured  by  the  London  .v  Lancashire.  The 
transfer  showed  that  mutual  insurance  was  not  the  great  success 
which  its  backers  claimed.  Almost  simultaneously  with  the  re- 
insurance of  the  Armstrong  Mutuals.  as  they  were  called,  the  last 
of  a  trinity  of  companies  founded  by  J.  B.  Bennett  on  something 
of  the  same  plans  as  the  Armstrong  companies,  concluded  to  close 
its  books  forever,  and  tbe  Amazon,  of  Cincinnati,  was  re-insured 
by  the  big  English  company,  the  Royal. 

The  Pacific  Endowment  assessment  fraud  burst  in  January, 
and  litigation  has  been  going  on  at  intervals  throughout  the  year 
The  North  Pacific  Insurance  Company,  of  Tacooia,  passed  into 
tbe  hands  of  a  receiver  just  as  1801  went  out, 

A  deal  of  much  interest  was  made  on  the  first  of  tbe  year,  when 
tbe  Alliance  Assurance  Company  of  London  purchased  all  the 
stock  of  the  Union  Insurance  Company  of  San  Francisco.  The 
Alliance  at  once  put  up  its  deposit  and  went  into  business  in  Ore- 
gon. While  not  very  directly  affecting  this  coast,  tbe  fact  is 
worthy  of  mention  as  an  incident  of  the  year,  that  the  Palatine, 
formerly  only  a  re-insurance  company  of  Manchester,  England, 
and  the  United  Fire  Company,  became  one,  issuing  a  joint  pol- 
icy and  presenting  to  policy-holders  a  combined  cash  capital  of 
$2,500,000,  in  addition  to  a  subscribed  capital  of  $3,150,000.  Tbe 
annual  meeting  of  the  Fire  Underwriters'  Association  was  held  in 
February,  and  was  probably  tbe  most  successful  in  its  existence. 
The  papers  were  more  able  than  usual,  and  there  was  quite  a  de- 
mand for  printed  copies  of  them.  Mention  should  also  be  made 
in  this  connection  of  the  Fire  Underwriters'  Clerks'  Association, 
which  met  in  March,  and  is  a  growing  training-school  for  under- 
writers. 

In  April  another  interesting  deal  was  reported  in  the  amalga- 
mation of  the  City  of  London  Fire  with  the  Palatine.  Prior  to 
this,  that  is  to  say,  towards  tbe  end  of  March,  the  Fireman's 
Fund  of  this  city  re-insured  the  Home  Mutual  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  San  Francisco.  Negotiations  bad  been  pending  for  a 
long  time,  and  finally  2,000  shares  were  transferred  en  bloc  to  the 
Fireman's  Fund.  The  absorbed  company  ranked  next  to  its  ab- 
sorber, and  did  a  business  of  about  $300,000  premium  income 
per  annum.  One  of  the  greatest  surprises  of  the  year  occurred 
in  May,  when  the  California  Insurance  Company  retired  from 
business,  re-insuring  its  fire  and  marine  risks  with  the  Fireman's 
Fund.  The  Eastern  business  had  been  re-insured  by  the  Peo- 
ple's, of  New  Hampshire,  and  tbe  Central  by  the  Home  of  New 
York.  The  company  had  done  a  very  good  business  indeed, 
had  paid  a  profit  to  the  stock-bolders  of  $1,822,990  on  a  capital 
of  $410,000,  and  there  appeared  to  be  no  reason  on  earth  why  a 
well-managed  business,  paying  handsomely  as  it  was  doing, 
should  suddenly  throw  up  its  hands  and  sink  out  of 
sight.  Soon  after  this  news  reached  here,  tbe  Union 
Marine  of  New  Zealand,  which  had  been  in  care  of 
L.  L.  Bromwell,  of  the  California,  was  absorbed  by  the 
Alliance.  The  fire  business  of  the  Union  was  re-insured  in  1889 
with  the  California. 

The  month  of  July  witnessed  the  retirement  of  another  San 
Francisco  insurance  company  from  business  in  the  Bast;  whether 
this  will  be  followed  or  not  with  retirement  altogether  remains 
to  be  seen.  The  California  Insurance  Company,  and  the  Anglo 
Nevada,  the  Alta  of  Stockton,  and  the  Union  and  the  Home 
Mutual  first  gave  up  their  business  beyond  the  Pacific  Coast  and 
and  then  on  the  coast.  It  is  to  be  hoped,  however,  that  the  Sun 
Insurance  Company  of  Sao  Francisco  will  be  an  exception  to 
this  order.  All  the  fire  business  of  the  company  east  of  the  Mis- 
souri river  was  re-insured  by  tbe  Oakland  Home  Insurance  Com- 
pany.    This  completes  the  list  of  re-insurances  for  the  year. 

The  P.  I.  U.  has  had  an  unusually  troubled  twelvemonth  and 
though  to  some  extent  crankiness  on  the  part  of  its  members  is 
undoubtedly  attributed  to  the  fact  that  losses  have  been  heavy 
and  business  comparatively  light,  conditions  calculated  to  pro- 
dace  anything  but  amiable  dispositions  in  tbe  insurance  man, 
still  there  nave  been  many  reasons  why  discontent  should  exist. 
It  is  a  notorious  fact  that  many  who  would  consider  it  a  lasting 
disgrace  to  cheat  in  a  game  of  cards  will  cheat  their  competitors 
in  business  by  pledging  themselves  to  abide  by  certain  rules,  and 
deliberately  violating  their  promises.  The  greatest  transgressors 
are  those  whose  excuses  are  the  least  tolerable  on  account  of  the 
large  business  they  do.    Tbe  credit-evil  during  the  present  month 


D  IMkM  In  aaraMl .  hut  It  It  loo  early  to  ««y 
whelhrr  Ihe  mrr  now  being  tried  will  prove  aflMtlTf  I  hi 
rebate  evil,  that  Is  the  commission  culling  and  prmcnl-givlng, 
1'ke  a  cancer,  has  only  been  cut  to  grow  again.  On  lb*  1. r> t  day 
of  the  new  year  another  attempt  to  Oktek  it.  for  there  is  little 
il  eradicailng  II.  will  be  made,  and  there  will  be  an  anxious 
lime  for  ibe  1'   1.  V.  during  the  first  few  weeks  of  I- 

Agency  changes  have  not  been  very  numerou-  Oal  01  Hie 
retirement  of  tbe  California,  two  new  agencies  sprang  in  llrom- 
woll,  Fowler  A  c,.  ,  an  I  Oti-y  ,v  Miller.  J.  |>  Maxwell  lias 
new  partners  in  \\  and  I.    1.,  Botqni,    while  his  former 

partner  John  ii.  Conrad,  is  now  aaiooiatad  wiib  Krodrxii 
Von  and  both  an  partners  In  the  (ieorge  Ration  *  Co.  a| 
Tbe  1'  -al   Agency  has  added  another  company  In  tbe 

Buffalo  Herman,  and  there  have  been  many  minor  changes. 

The  8an  Francisco  Insurance  Associates  was  formed  in  Nov- 
ember. One  of  its  principal  endeavor-  n  ill  be  to  oheok  tbe  rebate 
evil.  Such  sins  of  "  commission  "  the  brokers  in  the  very  nature 
of  things,  should  know  most  abont  and  should  be  best  able  to 
check. 

The  few  chances  in  marine  offices  have  been  noticed  incidentally 
to  those  in  lire  olllces. 

The  outlook  lor  the  new  year  is  uncertain  for  reasons  staled  as 
to  possible  troubles  in  the  1'.  I.  O.j  and  indeed  there  Is  serious 
doubt  as  to  whether  it  can  hold  together.  Its  integrity  has  been 
threatened  two  or  three  times  at  least  during  the  pasi  year,  and  a 
re-organi/.ation  may  be  necessary  in  1893.  Should  il  dissolve  there 
will  be,  for  a  time  at  any  rate,  a  cut-throat  business  In  fire  insur- 
ance, and  in  the  fight  some  may  go  to  the  wall.  This  might  bene- 
fit the  insuring  public  for  a  time,  but  there  would  doubtless  be  a 
swing  of  the  pendulum  in  the  opposite  direction  later  on. 


(io  to  the  Pacific  Cleaning  and  Dyeing  Works  of  J.  Spaulding  & 
i  'o.,  ;it  3.53-357  Tehama  street,  if  you  want  any  clothing  dyed,  or  cur- 
tains, carpets  or  smaller  articles  cleaned.  This  establishment  leads 
tbe  coast  in  this  particular  line.  It  is  patronized  by  all  the  1  eading 
hotels  and  families  in  the  city,  and  enjoys  great  popularity  on  ac- 
count of  its  excellent  work. 

"THE  WHITE   HOUSE." 


FINEST    DISPLAY 

EVER  ATTEMPTED    BY    ANY  HOUSE    IN  SAN  FRANCISCO 


We  are  now  prepared  to  show  for 
the  Holidays  the  latest  European  pro- 
ductions in  Bronzes,  Terra  Cotta, 
Sevres,  Porcelain,  Limoges  Wares, 
Dresden  Wares  and  all  the  newest 
shapes  and  decorations  in  English 
Faience. 

Rare  and  beautiful  goods  in  Galle 
Inlaid  Tables,  Faience  and  Crystal 
Vases. 

Our  stock  of  lamps  and  shades  is 
most  complete.  American  Cut  Glass 
in  all  the  newest  shapes  and  cuttings. 

Sole  agents  for  Roekwood  Pottery. 

RAPHAEL  WEILL   &   CO., 

N.   W.   Cor.   Post  and  Kearny  Sts. 

IN  CHANCERY  OF  LANCASHIRE,  Eng. 

WANTED.— Heir-at-law  and  next  of  kin  of  Thomas  Pi  erce, 
who  died  at  Southport,  Lancashire,  England,  the  30th  day 
of  May,  1891,  formerly  of  Longridge,  near  Preston  Farmer  and 
Publican,  and  son  of  James  Pierce  of  Over  Darwen,  Lancashire, 
Publican.     Apply  to  BUCK  DICK80NS  &  COCKSHOTT, 

Solicitors,  Southport,  England. 


22 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1j  92 


SUMMARY    OF    THE    MARKETS. 

Flour— Demand  light;    Extras  $3.75@?4.    Superfine,  ?2.60@$3.O0. 

Wheat— Light  trade;  Shipping,  $1.25!^;  Milling,  J1.30@Jl-32^   per  cental 

Barley  is  dull;  Brewing,  85@90c.  Feed,  ■n\ic.@S0c.  per  ctl. 

Oats,  Milling,  Jl.SSOILS?1  - ;  Feed,  $1.25@$1.35  per  ctl. 

Corn,  White,  fl.10;  Yellow,  $l.U5($$1.20per  ctl. 

Rye  is  quiet,  good  demand,  fl.l0($$l.l5}£.    Cement,  |2.00@$2.25. 

Hay  is  lower;  Wheat,  $10.50;  Oats,  $7@$lu;  Alfalfa,  $8@?9.50. 

Millstuffs,  good  demand.    Bran,  $14.50@$15  per  ton. 

Beans,  good  request,  $2.00@$2.40  per  ctl.     Potatoes,  60c.@$l  per  ctl. 

Butter  is  lower;  Choice,  30c.@32Hc. ;  Fair,  16c.@17c;  Eastern,  16c@20c. 

Cheese,  light  stock,  8c.@l0c.    Eggs,  free  supply,  35c.@4Ue. 

Honey,  Comb,  10c.@12c- ;  Extracted,  7c.@8c.  Poultry  in  good  supply. 

Onions  are  worth  75c.@95c.    Beeswax  is  steady,  at  2Sc.@25c. 

Fruit— all  kinds  dried— active.    Fruit  is  very  plentiful  and  cheap. 

Raisins  and  Dried  Grapes  in  high  favor. 

Hides  are  steady;  Dry,  7c@7^c.     Wool  is  in  good  demand  at  llc.@16c. 

Provisions  move  off  steadily.    Bags  favor  the  buyer  at  6^c. 

Coffee  sluggish  at  I5c.@2lc.  for  C.  A.   Canned  Fruits  of  all  kinds  in  favor. 

Coal  is  plentiful;  large  stock.    Nuts  find  ready  sale.     Hops,  16c.@20c. 

Quicksilver  is  nominal  at  $4 1.50  per  flask. 

Sugar,  good  stocx  of  both  Raws  and  Refined.    White,  4K®55£c. 

Tbe  commercial  statistics  for  the  year  1892,  now  nearing  its 
close,  reveals  a  good  degree  of  progress  and  prosperity 
for  tbe  State  of  California  at  large,  and  notably  for  the  city 
of  San  Francisco. 

Tbe  yield  of  tbe  cereal  crops  bas  been  larger  than  tbe  avejage. 
The  Citrus   and  Decideous  Fruit  yield  has  been  large,  and  the 
prices  obtained  have  been  remunerative. 

It  is  true  that  the  area  of  pasturage  and  grain  producing  is  being, 
year  by  year,  reduced  by  large  and  extensive  planting  of  vineyards, 
orchards  of  Apricots,  Prunes,  Plums,  Apples,  Pears,  Figs,  etc.  The 
profits  by  the  change  have  been  greatly  to  the  State's  pecuniary  ad- 
vantage. 

The  Berry  crops  are  steadily  on  the  increase,  and  have  proved 
profitable  to  the  growers. 

The  Fruit  yield,  added  to  thatof  the  Salmon  catch,  gives  large  profit 
and  scope  to  our  canners,  as  will  be  seen  by  the  large  exports  of  them 
to  Europe  and  to  the  Eastern  States. 

The  Codfish  and  Whale  fisheries  have  been  profitably  prosecuted 
during  the  year,  as  have  also  the  Coal  and  Mining  industries. 

The  export  values  of  merchrndise  and  produce  to  foreign  countries 
for  the  year  exhibits  a  decrease,  owing,  in  a  measure,  to  the  lessened 
shipments  of  Flour  and  Wheat,  and  the  unprecedented  low  prices 
for  the  same.  No  account  is  here  made  of  the  value  of  shipments  by 
rail  across  the  country. 

The  import  trade  has  been  somewhat  lessened  during  the  year, 
while  tbe  government  has  collected  about  $55,000  more  this  year  in 
custom  duties  than  during  the  year  preceding. 

Tbe  trade  with  Great  Britain  for  1892  shows  some  increase  over 
that  of  last  year,  while  trade  with  the  Orient— China  and  Japan — has 
been  materially  lessened  by  the  strong  opposition  (if  it  may  be  so 
called)  of  the  extreme  Northern  routes,  these  steamers  carrying  large 
quantities  of  Flour,  etc.,  to  Hongkong,  and  in  return  bringing  large 
cargoes  of  Tea,  Silks,  etc.,  for  transmission  across  the  continent  by 
the  Northern  ayd  Canadian  Pacific  Railways. 

The  Lumber  export  trade  to  Great  Britain,  Australia,  Central 
America  and  Mexico  shows  a  steady  increase.  Exports  of  Salmon 
for  the  year  have  been  large. 

The  steamer  Peru  carried  in  treasure  $605,920 — all  for  Hong- 
Kong;  also  8837  bbls.  flour  to  China  and  910  bbls.  to  Japan — the 
total  value  of  her  cargo  $79,231. 

8teamer  Jan  Juan  for  the  Isthmus  carried  en  route  to  New 
York  57,0110  gals,  wine  and  mdse.,  value  $71,056,  to  Central 
America  1451  bob.  flour  and  to  Panama  405  bbls.  flour. 

A  large  and  steady  increase  of  late  is  noticed  sea-going  trade  to 
New  York,  via  Cape  Horn,  although  the  overland  railroad  traffic 
Westward  exhibits  an  increase  for  the  year,  though  of  the  East- 
bound  traffic  the  Southern  Pacific  makes  no  return,  though  we  are 
fully  advised  of  a  vasf  increase  overland  of  Fruits  and  Produce,  nota- 
bly from  the  southern  part  of  the  State.  High  railroad  freights 
across  the  country  operate  greatly  to  depress  the  growing  interests 
of  our  young  State. 

The  Whaling  season  has  been  successful;  the  yield  of  the  fleet 
since  August  4th  exhibits  a  product  of  12,700  bbls.  OU,  416.850  lbs.  of 
Bone  and  not  a  little  Ivory,  say  15,800  lbs.  Prices  of  Whalebone  and 
Ivory  have  been  very  good  for  the  year.  Tbe  estimated  value  of  the 
Bone  and  Ivory  for  1892  is  placed  at  $1,200  000. 

For  the  Orient— The  steamer  Belgic  sailed  hence  on  the  16th  inst., 
carrying  in  Treasure  $384  914;  of  this,  $323,140  went  to  China,  $36,000 
to  Japan,  $25,800  to  Bombay.  Her crrgo  consisted  of  7,501  lbs.  Gin- 
seng, 4,965  bbls.  Flour,  5,000  lbs.  Pearl  Barley,  and  other  Mdse.  to 
Hongkong,  value  $47,643.  To  Japan,  1.297  bbls.  Flour,  226  rolls 
Leather  and  other  Mdse.,  value  $19,020,  etc. 

Shainwald,  Buckbee  &  Co.,  Real  Estate  Agents,  make  a  specialty 
of  taking  full  charge  of  property  for  absentee  owners.  Houses 
rented,  rents  collected,  real  estate  bought  and  sold  on  commission, 
office,  407-409  Montgomery  street. 


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insurance  Company. 

capital $1,000,000,  |  assets 13,000,000 

STRONG,  PROSPEROUS,  PROGRESSIVE. 

Agents  In  all  prominent  localities  throughout  the  United  StateB . 

THE  STATE  INVESTMENT  AND  INSURANCE  COMPANY 

[ESTABLISHED    1871.) 

CAPITAL   STOCK  Paid  Up 1400,000. 

PRINCIPAL  OFFICE 218  AND  220  SANSOME  STRtET, 

San   Francisco*  California. 


GEORGE  L.  BRANDEB, 

President 


CHAS.  M.  BLAIR, 

Secretary. 


QUEEN  INSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  AMERICA, 

NEW     YORK. 

Capital  Paid  Up '  .  5M! 

Assets      o.lel.voa 

Surplus  to  Policy  Holders 1,526,157 

ROBERT     DICKSON,  Manager,   S.   F. 
City  Office— 501  Montsomery  St.     General  Office— 401  Mont'e,  St. 

AMERICAN  CASUALTY  INSURANCE  AND    SECURITY   COMPANY 

OF    BALTIMORE    CITY. 

Cash  Capital n.000,000.00 

Cash  Assets,  over 2,200,000.00 

BEECHER,  SCHENCK  &  CO.,  Gen'l  Managers. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICES 40  to  44  Pine  Street 

MAXWELL!  BERRY,  General  Agents. 

421  California  Street, 


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The  Lion  Fire  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London. 
The  Imperial  Insurance  Co.  Limited,  of  London 

WM.  SEXTON,  R.  C.  MEDCRAFT, 

Manager.  Sub-Manager. 

Pacific  Branch,  214  sansonie  St.,  S.  F. 
SWAIN  &  MURDOCH.,  City  Agents. 


ALLIANCE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY. 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND. 
Capital  J25.000.000  00 

PACIFIC    BRANCH 

Office.  Alliance  Building,  416  and  418  California  Street,  Ban  Francisco. 

NATHANIEL  T.  JAMES,  Manager. 


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O.  F.  WILLEY  &  CO., 

ESTABLISHED  188B. 

Carriage  Builders  and    Dealers, 

SI  7  Montgomery  Street,  Nevada  Block,  S.  F. 

Agenoy  for  Brewster  A  Co.,  New  York  (of  Broome  St.); 
Henry  Hooker  &  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  C.  S.  Caffrey  Co., 
Camden,  N.  J.;  Henry  Killam  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  Mil- 
lion Guiet  A  Cie,  Paris,  France;  H.  H.  Babcock  Co.,  Water- 
town,  N.  Y. ;  New  Haven  Carriage  Co.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 


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5UNBEM15 


JA«  K  A.  NAPB9— Wm  Bri»k  i.  •  doocedly  w.pirl  Kirl.  dontye 
know!  The  other  d»y  her  pepa  g««-e  her  fifty  dollars  and  cau 
Uotwd.bar  to  speml  the  mooay  carefully,  M  that  she  might  have 
something  to  ahow  for  a  rainy  dav.  What  do  vou  think  ibe  MMUht  I 
Ckotlu  Spatli -I'm bwellas?    Jttt  .1.  .Vaprjr—  Saw— silk  stockings 

—  Town  Topic. 

— \Ve«»t  tonthv  'juite  alone. 

Twas  Uiriatmaa  night,  the  hour  was  late; 
I  spoke  U)  her  in  tender  tone: 

'    l'id'st  hang  no  mistletoe,  dear  Ksl. 
She  bowed  her  head,  with  blushes  shy, 

And  spoke  so  low  1  bent  to  hear. 
"No,  I  did  not,"  she  said,  "  for  1 
Thought  it  unnecessary,  dear."  —  The  Kiirer. 

"  I'Te  bit  upon  a  great  scheme,"  said  the  editor;  "I   nearly 

doubled  our  circulation  yesterdav."  '«  How  did  you  work  it?'' 
"  See  that  steel  stamp?  Well.  I  just  cut  out  a  paragraph  in  thatlocal 
column  of  the  whole  edition."  Hon  did  that  help  the  circulation?" 
l.very  woman  in  town  bought  an  extra  copy  to  see  what  had  been 
clipped."  "  —/!,„,„;„„  Bucktavi. 

Mrs.  Huchtep  (at  the  reception!-"  I   am   surprised  to  see  you 

looking  so  thin,  Mr.  Leezer.  M y  son  George  spoke  of  you  the  other 
day  as  feeling  quite  rugged.  JHui  Iluckslcp  (so  arllessly)— Whv,  no, 
mamma!  Iion't  you  recollect?  What  George  said  was  that  Mr. 
l.eezer  told  him  he  was  feeling  pretty  rocky.         —Chicago  Tribune. 

• "  And  this  is  the  founder  of  our  house.    He  fought  under 

William  the  Conqueror."  "I  suppose  you  are  very  proud  of  bim?" 
'•  Will,  hardly.  You  see  he  is  the  onlv  one  of  our  house  since  its 
foundation  without  ancestors."  — Christmas  Life. 

—Pupker— Is  it  true  sir.  that  vou  SDoke  of  me  as  a  dog-faced 
freak  at  the  club  last  night?  Cutter—  Why,  not  at  all.  my  dear  fel- 
low. Cubelev  was  readiug  from  the  paper  that  Jo-Jo  was  worth 
$300  000,  and  1  merely  remarked  that  your  face  was  your  fortune. 

—Officer  0' Reagan— Say,  Mulholland,  where  are  yez  goin'  wid 
that  door,  anyhow?  Mulholland  (a  voter) — To  register  av  coorse.  Ye 
see.  I  was  afeared  I'd  lose  me  papers,  so  glued  'em  on  the  door  an1 
now  can't  get 'em  aff."  —Judge. 

"  Why  is  it."  said  the  beaver  bat, 

As  by  the  desk  it  blustered, 

"That  every  time  I  pass  you  by 

You  seem  to  be  so  flustered  ?" 

"  I  don't  know,"  said  the  tailor  bill 

With  voice  and  mein  dejected. 

'•  But  somehow,  though  I  try,  I  can 

Not  seem  to  get  collected." 

—  Clothier  and  Furnisher. 
•"  Which  do  you  mean  to  pocket?"  inquired  Jones  of  his  coun- 
try friend,  who  had  challenged   him  to  a  game  of  pool.    "How  in 
thunder  cau  I  tell,"  was  the  answer,  "  until  jtfter  1  shoot?"  — Puck. 

"  Does  Shakespeare  lake  well  in  the  West?"  asked  Witherup. 

'  Does  he?"  returned  the  tragedian.  "  Well.  I  guess!  We  had  to 
kill  Caesar  three  times  in  Bloody  Gulch,  one  night."  —Puck. 

"' How  is  vour  cooking-class  getting  along,  Ethel !"    "  I  don't 

know.  I  left  it?"  "Indeed?  Why?"  "The  teacher  wouldn't  let 
me  wear  gloves  when  I  was  cleaning  chickens."  — Judge. 

— The  Chicago  man  who  skipped  with  three  telephone-girls  all  at 
once  may  never  get  his  deserts  in  this  world,  but  he  will  get  enough 

of  "  h lo"  hereafter.  —  St.  Paul  Pioneer  Press. 

—  Walker,  the  Actor  (as  he  arrives  just  in  time  to  be  too  late  to 
catch  the  rear  end  of  the  last  freight  car)— Oh,  well,  let  bygones 
be  bygones  1  — Puck. 

Our  stockings  we  hang  up  when  we  are  young, 

But  time  quick  flies  and  on  us  tumbles  showers 
Ah,  then,  by  misery  torn,  by  sorrows  wrung, 
We  "  hang  up"  various  things  of  ours.  —Judge. 

——Tornado  Tom — He  was  tough,  but  his. heart  was  in  the  right 
place.  Blizzard  Bill— That  so?  Tornado  Tom — Yes.  I  shot  for  the 
place  where  it  ought  to  be,  and  by  gum,  it  was  right  there.    —Life. 

—Buckton — 1  have  noticed  a  funny  thing  about  men  who  have 
been  taken  in.  Nendick— What  is  it"?  Buckton— They  are  usually 
very  much  put  out.  — Truth. 

— — Where  now  is  the  plumber  that  often  has  robbed  us? 
The  iceman  piratic,  extortionate,  where? 
The  hack  man  who  spared  not  the  widow  and  orphan  ? 
They're  all  in  Chicago  awaiting  the  fair.     —Town  Topics. 
—Teacher  (in  mineralogy  class)— Johnnie,  give  the  name  of  the 
largest  known  diamond.    Johnnie— The  ace.        —Jewelers'  Weekly. 

"  8oy,  Phalim,  phwat's  a  ventriloquist?"    "  He's  a  lad  phwat 

stands  on  one  side  av  th'  room  and  talks  to  himself  from  th'  other." 

—  Tale  Record. 


Are  You  Going  East  ? 
Take  the  Santa  Fe  Route.  You  will  find  it  to  your  interest  to  call 
on  or  address  the  undersigned  before  purchasing  tickets.  No  other 
line  crossing  the  continent  can  offer  you  a  trip  combining  equal  com- 
fort and  pleasure.  The  only  line  running  Pullman  palace  and  tour- 
ist sleeping-ears  through  to  Chicago  on  the  same  train  every  day 
without  change.  Personally  conducted  excursions  through  to  Bos- 
ton leave  every  Wednesday.  W.  A.  BI8SBLL,  650  Market  street, 
Chronicle  Building,  San  Francisco. 


1 3ST  B  TJ  R -A.  JST  C  BJ . 


BALOISE 

OP  BASLE. 


TRANSATLANTIC    FIRE    INSURANCE    COMPANY, 

01  M  UtatTKQ,  OBSH  isv 
Hrrherl  I.,  low,  M.n«t»r  for  Ik*  r.rlflc  (  o„.t  Ilr.nrh 

""»'«'  ">  "■  *  ' "1S2:M 

GEO.   MARCUS   &   CO., 

Agent*  City   Department, 
— »3ll  California  ftL.  ».  P.,Cal. 

THE  SWISS  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANIES 

COMBINED 

HELVETIA  SWITZERLAND 

OF  ST.  -.ALL.  OF  ZURICH 

COMBINED  CAPITAL  4  000  000  DOinoc 

HARRY  W.  8YZ,  General  Agent, 
<10  California  8t.,  Ban  Francisco.  c»l. 

THAMES  AND  MERSEY  MARINE  INSURANCE  COMPANY  (Limited) 

Ca,,(^l^LerP°01.'  LOnd°n   Sr,d   ManChe8t,e,r00<,0M 

Capital  Paid  Up *,•  ooo  nrSi 

Cash  Reserve  (In  addition  to  Capital). ........... .'." !! 2  126  000 

total  Assets  December  31.  1888  ..■■......'.'.'.'.'.'.' 'b.li'iol'" 60 

WM.    GREER    HARRISON,   Manager, 
305  California  Street.  Sin  Francltco. 

Phoenix  Assurance  Company  of  London,   [Established  1 782.] 
American  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York  [Established  1857.] 

BUTLER  &BALDAN,  Gen'l  Agents  for  the  Pacific  Coast. 
473  California  Street,  San  Francisco. 

LONDON  ASSURANCE  CORPORATION  oTToNDON. 

([Established  by  Royal  Charter,  1720.  | 

NORTHERN  ASSURANCE  COMPANY  OF  LONDON. 

[Established  1836.] 
Office— Northwest  corner  Sacramento  and  Montgomery  Streets. 
CEO.  F.  BBAMT.  Manager. 


pacific  iDiEip.&.iEai'ayiiiEnsrT 
6UARDIAN  ASSURANCE  CO.,        SUN  INSURANCE  OFFICE, 


OF   LONDON. 

Established  a.  d.  1821. 
Paid-up  Capital,    -    -    -     J  5,000,000. 
Cash  Assets, 123,194,249. 


OF   LONDON. 

Pounded  a.  n.  1710. 

Cash  Assets, $10,044,712. 

Assets  In  America,      -    -     $2,222,724. 


WM.  J.  UHDERS,  Oen'l  Agent,  20»  Sannome  St.,  San  Francisco.  Cal. 

BRITISH  AND  FOREIGN  MARINE  INS.  CO.  OF  LIVERPOOL. 

CAPITAL 16,000,000 

XOENTS: 

BALFOUR,  GUTHRIE  &  CO., 

No.  316  California  Street.  San  Franelaco. 

THE  NEW  EN6LAND  MUTUAL  LIFE  INSURANCE  CO., 

OF  BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETTS.  Assets,  119,724,638.46. 

President,  RENJAMIN  F.  STEVENS.  |  Vice-President,  JOS.  M.  GIBBEN8. 
HENRY  K.  FIELD,  General  Agent, 
Mills  Buildin     Montgomery  Street,  San  Francisco. 

NEVADA   WAREHOUSE   AND   DOCK   COMPANY. 

WAREHOUSES  AND  DOCKS PORT  COSTA.  California. 

Storage  Capacity,  100,000  Tons.     Regular   Warehouse  for  San 
Francisco  Produce  Exchange  Call  Board. 

These  Warehouses  are  the  largest  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  furulehed 
with  the  latest  improve  me  nts  for  the  rapid  handling  and  Btorlng  of  Grain. 
A  mill  attached,  supplied  with  the  best  and  newest  machinery  for  cleaning 
foul  and  smutty  Wheat. 

Money  advanced  at  lowest  rates  of  interest  on  Qraln  stored  in  Warehouses, 
Insurance  effected  at  lowest  rates  in  First-Class  Companies,  or  Grain  sold, 
if  desired,  at  current  rates. 

Office  of  the  Company,  202  Sansome  St.,  over  the  Anglo-California  Bank. 


INSURANCE  COMPANY- LTD. 

fc  orMAIMCHEBTEW,  ENt3U^s.fNlPj^ 

Capital  paid  fij  guaranteed  $0,000,000,00. 

Chas.A  Latom,  Manager, 
433  Cal  if  or*  ma  St.  San  Francisco. 


24 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


OBITUARY. 


THE  closing  weeks  of  the  year  have  been  made  memorable  by 
a  large  number  of  deaths  of  prominent  citizens.  Among  those 
who  have  passed  away  during  the  last  two  weeks  of  December 
were  L.  L.  Baker,  James  Phelan,  John  Q.  Brown,  E.  H.  Miller,  Jr., 
Robert  Searles,  Loring  Pickering  and  Joseph  P.  Duffy:  Mr.  Baker, 
who  was  the  senior  member  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Baker  & 
Hamilton,  died  suddenly  at  his  residence,  1882  Washington  St.,  on 
the  morning  of  the  21st  inst.  Upon  retiring  the  previous  evening  he 
bad  a  slight  attack  of  apoplexy,  from  which  the  attendiug  physi- 
cians thought  he  would  rapidly  recover.  At  one  o'clock  Wednes- 
day morning  be  was  stricken  again,  became  unconscious  and  died 
an  hour  later.  Mr.  Baker  was  a  native  of  Portland,  Me.,  and 
sixty-five  years  old.  He  arrived  in  San  Francisco  in  the  steam- 
ship Panama  on  Augu-t  18,  1849.  Two  years  later,  with  R.  M. 
Hamilton,  he  formed  the  firm  of  Baker  &  Hamilton,  which  bouse 
is  the  oldest  io  the  hardware  line  on  the  Coast.  It  was  here  that 
Mr.  Baker's  first  wife  died.  By  her  he  bad  one  son,  Wakefield 
Baker.  Mr.  Baker  took  an  interest  in  the  National  Guard  and 
was  elected  Colonel  of  the  First  Infantry  of  this  city.  He  was 
prominent  in  the  State  Republican  Party,  and  among  the  Pioneers. 
His  second  wife,  whom  he  married  about  sixteen  years  ago,  was 
Miss  Helen  Stone,  daughter  of  Rev.  A.  L.  Stone,  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church.  She  survives  him  with  five  children.  The 
estate  of  the  deceased  is  valued  at  about  $600,000,  and  will  be  di- 
vided, according  to  his  will,  among  the  members  of  his  family. 

JAMES  PHELAN,  the  well-known  capitalist,  died  at  his  resi- 
dence at  Valencia  and  Seventeenth  street  last  Saturday.  He 
was  a  native  of  Gran tstown,  Queen's  County,  Ireland,  and  seventy- 
two  years  old.  He  came  to  America  with  his  parents  in  1827. 
During  his  early  manhood  he  was  a  successful  trader,  and  when 
he  came  to  California  in  1848  he  had  a  small  fortune.  Having 
faith  in  the  future  of  the  country,  he  purchased  land  judiciously, 
and  his  estate  is  now  worth  millions,  including  the  Phelan  Block 
and  other  valuable  holdings  in  this  city,  buildings  in  San  Jose, 
and  fruit  and  farmine  lands  throughout  the  State.  In  1870  be 
organized  the  First  National  Gold  Bank  in  this  city,  and  was  its 
first  president.  He  became  heavily  interested  in  the  American 
company  which  contracted  for  the  dredging  work  on  the  Panama 
Canal.  The  profits  of  this  enterprise  were  very  large,  the  stock, 
which  sold  ot  $20  a  share,  having  paid  $325  a  share  in  dividends 
in  five  years.  Mr.  Phelan  is  mourned  by  his  widow  and  his  three 
children,  James  D.  Phelan,  Miss  Mollie  Phelan  and  Mrs.  Frank  J. 
Sullivan.  He  was  a  Pioneer,  and  had  many  warm  fr.ends  through- 
out the  State.  The  funeral  took  place  last  Monday  from  St.  Igna- 
tius Church,  which  was  crowded  with  friends  of  the  family.  The 
pall-bearers  were  ex-Senator  James  G.  Fair,  Judge  W.  T.  Wallace, 
Samuel  G.  Murphy,  James  Moffitt,  C.  G.  Hooker,  William  T.  Tis- 
dale  of  San  Jose,  T.  Coleman,  A.  H.  Longhboroagh,  George  Ros- 
siter,  Robert  McElroy  and  B.  D.  Murpby  of  San  Jose.  The  Pio- 
neers selected  by  the  family  as  pall-bearers  were:  8.  W.  Holladay, 
Dr.  Gregory  Phelan,  Josiah  G.  Eastland  and  D.  V.  B.  Henerie. 

LORrNG  PICKERING,  part  proprietor  of  the  Morning  Call  and 
Evening  Bulletin,  of  this  city,  died  at  his  residence,  1018  Bush 
street,  Wednesday  morning,  after  an  illness  of  several  weeks, 
brought  on  by  overwork  during  the  recent  municipal  campaign. 
Mr.  Pickering  was  one  of  the  best  known  newspapermen  in  the 
Western  States.  He  was  a  native  of  Richmond,  N.  H.,  and  eighty- 
one  years  old.     He  came  to  California  in  the  fall  of  1849,  and  in 

1850  purchased  an  interest  in  the  Placer  Times,  of  Sacramento.    In 

1851  the  Times  and  the  Transcript  were  consolidated.  In  the  latter 
paper  George  K.  Fitch  had  an  interest,  and  from  that  date  began 
the  partnership  of  Pickering  &  Fitch.  Upon  coming  to  this 
city,  Mr.  Pickering  was  for  a  short  time  interested  in  the  Alia 
California.  In  1861  he  became  identified  with  the  Evening  Bulle- 
tin, and  six  years  later  acquired  his  interest  in  the  Morning  Call. 
He  was  married  three  times.  His  third  wife  survives  him,  with 
a  boy  four  years  old. 

JOHN  R.  8HARPSTEIN,  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Cali- 
fornia, died  at  his  residence,  on  Sutter  street,  last  Wednesday, 
from  the  effects  of  a  paralytic  stroke  received  on  Monday.  He 
was  born  in  New  York  in  1823,  and  had  held  numerous  positions 
of  honor  in  the  East  before  coming  to  this  State.  During  1874 
and  1875  he  was  Judge  of  the  Twelfth  District  Court  in  this  city. 
In  1879  the  Workingmen  and  Democrats  nominated  him  for  the 
Supreme  Court.  He  was  elected,  and  subsequently  re-elected, 
having  served  in  all  twelve  years  on  the  Supreme  Bench. 

EH.  MILLER,  JR.,  Secretary  and  Controller  of  the  Central 
,  Pacific  Railroad,  died  at  his  Alameda  residence  on  the  even- 
ing of  the  20th  inst.,  from  a  complication  of  disorders.  He  was  a 
New  Yorker,  and  came  to  this  State  in  the  early  days.  He 
formed  a  partnership  with  Mark  Hopkins  in  Sacramento  in  1853, 
and  when  the  Central  Pacific  was  organized,  was  appointed  its 
Secretary  and  Controller.     The  deceased  left  a  widow  and  son. 

JOSEPH  P.  DUFFY,  of  Duffy  Brothers,  the  plumbers,  died  last 
Monday  from  internal  injuries  resulting  from  a  fall.  He  was 
a  native  of  Chicago,  29  years  old.  He  leaves  a  widow  and  a 
baby  boy. 


JOHN  QUINCY  BROWN,  Gas  Inspector  of  San  Francisco,  died 
on  the  20th  inst.  at  his  residence,  1101  Pine  street.  He  was  a 
Kentuckian,  63  years  old,  and  came  to  California  over  30  years 
ago.  In  Sacramento  county  he  was  Deputy  Recorder,  Public 
Administrator,  Deputy  Sheriff  and  County  Recorder.  In  1881  he 
was  elected  Mayor  of  that  city,  and  re-elected  in  1884.  For  a 
time  he  was  Superintendent  of  the  Sacramento  Gas  Company. 
He  had  been  ill  about  three  months  before  his  death.  Mr.  Brown 
leaves  a  widow  and  son. 

ROBERT  SEARLES,  formerly  of  8earles  &  Stone,  died  at  Paso 
Robles  Springs  on  the  20th  iost.  He  bad  been  in  bad  health 
for  some  time,  and  had  gone  to  the  springs  for  relief.  Mr.  Searles 
was  a  native  of  England,  52  years  old,  and  a  popular  and  promi- 
nent merchant.  He  came  to  this  State  many  years  ago,  first 
locating  at  Humboldt.     He  leaves  a  widow,  but  no  family. 


SHE    DOESN'T    CARE.— Mittens  WUlett  in  Puck. 


When  a  woman's  will  is  thwarted, 

She  will  toss  her  pretty  head, 
She  will  close  her  lips  quite    tightly, 

While  her  cheeks  get    flaming  red. 
And  though  her  breast  be  surging 

With  the  pride  that's  struggling  there, 
She  never  fails  to  tell  herself: 
"  Oh,  really,  I  don't  care  !  " 

"I  do  not  care,"  she  argues, 
With  a  quiver  of  the  lips 
And  a  feeling  in  the  throat 

That  most  uncomfortably  grips. 
She  shrugs  her  dainty  shoulders 
And  assumes  a  reckless   air; 
"  Why,  what  a  goose  I  am!  "  she  says: 
"Of  course,  I  do  not  care  1" 

"  I  do  not  care,"   she  re-asserts; 
But  surely  there  appears 
A  moisture  on   her  lashes 

That's  suspiciously  like  tears. 
The  corners  of  her  mouth  grow  weak, 
Her  breast  is  heaving,  too; 
"I — do — not — care — a — rap,"  she  sobs, 
"Boo-hoo,  boo-hoo-hoo-hoo  !  " 

A.  H.  Ricketts,  attorney-at-law,  rooms  201,  202  and  203,  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 

Quacks  aud  patent  Optometers,  a  fruitful  source  of  Misfits.    Consult 
Muller,  the  optician. 


THE  SCIENCE 
OF 
THE  SKIN.  / 


/  AWK-  Jtoucij^E, 


324  SUTTER  ST., 

The  Most  Skilled  Dermablog     in 
San  Francisco. 

The  skin  rendered  soft,  velvety  and 
elastic  with  the  aid  of  Dermoline. 
The  form  developed  by  a  New  Method. 

Freckles  and  facial  blemishes  re- 
moved and  superfluous  hair  eradi  cated 
by  a  new  process. 

Huir  Iuvigorator,  guaranteed   to 
cure  BALDNESS. 


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Agents    or 

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to  and  from  Honolulu;  the  China  Traders  Iasuraace  Co.  (Limited);   Bald 
win  Locomotive  Works;  A.   Whitney  &  Sons  Car  Wheels;  Vivian  &  Sons 
Yellow  Metal  Sheathing;  Steel  Rails  and  Track  Material;  Hartman's  Raht- 
jen's  Composition.    Ontario  Cotton  Sail  Duett. 

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Exclusively  for  families.  First-clasa  in  every  respect.  Ele- 
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California  Street. 

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6  month;  6  Clean  Roller  Towels  each  week,  $1.25  per  month. 


Dec.  31,  1893 


BAN  FR.VXi  [»  0  SEWS  I.I  MM; 


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A  PRESS  of  yellow  silk,  with  narrow  lurquoise  blue  line*  on 
it,  bu  the  bodice  cut  In  OD1  with  the  ikirt.  and  fitting  the 
figure  tightly  to  just  above  the  knees,  where  are  placed  three 
deep  (rtlls  of  yellow  crepe  de  chine,  one  above  the  other,  covering 
the  real  of  the  skirt.  Round  lbt*<i>  cnlltage  Is  a  narrow  frill  of  the 
crepe,  and  tiny  frills  of  it  outline  the  front  seams  of  the  bodice. 
The  sleeves  are  of  black  niousstline  de  soie,  the  cufls  being  con- 
fined to  the  arms  by  a  series  of  fine  gatherings  which  expand  at 
the  wrists  into  a  tiny  ruche,  which  fulls  over  the  hands.  On  the 
hair  are  placed  two  small  black  velvet  rosettes  at  a  little  distance 
away  from  each  other,  which  lends  a  pretty  finish.  A  gown  of 
pate  chartreuse  green  silk  is  made  very  plainly,  and  falls  in  straight 
folds  from  the  low-cut  neck  to  the  bottom  of  the  skirt,  only  fitting 
the  figure  slightly.  The  sleeves,  which  are  cut  off  the  shoulders, 
are  composed  of  about  a  dozen  tiny  frills  of  white  crepe  de  chine 
falling  over  each  other,  rather  like  the  petals  of  some  dower,  and 
they  are  quite  short,  hardly  reaching  the  elbow.  Hound  one  of 
these  sleeves  is  a  scarf  of  while  crepe,  which  hangs  straight  down 
and  is  fastened  to  the  trimming  on  the  bottom  of  the  skirt. 
Round  the  low  neck  in  front,  but  slopping  when  it  gets  half-way 
over  the  shoulders,  is  a  series  of  pale  mauve  velvet  rosettes  look- 
ing almost  like  artificial  roses.  Round  the  bottom  of  the  skirt  is 
a  ruche  ol  the  white  crepe  forming  a  pattern  in  Vandykes,  crossed 
here  and  there  by  white  ribbon  forming  the  same  pattern.  On 
the  hair  is  placed  a  mauve  rosette  with  a  one  black  ostrich  tip 
standing  up  from  it.  ^  ■_■■■_,-,_-. 

The  newest  arrangement  in  Paris  for  coiffures  for  evening  wear 
is  an  aigrette  of  mistletoe  with  pearl,  gold,  or  cut-glass  berries, 
mounted  on  small  velvet  or  satin  bows  corresponding  in  color  with 
the  gown  with  which  It  is  worn.  Holly  leaves  with  pearl  berries 
are  also  to  be  seen,  and  small  bullrushes  made  of  green  and  brown 
velvet  are  very  popular.  All  these  arrangements  are  so  skillfully 
contrived  that  they  have  a  most  chic  appearance,  very  different  to 
the  dowdy  ornaments  which  so  many  English  women  display  on 
their  beads.  Dragon  flies,  with  brightly-colored  wings  and  spang- 
led antenme,  are  also  arranged  in  dainty  sprays  for  the  hair. 

A  seal-skin  Russian  blouse,  with  high,  full  sleeves,  is  exces- 
sively pretty  when  wTorn  by  a  young  girl;  it  is  belted  in  by  a 
smSde  belt  with  a  band  of  sealskin  in  the  centre,  while  about  the 
throat  is  a  cravatte  of  mink,  writes  Mrs.  Alallon  in  the  January 
Ladies'  Home  Journal.  With  this  is  worn  a  cloth  toque  decorated 
with  mink  heads  and  tails.  It  must  be  remembered,  by-the-by, 
that  the  fullness  of  this  coat  makes  it  becoming  only  to  a  very 
slender  figure. 

Some  of  the  empire  and  directoire  gowns  go  back  to  styles  seen 
sixty  years  ago,  and  many  of  the  effects  in  color  are  those  of  old 
times.  In  contrasting  a  gown  of  pale  lilac,  having  as  its  garniture 
black  lace  and  large  bows  of  black  velvet  ribbon,  with  one  of 
palest  green,  made  up  with  dark  purple,  it  is  evident  that  an  at- 
tempt has  been  made  to  produce  novel  and  striking  effects. 

A  fancy  has  arisen  for  wearing  a  bangle  of  jade,  it  being  claimed 
that  the  costly  green  material  brings  good  luck,  writes  Isabel  A. 
Mallon  in  the  January  Ladies'  Home  Journal.  By  way  of  con- 
trast to  this,  la  mode  ordains  that  there  shall  also  be  a  bangle  of 
tortoise-shell  and  one  of  gold.  The  contrast  is  artistic,  and  tends 
to  make  the  arm  look  very  white. 


A  beautiful  bonbon  dish  is  in  the  design  of  an  orchid.  It  is  of 
Doulton  Chi'na  exquisitely  pain'ed  to  represent  known  species  of 
the  flower,  whose  shape  the  porcelain  quite  perfectly  carries  out. 
The  dish  rests  on  an  orchid  leaf  whose  stalk  gracefully  forms  the 
handle. 

The  long-existing  craze  for  miniatures  grows  rather  than  abates. 
Beautiful  brooches  of  these  exquisite  paintings  are  greatly  in 
vogue,  and  very  small  ones  are  set  in  rings  and  lockets,  and  no 
prettier  or  more  fashionable  backing  to  a  watch  can  be  had. 

Black  velvet  long  garments  have  returned  to  favor.  The  models 
imported  from  Paris  are  circular  shaped,  with  a  high  collar  lined 
with  fur  and  fastened  at  the  throat  with  wide  satin  ribbons.  Down 
the  front  are  elaborate  jet  trimmings. 

"Wooden  sabots,  such  as  are  worn  in  Brittany,  are  a  modish  or- 
nament on  a  work  table.  They  are  enameled  and  fitted  with  the 
inevitable  bow,  or  are  covered  with  satin,  and  used  as  a  Bpool 
box  or  catch-all  of  one  sort  or  another. 

Professor  Charles  Geoffrie,  the  most  experienced  and  best  violin 
teacher  in  California, as  proved  bv  bis  numerous  distinguished  pu- 
pils—Misses  Blair,  Joran.  Wright.  Woolfe,  Hill,  Mr.  Henry  Larsen, 
and  many  others— continues  to  give  violin  instruction.  A  long  list 
of  pupils  for  reference  at  his  residence,  1430  Webster  street,  near 


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Reached  by  a  delightful  stage  ride  over  the  moun 
tains.  Sixteen  Miles  from  St.  Helena.  Good  Ac 
couimodations.    Ample  Bathing  Facilities. 

A  FEATURE  OF  THE  PLACE, 

A  Largs  Stain*  Tank  of  Hat  Mineral  Water 

The  waters  of  the  .-Etna  Mineral  Springs  have 
long  been  celebrated  for  their  wonderful  cures  in 
cases  of  Acute  and  Chronic  Dyspepsia,  Rheuma- 
tism, Inflammation  of  the  Bladder,  and  Liver  and 
Kidney  Complaints. 

The  temperature  of  the  water  is  98  degrees,  and 
is  highly  charged  with  Carbonic  Acid  Gas,  making 
it  pleasant  to  the  taste,  and  giving  to  the  bath  a 
most  delightful  sensation. 

Altitude !  No  Fogs !    No  Mosquitoes 

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SAN  EKANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  31,  1S92 


SS&e 


THE  life  of  Bishop  William  White,  by  Julius  H.  Ward,  is  issued 
in  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co. 'a  *»  Makers  of  America"  series.  The 
career  of  this  patriarch  of  the  American  Episcopal  Church  in- 
volves the  history  of  the  first  half  century  of  the  church.  He 
was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1747,  and  eighteen  years  later  gradu- 
ated from  college.  In  October,  1770,  William  White  embarked 
for  England,  to  obtain  ordera  from  the  Bishop  of  London;  as  in 
the  absence  of  a  Bishop  for  the  American  Colonies,  all  candidates 
for  the  Christian  Ministry  in  (what  is  now)  the  United  States 
were  obliged  to  go  to  England  for  ordination;  the  Bishop  of  Lon- 
don had  nominal  jurisdiction  of  the  American  clergy  and  parishes. 
He  was  ordained  Deacon  by  Dr.  Richard  Terrick  in  the  following 
December  Ember  Season,  at  the  Chapel  Royal,  of  which  the 
Bishop  was  Dean.  As  White  was  too  young  to  become  Priest, 
he  remained  eighteen  month0  in  England.  In  June,  1772,  Mr. 
White  was  ordained  Priest  by  Dr.  Terrick,  the  Bishop  of  London, 
and  immediately  after  he  sailed  for  Philadelphia,  reaching  there 
on  September  13,  1772.  There  he  became  an  assistant  minister, 
or  curate,  to  the  united  churches  of  "Christ"  and  "  St.  Peter,"  but 
he  declined  to  receive  the  full  salary  awarded  to  him,  so  that  more 
might  be  paid  to  his  fellow-curate,  who  had  no  private  means. 
He  married  in  1773,  and  was  left  a  widower  in  December,  1797.  Of 
the  troubles  between  Great  Britain  and  the  Colonies,  which  led 
to  the  "  War  of  the  Revolution,"  he  wrote:  "  Our  quarrel  was 
substantially  with  our  free  fellow  subjects  of  Great  Britain,  and 
we  never  objecied  to  the  Constitutional  prerogative  of  the 
Crown  until  it  threw  us  out  of  its  protection.  This  it  did,  inde- 
pendently on  other  measures,  by  what  is  called  «  The  Prohibitory 
Act/  passeu  in  November  1775,  authorizing  the  seizure  of  all  ves- 
sels belonging  to  persons  of  this  country,  whether  friends  or  foes. " 
He  continued  to  pray  for  the  King  until  the  Sunday  before  the  4th 
of  July,  1776;  shortly  tnereafter  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  United  States.  With  a  Mr.  Duffield  he  was  chosen  joint 
chaplain  to  the  Continental  Congress  at  the  gloomiest  period  of 
the  American  affairs,  when  General  Burgoyne  was  marching  with- 
out having  yet  received  a  serions  check,  so  far  as  was  then  known, 
through  the  northern  parts  of  New  York.  He  had  a  rooted  ob- 
jection to  introducing  politics  into  religion,  and  during  his  minis 
tration  he  maintained  as  a  paramount  duty  the  preaching  of  the 
Gospel  and  the  worshiping  of  God  on  the  terms  of  the  Christian 
Covenant,  in  the  best  manner  compatible  with  circum- 
stances. Meanwhile,  Mr.  White  having  obtained  the  degree 
of  D.  D.,  became,  and  was  ever  after,  styled  "  Dr.  White." 
On  Sept.  27,  1785,  at  Philadelphia,  on  the  Tuesday  before 
'■The  Feast  of  St.  Michael,"  was  held  the  meeting,  at  which  was 
used  for  the  first  time  in  the  United  States  the  Bible  of  the  Pro- 
testant Episcopal  Church.  Dr.  White  had  been  chosen  President 
of  the  Convention  of  Congregations  in  Philadelphia.  It  will  take 
up  too  much  space  to  attempt  to  set  forth  here  "the  two  lines  of 
divergence  which  have  existed  from  the  first  in  the  American 
Episcopal  Church,  and  which  grew  out  of  the  development  of  the 
Church  among  two  different  sorts  of  people  during  the  Colonial 
period;"  but  to  such  of  our  readers  as  the  subject  may  interest, 
we  will  say  that  it  is  lucidly  set  forth  in  this  really  interesting, 
temperate  and  compact  little  volume.  "At  the  General  Conven- 
tion of  September  27,  1785,  there  were  representatives  from  seven 
States — New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Delaware,  Mary- 
land, Virginia  and  South  Carolina.  Dr.  White  was  unanimously 
chosen  President,  and  the  Church  was  organized  and  united 
in  these  States,  under  a  pfovisional  and  general  Con- 
stitution," and  finally  ratified  at  the  Convention  of  1789. 
The  Convention  prepared  and  caused  to  be  sent  an  address 
to  the  Archbishops  and  Bishops  in  England,  asking  them  to 
consecrate  to  the  Episcopacy  those  persons  who  should  be  sent 
with  that  purpose  in  view  from  the  churches  in  any  of  the  States 
respectively."  The  English  Bishops  replied  that  "An  Act  of 
Parliament  would  be  passed  by  which  the  powers  necessary  for 
the  proposed  consecration  would  be  granted  by  the  State  to  the 
Bishops  for  this  purpose."  Subsequently  "the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury  gave  notice  that  this  Act  had  been  passed,"  and  that 
in  the  opinion  of  the  English  Bishops,  "only  three  Bishops  should 
be  consecrated  for  the  United  States."  Dr.  White  was  unani- 
mously elected  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania,  at  a  special  Convention 
on  September  14,  1786.  "At  about  the  same  time,  Rev  Mr. 
Provoost  was  elected  Bishop  in  New  York.  The  adjourned  Gen- 
eral Convention  met  at  Wilmington,  Delaware,  according  to  pre- 
vious app  lintment,  and  signed  the  testimoniala  in  favor  of  the 
two  Bishops  elect.  That  Convention  restored  the  article,  <  He 
descended  into  hell,'  in  the  Apostle's  Creed,  and  inserted  the  Ni- 
cene  Creed  in  the  Liturgy,  but  '-hey  refused  to  admit  the  Athana- 
Bian."  "  The  two  Bishops  elect  embarked  in  the  monthly  packet 
for  England  on  November  2,  1786,  and  arrived  at  Falmouth  on 
the  20th  of  the  same  month ;  and  on  February  4,  1787,  they  were 
consecrated  at  Lambeth  Palace.  They  reached  New  York  again 
on  April  7,  1787,  and  soon  began  the  exercise  of  the  Episcopal 
office   in    their   respective    Dioceses.      Dr.    White   died    on  July 


17,  1836,  aged  88,  and  was  buried  in  his  Episcopal  robes,  but  witb 
velvet  skull-cap,  at  Christ  Church,  Philadelphia,  being  followed 
to  the  grave  by  the  Mayor  and  corporation  and  all  the  civil  and 
ecclesiastical  dignitaries  and  others,  in  the  presence  of  a  con- 
course of  20,000  persons  and  upwards."  (The  book  is  nicely 
printed,  and  bound  in  red  linen.  For  sale  by  Payot,  Upham  & 
Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  price,  $1. 


John  Hughes,  D.  D.  is  also  in  the  Makers  of  American  Series. 
Dr.  Hughes  was  born  at  Annaloghan  village,  Tyrone  County,  Ire- 
land, on  June  24,  1797.  He  was  a  strong,  sturdy  boy,  fond  of 
work,  fond  of  self-improvement,  and  fond  of  religion.  He  early 
showed  an  inclination  to  become  a  priest,  but  his  parents  were 
too  poor  to  enable  him  to  carry  out  his  desire.  He  left  his  father's 
farm  when  the  head  gardener  of  the  wealthy  Montrays,  of  Favor 
Royal,  near  Annaloghan,  took  him  into  service  and  gave  him  les- 
sons in  horticulture,  receiving  the  benefit  of  his  labors  as  compen- 
sation. In  1816  John's  father  and  a  brother  went  to  the  United 
States,  so  John  left  Ms.  Montray's  service,  and  returned  home  to 
assist  in  cultivating  the  farm.  In  1817  John  joined  his  father  at 
Chambersburg,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  twenty  years  old  when 
he  landed  at  Baltimore.  Next  year  his  mother  and  the  rest  of  the 
family  joined  them.  In  about  thirty  miles  thence,  among  the 
Emmitsbury  Hills,  was  the  seminary  of  Mount  St.  Mary,  an  insti- 
tution founded  by  a  French  priest,  the  Rev.  John  Dubois  (after- 
wards Bishop  of  New  York)  for  the  education  of  Catholics,  both 
lay  and  clerical.  Here  poor  students  were  often  admitted  if  they 
intended  to  become  priests,  and  in  return  for  their  services  as 
teachers  in  the  college  they  received  the  necessary  training  in  the- 
ology. John  applied,  in  vain,  several  times  for  admission. 
Finally,  Bishop  Dubois,  finding  he  had  made  wonderful  progress 
in  Latin,  relieved  him  of  many  of  his  duties  in  the  garden,  and 
took  him  into  the  college  as  a  regular  student,  in  1820.  In  1823, 
when  twenty  six,  Hughes  commenced  his  theological  studies 
under  Father  Brute\  He  rose  in  the  seminary  and  was  made 
chief-prefect  of  discipline.  In  1825  Mr.  Hughes  was  ordained 
Deacon  by  the  Bishop  of  Philadelphia,  and  on  October  15,  1826, 
the  same  prelate  (the  Right  Rev.  Henry  Conwell)  ordained  him 
Priest,  so  at  last  his  early  aspirations  were  reached,  and  the  Irish 
peasant  lad  was  now  "  Father  Hughes."  In  1827  he  was  made 
pastor,  first  of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  then  of  St.  Mary's,  in  Phila- 
delphia. He  became  an  author,  too,  and  in  1829  he  founded  St. 
John's  Orphan  Asylum.  On  April  13,  1829.  King  George  IV. 
signed  "  The  Catholic  Emancipation  Bill,"  and  on  learning  the 
news,  a  solemn  mass  of  thanksgiving  was  celebrated  in  St. 
Augustine's  Church,  Philadelphia,  on  May  31,  1829.  Father 
Hughes  preached  the  sermon,  which  was  printed  and  published, 
and  dedicated  to  Daniel  O'Connell.  It  made  his  reputation  as  an 
orator.  St.  John's  Church,  Philadelphia,  dedicated  in  1832,  was 
built  by  him,  he  being  aided  thereto  by  a  Mr.  Frenaye,  a  West 
Indian  of  French  origin,  who  gave  Father  Hugbes  his  whole  for- 
tune. On  January  2,  1838,  he  was  consecrated  Bishop  at  New 
York,  receiving  the  title  of  "  Bishop  of  Basilopolis  and  coadjutor 
to  the  Bithop  of  York."  At  that  time  the  New  York  Diocese 
comprised  the  whole  State  of  New  York  and  about  half  of  New 
Jersey,  and  there  were  about  200,000  Catholics  within  its  limits. 
Bishop  Hugbes  established  a  secular  and  theological  college  at 
Lafargeville,  in  Jefferson  county,  styling  it  "  St.  Vincent  de  Paul's 
Seminary,"  which  was  opened  on  September  20, 1838.  In  August, 
1839,  as  Bishop  Dubois  was  paralyzed,  the  Pope  transferred  his 
jurisdiction  over  the  New  York  See  to  Bishop  Hughes. 
In  1840  the  latter  had  removed  the  seminary  from 
Lafargeville  to  Fordbam,  where  St.  John's  College  was  opened  in 
June,  1841.  In  1841  the  Bishop  brought  from  France  a  colony  of 
the  Ladies  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  who  founded  at  Manbattanville 
an  academy,  whose  branches  have  since  spread  through  the  city 
and  State.  In  May,  1846,  at  the  Sixth  Council  of  Baltimore,  he 
asked  for  and  obtained  a  division  of  his  Diocese,  and  two  new 
Sees  were  erected  in  New  York  State,  one  at  Albany,  the  other  at 
Buffalo.  "The  Seventh  Council  of  Baltimore,  held  in  May,  1849, 
had  recommended  to  the  Holy  See  the  erection  of  three  new 
Archbishoprics  in  the  United  States — one  at  New  York,  another 
at  Cincinnati,  and  the  third  at  New  Orleans.  Baltimore,  St.  Louis 
and  Oregon  City  were  then  the  only  Metropolitan  Sees  in  the 
country.  Rome  consented,  and  on  October  3,  1850,  Bishop 
Hugbes  received  the  brief  elevating  him  to  the  dignity  of  an 
Archbishop,  with  the  Bishops  of  Boston,  Hartford,  Albany  and 
Buffalo  as  his  suffragans."  And  on  April  3,  1851,  Pope  Pius  IX. 
himself  conferred  the  pallium  on  him  at  Rome.  He  died  on 
January  3,  1864.  The  work  under  review  is  written  by  the  Rev. 
Henry  A.  Braun.  Though  combative,  and  indeed  frequently  very 
aggressive  and  strongly  partisan  in  tone,  it  is  not  uninteresting. 
It,  as  well  as  Bishop  White's  volume,  has  the  useful  merit  of  an 
index.  For  sale  by  Payot,  Upham  &  Co.,  San  Francisco.  Price 
$1.00. 


Chakles  Santley,  Student  and  Singer. — This  is  a  delightful 
book  of  reminiscences,  written  in  a  modest  virile  tone,  not  an 
acrimonious  passage  in  it;  full  of  incident,  witb  valuable  hints 
and  directions  how  to  sing  and  how  not  to  do  it;  with  amusing 
references  to  so  many  leading  personages  in  the  musical  and 
operatic  art  world,  that  a  mere  list  of  them  would  take  a  column 


Dec.  31,  1892 


M\   I -|:\\i  ISCO  NEWS  LETTKR 


or  nor*  of  filoM  prlnl  It  oontalo*  too,  valuable  and  discrimi- 
nating orftlcUmi  of  the  d?m  ..p*r»s.  considered  both  From 
the  m a«tc&l  and  dramatic  point*  »■(  vlrw,  Santley  w«*  born  in 
Liverpool  on  February  Hi*  father  «u  a  journejman 

bookbinder.  After;  various  other  employments  In  his  father* 
store  and  in  other  commercial  employments  and  municipal 
offices,  Santley.  who  had  always  bad  a  great  love  for  ma  trie, 
determined  to  devote  himself  to  the  art.  When  be  first  Joined 
the  Philharmonic  Society  be  joined  the  tenors,  but  at  16  I 
tis  plice  among  the  bas*o«  of  the  chorus.  He  sang  his  first  short 
•olo,  «•  Et  Incarnaius  Bat*1  In  Haydn's  Becond  Mass  at  St.  Ann's 
Catholic  Church.  Edgebill.  Soon  afterwards  he  made  a  public 
appearance  at  a  concert  given  by  .'o  eph  I.  del's  (ilea  Union, 
when  he  sang  »  Kage,  thou  Angry  Storm,"  from  Benedict's 
opera.  The  Gipsy" $  Warning.  When  first  be  adopted  the  bass  clef 
be  ••  tried  to  grunt  below  the  lines  of  the  bass  stave,"  as,  like 
most  people  in  England.  <*  he  had  not  recognized  the  difference 
between  baritone  and  bass.  Baritone  was  only  considered  a  light 
bass.  In  Italy,"  be  says  ■■  I  found  that  baritones  were  held  in 
much  greater  esteem."  "  In  Italy  the  voice  of  a  singer  is  said  to 
be  an  index  to  his  character.  Baritone  being  the  natural  voice 
of  man,  and  low  bass  and  tenor  being  caprices  of  nature, 
they  argue  that  baritones  are  steady  characters,  while 
low  bassos  and  tenors  are  whimsical  and  capricious." 
In  October.  1855,  Santley  left  England  for  Milan,  there  to  study  for 
the  operatic  stage  under  Gaetano  >*ava.  His  account  of  the  two 
years  at  Milan  is  most  interesting.  Upon  his  return  to  London  his 
first  public  appearance  was  in  The  Creation,  he  singing  Adam.  He 
was  subsequently  engaged  for  three  concerts  at  -the  Crystal  Palace. 
In  1859  he  appeared  in  Dinorah  before  the  queen  and  was  then  en- 
gaged for  the  next  royal  concert  at  Windsor.  His  first  great  popular 
•access  in  London  was  in  Trovatorc  at  Covent  Garden  in  18»i2.  The 
volume  is  filled  with  interesting  anecdotes  of  the  prominent  singers 
of  the  day  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  and  also  contains  many 
amusing  stories.  "The  gods  used  to  amuse  themselves  between  the 
acts  of  an  opera."  he  says,  "by  treating  their  friends  to  specimens  of 
(heir  own  local  talents,  and  would  not  allow  the  opera  to  proceed  to 
the  interruption  of  their  own  displays.  It  happened  that  as  all  was 
ready  to  commence  the  third  act  a  gentleman  aloft  was  regaling  the 
gallery  with  a  song.  The  audience  began  to  show  signs  of  impa- 
tience, as  they  were  more  interested  in  the  opera  than  in  the  celes- 
tial amateur.  Mapleson  also  grew  impatient  and  gave  orders 
to  ring  up  the  curtain,  which  was  no  sooner  done  than  a  storm 
burst  out  in  the  gallery,  which  was  only  calmed  on  the 
curtain  being  lowered  again;  the  gentleman  then  continued 
the  song.  At  the  conclusion  a  voice  calmly  remarked: 
'Now  we're  ready;  you  can  go  on  as  soon  you  like.1"  One  more 
quotation  anent  Dublin— ,-One  night  when  I  was  playing  Plunkett  in 
Maria  at  the  end  of  the  good-night  quartette,  according  to  the  busi- 
ness arranged,  1  took  up  a  candle  and  proceeded  to  light  the  two 
girls  to  their  room,  but  I  had  scarcely  put  my  foot  inside  the  door 
than  a  witty  individual  called  out:  'Ah!  ah!  would  ye  now?'  "—In 
1871  Santley  visited  the  United  States  with  a  concert  party  consisting 
of  Mrs.  Patey.alto;  W.  H.  Cummings,  tenor;  Edith  Wynne,  soprano; 
and  Lindsay  Sloper  as  accompanist  and  sole  pianist.  Among  the 
many  famous  singers  by  Santley  are  Patti,  Nilson,  Tetjens,  Trebelli, 
Fechter,  Foli,  Grisi,  Mario,  Albani,  Verdi,  Minnie  Hauck,  Gye, 
Mapleson,  and  the  late  Earl  of  Dudley;  besides  hosts  of  other  leading 
lights  in  the  musical  and  artistic  world.  It  is  a  very  entertaining, 
interesting  and  instructive  volume.  Like  all  the  publications  issued 
by  this  house  in  type,  paper  and  binding  nothing  can  be  better. 
McMillan,  New  York  and  London;  for  sale  by  William 
Doxey,  631  Market  street,  San  Francisco.    Price  $2.35. 


A    REVERIE. 

I  list  the  soft  winds  sigh  to  rlower  and  tree,— 
I  hear  anon  the  melancholy  roar 
Of  ocean  moaning?,  sounding  on  the  shore, 

In  requiem  sad  from- deeps  of  troubled  sea. 

Hook  abroad  on  human  misery; 

I  ask  must  this  continue  evermore, 
Must  man  be  brutish  as  in  days  of  yore, 

And  death  alone  be  final  destiny? 

No  answer  comes :  and  yet,  the  soul  so  fine— 
So  stirring,  restless,  anxious  to  be  free — 

With  thirsting  hope  seeks  life  with  the  divine 
Through  countless  ages  of  eternity; 

Where,  with  pure  radiance,  it  shall  brightly  shine, 
While  worlds  dissolve  in  hoar  antiquity  ! 

Patrick  M.  King. 

THE  Christmas  story  writer  will  now,  all  over  the  world,  take  a 
much  needed  rest.  As  tastes  are  so  changeable,  the  expert 
never  destroys  his  rejected  manuscript.  He  puts  them  on  the  next 
market  with  a  few  trifling  changes,  and  they  often  ring  the  bell  with 
more  certainty  than  the  new  stuff. 

Cholley—l  awsked  Sharpley  to-day  why  my  dancing  shoes  were 

Called   pumps.     Reggy—Aw,    what  did    he    say?     Cholley— Said    he 
guessed  it  was  because  they  generally  had  suckers  in  them. 


CM'KIVI    .1,(1  lallMoo*,    through    hi.  nr«ana  of    tba 
•  n  ■>(    tti«-  lt#irh«tM    tn    CAM    ifai  Army  Hill  it 

nolpB  lj    will 

■ 

REMOVAL    NOTICE. 

At  a   m«  |  t(ie 

KENTUCK    CONSOLIDATED     MIN  )M- 

PANY,   held  this  day,  the  the  Company 

was   ordered    removed    to    Room    23,     Nevada 
Block,  No.    300   Montgomery  street.  San   Fran- 
cisco. AUG.   WAT  EH  MAN,  Secretary. 
San  Fpnncuco.  December  21,  18M2. 


ASSESSMENT   NOTICE. 

Confidence  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  ol  bunlrjcaa -8an  Fmnrl.ro,  California     Lo- 
catioo  of  work.* -tint.]    HHI,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  Is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  Hoard  or  Director*   held 
on  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  Dir-,.iiii..r.  UW,  an  aateatmenl 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stork  of  the  Corporation    pay 
able  Immediately,  In  t'nlled  StaW'w  fold   OOtQ,  to  the  Secretary  at  the  of- 
fice of  the  company.  414  California  street.  Ban  Franclaoo,  <al. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  -hull  remain  unpaid  on  the 
Twent>-5ixth  Day  of  January.  1893.  will  be  delinquent, 
and  advertised  for  bale  at  public  auction;   and   unless  payment  In  made 
before,  will  be  sold  on  WPDNK3DAY,  the  1Mb  day  of  February,    to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment,  together   with  the  costs   of  advertising  and   ex- 
penses of  sale.     By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  B.  GROTH,  Secretary, 

Office— 4H  California  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


ANNUAL  MEETING. 

Bullion    Mining  Company, 
The  regular  annual  meeting  of  the  stockholder*  of  the  Bullion  Mining 
Company  will  be  heli  at  the  office  of  the  company,   room   2i>    H31    Pine 
street,  San  Francisco.  Cal.,  on 

Thursday,  the  12th  Day  of  January.  1893.  at  the  hour  of  2  o'clock  P.  M., 
For  the  purp  ise  of  electing  a  Board  of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meellug.    Transfer  books    will    close    on    SATURDAY,   January  7    18'J3 
at  12  o'clock  h. 

R.  R.  GRAYSON,  Secretary. 
PFFICR— Room    No.    ■■'<>,  .VI   rim-  -ir.-i ■(.   Shu    Kratirisco,  Cal. 

ANNUAL  MEETINlT~ 

Brunswick  Consolidated  Gold  Mining  Company. 

The  regular  auuual  meetiue  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Brunswick  Cou. 
Gold  Mining  Company  will  be  held  at  the  office  of  the  company, 
Room  50,  Nevada  Block,  30J  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  on 

Thursday,  the  Twelfth  Day  ol  January.  1 893,  at  the  hour  of  1  O'clock  P.  M„ 
for  the  purpose  of  electing  a  Board   of  Directors  to  serve  for  the  ensuing 
year  and  for  the  transaction  of  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
meeting.  Transfer  books  will  close  on  Tuesday,  Jauuary  10, 18v8,  at  3  o'clock 
P.  m.  J    at'AJJTFKi  D,  Jr.,  Secretary 

Office— Room  60,  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco, 
California. 


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 


Savings  and  Loan  Society. 

For  the  half  year  ending  December  81, 1892,  a  dividend  has  been  declared 
at  the  rate  of  five  and  one-tenth  (ft  l-10,i  per  cent,   per  annum  on  Term  De- 

gosits  and  four  and  one-quarter  (4%)  per  ceut.   per  annum  on  Ordinary 
eposits,  payable  on  and  after  Tuesday.  Jauuarv  3,  18&3. 

CYRUS  W.  CARMANY,  Cashier. 
Office— 101  Montg<  inery  sln-el.  corner  Sutler. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

The  California  Savings  and   Loan  Society. 
For  the  half  year  ending  December  31, lR92,adlvldend  bus  been  declared  at 
the  rate  of  five  and  four-tenths  (5  4-10/  per  cent,   per  annum   on   term  de- 
posits, and  four  and  one-half  {4\%)  per  cent,   per  annum  on   ordinary  do- 
posits,  free  of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Tuesday,  Januarv  3, 1898. 

VERNON  CAMPBELL,  Secretary. 
Office— Cor.  Powell  and  Eddv  streets. 

DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 

Mutual  Savings  Bank  of  San   Francisco. 

For  the  half-year  ending  December  31  181)2,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at 

the  rate  of  five  and  one-tenth  (5  1-10)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  term  deposits 

and  four  and  one  fourth  (4'4)  percent,  per  annum  on  ordinary  deposits,  free 

of  taxes,  payable  on  and  after  Tuesday,  January  3,  1893. 

J.  A.  THOMPSON,  Cashier. 
Office— No  33  Post  street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

HUMBOLDT  MINERAL  WATER, 

Humboldt  Artesian  Mineral  Spring  In  Ijircka,  Cal. 
"  Tne  specific  gravity  is  scarcely  above  that  of  distilled  waWr." 

Henry  G.  Hanks,  Assayer. 
We  claim  for  this  water  to  be  the  purest  in  C  llforuia. 
J.  P.  MONROE,  Ma.  aeer. 

Crocker  Building,  8an  Francisco. 

PHYSICAL  CULTURE  FOR  LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN. 

THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  FENCING  ACADEMY. 

501  Post  Street,  Corner  Mason. 

Professors  Louis  TioimIm'I  and  Allied  !><■  Smet. 

Special  classes  twice  per  week   for  young  ladies  between   the  ages- of 
10  and  15  years.    Reasonable  terms. 


28 


SAN  FEANCISCO  NEWS  LETTEE. 


Dec.  31,  1892. 


NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Consolidated  California  and  Virginia 
Mining  Co. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business — San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works— Vir- 
ginia Mining  District,  Storey  County,  Nevada 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  13th  day  of  Dec, 

1892,  an  assessment  (No.  3)  of  Fifty  (10)  Cents 
per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately,  in  United 
States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office  of 
the  company,  No.  58  Nevada  block,  No.  30J  Mont- 
gomery street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The    21st   Day   ot     January.   1893,  will   be  delin- 
quent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
FRIDAY,      the      Tenth     day      of      February 

1893,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together 
with  the  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of 
sale.    By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  W.  HAVENS,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  58,  Nevada  block,  No.  309  Mo n 
mery  street,  San  Francisco,  California, 

ASSESSMENT  NOTICE. 

Utah  Con.  Mining  Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California.  Location  of  works- 
Story  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  on  the  13th  day  of  Dec. 
1892.  an  assessment,  (No.  16),  of  Ten  Cents 
(10c.)  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock 
of  the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in 
United  States  gold  coin,  to  the  Secretary,  at  the 
office  of  the  Company,  No.  58  Nevada  block,  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  Nineteenth  Day  of  January,  1893,  will  be  de- 
linquent, 
and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction;  and 
unless  payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
THURSDAY,  the  9th  day  of  February,  1893.  to 
pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with  the 
costs  of  advertising  and  expenses  of  sale.  By  or- 
der of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

A.  W.  FISH.  Secretary, 

Office— Room  58,  Nevada  b  ock,  309  Montgum- 
ery  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Crown  Point  GrDld  and  Silver  Mining 
Company, 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— San 
Francisco,  California  Location  of  works— Gold 
Hill,  Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors,  held  op  the  20th  day  of  Decem- 
ber, 1892,  an  assessment  (No.  59),  of  twenty-five  (25) 
cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation,  payable  immediately  in  United 
States  gold  coin  to  the  Secretary,  at  the  office 
of  the  company,  Room  35,  third  floor,  Mills  Build- 
ing, corner  Bush  and  Montgomery  streets,  San 
Fraocisco,  California. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  24th  Day  of  January.  1893,   will  be   delinquent 

and  advertised  for  sale  at  public  auction ;  and  un- 
less payment  is  made  before,  will  be  sold  on 
TUESDAY,  the  14th  day  of  February,  a.  n.  1893, 
to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment,  together  with 
the  costs  of  advertisine  and  expenses  of  sale. 

By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

JAMES  NEVVLANDS,  Secretary. 

Office— Room  35,  third  floor,  Mills  Building, 
corner  Bubh  aud  Montgomery  streets,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal       

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Alpha  Consolidated  Mill  and  Mining 
Company. 

Location  of  principal  place  of  business— Pan 
Francisco,  Cal.  Location  of  works— Gold  Hill, 
Storey  County,  Nevada. 

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  this  company,  held  on  the 
20th  day  of  December,  1892,  an  assessment  (No. 
10)  of  Ten  Cents  per  share  was  levied  upon  the 
capital  stock  of  the  corporation  payable  immedi- 
ately in  United  States  Gold  coin  to  the  Secretary, 
at  the  office  of  the  company,  room  79,  Nevada 
block,  309  Montgomery  street.  Sau  Fraocisco.  Cal. 

Any  stock  upon  which  this  assessment  shall  re- 
main unpaid  on 

The  24th  day  of  January,  1 893,  will  be  delinquent 

and  will  be  duly  advertised  for  sale  at  public 
auction;  and  unless  payment  1b  made  before, 
will  be  sold  on  TUESDAY,  the  14th  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1893,  to  pay  the  delinquent  assessment, 
together  with  costs  of  advertising  and  expenses 
of  sale.      By  order  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 

CHAS.  E.  ELLIOT.  Sficretary. 
Office— Room  No.  79,   Nevada  Block,  No.  309 
Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco,  California, 


SUCCESS     AT     LAST.  —  Clothier   and 
Furnisher. 

A  gray-haired,  broken-down  old  man, 
With  sunken  eye  and  cheek, 

Climbed  up  the  steps  one  Winter's  day, 
With  humble  mien  and  meek. 

fie  rang  the  bell,  and  a  woman  came 
And  stood  in  the  open  door, 

And  a  smile  spread  over  his  wrinkled 
As  he  saw  his  wife  once  more,    [face 

And  the  old  glad  light  shone  in  his  eyes, 
And  his  husky  voice  grew  clear, 

As  he  said,  "It  almost  knocked  me  out, 
But  I  matched  that  ribbon,  dear." 


THE  HasnG,  or  Imperial  Treasury  of 
Constantinople,  contains  alt  kinds  of 
rare  and  peculiar  treasures ;  among 
others  a  costly  collection  of  ancient  ar- 
mor and  coats  of  mail  worn  by  the  Sul- 
tans. Outsiders  cannot  get  to  see  these 
things,  but  you  can  manage  it  through 
our  Ambassador.  The  most  remarkable 
of  these  suits  of  armor  is  that  of  Sultan 
Murad  II.,  the  conquerer  of  Bagdad. 
The  headpiece  of  this  suit  is  of  gold  and 
silver,  almost  covered  with  precious 
stones;  the  diadem  surrounding  the  tur- 
ban is  composed  of  three  emeralds  of 
the  purest  water  and  large  size,  while 
the  collar  is  formed  of  twenty-two  large 
and  magnificent  diamunds.  In  the  same 
collection  is  a  curious  ornament  in  the 
shape  of  an  elephant  of  massive  gold, 
standing  on  a  pedestal  formed  of  enor- 
mous pearls  placed  side  by  side.  There 
is  also  a  table  thickly  inlaid  with  Orien- 
tal topazes,  presented  by  the  Empress 
Catherine  of  Russia  to  a  Vizier,  together 
with  a  very  remarkable  collection  of  an- 
cient costumes,  trimmed  with  rare  furs, 
and  literally  covered  with  precious 
stones.  The  divans  and  cushions  for- 
merly in  the  throne  room  of  the  Sultans 
are  gorgeous.  The  stuff  of  which  the 
cushions  are  made  is  pure  tissue  of  gold 
without  any  mixture  of  silk  whatever, 
and  is  embroidered  with  pearls  weigh- 
ing about  3,600  drachmas.  Children's 
cradles  of  pure  gold  solid  and  inlaid  with 
precious  stones,  vases  of  immense  value 
in  rock  crystal,  gold  and  silver,  encrusted 
with  rubies,  emeralds  and  diamonds; 
daggers,  swords  and  shields  beautifully 
wrought  and  richly  jeweled,  all  tell  a 
tale  of  ancient  grandeur  and  wealth, 
when  the  Ottoman  Power  was  a  reality 
and  Western  Europe  trembled  before  the 
son  of  Amurath. 


WITHIN. 

At  evening  when  the  shadows  fall, 
And  clustering  clouds  sink  stow  to  rest, 
Above  the  new  night's  tranquil  breast,. 

In  one  great  sombre  enclosing  pall, 
I  think  of  those  that  I've  love  I  best 
And  bring  them  to  me;  one  and  all 
They  come,  like  answering  echoes'  call 

Prom   memory's  chambers  of  the  blest. 

Faint  lined  against  the  silvery  mist. 
Of  Time's  lone  pages — time  long  gone — 

I  greet  again  the  lips  I've  kissed 
In  that  past  age,  and  held  mvlown ; 

And  pray  that  one  remembered  bliss 
May  yet  be  ours  in  the  unknown ! 

Rose  Maynard  David. 

The  Original  Swain's  Bakery,  at  213 
Sutter  street,  stands  among  the  first  of  San 
Francisco's  famous  rotisseries.  It  is  pa- 
tro.  ized  by  all  those  who  enjoy  g  o  I  din- 
ners, wiih  delightful  surroundings  snd 
excellent  service.  Being  centrally  osated, 
it  is  very  convenient  for  ladies  who  may  be 
shopping,  and  it  is  also  popular  for  re- 
freshments after  the  theatre. 

I  OQThhearJng  Restored 

PUb^HtO    I    ,b.volie«'howasdeaffor:JUvears. 
!„..„         ..  ir       tall<  or  send  stamp  for  particu- 

lars   and     test  mon  als.        JOHN   OABItHIRR 
Hammond  Building,  Fonrth  and  v"e,  CINo"  NATI, 0? 


LONG    DISTANCE 

TELEPHONE. 

LATEST  E2CTE35TSI03Sr. 
Salinas,  Chualar,  Gonzales, 
Soledad,  Marysville.Chico,  Oro- 
vllle,  Vina,  Coluas,  giving  un- 
broken communication  be- 
tween these  towns  and  San 
Francisco.  The  lines  are  con- 
structed of  tpecially  prepared 
extra  heavy  copper  wires,  are 
equiped  with  tne  latest  appli- 
ances known  to  the  science  of 

'Telephony,"   and  are  "  Long    Distance"  Lines 

in  every  sense  of   the  word.    The  Mall  is  quick, 

the  Telegraph  1*  quicker,  but  the 

LOKG    DISTANCE    TELEPHONE 

Is  instantaneous,  and  you  don't  have  to  wait  for 
an  answer. 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

San    Franci8oo. 

A  Quiet  Home, 

CENTRALLY    LOCATED. 

FOR    THOSE    WHO    APPRECIATE    COMFORT    AND 

ATTENTION. 

WM.  B.  HOOPER,    Manager. 

ERNST  H.  LUDWIG, 

THE  

MODEL     AMERICAN     CATERER; 
1206  Sutter  Street, 

Telephone  2388. SAN  FRANCISCO, 

Cunningham,  Curtiss  k  Welch, 
WHOLESALE 

STATIONERS 

AND     BOOKSELLERS. 
327.329.  331   SANSOME  STREET. 

J,  0,  SPRECKLES  &  BROS,  COMPANY, 


SHIPPING  and  Commission  Merchants;  gen- 
eral agents  "Oceanic  Steamship  Company, 
Gilliu^ham  Cement. 

327  Market  street,  cor.  Fremont. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 


FICTION  MONTHLY. 

A  New  Magazine  containing  an  original 
novel  of  absorbing  interest,  entitled  "A 
Strange  Household,"  complete  in  No.  2,  now 
ready.  Price  10  Cents.  All  newsdealers  and 
The  International  News  Company,  New  York. 

NOTICE  OF  ASSESSMENT. 

Gould  <&  Curry  Silver  Mining  Company. 

Assessment No.  70 

Amount  per  Share 25  cents 

Levied Nov.  22, 1892 

Delinquent  in  Office Dec.  28  1892 

Day  of  Sale  of  Delinquent  8tock      . .  Jan.  20, 1893 
A.  K.  DURBROW,  Secretary. 
Office— No.  69.  Nevada  Block,  309  Montgomery 
street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

DIVIDEND    NOTICE. 

The  German  Savings  and  Loan  Society, 
For  the  half  year  ending  December  31,  1892,  a 
dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  five  and 
one  tenth  (5  1-10)  per  cent  per  annum  on  Term 
Deposits,  and  four  and  one  quarter  (.i}/<)  per  cent, 
per  annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  payable  on  and 
after  Tuesday,  January  3, 1892. 

<iEO.  TOURNY,  Secretary. 
Office -526  California  street. 

r 


II,  1892. 


SAN  FRAN<  l^»  n  NKWS  LKTTKR 


89 


SOUTHER*   PACIFIC   COMPANY. 

PACIFir     HYsTBM. 
Trains  L*»v«  and  are  Out  to  ArrlYt 
SAN     FRANCISCO: 

Li*ri        /-rom  D*ctmb:r  3.   1892.       lAuin 

7:00  a.  Beatcla,  KuEi«ey,  Sacramento  7  15  r 
7  JO*.  )Ut**M».  Sliet«ndt»ao  J"ic 

Sllet  And  San  Jo*e  16:15  r 

7  JO*.  Martinet.  San  Ramon,  Caltitof*  *:16r. 
VOOa.  jacrmm'toA  Redding.  vlaDarli  7:1M\ 
5  00*.  Atlantic  Express  for  Of  den  and 

Eajtt.         9:45  P. 

8  JO*.  Sllet,  San  Jote.  Stockton,  lone, 

Sacramento,  Marysrllle,  Oro- 

ville  and  Red  Bluff 4:45  r. 

9:00*.  New  Orlcann   Express,  Los  An- 

Seles,  Dcmlng.  El    Paso,    New 
rleane  and  Eaat 8:46*. 

•9:00  a.  Stockton  and  Milton  ...      *8:45r. 

12-00*.  HivwirJi-,  Nile*  and  Ltvermore     7:16  r. 

•1:00  r.  Sacramento  River  Steamers •SrOOr. 

lJOp.  Vallejoand  Marlluei  V2ASr. 

3:00  r.  Haywards.  Niles  and  San  Jose.  9:45*. 
4:00r.  Martinez,  Stockton  Merced  and 

Fresno 12.15P 

4. OOp  Martinez,    San    Ramon,    Val'ejo, 
Cnli>toga,  El  Verauo.  and  Santa 

Rosa     9:45  a. 

4:30 p.  Benicia,  and  Sacramento. 10  :45  a. 

4:00  p.  Woodland  and  Oroville  10:15  a 

4:00p  Vacaville 10:15a 

•4:80 p.  Niles  and  Livermore "8:45  a. 

5:00  p  European  Mail,  Ogden  and  East..    10;45a 
5:30p.  Los    Angeles    Express,    Fresno, 
Bakersfleld,  Santa  Barbara  & 

Los  Angeles. 9:45a. 

5:30 p.  Santa  Fe  Route,  Atlantic  Express, 

(orMojaveand  East  9:15  a. 

6:0Op.  Haywards,  Niles  and  SanJose..      7:45a. 

17:00  P.  Vallejo +8:45  P. 

7:00  p.    Oregon    Express.  Sacramen- 
to, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound  and  East. . .     8:15  a 

Santa  Cruz  Division. 

tU:45a.  Hunters  and    Theater  Train  for 
Newark,    San    Jose,  and    Los 

Gatos J8:05p. 

8:15a.  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,  Boulder  Creek  and 
Santa  Cruz 6 :20  p. 

•2:15  p.  Centerville,  San  Jose,  Almaden, 
Felton,   Boulder   Creek,    and 

SantaCruz. *10:50a. 

4:15  p.  Centerville,  SanJose,  Los  Gatos.    9:50a. 

Coast  Division  (Third  aid  Townsend  Streets). 

•7:00  a.  San  Jose,  Almaden  and  Way  Sta- 
tions    *2:3S  p. 

8:15  A.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  TresPinos.Pa- 
jaro,  SantaCruz,  Monterey,  Pa- 
cific Grove,  Salinas,  San  Mi- 
guel, Paso  Kobles  and  Santa 
Margarita  (San  Luis  Obispo) 
and   principal  Way   Stations     6:10  p. 

10:87a.  San  Jose,  and  Way  StationB 5:03p. 

12:15  p.  Cemetery,  Menlo  Park  and  Way 

Stations 3 :30  p. 

*2:30p.  San  Jose,  Gilroy,  Tres  Pinos, 
Santa  Cruz,  Salinas,  Monterey, 
Pacific   Grove    and    principal 

Wav  Stations *10:37  a. 

•3:30  p.  SanJose,  Gilroy,  and  Principal 

Way  Stations *9:47  a. 

•4:30  P.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  StationB. . .    *8:06  A. 

50.5  P.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8:48  a. 

6:30  p.  Menlo  Park  and  Way  Stations...     6:35  a. 
fll:45p.  Menlo  Park  and  principal  Way 

Stations +7:30p. 

a.  for  Morning.  p.  for  Afternoon. 

•Sundays  excepted.  +Saturdays  only. 

ISundaysonly. 


PACIFIC  COAST  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Dispatch  steamers  from  San  Francisco  for  ports 
in  Alaska,  9  a.  m.,  Dec.  1G,  Dec.  30  and  Jan.  13. 

For  British  Columbia  aud  Puget  Sound  ports, 
9  a.  m.  every  Friday. 

For  Eureka,  Humboldt  Bay,  Wednesdays,  9  a.  m. 

For  Santa  Ana,  Los  Angeles  and  all  way  ports, 
every  fourth  and  fifth  day,  8  a.  m. 

For  San  Diego,  stopping  only  at  Los  Angeles, 
Santa  Barbara  and  Sau  Louis  Obispo,  every  fourth 
and  fifth  day,  at  11  a.  m. 

For  ports  in  Mexico,  1st  of  each  month. 

Ticket  Office— Palace  Hotel,  No.  4  New  Mont- 
gomery street. 

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


DIVIDEND  NOTICE. 


San  Franeiseo  Savings  Union. 

For  the  half  year  ending  December  31, 1892,  a 
dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate  of  five 
aud  one-tenth  (5  1-10)  per  cent  per  annum  on 
Term  Deposits  and  four  &ix^  one-fourth  (4^)  per 
cent  per  annum  on  Ordinary  Deposits,  free  of 
taxes,  payable  on  aud  after  Tuesday,  January  3, 
1898.  LOVELL  WHITE,  Cashier. 

Office— No.  532  California  street,  corner  Webb; 
Branch— 1700  Market  street,  corner  Polk. 


WHY    HE    At-KED     FOR    A    VACA- 
TION.- 7V<i  u  ML 

DBA  r  j  ack    ii*  dtUgfaifoUj  py  ban 
Old  Paris  seemed  never  M  fine; 
Ami  mamma  say*    we're    going    lo  stay 
here. 
And  papa — well  papa  tips  bit  wine 
And   rays   nothing— you   know  him    of 
old,  dear. 
He's  only  too  happy  to  rest. 
After  making  three  millions  in  gold,  dear, 
He's  played  ont — it  must  be  confess). 
And  I  —  I'm  to  wed  an  old  Baron, 

Three  weeks  from  to-day  in  great  style 
(He's  as  homely  and  gaunt  as  old  Charon 
And  they  say  bis  past  life  has  been  vile) 
And  I've  promised  to  cut  you  hereafter — 
Small   chance    though    we   ever  shall 
meet. 
So  let's  turn  our  old  love  into  laughter 
And  face  the  thing  through — shall  n  e. 
sweet  ? 
Can  you  give  me  up,  Jack,  to   this  rouC* 
Just  because  we  may  always  be  poor  ? 
There's  still  enough  time,  dear,  ft  tu  es 

Un  brave—  you  wilt  come  I  am  sure. 
Put  your  trunk  on  the  swiftest  Cunarder 
And  don't  give  me  up,  Jack,  for — well 
There  are  things  in  this  world   that  are 
harder 
Than  poverty.     Come  to  me — 

. Neix. 

"assessment  notice. 

Sierra  Nevada  Mining  Company. 

Assessment    No.  103 

Amount  per  share 2j  ceuts 

Levied Nov.  9,  1892 

Delinquent  in  office  Dec.  14, 1892 

Day  of  sale  of  delinquent  stock .  .Jan.  3,  1893 
E   L  PARKER,  Secretary. 
Office— Room  15.  Nevada  block,   309  Mont- 
gomer  street,  San  Fraucisco,  Cal. 

OCEANIC  STEAMSHIP  COMPANY, 

The  splendid  3,000-ton  steamers  of  this  line, 
carrying  the  United  States,  Hawaiian  and  Co- 
lonial Mails,  sail  from  Folsom  street  Wharf,  as 
follows: 

For  Honolulu  Only-, 
8.8.  Australia.. Wednesday,  Dec.  21,  mm  2  p.m. 
FOR  HONOLULU,  APIA.  AUCKLAND,  AND  SYD- 
NEY, DIRECT. 

Alameda    Monday,  Jan.  9th. 

For  Freight  or  Passage  apply  ai  Office,  327 
Market  street. 

JOHN  D.  8PRECKEL8  A  BROS.  CO, 
General  Agents 

OCCIDENTAL  AMD  ORIENTAL  SS.  CO. 

FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Note  change  in  hour  of  Bailing. 

Steamers  leave  wharf  at  FIK8T  and  BEAN- 
NAN   STREETS,  at  3:00  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA 
and    HONGKONG,   connectiag   at  Yokohama 
with  Steamers  for  SHANGHAI : 
Oceanic  (via  Honolulu),  Wed'sdoy,  Jan  4,  1"93 

Gaelic  Tdebday,  Jan.  24,  1893 

Belgic  Thursday,  February  23,  1893. 

Oceanic      Tuesday,  March  14,  1893 

ROUND  TRIP  TIOKET8  AT   REDUCED  RATES 

Cabin  Plans  on  exhibition  and  Pansage 
Tickets  for  sale  at  S.  P.  Company's  General 
Offices,  Room  74,  Cor.  Fourth  and  Townsend 
streets.  San  Francisco. 

For  Freight,  apply  to  the  Traffic  Manager,  at 
the  Pacific  Mail  Steamship  Company's  Wharf, 
San  Francisco. 

T.  H.  GOODMAN,  Gen.PasB.Agt. 
GEO.  H.RICE,  Traffic  Manager. 

:,u    H)U    bus 

BOOKS? 

/  HE  BEST  ASSOR  TED  S  TOt  K 

IN  THE  COUNTRY. 

THREE   FLOORS  FILLED 

WITH  BOOKS  A  T 

DOXEY'S, 

631  market  St., 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 
RAILWAY. 

"TH(  00WAHUE  Blnto  otllCl  ROUTt." 
COMMKN'lNi.  XIM'AV.  Nn\  M,  IKK,  and 
nnlll  hirtrt.r  nntlre.  Mali  lad  train,  wli; 
leava  from  and  arrive  al  H,<-  *an  rratirl.ro  l*aa- 
aettaer  Depot,  MAKKKTHTKKKT  WHAKF.  a. 
follow. 
From  tan  Francltco  for  Point   Tlbirron.  Btlitotr,  and 

San  Rata. I 
WKKK    DAYH-T  «0    »    ■..  »  ..1  .    a  .    11  40   a.  M.; 
I»r.  «  ,sa.  r .  ■  ,t  jo  r  ■ 

SATfRIIAYlJ  tl.M  Y       *      .  .  i ;  .  trip  at  I   '.I  r .  M. 

.*-»:<»  A. «\,9J0  ».*..  11   ti.«   «    .1  SDp.M. 
3  30  r.  M.t  600  r.  ■.,  6:20  r.  M. 

From  San  Ralatl  lor  San  Francltco. 
WEEK   IIAY8-62S   A.    m.,  TV,    ».    ...  9  *>    a    M. 

12  45  r.M.,  S40  p.m.,  6:05  r  .■■ 
SATl-KHAVHti.M.Y  -An  ■  itra  trip  at 6 30  p.m. 
-■UNl'lYS— *:10a.m..  9:40  A.M.,  11:10  A.M..  1:40  P.M. 
3:40  p.  M.,  600  r  M.,6  25  p.  M. 

►  rom  Point  Tiburon  to  Stn  Francltco. 
WEEK   DAYS-6:50  a.    m„   8:20   A.  M.,  9  56    A.  M. . 
1:10  p.  M.,  4:05  p.  m.,  6:86  p.  M 
Saturday*  only,  an  extra  trip  at  6:55  p  M. 
SUNDAYS— 8:40   A.M.,    10:06  a.m.,  11:3.5  a.m.. 
206  p.  M.,  1:05P.M.,  5:30r.M„  6:55  P.M. 


Under  Palale  Hotel, 


San  Francisco 


LEAVES.  F. 

DfHTlNATION. 

ARBIVItN  8.  F. 

Week 
Days. 

Sundays 

Sundays 

Week 
Days. 

7:40a.m. 
3:80p.m. 
5:06  p.m. 

8O0a.m.|    Potaluma 
9:30a.m.;         and 
5:00p.m.1  8anta  Rosa. 

10:40a. m  8:50a.m. 
6:05  p.M  10:80a. M 
7:30p.m  6:10p.m. 

8:66a.m. 

Fulton, 
Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 
Litton  Sprint., 
Cloverdale  A 
Way  Stations. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30p.m. 

7:s6'p.'m! 

I0:80a.M 

■•    lllf.M 

7:40a.  m. 

8:00a.  m. 

Hopland 
and  llklah. 

7:30  p.m. 

6:10  p.m. 

7:40a.m. 
3:30  p.m. 

8:00a.m. 

Guernevllle.  7:80p.m. 

10:80a.  m 
6:10  P.M 

7:40a.m. 18:00a.m. 
5:05  p.m.  15:00p.m. 

Snimrmt  Hii'l    10:10a.m. 
Glen  Ellen.  1  6:06p.m. 

8:50a.m. 
6:10p.m. 

7:40  a. m  1  8:O0a.m 
3:30  p.M  I  5:00  p.M 

Sebastopol.  1  10:40a.  m 
;   6:06p.« 

10:80  am 
6:10  p.M 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  Mark  West 
Springs ;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs, 
Stewart's  Point,  Gualala  and  Point  Arena;  at 
Cloverdale  for  the  GeyBers,  at  Pieta  for  High- 
land Springs,  Keleeyville,  Soda  Bay,  Lake- 
port  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at  Hopland  for  Lake- 
port;  at  Dklah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Sarato- 
ga Springs,  Blue  Lakes,  Witter  Springs,  Upper 
Lake,  Lakeport,  Willitts,  Cahto,  Mendocino  City, 
Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Usal,  HydesTllle  and  Eu- 

EXCUR8ION  TICKETS  from  Saturdays  to  Mon- 
days—To Petaluma,  ?1  60;  to  Santa  Rosa,  |2  26;  to 
Healdsburg,  ?3  40;  to  Cloverdale,  $4  60;  to  Hop- 
land,  $6  70;  to  Ukiah,  $6  76;  to  Sebastopol,  $2  70; 
to  Guernevllle,  $3  75;  to  Sonoma,  $160:  to  Glen 
Ellen.  $1  80. 

EXCURSION  TICKETS,  good  lor  Sundays  only— 
To  Petaluma,  $1;  to  Santa  Rose.  $1  60;  to  Healds- 
burg, $2  26;  to  Cloverdale,  $3;  to  Ukiah,  $4  60;  to 
Hopland,  $3  80;  to  Sebastopol,  $180;  to  Guerne- 
vllle, $2  60:  to  Sonoma,  $1;  to  Glen  Ellen,  $1  20. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  PETER  J.  McGLYNN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  PasH.  and  Tkt.  Agt. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  Ferry,  36  Montgomery  street, 
and  2  New  Montgomery  Street. 


PACIFIC  MAIL  STEAMSHIP  CO. 

Through  Link  to  New  Yobk,  via  Panama. 

Steamers  will  sail  at  NOON  on  the  6th,  16th  and 

25th  of  each  month, 

Calling  at  various  ports  of  Mexico  and  Central 
America. 

Through  Line  Sailings.— "City  ot  New  York,"  Jan- 
uary 5, 1893.  "City  of  Sydney,"  Jauuary  25, 1893. 

S.  S.  "  City  of  Panama"  will  sail  for  Panama  at 
noon,  Saturday,  December  17th,  calling  at  Mazat- 
lan,  Acapulco,  Port  Angel,  Salina  Cruz,  Tonala, 
San  Benito,  Ocos,  Champerico,  SanJose  do  Guate- 
mala, Acajutla,  La  Union,  Amapala,  Corlnto,  San 
Juan  del  Sur  and  Punta  Arenas. 

JAPAN  AND  CHINA  LINE  FOR  YOKOHAMA  AND 

HONGKONG, 

Connecting  at  Yokohama  with  steamers  for 

Shanghai,  and  at  Hongkong  for  East 

Indies,  Straits,  etc. : 

S.  S.  "Peru,"  Saturday,  March  4th,  1893,  at  3  p.  m. 

"City  of  Rio  de  Janeiio,"    Saturday,  Jauuary 

14th,  1893.  at  8  p.  M. 

8.  8.  "City  of    Peking,"    Saturday,  February 
4th,  at  3  p.  m. 
S.  S.  "  China,"  (via  Honolulu!,  Tuesday,  Feb.  14, 

1 89^    at  S  P    M 

Round  Trip  Tickets  to  Yokohama  at  reduced 
rates. 

For  freight  or  passage  apply  at  the  office,  corner 
First  and  Brannan  streets.  Branch  office— 202 
Front  street.  ALEXANDER  CENTER, 

General  Agent 


30 


SAN  FRANCISCO  NEWS  LETTER. 


Dec.  3L  1892. 


SOME  time  ago  it  grew  to  be  an  accepted  fact  that  it  was  only- 
necessary  for  the  Blood  Horse  Association  to  announce  a  race 
to  insure  a  plentiful  fall  of  rain.  It  would  seem  as  though  the 
Friday  Night  Cotillion  Club  had  seen  them  and  gone  one  better, 
for  on  the  occasion  of  both  their  recent  dances  the  storms  raging 
were  the  worst  known  in  these  parts  for  years.  The  members 
defied  the  elements,  however,  and  as  a  result  Odd  Fellows'  Hall 
presented  on  both  evenings  a  most  beautiful  appearance.  The 
second  cotillion  of  the  season,  yclept  "Leap  Year,"  in  which  the 
leading  feature  was  fancy  dress  for  the  ladies  and  powdered 
heads  and  knee-breeches  for  the  men,  took  place  on  Friday  even- 
ing before  Christmas,  and  was  a  success,  in  spite  of  the  stormy- 
weather.  Miss  Emily  Hager  led  (as  she  did  at  the  Leap  Year 
cotillion  earlier  in  the  year),  and  when  her  whistle  sounded  for 
the  forming  of  the  grand  right  and  left  opening  figure,  the  scene 
was  a  very  pretty  one.  The  decorations  of  the  hall  were  chiefly 
red,  white  and  blue,  with  a  profusion  of  bamboo  poles,  from 
which  were  hung  Japanese  lanterns,  and  around  the  walls  of  the 
ball-room  evergreens  were  festooned  in  honor  of  the  Christmas- 
tide.  Some  said  a  mistletoe  was  hidden  among  the  ring  of  Ja- 
panese umbrellas  which  decorated  the  centrepiece  of  the  ceiling, 
but  if  so  it  was  not  visible.  The  wearing  of  fancy  dress  was  not 
adhered  to  by  all  the  ladies,  many — like  Miss  Myra  Lord — con- 
tenting themselves  with  a  bizarre  ball  dress;  wh  e  of  fie  knee 
breeches,  supposed  to  be  de  rigueur  for  the  men,  they  were 
few  and  far  between.  The  army  and  navy  had  it  all  their  own 
way  apparently,  the  glittering  uniforms  setting  off  manly  forms 
more  than  any  other  style  of  dress,  and  the  majority  of  the 
wearers  were  good  dancers.  Miss  Hager  was  costumed  as 
"Manon  Lescaut,"  with  a  short  pink  silver-trimmed  skirt  and 
bodice  and  pa?iiers  of  brocade.  Miss  Sallie  Maynard  and  Miss 
Mary  McNutt  also  wore  short  dresses.  Miss  Catberwood  and 
her  intimate  friend,  Miss  Wilson,  wore  gowns  of  the  same  color 
(blue),  and  evidently  the  same  impersonation.  The  prettiest  cos- 
tume of  the  evening,  in  the  eyes  of  most  of  the  men,  was  a  white 
and  gold  robe,  to  judge  from  the  number  of  times  the  wearer  was 
on  the  floor.  Calcium  lights  were  thrown  upon  the  last  two  figures, 
creating  a  beautiful  effect  for  the  onlookers  and  non-participants, 
of  whom  there  was  a  goodly  number.  The  supper  was  delicious, 
and  served  in  the  midst  of  Christmas  greens  and  red  berries  at 
Wea-tUe  tables.  The  music  was  acceptable,  and  the  guests  all 
voted  the  evening  had  been  a  delightful  one  when  the  carriages 
began  to  roll  away  homeward,  about  2  o'cIock. 

The  Festetics-Haggin  Christmas  eve  dance  was  a  very  charming 
affair,  and  heartily  enjoyed  by  the  young  people  who  were  bidden 
as  guests  of  the  occasion.  It  was  the  first  time  this  branch  of  the 
Haggin  family  has  appeared  as  entertainers,  (apart  from  the  din- 
ners Mrs.  Louis  Haggin  has  given  to  the  family  connection  since 
her  return  from  abroad)  and  the  success  of  the  dance  will  no 
doubt  revive  recollections  in  the  minds  of  the  portion  of  society 
called  old  timers,  of  the  many  balls  and  receptions  given  in  days 
past  by  Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin,  the  head  of  the  family. 

Last  week  was  CDmparatively  devoid  of  event,  the  chief  one 
being  the  hop  at  the  Presidio,  the  Leap  Year german,  and  theFes- 
tetics  dance,  making  up  in  quality  what  was  lacking  in  quantity. 
By  way  of  contract  society  has  this  week  had  every  evening  en- 
gaged with  entertainments  of  different  kinds.  Among  these  were 
the  young  peoples  Christmas  tree  dance  given  by  Mrs.  Berger  on 
Monday  night,  and  another  by  Mrs^  Dougherty  on  Tuesday  night 
at  the  Palace  Hotel;  the  reception  os  board  the  Japanese  ruan-of- 
war,  and  the  meeting  of  the  Fortnightly  Club  at  Mrs.  E.  L.  Eyres 
on  Wednesday  night;  the  third  of  the  "School  for  Scandal" 
series  at  Mrs.  Williams  on  Thursday  night;  the  ball  of  the  Union 
Square  Club  at  Pioneer  Hall  last  night;  while  for  to-night  there 
will  be  receptions  at  the  Concordia  and  the  San  Francisco  Verein 
Clubs,  and  a  dance  at  Mrs.  Catherwoods,  to  which  Miss  Jennie 
has  invited  a  large  party  of  her  unmarried  friends,  who  will  ap- 
propriately see  the  old  year  out  and  welcome  the  new  one. 


Among  recent  pleasant  gatherings  must  be  enumerated  the 
lunch  given  by  Miss  Florence  Weihe  in  honor  of  Mrs.  R.  P. 
Schwerin;  Mrs.  Rutherford's  dinner,  at  which  Mrs.  F.  L.Stedman 
was  chief  guest;  the  fair  held  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  McNutt,  on 
California  street,  as  a  conclusion  of  the  one  recently  held  by  Mrs. 
Graham  at  the  Presidio,  the  affair  winding  up  most  delightfully 
with  dancing;  the  little  dance  given  by  the  Misses  Emeline  and 
Josie  Hanlon ;  the  tea  at  the  Hotel  Mirabf  au  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Childrens'  Hospital;  the  paper  tea  at  Tiinity  Home  on  Bush 
street;  the  green  lunch  given  by  Mrs.  Volney  Spaulding  in  honor 
of  Mrs.  C.  J.  Hillyer,  here  at  present  on  a  visit  to  her  old  home 
from  her  new  one  in  Washington  City,  and  the  charming  Christ- 
mas Eve  dance  at  which  Mrs.  Spaulding  was  also  the  hostess;  the 
childrens'  party  at  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bancroft's,  and  innumerable  Christ- 
mas tree  and  kindergarten  parties  with  which  the  elders  of  our 
society  people  have  busied  themselves  in  making  glad  the  hearts 
of  the  children. 


Among  the  entertainments  of  next  week  is  the  first  meeting  of  the 
new  cotillion  club  which  has  recently  been  formed  at  the  Palace 
Hotel  under  the  name  of  the  Monday  Cotillion  Club.  It  will  be 
given  in  the  maple  room  of  the  Palace  on  Monday  evening. 

There  have  been  several  weddings  in  our  beau  monde  during  the 
past  fortnight  and  there  are  more  in  prospect  for  the  immediate 
future.  The  marriage  of  Miss  Edith  Spinney  and  William  Watson 
was  solemnized  at  the  First  Unitarian  Church  on  Wednesday  of  laBt 
week.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Stebbins  tied  the  nuptial  knot  and  the  bride 
was  attended  by  the  Misses  Florence  Hyde,  Bessie  McNear,  Susie 
Le  Count  and  Ruth  Van  Brunt  as  bridesmaids,  her  sister,  Miss 
Emily  Spinney,  being  maid  of  honor.  Frank  Carrick  was  the 
groom's  best  man,  and  Messrs.  Eustis,  Lamb,  Tyson  and  Doubleday 
officiated  as  ushers.  The  bridal  robe  was  of  ivory  white  silk  made 
with  a  court  train  and  trimmed  with  silver  passementerie,  a  veil  of 
tulle,  caught  with  sprays  of  white  hyacinth  and  a  bouquet  of  the 
same  completed  her  costume.  The  bridesmaids  wore  gems  of  yellow 
bengaline  with  yellow  roses  as  their  hand  bouquets,  and  the  maid  of 
honor  a  gown  of  striped  satin  trimmed  with  satin  ribbons  and  white 
violets.  After  the  short  service  in  church  a  reception  was  held,  fol- 
lowed by  a  wedding  breakfast  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  mother 
on  Larkin  street,  which  was  prettily  decorated  with  Christmas 
greens  and  red  berries,  and  later  in  the  day  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Watson 
departed  on  their  honeymoon  trip. 

Theatre  parties,  lunches  and  dinner*  must  also  be  included 
among  recent  gay  doings,  and  of  the  two  latter,  football,  cricket 
and  baseball  were  responsible  for  a  number.  Several  lunches 
were  given  prior  to  departure  for  the  Haight-street  grounds  to 
witness  the  football  contest  between  the  two  university  teams, 
two  of  those  taking  place  at  the  Palace,  having  Harry  Holbrook 
and  Jack  Casserly  as  hosts.  The  Bohemian  Club  baseball  nine 
were  dined  by  the  Pacific  Union  Club  nine.  The  Pacific  Cricket 
Club  gave  a  dinner  on  Saturday,  at  which  Mr.  W.  Greer  Harri- 
son presided;  and  Messrs.  Camp  and  McClung  have  been  the 
motif  for  several  spreads  at  the  clubs  and  at  private  houses. 

The  revival  of  the  Fortnightly  Club  this  season  has  been  the 
cause  of  much  rejoicing  among  those  interested,  and  while  not  so 
ambitious  in  the  style  of  its  entertainments  as  was  its  predeces- 
sor, that  provided  for  the  club's  amusement  at  the  meetings  al- 
ready held  has  given  both  merriment  and  pleasure  to  all.  The 
first  re-union  was  held  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Rath  bone,  and  was 
somewhat  of  the  high  jinks  order.  The  second  took  place  on 
Wednesday  last,  at  her  sister's,  Mrs.  E.  T.  Eyre,  and  was  equally 
lively  and  mirth-provoking.  The  next  one  is  named  for  the  11th 
of  January.  On  Monday  next  the  Olympic  Club  will  do  the 
honors  of  its  new  building,  on  Post  street,  and  for  the  afternoon 
reception  and  concert  an  immense  number  of  invitations  have 
been  sent  out,  which,  if  all  be  accepted,  will  test  the  capacity  of 
the  building,  spacious  as  it  is  said  to  be.  The  evening's  pro- 
gramme will  consist  of  another  concert,  an  oration  by  General 
Barnes  and  a  good  time  generally. 

Miss  Florence  Harrison  and  Otis  L.  Swett  were  married  on  the 
1st,  and  are  spending  their  honeymoon  at  Los  Angeles.  One 
of  the  quietest  weddings  of  the  season  was  that  of  Miss  Mary 
Cecelia  Arend  and  James  H.  de  Veuve,  which  was  solemnized  at 
St.  Stephen's  Church  on  Monday  of  last  week.  The  rector,  the 
Rev.  E.  J.  Lyon,  performed  the  ceremony,  and  the  bride  and 
groom  departed  for  Portland,  Oregon,  by  the  evening  train  for 
their  wedding  trip. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Emma  Lewis  and  Samuel  Rosenbaum  was 
celebrated  at  the  rooms  of  the  San  Francisco  Verein  on  Christ- 
mas night,  the  Rev.  Rabbi  Voorsanger  marrying  them  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  large  number  of  guests.  The  decorations  of  the  rooms 
were  appropriate  to  the  season,  consisting  of  green  boughs  and 
red  berries.  Miss  Minnie  Lewis  was  her  sister's  maid  of  honor, 
several  maidens  appearing  as  bridesmaids,  and  the  groom  had  an 
equal  number  of  attendants.  The  ceremony  was  followed  by 
supper,  and  then  by  dancing  for  several  hours.  The  honeymoon 
is  being  spent  in  Mexico,  for  which  place  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rosen- 
baum departed  on  Monday. 

Cards  received  from  New  York  announce  the  opening  and 
benediction  at  6  p.  m.  on  Tuesday  last,  the  Festival  of  St.  John, 
the  Evangelist,  of  the  Emily  Bruce  Lines  Memorial  Parish  House 
at  67  East  89th  street.  Numerous  clergymen  from  New  York 
and  other  cities  attended,  and  the  occasion  was  made  interesting 
and  memorable. 


Major  and  Mrs.  McLaughlin  and  their  daughte-,  Miss  Agne°,  an- 
ticipate a  delightful  visit  among  their  friends  and  relatives  in  the 
East,  and  will  be  in  Washington  during  the  inauguration  week. 
They  will  remain  the  other  side  of  the  continent  all  winter,  and 
not  until  the  early  spring  may  they  be  looked  for  on  the  Pacific 
slope. 

One  of  the  most  successful  events  of  Christmas  week  was  the 
delightful  party  given  by  Mesdames  Harold  Ward  and  Henry 
Gutte  at  Harmony  Hall,  Alameda,  on  the  21st  inst.  At  midnight 
a  delicious  supper  was  served.  Many  friends  from  this  city  and 
Oakland  were  present. 


IW.  81,  1892. 


s\\  rn\i  i-m  o  sews  i  n  n  r 


.Tl 


The  pretty  hnne  of  Mn.  Sloddart.  on  Clay  street.  In  Oakland, 
wai  arti.tically  drw.ed  wilh  jrwn  wmlbi  »n.I  red  berrin.  and 
well  Oiled  with  nonll.  nn  Wedne«day  evening  of  lad  mm 
lb*  occasion  ol  ihe  marriage  ol  ber  daughter.  Mis.  <ir«ce  8lod- 
dan.  to  Edward  S  Bbattook,  »f  Lot  Angele..  The  Rav.  Dr.  J  K. 
UeLant  officiated,  and  the  bride',  sister.  Uln  Krelrn  Sloddart. 
was  maid  o(  honor,  her  brother.  DavM,  ibe  (roots'!  ne>t  iiinn. 
The  bride  wore  a  handsome  costume  o(  white  corded  alike .  tulle 
veil  and  wreath  of  orange  blossoms,  and  her  hand  bouquet  was 
of  white  hyacinths.  The  maid  of  honor  was  gowned  ,n  pjnk 
•  ilk.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sbattuck  will  reside  in  Los  Angeles.  Another 
wedding  took  place  in  Oakland  on  Tuesday  evening,  when  Miss 
Kstelle  Anthony  and  George  Ogden  were  the  bride  and  groom, 
and  Dr.  Ketchnm.  of  Berkeley,  the  clergyman  who  married  them. 
The  ceremony  took  place  at  the  bride's  borne,  on  Market  street, 
where  smilax,  ivy  and  red  berries  were  effectively  used  In  adorn- 
ing the  rooms,  a  bell  of  white  flowers  being  suspended  from  the 
centre  of  the  folding-doors.  The  wedding. robe  was  of  white  India 
silk  rn  traint,  and  trimmed  with  point  lace  and  sprays  of  orange 
blossoms.  The  bridesmaids,  the  Misses  C.  L,  Anthony  and 
Eleanor  Wigg,  wore  gowns  of  pink  silk,  trimmed  with  cream 
lace. 


Among  announced  engagements  are  those  of  Miss  Alice  Cooper 
and  Mr.  Dillon;  Miss  Lelia  Carroll  to  Adolpb  Schuld  of  Sacra- 
mento, and  Miss  Elsie  Kelley  of  Mendocino  to  Louis  P.  Drexler. 
This  fair  bride  elect  is  quite  well  known  in  San  Francisco  society, 
having  been  a  frequent  visitor  of  ber  cousin,  Miss  Jennie  Blair, 
and  will,  after  her  marriage,  which  is  named  to  take  place  on 
Tuesday,  the  10th  of  January,  be  a  resident  of  this  city.  News 
has  also  reached  here  of  the  approaching  marriage  of  Lieutenant 
Tate,  of  the  army,  and  now  stationed  at  West  Point,  who  was 
such  a  society  favorite  while  at  the  Presidio  some  years  ago,  to 
Miss  Annie  Scranton  of  Philadelphia. 


The  number  of  our  fashionables  who  are  spending  the  holidays 
at  Del  Monte,  though  not  so  large  as  last  year's  crowd,  has  at- 
tained quite  respectable  proportions,  which  will  be  still  further 
augmented  by  fresh  additions  to-day,  to  see  the  old  year  out  and 
welcome  its  successor  to-morrow.  Christmas  has  this  year  been 
more  of  a  home  day  than  for  some  seasons  past,  and  many  of  our 
households  have  bad  visitors  from  a  distance  to  help  them  enjoy 
the  yuletide  jollities,  while  again  some  have  gone  to  spend  the 
week  with  friends  or  relatives.  Mrs.  A.  M.  Parrott,  gathering 
her  large  family  around  her,  spent  the  Christmas  holiday  with 
them  at  her  handsome  country  home,  Baywood,  at  San  Mateo. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eddington  Dettrick  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  A. 
Miller  were  the  guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  0.  G.  Miller,  in  Oak- 
land. Mrs.  Rutherford  spent  her  Christmas  with  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Wright,  in  Sacramento.  The  Misses  Bee  and  Ethel  Hooper  are 
passing  the  holidays  with  their  cousin,  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Howard  are  occupying  their  residence, 
270D  Sacramento  street,  where  Mrs.  Howard  is  at  home  on  Wednes- 
day. Judge  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Thornton's  new  home  is  at  2903  Jackson 
street.  Judge  and  Mrs.  S.  S.  Wright  are  spending  the  winter  in 
Berkeley. 

Arrivals  and  departures  are  about  evenly  balanced.  Mr.  George 
Vernon  Grey  returned  to  town  from  his  trip  to  the  country  in  time 
to  take  part  in  the  Leap  Year  Cotillion,  at  which  he  danced  in  the 
first  set.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will  Crocker  and  Miss  Beth  Sperry  are  with 
us  again,  as  is  also  Mrs.  John  Boggs,  who  will  pass  the  winter  at  the 
Palace  Hotel.  Mrs.  and  Miss  Head,  Mrs.  Phoebe  Hearst  and  her 
niece.  Miss  Apperson,  Joe  Grant,  Col.  Isaac  Trumbo,  Richard  Tobin, 
Lansing  Kellogg,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Hechtand  their  daughter,  Miss 
Elsie,  are  among  recent  arrivals  in  town.  Departures  include  those 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Irwin  (whose  trip  over  from  Honolulu  was 
one  of  the  roughest  ever  experienced  between  the  two  ports)  for  New 
York,  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  at  the  marriage  of  Mrs.  Irwin's 
sister.  Miss  Ilene  Ivers,  with  Mr.  Robinson,  whither  have  also  gone 
with  the  same  intent  Messrs.  J.  W.  and  Callaghan  Byrne.  Joe  Red- 
ding left  for  another  flying  trip  to  Washington  city  and  Gotham  last 
Sunday.  Mrs.  James  Fearm  has  departed  for  China,  where  she  will 
join  Mr.  Fearm  in  Hongkong,  from  whence  comes  the  intelligence 
of  the  safe  arrival  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pilcher,  nee  Bissell,  on  their  trip 
around  the  world.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  de  Barth  Shorb  have  returned 
to  their  home  at  San  Gabriel.  Senator  and  Mrs.  Stanford  expect  to 
leave  for  the  nation's  capital  some  time  next  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Tubbs,  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Oyster,  Mrs.E.  E. 
Tise,  the  Hon.  Richard  and  Mrs.  Boyle  have  been  in  the  city  during 
the  present  week. 

Major  T.  R.  O'Brien,  Secretary  of  the  Republican  8tate  Central 
Committee,  was  married  on  Christmas  Eve  to  Miss  Rosa  Thomas, 
niece  of  L.  E.  Woodward.  The  ceremony  took  place  at  the  home 
of  the  bride,  578  Twenty-fourth  street,  Oakland,  and  was  per- 
formed by  the  Rev.  J.  K.  McLean,  of  the  first  Congregational 
Chnrcb.  The  house  was  prettily  decorated  with  La  France  roses, 
chrysanthemums,  smilax  and  bot-honse  greens,  and  in  the  parlors 
were  present,  the  relatives  and  friends  of  the  contracting  parties. 
The  happy  conple  left  in  the  evening  for  a  trip  to  Monterey, 
Santa  Cruz  and  other  coast  resorts. 


OUNCE'S 

adJffiGg 

Tho  only  Pure  Cream  of  tartar  Towder.-No  ammonia;  No  Alum 
TT8ed    in    Millions   of  Homes — 40  yearB  the   Standard 

Little  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church,  on  California  street,  looking 
bright  and  pretty  in  its  dress  of  Christmas  green  and  red  berries, 
was  crowded  with  guests  last  Wednesday  to  witness  the  mar- 
riage  of  Miss  Mary  Oliver  and  Albert  Mills,  which  took  place  at 
the  hour  of  noon,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lathrop.  assisted  by  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Maynard,  offleiating.  The  bride,  a  tall,  handsome  blonde,  wore  a 
costume  of  white  cloth  trimmed  with  white  fur,  and  a  white 
Gainsborough  hat  to  correspond.  The  groom,  his  best  man  and 
the  ushers  were  in  the  regulation  morning  dress,  and  all  wore 
"  daisy  "  scarf  pins  of  pearls  and  diamonds,  the  gift  of  the  groom  : 
the  gown  of  the  maid-of-bonor  was  of  garnet-colored  satin,  and 
Bhe  wore  a  becoming  bat  of  the  same  hue,  Irinimed  with  gold. 
Among  those  in  church  were  Mrs.  Easton  and  Miss  Addle  Mills, 
Mrs.  Torbert  and  Miss  Mollie,  the  Carolans,  Mrs.  ami  Miss  Merry 
and  Miss  Hill,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Newlands,  the  Frank  8elfridges, 
Rev.  and  Mrs.  Mason,  Mrs.  A.  J.  Bryant  and  others.  Following 
the  church  service  was  a  reception  at  the  residence  or  the  bride's 
father,  and  then  the  happy  pair  left  town  for  their  honeymoon. 
Their  future  home  will  be  at  Millbrae,  where  Mr.  Mills  is  the 
business  manager  of  the  ranch  for  his  uncle,  D.  0.  Mills. 


Miss  Irene  Everett,  daughter  of  Senator  Dan  Everett,  of  this 
city,  who,  many  will  remember,  went  East  last  spring  to  go  upon 
the  stage,  has  just  passed  through  a  severe  attack  of  diphtheria, 
but  is  thought  at  present  to  be  on  the  rapid  road  to  recovery. 
When  Miss  Everett  went  away  she  joined  Roland  Reed's  company, 
and,  according  to  the  notices  in  the  papers,  made  a  pronounced 
success.  It  was  thought  that  she  would  stay  with  Reed  through 
the  season,  but  after  a  few  months  they  parted.  As  soon  as  this 
occurred,  Mr.  Fleichmann,  Henley  and  Boucicault's  manager, 
who  had  met  Miss  Everett  and  become  charmed  with  her  acting, 
engaged  her  to  come  here  and  play  at  the  Stockwell  during  the 
Henley  engagement.  The  reason  she  did  not  come  was  the  above 
mentioned  attack  of  diphtheria,  and  her  many  friends  will  no 
doubt  be  glad  to  hear  that  she  has  recovered,  and  will  be  able,  so 
report  says,  to  open  with  Henley  at  the  Union  Square  Theatre  in 
the  near  future. 


The  entertainment  given  at  the  San  Francisco  Fencing  Aca- 
demy, by  Professor  Louis  Tronchett  and  Alfred  De  Sraet,  on  the 
evening  of  the  15th  inst.,  was  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  of  the 
month.  It  included  a  number  of  fencing  bouts  with  foils,  sabers 
and  dueling  rapiers,  club  swinging  and  vocal  selections. 


One  of  the  most  enjoyable  parties  in  Alameda  for  a  longtime 
was  that  given  by  Henry  Gutte  and  Harold  Ward,  in  Harmony 
Hall  on  the  evening  of  the  21st  inst.  Mesdames  A.  H.  Ward,  L. 
H.  Bissell  and  Dr.  E.  Maldonado  were  the  hostesses. 


One  of  the  most  pleasant  of  recent  dinners  was  that  given  by 
Mrj.  A.  H.  Rutherford  in  honor  of  Mrs.  F.  L.  Steadman,  (nee  Dem- 
ing),  who  is  now  visiting  San  Francisco  from  her  Eastern  home. 

The  rumors  that  have  been  circulated  to  the  effect  that  an 
engagement  exists  between  Miss  Mollie  Torbert  and  Mr.  E.  Burke 
Holladay  are  entirely  untrue. 

Crane's  Distaff,  Crane's  kid  finish,  and  Hurd's 
Royal  Purple,  are  groups  of  perfection  in  note 
papers  that  greet  you  in  all  your  corresnondence. 
They  are  art  in  stationery. 


COPPER  PLATES. 
WKODIK  CARDS. 


225  POST  ST. 


SANFORD     S.     PROSSER. 

PHARMACY     FRANCAIS. 

Ill  Grant  Ave.  Telephone  1350 

Parfumebib  Victoria,  Rlgaud's  &  Cie's  Lucrecia  Gracioaa,  Louis  XV 
and  Exora  d'Afrlque  are  the  latest  odors  aad  so  differeat  from  perfumes 
familiar  to  everyone.  Piveot'  Legrand's  violet  aad  Roger  &  Gallet'B  Lubin 
and  Pinaud'a  perfumes,  Soap,  8achanFace  Powders,  Cosmetics,  etc. 

Plnaud's  8  ounce  bottles,  $3,50;  regular  size  reduced  from  $1.25  to  86 
cents  per  bottle,  including  Peau  d'Ft>pagne  in  bulk  at  50  cents  per  ounce. 

Every  lady  knows  that  exclusiveness  in  perfumes  is  as  desirable  as 
in  dress. 


32 


SAN  FBANCISCO  HEWS  LETTER. 


Dec  31,  1892. 


THE  German  Empress  is  said  to  have  been  insulted  lately  by  a 
Berlin  mob  while  she  was  on  a  shopping  errand,  and  her  Im- 
perial consort  is  reported  to  have  given  an  order  that  the  streets 
should  be  cleared  in  future  by  the  police  when  his  wife  goes  shop- 
ping. Such  measures  were  not  necessary  formerly  to  insure  a 
respectful  attitude  of  the  Berlin  people  toward  a  member  of  the 
House  of  Hohenzollern.  Even  Empress  Augusta,  disliked  as  she 
was  by  most  Prussians,  was  never  openly  annoyed,  for  all  such 
occurrences  were  impossible  as  long  as  the  citizens  of  Prussia 
held  in  deserved  esteem  the  then  occupantof  the  throne.  Things 
have"  greatly  changed,  however,  within  the  last  few  years,  and 
police  regulations  will  not  alter  the  sentiment  of  the  nation, 
though  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  her  husband's  unpopularity 
should  be  avenged  upon  bis  harmless  consort.  Probably  the  so- 
called  insult  consisted  in  nothing  else  but  a  somewhat  obtrusive 
curiosity  of  a  few  Berlin  loafers  who  were  anxious  to  get  a  good 
look  at  the  wife  of  young  William,  who  has  proved  himself  such 
a  curiosity  since  he  ascended  the  throne. 

Ferdinand  de  Lesseps  is  reported  to  be  insane.  The  rumor 
bears  the  stamp  of  probability.  The  occurrences  of  the  last  few 
weeks  have  been  such  as  must  have  affected  seriously  the  mind 
of  the  aged  builder  of  the  Suez  Canal,  and  if  what  has  happened 
before  has  not  struck  him  down,  the  anest  of  his  son,  who 
has  been  conducted  to  Mazas  Prison,  will  perhaps  prove  a  fatal 
blow  to  the  father. 

M.  de  Freycinet,  in  replying  to  the  question  whether  Dr.  Cor- 
nelius Herz  bad  received  the  cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honor  through 
the  influence  of  the  Panama  Canal  Company,  stated  that  the 
honor  was  conferred  upon  Herz  upon  the  recommendation  of 
some  of  the  most  distinguished  French  scientists.  The  fact  is, 
that  Dr.  Herz  received  the  decoration  in  consequence  of  the 
recommendation  of  the  late  Count  du  Moncel,  member  of  the 
French  Academy,  and  editor  of  the  paper  La  Lwniere  Electrigue,  of 
which  Herz  was  owner.  Herz  was  intimately  associated  with 
all  the  leading  electricians  of  France  at  the  time  of  the  Electric 
Exhibition  at  Paris  in  1880,  and  if  be  has  been  guilty  of  any 
crookedness  in  regard  to  the  Panama  Canal  swindle,  it  must  have 
happened  in  later  years.  Perhaps  he  utilized  the  valuable  con- 
nections gained  during  bia  electric  enterprises  later  on  for  more 
doubtful  schemes.  His  sudden  departure  for  London  looks  cer- 
tainly suspicious,  but  so  far  no  definite  charge  has  been  brought 
against  him.  There  is  no  doubt  that,  whether  guilty  or  not,  he 
was  intimately  connected  with  many  of  the  persons  now  com- 
promised, and  could  give  important  information  if  so  inclined. 

CUPID'S    JOKE.— Judge. 


"Forbearl"  cried  the  maiden,  as  Cupid  passed  by, 

His  bow  tightly  strung  and  his  arrows  quite  near. 
"For  bear?"  he  replied  with  a  wink  of  his  eye, 
<*  Not  so,  pretty  maid;  I  am  hunting    for  deer." 

The  half  tone  engravings,  which  for  a  long  time  have  been  a 
popular  and  artistic  feature  of  the  News  Letter,  are  from  the  studio 
of  Bolton  &  Strong,  of  430  Pine  street.  The  firm,  which  give  par- 
ticular attention  to  this  line  of  work,  are  at  the  head  of  their  pro- 
fession upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  half-tone  engravings  are  un- 
excelled in  the  West.  They  have  far  more  than  a  local  reputation, 
being  widely  known  as  excellent  artists  and  artisans. 

"  Kritiko"  reads  character  from  handwriting.  Write  in  ink,  in  an 
unfeigned  hand,  on  unruled  paper.  State  sex.  Send  50  cents 
stamps  or  postal  note.  Address  "  Kritiko. "G09  Merchant  street.  S.  F. 


XX.     ^iE.    1TE-WHALL    <5c     CO- 


SHIPPING  and  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS 


GENERAL    INSURANCE    AGENTS. 


Nos-  309  and  311  Sansome  Street,  San  Francisco- 

National  Assurance  Company of  Ireland 

Atlas  Assurance  Company of  London 

Boylston  Insurance  Company of  Boston 

Ocean  Marine  Insurance      ------      of  London 


IS 


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Systems  : 
"Slattery" 

Induction; 
:"Wood" 

Arc. 
:    Factories  : 
:Fort  Wayne, 
:  Indiana; 

:  Brooklyn, 

New  York. 

st 


ELECTRIC  IMPROVEMENT  COMPANY. 


General  Agents  for  California,  Nevada,  Oregon,  Ari- 
\  zona  and  Washington  of  the 

Fort  Wayne  Electric  Light  Company,  Fort  Wayne,   Ind. 
:  Estimates  furnished   for  electric  railways,  electric 

:  light  and  steam  plants,  house  wiring,  etc.    Marine  wor 
;  a  specialty. 
jj  35  New  Montgomery  street,  San  Francisco. 


STEAM 
BOILER 
INCRUSTATIONS. 


O'-O     SCALE     REMOVED.  

FORMATION    OF    NEW   SCALE    PREVENTED, 

Without  the  aid  of  chemicals, 
by  the  use  of  


LLEWELLYN  FILTER-HEATER  AND  CONDENSER 

Over  300  In  Dally  Use  on  the  Pacific  Coast.) 

Removes  all  Impurities  from  the  Water  before  Entering  the  Boiler. 
Heats  the  Water  to  212°.  Saves  from  25  to  60  per  cent,  in  the  Amount  of 
Water  Used. 

Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Pamphlet  Forwarded  on  Application  to 

Llewellyn    Steam    Condenser    Manufacturing    Co., 

330  Pine  street,  San  FranclBCo,  Cal. 

XjOTTIS   0-A.HEST   <5c   SOIT, 

Rectifiers  of  Spirits  and  Whole- 
sale Liquor  Dealers. 
Manufacturers  of  Syrups,  Bitters 
Cordials,  etc. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS  BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER. 


HAMBURG-AMERICAN  PACKET  COMPANY. 

FASTEST  ROUTE  TO  LONDON 
Southampton,  and  the  European  Con- 
tinent. Fastest  time,  equal  to  5 
days,  20  hours  to  Queeastown.  Mag- 
nificent new  twin-screw  express 
steamers  of  10,000  tons  and  13,000  to 
16,000  horse  power.  l^-.  These 
steamers  carry  no  cotton. 

Through  tickets  to  London,  Paris, 
Basle,  Geneva,  Vienna,  Copenhagen, 
Stockholm,  etc. 

MEDITERRANEAN  EXPRESw 
LINE— Winter  service  from  Neb- 
York  to  Genoa  and  Naples  (via  Giss 
raltar)  by  our  twin-screw  express 
steamers,  sailing  November  17th,  De- 
cember 1st,  January  5th,  January  19th. 

Company's  office,  37  Broadway,  New  YorK.    For  tickets,  cabin  plans  and 
nformation  apply  to    A.  W.  MYER,  General  agent  for  the  Pacific  Coast, 
W  401  California  street,  cornf  r  Sun-nme,  San  Francisco.  


CAMELLINB 


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ABseluteJy  harmless  by  the  medic&l  prefessier? 


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